Volume 19, Issue 9 - Oct. 18, 1996 by Met Media

Congress increases college aid Pell Grant, Perkins Loan and work-study recipients will receive more financial aid Mitsuru Shimuzu The METROPOLITAN

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A year and a month after Auraria students marched to the state capitol to stop a Republican attempt to cut funds for student financial assistance programs, students find their march paying off. Congress agreed to increase funds by $954 million for a total of $7.4 billion for three major student financial assistance programs for the 1997 fiscal year, a document released Oct. 9 by the Department of Education shows. According to the document, the increase included $676 million for the Pell Grant program, $64.7 million for the Perkins Loan program and $213 million for the work-study program. In addition, Congress approved a $55 million increase for a direct student loan program, separate from the student financial assistance programs, for a total of $13 billion. ''The main thing that is going to increase is the Pell Grants," said Jeffery Parks of Metro's Financial Aid Office. "It is going to go from $2,470 per year to $2,700 per year." Recipients in the Pell Grant program receive $1 ,350 for each fall and spring semester, he said. Sometimes aid from Pell Grants Hyoung Chang/The METROPOLITAN is enough, but most students needing the grant need other aid from the President Clinton shakes hands with supporters after his speech in Red Rocks Amphitheatre. His stop in Denver was direct student loans program through an important one along his "Blazing a Trail Towards the 21st Century" campaign. the financial aid office, Parks said. A Pell Grant recipient, Metro increased by $954 million compared with thel996 fiscal sophomore Joyce Singleton, 23, said, "I feel that the in aid was not enough. increase is very, very good, but they needed to increase a Parks said the federal government was trying to year, according to the Department of Education. little bit more because that would give more students of increase the budget for the Pell Grant program because it Compared with the budget for the 1994 fiscal year, the funds for the 1997 Pell Grant program decreased by different kinds of backgrounds more opportunities ... and wanted to bring the federal default rate lower. because there is money." The lower the government keeps the grant money, the $11 .9 million, the funds for the 1997 work-study program increased by $209.1 million, and the funds for the 1997 In addition, that would encourage those who would more students have to borrow, he said. be able to get aid to go to school, she said. "But what we are finding out now is students have to Perkins Loans decreased by $19.4 million, the documents Singleton, a single mother, received about $1,300 borrow more and more and more; it's making it harder for show. On the other hand the number of direct student loan from the Pell Grant program for this semester; however, them to repay," Parks said. Compared with the 1994 fiscal year, however, the awards increased by 4.39 million to 4.6 million between she said, she also had to borrow another $425 to pay tuition and fees for her 12 credit hours because the $1,300 1997 total funds increased by $177 .8 million, although it 1994 and 1996, the Department of Education estimated.

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Springer justifies existence Talk-show host fights critics of his medium, calls his own show "silly" Brigett L. Camarena

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Because of the First Amendment even Nazis are permitted to speak and to be heard, said talk show host and former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer in a speech at the Tivoli last Friday. Springer pointed out that "on numerous occasions people as filthy, disgusting and deplorable as neo-Nazis" have been on his television talk show, "The Jerry Springer Show," despite the fact that half of his family died in concentration camps in Germany during World War II. Springer told the audience of 150 that the First Amendment ·was not intended to protect mainstream media outlets such as Time Magazine, Newsweek or The New York TI.mes . They do not need the First Amendment to protect them, Springer said, because what they write is what most people believe - they seldom deal with unpopular topics.

"The real test in the First Amendment is if society permits an expression of an idea, of a lifestyle, of religion and of .a point of view that no one else in the country agrees with," Springer said. Between 1920 and 1950 there was no television, and people in the U.S. did not know that 6 million Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, Springer said. People did not know that blacks were being lynched from trees in the South, Springer said. "It is not television that brought evil to this world," Springer said. "It is television that exposes what exists in the world, and then it is for the rest of us to use our free minds to reject those things which are evil." Springer responds to people who say he is wrong to expose young viewers to "crazies," by saying "I hope people see them." "My show is just a silly show," Springer said. "It's only entertainment." Springer said nothing on his stage is rehearsed, and what the audience sees is real. "There are no rules on my show," Springer said. Springer's advice to students is to be come educated, because education is vital,

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SPRINGER FANS: Television talk-show host Jerry Springer signs autographs at his Tivoli appearance last Friday. and English is important. "Internships are a good way to get in," Springer said, for any profession, and a willingness to travel. "With every job you have, be the best you can be at that job," Springer said. "Then you will be noticed and something else will open up."

Minor parking change Film fest takes over Tivoli parking lot for a week Rob Larimer

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ed alternative lots D, G, E and the Parking and Transportation Center. This is the fifth consecutive year that the Tivoli Student Union has hosted the festival. Torres said the parking lot schedule modifications for the festival are the same ones made in previous years and that the students who would be effected have always been notified of changes in advance. She said that these modifications have always worked well in the past and that she Tivoli manage- has never heard of any official complaint filed ment doesn't about parking during the festival. anticipate any Torres said she major problems believes students should be willing to cooperate with the Tivoli's minor The only stu- parking inconveniences dents effected because of festival benefits offered to Auraria would be those students, such as special who use the discount prices on film tickets, opportunities for Ilvoli Early Bird classes to vrew films and free tickets to the New parking lot MediaeXpo. Torres added that the biggest inconvenience students would face in parking would be the loss of the special Early Bird rate and having to pay $5 for spots in the Tivoli lot during the festival or pay a little more to park elsewhere on campus.

The METROPOLITAN Tivoli management said Monday they expect parking for attendees of The 19th Denver International Film Festival, which got underway Thursday, and students at Auraria Campus, to run "smooth and hassle-free." The annual film festival, which is expected to attract more than 25,000 film enthusiasts, will screen over 180 films at the AMC Tivoli 12 Theatres through Oct. 24. The crowds flocking to the Tivoli could pose parking problems for afternoon students wishing to use the campus parking lots. Tivoli Marketing Manager Sandy Torres said that she doesn't anticipate any major problems with parking and that the only students effected would be those who use the Tivoli Early Bird parking lot. Torres said that the Early Bird lot will close at 11 a.m. during the festival, two hours earlier than the usual I p.m. closing time, to accommodate filmgoers' parking needs. Cars in the lot after the 11 a.m. closing time will not be charged extra. Students are being asked to cooperate by using alternate parking lots around the campus. Torres suggest-

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Not every job has to be particularly related to the job before, he said. · Springer was a lawyer before he was elected mayor of Cincinnati and afterward a news anchor, before moving on to talk show host. He said he was always trying his best in every profession, and each one lead him to a new one.

