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$SOK Student Fee Surplus to Fund Auxiliary Services

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those students who 'ÂŽ'\ are not eligible for office "' will not get paid.

It is up the the Rules Com mi ttee ~ to oust a m e mb e r from office, Lemak she said.

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The Metropolitan received a copy of a draft outlining an amendment to Article X of the ASMSCD Constitution which would allow student government officials to be put

MSCD's Office of Student Affairs is shifting $50,000 in surplus student fee money to two of its services previously funded by state general funds, said Karen Thorpe, assistant vice president of student affairs .

"We took the money from what was hopefully excess," she said.

Thorpe said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs David W. Williams has asked all the departments under him to return three percent of the general funds already allocated to them to offset a $700,000 deficit in MSCD's academic budget.

General funds from the state support academic programs, while student fees support auxiliary programs, Thorpe said.

Thorpe said she had to return the three percent, or $40,000, from the budgets of Career Services and the Counseling Center as these are the only two services in Student Affairs that are funded by general funds.

As a result, she said she had to replace the $40,000 with student fees from the budgets of the other five services in Student Affairs.

Student Trustee Matthew Bates said he is concerned about the issue because the $40,000 is a permanent shift of student fees.

"This isn't a Band-Aid maneuver that was made this year," he said. "This is a permanent fix."

Both Thorpe and Bates said Career Services and the Counseling Center are considered to be in a "gray area" between the academic and auxiliary programs.

Thorpe said in addition to the $40,000 shift that has already been approved by administration, she wants to take $50,000 of student fees left over from last year's budgets and use that money for Career Services and the Counseling Center. . Thorpe said the fees are needed because both services need extra staffing to handle student needs.

Michael Wempen , a student senator and member of the Student Affairs Board, said Thorpe met with SAB twice to discuss the budget

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Antoinette Vecchio NEWS EDITOR

Two student government representatives do not meet the requirement of a 2.0 cumulative GPA to hold office, and the Student Senate is working toward an amendment to the ASMSCD constitution to allow those students to be placed on a one semester probationary period to improve their grades.

Maggie Miller, director of Student Affairs, has confirmed that Vice President Lucian Lemak, and Student Sen. J.C. Flowers are not eligible to hold office because their cumulative GPA is below a 2.0.

In a memo to The Metropolitan Sept. 3, Miller stated that on Aug. 23,

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Mike Wempen, student senator and chairman of the Rules Committee, gave Miller a list of members of Student Government. From that list, Miller listed the names of those students who were eligible for office as of Aug. 23. While Lemak and Flowers appeared on Wempen's list, they did not appear on Miller's list.

Eligibility is determined both before and after an election, Miller said. This past election, GPAs were checked from the Fall 1992 semester and back. All those who filed an "intent to run" form were eligible at that time, she said.

Miller said it is not her job to dismiss any student from their post on Student Government but did say that

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MSC D Student Jump:s to His Death Antoinette Vecchio NEWS EDITOR

Believing that people were chasing him and that they were "literally on his heels," an MSCD student jumped to his death Aug. 3 1, falling seven levels from a parking garage.

Kristopher Evans, 25, a journalism major and staff writer for The Metropolitan, jumped from the seventh level of the parking garage Evans at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Complex, 950 13th St., at 2 p.m. last Tuesday, despite pleas from witnesses who tried to talk him out of jumping, according to a police report.

"I was in the office when one of the staff said there was a jumper," said Rodney Smith, general manager for

the DCPA. By the time Smith arrived at the scene, Evans had already jumped.

"I went to where he was and he was still breathing and moving slightly," he said.

Paramedics were called to the scene, and Evans was transported to Denver General Hospital. Evans died about 35 minutes later.

Evans suffered from paranoid schizoph.renia, said Steve Evans, Kris' adoptive father.

"He was severely mentally ill," he said. "I spent most of Monday with him at the clinic. I tried to get him to the hospital and he ran."

Evans said his son believed people were1after him, literally chasing him.

Denver Police were alerted to Evans' condition and called the MSCD journalism department about 3:40 p.m. that afternoon looking for Evans, said secretary Sandy King.

"They just said it was a police matter," she said.

Evans did not learn the whereabouts of his son until Tuesday.

Smith said Evans had been "walking around the Galleria all morning" on Tuesday.

Patricia Sydney Straub, editor of The Me{ropolitan, said she remembers Evans as a nice person.

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"I had known Kris for two years. I saw him riding around a lot on Capitol Hill and on campus," she said.

"It's been a horrible ordeal. I think about him all the time. You never knew there was anything wrong."

Evans' father said Kris set goals for himself and never let his illness prevent him from achieving his goals.

"He never complained about his disability. He never made excuses. He never whined," Evans said. "He wanted to be productive and accomplish things."

Evans said his son wanted to be a journalist and report on the computer field. He said he liked people and was a great conversationalist.

"He was always a writer," he said. " He wrote his first short story when he was IO-complete with plot and characterizations."

Evans said institutionalizing his son was not an option.

"But even if I could have, [would have rather he had a life," he said.

Evans enjoyed working on the newspaper and going to school, his father said.

"I had just bought him a computer," he said.

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New Government Policy James Brady Shows Support for Gun Bills Marya Mista Causes Financial Aid More than 400 people rallied at路 the steps of the Disaster For Students Capitol to support Gov. Roy Romer's 14-point plan STAFF WRITER

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MSCD students are scrambling for alternative funding as financial aid checks were late this year because of a variety of problems ranging from new government regulations and computer updating to faculty missing the grade deadline for the summer semester.

"This has been the worst semester ever," said Cheryl Judson, assistant vice president for administration and finance.

Because of government regulation changes, MSCD's financial aid disbursement for Fall 1993 was late because the office had to update all of the information. Congress approved the financial aid regulation changes, which happens every five years , July I, Judson said.

Inputting the new information, which began after August 5 for MSCD, has had the 18-member financial aid staff working day and night processing new student loans, information and new software, she said.

"Congress thinks they streamlined it, but they've just made it more complex," she said.

Much of the delay comes from the lending banks, she said. The office sent 5,000 process loans to banks which still have not sent the loans to the guarantee agency.

Checks are still trickling in, Judson said. However, it takes a minimum of five days for the office to process a check before it can go to the cashier's office.

During the computer updating, the Financial Aid Office classified Molly Sterner as a freshman, but she has a degree and is getting her teacher certification. Her award letter stated she was unable to get a needed Supplemental Loan for Students.

Michelle Bell, a broadcast journalism student, said her problem arose because her instructor missed the deadline to tum in grades for the summer semester. Her financial aid was suspended for Fall.

She said she had to write an appeal to the financial aid office but still has no check. She has stood in line three times already, with about a 45-minute wait each time, she said.

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against juvenile violence.

The Colorado State Legislature is in special session to solve the problem of juvenile vio~nce.

James Brady. former presidential press secretary and <Victim of the 1983 attempted: as$1issination of President Ronald Reagan, addressed mcrmbers of the Colorado Senate and House of Representatives.

"In the past four years I've criss-crossed th.is nation, and in every town I stop in. I meet children," Brady said at the rally. "Kids that ten me they are afraid to go to sleep at night.

Kids who tell me they 路 are afraid to go to school or even afraid t<> be in scl}qol."

Brady commended Romer on bis efforts to curb

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Colorado. ''We can get this job done," Romer said. "We have to get guns off the streets. We have to get guns out of the hands of kids, ahd the same time we have to protect those of

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yfiu who are victims of violence.;' "The solution is simple," Brady said, ''Juvenile possession of handguns must be prohibited. We must throw the book at those who would provide guns to children."

Brady is the creator of the Brady Bill, which requires a waiting period for handgun sales.

Supporters held signs and banners proclaiming "Times Ticking, Stop the Violence" and "Silence the

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Violence."

PUNCH (People United, No Children's Handguns), organized the rally and the guest speakers.

The organization was started by Gen. Felix Sparks, president of PUNCH, whose grandson was the victim of a drive-by shooting. PUNCH now has more than 1,000 members.

PUNCH organized the rally to draw attention to the special session called by Romer.

