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Metro announces new New numbers protect students, faculty and staff from identity theft Megan Ehlers The Metropolitan

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Metro students, faculty and staff will be assigned new identification numbers in October.

The new numbers will replace the Social Security Numbers currently used to identify people. ''We're just trying to protect people's privacy," said Karen Raforth, dean of student life.

On Oct. 1, the school will mail out close to 30,000 stickers to current and continuing students. as well as faculty and staff. The stickers will have the new Metro State Assigned ID number on them and are designed to be placed over the social security number on the current ID card.

The school decided to use stickers instead of new ID cards for everyone for two reasons. One was money. The stickers cost about $1 each, including postage. ID cards cost $10 each, making the cost prohibitive.

The other reason is practicality.

"If everyone had to get a new ID in a two week period, lines would be very, very long," said Eugene "Skip" Ackler, assistant registrar, adding that not all students would be willing to wait in such a line and would forego getting a new ID card. The stickers will be mailed to each student's home address.

"We thought, 'Let's try this instead,"' Ackler said.

Students who want new ID cards printed with their Metro State Assigned ID Numbers will be able to get them for $10 in the Commuter Resource Center, located in Tivoli 269, starting in early October. They will need to present the letters that came with their stickers or current copies of their registration printouts that include their Metro State Assigned ID Numbers.

The Metro State Assigned ID Number will be used for spring registration in November, so everyone will have a chance to get used to the new system before then.

Metro officials decided to start the new ID system last fall after a bill was introduced in the Colorado Legislature th::!t would stop the co llection of Social Security Numbers from consumers, including students. The bill did not pass, but school officials figured it was just a matter of time until a similar bill did pass. ''We thought, 'Do we want to wait until we

On The Cover: With the clock looming overhead at North Classroom Building, students began classes for the Fall 2002 semester at Auraria Campus on Monday, August 19.

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Students wait in line to get their ID cards at the Commuter Resource Center. They will get new ID numbers in early October as Metro implements its new Assigned ID Number program.

have to comply, or do we want to do this now?"' said Ackler.

The Social Security Administration has been asking for years that Social Security Numbers not be used for identification, Ackler said. If someone's Social Security Number gets into the wrong hands, identity theft can occur. Existing bank accounts and credit cards can be accessed and used, and new ones can be obtained, among other problems.

Officials do not know of any Metro student who has had this problem as a result of a lost ID card, said Raforth, and they want to keep it that way.

"We're not going to wait until something like that happens," she said.

More is involved in the process than just printing and mailing stickers. The school has to reconfigure its computer programs so that students will be identified on lists by their Metro State Assigned ID Numbers rather than their Social Security Numbers. All offices have been asked to change their forms so they do not ask for Social Security Numbers for identification.

Metro will still collect Social Security Numbers from students, faculty and staff.

Applicants will still have to supply their Social Security Numbers on their applications. The numbers will not be used for identification, though, nor will they be listed on any Webpages or reports. They will only be used for specific purposes, such as reporting wages, financial aid and life-long learning credits.

The Metro State Assigned ID Number will be composed of nine digits. The first three

numbers will be 900, which will be followed by two more groups of three numbers. For example, the first number will be 900-000-001. There are several reasons for this configuration.

One reason is that it simply does not look like a Social Security Number, which is configured in

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• Bicycles, skates, rollerblades, and skateboards cannot be operated in marked pedestrian zones and campus buildings.

• Riders and skaters must comply fully with campus signage, all state and Denver traffic regulations, especially those pertaining to the observance of traffic control signals and lights.

• Stunts and exhibition riding of bicycles, skates, rollerblades, and skateboards is prohibited.

• Bicycles must only be parked in bicycle racks. Bicycles may not be locked to railings, sign post, streetlights, poles, or trees; or parked inside hallways, classrooms, or other public areas of the campus.

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Auraria bookstore comes clean Ian Neligh -

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The Metropolitan Most Metro students will find themselves going to the Auraria Campus Bookstore this fall in search of their required textbooks. Many students feel that the process of getting ahold of their required course material is often complicated by expensive book prices, late book orders, shelf shortages and almost no other book store competition.

Orders for textbooks are based on actual enrollment figures periodically updated by the Auraria schools, including Metro, the University of Colorado at Denver and the Community College of Denver.

"It's really hard for us to get exact information on how many students the professors are going to have in their classes," said Colin Vito, sales floor coordinator for the Auraria Campus Bookstore. "Let's say you're taking Biology 2310. When the professors turn in their textbook adoptions they put on what their estimated enrollment is. They requested 200 copies and we only sold 50 last year. The bookstore is not going to order 200 copies. We may cut it down to 70 copies."

Before fall classes start, the Auraria Bookstore has about $6 million in inventory.

"If we ordered everything requested, we'd probably have close to $12 million in inventory, which is double what we have here. We only have a certain amount of money that we can borrow from the state to purchase textbooks," said Vito.

In some cases, students have to wait days or even weeks for their course books to be shipped to the school.

"If a professor hasn't decided what they are going to use or maybe they came in late and forgot to order a text

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Christopher Pertelesi -The Metropolitan A student waits to hear the total as an Auraria Campus Bookstore employee rings up her books. Students sometimes find that the bookstore is out of the texts they need.

book from the date of order, it takes a week to three A few of the text books ordered every semester also weeks, depending on the text book, to get it in stock," come from overseas, which can take three or four weeks said Vito. to reach the bookstore.

Another reason a lot of textbooks are not yet at the "If you buy a pair of Nike shoes, they may have come store is because they are not yet published. in the door at $14 and they sell them for a hundred. Our "New editions usually come out just before the fall semester," said Vito. . ,

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SGA president tells his side of the story Walter Gant

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''Things started off bad from day one," said Brotha Seku.

He looked somewhat tired of all of the drama that has surrounded the newest administration of SGA since the day they took office. There have been lots of stories written about the incidents that have occurred in SGA meetings, but none has gotten what Brotha Seku has to say.

