Volume 16, Issue 9 - Oct. 15, 1993

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Election Commission Cancels Fall Elections

Art Attack The five-ton steel sculpture, "Untitled Cube," (left) by Peter Forakls is installed Tuesday in front of the Physical Education and Recreation Building.

The artwork Is a private donation unlike "Statue of Limitations" (below)

by Alfredo Halegua, which the Denver Art Museum donated to the Auraria Campus.

The museum has donated a total of five sculptures in honor of the late Phil Milstein, an Auraria planner and civic benefactor.

Student Government Says Cancellation Invalid Patricia Sydney Straub EDITOR IN CHIEF

MSCD Student Government President Barb Ferrill and some student senators are concerned about the election commission's decision to cancel the fall elections.

During a meeting Friday with the MSCD chapter of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group, the commission voted to cancel fall elections after the Auraria Student Bus Pass Committee withdrew its plan for the Student Bus Pass program referendum rather than have a one-referendum election.

"I think they should have fall elections," Ferrill said.

The Senate approved the budget and set a time-line for the election, she said. The election commission does not have the authority to cancel it.

Harris The only other referendum on the fall ballot would have been to continue student support of the MSCD CoPIRG chapter. CoPIRG, however, is continuing its campaign for an election as planned, said CoPIRG President Ajayi Harris.

"I am disappointed that we can't have an election after collecting the signatures," Harris said at the election commission meeting.

More than 70 volunteers spent the past two weeks collecting 3,000 signatures from the MSCD student body. CoPIRG needed 1,700 signatures, or 10 percent, to put the referendum and its $4 per-student, persemester waivable fee on the ballot.

"Not having the election now affects CoPIRG's ability to be effective in the 1993-94 legislation," Harris said.

The election commission, however, had voted to maintain the validity of the signatures CoPIRG collectsee ELECTION page 5

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NE \Vs Students Claim Age Discrimination at Job Fair Lisa Perry THE METROPOLITAN

He thought it would be an opportunity.

Instead, Tom Lyons, an MSCD computer information systems and management science student, said he believes his experience at last month's Career Exploration Day was anything but that.

Lyons, 48, said he was a victim of age discrimination by some recruiters at the job fair.

"I made a couple of contacts there, but I noticed a fair aniount of them were asking how old I was-about 40 percent of them. I remember one of the temp organizations said, 'We're really looking for younger people,"' Lyons said.

Lyons said he could not identify the offending companies by name, but only by their work category and their approximate booth location at the job fair site.

"My experience is more one of flavor," he said. "If I suffered discrimination on that day, it was extremely subtle. It may have been personal feelings of the individuals involved, or it may have been that the boss said: Go after the young kids who'll work for nothing."

Lyons, who is working toward his third bachelor's

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degree to gain "more marketable skills," said he was not looking for an upper-level salary.

"What I generally expect from something like this (job fair) is to not be given the runaround, to be given a chance with any 18-, 19-, 22-year-old... with the same skills," he said.

Dianna Webb, a recruiting coordinator for MSCD Career Services, which co-sponsored Career Exploration Day, said students who experienced similar problems should contact her office.

"We need to know about problems," she said. "We'll keep everything confidential. We tell companies we are equal opportunity, and they are to be also. But we can only do that to a certain point.

"If there is a problem, we confront them about it," she said, "and we don't usually invite them back."

Lyons, however, said companies should have been warned up-front.

"That's really locking the door after the horse has been out. Whoever set this thing up should have [said to companies]: If you intend to discriminate against anyone, because of their age, sex, pregnancy condition, race, don't even show up. Because if there's one complaint, we're going to the state," he said.

Webb said about 400 invitations were sent to local companies, with 51 attending. Employers had to pay a fee to participate.

"Employers realize that we're a nontraditional campus with students whose average age is 27 or 28," she said. "Some employers like life experience."

John Barlow does not agree.

Barlow, 47, an MSCD alumnus with four college degrees, also attended Career Exploration Day and had experiences similar to Lyons.

"My experience was that they were there after the soon-to-graduate individuals, and I got the express feel ing that they weren't prepared to handle [older students]," Barlow said of the companies he approached.

One company told him they did not have a supervisory position open, Barlow said, and he tried to explain that was not what he was looking for.

"I didn't walk into the fair saying: I'm here to take over the top position for the company," be said. "It was just this idea: Hey, get along old man .. .I got the feeling they want younger employees at lower wages."

Barlow, who said he wore a dark blue suit and tie at the fair, was mistaken for a recruiter while standing in

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The Colorado Public Interest Research Group will present a "World Reality Lunch" for students. faculty and state legislators at noon Oct. 20 in the Zenith Room on the sixth floor of the Tivoli Student Union.

The lunch will demonstrate CoPIRG's vision of inequitable world food distribution. The problem with world hunger is in the distribution of food, not in the production, according to CoPIRG. Fifteen percent of those in attendance will received a nutritional meal and juice, 25 percent will be fed noodles in a broth and juice, and the remaining 60 percent will be served rice and water.

There is no cost for admission.

Voluntary contributions of canned foods and money will benefit a local shelter.

An administrative quagmire has motivated MSCD faculty members who have filed salary grievances to form a unified organization.

About 60 faculty members met Oct. 1 and formed the MSCD Faculty Protective Association, creating, "a new variable in the grievance procedure," according to Charles Allbee, MSCD English professor and secretary of the new association.

The association's ultimate goal is to increase

' ... the president and the vice president of academic affairs failed to do what the handbook requires.'

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faculty salary rates and to compensate faculty for t salary discrepancies that have occurred since 1986. .

Elizabeth Friot, an association member who has filed a grievance said the grievances fall into two categories: ' 1. Parity grievances-new faculty members are hired at salaries up to $10,000 higher than current faculty .

2. Equity grievances-faculty members are being paid, "considerably Jess" than faculty at other four-year colleges and universities similar toMSCD. "It is the belief of the grievants that the trustees, the [former MSCD] president and the vice president of academic affairs failed to do what the handbook requires," Allbee said.

The Handbook for Professional Personnel issued by the Board of Trustees of the State Colleges in Colorado, cites salaries can be used

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The Mefl'opolitanlAndy Cross MSCD CoPIRG chapter President Ajayi Harris,spent some time in front of the flagpole Wednesday informing Student Senator Eric Higgins about the facts of trash. Behind Harris a 9-foot "trash can" symbofizes the four million tons of trash produced ann\laJly in Colorado. Less than 15 percent actually gets recy-

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. The MSCD Counseling Center is presenting a variety of support groups this fall to help students, faculty and staff deal with problems and stress.

The Center offers "Sleepless in Denver," "The Search for Healthy Relationships ," "Active Parenting," "Eating Disorders Seminar," and "Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Support Group," in addition to others.

For more information, call the Counseling Center at 556-3132 or visit the Center, room 223 in the Central Classroom building.

-Jean E.R. Straub

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Marijuana Smell Sparks Complaints Jean E.R. Straub STAFF WRITER

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Auraria Public Safety has received several complaints about the smell of marijuana smoke near the hemp information table in front of the Student Union, said Jim Ferguson, director of Community Services for the Auraria Higher Education Center.

Ellen Archer, representing the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said members of the legalization group, who have been staffing the table since the beginning of the semester, Archer are burning sage and cedar.

She said the smell is similar to marijuana.

"Marijuana and sage, they're both weeds," she said.

Student opinions are mixed.

"I think it's funny that she burns that stuff out there so that it smells like marijuana," said one CCD student who asked not to be named.

