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Presidential hopeful John Edwards brings message to Auraria PAGE 3

PULLOUT SECTION METROSPECTIVE Spoken word lands slam poets in top national competition

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The men’s basketball team celebrates with honorary coach Brandon Wise after defeating Adams State 70-60 and winning their seventh RMAC title on March 4. The Roadrunners defeated Colorado Christian and Fort Lewis before advancing to the ﬁnals. Full story on page 23.

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NCAA D-II BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT PREVIEW Metro men ride momentum, garner #3 seed – women grab #5 after RMAC ﬁnals loss PAGE 14

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2008 presidential candidate John Edwards spoke March 1 at the Tivoli Turnhalle. Hundreds of students, faculty and other community members attended the rally, and overﬂow space was made available in two other Tivoli lounges where students could watch the speech on televisions.

Edwards courts campus By David Cardenas dcarden5@mscd.edu Former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards called for transformational change for the nation when he spoke on March 1 at a packed Tivoli Turnhalle. The charismatic senator took the stage to cheers and wasted no time explaining his plan for the country. “I want to talk today about change, the change America needs. Not small change, transformational change, a change the world needs,” Edwards said. Edwards has recently been visiting colleges and universities campaigning on his new slogan for the 2008 presidential race, “Tomorrow Starts Today.” He spoke on a variety of issues including global warming, the war in Iraq, health care and education. As the most powerful nation in the world, America needs to be responsible to humanity in using that power for peace, Edwards said. He explained that the most important thing the next president should do is let the world know that the U.S. not only tolerates diversity but embraces it.

Edwards took a ﬁrm stance on the war in Iraq, saying the answer is not “to be putting more troops into Iraq, but to be leaving Iraq.” America needs to be patriotic in something other than war, Edwards said, stressing the importance of ﬁghting global warming and eliminating the need for foreign energy.

“For those that tell me that the universal health care is too big to do, I want them to tell me which family in America gets no medicine.” -- JOHN EDWARDS “It’s about survival. (There’s) nothing ideological about global warming and climate change,” Edwards said. “This not only will make America stronger, it helps us face a moral issue around the world.” Edwards also believes a universal health care plan could be implemented in the U.S. with

the right funding. “For those that tell me that the universal health care is too big to do, I want them to tell me which family in America gets no medicine,” he said. Such a plan could cost an estimated $90 billion to $120 billion a year, but could be paid for by “eliminating George Bush’s tax cuts for the richest people in the country,” Edwards said. His words seemed convincing to Metro junior Lani Hurd, who is still undecided about which presidential candidate to support. “He really seems to have a strong concept of the salts of the earth, of the working people,” Hurd said. “That’s a hard thing to go with because he’s (also) going with big business and big money.” Metro President Stephen Jordan said having Edwards come to Auraria offered students a chance to be involved in the selection of the nation’s leaders. “It is critical to have students be active in the leaders of the nation, seeing them one on one to hear what they have to say, and form their own opinions.” Jordan said. “This begins to form a lifetime pattern of saying, ‘I’m going be involved with what happens with the country.’”

A laptop computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of 988 former Metro students was stolen from a faculty member’s office, according to a notice sent out by Metro President Stephen Jordan. The incident happened less than two weeks after Metro administrators approved new safeguard policies regarding students’ personal information. According to the notice there is no evidence that personal information from the laptop had been retrieved or misused. Shortly after 2 p.m. Feb. 28, psychology professor Pamela Ansburg notified the Auraria police that a laptop had been stolen from her office where it was left in its docking station unattended, according to the police report. The door to her office may have been propped open during the incident, Ansburg told police. An officer from the Denver Police Department crime lab was unable to obtain any evidence at the scene. “Right now we don’t have any information as far as a suspect goes,” said John Egan, deputy chief of the Auraria police. Ansburg offered no additional comments when contacted about the theft. The theft comes almost exactly a year after an admissions staff member’s laptop containing the personal information of 93,000 students was stolen from his home. Since then, Metro has been pursuing policies aimed at preventing information theft. As of last spring Metro mandated that all access to private student information should be approved by the president’s office, said campus spokeswoman Cathy Lucas. According to Jordan’s notice, Metro is looking into why personal student information was on Ansburg’s laptop, and the investigation may lead to disciplinary action. “I think it’s very critical that all employees respect the privacy of student information. We all have the responsibility to do that as faculty and staff,” Lucas said. “We’re currently in the process of completing a project that was implemented after last spring to have college-owned laptops turned over to the Department of Information Technology for review of the data contained on their hard drives,” Lucas said. Ansburg’s laptop did not make it through this review, she said. Until further developments in the case, the

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Parking revenues down, reserves dwindling By Ruthanne Johnson rjohn180@mscd.edu Reserve funds acquired from parking have dwindled from $9 million in 2003 to under $900,000 in 2006, a recent Auraria Board of Directors meeting revealed. Parking profits were also down substantially from the previous year, generating concern that reserve funds could be depleted by 2010. “Parking revenue initially goes toward the general operation, maintenance and repair, debt service and campus police … while additional revenues go into a reserve fund used as a cushion for emergencies and other campus projects,” said Mark Gallagher, director of parking and transportation services for the Auraria Higher Education Center. “At the current rate, we are concerned there will not be enough for those emergencies.” Used for projects ranging from roof replacements and elevator repairs to media-ready classrooms and asphalt upgrades, the unrestricted reserves have also been used to cover Auraria’s operating loss of $3,921,209 for the past three years. This substantial deficit has greatly contributed to the rapid depletion of reserve funds. “Auraria is about 48 percent debt financed,” the board report stated, adding that the interest alone mounted to about $4 million in 2006. “Operating revenues are not high enough to cover both operating expenses and the interest on the outstanding debt.” To prevent the depletion of reserve funds generated from parking income, an auditor recently recommended that AHEC find other sources of revenue for general operating expenses and campus remodeling and repairs. “Auraria parking is less expensive than other places,” Gallagher said. “But parking fees could potentially increase in order to offset these losses.” In addition to covering Auraria’s operating losses and paying for campus improvement, contributing factors to Auraria’s diminishing reserve funds include increased use of light-rail lines, more online courses and the hard-hitting loss of revenue from fewer events at the Pepsi Center and the painfully absent Broncos and Avalanche playoffs. “Parking revenue was down about $60,000 from the previous year,” Gallagher said. “We lost $15,000 because of the two Bronco games, and the Avalanche didn’t make playoffs for the first time in 10 years. This summer we won’t have the Grand Prix, which means an additional loss of about $45,000 in revenue, so

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Parking hut attendant and Metro student Melissa Jones takes money from a student March 6 at the Parking and Transportation Center. we don’t project great growth this year.” However, the Democratic Convention at the Pepsi Center could help offset the loss, Gallagher said. Another factor affecting parking profits is the recent opening of more light-rail lines at Auraria. “The outlying, lower-cost spitter machine lots are $17,000 less than last year,” the board report stated, adding that this particular drop in revenue could be related to increased student use of light rail. Gallagher echoed the report’s findings. “Auraria parking has 7,000 spaces supporting a base of 35,000 students,” he said. “We have 35,000 to 40,000 cars rolling in and out of our lots every week, but there has definitely been a drop since the opening of light rail.” According to Gallagher, however, the numbers of students

LAPTOP • Security is the issue with open campus Continued from 3 incident is considered only a theft. To be considered identity theft, a person whose identity was stolen would have to ﬁle a separate report detailing the misuse of their identity, Egan said. If the laptop were part of an identity crime there would be a better possibility of tracing it back to a suspect, he said. Criminals who trafﬁc in identity information are typically much smarter than other criminals, said Ralph Rojas, a criminal justice professor who recently gave a presentation on identity theft. “Someone who is very good at computer forensics can retrieve information from a computer that has been deleted,” Rojas said. No information is safe, and there are mechanisms that can be used to retrieve any data that has ever been on a computer, he said. “The only thing that is safe is if you have the programs that are one step ahead of everybody else,” Rojas said. The new security measures Metro uses are pretty good because they force users to choose a complicated password that has to be changed every six months, Rojas said. However, the real issue is not information security. What the college should focus on is securing the hardware that the information is

To check your credit or place a fraud alert visit: http://www.equifax.com http://www.experian.com http://www.transunion.com stored on, Rojas said. “I think that a solution to preventing this from happening again … is to hold people responsible,” Rojas said. He mentioned the example of a gun owner who can be held liable for a shooting involving their gun even if it was taken from their house without their knowledge. “The person who received the laptop needs to be responsible for it,” Rojas said. Egan said the theft is ultimately Metro’s responsibility. “It’s their equipment, their responsibility. Why all this information was on a laptop, I don’t know,” he said. According to the Auraria police crime logs, a total of at least 17 laptop and desktop computers have been reported stolen on campus since the laptop theft last spring. “Years ago it used to be typewriters. Now it’s laptops because they’re easy. Everybody has one,” Egan said. Ofﬁce doors are often left open around cam-

riding the light rail to and from Metro should not change drastically from this point forward. “People who need to drive are driving. Their transportation decisions have already been made,” he said. The board report also stated that decreased state funding has been a direct factor in many of the budgetary issues, which in turn forced the draw from reserve funds to cover operating losses. The erosion in Auraria’s reserves could prove detrimental in an emergency. “This year we used twice the funds over last year for snow removal, from $50,000 to $100,000,” Gallagher said. “We need a cushion for situations like this.” He added that although parking brings in between $7 million to $8 million annually, it is difﬁcult to put aside reserves when money is needed for other projects.

A Notice From the President’s Office If you are one of the 988 students who took one or more of the following psychology courses during the span of the 1999 fall semester to the 2002 fall semester from professor Pamela Arnsburg, whose laptop was stolen, your name and Social Security number would have been on the roster that was on the computer. If so, you will be receiving a letter from Metro confirming this fact next week. PSY 1001 Introductory Psychology PSY 3310 Psychological Research Methods I PSY 3320 Psychological Research Methods II PSY 3570 Cognitive Psychology PSY 4300 Sensation and Perception PSY 498E Teaching Methods for Social Psychology PSY 498G Teaching Methods Intro to Stats PSY 498X Impact of Peer Tolerance on Learning Disabled Students PSY 498Y Psychology of Religion PSY 498I Organizational Development PSY 498I UR: Selective Attention in Perfectionism PSY 4988 UR: Att & Incubation Effects-Insight pus, and thieves who work the area take advantage of the open nature of the campus, he said. “If they can see anything of value, they’re going to go ahead and take it,” Egan said. It may be easy for a student to have access to an office, but it is just as easy for a thief off the street to wander around campus looking for opportunities to steal, he said. “With so many students and so many different people down here, what’s suspicious

and what isn’t? A thief could come in dressed as a student … and basically get away with it,” Egan said. The main thing to remember is keep your belongings locked up or keep them with you, he said. “Laptops are a problem. Maybe next year it’ll be Blackberries … whatever the next new thing is that’s easy to steal and people leave laying around,” Egan said.

