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YOUR Student Advisory Co11ittee to the Auraria Board wants you to know WHY it's important to become informed

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The Student Facilities Bond Fee helps us bring to you those services which students alone have decided they want.

Tivoli Student Union, Child Care, Copy Centers, Lounges, and a 1/3rd increase in size to the Events Center, are only a few of the services and facilities provided to date.

These Student Auxiliary Services do not receive State or institutional funding, and must rely on students in order to continue to provide all the services we've grown accustomed to afAuraria.

The Student Facilities Bond Fee increase will pay for emergency restoration to the Tivoli Student Union, as well as contribute to the operating revenue loss due to the departure of AMC theaters.

AMC's departure decision was made because of declining sales, and the theater industry trend to create large multiplex theaters with free parking.

It's important to note that if AMC had stayed at the Tivoli, the revenue would be insufficient to meet the restoration needs of the Tivoli and the Student Facilities Bond Fee would still need to be increased.

All we ask is that ·you please take the time to become informed in order to exercise your YES vote with confidenc1

Without the Student Facilities Bond Fee increase, services to our fellow students will need to be cut~rvices like Child Care, Slgl's Pool Hall, Club Hub, campus Lounges,

and areas of the Tivoli Student Union will need to be CLOSED for safety reasons.

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---MetrOnews 路 Sotig, dance and chants fill celebration of women

By Valerie Singleton 7be Metropolitan

Students, faculty and staff of the Auraria Campus joined in chants, song and dance March 30 at the Tivoli to honor the spirit of the goddess.

Both the Metro Institute for Women's Studies and Services and Iota Iota Iota sponsored the festivities. The celebration began ac 9:30 a.m. and ended ac approximately 3 p.m. Tara Tull, the associate director of the institute, said the celebration was held in response to the Auraria communities request for more spirituality programming for women.

Tull said she has worked for the institute for nine and a half years. In the 14 years that the institute has existed, "we haven't had this specified type of event before," Tull said.

Laura Hay, the librarian at the institute, served as the events coordinator.

'The goal (of the celebration) was to create an awareness of diversity in women's spirituality," Valerie Langston, an attendant, said. "If we can create some diversity, we can help to establish tolerance."

Vendors from Denver area stores sold spiritual products before the festivities began. Products inducted spiritual books, jewelry, clothing and videos. Psychics, palm readers and tarot card readers from the Denver area were also on hand for anendants.

Metro students and guest speakers provided four different one-hour presentations.

Linda Cecile and Brooke Blanchette, both Metro Women's Studies majors, initiated the festivities with "A Celebration of Womensspirit." During this ceremony, anendants participated in chants, a spiral

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dance, spiritual song and the invocation of "the goddess." The goddess, Cecile ~d, is spiritual energy within us all.

Blanchene said the greatest benefit of the festivities was the connection and the feeling ofcommunity. She said the event was "energy-raising, deansing and invigorating."

Guest speaker and owner of Isis Bookstore Karen Charboneau-Harrison Wormed the attendees of the TripleGoddess. The Triple Goddess, she said, consists of the maiden, who is young, strong and free, the mother, who is the nurturer, and the crone, who is old and wise.

'Tm a crone, but I incorporate a lot of the innocence of the maiden," said attendee Elizabeth LaBrash. LaBrash attended all four of the day's presentations.

Langston said she was glad that both educational and experimental pieces were presented.

Metro studen~ Haley Jones, attended a presentation by Donna Denomme, a Reiki Master, spiritual counselor, motivational speaker and workshop facilitator. Denomme led a workshop in which she called forthancestral spirits.

"I could definitely feel the energy,"Jones said, "It was really relaxing."

LaBrash said she has been leading solstices and equinoxes for several years with friends. She said she found all the presentations to be informative, but Denomme's ancestral calling was the best in in particular: The celebration closed with a panel of female guest speakers discussing their personal battles toward achieving diverse forms of spirituality.

The celebration was one of the many events on campus that sought to honor Women's History Month, Tull said.

Corrections In the March

31 issue of 7be Metropolitan

the story, "Most Metro students fail math classes" the statistics were incorrect. Sixty percent of students who take College Algebra and have taken the Community College of Denver's remedial math class, Intermediate Algebra, fail.

Les.5 than 30 percent of students taking a math class at Metro fail, according to math professor Connie Novicoff. Statistics in the story applied only to College Algebra students who cook Intermediate Algebra at CCD. Students who take Mathematical Modes of Thought, Math 108, do not need to take a placement test if they passed Beginning Algebra with a Cor higher.