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Kiosks ready for next ste_p Class schedules, registration go online in November

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Students who face the confusing network of Metro's administrative bureaucracy and who suffer the long-line epidemic that plagues administrative offices will soon be one step closer to a cure. Starting next month, the next phase in the ISi Banner project is expected to take effect, which will allow students to access the student catalog and class schedules from a computer, according to the ISi cabinet's timeline. The new plan to help students battle AMBITIOUS PLANS: The schedule for the "Ask Rowdy'' system the bureaucracy is called the Integrated Systems Initiative (ISi) and it "gives stu- shows the proposed timetable until all of its functions are working. dents the ability to get their own information," Director of Academic Computing Students will be able to use the up to several years before the kiosks are and User Services Rick Beck said. kiosks to do a complete degree audit by at their full potential, she added "It's a massive undertaking; we This new freedom comes to students the following January. Right now the in the form of kiosks called "Ask Rowdy" kiosks are at about 20 percent of their underestimated just how much time it would require," Beck said. located around the campus that will allow total potential. The ISi project not only requires students to have direct links to informaCurrently the kiosks have no student tion that was once only available from data. They can answer frequently asked time, but money; a lot of money. The cost questions, print out various forms includ- will total three million dollars when it is office terminals. "The kiosks will really reduce some ing admissions and financial aid tran- complete. "But I think it will be more of the lines in offices," Associate scripts, and allows students access to a than that," Beck said. $100,000 has been spent on training Registrar Lynn Denzin said. This will be campus-wide phone list that runs in conpeople on the new Oracle system, which especially useful to evening students who junction with a campus map. Metro student Gloria Olavarria said is replacing the old Adabase database. get to school when all the offices are The Touch Net contract, which supalready closed, she added. the kiosks are "very informative; espeplies the software and hardware for the It will give detailed descriptions of cially for new students." "A lot of employees here don't have kiosks, cost over $1 million alone. Metro courses, students will be able to check on financial aid progress and even register the best personalities. I'd rather not deal President Sheila Kaplan mandated the for classes using the kiosks, Beck said. with them because they are so rude," spending of $3 million on a new campusIn April 1997 students will be able to Olavarria said, adding she would rather wide computer system. register for classes using "Ask Rowdy," deal with a computer. named after Metro's roadrunner mascot. The only set back is having to wait

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Downloading porn in school labs unregulated Jesse Stephenson The METROPOLITAN

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With a student ID a_nd the know-how to access the Internet, students at Auraria can search the Web for art, literature, science - or pornography. Students are using the computer labs on campus to visit Web sites that list a host of free pornography sites on the Internet, but some lab assistants and students say they do not want to be confronted with expUcit pictures on other students' screens. "It's offensive. It's just like someone standing naked in the lab," said Nikki Peterson, a University of Colorado at Denver lab assistant. "I don't need to see anyone naked in person or on-screen." Andrea Hanna, another UCD lab assistant, said she was recently thrown off guard when she came upon a student who had put an enlarged picture of a penis on

his computer screen. "I can't believe he downloaded that in the middle of the lab," Hanna said. "ljust took a double take." Surprised or offended as people are about sexually explicit on-screen images, lab assistants cannot control access to Internet porn in the labs. "As a policy, there's nothing we can do, but we don't want other students to see it," said Michael Simpson, a Metro student and assistant in the West Classroom's computer lab. "We do discourage it, but there is nothing posted about downloading pornography." Marc Falkenhan, the manager of the academic computer labs, said there is no policy controlling Internet pornography, since restricting any information on the Internet - except child pornography and other illegal images and data - is viewed by the Supreme Court as a violation of the First Amendment.

Falkenhan said he has instructed lab assistants to ask students who are looking at pornographic web sites to stop or move to another computer if another student has complained. ''For legality's sake, that's the only way we can control it," he said.

Although a handful of students have complained about pornography on other students' screens, even critics of in-lab porn users say they would be Jess happy if Internet access was restricted. "Maybe they're doing it for a report - you never know," Simpson said.

Colorado Capitol rally part of D.C. program March For Justice held in country's capitol, supported all over US. Hildegarde Chambers The METROPOLITAN

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LONELY RALLY: A lone picket stands across from the Capitol building at last Saturday's Immigrant Rights rally. The rally drew nearly 200 people at its height.

Latinos rallied Saturday in front of the State Capitol to protest presidential election politics that they say scapegoats them on issues of immigration, affirmative action, minimum wage hikes, welfare, health and education. The rally in Denver corresponded with the March For Justice held in Washington, D.C. the same day. Every major city in the U.S. was scheduled to hold a rally Oct. 12. "It's time for us to say enough is enough to both political parties because we are being used by them," said speaker Dora Medina, chairwoman of the Guatemalan Culture and Policy Project. When asked about the effect of contin-

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Anti-U.S. sentiments voiced during rally This example is the same story all over Latin America, Medina said. "The or economic refugees, c1tmg the U.S. only way that immigrants will stay in government's refusal to support President countries is if the U.S. will leave governJacobo Arbenz Guzman, elected by i:he ments alone." Meranto agrees, citing not only people in 1950. Arbenz initiated land Guatemala but also reform, taking land out Nicaragua, Chile and of the hands of corporaCuba as "clas~ic tions, including that of examples because all the largest landowner, a of those dictators who U.S. corporation called were in power were the United Fruit Co., friendly with the and giving it back to the United States because people, Medina said. they allowed the U.S. The United States corporations essentialaided a military regime ly to run the country," in overthrowing a govMeranto said. ernment that was not "There's a clear communist but rather was helping the people -Dora Medina indication that the and represented a Chairwoman of the United States' interferdemocratic opening in Guatemalan Culture and ence in these countries Guatemala, Medina Policy Project has really hurt these countries economicalsaid. "Since L954 to ly," she said. the present time in "Our national interests in Central Guatemala, we have had a lot of mHitary people in power with assistan~e from the America and Latin America have not had to do with democracy. It's more to do United States." "It's all been under the auspices of with economic interests." Meranto said that rather than fighting communism and that's how it's been made palatable for the average addressing and explaining issues such as American," said Oneida Meranto, teacher why the average American's wages have of Latin American Politics at Metro. not gone up, politicians scapegoat power"The bottom line is that there was really less groups such as immigrants. "These no threat of communist invasion in Latin are things that we talk about every four America." years."

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College should lead fight for diversity Dear Editor: The MSCD African American Council applauds and supports President Sheila Kaplan's initiative to pursue an aggressive policy and plan in recruiting people of color to the faculty ranks of this college. A college community, while embracing academic freedom and the tree flow of ideas, nevertheless holds certain values which are central to its being. The •mission to recruit and retain a competent, creative and culturally diverse faculty, staff and student body has long been a goal of past and present administrations. When a campus achieves diversity, it gains all the benefits of pluralism, the healthy variety that makes our society rich and dynamic. Any college campus that lacks full participation by people of color and women deprives its students - and itself of something fundamental to American life: "diversity." The educational community should be at the forefront of the effort· to achieve diversity in our country. But, too often, these efforts are met with resistance, apathy, even outright rejection. And these reactions create barriers to diversity. What are some of the things that might be "at the heart" of MSCD faculty and chairs' attitudes on an aggressive plan to recruit people of color? What are some of the possible reasons for them to believe that aggressive recruitment is reverse discrimination or quotas? • Cultural chauvinism - the belief that aggressive

