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- Tenure denial goes to court Metro Pres. Kaplan named as defendant in accounting professor's tenure trial Jesse Stephenson The METROPOLITAN

Phillip Thornton was a Metro accounting professor who seemed to have a lengthy future ahead of him at the college. But in the fall of 1995, Thornton watched his career dissolve after he stood up for a man applying for a job in his department.

That's what attorney Paul Baca told a jury Aug. 21 in federal civil court.

Thornton, who was an assistant professor since 1990, is suing Metro President Sheila Kaplan, Letters, Arts and Sciences Dean Joan Foster, Accounting Chairwoman Virginia Parker and ten others he claiins helped wreck his chance at getting tenure at Metro. , During the trial, which Kaplan said probably will be in session until the final week of August, Baca and the defendants' lawyers gave very different versions of what caused the demise of Thornton's career at Metro.

Thornton's attorney said revenge and discrimination blew his chance to get tenure at the college, while attorneys for the defense said that based on his performance, he didn't deserve tenure.

"Tenure is a job for life, it's a reward of lifetime employment. It's serious business, and it's not free -you have to earn it," said defense lawyer Rumaldo Armijo, the assistant attorney general for the state.

Armijo told the jury Thornton failed to earn his place at Metro because he didn' t show enough professional development as a professor and was weak in other key areas that are considered by administrators who grant tenure.

Baca painted a much different scenario, detailing accusations of outrageous misconduct against those who charted the course of Thornton's career.

Baca said Thornton's ordeal began in July 1995, soon after lwo men came to-campus to apply for a job in the See TENURE page 9

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Fired execs cash out Dole's advice tp Released administrators' compensation package worth $78,000 can find another position," he said.

The METROPOLITAN Kronewitter said he may continue to The Auraria Higher Education do work at Auraria as Center shelled out nearly $78,000 to a contractor. three employees who were dismissed Former Student during a recent downsizing move, but Services Director the former workers say the compensa- Phil Bustos could not tion isn't enough - not even close. be contacted, but is Two of the former staff members reported to already said Auraria's chief executive, Dean have a job in Wolf, shortchanged them by not offering Albuquerque.

His a fair settlement that reflected their compensation was years of service or aJJows adequate time $23,114. to find comparable jobs.

Wolf eliminated "I was there for 12-and-a-half the three positions years, and that's a long time for such a June 17, about one small compensation," said former cam- month after he was pus architect Robert Kronewitter, who appointed Auraria's designed the Lawrence Street Mall and executive vice presimuch of Auraria's landscape. His mone- dent for administration. Wolf also elimitary compensation was $22,257.94.

The settlement, which all three . nated the post he held employees signed, includes a severance before his promotion, pay equal to three months salary and vice president for benefits, job placement services and an operations.

That WALKING PAPERS: Dean Wolf's notices ofteragreement not to sue Auraria. position, however, mination and settlements to Bustos, Chitwood Former parking director Andy wasn't filled after and Kronewitter. The settlements were continChitwood said not being paid for all of Wolf accepted his gent on signing a release of the State of Colorado his unused vacation time was the worst current position. for any liability or claims. part of the deal, estimating that AHEC Wolf said his still owes him two to three thousand dol- decision was based lars. He received $27,155.26 in his set- not on the employees' performance, but ance pay was enough, he said.

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"I don't think that's a real good on the need to tighten Auraria's budget "I don't think there is anything I can and streamline the administration. answer. I think that's more of an do about it legally, but I think it is After the settlement and other orga- .excuse," Kronewitter said, adding that morally wrong," Chitwood said. nizational changes, Wolf said he expects there are other areas within Auraria's Chitwood said there were times he to save $81,200 during the 1996-97 $37.6 million budget that could have was asked by Wolf and a former superi- school year. The salaries and benefits been cut. or not to take a vacation because he was for the four eliminated positions totaled Members of the Auraria Board, needed on campus. $308,900. which has statutory authority over Because of Chitwood's classificaWolf said he consulted Mountain . Wolf's position, supported his move, tion within the state personnel system as State Personnel, a non-profit organiza- saying he had a tough decision to make an "at-will employee," the state isn't tion that advises administrators on and made it. obligated to pay for all unused vacation employment issues such as severance "Although it's painful to do, we all must live within our resources, and I time. pay.

Kronewitter said his biggest com"We could have gone as high as six think that's what Dean Wolf was doing," plaint is the "extremely low" severance months (worth of severance pay)," Wolf said Community College of Denver pay. said, referring to the advice he received President Byron McClenney, who also "It doesn't even come close to help- from MSP. But given Auraria's budget is a member of Lhe Auraria Board. ing out tp tide the family over until you crunch, three months' Worth of sever-

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Department.Splits, .adds jobs Metro's Engineering divides into 4 groups Rebecca Ciletti The METROPOLITAN In a time of corporate and government downsizing, Metro's Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department is about to get a new identity and add several new positions.

The department, which is made up of civil, mechanical, electrical and industrial engineering, will split into four separate departments this fall.

The engineering divisions, which used to be separate,

were consolidated in 1994 so they could communicate, improve the quality of the programs and work together, said Beatriz Montoya, an assistant to the chairman of the civil engineering department. It has been determined that the departments are again ready to operate independently.

The goal is for the different groups to separate while continuing lo communicate and cooperate with each other, Montoya said.

A director of engineering technology will oversee the four departments and a chair will head each department, he said.

The department chairs will be: David Cummings, electricai engineering; George Rowley, civil engineering; and John Schmidt, industrial engineering. The mechanical engineering chair position has not been filled.

The four departments will continue to coJJaborate to produce Technology Times, an engineering newsletter.

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Christopher Anderson The MBTRofourAN Amid red. white and blue campaign signs and screaming supponers, presidential candida~ . J)oQ, Dole, during a stop in Denver on Friday, promised scholarships to children of financially strapped parents.

He saidiffleis elected president, middle-income parents who qualify would , receive. opportunity scholarships "so their children can have the same opportunity as everybody else to get a good education."

Dole discussed the value of an education, saying it is the "bedrook in America."

And what special message did the 73year--0ld have for Colorado college students?

"Study," said a grinning Dole after his

speech.

Before the speech, Dole and vice-presidential running mate Jack Kemp seemed less like politicians and more like rock stars as ·they arrived, waving from inside their limousines to an excited crowd.

A few yards behind the podium. a band kindled the Republican fire, changing the lyrics of the SaJn and Dave song "Soul ·Man" from "I'm a soul man" to "I'm a Dole

man."

The candidate inspired people to lean over one another asking for his autograph.

"We are going to carry the state of Colot<l4o:•• Dol~ 'said during his fifteenminute speech on a sweltering parking lot at 17th and California. ''We have one simple message: We are going to balance the budget, cut taxes and we are- going Lo do boch at the same time," he said. "We are nor going to apologize for putting more money in your paycheck."

Dole1 who is almost even with PresidentBill Clinton according to the most recent poll, offered his proposed tax credits as an incentive for voters with children.

"How many people in the audience have children or grandchildren?" he asked.

"We've got a $500 tax. credit for every child, $500 right off the bottom. You owe $2,000, you have two kids, you take a

$1,000 credit."

The speech recapped the remarks he gave the night before when he accepted the Republican nomination for president at the Republican convention in San Diego, in which he promised to cut taxes across the board ·b~ 1.5 percent. spend more money on defenso, gel tough on crime and "end the lRS as we know iJ.."

Outside the roped-off Jot, police kept protesters across the street.

One group held signs that read, "Thunderpussy for President." The organiz· ers said they were advocates for lesbian rights and scoffed.at Republican claims that the party is inclusive.

His appearance in Denver was the ~ ~'?I in ~ Do1ell<emp campaign eff.Qrt.

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South classroom remodeling slated Classroom, according to the planning committee.