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During a picture perfect day, Arthur Law works on a beginning drawing assignment on Auraria's Ninth Street Park on April 5.

Poetry .reveals professor's life

By Naoni McDonald The Metropolilan

After years of writing, English profes.sor Sandra Maresh Doe has been published. lies and Promises is a slender little hotpink collection of 11 of Doe's poems, which she says are descriptions of domestic life. They are poems about divorce and God; single mothers and daughters sorely missed.

Is she ever bothered about strangers knowing the details of her private life? Her answer is no.

"I grew up with the era of confessional poets; Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell."

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poetry is hard," she said.

When asked how she felt about writing, Doe replied with a laugh, "I love it. I hate it."

Doe was born in Colorado and went to South High School in Denver. She earned her undewaduate degree from the Doane College in Crete, Neb., and her master's degree from the University of Denver.

Doe began teaching part time at Metro in

1965.

Doe used to teach poetry, but now she teaches fiction. She said there were three introductory English classes: fiction, drama and poetry. The poetry class she taught "wasn't well-enrolled" and was cut.

'There's a perception out there that

William Hamilton, 40-year English profes.sor and chairman of Metro's English Department, said he sees it that way, too.

"I once read a definition that a good teacher is someone who cares passionately about something difficult. Teaching modern poetry is diffteul~ but teachers like me and [Doe] think it's worth getting through the difficulty." Hamilton called Doe a "very accomplished poet. .. demanding ... I've seen her teach, and I think she does a good job."

Doe has been teaching at Metro for 35 years. When she found out that she had breast

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Telling life's details not a problem English professor not bothered by reveling life tragedies • DOE, from p. 3 cancer in 1975, she took an extended leave from her job. She moved to Berkeley, Calif., where she continued her chemotherapy treatments.

"My hair was falling out," she said. "I fit right in with those Berzerkleyites."

She said she went to California to research a great uncle who was an art professor at the University of California at Berlreley. She had originally planned to stay for a year, but when she realized she needed more time to romplete the task, she took a job at San Francisco State.

She said she took the sabbatical from Metro because she thought the cancer might take her from this world, and she wanted to

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leave a written record behind her. were both "in.5pirational and entertaining."

"I guess lies and Promises is it," she said. She was born before the time ci radio and 1V In lies and Promises, she speaks often of the second child of a Presbyterian minister and his pious wife. Moore never knew her her daughters. Her youngest, Amy, 30, is a father, because he was sent to an insane cultural coordinator for Parker. Andrea, 31, asylum when she was a young child She who lives with sandra, is a customer Service didn't know hi.5 family representative for the either, because her Regis Business Center. mother made a break ''They're terribly from them when her attached to me," she tenibly father was sent away. said. "Because I alrnu5t attached to "I guess because died on them." they had such grief, When asked to they were a very dosename her favorite poet, -Sandra Maresh Doe, knit family," Doe said. she paused in silence Metro English professor So close, in fact, that for an amount of time Moore used to take that would be mother with her uncomfortable to hold L __ _ _ _ _ _ __..;;._ ____. her when she traveled to your breath for. ''That's a hard one," she said. After give her talks.

Despite the onset of radio and television, another pause, she answered that she's into the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Marianne Moore now, and has been for a holds the same kind of inspirational, while.

According to Doe, Moore was a modernist entertaining performances today as Moore did so long ago. They call them "Chataqua." who traveled to small towns, giving talks that Scholars stand on a stage and give in-character speeches that are both historically educational and, as Doe said, "we hope, entertaining." Doe gives 40-minute talks in the persona of Moore as part of the Chataqua series. She has been playing the part of Moore since 19')4.

Doe said that the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities considers Chataqua's beginnings to have been in 1874, as "Sunday school training assemblies." By 1810, she said, it began a "country-wide education program of orators, actors and politicians who performed undet circus tents."

Doe did not mention that she received the 1998-99 Distinguished Service award from Metro. lies and Promises is her first published book, though not her first published piece of writing. She said she began writing poems in junior high - her very first speculated on the disappearance of an ancient group of people from Mesa Verde. She said she wrote for the school's literary magazine at Nonh, and edited Doane's college literary magazine as well.

When Doe first came to Metro, she was the editor of the New Campus Review.

"It really was a new campus back then," she said.