recruiting will give people of color an unfair advantage over white applicants or deprive them of their rightful positions. •A sense of having done enough by making the position available - the belief that it's the responsibility of people of color applicants to apply, not the institution's responsibility to recruit them. • Categorizing - lumping people into cultural or gender groups - or, worse, lumping all people of color and women into the same group, thereby deh~manizing them and minimizing their individual skills and contribution (TOP's hire, FRIP hire, Affirmative Action hire). • Concern that "goals" really mean "quotas" in semantic disguise. Some faculty and chairs may think the confusion over the terms lies with administration - that the plan really will involve quotas, even though they are called goals. • Fear of change - a fear that may or may not involve concerns over one's own position. • Powerlessness - a sense that events and decisions have been mandated by a higher authority. •A susceptibility to simple, emotional, mass persuasion, especially when used in conjunction with such volatile and elusive expressions as " reverse discrimination." The Metropolitan's headline is a classic example; "Kaplan's Hiring Practices: minorities, minorities, minorities." • The inability to recognize that there is an

imbalance in opportunity. Ninety-five percent of most search committees and hiring officers in the institution are white, with limited knowledge ·or experience in dealing with people of color. Traditionally, discrimination in America closed out people of color and women from many opportunities. Affirmative action and aggressive recruiting does not bar white applicants from any opportunity. Affirmative action seeks only to remedy the effects of discrimination and the lack of a sincere effort to correct an imbalance. Indeed, even where affirmative action is firmly entrenched, white applicants still hold the advantage they have always held in the job market. The difference between goals and quotas should be clearly understood by anyone employed at this college who supports and works for diversity. Goals should be evaluated on their own merits, rather than dismissed in an offhand way, or confused with the concept of mandated results. Those who support goals to achieve diversity are part of a larger, national effort to build a more pluralistic society, and they can take great satisfaction when those goals are met.

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Minimum wage hike result of minimum thinking In the upcoming election, Denver voters will consider Initiative 100, a proposal to increase the minimum wage. If this initiative passes, the minimum wage will rise to $6.50 per hour starting Jan. 1, 1997. After one year it will increase to $6.85 per hour, and on Jan. 1, 1998, to $7.15 per hour. Each year after that, the minimum wage would increase by the same percent as the U.S. City Consumer Price Index-All Items. This ballot measure was placed on the ballot by a petition drive. Supporters of this initiative claim they are trying to help workers who earn the minimum wage. If they understood basic economics perhaps they would see that this initiative will harm those workers they ostensibly want to help. Consider the law of supply and demand. This economic law states that when the price of a good or service increases, the demand for the good or service will decrease. In this case, the good or service is labor. If the price of this labor increases 36 percent (as proposed in the first year alone) over the current minimum wage of $4.75 per hour, employers will find alternatives to hiring low skill workers. The demand for low skilled workers will drop. The question has been posed before: "Is it better to be employed at $4.75 per hour, or unemployed at $6.50 per hour?" The economic arguments against Initiative 100 take on more force if you consider the context in which the ini-

tiative will take effect. Only those businesses operating within the Denver city limits will be required to abide by the minimum standard. In a competitive marketplace, will an employer whose lease is up on his current facility, or one who is considering opening a business in the region decide to operate within Denver? Or will the businessman choose to operate in a nearby locale, and compete with Denver businesses who operate under the burden imposed by the higher minimum wage? Minimum wage supporters say that a person can't live on $4.75 per hour. What they don't say, is that hardly anyone does. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that 37 percent of minimum wage workers in 1995 were teenagers, most living at home, and 59 percent were 24 years old or younger. These are entry level jobs, where the new employee is trained, and they are unlikely to remain at this wage for a long time. The work force in the U.S. is about 120 million, and only 21 O thousand, or less than 2 percent, maintained a family with a minimum wage job. The economic arguments against the minimum wage aside, the moral arguments are at least as powerful. The minimum wage prevents a voluntary transaction between cooperating people from taking place. In Washington, D.C., in 1923, one of the earliest minimum wage laws was passed. Immediately, Children's

Hospital fired a group of nurses that the hospital could no longer afford to employ. The nurses filed suit to overturn the law, and they won. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the minimum wage law interfered with the right of individuals to determine the price that they could sell their labor. The court ruled it unconstitutional for the state to interfere in a free, voluntary, and private transaction. Of course, the court has changed its mind since then, and the federal minimum wage now covers about nine-tenths of the work force. In the spirit of politics, it is telling that the market price of labor is higher than the minimum wage in all but a few jobs. In other words, the minimum wage affects few jobs, but benefits politicians who appear to "care." But those jobs are important, for they are the jobs that allow individuals with few or no skills to enter the job market, and that is where they will develop job skills that will enable them to raise the price at which they sell their labor. Also falling in the category of moral arguments is this item: Denver Area Labor Federat1on Leader Jack Hawkins is quoted in the Oct. 13 Rocky Mountain News as follows, on the relationship of wages and crime: "We need to do something about that. It's a root cause of some very violent crime." Very astute, Jack. And what does he want to do about it? Diminish the demand for minimum wage labor and put those he wants to help out of

work? A good way to stop crime? I don't think so. Lest readers think of me as "mean spirited," let me suggest an alternative to the minimum wage that would help low-wage earners, stimulate the economy and satisfy the moral issues I discussed above. James K. Glassman, a columnist for The Washington Post, proposes the following scheme: Eliminate the federal payroll tax for anyone who makes less than $6. an hour. The tax is 15.3 percent of all wages. The employer pays half, so a worker earning $5.00 an hour is taking home $4.62, but costs his employer $5.38 an hour. All else equal, the worker would then take home $5.38 and hour, since that is the cost to the business, which is a 16 percent increase. The government may collect less revenue-my preference would be to cut spending to make up the shortfall, but any alternative is fairer than the system we have now. Currently, the worker earning $10,000 a year transfers about $1,500 to a retiree who may be well off! Even if taxes were raised, they would be shared by all workers, not just the low skilled and their employers. Do the smart thing: Vote NO on Initiative 100.

