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Former Metro professor slain Boulder police arrest 21-year-old in connection with fatal beating By Lisa Opsahl-Lang The Metropolitan

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A former Metro criminal justice professor, Harold "Jack" Eisenhuth, 59, was found bludgeoned to death in his Eldora home Saturday, Jan. 9. Boulder sheriff's deputies arrested Matthew Garcia, 21, of Denver, al a nearby home that same day. Garcia told authorities he hit Eisenhuth six times with a hammer because he thought Eisenhuth was going to sexually assault him, said Sgt. Rich Schwalm, a Boulder county sheriff. Police found Eisenhuth lying naked in the hallway. Garcia told police he got the hammer out of a toolbox at Eisenhuth's home, Schwalm said. What appeared to be illegal drugs were found in Eisenhuth's home and with Garcia, Schwalm said. The

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substances are being tested. Eisenhuth was a tenured criminal justice professor at Metro and worked at the college from 1970-1997. College spokeswoman Carrie Schafer said Eisenhuth was on suspension when he left Metro. "He was placed on a one year suspension," she said, "but what the outcome of that was, I don't know. I do know he chose not to come back to Metro." Students complained to Metro President Sheila Kaplan that Eisenhuth failed to show up to teach his classes. The complaints lead lo an investigation and he was suspended. Eisenhuth left Metro in October, 1997. Criminal justice professor Walt Copley said Eiseohuth was having health problems, which lead lo his absences and subsequent suspension.

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Copley could not confirm when students complained to the president about Eisenhuth, but said he thought it was in the spring of 1996. Copley and Eisenhuth were hired together in 1970. Eisenhuth taught law-related courses. "He was a very intelligent and serious professor," Copley said. The two professors were friends, and Copley said he was saddened by the news of Eisenhuth's death, but wasn' t sure how to interpret the circumstances surrounding the murder. "I've been in many cases and wondered about the newspaper stories," he said. "I always question what I read in the paper." see PROFESSOR on 7

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Hearing set in student's death A preliminary hearing has been set for Paul Huston Tinsley III, 25, who is accused of raping and murdering 19-year-old Metro student Jennifer Foretich. Foretich was found stabbed to death in her mother's basement Nov. 20, 1998. Police found Tinsley at Lookout Jennifer Foretich Mountain with

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stab wounds to the chest on Nov. 21. He was taken to Saint Anthony's Hospital for treatment and later arrested. The stab wounds were first thought to be self-inflicted, but it was later determined that he received the wounds during a struggle, according to Douglas County public information officer Attila Denes. Tinsley was charged with two counts of first degree murder and two felony counts of sexual assault. The preliminary hearing will be at I :30 p.m. Feb. 3 in Douglas County District Court Division I. John Swift/The Metropoliton \.... -

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About 600 students participated in graduation ceremonies Dec. 20 at the Colorado Convention Center, according to Metro Associate Registrar Jeff Johnson. The college won't know the exact number who actually graduated until early February. That's because some students' graduation depends on submitting make-up course work, which is due by the end of this month, Johnson said. Metro eliminated summer commencement ceremonies in 1998. Students who completed degrees during the summer - about 350 were invited to participate in the spring or fall ceremonies. Ken Salazar, the newly elected Colorado attorney general, was the commencement speaker. He told graduates about his experie nce growing up as a Hispanic in rural Colorado. Metro has graduated more than 42,000 students since 1965, according to a letter from college President Sheila Kaplan in the commencement program.

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Diane Anderson walks up the newly completed grand staircase in the Tivoli Student Union Jan. 19. The stairs replaced frequently broken escalators in the building.

A report by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education lists Metro as the top public college in the state in terms of student satisfaction. Greg Appling, a policy research officer for the commission, said 99 percent of Metro graduates surveyed responded favorably when asked if Metro met their educational goals. Metro sent questionnaires to 1,766 people who graduated from the school during the 1996-97 academic year. Forty-six percent of the graduates responded. The lowest score of the 28 institutions surveyed was the University of Colorado Health Sciences center, which scored a 78 percent. "I think it surprised a lot of people," said Metro spokeswoman Carrie Schafer. "For so long, people have had different perceptions of Metro. Part of the reason our students responded that way, is they want to come here, get their degree and move on. We equip students with the skills graduates can use in the workplace." In addition to measuring student satisfaction, the report also surveyed eight factors, ranging from graduate employment rates to employer satisfaction. The report found 95.8 percent of graduates see REPORT on 9

Metro revamps tuition policy By Lisa Opsahl-Lang The Metropolitan Metro no longer drops students from classes when they fail to pay their tuition and fees. Instead, a 4 percent service charge is added to the student's bill, and they have several months to pay it. "Dropping students from their classes caused all kinds of problems for students and faculty," said Sharise Jones, the supervisor of s tudent accounts. Jones said when students were dropped, they were forced to haggle with professors to keep them in a c lass. Professors had to deal with frequently changing rosters and students disappearing and reappearing during the first two weeks of the semester.

"I felt bad for the students," Jones said. To keep students from losing their classes, she proposed the new billing system three months ago. "The 4 percent service charge is a one time charge," Jones said. "A 1.5 percent charge is added after the seventh business day of the following month." The next 1.5 percent charge will be added Feb. 9. Accounts would not go to a co llection agency until 30 days after the fall semester begins in August. Tim Greene, vice president of human resources and finances, said there 's a definite payment deadline, but the new system allows students to plan their payments better.

Greene said the last two semesters were problematic. "The other methods weren't working," he said. "Students were being dropped from their classes, and we later found out that they were on financial aid, or that they had made other arrangements to pay." "We hope to create a positive re lationship between us and the students," he said . Greene said other Colorado schools have a nodrop system and Metro decided to adopt the policy, too. Jones said 1,700 students have not paid their bill , but many more have paid part of it. The staff of student accounts must call all I, 700 students and remind them to pay their bill, but Jones said the Jan. 21 payment deadline

went well. "This was the best payment deadline ever," she said. "There was a huge difference." Student reaction to the new system was mixed. "Personally, I liked the old deferred billing system," said Metro student Jeremy Potts. "I don't like the fact that I' LI get a bill every month." Justin Middleton, 20, said he likes the new system. "I remember one semester when all my friends got dropped from their classes, but for some reason I didn't," he said. Jones said the new system will streamline the billing department and reduce errors like the one Middleton recalled.

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The MSCD Counseling Cent.er is pleased to resume its symposia senes on mullicultur.il and d1versily issues for the Spring ) !)!)!) semester. The prognun 1s ent itled Getting to Know You· A Series of Symposia on Appredat ing lluman Differences, aml will c:ommenC'e on Monday, Febmary 8, 1999. This series presents challenging aml controversial topics relar.cd to lite acceptance, respect and apprecial io11 of human differenc·cs. The formal will involve bolh ronnal presenlalions :uul mter.ichve dis<.:u.s.sion.

EXPERIENCING PREJUDICE: A GUIDED IMAGERY Prejudice is a natural c:onseq11ence of growing up in our own personal <·ulture. As a result, we may convey prejudicial beliefs abouL olhcrs who arc different from us th..i l'an be harmful to both self and others. Ti tis experie11ttal workshop is designed to help partic1pa11ts explore prejudicial attitudes and behaviors; how their own actions and beliefs interfere with the acceptance of otl1ers; a11d encourage pcrso11al responsibility for their OYm prejudice.

When: Monday, February 8.1 :00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: nvoli 651 Facilitators: Peggy Bowman, M.S.W., L.C S.W. & Denise McGuire, Ph.D.

