Volume 18, Issue 14 - Nov. 17, 1995 by Met Media

Metropolitan State College of Denver student newspaper serving the Auraria Campus since 1979 VOLUME 18

ISSUE 14

NOVEMBER 17, 1995

AMC theater deal resurrected Auraria board announces rebirth of movie-complex expansion

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Metro athletics struggles to stay in the game. Pages

FEATURES Songwriter's lyrics shaped by literature studies.

Hole lot of trouble Workers repair US West phone lines in a sink hole at the corner of Colfax Avenue and 7th Street Tuesday morning. The repairs snarled traffic and made entering Auraria parking lots difficult.

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SPORTS Basketball is back. Women hope to repeat as conference champs. John Swiftlrhe METROPOLITAN

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Metropolitan State Coll191, Stud11t Services Division b19an a starch process for a number of positio1s wit•in Division ia early summer 95 and laas j1st completed tlatsc processes. The Division is pleased to announce tht appoi1tmeats to the followin9 positionst

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Director of Financial Aid

Admissions Counselor - Minority Recruitment

Ms. Mary Ann Romero

Ms. Valerie Gonzalez-Moscoso

Received a Masters of Education from CSU in 1983. Prior to her new position at MSCD, she was the Director of Student Financial Services at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, CA. Statement: "As director of financial aid, It is my responsibility to assure that Metro students' needs are met, while also assuring that all funds are administrated properly, and that all operational and reporting requirements are met on a timely basis. Our staff will continuously strive to improve upon this process wherever possible keeping our student's needs in the forefront.·

Graduated from UCO in 1991 and studied the Unlversldad de Guadalajara In 1990. She comes to us from CSU Educational Opportunity Center. Statement: "/ am pleased to represent Metro as the new admissions counselor for minority recruitment. This will include working with area high schools as well as the non-trditlonal market to enhance our enrollment of ethnic minority students. f bring with me a strong background and commitment to helping ethnic minority students access higher education and am looking forward to working with all of you.·

Director of Career Services Dr. Phyllis McNickle Previously the Coordinator of Career Services at KSU, and received her Ph.D. from same institution in 1994. Brings over ten years of experience in planning and delivery of career services. Statement: "The Office of Career Services is committed to assisting students and alumni in the development and activation of their career and educational plans. Career Services also provides comprehensive services including career counseling, graduate and professional school planning, job search workshops, access to job listings, and electronic referral to employing organizations. •

Mentoring Counselor Mr. Shawn Worthy Currently working on Doctorate from Northern Illinois University. Prior to new position at MSCD, he worked at the Mental Health Corporation of Denver. Statement: "/ have recently been hired by the Student Services Department to coordinate the Mentor and Summer Bridge Programs. / look forward to expanding the program. I also hope to revive the Mentor Program allowing the students to tap into the experience and wisdom faculty, staff and people in the community.·

Director of Student Activities

Orientation Coordinator

Mr. Zav Dadabhoy

Ms. Elisabeth Brooks

Masters from University of Wisconsin in 1990, and previously the Student Development Director at Longwood College in Virginia. Statement: "The Director of Student Activities is responsible for creating and developing a stimulating, exciting series of co-curricular activities that reflect student interests and needs. Student activities are key in creating a vibrant and spirited campus life. We look forward to bringing this excitement to you... •

MSCD Alumni who received her B.A. in 1995. Previously held the position of Orientation Assistant at MSCD . Statement: "This position works with the Director of Orientation, Nancy Breckel, in all facets of New Student Orientation Including Freshman, Adult, Transfer, Women's and Parents' Orientation. Jn addition, this position has made it possible to expand the orientation program to include Campus Pals Freshman Events, and other new initiatives.•

Student Finance Resource Center Director

Intervention Coordinator

Mr. Thomas Muenzberg

Ms. Melanie Acosta

MSCD Alumni who received his B.S. in 1994. Previously served MSCD as the Director of the Short-Term Loan Program. Statement: "The Director of the Student Finance Resource Center will bring a new perspective to the student body at MSCD. For the first time students can get help in the areas of financial planning, budgeting and emergency financial needs. Jn short, the director is committed to finding solutions to immediate and long-term financial problems.·

MSCD Alumni from 1990. She comes to us from the Mayor's Office of Employment and Training. Statement: "I will be responsible for the development, Implementation and tracking of the Early Warning System (EWS) at Metro. This semester is the first time Metro wll/ provide early intervention services to increase awareness of campus resources while providing assistance to those students most in need. The primary goal of the program is to improve retention through supportive services and intervention.

Admissions Counselor-Transfer Students

Transfer Evaluator

Ms. Janet Spradley

Ms. Dawn Fettig

Received a Masters degree from Colorado Christian University in 1995 and is a MSCD Alumni from 1991 . Statement: "As the new Transfer Admissions Counselor I represent Metropolitan State College of Denver at !2-year college transfer programs throughout the state. Additionally, I meet with transfer students on a weekly basis at the five Metro-Denver community colleges for individual advising and counseling. J am also available for students in the Office of Admissions. •

Received a Masters degree from UNC and a B.A. from California State University, Northridge. Statement: "The creation of an additional "Transfer Evaluator" position In the Office of the Registrar at MSCD should positively Impact student services by decreasing the amount of time It takes a student to receive a completed transfer evaluation. This w/11 allow the student to streamllne their degree seeking program.·

With these positions it is the mission of the Student Services Division to enhance recruitment and rttention efforts for the collest and provide improved senices to students.

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NOVEMBER 17, 1995

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AMC deal back froID the dead Auraria revives controversial plan to expand Tivoli Anne Hall The METROPOLITAN

AMC is once again negotiating with Auraria to expand its theaters on campus, said Manuel Martinez, chairman of the Auraria board of directors, at a meeting last Monday. "I didn't believe in resurrection until today," said Metro President Sheila Kaplan. Similar plans to expand the theaters over Auraria's tennis courts were torpedoed last June after coming under fire from Metro administration, students and Denver Mayor Wellington Webb. "Dean (Wolf) and I have gone forward and initiated talks with the AMC individuals because we felt it was the right thing to do," Martinez said. Wolf is the Auraria director of operations and acting vice president for Administration. Negotiations with AMC to expand the theaters could be vital to Auraria's finances, Wolf said. "We need to put it in the context of the overall health of the student bond fund and operating dollars," Wolf said. "I think we need to stress that the integrity of the academic mission of the campus is foremost; the AMC deal must stand on its own merits. It's not a question of whether somebody likes the idea and thinks it should proceed." Wolf said the board hopes to examine all the options and reach a decision by early next semester. The board intends to keep everyone informed on the status of the deal, Wolf said. Kaplan suggested the city be brought in early to avoid the same problems encountered last spring.

' The AMC deal must stand on its own merits.' -Dean Wolf interim vice president of Auraria

'I didn't believe in resurrection until today.'

- Sheila Kaplan Metro president

"Just to get it on the record, I do support the need to review the fiscal viability of the student bond fund," Kaplan said. "Metro does support the review and talking to AMC. However, I think it's important to know, as I said last time, talking about it does not mean that we will agree when it comes down to the end."

