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Campus Involvement Week

NEWS Teacher cut?

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Take a wAJl( Student walkets collect pledges to raise money for AIDS care providers. pqe8 !

Kevin King digs in and makes lunch out of a gold fish at Wednesday's club recruitment day. The 'Club Eat Your Fish' display won 'best booth' at t.h e back-to-school festival.

Photos by Dominic Chavez

Investing in the future FEATURES

With in~er-city graduation rates at an all-time low,

From Ru with ...

MSCD outreach program gives kids a fighting chance Mike Hall

Professors come to MSCD to teach students a thing or two about Russian life. page 12

SPORTS It's my ball!

The Rugby club bruises the Bassalopes in their homeopener win. page 19

The Metropolitan

Until a year ago, nine out of 10 impoverished children in a low-income ~si ng complex neighboring Auraria campus stood little chance of ever donning the regalia of a high school graduate.

Now, the odds are better.

For the past year, children at the Lincoln Park Housing Development, located south of Auraria across Colfax Avenue, have enjoyed basic educational resources s uc h as dictionaries ~nd encyclopedias unavailable to them in their homes. The development's Educational Resource Center, the only one of its kind in Denver, also is furnished with what has warmed Lincoln Park's residents to what lies at the core of the center's popularity: a computer laboratory.

The lab is a vital ingredient in the center's effort to slash the number of its students who drop out of school , permanently.

A full 70 to 92 percent of children in low-income housing developments will never see the tail of a tassel, said Dr. Antonio Esquibel, a professor of English at MSCD and associate vice president of

the college's Community Outreach program. At Lincol~ Park, 89 percent of high school students do not graduate.

"If you ' re a student in a housing development, your chances of graduating from high school are almost nil ," said Esquibel, who collaborated with the University of Denver and the Denver Housing Authority to establi sh the learning center. · Lincoln Park houses 950 residents in 420 units. Over half of the residents, about 500, are children, 250 of whom are under 4 years old, said Tina Segura, director of the University of Denver's Bridge Project, the school's community outreach program.

The toddlers represent a bunker crop of potential drop-outs . But the center is targeting the children it sees as the greatest risk of leaving school, those in grades one to seven, who fall behind in class and never catch up.

"If you don't get those (math) time tables in third grade, you're going to have a hard time all the way through," Segura said.

To confront the formidable foe of educational attrition among its povertystricken children, Lincoln has armed itself with eight IBM computers, loaned by

MSCD in 1991 when the college upgraded its computer laboratories.

The computers are Loaded with educational programs about word processing, typing, basic math and how-tooperate a computer. Before classes at the center resume Sept. 25, computer software covering higher levels of math, crafting sentences, spelling and foreign language will be added, Segura said. Computer exercises for presch"oolers will also be available.

"We find that kid s get tired of programs fast," Segura said, explaining that new programs are needed to feed the c hildren 's mushrooming interest in computers.

Lincoln Park children also hunger for tutelage, and the undivided attention accompanying it.

"The kids just gravitate to our tutors and mentors," Segura said. "There's a real need for each student to have a mentor."

The center's tutors, all volunteers, assist the children with their school work and in learning from the resource center's growing trove of educational software.

More important, Esquibel said, is the

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Task force . divises plan for MSCD faculty reductions Katarina Ahlfort

Staff Writer Staff cuts may become a reality at MSCD if voters do not pass a I percent state sales tax increase in November, college President Thomas Brewer said.

A strategic plan for faculty cuts has been developed as a lead into the school's preparations for future economic threats, such as additional cuts in the state budget.

The Board of Trustees of State Colleges in Colorado last spring demanded

that all state colleges have a staff-reduction policy in place.

A special task force wrote the plan on staff reduction, the MSCD college administration reviewed it and the plan was sent to the Office of State Colleges.

David Williams, provost and vice president of Acad,emic Affairs, said if the tax increase does not pass, it will mean major cuts in the sc.hool's budget.

"The last thing we want to do is to cut the academic programs," Williams said. "First of all, we'll reduce the support services."

Brewer said there is a plan to cut staff if the college is forced to make cuts.

"If the sales tax is not passed, the staff cut is a reality," Brewer said.

However, he said he does not expect cuts in the 1992-93 staff.

"If the state cuts the funds drastically, it will trigger a reduction," he said.

"We don't know how we would go about making faculty cuts yet, but the policy is there."

'The last thing we want to do is cut the academic programs.'

-David Williams According to the plan, if cuts have to be made within programs, the faculty will be ranked in two lists: one of non-tenured faculty and the other of tenured faculty.

Each staff member will be reviewed on teaching performance and experience, and cuts will primarily be made from the nontenured list in the order of ranking.

MSCD raises admission standards Katarina Ahlfort

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Three times as many students were rejected at MSCD this year as compared to previous semesters.

Students' ACT-scores and high school grades were more carefully controlled by the staff at admissions and records, and the so-caJled "window" this semester was made smaller than before.

According to standards set by the

Colorado Committee of Higher Education (CCHE), every college is free to admit up to 20 percent of the applicants who do not meet the requirements. Those percentages form the .. window."

This year, a total of 353 applicants who bad recently graduated from high school were rejected by MSCD. Last fall, the amount of rejections were 136, according to MSCD admissions statistics.

"We don't have to accept any students who are under 19 years of age,"

Brewer said. "Previous years, we've accepted students with as low ACT-scores as six or seven points."

One reason behind the college's more restrictive policy is, that past records show many students are unable to finish their degree, Brewer said.

"For most of those students, the college has shown to be a revolving door," he added. "The cost can't be measured in dollars. It is a social cost. We want to get our students through with their degrees."

Student government stuck in sandbox MSCD history professor says students need to assume responsibility, become more educated and work together Hero Montilla

Staff Writer Students in government are like children playing in a sandbox, said an MSCD history professor.

At an MSCD student government conference Aug. 29, Charles Angeletti said students should take more interest in college and their education.

In his speech, 'Dig a little deeper or shovel your way out," Angeletti talked about the 'sandbox syndrom' in student government.

