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Gov. Bill Owens signs HB1165, which gives Metro an independent governing board and establishes its own board of trustees, some of whom are shown behind Gov. Owens June 7 at the flagpole commons area.

From left: Metro President Sheila Kaplan, Virginia "Gin" Butler, Rep. Nolbert Chavez, Bruce Benson, Sen. Penfield Tate.

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~~~ Owens signs Metro inclepenclence Recently-signed governance bill takes effect July 1, new board of trustees to meet that day for first time John R. Crane

The Metropolitan Gov. Bill Owens signed HB 1165 at Auraria campus June 7, giving Metro its own governance board. That governance board, the Metro Board of Trustees will ?fficially meet for the first time July 1, when the goes rnto effect. ''I want to thank the governor, Tim Foster and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education commissioners, the Trustees of the State Colleges in Colorado, Representative Nolbert Chavez and Senator Penfield Tate, the bill's sponsors, and members of the Colorado House and Senate for their support of House Bill 1165," said Sheila Kaplan, Metro president, during a speech after the bill-signing ceremony.

Chavez, D-Denver, introduced the bill in the College House in January 2001, where it failed because of opponents' fears that it would financially hurt the other colle~es. It passed in January 2002 with nearly unanimous support, and later passed through the Senate. . ''It was a positive move for Metro and the campus," said Dean Wolf, Auraria Higher Education Center's executive vice president of administration.

Under previous policy, Metro, Adams State College, Mesa State College, Fort Lewis College and Western State College were overseen by the Board of Trustees of

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On The Cover: Cassie Vogel, a University of Colorado at Denver junior, gets her first chance to rappel down a rock as a part of Campus Recreations summer rock climbing class June 23.

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State Colleges of Colorado. The board distributed funds among the schools according to budgetary needs.

Under that allocation system, however, per-student state funding for Metro was less than that of other colleges. As much as $4 million was taken away from Metro and given to the other schools, said Joan Foster, president of the Faculty Senate at Metro.

After the bill takes effect July 1, Metro will have its own board of trustees, and the state board will have a base fund for the other colleges to fall back on when enrollment fluctuates at those colleges. Metro's move for independence reflects a statewide trend.

According to a June 14 Denver Post article, Fort Lewis College was granted independence at the beginning of June. Adams State in Alamosa, Western Sate in Gunnison and Mesa State in Grand·Junction are also contemplating a break from the state system according to the Post. ' Supporters of those schools present an argument for autonomy similar to those of Metro; they are tired of having their budgets overseen by a distant state system that is detached from their local needs.

"For example, we have quite a few seniors and health-care facilities in Grand Junction, and people in the health-care field here have mentioned a real desire for short-term intensive training for nursing assistants," Rep. Gayle Berry, R- Grand Junction, told the Post June 14. "When you have a distant system-wide board, it takes longer to be responsive to immediate local needs."

With or without the state college system, times are tight budget-wise for Colorado colleges and universities.

According to a May 30 Rocky Mountain News article, budgets have been cut by $200 million at schools across the state this year.

With Colorado recovering more slowly than other states from the economic slump and fires draining state resources by the hour, the budget forecast for Metro for the coming fiscal year is rather grim.

Metro Board of Trustees Members The following individuals were appointed to the Metro State Board of Trustees by Gov. Bill Owens June 7: ·Bruce Benson, CEO of Benson Mineral Group, Inc., a Denver- based oil and gas production company. He is a past chairman of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. ·Virginia "Gin" Butler, Deputy Director of Small Business Programs for the Governor's Office of Economic Development and International Trade. ·Alex Cranberg, President of Aspect Resources LLC, a company involved in oil and gas exploration and investments. He is also founder and chairman of Alliance and Choice in Education. ·Mark Martinez, former vice president of Merchants Mortgage & Trust Corp. He will be joining Heritage Banks in August. ·Adele Phelan, President Emeritus of the Clayton Foundation and former president of Loretto Heights College. ·Ann Rice, an attorney with the firm of McClure & Eggleston. She has been serving as a trustee of the State Colleges of Colorado. ·Patrick Weisner, CEO of Weisner Productions, a large publisher of regional homes and lifestyles titles and specialty publications including the Colorado business magazin~ Colorado Biz.

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Guadalajara trip journal

Professor awed by Mexican experiences of management in the School of Business h ere at Metro and is a Denver native.

Here are some excerpts from his journal:

Armando Manzana res The Metropolit~n Last issue I reported that I was to report from Guadalajara, Mexico, on my experiences and the new edition of a Doing Business in Mexico course offered by the Metro Language and Culture Institute and the School of Business.

Well, situations beyond my control did not allow me to take part in the study abroad program. However, I was able to get in contact with the professor about whom I wrote, Larry Lopez. He has generously provided me with a journal of his personal accounts in Mexico and his insights into the business course offered.

A brief bio: Lopez is an assistant professor

June 25, 2002

The school is a good one. The language classes in the higher levels are definitely challenging our students.

And typing on a Spanish language keyboard is a real trip. The letters are all in the same places, but there are so many other Larry Lopez keys that are not where you expect them. And then there are the '?i in °)(,- it gets really weird to

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Mexico is a land of vast contrasts and contradictions. It truly is a multiplefaceted culture, with subcultures intricately woven into the larger ones. We have toured sites that are thousands of years old and colonial sites that are over five hundred years old. Really interesting.