BIACK B\MIUF.S: STRENG1HS & STRUGGLES (A PANEL PRESENTATION) This panel presrntat1un will feature experie11ced professional African Americans who will share lheir perspectives on the realities of the Afrkan American fantily experienl·e. Media stereotypes will be c.:onfrontcd and audience panic1pants will have a chance to pose questions and share their own views.

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Wednesday, February 24.1.00 - 3:00 p.m. Tivoli 320C Gail Bruce-Sanford. Ph.D.

Titis workshop is designed to assist international students in their acljustment to a new culture. It will focus on the different values, beliefs, customs, expectations , and resources for dealing witlt cultural change.

Monday, March 1, 2:00- 3:30 p.m. Tivoli 651 Gail Bruce-Sanford, Ph.D.

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TI1is cross-cullural exercise will provide opportunity to experience what it is like to join a new culture. Titrough active role-playing, panicipants will actually "travel" to a new culture and U1en debrief 011 lite challenges of the experience.

When: Tuesday, March 2, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Tivoli 444 Facilitators: Gail Bruce-Sanford, Ph.D. & Bobbi Vollmer, Ph D.

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POWER AND TIIE CURRICULUM OF FAILURE:

SYSTEMIC OPPRF.SSION & ITS IMB\CT ON EQUITY This interactive symposium examines some of the more subLie aspects of "insLitutionalized oppression" and how this phenomenon selectively and differentially primes some for the "success, power and leadership track" while aiming to Jock others in the "failure, hopelessness/helples:mess trap". The participant can expect to be challenged to think critically and creatively about this controversial topic, to use feelings elicited by the discussion as a font for personal insight, as well as learning about specific concepts.

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COMING OUT WORKSHOP "Coming out." or revealing one's sexual orientation to others can be a difficult process that may involve 1111111 iple losses. These may include the loss of a job, fantily, friends. financial suppon, a home. etc. This experiential workshop is intended to assist individuals with lite sense of loss that often accompanies the

This interactive session deals with the special challenges presented by intercoltoral and interfaith relationships. Special consideration is given to the topics of creating an identity as a couple and/or as a family, and dealmg effel1jvely with negative judgements and stereotypes from family, fnends and "foes".

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Wednesday, March 3, 10:00 - 11 :00 a m Tivoli 651 Denise McGuire, Ph 0 & Suki Montgomery, MA

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This interactive discussion and exercise is designed to assist partcipants in becoming more aware of the privilege that Caucasian, Euro Americans are afforded, in contrast to others who are not members of this "in" group.

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Tuesday, April 20, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. nvoli 651 Lisa Jacobs, Psy. D.

Monday, March 30, 12:00 -1:30 p.m. Tivoli 651 Jose Rodriguez

INTERCULTURAL & INTERfi\IlH REIATIONSIIlPS: COMPLICATIONS, ISSUES & SOLUflONS

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"Getting to Know You: A Series of Symposia On Appreciating Human Differences"

LIVING IN A NEW CULTURE: CHALLENGE & CHANGE

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Wednesday, April 7, 11 :00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. nvoli 651 Cynthia Wang-Toxby, BA. & Suki Montgomery, M A.

These symposia ... tr.. and open to all in the Aurarfa and neighboring communities. Classes are welcomed. For additional Information, call Jo5' at (3031556-3132.

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Popular Tivoli worker fired By David Proviano The Metropolitan In response to his termination as Tivoli service and programs manager Dec. 11, Dennis Bryan has filed an appeal with Colorado's state personnel office. Bryan was in charge of reserving and booking nearly 9,000 events each year as well as supervising student employees at the Club Hub in the Tivoli. Bryan was terminated after Barbara Weiske, director of Tivoli Student Union and Campus Auxiliary Services, completed an investigation that followed his sec-

ond "needs improvement" performance evaluation Dec. 3. "I considered the available options of either demotion or termination," Weiske said in a five-page termination letter. Dennis Bryan "Within our department, we currently have vacancies in entry level pos1t1ons only, and it is in my reasoned opinion that these would not be appropriate positions for you to be demoted into."

Bryan is scheduled Lo appeal the action with the state personnel office at 1525 Sherman St., Feb. I. The hearing will include Bryan, John Mosby, his attorney, an official from Auraria, and personnel department representatives. Mosby said he expects the date to be rescheduled. "They only gave us one day," Mosby said. "We plan to bring witnesses. That will take longer than one day." Mosby said they would need at least four days. The termination has enraged some on campus. see BRYAN on 7

George Nelson from the Watch Care Academy in Denver recites Martin Luther King's, "I have a dream" speech dur路 ing the Martin Luther King Peace Breakfast Jan. 15.

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MLK breakfast honors four By David Proviano The Metropolitan Approximately 250 people met in the Tivoli Turnhalle for Metro's annual Peace Breakfast to celebrate the life and philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and to recognize those who strive to emulate him. "It wasn' t just a feel -good experience," said Zav Dadabhoy, director of Metro Student Activities. "People left with a message lo think about peace, not just today, but for the coming year." King was an influential civil rights leader who was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., April 4, 1968. Four peace awards were presented at the breakfast. Grizel Gonzalez, president of Metro's Women's Studies Honor Society, received one of the student awards for her promotion of academic excellence and service to the community through the organization. Gayle Johnson, coordinator for Metro's Campus Outreach and Opportunities for Learning program, received the second student award. "Gayle has indeed made an outstanding contribution towards making Dr. King's dream of peace and unity a reality," said Khushnur Dadabhoy, University of Colorado at Denver's student activities coordinator, in her recommendation Jetter. "She inspires diverse populations to get involved and make a differ-

ence in people's lives through positive social action." Percy Morehouse, director of Metro's Equal Opportunity Office and assistant to the college president, received the faculty award for his diligence in following fair practices in his job. Fannie Fiddmont, a retired Denver Public Schools teacher, received the community award for her involvement in the area of human rights and race relations. The highlight of event came when nine children from Watch Care Academy recited the names of all 42 U.S. presidents, the Declaration of Independence, the preamble of the U.S. Constitution, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and King's "I have a dream" speech. The crowd gave the children a standing ovation when George Nelson, one of the children, finished the display by stepping forward, raising his arms, and shouted the ending of King's "I have a dream" speech:, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God we are free at last!" The first Peace Breakfast award program began in 1992 to recognize extraordinary people who pursue King's dream . Since then 24 people have been recognized for their achievements. Nominations are made each year for students, professors or staff and community members. Dr. King's birthday is recognized nationally on the third Monday of January. It became a legal public holiday in 1986.

Lawmaker proposes money for grades By Perry Swanson The Metropolitan Efforts among Colorado high school students to finance a college education could get a boost soon, especially for those with excellent grades. Nearly half of Metro s tudents already rece1 ve some form of financial aid, including Bill Thiebaut loans. The "Academic Achievement Grant Program," proposed by Sen. Bill Thiebaut, D-Pueblo, would offer tuition credit toward an undergraduate degree for high school seniors starting in fall 1999. If Thiebaut's proposal becomes law, the program would be the 12th statefunded college financial assistance program in Colorado, and the third based on academic achievement. Thiebaut's bill, which awaits action in the Senate education committee, doesn't specify how many students would qualify for the grants or the dollar amount of the awards . It leaves those details up to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, which would administer the program. Thiebaut could not be reached for comment. The grant would continue throughout a student's time in college on the condition that the student maintains a high grade point average and reapplies for the grant each year. Only students who meet in-state residency requirements are eligible. Demand for the grants could be high, especially as Colorado's student population continues years of expansion. There are 170,000 students attending 28 public colleges and universities in Colorado, CCHE figures show. High school students in Colorado number 198,821, and attend 351 institutions, according to the state Department of Education. The statewide population of all public school students is expected to grow to 724,000 by 2008, up 28,000 from its current level.