"Children want to be there (in the sandbox) because it's fun and safe. If you don ' t want Auraria to change for the better, all you have to do is go with the flow and promote the sandbox," said Angeletti.

To avoid the 'sandbox syndrome,' students must get out of the sandbox and grow up quickly and resume responsibility, he said.

Angeletti summarized "fourteen fallacies," one of which is the belief that students "won't and can't do anything to change MSCD." Angeletti told students how they can get out of the 'sandbox syndrome' and what should be r.==;;;;;;:;;:;;;:;;;--- - - - , important to them in their own education.

Angeletti said students need to build support systems of net- l•lllioJM works and • friends and to collaborate with others i.========= who have Charles Angeletti similar values and objectives.

A massive education effort needs to be made, he said. Students should become educated in world and local affairs, especially at Auraria.

"Students should be concerned about the quality of what goes on here (on campus)," said Angeletti.

Student senator Doug Blankenship said he agreed with Angeletti's comments.

"We need to start tearing down that wall and being more effective," he said.

"We need to start working more on education issues, the issues that effect students."

Maggie Miller, acting director of student activities, said she agreed with.

Angeletti in that student government has to work hard to get a jump start on the year and should to focus on important issues.

"Student government often gets bogged down in issues that Angeletti called smokescreen issues that prevent us from addressing the 'real' issues," she said.

Angeletti said students can make a difference.

"I envy you," he said to the students. " ...You are in a position to influence this institution." '

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Lincoln Park kids motivated by computer learning OUTREACH from page 1

tutor's surrogate role as the positive educational force many ~f the children lack at home. Such an influence, he said, is crucial to learning.

In 1991, the learning center's inaugural year, students and faculty from MSCD, Community College of Denver, University of Colorado at Denver and Regis College volunteered as tutors.

"That's one of the things about poverty is that kids don't have very many good role models in terms of education," Esquibel said. "In a middle-class home you 'II have parents who read newspapers and books and who are involved in education. But you don't have that in a broken home or in one where you don't have any books," he said.

That very scarcity of books and other learning materials among homes of impoverished children is the key problem the center is targeting.

"If your teacher gives you an assignment to look up words in a dictionary and you don't have a dictionary, you don 't do the assignment," Esquibel said. "Or if a teacher asks you to look up some articles in a newspaper and your parents don't subscribe to the paper, you don't do the homework assignment."

Lincoln Park's students may complete school work at desks in the center's modest library. The shelves were resourcefully crafted from kitchen cabinets

salvaged from a razed housing complex.

But the adjoining computer laboratory is the center's prime appeal to children, and their parents.

Carol Marshall, 39, mother of five, credits the computers with improving her 6-year-old daughter's ability to concentrate in class.

"She likes bringing up the program, touching the buttons and making things happen," she said.

James Wilson, 38, is a minister and single father of six. The computers, he said, motivate his children to do their homework.

Wilson's children are allowed to play video games on the computers. They also are fed snacks at the center. But, like all other students, first .they must do their school work. ''I'm glad it's there," he said. "They always go there, and they just come back elevated."

Wilson ' s 12-year-old son, Eric, a seventh-grader at Merrill Middle School, likes the center because of the help he can find there after school, when his dad sometimes is still at work.

"If my dad works (late), it's a good place to go to do our work so we don't have to wait for him to come home," Eric said.

But Eric sees beyond the snacks, games and electronic wizardry that serve as learning incentives for students at the computer lab.

"It's a tutor place," he said.

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Be it enacted by.the people of the state of Colorado: [Article 2, of the Colorado Constitution is amended by the addition of Sec. 30, which shall state as follows: No protected status based on homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation. Neither the State of Colorado, through any of its branches or departments, nor any of its agencies, political subdivisions, municipalities or school districts, shall enact, adopt or enforce any statute, regulation, ordinance or policy whereby homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct practices or relationships shall constitute or otherwise be the basis of, or entitle any person or class of persons to have or claim any minority status, quota preferences, protected status or of claim discrimination.

Resolution Therefore, let it be resolved, that Student Government of Metropolitan State College of Denver adamantly opposes the passage of the proposed Amendment (slated for the November 1992 ballot) that would take us not forward in time and unity, but backward in time to another holocaust.

Passed unanimously by the MSCD Student Senate on July 29th, 1992

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POLICE BRIEFS and that she was bleeding from a cut on her head . The woman wa s conscious, but acted confused, APS reported.

The woman was taken to Denver General Hospital by paramedics who said the woman had suffered a seizure.

THREATS An Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) employee called Auraria Public Safety (APS) Aug. 25 to report being physically threatened by another employee.

The threatened employee told APS that the other employee, angry about a work evaluation he received, did not come to work Aug. 24.

When the threatened employee told the other employee he would not be paid for the missed day , the employee allegedly made the threat, APS reported.

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The arm came down on top of the car before the car fully entered the lot. The driver of the car told APS that he was using a debit card to enter lot H. The arm made a three-foot scratch on top of the car, APS reported.

A UCO student Aug. 25 reported her back-pack stolen to APS. The student said she left the back pack under a desk in the North Classroom while she went to get coffee. When she returned, she said she noticed the back-pack was gone.

APS reported that the theft occurred between 11-11 :30 a.m.

APS estimated the total value of the stolen property at $377, including $163 cash and two text books .

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Two cars collided on the second level of the Auraria Parking Garage Aug. 24, APS reported.

One car was traveling west and started making a turn south when it collided with a southbound car. The right-rear side of the southbound car was damaged in the accident, APS reported.

INJURY Paramedics responded to the Arts Building Aug. 24 after two MSCD employees found a woman laying on the floor.

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The Auraria library announced it's participation in the Colorado Library Program, which will allow students and state residents to borrow books from participating Colorado Library Card (CLC) libraries throughout Colorado.

MSCD students can participate in the program by using their student identification cards, which must be validated ~ith a "CLC" sticker, available at the library circulation desk.