Seku, AKA Stephen Evans, was elected SGA president in last spring's election. According to Seku, · there have been many incidents discussed without both sides of the story coming out. There was talk of tirades in meetings, issues of prior police encounters, and a

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His first alleged outburst occurred after a meeting agenda that he had not approved was issued amongst the group. Seku then handed out his agenda for the meeting. Words were exchanged, and various members of the group were offended. According to Seku, the main people who were offended are the ones who later filed complaints against him.

At another meeting, Auraria police were called during an outburst by Seku. The police were there, in Seku's opinion, "to publicly embarrass me." The police reprimanded him for old charges that had nothing to do with his actions in the meeting.

"The main people against me so far have been from the ticket that lost in the election," said Seku. "The discussion board on the Student Activity board has been

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SGA president plain unbearable work atmosphere. Seku believes these allegations have been blown out of proportions.

The first and most serious allegation is the charge of misconduct brought up against him in by Assistant Dean of Student Life and SGA counselor Joanna - :Jil_ Duenas. In a June 14 letter to Judicial Affairs Officer Elyse Yamauchi, Duenas claimed that Seku has showed "intimidating behavior" during meetings.

Seku has his own thoughts about the charges against him.

"The administration has no right to set the agenda

filled with things about me by my enemies.

"The allegations about past campus indiscretions have been misconstrued also," said Seku.

The incident to which Seku is referring is his confrontation with former Metro Vice President Curtis Wright. The event happened when Seku attended Metro in the 1970s in the presence of three black officers from the Denver Police Department. An anti-Apartheid event was thrown on campus. Seku said that when he went to receive money for the event, Wright told him, "I will not pay you nigger one American dime for your nigger

political event against the legitimate government o1 South Africa."

Seku admits to choking Wright and acknowledgeE his suspension from campus. He says the act was in self· defense. Charges were never filed against him.

Wright could not be reached for comment.

The second mark against Seku was also racially motivated. Officers from the Glendale Police Department and management at Builder's Square interrogated his wife. When Seku went to see what the problem was, he was told, "I don't have to answer any o1 your questions, nigger. Get out of my store."

Seku said he then became physical with the man who made the racist comment. He was charged with second degree felony assault, which was later dropped to a misdemeanor. He paid a fine and went through one year of unsupervised probation.

The most recent case against Seku was over a parking ticket, which brought all types of police from local to federal on campus. The Auraria police took him to the downtown police station, where he took care o1 the indiscretion.

All of these incidents have heightened fear of Seku, who says be has done nothing but protect his name when it was targeted.

According to both Seku and Duenas, the two of them have settled their differences at an SGA retreat.

However, charges have still been filed, and procedure iE being followed. Seku has been offered a deal that stipulates that if he had any more outbursts, he would be removed from his seat. Seku has declined that offer.

'Tm trying. to do this the right way, but we still aren't seeing eye to eye on everything," he said. "] believe that there is a lot of good that we can do.

"Tl)e parking situation is a serious thing. I want tc try my best to make the broken home a real home. 1 want this campus to be a real community," said Seku.

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Student Assistance and Support • Campus Resources and Referrals Student Rights and Responsibilities • Student Judicial Student Problem Action Network • Student Affairs Board Tivoli 311 • (303) 556-3559 http://www.mscd.edu/--studlife

Connecting You to Campus Resources Student Activities Tivoli 305 (303)556-2595 http://studentactivities.mscd.edu

Campus Recreation PE Events Center 108 (303)556-3210 http://www.mscd.edu/~cra

Health Center Plaza 150 (303)556-2525 http ://www. mscd. edulstudent/resources/health

Counseling Center Tivoli 651 (303)556-3132 http://www. mscd. edul~counsel

GLBT Services Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Services

Tivoli 213 (303)556-6333 http://www.glbts.org

Orientation Tivoli 215 (303)556-6931 http://www. mscd. edul~studlife/nso

Student Legal Services Tivoli 219 (303)556-6061 http://clem. mscd. edul~legal

Student Finance Resource Center Tivoli 311 (303)556-4435 http://www. mscd. edu/student/resources/sfrc

Student Publications Tivoli 313 (303)556-2507 http://osm.mscd.edu

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Metro State Assigned ID program starts in October

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ID from 3 a 3-2-4 pattern. Another reason is that no Social Security Numbers begin with the number 900, so a Metro State Assigned ID Number without its hyphens will not be mistaken for a Social Security Number. The third reason is to make the new numbers easier on students.

"Until we hit 999,999, everyone will know that the first three digits of their number are 900," said Ackler. "They'll only have to remember six digits."

Students can expect to find the stickers in their home mailboxes in the first week of October. All they need to do is place the stickers on their current ID cards. If the sticker does not arrive for some reason, or if the student loses it, he or she can obtain a new one in the Registrar's Office, CN105, with a photo

Mortenson Construction employees Edmundo Magalca and Donald Lee make final preparations to the Grand Prix track oustide the Pepsi Center Aug. 20.

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Trustees come from diverse backgrounds John R. Crane

the Arthritis Foundation and Humanitarian Award.

The Metropolitan Ann Rice. vice chair, is a litigation What do a licensed pilot, a banker attorney with McClure& Eggleston in and a former college president have in Englewood. She is also a former trustee of common? the State Colleges in Colorado, has They are all members of the Metro served on committees in Cherry Creek State Board of Trustees.

Public Schools and is former president of 路 They have been on the board since the Arapahoe Lake Public Park District.

July 1, when HB 1165 went into effect, She earned her bachelor's degree at giving Metro financial and governmental Duke University and her J.D. at the independence from the state college sys- University of Denver School of Law. tem.

Secretary of the board Virginia "Gin" Since then, the board has voted Butler is deputy director of Office of unanimously to raise Metro tuition 4.7 Economic Development/Small Business percent starting this fall, when Colorado's Programs, State of Colorado. She is a foruniversities were asking Gov. Bill Owens mer partner and chief operating officer of for a 7.7 percent tuition increase. That Burks/Butler Advertising, Marketing and figure, at the governor's recommendation, Public Relations, and she worked for US was trimmed down to 6.2 percent in the West for 28 years. face of a lagging state economy and a Butler was also 路 vice chair of the spate of wildfires. The requests for Stapleton Development Corp. and chair increases came after higher education in of the Black Chamber. She received the Colorado saw $200 million in cuts author- Colorado Women's Leadership Coalition ized by Gov. Owens in the first half of "Woman Leader of Excellence" award.

