As November is Indigenous History Month, and The Collegian staff has many history buffs in its midst, we wanted to create a special edition that would incorporate the history of this land and the stories of this City and campus that we call home. The intent of this publication is to learn and understand what came before us, while both celebrating and critiquing our roots, both at Colorado State University and in the Northern Colorado area.
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LFTE: History is not black and white: Why we made this special edition
Posted on 18 November 2021.
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FreeP vs Food: Editors boast their BU bagel order
Posted on 18 November 2021.
From mental health bagels to standard dining hall fare, the gamut of BU bagels impresses and satisfies.
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Gaming the System: The introduction of NFTs and cryptocurrency to the esports world inspires a grim vision of the future
Posted on 17 November 2021.
The trend of video game platforms and esport organizations integrating NFTs and cryptocurrency is concerning.
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Students at Frontier Hall report feeling uneasy after unknown person was spotted attempting to film student in shower
Posted on 17 November 2021.
A recent incident of a student being videotaped while taking a shower has prompted concern among students about safety and privacy in University residence halls.
A suspect was seen attempting to record an individual during the evening hours of Oct. 13 and was spotted again on Oct. 21 in Frontier Hall. The suspect was also seen walking near Comstock Hall around 12:08 a.m. on Oct. 22, according to a SAFE-U alert from the University of Minnesota Police Department. Residents have stated that the environment of the resident hall bathrooms has changed since the incidents.
First-year student Quinn Kamaraukas, who is majoring in developmental psychology, lives on the third floor of Frontier Hall. Kamaraukas said she showered on the third floor bathrooms only an hour before the incident occurred.
“[My roommate] Mia and I shower at Pioneer now. We’re too scared to shower at Frontier,” Kamaraukas said.
Kamaraukas added that she now carries pepper spray with her whenever she goes to the bathrooms to shower because she feels that she needs the extra safety precaution.
Another first-year student and Kamaraukas’s roommate, Mia VanDeurzan, works at the front desk of Frontier. VanDeurzan said that she feels as if the students who work behind the desk were not prepared to deal with something like this. She also said that her supervisor said the students working behind the desk should act like everything is normal.
Ava Calvaco, another Frontier resident, also said that the incident changed how she feels when showering. Calvaco said she showers as quickly as possible.
“When I’m showering, I look over my shoulder,” Cavalco said.
First-year student Kate Lindsay, despite having her own bathroom, said she feels scared about going out of her room alone at night.
“I feel safe once I’m in my room, but once I leave, I’m really cautious,” Lindsay said. “Having my own bathroom makes me feel safer.”
Several Frontier Hall students voiced concern about the lack of security present when people are entering the building. Others mentioned feeling unsettled after seeing a side door propped open for over 12 hours.
First-year student Sophie Schroeder stated, “At night, I don’t feel safe.”
Schroeder also said that since she heard about the incident she no longer uses the third-floor bathroom after 10 p.m.
In an emailed statement to the Minnesota Daily, Housing and Residential Life Director Susan Stubblefield clarified that they are working with University Security to check more frequently that exterior doors are locked.
“At the buildings where incidents have been reported, HRL staff have been increasingly vigilant to monitor the safety of our community. Residents and staff have been reminded to report any concerning behavior or presence of unescorted non-residents as soon as possible. HRL continues to work collaboratively with the university on safety efforts that best support our community. We encourage students to follow university guidance regarding student safety,” the email read.
The event is characterized as sexual harassment, according to Katie Eichele, the Director of the Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education.
Eichele said she has seen instances of students being recorded in public spaces, such as the light rail and cases where perpetrators threaten to expose students or make certain private information public. However, she said she has not seen instances of students being recorded in the shower before the incident occurred.
“Relatively, the residence halls are secure … you need several security accesses to get into where those restrooms and the showers are,” Eichele said. “Someone is either being allowed in or it’s an actual resident within the building that has the time, and there’s a familiar face to be able to access those areas.”
When asking students what Frontier Hall could do to make them feel safer, the response was clear: increase security measures.
“We should have cameras in the front,” Schroeder said. “They are never going to catch them if something doesn’t change.”