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Martinez held off on the announcement, which was not on the agenda, until the end of the meeting. While the heads of the three schools had been informed, many observers were surprised. "I didn't know anything about it," said Amy Haimerl, a member of the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board. "I hope they keep their promise to fully disseminate any information." Kaplan also stressed the need to maintain Auraria's academic integrity and said the playing fields are part of that integrity. 'The question is, can those fields be reconfigured in a reasonable way, and is there enough money coming from any proposed deal to make it worthwhile," Kaplan said. Martinez said he will hire an independent consultant to examine the AMC deal and look at alternatives such as other theater chains or retail outlets moving into the space. He said an architect will be brought in early on to redesign the playing fields. Wolf said Auraria has retained a bond counsel to explore the possibility of refinancing the student bond fund. "We need to look at the playing fields anyway because we have a maintenance request in excess of $1 million to repair those fields," Martinez said. 'This won't be time and effort wasted, either way." Wolf said the current plan is to build a 50,000-foot theater complex on the other side of Walnut Street, which would allow AMC to expand from 12 to 24 theaters. The only structural changes from the original plan are a canopy over the street and a cement walkway between the two buildings.

Campus computers hit by 'Da' Boyz' Entrance 1

File-cloaking virus found on 50 percent of students' diskettes

criteria stays low

Donna Hickey

Jodi Kotouc

The METROPOLITAN

"Da' Boyz" have been booted off campus. "Da' Boyz" is the name of a computer virus that prompted the systematic shutdown of the IBM computer labs across campus last week. The computers were disinfected one-by-one. "Viruses are a part of life." said Mark Farkenhan, manager of Information Technology for Metro. He said a new anti-virus software program has been installed in all the computers and is available to students who wish to download it and use it to check their computers at home. After the computers were shut down and the new anti-virus software was installed over 50 percent of the diskettes students brought into the lab had the "Da' Boyz" virus on them, Farkenhan said. The virus was non-destructive which means it didn't destroy any data but prevented the user from finding necessary files. He said the virus switched the location of the directory on diskettes creating the appearance of a blank diskette. The 路data was only hidden, not eliminated. Farkenhan said viruses are always coming through the computer lab because students share software or download soft-

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VIRUS VERIFICATION: Rachelle Morrow, a computer lab assistant at Auraria, scans computer disks for a virus called Da' Boyz. ware off the internet from unreputable sites in cyberspace. To prevent from catching a virus, students need to use a virus-scan program which checks diskettes for viruses and be wary of free software, he said. The virus was written specifically for Windows/DOS based systems, Farkenhan said, and the Macintoshes were not affected. An anti-virus program is also available for Mac users. Farkenhan said he hasn' t heard of anyone infecting their hard drive at home

but stressed the need for students to learn to live with computer viruses and take safety measures. When students see a sign on the computer that tells them there is a virus or there is a suspicious file on their diskette, they need to ask for assistance from one of the lab attendants, he said. He added that students who do not run antivirus scans on their diskettes leave the virus in the computer memory for the next student to catch. "Your playing with fire by not scanning your disks," he said.

State education officials stifled Metro's efforts to tighten admission standards during a Colorado Commission on Higher Education meeting Oct. 27. The Commission, which supervises state colleges and universities, rejected Metro President Sheila Kaplan's request to raise admissions standards. The move is being interpreted by administrators as a blow to Metro's image and success rates. The plan to change various schools' index numbers, which is a calculation of an applicants' highschool grades and standardized testscores for admission purposes. For Metro that index number is 76, a number that is lower than all other state colleges. What Metro hoped to achieve at this meeting was to raise the index score to an 80. The raised index would have put Metro in a category that includes Adams State College, Fort Lewis College and Mesa State College, said Lucas Buxman, executive vice president of the Colorado Continued page 5

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METROPOLITAN NOVEMBER 17, 1995

Student government halts impeachment Dave Flomberg The METROPOLITAN

Metro's Student Government Assembly rescinded impeachment proceedings against Amy Haimerl, Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board representative, at the assembly's meeting last Thursday. The group voted 5-1-1 in favor of dropping the charges against Haimerl, which were filed last month in response to her admitted involvement in a prank that the student governments of the other two Auraria colleges played on Metro's assembly on Sept. 14. At a meeting after the prank, the group voted unanimously to impeach Haimerl for violations of articles 3, 4, 5, 13, and 15 in the Standard of Conduct section of the Metro Student Handbook, which covers threats, intimidation, harassment, damage to property and hazing. However, those charges were dropped due to the fact that the assembly has no formal policies or procedures for the impeachment process in place. Peter Rutt, chief Jenny Sparks/The METROPOLITAN justice for the assembly, said he was concerned because the procedure was being OFF THE HOOK: Amy Haimerl no written during Haimerl's proceedings, longer faces impeachment for her which violated her right to a fair trial. participation in a prank. Yet, Haimerl contends that Rutt knew of, and informed the assembly of, that fact motion, and a few more. as far back as Sept. 16 at a meeting held off "Some punishment should have been campus and in executive session. assigned for her role in the incident," she Rutt was not available for comment. said. However, circumstances led her to The vote against came from Lisa Scott, abstain from the vote. vice president of Student Services. "My true reason for abstaining from "I did not agree with the wording of the impeachment rescinding motion was the motion to rescind," Scott said. "Who's due, in part, to the inconsistencies I have definition of speedy are we going to use?" observed in student government, and (I) she asked in an interview. 'The judicial felt the process was flawed ," said Lee. process takes time." Flawed though it may have been, it's She said that if the motion was to just over now. rescind the impeachment process with no "I just feel relieved that it's over," reason given, she would have voted in Haimerl said. "Now we can get back to favor. business, which is helping students. Now Ky Lee, vice president of Academic we can stop wasting student fees on silly Affairs, had the same problem with the things like this."

Meeting to discuss prank violated Colorado law Metro's Student Government Assembly may have committed a violation of the Colorado Sunshine Law. The law requires any decisionmaking body of an institution of higher education to keep meetings open and public. According to Vice Presidents Ky Lee, Lisa Scott, and Mel Munoz, the entire assembly body except for members Amy Haimerl and Ajayi Harris, was invited to attend an "informal gathering" held at Munoz's house. The Sunshine Law defines a meeting as any kind of gathering of two or more members set up to discuss public business. either in person, by telephone, or by any other means. "I didn't see it as a meeting," said Munoz. "It was a get-together to vent, a spiritual cleansing." She said that after reporting the prank played on them Sept. 14 to Auraria Public Safety, the assembly members agreed they felt they "had no one to turn to except each other," so she invited them over to her house to "drink some wine and burn some incense." "We had no agenda," Munoz said. "No official decision was made at the gathering." However, this is contradicted by minutes of that meeting President Safa Suleiman sent to Haimerl in response to a request she filed Sept. 22, asking for all information involving impeachment charges levied against her. Those minutes specifically call the "gathering" a meeting, in addition to

listing official actions taken during the course of that meeting, namely to "decide and accurately document (the assembly's) issue with public safety," as well as deciding what to do with Haimerl and the student government bodies of the University of ColoradoDenver and the Community College of Denver. President Safa Suleiman said while she did write those notes, no official action was taken at the meeting. Lebsock, who was not present at the meeting, said after the way the student government had been treated by public safety, they needed a little time together to collect themselves. The assembly called the police after APS refused to write a detailed report on the prank. Haimerl said she did not find out about the meeting until Sept. 18, and Harris said he was never informed about the meeting. "I had some questions about it and why I or the press wasn't informed," Haimerl said. "So I asked for the minutes from Safa." Lebsock said that up until that time, neither Haimerl nor Harris had attended many meetings, including a retreat and a barbecue, which is why they weren't invited. Munoz said she didn't want Haimerl there. "I felt personally attacked by Amy, there was no way I was going to invite her over to my house," she said.