One MSCD student wrote a letter of complaint about the group, smoking marijuana or not, being present on campus to the editor of The Denver Post.

"I am appalled that the college, as well as the city, are permitting these hippies to push illegal drugs on campus," Mark Rogowski wrote.

Rogowski said in his letter that he was shocked to see the group giving out marijuana incense sticks and selling little packets of the substance as "tea."

"These people have insisted that they were supporting it because of its 'medical value' and because ' paper and other things can be made out of it.' But it was plain to me that their first priority in the legalization of marijuana was for its obvious purpose-getting high," Rogo·w ski wrote in his editorial.

Rogowski was unable to be reached

for comment by The Metropolitan.

"I'm sure a lot of people would like to do this [get high]," Archer said, adding that to really appreciate the medicinal value of marijuana, one would have to see a friend dying of cancer, as she did.

"I saw what he went through. No one should have to endure that." she said.

Other than complaints about the smell, APS has recorded six incidents of marijuana use on campus this year. All six incidents took place at or near the Tivoli Student Union. Five incidents were related directly to Club Infinity in the Tivoli.

An APS officer contacted Jo Ellen Haff, no campus affiliation, Sept. 25 in the 1100 block of Larimer Street on campus for allegedly possessing under one ounce of marijuana.

The officer said she witnessed the

'You really don't see people smoking pot on campus like you used to.'

-Jim Ferguson Dir. for Community Services suspect passing around a smoking pipe, searched her and found the pipe and a small bag of suspected marijuana in the front left pocket of her shirt, according to the APS report. The suspect said the marijuana belonged to her boyfriend.

The incident took place at about 11 p.m. on a Saturday night near the bus stop, Ferguson said, downplaying the significance of the incident.

In any incident, APS will make a contact, see that the marijuana is destroyed and tell the suspect not to have marijuana on campus again , Ferguson said. Only on the second offense is an arrest made, he said.

"You don' t really see people smoking pot on campuses like you used to," Ferguson said.

There has been a change in the past four years because of drug education, he said.

"People seem to be a lot more educated about it."

'Disservice' Done to Older Students DISCRIMINATION from page 3 front of an unmanned booth.

"One of the students walked up and handed me his resume and started talking.

I said; 'Excuse me, but I'm in the same boat you are."'

He said he overheard another older student at the fair say: "They didn't even want to talk to me."

Barlow said he did not know if the probl ems he had with some recruiters might have been because of a mismatch of his qualifications and their job openings.

"Companies may say: We have an interest, but no exact match," he said.

"You take that with a grain of salt... there may be other considerations. But when they don 't e ven want to accept the

resume, that's where I draw the line."

Barlow said he left resumes with only three recruiters, and declined to name the companies he had difficulties with.

"I'm not going to get into a lawsuit situation," he said. " .. .I think there was a disservice done to a lot of students over 40. I don't think that fair was designed to handle them . I don ' t think they could have gotten anything at it, even if they were willing to take an entry-level job." " .. .I' m 48," Barlow said. "I grew up in an era that said the older you are, the more experienced you are, the more valuable you are. It seems to be just the opposite today."

Webb said she is not aware of any discrimination complaints in the past.

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RTD Student Bus Pass Referendum Postponed

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ELECTION from page 1 ed this fall to apply toward the spring elections.

Maggie Miller, acting director of Student Activities, said she was sorry that CoPIRG would not be able to hold its election, but that the time and money spent was not worth a one-referendum election. The election commission voted against spending election funds now and agreed to focus on a larger spring 1994 election.

"If another group comes forward with a referendum, Buchanan however, an election could be held as early as the end of November," Miller said.

Political Science Professor Norman Provizer cast the only vote in support of a fall election, citing that since Student Government wants to experiment with a mail-in ballot, a fall election would give them a chance to perfect the process before the spring election.

Ferrill said it is important that the fall election is held to give a trial run of the mail-in ballot in preparation for spring.

Ferrill said the election commission will meet again Oct. 15 to determine a plan for the election if at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting it decides to hold the election.

The Auraria Student Bus Pass Committee decided to postpone its fall referendum because there was not enough time to secure governing board approval, Committee Chairman Charles Buchanan said in an Oct. 7 memorandum to Student Government members.

The Student Bus Pass program could have started in spring 1994, and the persemester per-student fee would entitle students from all three schools to ride the RTD system free with a valid student ID. Any student fee, however, cannot be spent before approval by the MSCD Board of Trustees and the governing boards for CCD and UCD, said Matthew Bates, Student Trustee and ex-officio member of the commission. Students register for spring semester Nov. 29, and there is no govem_ing board meeting in November.

The Bus Pass committee will still negotiate with RTD for a 1994-95 school year program and at a lower cost, Buchanan's memorandum said.

Buchanan also said he would be cutting back his hours with Student Government so that "I can concentrate on classes and inebriation."

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Mail-In Ballots Proposed for Future Elections mail-in ballots on statewide elections.

Chris Adams THE METROPOLITAN

In future campus elections. MSCD students may be voting by mail.

Members of the election commission are hoping the process will increase voter turnout and increase awareness of campus issues.

"It's very experimental," said Matthew Bates, ex-officio of the election commission who came up with the idea.

Bates said he as been frustrated with the Low voter turnout, citing less than 10 percent of students vote on campus issues.

"It's a key way to get students involved in the decision making at Metro," he said of the proposed mail-in ballots If approved, the method is believed to be the first Of its kind in the country.

"We're rbreaking new ground,..

Bates said. ·~...It's relatively new to

The process will involve printing and mailing a total of 18,500 ballots to MSCD students. The bulk of the work, however, will be in tabulating the ballots by hand. Bates said he is unsure how long this part of the process will take. ~.

Maggie Miller, acting director of Student Activities and a member of the election commission, said there bas been some criticism about the comple~­ ities and cost of the program, but said she believes it is a good idea.

"In the big picture, I am favor-

able," she said.

Bates estimated the cost of the mail-in ballots to be less than $3,000, which includes printing and mailing.

Last year, less than $2,000 was spent on the election.

Student Government is responsible fQr fundins elections, which is funded by student fees and decides how much

money can be spent.

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Jf approved, the pilot program ';;Bates ~)»based his idea for the ebuld begih as early as spring 1994.

Nominations & Applications are now being accepted for the

Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Awards Three awards will be given:

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Process in Third Stage

On October 17, 1993, television and radio stations across Colorado will unite for a first-ever, half-hour simulcast presentation of Colorado Coming Together For The Children - an in-depth look at the escalating problem of youth violence in Colorado. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn about the problem and become a part of the solution. Watch:

FACULTY from page 3 "to assure parity and equity throughout the college."

In the Colorado Court of Appeals, several faculty grievants are involved in a class-action lawsuit dealing with the issue . The case was dismissed in the lower courts, because the faculty members involved did not complete the grievance procedure.

To meet its goal, the 93-member association first must complete this grievance procedure.

According to the handbook the procedure has three steps: 1. Faculty member must file a written grievance with the dean of the school.

2. If the grievance is not resolved in step 1, it goes to the president of the col-

lege for review.

3. If the faculty member is not satisfied in step 2, he may apply for a hearing by a hearing officer. The hearing officer then sends a report of the hearing and his recommendations to the Board of Trustees, who then take whatever action it deems appropriate.

Associate Professor Norm Pence said that the grievances are now in the third M~. , According to Pence, the trustees do not have to adhere to the hearing officer's recommendation.

"That' s ironic because the trustees are named as respondents," Pence said, "they are acting as judge.and jury."

