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charge. "(Payday loans) are very dangerous," said Darrin Sandoval. direcror of operations for AColorado lender that requires a borrower Consumer Credit Counseling Service of to pay an annual percent rate of 45 percent or Denver. Payday loans have interest rates much more in loan charges is guilty of engaging in higher than conventional sources of credit.

The formula for calculating the finance criminal usury, but some lenders are legally charge for a payday loan is 20 percent of the skirting this law and charging borrowers a rare first $300 and 7.5 percent of the next $200. The of 137 percent or more.

The annual percentage rare is the interest finance charge for a $500 loan is $60. Colorado rate lenders charge a borrower for taking a law says the borrower may extend the loan for loan. It is a financial formula chat accounts for one additional period and the lender may the rime a loan balance exists and the periodic charge an additional finance charge. After that payments required ro service the loan and rhe loan muse be repaid or rolled into a traditional loan that is regulated by the UCCC. payoff the principal.

In this case, if rhe original $500 loan was Recently enacted legislation allows lenders for a two-week period to make loans that do not exceed $500 and and rhe borrower needed have a balloon payment that is due in 40 days or less. These loans are known as payday loans to ex.tend it fo r an rwo-week because they are designed to be due on the additional period, he or she would borrower's next payday. Payday loans are be charged a total of $120, yielding the lender exempt from criminal usury laws. They are also an annual percentage rate of approximately exempt from the Uniform Consumer Credit Code that restricts a consumer loan's annual 468 percent.

Bur in spire of the hefty charges chat percentage rate to no more than 36 percent. borrowers incur, payday loan borrowers only Instead, the lender's finance charge is based upon the amount borrowed with no make about two complaints per month on regard for the term of the loan. So someone average, said Laura E. Udis, Administrator of who borrows money from one of these lenders UCCC in rhe Colorado Attorney General's until his or her next paycheck could be paying office.

Furthermore, according ro a report an annual percentage rate of more than 137 produced by rhe attorney general's office, rhe percent. default rate for payday loans in 1999 was only Generally, these loans are secured by the 3.4 percent. borrower's post-dated check for the amount But Metro students have an alternative to borrowed. The borrower is given cash on the payday loans said Arliss Webster, director of the day the agreement is made, less the finance

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Students who are in good standing are able to borrow up to $200 for 30 days, interest free. To qualify for a loan from the center, a student must be able to show evidence of collateral.

Collateral can be in the form of proof chat college financial aid has been awarded or proof chat the student has a job. A lace fee of 5 percent of rhe outstanding balance may be charged if a student becomes delinquent, Webster said, but in most cases rhe lace fee is waived if the student contacts rhe center. A payment plan can be worked our that firs a student's needs.

Webster, who took rhe helm of the center in September, said the center has made about

consumers ro deal direccly with their debt.

Most creditors will accept partial payment if a payment plan is setup. Consumers can negotiate these arrangements themselves or ask organizations such as Consumer Credit Counseling Services for help. Paying off debts through a payment plan, rather than caking on even more debt at exorbitant interest races is the best way to deal with financial problems.

• Investigate other avenues of credit such as secured credit cards. Some credit card companies specialize in consumers with financial problems or poor credit histories.

These credit sources offer credit cards that are secured by a borrower's savings account. Once a consumer has successfully used the card for a

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500 loans totaling around $100,000 co students this fall. The default rate is low on these loans, she said, because a hold is placed on a defaulting student's records char prohibit rhe student from registering for courses during the next semester or even graduating until the debt is repaid.

Additionally, Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports tells those who are not Metro students that payday lenders are not the only alternative for consumers facing debt problems. Consumers Union suggests the following: • Negotiate a payment plan with creditors.

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period of time, they can qualify for an unsecured credit card.

•Ask an employer for an advance. Many employers will grant paycheck advances to employees. Since this is an advance against future wages and not technically a loan, it is a much better alternative than a payday loan.

•join a credit union. Credit unions offer small, short-term loans to their members.

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Moving Story and photos by Kelli McWhirter

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Student council members sat around discussing who would go to the Halloween dance. Thirty boys would be attending and 20 girls would be bused in from F.xcelsior fouth Center. Lookout Mountain Detention Facility would be the place to party for one night.

Eighteen-year-Old Arnold Baca is one of four members of the council. He said the event would be a chance for the students to prove U1L1' could act appropriately with members of the opposite sex. They wanted to pick students who would interact and dance and not just sit by the wall.

"Some individuals can ruin it for e\'eryone,"' he said.

Baca staned hi.~ day on Oct. 26 in Environmental Geology class.

It L~ a college-level science class, and students receive credit from Red Rocks Community College, said Clark Grose, Baca's teacher.

T~ class is p:irt of a ~!etro-run lab school at Lookout Moun~1in. The college program i~ m us second semester. Science and math are the only two classes that student can take for college credit, Grose said.

Lookout officials want to expand the program to include English composition.

All students at Lookout have been convicted of felony crimes, said \X"tlham Wiener, the lab school's director.

Baca has been at Lookout for more than a ye-,11: &fore Baca m1S at Lookout, he said, he spent his days dealing drugs and partying. He sold marijuana and sometimes acid. He spent his time Baca holds the gavel he uses to start the student council meeting at Lookout Mountain youth with others who did the same. Some were his age, some were older. detention facility Oct. 26. The student council was discussing a Halloween dance being held at the facility.

Baca started out at Alameda High School in Denver.

"I had attended school my freshman year for 45 days. I went to All students start out at the orientation level. They have a Campe is a certified chef and has been at Lookout since July. He school, but not to class," Baca said. 'That's how I made my money, teaches the culinary skills that will let stu~ents at Lookout get jobs couple of weeks to learn the program. then students move up to was at school." level one. Students stay there for at least four weeks. Students can when they leave.

He later enrolled at an alternative high school called Screen printing is another program that teaches students good move down levels to the disciplinary program. That is when Colorado's Finest. He was expelled for doing drugs on campus and job skills. The culinary program lasts 120 days and the screen students were fighting, vandalizing or cursing out the staff. Baca dealing. He went back to Alameda High School. He transferred to printing program lasts 90 days, Wiener said. said.

Warren Tech, a vocational school, but dropped out. He got a job at Because Baca is an Eagle, he can get more phone calls and get Inside the door was a room with tables and chairs with the Burger King and quit because of scheduling difficulties. He got a job kitchen in back. Baca was extra canteen items such as candy. He lives in a dormitory-style at Chesapeake Bagel Bakery given the test he had to take to room with the other Eagles. They have bunk beds, desks, dressers, and was fired for a no-call-nopass the class. For the next closets for their clothes and a lV. There are always at least two staff show because he was hour and a half, Baca took his members in the building and can see into the room at all times, he incarcerated. test while other students said.

At 14, Baca was com~cted Students may go to bed whenever they like. They have chores worked in the kitchen. of a felony for stealing They prepared Salisbury to do every day: make the bed, vacuum the room. and cle-,in the clothes. He violated his steak with vegetables and windows, microwave and refrigerator, Baca said. probation with graffiti, When Baca first arrived at Lookout he said he didn't think about chocolate mousse for dessert. curfew, drug violations and The meal was served to some how to change his life. assault. At 17, he was sent to ..)bu come in here thinking about how to beat the system:路 of the students and staff at Lookout because of Lookout as practice in serving Baca said. continuous probation He started to change his behavior after looking at his peers at skills and for catering jobs. \iolations.