The Review was run by students and teachers together, and she said that she gave up some of her weekends to help out the student prcxlucers. After a while, though, "the tides turned, and the students and faculty weren't egalitarian" anymore. She said she was no longer welcome on the paper's staff.

In addition to everything else, Doe said that she keeps herself busy by writing poems about nature and open places in the Santa Fe Trail Associations newsletter, ~gon '/racks. archaeologist, demonstrates

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Kieth Abemath~ a Denver area ancient tooling t~hniques to Jon Kent's Physical Anthropology and Pre-history class March 29. Abernathy is a seH taught maker of stone tools.

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·Tivoli worker arrested Police arrested a campus employee for failing to appear in court on a state warrant March 23.

Reports show the employee works as a custodian in the Tivoli. The employee was working at 6 p.m. in the building when police arrested her. She was served a warrant for failing to appear in court on a traffic violation. She was ·arrested and turned over to Denver Police.

Campus police arrested two people for driving under the influence during the second weekend of spring break.

Two arrested for DUI On March 24, police pulled over a woman turning left from Ninth Street onto westbound Colfax Avenue after she swerved and narrowly missed the median, reports show. Police arrested her at 2:30 a.m. and took her to the Denver County jail.

The next night a man leaving downtown caught the attention of campus police after he sped through the intersection of Speer Boulevard and Auraria Parkway. Police pulled the man over at 10 p.m. and gave him a roadside sobriety test.

After determining that he was intoxicated he was arrested and taken to Denver County jail.

Bus stop smoker busted Police arrested a man at the bus stop on the East Side of the Tivoli after he was caught smoking marijuana March 27.

Reports show the man was waiting at the bus stop at 9 p.m. when a campus police officer suspected him of smoking marijuana. The man received a ticket for possession of marijuana under one ounce and ordered to appear in coun.

Cell phone missing An employee of a construction company

doing work on the Kenneth Kendall King Performing Arts Center reported to police the theft of her cell phone to the police March 28.

The employee said she left her phone on a desk in the field work office. The office was left open during the day and the public had acces.s.

The employee said her Nokia phone was worth S250.

Student's car scratched A Metro student reponed a hit and run collision after she discovered that her car was scraped March 29.

The student told police she parked her car on Ninth Street at the meters just outside of the Arts Building at noon. When she returned a short time later she noticed the front fender of her car had several scrapes across the front driver's side fender and the culprit was nowhere to be found.

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Animal rights group pulls 'got beer' campaign MADD condemns campaign condoning alcohol consumption By eo..tney lowely and Montana KUnin University ofMonlana

MISSOULA, Mont. (U-WIRE) - "Got Beer" has been sent out to graze, but Charlie the Cow is looking to get saved.

The ·People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals pulled their "Got Beer" campaign launched March 24 out of "respect" for protests made by the Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization, said PETA's college campaign

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The renamed "Dump Dairy" campaign is still encourage college students to drink. have caused any one student to consume one geared towards college students, but is taking a On PETA's milkSucks.com Web site, the more ounce of beer," 1.eyh said. ' .But we do different approach. Instead of "Got Beer?" PETA organization reported receiving enormous respect their organization and their concerns, so is now sencling missing posters, of "Charlie the positive responses from college students, but that is why it was pulled."

The MADD organization sent a letter of Calf" who was "last seen crying as he was being added materials have been revoked from discontent to PETA before the campaign was campuses. taken from his mother on a dairy farm ..."

Despite the decision to stop the campaign, officially launched, and PETA officials took their The "Got Beer" slogan, meant to steer college students away from dairy products on Leyh still maintains that the "Got Beer?" slogan concerns into account. PETA yanked the slogan grounds of animal cruelty, touched campuses was not intended to heighten alcohol use in as well as sending a $500 contribution to MADD across the nation before the campaign was cut. college students, but rather raise awareness of and establishing a link to its Web site on PETA's milksucks.com.

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Student fees still in peril in Colorado e-

rights to free speech, because he could not choose the groups he wanted to support.

The UW-Madison, as well as most public 0 NEWS: In March the U.S. Supreme colleges and universities argued that fees Court decided that mandatory and support all groups so that !11Ultiple viewpoints optional student fees are constitutional. can be expressed. The case was argued all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

0 VIEWS: The State Legislature has On March 22 the Supreme Court wrongly p:wed a bill eliminating the $4 unanimously ruled in favor of mandatory Colorado Public Interest and Research student fees.

