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Cheryl Norton, Metro's interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, said Metro will be granted $570,000 over the course of the next five years to fund professors' professional development.

The money is generated by the interest on college tuition and, in the past, has always gone back into Colorado's budget.

Metro President Sheila Kaplan will soon send out an e-mail to faculty asking for feedback on how to spend the money, Norton said. But until the college figures out how to spend the $570,000, professors will continue to fund a portion of their professional development, which includes any activities professors do to stay current in their field.

Metro professors must stay up-to-date in their disciplines and many pay large sums from their own pockets to do that.

Tenure, merit raises and performance evaluations are based partly on a professor's professional development track record.

Most professional development focuses on attending and presenting papers at professional conferences, or researching and publishing books and journal articles.

"I've gone to quite a few conferences over the years, and lots of times I've gone at my own expense," said Metro history ... ,, ___

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Conferences help professors learn what their colleagues around the nation are doing, and it allows the professors to bring a refined expertise into the classroom, said Gwynne Larsen, professor of Computer Information Systems and Management Science.

Each year, Metro's Academic Affairs department allocates money to each department for professional development.

Professors then fill out requests for money and travel grants.

Each department has a committee of faculty members that reviews requests for professional development funds, Norton said. The department dean makes the final call about how to allocate the money.

Professors have been awarded an average ·of $800 for their first request and $500 for their second request in recent years.

Metro faculty members say they have different ideas about where more professional development funds are needed.

The travel budget is insufficient to cover the costs of second conferences especially when people go to the east coast where many national conferences are held, said Kishore Kulkarni, chairman of Metro's Economics department.

"If it's in New York or Washington D.C., you just can't do anything with $500," said Kulkarni, who attends about three conferences a year.

Art professors might ask for more money for renting places to create art.

Many instructors rent studio space each month because professors have to make art to teach art, said Susan Josepher, chairwoman of the Art department.

Josepher said space costs $200 to $800 a month, not counting water and electricity.

Art professors can also spend thousands of dollars each year for supplies, shipping pieces to art exhibits and entering shows.

Altherr said research and publication are integral parts of professional deve!opment. But in 1993, he said he spent over $15,000 funding those activities.

Altherr's research trips have allowed him to provide supplementary lectures, he said.

Sabbaticals are another form of professional development that let professors take a semester off from teaching to work on projects such as writing textbooks, Norton said.

Larsen, who's published at least 12 books, said she was awarded a sabbatical and put a book for a graphic design class online so that her students could take tutorials and lessons from the Internet.

Larsen also said people really get credit when they are up for promotions and have published journal articles.

It can take up to a year to get a journal article published and the research can get expensive, Larsen said.

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Homeless converge on campus Places to sleep, lunch line draw transients; Auraria officials say few cause problems

By Marcy L. McDermott The Me1ropoli1a11

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Auraria has long been a hub for college students in downtown Denver, but it's also a gathering place for another urban group - transients.

Barb Weiske, director of the Tivoli Student Union and Campus Auxiliaries, said homeless people who roam the campus and the Tivoli are not a problem. But that hasn't always been the case.

Weiske said when the Tivoli was first acquired as the student union in 1994, it was often populated by homeless people.

They slept in out-of-the-way corners and hidden stairwells.

But _ Weiske credited Auraria's "diligent" campus security for improving the transient situation over the years. Private property signs also discourage people from using the Tivoli or BarbWelske other campus buildings for shelter.

Joe Ortiz, chief of Auraria Campus Police said, transients on campus are an ongoing but "tolerable" problem. Campus security's policy is to keep transients moving, so they are not loitering~ Ortiz said.

People caught sleeping on private property can be charged with trespassing.

Transients are only arrested occasionally, and those arrests are frequently for trespassing or urinating in public, Ortiz said.

Chuck Bennett, a member of Metro's Student Government Assembly and a representative to the Board of Trustees for the

State Colleges in Colorado, Metro's governing board, helped to organize the 14th annual Hunger Cleanup, an event to raise money and awareness about the homeless.

Five campus organizations, including the assembly and Metro Student Publications, are sponsoring the event April 5.

St. Elizabeth's Church on campus has served the homeless with free lunches every day for more than I 00 years, said Fred Eyerman, coordinator of church's sandwich line.

The church feeds anywhere from 25 to 70 transients daily. Other churches, members of the parish and other organizations donate food and money. The volunteers who work the sandwich line include some Metro staff, faculty and students as well as members of the church and community.

Eyerman said he has never perceived a negative response from staff or students regarding the presence of the homeless on Auraria Campus.

About 27 people were waiting for lunch March 19 at St. Elizabeth's. One man, who eats daily at the church, said he is not allowed anywhere on campus except the Auraria Library. The library is a public building so the homeless, as well as students, can sleep and hang out during business hours without facing any charges, like in the Denver Public Library.

The buildings are national depositories for federal documents, so they have to be opeh to the public, even for people who go there to sleep.

But another man said the attitude on campus is just like in the rest of the city.

"Students and faculty are not friendly to anyone with a problem," he said.

Jaime Jarrett/771.e Melropolitan LUNCH LINE: People wait In the sandwich l!ne March 31 at St. Elizabeth's.

He said a few years ago, a campus security officer approached him while he was standing on the road that leads into the alley behind St. Elizabeth's. The officer told him he was not allowed to be there and would have to leave. The man was a

Metro student at the time, so the security officer eventually left him alone. The Denver City Council passed a resolution March 30 supporting Metro and 1Jther student's involvement in fundraising activities for the Hunger Cleanup Day.

Candidate offered job as busineSs dean Lengthy search to replace fired leader might end this month; Portland educator undecided

By Sean Weaver The Metropolitan

Metro's School of Business might be one step closer to accreditation if a professor from Oregon accepts an offer to Lake over as dean of the department.

Cheryl Norton, Metro's interim provost and vice _president of Academic Affairs, ~nnounced March 26 that the department offered the position to James Robertson.

Robertson served as dean of the School of Business for the University of Portland from 1987 to 1996. He is currently a tenµred professor at the university.

"Jim was quick to point out the offer made him very happy," Norton said. "I am confident that we can offer him a unique \ :..,

from the American Assembly of challenge and a rewarding career."

Ro bertso n C o I Ie g ia te declined to comSchools of Business for I 0 ment on the offer.

1 S years, but that's He also had an interbeen difficult view with another campus but wouldwithout a perman't comment further.

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"I don't think depart ment has "I have lost it's appropriate," more sleep on this gone without a than anything Robertson said.

"This is a very senpermanent dean else," Monroe sitive time for me, since 1994. said.

