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By SKYLER LEONARD The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The past semester was fi lled with tri-als for President Regina Martel and the rest of ASCSU.

“It’s hard to know what you are going to be faced with,” said Martel.

Ultimately, Martel believes that ASC-SU has done its job.

“Because of the team we have in place right now I think that ASCSU completely rose to the occasion,” Martel said. “We have a lot of work in the coming semester, the progress has been phenomenal.”

Of the work that ASCSU has coming this spring, Senate passed a piece of ma-

jor legislation that could have great im-pact on later Senate sessions.

The resolution that passed Wednes-day night recommends that a proposed 9 percent increase in tuition be decreased to an amount that would not include an increase in employee salaries.

“This may be the most im-portant piece of legislation we vote on this year,” said Lindon Belshe, director of governmen-tal affairs.

The recommendation made by Senate will play a signifi cant role later on as ASCSU’s tuition task force con-tinues to work toward a more signifi cant stance against a raised tuition.

The tuition task force will present its recommendation and fi ndings to CSU President Tony Frank on Jan. 30.

ASCSU is also looking at building on existing programs like RamRide and tack-ling new projects like a new bike sharing

program. Martel stated that it is impossi-ble to say only one thing is important for ASCSU this spring.

However, some feel there is always room for improvement in certain pro-grams.

Freshman, Mya Wells, hu-man development and fam-ily studies major, found that certain programs that ASCSU heads, like RamRide, could be improved on.

“I think RamRide is very unique to campus and is very useful to students who enjoy having a little bit of fun on the weekends,” Wells said. “But I think it would be convenient for RamRide to be more timely and available for students in better circumstances such as

rides to certain events.”Martel said that RamRide is under im-

provement with added start up money

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CSU seniors looking for a job after graduation have reason to be cautious-ly optimistic.

A gradual decline in the national unemployment rate along with a pro-jected fi ve percent increase from last year in hiring of newly minted bachelor degree recipients shows better pros-pects than when this year's graduating class entered college as freshmen in 2009, when job prospects had plum-meted from previous years.

The national unemployment rate has been slowly but steadily decreas-ing. In December it sat at 7.8 percent, down from 8.5 percent a year earlier.

Stephanie Miller, a senior apparel design major, scored a highly-coveted internship this spring working with Crystal B Designs in Chicago.

Miller attributes landing the intern-ship to building a professional resume,

networking, attending fashion shows and spending “every second of every day” in the design lab on campus.

During an interview via Skype, the owner asked Miller if she would come work with her in Chicago.

“I’m having the best internship I could ever dream of,” Miller said.

When she comes back to Colorado and graduates this spring, Miller has a few tentative offers for internships or part time work at design houses on the front range. One, with Fallene Wells of Denver, she hopes could turn into a full time job.

Overall, she’s optimistic about fi nd-

ing work and parlaying her CSU educa-tion into a career.

“It’s still a relatively small industry in Colorado,” Miller said. “New York is known for fashion, Denver is known for cowboy boots. I want to help in chang-ing peoples minds outside of Colorado and say ‘look, we have some great de-signers and fashion.’”

Although some benchmarks for employment are slowly improving, at least one key area from last year has fallen by almost half.

According to a national survey of 4,300 employers released last Fall by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI), only 22 percent of full-time hiring managers were sure of their hiring plans, compared to 42 percent the same time last year.

Phil Gardner, director of CERI at Michigan State University, attributes the sharp decline in hiring plans to

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BRIGHTER DAYS AHEADJob market slowly improving for recent college graduates

Students walk by the Career Center on the main level of the Lory Student Center Wednesday afternoon. The Career Center is one of the main re-sources on campus to prepare your resume for the upcoming job fair on Feb. 5 and 6.

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Students gain global insights overseasBy AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Last January, Dawn Noyes

bid "au revoir" to family and friends in the United States as she embarked on fi ve months of travel, adventure and study-ing in Vichy, France as part of CSU's Study Abroad program.

Noyes, a marketing major who graduated last month, had her eyes set on study-ing in France since she was a freshman in high school. She worked two to three jobs at a time over a period of seven years to have enough money to be able to travel and study in Europe.

The hard work paid off and Noyes attended Université Blaise Pascal in an internation-al business with french pro-gram and visited 10 countries during those fi ve months.

Noyes was one of 738 stu-dents from CSU who studied abroad for credit during the 2011-2012 school year. An ad-ditional 407 CSU students par-ticipated in international fi eld experiences for non-credit.