"This is an opportunity for students to use many libraries," said Michael Gryglewicz", a library assistant. He said the Auraria Library's Dean, Camila Alire, was "instrumental in pushing the CLC." Glenda Thornton, ass6ciate director of Library Services, said the program should entice more students to obtain their identification cards.

"It makes getting your I.D. much more valuable," she said.

The CLC was set up as a program by the Colorado State Library. According to Gryglewicz, the program was specifically set up so each participating

library has a free hand in developing its own rules and regulations for CLC borrowers.

Auraria allows its CLC borrowers to take books for two weeks, where as MSCD undergraduates can check out a book for four weeks. Because of the wide range of regulations between participating libraries, Gryglewicz said students should check with the circulation desk librarians to find out what restrictions other libraries may have.

"We know how to handle our CLC borrowers, but we don't know all the rules for other libraries," Gryglewicz said.

"Come see if your library is participating, then we can find out what restrictions they have."

Participating libraries include Denver Public Library, Adams County Public Library, Norlin Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Regis University library, as well as many other county and institutional libraries throughout the state.

New for this year, the Auraria library is open use to non-students.

Previously, a $20 fee was charged to people, who were not students on the Auraria Campus, for using the library.

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At a rally Aug. 28 on the Auraria Campus, students signed up for the " From All Walks of Life" four mile walk to benefit services for people With AIDS. MSCD students Ray Lobato and Jeff Milich, captains for the Auraria walk team, helped distribute AIDS literature, red ribbons to be worn in memory of all the people who have died from AIDS, and free condoms to students. The MSCD Health Center assisted in this effort to promote the walk. " From All Walks of Life" will be held on Sunday, Sept. 13, at Cheesman Park. Walkers will raise money through pledges, which will benefit 23 different Colorado AIDS service providers.

About 45 students have signed up for the event. Prizes will also be awarded, Milich said, including a round trip ticket to Washington D.C. to view the AIDS quilt for the Auraria walker collecting the most money.

"College students are not immune to the HIV virus," Lobato said . "At the University of Texas at Austin, one out of LOO students tested positive for the virus."

At California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the rate was one in 50, he said.

Also speaking at the kickoff rally was Essie Garrett , a world class ultramarathon runner who has participated in

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over 225 runs for charity events. Garrett will also be participating in the walk to talk personally with others about AIDS. "You can't let someone die," she said. "Don't walk around thinking this is a man's disease. It isn't. When someone tells you 'you don't have to worry about going to bed with me, I don't have AIDS,' you only get one shot." The name "From All Walks of Life" was selected because AIDS knows no boundaries of gender, age, race, class or sexual orientation.

"As individuals, we have a responsibility to learn and understand about

AIDS," Milich said. "We have got to acknowledge people with AIDS and recognize their courage with compassion and understanding."

In October, Milich will be going to Washington D.C. to take part in the AIDS Memorial Quilt presentation. The patchwork quilt will represent over 20,000 people who have died from AIDS. Students can pick up pledge forms for the walk at the MSCD Student Health Center or from information tables in the student union on Sept. l -3, 10 and 11. For more information, call 556-2525.

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Focusing on AIDS and the homeless is ultra-marathon runner Essie Garrett's new goal. With over 225 charitable runs behind her, she will walk in "From All Walks of Life" this month to raise money for AIDS and to educate people about the disease. " We're still pretending this disease is not going to effect us," Garrett said. ''This disease has no color, no religion, no financial background. It doesn't care, it does not discriminate," she said. "As long as this is happening to another human being this is happening to you."

Growing up in the South, Garrett, 45, said she always ran as a child. The nearest school was 21 miles away. She had to catch a ride to school, and running back home became recreational, she said.

She later started running 5 and 10 kilometer runs just for the fun of collecting the T-shirts, she said, until she became an ultra-marathon runner competing in races of over 26 miles.

Last year Garrett ran 1,200 miles, averaging 40 miles a day, to raise money for Colorado AIDS Awareness. Along her trek she handed out information about AIDS and educated people about the disease.

She is concentrating on AIDS and the homeless because many people with the HIV virus are homeless and abandoned, she said.

"Instead of focusing on how someone got the illness, we need to focus on the illness," she said.

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Administration sending wrong messages FRANKLY SPEAKING SHAWN CHRISTOPHER Cox

. Are students at Metropolitan State College of Denver mature adults or do they need their hand held through graduation? What happened to the "non-traditional" atmosphere at MSCD or was there ever one?

The message the administration is sending from recent policy changes is that students cannot take care of themselves . One case in point is the overload policy.

With the new overload policy, students with lower than required GPAs will have to deal with the Metro bureaucracy sooner. Instead of the overload being for 19 credits and above, what it use to be, it now applies to 17 credits and above.

The interesting thing is students now have to pay for each credit hour. This is $56 per credit hour except for 12 to 18 credits, which is $20 per credit

hour under the new tuition structure.

The intent of changing the policy is not clear.

The change is just by two credit hours, however, this makes for a big headache for students and it is the principle behind it that is of as much concern.

Jett Conner, interim associate vice president for academic affairs, said the policy itself will probably not affect that many students, but added that the ::idministration will be able to tell the policy's full effect after the college does a class census. .The census will be made available in the next couple of weeks.

This policy is just another sign of the administration believing students at this college cannot handle decisions, such as registration.

Conner said academic quality and class shopping were important considerations. This is particulary disturbing since the mean age of a MSCD student is near 30 years old.

Overload policies send the wrong message to students, particulary the older ones. If the administration truly believed in the "non-traditional" philosophy then it would have left the overload policy the way it was.

Regarding tuition by the credit hour, the administration is sending a message that says there should not be a benefit for taking more classes and

trying to graduate in four years while financially being able to survive.

An analysis of tuition cost with the new fee structure produces interesting results. It is much more costly to students who take more hours than part-time students who save money.

Comparing tuition cost from this year to last year, the most a student can save is $62 by taking 1O credit hours. Students save $6 per credit hour from last year.

However, taking 18 credits means $180 more out of the pocket of a full-time student. The argument that Thomas Brewer, president of the college, made is that part-time students were supplementing full-time students and that the change is revenue-neutral.

