TOP: Asia Taylor, right, and her sister Ashlee celebrate the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States at the Colorado Democratic watch party in the Sheridan Hotel in Downtown Denver, Colo. Tuesday night. (Photo by Dylan Langille). LEFT: From left, Republicans Danielle Arceo, Valentine Hoffman, Ryan Kelly Murphey, and Daniel Lorrig react to the news of President Obama’s re election at Sports Au-thority Field at Mile High in Denver Tuesday night shortly after the president won Ohio. (Photo by Nick Lyon). RIGHT: Diane Montgomery applauds as President Obama gets reelected into offi ce at the Proposition 64 watch party at Avogadro’s Number on Tuesday. Almost everyone in the venue was overjoyed with the news. (Photo by Austin Simpson)

Colorado makes history, legalizes potBy EMILY SMITHThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

At 9:03 p.m. it was offi cial; vot-ers have chosen to end the prohi-bition of marijuana in the state of Colorado.

Shouts erupted from Fort Col-lins resident Brie Hawley’s table at Avogadro’s Number Tuesday night as the results of Amendment 64’s passing made history.

With this legislation, mari-juana will now be legalized and regulated in Colorado similar to alcohol for individuals 21 years old and older. The amendment will modify Colorado’s constitu-tion to allow these individuals to possess, use, grow and transfer up to one ounce of marijuana or up to six marijuana plants — with some restrictions.

Amendment 64 passed with 963,204 votes, which came out to roughly 53 percent of the total 1,811,317 votes. In Larimer Coun-ty, Amendment 64 received 83,210 “yes” votes of the total 153,055

votes counted.Every seat was fi lled at Avo-

gadro’s Number as about 120 community members gathered to watch live election coverage from MSNBC on a large projection screen at the front of the room.

“I’m all for it,” said Jesse Festa, who sat on the edge of the stage and sipped a beer with his girlfriend. “I’m originally from California. I think it’s a boost to the economy and it’s a natural drug — coffee is a natural drug and that’s legal.”

Hawley, however, said she felt that the law will be diffi cult for marijuana growers to navigate un-til the drug is federally legalized.

In response to Amendment 64 passing, substance abuse pre-vention group Team Fort Collins said they will continue to focus on education.

“No matter the outcomes of Amendment 64 or Question 301, Team Fort Collins will stay the course of its mission to prevent al-cohol and drug abuse,” said Ash-ley Kasprzk, executive director of

Team Fort Collins.“We also plan to address

the increasing misperception that marijuana is not harmful,” Kasprzk said. “Team Fort Collins will do this by working on clear, effective and enforceable policies that ensure access is limited to those over 21.”

Mason Tvert, co-director for the Campaign to Regulate Mari-juana Like Alcohol said Colora-dans demonstrated that they are done with marijuana prohibition and ready to move on to a more sensible approach to marijuana.

The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol hosted a watch party Tuesday night at Cas-selman’s Bar in Denver.

“A lot of people have worked really hard over the last several years, let alone months, to bring this campaign to where it is to-day,” Tvert said. “And people are very excited, this is a historic mo-ment and I think people are proud

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LARIMER COUNTY VOTING BREAKDOWN

Round two for Obama

AMENDMENT S – PASSED

Modifi ed the state personnel system

54.02%45.98%

Total votes – 136,527

AMENDMENT 64 – PASSED

Legalized marijuana use for those 21 and older

54.37%45.63%

Total votes – 153,055

QUESTION 301* – PASSED

Repealed ban on medical marijuana dispensaries

55.84%

Total votes – 69,72244.16%

AMENDMENT 65 – PASSED

Recommended campaign spending limits

75.61%

Total votes – 145,70724.39%

4,510 / 2.86%

4,386 / 2.91%3,454 / 2.3%

President Election

Congress District 2

Candidates

Candidates

Total

Total

Barack Obama (D)

Kevin Lundberg

Mitt Romney (R)

Jared Polis

Other

Randy LuallinSusan P. Hall

80,528 / 51.22%

70,080 / 46.57%

72,194 / 45.92%

72,577 / 48.22%

By KATE WINKLEThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

When the announcement came, Stephanie Daley-Watson leapt into the air, gleefully cheering for President Obama’s election to a second term. The crowd of approximately 1,000 people gathered for a Colorado Democrats watch party in the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel cheered and threw their hands into the air, chanting, “Four more years!”

“Tonight, you voted for action, not politics as usual,” Obama said Tuesday night during his victory speech in Chica-go. “You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in the coming weeks and months, I am looking forward to reach-ing out and working with leaders of both parties.”

Daley-Watson left her family and job in Seattle fi ve days ago to campaign for President Obama in Colorado, where she

attended law school. Washington is a sol-idly Democratic state, and she said she be-lieves it did not make sense to stay there.

“It’s very rewarding to actually spend time doing something that you feel like you’re really giving back,” Daley-Watson said. “This is a very important presiden-tial race for women’s issues, the middle class, the environment, the list is very long ... I couldn’t bear to think of an alter-nate outcome.”

At Sports Authority Stadium at Mile High Tuesday night Republicans gath-ered anticipating an opposite end to the night. The watch party began as a cheer-ful and hopeful evening with attendees dressed in white, blue and mostly red. As the viewing party came to a close and the election was decided, silence cut with a few boo’s could be heard as republicans started for the exits.