Pence said that because the trustees have the final decision, the lawsuit was appealed.

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CCHE Revises Statewide Credit Tran sfer Policy Chelsea Osterberg THE METROPOLITAN

MSCD students will find it easier to transfer credits because of revisions to the statewide transfer policy made September 28 by the Colorado Commission of Higher Education.

The CCHE called a special meeting to comply with legislation passed down last spring because of student complaints.

The legislation required that revisions be made to the transfer policy by Oct. l.

According to Sharon Samson, an academic officer for the CCHE, the most significant aspects of the updated policy are: •If a student finishes a lower division general education core at one school, it transfers as a unit and meets the general education requirements of another institution even if the courses are not equivalent.

•All credit received within the last 10 years are eligible for transfer.

•The GPA needed to be considered as a transfer student must not be any higher than the GPA required for graduation.

"It really is a student benefit policy," Samson said.

The revisions apply to all undergraduate programs at Colorado Institutions, focusing on movement from twoyear to four-year institutions, four-year to four-year, and transfers within the same institution, such as a change of major.

Almost half of the 1993 students entering class at MSCD were transfer students.

The revisions are good news for students like Lisa Dayley, who transferred to MSCD in the fall 1991 semester with an associate's degree from an out-of-state school.

Dayley said she did not receive her transcript evaluation telling her that more than half of her credits were not going to transfer until the end of her first semester.

"I got to the point where I just felt like quitting. I can't express how upset I was. It's like I was being penalized for transferring," Dayley said.

Under the revised policy, out-of-state transfer students may still have to appeal certain courses, but transfer evaluations would need to be completed and given to the student within 30 days.

If the student decides to appeal, the appeals process can last no longer than 120 days.

Dayley said she is still appealing for credit almost two years after obtaining her evaluation.

The changes to the policy also require that all Colorado public institutions of higher education tum in transfer agreements by department to the CCHE by May 1994.

The agreements will let students know exactly how they will be evaluated and by what criteria.

Within the agreement, each school must also establish a course to course equivalency table or agree to accept general education courses if they are considered eligible at another Colorado institution.

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• On the morning of August 2, 1993, Gilbert Gutierrez Jr. put on his blue jogging shorts, a white t-shirt and his white running shoes, kissed his wife, Juanita, good-bye, and set out for his regular six mile-run. Brownhaired, bearded and hazel eyed, 42-year-old Gilbert was an accomplished elite runner. He had been running since high school and had just run the Duke City Marathon in Albuquerque.

Now he was training for the Boston Marathon.

But that morning, at 6:55 a.m. as he .r:an alongside the walk/bike path in a school zone four blocks from his home in LaPorte, Gilbert Gutierrez was hit by a drunken driver. The pavement showed tennis shoe marks where the car had dragged him. Because he was a strong athlete, the impact did not kill him immediately.

He died August 6 after being pronounced brain dead following severe injuries and a deep coma.

"Jf anyone's going to live it's Gil," remembers Juanita Gutierrez, his wife of 15 years, when she was with him in the hospital.

"He promised to outlive me, take care of me in • his old age. He had a lot to live for."

The driver of the vehicle that killed Gil had failed the sobriety check and was legally drunk, police said, and he failed an alcohol test three times in three hours. The 54-year-old LaPorte man told police he fell asleep at the wheel coming home from a friend's house that morning. Police said he had a DUI 17 years ago. Now he is charged with vehicular assault.

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daughter Darla, 20; and 7-year-old Jeffrey that they had together. Gilbert took fatherhood

at MSCD. He remembers him as a jovial individual; a good friend who always had

seriously, Juanita said. They even had a foster child, Desare, until she was 14.

Although Gil was hit on a Monday, he held on for his life in the Poudre Valley Hospital until Friday, August 6. Juanita watched her husband die in the hospital after he was hit by

positive things to say. "He looked like he had a mind set on doing things to get ahead.Re had direction," Espinoza said. "When I saw him in a coma, it affected me. I didn't think it could happen to a good guy like him."

the drunken driver.

"In my heart, Gil died Wednesday night," Juanita said. "I was there - I saw his body change, I saw him leave me. We were very, very close."

Juanita remembers her husband as "a country boy at heart." A lover of the outdoors:

The accident did happen, as it can happen to anyone. But it didn't have to happen.

"I want him (the driver) to go to jail and be sober for a long time," Juanita said. "A drunk driver doesn't realize when drinking and driving it is a lethal weapon.

"It has changed many (people's) lives who have known Gil, you never think it can happen to you. It can happen to everyone; we never planned for him to die. The driver never intended to kill. Alcohol changes people"s

hiking, horseback riding, fishing. Gil also sang, acted and played the guitar. There was longevity in his family, Juanita said. His

lives," she said. "The thing to do as a

grandfather died at age 102.

The drunken driver's actions have affected those who knew Gil professionally as well.

responsible human being is get in touch with what your values are. If your head is screwed on right, you won't get behind a wheel drunk."

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I wonder how marijuana, a mild and common drug that has many other non-smoking uses, could possibly do any more harm than the legal recreational intoxicants of alcohol and tobacco that constantly wreck havoc on society.

What eats out livers and kills scores of innocent people in car accidents? Alcohol. What causes cancer, kills more than one in six Americans and has a higher addiction curve than heroin? Tobacco. These are legal drugs.

Marijuana use may cause brain atrophy, but at least by growing hemp, marijuana's derivative, it can be made into rope, paper, clothing and fuel.

I see little other use for alcohol and tobacco.

Alcohol is the drug of choice for college students under the age of 21, compared with 26 percent who used marijuana, according to a report issued by Southern Illinois University and the College of William and Mary.

Thereportfoundthatbetween 1989-91 those under 21 drank more alcohol and suffered more hangovers, injuries and legal difficulties than those who were over 21.

According to the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, of the 11.4 million Americans 12 or older in 1992 that were classified as current users of illegal drugs, 78 percent of them kept marijuana as the illegal drug of choice.

So why is marijuana illegal? Could oil, paper, alcohol and tobacco companies be afraid of competition? And what drug dealers are making so much money off of their legal drugs that they can afford to build baseball fields and have university buildings named after them?

Alcohol and tobacco companies rake in the money for their legal drugs, while mostly criminals control the illegal drugs.

Marijuana prohibition should be repealed. The government should legalize marijuana, regulate it, tax it, and the money wasted on a violent drug war should be invested in education and rehabilitation.

There are even more benefits from legalized marijuana: FREEDOM: Here in our own country, there are hundreds of documented cases of government seizure of innocent people's property because it was thought to be drug-money related. These people were guilty until proven innocent.

CHOICE: Despite claims that smoking marijuana cigarettes eases chronic symptoms of AIDS, cancer or glaucoma, our government said recently that it will

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RELIGION : Altered states, such as marijuana produces, were not necessarily meant to be abusive.

They can also be religious. Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas have used mushrooms, pyyote and other natural drugs for religious rituals, visions and healings.

The writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley's experiments with psychedelics produced his works "Heaven and Hell" and "The Doors of Perception."

Interestingly enough, scientists found out in August that the body produces its own marijuana-like chemicals that play a role in the normal regulation of mood, pain and thought processes. This isolated substance seems to be the body's equivalent of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana' s active ingredient.

Scientists named it "anandamide," from the Sanskrit word meaning "internal bliss" because it appears to release in the body a biochemical cascade of THC-like pharmacological and behavior-effects.

But too much of anything can be harmful. Just like there are people who abuse alcohol and tobacco, there are people who abuse marijuana.

