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Gov. Roy Romer takes a moment to pose with some members of the audience who showed up at Auraria Child Care Center to watch five childrelated bills become law. The children from left are 8-yearold Jennifer, 6-year-old Elise and 3year-old Ty. In the background is Romer and the children's parents Heather and Robert Young.

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Metro student to face charges Felony charge reduced to misdemeanor in defacement of campus buildings ...

By A.Jeter The Metropolitan Police pulled Metro student Gary Norris out of class May 6 and arrested him for suspicion of destruction of public property. Norris, who spent 30 hours in jail in connection with graffiti and posters that were glued on classroom walls in early May, must now go before a judge July 11 . He was initially charged with felony criminal mischief, but the charges were soon lowered to misdemeanor destruction, since the damage is estimated at about $300. Causing over $400 in damage is considered a felony under Colorado law. "I made and distributed the fliers," Norris said. "The graffiti in the buildings, I had nothing to do with." Norris said he couldn' t comment on whether he glued the fliers to the walls. If convicted of the misdemeanor charge, Norris could face a fine of.up to $250. He said he does not want a conviction on his record. Norris said he could have avoided the court battle if he accepted a deal from Metro's Dean of Student Life, \

Yolanda Ortega-Ericksen. Norris said Ortega-Ericksen offered to settle the case if he would agree to pay $1, 150 by 5 p.m. the day after the fliers were glued to the walls. Norris said "No de~I" and showed up May 28 in a Denver courtroom to face charges. However, his arraignment was postponed to July 11 at 8:30 a.m. Ortega-Ericksen said the offer extended was made on behalf of the Auraria Higher Education Center. "My intention was to see if there was a way to settle this without (Norris) going to court," Ortega-Ericksen said. "What AHEC gave us was '$1, 150 and we will drop the charges.'" Ortega-Ericksen said Norris' only concern now is with the court case, adding that her personal dealings with him are over. "(Norris) and I had a very good meeting," OrtegaEricksen said. "As far as I am concerned, (Norris) and I have finished our business." For Norris, however, nothing is finished.· Two days after his arrest, Norris wrote a statement in which he claimed that the college, Auraria police and Auraria sought to make an example of him in this case because he is an outspoken advocate for students.

"The fact that a ridiculous charge of felony was given to me, claiming that I was guilty of all the damage done to the campus proves ... that there is a knowing attempt by the administrations which run the Auraria campus to exclude any student input," he said. The posters were found glued to the wall next to the Political Science offices. Each commemorated the anniversary of a French workers' revolution in 1968. Joe Ortiz, head of the Auraria police, said his officers did nothing wrong. "We were given information," Ortiz said. "We investigated, and we presented information we gathered to the district auorney, and he took that information for a case against Gary Norris." Norris said that in accordance with his agreement with Ortega-Ericksen and Auraria, when he returns to school in the fall he will be on probation. "I violated a student conduct code," Norris said. "They didn't want to suspend or expel me. The way I understand it, they will be keeping an eye on me." Norris said he plans to ask for a public defender at his arraignment. "I can't afford a lawyer," Norris said.

Racial climate examined

Best and brightest art students

Rewind: The ups, downs of Metro sports

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MetropOOtan-- Stare College of Denver ATTENTION! Students, Faculty and Staff

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

APPROPRIATE USE OF MSCD COMPUTING FACILITIES Metropolitan State College of Denver's mission statement espouses a "commitment to academic freedom as the key to intellectual inquiry and development of ideas." For us to successfully realize this mission, it is incumbent upon every user of MSCD's computing resources to use those resources appropriately and responsibly, i.e., to use computing and networking in a way that does not infringe on any other individual's academic freedom, that does not interfere with any other individual's intellectual inquiry, and that does not interfere with any other individual's use of computing to develop ideas. Equally important is the individual's right-toprivacy. Every member of the MSCD community must protect every other individual's right-toprivacy (see the Family Educational Rights and Privacy of 1974). This responsibility spans every form of information: on-line systems, reports, verbal, and electronic communications, and electronic data files. Metropolitan State College of Denver wholeheartedly endorses EDUCOM's published statement of principle concerning software and intellectual rights (see The EDUCOM Code). APPROPRIATE USE

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

administrative information systems, academic computing resources, networking technologies and office automation. MSCD's computing resources are available to MSCD students, faculty, and staff. For any other individual or organization to use MSCD's computing resources requires special written approval from the Associate Vice President of Information Technology. INAPPROPRIATE USE

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

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Student government member quits Vice president of student organizations cites lack of time, personality conflicts By Kevin Juhasz

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Just as Metro's 1997-98 Student Government Assembly took office, one of its members called it quits - a common occurrence for newly-elected student representatives. Jillann Mills resigned as Vice President of Student Organizations on May 15, citing her inability to "put forth the time and effort lo complete the tasks of this office adequately." She said her resignation also was caused by political in-fighting within student government. Student government President Karmen Trujillo appointed Jim Hayen to replace Mills. Hayen's appointment was unanimously approved by the other student government members. Hayen said he plans to hold open houses to make students more aware of the student clubs. In Mills' letter of resignation, she said she hoped the position would be filled by someone better able to serve the students. "I didn't realize it was going to take up so much of my time," Mills said in an