That was 20 years ago. Now, however, the South The METROPOLITAN Classroom is recognized as the permanent home of the CCD Science and Technology program. According to The South Classroom will have to be rernodeled Halleck, the classrooms were never designed to be sciby the summer of 1998 due to "life-safety" issues, ence labs. The rooms have lab stations on wheels, according to the Auraria Campus Planning and ¡Design improper ventilation and no natural gas.

Committee.

"The air handling system needs to be straightened The actual cost has yet to be determined. Planning out so that the fumes don't go through the building," officials, however, said the cost would be in the Halleck said. She added that although the remodeling $500,000 to $750,00Q range. is mostly precautionary, "like a powAccording to a planning commitder keg, you don't drop matches on it tee statement, the life-safety issues forever." include the lack of proper ventilation, The renovation will bring the improper laboratory equipment and building up to code and into compli. non-compliance with the Americans ance with the Americans with with Disabilities Act. Disabilities Act. However, the "life-safety" issues According to a planning commitappear to be more a matter of code tee statement, other renovations will violations than a danger to human include: the isolation of lab exhaust, life. The classrooms "dmf t meet any which could possibly be hazardous, of the health and safety codes," from the main air system in the South according to Dianne Halleck, director -Dianne Halleck, CCD Classroom; and installation of "lab of the Community College of standard piped gas" to replace the Denver's Science and Technology Scierzce and Technology individual propane bottles at lab staprogram. tions, which were also termed hazSteve Monaco, director of the ardous. Also, the proper installation of Metro Student Health Center, said he wasn't aware of emergency showers and increasing the fire resistance any students who had come to the center due to the of the walls of the chemical storage area. conditions in the South Classroom.

The plan also calls for the remodeling of four The CCD Science and Technology classes origi- under-sized labs into three 24-station labs. Design will nally were supposed to be in the Science Building. But begin fall 1997, bidding will start the following spring, due to budget constraints, the Science Building was and construction will start during the summer of 1998. reduced in size and the CCD program was "temporar- According to the planning committee, the new labs ily" located on the second floor of the South will be ready by fall of 1998.

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New advising 'response to student dissatisfaction' Dan Shadwell

graduate if they're happy in their major choices and see those choices as leading toward careers."

Ruderman said stronger links between faculty A restructuring of the Student Advising Center and advising need to take place. That realignment is a designed to improve student graduation and retention major focus of the change, she said, "We want faculrates began July I, Metro President Sheila Kaplan ty advisers to take on advisees earlier in the students' announced July 14. careers."

"Graduation rates at Metro average around 5 perRuderman will report to Jett Conner, the associcent for students completing school in four years, 14 ate vice president for Academic Affairs in the office percent for students finishing in five years and 21 -of the Provost. percent for students finishing in six years," said Paul "We recruited Ruderman," Conner said. "She Wilken, director of Institutional Research at brings a lot of skill to the program." Conner Metropolitan State College of Denver. explained that Ruderman 's mission will be to "Those are low compared with other schools improve communication with the various department because we have a lot of nonheads, so that students that seek traditional students who take a advising will get good, current long time to graduate," he said, information about what each department teaches and requires "But I'm sure we'd like to improve on those numbers." from its students. The advising Many Metro students take program will take on a more acasemesters off or are not taking demic approach, he said. full-time loads, he said.

Ruderman had just attained Wilken explained that the tenure in the English department new advising structure is a where she headed the First Year response to student dissatisfacProgram, which helps students tion. In questionnaires, Metro brush up on skills necessary for students listed student advising successful college achievement, programs as a major complaint.

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Those results are not unique to He said the First Year Metro, though, he said. Schools Program is now a part of the nation-wide frequently hear -Renee Ruderman, advising program, so those who complaints about their parking Assistant English need some help will get it as problems and advising prothey're deciding <!n a course of Professor study. grams.

In a memo to staff dated Conner explained that the July 14, Kaplan said: "Administrative responsibility old advising program relied heavily on peer or stufor the Advising Center has been transferred from the dent advising. He said that while the student advisers Office of the Vice President for Student Services to were good at what they did, they did not have any forthe Office of the Provost. mal training as advisers. 'They helped students with "Ms. Renee Ruderman, Assistant Professor of class schedules and registration, but when it came to English and Director of the First Year Program, has actual career advice and curriculum choices, they been named interim director of the Advising Center. didn't have the professional background," he said.

Ms. Lydia Vasquez will serve as associate director of Kent State, a school of approximately the same the Center." size as Metro "had 30 professional advisers - we had An advisory committee composed of faculty, six," he said. administrators and students, pushed for these Academic Affairs will transfer a budget of changes, Ruderman said Wednesday. "Retention js a roughly $350,000 to Academic Advising to help huge concern. The feeling was that advising needed attract faculty advisers and give faculty members to be more friendly, personal, in-depth, and caring," compensation for the extra time they spend working she said. with advisees, he said.

Students who receive more advising and focus This amount may be supplemented by money earlier in their college careers will tend to graduate, from Academic Affairs, Conner said, but in general she said. "Students need to make decisions about money's tight. Metro is the lowest funded state coltheir majors earlier. They're much more likely to lege on a per-pupil basis in Colorado.

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They're much more likely to graduate if they're happy in their major choices and see those choices as leading toward careers.

Stevenson reads state law ''my way'' Dave Flomberg The METROPOUTAN Metro's Student Government Assembly illegally went into executive session, temporarily barring all non-SGA members, at its Aug. l meeting.

When the meeting began, only president Stephanie Stevenson and three other vice presidents were present, which is not a quorum for the I I-member assembly.

When Stevenson asked for a motion to enter into the session to discuss personnel matters, The Metrppolitan raised a point of order to remind her of the fact that she did not have a quorum present. The Colorado Open Meetings Act requires that an official body must have a quorum present in order to enter into executive session.

"We're doing it my way today," was Stephenson's response when the point was raised.

Colorado Revised Statute 24-6-401 states"... the formation of public policy is public business and may not be conducted in secret." The law goes on to allow for state bodies to go into executive session by acquiring an affirmative vote from two-thirds of the entire membership of a state public body. Metro's SGA falls into the state public body because of Metro's "state school" status.

Upon review of the statute The Metropolitan approached Stevenson a second time while still in the executive session to point out the error. At this time, enough assembly members had shown up for quorum. The assembly once again voted - legally this time- to enter into executive session and did so.

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Probation discussed for student lobby G. Christopher Williams The METROPOLITAN The debate in Metro's Student Government Assembly regarding the school 's relationship with the Colorado Student Association is similar to one Colorado State University had last year, according to CSU's Student Government Assembly president.

President Joe Urban said the previous student government voted out CSA, a pro-student lobbying organization that represents 14 Colorado colleges and universities. Urban said CSA was tossed for reasons similar to that of Metro's president, Stephanie Stevenson, who does not necessarily want to drop CSA but would like to re-evaluate it.

CSU's current student government has renewed the relationship with CSA. Stevenson said CSA fails to address Metro's specific concerns and that Metro students could lobby on their own rather than pay the nearly $12,000 annually to remain a full CSA member.

She said she is considering putting CSA on probation and training student interns to lobby for Metro.

Stevenson said she also would like to see the student body become better-educated about CSA and what it does. She plans on putting together several forums on campus for students to do so.

"There are 17,000 brains and 34,000 hands we can use, and the more participation we can get, the better," she said in reference to the size of Metro's student body.

According to Robin Nolan, the executive director of CSA, CSU has a conditional membership in CSA that allows it to check what CSA is doing. CSU also has a non-voting representative at CSA meetings. Urban wants to let his senate members and students see what is going on at CSA, she said.

After coming to CSU from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Urban said he has seen CSA from the perspective of a small and a large school.

"It serves an extremely important role at the state capitol," he said. "They lobby for an agenda that is set by all the schools in Colorado."

CSV tried to lobby the legislature on its own with one j,erson, who was against CSU's involvement in CSA, Urban said. He added that by the end of the year that lobbyist had changed his mind about CSA because of the difficulty of the job.