There will always be an addict in society , whether it is the drunk stumbling out of a bar on Colfax Avenue or a junkie huddled in the street.

People's addictions are their own choice, whether it be alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, heroin, credit cards, relationships, gambling, food, etc.

If people choose to kill themselves with legal or illegal substances, it is their choice. When people sue tobacco companies because they have cancer after smoking for 40 years, the tobacco company always wins. Who then ultimately is responsible for their disease? The individual.

An individual should be free to drink or smoke tobacco or marijuana. People are warned about the risks of alcohol and tobacco, as it can be done with the mild, yet inevitably harmful effects of marijuana.

The more destructive drugs should be kept illegal, and a more discouraging warning should be sent as usual.

People will cry out that they do not want their children smoking marijuana or the school bus driver to drive while high. Well, drugs are out there.

Children are going to learn about them sooner or later so start teaching responsibility now. It is something we all need to learn in terms of avoiding driving when using alcohol, respecting non-smoker's air space, and caring for our own bodies and emotions.

Drugs do not abuse people, people abuse drugs.

Give the people the drugs that they want and let them face the real enemy: their own selves.

"Last week I got fired from my job, shortly after getting beat up by some drunk on the street who didn't like the way. I look. So I did the logical thing. I threw a party. I got raving drunk at this party, and it wasn't until I was so blitzed I could barely see straight that a gang of skinheads crashed and started beating people up."

I wonder why Denver names its baseball field after an alcoholic beverage company.

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by Thomas C. Mestnik MSCD Student Mere "gook" rule is a term used by author Ed duplicitous in this cover up, again focusing solely on Herman to criticize the American belief that deaths the dozen or so American lives lost.

The Vietnam Memorial is a powerful tribute to and injuries to lesser breeds who stand in our way may be ignored in law and policymaking; technically the American military personnel who died in that the marginal cost of a dead "gook" (Arab, unjust and unnecessary war, but more than 30 such Panamanian, etc.) is zero. memorials would be needThe rule is based on the ed if the names of all the fact that "gooks" do not The death of American solSoutheast Asians , mostly value life and feel pain like civilians slaughtered by the U.S. war machine, were to we do; besides which, as diers is condemned by the Herman explains, they pentagon as a gross violabe etched in stone . The U.S. invasion of Vietnam stand in our way. caused more than 2.5 milThe most recent exam- tion of international law, p Ie of this policy is in while the killing of hundreds lion civilian deaths.

Somalia where the recent The pentagon, with full and willing support of the raid is being called horrify- of civilians is not only not major media, protects ing and a catastrophe due condemned, but it is not Americans from seeing the to the 13 American casualhuman cost of our foreign ties, while having absolutely even aknowledged by the nothing to do with hundreds excursions. This protection of dead and wounded U.S .... causes the American people much confusion when Somalia civilians.

The death of American soldiers is condemned they see the anger and rage directed at America by the pentagon as a gross violation of international these mere gooks, (or most recently "Somalia law, while the killing of hundreds of civilians is not Mobs" as reported in the Rocky Mountain News). If only not condemned, but it is not even acknowl- Americans, who are patriotically taught to believe edged by the US., a clear example of mere "gook" that we practice extreme benevolence toward the rule.

Third World were allowed to see the reality behind After the Panama Invasion thousands of civil- U.S. interventions abroad, we would understand ians killed by American forces were buried in mass why the "mobs" and "gooks" continue to oppose, graves by U.S. soldiers. The western media was often violently! this benevolence.

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Victim Vents Anger At Campus Thief To the person who took my book bag out of Classroom WC230 on Wednesday, Sept. 8, between 2:30 and 2:45p.m: I cannot begin to understand how you can take something that doesn't belong to you. I guess it's just the way you were raised . Obviously you have no conscience and have never learned right from wrong.

I can somewhat understand your stealing the _ book bag and the textbooks which you could sell for cash . But I wonder how important my class notes and personal belongings were to you. I'm sure you just trashed the things you didn't need.

A person like you probably doesn't bother read-

ing, so I don't hope to gain anything from writing this other than a little personal satisfaction that I'm making one last attempt to recover something that was wrongfully taken from me.

There is nothing that can be said to someone who has the audacity to do what you did. But hopefully someday you will find yourself on the other side - and will have someone "just like you " who rips YOU off! And I hope they pick your most valuable, dearest possession.

Cindy Gleason MSCD Student

Learn to Value Cultural Differences Your editorial "Toward a Multilingual Society" (September 17th, 1993) was very insightful concerning the needs of today's society. However, regarding the tendencies of Anglo -American society, steps toward a more bilingual America will be slow. Due to sociological and historical influences, Anglo-America does not accept change easily.

Many people believe that all Americans should speak English . Yet these very differences have, in the past created and developed our strengths and successes. Due to our personal and religious successes we have forgotten that theses differences are what have created such a wonderfully free and diverse nation. We have moved toward egocentrism.

We force our values, beliefs, judgments and religions upon all others. "Progress" is relative. To assume that we (as "Americans") have discovered all truths of the universe, is ridiculous.

The first immigrants came to America in search

of freedom . Yet, those first colonists embraced very strict beliefs and values. Due to our strict religious background we tend to stifle those creeds that we profess to uphold; Individualism and Freedom. The "Manifest Destiny." This belief of "progress," expansion " and "improvement" has con s equently oppressed, stifled, and altered countless societies and cultures. We must strive to truly "practice what we preach." History has confirmed the futility of disregarding the individual's sense of self. Human nature will not tolerate assimilation.

Society must pressure its people to make a concentrated effort to learn another language and cu ltu re. A society's knowledge of another culture is means by which to better understand itself, as well as others.

Virginia E. Till MSCD Student

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Diversity Does Not Always Stand For Unity In reading Tiffany N. Trott's article (1 Oct 93) I felt compelled to respond based upon my own experiences with diversity.

I formed the organization B.M.O.C. (Black Men On Campus) with four other positive brothers with the intention of addressing issues and problems affecting/effecting the black students, male and female. At our first meeting many men and women of all groups showed up and many told me "diversify, diversify".

I refused for these and many other reasons: First we had already established a set agenda in which we hoped to alleviate the problems African (American) students faced, in which a diverse group would hinder in many respects. It's like the military - you can't justify your criticism unless you've actually endured the experience. I'm willing to argue that many Anglo students can't even begin to relate to the life experiences of African American or Chicano students.

Secondly, a diverse group will often time spread itself thin becoming involved with too many issues, and would you believe that some people join organizations to infiltrate and destroy them? You see, my idea of being diverse does not include solving the world's problems with a diverse group of people, but ensuring that a particular group of people are in a position to help solve those problem and not become recipients of those decisions made by a group that isn't representing them.

Third, look at it like this - if group B allows group A to speak for group B, then you can guarantee that group A will serve the interest of only group A. Fourth and finally, we often confuse goals with objectives and this is more likely to occur in a diverse group because some are working for goals using objectives and vice-versa.

Like anything else, diversity has its pros and cons. Diversity is fine and well, and if you want to push that line, more power to you. I will admit it does look good and makes people say how nice.

Let me for a minute put this whole issue on a national level: you don't see those of the Jewish faith running the Christopher Columbus Society, you don't see African Americans or Italians running the AntiDefamation League. I'm also willing to bet you that Protestants aren't running Notre Dame or any other Catholic institution. In other words the bottom line is POWER !

Let me quickly give one one last example of what I me an . There are two groups working for the advancement of African American people in th is country, the NAACP and the Nation of Islam (NOi).