She left the May 15 meeting immeinterview Tuesday. Mills did not resign without voicing diately after reading the letter and told her displeasure with other student gov- members they were free to contact her if ernment members. they had any further questions. In the second Mills said she half of her resignaalso took issue with tion letter, which what she perceived as she read aloud at ongoing problems the May I 5 student between members of government meetdifferent political paring, Mills expressed ties. concern over the "I didn't realize "deviousness of t.he politics would be others involved in so heavy," she said. the 1997-98 SGA." Most of the stuShe cited this as an dent elected governinfluence in her ment members ran decision to resign. under the Student In the interAdvocacy ticket. The view, Mills said she only members from felt some members other tickets are - Karmin Trujillo, of the assembly Trujillo - who was SGA president part of a campus party were not showing dubbed The respect for Trujillo. Collective and Mills said she wrote Jane Duncan, who ran the second paragraph hoping to wake up those members with the Student Involvement Party. and make them realize how petty they Mills said she expected lo see an end were being. to the personal dirt-digging that took

"Everybody on student government is like, 'Gosh, who is she talking about? Is she talking about me?"'

place during campaigning, but that it continued even after the election. Many members were confused by her claims, Trujillo said. "Everybody on student government is like, 'Gosh, who is she talking about? Is she talking about me?"' Trujillo said. Mills said she first heard of conflicts during a social event attended by student government members. She refused to give any details about who was involved or when it took place, saying she did not want to cause controversy. Trujillo dismissed any fears that there is conflict among members. "We're a team now," she said. "We've come together." Any differences were quelled last week at a student government retreat to Sylvan Ranch in Loveland, Trujillo said. Members need to respect each other and there will be no further situations where members attack each other over disagreements, Trujillo said. "Everybody is on the same page," said Gabriel Hermelin, student government vice president of campus communications.

Post-tenure review legislation in works

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Metro professors are awaiting Gov. Roy Romer's action on a bill that would make it easier for tenured professors lo be fired. During this spring's legislative session, members of the Joint Budget Committee, the group that sets the budget for Colorado, pushed the bill through the House and Senate where it was met with little opposition. Romer has until June 6 to sign or veto the bill, which still becomes law if he chooses not to sign it. During a May 27 press conference at the Auraria Child Care Center, Romer said he has not yet reviewed the bill but intends to soon. The budget committee members told lawmakers that Colorado needs to make tenured professors more accountable. If the bill becomes law, professors at Metro and other publicly-funded colleges in Colorado will face performance reviews every five years. Those that fail to meet the minimum standards of the review two years in a row will be placed on probation and must then undergo yearly reviews. Professors who do not improve within two years after that will be fired. The budget committee's tenure bill charges the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to determine criteria for

the post-tenure reviews. Members of Metro's Faculty Senate said they are concerned about the implications of such legislation and have formed a committee to look into the issue. In addition, the American Associiition of University Professors, the organization that sets the current criteria for firing tenured professors, is opposing the legislation. The association's preferred criteria for colleges ending tenure includes conviction of certain crimes, committing sexual harassment and incompetence. In contrast, the new legislation would make "unsatisfactory performance" a fireable offense. "The new language is for unsatisfactory performance, no~ incompetence," said Ruth Flower, director of government relations for the association. " It lowers the standards and gives much broader discretion to end tenure." Supporters of the bill. include Rep. Tony Grampsas, R-Evergreen, who is a member of the Joint Budget Committee and a sponsor of the bill. He said the measure will go a long way to ensure the public that professors must adhere to a high standard of performance - even after they are tenured. "If professors haven 't made any improvement in two years, they are not going to," Grampsas said.

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May 30, 1997

Police get a raise

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Campus tolerance surveyed By Perry Swanson The Meiropolilan

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Almost four years after Metro President Sheila Kaplan arrived on campus and said she wanted to promote racial and gender diversity, her administration is still trying to gauge the racial climate at Metro. This month the college's Diversity Taskforce launched the Campus Climate Survey to get feedback from students, faculty and staff on race and gender relations at the college. "The purpose of the study is to understand the current status of relationships among the diverse groups in the college," said Percy Morehouse, Metro's director of equal opportunity who is overseeing the survey. In terms of race and gender, Metro is slightly more diverse than the local community and the country as a whole. Figures published in the 1995 Metro Fact Book. show that 22.1 percent of students at Metro are non-white, compared with 20.5 percent in metro Denver and 17 percent nationwide. There are roughly 10 percent more females than males at Metro, while national figures

show females outnumber males by only 2 percent. In metro Denver, males and females are nearly equal in number. Percy Morehouse The equal opportunity office mailed three different surveys in early May. One went to a group of about 2,600 students, another to the faculty, and the third to the college's administration and classified staff. Most of the student surveys were sent to non-white students, according to Morehouse. By the end of May, Morehouse hopes to have enough surveys back to compile representative results. Once the survey is complete, Morehouse says the Taskforce will interview some of the recipients to get more detailed and personal information. Then the Taskforce will make recommendations to the president based on the information they gathered. "We wanted to see what kinds of programs we had to implement to make this a conducive environment