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Playwright named distinguished professor By Imthiaz Hopkins The Metropo/i/on

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Tony-Award winning author, director and actor Ossie Davis will visit Metro as the 1999 Rachel B. Noel Distinguished Professor. The 81-year-old is the author of the Tony-Award winning play, Purlie Victorious. He has appeared in a number of Broadway plays such as A Raisin in the Sun, which will be performed in the spring at Metro. Davis also appeared in the movies The Client, Dr. Dolittle and Grumpy Old Men. He also had a regular role opposite Burl Reynolds in the TV series, Evening Shade. Davis will visit Metro Feb. 7- 9 and plans to speak at numerous events around

campus. He will start his visit by speaking 3 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Shorter Community African Methodist Episcopal Church, 3100 Richard Allen Court, said Carrie Schafer, interim director of communications. "Education extends beyond the classroom, and this is a great opportunity for all students," said African American studies professor CJ. White. Schafer said following his lecture, "Black Creativity and the Human Experience," there will be a reception. Davis will also sign copies of his two latest books Just Like Martin and With Ossie and Ruby: In this Life Together. On Feb. 8 from 9-9:50 a.m., Davis will speak again to the public at the Tivoli

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Student Union . Both lectures are free to the public, said Schafer. "Everyone should take advantage of this opportunity to hear the expeOssie Davis rience of a well respected actor," said Metro student Angie Sigg. "Students will be able to interact with Davis in classes," Schafer said. Davis will speak to three drama, theater and literature classes in Arts Building Room 271 on Feb. 9 at 9 a.m. A new course offered this spring, African American Theater, will be one of the classes to hear Davis

speak. Geron Coale, one of the professors teaching this course, said he isn't sure what Davis will talk about until he gets here. "I've never met Ossie Davis before, and I'm very excited," Coale said. "Part of the reason that we are teaching this course is because we knew he was coming, and this gives students a chance for students to meet a talented writer and actor." The Noel Professorship was created to foster multiculturalism, diversity and academic excellence at the college. "The college brings in scholars who reflect these qualities, and this will be a well-received event on campus," Schafer said.

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"D!nnis was by far the most approachKari Tutwiler, associate director of able on the campus," Dallman said. "You Student Activities, said she wrote a letter of don't get commendable evaluations for four protest to Dean Wolf, executive vice presi- years then suddenly your work is shit!" dent of Auraria. "Dennis was family," Dallman said, "(Bryan's) recent firing constitutes a "He cared about the students and staff on tremendous loss to campus. He was Auraria and something to be Auraria Contreasured. The camference Services," pus as a whole has 1 she wrote. "He Jost out." added a buoyancy Tutwiler said ... The campus the student resignacommunity is not tions came as no as strong. An surprise to her. incredible employ"Students hold ee and resource is Dennis in such high gone." regard, the respect Some students and warmth they - Kerrie Dallman, responded to feel for him was former student employee, Bryan's terminaeasily witnessed in tion with action. his interactions with Club Hub Kerrie Dallman student leaders and and Brooke student employees," Blanche), both stuTutwiler said. "His dent employees of the Club Hub, located on approach and consistency to their growth the second floor of the Tivoli, resigned their and development was very much admired positions when they heard. by our office."

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Jon Burdick walks Jan. 19 through the pedestrian walkway set up for the construction of the new performing arts building.

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Criminal justice chairman, Joe Sandoval, said he thought Eisenhuth 's death was tragic. "It's very tragic that this would happen to someone I knew. To have this happen, it's chilling," Sandoval said. "I hadn't had a great deal of contact with him in the last few years," he said, "but I like to remember him as a bright man, a popular instructor and a man who relished life." Eisenhuth was also a municipal court , .........

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Eisenhuth served on the pro-bono faculty of the National Judicial College of Reno, Nev., Copley said, and he gave a series of lectures in South America recently. "I know last summer he went to Mauldavia for a Bar Association project," Copley said. Eisenhuth was also a member of the Thursday Night Bar Association, a volunteer organization where lawyers provide free legal help. "What he leaves behind is an excellent legacy of scholarship," he said.

Eisenhuth was born in Cheyenne, Wyo., on Dec. 5, 1939. He was past president of the Colorado Municipal Judges Association.

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from Colorado public universities are working, pursuing a higher degree or choose not to work for reasons such as family obligations. It also noted in a survey of 359 employers across the state that hired graduates from Colorado institutions, 88.2 percent felt the graduates either met or exceeded their expectations. The report is the result of the Higher Education Quality Assurance Act. passed by the Colorado legislature in 1996. According to the act, the report will be conducted annually and follow-up reports must be submitted to the commission. The follow-up reports, which will outline plans for improvement. are due Jan. 30. "The idea there is so the process will not be a lifeless paper," Appling said. "The value of the system relies on looking at the data from year to year." "I think we came out well," said Frieda Holley, Metro's associate vice president of Academic Affairs. "We meet students' needs." Two areas Metro will be focusing on are counseling students and keeping students at Metro, Holley said. "We wanted to strengthen various aspects of advising," Holley said. "We

are programming the Banner System for instant advising, which would do away ! with graduation agreements." The . Banner System is software that allows l..________________111111!1!!11' students to register electronically and access academic information over the Internet. Holley said students will be able to review, through the Internet or one of the computerized campus Banner kiosks, which classes they would need to complete for their degree. "It will not I happen all at once," Holley said. "Each 1 (academic) program will have to be put , into the computer." She said the system · should be programmed by the spring of '. 2000. . "The college is putting more effort · to keep students here," Holley said. According to the commission's report, 30.6 percent of incoming freshmen at Metro have, within six years, either graduated, are still at Metro or have transferred to other schools. A report by the commission in October listed Metro as having the lowest graduation rate in the state. Holley said Metro administrators will use a $1.7-million grant the school received from the Department of Education in July to find ways of keeping students at Metro. They are also looking into ways to use scholarship dollars as incentive for students to stay in school.

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January 22, 1999

SGA more good than bad The last thing we want to do is oppose an initiative to force a little accountability on EDITORIAL Student Government Assembly NEWS: members. But President Andy Nicholas went too far late last Student semester by suggesting SGA Government funding be listed as a separate Assembly members student fee. rejected an idea that SGA officers spurned his could have made idea fearing students at some the group vulnerapoint, would become so outble to losing its raged as to try and eliminate the funding. group altogether. The group gets about VIEWS: $100,000 in student fees each Metro students academic year, a large portion of should have to pay that paying for officer stipends for some services, of $500 per month. including SGA, The problem, Nicholas whether they like it said, is that six SGA officers are or not. also members of the Student Affairs Board, a body that disburses money to all student fee-funded programs, including SGA. That means student government members are responsible for giving student money to both themselves and other organizations, such as Student Legal Services. In theory, Nicholas reasoned, SGA could give itself more money than it needs and leave other programs in the cold. Nicholas said his solution solves two problems. First, making student government funding separate from the Student Affairs Fee would eliminate the connict of interest. Second, students who sec exactly how much they arc paying SGA might demand action from the body. "There have been student governments that do noth-

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ing," he said. "Literally, that's their goal. To do nothing," he said. Nicholas is overstating his case. First, the SAB does not have final authority when it doles out $1.4 million in student fees. The board simply makes a recommendation, which has to go through other college officials including Metro President Sheila Kaplan. So it's unlikely SGA could sneak through an unfair increase in the funding without somebody pulling the brake. Second, despite laziness, inefficiency and internal bickering, is there a compelling reason to keep these people around even while most students neither know nor care that they exist? Yes. Student representation in the college decision-making process is so vital that tolerating shenanigans from student representatives is worth it. Administrators too often become engaged in the details of running a school and forget about students. SGA officers are a bridge between the minutia of everyday work and the realities of students' needs as customers. They are probably among the only students top Metro officials can call by name. The current SGA might be a poor excuse for a representative voice of the students, but it's the only one we've got. Aside from The Metropolitan, there are precious few venus for students to communicate directly with the college administrators who affect students' lives. College bureaucrats cannot be counted on to seek student opinion outside of a formal process, which SGA provides. That alone justifies spending a few hundred dollars a month on each student government member, even if most students don ' t realize the benefit.

