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Byron "Mex" Johnson and his wife, Christine, reminisce about his baseball glove, "The Miracle Maker," outside the West Classroom building. Johnson played shortstop in the 1930s for the American Negro Baseball League's Kansas City Monarchs. He spoke to MSCD's American baseball history class April 8. See story page 22.

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MSCD Employees Claim Discrimination Brian S. Terrett THE METROPOUTAN As MSCD basks in the afterglow of Women's History Month, allegations are surfacing that the school's administration discriminated against several women administrators in past years. Three female MSCD employees filed a class action suit with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, according to documents obtained by The Metropolitan. Claire F. Sullivan, Dorothy A. Snozek and Patricia J. Kelly filed a complaint with OFCCP in December 1993, alleging the school (under former MSCD President Thomas Brewer's administration) discriminated against them because they are women. The OFCCP sent a letter to MSCD President Sheila Kaplan on Jan. 10, informing the school of the complaint! In the OFCCP documents, Kelly also indicated she was filing a complaint with the federal Equal

Employment Opportunity Commission and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Because the complaint is a personnel matter, none of the three investigating agencies involved could comment on the complaint. The complaint alleges a wide area of problems involving the three women. Sullivan, the former dean of the School of Business, and Snozek, the former associate vice president for Acad_emic Affairs, both accused MSCD administrators of five different areas of sexual discrimination. The two claimed the school discriminated against them in their performance evaluations, their wages and job benefits, and their salary adjustments. In their complaint, Sullivan and Snozek also said they had no job description and accused MSCD administrators of harassment, intimidation and creating a hostile work environment. Kelly said in her complaint that after being terminated as the interim vice president for Institutional Advancement,

she was not offered another position, as the school did with h~r male counterparts. Additionally, Kelly claimed the school hired a man for the job of director of communications and media relations, a job she once held and said she is more qualified for than the man MSCD hired. The OFCCP recently dismissed Kelly's complaint on the grounds that there was no validity to her charges, Kaplan said. "It is the policy of this institution to be as careful and as clear as possible that we will not tolerate, condone or practice discrimination of any kind," Kaplan said. "That's where we start, and that's where we end." The Metropolitan tried to contact Kelly's attorney, Karen Yablonski-Toll, but she was unavailable for comment. There was no information available on Kelly's case with the EEOC or the Civil Rights Commission. Sullivan and Snozek's complaint is still pending, but Kaplan said she thought the issue would be

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MSCD students may have the opportUnity to take MSCD classes at the Lowry Air Force Base facilities. Among a pool of possibilities for the reuse of Lowry Air Force Base, which is scheduled to be closed by the Department of Defense in September 1994, lies one "concrete" proposal, according to MSCD President Sheila Kaplan. The Lowry Reuse Plan, in which Auraria plays a key role, is a plan for the facilities being debated right now.

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The plan, proposed by the Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System (CCCOES), suggests that a section of Lbwry would be used as an educational campus. The assumption is that the Community Colleges of Denver and Aurora, MSCD and UCD would offer courses on the base, Kaplan said. The University of Northern Colorado may also be involved.

The purpose of the additional campus would be to alleviate overcrowding at Auraria and other Colorado college campuses. "Auraria is busting at the seams," said Student Trustee Matthew Bates, who has been lobbying for state funding for the Lowry educational campus. According to Bob Brock, MSCD assistant vice president for Communications, and Media Relations, Auraria is presently exceeding the Colorado Commission for Higher Education space-perstudent guidelines. With the additional space offered by the Tivoli building and the East Bank building, Auraria will still exceed the CCHE standards by 15 percent. While Auraria covers The Metropolitan/Jane Raley 171 acres, the proposed Building 700, a former dormitory at Lowry Air Force Base, ma\« aoon be used by MSCD. Lowry campus would offer administrative and office spaces. There is allocated. 148 acres. The Lowry Reuse Plan divides Some of.the funding would come also room for a student union and ~a few the 1,866 acres of the base quadrants. bars as well. from leasing ~venue from each college. In The campus will be located in the If the federal government approves the addition, if the state approves the plan, it Northeast Quadrant, which covers educational campus, it will be given to the would give the campus $2.9 million of the 500,000 square feet. The quadrant is comState Board of the CCCOES. Kaplan said renovation cost. According to Kaplan, getprised of two dozen buildings, which, as tl!e fede_ral approv~ will probably be given.:.. ting this state funding should be fairly the proposal lays out, could have 325 However, the renovation costs are easy, but if other $tate funding is not grantclassrooms and additional room for , '1 ' see LOWRY page 9 estimated at $4.6 million and must""still be

Request Denied: Student Unabl~ t~ Review Student 'Evaluation Of Professor Antoinette Vecchio NEWS EDITOR

An MSCD student requesting access to student evaluations of a faculty member has been denied access by the college. Christopher Anderson, a freshman journalism major at MSCD, asked English department chairwoman Elsie Haley for the student evaluation of one of his professors, more than six weeks ago. He said he has yet to see the records. "I had him in a class last semester and I didn't learn anything in the class," Anderson said about the professor. Anderson said the profesBoswell sor often discussed social issues and never taught the basics of writing a research paper. When Anderson approached the professor and voiced his opinion, be said the professor responded by saying, "I don't give two shits about your opinion."

Anderson said be first approached Haley about six weeks ago and requested access to the evaluations. Haley then told him they were not public record. According to the Colorado Open Records Law, however, performance ratings are open record. Anderson said he then dropped off a letter to Haley in which he cited the law that allows access to the records and asked her to reply and cite the law that allows her to deny access. He said he dropped the letter of to her office. Haley did not respond to the letter, nor did she return any of The Metropo/itan' s telephone calls. On March 14, Anderson received a letter from Christiane Citron, MSCD's lawyer. The letter stated Anderson raised complex issues, and she would have to get back to him, he said. She did not cite any law for denying access. In a interv iew Wednesday, Citron said Anderson was not denied access, he was told the request was being looked into. Citron said the President's Office expects to have a response to Anderson 's request by April 15. Faculty Senate President Jerry Boswell, said the evaluations are not open record and referred to them as "ratings." "My position quite frankly is that I

would not be agreeable to releasing"such ratings because in the past they have been considered private to the faculty member in the department. It's going back to what has been the precedent." He said former MSCD President Thomas Brewer sent a letter to faculty at MSCD stating he would not release student ratings.

'I think it's an illadvised action by requesting information that has been considered private.' -Jerry Boswell President, Faculty Senate

The letter could be obtained from the President's Office. The President's council of the Faculty Senate was notified that there had been a request for a copy of evaluations or access to the evaluations, Boswell said. Kaplan declined to comment on the issue. Boswell said MSCD President Sheila Kaplan will be holding a special meeting

concerning the request, but he did not know the specifics of the meeting. Boswell said faculty may rethink the evaluation process if the issue is pressed. "Personally, what I' m very concerned about is, if this is pushed and these (evaluations) are released ... the faculty will be reluctant to do any of this in the future, " Boswell said. "I think it's an ill-advised action by requesting information that has been considered private." Boswell said gaining access to these records will be detrimental to the students. "What that individual (Anderson) is doing is creating a situation that will have irreparable harm in the future. What it' s going to mean is that students are going to have less data available in the future, creating an adversarial situation with the faculty. That's unfortunate." Journalism professor James Brodell, however, compares evaluating faculty with the listing of ingredients of breakfast foods. "The students are customers here and they deserve the same kind information that you get on the side of a cereal box," Brodell said. "This has been a closed organization for so long that it's about time the students are able to determine their course of study based on the best teachers."

