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December 5, 1997

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

SGA fights for last word on fees

By Perry Swanson

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Changes in Colorado's Jaw on student fees have heightened debate at Metro over how much influence students should have in setting fees and approving fee changes.

Student Government Assembly members, led by Vice President of Student Fees Jessie Bullock, are pushing for a fee plan that requires student approval for increasing a fee or starting a new one.

Metro President Sheila Kaplan said she won't support a plan that requires student approval.

Colorado law doesn't require a student vote on most fees, and Kaplan argues that if fee changes are contingent on student approval, the power of Metro's governing board would be compromised.

The Board of Trustees for the State Colleges in Colorado holds final approval for changes in Metro finances.

All colleges in Colorado changed their fee plans after legislation this spring after state Senate Majority Leader Jeffrey Wells introduced Senate Bill 28.

The bill, which was signed by Gov. Roy ~omer on June 3, requires Colorado colleges to come up with a plan for student involvement in assessing fees.

"It is necessary ... to consider students' opinions concerning the amount assessed in fees and the purposes for which the institution uses the revenues received," the bill said.

Metro's student government endorsed a plan for monitoring and changing student fees last month. The plan, written by Bullock and other student government members, required approval of the student government or a student vote for changes to any of Metro's fees.

But a student government sanction doesn't make the plan part ~f college policy.

Now, Bullock and other student government members are working with Bruce Williams, head of Metro's Budget Office, to come up with a plan that both the assembly and Kaplan agree upon. Then

the plan will go to Metro's governing board for final approval.

Williams said Metro's administration doesn't want to exclude student participation in the fees but said student opinions can be heard by more than just votes. He suggested that the college stage open meetings to discuss the issue.

Bullock said votes are the best way to gauge student opinion. Student government members said open forums are ineffective because few students attend them.

"Open forums are kind of a joke on this campus," Bullock said.

But votes don't necessarily represent the true opinion of Metro's 17,000 students, especially when elections attract only a few thousand participants, said Yolanda Ortega-Ericksen, dean of Student Life.

"The important factor in all of this is the student voice, and that cannot be compromised," Ortega-Ericksen said. "I don't think (a student vote) really represents an objective voice of the students."

That may be, but the results of a student vote are much less open to interpretation than other methods of gathering student opinion, said Sean Brailey, assembly vice president of Administration and Finance.

The meaning of results from surveys and open forums can be twisted depending on who interprets them, Brailey said.

Student fees pay for .services such as the Health Services Center and Legal Services and programs in Athletics and Student Activities, which allocates funds to the student government and The Metropolitan .

The new law requires a majority student vote to set fees that pay for "administrative costs unrelated to a specific academic course."

But student and administration officials at Metro are still debating the definition of an "administrative cost."

"Non-permanent" siudenl fees also require a student vote under the law. At Metro, these include the $16.70 bus pass fee and a $4 fee to support the Colorado

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Prison term gets campus case dismissed

By J~e Stephenson The Metropolitan

A man arrested on campus in July and charged with violating a restraining order didn't show up for the trial.

Samuel Allen couldn't make it to court because he is in prison for breaking into his ex-wife's house and threatening to kill her.

Denver Judge Doris Burd dismissed

the restraining order charge against Allen on Dec. 3 since he's serving two years and eight months in the Canon City penitentiary.

He was incarcerated Nov. 24.

Court ck>cuments say Allen, a 43year-old former University of Colorado at Denver student, was arrested in 1989 after he smashed in his ex-wife's door, threatened to kill her and forced her to flee.

That incident resulted in two

Jefferson County Court cases.

In the first case, Allen - was found guilty of contempt of court for violating a restraining order barring him from his exwife. For that conviction, Allen was sentenced to six months in Jefferson County Jail.

In the second case, a jury found him guilty of first-degree criminal trespassing and misdemeanor menacing, for which he received the 4-year prison sentence.

After serving less than half of the term, Allen was released so he could appeal.

In appellate court, Allen argued that the lower courts put him in double jeopardy by ordering him to stand trial lwice for crimes he committed when he broke into his ex-wife 's home.

The Colorado Supreme Court rejected see PRISON on 9

Professors leery of new property policy Revenue from intellectual works the focus of debate on rights

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Combs drafted the policy, which was modeled after one at the University of Northern Colorado. Such policies are becoming common at educational institutions throughout the country, he said.

By Deborah Wiig "Our faculty and staff are quite creative and have proThe Metropolitan duced intellectual property that may have commercial value," If a professor gets an idea for an article that gets pub- Combs said. "Some have asked the institution to support and lished in The New York Times and gets $200 for it, does the promote (their projects) financially in some significant professor get to keep the money? amounts.

"The question then arises, 'Whose property is it?'

A new "intellectual property" policy provides aRswers to that question and others like it, but faculty members are con- Without a policy, there are unanswered questions and potencerned about the policy's intent and its tial conflicts. These procedures will assure vagueness. that ownership questions are resolved Intellectual property includes publicabefore anyone commits time, money and "Reading the tions, artwork, inventions or ideas that effort." policy as it was could be protected by copyrights or Combs said the policy gives the instiinitially written, it tution the option to invest in developing patents. College officials and faculty memand promoting ideas based on the potenbers are trying to res~lve whether works appeared to created while professors are emplgyed at tial for substantial return. The policy will cover everything not bar professors from sharing the profits Metro belong to professors or the college. the college could "Reading the policy as it was initially of their works. written, it appeared to cover everything the "I want to emphasize that the policy is possibly get its college could possibly get its hands on," not intended to change the customary prehands on." said Metro theater Professor David rogatives of the faculty in regard to books, Kottenstette. articles, works of art or CD-ROMs that ~ David Kottenstette, "What's problematic for me is that to they create during their normal work on Metro theatre professor retain tenure, we are required to do profescampus," Combs said. sional development work, which increases "It should have little impact on the the potential for the school to lay claim to practice of faculty members to market your work," he said. their work. When an employee creates intellectual property Metro's interim provost, Cheryl Norton, is forming a using nothing more than what is normally provided, it's committee to make recommendations on the policy, said Lee theirs."