Metro's image gets revamped Publicity blitz aims to ·revise public perception of the college; study indicates that many believe it a 'second-rate' institution By Jesse Stephenson The Melropolitan

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In response to lackluster enrollment figures and an abundance of negative feedback about Metro's image, the college has launched an elaborate publicity campaign aimed at boosting the public's perception of the college and attracting new students. This week, the Integer Group, a Lakewood-based advertising agency, will begin preparing the second of a series of newspaper ads designed to entice potential students to Metro. The agency agreed to donate its services in working to redefine Metro's image. In addition to luring new students to the campus, employees of the Integer Group and Metro's Department of Communications hope the ads will help dispel the idea that Metro is a second-rate college. Debbie Thomas, the interim vice president of Metro's Department of Communication, said results of a survey her department conducted earlier this year indicated that Metro has a serious image problem among members of surrounding communities. According to survey results, when people think of Metro they think "cheap" and "second rate;" a college someone chooses to attend only if they are not accepted to their first-choice college. "It's not good for the school to be thought of in that way," Thomas said. "We had this gap here between what the reality of the school is and what the image is." Thomas said that's where the new image campaign comes in. Besides advertising, the campaign also involves giving Metro a fresh face in the eyes of potential students. That fresh fa<!e is, more specifically, a new njckname. mE METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER is now the official nickname of the college. Thomas said giving the college a new moniker is a necessary part of revamping the college's image because people have

for work and learning," Morehouse said. The survey is not designed to address specific problems, it is to "assess the climate to see what people's perceptions are; if they perceived any given problems." All three surveys inquire about issues relating to equality of race, gender, age, disability, religion and sexual orientation on campus. The faculty survey, for example, asks professors to agree or disagree with the statement, "The faculty in my department are accepted and respected by their peers throughout the college, regardless of their religion." Students are asked their degree of agreement with statements such as: • The professors I take courses from treat me with the same respect as they treat my peers. •Metro values having a diverse student population. • In general, students are accepted and respected by faculty, regardless of race and ethnicity. Demographic data about respondents is also sought on the survey, asking questions about age, marital status, religion, gender and disability.

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a deeply embedded negative name association with the names "Metro" and "Metropolitan State College of Denver." Using THE MET instead of the old names eliminates preconceived notions about the college, Thomas said. "Those impressions are so deeply ingrained we could never change them, we are not changing th~ name of the college but we are trying to get people to use a new nickname" Thomas said. Now everyone who answers phones at Metro is instructed to refer to the college as THE MET. The new nickname is now on all college stationery, pamphlets and class schedules. Even the signs on campus will be converted to say THE MET instead of Metropolitan State College of Denver. Diplomas and transcripts, however, will continue to bear the college's formal name. "There has been so much confusion about that," Thomas said. "Nicknames were never used on diplomas and they won't be now." Despite Thomas' assurance that the New Image Campaign will enrich Metro's image, many students and student leaders oppose it. During an April open house to familiarize faculty and students with the campaign, many students gathered to protest the revamping of Metro's image. The Student Government Assembly's Vice President of Communications, Gabriel Hermelin, said the students were protesting because they weren't consulted about the campaign. Hermelin said she feels the new campaign does not represent the true flavor of the college. "It's plugging into this we're hip, we're trendy, we're new ttJng," she said. "As far as I can tell, mE MET thing is a joke and that will spread into the community and people will make fun of us. People are already saying we're having an identity crisis." Since the protests, Thomas has asked Hermelin to sit on a panel that will give student input on issues such as the New Image Campaign.

institutions. space allocation is of major concern for Metro, the report states. The review said Metro needs more faculty office space, student service space, classroom facilities, art gallery space, a bigger theater and an auditorium for the perfonning arts. The committee specified that space at the Auraria Higher Education Center is limited and many administrative offices are housed in off-campus space rented by Metro. This arrangement is becoming prohibitively expensive for Metro, as rent in downtown Denver is increasing, the NCA's report states. The revjew also brought up concerns regarding faculty retention and tenure procedures» 'Despite these criticisms., the NCA was impressed with Metro having a diverse student body making Metro a "strong and vibrant" institution of higher learning,, the report states. The NCA also praiSed the college for having developed a Cooperative F.cfucation pro-

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Much has been made of Metro's recent change to a new, hip moniker - THE METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER. Letters have been written both in protest of and agreement with the new phrase. Students hate it - the administration loves it. That it was suggested pro bono by an advertising firm appears to be its saving grace. Apparently the word "Metro" and the acronym "MSCD" conjure visions of a second-rate schoel that lacks credibility. THE MET will change all of that with its slick design and the instant acceptance of its ear-pleasing sound. Or so the theory goes. Much like the quick-hit name, this solution is a quick-fix bandage applied to a gaping wound. It fails to recognize the cause of the very problem it hopes to fix.