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Nicole Lamoreau’s blood sugar levels are as erratic as the Colorado weather. Tao, her service dog, can smell when they drop too low and save her life. Lamoreau, a senior at Metro majoring in psychology, was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes as a child. She requires several insulin injections a day. Tao, a blue-eyed, 5-year-old husky with a penchant for french fries, enables Lamoreau to function like a normal person. Though she doesn’t look handicapped, low insulin levels can cause her to act drunk or pass out in a matter of minutes. “I went to a restaurant and they wouldn’t let the dog in because I wasn’t blind,” Lamoreau said. “Some people don’t understand.” Tao’s job is to create a scene if necessary. He once jumped into a classmate’s lap when Lamoreau became disoriented. And when Tao couldn’t rouse her in the middle of the night, he woke her 16-year-old sister to get help. Animal Control picked up the feral husky in 2003 after a car had hit him. Conﬁned to a backyard for most of his life, Tao had chewed through his rope and somehow survived on the street for four months. The animal shelter couldn’t put him up for adoption, so they called Lamoreau, who has worked with dogs since she was 14 years old. “He was kind of crazy to begin with, just because he hadn’t been around people much,” Lamoreau said. “For two months I was unsure if I could keep him.” Tao eventually responded to her training, but his ability to smell low blood sugar was an added bonus. Now she is busy with her dog-training company, The Tao Philosophy, that she was inspired to start after an animal control ofﬁcer told her

that if she could train Tao, then she could get any dog to do anything. “They have the cognizance of a 3- to 5-yearold child,” Lamoreau said. “You need to give them boundaries.” She once trained a black lab that wouldn’t look at its owner. Lamoreau developed a program to help the owner regain the dog’s respect. “It was so funny,” Lamoreau said. “Her dog was in a power struggle. When I told her the dog could no longer sit down on the couch, she broke down and sobbed. She came in one week later and gave me a hug because her dog looked at her again.” Lamoreau coaches owners on behavioral issues and works with aggressive dogs. She starts by creating a bond to build trust. After the dog responds to her simple commands, she’ll take it on short trips. “Once they know the commands, you can take them out and acclimate them to different environments,” she said. Lamoreau has trained more than 50 dogs over the last two years. “I can train any dog,” she said. “It’s the people I have a problem with. They are unwilling to do what I’m telling them. Or they don’t keep doing it once they stop the class.” This was the case when she worked with a husky that was 90 percent wolf. “That one didn’t end in the best,” she said. “They weren’t willing to do what the animal needed.” Lamoreau also assists the Adams County Animal Shelter to determine if a dog can be rehabilitated with different training. Her dream is to own her own dog-training center after she gets a master’s in animal behavior from the American College of Applied Science. As Lamoreau hugs her husky close, Tao lays his ears back and squints. “This is his working face,” she said. He is alert, ready for action. It’s what he does.

Avoiding crime, adhering to new requirements makes for travel bliss By Lou Christopher achris25@mscd.edu Students going abroad for spring break and those interested in Metro’s study abroad program should be aware of possible dangers while traveling and new passport requirements. Every year 2,500 American citizens are arrested abroad and about half of those are charged with narcotics violations, which often arise from small amounts of illegal substances, according to the State Department. In some countries, conduct that would not result in an arrest in the U.S. may constitute a violation of local law. Cultural differences can also affect the way Americans should behave while abroad. “In other countries, the cultures can be so different. In some countries you shouldn’t make eye contact, because that is an invitation, especially when you are a girl, you have to be careful, and you have to know that,” said Gudrun Clay, a professor of modern languages at Metro and chair of Metro’s international education committee. Safety is probably a bigger concern than cultural differences, but responsibility is the key. “It’s common sense to me – because I travel

a lot – but not to everybody. If you want to go out in the evening in a foreign country, you don’t go out alone,” Clay said. “In group travel, Metro is responsible for the safety. In individual travel, the student is responsible for his own safety.”

lege to experience another country that they really behave well,” Clay said, adding that she has never had a problem with misbehavior from a study abroad class. Americans can register their plans for foreign travel, in case of a family emergency or

“I think everybody thinks it is such a privilege to experience another country that they really behave well.”

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If a student is traveling with the study abroad program, proof of insurance in America and abroad is required, and students must sign a waiver to travel. Students who don’t follow the rules and misbehave while with the study abroad program will be kicked out of the country and the class and will also lose their tuition. “I think everybody thinks it is such a privi-

a crisis in the country they’re visiting, on the State Department’s website at http://travelregistration.state.gov. The travel abroad program requires registration with the site, and has an extensive checklist to be followed before travel to another country is approved. “If you decide to travel, you should register with the State Department,” Clay said. The State Department also offers a country-

by-country list on their website with concerns that should be taken into consideration, such as crime levels and penalties, health information and travel conditions. If a country has considerable problems, the department will issue a travel warning encouraging Americans to avoid travel to that country. There are currently 31 countries that have travel warnings. Aside from respecting foreign law, the department said getting a passport is also a concern due to new passport requirements. Effective Jan. 23, U.S. citizens traveling back to the United States by air from all countries – including Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean – will be required to have a passport to reenter the country. Acquiring a passport can take several weeks, so the department urges students who intend to travel over spring break to apply now. The new requirement currently applies only to air travel.

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Student assaulted, suspect ﬂees scene A man grabbed and sexually assaulted a female Metro student at 7:35 p.m. on March 1 as she was leaving West Classroom. According to @Metro, the student said she was leaving the building when a man grabbed her from behind and groped her near room 164. The suspect ﬂed through the south of the building after the victim screamed for help and kicked him. The victim received no injuries and did not require medical attention. The suspect is described as a black male about 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing approximately 200 pounds. Persons with information regarding this crime are asked to call the Denver Police Department Sexual Assault Division at (720) 9136050 or the Auraria police at (303) 556-5000. The Auraria police can also be contacted in person in the Administration Building room 110 or anonymously through the “comments” line at (303) 556-2677. There are blue-light emergency telephones in all campus parking lots to notify the police of anything suspicious or if one is the victim of a crime. The Night Rider Escort Service, provided by the parking department, can be reached at (303) 556-2000 and utilized to give rides to all on-campus locations.

Immunization costs could stick students By Allison Bailey abaile19@mscd.edu On Feb. 26 Metro’s student government fee review panel held a town hall event to get student feedback for a variety of proposed fee changes, including a $2 health services fee increase. “We got a lot of feedback for the health services fee,” said Andrew Bateman, head of the Student Government Assembly fee and ﬁnance committee. Bateman coordinated the town hall event and said that of the students who offered opinions on the health services fee change, 15 supported it, 15 were against it, and three weren’t sure. The fee increase would cover the cost of a proposed new policy requiring students to prove they have been inoculated against measles, mumps and rubella in order to attend classes. If the policy is enacted, it will be announced in April, and students will have until Oct. 1 to comply. Students who don’t provide records of vaccinations will have a hold placed on their accounts preventing them from registering for classes the following semester. Students who receive exemptions for religious or medical reasons will be allowed to register as usual but would not be allowed on campus in case of an outbreak.

Charles Ndaki, a ﬁlm student at Metro, was one of those in favor of the proposal. “I think it’s a great idea,” he said. “It’s good to immunize people.” Students that oppose the policy and possible fee increase said they were against vaccination requirement or thought the fees were too expensive already. There was also some confusion about purpose of the fee increase. One student at the town hall event thought the health services fee increase was for Metro’s health insurance program. Another thought it would pay for a nurse to be on campus to treat sick students. The increase would actually fund the maintenance of vaccination records and pay for two additional staff members – a registered nurse and a lab tech – to interpret the records, input data into a computer system, and administer vaccinations to students who require them. Stephen Monaco, director of health services at Metro, said a registered nurse is needed to interpret vaccination records because only a medical professional would be able to tell if the shots a student has received meet state requirements and to be sure vaccination shots aren’t given to students who, for medical reasons, shouldn’t receive them. According to Bateman, the student review committee will probably recommend the fee increase, but the policy still has a few bugs the committee would like to see worked out. “Some of our members aren’t absolutely positive it’s the best it could be,” Bateman said. “Part of it is that we weren’t included in the process when it was being created.”

Monaco said the fee would raise $89,000. Bateman said the fee review committee isn’t sure that the full amount of money health services would receive is necessary. Both Bateman and Monaco pointed out that the health services fee goes up by about a dollar each year to cover inflation and other rising costs, much like a cost-of-living raise. Health services does not get that dollar increase in years when fees increase for other reasons. Some changes were made to the original proposal in the last few weeks, including a provision that students will not have to pay the fee increase or comply with the new vaccination policy if they have 90 or more credit hours by the end of the spring 2007 semester. Other changes include reducing the cost of the vaccine from $50 to $45 if students receive their shots on campus. The cost of the blood test to determine if students need to be vaccinated was reduced from $65 to $25. “We wanted to develop a program that would comply with the state and be as inexpensive as possible for the students, and I think we’ve done that,” Monaco said. Monaco also pointed out that only about 5 percent of Metro’s student population would need the vaccinations, since the shots are already required to attend high school in Colorado. For the vaccinations to meet state standards for schools, students will need two shots. At Denver Health it costs $55 per shot, and each shot comes with a $20 administration fee, according to Maricela Galvan, a clerk at the Denver Health immunization clinic.

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Two-wheelers fill two brothers with hope Student takes time from busy schedule to make a difference By Elena Brown brownele@mscd.edu Both bikes were used and a bit battered, but the young brothers didn’t mind. They were their first bikes. Even the late afternoon chill in the Denver air seemed less crisp as 14-year-old Mike Gutierrez and 8-year-old Pat learned to balance and race, while attempting a few tricks. “The bike Mike is on is my old one, and I bought Pat’s,” said Shane Turner. “It’s his birthday in a few days. I just thought it would be cool if they had bikes.” Attending school while working seems like a heavy load, but Turner was willing to take on a little more. Along with taking 15 credit hours at Metro and working part-time, Turner is a mentor. “I’m a mentor, but my responsibility goes beyond that,” Turner said. “It’s not about the gifts.” The Metro junior, who is majoring in communications, joined Metro Denver Partners last year. Within a few weeks Turner became Mike’s mentor after the youngster had been on the waiting list for more than a year. “I didn’t think (Mike would) take to the program, but he did,” said Dorothy Torres, the boys’ grandmother and legal guardian. “Before the program, the kids wouldn’t cooperate with me. But now there is a different attitude. They’re more respectful and responsible.” Torres, 61, has been taking care of Mike since he was a baby and began taking care of Pat five years ago. She has a multitude of health issues including emphysema and diabetes, but credits the program with helping all their lives. “For the first two months Mike used to call a few times a day to make sure I was really coming,” Turner said. He’s never missed a day with Mike. Turner is sensitive to Mike’s issues, such as grades, holidays and family topics. “I shoot straight with him, from sex and drugs to drinking and grades,” Turner said. “But he likes it when I hear what he has to say.” After Mike asked Turner to attend his parent-teacher meetings, “I knew he was opening up,” Turner said. Currently the family and Turner are looking at different high schools that suit Mike’s needs. “I really like astronomy,” Mike said. “My grandma got me a telescope. Orion is my favorite constellation. I also like playing the guitar. I can play ‘Amazing Grace.’” The boys don’t see much of their parents. Their father isn’t in the picture, and their mother, who was incarcerated when the boys entered the program, is now estranged from the family. “At first I didn’t trust (Turner). I have a hard time trusting people,” Mike said with a shrug. “After I got to know him he was like a friend. Now he’s like an older brother. I don’t think things would be as good if Shane weren’t here.”