“With this choice our nation will suf-fer immensely and we’re going to become

a socialist nation and that’s just scary,” said Sonia Marschner, a volunteer for the Romney Campaign.

In his concession speech, Mitt Rom-ney thanked volunteers, fundraisers, do-nors and surrogates for their efforts in the campaign. He encouraged politicians nationally and at the state level to “put the people before the politics.”

“I believe in America. I believe in the people of America,” Romney said. “And I ran for offi ce because I’m concerned about America. This election is over, but our prin-ciples endure. I believe that the principles upon which this nation was founded are the only sure guide to a resurgent economy and to renewed greatness.”

Energy remained high throughout the night as the music blasting from speak-ers near the front of the ballroom qui-eted periodically and eyes turned to two large screens broadcasting CNN’s elec-tion projections. The crowd responded

to every projected Democratic win with cheers that only increased in volume and frequency throughout the night. Rick Pa-lacio, chair of the Colorado Democratic Party, took the stage shortly after the an-nouncement of Obama’s win.

“I thought we’d be on edges of our seats a while longer,” he joked.

Although Colorado eventually sup-ported Obama by a close margin, it does not mean that Colorado is now a heavily Democratic state, according to political science professor John Straayer.

“Colorado has been migrating in the blue direction, and tonight was another step in that direction,” Straayer said.

Clustered around a table clutching glasses of wine, Denver residents Julie Rennick, Alice Gibbs and Trent Barnes en-joyed the camaraderie of the watch party.

Barnes recently moved from New

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FORT COLLINS FOCUS

Members of the CSU Swing club

Josh Weiser, left, Tyson

Roehrkasse, right,

prepare to vote in the

LSC Tuesday night. (Photo

by Austin Simpson)

Community Briefs

‘True green-building pioneer’ honored at CSU

The Green Building Certifi cation Institute has bestowed its highest award upon Brian Dunbar, a pro-fessor emeritus at CSU, ac-cording to a university news release.

Dunbar studied at the University of Michigan, where he earned two archi-tecture degrees. At CSU, he is the executive director of the Institute for the Built En-vironment.

“Brian is a true green-building pioneer,” said Dana Villeneuve, who interned at IBE under Dun-bar, in a news release. “He has contributed a great deal to the green building movement, and the honor of being elected a LEED Fel-low is well-deserved … He has quite literally educated thousands of people about the importance of building sustainably.”

Democratizing higher education

Justin Smith Morrill said 150 years ago that higher ed-ucation shouldn’t be some-thing only the elite can ac-cess in the 1862 Morrill Act. And as a product of such legislation, CSU has made a documentary titled, “A De-gree of Democracy – How the Morrill Act Changed Higher

Education in America.” The fi lm will be aired on

PBS on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 8:30 p.m.

Its driving premise is that “the Morrill Act de-mocratized higher educa-tion for the masses and led to the creation of some of the nation’s fi nest research universities,” according to a university news release. “The Morrill Act has had a far reaching impact on and the nation’s economic pros-perity and ‘A Degree of De-mocracy’ explores the act’s prospects for the future.”

Don’t let winter kill your trees

You’ll probably survive winter if all things go accord-ing to plan –– but can the same be said for your trees?

“It’s very important to prepare your trees for win-ter’s cold, arid conditions, and also to continue water-ing them during drier pe-riods over the next several months,” said Keith Wood, community forestry pro-gram manager for the Colo-rado State Forest Service in a university news release.

His tips include wrap-ping the trunk, mulching the base, recycling leaves, pruning conservatively and watering liberally.

Additional advice on urban trees can be found at csfs.colostate.edu

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Obama. Romney. Other.

24% Unemployment/Taxes. 12% Abortion or Religion. 9% Foreign Policy or Immigraion. 17% Healthcare. 20% Higher Education. 7% Energy. 11% Other.

5% Overall10% for Liberal Arts and Undergrads15% for the College of Business, Applied Human Sciences, the College of Natural Sciences, the College of Engineering and the College of Natural Resources 20% for Undeclared and Graduate Students25% for the College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine

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Natural Sciences:64%

30%6%

Liberal Arts:70%

22%8%

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58% 69% 28% 3%34% 8%

Engineering:63%

35%2%

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36%4%

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Natural Resources:72%

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Barack Obama will remain president of the United States, providing four more years for him to enact his vision of moving this country forward and change our nation for the better.

Nov. 6, 2012, is an Election Day that will go down in histo-ry, altering the face of our world forever — but not because of Obama’s reelection.

On Tuesday, Colorado be-came the first state to legalize marijuana.

We are the first in the world to make it legal for adults to pos-sess, grow and consume mari-juana since the 1925 Dangerous Drugs Act went into effect in-ternationally. As a result of the act, in order to prevent the U.S. from ceasing trade with them, reform-minded nations could only decriminalize marijuana or

turn a blind eye to personal use.A common misconception

is that cannabis is already legal in the Netherlands, when in fact it’s just decriminalized and the

de facto legalized retail sale for Amsterdam is only 5 grams.

We just legalized the individ-ual possession of an ounce — that’s about 28 grams.

While it will be months be-fore the laws and procedures

governing the actual legal sale of cannabis are implemented, the parts of the amendment re-lated to individual behavior go into effect immediately.

Colorado — along with Washington, who also legalized marijuana — is at the forefront of rectifying damage done to this country from years of pro-hibition, prosecution and in-carceration; we’re in a perfect position to show the world that regulation works.