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Alex Cranberg, board Treasurer, is "Access to education should be both president of Aspect Resources LLC, a { geographical and financial," said Bruce company involved in oil and gas exploBenson, chair of the board of trustees, in ration and investments. He is also chaira past interview with The Metropolitan. man of Alliance for Choice in Education, a It was this philosophy that brought private scholarship organization that he individuals from diverse backgrounds to founded. He is also founder of "The School vote to cap the tuition raise at Metro.

Fair," an exposition that provides inforBenson, past chairman of the mation about public and private schools Colorado Commission on Higher in the Denver metro area.

Education, is president, owner and CEO Cranberg received a bachelor's of Benson Mineral Group, Inc., a gas and degree from the University of Texas and a oil production company. He is also chair- master's degree in business administraman of the Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel tion from Stanford University.

Board member E. Patrick Wiesner is on Higher Education for the 21st \..... Century, chairman of the Colorado State CEO of Wiesner Publishing in Castle Republican Party and chairman of the Rock and received his bachelor's from Canisius College. He is also founder of Denver Public Schools Foundation.

Benson earned a bachelor's degree the publishing company that bears his from the Umversity of Colorado and has name. His company publishes regional received several awards, including the home and lifestyles magazines and busiUniversity of Colorado University Medal ness-to-business trade publications.

Wiesner also serves on the board of the International Institute of Education and the Colorado Aeronautical Board. He has been a licensed pilot since the early '70s.

Board member Adele Phelan consults nonprofit organizations on strategic planning, organizational and leadership development. She was president of Loretto Heights College from 1975 to 1983 and is president emeritus of The Clayton Foundation.

Phelan serves on the boards of the Piton Foundation, Educare Colorado and the Public Education and Business Coalition. They are all nonprofit organizations.

A member of the Governor's Council on Small Business, Mark Martinez has worked in the banking industry in Colorado for over 20 years. Besides being a member of the Metro State board, he is also executive vice president of Heritage Bank in Arvada.

Martinez is chair of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly. He was named corporate advocate of the year in 2000 by the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

He received a bachelor of science degree from Regis College.

Eugene W. Saxe is the faculty trustee to the board. He has been an instructor of English at Metro since 1967, concentrating in American and British drama. He was president of the faculty senate at Metro from 1995 to 1997 as well as faculty trustee to the Board of Trustees for the State Colleges of Colorado from 2001 to 2002.

He received Metro's Golden Key for Excellence Award and the Distinguished Service Award.

Saxe earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Denver.

If students want to find out their Metro State Assigned ID Numbers, they can do it online on Metro's Website.

There will be a yellow bar on the homepage that reads "Get my assigned ID." When students click on this bar, they will be prompted to enter the last four digits of their Social Security Numbers, their six-digit dates of birth and their genders. If they correctly answer these three questions, their :-Aetro State Assigned ID Numbers will be provided for them.

If Metro students, faculty and staff lose their new ID cards, they no longer have to worry about identity theft.

"If you do lose it, you know no one's getting into your checking account or your mortgage," Acl<ler said.

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textbooks come in the door at $75, and we sell them for a hundred. We don't make as much money per unit," said Vito. "That's why there's not as much competition."

Another reason there is not a lot of competition with the Auraria Bookstore is because of high rent in the downtown area.

"It would be very expensive to start up a new store because it would have to be big enough to have to compete with us, which means the rent would be huge," said Vito.

The Auraria Bookstore offers suggestions for students to save time and money. They should: Shop early when more used books are available; buy used textbooks when available; encourage professors to select their textbooks early; and share their opinion of the textbooks with professors.

"One of the things I like the most is seeing the new students come in with their parents," said Vito. "It's their first time in 路 college. I like letting them know about things on campus and being able to help them with their first experience in college."

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Travelror to national conventions across the US! The Student Travel Program is a unique student fee-funded program that enables MSCD students and MSCD Student Organizations and Clubs to participate at regional and national conferences for the academic and educational enrichment of all MSCD students.

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The Student Travel Program may give awards for transportation, conference registration expenses, and lodging expenses (on a case-by-case basis).

Please call us at (303) 556-3559 or (303) 556-4435 for further information. Complete our travel application at:

ARTS BUILDING Disability Services Office, Room 177 CAMPUS POLICE &SECURITY 1201 Sth St., 1st floor CENTRAL CLASSROOM Academic Advising, first floor-main hall LIBRARY Reference Desk PE BUILDING Campus Recreation Desk, Room 108 SOUTH CLASSROOM Room 134 TIVOLI STUDENT UNION Information Desk, main entrance

Looking for the new FA Building? The Facilities Annex (FA) is located at 1200 7th St., across from the Parking Garage on the northwest corner of 7th St. & Lawrence Way. Visit our website at www.ahec.edu and click on the Facilities Planning and Use link, or call (303) 556-8376 during the following hours:

www.mscd.edu/studentlresources/sfrcl or stop by our office at Tivoli 311 and pick up the Student Travel Proposal Packet.

August 19-30, 2002 * All applicants must meet basic eligibility requirements, including credit load and GPA. All proposals are then reviewed, and based on committee input, partial or full funding may be awarded. The Student Travel Program Office will inform you of the funding decision and will work with you in making your travel arrangements.

Monday- Thursday 7:30 am- 6:00 pm Friday 7:30 am- 5:00 pm

September 3, 2002, through semester's end Monday- Friday

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Counseling Center, Tivoli 651 (303) 556-3132(V/TTY)

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Groups General Process Group Tuesdays: 2-3:30 pm • Tivoli 651 Facilitator: Doug Smith, Ph.D. Wednesdays: 10:30 am-12 pm • Tivoli 651 Facilitator: Stephanie Mehleck, Psy.D. Thursdays: 1-2:30 pm • Tivoli 651 Facilitator: Michael Burgan, Ph.D. This group will be a good fit for male and female students who are working on a variety of issues. Within the group setting, we will address issues including, but not limited to, relationshi ps, assertiveness, social skills, and self-esteem. If you have ever considered group counseling, this would be an opportunity to try it.

