Volume 19, Issue 26 - March 7, 1997

;'\letropolitan State College of Denver ::.tudent new.;paper serving the A11r,1ria Campus since 19~9

Lending a hand Gov. Roy.Romer shakes hands with Auraria Child Care Center kindergartner Brittany Trigg who gave him a mural for Auraria's 20th anniversary celebration in St. Cajetan's Center.

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Students will not have to fork out an extra 4 percent in tuition next year after a key legislative committee voted 5-0 Thursday against the hike.

Members of th.e Joint Budget Committee, which is considered to be the most powerful body in the Colorado legislature, said student opposition played a major role in their decision.

Some members said they voted against the measure because Metro's administration failed to live up to promises on how the money would be spent.

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made the motion to oppose the increase, said students successfully documented that the administration had not provided more faculty, which was one of the conditions of raising tuition.

"What they (students) thought they were getting by supporting the tuition increase, they weren't," he said.

The chairwoman of the committee, Sen. Elsie Lacy, R-Aurora, said the most important issue, however, was that the administration has met its goal of raising tuition to a level that is fiscally competitive.

"We are not interested in trying to gain more money," Lacy said.

The special 4 percent increase was part of a three-year plan to raise tuition 12

percent in addition to regular increases.

The increase had the support of student government for the past two years. With that support, the administration successfully .raised tuition 8 percent beyond regular increases. Regular increases are usually about 2 percent each year and are meant to compensate for inflation.

This year's Student Government Assembly voted to oppose the third phase after hearing student input and deciding the increase could not be justified.

Metro communications director of Debbie Thomas said the administration will try to learn· the reasoris the JBC members voted against the decision and possibly ask them to reconsider.

Metro President Sheila Kaplan said in

previous student government meetings that without the special tuition increase, Metro would not have the money to improve academic advising and mentorship programs. She said those are the two issues of most concern to students.

Student government agreed to allocate dollars to those areas if the increase was approved.

Vice Chairman Rep. Tony Grampsas, R-Evergreen, was absent during the JBC's vote and unaware that his colleagues killed the deal. He said he would have supported the increase because the JBC made a three-year deal with the administration and that he was morally obligated to live up to it. State law, however, preSee TUITION Page 5

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Vaccinating Yellow River at Sixteen, Ecuador 1985 Touching Kiefer Sutherland

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Chris Angel Stephen Bort Mary Cross Jill Dahmer Paul Davis Justin Greene Gary Guillot Kelly Lindsay Jim Mooney Jami Morgan Gary Norris Kira Nunez Catherine O'Neill Lee Patton Laura Peacock Cynthia Thatcher Chris Walker Cilicia Yakhlef

I Don't Suppose• The Labyrinth Various Pieces Various Pieces Untitled Various Pieces Out my Front D~or I'm in Here En Clausura Various Pieces Kalahari Breakfast Various Pieces First Birthday •Once, In a Blue Moon Various Pieces Various Pieces Dinner • Driver's Ed Various Pieces Dak to Ambush-1970 Good Intentions

Chris Angel Skye Barker Gary Guillot Tom Hamilton Heather Hays Anthony Ilacqua Jim Mooney Patrick Partridge Danette Pedersen Jeanie Straub Rick Thompson Elizabeth Truglio Nicole Van-Praag

Chris Mancuso Alfredo Ortiz Lara W. Swink Rachel Urioste Gloria Vialpando

Rapture Milk Cult The Special Box Shelter Driving Around Nadine in the Tattooed Playground Little Brother Untitled Forgiveness Guava A Shirt off his Back After the Rage Hey Sweetie

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Names are alphabetical within categories; the order listed does not indicate any other preference. If you have any questions, please contact us al 556-3940. Thank you to everybody who submitted work, and to everybody who helped us in judging, and congratulations to all those chosen. The approximate publication date for Metrosphere is April 15.

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Auraria campus turns 20 Ryan Bachman

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Metro President Sheila Kaplan addresses a crowd celebrating Auraria's 20th birthday Tuesday.

The METROPOLITAN The founders of the Auraria Campus gathered Tuesday afternoon in St. Cajetan's Center to celebrate 20 years of higher education.

Gov. Roy Romer was on hand for the party, expressing his exuberance on how far Auraria has come in the time since he served on a committee for Metro's creation.

Romer said that it is important to have a variety of educational sources available and that education should be readily available to the working person .

Rosemary Fetter, Auraria communications director, was the primary organizer of the anniversary ceremony.

"The campus originally was nothing more than a few spread out classrooms and a lot of mud," Fetter said.

The "Father of Auraria," Frank Abbott, was responsible for instituting the original idea for a tri-institutional campus. Abbott, who was then exclusive director of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, said, "The idea for a higher education complex at the Auraria site grew out of the circumstances of the time."

The idea at the time was that the three schools would share resources such as classrooms, a library and student services.

"Metro State and the Community College of Denverwere looking for a campus," Abbott said. "There was a large tract of land accessible from throughout the city, ripe for redevelopment, and on behalf of Metro, the city had advanced an application for urban renewal status."

Abbott cited several colleagues who were instrumental at the time for the initial planning of what would become the Auraria Campus. Among the individuals he recognized were Metro trustee Betty Naugle, who had nu!"lured and supported Metrq, Don McKinley, who was chairman of the committee for higher education, and governor-appointed Philip Milstein, director of the Downtown Denver Improvement Association, who remained deeply involved with the campus until his death in 1992.

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Many times people, students especially, overlook numerous income tax deductions they can claim because they do not know about them, according to George Titus, a representative of H & R Block who spoke to Auraria students at a seminar March 4.

"You have to make it before they can take it," he srud.

The seminar, "Tax Tips for T-Day: April 15," was part of the Nooners series. It was created to be an information session to get tips and advice on preparing income tax reports.

Some examples of often-overlooked deductions are earned income credit and dependent care credit, he said.

A taxpayer can claim earned income credit if they are self-employed or worked for someone, according to a tax pamphlet from H & R Block. The amount of credit that can be earned depends on income, adjusted gross income and the number of dependent children you have. However, people without children can also qualify for

earned income credit if their income for 1996 was Jess than $9,500.

Other restrictions, such as legal U.S. residency, amount of investment income and interest also factor into eligibility, according to the pamphlet.