According to Urban, it costs about 50 cents per student per . semester to be a member of CSA, and he said he "would give up a soda a semester for what you get (in return}."

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Metro .plan irks·UCO UCO student president addresses Metro's Student

government about CSA G. Christopher Williams The METROPOLITAN The challenge of the Colorado Student Association by some Metro Student Government Assembly members has the University of Colorado-Denver's student government concerned.

UCD's student government president, Mark Kutowy, said he recently sat in on a meeting of Metro's Student Government Assembly to voice his opinion about the possibility of Metro pulling out of CSA. Kutowy said that while Metro's Student Government Assembly may not have resolved its issues with CSA, "Metro students' voices have been heard." He pointed out that the CSA fee, the fee that would renew Metro's contract with CSA, had already been voted on and approved by MSCD students with a 92 percent approval.

Kutowy said that at the Metro student government assembly meeting he addressed, he urged

Metro to continue its affiliation with CSA, arguing the merits of the organization.

"CSA has created an outstanding image at the capitol. They (legislators) know that you have the voice of 100,000 students," he said. The 100,000 students is the total number of students in the 14 colorado schools that CSA represents The CSA Iobbie 52 weeks a year, and Metro will not be able to get student lobbyists to the capitol all throughout the year, he said.

Kutowy said his biggest concern, though, was for hjs own student body.

Metro's withdrawal from CSA would deplete the total amount of money for CSA to lobby for his and the other remaining colleges and universities that fund CSA, he said.

He also said that since CSA addresses higher education issues like tuition, financial aid, educational technology and new student access to Colorado colleg~s and universities on a statewide basis, it would hurt UCD students as well as other Colorado students.

Kutowy said that he was frustrated that two groups with essentially similar goals would potentially be doing the same thing at the capitol.

"Metro will lose. their vote, but CSA will lobby anyway to protect their students."

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Another nationally franchised restaurant opened in the Tivoli Student Union thjs summer, bringing the building's occupancy to 90 percent.

Domino's Pizza is one of ten pizza restaurants in Denver owned by Diana White, an independent franchise owner. There will be a manager at Domino's, as well as _employees from within and outside the campus.

Dave Caldwell, leasing manager for the Tivoli Union Shops and Campus Auxiliary Services, said Domino's opened Aug. 1.

Domino 's trained students and others to learn counter and delivery service before they opened.

The previous tenant, Primo's Pizza, broke its lease and went into default last fall.

"Primo's Pizza is still in litigation for breach of contract and unpaid rent and penalties," said Rosemarie E. DelMonte, director of special projects.

Primo's Pizza had a five-year contract that was to end in 1999. Primo's reported that it was not making enough money to stay in business, and it did not pay its last rent payment, she said.

Primo's owes one month's rent and also owes penalties that have accumulated since the time it vacated its space.

DelMonte said Tivoli Management wanted to give opportunities to merchants that were not from a retail chain, such as Primo's and New York Deli , which also

went out of business-last fall.

Pure Energy, which once occupied a space on the east side of the Tivoli, has relocated to the space the New York Deli occupied.

Pure Energy is taking up the front half of the space, and the other half is available for lease.

Caldwell said they have prospects interested in the half-space and in Pure Energy 's old space. He said some businesses that have expressed interest in the spaces include a restaurant, a flower shop and a bank.

Thls summer, despite the open spaces, the Tivoli has generated over 1.8 million dollars in commercial rent, DelMonte said.

Each student saved $16 in student fees last year, and might save even more this year since the Tivoli's revenues went up, according to a financial report released in August 1995.

Tivoli Marketing Manager Sandy Torres said the Tivoli's primary market is students on campus.

Signs, posters and directories have been made to make it easier for students to find what they need, she said.

Some events scheduled for the Tivoli this fall are the "World Friendshjp Festival" on Oct. 3 with arts, crafts, and live bands and the/ "Denver International Film Festival," which will be held Oct. 17-24.

DELI-LESS: The New York Deli went out-ofbusiness last spring and passed this doorway on to the new tenant Pure Energy. Pure energy was previously located near the ticket booth on the south side of the Tivoli.

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If you tried to call in to campus Augusl 20 and all you got was a busy signal, don't be alarmed, everyone got one.

Throughout most of the.day, getting through to any campus line was a chore. According to Craig Konteny, manager of telecommunications, that was to be expected.

"The (phone2 activity this time of year is at its peak," Konteny said.

"We just don't have enough lines to accommodate the volume of calls we receive."

According to Konteny, Auraria campus has what is called a PBX, or a Private Branch Exchange. The PBX has a certain number of "trunk" lines which house all the individual telephone lines.

"All we have to do (to fix the problem) is buy some more trunk lines from US West." Konteny said.

However, "that can be fairly expensive," he added, although he didn't have any exact figures.

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Thornton offered to help Ames file a accounting department. One of the men, complaint with Percy Moorehouse, Gary Ames, was a friend of Thornton's.

The two me·n made presentations Metro's director of equal opportunity and before a faculty committee that was assistant to the president.

Ames, however, declined to follow formed to give input to Parker, who did not attend Ames• presentation, on whether up on the matter, but Thornton persisted, Baca said. He filed a compliant with the applicant should be hired, Baca said.

The committee's consensus was that Moorehouse, who later ruled that no disArhes, a Mormon, was best-suited for the crimination occurred in Parker's decision job - but Parker thought differently and not to hire Ames - but Thornton's pursaid so during a meeting with the com- suit of the matter caused a rift between himself and Parker, who were at one point mittee.

Baca said Parker told the committee so clos·e that Parker would tell him obscene lesbian she had given jokes, Baca said.

Ames a ride to the The real airport during trouble began which she said he when Thornton made offensive applied for comments about tenure. Baca said homosexuals and despite numerfemales, including ous excellent ratcalling women ings and the go"baby-making ahead from the machines."

She faculty tenure also included committee , derogatory comParker tried to ments on Ames' end Thornton 's religion, Baca said.

"Virginia -Paul Baca career at Metro Parker totally Prosecuting attorney - and she succeeded. trashed the man Thornton the meeting was never got tenure totally emotional, and, soon after, and no vote was taken," Baca told the jury. He explained he quit.

"Mr. Thornton is a no-nonsense kind that Parker, a lesbian, said she would feel uncomfortable working with Ames and of guy, but ~he evidence will show that told Thornton, "Look Phil, I don't want to some people can't deal with that kind of hire this man who's going to look at me candor," Baca told the jury, which conlike i •m from Mars." · sists of 7 men and 2 women, all of whom Although Armijo agreed that tempers are white.

"The evidence will show that flared at the meeting, he questioned the accuracy of Thornton's recollection of (Parker) has an agenda against white Parker's statements. males," Baca said. ''This was a heated discussion with a Armijo told jurors that administrators lot of people talking at the same time; the weeded Thornton out because his dossier remembrances of this will be different," wasn't up to par, not because of the Ames he said. incident.

Ames didn't get the job. When he "His professional development and called to ask why, Thornton told him growth did not appear to be getting any about the meeting and Parker's comments stronger," he said. "What you have here is regarding their ride to the airport. Baca an objective, cold analysis of Thornton's said Ames denied making the bigoted dossier."

"Mr. Thornton is a no-nonsense kind of guy, but the evidence will show that some people can't deal with that kind of candor."