'If we (PUNCH) can save one life each year, or several lives each year, than we think we have accomplished our purpose," Sparks said.

"I got sick of hearing about all the shootings on the news. I wanted to see -if I could do something,'" said Heidi Church, press secretary for PUNCH.

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Colorado's Children Are The Future, Brady Says Financial Aid BRADY from page 3 "We think that it is twisted philosophy when anybody thinks the right for a kid to bear a gun is superior to the right to a child to have his life," Sparks said.

Hundreds of school age children showed their support for Romer's plan.

"I think that if your going to do an

adult crime, you should do adult time," said Sarah Fischer, 13, an eighth grader at Grant Junior High School.

"I think this is really good because of all the gang activity. It's really negative, people dying over stupid stuff. There's a lot of violence in the neighborhood that I live in," said Keith Lewis, 13, also an

eighth grader at Grant Junior High School.

"It doesn't matter whether you are a Democrat or a Republican. All that matters is that you are a mother or a father or a grandparent, a friend or a neighbor and that you want to save Colorado's children.

They are your future," concluded Brady.

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Office Backlogged FINANCIAL AID from page 3 Judson said the problem is usually solved if a student phones a counselor, who pulls up their file on the computer, sees the grade change and can then release the check.

"As soon as we see the grade change right away it shouldn't be suspended. We did hundreds of them."

In the meantime, many financially strapped students headed for the Student Short Term Loan office.

"There has been a major increase here," said Thomas Muenzberg, director of the student short term loan program. The office has processed more than 250 loans totaling -$75,000 since the first day of classes, almost equal to Spring 1993's number of loans for the entire semester, he said. Summer 1993 semester had 169 applications and Fall 1991 saw $62,500 distributed. Fall 1992 amounts were not available.

"It feels like a financial aid complaint center. They are really mad when they get here;· Muenzberg said.

In addition to the current problems, other students contend with a variety of complaints.

Psychology major Raemi Nuttall, 25, was overawarded, but was not notified by MSCD that a loan was subsequently canceled.

"I was counting on that money, and it was a complete shock," she said.

The only way she found out was through her bank.

The financial aid office lost 23year-old journalism major Linwood Smith's transcripts that the Florida State University confirmed they had sent. He won't see any financial aid until October because without the transcripts, they classified him as a freshman, although he is a senior.

"I had to get a job yesterday," Smith said. "I'm broke - It has created a lot of stress in my life."

Judson said the process has been frustrating for the Financial Aid Office as well, but the Spring 1994 financial aid disbursement should be back to normal.

"I don't want to live through this again," she said.

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Probationary Period Considered

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GPA from page 1 on a similar type of probationary contract as set up by admission and records for academically troubled students.

The amendment lists five conditions that must be met by the probationary student, including maintaining a 2.2 GPA for the next semester and be registered for at least six semester hours.

The probationary ASMSCD member, the director of Student Activities, the president pro-tempore and the ASMSCD president are required to sign the contract.

J.C. Flowers, one of the ineligible student representatives, said he wrote the proposed amendment and that it is unofficial.

Three members of Student Government have been officially working on a constitutional by-law to allow for a probationary period for members who fall below a 2.0 GPA. No official amendment, however, has been submitted, said Student Trustee Matthew Bates, one of the three members working on the by-laws.

Student Sen. Mike Wempen, interim chairman of the Rules Committee, and Student Sen. Megan Reyes, are the other two members, he said.

Having a probationary period of one semester allows students to re-examine their priorities and focus more on school, Bates said.

"People in Student Government are students," he said. "You need to be a student before you can represent students."

Bates said there were some students to whom the probationary period would be applicable, but any policy written would not be a direct result of those students ' situations.

is encouraging students not to change that aspect of the Constitution and to keep their priorities straight. ' W e ' v e always had "Maintaining a "C" average is somepeople under 2.0. thing that every student should make a It's been that way priority-especially student leaders and since the beginning days of representatives," she said. " .. .I agree that Student Government.' a probationary period is useful, but a probationary period below a 2.0 is not in the -Michael Wempen best academic interest of the students."

Miller said she would support a proStudent Senator bationary period for students who are below a 2.5 GPA, and dismissal for those "If we look at a policy like that , who are under 2.0. we ' re not looking at it based on an indiAssistant Vice President of Student vidual, we' re looking at it as a policy for Affairs Karen Thorpe, who said she has Student Government as a whole," he said. heard of and seen the proposed bill, said Reyes said a student's participation the idea of a probationary period is "totalin Student government is considered ly unacceptable." before deciding whether or not they will "The most important goal is to make be dismissed. sure that students are successful in their "To get rid of them on that basis (low academic pursuits," she said.

GPA) is not really valid," she said.

Taxpayers supplement each student Wempen said low GPAs has always that attends the college and each student been a problem for student government needs to be successful in the classroom, representatives. she said.

"We've always had people under 2.0.

'Taxpayers would not respect that or It ' s been that way since the beginning not support that kind of activity," she said days of Student Government," he said. of the proposed amendment.

Wempen said while he knows of The bill is ill-advised and will not Flowers' proposed amendment, he didn't have her support, she said. In addition, have anything to do with it. those students who have a 2.0 GPA or "It's nothing more than someone's less will not participate as part of the stuidea," Wempen said. dent government.

ASMSCD wants to make official the Thorpe said her office should be practice of allowing a probationary period checking the qualifications of student official as they have done it unofficially government officials. in past years with the support of their "That is our responsibility that stuadvisers, he said. dents have the required grade point averMiller, who is one of the Student age to serve as student government offiGovernment advisers, however, said she cials," she said.

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"We know SAB is just a recommending body to administration," he changes. He said his biggest concerns said. "We're not trying to make sweepare that the $50,000 is a permanent ing changes, but it would be nice to be change, and thal SAB members were included in decisions regarding student fees." not allowed to vote on the issue.

"It' s good Bates said he believes that the that we were told 'We're not tryina to services do beneabout it, but it's a make sweepmg shame we were changes, but it fit students.

"I think the told after the would be nice to be included fact," he said. " If in decisions regarding stu- bigger concern is that it's a dangerthis is a student dent fees.' ous trend," he affairs board, why can't we vote?" said. "Each year -Matthew Bates we seem to shift Thorpe said Student Trustee more and more that when she met with SAB she told on to student them what the situation was and asked fees. We can' t keep doing this every year; somewhere we have to draw the for their comments.

"To be candid, I didn't ask for their line." approval," she said.

Thorpe said she believes the stuJ.C. Flowers, a student senator and dents have the right to voice their opina member of SAB said he feels that ions, and that she is happy the issue is these are services that should probably public.

"You need to be up front whether be financed by student fees, but that the people agree or disagree," she said. board should be allowed to vote on it.

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A former MSCD student and prohemp activist said that snubs from her teachers and peers prompted her to drop out of school.

Ellen Archer, a candidate in the 1992 Denver City Council election and former president of the on-campus chapter of NORML, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, cites several incidents of harassment as the reason she terminated her enrollment at MSCD. The harassment began ...:................:--....1 soon after she Archer announced her candidacy for city council last spring, she said. One of the first incidents occurred when her public relations teacher told her that some powerful people did not like what she was doing.

Other degrading verbal comments were made by peers during a class party, and she has been harassed in less direct ways as well, she said.

"It 's a very subtle thing, but this is how I'm being excluded from my educa-

tion," Archer said.

She said she considers the inordinate hassle of getting an on-campus booth space to advocate marijuana legalization to be part of the harassment she faces at Auraria.

Archer, said getting cooperation in organizing pro-legalization activities on campus is like " pulling a tooth."

She said she suspects her position on marijuana is likely to be the cause of her difficulty setting up such campus activities.

June Gonzales of the Auraria Reservation Conference Services declined specific comment on her dealings with Archer and pro-marijuana clubs at Auraria but said that student services is fair-minded and has treated all clubs equally regardless of their philosophies.

Archer said she can only speculate from whom her opposition originates but does not blame the faculty for what she describes as unfair treatment.