For the first time this year, Titus said, Colorado has added dependent care credit to state tax returns; it may also be claimed on federal tax forms.

This credit is based on income and money spent on care expenses.

This credit applies to dependent children under 13 and the elderly who are taken care of by someone due to mental or physical ailment. Single parents who have custody of their children can claim this credit even if the other parent is able to claim them as dependents, Titus said. The credit ranges from 20 to 30 percent of total expenses, depending on income.

If a person has a complicated tax return, he or she should see a professional tax preparer who can save them time and money, Titus said.

The Internal Revenue Service has set up a 24-hour automated information line that allows taxpayers to check the status of refunds . Live operators are available from 6 a.m. to 3: 15 p.m.

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Sleep-out benefits homeless Liz Carrasco The METROPOLITAN

Gene Kennedy has been sober for eight months and seems to have finally found his way home. More than eight years of living on the street wi,th nothing but the bottle and a sense of ultimate loss, Kennedy crashed so he cou ld find his way back up again . Eight months sober, a place to live and a chance to go back to school; Kennedy is alive again.

Though Kennedy 's story represents only a fraction of the stories of the people still li ving on the street, his tale is still a part of a growing dilemma for the United States: homelessness. A problem that many people do not wish to acknowledge.

"It's a shame that people are trying to hide the fact that it's ·there," Kennedy said . "And the

"You're never going to find a one-day thing that'l I teach you about the homeless. It was never about that."

- Chuck Bennett, SOAR president and event organizer homeless problem will not just disappear all of a sudden, either."

That is why students woke up Tuesday morriing to discover a cardboard-box colony in the center of campus. Many of the boxes held messages stating homeless statistics . Each of the students who participated in the overnight Grate American Sleep-Out, sponsored by the Colorado Public Interest Group and the Student Organization for Alumni Relations, seemed to have their own reasons for participating.

For some students, their motivation was personal.

Kerrie Dallman, a Metro student, had once found herself homeless and living beneath the viaducts in downtown Denver. Dallman said she participated mainly to help raise money for Urban Peak, a downtown shelter for homeless teenagers. "It's alarming," she said, "the amount of teenagers living on the see HOMELESS page 4

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As diversity gains marketability and thus profitability as a trendy idea, it will become passe, Meranto said in her symposium at the Tivoli.

In contrast to the "McWorld" where high production and sameness are valued - diversity, Meranto said, "opens our eyes to differences and challenges of Western culture hegemony."

"Diversity should be viewed as a method of introducing variety into the whole," she said.

The Mc World is the universe of manufactured needs and mass consumption, she said, using the definition from Benjamin Barber's book McWorld v.

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The McWorld, she continued, "is motivated by profits and driven by the aggregate preferences of billions of consumers."

"Diversity should be viewed as a method of introducing var~ety into the whole."

- Dr. Oneida Meranto, political science professor Meranto cited a personal example of mainstreaming and McDonaldization during her speech. During the 1960s, she put together a skirt made of silk ties she bought at thrift stores - long before it was fashionable, she said.

"The skirt was an expression of my individualism," she remarked, noting how her marveled friends asked her to make skirts for them as well. To preserve her uniqueness, she cordially refused. Her refusal was an exercise in futility.

"Well, it was only a malter of time before the stores caught on, and soon everyone was wearing them anyway," she said. She interjected that she did not know if someone, somewhere else had the same idea, or if her idea was indeed unique and stolen - and later McDonaldized.

Likewise, long hair on men once symbolized the rebellion of the 1960s. Now long hair on men means little, Meranto said, as evidenced by groups such as "rednecks" adopting long hair.

"By the time it became a symbol of rednecks, I would dare say (long hair) lost its original intent, its potency," she said.

"Once something has become marketable, once it can be consumed, once it has shifted from a subordinate position to the dominant trend of opinion or style, it has become mainstreamed."

Meranto said, though, that the McDonaldization of almost anything is inevitable.

"Therefore, we must first understand that it is happening and attempt to direct it in such a way that it continues to fulfill its

purpose even if it is profitable," she said.

McDonaldization is not by any means the only encumbrance to the goals of diversity and multiculturalism, she said.

"Clearly a target for change - if not extinction - is the entire multicultural project, which is threatened by economic urgencies as well as ideological disapproval."

Certainly, the institution of higher education has a role in the McDonaldization of diversity, as it has been embraced in the university setting.

The explanation for this is simple, Meranto points out: profitability.

"In essence, if the college can profit from diversity, they will welcome it," she said. Aspects of McDonaldization are readily apparent in higher education, she said.

"There is nothing all that different about a college professor spouting off ideas of diversity, when what they mean is the mainstreaming of diversity."

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The experience gave students a chance to see what some people will do just to live, said Metro student government President William Coker.

"For us, we knew it would only be for a few hours, not a lifetime," he said.

Joey Lyons, campus coordinator for CoPIRG, said he hoped to "make students more aware of what's going on, though the sleep-out may only be a sliver of the actual experience."

Chuck Bennett, president of SOAR and event organizer, said Monday that

he hoped the event would raise $2,000 for Samaritan House and Urban Peak.

After the event, he said that an estimated $1,800 was pulled in.

Bennett said that the experience was not meant to portray the actual homeless experience, but to raise money and to create awareness about the Denver homeless.

" You're never going to find a oneday thing that'll teach you about the homeless," he said. "It was never about that."

Bennett has volunteered in a number of shelters around Denver and said that the only way to truly identify with the homeless was to work directly with them.

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TUITION from page 1 the fight against the increase, vents lawmakers from budget- said that 99 percent of the ing more than one year at a time when the JBC makes a decision, it stands. time.

But because of the If administrators bring the issue back before the com- numerous ways that the mittee, Grampsas said he will increase could be reintrovote in favor of it. duced in the legislative process, the "Then it "Clearly, there issue will not will be 5-1," he said. are some internal be dead until the session is Rep. Gil management over, Koch Romero, DPueblo, said issues that need said. his opposition to be addressed."

The fight is not over, was based on said Metro concerns -Rep. Gil Romero student about Metro D-Pueblo Government such as faculty-tenure and Assembly not enough President access to the president.

