Volume 30, Issue 9, Oct. 11, 2007 by Met Media

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Vol. 30 No. 9

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POLICING A PARADE

A protester of the Columbus Day Parade is led away by Denver Police officers on Oct. 6 in downtown Denver. More than 80 people were arrested after they delayed the parade for more than an hour. Protesters stood and threw fake blood and parts of baby dolls onto the street to block the parade. Colorado was the first state to recognize Christopher Columbus Day as a holiday. The first parade celebrating Columbus in Colorado was in 1907.

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THIS WEEK »

Friday 10.12

• The day Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in1492 • The Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board meets at 2:30 p.m. in Tivoli suite 329

Wednesday 10.17

• The Auraria Board of Directors meets at 7:30 a.m. in Tivoli suite 320 • The Faculty Senate Executive meets from 3:50 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. in Central Classroom 301 • The Student Government Assembly Senate meets at 4 p.m. in Tivoli suite 329

THE METROPOLITAN 25 YEARS AGO »

October 13, 1982

Metro elections: same old story? • Amid claims of election improprieties by the losers, Student Goverment names election winners

Metro grade review policy in eﬀect

• New appeal procedure sets guidelines and time periods for students who want to contest grades

THE NUMBERS GAME » 55.3 percent

The percentage of Metro’s 21,453 students that are women.

THE MET REPORT »

This week’s top stories: • Columbus parade protest • National Coming Out Day • Metro Moves Me • Chief Mackey profile • Metro men sweep in weekend wins Check out Metro’s own student-run TV newscast at: http://metreport.mscd.edu

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Lauren Cochenour gets a snack from her locker after class in the Art Building. According to Auraria police, a string of locker break-ins has occured in the last few months and so far there are no suspects. Numerous smaller items have been stolen, including iPods, wallets and sunglasses, but police say textbooks seem to be what the thieves are after. Police advise students to remain aware of their surroundings at all times and not to leave their possesions unattended.

Locker thefts remain mystery By EMMA MARSHALL emarsha4@mscd.edu A total of 19 lockers on Auraria have been broken into since the last week of August. The last week of September seemed to be a popular time for thefts on campus when 11 thefts were reported during the week, with some unusual circumstances. The majority of the thefts were from lockers in the Tivoli and the Auraria Events Center on campus between 12:45 p.m. and 5:40 p.m. Auraria police Chief John Mackey indicated the lockers were locked with combination locks by the students, and were intact upon the discovery of

the missing items. There was no sign of forced entry in any of the cases. “I used to feel safe keeping all my stuff in my locker. When I saw the flyers about changing your combination lock to a key lock, I didn’t think twice. I really don’t want anything stolen, but I just can’t carry everything all day,” Metro freshman Nicole Freshour said. This latest crime spree mirrors similar incidents from the last week of August. There were six locker thefts reported then. And an additional two reports of locker theft were filed during the first week of October. Stolen items include backpacks, textbooks, iPods, wallets and sun-

glasses. Textbooks appeared to be the main target, being the most commonly stolen item. There are no suspects in any of the cases, and it is unknown whether they are all connected. A majority of the thefts occurred on Sept. 26. The campus police ask that if anyone saw any suspicious activity in those areas that day, to notify them immediately. There are cameras in the areas where the crimes occurred, but it has not helped name any suspects. Mackey said additional cameras have been placed in those areas since the string of thefts occurred. Mackey has a suggestion for students to prevent future thefts from

happening. “Being more vigilant and aware that we are having a problem could prevent it. When you are aware things are happening, it is easier to be more vigilant,” he said. He also suggested personalizing any valuables with stickers or distinct markings. Doing that would make the item less appealing because it would be harder to sell or pawn. Mackey also said to hold onto any valuable items. Never leave items unattended, even if it is to run to the bathroom. “It’s like the airport. Don’t leave your bags unattended. If it’s portable, you are better off holding on to it,” Mackey said.

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BEYOND AURARIA

Denver schools going door to door By ROBERT FISHER rfishe18@mscd.edu In Northwest Denver education is sometimes sold on the street. And talking to strangers may be the best thing parents do for their kids. Peter Sherman, the new principal for Valdez Elementary School, spent nearly 15 hours over the course of two weeks this summer canvassing the Northwest neighborhoods around 32nd and Federal, hanging fliers and talking with residents, hoping to recruit students for his school’s new dual-language Montessori program. As of the first week of October, 120 of the 160 spots have been filled for the school’s new program, he said. “I think that marketing campaign I did worked and the word got out there,” Sherman said. “At schools we often don’t have the same kind of media routes the businesses have for marketing campaigns.” The dual-language Montessori program is a combination of two educational programs: the dual-language program and the Montessori program. The dual-language program is a program designed to teach Spanish to English-speaking students 30 percent of the time and vice versa. The Montessori program is a program that focuses on teaching to a child’s natural interests and abilities rather than following a particular curriculum. He said he expects some parents who may be interested in the program will wait to see how the program fares in its first year. “We will have some information sessions open to the public in the fall and I think we will have a lot of people come to those,” Sherman said referring to the school’s Choice Enrollment Information events in November, December and January. Sherman said the goal of the school’s dual-language program is to graduate students who are bilingual, bi-literate and bicultural. “I think there is a lot that we can teach kids about living in our world

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Principal Peter Sherman stands in the hall at Valdez Elementary School in Denver. Sherman spent two weeks this summer going door to door in the neighborhood trying to recruit for the school. The new strategy is a part of Valdez Elementary’s transformation into a dual-language Montessori program, which hopes to better serve the surrounding community. and living in a multicultural society that don’t come naturally,” Sherman said. “I think we know that it’s hard for kids to switch cultures to be living in one culture and one language and be immersed in that at home and then go to school and be in a whole different world. Located in the northwest hills of Denver overlooking downtown, the neighborhoods around the North campus are historically Latino and low income, but nearly 20 years after Denver’s “white ﬂight” left this community struggling for resources, higher-income families are moving back. Sherman points to new residential and commercial development in the neighborhood saying he expects this to bring in higher-income families, which are more likely Englishspeaking families. He said this mix of families will provide a good balance of students attending the school for some time.

“Having a balance within the school is really important and is one of the barriers to doing dual-language programs in some neighborhoods where you may not get that enrollment,” Sherman said. “We have an intentional model, you need to have different kids there for this to work.” Valdez is not the only dual-language Montessori school in the area. The Academia Ana Marie Sandoval School is one such school that shares this community with the North campus. Since Sandoval opened in 2001 it has become one of the most sought after schools in the city attracting students from some of Denver’s most prominent families and has a waiting list of about 150 students. Leaders of the North campus, such as North High principal JoAnn Trujillo-Hays, have requested nearly $1 million through the Denver Public School Innovation Grant to transform the North campus, which

includes Valdez Elementary, into the North Campus Academy for World Leadership by 2011. The new North curriculum will ultimately concentrate on diversity and multicultural education. Hays is generally credited with the success of the Sandoval school where, before taking the post at North, she served as Sandoval’s principal. According to a brochure for the new North/Valdez Campus for World Leadership the dual-language program would be conducted from preschool through ﬁfth grade. After ﬁfth grade, the language component would be an elective for the student through high school. Hays said it would be nearly impossible to have the entire campus follow a dual-language program and the primary goal is to educate the students that are already attending the school. However, she hopes other students will be attracted to the school because

of the world language component. North High has narrowly avoided closure over the last couple of years. According to The Denver Post, only 27 of North’s 67 teachers who were forced to reapply for their jobs will be returning. And according to the Rocky Mountain News, during the 2005-06 school year 43 percent of the students living around the school transferred. But Valdez, and ultimately the entire North campus, will serve as a bond to bring the community together. Sherman said the school is also a place for the parents of the community to come and learn to work together just like their kids do when they come to school. He said groups of parents interact differently, but that the school is inclusive of all parents working through cultural barriers, such as language. “A lot of families are eager to have their kids exposed to diverse communities,” Sherman said. “But we all know that there is a certain level of apprehension that generically most groups of people feel when they are interacting with other groups of people with different backgrounds.” But Valdez is looking to create an environment where different languages and cultures are valued. Sherman said he envisions that soon business in the school will be conducted in both English and Spanish. He said he has an image of walking down the school’s halls catching snippets of conversations between students and teachers that are in both languages. Sherman said that for some English-speaking students Spanish is brand new. But even though 4 and 5year-olds may not be the most reﬂective group when it comes to critiquing the dual-language program, they are part of it, Sherman said as he passed an English-speaking student in the hallway and she said, “Como esta, Mr. Sherman?” “You could tell she was very pleased with herself,” he said.