The NAACP has been diverse since its inception in 1909 and a strong advocate of coalition politics.

Certain people have controlled the NAACP and have pulled the organization away from its goals and objectives and have contributed to the growing animosity between blacks and European Jews.

Conversely, the NOi is pro-black and preach economic self-sufficiency. The Black Muslims are not intergrationist, irregardless of anyone's sentiments towards the NOi by labeling them racist or separatist.

These criticisms are not and have not removed them from their goals or objectives, which include providing for self, black pride and unity. The NOi has earned and received much prai se and respect from other groups, because according to the NOi diversity means the condition of being different.

Being part of a diverse group does not mean that a group is unified. All diversity means is that we have to establish some basic respect for each other and some bottom line for working together (when necessary) so that we can continue to be different.

I applaud all the different groups on campus and respect them for their accomplishments.

Bandele Ashwani Former President of B.M.O.C.

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The play "Black Elk Speaks" is hard hitting, as it where the Native American population was inhushould be. It didn't need multiple sets, loud music, manely treated, outright slaughtered, and still they big name attractions, or sex to make its point. It was persist. The play was only two and one-half hours of history as history should be portrayed. And it was a quick synopsis of what 500 hundred years of accurate. This should tell us something about the oppression most Native Americans endured and importance of allowing those groups who are being continue to endure. It gave so much in so little time. portrayed on screen, on stage, on TV, or in litera- But we must not forget: History often repeats itself.

The relocation of Indians portrayed in the play conture to have a part in how they are being portrayed. tinues to be a reality for Indians Is it so difficu lt to invite today. Just one example close their opinion on such matters? to home is the Navajo and How many times have we Hopi population in Arizona. seen renditions of "Black Elk Speaks" in the media and the It is up to our generation These two nations have been depicted in the media as havportrayal between whites and to face the challenge ing a land dispute, needing to Indians is a downright lie? be removed and relocated Why? Because most of us of stopping these don't want to confront the con- conscious omissions in once again for their own protection. tradictions of our reality.

So after you 've answered Because it is too uncomfort- our historical rendition the "whys" discussed above able to deal with truths . of Native Americans. satisfactorily you can begin Because it would mean revisasking yourself another round ing history to include a group of questions: Why do the realihistorically excluded and or ties of "Black Elk Speaks" often historically misrepresented. Because more of us might begin to think critical- seem so similar to the realities of Native Americans ly about democracy in the United States. But more in the 20th Century? And the big question : What threatening, because some of us may start moving should we be doing about it? It is up to our generaon our reactions. tion to face the challenge of stopping these conYou can't go to "Black Elk Speaks," get totally scious omissions in our historical rendition of Native pulled in, walk out of the theater, go to bed, wake Americans. And it is up to our generation to stop the up in the morning and not ask yourself a series of mistreatment of Native Americans so that we don't ... . "whys." If you can, then I commend you on your repeat the mistakes of past generations. ability to reach cognitive balance so easily. If you Oneida Mascarenas Assistant Professor can 't, then I commend you on your level of conMSCDPolitical Science/ sciousness. This play is an important educational Inter-Cultural Studies experience; one we shouldn't have to get at a theater. It told us only of a few accounts of history

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A climber maneuvers around a wall at Thrillseekers.

Regis University sophomore Sean McNamara said this was only MANAGING EDITOR his second time climbing, but he The adrenaline rush that rock couldn't wait to get outside. ''This is a great stress reliever climbers get when ascending a mountain can diminish in the because you have to concentrate so winter cold and snow. Many hard. I would imagine it is a more climbers stay in shape and hone intense concentration level their skills during the winter by outside," McNamara said. "A friend brought me down here last climbing indoors.

Thrillseekers Sport Climbing week, and I'm already hooked." and Equipment Center, 1912 S. Tim Beckwith , a junior at Broadway, is one of several indoor Arvada West High School, said he rock gyms in the Denver metro climbs every day.

"I go outside when I can, but area. The center offers lessons and rental equipment for beginners and come down here (Thrillseekers) or to Paradise just experienced sport climbers. about every''A friend brought me day," Beckwith J u I i e down here last said, Query, a Regis Paradise student, said week, and I'm Rock Gym, although she already hooked."

6260 Washlikes to climb outside, some- Sean McNamara ington St., is times it is other major Regis University student the indoor climbeasier to get to ing gym in the indoor climbDenver area. ing gyms.

"Climbing outside is definiBeckwith and his friend Mark tely better, but when it's cold this Ross said rock climbing keeps (indoor climbing) is easier to do," them in shape.

"This is a fun sport and it Query said.

Her friend and climbing gives you a great rush when you partner Don Dudry agreed, adding, make it to the top," Ross said.

Gary Cupp, owner of Thrill''This is a safer way to get started seekers, said indoor climbing is climbing."

Burwick said many people use one of the few unregulated sports in Denver. the indoor gyms as a learning tool.

"People can come in here and "This is an authentic and learn the fundamentals of climb- unregulated sport, which makes it ing, which knots to use and stuff fun," Cupp said. "We have our like that," Burwick said. "It's best own safety standards, which we to come in with a partner, that way meet."

A day of climbing at Thrillyou know you will have someone to belay for you and you both learn seekers costs $8 .50 Students the techniques." A belayer holds receive a $2 discount. All the necessary equipment can be rented at your rope to catch you if you fall.

Most indoor climbing is Thrillseekers and lessons are avail"toproped." A good belayer will able by appointment. First-time keep tension in the rope so the climbers receive admission, harclimber only falls as far as the rope ness rental and a belay device for $8.50. stretches.

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The increasing p climbing, perpetuated climbing gyms and thf climbing, has spawne< climbers.

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The club is now aimed a variety of outdoor activities such as rafting, kayaking, hiking, mountain biking and crosscou ntry skiing. It schedules events weekly for those who love the outdoors but are not necessarily fitness freaks.

The climbers have been the most active in organizing activities this fall.

Last week, half a dozen Auraria students climbed the Third Flatiron in Boulder, a 1,000-foot-high rock face that is so crowded on sunny days, it resembles a vertical Broncos game. A

few months earlier, the club made an unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Creststone Needle, a peak so isolated that no other climbers were seen there.

Rock climbing has traditionally appealed to wilderness lovers, risktakers and the adventurous, but the development of safer gear and protection techniques has made climbing reachable to almost anyone.

"Sport" climbing is a recent trend that features pre-placed bolts in rock faces into which a rope is clipped with carabiners (metal snap-links). A belayer (on the ground) hold s the rope as another climber begins upward; if the climber falls, the rope will run taut through the bolt, keeping the climber

from hitting the ground. Sport climbing is generally quite safe; the emphasis is placed on the difficulty of the moves, not the "adventure" of climbing.

Traditional climbing involves placing removable safety devices, called chocks and caroming devices, in cracks to catch climbers who fall. The degree of risk is heightened; removable protection is only as effective as the skill of the climber who places it. Traditional climbs are often long and risky for the inexperienced.

This kind of climbing appeals most to Quayle, who said climbing makes him "feel more alive than at any other time. It's a good, selfish sport for introverted people. But sport climbing has its

thrills, too." The tremendous amount of focus involved helps him concentrate on other subjects, he said.

Beginning climbers are welcome on Outdoor Club trips, but its members recommend that they first take a course on climbing fundamentals, either from an indoor climbing gym or from a professional instructor. Campus Recreation at Auraria offers such a course. For information call 556-3210. Although some gear can be rented, anyone who wants to pursue climbing will need to buy shoes, a harnes s and some carabiQers. "From there, you can usually meet with someone who has rope and (other gear), especially if you're¡ involved with the club," Quayle said.