Combs; college's attorney. He expects to submit the final polThe proposed policy says that the college owns "works icy to Metro President Sheila Kaplan in the spring. for hire," college-sponsored work and intellectual property Kaplan will then submit the policy to the Board of that is produced as part of a sponsored research agreement, Trustees for final approval. see PROPERTY on 7

Former CCD newspaper editor arrested

By Perry Swanson Denver police have arrested the former editor of The Community News in connection with the theft of a laptop computer and forgery of a written order for the product.

A police report said someone sent a fake purchase order from the Community College of Denver to MacWarehouse for a laptop computer valued at $2,667. The name signed to the purchase order was Dennis Archuletta, the paper's former editor.

Archuletta said Nov. 17 that someone used a computergenerated copy 路of his signature on purchase order to frame him for the theft.

As many as three other companies also received bogus purchase orders and delivered products to CCD that were ultimately stolen, Catalina said. He wouldn't say the names

of the companies or estimate the value of the products, but he said the companies have not been paid for them.

The computer was delivered to The Community News office Oct. 29 at the Tivoli, the report said. CCD Director of Student Activities Felicia Sykes reported the incident to police.

Sykes confronted Archuletta about the incident Nov. 4, but he denied "knowledge of the order, delivery or current location of the computer," the report said.

The Community News stopped pubDennis Archuletta lishing for the second time this year on Nov. 12 when Archuletta resigned as editor. The paper's only issue 碌iis semester came out in October.

Perry Swamon!Tlre Metropolitan DAMAGE CONTROL: Workers repair a gas line they severed Nov. 25 near campus.

Gas line cut

By Perry Swanson Construction workers at 7th Street and Auraria Parkway cracked a natural gas pipeline Nov. 25, sending strong gas fumes across Auraria's north side.

The break happened in the early afternoon, and workers for Sturgeon Electric immediately scrambled to contain Lhe gas. They broke the plastic pipe in half and sealed each end with adhesive tape.

The pipe, about 4 inches in diameter, was a few feet away from where construction workers expected it to be. They were shoveling dirt with a large backhoe to install high-voltage electrical lines for the future Pepsi Center, said Russ Mogler, the site supervisor.

"Nobody wa.S in any danger," Mogler said: "It just stunk for a little bit" Employees at Fieldwork Denver, a merchant in the Tivoli, called the Auraria Campus Police, which alerted the Denver Fire Department. At least four fire engines showed up at the Tivoli's front entrance soon after.

"The wind was blowing so much, everybody panicked," Mogler said.

Public Service was called at 2:56 p.m., said Bobbye Foster, a company spokeswoman.

Foster said the company did not tum off gas to any of the surrounding buildings and did not request evacuations. They were able to shut off the gas to the broken pipe, she said.

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Human egg donation profitable but risky

By Deborah Wiig The Metropolitan

The ads placed in many Colorado newspapers make it sound like easy money for a generous act: "Egg Donors Needed: $2,000 compensation."

But egg donors, many of whom are college-aged women, face potential risks to their health, and some programs aren't willing to stand behind donors if complications result.

Egg donor programs run the ads in at least three newspapers distributed on the Auraria Campus to recruit college women, aged 18 to 31, to donate their eggs to infertile women. Egg donor ads appear in The Metropolitan, Westward and the University of Colorado at Denver Advocate.

The Center for Reproductive Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center advertises in newspapers available on campus. It evaluates all potential donors' physical and mental health, as well as their family background and physical characteristics.

Once selected, the donors are put on birth control pills for a month or more to coordinate their cycles with the women who will receive the eggs. Doctors inject several other medications daily to stimulate ovaries to produce 10-15 eggs, instead of the one or two normally produced each

month.

HCG can cause headaches, depression, When the eggs are mature, they are and irritability. removed by a needle inserted through the Other problems can occur when vagina and into the ovary. Anesthesia is retrieving the eggs, including "infection, used to reduce the pain. bleeding, or puncture of bowel or bladThe CU Health Sciences Center's der," the consent form says. consent form says the birth control pills The CU Health Sciences Center, how"may cause nausea, weight gain, and ever, will not cover medical expenses to headaches, and in rare instances stroke, treat the side effects from any of the drugs. blood clotting, pulmonary embolism, Maria Chavez, nurse coordinator for heart attack, and liver CU Health Sciences tumors."

Center's egg donor proThe drugs Lupron, gram, acknowledged Follistim, and Human the risks, but said they It's a were infrequent. She Chorionic Gonadotropin stimulate said overstimulating the Women pay the ovaries and prevent ovaries could cause much as fluid to leak into the premature ovulation. $11,000 for But, according to abdomen, but doctors donated eggs. information from the do discuss side effects center, Follistim can with the donors. cause the ovaries to "The donor is responsible for those become enlarged and fragile. Fluid can leak into the abdomen expenses," Chavez said.

The entire donation process takes six and lungs, requiring hospitalization in one out of every JOO women taking it. weeks to three months, Chavez said. The The form does not mention any risks donors gel $2,000 when they complete the from Lupron and HCG. But a publication program. The women who receive the issued by National Lupron Victims eggs pay $1 1,000 for them.

Network warns of fatigue, headaches, Chavez said there have been a few insomnia, dizziness, muscle pain, hair calls from the center's ad in The Joss, skin rash, hot flashes, memory loss, Metropolitan, but no Auraria students have and ovarian cysts resulting from the drug. become donors so far.

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would donate their eggs despite the risks involved.

"If I was in a time of financial need, yes, I'd do it," said Tessa Houle, a University of Colorado al Denver biology major. "I see it as a service to help people who can't have kids.

"The risks don't surprise me, there are risks with any drug. No one should go into it without understanding and accepting the risks. I consider it a relatively easy procedure."

Another student said she feels for infertile women but donating eggs is not worth the financial and health risks.

"I sympathize with people who want the experience of children so' badly that they are willing to take part in these experiments," said Laurel Gentile, a Metro psychology major, and mother of three. "My cousin went through years of guilt, anguish, and frustration in trying to conceive. "(But) this could affect (the donor's) reproductive future. $2,000 doesn't seem like enough. And to refuse to provide compensation if there are complications? ll 's a trap."