"It's not the teachers themselves, but the people who influence them," she said.

"It's very political."

Despite the roadblocks she anticipates will be created by those who oppose her, Archer said she will continue to try to get more students involved in prohemp causes and hopefully enroll again at MSCD. "I really would like to complete my education, but right now, my first priority is to legalize," she said.

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A new lot which provides parking for only 75 cents a day opens this week at Auraria campus; a bargain basement price in the world of parking.

"It' s the lowest rate since 1985," said Mark Gallagher, Auraria's director of parking services for Auraria Higher Education Center.

Lot A, which opens Sept. 9 or Sept. I 0, is west of the campus on 5th Street.

"It's quite a walk," Gallagher said. "We hope that what we do is meet a parking need of students who don't have much cash but want our services."

Gallagher said the lot is fenced and lighted and patrolled by Auraria Public Safety. However, it is unattended and requires quarters for a vending machine.

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"There's a real need for it, no doubt about it," Gallagher said. "We can always use more spaces."

Gallagher said the parking lots were all filled to capacity during the first four days of classes but overall, the system is starting to loosen up.

Tuesdays and Thursdays are still the busiest parking days, but there are lots of spaces available every day during evening classes, he said, adding that when it is busy, lots E, F and G are the last to fill.

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Two MSCD student senators are accusin former Student Government

President Tom Mestnik of calling one of them a neo-Nazi and badgering the other to the point of tears after a senate meeting Wednesday.

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meeting I was approached by Tom Mestnik. He called me a neo-Nazi racist," said Student Sen. David N. Sneed IL Student Sen. Candy Griswold said Mestnik later harassed her in the Student Government offices.

Both senators called Auraria Public Safety to file an incident report.

Mestnik denied calling Sneed a neoNazi racist.

"I said he had the ideology of a neoNazi," Mestnik said. "I asked him if he was an official member of the White Aryan Resistance."

Student Sen. Michael Wempen said he witnessed the incidents and that Mestnik was angered at the Senate's opposition to Student Government President Barb Ferrill's appointment to the Colorado Student Association.

Sneed said Mestnik's slur surprised him.

"I had never met him before this incident in the hall," he said.

At the Student Government offices, Griswold said she tried to defend Sneed, saying to Mestnik that Sneed fought for freedom in Desert Storm.

"I said to him, 'How can you accuse him of something like that when you don ' t even know him?"' Griswold said.

"That's when he started doing his goose-walking' into my personal space and singing his Nazi song," she said. "I felt threatened. I was scared."

Mestnik's version is different.

"She said ' He couldn ' t be a Nazi because he was in the Marines,'" he said.

"That's when I started singing 'Uber Alles,' with extreme sarcasm, trying to portray how ludicrous her statement was."

Mestnik said he wasn't being serious as he goose-stepped around the Student Government office singing with his arm raised in a Nazi salute.

Sneed then entered the Student Government offices, at which point Mestnik stopped singing in German , Griswold said.

Griswold is certain that Ferrill was aware of the incident going on just outside the open door of her office. " She had to have been," Griswold said. "He was singing very loudly."

Ferrill denied knowing about the conflict between Mestnik and the senators.

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Peak Alumnus Captain Becky Upton, a 1986 aerospace engineering graduate of MSCD, represented U.S. Reserve Officers at the 46th Annual Interallied Confederation o Reserve Officers military and athletic competition in Washington last month.

Upton was placed on one of two teams comprised of women from the U.S. at the competition, which pits teams from all NATO reserve forces against one another. Upton's team placed in the top three in the women's competition and the top 50 in the overall.

Events included a 500-meter obstacle course, a water obstacle course, marksmanship and overall military skills.

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I believe that all suicides are accidents.

A friend to many of us at the newspaper, the Unconsciously they think they will be saved and death of Kristopher Evans came as a great shock. their act is a cry for help. I'm sure Kristopher really We suffered terrible grief. didn't want to die.

Psychologist Elizabeth Kubler Ross in her 1969 My regret is that I could not save him the way I work on Death and Dying, says that the first reac- saved my friend. Instead I may have contributed to tion to death is denial. his unhappiness. But the hardest part was that no Our first reaction indeed was that we could not one ever knew about his suffering. He didn't give us accept that he was really gone. any clues. He seemed perfectly We kept expecting him to walk normal. He had plans; he told me through the office door as he reghe was looking for an apartment. ularly did; to see his face and hear He wanted to get an internship. sychologist the sound of his voice as he The final stage to the reaction Elizabeth Kubler looked for an assignment or to to the news of death is acceptance, Ross in her work work on a story. It had to be Kubler Ross says. another Kristopher Evans in on Death and Dying Days later, as I write this editorDenver, we thought. But then we says that the first reacial, I learned that Kristopher sufhadn't heard from him in days. fered from long term mental illness. tion to death is I knew Kristopher from many I have also accepted that I cannot of my journalism classes, and I denial ...and the final blame myself for his actions, and hired him onto .the paper because stage is acceptance. that Kristopher is gone and whatevof his enthusiasm and interest in er pain he felt is gone as well. writing ..

I can only hope to help those The last time I saw him alive I alive who suffer mental pain that in said, the future of our nation, its health "Why weren't you at the staff meeting?" care plan includes affordable psychological coun"Oh, I slept in," he said. seling and that mental health care is available for "Bad excuse," I said, "Bad excuse." I told him if all. Millions of American suffer from depression and he missed another staff meeting, I would have to anguish. Many who seek counseling cannot get it relieve him. because of the high costs of psychiatry, counseling On Wednesday, not knowing that he was centers are understaffed or their programs do not dead, I left a message on his answering machine, include treatment for patients who need long term saying that if he didn't have this story in by 9 he did- counseling. May money not be a deterrent to relievn't have to come in at all. ing the mental anguish of many.

When I found out the news the next day, I felt I can still see your face, Kristopher, I can still terrible. Was it something I said? hear your voice. But I must say goodbye now.

Suicide is something that brings compassion Farewell my friend. and a special sadness to me. I have had the experience of having a person very close to me attempt My sympathies to the family of Kristopher suicide twice. Once, I found her just in time to res- Evans. May he rest in peace.

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My mom has been there for me through the best and worst of times. When I was 11 and broke my ankle who was there to put that pillow under my foot and run to McDonalds for me? My mom.

When I was caught smoking in the fourth grade who was there to tell me how wrong it was? My mom.

My mom has taught me everything important in life: how to read, how to count, how to drive and most importantly how to be a good mom.

o lets all let out a cheer for all the great moms in this world. And for my mom, Denise Trott, I love you.

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My mom takes care of my son even when she is sick and does not want to. Over the last two weeks she has spent more time with Brandon (my son) than I have. It's gotten to the point where I only seeing Brandon in the morning one hour before he goes to the sitter for the day.

When your kid is only 10 months old, it seems as if you are missing his whole life. It seems like Brandon gained three pounds and grew five inches over the last two weeks and I missed it.

My mom works two jobs and has a 12-hour work day. Not because she has to, but because she wants Brandon and I to have the things we need and want. For Brandon that means more toys than any one kid can play with and for me it means if I can't pay my bills she can help me.

My mom told me all she wants is for me to be happy. Well all I want is to make her happy.

All week my mom has been running around confiscating Rocky Mountain News newspapers so that she can show everyone "her kids articles".

So I guess I've made her happy by doing what I like to do, write.

I don't know how much suffering I put my mom through when I was a teen, but she doesn't seem to hold a grudge now. So mom I am sorry for all the headaches and gray hairs I have given you, but just think now I have a son who will probably do the same things I did.

So lets all let out a cheer for all the great moms in this world.

This column is dedicated to all the great moms in our world: Denise Trott, Ann Straub, the late Catherine Vecchio, Alvira Lopez and all the others not mentioned.

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lcome to The Metropolitan, home of the almost all-woman editing staff. Our Photo Editor, Ardy Cross, is a man. We have men on our writing, photography, production and advertising staffs, but I'll bet there are a few people out there thinking that the abundance of estrogen in this office is a breeding ground for unfair bias.