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Clearing the air: 3-inch f ettishes evidence dim wit Smokers are airheads. I've spent the past 18 days struggling to breathe. I've had pneumonia. Want to know what it's like? I felt like I was drowning just lying on the couch. After three or four days of consistent coughing, the Kyle Ringo veins in my brain threatened explosion each time my lungs COMMIITING JOURNAJJSM lurched. The headache never went away because of the cough. I was hacking so hard I'd get dizzy, and this was while I was lying down. My lungs began to ache, which brings me back to smokers. I'm thinking pneumonia is a tame version of what it must be like for a person who is dying of lung cancer or emphysema, gasping, wheezing and fighting for each breath. The first time I went out after my bout I found myself sitting in a restaurant inhaling someone's poor self-esteem. Can somebody tell me why we have environmental restrictions on everything from jet planes to lawn equipment, but we still let people smoke in restaurants and bars in Colorado? In those 18 days, many of my family members and friends were puffing away on their 3-inch obsessions, convinced, somehow, it will never be them in the hospital bed gagging on their own phlegm. Yes, even I am related to the, well, intelligence-impaired. In recent years, our government has waged war on cigarette companies. I've been opposed. I've thought of it as just another liberal moneygrab, a way to fund programs falling out of favor. At the least, it has been an attack on a legal business and legal product by the government, and that scares me. Nobody is forcing these morons to buy cigarettes, smoke them or continue to do so for years on end. Why should a business be punished for being successful at selling its product? Truthfully now, all those that believe using tobacco involves no risk raise your hand. I know a 9-year-old I can send over to set you straight. I say punish the user. Let's make it painful or at least very inconvenient to be a smoker. Sometimes the government needs to lead when its citizens are too stupid to think for themselves. In California, it is illegal to smoke in restaurants, bars and practically any other public gathering place. I can go for that. I say we make it impossible for smokers to smoke just about anywhere but their own homes. I don't really care if you want to kill yourself, although I can think of quicker, easier ways than becoming a bag of pus. I just don't want your damn pollution ruining my first real meal in three weeks.

Kyle Ringo is a Metro student and a columnist for The Metropolitan. His e-mail address is ringok@mscd.edu.

January 22, 1999

STAFF Millenniunt approaches, hell .getting cooler EDITOR Perry Swanson

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"It's finally happened! The Cubs have won the Pennant! The Cubs win with World Series!" World Series play-by-play announcer; moments before the end of time.

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This being the first issue of the last year of the millennium for The Metropolitan, I thought it fitting to have my predictions for the rest of this year logged here. That way, when it all goes down as I say it will, opening my own psychic hotline will be much more lucrative. Is the end coming? Will there be a huge computer meltdown that causes planes to crash, cities to burn , or New Coke to return? Or is it all simply the hysteria of a few million really paranoid idiots? Regardless, I find it easy to predict the following timeline. Whether it's the end or not, one thing's certain - it's going to be a weird ride. January 31: Broncos win the Super Bowl over the Falcons 666-7. John Madden accidentally chokes to death on his little yellow piece of chalk while announcing Terrell Davis' 400th yard on the day. February 12: Janet Reno secures a date for Valentine's Day. February 13: Hallmark declares bankruptcy, Valentine's Day is canceled. February 14: Nothing happens at all. March 5: President Nixon rises from the

grave and claims to actually be Elvis. March 7: Elvis rises from the grave and gets really pissed off. March 14: In an unprecedented pay-perview extravaganza, Elvis and Nixon square off in a Don King-produced, "Penultimate Celebrity Resurrection Cage Match to The Death." Elvis wins by cannibalism in the eighth round. April 1: President Clinton, stiil enduring impeachment trial proceedings, tries to bolster public opinion by launching ICBMs at Canada. No one notices. April 2: "The 10 CommandmentsDirector's Cut" is played for the first time on network TV, featuring 13 minutes of neverbefore-seen footage of Yul Brenner and Charlton Heston arm wrestling over the plight of the chosen people. April 4: The Easter Bunny, sick of his wimpy image, hungrily devours 39 children during an Easter Egg hunt in Madison, Wis. He is rode down by an angry posse three days later in a Las Vegas brothel, where he was whooping it up with media bad boys Robert Downey, Jr. and Sean Penn. May 20: Suddenly, and with no warning, social security runs out. June 3: Pigs on a farm in Wichita, Kan., sprout wings and start flying. July 4: During a tragic fireworks accident, California sinks into the ocean. No one notices. October 12: The Lost City of Atlantis is actually revealed to be Hoboken, N.J. November 4: A massive run on the banks occurs as computer programmers worldwide announce that while the Y2K problem is

solved, a hacker in Delaware released a virus onto Wall Street, turning all information on the day's trading into muenster cheese. December 24: Air Force officials announce that earlier that day, a squadron of F-14s opened fire on a U.F.O. traveling over restricted air space in Washington DC. Listed casualties included a "jolly fat man in a red suit and eight tiny reindeer." December -25: Auraria Parking announces that all parking next semester will be free. December 26: President Clinton is found guilty of perjury and removed from office. Al Gore is sworn in and is immediately exposed in a sex scandal involving Madeline Albright, Hilary Clinton and Socks, the white house cat. December 27: The temperature in hell plummets to 31 degrees Fahrenheit. December 28: In a press conference, Saddam Hussein strips off a mask revealing he is actually Ed "Kooky" Burns. December 29: The new VW Beetles are all recalled because of a spontaneous combustion problem in the gas tank. December 30: Auraria Parking discover a huge budget surplus on parking and announces plans to refund the money to students after the first of the year. December 31: God shows up. The universe is blasted to oblivion the only survivors are Twinkies, four cockroaches and Keith Richards.

Dave Flomberg is a Metro student and columnist for The Metropolitan. His e-mail address is flomberg@mscd.edu.

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{ETTERS A solution to Metro's math profs Editor: The Metro math department - ya gotta love 'em. Just when I thought they had lost touch with reality, they showed a grasp for current affairs. Much has been said about Bill Clinton's questioning the meaning of the verb "is." How many meanings can a word have? A question on a quiz given in a calculus class which I took last fall asked, "Find exactly the maxima and minima ofY equals X cubed plus three X squared plus three X." I answered, "There are none," in the center of the answer space provided. The question was marked wrong, and when I brought this up in class when the papers were returned, I was told that in fact there weren't any. As far as I know, none means not any. A feature of our exams and quizzes were "short essays." These were to be written in a space which averaged less than three inches high. As a traditional student, I majored in history at the University of Rochester, where the department had a national reputation for excellence. In a Methods of Teaching class (education department), we were asked to write essays and graded on how many "points" we

made on the subject. The class, in unison, protested: "Give us essay questions that are essay questions, and grade the content as a whole." The request was granted. So I was disappointed when our math "essays" were graded on the number of "points" made. I think ii is accurate to say that at least half of the students originally registered dropped our class. My recommendation for improvement would be to send the calculus instructors to Dr. Derivative's Island for a refresher course. On the island, they could study curves by riding the roller coasters. Every day they would be set adrift in a row boat, on "limits cove," always approaching the beach but never reaching it. The island is cut in half by Zero Creek. On one side, the visitors wear shirts with a plus sign, and on the other, a minus sign. The instructors can relate to this by thinking of the campus, Cherry Creek, downtown. To graduate, the visitors must fill the "area" under a curving nine-foot-high wooden moulding with giant !egos. I know they can do that. But if not, there's always infinity trail.