William Coker. He addressed "Clearly, there are some the JBC last Tuesday to say internal management issues that student government had that need to be addressed, and voted to resist the increase. He so I think that is probably a said the committee's decision key factor in all of it," he said. was a surprise.

Nathaniel Koch of the "I was prepared for a Colorado Student moral victory, and the Joint Association, a lobbying group Budget Committee gave us a representing Metro students in true victory," Coker said.

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Walter Tootle, a Metro student, votes Wednesday In the North Classroom on the bus·pass issue.

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Coaches not profs Recently News4 aired a story where a CU Regent spoke of the necessity for long-term contracts for athletic coaches.

This Regent cited various reasons for the need: 1) Good coaches were continuously courted by other schools since their contracts were up for renewal annually. 2) It was difficult to find top coaches who would be willing t-0 come to the University without the security of a long-term contract. 3) In the long-run, the school would suffer from the constant turnover if the coaches were not offered at least 3-year contracts. I was struck by the irony of the situation. While Metro President Sheila Kaplan is discussing the possibility of eliminating tenure for professors, the state of Colorado is enacting legislation to ensure the longevity of its coaching staff.

Obviously, Kaplan and the college administrators feel that athletic personnel are essential but professors are expendable.

The same reasons cited above, supporting the need for long-term contracts for college coaches could be applied to support the necessity of tenure for its professo rs.

Elizabeth M. Colatrella Metro Senior

Do not slink away My first semester here at Metro has not shown me that this is a place that I would like to say I received my education from. Although I have never had Dr. Hazan personally, I have heard nothing but good things from fellow students and professors, so I support Dr. Hazan and the students who are not bowing down to the forces-that-be or slinking into apathy or selfish ignorance. Those who work to make a difference in this sometimes bleak world should be commended and not tossed to the side because 'that is just the way it is.'

I hope that many students and faculty read this newspaper. You should all care about every relationship you are involved in, and especially the college you are attending. These are some of the most formative years in life, and don't think for one minute that because you are only here for a certain amount of years that the relationship ends there. Think of posterity. All the students that will come after you are your descendants, not the next victims. Erase the 'me' from Metro!

I am also concerned with the bus pass included in our tuition. It is only $11.50. If we do not get this back then we will have to pay over twenty dollars, a month - those of us who use RTD. The $11 .50 fee is for an entire semester.

Those who think that we are rich and can afford this while you conveniently drive to school every day are not seeing the bigger picture here. So there are those of you who would rather drive here; then do so,

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but don't take away the advantage that those of us who can't afford to or are meekly trying to preserve the environment. You can use your pass anytime anywhere. If you have one too many at the bar, take the bus for free instead of driving drunk. Don't limit the use just for school and .then say get rid of it because you have other means for getting to classes.

Lastly, but not the least, I'd like to commend the The Metropolitan for publishing our voices. Many carriers of communication have agendas that do not necessarily reflect the public's interest. It is clear that this publication's agenda is the students, something maybe the administration could learn from!

Douglas William Mowbray Metro student

Demand justice What makes Metro a great school? Is it the teachers, who deeply care about imparting knowledge to their students, or is it the administration that is concerned with political correctness?

Apparently it is the latter, since seven of the highest quality teachers, professors who are brilliant and caring and impart those qualities to their students, people like Dr. Hazan, are expendable at the will of the administration.

I used to be proud to be a student at Metro. Professors like Dr. Hazan, of political science, as well as Richard Chapman and J.P. Mclaughlin of the journalism department, who have also been denied

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tenure at the highest level for political reasons, were the reason for this pride.

I am now embarrassed by this institution. Not because of the teaching staff, which is one of the finest in the nation, but by a bureaucracy of administrators who are so egotistical, whose grasp of reality is so minimal, that they think that they are the reason students come to this school.

One must question the sanity of President Kaplan and her cronies. It does not take a business major to figure out that if you keep raising prices, as Kaplan wants to do again, and let the quality of your product fall, as the dismissal of Dr. Hazan will do, that your customers (students) will go away.

I challenge an students who give a damn about their education to write to The Met, demand justice write a letter of protest to Kaplan and to Provost Sharon Siverts, the person who idiotically denied Dr. Hazan his well deserved tenure. Let the bureaucrats know we care, that we demand quality education for our money.

Bill Keran Metro student

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In "Founding Newshounds" Emerson Schwartzkopf was misidentified.

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Poets making points, swimmers making Nationals and dinosaurs making it back

Knowledge from the streets Runaway struggled before finding a home in words Robert Nemmers The METROPOLITAN ormer street kid and prostitutellâ&#x20AC;˘.rriPd-r0et Evt>ly'l Lau ha<> had to fight for many years with being taken seriously in a world where young authors struggle to get started.

At one time, Lau tried working for a newspaper in Vancouver but found it difficult to concentrate because of the pressures of deadlines and competition.

In a telephone interview on Feb. 27, Lau said that poetry and novel writing "differs from being a journalist.

Journalism is more difficult because of deadlines. Creativl! writing is also difficult because deeper emotions are involved."

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"Many of the challenges that I faced when I first started writing have changed.

At first, my greatest challenge was being taken seriously because I was such a young writer," Lau says. "It has taken me years to be taken seriously because I am an ex-street kid. Now people take me too seriously, and it scares the hell out of me. I now have pressure from people to write in the same context."

There will be a chance for students to ask Lau questions

and to listen to many of her published works. Lau draws inspiration from "the lives that I see around me and from my own experience on the street." She describes her works as more realistic and concrete-based because of her life.

Lau finds the greatest joy in giving poetry readings to crowds her own age. In comparing the different countries she has visited, Lau says that the British seem to be the most accepting of poetry, followed by the Canadians. '"The Canadians seem to enjoy it only because they have a sense of nationalism, since I live in Vancouver. But when I go south to Seattle, it's a totally different type of crowd. The people in the States seem to enjoy fiction writing a lot more. The Canadians are a little tougher on me since they know many of my favorite authors are American," Lau says.

She does not have any interest in teaching poetry writing because writing is too instinctive, she says, and it becomes too analyti<!al when taught. Lau points out that many students have an image in their minds that they will become published right away but that it is "harder to break

RUNAWAY POET: Evelyn Lau finds joy in reading poetry to crowds her own age. into writing in the States since competition is tough."

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Her poems have touched on such issues as racism, n 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first child abuse and poverty.

