Volume 20, Issue 26 - April 10, 1998

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Issue 26

April 10, 1998

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

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Commentary Perry Swanson/The Metmpo/i1a11 WRITES: Janet Damon, SGA vice president of Diversity, protests Erica Tapia"s exclusion from SGA elections April 7.

Studrnt demanding to be a write-in candidate should have met deadline

Protest slams elections

By Perry Swanson 11ie Metropolitan

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A protest at Student Government Assembly elections this week focused attention on Metro's democratic process, or a perceived lack thereof.

The election ended April 8; results will be announced April 13.

Erica Tapia, a 20-year-old Metro stu· dent, said she was left out of the election process because the student Election Commission wouldn't approve her request to join the presidential race. She made her request mor~ than a month after the deadline to register and only two days before voting started.

Tapia stood outside the library, and then by the flagpole in the middle of campus, encouraging students to write her name on the ballot.

Election Commission chairwoman Kerrie Dallman said write-in votes for Tapia wouldn't be counted. Since Tapia didn't register as a candidate by the March 4 deadline, and she didn't attend the candidate meetings, Dallman -said the commission decided she couldn't be allowed into the race.

Tapia filed a complaint with the student Judicial Board on April 8, asking for a reversal of the commission decision preventing her from running as a write-in can-

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Judicial Board Chief Justice Krystal Bigley said the board would consider Tapia's complaint along with a written statement from the Election Commission and decide whether to hold a hearing to decide the matter.

Tapia said she didn't think much about running for student office until reading a column by presidential candidate Dave Flomberg in the March 27 edition of The

Metropolitan.

In the column, Flomberg, a copy editor/columnist for The Metropolitan, said he joim;d the race on a dare, and originally intended to relinquish the office if he won.

"So vote for me or don't vote for me, I don't give a damn," Flomberg wrote.

Flomberg's competition was Andy Nicholas, who campaigned with a group of candidates called the Student Power Initiative.

"Once Dave wrote what he wrote, Andy was the only candidate left," Tapia said. And that meant students had no real choice in the presidential election, she said.

The Election Commission said as long as Flomberg was still officially in the race, he was a viable candidate.

The protest took many student eyes off basic campaign issues such as parking and using pluses/minuses in grading. Instead, debate at the flagpole, where Tapia and about 15 supporters made their stand April 7, centered on whether she should be

allowed into the race.

A women's studies professor, Xetura Woodley-Tillman, showed up with several students to protest Tapia's exclusion.

"They've been trying to silence Erica since this whole thing started," she said.

One current student government member spoke to the gathering, saying Tapia should be allowed to run.

"Students should be able to decide whomever they want to vote for," said Janet Damon, assembly vice president . of Diversity.

Damon, who made a run to retake the Diversity office with the SPI ticket, said her support for Tapia was not a stab at Nicholas.

Still, Damon expressed discomfort with Nicholas as a possible student government president, especially because she joined the ticket when the current president, Karmin Trujillo, was still in the race.

'Tm not sure how much of his passions are earnest and how much of his passions are a thing of political ambition," Damon said.

Trujillo dropped out of the race in February and asked Nicholas to run for president.

Jessie Bullock, assembly vice president of Student Fees, said she would introduce a resolution at the group's meeting April 9 asking the Election Commission to count votes for write-in candidates.

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Campus¡ parking fees to increase ~ I

By Jason Dilg Tire Metropolita11

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Parking prices at Auraria are going up, possibly 50 cents per space, Auraria's head administrator told the Metro Faculty Senate on April 8.

The price increase could go into effect as early as summer, the administrator, Dean Wolf, said.

An increase in parking prices is needed for Auraria to have the money lo make payments on debt from the construction Qf the Parking and Transportation Center, Wolf said.

The exact amount of the increase has not been decided, Wolf said. Parking prices for lots near classrooms and the Tivoli would rise most, he said. The total

revenue lo Auraria would work out to about 50 cents per space, he said.

Wolf told the senate that faculty could expect to pay between $10 and $12 more per month in parking fees.

Faculty lashed out against the plan.

Some said the price hike was too much.

Some vented their frustration.

"It makes you want to break windows, or something," said Jon Kent, an anthropology professor.

Senate President Monys Hagen said the increased cost of getting to work would take up too big a chunk of her raise this year. The faculty had just learned that those professors rated "excellent" by the college would get 3 percent raises as costof-living adjustments, Hagen said. Hagen said her raise would come out to about $60

per month, after taxes. Paying $10 to $12 more per month in parking would wipe o ut about 20 percent of that raise. Hagen asked Wolf to "go back to the drawing board and not raise our parking rates."

Wolf responded that it wouldn't help Auraria make its debt payments.

"It won't put food on our table, either, sir," Hagen said.

Dean Wolf Several faculty senators complained that the campus is not providing them adequate service at current parking rates. Some pointed to other institutions that have free, reserved parking for

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professors. Others said they are buying permits for reserved spaces, but that the campus admi nistration undermines that deal by opening reserved lots after 5 p.m. and on weekends. Closing reserved spaces isn't fair lo professors who teach night or weekend classes, Hagen said. Many professors, Hagen incl uded, often leave campus during the day to complete community service obligations, she said. Those professors often come back after 5 p.m. to find their "reserved" spots arc taken, Hagen said. T hen they must pay, again, to park before they can return to work.

Several senators laughed when Wolf finished his comments, saying: "Thanks for being so kind to me."

"It could have been a lot worse," he said.

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Assuming the committee quickly approves the proposal, it then will Tire Metropolitan be up to Metro President Sheila Metro faculty will likely have lo Kaplan to approve the policy or wait to find out who will profit from spend more time consideri ng it, Combs said. works they cre"I haven't heard from the presiate as employdent what she wants to do with the ees of the colcommit~ee's product," Combs said. lege.

"All 1 can say is that she intends to Metro's have additional deliberations after lead attorney, the comm ittee has done its work."

Lee Combs, Kaplan appointed a committee said he will not in January to clarify the college's submit a draft property policy. intellectual until April 10 lo Shella Kaplan An intellectual property rights the committee policy would spell out what portion reviewing the college's policy. He refused to of profits the college could take from reveal details of the plan until he . the sale of items, such as magazine see PROPERTY on 5 completes the draft.

By Jason Dilg

Journalism department to select new chairperson

By Marcy McDermott The Mellvpolitan

J enny Sparks/The Metropolitan

Daffodils heralded the beginning of spring at the edge of a sidewalk near the Aurarla Ubrary. Many flowers brightening Aurarla's landscape survived a snowy start to a Colorado spring.

After more than a year, the Journalism department's search for a new chairperson will come to an end within the three weeks, according to Joan Foster, the dean of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

Chairwoman Deb Interim Hurley has held the position for more than 5 years and will remain in the department as an associate professor.

She is resigning the position for "personal reasons" but would not elaborate.

Hurley said the search committee has narrowed the pool of applicants to two candidates.

They are: Diane L. Borden, an

assistant professor in the Communications department al George Mason University since 1996 and J. Robert Lyster, an associate professor of sports journalism, public relations and Deb Hurley distance learning at the U.S .

Sports Academy since 1994.