Nationwide, 273,996 stu-dents studied abroad dur-ing the during the 2010-2011 school year according to the Institute of International Edu-cation.

Her favorite memories were of meeting other stu-dent travelers in youth hostels throughout Europe and form-ing friendships on the spot.

"I could connect with people on a deeper level I met in one night than with people back home," Noyes said. "They just have the same goals as you do. Sometimes you form life-long friendships with someone you met one night in a hostel."

Chris Churma, a study abroad coordinator for CSU, said CSU has 25 universities across the globe that are ex-change partners.

Although it's easier and of-ten more affordable for a stu-dent to enroll in one of those partner universities, Churma said the CSU study abroad de-partment will work with stu-dents who want to enroll in universities outside their net-work.

Any schools not in the network are vetted, meaning their safety, health and transfer credits are looked at closely.

“We want to make sure it’s a good fi t for the student,” Churma said.

Spending three months in the town of Seville in southern Spain was a once in a lifetime experience for junior business administration major

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“I could connect with people on a deeper level I met in one night than with people back

home.”Dawn Noyes | marketing alum

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Community Briefs

Golden retriever study to offer key info about cancer

Rodney Page, veterinary on-cologist and director of the Flint Animal Cancer Center, and a team at the Morris Animal Foun-dation are recruiting young, purebred golden retrievers for a long-term study in an effort to learn how to prevent cancer and other diseases in dogs.

The Golden Retriever Life-time Study will span 10 to 15 years and is the longest and largest observational study ever undertaken to improve the health of dogs.

Cancer is estimated to be the number one cause of death in dogs over the age of 2. In addition to cancer, the study will identify genetic, nutritional and environmen-tal risk factors for other major diseases affecting dogs, such as obesity, thyroid issues, ep-ilepsy, arthritis and skin disor-ders.

Grand re-opening of Hodi’s Half Note

Hodi’s Half Note bar and music venue is celebrating new management, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. at the venue, located at 167 N. College Ave. Despite recent ru-mors, the venue is not up for sale or going under.

The grand re-opening will feature a show from Dave Watts and Friends, and Ruff Draft, plus free New Belgium beer un-

til the two kegs are tapped. Doors will open at 8 p.m.

and admission is $5, or $10 for those under 21.

Attendees will be served by an all new staff of bartend-ers, managers and security hired to make the atmosphere for musicians and customers more welcoming.

Lecture series features Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist

A limited number of tickets are available for the Monfort Lecture, which will be given this year by George F. Will of the Washington Post, according to a CSU news release.

At 7 p.m. on Jan. 31 at Moby Arena, Will plans to lecture on “The Political Argument To-day.” He is a graduate of Princ-eton University and has taught at Harvard, Toronto and Mich-igan State University.

From 1970 to 1972, Will was a staff member in the U.S. Sen-ate. Five years later in 1977, he won a Pulitzer Prize for “com-mentary in his Washington Post newspaper columns, which have been syndicated national-ly since 1974,” according to the release.

Will also analyzed base-ball economics as a member of the Major League Baseball’s Blue Ribbon Panel.

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I know, like me, you are all disappoint-ed by the White House’s refusal to build a Death Star. Apparently the ad-ministration “does not support blow-ing up planets.”

For some of you, this a sad fact that you have come to deal with. For

others, who do not haunt the internet to find things like this and might not believe it, it is very true.

Unfortunately, the petition to build the Death Star on petitions.white-house.gov grew to overshadow a much more realistic and useful petition: the petition to build the Enterprise.

While building the Death Star was probably started as a joke, building the Enterprise is a very serious endeavor.

If you ever find a spare moment I suggest you look at www.buildtheen-terprise.org. This is a website where al-most every angle of building the iconic ship is examined. Cost, size, practicali-ty, functionality and more are all looked at and calculated to give a very exact approach on how to make this inspira-tion tangible.

Will this Enterprise be able to make Warp 9 and battle Romulan birds of prey? No. Will it be able to support a gravity wheel that would be necessary for space travel? Yes. Would it be able to make it to Mars in less than a sixth of the time of conventional rockets? Yes.

Something people don’t pay much attention to in regards to space travel is the idea of how inhospitable space

is to humans. To put it frankly, it hates us. There is nothing in space that would enable human life because there is practically nothing in space. Those movies you have seen where an astronaut removes his or her helmet and freezes are absurd. There is no fire or sound in space because space hates everything equally; fire, music, life as we know it, etc. Because of this, any form of space travel is very difficult.

