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Civil Rights activist Rachel B. Noel was honored for a lifetime of achievements Feb. 6 at the AME Shorter Church. Among the guests were Metro President Stephen Jordan, student government president Jack Wylie and Callie Crossley, recipient of the 2007 Rachel B. Noel Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Full story on page 3.
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Documentarian honored with professorship Callie Crossley brings experience to campus By Lou Christopher achris25@mscd.edu
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The Regency student housing, left, has been informing UCD students about the various perks of its off-campus housing. The Campus Village Apartments, right, are associated with the CU Foundation, which has a deal with UCD to require first-time freshman to live in student housing.
Vying for new tenants Off-campus housing scrambles for limited student market By Geof Wollerman and David Pollan gwollerm@mscd.edu, dpollan@mscd.edu Prospective Auraria students beware: Student housing may not be all that it appears. The Regency student housing is specifically targeting incoming UCD students, informing them of their options regarding housing and what they may or may not be able to get away with. On the homepage of The Regency’s website, a link labeled “Attention UCD Students!” takes browsers to a page of frequently asked questions by prospective UCD students. At issue is whether or not these students are able to reside at the Regency despite UCD’s rules for incoming freshman. Incoming freshman less than the age of 21 who are not living with parents are required by UCD to live at Campus Village Apartments. According to the university’s First Time Freshman Live-in Requirements, the purpose of the stipulations is to improve the quality of the undergraduate experience. Some exceptions to the rule are married students or veterans of the armed services. “Will I be retroactively denied admission to UCD if I don’t meet their student live-in requirement?” reads one of the questions on The
Regency’s page. The answer: “No. If you are an incoming freshman and do not satisfy UCD’s student live-in requirement you will not be retroactively denied admission to UCD.” But when posed with the hypothetical situation of an incoming freshman being admitted to UCD and then being denied admission for not fulfilling the living requirement, UCD’s director of media relations, Danielle Zieg, said the university’s policy was official and that a student could be denied if he or she does not follow the live-in requirements. “I’d have to assume that’s possible,” Zieg said. Regarding The Regency’s assertions, she could only point out that The Regency is a business and can represent anything as fact. “As a private institution, they can say whatever they want to,” Zieg said. “We do not have any kind of a relationship with The Regency.” But The Regency’s general manager, Michael Francone, said the reason The Regency made this statement on its website was because it had been told by UCD officials that the requirement policy was not yet official. “In reality we were told specifically by UCD that they would not retroactively deny admission to students who did not meet the student live-in requirement,” Francone said. Francone referred The Metropolitan to a letter dated Apr. 28, 2006, sent from UCD’s Office of University Counsel to Dan Hawley, the general manager of Campus Village Apartments. In the letter, deputy university counsel
Daniel Wilkerson stated that the university had not developed any formal policies regarding the residency requirement. “This was before we formalized our policy,” Zieg said. “We do have a residency requirement in place.” The requirement was established sometime last year under the authority of the chancellor, Zieg said. “The owners of The Regency are pressing those sorts of questions, and they have the right to do so,” she said. In the event a student is denied admission to UCD after being admitted because of failure to meet UCD’s student housing requirement, The Regency offers prospective tenants a provision in their lease that would void the lease if the student were denied admission, according to the website. “At this time we don’t have any comments about the situation or The Regency’s actions,” Hawley said. Francone was unavailable for further comment as of press time. “They have been marketing to this audience for the last two years, and they have a right to and they should because it’s a business,” Zieg said. She did say it was unfortunate that marketing tactics had grown to the level they had because there is such a large population of students at Auraria. “The hope is that every student has the option to weigh what is important to them,” she said.
“Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on, hold on,” encourage the lyrics from one of the most powerful anthems of the civil rights movement. The documentary Eyes on the Prize took its name from the song and was produced by Callie Crossley, the 2007 Rachel B. Noel Distinguished Visiting Professor at Metro. Crossley is a broadcast journalist, filmmaker, producer, public speaker and commentator. She visited Metro Feb. 5 to 7 to receive the professorship and talk about the civil rights movement and various media issues. “We called what happened, the civil rights movement, the second American Revolution,” Crossley said. She stressed the importance of understanding that the civil rights movement completely transformed the way American social justice movements would evolve in the future. “The anti-war movement, the women’s movement, most recently the gay rights movement and certainly immigration are all based on the tactics, the strategy and the effort of the civil rights movement,” she said. And it worked.
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Callie Crossley at a communtiy reception honoring Rachel B. Noel.
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Catalogs to computers: The history and future of the Auraria Library archives – Part II
Finding space in a digital universe
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When discussing new technology in the field of data storage, archivists are often wary of getting burned – most would prefer to stick to time-tested methods.
The world of historic preservation collided with the world of technology when the ability to digitize old photos, records and other historic documents became available for widespread use in the late 20th century. But in a world looking to the future, with technology improving at a furious pace, employees at Auraria’s Archives and Special Collections Department are still preserving the past using time-tested methods. Although the archive’s reasons for maintaining traditional preservation methods stem mainly from issues of funding, migrating technology and a mild turf war between Metro and UCD, archive employees also cite personal reasons for practicing the techniques. “Of course, there are benefits to digitizing because the more that people handle things, the more it degrades – even when they wear gloves,” said Mike Gryglewicc, an Auraria Library technician, using a collection of photos from the Amachee Japanese Internment Camp that operated in Colorado during World War II as an example. “But people like looking and touching old stuff,” Gryglewicc said. “It is like looking at art. There is a sacredness to it. But not everybody picks up on it. Some people don’t care about history.” Through funding provided by the Colorado Digitizing Project, Auraria archivist Frank Tapp helped digitize the Amachee collection shortly before retiring this semester. The photos are now available to the general public online and kept safe from overuse. Started by a group of archivists from
and available for viewing, digitized documents are criticized for not being as stable as paper or microfilm. “I remember a story years ago about an inhouse team at the Colorado Historic Society that microfilmed the Boettcher business papers,” Evetts said. “The historic society disposed of the originals and now has a hard time reading the microfilmed text,” she said, adding that although the microfilm still works, the archives have no originals to fall back on. “I also remember a new program called CORK that came out about five years ago. It was all the rage but fizzled out, and nobody ever heard about it again,” she said, adding that although she does not believe digitizing will disappear anytime soon, it takes funding and a longterm commitment. According to archivists, the digitizing process is both time-consuming and expensive, and involves a series of training sessions to get used the software. The software must be maintained and updated, and the process involves a number of tedious steps in addition to the normal archiving process. “The Amachee project took one year and three training sessions,” Evetts said. One of Auraria’s tasks in the project was to scan the material and upload it to a photo program, she said. “All of this costs money, and that’s where it gets sticky, because the school that wants something digitized should pay,” Evetts said, explaining that Auraria is a shared library, with shared archives and shared costs. “But you also have to consider the number of students when balancing that cost,” she said. And funding for digitizing and the politics of a tri-institutional campus sharing turf are tied neatly together, Evetts added.
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New Mexico, the CDP was initially awarded a $500,000 federal grant to form a collaborative effort with archive departments throughout the western states. Since its inception, the project has trained archivists to use new technology and has allocated funds for digitizing various collections from the archives at Metro, CU Boulder, UCD and the Colorado Historic Society, among others. The audiotape series “Colorado Reflections,” housed at Auraria and donated by KOA radio, was a collection recently digitized in the project. “Historical researchers and genealogists have cried for something like this for years,” Auraria archivist Rosemary Evetts said regarding the project. She added that there are as many positives as negatives with going digital. “The technology out there is both exciting and a little concerning,” said Rebecca Lintz, director of the Stephen H. Hart Library at the Colorado Historic Society. “On the one hand, we have a great resource never before available. We can view photos and other digitized documents online from anywhere in the world. On the other hand, it takes a lot of time, money and expertise to implement and maintain the software, especially with the rate of (technological) migration.” The Encoded Archival Description software is a digitizing program currently advocated by both critics and supporters of digitizing. It has helped archives across the nation go digital. “EAD is awesome because at the very least someone can find online most any archive’s digital list of items stored in their facility,” archival student assistant Jennifer Goodland said. “Before, they had to travel to the archives or find a hardcopy of the list somewhere. Now they can just look it up on the Internet.” Those in support of digitizing agree that it creates easy worldwide online access to data otherwise difficult to view and also creates physical space on storage shelves. However, while originals collections usually remain stored
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USB Flash Drives
Flash drives allow users to save and erase data. Current high-end drives have a capacity of up to 16 gigabytes.
