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

F acuity to vote on review plan ·Proposed post-tenure performance evaluation policy sparked months of debate.

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Metro student Wendy Boagllo does push-ups on campus April 22 during health and fitness day at Auraria. The event Included health screening and spine testing, and featured Marines competing with students In various exercise tests. Boaglio was trying to do as many push-ups as possible In 60 seconds. Campus Recreation at Aurarla sponsored the event to encourage students to get Involved In physical fitness.

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-Metro senate endorses review policy Months of negotiations on post-tenure evaluations come to fruition; Trustees have final say By Alicia Beard .,._The Metropolitan

After months of haggling, the final draft of a proposed post-tenure review policy was e-mailed to Metro's faculty April I 7 for approval. · Metro professors have I 0 days to ·'- respond with votes and comments on the policy. Monys Hagen, president of Metro's Faculty Senate, said she and her cabinet are endorsing this draft of the plan. Faculty and administrators started working on the plan in spring 1997. Developing the policy has been a controversial and difficult process for both faculty and administration.

Metro's proposed policy was forged authority in deciding whether a professor through extensive meetings between the is competent, Hagen said. Furthermore, Hagen Faculty Senate President Council, Cheryl Norton, said it didn't provide any protections from adminMetro's interim provost and vice president for istrators arbitrarily endAcademic Affairs, Lee ing tenure for profesCombs, the college attorsors. ney, and Metro President Hagen said that under the revised plan, Sheila Kaplan. Metro for several reaeach department sets Last fall, some porsons Including Incomtions of the review plan standards for perforpetence and exhibit· were scratched after mance, and if a tenured Ing "moral turpitude." professor meets the heavy criticism from prorequirements then their fessors. Some professors argued it gave their tenure cannot be terminated by' anyone superiors, especially the provost, too much outside the department. The departmental

•New image campaign enters second phase By Reem Al-Omari - t.

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Metro's New Image Campaign, which was launched last summer to help revamp the school's image, is poised to enter its second phase this semester. The .- first phase of the campaign recently won an award from The Council for the Support and Advancement of Education. Metro competed with 48 of the largest schools in the country, and won one of five silver second-place awards. Metro Spokeswoman Debbie Thomas said that the first phase of the campaign was aimed to change negative perceptions about the school held by people in surrounding communities. The campaign centered around giving , the college a new moniker, "The Met." Thomas said the nickname was featured in a series of newspaper, radio and magazine advertisements for Metro. Using "The Met" instead of Metro and Metropolitan State College of Denver was necessary to help end deeply embedded negative name associations with the college, Thomas said. "We are an urban college," Thomas said. "The Met is a good reflection of the school." -.; Metro is considered an urban college because of its downtown location and diverse population. A new series of ads featuring "The Met" will be published in newspapers and magazines and broadcast on the radio as early as May. The second phase will focus on specific majors and programs offered at Metro. The ads will also include a phone number that is only available in the ads to help keep track of the response from the public after seeing or hearing the -y ads. "We will know that they saw the ad, and the ad lead them to take action," Thomas said. But not everyone has reacted well to

the New Image Campaign. The college's nickname sparked controversy last year because some people thought the college didn't do enough to get student input about it, said Gabriel Hermelin vice president of communications for Metro Student Government Assembly. The ~ssembly collected about 2,000 names on a petition last fall that urged the college to quit using The Met when referring to the college. "They changed the name of our school to "The Met" without letting anyone know about it," Hermelin said. "That is the main reason why we were so against it." Hermelin, a member of the student Gabriel Hennelln c o m m u n i c at i o n s advisory council, protested the new nickname, but later gave the campaign the thumbs up because she said it let people know about the school and what it has lo offer. "The Met" is a very teeny tiny piece of the new campaign," Hermelin said. "The ads can't do the school any harm. They will either keep Metro the way it is or make it better." Thomas said that the ads are a tool to raise the visibility of the school and what it has to offer, so potential students will consider Metro as an option when they consider enrolling for college. "If [students] don't know we're here, they're not going to even think about us," Thomas said. Meet "The Met" is another element of the campaign. It is a program that is an opportunity for high school students to come to the campus and meet faculty and staff at Metro. That program started last summer.

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guidelines will comply with guidelines Metro's trustees have issued for reviewing tenured professors. Under the proposed plan, tenured professors would be evaluated every five years. Another substantial amendment to the review policy is the inclusion of an appeals process for faculty that have received an unsatisfactory ratings. The appeals process employs a committee which is comprised of tenured faculty and make recommendations lo Metro's president on whether unsatisfactory ratings should stand. The proposed plan states that if professors are still rated

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Pablo Schwllch from the Emlly Griffith Opportunity School tries the chin-up challenge sponsored by U.S. Marines on Health and Fitness Day April 22 at Aurarla.

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paper, but it's also a ticket Degree (of difficulty)? I get one May 17. Exactly I 0 years, seven months and 24 days after the sojourn began. Pretty sad if you look at it in tenns of efficienMichael BeDan cy. Some students graduate in fewer than four Perspective years. I have a brother-inlaw who was born two days before I started college. He can beat me in video games, dresses better than me, can curse like a man 10 years his senior and has already been in a major motion picture with Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr. He turns 11 Sept. 21. His movie - OK, he only had one line should be out by 1999. I'll be 30 sooner than I'd like to admit. I've had my picture in this newspaper. I've had a couple of police mug-shots taken a few years back. , I've never made more than $20,000 in a single year. Christopher, my snot-nosed brother-in-law, got a free trip to Jamaica and $2,000 for his one-liner. So, whr:re is this all going? Well, it's going to end May 17, that much I know. No more formal education. But that's hardly the important part. It's been far easier (the decade-plus it took notwithstanding) than I ever imagined. Not much homework. Not many sleepless nights worrying about tests. And better grades than I ever earned in high school. So, why a bachelor 's degree? The journalism industry almost insists on it. Though that was a different story 10-20 years ago. And how else to get the riches provided by student loans. Though in six months I' ll surely regret those, too. Really, though, it's the out-of-class education that comes from mixing with 30,000 students on an urban campus. The internship game. Free-lancing. I met my wife here. The experience of blowing it week in and week out at a college. newspaper. All worth the price of admission. What is foolish is focusing too much on the classroom and the framed piece of paper we earn for that tunnel-vision. The degree, really, is worthless. I know that an object dropped from a building travels at 30 feet per second, squared. And that Christopher Columbus didn't really discover the New World. But I could have gone to a library and learned that for free. The degree simply is a VIP card for employment路 with a $60,000 sticker price. The education - on campus, off campus, everywhere - is priceless. Anyway, while Christopher (my brotherin-law) is laboring to find parts in movies, meeting the "beautiful" people in Hollywood, kicking my ass in video games and earning more for a one-liner than I earn for a month of work - I'll be spraying Windex on the glass