If you have been in group counseling previously, this would be an opportunity to resume it. There will be three groups to choose from, depending on which time best fits your schedule.

Club Drugs

Fall 2002 "A Tale of 'O'"

Thursday, October 17 • 2-3 pm • Tivoli 317 Facilitator: Doug Smith, Ph.D. This workshop will focus on drugs that are popular within the "club scene." The effects and potential dangers of drugs such as Ecstasy, GHB, Rohypnol, and Methampheta mine will be discussed.

Stress Management Tuesday, November 5 • 3-5 pm • Tivoli 642 Facilitator: Michael Burgan, Ph.D. Discover what stress is, how it affects your body, and how to manage it in this informative seminar. You will have the opportunity to learn how to identify t~e SV'!lptoms of .stress, the different kinds of stress, and the ways an which your thinking and relationships contribute to your stress level. Different ways of thinking, acting, and fee ling will be described to help you minimize your stress. A group demonstration of self-hypnosis will also be included in t his interactive presentation.

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Wednesday, November 13 • 12-1 pm • Tivoli 651 Facilitators: : Christian Rataj, Esq., Student Legal Services

Personal Growth

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Coping with Trauma W ed nesday, September 11 • 3-4:30 pm• Tivoli 651 Facilitator: Gail Bruce-Sanford, Ph.D. This workshop will delineate some of the normal reactions and fee lings that are experienced after traumatic events. In the aftermath of September 11 and other related terrorist events, we will explore their impact and offer suggestions for managing uncomfortable emotions, and assisting with the healing process.

Who Am I and Where am I Going?

Tuesday, October 1 • 3-5 pm • Tivoli 642 Facilitator: Michael Burgan, Ph.D. What is your true personality? What trai ts and characteristics make you who you are? How does personality, tem~erament, and character vary across culture, race, and ethnicity. Find out ans wers to these questions and dete rmine your own personali ty type in this seminar.

All groups ond workshops are sponsored by the MSCD Counseling Center, locoted in the Tivoli 651. All groups require a meeting with the group facilitators prior to officiolly starting. Please check the group description for details or coll for additional information. Groups ore open only to currently enrolled MSCD students. General workshops ore open to MSCD students, staff, and faculty. All are free! Ta participate in a group or workshop, coll (303) 556-3132 {Voice/TTY) or visit the Center in Tivoli 651. There is no charge for participation. For persons who need special occammodations, please contact us in advance. For any questions regarding programs, locations, times, etc:, call the Counseling Center.

This workshop will address the legal aspects of divorce. It will also explore the psychological and emotional implications tha t divorce brings to a family.

Diversity Disability as a Diversity Issue Thursday, September 26 • 2- 3 pm • Tivoli 642 Facilitator: Doug Smith, Ph.D. This workshop will explore the unique challenges confronting the population of individuals with d.isabilities. The p~rpo.se o.f the workshop is to increase both public awareness of d1sabil1ty issues and sensitivity toward the nee<fs of this population. The workshop will include an informative video followed by a discussion of the topic.

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Tuesday. October 1 • 11 am - 12 pm • Tivoli 320C Guest Facilitator: Jamey Collins, L.C.S. W In this workshop, Jamey Collins will speak about the dynamics of shame in the Gay community. He has specialized in work with the GLBT community and their families for over 14 years. Jamey is a Certified Imago Relation ship Therapist, Certified Spiritual Counselor, and is a nationally recognized writer and workshop presenter. Mr. Coll ins is also a writer for Out Fron.t ~ nd spea~s publicly about shame to the GLBT Community. Part1c1pants will ha~e the opportunity to understand the dynamics of shame, how 1t 1s passed on, and how to avoid it. Jamey has a private psychotherapy practice with offices in Denver and Boulder.

Wednesday, October 9 • llam -12:30 pm• Tivoli 642 Facilitators: Gail Bruce-Sanford, Ph.D.

& Christine Chew, Counseling Center Extern This workshop will examine experiences of what it is like for a minority individual (OJ to be amongst a majority group (Xs). We will look at a video that chronicles these experiences and then discuss ways in which we ca n be more inclusive and less stereotyping of others especially in educational settings.

The Changing Complexion of People with Eating Disorders Tuesday, October 22 • 1-2:30 pm •Tivoli 642 Facilitator: Stephanie Mehleck, Psy.D. This workshop will explore issues related to eating disorders in minority populations. We will attempt to dispel the myth that eating disorders are exclusively a problem for wealthy white women. We will examine media images in an effort to understand thei r impact on body image, self-esteem, and cultura l identity.

Coming Out Thursday. November 7 • 2-3:30 pm• Tivoli 322 Facilitator: Stephanie Mehleck, Psy.D. This workshop wi ll explore issues re lated to the coming out process.

We will discuss the impact this decision can have on relationships with family, friends, and significant others. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences related to this topic.

Latino Wisdom - Dichos and Estorlas Friday. November 15 • 3-4:30 pm • Tivoli 651 Facilitator: Russell E. Urrutia, L.C.S.W In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to hear stories from Latino culture. Story telling is a Latino mechanism for passing on Latino wisdom from one generation to another. The values, wisdom, and cultural norms reflected in Latino culture are contained within these stories. Participants will have an opportunity to experi ence the richness of story telling, and to lea rn core values common in Lati no culture.

Screenings Anonymous Online Alcohol Screening Now available at: https://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/ screening/ (Enter the keyword <Metro> to access thi s service).

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The Office of Student Life at Metro provides students with a wide variety of services and programs designed to enhance their classroom experiences.

The office's goal is to make sure that students have the services they need to become successful both in and after the classroom. Programs encouraging cultural, educational and social interaction help the office reach its goal.

"We are lucky here to have staff to be able to see what it is that's missing on campus and try to offer or create something," said Karen Raforth, associate vice president of student services.