We still have a fight ahead of us. A fight for the sovereign-ty of Coloradans to decide this issue for themselves without being impeded by the federal government.

This is the future, Mr. Pres-ident; the people of Colorado have spoken. Now the real ques-tion is: Can we count on the president’s support?

The long electoral nightmare is fi-nally over. At roughly 9 p.m. Tuesday every major news outlet from all cor-ners of the political spectrum (minus a few holdouts, including the New York Times) predicted that President Barack Obama would be re-elected as President of the United States of America.

Overall, a lot of states fell into the slots that one would expect them to fall into. The west coast fell handily into the Democratic ranks. A majority of the midwestern states fell into familiar conservative ranks. There were some surprises, though. Florida (initially slated to fall into the Romney camp) was a massive nailbiter throughout the night, with both the Obama cam-paign and Romney campaign trading the lead for hours after the polls finally closed.

There were a couple of other states that defied expectations as well. Iowa,

for instance, was another state that was predicted to fall into the Romney cate-gory. However, it blew that notion clean out of the water, falling into the Obama camp 52-46.

The Obama victory can probably be best credited to its ground game; overwhelming Romney canvassers in key states including both Colorado and Ohio. In Ohio, it was reported by a number of outlets that the Obama campaign never really left the state af-ter their victory there. That dedication paid off; mobilizing a massive blue push in the state that pushed the presi-dent into the majority.

It was a good night for politics all around. Colorado and Washington made history by being the first states ever to vote to legalize marijuana and regulate it like alcohol and tobacco. . This is a very positive first step toward the end of the drug war. With any luck, other states will follow our example.

The night was not all tears for the Republican party though. As of last night they are expected to maintain a healthy control of the House of Representatives, ensuring that they can still maintain their opposition to the Democrats. Col-orado Representative Cory Gardner kept his seat, easily fending off challenger Brandon Schaffer. The Republicans will still have trouble enacting a lot of their key platforms, given that the Democrats maintained control of the Senate.

Last night was also a good night for proponents of same-sex marriage, with the states of Maine, Maryland and Washington approving measures to le-galize gay marriage.

With the election now over, Ameri-cans across the country are now (prob-ably) expecting things to return to nor-mal. Political ads will be pulled from the air, campaign flyers will vanish over the next few weeks, and campaign vol-unteers will no longer need to go door to door. At long last, politics can be laid to rest in the public’s mind. Back to the humdrum, day to day activities that are aggravating enough without the added annoyance of politics. That is the hope anyway.

For those of us who still (absurd-ly) need a political fix, never fear. The next two years will undoubtedly be jampacked with politics. The House is still in Republican hands, and the Sen-ate still has a Democratic majority. One can definitely expect there to be plenty of mudslinging from both sides, with all of the pomp and circumstance that Congress can muster.

And in two years, we will have an-other election. And two years after that, there is the next presidential tussle. Take this reprieve while you can, everyone. Enjoy the few months of calm before the political hurricane returns. At least for the moment, we have earned a respite.

Congratulations, everyone. You came out to vote en masse. You deserve a break from all of this. At least for a lit-tle while.

Editorial Assistant Caleb Hendrich is a senior political science and journal-ism double major. His columns appear Wednesdays in the Collegian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@col-legian.com.

On Monday, my Face-book newsfeed was swamped with people prompting me to have a “Happy Guy Fawkes Day!” and to “Remember, Remem-ber the Fifth of November!” And while I understand that these statuses were more in-fluenced by popular graphic novels and films than by ac-tual historical events, they strike me as incredibly mis-informed.

I grew up neck deep in the Anglican Church (or, the Church of England). I remember being nine years old when my family joined our British parish members at a bonfire one November 5th evening. They called it Bonfire Night, and it was a great time with great food, glow sticks, hot cider, mu-sic,camaraderie… and for the grand finale at the end of the night we torched a six-foot-tall scarecrow with “GUY FAWKES” spray paint-ed across his chest.

At the time I didn’t really understand what I was join-ing in on. I was young and just thought this British bon-fire was little more than a cool tradition and an excuse to party. As an adult, I rec-ognize just how disturbingly sick November 5 truly is.

Bonfire Day, Guy Fawkes Day, the 5th of November. No matter what you call it, it’s a celebration of the fact that the Gunpowder Treason Plot of 1605 –– the plan by a group of provincial Cath-olics to blow up Parliament and King James I of England –– failed. Guy Fawkes was arrested after being found guarding the gunpowder and was then sentenced to death for treason alongside his fellow assassins.

Four-hundred years lat-er, Britain celebrates the fail-ure of the assassination and the continued power of Prot-estantism by building a bon-fire and throwing a dummy Guy Fawkes (and sometimes even a dummy Pope) onto it every November 5.

The holiday is used as a means of demonizing a do-mestic terrorist and burning him in effigy. It is used as a way to celebrate the Church of England’s (alleged) di-vine superiority to Cathol-icism. It is dehumanizing and unnervingly inhumane to spend four centuries an-nually recreating the capital punishment of political and religious figures.

Despite this fact, it seems to be treated as a hap-

py celebration of free-dom and social justice. Telling someone “Hap-py Guy Fawkes Day!” is the equivalent of saying “Happy Holiday That Ad-vocates Creepy Religious Oppression!” Comments that commemorate Guy Fawkes are basically say-ing, “It’s totally justified for religious extremists to commit acts of terror-ism in the name of their God.”