Her first book, A Street in Bronzeville, was pubblack woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. In 1995 President Bill Clinton awarded her the National lished in 1945. Her second, Annie Allen, won the Medal of Arts. Tuesday, she will be speaking at Pulitzer. Her other works include: The Bean Eaters, Blacks, Selected Poems, Children Coming the Auraria Campus at 11 a.m. in St. Home, hr the Mecca, Gottschalk and the Cajetan's Center.

Grand Tarantell, Maud Martha, and Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917, Winnie, a poem as long as a book. She Brooks has since spent much of her life also published two autobiographical traveling the country giving speeches and works, Report from Part One, in 1972, receiving awards for poetry. and Report from Part Two, released "She is a very friendly and very February 1996. engaging woman," says Obidike Kamau, Brooks has received more than 70 Metro professor of African American honors for her work. studies. "Not only is she a wonderful In 1994, she was named a Jefferson speaker, but she represents African Lecturer by the National Endowment for American issues." the Humanities, the highest honor While on a visit to Chicago, Kamau approached Brooks to see if she would Gwendolyn Brooks bestowed by the U.S. government for intellectual achievement in the humaniconsider speaking at Auraria. She became ties.

President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the the bridge speaker between African American History on the Arts. She also served Presidential Commission month and Women's History month.

Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, now as "She had a huge impact on young black writers in known as Poet Laureate.

Chicago," Kamau says.

She has taught at colleges and universities around The poems in her book Bronzeville Boys and Girls the world and is a writer-in-residence at Chicago State are set in Chicago, where she grew up and where Chicago State University has a center dedicated to her. University.

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The Metropolitan The editor is responsible for tire editorial content of tire weekly student newspaper. Duties include managing tire student editorial staff, assigning stories, editing copy and working with tire production manager on tire pl1ysical makeup of tire newspaper. This position will begin in

April of 1997. Pay schedule corresponds with fiscal year.

•Applicants must be journalism majors or minors enrolled for at least 10 credit hours at Metro.

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Applicants must submit: • a resume with cover letter • their most recent grade report or official transcript •two letters of recommendation •samples of their- work to:

The MSCD Board of Student Publications, clo Walt Copley, Chair, WC 152, or mail to: Campus Box 10, P.O. Box 173362 Denver, CO 80217-3362.

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Dr. Charles Pellegrino, who has been nicknamed the father of Jurassic Park for his Omni magazine article which inspired Michael Crichton to write the novel, spoke to a small crowd as a part of the Towering Issues of Today series held in the Tivoli on Monday.

The technology necessary to clone dinosaurs is not that distant, Pellegrino says. Scientists have already found a flesheating fly trapped in amber with tissue in its mandibles, which Pellegrino says may date back 20 million years. The problem is extracting it.

Another potential problem is they will not know, until the technology is available, what kind of tissue it is. It may just be that the tissue is from opossum or some other rodent, Pellegrino says.

Currently, the sample of tissue is the only one in the world and therefore is priceless, he says.

The one technique available to read DNA, the coding which defines genetic makeup, would only give a partial code and the entire sample would be destroyed in the process, he says.

Until the technology is available to extract a tiny amount at a time, the tissue will stay refrigerated and untouched.

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Medicine derived from goat's or cow's milk, artificial life extension, treatment for diseases and other important medical applications could all be possible from technology as portrayed in Jurassic Park, he says.

One woman asks if he was worried about the possible implications and dangers of bio-morphing and if it could possibly lead to an over-population of the world or an even more rapid depletion of the earth's resources.

"Obviously, we will never get there if we treat the earth as a disposable planet," he responds. "It would be like a child who is about to be born and never gets to.

Think of all the wonderful things we'll miss if we don ' t learn to control us."

As far as bio-morphing dinosaurs, Pellegrino is not worried about the possible dangers.

"Just don't morph the dangerous ones," he says. "I'm more concerned with the way we humans would treat these animals.

"With the way VR (virtual reality) technology is advancing, we may never have to," he says. "We may just be able to, very realistically, grow a dinosaur from egg to death, tracking its progress on a computer."

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to compete in the NCAA Division II National Championships in San Antonio next week.

The last of the trio, sprinter/middle-distance swimmer Kristin Schweissing, qualified Feb. 28 in the 400 individual medley at a meet designed to allow swimmers who just missed the cut at the conference qualifier to have a last chance. Schweissing joins sprinter Alishia McCartie and second-year national competitor Scott Watson, both of whom made their times in the conference championships in mid-February.

All three hope to place in the top 16 in their events. Watson said his main goal is to be among the eight best, a goal he set at the beginning of the season when he was swimming far behind his last-season bests. He posted times good enough to make the top 25 last year. However, in his main event, the 200 individual medley, Watson has shaved almost four seconds off of his national time. With that kind of boost, the top eight could be a realistic goal.

Head coach Rob Nasser is confident that his swimmers will perform well and is continuing to run practices. The last couple of weeks before the big meet are key to keeping the swimmers in shape, he said.

A former national contender himself, Nasser knows the pressures associated with excelling at that level. After the conference competition he said that his main wish is that his swimmers have a good time competing, no matter what the times read.

'They can look back and say 'Wow, that was a great experience. I'm glad I was a part of that."'

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Alishia McCartie Rookie sprinter Alishia McCartie had barely adapted to the mountain air of Colorado before she quickly became a central figure on the Roadrunner swim squad.

McCartie went from swimming around the middle of the field after her transfer from San Jose State in California to gaining mammoth leads on her opponents and qualifying for national competition by the end of the conference meet in February.

McCartie captured her spot in the 200yard individual medley, an event she seemed to improve most in over the season.

Six full seconds came off the clock and a school record held by teammate Kristin Schweissing shattered.

The first-time national contender now holds that record and shares records in four

different relays.

With that caliber of performance, McCartie will most likely achieve her goals to make the All-American team and place in the top 16 in San Antonio next week.

As far as preparation for the big time, McCartie isn't worried.

"I feel I've worked hard enough," she said. 'Tm ready."

She will also compete in the 50-, 100and 200-yard freestyle events along with her cornerstone medley.

The last female sprinter to hit the national pool was Tori Ainlay, who placed No. 10 last year in the 50-yard event with a time a half-second faster than McCartie's best.