The culture is very old. The people on the whole are very nice, considerate and friendly. However, very few people here in Guadalajara speak English. So, like it or not, and all of us really enjoy this, we speak a lot of Spanish in every situation.

Not always easy when you are trying to buy a specific medication or remedy... but, worth the effort.

This program is a success because of the nature of the people who run it from Metropolitan State College, to here at the Universidad de Guadalajara. The ease with which Dr. Conde moves from culture to culture is virtually akin to the manner that an eagle moves from its nest (aerie) to the clouds and back again. It is a remarkable feat to observe.

The "Doing Business in Mexico" course is also a positive surprise. We are being educated by the "Chair" (Director) of the teachers of Public Policy here at the Universidad.

This gentleman is a Fullbright Scholar and very hard-working. We have learned a great deal about what it means to be in business here in Mexico. Personally, I was a critic of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) before seeing the positive effect it has had on this economy.

Some of the preconceptions are long

gone now that we enter our third week of classes. One is that things are cheap in Mexico. This is not generally true because the cost of most items are on a par with Denver, except for the Denver real estate market, which is aberrant, and too similar to California. Drugs and medicines are very expensive compared to our stores.

There are, however, real deals around. You just have to search them out and enjoy the process of negotiation.

Two things I believe that I was unprepared for: the drivers and being a target. I really meant to say pedestrian, the reality slipped out. My sprinting ability has saved me many times. And for those pedestrians in Colorado who continue to walk in front of automobiles in Denver, PLEASE, come to Mexico, it will permanently change your attitude, one way or the other.

Well, Armando, this is about all I can do tonight, as my first midterm in 30 years is tomorrow, and not withstanding my age, I still want to do well.

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This is also a first-time journey for Lopez. Growing up in Northwest Denver, he too has had many of t he same encount ers being of Latin descent growing up in the western United States . He has limited k nowledge of Spanish and is the in the first year Spanish courses in Guadalajara. Be sure to tune for the last issue of the summer as Lopez has offered to continue to report for us and wrap up the program.

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Denver Grand Prix construction slows down student commute on parkway Walter Gant

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Barring an extraordinary event, the Denver Grand Prix will move ahead on schedule for Labor Day weekend. This should lead to a wild weekend with the Taste of Colorado also going on. The course travels around the Pepsi Center, keeping it away from most traffic.

However, students atAuraria campus have already started to see the effects.

Construction is in full swing on Auraria Parkway and 9th street.

Construction on the road is being provided by the city of Denver. They are only covering $50,000 of the construction.

The organizers of the event have decided to pick up the rest of the construction, which is around $1.3 million .

The track is 1.65 miles and has a nine -turn circuit. They hope to attract around 100,000 people and are well on their way to reaching this goal through advance ticket sales, according to the Rocky Mountain News.

Problems might arise for students when they return to school. Construction should be finished, but there will be fine -tuning going on until the race. The area where they are doing construction is the

main way to pull into the Tivoli parking lot.

Traffic is OK during summer school. The race, however, is not until Labor Day weekend, two weeks after school starts.

Students are likely to be a little upset.

A benefit of the construction is more tourism dollars in the state. It also helps to repair more city roads.

The city has a seven-year contract and an option for five more after that, according to the Rocky Mountain News. As long as the race is successful, they would have to comply.

Sponsors for the event are businessman George Gillett, Kroenke Sports and the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach, a subsidy of Dover Downs Entertainment.

Shanaon Davidson -The Metropolitan Construction along Auraria Parkway gets a green light in preparation for the Grand Prix of Denver coming Aug. 31 - Sept. 1.

Metro students help fire relief Jenni Grubbs

The Metropolitan The Hayman Fire has burned more than 137,000 acres and cost more than $21 million to tame it to its now 70 percent containment.

The effort has depended on volunteers and donations to keep it in food, water and shelter.

Metro COOL is accepting donations until July 2 for the relief effort in

Hayman and other Colorado wildfires.

Items being accepted include: sports drinks, energy bars, sunscreen, pillows, blankets, socks, shirts, underwear, foot lotion, flip flops, shoe insoles, pens, cough drops, nasal spray, foot powder, dental floss, lip balm, razors and travel-sized shampoo, toothpaste and shaving cream.

Items can be dropped in the blue box at the Tivoli information desk.

The donations will be taken to the Salvation Army July 3 for distribution.

Michael Rieger -hllp://129.33.11.33/colorado/haymon Castle Rock - North Fork volunteer firefighters construct a line around a house on the north side of the Hayman Fire.

So far the response has been good, said Gretta Mincer from Student Activities. "We have gotten some travel items and sports drinks," she said. "We could still use more supplies."

For more information call (303) 5562595.

Quick Facts (based on 6124102 at 6 p.m. information)

Location: The fire, which began approximately 8 miles NW of Lake George in the Tarryall drainage (north of Highway 24), has moved north/northeast past and surrounding Cheeseman Lake, beyond Trumbull.

Date of Origin: 6/8/02, reported at 4PMMDT. Size: 137,000 acres Cause: Illegal fire. Arrest made, U.S. Attorney is handling.