Metro, DPS complete first round of curriculum modi-fications By Jason Dilg

units. On April 15, Alma participants celebrated the completion Teachers and administrators at Denver Public Schools of the first set of project goals at the St. Francis Center. are taking a big step toward multicultural education, thanks to Since 1996, the group of educators and Metro students.,,_ a joint project between Metro and the school district. developed a Latino Resource Directory and conducted workThe project, El Alma de la Raza (The Soul of the People), shops for Denver teachers on how to research and include comes 30 years after the Colorado General Assembly passed Hispanic culture in their lessons. The DPS teachers also wrote a law requiring Colorado schools to teach how minorities, 20 new "curriculum units" to be included in classes from such as Hispanic Americans, have contributed to kindergarten to senior high. American culture and history. Curriculum units are guidelines teachers use to _ The project's goal is to broaden the scope of C:::: teach specific topics. They also spell out why the O topics are relevant to students. what is taught in Denver Public Schools. On April 17, Gov. Roy Romer signed into law a The units have been endorsed by the public bill amending the 1968 measure to include lessons school administration, but must be approved by the Denver Public School Board. on American Indians' contributions to U.S. history. Some say the Alma project could serve as a At the April 15 reception , Denver School Board model for other groups, such as American Indians, Chairwoman Sue Edwards said she supports the proto include more of the history of their contributions . ._ _ilillllliilllll_ _ . gram. Several project leaders said they expect the to U.S. history in public school lessons. board to approve the units soon. The Alma project is probably farther along than any proThe teaching units meet Colorado's teaching requireject of its kind in the country, said Luis Torres, chainnan of ments for subjects such as geography, math, history and readMetro's Chicana and Chicano Studies department. ing. 4 Students and professors from Metro departments, includThe Alma project had its genesis from conversations in ing history, anthropology, Spanish, and Chicana and Chicano see CURRICULUM on 10 studies helped teachers research and develop the curriculum The Metropolitan

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Revealing Picasso's other side Painter's prints to be at Metro gallery By Sean Weaver The Metropolua11

The Metro Center for the Visual Arts will move to a new location in May and will celebrate in June with an exhibit of Pablo Picasso lithographs and engravings. The exhibit, PicassQ: His Print Work, will open June 12 and continue through Aug. II. Sally Perisho, director and curator of the center, said half of the exhibit will be on loan from the Denver Art Museum and the rest will be on loan from the El Paso Art Museum and private collectors. Perisho also said the show is significant because it offers a rare glimpse of another side of Picasso's work that is often overshadowed by his more famous avant-garde paintings and cubist creations. "The works in this exhibit really capture his experimentation with different mediums," Perisho said. "Although Picasso made prints throughout his career, he did not concentrate on that field until the late 1940s when he embarked on a series of innovations that resulted in a reevaluation of printmaking as a means of expression, In the modern era, Picasso is considered the innovator in printmaking." Timothy Standring, curator for the Denver museum's department of painting and sculpture, said the museum has only sporadically exhibited the prints over the last nine years, but the June show will be the first time they have been shown together. "We're happy that we could help with this inaugural exhibition," Standring said. Perisho said she is excited about the center's move. 'This relocation will greatly expand our ability to bring in high-quality exhibits

that otherwise may not have come to Denver," she said. Perisho said she has been negotiating with Jim Robischon, who owns Robischon Gallery at 1740 Wazee St. Metro's art center will lease space next door to Robischon Gallery at 1736 Wazee St. "We've had three grueling days to bring the negotiations to a close," Robischon said. "We think (the Metro center) will make a good neighbor. They are probably more in tune to what we are doing here than other galleries ... It's about art."

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Andrea Fugate gasps as Bonfils Blood Center employee Ric Hartford sticks a needle into her arm to draw blood during the campus blood drive April 21. Fugate Is a Metro student. For optimal blood extraction, donors are instructed to repeatedly squeeze their fists.

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unsatisfactory after an appeal they will be put on a three-year action plan to improve. If they are still deemed unacceptable after three years then the college can fire them. Norton said the review policy has procedural integrity. She said it's a system of evaluation that's objective and based upon evidence that's provided. The reviews are also grounded more in annual reviews than they were previously. Professors are already evaluated yearly by their peers, supervisors and students on teaching, research, community service and other contributions to their academic discipline. Professors are then rated either a satisfactory or unsatisfactory. "The point is there are already about 17 categories of things you can get rid of someone, ranging from moral turpitude to incompetence, and post-tenure review should not be a substitute of a.nything else," Hagen said. "Annual reviews are directly linked

to post-tenure reviews so that we're not reinventing the wheel," Hagen said. Doug Hartman, president of Colorado Federation of Teachers, a union some Metro professors belong to, said the review policy is now geared more toward professional growth than to dismissal. But he said there are still problems with the policy, such as the fairness of making some people undergo the evaluation before others do . Under the plan, everyone is not evaluated in Monys Hagen the same year. Norton said some professors think the plan won't be fair to the people who are reviewed first because they will have less time to prepare. Norton said she has left it up to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee to decide who goes first. If the post-tenure review policy is approved by the faculty, it will go before

the Board of Trustees for the State Colleges in Colorado, Metro's Governing Board, for ratification. Hartman said at an April 20 campus panel discussion on post-tenure review that tenure is basically a due process provision that protects faculty from arbitrary I dismissal. Colorado legislators and Metro's trustees have long supported post tenure review. In spring 1997, a bill passed the legislature that would have mandated posttenure review at state funded institutions. Gov. Roy Romer, however, vetoed the bill saying -it lacked due process. But he later issued an executive order that set guidelines for the creation of a review plan for tenured faculty at statefunded schools. Metro's post-tenure review policy will be published in the evaluation chapter of the faculty handbook. Opponents of post tenure review have long contended that it could threaten tenure and academic freedom, while supporters say professors need to be held accountable for their performance even after they get tenured.