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Starting with this edition, The Metropolitan is using a new company to print the paper. Back in August, The Metropolitan was the center of controversy when its printing company refused to include a picture of a nude woman in an art review article. Officials at Intermountain Color cited a company policy banning frontal nudity as their reason for censoring the photograph. Subsequently, the student newspaper at the University of Colorado at Denver, the Advocate, attempted to run the same . photo with Intennountain Color, and was similarly denied. Officials at The Metropolitan and the Advocate announced plans to their contracts with cancel Intermountain Color. The new printing company, Barnum Publishing, would not give blanket approval to print anything The Metropolitan submits, but officials there agreed to consult with student editors before refusing to print items they consider questionable.

- Perry Swanson

The Metropolitan

January 22, 1999

TI:IE METROPOIJITAN STATE COIJIJEGE t~f DEN.VER

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

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

APPROPRIATE USE To be appropriate, use of any computing facilities at MSCD must be clearly in support of institutional goals. These facilities are provided as "tools" for the college community to use in accomplishing their respective jobs. This is true of administrative information systems, academic computing resources,

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

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

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-Violating copyright protection and authorizations, license agreements and contracts. - Any commercial use for profit; - Use of an intercampus network such as Bitnet, Colorado Supernet or the Internet that violates their usage guidelines (see usage guidelines for these various networks). Many of these examples involve violations of law. For example, unauthorized access into someone's information stored on a computer system is a violation of that person's right to privacy and is a criminal act.

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January 22, 1999

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Artist rescues . mannequin and turns him into a work of art.

Photography by Jaime Jarrett

Above, Bob the mannequin is featured in most of Bonny Lhotka's work at the Emmanuel Gallery's heARTland exhibit running through Feb. 11. Right, Lhotka talks to visitors at the gallery's opening reception on the evening on Jan. 19. Behind the artist is one of her 22 digigraphs featuring her mannequin Bob. Below, Dorothy Simpson Krause's digigraph,Miss Mollie, features an actual journal entry of the 19th Century woman pictured.

ny found Bob in a Wal-Mart arehouse, and she knew it was mean o be. She had to have him. Bob was special. Bob was great. Bob was a mannequin. So when Bonny rescued Bob out of a mannequin graveyard last November, a relationship between artist and dummy began. Auraria Campus' Emmanuel Gallery offers a look into that relationship by featuring Bonny Lhotka's digigraphs and Bob himself in the heARTland exhibit from Jan . 19 to Feb. 11. Lhotka's digigraphs, created through digital technology, are a strong feature of the show that also includes artists Dorothy Simpson Krause and Karin Schminke. The mannequins's image permeates most -of Lhotka's work and creates a familiar theme that easily threads the presentation of more than 20 works together. Bob's silent presence dominates the upstairs area as a six-act play about Bob's existence is heard through a sound recording. "Each one of the six pieces surrounding Bob represent a single act so that a listener can also visually experience Bob's story," Lhotka said. Bob represents the unspoken-middle-aged white male in our society, and his silence is what drew Lhotka to him, she said. "This type of man has so much dedication to his family and in reaching the American dream that they achieve it all through the expense of themselves." Lhotka's work is colorful and has strong multi-level compositions. The piece Day Time Traveler features Bob in a dress and beige hat and uses typography In the foreground in horizontal swipes to challenge the venical positioning of Bob's blazing-red beads. Jungle-Jim, one of Lhotka's pieces that doesn't feature Bob, creates an eerieness by presenting innocent images, like a wide-eyed, fuzzy teddy bear and smiling dolls, locked into an entanglement of brownish twigs and branches. Lhotka said the technology for creating digital prints has improved over the past two years. "One and a half years ago we couldn' t have got our colors to last six months, but now, digiprints can last 150 years

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January 22, 1999

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By Emily Thompson Metro has launched computerized testing to reduce the grueling wait for test scores, said a Metro administrator. Rebecca Salinas, the director of Assessment and Student Testing/New Orientation, said students taking computerized tests will receive their scores weeks sooner than they would if they had taken the exam the old-fashioned way on paper. The tests available on the computers include the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The College Level Examination Program (CLEP) will be computerized in the near future, Salinas said. All the nonessay portions of the CLEP test will be computerized by the year 2000 Salinas said. The new testing sytem was launched Jan. 11 in the testing and assessment center and consists of only three computers due to lack of space. "It's the wave of the future," Salinas said. This new testing base shows that Metro is keeping up with technology, she said. Students might find that they can complete the tests faster than

before. As part of the new testing system, if a student answers a certain number of q~es足 tions correctly, the system will automatically skip them to the next level of questions. Terry Espinosa, assistant vice president of Student Services, said the computerized testing will have a positive impact on students, particularly junior and senior students who are taking the upper-level exams by the faster response of grades. The first tests using the new system were taken on Jan. 20 by six students from Auraria. "I liked the test a lot because it was easy to use," said Jeff Arnson, a University of Colorado at Denver graduate. Arnson took the Graduate Record Exam and said the computerized exam was better than the Graduate Management Admissions Test he took on paper. The process is very user friendly, and computer skills are not required to do the test, Arnson said. The prices to take the test on the computer are the same as if taken on paper, Salinas said. The funding for this project comes from the Assessment Center's budget generated from test fees. Educational Testing Service, a company that administers the test over the Internet to the school, pays the center $6. 75 per hour per test. Salinas said that with enough students testing the center could expand to accommodate more computers. "If it is very successful, we could lose our bathrooms to the expansion," Sali nas said. "That's both good and bad."

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Is there life after Later Life'? By Rico Baca

It's gotta be hard to mack after 35. My friends at work insist that your social life goes downhill at age 30, but the play Later Life (at the Aurora Fox through Feb. 6) scares me even more. The A.R Gurney comedy tells the sometimes horrifying story of people growing older. Austin (Joe Marshall) is 1 a stiff Bostonian stuck in his proper ways and proud of his lineage. He's a guest at a party and finds himself being set up by a friend. Thus enters Ruth (Annie Gavin), a floozy wandering woman with no roots to uplift. Her scattered appearance is the contrasting opposite of Austin, but the two immediately hit it off. It seems that the two have met before, only Austin doesn't remember when or where only that she is a familiar face. The two get to know each other, without the help of constant intenuptions by party guests, and nearly end up "a thing." Their story is a common talc of courting and honing in on one's prey, but it represents the perils of those years just after your mid-life. Both have been married, Austin once and Ruth four times. Austin is determined that something very terrible is going to happen to him, and the self-destructive Ruth keeps terrible people and things in her life. With that in mind, this show doesn' t play perfectly to the campus' demographic.

While it is enjoyable for people in their 20s, many of the situations and one-liners are beyond hilarious and true-to-life for the 40and-uppers. But the acting is enjoyable nonetheless. Marshall never flicks an eyelash to the wacked characters surrounding him and maintains the pretentious air about him with dignity. Gavin is consistent with her nervous character, always picking at a sleeve or staring off into space. D u t c h Shindler and Kathryn Peterson, a competent duo that balances out the show with some odd comedy, play all the characters that interrupt them. Shindler opens up the show as an existential smoker ("I smoked, therefore I was."), and reigns as a computer geek with woman problems ("Women like to be kept in their own personal subdirectory."). Peterson is adept at playing vastly different characters, from a beer-in-the-pocket lesbian to a socialite/party host. A scary moment comes at the end of the play when Austin concludes: "People don't change, not at our age. We are who we are, even more so." This isn't Gumey's best work, although an elder might argue differently, but his poignant take on such a depressing subject comes out successfully humorous and uplifting. Call the Fox at (303) 361-2910.