A friend of mine pointed out that Guy Fawkes is only perceived as “bad” because he failed, and that had he succeed, he would be the “good guy.” But what is good about assassinating a (relatively) tolerant of-ficial seemingly with the end goal of pushing your own religious agenda?

My historical under-standing is that Fawkes didn’t plan to destroy parliament for noble rea-sons promoting freedom for all people, or for the sake of the chaotic good. Just like any other group, he had a personally-mo-tivated political agenda. He has nothing to do with “V For Vendetta”–styled anarchy or protecting civil liberties.

I’m not sure how Guy Fawkes has come to be celebrated in America, or how Guy Fawkes Day has come to be treated as a holiday honoring in-stead of vilifying him. But between comic books, movies and “hacktivist” groups like Anonymous placing on a positive pedestal, the holiday has had a complete shift in meaning. Considering he is idolized by those who focus on their ability to not follow others blindly, there sure does seem to be a lot of blind accep-tance of Fawkes as a hero.

Of course, I under-stand that the mean-ings of symbols are not concrete — they are constantly in a state of change and growth. Guy Fawkes has gone from being mocked for his be-trayal to becoming a cul-tural symbol of (chaotic) heroism, and both inter-pretations are important to consider, and are in-teresting to ponder and discuss.

But knowing that symbols are not absolute won’t change my person-al view of this idolization within pop culture as be-ing silly and misguided. I hope that people put more effort into realizing the full historical context of their symbols before revering them.

Anna Mitchell is a

junior liberal arts ma-jor. Her columns appear Wednesdays in the Colle-gian. Letters and feedback can be sent to letters@col-legian.com.

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By ANNA MITCHELL

“�is is the future, Mr. President; the people of Colorado

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1. Raquel Alejandre, right, Jefferson Campbell and Linda Edwards celebrate the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States at the Colorado Democratic watch party in the Sheridan Hotel in Downtown Denver, Colo. Tuesday night. (Photo by Dylan Langille)2. Zack Minner points at the TV enthusiastically as more news is given about the election with his friends as the election starts to get heated on Tuesday evening. (Photo by Austin Simpson)3. Suporters of the Republican Party look on in anquish as Pres-ident Obama is re-elected as President at Sports Authority field during the 2012 Republican election party. (Photo by Nick Lyon)4. A family celebrates as they read election updates while attend-ing the Larimer County Democrat party. The Democratic candidate Jason Polis won his campaign for United States House of Repre-senatives. (Photo by Madison Brandt)5. Children look out onto Sports Athority Field as key members of the Denver Republican Party gather behind at Sports Authority field for the 2012 republican election party. (Photo by Nick Lyon)6. Cassie MacDonald and her friends celebrate as a Romney supporter looks on. Romney lost this year’s election as President Obama takes his seat as the 44th President of the United States. (Photo by Kevin Johansen)7. Jessica English and Harold Jobson celebrate the reelection of Barack Obama as President of the United States at the Colorado Democratic watch party in the Sheridan Hotel in Downtown Den-ver, Colo. Tuesday night. (Photo by Dylan Langille)

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By BAILEY CONSTAS and HALEIGH HAMBLINThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

A shroud of silence en-veloped Denver’s Republi-can election viewing party at 9:14 p.m. Tuesday when it was announced that Pres-ident Barack Obama had won Ohio.

“For everyone in-volved, it was a lot of work and going down like that was especially disappoint-ing,” said Brad Dick, presi-dent of the College Repub-licans at CSU.

For CSU Democrats, this same announcement was marked by shared

tears, hugs and champagne toasts.

“Re-electing Obama means we can continue on the path we started four years ago,” said Kara En-glish, a junior political sci-ence major who invited 40 friends to a watch party at her Ram’s Village apartment Tuesday night.

Hours before the an-nouncement that Obama had secured reelection, Sports Authority Stadium at Mile High was full of hope-ful energy, according to the 10 members of the CSU College Republicans who made the trek to Denver for a watch party.

“I think we’re going to win, but whoever wins, it will not be a runaway,” said Craig Rhoades, a sopho-more history major and member of the College Re-publicans, before the elec-tion was called.

Christian Zamora, a CSU journalism major and Obama supporter, said he choose Obama because he believes Obama was more supportive of women and the GLBTQ community than his opponent.

“Republicans cannot expect Obama to fix ev-erything in four years, he needs four more years to correct the problems,” he

said. “Not Romney, not re-verse.”

Dick had a different view on what Obama’s re-election means.

“I don’t think [Obama’s] going to move at all to the center. I think the next four years will be full of divi-sion in the White House, Congress, Senate and the House,” he said. “It looks like Romney will win the popu-lar vote; most of the nation believed in Romney’s plan.

“We gotta keep up the fi ght.”

Collegian Reporters Bailey Constas and Haleigh Hamblin can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Election night in Denver through the eyes of student republicansStudents face Presidential Canididate Mitt Romney’s defeat

By CARRIE MOBLEY and SEAN MEEDSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

There was an air of in-decisiveness, hyperactive joy and utter disappoint-ment all muddled into one surprisingly representative sample of a battleground state in Parmalee Hall Tuesday night as President Obama claimed a second term victory.

The watch party was put on by Gaining Under-standing Through Involve-ment, Diversity and Edu-cation (GUIDE) as a way to give students a respectful environment in which to watch the elections, ac-cording to Elise Byron, a se-nior family and consumer sciences major, who was in charge of the event.

