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behind Metro soccer teams defeated in NCAA tournament » A11, 13 MEN’S SOCCER

Metro vs. Midwestern State LOSS 8-1

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Metro vs. West Texas A&M WON 1-0 (2 OT) Metro vs. Incarnate Word TIE 2-2 (2 OT) Metro vs. Incarnate Word LOSS 4-3 (SHOOTOUT)

Metro Foward Katie Kilbey tries to clear the ball past West Texas defender Kayla Sisco. Photos by KRISTI DENKE/kdenke@mscd.edu

METRO »

’Runners leaving nest before graduation » A3

AUDIOFILES »

Juliette and The Licks provide some kicks » B6

metro THE METROPOLITAN » NOVEMBER 15, 2007 » A3

» PERKINS: HITMAN WITH HIP PLAN »A5 » DOES RTD REQUIRE BIKE PERMIT? »A7 » INSIGHT: PAKISTAN SMELLS FISHY »A8

ANDREW FLOHR-SPENCE » NEWS EDITOR » spencand@mscd.edu

METRO NOW

THIS WEEK »

Friday 11.16

The Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board meets at 2:30 p.m. in Tivoli suite 329

Monday 11.19

• There are no meetings and no classes, and if you show up, the joke’s on you!

Thursday 11.22 • Thanks for giving!

Friday 11.23

• Whatever you do, do not go shopping.

THE METROPOLITAN 25 YEARS AGO »

November 17, 1982 Issues addressed in food talks

• Improved choice and service promised in negotiations with campus food service account

Less education cuts expected after elections

• Mid-term elections produced no victory for education; next round of Reagan cuts expected

THE NUMBERS GAME » 30

Days until the last day of finals, Dec. 15, when we can all finally go home and get some sleep

THE MET REPORT »

This week’s top stories: • Denver Film Festival • The Dream Act • Asbestos removal • Vote: Question 100 • NCAA Tournament action

Check out Metro’s own student-run TV newscast at: http://metreport.mscd.edu

Photo by CORA KEMP/ckemp4@mscd.edu

Nancy Rich teaches psychopathology night class on Nov. 13 in West Classroom. About 20 percent of students starting at Metro as freshmen end up graduating from Metro, yet oﬃcials say this is due to Metro’s open enrollment nature. Many ﬁnish the studies at other colleges, using Metro as a sort of steppingstone on the way.

Keeping kids in the classroom Student retention rate below national average; Metro looks to improve By JUSTEN RHODES jrhode13@mscd.edu More than 6,000 students enrolled at Metro in 2007. By fall 2008, however, nearly 40 percent will no longer be at Metro. About 20 percent of those who enter Metro their freshmen year will go on to graduate from the college, a number that several people at the college want to change. Metro has a retention rate of about 63 percent, according to Derrick Haynes, director of Student Academic Services, and that is just below the national average, or 10 percent lower than the University of Colorado at Boulder’s rate. There are reasons that Metro’s numbers are lower, and they are not because students are necessarily choosing to drop out of college. Part of the reason that Metro’s numbers decrease is because of the nature of Metro’s student body. “We are unable to track where those students are going,” Haynes said. He said that Metro is a college of

opportunity and of availability. Metro does not function the same way as other colleges. Haynes said that some people may come here because they are seeking a degree from Metro, while others may attend because they switched jobs and want some extra help. Haynes said they may also be trying to get their general courses out of the way for study elsewhere or may be taking one class with no degree in mind. In each case, the student’s enrollment gets added to the statistics. Of those 6,000 students maybe 4,000 of them will stay at Metro for the long haul. The other 2,000 are here either refreshing their skills or taking a semester at Metro to improve their grades. Around 12 percent of the students coming in are transfers, many of which who may be coming to Metro, not to get a degree, but to retool and reapply at the university or college of their choice. Another difference is the campus environment. Kimberly Williams, a coordinator with Student Intervention Services, the department in charge of dealing with retention and helping students get back on track, believes that part of the reason that

students may move on is because of a lack of involvement on the campus. Though Metro now has the Regency and the Inn at Auraria, Haynes said that those may not be the answer in part because Metro has no ofﬁcial relationship with them. If the school did have such a role in the housing, they would be able to organize programs and events to get students involved. SIS has a number of programs that are designed for helping students adjust to college and to help them through their college experience. All of the programs aim to retain the students. One of the programs, Metro Summer Bridge, is designed to guide the students in making the leap from high school to college. The idea is to help students not only academically but socially, too. Students get to meet other students and interact. “We provide a structured environment that teaches them (incoming students) the ropes and introduces college resources,” said Donelyn James, the coordinator of the program. James said that they can keep those students motivated to come back the next year by helping the students build a social network. Patrick Wise, a senior at Metro,

said that because of the Summer Bridge Program, he was not as overwhelmed as he might have been had he not gone through the program. It allowed him to engage students and help him adjust. One of the ways the college is trying to keep students is by making strict admission dates. Under the old policy students can apply up until the beginning of classes. Many students do not register until after they are accepted to the school, which can take up to two weeks. Starting two weeks behind classmates, puts a student at a disadvantage and can lead to choosing not to come back. The ofﬁce of admissions hopes that admission deadlines can help keep students from falling behind. “Whereas in the past we were just here, now we have a very focused marketing campaign,” Haynes said, adding that by putting the word out about Metro, it can generate more interest. Part of the reason students want to move on is that Metro is viewed in some people’s eyes as a steppingstone, but Haynes wants people to see that Metro can offer an education on par with schools such as Colorado State and University of Colorado at Boulder.

THE METROPOLITAN « NOVEMBER. 15. 2007 « METRO « A5

Innovative lighting illuminates King Center By ANDREW FLOHR-SPENCE spencand@mscd.edu When the curtain opens and the actors take the stage, audiences at Auraria’s Rawls Courtyard Theatre in the King Center are seeing things in a whole new light, literally. Metro’s Theatre Association was one of ﬁve student programs awarded part of a $25,000 budget surplus from changes made to the Student Affairs fee this year. The Theatre Association chose to upgrade its lighting. Behind the scenes, three of the black lamps hanging from the theater’s ceiling represent the newest technology on the market worth more than $3,000 each. The ones in the theater now are rented, but Metro has ordered three of its own. “It’s all about the color,” Metro’s lighting designer Jacob Welch said. The new lights can be changed to any color in the spectrum at the touch of a button, whereas the old lamps needed a colored gel placed in front. “With this you can just mix it ... and you can change color in zero seconds,” he said. Traditional theater lights have bulbs similar to a household lamp. The new lights use Light Emitting Diode technology, the same used to illuminate cell phones and watches. The bulbs never need to be changed and the lamp has a 30-year lifespan. Megan Euler, Metro’s theater production manager, said the new technology may cost more than three times more up front, but over the lifetime of the equipment, the modern LEDs will cost 75 percent less than the older bulbs.

“The campus really is making an effort to be more environmentally sound ... and we would like to step on that bandwagon,” she said. LED lights use a fraction of the electricity that an incandescent bulb does and create less heat, which makes them safer. Welch said that the department has decided to invest in the new technology from now on and that they have up to 80 to replace. “It doesn’t seem like much,” Euler added. “But it actually makes a huge difference.” Making a difference was exactly what the Student Affairs Board was hoping to achieve with the $25,000, said Andrew Bateman, who is student chair of the SAB. Bateman said that the Board, which is made up of students, faculty and administrators, wanted the money to go toward things that would directly improve the student experience at Metro. The money came from two changes. The ﬁrst was a change in the structure of the Student Affairs fee from a per credit, to a two-tiered system. Taking effect fall semester, the new system charges those with less than six credits $36 and those with six or more credits $58. Second, the SAB reduced its ‘rainy day’ emergency fund from 10 percent to 6 percent of the yearly budget, which is more in line with common practice, Bateman said. When it asked for applications, the Board received a total of $42,000 in requests from the ﬁve programs. They reviewed the requests and decided what was most needed. Instead of getting six new LED lights, the theater got three, for example.

Photo by DAWN MADURA/dmadura@mscd.edu

After receiving a portion of funds granted by the Student Aﬀairs Board the Theatre Association decided to invest in new high-end lighting instruments. Welch said that while the theater could have used more money, they had not expected the money from SAB at all, so they were just happy to get anything. “We are just honored that they (SAB) felt that there was a need and that this was something that was a good service to the college and the students,” he said.