Metro Denver Partners is a 30-year-old nonprofit agency that provides mentors to atrisk children as well as tutoring and gang intervention programs. It serves Adams, Denver and Douglas counties. The agency has seven mentoring programs including the diversion and prevention program, which pairs a senior partner with a troubled and often parentless junior partner. Becoming a mentor requires an extensive background check, personal interviews, a commitment of at least three hours a week for a year and working closely with a case manager. The general wait for a mentor is six months to a year. Danielle McCann, former Metro alum and the boys’ case manager, has been with the agency just under a year. “Mike has changed from a rebellious young kid to a young man in a matter of months,” McCann said. According to the agency, there are more than 60 children awaiting a mentor, including Pat. Mike generally invites Pat along, and Turner doesn’t mind. “Pat’s a great kid, but I have to make sure I can balance my time with both,” he said. “It would be a challenge to take on another kid, but I’m up for it.” Under the current guidelines, a first-year senior partner like Turner can only have one junior partner. “I try to teach Mike to become a more developed individual and taking responsibility for your actions,” Turner said. “My personal life matches my mentoring.” The words he uses to guide are echoed from friend and mentor John Lawson. Lawson was his Durango High School swimming coach. “Rambunctious is the nice word to describe Shane in high school,” Lawson said with a laugh. “He slept like a fish and swam like a rock, but he never missed a practice.” Turner joined the swim team after a code-ofconduct suspension from football. “He learned how to earn respect through effort and began changing as a young man,” Lawson said. Lawson was also a high school counselor for at-risk children. He holds a master’s degree in school and community counseling. Currently he is a counselor at Miller Middle School and still coaches boys’ swimming. Shortly after high school, Turner joined Youth With A Mission and has traveled extensively overseas, volunteering and counseling in places such as Australia, Africa, Thailand and the Philippines. “I believe Shane is getting to be the person he always wanted to be,” Lawson said. “He comes back from those places more humbled. It’s a privilege knowing a person like that. I’m real proud of him.”

“I shoot straight with him, from sex and drugs to drinking and grades. But he likes it when I hear what he has to say.”

Photos by Andrew Bisset • abisset1@mscd.edu

Above: Shane Turner rides his bike with Mike Gutierrez, whom he mentors. Below: Turner and Gutierrez race each other in a parking lot. Gutierrez won the race.

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Lady Speech, a Denver slam poet, reads original material at an event sponsored by Café Nuba at the Loft. The Denver slam team will compete at this year’s National Poetry Slam Aug. 7 in Austin, Texas.

Keeping your By Rita Wold rwold@mscd.edu Bobby Lefebre doesn’t underestimate his role as a poet. “I have learned that poets are special people, and I don’t take the responsibility lightly,” the 25-year-old Metro alumnus said. “We document our existence and the world around us in an attempt to adequately do justice to our being.” Along with four fellow poets, Lefebre will bring his words and his performance style to the 2007 National Poetry Slam on Aug. 7 in Austin, Texas. They will tackle some of life’s most private experiences, such as love, identity, politics and sorrow, in a very public forum. Slam poetry is meant to be heard live, and these poets have no qualms about sharing their experiences with a large audience. “The team has an amazing amount of talent and education behind it,” Lefebre said. “All of my teammates are people I respect and have a great deal of faith in.” Eighty teams are expected to compete in this year’s tournament, which will last for ﬁve days. Known as the Super Bowl of slam poetry competitions, the National Poetry Slam will feature teams from all over the U.S. and Europe. The ﬁve poets won their chance to represent Denver

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by competing in Café Nuba’s slam-off. Café Nuba has been hosting slam poetry, live music and independent films since 1999. Last year, the Denver slam team took first place at nationals. With the help of his teammates, Lefebre is hoping to live up to last year’s example. The slam-off competition involved three rounds by each poet, which judges scored on a scale of zero to 10. The scores were based on the poets’ writings and their performance, a rubric that encouraged poets to focus on what they were saying and how they were saying it. Lefebre volunteers as an actor with the El Centro Su Teatro, a cultural arts center that produces theater, music and visual art that specifically deals with the Hispanic experience. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2004 and has returned to his alma mater to lead spoken word and poetry workshops in Chicano studies classes. Lefebre is not the only poet on the slam team who wants to take spoken word to new heights. Jacqualynn Harris, 23, is a UCD student working on a bachelor’s degree in theater, film and television. Harris says her painful childhood drove her toward spoken word poetry. Her mother was a drug addict and her brother was shot and paralyzed. Never meeting her father,

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Harris was raised among gang members, drugs addicts and dealers. “For a long time, I was an angry child and I internalized my feelings because I didn’t know how to express them,” Harris said. “The ﬁrst time I got on a stage with a microphone and an audience, I felt this unexplainable energy. I could hear these ambient sounds that pushed me to speak louder. I saw these eyes glaring at me, as if they wanted to know more … For the ﬁrst time I realized I was not alone.” Targeting a less educated audience, Harris said she writes to make sure anyone can understand her message. “I want to expose the truth,” she said. “I want people to stop hiding from the issues that make them uncomfortable … I want people to tell me that something I said changed them, that they stopped settling for defeat and are now claiming victory.”

The slam team and other poets rock the mic at 8 p.m. the last Friday of each month at Café Nuba, located at the Mercury Café on 2199 California St.

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The rise and fall of a progressive An Unreasonable Man 122 minutes Not rated Opens March 16 By Adam Goldstein goldstea@mscd.edu The documentary An Unreasonable Man maps a political decline that would fit neatly among Shakespeare’s tragedies. Here, however, our tragic hero’s flaw is neither greed nor ambition; instead, it is stubborn idealism. In the year 2000, more than 10,000 supporters paid $7 a head and thronged the Portland Memorial Coliseum in Oregon hoping to see an unconventional presidential candidate. The forum was filled to capacity when a wiry, slightly stooped figure took the stage and promised real reform. His message drew deafening roars of support from the crowd. Four years later, on the other side of the country in Portland, Maine, the same man would attract a paltry smattering of supporters and a large bloc of virulent protestors. Over the course of four years, Ralph Nader changed from a folk hero to a pariah in U.S. liberal political circles. His sudden shift from an Everyman savior to the reviled culprit responsible for George W. Bush’s contested 2000 victory points to a larger polarization in popular political thought. In An Unreasonable Man, directors Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan trace Nader’s rise as an unyielding advocate of consumer rights to his political fall from grace among liberals. From his early days as an upstart Harvard Law School graduate advocating for consumer rights to his little-publicized presidential bid in 2004, the documentary paints a portrait that is well measured and engaging.

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March 23 to 29 With interviews from more than forty sources and diverse archival footage, the film attempts to parse through Nader’s muddied modern reputation to unearth his main message and legacy. Though the method is sometimes a bit too exhaustive (the film clocks in at over two hours) the portrait of Nader that emerges is intimate and moving, while the accusations levied against him by his detractors seem to pale against his 30-year record of personal integrity and dedication to the public good. The film begins with Nader’s public struggles against the auto industry in the 1960s and devotes a good amount of time to his subsequent accomplishments as an advocate for public rights. Air bags, seat belts, cigarette warning labels and countless other modern safety measures find their genesis in Nader’s dogged efforts as a champion of the public interest. Still, the movie’s main message lies in its examination of the bitterly contested 2000 election. Did Nader let his idealism trump the public interest of the country? Was he responsible for Gore’s loss, and thus for the rise of the neoconservative agenda? Is he merely a self-righteous crusader, a relic from a more idealistic era?

An Unreasonable Man succeeds in answering these questions by stepping back and letting both sides of the argument emerge on their own. Liberal writers and former associates levy plaints against Nader from every conceivable side – that he should’ve pulled out of the 2000 race at the very last minute, that he shouldn’t have campaigned in the swing states, even that he should’ve done more to back Kerry in 2004. In opposition, Mantel and Skrovan enlist a wide range of subjects, including a Harvard political analyst, fellow independent candidate Pat Buchanan, talk show host Phil Donahue and Nader himself. Through the interviews and footage, every accusation seems to lose steam and fade under scrutiny. What appears in its place is Nader’s unassailable quest to end corporate welfare, bureaucratic corruption and fat-cat cronyism. The ﬁlm’s real accomplishment rests in its direct approach. True, certain sympathies of the ﬁlmmakers reveal themselves, but for the most part, the directors do an effective job of letting Nader tell his own story, a story that’s sometimes uncomfortable to watch and sometimes disheartening to contemplate.

Brittle, cold atmosphere marks ‘Climates’ Climates 97 minutes Not rated Opens March 9 By Clarke Reader creader3@mscd.edu In Climates, director and writer Nuri Bilge Ceylan takes what can often be a complicated story and strips it away to the bare minimum. In fact, the Turkish director takes so much away in terms of dialogue, character development and plot that the ﬁlm barely has a story. Climates focuses on Isa, played by Ceylan, a university professor who looks at the world with bored cynicism, and Bahar (Ebru Ceylan), his

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girlfriend who is many years younger than him and works for a Turkish TV series. The film opens on the couple on vacation together, where they finally end their relationship. Viewers then follow Isa back to Istanbul where he returns to the tedium of daily life. But despite running into friends and restarting an affair with an old flame, he just can’t seem to get Bahar out of his mind. The film’s problems start with its excruciatingly slow pacing. Viewers see the world through Isa’s bored eyes, and that boredom starts to rub off. Ceylan’s writing leaves much to be desired on several levels. In the first place, there is little character development, so when Isa tries to get Bahar back, it’s unclear what has motivated him

to make such a move. The dialogue is barely there, both in terms of quality and amount. This makes it extremely difficult to feel anything but apathy for the people on the screen. Nuri Bilge and Ebru deserve some accolades, however, for using nothing but their body language and haunted expressions to viscerally show what the ending of an important relationship looks like. The film’s innovative camera work blurs the lines between what is actually going on and what each character sees in their heads. Climates is just too cold for anyone but the most dedicated foreign film or art house lovers to enjoy. Perhaps Ceylan’s next film should try something warmer.

John Malkovich stars as con artist Alan Conway, who made a living impersonating one of the most influential directors in the history of film. Though Conway poses as Stanley Kubrick, he knows nothing of the director’s films or background. The film is based on a true story, and both the film’s director, Brian Cook, and writer, Anthony Frewin, were long-time Kubrick assistants.

Army of Shadows March 23 to 29 Original cinematographer Pierre L’homme personally oversaw this new print of director Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 war drama. Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret star in this story of the French Resistance during World War II. Brothers are pitted against one another as patriotism takes a back door to the demands of a brutal regime. The ﬁlm stands as a telling exploration of survival and personal conviction during wartime

Matthew Barney: No Restraint March 30 to April 5 This documentary features media artist Matthew Barney at work on of his latest ﬁlm, Drawing Restraint 9. Director Alison Chernick and her crew follow Barney, an artist known for his abstract visual meditations, on board a Japanese whaling ship. Chernick draws on interviews with Barney’s partner Björk, New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman and gallery director Barbara Gladstone to paint a cinematic portrait of this unique modern artist.

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Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes, but by what the evidence reveals to us.

Everyday Blues

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– ALAN HALE, JR.

Adam Goldstein • goldstea@mscd.edu

This Day in History 3.8.07 Today’s Birthdays

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – 1841 “Skipper” Alan Hale, Jr. – 1918 Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz – 1945 Actor Aidan Quinn – 1959 Supermodel Kathy Ireland – 1963 Kicker Jason Elam – 1970 Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward – 1976

On this day... Gone ﬁshin’ ...

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Joe Nguyen and Conor Drummond • nguyejos@mscd.edu • cdrummon@mscd.edu

1887 – Everett Horton patents the first telescopic fishing rod. The metallic, portable tool collapses on itself, a design feature that allows thousands of highfalutin businessmen to secretly carry their fishing equipment in the office.

Church and state ... 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional. As a consequence, public schools across the country are forced to shut down their annual “Name that Venial Sin” contests in their auditoriums.

The empire strikes back ... 1983 – President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire” in an address to the nation. One Soviet ambassador, sporting a pencil-thin moustache and clad in a black overcoat and fedora, rambles incoherently about Western decadence and “mooses and squirrels.”