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expect a lot, and the students somehow Dear Editor: I was so incensed by the article sub- find a way to deliver. Growth comes from mitted by Gary Norris, printed in the Oct. 4 being challenged. Courses taught by Dr. issue of The Metropolitan, that I feel com- Hazan, Dr. Kilduff, Dr. Fredericks, Dr. T.J. pelled to register my protest. In case you Cole and so many others like them are as missed it, let me recap: the gist of this arti- stimulating and edifying (if not more so) cle was that students at Metro should not than those in a university environment. be allowed to evaluate instructors, Here we have the opportunity for mentorbecause we are incapable of valuing or ing with our instructors which enables us to assessing our educational experience. Mr. shape our education, in process, to best Norris claims: "on this campus, of all suit our needs. At a university we have to places, the student can't be trusted. They fit the mold. have personal agendas far beyond the Norris seems to feel that us nontradiimmediate goal of education. After all, this tional students detract from the experience is a nontraditional school." He goes on to of college. He blames it on our external say that we are angry [here] "because edu- agendas. These agendas don't prevent some from being actively involved in camcation is supposed to be easy.• He sounds like a frat-boy wanna-be pus life. Kathy McKittrick and Jim Mueller that is bummed because he is stuck in are excellent examples of nontraditional class with a bunch of old. people. It is a student commitment. Some of us prefer to shame he (and so many others like him) commit ourselves to activities in the comare going to graduate with me this year, munity. I spend my extra time helping the without gaining any comprehension of fel- elderly in my neighborhood, and recently, low students, and without the understand- have gotten involved in the Women's Bean ing that not all of the education we get here Project. Some of us aren't at college for comes from the text books. Most appalling, that piece of paper that Norris claims will however, is how pervasive negative atti- get us better-paying jobs. Some of us have tudes are on this campus about the caliber realized we aren't immortal, and are at colof the students in general, and nontradi- lege to find out how to make the world a tional students in particular. I feel these better place. And we are putting our eduissues of the level of education at Metro, cation into practice. And yes, there have been times when and the non-traditional students' role in that education, need to be addressed. we have had to "bail out of classes," but it It seems like such a common misper- is not always for indolence or "socializing." ception that "real" students are all at the Often it is because we aspire to do more university, that the rest of us are just play- than is humanly possible. But failure can acting. We aren't granted the dignity of often be a better educator than success. being "serious students" but are seen as lit- With failure we can learn our limits, and tle more than backpacks with legs. learn how to extend them. Growth comes Everyone loses when these assumptions from challenges. One semester I had to are made. Universities do have more decide that caring for my elderly grandfaresources to draw on. I would have liked to ther after my grandmother's death was be at Stanford. But sometimes our dreams more important than that semester's classdon't just happen to us - we have to make es. Some day, I will retake the class in them happen. I began my college career presidential studies that I failed, and I will eleven years ago. I have attended four col- relish it. According to my transcripts, I lege institutions, and yes, have had univer- bombed. To me it was a personal victory sity experience. Metro has just as many that no GPA could have replaced. Norris quality courses, plus the added advantage - claims that we "lack stamina and selfof instructor interaction. Classes anywhere esteem." He is wrong. He also implies that can be either mind-blowing or mediocre. because we have full lives, nontraditional People will live up or down to expectations students are incapable of being disciof them. Metro has many professors that plined, capable students. Again he is

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wrong. Discipline is not an exercise for us, it is a matter of survival. The prevailing idea seems to be that nontraditional students, because they do many things, can do none of them well. Because we may also be employees, parents, partners or volunteers doesn't mean that we can't also be students, and good ones at that. Growth comes from challenges. These "agendas," contrary to what Mr. Norris believes, do not detract from education, they enhance it. Not only are we learning what is truly important and what is not (Marx is important, ironing is not!), but we are learning how to balance it all out: to organize time, to work efficiently, and to make the most of resources available. This is a valuable education in itself that will be more critical in the "real world" than some structured classes. College education doesn't all come from textbooks. I am not describing my personal experience because I think it is exceptional. _On the contrary, there are thousands of students like me on campus who have the audacity of living a full life. We are no longer post-adolescent, but that doesn't mean our brains have shriveled or that we have nothing to contribute. In fact, experience has allowed us to temper youthful idealism that so often closes the minds of our younger counterparts. Class discussions are so much richer when there is a variety of beliefs represented. If nothing else, we at least deserve credit for having the intestinal fortitude to take the challenges of day-to-day living with tight budgets and tighter schedules. It should not be assumed that we have taken the nontraditional path because we "expect education to be easy." We are taking the road less traveled because we have the drive, and the determination to see where it leads. Speaking of Robert Frost, let me close with his words: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference.

Gayle Johnson Behavioral Science Metro student

Metro turns its back on teacher with real-life experience Dear Editor, As a recent graduate of Metropolitan State College and a working professional, I talk with pride of this institution from which I received the education necessary to succeed in the field I have chosen. Yet feelings of pride evaporated into anger as I read the front page article of the last issue of The Metropolitan. I am incensed at Metro's administrators for trying to do away with the very feature that drew me to this college and made me a working professional and proud alumna teachers who teach from real-life experience, not from text book theory. Upon receiving my diploma I went out into the working world equipped not just with theoretical knowledge but also the confidence one only has when he or she knows what is expected in the working world. This sense of confidence was instilled in me by J.P. Mclaughlin during my time at The Capitol Reporter. Mclaughlin was crusty, he was demanding, he was pushy, but most of all he was real. He put me to work, showing me how to pull the ropes of my trade instead of just explaining the ropes to me. During my time at Metro I have met many more teach-

ers whom I grew to respect because they are professionals and not just professors. It saddens me to see that Metro is choosing to ignore these professionals on the track to tenure, because they lack documentation in areas of "professional development and service." Mclaughlin has served my development into a professional like no one else has.· I understand that certain standards have to be applied before a teacher is welcomed into the tenure heaven, but if common sense would be taken into consideration, administrators at this college would recognize that teachers like Mclaughlin enable graduates like me to get a job and contribute by professional achievement to the reputation of this college. It is my hope that this college will never have ivy covered walls and catacombs filled with professors too caught up in research to teach. During my brief time out in the professional world I have numerous times looked back gratefully at my time at Metro because of teachers like Mclaughlin.

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resident Biil Clinton had one last thing to say before boarding Air Force One at Denver International Airport Oct. 13: "Rapists convicted of using date-rape drugs are going to pay a

price." Clinton, who was winding up a Colorado campaign stump, vowed to sign legislation that would add 20 years to the sentences of convicted date-rape-drug offenders. To Colorado prosecutors and rape awareness activists, C)jnton's promise was welcome news. "We are really pleased that he is signing it and taking this drug seriously because typically things go to epidemic levels before people start reacting," says Karmen Carter, executive director of Denver's Rape Assistance and Awareness Program. The scope of the bill targets the use of date-rape drugs many have yet to hear about, including one nicknamed "Easy Lay." Date-rape drugs are colorless, odorless and tasteless

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chemicals existing in pill or liquid form, as in the case of "Easy Lay,"' which is also known as Liquid X or GHB (Gamma hydroxybutyrate). When backs are turned, rapists slip the drug into their victim's drink. The chemicals cause depression of the central nervous system and could cause someone to stop breathing and die, depending on the dose and the individual's body reaction, says Dr. Ed Kuffer of the Denver Health Medical Center. "There is a lot of other medications that people could be exposed to that cause the same symptoms," Kuffer says. "I would just advise people that [if someone] has a suspicion that they might have been exposed to this, to come on in and we can test for it." While the spotlight is on Rohypnol, also known as "Roofies," drugs such as "Easy Lay" lurk in the shadows. Unlike Rohypnol, which is smuggled into the United States, "Easy Lay" is more accessible because it can be brewed in the home, using household cleaning chemicals. Time magazine in its Sept. 30 issue reported an incident in La Porte, Texas, in which a 17-year-old died after someone allegedly spiked her soda pop with "Easy Lay." See RAPE page 14

Procrastination more _ than a waste of time M. St.Germain The METROPOLITAN rocrastination is a normal mode of behavior for many people, especially college students. 1)'pically misunderstood as laziness or carelessness, the habit of putting off responsibilities until "later" is deeply rooted in primal human emotions and subconscious anxieties. The Nooners workshop on Oct. 9 focused on "Overcoming Procrastination," and featured Randy Ferguson, an author, newspaper columnist, motivational speaker and facilitator of seminars and retreats on personal development nationwide for over 10 years. "People procrastinate about everything, everything, everything!" Ferguson laughs knowingly. "Even if it is something that they know will improve the quality of their life." But don't pull up that therapy couch yet 路-by understanding what makes us procrastinate, each of us has the opportunity to take an impending disaster and transform it into a personal success. Displaying great enthusiasm in his subject, Ferguson first relayed some experiences that forced him to restructure his life: divorce, bankruptcy, and feeling stuck in a frustrating cycle of failure. Desiring a permanent, positive change in his life, he focused on the patterns of his self-sabotage and began formulating his theory on "the energy of procrastination."