Group fee despite the Supreme Court The decision of the Court rea.tfrrmed that ruling. the use of mandatory student fees promotes free speech on campuses across the nation.

On November 12 The Metropolitan ran an The decision also states that optional fees editorial supporting mandatory student fees. and refund systems. are not constitutionally Student fees were in peril because a group necessary. of university students from Wisconsin Student fees provide college students with protested their student fees. The case began in many services - including bus passes, campus 1995 when law student Scott Southworth sued safety programs, resource centers, guest the University of Wisconsin-Madison. lecturers and student clubs, to name just a few.

Southworth claimed he was forced to pay All of these extra-curricular activities provide student fees that funded groups he disagreed students with outside learning resources. with politically and philosophically. Campus life isn't just about going to class. To Specifically, he disagreed with funding the wholly benefit from college students must take campus Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Center,·the advantage of the programs on campus. These International Socialist Organization and an programs not only allow students co expand AIDS support network. Southworth claimed academically, but socially as well. mandatory fees violated his First Amendment _ The Colorado General As.5embly has made

a great error passing House Bill 1127. The Court decided that fees complement the college experience, mandatory or not.

CoPIRG's fee can be waived at any time.

Students vote co renew the fee every three years, CoPIRG members argue their case for adding the fee to tuition and students can waive the fee during registration, on the web or in the CoPIRG office at any time during the semester.

So why would the General Assembly eliminate such a fee when the Court decided such fees are constitutionally sound? CoPIRG already has several steps to ensure that students who choose to pay or waive the fee can.

If Governor Bill Owens signs the bill, CoPIRG might have to take the law to court, to prove its unconstitutionality. This could take years and a significant amount of money, which CoPIRG may have difficulty obtaining as a nonprofit o~tion.

Owens needs to take into consideration the Supreme Court ruling on student fees before signing HB1127. Vetoing the bill would save the state money by avoiding legal battles with CoPIRG, which has the constitutional right to charge the fee.

It's summertime, get your butt off the couch It has always been there. I have always had an a.tfmity for it. My family, a long line of farmers, has always depended on it. I have always loved it.

I have loved it since Hektor Munoz we lived in Piedras Negras, Mi Mundo Coahuhila, Mexico. When it was out, my mother would take me to l;he plazita. We would stroll around enjoying its brilliant excitement as we ate lime green snow cones. I loved it in New York City, at Coney Island, running around in white wet

Today I was cited for careless driving by one of Auraria's finest. I made a left turn onto Colfax Avenue from Mariposa Street, quickly, from a standing start. The officer angrily brought to my attention, with the flavor of accusation, that a number of fatalities occurred at that particular intersection. He added that there was a daycare on that corner. As I was sent on my way with a summons, the officer told me he was tired of picking up bodies, and I should slowdown.

I don't want to excuse any aggressive driving that I may have done, but I had to walk across that same intersection to get to my car.

sang and playing tag with people I had never met. I loved it in Boston, sipping mimosas and nibbling eggs beneruct as some obscure poet talked about his pain. I loved it in Los Angeles, during the riots, for it brought a surrealistic portrait to the destruction. It would illuminate the lines of soldiers guarding the entrance of some government building smoldering heaps of decay in a post apocalyptic tableau. .

My grandmother loved to sit in her little front yard in a chair where she would absorb its energy and beauty.

It envelops us at every turn. As my ancestors did before me, I also worship the

sun. It loves me, telling me secrets of life. My energy revived after hiding from the cold. I have been able to come out of my hibernation because I have been able to look at the sun straight in the face. I see the happiness it brings people - children on inline skates, teens on skateboards, families barbecuing, couples on 16th Street hand in hand preparing for the spring. The energy of our whole school changes when the sun is out.

And the sun is out! Get out of the house!

Enjoy the weather.

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that intersection, but I only found tWo that daycare safely use this crosswalk? took place on Lipan Street and Colfax Knowing that this is. a short light forces Avenue. In those incidents, all evidence people, both walking and driving, to hurry. pointed to the inadequate time allowed to When I run across the intersection, I run right onto the light rail tracks before I cross the street.

The same is true at Ninth Street realize it. When I am driving and trying to (Mariposa). In addition to a very short light make the light. ..well you know what I get.

The solution to this problem I cycle, there is a sewer vent in the eastern crosswalk, which pumps out a steady cloud discovered was the lurking police officer of steam, making it hard to see and the right waiting to ticket naughty drivers, but I guess lane of northbound Mariposa Street at fixing the intersection doesn't generate Colfax Avenue is almost always occupied by revenue. Maybe this officer's time would be a parked bus. better spent as a crossing guard.