GUIDE also hosted a watch party in Braiden Hall.

“This election is a real-ly pivotal one just because both of the candidates are so opposite and it’s some-thing that has created a lot of tension,” Byron said. “This was just a way for us to provide an inclusive community for students to celebrate the election and celebrate their right to vote.”

As the race drew to a close early on in the night, many students seemed confused that something that had dragged on for so long could be over so quick-ly. One student exclaimed,

“It’s over already? That was anticlimactic.”

Olga Gladkova, a soph-omore RA in the Braiden Global Village who was born in Russia but has since become a US citizen, screamed in excitement at hearing the news.

“In Russia, it’s looked down on for women to pursue high-paying jobs, like being a lawyer, which is what I want to do,” Glad-kova said. “It’s important to me that Obama really supports a woman’s right to education and equality and minority rights in general. He understands what its like to work hard and really climb to the top.”

At Braiden, students were still occupying seats in the common room to hug, cheer and celebrate the results of the election long after they had been announced.

"I'm pretty pumped over the results," said ju-nior history major Jesse Hall. "Especially since this is my fi rst presidential elec-tion."

Hall voted for President Obama and said that he supported the president for not only his social policies — such as women's rights — but also for his econom-ic ones.

"We need to focus on small business, using our own domestic oil, and in-creasing exports," he said.

Lauren Klamm, a junior

journalism and technical communications major who voted for Romney, had a different reaction to the results.

“I’m a little heartbro-ken,” she said, “but I’m looking forward to seeing what he’ll do in the next four years.”

While the Romney sup-porters were upset but op-timistic, the Obama fans were celebratory while still being cautious.

"His fi rst term didn't go as well as expected," said Nigel Mills, a junior JTC major who also voted for the president. "I hope that he has more freedom and takes more risks since it's his second term and he can't be reelected."

On the other side of the spectrum, Romney sup-porters were accepting de-feat gracefully.

"Anyone who can help the US gets my vote," said sophomore business major Nicholas Personett.

Personett hopes that the president will change his approach to fi xing the economy, hopefully even borrowing aspects from Romney's plan, which Per-sonett felt was the better of two.

"He needs to cut the debt because it's only get-ting worse," Personett said.

Klamm agreed with Personett that the presi-dent needed to change his economic policies.

"We need take charge of how China's trading with other countries," Klamm said. "We need to stop bor-rowing from China because they're extremely powerful and we're not paying them back. If someone borrowed a lot of money from me, I'd ex-pect them to pay me back."

Back in Parmalee, some students were indifferent to the results.

“To me Mitt Romney was just a rich guy who didn’t understand any-thing,” said Grant Voyen, an undeclared sophomore attendee. “I didn’t like ei-ther candidate. I knew who would win, but I’m still kind of disappointed about it.”

Several members of the LGBTQ community re-joiced.

“My faith in America has been restored,” said Liz Arellano, a junior Liberal Arts major. “I literally cried about 10 different times to-day out of anxiety over it … He knows how to rise above diffi cult situations and he really knows what moving forward really means.”

An Obama supporter had only one word to de-scribe the experience.

“Right now I can only think of the word ‘ebullien-cy’,” said Kenny Young, a senior biochemistry major, “It’s pure happiness.”

Collegian Writers Carrie Mobley and Sean Meeds can be reached at news@colle-gian.com.

“In Russia, it’s looked down on for women to persue high-paying jobs, like being a lawyer, which is what I want to do.”

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Liz Arellano takes a picture of the TV in Parmelee as Obama is announced the next president of the US late Tuesday night. ERIN MROSS | COLLEGIAN

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Jared Polis wins reelectionDemocratic Rep. will serve third term for Colo.’s 2nd Congressional DistrictBy AMANDA ZETAH and AUSTIN BRIGGSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

The audience at last night’s watch party for Dem-ocratic Rep. Jared Polis was cordial and excited; the over-whelming sense was that their candidate would win. It wasn’t until Rep. Polis’ cam-paign manager leaned into his ear and told him it was of-fi cial, though, that Rep. Polis leapt to the stage to thank his supporters.

Rep. Polis was re-elected to the Colorado’s 2nd Con-gressional District for a third term, winning with 48 per-cent of the vote. Runner up State Sen. Kevin Lundberg fi nished with 46 percent, and 5 percent of the vote went to third party candidates.

“The race has been called and I will be the next congressman,” Rep. Polis said, “I want to thank you for helping to elect Obama and to elect me to represent Lar-

imer County.”Rep. Polis went on to

discuss his commitment to higher education, and what his third term might mean for CSU.

“My win means that CSU and Fort Collins will have a representative that will focus on education and making it affordable,” Rep. Polis said. “I will put problem solving over ideology and will look to move our country forward.”

But in every election there must also be a loser.

At the Ptarmigan Coun-try Club in Windsor, Colo., a crowd of about 250 Republi-can supporters gathered to watch election results come in. They remained relative-ly subdued throughout the night as reports showed Obama pulling ahead in the national election and Re-publicans losing a number of local races.

It was nearly an hour af-ter 9 News Denver called the election for Rep. Polis before

Sen. Lundberg conceded defeat and addressed the crowd. He assured his sup-porters that announcing he had lost wasn’t easy, and that he would continue to repre-sent them to the best of his abilities as a state senator.