UCO junior Danielle Mason had other issues with the procedure.

"If it was for my sister, sure," she said. "But for a stranger? I don't know. It's odd. It's like buying and selling babies, isn't it?"

Sweatshirt Woes nearly foil student's win on game show

By Reem Al-Omari

could borrow - to no avail.

Panpradith ended up sewing an Not having a Metro State sweat- "M" she cut from another a T-shirt onto shirt almost cost Chanpheng a sweatshirt that she bought from a Panpradith a trip to Europe and drug store. Now she calls it her "good luck sweatshirt." $11,200.

Panpradith's opponents included The Metro sophomore's name was students from.. picked out of a bucket a University of day before The Wheel of Northern Fortune was taped Oct. Colorado, 27 in Denver.

Colorado State Panpradith, 20, replaced University, Regis, one of the two players CU-Boulder, that couldn't to make it into town because of a ~olorado College, blizzard on the night of University of New Mexico and the the taping.

She won with "perUniversity of - Chanpheng Panpradith, Nebraska. fume" in the bonus Metro sophomore Her trip to round. The show aired Europe includes Nov. 19 on KMGHdestinations to 13 Channel 7.

Though she had plenty of support, countries, including Spain, France, Panpradith didn't have a college sweat- Italy and Greece. The 30-day trip is valshirt. All contestants were required to ued at $16, 112 and will cover hotel wear a T-shirt or sweatshirt with their arrangements, food and transportation for four people. school's name.

Panpradith said she hopes she can Since it was the weekend and a blizzard was dumping snow on Denver, take the trip in July and plans to take everywhere Panpradith went to pur- her boyfriend, best friend and her best chase a Metro sweatshirt, including the friend's boyfriend. Panpradith said she will use the cash she won to pay taxes Auraria Book Center, was closed. and other bills.

"I was going crazy." she said.

"I'm doing the responsible thing," She called everyone she knew to see if they had a Metro sweatshirt she she said.

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•Passing Amendment 16 into the state constitution which will preserve three million acres of public trusts In Colorado.

and ~ent funded organb:ation that works on environmental Sues, romwner protection,

•Registering thousands of students to vote.

•Holding Homeless Sleepouts and raising hundreds of dollars for homeless shelters.

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•Initiating recycling programs on campus and throughout the state.

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Students customize degrees with help of Metro program

By Aurora Trischka The Metropolitan

Sky Walker wants a degree in storytelling.

Phil Cozzetti graduates this month with a degree in religious studies.

John Bellamy earned a degree in film studies last summer.

Metrn doesn't have specific programs in these subject areas, but an individualized degree program let all these Metro students design their own degrees.

Adult Learning Services works with the students to develop plans for their majors. Like any degree, students must complete core courses required of every major, but they can pick classes for their majors from any and every department at Metro.

Once the plan is completed, students earn what are called ind ividuali"zed degrees with an emphasis in their area of study.

Cozzetti, who hears students complain about required courses for traditional majors, liked making his own choices, even when he didn't like a class.

"In my major, it's because I put it there," he said.

Maureen Lancaster, interim director of Adult Learning Services, said the program has been so successful that its students graduate in record numbers. She said 130 students have specialized majors and 38 have specialized minors.

Lancaster said from 1990 to 1993, 63 percent of the students in the program had graduated. In comparison, only 24 percent

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"We have already graduated 70 to 75 students with (individualized degrees)," said Jim Cronoble, chainnan of the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department.

"We've been very successful, and we have a Jot of students out there in environmental sciences with the IDP degree."

Lancaster said a high graduation rate is inherent for students following a customized program.

"When students are committed to designing a major or minor through the IDP, they develop a significant commitment to completing their education," she said. "They develop a sign ificant relationship with fac ulty."

IDP students tend to be self-starters, said Frederick Doepke, chairman of Metro's Philosophy department.

But some students abuse the process, drift through school, then throw programs together at the last minute so they can graduate, he said.

Doepke helped Cozzetti pick courses for his degree in Foundations of Religious Studies. Cozzetti 's studies included a cross-section of English, anthropology, sociology and psychology courses that explore religion.

Cozzetti also consulted faculty at Iliff School of Theology at the University of Denver, where he has been accepted into graduate school.

Cozzetti said "fliff was thrilled with this" because, according to Iliff faculty, many students enter with no academic background in religion.

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New tax law gives break to students

Winers circle

By Perry Swanson The Metropolitan

Jaime Jarrett/The Metropolitan Students listen to Scott High, operations manager of Classic Wines of Denver, discuss various wine types during a Dec. 2 Nooners session on wine in the Tivoli.

Changes to the Federal Tax Code could save freshmen and sophomores at Metro up to $1 ,500, but only if they wait until January to pay for 路spring classes.

President Bill Clinton signed the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 into law in August. Two parts of the plan immediately affect college students nationwide.

Freshmen and sophomores can get a Hope Scholarship, a tax credit of up to $1,500 for tuition and fees. They ITijlst attend college at least half time and must be seeking a specific degree or certificate.

The act also allows a $1 ,000 deduction for interest paid on student loans in 1998. Students who want the credit should pay tuition after Dec. 31 so the transaction will appear on their 1998 taxes. The credit does not apply to tuition and fees that are paid by grants or scholarships.

A third part of the act goes into effect later this year. The Lifetime Learning Tax Credit gives up to $1 ,000 to students past their sophomore year in college or to those who are not seeking a degree or certificate. The credit applies to tuition and fee charges paid after July 1, 1998.

Metro officials have posted a message on the online registration page (http://www.mscd.edu) and have included an alert on the telephone registration system. The college will also distribute a fact sheet about the tax changes to.different offices, said Tim Greene, Metro's associate vice president of Human Resources.

Figures from the Federal Department of Education estimated that 101,000 Colorado students will use the Hope Scholarship tax credit over the next year. The Department of Education expects 123,000 Colorado college students will 路 use the Lifetime Learning Tax Credit.

Students should consult a tax advisor or call the IRS at 1-800-829-1040 for details.

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Professors take issue with property right policy's vagueness PROPERTY from 3 unless an advance written agreement specifies otherwise.