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Revamped programs enjoy high enrollment

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Pat Johnson, assistant professor at the the Human Performance, Sport and Leisure department, asks students for help finding the missing skull of a male skeleton. Johnson said the $2,000 genuine skull may be returned to the Events Center equipment counter In a bag or box with no questions asked.

Request to raise acbnission standards nixed From page 3

Student Association. Vernon Haley, Metro's vice president of Student Services, attended the Commission's meeting in Pueblo and said he felt that the issue was enrollment management, or retention and graduation of successful students. "We are between a rock and a hard place," Haley said, explaining that a low index makes it difficult to follow the Commission's standards for graduation and retention. The Commission requires that Metro graduate 21. l percent of enrolled ethnic minorities as a part of its affirmative action goals implemented in 1992. When students are accepted on a lower index score, their ability to be successful at Metro State is also low. They often don't stay long enough to graduate,

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Haley said. All institutions are allowed a window, which allows the school to accept up to 20 percent of their students below the appointed index score. In the past, Metro has not fully used this allowance and, according to the Commission, is currently using a 9.1 percent window. With a raised index score, Metro could use the allowance while choosing its students on a more selective basis to letting in only those that can succeed, Haley said. "Performance is tied to success," he added. "We don't want to bring in those that have no chance for success." In 1988, the entering freshman class was tracked for retention and graduation statistics. By their fourth year, only I 6 percent of those students let in under the window were still enrolled in school. Robert Brock, assistant vice president

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of Metro's College Communications, said that another side to the low index score at Metro is the impact on the public image. "An 80 rank is where we should be because the vast majority of students at that level will be successful," said Brock. "I think that a 76 will give the impression of diminished qualities, which isn' t accurate." "It would have helped our public relations efforts if we could have gone up to an 80," Brock said. "But we have been fighting this for a long time and will continue to fight." The Commission feels Metro's mission is to be an open-access institution that serves the urban community and should not raise standards, said Sharon Samson, officer in charge of the new admissions standards for the commission.

Rebounding from near elimination ten years ago, the African American and Chicano Studies Departments are having a successful fall semester at Metro. The two departments were reduced to program status and merged under the Institute for Intercultural Studies in 1985. The re-establishment of the departments can be attributed to the rising interest in ethnic studies, increased enrollment in such programs at Metro and the school's multicultural requirement, said C.J. White, chairman of the African American Studies Department. "We have had a record enrollment this semester of students taking our classes (African American Studies) for multicultural requirements and for studies in general," White said. He said there are over 1,000 students taking African American Studies who are listed as full-time students. There has also been an increase in the number of majors and minors. "I have on the average about two students a week who come to me and express interest in a major or minor," White said. There are 15 majors and approximately 20 to 25 minors in the African American Studies department, White said. Luis Torres, chairman of the Chicano Studies and Native American Studies Department, said he has been satisfied with the change. "There has been a lot of student interest in these programs and with the course content," Torres said. The content of the courses is very high quality said Torres. There are about I I to 12 Chicano Studies majors and anywhere from 20 to 30 minors, Torres said. Torres said it is difficult to tell because some students have graduated and some change their Continued page 6

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majors and minors. When the departments were re-established, professors who taught half time in African American or Chicano studies were given first choice to move to the new department or remain with the other. White said the African American Studies Department employs two parttime professors and three professors who teach in other departments. Two professors also hold administrative positions, White and Akbarali Thobani, director of the Institute for lntercultural Studies.

Torres said the Chicano Studies Department employs three to four parttime professors and six to seven professors who teach in other departments. He added that Native American Studies is also included in the Chicano Studies Department and employs two professors who also teach for other departments. Thobani said the departments are in a growth mode right now, but he sees an increase in interest of the programs. Torres said he would like to see the program develop more and increase student retention in cultural programs.

"I would really like to recruit more students for the program," Torres said. White said that starting this spring, a search will be conducted to hire a full-time faculty member for the department who will teach four classes per semester. Torres said the Chicano Studies Department will also conduct the same type of search for a full-time faculty member. Native American Studies does not have any definite plans for finding a fulltime faculty member for spring, Torres said.

Dear Financial Connections, I hear short-term loans are no longer available for this semester. I anticipate needing some extra money around the holidays. Are there any other options for me? Signed. I'd rather be merry than broke! Dear I'd rather be merry than broke! It is true that there are no short-term loans available inbetween semesters. Yes. most are along the lines of emergency help. There are many resources available throughout the community to assist people with public service bills. food and shelter. If you don't have any money for gifts around the holidays. Try saving ~or next year. This year you can make gifts or send cards. sometimes these can be the most memorable gifts of all. Many banks have ~Christmas Savings" plans. A typical plan takes a predetermined amount of money out out of your checking each month and deposits it automatically into a savings account. At the end of the year you will have a nice amount to spend on Christmas. This plan will keep you away from the credit crunch that so many people feel during the holidays. If you have to use credit during the holiday season, be sure to come to the next ~Budgeting Workshop#.

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Students brave cold for homeless shelter Robert Arrieta Jenny Sparks

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Ten students spent Tuesday night braving brisk, 29 degree weather to raise awareness and funds for Denver's homeless on Tuesday night. Members of Colorado Public Interest Research Group's Hungry and Homeless project slept in a small shantytown made of cardboard boxes, collecting pledges for the time they spent outside. 'The support was great, we've collected almost $600," said Kama Suddath, CoPIRG's campus coordinator. The project, which was started in 1990, helps raise money for various Denver shelters. One of the "provisional homeless," Chuck Bennett, a junior at Metro, said he is glad to be involved in ' the homeless cause. "Students that could barely afford Taco Bell were donating a dollar to this. This is by far the best way I've known of to promote this cause," Bennett said. Each year CoPIRG votes on a different shelter to donate funds to, project coordinator Elenka Jarolimek said. 'This is always a popular event, it's fun and it's a great way to get people to see that there is a homeless problem around them." The money raised during the sleepover will be donated to The Darnen House, a shelter for homeless women and children. ''We decided on The Darnen House because women and children are becoming a larger number of homeless," Jarolimek said. 'The fastest-rising population in the United States right now is homeless families, women with children." Raising the money for shelters is just one part of what

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CARDBOARD CONDO: CoPIRG members (from left) Elenka Jarolimek, Ajayi Harris and Kama Suddath spend the night in their shantytown built to raise awareness of Denver's homeless people. the project is really about, Suddath said. "It's not just the money we' re raising, but the public's awareness too," Suddath said. Jarolimek and Suddath said people need to see there are others around them they could help. "People need to see, especially now around the holidays, that there are people going hungry when they don' t need to be," Suddath said. The sleep out was not exclusive to Auraria campus.