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Employees Cite Complaints Against Brewer, Williams DISCRIMINATION from page 1 resolved by next week. In their 14-page complaint, the two cited the following examples of discrimination: • ln 1991-92, Larry Johnson, the former dean of the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, was given a 9.4 percent raise, while Snozek received no raise, and Sullivan got a 3 percent raise. • After being removed from their administrative positions, three men maintained ~tween 75 and 82 percent of their administrative salaries, while Snozek received 71 percent of her former salary and Sullivan was given 65 percent of her old wage. • Brewer would tell Sullivan one .thing about the direction of the School of Business and then tell the staff something different, creat-

ing an atmosphere of distrust and anxiety. • MSCD Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs David Williams failed to adequately evaluate Sullivan, and when he did, Williams used inaccurate data to complete the evaluation. •Williams ignored advice from both Sullivan and Snozek about administrative issues affecting MSCD. • Williams was continuously unavailable for meetings with both Sullivan and Snozek, and materials sent to his office by Snozek were lost. "On many occasions I provided him with two, three or four copies of the same materials," Snozek wrote in her complaint. Because the complaint deals with a personnel issue, Williams said he wasn't

able to make any comment on the allegations. He did say he believed the allegations were not supported. What happens next with the complaint will be up to either the school and the three women, or one of the investigating agencies, said Judy Foster, public information officer for the Colorado Civil Rights Division, the working staff for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Though Foster said she could neither confirm nor deny the existence of a complaint, she talked in general terms about the investigation process. Generally, the competing investigating agencies, OFCCP, EEOC and Civil Rights, will share information with each other and designate one a_gency to conduct the inves-

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THE METROPOLITAN The MSCD Art Club has been trying to raise funds to get to Chicago by holding a raffle, yet it lacks one thing-a license. Art Club president Curt Weldon said eight out of the 15 Art Club members plan on attending Chicago's International Art Expo, which runs May 12-18. He said they hope to raise the funds by holding bake sales and a raffle. However, according to Norman Adams, of the Bingo and Raffles section of the Secretary of State's office, raffle holders are required by state law to obtain a $62.50 license. In addition, the law reserves bingo and raffle activities for churches, charities and similar non-profit organizations that have existed for five years or longer within the state. According to Colorado Revised Statutes, violation of this law is a class-2 misdemeanor, which carries a punishment of up to three months imprisonment, a $250 fine, or both. The fundraising booth has been set up in the Arts Building Mondays and Wednesdays since March 28 and will be there through early May. Weldon said people can buy either a $1 or $3 raffle ticket with chances of winning prizes valued at a minimum of $20.

After the club's fundraising debut, the Art Club's adviser, Andrew Speer, said he was aware the club was holding a raffle, but he had no idea it needed a license. He also wasn't sure if the president of the club had one. Weldon later said he talked to the state and was told he could obtain the license. He planned to have it by Monday, April 4, so he could give away the first prize. However, on April 6, the sign above the club's fundraising booth read "drawing" instead of raffle. According to Lara Sopcisak, a student running the "drawing," a source at the state said a drawing is different than a raffle and you don't need a license . Adams disagreed, saying a raffle is still illegal no matter what name you give it. Adams also said the only MSCD group with a raffle license is the Roadrunner Booster Club. On April 11, the club's fundraising booth no longer had a sign declaring it was holding a raffle or a drawing. Sopcisak gave it another name. "We are holding a contest, and we have been all along," she said. Speer defended the club's fundraising effort. "They didn't intend any harm. They just wanted to go to Chicago and look at c:nmP. :trt." he said.

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associate director for Library Services. As Thornton spoke, a maintenance worker threaded cable through the ceiling panel above her head-installing the new wiring system that will bring the Auraria library up to campus wiring standard and allow the library to add more terminals and more on-line services. "The new system should be in place by July and will replace the obsolete wiring with the latest, fastest technology," she said. The library has been frustrated by the obsolete system as much as the students, Thornton said. ''We've been getting lots of complaints from students about lack of computer terminals. The staff have also requested more CARL ports and more terminals so that they can do their jobs more efficiently." MSCD and UCD, the two main users of the library, are funding the rewiring, which will cost about $60,000, Thornton said. ''The library has had no capital budget to work with for years," she said. "We have to rob from Peter to pay Paul, when it comes to buying new equipment. It's very frustrating." The new wiring will bring the library up-to-date technologically and allow the library to bring in more computer services. The CARL terminals have recently been moved closer to the reference desk so students needing help can call on reference librarians without losing their search or their spot. Thornton said the library will also try a "rover," a staffer who will

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Whitewater Scandal Not a Priority for Students Chris Ball Joell Conway Kerry Shaper THE METROPOLITAN Overkill. That's how students on Auraria campus view media coverage of the Whitewater issue. Only eight out of 21 people interviewed had a clear understanding of the Whitewater controversy, but nearly everyone agreed that the media is giving it too much coverage. Most people said they would rather see more focus on national issues, including health care and education. "I think this is getting balanced coverage by the media, but I think it's Clinton's political opponents, not the media, who are keeping this (Whitewater) in the news," said Jane Stufft, 43, an MSCD senior majoring in behavioral science. Whitewater was a failed real estate venture in which the Clintons were financially involved during the late 1970s. The Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association, which backed the development, eventually failed and was taken over by federal bank regulators. Some of the people interviewed said they believe partisan politics is playing a major role in keeping Whitewater in the news. "Republicans are manipulating the media," said Scott Terry, 20, of Denver. On a scale of one to 10, Patricia Capers, 34, a UCD graduate student in

international law, said her understanding of Whitewater is a 10. She said she believes the issues are not whether the Clintons did something wrong, it's about mudslinging. "It's about the 1996 election platform," she said. "Bob Dole's presidential campaign and discrediting the Democrats." Questions about the legal and ethical issues surrounding Whitewater continue to overshadow the Clinton administration, hampering efforts on other domestic and foreign policy issues. "It happened at a time when the Clintons didn't have a lot of money. I'm sure they didn't expect it would turn out that way," said MSCD student Rayna Baily. "They were just trying to make a little cash." Many students said they don't believe Whitewater is a priority. Most said they believe the Clintons are not guilty of intentional wrongdoing, and it would take hard evidence to convince them otherwise. MSCD freshman Michele Kuzara, 25, however, compared Whitewater to Watergate. "It's all Clinton's fault. They should do the same with him as they did with Nixon. It's a cover-up, and he should be impeached," she said, adding, "You're never going to know the full truth of Whitewater."

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News In Brief Bus Pass Issue Still Alive )'

Students attending Auraria campus schools may soon be able to bus to campus all semester for less than the cost of a week's worth of parking. The Auraria Higher Education Center and RTD representatives are close to an agreement that would allow students to pay $9 per semester to ride the bus. In addition, AHEC has applied for $1 million of congestion management/air quality funds with the Denver Regional

Council of Governments. The funds would cover about half the cost of the RTD bus pass program, said JoAnn Soker, executive vice president for Administration. The funds are up for approval by the DRCOG later this summer. If approved, the program could take affect at the beginning of the fall 1994 semester, providing students vote for implementation of the program in the fall election.

AHEC Approves New Child Care Policy After a year of negotiations between students, faculty and staff, a major issue concerning the enrollment policy at the Auraria Child Care Center has been resolved. The Auraria Child Care Center will no longer give vacant slots to faculty and staff members who work on campus if students are on the wait list. The Auraria Board of Directors approved a policy April 11 that would give students preference in enrolling their children at the center, providing the student has paid the facilities bond fee of $26 for the semester. Children of faculty and staff, however, who are currently enrolled in the Child Care Center, will not be ousted from the center. Faculty and staff chi!-

dren on the wait list will be admitted only after all the students' children are accommodated. Student leaders have protested the use of the center by faculty and staff members who are not also students because they do not pay fees to cover the cost and operation of the center. The new policy takes effect immediately. There are more than 900 children on the waiting list to get into the Child Care Center. In an effort to purge that number, the center will be mailing questionnaires to people on the wait list within the next week, asking them if they are still interested in enrolling at the center. Those who do not respond will lose their spot on the list.

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Money, Approval Needed LOWRY from page 3 . ed, MSCD's involvement with the Lowry educational campus will be affected. "Metro will not do anything at Lowry unless we are given state funding for the students who enroll out there," Kaplan said. The state must agree to give money for each student attending the campus, she said. Colorado presently only gives funds to a four-year college for each student if the student attends the college at its main location. If the student attends at an offcampus site, the only funding the four-year college receives is the student's tuition. (At tbis time Auraria receives about $2,500 from the state for each student.) In addition to state approval, the plan

needs approval from the Air Force, which should not be a problem, according to Kaplan. The CCHE approved the portion of the Lowry Reuse Plan that included designating a section of the facilities as a higher education campus. However, the commission rejected the state community colleges system's academic plan (what programs, courses, etc. would be offered) for the campus, according to Kaplan. If federal, state, Air Force and CCHE approvals are given and MSCD receives state funding for each individual student, MSCD courses could be offered at Lowry in the near future. "A year is optimistic. Two (years) is probably more realistic," Kaplan said.