In trying to compensate for this , the tuition structure is detrimental for full-time students. Now, full-time students are penalized more than part-time students benefit ($180 lost versus $62 saved).

The window structure where students only paid $622 for tuition for 10-18 credits should be reinstalled. This is the correct image to send: This college rewards students who take advantage of the tuition structure and want to graduate in four years.

Were these thoughts ever considered? Please write and let The Metropolitan know.

A personal story about AIDS and life MAMA MARIANI JEAN MARIANI-SEAR

The beginning and the end. I was at a friend's wedding this summer . Perhaps that rite best symbolized the beginning and the end for me. It was the beginning of my friend's life as a family man and the end of our relationship as I knew it. He was no longer free to come over and spend time with my son and me because his new wife views with great suspicion anything and anyone not tied to their religion. Not to mention her husband had an intimate relationship with me, oh, about an eon ago.

I managed to get hold of some of the high school gang he was friends with all those years ago and we were all suitably impressed. He and his new wife roared off in their new wedding gift from his parents and left her (now their) son with their parents to do their wedding-nightly thing. The rest of us took our assorted children and went to Goodfriends to celebrate seeing each other again. We dutifully toasted the new couple with coffee, beer and nachos, and caught up with each other's busy lives.

That was when one of the old gang let the bomb drop. "My brother, Corbin, won't see Christmas this year. He's got AIDS." Then he let the other shoe drop. "Please don't tell anyone."

I womanfully refrained from commenting on the second statement and took it from the top, finding out where his brother was living, how he felt about his last surviving family member's fatal illness and how he contracted it: The usual way. Have we become so blase about death and managed to keep our blinders on about sexuality? Amazing! I got his brothers' phone number and address from him and found out that he was living right across the park from me for the last three years. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. So I called him instead.

Before I did, though, I stopped to think. What do you say to someone who is going to die? Platitudes just don't seem appropriate somehow. Miss Manners and Emily Post seem to have committed a sin of omission on this subject. I decided to plunge ahead and 'devil take the hindmost.'

Corbin was just as I remembered him in most respects; wry, funny and very, very self-deprecating.

After talking for a while, I asked if my son and I could

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visit him and help out a little around the house and perhaps reduce some Qf the strain on his brother and sister-in-law, as well as himself. He agreed and we went the next week equipped with food and goodwill. I prepared my son as best I could, telling him about AIDS, what it did and that he could hug my friend as long as he was careful not to hurt him.

I think I did a heck of a job not showing how shocked I was to see the living skeleton that greeted us at the door. Co¡rbin was a big man, 6 feet 2 inches tall, but now weighed only 133 pounds . After I introduced Alex, I started cleaning and Alex read Corbin some of the stories in his "Six by Seuss" book. This tickled both of them, but tired my friend to no end so he took a nap. When was the last time you were tired having someone else read to you?

As we were leaving, my son asked Corbin if he could have his talking dummies, fashioned after Pee-Wee and Ernest. My friend granted his rather ungracious request and I hugged him good-bye with tears in my eyes. After Alex saw me touch Corbin, he decided it was OK so he hugged him too, nearly knocking him down in the process. It was sad to see Corbin almost brought down by an act of kindness and humanity as sweet as that one.

Corbin now has decided that living alone is too much for him and has gone to a hospice to wait for the end. My son is a friend of his now and I told him he has a special job-remembering Corbin for Corbin's young nephew. His nephew is only one year of age and will surely not remember his Uncle Corbin when he is older. Part of my job is to give my two friends an ear and a shoulder from time to time.

Both of them need it pretty badly.

As to the second statement my old friend made in the restaurant, how does he think his brother contracted this deadly retro-virus? Mostly it was from people "not telling anyone" when it would have done the most good.

I got a copy of "... and the Band Played On ... " by Randy Shilts for my two friends to read. It has been around a while, but not enough can be said about the way it deals so compassionately with the victims of this pandemic.

Alpha and Omega. What a wonderful wedding. I have lost not one but two friends to AIDS, and who knows how many more before it ends?

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Every Tuesday night for the past years, a gaggle of goons (myself included) get together to shoot some hoop. By day, most of us are reasonably placid, typically flaccid-in a manly, beer belly, sort of way-fellows. Once we take the court the transformation. is swift and brutal. You guessed it.

We become wild, semi-macho, testosterone toting terminators. Bodies collide, elbows fly and unique combinations of cuss words flow to the rhythmic beat of skin slapping, lungs wheezing and balls bouncing.

Mirrus a crowd for validation and a ref to keep it clean, the stagnate smell of denial is the air du jour.

Muscles portrayed by flab deny elevation in favor of imagination and accusation is a willing substitute for execution.

"Foul!"

"Why you (female anatomy) face (male anatomy) lapping - - - . " Basically we were as happy as a guy could be on a weeknight without a beer in one hand and a remote in the other.

Last week our collective bubble, along with a rusted water main, burst, dousing us with a chilling reality--no indoor hoop for at least a month.

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Play outside. That's OK for Saturday mornings, Sunday afternoons, or any other time that man, ball and hoop should chance encounter. Just knowing that we could be, should be, in our sanctuary on Tuesday .. .. well, maybe, blaspheme is too strong a word, but damn it. The purity would somehow be soiled.

A bit over zealous? Consider the scenario.

Imagine a group of power and glory craving men in costume, isolated from the world , demanding unnatural responses from unwilling bodies while doling out violence and criticism based on self righteous judgements of blindly accepted rules.

My girlfriend thinks I'm obsessing and with three weeks of exile left the thought of me exponentially wigging might scare off a less aware woman.

I'm proud to say that she brought me back and saved my soul with those three little magically healing words: BRONCOS-RAIDERS-SUNDAY.

Accept all lifestyles; no questions asked As president and founder of the Colorado Association of Masochists , Perverts, Debased, Utterly Decadent, Depraved, Dissolute Degenerate Deviants (CAMP DUDDDDD), I wish to applaud the formation of a campus task force to find and root out heterosexism in all of.its loathsome subtle forms .