Starting in spring of 2015 a year long mission (funding permitting) to study man’s health in space for long du-rations will be examined. The current record is 438 days held by Valery Polya-kov, a Russian Cosmonaut, but that does not mean that it’s a great place to live. No gravity is actually pretty bad for a person. Without gravity, muscles atro-phy and coming back to Earth becomes increasingly difficult.

This makes the gravity wheel on the proposed Enterprise a revolutionary step in space exploration. It would also be a prototype for other gravity wheels that would need to go into a Moon or Mars base in the future.

I understand that other people do not feel the passion I do for space trav-el. I cannot see the appeal of Crocs or designer clothes or Apple computers. Some people cannot see that advanc-ing in space travel would advance us in green energy, sustainability and world peace while granting an eco-nomic boom and frankly, just being awesome. Space travel would help us understand the world around us and our place in it.

I recently met someone that when they heard I want to work in the space industry told me that when she learned

more about the universe and how small Earth is, she almost freaked out. Earth is tiny. We are minuscule. But I pas-sionately support space travel because I believe it makes us part of something bigger.

Did you know the universe is al-ways moving and changing? That gal-axies basically “eat” each other? That the light in night sky is millions of years old?

The Death Star is awesome, in the literal sense of the word. It is no won-der why the Internet jumped all over that. If I heard about it sooner, I would have too. But the lack of support for the “Build the Enterprise” petition shows me something else. It shows me that people do not see the value in space travel, in expanding our knowledge. They do not flock to serious attempts to advance humanity, to launch it into a new era, but a fun idea that can be exploited by one man who shuts off his guidance system is what garners atten-tion.

Serious space exploration ripples through daily life in ways you likely have never thought of. Modern air-planes, health regimes, sustainable buildings and green energy have all been helped out by space travel.

It is my opinion, and my sincere re-quest, that space should not be so casu-ally forgotten as we step into the future. In fact, it is the fastest and greatest way to make that step.

Sarah Romer is a senior electrical engineering major. Her column appears Thursday in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

A 19 year old from Welling-ton who decided to do some shopping, walked into the Wal-mart in Fort Collins yesterday carrying a rifle over his shoul-der.

With the mass shootings that are horribly becoming more and more common-place, many other shoppers were alarmed and called the police, fearing the worst al-though he was not breaking any laws.

The teenager, Zach Conley, told police he was merely exer-cising his right to openly carry a legally owned rifle, the Colo-radoan reports.

Exercising your Second Amendment rights is fine, but only as long as it is done in a le-gal, responsible way.

Legally Conley was well

within his rights — he was not hurting or intimidating any-body, and there is no indica-tion that any of his actions were dangerous.

But did he exercise his rights

in a responsible way? A gun is for protection, not for show-boating. There does not ap-pear to be any imminent need for carrying a rifle through Walmart other than to make a political statement, frighten old women, children and any other Walmart patrons.

We have rights that are con-stitutionally guaranteed to us, but common civility usually tempers our exercising of those rights. We all value freedom of speech, yet we all find the pro-tests of the Westboro Baptist Church abhorrent.

Exercise your rights, but do it responsibly and respectfully.

Guns are seriously misunderstood inanimate objects. On one side, we see people fighting to get them banned, accusing them of encour-aging violence. “We need stricter gun laws!” they say.

On the other, we have people such as my family, or the lovable NRA, that demand everyone should be able to own and shoot whatev-er gun they want, whenever they please.

Sadly, I believe both sides are ac-tually fighting the wrong battle.

What we should really be addressing is the cultural identity of our nation, where we have many people killing each other with whatever weapon is most con-venient.

I would posit that it is not a gun’s fault that people die. If and when a person decides they are going to kill someone else, it is extremely difficult to stop that per-son before they commit murder, after all, precognition does not happen.

Even if we were to ban guns in America today, people would simply switch to another method; stran-gulation, poison, stabbing, vehicular destruction, or whatever meets one’s fancy.

My point is that guns are not responsible for people killing each other. No, in fact I am sure that people would beat each other with rocks if that were the only available tool. Instead our cultural paradigm is what is to blame.

I cannot remember the last time we went a month without hearing about a killer shooting multiple people. From that horrible night in Aurora at the movie theater to the Newton shooting or the guy who killed his moth-er over what to watch on television, killings are out of control.

What’s more, the first two examples above involved killers that essentially had no relationship with victims. They were seemingly killings just for the act of doing so and to go out with a “bang.”