Editorial ﬂak shows free speech protects student press By KATE JOHNSON jokathry@mscd.edu When a four-word editorial with a four-letter word gained national attention, it was the First Amendment that went on trial. Not in the courts, but in the court of public opinion. J. David McSwane, the editor-inchief of Colorado State University’s student newspaper The Rocky Mountain Collegian, ran the editorial “Taser this…Fuck Bush,” a message that had some students and college republicans calling for his resignation. Throughout the ordeal, he held

fast to the principle that guided him to write the editorial in the ﬁrst place. Student publications, McSwane said, have a right to free speech. “The First Amendment is at the very core of what we do as a newspaper,” he said in a letter to CSU students and Collegian readers. “We as journalists wish to celebrate it, utilize it and, sometimes, defend it.” Ultimately, the CSU Board of Students Communications “admonished” McSwane on Oct. 4 for violating two standards speciﬁed by the board’s manual. In addition, a few advertisers pulled several thousand

dollars worth of ads from the paper. When one student publication decides to celebrate the First Amendment, other universities and colleges in Colorado face the question: what if it happened to us? “If I were trying to spark some dialogue, I think I would do it in a more professional manner,” said David Pollan, editor-in-chief of The Metropolitan. In regard to McSwane’s actions, he said it’s not a question of whether McSwane had the right to say what he did, but rather if it was necessary. “Is it worth the negative image

that will blanket your school and publication?” Pollan asked in his editorial that appeared in the Sept. 27 issue. “Is it worth the possible loss of thousands of dollars in pulled ads? Is it worth your job?” Dianne Harrison Miller, director of Metro Student Media, said McSwane’s antics were likely a ploy to get attention. And she said it’s easy to get people riled up, but Miller asked, “For what point?” While maintaining that students have the right to free speech, Miller said students must act responsibly because the First Amendment is never

an absolute protection. And in certain circumstances, what is written can spell reprimand, or even termination. “In the free marketplace the punishment is there,” she said. “You can say it, but you won’t have a job.” But Miller is conﬁdent that The Metropolitan is safe from administrative intervention due to the Metro administration’s voluntary adoption of the Society of Professional Journalists code of ethics that, in brief, states journalists should seek truth and report it, minimize harm, act independently and be accountable.

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Save the plate campaign on verge of extinction Deadline approaches for school plates, an estimated 2,000 are needed to meet quota By JAMES KRUGER jkruger4@mscd.edu Metro’s Roadrunner is perilously close to becoming endangered. Well, at least its appearance on Colorado license plates. The Department of Motor Vehicles will eliminate Metro’s specialty plate, which displays Metro’s school colors and trademark Roadrunner logo, if 3,000 are not issued by March 1. “We want people to know that we’re out

there, and we’re proud,” said Josh Anderson, assistant director of the Alumni Association’s programs and development. The association is spearheading the campaign to save the plate, and also distribute the vouchers required to request the plate from the DMV. The association used to require a $25 to $50 donation in order to receive the voucher, but they have decided to waive the charge for the vouchers in an effort to encourage the plate’s distribution. However, the DMV requires a $50 fee in order to issue the plate. Anyone is eligible to receive the plate, and one’s current plates do not need to be expired in order to receive a Metro plate.

Inquiries about the plate and how to receive it: Oﬃce of Alumni

Call (303)-556-4076 or contact via e-mail at alumni@mscd.edu. The application for the plate voucher can be found on the Alumni Association’s website www.mscd.edu/~alumni or picked up at their office at 1059 Ninth Street Park at Auraria. The DMV has issued 900-1,000 plates, Anderson estimated. Nine other colleges in addition to Metro need to make the 3,000 minimum in order to

keep their plates, including University of Denver and the Colorado School of Mines. Colorado State University and University of Colorado at Boulder have made the quota.

McSWANE » Students should uphold ethics, know their rights Continued from A5

Deb Hurley-Brobst, coordinator for Metro’s journalism program, added that Metro also put the phrase “public forum” in the college bylaws to protect the student press on campus. She said that during her more than 20 years at Metro, she has yet to see the administration try to censor The Metropolitan. “I’m a ﬁrm believer you don’t tell the student media what to do,” Hurley-Brobst said. While, in her opinion, student freedoms are being challenged more than they have been in quite some time, she said students must act responsibly in the face of an unknown future. “If you do responsible journalism, and this is true if you are a student or professor, it’s much

harder for someone to sue you and win a case,” she added. Doug Bell, editor of Evergreen Newspapers in Evergreen and a former Metro journalism instructor and director of student media, agreed that students have the right to run an uncensored paper. But along with this right, he said they should carry with them certain ethical standards. This will ensure any controversy they amass is for a worthy reason. “Any time you use vulgarity to make a point or get attention, you aren’t using the writing skills you probably should be using,” he said. “There’s good controversy and there’s bad controversy,” Bell added. Controversy or not, Mike Hiestand, attor-

ney and legal consultant for the Student Press Law Center, said students have inalienable First Amendment rights. “I think had they ﬁred him … It would be a very clear First Amendment violation,” he said. According to Hiestand, it has been about four decades since the last court case involving a student publication was heard. The court ruled in favor of the students’ right to control their paper’s content. “The law in Colorado is as strong as it ever has been,” he said. In regard to those calling for McSwane to resign, Hiestand said it’s important for all students to remember the First Amendment affects everyone.

“They (college republicans) forget it could have been one of their folks in that seat,” he said. Regardless, if student fees are used to partly fund student publications, as in the case of The Metropolitan, two Metro students said the student press should operate without restraint. “If the students are paying for it, only the students should be responsible for what’s printed in it,” Metro senior Jessica Freemann said. Metro junior Elizabeth Edwards agreed students should be allowed to speak freely, and added that it is important to keep in mind why the student paper is here. “I also feel like it’s a learning atmosphere and people should be able to express their opinions,” she said.

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Texts alert campus of emergencies Auraria coordinates plan to better communicate warnings to students By RICK BROWN brownric@mscd.edu Walking around campus, it’s not hard to ﬁnd button-mashing, texthappy students hurriedly sending out their next message. But their buttonmashing could be interrupted by a text message from an unlikely source — the Auraria Police Department. Growing concerns over the lack of communication during emergency situations have Metro’s Student Government Assembly asking what the Auraria Higher Education Center can do to communicate better. Mike Moreland, the emergency preparedness coordinator at AHEC, along with the Auraria police, are working on bringing an emergency text messaging system to Auraria students, as well as other systems to make the campus safer. Moreland said AHEC is in the process of reviewing contractors who offer emergency text messaging services. With the rising use of text messaging, schools have found a new way to communicate with their students. The University of Colorado at Boulder used its Rave Alert text messaging system only four days after it launched it

to notify 1,300 students on Aug. 27 of a stabbing on campus. Subscriptions rose to more than 9,500 within a week. Colorado State University also launched an emergency text messaging system last month. AHEC does have several other methods of contacting students, but Moreland said he believes Auraria needs a system to effectively inform the students. To do this though, he said there needs be a series of systems. “The technology is not there to support only one system, one type of system that covers everything, [where] every type of situation can be 100 percent effective,” Moreland said. “So we have to have multiple ways to get that message out.” Some of the other systems being discussed are a blue light emergency system, an internal and external PA system, and a standard procedure for using already existing telephone systems. The emergency blue lights are poles with blue lights on top that are wired with a direct connection to an emergency line, similar to the same systems CU-Boulder and the Cherry Creek shopping center. Several of these are in place around campus. This system could provide fewer opportunities for incidents by increasing the availability to communicate with campus police.

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Metro student Shaunee Hall sends a text message on campus on Sept. 18 next to the Arts Building. Metro is looking toward a text messaging system as a way to communicate to students in the case of an emergency. “A system like that, I’m not sure if that’s the best practices, but it is obviously better than what we have now. We should have more phones on campus to call the police,” said SGA President Jack Wylie. With incidents like the shootings at Virginia Tech earlier this year, CUBoulder’s administration feels emer-

gency text messaging is a very viable option for today’s class of undergraduates. The technology allows for CUBoulder to send out a mass message to everyone that subscribes to the service informer and notiﬁes the students of an occurring threat. “Of the many ways we plan to communicate during an emergen-

cy, text messaging via cell phones emerged as one of the best ways to notify students about an emergency through short messages that may be periodically updated,” said Paul Tabolt, vice chancellor for administration at CU-Boulder. CU-Boulder has contracted Rave Alert of New York to implement this emergency system.

ROTC marches on for Mile-Hi Company at Auraria Army expands courses for students and cadets after program’s revival By AMY WOODWARD awoodwa5@mscd.edu The time is approximately 5:45 a.m. and the cadets of the Mile-Hi Company for Metro’s Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps are stepping out onto the wet soccer fields for physical training and to prepare for their brisk morning run. This semester marks the revival of extended Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps, or ROTC, courses at Metro after the program was cut in the’90s. Metro’s ROTC courses have proven to be a relief for cadets who

once had to drive to the University of Colorado at Boulder or the Colorado School of Mines to participate in the ROTC program. “I love that they have a Metro program this year,” said Cadet Captain Jerome Althoff, Metro student and captain cadet leader of the MileHi Company. “It beats driving up to Mines or to Boulder. Let me tell you, that sucked.” The Army ROTC program allows students to be actively involved in the Army with the beneﬁt of graduating to a paid ofﬁcer, while still providing an opportunity to get a college education. When enrolled in ROTC, cadets take courses in military science, which include combat maneuvers, land navigation, patrolling and other

diversiﬁed military training. Not only is military education important, but also physical training. Althoff said ROTC is different from regular Army boot camp because it is not as rigorous. “We are here to teach people, not destroy them,” Althoff said. Participants in ROTC can choose from a two-year program without military obligation, or a four-year program with a military obligation. Some of the 24 cadets in the Mile-Hi company have intentions of enlisting in the Army. Metro sophomore and Cadet Dan Lynch has plans to take a break from school, in order to enlist in the Army Reserves and attend boot camp in the spring. Afterward he intends to ﬁnish the ROTC program and college.