University of Northern Colorado's CoPIRG chapter held its sleep out on Monday night and raised $70 dollars. Colorado State University participated on Oct. 25 with the objective of just raising awareness. "We didn't do it to raise funds but mostly just to get people to see the problem," said Allison Halprin, CSU's project coordinator. Auraria's CoPIRG chapter is also planning a trip to a homeless shelter to participate in volunteer work.

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Few Metro athletes get full-ride Becky O'Guin Nguyen Pontiere

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Metro athletes put as much effort into exercising their minds as their bodies. Part of their success can be attributed to the Athletic Department scholarship program. Of the 150 athletes at Metro, approximately 110 are receiving some type of scholarship, said, William Helman, director of athletics at Metro. 路 . He said that most of the athletic scholarships given out by Metro are partial so that a whole team can split the money. Some of these scholarships include tuition and fees, but do not include room, board and food. There are 23 students recetvmg full-ride scholarships from Metro's Athletic Department, said Joel Smith, assistant director of athletics. For the 1995/1996 school-year, Metro Athletics gave out $278,766 in scholarships. Each in-state, full-ride recipient gets approximately $5,000 a year in scholarship money. 路 Metro's Financial Aid Office has a cost of attendance figure of $11,650 a year. This is how much an independent student needs to pay for room, board, tuition, books, transportation and personal items, yet athletic scholarships are based on the needs of the team as decided by the coaches. "We have a pool of money and the coaches decide how to allocate their funds," Smith said. These scholarships consist of full tuition, fees, books and a stipend to each athlete for room, board and food. Metro's full-ride scholarship consists of a $200 stipend for books each semester, $850 for room and board and $1, I 00 for food, Helman said. The Athletic Department leases several townhouses at the Parkway Center to house some of the -athletes. In order to be eligible for any scholarship, Metro students must first meet the standard financial-aid requirement established by the college. Athletes along with all other students are required to fill out scholarship applications and meet the March I deadline for returning it to the Office of Financial Aid. Once completed, an athlete must then meet standards established by the NCAA. To receive a scholarship, athletes must have a 2.0 grade point average, must successfully pass 12 credit hours each semester and must make progress towards their degree. Most other departments require a 3.0 GPA to receive a scholarship. 'This means that an athlete cannot be taking all sports classes," Helman said. "They have to be making an effort towards getting their degree." Metro's athletic department makes sure athletes are completing academic work by setting up study halls for the athletes. "We want them to graduate, that's why we

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recruit them," Smith said. "We've invested a lot of money in these kids and we want them to get their degrees." One interesting aspect of the athletic department is that more women receive scholarships than men, Helman said. "We are pretty unique, because normally it is the other way around." Helman said the male/female ratio of Metro athletes is 47 percent to 53 percent. Women are getting more money because there are NCAA scholarship restrictions on men's basketball. The NCAA forbids colleges to give more than IO scholarships to male basketball players. Men's basketball has reduced scholarships from 12 two years ago to I 0 this year, Helman said. One of the scholarships was applied to women's volleyball and the other was absorbed to cover the increasing cost of enrollment at Metro, Helman said.

NOVEMBER 17. 1995

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Director's passion spans 17 years Michael BeDan

Athletic Director in 1981 because Metro's two incumbent directors resigned after the men's and women's athletics merged. "At that time all the programs were equally poor," Helman said. "We had a couple of vans but they were rickety. Everyone in athletics was working hard to raise their own money." Helman coached baseball for the first 11 years of his eball team for 11 years focus his t>:iergy solely tenure as athletic director and he led by example when it came to getting his hands dirty to better the athletic proits infan- grams. During those early years, the Roadrunners would play any college willing to compete with Metro. "We would play mostly junior colleges and sleep· in · e Univ~" ~their dorms with no bedding," Helman recalled. "We just of Nortliern"~olorado .-..::; nd ~dmi · tT;,ruon ". ed to keep it alive. We even had athletes sleeping on ..,. in ~977 and B~~- ess Admq,istr ijf 978-:--- ~i~. m floors. While I was coach we built two dugouts ourt.."--..._ takmg the pos1uon Camp~,~ecr~llon Drre)Sf~tlt sel ,& ." Metro in 1978. It was dun this tl ~~J>egan hi$ · ·· en Helman stepped down as baseball coach he 2 3 {. ing to be as"\· . The METROPOLITAN

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Hate is such a strong word Whom do we hate? For me that is an easy question to answer. No one. Don't get me wrong. I get angry at people and situations, but to say I hate an individual, a group or situation is far from what I feel. Webster's New World Dictionary defines hate as: to have strong dislike or ill will for; loathe; despise. Those are extremely passionate words; strong dislike, loathe, despise. I once heard that hate and anger were among the most difficult of human emotions to sustain for an extended time. From personal experience I would agree. I suppose the appropriate question should not be whom do we hate, but rather 'whom or what would we rather not confront?', or 'who or what do we fear?' I've tried for years to eliminate fear from my life and very often it seems like a futile effort, but I keep trying. Most often the things that scare me are the exact things that I would rather not confront. I don't confront why 23-year-old Christy Martinez was gunned down trying to recover his car stereo Friday night. He died just because he wanted something back that was his. I fear this, not that it would happen to me,

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but because someone is willing to kill another person over something as trivial as a car stereo. I don't confront the homeless person lying in a doorway on Colfax. I fear this person, not for any harm they might cause me, but because of my feeling of helplessness at trying to change his life. I walk by and wonder why I did not stop. I don't confront the slow death being imposed on certain members of society who suffer from the abuse of drugs. The wholesale destruction of minds is taking place in our country and I do nothing. I'm afraid, perhaps due to my own problem with alcohol. Perhaps I'm afraid to realize how connected I am to those dependent on other drugs. So when I saw that the presenta-

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tion "Faces of Hate: Demystifying the Separatist Mindser was coming to campus, I asked myself 'what is hate?' It became easy for me to see that identifying hate against racial or ethnic groups is easy. It stems from ignorance, from that end I commend the people who organized this event. They are making an effort to educate us to the views and thoughts of people with saddled racial hate for others. Some might say that racial hate is a difficult subject to confront. I think it is one of the easiest subjects to address in our society. You simply eliminate it from yourself. If we all did this, the problem would be solved. But to do this we must be willing to ask ourselves, honestly, if we possess this emotion. The answer will come easier to some. Others will have difficulty being honest with themselves. It is the small daily struggles we all face that deserve the most attention. Those little dislikes and annoyances we encounter are what each of us must address within ourselves. Eliminating the little fears that plagues us should be paramount in our lives. This is the way to end the bigger fears perpetrated by racial hate and anger.