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Donna Hickey Jackson COPY EDITORS Anne Hall Igor Raykin NEWS EDITOR Mike Larkin FEATURES EDITOR Kevin Juhasz GRAPHICS EDITOR John Savvas Roberts SPORTS EDITOR Alisha Jeter PHOTO EDITOR John McDonough REPORTERS Chris Adams Christopher Anderson Ricardo Baca Rebecca Ciletti Dave Flomberg Kristy Frei Travis Henry Brigett Hurley-Camarena Matthew J. Lilley Dan Shadwell Jesse Stephenson G. Christopher Williams PHOTOGRAPHERS Jenny Sparks Hyoung Chang PRODUCTION MANAGER Rick Thompson GRAPHIC ARTISTS Kyle Loving Chris Mancuso Laura Wille-Swink CALENDAR Donna Hickey Jackson ADVERTISING STAFF Maria Rodriguez Jodi Kotouc CREDIT MANAGER Maria Corral DISTRIBUTION Mike BeDan ADVISER Jane Hoback DIRECTOR OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Kate Lutrey TELEPHONE NUMBERS Editorial 556-2507 Advertising 556-8361 Fax 556-3421 e-mail: DonnaHickey@SSD_STLF@MSCD Internet:hickeyd@mscd.edu The Metropolitan is producea by and for the students of Metropolitan Stale Collt&e of Denm servin& the Auraria Campus. The Metropolitan is supported by aduertisin& revenues and student fees, and is pubfuhed every Friday durif18 the academic year and monthly durin& rhe summer semesler.

The Metropolitan is disrribured to all campus buildin&s. No person may lake more than one copy of each edition of The Metropolitan wir/iour prior wrilien permission. Direct any questions, complaints, compliment! or comment! to rhe MSCD Board ofPublications clo The Metropolitan. Opinions uprwed u:ithin do not necwarily reflect those of The Metropolitan, Metropolitan State College of Denver or its advertisen. Deadline for calendar item.s is 5 p.m. Friday.

Deadline for press releam is 10 a.m. Monday. Display adverlisif18 deadline is 3 p.m. Friday. CltJSJi[ied advertisi118 deadline is 5:00 p.m. Monday. The Metropolitan~ ojfiw are localed in IM 1iooli Student Union Suile 313. Moilin& address is P.O.Boi 113362, Campus Boi 57, Denver, CO 80217-3362. OAU ri&hls reserved. The Metropolitan i.s printed on recycled paper.

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SCA member voices-Concerns Greetings, esteemed colleagues of Metro and an all-inclusive welcome to the entire student body at Auraria. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is John Saiz, I'm a Chicano freshman at Metro. I was elected to carry out the responsibilities of the vice president for of the Student academic affairs Government Assembly at Metro.

I am a member of Ticket to Empowerment and the purpose of my role as a student advocate is to balance the unmitigated and to create individuality and commonality of determination out of diversity. I believe the self-determination of the student body could upsurge to a higher level if we had a faculty as diverse as the student body. It is significant that the first bid for self-realization among the student body is to assert the right to fair education!

Seven members of the Ticket to Empowerment have been elected to revive the continuing reliability of a student .government for Metro. The Ticket to Empowerment plans to usher in strategies that will empower the student body, in conjunction with solutions to remedy the nar-

rowly tailored and ill-defined procedures that govern the Metro student body.

Human selfishness is caused by the socio-economic institutions that protect, sanction and perpetJohn uate inequaliSaiz ties. The authoritarians of the learning institutions stand guard to protect and preserve their traditions and inherently biased policies like the student -grade appeal and the no credit polices. They have no real means of measuring a student's academic abilities nor do they accredit any real merit concerning the pupil's disposition. Subjective examination methods like the SAT (a college entrance exam), GAE (a graduate school entrance exam) and policies such as the student

grade appeal and no-credit notation procedures are predictive and a social science fraud and continue to be exposed to litigation.

My experience during the 1996 spring and summer semesters has indicated that change is the opponent of this innovative education system and apathy is the opposition of the SGA. I infer that the student body has the raw power to change the bureaucratic system; however, they need the will and direction. A revolution must stem from the will of the majority of human beings that will no longer tolerate an inadequate education system, where sectarians indoctrinate irrevocable privileges.

The Student Government Assembly will follow what the majority student population says. At the time they confirm to repower and voice their concern.

John Saiz vice president for academic affairs Student Government Assembly

Be truly subversive do something Does anyone around these parts read the campus or Denver newspapers or are we merely looking at the words as we would an ad for Joslins?

I am beginning to believe that the only thing nontraditional about Metropolitan State College is that a student can graduate without having had an education. The apathetic throng of muddled adults that call themselves students don't care about anything - not even to stand up for themselves. As I have written before, the administration Gary thanks you for your lack of concern.

Norns Before heading into the student publications office this evening, I stepped into the Boiler Room for a pint of Guinness and a chance to review my ideas for an editorial. I spent the next hour with a socalled "subversive" middle-aged man hawking over me making comments about how ridiculous my efforts-were in attempting to capture anyone's attention on this campus. "You are wasting your time," he sneered. Let me say this: Hippies suck. I have spent the past twenty-six years of my life trying to find an identity and express myself, and at every corner there is a demonic smile emanating from some middle-aged longhair tempting me to stop.

I hate to admit it, but I do care about what is occurring in the city in which I live, the state in which it sits and the country which it supports. This "radical" individual was telling me to head for Belize, where, I guess, all the subversives hang out. Well, how revolutionary is it to steal money from the government and hide in a foreign country? How revolutionary is it to transmit computer viruses through the Internet t~at do some really goofy things like making swastikas appear on government home pages. Smells like hippie to me. What is revolutionary is acting and accepting responsibility, or, at least, these are the starting points. Anything else is merely petty and brutal (i.e. the Ur:iabomber).

As we should all be aware, there is an election on the horizon, and the candidates already are putting on makeup and pumping us full of glamour. Did anyone read last week's Rocky Mountain News headlines? They were beautiful: "DO WHAT IS RIGHT" (with a picture of the Doles in a mess of confetti beneath), "COLORADO IS DOLE COUNTRY," etc. If there is a Democrat left with a subscription to the News, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Your money obviously is.going to support a Republican lobby.

I do not want to suggest who you should vote for; I just want

to illuminate a few facts. First, the majority of voters in this country are upper and upper-middle class citizens; they do not hold valuable your best interests. Second, good ole boy Bob Dole, after recovering from paralysis due to a war injury, came back to the states, dumped his wife and married a sweetheart; so much for family values. Also, if you value your non-traditional educational institutions (hint, hint: Metro) then the Republican ticket is not one to vote for. Where do you think they are going to get the multi-billions necessary to revamp the military (one of Dole's promises)?

They are NOT going to take it from Social Security, because the American Association of Retired Persons is a Republican lobby.

Dole will pick your puny student pockets for the money by .cutting federal student grants and loans. This means that you can say good-bye to a good portion of your Pell, Perkins or Stafford awards.

For all you Dole fans, I don't find Bill Clinton a wonderful president, but I am fed up with all the glory Dole has been given. Let us ask a simple question: Why does Bob Dole want to be president? As you will see when the debates start, Dole won't be able to provide us with an answer. He'll say that he is better than Clinton, but that is not an answer. Face it, Dole is addicted to being on the presidential ticket. He also is bitter that he has never won the support of his party. The man is 70 years old, for crying out loud. He needs a planned community filled with conservative white folks like himself somewhere in Florida where they love him and a community center where he can gripe about the younger generation's waning sense of morality. The oval office is not for that.

One more gripe. I have had enough of Republicans like Dole and Gingrich using quotes from Thoreau's "Walden," specifically the essay "Civil Disobedience." You know the line that goes, "That government is best which governs least.• The are other gross borrowings, but this is the most (in)famous. Thoreau was serious thinker; the Republicans are attempting to get votes. Please stop profaning our literature. I do suggest, though, that they re-read the text from which they throw a supposed moral weight upon the American public over once or twice more. It says: "The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies . .. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense ... Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others - as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders serve the state chiefly with their heads; and as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the Devil, without intending it, as God."

A note from the editor: ernment assembly members deciding that stu1 welcome your letters and editorials; rememdents did not know what they wanted when ber we are here to serve you the students. Let they voted 92 percent in favor to pay the me make clear that the views shared on the Colorado Student Association. Despite your opinion page do not reflect my views or the new student government's lack of confidence views of the paper. ·in the vote by the student body, the definition However 1do appreciate independent thinkers of wh~t CSA .ac~al/y does has come into . who are thoughtful in their actions and their q~esti.on, wh1c~ 1~ good. The .danger to keep m words. Speaking of thoughtful in their aclions,.-1... _!!!!!1!f..!L"2.~1s~_Uf]Pff!.S!.d~f].t~ f!l<!V! .Pl~ am vel}' concerned about Metro student govstudent government assembly to overturn a

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student vote. It does not matter whether you love or hate CSA A student vote was taken and elected peers should not discard the vote by those whom they are representing.