Hurley said the interviewing process required each candidate to meet individually with the search committee, hold a general meeting with the faculty and participate in a see CHAIRPERSON on 7

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April 10, 1998

I might be stupid, but I can be taught

Auratia lobbyists seek millions for campus

By Alicia Beard The Metropolitan

If 5X=20+ Y and travels 100 miles per hour south on the X-axis, with the slope of the line being known, how many grains of wheat can fit on a checkerboard if the Venn diagram is shaded only in the A' areas (keeping in mind, of course, that a tree fell in the woods and no one was there to find the coefficient)?

Michael BeDan

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Nothing like a math class (or seven) to make a guy feel stupid.

OK, I'll admit it, I am stupid when it comes to certain clements of mathematics. But for God's sake, I can add, subtract, multiply and divide. I can even do percentages.

What more does a sportswriter need to know?

Well, at Metro and most colleges and universities - a lot more.

When I started college, straight out of high school some #*@!years ago, I had to pass algebra within three semesters to stay in school. Something about a probationary admission thanks to my lack of high school math¡credits.

Well, to spare you grisly details, I failed three math classes at the University of Northern Colorado before eventually passing a remedial math class at Aims Community College that UNC agreed to substitute as my math requirement. Well, after dropping out of UNC and starting school again at Metro some four years later, I found out my Aims credits would not transfer.

Same story.

I failed Math 108 twice at Metro. That's l+I times.

Planning to graduate May 17 and needing but six credit hours to realize that goal, I had to take Math I08 again.

Something miraculous is happening.

My teacher, the third I've encountered for math at Metro, actually speaks my language. That's not to say he's an idiot. Greg just understands how an idiot's mind works, hence, thanks to his instruction, a powerful-dumb guy like me will finally kick the math habit for good.

My struggles are not due to a lack of effort. At UNC, I had a math lab for dummies, a three-times-a-week tutor and attended class regularly.

At Aims, I talked a friend into taking the class with me, and thanks to a sincere effort, my pilot's vision and rubber neck (my friend sat next to me during tests), managed to get a C. At Metro, my first teacher, I'll call her Mary, epitomized the anal math wiz. She went so far as to provide weekly statistics that not only reported a student's grade up to that point, but also ranked each student in the class. Needless to say, I was 29th out of (you guessed it), 29. Nothing like a confidence booster.

My second teacher at Metro, I'll call her Moron, epitomized all that's wrong with part-time instructors. She's a high school teacher, moonlighting as a college prof, and she actually got more problems wrong on the board than I did on paper (at least that's what students in the class who actually understand math said).

Our first assignment was to ask 12 students in the class four questions each and record the answers. "If you were a color, what kind of tree would you be?" Something like that. And no tests, no letter grades (until grade reports) and absolutely no instruction.

Enough about Moron.

Greg, however, actually spent about 25 minutes explaining why prime numbers are prime. Even though we likely should have learned that in elementary school. He lectures in simple, comprehensive segments, explaining each step as many times as necessary. Many of us still struggle, but damn it, he struggles right along with us until we understand.

And, to prove myself, I will provide the answer to the problem at the top of this page.

X equals idiot (me) plus zero (the odds of me using college math again in my lifetime), divided by the square root of Y, which = bachelor's degree, thus improving my odds of landing a cool job.

Thanks, Greg.

Auraria pays $50,000 for a duo of lobbyists who try to secure millions each year in state funding for campus construction and repair projects.

The lobbyists, Bonnie Geiger and James Cole, both work for Colorado Legislative Services and meet regularly with members on the state lcgislature 's Capital Development Committee, which makes funding recommendations to the lawmakers who draft the state budget every year.

Aurara's Executive Vice President of administration and finance Dean Wolf said the campus pays Colorado Legislative Services $50,000 a year for the lobbyists' services.

Geiger and Cole also monitor the legislature for Auraria's administration and alert them to developments that would affect the campus, Wolf said.

Geiger said one message she tries to get through to the legislature is that 20 percent of higher education students in Colorado

are at Auraria and that should be matched by 20 percent of state funds earmarked for colleges.

She said she also emphasizes that Auraria is confronting a shortage of classroom space.

The majority of Auraria building repairs and construction projects are state funded.

This year, the Auraria lobbyists arc pushing to get $11.9 million for Auraria projects, including the proposed performing arts building to be built in parking Lot G, near St. Cajetan 's Center and the Plaza Building.

"My job is to make sure that any funding for buildings and projects (that are funded in phases) are continued, and the legislature understands the purpose of the buildings," Geiger said.

"They need to know they are not fluff. " Wolf said the lobbyists face stiff competition for money with other state-funded organizations

and have always had to prove that Auraria will spend the money wisely.

Geiger and Cole are also trying to persuade the legislature to allocate $665,000 for renovations to the South Classroom.

But the final call on the funding won 't come until this spri ng when the legislature will scrutinize the proposed state budget. The state budget 0 isn't official until the ..... governor signs it. u Geiger and Cole Q) have lobbied for •..C stale funds for ~o Auraria since 1992.

YU But both represent other educational institutions and companies in addition to Auraria.

Geiger lobbies for organizations such as the Colorado School of Mines, Total Petroleum Inc. and the University of Phoenix. Cole lobbies for organizations such as the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, Colorado School of Mines and Colorado Bankers Association.

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Arab league ponders West Bank

By Jason Dilg Metro students and faculty with ties lo the Middle East called for additional Israeli wirhdrawal from the West Bank and for closer ties between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East, in response to the apparent assassination of a Palestinian bombmaker in Israel.

Robert Hazan, a political science professor, said if bomb-maker Mohiyedin Sharif was killed by a Hamas member, it could be because he agreed

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to hold back terrorist attacks against Israel at Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's request.

"There are still influential and heavily-armed groups that reject the peace process," Hazan said.

Sharif was found dead, with bullet holes in his chest, next to an exploded car in the Palestinianruled town of Ramallah.

The Palestinians said agents from Israel's domestic intelligence agency assassinated Sharif.

The Israelis denied they killed Sharif, and instead criticized the Palestinians for allowing a known tersee MIDDLE EAST on 6

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Metro requests $1. 7 million grant

By Reem Al-Omari The Metropolitan

Melro applied for a five-year, $1. 7 million grant to bolster the college in three areas where funding is a major problem.

Studenl relention, faculty development and retention, and student access to technology are the three areas that would be funded by the grant. Metro faculty and staff submitted the application for the grant March 17.

David Conde, interim associate vice president of Academic Affairs, led the process of applying for the Title 111 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

About 350 colleges across the nation are competing for the Title III funds, he said.

Conde said Metro applied for the grant to fund programs to bolster the college's lagging retention rate. Metro's application for the grant says keeping students from dropping out is "a major problem."

"Metro is an institution where people come and go," Conde said.

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Only 3 percent of Metro students specifically toward older students. graduate after five years, and only 43 perAccording to the grant request, 620 cent stay after their freshman year, the part-time professors teach 32 percent of report says.