Contained: 70% Structures Lost: 133 known residences, 1 commercial property and 484 outbuildings lost. Assessment continues.

Personnel Assigned: 2,285 firefighters on scene, 50 handcrews.

Injuries: Five Oregon firefighters killed when their vehicle overturned, two others injured; 50-year-old woman died of an asthma attack after breathing smoke.

Equipment Assigned: 19 helicopters, 107 engines, 3 dozers.

Cost to Date: $26,165,000

news briefs SGA president und.e r fire Metro Student Government Assembly President Steven Evans, aka Brotha Seku, recently had a judicial complaint filed against him for violating the Student Code of Conduct.

Seku is accused of"disruptive and abusive behavior" at an SGA meeting, according to a letter sent to Judicial Affairs Officer Elyse Yamauchi by SGA Adviser Joanna Duenas.

If the judicial committee finds against Seku, he could lose his SGA position and be held from registering for classes.

Seku had until June 25 to respond. Attempts to contact Seku for comment were unsuccessful.

GLBTSS keeps olcl name, moves lo new office Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Services has decided to keep their old name, only adding -gender to Trans-. They decided to stick with the familiar, despite its length, according to Karen Benson, GLBTSS director.

GLBTSS will, however, be moving. Currently located in Tivoli 311, it will head downstairs to Tivoli 213. The move is scheduled and on track for late July with an open house set for August 27.

-Jenni Grubbs

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Walter Gant Staff Columnist This summer I've engaged in a lot of interesting conversations. The one that has stuck in my head the longest is the media's way of creating stories that are not really there.

The newest story that has America paying attention to nothing is the abduction of Elizabeth Smart. There are a lot of things wrong with that story.

The first thing is this wouldn't be a story if the girl lived in a trailer park.

She comes from an affluent family, which makes this more newsworthy. It is not fair, but money talks.

Second, this story can't change laws or affect public opinion. This case will drag on until someone is arrested. By that time, the little girl could be dead.

Yet she will be put on display for

America as another missing child.

This amount of energy should always be put into missing children. It shouldn't be about money when a child's life is at stake.

Rilya Wilson, the little girl under the care of the State of Florida, was missing for a year before anyone realized it.

That story has potential to force not only Florida but every state to revamp its child welfare laws. No child should be missing, especially one under state supervision. Everyone is pointing a finger, but solutions must be reached.

They owe it to that little girl.

Florida is starting to account for all children under its supervision. That's good. Now they must address the faults so this doesn't happen again.

Politicians also fall into this witchhunt. We try to seek out everything wrong with them and forget the reason they do what they do. I don't care whom politicians have affairs with. That's a private matter. They will have to deal with their spouses, which should be worse than anything we say about them should.

What I care about is how well they are living up to their election promises and what they are doing to improve healthcare, education and military expenses.

You could ask the average person who represents them in the US Senate or House and they probably couldn't tell you three of the eight people. If you do not know who is there, how could you find out what they voted for? They are quick to tell you if they voted for something popular, yet what about all the stuff they voted against that could have helped people in this state? In my world, that's the real news. All the personal stuff is irrelevant. All this "entertainment news" is worthless. We need to start seeing more reality in the news. Not "reality" shows, but the truth on life. I want to see where crime is high, how education is improving, how the crack children of the 1990s grew up in school - stuff that used to be news.

Let's try to act like an educated society.

We don't need to glorify anyone else failing in life.

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The rain was pelting the windshield so hard it sounded like hail. My partner and I watched the road from the cab of our 18wheeler while climbing a hill somewhere in a Kentucky April.

The trailer was partly full and held us back. I could hear the turbo-diesel rumbling under the load, reaching just under the speed we called "double-nickel."

Other rigs were whizzing by at 70 mph, maybe faster. If a truck passes "at that speed in the wind and rain, you don't have to see it. You can feel it.

You hear the roar of the other trucks' tires churning up water and whining like a turbine as they swoosh by. As they passed, I was struck by a question. Why would professional drivers run that fast with so much water on the highway?

Trucks, though they weigh 80,000 pounds fully loaded, can hydroplane, causing their tires to run on top of the water instead of on the road. An empty trailer makes it worse.

The lighter the load, the more you hydroplane. And drivers under the tyranny of time are under an illusion of control. So they push it just a little faster.

My eyes fell on the car on the shoulder

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Driving like there's no to111orroV1 of the road in astonishment. It was the kind of shock that says, "How could anybody live through that?"

It looked like a late model Subaru wagon but was hard to tell. It had been laid open as if some horrific grim reaper had slashed it with a chain saw from front to back. Parked in front of it was the "chain saw," in the form of a semi-truck.

When you cover a couple of states a day, you see a lot on the open road. You see traffic accidents.

Sometimes you see so many roadside crosses it is like passing mile markers instead of monuments. Some of them are plain and white. Some of them have a blaze of colored flowers fixed to the middle or lying at its base.

Some have writing on them not much different from the last expressions of love you see on cemetery grave markers. It can cause a guy to wonder how there can be so many of them.

Standing in a canyon on another day, where shadows were cast by the morning Utah sunshine, I did not want to walk to the motionless man, lying on his back a few yards from his overturned car, for fear of what I would see. When I did, he seemed to be sleeping peacefully, except for the streak of blood on his forehead.

He was unconscious.

He probably had internal bleeding.