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Mike Larkin Jesse Stephenson NEWS EDITOR Kevin Juhasz FEATURES EDITOR Joelle Conway INSIGHTS EDITOR Geraldine Haldner Becky O'Guin SPORTS EDITOR Michael BeDan PHOTO EDITOR Jenny Sparks REPORTERS Robert Arrieta Dave Flomberg Kristy Frei Nguyen Pontiere Steve Titus PHOTOGRAPHERS John McDonough John Swift GRAPHIC EDITOR Chris Mancuso GRAPHIC ARTISTS Eric Deiss Cathy Gralow Kyle Loving Rick Thompson CALENDAR Yoko Naito ADVERTISING MANAGER Marfa Rodriguez ADVERTISING STAFF Marra Corral

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Just a word of thanks Dear Editor: On Sep. 12, 1995, the Metro State College of Denver School of Business and Office of Alumni Relations presented "World Class: How Denver Can Thrive in the Global Economy," with keynote speaker, Dr. Rosabeth Moss Kanter at the Adams Mark Hotel. Dr. Kanter's exper.ience and expertise proved to be valuable when considering the global economy in relation to various types of businesses in the community. Her knowledge of Denver's commercial, industrial, professional, and educational markets, demonstrated her commitment to excellence! I would like to take this opportunity to thank US West for sponsoring a corporate table which they donated to the students of MSCD so they may participate in the luncheon. US West is a true asset to the educational community! -Gath Bongiorno V.P. of Campus Communications Metro Student Government Assembly

Biscuits & Berries: sour over story

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Thornton Boy Dear Editor, This letter is in response to an article that appeared in The Metropolitan on Nov. 3, 1995, regarding Biscuits & Berries and catering issues. Biscuits & Berries, one of the Tivoli contracted caters was asked to attend the Auraria Food Service Committee meeting on Oct. 30, 1995 to answer some questions and concerns students had on prices and catering services. Biscuits & Berries felt that the article in The Metropolitan provided limited information on how the student's concerns were met. Therefore, we are submitting this letter to inform the campus community of what Biscuits & Berries is doing to work more closely with the needs of the campus. Based on requests from the AFSC meeting Biscuits & Berries has decided to make some adjustments to better fit the needs of the college community. First, Biscuits & Berries has provided a catering brochure and a separate price sheet

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specifically for cookies and punch for Auraria. In addition to meeting the concerns addressed at the AFSC meeting, Biscuits & Berries announced a new position for sales and marketing, which was designed for a student attending any of the three institutions at Auraria Campus. We were able to find an interested and fully qualified student rather quickly. In addition to expressing a true commitment to the campus, we are also offering a special deal to student clubs and organizations during November. We are always willing to work with and hope to accommodate the catering needs of the campus community.

Corina Landeros ADVISER Jane Hoback DIRECTOR OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Kate Lutrey TELEPHONE NUMBERS Editorial 556-2507 Advertising 556-8361 Fax 556-3421 e-mail: Louis Landa@SSD_STLF@METRO lnternet:landal@mscd.edu

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He's ready, he's willing, he's Able Lamm Stuart The Metropolitan was sent the following typed transcript of Able Lamm Stuart's presidential candidacy announcement. The announcement was made at a $1000-a-plate fundraiser at the Browne Place hotel last Saturday night. Stuart is a third-party Candidate from Colorado .who has admitted that the only elected position he has ever held was as his private high school's 11th grade class treasurer. Over the next few weeks we hope to shed some light on the candidate: his positions, aspirations and goals. The editorial staff at The Metropolitan strongly supports Able Lamm Stuart as our country's next leader (those on the staff who don't support Stuart will be dealt with accordingly when he wins the presidency). The following are excerpts from the speech. Fellow Coloradans, I am here tonight to announce my candidacy for the position of President of the United States of America. I have made this decision after Colin Powell, the only viable candidate for president, declined to run. We will not have four more years of government-as-usual ...

I will see to that! (wait for applause) Those of you who know me know that I have limited political experience. My real experience comes from being governed for the last 43 years. (wait for applause) I am an everyday Joe who knows how the people feel. I am an everyday Joe w h o knows what it is like to have a child to feed even though I have no children of my own! (wait for applause) My detractors will tell you that I am running because have to save my own tobacco interests. That I am worried about what would happen if Clinton had his way with tobacco companies! Well friends, I have to say up front in my campaign that yes, yes indeed I have vested tobacco interests. I am the heir of a wealthy tobacco family.

This would come out in my campaign and I want you to know now. Know that I am not hiding anything from anyone! 路 (wait for applause) So to those of you who say I am partial to special interests I ask you 'do you think you can buy a man who has been knee deep in t o b a c c o money from the day he was born! (wait for applause to die down) Since I'm c o m i n g clean here, there is one other thing I want the public to hear from me before the media have a heyday with it. In high school I dabbled a bit in the black arts. Voodoo, witchcraft, the whole shebang. It's not a time of my life I'm proud of but we were just kids and we didn't know any better back then. It was different, crazy times in the ear1y seventies. I can stand here and honestly tell

you, however, that though I did dabble in black magic, I did not enjoy it! (wait for applause) I will lead this country as no one ever has. As a bold visionary, as a sympathetic yet tough international player, and as the man who turns our economy from the booming and prosperous economy it is today to an even boominger, and more prosperous economy of tomorrow! So I say to you tonight. I am ready. I am willing. (dramatic pause) I AM ABLE! During the ensuing wild applause from audience walk to front of stage and shake hands with high-ranking local Politicos. Big smile for cameras. (Woman with baby wrapped in American flag enters stage right. Kiss baby. Return baby to woman. Turn to face crowd and give a big thumbs up as "Proud to Be an American" is played on public address. Exit with armed personnel.)

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I am angry. This anger is mine, and it is one of the few things as a student of Metropolitan State College of Denver, that I can call my own on this campus. It is a heartfelt, deeply painful anger. It is a "righteous" anger, if you will. What exactly am I angry about, you ask? Is this just another rant about diversity or the College Republicans or wor1d politics? No. This is an anger about this school. I am angry about the things that I have let slide by me these past years. I am angry about the things that all of us as Metro students have been allowing to happen to OUR school. Recently, I read in this very newspaper that Metropolitan State College of Denver suffers from an image problem. The idea that this school, my school, the place at which I spend most of my money, and the place that I spend my time and energy can have an image problem made me sad. Sad that I would be associated with a poor image, and sad that all of the work that I have done for the last year in Student Activities was for nothing. I took the call for letters about why this school has such an "image problem" seriousfy. I have written at least five letters, but I never submitted even one of them. The reason for my inability to show those thoughts to the public is this: they are self-pitying letters. Every word of those five letters is about how much energy and love I have put into this school, and how much Metro has done for me. Let me tell you now, they were untruths. Yes, I care about Metro. Yes, I have put a lot of love and energy into the many leadership programs that I have done for this sc!lool in the last year. In fact, I can even say that I am proud of the education that I am getting here. Thes~ things are true, but in a purely superficial way. Underneath lies the obligations that the faculty, staff and administration of Metropolitan State College of Denver have been