Works-for-hire are conceived, written or produced during the ._ creator's employment. When the college makes a significant con. tribution of resources above what is normally provided, it is considered college-sponsored work.

Combs said the property is presumed to be owned by the col-

lege, although ownership could be assigned to the faculty member. Employees retain ownership if works are produced during professional development activities for which the college doesn't provide significant resources. But the policy doesn't clearly define "significant resources" or "works for hire."

This vagueness is one of the concerns raised by faculty members.

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Algerian ambassador: U.S. has warped view of terrorism

By Sean Weaver The Metropolitan

People in the United States have distorted perceptions about terrorism in Algeria and other Islamic coµntries, said the Algerian ambassador to the United States.

Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra told 39 Metro students at a lecture, sponsored

by Metro's Political Science and Economic departments, that media coverage of terrorist attacks is misleading.

"As fundamentalist terrorism continues to claim innocent human lives in various places in the Arab and Muslim worlds, there should be no room for attempts to confuse the issues or put forward murky mitigating circumstances to downplay the ·stakes of what is going on," he said.

"Wrong percepkons, deriving from misrepresentations, tend to mislead people into equating Islam with Islamism, while the spiritual values of the religion are clearly at odds with the violent drive of fundamentalist groups against their own societies and people."

Lamamra criticized the media in the United States and Western Europe for limiting coverage to "comfortable cliches such as military-backed government versus Islamic insurgents, thus contributing to shape a distorted picture of the situation and, above all, failing to enlighten people on the stakes of what is going on."

He said the situation in Algeria is getting better despite the misleading media coverage.

Algerian terrorists have links with terror groups around the globe, but new laws

giving clemency to terrorists who surrender have been a boon to combating terrorism, Lamamra said.

"Total elimination of terrorism is made easier by the legislative framework . of the amended Penal Code, which includes provisions offering clemency to repenting terrorists," he said.

About 1,600 armed terrorists surrendered to judicial authorities in 1995 and 1996 to take advantage of the clemency policy.

Lamamra said political life in Algeria is not heavily swayed by terrorist groups.

A high turnout of voters in the presidential election and Ramtane Lamamra referendums on the constitution show a strong resistance to terrorism and support for democracy, he said.

Lamamra said neutral observers acknowledge the Algerian president is the only head of state in the Arab world who was elected in a free and fair direct election by the people.

Norman Provizer, chairman of the Political Science department, said Lamamra's lecture raises challenging questions about the context in which terrorists are labeled.

Provizer said he does not condone the current terrorist activity, but he is reminded that the French labeled Algerian "freedom fighters" as terrorists in the revolutionary struggle with France in the 1950s and 1960s.

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the appeal and ordered him to complete his sentence. Allen filed one more motion in the court of appeals.

Before that motion got rejected, it bought him about a month's time away from prison.

Allen's return to Canon City marks another chapter in his long history of legal skirmishes stemming from soured romantic and professional relationships.

Auraria Campus Police arrested him in the South Classroom courtyard July 15 after Allen's ex-girlfriend, Dawn Chamberlain, a 28-year-old Community College of Denver student, notified campus police she had spotted him on campus.

Chamberlain had a permanent Denver County restraining order against Allen.

After breaking off their romantic relationship, Allen and Chamberlain filed temporary restraining orders against each other in March 1997 in Denver County Court.

A judge later made Chamberlain's restraining order against Allen permanent but denied Allen a permanent order against Chamberlain.

A month after Allen was arrested on campus, he tried to get a permanent restraining order against Chamberlain in Jefferson County Court.

His request was denied, even though Allen testified he lived in "constant fear" of Chamberlain.

Allen and Chamberlain could not be reached for comment, and their lawyers declined to discuss the court proceedings.

In addition to his attempts to get a permanent restraining order against Chamberlain, Allen filed a notice April 23 of intent to sue Student Legal Services at Auraria.

Legal services Director Spike Adams fired Allen, who had been a paralegal coordinator for the program for two years, on March 27.

In a sworn affidavit filed with the State Grievance Board, Allen alleged that Adams had at least one "secret meeting" with Chamberlain, who used the program's legal services. In a July interview Allen said with The Metropolitan Chamberlain had convinced Adams that he was an abuser and an "evil man."

Adams said he fired Allen because of his unethical and unprofessional conduct.

Allen was also accused of sexually harassing other legal services employees, Adams said.

Adams said he's recently learned that Allen won't pursue the lawsuit.

"He's declining, at this point in time, to file any suit against Metro," Adams said.

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STORY BY. KENDRA NACHTRIEB

Martha Fenger (left) and Rosa Alvarado hold hands Nov. 30 during the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt opening ceremony at the Auraria Events Center.

• •• Glenn Stoneking-Jones unveiled a panel that he and his partner planned out four years ago at the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt opening. Glenn lost hi s life partner Very I Stoneking to AIDS in 1993.

The 3-by-6-foot blue and gray panel, part of a display on campus Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, symbolized Veryl's life, dreams and j oys.

Veryl was a volunteer at National Parks. His favorite place was Yosemite National Park, and Yosemite's gray mountains span the bottom ofVeryl's panel. "[ was with him when he drew his last breath," Glenn said. ''His last coherent words out of his mouth were, 'See ya in Yosemite."'

G lenn has a strong history with the NAMES Project Foundation. He was member of the first committee in San Francisco in 1987. When he heard that Denver was hosting the memorial display, Glenn decided that his final healing ~ould begin.

The opening ceremonies began at St. Elizabeth's Church, followed by a candlelight procession to the Auraria Events Center where six panels lay in a pattern of lotus flowers waiting to be formally unfolded and turned.

The panels stretched across the gym, and each breathed life and personality into the nameless statistics in newspapers and broadcast on television.

Panels are decorated with T-shirts, cards, pictures, poems, angels, crosses, and any item that reminded friends and· families about their loved ones.

One panel with flowers and pictures scattered across the cloth, simply said, "Jerry Payne, Denver, Co. He grew roses."

As the candlelight procession ended, a seemingly endless river of people flowed into the gym. Some were smiling, laughing and greeting others, while some were clutching their candles, weeping and embracing.