PROGRAMS TO RECEIVE MONEY » » Office of Student Media for radio equipment » Center of Visual Art for high-performance color printer » Peer Education Program for new computer and canopy for outdoor events » Employees of Student Activities, GLBTSS, Campus Recreation, Womens Studies and Career Services for an employee development program

Controversial author speaks out against corporations By ALEX HERBERT aherber4@mscd.edu The U.S. created the ﬁrst global empire without the use of military action and Americans have the opportunity to turn this empire into a sustainable, stable and peaceful network, said author John Perkins on Nov. 8 at the Tivoli Turnhalle. His book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than one year. It not only details the covert operations that crafted the world’s ﬁrst truly global empire but also the campaigns for a sustainable, stable and peaceful planet for future generations. The U.S. State Department has stated that, “His (Perkins’) claim that he was acting as an ‘economic hit man’ at the behest of the NSA appears to be a total fantasy.” The U.S. State Department also said that the U.S. has a proposal to

forgive 18 of the world’s most destitute countries of their debt, which could add up to about $40 billion. Perkins claims that the money owed to the U.S. by some of these countries could never be reimbursed and that these countries often repay in favors. It is through these economics that the United States has crafted the ﬁrst-ever global empire, which leads to the question of who is the emperor, Perkins said to the hundreds of Auraria students gathered to hear him speak. The people who run the leading corporations are the emperors of the American empire, Perkins said, adding that the leaders of these corporations know that their goal in managing a company is to make proﬁts and ignore social and environmental effects. Many corporations give money to political campaigns here in the U.S., Perkins said, and some own me-

dia outlets. Perkins went on to say that CEOs don’t serve a limited term and don’t have to report to anyone, which makes the CEOs the emperors, not the government officials who are elected to office. “Until we turn these corporations around, no matter who we have elected to office, we are not going to really change the system,” Perkins said, stressing that Americans can create a better world by sending the message to corporations that profits shouldn’t be their only goal. Perkins said that Americans have power over the corporations and control them by the items that are bought and said that companies do not intend to harm and only want to bank profit. Perkins has worked with many CEOs throughout his life and said that he does not believe they are bad people. “I have never met one that

wanted to see Florida sink beneath the oceans. I have never met one that wanted to see the ozone layer go away,” he said, adding that CEOs are just afraid of losing their jobs or proﬁts. “The people who run these corporations are us. They’re on our side too. We all want to create a sustainable, stable and peaceful world. So we need to work together to do this,” Perkins said. Perkins is founder of the Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance, which are nonproﬁt organizations devoted to improving the world. Perkins lectured and taught at universities on four continents and champions environmental and social causes. His new book The Secret History of the American Empire was published in more than 30 different languages and is currently on the New York Times bestseller list.

Photo by CORA KEMP/ckemp4@mscd.edu

John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, talks to students Nov. 8 in the Tivoli Turnhalle about the diﬀerent ways to help our failed system, the economy.

THE METROPOLITAN « NOVEMBER 15. 2007 « METRO « A7

DNC MAKES A HOME AT THE PEPSI CENTER The Democratic National Convention Committee provided a walk-through at the Pepsi Center Nov.13 to many diﬀerent media representatives from all over the nation. The DNCC talked to the media trying to make sure their needs are accommodated for the DNC next August.

Photo by CORA KEMP/ckemp4@mscd.edu

Light rail bike pass required, few have one By AMY WOODWARD awoodwa5@mscd.edu Riders who bring their bikes on the light rail not only need to show proof of payment but must also take a short safety quiz and obtain a permit in accordance to RTD’s enduring safety policy. But after talking to a handful of Metro students who use their bikes and the train to get to and from campus, each student declared that they have never been asked for a bike permit. Bike permits are free and easy to apply for. The quiz is simple, asking questions such as, “How do you store your bike while on the train?” and “Where are you required to board the train with your bike?” After completing the quiz, RTD responds by mailing

out a letter and a valid bike permit. The reason behind the policy is so bikers understand bike and courtesy rules, and so they are aware that there will be times when they could be denied ridership because of a full train. “There has to be some type of order and regulation,” said Daria Serna, media relations specialist in the RTD Public Affairs Department. Some of the students interviewed not only don’t have a bike permit, they are not planning on making any efforts to obtain one. “I am aware of the policy,” Metro student Becky Pier said. “But I didn’t (get a bike permit) because they don’t have conductors who check,” she said. Thomas White, who meets regu-

larly with teachers on campus and uses his bike and the train to get around, said he has never been asked to show his bike permit in the two years he has been riding. “I got my license somewhere and have never been harassed,” White said. “Never.” When asked about the possibility that fare inspectors might be lenient toward a mandatory policy due to the response received from Metro students, Serna said she thought it was strange that students are not being asked for their permit. She maintained that RTD’s policy should be complied with since bikers may be asked to exit the train if they cannot show a permit. “Everyone does need a bike per-

mit,” Serna said. “It is mandatory.” Metro student Jessica Wilson who bikes to school said the policy is important but bike safety on the light rail is common sense. “A policy like that should be in place,” Wilson said. “But to get a permit is kinda silly and a waste of time. They (RTD) could be spending their time doing better things.”

How to obtain a bike permit » Go to www.southeastlightrail.com. Scroll down and click on Light Rail Permit Card

FROM THE STREET» Should you or the state pay for funding for the new science building? Ken Lenhon Ashley Keith Brehm Schiwart Thompson Hensley “The state “The state should pay. I’m not going to use that building, and even now, most of my classes are in North Classroom.”

“It should not be added to tuition. They should try and get donations or make scholarship funds.”

should pay. Students have enough financial stress with fees and loans already.”

“It depends on the requirements. If the tuition was raised, would it just be those who use the building, or would it be everyone?”

Photo by KRISTI DENKE/kdenke@mscd.edu

RTD requires passengers with bicycles to have a permit. The system has failed, with many unaware of its existence.

Allison Barrett

“The state should pay. A lot of people go to Metro because of the lower tuition, and it would make it hard for a lot of students, especially if they do not use the building.” Photos by CORA KEMP/ckemp4@mscd.edu

THE METROPOLITAN » NOVEMBER 15, 2007 » A8

insight

SECOND THOUGHTS

The new constitution

A BIGGER VIEW »

Re: Pervez Musharraf “The apparent signal that the president is at last prepared to give up his uniform is the latest manifestation of the intensifying political manoeuvring that is occurring in Pakistan as the mid-October deadline for General Musharraf ’s re-election by the current national and provincial legislatures rapidly approaches. The urgency of the situation for General Musharraf comes from the fact that the current parliament’s term ends on October 15th while his own presidential term expires on November 15th. As the president’s supporters are in the majority in the current parliament, General Musharraf is trying to secure his re-election by ensuring that the presidential ballot takes place before the expiry of its term. (The president is elected not by universal suffrage but by an electoral college of lawmakers from both houses of the national parliament and from the four provincial assemblies. Many observers might wonder why General Musharraf is bothering to try to get re-elected, given the fact that he took power through a military coup and that, under his rule, Pakistan has become a quasidictatorship. (His opponents claim that he has unconstitutionally manipulated the political system to stay in power.) However, it remains in his interests, for the time being at least, to secure parliamentary endorsement for his presidency and to continue to work nominally within the political system, in order to avoid the more provocative option of declaring martial law. The combination of General Musharraf ’s reluctance, thus far, to resort to direct rule and the rapid approach of the deadline for his reelection explains the recent flurry of tactical manoeuvres by various interested parties, of which the statement to the Supreme Court by General Musharraf ’s lawyer is but the latest example. As October 15th—the key date by which the presidential election must take place if it is to be held under the current parliament’s tenure—approaches, all the players are making their moves.” -THE ECONOMIST Nov. 10 editorial

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

News is better served upside down I have long been in need of a more effective way to watch the news. Simply watching it in common fashion isn’t sufficient to allow oneself the focus to fully grasp whatever terrible, perverted thing is going on at any given time. This is probably due mostly to the fact that any report made on the news is almost certainly a lie to whatever degree necessary to keep the people comfortably alarmed. It’s genius really, but it isn’t respectable for a nation that still thinks its foundations are truth, decency and justice. And there’s Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, on CNN warning the media about the horrible fate coming down on all of Pakistan. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf opted to shelve the country’s constitution just before the new elections in order to implement his own “emergency rule” for reasons that nobody on any channel seems able to explain other than to say that threats from phantom terrorists and homicidal militants have grown more imminently dangerous within the country. More dangerous, apparently, than the fact that Pakistan seems to have been bamboozled into following what turned out to be an ineffectual and utterly useless constitution. Let that be a lesson to the United States. At any rate, none of what has been happening in Pakistan has

made very much sense, and everything I’ve heard about this terrible mess is undoubtedly a tactical deviation from the truth. And without the truth, we all may as well lie down and die like pigs. And since I believe strongly in the truth, I decided that I’d try to watch a fair mix of MSNBC, CNN, FOX, C-SPAN and BBC, all while sitting upside down on my couch in hopes that an inverted point of view would present an opportunity to make sense of the Pakistani disaster. I’ve had a theory that watching the news upside down would allow for more focus on the content of stories and less on the intolerable newscasters, the silly news-tickers and the weird, depressing headlines emblazoned on the screen. My hypothesis turned out to be true, perhaps only because I thought it bound for certain success, but maybe because my thinking became more and more unfamiliar as my head filled with blood. Either way, I felt that I was beginning to understand the gruesome realities of the Pakistani situation. Unfortunately, the blissfulness that comes with hanging upside down overtook my concentration like six shots of moonshine and rendered me unable to focus on the news for very long before I began cooing like a child and giggling to myself for reasons that I cannot explain.