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NCAA Division II Tournament preview

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2007 Record: 24-6, 15-4 RMAC Head coach: Dave Murphy (5th season) RMAC tournament runners-up

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he women’s basketball team had the confidence of champions to open the season. Head coach Dave Murphy scheduled the most rigorous schedule in Division II, knowing his team could compete with the top schools. They played the No. 8- and the No. 1-ranked teams on back-to-back nights and pulled the upset on both as Metro quickly became a powerhouse in the regional polls. They quickly rose in the rankings, jumping all the way to No. 14 and losing just twice early on. One of those was by two points to No. 2-ranked North Dakota in the first game of the season. Metro had winning streaks of seven, three, four and seven games, again, to end the regular season. They never lost two games in a row, and three of their four conference losses were to teams that made it to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament – Nebraska-Kearney, CSU-Pueblo and Regis. Speaking of Regis, the rivalry between Metro and the cross-town Rangers sparked exciting games between these two RMAC heavyweights, with punches thrown – literally. The two teams split their head-to-head games during the regular season. Regis spanked the ’Runners 70-50 at the Regis Fieldhouse, moving the Rangers ahead of Metro in the Division II

polls. But Metro brought their A-game in the home contest, as guard Paige Powers played her best game of the season, scoring 19 points and adding six assists. It was fate that had these two teams fighting it out for the conference tournament March 4, but the game didn’t live up to the hype as the Rangers pummeled the Roadrunners 76-62. The two teams will go a fourth and final round as they face off in the first round of the NCAA Division II tournament March 9. Metro should still taste the bitterness of their lackluster performance in Pueblo and will likely be ready to seek revenge for the second time. Murphy has stressed that his team does not have a superstar on the team. The Roadrunners’ strength lies in depth, as six different players led the team in scoring throughout the season. The junior college transfers had no problems adjusting to Murphy’s system as Anne-Marie Torp, Ashley Mickens, Cassondra Bratton, Carolyn Dennee and Stephanie Sauter all played vital parts in the success of the season. All will return next season, which shows great potential for the 2007-2008 season. But it will be up to Roadrunners veterans Powers, Rianna Harris and Danielle Ellerington to take the ’Runners on a deep tournament run.

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points is the average margin of victory

opponent FG% is 2nd in the RMAC

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By Eric Lansing • lansing@mscd.edu and Joe Nguyen • nguyejos@mscd.edu

rebounds per game is first in the RMAC

2007 Record: 27-3, 17-2 RMAC Head coach: Brannon Hays (1st season) RMAC tournament champions

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he men’s basketball team had to wonder how much would change once legendary head coach Mike Dunlap left for the NBA, leaving assistant coach Brannon Hays with the keys to the well-oiled machine that is Metro basketball. If anything changed, it was for the better, as the Roadrunners coasted through the regular season with a 24-3 overall record and a 17-2 record in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. They never lost two games in a row, and had a 15-game winning streak that spanned two months. Hays kept Dunlap’s system in place and the offense led the conference in scoring for most of the season, while remaining in the top five in scoring defense. Hays, who served as an assistant coach with Metro from 1997 to 2000, returned to Metro in 2005 after a five-year stint as head coach for Colorado Christian. Hays was named the interim coach in 2006, and unless the NBA comes calling, might become a great coaching legend at Metro. Senior captain Michael Bahl led the team in scoring (15.9

ppg) and led this team with experience and leadership. The 6-foot-6-inch forward earned an honorable mention in the preseason All-East Division back in September, but was named to the All-RMAC first team after leading the Roadrunners through their phenomenal season. Bahl also finished the season as Division II’s leader in 3-point shooting percentage (.523). Metro’s consistency and depth had opposing coaches pulling their hair out trying to find matchups for all 11 of Metro’s playing roster. Forward Jesse Wagstaff came out strong in the final month and was the RMAC tournament’s Most Valuable Player. Guard Marquise Carrington took the point for the Roadrunners and finished the season as the conference’s second leading assist man with 4.73 assists per game. Guard Terrell Burgess came out of nowhere to become the team’s defensive presence, winning the RMAC’s Defensive Player of the Year. The list goes on, as every player on the roster made their mark on the season; and every one of them will be needed as they progress through the Division II tournament.

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Ashley Mickens

10.0 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 3.4 apg, 1.83 spg

6.2 ppg, 4.1 rpg, .547 FG%

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Three keys for Metro women

Three keys for Metro men

Come out battling

1 Share the rock Metro leads the RMAC with 17.1 assists per game. The team has three players averaging more than two assists every contest, led by guard Ashley Mickens with 3.4.

During Metro’s loss to Regis in the finals of the conference tournament, the Roadrunners came out flat and passive. Coach Murphy questioned his team’s confidence levels in the loss and said the Rangers just came ready to play. The ‘Runners need to come out strong and with a lot of intensity.

Control the ball

Defense

Run and gun

The ‘Runners held their opponents to 59.8 points per game and .378 shooting from the field over the course of the season. They need to continue their stifling defense in order to advance through the tournament.

The ‘Runners’ success relies on their scoring output. They finished third in the RMAC with 80.2 points per game while outscoring their opponents by an average of 13.9 ppg. But in their three losses, they only averaged 70.3 ppg.

Metro is fourth in the nation at 11.1 steals per game, and first in the RMAC with 16.9 assists per game. The ‘Runners need sophomore guard Marquise Carrington, who’s second in the RMAC with 6.9 apg, to continue to push the pace.

3 Rain down 3-pointers Metro leads the nation in 3-point field-goal percentage, shooting an astonishing .443 while draining 9.4 per game. They have also held their opponents to .349 from beyond the arc. If the team expects to go far in the tournament, they need to continue dominating the outside.

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Upcoming shows The Ataris March 16 Ogden Theatre 935 E. Colfax Ave. 7 p.m. $15 in advance, $17 at the door, 16+ Up-tempo cuteness has burrowed its way into the punk scene, and the Ataris are proof that the effects are permanent. Absent is the usual angst and snobbery that has deﬁned the genre for so long. Instead, lonely ballads and danceable jams play to a new generation of fun-loving youngsters more than to the punks of old. Forget your societal paranoia and allow guiltless fun to take control of your good senses.

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The Song Remains the Same Photo by Michael Goldberg, courtesy of http://lezzeppelin.com

Living, loving maids. From left, Lez Zeppelin is Lisa Brigantino, Helen Destroy, Sarah McLellan and Steph Paynes. By Megan Carneal mcarneal@mscd.edu Like Led Zeppelin once sang, “It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled.” Recently I’ve punk-rocked, I’ve rockabillied, I’ve ’80s-revivaled and, on some rare occasions, I’ve emoed. But I can’t remember the last time I truly rockand-rolled, and yes, it has been a long, lonely time. But now Lez Zeppelin, the female Led Zeppelin tribute band, has let me get back to where I come from. Female cover bands that pay tribute to some of the most masculine idols around aren’t such anomalies anymore. Cheap Chick, Hells Belles and AC/DShe have all been injecting testosterone anthems with estrogen. Not until Lez Zeppelin, however, have any of these bands captured the essence of the original without taking themselves out of the equation. “I think that the real challenge is playing it with the right kind of feel, playing it with the right kind of emotion and letting yourself come through it in the spirit of how it should be played,” said Steph Paynes, the Jimmy Page of the group. As it should be when covering one of the greatest bands in history, each of the women brings a massive talent to the group. Sarah McLellan may not have the same reckless wails as Robert Plant, but her bluesy voice is just as alluring. Lisa Brigantino doesn’t miss a beat when emulating John Paul Jones’ bass lines, and Helen Destroy takes the place of the late John Bohnam, securing herself as an exceptional drummer in her own right. Every note is right on, the swagger and presence of the ladies is anachronistic and the

power of the songs comes through as if they were the originals. Even the mystery and intrigue that surrounded Led is encompassed in Lez. The implications of their name and their militant “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy have left many people guessing: Are they or aren’t they? “I think that if we were to answer that question we kind of lose either way,” Paynes said. “I think it’s much better to let people wonder what the truth of it is. Zeppelin always kept a mystery about them, which I think was very effective. I mean, why not leave something for people to imagine?” What is hard for some to imagine is cock rock being played by four individuals void of the required appendages. However, Lez Zeppelin is proof that it can be done, and Paynes will argue that the latent female sexuality in Led Zeppelin is responsible for the success of her band and the misnomer of the label. “For Christ’s sake, Page and Plant idolized Joni Mitchell,” she said. “How can you do cock rock when your idol is Joni Mitchell?” The notion of starting an all-female cover band hit Paynes – the group’s founder – about five years ago. “Zeppelin’s kind of been the soundtrack to my life,” she said. “The more I listened to it as a mature musician, the more I was struck by how brilliant they really were.” After the original Zeppelin started making continuous rounds on her iPod, the idea for a tribute band was there, and she knew it had to be all girls. Now the band has reached another level and will be releasing their first album. No official release date has been set, but Paynes said they are shooting for a May or June date. She also

teased that while they are still shifting things around on the album, at least one song from Zeppelin’s ﬁrst six albums will be found on the album. For that extra bit of Zeppelin magic, seminal producer Eddie Kramer was enlisted. Kramer is famed for having worked on Led Zeppelin II and III, House of the Holy, Physical Grafﬁtti and The Song Remains the Same. Kramer also engineered all of Jimi Hendrix’s studio albums. “He is just great at what he does,” Paynes said. “He’s got the most incredible sense of sound. We went through things and when we heard something we liked, he knew just what to do with it.” As surreal as the experience of sharing the studio with a such a musical intellect can be, their whole adventure as a band has been surreal for Paynes, too. “Things keep happening that are more and more outrageous,” she said. “I’m beginning to expect the unexpected.”

Malas Semillas March 8 Bluebird Theater 3317 E. Colfax Ave. 8 p.m. $8 without comp, comp tickets available at http://www.myspace.com/malassemillas, 21+ Drummers are stereotypically unreliable slackers who only look at their watch 10 minutes before 4:30. That’s why Malas Semillas has yet to bother with one. Composed of former Pillage My Village members, these “bad seeds” utilize common household items for percussion and melodic means to put a tear in your beer. The saw, some spoons and a washboard are sure to make appearances. Female vocals, banjos, mandolins, a guitar and a stand-up bass are added bonuses.

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Lez Zeppelin will play at 9 p.m. March 10 at Quixote’s True Blue Café, 2635 Welton St. Tickets are $15, 18+

Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom 2637 Welton St. 6 p.m. $13 in advance, $15 at the door, all ages With their rough growls intertwined with nasal whines, From Autumn to Ashes is too emo to be hardcore and yet too hard to be emo. They draw crowds in with griefstricken screams and passionate wails, and then really pull them in by strumming their heartstrings.