"Without my family and some stability in Metro.'' our leadership, Stuart Monroe, there's no way we'll be accreditchairman of Metro's Computer Information Systems ed. The school is putting patches on patchDepartment said Metro's School of es on patches," he said.

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permanent dean for four years. Concern about departmental leadership arose after a former dean, Jerry Geisler, was fired Sept. 28, 1994. A petition, circulated among faculty after Geisler's dismissal, said the firing was a breach in continuity in the Business School.

Michael Brown, then an economics professor, accepted the position as interim dean two days after Geisler's dismissal, but Brown went on medical leave in July 1997 after he was diagnosed with cancer.

Brown died Dec. 31 , 1997. Charles Vitaska has been acting dean since August 1997.

Norton said it is premature to commenl on what actions will be taken if Robertson does not Lake the position. ."We'll cross that bridge when we get there," she said.

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April 3, 1998

Mother, student races time in battle against leukemia Tina's lour resembles that of an actor or author, hitting the talk-show circuit to promote a movie or book. The twisted irony is that her ploy for publicity is a matter of life and death.

She wants the attention bul would give anything if she t;lidn't need it.

The 34-year-old Metro senior felt a bit strange on New Year's Eve when her Michael BeDan plans to let go for one night and get drunk Perspective (very rare for her) ended with a single glass of wine and a game of Yahtzee. All night she felt fatigued, in pain. A week or so later, she thought she might have food poisoning from a smoked salmon sandwich she ate earlier that day - stomach cramps, more pain.

Turns out her spleen is three times its regular size, and Tina has cancer. She found out Jan. 28.

She cursed at her sons, ages I 0 and 12, in a surreal fit of anger after doctors gave her the news. She's dealt with the anger. Her children forgave her.

Now, cruelly, she's reduced to begging for her life. She needs a bone marrow transplant. As difficult as it is to find a match, finding marrow isn't the problem. Her 32-year-old brother Kevin is willing and able and happens to be the perfect match.

What she needs is $100,000.

Metro's health insurance will pay $I 00,000 of the $200,000 it will cost to save her life. But doctors will let her die if she can't produce a cashier's check for the other lOO grand.

So Tina is on lour, placing ads in newspapers lo promote various fund-raisers in her name and crossing her fingers for benefit concerts tentatively scheduled April 11 and 14 on campus.

Her church, Green Mountain Presbyterian, will hold a yard sale April 4. Donations can be sent to The Tina Nergaard Fund 12900 West Alameda Parkway, Lakewood, Colo. 80228, or call 980-1509.

She's got a great chance of making a full recovery if the transplant is successful. Doctors told her chronic myelogenous leukemia "is the best cancer to gel if you have to _get cancer."

She's also prepared to die.

She ~ade a will, planned for her sons to live with their grandmother for at least a year and talks honestly with her" children about death. She says it's not death that scares her it's dying.

"Cancer death can be pretty bad, I guess," she says. "I've never seen it."

She has a friend who works in a hospice. She wants to ask questions.

Divorced in 1994 from a husband who was discharged from the military, Tina, sons Samuel and Joseph and Tina's mother, Liz, all live together in Lakewood. Her ex-husband didn't start paying child support until she got sick.

Her boyfriend, Matt, has proven mature far beyond his 22 years.

"He is so steady," she says. "He'll come over, and I might be too weak to go anywhere or do much and he's like, 'I'm going to take the kids out.' " She feels weak physically and admits her two-year relationship with Matt has changed.

"It's less physical and more emotional."

Before Christmas break, Tina was a full-time student al Metro. She wonde_rs if the weight training class she took last semester contributed" to prolonging the trip to the doctor that revealed her cancer.

"I did so many crunches, and if I felt pain, I figured it was the weightlifting," she says.

A petite woman, Tina has lost IO pounds since January. see TINA on 6

Privacy bill amendment weakens measure's bite

By J~ Stephenson The Metropolitan

The legislator who sponsored a measure lo pare down the amount of "junk mail" students receive said an amendment lo the bill rendered it pointless.

On March 5, the House Education Committee approved the bill lo block colleges from selling student information but made an exception for the sale of directory information. Directory information consists of student's names, telephone numbers and addresses.

Other student data that colleges sell to businesses include athletes' statistics and students' ID photos.

The bill's sponsor Mike Salaz, R-Trinidad, said

unless lawmakers reverse the House Education Committee's amendment, the measure will do little to protect students' privacy.

"If the bill says they can sell directory information, then it really doesn't mean much," Salaz said.

Salaz said he's not going to try to convince Senators to Mike Salaz repeal the amendment Th路e Bill is scheduled to go up for scrutiny by the Senate Appropriations Committee. No date has been set.

"I really have quit following this bill, I thought it would die in committee," Salaz said. "I will take interest if it comes back to the House."

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they could register for classes.

Now, that information is available in Metro's summer class schedule (page 18), by telephone, or Students will have to call Metro's telephone on the Internet.

Metro will spend about $2,400 to send two system or get on the Internet to find out when to postcards to students on the changes to registraregister and get their grades from now on. tion, according to Registrar Metro officials say mailTom Gray. ing out grades and permits to register is too expensive and That's about a third of the '.It's inefficient. cost of sending two larger mailings, which the college The college won't mail ,spring grades or send notifipreviously did each semester.

Metro wlll spend Gray S!lid student services cation of when students will $2,400 to alert workers at the college won't be allowed to register for students about summer semester, said necessarily lose their jobs as changes In students increasingly rely on Assistant Registrar Skip registration.

Ack Ier. computerized services, such as Metro did mail grade the Internet, to get their account information. Instead, reports to students at the end Gray said, computer automation allows staff in his of each semester.

Now students can access class grades by tele- office more time to offer personalized service.

For example, Ackler said students printed phone (575-5880), by the Internet (www.mscd.edu), or from one of four computer- 10,000 class schedules from the touch-screen ized "Ask Rowdy" kiosks on campus. kiosks this semester.

That freed up staff in the registrar's office for The college also formerly sent a letter to students before each semester telling the earliest date other more personal service, qray said.

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MAKER'S MARK: Graffiti mars a metal sculpture between the Aurarla Events Center and the Plaza Building. The artist who created the sculpture said the piece was made to withstand "juvenile humor."

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Auraria Campus spends $15,000 to $20,000 annually to clean up graffiti and repair vandalism on campus, said Jim Fasano, campus construction and maintenance manager.

"It's a huge nuisance," Fasano said about the time and effort it takes to remove the graffiti.

Fasano said most vandalism occurs along the pedestrian mall between Colfax Avenue and the Tivoli.

He said the two cubic metal sculptures at both ends of the campus are frequent targets.

"Any visually prominent area becomes tagged," Fasano said.

Peter Forakis, the 70-year-old California-based artist who created the sculpture between the Plaza Building and Auraria Events Center, said modern art should "stand up to juvenile humor."