Metro courses. But the application says Metro spokeswoman Debbie Thomas that part-time faculty fail to advise stusaid Metro is working to dents properly keep students at the colbecause they have litlege and the grant will tle knowledge of the only be improving that school's policies and :rt•s area. infrastructure. Conde "Title lII is not an said the grant would all-or-nothing proposigive Metro the finantion," Thomas said. cial resources to hire colleges and The student retenmore full-time profesuniversities are tion program will cost sors. competing for $498,780 over a If Metro is grantfive-year period. Kelly ed the full amount it Title Ill grant Espinoza, executive requested, $507,953 funds. assistant to vice presiwill be used for fulldent of Student time faculty.

Services, said the grant will help develop The grant also would be used for is 11 initiatives to keep students at Metro. improving student access to technology.

Those programs would include an Steve Ernst, director of Instructional expanded mentor program, more tutoring, Technology, said the money would be more personalized academic advising and used for buying more computers for the a computer literacy training course geared labs, making laptop computers available

to students and improving handicapped access to the computer labs. The student technology programs will cost $518,792.

The rest of the grant money, $185,698, will be used for the project management and the evaluation of the new activities.

Ernst said federal funding may not be approved for all the activities, and that the grant might fund one activity and not the other.

"Grant money is getting harder and harder to get," Ernst said.

After the Department of Education reviews the grant requests, it will begin allocating funds in August.

The grant is given to public colleges such as Metro, where students have access to education at a cost lower than that of other private and public universities and colleges. The average cost per student at Metro is $1,288 for 12 credit hours, which includes health insurance.

Another qualification for the grant is that the college enroll traditional and non- traditional age students.

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Jes.se Stephen.son/The Metropolitcm Lynn Wilchek, 25, a Community College of Denver student, took part in a date auction April 8 to raise money for a CCD Student Activities club.

A date with her fetched $100. She said she will take her date to a Colorado Rockies game.

what that threshold is," Monroe said.

The group also wants the policy to and journal articles, computer programs and original plays a nd music created by state clearly who owns intellectual property created without direct college supMetro faculty. , Combs submitted a proposal to the port. " It should be written that results or committee in January. Faculty on the comm ittee responded that the proposal research should belong to the faculty that was too tangled with legal jargon and left produce it," Saxe said.

Monroe added that his faculty also important questions unanswered.

One piece missing from the original arc worried about who owns the rights to onlinc courses they arc proposal was a disdeveloping. Professors tinction between should also own the rights over intellectual rights to online coursproperty produced by es because they norstaff and· faculty, said mally own rights to Eugene Saxe, a mem"It's much more textbooks they write, ber of the review Monroe said. important that committee and former Most of the coursfaculty senate presiwe do this right es arc designed much dent. like a professor would Staff are frethan fast." write a textbook but quently hired to pro- Lee Combs, without direct finanduce things with cial support from the Metro attorney potential value to the college, Monroe said college, such as com"But if Metro is puter programs and providing release time, marketing brochures. equipment, software Combs said in late or expertise, since they March that the rights have invested time or money, they would for those items should go to the college.

Intellectual property rights created should own part of it," Monroe said.

Combs said that faculty 's reaction to go to the creator, he said. the January proposal demonstrated that it Another muddy issue in the policy was inadequate. was how Metro defined circumstances So he decided to redraft the proposal. under which it should have rights over Combs started examining faculty's After faculty works. College administrators say Metro should get a return on its invest- specific concerns, he rcali1cd that they ment if the college provides significant were too complex to deal with quickly, he resources release time, equipment, said.

"It's much more important that we do expertise or money - for the development of a profitable product. But the this right than fast," he said.

Combs said he hopes the committee group felt Combs' original proposal was too vague regarding what constitutes a will quic kly understand the proposal and then consider how it might apply to real"significant" contribution.

"We felt it should be written as to life situations.

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rorisl to make bombs "right under their nose."

The Palestinian Authority had since cleared the Israelis of blame and had arrested five members o f tlie militant Islamic group Hamas in connection with the killing.

Metro student Naomi Wolinsky said she wasn't surprised to learn that the bomb-maker was likely killed by the hand of a Palestinian.

"Palestinians, as well as Israelis, arc divided amongst themselves. If an Israeli could kill (Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak) Rabin, then why couldn't a Palestinian kill Muhi Sharif?"

Wolinsky, a Jew born in Cheyenne,

Wyo., represented Palestine at the Rocky Mountain Model Arab League in March and is the founder and president of Jewish Students at Auraria.

Hazan and Wolinsky participated in the Rocky Mountain Model Arab League in Colorado Springs in March. The 12studcnt group, advised by Hazan, came back from the conference with best-delegation honors.

Wolinsky said she felt the stalled peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis could be rekindled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he agrees to withdraw Israeli forces from an additional 13 percent of the West Bank.

Netanyahu has said Israel will not withdraw.

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"(Netanyahu) immediately showed ... that the settlements are not going to be dismantled," Hazan said. ". I think that is counterproductive."

Hazan added that the Palestinians should work harder to stop terrorism and convince the Palestinian people that Israel is a legitimate state.

"Peaceful coexistence is a very important public education process," he said.

Such education, Hazan said, should include cultural exchanges and the use of art and music as a medium to bring the people together to get beyond " the evil images attached to visions of what the enemy is."

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A Metro professor had the experience of a lifetime visiting a part of the world torn by political and religious differences, and false perceptions.

Akbarali Thobhani, director of Metro's Institute of International and Intercultural Education, teaches African and Middle East history classes. He said his classes will be more lively in the future when he shares the details of a two-week trip he took to Israel and Morocco, where he learned about the culture of the countries and relations between Jews and Arabs in the region . He left March 15 and returned to the United States on March 27.

The Muslim-Jewish Dialogue Group of Denver, an organization that wants to improve Muslim-Jewish relations, sponsored Thobhani's trip. A 17-member group of Colorado Muslims and Jews participated in the seminar voyage, which was planned to show how Muslims and Jews relate to one another in the Middle East.

The group consisted of 10 Jews, six Muslims, including Thobhani, and one Christian.

The trip involved visiting and speaking with leaders of the Jewish and Muslim communities in the two countries.

Thobhani said leaders in both Israel and Morocco, such as Morocoan Prime

Minister Abderrahmane El Youssoufi, enthusiastically wekomed the group.

The trip began in Morocco; where the group visited the country's capital, Rabat and the city of Marrakech.

El Youssoufi explained that MuslimJewish relations in Morocco are very warm , even though the Jewish community there is small. Thobhani said relations between Jews and Arabs in Morocco have always been good, because the Jews there arc Arabs and Moroccans, only with different religious beliefs. The establishment of Israel caused the Jewish community to shrink in Morocco over the last several years because many Moroccan Jews moved to the West Bank.

Thobhani said that El Youssoufi spoke to the group about the interests of Morocco as well as the current misfortune of the faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Thobhani said the prime minister wishes the stalemate between the Arabs and Jews in the West Bank would end. The West Bank is a territory adjacent to the Dead Sea that Israelis and Palestinians both believe is rightfully theirs.

Thobhani said that there was very little social interaction between Arabs and Jews in Israel for seve路ral reasons. There is an immense hostility and mistrust between the groups in Israel because of the Palestinians' loss of land to the Jews.

"There was a great divide there (Israel) between the two groups,"

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"meet and greet" with students in the journalism department.