If the mere mention of Metro or MSCD draws negative reaction, the first step in alleviating that response should be to figure out why the reaction occurs. Concluding it is all in the name, hence the reconstruction, is akin to painting a car to fix its blown engine. The administration, namely Metro President Sheila Kaplan, would be wise to realize that changing the phrasing of the name of the college will not make the faculty's vote of no confidence disappear. It will not settle the myriad lawsuits in contention and upcoming . It will not stop the press from reporting on the uproar over who is and who is not granted tenure. It will not influence the body in charge of the accreditation report on the college, which found the college to be lacking in key areas such as graduation rates. It will give the college a slick new moniker, which makes it sound less like an institution of higher learning and more like a fast-food drive-through. It will be yet another issue protested and debated. It is another example of. administration being out of touch with the student population. In all, the name change will bring attention to the college. With all of the negativity swirling around the campus the vote of no confidence, lawsuits, tenure disputes and mixed accreditation reviews - this kind of attention is the last thing Metro needs.

A rose is a rose but 'THE MET' stinks

Metropolitan State College of Denver. Metro. THE MET. Higher institution of learning. Higher learning. Just plain high. Travis Henry According to the administration of this college, the best way to combat Metro's Editorial 556-2507 second-class image is by promoting a Advertising_.556~8361 new campaign, featuring a new moniker for Metro. Fax 556-3421 Forget creating higher standards e-mail: MichaeJBeDan@SSD_STLF@MSCD for students, retaining top-quality professors or hiring a competent adminisInternet:bedan@mscd.edu tration. THE MET is the answer. It's catchy, it's hip an'd it cost nothing. The Metropolitan is produced by and for the 1twknts of Apparently, some advertising firm The Metropolitan Stale College of Denver serving the was asked by the administration to creAuraria Camp111. The Metropolitan is 1upported by advertising re11enun and srudent f tt1, and is published ate a new image for Metro, one that every Friday durlJI& the academic year and monthly durcould allow us to compete with other i~ the 111111111er 1e111e1ler. The Metropolitan is diltributed schools across the state. Oh, and they lo all campus building1. No per- 1114Y toke more llian did it for free. one copy of each edition ·of The Metropolitan 111ithout prior 111rit1M pennmion. Direct any quutioiu, comIt only goes to show - you get plaints, compliments or comments to the MSCD Board of what you pay for. Publication1 clo The Metropolitan. Opinioiu uprwed 111ithin do not neceuorily reflect tha1e of The Metropolitan, The Metropolitan Stale College of Denver or its advertism. Deadline for cakndar items is 5 p.m. Friday. Deadline for press releOles u10 a.m. Monday. Di.splay advertising deadline is 3 p.m. Friday. Classified advertising deadline i.s 5:00 p.m. Monday. The Metropolitan~ offices are located in the Tivoli Stuiknt Union Suite 313. Mailing addre11 i.s P.O.Bo.t 173362, Campus Bo:i 57, Denver, CO 80217-3362. 0 AU J"i&hts reserved. The Me1ropolitan is printed on recycled paper.

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Besides the obvious conclusion that this moniker is stupid, lame and illconceived, THE MET might bring with it other unwanted connotations. Student Life at Metro can now be called "Met Life." (Has anyone besides me ever seen the insurance commercials with Snoopy peddling "Met Life-?") Now, not only does Student Life have to decide if they are bringing in Al Gore's second cousin or Sally Jesse Raphael to campus to speak to students on the importance of free environmental speech, they will be constantly interrupted with false insurance claims by confused Metro graduates. What next? What if the administration decides to tinker with our time-honored, sacred mascot the Roadrunner? All I ask, Sheila, is please, please don't rename our baseball team THE METS. If you want to be CU so bad, Sheila, just try it and you'll have riots, rubber bullets and all. (Besides, down here our minors have no trouble getting alcohol.) To bring home the alcohol point, q;r;r:_. ~- ~ -: lt:r ~ .,, · ::if:~-· ,fl~

THE MET sure does sound like a lame downtown bar. Actually there is a bar in Denver referred to as THE MET, but to avoid offending any other special-interest, student-funded groups on campus, I won't even go into what kind of bar that is. Let's just say that college Republicans, were there any, would not approve. THE MET is just one more example that Sheila Kaplan and her hired assassins don't get it. If the object is to try and change Metro's image from being just a fancy community college nestled between Elitch's and Colfax, calling it THE MET is not the answer. Quality professors, quality education and a quality administration - that is the answer. A rose called by any other name may smell just as sweet. But when you call Metro THE MET, it just plain stinks.

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By Kendra Nachtrieb The Metropolitan

The British have invaded America again; only this time through the silver screen. First. the cult smash Trainspotting hit the theaters, bringing a new understanding to the term "junkie," and now writer Kevin Allen (familiar to many British comedy fans for his appearances on the sitcom Absolute!) Fabulous), brings American movie audience ~he very dark comedy Twin Town. Twin Town makes the audience utter a few giggles but invokes no real hardcore laughter. Rather, this movie tends to make the stomach queasy. A major drawback to Twin Town is that it's difficult to understand the choppy, thick accents of the Welsh actors. The only understandable word in the first half is one that is not suitable for printing in this paper. The fluid, yet hurried, Scottish dialect of Trainspotting was much easier to understand. Twin Town's negative story is about