When class is finished, Lookout and decided to go a different route.

"It was fun, but nothing I In culinary arts Oct. 26, Baca looks over the test Trying to beat 1he system "is to stressful, it wore me our.路路 Baca and the other students want to do anymore," Baca that he had to take to pass and finish the class.

When Baca lea1 es Lookout he \vants to continue his education are escorted to their living said. "I did it while I was Culinary arts in one of the programs that gives students skills to get jobs after leaving Lookout. quarters. Baca enters one and go to college. Ile wants to major in business. young and I'm happy about Baca's life befo路e Lookout made him who he is today, he said, building by himself where he that. I can move on with my but Lookout has made him realize that he has intelligence. will stay for groups and free time. life."

The groups are offender specific, Baca said. They discuss topics Baca said he worries about going back to the things he did In the hall of the school, boys bustled to class, talking and ranging from anger management to drugs and alcohol, property, before Lookout. He said he worries he will go back when things in joking with one another. It could be any high school, only they are violence and sexual offenders. his life go bad. all in a uniform of khaki pants and polo shirts, on grounds Baca is an Eagle and sleeps in a different area. Eagle is the "The fast money, the fast life," he said. "My connections are still surrounded by a imposing chain-link fence. highest level at Lookout. there."

When student council finished, Baca went to his last class "Some would say I am more trusted than others," he said.

Baca said he looks forward to getting out of Lookout. 'Tm old culinary arts. He walked outside and up the path to a building. Als~ Levels range from one to three and are based on a point enough to handle it. I've worked so hard," he said. going to classes were groups of boys walking in twos, arms behind system, Baca said. Students get an average of 196 points a week.

He said he wants to be with his family and his girlfriend. His their backs with two staff members escorting them. The students at The students get zero to four points for each class. Getting two family visits him once a week, but he hasn't seen his girlfriend since Lookout are always supervised by staff members. points is average. More than two points, students have to do he's been at Lookout.

"It sucks, it just really sucks," Baca said. But, he also said, "It's a something positive. Fewer than two points, the students did not He's been with his girlfriend for at least two years. He talks to pretty cool place to be incarcerated at." follow directions or had negative behavior, Baca said. her on the phone and writes letters. They don't talk about Lookout, Arriving at the class, Baca waited to be let in by his teacher, When students move up in levels, Baca said they must "show only the future.

"It's some strong love there," he said.

In December Baca goes up for parole.

"I made mistakes and I've learned from my positive behavior for a consistent amount of time." mistakes," he said. "Everyone has made mistakes. I've grown up Michael Campe. All the doors at Lookout are Jocked and must be The students need to be positive role models, have leadership, now." opened by a key or from the inside. and hold themselves accountable for their own actions, he said.

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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.

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The Auraria campus is at the center of a project designed to make Denver a world-class film community.

At a Nov. 28 press conference, representatives from The Denver Film Society, the University of Colorado at Denver, and the Starz Encore Group joined Gov. Bill Owens and Mayor Wellington Webb in announcing plans to renovate the Tivoli space formally used by AMC theaters.

"It can become the preeminent place in Denver to exhibit films," said Starz founder and CEO John Sie. The AMC Tivoli theaters closed their doors Feb. 10, 2000. The space has remained vacant since, except for a brief rental by the film society for the Denver International Film Festival in October.

The Starz Encore Film Center will house the Denver Film Society and provide a location for all of its festivals and events.

Mark Heckler, dean of CU-Denver's college of arts and media, said the center should be open in fall of 2001.

"Can you believe it?" Ron Henderson, the executive director of the Film Society, asked. ''A permanent home for the film arts in Denver."

CU-Denver's college of arts and media will also utilize the Film Center, operating it in conjunction \vith the Film Society Starz Encore, along with the Anna and John j. Sie Foundation, are providing funding for the Film Center, donating more than $5 million to CU-Denver and the Film Society. Donations from businesses and individual contributions are

expected to raise an additional S7 million.

"This is a tremendous gift," Webb said of the donation. "It certainly means a lot to the city."

"I've been a film buff for years," Webb added, "so for me this is a great honor."

Sie said he and his wife, Anna, had been looking for a way to give to Denver's film community.

"We have always been very passionate about movies," he said.

Owens concentrated on the educational aspects of the Film Center, saying it "will provide thousands of students with years of knowledge."

Out of the $5 million donated, the Anna and John Sie Foundation's $770,000 will go toward film studies programs, and the increasing the use of film as an educational resource. In addition to its use at CU-Denver, the donation will also fund John Sie "Filmmaking: Art & Business," a colloquium held at Denver's National Cable Television Center and Museum four times annually.

"It highlights the importance of private involvement in higher education," Owens said of the foundation's donation.

Henderson ended the press conference by expressing his optimism for the future of film in Denver, saying the Film Center "will be a place where the film arts will be celebrated 52 weeks a year."

"This is, if I can make a huge understatement, a dream come true," he added.

Henderson said to find out how he felt about the Film Center, one only needs to spell Tivoli backward, "1-LOV-IT."

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For those seniors graduating in December 2000 & June 2001.

Be recognized for superior academic achievement plus leadership, service or other honors/awards: •To the college in academic or student services departments • In the community • In Student Government or Student Life • Under challenging circumstances

The deadline for your completed Outstanding Student Awards application is Friday, February 9, 2001 in the office of your major department.

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Be recognized for your outstanding academic service and personal achievements.

The deadline for your completed Who's Who application is Friday, January 26, 2001 in the office of your major department.

Specific criteria for all of the awards is on the application form, available in TV31 l, WC133, WC257, or SllOl.

For more information on any of these awards, please call the MSCD Office of Student Life Tivoli #311 (303)556-3559

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Student health center to offer free AIDS testing

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Students on Auraria campus will be able to get free HN testing and information about HN and AIDS Nov. 30 in recognition of the World AIDS Day, held on Dec. 1.

The Student Health Center at Auraria will be offering free tests, which usually cost $15, all day Nov. 30 in Room 150 of the Plaza Building.

People who are interested but are unable to get tested on that day because of time constraints will be issued a voucher for a free test, which must be used before Dec. 6, said Billi Mavromatis, the health educator at the Student Health Center.

Jn addition, the Multicultural Lounge in the Tivoli will feature HN and AIDS awareness information presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans Student Services office, which is co-sponsoring the event.

The HN test takes about 30 minutes and includes a cand id counseling session.

"The first question we ask is why are they here for testing," Mavromatis said. The counselors ask questions about possible exposures to the HN virus through old tattoos, blood transfusions or unprotected sex.

She said the counseling sessions are a good opportunity for people to talk openly about their sex lives with people who are willing to listen to private matters and who are also medically trained.

The blood is then sent to the lab where it undergoes an initial test called an Enzymelinked lmmunosorbent Assay test. If the blood proves to be negative for HN, the test ends there, but if it's positive it goes through either a Western Blot test or the lmmunoflourescent Assay test for final confirmation of the positive result.

The entire process takes about two weeks and the results are discussed with the patient during a post- test counseling session.

"This is the best way to get tested," Mavromatis said.