After the final interviews, which arc in progress, Foster will recommend the candidate chosen by the committee to Cheryl Norton, interim provost and vice president of academic affairs. Sheila Kaplan, Metro's president, makes the Metro's Journall hiring final department decision. hasn't had a The search committee permanent includes Bob chairperson for Burns, the edimore than five tor of The years.

Capitol Reporter and Jim Craig, the chair of Speech.

Two alumni of Metro's journalism department are also on the committee: Marilyn Starrett, who teaches journalism and public relations classes at Metro, and Laurence Washington, who teaches Metro's introductory journalism class,

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Although she Hurley is not on the committee, she said the committee is searching for an individual with good journalism skills and maintain a responsive rapport with stude nts.

Because the two candidates hold doctorates, Doug Bell, a part-time Metro professor, said it is possible that these candidates might set a more academic tone to the department rather than the present skillso r i en t e d approach.

Foster said the department will not change with the advent of a new chairperson.

"I have no intention of changing the role and mission of the department, but I intend to build on it's strengths and develop a vision for the future," Foster said.

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A page one article in The Metropolitan omitted some information about who will benefit from a $570,000 allocation for professional development. Metro's faculty and administrators will both receive the funds.

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WELL READ: Akbarali Thobhani, director of Metro's Institute of International studies, reads in his office April 8.

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He said Israelis and Palestinians live in separate neighborhoods and attend separate schools. Thobhani said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest rejection of the U.S . plan to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was very discouraging and disheartening.

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"The view from the Potomac is not the same as the view from lhe Jordan (river)," Netanyahu said.

Thobhani said Netanyahu 's attitude is disappointing.

"I think this puts a gloomy mood in the people in Israel as well as in Arab countries," he said.

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Debbie Thomas, Metro spokeswoman, said Metro spent $9,000 for ads in the magazines to attract non-traditional students to the campus. Non- traditional students are those who are older than students who enter college right after high school .

Thomas said last year's budget for print and radio advertising was $105,000 .

"Most schools realize there are a lot of adults who are looking to further their education," Thomas said. "We want to offer them a choice."

The ads will be inserted on a one-time basis in 108,000 of the magazines' mail subscriptions in the six-county metro Denver area.

The ads do not appear in newsstand copies of the magazines.

"It's a very effective way to reach our target market," Thomas said. She said when prospective students sec the ads in major magazines it will "connote in their minds that we arc a major-league school ... and we are."

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die .. • STRETCH IT OUT: Ana Lobe Is the dancing jailer In the Denver Center for The Performing Arts production of Blue Suede Shoes. This ballet Is a tribute to the music of Elvis Presley.

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In Blue Suede Shoes' case, he never entered the building to begin with -he didn't have to.

This musical ballet tribute to the King, now playing at the Buell Theatre through April 19, by the Cleveland San Jose Ballet, works in many ways, but its ultimate success can be attributed to the haunting voice and looming presence of one Elvis Presley.

Although he never appears on-stage throughout the perfonnance, his proximity is felt as the tightly knit cast authentically brings back America's age of innocence, the '50s, in a not-so-i nnocent way.

Set to the background of digitally re-mastered Elvis tunes, the story mirrors Presley's life as it takes three close friends from high school graduation to the Anny, over to Germany and back again.

When they get back they find that friends have changed and parents have died, and in their desolation, they all end up in jail. And of course it couldn't be remotely related to Elvis if it lacked the boogie-woogie, Hollywood ending where everything is dandy - a usual ending for an unusual show.

It is unusual because - let's not forget - it's a ballet. Imagine a typical ballerina leaping and twirling to "Jailhouse Rock."

The sexually provocative, and at times perverse, choreography was a melting pot of all types of dance, abusing different techniques according to the mood. Pure classicality shines through during some of the emotional ballads such as "Love Me

Tender," where all-American modern jive prevails during the up-beat numbers like "Hound Dog." Nonetheless, it worked. Even the sloppiness in the dancing didn't hinder the overall performance, rather it added to the youthful, joyful environment created on the stage.

Ali this rock-n-roll would be quite peculiar in tights, tu-tus and pink toe-shoes, would it not?

Fortunate for the audience, some marketing prodigy acquired costuming genius Bob Mackie to design not only the costumes, but the set also.

And as that curtain opens to present a crazily psychedelic, black-lit neon Hot Dog Drive-In, it's quickly noticed that Mackie is the show's only fresh element that evokes a "wow" or a "oh" here or there from audience members.

His costumes are no let down, either. Whether it was the neighborhood mack in' pimp decked out in a Nathan Detroit-style zoot suit or the dominatrix jailer donning thigh-high black vinyl boots and a domineering, vinyl g-string teddy, they are entertaining and loud- perfect for the show's attitude.

A major disappointment was the overhanging ego of the troupe/director. With a Joseph and the Amazing Tech11icolor Dreamcoat-type curtain call - the kind that takes 30 minutes - it leaves the audience with a bad taste in their mouth.

Cirque Du Soleil's Quidam deserves three or four standing ovations; this clearly doesn 't but milks the clap-happy audience for all its worth anyhow.

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.ABCs bring itrt into ghetto Art program helps at risk children overcome

By Ryan Bachman The Metmpo ilan

The Center for the Visual Arts provides refuge and a constructive, productive alternative for at-risk youth in the community.

The Art Builds Communit ies Program is a coordinated project with the Denver Housing Authority proposed to facilitate and support artistic programs for inner-city youth.

The premise for ABC is that experience in the arts may provide an opportunity to increase selfesteem, confidence and pride, said Gail Arcese, Educational Program Coordinator. The center recently received the Downtown Denver Partnership Award for the ABC Program's disadvantaged youth work.

The program, consisting of three primary objectives, is intended to encourage positive, constructive use of leisure time for at-risk youth through involvement in the arts.

The ABC Program is also aiming to provide positive social units and a safe environment for youth, as well as expanding knowledge and appreciation for one's own culture and other cultures, Courtesy Art Builds Communities program Arcese said.

The core program of ABC, now in its third year, STAY BETWEEN THE LINES: An unidentified volunteer works with at-risk Inner city children at provides hands-on art workshops and seven Denver the Art Builds Communities program.

Housing Authority communities for youth age 6 to 12 on specified Saturdays and Mondays throughout A2D2 Camp (Art and Athletics Defeat Drugs), five Additional intrinsic rewards experienced by the school year. continuous days of art workshops and recreational youth participants is an opportunity to transfer alterEach year, 500 children participate in multidisci- athletics on the college campus. natives in arts to alternatives in life and to replace planary, multicultural, visual and performing art ABC workshops explore various ethnocentric acts of frustration and violence with a positive means workshops led by guest artists from the Denver area. arts along with traditional art forms firmly estab- of expression. The ABC Program also offers discovMetro students and young adult volunteers assist at lished in the belief that a people's culture is vital in ery of the arts for youth whose economic circumthe workshops and serve as role models and mentors. nurturing and affirming their sense of self-worth. stance often precludes exposure, Arcese said.