From the position and looks of the car, we figured it had rolled three times. The right rear wheel was spinning and smoke came from the undercarriage.

A stranger who arrived on the scene before we did said he had seen the car go

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by at "about Mach 3," a multiple of the speed of sound.

My fellow travelers and I, who were on our way back from a business convention, knew the clock was ticking. But the canyon walls were high and thick. Cell phones and radios would not work.

It would take a half hour to travel the twisted roads to town for an ambulance.

He could bleed to death in that time.

As it turns out, he survived. Had he been farther from town, who knows?

We are in the heat of the summer vacation season. That means road trips.

After 22 years on the road, eight of them professionally, I really do not want to see another roadside cross tearfully hammered into the dirt.

Most people on the road today are under the illusion they have expert control of their vehicles. However, excessive speeds too often get people to their final destination, instead of the one they were hoping for.

The key to a safe trip is to slow down and enjoy the journey. Most of life is, in fact, a journey, not a destination.

Drive with the other guy in mind.

Drive defensively. Get plenty of sleep.

Find a safe place off road to nap if tired.

Coffee and soda pop are not a substitute for sleep. Believe me, I have tried it.

Give the big trucks plenty of room. Do not linger in the same spot if you are driving next to one. You risk being invisible.

If you are in front of one, remember it can take 100 yards for it to stop and the driver may not be as alert as you would like, in spite of commercial laws about rest hours.

Drive with weather and road conditions in mind.

Life is a journey. May the road in front of you be long.

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Giant advice for students, kicls 路 Megan Ehlers The Metropolitan "Very early on, we decided we wanted to actually just do what we liked," said John Flansburgh, who along with John Linnell formed They Might Be Giants in 1983. "If you genuinely do what you like and don't make compromises that make you feel strange ... on an essential level, it's a lot easier to deal with failure." \Vhile Flansburgh says the band has seen failure, they have had many successes, including 10 albums, 13 music videos and several TV theme songs.

They are touring in promotion of their new album No!, the band's first children's album, which is currently No. 1 on Billboard's children's chart.

No! contains 17 songs that are as original and creative as is most of the band's adult work. It includes such titles as Fibber Island, where listeners are encouraged to use their imaginations to "start fibbing in your mind and see what you can find."

Also included is a cover of the 1970s public service announcement In the Middle, In the Middle, In the Middle, sung by Robin Goldwasser, Flansburgh's wife, in which listeners are advised not to cross the street in the middle of the block.

"We've always loved the sounds of kids' records, and I think we've always been interested in the idea of it," Flansburgh said. \Vhile the album is aimed primarily at children, adults can enjoy it too. Flansburgh said that some of his adult friends listened to the album and didn't realize that it was for children.

"They just thought it was an interesting psychedelic record," he said.

Since No! came out June 11, the band has tried several times to do shows just for children, but they found that their loyal adult fans cannot stay away.

''We did an in-store (show) in Boston that was supposed to be ostensibly for kids, and like 400 adults showed up," Flansburgh laughed. "It's kind of like Beatie-mania in reverse - all the parents are coming out."

They Might Be Giants is not afraid to try new things.

In 1998, they became the first firmly- established band to release an entire album solely over the Internet. In

"It's a great festival; it's so well-run," he said. ''It seemed like such a good mix of bands, and just the whole vibe was really fantastic."

The band will be touring for much of July and August, and will tour again in October and November.

They will be playing lots of songs off of No! and their most recent adult album, Mink Car, which came out in September 2001. ''We're about to celebrate our 20th anniversary as a band, and ,> it's very exciting that . . . 90 percent of our show is from discs that we released in the past year," Flansburgh said, noting that most bands that have been together for a long time seem to become an oldies show at some point.

The music industry recognized They Might Be Giants for their song-writing last February when they won a Grammy for Boss of Me, the theme song they wrote and performed for Malcolm in the Middle.

The band has been writing their own highly imaginative and unusual songs for as long as they have been together, but this was the first time they had been nominated for a Grammy. ''I was really surprised we were even nominated, and then to actually win," he said. "Bands like us don't get nominated for Grammies."

Flansburgh is pleased that the band has been together for so long with so much success. He is proud they have remained true to what they started out to do.

"It's very easy to deal with failure when you also don't feel ashamed of what you've done," he said. He said that he thinks a lot of young people in bands and other endeavors feel tempted to "capitulate to something more commercial, or something that doesn't feel true to ,.. themselves.

"Once you kind of cross that line, you know, whether you succeed or fail, you're always going to feel a little icky about yourself," Flansburgh said.

"There's something to be said for death with dignity."

As their career enters its 20th year, the

band They Might Be Giants is in a position to offer advice to college students who want to succeed at doing what they love.

2001, they launched a monthly subscription service through Emusic.com that gave subscribers access to several exclusive songs every month. Now their first children's album contains Flash animations and gamelike activities that children can play with on the computer while they listen to the songs.

"The interactive stuff is a whole new dimension in how people take in a disc," Flansburgh said. \Vhen they started designing the animations for the album, they wanted it to be an interactive experience, but not a goal-oriented one. Yet as they tested it on children, they realized that even the youngest ones wanted to know what they were supposed to do to win.

They had to bring back some of the game-like elements in order to keep the children involved.