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two devilish brothers, Julian, played ~~-~r~~#~\; . • :!'.!" by Welsh soap star Llyr Evans, and • 4~ ..,:... • Jeremy, played by Llyr's real-life 1i older brother Rhys Ifans. The two enter the detestable realm of revenge with the greedy roofing contractor Bryn Cartwright, played by William Thomas. When the Twins' (or so they are affectionately called by their father, Fatty, played by Ronnie Williams), falls off a roof on one of Cartwright's jobs, they decide to ask him for the money to pay the large medical bills. ff Cartwright will not give them the money, they will seek out compensation from him in some other form. The movie's plot seems designed to make room for the disgusting, revolting and disturbing. From urinating on people to cutting TRIVIA IN THE BATH: 'Twins' Julian (Llyr Evans) and Jeremy (Rhys lfans) dogs heads off, the movie falls short of comedy. It seems geared toward a cer- euphemisms, all of which seem overdone. to make the film a bit less tedious. This film is worth seeing but might tain audience, one that can stomach the Surely there are other words, even in gore and enjoys some common Welsh slang, that could have been chosen be better on video.

Meet the very unlikable Bob, Bob and Bob By Ricardo Baca The Metropolitan

One might think playwright James R. Cannon has something against people with the name Bob. In his new collection of three plays, Bobology, being performed by the Roundfish Theater Company, Cannon created several different characters named Bob who resemble figures ranging from George Orwell's Big Brother to a superhyped, sports-business-owning head honcho. Poor Bobs. None of them arc very likable. These Bobs are not as extreme as Bill Murray's Bob in What About Bob?, but at times Bobology nears borderline craziness and surpasses the annoying movie in adult content. Viewers get thrown around in their seats as the three stories go everywhere, taking 180-degree turns and upside-down loops. Cannon notes in the program that the plays consist of religious, political and business themes; however, the political and religious aspects are hard to tell apart because two of the plays involve religious cults or sects. He also notes that no attempt is being made to start an anti-Bob movement. In the first one-act, Nobody's Business but Bob's, Bob is an extreme-sports business tycoon who is searching for a new president to drag his company out of a bad-press slump because the company's products kill people. The Trouble With Bob brings the audience into another world. This dark, dramatic one-act drastically contrasts with the first one. It introduces Kerry, a character who is abstaining from sex for a week. This goes against the strict rules of his reli-

gious sect, which is governed by an unseen Big Brother-type named Bob. Malcolm, a council member and interrogator, who is trying to pry himself into Kerry's mind to stop any possible pre-revolutionary ideas. This fascist community thrives on happiness, and for no particular reason, promotes drugs, sex and TV and does not allow books because of their dangerous content. Humor is curiously absent from this oneact. Last is the humorous, dark comedy Killing Bob, consisting of two cult followers looking for the "sacred pine" where they are to meet their guru. Once they find the worn park bench - which is indeed made THE THREE BOBS: James De Vinny, Christopher J. Petersen and Nolan_Patterson of pine - they find their guru drunk, holding an Old Milwaukee and products that had killed over I 0 people, the the non-conforming character in every nearly passed out on the bench in his zoot first act's Bob calls 60 Minutes "a couple instance. suit, with '?Os-style chest hair trickling out of communist wackos." Christopher J. Peterson, who porof the unbuttoned shirt. This particular cult The actors had an excellent chance to trayed the outlandish Bob, the quiet and murders its leader every 20 years, and said display their dramatic and comedic talents hardly-present Tom, and the drunkard guru, Master Sakanaki, has sold the com- as each actor played three very different Guru, added a certain craziness to the propound and gambled away the savings of characters. James DeVinney, as the golf- duction. The first one-act opens with him the cult, leaving only two followers from playing Ray, the interrogating Malcolm, dancing to Bush's "Machinehead" wearing thousands. One is the gullible-but-lovable and the submissive, following Paul, was a Darth Vader helmet, and the third one-act prized disciple John, and the other is the energetic in every movement. Whether it opens with him dancing and singing in his critical Paul who questions everything. was the humor in his monotonous, mantra- falsetto to "Stayin' Alive" in a suit that acts The two run into power problems while chanting voice or his sycophant charm in as an ugly reminder of the '70s. His secdiscussing the fate of the "Stayin' Alive"- the first one-act, he was always making an ond one-act character barely mumbled two singing guru who picks and smells the jam extra effort so the audience didn't have to. words, but it also was done with a comic Nolan Patterson, playing the pocket- flair, strategically displaying his characbetween his toes and whose real name is protector-wearing Melvin, the abstaining ter's stupidity and clumsiness. the play's namesake, Bob. This production makes for a very Cannon did a splendid job creating Kerry, and the scheming Paul, used a realunderstandable yet unlikable characters life approach to his characters and helped pleasant evening. The play only lasts an and writing creative dialogue. In one in keeping the more abstract parts of the hour and a half, so it doesn't pose an instance while discussing the 60 Minutes shows close to earth. He was the staple of incredible time constraint. It is quite a ride feature on his dangerous extreme sports realism throughout the shows and played as well and much cheaper than Elitch's.