People don't change - not at our age. We are who we are, even more so.'

Courtesy of Eric Weber Dutch Shindler lectures to Joe Marshall, left, about smoking in Later Lile.

Rent' leaves town, rats still scampering

Theater in general took a few weeks off during the holiday season, but it was . still the season of love. Rent just left the Buell 2,838-seat Theatre on Jan. 17, Rico Baca and it left quite a Yo Yiggity Yo mark on the community. The hit musical filled more than 85 percent of the house throughout the six-week run, said executive director of Denver Center Attractions Randy Weeks. That mark isn't necessarily unattainable, but it is an accomplishment for such a show, he said. "It's a generational issue," said Weeks. "I would guess that the borderline (age) is probably 40. People older than that didn't relate to it." And Weeks heard it when a subscriber didn't connect with Rent. They called him and said they were either offended by the subject matter, the volume, the language, etc. More important than the people who

disliked Rent are the Rent rats. The fans of the musical who waited in line hours upon hours for front- and second-row tickets for $20. I was one of the crazed - a few times. The first time (during the first week of the run) I was ahead of my time and got there at 8 a.m. The tickets don't go on sale till 2 hours before the show, and since it was a weekday, I was waiting till 6 p.m. To make a long, long story short, we were the only people in line till 2 p.m. when people filed in like maggots on a shored carp. There were only 26 tickets available for each show, and since each person could buy two, you were most likely screwed if you were beyond the 13th person in line. We had 13 people in line that day by 3 p.m. The next time I camped out in the enormous valley called the galleria, we arrived at 6 a.m. - and we were fourth in

line. The line was full by 10 a.m. People were finding out, and I vowed to get there before 6 a.m. next time. There was a certain pride in being the first. You were the king, the Shah that ruled everyone else. The next time, I got there at 5:50 a.m., confident and happy that l would be seeing

Rent soon. Sadly, it was the closing weekend, and there were early morning rats scurrying along the pavement of Curtis Street. Since there are two shows on the weekend, people line up for both the matinee and the night show. When I walked up the galleria,

more than 30 people were chatting and keeping warm. Both shows were already sold out, and we were out of luck. I talked to the king at the front of the line, and he had been there since 10 p.m. the night before. I don't even have that dedication, as it was cold as hell that night. These rats know that you have to see the show within the first 15 rows to benefit from the intimacy and wonder. If you're beyond. that, you miss too much. The Buell proved to be too big of a venue for the show, but if you could sell 85 percent of the seats, wouldn't you put it there, too? Rent is bringing a new generation of people to the theater. There were 10-yearold rent rats singing "Seasons of Love" while eating their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in line. They are the future of theater, and hopefully they turn out to be more liberal and accepting than the high-brow snobby stiffs in the seats nowadays.

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'The show looks into the past through the artists' eyes and they relate on these prints where they come from and what they have perceived.'

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Men keep home streak alive Roadrunners haven't lost a home game all year, host two this weekend By Tom Viskocil The Metropolitan The Metro men's basketball team has seen the highs and the lows of a basketball season, and the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season is just halfway over. With wins over the University Southern Colorado and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Jan 8-9 at the Auraria Events Center, the Roadrunners were riding a nine-game winning streak. That was the high, as Metro hadn't lost a game since 1998 when they dropped their first conference loss at Fort Hays State Dec. 5. With the two wins Metro had a 13-2

record, 7-1 in conference play and looking like the defending conference champion that they were. The low came last weekend. After capturing its 10th straight conference win over New Mexico Highlands, Metro was upset at Adams State. The win over Southern Colorado was the highest scoring output by Metro this year. They won 103-101 as junior DeMarcos Anzures scored a career-high 36 points. Metro had a 10-point lead with seven minutes left in the game and saw it dwindle to one point with 10 seconds left in the game. The Thunderwolves had a chancce Lo win the game at the end but missed a three point shot at the buzzer.

As head coach Mike Dunlap expected, the Roadrunners came out flat the next evening as they hosted CU-Colorado Springs. "Give credit to Colorado Springs, they controled the tempo with their offense," Dunlap said. Lee Barlow scored a double-double with 17 points and 13 rebounds to lead Metro. John Bynum had 14 points and David Adler IO off the bench. "Our depth made the difference over the long haul," Dunlap said. The Roadrunners have won seven straight home games this season and has a current regular season home winning streak of21 games. Over Christmas break, Metro traveled to California where they won consecu-

tive games over San Francisco State, Patten and Holy Names College. A big part of those victories, according to Dunlap, was that Anzures, the Roadrunners leading scorer at l 7 .8 points a game, was nursing an injured wrist. That meant other players had to pick up the scoring. "It helped in that we were able to win those games and bring the realization that this team is deep in talent," Dunlap said. The Roadrunners have three other players who are averaging double figures for the season. Junior forward Lee Barlow is scoring just over 12 points a game and is leading the team in rebounding with 7.6 a game. Junior Richard Lugowski is averaging 12. 1 points a game, and junior John Bynum is coming off the bench and scoring 10.9 points a game. Metro will host Mesa State and Western State on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 22-23.

Anzures named Player of the Week By Tom Viskocil The Metropolitan

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Rashawn Fukher of Metro goes up strong and slams one home against the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in a home game Jan. 9. Metro won their seventh straight home game this season and their 21st home game in the past two years with the 74-50 victory over UCCS.

Junior point guard DeMarcos Anzures was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Week for his performance against Southern Colorado and the University of Co lorado at Colorado Springs, al the Auraria Events Center Jan. 8-9. Anzures scored a career high 36 points against Southern Colorado on 12-ofl 6 shooting from the field. He made all seven free throw attempts and handed out five assists to account for 46 points. Metro outscored Southern Colorado I03-10 I. The 36 points surpassed his previous high score of 34 points against the University of Denver last season. This is the second time this season Anzures has earned player of the week honors and the third time in his career at Metro. Anzures also broke the school record for three-point shooting against Panhandle State on Nov. 30. Anzures has 145 three point field goals and is nearing the school record for steals. Adrian Hutt ( 1989-91 )

holds the current record with 197. Anzures has 174 and is also the fifth leading scorer in Roadrunner history. He is third in all-time steals, assists, fourth in games started and is only a junior. Metro ranks first in the RMAC in steals, three-point field goal percentage and scoring margin; second in scoring, field goal percentage, assists and turnover margin. Anzures leads the conference in scoring, Forward Kane Oakley is first in blocked shots and guard Shane Ah Mau is second in threepoint field goal percentage. Oakley set a school record against Holy Names College of California on Jan. 2 with seven blocks, breaking the old record of six. He has a chance to break the single season record of 56 set by Shun Tillman in 1988. The 6-foot-8 forward has 39 blocks for the season. He ranks seventh all-time for the Roadrunners in blocked shots. The RMAC has four teams ranked in the Lop I0 of the North Central Regional rankings. Metro leads the way with a No. 3 ranking followed "' by Southern Colorado (No. 4), Nebraska-Kearney (No. 5) and CU-Colorado Springs (No. 7).