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have enjoyed reading the reactions to my March 4 column "Keep Your Church Out of My Womb" these past few weeks. Interestingly enough, these respondents have all been white, Christian males. Their religion, with its male gods, offer interesting male opinions on female experiences. I appreciate their religious opinion expressed in the peaceful venue of the newspaper. Individuals can choose to read their comments or not. But women entering an abortion clinic cannot. I still feel their heavy stones of religious persecution upon the non-believer, and for a woman who chooses her legal right to an abortion legal in America, where church is separate from state. They just don't seem to grasp this concept of the First Amendment. We still have violent, life-threatening, religiously motivated harassment against women who enter abortion clinics. I .1;,,., tril,.appr.e~ate..the..teachings of Chfjst, and I'm r:.~~r~t>.~,..'tY~ ~~~~~t Qla[l, but I am sorry, I do not I see Christ at an abortion clinic assault, condemning women for their legal choice. "He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone," Christ said. Oh yes, in Christ's place, Randall Terry, show me the way! Phillip Faustin, tell me what to do with my female parts! Mr. Brenman, although I do believe in reincarnation, I would not be so vain as to think myself Cleopatra in a previous life, nor do I dwell on past lives. But I could have been a Roman, living in an environment that mirrors today. I certainly never in this life would be so vain to think that I am chosen to tell the word of god and use it to condemn another. So, you think you know the answer to why we're here. Well, millions of Hindus, Buddhists, Native Americans, Jews, Muslims- they have some interesting options on religion, too, you know. What's more, you see the purpose of sex like a farmer sees planting. You think you can plant your seed in a woman's womb, and she would bear you fruit nine months later. No, my male friend who cannot get knocked up, you will never understand the predicament you've gotten yourself into because you can never give birth. You will never be the bearer of life. You are not a woman. You have no clue what it is like to be the object of those media messages aimed at you. Just imagine the overpopulation problem

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we'd be having on this planet if 30 million abortions didn't occur. And give yourself some credit, abortions aren't as easy to get to these days, just ask the goons that vandalize the clinics. And women do not just think, "Oh I'll get an abortion." It's not that easy, fellas. We would never want to experience it, really. Mr. Archer thinks RU-486 is hard on a woman's body. Well guys, again, ypu are not a woman, and you just don't know what it's like to give birth. Childbirth is more life-threatening than an abortion, especially when the mother is a teenager. Women still die in childbirth. You also challenged me to prove that I chose to be born or to come into this world, but yet you say I could've been an aborted fetus. Well I'm here, aren't I? That's like saying abortion prevented a Mozart. Well then, likewise, abortion would prevent an Adolph Hitler or a Charles Manson. I don't think so. Those criminals and evil people just keep getting born anyway, like all those Einsteins and talented people keep getting born anyway, like why I am here and you are here and aborted fetuses are not. Mr. McGuiness, you say the answer to illegitimacy is a return to god, but whose god? Yours? Religions were created by men. Men like you who, uninvited, attempt to describe the personal, ineffable idea of god. Who really wrote that Bible? Religions have a tendency to change through time. Some religions were oral, and the storyteller adapted the tale to the environment, and the moral was relative to the audience. Written religions, such as Christianity, are taken literally, but somehow they've managed to rewrite themselves over the course of 2,000 years. Rewritten offshoots sometimes go overboard, and the audience barricade themselves in Waco or murder doctors who perform abortions. You all have a religious superiority complex, and such intolerance for others is the seed of war. You wage war against American women. You call yourselves Christians, yet you do not know the meaning of peace. Have tolerance. Leave women in peace about our conscious decision. Leave us women in peace about our choice of belief in a supreme being. Leave women to the freedom of thought. Leave women to their legal right to an abortion. Amen.

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15, 1994

Abortion: A Question of Accountability The problem of unwanted pregnancies or children was just as much of an issue during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages as it is today. It was common among upper middle-class Romans to practice infanticide to limit their family size, and during the Middle Ages this activity was rightfully condemned by the Christian church. Even your "died in the wool" liberal would call this behavior barbaric! Truthfully, we are not any more civilized today than the Romans were when one stops to consider 30 million abortions since the infamous passage of Roe vs. Wade. If people are offended by photographs of aborted fetuses, it is because of their refusal to comprehend the horror of what has taken place. Abortion is an act of unspeakable violence and to call it mercy is the same as calling the sky green. It is just not so. Abortion is WRONG. By and large, it is a decision based on expediency and convenience, and unwillingness to own up to the predicament that we've gotten ourselves into. Inherent within the fact that the highest level of intimacy which can be enjoyed between a man and a women is while having sex, keep in mind its primary purpose is for procreation. To get an abortion then, is to walk in cross purposes as to why we are here. It violates the same principle of a farmer having planted his seed, pulling up his crops three months before harvest. It's absurd! We live in a society that openly encourages that the passions of youth should be unrestrained. On television we are bombarded with such suggestions as "Do It Now" and "Gotta Have It, Baby." Then, condoms are passed out in the high school sunder the notion that adolescents will have sex anyhow. Then when a girl gets pregnant we say: "Just go ahead and have an abortion." The logic behind this message is that you don't have to take responsibility for actions. Raise a generation of youths on that premise, and all I can say is: "Look out America, there is a bus out there in the street, and if you don't move, your gonna get run over." If_ abstinence until marriage were advocated as a viable alternative and virtue, if abortion on demand were no longer accessible except in extenuating circumstances, we'd be amazed at how quickly the illegitimate birth rate would drop. People would rather beat around the bush, however, believing that he was Napoleon Bonapart or maybe she was Cleopatra in a previous lifetime, in order to justify not taking responsibility for the fact that we got or got someone pregnant. Well, when you get hit by the bus, don't tell us that we didn't try to warn you. In linguistics, we discover that there are consistent principles that govern the formation of sounds, whereby we make words to communicate; in physics and in math, we learn that there are fundamental principles that govern the way the physical universe operates. Why then does man continue to walk in foolishness by believing that his life should not be administered by fundamental principles of right and wrong? The answer to this question is based on the foundational premise which becomes the reference point for our life. Either we are a cosmic accident that somehow evolved out of the mud millions of years ago, or else we were placed here on the earth for a divine purpose, which has yet to fully reveal itself. If I choose the former, I am the latter, then I know that I am accountable, and as to whom, I'll let you decide. Phil Brenman MSCD Student

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Wrong About Plastics I am constantly amazed at ·the ignorance the public displays regarding plastic materials. The item "The Problem With Plastics" in the March 18 The Metropolitan is a particularly startling example of such ignorance. There are many "plastic" materials and they all have names- polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS}, polyethylene terephthalate (PEn, to list a few. Early in the history of these materials, they were called "plastic" simply because they are capable of being molded (Latin plasticus; Greek plastikos). Before the "303 Aurarians on Campus" blasted plastics, they should have become better informed: • They should have asked about the many conferences, studies, and programs the plastics -industry and its participants are sponsoring on plastics recycling. • They should have asked if we are indeed having a landfill crisis. • They should have tried to find out why more plastics are not recycled, particularly in Colorado where they live. • They should have looked at information comparing materials like plastics, aluminum, glass and paper. They should also find out about the benefits of plastics during a.material's useful life. Some people know this as "life-cycle analysis." One place to start looking for this information is the report, "A consumer's Guide to Environmental Myths and Realities," by Lynn Scarlett for the National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, Texas.