"It was a little bit disappointing in a way because it makes you realize how quickly kids are trained," Flansburgh said.

They Might Be Giants will appear July 12 at Denver's LoDo Music Festival. It will be their second festival appearance. They took part in the 1999 festival, and Flansburgh is excited to return.

Left: Metro alumnus Kyle Loving takes a break during the filming of Project: Bubble

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tunes in postprocluction story by Christine Morgan photos courtesy Thomas Ackerman Special to The MetropoUtan Project: Bubble Puppy, the short sci-fi movie, has finished shooting and now advances to postproduction. Metr o alumni Kyle Loving, Dave Flomberg and Philip Lucero are part of the crew who contributed their time and effort to make the movie with no funding .

The movie portrays the exploits of a World War II German aerospace engineer and his creation, the Bubble Puppy. Mystery and intrigue surround the plot as the movie illustrates the origin of not only the creation, but also of the creator. After editing, the movie is expected to be 30-40 minutes long.

Fine-tuning and final preparations are transforming Project: Bubble Puppy into a reality.

flashback scenes.

Capturing those scenes and recording the entire movie is the job of Metro alumnus Philip Lucero. Lucero is director of photography and postproduction for Project: Bubble Puppy. It is Lucero's first movie production of thls length, but he did a short movie himself.

While attending Metro, he had a three-and-ahalf minute movie appear in the Denver Art Festival. Lucero boasts a career built from working at CNN, ESPN, Fox Sports and other networks. Roughly 70 broadcasts contribute to his experience. Project: Bubble Puppy has been fun for him.

"It's all been fun; producing the 1 movie itself is fun," People are getting and doing what we he says. "People are getting together and doing what we while not taking ourselves like while not taking ourselves - Philip Lucero, Project: Bubble Puppy producer and Metro alumnus seriously."

Lucero agreed to None of the crew expected the recognition that work on the movie after seeing the sculpture Bubble Puppy is generating. The movie continues around which Project: Bubble Puppy is centered. to be a work in progress, although it is scheduled "I saw t he Bubble Puppy and was intrigued. I like the script and thought it would be fun to work to debut at Rock Island in August.

The script was recently r e-written to expand on," he says. the insight into madman Count Von Teleki's mind.

Fun is t eamed with hard work and challenges.

Scenes from his childhood were taped earlier this Lucero creates distinct and different moods through the camera in this dramedy. Creating a month and incorporate local talent. Brothers Derek and Dennis Haworth, ages 6 and 4, play the 1900s home movie in 2002 can be difficult. crazed inventor and his younger brother for the "It's hard to shoot something with modern

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Middle above: The Bubble girls, Mariana and Linda, do their best to act seductive before robbing the Peru brother s, as Metro alumnus Philip Lucero films.

Above: The cast and crew of Project: Bubble Puppy. From left: Thomas Ackerman, co-writer/still photographer; Philip Lucero, producer/camera man; Sean Guerro, sculptor/co-writer/actor; Dawn Addington, stage director; Kyle Loving, actor; Dave Flomberg, publicist.

equipment and try to make it look old," Lucero says. He depicts the origin of Von Teleki's eccentricities by using Smm film for an aged, nostalgic effect.

Although some film is used, Lucero stresses that Project: Bubble Puppy is a movie, not a film.

A film "is shot on film you can hold to the light and see the images," he says. "It's much more expensive and you can't make mistakes. The picture quality of film is way, way, way above video. In Denver, there's no infrastructure to do film like there is in Hollywood."

Despite lack of infrastructure and money, Project: Bubble Puppy is gaining momentum as it goes into postproduction. The Bubble Puppy will be on display at the Rhino Restaurant located at 1700 Vine on July 12, and the event is open to the public.

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Ever since h e w as little, Mike Bu ggs wanted to be like Mike. Feasting his eyes on Michael Jordan, the NBA game, what Buggs saw on TV he wanted for himself, practicing high-air assaults on a makeshift rim in his grandparent's backyard in Oakland.

On March 25,2000, Buggs got that same childish feeling again. He was in his sophomore year at Chabot College and Metro basketball coaches were recruiting him hard, yet Buggs felt uncomfortable about coming to a school he knew little about.

That day he clicked over to CBS and watched lazily at first, then anxiously as the Roadrunners ran away with the 2000 Division II National Basketball Championship. A wide smile crept across his face, as he pointed at the TV and proudly announced to his family: ''That's the team that wants me! That's the team that wants me!"

What Buggs saw on TV is what he wanted and what he got. On March 23, 2002, the senior forward helped Metro win a second national basketball title. Who knows how many Mike Buggses tuned into CBS that day. ''I knew for sure that if I wasn't going to go to a Division I school," Buggs said, ''I was definitely going to go to the best Division II school that was available."

Metro's meteoric rise is no fluke. The school's name is out among the Division II high rollers, and although the men's basketball team is the current centerpiece, Metro's other sports have received accolades of its own.

For the first time in school history, Metro captured four conference championships- volleyball, men's and women's tennis and baseball- and three regional titles- men's and women's tennis and men's basketball- in one season.

And a lthough the system is stacked against them- there are about 280 Division II schoolsMetro is garnering considerably more interest from recruits, as the success consistently opens avenues where there once was congestion. ''Metro State has a lot of clout," said new womens' basketball coach Dave Murphy, as he found a tremendoous outpouring of excitement from recruits around the country who want to pl ay at Metro.