MY TURN Emily Suslak ignoring since I first set foot on this campus three years ago. I am a student at Metropolitan State College of Denver. I am a staff member of the Office of Student Activities. I have almost no power to effect change on this campus. That is why I am angry. I pay thousands of dollars to this institution. I work hard for my GPA. I have little or no say about my own grades, and my own sense of personal security in the classroom. That is why I am angry. I spend time and energy, above and beyond what I get paid to do, to create good leadership programs for Metro students. I take time and energy out of my day to be a strong voice for students on Auraria Campus. I have been supported by very few faculty members in my efforts to promote my programs. In fact, almost no professors even bother to make a brief announcement, or pass the e-mail that we send monthly, in their classes about the programs that Student Activities puts on. I feel I have no support from the administration of the school. In fact I am often struggling against them to support the Student Government Assembly in their struggle to promote positive change at this school. That is why I am angry. My tuition pays these people! I want the administration, faculty and staff of Metropolitan State

College of Denver to take some responsibility for their actions and inaction. We the students of Metropolitan State College of Denver need to open our eyes and our mouths and say something to路 the professionals on this campus. I am worn out from trying to fulfill President Kaplan's ideas of what Student Activities should do to "promote student retention." I am literally exhausted from trying to keep up with my class work while at the same time trying to promote an event. The sad part of it is I can hang flyers until I'm blue in the face, and no one will show up for an event that I have put my heart and soul into because the students never hear about the events from the few people they listen to on this campus: their professors. It is very disheartening. I refuse to give up on this school. Maybe I am stubborn. Maybe I am a fool. It remains to be seen. The only thing I know for sure is that when I graduate from Metropolitan State College of Denver, I will know about a lot more than what I learned in my classes. I will know that when I first arrived here, and thought that there was nothing going on here, I was wrong. I will know that Student Activities, Student Government, and the other Student Life offices work hard to provide excellent service to Metro students every day. I will know that sometimes the effort is not worth the outcome. Most of all, I will know that I tried to make a change for the better on this campus, and I expected an equal commitment from the faculty, staff and administration. I have already learned that I do not always get what I expect. If you have anything to add to my comment please do. I am being open about how I feel about this school. I invite others to do the same.

Emily Suslak is a Metro student and works in the office of Student Activities

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Call for Nominations

Dr. Martin Luther Kin , Jr. Peace Awards The Peace Award will be ~ven in the following categories: • MSCD Student • MSCD Employee (Faculty/Staff/Administrator) • Member of the Community Nomination forms are available through any Student Services office.

Nominations can be returned to the above office or mailed to: MSCD Student Publications P.O. Box 173362, Campus Box 57 Denver, Co. 80217-3362

Nominations must be received by Friday, December 15, 1995

Celebrating the life and philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday, Jan. 18, 1996 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

St. Cajetan's Center The entertainment provided will celebrate culture of African Americans and focus on peace in our time. This event is produced with the cooperation of many MSCD departments and organizations with assistance from the Tivoli Student Union.

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etro's Institute for Women's Studies and Services celebrated its 10th anniversary with an open house last Friday. "I thought it would be nice to bring people over here within the institute because we are not located either in the Tivoli Student Union or Central Classroom or where many other offices are," said Tara Tull, the coordinator of Women's Services. ''We just wanted to have a party and have people come in and get to know us." The institute's white building, located at 1033 9th St. Park, was filled with more than 40 Metro students and faculty. They enjoyed food, drink and conversation. "I think this is a great event," said Christine Ilg, a Women's Studies minor at Metro. "Women's Studies has only been around for 10 years, but it is a great start.

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Every college and university across the cou.ntry realized it is important for women to get empowered and learn about where they came from, their history," Ilg said. The institute for Women's Studies and Services was founded in 1985. It was and still is very unique to have two different offices in one place, said Jodi Wetzel, the director of the institute. "On most campuses those two pieces are separated, and that makes them difficult to be cooperative," Wetzel said. The Women's Studies program offers classes for general studies and multicultural courses, a minor and an independent degree major program. The enrollment of the classes increased by 298 percent in the last 10 years. Women's Services helps all students, one of its jobs is to get scholarship money for students. Wetzel said about 85 percent of the students who get the scholarship money are not Women's Studies students. The institute's goal now is to make woman's studies a major. Currently the

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Jenny Sparks/The METROPOLITAN CONVERSATION PIECE: Joy Hart, left, Metro student activities promotions coordinator, celebrates Metro's Institute forWomen's_Studies 10th anniversary with Melissa Munoz and Cath Bongiorno Friday. Women's Studies only has an individual degree program. The difference between an individual degree program and a major is that a recognized major has its own department but an individual degree program is self-tailored and faculty approved. "We had 12 graduates last spring," Wetzel said.

"When you get that many people graduating in the independent degree program, it's about time for you to get a regular major." "We constantly increase our curriculum and diversify it," Tull said. She said it will take a few years to get the program listed as a major.

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Feminist literature shapes singer's lyrics, attitudes

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etro English major Elizabeth Rose, discovered her rock band was nominated for a local music award while reading the newspaper in her 8 a.m. literature class. "I laughed out loud in class," 27-yearold Rose said. "I don't take music contests seriously. How can you judge which band raises spirits more?" Rose's band, Sympathy F, won the best local pop/rock band category in Westword's '95 Music Awards Showcase. Winners were announccil Oct. 18. "When I realized it was a reader's poll, it made me more appreciative," Rose said. 'Tm very thankful to all those who voted for us." Rose, who sings and writes lyrics for Sympathy F, said her lyrics have improved as a result of her literature studies at Metro. Rose said she has been especially influenced by women's literature. "The feminist literature I've read has shaped my attitudes and backbone," Rose said. 'The western canon isn't the only literature. I'm more interested in women's voices than men's voices." In addition to her literature studies, Rose has training in theater and music. She's played piano since she was five years old and attended the now defunct Sercone School of Music in Aurora.

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Jenny Sparks/The METROPOLITAN SWEET SYMPATHY: .Metro senior and vocalist Elizabeth Rose takes a break during a set at the Tivoli last Spring. In 1986, Rose studied theater at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. She left CSU in 1989 after landing a small part in the film Flashback with Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper. "It was a bad film," Rose said. "Don't blink or you'll miss me." Rose continued working as an actress for the next three years doing theater work and television commercials. She also appeared in episodes of Father Dowling and Perry Mason. Prior to becoming a student at Metro, which is her parents' alma mater, Rose said she once had fun on the Auraria campus as an actress. "In a Perry Mason episode, I rode this little motorcycle around the Tivoli getting chased by bad guys," Rose said. After working as a professional actress, Rose did not want to go back to Continued page 19

einee Pasarow answered the questions about life after death, in her video, My Near-Death Experiences, shown in the Tivoli Nov. 9. The video was from a 1993 presentation Pasarow made in Denver on life after death. Seymore Weinberg, vice president of the Baha' i Club on campus, presented the film. The experience Pasarow spoke of happened in a small California town on May 20, 1967. At the age of 16, Pasarow went- into anaphylactic shock after a severe allergic reaction. Her heart stopped beating as her mother and friend were taking her to the hospital. As Pasarow's body was being pulled out of the car, she said she felt her soul lifting away from her body. "It was a very pleasant feeling," she said. While hovering over her body and the emergency team, Pasarow said she turned into a being that had an amazing feeling of oneness with the universe. "I simply wanted to be left alone," Pasarow said, as she suddenly realized she was able to feel all of the emotions of the people beneath her. After trying to fight for life, Pasarow surrendered to the wonderful power sucking her into the afterlife. She said she heard the medics proclaim they had lost her as they performed CPR. She could feel the inner feelings and