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Senior thesis gallery show By Ryan Bachman The Metivpo/11a11

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The brightest and best of graduating senior art students received an opportunity to show their work to the public at this year's Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition, held at Metro's Center For The Visual Arts. The exhibit, represents the very best of student artwork, as selected by the Metro art faculty. The show included both two- and threedimensional artworks created m a variety of media. Students exhibited paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, textiles, computer art, photography and sculpture. Patrick Crutchfield's oil, bronze and marble collection w~s one of the largesl works in the show, featuring large · blocks of marble suspended by cable and thin strands of bronze shaped like wiry arms extending from the blocks. His pieces, while massive, were fascinatingly intricate. The cibachrome photogof Theodore raphy Haberman uses odd juxtapositions of different images to convey meaning. His work, "Half Life of the Soul," depicts two dissected fish, one vertical and the other lying flat on the bottom, over a mouse trap. Another of his works, "Fix Me Now," cenLers on a pair of needle nose pliers constricted in twine over a scrap of metal. Haberman uses a lot of deep, rich colors in his photography and the effccl is stunning. Jeweler Katie Dahlstrom

showed about a dozen of her pendants and broaches, formed out of metal, wood and stone. Her attractively polished pieces, even the wooden ones, possessed a metallic quality. Some of them resembled arrow heads, and others had a curvier, almost eastern appeal. The work of Brandon Bender! featured three pieces, combining both photographs · and drawings. He creates half-skeletal, halfnesh-covered figures , both animal and human, which slowly disintegrate to skin to muscle to raw bone. Bendert's work ts meticulously detailed, down to the nerves and blood vessels in his creatures. His pieces have ominous ti Lies like "Wounded Me," and "Any Other Father," and could serve nicely in a demented biology text. Also dealing with the subject of the body is the lithograph series from Evan Colbert, which characterizescells in large masses, toughening Lhe clinical notions of microscopic organisms. Both his pieces, "AIDS" and "Virus DNA in 30, " confront the viewer with blownup pictures of unseen death and disease. His dark colors contribute to the uneasy feeling the viewer is supposed to experience. Other students featured in the show were Malca Ellison, Jeremy McGirl and Matt McMillan. The exhibit was funded by Mile Hi Ceramics, Metro's School of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Student Affairs Board.

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Author puts Lucifer to bed at the Mercury By Lisa Opsahl-Lang The Metropolitan

What is Lucifer like? No one really is sure because no one ever hears his side of the story. He doesn't have the crucifix corporate logo or the bound-edition Bible or pamphlets, or the spokesman Jesus Christ. So if Lucifer sat in a bar for two hours and told his story, what would he say? Lucifer Tonight, a play written and performed by Don Becker, allowed Lucifer to be mankind's neighbor for a few hours and give his views on love, sex, religion and hell on May 24 at the Mercury Cafe. It was Becker's last performance of the play in Denver. Lucifer Tonight will be perfonned again in New York under the direction of Brian Freeland, and will have a cast of characters, instead of being a one-man show. When Becker originally perfonned Lucifer Tonight, he played at City Stage Ensemble under the direction of Dan Hiester. He had one character besides Lucifer, the Archangel Gabriel, played by Terry Bernstead. "I thought the best torment I could give an actor would be for him to stay on stage throughout the whole play and only have one line,''. Becker said. Becker's performance at the Mere was more of a reading than the real play. Becker said the play is a big part of him, allowing him to explore his own deep personal feelings about the subjects in his play, and he felt it would be nice to read it without all the bells and whistles. Becker's play explores both the good and evil of man. While he doesn't focus solely on the philistine passions of human flesh, he does spend a lot of time on the subject. Heaven is pure love, the most extreme love a person can experience, but hell is the perfect orgasm, Lucifer said. In hell,

there are no rules. There is a lot of eating, drinking, sex and two-year-long orgasms. But since you have to eat to fuel your orgasms, people get fat - 60, 70 thousand pounds - he said. But, the fatter you are, the better the orgasm. Before the orgasm there was paradise, Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. Lucifer said he liked Eve, she was a good kid. He didn't want to tempt her, but God said, how much does Eve love me? Lucifer said, "Read King Lear!" But he realized that it hadn't been written yet, and then explained a little bit about time. "Time is your Nazi," Lucifer said, "Time is the uncomfortable marriage of work and sleep." Lucifer explained that God made six days of work and one day of rest. If I was in charge, every night would be Saturday night, endless parties and beer, he said. Humans squander their time. Work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep. In the corporate world a worker who has done a good job gets a watch when he retires. Time should be loved, it should be treated like a lover, Lucifer said. But lovers, he said, are like roses. Lovers can make the hands bleed, like the thorns of a rose. And like a rose, my lover is beautiful, but useless, he said. Beauty is art, he said, and art is an alloy of evil and good. Evil isn't bad, evil isn't Nixon or Hitler, evil is, he said, and God allows it.