Jon Lentz, one of the event's organizers, said the quilt

symbolizes closure and education. The quilt helps people deal with the pain of losing someone, but media attention given to new drugs in the fight against AIDS has given people the wrong idea about the disease, he said. "[ want people to kno\¥ that it is not over," Lentz said.

"This is no time to get complacent."

The drugs don't work for everyone, and ll}OSt cannot afford the medications, he said.

With statistics rising daily, AIDS is far from being extinguished. That the quilt started with two panels and now totals over 43,000 is only a tangible reminder of the struggles to come.

Glenn has lost a daughter, a partner and countless friends to AIDS, but he still smiles. Veryl's favorite quote from the movi!! Steel Magnolias is embroidered on the panel across a mountain in his beloved Yosemite. [t says, 'Td rather have three minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special."

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Dixie Minear (left) shields her candle from the wind as a crowd marches Nov. 30 near St. Elizabeth's church on Auraria Campus in the name of AIDS victims.

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Viewers surround panels of the quilt In the Aurarla Events Center during the opening ceremony.

A somber crowd attends a commemorative observance at St. Elizabeth's Church Nov. 30 for the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt In Denver.

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Big Brother is back to the future

By Ricardo Baca The Metropolitan

If Big Brother is watching Brian Freeland, he's probably smiling.

Freeland, artistic director at the LIDA Project Experimental Theatre, has adapted George Orwell's novel, 1984, as his own three-act, mixed-media driven play, Eighty-Four.

The portrayal of a negative Utopia is perfect for Denver's only experimental troupe. It was only a matter of time before they tackled the intense subject matter.

Written in 1948, Orwell was predicting a dismal fut1,1re for the world - and rightfully so. The state of the government was rapidly changing. What else was he to expect?

"A picture of the future," one character pondered, "is a boot stepping on a human face."

Orwell dreamed up a world where all thoughts were controlled by the government, more specifically Big Brother and the thought police. All actions were recorded on telescreens, and if people were breaking the law, they were severely punished. 路 Big Brother's watchful eye caught all, but there were rebels, of course.

In Eighty-Four, Winston (Guy Williams), who halfheartedly went along with the government, spent his free time writing his anti-conformist beliefs in a journal. He thought himself to be one of the few people who wasn't totally indoctrinated.

He later found out he was not alone. Julia (Catherine E. Worster) felt the same as he did, although he did not see it directly.

But it wasn't long before he deeply loved her. The two continued dodging the omnipresent eyes - after all, they were having sex, and that was not allowed - until the fated day when they were caught.

With government brainwashing similar to modern-day religion, contradictory phrases were commonly known and mentioned throughout the play. "War is Peace.

Ignorance is Strength.

Freedom is Slavery." The characters often ramble them off as if they were everyday speech.

The performances were strong across the table - with much thanks to Freeland's free flowing script. Worster's enigmatic eyes only added to her latently methodical line delivery. The passionate tension between the two couldn't have been cut with Photo courtesy ofthe U DA Project the sharpest of infomercialacquired knives, and their Catherine Worster and Guy Williams love a little for the government's Intruexplosive chemistry was sive television eyes in the LIDA Project's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. wonderful to watch.

Abusing many creative lighting techniques, Freeland big way. A giant screen acted as a motion-filled backdrop made the most out of his space: an old garage with black- as Winston rode the bus or sat in his room and looked out ened windows. Bright offstage lighting lit up characters the windo~.

To add to the experience, LIDA painters wrote, "Big and created a whole new realm of performance area. Also, forestage lighting under the seats of the first row gave a Brother is watching you!" on the bathroom stall wall. luminous, Orson Wells-like spin on the show. To mixed After that, it was hard not to look around for a camera hidresponse, rear lighting shadowed actors' faces completely den in their already spooky bathroom. at times, but it worked because many of the characters in The LIDA Project has extended Eighty-Four through this story are faceless.

Dec. 14 at the LIDA Project Experimental Theatre, 80 S. The complex use of mixed-media was right Ofl as it Cherokee. The play will reopen Jan. 3 at Studio 44, 2865 didn't take away from the performance but added to it in a W. 44th Ave. For tickets and information, call 293-9193.

------------music reviews Roni Size and Reprazent New Forms Mercury Roni Size and Reprazenl, two popular English techno gurus, have teamed up in a two-CD collaborative effort, New Forms.

This is good news for club DJs, but it's not news for layfolk.

For even the most rampant techno fiend, the CD is too general for everyday listening. It lacks catchy riffs and unique vocals, but that's probably exactly what the group is going for.

Its sound is a bore at home but possibly a pleasure to mix.

The grinding repetition, familiar in most of electronica, is not creative enough to keep listeners interested for a couple hours (two CDs provides enough room for 23 long tunes). But it will give DJs an excellent selection of material to manipulate, dub and transpose.

The male vocals on "Railing" are entrancing but not attracting. They lack the flair and personality of the Prodigy's Maxim Reality and the luminous, mind-

altering nature of Underworld's vocals.

Still, it's a creative use of monotony.

His never-changing voice skips from beat to beat in a funk-filled way.

The acoustic-esque "Brown Paper Bag" starts out with a good idea and a unique mix of the surreal and the real, but the 9-minute song overdosed on it. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.

The title track sports a sassy female vocalist strutling her stuff. Unfortunately there isn't much to strut. What she is doing has been done before and doesn't deserve to be revisited.

Her soul sounds unnatur.al and just insults listeners. Her attempt at originality falls flatter than an end-of-an-episode Mr. Bill.

The CD jacket boasts that the group and the Spice Girls were recently nominated for the same award in Britain.

Whoops! Fire the marketing genius who put that there.

- by Ricardo Baca

The Cure Galore Electra Avalanche jerseys aren ' l a rarity at McNichols Sports Arena, but they are when gothic god Robert Smith is wearing one. His band, The Cure, 路 shot down rumors of a separation two years ago when they played before sold-out crowds across the country.

Other rumors that the group was about to release a new album but wasn't going to tour have circulated recently across the Internet. This one actually proved true.

The new album, Galore - The Cure singles collection 1987- 1997, pays tribute lo the band's last five albums and also includes a new, spicy treat.