"We provide services for students who may need extra assistance in some way."

By helping students get in contact with the college community, the Office of Student Life works at improving enrollment and the graduation rates for students who use their many programs.

Student Life is campus wide, according to Joanna Duenas, interim assistant dean. It includes both academic and student services staff who assist students in finding their way through the bureaucracy of higher education systems.

"It may be as simple as 'where do I go for study skills, I'm not prepared, it's been a long time since I've been in college.' Or as complicated as medical issues, 'I had to drop a class, I didn't have time to notify my instructor, what do I do?"' Duenas said.

"We help them understand the what the process is in terms of appealing a grade if that's the case, or figuring out what the process is to get them back on track even academically."

With student parents needing oncampus child care and only a limited number of slots available, the Office of Student Life can help by referring them to the larger community of services that can support them, allowing parents to stay in school.

"It's not about one person, it's about a whole community of professionals doing something," said Raforth.

"I wish we bad more time, energy, money, and people to do what I think our students deserve ."

"More important is to teach students how to be the best advocates for themselves," said Duenas.

"To be able to understand how to get through some of the hurtles and challenges that they will face similarly out in the real world."

Several changes have been made recently to the Tivoli's office space. Three Auraria student services organizations have jumped ship from their old headquarters and found bigger, better offices.

The Student ID office moved across the hall to the space abandoned last winter by Tiki Jon's ice cream parlor. The office also houses the housing finding service and transpor tation information center. (see story page 3) Student Legal Services also moved to 219 from being split between 262 and 311.

Student Legal Services takes over the space vacated by Veteran's Services, which moved to the St. Francis Center.

The reason for the move, said Director

Christian John Rataj, was the "opportunity for a bigger space to address the legal needs of the students of the Auraria Campus."

'We had a very small office and a large demand," said Cook Easterly, legal services paralegal.

Another office moved out of 311, the Gay, Lesbia n, Bisexual, Transgender Student Services. The GLBTSS is now located in 213 next to Student Legal Services.

The new office is a mansion compared their old corner in Metro's Office of Student Life, said GLB TSS Program Assistant Nico Baker.

'1t's fabulous and amazing," he said.

'We just have all this space and much better visibility."

Director Karen Bensen also loves the size of her new office, but loves the storage

space even more. The office has a large closet.

"We joke about have a practice area for people to come out of the closet," she said.

"We're thrilled to have somewhere to put all our stuff," Baker said.

But storage space is not the most important part of the move, he said.

"We've been growing and we need room to keep on growing."

The office now offers a lounge area for students complete with chairs, a couch and a computer.

Bensen said she wanted to thank all of the people who made the move possible, both monetarily and support-wise. She said the reaction to the move has been positive overall.

'1t's almost like our program is all grown up now," Bensen said.

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Campus adds new classrooms as enrollment sets records Megan Ehlers The Metropolitan Some classes this fall will take place in new classrooms in a remodeled building.

Fall enrollment numbers are at an all-time high. As of Aug. 20, the number of enrolled students stands at 19,381.

That's an 8 percent rise over fall 2001 figures, according to Eugene "Skip" Acltler, assistant registrar.

"That's a significant increase in enrollment," he said.With such a jump in enrollment, new classrooms were needed.

Last year, the Auraria Higher Education Center Facilities Planning and Use office was working on the "classroom improvement project," which placed hightech items like stereos, movie projection systems, DVD players and other multimedia items into several classrooms. As the project wrapped in spring 2002, the office heard rumors of higher-than-usual enrollment figures, said Dick Feuerborn, division director of facilities planning and

use for AHEC. First, officials considered adding more temporary classroom trailers, Feuerborn said. Three such temporary buildings are currently located by the Arts Building on 9th Street. Trailers, however, are costly, so the facilities planning and use office decided to turn three rooms in the Facilities Management Annex building into classrooms: "It was a better financial solution," Feuerborn said.The building, located at 7th and Lawrence Streets, is across from the parking garage. It houses the three new classrooms, which can each fit about 30 people.

While the new classrooms do not have the serious multimedia equipment provided by the "classroom improvement project," they all have Internet jacks, monitors and overhead projectors.

Auraria buildings all go by a two-letter abbreviation. The new classrooms will have the abbreviation "FA," short for "Facilities Annex."

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There's this thing neighbors used to use to settle their differences: talk. Now people in the "I have a three-car garage and you don't" suburbs have stopped talking to each other and started turning to .the homeowners' associations, or H.O.A.s, to settle their disputes.

It's an association where nobody associates.

David It means upwardlyHindman mobile-pride is killing Opinion Editor relationships among neighbors. It means, "I'm too busy to know you. Why would I want to work out our differences in person?" H.O.A.s have become common recently.

I lived on a street called Grand. We just moved. Didn't turn out as grand as I thought. A couple neighbors were dear to us, but mostly it was a neighborhood of closed garages, shut houses and empty driveways.

The H.O.A rules said all garage doors must be closed when not in use.

It was a neighborhood of loneliness and isolation where people had time for everything but each other. A place where you had to be good enough and do your part to make the block look perfect. Heaven help you if your lawn didn't look good.

"We have been informed that you are storing building materials in your yard adjacent to your home. This is an infraction of Harrass Often Association rules," was something like what the letter said.

"I'm building a fence!"

My sister-in-law is being fined for weeds. She does the best she can.

Sometimes you work so hard to keep a job and yom house - you can't do much with your yard. Her lawn contractor can't start for two weeks. Her neighbor doesn't care.

The H.O.A. refuses to wait.

Whatever happened to loving our neighbor as we love omselves? Would it ever cross her neighbor's mind to say, "Hey, you look kind of busy. Do you mind if I help out with those weeds?"

It may sound ridiculous, but what if we all helped each other that way?

Did my sister-in-law pull her weeds?

No. She got mad and got a lawyer. So much for the problem solving skills of the H.O.A Some nice retired people from Germany lived next to us. They bucked the trend. They would confront us. I came to respect them for it. Their yru路d was pristine.