Soon you will all be given the opportunity to debate the quality of representation you may be getting from CSA. Please share your thoughts on the matter with us.

-Donna Hickey Jackson editor in chief

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MSCD has approved "Appropriate Use of Computing And Network Facilities" policy which has been approved by the College's Information Technology Advisory Committee. Pleas~ take time to read this policy. Those of you requesting access to the Internet (Information Superhighway) will be required to sign a document certifying that you assume responsibility for adherence to this policy.

APPROPRIATE USE OF MSCD COMPUTING FACILITIES Metropolitan State College of Denver's mission statement espouses a "commitment to academic freedom as the key to intellectual inquiry and development of ideas." For us to successfully realize this missi~n, it is incumbent upon every user of MSCD's computirig resources to use those resources appropriately and responsibly, i.e., to use computing and networking in a way that does not infringe on any other individual's academic freedom, that does not interfere with any other individual's intellectual inquiry, and that does not interfere with any other individual's use of computing to develop ideas.

Equally important is the individual's right-toprivacy. Every member of the MSCD community must protect every other individual's right-toprivacy (see the Family Educational Rights and Privacy of 1974). This responsibility spans every form of informatioq: on-line systems, reports, verbal, and electronic communications, and electronic data files . Metropolitan State College of Denver wholeheartedly endorses EDUCOM's published statement of principle concerning路 software and intellectual rights (see The EDUCOM Code).

APPROPRIATE USE

To be appropriate, use of any computing facilities at MSCD must be clearly in support of the institutions goals. These facilities are provided as "tools" for the college community to use in accomplishing their respective jobs. This is true of

administrative information systems, academic computing resources, networking techn ologies and office automation.

MSCD's computing resources are available to ..

MSCD students, faculty, and staff. For any other individual or organization to use MSCD's computing resources requires special written approval from the Associate Vice President of , Information Technology.

INAPPROPRIATE USE

Any activity involving MSCD's computing facilities which knowingly interferes ,with someone else's academic freedom, the institution's goals or policies, examples of inappropriate use include, but are not limited to the following: -Attempting to gain access to personal information, computer accounts, or computing resources for which you are not authorized; -Not logging off from public terminals, thereby providing others access to computing.resources for which they may not be authorized; -Damaging, altering, or tampering with other's data contained within or transported by MSCD's computing facilities; -Violating the confidentiality of information associated with an individual or their research, or information associated with the college; -Any form of electronic eavesdropping, e.g., examining the contents of data packets transmitted on the campus network; -Any form of harassing activity; Any activity

whi.ch wastes either human or computing resources.

-Violating copyright protection. and authorizations, license agreements, and contracts.

-Any commercial use for profit;- Use of an intercampus network such a Bitnet, Colorado Supernet, or the Internet that violates their usage guidelines (see usage guidelines for these various networks). Many of these examples involve violations of law. For example, unauthorized access into someone's information stored on a computer system is a violation of that person's right to privacy and is a criminal act.

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RESULTS OF MISUSE

Misuse of computing resources at MSCD may include suspension of computing privileges, referral to an appropriate authority on campus, and referral to a law enforcement agency.

Discipline action by the College may include suspension, expulsion, and requirements co make final restitution.

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has fourteen labs equipped with PCs,MACs or NeXT systems. They are available for use by MSCD students with a valid ID. \Vord processing, spreadsheet, database, programming and even CAD software is available depending on the lab. Laser printers are available in each of the labs as well as access to the \Vorld \Vide \Veb.

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rades, transcripts, course schedules and much more will be freely available at the fingertips of Metro students thanks to a new campus computer system called TouchNet. Four kiosk systems, named "ASK ROWDY" after Metro's roadrunner mascot, are available for student use, said Mary Hanna, coordinator of the · Campus Wide Information System within the Information Technology Department.

At a cost of $16,000 per kiosk, Hanna admitted Metro took a definite gamble and said four will be the limit for now.

"At this price, it's going to depend if the students like them," she said, Even though a World Wide Web browser points to school activities and ALL-KNOWING ROADRUNNER: Sophie information on Metro's site, "you can't Rodriguez, a student at the University of stand there and surf the Internet," Colorado at Denver, checks out the Tivoli kiosk. Hanna said. "The kiosks have been

- Lynn Denzin Co-project manager for Ask Rowdy blocked for that."

Hanna said the kiosks are located in Central and West Classrooms and the Tivoli Student Union.

"We're still looking at a 1ocation for the last one," Hanna said.

The kiosks come with an intercampus phone, touch-screen monitor, credit card reader, fax machine and printer.

By lifting the face of the keyboard, the printer and fax can be accessed, and faxes can be sent and

received for a $I fee.

Lynn Denzin, associate registrar and co-project manager for ASK ROWDY, said all student records, scheduling, tuition balance and financial aid information will eventually be available through the kiosks.

"We will have student-specific information by late next summer," Denzin said.

Hanna added that the delay is a matter of time, staff and money.

For now, some of the kiosks services available to Metro students are: •campus map • Metro campus phone directory •calendar of events •frequently asked questions If the kiosks work at Metro, Dean Wolf, Auraria executive vice president for administration, said he hopes they will become an important part of the campus.

"I think there's a lot of potential for this system," Wolf said. "I'd really like to see it used for all three schools."

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The reading will be held Sept. 5 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and is open to everyone. Admission is $1 with a student ID and $2 for everyone else.

Proceeds go to help support guest poets.

Participants may read their own poetry or something from their favorite poet.

The Daily Grind is located in the northeast section of the Tivoli Student Union. For information, call 573-JAVA. .

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The play is the story of a group of people who work at a small auto garage in rural Missouri and is performed in a real auto garage at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. (except Labor Day weekend).

Tickets are $15. Call 837-0045 for more information.

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paying for school that we lose sight of wllere the 1110!!_eY goes. .

For a student carrying 15 hours, $157.41 of his or her total bill will go toward "mandatory fees," according to the fall catalog. What is provided by that · money?

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"For at least as long as I've been involved (on SAB), our recommendations have gone through without any resistance or changes," Ericksen said.

The reason for that, she said, is the careful manner in which the budgets proposed to the board are reviewed.

Student fee money also helps support the Student Affairs Board as well as many other student services.

The Student Government Assembly is a body of elected students who serve the general needs of

The Student.,Activityfee also rugby, lacrosse, volleyball and funds Campus Recreation at fencing through a club sports proAuraria. Students need only to gram. The outdoor program has present a valid school l.D. in order trips and courSes in ice sailing, to use the facilities. Those facili- kayaking skiing, rock climbing ties include a 25-yard indoor pool, ;md ritfting. 1]le.. J>hy-sicaHy fitness center, weight room e.ight Challenged program is avai.laWc racquetball and handball courts, for tho~ jndividuals with special and a basketball court. The facili- 11eeds. ty opens Monday, and although the hours aren't set yet, last year $18 goes to the athletic the gym was open Monday departrqent to fund things like through Friday from 7 am to 9 Metro's.athletic teams and athletic p.m. and Saturday from 9 am to 4 equipment. 'This supports Metro's sports teams, including ba5'Ketball, p.llL Campus recreation also fea- tennis, swimming and baseball tula-JeYeral sports prggram&. The drop-in program has aerobics, $18 pays the facility fee.

"That facility fee went t<> ~ifting and swimming. An imrmlural Jll'Oll'&ll1 of flag foot- cover the cost of the renovation$ ball. bukelball, volleyball, rac- for the events center," Feuerborn quedJall, floor hockey and indoor said. "A wood floor was added, air soccer is available. For those conditioning was installed, and looking for something out of the the weight room and racquetball ordinary, they also offer 18i Chi, courts were expanded.