“I was going to join the Army out of high school but I wanted my education and still be afﬁliated with the Army,” Lynch said. “This way I will get the G.I. bill and they will pay for the rest of my schooling.” One of the best aspects of the ROTC program is the fact the Army can’t deploy you to Iraq when enrolled in ROTC, Lynch said. And although the program can be demanding at times, it teaches cadets to be serious about their military and college education. “I go out all the time but I am more focused on academics and physical education because it’s a requirement,” Lynch said. “That’s the good thing.” The only bad thing, Metro freshman and Cadet Brian Nelson pointed

out, is the time-consuming military science courses. “It’s only worth two credits,” Nelson said. “It’s like a job. I put more time in that class than anywhere else.” Still, Nelson enjoys learning combat maneuvers, which are part of their homework, he said with a smile. “It’s the only part of your education where you get to roll around in the dirt with an M-16,” he said. Nelson wants to join the National Guard, where he hopes to be recruited to the infantry airborne platoon. If he should be deployed to go to Iraq, he said he is more than obliged to go. “It’s part of my job,” Nelson said.

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SECOND THOUGHTS A BIGGER VIEW » Federal Shield Law “Efforts to enact a federal shield law for journalists have passed a critical milestone in the Senate ... The measure, the Free Flow of Information Act, offers reporters and their confidential sources weaker protection in the broad realm of national security than a bill approved by the House Judiciary Committee in August — weaker than we would have liked ... Supported by dozens of news organizations, including The New York Times Company, this measure is no threat to national security or law enforcement. It is an antidote to undue government secrecy and misplaced prosecutorial zeal in targeting reporters. The fact is that whistle-blowers and other insiders with valuable information to impart tend to clam up when faced with the spectacle of reporters getting subpoenaed by the government — or even jailed — in legal battles over demands to disclose their sources. What the press is seeking, and what the Senate Judiciary Committee has now endorsed in compromised form, is not a blank check or an absolute protection against ever revealing a source. It is a balancing of interests that seeks to avoid harm to news gathering but allows disclosure of sources when found to be truly necessary to protect the country.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 9 editorial

CORRECTION »

Re: Lesbians sit into history Members of Kate Burn’s family, including her sister and mother, did participate in her and Sheila Schroder’s commitment ceremony in 2003. It was incorrectly reported that there was no one from her family at the ceremony.

Illustrated by ANDREW HOWERTON » ahowert2@mscd.edu Written by The Metropolitan staff

Poverty fix not easy, but necessary Homelessness and poverty are everywhere. They’re a growing problem to which there has been no solution. Every night thousands of people around this “great nation” sleep on park benches, sidewalks and beneath bridges. During the day they fill the street corners of major metropolitan areas with signs that ask for money. Some give reasons, some give their needs, some are even quirky and say things like “UFO broke down, need money for parts.” But all ask for a handout in some way, shape or form. Very few people pay them any mind and act oblivious to their surroundings. In fact, people drive by these poor, unfortunate souls in their BMWs and Mercedes-Benz without even glancing in their direction. People walk by them in their Armani suits or with their Louis Vuitton bags and avoid them at all costs. It’s obvious these cheap, wretched mongrels are in a position to lend some form of assistance, but don’t. This “great nation” we live in is filled with greedy, power-driven bastards who care only for themselves and their own well-being. But, can you really blame them? That’s what they have been taught. Survival of the fittest. It’s a great race to the top, and once you are there, Bubba, there is no looking back. Screw the rest of them that don’t

DAVID D. POLLAN dpollan@mscd.edu make it. It’s their own fault that poor life decisions put them on the street. Get a job, grouch. Stop peddling on the corner and ﬁll out an application. This is the mentality of this nation, a nation of individualists, a nation that cares not for its tired, hungry and poor. My most recent voyage to the heart of democracy, better known as the nation’s capital, only strengthened my already skewed perception of this countries’ inability to solve the poverty dilemma. The streets were ﬂooded with vagrants; there was no escaping them. I have lived in Houston and been to Chicago, but nothing compares to what I saw in Washington, D.C. I haven’t seen it this bad since I was in Lima, Peru. This is the town where the leaders of this “great nation” work. Most of

I am unable to comprehend the lack of compassion exuded by the swineherds of this “great nation,” who can walk by this growing problem and do nothing about it. Who, without question, get asked for a buck on their way to and from work and probably shun these unworthy individuals. Who can witness ﬁrst-hand the problems this country faces, but focus more on “liberating” the people of Iraq and spreading democracy and their value system worldwide. the traveling in this town is done on foot or the subway. It’s impossible not to notice the poor, or smell them for that matter. The city reeks of poverty; it can be smelled on every block. It is that all-consuming smell of a person who has not bathed in weeks and saturates in his or her own stench. This city is a symbol of democracy, freedom, power and wealth. And yet, it’s a city where vagrancy runs amok and is more rampant than anywhere I’ve traveled to. I am unable to comprehend the lack of compassion exuded by the swineherds of this “great nation,” who can walk by this growing problem and do nothing about it. Who, without question, get asked for a buck on their way to and from work and probably shun these unworthy individuals. Who can witness ﬁrst-hand

the problems this country faces, but focus more on “liberating” the people of Iraq and spreading democracy and their value system worldwide. Well, if democracy means that thousands are left poor and homeless, left to starve and beg on the streets, then I want nothing to do with it and neither should you. The poverty problem is not any easy ﬁx by any means. But it starts with the small things. It starts with abandoning the nature caused by a capitalistic society and adopting a nature in which no fellow man is left behind. Give a dollar to someone in need, or give a hungry person your leftover dinner that is just going to rot in the fridge. These are small, but necessary, steps that will pave the way for a better future.

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JOSIE KLEMAIER » FEATURES EDITOR » jklemaie@mscd.edu

The other side of the fence Through South and Central America lies an uncertain path to the U.S.-Mexico border Photos and essay by Dawn Madura

A young boy sits behind the security gate of a “pularia,” or corner store, in the rural town Yoro, Honduras.

he illegal immigrant from Central America dodges Mexican gang members who consider him an easy victim, one who will never report a crime. He hides from immigration ofﬁcers who will send him straight back into the situation he was trying to escape. He

avoids police ofﬁcers who will rob him, knowing that an illegal immigrant is in no position to ﬁle a formal complaint. The things he is trying to escape snap at his heels: poverty, drought, crime, inequality, natural disasters and the aftermath of long, dirty wars.

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DOWN 1. Where heroes are made 2. At any time 3. First name 4. Very skilled person 5. Takes by theft 6. Disdain 7. Garment of ancient Rome 8. Is indebted 9. Malt beverage 10. Sharon’s land 11. Stagnant 12. Tied 13. Organs used for sight 22. Decay 23. Sag 25. Quick sharp bark 26. Fast-food option 27. Hawaiian native dance 28. Large African antelope 29. Sully 30. Breathe hard 32. Without much eﬀort 33. Or else 34. At what time

35. Russian no 37. Makes well 38. Plays are divided up into these 39. A shivering ﬁt - often a precursor to malaria 43. Cured, in a way 44. Amusement 45. Person with a ﬂat, say 46. Shrub of the cashew family 47. Best of a group 48. Swift 49. Persian fairy 50. Defense grp. since 1949 51. Potpourri 53. Singles 54. Salmon that has spawned 56. Crowd 58. Move from side to side

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Theater »

Scriptless down in Denver

By RYAN ARMSTRONG rarmst17@mscd.edu Improv is “performing theater without a script or simply making stuff up,” Metro’s improvisational instructor Christy Montour-Larson said. The theater-based class at Metro teaches the basic exercises required to pull off a “Harold,” a classic long-form improvisational performance of different scenes and songs. Denver has a variety of theaters that host performances by local improv groups. Theaters like the Bovine Metropolis, the Avenue and the Impulse have shows every week, each hosting groups that perform improvisational games such as those seen on the TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and other long-form improv that strings a number of scenes together through connections. The Avenue has scripted and unscripted shows every week and monthly performances from groups with names like Plays Well with Others, Rodents of Unusual Size and Mile Hi-Larity. The scripted performance currently showing is The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) that takes three actors recreating the Bible in comedic form. The Bovine Metropolis Theater hosts “Game Improvisation” nights, in which the performers take suggestions from the audience and plays the suggestion into a single scene, as well as long form improvisation, which takes one audience suggestion and creates songs, scenes and monologues around it. The Bovine is owned by Denise Maes and Eric Farone. The theater, located on Champa street, not only hosts performances but also teaches classes on the skill of improvisation. Farone studied improvisation in Chicago with Second City and other organizations to sculpt his talent before coming back to Denver. Another house of improv is the Impulse Theater, located on the lower level of the Wynkoop Brewery. Audience members must be 21 or accompanied by an adult, with the exception of an all-ages night on the fourth Thursday of every month. The Impulse not only teaches classes in improv, but also helps pull off practical jokes. All of the theaters are gearing up for Denver’s third annual