Our association, which promotes the interests of those with "alternate" sexual orientations and lifestyles think that it is high time we purge the campus of the outdated idea that sex has anything to do with romantic heterosexual love, marriage, reproduction or the continuation of the species.

The nymphomaniacs , voyeurs, fetishists, exhibitionists and "animal lovers" who comprise the membership of our organization only seek the same acceptance and understanding sought by everyone else.

A professor who thoughtlessly asks, "What are you doing with that sheep?", the fellow student who fails to display sensitivity toward our relationship with a pair of black spike high heel shoes, panties or a rubber raincoat, the girl in the library who screams,

"Hey, pull your pants back up!" These are but a few examples of inconsiderate, hurtful behavior experienced by our membership.

The expectation that one keep matters like sexual preference and orientation to oneself, happily is being swept aside along with refinement, decorum and etiquette. The demand that humans conform to their biological roles or else keep the matter to themselves fortunately is over forever. We of CAMP DUDDDDD welcome and encourage this development.

We demand that our lifestyles receive the same degree of acceptance and consideration that both gay and heterosexual people expect. The elimination of heterosexism on campus is a good first step but we will not be satisfied until all sexual lifestyles receive the acknowledgment and recognition they so richly deserve.

Steven Shelton President, founder and chief degenerate CAMP DUDDDDD

EDITOR'S NOTE: CAMP DUDDDDD is not a registered club with Student Activities. However, this does not mean that such a club does not exist.

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Deborah Leong, a professor of psychology at MSCD initially introduced Bodrova to the psychology department through her own contacts at the University of Wisconsin whefe Bodrova was participating as a visiting professor.

climate in Russia,· Wickelgren said.

Semenov has a mathematics degree from Moscow State University. He will teach courses in the spring in mathematics and artificial intelligence. ·1want the experience of how to teach effectively when they (the students) are paying for their education and choose their courses," Semenov said.

Bodrova received her education at Moscow State University and at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences which was a Soviet

Dmitri Semenov and Elena Bodrova arrived in Denver this -summer from Russia in preparation to begin teaching at MSCD this fall, bringing with them their son Andrei and a wealth of experiences from their homeland.

Semenov, a professor of mathematics and computer science, plans on teaching classes this spring.

Bodrova, a professor of psychology, had planned on teaching classes beginning this summer and continuing on tnrough the school year. However, these plans were temporarily disrupted due to the couple's work visas, which are still pending.

Consequently, the two classes that Bodrova had intended to teach this fall, "Russian Psychology; An Insider's View,· and "Child Development and Education in Different Social Contexts," are both being taught by part-time instructors.

Bodrova anticipates teaching these classes upon the arrival of her work visa, which should be here in a few weeks. In the mean time, she will be doing research and visiting classes in part to study faculty methods of teaching.

Both Bodrova and Semenov Dominic Chavez/The Metropolitan Visiting husband and wife Russian professors Elena Bodrova and Dmitri came to MSCD through the Semenov to teach at MSCD through the Distinguished Scholars Program.

Distinguished Scholars Program. The Lyn Wickelgren, chair of the psychology research institution, where she learned to teach teachers. Bodrova was a professor of psychology department and Larry Johnson, former dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences, were both very at the Moscow Teacher Training College and later supportive in the efforts to bring the couple to was involved at the Institute of Preschool Education in Moscow as a senior researcher..

MSCD. Semenov elected to accompany his wife Bodrova's speciality is in developmental here, having been given the opportunity to teach psychology and early childhood education.

American students in the Mathematics and Bodrova will be able to continue her own research into developmental psychology and Computer Sciences departments.

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Aug. 22 marked tfJe one year anniversary of the dissolution of the coup attempt in Russia, ' in which the communist government was dismantled. Since that time, Russia and other former republics of the former Soviet Union have been experiencing political restructuring and social change. 'f In 1989, Bodrova was a member of several research teams organized to develop new guidelines for education in Russia The advent of "perestroika" in the Soviet Union during the 1980s helped to advertise the desire of many Soviets to make changes in its educational systems. ,.

Before this time, schools in Russia tended to be "adult oriented and authoritative,· opposed to schools in the United States that tend to be more focused on the child as an individual and "have a more humanistic approach,n Bodrova said.

When asked why she wanted to teach in the United States, Bodrova said, "It would be a good experience to learn more about the system of education, lecturing to teachers and future teachers.· She said she believes students will benefit from her visit and said, "When you learn about other perspectives, it not only broadens ' your knowledge but will add new points of view. n "It is very stimulating to have someone with a different perspective . . . " Wickelgren said.

"It is exciting to see what social and cultural differences there are. n What is more than apparent is the bounty' of knowledge and experience Semenov and Bodrova will be able to convey, from a world apart, to the staff and students they will be working with. Even beyond the doors of academia, they can provide an unde.IStancUQg of where they come from and what is happening their country now.

During the Cold War, students may have examined Russians with distant smiles, but a new past in Eastern Europe has brought them closer.

Within the rush of world events that the 1990's has produced came the collapse of the Soviet • Union a year ago. Newspapers heralded Moscow's drama but still it is the Russian people

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'Camps \!ere prepared for prisoners, and the -tamps ordered handcuffs from metal plants. ' Semenov and Bodrova were intimately ~involved in these events that took place in Moscow. It was then, last August, that the Soviet Union was experiencing a surge in its democratic movement, threatening to close the book on its Communist era. Boris Yeltsin was the leader at the forefront having been elected as the first .president of Russia after democratic elections had taken place for positions inside the Soviet political administration. Semenov participated by helping to supervise the elections.

Soon after the elections, the need that some hard line communists within the ,BOvemment felt to destroy the inclinations towards democracy in the Soviet Union heightened. Their plan was to eliminate the administration under Mikhail Gorbachev and the glory of perestroika that had encouraged the growth of the democratic movement. Preparation for this included the isolation of Gorbachev "'outside of Moscow and mass arrests. · "Camps were prepared for prisoners, •and the camps ordered handcuffs from metal plants, Bodrova said.