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CROSSLEY • Civil protest paved way for the vote
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Continued from 3 “When people tell you that public protest doesn’t matter, well, they’re wrong. It does matter. It takes a long time. You have to hang in there. You have to be committed. You have to determine that this is a cause bigger than myself,” she said. The idea of such violence as occurred during the civil rights movement over people wanting to secure the right to register to vote – not even to actually vote, but just to register – disgusted Crossley. “The level of anger and hostility that it took to beat children, women, old people, young people with no weapons … who were … trying to register to vote,” was atrocious, she said. The freedoms won during the civil rights movement should not be forgotten. “I have no patience for people who do not vote,” Crossley said. The civil rights movement helped to create and pass into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965. “(The Voting Rights Act) has been in the news again because there are some provisions of it that people keep trying to undermine,” Crossley said. President George Bush signed a 25-year extension of the act on July 27, 2006. The matter of violence from the civil rights era is not over, according to Crossley, as many of the murders from the era still remain at large. “I think they should be humiliated,” she said. “Track them down. I don’t care how old they are.” Crossley likened the prosecution of these unnamed killers to Nazi war criminals who are still being sought today. “These people need to be named,” Crossley said. “They have gotten away with murder, literally.” Along with sharing her extensive knowledge of the civil rights movement, Crossley, who has had a distinguished career as a journalist, discussed media issues as well. Race issues are still a problem in the world of media, according to Crossley. The ability for minorities to rise to the top and the lack of diversity in newsrooms are both problems that remain. “When you have many voices, then you stop a lot of misperceptions and misunderstanding,” Crossley said. “It’s really important for the teams that go out to report for the nation, and for the communities to reflect the communities.” Consolidation of media companies is also a media problem, she said, pointing out that five corporations currently own the vast majority of U.S. media. Crossley thinks that as long as there is an independent media and smaller media companies not owned by the large corporations, secrets will not be kept. A lack of Internet regulation will help keep alternative voices flowing, she said, and help reporting on issues that are not covered or skewed by large media sources. A lack of official sources is also “a real problem,’ Crossley said. “If I can’t guarantee that if you talk to me that I am going to protect you and not have the backing of my company to protect you, why would anybody talk? “If that principal is not upheld, then you are going to see a lot less original reporting on some tough issues.”
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By Geof Wollerman gwollerm@mscd.edu Putting preconceived notions of the English professor aside, on the weekends Paul Farkas rides his mountain bike, skis mountain passes and embraces the great outdoors. “I’m a borderline fanatic biker – road and mountain,” Farkas said. “We’re talking every weekend, almost without fail. For me it’s a way to kind of recover, to look at the physical activity as a sort of stimulus to get back to the intellectual work.” Born in Cleveland, Farkas was the product of a blue-collar upbringing and was the first in
his family to graduate from college. Academically, he embraced Latin and philosophy in his early years, eventually moving on to study James Joyce and symbolic literature. He began teaching at Metro more than 30 years ago. “It’s really a delight to teach at Metro, because students are so well-motivated and come from so many different backgrounds that it’s, to me, a teacher’s sort of dream job,” he said. “It’s absolutely been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done.” Among the classes he teaches at Metro is a course dedicated to the literature and symbolism of James Joyce. “Joyce is the turning point that took me from philosophy into literature, and then paradoxically back into philosophy,” he said. “Ulysses is by far my favorite Joyce book, but in terms of my own development it was Portrait of the Artist (as a Young Man). It was the story of the young precocious lad growing up and his fascination with words and language, which I could see within myself. I never really was that self-conscious about language until I read Joyce.” While still drawn to ancient literature, history and languages, Farkas’ current interests lie with the ideas behind language. But he still finds time for some contemporary reading. A fan of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels The Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled, he is currently reading Dreaming Souls by Owen Flanagan, a novel that explores the purpose of dreams. “It’s just fascinating stuff,” Farkas said. “Because at this point in my life … I’m really
going more toward literary criticism, and that blend between philosophy and literature enables me to make sense out of the novel and the poem as an imitation of consciousness.” Farkas sees movies as simply another form of literature, and several films have made an impression on him. “Casablanca is one of my favorites,” he said. “I thought American Beauty was superb – I think one of the all-time best films out there.” Sometimes he can even get into movies that are campy and dumb, he said, noting that Napoleon Dynamite was brilliant. “I do try to dabble in pop culture stuff as well, to kind of balance the heavy handed classical things … you know Buffy? I’m a big Buffy fan.” Farkas also has affection for the mythical aspects of Superman and Batman, and described the Lois and Clark television series as “absolutely hilarious.” Perhaps dispelling another misconception about English professors, Farkas also enjoys cooking. “More than anything, I love to do breads,” he said. “Breads and Hungarian food.” His family on his father’s side is from Hungary and still maintains ties to the Old World. “The old family property is still in Hungary … about 100 miles west of Budapest.” After having been at Metro since 1972, retirement is right around the corner, but Farkas has yet to solidify any plans. “We’ll have to wait and see. With 35 years, you know, you get up there. But then you start thinking, ‘Well, what else would I do?’”
Inoculation discussion raises question of new fees By Allison Bailey abaile19@mscd.edu Metro may start requiring students to get inoculated for a variety of illnesses, including measles and mumps, starting in fall, 2007 – and new student fees would cover the administrative costs. Stephen Monaco, the director of health services at Metro, asked for a recommendation for the inoculations from the Student Government Assembly in an executive committee meeting Feb. 5. State law requires that all higher education institutions that have dorms make it mandatory for students to be inoculated. Because Metro does not have dorms, the law does not apply to the college. Monaco said that ideally, all three schools at Auraria would implement the practice. The change in policy would come with a $2 student fee intended to pay for the maintenance of inoculation records and a registered nurse available on campus to administer the inoculations. While Monaco did answer some preliminary questions, SGA members have many more about the proposal and the accompanying fee and will be talking about it much more in the future, according to SGA President Jack Wylie. Though the college is not required to follow the state law regarding inoculations, Metro President Stephen Jordan would like to see Metro’s voluntary compliance and get students inoculated or provide documentation that they have been vaccinated elsewhere, Monaco said. Over the weekend prior to the executive committee meeting, the SGA reviewed its budget and discovered it has about $74,000 at its disposal, according to Rachel Zamboras, the
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Stephen Monaco, director of health services, and Martha Eaton, assistant director of health services, speak with the executive committee of Metro’s Student Government Assembly Feb. 5. SGA’s administrative assistant. “I imagine that they will be a lot more liberal until May,” Zamboras said, referring to how the SGA will spend the money. The SGA was expecting to have much less in its coffers – about $30,000 or $40,000, Zamboras said. The surplus is due to a shortage of senators over the past several months. Some of the extra money was supposed to go towards the salaries of the empty seats, Zamboras said. The new surplus should go to groups and clubs in need of extra funds this year, said Jesse Samora, the SGA speaker of the senate. “I don’t think we should be rolling forward any of this money,” Samora said, referring to the
policy that any unspent funds from one academic year be added to the budget of the next year. He advocated making the money immediately available for those who apply for it, and the rest of the assembly agreed. Ashley Averill, the new vice president, went over the SGA’s total budget in light of a recent request by Brand Spankin New, a student organization that designs, manufactures and sells usable art. The organization requested $11,000 to send two students and two faculty members to China to network with Chinese businesses. Last week the SGA chose to not take action on the request until it had a better idea of its budget.
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LOCAL TAKES, LARGER ISSUES Clubs meet at Metro soirees CAMPUS FACULTY: Adjunct faculty members teach more than 60 percent of classes at Metro. This is a common theme among most Colorado state colleges and universities. Adjuncts normally do not receive benefits such as health insurance from the college and are payed less than tenured professors. Tenured professors have job protection that adjuncts do not enjoy. Below are responses from campus faculty members about what this means for teachers and for students.
“ “ ” ” The hope with having adjunct teachers is that you are bringing people into the classroom who can augment the talent of your full-time faculty. You want adjuncts with some specific expertise that adds to the students’ experience. Hopefully, that is what we are doing. Higher education in Colorado appears to have suffered due to the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights. Voters were wise to suspend this law, whose provisions seem to be committed to cutting off public funding of higher education. I know President Stephen Jordan wants to reduce the number of adjuncts. Hopefully, he will find the funding to increase the number of tenure-track or similar full-time positions to ensure that students don’t suffer.
– Shaun Schafer, adjunct faculty member
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ing to black awareness,” she said, adding that in addition to several planned events for the semester they have invited one of the last remaining pilots from the Tuskegee Airmen – the first group of blacks allowed to fly in war – to speak about his experience as a World War II pilot. “Back when I went to school, student organizations and activities were pretty low-key, but they began to grow in the ’80s,” Webster said, adding that involvement in student organizations is valuable in networking and an integral part of a successful academic experience. Webster graduated from Metro in 1978 and is currently taking on the additional responsibility of overseeing the Office of Student Activities until Metro fills the empty director’s position. “Many times students make business contacts through their interaction in student organizations,” she said, explaining that in addition to being a place where students connect with other like-minded people, club involvement can also lead to a job in their chosen field. One thing that was clear from the events was that Metro students and faculty overwhelmingly agree about the benefits of belonging to a school club. “Studies show that individuals in student organizations are more involved in their school’s community at large, and they also do better in school,” said Tim Clinefelter of Metro’s Office of Student Activities. “Belonging to a student organization, especially being an officer, is also important on résumés for grad school and employment,” he added.