This is an ongoing investigation. If you or anyone you know has information, please contact UMPD at (612) 624-2677.
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‘The French Dispatch’ an Enchanting Love Letter to Art and The New Yorker
Posted on 17 November 2021.
Wes Anderson has one of the most distinctive styles, both visually and musically, of any director working at this time. From the design of rooms to the clothes that the characters wear to the music that they listen to, the symmetry of the shot composition to the color palette, Anderson’s fingerprint is precise and easy to recognize.
As such, Anderson is rather like cilantro. You either have the gene for the taste or not. A certain person could look at a frame from an Anderson movie and find it enchanting and beautiful, while another could look at the very same frame and find it twee and precious. Both are firmly convinced of their rightness. The reasons that people love and hate Anderson are exactly the same.
For such a stylist, Anderson is also a remarkably literary filmmaker. His latest film, “The French Dispatch” is a love letter to the written word. The French Dispatch was originally the outpost of a small-town newspaper, the Liberty, Kansas’ Evening Sun. The publication is based in the fictional Ennui-Sur-Blasé, France, and overseen by a lovable crank of an editor Arthur Howitzer Jr. (Bill Murray). It is The New Yorker in all but name and location.
Like Reading a Magazine
An anthology film, “The French Dispatch” adapts the structure of a magazine issue, recounting long-form articles and columns from the final edition of the publication. It begins with the obituary of the recently deceased Howitzer, who stipulated that the newspaper would end with his death, coating the movie with a wistful, memory-play like nostalgia. It’s the end of an era, and Anderson will show you what is being lost.
After that, it goes into a local color column written by Herbsaint Sazerac (terrific name) played by Owen Wilson, who rides a bicycle around Ennui-Sur-Blasé with the aplomb of a silent film comedian.
Then there is “The Concrete Masterpiece,” with art critic J.K. L. Berensen (Tilda Swinton) flamboyantly telling the story of an imprisoned murderer (Benicio del Toro) whose abstract paintings are sensationalized by a scheming art dealer (Adrien Brody).
“Revisions to a Manifesto” is an account of the French Protests of May 1968, reported by correspondent Lucinda Krementz (Frances McDormand) through the eyes of student leader Zeffirelli (Timothée Chalamet).
The last feature, “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner” finds a James Baldwin-like food critic Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) recounting on a Dick Cavett-type talk show how a simple profile of a celebrated chef got him mixed up in a kidnapping.
In small but fascinating ways, Anderson uses the language of cinema to replicate the act of reading a magazine. Oftentimes narration in a movie is distracting and redundant, but in “The French Dispatch” it serves a function. There are little shifts in the rhythm and style of each of the sections, illustrating that they were authored by different writers. Alexandre Desplat’s delightful, playful score mimics the clattering of typewriter keys or scratching of a pencil at times.
A Delightful and Charming Plea for the Importance of Art
It would take many viewings and a library-length bibliography to uncover all of the literary and pop culture references included in the movie, but while watching “The French Dispatch” it never feels as though anything is going over your head. One does not have to know that “The Concrete Masterpiece” was inspired by The New Yorker’s six-part piece on Art Dealer Lord Duveen, or catch the references to the movies of Jean-Luc Godard in “Revisions to a Manifesto.”
Anderson has a light and playful touch that moves through the vignettes with ease. It’s not pretentious. “The French Dispatch” is an easy watch with a gentle, dry sense of humor.
“The French Dispatch” is bursting with members of Anderson’s traveling acting troupe such as Murray, Brody, Wilson, Swinton, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban, Willem Dafoe and Anjelica Huston, but the best performance in the movie came from Wright. Even when landing jokes, his baritone voice brings to the surface the melancholy that has always lurked underneath Anderson’s tchotchkes and dioramas. His explanation for why he writes about food is breathtakingly poignant and gives “The French Dispatch” a rich, emotional importance.