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Scott Watson Only one swimmer from the Metro net\ 's team will travel to Nationals this fear, and he's hoping to better his last lppearance in the elite competition.

Veteran middle-distance specialist )cott Watson returns to the national pool ietennined to be one of the eight best ;wrmmers in the individual medley and lreaststroke categories.

He made the cut last month at the conference championships in the 200-yard ;lasses of each of his events. And he did it with finesse. Not only did Watson break a 1ctrool record in the 200 . breaststroke, which had stood for six years, but he beat the rest of the conference swimmers by illmost a full second.

In his national debut last year, Watson 1wam well enough to place in the top 25 llJJlnng a field of about 40 in both individual medleys. Still, Watson said that experience was a major factor this season, and it will help this time. He's trained six solid

months to get where he is and to get to the best level he can at Nationals.

"I'm in a lot better shape than I was last year," he said. "I didn't think I'd have a problem qualifying, but my goal is top eight."

In an effort to best improve his skills, Watson said he switched his training program from a middle-distance regimen to distance, so he can swim above and beyond where he needs to.

That has helped him to hold school records in both individual medleys, the 200-yard breast and both medley relays.

Even so, Watson said the challenge of the national meet will be intimidating because he will be matched against swimmers from all over the country who are very competitive and moving at top speeds.

Watson is striving to best Division II's top times in the 400 individual medley and the 100-yard breaststroke events.

Kristin Schweissing The chance to challenge swimmers in the national arena narrowly slipped away from distance specialist Kristin Schweissing last year.

This time around, she seized her opportunity. Schweissing shattered a 7year-old school record by three seconds in the 400-yard individual medley.

A master of endurance, Schweissing first grabbed the spotlight in the Metro swim team last year as a freshman, when she slashed her way through six individual long distance school records and gained a share of three relay records, now holding more than any of her teammates. She continued her record-breaking tradition this season, despite having to overcome an ankle injury she suffered at the season's start.

The injury slowed Schweissing for half of the season, but it no longer bothers

her. After trying to catch up all season, everything began to flow together in the conference championships in mid February, she said.

It was a relief to make the cut in the Last Chance Meet last week, Schweissing said, adding that she has no extensive goals for the national competition.

"I'm just kind of happy I made it, but I'd like to be in the top 16."

She said she thinks that is not an unrealistic ambition, but she said she can't make a fair assessment since she has never been to a national competition.

Her fonner teammate, Tori Ainlay, made the national team last year just as Schweissing did - at the last minute and she went on to place in the top 15 in both events, even breaking one of Schweissing's records in the 100 free.

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On March 8, the Creative Music Works Orchestra is performing a world-class jazz concert conducted by Metro music instructor and accomplished trumpet player Ron Miles.

This Saturday's concert features familiar and not-sowell-known works by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

"Ellington is considered by many to be the greatest American composer, regardless of genre," Miles says. "He was able to have group order and still have room for the individual to express themselves."

The name Billy Strayhorn may not be as well known, but his composition, "Take the A-Train," is an immediately recognized jazz standard. Strayhorn was a composer, arranger and pianist who contributed a wealth of musical input to Ellington and his famous orchestra. Only recently h,!ls Strayhorn's talent received the recognition that eluded him when he was alive.

Certain pieces to be performed are considered very rare, being post-mortem releases and published for the public's enjoyment just within the past few years.

This concert's 15-piece orchestra is the largest grouping of musicians to perform in the organization's history.

"The quality of the musicians involved is really high," Miles says. "Many of them are internationally known artists."

Creative Music Works is a non-profit group striving to bring traditional and contemporary forms of jazz to the

greater Denver community. It was founded five years ago by Alex Lemski, considered "a force in Colorado's creative music scene for the past fifteen years," according to Miles.

Creative Music Works focuses on two angles in its approach to jazz and making the world a little more copacetic: educating children through live performances in Denver's schools, often exposing them to this uniquely American Hyoung Changflhe METROPOLITAN form of music for the first time and playing THE OTHER GUYS: Metro professor Ron Miles (back), who conducts the an always-varying Creative Music Works Orchestra, stands with Matt Chero (left), Lia Davis, Tobey Hopper and Zachary Pietlock , students in his ensemble at Auraria. repertoire of music.

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Project Angel Heart's fund raiser helps delivery service for AIDS patients "karma is an important thing, and you get what you give."

Pierre Muraz of La Coupole Cafe says his contribution to Project Angel Heart would help " by making sure people with AIDS are taken care of."

This is La Coupole's second time participating in Dining Out for Life.

The owner of the River Sage Restaurant in Evergreen, Allan Werthan, says it is his first time with Dining Out for Life, and it is his way "to support the community and its causes."

Jax 's Fish House is a recent addition to Denver's downtown restaurant scene. In support of its new community, Jax's general manager, John Levy, says they are enthusiastic about being a part of the upcoming Dining Out For Life.

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Dining Out for Life is a national event that raised $2 million last year for IDV/AIDS organizations in 25 cities, says Erin Pulling, the assistant director of Project Angel Heart. At the local level, Pulling says the 1996 affair collected over $26,000, and this year the estimated outcome is $40.000.

Project Angel Heart is a nonprofit organization that provides and delivers free fresh, nutritious meals six days a week to people living with HIV/AIDS. "Some of the clients are too weak to cook or need the meals because of financial situations," Pulling says.

Project Angel Heart started in 1991 with six clients and today they have over 500 people relying on the association for meals, Pulling says.

According to Pulling, the proceeds from Dining Out for Life are the largest source of income the organization receives, and are necessary for the daily operations of purchasing and preparing food for over 1,000 meals per week.

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Hyoung Chang/The METROPOLITAN BOX BUNCH: (left) Shelley Cohen, Joseph Huser, Eddey Ficklin and Trmothy Sauceda box lunches at Project Angel Heart for delivery to AIDS patients. munity and its issues is simple by partaking in the upcoming Dining Out for Life.

On Thursday, choose one of the 44 restaurants involved with the affair and that restaurant will donate 25 percent of their food and non-alcohol sales for the day to Project Angel Heart. If you decide_ on dining at any of the supporting restaurants, you can also enter to win two round-

trip tickets to Montreal, Canada, compliments of Air Canada.