Meanwhile, Yeltsin and his staff took refuge.inside the "white house" in Moscow, which •was surrounded by a man-made barricade formed of wood, fences, buses and other objects. Many citizens supporting Yeltsin and the democrat!~ movement positioned themselves inside the barricade in preparation of its defense. Semenov was one of these people. ' "It was a scary time, " Bodrova said. "We were living in the countryside in our cal.Jin. " Noise from tanks on the road heading to Moscow and

helicopters flying overhead could be heard.

There was no information coming out of Russia about what was happening because the independent Soviet radio had been shut off, Bodrova said. What information there was came ifom radio stations abroad. Telephone lines to Moscow were inoperable. It was at this time Semenov elected to be in Moscow to offer aid in the resistance to the coup. "I had no war experience, • Semenov said. ·1 remember the first thing I said was 'goodbye' to my wife and child one night in August, just before going to the barricade.

Everyone I talked to estimated our chance to survive as very low. . . army used to suppress democratic movements with many victims," he said.

"We saw this on TV. We knew what to expect- a worse situation than on TV. Try to imagine the streets of Denver full of tanks and soldiers who were ready to fire, " Semenov said.

The defenders within the barricade were crudely armed with sticks, knives and chemical weapons such as Molotov Cocktails. The factions behind the Coup, which included Gorbachev's Minister of Defense and Minister of the K.G.B, were surprised by the strength of the resistance.

In a period of only a few days time, the coup attempt was dissolved, ending on Aug. 22, 1991.

Yeltsin and his supporters, along with the democratic movement had triumphed. Bodrova was able to call Semenov in Moscow and was ensured of his well-being. Their ordeal was over.

The year following the transformation of the Soviet Union and the end of communism has been a rocky one. Americans can remember this year's winter Olympic games, when the athletes who had at one time been called Sovietsr walked together in the opening ceremonies without a name, without a flag and without a national anthem. Russia and other former Soviet republics, some of which have since become their own nations, are trying to rebuild.

Semenov and Bodrova will someday return to their country.For now, students can look forward to a year spent learning first-hand about a world of change.

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It is a permanent manifestation at that. Removal of tattoos does not come cheap or painless, Sugarbear said.

Surgical removal, skin grafts and dermabrasions all either leave ugly scars or an unsightly appearance, he said. Laser at WaZee technology is also available, but only if you are willing to spend up to the $1,000 plus to do it.

"Tattooing is a permanent commitment," Lippolis said. "I tell people who are thinking about getting married to go get a tattoo first."

Wong said she sometimes regrets the . tattoo of a red-tailed boa-constricter she 5555S55S has wrapped around her left pinky finger.

Dominic Chavez/The Metropol~an "I'm just getting ready to finish school, Fellix LaFore, MSCD senior, and his tattoo, and it could affect my hire-ability," she "Felix the Cat" said. high to run across someone on campus So, ready to get a tattoo? Forget about with one, or two, or 10 peeking out from coming in drunk beforehand. People who ·Race to 15th Street and Wazee behind a tank top or tee shirt. are under the influence of any drug will for great food and drink.

Well-recognized fashion models Patricia Straub Carrie Otis, Stephanie Seymour and Cindy '~_, Staff Writer Crawford are sporting body masterpieces in the fashion magazines. Celebrities such So you think your up on fashion? as Cher and Sigourney Weaver are largely Take this quiz. responsible for thrusting this permanent art The only people who wear tattoos: (a) form into the limelight. dress from head to toe in black leather; (b) A significant increase of people, aged are head-banger rock-and-rollers; (c) are 18-25, influenced by music-video rockers like Popeye the Sailor Man. and movie stars, are wanting tattoos, said The answer? None of the above.

"Sugarbear," owner of the Emporium of Tattoos, temporary and permanent, are Design tattoo parlor in Denver. But those appearing as acceptable and fashionable are not the only people wanting the skinThe Wazee Lounge & Supper Club body art these days , gaining popularity art. among people of all sorts. Chances are "We tattoo a lot .of everyday housewives," Sugarbear said. "About 70 percent of our business are ladies."

When women decide to get a tattoo, it's usually for a symbolic purpose, such as freedom after a divorce or for a dare, not be tattooed because these people do Sugarbear said. Symbolic tattoos among not hold still, they make poor judgments in men are growing, especially in Celtic art, tattooing choices and most of all, alcohol although men usually tattoo themselves for makes the ~kin bleed more than normal macho reasons, Sugarbear said. during the tattooing process, Sugarbear Donnita Wong, a junior psychology said. And bring an identification card. A and math major has seven tattoos on her person needs to be at least 18-years-old to body. get a tattoo.

Costs of the tattoos usually run by the hour, depending on the artist. Prices can range between $60 a nd $1 50, said "Ruggles ," a tattoo artist at Body Creations.

During the tattooing process, dyes are injected into the epidermis of the skin with a sewing machine-like tool. The skin may bleed a bit, but an antibiotic ointment is applied to the sk in after the tattoo is complete. As for the pain, Ruggles said fleshy areas of the body will hurt more "I get them because of major li fe than boney parts. changes, growth and experiences," she Not quite ready for the commitment? said. Wong had her first thou g hts of Temporary tattoos can give a person an tattooing herself at the age of 13. "A lot of idea of what it's like to have a tattoo. The it is shock factor," she said. temporary tattoos wash off with water and And you may be in for a shock if you most people get them around the holiday run into Ed Lippolis on campus. Lippolis, seasons, Sugarbear said. Fingernails can a freshman electronics engineering major, also be tattooed temporarily, growing out recently had an elaborate design of three as the nail grows. dragons tattooed onto the back of his head, Finally, for the person with real adding to the gallery of symbol ic tattoos tolerance for pain and the unusual, body on his arms, chest and legs. The procedure piercing comes right along side tattooing. took four hours worth of work and had to Lips, tongues, noses, belly buttons and Offered by International Programs and Services be done in 45 minute increments because even eyebrows a re getting the decor 556-3660 of the pain, he said. treatment. Nipple piercing is the most "It really hurts," Lippolis said. "It's a popular, Sugarbear said of the body constantly gnawing pain, a needle piercing he performs at his establishment. constantly moving 30 times a second for I

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College life is not for the dogs Dave Boersma Staff Writer

The start of school renews the concerns of animal shelter workers who warn students against buying pets to be their family away from home.