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UFO dig team landing soon Art imitates life The Metro Cryptoscience Society will host a presentation of a recent archeological dig in Roswell, N.M., from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 17 at Sigi’s in the Tivoli Student Union. The event is free and open to the public. Chuck Zukowski is the team leader of a continuing expedition to Roswell funded by the SciFi Channel. Roswell is the site of an alleged UFO crash in the ’50s that spawned a wave of UFO hysteria and speculations of a U.S. cover-up. In addition to revealing his team’s most recent findings, Zukowski will also discuss plans for future expeditions and opportunities for interested student volunteers. The team’s
findings will be featured in a series of Sci-Fi Channel programs. Zukowski is the assistant state director of the Mutual UFO Network, a group of UFO enthusiasts that, according to its website, is “dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity.” He is also a founding member of the MUFON Dive Team, which searches for underwater evidence of UFOs. For more information about the event and the Metro Cryptoscience Society visit http:// studentactivities.mscd.edu/~cryptoscience or http://www.ufonut.com.
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A Kansas City, Mo., man was recently convicted of second-degree domestic assault after shoving a cell phone down his girlfriend’s throat, according to the Associated Press. A jury found Marlon Brando Gill, 25, guilty of the December 2005 attack. Gill had denied the charges, claiming his girlfriend, Melinda Abell, 25, of Blue Springs, swallowed the phone in order to prevent him from finding out whom she had been calling. Doctors were able to remove the phone from Abell’s mouth, but said she almost died of a blocked airway, the AP reported.
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Auraria’s big clock block The older Asian gentlemen were giggling like schoolgirls. Pointing up at the clock – one of the large, nearly invisible, white goliaths that embellish the North Classroom – the two seemed nervously amused that the hands read 6:15 when the time was really nearer to noon. I couldn’t understand a word they were saying, but “how stupid to have a clock and not fix it” was pretty clear from their body language. Truth be known, until the jovial pair reminded me, I had long since stopped noticing the errant timepieces. The clocks had become one with the rest of the buildings for me, providing no more information than a door or window. But these two foreigners had the strange idea that the clocks, being more than just ornament or architecture, were actually meant to tell time. “Welcome to Auraria,” I wanted to tell them. “We do things differently here.” To understand why the clocks do not work, one must understand the philosophy behind Auraria and how complicated it is running a threeschool campus with only the students’ success in mind. With so many higher priorities, the campus can’t get around to every little thing, and sometimes the clocks are neglected. The maintenance of the entire campus is the responsibility of the Auraria
ANDREW FLOHR-SPENCE spencand@mscd.edu Higher Education Center, the organization in charge of pretty much everything on campus. Overseen by the Auraria Board of Directors and funded by state institutions and student fees, AHEC not only runs the parking lots, rents out the Turnhalle and keeps the grass growing on the soccer field, but also tirelessly sees to it that even the lights turn on. Whether it’s for a semester parking pass or a banquet in a conference room, toilet paper in the bathrooms or tar on the roofs, AHEC answers the call. However, they are not miracle workers. There are many areas in which Auraria must
prioritize what best serves the student, forgoing the chance to make an easy buck to pay for some needed maintenance. And really, how would an accurate clock serve the students? It comes down to making tough choices, choices AHEC makes out of love for the students. How can we really complain when we are asked to pay so little for parking? Can we question where the resources are spent when we enjoy the soft comfort of the best toilet paper money can buy? Does anyone doubt the care that went into choosing the diverse array of Tivoli food vendors? When we see the cute little electric trucks they drive around, can we turn and moan about something so trifling as whether or not the clocks tell the correct time? The clocks will run on time, if AHEC can find the time to fix them. Auraria’s priority is to give students an inexpensive, pleasant and architecturally pleasing experience, not to make sure every little gadget on campus is working. The two laughing strangers can keep their rigid concept of clock maintenance! This school operates on the higher principle that making education affordable for everyone is more important than time or profit. The clocks on campus should be left broken as testimony to this higher calling.
Where were you when you found out Barbaro died? I was in an editing class, wondering why a dead horse landed on the front page of the Denver Post. In the egalitarian, mint-julepsipping arena of horse racing, I was a flea-bitten outsider adorned in an old potato sack. But thanks to a cleansing shower of obituaries, I am now able to converse fluently with the likes of derby regular Pamela Anderson or the omnipresent Colonel Sanders. But we’re all a little too choked up to talk. Barbaro, winner of the 2006 Kentucky Derby, fractured a leg bone during last year’s Preakness Stakes. Before dying early last week, his struggle to survive captivated a nationwide audience of equestrians and general idiots. Unfortunately, all this mourning falls short of progress. I’m encouraged that the life of an animal has touched so many humans. However, it took centuries of eugenic dabbling and speciesim to get to this point – and we haven’t come close to realizing the hypocrisy. According to ESPN writer Pat Forde, we need “an industry-wide resolve to examine horse racing and make it a safer sport.” I couldn’t agree more. An estimated 800 thoroughbreds die in North America every year due to injuries, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals reports. A “safer sport,” in my estimation, would be one ridden with stick ponies. Like Anderson, a faithful patron of the socalled sport, thoroughbreds are made blatantly top-heavy. Unlike Anderson, “They are really running on the tip of a single finger … it’s a delicate system,” said Jason Bruemmer, an associate professor of equine sciences at Colorado State University. He contends that if horses are cared for and trained properly, racing is not inherently detrimental to their health. Since thoroughbreds weigh a half-ton and run on appendages reminiscent of stilts, one must wonder how conscionable it is to force these animals to compete for our amusement and gambling addictions. Though many horses are well cared for, there will always be people willing to race unhealthy ones in order to line their pockets. The outpouring of sentiment from Barbaro’s death is misplaced. Had he not earned $2 million from the Kentucky Derby, he likely would have been euthanized long before January or possibly sent to one of the remaining U.S. horse slaughterhouses. So let’s take all this sadness, turn it into some healthy dissent and direct it at the real cause of Barbaro’s demise.
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Pamela Liverpool leads African Dance for Everyone Feb. 3 in the St. Francis Atrium. The Nigerian dance serves as a meditation and a tribute to nature.
Photo by Andrew Bisset • abisset1@mscd.edu
Reel World
Troubled ‘Bridge’ over water
The Bridge 93 minutes Not rated Opens Feb. 9 at Starz FilmCenter By Clarke Reader creader3@mscd.edu The minute his feet left the steel and his body flew into the air, Kevin Hines realized that he did not want to die. Although he broke his lower back, Hines survived the jump. His failed suicide attempt became one of the focal points of The Bridge, director Eric Steel’s documentary about the dark aspects of one of America’s signature landmarks. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is a stunning architectural achievement and one of America’s most recognizable landmarks. Yet every now and then clouds from the bay float in, turning this national treasure into a dark, skeletal, looming presence that can barely be seen through the mist. That’s exactly the image that The Bridge seeks to create. The film is about people who use the Golden Gate Bridge
as a place to commit suicide, making it – according to the film – the place where more people chose to end their lives than anywhere else in the world. The film juxtaposes interviews with friends and family of people who jumped from the bridge in 2004 with idyllic scenes of the picturesque beauty of the bridge and its surroundings. The Bridge is worth at least one viewing to gain a deeper insight into those who struggle with these problems. For those who have a hard time with intense and disturbing films, however, this may not be the way to go. There are even a few scenes of people jumping. For those who can handle the graphic footage and morose subtexts, The Bridge is a stirring look into the eyes of a growing problem in society and a thoughtful meditation on its solutions. The interviews spotlight separate stages of the grieving process, from denial that a loved one made the decision to take their own life to parents attempting to justify why their child did it. The rationales of the people dealing with their grief are difficult to comprehend, but that’s the source of the film’s power.
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The people discussed in the film seem alienated from and disillusioned with the world around them. The Bridge serves as a kind of warning about what happens when feelings of solitude take root and continue to grow unabated. Hines’ firsthand account of the reasoning behind his suicide attempt and the moments leading up to the actual jump is both terrifying and fascinating. Suicide is always a sensitive topic, but the film handles it tastefully. It is honest and blunt, with no sugarcoating. It allows the audience to see that a suicide does not merely end one life, but profoundly affects the day-to-day realities of families and loved ones. Some find religion, others acceptance, and some get mired in guilt over what they could have done to help the person. All are left groping for answers. It’s an emotional punch in the gut, a film that probably won’t be viewed repeatedly. Even as this film will open many viewers’ eyes to a serious problem, it will forever transform the image of the Golden Gate Bridge in many viewers’ minds.
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Coming to Starz
Oscar Nominees The Starz FilmCenter will feature the lesser known Oscar-nominated shorts, animations and documentaries as a preview to the big ceremony on Feb. 25. Here are some documentary picks from this year’s honorees.
Deliver Us From Evil Bill Plympton’s inimitable animation style marks Hair High.