Mike Ship, owner of Bella Ristorante, says Dining Out for Life allows his establishment to participate in a good cause, and to help people in need.

Len Simmons, manager of Chopper's Sports Grill, says his reason for being a participant in Dining Out for Life is that

Third Annual Dining Out for Life Thursday, March 13 For a list of the 44 restaurants participating in this year's event, call Project Angel Heart 'I. at 576-4952.

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~ltrivE111 Lead the students Students interested in making a change on campus within next year's student government need to take notice of some important dates.

Intent-to-run forms will be available on March I 0 and must be returned by March 24. Candidates may begin promoting themselves on March 13.

For more infonnation, call 556-3312.

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Put on your dancing shoes and head to Auraria tonight.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Student Services, LGBTA, AQuA and the Institute for Women's Students will hold a Motown Dance featuring music from the '50s to the '70s and a Diana Ross impersonator.

The dance will be at St. Cajetan's Center from 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday.

Tickets, which are $5, may be purchased at the GLB office, Tivoli room 303A, or from the Institute for Women's Studies at 1033 9th St.

The Metro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists presents Tell the Truth and Run: George Se/des and the American Press on Tuesday, at 2 p.m. in West Classroom 151.

The movie profiles war correspondent George Seldes, who barely escaped with his life from Italian Fascists in 1925. He went on to become a press critic, attacking the big money that distorted and colored the news. Seldes has become an influence for generations of journalists.

For infonnation, call 556-3485.

Hunting for rhymes The Poetry Society of Colorado is looking for entries for the Ann Woodbury Hafen Memorial Contest. The contest is ~­ open to all Colorado poets.

Poems may be free verse or traditional fonn, but no more than 40 words in length. Each entrant may submit up to three poems, typed, and there is a $1 entry fee per poem. Deadline is April 15.

Entrants are to submit two copies of each poem but place their name on only one copy. Entries will not be returned.

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Metro baseball bombards DU Team scores 28 runs in two games; pitchers perform well, too Kyle Ringo The METROPOUTAN

Five hours of baseball could put some people to sleep. Sunday at Auraria Field there was an awakening instead.

In a doubleheader with the University of Denver, the Metro team generated more offense in two games than it had in the prior seven. The Roadrunners peppered the afternoon sky with balls on the way out of the yard or into open space!'.

Metro's bashing of DU 8-1 and 20-7 included plenty of offensive highlights, but strong pitching performances from starters Mark Sheley and Geoff Abbey sealed each victory.

Sheley pitched a complete game, allowing one run and striking out IO of the 31 batters he faced. His only mistake came in the second inning when he gave up a solo home run, but he recovered by throwing five straight scoreless innings to get his first win of the season.

"The change-up is what I got them on," Sheley said. "Actually, I didn't even throw a curveball until the seventh inning.

I was just throwing them the fastball and change-up and they couldn't hit either. Then when I did throw the curveball, they didn't have a clue."

Six different players enjoyed multiple-hit games, including left fielder Tim Carlson who had a single, double and knocked in three runs in the opener. Third baseman Roger Fisher nearly duplicated Carlson's efforts with a single, double and two RBI. Sheley said he was impressed with the run support that Metro pitchers received.

"After getting beat the last five or six games, it was kind of fun to go out and kick the hell out of somebody," Sheley said.

The second game began with Metro lighting up the score board in the first three innings.

Hyoung Chang/The METROPOLITAN Metro totaled seven runs by the end of the third, FIST OF FURY: Senior starter Mark Sheley fires a fastball during including five in the second.

Metro's home opener Sunday. The Roadrunners pounded the Three different Roadrunners hit the ball out University of Denver in a doubleheader Sunday 8-1 and 20-7. of the park. Fisher, right fielder Josh Castro and short-stop Marc Fagnan went deep. Fagnan was the hottest of the three, cranking two home runs and dri- bases."

"Don't expect it later on. I just got lucky a couple of ving in five. Fagnan went 4 for 4 in game two.

"It was very unusual,'' Fagnan said. "I am not really times." a power hitter. My job is just to get on base and steal Coach Vince Porreco was proud of his teams offen-

sive explosion, but not really surprised by it.

"It has been there," Porreco said, referring lo the offense. "I think it's a good feeling being back home. It's tough being on the road."

Metro played its first seven games of the year on the road and outside the state in California and Texas.

Porreco said he saw the longest home run he ever saw in a college game come off of Castro's bat in the second game Sunday.

Porreco estimated Castro's blast may have traveled as far as 450 feet in the air.

"I think, all the way through the order we have guys that can hit for power," Porreco said.

"We won't sit and wait for those things to happen. We need to concentrate on getting base hits and getting on base like we did."

Abbey pitched into the fourth inning before giving way to three relievers. He allowed three runs and struck out three in his time on the mound. The effort earned Abbey his second win for the season, which leads the team .

Castro leads the team in several categories offensively. He ranks among the team leaders in almost every offensive category, including home runs. He leads the team with four in nine games.

He is on pace to hit 16 for the season.

Castro is not just a power hiller. He hits for average, too. Among Roadrunners with more than 20 at bats, Castro's average is tops at .452.

"I feel good. My swing feels good," Castro said. "Everything feels good, except when they hit me."

For now, Castro is hitting them much more often than he is getting hit, and that has the team in an up-beat mood as it heads into the meal of its schedule.

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No. I ranked Fort Hays State narrowly averted tragedy Saturday with a 83-79 overtime victory over Nebraska-Kearney in the men's championship game of the conference tournament.

The Tigers earned a chance to defend their 1996 national title with the win. The Tigers have now won 62 of 63 games spanning two seasons.

Kearney had its chances. The Lopers scored the first six points in the extra period, but fell apart at the end.

Senior center Alonzo Goldston won his second straight tournament MVP award by scoring 30 points and snatching I 0 rebounds for Fort Hays.

There was some reason for excitement in Kearney. The women's team thrashed Mesa State 103-63 in the women's championship game Saturday.

UNK's Jennifer Warner became yet another two-time winner. Warner was named player of the year in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference for the second straight season.

Warner has led the Lopers to a 52-8 record the last two years. Kearney has never really been challenged all year. The 40-point victory Saturday amounted to another in a long line of lopsided victories this season.