JIMMIE BRALEY jbraley@mscd.edu After becoming nauseous, I decided to abandon that approach, and positioned a piece of glass underneath the television and focused on the reflection as best I could to achieve a similar effect. The results were the same. The news simply made more sense from a reversed perspective and it’s obvious that George Bush’s mark is painted all over this Pakistani nonsense. He is probably just as involved in it as Musharraf. Pakistan under Gen. Musharraf has been one of the Bush administration’s most loyal pawns in the Middle East since the World Trade Center buildings came crashing down. The only logical explanation for the uncharacteristically feeble response by the United States to the Pakistani chaos is that George Bush and his cronies are backing it, secretly of course, and that the only reason they even bothered to issue any sort

of “demand” to the Musharraf government at all is that people would start bitching like ovulating women if they didn’t. I say feeble, of course, because had the Bush administration really been opposed to the indefinite “emergency rule” they would have flooded people’s minds with the familiar anti-foreigner, pro-democracy rhetoric that is often used to confuse the poor, stupid American proletariat into obediently following whatever greedy, murderous plan is being constructed behind the scenes. This hasn’t happened, and the situation remains a bizarre drama happening thousands of miles away. And like any other terrible drama played out on the world stage, the American people don’t seem very interested in finding out how it might affect their happy, little, queer-ass reality or, God forbid, actual reality. Whoa and there it goes. I predict that we’ll be seeing Musharraf for some time to come. Probably at least until the Bush administration can appoint a new agent to the throne. You see, these people don’t give two squirts of piss about the Pakistani election cycle. They’ve got a pawn in place and have every conceivable intention of keeping him there. Don’t be fooled; what happens in Pakistan doesn’t stay in Pakistan. Nope, this definitely isn’t Vegas . . . well, other than the analogous fact that we’re all definitely losing.

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JOSIE KLEMAIER » FEATURES EDITOR » jklemaie@mscd.edu

Bridge to Berlin

Metro’s production of Cabaret brings the smoky nightclub to the King Center » by Ryan Armstrong, rarmst17@mscd.edu

Photo by GREG DAILY/gdaily4@mscd.edu

Athena Moore, Jose Zuniga, Courtney Capek, Ariel Ellis and Morgan Healy perfom the closing scene of Cabaret which is showing in Auraria’s King Center.

Metro’s production of Cabaret is filled with a cast that gratifies the audience through song and scene, with a set that simulates an old nightclub where, as the Emcee states, “even the orchestra is beautiful.” Cabaret takes place in Berlin before Hitler comes to power. Clifford Bradshaw, a young American writer, sets out for Berlin to write a novel and is met by a man on the train who helps him find a place to live. The man introduces him to another world at a Berlin nightclub, or cabaret, and Clifford gains the companionship of singer Sally Bowles. Clifford is swept up in the lives of Sally, his landlady Fraulein Schneider, her romance with Herr Schultz and his sailorfriendly neighbor Fraulein Kost. Sally, Clifford and friends discover contentment with one another as doom hovers all too near. In Metro’s version, a cast of more than capable players adorns a set that gives the audience a taste of life in a real cabaret. Though surprisingly bare, with only a two-leveled back and tables set sporadically around the sides, the dimly lit, smoke-filled stage completes the package. In the first number, “Willkommen,” lights glow above the stage and welcome the audience into the club. The emcee, played by Jose Zuniga, immerses the audience in his club with every gesture, look and line throughout the production. Even when he knows he already has the audience captivated, he continues to impress through tongue-in-cheek humor, delivering bawdy suggestions. However, the emcee’s presence on stage during the second act outside of the club was unexplained and questionable, taking away from the scenes going on, and he would not have been so sensational without his Kit Kat Klub Girls, who are carnally divine. Winston King plays American Clifford Bradshaw. King makes a naïve entrance as a writer, which eventually turns into an awakening rush to get back home. One of Clifford’s other interests is the omnipresent Sally Bowles, a star singer and dancer

at the cabaret. Beka Lancaster’s Sally loses her intention at times, confusing the audience, but her voice penetrates through every number. Her rendering of the song “Cabaret” is one to be remembered. In the middle of the song, a realization of what is actually happening hits Sally, and Lancaster registers that incredibly. Fraulein Schneider, played by Anna High, presents her budding romance and heartbreaking loss exquisitely through voice and character. Other notable actors are the defiant but surviving Rob Janzen as Ernst Ludwig, sweet and oblivious Max Peterson as Herr Schultz and the siren-like Kytriena Payseno. None of this could be accomplished without the orchestra, which played flawlessly. Come to the Cabaret, where beauty takes the stage in this sensual, humorous and, in the end, poignantly solemn production. Cabaret first opened in the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway in November 1966. The original cast ran for 1,165 shows and featured Jill Haworth as Sally, Bert Convy as Clifford and Joel Grey as the Emcee. The musical won several Tony awards in 1966, including Best Musical. Since then the show has been revived twice for stage performances and once for the big screen. The 1972 film version starred Liza Minnelli as Sally and was directed by Bob Fosse.

Info » Showtimes:

7:30 p.m. Nov. 8-10 2:20 p.m. Nov. 18 Located in the Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theater

Prices:

Adults: $15 Students with ID: FREE Seniors: $8 For tickets and Reservations call: (303)-556-2296

Shoe Shine, the art of sneakers » B3

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Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire? A: Frostbite! CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Resting place 5. Powdery residue 8. Speech issue 12. Like some symmetry 14. Authentic 15. Lazy, inactive 16. 18th letter of the Greek alphabet 17. Intentions 18. Escaping ﬂuid 19. Sebaceous cyst 21. Edible tuber 23. Center Ming 24. Abbreviation of the name Edward 25. Cleaning agent 26. Acquiescence 30. Fortune-telling cards 32. Juice of the rubber tree 33. Lush 37. Aﬃrm solemnly 38. Paris end 39. Purim month

SUDOKU

40. Inﬂammation of the retina 42. “Hooray!” 43. Roof overhangs 44. Joined 45. Soft food for infants 48. For each 49. Non-dairy milk 50. Alleviation of pain 52. Advocate of democracy 57. Toward the mouth 58. Honest 60. Currency unit in Nigeria 61. Baseball team 62. Heavy metal 63. Gambler 64. Obtains 65. Son of Jacob 66. Trim

Nov. 15 puzzle from www.crosswords.com. Solution available online.

DOWN 1. American space agency 2. Way out 3. [Oh, well] 4. Domesticated 5. Melody 6. Total 7. Evening star 8. Rhythmic swing 9. Perfect, something to aspire to 10. Stony gray 11. Black tea 13. Voicebox 14. ___ -shanter (Scot tish cap) 20. Cereal grass 22. Scent 24. Hire cars 26. Chemical used on trees 27. Rescue 28. Let it stand 29. Strange and mysterious

30. North African capital 31. Jewelled crown worn by women 33. Unit of capacity 34. According to the Bible, he was the ﬁrst man 35. Church center 36. Stepped 38. Quintuplex 41. Back of the neck 42. Surpassing 44. Male cat 45. Fork 46. Nest of a bird of prey 47. Factory 49. Transmit 51. Mid-month times 52. Faculty head 53. First son of Adam and Eve 54. Receiver Jerry 55. Extent of space 56. Fruit-ﬁlled pie 59. Seed of a legume

puzzle courtesy of www.websudoku.com

timeout

CUT CORNERS

geof wollerman and andrew howerton

MASTER PLAN

metropolitan staff and andrew howerton

WHERE IS THIS?

Be the ﬁrst to e-mail us the correct location and receive a free ticket to the Starz FilmCenter! Lucky you! Each week’s winner will also have the chance to have their photo printed in the following issue of The Metropolitan. Send e-mails to jklemaie@mscd.edu with “Where is this?” in the subject line.

NOW SHOWING AT THE STARZ FILMCENTER Come celebrate the 30th annual Starz Denver Film Festival! This event starts Nov. 8, lasts eleven days and features over 200 movies. For more information check out B4 and B5. For ﬁlm schedules go to www.denverﬁlm.org.

THE METROPOLITAN « NOVEMBER 15. 2007 « METROSPECTIVE « B3

Rocky Mountain red carpet rolls out By DAVID STRUNGIS dstrungi@mscd.edu

Sheriff Ed Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), but when we look into his sad, tired eyes, we wonder how he ever could. Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men is about a good man, Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin), trapped in a bad situation and hunted by even worse men. The most deplorable of these is Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a man driven by a sophisticated philosophy of violence and blood. After the idiosyncratic comedies of Intolerable Cruelty and The Lady Killers, No Country for Old Men is a return to form for Joel and Ethan Coen, who began their career with the suspense-thriller Blood Simple, and share writing and directing credit for No Country. No Country is an unsettling ﬁlm that poses uncomfortable questions with no easy answers. It deserves multiple viewings.

Opening night of the Denver Film Festival saw the Ellie Caulkins Opera House packed and buzzing with energy while local ﬁlmmakers and Academy Award winners walked the red carpet outside. Notable guests in attendance included director Norman Jewison (Moonstruck, In the Heat of the Night) and director Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces). The night kicked off with the presentation of the John Cassavettes award to Ron Henderson for his dedication and passion to the Denver Film Festival for the past 30 years. This will be the last year for Henderson, one of the founders of the festival in 1978.

Nov. 8, 2007: Opening Night: The Savages The Opening Night film was The Savages, a bittersweet movie starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They are terrific as two middle-aged siblings forced to care for their aging father who suffers from dementia. The Savages avoids the pitfalls of sentimentality with its sharp, cynical edge, and it manages to punctuate heartbreaking scenes with moments of comedy. It is a lovely film that opens for theatrical release January 28, 2008.