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Scarlett lists 1O environmental myths: We are running out of land MYTH NO. 1: fill space. MYTH NO. 2: Americans are especially wasteful. MYTH NO. 3: Packaging is bad. Plastics are bad. MYTH NO. 4: MYTH NO. 5: Disposables are bad. MYTH NO. 6: Recycling is always good. MYTH NO. 7: Non-biodegradable prod ucts are bad. MYTH NO. 8: Recycling paper saves trees. We cannot safely dispose MYTH NO. 9: of solid waste. We are running out of MYTH NO. 10: resources. Regarding MYTH NO. 1: Scarlett says, "All of the garbage America produces in· the next 1,000 years would fit in a landfill that occupies less then one-tenth of 1 percent of the continental United States." Regarding MYTH NO. 3: "Because of state-ofthe-art packaging, the United States wastes less food than any part of the world except Africa, where the threat of starvation means even rotten food is consumed. Because of packaging, we ,can meet our

consumption needs while producing less food, which means fewer pesticides, less pollution and less energy use. The same principle also applies for nonfood packaging. n Regarding MYTH NO. 4: "Without the use of plastics, our total use of packaging materials (measured by weight) would increase fourfold, our energy consumption would double and the garbage we dispose of would more than double." Regarding MYTH NO. 6: "Recycling itself can cause environmental harm, e.g., more fuel consumption and more air pollution. As a result, the environmental costs of recycling may exceed ·any possible environmental benefits." Scarlett's report, of course, explains the reasons for its conclusions and why the myths are just thatmyths. After perusing that source, plastics critics could find numerous others- if they tried, that is. t suspect it might be too much trouble to actually research what they are opposing. They probably don't want to read books such as "Rubbish: The Archeology of Garbage," by William Rathje and Cullin Murphy, or "In Defense of Garbage," by Judd H. Alexander; or articles such as "Plastic or Paper?" (Magazine Design & Production, January 1991 ); or information pamphlets such as that on recycling from the American Chemical Society. Plastics are being recycled. All facets of the plastics industry are researching ways to recycle more plastics. Probably the major problem with recycling plastics is that it currently costs more to use recycled plastics in a product than to use virgin resin, which costs only pennies per pound. A pound of plastics makes slew of bottles. A few Colorado companies are recycling plastics. The plastics collected by King Soopers (as a public service) go to one local company that separates, washes and grinds the material into flakes. For the most part, the company must go outside Colorado to find markets for its recycled material. Plastics collected by Safeway (also as a public service) go to a major waste collection company that sends the plastic outside the state for reclaiming-my guess is to Phillips Petroleum in Oklahoma, which opened a large recycling facility in Omaha a couple of years ago. Finding markets is a problem for many recyclers- not just those reclaiming plastics. Despite public opinion polls that report consumers are willing to pay more for products made from recycled anything, the reality is they don't pay more. I wonder ... when was the last time any of the "303 Aurarians" went out of their way to find products made from recycled material and paid a higher price for the products?

Nancy Allbee Recycling Editor, Plastics Compounding Magazine

Drafted against his will as the "spokesman for a generation," Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was found dead last Friday morning in Seattle, the victim of an apparent suicide. Rock star deaths are not uncommon these days, and Cobain's own problems with drugs are well-documented and no doubt played a roJe in his finale. But there aren't many of his ilk who achieved the same level of stardom and then took their own lives without the cloak of a drug overdose. Cobain made it clear that his final act was no accldenC · MlV's Friday night coverage of' Cobain's death saw news anchor Kurt loder cautioning ~1rvana fans against following Cobain's path. "Suicide is riot the answer," he warned. "Don't do it." If Cobain actually had that kind of influence over his army of flannel-clad fans, he didn't want it. His inabili!¥ to co~th'tebori\ln~ifil%1.00fiight millionaire, pcfp icon and·single.-handed P.f09~ni~ -ota new genre and fashion movemEfnt, b~eame apP\)rent long ago. On MTV, a young fan standing in the rain, commenting on the sadness of it all, wore a Joy Division T-shirt-another band who released a couple of ground-breaking albums and then suffered the suicide of their angst-ridden singer, Ian Curtis, who hung himself in May 1980. Like Nirvana, ~oy Division became extremely influential and spawned dozens of imitators. Analyzing Cobain's lyrics for an answer won't be hard. While Curtis' last song was "Love Will Tear Us Apart," Cobain's was more up-front with "I Hate Myself and Want to Die." Cobain never wanted to play the star game, and became a self-destructive mess trying to-avoid it. Though it seems unlikely that Nirvana ean continue without Cobain the way New Order rose from the ashes of Joy Division, the four albums and the television appearances Nirvana leave behind will become even r,nore cherished. Cobain might achieve a certain martyr status in American pop mythology, so in terms of his career, he may have made a smart move. But Nirvana created more of a look and an attitude than a new kind of music . The aspect of grunge that Cobain brought to the surface and perfected was the honesty and lack of pretense that made Nevermindthe number one album in the U.S. instead of Michael Jackson's Dangerous. Cobain almost succeeded in killing himself last month in Rome. Being on top of the world wasn't where he wanted to be, and all the money he had accumulated couldn't save him from himself. Cobain did more for flannel shirts and Seattle than he did for rock music. Part of his suicide note read, "I can't fool you anymore" and "my worst crime is faking it." If Nevermind had been released back in 1991' and barely made a dent in the top 100, If Cobain wasn't seen pouting on the covers of Time and Rolling Stone, if MTV hadn't made Nirvana into mega-stars, I'll bet Cobain would still be alive. Unhappy, perhaps, but unknown-and unscathed by the pitfalls of overnight stardom.

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Program a ·Viable Academic Department To Tom Altherr: It was a pleasure to read your commentary printed March 18 in The Metropolitan. Your expressed support of athletics at MSCD is a welcome perspective to those of us who view athletics, sports participation and/or movement in general as essential to a healthy lifestyle. However, as chairwoman of the MSCD Human Performance, Sport and Leisure Studies Department, I was concerned about your suggestion that "We should have a sport and leisure studies program, which many other colleges and universities have seen ... as academically viable." . Please understand, I obviously agree that such a program is indeed academically viable. What is disappointing was the suggestion that such a program does not currently exist at MSCD. As a point of historical reference, our department has been an academic program at this institution since the first year of MSCD's existence. In .fact, it was as a result of our academic program and the initiative of the HPSL faculty that Athletics and Campus Recreation were begun. In addition, several HPSL faculty were the first coaches in a variety of sports including basketball, tennis, gymnastics, and volleyball. Because· of the success and continued growth in all three programs, i.e., the academic program, ·athletics and campus recreation, these activity areas were separated into three independently functioning units eight years ago. Currently, the HPSL Department services the MSCD academic community with a variety of 1 1major and minor courses of study that prepares I students for careers in elementary or sec;:ondary teaching in physical education, athletic training, adult fitness, and exercise science, coaching, sports and allied fields, therapeutic recreation and parks and recreation administration. In addition, we participate in the holistic interdisciplinary health minor. Many of our faculty are recognized nationally for their expertise in Human Performance, Sports and Leisure Studies and all are leaders in state, regional or national professional organizations. More importantly, however, is the commitment the HPSL Department has made to the campus community to provide an extensive physical activity program for all faculty, staff and students on the Auraria Campus. This program includes courses in weight training, swimming, tennis, volleyball, conditioning, step aerobics, dance, yoga, skiing and racquetball. These course offerings have resulted in students taking more than 4,000 credit hours of physical activity during the 1993-94 academic year. I believe this program meets and exceeds_ your suggestion to have "extensive physical activities for alter.natively abled students, faculty and staff." Finally, I would like to invite you to our facility, the Auraria Events Center, to View our program in action or even participate in one of our courses. We are always eager to encourage faculty, staff and students to learn more about their own physical capabilities. Indeed our department is proud of its work in providing the MSCD community with an opportunity to recreate, educate and participate in movement and exercise. Yes, Dr. Altherr, "Sport and Leisure Studies" is a viable academic department and integral part of higher education. Cheryl Norton Chair and Professor HPSL