A friend of mine recently told me that a colleague of his was sending an editorial to our office, but that friend doubted it would be published because the editor is "a racfical feminist."

In the first place, an editorial is an opinion and it appears on the editorial page. If a newspaper prints only the opinions with which its editors agree, the paper would not be serving the students and farulty, it would only be serving the egos of the newspaper staff. I know that the women on this staff, including Editor in Chief Patricia Sydney Straub, have better intentions than that. We also have a healthy respect for the first amendment which guarantees freedom of speech.

If journalists succeed in keeping their biases out of their stories, their personal and political viewpoints should not affect the readers.

Secondly, under no definition do I classify anyone on our staff as a radical feminist.

The word '1eminist'' alone, when brought up in conversations, often summons up visions of man-hating, cynical women.

'Webster's New World Dictionary" describes a feminism as: "a) the principle that woman should have political, economic, and social rights ec:µll to those of men b) the movement to win such rights for women."

Pardon me if I find nothing offensive in such a concept I am a feminist; not a gender-fascist I simply want my inalienable rights to be respected.

People worry too mudl about power. I only want power over myself, not over anyone else.

I don't study journalism so that I can manipulate the

free world. My interest is to try to find out what really goes on and to present it to others as clearly as possible. I don't blame men or anyone else for my failures. But that won't stop me from being defensive if I feel I have been prematurely judged by an ancient standard, a standard that hurts both men and women.

Undeniably, there is institutionalized sexism in industry and education. Women comprise 57 percent of the entrylevel jobs in journalism, but only 25 percent of middle-management jobs belong to women In 1992, on the average, a woman earned 72 cents to every dollar earned by a man.

It wasn't until May of this year that the University of Colorado women's basketball coach, Ceal Barry's salary was raised to match that of the men's basketball coach.

In 1987, it took a college newspaper article comparing pay rates of men and women at Virginia Commonwealth University to open eyes and raise the salaries of women educators there. It required two studies and four years to raise women's salaries to an average of 2,000 less than the men's at VCU. That gap includes allowances made for disparities in money-making potential for different fields of study.

If feminists are a threat to men, this is true only in that they are a threat to stale traditions. I reserve the right to be myself, regardless of what tradition or expedation I might shatter in the process. I balance my choices like everyone else. I don't always hold my feminist theory above all other beliefs. I seldom declare, "I am a feminist," because I am more than that, I have more dimensions and I am loathe to categorize any person.

Granted, there are man-hating radical feminists out there. But when someone lets a cause replace his or her own identity, the message is jurrbled.

In 1986, Archbishop of York J.S. Habgood said of "ultra-feminists, "Movements born in hatred quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose."

That makes a lot of sense to me. I have met women whose radical viewpoints toward men are definitely born in hatred, but I have seen none of that hatred here at The Met office, where we enjoy working as team with all of our staff, men included.

I assure you The Metropolitan editorial staff is not comprised of bitter, insensitive, isolationist women. So please share your thoughts with us, whether you think we espouse them or not. Above all, I cherish freedom of expression.

As for the aforementioned editorial, we haven't received it yet Please mail it soon, we want to hear your viewpoint.

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Finger Pointing Into Past At the Pope Is Ludicrous Patricia Sydney Straub's editorial Est Dominatus chronicling the misdeeds of Catholics over the ages was just more of the all too familiar pap that has been monopolizing the discussion of the Pope's visit.This finger pointing into the distant past is more canned rhetoric from the anti-Christian left. Comparing today's Christians to the medieval Church is ludicrous (try as I may I have not been able to find any thumbscrews at the church I attend}. What Ms. Straub does not understand is that at the time, the Church was also the State. The way one got ahead in government was to be in the Church. This caused people with no true faith to enter and ascend to levels of power perverting the true intent of the Church, which in turn caused some very un-Christian things to occur.

As far as transgressions against humanity go, one has only to look at the 20th century to .see the kinds of atrocities committed by the gentle atheists. I wonder if Ms. Straub has ever heard of the Khmer Rouge or the Shining Path? Stalin made the cru-

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Personally, I'd rather be at the mercy of a Christian society.

Today the Church is no longer the establishment. You don't have to be a Christian if you don't want to be (a fact that seems to elude Ms. Straub and other critics of the church}. In fact, the incentives are stacked against being Christian today, due in part to the kind of anti-Christian bigotry expressed

by Ms. Straub. The obvious escapes Straub and others; bigotry is always bad, even if it's against someone you disagree with.

Ms. Straub seems to imply a correlation between the Church's position on birth control and the spread of AIDS. Does any intelligent person really believe that someone engaging in behavior that places them at high risk of contracting AIDS is going to refuse to wear a condom because of Church teachings? In fact, if more people followed the Church's teachings on promiscuity and drug use AIDS would be a thing of the past. In effect the

Pope and the Church are doing more to curb the spread of AIDS than any AIDS education program or high school condom giveaway ever could.

Ms. Straub and other critics of the church never seem to notice any of the good the Church is doing.

Perhaps this is because the Church does not seek recognition. I for one have noticed that the largest homeless shelter in Colorado is run by Catholic charities and every other homeless shelter I know of is run by one Christian group or another. The AIDS hospice Seton House along with countless other services for needy and sick is also run by Catholics.

In contrast, I've failed to notice any homeless shelters run by local Marxists. And to my knowledge there are no AIDS hospices run by Atheists of America. Perhaps Ms. Straub would notice more of these things if she were able to learn more about Catholics and other Christians instead of stereotyping them.

Eduard Gamito UCO student

"Scandalous" Reporting Insults MSCD Students, Government The Metropolitan insults the intelligence of Metro students by assuming all they want to hear is the "scandal." I am encouraged that students are outraged at reading The Metropolitan's story about the student government trip to UCLA for the United States Student Association's National Student Congress conference, especially the way it was written, with hardly a mention of the work we did there or the things we accomplished.

By reading that article you would think we spent the whole time partying . MSCD students have a right to know what their student government is doing and where their student fees are going. It would be a problem if students were not watching their student government and holding it accountable.

This is difficult to do, however, when their student newspaper is intent on misrepresenting their student government and only writing about the sexy or scandalous events. Metro students deserve more. Student government's purpose is to represent the interests of MSCD students to the administration, the Board of Trustees, and all the way to the U.S. Congress where decisions are made that affect Metro students. This applies especially to student fees . If members of student government are abusing student fees then students should be mad as hell - and do something about it. They should also hold their newspaper accountable to report all the facts about a story.

Students deserve to know what they got for the $5,000 spent for our delegation to the USSA. The Metropolitan utterly failed in its responsibility .

Members of student government that attended the

conference worked very hard networking with student leaders from across the country, learning better ways to be effective in advocating for students interests, about ways to gain more student control over student fees and about national higher education policy issues that affect Metro students.

Many of us worked extremely hard at the conference with working meetings going as late as 2 or 3 a.m. We also participated in reshaping USSA's policy platform, making it more representative of MSCD students, and we succeeded in getting USSA to lift its boycott of Colorado so that USSA will avoid businesses that discriminate based on sexual orientation, without hurting Colorado students. So much for unbiased reporting.

Just a few months ago Metro students voted in their election to become members of USSA for 25 cents per student per semester. Metro students now have representation in Congress and the White House by an organization directed and run by students - and MSCD students deserve to know about it. The Metropolitan could write several stories on the work that USSA does and the victories they have had this year in Congress that will affect Metro students. If students have concerns, complaints, or issues that need to be addressed (or really want to know what their student government is up to} they are always welcome. Our office is in the Student Union room 340 C. The Senate meets every other Wednesday from 3 :30 to 5 p.m, come check us out.

Congratulations is due to The Metropolitan for achieving the quality of reporting only found in comparable newspapers such as The National Enquirer, Star and other such "Shock papers." I am writing this letter in response to the article written by Mark Mantini whom I have never met nor spoken to. In his article titled Student Government ''One Ups" Congress, he makes a hell of a lot of accusations and runs hard and long on the rumors but within all the quality unbiased reporting he conveniently fails to mention one word about any of the things WE did acx:x:>rllJlish, but I guess I have come to exped that from the newspaper that does little more than do the dirty work for the aaninistration. Most likely the students will never see this letter in its entirety. It will be reworded, rephrased and reworded and reworked until it comes out that "student government had sex in pikipsie with shaved yaks."