Nov. 10, 2007: Big Night: Juno On hand at the Denver Film Festival’s Big Night was director Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking) to introduce and talk about his new film Juno. It is a movie so magical you want to hug the stranger next to you when it is over. It is also another in a string of recent films that seems to capture the rhythms and patterns of youth and reflect back an optimistic vision of

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People step onto the sidewalk in front of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, lit in celebration of Starz’s 30th anniversary, after the opening night screening of director Tamara Jenkin’s The Savages on Nov. 8. the future. The story centers on pregnant, 16-year-old Juno (Ellen Page) and her decision to give the baby up for adoption to hopeful parents Mark (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa (Jennifer Garner). Everyone in this film is amazing, but it is Page (Hard Candy) who really shines. “She was setting the pace,” says Reitman, “The other actors were playing to her rhythm.” A lot has been made about first time screenwriter and former blogger and stripper, Diablo Cody. “I get so excited for first-time audiences of Juno,” Reitmansaid. “I think Diablo Cody is

going to do so much in her career, and you’ll always remember this was the night you discovered her.” In her ﬁrst outing, Cody provides a suitable female companion piece to the male driven Judd Apatow comedy Knocked Up.

Nov. 13, 2007: Mystery Film Revealed: No Country for Old Men How are the meek and the good to be defended from the violent and merciless? This question underlies the Coen brother’s new ﬁlm No Country for Old Men. “I’ll keep your man safe,” says

Nov. 13, 2007: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead At age 83, director Sydney Lumet (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon) has created a provocative and disturbing thriller about crime, guilt and the bonds of family. Starring Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Albert Finney, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead centers on the aftermath of a botched jewelry store robbery and the events that lead up to it. This is not a ﬁlm about action as much as it is about the characters and the forces that drive them to make their decisions. Each actor brings the necessary weight and depth to the ﬁlm, but it is the pitch-perfect performance of Hoffman that is truly surprising. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead gets under your skin and sticks.

Denver Shoe Shine showcases some sketchy sneaks By LUISA ROMERO lromer24@mscd.edu The sneaker has evolved into more than just a means to cover and protect feet. It has now become an integral part in consumer culture as a source of one’s identity. This has spawned a “sneaker culture,” in which sneakers are bought, sold, traded, collected and even blogged about. The emergence of the sneaker as a symbol of identity has made the lowly shoe a popular canvas for the portrayal of culture and art. The local company Pulse Arts produces Shoe Shine, an exposé of sneaker art now in its second year. The event was held Nov. 3 in an underground warehouse called The Empire Building at 2936 Larimer St. and is the ultimate showcase of the top local artists from the Denver area. Promoters Lillian Marsh and Musa Baily put the inventive, interactive party together not only as a venue for urban art, but also as a fund-raiser for Pulse Arts, which they founded to help provide music and art programs for inner-city youth. “Shoe Shine is a massive event which provides young people, who often view sneakers as symbols of status or wealth, a channel to view them as art and as a medium to express their individual artistic abilities,” Baily said. “Shoe Shine is not just about sneaker culture but more or less the art scene here in Denver. It is a means of highlighting friends that are local artists and creating an appeal to different crowds.”

A mass collection of high- and low-top kicks, bombed and sprayed electric colors of the spectrum representing old and new grafﬁti art styles, were on display at the exposé. More than 300 pairs of custom-designed Nike, Pony and Adidas shoes beamed out of hand-built Plexiglas cases constructed by Metro student Caleb Pollman. Records on turntables ampliﬁed the background sound of breaks and scratches as DJs expressed colors in the tempo that the sneakers were vibrating. The event attracts people who are interested in street/urban culture who would not normally go to a museum. This is a “sneaky way to expose them or have them put their art in what is considered a museum at a community-based level,” Baily said. Jack Avila, a Metro art major whose artwork was on display, agreed. “It’s a great way for local talent to come together to create urban or street art on a whole other level than what is sometimes viewed as vandalism or destruction,” he said. Though Shoe Shine is a fairly new event, Marsh and Baily plan to make it an annual affair. They also have aspirations to take Shoe Shine on the road, making it a touring show that will span many cities in the United States starting in the spring of 2008. They have yet to determine which cities they will tour.

Photo by STEPHEN SWOFFORD/sswoﬀo1@mscd.edu

Some dolled-up street shoes proudly displayed at Pulse Art’s Shoe Shine Nov. 3 at The Empire Building. As sneaker enthusiasts entered The Empire, their first sight was a side room full of children utilizing their artistic skills on customized sneaker color-in templates. Inside the main room the Magnet Mafia, a group of players in the graffiti art scene, started “magnetic street art” by using magnets instead of walls to show-

case their art. Across the room, contemporary and urban works by artists Jack Avila, Peter Black, Brian Robertson, Scott Lafavor, Jay Paul and many more were superimposed on backboards of basketball hoops. The local, independent silk-screening shop “Indy Ink” distributed free T-shirts that were printed on the spot.

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NOVEMBER 15. 2007 « B5

Close to home

Metro students feel a need to feed their fellows and voice the vulnerability of struggling students to homelessness. » by Josie Klemaier, jklemaie@mscd.edu

THE FACTS ABOUT DENVER’S HOMELESS 28 %

claim job loss as the cause

23 %

say it’s because of rising housing costs

20 %

say they became homeless due to a family breakup

60 %

are families

29 %

are women

40 %

have jobs

Statistics taken from the Denver’s Road Home website, www.denversroadhome.org

ne year ago, Metro student Katie Lamoureaux was struggling to keep her grades together. She dropped many of her classes that fall semester. “It’s hard to study and concentrate when you’re hungry,” Lamoureaux explained this October, one year later. Lamoureaux, 33, was homeless beginning in the fall of 2006 until mid-spring 2007. She lived in shelters most of the time, but she remained enrolled at Metro with the help of administrators and teachers who didn’t want to see her fall away. Lamoureaux now lives in a studio apartment in Denver with her daughter Josie and has been spearheading an effort to make sure that other students do not study on empty stomachs. Along with Metro Student Government Assembly Senator Kyle Haley, Lamoureaux wants to establish a Metro-sponsored food bank on campus. Lamoureaux sees a need to accommodate students who, as she knows ﬁrsthand, may face difﬁculties when trying to get to outside resources while juggling full-time school and work schedules. Haley sees a need to give other students an opportunity to volunteer. They both see a need to raise awareness about homelessness and hunger among college students and have garnered support from Metro’s SGA, student organizations and a variety of administrators. “I thought if I would put my energy toward that as a good thing, then it would help me get through my days, turn that anger into productive energy,” Lamoureaux said. Three years ago this Christmas, Lamoureaux left her then-husband to escape an abusive relationship, and she and her four children, aged 4 to 11, moved into government subsidized housing in South Dakota. When she decided to move to Denver in the spring of 2006 to live with her mother and attend college, Lamoureaux’s ex-husband soon followed and took her three youngest children away from her. Traumatized by the loss of her children, Lamoureaux introduced Josie to her biological father, who then shared custody. “I went into shock and didn’t have a sense of reality for a while,” Lamoureaux said. Shock was followed by depression and posttraumatic stress disorder and then homelessness. Lamoureaux didn’t want to go back to living with her mother, who she said allowed her ex-husband to take her three other children taken away from her.

The money she expected to get in a tax return never for students who are low-income, first-generation came. She enrolled at Metro, meanwhile sleeping on college students and students with disabilities by friends’ couches, in hotel rooms, shelters and cars. finding them government grants and connecting “Going to school was so important,” them with resources. Johnson said that the proLamoureaux said. With everything else going so gram is fit to provide services for approximately 200 wrong in her life, her long-time goal of going to students but sees a number closer to 350. college was the one forward“We don’t see everybody on campus who has need, but moving thing she could still do. “With PTSD you always have to we see a good number,” Johnhave control,” she explained. “I son said. A Metro food bank realized that I have to take care would help relieve the strain of what is here and now and evput on Student Support Sererything will hopefully fall into vices. “It would give us an immediate source right here on place.” Though almost all moneycampus that we could direct strapped college students are, as starving students to, and there hasn’t been anything like that the saying goes, one paycheck away from being homeless, the at all,” she said. perseverance that gets them The Office of Student Life at CCD has been operating a into college, often keeps them there against all odds. “I’D LIKE STUDENTS TO food bank out of a closet in University of Colorado at their room for more than 10 OPEN THEIR EYES TO years. Its resources, which Denver student Jesse Weight, SEE THAT WHEN THINGS also formerly a homeless colmainly include canned goods lege student as a result of PTSD, and “quick meals” that can ARE REALLY GOOD, YOU be prepared on campus for said that pride is often an issue ALSO HAVE TO THINK among the homeless student. lunch, as well as some hygiene THAT THERE’S OTHER “You’re never going to know beproducts, clothes and famcause they’re never going to tell ily-friendly meals, which are PEOPLE WHO AREN’T you,” she said. available to every CCD student DOING SO WELL.” Weight, who also suffers regardless of their financial from PTSD after various insituation, Student Life Direccidents of abuse and assault tor Jerry Mason said. while living in Los Angeles, is “So many students utilize now married, has a job and a it,” Mason said. “College is house, and she works with UCD CoPIRG Chapters. financially tough for any student no matter what The organization hosted various Denver homeless kind of situation they are in.” advocacy groups and services in order to recruit Mason said that all students who attend new student volunteers Nov. 12 in the Tivoli Multicul- student orientation are informed of the food bank tural Lounge. Weight noted that college students and told not to feel ashamed for needing to use it at especially are vulnerable to living on the verge of any time. Many of the items come from donations, as well homelessness. “If anybody experiences any sort of tragedy, they can be close to homelessness,” she as funds provided by CCD’s student government. The food bank is run by students who work in the said. Student support offices at both the Community Office of Student Life and is available to access from College of Denver and Metro have seen students in 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Leaving a name with their offices in various stages of homelessness who the food bank is optional, but each pickup is recorded. Each week, 40-50 students come by the office to are, like Lamoureaux, determined to stick it out. “One of our students is living in a shelter right pick between one and six items apiece. Lamoureaux and Haley looked to CCD’s food now,” said Maureen Johnson, academic coordinator at Metro’s Student Support Services. The depart- bank as an example, but they are searching for a ment is part of the U.S. Department of Education’s more substantial space in order to possibly expand TRIO program, which provides academic support services in the future. The idea of a food bank for and