The biggest incentive for long-time Cure fans to buy the album is their newest single, "Sorry, Wrong Number." It is a quasi-electronic effort interspersed with classic Cure songwriting.

Smith is known for personalizing his songs by including different quotes entire conversations sometimes - within his songs.

Hi s abstractly vague songwriting is again successful as he sings about "The sickly sweet colors of the snakes I'm seeing - lime, green, lime, green and tangerine are the sickly sweet colors of the devil in my dreams."

For those not familiar with the band, Galore will provide a half-life history. As with any other best-of album, it is a collection of the band's favorite and路 most successful songs. Newcomers need to buy Standing on a Beach, which showcases the band's greatest hits from 1978 to 1986, to get a glimpse of the full spectrum.

Also included on the collaboration, and all previously released: "Why Can't I Be You" and "Just Like Heaven" are from the album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. A personal favorite of mine (and Smith's), "Catch," about one of Smith's imaginary girlfriends from his youth, also made the cut.

"Lovesong," the band's biggest U.S. hit which left no room for misinterpretation, and "Pictures of You" were added . from Disintegration.

A revamped version of "Close to Me" is one of two releases from Mixed Up, and "Friday I'm in Love" made it from the album Wish . .

After a 4-year hiatus, the band came back with Wild Mood Swings, a diverse effort including songs with Latin origins ("The 13th") and up-beat tunes reminiscent to the early '80s ("Mint Car"), both.of which are on the CD. As Smith put it: "JO years in 73 minutes - the drowning man indeed!"

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America's fabric: greasy spoons Most societal scientists say a cullure is defined by its art. The Greeks' architecture, the Egyptians' hieroglyphics, Native Americans' pottery- the list is endless.

But America, as is usually the case, is an anomaly. Our art is defined by the culture of the people that share this land, not the reverse.

So what defines us?

The greasy spoon.

Dave Romberg You know, that comer diner with a dozen Jive or so booths and tables. The one where you can find chicken fried steak and eggs at 3 a.m.

That place where the waitresses don't really seem to give a damn how hot your coffee is or whether your eggs are over hard or just fried.

It's the one cultural relic that Can be found in every state across the union. From Hawaii to Maine, and from Florida to Alaska, there is always someplace you can go for corned beef hash and biscuits and gravy after a night of consumption and sin. It's the common thread that sews together the fabric of our nation.

Why the greasy spoon?

In a country that values the individual over the common good, the diner is a haven for the anonymously inclined. You're nothing

more than just another faceless patron, and your privacy is highly respected.

And while you get to remain nameless, you can sa\1e a few bucks. The food here is cheap. You can eat well for a couple of greenbacks and still have money left over for the bus fare home.

And the food is real. It's not some designer chef with a Porsche and a three-car garage in his million dollar home making what he wants to make. It's a real guy with a tattoo and a spatula flipping exactly what you asked for. You want a variation on the theme? A short order cook will n:iake 路it happen. The eggs taste like eggs should.

No flowery sauces with French names adorn my cholesterol.

And then there's the waitslaff. You're not going to find some immaculate, overbearing sissy named Pierre sneering down his nose at you because you can't pronounce the name of the evening's specialty in a diner. You'll find real Americans - people who know what it is to struggle and survive based on their own rules.

Make no bones about it. The people that staff your local diner are what's keeping democracy and the political machine moving.

Forget about the Stars and Stripes or the bald eagle or baseball and apple pie.

America is the greasy spoon.

Dave Flomberg is a columnist/copy editor for The Metropolitan

Column.i st fires his last shot -

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The Lowdown

The Last Lowdown.

Assuming I pass Basic Programming, Intro to Computers and tae kwon do, this will be the last Lowdown column for The Metropolitan.

I give it a 50-50 chance.

Being an ~ptimist (surprise! surprise!), I will write this last column as a student who is about to graduate.

Graduating means many things to a student who has been in college for the last six years.

First and foremost, it means that now I have to really do something to validate my exis-

tence.

No more tired excuses of, "Oh, I am still in school," when someone asks what I'm doing with my life.

After graduation, I can't pretend that the job I have been stuck in for those six years is something just to get me by while I am learning my trade.

No, graduation means having to garner some motivation to tackle the outside world.

And that sucks.

As I do attempt to venture into that outside world, I feel it necessary to pass down some advice that may be useful to future graduates.

The No. I piece of advice I have for students is to actually learn whatever course you are taking.

It may seem easy at the beginning to pass a course without really learning the material being taught. But trust me, at the end of the semester you will be playing catch-up and just trying to muster up a D

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(i.e. Basic Programming).

Another good piece of advice for future grads is get to know your classmates.

Besides the people I knew from high school who ended up dropping out of college anyway, it was at least three years until I really got to know anybody down here at Auraria.

Some of the brightest and friendliest people I have met were students I just got aquainted with this year.

Don't be shy! They may have the right answers lo help you get that C. For students who are planning to get into student politics, student publications, or anything school related, the best thing to remember is don't take all that political correctness crap.

The people entrenched into student politics think they are above the nonnal student.

Not so. They are just perpetuating the myth of the people in power knowing more than the people who really do know more.

Students will never really have a say on this campus until student leaders quit worrying if the editor of The Metropolitan is hurting their feelings and get on with their jobs at hand.

If you jump into the public arena, expect to gel made fun of, expect criticism and expect ridicule.

Like il or not, it is part of the job.

In a nutshell, you paid your tuition to attend this college, so take advantage of it.

Gel involved, learn something, make a difference.

I wish I had more.

Travis Henry Is a Metro student and a columnist for The Metropolitan. http:// clem.mscd.edu/'henryt

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Letter. blindly misses 路point on PC Editor, My letter concerns the over dramatization of Political Correctness that was hurled in Kathy Hovis' response to Dave Flomberg's "PC blindly goes nowhere, everywhere," (The Metropolitan Nov. 7).0bviously, Kathy has blindly missed the point of Dave's column. In my opinion, Dave was not attacking the blind or acting superior. He was just explaining the uselessness and hilarity of PC. The bottom line is that our society has created a lingo to avoid offending others. And Dave eloquently pointed out that it has become ridiculous. Sure, not offending others is good. But we live in a country where there's more than 100 types of people, in which they themselves have 1,000 different issue. Must we cater to all sensitivities?