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Think back to your early days in elementary sc that you had just the right clothes so that the ~els · Fast forward to high school and the times that stuff that was a little shabby or didn't quite fit what Welcome co college,.where no one cares.

It used to take me an hour to get ready for sch my hair and put on makeup and come up with the day. These were the days before I had a job (or tw 9:30 p.m. every school night.

Tcxlay I'm lucky if I can make myself semi-presc -speed co campus because I accidentally hit the sno Despite my lack of effort to dress for school, I versed on the dos and don'ts of fashion todal. I decided that isn't really po.ssible. There are a millio today that all contain the latest styles - what to we and who is wearing it. The problem is, as I sat on 1 10 percent of the population wearing something

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defmition of fashion. The other 90 percent wear whatever they feel like wearing. Why? Because there is no longer a universally accepted way for people to dres.s these days.

The line between what is fashionable and what is not has been blurred so much it is almost non-existent. People dress to show their individuality and their own definition of fashion. Magazines have les.s and less impact on what people choose co wear. Fashion ol - I had to take a shower and do is no longer defined by what the runway models are wearing, it is now determined by ierfect ensemble for that particular what celebrities wear or what looks good on you or what appeals to your taste. ) a00 when I used to go to bed at As I watched people make their way across campus, I saw those who had obviously spent a lot of time getting ready for school (perfect hair, completely coordinated outfit, ltable before I have to (try not to) heels, etc.), and I saw those who have obviously subscribed to the Amber school of ze button for an hour. campus attire, i.e. jeans and T-shirts are your friends. l like to think that I am pretty well Don't mistake my lack of effort for lack of taste, though. I have taste, it's just that Jt after giving it some thought, I sometimes I choose not to exercise it Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there r fashion magazines on the marlcet who simply have no taste. I could go on for pages citing examples of what are the r, how to wear i~ where to wear it fashion equivalents of a train wreck- they're just so horrible that you can't stop looking.

1mpus for two hours, I saw maybe Some people do it on purpose for the shock value, but some people do it because they hat might pass for the magazine are completely clueless. For example, people in this town do not understand the ~

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1Dres.sing up does not mean putting on the one pair of jeans that don't stand up on their own and a shirt that doesn't look as if you slept in it for the past week. It also doesn't mean you have to wear a ruxedo or a fonnal dress. There's a thing called a happy medium, in which you assess how formal or informal the event you are attending is going to be, and dress accordingly.

So that is my point - fashion is now les.s about what you wear, and more about how you wear it and where you wear it. Some things will eventuallygo out of style, but taste and pride in your appearance at the appropriate times are both things that never will.

As for my final fashion advice to the masses? ~ what you want, because you have now reached a point in your life where you are no longer defined by what you wear.

No one in college is going to make fun of you and exclude you from playing in the popular people's game of dodgeball.

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While 'Body Shots' deals with many of the important issues faced by today's young adults, alcohol abuse and its consequences seem to be the most signtticant. It is apparent that some of the characters have no recollection of their choices or actions and some are dared to take sides and finally come clean with honest impressions of their friends. They are quick to judge others while trying to avoid being judged themselves. They all search for the willingness to find th~ truth, face their deepest fears and forgive one another.

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Colorado Art Faculty through April 22. The The art of Metro faculcy member Rodger Lang exhibition, which includes the work of 16 is included in the exhibit, as weU as artists Al Colorado faculty members, is being Qmilf, Scott Chamberlain, Richards DeVore, sponsored by the Colorado Council on the Kim Dickey, Vicky Hansen, Kathy Holt, Thlvid Arts and the Metro Student Affairs Board.

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Metro basketball fans can breathe a sigh of relief.

Men's coach Mike Dunlap officially took himself out of the race for the Colorado State University coaching position this week and is working with Metro on a long-term contract, he said.

"Basically i wasn't up to the process," Dunlap said of the interviews with athletics directors, school presidents, players and more college administration. "It's a time intensive process and you're constantly under a micro.5eope."

Dunlap, who led the Roadrunners to the NCAA Division II national tide last month, was contacted about the CSU job after Ritchie McKay left two weeks ago to coach at Oregon State.

Dunlap's alma-mater, Loyola Marymount, also offered him the "l1:hance to coach a Division I school, but he turned down that opportunity as well.