KATIE LAMOUREAUX

by Metro students is in its infant stages and, ironically, is struggling to find a home of its own. With space at such a premium at Auraria, Lamoureaux and Haley have met dead ends in searching for a space discrete enough to give students privacy, yet large enough to accommodate their goal. Despite the slow moving process, there is plenty of support. Emilia Paul, the interim associate vice president of Metro’s office of Student Life, has agreed to help propose funding from a one-time project fund for the food bank’s start-up. “We definitely have a need for this,” Paul said. ‘We need to step up to the plate.” “The really cool thing right now that’s been great is that we have so many entities on campus involved,” Haley said. “It shows that the campus can really come together on stuff.” Meanwhile, Katie Lamoureaux is on her way to gaining sophomore status as she studies criminal justice and human services. She said that the workstudy money allotted to her for work in the African and African-American Studies and Chicano Studies Departments has run out. She has November’s rent paid with money she borrowed from a friend and is currently looking for a job in Denver close to campus, but she is not sure where December’s rent will come from. She hangs onto her mission to establish this food bank the way she clings to her goal of graduating college and obtaining her master’s before she is 40. Most of all, she wants students to know that the issue is always close to home. “I’d like them to know both how they can stay out of it themselves and how to be aware that it can happen at any time,” she said. “I’d also like them to make other people aware. I’d also like students to open their eyes to see that when things are really good, you also have to think that there’s other people who aren’t doing so well and that need some attention or some help along the way. “

Photos by LOGAN LYLES/llyles@mscd.edu

Katie Lamoureaux and her daughter Josie sit in their Denver apartment in October. Just a year earlier, Katie was homeless as she struggled with her classes at Metro. Now she wants to establish a Metro food bank and raise awareness about homelessness.

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Was the 2005 national housing wage. The amount represents the hourly wage a household must earn while working 40 hours per week, 52 weeks a year in order to afford on average a two bedroom apartment.

Colorado’s rank in most expensive state or territory for housing. Washington D.C. ranked highest, while West Virginia was the least expensive state in the union for housing. Puerto Rico, however, ranked lowest among United States territories.

The number of jobs paying minimum wage and working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year need per household to afford a two-bedroom apartment at Fair Market rent using 30 percent of income. Colorado was one of 13 states to require more than three jobs.

Statistics from Out of Reach 2005, a study of the cost of every housing jurisdiction in the nation, sponsored by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, released in 2005.

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UPCOMING SHOWS » Thursday 11.15

Old Crow Medicine Show 8 p.m. @ The Boulder Theater $22, All Ages

Friday 11.16

JJ Grey and Mofro w/ The New Mastersounds 9 p.m. @ The Ogden Theater $18, 16+

Cracker w/ Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit

9 p.m. @ The Bluebird Theater $25.50, 21+

Zappa Plays Zappa

7 p.m. @ The Fillmore Auditorium $45, 16+

Saturday 11.17

The English Beat w/ Synthetic Elements 8 p.m. @ The Gothic Theater $20, 16+

Of Montreal w/ Grand Buffet and MGMT

8 p.m. @ The Ogden Theater $16, 16+

Tuesday 11.20

Chris Cornell w/

8 p.m. @ The Fillmore Auditorium $37+, 16+

Juliette and The Licks w/ Scissors For Lefty and Suffrajett 8 p.m. @ The Marquis Theater $15, All Ages

SEE Q & A WITH JULIETTE LEWIS, RIGHT

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How many ‘Licks’ can we take? In this exclusive interview with the actress, singer, songwriter and Scientologist Juliette Lewis, music’s newest (and hottest) guitar-driven diva, gets down and dirty about Iggy Pop, Dave Grohl, nuclear fusion, the gooey, sweet stuff of male and female relations and rock ’n’ rolling after 30. » by jeremy johnson » jjohn308@mscd.edu JJ: When did you decide to become a rock star? Juliette: So when did this all start? Well, as a little, wee lass I was always obsessively connected to music, no lie. I would use music … in my acting. When I later started out, when I was a kid and dreaming the dream, I was expressing myself through three different channels: drama and performance art because I’m very physical, and music. Then I started acting and got successful and got complacent because that’s all I knew was (acting). And then it became more and more scary to venture out on my own and do music. So I went through some life experiences, and I lived a little, which is a good thing. To start a rock band at 30 is very different than how I would have started it at 20. I would’ve been done by 22. But at 30 I have loads of life and hunger. This is the bane of my existence, this hunger and drive, and I find that music completely fulfills it. So what we’re doing now, we’ve discovered our rock sound. Our early stuff was really juvenile but, still, you’ve got to make juvenile rock songs. JJ: Well isn’t that in essence the spirit of rock ’n’ roll? Juliette: We’re obviously not a proud rock band. We come from the loins a lot of the time with things like “Hot Kiss” and “Sticky Honey,” which doesn’t mean what you think it means. The boys thought it meant something else, and I was like ‘No!’ It’s the kind of gooey, sweet stuff of male and female relations. But anyway, I started the band at 30, and it’s not as cut and dry as some music journalists make it with ‘Oh, the acting must not be going well.’ That’s never what was going to complete me, performing. I have some actor friends who stay in character 24/7 when they do a project and they love movie-making. I love it to an extent and I hate to say this, but it doesn’t complete me. JJ: Fair enough. So where does your sound come from? Who are the band’s major influences? Juliette: I’m just a music lover through and through so I was like ‘Who am I musically? What’s my style?’ And so that was a bit of a discovery and I realized I do like guitar-driven rock. And, of course I love rhythm. So we’re full on, not bombastic, but a hardy, full rock ’n’ roll sound. I think there’s something fresh to what we do. But, who do I like? Originally I was into the old keyboard shit, you know, Blondie, The Cars. But the more I got into it and discovered who I am I discovered it’s about Joe Walsh, for me, Thin Lizzy, and Iggy and The Stooges, Led Zeppelin. Then there’s the new bands that blow my mind, like the new Queens Of The Stone

Age (album). I sat with my mouth wide open, shocked. JJ: That’s a good record. I love it, too. Juliette: Yeah, and the Foo Fighters were another good discovery. I never really listened to them. During the Nirvana period, I was listening to ’60s music, and I had just discovered Janis Joplin, going through that whole phase. JJ: So, speaking of the Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age, what about Dave Grohl? What was it like working with him? Juliette: Oh, what a genius. JJ: Yeah, he’s kind of a genius. Juliette (laughing): Yeah, a genius and a great guy. He’s really the greatest guy you’d want to hang out with. He’s been a big supporter of our band. Long story short we met at the Reading Festival two years ago. Dave came and checked out the band. He had heard about us because we’d been getting a lot of notice being over (in Europe). We were sort of each other’s musical counterpart. We’re like two … what is it when you make a nuclear explosive device and you have two igniters? JJ: Like nuclear fusion? Juliette: It is, but there’s something else. He really was a huge inspiration, kind of like a mentor, though that’s almost too formal of a word. So before the record came about we were just throwing these new ideas around. We were both just kind of silly like that and we were both into it and then my drummer at the time was leaving because he didn’t want to tour anymore. Some people don’t like to tour. They want this comfortable existence and that’s not this band. We’re touring. We’re going to be touring endlessly. So, we did some demos of “Hot Kiss,” “Mind Full Of Daggers” and “Bullshit King.” And then I came to him after we mixed them and said ‘Hey, look at this. It’s kind of magical. What’s say you stay on for the whole record?’ JJ: Well, he did a great job. Juliette: It’s really nice because he just supplies the engine to our style. He’s like a Michael Jordan or a Miles Davis. You know, anybody who’s so superior to what they do it’s just gorgeous to be next to. JJ: Where do you get all your stage energy? Juliette: It’s from the drums … it’s from electric guitar and drum and bass … they light my ﬁre! And then it’s the energy of the crowd. I like to see the faces go from curiosity or boredom to where people let go. When you come to a Licks show it’s crazy and people are losing their minds in the riffs … in a healthy way.

Read the full interview online at: http://www.mscd.edu/~themet

Photos by CHRISTINE COOL/ccool1@mscd.edu

Clockwise from front: Juliette Lewis (lead vocals) is the frontwoman for Todd Morse (guitar), Jason Womack (bass) and Ed Davis (drums) of The Licks. The band returns to Denver Nov. 20 at the Marquis Theater in Denver. Below: Lewis gets her ‘licks’ in Sept. 17 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison.