"It isn 't that I don't care," Forakis said. 'Tm interested in knowing why.

I wonder if it's envy or a political statement or what. It might be a frustrated artist who needs a surface for painting."

Fasano said he believes most of the graffiti and vandalism is gangrelated or territorial.

Campus police records show 81 vandalism incidents last year, and 20 since January.

"My impression is it doesn't come from students," Fasano said.

Campus police Chief Joe Ortiz concurred.

Most people arrested on graffiti charges are juveniles, not students, he said.

Five incidents this year, causing $25,000 in damage, occurred the night the Broncos won the Super Bowl.

State government-funded insurance covered the cost.

"Our policy is any graffiti we encounter, we eradicate it immediately," Fasano said. "We try to keep the campus as pretty as possible."

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Gloria Steinem: show men how to do what women do

By Perry Swanson The Metroj}Olitan

Feminism is not just about recognizing that women can do the same things as men. It's also about men doing the same things as women, feminist Gloria Steinem said at the taping of a radio interview with Metro President Sheila Kaplan .

Steinem also lectured on "Feminism 10 I" in a packed house March 26 at the Tivoli, but earlier in the day she spoke on Kaplan's weekly radio program, Colorado Close Up, broadcast on I 0 Colorado stations, including four in Denver.

Steinem has been called the founder of the women's movement. She is perhaps most famous for starting Ms. magazine in 1972. Steinem has received praise and criticism recently for her March 22 column in The New York Times that said even if the allegations of sexual misconduct against President Clinton are true, they don't amount to harassment.

Some said Steinem's stand in the Times was hypocritical, and aimed at protecting a president seen as relatively supportive of feminism.

Sean Weaverrrhe Metropolitan MOVER AND SHAKER: Gloria Steinem told a Tivoli audience March 26 to teach men to do what have traditionally been considered women's roles.

Steinem said she believes the women involved in the Clinton case, only one of whom - Paula Jones charged him with sexual harassment.

But Steinem said even the Jones suit, if true, was a case of "no means no," since Jones said Clinton left her alone after one encounter.

"I would say he needs sex addiction therapy, but not impeachment," Steinem said.

Federal Judge Susan Weber Wright dismissed the Jones case April I. Although it's been 129 years si nce women were first allowed voting rights in Wyoming, "the whole country is staggering somewhere between the 17th century and the 22nd century," Steinem said.

Women's gender roles have been greatly relaxed in this century, Steinem said.

"We have spent 25 to 30 years convincing people that women can do what men can do. The next leap forward is showing that men can do what women do," she said.

That means, for example, that children should receive love and nurturing from fathers as well as mothers.

"The idea is not that you replace housewives with househusbands," she said.

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April 3, 1998

Single mom vows to defeat cancer TINA from 4

Afterward, she wi II spend two "That's not good," she says. "I need months or more in a relatively germ-free environment as her immune system, all my strength."

For now, her behavioral science which is completely wiped out during the transplant, builds itself degree must wait. She back up. In six months, plans to be a special education teacher. her strength should return, and after a year Her load of 21 she'll be considered to credit hours has steadibe in remission. ly dwindled this semesWhen she was 6, ter, and it's likely she'll she decided to live withdraw from her until she was I00, planremaining 15 hours to ning for 99 years, 11 wage her battle. months and 30 days of Coincidentally, the health - and perhaps a deadline for her to heart attack on her come up with the cash I OOth birthday. for treatment is the have Things same day Uncle Sam Tina Nergaard changed. demands taxes. Tina Her Christian believes the U.S. Metro senior faith, love for her sons should have a health and family, and tricare system similar to umphs in difficult situCanada's where every ations convince her citizen is guaranteed she's going to be OK. coverage.

Once she was lost in the mountains.

She won't spend much time bemoanShe followed a creek's path to safety just ing the system, however. The battle itself before a rescue team was deployed to find will be all consuming.

"I have better things to do," she says. her.

"I'm a survivor," she says. "I don't "I can't give up several months of my life have time to cry. I have too much to do. to sit and recuperate - but I will."

'Tm going to be a champion over After the transplant, Tina will spend this." at least a month in the hospital.

"I'm a survivor.

I don't have time to cry. I have too much to do."

Jenny Sparks/The Metropolitan FAMILY PORTRAIT: Metro student Tina Nergaard poses with sons Joseph {LEFT) and Samuel and dog Spud at home April 1. Nergaard is battling leukemia and needs to raise $100,000 by April 15. See ad on page 14.

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Excavation to unearth ancient Peru ByThnFiel~ The Metropolitan

A research expedition this summer

by Metro students could redefine the way anthropologists understand Peruvian history.

Students from Metro, the California Institute for Peruvian Studies and the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo will be part of a team that will research the Santa Rita B site in the Chao River Valley of Peru. The team will be the first to systematically excavate the site.

The site, located in the Andean foothills, 15 miles from the coast, shows great potential for answering many questions about how ancient human civilizations evolved.

"Anything is possible," said Jon Kent, a Metro anthropology professor.

"It could change our views on how Peruvian society began."

The main goal of the Santa Rita B Archeological Project is to answer questions about prehistoric Andean life and to provide an opportunity for students to participate in a serious scientific research project, Kent said.

The excavation is planned for June 28 to Aug. 13. The program is split into

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Researchers will sleep on mats, and all water will have to be boiled. They will use a latrine dug especially for the researchers, Kent said. Students will also attend evening lectures. Instruction on surveying, mapping and excavation techniques will be provided since no experience is required to go.

"It will be an adventure in many ways," Kent said.

Besides the site's richness of public

plazas and complex water control systems, there are indications of human burials.

'Things you find are important, but they are not the main goal," Kent said.

"It is not so much what you find, but what you find out."

Kent, who first saw the site last summer, was immediately impressed by the extensive stone constructions in the area.

Pieces of pottery litter the ground, some appearing to date as early as 1000 B.C. "As soon as I saw this site, I said to myself, 'I have to work here'," he said.

·. The MSCD COOL ' program is pleased to announce its Spring Volunteer Challenge, open to an members of the Auraria C8JJ1pus.

The volunteer challenge is an event in which groups from campus join with local agencies in. a c9mpetition to "out-volunteer"each other. Groups will be judged on creativity, ' initiative, and volunteer spirit. Cash awards will be provided to the top three groups.

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Each semester the Student Heath Center at Auraria offers you the opportunity to join us in learning how we can find balance in body, mind, and health. We know that you don't have time to be sick and that most of you are living a high-stress lifestyle. (Is there any other kind in this day and age?)