"If I was going to take a job, it probably would have been the Loyola job," he said. "But I will look at all the opportunities that

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Next year's returning Roadrunners keep hoping that Dunlap will stay.

"He's crossed off CSU and Loyola, now it's just a matter of him staying here," junior center Kane Oakley said. "I think he'll stay. It's a gut feeling."

Metro's administration is feverishly Mike Dunlap working on a 5-year contract to keep Dunlap at the helm, said Joe Arcese, vice president ofadministration and finance.

"When you get a good quality person, who you know is going to bring in quality kids, you want to keep them," Arcese said. "We'd like to see (the contract) done by next week."

The long-term contract would be the first in school history, something that doesn't go unnoticed by Dunlap.

"They've been working as hard as an organization can work, they've been unbelievable," he said. "It's very dear that they

want me to stay. They're nothing but dass.

"Both parties have made a substantial commitment to each other. It's like a good marriage."

And while the administration is working hard to prove they want to see Dunlap on the sidelines of the Auraria Events Center for years to come, he's proving that the Roadrunners are still his No. 1 priority. .

"We're rippin' on recruiting," Dunlap said. "I knew we would have lost some recruits that we've been working on all year if I went up (to CSU)."

The Roadrunners already signed Lester Strong from Kennedy High School and Beau Barney from Northeastern Junior College in Sterling. Following tradition, Dunlap will head to Australia in pursuit of a 7-footer and perhaps another player, he said.

"We won't be bringing in the volumes of Australians like before, now that the recruiting has picked up stateside," Dunlap said.

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Lantz's only losses this season have In his three years of playing college tennis, he has had a total of six different come against Drury University 6-4, 6-4 and Central Oklahoma 6-3, 6-4 at No. 1 singles. coaches.

"My toughest competition in singles was "I think I hold the record for the most coaches in the NCAA," senior Peter Lantz against (Jalal Chafai) from Drury," Lantz said. "He works me hard, and he is ranked said.

Finally, he has found a home with the in the top five nationally."

April 4 the men Metro tennis team. won their dual match He started his 9-0 against Colorado college career at "I think I hold the College. "The men are Metro then decided to record for the most playing well and go to James Madison rankings come out University. coaches in the this week so we Lantz didn't like NCAA." should be ranked his experience at somewhere," said James Madison so he Coach Eduardo left and came back to - Peter Lantz, Provencio.

The Metro, which cost him Metro tennis player Roadrunners start a year of eligibility.

"When I decided . . . . . _ _ - - - - - - - - - - -. conference play on to transfer back, I had to sit out one year," the road April 7 against Fort Hays State.

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"We're hoping to go into conference Sitting out that year gave him the and win the RMAC. It should be close hunger to come back and play and win against Kearney and Mines, but we're Rocky Mountain Athletic Player-of-Year hoping to pull it off," Provencio said. honors in 1999. Last year Lantz finished the After starting the season off with season 15-7. He also finished No.4 in the injuries and an 0-3 record the women were nation in doubles with partner Michael able to pull out a 7-2 win against Colorado Judd.

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"I like playing doubles, and I like "The women probably have the playing with Mike," Lantz said. "You have a toughest schedule in the country," lot more fun because you're playing as a Provencio said. "We have the whole team back so we should be okay going into Scult Snlad'1bt Metropolilan team and it's easier."

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No. 2 Singles: Cruz, UNC def Nystrom 7·5, 6-1.

No. 3 Singles: Sats, UNC def Botero 6-1, 6-3.

No. 4 Singles: Eslinger; UNC def Meigs 6-1, 3·2.

No. 5 Singles: Casteneda, UNC def Brockman 6-1, 6-1.

No. 6 Singles: Britton, UNC dej Maes 6-0, 6-2.

No. 1 Doubles: Wbite/Sats, UNC def &Jtero/Meigs IH No. 2 Doubles: Pascual/Nystrom, Metro def Cruz/Britton 8-6.

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No. 1 Singles: Okulskl, CC def Pascual H , 6-0, 1-0 (0).

No. 2 Singles: Nystrom, Metro def God/rey 6-0, 6-0.

No. 3 Singles: Botero, Metro def Bates 6-2, 6-3.

No. 4 Singles: Meigs, Metro def Allison 6-0, 6-0.

No. 5 Singles: Brockman, Metro def Griebel 3-6, 64, 1-0 (J).

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No. 3 Singles: Pilik, Metro def Chalmers 7·5, 6-0.