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Shooter’s aim is true on ‘The Wolf’ By EVAN LUTHYE eluthye@mscd.edu

Shooter Jennings is the Renaissance man you probably have not heard of. You may have seen him in the film Walk the Line. If you subscribe to Sirius Satellite Radio, you may have heard his weekly show on the Outlaw Country station. You may not be familiar with his music, but you ought to be. Shooter Jennings and the .357s’ new CD, The Wolf, is an upbeat album that refuses to subscribe to a single genre. The “check-all-boxesthat-apply” description on the band’s MySpace website calls their style “country/southern rock/rock,” but the sound also fits into the “Outlaw” movement started by his father, Waylon Jennings, and Johnny Cash and others in the 1960s. The band’s first studio album set precedents for both their music and country music with the title track “Put the O Back in Country.” The 2005 album spit in the face of mainstream country and the pop, cookiecutter sound that dominates it. Jennings and the .357s continue their retroactive push with their third studio album The Wolf. The first two tracks on the album, “This Ol’ Wheel” and “Tangled Up Roses,” are not very strong and start the album slowly.

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Pat Benatar The CD is kick-started with the third track, a cover of Dire Straits’ “Walk of Life.” From there, the CD never looks back. Jennings, who writes the majority of the band’s music, puts every emotion into his work. Listening to any of the band’s albums, the audience will notice the mood and sound shift with every track. Despite the fact that their music fits into several genres, there are songs on each album that cannot be defined by any standard and are original to the point that they are their own genre. The songs that fit into this category have a tell-it-like-I-see-it attitude with nontraditional key and time shifts. “The Wolf,” “Higher” and “Last Time I Let You Down” showcase this sound. The Wolf, released on Oct. 23, is a good starting point for those not familiar with Jennings’ work. From Class Heroes. They all play different types of music and have all been on the Billboard charts at one time or another. To celebrate their success, they all agreed to play The Young Wild Things Tour, scheduled to perform in Denver Nov. 23 at University of Denver’s Magness Arena. The headliner is Fall Out Boy, a punk band that earned fame from their third album, From Under the Cork Tree. The record went double platinum, selling 2.5 million albums in the United States. Their newest al-

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With his new album The Wolf, Shooter Jennings, continues to carry on the “Outlaw” country style made famous by his father, Waylon Jennings, as well as Johnny Cash and other country music legends. there, you should try their first album, Put the O Back in Country (2005); progress to Electric Rodeo (2006); and once you are settled in, check out Live at Irving Plaza: 4.18.06. Shooter Jennings and the .357s are almost always on the road. Their bum, Infinity on High, debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1. For those not familiar with FOB, you may know their resident hottie and bass guitarist Pete Wentz, who is currently dating Ashlee Simpson. Not only have band members been critically acclaimed for their musical talent, but some of them also have acting experience. Wentz made an appearance on the CW network’s One Tree Hill. Wentz, of course, played Peyton Sawyer’s love interest for a few episodes until she dumped him for a local on the hit show. The Plain White T’s are best known for their acoustic song, “Hey There Delilah.” The track originally appeared on their third album, All That We Needed, but didn’t earn much recognition. They rereleased the song on their latest album, Every Second Counts, as a bonus track, and it earned a spot at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Because the rerelease strategy worked in the past, The Plain White T’s figured it might work again, so they rereleased their second album, Stop,

last stop in Denver was in late September, but they are sure to be back soon. The band improvises live with the same originality that makes their albums whole and sound. For more information visit: www.shooterjennings.com on Nov. 6. Following in the footsteps of FOB, they have also made cameo appearances, acting in ABC Family’s show Greek. The only hip-hop band performing on The Young Wild Things Tour is Gym Class Heroes. Friends of FOB, the two bands never tour without each other. They appeared together on the Honda Civic Tour in mid2007. Their latest and most successful album, As Cruel As School Children, has warranted compliments from within the hip-hop community, and their single “Cupid’s Chokehold” gained a spot on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 4. Cute Is What We Aim For is the greenest band of the four, having formed in 2005. Their debut album The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch reached 75 on the Billboard 200 chart and has produced three singles: “There’s A Class For This,” “The Curse of Curves” and “Newport Living.” Before these bands become the next big thing in music and the price of their concert tickets skyrocket, it’s highly recommended to see all of them perform Nov. 23 on The Young Wild Things Tour. Then you will be able to say, “I saw those bands before … ”

– By Desiree Clark, dclark67@mscd.edu

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Punk rock’s never been so pretty. From left: Pete Wentz, Andy Hurley, Joe Trohman and Patrick Stump are Fall Out Boy. FOB will be headlining the Young Wild Things Tour Nov. 23 at the Magness Arena, featuring Plain White T’s and Gym Class Heroes.

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Being busted with pot is no high You out there in the courtyard puffing that cigarette that smells like a skunk; you know you can’t do that on campus. Trapping the smoke in the car doesn’t work either. I’ll sneak up to your window and catch you myself, just so you remember what it feels like to get busted. You barefoot, dancing hippie — your patchwork dress and purse are a calling card. You know you are breaking a law, but you are going to do it anyway. There is no official information about how many people at Metro smoke marijuana, but there can be if you and your stoner buddies all fire me an e-mail. Better yet — you know the time and the place, 4:20 p.m. at the flagpole. Do your part to clog the legal system. Despite voters’ opinions that pot smokers are the lowest priority criminal, they are still getting arrested. It doesn’t matter what part of the law is most important to the Denver police. They know they can get an easy bust. More than 200,000 people have been denied financial aid since the Higher Education Act was updated in 1998 to mandate questioning applicants about every controlled substance crime they have committed. Not a letter of explanation or even a word of defense is allowed. There’s just a box. You check it, or you don’t. If you have been convicted of a drug crime the federal government doesn’t want to give you financial aid. “I believe most people lie,” said Daniel Feely, lead adviser from Metro’s Financial Aid Department. A marked box gives the government permission to check an applicant’s legal record for drug charges, but an unchecked box gets looked over without a second thought. Hayley Jaqua was an easy target for a cop at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 19 on the 16th Street Mall. She made the mistake of throwing away trash involved in an arrest of a detox-bound drunk, Officer Jeffrey Thomason barked at her that she had interfered with a police investigation. He then had her patchwork purse searched by a female officer, who found a pipe and

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Jordan Dietrich and Hayley Jaqua stand behind Mark Silverstein, legal director for ACLU of Colorado, who spoke for making marijuana the lowest priority for the Denver Police Department. a small stash of weed. Jaqua also smelled like liquor from serving and spilling drinks at a golf tournament that day. A pink elephant is someone who stands out in a crowd. What you want to be is a fly on the wall so people dismiss you. This is basic-training mentality, but that is how cops think. You don’t want to be a pink elephant. That officer you are harassing about unfair practices does have more than one set of handcuffs. Bawling from the anger and humiliation of being singled out by a cop at the mall, Jaqua was offered a deal by Officer Thomason. If she stayed quiet she would not get a ticket. She stifled her pleas and took the deal and believed she would escape a ticket for her silence. The stash was less than one gram. That’s enough for one joint that will get three people ripped or for four conservative bowls. The 2005 city vote allows for an adult to legally possess up to 28 grams, or an ounce, of marijuana. Jaqua believed she was well within the boundary of a voterapproved law. A cop with something better to do would have crushed such a stash under his boot.

J. ISAAC SMALL jsmall4@mscd.edu Jaqua is a young woman with a patchwork skirt walking across campus in sandals. She smiles, and her eyes smile too, drawing attention to light glitter. Before long she is off to a meeting or class. She is treasurer of a school anthropology group and works full time at a busy sandwich restaurant on the mall. She is not a sofa decoration, addicted to Tony Hawk Proving Ground. Jaqua is a productive stoner, one who has many years of student loans to pay back. The amount she smokes does not matter, only that she got busted one time on the mall. The ability to finish her eight years of study at Metro relies on receiving financial

aid, something now in jeopardy due to this charge. Less than four hours later, after a detox trip costing $275 in fees, Jaqua suffered from the angry humiliation of being a pink elephant. She later found a ticket in her purse for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia. Jaqua’s court date is Dec. 10. If convicted of possession she will have to mark the box on her FAFSA, denying her financial aid. “I’m an honest person,” said Jaqua when she met her lawyer Nov. 9 at the Denver City and County Building. Holding back her fear of cameras, Jaqua has decided to speak out about her case, hoping to draw some attention to the lack of Denver’s appreciation for the will of the voters. “I don’t want this on my record. I want to be able to go to school,” she said. So, if you find yourself on campus this week fingering your babyfood jar in your pocket, or wandering out to your car between classes to hit your chillum, think about how unsafe you really are. You are one curious police officer away from busted.