Improv Fest. The festival will run Oct. 11 through 14 at area theaters. Actors from around the country will be coming to Denver to perform with hometown groups over the weekend. Beginning the bash, the Avenue Theater will host a showcase of young improvisation groups like Mixed Nuts, which won the Bovine Metropolis Theater’s Grand Champion of the Battle Royale. Friday night will feature shows at the Avenue and the Impulse with Denver-based groups and others performing. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood from the TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? will perform Saturday evening at Photo by DAWN MADURA/dmadura@mscd.edu the Buell Theatre in the Denver Complex for the Performing Arts, and there Adrian Holguin performs a skit Oct. 6 at Impulse Improv Theater. will also be shows at the Avenue and the Bovine. Local improvisational groups Denver improv theaters » such as 32nd Coming, Plays Well with The Impulse Theater The Bovine Metropolis Theater The Avenue Theater Others and the Sans Script Players will be 1634 18th St. 1527 Champa St. 417 E. 17th Ave. joined by groups from Arizona, Nebraswww.impulsetheater.com www.avenuetheater.com www.bovinemetropolis.com ka, Los Angeles and Chicago. For those who feel inclined to step For more information on the 2007 Denver Improv Festival, visit www.denverimprovfest.com onto stage and learn the technique of improvisation, there will be a number of workshops during the festival at the Hampton Inn, located at 1845 Sherman St. The teachers will in Fine Art at Rutgers University in New Jersey, salutes the memrange from members of the group Second City to Adrian Hol- bers of Chicken Lips. guin, a member of the Impulse who teaches at Smoky Hill High “They are great writers – truthful – and understand human behavior,” Montour-Larson said, adding that she “appreciates School and coaches the group Spontaneous Combustion. A free introductory class will be taught by Bob Wells and Dave risk taking and applauds anyone who will organize a group of Johnson of the popular Denver-based improv group Chicken Lip improvisers to perform in front of an audience.” at noon on Oct. 14, but will have only 20 spots available. Metro Instructor Montour-Larson, who received her Masters

Metro delivers a worthy Tale By RYAN ARMSTRONG rarmst17@mscd.edu “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” There were wonderful performances, there were life-sized puppets. In Metro’s production of A Tale of Two Cities, an adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ classic by Canadi-

an Anna Fuerstenberg, the French Revolution comes to life. The story is of love, suffering, anger, reasoning and fear amid the French Revolution. Doctor Manette’s daughter, Lucie, learns that her father is not dead and has been released from the Bastille, a French prison. She travels to France to retrieve her father. As

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Jessica Becker playing Miss Pross in A Tale of Two Citites based on the Charles Dickens novel, holds a head on stick (HOS) puppet during the opening night production on Oct. 5. The HOS puppets took 15 hours each

the peasantry of France is suffering, the play turns toward the courts to witness the trial of Charles Darnay. Despite ﬁrst-hand testimony, Darnay’s lawyer proves that it wasn’t his client that sold information to the Americans during the war. The lawyer lays the blame on Sydney Carton, a man who resembles Darnay. After Darnay is released, the play begins to take a darker turn as the revolution builds. The play opens with the stage formed into a dark French street and Brian Kusic narrating one of the most beautiful introductions in literature. Portraying Jarvis Lorry, Sam Gilstrap does an amazing job as the aristocratic banker and friend to Doctor Manette. Gilstrap also takes on the role of the Marquis, a heartless and brutal French aristocrat that evokes cringing at the sound of his voice. Lucie Manette is played by Aja Dunn, who shows the sentimental character durably with a strong voice. Colin Ahern as Charles Darnay seizes the perseverant attitude

of the character through to the end. Sydney Carton, the man that resembles Darnay, is played by Nick Sentel, who exhibits the melancholy martyr faithfully until his violent end. The Barsad, an old spy who is as distasteful as it comes, is played by Erica Johnson. Johnson also takes the parts of a French citizeness and a young girl who was ravaged by the Marquis. Her portrayal of the Barsad is astonishing as she transforms from the beautiful citizeness into an elderly, defeated man. The show is an ensemble piece. If one of the actors was to go missing, the whole show would be a bust. The use of life-size puppets or “heads on sticks” is questionable, even after the explanation from Fuerstenberg, who said she used the puppets during the ﬁrst production in Canada with only ﬁve actors. “The actors would each carry masks on poles with fabric. The actors would come at you and it seemed like there were eleven people,” Fuerstenberg said. “The giant puppets were inspired by the Nicara-

guan theater, so they could become sort of iconic.” This production has a cast of 18, and the puppets seem useless, taking the focus off the actors or blocking the view of the action on the intimate stage. Despite the puppets, the words and the acting hold the audience’s attention creating a doorway into the French Revolution. Anna Fuerstenberg was asked to come to Metro to direct her show from Montreal, Canada where she is a published playwright, author, director and actress. Fuerstenberg is an alumnus of several universities, one being the University of Colorado at Boulder where she received a master’s degree in Communications and Theatre. Fuerstenberg’s knowledge of Dickens’ work, studies of the Revolution and experience ﬁt perfectly together as seen in this adaptation. Showtime for A Tale of Two Cities will be 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11-13 at the King Center. Tickets are free to Metro students.

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The other side of the fence

Above: Children play outside a bar in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. Puerto Barrios, a port town on the Caribbean coast, contains little more than a monopoly of American fruit companies, strip clubs, bars and poor neighborhoods.

Continued from B1 » Mexico, which is used as a transit country for Central American immigrants trying to cross the U.S. border, has been criticized for its harsh treatment of undocumented migrants. If the immigrant is lucky he will be arrested and deported immediately. The unlucky ones are robbed, beaten, raped and killed. Despite the peril of the trip and the uncertainty of the future, immigrants from Central America pour over the U.S. border in huge numbers. It is difﬁcult for some to imagine a country in which more than half the population lives below the poverty line. Instead of citing the impossibly hopeless situation for Central Americans brought on by the aftermath of a 36-year war or the devastation of a hurricane that killed 24,000 people, it is more common to characterize them as illegal immigrants and, therefore, as criminals. However, the reality is after struggling to ﬁght against hardship with no success one last option stands: leave. The Inter-American Development Bank reported that in 2006, Central American countries received a total of $13 billion in remittances from individuals living abroad, mostly in the U.S. The money, unlike foreign

aid, goes directly into the hands of those that need it for housing, food, schooling and other urgent costs. The three young Nicaraguan men sitting behind Nadine Ruprecht were on their way to the U.S., and they tried not to think about the loved ones they were leaving behind, knowing that the money they would send back was crucial. Ruprecht, a German-born nonproﬁt worker, listened to the immigrants who sat behind her on the long bus ride from León, Nicaragua to the capital of El Salvador. Understanding the contrast that life in the U.S. would be in comparison to life in Nicaragua, Ruprecht still thought the boys were naïve. “They thought that everything is made of gold in the U.S.,” Ruprecht said, attributing their idealism to young age. Ruprecht said she feared for her life on the 18-hour bus ride. The 23-year-old shook her head wearily, reliving the experience as she told her story. The bus was ﬁlled with others like the young immigrants who sat behind her — people so desperate they would go to great lengths to get what they wanted. Through her soft voice and round, girlish face, glimpses of Ruprecht’s well-honed street wisdom showed. Ruprecht had been living in Costa Rica for the past

several months, working with indigenous girls in rural villages. She was now on her way to Guatemala to become part of a project ﬁghting extreme poverty. Like many world travelers, Ruprecht had learned to experience life in Central America without automatically categorizing those experiences as good or bad. They simply were. Fearing for one’s life becomes ordinary over time. Also sitting near Ruprecht was a quiet Mexican man who had been traumatized on the job and was returning home from an enforced holiday. The man was told to take time off from his work with a human-rights organization in Mexico after he found an injured illegal immigrant lying near some train tracks. Immigrants on their way to the U.S. will often ride on tops of freight trains through Mexico in order to avoid being caught and deported back to the Mexican-Guatemalan border. The dying man’s legs had been severed under the speeding steel wheels of the train. Knowing that a felon without proper identiﬁcation could not be taken to a hospital, the human rights worker let the man die in his arms. “In Mexico,” Ruprecht said, “illegals are treated like animals.” Immigrants know what dangers they will face on

the trip to the U.S., from the infamous freight trains to the corrupt police. But the alternatives are often worse. “People here suffer continuously,” said Tomacha Romero Padilla, as she watched the seven grandchildren she supports play in front of her home in Yoro, Honduras. “We are so poor,” ﬁlled every pause between her explanations. She explained that her daughters and their children lived with her, but illness kept her from earning enough money to provide much. “I’m too sick and too old,” she said. “Otherwise I would go to the U.S. too.” Joseph Rocchi, an American expatriate who had been living in Guatemala for 14 years, stood on a street corner in Antigua, Guatemala. He held up his hands, which were crisscrossed with fresh defense wounds bound crudely with stitches. He said that he originally traveled to Guatemala “to smoke weed and be left alone.” But after someone tried to steal his motorcycle, slashing at his hands with a machete, Rocchi decided it was time to give up. He was trying to get enough money together to return to Texas. “Everything is harder here, and you just never get on top of it,” Rocchi said. “You just lose a little bit more

everyday. And then if something happens to you, if you get hurt…you lose. And I’m not going to be lost again.” When Rocchi returns to the U.S. he will send money back to Guatemala for his wife and two children, who do not have American citizenship. The arrangement is very common. As reported by the United Nations, remittances sent from abroad actually account for between 10 percent and 17 percent of the gross domestic product for nearly every Central American country. It has been estimated that half of the families who receive this money would dip below the poverty line if the funds were to cease. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security continues to reform the immigration policy: building fences, expediting removals and increasing ﬁnes. Mexico continues to crack down on migrants brutally: tracking them like animals and dumping them in Guatemala. But the migrants continue to come, some making the trip north seven or eight times before they ﬁnally make it or die trying. Maybe some, like the young men on the bus, believe that they will become rich in the U.S.. But most know that if they can just send enough money back home to help buy groceries, or their children shoes, it is all worthwhile.