She said the waiting period is a good time for self reflection and it allows for the person to decide if they ever want to be in a situation again were they could be exposed with HN. Linda Cecile, the assistant program coordinator for the GLBT Student Services office, said the slogan for this year's event is "AIDS awareness everyday."

She said there is a misconception today with all the new pills and medicines being developed that the AIDS crisis is over.

"That's not true," Cecile said.

She said people think if they can pop a pill they can handle having the disease and it's that misconception that's lending itself to the idea there is no need for safe sex anymore.

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administration of the new medication, often in the form of a "cocktail" which might include different medications for different problems, is a complicated system, Cecile said.

In order for it to be effective, it must be taken at the exact same time every day.

"Life has to revolve around the medications," Cecile said.

In some cases, the medications can all but wipe out the virus, however studies have shown that HN often hides in the kidneys where it does damage, she said.

"It's such a crafty little virus," Cecile said.

Cecile knows about HN from personal experience - her son is infected with the virus.

However, she said there is hope because the medicines do slow down the virus and have proven to reduce the number of deaths from HIV and AIDS. She said that the importance of World AIDS day is to bring awareness to how HN and AIDS effects everyone.

The GLBT will be showing movies and educational videos and free special flavored and multicolored condoms, provided by the health center, will be available.

In addition, they will be displaying their project called Mounds of Memories, Hills of Hope. The project started three years ago allowing people an opportunity to write a

personal message to someone living with, someone affected by or someone who has died from HN or AIDS on a small flag, Cecile said.

The flags will then be placed in the ground between the Tivoli and the Plaza Building on Nov. 30.

Donations for the flag project will be accepted and the proceeds will go to Project Angel Heart, which provides full meals to people with HN and AIDS. Cecile said the message that we don't have to be afraid of people who have HN or AIDS stifl needs to be heard.

"They need hugs like everybody else."

Attention! All Potential Spring 2001 Degree Candidates All Students Who Will Have Completed Degree Requirements by .the End of the Spring Semester, 2001:

Must File an Application for Graduation card in the Office of the Registrar (CN105) by Friday, January 26, 2001

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Should have a CAPP Compliance Report run NOW in the Academic Advising Center (CN104) or their major department .

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Remembering the slain transgendered different should not pay with their lives."

"We weep for the blood that has been shed by our many unnamed sisters and Dear Editor, Internationall} there were fourteen reporred murders of transgendered people in the brothers, for the untold lives that have been stolen from us. The message of their suffering is clear. it pulses through everv hummmg cell of our being and we cry out: last vear. Of those fourteen, ten occurred in the Cnned States.

As I write, it is l\ov. 28, the National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Trans-violence. THIS SHOULD \'OT BE!" Tonight I went to a memorial service ac St. Paul's L'nited .\1ethodist Church. The turnout I walked for a while next co a transgenclered women on my way home from the was sparse; most of those there were transgendered. Various political leaders spoke, memorial. She turned a corner and I wanted to walk her to her car, to make sure that including senator Dorothy Rupert. 路 she was safe, alrhough she was a head taller and probably twice as strong as I am.

The revered Toni Cook introduced the Litany of Remembrance. Various transgendered I am a gay man. I am a member of the queer community. Before tonight, I never people came forward to take cums leading the congregation. understood the courage tr takes to be transgendered. They risk death every day because "Alina Marie Barragan, a nineteen year old transgcnderccl woman was strangled to they are constantly visible, \\hereas I can hide. death in San Jose, California on January 19, 2000."

Tonight the speakers at the memorial spoke of hatred and \'iolence resulting from "\X'e weep for our sister Alina." fear. Fear seemed to make the violence and hatred somehow easier to understand.

"Julia Carrizales was stabbed numerous times then strangled to death in Webster, No one wanted to think that the hatred would be born out of basic maliciousness.

Texas on July 21st."

Why would someone shom a man because he wore a dress or had a sex change? 路路we weep for our sister Julia."

Why would they even care' I do not u'ndemand and do not want to. But I do know ''.An unnamed three-day-old infant born with ambiguous genitalia died of blunt force that such crimes will continue as long as the silence continues. Cntil the public cries trauma to the head, strangulation and glass shards in the intestines. The child was killed out about all murders, regardless of the gender status of the victim, these murders by his/her mother in Dallas, lexas on Dec. 8, 1999." will continue. To paraphrase Dr. Manin Luther King.Jr., until all minority groups are "We weep for this child." respected, regardless of what marks them as different, then no one is truly free.

"Many deaths of transgendered persons go unreported by the police and the media. Alfred Utton Too many persons die violently, alone and in terrible pain. Those who are gender- Metro Student 1 ,

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Popular vote would overlook Colorado and路 Kentucky Dear Editor, In attempt to find some articles that I'm doing for an English class, I came across a Jessica Rouch article, "Popular Vote Better Represents People." I feel that her article was very insightful to me and I do agree that their needs to be a long look ar the voting process. I do not think using the Popular vote is the answer. The electoral vote is designed so that persons running for president wouldn't cater to a specific part of the country. In short, the electoral vote is based upon the population of the state

which is consisted with how many congress people and senators that state has. So in closing, if our voting process was based on the popular vote, then states like Colorado and Kentucky (where I'm from) would only be seeing a candidate flying of the skies of our state.

Thank you, Dallas E. Harshfield University of Kentucky

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Education might·prevent rape

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For many fraternities statewide, Greek life includes for a disproportionate number of acquaintance rapes, both in fellowship, leadership opportunities and involvement in Colorado and across the United States.

Afew Greek organizations across the country have taken it community service. Unfortunately, it can also mean upon themselves to require members to attend sexual assault excessive drinking that leads to sexual assault.

Recently, the Colorado Stale University chapter of Lambda education programs, or to forbid alcohol entirely at fraternit)' Chi Alpha has functions. While taking this responsibility is obviously ideal, and undergone much more in line with most mission statements of fraternal investigation that organizations to begin with that stress excellence and some members statesmanship, we believe colleges and universities should also of the fraternity make themselves accountable.

In schools where sexual assault education for fraternities allegedly drugged several women at their Sept. 31 "Polyesta Fiesta" party. Although none of these CSU students at and sororities becomes mandatory, such as Colorado's this gathering fell victim to sexual assault, the fact that School of Mines, acquaintance rape is greatly diminished. these women may have been drugged and placed The CSU police department currently has a sexual assault unwittingly in a dangerous position is indeed alarming. prevention presentation, but does not require that Additionally, CSU has the highest rate of campus related fraternities or sororities attend this program. In light of recent events, it would seem wise for the CSU sexual assault in Colorado.

Sexual assault has become a dismaying reality for colleges administration, and remaining Colorado institutions without and universities, especially those housing resident fraternity this policy, to make attendance at this presentation dwellings. Studies show fraternity members are responsible standard for all Greek organizations.

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ART DIRECTOR David Menant

ON LINE EDITOR Brian Keithline

OPINION EDITOR Danielle Harabunla

NEWS EDITOR Jaime Janett SPORTS EDITOR Nick Gamer

FEATURES EDITOR Sarah Camey ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR Chris Wanl

PHOTO EDITOR Scott Smeltzer REPORTERS Bernadette Baca Troy Marllgraf Edward Winslow Micah J. Dearth Micaela Duarte

Jennifer Youngman Adam Dunivan Jennifer Grey PHOTOGRAPHERS Cathi Boenler Mart Stratford

Kelli McWhirter ILLUSTRATOR Brenden Smith

GRAPHIC ARTISTS Paul McNeill Jessica Rouch Rie Tanabe

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Ignorance spreads AIDS epidemic American teenagers are frightening. ~early 20 percent of adolescents believe that oral sex carries no risk of HIV transmission, and of sexually active teens between the ages of 15-17, 62 percent say they have never considered getting tested for the HIV virus. Only 48 percent say they would even know where to go if they desired a test.

