The Rocky Mountain Collegian

New art comes to CSU campus [SLIDESHOW]

By Aaron Montoya

Five new monumental sculptures have recently appeared on campus, some standing 34 feet high. The bent and twisted steel beams are the works of an artist named Bret Price who works from studios in Ohio and California. Facilities Management agreed to pay between $15,000 and $20,000 for the delivery and installation of the pieces, said Gary Voss, a sculpture professor and future chair of the Art Department.

Ft. Collins gears up for BrewFest

Starting at 11 a.m. Saturday and ending at 6 p.m. Sunday, the 19th annual Colorado Brewery Festival will be held in Old Town Fort Collins. The event will feature beer from breweries around the state, food from Fort Collins vendors and music from local bands.

Tickle Me Pink bassist found dead in room

Autopsy report inconclusive

By Erik Myers

Johnny Schou, bassist of popular Fort Collins-based band Tickle Me Pink, was found dead in his room earlier Tuesday morning, according to the band's Web site. No further details have been made available at this time. Schou was 22. The band, which formed in Fort Collins in 2005, debuted their first national release, the album Madeline, today through the group's label, Wind-up Records.

Teachers face off on economic solutions

By Aaron Hedge

Economics professor Martin Shields stood in front of about 20 Fort Collins residents Monday night and told them that the only way to fix the economy is to provide more funding for education. He cited statistics showing that, on average in northern Colorado, people with college degrees make nearly $40,000 more than workers who had dropped out of high school, and that the disparity is growing steadily.

Students bring diversity to CSU

High schoolers research and discuss issues unique to the black community

By Shari Blackman

"Let's not kill ourselves with gangs and drugs, 'cause not only can we survive, but we can do it well," said Faith Goins to an enthusiastic audience of her peers from across the nation. Most of them had met a mere three days before and were now cheering each other's performances of original poetry, African song and dance and piano.

Lightening sparks hundreds of fires in Calif.

By The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California - a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands.

Waterlogged levee under pressure from Mississippi

By The Associated Press

WINFIELD, Mo. (AP) - The weakest spot left along the swollen Mississippi River may be the Pin Oak levee, a barrier so tenuous that soil slides down its slope. Only National Guard soldiers and firefighters in life vests are allowed to stack sandbags, because volunteers and heavy equipment could sink.