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Students, community leaders and educators converged on campus for a conference on reparations April 22 to discuss why and how the U.S. government should reimburse black people for damage inflicted by slavery and discrimination. The group also rallied support for a proposed national study to probe the effects of slavery on American descendants of slaves. The study would include an investigation into the effects of racial and economic discrimination on black Americans. Results of the $8 million project would be used to determine what items, such as money and land, the government should offer to remedy social and economic disadvantages borne of discrimination and the aftershocks of slavery. U.S. Rep. John Conyers, R-Michigan, introduced the bill to commission the study in 1997. It is still up for consideration by the House Judiciary Committee. About 150 people attended the April 22 conference at Auraria to learn about Conyers' bill and the concept of reparations. One conferee, Imari Obadele, a political science professor from Prairie View A&M University, near Houston, said reparations are a way of attaining social justice for black Americans. "Virtually all the statistics we have show black people at the bottom of the stack in terms of health, net worth, income and housing," he said. "We believe there are residuals from slavery have hindered the ability for us to get equal opportunity in those same things." Obadele pointed to the pre-civil rights policies of labor unions barring black members as an example how black Americans face economic hardship stem-

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ming from racism. Metro student Simone Charles said she and other black Americans are haunted by country's legacy of slavery. According to Conyers' bill, approximately 4,000,000 Africans and their descendants were enslaved between 1619 and 1865. "Blacks still are ashamed of the slavery in the same way a woman feels about being raped," Charles said.. "We' re

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ashamed of the fact we were in a powerful position, though some people believe we should get over the subject of slavery." Charles said government reparations to would begin a healing process for blacks and whites alike - but warned that it could initially heighten racial tension among the two. Charles said some whites would resent funding reparations. "It's not about (ending) racism, it's the beginning of a forgiveness process,"

she said. " It 's about teaching black Americans about economic rights ... It's about America saying 'I'm really, really sorry."' Charles said reparations could be given in the form of job training or business education. "Some people believe reparations are just welfare, but it can also be viewed as a way to get people off of welfare," she said. "The concept of reparations scares white people, but black people believe it's good for America as a whole. It starts a healing process." While many at the conference applauded Conyers ' bill. Others on campus questioned the logistics of the measure. Glen McCormick, a 27-year-old Colorado Institute of Arts student, said he's not sure how the government would be able to determine whether a black person deserves compensation under a reparation program. "I think they probably should go ahead and so do some studying and research but I think that (criteria for getting reparations) would have to depend on a person's background and if they could prove their situation was a direct result of their heritage," McCormick said. Metro Professor Obidike Kamau said the concept of reparations is nothing new. "A reparation is an international legal concept employed when there is an aggressive state that commits a crime against humanity, such as genocide or slavery," Karnau said. Foreign governments, such as Germany, have instituted reparation programs to compensate those who suffered at the hands of the government. In 1951 , a group of German politicians announced that compensation for Holocaust survivors is the country's moral responsibility and formed a program to pay those victimized by Nazi persecution.

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officers that he knew karate and that he could kill a man five different ways with his bare hands and he would shoot the next officer he saw. After Moore tried to kick the student guard, Rulla wrestled Moore to the ground . As Rulla held him down, Moore continued threatening the officers, shouting that he was being assaulted by fake police and that he had done nothing wrong. At one point, Rulla shoved Moore's head down to the concrete. When the officers lifted Moore to his feet, he had blood on his face. The officers took Moore to the holding cell in the security office in the Tivoli, Joe Ortiz where he kicked the bars and continued shouting at police loudly enough to be heard clearly in the Tivoli's second floor hallways. Auraria police turned Moore over to Denver police. Moore was released from custody later that night on $500 bond, according to a representative of the Denver Sheriff's Department Auraria police offered Moore medical attention, but he refused it, Moore said. "I just wanted to get out of there," Moore said. Moore said that he carries the knife, which police say is smaller than 3.5 inches long, as a pocket knife. "I forgot I was carrying it," he said. "I took it out of my pocket, opened it, looked at it, closed it and put it back in my pocket." Moore said that if he had it to do all over again, he would not react to police the same way.

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Portland m.an nam.ed new Business dean By Sean Weaver 711e Metropolitan

Metro's school of business will have a permanent dean beginning in the summer. Cheryl Norton, vice president for aca--. demic affairs, said James Robertson from the University of Portland in Oregon has accepted Metro's offer for the position. Norton said Metro offered Robertson the position on March 26, but interviews for positions at other schools delayed his ... decision. Robertson served as dean of the School of Business at the University of Portland from 1987 to 1996. He is current-

ly a tenured professor at the university. "Dr. Robertson's extensive experience as a business professor and administrator will bring a balanced perspective to this extremely important position," Norton said. The school of business has been without a permanent dean for four years. Concern about departmental leadership arose afler a former dean, Jerry Geisler, was fired Sept. 28, 1994. A petition, circulated among the 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. Stuart Monroe, chairman of Metro's Computer Information Department, said a permanent dean will help the school gain accreditation from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools. "Without some stability on our leadership, there's no way we'll be accredited." Monroe said. "We're pleased and excited he accepted. We've taken a major step in the process of accreditation."

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THE COLLEGE ADVISING AWARDS Is there a faculty or staff adviser \\'ho has made a difference for you? Advisers who are knowledgeable, skilled, accessible, and sensitive to students' issues and concerns serve students and the mission of The MET, inspiring and assisting students to _achieve their educational goals. To nominate an outstanding faculty or staff* adviser, submit a letter containing the following information: (•A staff adviser is any administrator or classified staff member providing developmental advising or detailed academic planning assistance to students.)

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Indicate category of award (faculty or staff) Your name, phone & campus box# (nominations accepted from students, faculty, and staff members)

In a detailed statement, indicate why this adviser is deserving of recognition, and relate personal experiences or anecdotes which demonstrate the skill and contributions of the adviser. The following list illustrates many of the characteristics of good advising: • Caring attitude toward advisees • Positive interpersonal skills • Accessible and available to students • Monitoring of student progress toward academic and career goals

fall 1995 between DPS Superintendent Irv Moskowitz and Torres. "We talked about what such a project might look like, and (Moskowitz) told me to put it down on paper," Torres said. "Pretty soon, we had a project proposal." They used the proposal to apply for a grant from the Colorado Department of Education in 1996. They got $150,000. During the project's first year, Metro contributed $17,500 and nearly $60,000 in faculty release time, computer services and other costs. Joan Foster, dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said Metro's expenses, and professors' time are resources well-spent. "We're integrating very important information into the curriculum," Foster said. "This will affect generations of students." Many educators hope the units will lower the dropout rate of Hispanic students attending Denver Public Schools. Forty-nine percent of Denver's Hispanic students drop out of high· school. The nationwide dropout rate for Hispanic students is 33 percent. "We have to treat the schools more like a business and give the students what they want," said Steve Garner, a social studies teacher at West High School. He said if teachers can get students interested in what's being taught in Denver schools, then he expects to see fewer kids drop out. The new curriculum units will help instructors with topics including the role of Mexican muralists in American art, the history of the Mexican-American War and the importance of works by Hispanic authors. For Metro professor Monica Russell y Rodriguez, it's not just a question of keeping kids in school. It's about the transfor·

mation of American education and what we value as a society. "It's such a sham when you consider a 'well-rounded' education is so narrow," Russell y Rodriguez said. "And when you ignore the contributions of Mexican culture and history to the culture of the United States, you can. ignore the imperialism, oppression and colonization of Manifest Destiny." . And if students expect to learn fully the history of Colorado and the Southwest, then Mexican history is important, he said. Mexico's borders included much of Colorado and extended north into Wyoming before the Mexican· Luis Torres American War of .., 1846-1848.