This information from the National Institute of Health only gives numbers, it doesn't tell us why our youth have become so at risk. Perhaps it's because so many these days think that AIDS is a bygone crisis. Or because many educators drop HIV/AIDS prevention curriculum from health classes due to pressure from those that claim these programs teach sex. But today's youth, whether you agree with it or not, have sex.

Fortunately, trends suggest that condom use among male teenagers has increased. There still are, however, 20 percent who say they use condoms "only sometimes," or "never."

There's nothing wrong with encouraging teens to practice abstinence when it comes to sex. However, withholding information about safe sex practices increases the likelihood that they heterosexual intercourse.

AIDS statistics are frightening, no matter how you look at won't use contraceptives if they do engage in intercourse. them. New medications are greatly improving and increasing Teaching teenagers about condoms and safe sex precautions the lives of those with HIV and AIDS, and that's good news, doesn't equate to giving them a green light to jump into bed but in light of the abundant education and the many with someone.

More than half of teenagers surveyed said they wanted to precautions available, too many are becoming infected to learn more about how to protect themselves from HIV infection. begin with. Especially an1ong our children.

Of the nearly 50,000 new HIV infections that will have They should have this information. Saying that kids "just occurred in the U.S. by the end of this year, half of them will shouldn't have sex" is tantamount to saying that the include youth under 25. U.S. government survey statistics of punishment for pre-marital sex is death.

When I was growing up, I heard about AIDS for the first time. In the beginning, it was referred to as the "gay cancer" and I thought only homosexual men contracted the disease. · As the years went by, I learned more about the dreaded, non-curable disease and found out that while gay men indeed suffered the highest incidence of HIV and AIDS infection, nobody could claim immunity. Gay men still make up about 60 percent of HIV infections in America, but the number is rising for women, up from only 7 percent in 1985 to 23 percent by the end of last year. Worldwide, more than 80 percent of adult transmission of HIV occurs through (

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Scott Smeltzer/Th lhtlopollo• Shawn Aaron, left, threatens Megan Barry with a rolled up map during a rehearsal for the production Lonely Planet Nov. 13. The play opens on Nov. 30.

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'Lonely Planet' explores life with AIDS Ill

the play is to realii.e that it explores the tragedy of AIDS and the meaningfulness of touching others.

The persistence of AIDS in Lonely Planet is obvious If asked about major events that take place in December, \vithout even mentioning the acronym. The observable most people would probably speak of Christmas or New presence of AIDS is in the struggle of the two main Year's Eve. But few people would mention World AJDS Day, characters. Jody chooses to run from the "catastrophic disease." His life is made up of hiding in the map store while which takes place on Dec. I. That is why the showing of Steven Dietz's Lonely Planet his friends are overcome with the spreading afiliction. Carl at the Metropolitan Black Box Theatre is so beautifully timed. chooses another route. He is the caretaker who is involved in Director Brendan Haymaker chose the script because part of the remembrance of those who are lost to the disease.

Lonely Planet is also a statement about the impact we can its theme explores the subject of AIDS. "I originally brought the play here because World AIDS have on our worlds. The screenwriter, Steven Dietz, realized Day is happening during this week and because I'd seen a from an early age that each act of kindnes.5 has its own reward. Although we sometimes 1<15e hope that we can have wonderful production done in Durango," Haymaker said. a positive impact on our worlds, Dietz feels this is not the Lonely Planet takes place in a map store that is run by the play's protagonistJody, played by Megan Barry.Jody chooses case. ''History, I believe is not the story of grand acts and never to leave the map store because he has an apprehension masterpieces.

History, instead, is the inexorable for the outside world. Meanwhile, Jody's friend Carl, played accumulation of tiny events-footsteps and glances, hands in

by Shawn Aaron, brings chairs into the map store, each signifying the death of a friend. Tension is built around Carl the soil, broken promises, bursts of laughter," Dietz wrote prompting the reluctant Jody to leave the map store as a step "Historians may focus on the famous, familiar names-but history itself is made, day after day, by all th<15e whose names toward being responsible for his life.

The previous synopsis might make you think that the are never known, all th<15e who never made a proclamation play is about a furniture collector and an agoraphobic map or held an office."

Dietz presents this message in Lonely Planet with the seller, but that is not to understand the play. To understand essence of the symbolic chairs, which were influenced by the

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Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs. Each deceased friend leaves his own Darridaesque trace of the life with each chair he leaves behind. Carl uses these chairs to carry on the voices of his friends.

"There is a part of lonely planet that shows how traces of us live on. Carl starts to take on the voices of all of his friends, and depending on when you ask him he writes for a tabloid or he is an auto glass repair person or he is one of many other things," Haymaker said.

Sound complicated enough? Well it doesn't get any less complicated on a personal level. The Metro production lost its original Jody almost a month into the rehearsal of the play.

Since then, Megan Barry has been playing catch-up on her character.

"To do a character analysis, learn all the blocking, and nail down her lines is difficult to do in three weeks. There is a lot of monologue. So she has come a long way in a shore lime," Haymaker said.

Any struggle that has to be endured does not seem to bother Haymaker who will be doing the first night of Lonely Planet as a benefit for Project Angel Heart and the Colorado Aids Project. ''A quote that I always like to remember is from Emerson who says 'Be useful."' Haymaker said. ':i\nd I gues.s that is what I would always like to dcris to create change for people."

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Let's face it! We live in an age of advertising marathons and blitzes, most of which end up being disappointments. Remember The Truman Show, Jurassic Park, and the television sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. After so many letdowns we would be fool· ish to remain optimistic.

It came as no surprise, then, that the play Tantalus, with its length and anticipation, would come under a certain amount of scrutiny.

Fortunately, the epic Tantalus pulls itself out of the cynical trap with a profound script and great stage performances from actors and creative staff.

There is no easy way to describe the epic Tantalus without first giving an outline of the show. But giving a synopsis of the play is an epic in itself. The struggle in this case is that the "play" is accually a collection of cen plays spanning a performance rime of ten and a half hours.

Hence, che following outline of the Tantalus.

Part I: The Outbreak of War Prologue Asouvenir vendor, David Ryal!, happens upon a beach where a multiplicity of bikini·laden women is sunbathing (chis is enough co draw at least half of the audience in). The vendor begins telling che story of the Trojan Wars to the chorus of women (Vickie Tanner, Christina Pawl, Robin Terry, Jeanne Paulson, Tess Lina, Francesca Carlin), who find themselves engrossed in the Greek Tragedy.

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Priam and Odysseus Telephus The Trojans attempt to convince Priam (Greg Hicks) to let the Sec in Mycenae, the chorus of woman find that a fleet of wooden horse inside the city walls. Troy is tackled and the Trojan Greek soldiers have mistakenlyinvaded Mysia, rather than Troy, in women, including Priam's wife Hecuba (Ann Mitchell) are taken their quest for Helen. hostage.