Metro's clout is, at first, hard to fathom. Though not the case today, in his first five years as Metro's baseball coach, Vmce Porreco could only recruit instate. And wh en he did call a recruit, there was always this awkward pau se, becau se five to 10 years ago Metro athletics was a black hole in most memories, including in the very minds of students on campus.

"Not only did (Metro students) not know we had a thletics, but people in town didn't know we had athletics or knew if we were a junior college or what," head men's soccer coach and Assistant Athletic Director Brian Crookham said. ''The success of the program has elevated t h e stature of the sch ool and t h e community and h elped people to realize what we have to offer h ere, which is qu ite a bit." ''There h as b een a very positive spillover into the public perception of th e college," added M etro Presiden t Sh eila Kaplan as she conjures u p images of General George S. Patton "This is America, and m ore importantly this is wh at Colorado is. This is kind of a sport-crazy state and t h e state wants winn ers. They admire winner s and wh en our tea ms t urn up as winners t h at has a very positive impact

acr oss t h e board."

It is amazing how much can be accomplish ed when no one wants to take the credit and everyone knows their role.

The Metro administration and Kaplan praise Athletic Director Joan McDermott for the rise in Metro sports, particularly in hiring excellent coaches. Yet, McDermott credits the coaching staff. And the coaching staff exhorts t h e administration and McDermott, completing the circle.

But before the national titles and recognition there was the groundwork.

Before the groundwork there was a vision.

Before the vision there wasn't much.

When Crookham walked in as the new men's soccer coach seven years ago, t h ings were a bit cramped. The athletic department was filed away in a small section of the rectory building and the swim-

"I a lways felt th at Metro, b eing here in Denver a n d th e size of our institution (the third largest in the state), we should b e one of the best in Division II and I thought Mike was the person t h at could led us there," Archese said. "He brou ght a new sense of energy and professionalism and a new outlook on things in the athletic department, so I think it was really him that kind of got the whole athletic department going. He was the first person with this vision that Metro could become a world-class operation."

Though he has directed the men's basketball team to two national titles and is con sidered one of the best coaches in Division II and now paid as such (a pay increase from $100,000 to $200,000 a year, not to mention his family's love for Colorado, kept the coach from jumping to a Division I school), Dunlap denies that an athletic program's success starts with the coaches. ''In order for us to do what we've done, Kaplan had to let us have permission to have budgets that allowed us to be competitive," Dunlap said.

"Every institution has leadership and then it moves its way to the coaches," Dunlap added. "But if any coach feels that he or she is it, in terms of being 80-to-90 percent responsible for the success, I think they are distorted in their view. I am not one who believes in that. I think this instit ution deserves the credit and then it goes to the administration, which is the institution and then it goes to Joan and then to the coaches. But I don't care if it is (John) Wooden (a Hall-of-Fame college basketball coach), I don't care if it's (Mike) Krzyzewski (at Duke University) or Pat Summit at University of Tennessee (both future Hall-of-Fame basketball coaches).

Boy, I tell you what, you got to have leadership above you."

Auraria spent approximately $1.5 million to renovate the baseball and soccer fields and file photos/Adam Houseman -The Metropolitan other parts of the campus in the sumAbove from left: mer of 1997, giving Lester Strong, O.J. Thomas, Mike Buggs, Metro some of the top Lee Bethea and Luke Kendall pose for athletic facilities in pictures with the 2002 Divi sion II t h e state. Back on National Basketball title on March 23.

Sept. 14, 1990, an Right: expansion project Metro President Sheila Kaplan cheers added 38,000 square the men's basketball team during its 8072 championshi p win against Kentucky feet to the Auraria Wesleyan at Roberts Stadium in Events center and Evansville, Ind. improved facilities.

"Basically we've I upped the overall Joan McDermott IS the one who package," Crookham said. "Every facet of our program has been improved over the last five or six years." most of the As Metro has grown, the distribu-Sheila Kaplan, Metro president tion of funds has helped sustain a well-rounded athletic program, bu t ming, tennis and both men's and women's soccer there is one person whose philosophy has given the coaches sh ared one desk, one phone, and one com- coaches the assurance, security and leadership so puter. vital for its success.

"We h ad t h e least amount of scholarship money "Joan McDermott is the one who deserves most in t h e conference," Crookham said. "Th ere was no of th e credit, because she's the one who hires and way we could go out of state to recruit, just simply su pervises coaches," Kaplan said . because of t h e money and it's kind of involved from For five years McDer mott was head volleyball t h ere." coach at M etro, com piling a 136-64 recor d, m aking The baseball field at t h e time was sluttish and four N CAA tournamen t appearances and winning more sandpit t h an sandlot. The soccer field was t h e three Coach -of-t he-Year awards. Sh e knows players outer rim of t h e baseball field,so it wasn't any better. win t itles and without the resources and t h e right Then someon e t urned on th e ligh ts. coach es to find the players and develop the talent, a Crookham credit s Joe Arch ese, who left Metro team can only go so far. ''You need th e right coach es, you need the right this year after 12 years as vice president of administr ation and finance, and Kaplan with t h e vision student athletes," McDerm ott pauses, letting the t h at ch anged it all. Bu t Arch ese says the vision was k ey wor ds sink in a nd cu e up t h e r est of her talk, not realized until Dunlap was hired in 1997.