We do not live in a world where people agree with each other.

If you care to dispute my claim, then watch the news. It's a fact

of life that people get offended. Well so be it, damhit! I don't get offended when people call me white-bred, or honkey, etc. I just don't care! No one should care. You can't change the color of your skin or your gender, nobody can (except for Micheal Jackson). So dancing around the subjects with these vague tenns and ridiculous multi-lingual signs, proves PC is insanely stupid. F.,<;pecially in Cherry Creek.

They should put up a sign reading "If you don't have a Gold Mastercard, Gold Visa, or even an American Express, you are not allowed lo touch anything." Finally, I advocate Dave's column profusely. And if there are any objections to it, then to hell with you! 路,

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Mark it down. Sometime early next fall the Metro women's volleyball team will clash with Regis, and any self respecting sports fan will want to be there.

Regis pounded Metro 3-0 (15-9, 1513, 15-5) in the Northwest Regional final Nov. 23 on the Rangers' home court. The loss spoiled a scintillating Roadrunner dash through the postseason, one that had them dreaming of a shot at a national championship.

But the loss did more than end a marvelous season. It rekipdled an old rivalry that had been dormant in two previous years of Metro futility.

No one - not even Metr-0 coach Joan McDermott - had any idea the 1997 Roadrunners would still be playing in late November.

"We went beyond where I thought we would go," McDermott said. " We just didn't play at the same level as (Regis) did.

"Part of it is experience, and part of it is, I think, they have a little bit more talent and they turned it on at the right time."

While Metro found itself in unfamiliar territory as ~me of the last 16 teams in the country still playing, Regis had been to the regional final only a year earlier.

The experience showed. The Rangers fought through the first two games - the second being one the Roadrunners probably should have won - to get to Game 3, where its dominance showed.

Minutes after the loss, seniors Holly see VOLLEYBALL on 21

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Painful as it is, loss spares '98 Roadrunners a headache The Metro volleyball team almost went too far for its own good. ¡ Of course, no one associated with the program is ever going to agree with that statement. The players and coaches, quite naturally, Kyle Ringo would rather have advanced past the Nov. 23 Northwest Regional championship game agzjnst Regis into the Elite Eight.

But as satisfying as that would have been for this season's Roadrunners, it could have become a huge headache down the line. But, even then, it would be an annoyance and not a full-blown migraine.

Why? Because the success of this season Jenny Sparks/The Metropolitan _ is going to breed expectations for the future. If (Top left) Metro junior Audra the season was still alive, if Metro had made it Uttou pounds the ball Nov. 23 to Elite Eight status, what would have been In the Northwest Regional expected next year? championship match against A Final Four appearance at the least.

Regis. The Rangers won 3-0.

Maybe even a national championship match.

(Top) Metro coach Joan Metro is only losing two seniors who saw McDermott consoles senior significant playing time in Holly Rice and Laurie Anderson after the Laurie Anderson, and three total when Tammy loss. It was Anderson's last Schaible is added in. game at Metro. (Above) That fact alone leaves expectations for Anderson sets a ball In the next year one step above this season match. becoming elite.

While Anderson and Rice led the team through its impressive season, the team already has enough talent to replace them next year.

Senior-to-be Kelly Young will take over the setting duties from Anderson who ended her career setting passing records.

Anderson finishes fourth all-time at Metro in assists with 3, 124, missing third by only 98. She accomplished this mostly in her senior year by turning in the fifth best singleseason assist mark with 1,628.

The real question that must be answered before next season is whether this team can survive a heart transplant. Rice and Anderson together have been the pump making this thing go.

Rice played through leg injuries much of the year, and Anderson played as if she didn't care about getting hurt, often diving into scorers tables and the like.

Coach Joan McDermott has proven she is a master recruiter, and the word is she might be signing a duo of Division I transfers.

So having enough talent won't be a factor. And judging by the disgusted looks on Roadrunner faces when Regis celebrated its win, heart and determination should come easy, too.

This team looked like it had something to prove the moment the 1997 campaign ended. see RINGO on 20

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Test to come RMAC\VOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Weak schedule over for men

By Kyle Ringo The Metropolitan

Most teachers say one must do well on the quizzes if one hopes to do well on the test. The Metro men's basketball team has passed all its quizzes but hasn't really been tested.

Actually, it hasn't even been studying the material it will be tested on.

After blowing through an early season schedule of the creampuff variety, the Roadrunners are 5-0 and preparing for their first true examination Dec. 5 in a home game with the University of Southern Colorado.

Four of the first five Metro opponents have been Division ill teams, including one program in its first year of existence.

That team, Evergreen State from Washington state, gave Metro one of the two competitive games it has played.

Evergreen led most of the game, which could be looked upon as a scary omen for the Roadrunners.

So, despite all the lopsided scores and the best start in six years, it is fair to say that Metro coach Mike Dunlap is not sure how his learn stacks up entering the conference portion of the schedule.

Still, Dunlap is not about to apologize for success.

"It doesn't even enter my mind," Dunlap said referring to the schedule after an 83-63 trouncing Dec. 1 of North Central State College from the Chicago suburbs. "I just prefer to take what (Metro) has given me and work with it.

"We are a very young team with a lot lo learn. I'm not going lo sit here and complain about a 20-point win."

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Dunlap inherited the schedule from the school and former coach Charles Bradley. Dunlap was hired as interim coach . late last spring.

The only Division II team the Roadrunners have faced, Cal State Stanislaus, is one Dunlap scheduled as part of a season-opening California trip.

Metro won that game by nine, the only singledigit final margin the Roadrunners have experienced.

In fact, if the game with Stanislaus is taken out, Metro's average marJenny Sparks/The Metropolitan gin of victory is hove.ring around 19.7 points per BOARDING: Metro freshman Lee Barlow hauls In a contest.

And the rebound Dec. 1. In a game with North Central State.

Roadrunners have not failed to score less than 80 points in a game yet. change Barlow sees coming.