Agamemnon (Greg Hicks) tells his wife Clytemnestra (Nicole PooQ of the mishap. King Telephus of Mysia (David RyalQ arrives Part III : The Homecomings with a leg wound caused by the warrior Achilles (Roberc Peckoff) in the mistaken war.

Cassandra Now back in Thrace, Hecuba attempts to revolt with the Iphigenia other Trojan woman. Cassandra (Alyssa Bresnahan), a soothsayer, The Greek war fleet is ready to set sail for Troy, but with one predicts Agamemnon's fait. problem; there is no wind. Apparently, Agamemnon offended the goddess Artemis by killing one of her stags. In order to appease Hermione Artemis, Agamemnon must sacrifice his favorite daughcer Several years after the end of the war, the viccors find chat Iphigenia (Mia Yoo). Agamemnon is torn between the sacrifice of home is not what it used to be. his daughter and winning the battle against Troy (can I get a vote for father of the year).

Helen & Epilogue Helen is placed on trial for her part in the war. The fate of Part II: The War Helen is decided as the western people are thrown a twist. ~eoptolemus These events may seem difficult to follow, but the cast of Sec on the outskirts of Troy, the Greeks plan to trick the Tantalus binds them into one seamless production. Tantalus Trojans by hiding inside a wooden horse and infiltrating the city receives monumental performances from its international cast walls. In order to do this, 'eoptolemus (Robert Petkoff) must (rehearsal for the play lasted six months). Greg Hicks delivers a wear a dress to pose as the sacrifice the Trojan's have requested. solid performance as the stoic Agamemnon. As the Greek's situaNeoptolemus does not wish to lie and the relentless Peleus tion worsens, Hicks voice remains almost machine-like in its abil(David RyalQ and Odysseus (Alan Dobie) try to convince him oth- ity to show Agamemnon's acquiescence to fate contradicting with erwise. his grasp of reason.

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am responsible for what that creature did," said have created a conglomerate of myth, ness, to hegemony.

One such a scene occurs when the Spartans Agamemnon following one of his unthinkable metaphor and satire.

Barton proves that he can weave a attack Mysia in their quest to conquer Troy. The actions.

Giving another remarkable performance metaphor like no other, as Tantalus becomes a attack happened by mistake, but ruined the entire city and its people. As a was Alyssa Bresnahan as metaphor this scene resonates Cassandra. With contagious events that took place during the frustration, Cassandra's bombing o f a mistaken target in prophetic view of the future is Iraq

by American soldiers. eclipsed by her unheard voice.

On another level Tantalus is a She can only watch as she satire that comments on subjecrs reme~bers the tragic events like war, brutality roward women, that will soon happen. and colonization.

Here Barton and So far so good, but what Hall's style is a progressive in-yourabout all the hype surrounding face social commentary. the "world-class" artistic direcTake the purpose of the Trojan tors? Tantalus, again, does not War for instance. The war began fall flat. when Helen was abducted and The set, which was arranged taken ro Troy. The Greeks want ro

by Dionysis Fotonopoulos, is retrieve her and decide that there not immediately impressive. As must be a war against the Trojans. the play moves fo1ward, the set Yet we are mid that Helen is actualproves just how dynamic it reaJly happy in Troy and would not like ly is. One scene shows the r:wenro leave. For the Greeks, this was ty-some foot high wheels of the apparently not enough to dissuade Trojan Horse being wheeled their thoughts of war. into Troy in a foggy orange haze.

Barton masterfully shows that Another scene pulls a rabmost of our problems are created bi t-out-of-the-hat trick when when we choose to play out roles Peleus dumps the contents of that may not be all that practical. his mug on the ground as This point is punctuated in the Thetis, the sea nymph, emerges. sixth play when Cassandra and Equally as impressive is the Agamemnon remove their masks. costume design, also arranged Hauntingly, their real faces are

by Fotonopoulos. Within the revealed and the audience is P. Switzer~ CHWt for tilePe-rfonll119 Alltl play there are sixty-some masks, reminded how much they have each tailored ro a specific actor. Robert Petkoff as Neoptolemus, 路front, Ann Mitchell as Hecuba, accepted the masks of the cast. It is The masks and costumes quickly mlddle, and Greg Hicks as Priam, back perform In Tantalus at only after this that Agamemnon become icons that give Tantalus the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. and Cassandra can view their its unique flavor. As the director world with utter clarity.

Edward Hall said, "We finally ended up with a complex departure from reality that comments "I hear them and I feel them as I did when cross between I.aura Kraft-Tomb Raider meets on many contemporary issues. The beauty is that Barton does not state, he only suggests. I was a boy," said the mask less Agamemnon, some comic. It's very vivid and very surreal."

A play as long as Tantalus will complicate Viewers will find themselves thinking of con- "Maybe one day what's lost will be found again." just about every area of performance. One such temporary problems that range from homelessarea is the lighting design created by Sumio Yoshii.

Complicated as it may have been, Yoshii pulls off astounding lighting effects that demonstrate why he was brought here from the other side of the globe.

With such a great supporting cast, Tantalus' real battle is to remain substantive. The artistic purpose behind Tantalus was to create a myth that would become a metaphor for our times, yet remain timeless. 路 In P. Switzer/DHYfl Cfft.t for lH ~nni99 llltl motion, the playwright (John Priam, played by Greg Hicks, performs with the chorus of Tantalus at the Denver Center for the Performing Barton) and direc- Arts. tor (Sir Peter Hall)

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Finally, a home for film in Denver, with a $5M name The Denver Film Society is coming to the Tivoli-for gooc' this time.

When the societ) announced a press conference at the Chris Ward Tivoli theaters to announce "A new era of film ... for Den\'er & Colorado." few had any doubts of \\'hat the surprise announcement would be. Fe\\' people in rhat mo\路ie theater the morning of :\ov. 28 expected to hear anything other than "The Denver Film Society will be moving into the Tivoli." \X'hat was a surprise was the extent to which the society will be moving m.

Ctilizing an expected $12 million in donations, the society and the University of Colorado at Denver are completely renovaring the space. \X'ith office space, classrooms, a grandiose main theater, and a gallery, the proposed center is unrecognizable next to what A.\1C theaters left behind.

It's wonderful to finally have a permanent home for ftlm lovers in Denver, and even better to have it right on campus.

The Film Society has been looking for a home for several years, operating out of rented office spaces while the search turned up few prospects. While its current space on Larimer Square has a decent \~e'lv and isn't located too far from where they house the Denver International Film Festival, a society dedicated to the ftlm arts deserves to have access to a place to display those arts, 52 weeks a year.

Furthermore, it will provide a workspace for CV-Denver's film and video production classes; a film department \'~thout a movie theater is a terrible thing.

But they ran into a stumbling block when it came to naming rights. In a town where the name of a football is under constant debate, Starz Encore managed to imbed themselves into everything at the FilmCemer (sorry, the Starz Encore FilmCenter) with little or no objection.

This is obviously because the largest chunk of the bill for all this is being picked up by Starz Encore and its CEO, John Sie. Granted, if someone poured S5 million into renovating a building, they can put their name on it. But the naming rights to every festival that goes on there? Now Auraria will play host to the Starz Encore Denver International Film Fesrival, the Starz Encore Jazz on Film Fesitval and the Starz Encore Jewish Film Festival, among others.