Courtesy of Plymptoons
‘Hair High’ revels in the grotesque Hair High 78 minutes Not rated Opens Feb. 9 By Adam Goldstein goldstea@mscd.edu Any film that delves into the drama of highschool social hierarchy runs the risk of falling into the realm of tired cliché. Though Hair High relates the familiar struggle between a nerd and his athletic oppressor, animator and director Bill Plympton neatly avoids the stereotypical treatment of teenage angst with healthy doses of cartoon gore, surreal aesthetics and fantastical plot twists. Plympton translates his talents for the tasteless into the feature-length forum and turns a sappy, high-school motif into an exercise in bad taste and visual potty gags. The result is an eerie amalgamation of conflicting aesthetics. Hair High is equal parts James Dean and Bill Hicks in its greaser appeal and iconoclastic spirit, while its simple design stands as a nightmarish fusion of Ralph Steadman and Francisco Goya. The animation plays on its inherent abilities to warp the visual world, exaggerating the characters’ features and fo-
cusing on graphic violence to a degree that is almost satirical. Long a hero in the underground cartoon scene, Plympton’s visual style relies on choppy animation and bodily sight gags to deliver its discomfiting effects. Whether animating nose hair growth gone awry or the fatal aftermath of simultaneous bodily excretions, Plympton’s brightly penciled sketches have gained a reputation for their gritty and grotesque appeal. Plympton’s taste for the bizarre and nauseating suffuses his tale of two star-crossed teen lovers. Although the plot begins in a familiar fashion, Plympton skews the story and setting to suit his unorthodox and unsavory style. Rod, voiced by Dermot Mulroney, is a muscle-bound Neanderthal who rules the social hierarchy of an anonymous high school (his impressively voluminous pompadour lends the film its title). He is dating Cherri, monotonously voiced by Sarah Silverman, who is the captain of the cheerleading squad and a vapid, vacuous teen queen whose flawless hair and pouting lips are the envy of the school. When a socially inept stranger named Spud enters their realm, he starts as the brunt of their jokes and derision, but ends up challenging the alpha male for Cherri’s favor. When Spud, played by Eric Gilliland, transforms from pitiable nerd to the love of Cherri’s life, Rod seeks bloody revenge. Plympton turns
this story of teenage affection into a tragedy macabre when the cuckolded athlete turns toward murder to exact his vengeance. The unorthodox resolution of this very orthodox plot is what distinguishes Plympton’s teenage drama from Sixteen Candles and Can’t Buy Me Love. While plenty of teen movies feature the social metamorphosis of a nerd, Plympton successfully adds zombies and a 1950s rockabilly feeling to the mix. Though the real dynamics of the film rest on Plympton’s animation, a diverse cast helps to flesh out the film’s deadpan satire. In addition to the three principal characters, Plympton’s high-school setting is peopled by an array of beautifully drawn and well voiced characters. Matt Groening, Ed Begley Jr., David Carradine, Martha Plimpton and Beverly D’Angelo round out the cast. At 78 minutes, Hair High runs out of gas at times, as it tends to rely too heavily on bloody sight gags and drawn-out visual motifs. Still, Plympton’s unique style sustains the movie even at its dull moments. Hair High achieves an innovative and unparalleled fusion between the teen drama and the underground cartoon, imbuing the awkward feeling of high school with a bloody appeal straight out of Evil Dead.
Opens Feb. 9 Not rated 101 minutes Oliver O’Grady, a Catholic priest, was one of the worst pedophiles in the history of the church, yet he was moved from parish to parish in spite of protests from his victims and their families. Writer/director Amy Berg brings together interviews from the victims, the church administrators and O’Grady himself to paint this chilling portrait.
Iraq in Fragments Opens Feb. 9 Not rated 94 minutes Director James Longley follows Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish perspectives in war-torn Iraq to create this intimate and immediate portrait of a country in chaos.
Jesus Camp Opens Feb. 9 PG-13 85 minutes Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady focus on children enrolled in an evangelical Christian camp in North Dakota. Children as young as 6 years old are taught to repent and atone as the camera follows their transformation.
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We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey, but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
Everyday Blues
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Adam Goldstein • goldstea@mscd.edu
This Day in History 2.8.07 Today’s Birthdays
Science-fiction author Jules Verne – 1828 German philosopher Martin Buber – 1878 Beat folk hero Neal Cassady – 1926 Cinema composer John Williams – 1932 Iconic rebel James Dean – 1955 Grizzled actor Nick Nolte – 1948 Actor/martial artist Brandon Lee – 1965
On this day... Satan’s shoeprint...
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Joe Nguyen and Conor Drummond • nguyejos@mscd.edu • cdrummon@mscd.edu
1855 – The devil’s footprints mysteriously appear in a field outside of Devon, England. The strange, hoof-like prints run for hundreds of miles through the freshly fallen snow, running over roofs, through walls and over rivers. The mystery is promptly solved later in the day, when a drunken Beelzebub is found taking shots of rye whiskey in a local pub.
The merit badge of courage... 1910 – Multimillionaire William Boyce incorporates the Boy Scouts of America in London as a tribute to Native American traditions and nature skills, although his insistence on smoking peace pipes with small boys is promptly rejected.
American gothic... 1969 – The last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published. Norman Rockwell, a regular contributor, grieves the loss through his art, painting a disturbing, yet quaint, self portrait in the nude.
Across 1- Air bubble 5- From the beginning: Lat. 10- Stop up a hole 14- Easy stride 15- Ventures 16- Monetary unit of Portugal 17- Secured, as victory 18- Pertaining to the small intestine 19- Kill 20- Cork 22- Folium 24- Acknowledgment of debt 25- Uncooked 26- Smell 29- French vineyard 32- Lacks 36- River in central Switzerland 37- Drunk 39- Animal foot 40- Cause light to pass through 43- Devour 44- Willows 45- On a single occasion 46- Trample 48- Weep 49- Taut 50- Primate with a short tail or no tail 52- Step in ballet 53- Minter 57- Irrigated 61- Dash 62- Cooperative race 64- Bull 65- Capital of Peru 66- Silly 67- Accent 68- Nailed obliquely 69- Gardening tool 70Supplements, with “out” Down 1- Radar screen element 2- Scottish body 3- Fencing sword 4- Sheets and pillowcases 5- Old French expression meaning “goodbye” 6- Aromatic fragrance 7- Mined mineral 8- Meat dish 9- Academy award 10- Monetary unit of Ghana 11- Soothe 12- Russian range 13- Spanish painter 21- Destiny 23- Muslim messiah 26- Satisfies 27- Unit of weight in gemstones 28- Muse of lyric poetry 29- Paroxysmal pain 30- Sovereign 31- Exorbitant rate of interest 33- Exactly 34- “Of course!” 35- Chirp 37- Lisa, to Bart, briefly 38- The middle of summer? 41- Mawkish 42- Small piece of lean meat 47- Frenzied woman 49- Make lace 51- So spooky as to be frightening 52- One forking over 53- Dissolve 54- Potpourri 55- Title 56- Tear apart 57- Decline 58- Chess piece 59- Sea eagle 60- Female rabbits 63- Fall behind Crossword reprinted courtesy of bestcrosswords.com. Solution for puzzle can be found at http://www.bestcrosswords.com/. (Solution is under Feb. 2 puzzle.)
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Africa
By Josie Klemaier • jklemaie@mscd.edu Photos by Johanna Snow • snowj@mscd.edu
Adetunji Joda approached the crowd in the glittering atrium with both hands up to his ears, inspiring an enthusiastic response with his warm and welcoming smile. After the assembled students had returned his greeting of “Good morning,” the Nigerian explained that this type of participatory zeal was central to the dances they were about to learn. “I alone cannot do what we are going to do here,” Baba Joda said at the African Dance for Everyone event on Feb. 3. Joda explained to the group of more than 30 students that the Nigerian dances his company, Joda and Friends, teaches are designed to be cooperative. His courtesy title, baba, means father, and he fulfills this role by guiding dance classes with the rhythm of his drums. “He is the grandfather of African dance in Colorado,” said Lindy Lyman, a musician and dancer who has known the cultural liaison for 30 years. With a lifetime of experience, Joda explained that African dance is simply a broad term for an entire continent’s worth of history, culture and dance. “You cannot just take one class,” he said. “African dance is not just one beat, one step, and then you learn it.” Instead, it comprises a wealth of different styles that spans thousand of miles of geographic origins. More specifically, the performances of Joda and Friends represent the culture of Joda’s native Nigerian Yoruba people. Joda and Friends began holding monthly classes at Auraria in fall 2006 after being contacted by Healthy Moves coordinator Linda Wilkins-Pierce.