Top: A young boy herds cattle in Yoro, a small town in Honduras. Children under the age of 14 are prohibited from performing adult labor in Honduras. However, child labor continues to be a serious problem, especially in rural areas where children typically work in farming and agriculture to supplement their family’s income Above left: Luis George of Yoro Honduras, shows his temporary worker’s permit, which allows him to travel to the U.S. periodically to work in construction. George said he entered the U.S. illegally the ﬁrst time and decided to apply for the permit, which he uses for a few months every year. “I hate to go,” George said. “Everything is here: my home, my mother, my boy.” Above right: Ana Maritza Marcia, 16, rests inside a maternity center built by Doctors Without Borders several hours after giving birth to her daughter Dina Aug. 19. The center, which is entirely funded by individual philanthropists, is the only health center that serves expecting mothers in rural Yoro, Honduras. Only half of the births in Honduras are attended by skilled health staﬀ.

Dawn Madura is a senior photojournalism student at Metro. She traveled through Honduras and Guatemala for three weeks in August 2007 to photograph and report on the people who live in these underdeveloped countries. She may be contacted at dmadura@mscd.edu.

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» MORE THAN A MONSTER MASH, ‘ZOMBIE DANCE PARTY’ CRASHES DENVER » B7

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UPCOMING SHOWS » Thursday 10.11

John Vanderslice 8 p.m. @ Hi-Dive $10, 16+

Saturday 10.13 Interpol w/ The Liars

8 p.m. @ The Fillmore $27, 16+

Tuesday 10.16

Annie Lennox w/ Carina Round

7:30 p.m. @ Macky Auditorium in Boulder $54, All Ages

NEW RELEASES » TUESDAY 10.16 GROOVE IS IN THE HEART... Deee-Lite

Very Best Of Deee-Lite ECG Records www.amazon.com

Robyn Hitchcock I Wanna Go Backwards (Box Set) Yep Roc Records www.yeproc.com

Ja Rule

Body Universal Republic Records www.universalrepublic.com

Underworld

Oblivion With Bells BMG/ATO/Red Ink Records www.bmg.com

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British girl band ‘pipes’ up By JEREMY JOHNSON jjohn308@mscd.edu A good gimmick can often be the backbone of even a mediocre band. And polka dots, exclamation points and a very recognizable 1960s girl band persona have given England’s newest threesome, The Pipettes, just the pop they need to make a current impact in the already saturated throwback music market. The Pipettes are cute, perky and pure kitsch, with a tongue-in-cheek style – both vocally and materially – that is reminiscent of Phil Spector’s early efforts such as The Ronettes, or, more aptly, comically close to characters Ronette, Crystal and Chiffon, the background singers in cult classic ﬂick Little Shop Of Horrors. And while their clearly manufactured image borderlines on sickly sweet, The Pipettes cross a line clearly held to by traditional girl bands of the ’60s, and add a depth and kick (especially that of the heavy bass drum beats) to the silly softness of ’80s bands such as The Go-Gos. There is nothing complicated to The Pipettes’ coy compositions, but their use of nostalgic sound sampling (including a faux 45, scratching that no longer exists in the digital world) is a warming addition to their Motown throwbacks. Dressed in constant polka-dot ensembles, The Pipettes (known simply as Gwenno, Riotbecki and Rosay) perform perfectly choreographed acts backed by their band, The Cassette. In typical girl band fashion, The

Cassette remains clearly heard but rarely seen, at least in any manner that might derive attention from the group’s core three. The shallow makeup of The Pipettes’ music is plated and served piping hot in the ﬁrst track, “We Are The Pipettes.” The Pipettes are victims of simplistic lyrical hooks and manage to make a rough, if not tough, ﬁrst impression with their immensely narcissistic and otherworldly lyrics: “We are The Pipettes/ And we’ve got no regrets/ If you haven’t noticed yet/ We’re the prettiest girls you’ve ever met.” While this last statement may ring true (they really are quite cute), it’s clear early on that these girls aren’t exactly emulating the folk expressions of, say, Joni Mitchell. Instead, the album runs fullsteam ahead with classic sock hop and surf sounds, complete with stunning harmony and high school shenanigans-inspired doo-wop. The remaining 15 tracks are a rollercoaster ride of songs about jealousy (“It Hurts To See You Dance So Well”), remorse (“Because It’s

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Popular British girl band The Pipettes (from left: Riotbecki, Gwenno and Rosay) are a throwback to the Phil Spector bands of the 1960s, minus the gun-toting, maniacal, afro-headed producer. Not Love (But It’s Still A Feeling)”) and independence (“Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me” and “One Night Stand”). Yet, songs such as “Judy,” “I Love You” and “Baby, Just Be Yourself ” reveal a softer and more accepting side to the sexy songstresses. In the end, The Pipettes might

be considered just another gimmick playing on the golden days of girl groups. But the innocence of that era of music – and of Phil Spector, for that matter – is gone. The Pipettes, therefore, are the future of an era from the past. And, well, about that they have no regrets.

No dumbed-down disco for Kim Hiorthoy on his ‘Last Day’ By JOSHUA SMITH jsmith@mscd.edu Kim Hiorthoy’s newest album, My Last Day, out on Nov. 5, is a disarming and interesting entry into the sagging genre of “intelligent dance music” that has had few releases of merit in recent times. My Last Day is nine tracks of the quirky, upbeat electronic music Hiorthoy has become known for over the years. Though many may be unfamiliar with the Norwegian’s music, he has built up quite an underground following in the years since his ﬁrst release, Hei, on Smalltown Supersound. The opening track “I Thought We Could Eat Friends,” an up-tempo, electro-acid track, is the largest departure in form seen on My Last Day. Despite the more dance-ﬂoor-

oriented tempo and rhythm of the track, the overall feeling of playful innocence is still exhibited in much of Hiorthoy’s music, as evidenced by the wispy synth line and windy pipes floating through the background, drawing the track together. “Skuggan” is a more traditional example of Hiorthoy’s sound, and those unfamiliar with the artist will find this a perfect starting place at which to decide if they’d like to dig deeper into his catalog. The piece starts with a simple, slowly-advancing piano line, which is lazily built upon by snippets of field recordings, developing size and depth. After a time, a definitely electronic, yet somehow organic-feeling percussion line joins a counterpoint oboe and new layer of piano, as the track wends its way to a demure, refined

crescendo. Pieces such as “Wind Of Failure” exhibit the maturity gained in production Hiorthoy has perfected over the years. A muted piano and violin that sound as if they were recorded from across a large room are joined by a crackling, “plink-plonk” arrangement of percussion and carefully crafted micro-sounds. All this coalesces into a tasteful, and oddly danceable, assortment of noises and glitches. For those unfamiliar with the sounds of the alternately maligned and embraced genre of IDM, there are few places better to start than with My Last Day. It stands as a shining example in a genre otherwise falling prey to electro-acoustic wankery and neo-synthpop foolishness.

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It’s clear by the look on Kim Hiorothy’s face that he only makes “intelligent dance music.” Can’t you see he is serious?

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‘Minutes’ turn into months for alt-rockers, Linkin Park

TW LW ARTIST

ALBUM

LABEL

Against Me!

New Wave

Sire

Linkin Park

Minutes To Midnight

Warner Bros.

By DESIREE CLARK dclark67@mscd.edu

The Used

Lies For The Liars

Reprise

Three Days Grace

One-X

Jive Aces

Korn

Untitled

Virgin

Papa Roach

The Paramour Sessions

Geﬀen

Killswitch Engage

As Daylight Dies

Roadrunner

Rise Against

The Suﬀerer And The Witness

Geﬀen

Through The Eyes Of The Dead

Malice

Prosthetic

Nne Inch Nails

Year Zero

Interscope/Nothing

High On Fire

Death Is The Communion

Relapse

As I Lay Dying

An Ocean Between Us

Metal Blade

Throwdown

Venom And Tears

Trustkill

Velvet Revolver

Libertad

RCA

Bad Brains

Build A Nation

Megaforce

Chiodos

Bone Palace Ballet

Equal Vision Records

KMFDM

Tohuvabohu

Metropolis

Red Chord

Prey For Eyes

Metal Blade

Terror 2000

Terror For Sale

Nuclear Blast

H.I.M.

Venus Doom

Warner Bros.