I guess it could be worse; Sie could have plastered his own name all over the center. I'd have trouble keeping a strait face while buying tickets for the John Sie Pan African Film Festival.

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TAURUS: There seems to be some apparent conflict, but it is of a healthy variety, and may yield some unexpected benefi!S in the form of totally new approaches co routine situations. Don't make hasty decisions regarding financial matters until you know che whole story.

GEMINI: You and your significant other may make a wonderful connection and the sense that you are growing doser will bring boch of you joy. Success will be yours, even if it is of a low-key nature. You know you've made great strides, and soon the right people will notice.

CANCER: Try to take it easy this week. You have been going at a frantic pace, and it will start to catch up wich you. Decisions made hastily may be flawed, so put off action until you have all the facts. TI·eat yourself to something special, and maybe someching a licde frivolous.

LEO: You will gee ahead by working hard. Nothing less chan your reputation is at stake, bur no need to worry since your work is usually above reproach. Expect a litde bit of a delay, because soon you'll be riding on the crest of success. The spotlight is yours, you deserve it.

VIRGO: Prosperity is an issue, so instead of whining, take action. Work a linle harder and you'll be surprised at the financial results. Asurge of inspiration will enable you to get through any potentially rough situations - clear all avenues of communication.

LIBRA: t:se your clouc to get some new and different changes off the ground ac work. Friends and co-workers can really come in handy now. You're working for no less than the greater good of all involved- remember this. Don't be taken in by careless flirting with someone new.

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Allow troublesome obstacles to dissolve themself. You can't hasten this process by hovering and worrying needlessly.

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With ~letro coach Mike Dunlap and new Colorado Christian coach Brannon Hays on the same couitat the same rime, the men's Thanksgi..,ing Basketball Classic at the Auraria Events Center could have been mistaken for a family reunion "I don't like an}rrhing about it," Dunlap said of coaching against Hays instead of coaching with him. ''Thac's my son."

Although che cwo men don't have any family ties, for the past decade they h:m.! come up \\~th coundess winning strategies for the same tC'dllls. Hays played under Dunlap for two years, and served as an assistant ccrach to Dunlap for the past eight years. Hays' last three years with Dunlap were at .Metro, in which he helped build che Roadrunners into d1e reigning i\CAA DiW.ion II Champions.

Dunbp has been an exemplary coaching champion for Hays, and both men knew the day would come when Hays would be commanding his own plarers on the opposite sideline. And on Nov. 2~. Hays was doing JUSt that. ·'It's very weird," Hays said of being on the opposite side, "considenng the fact that I know everybody in the gym. Alot of the players I knew from last year's program. It just feels awkward being on the \isitor's side."

And on the losing side for chat matter.

While the day after Thanksgiving is usually reserved for fascing, the Roadrunners were scill feasting-mostly on rebounds and the Cougars' curnovers, as the Roadrunners extended its home winning streak to 26 games with a 67-40 win over Colorado Christian.

The Roadrunners' defense chewed up the Cougars' offense atcaclc, forcing 20 turnovers while seniors Rashawn Fulcher and Jcxiy Hollins crashed the boards for 26 rebounds, 12 of the on the offensive side.

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Clayton Smith goes up for a layup against a Colorado Christian defender Nov. 24. Metro men hosted the Thanksgiving Basketball Classic over the holiday break.

"Metro just killed us on rl1e offensive glass and rl1eir defensive pressure at rimes put us back on our heels," Hays said. "We had a hard rime getting into our offense."

Merro (1-1) out-rebounded Colorado Christian (0-3) 43-33 for the game and had a commanding 21-11 advantage on the offensive glass. And its swarming three-quaners court defensive press

thwaned the Cougars offensive to a rudderless morion.

Colorado Christian didn't reach double digits until there was 3: 16 left before halftime.

Junior guard Joe Kelly scored all 11 of his points in the first half, connecting on 3-of-8 three-pointers, helping Metro to a 21- point first see KELLY page21

Metro wins sloppy home opener 63-44 over Fort Lewis

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It may have not been pretty, but the Metro women's basketball team will take the win.

The Roadrunners won its home opener of the 2000-01 season by defeating Fort Lewis 63-44 in the Metro Thanksgiving Classic on Nov. 24.

The first half, neither team looked like they came out ready to play It took almosc rwo minutes into the game before anyone scored a baskec (Fort Lewis) and almost four minutes before the Roadrunners posted their first points of the comest.

At the end of the first period, neither team was shooting che ball well. Both teams were shooting well under 40 percent (Mecro at 30 percent and Fort Lewis 37.5) both were in double figures in turnorers. Through all of that the Roadrunners had a slim three point lead, 27-24.

'That's been the story this whole year," said coach Mike Power. "We are so banged up, all we have is an inside game.

"We have a few people who can shoot it from the outside, but when people are locking up the inside, we have 10 shoot from the perimeter and we aren't knocking them down."

But when the second period started, there was a different Metro team that came out ready to play.

The Roadrunners (2·1) used two 11-0 runs in the second period to gain leads of 13 and 21 points which put the Skyhawks (0-3) out of the game for good.

The first 11-0 run came at the start of the second half following baskets from both teams. Something must have clicked as both the Roadrunners offense and defense came alive. Instead of turning the ball over on offense, the Roadrunners were making the shoots. On defense, Metro were

getting the rebounds and steals that was turning into easy transition points. point lead by freshman junior Natasha Zachavora four points, pushed the Roadrunners advantage to 40-29.

The last 11-0 run came at the end of the contest, with freshman Rachael Grove and junior Stacy Koehler converting on free throws to give the Roadrunners a 21-point lead, 63-24.

"That's us, we are a team of spurts both offensively and defensively," Power said. "We can go five, six minutes without scoring or we can go five, six minutes and go on runs like we did. We just need co make a litcle less- of those dry runs."

The Roadrunners numbers improved in the second, shooting nearly 38 percent (37.8) and for the first rime all season, they had less turnovers, (22·35) then cheir opponent.

Leading Metro offensively was sophomore Malene Lindholm, who at the half scored 14 points and had seven rebounds, includmg five on the offensive side. She finished the game with a season high 21-points and nine rebounds.

Power was really pleased with the performance of his forward.

"Malene played the best game chis season," Power said.

"Natasha (Zacharova) was sick, she had the flu and Malene came in and stepped it up anocher level and we really needed it."

Two other Roadrunners finished in double-digits in scoring, Zacharova with 13 points and nine rebounds and Grove, also with 13 points, had eight rebounds.

The following night, the Roadrunners lost to Central Missouri State in the championship game 92-56. Metro had three players in double-digits, with Zacharova leading the way with 14 points. Grove and Lindholm had 11 points each in a losing effort.

Metro center Rachel Grove attempts a jump shot during a game against Fort Lewis Nov. 24. The Metro

women hosted the Roadrunner tournament over the Thanksgiving holiday break.

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Metro's Men's basketball player Kane Oakley is like a snowball rolling down a mountain and there's no telling what the momentum of his senior year will bring.

This Australian native 6-S-220lbs senior is a menacing center on the court who has improved his game tremendously from season to season. Off the court he's positive person to have in Metro's athletic program.