No. 4 Singles: Dicker, Metro def RaybOr 6-1, 6-0.

No. 5 Singles: So/ogoub, Metro def.Koorsguard 6-1, 6-1.

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No. 1 Doubles: Lantz/Judd, Metro def Cresswell/Holmes 8-1.

No. 2 Doubles: Pilik/Sologoub, Metro def Cbalmers/Raybor 9- 7.

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Late one night, I decided to check my email. When I got to "the email", it said "You, my friend, have won!"

At this point, two things were running

through my head: 1. It's two in the morning, what is this and who is playing the joke on me?

2. Just listen to the e-mail and see what you won.

I opted for No. 2 and started to listen to the message. It said: "Hey Nick Gamer, are you RF.ADY TO SEE SOME HOOPS?!! Your idea to get us on 1V during the NCAA Fmals won!!"

Now, the human ear hears weird things at 2 a.m.

So I listened to the message three times just to make sure. I couldn't believe it, I was going to the NCAA Division I Final Four in Indianapolis!

I called my friend, Adam Dunivan, later that morning whom I had planned to take with me. I told him about winning the Collegeclub.com contest and he thought that I was full ofit. I went to his house to prove him wrong and to reas.sure myself that I was listening to the message right.

By the time I got there, he had already pulled up Collegeclub.com and entered my screen name and password and was just sitting there, waiting. I pulled up the e-mail and read it and the first thing that came to mind was "I'm going to the Fmals!!!"

Saturday, April 1, 2fXXJ: NCAA Semi-Finals The wake up call was set for 9 a.m., but we had been up the night before in anticipation for the games that night. We went and had breakfast at, then it was off to meet Pricky, the little porcupine that helped me win the trip. I had promised to get the stuffed porcupine on 1V and that's why I won.

He was a cute little guy, and we knew that he was going to bring a lot ofattention to himself and us

for the next three days.

When we left the hotel, we passed a Hooters restaurant and David Shaw, a marketing guy for Collegeclub.com, decided we needed to go in. lnside, everyone was staring at us, specifically Pricky. We got to our table, and the waitres.5 came uver and asked, "What is that?" Scott explained who and what Pricky was, and mentioned that we had won a contest and we had to carry him around wherever we went.

As we were sitting waiting for the wings to come out, David mentioned that a great picture would be Pricky with the waitresses. Our waitres.5 really didn't want to at first, but she finally agreed and got three other waitresses to be in the picture.

We arrived at the RCA Dome and parked next to the WtSCOnsin Badger fans. As we were unloading and getting things ready, some of the fans came over and asked what Pricky was. I told them that he was a porcupine that we were going to change into a Badger for the day. SCORE! We got Pricky into more photos, this time with some Badger fans, and Pricky even got a little bit of Bacardi to drink.

We came to the Budweiser tent, and just as I was going in, some Bud Girls came running up to me wanting some pictures with Pricky. And of course, I couldn't tell them no, I mean, Pricky needed some more pictures to get on the Web site.

After the pictures, I ran into the tent. It·was packed with people from all the schools.There were live bands playing and more people wanting to take their guess at what Pricky was. Beaver? Badger? Dead Gator? Porcupine?

Fmally we headed to the RCA Dome, which was huge, even bigger than the Pepsi Center! David and I started to walk towards our seats when a lady directed us to keep going down. I wasn't sure if she meant down in the chairs or in the bleachers. ~u. the seats were on the floor, seven rows up from the hoop in the middle of the University of Florida student section. I was floored by how close we were.

The Michigan State vs. WJSCOl'l.5in game was as

boring as advertised. Michigan State and Wisconsin played to a 19-17 halftime score. I wasn't sure if I was at a high school game or college game. The Florida fans were starting to get noisier as the first game, a 53-41 Michigan State win, was coming to an end.

I've never had more fun at a basketball game than I did at the Florida vs. University of North Carolina game. The studencs were on their feet the entire game making weird noises when Carolina had the ball and chanting every time the Gators were on offense. The game was close throughout, but the Gators won 71-59, setting the scene for a Big 10,,SOuthea.st Conference showdown Monday night.

Sunday, April 2, 2000: A day off This was a day just to recoup from the long night before. After hanging out at Hoop City, which had ai:x>ut 10 courts with many things to do, from shooting three pointers, to dunking, to shooting around the world, we walked to White Castle fo~ dinner. WARNING: ) ..

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Later we found where F.SPN was shooting its live broodcasts and headed there.