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Dance classes transport Nigerian dance rhythms, routines to Auraria
“Like most of our Healthy Moves programs, it was a suggestion of one of our students,” Wilkins-Pierce said. Now the lessons have grown into a monthly Saturday program and have drawn students for a number of reasons. “It depends on the interests,” Joda said about what a student can take from participating in African dance. The lessons gleaned from African dance can be cultural, physical or simply entertaining. Baba Joda moved to the United States in 1958 from Nigeria and came to Colorado in 1971 after traveling through the Northeast with various African dance troupes. Since coming to Denver, Joda has been influential in Colorado’s African community and has been acknowledged by former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, who named July 24 Baba Adetunji Joda Day. Also, the Annual Denver Black Arts Festival features a Joda Village dedicated to the African dance teacher. Joda has also founded or directed four major African dance companies, including Joda and Friends. The dances led by instructors Cathy Phelps and Pamela Liverpool are warmups for traditional Nigerian dances, Joda said, that portray living things like birds, plants, animals and humans. The instructors hope to introduce more complicated dances in later classes, building upon these introductory moves as a base. The songs and dances of the Yoruba people as led by Phelps and Liverpool require some coordination and commitment to enunciated movements of the hips, but mainly they require devoted participation and confidence. Saturday’s class started with rhythmic chants and claps, which took some dancers longer than others to get used to. By the end of the hour-and-a-half session, and after a few enthusiastic commands from Phelps to “travel,” or really get moving, the uncoordinated mass transformed into one seamless movement of energy, pulsing with the beat of the
drums and shaking with the fervor of the chants. By the end of the class, each student readily jumped in to lead others in a dance move they had just learned. At times during the instruction, some of the dance moves resembled yoga or a Rockettes routine. In addition to culture, students got a workout. “My legs are burning,” said Kathryn Hadad, a Metro student who said she found out about the event through a campus-wide e-mail. Sarah Mckelvey, a Metro graduate now attending UCD for her degree in multicultural counseling, attended the event as an assignment. “I feel balanced,” she said about the workout. “At times it was awkward, but it was a new, different experience. Sometimes I got out of rhythm. You really have to feel it.” Rosalind May, a UCD student who lived in Senegal for a year, came to the African Dance for Everyone class to revisit cultural ties. “I like African dance, and I had a chance to do it before,” she said. “It’s nice to connect to it.” African Dance for Everyone continues with two more classes, each from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on March 3 and April 7 in the St. Francis Atrium. Everyone is welcome to the free event. Whatever the reason for participating, African Dance for Everyone is sure to evoke the African beat in everyone. Like Baba Joda said, “You don’t have to be an African or born in Africa to dance African dance.” Find out more about Joda and Friends at http://www.afrikandance.com.
Above left: Auraria students, friends and family gather at African Dance for Everyone on Feb. 3 at St. Francis Atrium at Auraria. Pamela Liverpool and Cathy Phelps led the dance class, while founder Baba Joda looked on and played drums for the crowd. Joda, originally from Nigeria, came to the U.S. in 1958 and began teaching African performing around the country with his troupe, Joda and friends. Center: Cathy Phelps, a part-time instructor at Metro, leads the group during the African Dance for Everyone class. Right: Joda plays drums for the dancers. The event celebrated Black History Month and attracted an enthusiastic crowd.
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Upcoming shows Dualistics Feb. 12 The Bluebird 3317 E. Colfax Ave. 7:30 p.m. $8, 21+ These Denverites blanket the city with that warm, friendly, familiar aura of the grunge of yesteryear. Complete with musings of suburban moms and catchy keyboard lines, the aptly named Dualistics conflict varying vocal ranges with fretful lyrics. As one of their songs says, it’s time to “Get It On.”
Michael Hargrave • mhargra1@mscd.edu
hardcore gentlemen Photo courtesy of Code of Chivalry
Chivalry is not dead, it just got younger and scarier. Code of Chivalry, from left, Matt Marsh, Jeremy Stark, RJ Powers, Arnold Rodriguez and Adam Giffen.
By Billy Schear wschear@mscd.edu Striking out on a crusade to convert the heathen world to the healing power of hardcore, five knights from Arvada have a new definition for the word retro. Bringing you closer to the Middle Ages than you’re ever likely to get without the aid of an enchanted wand, Code of Chivalry sings of dark times when a man’s coolness was measured by how much plague his body could tolerate. Surprisingly, they do it without being gimmicky. They don’t dress up in Renaissance Fair garb, and they don’t play with pan flutes and lutes. Instead, vocalist and Metro student Matt Marsh digs back to medieval times, where he finds inspiration for stories that he then weaves into lyrics. “Rather than singing about the same old things, we tell these grand stories of old times and old religion, but with modern music,” Marsh said. “It’s very unusual for a band to write about these things.” The religion Marsh speaks of pertains to his cultish way of worshiping the music he plays. “None of our lyrics relate to traditional religion such as Christianity, etc.,” Marsh said. “We strive to tie in the fanaticism of the Crusades era with the rabid fan worship of certain musical groups today.” Although they utilize many of the brutal-
sounding conventions the hardcore genre has already set, Chivalry does their best to separate themselves from the chaff by writing songs beyond the standard 4/4 time signature. Instead they branch out by writing tunes in 3/8 signatures, giving their wall of sound an erratic, experimental quality. “When we get together, we don’t think about being in a hardcore band,” Marsh said. “It just comes out that way.” The frenzied guitar work of Arnold Rodriguez and Jeremy Stark is reminiscent of two roosters in a cockfight for survival, while the rhythm contains this chaos with the arresting bass work of Adam Giffen, and the captivating drumming of RJ Powers. When Marsh growls through the microphone, you can hear the words raking cruelly over the back of his throat. Right before his larynx combusts, he does a quick about-face, singing with an earnest harmony that’s bound to make any boy band weep with jealousy. Smoke machines, elaborate lighting and an attention to each member’s personal style creates a live atmosphere seldom experienced with local bands. Although Marsh said that 100 percent of their time is focused on the music rather than the package, it is clear that Chivalry is a band striving for more than just competent musicianship. They want to electrify their crowds with energy. “We don’t want to be categorized with any
other groups,” Marsh said. “We want to be daring in the way we present ourselves – uniform, intense.” Putting an eclectic spin on the traditional hardcore noise, Marsh uses a slew of nontraditional instruments, including the Australian didgeridoo, the African djembe, conga and bongo drums. “I’m also learning the harmonica while contributing some synth,” Marsh said. A desire to tour has lit a fire under the band to release an EP by this summer. Code of Chivalry’s recordings are homemade with love and care and can be heard on their website. Marsh urges any and all who are interested to not only listen to their jams, but to offer comments and criticism as well. “We take our fans’ opinions to heart,” Marsh said.
Code of Chivalry will play at 9 p.m. Feb. 18 at Quixote’s True Blue, 2637 Welton St. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. 21+
Blue October Feb. 17 and 18 Ogden Theater 935 E. Colfax Ave. 6:30 p.m. $20 in advance, $22 day of show, 16+ Soaking up another’s thoughts is seldom a comfortable experience. Sometimes, however, it’s the best way to hold a mirror up to your own neurosis. Blue October’s introspective lyrics echo across a pool of hauntingly melodic musical accompaniment to serve as a warning not to listen if you’re entertaining thoughts of suicide. If, though, you’re just the attention-needing, self-mutilating, too-afraidto-actually-go-through-with-it kind, then by all means enjoy.
Billy Schear • wschear@mscd.edu
The Monster of Florence Feb. 22 Lifespot 7562 S. University Blvd., Centennial 7:00 p.m. $5, all ages Grindcore involves playing as fast as humanly possible and growling vocals that deliver lyrics that are usually offensive. This is music so insane that it causes involuntary thrashing and the infliction of mass carnage. Get there early to check out some extreme audio destruction.
Geoff Page • gpage2@mscd.edu
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spotlight! ‘Virus’ infects world of death metal
Hipster Shin-kickers By Michael Hargrave mhargra1@mscd.edu
Hypocrisy Virus (Nuclear Blast Records, 2006) By Geoff Page gpage2@mscd.edu
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Groundbreaking, genre-defying bands are often the most imitated. Hypocrisy is one of those bands, and a lot of their music has been copied by less tasteful emo bands. Virus is Hypocrisy’s 17th release in as many years, Peter Tägtgren having founded the band in 1990 in Sweden. Fans of any of Hypocrisy’s old albums – or any of the albums Tägtgren has produced at The Abyss Studios in Sweden – should know what to expect: true, melodic death metal. The album’s lyrics are about topics such as depression, drug abuse, suicide and murder. They are about real-life misery straight from the mind of Tägtgren. The song “Let the Knife do the Talking” could turn a choir boy into a serial killer, with the chilling chant of “kill” resounding over and over again throughout. “A Thousand Lies” is a sad song with provocative lyrics about heroin addiction. Songs such as “Scrutinized” and “Compulsive Psychosis” are intelligent, professionally written songs that follow the verse-chorus-verse formula without sounding remotely pop. Before the MTV pop-punk kids realized it was cool to play melodic metal riffs, there were bands like At the Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquility and Hypocrisy. Listeners of melodic death metal should support the real stuff, not the American-core bands looking for their 15 minutes of fame. Hypocrisy are not phonies when it comes to this kind of music. They were one of its founders. They will never get the fame or glory many other melodic metal bands will receive, but as far as songwriting, lyrics and vocals, Virus is anything but a con.