This is what can be identified as a cultural problem. These people have become convinced that there is absolutely no good in their life — and there never will be — so they might as well take as many people with them when they go.

Perhaps these people think they will be immor-talized by doing what they do, and in a way they are correct. The media descends on the scene like a pack of hyenas, and the story of everyone involved and every-one that knows those involved immediately becomes a national sensation.

Furthermore, our society’s love of violence and sheer amount of how much we immerse ourselves in it is a bit unsettling.

I know so many people that really enjoy seeing two men (or women) beat the living crap out of each other inside an octagonal arena. It seems that the competi-tors love to hurt each other just for the sake of doing so.

Now, I love sports, but watching two bulked-up peo-ple attempt to maim each other in the best way possible is just the modern incarnation of gladiatorial battles. Humanity’s insatiable thirst for violence is nauseating.

Now, there are also the usual rhetoric points like vi-olent video games or how people just do not get enough love from their parents or whatever. But the truth is violence in America is everyone’s problem, and a vio-lent person is more often times a product of his or her upbringing than of a medical predisposition towards external hurt.

From the President right down the newborn child, no one is separate from a man with a killer’s mind.

Solutions to quelling the murdering urges of different people will not be easy to come by. It would take a na-tional paradigm shift akin to the Civil Rights Movement to get the killings under control.

Picking out guns is not the right course of action for us to be taking. Yes, gun control is great, but a person armed with the motive to do harm is what the true danger is.

In short, no matter what laws are made against people’s activities or people’s purchases, the only way to make the world a safer and better place to live is we must change people’s hearts.

Res Stecker is a junior international studies major.

His columns appear Thursdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military will soon an-nounce the end of a 19-year ban on women in combat, according to a senior de-fense offi cial, a sweeping change that appears to recognize the reality that female troops have experi-enced since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The offi cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the timing, said that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “are expected to announce the lifting of the direct combat exclusion rule for women in the military.”

The offi cial added that the announcement, which could come Thursday, “will initiate a process whereby the services will develop plans to implement this decision, which was made by the secretary of defense upon the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”

Like the elimination of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy prohibiting gay men and women from serving openly, the decision rep-resents another far-reach-ing reversal of military poli-

cy and is emblematic of the changing mores and cul-ture in the American armed services.

About 200,000 women are among the 1.4 million active-duty personnel cur-rently serving in the mili-tary.

The policy change also comes as Panetta is about to step down as secretary after several decades in government, and his White House-chosen replace-ment, former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, is about to face Senate confi rmation hearings.

The decision follows a lawsuit filed in Novem-ber challenging the legiti-macy of the ban. The suit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of four female ser-vice members. All four had served tours in Iraq or Af-ghanistan, and two had received Purple Hearts for injuries sustained on duty.

Reversing the ban, said ACLU senior staff attorney Ariela Migdal in an email, means “qualifi ed women will have the same chance to distinguish themselves in combat as their brothers-in-arms, which they actual-ly already have been doing with valor and distinction.”

The lawsuit was chal-

lenging a ruling banning women from “being well forward on the battlefi eld,” a defi nition that didn’t al-ways make sense in Iraq and Afghanistan, where fi ghting took place outside of a tra-ditional frontline.

In reality, the policy has been a ban almost in name only. But the danger that fe-male troops faced only came to the attention of many Americans early during the Iraq war when Jessica Lynch, a private fi rst class and Army truck driver, was captured and held hostage.

Almost 2 percent of the nearly 4,000 military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq were women, according to Military Times.

“We’ve seen how the realities of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have blurred the lines of combat and service members’ roles and exposure to danger,” said Joyce Wessel Raezor, executive director of Na-tional Military Family Asso-ciation, a nonprofi t group that aids military families. “Signifi cant numbers of women have been injured or killed in these confl icts over the last 11-plus years. I would guess their families would tell you those women were ‘in combat.’”

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.,

chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was quick to voice support of the new policy in a state-ment: “It refl ects the reality of 21st-century military op-erations.”

But Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, a non-profi t group that studies military personnel poli-cies and opposes women in combat, said the change was “irresponsible.”

“For the same reason you don’t see women in the NFL, you shouldn’t see women in combat units,” she said. “Women are not the equal of men.”

One argument against the ban was the idea that while women face death or injury in modern wars, the ban also denied many mil-itary career fi elds, neces-sary training and hurt their chances at promotions.