I respected them for that too. So, when they approached us and said, "Would you please keep your St. Bernard from drinking out of our reflecting pool?" I was down wit' that.

Taken aback, but down.

I built a fence. The dog stayed in the yard and they invited us over for wine and dessert. I like sorting out neighborly conflicts amicably. Beats an H.O.A. I live in an H.0.A-free zone now.

Though houses are more expensive, the attitude is different. Everyone leaves their garages and front doors open. They come out and talk. I just want neighbors who aren't afraid to associate with us.

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Walter Gant Staff Columnist The baseball players' union has set a strike date for Aug. 30. The nation weeps.

Yeah right, nobody really cares if baseball goes on strike. They lost the last bit of power they had years ago.

It's not like we will be lost for sports.

Football starts in about three weeks and hockey and basketball follow shortly after. Baseball is not America's pastime anymore. Football is. The minute that the Super Bowl became the bonanza it is, baseball's days were numbered. I'm a sports fan like the majority of people. I have my own take on what's wrong with baseball.

The first problem is Bud Selig as commissioner. No other sport allows an owner to preside over it. That is, and will always be, a conflict of interest. You are guaranteed to have a one-sided argument - the side of the owners. They can come on TV <l say what they want but Selig needs to step aside. Anybody can take the position as long as they don't have an interest in a team.

Problem number two is the drug testing. No other sport has as lenient a stance on drng abuse as baseball. You can't repeatedly flunk tests and keep getting reinstated. That doesn't happen in any other sport. For years I had assumed baseball tested for steroids. Every run-of-the-mill sport tests for steroids. Cycling and figure skating test but baseball doesn't. If that many players use steroids, then

there is a problem that needs to be handled. Get the mandatory drugtesting going and stiffen the penalty on those who flunk. If you can't make it without dope there is a lways someone willing to take your place.

Problem number three is just as serious as drug testing; the league needs some type of revenue sharing agreement. It's refreshing to see the Twins run amok on all these teams.

The problem with baseball on a competitive level is the majority of small market teams won't get to do that. Their best players will run to where the money is. That's what you have to do. You can't play sports forever. It does get pretty boring to see the same three or four teams win every year. It doesn't happen in any other sport. The Lakers and Bulls both had down periods. The Redwings have had down periods, and football, as a whole, changes just about every year.

Baseball has basically been guaranteed to feature the Yankees in the World Series every year.

What I am alluding to is that every team has a chance in every sport but baseball. Agreements have been placed to allow every team some sort of chance to compete. The only way you don't compete is if you have inept management.

The next thing wrong with baseball is that there is no salary cap.

This only reinforces the idea that you have to play for a big market team to succeed. It takes away every team not located in one of the ten major metropolitan cities in America. That's not good for the sport or good for the fans. It leads to the over-pricing of tickets, as well as players.

The biggest problem with baseball though is that it's boring as hell. The real fun is going to games, though the price for a good ticket is outrageously high. It doesn't move me to watch it on television like it did when I was a child. Most people I talk to feel this way. Hockey is better on television than baseball. Every sport has taken a bit of baseball's power.

The final thing about baseball is it will never regain the form or power that it had. Football is the sport that brings everybody together. Football got into expansion at a time before other teams really embraced it. When a state gets an expansion team the whole state embraces it. Football rarely has a problem filling a stadium. That's because football is America's pastime.

It's the only sport America cares about.

Super Bowl or World Series? Which would you rather attend? The average person would say Super Bowl. The only events that rival it are boxing matches, yet even they lack the elements that make the Super Bowl the supreme event every year.

This year will be no different.

Baseball will falter. Even if the World Series is good they have ruined the yeru路 with all the pointless negotiations about nothing. All the other sports will do their best to make sure they don't fall into the same problem. The other sports realize that everything in the long-run is pointless without the fans.

If every person holds true to their threat and doesn't attend baseball games anymore for this, then a point will truly be made and understood.

Baseball needs to get their act together before they lose the last few fans they have left.

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John R. Crane Staff Reporter Bush's well-oiled propaganda machine is belching out bellicose noises in full force.

We've been inundated over the summer by reports anticipating an invasion of Iraq. "It's not a question of if, but when," the top brass chants.

Cryptic references have been made by U.S. military officials to biological weapons facilities in Iraq, yet no one can pinpoint their location.

According to an essay by Helena Cobban in the Aug. 15 edition of the Christia.n Science Moniwr, Shai Feldman, head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, recently wrote: "Despite the deterioration of the monitoring and verification regime applied against Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf Wru:. Saddam Hussein failed to rebuild the facilities for the production of chemical and nuclear weapons."

Even if the U.S. found weapons facilities in Iraq, so what? Hussein has done nothing that can be construed as a threat to our so-called democracy to justify an attack by the U.S. Countries such as Israel and other allies are producing "weapons of mass destruction" as well. Are we going to invade them, too?

Anyone who says that Hussein might assist Osama bin Laden (a mere bit player in Bush's Middle East Theatre of the Absurd) misses a major point. Bin Laden has little affection for the secular Hussein, whom he would describe as a bad Muslim for suppressing Islamic fundamentalism.

Iraq's use of gas to kill its opponents in the 1981 to 1988 war with Iran has also been cited as justification for "regime change" by Bush's national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice. However, according to an Aug. 18 article in The New York Times, the Reagan administration "provided Iraq with critical battleplanning assistance at a time when U.S. intelligence agencies knew Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war."

Why did the U.S. provide such

assistance? So Iran would be unable to take over oil-producing countries vital to U.S. interests.

The idea of such a "regime change" in Iraq has been a hard one to swallow in the Middle East. An article in the Aug. 14 edition of the Christi.an &ience Moniwr tells how Middle Eastern opposition is so pervasive, the Bush administration is considering advertising the invasion as an assault led by Iraqi opposition.

Even if such an exercise in international hucksterism works, it won't change that there is nothing linking Hussein to Islamic terrorists involved in 9/11. But hey, it's all in the name of making the world safe for democracy.