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McDer111ott seeks to build on winning tradition in Metro Athletics ATHLETIC SUCCESS from 11 "and you need to challenge the student athletes with a tough schedule. Then, within that, it's how does the coach bring the athletes along; they got to get them into tip-top shape; they got to be really good teachers with them so that they are always improving and getting better ... . Good coaches are good teachers."

McDermott, who was recently named to the executive committee of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, has learned to be both resourceful and resilient with the athletic budget, which comes from student fees, alumni and fund raising foundations. With no wasteful spending, coaches have even gone beyond the states to bring in recruits from Australia, Europe, South America, Africa, Turkey and Canada. "(McDermott) has made it her goal to try and get every coach here the wherewithal, meaning equipment, travel, competition and all those things that cost money," Dunlap said.

And while the other t eam sports have "piggy-backed" and fed off the national exposure of men's basketball program, the recruiting game is still

full of snags and there is still a tissue-thin difference from signing a player to a letter of intent or from the player going elsewhere.

"There is no question that the success of Joan McDermott our program and the other programs in the department has certainly been very beneficial to recruiting," volleyball head coach Debbie Hendricks said. "But recruiting is always a challenge. Every year is different. Some years it seems like you find more athletes that fit your needs and it just seems like a surplus year. Other years it is a drought."

"There isn't a player in a junior college in California that doesn't think he is a Division I player," said John Peterson, head coach at Ohlone Junior College in Fremont, Calif.

Peterson served three years (1997 -00) as an assistant to Dunlap and has gone 45-19 in his new career. "None of them get up in the morning and hope that a Division II school calls them to

recruit them. They are all hoping UCLA calls. That's the nature of t h e beast at that level (Division II), unfortunately, no matter how successful you are ."

It helps that Metro is ranked as one of the best colleges for your academic dollar, especially since most college athletes have a minute chance of playing at the pro level and some will need an extra year to graduate.

"We can't have a good athletic department if we don't have a good school to bring the kids to, bottom line is they are here to get a education," Crookham said. "Our success has to couple with the success of the school and we can't sell our school without having a good school to sell."

Caution seldom goes far enough, but McDermott and the coaches don't need to be cautioned. They know that sporting success ebbs and flows from year to year, so no egos have grown with

the addition of national recognition. All anybody wants is for the program to stay buoyant. Every year each Roadrunner unit has t he conference title listed as goal No. l. Anything more than that is cream filling.

Yet, one gets a sense that tradition is being built , and with a winning tradition comes an aura that is brimming with confidence among the players on up. Such tradition comes by degrees.

But the foundation is set and as Dunlap pointed out on national television to CBS sports announcer Greg Bolerjack a fter winning the 2002 Division II Basket ball Championship, Metro is "trying to put a couple bricks on our own house."

The rest of us can comfortably sit back and wait for the architects' next calculated step.

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Nine new players fortify v-ball Eric Eames

The Metropolitan There are two of her these days. The first time you might spot Metro volleyball player Jessy Roy is at the Auraria Bookstore, where as a book clerk in a black apron she oscillates between the stacks like a black ant -restless.

This is not part of volleyball's summer exercise program, which is where Roy and her teammates of old and new do their real work as they prepare for the upcoming Metro volleyball season, which begins August 30 in Texas.

"Obviously, we are going to come ready and we don't want to have that same mistake we had last year," Roy said.

That mistake is the team's serving of humble pie. Despite home-court advantage and the No. l regional ranking, Metro's high hopes were dashed with a loss in the Southwest Regional Tournament semifinals. So it should be easy to inject fuel into a reloaded chamber, which includes nine new players-five college transfers and four freshmen-and seven returners in a manner similar to a V8 engine.

"For those of us that are returning," volleyball head coach Debbie Hendricks said, "they felt like they fell short of what they would like to accomplish (last season) and that is often a great motivation to individuals. I believe they want to achieve beyond what they did last year, even though it was a great year, they were disappointed in the way we lost at regionals, and sometimes that is the best thing that can happen to a program as far as keeping the fire under ya."

Hendricks and assistant coaches Tudd Raasch and Amy Buchanan did most of

their grassroots recruiting right here in Colorado; seven of the nine players added to this season's roster have Colorado ties.

"I really believe we will be better than we were last year," Roy said.

"We have so many different players. That is what is going to make us special, is how different everybody is. we all have our own style."

The in-state recruits include freshmen Micah Curtis from Arvada High School, who ranked first in Class 5A in kills with 228 during her senior year. Erin Hinely and Cristina Wamsley led Mullen High School (Lakewood) to the Class file photo/Adam Houseman -The Metropolitan 4A state semifinals during their senior Sophomore returning outside hitter Jessy Roy spikes a ball through Regis blockers in a game last fall. years. Wamsley ranked fourth in Class 4A with Spokane (Wash.) Falls Junior College, returning to the University of South 217 kills. Hinely, at setter, was sixth in where was region MVP and named to the Dakota, where she played the last two Class 4A with 436 assists. years. In her sophomore year at South All-American Junior College team.