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That may sound like a contradiction, but the very act of procrastination requires an immense amount of effort, wasted effort, he says. Ferguson suggested two locomotive engines nose-to-nose, throttles open," getting nowhere despite all that power. One engine represents our goals and dreams and the other our numerous excuses and reasons why these dreams should not be actualized. Explaining that the purpose of procrastination is ~o protect us from re-experiencing hurt and disappointment, Ferguson describes what he calls "the comfort zone." This "zone" often reflects the health of our self-awareness/self-confidence. It takes courage to attempt the risks and challenges that result in permanent, positive change. It can be intimidating to override the discouragement of old emotional pain and past negative experiences. That doubtful voice inside your head is still saying, " ...you remember what happened the last time you tried to ..." when you tried to do anything that challenged your feelings of insecurity. Excuses such as that shrink the comfort zone. Ferguson makes plain the formula for achieving goals: "Expansive comfort zone equals greater risks, equals greater change, equals greater chance for success, equals greater achievements, equals greater dreams," he said, adding that a restricted comfort zone will produce See PROCRASTINATION page 18

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OCU$ n the tradition of poignant . Chinese films, Red Cherry delivers a beautiful true story of the horrors of war and the ability of the human spirit to overcome the abhorrent. Two children of Chinese communists are brought to an international school in Russia and become part of a family of children. Soon the terrors of war tear the children apart and their destinies become the history of forgotten children. The direction of this epic tale is done so artfully that your heart strings are tom out again and again and shaped into a slingshot. The boy, Luo Xiaoman, played by Xu Xiaoli, has the heart of a Russian. To survive on the streets of World War II Russia, he delivers death notices to the family members left behind. He takes a young girl under his wing, becoming her father-figure, and they attempt to rewrite history. Luo Xiaoman

Jenny SparksfThe METROPOLITAN BOX -OFFICE BARKER: Glenn Grassi, an employee at the Denver Film Festival's ticket office, chats on the phone while other employees sell tickets for the annual event. he Denver International Film Festival starts its 19th year with a lot of feeling. The theme for this year's festival is "Life at twenty-four frames per second." Brian Kitts, spokesman for the festival, says the goal this year is to show movies in which the makers deal with life's emotions. "If (they) do a good job, they capture that emotion on film," he says. The festival decided this year to focus less on foreign and independent films and gear the movies to appeal to a wider audience. ''This is one of the best festivals we've had in terms of product and accessibility," Kitts said. "There is literally something for everyone." In addition to the foreign and independent films, the festival also offers some big name classics like Rocky and some movies for children. More than 90 guests from the moviemaking world will make appearances more than any in previous years. Among those is actor Tony Curtis, who will be honored with a work-in-progress achievement award. "He's a veteran of over 100 movies and television shows," Kitts says. "He's 72 and still a credible movie star." Curtis will appear at showings of Some Like It Hot, Sweet Smell of Success and his upcoming The Continuing Adventures of Reptile Man, the story of a TV actor who starts to believe he really is the superhero he

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played in a television show. Also being honored, with the festival's first Lifetime Achievement Award, is anima~or Chuck Jones, the creator of Warner Bros.' Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunne.r. "What he has done is a part of American history," said Kitts. Jones will appear at ... And That's Not All, Folks!, a collection of some of his cartoons. This will also be the second year for the New Media eXpo, which will focus on how technology has changed the movies. Last year focused on how to use technology and its impact. "There is an emphasis on how technology is affecting entertainment and lifestyles," Kitts says. The New Media eXpo takes place in the Tivoli Tumhalle Oct. 18-21. It will feature lectures on using the Internet to participate in the democratic process, surfing the net to find more on movies and how technology is used in film-making. Most of the movies will be shown at the AMC Tivoli 12 Theatres. The opening and closing night shows will take place at the Continental and a few will be shown at the Bluebird Theater. For information on times, tickets and places, call 595-FILM, stop by the office in Tivoli 260 or visit the web http://www2.csn.net/denverfilm/

on terrorius a battalion of German solders and attempts to settle the score of the war. Chuchu suffers a life of servitude to a Nazi general who is a lover of art and fancies himself a tattoo artist. Along with her, one witnesses again and again that the blood of children flowed throughout the war. She becomes a living piece of art and nearly loses her will to live until she is united with the daughter of her Chinese mate. The closure of this movie ties beautifully the beginning when Chuchu shares the horror she witnessed in communist China. Chuchu is played by the award winning Guo Ke-Yu. The acting is seamless as these two precious children suffer the ravages of war. Director Ye Ying succeeds in showing the faces of children forgotten in the time of war. - Donna Hickey Jackson

LESSON OF SURVIVAL: Chuchu (Guo Ke-Yu), behind globe, and Luo (Xu Xiaoli), with glasses, attend classes at a Russian school prior to World War II.

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hat happens when three unemployed losers decide to rob a jewelry store? They ta1ce a wrong tum and end up heisting pastries from a donut shop. This opening scene sets up the premise for Palookaville, a 1995 film directed by Alan Taylor. Set near Jersey City, the low-key comedy features three unemployed friends searching for a way out of poverty. After their donut fiasco, the three men rescue an ailing armored car driver delivering money and decide to devise a plan to rob the vehicle later. The film focuses on the reasons each man decides to tum to a "momentary shift in lifestyle." Jerry (Adam Trese), lives with his mother, sister and brother-in-law cop. He dreams of going to California, where fresh-squeezed orange juice and avocados abound. But Jerry, who thinks the world owes him something, refuses to take a bus insisting he must travel in style. Russell (Vincent 9allo) has a child and wife to support. To ma1ce matters worse their only income, wife Betty's supermarket job, comes with a harassing boss who fires her after Russell halts his advances. Sid (Edward Forsythe) has simple reasons to rob the armored car - feed his dogs and pay his rent. The movie follows these three likable losers in their bungled attempts at instant finances . Palookaville, is a mildly entertaining movie that drags on enough of the time for you to visit the restroom and the snack bar. While the acting is exceptional the material is a little bland, something you wouldn't expect from a movie that is billed as a comedy about armed robbery. A surprise ending leaves the viewer in a feel-good mood, but robs the three characters of their ultimate goal.