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from that of a traditional age student attending a residential college or university. MSCD students are older (the average age is approximately 28), and I am a full-time MSCD student and have been many work part-time or even full-time jobs in order very active in Student Government since November, to afford their education. Additionally, others have 1991. I have sat on various boards and committees families, and of those, many are single parents. The since that time and Ra\le participated in several conidea of attending an athletic eveot doesn't come to troversial programs as well. Clearly, as a "public figmind to these students. ure," I have opened myself up to Typically, 500 people attend a questions and comments by the men's basketball game, not all of press and individuals- that comes whom are students. I would assume with the territory. However, irresuccessful that the majority are repeat spectasponsible and misguided assump- 'A tions and comments, such as Tom politician is not tors. (If this can be refuted, I would Altherr's in his March 18 "Open one who remains like that information because I have Letter to Megan Reyes" in The steadfast in her been unable to get any such data.) Let's also assume that the same Metropolitan, were nothing short of beliefs and number hostile and exhaustively obnoxious. of students attend all the Before I go one, I would also philosophies.' rest of the sports put together, as men's basketball draws the highest like to say to the new students at MSCD not to worry; In my three number of spectators. What that years here, I have never encounmeans is that $700,000 in student fees benefit fewer than 1 000 stutered such immaturity on the part of dents (plus the athletes). faculty. I assure you that most proAccording to Davidson Porter, fessors at MSCD, certainly all the director of the P.E.A.K. 'Leadership Program, more professors with whom I have had the pleasure of than 2,000 students participate-in P.E.A.K.'s various working, are responsible and are respectful of their programs, which utilizes only $17,000 in student students, even if their particular opinions and/or fees. Additionally, Kersten Keith, chairwoman, and philosophies differ. Professor Altherr has never approached me with Bryce Avery, program co9rdinator of the Metro Activities Council (MAC), said their programming his concerns about my work in Student Government, benefits between 5,000 and 10,000 students using specifically my research into MSCD's athletic proonly $60,000 of student fees. (Incidentally, the MAC gram-we have never met. Rather, Altherr's comwas responsible for bringing Ellen DeGeneres, ments were based on two articles for which I was l,..aurie Anderson, Ken Hamblin, Kevin Tebedo, and interviewed and quoted briefly. (As a professor of many other personalities to campus this year.) history, I would like to believe that he would access I welcome any dialogue on this matter, or any more sources than that for an objective commentary.) So, to avoid any more confusion, I would like other concern you may have as a MSCD student. If to inform you of my position on athletics on campus elected as Student Government president, I assure and in general. you that I will be open to discussion on any matter, regardless of my personal opinion. A successful I would like to say, once again, I am not against politician is not one who remains steadfast in her athletics. What I said, and what Professor Altherr clearly took out of context, was that personally, I beliefs and philosophies. Rather, if information is provided that indicates that I have been wrong or don't believe any sort of athletic program belongs at misinformed, then surely I will consider it seriously. MSCD, save intramural sports. Further, I believe As Barbara Grizzuti Harrison so eloquently said, that organized sports, such as Little League, school "Beware of people carrying ideas ... beware of ideas athletics and professional sports are a destructive carrying people." force in our society, and if anyone would like to discuss this with me, I would be happy to do so. Sincerely, From a more objective and professional point of Megan A Reyes, view, I don't believe MSCD students utilize our athMSCD Student Senator letic program enough to warrant a Division II standing and an $18 athletic fee. It's that simple. The profile of a MSCD student is very different

-It's More Like Censorship I'm sorry to see that you've dropped Jefferson Powers' comic strip "Outside the Asylum," and question your decision. Jeff is a friend of mine, but please don't dismiss this as a "give 'em hell" letter. Re-examining the two strips, no names are mentioned, and Jeffs artwork is far from photo-realism, so any resemblance would seemingly be difficult to prove in court. My main question is why you gave "Saga Inc." space to speak but told Jeff to get lost. Shouldn't he also be given space to defend himself and his reputation? Without Jeff's strip, I doubt I'll be picking up The

Metropolitan much anymore, it always seems short on any real news. The only sections I find relevant are the essays, which tread much the same ground as Jeffs strip did (comic that's not cute, like "Back in School?!" And it's NOT FICTION?! GASP!) With The Metropolitan serving as a training ground for future journalists, I wonder just what they're learning from all this. Hopefully how to caption articles more accurately. "Cartoonist Censored" seems more appropriate. Chris Larason MSCD Student

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The banishment of God from the public schools began in the late 1940s by prohibiting religion classes (which were voluntary, and without cost to the state) in public school buildings. The Warren Court's coup de grace banned all prayer from public schools and prohibited states from aiding private schools that had the audacity to be affiliated with any religious body. Those who wish to keep religion in the closet often claim that reintroducing noncompulsory prayer or religious instruction opportunities would violate the "establishmenr clause of the First Amendment and infringe on the right of parents to instill their values into their children. Does allowing religious speech into the public school environment "establish" a religion? No. Let's recall the wording of the First Amendment : Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof .... When rationally interpreted, the two clauses are complementary: The" no establishment" clause ensures that the state does not impose a religious creed on the people, which would violate their freedom to worship. Would voluntary prayer or opportunities for religious instruction during the school day infringe on the right of parents to raise their children according to the dictates of their conscience? The history of voluntary prayer and religious education shows the opposite to be the case. It was parents who (before the 1948 McCollum decision) requested that their children be allowed to attend classes in religious instruction (paid for by the parents or by a religious body) on school grounds. Children who did not wish to receive religious instruction continued with their nonreligious studies while religiously inclined chil-

dren received religious instruction. Clearly, the State was merely assisting parents and 9hildren to exercise their free exercise of religion. But the Supreme Court ruled this was an "establishment of religion." If we are looking for a violation of parental rights, we will find it in today's sex-ed classes. Unlike the option,al religious instruction that parents haq to request, parents who objected to the sexual indoctrination of their children must request to have their children exempted from these courses. These classes are said to be "value neutral." Guess what - there exists no Switzerland on the moral map. ''Value neutrality" is a clever euphemism for teaching that there is no right or wrong in human sexuality. Any adult who makes a youngster technically proficient in the use of condoms is implicitly telling him or her: You obviously lack self-control; you're gonna do it anyway; you're an animal. This is an insidious form of child abuse masquerading as education. Parents have the right and responsibility to be the primary educators of their children. The moral ambiguity promoted by the state through secular sexual education undermines parents who attempt to raise their children with religious values. Ironically, religious subjects are openly discussed in state schools in the former Soviet Union. Meanwhile, in "The Land of the Free" teachers are prohibited from keeping a Bible on their desks, let alone discussing their religious convictions with students. Let us learn something from the "godless atheists" and invite God back into our classrooms.

One of the most frequent questions that I'm asked is, 'When are you graduating?" Well, it's going to happen in May. After working in labor or low paying jobs for nearly 20 years and earning a G.E.D. and many, many years at MSCD, first as a part-time student and later as a full-time student, I will finally earn my degree in English with a Spanish minor and Elementary Teacher certification. This is quite an accomplishment for a high school push-out. I grew up in one of the lowest income neighborhoods in San Francisco's Mission district, in a housing project of mostly Latino and African-American tenants. Like many situations where there is little or no hope, my presumed predestination was to be a drop-out, possibly a criminal, but most likely a lowpaid proletarian. San Francisco's educational system failed Chicanos and Latinos in the same alarmingly high drop-out rate {50 percent pl1.1s) as every school district in the nation. The only successful "capitalists" that I was personally familiar with were drug dealers and pimps. They had the money, prestige and cars. The rest of us had roach-infested apartments and no way out. I've often thought about what saved me. Why was I able to break the mold? The answer is not simple, but I will attempt to explain. As a teenager, I was aware of being treated dif-

ferently than what I had seen on television. I faced nightly harassment from the police, I was expelled from high school for wearing a brown beret ( a symbol of Chicano pride), I faced humiliation from social workers in the welfare system. Every institution that . oppressed me was represented by white people. I personally began to believe that there were two Americas, one for white people and one for the rest of us. Then, seven Latino youths were arrested and accused of killing a cop. After an 18 month trial, they were acquitted because it was proven that the cop's -~ partner accidentally shot and killed him while trying to pistol-whip the youths. This case sparked a lot of support in the Latino community, generating massive rallies and protests against the police department. But more importantly, this issue woke up a lot of

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people, including myself. An organization formed and I joined it. We began to study political issues from police violence to imperialist aggression in Vietnam to the capitalist system itself. I gained most of my education by studying with this organization. Another important issue arose, why are so many drugs available to Chicano, Latino and African-American communities? And, why are there so many liquor stores in our neighborhoods? For political reasons I decided that I would not use drugs, because they were a tool of oppression. With the support of the Black Panther Party, we published a newspaper. Then we organized a free clinic and a legal office. We also began feeding children with a free breakfast program. We learned that we cannot rely on the hand that oppresses us to be the hand that liberates us. I have learned to be a critical thinker, not accepting anything its face value, or assuming that institutions tell the truth. Over the years I've decided that I would dedicate my life to social justice issues. Graduating from MSCD is another milestone, but most of my education came from real life. I have mixed feelings about graduating from MSCD, because I did gain some valuable academic knowledge and had the opportunity to work with some progressive thinking professors, administrators and staff. However, I have had many negative experiences with other professors, and I have been at odds with MSCD's Anglo-Euro-centric curriculum and the lack of support by MSCD to increase Chicano, Latino, African-American and NativeAmerican retention and graduation rates. MSCD and the Auraria Higher Education Center still suffer from racism and are mostly inaccessible to the surrounding communities. Maybe that will change some day, but it won't come easy without a major struggle. I am certain of one thing ... that the struggle will continue. Joe Navarro MSCD Student