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Health is often a matter of the choices we make and how we take care of ourselves. The more active we become in keeping ourselves healthy, the less likely we are to become sick and the more likely we are to be able to enjoy life. So take the challenge and come to the Plaza Building outside Room 150 (The Student Health Center) and join us in Wellness Wednesday.

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Jenny Sparks received honorable mention for news photography.

The Metropolitan staff received honorable mention for typography, design and layout.

The Metropolitan also won four 1997-98 College awards in the Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers Awards compet1t1on.

Thompson and DeGrazia won first place for best newspaper promotion ad and second place for ad campaign larger than a quarter page. Erickson won first place for best newspaper promotion campaign a quarter page or smaller; Julie MaCombSena won second place for newspaper promotion campaign larger than a quarter page.

Metrosphere, Metro's student literary magazine, won five awards in the RMCMA's literary magazine competition.

Jami Morgan won first place for poetry; DeGrazia won first place for special effect photo and received honorable mention for cover design; Wille Swink won second place for feature photo; Alana Noel Voth received honorable mention for non-fiction.

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Irish play examines tensions created by imprisonment

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There ' s an American, an Irishman and an Englishman sitting in jail ... true, it sounds like a bad joke revisited, but it's actually the surface-level premise of Someone Who 'll Watch Over Me, the first production of Denver's newest theater troupe, Tir Na n6g.

The troupe's focus is bnnging literature by or about the Irish people to Denver audiences, and Someone, written by Frank McGuinness, is a great place to start.

Set in a cell somewhere in Beirut, the three men are held hostage and do their best to ensure each other 's health and sanity. At first, there are only two. prisoners: Edward (Tony Cohen), an Irish journalist, and Adam (Guy Williams), an American doctor. But soon Michael (Jeremy Cole), an English literature academic, joins them.

Not knowing the reason for their imprisonment, they commence conversations, some emotionally driven and others motivated solely by logic. Their nationalistic biases and prejudices shine through and are escalated in the limited confines of their cells without human contact.

They find their only escape - aside from the imaginative games and make-believe situations they entertain themselves with - is laughter. It soothes them and also Jets their captors know they have yet to get through their skin.

McGuinness' dramatic writing is just that. It's very serious and for the most part humorless.

However, he keeps the dialogue fresh and interesting, leaving the pace and delivery up to the actors, who live up to the challenge.

As this play never changes locale and only has three actors, sublime performances are necessary for it to succeed.

With the help of two of Denver's most versatile actors, Tir Na n6g's final product is thought-provoking and never fails to keep the audience intrigued.

Cole, who acts, directs and does everything else

Photo courtesy Tir Na n6g CAUGHT: Tony Cohen (left) as Edward, Guy Williams as Adam and Jeremy Cole as Michael give Intriguing performances as prisoners In Frank McGulnness' play Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, presented by the Tlr Na n6g theater troupe through April 11. Performances are at the Acoma Center, 1080 Acoma St. For tickets and Information, call 62~0524. around the theater community, joins Williams, who is hot off of last year's experimental hit eighty-four. The two, who play the more sensitive characters of the three, share some intimate moments caught up in such spacial contrast.

And company co-founder Cohen played the rough-and-tough yet insecure Irish character very well.

His accent was true and was never lost - even in the toughest of moments.

Pushing the envelope of contemporary set design is Charles Dean Packard. With heavy chains draped from each corner of the elevated cells to the ceiling

and outlying areas, his industrial take on the threecelled set is novel and, amazingly, didn' t create any sight-line pro'blems.

Unfortunately, the light grid wasn't as engaging.

Packard took a very obvious approach to the mood lighting, where a more subtle approach would have complemented the performances and the set more clearly. Nonetheless, he deserves props for delving into the floor lighting realm.

A few lights mounted on the floor - a technique not used enough in theater - create some gloomy, deserted images.

Secret swing sensation from L.A. spices up spring break

By Ricardo Baca The Metropolitan LAKE HAVASU, Ariz. - It's spring break. The beach scene is getting old after a couple of days, and change is beginning to sound good. We decide to go to The Derby, the world-famous swing club (as seen in the movie Swingers) in Hollywood.

On the way there, my friend tells me of a swing band he's heard of called Red and th~路 Red ~ots anp. how he wants 0

the group's CD. Well, guess who was playing The Derby that night.

Red and the Red Hots, which has visited Denver only a couple of times, accomplishes something most other neo-swing bands can't. Their vocal arrangements are complex, with integral harmonies that emit musical experience.

The Red Hots formed in Texas in 1985, migrated west to Los Angeles in 1988 and now are one of the premier yet somewhat uncelebrated - bands in

to the drum. the country.

Cassie Miller and Dina Bennett But the band's potent, distitfctive performance style hints that it won't be make Red's harmonies happen. Their long before it sits among the ranks of work takes the listener back to the tight swingers, such as Big Band Voodoo chords and syncopated rhythms of 1950s Daddy and Royal Crown Revue. doo wop.

The rest of the band is the garnish Frontman Red Young's unique vocal arrangements set them apart from on the whole sound palate. They mold other bands. With Red singing lead on ~round and complement the voices, most songs, his growly voice will enter- using different levels and techniques. tain listeners plenty. But when the More information and CDs can be band's two female singers jump in, a obtained at the band's Web site: frenzy of hartno-nlc sensations fill the ear -http://home.earthlink.net/-redhoV:

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ntil we got a baseball team here in Mayberry, things used to be real quiet down around Park Avenue and Market Street. There were some bars. But this was a time when Larimer Street in Lower Downtown was still the skid row that all of Larimer was until the 1980s (and still is in some parts). A time so desperate that Larimer Square and the 16th Street Mall transformed downtown Denver into a destination where people went for clothes and food.

And most recently, shelter. And now, that summertime classic once called stickball. An era that witnessed the Avalanche playing soccer, the Bears swinging the stick in Mile High, and the Nuggets were actually a team, a much more competitive team. The Colorado Rockies were in the National Hockey League. Were those the days?

Some people might think LoDo 's Bar and Breckenridge Brewery were a part of the frontier lower downtown landscape I 00 years ago. Sure, the buildings where all these new bars and restaurants are housed are as old as dirt on the bottom of Cherry Creek (not the mall, the water). But to look at Baja Beach Club gives you a better understanding of what's really at stake.

It's not about history or any weak concept like that. It's all about the cheapest drinks (A throwback to the skid row daze?) in the most pleasing warehouse environment possible (i.e. make the bar staff dress like they're on the beach - in bikinis and shirtless - when really it's way below freezing out§ide and the nearest beach is damn near 60 miles away at Arapahoe Basin).

• But now that the Colorado Rockies are in full swing, it doesn't matter which bar you go to near the ballpark, they'll all be packed to the rafters after a home-game.