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McDermott named athletic ·director By Tom Viskocil The Metropolitan Joan McDermott was feeling both excited and nervous. The former Metro volleyball coach was waiting patiently as Metro administrators mulled over who to appoint as its new athletic director. On Dec. 21, 1998, McDermott said she felt elated as she was offered the job as the new Metro athletic director, and she is looking forward to the challenge. McDermott had been the interim athletic director since Nov. I, when Bill Helman retired as the Metro A.O. It was a six-week period that made McDermott realize that the job was more work than expected. But she knew inside it was the job for her. "I felt through the whole process that I was the best one for the job," she said. "I just didn't know if the people making the decision knew it." McDcrmoll felt she was a good interim athletic director for the department but didn't think it had any effect on the people making the final decision . "I looked for someone who was a successful coach in a very competitive program," Vice President of Administration and Finance Joe Arccsc said. "I also wanted someone with high integrity and experience as an athletic director. I feel we have one of the top intercollegiate athletic

programs in the country, and in order to get to the highest level, we need the best athletic director. Joan fits all of the things we were looking for and I know she'll do an outstanding job." The other finalists for the job were Mason Barfield, athletic director at Clayton College and State University in Morrow, Ga.; and Joseph Donahue, athletic director at California State University at Stanislaus. When McDermott was offered the job, she accepted it without hesi.tation. "I felt like I did when I got my first head coaching job," she said. "I felt like it was a big challenge but I was ready for it. My experience, education and knowledge of this place, it all came together at the right time." McDermott, who has been Metro's senior women's administrator for the past three years, was the Metro women 's head volleyball coach when she was offered the A.O. job and knew, after doing the job for a couple months, she would have to give up her coaching job. "Before I became interim A.D., I thought I could do both," she said. "But in the six weeks I was interim, I realized trying to do both was too much. It hit me, the best thing to do was give up coaching." Though the timing wasn't the best as the national signing day for volleyball

players is Feb. 3, McDermott says the recruiting for next year's Metro team hasn't been hurt. Metro hopes to sign at least four players in February. The search for a new volleyball coach is already in progress. Feb. I is the deadline for applications, and McDermott feels

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After being named Athletic Director for Metro in December, Joan McDermott has decided to step down as head coach of volleyball.

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Metro having a happy new year Women's basketball team riding a six-game winning streak in 1999 •

By Nick Gamer The Metropolitan The Metro women's basketball team has found that things can be changed with the start of a new year. Before the start of the break, the Roadrunners were 6-5, sitting in the middle of the pack in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference at 3-3. Since the start of the new year, the Roadrunners are on a six-game winning streak, (12-5, 7-3) and are looking like the team of old, the team that won the RMAC championship last year. A tournament in Miami before the start of 1999 marked the start of the new year for the Metro basketball team. With senior center Timmi-Jo Miller being named the tournament's most valuable player and junior guard Gabi Sandoval named to the first team all-tournament, the Roadrunners won the Barry Holiday Classic by beating Wingate University 75-72 and then host Barry University 75-68 in the championship game. Both games were not as easy as they seemed for Metro. Wingate came into the tournament with a 10-0 record and Barry at 9-1 when the Roadrunners played them. Metro forced 27 turnovers and shot 42 percent from the field in the opening round win over Wingate. Miller led the way with 20 points and eight rebounds while Sandoval came off the bench with 16 points. The big number was from the free throw line, where Metro went 18-for2 l while Wingate missed nine from the line (18-for-27). Moving into the championship game, the Roadrunners opened a 14-point halftime lead (45-31), but Barry was not going to die easily, as the Bucs outscored the Roadrunners 37-'30 in the second half. However, it was not enough as Metro prevailed for the seven-point victory. Point guard Stephanie Allen had 16 points, including two three pointers. The two treys broke the school record for most three-pointers in a career.

"The whole trip itself was a success," head coach Mike Power said. "When you're on a road trip for five days and every moment you're together as a team, you bond together as a team. That's the way we've played on the court ever since." Metro started the second half of the RMAC schedule with a 68-67 squeaker over Adams State on Jan. 16. The Roadrunners were led by Miller's 21 points and three rebounds, and senior center Shiloh Tiritas recorded her second double-double of the year, scoring 11 points and pulling down 10 boards. Metro trailed by three points at the half (38-35), but con-

nected on l 4-of-31 from the field to take the lead for good in the second half. The night before, Metro was in Las Vegas, N.M., to take on New Mexico Highlands University in another RMAC showdown. The Roadrunners , again, trailed at the half by three points. For the second night in a row, Miller sparked Metro to the victory with 21 points and seven rebounds. Tiritas turned in her second double-double in as many nights, scoring IO points and grabbing 13 rebounds. Junior Stephanie Allen scored 15 points, including three bombs from behind the arc.

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Metro guard Stephanie Allen fires off a no-look pass against the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs on Jan. 9. Metro easily won the game, 93-59, and hasn't lost a game in 1999.

One of the reasons Metro has turned the season around is that the entire team is finally playing together, according to Power. Injuries have healed, and now Power can count on every member of the team to contribute. "Now we don 't have to have someone step up every game, we have really nice balance," Power said. "If one person is not shooting well, we can look for another. We'll be successful if we're not complacent and selfish." Metro had a brief, two-game homestand before heading out to New Mexico with Southern Colorado and Universitry of Colorado atColorado Springs on Jan. 8-9. For the first time since destroying Fort Hays State (71-53), the Roadrunners had no problems putting both tea·ns away early. "We've become kind of like a chameleon changing our colors," Power said. "We can now change and adapt to the teams we play against." With CU-Colorado Springs coming off their first win in conference play the night before against Colorado School of Mines, they looked to try and make Metro their second victim. It was not going to happen, as the Roadrunners carried a 21 -point half time lead into the locker room and never looked back as they cruised to a 93-59 win. Junior forward Sarah Coleman came off the bench to score 18 points. In the match-up with Southern Colorado, Metro had a 22-point half time lead that they did not let go of, as Metro won 72-54. Coleman led the way, scoring 17 points off the bench. Senior center Shiloh Tiritas recorded her first doubledouble of the season ( 15 points, 14 rebounds). The big story for the game was Miller playing against her former teammates after leaving Southern Colorado a year ago. She scored I 0 points and had four rebounds. Metro will host Mesa State and Western State this weekend, Jan 22-23, at the Auraria Events Center.

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Metro State Rugby Football Club .JAurarta's competitive Club Sport - Open o Met

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N~w & Experienced Players Welcome f!f (303) 556-3210 (Practices Tuesday & Thursday 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM next'to the Tivoli)

Opposition Preseason Club Meeting Touch@Noon Training - Tues & Thur Touch@Noon Touch@Noon Skills Day & Scrimmage Alumni Match 12"' Mile Hi Toumamen 12"' Mile Hi Toumamen Coro. State A & B ·Western State A & B

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GENERAL

TUES. JANUARY

Women's Basketball vs. Mesa State5pm, PE Events Center. For more information, call (303)556-8426. Men's Basketball vs. mesa State - 7pm, PE Events Center. For more information, call (303)556-3309.

SAT. JANUARY

Outdoor Adventure: Avalanche Clinic $40 fee includes class, field trip and transportation. For more informatio n, call (303)556-8363.

Truth Bible Study - Join the Trulh Bible Study every Wednesday and Thursday from 3:00-5:00p.m. in Tivoli #542. Come and go as needed. For more information, call the Menorah Ministries at (303)3552009.

Women's Basketball vs. Western State 5pm, PE Events Center. For more information, call (303)556-8426.

Nooners: Travel Planning - Plan your next trip with help from an experienced travel agent, from 12:30- 1:30pm in the Tivoli #329. For more information, call (303)556-2595.