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urch Sends Unification Rev. Moon's Son to Auraria Jeff Stratton FEATURES EDITOR What if the Moonies came to campus and nobody cared? An icy rain and a Saturday evening probably didn't help Kook Jin Moon, son of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, attract a large student audience to hear him speak about "True Parents and the Completed Testament Age" April 9 at the St. Francis Center. Of the 100 or so attendees, most were members of Moon's Unification Church and their families. Julia Park, who came with her children, said, " I became interested quite a few years ago in the theology of Unification and the idea of how religion and science could work together. It's a very practical approach to religious matters." Some non-members did read fliers and other prominent advertisements about the speech and were interested in finding out more about the Rev. Moon, the Unification Church and the controversy surrounding them. "I don ' t know anything about it," said Fredric Scott, a resident of Missouri visitin~ Qepver and the Auraria Campus in hop~r<!t attending school here. "I've just heit~HHlamtrbefore. Curiosity brought me here." The college-based extension of the Unification Church, Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles, or CARP, organized the speaking tour that member Duke Doung said is currently visiting 100 college campuses, educating students about morality and values. "In the past, we focused on Communism and its destructive results, now it's more on AIDS and sexual responsibility," he said. Joy Garratt, Rocky Mountain

Communications director for Unification Activities, added more: "Our main focus on campuses right now is support for a pure and healthy lifestyle-no drugs, no sex before marriage, no smoking-<leveloping your health for a greater purpose. We address the reality of condoms and free sex. Our basic stand is that if people live a pure lifestyle, there wouldn't be such a problem as AIDS. So the ideal is that people value the sexual relationship as the most precious aspect of a marriage between a man and a woman, and we feel that the ideal is a man/woman relationship." "But we're not living in an ideal society and we feel that anyone who has AIDS, no matter how they contracted it, should be treated with compassion. But if people are in committed marriages, there wouldn't be such a problem." As for condoms, Garratt explained that "if you ' re not having sex outside of marriage, there's no need for them!" Moon, a Harvard graduate and one of the Rev. Moon's 13 children, was not much of a public orator. He never deviated from his prepared text, which he delivered in monotone. Still, several of his epithets drew applause from audience members. Moon explained that his father, the Rev. Moon, is "the third Adam" and the "true father" who will unite the world under a banner of Unified Christianity. Unification teaches that the Rev. Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, are "perfected human beings" who will take their place as the "true spiritual parents of humankind." According to Moon, the Cold War ended when his father was able to "unite the Cain and Abel blocs" of the world. Communism, he said, represented the Cain-type world, and Christian democra-

cies represented the Abel-type world. Moon also explained that "what pains God most is free sex. A world of free sex is absolutely contrary to the will of God and the ideal of the family. Where is God in all the one-night stands?" Moon said the misunderstanding and persecution his father has endured in furthering his church "parallels Jesus' situation 2,000 years The Metropolitan/Jane Raley aCgho. . t. If Kook Jin Moon speaks on campus. r1s 1an churches had the Colorado Institute of Art, was more become one with the Rev. Moon, the heav- skeptical. enly kingdom would already have been "Jesus said in the Bible that in the endestablished on Earth. Indeed, without the ing times, many would come as a false help of our Unification movement, prophets. Moon thinks he's fulfilling America would have waned long ago." prophecies. Obviously, he's not the second Francois Heppell, originally from coming. The message was good; it preachMontreal and now living in Pueblo, attend- es the right things about love, respect and ed the speech with his young son and punc- honor, but he makes it sound as if he's a tuated it with applause. He was beaming messianic leader, and the Bible says there's after Moon ' s address. "It (his speech) ,only one true messiah. It doesn't say anybrings Christianity to the family and thing about a wife and 13 kids." restores God to the family," he said. Robin Blessing, a recent graduate of

Conference: Faces of Love and Hate Students to Express Feelings about Diversity, Confront Oppression Patricia Sydney Straub EDITOB IN CHIEF.-.~ Students will have the chance to express their feelings about diversity and confront the realities of oppression during Faces of Love/Faces of Hate, a three-day conference April 18-20 on the Auraria Campus. Thls event, Â§p0nsored by MSCD, UCO, CCD and AHEC, strives to create awareness about society becoming more culturally complex and ethnically diverse. It stresses the need to address fears, ignorance and hostility both on an individual and societal level. "As an inner-city, urban campus we need to be cognizant of our setting and the fact that we are really fortunate to have a wide set of students on our campus. We have the responsibility to educate, enlighten and inform the campus about differences,_ethnic cultures, sexual orientation and relatives of oppression 1hat exist on this camous." said Jeanine Cowan. coordi-

nator of the leadership development program in the CCD Office of Student Activities. the event features an art show, a graffiti wall, Guerrilla Theatre, and a People's Parade among other events. Each morning will also feature a healing circle and a Tai Chi class to g'et students involved. "We believe that through the arts and humanities, which tap the other side of our abilities as people, we might be able to look more seriously and confront the ugliness and experience of hate and how through tove we might be able to build a stronger sense of community on our campus," said project coordinator Audrey Alvarado, director of Affinnative Action at UCD. The art show is open to all students to enter their ready-for-hanging, 2-dimensional works that carry the theme of Faces of Love/Faces of Hate. Students can bring their work on April 18 to the Student Union to compete for a first prize of $150, second prize of $100 and third prize of

$50. There is no entry fee. Expressing their fear, hostility, excitement or any other emotion, negative or positive, students can partake in the graffiti wall, an 8-ft. movable wall that will appear in various locations. Debriefing rooms will be available for people to talk to professionals whether they feel disturbed or happy about anything that comes up on the graffiti wall, Cowan said. "It's to remove layers of suppression on issues that do make people uncomfortable," she said. Theater can be a non-threatening way to deal with these issues, said Yolanda Ortega-Ericksen, MSCD assistant dean of Student Life. " As an audience member, one can involve as little or as much as they want," she said. Drama hits the core of the issue,

F A C â&#x20AC;˘ S OF HATE and the issue becomes clearer, she said. In addition to the UCD performances of Guerrilla Theatre, three community theatre excerpts will be presented in The Mission. For more information, call 556-6061

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FACES OF HATE Monday, April 18 8-9 a.m. Art Display: Library. A U Denver Theater class has created 1asks that will be on display in the brary. 8-9 a.m. Healing Circle: SU rass area. Traditional circle rituals led by iavid Angus 9-10 a.m. Tai Chi: SU grass area, ea!'tt a different side of the martial arts d by Richard Henderson 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Graffiti Wall: ·c area. Come express yourself on a 1ovable graffiti wall. 12-2 p.m. Poetic Justice: SU letzanine. Come listen to a music and Jetry group. 1-2 p.m. "Many faces of ourage": Mission. MSCD Theatre origid play which frames four factual stories 2-4 p.m. Debriefing room: South in~ SU 254-256. Come share your life {periences and reaction to the faces tent. 2-5 p.m. Hip Hop music: mphitheater. Groups and open micro-

wing SU 254-256. Come share your life's experiences and your reaction to the FACES event. 4-6 p.m. Poetry semi-finalist readings: Ninth Street Park near the semifinalists of the poetry reading contest read their submitted work. 4-9 p.m. Auraria Collaborative Theatre Fest: The Mission. Student produced theatrical works: 4-5 p.m. Sleepwalkers: UCD students' original comedy on discrimination. 5:30-6:30 p.m. "One for the Road" by Harold Pinter : a chilling dramatization of an interrogation. The Murder of Lidice" 7-8 p.m. by Edna St. Vincent Millay: A true story of the complete destruction of a small town and its people. "A Poster of the 8-9 p.m. Cosmos" by Lanford Wilson: A shocking tale of love and loss.