The core ABC Program is supplemented by two Samples of the workshop topics include African One of the future events held by ABC is an Art special events. In the spring, Art Trek, brings 120 masks, quilt making, and storytelling; Lakota shields Trek day and May 9, in which the Center for the DHA youth for an art day at the center. The youth and chokers; Polynesian dance; Mexican tin sculp- Visual Arts will hire a bus to pickup the youth and engage in interactive gallery activities and work- . ture, Retablos and marionettes; and, Aboriginal their families and take them to see the Gulf Canada shops. During the summer, 45 DHA youth attend images on cloth. gallery's Spirit of West show.

Chinese professor recounts past

By Kerney Williams The Metropolitan

Coming to America has been a long . march for Xiansheng Tian, one of the newest members of Metro's History department.Tian, who was hired in August 1996, felt he was discouraged from teaching history the way he saw it happen in his native China. The Chinese government wanted professors to teach the "official" communist party history of the nation and world, a history that excludes the human rights violations incurred during the Cultural Revolution, he said.

'The government doesn't want me."

Tian seems more amused then angry about that.

He points out that if he wanted to teach in China from his perspective, he would have to tell a very different version than what he's seen firsthand .

Tian grew up during the decade-long Chinese cultural revolution that began in 1966. He was a member of the Red Guards, a government-sponsored militaristic youth group trained to seek out and report people who seem to resist communists values.

Members of the Red Guard were authorized to search people's houses to look for anti-Communist evi-

.dence. He describes those times as miserable.

Suspicion was rampant during those years, he said.

His mother was arrested and had to undergo a "self-examination" and millions were forced to "confess" what they'd done to undermine the government.

This involved writing a letter of confession after a long interrogation, sometimes (though not in his mother's case) including physical torture, and reading it publicly.

She was put under government surveillance after that.

By the time China's government ended its programs seeking out the unpatriotic in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tian was a student at Henna University in Kaifeng, China.

Tian's first taste of the west came in the in 1985 when he joined a program at Yellow River University in Zhengzhou, China. His course work there was a post graduate program, taught by westerners, many of them Chinese Americans. It was an experiment in introducing Chinese students to the west, and jt was very successful.

"Eighty percent of my classmates are in the United States," He points out.

He came to America in May 1989, only a few months before protesting students were massacred by

the Chinese government in Tiananmen Square .

Tian finished his post-graduate studies at Oklahoma State University. But he said everything isn't perfect in the United States.

Tian often talks about the differences he sees in Chinese and American culture and points out that American students have a very limited view of the world and often take things for granted.

"The student body doesn't know the outside world," he said. He said he feels that the news reports in the Western press are often biased against the Chinese government.

He points to the fact that China is perceived as having a poor human rights record. The fact is they define rights differently. To the Chinese government, it views the fact that they are feeding 22 percent of the world population as a human rights achievement. Human rights are more basic there, he says.

As for the future of his new homeland, he is optimistic.

He said that America will continue to benefit from its freedoms and immigration.

"The best come here," he says, "apd create opportunity. That is a strong appealing force."

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Harlem nocturne speaks reams on • racism, bigotry

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When you get a pro-Planned Parenthood conservative together with a gay fashion designer and a libidodriven doctor, you'd think you were watching some Thursday-night Fox series. But instead, it's Blues For an Alabama Sky, playwright Pearl Cleagc's hymn to the Harlem Renaissance, and the Denver Center Theatre Company's latest production.

The play truly is a hymn, too. As Israel Hicks, the show's director, points out, it is phrased like a blues song: "My life is bad. It's gonna get worse. Here's what I'm gonna do about it."

The five characters, all driven by their own contrasting convictions, work through a pre-Depression 1930s Harlem summer in their own ways. The Harlem population's main dilemma during this time was poverty, and the story is no different with these five.

Sam, the only character with job security (John Wesley), is a party-animal doctor who helps out Delia (Joy DeMichele Moore) with her dreams of opening up a Planned Parenthood-type clinic in Harlem - not an idea accepted by the community. . Their friend Guy (Reg Flowers) is a costume designer who dreams of going to Paris. He is forced to take his poverty-stricken confidant Angel (Michele Shay), an out-of-work nightclub singer, under his wing and into his apartment, as she has been hit the hardest.

The four close friends debate about the times being what they are and what they can bring upon the masses.

They soon meet Leland (Michael Eaddy), a good ol' boy

from ultraconservative Alabama. He takes a particular interest in Angel, as she docs in him, and the stage is set for a dramatic, Courtesy Denver Center Theater Company. heart-wrenching story of love and ALABAMA BLUES: Angel (Michele Shay) and Guy (Reg Flowers) share a tender prejudice. moment in the Denver Center Theater's· production of Blues for an Alabama Sky. On the surface, it's yet another story of African American survival. But thing very unusual. Their builds were exemplary and taken levels deeper, shades of the era's old-school created the greatest level of anticipation possible. They racism, homophobia and self-discrimination are uncov- kept the audience on the edge of their scats, just begging ered and attacked by the playwright. She points out the to hear more classic line delivery. And some of the generation's stereotypes, puts her own spin on them and humor involved complete silence. leaves everything else open for interpretation.

The non-verbal element in this show demonstrated From her first drunken entrance, it's obvious why the actors' ability and the director's understanding of the Shay was nominated for a Tony award. Her ability to language. Wild mood swings were created by the slightcapture her character's persona complemented this work est physical gesture of an actor, and that is always a speso well that one can only imagine what she did on cial moment in any show.

Broadway with her nominated piece, August Wilson's But one bad directorial choice was the time conSeven Guitars. Her presence also was made known in sumed in scene changes and waiting for actors to enter the most awkward of moments. Her knack for whisper- the area. They could have easily shaved off 5-10 mining created an eerie mood whenever she chose to abuse utes of the show by making the entrances and exits of the technique - and when it came from her, it wasn't a both cast and crew more succinct. whisper but a command.

However, all of this wouldn't have been possible if Flowers also captured the essence of the era. it weren't for the groundwork: Cleage's material.

This script was downright funny. One-liners folHomosexuals were accepted even less in Harlem at that time compared to current social thought, and he let the lowed one-liners followed crazy comic dialogue. It audience know that with the slightest awkward wave of stalled at points of serious contemplation, but then would relentlessly start back in like the early bird peckhis hand or uncomfortable flair of his hips.

On an ensemble level, this cast displayed some- ing for the desurfaced worm.

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Swingbilly, April 10- 11, 10.pm., $5.

Conjunto Colores, April 16, l~.p.m., $5.

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Branford Marsalis, April 11, 8 p.m., $15-20.

Nashville Bluegrass Band, April 16, 8 p.m., $7

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Loudon Wainright III, April I 0, 7 p.m., $5 Lord of Word & the Disciples of Bass, April 10, 10 p.m,$10.

Roy Hargrove, April 11, 8 p.m., $20-32 Johnette Napolitano w/ Maria Fatal, April 12, 7 p.m., $8-11.

Judge Roughneck w/ Warsaw, April 13, 9 p.m., $10 Boom Shaka w/ Zuet, April 14, 9 p.m., $8.

Chrome featuring Helios Creed w/ Register, April 15, 9 p.m., $5.

Jughead's Revenge w/ Straight Faced and Qual M , April 16, 9 p.m., $5

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Vox Femina and Abracadabra, April 10, 8 p.m. $1012.

Zukes of Zydeco, April 11, 9 p.m., $8-10.

Jazz West, April 12, 7:30 p.m., $6.