Both of Metro's basketball teams lost in the first round of the tournament.

- Kyle Ringo

COMING ATTRACTIONS Baseball Tues., March 11 - Wed., March 12 doubleheader Regis University 12p.m.

Sat., March 15 - Sun., March 16 doubleheader New Mexico Highlands Auraria Fields 12p.m.

Rugby Sat., March 8 - Sun., March 9 Mile High Tournament Auraria Fields all day

Swim/Dive Wed., March 12 - Sat., March 15 at NCAA Division II Nationals San Antonio, Texas

Tennis Fri., March 7 at Colorado ChristianUniv.

Mon., March 10 Colorado College

Auraria courts 2 p.m. (women), 3 p.rn. (men)

Introducing the Denver Nuggets Double Dafe Nights.

Buy 2 tickets, get 2 tickets free!

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Simply bring your college ID with this ad to the Denver Nuggets Box Office at McNichols Sports Arena, and receive 4 tickets for the price of 2. Prices range from$27.50 to $10.50 per ticket. All tickets are subject to availabili For more information, call 893-Dunk. This special student offer is limited to the games listed below.

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· Newc~mers solidify Rugby eight or nine matches ever. He made his presence known against CC by scoring the first try inside two minutes.

John Jaramillo, a former football player, rounded out the first line, and played his second-ever rugby match.

Still, despite the limited experience, Soulie's leadership worked to produce good results for the team against CC. The team looked like one that had been playing together. The relationship between the forwards and backs was fluid and effective.

"I think we had a hell of a match today because it wasn't all a forwards game," said Tom Landauer, who plays the fly position, "Our forwards actually fed it to our backline.

We're now a smooth unit" The loose passing that plagued the boys in blue last season was not nearly as prevailant

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COWRADO SPRINGS It was short work for the Metro rugby team to pull an astounding 45-5 victory Saturday over Colorado College.

The Metro ruggershave not missed a beat :- since posting a nearly undefeated fall season, despite having to integrate almost 10 new players.

Coach Howard Kent reorganired much of the squad, including the entire first row.

Frederic Soulie, who saw limited play last sea.. son, took over hooking responsibilities for Joey Beaton, who took a break this season to catch up academically.

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The Colorado Springs team capitalized on a wide-open shot on the left side to score its only points of the game midway through the first half. That threw the Metro squad off its game momentarily, said "Cosmo" Larrison, but Metro was able to regain its composure and never let CC closer than five yards to the goal ..

That was, in part, due to Bennett Swanson, who seemed the strongest allaround player of the game, combining hard hitting with speed to pull his team out of tight spots.

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I have taken out Stafford Loans, usually the full amount that I can.

Now I am receiving letters from Unipac asking me if I want to pay the interest on my loan. Should I be paying this interest? Am I obligated to pay it?

Signed, Interested.

Dear Interested,

Interest accumulates only on your Unsubsidized Stafford Loans. This can be paid once per quarter. If when filling out your loan you asked to have the interest "capitalized# you are not obligated to pay the interest during the time you are In school or while your loans are in deferment or under forbearance.

If you don't remember what you indicated at the time you filled out the loan papers it will be apparent to you when you receive letters from Unipac.

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I would recommend paying the interest whenever you can. The term capitalization means simply that tt:ie interest becomes part of the loan. In other words if you had a one thousand dollar loan and the interest payment was one hundred dollars. by choosing not to pay the interest the amount becomes part of the loan. So your new loan amount would be one thousand one hundred dollars, then interest begins to accrue on this new amount. Paying the interest as you go will save you lots of money in the long run. Good luck and don't borrow too much!!!

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Cr\:FR,\I The Earthweek organizing committee meets every Monday at 9 a.m. in the Tivoli Club Hub, room 346. Info: 556-8093.

The CoPJRG core meeting is every Monday at 5 p.m. in the Tivoli Club Hub, room 346. Info: 556-8093.

The Toxics Right to Know project committee meets every Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Tivoli Club Hub, room 346.

Info: 556-8093.

The CoPIRG Environmental Defense project meets every Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Tivoli Club Hub, room 346. Info:

Truth Bible Study meets every Wednesday and Thursday 3-5 p.m., in Tivoli room 542.

Info: Rick Dredenstedt at 722-0944.

"Crossing Borders: Contemporary Australian Textiles" is showing through March 19 at the Center for the Visual Arts at 1701 Wazee St. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p .m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and noon to 4 p.m.

Saturday. Info: 294-5207.

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Faculty Upsidedown presents Dr. Ray Langbehn. He will discuss discovering culture through food and drink in the Daily Grind in the Tivoli at 11 a.m.

556-8093.

MEChA meets every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Tivoli Club Hub, room 346. Info:

Motown Dance and scholarship fundraiser at 8 p.m. in St. Cajetan's Center, admission is $5. Info: 556-8441.

556-8073.

Rap Sessions are in the multicultural lounge in the Tivoli every Thursday at 2p.m.

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

The Attention Deficit Disorder Advocacy Group meets every Monday in Arts Building room 177A from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Info: Katie 556-8387.

The Metro Public Relations Organizations of Students (PROS) meets every second Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Denver Press Club. Info: Daryl 329-3211 .

The Club Natural Philosophy presents Dr. Mark Keller discussing the "World's Most Accurate Electron Counter" at 4 p.m. in North Classroom 1608. Info: 556-2454.

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The Metro Denver Baha'i club presents "Conversations with God" at 7:30 p.m. in the center at 225 E. Bayaud Ave. Info: 3228997.

Denise McQuire, Metro Counseling Center, will lead a discussion on lesbian relationships at noon in Tivoli room 640.

Info: 556-6333.

Student support services presents a workshop on preparing for entrance exams at 11 a.m. in Arts Building room 177A. Info: 556-2533.

Towering Issues of Today presents "Affirmative Action: the good, the bad and the ugly" at 1 p.m. in Tivoli room 640. Info:

Reception for juried multimedia work by UCO students in the Emmanual Gallery at 5 p.m. Info: 556-8337.

556-2595.

The Academy of Healing and Martial Arts will give a demonstration at noon in Tivoli· room 329. Info: 556-4247.

Tu E. IV'l.-\ R 11 Community Concert Band and Denver Junior Police Band perform at Denver South High School, 1700 E. Louisiana, at 7:30 p.m. Info: 556-3180.