Indonesians are experiencing such democracy firsthand. Eleven recently tried to sue Exxon Mobil for alleged murders and beatings by Indonesian gas field guards. Bush blocked the suit, saying it would hurt America's relationship \vith Indonesia in the war on terrorism.

Many innocent lives will be taken on both sides of this unjustified proxy war if and when it comes about. And it will be too late when America realizes, as the rest of the world has long known, that the Emperor Bush has no clothes.

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The teachers of generations It's the end of the summer and I'm thinking of Eli sabet h Seat on old people. They Guest Columnist are the teachers of generations. ~ They are the ones who've lived. They did it for us, suffered so we don't have to. But look at the era we're disguised in. We re-invent ourselves daily, into what? Into the imminent laconic machine.

What would happen if we took what e. these grandparents are saying to heart?

Would we live a more courageous life?

Would we ponder more about quality?

I had a conversation with Elfriede, a lady I work with who happens to be eightytwo years old. She has had a colostomy bag due to cancer. She has had a cornea transplant due to glaucoma, which changed her eyesight. She just picked up her new glasses. She still can't see. We chocked it up to being old. When you're old, you can't see, right? '} _ They gave her the wrong prescription.

We all felt awful. I could picture her in the mornings, grabbing her glasses, squinting one eye, then the other, trying to get a hold on what was supposed to be her new sight.

It never came. ...She still walked to the bus, rubbing ._ cartilage on cartilage for knees. She came into work five minutes early. Some morphine - not a lot- got her through the afternoon.

"Hi, how are you?" she always asked in an earnestness beyond my unconcerned smile. I was immediately guilty. I wished I could somehow live up to her standards of selling clothes, but it was already past me.

I wanted something different than Elfriede.

She had something to prove.

Every day, seniors are trying to prove their worthiness, instead of us recognizing it on a daily basis. Every day, we could honor someone for some kind of achievement. It's there. They have lived since the 1910's, 20's, 30's and we don't have

questions? We put them in a nursing home, with what my friend calls "Tufu Heaven", some kind of optional food, and hope they don't bug us too long as we visit the linoleum floored, secured building, slightly urine-smelling homes.

They look at us - sometimes with eyes of hope and sometimes with eyes of knowing. Those are the worst stares. The knowing look. The look that says, "I know you're placating me, visiting me for a half hour while they get my supper ready. I know you want to leave."

I kept bugging Elfriede, after many stories about the war and how she met her husband, to let me come over for a look through old photos. She was reluctant. It took her a few hours just to get her colostomy bag in order, hair washed and brushed. She laughed and put me off.

"Sometime, honey. Sometime when I don't have these doctor's appointments."

When I heard about the wrong eyeglass prescription I demanded the doctor's number. "You give me their number, and they'll stop placating an 'old' person."

It threw me back to the last two weeks I spent with my grandma. She was sharp and alive. She was someone everyone enjoyed meeting. She was special.

I took her to one of the last doctor's appointments she would ever have. He examined her well enough. He chit-chatted well enough. He might have been a nice enough guy. Then came the placating.

"You're strong as a horse. Nothing is wrong." She was dying of cancer. She had shingles on her shoulder and lower back that made it impossible to sit up. To this man, she had become a geriatric patient, one of many. I wanted to do many things that would have embarrassed my grandmother. I could've told him how she taught me to read, tie my shoelaces and continually stood behind my lofty goals of life. I needed him to know she was dying of cancer, not stupidity.

Elfriede finally invited me over. It was

lovely. Her seventies, harvest gold sofa was not indicative of her style. I realized that you unwillingly relinquish the rights to how the world sees you when you're old.

Cancer can age you in seconds. You take what fits in a small apartment when you don't move well.

Her hair was strawberry blonde in the photos. I didn't know the strawberry blonde Elfriede. I only knew the white haired, thin, elegantly dressed, perfectly put together Elfriede with the coral lipstick. In the photos she was so changed. It almost made me afraid, apprehensive to speak to the current Elfriede. Like the previous Elfriede would have treated me with disdain and would not have taken me in.

She's on a ship with a cabin boy, her hair - so much more of it - is blowing and she's smiling this healthier, glowing smile, with a warm make-up enhanced glow. She looked like my mom, not as if she were my grandmother. How can someone jump from mom to grandmother status in five years?

We ate chips and salsa, something easy for her arthritic knees. She kept apologizing for not preparing dinner for us.

What do you do to entertain when your brain is thirty and your body is eighty-two?

I asked her if she felt eighty-two.

"Honey, that's what I'm saying. Always look out for your health. Don't let it pass you by."

She was speaking about the wrong prescription that she finally, through much time on the phone, corrected.

As she deposited me in the correct elevator, she showed me the lobby. People don't care about lobbies anymore. We cannot marvel over a lobby. We are not allowed. We don't own the marvelous.

The elevator was open and a youngish guy was pushing the doors closed. Elfriede rolled her r 's, "Hold the door, we are approaching." I was transferred into the twenties, where men still held elevators.

I liked the lobby, "It looks like a renovation, is it new?" Elfriede assured me it was. She was proud.

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Everyone has a first semester .

As you walk to your first class, the Josh Pacheco ferocious warriors Guest Columnist growl and snicker, w1pmg away saliva from their chins. You sit down and sigh, looking meekly at your notebook feeling pins and needles poke the back of your head as others stare at you. But behold, hope from the doorway! It is a wellgroomed student who sits next to you with a smile - near tragedy averted-you have a friend!

Now is the time to stop thinking about the past and ponder your future. It's the middle of August and your anxiety levels are up and down like the temperature in our scorched state of Colorado. You may not believe it but every student has had a first semester and every student, no matter how brainy or buff, can relate to the feelings you are experiencing.

Of course, there is the nightmare that all college kids are smarter than you. Yeah, right! College is like most everything else in this sarcastic world of opportunities - it's what you make of it. The trick is to make your experience at Metro fun and exciting

while accomplishing your hopes and dreams. Don't get caught up in the type of 'fun' that will lead you to a dead end, yet don't just arrive at campus like a business person ready to catch up on the day's information. College is a time to have fun and a time to learn.