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Art Exhibit: SU 8-9 a.m. Mezzanine. Come view the art contes~one. ->i-5 p.m. Video Fest: SU 330AB. tants' submissions rot he art contest. 8-9 a.m. Art Display: Library. A hree videos will be aired for your enjoyUCD Theatre class has created masks that 1ent. 2-3 p.m. "Faces of the Enemy": will be on display. 8-9 a.m. Healing Circle: SU U 330AB-Psychology of hatred and ow we dehumanized "enemies,"- Grass area. Traditional circle rituals led ::l:ricano Park" the story of its murals by David Angus. 9-10 a.m. Tai Chi: SU grass area. id how it rebuilt a community. 4-5 p.m. Framing Lesbian Learn a different side of the martial arts !Shion,":SU 330 AB-a colorful look at led by Richard Henderson Graffiti Wall: SU flag11-2 p.m. sues of intolerance within a community. Poetry reading contest: pole area. Come express yourself on a 4-6 p.m. ii.1th Street Park. Come listen to the movable graffiti wall. 12-2 p.m. People's Parade and 1>etry contestants read their submitted closing ceremony start at St. Francis, ork. down Speer Blvd. and Auraria parkway, ending at the SU amphitheater. The People's Parade is an opportunity to unite Art Exhibit: SU the diverse campus groups to celebrate -"8-9 a.m. [ezzanine. Come view the art contes- our community. Closing speaker: Rosetta DuBois-Gadson nts' submissions for the art contest. Debriefing Room: 2-4 p.m. 8-9 a.m. Art Display: Library. A CD theater class has created masks that South Wing SU 254-256. Come share your life experiences and reaction To the ill be on display in the library. "'8-9 a.m. Healing Circle: SU Faces event. Announcement of the 4-5 p.m. rass area. Traditional circle rituals led poetry winners and reading of the win~ Da\cid Angus. 9-10 a.m. Tai Chi: SU grass area. .ning poems: Ninth Street Park. Come lisearn a different side of the martial arts ten to the selected poetry winners. Community Theater: 7-9 p.m. d by Kay Kutch. The Mission. Three community -theatre 10a.m.-12p.m. Debriefing groups will share their work: oom: South wing SU 254-256. Come ·1-7:30 p.m. Su Teatro excerpts from tare your life experiences and reaction to "La Carpa' and "Karla." 1e Faces event. 7:30-8 p.m. Eulipions poetry read11 a.m.-2 p.m. Graffiti Wall: ing by Bettye Jones and Leola C Area. Come express yourself on a , Easterwood Sanders. .ovable graffiti wall. 8-8:30 p.m. Making Waves, reading 1:15-2 p.m. Art Show reception: SU from the "Disappearing Moon Cafe." [ezzanine. Announcements of awards to t contestants. 2-4 p.m. Debriefing room: South

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THE METROPOUTAN Four MSCD students have earned the opportunity to spend two weeks in Washington, D.C., mingling with presti_gious capitol leaders at the 10th annual Women As Leaders Seminar, May 1627. Megan Reyes, Jody Andrade, Kersten Keith and Christine Torres will represent MSCD and Colorado. They are among 200 chosen from more than "1300 applications received at the Washington Center, according to Kara Martinsons, program coordinator for the Center. The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars is a -nonprofit educational program for college students that provides learning experiences through activities on Capitol Hill. "We strive to provide the students with experiences they don't get in ;;chool," Martinsons said. "The college students who have participated in the seminar are much more likely to find themselves with employment within six months after graduation." The selection process included searching for those students with outgtanding leadership qualities, according to Martinsons. "We like to find students who have made a commitment to something," she said. "It's not just about being in a

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Kersten Keith sorority or in a student body position, but about initiative and follow-through." This year's seminar will focus on women's leadership issues, such as what it takes to be a leader and the challenges women face. It offers participants the opportunity to interact with women role models, Martinsons said. Though this year's agenda isn't complete, last year's guests included Rep. Susan Molinari, Paula Banks, president of the Sears Foundation; and Catherine Graham, chairwoman of the Washington Post. "It's (the seminar) a wonderful opportunity for the students to gain insight and exposure to a broad array of

people and to introduce them to D.C.," Martinsons said. "They benefit by strengthening their opinions and arguments through discussions with other participants." According to Martinsons, those chosen are among a diverse group, including older, nontraditional students, single mothers raising children and those from Ivy League schools. After completing applications and responding to four essay questions about their experiences as leaders and the obstacles they have had to overcome, Reyes, Andrade, Keith and Torres were notified of their acceptance.

"I think we were selected because Metro really supports the whole concept of leadership ... and we ' re very committed to outside curricular work and comm unity deveiopment," Reyes said, a political science major. Reyes is involved in a myriad of Student Government roles, including running for student body president. She is also in the honors program and is raising three children, she said. In addition to attending the seminar and engaging in other activities during their trip, the students will keep an individual journal of their experiences and are responsible for writing a paper on a ' particular issue to be decided on by a seminar director. "It's an honor to represent MSCD in Washington," Keith said. "We're going to show D.C . what being an active woman and active student on a diverse and nontraditional campus is all about." A highlight of the two-week trip, Mentor for a Day, provides the students with a realistic view of a woman leader in the workplace. With the participants' personal aspirations in mind, professionals will be matched up with and shadowed by each student. "More than book learning, I think application and networking are far more beneficial," Reyes said. "If I can meet with an attorney, I'd like that 10 times more than sitting in a seminar discussing civil rights."

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Australian writer/director John Duigan brings a charming influence to - American cinema in --....."Sirens," a healthy film about sexuality that is rife L-...#IJ\lat)< with understated, sophisticated humor. "Sirens" is a liberating , film, giving women and · men equal permission to do what they choose with their own bodies. The nudity in this film is less gratuitous than the display of Australian 'wildlife (which is also enjoyable). Sirens offers a refreshing view of sensuality and the body as healthy and natural, even holy. The "sirens" in this film are 'three models who pose for Australian artist Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill), whose art has drawn criticism from the Anglican Church. Portia de Rossi, Elle MacPherson and Kate Fischer swim au nature/ In "Sirens," a Mlramax film. His work is mostly nudes, The church sends an aggressive young priest, Sofala. ,.!lnd one etching in particular has provoked the church's Campion brings with ·ire: "Venus Crucified," which depicts a nude Venus on Anthony Campion, (Hugh Grant) from England to the provincial village in Australia's Blue Mountains where him his inexperienced wife, the cross, surrounded by menacing male clerics. Lindsay was a real artist who died in 1969, and a the painter lives with his wife, children and models. Estella (Tara Fitzgerald). real controversy arose out of his "Venus Crucified" in "Sirens" is filmed on Lindsay's estate in New South see SIRENS on page 20 the 1930s. His art is now widely displayed in Australia. Wales, outside the country's oldest goldmining town,

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Dear Metro Connections: My hu1ba11d ii an alcoholic. I know that because he clrink.I at leut three vodku, •traf&ht, every DJ&ht, two before dhmer, one during dinner, and then, I don't know how many after dinner. Sometimes, he drink.I with the guys at the bar before he comes home from work. When he bu drank too much, I know It because he treats me terribly. He yells at me, tells me that I am a "good for nothJnt', and blames me for everythlog that he thinb II wrong. And then, the next morning, he apologl.zes to me, and I manage to get either l'OICll or a ~ of candy or a new bloUIC or aomethf.og elle of apology. And, of course, I give in and forgive hfm. I love my husband clearly. I depend on hfm for so many thf.ogs. And, I know he loves me. I can't Imagine divorcing hfm. He bu been good to the children, and when he hasn't been cl.rinking so much, lie II the moat wonderful man ID the world. Recently, I've been h~ about co-dependency. Exactly what II it? Do you think that I might be co-dependent? If so, where do I go for help. I definitely know that I alone cannot get my husband of 16 years to atop cl.rinking. Sincerely,

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More than 1,000 pages of documents released by the Freedom of Infonnation Act indicate beyond a reasonable doubt that UFOs exist, an independent researcher said Monday in the Auraria Student Union. ., Robert Hastings, an Albuquerque electron microscopist said his first UFO experience occurred in 1967 when he was working in an air traffic control tower in Montana. The radar tracked five UFOs for several minutes, he said. When jets were launched to , .intercept them, the obje~ts left the area at · 5,000 mph, which Hastings said was "far beyond the capability of any conventional aircraft." In his 90-minute lecture, "UFOs: The

Hidden History," Hastings presented classified documents about UFOs, which he said the government has tried to cover up. He said his program is a grass-roots public information program. "I am not a missionary," Hastings said. ''I am not seeking to convert skeptics to socalled believers. The only ticket of admission here is an open mind." Hastings' lecture included a slide show, which chronologically illustrated his claims of government cover-up. According to Hastings, the first wave of Ul\O sightings occurred in 1947. Diskshaped flying saucers were spotted in every state except Georgia and Virginia in that year. These waves of sightings occurred in every decade from the 1940s to the 1970s,