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movie about a fish market, a drifter and Jersey City might not seem like the most interesting catch at the Denver International Film Festival. But that is before one is seized by the raw and tormented emotions contained in the movie Caught. Based on Edward Pomerantz's novel, "Into It," Caught is a study of passion, love and jealousy played out through the main characters. The movie focuses on a young drifter who comes into the lives of a couple making a transition in life. Arie Verveen stars as Nick, who stumbles into a fish market one day and into the lives of its owners forever. Edward James Olmos

turns in a stunning performance as Joe, the fish market, owner treats Nick as a son and sets himself up for betrayal. But the. best performance of the film is Maria Conchita Alonso, playing the deprived wife looking to feel like a woman again. Caught is an analysis of human interaction and how even best intentions can go bad. The movie is subtl~ and simple on the surface, but explores human emotions and betrayal through its characters. Director Robert Young, known for political films in the past, scores with this steamy love-triangle film . - Travis Henry

HOUND DOG: Nick (Arie Vereen) is a drifter in Caught, a story about love, passion and jealousy.

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d 's Next Move is about a twentysomething guy who leaves his small hometown for New York City after being dumped by his longtime girlfriend. It is in the big city where Ed tries to meet the perfect girl, get the good job and generally find his niche in life. Most of the movie focuses on his quest for Love. Ed's Next Move is the typical romantic comedy. It is untypically realistic, entertaining and very humorous. Writer/director John Walsh delivers some very believable characters in some very believable situations. Ed (Matt Ross) moves to NYC and moves into an apartment with Ray (Kevin Carroll). Ross and Carroll play off each other very well. They are realistic roommates, too. They party together and are LUNCH OF LOVE: Ed (Matt Ross) and Lee (Calliope Thome) face numerous friends, but they don't do the buddy-buddy obstacles in their quest for love in Ed's Next Move. thing to the point of nausea and disbelief.

Calliope Thorne does a good job as Lee, Ed's romantic interest. Walsh doesn't allow the two to lock eyes and fall instantly in love. They must deal ·first with issues such as ex-boyfriends not wanting to vanish and a first date that goes badly. 1be movie would have been even better bad Walsh not abandoned a great idea early in the movie. There are two asides to the movie: one shows Ed imagining how his breakup would have been with translators to explain what each meant in girl-talk and guy-talk; the other shows Ed imagining a club that gives men "Nice Guy" cards to show to women. The two scenes are hilarious and work well within the movie. Unfortunately, no such gems pop up after these two. It would have been great if Walsh had added a few more.

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Mother, son use trip around the world to educate youth on other cultures Deborah Jaehning The METROPOUTAN

etro journalism student Connie Schwartz and her 7-year-old son Henry staged a debut presentation of their incredible journey around the world at the Denver Public Library on Oct. 6. The pair made the year-long journey in memory of Henry's father and Connie's husband, Dean Schwartz, who died of cancer July 24, 1994, Henry says. With the driving force of his mom's photojournalism talents behind him, Henry became a junior reporter for the Colorado Kid's section in The Denver Post. Henry, dressed in New Zealand "uglies," clothing made from scraps of old rugby uniforms, told the mixed crowd of parents, educators and children of his worldly adventure using artifact displays, a slide show presentation and a live musical demonstration. Mother and son began the trip Aug. 19, 1995, ~ith one major goal; to visit elementary schools in foreign countries and write about what other children Henry's age do. When asked about her fears of traveling abroad with a 7-year-old boy, Connie says, "If others had done it, then there was no reason I couldn't do it." Connie says she will take her photographs and notes and write a book entitled Henry 's Incredible Journey. Until then, the pair will continue to present their story in hopes to stimulate and educate the young. They first traveled to England, then an ancestry expedition took the pair to Germany, Norway and Switzerland, the land of Henry's forefathers.

According to the pair, the really big adventure began on their journey to Africa. While African safaris bring a whole new meaning to wildlife, school life goes deeper they found. In the town of Durbin, South Africa, Henry went with Clayton Elementary schoolchildren to the coastline for a lesson on dissecting sharks. In Asia, Henry says, the sight of dusty roads, women washing clothes by hand and oxen plowing the land made him appreciate his life in the U.S. "Children my age practice to become buddhist monks," he says "In Nepal there are no cars, no electricity. The country is very poor, yet very beautiful." Flying off to the Pokhara Valley in Nepal to trek the Himalayas was his favorite part of the trip, Henry says, because the guide would carry him in a basket when his legs got tired. Next stop: Thailand, the only country in Southeast Asia never to be colonized. "My favorite part about being in Thailand was being so close to the elephants," Henry says. Henry adds that the country is full of color and excitement from the !1Jany children selling brightly colored wares to the gold inlay which decorates the many temples and religious artifacts. Henry attended an international school in Thailand, where all the kids came from different parts of the world. The pair relaxed a bit on the island of Ka Toa, Malaysia, before going down under to the land of marsupials and the host of the year 2000 Summer Olympics, Australia; then finally to New Zealand. The pair returned to the U.S. in June.

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State not up to speed on date-rape drugs RAPE from page 8

So far, Colorado's police, district attorneys and rape awareness centers have struggled just to get a handle on Rohypnol and nearly all interviewed by The Metropolitan say they have never heard of ''Easy Lay" by any of its names. Rebecca Brown, coordinator of the University of Colorado's Rape and Gender Education Program, says the danger of the drugs means new drinking habits are in orde~ • She advises that when in bars, take

drinks only from the bartender, open bottles and cans yourself and take your drink wherever you go. At parties "think twice before drinking the punch." "I think men need to realize too that this isn't a game," Brown says. "I mean, what you are essentially doing is blindfolding somebody and hitting them over the head." Although Boulder has won convictions in two separate cases related to daterape drugs, prosecution in Colorado has been rare. Denver's District Attorney's office has yet to take a single case to court. The frustration for prosecutors and

police is that victims cannot describe their attacker because of the memory Joss, says Mary Keenan, a prosecutor for the Boulder District Attorney's office. Victims who are unaware of the drug also might not report the attack because they cannot understand what happened to them, she says. What makes it even more difficult is when the rapist is a college student, Keenan says. Juries tend not to believe someone that young is capable of rape, she says. Juries will also blame victims for putting themselves in a vulnerable position by staying out late and drinking.

Lawrence Gonzales, owner of the Boiler Room at the Tivoli Student Union, says men need to be aware that women can use the drug on them, too. He says he knows of an incident at another bar in which a woman ·drugged a man and then stole his wallet, jewelry and everything else she could get after he passed out in his car. If you suspect you have been a victim of a date-rape drug, Carter says, get tested for the chemicals within 72 hours. Councilors at Denver's Rape Assistance and Awareness program can be reached at 322-7273.