“I look down the road that our nation is heading and I shudder,” Sen. Lundberg said. “But I don’t give up.”

Kyle Saunders, a CSU political science professor, said in an email to the Colle-gian before the race’s results came in that “barring any political gaffes” or scandals, the 2nd Congressional seat would remain Polis’, citing numerous challenges for Sen. Lundberg to overcome.

“Lundberg would have needed to have raised a lot more money, had much more positive name recog-nition and had issue stances that were more in line with unaffi liated voters in the dis-trict to have had a chance,” Saunders said.

“I knew it was a tough race jumping into it,” Sen. Lund-berg said. “But I believed the people of this district need-ed a good, fair choice in the matter. It’s always diffi cult running against the incum-bent. We gave it the best shot we could.”

Michael Fassi, the chair-man for the Larimer Coun-ty GOP, acknowledged that Sen. Lundberg faced an uphill battle in taking on a well established candidate within the new boundaries of the second congressional district.

“It just takes some time to take our candidates out there and to get them familiar with the popula-tion,” Fassi said. “When you have a new area it’s hard. Polis only had one new county, we had eight or nine.”

Collegian Writers Austin Briggs and Amanda Zetah can be reached at news@col-legian.com.

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York, a solidly Demo-cratic state, and said he was excited to vote in Colorado because he feels his vote will have a greater impact.

“Coming out to a commu-nity like this gives a human aspect to the campaign. You normally see people spitting out bull quotes, politics seems to be very highly processed,” Barnes said. “Coming here and seeing people who actu-ally engage in the same issues and think about things in sim-ilar ways and fi ght for them actively, its just a wonderful environment. There’s a real

sense of collegiality at the end of a campaign.”

Obama’s reelection shows his leadership, ac-cording to Stephanie Sand-hu, a medical student at the University of Colorado who plans to study for a test she has on Friday after leaving the event. She said Obama’s win has great signifi cance for the healthcare industry, and that because the Afford-able Care Act will be upheld, students and those with dis-abilities will receive the care they deserve.

The tense moments of the night was the uncer-tainty of the swing states

leanings. Matt Derrington, a CU student, breathed a sigh of relief once Ohio and its 18 electoral votes swung Democratic. He, like many other attendees of the watch party, plans to keep partying and drinking throughout the night.

“We’ve got to celebrate,” Derrington said. “It means four more years for a pres-ident fi ghting for who I am, and saying who I am is OK. It’s four more years of job creation, it’s four more years of economic policy that adds up and that makes sense, it’s four more years of a country on the right track.”

The race in Colorado was close leading up to the elec-tion, and it was not a fore-gone conclusion beforehand who would win Colorado, according to Straayer. Al-though not surprised by the fi nal results, Straayer attri-butes the Democratic Party’s apparent nationwide victory to a changing demograph-ic and changing attitudes throughout the nation.

The Republican party has steadily migrated in a conservative direction over the years. Tuesday’s election may have been an indication that the Republicans need to move in a more moderate

direction concerning issues such as gay marriage, immi-gration and women’s repro-ductive rights, according to Straayer.

“You’ve got to have the two parties work together, parties that will sit down and work out differences,” Straayer said. “And, if you have one party that gets so rigid it won’t do it and in the face of losses simply becomes even more rigid, that’s neither good for the party nor the country.”

Romney expressed a similar sentiment, and ad-vocates working together in Washington to continue to

grow America.“The nation, as you

know, is at a critical point,” Romney said. “At a time like this, we can’t risk partisan bickering and political pos-turing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people’s work.”

Although he touched on the partisan political land-scape during his victory speech, Obama was never-theless optimistic.

“I have never been more hopeful about America,” Obama said.

Politics Beat Reporter Kate Winkle can be reached at news@collegian.com.

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“I knew it was a tough race jumping into it.”

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By RICHARD SIMONThe McClatchy Tribune

WASHINGTON — De-spite Congress’ sorry image — and more than $1 billion spent to sway voters — Re-publicans held onto their House majority in Tuesday’s election.

“The American people have once again given the House of Representatives to Republicans,” Rep. Pete Ses-sions, R-Texas, chairman of the House GOP’s campaign arm, crowed at a victory par-ty in the nation’s capital.t

But while the GOP will remain in control, there will be plenty of new faces in the next Congress.

Among them: Democrat Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran who defeated Republican Rep. Joe Walsh, a tea party favorite, in Illi-nois. And Joseph P. Kennedy III, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy whose election to succeed Rep. Barney Frank from Massachusetts will mark the return of a mem-ber of the storied family to Congress.

With all 435 House seats up for grabs, 62 had no in-cumbent running, the most since 1992, said David Was-serman, House editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

While Democrats failed to win control of the House, Rep. John Barrow of Geor-gia withstood a strong GOP challenge to remain the last white Democrat in the House from the Deep South.

Democrats knocked off

Republican incumbents in Florida, Maryland, New Hampshire and New York.

Republicans, in turn, de-feated Democratic incum-bents in Kentucky, Pennsyl-vania and North Carolina.

In Iowa, Rep. Steve King, a prominent hard-liner on illegal immigration, beat back a strong challenge from Democrat Christie Vilsack, wife of Agriculture secretary and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack.

The election could create the fi rst House Democrat-ic caucus without a white-male majority, Wasserman said. And it could create a more polarized House, polit-ical experts say.

Republicans hold a 240-190 majority in the House, with fi ve vacancies, three previously held by Demo-crats and two by Republi-cans.