The ACLU’s Migdal also

said that commanders of-ten found their hands tied in trying to fi gure out how to get needed skills into dangerous areas and yet obey the ban. In October, for instance, an attack by a Taliban suicide bomber in Khost, Afghanistan, killed three American service members, including Staff Sgt. Donna Johnson of Rae-ford, N.C.

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Sam Martin (12) shoots over Deeva Vaughn (44) in Wednesday night’s game against the New Mexico Lobos in Moby Arena. Martin had the game high of 16 points and shot 10 of 12 for the evening.

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By Kyle GrABowsKiThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Shaky offensive execu-tion and a lax rebounding effort sent the CSU women’s basketball team to a second consecutive loss and third in its last four games.

The Lobos defeated CSU 68-54 Wednesday night in Moby Arena to drop the Rams to 1-3 in the Mountain West and 5-12 overall.

New Mexico ripped down 46 rebounds com-pared to 24 by CSU and nearly had as many offen-sive rebounds (19) as the Rams had defensive re-bounds (21).

“They were pretty tena-cious on the glass. They’re quicker, they’re more ath-letic, I mean even when we had position at times they just won those battles,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said.

No player exemplified New Mexico’s advantage on the boards than sopho-more guard Bryce Owens, who led the game with 10 rebounds even though she was one of the shortest players on the court at 5 feet 4 inches.

New Mexico’s 19 offen-sive rebounds lead to 22 second chance points and helped neutralize an other-wise strong defensive effort by CSU.

“You have to finish the play. We’d play really good defense, and then for them to get the rebound — it’s hard to play another 30 sec-onds of really good defense,” junior forward Sam Martin said. “We just beat ourselves up in that category.”

New Mexico lead by as many as 18 points in the second half after Vaughn hit a three-pointer with 4 min. 13 sec. left in the game.

The Lobos built their lead by shooting 51.6 per-cent in the second half after a dismal 30.3 percent per-formance in the first and forcing five key turnovers, three of which led to open fast break layups.

“They were costly, it’s like we just presented the ball to them for layups,” CSU coach Ryun Williams said. “They got some sepa-ration, we got a little loose with some passes. The five in 30 minutes is positive, but the ones we did have we served them up on a platter.”

New Mexico senior guard Caroline Durbin converted a four-point play with 14 min. 21 sec. re-maining in the second half to extend a six point lead to 10 and her team continued to pull away from there.

“As they keep scoring and doing good things and getting rebounds and we are playing our hardest on

defense, it’s always going to be hard,” redshirt soph-omore Mandy Makeever said. “I’m sure we got down on ourselves.”

New Mexico held a 26-21 at halftime despite only shooting 30.3 percent from the field in the first half.

CSU held the Lobos to just two points in the first 7:29 of the game, and lead 9-6 with 11 min. 23 sec. left in the first half.

The Lobos responded with a 8-0 run to take a five point lead and never trailed for the remainder of the half.

CSU junior forward Martin hit back to back three-pointers with just over three minutes in the first half to bring the Rams within one, but New Mex-ico outscored CSU 6-2 to close the half.

The Rams will take the floor again Saturday against Fresno State in Moby Arena.

Sports Editor Kyle Grabowski can be reached at [email protected].

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By ANDREW SCHALLER The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Playing in one of the toughest places in the na-tion, The Pit in New Mexico, the Lobos held a 10-point lead over CSU at halftime and seemed to have the game easily in hand.

The Rams mounted a run in the second half to put the game within one possession, but the Lobos staved off the run and held on for a 66-61 victory, their fourth straight victory in Mountain West Conference play.

“We spotted them too much and they were too tough for too long, it’s that simple,” CSU coach Larry Eustachy said.

Junior guard Tony Snell powered the Lobos offen-sive attack with a game-high 23 points while chip-ping in 3 rebounds and one assist.

CSU continued its trend of out-rebounding its opponents, grabbing 42 boards compared to 28 for New Mexico.

Senior center Colton Iverson bounced back from a poor shooting per-formance against UNLV for the Rams and scored

15 points while leading the Rams with 14 rebounds

Iverson’s scoring went along with senior guard Wes Eikmeier’s team-high 20 points, after scoring just six in his last game against UNLV, However, it ended up bringing the Rams close in the second half, but as a team, CSU came just short of scoring its most impres-sive victory of the season.

CSU battled back to within three points with eight seconds remaining but Snell’s two free throws iced the game for New Mexico.

“Last year in this same situation, we layed down and lost by 30,” Eustachy said. “This is the toughest I’ve seen our team respond, so it’s a positive.”