Alternative rock band Linkin Park’s latest album, Minutes To Midnight, is still No. 2 on the CMJ Loud Rock Select Albums chart, despite its release in early May of this year. For the ﬁerce, nu metal band, it appears their “minutes to midnight” might last the whole way through the new year. After the success of their previous three albums (Hybrid Theory, Meteora and Collision Course), which successfully mixed the sounds of alternative rock and mainstream hip-hop, Minutes To Midnight has a more melodic and calm sound, with only two songs featuring traditional styles of rap (“Bleed It Out” and “Hands Held High”). The album instead chooses to place more focus on guitar work and solos. Mike Shinoda, who shares the title of lead vocalist with Chester Bennington, sings the lead for three songs (“In Between,” “Hands Held High” and “No Roads

Left”), breaking out of his typical hardcore hip-hop stylings. Both vocalists were recently named on Heavy Metal’s All-Time Top 100 Vocalists, with Bennigton ranked at 46 and Shinoda at 72. With that in mind, it’s hard to get used to their revised sound, which leaves behind the familiar nu metal template that fans have grown so accustomed to. The ﬁrst song on the album is short and instrumental. The title, “Wake,” has a double meaning, as it was written at the end of their writing process, but also wakes up listeners and ensures their full attention. All the tracks leading up to “Bleed It Out” are hypnotic and depressing, and the use of heavy keyboards and guitar, combined with dismal vocals, eventually cause the songs to seemingly blend together. “Hands Held High” is the other song that identiﬁes the band’s hiphop roots. With a marching snare in the background and Shinoda rapping throughout, it’s easy to hear

the emotion of the raucous lyrics: “I wanna see some ﬁsts pumping/ Risk something/ Take back what’s yours/ Say something that you know they might attack you for/ ‘Cause I’m sick of being treated like I have been before/ Like it’s stupid standing for what I’m standing for/ Like this war’s really just a different brand of war.” The success of Linkin Park’s new, revised sound is obvious. Minutes to Midnight dominated the Billboard charts upon its release, selling 623,000 copies in its ﬁrst week, and is currently the best-selling album of 2007. Old fans have accepted the reinvention of their music, and they seem to have gained some new ones as well — the ultimate goal of every musical talent. Before making this album, Linkin Park was asked by their producer, Rick Rubin, how they wanted their new record to sound. Their answer: “We wanted to create something that maintained the integrity of the band’s personality, but pushed

CMJ Loud Rock Select Albums

the boundaries.” And by pushing the boundaries, Linkin Park will be

counting the “minutes to midnight” for a while to come.

UPCOMING SHOWS: MUSIC AND MORE

Zombie Dance Party After hosting successful Denver art show The Art Of Drinking, the Tampa, Fla.-based art entrepreneurs Bad Art For Bad People are teaming up with the local Flying Dog Brewery to host Denver’s ﬁrst annual Zombie Dance Party. The event includes more than 40 national and local artists, as well as the Burlesque As It Was performers, and host Pierre St. Jean St. Pierre, of Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret fame. Included in the music part of the lineup are a number of local established and up-and-coming punk and rockabilly bands such as Dario Rosa, Whiskey Throttle, The Dropskots, Gina Go Faster, Get Your Going, Get 3 Cofﬁns Ready, Tard and Red Stinger. Not to mention, nationwide crunk, punk and funk sensation DJ Frank Bell will be spinning records all weekend. The two-day event will be held October 12 and 13 at the Flying Dog Brewery at 2407 Blake St. Tickets are $10 each. For more information, visit the website at: www.badartforbadpeople.com. – By Jeremy Johnson, jjohn308@mscd.edu

Photo courtesy of www.myspace.com/ltfmusic

Is that a comet? An asteroid? A meteor? Nope, that’s cosmic rock ’n’ roll. From left: Christopher Rigel, Kyle Fuller and Todd Spriggs are Light Travels Faster. LTF returns to the Denver stage at the Hi-Dive Oct. 25 with Blue Million Miles and Killﬁx.

Light Travels Faster If anything travels faster than light in the music world, it’s word of mouth. And with that (and some glowing critiques by the local press), Light Travels Faster has begun to make a glowing impression, like an image pressed into the back of eyelids after staring directly at the sun. LTF (Christopher Rigel on lead guitar and vocals, Todd Spriggs on bass and Kyle Fuller on drums) label themselves as “indie” on their MySpace page, but they manage to branch out from the ambiguous and generic classiﬁcation with wildly varying compositions and tempos, combined

with killer bass contortions and grating guitar distortion. The result is a sound similar to Sonic Youth meets Modest Mouse, without all the fancy lyrical and melodic pretenses of both. Instead Rigel’s pre-pubescent screech relays the raw realities of an array of ﬂuctuating emotions, seconded by the compositional tranquilities of Sprigg’s sly bass and the juxtaposing animosity of Fuller’s deathly drums. With their far-out and mystical, musical message, Light Travels Faster could be light years ahead of Denver’s otherwise dulled-down cosmic sounds. For more information visit www.myspace.com/lftmusic. – By Jeremy Johnson, jjohn308@mscd.edu

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Iran, U.S. playing nuclear roulette When Harry Truman dropped those foul bombs on the Japanese in order to blow them into submission, he must have had some idea of the terrible, long-term consequences of his homicidal, war-driven decision. Of course, many will complement the fact that perhaps millions of soldiers were saved at the expense of entire Japanese cities, men, women and children alike, but that weird and dehumanizing argument is best left alone right now. We have seen the awful effects of atomic weapons because, aside from “testing” them by destroying goats and old warships tethered to abandoned island harbors, rendering them uninhabitable for centuries, we remain the only nation on Earth to have used them to incinerate thousands of humans. They are vicious, and certainly one of the most demonic manifestations of what is often referred to as human nature. And now, those of us inheriting the ranks of our species are left to cope with the consequences of a world of nations addicted to the fanatical power that comes with commanding a nuclear arsenal. This problem will not evaporate. Ask the Russians. It’s rather atrocious that the bombs meant to end the worst conﬂict in human history have themselves created new, far more dangerous conﬂicts, and are likely to be the catalyst for bloodshed beyond anything conceivable in the history of warfare. I know those of you reading this ei-

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Everything is fine around here, though. We have the largest nuclear stockpile on the planet. Those people can’t stand up to the firepower we wield. We never really meant to abandon our fortifications in Iraq anyhow, and Iran naturally must be made to submit.

jbraley@mscd.edu ther follow the news or avoid it at all costs due to the terrible feelings of despair that come with news reports. They reveal the ever increasing likelihood that our bastard government is planning to assault the Iranians with cruise missiles and stealth bombers because they crave the same nuclear technologies afforded to a nation of power. And there it is. That speeding arrow directed at the heart of the United States. WAR WITH IRAN. I could write those three ominous words over and over until my page is full, but what good would it do? I’m not sure that things can get more ridiculous than this. There is word all over the wires, in print and on television indicting George Bush and his puppet general for hinting at this incoming Iranian war. War, they say, isn’t the right word to associate with what they plan to do, however. Strategically placed missile strikes and vicious

bombardments of anything that resembles a Muslim until they are all rotting in the sand is more their style. Who needs another Iraq? The clowns in Washington, D.C. have learned from their mistakes and have hired on a whole new team of cronies to operate the Pentagon for the new invasion. Iraq and Afghanistan were only testing grounds for what appears to be the total annihilation of all unruly Islamic people, or anyone else for that matter, that would elect to seek out military equality on the international stage. Everything is fine around here, though. We have the largest nuclear stockpile on the planet. Those people can’t stand up to the firepower we wield. We never really meant to abandon our fortifications in Iraq anyhow, and Iran naturally must be made to submit. They seek the ultimate weapon and we can’t trust them with it. This is our time, and Allah and his followers can step aside or be destroyed. This is real politik, and

few understand it and even fewer respect it. The world just isn’t the same when you view it through the muddled confusion of a pond. Oh no, up there where the birds fly and the eagles hunt exists a shockingly different reality, but even the greatest of birds must fall someday. The ship is sinking, sinking, sinking. It is sad, and if you listen close enough, you can almost make out the faint tune of a violin in the distance. Good God, what if George Bush and his people assault the Iranians before all of you can obtain your passports? I may not have enough respect among the readership of this fine publication to be taken very seriously, but if you see that newsflash of buildings being obliterated and towns seemingly gone ablaze in the Arabian night above a headline that says something in the vein of “U.S. forces assault Tehran,” you’ll know that it’s time to abandon ship. Be strong and hold on to your heads. We will persevere.

Craig is straight until he proves himself gay Syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage recently appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss homo-hatingturned-alleged-bathroom-trick Sen. Larry Craig. On the show, host Stephen Colbert made the comment that Craig was gay. Savage quickly corrected Colbert. Craig maintains his heterosexual identity and denies trying to turn a quick trick in the now infamous airport bathroom. Regardless of his guilt or denial, Craig — until otherwise determined — is also straight in my eyes. And Savage pointed out another interesting fact I can’t help but agree with: the men hooking up in all of those restrooms aren’t gay. There are four types — or teams — of men: straight men, gay men, bisexual men and men who have sex with men. What concerns me the most are gay men and men who have sex with men. It’s excessively important to note that men who have sex with men are not necessarily gay. These men who identify as straight are your fathers, husbands, brothers, spiritual

leaders, government ofﬁcials and best friends. They also happen to be sexually aroused by other men. These men could, or very well could not, be gay and leading a life of denial. They could just be curious and are excited by exploring their own and other people’s bodies. They could ﬁnd something excessively rugged and exotic about other men, or they could just be horny. Sure, it’s fair to say these men are having gay sex and they are indeed acting on homosexual tendencies, but they are not gay. Being gay is so much more than anal sex. It takes a heart and a lifestyle to make a real gay man. Aside from gay sex there is also gay love and gay culture. And one must live up to all three in order to obtain his gay card. I think by now we all understand what gay sex is. But what is gay love and gay culture? Forewarnings: I don’t have all the answers. If I did, I’d be out of a job or at least out of material. Many before me, and surely many after me, will ask these same questions. Not

NIC GARCIA ngarci20@mscd.edu only what is gay love and culture, but what is the importance of it? How do we live it and perfect it? Gay love sounds as simple as gay sex, doesn’t it? Two men just loving each other. But I’m sure even the straightest guy will admit there is nothing simple about any sort of love. What’s most interesting to me is how easy gay love can be dismissed. Maybe it’s because love regardless of gender, sex or identity is the most difﬁcult thing to understand in general. What isn’t hard to understand is stereotypes.