With the margin sepa-rating the parties expected to shift by only a few seats, Democrats were falling short of the net gain of 25 seats they needed to become the majority party.

“Democrats look like-ly to defeat many Republi-can incumbents, but some of their own incumbents will also lose; hence, lots of movement, but not much net change,” said Kyle Kon-dik, House editor at the Uni-versity of Virginia Center for Politics.

In California, the ballot-ing, combined with changes to the state’s political system and a spate of retirements, was expected to produce the

biggest turnover in its con-gressional delegation in 20 years.

There were at least 10 competitive races in a state where only one seat fl ipped between the parties in the last decade.

Battles between veteran Republican Rep. Dan Lun-gren and Democrat Ami Bera in a Sacramento-area district and between Repub-lican Rep. Brian P. Bilbray and Democrat Scott Peters in a San Diego County dis-trict drew more than $8 mil-lion each in outside spend-ing, among the most of any House races.

A new political map, drawn for the first time by an independent citizens commission instead of politicians, and the state’s new top-two primary sys-tem set up clashes between members of the same par-ty. The most noteworthy was a slugfest between Democratic Reps. Howard L. Berman and Brad Sher-man in a San Fernando Valley race that drew more than $13 million in spend-ing by the candidates and outside groups.

In Florida, in one of the costliest, and nastiest, races in the country, Republican Rep. Allen West, a tea par-ty favorite, was locked in a tight battle against Demo-crat Patrick Murphy. In Utah, Mia Love was seeking to be-come the fi rst black Repub-lican woman elected to the House in a race against Rep. Jim Matheson, a leader of a shrinking group of conser-

vative Democrats known as Blue Dogs.

In Massachusetts, Rich-ard Tisei was seeking to be-come the fi rst openly gay Republican in the House in a race against Democrat Rep. John F. Tierney.

In Minnesota, former GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann drew a challenge from Democrat Jim Graves, who said the in-cumbent was “distracted by her own celebrity.”

New Hampshire could end up with an all-female congressional delegation. Democrat Ann McLane Kuster defeated Republican Rep. Charles Bass, and fellow Democrat Carol Shea-Por-ter was leading Republican Rep. Frank Guinta. Both of the state’s U.S. senators are women.

And in Arizona, Dem-ocratic Rep. Ron Barber, a former aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and fel-low shooting survivor who won a special election to succeed his boss, was op-posed by Republican Mar-tha McSally.

Political experts were trying to make sense of the lack of change, considering a recent Gallup poll showed nearly 4 out of 5 Americans disapproved of the job Con-gress was doing.

“If there’s anything his-toric about this election, it’s going to be that with a (dis-mal) approval rating, we end up with no change?” said Norman Ornstein, an expert on Congress at the American Enterprise Institute.

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forward to working with state offi cials and poten-tially federal offi cials to implement this initiative.

In September Colo-rado Gov. John Hicken-looper opposed Amend-ment 64 on the grounds that marijuana would detract from Colorado being the healthiest state in the nation.

Tuesday night he warned voters about the legalization of marijuana.

“The voters have spo-ken and we have to respect their will,” the Washington Post reported that Hick-enlooper said. “This will be a complicated process,

but we intend to follow through. That said, feder-al law still says marijuana is an illegal drug so don’t break out the Cheetos or gold fi sh too quickly.”

Initiative Question 301 also passed in Lar-imer County with 38,213 “yes” votes out of the to-tal 69,722 votes. Initiative Question 301 will overturn the current ban on dispen-saries in Fort Collins.

George Hayduke was in support of Amendment 64 and Initiative Question 301.

“If it (the money) is go-ing towards schools, that’s where the future is at,” Hayduke said.

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By MARCUS MORTIZThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Jumping out of an air-plane doesn't appeal to ev-eryone. To some though, it is a lifestyle.

And those people are get-ting together. This Wednes-day, a meeting for the new CSU Skydiving club will take place in Lory Student Center room 211E at 4 p.m.

Chris Lierheimer, who is the driving force behind the club, has himself gone on over 450 jumps in the past three years.

“The goal is to get people to see how exciting and fun skydiving can be,” Lierhe-imer said in an email. “We also plan on dispelling some myths about how dangerous it is and how expensive it is.”

CSU Skydiving will jump primarily at Mile Hi Skydiv-ing in Longmont, where a jump can cost about $200 for a tandem jump — a type of skydiving where a student is connected to the teacher via harness.

Lierheimer said that the

club was created to mainly raise awareness about the sport and organize people who are interested in it.

“Member dues will be cheap and will probably just cover the cost of the t-shirt,” Lierheimer said. “That alone would be pretty cool. Wear that t-shirt around you're al-most guaranteed to pick up chicks, or dudes. Whatever you're into –– I don't judge our female members.”

Each club at CSU must have a faculty member to represent it, and for the Sky-diving Club that someone is Travis Annameier, a Center for Advising and Student Achievement coordinator and avid skydiver.

“The first time I went it just seemed like a good idea at the time,” Annam-eier said, who has jumped over 6,000 times in the past 10 years. “This last year I did mostly tandems, which is nice because if it's your first jump you can enjoy it a little more.”

CU–Boulder also has a skydiving team and each

year schools from around the country compete in the Unit-ed States Parachute Associ-ation Collegiate Nationals. This year, they’re from Dec. 28 to Jan. 2 near Eloy, Ariz.