Misery Loves Company and Shawn Wagner, April 14, 8 p.m. $5.

Crystal Swing Band, April 15, 7:30 p.m., $6.

Joel Kaye's Neophonic Big Band, April 16, 7:30 p.m., $6.

judge roughneck Bluebird 'llleafer, Aprll 13, 9 p.m., $10

This special blend of ska and reggae marks Judge Roughneck as a band unlike any other gracing Colorado's funky ska scene. Boasting a powerhouse horn section and an incredible ex-MeLroite on the kit, this group puts on a show to rival any you'll see on the Bluebird's stage anytime soon.

Zach Pietlock, drummer, is a new and very well thought out addition to the group coming from a back-

ground of jazz and rock, his ability far surpasses that of 99 percent of the region's drummers. His strong attack and colorful improvisations should give Judge Roughneck some much appreciated depth and diversity as the band explores its rhythmic paths through Denver.

branford marsa/is Boulder Theater, Aprll 11, 8 p.m., $1~20

It's about time he made another trip through Colorado.

Considered one of the strongest young lions in the jazz world, this sax player knows where the music is headed and leads the listener there.

This most talented Marsalis brother has run the gambit of the genre, producing straight-ahead, in-the-pocket be bop hits then segueing into the acid jazz bebop to hiphop grooves in his group Bucksot LaFonque.

This Marsalis understands the pulse of the music as it fluctuates with every passing year. His work is more than progressive, without descending into the pits or musical inoffensibility that marks some other famous saxophonists. His playing is pure, his composition is textured and rich, and his grooves push like a fevered storm in the tropics. · Branford's stint on the Tonight Show as Jay Leno's bandleader didn't mar his ability or stymie his creativity as so many worried it would. Thankfully, he left Leno's side a few years ago in search of musical purity, and he continually finds fountains of it wherever he plays.

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As unfortunate as it ~olttan might seem to Erica Tapia, Editorial a Metro student who camNews: Metro stupaigned to be a write-in dent Erica Tapia candidate for president of wanted to be Student Government allowed to run for Assembly, rules are rules.

Student To be eligible to run for a Government student government posiAssembly tion, candidates had to regpresident. ister by March 4. Tapia missed the deadline by a Views: Tapia month. missed the At least 150 students deadline to enter signed a petition demandthe race and was ing Tapia be allowed in the rightfully denied. race.

Students wrote ./ in Tapia's name on ballots during the April 6-8 elections, but that won't matter, either. The Metro Election Commission ruled that write-in votes are not valid.

Tapia's plea to be allowed in the race stems from her view that students lacked a choice for president. The two candidates, Andy Nicholas, the current representative to the Colorado Student Association, and Dave Flomberg, a copy editor/columnist for The Metropolitan, left students without options, according to Tapia.

But lo assume that the whole process should be changed because she deems the candidates unfit is too little, too late.

If she seriously wanted lo be the student body president, Tapia would have been prepared to run for the job. Even Flomberg, the candidate she criticized most harshly for his seeming lack of sincerity, made the deadline.

In campaign fliers, Tapia quotes Flomberg and Nicholas from editorial columns each wrote for the March 27 edition of The Metropolitan. She also takes The Metropolitan editorial out of context, saying that not even The Metropolitan could make an endorsement. The paper could not justify making an endorsement for president because one of the candidates is employed here. A simple conflict of interest.

Tapia also says in her fliers that she met all criteria and was "inexplicably denied" the chance lo run for office.

Not true. She did not meet all criteria.

She missed the deadline.

Whether Tapia would have been the best candidate is immaterial. She's right in believing students should have had more of a choice for SGA president.

A diversified group of candidates is always better than the alternative.

The real losers are the students, who, by Tapia's failure to join the race, were denied the choice Tapia believes they deserve.

And for that, Tapia can only blame herself.

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It's evident Alexandra Pinter enjoys her job.

Pinter, a part-time Metro professor who teaches Italian, commutes from Boulder every Tuesday and Thursday to spend 2 hours and 15 minutes with her students.

Many of us are clumsyJesse Stephenson tongued and hesitant as we Scoop begin speaking the language native to Pinter's parents.

Yet week after week, she calmly corrects our hackneyed pronunciation and guides the class through lists of verbi and aggettivi.

Pinter is not an exception.

There are many fine professors at Metro who teach part-time.

I know because they have taught me algebra, history, economics and literature in a way that demonstrates they are competent educators who enjoy teaching.

The college, however, claims it sees things differently.

In a recent application for a federal education grant, Metro contends that the 620 part-time professors on the college payroll are sub-par.

They lack a sense of involvement with the campus ·and students, don't know enough about the school's policies and fail to advise students properly, the report laments.

Metro's report goes on to say the college doesn't have enough money to pay full-time salaries, thus it is forced keep part-time professors on the payroll.

Right now, 32 percent of courses at Metro are taught by part-time faculty.

Depending on their rank, title and how many

courses a part-time professor at Metro teaches, most earn between $581 to $21,000 per year.

Full-time professors' salaries range from $30,000 to $60,000.

The college says the federal grant would pay for more full-time professors.

But if Metro is sincere in its assertion that higher salaries make better teachers, then the .college is fully aware that it is lowering teaching quality on a grand scale when it hires hundreds of part-time professors.

And why does it depend on a source as uncertain as a federal grant to bolster its standard of faculty?

If the grant request falls through - and its a very real possibility it will - it's probable that the hundreds of part time professors will remain in Metro's teaching corps. And if history is any indication, the college will still to refuse to restructure its budget to free up money to improve professors' salaries. · In it's plea for the grant, the college got the right solution for the wrong problem.

Part-time professors aren't the problem. Their · paychecks are.

These professors are fully aware how little money they will make when they sign contracts with the college. Most already have full-time jobs and the hours they spend teaching cut into free time.

Their acceptance of the paltry salary is a testament to their dedication to their discipline and desire to teach.

Metro administrators know this - they simply refuse to pay part-time professors accordingly.

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Win, lose or draw, I still come out on top in SGA election-fiasco

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By the time this column runs, Metro will be the proud owner of a Student Government new Assembly. As I write, I have no idea who will head this motley crew.

Instead, I possess only the vague hope that something went drastically wrong with the whole process and the cast from South Park got elected. Maybe blues legend Denver

Joe. But the reality is, regardless of who won what position, Metro students were treated to a much more interesting campaign than I have seen in my four years on this campus. I'd like to think my involvement in this whole process had something to do with that.

I mean, this race had everything - mudslinging, empty rhetoric, vague assertions, even implied scandal crept its way into the whole thing. We had a big party shoo-in matched up against a loud-mouthed journalist.

Then, from out of nowhere appeared the third candidate - a downtrodden, oppressed woman whose valiant effort at saving such a pointless battle was quashed by the sinister forces of the Election Commission. She bemoans her plight to the campus (Actually, let me take this opportunity to thank her for all the free press her fine fliers garnered me. Her angst-ridden addling pushed my polling points up faster than my staff could keep track of.) and snatches the underdog constituency out from under me.

And it was all for your entertainment.

Nothing mor.e, nothing less.