Metro students and is paid out of this fund .

• The Office of Student Activities coordinates and sponsors campus activities. Student activities also manages the Club Resource Center in which students can start a campus club. The center provides funding, mailboxes, free copying and office space to all campus clubs.

The Office of Student Publications is home to Metro's student paper, The Metropolitan, and its annual student literary magazine, Metrosphere. It also publishes the student handbook, which is free to all students.

Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Student Services provides support and advocacy services, and Trilnstitutional Legal Services provides legal advice for Metro students.

The Student Finance Resource Center helps students with short-term loans for books and living

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All of these services are available on the third floor of the Tivoli Student Union.

Students also have the option to pay a $4.00 fee to the

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(CoPIRG). This is an environmental and consumer advocacy group that helps students register to vote ~ • raises funds for the hungry and homeless, among other causes.

Students also pay $1 per year to help fund the Colorado Student Association, which lobbies the Colorado legislature on behalf of college students and holds a student advisory seat on the Colorado Commission of Higher Education.

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$17 goes toward the information technology fee, which keeps Metro students on the Internet and with e-mail accounts.

"Every student registered at Metro has access to the Internet where they have mail accounts where you can talk to anyone in the world," said Mark Falkenhan of ·the computer science department. ''To find out your address, come to any of the computer labs for a handout on how to use the Web to

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Those are active from the time they register and remain active for up to a year after they quit taking classes." Computer labs are located in the West, South and Central classrooms and the Science Building. $4 goes to MAPS, Metro's Automated Phone System. This system enables students to inquire about grades, register for classes and get a balance on tuition and all these fees.

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•well as the acquisition and ren.. said Diet Feuerborn, director • I aad me. "The Child Care in siu and staff, and the Tivoli ated into the student union."

Center is available to all • but children of students at ~are given first priority. tudent Union, which opened in Fall variety of diversions for students. vcriety of shops, restaurants and :nues, including the Auraria Book <\.ttack, The Daily Grind, Sigi's Cabaret, and nightclub (america). ix in one of the many lounges, take haircut and many other things.

$13.]S goes to th StudQnf Health Center, so 1f a:Stttdent gets ick, he or he can go g~ treahnent. at a reduced cost.

-rhe firsr thing we provide is acce to professional health care cel)ter here on campus that provides ~vatuation and' treatment of illness, health problems, injuries and well-care physicals," said Stephen Monaco, director of the center. "In addition, the center also provides extensive health education materials and training."

Students can be seen on a walk-in basis.

However, they must

$15.41 goes toward the RTD buss pass fee, which allows any Metro student with a valid school l.D. to use it on Denver's light-rail or bus system for the year.

Rides in the Denver Metro area are free and discounts are given on express and regional routes.

have a current semester l.D. and will need to fill oll! sOtUe pal'e wor.k A common misconception is' that studem& must enrolfe m their hool s health insurance program t use center" the health Monaco said. c'1"hat is not the case-. Your student fee allows full access to the center, insured or not."

The center is open · from 8 am to 2:30 p.m. for walk-in appointments and until 5 p.m. for scheduled appointments Monday through Friday but closes at noon on Wednesdays

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Plaza Building face-lift finishes in time for fall $4 million project provides 34 new classrooms Travis Henry The METROPOLITAN

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Renovations totaling $4 million have transformed the former student union into a classroom and faculty office building . .

The Plaza Building has 34 classrooms, including three high-tech lecture halls that come with remote control blinds and acoustically designed walls.

According to John Lovshin, director of design and construction for Auraria, the campus was 500,000 square feet short of serving student and faculty needs prior lo the renovations.

The renovated Plaza Building adds 110,000 square feet to meet those needs.

The revamping was paid for

with capitol construction funds from the Colorado Legislature, the first such funds the campus has received for new classrooms since being built, said Lovshin.

While conceding Auraria still needs a new classroom building, Lovshin said the Plaza Building opens more opportunities for students and professors.

"It gives more flexibility to professors for finding classrooms of appropriate sizes," he said.

The space in the building was allocated to the three schools on campus based on current enrollment percentages: Metro, 52 percent; University of Colorado at Denver, 32 percent; and Community College of Denver, 16 percent.

The Plaza building's main residents are Metro's psychology and modem languages departments and hospitality, meeting and travel administration program, as well as UCD's commu-

nications, modem languages and philosophy departments.

Culinary arts students also will soon benefit from the renovated building because they will be able to throw together tasty treats in a new kitchen that is in the process of being completed.

While the building will have some vending machines, it houses no student lounges because of its location.

"We felt that since the building is so close to the Tivoli there was no need to duplicate those types of services when there are better facilities next door," Lovshin said.

Stairways and duct work, which created a claustrophobic effect in some stairwells, had to be altered in order to comply with the fire code.

The Student Health Center, which stayed open during conJenny Sparksffhe METROPOLITAN struction, is the only part of the building that remains FINALLY, MORE SPACE: Newly-installed art graces the west unchanged. entrance to the remodeled Plaza Building.

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anny & Lo," the fulllength motion picture debut from writer/director Lisa Krueger, shows enormous potential. The plot, however, could have been conceived for a Friday night sitcom.

The story is told through the eyes of Manny (Scarlett Johansson), a logical and observant 11-year-old who lives with her sister, 16-year-old Lo (Aleksa Palladino), the seldom-correct untrusting guide of the two. The sisters are refugees from the world of foster homes and dysfunctional families.

The routine of Manny and Lo, sleeping in model homes, stealing from convenience stores and sipboning gaso1ine to keep their huge station wagon going, is interrupted as Lo can no longer ignore her obvious pregnancy. This also puts a damper on Lo's dreams of someday being a flight attendant (to practice serving drinks in turbulence, Lo stands on the back of her sister). The sisters trek to an unoccupied winter home in the country to wait out Lo's pregnancy.

Thus arrives the plot: Lo convinces Manny to aid her in the kidnapping of a maternity shop clerk, Elaine (Mary Kay Place), who would appear to be th~.ulti­ mate authority in motherhood and social values. From here on out .th~ movie drifts towards its inevitable conclusion, with a twist here or there for a formulaic element of suspense or humor, which isn't always successful.

Several of the twists and turns lead nowhere: Manny's encounters with Chuck, a neighbor boy living the traditional family life which fascinates Manny; Lo's search for the perfect family to raise her yet unborn child; and Elaine (a hostage, remember) taking a hostage herself, unbeknownst to Lo. Just as the plot took time making it to the film, so did the conclusion. The 90-

minute/ film seemed to drag. in several places.

At the expense of the plot, Krueger is nonetheless successful in developing the characters in this film. ' It is her characters which ultimately shine and carry the movie, not Krueger's shallow look into "motherhood" and "family" or gimmicky plot devices straight from the school of cliche.

The actors, at times working with poor dialogue, are superb. Newcomer Palladino, whose only prior credit is a Gin Blossoms music video, is excellent portraying the pregnant Lo, who often misreads situations to support her dis. torted view of life. Johansson, (North, Just Cause) is splendid as Manny, enthralled by the consistency of time and numbers, often putting aside her firm grasp of reality to follow the lead of the askew Lo. The seasoned Place, known best as country singer Loretta Haggers on the comedy series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," helps to add a sense of realism, as her captive character evolves from a hostage tcf'..a mother figure.

This isn't a bad movie.Krueger takes few liberties with realism but nonetheless presents a well-crafted "fairy tale." Simplistic in both time and locale, "Manny & Lo" pleasantly flows . with dramatic imagery (Krueger's brother Tom was the director of photography) and an unsentimental musical score used rarely enough that it established a contrasting nuance to the on-screen images.

Thankfully, the script never did evolve into a commentary on motherhood and the family unit, but is successful in showing motherhood ~nd family shine in a far-from-ideal situation.