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ast Saturday, many people in Denver decided to put down the newspaper, park the lawnmower and explore the realm of metaphysics. People flocked to Currigan Hall last Friday through Sunday for the Whole Life Expo, which featured over 250 exhibits, including astrology, palm reading, numerology and tarot reading. With all these choices, it could be hard for people to decide where to start. One booth that caught many people's eyes was a fortune telling table, featuring Dr. Louis Turi, born in the birth-place of famed doomsayer Nostradamus and who uses the same method for his predictions as Nostradamus. Turi was willing to provide a one-on-one reading for $100. Another interesting stop was Morning Star, Inc.; the ethical answer to bogus psychic lines.

Eric Drummond/The METROPOLITAN CRYSTAL LIGHT: Joan Remsbecker looks at crystals in the Crystal in the Sky display.

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Procrastination also uses energy PROCRASTINATION from page 11

opposite results. This chronic condition is self-perpetuating. If left unchecked, the boundaries of the comfort zone can be reduced to the point of total inaction. Depression can set in. With no dreams to aspire to, one may as well be dead for all the pleasures that are passing them by, he says. All the energy that could have been used toward future gains has instead been spent spinning wheels. How does a person stuck in his ways learn to expand his "comfort zone" and

"overcome procrastination?" By embracing discomfort, unfortunately. By nature, human beings are generally more committed to their psychological and physical comfort than to their intellectual and spiritual fulfillment. They will stay in a negative situation because it is familiar and predictable, he says. Often, the positive unknown requires too much effort and leaves too much to chance to be justified in the minds of many. Procrastination is a reaction to three basic emotions: anger, fear and sadness. These so-called negative emotions actually offer us a gift, Ferguson claims, but we

can only accept the gifts if we learn to recognize and understand them. Anger's gift is catharsis, constructively refocusing dissatisfaction with a situation. Anger is often the catalyst that pushes us into action past the barrier of the comfort zone. The gift of sadness is empathy, and th,e ability to care strongly about a situation. The gift of fear • is the adrenaline rush that makes us perform at our peak when confronted with a new situation. A bonus to the gift of fear is courage, bravery to move forward in the face of fear. Utilizing these gifts aids in expanding your zone.

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No. 2-ranked women whip N. Dakota Matthew J. Lilley The METROPOLITAN

The Metro women's soccer team, recovering from a number of injuries, dominated visiting North Dakota State on Saturday, slaughtering the Bison 4-0. "Number one, we have five subs, we were kind of healthy," head coach Ed Montojo said. In previous games the team has been down to as few as two substitute players, leading to an often fatigued starting lineup. Nine players have missed at least one game due to injuries so far this season. "The bright side of all those injuries is we got a lot of our bench people a lot of playing time, and they feel comfortable out there now," he said. All of the subs played Saturday, giving many of the starters a much needed break. Metro took 25 shots on North ~ Dakota, who managed only five against the Metro defense, which has allowed only two goals in the past four games. The Pierce sisters continued to emerge as dominating offensive players as midfielder Kari Pierce scored twice, and midfielder Katie Pierce scored once, accounting for all the scoring of the first half. "We knew we had to step up because of the injuries on our team," Katie Pierce -"- said. Together, the sisters have scored six of the last nine goals for the Roadrunners. Katie Pierce scored three minutes into the g·a me off of a corner kick; forward Shannon Wise assisted on the play. Katie Pierce assisted Kari Pierce for her first goal. Kari Pierce was assisted by both midfielder Dawn Mitchel and forward Alissa Allen for her second score. Midfielder Jami Morgan scored the lone goal of the second half, her first of

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the season, when she booted in a rebound. "I was shocked, actually, because I usually don't shoot with my left foot," Morgan said. "I just shot it, and it went in, so that was great." Metro goalkeeper Chellie McCourt earned her third shutout of the season. However, she gave a lot of credit to the defenders, who, in turn, applauded the offense for keeping the ball on the other side of the field for the whole game. "The ball just never got through our offense," defender Jackie Pollock said. "The ball was always backed up on the other side, so we didn't have to work - an easy day." Metro lost a heartbreaker earlier in the week when they traveled to the University of Denver (8-4-2) and lost after playing over 85 minutes, including overtime, tied at zero. "They were able to take advantage of a miss-cleared ball in the 88th minute," Montojo said. "To play at that level against a quality team like DU, with the injuries that we've had, says a lot for the girls on this team." "We're hoping to win the rest of the games the rest of the season," defender Kelly IT'S MINE! : Kathy Moen, a Metro midfielder, and a North Dakota State player McDougal said. "We need to win wrestle for the ball during Metro's 4-0 shutout over the Bison Saturday. the rest of our big games." The 'Runners' next home game will The Roadrunners hit the road next in overtime. Metro beat Southern Colorado, also be against Regis Oct. 24. Montojo said week, competing against New Mexico Highlands on Friday and Southern in overtime. However, Metro lost four he expects the entire team to be healthy Colorado on Sunday. Metro will be look- key players in that game, at least two the for the pivotal game in the conference ing to even the series with the Highlands result of cheap plays from behind, championship. Regis is currently ranked number one, Metro is ranked second. squad, who beat Metro earlier this season Montojo said earlier.

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·Men's 3-1 win over Mines puts Metro in contention for RMAC playoffs Matthew J. Lilley The METROPOLITAN

The men's soccer team snapped the Colorado School of Mines' four-game conference winning streak Tuesday when it scored three consecutive goals to beat their Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference opponent 3-1. Metro's three goals ended the team's streak of three straight shutouts, as they did allow Mines to penetrate the Roadrunner defense with one goal. Metro gave up an early goal but played 84 minutes of solid defense and capitalized on their opportunities. "Under some pressure, we got it done ~ that's a great feeling," head coach Brian Crookham said. Metro tied the score 18 minutes into the game off of a Mazen Kayali goal. After half time, Metro came out aggressive. Defender Chris Johnson trickled in the deciding goal midway through the sec-

ond half. Twelve minutes later, forward Jared Zanon added another goal to the total. Defender Kirk Ellsworth said the game was "a nice big win for us because (Mines is) right next to us in the conference." Mines failed several times to cut the lead in the second half. Freshman Metro defender Scott Gardner blocked a shot with his body after goalkeeper Zach Loescher was drawn to the opposite side of the goal. "I owe it to Scott for saving it," Loescher said after the game. "We worked l_?etter than in the past games," defender David Brallier said. "By gettfog people back on defense, watching the runners come through, so we're not getting split by the long balls. We 're working harder; we're more of a unit in the defense." ''The first 20 minutes we struggled a little bit to get in a rhythm," Crookham

said. "Once we got in a rhythm, I think we were fine ." . Ellsworth said all the next conference games are must-wins. "Basically, it's like a little mini-playoff, everybody's so close to each other, everybody's battling for the final spots now," he said. Crookham concurred. "We need to do well this week to be where we want to be this season." Under RMAC forrnat, the top four teams in the conference go to the playoffs. With everybody in the conference knotted up behind Regis University, Tuesday's victory could very easily knock the 'Runners into third place, Ellsworth said. A 0-1 loss last Saturday to the University of Denver will not hurt the Roadrunners chances in the RMAC. Metro will play at the University of Southern Colorado Sunday. The Roadrunners' next home match will be against National College of South Dakota Nov. l.