Evil causes suffering, suffering causes meaning, he screamed. If a grain of sand gets into an oyster's flesh , it suffers its little oyster suffer-

Lucifer said. Lucifer, according to Becker, isn ' t all bad. He does understand the purity of Christ, and that Lucifer can almost be tempted back to God's kingdom. When Lucifer tempted Jesus in the desert, his final temptation, was to use Jesus' weakness, which is love. Lucifer appeared before Jesus as an old woman covered in sores. Jesus longed to heal her, and licked her wounds to cure her. As he licked the open sores Lucifer turned them into pools of sweet nectar, and he told Jesus he was tempted. But Jesus said he knew it was Lucifer, and he still wanted to heal him, and if • Lucifer just admitted the sores were real, he could go back to God. For a moment, Lucifer is tempted. But he can't. Lucifer has seen color, Lucifer made color, God made light, but Lucifer made color. Man drinks from two cups, good and evil, and if he drinks only from the cup of good, only the cup of evil remains. Lucifer believes he has completed his destiny and yet, he still wonders why he is lost. Why God torments him. Becker screams and cries these last lines, cries real tears and suffers right there on stage. He is no longer Lucifer, but the man, Don Becker, peering out of a crucible of Lucifer, Becker and Jesus, in a spotlight, on a dusty hardwood floor, in front of 15 people.

ing and makes a pearl. If a man suffers, he makes his own pearls, Lucifer explained. Before man mastered the art of agriculture there was no time to question suffering, he said. Suffering is good, he said. Cain suffered. Abel brought gifts of slaughtered lamb to God and God was pleased, he explained. Cain brought gifts of metal and God wasn't impressed. Cain loved God. He loved God so much that he'd do anything for his approval, even kill,

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Public art application explained By Kendra Nachtrieb The Metropolitan

Getting one's artwork placed in a public space is a process that involves a lot of time and effort. Since public artwork is funded by the government, an artist who wishes to create such a piece has to go through an extensive selection process. To help local artists understand this process better, the Mayor's Office of Art, Culture and Film recently held a seminar on how to better navigate the world of publiclyfunded artwork. John G. Grant, a public art administrator, said the Denver Public Art Program holds open competitions, which each year are entered by both locally- and nationally-known artists. The most important thing in deciding whether to fund an artwork is not the artist's reputation and past work, but rather the quality of the presentation the artist gives. The first step to receiving funds occurs when the artist requests an information packet from the MOACF. This packet spells out what the artist needs to present to the panel: five professional quality slides of past work, a resume and a concept statement. Of these, the slides are the most crucial. "The quality of your slides is the most important item for any public art program; without that, you're gone," Grant said. "It doesn't matter how many projects you've done or how good your concept letter is. If they (the slides) aren't profession-

al, you're done." The artist then presents these items to a project evaluation panel, which consists of seven members: two members of the MOACF, one artist, one art professional (such as an architect), and three representatives of the community where the work will be placed. This panel will review the site, set up the qualifications for the project, review the applications and select the finalists. If an artist is selected as a finalist, thex then will submit a final presentation, participate in an interview, a sample budget and provide a sample contract. This final stage is designed to weed out the artists who cannot handle a large amount of tax dollars. 'The money is to facilitate your ability to present, not because we think you are a good artist. Those funds are for you to present a professional production. If they're not used properly, you won't get the commission," he said. Besides the cost of a piece, the OPAP also. is concerned with how much maintenance the piece will need. "Public art is charged to the agencies that host it, and then they have to maintain the· works. Our office cannot allow a project to go through that has costly maintenance," Grant said. Giving a word of advice to those interested in creating public artworks, Grant said: "Not everyone is suited to be a public artist. It's a very, very complicated process. It's going to take three to four months to complete, and it has no bearing on your ability as an artist."

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Summertime should be filled with sunny days, children playing, barbecues an·d suntan lotion. Unfortunately, parking hassles have become a familiar, part of summer as well. People who want to temporarily avoid these hassles can ride the bus to both the Denver Zoo and Denver Museum of Natural History for free this summer. "The shuttle ride began as a service to the Zoo and Museum's patrons in order to help alleviate the hassles of an overcrowded parking lot," said Angela Baier of the Denver Zoo.

This service will be available during weekends and holidays and will run from May 24 through Sept. 7. The shuttle operates from I 0 a.m. until 6:30 p.m., with three trips every hour. This is the third summer of operation for the shuttle service. Visitors may park at the National Jewish Medical & Research Center (located at the comer of Colfax and Colorado Boulevard) and then are driven to the front entrance of either the Denver Museum of Natural History or the Denver Zoo. Security will be provided at the parking lot. Riders will receive a coupon for a free 12 ounce soft drink at the Zoo or the Museum.

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before eventually falling out of the top 25 near the end of the season. The play of the Roadrunners also fell flat near the end. They were bounced from the RMAC tournament in the first round by nationally-ranked Fort Hays State. Coach Diirryl Smith publicly questioned the heart of some of his players after the loss. Smith said a few members of the team might need to do some soul searching to determine if winning is still a priority for them. Nothing short of a maximum effort is tolerable, Smith said. The women finished the season 20-7.

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By Kyle Ringo College athletics are generally thought of in tenns of big events, such as New Year's Day bowl games, March Madness or the College World Series. Schools with proud traditions of winning are revered, and athletes who compete for those schools become legends with instantly recognizable names. For the majority of college athletes, however, this is not the case. Most young athletes possessing loads of talent and tons of detennination and passion go unnoticed by the masses, never basking in the warm glow of the spotlight. At Metro, things are no different. The school joined the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in the 1996-97 seasons. But what the year should be remembered for is that it spells the end of a career for some of Metro's student-athletes. Most of them, like their counterparts at many schools across the country, never received as much recognition as they should. Several staples of Metro athletics for the past few years finished their senior seasons with perhaps less success than they would have liked, but they still represented themselves and the school like champions anyway. C.J. Arellano in men's basketball, Kerry Beidleman, Stacey Hoyt and Katie Ritter in volleyball and Danielle Nelson in women's tennis, among others, epitomized the college athlete as they ran through their final year as Roadrunners. Here is a recap of each Metro sports team's 1996-97 season.