When self-defense classes get to the creepy-guy-grabsyou-from-behind section, women are taught to scrape their heels down the shins of their attackers. Little kids are also known to wreak havoc as shin-kickers. Apparently The Shins can be a sensitive area, but that won’t stop them from putting out successively standard-raising albums and playing a knock-down live show. Albuquerque, N.M., 1997: James Mercer began jotting down lyrics that would eventually become some of the best songs in the last 10 years. Mercer started The Shins later that year, and eventually the band released two singles before touring with Modest Mouse, when a Sub Pop representative picked them and their infectious sound up for mass production. Former Scared of Chaka member Dave Hernandez scored bassist Neal Langford’s position, and the band achieved the solidarity to bestow upon a generation a soundtrack for taking cross-country road trips, patronizing coffeehouses and dating college women attending CU-Boulder. Most know The Shins from their catchy tune “New Slang,” as in “that song from Garden State.” “New Slang” could be heard more times on television and movie soundtracks than any other Shins track. It was used in the NBC sitcom Scrubs, an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the road-trip mix CD that Clair burned for Drew in Elizabethtown, an advertisement for Guinness and on Saturday Night Live, where it was covered by rock band Vindi Voice. The band melds the melodies and beats from your parents’ prom with chorused vocals as supple and smooth as silk in the track “Phantom Limb.” The guitar work is not clean or organic by any standard, but it knows its limits as far as effects and overdubbing. Quite a bit of acoustic guitar is used as a foundation for many of their songs. The bass yields a subtle caliber of funk – just enough to carefully shake your booty while doing the “emo sway.” The Shins don’t skimp during live performances. They bring forth all of the backing vocals, vocal quality and psy-
tinyfolk Thirty-Six Cat Songs By Cassie Hood hoodc@mscd.edu With a smile that stretched across his entire face, the Cheshire Cat exclaimed, “You can’t help that. We are all mad here.” And with tinyfolk’s release of Thirty-Six Cat Songs, everyone gets their own seat at the Mad Hatter’s tea party. As the title suggests, this album has 36 short songs – with the longest only lasting one minute – all about cats. As the singers belt out their flat, unmelodic songs, it is apparent just how crazy people are about their feline friends. The album jumps between brief musings about cats as
chedelic sound effects heard on their albums. Expect the climate of a disenchanted 20-something’s lonely heart with a 75 percent chance for tear showers and participatory clap storms. Bring your intimacy coat and your thinking cap; The Shins will move you far past your expectations of any other band that sells their CD in Starbucks.
The Shins will play at 8 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St. Tickets are $25. 16+
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Sitcom soundtrack heroes The Shins, from left, James Mercer, Martin Crandall, Jesse Sandoval and Dave Hernandez.
it plays. The song “Kittens Are Our Future. You Can’t Deny That” sounds like a Dr. Seuss book, with someone repetitively stating that kittens are the future and one day they will be cats. It has no real musical virtues, but it is entertaining nonetheless. “They’re All Neat” emulates Sesame Street as the singer slowly recites the different names for kitties. Then the track ends abruptly with a harmony about how cats are all neat. The album goes bilingual with “Todos Los Gatos En El Mundo,” an upbeat ukulele pop song. As tinyfolk expresses their undying love for cats, it is obvious they were either really bored or should seek psychological therapy for an unhealthy obsession. Occasionally other instruments are used in place of the tiny Hawaiian ukulele. For instance, “Space Cat” uses a xylophone and vocals to make space noises. “Cat Song” is only four seconds of a recorder followed by someone saying “cat song.” It isn’t a very exciting song, but in the context of the rest of the album, it is a charming interlude. The Cat in the Hat’s heart would melt if he heard tinyfolk’s Thirty-Six Cat Songs, because even his crazy antics couldn’t destroy their love for felines. The guys in tinyfolk fit in with the overzealous pet lovers who dress their furry friends in costumes for Halloween or take them to Spain to be blessed by a Catholic priest. Neurotic pet love aside, this album is a rare jewel that will bring Cheshire-sized smiles to faces worldwide.
Download tinyfolk’s Thirty-Six Cat Songs at http://bunchofbeatniks. blogspot.com/
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ZOË WILLIAMS williamz@mscd.edu
A soldier’s plight As U.S. strikes against Iraq continue, domestic opposition to the war is on the rise. This is an undoubted positive and a sign of redemption for a nation that voted in two consecutive elections to keep George W. Bush as commander in chief. Regardless, our national consensus that Iraq is a tragedy will not bring the troops home, end war profiteering or provide much necessary aid to the Iraqi people. People have poured money into anti-war groups, marched, held vigils, disobeyed lawful orders, written to lawmakers, voted, prayed and lobbied in the hopes of getting out of Iraq. Even with these efforts the battle continues, and whispers about a war with Iran are surfacing. To be honest, aside from the brave humanitarian and direct-service organizations operating on the ground in Iraq, I can think of one group of people having a significant effect on the future of this war. First Lt. Ehren Watada is part of that group. When Watada was called to service in the Iraq war, he refused to go. On the news show Democracy Now, Watada said, “I became convinced that the war itself was illegal and immoral, as was the current conduct of American forces and the American government on the ground over in Iraq. And as such, as somebody who has sworn an oath to protect our Constitution, our values and our principles, and to protect the welfare and the safety of the American people, I said to myself, that’s something that I cannot be a part of. I cannot enable or condone those who have established this illegal and immoral policy.” On Feb. 5, the first court-martial for an officer refusing service in this war began. Watada is charged with one count of missing movement and two counts of conduct unbecoming an officer. The second charge is an attempt to punish Watada for speaking against the war and criticizing the Bush administration. If convicted, Watada faces up to four years in prison and a dishonorable discharge. The first day of the court-martial saw the judge refuse to hear witness testimony that the war in Iraq is unlawful. He may not be seeing justice in the courtroom, but Watada is setting a critical precedent for soldiers in this nation. Without the warriors, there can be no war, and thus it ends. The members of the U.S. military have a whole lot of power in their hands. Conscientious objectors cannot use that power alone, though. They need us. Civilians need to make sure that soldiers opposing illegal wars and refusing to fight get the support they need. If these kids want to run away, we need to help them. When they appear in court, we not only have to fill those rooms with supporters, but we need to make sure their legal bills are covered. Should they go to prison, we need to make sure they have cushy commissaries and stacks of support letters every day. The more folks see that resisters are treated like the heroes they are, the more soldiers will refuse to fight. Now that’s what I call supporting the troops.
Aqua Teen Hunger Farce Disclaimer to the ignorant: This editorial is not a bomb. Please do not mistake it for one. The city of Boston was a mess for a day last week due to the guerilla marketing placement of “Mooninites,” prankish characters from Cartoon Network’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in random visible places throughout the city. The ads, LED boards that resemble LiteBrite toys, were placed not only in Boston, but nine other major American cities. Unfortunately, Denver was not in the mix. Otherwise, I would have spent my weekend hunting them down in order to claim them as my own, and would have never got around to writing this column. Ignignokt and Err, the Mooninites, are silhouetted on the now-infamous ads, flipping the bird indiscriminately at passers-by. In a similar incident back in April 2006, a group of five teenage girls placed 17 handcrafted “question mark blocks” from the video game Super Mario Bros. around their hometown of Ravenna, Ohio. The bomb squad was called in to “disarm” the packages, and charges were pressed against the girls. When terrorists strike the United States again, I guarantee they will not use bombs hidden in shiny gold packages or decorated with bright flashing lights. They may be suicidal, but they are not stupid. The state of unwavering hypervigilance that U.S. citizens have taken up has destroyed what was once a great American sense of humor.
MATTHEW QUANE mquane@mscd.edu Turner Broadcasting System, the company that ultimately owns Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and its marketing company have agreed to pay $2 million in reimbursement to the city, because the ignorant (and poorly versed in pop culture) officials of Boston closed down a highway, bridges, subway stations and parts of the Charles River due to the implied “threat.” I can only assume the government and I have very differing views as to how our country should respond to terrorism. Politics have forced leaders into erring on the side of caution. While the populace is afraid of the terrorists, the leaders are afraid of being caught reading a children’s book when the next big terror attack goes down. The solution? Simple. Overreact to every possible threat and ensure the possibility of reelection.
INSIGHT • 19
By instilling a state of fear and irrational, oversensitive reactions, the “real terrorists” (read: the misinformative and fear-mongering heads of state) have succeeded yet again. I can only hope that someone other than myself has realized that the frightened state of our union means that the terrorists have already won. The exploding terrorists may be scary, but the information terrorists frighten me even more. I prefer the bold approach. Forget the terrorists. Stop being scared. Ignore the reminders all over the light rail and airport that remind you to keep an extra eye on suspicious people. Every time we tighten up our security and unfairly suspect people, we die a little inside. Remember, there is no such thing as terror insurance. To quote Ignignokt, “Our liability coverage is zero. Our balls, however, are enormous.”