AIDS is to blame for lack of role models in queer community Nic Garcia writes about “the lack of role models, older men and women for the young queer community to look up to and learn from” and that “there isn’t a culprit to pin this serious dilemma on.” I think the culprit for this huge generational gap in the “queer community” is the AIDS epidemic of the ’80s and the ’90s. It wiped out an

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entire generation of the crème de la crème of our community — the most artistic and creative gay people concentrated in the largest urban cultural centers of America. Remember, it was an era before the highly effective anti-viral drug cocktails that are available today. Every day, the obituary columns across the country were full of stories of amazing, young men whose lives were undercut so early. So, the people who could be our mentors today, the most talented and

the brightest, simply perished, and we have nobody to look up to, so to speak. The gay liberation movement of the ’70s that promised so much has stalled. When I think of the 1990s for the gay community, I think of it as a decade of mourning. Many artists who came to prominence in that decade tried to make sense of that “gay plague.” I think of Madonna’s “Live to Tell,” I think of Todd Haynes’ early films “Poison” and “Safe,” where the

mysterious illnesses that the main characters succumb to are clearly a metaphor for AIDS. Much of Tony Kushner’s writings deal with similar issues. The list could go on and on. I think it is important for us to remember what happened then and not to perpetuate the self-induced amnesia that is all too common in our community today. Sincerely, Dmitriy Ulyanov

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SIDELINE

THIS WEEK »

Friday 10.16

VOLLEYBALL NCAA FIRST ROUND Noon vs. UC-Colorado Springs at Kearney, Neb. BASKETBALL Women 6 p.m. at North Dakota Men vs. Dixie State at Auraria Court

Saturday 10.17

BASKETBALL Women 4 p.m. vs. Minnesota State Moorhead at Grand Forks, S.D. Men 7 p.m. vs. Langston at Auraria Court

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“It was one of the most frustrating experiences I ever had as a head coach. I was just sitting there helpless and there was nothing I could do or say to the players to make it better.” - Metro men’s soccer head coach Ken Parsons on the 81 loss to Midwestern State.

DID YOU KNOW »

Metro men’s basketball is ranked No. 13 in the preseason coaches’ poll. In addition, Metro forward Jesse Wagstaff and guard Marquise Carrington earned preseason RMAC and East Division honors. Also returning in the backcourt is guard Terrell Burgess, last seasons RMAC Defensive Player of the Year.

NUMBERS GAME » 8

Number of consecutive times that the Metro volleyball team has reached the NCAA tournament including 2007. They are the No. 6 seed and play RMAC rival UC-Colorado Springs in the first round. In the season they met twice and split the series 1-1.

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LEFT: Metro Midﬁelder Justine Montoya celebrates with teammates Nov. 9 following their 1-0 overtime win over West Texas A&M at Auraria Field. RIGHT: Metro senior forward Katie Kilbey comforts freshman forward Jakkie Greer Nov. 11 after their loss to Incarnate Word at Auraria Field. After Zollner missed a save opportunity in the sixth round of the shootout, Greer went on to shoot the ball wide right giving the Cardinals a 4-3 shootout win that ﬁnished the Roadrunners season.

Tale of two endings in tourney Metro triumphs over West Texas A&M in OT, misfires in shootout to Incarnate Word By ZAC TAYLOR ztaylor2@mscd.edu The final kick sailed wide of the goal, and Metro’s women’s soccer team ended a heart-stopping NCAA tournament. They fell 4-3 in a shootout to Incarnate Word Nov. 11, two days after topping West Texas A&M 1-0 in double overtime. In the sixth round of the rarely used shootout, after a 3-3 tie through the first five, ’Runners goalkeeper Rachel Zollner missed a hard shot by Cardinal forward Sarah Graef. Metro freshman forward Jakkie Greer missed the net on the following shot. The school from San Antonio advanced to the next round of the NCAA tournament and the home team finished their season. The comeback win was

just out of their reach. “In 2002, we won in 11 PKs. In 2007, we lost in six,” Metro head coach Danny Sanchez said of the two times his team has gone to a shootout. “That’s just the nature of the game.” The women’s ﬁnal match was lost by a hair, but the opening-round win against West Texas A&M on Nov. 9 was only one shot away from being a loss as well. “Any goal that I let in or the defense let in could be the game,” Zollner said after the close win. A goal against the No. 3 ranked Roadrunners could have been the end for the team throughout the game, as No. 6 West Texas A&M effectively shut down the high-scoring Metro attack for more than 105 minutes. Early on, the Buffaloes controlled the ball by taking three shots and putting pressure on the goal before the ’Runners even threatened to score. Finally, Metro found a rhythm on offense as they ripped off ﬁve shots be-

fore halftime, marking a renewed energy for the remainder of the match. “(West Texas A&M) started very well, but they were unfortunate,” Sanchez said. “They started to fade a bit later in the game.” After halftime, the fade became more visible, but Buffalo goalkeeper Lisha Jungmann kept her team in the game by making eight saves throughout the contest. The shots kept coming from the Roadrunners as they kept pressing for a goal to break the defensive deadlock. Yet, at the end of regulation, despite taking twice as many shots as the Buffs, Metro was still unable to get one past the keeper. “It was frustrating to have so many chances, and we couldn’t put them in,” Metro forward Becca Mays admitted afterward. Chances were few in the ﬁrst overtime as the players began to show fatigue in extra play. In the second overtime, Metro midﬁelder Justine Montoya took a corner kick, which

landed in the mix of players in front of the goal and ended in the back of the West Texas net off the foot of Mays. “(Metro forward) Katie (Kilbey) got a touch on it, and it’s just one of those plays where you’re in the right place at the right time,” Mays said. “We knew we were gonna get one. It was only a matter of time.” It had taken until the ﬁnal four minutes of the second overtime to get the winning goal, but the third shot in overtime by the high-scoring tandem of Mays and Kilbey ﬁnally gave Metro the result they needed to move to the second round. “It wasn’t pretty,” Sanchez said after the win, “but I think we deserved it after the pressure we put on them.” The Roadrunners’ defense held throughout the match, and the offense came through in the waning moments for a 1-0 decision and a

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Metro falls in conference tourney, prepares for NCAA Volleyball team exits first round to Western New Mexico, faces off against UCCS for third time By ERIC LANSING lansing@mscd.edu In an attempt to defend their 2006 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament Championship, Metro’s volleyball team couldn’t find their way past the first round losing in five games to Western New Mexico Nov. 9 in Kearney, Nebraska. The Roadrunners (15-14) had four players that posted double-digit kill totals, including 20 from outside hitter Kelsey Ellis and a game-high 29 from outside hitter Julie Green-McFarland. But 39 attack errors were too much to overcome in the 3-2 loss as the Mustangs only committed 23 in their .193 kill percentage. “Offensively we just really have struggled the last two to three weeks,” Metro head coach Debbie Hendricks said. “Our defense has been

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solid all year long … but we have had some miscues and some inconsistencies offensively.” Metro tallied 11 attack errors in game three, 10 in game four and six out of 28 attempts in the ﬁnal game where the Roadrunners’ kill percentage was a lousy .036. Even though the errors were too many for any team to expect a win, Hendricks said her team still had a chance to come out of the contest with a victory. “If we cleaned that up this weekend, then it’s a different weekend,” Hendricks said. “That’s what hurt us the more than anything.” The RMAC Tournament was the last for senior outside hitter Julie Green-McFarland and afterward the All-RMAC player was emotional. “I was really disappointed,” Green-McFarland said. “I actually got a little teary-eyed against Western New Mexico, only because obviously we all hate losing. I knew we could have beaten them and could have gone further.” Even with the ﬁrst-round loss in the conference tournament, the Roadrunners have clinched a spot in the NCAA Tournament earn-

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First round game Metro vs. UCCS Nov. 16 in Kearney, Neb.

Metro Roadrunners Record: 15-14, 13-6 in the RMAC RMAC Tournament: Lost in the ﬁrst round 3-2 to Western New Mexico Head Coach: Debbie Hendricks Key players: Julie Green-McFarland, OH - 504 kills, Kelsey Ellis, OH - 357 kills, Bri Ostler, L - 626 digs

UC-Colorado Springs Cougars Record: 20-11, 16-3 in the RMAC RMAC Tournament: Lost in the ﬁnals 3-1 to Nebraska-Kearney Head Coach: Jessica Wood Key players: Brooke Akers, MB - 451 kills, Diane Sheldon, OH - 313 kills, Andrea Weedman, OH - 454 digs

ing the sixth seed in the Southwest Region. They will take on the third-seeded Cougars from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (20-11), who went on to the ﬁnals of the RMAC Tournament before falling to Nebraska-Kear-

ney 3-1. “I like our draw. We beat UCCS (at home) and we played them tough (in Colorado Springs),” Hendricks said of the 3-0 win on Oct.1 and the 3-2 loss on Nov. 23. “We know exactly what we have to do to beat them. It’s just a matter of getting in there and doing it. They are a good team, and we have a great deal of respect for them.” Leading the charge for Metro’s next opponent is senior middle blocker Brooke Akers who was unanimously named to the All-RMAC Team. Akers finished the regular season third in the RMAC with a .333 kill percentage, third in kills with 451 and fourth in points per game with 4.60. “If anything we have to have them out of system,” Hendricks said. “We’ve done OK holding our own against Brooke...we didn’t allow them to get the ball to their weapons as much as they would have liked to. They are not a great out of system team.” The Roadrunners head into the NCAA Tournament with valuable experience they gained last year when they defeated Fort Lewis 3-1 in the first round before falling to Mesa State 3-2 in the second round. Defensive backs Bri Ostler and Amy Wantanabe, along with Green-McFarland played in those two games and will try to show the many new faces on the team how different tournament games actually are. Green-McFarland said their corps of freshmen are probably nervous, even though she knows their intent is to be ready and “kick some butt.” Ostler said she is ready to get back in the tournament and take the knowledge she gained from last year and use it to her advantage. “I think that I am a little more prepared for it,” Ostler said. “I realized that you can’t let down anytime during the tournament cause every team is good.” The RMAC Tournament Champion Lopers of Nebraska-Kearney earned a No. 1 seed in the Southwest Region and will host the first two rounds of the tournament. Metro will take on UCCS Nov. 16 at noon in the UNK Health and Sports Center.