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Shirley Fredricks is a history teacher at MSCD and decided to teach college at the age of 14. She said her decision was influenced by her family being committed to learning, and having a great deal of independence as a child.

Fredricks taught at Adams State College before coming to MSCD and has been here for six years. She has three degrees, including a master's degree in arts and education, and said there is not a single thing that cannot be found in history that a person would like to learn.

"History, as far as I'm concerned, is the mother of all education," Fredricks said.

Fredricks has traveled extensively and has been to several countries in Europe, as well as, Canada and Hawaii. She said her travels have broadened her horizons and have given her a deeper under-

standing of people.

Being a teacher is very important to Fredricks. She said a teacher is only as good as the students.

"If students challenge the teacher, a real teacher raises to that challenge," she said.

A great reward for her is to see a student become aware that learning is taking place and to have a student value her.

"I am proud to be a teacher," Fredricks said.

+++<•<• Jonathan Kent is an anthropologist who is going on his eighth year of teaching at MSCD. He wanted to go into the field of anthropology when he spent a three-month field session in Guatemala.

"I fell in love with the lifestyle," Kent said.

He is currently doing research on the Andes and Denver. His research in the Andes is focused on the impact of animal domestication on the development of civilization in South America.

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migrations of ethnic groups. He said he chose to do research in this area because people d~ not hear a great deal about it, and because the role of the non-elite folks is underplayed.

"There is an upper-class bias in terms of Denver," Kent said.

For example, he said that anyone can read about how the Molly Browns of Denver lived, but not about the early Hispanic migrant workers or the early Chinese. One interesting question is whether or not these people tried to maintain their ethnic identity.

Kent said that by bringing his experiences of his research into the classroom, it adds a new perspective for his students. It is a perspective they could not get just by reading text books.

"I couldn't be an effective teacher without my research experiences," he said.

Joe Morrell teaches Computer Information and Management Science and has been teaching at MSCD for 16 years. He taught at Florida State University before coming to MSCD.

One of his interests is people because sometimes he learns more than his students by interacting with them. He is particularly interested in their personalities and histories.

Morrell said he considers himself to be culturally Cajun because he was raised in Louisiana. He loves to teach, but said sometimes it is hard.

"Teaching is hard because it's ever-changing," he said.

Along with being dedicated to his teaching, Morrell also helps his students who are in..volved with several projects. Some of those projects include information needs on a global basis and tutorial packages.

Morrell helped run a software company and tries to bring that experience into the classroom because he said the experience is still valuable to him. But he also said it is important to have a good balance in life, and it is essential to know yourself.

Teaching has been an extremely rewarding experience, he said and he likes to see his students succeed.

"I like it when people come back and tell me how they have succeeded, and that I had an impact on them," he said.

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Jean E.R. Straub STAFF WRITER

In West Hollywood, Calif., where Elena Monica lives, one out of 40 people is HIV positive. Sitting around a table one

day, Monica and her friends realized that most of them are HIV positive.

Monica, 27 , a former model and actress who is HIV positive, addressed a small audience Wednesday Oct. 6 at St. Cajetan' s.

"I wish somebody would have said this to me when I was in college," she -: said.

She heard a lot about AJDS and HIV on TV, but turned her back.

Monica, who describes herself as "a nice Italian girl from Jersey," grew up in a "show biz" family. Her father was a .. comedian, and she became an actress at 17. After a modeling stint in Europe , Monica accepted a role in a Los Angeles musical. There she met and began dating an actor who would change her life forever.

Ready for sexual intimacy, she asked 4 him if he bad been tested for HIV. He said he had, that he was fine , and that he was retested every six months. Five months later, she got sick and started missing rehearsals and then performances.

"You have to be on your death bed to miss a performance, and I was very sick. I finally called my sister and said, 'You have to take me to the hospital. I feel like my brain is hemorrhaging."'

Diagnosed with spinal meningitis in July 1991 , she was hospitalized twice. • The second time her doctor wanted to test for HIV. She could not understand why.

She thought she was not in a high-risk group.

When me doctor came in to give her the results of the test, he was fidgeting, Monica said.

"I knew by the look on his face that I was positive."

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Signed, Feeling stomped out by friends.

Dear feeling stomped, It is true that many smokers start to obtain the smell from the tobacco, which after an extended period of time starts to cling to the person. This smoke, known as side stream smoke, tends to float in the air during the smoking of a cigarette. The smoke gets into fabrics and hair where smoking occurs. The smoker is likely not to realize this because of a process called habituation, your body adjusts to a repeated stimulus so that you are no longer aware of it.

People think that lighting up a cigarette helps relieve their stress, but as helpful as it may be, at the same time it is causing harm to their bodies. People often don't think of the consequences until it is too late. "Cigarette smoking is the greatest cause of illness, disability, and premature death in the country" (Surgeon General). Although your friends' feedback is negative, you might thank them for being honest with you because they care, whereas others may tend to avoid you for the same reason your friends were candid with you.

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Instead of asking him that, she asked bow long she bad to live. He said about six years.

"I shrieked. I'm surprised you guys dido 't hear it all the way over here in Denver," she said.

She determined that the actor had infected her and eventually found that he had tested positive since 1989. But before she knew, when she was in denial, she stayed in the relationship.

Once he was helping her walk around the ward because she was so weak.

She pleaded with him to tell her if he was positive.

He said, "I'm not positive, and I'm not gonna discuss it anymore."

Ultimately, she left him.

Although she knew the actor was infecting other women, she felt dirty and ashamed and was afraid to go public. She prayed for a sign, and months later an acquaintance knocked on her door, said she was HIV positive, and had been infected by the same man. Monica called an attorney and filed charges. She felt emancipated. She said going public was the best decision she ever made. "The anonymity of my life was not worth the lives of other people."

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pice and sit next to somebody who has AIDS or HIV . . . wherever these people are, who maybe can't run out and get a movie at the video store. Sit next to them and watch a movie," Monica said.

Seeking the highest degree of service, Monica felt her calling was to speak to college audiences. She chose colleges because she said this country needs to start educating its high school and college students about AIDS and safe sex.

"Let's face it. It's all of us that need to be educated on some level."

Monica presented a 'The anonymity of my five-point plan to tackle life was not worth the AIDS: • If you are sexually active, lives of other people.' have protected sex. Wear a latex condom and use sper- Elena Monica micide with nonoxynol-9. former actess and model •Get an HIV test. "Get early treatment, be around for the cure."

• Have love and compassion. cate the masses. An avenue she found You cannot get AIDS through casual helpful was the corporate structure. She contact. "You can hug somebody. You described a concept Qf "life marketing," in can watch a movie with somebody. You which donations are built into the price of can give somebody a kiss. It's OK. You a product for AIDS or another cause. "If can drink out of somebody's cup."

General Motors took $15 toward the sale • Join in the crusade of people who have of every $10,000 car, we'd have a cure for high hopes and high spirits. In three to AIDS like that," she said, snapping her five years scientists may have a drug that fingers. It is "business with a conscience" will extend the life of an HIV positive and good advertising for companies, she person 20 years.

• Give up judgment. "Remember, people said.

"There's a lot that we can do as an don't have to die of AIDS or of hunger or individual . .. One of us can go to a hos- of abuse if we don't let them."

fight. He died three months ago.