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Rage against the reunion tours MEGAN CARNEAL mcarneal@mscd.edu This is the year of the reunion tour. Bands that said they would never reunite, and some that never should, are burying the hatchet and saying to hell with creative differences. This all comes at a price, though – not to the bands, but their fans. The lineup for 2007 is impressive and makes it easy to fall victim to promises of a once-in-a-life-

time opportunity. Rage Against the Machine has reunited to play Coachella. The Smashing Pumpkins are currently touring in Europe, and Genesis is planning a European tour as well. Van Halen, with David Lee Roth, has also announced a 2007 reunion. Even Led Zeppelin has teased the idea. The most prominent reunion tour this year is the Police tour. After playing a set at the Grammy Awards, they announced a 2007 reunion tour. Their record label is promoting it as the 30th anniversary tour celebrating the release of their first single, “Roxanne,” even though it was officially released in 1978. Though they may not be great with simple math, when it comes to dollar signs, they’re geniuses. So what is the price to see a band past their prime these days? For the Police show June 9 at the Pepsi Center, tickets range from $50 to $380 through Ticketmaster. Of course – for even bigger profit margins to coincide with

pretty capitalistic. Although Coachella might be worth the price for the number of quality bands on the bill, the motive behind Rage’s reunion is puzzling. It’s hard to deny Rage is reuniting for the money when the only other plausible explanation would be politics, and if their motives were really politically based, then why wait until now? Why not reunite when intellectual defiance was most desperately needed? In the last six years, Republicans have been more rebellious and vocal than Rage Against the Machine. If reunion tours are really for the fans, why charge so much for tickets? Why inundate consumers with pricy reissues when the true fan probably likes the original more? As hard as it is to resist seeing a favorite band one last time, or even for the first time, I think fans should remember them for the band they once were, not the selfish, greedy and dated entities they have become.

these tours – various reissues will be released. EMI Records will be releasing 14 remastered Genesis studio albums in three waves over the course of this year. Anyone who has ever succumbed to a reissue can testify to its ridiculous price compared with the original. That is the problem with the reunion tour. Through the blind eyes of a longtime fan it seems like a last chance to witness an idol. On the band’s side, it’s one last chance to cash in before all the members are too old to play their instruments. While that statement may not be true for the younger bands like Rage and the Pumpkins, the motives behind the reunion still need questioning. Rage Against the Machine was once a popular and intelligent political band. Their message was strongly anti-government and anti-capitalism. But tickets for Coachella are $80 for day passes and $249 for the three-day pass. Sounds

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Jesu Conqueror (Hydra Head Records, 2007)

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Bureaucrats just don’t rock like they used to. American work-permit ofﬁcials are forbidding mind-blowing live music from hitting the states for undisclosed reasons. England’s Jesu will just have to wait for their Los Angeles release party and slated tour with Isis. But until then Conqueror provides adequate dozy comfort. Jesu is comprised of former Godﬂesh member and Napalm Death founder Justin Broadrick, bassist Diarmuid Dalton and drummer Ted Parsons. The album features ambient male vocals, standard rock instruments, synth, pleasant melodies and leads so layered that the instrument of origin is practically indistinguishable from the

The Nuns (415 Records, 1978) By Billy Schear wschear@mscd.edu Sexual depravity, drug abuse, the reducing of God to nothing more than a dominatrix with a passion for punishment: few could argue with the Nuns for choosing such a name. Opening up for the Sex Pistols during their fabled ﬁnal performance in 1977 at Winterland Palace in San Francisco, the Nuns were quick to make a name for themselves by bringing the urban New York sound to the California punk scene. With streetwise lyrics over keyboard-laden rock and roll, the Nuns helped deﬁne what would eventually be

rest. Such a fuzzy sound induces the kind of euphoria found in the losing of one’s self in blackand-white pictures of foggy European bridges. Jesu proves that industrial music has successfully spawned a delicate, more emotional offspring. The songs of Conqueror don’t stay within the conﬁnes of traditional angst-ridden and psychotic expressions of political frustration. As expressed in interviews, Jesu mastermind Broadrick attempts to convey something a little more personal. “Medicine” portrays dystopian images of a populace subdued into a meandrous stupor. Notes on the guitar lead rarely travel a full step away from each other as they efﬁciently emu-

known as the new wave sound that dominated the ’80s. It was the harmony behind the savagery that made the band memorable. The prominently featured vocals of both male and female leads, Jeff Olener and Jennifer Miro, make for a sexual tension that defies definition. Are they lovers? Are they friends? Are they brother and sister or just two strangers with the same fetishes? This is the self-titled 7-inch that started it all. The first single the Nuns released included the two live tracks “Suicide Child” and “Decadent Jew,” which, rumor has it, couldn’t be laid down in the studio because the recording studio thought they were going to steal all the gear. Though the band’s studio recordings often sound crisp, clean and finely produced, the presence of these two live tracks reveals the Nuns’ grittiness and threatening bravado. “Suicide Child” is the classic story of boy meets girl, girl steals boy’s dope, girl kills herself, boy never forgives girl for being so stupid. It is the quintessential example of the Nun’s ability to marry cynicism and self-indulgent humor. “You slit your wrist, you stupid bitch!” Olener spits with contempt, showing no signs of contrition in having led this poor runaway child astray. Thankfully, debauchery never dies; it just lies in state only to be resurrected when it’s needed most. The Nuns shall forever be here to guide the way.

late the lethargy of Prozac. “Mother Earth” expresses gratitude, love and homage for the healing abilities of Gaia. What starts off with keyboards and dry guitar strumming reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails and Type O Negative shifts into a brutal yet beautiful seven-minute-long ballad. This is industrial music you would let your kid sister go out with on Friday night. Conqueror sounds like one big epic song or a soundtrack to a colorful silent ﬁlm. Its intriguing effects and instrumentation retain a consistently high caliber while its personal lyrics progress like a conversation.

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New bins, one-stop recycling would increase convenience By Mellisa Blackburn mblackb4@mscd.edu The Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board and its clean-energy subcommittee are proposing a major change to Auraria’s recycling program. While some say the proposed changes would take Auraria’s recycling program into the 21st century, others worry that its cost would outweigh the benefits. It’s called single-stream recycling: a one-stop drop for all recyclables requiring no sorting by the consumer. It is the same program Denver Recycles uses. “Single-stream recycling is becoming a lot more popular nationwide,” said Charlotte Pitt, a spokeswoman for Denver Recycles. In 2005, Denver Recycles signed a 10-year contract with Waste Management, Inc. and purchased its own collection vehicles and bins. The new roll-aways hold up to 96 gallons of assorted paper, cardboard, glass and cans. Waste Management, Inc. spent more than $4 million to retrofit its northeast Denver facility, making it the only single-stream recycling plant in Denver. The giant new machine uses a conveyor belt, giant magnets and other devices to mechanically separate paper from cardboard and metal from glass – so the customers don’t have to. Proponents of single-stream recycling believe the increased convenience will encourage more people to recycle. SACAB’s goal is to move Auraria to this same system. “Our recycling programs are inadequate at best,” said Shaun Lally, the UCD chair of SACAB and of the clean-energy subcommittee. “It’s a safe estimate (Auraria is) 20 years behind the times. And it’s time for a change.” Currently, Auraria works with the Weyerhaeuser paper company to recycle paper, cardboard and some solid waste materials. Scrap metals are sent to Atlas Metal and Iron Corporation. The new recycling system will make recycling more efficient for

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The existing bins on campus would be condensed into a single bin that would require no sorting if the proposal is approved. the campus. Tom Moody, head of the recycling program at Auraria, thinks single-stream recycling is a good idea, but is skeptical about the amount of extra work it will create. His concern is that the new program will require an increased amount of work for Auraria staff. Lally, however, believes the changes are both essential and workable. “They’re going to have to ﬁgure out a new strategy,” he said.

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It’s very expensive to be me. It’s terrible the things I have to do to be me.

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A whale tale of eco-terrorism The ominous assemblage of a Jolly Roger, airborne smoke bombs and the putrid odor of rancid butter means two things: Captain Paul Watson is on the scene, and a handful of lucky leviathans will live to sing another day. Some say Watson, who founded the vehement whale-protection group Sea Shepherd, is a vicious scalawag. Some brazenly label him a terrorist. To me, and to countless saltwater mammals, he’s a nothing less than a hero. Watson and Sea Shepherd were squared in the crosshairs of an international media barrage for their February clashes with Japanese whaling vessels. In icy Antarctic waters, Sea Shepherd’s crew allegedly tossed smoke bombs and foul-smelling canisters of butyric acid onto the whaling ship Nisshin Maru and the Kaiko Maru, a whale-research vessel. What followed was a ﬁre aboard the Nisshin Maru, the death of one of its crewmen and Japan’s untimely cessation of its Antarctic whaling season. “Sea Shepherd resorted to throwing a large number of smoke bombs and bottles containing a harmful chemical substance on the decks … resulting in two injured crewmen,” stated a letter from the Institute of Cetacean Research, a Japanese whaling advocate. What the ICR failed to mention is that butyric acid, the supposedly harmful chemical, is merely unpleasant to smell – it’s actually

EMILE HALLEZ ehallez@mscd.edu weaker than the acid in vinegar. Furthermore, the ﬁre and resulting death aboard the Nisshin Maru were incidents in which Sea Shepherd had no involvement. “Although the blaze came a day after Watson’s group pulled back for lack of fuel, and there’s no alleged connection, Japan calls Watson a terrorist,” the Associated Press reported. A low-resolution video on the ICR’s website shows the Robert Hunter, a Sea Shepherd vessel, bombarding a Japanese ship. In another clip, it appears that the Hunter’s crew hurled canisters spewing orange-colored gas aboard the other boat. The footage is too grainy to be conclusive, and Sea Shepherd claims the oppo-

site – that its vessels were the ones rammed. Regardless of the true aggressor, there were no casualties resulting from any collision. The idea that Sea Shepherd is a band of “ecoterrorist” outlaws is an assertion with which I must disagree. This organization strives to protect highly intelligent, oft endangered creatures, and it does so without sacriﬁcing human life. Japan, conversely, hides behind the mask of a revolting cultural practice and the faulty guise of research. It claims it has a right to sacriﬁce nearly 1,000 whales per year in the name of science. Most of these innocent creatures are butchered aboard ships and sent to Japan for extravagant consumption. Interestingly, Japan, a country that indulges heavily in seafood, has a disturbing incidence of gastric cancer, a disease the National Institutes of Health correlates with diet. When successful environmental and animalrights activists are conveniently branded as extremists and terrorists, it’s encouraging to see groups like Sea Shepherd refusing to compromise convictions for fear of stepping on a few toes. A vast number of Japanese may be furious at the prospect of an ostentatious-meat shortage, but one thing is certain – the whales don’t seem to mind. Next time you hear the phrase “eco-terrorist,” question the accuser’s motivation, as well as the identities of the real criminals.

Last week, the American Psychological Association released a study correlating sexualized images of women in the media to poor self-image in young girls. The APA report stated that major psychological problems such as eating disorders and depression are correlated with the portrayal of women in the media. Happy Women’s History Month, everybody! The medical community has finally decided to recognize the blatantly obvious. Of course, this news was buried under stories about Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears and Oscar fashion. It would be all too easy to rail against the plastic surgery, cosmetic, entertainment, diet, alcohol and advertising companies that roll in the bucks from exploiting females. Walk down any street in Denver and you will see plenty of offensive imagery depicting airbrushed women as objects and commodities. As much as big business has contributed to the objectification of women, we all play our part. We buy the magazines, watch the movies, follow the gossip and support the industries that hurt women. If the images were all we had to worry about, concerned citizens could simply remove them. However, the media portrayal of women is translated into our actions. Individuals treat women like the objects they are depicted as. For example, I was out for drinks with a group of new acquaintances. One of the men in the group leans in and tells me that he thinks another woman in the bar is “hot.” My stomach sank. Without regard for any characteristics of substance of that woman, he treated her like the subject of a billboard. I contemplated asking the guy to consider the social implications of his entitlement and how his language might affect other women. Instead, I bit my tongue. I didn’t want him to dismiss me as another angry and radical “feminazi.” My complacency and his ignorance furthered the status quo. While feminists have made claims similar to those of the APA for decades, a trustworthy mental health board has released a formal study reasserting that our society is hurting women and girls. To truly confront this issue and make necessary changes for growth, we must be willing to confront our behavior and the behavior of our peers that turns the objectification of women in entertainment into a social norm, even if it means getting called a “feminazi.”