“I'm hoping that once we get enough people to go, we could take a group of kids down there,” Lierheimer said, who took home a silver medal in the accuracy com-petition last year. “There are many different disciplines within skydiving which is why I think it will appeal to many different people.”

Some of the competitions include things like formation jumping (a group of people creating as many different formations as they can), the aforementioned accuracy jumps, freestyle skydiving (a combination of gymnastics and diving), as well as others.

“I certainly think that there will be an interest,” An-nameier said. “Even among people who had no prior knowledge or interest.”

Collegian Writer Mar-cus Mortiz can be reached at news@collegian.com.

A leap of faith: Skydiving Club

“�e goal is to get people to see how exciting and fun skydiving can be,”

Chris Lierheimer | junior construction management majorBy SKYLER LEONARDRocky Mountain Collegian

Amendment 65, an amendment to reform campaign finance law has been passed in Colorado. Seventy three percent of Coloradans voted in fa-vor of the bill, with people from all parties voting in favor.

“It passed overwhelm-ingly,” said Daniel Katz, director of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG).

“I’m excited to see the amendment pass from both Democrats and Re-publicans. This is a strong statement coming from all of Colorado,” Katz said.

The main purpose of the amendment was to overturn the controver-sial Citizen’s United rul-ing made by the Supreme Court. The amendment will attempt to do this by instructing Colorado’s elected officials to draft and implement an amend-ment to the federal consti-tution that would limit and change current campaign

finance law. Now that the amend-

ment has passed, Katz said that the next step is for Congress to start working on an amendment.

As of now no member of the Colorado congress has taken interest in writing the amendment. But Katz said he thinks this will change after the election since most elected officials were oc-cupied by their own cam-paigns.

Controversy still does exist for the amendment because of what may hap-pen as Colorado’s elected officials attempt to con-struct an amendment.

“The amendment is a tremendously bad idea, but the good thing is it is not legally enforceable,” said David Koppel from the Independent Institute.

Koppel raises con-cerns about the amend-ment’s capability to give elected officials power to limit citizens free speech because of how broad the text of the amendment can be defined, and that the amendment may not have

an impact if officials look to defend the constitution against reform.

Steve Justino, co-chair of Move to Amend, disagrees with Koppel’s claim, since organiza-tions like Move to Amend plan on being part of the debate while offi-cials start to construct an amendment.

“It needs to be a grass-roots driven process to help shape the amend-ment. It has to have input of the people to make our voice be heard to the legis-lation,” Justino said.

The amendment still does have a long way to go to bring about finance reform. Even after an amendment to the federal constitution is made, it will take a 2/3 vote to enact the amendment.

“The amendment is a first good step in starting a conversation on reform,” said Justino. “It is clear peo-ple recognize that some-thing needs to be done.”

Collegian Writer Skyler Leonard can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Amendment 65 PassesColo. votes in favor of campaign finance reform

By KATE SIMMONSThe Rocky Mountain Collegian

Perched in a skybox atop Sports Authority Stadium at Mile High, more than 1,000 Republican attendees, in-cluding Senators and their families, prepared for a Rom-ney victory. Downstairs in a larger room stood a podium and large screens displayed Fox News, MSNBC and CNN’s election coverage.

But the celebration turned into stoic silence as Fox announced Obama’s vic-tory. Soon, as the news settled in, members of the crowd vo-calized their disapproval.

“The president has

avoided the issue and all he’s done is increase our debt,” said Sen. Scott W. Renfroe, who is also a CSU alumnus. “He has more debt than any other president in history. We need to get our deficit under control.”

Sen. Mark Scheffel, who won reelection to Colora-do’s 4th District , came to the watch party with his wife and two daughters. Tuesday his 18-year-old daughter, maria, voted for the first time and had the unique experience of voting for her father.

Maria’s mother, Cheri Scheffel, said she supports Romney because she thinks he was the candidate that

would provide a better fu-ture for her children.

“I would much rather see Romney as President be-cause I feel like he can give more and provide more op-portunities,” Scheffel said. “If you’re an American citizen, voting is a privilege that peo-

ple have died for. It may seem like your one vote doesn’t count, but if we all felt that way none of us would be vot-ing. It does matter.”

Mike McCormick, a con-servative who disapproves of Obama’s agenda, left the watch party less optimistic.

“Obama is taking us to failure,” McCormick said. “Big government costs more. I want a limited government, individual freedom, personal responsibility, strong military, free enterprise, and Obama doesn’t support any of that.”

Outlining the economic problems in America, Mc-Cormick made an analogy.

He said Americans fit into two groups: people in the wagon and people who pull the wagon. The people in the wagon receive gov-ernment handouts and the people pulling the wagon are paying for them.

“If we want more and more people in the wagon,

pretty soon there won’t be enough people to pull the wagon and the United States will be history,” McCormick said. “That would be a real sad situation.”

While many Republicans left the watch party feeling de-feated, Romney volunteer Don Bergman left ready to fight.

“The firepower needs to be directed elsewhere — the US house the US senate and the state legislatures,” Bergman said. “We are going to hold them accountable, America will hold them accountable.”

Student Life Beat Re-porter Kate Simmons can be reached at news@collegian.com.

Colorado Republicans prepare persistent opposition“It may seem like your one vote doesn’t count, but if we all felt that way none of us would be

voting. It does matter.”.”Mark Scheffel | Colorado Senator