Melancholy nips on the outskirts of ‘The French Dispatch,” disproving the detractors that seek to write Anderson off as a dollhouse maker. Writing about the movie, many critics have referred to it as an elegy, but I see it as a plea: a plea from Anderson for the preservation of beauty and art, and him trying to show the audience what that brings to life.
m.fisher@dailyutahchronicle.com
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‘The damages could be substantial’: Astroworld lawsuits piling up following deadly crowd surge
Posted on 17 November 2021.

Plaintiffs filing lawsuits against parties involved with organizing Astroworld are exceeding 200 nearly two weeks after a deadly crowd surge killed 10 attendees. | Jhair Romero/The Cougar
After the tragedy at Astroworld earlier this month, hundreds have sued the festival organizers and rapper Travis Scott, and the damages from these lawsuits can be significant, one UH legal expert said.
Several Houston lawyers, including UH alumnus Tony Buzbee, are taking on a combined number of over 200 plaintiffs in cases filed against defendants involved in Astroworld including Travis Scott, his management, record company and live-event company Live Nation, according to KHOU.
“They can rack up some pretty good damages in terms of just the personal injuries to the people,” said UH lecturer Steven Kirkland. “The damages could be substantial, particularly since there’s a whole bunch of them.”
Kirkland, a former trial judge who now works in the City of Houston attorney’s office, said many of these lawsuits filing for damages are relating to the harms experienced by the individuals.
These can include survivor claims that encompass loss of companionship or family support from deceased victims. Other claims can include psychological damages to medical expenses for treatment of physical harm and punitive damages.
“The functional differences with the decedents, your damages model is different. So with the decedents, you know, you’ve got wrongful death claims versus personal injury claims,” said UH Law Center lecturer and Beard & Barks PLLC partner Justen Bark. “But the damages models are very complicated and unique to each individual plaintiff.”
Bark said attorneys representing living victims will seek to cover future pain and suffering and economic loss.
Punitive damages are meant to punish the defendants, in this case, the promoters, organizers or the performer. A jury could determine the value of the damages and a judge would shrink that number down, according to Kirkland.
Kirkland explained that these plaintiffs are going to have certain elements included when building their cases.
This starts with their damage stories, which is showing that they’ve gone through some degree of mental anguish and experienced pain and suffering. One way to show the physical extent of this is through medical expenses.
For the punitive claims filed, the next step is to prove that injury was caused by the concert and therefore by the people being held responsible.
With these claims accusing the promoters, organizers, and performers as negligent there would need to be questions explored such as what the standard of care is for events like Astroworld. If these standards were met then the question would be if it was enough, and that would be more difficult to prove, according to Kirkland.
Although these cases might not make it to court through settlements, Kirkland said if they did it would set an industry-wide and possible legal precedent.
“Cases that involve extreme conduct often do set a precedent, and there’s no question that this is an extreme situation where you can certainly see this setting a precedent,” Kirkland said
He anticipates there would be more immediate reviews of security and crowd-control measures for future events put on by concert promoters.
However, Kirkland said instant gratification with regards to the legal ramifications of Astroworld is long into the future as these kinds of processes could take upwards of two to three years.
“It’s bad for our sense of community when many of us come together and end up walking away in trauma, it’s really sad,” said Kirkland. “That’s really sad, that something that we would do for purposes of bringing us joy and enjoyment could turn into something that’s going to cause, that did cause, and will continue to cause fear and anxiety.”
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Classifieds – November 17, 2021
Posted on 17 November 2021.
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
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The roots of 122 W. Laurel St.
Posted on 17 November 2021.
In the building now home to The B&B Pickle Barrel Deli at 122 W. Laurel Street, which was purchased by Robert ‘Bob’ Piccaro and Brenda Smith in 1988, lies a history enveloped with musicality and international connection.
Chris Eala, who was born in the Philippines, came to Fort Collins in the late 1950s at the urging of the Colorado State University music department, which recognized his gift of repairing musical instruments. The little shop became Chris’s Music store.
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Boston activists travel to capital campaigning for voting rights
Posted on 17 November 2021.
Boston activists will travel to D.C. to protest for the passage of national voting rights laws.
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Women’s soccer dominates first round of NCAA play, suffers devastating loss in second round
Posted on 16 November 2021.