Sadly though, the story does echo happy Hollywood cliches and becomes a sort of "kidnapping gone right," as opposed to the "kidnapping gone wrong" scenario of "Fargo."

"Manny & Lo" isn't a masterpiece, but an entertaining preview of more to come from Krueger.

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f you're an insomniac of sorts and are looking for one last blast before school starts, you just may be a candidate for the fourth annual Moonlight Classic, an all-night bike tour of downtown Denver.

About 4,500 cyclists are expected lo descend on Auraria campus at midnight on August 24th to ride their bikes from 2 a.m. to sunrise on a 20-mile course that begins and ends on the Auraria campus. Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to Seniors Inc. to provide services and promote independent living for the elderly.

"People say it's a kick. There is nothing like riding in the middle of the night with no cars around," said Lou Kallas, executive director of Seniors Inc. Bob Kobis, who rode in last year's Classic, said it's a good ride.

"You' re on a bike and it's 6 a.m., and you hear the birds

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information singing," he said. "You have time to think and you can see things alongside the road that you can't see when you're in a car. You're closer to what life is all about."

The organizers are careful to stress that it is definitely not a race, but a casual ride. Although there will be random prize drawings just for participating, there will be no prizes for early finishers because of the liability that comes with speeding.

"It's more dangerous if they're

cranking it," Kallas said. "It's for people who ride once a year to every weekend."

The only qualifications needed to enter are a bike, a helmet, bike lights and payment of the registration fee, which is $20 if you preregister or $25 the night of the event. 'There is no age limit to qualify.

"It's not for the serious, hardcore racer," said organizer Irv Berlau. "It's to have fun ."

And fun is the main draw of the event.

Aside from the bike tour, it is the costume contest that is the highlight as participants try to outdo one another with-dressing up their bike, their helmet and every kind of wacky outfit possible. Some will attach trailers to their bike to carry their pet ducks or attach neon lights to their helmet and bike.

Event Director Scott Harris said that one of the most unique costumes he's seen has been a woman dressed up as Miss Kansas, See MOONLIGHT page 19

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who had just gotten married that day and wore their wedding outfits over cycling shorts with "Just Married" signs hanging from their backs.

Finishers start arriving back on campus between 3:30 a.m. and sunrise to feast on a sunrise breakfast.

Although the course has a 10-mile cutoff in case anyone wants to go back, "no one gets over-exerted and isn't able to finish,'.' Kallas said.

wearing a banner and crown, but dressed like a pig with pig ears and a pig nose.

Another participant, dressed in black, was covered from head to toe with bike reflector lights sewn on his costume.

Costumes are judged prior to the bike tour with lots of prizes awarded, from two free airline tickets to a free mountain bike • or a helmet.

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Athletics in transition Revamped volleyball program, new assistant coaches and healthy recruiting set for fall A. Jeter The METROPOLITAN

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The Metro athletic department is on the hustle with changes that include a revamped volleyball program, numerous assistant coach additions and a new athletic sponsorship program.

The department also must deal with the departure of Assistant Athletic Director J.R. Smith The winds of change blew their first gust through Metro athletics when volleyball coach Rhonda Williams, a five-year veteran, resigned last year to pursue other interests, said Bill Helman, Metro's athletic director.

Williams was replaced with Joan McDermott, who coached the team prior to Williams, leading it into postseason play two years in a row, but left six years ago.

The program is acquiring McDermott from Morningside College in Iowa. McDermott will head a whole new volleyball staff, including new Facilities Coordinator Liz Armbrustmacher and Assistant Volleyball Coach Kathryn Wyley.

Helman said Armbrustermacher's temporary position was designed to pick up some of the slack after Smith's departure.

Armbrustmacher arrived · at Metro earlier this week from Northwestern University in Chicago and has coached in Evergreen, Colo. and Houston, Texas, Helman said.

Helman foresees filling positions for men's soccer, women's basketball, tennis and baseball when the fall semester begins next week. But nothing is official, he said.

One of the biggest moves for Metro is the transfer of Smith, an I I-year veteran at Metro, to an athletic director's job at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, Helman said.

Smith's last day was Wednesday.

A number of part-time appointments have been made to ease the transition, Helman said. There will be a coordinator of athletic academic ser-

vices to do grade checks and ensure athletes' eligibility. The department also will bring in an intern for promotions and marketing. Helman said the plans may be solidified by Monday. He said it will take a few months to search for a replacement for Smith. Until one is found, Helman said, the temporary assistants will do the work for which Smith has been responsible for the past five to six years.

Helman also discussed the more than 100 new - athletes Metro has recruited.

"I think that's the most ever," he said.

He said the program has doubled its numbers from last year and nearly every team should benefit.

"We'll be real disappoint-

scholarships. - In ed if we don't make improve- athletic ments," he said. exchange for financial backing, He said the additional ath- Metro will provide advertising letes should especially help the space for the companies. men's and women's swimming Primary interests this summer and tennis teams. He said the included Norwest Bank, Roy tennis team has recruited a lot Banks Insurance and Teleof international players. The · communications Inc. (TCI), team has made significant program coordinator Mike improvements with some top- Roumph said last month. caliber recruits, he said.

Depending on the level of "Swimming, diving and sponsorship, corporate partners tennis will be major con- can receive advertising slots in tenders," Helman said. He pre- the Auraria Events Center, the dicted the teams would make Events Center Pool, the Tivoli strong efforts for division and Metropolis, a publication sent to 102,000 Metro alumni. titles.

The new athletic sponsorWhile money already has ship program contributed sig- been allotted toward scholarships, nificantly to attracting some Roumph said the program would powerhouse players, Helman get in full swing with the start of the said. The program brings in fall semester and probably would corporate dollars for athletic need a year or two to gain support, mainly contributed to momentum.

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The 1996 winter and spring teams won the College Swimming Coaches Association of America Academic All America award, CSCAA Executive Director Bob Boettner said in a letter earlier this week.

"I think it's pretty amazing," said sophomore swimmer Kristin Schweissing. "We all try really hard."

Rob Nasser, head coach of the team, also was proud of the achievement and said it was good recognition for his swimmers.

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The honor is based on the combined GPA of swim team members. The team GPA must be at least 2.8 to merit consideration.

The Roadrunners edged out seasonlong competitor University of Denver (3.282) for the top spot. The US Air Force Academy team, which had a 3.03 average, and the University of Northern Colorado, 3.15 GPA, were the only other Division II Colorado schools recognized.

Nasser said the award is just a start for the team's projected success.

"I think this is going to be a great year," he ·said.

Nasser said off-season recruiting has gone very well and he has been able to build a solid 20 swimmers for the female Roadrunners as well as the men's team .

"That's a pretty substantial difference from last year," Nasser said. The team had problems with low numbers last year and often had to forfeit events. That is something Nasser had set out to change at the end of the 1996 season.

So far, the recruits have been mainly in-state talents, Nasser said, but he would like to even up the roster with out-of-state swimmers as well.

Schweissing also said she was glad to have the recruits.

"It's really exciting," she said, "because we didn't have anybody last

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Gritty crash teaches skater a lesson in safety Ricardo Baca

ed backwards down stairs before. But what's going to stop you? It is only seven concrete stairs.

Concrete.

The future is here: audience-participation jourThe word has that certain painful ring to it.

Nonetheless, you are in constant contemplation of nalism.

The following is the true story of how I foolish- yourself, "I am stupid. No, just brave. Well, maybe stupid. Could I be both?" ly attempted a new in-line skate trick and failed Finally your speed miserably. · Close your eyes, and let the imaginary and momentum bring you juices run buck wild ... to the edge.

The jolt of every sidewalk panel The rose-tinted world runs up each leg as the wheels pass over is shattered by a big tall each crack. ,..~- . ~.._. glass of inWhile trying to look over your shoulder to see what direction you are head~ ~ your-face reality, as you ing, you lose the tiny amount of control that you have, and your original course is altered. But it does remember not matter, you do not know what you are doing or that you where you are going anyway. can lead a The eight-wheeled vehicles that support your horse to body are scratched, tattered and have various devices water, but holding them together. you can' t make him Your ego at this point is as high as the sur- drink.