Lee Barlow, Metro's starting center "I expect us to be the same," Barlow and one of nine additions to this season's said. "High intensity and tough defense." roster, has been a key contributor, averagSenior Adrian Navarro, a veteran of ing a double-double every game ( 13 last season, said although five games do points and 11 rebounds) . not make a season, he is more satisfied Barlow shrugs off any attention paid with where the Roadrunners are at this him saying, "It's a team game." point in the schedule as opposed to the But he said he is well aware of what same time last year. awaits his team in the Rocky Mountain "We click as a team," Navarro said.

"We've played with more poise than last Athletic Conference.

Two learns, Nebraska-Kearney and year, and we respond better to our coachFort Hays State , have been ranked in the es.

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By Michael BeDan and NDc Gamfr The Metropolitan

In the past it's been a lime lo grow and adjust lo the rigors of what unravels as an odyssey, culminating with a run al postseason glory.

This season, for the Metro women's basketball team, the nonconference schedule mirrors American culture and its instant gratification motif.

Win. Now. In its second tournament appearance in two weekends, the Roadrunners made it clear, even in defeat, they intend to explore every avenue in search of an identity.

An 80- 77 overtime loss in the University of California at Davis Invitational to the No. 6 Aggies marked vast improvement over past preseason performances.

The Roadrunners are 4- I with the West Texas A&M tournament title and brimming with confidence entering the

Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference schedule. And Metro's second run through the RMAC - the Roadrunners moved to the RMAC in 1996 after the Colorado Athletic Conference folded - looks lo be a challenge to anyone in the conference.

"We have everyone back and four new faces," Metro coach Darryl Smith said.

"People know, especi.ally in our conference, that we will guard anyone."

And it is with a swarming, man-toman defense that Metro baffles opponents to create its offense. Shooting a frigid 35 percent for the season Metro relies on transition baskets to compensate for poor marksmanship.

"As the season goes on, we will get better," Smith said of his team's shooting woes.

But winning four of five to open the season and considering the opposition UC Davis and West Texas A&M both made it to the Division II Elite Eight last year - the Roadrunners are off to one of

the best starts in recent memory.

In 1994-95 Metro posted a 2-12 nonconference record before winning I 2 straight CAC contests. In 1995-96, the last time the Roadrunners made it to the NCAA Division II Regional Tournament, five of Metro's seven losses came in the early season.

But finishing strong is a trademark of Smith's teams, and last year's early exit from the RMAC tournament might prove to be an aberration if this team continues to improve. ''I've always thought that's what a team is supposed to do," Smith said. "We work on things in the preseason to prepare for the conference."

Metro's loss at UC Davis and consolation victory over Sonoma State showcased stellar sophomore Stephanie Allen. The budding star took home tournament MVP honors for the second time this season thanks in part to a career high 31-poinl performance against UC Davis.

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Despite the lopsid~d loss, none of the Roadrunners believed the disparity between 'the teams was as huge as it seemed in the championship game The fact is, one team was nervous, and it wasn 't the Rangers who had been this far before.

And that is perfectly acceptable for the Roadrunners who we~l from 13-21 in 1996 to a 28-9 final record this season, and a No. 13 ranking in the nation.

Next year, though, nervousness will only be acceptable if it's Elite nervousness.

Expectations come with success.

And the I 997 Metro volleyball was one huge, inspiring success.

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Seniors leave marks in recordbook VOLLEYBALL from 19

Rice and Laurie Anderson talked about the good foundation they left for their teammates to build on, while McDermott was planning revenge.

"Hopefully next year we can beat Regis in the regional final," McDermott said as if the next 12 months didn't matter - as if she was ready for the first whistle to blow now.

Metro is losing only three seniors in Anderson, Rice and Tammy Schaible, but this senior class has few rivals in Metro annals.

Rice -started most of the teams matches in her four years at the school, finishing sixth all-time in block assists.

Schaible acted as a cata1yst in practice as one of Metro's leaders and more fiery players, McDermott said.

And Anderson's name will be etched into the school's record books in the assists column for years to come. She finishes fourth all-time in passing and holds two of the top I 0 most productive seasons as a setter.

"It's going to be hard to replace them," McDermott said. "Holly, I think down the stretch, was a Jot of the reason why we got here. She had some really big matches."

Because of this season, Metro has plenty of big matches to look forward to, including each with Regis next year.

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Faculty Upside Down: Meet and talk with professors outside the classroom. 11 a.m.noon, The Daily Grind, Tivoli. 556-2595.

Met COOL: Over 70 volunteer opportunities are listed in our "Cool Holiday Guide to Giving," available in department offices, the library, the Daily Grind and the Tutoring Center. 556-2595.

Student Government Meeting: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Senate Chambers, Tivoli 329. Join student government in working towards change on your campus. Contact Gabriel Hermelin, vice president of Communications, for more info. 556-2797.

Volunteers Needed: Metro's Center for the Visual Arts is seeking volunteers to work with disadvantaged Denver youth in its Art Builds Communities program. Volunteers assist artists during art workshops on Saturdays and Mondays after school. Training is provided.

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A.A. Meetings: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11-11 :45 a.m. at 1020 9th Street Park. 556-3878. Also Thursdays at noon, Auraria Library 205. 556-2525.

Bible St~dy: Held weekly by the Baptist Student Union. 11 a.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays, St. Francis Center, Room 4.

Call 750-5390.

The Spirit of West Africa: Art show at Metro's Center for the Visual Arts showcases West African textiles and sculptures. Through Dec. 17. 1701 Wazee St. 294-5207.

Movie: "Stonewall," introduced by Dr. Maryann Watson, Metro psychology professor.

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Art Show: Juried exhibit of works by Auraria students. Sponsored by the Metro Art Guild.

Opening reception 7-10 p.m., Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th St. 32 1-2826.

Forum: "Soaring With Two Wings: Setting the Bird of Humanity Free," sponsored by the Metro Baha'i Club. 7:30 p.m., Metro-Denver Baha'i Center, 225 E. Bayaud Ave. Free. 6653808 or 987-2280.

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.Linda Cbristopherson: Captain, America West Airlines.

In 19891 ~e youngest female captain at a major airline.

Attributes success to intensity of The Met's aerospace· program. ·

Graduated 1982.

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