Gwendolyn Brooks will speak at 11 a.m. in St. Cajetan's in honor of women's history Month. Info: 556-8441.

Student Support Services hosts a workshop on applying to and financing graduate school at 11 a.m. in Arts Building room 177A. Info: 556-2533.

Evelyn Lau will be reading in the St. Francis Center at 1 p.m. Info: 556-8441.

Nooners presents Self defense: Women's~ Kicking boxing at noon in Tivoli room 320.

Info: 556-4247.

A Writer's workshop featuring Evelyn Lau is at 9:30 a.m. in the St. Francis Center. Info: 556-8441.

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"The Anti-rape Movement; Then and Gender Issues film series presents "An · Now" is presented at noon in South Acquired Taste" and "Growing Up Classroom 136A. Info: 556-2343.

Female" at 1 p .m. in the Tivoli Linda Naranjo-Huebl, co-editor of "Pro-..

Multicultural Lounge. Info: ~56-2343. life Feminism: Yesterday and Today" will "Hersterical Journey" is presented at 1 speak at 2 p.m. in Tivoli room 440. Info: p.m. in South Classroom 136A. Info: 556- 556-6333.

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Colorado Chamber Players perform in Arts Building room 295 at 2 p.m. Info: 5563180.

Nooners presents Interviewing Skills at 12:30 p.m. in Tivoli room 329. Info: 5564247.

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CLASSIFIED HELP WANTED INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT Teach basic conversational English abroad! Get the inside edge for finding work in Japan, Taiwan & S. Korea. Information: (206) 971-3574 ext. J58795 (We are a research & publishing company) 3/28 EXCITING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Public utility company seeking home-based representatives. Rated by Inc. magazine as the 22nd fastest growing small public company.

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Call (303) 791-8796 317 ATTENTION STUDENTS IMMEDIATE openings for enthusiastic individuals for on-site promotions at McNichols Arena. (Avalanche, Nuggets, etc.) Evening hours only. $7.50/hr plus bonuses.

Call Kirk .526-5052 American Marketing Concepts 317 PART TIME LABORER ON AN "AS NEEDED" basis. 11ours are between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

3/7 $8.50/hr. Call 892-1808 CLERICAL ORDER PROCESSOR needed. Incoming sales only. Pleasant voice and data entry skills a plus. $7/hr. to start.

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4/25 FULL & PART-TIME FLEXIBLE HOURS cashiering, stocking, delivery, watering Englewood Garden Center 3446 South Emerson. Apply in person Mon - Fri 10:00 - 4:00 789-0567 for more details.

3/28 TEACH ENGLISH IN EASTERN EUROPE Prague, Budapest or Krakow. Our materials uncover rewarding teaching opportunities with great benefits. For information: (206) 971-3680 ext. K58791 (We are a research & publishing company) 3/14 THAI (Thailand) STUDENT WANTED FOR part-time office work. Typing ability a plus.

Negotiable hourly pay. Call John Taylor at 458-0266 317 ALASKA SUMMER EMPLOYMENT Fishing Industry. Learn how students can find high paying jobs while experiencing Alaska's adventure! For information: (800)276-0654 ext A58796 (We are a research & publishing company) 3/14 SPERM & EGG DONORS NEEDED! Earn $2,000 in your spare time! Call our 24 hour private information line: (303) 575-1177 512 CRUISE & LAND-TOUR EMPLOYMENT Work in exotic locations, meet fun people, AND get paid! For industry information call Cruise Employment Services: (800) 276-4948 ext. C58795 (We are a research & publishing company) 317

PHOTOGRAPHERS! EXCELLENT PAYING part or full-time assignments. Some experience necessary. (410) 889-1242 anytime.

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IT'S NO LONGER NECESSARY TO BORROW money for college. We can help you obtain funding. Thousands of awards available to all students.

Immediate qualification. Call (800)651-3393 5/30 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TUTOR QUALIFIED, experienced & reliable. 4.0 GPA. Beginning Spanish, beginning & intermediate French, all levels of German. On Auraria campus Mon-Thurs 9:00 - 4:30. Reasonable rates.

7118 Leonore Dvorkin, 985-2327 WANT TO GET IN SHAPE? AWARD winning instructor offers small classes combining weight training, calisthenics and stretches. $4/hr. All equipment provided.

Evenings and Saturdays in SW Denver. Leonore Dvorkin, 985-2327 7/18

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ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT GRADES? 317 Call "Hypnosis That Works" 698-0045.

A.A. MEETING ON CAMPUS. WE NEED A • Chairperson in order to continue these meetings. Please call Billi at 556-3878 if you are interested.

5/2 AM ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR AURARIA Campus Catholics to start a Catholic club on campus. If interested, call Jan Donato at 394-2463 317

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The team will be evaluating whether or not MSCD meets the following five criteria: • Criterion One: The institution has clear and publicly stated purposes consistent with its mission and appropriate to an institution of higher education.

• Criterion Two: The institution has effectively organized the human, financial, and physical resources necessary to accomplish its purposes.

• Criterion Three: The institution is accomplishing its educational and other purposes.

• Criterion Four: The institution can continue to accomplish its purposes and Strengthen its · educational effectiveness.

• Criterion Five: The institution demonstrates integrity in its practices and relationships.

A college-wide Steering Committee was selected by the administration to conduct a self-study, and a number of comm.ittees and task forces were created to analyze, review and evaluate all aspects of the college. The Self-Study Report has been distributed to key offices and is available in the Auraria Library.

Metro State's NCA Steering Committee Members are: Jett Conner• Jan Darling• Yolanda Ortega Erickson• Tom Gray• Ramon Griffin Olivia Lopez Hartenstein • Frieda Holley, Chair • Elizabeth Holtze • Rajendra Khandekar Cheryl Norton • John Schmidt • Lyn Wickelgren • Paul Wilken

Scheduled meetings with Students, Faculty, Classified and Administrative Staff are as follows: .,

Monday, March IO, 1997 I 0:00- I I :00 a.m.

Classified and Administrative Staff Open Session.......... NC I 5 I 5 I :00-2:00 p.m.

Student Open Session.......................................................... CN 205 3:00-4:oo p.ni.

Faculty Open Session ........................................................... CN 222

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