The first and second stairs go by without notice, rounding skyscrapers because of the adrenaline acquired in the previous grind. as expected. But as you approach the rest of the stairs You're generally new to the sport and your your friends sense your state of panic and watch you generic grinds are looking good, but your sole and foolishly slip and slam your right knee on the edge of unity grinds are looking ugly. This particular stunt the seventh stair.

If you were ice skating, the toe pick might have has you worried, though.

An attempt has been made before - a very slow saved you. However on in-line skates, once you're up and controlled and hand-on-the-rail attempt, but still on those front wheels, you might as well put your head between your legs and kiss it goodbye. an attempt. This time you have speed and lots of it.

The real truth: a novice in-line skater trying Your backwards skating abilities are equal to See TRICK page 23 that of a court jester, and you sure as heck never skatThe METROPOLITAN

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BUMP AND GRIND: In-line skater and Metro student Ricardo Baca grabs air at a middle school in Westminster. l

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Jenny SparksfThe METROPOLITAN FINAL BUZZER: Assistant Athletic Director J:R. Smith ponders his 11 years at Metro and looks forward to moving on to Ft. Lewis College.

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opportunity to learn this business," Smith said with a pause and a long sigh. "We've created some really wonderful things."

Marianne Leiby, Metro athletics administrative assistant, was the only other person working in the department when Smith started.

"I have enjoyed watching J.R. mature and develop into a person who can handle the responsibilies of an athletic director."

Helman also -speaks fondly of Smith, saying he will be hard to replace.

"He's done a lot for Metro," Helman said, "He's a good person, so we're going to miss him."

Helman now is busy hi'ting assistants to take over Smith's many responsibilities.

So far, two assistants handling promotions and marketing and academic eligibility have been confirmed, Helman said.

Smith said that over the years, he's dealt with a lot of change. He worked to increase funding and support for the athletic program and had a hand in the remodeling of the school's gymnasium.

However, Smith said the most rewarding experience at Metro was working with the

students.

Smith said he hopes his new job will be just as rewarding.

"It's a nice place with warm, accommodating people," he said, "I look forward to establishing some new relationships."

He said, however, that since Ft. Lewis is in the same conference as Metro, he will not be gone forever and will still have the chance to see some of his old cohorts.

Smith said he is excited about the challenges that face him in Durango, and his family is set to go.

'They're excited; my wife went to school in Durango for a couple of years," said Smith who also has two children, ages 2 and 4.

Smith was among six finalists for the job in a field of 50. · He had previously worked with the Ft. Lewis people regardillg conference matters, he said, and he heard about the job last October. The initial person chosen for the job fell through, so Smith was interviewed and landed the position.

something beyond his klutz level of ability.

The result: a knee swollen to two times its original size and a liquid ego dripping into the draining gutter, the water of which is slithering by the scene of the accident.

The unlucky blader is lying on the ground with limbs sprawled in all directions. He is feeling pain in parts of his body he never knew he had, unable to move, and gritting his teeth in embarrassment.

And a11 of this for what? The glory?

The women? The pride?

None of the above, really, j~st curious to see what Hyoung Chang/The METROPOLITAN it felt like to nearly ' shatter a knee cap.

RECOVERY RAMP: Baca returns to skating only a Final result: X- month after one trick caused serio~s damage to .his knee. rays showed a minor stress fracture. It looked as if a hair had The moral of this pointless but dropped onto the X-ray plate. If pads extremely newsworthy story is: Always weren't worn, the knee would have been wear your pads and helmet when 'doing damaged forever... anything, never leave the house without an Next problem: your butt is suffering umbrella, and keep a cushion handy just in serious pain from sitting in that schwag case you need to make a visit to the emere>hair at the hospital for two hours, and you gency room. think it might need an x-ray or two.

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Dear Financial Connections, This is my second semester at Metro and I'm having a difficult time deciding if I should take out a student loan to help with my college expenses. After paying for tuition, books and a new backpack, I'm broke!

I work part-time to cover my bills, but I always seem to run out of money before the end of the month·. Are student loans a practical way to go or do I just need to budget my money to make it last?

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Dear Starving Student, Trying to cover expenses for both school and everyday living can be difficult to manage.

There is a program at MSCD designed to help students with a wide range of financial services.

The Student Finance Resource _,. Center provides Metro students with solutions to immediate and long-term financial problems.

Some of the services available to students include financial planning and budgeting, scholarship search services and Short-Term Student Loans. Every • month, the Student Finance Resource Center holds a financial planning workshop, free to all MSCD students. To find out more about The Student Finance Resource Center, come by and talk to the director, Tom Muenzberg. His office is located in the Tivoli Student Union, Suite 305.

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Men's soccer coach Brian Crookham expects the leadership of 13 returning players to guide the stillyoung Metro team to an improved record for 1996, after ending last season with a dismal 5-15 record (3-11 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference).

"I am very excited about getting started," said Crookham. "I think the program is going in the right direction."

The 1995 season, which was Crookham 's first at Metro, boasted a meager three recruits. However, with a full year to prepare, Crookham has quadrupled that number for 1996. Crookham said the recruiting class was "very good," bringing in six players from out of state, including one from Canada, and another six from Colorado.

Jenny SparksfThe METROPOLITAN Crookham said when he arrived the program was OPTIMISTIC ORATOR: Second-year soccer coach Brian down and struggling. But over the course of the year, he Crookham, center, coaches his players during a practice Wednesday. made changes in personnel, discipline and academic policy. He said last year's team played well at times but struggled to team, Crookham said. win.

In the midst of conference expansions and realignments, the Midfielders Mazen Kayali and Brett Ryals, defender Yeshitla RMAC remains the same; tough and competitive, Crookham Zerihun and goalkeeper Larry Sersante are all seniors who said.

Crookham expects to make a significant contribution to the The NCAA allows men 's soccer nine scholarships, Roadrunners 1996 season.

Crookham said. Most of the v~sity players will have some form Crookham said he also expects many of the recruits to con- of aid available to them. Seven of the scholarships are distributed tribute and have significant playing time. He named junior for- between 22 players. ward Adam Young from Missouri Valley College, sophomore forWhen asked if the corporate athletic sponsorship program ward Jeff Swander from Ft. Lewis College and junior defender has helped in recruiting, Crookham answered, "definitely - we Chris Johnson from Chapman College as notable transfers to were given more resources this year and we feel that it made a Metro. huge difference."

Of the 20 freshman on the preliminary roster, redshirt goal"I think it will be a fun year," said the optimistic Crookham. keeper Zach Loescher from Creighton University and midfielder The team kicks off the season at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, Cody Cobb from Oklahoma City will "see time" on the Varsity hosting the University of Southern Colorado at the Auraria fields.

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Assembly meets every MON. SEPT Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Tivoli Room 329. Info: 556-3312.

MoN. Aue 26 The Institute for International Toads in the Garden, a weekly and Intercultural Education poetry reading in the Daily Fall Semester begfus. hosts a lecture at noon in St. Grind coffee house in the Tivoli Cajetan' s Center entitled "A forstarts at 7:30 p.m. Th\lrsday. A · mer Dean's Perspective on SAT. Aue $2 donation is requested.

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WED. SEPT student groups host Campus at the Metro Denver Baha'i Involvement Week Sept. 3-5 Center, 225 E. Bayaud Ave. Info: from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the flag- 322-8997.

The athletics department will pole area. This is an opportunihost a Jamboree by the Plaza ty for students to find out about building from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 MON. SEPT 2 the services each school has to p.m. Portable basketball hoops, offer. Info: 556-2595. a volleyball net, a soccer goal Labor Day campus closed. and a whp 1 liffle ball game will be set up.

SAT. Aue 24 Participants will get food and prizes.

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