The lushest of Denver's lushes can't wait to

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Lower Downtown contains plenty of drinking evidence, such as these bottle caps.

What's more American than baseball, drinking, going to sports bars and then qrinking sollle more? Not much.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY FRANK KIMITCH

see the first Friday night after a bru here. And to tell the truth, George the only restaurant owner who doubles - and others like him will be pleased old with a fly ball when there's a Jin twisting out the door just to get a c' suds.

Mayberry's not Chicago now ever be in the future - and come Sc October, the spirit dies (depending-o Rockies are eliminated from posts tention, or when it gets cold).

The saddest part of lower dow become obvious as all bars start to em1 for the last time. There's nothing like t can go drink ! and then you go - ~---relief only to f _. well.

After all, =-=z== pened to Stars, t~ - - --bunch of so-ca stars owned? An pened to Slugg answer that, it' out-of-place-but. house called Ba. I ever went to ei Lastly, mal drunk of every and tonic and e' Coors Light. Aa get: Those moti come in various a light that says "taxi" on the roof are and they will ensure that you might 1 see Larry Walker (another LoDo ba remember Flat Pennies?) hit another b And you do want to see the next LoDo, right? I'm thinking more the11 Dick's Last Resort and Baja Beach C someone can call the real movie stai Pilot or Hollywood and Hollywood Cafe or a Planet Hard Roel they have a rock 'n' roll cafe in L.A. have one too, right? · That's what we need.

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BARS NEAR COORS FIELD: Happy Hour, generally Monday~Thursday (unless noted). Call for details.

Baja Beach Club 2229 Blake St., 298-8006.

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Happy Hour: 4-9 p.m., 7-9 p.m. Sat-Sun. ($ .99 drafts, ladies drink free). Opens at 4 p.m. W-F, 7 p.m. Sat.Sun. Kitchen: bar food til around midnight.

Look out for the scantily clad employees, their effect on drinking can be dismal in the end. A big-timer from Missouri told me "St. Louis had three Baja Beach Clubs ... they closed." Get long-neck beers for a quarter on Sunday nights while they last. Ladies Night Wednesday.

~%~~~~ Breckenridge Brewery 2220 Blake St., 297-3644.

Happy Hour: 6-midnight. Opens at I 1 a.m. Kitchen: open til JJ Fri-Sat., til 9 Sunday and til JO other nights.

Freshest beer around, from the brewery to your glass with one pour. Don't forget the small patio with a view of Coors Field's backside.

:ball game :>f LoDo's, is a busboy llSt-a 5 year of people Id glass of

LoDo's Bar And Grill, 1946 Market St., offers Imbibers drink speclals and a popular rooftop patio.

Dick's Last Resort 1909 Blake St., 292-1212.

Doesn't Taco Bell still have the market on rudeness cornered? Not to be rude, but Dick's kinda sucks.

El Chapultepec 1962 Market St.,

29~9126.

No Happy Hour. Opens at 9 a.m. Kitchen open til 2 a.m.

With live jazz bands every night, don ' t eiwect anything but solid tunes, and you won't be disappointed.

nor will it Jtember or r when the ason con1town will ty-some inking you =-• ewhere, 11 search of 11d an dry

Lodo's Bar and Grill 1946 Market St. 293-8555.

Happy Hour: 4-6 p.m. M-F, JO-close every 11ight ($2 most drinks, $3 premium dri11ks). Opens at JJ a.m.

Kitchen: open til midnight F-Sat., til JJ Tues.-Thurs., til JO Sun-M. Chances are that if it's topping 50 degrees outside, the roof-top patio will be jammed - especially with $2 drinks during happy hour - which always seems to be going on.

Giggling Grizzly 1320 20th Ave., 297-8300.

Happy Hour: 4-7 p.m. ($/ drafts, $1.50 wine and well). Opens at 11 a.m. Kitchen: ope11 til JO or_ll Home of the gimmick drink specials. Get your fadeon here for cheap on most nights.

vhat haptt bar that a I~ sports what hap- · rs? (I can now that 1ice ware1.) Not that

Herb's Hideout 2057 Larimer, 299-9555.

Tuesday: $ .75 Miehe/ob drafts. Ope11s whenever. No Kitchen.

Drink two or three of martinis with a couple of beers on the side and call it a good night. Plus , there's the added wholesomeness of a piano bar.

heJ. ~ the best sip of gin :ry slam of I don't forr cars that of~rs with ailed cabs, re again to owner me run. ,j g thing in ~bars like 11b. Maybe in Mount request a . I mean, if we should

Jackson's Hole 1520 20th Ave., 298-7625.

Happy Hour: 5:30-8:30 p.m. M-F (2-for-l well, original Coors $/ ). Opens at I I a.m. Kitchen: open tit 9 on weekdays (appetizers til 10), open til JO on weeknights (apps til 11) One of the closest bars to Coors Field{ and also one of the biggest. Choose from several bars on differe!lt levels of action. Ladies' Night Wednesday in the Sky Box ($1 Long Islands from 9-1 I foreverybody). Nice patio.

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ff you're a conolsseur of rudeness, run on down to Dick's Last Resort at 1909 Blake St.

Splinters 1932 Blake St., 296-3996.

Happy Hour: 4-7 p.m. ($2 pi11ts of Coors, Coors Light and Coors Extra Gold). Ope11s at 1I a.111. on game day/4 p.m. other days. No Kitchen (happy-hour food during games).

On the inside, this place looks like it should be in Boston. It's about as wide as Barney Fife's trailer home and as dark as the Nuggets hopes for legi timacy.

But the Coors is tasty and it has the feel of an ancient sports bar.

Wazoo's 1819 Wazee .St., 297-8500.

Happy Hour: 4 p.m.-close ($2-3 drinks). Opens al' II a.m. Kitchen: open til midnight on weekends a11d JO other nights.

In the fast-paced world of grand openings and grand closings, this place has been around for a while, at least since the Avs won the Cup. Check out the cool patio for maximum chillability.

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Commentuy

SGA e"lections bring more baggage than hope Student · Government Assembly elections are April ;flttropolttan 6-8. And it is doubtful that Editorial most students will care.

There's been little camNews: Student paigning and the very nature Government of the student government Assembly high turnover rates, little elections are influence and minisculc visiApril 6-8. bility - deems the outcome Views: Those of these elections practically elected should meaningless. pick specific, · The Student Power realistic battles Initiative ticket will likely and see them dominate the elections for through. three reasons: half of the 10 SPI candidates are unopposed. half are incumbents, and some have a better grasp of campus issues than independents do.

But nobody from the ticket has presented a specific plan for how it plans to affect the issues deemed most important to students, including an extended Thanksgiving break, plus/minus grading, student retention, faculty evaluation booklets, parking issues and better access Lo student services.