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INSIGHT • 21

War would Saddam-ize Iran

ANDREW FLOHR-SPENCE spencand@mscd.edu

Fowl plague When I think back, I remember the distant sound of flapping wings, like the muffled hooves of a far away line of horses, thundering in my direction. At the time, however, I did not even react. I had gone to the park to get some fresh air and did not expect a brush with death. Geese! Migratory birds – the main carriers of the infamous bird flu, the H5N1 virus – were flying dangerously close. I picked up their movement through the skeleton of branches only seconds before they flew from behind the trees into the open blue sky above me. I stood totally exposed – no place to hide – in an open field with a squadron of poison-bearing big birds coming in for attack. I didn’t know whether to run or stay motionless, but as I stood there frozen, the flying biological bombs merely kept flapping their vermin-soaked wings, gliding away from me across the sky. I know I am lucky to be alive, and yet, something that day changed the way I look at fear. While fears about terrorism, crime and toddlers smoking pot consume the nation’s attention, this far greater threat is lurking in the shadows, waiting for the day to pounce. Three times in the past century the normally mundane flu has gone psycho. In 1918, the granddaddy of them all, the “Spanish influenza” killed an estimated 40 million to 50 million people worldwide. Ships were found drifting at sea with everyone aboard dead. In 1957, another 2 million were killed, this time by the “Asian Influenza,” and 1968 saw another 1 million flu victims. Since 1997, when Hong Kong recorded 18 cases of bird flu, including six deaths, the H5N1 strain has begun positioning itself for a big assault. Migratory birds, geese and other waterfowl infiltrate and mingle with other birds, infecting local populations. Domestic ducks act as the ringleaders, excreting large amounts of virus-infected fluid (killer duck snot), while showing no signs of illness. The World Health Organization warns that the conditions are ripe for bird flu to make the jump to human flu and cause an international pandemic, which could again kill millions of people around the world. It is only a matter of time. If you are comparing evils, these figures make war look like a health trend. Birds are the biggest danger facing humanity, and I should have known not to go near any nature. Immediately, I worried if any bird flu particles had rained down on me from the flapping wings, but then something occurred to me. If it’s not the virus-secreting ducks, then it’s the plague-ridden squirrels, the killer jaguars, or the starving lions and bears that stumble out of the mountains and bite joggers. Earth is full of dangerous beasts just waiting for a chance to kill, but with all the possible dangers to dwell on, I would probably never see the big one coming. In the end I would be staring up at the pretty colors of the sunset, when the elephant stampede came out of nowhere. And that’s something I just have to accept.

The jargon seeping from the corporate media and the Bush administration is reminiscent of the time when a war in Iraq was sold as a good, justified idea. Many Americans blindly put their faith behind Dubya the Decider and supported his ambition to rid the world of the “evildoers,” despite the world’s lack of support. But whatever, we were on a mission from God. Then reality hit. One by one, the justifications began to unravel. There were never any weapons of mass destruction. The only commonality between Saddam and Osama was a mutual hate for each other, and even Bush stated that Saddam had nothing to do with Sept. 11. Yet the number of troops killed since their commander in chief proudly pronounced “mission accomplished” continues to eclipse the casualties of the World Trade Center collapse. Now we move to Iran. The eerie echo of the lead-up to war has been sonorously sounded by the corporate media’s bobble-head pundits, who continue to neglect any critical analysis or intelligent debate. Have the journalists who cheerleaded for invading Iraq learned nothing? The response regarding Saudi Arabia is baffling, as the mute dia-

MANDI JONES mjone108@mscd.edu logue pertaining to its ties with Iraqi Sunni militias mirrors the deafening silence regarding its support for 15 of the Sept. 11 hijackers. The Bush administration is once more prophesizing that it will proceed with the escalation despite whoever may disagree; the only difference now is that Bush is set to defy his own Congress and his own people. While Bush’s approval ratings continue to plummet, the media has yet to cover the fact that numerous polls conducted by the likes of Newsweek, MSNBC and Zogby International have shown that more than 50

percent of Americans agree that impeachment should be seriously considered by Congress. Ever since the Coalition of the Imperialists illegally invaded Iraq, the infrastructure we destroyed has yet to be rebuilt, and civilian casualties have exceeded 650,000, according to a study overseen by Johns Hopkins University. The Iraqi people have been negated from the ongoing debate of whether we should pull out, while supporting the troops has again become the rhetorical pedestal exploited by warmongers and profiteers. While the Iranian regime continues to carry out some of the world’s worst human rights abuses and violent acts against women, I do not agree that jotting them down on our military’s list of things to do today will remedy the situation. Prior to jumping into procession and marching to the humdrum of war, it is crucial we pause and demand our legislators explore every possible alternative to avoid a conflict in Iran. It would be foolish for anyone to put military strikes beyond this reactionary and ill-witted administration. The red flags are there. The alternatives are there, one of which may be found in voices of the Iranian people and their resistance.

Weight of our empire crushes domestic freedom America is an empire. Its militarism invites resentment and violent opposition, and its maintenance comes at a cost for both the economy and democratic ideals we purport to hold dear. One does not have to be a knee-jerk liberal to discern the faintest glimmer of truth contained within Chalmers Johnson’s premises of America’s foreign policies. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Empire, the third installment of the University of California professor’s trilogy exploring American foreign policy and its consequences, sets out Johnson’s apocalyptic vision for our fair nation, but will the outcome be as dire as he predicts? As a Scot growing up in Europe, I never considered the American military umbrella to be an imperial one. As time went by my impression evolved. America was an empire, but an accidental and fundamentally benevolent empire. For those still unwilling to swallow the tag of empire, consider the following ﬁgures from the Department of Defense in 2003. The United States owns or rents 702 overseas military bases, not including such oases of peace as Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar and Uzbekistan. The 2007 post-Iraq ﬁgure will be

STEVE LEWIS slewis42@mscd.edu higher. In contrast, there are zero foreign military bases in America. Johnson’s contention is that the modern empire is one of garrisons or bases rather than territory and that the American Empire is as real as its Roman and British predecessors. Who in their right mind could disagree? To what extent, though, does America’s militarism invite resentment and violent opposition? Take your pick: Taliban, Saddam and radical Islam all grew stronger in reaction to, with the support of and despite American hegemony. Terrorism in the ’70s, be it the IRA, the

Baader-Meinhof or the Red Brigade, however loathsome, seems positively quaint compared to the global variants we fear today. Johnson’s final point is the cost of empire. The financial aspect is obvious: bases, bullets, bombs, etc. Supplements and casualties pile up while universal healthcare, education, infrastructure and other pressing domestic concerns are sacrificed on the altar of what President Eisenhower warned would become a self-perpetuating military-industrial complex. Johnson also believes it will cost us our own democracy. It was Hannah Arendt who said successful imperialism requires domestic tyranny. If the Patriot Act, the denial of due process, domestic wiretapping, the disdain for the Geneva Conventions and the determinedly isolationist approach to international treaties say anything, they demand less democracy. By contrast, when an exhausted Britain contemplated its postWorld War II future, it chose to relinquish its empire rather than its democracy. Despite violence in Kenya and India, the decolonization process was relatively peaceful. The same could be true for America’s demilitarization process. Or do we prefer emperors, Huns and Visigoths?

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DID YOU KNOW... With Jesse Wagstaff winning the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament’s most valuable player award, he now stands among the elite of former Metro RMAC tournament MVPs: DeMarcos Anzures (1999), Lee Barlow (2000), Kane Oakley (2001), Patrick Mutombo (2003), C.J. Massingale (2004) and Mark Worthington (2005).

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Top: Metro head coach Brannon Hays, right, hugs guard Benas Veikalas, left, after winning the school’s seventh Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament title since 1999. Above left: Moussa Coulibaly cuts down a piece of the net after the 70-60 victory over Adams State March 3 at the State Fair Events Center in Pueblo. Above center: Honorary coach Brandon Wise, bottom, celebrates with Veikalas, top, as they pose for a picture. Veikalas scored 10 points and grabbed six rebounds for the Roadrunners. Above right: Terrell Burgess, left, Marquise Carrington, right, and Joe Ciancio, back, embrace after winning the RMAC tournament and now prepare for the NCAA Division II tournament.

Roadrunners living in 7th heaven Metro wins RMAC title after outlasting Adams State in ﬁnals By Eric Lansing lansing@mscd.edu The men’s basketball team waltzed through the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference this season, posting a 17-2 record. This time, the Roadrunners moonwalked through the conference tournament as they defeated Colorado Christian 86-81 at Auraria Events Center in the ﬁrst round of the RMAC Shootout championship tournament. The ’Runners then went on to Pueblo, where

they defeated Fort Lewis 73-58 in the semifinals and Adams State 70-60 in the finals for their seventh conference championship since 1999. “It was a heck of a game,” said Brannon Hays, Metro’s first-year head coach, who took over for Mike Dunlap in 2006. “I really thought Adams State came out well. Every time we tried to push away, they did a nice job of working their way back into the game. At the same time, our guys kept stepping up and answering. I’m very proud of the team and very excited about (the championship).” The Grizzlies never held the lead in the championship game, but that was no indication of the game’s intensity. Metro built up many leads during the game, but the Grizzlies fought back into contention each time. The Roadrunners worked their way up to a

12-point lead at the 8:08 mark of the first half before Grizzlies forward Roman Moniak went on a late run with two consecutive layups and a jumper in the next 79 seconds. Adams went to the locker room at the half, down by only a three-point deficit. The Roadrunners flew out of the gates in the second half with a run of their own, outscoring the Grizzlies 21-7 and pushing their lead to 18 points at the 9:18 mark. Metro guard Marquise Carrington scored nine points in the run. But Adams State still had one run left in them as forward Wes Jensen got the large crowd of Grizzlies fans to erupt with a 3-pointer that put the score at 56-38. A minute later, Jensen hit another 3-pointer, followed by guard David

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March 3 at State Fair Events Center Fort Lewis

Metro

Total 33 37

25 36

58 73

Leading Scorers:

M: Bahl 21, Wagstaff 16 FL: Bieri 22, Jameson 13 Leading Rebounders: M: Wagstaff 10, Veikalas 7 FL: Bieri 10, Meyer 8

March 4 at State Fair Events Center Adams State

Metro

Leading Scorers:

Total 28 31

32 39

M: Wagstaff 19, Carrington 17 AS: Moniak 18, Jensen 16 Leading Rebounders: M: Wagstaff 9, 2 tied w/ 6 AS: Murrey 7, Jensen 6

60 70

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‘Runners’ revenge tour hits roadblock

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From left, forward Rae Bean, guard Stephanie Sauter, guard Danielle Ellerington, forward Megan Sinclair and guard Paula Bruzewski listens to head coach Dave Murphy after the game during Regis’ celebration.