Why? Linda Diekvoss, director of community resources for the Denver Dumb Friends League, said college students often tum over unwanted animals to their facilities. Of the 25,000 animals taken in last year by the league, about half were euthanized.

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"Just like having children, getting an animal should never be taken lightly," Paulhus said.

Although Auraria Higher Education Center (AHEC) doesn't have many problems with pets left on campus, Jim Ferguson, director of Community Services for Auraria Public Safety (APS), said people still bring pets on campus.

According to Ferguson, charges of cruelty

'Just like having children, getting an animal should never be taken lightly' animals are kept until Denver Animal Control can pick them up.

"We strongly advise people not to bring animals on campus," Ferguson said.

Christopher Romero, humane education coordinator for the Denver Dumb Friends League, said the league does its best to place animals in good homes.

"The screening process takes two hours and includes calling landlords to make sure pets are allowed," Romero said.

Paulhus suggests students interested in having a pet should first consider volunteering at an animal shelter or start a pet sitting service.

"Don't buy a pet unless you can provide it with proper care," Paulhus said.

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Because MSCD recently added a diversity requirement to its general studies requirements, a series of curriculum diversity workshops for faculty were held Aug. 20-21 in the North Classroom.

The workshops, sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, were designed to help the faculty trace MSCD's rising multicultural population, said Jodi Wetzel, director of the Institute for Women's Studies and Services.

"We need to look at the environment on campus and see how friendly it is to those various groups," Wetzel said.

The workshops on Aug. 20 included issues concerning ethnic minorities, whose

enrollment is up .7 percent from last year, as well as women and gay students.

"The basic structure of higher education is geared toward the white male," Wetzel said. "But when all of these categories are added together, the white male is actually the minority."

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environment, a three credit multicultural requirement was added this semester and is now part of the general studies requirements for MSCD students. The multicultural classes include cultural, social and historical courses. This curriculum change was the focus for the workshops on Aug. 21. " In order to implement a multicultural curriculum, you have to have some unders tanding of the people you are working with," said Elizabeth Friot, chairwoman of the workshop's steering committee.

Lupe Martinez, professor of Elementary Teacher Education, taught two of the diversity workshops: "Issues in the Education of Chicano Students" and

"Developing Multicultural Courses".

Martinez said multicultural education should not be confused with ethnic studies.

"Multicultural education is not about teaching about culture, Asians, Blacks, Native Americans. It is about teaching about the contributions of all people to the development of the U.S.," Martinez said.

Expanding the understanding of multicultural education was one of the opportunities available at the workshops.

"I felt a major plus was having the chance to talk about real educational issues with colleagues that you only see once a year," Wetzel said.

Friot said she wants hopes to continue these workshops in the spring, possibly with UCO and CCD.

Looking back at "Twin Peaks" Do we care who killed Laura Palmer?

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"Plot" and "theme" have less concrete meanings to movie director David Lynch than they do to more conventional directors. In "Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me," the cinematic focus is in its most elemental, primal form.

"Fire Walk With Me" is a "prequel" to Lynch's ground-breaking, if not misunderstood, television series. In this film, Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is the main character instead of the dead flashback she was on the television show.

The film chronicles the last few days of

' "Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me" is about the journey from good to evil and degradation of the human spirit.' her life, right up to the discovery of her body, where the television series began.

Her father, Leland Palmer (Ray Wise), and mother Sarah (Grace Zabriske), reprise their roles respectively as a possessed murderer and a chain-smoking neurotic.

When the television series began to draw to a close, it had become an archetypical battle between evil (Wisdom

Earle, The Black Lodge, and Bob) and good, embodied in "Twin Peaks" star, special agent Dale Cooper (Kyle Mclachlan). In the film, Cooper plays a very minor role.

"Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me" is about the journey from good to evil and ..., the degradation of the human spirit.

Iri Lynch's world, there is no doubt that evil is stronger than good. It permeates every aspect of "Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me." Evil is in the back room of the tavern, in the girl's bathroom at the high school, in the owl and the petroglyph.

But the real evil is in the woods. The woods are the source of its darkest power.

Vary rarely does one see the forest in the light of day. Good does not find an upfront place in "Twin Peaks."

The action, for the most part, is superb. Notable to any fan of the series is that many stalwart regulars are missing.

Mclachlan 's palpable absence, considerably changes the tone and feel of the film.

For those of you who don't know, or .. possibly care "who killed Laura Palmer," (which is anyone who missed out on the television show) will feel, of course, a bit lost here.

But Lynch's films seem to leave viewers with that lost feeling regardless. >His dreamlike world and vivid imagery are as fascinating as they are bizarre and unexplainable. There is no mainstream director working even close to the territory David Lynch is mapping out.

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President Brewer may be stepping down as president of MSCD , but not without taking another stab at making some form of community service mandatory.

Some of you may recall last year when Brewer created something of a brouhaha by trying to make the completion of 200 hours of community service mandatory for all students.

This proposal was shot down , but community service surfaced agam when Brewer gave his faculty convocation address a couple of weeks ago. According to Brewer's assistant, Dr. Charles Dobbs, the president is working on a proposal that would have all students at MSCD who receive a scholarship through the school be required to perform some community service.

This being a sports column, I'm going to narrow the focus down on this topic to athletes who receive scholarships.

Dobbs said the athletes who would be affected by this proposal are the players of "higher priority sports." What this means is that the more visible and successful teams at MSCD would be the ones chosen to do community service. Those teams are men's and women 's basketball, women's volleyball and possibly baseball or men's

soccer. " I think everyone understands the need to give somethin g back to the community," Dobbs said . "We want to do this to represent MSCD within the community. It's a way to do community outreach."