Endorsing a presidential candidate is impossible from our perspective because Andy Nicholas and Dave Flombcrg, an employee at The Merropolita11, are the only two candidates in the race. Nicholas and Flomberg published campaign columns in the March 27 issue of

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Endorsing other candidates is equally impossible.

One independent candidate, Alice Marie Orth, admitted at a March 24 debate that she has little idea what the job of vice president of Academic Affairs entails. The only ideas she presented were "attending meetings," and "talk to students."

Orth's credentials include student government expe-

rience at the University of Alaska at Anchorage, where she said she took surveys and met with the college governing board.

The truth is Assembly members largely set their own duties and agenda. So if Orth doesn't have a plan, how can students make an informed choice to vote for her?

And with little competition for student government positions, students don't have a choice in seven of 12 races.

Another contender for vice president of Academic Affairs, David Fernandez-Yoes, did little more than reiterate the SPI list of pet issues and did it with significantly. less clanty than others with him on the ticket.

So let's look at the ticket's issues.

The idea of a week-long Thanksgiving break is a good one, but it's unlikely to happen.

A year ago, Metro administrators rejected a resolution from the Faculty Senate asking for the break, and the senate hasn't brought up the issue since.

On plus/minus grading, the idea of further complicatmg the grade scale with a system that cannot be enforced is a bad one.

Teachers who don't like pluses and minuses simply could declare that all students in that class earned flat grades. This would create chaos, and SPI doesn 't have a firm position on the system.

Both SPI candidates and independents have said they would like to increase student retention and graduation rates. tiut nobody yet has publicly offered specifics o n how they plan to affect this issue. Hopefully, it's not just about "attendi ng meetings."

Considenng that Assembly members don't hold binding votes on mosf of the committees they sit on, perhaps the only way they can increase retention and graduation rates is to leave the conference room and actually work with at-risk students.

SPI candidates say they will put together a book list-

ing how students have evaluated faculty. Great.

But keep a few things in mind: such projects are expensive and time-consuming. Don't expect ·s upport from most college administrators on this either. Making the teacher evaluations public a few years ago was like pulling teeth.

If the past is an indicator, most assembly members lack the time and commitment to actually produce such a book .

Parking. SPI wants a more effective parking system.

What exactly does this mean?

There are a number of lots. Students pay to park.

The only way this system could be improved is if it was free and if there were more spaces. Doubtful that SGA can swing that. Perhaps stickers, identifying students' vehicles, would eliminate non-students from parking here and walking to work downtown.

Access to student services for weekend and evening students . Again, what does this mean?

Services for these students have increased dramatically in the last year as the colleges has provided extensive student account information online. It would be nice if some offices were open later or on the weekends, but who will pay? Students with increased fees?

And the real issue - students.

Most on this campus won't vote. The turnout for the elections, which conveniently span three days, will be proof. If 1,000 of Metro's 17,000 students even bother, it will be a small miracle.

One election a few years ago drew fewer than I 00 votes.

It's going to take some work lo establish the student government as a credible body on this campus.

Many of the candidates in this election hope to be part of that transition.

The turnout in this election will be the first indication of what issues need to truly be addressed.

SGA's first issue in 1998-99 might be proving its existence.

New constitution empowers SGA, not students Don't let the new preamble or format fool you.

The new constitution for the Metro Student Government Assembly, which is up for a vote April 6-8, isn't much better than the one members have been complainClaudia ing about all year. Hlbbert-BeDan Members have wanted to Soapbox revise their constitution since early . in their terms.

The new one, which is modeled after the U.S. Constitution, embraces and empowers students, said Becky Geist, the Assembly's vice president of Academic Affairs and co-author of the constitution.

It also adds sections about students' rights. One boldly declares that students can ignore any Metro policy that "violates the liberties outlined in this article."

"We wanted to create a document that wasn't geared toward consolidating the -power of the SGA but geared toward empowering students with a constitution that would allow them to hold the SGA accountable," Geist said.

'The (current) constitution - from where we were coming at it - seemed like a document that just con-

cerned itself with the operation of the SGA. lt didn't bother to include the students in any way, shape or form of making them the owners of the document."

But students shouldn't want to own this document.

The only improvements are better sentence structures and that the new constitution changes from an outline format to articles and sections.

Gone are descriptions of the assembly members' jobs and responsibilities. Gone are procedures for voting, submitting budgets, and for disciplining and replacing members.

Geist said such procedures would be outlined in a policy manual, which could be revised at the discretion of the student government members. Students wouldn't be able to vote on those changes.

"Things like job descriptions, things like office procedure, protocol and just minor types of things, budgetary procedures, voting procedures, how to deal with vacancies, all that stuff really belongs in a policy manual," she explained. "We felt like the constitution was just supposedt o be the frame, the framework to establish the general guidelines, and all those specifics belong in a policy manual."

How, then, does this help keep the Assembly members more accountable? Even the U.S. Constitution out-

• lines the president's responsibilit.i~~Geist is counting on students to be more "vigilant" in monitoring their student leaders. Everyone will have access to the constitution and the policy manual, she said.

But she also acknowledged that sometimes the documents might be used for evil.

"I could see where a student government that wasn't interested in representing the students would be able to abuse that power," she said. "And that's going to happen despite whether the information or restrictions are in a constitution or a policy manual.

"If you don't have a vigilant student body, a student government that's only interested in attaining power for itself or abusing the power that it's given is going to be able to circumvent the policy manual and the constitution, both of which are binding."

And this is precisely why the new constitution should outline such things as voting, budgets, job responsibilities and how to handle vacancies.

Leaving these subjects to a policy manual only benefits the student government. It doesn't offer accountability at all.

Claudia Hibbert-BeDan is a student at UCD and a copy editor/columnist for The Metropolitan

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Lack of candidates proves campuswide apathy With the Metro Student Government Assembly elections April 6-8, only one thing is certain: a new group of individuals will take office.

What isn't so certain is whether students want them there. In fact, it's not certain that interest for the positions is much higher.

The turnout for the election is sure to be minimal if history is any indicator. That six of 11 races feature unopposed candidates indicates that the desire to lead this student body is meager.

Perhaps students, who turnout in Jess than droves to elect the SGA each year, realize what a sham the whole process really is.

We've watched this year as the hottest issue the 1997-98 SGA attacked was Metro's decision to change the college's nickname to "The Met." Petitions, fliers and denouncements accom-

plished nothing. Former vice president of Administration and Finance Sean Brailey, who was one of seven SGA resignations, said at the time 'They're not going to be able to ignore us. We're going to keep pushing and pushing."