There is some college players who are cocky about themselves and their game, but Oakley isn't. His humble attitude and win/win situation thinking has allowed him to fully utilize his station at Metro.

Oakley said playing basketball in American is almost a dream come true.

"It's sort of an Australian dream to go play college basketball ... in America." Oakley said. "We do not have high school or college basketball in Australia like what they have here."

The aspect of playing street ball that is common in American, is not so in Australia.

"As coach says, the Australians come over with no 'hoochycooch' in their game. We don't go out and play street ball like they do over here. You don't see many Australians (play street basketball) we'll go out and just shot around with each other but no one gets serious and plays one on one with each other for four hours like the young American kids out here do."

Playing here in America, though, has put a litde "hoochy coach" into Oakley's game.

His most developed strength is his ability to block the shot. He broke his own single season school record of 56 blocked shots, set his sophomore year, as he blocked 60 shots last season.

He has 130 career-blocked shots and ranks third all-time at Metro and he needs 41 to become the school's all-time leader.

Oakley's defensive contributions are astounding.

Not only is he blocking the sho~ he's creating turnovers. In his

first two season's at Metro, Oilkle}• had a combined 24 steals, 10 in his freshman and 14 in his sophomore year. last year, he compiled a career-high 38.

Coach Mike Dunlap said besides being ashot blocker, Oakley can also cover a great deal of ground.

"He's somebody that is athletic he can run the floor and (he's) very fluid," Dunlap said. "He was top ten in the country last year in blocked shots. He actually helps his teammates out by covering mistakes."

On the offensive side of the ball, Oakley keeps improving his point output year in and year out. He went from averaging 2.9 points a game in his first season, to 4.3 and 7.8 his sophomore and junior years, respectfully.

Dunlap has seen the improvements in Oakle}' over the years and likes what he sees.

"I think that he's mentally matured a lot," Dunlap said. "He wants to play professional basketball in Australia. He has sacrificed a lot in four years to lift weights, get a multitude of shots up daily and by being in the states for four years. That commitment speaks volumes."

While Dunlap credits Oakle}·'s improvement in basketball to his "mental maturity," in turn, Oakley feels being a student athlete helps him mature for the rest of his life.

"When you go into the work force, you're going to need the same skills (that a person acquires as a student athlete). You're going to need to be able to balance two things ar once.," Oakley said. "In a way, having been a student athlete is just a way of preparing yourself for the future."

Dunlap said since O,ikley has been around for a while, Dunlap looks to Oakley to set good examples to the younger players in the program.

"Off the floor he's just a guy who understands whar we expect," Dunlap said. "How we set up our tradition. So, he helps a lot of guys with a lot of s~ thin~ "He's one of our leader on and off the floor. He's one of the

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Senior Kane Oakley spllts two Nebraska-Kearney defenders In the semi-finals In the 2000 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

major reasons we've had so much success over his time here."

Oakley's has ar least one goal set for himself this season.

"I just want to try and be consistent," Oakley said. 'Tm not saying we're not going to win the championship, I'm not saying that we are going win the championship. I just want have a great year with my team."

Roadrunners continue winning ways at home each connected on three-point shots to open the the game, the Cougars were backed up and out second half as Metro begin to build its lead. from underneath the rim by lane dwellers, Fulcher halflead.

Cougars senior center Tom Dettman, who and Hollins.

Colorado Christian did restore some kind of "We thought we had a better depth as far as finished with a game high 15 points to go with 12 ballast to the scoreboard, with Cougar Matt rebounds, tried to provide some spark with two size wise that we could go to," Hollins said.

Chambles.s hitting two three-pointers down the Ftrst there was Fulcher, who at 6-foot-2 used stretch, to help dose the gap to 35-21 at dunks late in the game. The second one was a stuff his 39-inch vertical to oudeap the 6-foot-11 off a missed Cougar shot and brought the small intermis.5ion. But Metro wouldn't let the Cougars Colorado Christian contingent to their feet.

Dettman, on many occasions. Fulcher finished the get any closer.

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The chips in the cookie represent the wins and the good times during Mike Power the season. Some teams have lots of chip.s in their cookie and others have less and still others have next to none. The following is a recipe for a very good chocolate chip cookie.

Step 1: To make a good cookie, you must prepare well and have the right ingredients. As coach, or chef, we must go shopping!

When we go looking for the right ingredients, we call this recruiting. At the Division II level, you have a limited budget with which to go shopping

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front of smaller Cougar defenders and bullied his way to the board at will for eight offensive rebounds, which resulted in most of his 12 points.

"He worked the boards very hard," Dunlap saidofHollins, who had 14 rebounds overall. 'That made a difference for us. He gave us a real shoe in the arm."

'That's Jody's biggest strength-rebounding," Hays added. "He just killed us on the glas.s tonight."

with. So some coaches go for the bargain The next step is when you find out if the Some cookies will be in the oven too long, they will be hard and it will hurt co take a bite. '«e ingredients, while others take their time to find dough was really any good. the prefect ingredients.

Step 3: Bake the dough for 8-10 minutes at see this from a team who didn't have the right We may be called picky at times, but without 375 degrees. This cooking is what we call the ingredients and the heat of the season got them the right ingredients you cookie will do one of the season. producing too many losses. following: fall apart, taste bad or worse, not have After all the preparation, we put the dough in Some cookies look good, but when you pick any chip.s in it at all. the heat and we see what kind of cookie it will it up, it falls apart. This comes from teams that Step 2: Mix the produce. make it to the tournament but fall apart at the ingredients together and ~~ In the oven, the heat will eit.her most important time. make the dough. This is Then there is the cookie that is full of ' . - ~""\ make or break the dough, JUSt conditioning and the prechocolate chips and tastes great. ~ call these ~ ~- ~ ~ like the season for the team. / season. ~~· ~---~~ Whenit'sdone,wetake types of cookies champions.

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Which is like some experienced chefs, such as Chef Mike your dough. ~ • ~~ · ~ ;-, ' our season, we put Dunlap of the men's basketball team and Chef So as the chef, we must either add or ~, the team through Debbie Hendricks of the volleyball team, they subtract from the ingredients to make che the heat and at the have both won a national championship! dough just right. There are many teams who think end we see what we have.

We hope our team and coaching staff will be they have the right dough and later find out that Step 4: Take a bite and see what it tastes like. able to produce the perfect chocolate chip cookie they had the wrong ingredients.

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Metro's volleyball ended its season by dropping a four-game match co Rocky Mouncain Athletic Conference rival Regis in che Ne.Ms Southwest Regional Tournament on Nov. 16.

Bue who would have thoughc the Roadrunners' season would go that far?

Coming off the worst record (10-21) in school history last year, Metro broughc in a new coach, a handful of new players, and the new coach and players had only the summer co gee to know one another.

But what the team accomplished-a 21-9 overall record, and the second best RMAC record at 16-3-in such a short time, created a buzz that surpas.sed many people's expectations.

F.xcepc those of the head architecture herself, who knew the Roadrunners would be a force in the RMAC. "I knew we had the athletic abilicy and I felt like we had good quality kids," said flfSt-year coach Debbie Hendricks. 'i\nd when you put chose cwo things together with a little bit of leadership and willingness to buy inro a philosophy, you can become successful in a hurry.