•Baseball The Roadrunners went into their final four-game series of the year against Mesa State needing a sweep in order to qualify for the RMAC tournament. Instead, Metro found itself on the wrong end of the

broom, losing four straight to the Mavericks. The team's play wavered in quality throughout the season. On one day it blasted past an opponent with precision defense, big bats and strong pitching. The next day it committed error after baffling error and the pitching collapsed. Unable to find a groove and stay in it, the Roadrunners were consistently inconsistent. It was not the big send-off Metro had planned for its six seniors.

•Men's basketball Metro finished 13-13, with just enough success in the conference to qualify for the &MAC tournament. There, NebraskaKearney quickly dispatched the Roadrunners in the first round. The loss, deemed the most inspired effort of the year by former coach Charles Bradley, ended the season. Changes in the Roadrunners' lineup created problems. Two players who provided most of the action at small forward left the team after winter break, leaving C.J. Arellano to plug the hole. He did a decent job despite not being ideally suited for the position. Besides leading the team in seniority and experience, Arellano, who joined the team as a sophomore, led in free-throw percentage and heart. He leaves Metro as its alltime leadiQg foul shooter. At the end of the season, Bradley accepted the head-coaching position at Loyola-Marymount in Los Angeles, ending his days as the top Roadrunner. Three weeks later, Metro hired Mike Dunlap who coached a professional team in Australia for the last three seasons.

ewomen's basketball Metro reached the national rankings again this season for the second-straight year. The Roadrunners peaked at No. 18

Despite a successful regular season, the women's soccer team did not qualify for any post-season theatrics. The Roadrunners finished with an impressive 11-7-1 record but went home empty-handed. Seniors Chellie Mccourt, Jami Morgan and Kathy Moen finished their college careers strong, even without a post-season berth. McCourt stymied opponents in goal with seven shutouts during the year. Moen and Morgan provided stellar play and solid leadership in their final year. Coach Ed Montojo is optimistic about his team's future with his new class of recruits and the fact that he says he got a total team effort from last season's squad.

•Men's soccer The fancy footwork of their opponents caused problems for men's soccer throughout the season. The Roadrunners finished 7-13-1, yet still managed to back into the RMAC tournament because of a Colorado Christian loss at the end of \ the season and CU-Colorado Springs being ineligible post-season play. Metro finished fifth regular season, but despite having its season lengthened, Metro could not overcome Regis in the first round of the conference tournament. Their fifth-place finish is a bit misleading. If the Roadrunners had beaten the Colorado School of Mines in the season finale, they would have finis11ed second in the conference, giving thef!l a better position in the tournament.

•Swimming Impressive team records were overshadowed by outstanding individual efforts from three Metro swimmers this year. The men's team finished the season at 7-2 and the women did them one better at 8-2. Excellent individual performances by

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Kristin Schweissing, Alisha McCartie and Scott Watson qualified them for nationals. Watson became a three-time AllAmerican, shattering three school records at nationals, while McCartie earned the national honor twice and Schweissing once.

•Tennis The 1996-97 Roadrunner tennis teams set a new standard for future teams to live up to. The men's team went 14-4, and the women pounded out a 13-7 final record. This is impressive considering the tough competition Metro was up against. Each team defeated strong teams. A mid-season trip to California helped Metro focus and raise the level of its game for the rest of the season. On that trip, the men's team defeated a nationally ranked · foe. Unfortunately, the weather stood in the way of both teams finishing off their seasons with a bang. The RMAC tournament was cancelled because of snow, leaving some team members feeling as if the season never happened at all. At least three members of the men's team have decided not to return for another year at Metro, and it remains to be seen if coach Haili McLecxl will sign on for another run at a title. Danielle Nelson, who walked onto the women's team four years ago as a freshman, ended her career on a positive, yet anticlimactic note. Newcomer Manuel Ponce reached as high as No. 15 in regional individual rankings.

•Volleyball The volleyball team, faced with an otherwise lackluster season, was able to tum things around during its last fow games with the help of seniors Stacey Hoyt and Kerry Beidleman. The Roadrunners won four of their last five matches to get to the conference tournament. There, the team paid the price for a less-than-stellar beginning to the season. It was paired with a powerful Nebraska-Kearney team, which had given Metro problems during the season. The Lopers ousted Metro in three games, and three careers came to an end. Seniors B~idleman, Hoyt and Katie Ritter might not have been able to overcome NebraskaKearney, but the effort they gave to the Metro volleyball program will not soon be forgotten. Both Beidleman and Hoyt are ranked among the school's all-time leaders in several different categories. Coach Joan McDermott expects a strong recruiting class to improve next season's team. Then the process will begin again for a new group of talented, hopeful student-athletes.

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