Danielle Clark, a 2000 Arvada High Then there are the curious cases of Dakota, she recorded 1,029 assists for a School graduate, transfers from Division I's transfers Nicki Fusco and Angela Golesh, 10.95 assist per game average.

University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). who were not recruited, but walked into Hendricks admitted the number of new Junior Shawna Gilbert, an All-State the volleyball office during spring semester. players is an abnormal overhaul, but she standout at Burlington High School in Fusco, a Denver resident, played three touts the clot that will give Metro a deep 1999 and 2000, transfers from Sheridan seasons (1996-98) at Utah State, a Division bench, something that has been missing College after two years.

I power, where she ranks sixth all-time in the past two years.

Freshman Andrea Highstreet comes digs (670) and seventh in service aces (80). ''We have a real good mix of experienced from Lincoln, Neb., where she was named She has one year of eligibility left. players and inexperienced players with a the 2002 Youth and Women Sports Female After a year of personal trials, Golesh great deal of potential," Hendricks added, Athlete-of-the-Year. Junior Beth Vercic, a made a decision to continue playing, but "and that is not only exciting for this year, high school teammate of Metro returning wanted to stay close to home instead of b~t for the future of our program." setter Devon Herron, transfers from

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Revolutions are always strung out. The cycle for Dave Murphy took some 50 years and whether the new Metro women's basketball head coach realizes it or not, the man has indeed come full circle.

Murphy, who was originally born in Denver in 1950, grew up in Colorado Springs where he went from rug rat to gym rat to high school star to coach.

Now at 53-years-old, Murphy is back in Denver and he's playing in the dirt again, but this time he is more productive, relaxing with a little garden therapy. One would bet the leaves of grass are greener on his side of the fence.

"Someday I'll have my own greenhouse,"Murphy said, "but not yet."

It turns out, Murphy's warm disposition was exactly what athletic director Joan McDermott was looking for when she scanned the nation for the Rosetta stone that would unravel a women's basketball program that has fallen short of expectations (21-32 in last two years).

By nature Murphy is pliable, considerate, with a glass half-full

Dave Murphy personality-all traits inherited from his father Ed Murphy, who coached the St. Mary's boys basketball team to a 1962 high school state title. That summer, Ed, at 38-years-old, died from a heart attack, leaving the 12-year-old Dave responsiblyefor his younger twin brothers and simmering over his future. "(His death) really brought to life the essence of living day to day and becoming a lot more focused on what my dreams and

goals ought to be," said Murphy, who was named Colorado Springs Athlete-of-theYear in 1968 while at Wasson High School. ''From very early on I thought that being a coach was very positive and very affirming to my values of how I was being raised. I thought it was a very esteemed profession.

I looked up to my father and he was well respected and I thought what a great life he had."

Murphy has been earning his own r-e-sp-e-c-t of late. In his last two years at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Murphy complied a 35-20 record and earned the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Coach-of-the-Year award for the 2000-01 season.

"He's a proven winner, especially with what he has done the last couple years at Colorado Springs," McDermott said. ''His last two years were very good and he did that with a lot less resources then what he will have here."

Even though McDermott rummaged through a full deck of coaching applicants (190 total) from around the country, which included a former Division I coach and a few top Division I assistant coaches, Murphy was never considered a wild card for the position vacated by Mike Power's

sudden, yet quiet departure. ''I felt it was such an important hire for our department," McDermott said, while refusing to comment on Power's exit, "because most of our programs are doing so well and we just need to get the right person in there to get basketball back where it was under Darryl Smith."

In eight years (1990-98), Smith coached the women's team to five conference championships and a 170-64 record.

Trumping that will be tough, and to do so Murphy will have to find some topsoil in the chaff. Murphy takes over a team that gave up the most points per game (71.3), defensive field goal percentage (.448) and rebounds (1,130) in the conference last season. Murphy believes a new recruiting base is needed to reboost the program. ''It starts with getting better athletes," Murphy said. ''We got to recruit better players .... One of the things that has to happen in the next two to three recruiting seasons is that we have to recruit bigger kids at the perimeter positions and we have to recruit tougher kids inside."

Of course, then it becomes a matter of refining those players, and cultivation is Murphy's speciality.

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institution has immediate openings for the following position:

IMAGE ITEM PROCESSOR Our downtown check processing center has immediate openings for a Full Time Image Item Processor. Ideal candidate will have 2 years Window/PC environment experience, 10 key by touch and the ability to learn new systems quickly.

Bank or transaction processing experience a plus. Work schedule is 3pm12pm with some mandatory overtime.

Monday through Friday, but must be able to work in pressure situations and handle stress associated deadlines and tight schedules. The position requires the ability to lift 50 lbs.

Guaranty Bank provides outstanding incentive plans & a historical bonus, in addition to a competitive salary. We offer superior benefits for all full time positions to include: Health, Dental, Vision, 401K & 401K match. For all downtown positions Guaranty Bank & Trust Company has a generous transportation allowance.

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Guaranty Bank and Trust is committed to excellent customer service for our customers, as well as our staff.

Accepting applications between 9am4pm, M-F or mail/fax resume to: Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. Attn: Human Resources P.O. Box 5847 1331 17th St. Denver, CO 80217 Phone: (303) 296-9600 Fax: (303) 312-3173

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P.O. Box 12277 Atlanta, GA 30355

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