"Entering into this season I expected nothing less than what we did. Others may have had lesser expectations and that's OK. That is what probably helped us, is that a lot of people looked past us and that gave us a lot of motivation and gave us a chance to sneak up on some people."

In the mist of a 13-match win streak, Metro put its full potential on display Sept. 19, when they knocked off No. 10 Northern Colorado in a thrilling five-set match.

In that contest, the Roadrunners produced the second highest

team total of as.sists in a match with 84, and the third highest number of that". of kills with %.

Something they can build on.

But the team couldn't win a post-season match, leaving not only a pickled taste on the player's' tongues, but left something to crave for next year.

'1t's almost a cliche, and you hate to say it, but I think we peaked a little early," Hendricks said. "We played our best volleyball in October, rather than in November. We met a lot of our goals and the goals we didn't meet will motivate us for next year."

With the key parts of the machinery returning, next year should be more exciting.

Junior transfers Marina Bazana (458 kills), Mei-Rong Lu (329), and Diana Marques (203) will be seniors next year. Bazana and Lu are RMAC first team selections and both earned player-Of-the-week honors. Ba7.ana also won the RMAC Player-Of-the-Year a\vard and was named to the RMAC All-Tournament team.

Freshmen Jesse Roy, Michelle McBurney and Devon Herron can only get betcer and stronger for next year. Roy was second on the team with 423 kills, earned player-Of-the-week honors and is a second team All-Conference selection. McBumey recorded 292 kills and led the team with 118 total blocks. Herron, meanwhile, earned the league's Freshman-Of-the-Year award by dishing out 1,419 assists, and leading Division II with a 14.33 assist per game average, breaking the previous school mark of 13.53.

Add five bodies for depth co that core and the ceam should rise to the next level Hend1icks said. And maybe than che Roadrunners Scott Sme ltzer/Ill• metropollton will earn an A, instead of an A-.

'This is one of the besc groups I've ever worked with," said Freshman sette r Devon Herron will be a key returner Hendricks, who gave her team a B- grade. "As far as their abilicy to for the Roadrunners next season. mesh and cruse each other and come together-they did a good job

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"We are disappointed that we didn't win the conference "Obviously making the NCAA tournament it's the ultimate goal rournament," Crookham said. "We are disappointed that we are not for every team that starts in August," said coach Brian Crookham. playing in the final eight, we feel like our team is good enough to do "We made the tournament, we broke a barrier that had been broken, that. it's a big thing for our program."

"We have to learn is that we have to win that one extra game that .For the first time since 1990, the Roadrunners swept a season gives us a home game in the tournament instead of an away game." series fromFort Lewis, who started the season off as the No. 1 team At the start of the season, the question was who was going to in the nation. replace Metro's all-time leading scorer Jared Zanon.

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In 1999, Gallardo only saw action in eight games-and scored one goal and added one as.sist for three points. This past season, in 19 games, Gallardo netted 17 goals and added three assists for 37 points.

Gallardo's 17 goals in a season were the most since Tim Yunger set the mark back in 1990 when he had 18.

His 18 career goals have him tied for fifth all-time, trailing Zanon by 21 goals, which Gallardo could easily gee in two more seasons. His 40 career points has him 46 behind 7.anon, again he could get in two more seasons.

Crookham said he feels that with the work that Gallardo did last spring really helped him out this season.

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Non-CU Denver students can easily apply! Just fill out the "Application for Non-Degree Admissions" found in the back of the schedule of courses and turn it in to the CU Denver Admissions office.

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YMCA winter season. Part-time Saturdays available. If interested contact Angela (303)979-3707.

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Classified ads are 10¢ per word for students 68 PEOPLE NEEDED TO LOSE 10-20 CAPITALISM BREEDS FASCISM! currently enrolled at The Metropolitan State lbs. by holiday. (800)748-2815.

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12/1 College of Denver. For all others - 20¢ per 12/1 (wwwl.minn.net/-nup). word. Maximun;> length for all classified ads is MALE MODELS WANTED - CASTING 30 words. Cl?Ssified ads must be prepaid. We DEAD! IS GOD accept cast( checks, money orders, and cred- for ongoing opportunities. $50 paid for 12/1 (www.atheists.org). 't' it cards (Mastercard and Visa only). The dead- audition. Call Bruce (303)995-7467.

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Call (303)556-2507 for more information. $1500 WEEKLY POTENTIAL MAILING Explore Your Choices... our circulars. Free information. Call •••Before You Make A Decision.

Help Wanted (202)452-7679.

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FITNESS INSTRUCTOR NEEDED TO teach at small, private Corporate Fitness Center downtown. 1-2 lunchtime classes per week. Competitive pay for qualified instructor. Please call Sara at (303)8602032 for more information.

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, <:. . PART-TIME OFFICE ASSISTANT FOR the Diabetes Education Society. Skills: computer, telephone, attention to detail.

16 hours per week, $10/hour. Contact Suzanne or Michael (303)670-7310. ~

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WTOR WANTED FOR A GIFTED FIVE year old with special needs. 9-12 hours/week in our central Denver home. ,... We will train. $10+ I depending on experience. (303)322-2299.

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NEEDED SPORTS COACHES Looking for responsible self-starters to set up and coach after school sport enrichment programs. Many locations.

Coaches are paid well. Call Ben (303)3189702.

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,_ YOUTH BASKETBALL OFFICIALS - needed for the Southwest-Chatfield

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WEDDINGS, VIDEOGRAPHER special occasions, and more... Reasonable & professional. Call Peter Parker Films @ (303)424-0980.

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HOME ASSISTANT JOB

Interviewing students now for great job as home management assistant. Busy working couple in Cherry Creek seeks student to help with house management, errands, walking dog, dinner preparations and occasional house /dog sitting. Desire energetic, organized, self-starting, responsible student who likes dogs. Approximately 20+ hours/week.

Could be full-time during Christmas break.

Start at beginning of December. Top salary for right person. Must have car and references.

Call now at 303-733-7893.

The MSCD Board of Student Publications is seeking three Metropolitan State students to serve as voting members on the advisory group for The Metropolitan newspaper and Metrosphere literary & art magazine. The board meets the first Monday of each month and assures product quality and proper operation of the student publications. One of the student member vacancies is an at large position and two others must be journalism majors.

This a two year appointment.

To apply, stop by the Office of Student Publications, Tivoli 313 or contact Doug Conarroe, Director of Student Publications at (303)556-2507.

THE METROPOLITAN STA.TE COLLEGEefDENVER Office ofStudent Publications

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25-30 Hours/Week You will pick and ship orders, maintain inventory, unload srock and perform cycle counrs. Some heavy lifting required. Various shifrs between 5:00am • 7:00pm.

To qualify, you should be derail-oriented and cusromer-focused wirh the ability ro rhrive in a team environment. A HS diploma or GED is essential. Warehouse experience preferred.

We offer a competirive salary and benefirs package. For consideration, please apply in person or forward resume ro: Grainger, 95 S. Tejon St., Denver, CO 80223-1251 or fax: (303) 744·7646 or e-mail: donmyer.s@grainger.com. No phone calls, please. EOE. Visic us at www.grainger.com.

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WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATES PART-TIME POSITION Starting Pay Rate: $11.00/Hour

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If you are age 21 to 32, healthy, a non-smoker and have some college background, you could have the satisfaction of helping someone in a very special way.

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