What is included in the public school's curriculum also sends a message about who matters in American -society, Russell y Rodriguez said. _ "It's not just adding spice. If the history of Chicanos and Chicanas is important, then we as a people are important," she said. The project's grant money runs out in September, but Torres said he hopes DPS will fund the project. Torres. said project leaders will also seek grant money from · foundations to support the project in the future. Torres said that another 40 to 45 teachers are preparing to write another set of curriculum units. With the Alma curriculum units as models, Torres said that it will be easier for other school districts to include Hispanic topics in their curriculums.

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1t 'a time ta 'Zdax , , , Former student body president wants to be a student again By Claudia Hibbert-BeDan

"I think she cares and she's passionate about her edu- McConnell continued. "She's very outgoing, and she has cation and also th.e standards of education at just a way of talking to people and a real desire to get to Metropolitan State College of Denver," Hazan said. "I know people. On the plane coming home, I remember we er days usually start at 8 or 9 in the morning. think she had a great line of communication. She ran the were all split up, and I remember hearing her talk to Then it's time for class, a shift in the Tivoli meetings every well and made sure that every viewpoint somebody she didn't know, and I just remember observClub Hub or a meeting with campus adminis- in regard to particular issues was addressed." ing her style and realizing that was the same style she trators or with students. uses with everyone." If anything, the members were Most nights she stays up until at least I o'clock, and frustrated with students not attending A self-described dreamer and optimist, Karmin's career goal is to be a sometimes she's missed class because she didn't feel meetings and panel discussions to right about walking out of meetings. address campus issues, he said. high school English teacher in the "I guess there inner city. A career in politics is Now Kannin Trujillo warfts to just be a student. Even so, Karrnin said she felt April 23 marked the end of Karmin's term as presi- privileged to work with the group. nowhere on her agenda. comes a time In " I have no desire to be a politident of Metro's Student Government Assembly. It wasn't "When I think of each individual cian," she said. "I totally loved what I an easy decision, she said. Many expected her to run for and what they accomplished, I can't complain at all," Karmin said. "Even was doing because I could help other a second term. students. And I had the power to do it "All these people were saying, 'You've got to run the ones who resigned, there's no again,' she said. "And I just felt kind of pressured more way that I could ever criticize the because I had some cheesy title behind than anything. I mean my heart's totally there. And it's work that (they) did. No way my name. And I think that's a bunch of really hard when you fight so hard and work so hard to let because they were incredible and had crap. I think it's crap when faculty will go of it. a lot to offer." try to blow you off, and then you' re "But I guess there comes a time in everyone's life Jan McConnell, a Metro anthrolike, 'I'm student body president,' and when they have to choose a direction. And I need to do pology professor and adviser for their whole attitude changes. what's best for me now." - Karmin Trujillo, "I want to be a teacher because Helping Hands, a community service you see a lot of teachers that are in the Karmin, 21, always knew that she would attend col- club, feels the same way about former SGA president lege. Her father, Bill, has stressed the importance of edu- Karmin, who is also a member of the school system today that are doing it just because it's a job. And that's not a cation all her life. She found out in her junior year at club. McConnell spent spring break Green Mountain High School in Lakewood that she'd with the club members in Costa Rica. good reason for being in the teaching profession. You're in the teaching prowon a full-ride scholarship to Metro from Teachers for They were working on a trail-rebuildColorado, a program to swell the ranks of Colorado edu- ing project on a mountain 7,500 feet tall. It required a lot• fession because you want to teach and because you want cators. to help students." of hard work, but Karrnin took it all in stride. Karmin 's mother, Rose, died of colon cancer when "ff you can imagine at 7,500 feet, it's much more difSo Karmin wants to take more time for snowboardKarrnin was 4 years old. Now Karmin must visit the doc- ficult climbing up the mountain slopes and they had to ing and hanging out with her dad and friends. Karrnin and tor every two years for check-ups. The last one was this carry all the tools with them," McConnell said. "They her dad went camping and hiking in Moab, Utah, last semester. carried heavy mauls and saws and machetes and that sort summer. He just finished climbing all 54 or Colorado's "I have a couple of memories of her," she said of her of thing in order to not only get the equipment to rebuild 14,000-footers, and now he's been taking her on the trails mother. "But the most vivid memories that stand out are the steps but in order to even do .the work. They couldn 't he's already mastered. "There's ·so much to appreciate in life," she says. her funeral. I remember the limo ride and my brother and have done it without them." I were arguing about the front seat. "She was the morale-booster for the group," "Although there's a lot of stuff that happens, it's not worth being so worried about it that you're "I can remember the casket in the back of the church not appreciating everything else because it was an open casket. I can remember being at the cemetery before they lowered (the casket) into the now. Maybe that's just it. I just ground. I remember my dad walking up to it and crying. love life, and I love people. And I love hiking, you "I knew that she'd died and that everything was I:. ._,._ i~\ know, stupid stuff." over. But my dad said about a week later I was ~ \ '.\ • · asking when Mom was coming home." ~~'1 • .o_\,. ·~~ · Doctors removed a cyst from her dad's ~ ~. t · stomach April 21, a day after he helped A f Karmin get a new battery for her car. She { il'.' was worried, but she· tried not to let it get '~~ to her. 'There's not so much I can do," she explained. "L mean it's scary and it does trigger a lot of emotion because of my mom. But I mean it's something that's inevitable. "If he's going to die, he's going to die. And I know that sounds horrible because you know I love him to death. I just kept it in my. prayers and hoped that everything turned ouJ fine and took it one step at a time." Robert Hazan, a Metro political science professor and faculty adviser for the student government, said Karrnin was an exceptional leader. She seldom missed meetings, organized discussions about leadership and always let people have their say. 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April 24, 1998