sadness of the man pumping his own air into her. Pasarow said she tried communicating with the people who surrounded her body that she was free, but she simply had no voice, no figure, no body. 'That's when I called upon God for guidance," Pasarow said. She felt as if she were ascending until she saw the entire universe, having a sense of being and knowing the entire earth. Pasarow said she realized that nothing existed without a purpose while looking upon earth. Suddenly she saw a brilliant light and said she felt her soul entering it. As she entered the light, it first became a tunnel. 'The place of transition," Pasarow said. "What moved me through the space of transition was love," she said, realizing it was God's love she was feeling. As she appeared before God, Pasarow said she went through a life review. During her review she said she saw the world heading for a great state of confusion filled with destruction and the breaking down of the world order. She also saw a group of religious people named The Just who were trying to rebuild humankind. The great light spoke to her and told her that it was not her time to be in the afterlife yet, and her soul was miraculously pulled back down to earth. After being pumped with adrenaline, she was revived, after being confirmed clinically dead for 30 minutes. Pasarow now lives in Durango, Colo., and has a strong faith in the Baha'i religion. Weinberg said that The Just religion that Pasarow saw in her afterlife was actually the Baha'i faith.

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I Various Artists Super Fantastic Mega Smash Hits Pravda/Backyard Records All of today's most popular recording artists together in this specially packaged collection! Pravda and Backyard records have assembled a disjointed but very listenable homage to K-Tel compilations in Super Fantastic Mega Smash Hits. "K-Tel brought all the hits together with brazen disregard for coherence," writes album producer Rick Mosher describing his inspiration for this new KTel-ish compilation ,. , , . Fig Dish, Smashing Pumpkins, Poster Children and 12 other bands with not-so-h91f~oufnaines;:'

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Unlike many of today's popular bands, Alice in Chains continues to make good music without selling out. Their fifth release, a self titled LP, displays their trademark depressing style with hypnotic guitar riffs and memorable lyrics. Alice has matured a great deal since their debut, expanding their range over the course of two EP's, Sap and Jar of Flies and the full length Dirt. They prove again on this album that they are here to stay. The new release has a bluesy tone with bitchin' tracks like "Heaven Beside You" and "Shame in You." Both feature solid musicianship and solid lyrics. The lyrics in "God Am" stand out as well. Here's an excerpt : All this respect I'm giving, Shared strength acquired by livin' All bloomin' life you're feeding Can't hide sick ones you're weeding Alice fans will not be disappointed with this album. When is the tour? -Michael BeDan

O.K. Who the hell are these guys? Junior M.A.F.LA., an East-Coast rap group doing their damnedest to sound like hard-core WestCoast gansta rappers, has completed their second foray into the world of overused grooves and lackluster lyrics. Atlantic's release of Conspiracy is 15 tracks of in-your-face, uncensored, unadulterated tripe. From the start, it's obvious that these guys didn't even get creative with their drum machine, with eighths on the high hat; nothing 1 ing here. On the melodic side, well there is none. Track after track, the few melodiesi

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Frenzied skunk band tears it up Joelle Conway The METROPOLITAN

n-your-face with intense guitar rifts and screaming lyrics, blending funk, punk, hard rock and reggae, they're the British quartet Skunk Anansie. Outspoken, proud-to-be a lesbian vocalist Skin, whose trademark is to paint eye-awing phrases like "Clit Rock" on her forehead or "Nigger Babe" on her stomach, concocts a mesh of raw frantic energy with other Skunks Ace (guitars), Cass (bass) and Mark Richardson (drums). Although they're fairly new, they've already terrorized the British Club scene and gotten a lot of attention due to their riveting lyrics that attack issues of sexism, racism and religion. However, don't ca11 them a political band. "We're just a band with social comment, and politics in it. But we are not a political band," bassist Cass stressed in a telephone interview. "We're about a good time and emotion. We're about everything that effects us really. "So to say we're a political band, gives us this straight-edged, up-the-fightmy-comrades image, and we're not like that," Cass explained. "But we don' t ignore what happens around us. We have something to say about politics. We have something to say about racism, sexism, whatever," he said.

STINKY STYLE: From left, Mark (drums), Skin (vocals), Cass (bass), and Ace (guitars) are the explosive British quartet Skunk Anansie. fo the track "Selling Jesus," Skin attacks organized religion for misleading people with lies in order to fatten their wallets. Skin predominately writes the lyrics, but it really depends on how the song is born, Cass said. Their debut album, Paranoid and Sunburnt, was recorded over six weeks in the fall of 1994 at The Manor House Studio in Milton Keynes, about 40 minutes from London. In order to capture their live energy on disc, they turned the recording studio into a makeshift war zone. With the room strewn with paper, Polaroid photos,

strobe lights, candles, graffiti and a mutilated bust of Elvis hanging by his neck, they recorded the 11 chilling tunes in war paint. Cass explained, "We were running around like madmen inside there while Skin was singing, to create that fervor, that adrenaline, and it worked." The band is also gaining exposure due to their short-lived appearance in the Kathryn Bigelow film Strange Days. "If you blink, you could miss us," Cass said, laughing. "We're in the film for about 1.7 seconds." Their two songs "Selling Jesus" and

"Feel" are on the movie's soundtrack. Cass said the experience was fantastic, but exhausting, as the band played for 8 hours non-stop on the set. Skunk Anansie wants to provoke their listeners in an inspired original fashion. Their bizarre name reflects that purpose. Anansie is an eight-legged human protagonist in the Jamaican equivalent of the American Uncle Remus stories. "He's the king of mischief," Cass said. "And the Skunk aspect is just the stinkiest thing we could think of. It's one of those names that once you can bring your mind to remember it-you'll never forget." The band has been touring the United States since Oct. 17, when they kicked off in Washington, D.C. Cass said the major difference between touring in the United States and the United Kingdom is the size of the country. "It's very much bigger," he laughed. ' "You have to do so much more traveling in the van." "My favorite show would have to be New York, absolutely," Cass said. "We smashed the house to pieces that night."

Skunk Anansie will play with For Love Not Lisa and Space Hog at 8 p.m. Nov. 18 at The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax. Tickets are $3-$6. Call 322-2308 or 830-TIXS.

'Ace Ventura' answers nature's call Jim Carrey back with another energetic performance super-stardom. The movie opens with a hilarious spoof on Cliffhanger's opening sequence, except Ventura is trying to save a stranded raccoon. Fast forward a few years and we see Ventura ill a Tibetan ashram, where he has retreated to seek spiritual guidance after losing the raccoon to a thousand-foot-drop. He is sought out by Fulton Greenwall (Ian McNeice) to retrieve a bat that is sacred to the African Wachati tribe, in order to prevent a tribal war with the Wachootoo tribe. If the bat is not returned in time for the wedding of the first daughter of the Wachatis (Sophie Okenedo) and the

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Also rounding out the cast is the most focal point of the movie: the animals. First, there is Spike the monkey, who made his first appearance in the film's predecessor, and is back with a much juicier role. Then there's elephants, giraffes, lions and tigers and bears (oh m-... never mind), all adding to the feel of the movie and comedic effect See it.