We got in right before they started the first broadcast, so we were trying to get in position to get Pricky on lV. Right as the show started, Adam shouted out "Go Metro State!!!"Afew guys that were standing in front of us asked if he said Metro State because they were from Fort Hays State. We talked co them for a little bit, and when we had finished, so had the show.

Dick Vitale came down and was taking photos and signing stuff, so I thought that it would be the best opponunity for Pricky. But, to our dismay, we were unable to get Pricky on with Dick Vitale.

AJ. the opening tip-0ff, all the light bulbs of the cameras went off at once and it was really cool to see. In the game itself, Michigan State could do no wrong.They were making all of the shots, getting all of the rebounds, converting on the fa.st breaks.

Florida on the other hand, just couldn't convert on the easy shots or make the three-pointers.

Michigan State built an 11-point halftime lead (4332) and Florida could not come back. They made it close, getting within six points, but Michigan State made two three-pointers in a row to put the nail in the coffin for the Gators. When the game had ended, the Florida fans were chanting "One more year, one more year:" As we Walked up to the top of the aisle, I looked back at the court, stared down and knew that I was never going to have this type of fun again, or at least not for quite some time.

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

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Truth Bible Study - Join the Menorah Ministries every Wednesday and Thursday in Tivoli #542 from 3-5pm. For more information, call (303)355-2009.

Park from 12:15-lpm. For more information, call Susan Krems at (303)556-4391.

Eating Disorder Support Group (ANAD)· Free support group for people who are struggling with eating disorders. Tuesdays at 1020B 9th Street Park from 4-5: 15pm. For more information, call (303)556-2525 and ask for Linda Wilkins-Pierce or Britt.

Have you hurt your ankle in the last 48

hours? · Call The Student Health Center at Auraria to see if you are eligible to.participate in an analgesic medical research study. Those who qualify will receive financial compensation, apd all study related care at NO COST. Call (303)556-2525, Monday - Friday from 8am-4pm, or page (303)266-7063 after 4pm and on weekends. Eligibility is determined by study criteria.

c:bess Club Meeting· Join the MSCD chess dub every Tuesday in the Tivoli Club Hub #346 at llam. For more information, call (303)556-8033.

VITA Tax Assistance Through 7 Solutions & IRS - We offer free tax assistance and do electronic filing of form 1040.

Refunds received within three weeks.

Students making less than S20,000 are eligible for this filing. Available through April 15, Tuesday-Friday from 9am-3pm at Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman. Call (800)829-1040 for Saturday locations.

Slim for Life - Check out the American Heart Association's exciting health education program, held on Tuesdays at 1020 9th St.

Moderation Management - A support group for those who wish to moderate their drinking before it gets out of control. Meets

Mondays in the basement of Ross, Cherry Creek Branch Library, 3rd Avenue and Milwaukee at 7pm. For more information, call (303)520-3095 or www.mmdenverboulder@onelist.com.

Sat, April 8 Voluntary Income Tax Assistance - Free tax assistance and filing of federal and state returns. Open to students and public. Bring all W-2's, 1099's, and prior year return if possible to the Tivoli Multicultural Lounge from l-5pm. For more information, call (303)5563181.

The Unity of Mystical Concepts in Religious 1bougbt - An educational forum presented by Dr. Richard Staller at the MetroDenver Baha'i Center at 7:30pm, 99 S. Grant Street. For more information, call (303)7984319.

Mon, April 10 Intimate Portrait: Golda. Meir . A new documentary film on the life of Golda Meir will be presented at the Gold Meir House on 9th Street Park at 2:30-4:30pm. The opening of the Golda Meir exhibit will also open. For more information, call (303)556-6334.

Tues, April 11 Yoga for Everyone - This is your last chance this semester to participate in the Yoga experience from 12-lpm in Administration #570. ...

For more information, call (303)556-2525.

Thurs, April 13 President's Brunch - Have brunch with Metro's president Sheila Kaplan to honor the recipient of the Outstanding Sophomore · Award at St. Cajetan's from 10-11:30am. For more information call Jud_y at (303)237-7031 or Kathleen (303)412-9181.

Club Funding Meeting - Does your oncampus club need money? Come to the meeting in Tivoli #640 at 2-3pm. For more information, call (303)556-2595.

Movements of Energy and joy - This is your last chance to participate in open Qigong practice and T'ai Chi Chih from 12:15-lpm in Tivoli #320C. For more information, call (303)556-2525.

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