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SOCCER » GREER MISSES PENALTY KICK IN 6TH ROUND OF SHOOTOUT, SEASON ENDS Continued from A11» ticket to the second round of the NCAA tournament to face No. 2 Incarnate Word. One promising aspect of facing a team with 17 regular season wins was having the game on Metro’s home field, a luxury originally given to the Cardinals. Unfortunately for the No. 2 seed, their school’s football field was being built, and the soccer fields were unavailable. So, in a stroke of luck, the ’Runners would have de facto home-field advantage despite wearing their allred, away jerseys. “We have a great field, awesome home-field advantage. We know it here, and we’re comfortable here, and we don’t lose very often,” Zollner said. The advantage didn’t appear early on against the women from San Antonio. Less than 10 minutes in, Graef opened the scoring as the forward beat multiple Metro defenders to receive a long pass from Cardinals defender Cassidy Ballantyne and loft it over Zollner. In recent history Metro women’s soccer team has been unable to come back after falling behind early. Through the first period, the possibility of being shutout seemed plausible after Metro could only muster four shots against Incarnate Word’s defense. The only good chance was a penalty kick taken by Mays, but she pushed the ball just right of the net. At halftime, Sanchez told his team to “play with a little more pride, play with a little more confidence.” When the second half began, the Roadrunners looked revamped. They played for the equalizing goal and for a renewed defense of the NCAA championship. Metro increased their tempo, and their resilience was rewarded when midfielder Jaclyn Percy finished

a long run down the sideline with a powerful kick that blew past Cardinals goalkeeper Ashton Caffrey to tie the game 1-1 in the 75th minute. Just a minute later came the Cardinal’s response: a header from leading scorer, forward Sarah Hernandez, to take back the lead 2-1. Once again Metro was called to make a comeback, and this time Mays had the answer. She took a pass from defender Carrie Aversano and placed the ball in the back of the net with under six minutes in the game, taking the match to 2-2 and another draw as time expired.

“It was frustrating to have so many chances, and we couldn’t put them in.” METRO FORWARD BECCA MAYS “It’s the beauty of soccer,” Sanchez said. “The way that we were able to miss a penalty kick and still come back and get two goals after being down 1-0 and 2-1 — I’m very proud of the girls.” After three goals in the second half, both teams had their defenses control an overtime that saw just four shots, three by Metro, as the teams refused to give up the ﬁnal goal. The Roadrunners couldn’t get the win, ending the second overtime knotted at 2-2. The game would go to a shootout, something only Sanchez had experienced. “You practice it, but it’s easy to hit them when it’s just your teammates,” Sanchez said.

Cardinals defender Michal Ravitz started the shootout on a high note for Incarnate Word, beating Zollner to the right on a shot that hit the post and bounced in for the lead. Neither Metro midfielder Madison McQuilliams nor Kilbey could even the score, but Zollner kept the opponents close with two saves in the next two rounds. Mays, who missed the penalty kick back in the first half, equalized the match in the third round. “I’m not missing two PKs in one day,” she said. “It’s not happening.” She calmly deposited the ball on the left side past the keeper’s reach,and the score stood 1-1 through three rounds. The next two rounds saw no letup with the shooters, and both Zollner and Caffrey allowed two scores to tie the game at 3-3 through the first five rounds. So it went to a sixth round, the beginning of a shootout-overtime in Metro’s longest match of the season. Graef stepped up to the ball and guided it past the keeper on the left side of the net, bringing the young Greer to the field for the first time in the game. Despite playing in just 10 games off the bench during the regular season, she took the field needing to beat the keeper to extend the match and the season. But her shot sailed left past the goal, and the Roadrunners’ 2007 season ended in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The loss finished a 16win season in which the young team topped the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and reached the NCAA tournament for the seventh consecutive season. “It’s a little sad,” Zollner said afterward, “but to say that I’m disappointed would really take a lot away from this team.”

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Metro midﬁelder Madison McQuilliams connects with the ball as West Texas A&M’s goalkeeper Lisha Jungmann rises to defend the goal in the Nov. 9 match. The Roadrunners won the game 1-0 in double overtime after a Becca Mays shot, assisted by defender Carrie Aversano, beat Jungmann to advance to round two. Metro women vs. West Texas A&M

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GAME SCORE 1 2 OT 2OT Total Metro .................... 0 0 0 1 - 1 West Texas A&M........ 0 0 0 0 - 0 STATS: Metro: Sh Becca Mays ...... 2 Katie Kilbey..... 3 M. McQuilliams 3 J. Stephenson... 2 Justin Montoya.. 2

G 1 0 0 0 0

A 0 1 0 0 0

WTAMU: Sh K. Kitchens..... 3 Adi Stein........ 2 M. Dominquez 1

G 0 0 0

A 0 0 0

GAME SCORE 1 Incarnate Word..........1 Metro .................... 0 STATS: Metro: Sh G Becca Mays ...... 5 1 Jaclyn Percy..... 1 1 Carrie Aversano 0 0 Katie Kilbey...... 3 0 Jessica Brown..... 1 0 J. Montoya......... 1 0

2 OT 2OT S Total 1 0 0 4 - 2(4) 2 0 0 3 - 2(3) A 0 0 1 0 0 0

Incarnate: Sh S. Hernandez 4 Sarah Graef.... 1 Lianah Flores 4 C. Ballantyne 0 Mallory Smith 2 Keri Dawson... 1

G 1 1 0 0 0 0

A 0 0 1 1 0 0

Men’s soccer collapses in round one of NCAA tourney Metro allows 8 goals in loss to Midwestern State, while scoring only one By ERIC LANSING lansing@mscd.edu Metro’s men’s soccer team allowed a season-high eight goals to conclude their season with an 8-1 beating at the hands of Midwestern State in the ﬁrst round of the NCAA Tournament Nov. 8 in Canyon, Texas. “It was one of the most frustrating experiences I ever had as a head coach,” Metro head coach Ken Parsons said. “I was just sitting there helpless, and there was nothing I could do or say to the players to make it better.” The Mustangs scored six ﬁrsthalf goals on 12 shots that kept the

Roadrunners from ever finding their game. Eight different players scored for Midwestern State, displaying their depth from 15 upperclassmen. “They were never unlucky,” Parsons said. “It seemed like every time they came onto our side of the field, they scored. I have never been in that kind of situation.” Fouls played a huge role in the contest as Metro committed 18 of them, which led to two goals on penalty kicks. The first came on the Mustangs’ second goal at the 9:18 mark when midfielder Daniel Brown was fouled by Metro goalkeeper Ryan Vickery, who came out of the goalkeeper’s box and tackled Brown on a breakaway chance. Metro’s offense, which put a conference-high 400 shots on goal during the regular season, never found

their groove, putting only four on Mustang goalkeepers Jeremy Turner and Shawn Carr. Their leading scorer Phillip Owen put only one of those shots on goal and scored the team’s lone goal in the 83rd minute on a free kick that came from 20 yards away. The defense hadn’t given up more than three goals all season before their Nov. 8 loss to the Mustangs, and the eight goals equaled the amount of goals the Roadrunners had given up in their previous 15 games. The season can be summed up as disappointing because the pieces seemed to be in place for a long tournament run for the ’Runners. The offense had the skill with forwards Shaun Elbaum and Owen in front of the net, midﬁelder Mark Cromie controlling the middle of the ﬁeld and the defense, which carried Rocky Moun-

tain Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year Garrett Sadusky and fellow defense back Andrew Donnelly, keeping opponents’ shots far from the net. “I think that the loss (of the game) is painful, but what is more painful is the loss of those five seniors,” Parsons said. “Those guys laid the foundation that set the bar for what Metro soccer should be about, and when you look at the program five years from now, you will look back at those guys who set the standard. So those guys leaving is much more painful.” All of the players mentioned will be moving on from Metro, and it will be up to the returning players such as junior midfielders Kellen Johnson, Ola Sandquist, Sam Rolph and Troy Hambrick, forwards Wynne Mason and Jeromy Meredith and starting

goalkeeper Ryan Vickery to continue the successful program that is the men’s soccer team. “Those guys coming back will reap the beneﬁts from the leaving seniors and will come back next year to keep the tradition of winning going at Metro,” Parsons added.

Metro men vs Midwestern State (11/9/07 Auraria) GAME SCORE 1 2 Total Midwestern State......6 2 - 8 Metro .................... 0 1 - 1 STATS: Metro: Sh Phillip Owen..... 1 Kellen Johnson 4 Mark Cromie..... 1 Ola Sandquist.... 1

G 1 0 0 0

A 0 0 0 0

WTAMU: Sh Daniel Brown 3 Robert Swann 2 D. Kastelic...... 3 Jeremy Elder 3 Obed Becerra 2 Kyle Kmiec.... 2

G 1 0 1 1 1 1

A 1 1 0 0 0 0