Knowing this full well I will go ahead and list the accomplishments and failures of ASMSCD on the USSA trip.

1. Lifted the USSA boycott on Colorado.

2. Pushed for greater acx:ess to Student Aid. 3. Pushed for the expansion of college work study.

4. Pushed for the expansion of Pell Grants and IO'N interest student loans.

5. Wrote and passed three policy platforms, which if enacted by Congress would dramatically help the Veteran students on campus.

6. Pushed for the ina-eased use of paperback books in order to help keep the outrageous price of textbooks down.

7. Pushed for greater recruitment and retention of minority students on campus.

The List includes many other specific areas but, I will now state some of the areas in which we failed our con-

Barb Ferrill MSCD Student Body President

stituents.

1. We failed to develop a contract in which Senators attending the trip were held liable for attending the Congress in its entirely or pay back the students.

2. lnstiMe a Code of Conduct for ASMSCD. 3. Allowed the Administration to dictate our punishment rather than an individual committee of students. ,.

Whatever allegations you can derive from this article I hope they live up to you "High Standards of reporting" and I question who is really cheating the Students of Metro.

Senator Sean Tonner

Editor's note: Mr. Mantini is not a staff writer for The Metropolitan. His column appeared on the editoria.I page, as this letter does. And we did edit this letter for grammar, misspellings and t)'1»" graphical errors.

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Tflomas C. Mestnik MSCD student Co-Chair Auraria Democratic Socialists of America In the August 27 issue of The Met. Mark Mantini wrote an editorial celebrating the recent executions in Texas and Missouri while simultaneously misrepresenting the views of those who oppose the death penalty and the beliefs of a majority of Americans.

Mantini claims that the "majority of opposition" to the death penalty is based on ''the 8th Amendment" and the restriction of "cruel and unusual punishment." Here he is wrong on several points. First off, for the past two decades the "majority of opposition" which includes, Amnesty International, the ACLU , The Stanford and Harvard Law Reviews, and four Supreme Court justices, have opposed capital punishment in light of the overwhelming evidence concluding that the application of the death penalty is discriminatory on grounds of race.

A study published in Death Penalty in America

by Ray Paternoster concludes that while 72 percent of black offenders who killed a white were sentenced to death , less than 32 percent of white offenders who killed a white were so sentenced.

Research that studied over 3,000 rapes in 230 counties in 11 states exposed extreme racial variants. Blacks were six and one-half times more likely to be sentenced to death for rape than white offenders. Blacks who raped white women were 18 times

more likely to be sentenced to death than those rapes involving any other racial combination . The study showed unequivocally that rapes involving black offenders and white victims are substantially more likely to result in a death sentence than other rapes. Black offenders who killed whites were more than twice as likely to be indicted for first degree murder than black offenders who killed blacks.

A concurring study concluded that "the fact that a homicide involved a black defendant and a white victim was more important in predicting a firstdegree murder indictment (and thus receiving the death sentence) than all other legally relevant fac-

n extensive analysis of over 1,800 homicides in South Carolina showed that prosecutors were over twice as likely to seek the death sentence if the victim was white rather than black.

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An extensive analysis of over 1,800 homicides in South Carolina showed that prosecutors were over twice as likely to seek the death sentence if the victim was white rather than black. In addition black offenders who crossed racial lines were four times as likely to be charged with capital murder than blacks who had killed black victims.

When a homicide reached the sentencing stage studies showed that a black offender was far more likely to receive the death sentence than blacks who killed other blacks. In Ohio they were 15 times more likely, in Georgia they were 33 times more likely, in Texas 87 times and in Florida 37 times more likely to be sentenced to death.

The legal claims of racial discrimination are pri-

marily based on the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause which claims, "no state shall deny to any person the equal protection of laws." This clause prohibits differentially prosecuting crimes against black and white victims.

Mr. Mantini claims that we must choose between two options, either the death penalty with the unfortunate conseqÂľence of occasionally killing an innocent person or the deaths resulting from allowing "dangerous, guilty criminals to go free. " This statement shows how little Mantini knows about the oppositional argument and I challenge him to find any death penalty opponent who advocates letting "dangerous and guilty criminals" free. But there is a third and obvious option that he left out of the debate and it is the one, according to a 1988 gallop pole, that a majority of Americans support. That is replacing the death penalty with sentences of life without parole, along with mandatory financial restitution to the victim's survivors. As Paternoster points out, ''this policy would ensure that convicted murderers receive harsh punishment, and with parole forbidden in all cases the public would be protected from any future crimes such criminals could commit."

Ultimately the only way to deter crime is to eliminate the social and economic conditions which create the atmosphere of poverty and violence. The past 12 years has seen the largest increase in the gap between the haves and the have nots in the history of America. Extreme variations in conditions, where the richest percent of Americans own 40 percent of the wealth and the richest tenth own over eighty percent, will continue to produce a society where this lower ninety percent find themselves in ever increasing forms of desperation.

Martin Luther King said, ''the soul left in darkness will commit many sins but the guilty are not those who commit the sins but those who perpetuate the darkness"

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It is this concern that has prompted our organization to write this letter because of the belief that the rights of MSCD students will be trampled by the MSCD administration because of the omission of information regarding the recommendations our organization made to the president's office on the grievance process.

In a letter to the president of MSCD our organization sighted the following critiques and recommendations regarding the grievance process. ..The current process is designed to overwhelm and intimidate a student who has a legitimate documented complaint. The way the process is written, the interrogatories can include questions about the grievant's personal past, friendships, and family information.

Another problem that faces the student grievant is that the MSCD administrators and its instructors seek legal consultation with their attorneys when a student files a grievance, thus placing the student at a disadvantage.

Regarding the institution's attempts to "help students learn their rights," we find this response to be

mere lip service and again doubt the sincerity of the college in empowering the larger student body with their rights. MSCD's poorly attended workshops should give a clue how poorly the workshops are promoted.

Our organization has demanded that MSCD implement a comprehensive promotional program to notify students of the grievance process and not hide, censor or bury the information in publications as the institution has in the past.

Information on the grievance process should include names, location, phone numbers, times available, and an outline of the grievance procedure. Specified time frames for filing grievances need to be stated not only for all internal grievance procedures (i.e. the grade appeal process), but external grievance agencies that have jurisdiction in College matters including the Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, and the Colorado Office for Civil Rights.

In short, MSCD administrators are naturally going to say nothing is wrong with the grievance process only that needs some clarification. What the grievance process needs is a overhaul that includes student input particularly those of whom it has victimized.

Thank you, The Revolutionary Alliance

As a recent graduate of MSCD I was certain that the new Editor and staff of The Metropolitan would discontinue the annual tradition of "StudentGovern ment-bas hi ng ," and focus on the real issues affecting students. The August 27th issue of The Met proved otherwise.

After reading the article accusing Student Government members of misusing student fees, it's obvious that the only person who knowingly misused the money was Chief Justice Lori Wolfson.

And can you really call a day trip to Magic Mountain (one day out of an eleven day conference) a "misuse of funds"? Regarding the rumored heavy drinking I'd call that a lack of good judgement rather than a "misuse of funds."

The Met begins each school year by exposing some "scandal" involving the Student Government, and then spends the rest of the year patting themselves on the back while circling over the remains like a flock of hungry vultures.

The Met seems to have conveniently forgotten the real issues; for example, the administration's attempt to exclude students from the selection of MSCD's new president, the tuition hike that seriously affected the full-time students - students who make up the majority of MSCD's enrollment, the overload restrictions, the lack of a tuition deferment option, the enormous amount of red tape involved in filing a graduation agreement, just to name a few.

I would have thought that by now The Met would have figured out that bash ing Student Government at the beginning of the year makes it much more difficult for them to accomplish their goals - the ones that benefit the students.