Hastings said. Although the government would "explain away" the sightings, it would secretly compile reports about flying saucers. Because of the government's zeal to cover up UFO sightings, military personnel who spotted UFOs rarely reported them for fear of being accused of espionage, Hastings said. When asked why he thinks the government would hide information of saucers from the public, Hastings recounted the national panic around Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H.G . Wells' "War of the Worlds." On Halloween 1938, this fictional program about Martians landing on earth, although a disclaimer was aired at the beginning of the show. By the end of the show people had attempted suicide and jammed

phone lines. Many believed the show was true. The government may have feared the same repercussions, Hastings said. Acknowledging that the information he presented was "circumstantial," Hastings said he urges people to do their own research to seek the truth. ''We need to educate ourselves on what the U.S. government has b.een up to," Hastings said in closing. "No one has all the answers. I sure don't, but I guarantee what you've seen and heard here today is far closer to the truth than anything the government has told you about UFOs." For more information about UFOs and government documents write to the Fund for UFO Research, P.O. Box 277, Mt. Rainier, Md. 20712.

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Living Legend Relives Baseball Past and Present Claudia Hibbert THE METROPOUTAN

When Byr,on Johnson stepped up to the podium April 8 in MSCD's American baseball history class, the audience, sat in silence as if they were listening to their grandpa retell their favorite story. Johnson, 82, is one of few of the surviving members of the American Negro Baseball League. He played with some of th~ best in his era as the Kansas City Monarchs shortstop. Sporting a Rockies shirt and baseball cap, Johnson spoke of his love for baseball and the differences in baseball past and present. "We played for the love of the game," Johnson said. "Now they play for the money." The average weekly salary for ball players in the Negro League from the 1920s through the 1930s was $40 to $75. In 1945 the salary jumped to $100 to $125 per week. About 50 students are enrolled in Thomas Altherr' s American baseball history class, but students from his upper division classes and students who had seen Johnson speak before also showed up. Some students eveo brought their children. This was the third time Johnson addressed Altherr's class. "Virtually everyone was there," Altherr said. As a youth, Johnson played in vacant lots. A broom handle served as his bat, and a wad of paper wrapped in a stocking was his ball. He stopped playing softball only three years go. He admitted that he wasn't much of a batter, but nothing in the infield could get past him, he said, showing off his Bill Doak mitt. "When I look at this glove and remember some of the plays I made, I had to be a 'miracle man,"' Johnson said. "How could I put that little pocket llnder anything? If the ball went anywhere, I could ~catch it." In 1938, the mitt cost $15, and the pocket is only about 2 inches by 2 inches. For his skills, Johnson gained a starting position in the 1938 East-West All-Star game, the Negro League 's equivalent of the World Series. Johnson was on the West team, and his team won the game in front of 30,000 spectators, one of the largest integrated crowds to ever watch the Negro League, he said. During the game, Johnson picked up another memento-a Mickey Cochrane model Louisville Slugger given to him by Turkey Steams, one of the greatest hitters in black baseball. Stearns, known for his stinginess with bats, told Johnson he could have the bat if he got a hit. Johnson made the hit, which he said was his proudest moment. "I could bunt and hit and run," Johnson confessed. "But I wasn ' t a slugger by a long shot." The Monarchs were one of the top teams in the Negro League, but it wasn't always glorious to be a black baseball player, Johnson said. Some days the team had four games. When they were on the road, they would have to screen some areas to be sure that they could enter the town ' s restaurants and hotels. Johnson 's wife, Christine, 80, jokingly heckled her husband from the audience. They have been married for more than 50 years. Both are Rockies fans, and both named Rockies catcher Joe Girardi as their favorite player. Altherr called the Negro League an important part of history. "It's not that I' m trying to drum up support for the history class, I just think his story needs to be told."

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Field Narrowed in Coaching Search !Andrew Mosier SPORTS EDITOR The field for the men's basketball head coaching job has been narrowed to the final six candidates. Th e candidates include four Division II head coaches, a Division I head coach and a Division I assistant coach. Interviews begin April 13, and run through April 20, with each coach undergoing extensive interviews by the selection committee, MSCD vice-president for Administrative Finance, Joe Arcese, Athletic Director Bill Helman, and returning players. Bob Wood, the first candidate will be interviewed April 13. Wood is the head coach at Chadron State University in Nebraska, a Division II school. Perry Ford, head coach at the University of Minnesota at Morris; Billy Mimms, head coach at Barry University in Miami; and Bob Wilson, head coach of the University of Hawaii-Hilo, round out the Division II

candidates. Will Rey, recently released from his post heading Loyola University in Chicago; and Charles Bradley, an assistant coach at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; are the two

'We have people wanting to come here for the right reasons.' - Bill Helman Athletic Director candidates with coaching experience at the Division I level. "We have a lot of strong candidates," Helman said. "We have people wanting to come here for the right reasons." Helman said he is looking for qualities above and beyond coaching experience. "We want people who can bring in

good citizens, be able to put things back into the community and be able to integrate the program into the campus," Helman said. Helman said the candidates wenf through a vigorous process, which rates their coaching experience, recruiting and administrative capabilities, graduation rates of players, and their careers as players. Bradley, with playing experience as an all-American at the University of Wyoming and with the Boston Celtics in the NBA, holds the most credentials of any candidate. Helman said he feels any of the six candidates will be an excellent coach. . "I'm just excited to meet them all in person," Helman said. The Athletic Department will offer an open house April 13-15 and April 18-12, at 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in the conference room in the Auraria Events Center. The public is welcome and will be given the opportunity to meet the coaching candidates.

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able calls. The MSCD tandem demanded a line judge at that point and drew inspiration from the conflict. "We had to get a line judge and theQ. we ended up winning that game, and it gave us the momentum," Martinez said. "It got me fired up." MSCD went on to win that doubles match 6-7, (3-7) 7-5, 6-3. The doubles finals were changed to one pro-set rather than the best two sea; out of three, due to poor weather conditions. MSCD lost all three finals and took second in each doubles event. Keller, MSCD's No. 1 doubles player, said the pro-set definitely changed the shape of the match. "I would like to have played th! whole match," Keller said. "Despite the many sets played in the two days, I played well." MSCD Coach John Arntz said the team performed well, especially in doubles, and he looked forward to the match with DU on Saturday. "I'm happy we took third after such a slow start," Arntz said, referring to MSCD's fifth-place ranking after the first day of competition. "We came storming back in doubles, and that will help when we play DU." ' The men and women play at 2 p.m. against DU, on April 16 at home. The MSCD women were in action only once last week, and they defeated the University of Nebraska-Kearney 5-4, with the aid of three UNK defaults. MSCD's top four singles player~ were defeated, and UNK defaulted the No. 5 and No. 6 singles positions. MSCD took the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches, and UNK defaulted the No. 3, giving MSCD the overall victory. MSCD Coach Boots O'Brien made some lineup chang~ to give some players experience, since UNI<; only brought four players on the trip. "They did just fine," O'Brien said. "I let our No. 5 singles player start us off at No. 1 ... and so forth." Though the women dropped the toj; four singles matches, they were playing out of position and would have fared much better with the varsity lineup they normally play .. O'Brien said it is important to her that all her players get match experience. T "Our record could be better if I stuck with the same lineup, but we need to play all of our players," she said. "If I only kept six girls, we would default a lot of matches because they all work and have to miss matches sometimes."

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Luncheon St. Cajetan's MCs - Manuel Escamilla y Rebecca Salinas Recital - Flor Lovato Recognition of Presenters Recital - Ramon Del Castillo Awards Ceremony

Victor Villasenor was born in the barrio of Carlsbad, California and was raised in nearby Oceanside. Both of his parents had immigrated from Mexico and when he started school he not only had a language barrier but was dyslexic as well. Villasefior conquered these challenges and more. He has written numerous novels , and sqort stories, and received 260 rejections before he ',sold his first novel Macho! in 1973. We are pleased to ' ,• ' present ~he a ! thor of the acclaimed bestseller Rain of Gold~

Excerpts from "La Carpa Aztlan" Su Teatro

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