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By Ricardo Baca Tire Me11vpo/11a11

he Denver Center Theatre Company is pretty excited. DCTC Artistic Director Donavan Marley, who chooses the plays that make up each season, has released the 411 for next year, the company's 20th season -and it should be a good one. Keeping with a little bit of classic literature, the company will be performing more modern works next season -including a couple recent Best Play Tony winners, a work by a renowned comedian-turned-playwright and a much celebrated world premier written and directed inside the company. The piece that's most exciting is Master Class, Terrence McNally's meditational tribute to the life of Maria Callas and the nature of her art: singing. As I 996's Best Play, Master Class ventures the joyous, and sometimes painful, continuum of the arti s tic process. Classic McNally writing includes great music, glamorous idealisms and a larger-than-life, cynical central character that is downright funny. This piece will play toward the end of the season, Mar. 18 -April 17, 1999. Winning the Tony for Best Play a year later in 1997 was Alfred Uhry's The Last Night in Ballyhoo, and that will be directed by Anthony Powell from Oct. 21 - Nov. 28 in the Ricketson . Ballyhoo visits an Atlanta Jewish family dealing with complex prejudice as the U.S. enters World War II. The social event of the Jewish holiday season acts as a haunting backdrop for the show, seeing two cousins as they search for romance through different conventions. At the same time in The Stag(( Theatre, Denver audiences will get their first dose of comedian/actor Steve Martin's playwriting capabilities. His Picasso at the Lapin Agile, a comedic hypothetical meeting of Picasso and Einstein in a Parisian bistro, each on the verge of their respective breakthrough achievements, will play from Oct. 15 - Nov. 14. This somewhat hard-to-follow script will, most likely, take on a new, more audience-friendly form on stage. The two characters go to battle over sex, art and science on the brink of a new age, and hopefully director Randal Myler will present it in wellstaged format. Closing out the season will be the world premier of DCTC member Nagle Jackson's The Election of Thieves (May 6 - June 5). This new play took 3rd in the Onassis Foundation's international competition for new plays, which attracted more than 24,000 applicants. It explores religious, social and conflicts facing the world on the eve of the new millennium. Other notable shows include Dream 011 Monkey Mountain (Jan. 14 - Feb. 20), which will be a collaboration between the DCTC and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Jan. 27 - Mar. 6) which is still playing off-Broadway; and the Shakespeare standard: The Tempest (Mar. 11 - April 17), to be directed by Anthony Powell. The low point of the season, as always, will be when director Laird Williamson rehashes the overly produced A Christmas Carol (Nov. 27 - Dec. 26). The press release calls this story "timeless," but this show has worn out its welcome and a yearly visit isn't necessary. I'd rather see a good stage production of Charlie Browns Christmas. Who would they get to play Lucy?

By Ricardo Baca 171e Me1ivpolt1a11

clcome to Problem Solving I 0 I. Our first problem: you want to go to the theater, but it's too expensive and you don't have very much money. First of all , realize that it costs money to s tage a production, to rent the venue and to occasionally pay the actors. So, naturally the tickets are going to run between $15 and $70. But I just happen to have the skinny on affordble, professional theater in Denver. Seven graduating master 's students across the street at the Natio nal Theatre Conservatory are performing Fifth of July and Good Woman of Setzuan in repertory - and for $12, you' ll get your money's worth. In Lanford Wilson's emotional comedy Fifth of July, idiosyncricies take center stage as eight friends revisit their flowery hopes and peaceful dreams of the '60s when they regroup on a secluded Missouri ranch. The first act is a classic example of captivating exposition as adequate - but still limited- information is given about the characters and their juxtaposing relationships. This sets up a surprising, emotional second act that stomps on your heart with golf cleats and then reassuringly pats you on the butt with an expected ending. On the other hand, Bertholt Brecht's Good Womam of Setzuan has everything but an expected ending. Brecht's farcical humor shines through golden, once again prcving itself timeless and universal. This story involves three quirky gods in search of goodness. When they find it in a penniless harlot, they temporarily give her all of her desires: money, love and friendship. The catch with this play is the choose-your-ownadventure-style ending. Director Jennifer McCray Rincon staged this play with oddball flair an_d a twist of unexpected uncannyness on the rocks and in your face. The acting in both shows was excellent, although, at times it turned a little academically stiff. Presenting strong performances across the board, Patrick Goss captured the essence of the multiple characters in Setzuan and was convincingly crippled and mentally injured in July. His talent and personable versatility make him a much valued asset to any production Julliet Smith is alko good in her eccentric roles, but it would have been better to have seen her dramatic side, also. Her Gwen in July showed emotion in the second act but that just left the audience yearning for more drama from her unfortunate casting. The rest of the cast give strong performances and have few problems, but Rachel Kae Taylor seems to slack at times. As the good woman of Setzuan, her line delivery paled to her cohorts. And granted it's a difficult char,acter, her June in July lacked depth and energy. Nonetheless, kudos to the conservstory's graduating class. Hopefully a few will stick around to benefit Denver's thriving theater community.

April 24, 1998

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Mob tale proof of industrys ability to create with little corporate involvement By Mike Duffy ._The Towerliglrt