By now The Met and Student Government should have figured out that they'd both become more influential in matters affecting their readers/voters if they'd work together.

I challenge The Met to find an issue that truly affects students, and assist the newly elected Student Government in meeting the needs of the people that really matter - the MSCD students.

Put an end to the tabloid tradition.

Mary A Gebhart MSCD Graduate

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A~th gists have sho1 young boys anc have different wa talking to t friends. Boys, example, get stal among their peer through giving orders and through telling stories and jokes.

Girls, on the other hand, play in sm a II .; groups .,. or in . pa ITS, fro~

Men and women often misunderstand each other, and research says we actually speak different kinds of languages - instead of different dialects, the language gap between the sexes has been named "genderlects."

An MSCD class called "Gender Communications" is a step toward increased unders tanding between men and women. One of the main goals of the class, said speech teacher Karen Krupar, is to meet the needs for more effective communication at the work place.

"The real world out there is dominated by male managers, and men and women are going to have to work side by side more in the future," Krupar said.~.......... " While women think the attitudes toward them have changed for the better, it's actually proven that we are more traditionally oriented now than ever," she said. She referred to women still being viewed as the sensitive, gentle and dependent sex, whereas male tendencies are considered to be aggressiveness and independence.

"To put this burden on men is garbage! It's cruel to expect that they are insensitive," Krupar said.

Her teaching experience is that most men feel they want to learn more about their "feminine self' and that they want society to allow it.

"The class is not a harangue on men," she emphasized. "They have problems just like women do. The issues are different, but the overall communication problem is the same for both sexes."

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Female anger, male confusion The first week of class every semester, the female students usually express a lot of anger, Krupar said, whereas the male reaction to the subject "gender communication" is confusion.

"Women often feel ignored, and their main question is, 'why am I treated like a secondclass citizen?' Men ask, 'why bring me into this?"' Krupar said.

Philippe Marquis, an MSCD sophomore, said one of the reasons he became involved in theatre was to gain more freedom from gender stereotypes.

"When I was 10 years old, my family moved back to the United States from Germany. I wore pink sweaters and had my ear pierced, and people perceived me as feminine," Marquis said. "Most boys and girls turned away from me, since I didn't fit into any of the gender categories."

Marquis ended up benefiting from the situation in the end. he said, since it gave him an opportunity to watch both camps from the outside.

"I was raised to express my feelings, and to be perfectly honest, it was a shock to me to find out that guys are not 'supposed to' show how they feel," Marquis said. "It is hard for a man to know what a woman expects. The question is always. 'should I be strong or emotional?"'

He said he nowadays feels comfortable in being honest about his reactions without striving towards fitting into the "male category."

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'I can be competitive too,' is the attitude. "But it's hard, since we're not trained for that," Krupar said.

Linda Airsman, and MSCD sociology. professor, said the wage gap is a concrete example of

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women being discriminated against in the workplace.

She said women often build a concensus through feelings, and want to include people instead of stepping on them on the way up the corporate ladder.

"Men, on the other hand, can really argue and disagree and then blow it off. They are more detached than women, and an argument is not an assault to their feelings," Airsman said.

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Common, typical "female actions" are to smile a lot and to present vague arguments, she said.

Krupar said she often sees a difference in the way women and men present themselves in resumes.

Women, she said, often describe themselves as "doers," whereas men instead say they are "responsible for" projects, which is a management attitude.

"Guys' language address action.

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said. "We also know that men talk and interrupt more than women, contrary to the common belief that it's the other way around."

Women disclose themselves more Compared to women, men often communicate on a surface level, and consider sports, politics, money and news to be intimate topics of conversation. Women more frequently talk about relationships.

Research also says that women disclose themselves more often than men, and social psychologist Pat Middlebrook has stated that the male role in society often means not discussing the self. The lack of disclosing could, according to Middlebrook' s theory, add more stress to men's lives, which, she says, in tum could lead to an early death. Marquis said he is working at a job where women have to say "no." Some of his female colleagues, he said, turn "hard" as a defense and as a way of gaining respect.

He is, however, comfortable with the relationship between himself and the management at the workplace.

One of his co-workers, Kayleigh Hansen, is treated differently from Marquis by the managers.

"I'm called 'baby,' 'honey' and 'sweetie' by the guys. They pat me on the head. I'm struggling with whether or not to tell them off," Hansen said.

She emphasized that she doesn 't think the men act this way out of spite, but that their behavior stems from ignorance.

"They are just used to calling the female employees 'cute' names. It's just a normal thing to them," she said.

Both s xes s are res onsibility to chan e attitudes Airsman said her experience is that men are more receptive if a woman is direct about her needs at jobs that are heavily dominated by men.

"It is to some extent the women's task to change things. Men are willing to change if they are given a chance," she said, adding that women too often help maintain situations of discrimination themselves.

"Women can bring strength to a conversation," she said, "and men need to learn that it is not a matter of a zero - some game with a winner and a loser."

Airsman said she advocates gender studies as opposed to exclusively women's studies.

"Pointing a finger at people isn't productive. We need to come together," she said. "We're beyond the point where defensiveness can solve our problems."

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ELEVENTH ANNUAL CAREER EXPLORATION DAY WEDNE.S,D AY, SEPTEMBER 22, 199,3 All Auraria students and alumni are welcome to attend.

50 employer representatives will he 路present to discuss career paths future employment opportunities. A variety of career oriented workshops will also he held throughout the day.

Sponsored. by , unity College of Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado at Denver

Career Information Booths Student Union 10:00 am - 4:00 pm ith a major in ... ?" Gather career information and taUt to professionals employed in rous occupations.Booths include:

Answer that age-oUI question, "What can I do

Business Careers Natural and Physical Science Careers Arts and Humanities Careers 路

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esume Critiques t. Cajetan's 1 :00 am - 4:00路pm Bri :g a draft ofyour resume for review

Employers Student Union 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Aetna Life & Casualty Citicorp Diners Club, I Eastman Kodak C .

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American Managef!1erJt;fys,t~ ;m . City ofAroada, Personttf!J Dept. ].D. Edwards & Company US. Environmental Protection Agency

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Counseling Available for Students Considering Suicide Stevie Griego THE METROPOLITAN

For students battling with depression or thoughts of suicide, there is al ways help.

The Counseling Center located in Central Class"""""'--.- room 203 has a Bobbi Vollmer staff of counselors to aid students through difficult times.

"Depression is widespread among college students. Of all of the students we (the Counseling Center) see, about 12 percent say they think about (suicide)," said Dr. Bobbi Vollmer, director of the Counseling Center and Career Services.

The most important thing, Vollmer stresses, is that although the feelings of hopelessness and depression are very real , they are also very temporary.

"Students may become extremely depressed by a mi.n or incident," Vollmer said. "It's very important to realize that most people are only briefly suicidal."

Vollmer note s that most talk of

suicide is a strong cry for help.

Vollmer urges people to contact the Counseling Center if they know anyone who is contemplating suicide. Even small hints of suicide should be taken seriously.

The Counseling Center will try to contact students who have been referred to the center for help but will not come to

alking about suicide is helpful because it lets the affected person know they are not alone in their feelings and there are places they can go for help.

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- Bobbi Vollmer Counseling Center director the center on their own. The center has taken various measures including having police keep tabs on depressed students and monitor their well-being.

Some people believe talking about suicide only pushes uncertain people into following through with the act. However.

Vollmer believes that talking about suicide is helpful because it lets the affected person know they are not alone in their feelings and there are places they can

go for help.

The Student Health Center, Student Union 140, offers information on depression and suicide. However, if a student suffering from depression comes to the health center they will be referred to the Counseling Center.

"We specialize in medical issues. We are happy to talk to anyone, but we will call the Counseling Center to send someone over in an extreme case," said Billi Mavromatis, health education coordinator.

The Counseling Center is open Monday through Friday with varying walk-in times. Students who feel they must speak with a counselor immediately should inform the receptionist and they will be helped right away. Counselors at the Counseling Center wear pagers and can always be reached in case of an emergency.

If a student cannot reach anyone at the Counseling Center, they are encouraged to call the Bethesda Support Line at 758-1123.