Living with the disease, Monica decided she would learn everything she could about it. She learned that 5,000 cases of HIV are reported a day and one out of 25 people worldwide is infected. If no cure is found, IO million people will be infected by .the year 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Wanting to make a difference, Monica looked at different ways to edu-

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Men are Ready to Break in Coach Hull's Replacement, Coach Joe Strain Chris Stein THE METROPOLITAN

With eigh~ players returning from last season to the MCSD Men's Basketball team, Coach Joe Strain's first year looks like it will be a successful one.

Strain assumed control of the team after Head Coach Bob Hull was granted a one-year leave of absence.

The Roadrunners won the Colorado Athletic Conference title three of the last four years under Hull. In his one-year stint, Strain hopes to continue MSCD's winning ways.

"We've bad seven straight winning seasons here at Metro and well want to continue that tradition this year," Strain said.

The Roadrunners were unable to defend their CAC title crown last year because of multiple injuries to different members of the team. Even with the setbacks, they still led the nation in rebounding.

1bis year the rebounding chores will fall mostly on the large shoulders of a front line that assistant coach Craig Ross describes as "awesome." Dan Kennedy checks in at 6 ft. 9 in. and weighs 230 lbs.

Allen McClain is 6 ft. 8 in. and weighs 245 lbs., and last, 6 ft. 8 in. Trent Brotherton weighs in at 235 lbs. These men together make up MSCD's "huge" front court. (

Kennedy, a fifth-year senior, averaged nine points and eight rebounds per game, while senior McClain averaged 24 blocked shots last year. Junior forward Andy Owens, 6 ft. 5 in., 210 lbs., ¡1ed the team in rejections last year with 25.

"Teams will think twice about going inside on us," Ross said.

Strain Versatile best describes returning players Greg Batman, James Shettleworth and Chuck Hancock, all three are able to play on the front line and in the shooting guard spot. Bal man, last year averBrotherton aged nine points per game, while Sbettleworth led the team with a 54.1 field goal percentage. Hancock, a senior, bas been responsible for game-winning

layups twice in the past two years.

At the guard spot, senior Lenin Perkins looks to be a major threat to opposing teams.

Last year the Chicago native averaged l 0.6 points per game with five rebounds and a team high 106 assists.

The NCAA has rolled back ............. .,..,, the shot clock this year from Ross 45 to 35 seconds. With the addition of speedy guards Kenyo Bledsoe and Wes Nelson, both transfers from L a m a r Comm uni l'y College, getting the ball up the court does not look to be a Shettleworth problem.

Bledsoe averaged 16.5 points per game at LCC, and the Sports Information director Greg Smith describes him as "cat-quick."

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The Roadrunners kick off their season at home against Bellevue College and although MSCD looks to finish very high in the CAC, their biggest challenge will come when they face off against California State University-Bakersfield.

Also named the Roadrunners, the defending Division II National Champions travel to Denver on December l l.

"Teams will think twice about going inside on us.,,,, ~raig Ross Men's Asst. B-Ball Coach

With all the returning players and the added speed in the back court, Coach Strain is excited about the upcoming season.

"I can't wait to get this started," Strain said. "I think this will be a good year for us. We'll be ~ig, hit the boards with authority and play an uptempo, hardnosed defensive style, just like our successful tradition of basketball has indicated."

V-Ball Loses to Rowdy Cadets, but Wins at Fort Hayes Tourny Kristin Sauls SPORTS EDITOR

The women's volleyball team made the Air Force earn its win over the Roadrunners.

MSCD took the cadets to five long, hard games, ending with a close last game. The scores were 15-ll, 15-10, 159, 15-8 andl5-13 .. This was only the second loss the volleyball team has posted this season.

Coach Rhonda McMullen said the Air Force designated the night "Spirit Night," and the cadets made sure the evening was rowdy. ''They got wild and crazy--it definitely affected some players," she said.

"I was kind of nervous about this game anyway. They always play us tough, and that night everyone was uptight. We don ' t want to go through that again," McMullen said.

During the third and fourth games the Roadrunners dominated the match, McMullen said.

"We lost the fifth game, due to a bad ref call. The officiating at that game was horrible, and I don't like to say that," she said.

"My team did show a lot of guts and didn't fold in the third game. We should have had them in four, but I am still

happy with the way they played," McMullen said.

Air Force is a good team and McMullen said that if they keep playing the way they are, they will be in the regional playoffs.

"It was kind of a wake up call for us, losing to them [Air Force]," she said.

"We needed this loss to get back on track."

Earlier in the week, MSCD beat Colorado Christian University in four games, 16- 14, 15-12, 15-5 and 15-8. After taking the second game, CCU ran out of steam.

This weekend the team played in the Fort Hayes Invitational where they took all four of their matches.

"I was very, very happy with the way they played this weekend. Coming back from the Air Force game, they showed they can come back and win," McMullen said.

The only team that made them play more than three games was 15th-ranked Central Missouri. The Roadrunners beat them easily though, showing scores of l 59. 15-12, 18-16 and 15- l.

The other three teams MSCD played in the tournament were Western State, University of Missouri at St. Louis and East Texas State. None of those teams were nationally ranked.

MSCD now has a winning record of 15-2.

The volleyball team has its rematch with Regis, Thursday night at home. It starts at7 p.m.

Regis will have played Air Force earlier in the week.

McMullen said she hopes Regis beats Air Force.

"It will be kind of like paybacks, indirectly. We beat Regis, they beat Air Force and Air Force beat us," s he said.

The Roadrunners also host the MSCD Invitational this weekend. The times are 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.

The competitors will be Chadron, Mesa State, Fort Hayes and Adams State.

MSCD is still The Metropolitan/Jane Raley ranked fourth, but the The Roadrunners put up a big front line defense to new ranks come out block Colorado Christian University from scoring on Tuesday. them.

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Men's Soccer Drops To DU, Gives Up Texas Road Game Marcus C. Dunn and Kristin Sauls THE METROPOLITAN

Stranger things have probably happened in Texas, however, having both fullbacks ejected from the Pan Am International Tournament last Sunday is the strangest thing MSCD's men's soccer coach Al Ashton has come across in all his years of soccer.

The red card dismissals of Nat Cooke and Greg Oakley and a worthy West Texas State University were the catalyst to an overtime 4-2 Roadrunner loss and made the men's eight-hour bus trip home unnecessarily longer.

The two Roadrunner goals come from Jeremy Loring with an assist to Leonard Trujillo. Vinny Seymour scored the second goal and Wade Schaefer was credited with the assist.

"They had a good team," Ashton said. "We played well, but things didn't quite gel. We had a lot of opportunities to score, a lot of opportunities to win the game."

The Roadrunner loss precedes a heartbreaking loss to the University of Denver and prefaces an already tough week.

The men's soccer team took a hard loss to DU last Tuesday, losing 4-1.

The Roadrunners were without many key players. Paul Mackin, Bobby Seymour and Loring were unable to play because they all received red cards at the

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This left the Roadrunners without their most experienced players and left the match wide open for DU to take.

The varsity squad will battle Colorado Christian University, there, in a 4:00 p.m., game, and an even tougher home game against first place Fort Lewis College on Sunday the 17th at 3:00 p.m.

With the red cards, Cooke and Oakley will have to sit out one game.

Ashton says he will have to shuffle the lineup for Colorado Christian, possibly playing some freshmen.

Ashton said the Texas trip was not time wasted. The men played well and learned some new lessons.

"Overall it was a good trip. We Learned a little, even at a loss."