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Sport
DID YOU KNOW... The men’s basketball team has never lost to UC-Colorado Springs, their next opponent on Feb. 9. Metro leads the all-time series with a 28-0 record. The Roadrunners lead the all-time series with Regis, their opponent on Feb. 10, with a 33-15 record. They have won 12 consecutive meetings dating back to the 2000-2001 season.
Metro obliterates opponents ’Runners stay atop RMAC with 12th consecutive victory By Eric Lansing lansing@mscd.edu The nationally ranked men’s basketball team welcomed Nebraska-Kearney Feb. 2 to the Auraria Events Center with a 97-75 thumping in a game in which the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference went head to head. The Roadrunners sat in first place in the RMAC while the Lopers stood in second place. Both teams posted 11-1 records in the conference, and Kearney was actually picked to finish first according to the RMAC men’s basketball preseason poll. But Metro sent a message to the rest of the conference with the remarkable blowout that may have this team’s confidence riding at a season high. “I haven’t done this since my freshman year,” Bahl said. “I’ve played these guys 12 times in my career, and we’ve only beat them like this one other time. It shows what the group has done, the maturity we have and the sky’s the limit for this team.” Five Roadrunners scored in double figures, including 19 points from forward Michael Bahl. Bahl played 35 minutes and shot 8-of-13 from the field, including 3-of-7 from 3-point range. “We had a great shoot around this morning in practice,” Metro head coach Brannon Hays said. “The guys were focused and locked in, and it definitely carried over to tonight’s game.” Nebraska-Kearney took an early 15-9 lead when Kearney guard Jeff Martin hit a 3-pointer. Martin had nine of the 15 points shooting 3-for-3 from downtown and finished the game with 15 points. All came from 3-point range. But Metro fought back on a 22-4 run capped off by a Bahl 3-pointer that gave the Roadrunners a 12-point lead. The lead stretched to 14 in the first half when guard Terrell Burgess hit a 3-point shot at the 3:04 mark. The ’Runners carried a 13-point lead into halftime and shot an amazing 55.9 percent from the field, 19-of-34, and 54.5 percent from long distance, 6-of-11, while holding the Lopers to only 42.9 percent from the field, including 4-of14 from the perimeter. Kearney usually shoots well from long range at 40 percent, but Metro’s full-court press and defensive pressure at the 3-point line took the Lopers out of their game. Metro’s offense kept the lead in double digits for most of the second half, until Kearney forward Chad Burger hit a 3-point shot to cut the lead to 10 at the 9:13 mark. But the Road-
Photo by Johanna Snow • snowj@mscd.edu
Metro forward Willison Price, center, takes it up against Chadron State’s big men. Eagles forward Marcus Ligons, left, and center Fernando Bonfim, right, attempt to block Price’s shot in a 96-58 victory for the Roadrunners Feb. 3 at the Auraria Events Center. Metro shot 54 percent from the field and 52.2 percent from 3-point range. The Roadrunners used a 30-0 run to win their 12th straight game. runners pushed the lead back out to 14 with consecutive baskets by forward Hayden Smith and guard Marquise Carrington. “It’s always nice to play a good quality team the first time at home,” Hays said, knowing they will play Kearney again on the road Feb. 17 in Kearney, Neb. “I think home court does have an effect in our conference, and the guys were locked and ready to roll. Kearney kept making runs to try and get back in it, but we made key plays to push it back out.” While Metro was shooting lights out from outside, Moussa Coulibaly was handling it from the inside as the senior center scored 13 points on 6of-8 shooting, most coming from the paint, where the Lopers had problems most of the night. “It was a great win for us, as the guys were very emotional in the locker room,” Coulibaly said. “There was a lot of hard work that was put in for this time. It shows we can go really, really far, and against Kearney, who is one of the top
teams in the RMAC, and for us to beat them by 20 is something special.” “It’s been a long time for Moussa,” Bahl said about his African teammate. “He hasn’t been home in seven years. He’s been in Colorado working his butt off for two years, nonstop, every day, and it’s starting to pay off.” The electricity that Metro brought against the mighty Lopers carried over to the next night against the reeling Eagles of Chadron State. The Roadrunners used a 30-0 run and 62 first-half points to crush Chardon State 96-58 Feb. 3 at the Auraria Events Center. Metro sizzled from the field, shooting 65.7 percent in the first half while the defense held the Eagles scoreless for nine minutes. The ’Runners scored 30 unanswered points in those nine minutes and ran Chadron State out of the building before the first half was even over. Bahl had 15 points, including 14 in the first half, while Carrington scored all of his 10 points
in the first half while also dishing out nine assists. He had eleven on the night. The two RMAC wins improve Metro’s record to 19-2 overall and 12-1 in the conference. The Roadrunners will host their homecoming games with UC-Colorado Springs on Feb. 8 and Regis on Feb. 9, with both games being played at the Auraria Events Center. Feb. 3 at Auraria Events Center Nebraska-Kearney Metro Leading Scorers:
Total 34 47
41 45
M: Bahl 19, Burgess 14 NK: Jura 25, Martin 15
Feb. 4 at Auaria Events Center Chadron State Metro Leading Scorers:
75 92
Total 20 62
38 34
M: Wagstaff 16, Bahl 15 CS: Ligons 19, Bonfim 14
58 96
THE METROPOLITAN • 2.8.07
SPORT • 23
Senior captain brings senior leadership
Forward Michael Bahl leads Metro with a hot shot By Eric Lansing lansing@mscd.edu The men’s basketball team is No. 8 in Division II. They look to be the favorite to come out of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, and after making quick work out of a very good Nebraska-Kearney team on Feb. 2, the Roadrunners also have the framework to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. At the nucleus of that framework is senior forward Michael Bahl, who has led his team to a 19-2 record and a 12game winning streak that dates back to Dec. 19, 2006. Bahl was brought to the Metro campus by previous head coach Mike Dunlap four years ago. Dunlap recruited Bahl from a highly successful career at Broomfield High School, where he was a three-year basketball letter winner, an All-State selection in 2002 and 2003, and led his team to a 69-10 record, finishing second in the state tournament in his junior season. Statistically, Bahl has progressively improved through his years at Metro, averaging 2.6 points per game in his freshmen season, 3.9 ppg in his sophomore season, 11.5 ppg last season, and now is averaging 15.9 ppg, putting
him as 12th in the RMAC for scoring. But the growth from being the third or fourth option last season – behind seniors Drew Williamson, Greg Muth and Dustin Ballard – to quickly becoming the captain of this year’s ’Runners was the most difficult adjustment for Bahl. “It’s been an OK transition,” Bahl said about being thrust into the captain’s role for the 20062007 season. “There’s been guys ahead of me that have done an outstanding job leading. I’m just trying to do what they did. I also try to put my own mix into it.” Not only does Bahl bring leadership and experience with him onto the court, he brings a deadly 3-point shot that he can hit from anywhere. Bahl shoots an astonishing 53 percent from the perimeter, which is second in the RMAC. Bahl says he likes shooting the longrange shot because he is not as versatile as he used to be, and it allows him to be on the floor for more minutes. Bahl leads the conference in 3-pointers (73) and in 3-point shots made per game (3.43). One of Bahl’s favorite moments in his Roadrunners career was during last season when Nebraska-Kearney came strolling into the Auraria Events Center on Jan. 27, 2006. Bahl contributed 23 points, nine rebounds and three assists in an RMAC battle that allowed Metro to jump the Lopers in the standings. “I had a pretty solid game statistically,” Bahl said. “But I thought that was our coming out. I think it was our breaking-out party for last year.”
Michael Bahl Height: 6’-6’’
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 TOTAL
G 9 30 31 21 91
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High School: Broomfield High School ‘03
FG% .447 .441 .448 .495 .464
FT% .833 .810 .869 .741 .823
REB 24 52 158 79 313
AST 13 34 59 48 154
PTS PPG 49 5.4 116 3.9 358 11.5 333 15.9 856 9.4
2007 RMAC Preseason All-East Division selection 2006 RMAC East Division Honorable Mention selection
Bahl has come a long way from playing sparingly in his freshman season to being the captain of one of the top teams in the nation. He remembers the time he took his first steps onto a college basketball court. “It was my freshman year, my first game,” Bahl reflected. “I got to play for four minutes and I fouled out. So that was my wake-up call to Division II basketball.” During the summers, when the previous season becomes only a memory, Bahl works with Start Smart Basketball, in which Dunlap and Metro players help kids get involved in basketball.