According to Vollmer, students who use the Counseling Center usually suffer from stress, low self-esteem, depression and/or despair over personal relationships.

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Comedian Ellen DeGeneres hated school and said she wasn't sure what she'd be doing if it wasn't comedy.

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DeGeneres said.

She will be performing at Auraria on Sept. 23.

"Oh, hold on," she said at the start of a phone interview, "my dog is attacking a gardener."

She has two dogs, a white labrador and a "scroungey little mutt thing," Murphy (the gardener-eater), whom she claims must have some sort of rodent in him. "Maybe possum, he's got hair on him that doesn't belong on a dog."

"I was always making my friends laugh," she said, adding that because some of her humor is so dry, only they could perceive the personal irony of it.

But she never uses her friends or family as subjects for her self-written standup routines.

"I have certain issues I use, but people, that's too vulnerable. It's vulnerable enough to stand on the stage."

She added that everything in her routines is part of her personality.

While performing at a benefit, an audience member recognized her standup talent. Since then she has been working in local clubs. In 1991, she was voted "Best Female Comedy Club Standup" at the American Comedy Awards. She has appeared on the Tonight Show and in featured television spots, including her current US West commercial in which she portrays a pet shop owner. " In one year, I went from making coffee for lawyers to being the "'Funniest Person in America."'

DeGeneres said she has already reached her biggest goal in comedy - to be on the Tonight Show and have Johnny invite her to sit on his couch.

"Not everyone knows how much it means to be invited to sit down after being on the stage." Degeneres was the first woman comic Carson ever asked to sit down.

Now she has her own show, ''These Friends of Mine," which will be starting mid-season this fall.

She said she doesn't plan to make movies, noting that television is more instantly gratifying. Doing standup between shows gives her a creative outlet and guarantees employment between television filmings.

DeGeneres will appear at the PER Events Center on Thursday, Sept. 23.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for MSCD students and $ 16 for the public.

For more information contact the Office of Student Activities at 556-2595.

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Only 9% of LATINOS graduate from Metropolitan State College of Denver Don't become another statistic!

Students interested in staying in school and becoming comfortable in the college environment should attend this important free information session.

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Auraria expects to save $50,000 annually by using new efficient lighting in the Tivoli Student Union, said Dean Wolf, vice president for operations for the Auraria Troy Brach Higher Education Center.

"With both the lighting and mechanical systems, $50,000 is easily achievable on an annual savings," Wolf said.

Last year, the library was fitted with the new lighting at a cost of $300,000.

Half the expense was offset by Public Service Company of Colorado and Federal Institution grants.

The Tivoli project does not meet Public Service's normal grant criteria, however, said John Lovshin, the AHEC architect who is working on the Tivoli.

AHEC will look for outside funding from Energy Conservation and Public Service after the project has been fully designed. The design is expected to be complete in one to two weeks, according

to Wolf. The cost of the project has not been established. Since Tivoli is funded by student bonds, there is no institutional funding available.

The MSCD and UCD student governments and the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) have passed resolutions stating that energy conservation is a student concern and that AHEC should find additional resources to fund the project.

"The main problem AHEC has is funding, but there are grants and loans to make it happen , plus revenue from the Tivoli," said Troy Brach, a MSCD student who instigated the need for more energy efficient lighting.

AHEC has been involved with two major energy conservation projects at the Auraria campus. The first was lighting replacements for four classroom buildings: South, Arts , Science and West. This reduced energy demand by half and saves $60,000 yearly in utility costs.

The second project was the lighting replacements in the library. The savings projection for the project is estimated at $48,000 per year.

"The project pays for itself from the savings," Brach said.

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For students at MSCD who feel their educational goals can not be met by a major or minor currently offered in the college catalog, a contract major or minor may be a viable option.

Available through the Office of Adult Learning Services, the contract major/minor program has been in operation since 1974. It was designed with the non-traditional student in mind, as it offers an opportunity for employment and life experiences to shape the degree being sought. lt also requires strong self-discipline and direction because there is not a readymade structure as with a more traditional degree, and the students should have a clear idea of what they want to do when they graduate.

The contract major or minor is written by the student in consultation with a faculty advising committee and must meet certain criteria. It cannot duplicate a major or minor ( in content or title) already ·described in the MSCD catalog.

MSCD must have the resources to support the program of study, and the program of study and advising committee (which is made up of three full-time faculty of the student's choice) must be approved b y the director of Adult

Leaming Services, Dr. Eleanor M. Green.

To initiate a contract major or minor, students should write a proposal for their degrees which include graduation agreement worksheets listing proposed _ courses for the degrees, professional and/or personal resumes, reasons for pursuing the degrees, and copies of transfer evaluations and/or MSCD transcripts.

The proposal should show how experiences have led the student to pursue the current goal, describe the goal, show how the contract major or minor meets that goal and describe why the major or minor is a credible academic program.

A contract major includes a minimum of 40 credit hours including 20 hours upper division credit, of which eight must be upper division residency credit. A c ontract minor includes a minimum of 20 credit hours with a minimum of four hours upper division residency credit. An extended contract major is also available and does not require a minor but includes 60 credit hours of which 24 must be upper division credit and eight must be upper division residency credit.

To pursue a contract major or minor, or to obtain further information about the program, interested students should call the Office of Adult Leaming at 556-8342 or go to West Classroom 141.

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Emmanuel Gallery Showcases Three Women Artists Patricia Sydney Straub EDITOR JN CHIEF

The Auraria Campus' Emmanuel Gallery kicked off the fall semester, Friday Aug. 27, with an opening exhibit of the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute associates.

This exhibit is the product of the 1992 - 1993 associates' work of the past six months, said Cynthia Stone, executive director of the Institute.

Last spring, the Institute brought the much talked about pro-choice exhibit "Wake Up Little Suzy," a collaborative effort of last year's associates, to the Auraria Library.

This year's associates; artists Trine Bumiller, Lisa Spivak and MSCD and UCO art instructor Elizabeth Buhr; displayed works that varied greatly from each other, yet presented similar ideas of contrasts.

Trine Bumiller's six oil-on-canvas works developed out of her studio environment, she said. Her works present stable, heraldic rectangles and squares in

reds, blacks and whites in the background, while the foreground holds streaks of muted colors that snake across the canvas.

"Pine trees outside the studio window influenced me, as well as the Romanesque and Gothic shaped windows I looked out from," she said. Bumiller's work also evolved from ideas of women in history and mythology as well as the overbearing rules in society. Titles such as "Sleeping Beauty," "Citadel" and "Ivory Tower" confirm these ideas.

"I tried things that I wouldn't have tried, because the artist encouraged me," she said of her time at the Institute.

Lisa Spivak's mixed media works carry simple yet symbolic shapes of houses, ladders, picket fences, birds and a

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Revealing titles such as "Inside," "Empty House" and "Outside Secrets" convey a sense of looking from inside her housesha ped windows to connect with the sights and places outside. Quiet feelings are spoken through the vibrant colors.

Two sculptures accent her mixed media works. One, "Spirit House," a creation on stilts, is a bird in the shape of a house, mounted with white wings made of a photographic collage and then stuffed with pine needles.

Elizabeth Buhr presented a variety of media to encompass an allegorical work of the human condition. Salt sculptures, graphite and lighter fluid, as well as pen and ink work reflect human anatomy.

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Buhr said her idea for salt blocks as media came from her grandfather's working cattle ranch, where salt is a staple nutrient for the herds.

Buhr teaches drawing at MSCD and a sculpture class at UCD. The show runs through Sept. 23.

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SPORTS Wo1nen's Volleyball Sets, Kills Way to Victories at Regis Kristin Sauls SPORTS EDITOR

The women's volleyball team won eight out of nine matches it played on Saturday at the Colorado Preview tournament at Regis University.

The tournament was a compilation of volleyball teams from all over the state --- competing to see which teams would be threats later in the season. It was also good for coaches to see which players would be best in certain situations and where they could make changes in the lineup.

None of the matches counted for season records. Wins were for personal satisfaction and losses were for personal improvement the coach said.