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Metro ruggers claim third straight victory A. Jeter The METROPOLITAN Youth and power triumphed over age and experience Saturday when the Metro rugby team defeated the Denver Barbarians B-side team 30-21. The Barbarians, a Division I men's team, came out to play instead of Division I collegiate team New Mexico Tech. Tech had to bow out at the last minute because its players had to take midterms last week, and they told their coach they were not traveling to Colorado. Many of the Metro players were disappointed that they would not be playing the Tech team, but they made the most of it in bringing the Barbarians down. "Everybody played their hearts out, and we beat a great team," club president Will Johnson said. "This is the first time we've beaten the Denver Barbarians, so it's a proud achievement for us." Metro garnered the victory with some nice scrum drives to win the balls and, as is traditional with the squad, a game of hard, fierce tackling. "We played aggressively. We had some good tackling and the forwards helping us out a Jot," Cosmo Larrison said. However, both teams ran excellent defensive lines as most of the match was spent with touch kicks up and down the field. Still, Metro broke through the Barbos' shield to score its first try when captain John Bogdanoff ran the ball in off of a Larriso~ assist.

The Barbarians showed their teeth and pulled off some very organized tight passing to open up a play on the open right side of the field. Metro temporarily blocked the try attempt, but the Barbarians were not so easily silenced. They seized the next opportunity for the points and ran in the try moments later. Tied at 7-7 early in the first half, Leif Gibson racked up more points for the Metro team with a conversion kick, setting the stage for Metro's offense to come alive later in the half. This happened when Larrison, assisted by Gibson, ran the ball in from 10 yards out of goal for the team's second try, and Gibson kicked a penalty to give Metro a 10point lead at the end of the half. More pingpong action took place in the beginning of the second half with play running all over the field. Metro has had problems with fitness and conditioning in the first part of the season, but this match definitely put the boys in blue to the test, and they dominated over the older, winded Barbos. The first points in the half came off a Gibson penalty kick, and the Barbarians answered that with a long, wide-open run from the Blue goal to midfield before the Metro defense closed in and foiled the Barbos' momentum. They did come back to score a try with an unblocked run on the left side. Metro allowed a wide run on the right side for a Barbarians try attempt, but pulled together to stop the runner five yards from the goal. Nat Pohpan ran as fast as if he were back Eric Drummondrrhe METROPOLITAN in medieval times being chased by real barbarians and A HIGHER• BEING: Metro rugby player John Tewinkle, earned the last Metro try of the match. The Barbarians back, leaps for the toss-in ball during the 30-21 win over See BARBARIANS page 21 the Denver Barbarians' B-side, a Division I men's club.

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Chalk up a sweep for the Colorado Christian University volleyball team, who took out the Roadrunners in three games Tuesday night. Coming off i! big win over the Chadron State Eagles last Sunday, Metro should have come into this game confident and aggressive. They did not. Colorado Christian made quick work of the 'Runners tentative, slow play in game one, taking them 15-9. Metro was quick to answer in game two with more of the same disorganized, hesitant play that lost them the first game. Despite some good individual efforts from hitter Stacey Hoyt, who played despite a bothersome ankle, hitter Shannon Ortell and setter Kerry Beidleman, the 'Runners never came together as a team and as a result lost game two 12-15. In game three, however, with what looked like an impending easy sweep for CCU, the 'Runners finally decided to make a match of it. Metro took an early lead with some aggressive team play, but just when it looked like they might win one, the struggling team slowed up again and with some poor passing allowed CCU to catch up. "Our passing could have definitely been better," Hoyt said. In what was definitely the best game of the match, the teams battled back and forth with CCU eventually taking the game 16-14. "We need to play better under pressure," coach Joan McDennott said after the match. McDennott remains optimistic about the team's chances of making the conference, even though the team is ranked fifth in the East Division of the RMAC with a 7-14 record overall and a 4-7 conference record. "We are starting to play better as a team," McDennott said. Though they are starting to play as a team, they still have a long way to go; it was precisely their lack of team play that cost them the match. Couple that with their nonaggressive and, at times, lethargic play, add in the poor communication and missed digs and it adds up to all the ingredients for a long season for McDennott and her players. At times they played as an aggressive, cohesive team, but their efforts never lasted. Their inconsistency cost them and may continue to cost them if they do not do something to fix it. Despite their tentative play lately, the 'Runners have racked up impressive defensive numbers as a team. They are ranked third in the RMAC in digs, with the majority of those coming from Hoyt, who also ranks third individually. Hoyt has also racked up some good offensive numbers, even though she missed several games with an injured ankle. She ranks first in the conference with 242 overall kills and a 4.03kills-per-game average. The 'Runners head south this weekend for the West Texas A&M Invitational tourney. They return home next weekend to play Fort Hays State, who they shut out two weeks ago, and Nebraska-Kearney, who is ranked number one in the conference.

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Metro defense tames Barbarians BARBARIANS from page 20 later capitalized on a hole in the Metro defense, garnering a tiy which settled the score at 30-21 with Metro taking home the victory. . Strong defense won it for the Metro club, Coach Howard Kent said. ''We have a pattern of defense, so people know who to tackle, not just to tackle." Larrison said, also, that over the season, the team had played with the lineup consisting of mostly rookies and that the opposition had taken advantage of this. Now, it is a different story, he said. "We're coming together now. Every one

of us has confidence in each other to get the job done. We all love each other so much," he said.

"Everybody played their hearts out, and we beat a great team." Will Johnson, club president The intensity of Metro's play increased with the prospect of playing a Division I men's club, Bogdanoff said. ''We knew we had to capitalize on their

mistakes. The few they'd give us, we had to take advantage," he said. Still, the team has to work on its loose passing, and Kent said he thought they did not play with discipline. "We played well as a team, but the discipline lost us points," he said. However, he said the win was an excellent one for the club and was a result of good preparation, something he said is improving with each match. The win will contribute to a larger team goal, Kent said. ''We're focused on the Canadian tournament in August, and they know they've got to play their way there."

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GENERAL The Metro Student Government Assembly meets at 3:30 p.m. every Thursday in Tivoli Room 329. Info: 556-3312.

Toads in the Garden, a weekly poetry reading in the Daily Grind coffee house in the Tivoli starts at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. A $2 donation is requested. $1 for students with an ID. Info: 697-1317. Truth Bible Sh,1dy meets every Wed. - Thur., 3-5 p.m., Tivoli room 542. Info: Rick Dredenstedt at 722-

Have Got To Be Kidding!" by Charles Angeletti, of Metro's History Department at 11 a.m. in the Daily Grind. Info: 556-2595. "Resumes That Work" workshop, 1-3 p.m., Central Classroom 104. Info: Ron Lujan at 556-3664.

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"Job Search Strategies" workshop, 5 - 7 p.m., Central Classroom 104. Info: Ron Lujan at 556-3664.

Nooners presents "First Aid/CPR," at 12 p .m. by the American Red Cross, Tivoli Room 329. Info: 5564247.

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At Northwestern College of Chiropractic, we feel strongly about the quality of education we provide to our 600 students and their preparedness for satisfying careers.

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