OK. Gaze into the pages of Newsweek and you' ll find a full-page ad, seducing potential college students to attend "The Met." Listen to the radio. Same thing. "The Met." While bagging on this year's SGA (and past SGAs) won't solve the problems facing the next year's SGA, pointing out the obvious lack of power it wields might explain the lack of student interest and the administration's lack of respect for it.

To vote, or not to vote - is there any question?

Letters

New methods needed to move forward Editor, In regard to the President's conference on race that was held March 23 and 24 at the Tivoli Student Un.ion, I find it commendable that the panel handled the outbursts as well as they did.

Though to many it may seem like lip service and public relations, I truly believe that the intentions were commendable. The commission is attempting to get a flavor of the state of race relations across the nation. To suggest that this panel was intentional ly comprised to exclude a Native American is ludicrous.

At the forefront of this debacle of a protest was Dr. Glenn Morris, an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Denver. His picture was splattered all ...over the paper for his outrageous commen~ry, whose only aim was to "stir the pot."

Having heard Glenn espew on more than one occasion, I can only hope that the majority of his "followers" (apathetic college students and radical wannabee activists) realize that Glenn is nothing more than a "over-aged college student" stuck in the past.

He made this point clear when he suggested to a young woman that "she come back and talk to me when you know your history."

Having felt the tensions on both sides of the persecution debate (I am both Jewish and Native American), I have come to the enlightened conclusion that in order to move forward, we must develop new methods for the discourse. To keep using history as the safety net is an excuse, not a method for progress. To quote Justice Scalia in the Richmond case, we must look at the facts "ahistorically" in order to reach a verdict. We must not forget history, but we must also not be single-minded in its relevance.

As the reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, John Ensslin, suggested that it was a typical performance for Glenn. That is what Glenn does. He uses his role in academia as his stage for espewing his views. As a trained lawyer, he knows Performance IOI and how to play the crowd and raise emotions. That is exactly what he does at UCD. All acting and little substance.

Brett M. Haselton Metro senior

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Healthy Moves

The Healthy Body-Mind Connection

The Best of Relaxation Techniques Learn how various relaxation techniques can counter the effects of stress and how to activate your body's own relaxation response. Learn various types of relaxation techniques and find what works best for you.

Take a relaxation break and join us on Tuesdays. Drop-ins are welcome.

Tina

Nergaard,

an education student at MSCD with leukemia, needs a bone marrow transplant as a cure. She has a perfect match in her brother,- and is otherwise in good health.

MSCD's student health insurance has a life time payment cap of $100,000, hut the transplant costs at least $200,000.

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Tina's church, Green Mountain Presbyterian is holding a yard sale Saturday April 4th to raise money, and they can also accept direct donations which would be tax-deductible. Make checks payable to GMPC, earmarked "Tina Fund" and send to 12900 Alameda Parkway, Lakewood.

Tuesdays in April 11:15 a,m, - 12:00 p,m, 1020 Ninth Street Park

Tina is a single mother of two sons, age 10 and 12.

Student Health Center at Auraria

Tina Nergaard

Plaza Building 150 CALL: 556-2525

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DIRT DEVIL: Metro center fielder Jimmy Johnson thwarts a pickoff attempt, diving back to first base, during an early season game at Auraria Fields. Johnson and his teammates have led Metro to the top of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference for the first time in Metro's history with a 11-1 conference record.

Roadrunners making pitch for RMAC Strong pitching lands coach first lead in conference in his six-year tenure

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In just the third year o f being in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, the Metro men's baseball team has gone from the RMAC cellar to the penthouse suite.

After sweeping Mesa State in a fourgame series March 22-23, Metro took three games from cross-town rivals Regis University in another four-game series on March 28-29. "" With the three victories, the Roadrunners improved their record to 2012 overall, which matches the team 's total win output from last season, and a 11-1 conference mark puts the Roadrunners in first place in the conference for the first time in the school's history.

"This is exciting for everyone," coach Vince Porreco said. "This helps out for the recruiting for next season. We need to focus on each game. We can't get too excited because there is still more baseball to be played."

All four Regis games were high scoring affairs, including Game 2 of the doubleheader on March 28.

Behind strong pitching by senior pitcher T.J. McAvoy and junior shortstop Cory Linteo's first grand slam of his career, Metro defeated Regis 11-8.

Linteo hit his shot in the top of the fourth inning with the Roadrunners trailing 5-4. After back-to-back singles by sophomore first baseman Matt Jerebker and senior left fielder Jason Brandenburg, sophomore third baseman Josh Vickers

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"The pitcher just threw the right pitch at the right time," Linteo said. "I saw it going and when I hit first base and saw that it was gone, I was ~happy because it was my first grand slam.!'

McAvoy, surrender9d seven runs on IO hits in 51/3 innings, but earned his sixth

win of the season, and junior relief pitcher Bill Ryan came in and shut the door on the Rangers, giving up one run on one hit to get his fourth save of the season.

"The pitching staff is doing well," McAvoy said, "and our offense is picking up the pace by scoring more runs."

In Game 1, strong pitching and key hits helped the Roadrunners 'hold off a late

Ranger charge to win 8-6.

Leading 2-0 in the third inning, Jerebker started with a si ngle and senior catcher Pat Max well hit his second home run of the season to give the Roadrunners a 4-0 lead. Maxwell led the Roadrunners in home run s and RBI last season but has struggled at the plate in 1998.

Following a walk to Brandenburg and singles by Vickers and sophomore second baseman Mike Henthorn , Linteo reached first on an error, which allowed Brandenburg to score and increase the lead to 5-0.

Junior pitching sensation Ariel Garibay had his worst outing of the year, allowing six runs on 14 hits in six innings of work.

But despite the uncharacteristic outing, Garibay still got the win, his fifth of the season. Senior relief pitcher Robert Lantzy came in the seventh and shutout Regis lo nail down the save.

Looking to sweep Regis at Ranger Field for the first time since the 1987 season the following day, the Roadrunners had a 11 -6 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning, but Regis exploded for seven runs lo take a 13-1 1 lead, and scored one more in the seventh winning 14-13 and preventing the sweep.

In the second game of the doubleheader, junior pitcher Kevin Watson recorded his second complete game of the season by pitching a one run, five hitter perf~rma~ce to g.ive Metro a 5-1 win.

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Last season, if Metro's baseball team had Ariel Garibay in the pitching rotation, coach Vince Porreca could possibly have had his first winning season as Metro's skipper, recording a 25-24 record.

Instead, the junior was pitching at Ohlone Junior College in California, and Porreco and the Roadrunners finished 2029, Porreca recorded his fifth consecutive losing season.

This season is a different story. The Roadrunners are sitting on top of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference for the first time in the school's history at I II and have an overall record of 20-12.