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InResponse: Letter to the Editor Metro fans, or lack thereof, fail to support teams As many of you Roadrunners out there know, your Metro basketball teams were in the finals of the RMAC Shootout last weekend in Pueblo. The women fought valiantly but lost while the men continued their dominating season by winning their fourth conference title in the last five years. Michael Bahl and Jesse Wagstaff were named to the All-Tournament team, and Wagstaff was named tournament MVP. Every game was close and fans were on the edge of their seats. All in all it was a great tournament. All of the teams’ fans were welltraveled in support of their squads and were rabid throughout. That is except for one school – my fellow Roadrunners. As a Metro State alumnus, I was extremely disappointed at the complete lack of a fan base for the tournament. It wouldn’t bother me so much except for the fact that we can’t fill our own gym on game night much less another’s. Now, I know what some of you are saying: “It’s Pueblo. That’s really far from Denver. I already had other plans.” I don’t buy that. Schools such as Fort Lewis, Adams State and even crosstown rival Regis packed the State Fair Events Center. And let’s not forget NebraskaKearney – they’re in another state, for crying out loud! These schools all have small-town style enrollment numbers. Adams State only has around 2500 students, yet they packed the gym and were absolutely insane in their support of the Grizzlies even as they fell to our Roadrunners. Compare that to Metro’s enrollment of over 20,000 students and the numbers just don’t add up. On the other hand I can’t speak highly enough of the

’Runners that did show up to cheer on their squads. Seeing the likes of athletic director Joan McDermott, Lara Hilton, other Metro athletes, students and even former basketball players like Keith Borgan getting up and screaming for our men and women made me proud to be a ’Runner. Senior Michael Bahl summed it up himself after the championship. He said that he felt extremely lucky to play for a school with such a winning record and winning attitude. As a ’Runner, Bahl has won over 120 games with less than 30 losses. He feels fortunate to be a Roadrunner. Think he’d feel even more fortunate if more fans were there to support his team? Although the conference tournament is over, all is not lost, fellow Roadrunners. This weekend both of your Metro basketball teams will be in the NCAA national tournaments in North Dakota and Minnesota. I realize that it’s a long trek but it’s the least we can do for seniors such as Bahl, Rianna Harris, Dana Berge, Moussa Coulibaly and Benas Veiklas, that have laid it out on the court night after night for the love of the game and, more importantly, our institution. A few buddies and myself are going to gas up the car, grab some snacks and take a road trip to check out our Roadrunners. Not as reporters this time, but as loud and proud Metro fans. I’ll be there, Metro … will you? John Romero romejohn5@gmail.com

March 3 at State Fair Events Center

Total 23 39

CSU-Pueblo

Metro

32 28

55 67

Leading Scorers:

M: Harris 16, Powers 15 CSU: Lewis 15, Black 9 Leading Rebounders: M: Mickens and Torp 8 R: Lewis 7, Black 5

March 4 at State Fair Events Center Metro

Total 28 33

Regis

34 43

62 76

Leading Scorers:

M: Ellerington 15, Bratton 10 R: Denise Lopez 15, Burley 14 Leading Rebounders: M: Mickens 8, Bratton 6 R: Denise Lopez 12, 2 tied w/ 4

Metro’s terrible turnout Despite being ranked 5th in the nation, the ‘Runners’ attendance is ranked 11th of 14 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Nebraska-Kearney –2,264

and chanted their support for the Rangers. “I think (Regis) matched our intensity, and maybe they outdid us in terms of effort,” Murphy said. “We got outplayed during stretches of the ballgame where we dug ourselves into a hole.” Metro carried the lead only once, and that was at 1-0 when guard Ashley Mickens made the second of two free throws. Regis forward Nicole Gross then hit a 15-foot jumper to give Regis a lead they never relinquished. The Roadrunners came within ﬁve points of the lead, and then within two, but the Rangers answered each run with increased defensive pressure, forcing turnovers that led to points. Regis scored 27 points off of 17 Metro turnovers.

RMAC average – 635

The women’s basketball team’s “Redemption Road” to a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship came up short as they fell to Regis 76-62 in the finals March 4 at the State Fair Events Center in Pueblo. Head coach Dave Murphy gave the playoffs the redemption title for Metro when they found out they would be playing CSU-Pueblo, who squeaked a win from the Roadrunners 52-50 way back in December on Metro’s home court. Murphy also knew that if Regis made it to the finals, redemption would be sweet for the 20point beating his team took on Jan. 26 at the Regis Fieldhouse. In the semifinals of the RMAC Shootout, the Roadrunners defeated Pueblo’s Thunderwolves 67-55 on March 3 at the State Fair Events Center. Forward Rianna Harris led the way for Metro, as she scored a game-high 16 points and pulled down four rebounds. Harris was an inside threat for the ’Runners as most of her points came from within the paint. She also helped her team outrebound the Thunderwolves 44-33. Metro guard Paige Powers found her stroke by knocking down five 3-pointers and scoring 15 points. Nine points came within a two-minute span that extended Metro’s lead to 18 points. “Every time we needed something, these two young ladies really stepped it up and either made a defensive play or a big rebound,” Murphy said of his two veterans, Powers and Harris. “Both of these ladies really enjoy big moments.” The Roadrunners held a 44-23 advantage

Metro – 299

By Eric Lansing lansing@mscd.edu

until CSU-Pueblo went on 21-6 run that was spurred by guard Mary Rehfeld’s back-to-back 3-pointers. The Thunderwolves had the game to within five points at the 2:50 mark after forward Lindsay Black hit a 3-point basket. But Metro hit eight of nine free throws while the Thunderwolves missed six of their last seven field goal attempts in the last 2:36, as the Roadrunners outlasted CSU-Pueblo and moved on to the championship game of the tournament. Waiting in the wings for Metro were the Regis Rangers, who defeated a talented NebraskaKearney team 79-71 in other semifinal action. Regis was the No. 1 seed in the RMAC Shootout after finishing first in the conference with a 22-5 record. The Rangers made easy work of Mesa State in the first round of the tournament, scoring 104 points in the victory. “The good news is, I don’t have to worry about motivation,” Murphy said. “When these two teams come, they come for battle, and there is a lot of pride on the floor in this cross-town rivalry.” Motivation may not have been a problem for the ’Runners, but the lack of intensity was, as Regis pushed Metro around in a 76-62 victory in the championship game of the RMAC tournament March 4. Metro’s offense never found its rhythm in the game, seeming timid and passive. Murphy mentioned that his team doesn’t have any superstars and that they work as a team and not as individuals. But against Regis, no one stepped up, and the team seemed too tired to play like the cohesive unit they were earlier in the tournament. Ellerington scored a team-high 15 points, but never managed to swing the momentum in Metro’s favor. The only person screaming and trying to get the team to raise their intensity was coach Murphy. But after every play, Regis’ coaches, players, cheerleaders and fans stood up, screamed

N.M. Highlands – 225

Metro falls to Regis, rivals will meet again in Division II tourney

Top crowds at the Auraria Events Center 1. 1,870 vs Kearney, March 16, 2004 2. 1,752 vs South Dakota, March 15, 2005 3. 1,751 vs Mesa State, March 13, 2004 4. 1,702 vs Northern State, March 12, 2005 5. 1,700 vs Mesa State, Feb. 27, 2004 6. 1,651 vs Colorado Christian, Feb. 2, 2004 Metro won 47 consecutive home games dating from Jan. 25, 2003-Jan. 14, 2006.

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Roadrunners split in home opener By Eric Lansing lansing@mscd.edu After weeks of postponements, the baseball team finally played some home games as they split the weekend series with Colorado Christian in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play March 3 and 4 at Auraria Field. “We talked about intensity,” Metro pitcher Braden Ham said about his team finally putting some wins together. “It’s got to be there every game and it was there Sunday, and there was no doubt who was going to win on Sunday.” The Roadrunners were looking to rebound from their four-game series in Pueblo, where they lost a pair of games to New Mexico Highlands and two more to CSU-Pueblo. It didn’t start well, as the ’Runners dropped the first two games of the series against the Cougars (6-7, 22 RMAC) a 7-6 loss in the opener and a 6-3 loss in the nightcap. “They had a confidence on Saturday that we didn’t have,” Metro pitcher Braden Ham said. “They came to play and we didn’t. I know it’s cliché, but it’s as simple as that.” In the first game on March 3, the score was notched at three apiece entering the seventh inning. Metro pitcher Josh Eckert, who had given up only three earned runs in the first six innings, gave up two in the top of the seventh. With two outs and Cougars center fielder McCoy Worthington on third and catcher Patrick Garcia on second, first baseman Joseph Candelaria doubled to left field, clearing the bases and giving the Cougars a 5-3 lead. Colorado Christian added another run in the top of the eighth, extending their lead by three. Metro rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the

MEN’S BASKETBALL • Metro draws Adams State in Division II tournament Continued from 23 Hull’s baseline jumper. Moniak then added a layup for the Grizzlies, and Jensen nailed two more from the 3-point arc to pull Adams within five. After Grizzlies guard Marcus Mortensen hit one of two from the charity stripe, the lead was cut to four for the ’Runners with 3:07 left to play. But Hays and his team never swayed, putting the clamps down on defense and keeping the Grizzlies from scoring the rest of the way. Metro hit 6-of-8 from the free-throw line to finish the game, and the tournament, as conference champs. Senior forward Michael Bahl has experienced two previous RMAC Shootout titles in 2004 and 2005, but said there was uncertainty about the team’s chances this season, with the coaching change and the loss of three key players from last year’s squad. “It’s a major relief,” Bahl said about winning his third conference title. “Coming into this season, a lot of people had their doubts about us, but I thought the team did excellent this year. It’s a big win for us. It’s always big to win both regular season and conference championships.” Bahl scored 11 points and added five assits in the championship game and was named to the All-RMAC tournament team with his performance. Fellow forward Jesse Wagstaff was also

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Metro catcher Reece Gorman tags out a Cougar baserunner March 3 as Metro wins two games at home. inning by scoring three runs off three Cougars errors. But with catcher Reece Gorman on second, left fielder Jake Palmer struck out swinging, ending the inning. In the top of the ninth, the Cougars brought in Bud Wilborn to pinch-hit, and he came through by doubling to left-center field off of Metro relief pitcher Tony Weber. Worthington drove in Wilborn, the game-winning run for Colorado Christian, to edge the ’Runners 7-6. Although pitching has been the undoing for most of Metro’s losses, their hurlers did a better job keeping the runs below 10 all weekend. Eckert gave up five runs on five hits, but struck out 12 in seven innings pitched.

named to the All-RMAC team and earned the tournament’s most valuable award, filling up the stat sheet in three games with 67 points, 28 rebounds, nine assists, six steals and two blocks. Hays said it was great to have such a versatile player in Wagstaff, who can get it done in the paint as well as on the glass. He added that players such as Carrington, Terrell Burgess, Bahl and Benas Veikalas get so much attention from opposing defenses that Wagstaff will step out and be open on the perimeter and, more times than not, stick the big shot. When asked if winning the RMAC tournament relieved the pressured of coming into the season in the shadow of Dunlap, Hays said that every coaching job comes with a ton of pressure, and that is was an honor to follow Dunlap at Metro. “Following in (Dunlap’s) footsteps is a big deal,” Hays said. “In my mind, he’s the best coach in the country. But our biggest thing this year was I’m not coach Dunlap. I’ve got to be who I am and coach the way I coach.” Bahl said the conference championship will propel them into the NCAA tournament with a lot of momentum and confidence. But Hays stressed that his team needs to enjoy the victory for the next few days before getting back on the practice court to prepare for their next NCAA Division II tournament opponent. Metro ended up with the No. 3 seed in the North Central Region and will again face the No. 6-seeded Grizzlies for the second time in two weeks. The first-round matchup will take place March 10 in Winona, Minn.

“I think guys are realizing their strengths now,” Ham said of the team’s improvement in pitching. “They are pitching to their potential a little bit more, and it’s obviously going to continue to improve.” In the second game of the weekend, starting pitcher Braden Ham took the mound for Metro and gave up only three earned runs while fanning eight Cougars. Once again the game was tied up at three heading into the seventh inning when Colorado Christian found a hero in Garcia, who slapped a three-run home run over the right-ﬁeld wall for the 6-3 victory. It was the sixth loss in a row for the Road-

runners, and their eighth in nine games. The early season struggles were reminiscent of last season when the team lost their first seven games before winning four straight. Metro finally turned their game around March 4 as they swept the two-game set against the Cougars. They took the early game 14-5 and the late game 8-2. In their first win since Feb. 11, the Roadrunners exploded for 14 runs, the most they have put on this scoreboard this year. Right fielder Mike Molinar went 4-of-5 from the plate, scoring three runs and driving in three RBIs. First baseman Josh Marner added three RBIs, including two in the four-run first inning that set the tone for the game. Starting pitcher Mike Bilek allowed five runs on nine hits in the first three innings, and Pierce quickly brought in relief pitcher Armando Casas. Casas pitched five innings of scoreless baseball and recorded the win, striking out five batters and allowing only two hits. In the final game of the series, Metro got a great pitching performance from Ted Jamison, who started his first game as a Roadrunner after only being used in relief situations earlier this season. He pitched six out of the seven innings, giving up only one earned run, striking out six and walking one batter as he recorded his first win of the year. Relief pitcher Matt Backes came into the seventh inning and pitched out of a jam to end the game and give Metro its first twogame winning streak of the season. The weekend split puts Metro’s record at 3-8 overall and 2-2 in the RMAC. Metro will stay at home to host a four-game set against New Mexico Highlands March 9 to 11 at Auraria Field.