(U-WIRE) TOWSON, Md. - "If we ever wanted another take, we'd just ask him," Jeremy Sisto says of first time film director Peter O'Fallon, whose Suicide Kings opened on April 17. The film is a dark, emotional, and, at times, _wickedly funny character study of five young men played by Sisto, Henry Thomas, Jay Mohr, Johnny Galecki, and Sean Patrick Flanery) who kidnap mob boss Carlo Bartolucci (Christopher Walken). Filmed in just under a month for about $5 .million, Suicide Kings (which also features Denis ~eary and Laura San Giacomo) is proof that entertaining and thought-provoking films can be made with little studio interference. Adapted from Don Stanford's short story Kings, the film tells the tale of Max (Flanery), ~hose girlfriend is kidnapped. Hoping Barlolucci can use his connections to help him find his girlfriend, Max persuades his friends to help him kidnap the aging mob boss. In a phone interview, Jeremy Sisto (star of Clueless and White Squall) spoke to me about Suicide Kings and his other work from New York, - >where, he tells me, he is under a blanket, half hung over after a late night out and a long morning of interviews. "We went . . . somewhere," he strains as he laughs and tries lo reply to my question about J. CREW CATALOGUE: Jeremy Sisto (T.K.) is flanked by the rest of the cast of Suicide Kings, including Jay Mohr (Brett what he did last night. I figµre that I'll do better Campbell), Henry Thomas (Avery Chasten), Johnny Galecki (Ira Reder) and Sean Patrick Flanery (Max Minot). jl.Jst asking him about the movie. Sisto has many films in the pipeline, including Robert "It's interesting to watch," Sisto says of Kings. His char- Skittles ("fun fruit flavor") on Saturday Night Live, had an Towne's Without Limits, in which he will play Olympic athacter, T.K., stands out because he is one of the only characters unfair advantage. Would Jeremy Sisto ever consider behaving like the char- lete Frank Shorter next to Billy Crudup's Steve Prefontaine. who isn't physically harmed at the end of the film. T.K. is a young man who's under the delusion that he can be a doctor acters in Suicide Kings? "Hell, no," he replies quickly, assur- "It was really tiring," Sisto says of Without Limits, "but it just because his father is a doctor, and who needs drugs to ing me that last night's adventure didn't blur his judgment too taught me how lo run." Also ahead for Sisto is Bongwater, which he describes as telp him satisfy this fantasy. However, his and all the other much. His first big break was Grand Canyon, in which he a "warped comic book." In this film, he's one half of a gay characters' fantasies of control are destroyed midway through appeared when he was 16. He found the experience memo- couple alongside Newsradio's Andy Dick. "Andy is so the film with a surprising betrayal by one of their own. fuckin' funny" Sisto says. Describing T.K., Sisto says, "in some ways, he feels the rable- he "got laid for the first time." In addition, Sisto will play an "elusive charmer" opposite betrayal more deeply than anyone else." He's worked with everyone from director Ridley Scott Getting the film together was a bit tough, but once (on White Squall) to Jon Bon Jovi (Moonlight & Valentino). Juliette Lewis in Men. "I break her heart," he explains. "It's Walken was on board, cast members were fighting for parts. ls Bon Jovi the consummate rock star off-camera? "He took kind of an extreme role." For now, though, Jeremy Sisto is very pleased with They were all doing .Walken impressions by the end,. but Jay me to a (Rolling) Stones concert," Sisto recounts. "He's actuSuicide Kings. "I want people to see this movie," he says. Mohr (Brett), having previously parodied Walken selling ally a really nice guy, even though he's walking cheese."

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Maybe it's not the worst thing the college could have :flldropolftan done, but that doesn't make Editorial it right. Students won't be getNews: Metro won't mail grade ting a grade report in the mail anymore. Metro wants reports to students to save money. It costs about $7,500 to mail the grade anymore. reports. Views: The The college would college is rather spend $2,400 to send inconveniencing postcards alerting students students to save to the new policy, then force money. students to chase down their grades. Granted, students can find out what their grades are. The phone system, the college's Web site and "Ask Rowdy" kiosks will all have grade information. But why downgrade service to paying cus-

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Eight years and ready to bag· it Dear Satan, Perhaps you can help me. Some people describe college graduation as a time of uncertainty, bittersweet reflection and perhaps remorse. I don't.. I am filled with utterly gleeful anticipation of my gradJesse Stephenson uation this spring. The Scoop Not just because I've spent the last seven years as a Metro student. And definitely not because I embrace some half-baked notion that possessing a bachelor of arts degree in journalism will lend me an air of professionalism or even financial solvency. I breathlessly await graduation for but one reason: Soon I will end my eight-year stint as a grocery store clerk. You see Satan, I'm not just going to burn this bridge, I'm going to vaporize it. In the interest of fairness, I'll note that the hours I've logged in the express lane have financed my education and enabled me to purchase a set of used but functional living-room furniture. And I will forever cherish the friendships I've built with many of my fellow grocery-store worker drones and some of my customers as well (you probably won't be seeing any of them for the rest of eternity). However, the moment I'm offered another job, I'm going to set fire to my big red-and-blue acrylic apron and savagely hack my Safeway-logo necktie to shreds. After that, I shall stomp to bits my name badge that proclaims, "Serving You Since 1990." Why? Because of the approximately 784,965 customers I've "served," more than a bagful deserve to be relegated to your sav-o-mart in hell when they die. They have insulted me. Enraged me. Made me want to wipe snot on their broccoli florets. And the worst part of it is that many of my dear checker friends will undoubtedly have to put up with these shopping sinners for years to come. Worse still, millions of poor souls relegated to grocery store work will have to endure the, pardon me, hell of customer service. So Satan, seeing as how you're in charge of eternal afterlife tortures, etc., I politely request that you

consider the following tortures I've recommended for the shopping sinners who make the clerks of the world a miserable lot. Here goes: Shopper sin No. 1: launching complaints in form of hypothetical questions. Sin Scenario: Checker: Hello ma'am, what type of bags would you like today? Ma'am: Why is it you people never carry Brand X frozen pot roast? Why is lettuce so expensive this week? Why do your shopping carts have crud underneath the baby seat? Recommended Punishment: After they arrive in hell, how about asking these depraved souls endless questions, such as how many ounces of water were in the Bering Sea in 1924. For every wrong answer, fire a battery of molten Ding Dongs at the sinner. Shopper sin No. 2: checkstand elitism. Sin scenario: Customer in back of line to checker: Excuse me, I'm in a hurry. Why can't someone open up another line? I haven't got all day, you know. Recommended Punishment: How about relegating these sinners to the back of a 67 million-mile express lane in hell's sav-o-mart. While they are waiting, continuously pipe in a couple selections from the Chipmunks Christmas Celebration album at 70 million decibels. Shopper sin No. 3: Common courtesy sabotage. Sin Scenario: Checker: How are you today, sir? Customer: (No reply) Checker: Would you prefer paper or plastic today? Customer: (gruffly) Plastic. Checker: OK then (finishes bagging items). Thank you. Customer: (No reply) Checker: Have a nice day. Recommended punishment: Why don't you design a torture chamber where demons who resemble Ann Landers and Judith Martin hold down the sinner while a spike-heeled, enraged "Abby" marches up and down their naked backs. Thanks for your consideration Satan, See you again soon in the express line. Jesse Stephenson is a Metro student and the news edi-