MON. JANUARY

Towering Issues : The State of the Presidency, with Norman Proviser, Ph.D., professor of Political Science, will be held al 1pm in Tivoli #640. For more information, call (303)556-2595.

Teleconference: Racial Legacies and Learning will be held in the Library #008 from 11 am- I pm. For more information, call (303)556-2939. Nooners: Working Abroad - Find out how to travel and earn money from 121pm in Tivoli #329. For more information, call (303)556-2595.

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THURS. JANUARY

Rap Session: Is Profiling Racist? - This event will be held in Tivoli #320 A&B at 2pm. For more information, call (303)556-2595.

CAMPUS RECREATION AT AURARIA

MW TR F

8-8:50a, 6-7:50p 11a -2p, 6-7:50p 8-8:50a, 12-1 :50p 9a-12:50p

East Court(Rm. MW TR

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Morning Workout (Aux Gym) TR 7-7:50a Tiff - Step, Kick & Tone

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8-10:50a, 12-1 :50p, 6-7:50p 9:30-10:50a, 12:30-1 :50p, 6-7:50p 8-10:50a, 12-1 :50p 9a-12:50p

West Court (Rm.

104WJ

8-8:50a, 10-12:45p, 2-7:50p 8-10:50a, 12:30-1 :50p, 3:30-7:50p 8-9:50a, 12-12:50p, 2-5:50p 9a-12:50p

Auxiliary Gym(Rm. MW TR

Aerobics Sessions Step/Aerobics/Water

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Lunch Hour Workouts (104 & 110) MW 12-1 p Laura & Romana - Aerobics MWF 12-1 p Jenny/Kat/Jenny - Step TR 12:30-1 :30p Suz - Pump'N'Tone TR 12:30-1 :30p Chris - Step/Kick/Tone Evening Workouts (110 & 215) MW 5:30-6:30p Sara - Step & Aerobics TR 5:30-6:30p Jody - Cardio BlastfTone Water Aerobics (Pool} MWF 12-12:45p Diana/Ellen TR 12:30-1:15p Kathryn MW 5:30-6:1 Sp Joyce

Pool (Rm.

110)

7-7:50a, 9-10:50a, 3:30-5:15p 7-7:50a, 2-5:15p 7-7:50a, 2-5:50a 9a-12:50p

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Sexual Harassment and Job Discrimination Workshop - Learn what to do at work and through the legal system if you have experienced sexual harassment or other types of discrimination on the job. Attend this free, confidential workshop facilitated by a professional trainer and an attorney. T he event is from 6-8pm at 1245 East Colfax Avenue. Parking available, building is accessible, child care and translation provided upon request. For more information, call 9to5, National Association of Working Women at (303)866-0925 or (800)522-0925.

Front Desk - Rm. 108 Dance/Rae. Cts. Resv. Aerobics Physically Challenged Outdoor Adventure lntramurals Sport Clubs

Center Court(Rm.

102)

7-8:50a, 12-1 :50p, 5:30-7:50p 7-8:50a, 12:30-1 :50p, 5:30-7:50p 7-8:50a, 12-1 :50p 10a-12:50p, 12-12:50p Family Swim

Towering Issues: Multicultural Democracy: Beyond Race, Gender and Class Oppression - Dr. Manning Marable from Columbia University will lecture in the Tivoli Turnhalle at I pm. For more information, call (303)556-2595.

MON. FEBRUARY

The Mayer Collection of 20th Century Works and Colorprint USA - A panel discussion abo ut building a collection

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MON. FEBRUARY

Outdoor Adventure: Beginning Ski I Snowboard - This session will be held at Copper Mountain and cost $IO. For more information, call (303)556-8363.

Black History Month begins.

Men's Basketball vs. Western State 7pm, PE Events Center. For more informatio n, call (303)556-3309.

The Mayer Collection of 20th Century Works and Colorprint USA - Through February 9, 1999. Hours arc Tuesday Friday. 10am-5pm, and Saturday, l lam4pm al the MSCD Center for the Visual Arts, I 734 Wazee Street. For more information , call (303)294-5207.

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with Frederick and Jan Mayer will be held at 6pm in the MSCD Center for the Visual Arts, 1734 Wazee Street. For more information, call (303)294-5207.

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MSCD Student Government Meeting Get involved with student government every Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Senate Chambers, Tivoli #329. For more information, call (303)556-3312.

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FRI. JANUARY

12 Step Meetings on Campus - AA Meetings will be held on Tuesdays, 12:301:30 pm in the Auraria Library, Rm 205. The only requirement for membership is a desire Lo stop drinking. For more information, contact Billi al the Student Health Center, (303)556-2525.

556-3210 556-3210 556-3633 556-4618 556-8363 556-3647 556-3647

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Weight Room(Rm. MW TR F

212)

7-7:50a, 12-1 :50p, 6-7:50p 7-7:50a, 12:30-1:50p, 6-7:50p 7-7:50a, 12-1 :50p 9a-12:50p

Racq uetba I I/Squash Courts(Rm. 111) MW TR F

7-9:50a, 11a-12:50p, 3:30-7:50p 7a-7:50p 7-9:50a, 11 a-12:50p, 3:30-5:50p 9a-12:50p

Dance StudiO(Rm. 215) M-R

7-11:50a, 2-5:15p 7-7:50a, 11a-1:50p 7-11 :50a, 2-5:50p

Fields & Tennis Courts Check with the desk at CRA, PER 108 about availability.

Open M-R 6:30a-8:00p, F 6:30a-6:00p, S 9:00a-1 :OOp. Hours subject to change due to Special Events.

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HELP WANTED WANTED - COLLEGE STUDENT to work evenings 4-5 days per week. Easy going environment, generating leads for Local Mortgage Company. Close to Auraria campus. Call James at (303)813-9099. 1/29

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Spanish and French, all levels German. L~---E 11 years of experience, 2 B.A. 's. On Auraria Campus Mon.-Thurs. by • Career Opportunities appointment. Reasonable rates. Leonore Call Ryan 303-573-0610 Dvorkin (303)985-2327. 1/22 ~====:=====;;;;;;;;miiiiiii~ ~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;!I

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Teacher and medical professional seek to adopt caucasian newborn. We' re young, childless and alumni of Metro. Please call Kathy and Steve at (303)522-3752. 2/5

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Work For The Protect Our Wilderness • FT/PT $450-$250/Week • Gain Campaign Skills

FOREIGN LANGUAGE TUTOR Tutoring elementary I intermediate

paid $$$ For the pounds/inches you will lose next 30 Days. All Natural. Call (303)763-5427. 1/29

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Work Sid Staff in Colom.do OTll!I' New Year&, Spring Break in Mexico, Summer on a Caribbean Cruse. INTERVIEWING IN DENVER IAN. 25th For mor information call coll &ce 1-800-574-7577 ext 133 or fax your tt.111me ro 1-602-2714553

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Women Helping Women Egg Donors Needed ... For infertile women. If you are age 21 to 34, healthy, and a non-smoker you could have the satisfaction of helping someone in a very special way.

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Contact the Center for Reproductive Medicine

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(303) 788-8300

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Compensation of $3000 For First Donation Compensation of $3500 For Repeat Donation

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THE METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE of DENVER

STUDENTS to AWARD: ACHIEVING AGAINST THE ODDS The "Student to Watch" award is for current students of the Metropolitan State College of Denver from diverse cultural & economic backgrounds who have overcome barriers & are moving towards self-sufficiency, empowerment, & participation in their communities. Recipients will be honored at an awards ceremony in March 1999.

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The "Student's to Watch" award is sponsored by: Institute for Women's Studies &Services, Career Services, GLBT Student Services, Student Life, Institutional Advancement Student Publications, &Auraria Book C....