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Metro forward Jesse Wagstaff, left, holds his most valuable player award that was presented to him by J.R. Smith, right, the RMAC’s commissioner.

All-Tournament Team Tim Bieri, Fort Lewis Dusty Jura, Nebraska-Kearney Marcus Mortensen, Adams State Roman Moniak, Adams State Michael Bahl, Metro State RMAC Tournament MVP, Jesse Wagstaff

Murphy said overcoming the deficits was like climbing a mountain, and every time his team came close to reaching the top, a landslide named Regis pushed them back down. He added that it takes a lot of energy to come from behind, and his team came close to taking the lead a few times. “I truly thought there was a huge disparity in the confidence levels today,” Murphy said. “When they jumped out early and got us back on our heels, I thought the confidence level weighed heavily on their side.” Four players scored in double figures for Regis and two others scored nine. Forward Denise Lopez, who won the tournament’s most valuable player award, led the way for the Rangers by scoring 15 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. Guard Breanne Burley was named to the AllTournament team and contributed 14 points and five assists. For Metro, Ellerington and Harris were named to the All-Tournament team. The finals loss does not mean the end of the road for Metro, as they head on to the NCAA Division II tournament March 9 to 11. They will play as the fifth seed in the North Central Region and will once again take on fourth-seeded Regis in the first round March 9 at the University of North Dakota.

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Calendar ONGOING Yoga Programs – Mats & props are provided. All sessions will be held at the St. Francis Atrium. Please wear comfortable clothing for the sessions listed below. The program’s spring 2007 schedule will begin Jan. 29. For more information, please e-mail wilkinli@mscd.edu or call (303) 5566954. Gentle Yoga – Wednesdays Noon – 1 p.m. Gentle Yoga is about gently bringing your body and mind back in touch with each other and giving yourself a chance to heal. It encourages your body to let go of built up tension and stress This gentle, slower paced practice makes it accessible to people of all sizes, ages, and fitness levels. Yoga as Therapy – Wednesdays 1:15 -2:15 p.m. Hansa’s yoga teaching can adapt classical yoga poses to people who have physical challenges. Learn how you can benefit from hatha yoga at any age and in any condition. Free Blood Pressure Screenings – Fridays at the Health Center, Plaza 150 from 2-4 p.m. Free HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) Testing – Ongoing at the Health Center at Auraria. Call (303) 556-2525. Eating for Health and Energy – Please call Susan Krems at (303) 770-8433 or (303) 556-6818 for information.

Tobacco Cessation Support – The Health Center offers many types of help to stop. Call (303) 556-2525. AA Meetings on Campus – 4:30-6 p.m. at Tivoli Sigi’s Cabaret, room 140. Please visit http://sssobriety.com or call (303) 648-5120 if you are interested in chairing 12-step meetings on campus. Cancer Support Groups – Please contact Linda Wilkins-Pierce for details at (303) 5566954. Training for Mentors – Volunteers are needed to serve as mentors to at-risk youth. No expertise needed. Call (303) 995-7060 for more information or e-mail accmentoring@mentoring for more info. Crypto Science Society – Every third Saturday from 2-5 p.m. at Sigi’s below the pool hall in the Tivoli. Meetings explore aspects of the unknown. Free and open to the public. For more info see studentactivities.mscd.edu/~cryptoscience. Colorado Mutual UFO Network – For a $5 fee, hear the latest info regarding local field investigations and guest speakers. For more info and interim meeting times, see studentactivities.mscd. edu/~cryptoscience.

Mondays at Metro State — Come hear the music of Metro at 2:00 p.m. every Monday in the King Center Recital Hall. For more information call (303) 556-3180.

March 8, 2007 March Madness – 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8 in Tivoli rooms 320 B and C. Metro’s history club will be giving a presentation on the history and fun facts of the collegiate basketball tournament. Helen Zia — Crossing Boundaries in a “Minority” Majority in America – 1 p.m. Thursday, March 8 in the Tivoli Turnhalle. Zia, an awardwinning journalist and former Executive editor for Ms. Magazinet, has covered Asian American communities and political movements and social changes for many years.

March 11, 2007 Metro State Symphony Orchestra – 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 11 at the King Center Concert Hall in the King Center. Conducted by Alejandros Rivas. Purchase tickets at the King Center box office, or call (303) 556-3180 or visit www.musicatmetro.org for more information. Don’t forget to spring ahead!– Sunday evening of March 11 don’t forget to spring your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving’s time.

March 13, 2007 Metro music deparment visiting artist tenor Kevin Hanrahan – Starts at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13 in the King Center Recital Hall. Harnahan, assistant professor of voice performance and vocal pedagogy at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, has performed both in the United States and throughout Austria. Purchase recital tickets at the King Center box office, or call (303) 556-3180 or visit www. musicatmetro.org for more information.

March 24, 2007 Historical Lo-Do Denver Walking Tours – From 3--6 p.m. Sat. March 24. starting at the Del marr Crab House, 1453 Larimer. Join Metro historian Kevin Rucker for a walking tour of various Denver historical sites. Free appetizers provided along the way and must be 21 or over to attend. Cost is $20 per person, $15 with any college student ID. For reservations and information call (303) 914-6100. .

April 6, 2007

Illuminations – 7 p.m. Friday, April 6 at The Other Side Arts, 1644 Platte St., Denver. Come out on the first Friday for a night of visual storytelling: photography, featuring work from Metro journalists. For more information, contact Jen LeBlanc at jkerriga@mscd. edu.

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The MSCD Ofce of Student Media has graphic artist positions available. You will be designing with PowerMac G4 & G5 workstations and work in our production room. If you are a currently enrolled Metro State student and available 15–25 hours each week, we’d like to meet with you. Must know InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. Call (303) 556-2507 for more information. We will pay you $8.00 an hour to help us out, we need it. Work study preferred.

THE METROPOLITAN • 3.8.07

Classified CLASSIFIED INFO Phone: (303) 556-2507 Fax: (303) 556-3421 Location: Tivoli #313 Advertising via Internet: www.themetadvertising.com Classified ads are 15¢ per word for students currently enrolled at Metro State. A student ID must be shown for this rate. For all others, the cost is 30¢ per word. The maximum length for classified ads is 50 words. Pre-payment is required. Cash, check, VISA and MasterCard are accepted. The deadline for classified ad placement is 5pm on the Thursday prior to the week of publication. Classified ads may be placed via fax, in person or online at www.themetadvertising.com. The deadline for placing classified ads via online ordering is 3pm Friday for the following week. For information on classified display advertising, which are ads that contain more than 50 words or have logos, larger type, borders or artwork, call (303) 556-2507 or go to www.mscd.edu/~osm for our rate information.

HELP WANTED PARENTS OF DELIGHTFUL Autistic Child and her 2 adorable siblings are looking for a part-time (after school on Mon-ThursFri) care provider. Emphasis on communication and interaction with the children, fun activities, hosting play dates, helping with homework, etc. Please call (303) 399-5790. 3/8 NOW HIRING COMMUNITY Assistants - FREE RENT and BOARD!!! The Regency: Auraria’s Student Housing Community is hiring Community Assistants. Previous community or resident assistant experience is preferred. Qualified applicants contact Joy Whitney at (303) 477-1950 or email jwhitney@regencystudenthou sing.com 3/8 EARN $2500 + MONTHLY and more to type simple ads online. www. DataAdEntry.com 3/8

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LASTING IMPRESSIONS IS now hiring Neighborhood Marketers. No experience necessary, 18+ ok. $9-12 Base + Bonuses. Paid weekly - no selling! Call today - start tomorrow! We will train. Part time hours, full time pay. Contact David at (303) 752-4141. 3/8 !BARTENDING! UP TO $250 A Day. No Experience Necessary. Training Provided. Age 18+ OK. 1(800) 965-6520 xt 215. 5/3

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THE AVID COLLEGE Preparatory Program in the Cherry Creek School District is seeking tutors to facilitate middle and high school learning groups. Must become a district employee. Pays $10.00 per hour. Various schedules available. For information, call Kathy Vining at (720) 554-4527. 3/29

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UNIQUE VOICES Insight is looking for new & distinct writers. If you break the mold and can write clearly and effectively, we want you!

Seasonal Job Opportunities

City of Westminster Opportunities in: • Parks • Golf • Recreation Programs • Outdoor Pools • Public Works Few positions available for ages 16-17. For most positions, minimum age is 18. Check for positions on our website beginning in March. www.ci.westminster.co.us EOE

Conservatives, women, and people of all color and lifestyles who want to share their stories are asked to contact Matthew Quane, Insight editor at mquane@mscd.edu or (303) 556-2507

Letters to the editor are always welcome. Deadline: Mondays at 3pm. Email Matthew at mquane@mscd.edu or leave them at the Office of Student Media, Tivoli 313.

Women’s Spirituality Festival Different Paths, One Journey Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9am to 3pm Tivoli 440-Workshops Tivoli 320-Vendors This annual celebration of women’s spirituality will feature local businesses and individuals offering tarot readings, psychic readings, aura cleansings, books, arts, crafts, and jewelry.

Tiara, Boa and Marabou Mules

Presented by Lady Musesa • 10-11:15am Lady Musesa discusses her ideas of the individual as divine in the context of iconic bombshells like Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, and Elizabeth Taylor. Every woman has a goddess inside her just waiting to come out. Summed up in the three symbols of a tiara, a boa and marabou mules, Musesa gives modern women an easy step-by-step guide for getting in touch with our own inner goddess.

HaKol V’Neshama: The Voice & Spirit of Miriam & Lailah

Presented by Cantor Birdie Becker & Cherie Karo Schwartz • 11:30am-12:45pm Search for soul through the story and music of Miriam the prophetess and Lailah the angel of conception. Journey through the Bible and rabbinic creations with story and song, music and movement, to connect ancient Jewish tales with our own life journeys. Cherie Karo Schwartz is a storyteller, author, and educator who has been telling and teaching across the US and abroad for over 3 decades. Cantor Birdie Becker has been performing for over 40 years. Musician, choreographer, and teacher, Becker brings her love of music, dance and theatre to create an experience for the soul.

Journey to Isis

Presented by Dr. Bonnie Benda • 1-2:15pm The workshop will explore the three Triota goddesses (Ishtar, Isis, and Inana) and examine some meditation techniques as well as enter into a ritual and meditative exprience to encounter Her.

An Experiential Exploration of Female Creative Energy Presented by Dr. Heidi Petersen • 2:30-3:45pm

This workshop promises to provide a dynamic mix of informational and experiential tools to understand and navigate the energy structure that is unique to the female body. It is designed to increase one’s awareness of the energetic systems within the body, as well as to expand one’s capability to clear and set those systems. This is a hands-on workshop that requires a willingness to play in the arena of the miraculous. Sponsors: Institute for Women’s Studies and Services and Iota, Iota, Iota For information: 303-556-8441