After a competitive two days of tournament play, the Emory University women’s soccer team’s run in the 2021 NCAA Division III championship came to a close. While the Eagles dominated in their first round match against Wittenberg University (Ohio) 4-0 on Nov. 12, the Centre College Colonels (Ky.) scored a last-second goal in overtime against the Eagles to seal a 2-1 victory on Nov. 13 and send Emory home.
In the round of 64, the Eagles faced off against the Wittenberg Tigers — a team they had yet to play during the regular season, but the unfamiliarity certainly did not spook the Eagles. Within the first 11 minutes of play, the Eagles put themselves up 2-0. Sophomore midfielder Grace Reyer kicked off the action with a tapped-in goal in the fifth minute shortly followed by a goal in the 11th minute by sophomore forward Olivia McBerry who was assisted by Reyer and senior defender Lily Dresner.
The scoring, though, was only just getting started. Just 11 minutes after McBerry’s goal, junior forward Aubrey Blanchard sailed a shot into the back of the net off an assist by junior forward Kylie Hall and senior midfielder Lauren Mahoney.
During the second half, the scoring settled slightly, but not entirely. In the 77th minute, senior forward Molly Miller brought the Eagles’ scoring home by placing a loose ball into the net to seal a 4-0 Eagle victory. Heading into the game, senior goalkeeper Emma Platt felt the team was physically and mentally prepared.
“Going into the tournament, we had been practicing a lot offensively with some of our shooting tactics and some of the different plays we were hoping to accomplish,” Platt said. “Defensively, we had been working very hard with staying disciplined in the back.”
While the first round was smooth sailing for the Eagles, the second round against the Colonels was not as forgiving. Back in September, the Eagles faced off against the Colonels in their third game of the season. The game finished in a tie after double overtime, and a similar theme of back-and-forth persisted into this second faceoff.
In just the first period, both teams combined for 10 fouls, with Emory claiming six of them. After the first six fouls of the first period, Colonels’ junior forward Mills Mullen crossed a ball from the left wing in the 23rd minute to sophomore midfielder Megan Sidaway who headed the ball in, scoring the first goal of the game.
While the Colonels had the edge going into the second half, the Eagles’ momentum picked up. In the 55th minute, McBerry skirted by a Colonel defender and netted in the Eagles’ first goal of the match. With the game tied at 1-1, the stakes were raised. After McBerry’s goal, the Eagles outshot the Colonels 10-4. However, neither team was able to secure a goal before the end of regulation.
During the first overtime period, the Eagles continued to outshoot the Colonels. After two shots from McBerry and one from Hall, the 10-minute overtime was coming to a close. However, in the last 10 seconds, Centre College sophomore forward Bri Tilley found senior forward Taylor Gebhart who shot on goal. Platt deflected the shot, but Mullen put the deflected ball into the back of the net, sealing a 2-1 Colonel victory.
Despite the heartbreaking loss, Platt was tremendously proud of the team’s efforts throughout the tournament. While she is graduating soon, Platt is confident in the Eagles’ abilities to continue improving and growing in future seasons.
“I’m really excited to see what the team does over the next few years,” Platt said. “There are a lot of leaders that are graduating after this season but even more are stepping up to fill those roles, so I think our team is set.”
On Nov. 15, the University Athletic Association also selected McBerry and senior defender Lily Dresner for the All-UAA Second Team. Hall, Blanchard and senior midfielder Samantha Hilsee earned All-UAA Honorable Mention as well. Given these accomplishments and after an off-year, head coach Sue Patberg was impressed with the team’s ability to excel against team’s who had played last year throughout the entirety of the season.
“Coming in a year later, [we were] trying to figure out, ‘What are we going to look like?’” Patberg said. “I think there were so many questions, but I was just incredibly proud. To have the year that we did, I’m just super proud of the team and the program.”

Junior forward Kylie Hall attempts a free kick against Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) on Oct. 17. Hall and the Eagles fell short in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to Centre College (Ky.), ending the Eagles’ 2021 season. (Lin Yu/Staff Photographer)
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