I’m the first to admit: I use a lot of generalities. In 800 words or less it’s quite a task to distinguish the difference between a butch-sub-bottom-leather-muscle bear and a femdominate-top-Chelsea-boy, let alone the interaction the two can have and what they mean to the bigger picture. And herein lies the problem with explaining gay culture. Despite what the mass media wants you to think, the gay population is not made up of Wills and Jacks a la Will and Grace. Instead, we are as unique as our fingerprints and the best anyone can do is to find the best common denominators. So yes, despite the fact that Sen. Craig appears to have married a fag hag and adopted her children, with none of his own, and yes, despite the fact the senator may have engaged or at least attempted to engage in sex with another man, he is indeed not gay. And that’s OK. Because agreeing with Savage once more, I don’t want him on my team.

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SIDELINE

THIS WEEK »

Friday 10.12

VOLLEYBALL 7 p.m. vs. New Mexico-Highlands at Auraria Field SOCCER Men 1:30 p.m. at Mesa State Women 3:30 p.m. at Regis CROSS COUNTRY TBA at Colorado Christian

Saturday 10.13

VOLLEYBALL 7 p.m. vs. Western New Mexico at Auraria Courts

Sunday 10.14

SOCCER Women 2:30 p.m. at Ft. Lewis Men noon at Ft. Lewis

SAY WHAT? »

“I’d like to keep playing (soccer) if I can. If the opportunity arises I’d certainly take it, but I love soccer and I’d play it for free on the beach if I had to.” - Phillip Owen, leading scorer and senior forward on the Metro men’s soccer team, talking about his possibilities for a career in soccer after he finishes this season.

DID YOU KNOW »

In their 2-1 win over nonconference opponent Washburn, Metro women’s soccer was outshot 17-6 and played with only 10 for much of the game. Nevertheless they won due in large part to senior goalkeeper Rachel Zollner’s nine saves in the game.

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Goals Metro men’s soccer has scored so far this year, compared to only 14 by their opponents. The ’Runners have also outshot their opponents so far this year 254-121. They also rank 12th in the nation in scoring offense with 3.08 goals per game.

Owen finds soccer route Metro’s leading scorer has taken rough road to be all-time goals leader By ZAC TAYLOR ztaylor2@mscd.edu Five years ago Metro soccer player Phillip Owen was serving drinks at a bar in Greece, nursing a blown-out knee and stewing on an adventurous spirit, removed from the reality of a possible soccer career half a world away. But now, Owen is living the dream of playing competitive soccer, and due to his enduring work ethic is now the all-time leading goal-scorer for Metro. The love of soccer was still there, nurtured from being a four-year-old shooting balls into a net his father had made in Kansas, to pouring over tapes of old Manchester United matches starring the great Eric Cantona. In fact, his passion for the beautiful game has been one of the few constants in a life marked by moving from Oklahoma to Kansas to Colorado to Greece. “Topeka, Kansas is where I started playing soccer,” Owen said, “and then I’ve moved a lot since then.” Bartending in Europe, he was far removed from the problems that had led him there. But after six months he saved enough money to buy a flight back. He had gained a new respect for life and the chances that he had, and now he was ready to once again follow his dream. Back at Chatfield High School in south Denver, the soon-to-be globetrotter was a major prospect as a scoring midfielder. Then, in his senior year, he injured his knee and his years as a soccer player threatened to expire. “I blew out my knee my senior year of high school,” Owen said. “I didn’t really know if I was ever going to play again.” Unable to earn a scholarship to play collegiate soccer, Owen went to the University of Colorado at Boulder to be just another student. “I went to CU for a year and decided the party life wasn’t for me,” Owen acknowledged. “I wanted to get back into soccer.” He started to play again but he was dealt a setback when he joined the Division I University of Denver soccer team, but wasn’t allowed to play due to his poor academic performance in Boulder. “He (the DU coach) wanted me to

come in and be a starting midfielder there but I couldn’t,” Owen said. “He gave me a shot but I was ineligible there from being at CU.” So he flew away, a six-month exodus across the ocean to find out what he really wanted from life. He traveled through most of Europe, from Spain to Sweden to Greece where he worked for four months as a bartender. After six months of being limited to occasional games of soccer on the beach, Owen knew that he wanted to play soccer again. Back in Colorado and two years removed from his last soccer season at Chatfield, Owen met with Metro’s head soccer coach at the time, Brian Crookham. In yet another change, two weeks later the coach had been fired and current head coach Ken Parsons took over the program. Yet, Owens still signed with Metro even though he had never heard of his new coach before, and he became a freshman forward, seasoned in life experience but a bit rusty with the soccer ball. However, Owen shined as a freshman for the Roadrunners and led the team with 50 points while starting all 21 games. His assists and goals total set the single-season record and he was also named Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player and first team all-region forward. “I don’t think I really had anything to lose,” Owen said on his season with Metro. “I came out scoring some goals and had a pretty good year.” Owen says that in his sophomore year he tried too hard, and then, in his junior year, nothing went his way. The stat sheets ringed this fact, as he could only muster 39 points combined during his second and third years, culminating in his being replaced by Antonio Porras as leading scorer during his junior year. “Phil was a little bit more of a marked man after his freshman year and Tony (Porras) and Shaun (Elbaum) put up big numbers those years,” Parsons said. Fast forward to the present season, a season where the regional polls had looked over his abilities as a big threat in the Metro lineup. The truth is, in the last offseason, Owen had been working at least four hours a day to get back to the player he knew he could be. His stats this year reflect his hard work. As the senior forward he has already scored 32 points on 14 goals and four assists to lead the team once again. “One of Phil’s wonderful attri-

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Phillip Owen has passed last year’s soccer star Antonio Porras for most goals alltime at Metro. In the Oct. 7 match against Incarnate Word, he scored both goals in the 2-1 win. He has 14 so far this year. Owen has had a passion for soccer since he was young and he hopes that wherever life takes him, it involves soccer. butes is that he has been relatively consistent and he has not missed a single start in four years,” Parsons said of Owen’s work ethic during his collegiate career. Now he dares to dream of the possibility of playing professional soccer in Europe. But even if he

never reaches that pinnacle, he’s always ready for a soccer match on the beach. “I’d like to keep playing (soccer) if I can,” Owen said. “If the opportunity arises I’d certainly take it. But I love soccer and I’d play it for free on the beach if I had to.”

Phillip Owen Career Statistics Freshman Year: 2004 - 21 GP, 21 GS, 23 goals, 4 assists, 50 points, 62 shots

Sophomore Year:

2005 - 21 GP, 21 GS, 7 goals, 14 assists, 28 points, 62 shots

Junior Year:

2006 - 22 GP, 22 GS, 4 goals, 3 assists, 11 points, 33 shots

Senior Year as of Oct. 11:

2007 - 14 GP, 14 GS, 14 goals, 4 assists, 32 points, 46 shots

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Falling behind early haunts Metro Fighting from 1-0 deﬁcits hurts Metro in loss vs. Mavericks, but sneaks out win vs. Washburn By BRODERICK JOHNSON bjohn116@mscd.edu

Metro’s No. 13-ranked women’s soccer team dropped its ﬁrst match of the weekend 20 to the University of Nebraska-Omaha on Oct. 5, only to redeem itself with an impressive 2-1 victory over the hard-charging Lady Blues of

Washburn University two days later to salvage the weekend split. Both games were played at the University of Nebraska-Omaha Soccer Field. In Friday’s match, Nebraska-Omaha scored a goal in each half, with their first goal coming in the opening minutes of play. Mavericks midfielder Casey Bigsby placed the ball in the right corner of the net past Metro goalie Rachel Zollner in the 14th minute to give her team the early 1-0 lead. For insurance, Mavericks forward Brandi Beale added a second score in the game’s final minutes to secure the 2-0 shutout victory. Nebraska-Omaha outshot Metro by put-

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ting five goals on net to the Roadrunners three. Metro forward Katie Kilbey, who is the team’s leading scorer with 12 goals and 40 points, was held in check by the Mavericks who didn’t allow the senior to put a single shot on net. Nebraska-Omaha kept the pressure on Metro all game by forcing eight corner kicks to Metro’s two. “(Nebraska-Omaha) played well,” Metro head coach Danny Sanchez said. “Their unique high-pressure attacking offense was too much for us today.” Sunday’s contest yielded better results for Metro as they used first-half scores by midfielder Madison McQuilliams and forward Becca Mays to hold off a pesky Washburn team 2-1. In what seemed to be an alarming routine of giving up early goals, the ’Runners once again let one get through in the fourth minute of the game. This time it was Lady Blues forward Jessica Mainz on the opposite end of a cross, which she netted easily. The joy would be short-lived for Washburn as Metro tied the game eight minutes later on a goal by McQuilliams. It was the freshman’s ninth goal of the year, giving her 23 points on the season. Metro struck again right before halftime as Mays blasted the ball past Washburn goalkeeper Ashley Klone to give the ’Runners a 2-1 lead heading into the second half. Mays’ goal was her eighth of the year, giving her a total of 23 points, second on the team behind Kilbey and tied with McQuilliams.