Men's Soccer Stats as of 10/9/93 Player Goars Assists Pts. Schaefer 5 0 10 Trujillo 3 3 9 Loring 1 3 5 Ryals 2 0 4 Kawamura 1 1 3 Oakley 1 0 2 Mackin 1 0 2 V.Se,ymour 1 0 2 B.Seymour 0 1 1

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Woinen's Soccer Hits Defeat Downslide saves to keep the Roadrunners in the game and send it to overtime.

Although MSCD didn't win, Montojo was glad to get the tie.

"Of course we would have liked to have won," he said. "But under the circumstances, coming back the way we did, I'm happy with the tie."

The game with Regis, however, may have taken a little ouf of MSCD for its Sunday game against Air Force.

The Roadrunners lost 3-0, and Montojo indicated that the Regis game might have played a hand in the loss to the Academy.

"We were emotionally and physically spent," Montojo said.

Montojo said his players were "exhausted" for the Air Force game.

Junior Chrissy McCain was injured on Sunday, and her playing status is uncertain.

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The MSCD women's soccer team rallied in overtime to tie Regis College l -1 on Saturday afternoon.

With the game tied at zero after regulation, Regis took a l-0 lead and seemed to be headed to victory.

But less than two minutes later, sophomore Melissa Villani headed in a goal to tie the score. Neither team could score in the remaining minutes.

Coach Ed Montojo was pleased with the way his team battled back in overtime.

"We showed a lot of character to respond the way we did after falling behind," Montojo said.

Goalie Chellie McCourt played a major role in keeping Regis scoreless during regulation.

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The Calendar is a free service of The Metropolitan for studenls,faculty and staff of the Auraria Campus. Calendar items for MSCD receive priorily due to space limita· tions. Forms for calendar items can be picked up at The Metropolitan office, room 156 of the Student Union. The Metropolitan reserves the right to edit cal· endar for space considerations or to refuse - any item we deem not sui!able for publication.

An MSCD faculty art exhibit runs through Nov. 18. in the Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria campus, Mon. through Fri., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. Info: 556-8337.

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Closed AA meeting from noon to 12:50 p.m. at the Auraria Library, room 206.

Campus Recreation at Auraria hosts the Timex Condition Competition in the West Court Gym from 12:30 to 2 p.m.

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A class on the teachings of the Catholic Church from 7 to 9 p.m. in the St. Francis Center on campus. Free. Info: 556-3864..

Closed AA meeting from noon to 12:50 p.m. at the Auraria Library, room 206.

The Student Health Center presents "Eating and Emotions" from noon to 1 p.m. at 1020 9th Street Park, today and Thursday. Free. Info: 556-2525.

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*Mega-Aerobics: 12·1 p.m. inthe East Court Gym (CAA) *Alcohol Awareness resource & infor_mation tables: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the flag pole (Counseling Center) *Aquacise: 5:30-6:20 p.m. in the swimming pool (CAA)

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*Fitness testings: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the fitness Center (HPSLS) *Alcohol Awareness resource & information tables: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the flag pole (Counseling Center) *Eating and Emotions: 12-1 p.m. at 1020 9th St. (Student Health Center) *Winning at Weight Loss: 1-2 p.m. at 1020 9th St. (Student Health Center) *Aquacise: 12-12:50 p.m. in the Swimming Pool (CAA)

FRIDAY

*Fitness Center Workshop: 12-1 p.m. (CAA) *Bear Creek bike ride: 3-6 p.m. (CAA)

Sharpen your image, find out the newest information about Fats and Cholesterol

AStudent Health Center Nurse Practitioner will teach you how to

interpret your cholesterol/fitness profile lab results.

Where: Wen:

MSCO Student Health Center, Student Union 140

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*Blood pressure screenings: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Fitness Center (Student Health Center) *Alcohol Awareness resource & information tables: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the flag pole (Counseling Center) *Aquacise: 5:30-6:20 p.m. in the Swimming Pool (CAA)

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Instructor: Cost:

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Registration: At the Student Health (enter, Student Union 140

ONGOING CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE ACTIVITIES (swim, cycle, run/jog, row, step) TIMES RECORDED FOR THE WEEK.

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Sports Watches ... Waterbottles ... T-shirts FREE

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101. 11/11 TUTOR FOR GERMAN AND FRENCH. Qualified, caring, experienced. B.A. in German, minor in French, 4.0 GPA. On campus M-Th 9-4. $8/hr. for students, $1 O/hr. for others. Leonore Dvorkin, 985-2327. 10/29

ARCADE GAME SIZE, SUPER Zaxxon for sale. $300 or best offer. Call evenings, 433-2839. 10/8 SILVER PLATED JEWELRY W/ UNIQUE BEADS. EARRINGS, bracelets, anklets and · necklaces. Handcrafted. Beautiful designs. Low prices. $5-$1 O. They make wonderful holiday gifts. Toni 556-2507; Terri 458-1559. 4/29

SECURITY. PART-TIME WEEKENDS & holidays, Front Desk & security-related duties in luxury downtown apt. highrise. Start $6.26/hr. Apply 1020 15th St. (between Curtis and Arapahoe), MF, 8:30-11 a.m. No calls. 10/15 LIQUOR STORE SALES CLERK. PART-TIME Days, 623-2556. 10/22 NEEDED: PT BABYSITTING FOR MY HAPPY, intelligent 2-yr old son. Must have own transportation. One night per weekend, possibly one week night. References preferred. 232-7922. 10122 PART-TIME MARKETING OF AERIAL PHOTOS. Good potential earnings. Commission plus small guarantee. Possible flying. 932-0518.

MATH AND SCIENCE TUTOR. All levels Math, Chemistry and Physics. Let's stay ahead! Call Ken, 860-8266. 1213 FOREIGN VIDEO CONVERSIONS. We convert your foreign video from any country to American standard or vice-versa using high-quality digital process. PAL, NTSC and SECAM . Penguin Productions 762-9182 leave message. 10/15

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Please buy my tape, Musical Palsey, at Wax Trax.

I cannot explain myself otherwise. You owe me that much. Love, Me. 10115 SEEKING INTERVIEWS: WITH STUDENTS WHO have studied abroad in Mexico or South America. 431-5204 leave message for Ruth.

10/22 FREE PERSONALS FOR MSCD STUDENTS Come to Student Union Room 156.

EPSON 5000 ACTION PRINTER, like new $100.00. Panasonic 24-Dot Matrix Printer, good cond. $50.00. 839-9738. 10/15 NEED DENTAUOPTICAL PLAN? Approximately $1/Week/lndividual. Less than $2/Week/Family.

Call Marvin@ NHCD 427-2220. 10/22 IMAGE WRITER II PRINTER. COMPATIBLE WITH Macintosh and Apple II computers. $300 (owner's manual included). Dean or Teresa, 6660740, leave a message. 10/15 TIMESHARE FOR SALE. ONE deeded week.

RGI Affiliated Resort -- Asking $800. Call 6905451. 10/15

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE WORLD? Call 629-2955. 11 /19 THE CHRIST IS HERE! RECENT appearances in Virginia and Texas. 480-5453. 11/19

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We're bringing in a special collection of books on the Rocky Mountain region and will host several authors who are experts in their field.

Get tips on skiing from Rocky Mountain Skiing author Claire Walter; enjoy spectacular slides of the great Rocky Mountains from renowned nature photographer John Fielder; Bill Stoehr will identify hiking and biking trails; and join authors Eleanor Gehres and Stanley Cuba as they relate stories of the old west and some of Colorado's most colorful historical characters from 7be Colorado Book.

Author appearances: Tuesday, October 19 Thursday, October 21

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