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Metro music students, faculty deserve finer facilities for studies . It never fails, whatever practice room I'm in, I can hear what everyone else is studying. I cock my ear to one side and the pianist in the next room is studying Chopin. Listening to the room on my other side and there is a clarinetist butchering Handel. The room across from mine Dave Romberg has a trumpet player warming up. Jive With all the racket, my practice time quickly evolves into a study of selective hearing . . That's not the way it should be. But that's the way it is. Every music room on this campus is an illustration of how not to build a music school. It could have cost Metro music its accreditation, according to Ron Miles, Metro music professor. "When (the National Association of Schools of Music) inspected the facility 25 years ago, its inadequacy was an issue," Miles said. That's not the way it has to be. Auraria is about to break ground on what has been called the new "Performing Arts" building. This is where the music school could go. This is where the visual arts department could go. Then, those departments that don 't need anything other than four walls, some desks and a blackboard (like English or history) could easily take over the space music holds and make it usable. This is the scenario that makes the most sense. Which is why, on this campus, it probably won't happen. Instead, the Performing Arts Building is being billed as a place to showcase. The $2. I million complex will boast a 550-seat concert hall and a 350-seat theater. According to the designer, Peter Lucking, it will be a standard-setting facility. So when we play in public, it will be that much easier to hear how badly we sound. That may be overkill, but the point is there: No matter how splendid your performance space is, if your learning space is inadequate, your sound will only reflect that. The reason I originally came to Metro was to have the opportunity to study under accomplished musicians in a relaxed, yet highly educational atmosphere. I wasn't let down. The music faculty here are the best I've seen. That's including the University Of Northern Colorado, whose music school was rated fourth in the nation by the NASM while I was in attendance. But the facility is at the bottom of the barrel. There is no performance space, true. But that doesn't begin to cover the Jack of decent practice space or teaching studios. There aren't even enough offices to go around to the professors - office space that could be used as teaching space. I'll put up Metro's music professors against any. They are accomplishing a very difficult feat: turning out quality musicians who bolster the school's reputation from a facility built almost to do the opposite. But it's time Metro and Auraria realizes that not every student who attends class here wants to go into business. There are plenty of arts students who can' t afford the big-name art or music schools. Students with just as much talent as anyone at the Chicago Institute of Art or Juliard. Why shouldn't these students get the same quality education as those in more ethereal pursuits of study? ,

Dave Flomberg is a Metro student and a columnist/copy editor for The Metropolitan.

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Fifty cents hardly constitutes rape

Claudia Hlbbert-&!Dan

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Have you ever lost 50 cents? How about $2.50 or $10? It's only a big deal if that's all you have and you don't have any friends who will help you out. But my C?lleague, Dave Flomberg, a copy editor/columnist for The Metropolitan, said it was a really big deal in a column April 17. It's the equivalent of rape in his opi nion.

Frankly, I don't see the connection. Auraria administrators will raise parking rates an extra 50 cents by the summer semester to pay off debts for Auraria's parking garage. But Flomberg doesn 't think students should pay for parking because they're already slammed with a slew of olher fees. The increase could cost students, faculty and staff an extra $2.50 per week or $I 0 per month if they continue to drive and park their cars in certain lots on campus. "First they rape us, Lhen Lhey tell us to like it," his column begins. Last year, students vying for positions on the Student Government Assembly used Lhe same tactic. The Student Involvement Party got slammed for posting campaign fliers with

eye-catching phrases, such as "We Get Raped Every Semester.:· It turns out they were talking about high prices in the campus bookstore. Rape is much uglier than this. And Flomberg and members of Lhe Student Involvement Party, although the group quickly apologized, trivialized that. · "Believe me, having a car stolen, or your house broken into, or being mugged or being dumped - while all of these are all terribly painful and humiliating, angering experiences - feels nothing like being raped," writes one woman on a Web page she designed to deal wilh her roller coaster of emotions. All these things can be replaced, she says. Replacing one's sense of security, however, is a more daunting task. "I can never get back the January night when he held his knife to my throat and said, 'Don't scream,'" the woman continues. "I can't seal the seams of my scars and make them never have happened, make him never have cut me, make me never have cul myself, trying to get him out." Rape is a life-threatening act of violence. Paying higher fees for parking is not. It's a mild inconvenience most everyone on campus will put up with and it won't really affect them one way or the other. The same thing can't be said about rape. Claudia Hibbert-BeDan is a UCD student and a columnist/copy editor for The Metropolila11

Letters 'Quite {sic) spending so much time on sports' Editor, My name is Calherine Campbell and I ran as an independent candidate for the V.P. of Communications in the recent Metro Student Government election. I would like to Lhank everybody that voted for me, your support was greately (sic) appreaciated (sic). I would also like to address Lhe issue of the papers (sic) complete lack of support for independent candidates running for office. The idea that independents were unclear about issues was bolh inacurrate (sic) and uncalled for and it was expressed during election week thus giving no time for independent candidates to refute. I personally have had input into the creation of a handbook for disabled students and I was instrumental in causing The Metropolitan to be printed in an alternate fonnat, Lhus making it avaiable (sic) to all students. Further, I recently took part in con-

ducting an Emergency Procedures lour of campus with Lieutenant Jefferies of the Denver Fire Department. These are significant issues that affect many students and it is a pity that the paper has been more occupied with sports this last year than infonning Lhe students about these and other important issues, most of which the paper has been made aware of. Perhaps if the paper would report on issues of interest to the students and quite (sic) spending so much time on sports and personal rhetoric, the students would be better informed and thus be able to get involved in the activities and issues Lhat take place on campus. As it is, the only use I have found for the paper in the last year has been as a liner in my bird's cage.

Catherine M. Campbell Metro student

Recycling program needs your help at Auraria Editor, I am an environmental psychology student who is volunteering with the recycling program at Auraria. The recycling program is having a problem that needs attention. Auraria doesn't have color paper recycling, but people mistakenly put colored paper in Lhe bins. This defeats the whole purpose of recycling because Lhe colored paper wastes Lhe whole bin and makes the bin ineligible for recycling. Olher items that contaminate the paper bin are sticky notes, envelopes, trash and refill paper covers. People might wonder why we don't have color paper recy-

cling at Auraria. In order to get color recycling, the program needs lo make money. At Lhe present time, it is breaking even. If recycling participation increases and less contamination occurs, maybe enough money will be made to afford colored recycling. If students are interested in helping the recycling program, contact Jessica Walsh at 556-6468. Thanks for your interest.