Because this plan is still in the incubation stage, Dobbs said he isn't sure what the athletes will do for community service.

"We need the community to tell us what they want," he said. "It could be going to area schools or having sports clinics here. It's going to take most of the fall to decide."

Dobbs said whatever activity does take place would probably be limited to a two hour time frame.

"We would like to have things going all thorough the year. There is a possibility that it will count against a teams' practice time," he said. NCAA regulations limit practices to three hours at a time and not more than twenty hours a week. "If it counts against practice time we are limited to three hours, but I don't think we want to try and hold kids' attention for more than two hours anyway," Dobbs said.

No one in the Athletic Department knew of Brewer's plans a few days after the commencement. But Dobbs said that Brewer didn't know of the NCAA

practice guidelines. Having community service count against practice came up after the athletic department di scussed community service.

"I think that's really nice of them (the coaches). Our coaches encourage kids to be students and volunteer s . The

community service would be limited because students still have to be students."

Men's basketball coach Bob Hull sum.med up the prevailing attitude for the coaches best.

"We already do some community service and we would be happy to do more," HulJ said. "We' ve been to Denver Boys and Girls Clubs and we' ve had free clinics here for years. If people have some suggestions on how to do more we would listen.

"I encourage them to be involved but I don't require it," Hull said. "I don't have to demand that they be involved because they like to do it."

Hull said that scholarship athletes are getting something for fr ee when they attend school.

"Community service is a way to help kid s and it ' s a good way to get o ur athletes out into the public," he said. " It shows people what athletics are like _here and it helps promote us by getting people to our games. I think it 's something we are already involved in."

Like Hull, women's basketball coach Darryl Smith also has his teams work within the community. " Our players understand the importance of community relations ," Smith said. " They all know that they looked up to someone when they were growing up. There are a lot of kids out there who can use our help. We have positive role models that we want to get out into the community."

Smith said people don't understand what a scholarship entails.

"They're here to get an education first," he said. "They get an education and they give something back to this school and the community. We do a lot of community service. If president Brewer asked us to use some of our practice time for community service we would do it."

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MSCD coach Jeff Porter said the team looked strong and played well. "I was pleasantly surprised ," Porter said. " To play this well after only two practices is a good sign."

Fifteen minutes into the game MSCD player Brian Lambert received a head injury and had to be helped off the field.

"I don ' t even remember playing before the hit," Lambert said. The injury was not severe. However, Lambert did not return to the game.

The Bassalopes went ahead 4-0 as Hal Pritt scored on a l 0 yard run 20 minutes into the first half. The two point kick failed.

MSCD tied the game with two minutes remaining in the 40 minute half, as Mike Jelen took the ball into the end zone. MSCD missed the two point kick and the game was tied at 4-4 at half time.

MSCD started the second half with several drives deep into Bassalope territory, but were unable to score.

Thirty minutes into the second half, MSCD attempted a two point kick and missed. However, the Bassalope defense was penalized for trying to block the kick, which is not allowed in rugby. MSCD got the ball back and less then a minute later, Floyd Johnson scored giving Metro State an 8-4 lead. The two point kick failed.

MSCD held the Bassalopes scoreless in the second half and went on to an 8-4 victory.

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First year coach Al Ashton got less than he bargained for when he took the head coaching job for the men's soccer team.

What could have been a dominating team in the Colorado Athletic Conference became slightly derailed when last season' s second-team CAC selections, Mike Najar, goalie, and Derek Scarth, forward, defected to other college soccer programs.

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Lockwood and Richard Hitzeman "We went ahead and made Trujillo and Lockwood the team captains," Ashton said. "They've just been leading by example all throughout the preseason."

Ashton said one of hls coaching tenets is for his team to be in top physical condition. ''I'm real happy with our preseason practices.We've worked them really hard and they've responded to the changes we've made.

The top-team in the conference should be Regis University, according to Ashton.

"I've spoken to all the other coaches and Regis sounds like the team with the most talent," Ashton said. "Scarth transferred there and we'll have to get up for them and be prepared."

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"Muhlenburg plays Division III ball, but they're always one of the top-teams in that division," Ashton said. " It'll be good preparation for us. I want the toughest teams we can find to get us ready for conference play. If we play well or beat some of these nationally ranked teams we could start to get some recognition for ourselves."

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"I think a lot of people look at us as just getting a free education," said senior basketball player Calvin McCoy. " But there's a Jot of priorities for us. We don't have much time for ourselves because we have classes, practices, games and weight lifting. I think just making it mandatory is wrong, but if it was on a volunteer basis it could work better."

Last year, Cassie Sandoval, a senior on the women's basketball team, spoke at Lincoln High School during Women's Week. Although she has done community service, she has reservations about making it a requirement.

"I think with us being a community school where people have jobs, school and athletics it could be hard," Sandoval said.

"I don't see anything wrong with it if the guidelines are wide and we are able to fit it into our schedule. I think we should have some say in how we are spending our time.

"I think athletes giving something back to the community is good, but it shou ld be more than just teaching someone how to play basketball," she said. "It should be about academics, how to get into school and what kind of commitments you need to make."

Community service for athletes is a good concept. If the hours spent doing this work do come out of scheduled practice time the athletes won't be doing anything extra. Some athletes may appreciate missing drills and wind sprints to hangout with some kids from a junior high school.

But while it's in its formative state, we should look at how to make it work for everyone. Sandoval is right about athletes being a part of the decision making process and she is the only one I talked to whose vision went beyond motor skills.

If the athletes aren't behind the program they will feel burdened, singledout and resentful.

Will athletes from "high priority" sports resent that athletes from "low priority" sports don't have to do community service? Hopefully not, because hopefully all athletes will get behind helping the communities they live in.

Lastly, if you want to do something good, do it for the sake of doing good. But if the athletes are being used just to promote good 'ol MSCD, then hire a public relations firm and let the athletes spend their time elsewhere. Let the criteria for where the athletes do this work in the community be based on the impact it will have in a given area first and exposure for the school second.

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