The result places New Mexico solidly in fi rst place in the MW, as the Lobos now have four consecutive victories in the conference, and gives them a two-game lead in the battle for the number one seed.

New Mexico will now travel to San Diego State for a Saturday afternoon match-up with Jamaal Franklin and the Aztecs as the Lobos try to extend their lead in the conference.

The loss for the Rams drops their record in the MW to 2-2 and moves their overall record to 15-4.

While they pushed the top team in the conference to the brink, the loss for the Rams extends their strug-gles they have had on the road.

CSU has won just one game on the road in the conference in its last nine at-tempts and moves its record on the road overall to 2-4.

The Rams will now try to regroup as they fi nish their road trip Saturday at 8 p.m. when they travel to Fresno State for another conference match-up.

Assistant Sports Edi-tor Andrew Schaller can be reached at [email protected].

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By WILLIAM DOUGLAS and KEVIN G. HALLThe McClatchy Tribune

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to suspend the nation’s debt limit until May, allowing the federal govern-ment to continue to pay its bills and removing an im-mediate threat to the econ-omy as it struggles to gain strength.

The move, expected to be ratifi ed by the Senate and signed by President Barack Obama, signaled that the government will not repeat the 2011 debt limit battle this month, a skirmish that frightened Wall Street and led to a downgrading of the nation’s credit rating and could have done so again.

Several economists said Wednesday’s short-term ex-tension will help the U.S. economy by removing the immediate threat of default and setting the stage for a calmer debate over two other clashes over federal spend-ing — a looming automatic cut in spending called a se-quester and the expiration of a continuing resolution that’s fi nancing many government operations.

“It helps because it elim-inates the risk that we’d hit the debt ceiling soon,” said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. econ-omist for forecaster IHS Global Insight. “It means we can consider in a less frantic atmosphere the sequester and the CR (continuing res-olution).”

But economists stressed that a short-term debt lim-it extension is only a ban-dage covering a festering long-term fi scal problem that Congress and the White House need to get a handle on to better instill confi -dence in the U.S economy.

Congress still faces deadlines on the automatic

spending cuts scheduled to take effect March 1 and must deal with the expiration of the continuing resolution appropriations measure to keep the government oper-ating in March.

The extension prolongs the uncertainty over Wash-ington’s eventual decision on fi scal matters, said Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist for Mizuho Securities USA in New York. “There is going to be no certainty until some-body blinks here on spending and taxes,” he said.

Ricchiuto added, “It’s al-most as if the Republicans are taking control of the de-bate, but now they have to do a better PR job. What they’re saying is, ‘We’re being rea-sonable, now it’s time for you to be reasonable.’”

With the passage of the so-called “No Budget, No Pay Act” by a 285-144 vote, House Republicans hoped to tem-porarily sidestep a potential-ly politically damaging fi ght with the White House over government default.

They also hoped to pres-sure Senate Democrats to pass a budget, something that the upper chamber hasn’t done in four years. Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Mur-ray, D-Wash., announced Wednesday that her com-mittee will draft a budget blueprint this year.

“It’s interesting to note with … almost four years having passed with an econ-omy that’s been struggling, the Senate never acted,” said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. “It took one week in which their paychecks were on the line that now the Senate’s going to step up and do the right thing.”

Though House Demo-cratic leaders derided the bill as a possibly unconstitution-al gimmick, 86 Democrats joined 199 Republicans in

voting for the measure. Only 33 Republicans crossed party lines to join 111 Democrats who voted no. Three Demo-crats didn’t vote.

About an hour before the vote, the Democratic-con-trolled Senate announced that it would take up the House measure and vote on it as early as next week.

Under the House bill, lawmakers agree to sus-pend the debt limit until mid-May without dol-lar-for-dollar spending cuts, something that tea party groups, some con-servatives and other fi scal hawks were demanding.

The concession by Repub-licans had a price: In return for the suspension, the House and Senate must pass a bud-get by April 15, or members will have their pay withheld in an escrow account.

“The principle, I think, is pretty simple — no budget, no pay,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said after the vote. “American families have to do a budget. They understand you can’t contin-ue to spend money that they don’t have.”

Some lawmakers won-dered whether the provision would actually have an im-pact on House and Senate members. Most members of Congress earn $174,000 a year. The average wealth of a senator was $13.9 million in 2011 and the average wealth of a House member was $6.5 million in the same year, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics.

“We’re going to get paid. It will be delayed, but we’re going to get paid,” Rep. Rob-ert Brady, D-Pa., said during debate on the bill. “No Bud-get, No Pay has no teeth.”

But Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat who voted for the bill and once authored a more stringent measure, thinks otherwise.

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McKenna Botts. Botts took three interna-

tional business classes and one Spanish class at Menén-dez Pelayo International University from September through December last year.

Like Noyes, she travelled to multiple countries in Eu-rope and also spent time in Morocco, a country she de-scribed as having a feeling of lawlessness and poverty that she wasn’t expecting to encounter.

“We’d get to the hotel rooms and they’d be like, ‘We strongly suggest not leaving the hotel rooms or walking around at night if you’re a fe-male,’” Botts said.

Living with a widow and spending time with the wid-ow’s four children in Seville, Botts said she had an op-portunity to fully immerse herself in the culture. One of the bigger differences between the United States and southern Spain was the pace of everyday life, which she described as slower and

more relaxed.Every day she would

leave school to eat a late lunch at home and everyone in the town would have a “si-esta,” or afternoon nap, while she went back to school.

“Seville was on a whole different time,” Botts said. “They will sit down at coffee shops for, like, four hours and not even care. They’re so laid back.”

Churma, Botts and Noy-es all agreed that studying abroad is a lot more afford-able than people realize. With

scholarships, fi nancial aid and a little bit of travel savvy, a student can potentially go overseas for about the same cost as a semester at CSU.

“I worked all summer before saving money and you can always work later in life,” Botts said about ex-penses while overseas. “But for me it was like, ‘When are you gonna be in Eu-rope when you’re 21, trav-elling?’”

Senior Reporter Aus-tin Briggs can be reached at [email protected].

ABROAD | More a� ordable than students think

“We’d get to the hotel rooms and they’d be like, ‘We strongly suggest not leaving the hotel rooms or walking

around at night if you’re a female.”’McKenna Botts | junior business administraion major

SENATE | Reaching out to the communityContinued from Page 1

going to things such as new tablets and GPS systems for the cars.

Wells also said she thought that ASCSU could do a better job of reaching out to the community.

“There are several oth-er organizations that have done a better job at build-ing community at CSU,” Wells said. “In my fi rst se-mester I heard of ASCSU, but I realized that I really didn’t know what it was

about, I had to do research to fi nd actual information on ASCSU.”

For this spring, Mar-tel said that reaching out further to the CSU com-munity is a part of her agenda.

“[ASCSU needs to] get out of our comfort zone and offi ce, go to events and be a face of ASCSU so people know who we are,” Martel said.

Collegian writer Skyler Leonard can be reached at [email protected].



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WASHINGTON — The Chandra Levy murder mys-tery has transformed, again, into a broader debate over public access to court pro-ceedings.

In legal fi lings Wednes-day, news media organi-zations that include Mc-Clatchy, The Washington Post, the Associated Press and Gannett formally chal-lenged a judge’s orders keeping potentially crucial new developments secret. The companies want access to future hearings and tran-scripts of past hearings that were closed, concerning a prosecution witness whose credibility now may be in question.

“In light of the total se-crecy, news organizations... that have attempted to re-port on these developments have been left to speculate about what is happening,”

attorney Patrick J. Carome wrote in a brief for the me-dia companies.

Carome and his fellow attorney with the Wilm-erHale law fi rm, Steven P. Lehotsky, contend in their 15-page brief that the cloak of secrecy now draped over the new Levy trial devel-opments frustrate the First Amendment rights of news organizations that “have devoted substantial jour-nalistic resources to cover-ing the criminal proceed-ings” in the long-running Levy drama.

Several of the media or-ganizations involved in the new legal action, including the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, previously devoted legal resources to opening oth-er Levy case proceedings. Last January, responding to a media appeal, the District of Columbia Court of Ap-peals overturned the judge’s effort to keep juror ques-

tionnaires secret.“The value of public tri-

als is undisputed,” the D.C. Court of Appeals declared in the earlier decision. “The presence of the public and the press at criminal tri-als historically has been thought to enhance the in-tegrity and quality of what takes place.”

A graduate student and former Bureau of Prisons intern, the 24-year-old Levy was preparing to re-turn to her family’s home in Modesto, Calif., from Washington when she dis-appeared May 1, 2001. Ru-mors and then revelations that she’d been involved in a sexual relationship with then-Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., transformed her case into a national media sensation.

In November 2010, after the cold case was resurrect-ed, a Washington jury con-victed Ingmar Guandique of Levy’s murder. He’s serv-

ing a 60-year prison sen-tence.