Garibay is the anchor of an overhauled staff leading the conference in ERA and is second in innings pitched.

This is the best start for Porreco in his six years at Metro, and Garibay is 5-0, with a 2.40 ERA, which is tops in the RMAC. Opposing hitters have posted a .266 cumulative batting average against Garibay.

Porreca thinks Garibay is one of the main reasons for the tum around on the pitching staff.

"Ariel is really an anchor on the staff," Porreca ·said. "He goes out and the players have confidence in him and in themselves every time he is on the mound."

Pitching coach Kenny Leinesio likes what he sees in Garibay. He coached Garibay for more than a year in California.

"If you were to see Ariel throwing two years ago, all he was doing was trying to throw the ball past everyone," Leinesio said. "Today, Ariel's location of the ball, not velocity, is getting the hitters out."

Leinesio is the main reason for Garibay's transfer.

"In California, the (head) coach works with the pitchers more than coach Porreco does," Garibay said. "At Metro, Kenny has more control of the pitchers. I feel that I'm learning more and getting better with Kenny 's help."

With the addition of Garibay, some of

the pitchers on Metro's staff are taking notes. And why not? Garibay leads the conference in ERA. "Ariel has shown that you can go out and win ball games without trying to throw the ball past them every time," Leinesio said. "For example, T.J. (McAvoy) and Scott (Watson) are not just going out and throwing hard, but they are finding their locations to get the hitters out."

Garibay brings some athleticism to the mound. In fact,· it's the best that Porreco has ever seen.

"Ariel is an athlete on the mound," Porreco said. "He can hold the runners and pick them off, which he has done several times this season.

"He bounces off the mound to field a bunt better then any pitcher that I have ever seen."

The difference between the junior college level and Division II is not that much in Garibay's eyes.

"The hitters are bigger and stronger," Garibay said. "The hitters can capitalize on every pitching mistake that I make."

Ariel Garibay This season he hasn't made too many.

Garibay has been playing ball since he was 4 years old, beginning with teeball.

"My best game that I have ever played was against Canada Junior College in California," Garibay said. "I pitched a nine innin g complete game shutout in only 84 pitches.

"The junior college has always been in the top ten JCs in California," Garibay said. "I just hit all of my localions and pitched my style."

There is nothing more that Porreco could asked for from Garibay but to pitch his style. ~ "Ariel is a leader, he does things more by action than words," Porreca said. "He has a personality that is very competitive yet light and good natured."

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And here I was prepared to fire the baseball coach had been thinking of writing the firing column.

You know lhe one every sports columnist writes a couple times each year, calling for the Kyle Ringo removal of a failing coach.

Only I was going to write it about a good guy.

But I can't write it this year, well, at least not about the Metro baseball coach whom I had been planning on landing on pretty hard.

I'm still accepting suggestions, though.

Coach Vince Porreco, until the start of this season, was ripe for picking on. He had managed a meager 93-147-1 record in his five previous seasons at Metro.

I would not have enjoyed calling for Porreco's job. He is a likeable coach. He is witty, intelligent, a father of two and you don't get much whining from him when his team loses.

I like him.

And now he is winning - a lot. So the whole mid-season call-up thing is out the window.

Porreco has his team in first place in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference for the first time this late in a season. The Roadrunners are 20-12 overall and 11-1 in the RMAC. This has been accomplished with the most productive hitter on the team, senior catcher Pat Maxwell, in a season long slump.

Maxwell has hit just two home runs after leading the club last year in long balls and RBI. Still the Roadrunners haven't been blown out once. It's a remarkable thing at a school that has grow11..used to its baseball team floundering like a fish out of water.

So, I figure, why not try to find out why the Roadrunners are finally winning? I am talking about digging deeper than the first 3,000 cliches about

good pitching, playing as a team, being prepared to play, sound defense and, well , that pretty much covers the first 3,000.

One thing, though, apparently those cliches matter, or Metro's entire team and Porreco is stuck in some sort of trap allowing them only to speak the obvious.

"I think we have a great chance to go places this year," Porreco said.

This isn't done to clown the coach, o( course, or any other hardballer at Metro. It's emphasizing the point.

Cliches matter in baseball.

The same speeches are made from either bench whether you are winning or losing. One is just opposite lhe other.

So lhe questions are asked. And the answers are good pitching, playing as a learn, being prepared to play and sound defense. Or not.

All were reversed last year at Metro when the team finished 20-29 and nowhere near the top of the heap.

And those are really the answers to Metro's sudden success. As opposed to the steroid-inhaling outfielder or the spitballing pitcher I'd been hoping for, the Roadrunners are just a better team playing better baseball.

Ask a player, any player, and the response handed down has something to do wilh one of the previously mentioned categories.

Apparently these Roadrunners have found away to pitch, play as a team, come ready to play and perform soundly on defense that has escaped the previous five years worth of Metro sluggers.

That's the beauty of baseball.

Wait 'ti! next year.

And, yes, it does have something to do with coaching as well, although Porreco isn't about to take any credit.

Instead, he credits his employees.

"The coaching staff itself has done an excellent job of preparing this team," Porreco said.

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We are looking for just the right people to help us get this new location off the ground.

Our schedules are flexible, our benefits start the day you start. and our attitude - well you·n have to see for yourself. We are currently seeking enthusiastic, fun-loving individuals for the following positions:

SERVERS BARTENDERS HOSTS/HOSTESSES KlTCHEN STAFF Stop by our new location daily for an on-thespot interview. Or you can call 800/4827071 . extension 76215. and apply by phone!

We are an equal opportunity employer.

9061 LilSt Westvlew Road (Just west of Park MeAdows M.dl on County Une RDAd) Littleton

303-572-5050 Fax 303-572-5055 E-mai I: nickl519@idt.net

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llS, a leading computer telephony service bureau since 1991 , has opportunities for web developers {i.e. really good hacks). to join our team. .

You will be building our high volume extranet web site using all the following: Active Server Pages to publish Visual FoxPro database information, R'!a/N'!tworks for streaming audio and video, eShare tor real-time chat and forums, D1alog1c for IP Telephony, Java and Java Script for polling and surveys, NT as the OS, and Proxy Server as the firewall.

As you can clearly see, you will be working on the applications that are moving the Internet forward, and using industry standard tools to do so--no legacy or proprietary development going on here. .

Experience would be great, but it's not necessary. The only requirements are that you've either attained or are working towards a Computer Science degree and can team fast.

The benefits package is outstanding. Our 401 k. for instance, matches three dollars for every dollar that you contribute. We have plans for an IPO and you'll work in a progressive, exciting and fun environment.

If you're interested, fax your resume to 595-8825.

Or you can e-mail it to us at pkulas@iisnet.com

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