“I like the way we fought in both games,” Sanchez said when asked about his team’s ability to rebound from early game deﬁcits. “We showed great charisma.” Almost 10 minutes into the second half, Metro midﬁelder Gabby Klipp was issued a red card for “violent conduct.” Down a player for nearly the entire period, the Roadrunners used team defense to keep the Lady Blues out of the scoring column and to pick up a much-needed win. Zollner was the force behind the net as she held off the Lady Blues’ attack with a player down by making nine saves to post her eighth win of the season. The shutout improved Zollner’s goals against average to a conference leading 0.60 percent. Sanchez said his young team is making strides in coming together as the quality of play against tough teams is improving. “Playing good teams like the teams we played this weekend will help us down the road,” Sanchez said. The split weekend brings Metro’s record to 9-3-1 with a 4-1-1 record in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Roadrunners are second in the conference and will take on the third-place Rangers of Regis Oct. 12 on the road at Regis.

Sports Briefs Swimming and Diving The 2007-08 Metro men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams began their seasons on the road Oct. 6 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The men’s team won the 500-yard crescendo relay with the team of Ken Rhoades, Reid Sutton, Kevin Braun and Evan Venrick in a time of 4:39.38. The women placed second with their team of Meredith Lanphier, Annika Matlock, Jessica Shaddock and Elizabeth Michael-Trumbull with a time of 4:28.12, less than two seconds behind the winning CUBoulder team. In the rest of the competition, the men’s team won the 400-yard Medley, the 200 Free Relay and the 4X100 Individual Medley relay. The women won the 200-Free Relay, but placed second in the 400-yard Medley and sec-

Volleyball Metro’s volleyball played three games in three days and swept all three Oct. 4-6 defeating conference foes Adams State, Western State and Colorado State-Pueblo on the road. In Metro’s 30-28, 30-27 and 30-22 win over the Grizzlies of Adams State, outside hitter Kelsey Ellis led the team with 15 kills while contributing 11 digs. The Roadrunners hit an impressive .327 kill percentage in game two and .306 in game three to make short work of the Mountaineers 30-24, 30-18 and 30-21. In the ﬁnal game of the road trip, outside hitter Julie Green-McFarland and Ellis combined for 30 kills to lead Metro to a 30-27, 3129 and 30-13 sweep of the Thunderwolves. Metro’s three wins improves their record to 10-10, the ﬁrst time the ‘Runners have been at .500 all season. Designed by: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Ad Name: USBP 07-02 Attn: Metro SU Denver - Metroplitan

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Men’s soccer extends winning streak with overtime wins Roadrunners take two in nonconference play, senior breaks goal record By ZAC TAYLOR ztaylor2@mscd.edu Metro men’s soccer team extended its winning streak to five by outlasting St. Edwards Oct. 5 and Incarnate Word Oct. 7 in back-to-back overtime games to finish the nonconference midseason break on a high note. In the first game, Metro’s gamewinning shot to put away the Hilltoppers came off the foot of midfielder Ola Sandquist on an assist by forward Phillip Owen. In the second game against the Cardinals, a 11 tie again went to overtime, this time with Sandquist returning the favor and feeding Owen the ball for the winning goal. In fact, it was a de’ja’vu experience throughout both games for the Roadrunners, one that they wouldn’t mind happening again. “We have to take the win with us,” Sandquist said of the first close decision, “but nothing else.” The 10th and 11th wins in Metro’s 11-1-2 record didn’t start off with the brightest of moments. Against St. Edwards, withmore than seven minutes remaining, a cross from St. Edwards John Calandro found Josh Nannen, who headed the ball past Ryan Vickery for the first shot - as well as the first score - of the game. Two days later against Incarnate Word, the initial goal would come much earlier, after Cardinal forward

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Metro defender Andrew Donnelly runs to the aid of Metro forward Phillip Owen Oct. 5 against nonconference opponent St. Edwards. The ‘Runners won the game 2-1 in overtime after Owen assisted midfielder Ola Sandquist for the final goal. Dustin Lemley buried a ball in the seventh minute. But it would once again put the ‘Runners in a position to come back for a win. Back in the first match against St. Edwards, Metro tried to respond with halftime drawing near, but Owen and the ’Runners attack was frustrated by the Hilltoppers’ defense. “You’re going to have games where you will stumble,” head coach Ken Parsons said of the first half. “So it was important to find a goal early in the second half.” Metro got their first goal with less

than ﬁve minutes into the second half after a Mark Cromie free kick found Metro defensive back Andrew Donnelly, who was able to head the ball past St. Edwards keeper Chris Sanders. Metro must have taken their Friday gameplan to Sunday because just six minutes into the second half against Incarnate Word, midﬁelder Ryan Brooks made a long pass to a streaking Owen who lofted the ball over the Cardinal keeper Gil Ben Natchum’s head for the tying goal. Both of the games stood tied at 1-1 heading into the early parts

of the second half. The ’Runners would, however, hit a speed bump in both games that would leave them under-manned for much of the second half. At the Friday contest, Metro midﬁelder Kellen Johnson had already earned one yellow card early in the game. He then earned his next card midway through the second half that ended his day, thus beginning the start of Metro playing down a man for the rest of the match. “(After going down a man) the most important thing is to play de-

fense and not lose the game,” Parsons said. “We had to pick our moments to attack.” Two days later the team was put in a similar situation after Metro forward Jeromy Meredith took a red card for tackling Natchum 19 minutes from the end of regulation. In both games, the ’Runners were forced to play conservatively and focus much more on the defense than the offense. So Metro, who routinely outshoots the opposing team by double digits, actually ended Friday’s game tied at nine shots apiece and only shot three more than their game against Incarnate Word on Sunday. Regardless, the Roadrunners used their shots a little more efficiently when, with 4:04 left in the first overtime, Sandquist kicked in the golden goal to take the first game of the weekend 2-1. Metro took the experience of playing a man down and pushed Sunday’s game into overtime. With less than three minutes remaining in the first overtime, Owen hit the winning shot and ended the day, having set the Metro men’s soccer all-time goals record at 48. “Phil has done a good job to maneuver around defenses,” Parsons said. A weekend of headaches and heroes ended with the ’Runners moving up the wins column and becoming an even more viable contender in Division II. With an 11-1-2 record Metro remains undefeated in the conference at 6-0-2. Their conference record will be tested Oct. 12 when they play at Mesa State in Grand Junction.

Ridin’ the pine never felt so ﬁne for backup backs Being a backup running back has never been so good as it has been in recent years. Memories of Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson’s rise to glory come to mind after starter Priest Holmes sustained a career-threatening hip injury that allowed Johnson to break into the spotlight to jumpstart his career. In today’s world of fantasy football, it is essential to keep track of backup running backs because they will get just as many carries as the starter ahead of them. In Week 5, four of the top ﬁve rushing performances were put up by the pine riders, led by Chargers running back Michael Turner who put up 147 yards on the ground and scored a touchdown. That had to frustrate Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson owners, who had to watch their No. 1 pick in most fantasy drafts take a backseat to Turner. MATCHUPS: New England against Dallas: This Super Bowl preview features the top two scoring teams in the NFL. This

game will have fantasy owners salivating as Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady face off in a battle of the top 10 leaders in passing touchdowns and in passer rating. The two combine for 29 touchdowns and only 10 interceptions, and each have a superstar wide receiver to sling it to with Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss and Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens. The two will try to one-up the other as the competition for the league’s best wide out will reach center stage. All running backs should be played, as the running game for both teams should excel, and as defenses will try to slow down the pass from both quarterbacks. Philadelphia against the New York Jets: I love Philadelphia head coach Andy Reid coming off a bye week, as he always has his team ready to strategically pick apart their next opponent. And that next opponent is the New York Jets who give up almost 240 yards passing per game and are tied for fourth worst in the NFL giving up nine passing touch-

Carolina and Brett Favre against Washington Running backs: LaDainian Tomlinson against Oakland, Willis McGahee against St. Louis, Maurice JonesDrew against Houston and Reggie Bush against Seattle

ERIC LANSING lansing@mscd.edu downs on the season. Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb should be ready to throw a few touchdowns against the unyielding Jets’ defense, and I say a few meaning three, four or possibly even ﬁve of them. You should make it mandatory to start McNabb’s teammates this week in running back Brian Westbrook and wide receivers Kevin Curtis and Reggie Brown. WHO TO START: Quarterbacks: Derek Anderson against Miami, Kurt Warner against

Wide Receivers: Michael Jenkins against the New York Giants, Larry Fitzgerald against Carolina, Chad Johnson against Kansas City and Chris Chambers against Cleveland Tight Ends: Desmond Clark against Minnesota, Alge Crumpler against the New York Giants, and Todd Heap against St. Louis Kickers: Robbie Gould against Minnesota, David Akers against the New York Jets and Neil Rackers against Carolina Defenses: Baltimore against St. Louis, Tampa Bay against Tennessee and Jacksonville against Houston FREE AGENT PICKUPS:

Brodie Croyle, quarterback, Kansas City: The Chiefs have one of the most abysmal offenses in the league and most attribute it to the lack of explosiveness from starting quarterback Damon Huard. The lack of an offensive line doesn’t help this team as running back Larry Johnson has not been his usual Pro Bowl self, but allowing Croyle to start a game could actually rejuvenate a team that has played stagnant football. Randy McMichael, tight end, St. Louis: Week after week I continue to sit on this sleeping giant known as the St. Louis offense, and thanks to old-timer Gus Frerotte, the Rams scored 31 points in a loss. The offensive line is still horrendous in St. Louis, and a tight end is a quarterback’s best friend when you don’t have time. McMichael is a prime example of this, back in his days in Miami where just about every quarterback who has lined up under center for the Dolphins used McMichael as a key outlet when they were about to be tossed on their back.