Bahl hopes to continue to help children after college by obtaining his teacher’s license and becoming a history teacher and basketball coach. With his four years of eligibility for college athletics nearly finished, the senior forward plans to stay on with the Metro basketball team as an assistant until he graduates, which will give him needed experience in coaching. “It’s fun. We were there too at their age,” Bahl said with a smile. “I think you sometimes forget that (becoming a college basketball player) is a long, arduous process. It’s good to hang out with little kids as they lighten up the game. That’s what this game is all about, having fun.”
Sport Briefs Metro’s lone diver finishes 8th, 10th at meet The swimming and diving team competed at the Air Force Invitational Feb. 2 and 3 at the Air Force Academy. Kenny Rhoades, the only diver Metro has on its swimming/diving team, finished eighth in the 3-meter diving competition.
Rhoades finished eighth out of 15 divers scoring 241.45 points. Aaron Feight of the University of Denver finished in first place with a score of 340.40, while John Lynch of Wyoming finished second with 332.05. Rhoades, a freshman out of
Brighton High School, also competed in the 1-meter dive and finished 10th with 230.75 points. Feight finished first in the men’s 1-meter diving competition with a score of 354.10. Kevin Bretting of Wyoming finished second, scoring 322.20.
Men’s baseball games moved to Pueblo Metro is still being confined to the indoors due to the weather, but will play a doubleheader against Nebraska-Kearney Feb. 11 at Pueblo’s Runyon Field. The Roadrunners were scheduled to play a three-game set against the Lopers Feb. 10 and 11 at Auraria Field. But Metro’s home field is
still covered in snow, and having the games moved to a clear field in Pueblo will allow the ‘Runners to get in some playing time before their big series against nationally ranked Fort Hays State. “We’ll be ready for sure,” Metro head coach Bobby Pierce said. “Probably in the next week, we might get
out (Auraria Field) and throw some snow around and try to get it cleared off.” Along with Metro, Regis and Nebraska-Kearney will also meet in Pueblo and will play a doubleheader Feb. 10. Metro will also play a single game versus Regis Feb. 9 at Runyon Field.
Women’s soccer recognized by Sportswomen of Colorado
Photo by Jason Small • jsmall4@mscd.edu
Metro diver Kenny Rhoades competes at the Air Force Invitational. Rhoades finished eighth in the 3-meter diving competition and 10th in the 1-meter diving competition. Rhoades is the only diver on the Metro diving team.
The Roadrunners haven’t played soccer since Nov. 18, and they are still winning awards. The Sportswomen of Colorado have recognized the women’s soccer team for their achievements in the sport during the 2006 season. Metro will be recognized at the
33rd annual Sportswomen of Colorado banquet on March 11 at the Marriot Tech Center. They are being noticed for their Division II National Championship, which was their second in three years. The Roadrunners defeated
Grand Valley State 1-0 Nov. 18 at the Brosnaham Soccer Complex. Head coach Danny Sanchez coached Metro to a 24-2-0 record in 2006. Senior forward Kylee Hanavan led Metro with 23 goals and 20 assists.
24 • SPORTS
Metro falls to Lopers By Heather Embrey and Jeremy Johnson hembrey@mscd.edu, jjohn308@mscd.edu
The No. 22-ranked women’s basketball team made a strong first-half showing Feb. 2 at the Auraria Events Center, but Nebraska-Kearney bested the team’s efforts in the second half defeating the Roadrunners 69-65. The ’Runners set the pace of the game with contributions from a core of junior players that included Danielle Ellerington, Ashley Mickens and Megan Johnson. Metro’s leading scorer, Cassondra Bratton, also played well in the first half. After allowing the Lopers to gain a sevenpoint lead nine minutes into the half, Bratton scored six points in two minutes and, with the help of Ellerington and Mickens, sprung the ’Runners back into the lead at 24-15. Metro’s Anne-Marie Torp, who began the half with a layup, had a pair of field goals in the waning minutes as the Roadrunners ended the first half with a 39-33 lead. Even though Metro’s defense was strong against the boards, they struggled with scoring in the second half as they dropped from 57 percent shooting in the first to finishing the game at 30 percent. The game took a turn as Metro began having trouble due to fouls and a lack of rebounds. The Lopers’ Jonni Mildenberger took the game back for Kearney to tie the game at 61. She then scored four points off of Metro fouls to give them the final lead down the stretch. At the following night’s game, the Roadrunners took their frustrations out on Chadron State College by jumping out to a 21-4 lead mid-
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way through the first half. Ellerington took command of the first half by scoring the game’s first six points and got help from her teammates as four of them scored in double figures. Head coach Dave Murphy was in better spirits after the win and pleased with the way his team played. Metro projected a lot of energy on the court in their rebound win. “We had a great effort for 40 minutes and really played to our potential,” he said. Metro brought a higher field goal percentage to the Chadron game, shooting 32 percent in the first half and 42 percent in the second. And thanks to Chadron’s 27 fouls, Metro gained 40 free throw shots and converted 24 of them. With the two RMAC wins, Metro brings their record to 16-5 overall and a 9-4 record in the RMAC.
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SPORT • 25
Winter forces boys of summer indoors
Auraria Events Center becomes new home until snow melts By Eric Lansing lansing@mscd.edu Snow is nothing new for the Metro baseball team, with many cancellations due to inclement weather in the past. But this season is a little different. In years past, the snow would come, litter Auraria Field, and be gone by midweek. But with the recent arctic blast bringing over 40 inches of snow and single-digit temperatures to Denver, the Roadrunners have had no choice but practice in a gym shared by three different schools.
Being confined indoors, there are aspects of the game that will not be practiced. “It is the little nuances,” Metro head coach Bobby Pierce said. “You can’t go out and do cuts and relays, and you can’t take ground balls. You lose the subtle feelings of the game that you really can’t coach or teach, that you can only get from being on the field.” The players are adjusting to the constant work inside, but are eager to get back on that field. “It hurts, but we are getting a lot of work done in the gym,” infielder Dakota Nahm said. “It hurts to be inside because you can’t do things like long toss. And we aren’t running, but we’re still getting work in. We definitely want to be out there.” New recruit Josh Marner said the team is getting antsy and that they have spent enough
time in the gym. He doesn’t believe, however, that being held up on the basketball and racquet courts are going to affect their game during the season. There are 30 players currently on Metro’s roster, with 23 Colorado natives. They are used to working around Mother Nature and understand the damage she can cause. “We are all Rocky Mountain guys,” pitcher Braden Ham said. “We’ve been all around this region. We do have some Arizona guys that don’t even know what (snow) is. Coach Pierce doesn’t know what to do with it. He just found out it was called snow.” Pierce is a Las Vegas native and isn’t used to the amount of snow that Denver is experiencing, but said his team will be ready to go when they head south to Pueblo, where Runyon Field is clear and ready.
The games scheduled for the weekend of Feb. 10 and 11 were moved to Pueblo so they can officially start their season on time. “We’ll be ready for sure,” Pierce said. “There’s a lot you can do in the gym. You can take a lot of (batting) reps. Pitchers can still throw in the bullpens and develop their arm strength. I don’t feel like it’s going to show too much. There may be some sloppy plays and miscommunication, but I don’t think it’s going to be a glaring weakness where we will lose a ballgame because of it.” The first four-game set that was supposed to be played against Hastings on Feb. 3 and 4 was canceled due to the snow and will not be made up. Metro’s first game of the season will come in Pueblo against Regis in nonconference action Feb. 9 at Runyon Field.
Photos by Heather A. Longway-Burke • longway@mscd.edu
Auraria Field is blanketed by snow that is forcing Metro’s baseball team to practice in the gyms in the Auraria Events Center. Brent Bowers, left, feeds a soft toss to Tommy Frikken, right, in batting cages made out of nets Feb. 5. A four-game series that was scheduled to be played Feb. 3 and 4 against Hastings was already canceled and games scheduled for Feb. 10 and 11 were moved to Pueblo.
Key players
‘Runners’ roost 8 – Kyle Bowman (SR)
Jake Palmer
2006: .347 BA, 13 HR, 45RBI
14 – Jake Palmer (JR) 4 – Nick Columbia (FR)
33 – Michael Molinar (JR) 21 – Marcel Dominguez (FR) 2 – Dakota Nahm (SO) 9 – D.J. Edwards (SR)
Head Coach: Bobby Pierce (New Mexico State ‘01) 2006 Overall Record: 26-25 2006 RMAC Record: 19-13, 4th Returning Position Starts: 8 Returning Letterwinners: 18 Newcomers: 11
10 – Tommy Frikken (SO)
Reece Gorman
2006: .309 BA, 23 SB, 32 RBI
22 – Brent Bowers (SR)
Braden Ham
2006: 8-3, 4.83 ERA, 7 CG, 44 K
24 – Alex Krohn 19 – Ryan Sbresny 17 – Danny Cohen 5 – Reece Gorman (JR) 11 – Kyle Christensen (SR)
Starting Rotation 15 – Josh Eckert (JR) 16 – Braden Ham (SR) 3 – Mike Bilek (SR) 23 – Armando Cosas (JR) Designated Hitter 44 – Josh Marner (JR)