“The possible disclosure of that information may create safety issues . . . that I have concluded are some-what substantial here,” Fisher said at the Dec. 18 hearing.

The most important witness for the prosecution was a former Fresno, Calif., gang member named Ar-mando Morales, who tes-tifi ed that Guandique had confessed to him while they were in the same prison.

“Given the circum-stantial nature of much of the government’s case, the credibility of one of its wit-nesses is obviously of great importance,” the media or-ganization’s brief notes.

Guandique’s defense at-torneys have fi led their own appeal challenging the tri-al judge’s secrecy orders. A spokesman for the U.S. At-torney’s Offi ce declined to comment Wednesday.

News media challenge court secrecy in Chandra Levy case



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gridlock in Washington, D.C over budget issues, which causes uncertainty in the marketplace and affects hir-ing practices.

“The decline in certainty can be laid on the doorstep of Washington,” Gardener wrote in an email to the Col-legian. “So the longer deci-sions are delayed in D.C. the longer we have to wait until job growth begins to solidi-fy.”

Regardless of the prob-lems in Washington and a slower than expected eco-nomic recovery, the job market continues to slowly improve, “clawing” its way back to pre-recession levels,

Gardner wrote in the report. “While the number of

opportunities may be in-suffi cient to provide every new graduate a meaningful position,” Gardner wrote, “the expansion continues to whittle away at the number having to enter part-time or non-career employment.”

CSU students hoping to land a job after graduation will have better chances if they start planning early in their education and use the resources at the CSU Career Center, said Chase Weldon, a counselor at the Career Center.

A career fair at the Stu-dent Center Feb. 5 and 6 will be the largest event of its kind this semester and will

allow students to meet em-ployers and in some cases interview on the spot.

“Come with your resume in hand and dressed like you would a job interview,” Wel-don said.

The Career Center hosts job fairs, helps with resumes and cover letters, assists with interview preparation, keeps track of current hiring trends and works with stu-dents to develop a compre-hensive career plan.

According to Weldon, the best strategy is to ap-proach a job search as an ongoing project or class with different components: re-sume, interviewing, intern-ships and networking. All are equally important and

have to be kept up to date. “The sooner you can

start the process the bet-ter,” said Weldon. “There’ll be less stress as that student walks across the stage if they at least have an idea of what’s out there.”

Brook LaBossiere, a se-nior human development and family studies major, used the Career Center to create a targeted resume but she hasn’t been sending it out to employers.

Instead, LaBossiere is foregoing the job hunt and is anxiously waiting to hear back from the University of New England in Portland, Maine about acceptance into a graduate program in occupational therapy.

She plans to pursue that degree into a doctorate pro-gram at Baylor followed by a stint in the Army using her medical degree to help wounded soldiers get reha-bilitated.

Regardless of what hap-pens after grad school, she’s confi dent of being able to fi nd employment with her degree.

“I know I’ll fi nd a job as soon as I’m certifi ed,” said LaBossiere.

Many industry observ-ers advise recent graduates to be realistic about the amount of money they’re going to make right out of college and that their dream job probably isn’t going to be the fi rst job they fi nd.

"The most troubling as-pect of this year's report is the consistent and damn-ing rhetoric from employ-ers that students' sense of entitlement, expectations and level of preparedness is totally out of sync with the reality of the workplace," wrote Gardner in the re-port's conclusion.

The survey found the average starting salary for recent graduates is $37,000 a year, with electrical en-gineers topping the list at $52,307 and those with a psychology undergrad de-gree fi nding themselves last at $33,505 per year.

Senior Reporter Aus-tin Briggs can be reached at [email protected].

JOBS | Career Center hosts job fairs, helps with preparation

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ––8–– Break out of your shell and shatter your next ceiling. Expansion can be sustainable if done with respect for the shared environment. Explore the outdoors.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ––7–– Now’s a good time to pay bills and complete past homework. In the face of contro-versy, consider another perspective. Use what you’ve learned to cut costs. Share your ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ––8–– Update your skills and make inroads quietly. You don’t have to brag about your ac-complishments. Just believe in yourself and continue pedal-ing forward. Keep the balance.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ––7–– Somebody very inter-esting fi nds you fascinating; stay cool. Don’t go shopping for treats yet. Focus on making money for a few days instead. In the meantime, primp.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ––8–– By now you should have done the homework. If you haven’t, don’t put it off anymore. Move up the ladder with increased confi dence. What kind of world do you want? Build bridges and alliances.

the rocky mountain collegian, thursday, january 24, 2013

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