Make no mistake - it won't end here. The next year will hopefully be full of fun reac,iing and laughable antics courtesy of those Keystone Kops of the politically plugged-in set. If I win, I promise it' II be the most entertaining year on record. The day I take office, hilarity ensues.

If I lose, I'm sure it'll be at least as funny, if not more so. Only it'll be unintended, which everyone knows is the funniest type of humor.

For example, I went down to cast my vote for office an hour after the huge "protest" at the flag pole. Several of my opponent's ticket mates stood at the edge of the 50foot radius of the polling place campaigning their little hearts out.

"Aren't you going to campaign?!" they shouted to me.

Does anyone read this newspaper? Certainly they do, because they're usually the first to .confront me on something I've written that they felt was reprehensible. If they had been paying attention, they would have realized that any campaigning I did would have been hypocritical to my campaign platform. As it was, I spent exactly nothing on my campaign, and wasted none of your precious time listening to me spout endlessly about what I plan to accomplish.

If you voted me in, then thank you for not voting in . that other guy. If you voted in that other guy, then thank you for not voting me in.

Either way, I guess the winner is ...

Me. Dave f1omberg is a Metro student and a columnist/copy editor for The Metropolita11

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Election Commission alienates students Editor, Ever since I've been a student at this school, I have heard school administrators and student leaders complaining about student apathy ad nauseum.

Every year, candidates in the student government elections bemoan the fact that they can't get students ·interested in the issues that affect them.

My experience in this year's student government elections, however, is that this is all empty rhetoric - the reality is that the SGA Election Commission is just as much to blame for the lack of student involvement For those of you who don't know, for the three days of the SGA elections (April 6-8), I ran a protest write-in campaign. I was forced to do this because the Election Commission ruled last April 3 that I couldn't get my name on the ballot nor could I run a write-in campaign. This ruling came in spite of the fact that many students ( 150, lo be exact) signed a petition last week saying that they wanted my name on the ballot, that they wanted more choice.

In spite of this obvious show of support, the Election Commission decided that they didn't want to go to the trouble of making different ballots or, for that matter, having to count writein votes.

I have a problem with their ruling because it doesn ' t allow for any modicum of choice: quite frankly, students should have the right lo cast their vote for the kind of representation that they want.

When the Election Commission says they want Lo get students involved in the process, what they're really saying is that they only want Lo gel the elections over with.

My case is a great example.

After talking to many students, I got a lot of positive feedback about my campaign; while some students told me that they didn't know if they would actually vote for me, overwhelmingly they were adamant on their right to make that choice.

In spite of the groundswell of support that I have received during the elections, the Election Commission did everything in its power to prevent the students from exercising their right to vote, even telling one student that he couldn' t write my name in, and that there were "two better candidates on the ballot." This student promptly put down his uncompleted ballot and walked out. In this case, not only did the Election Commission not encourage this student to get involved, they alienated him from the process, and it's not unreasonable to speculate that in the future this student will approach SGA elections with cynicism and contempt. ls student apathy the real problem?

I would suggest that the real problem is that students feel alienated from the process, and the Election Commission's actions during this election have only exacerbated this situation.

Whatever the outcome of my campaign (I am appealing the Election Commission's decision), I can say that at least I tried to get students more involved in the process.

I have also learned that no matter what the Election Commission says, they arc not interested in reaching out to students - they arc more interested in things running smoothly, even if that means keeping the students out of the process.

Erica Tapia Metro student

To SGA: Get-out, meet students and learn Editor, If you read the newspaper or look around you while you're walking around campus you would know that student government elections occurred April 6-8. I hope you voted.

If you didn't, you're not off the hook.

The only way the Student Government Assembly can tackle the problems or address the issues of importance to you is if they know what you want. It is their duty to come to you to find out what you want, but it is your responsibility to tell them.

I agree that it would have been nice to have a bit more competition among candidates. I also think it would have been nice to see the candidates out around campus campaigning. I didn't even see any candidates who had opponents campaigning.

The candidates should begin to get to know their constituents during the campaigning process. This is not too hard to do. Just spend some time in the center of campus at the nagpolc.

Go into the student lounges and pass out nyers to students while they're studying. Walk through the food court at lunchtime and talk Lo students. Get permission from instructors to go to classes and introduce yourselves. If you didn't have time to do this during elections, you won't have time while you're in office.

Students - if you've followed the newspaper's accounts of the SGA this year, you probably don't have a very high opinion of student government. They haven't written about too many of the positive things we have done this year.

The SGA is not an ineffective institution.

We have all come to this school to learn. SGA is just an

extension of classroom learning. We won't always say the right things or make the best decisions, but most of us try to do what is best for the students. Faculty, staff and administrators do respect the SGA's opinion on issues. We don 'l have voting power on every committee. We have another power - our voice . Our voice includes your voice. Make yourselves heard.

As a current SGA member who is leaving oflicc (I'm graduating, yippee!}, I have some advice for future student government members. Get educated.

Exit the third noor of the Tivoli and go out and talk to students. IL will be a valuable learning experience. Read about what the former SGAs did (or didn't do). Learn from others' mistakes.

Meet with staff and administrators. Try lo work together to solve problems. If thai docsn ' t work, keep fighting .

Once you've tried the conventional route and you get shot down, gather students together and go the unconventional route.

Ask other SGA members and students-at-large to help you. You don't have to work alone.

The two most important things to remember arc communication and follow-through . If you say you will do something, then do it. It's your job and your responsibility.

I wish all the newly elected SGA members luck. I also hope students will go to the weekly SGA meetings in Tivoli Room .

329 and speak out. Call 556-3312 to find out more.

Jessie Bullock VP for Student Fees 1997-98 SGA

AHEC's finest protect buildings, not students Editor, Students who traverse this campus after dark are well aware of the void of AHEC's finest.

Any of the AHEC public safety officers on the evening shift (all three of them) will candidly advise you that their purpose is to secure the buildings. Public safety is of little or no concern or consequence.

In the past three years that I have been taking night classes at Metro, I have come to the conclusion that if I were to be mugged on this campus, it is more likely that one of our resident transients would come to my rescue while our illustrious fuzz wouldn't have a clue.

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BOMBS AWAY: Metro first baseman Brian Aguilar puts a ball in play April 8 at Auraria Fields In a conference game with Nebraska-Kearney. Aguilar hit a home run In the Roadrunner's 8-5 win over the Lopers. Metro Is tied with Fort Hays State for first place in the RMAC .

.Wins over Lopers set up showdown in Kansas

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Metro took another step towards securing a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship by taking three of four games from Nebraska-Kearney on路 April 7-8.

With the three wins, the Roadrunners are 10 games over .500 (24-14), heading into an April 11-12 four-game series with Fort Hays Stale.

The Roadrunners find themselves in a first place tie with the Tigers atop the RMAC with a 14-2 conference record.

The series with Fort Hays could decide the conference championship.

"It's going to be an exciting weekend for us," coach Vince Porreco said. "H's

nice to be able lo control ourown destiny."

That was made possible in the Kearney games.

The Lopers did not make it easy for the Roadrunners in the series.

In Game 2 of the doubleheader on April 8, Metro held off a late charge by Kearney thanks to back-to-back home runs - a two run shot by sophomore first baseman Brian Aguiar and junior right fielder Travis Betz's first roundtripper in his college career - to beat Kearney 8-5.