Coach Rhonda McMullen also said: "We got to see what are weaknesses were. .., We really smoothed out during the end of the day."

Each match was composed of two regular scoring games and one rally, or fast, scoring game. A rally is when either team lets the ball down the other team gets a point. For example, when a serve ·hits the net, the other team gets a point and the ball.

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During the second match, the Roadrunners worked on Regis, taking them by winning all 3 games also.

In the third match, in which they played Colorado College, they won the first two games and lost the rally score at the end. The coach contributes this one loss to the fact that she was changing the lineup and putting people in different positions.

"It was pretty fun. The team wants to win. They played well and you could really see their competitive spirit," McMullen said, commenting on the women's performance at the tournament Saturday, adding, "They played very tough."

Crissy Canada had an outstanding day, McMullen said. Canada's hitting was 69 percent for the day.

Against UCCS she hit 47 percent and against Regis she hit 62 percent. Canada's big match was against Colorado College where she went 10 for 10, hitting 100 percent.

McMullen said Canada has not even come close to hitting her potential as far as skill goes. Canada's high school coach commented on how much she had improved.

McMullen also said Lora Houdek was kind of shaky during the alumnae match, but loosened up against UCCS and played well. She said she has gotten better every match.

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Double Overti01e Leaves Men's Soccer Recordless Allison Studt THE METROPOLITAN

In a game that came down to who wanted to win it more, it seemed that both teams wanted the victory fiercely.

MSCD's varsity men's soccer hosted the University of California at Davis in ·their season opener at Auraria last Sunday. When all was said and done, the Roadrunners came away with a tie of 0-0 in double overtime.

The Roadrunners (0-0-1) offense was piloted by junior Billy Kawamura. The forward led the men in five shot attempts on the Aggies ( 1-0-1 ).

"Billy is our best wheels. He is dangerous," MSCD coach Al Ashton said.

However, due to a strong defense from UC-Davis, the Roadrunners could not follow through and score.

"We are a new team. We have not played together for very Jong. We'll come together," Kawamura said.

Seniors Greg Oakley and Rich Hitzeman took control of the defense early in the first half and held strong until the second half, when the Aggies turned on the power.

"We dominated the first half, they were stronger in the second," Ashton said.

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"The whole team pressed and meshed competitions contact Heidi. 556-2980 more in the infield," Oakley said. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Overall, coach Ashton was happy with the men's performance.

"I am happy, they did good and things went well," Ashton said.

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C.C.'s defense held strong and kept the Roadrunners from bringing home their first conference victory.

C.C. made a total of 20 shot attempts and kept MSCD's solo goaJie busy while a large crowd of 200 looked on.

Jennifer Duran led the Roadrunners with four goal attempts and Julie Russell followed with three attempts.

Rosie Durbin, Renee Richie and Deborah Sopashe each had two attempts.

Chrissy McCain and Meggan Schulze each had one attempt.

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V-Ball Team Puts Alumnae in Their Place Michelle Jensen THE METROPOLITAN

The Roadrunners led in a series of five games against the alumnae on Wednesday, September l, winning four of them.

Annually, the women's volleyball team holds an alumnae match in which the current team plays people that have graduated. It's a pre-season warm-up for the new team and a preview for everyone else.

The scores of all five games were really close with the alumnae trailing by only two or three points a game, except for the second one.

At the beginning of the second game, the alumnae took an astonishing lead of 8 points before the Roadrunners put a point on the board. The heated, exciting point of the game was when the score was tied at 12 and a powerful volley was in progress. The crowd was even anticipating every hit. The Roadrunners won the volley, but not the game.

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Most of the alumnae said they did better than they thought they would, especially for not practicing.

"I had a lot of fun and I did a lot better than I thought I would play," said Sharee Personette, an alumna who played for Metro from 1986 to 1988.

Mary Dougherty, an alumna who played from 1976 to 1979, said she felt old playing against the Roadrunners and that the alumnae performance wasn't too good or too bad.

The Roadrunners weren't ecstatic about the way they played, however, some of the players were nervous because it was the first time playing with each other.

'Tm not really disappointed in the way we played," said Tracy Thompson, an outside hitter.

Another outside hitter, Chelsea Terrell, led the team with 19 kills and said the team was pretty consistent throughout the games and that they played about as well as they expected to.

She also said the.alumnae did a great job.

"They had a really good offense," Terrell said.

Rhonda McMullen, the Roadrunner's coach, said the girls weren't playing up to their full potential but she doesn't want them to peak until later in the season. By winning the alumnae match, the Roadrunners are off to a great start in the season.

The coach also said some of the women were tense before the match and did not really loosen up until after the first couple of games. Their next home match is Sept. 18 at 7 p.m.

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Calendar items for MSCD receive priority due to space limitations. Forms for calendar items can be picked up at The Metropolitan office, room 156 of the Student Union, or call 556-2507.

The Metropolitan reserves the right to edit calendar for space considerations, or to refuse any item we deem not suitable for publication.

The 1993-94 Metrosphere, the students arts and literary magazine, seeks volunteers to help edit and design the magazine. This is great resume experience for those seeking a career in publishing!

Contact Lisa Dayley, editor in chief at 556-3940 or Student Union Room 156.

MSCD's Sisters In Support Of Change I and the Black Students Alliance Organizations present their Fall '93 Back To School Jam tonight at Chez Sileste.

1800 Glenarm Place. Admission is $5

MSCD's PEAK Leadership Program presents two interest sessions regarding the Oct. 2 event of "Into The Streets" session will are at noon in Student Union Room 230AB. and S Classroom 309, and at 5 p.m. in Student Union Room 230AB. Join other students and make a difference in the community by volunteering! Info: 556-2595.

Career Services at MSCD present two job search seminars, tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and on Saturday, Sept 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost for both seminars is $75. Seminars include information on writing resumes and cover letters, interviewing skills (with actual video sessions) and job search techniques.

Information: 556-3664.

MSCD's Bahai Club presents Great Books on Issues of Ultimate Concern; tonight "When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold Kushner, presented by Seymour Weinberg at Metro Denver Bahai Center, 225 E. Bayaud (corner of Grant St. and E. Bayaud).

Admission is free and the public is invited. Information: 798-4319.

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Centennial Airport at 7:30 p.m. A pot luck dinner will be provided, and all prospective future members and friends are welcome. Information: 556-4595.

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The Mystery Cafe and Saloon features the spiritual flute music of Calvin Standing Bear at 3 p.m. in the St. Francis Center.

Info: 753-9771.

The School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and the Institute for lntercultural Studies and Services presents a lecture "Using Reactive Video Segments In Physical Geology Lab" from noon to I p.m. at St. Cajetan's Center. Everyone is welcome.

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Menorah ministries information table on the "Jewish Messiah" and the "Jewish Roots of Christianity" from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Union lobby.

Information: 722-0944.

PEAK Leadership Program will host nine breakfast sessions based on the book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." Application deadline is today.

Information: 556-2595.

Career Services at MSCD present two career planning seminars, tonight from 6 to 9 p.m., and on Saturday, Sept. 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost for both seminars is $100. The career planning seminars include interpretation of the three career assessment inventories and techniques on how to research careers. Info: 556-3664.

Women's Network. a coalition of women faculty, staff and students hosts their fall reception to welcome women on campus from 3 to 5 p.m. at the St. Francis Center.

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The Center for the Visual Arts , a project of MSCD, presents "Defining the Public in Art" at 170 I Wazee at 6:30 p.m.

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LIQUOR STORE CLERK, FULL TIME/part time days. Full time/part time nights. 623-2556. 9/1 O FIT FOR FALL. NEEDED -- 75 PEOPLE to lose between 1O and 30 lbs in 30 days, no will power needed, Dr. recommended, 100% natural and guaranteed. Please call 689-0557. 9/1 0

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* No cold call, renew accounts * Flexible, part time hours * Non-smoking S/E area office

Call for appointment 671-0745

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•ACTV is a department of the Student Union in the Auraria Student Division Business hours 9-5 Phone: 556-3316 Volunteers needed

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