Candi Trujillo Metro student

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Metro earns appearance Baseball team pitches way past USC and into Top 25 By Nick Garner The Metropolita11

The four-game series with the University of Southern Colorado on April 19-20 was not just another series the Metro baseball team won - the outcome made history for the entire program. By taking three of four games from USC, the Roadrunners clinched their first postseason berth since the team joined the Colorado Athletic Conference in 1991 . It has since become a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. In addition to the post season berth, the Roadrunners jumped into the Collegiate Baseball Division II Poll at No. 23 as of April 19. It is the first time the Roadrunners have been in the rankings under coach Vince Porreco. "It's been exciting all year,"

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third baseman Thomas Schilling and Maxwell got into a lteated verbal exchange. "He Alomar-ed me," Maxwell said, meaning Schilling had spit in his face as Baltimore Orioles' second baseman Roberto Alomar did to an umpire near the end of the 1996 season. Metro's starting pitcher T.J. McAvoy walked past Schilling and pushed him. McAvoy and Schilling got into a shouting match, which resulted in both benches clearing onto the field. After the teams went back to their dugouts, the home plate umpire ejected McAvoy and Schilling. The USC third baseman had hit two home runs earlier in the day in Game 1 of the doubleheader. Schilling leads Division II baseball with 22 home runs. Porreco ~ent to his bullpen and brought Ryan in to finish the game. Ryan went six innings, "He giving up four hits, Alomar-ed two runs and striking out six me." Thunderwolves to earn his first win of help from USC. The Thunderwolves the season. "This was the meet first place Fort Hays State, in longest outing for me a four game series April 25-26 at this season," Ryan sai'd. USC. For the Roadrunners to win the " I went four innings regular season title USC needs to at against Northern ColQrado least split with Hays, and Metro must win and did well." three of four against New Mexico-Highlands While Ryan was shutting the in a series sched uled for the same days in Las door on USC, Maxwell was crushing Vegas, N.M. That would give Metro the No. I seed any hope for the Thunderwolves lo win the in the conference tournament May l in Colorado Springs game . and its first regular season RMAC title. In the bottom of the first trailing 1-0, senior right "It proves a point," junior pitcher Bill Ryan said. fielder Josh Castro singled and center fie lder Jim Johnson "Metro is not noted for its baseball program . "Some of the teams in the RMAC think that our pro- walked. On a 2-1 count, Maxwell crushed his third home gram sucks. We want to prove to these guys that we are for run of the year, giving the Roadrunners a 3-1 lead. 'The pitch was belt high," Maxwell said. "I just real and we can compete with the best teams around." Excluding the last game of the series, the jumped on it." Clinging to a one run lead in the bottom of the third Roadrunners' pitching and defense kept the Roadrunners in all of three victories while the hitters mostly struggled. (3-2), Johnson bunted his way on. On the next pitch, "Our bats can b~ explosive, but we have not peaked Maxwell smacked his second round tripper of the game to yet," Porreco said. "I'm still waiting until we swing to our give Metro a 5-2 lead. USC scored another run in the seventh to make the final 5-3. potential." In Game I of the doubleheader, junior pitcher Ariel In Game 2 of the doubleheader on April 19, the Garibay went six innings, allowing three runs on five hits Roadrunners got pitching from an unexpected source. After the third out in the top of the first inning, USC in a 4-3 eight-inning victory. Porreco said. "But we cannot relax on the last games of the season." Relaxing is what the Roadrunners did in Game 2 of a doubleheader on April 20. USC pitcher Darren Avila nohit the Roadrunners, striking out 13 and walking six in the Thunderwolves' lone win of the series. "The guy had a decent fastball and a good curve," senior catcher Pat Maxwell said. "I give the guy credit. It was not meant to be for us in that game." With the loss, the Roadrunners still have a chance of winning the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season title, but they will need some

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Coaching baseball at Metro was more than just a job for Metro's current Athletic Director William Helman. "I would go out on the field and just look around," Helman ~aid. "I would think to myself, 'I can't b• :eve that they are paying me to do this when I would do it for free .'" Helman along with six other former Metro athletes and coaches will be inducted June 6 in the Roadrunner Hall of Fame. Both the time and place will be announced at a later date. Helman, who coached baseball at Metro for 14 years, posted a 338-293-2 record. One of his teams posted a school best 34-15 record in 1987. His teams were nationally ranked twice (13th in 1989 and 3rd in 1990). In four of his last six seasons coaching, the Roadrunners boasted 30 wins or better. Helman coached the NCAA Division II batting champ, Torin Berge (.487) in 1987. More than 50 players were named to All-American, AllRegional or All-League teams in his tenure, and seven players advanced to the professional level. "When I finished coaching, I never thought I'd be in the Hall of Fame," Helman said. "I am honored to join the others." Joining Helman from baseball lore

will be Doug Montgomery the current Sports Information Director at Regis University. Montgomery, a player from 1983-1987, finished with the second highest all-time home run total (32), fifth in RBI with 132 and third in total bases with 297. He was an All-Colorado Athletic Baseball Association Conference selection his junior and senior year. Rusty · Beefus, another of Helman 's former players, completes this year 's baseball class. Beefus played at Metro from 1989-1992. He was a pre-season AllAmerican selection in 1990. Beefus is first in numerous categories on the all-time list. He is first in games played with 205, hits with 247, runs scored with 184, RBI with 203, home runs with 45 and in total bases with 444. · Metro 's second winningest men's basketball coach Bob Hull will be inducted as well. Hull, who saw two of his squads go to the NCAA Division II North Central Regional Tournament in the 1989 and 1990 seasons, set the school record for most wins in a season with 28. The 1989 team won the school 's first ever conference title. Hull coached four AllAmericans and was named Basketball Times National Coach of the Year in 1990. Verna Julaton, a former volleyball and women's basketball player, was voted into the hall. She played two seasons with both teams, ranks fifth all-time in assists for the volleyball team with 2,703 and

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A tombstone for tennis?

;; Kyle Ringo

The time has come to bag the tennis programs at Metro. I say replace these teams with with softball and men's golf. It isn't anything personal. I like tennis. The problem is

nobody else does. Here is the typical response given by just about everyone in the athletic department to any question involving either of Metro's tennis teams. "I don't know." The athletic department recently called another school to inquire about the schedule of a tennis tournament only to find out that Metro was hosting the tournament. One . athlete on the women's team played through five matches before anyone discovered she was not academically eligible. The school reported the mistake to the NCAA, which has since decided that Metro's punishment will be to hold her out of the same number of matches once she becomes eligible. Four different coaches have come and gone in the last three years. Nobody in the athletic department knew when the first tennis match of the season would be played until the day it · happened.

After toiling away for a full season last year, the athletes watched as the conference championship tournament was cancelled due to bad weather. That is how much people care about tennis around here. It's a joke. And it's a shame. Metro should help these athletes find other programs to transfer to, or let them oontinue to attend classes here for the life of their scholarships. But Metro should get rid of tennis. To qualify to participate in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, each school must participate in at least I 0 sports - five men's and five women's. So the teams would have to be replaced should they be canned. Metro once fielded a softball team. I don't see why it doesn't do it again. At least people would come and watch. Men's golf is another story. No one would care. But having one team no one cares about is better than two. Money is always an issue. But I guarantee softball has a better chance of making money lo help support itself than tennis does. I'd like to see tennis succeed al Metro. But it will never be more than an inconvenience to the athletic department. Hell, if Metro had a golf team, at least everyone in the department would be where they really want to be on the days that team played.

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