Leading 5-4 in the fifth inning, senior designated hitter Neal Vallejos singled with two outs. With Vallejos on first, and a 2-2 count, Aguiar crushed his. eighth home run of the year to increase the lead to 7-4. Following Aguiar's blast, Betz smacked his home run over the left field

fence lo give the Roadrunners the insurance runs they needed. Metro allowed one more run the rest of the way to win 8-5.

"He (the Kearney pitcher) threw me a fastball," Aguiar said. "I was struggling in the series and he knew it and tried to sneak the fastball past me."

Once again, the Roadrunners pitching keyed the victory.

Senior Robert Lantzy got the start in place of junior Leo Torres who sat out because of disciplinary reasons. Lantzy went five innings, allowing four runs on six hits and striking out six Lopers before the bullpen came in lo finish up.

Lantzy, making his second start of the season, struckout five Loper hitters in the first three innings, but struggled in the fifth, giving up three runs.

"In the路 first three innings, my curve ball was working well," Lantzy said. "I was getting tired in the fifth inning, I'm a relief pitcher and I'm not use to pitching five innings."

This start for Lantzy was unexpected.

"Coach (Kenny Leonesio) told me I was going to come in for relief for the first three games of the series if they needed me," Lantzy said. "Then he mentioned that I was going to get the start for the fourth game."

Sophomore Dan Hoyer and junior Bill Ryan came in and c los.ed the door on Kearney for good , giving up two hits and one earned run between them.

Ryan earned his fifth save of the season.

Betz brothers battle froID _o pposing dugouts in series

By Dave Brennan The M'!tropolitan

Ever since they could pick up a ball, Travis and Brannen Betz have been competing against each other.

With Brannen the starting catcher for Nebraska Kearney and Travis the starting rightfielder for Metro, they now have a new kind of rivalry, and an intense one at that.

When the two teams met in a four game series April 7-8, Travis enjoyed the upper hand as Metro won three of the four games. He also enjoyed the first home run of his college career in the Roadrunners' 8-5 win in the fourth game on April 8.

Fittingly, his brother was the first to know it was gone. Travis drove a 0-1 pitch - intended for his brothers mit - over the 30-foot net in left-center field to put the Lopers and Brannen away.

"It's always been intense, but we've always supported each other at the same time," Travis said.

But after spending most of the past three years apart,

Brannen has learned to put things in perspective.

"It's fun to see him out there, but after the first few pitches are thrown, he becomes another player that I have to compete against and outperform," Brannen said.

The series became a family reunion of sorts as Gary Betz, the boys' father, watched with their grandfather from the bleachers. Gary, a longtime Thornton Junior Football League coach, brought his sons up around sports.

After watching Travis and Brannen go at it for the better part of two days, Gary said he was proud to see his boys doing well at the college level.

Having played together on a dominant Northglenn High School football team where Brannen was a comerback, wide receiver, and a record setting punt returner, and Travis a middle linebacker and fullback, the brothers know what it's like to achieve athletic glories together.

Now they achieve apart.

Travis is hitting .308 in a Roadrunner lineup terrorizing the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Brannen, on the other hand, has managed to hit only .214 .

Jaime Jarrett/The Metropolitan

SIBLING RIVALRY: Metro's Travis Betz takes a swing at a pitch Intended for his brothers (Brannen Betz) catcher's mlt April 8 In a game with Nebraska-Kearney at Auraria Fields. The Betz boys grew up playing sports together In Northglenn.

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Metro's.NCAA violation slows women's tennis

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defaulted on all three of its losing matches MarcJJ 29.

The team's overall performance this An incomplete roster is the Metro spring has blossomed thanks in no small women's tennis team's most formidable part to No. 1 singles player sophomore opponent this spring.

Maria Nystrom, who has taken seven of The team of four players, one of nine singles matcties and No. 2 singles whom is injured and unable to. play, player senior Fabiana Uriarte, who has defaulted 19 matches since the beginning racked up six wins in nine matches. of the spring season.

Lefevre said Sophomore Vicki Injuries have sidelined freshman Chong, a Metro soccer player who joined Kelley Kessler, who was the No. 3 singles the tennis team this spring also has potenplayer, since mid-March. Her teammate, tial to become a strong link in a short chain Natalie Maes, also a freshman, failed to ·- though her record, two wins in seven qualify for NCAA eligibility before partic- singles matches, is less than illustrious. ipating in matches in "She's very athMarch. letic and very good Maes had not been for the team morale, cleared to play by the Lefevre said.

NCAA Clearing House, Cicero said part said Brian Crookham, of the reason the Metro's Eligibility and women's team continCompliance ues to shrink is the Coordinator. All freshhigh turnover rate for man must be cleared to Metro's tennis coachplay by the NCAA. es. full Metro's Sports Lefevre took the Information Director helm for Metro's Mark Cicero said men's and women's Metro reported the tennis teams in infraction to the NCAA February, leaving litand is waiting on any tle time for him to disciplinary actions. recruit before the sea- Dan LeFevre Metro might be son began in March. forced to forfeit any Metro tennis coach Former Metro tennis matches Maes particicoach Dan Thomas resigned Oct. 16 withpated in, Crookham said. The Roadrunners out ever having seen won only one of those matches. the team play matches that mattered.

Thomas replaced Haili McLeod who "It's terrible, we've had a number of (dual) matches where if we had a full coached both teams last year before team, we would have easily won," said resigning because she said her salary was coach Dan Lefevre. "It's simple, but that inadequate.

Lefevre, 24, has been a high school is our only weakness. They tend to win a coach for the past six years, this is his first lot of the matches they play."

The women on the team have won 33 swing at college coaching. "(Lefevre) didn't have time to get his of 61 matches they've played, winning half of the 8 dual matches so far this sea- own people in ," Cicero said. "Right now, he's establishing relationships with future son.

Normally, a tennis team has at least and current players. If he stays, we'll have six players to fill the singles spots. Those a full roster next year."

Metro's women's and men's tennis players then pair up to play doubles teams will face conference foe Colorado matches.

The women punished the University Christian and several non-conference of Colorado - Colorac;io Springs with two opponents April I 0- 11 during the 6-3 victories March 13 and 29. Two of the Colorado Collegiate Tennis Tournament at the Auraria Tennis Courts.

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"Sixty-five to 70 percent of playi~g The Metropolitan good tennis is mental preparation," said A tennis court has rarely been the set- Ponce, who is ranked No. 17 in the March ting of an unwelcome surprise for Manuel NCAA Midwest Men's singles tennis standings. "Since I know most of the guys P~nce - until this month. in the conference, I Ponce, a 25year-old junior who am now trying to holds the No. 1 spot make game strateon Metro's I I-memgies.

"I go into a ber men's tennis match thinking , te~m, lost a singles 'I'm going to play match for the first my tennis and the time this spring. win will come."

Jalal Chafai of Men's Tennis Drury College beat coach Dan Lefevre Ponce on April 4. said he's certain ., Three days later, more victories are Ponce damaged ligaon the way ments in his left because the team ankle during prachas already faced tice. some of its toughBut he said he est rivals. can't afford to dwell Five of the -o~ his misfortunes.

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