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Vocalist comes_full circle From page 13 academic theater, so she changed her major when she came to Metro in 1992. Although she still 'loves acting, Rose said her main interest right now is music. "Acting will always be there," Rose said. "Going into acting was a way of rebelling against my parents, now that I'm in music, it's like coming full circle - it's who I am." Rose got acquainted with members of Sympathy Fin 1991 when she moved next door to them. Band members heard her sing and asked her to jam with them. Rose said she sang a song she made up about band member Tony Morales, a guitarist. Not only did the band ask her to join them, but Morales is now her husband. Sympathy F appears at local clubs two to three times a month. However, to pay the bills, Rose and Morales also perform jazz as The Elizabeth Rose and Tony Morales Acoustic Duo at City Spirit cafe in LoDo. Not, however, during the month of November. "November is when I need to write my papers," Rose said.

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While matching last season's 12-0 Colorado Athletic Conference record may be a tough act to follow for this year's women's basketball team, if Metro coach Darryl Smith's evaluation of his starting five is accurate, it may not be impossible. Smith said his five starters combine to make the best group of first-teamers he's coached in his five years at Metro. "They have great 路 chemistry," Smith said. "They are as good or better than any starting five I've had. I'm serious." When the Roadrunners open their season Nov. 22 against the University of NebraskaOmaha, they will return five players from last year's regular season CAC champion team. Four will start.

Smith said he expects great things from her this year. "She improved a ton;' Smith said. "Shiloh and Vanessa are as good as any post players we will play against." Justice averaged five points and five rebounds per game as a freshman and like Collard, should see those numbers skyrocket as a starter. Ali Betcher is the only starter who wasn't on the team last year. She will play the small forward position and Smith said he is excited to have her on the team. "She has a lot of talent," Smith said. "She doesn't even know how good she can be." Betcher started for Regis University in 1993 and played on three-consecutive state-basketball championship teams in high school. "She's a great player who knows how to win," Smith said. "She is very aggressive and can shoot the ball well." 路

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last year's CAC leading scorer and player of the year - has come to camp in the best shape of her life and Smith said she is capable of scoring 30 points a game if necessary. She will be the go-to-player in the post and with a year of Smith's system under her belt, she should only get better. Edwards can score at will on anyone and with her improved conditioning should have a quicker move to the basket this season. Edwards averaged 17 points and eight rebounds per game last season and led the conference in POST-UP: Vanessa field goal percentage at .585. Edwards will play the "Vanessa is twice the player post and will be she was last year," Smith said. counted on to continA scary thought for CAC foes. ue her dominance in Tammi Baumgartner will play the middle. Last seathe point guard position this season, a son Edwards was the switch from the shooting-guard position conference's leading she played last year. Smith said she has scorer at 17 points adjusted to the change well and will be the per game. heart and soul of the starting five. Baumgartner is a great shooter and probably the most unselfish player on the team. She plays tenacious defense and is not afraid to take a charge or dive for a loose ball. Baumgartner averaged seven points and three boards per game last year. "Tammi is one of the most competitive players I've ever ha4,'' Smith said. "She will do anything within the rules to win. She's been though it all in five years and her leadership is important." Chalae Collard returns for her second season and will play shooting guard for the Roadrunners. Collard is deadly from the outside and can hit the three. Smith said he expects her to take 10-15 shots per game and hit for about 45 percent from the floor. "Chalae shoots the ball as good as anyone we've ever had," Smith said. ''Tammi and Chalae both shoot better than any guards we've had before." Collard averaged eight points and three rebounds in a back-up role last season. Both figures will increase markedly this season as she moves into a starting role. Shiloh Justice was impressive as a freshman last year coming off the bench and playing in the post. She worked hard to polish her raw skills over the off-season and

Reserves: Amy Freeman returns for her second year and will be counted on to play crucial minutes off the bench. Freeman played in 17 games last season and her experience at both guard positions makes her a valuable asset to the team. "Amy is a tough kid that is going to have to play a bunch for us in a lot of positions," Smith said. "She's strong defensively but will have to learn to make better decisions offensively. She's a great kid and will contribute a lot." Tamiko Medcalf is a transfer from Citcus College and will play the swing position and point guard. Smith said Medcalf was a surprise talent and looks forward to seeing RUNNIN'THE SHOW: her development. Tammi Baumgartner will "Tamiko has a chance to start at point guard for be a really good player," Smith the Roadrunners this said. "She's a real good athlete. If season and will be she develops discipline and matures counted on to provide she can play. She's learning really leadership as a five year quickly and should do well." veteran of the program. Shelby Davis is a freshman who can play both guard and forward. Davis took six years off from organized basketball before deciding to PhotographicslJenny Sparks and Chris Mancuso play this season. She earned three varsity letters in basketball at Niwot High School. "She has great skills, but is sort of a street-player," Smith said. "She needs to develop the skills needed to play organized basketball again." Angela Milliard is a freshman from Eaglecrest High School and should help the Roadrunners in the shooting department. She can play point guard or small forward and is one of the best three-point shooters on the team. Continued page 25

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SMACK! Metro volleyball playerTala Pole, No. 17, smashes the ball In Metro's 2-3 loss to Colorado Christian University Nov. 1O at Auraria Events Center.

The women's volleyball team ended its season the same way it began - with three consecutive losses. Metro wrapped up its first losing season since 1986 and its first ever under coach Rhonda Williams, finishing a dismal 1320 overall and 4-8 in the Colorado Athletic Conference. After losing to the University of Denver 23 Nov. 7 and to Colorado Christian University Nov. IO, also 2-3, the Roadrunners dropped a four-game decision to third-ranked University of Northern Colorado on Friday. Metro turned in a solid performance against UNC but the Bears' firepower proved to be too much in crunch time. The Roadrunners finally succumbed 15-11 in game four after fighting back from a 14-8 deficit. Williams said the difference in the game was experience. Metro started just one senior and has only two on the roster while UNC started five. "Even though you hate to lose, when you play well and the effort is there, it's not as bad," Williams said. 'This is a young team and we will get almost everybody back next year." UNC opened the match with a 15-10 win

and took the second game 15-12 and appeared to be en route to a three-game victory. Metro fought back in game three from a 12-8 disadvantage and rolled off seven straight points to take game three 15-12. Stacey Hoyt registered 27 kills to lead all players and added 28 digs for the Roadrunners. Corey Hostetler, a player Williams says has a bright future at Metro, finished with nine kills and 22 digs. "They are gutsy and will be really good next year," Williams said. "Did you see how good number eight played?" Williams said, referring to Hostetler. Williams said going through her first losing season as a coach was extremely difficult but added that it would be worth it if it helped the team next season. 'They have to come back next year and refuse to accept another season like this," Williams said. "Physically and mentally I could not make it through another year like this." With all but two players returning next season, Williams said the team will only try to address two positions in the off-season. "We will be looking for a freshman setter," Williams said. "We also want a middle blocker, probably a freshman unless we find an awesome junior-college transfer." ·

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