You get to start over. You have been promoted to a higher rank, you're taking on a hetter job, and you should feel honored to be in the top 1 percent of the world's population that attends college.

College is not all fun and games. Girls, you have a whole new selection of hunks and punks to choose from. Know the difference!

And guys, a whole new type of fish in the sea - college girls! If you thought high school was hard to find the "right one," try college. You have to deal with older people,

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younger people, extremely healthy people, sickly people, people that don't care, people that do - the list goes on, my new friends.

Relationships don't get any easier but your experiences are more fun and exciting so don't give up.

Oh, I almost forgot that one small detail about college. Professors. There was a smart man who said you have to jump into their skin and walk around before you can cast judgment. They are people too. People with feelings that would rather be anywhere else than with 30 kids ripping apart their character. So be nice .. .wink.

Now that we have the important things out of the way, I trust you will enjoy your adventures here at Metropolitan State College of Denver. And remember, if you mess up at anything, there is always tomorrow.

The Metropolitan welcomes letters of 500 words or fewer on topics of general interest.

Letter s must include a full name, school affiliation and a phone number or e-mail address.

Letters might be edited for length, grammar and accuracy.

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Fifteen years of raising money - millions of dollars benefit all of the companies and organizations that help and support the victims of the disease that has killed 5,688 people in Colorado.

AIDS Walk is a fundraising walkathon where the walkers get pledges for donations. Those donations are collected and distributed to organizations like Meals on Wheels for People Living with HIV/AIDS, which provides nutrition to t he infected and University of Colorado Hospital's HIV/AIDS Primary Care Program which treats patients comprehensively whether they can pay or not. These are only two of the 30 organizations benefiting from the walk. They all help people who are living with HIV/AIDS to live with the disease.

The volunteer and celebrity fundraisers who will walk on Sunday will tackle a 10 kilometer (6.2 mile) course that starts and finishes in Cheesman Park, running through Capitol Hill and City Park.

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So far, the team has collected $915 and they have hundreds more in pledges that will be collected after the walk.

Team Auraria has incentives for its walkers.

Everyone who raises at least $35 gets a TeamAuraria TShirt and bigger prizes are in the works for top fundraisers. They could include movie tickets, meals at local restaurants and free stuff from the Auraria Health Center, Benson said.

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, Institution of opportunity The Vice President for The Metropolitan Student Services Established in 1965, Metro is in its 38th year of Yolanda Ortegaoperation. The 2002-2003 school year is one full of new Ericksen heads up operation? momentum. Enrollment is up 6.5 percent from the this previous year, new independent governance -our own She has worked . board of trustees, and a freshened approach to retention here at Metro just about as long as Metro is in overdrive. she has lived in Adding to this is recognition of Metro as one of the top public colleges in the western U.S. and one of the Colorado. Ortegaleaders of four-year institutions offering students the Ericksen is going best quality of education for their dollar within the past on her 30th year as an employee of few years.

A modified open enrollment policy, low tuition, Metro and her combined with efficient financial aid awards all fifth year as VP. Student services is split into three sections: contribute as well.

Management Services, Student How does this break down to students? Well, with Enrollment Development Services, a nd Student Life services.

Each the increase of students, all programs have to be and is integral to that of each other. section utilizes adjusted for more students. Usage of support services for students increases and traffic of students on th e "Every student will touch at least one of our programs," says Ortega-Ericksen. campus increases.

What does ow¡ own board of trustees mean for How does Metro prepare and execute its plan to provide all of the services pertinent to a student's students? Well, Ortega-Ericksen visions the full benefit will be for the student. "Students welfare, educational success? The division of Student Services. welfare will be represented 'at the table'," she states.

The mission of Student Services is to meet the Metro will be represented directly instead of as a needs of students by creating opportunities to complement and support their educational experience part of a consortium - along with the four other state colleges. This ultimately means faster approval of in the classroom.

The division provides the services for recruiting, Metro's urban agenda; issues and conditions specific to enrolling a nd progressing s tudents through to Metro's diverse, urban setting and curriculum.

What about retention? Retention is a school-wide graduation. issue, however, a focused approach is extended through Admissions Office the division.

What is and what isn't keeping students at Metro? The Registrar's Office fu nda mental question Kate Lutrey, Assistant to the Vice Financial Aid President for Retention Projects, confronts every school year.

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Assessment and Testing Tutoring Student Support Services Student Intervention Services Career Services Immigrant Services/ESL programs Veterans Services High School Upward Bound Summer Bridge program Combined Computer Access Center She drives many initiatives for retention under the division of Student Services, directed by the VP. of Student Services. She, along with Yolanda OrtegaEricksen, has put in her time here at Metro. Lutrey is beginning h er twenty-first year here as an employee, adding to her already alumna status.

This year the division will be conducting a Student Satisfactory Survey, the third of its kind since1998, which furnishes data integral to figuring out the factors involved with retention. From this, focus groups on the major factors of the survey are confronted and an action plan is drawn up to attempt to curb these factors. Last school year Metro's retention was around sixty percent.

Metro is fortunate to have its pool of students. Its diversity in not only ethnicity but in age and experience both in life and career. A major factor that Metro has to deal with opposed to that of the other state colleges is its non-traditional element.

The non-traditional student makes up nearly half of all students enrolled. "Its very challenging to figure how Metro can be all it can be for its students," says Ortega-Ericksen. She wouldn't change her job for the world though. "We have absolutely the best students." "l enjoy working with students, having that interaction

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SERVICES from 19 and following their progress." "All of that would be compromised," replies OrtegaEricksen when asked why aren't you the president. Having an involved faculty and staff assists her in achieving the division's mission and the college's mission.

She is particularly proud of the fact that students employed by the division of

experienced board of trustees and people like Yolanda Ortega-Ericksen driving ship Metro is embarking on a renewed purpose and direction.

Overall, the division of Student Services works directly with students, helping them finance their college education, supporting their educational experiences and providing extracurricular activities at Metro.

Student Services gain viable, exceptional experience equating to, "the best world experience," Ortega-Ericksen adds. Over 300 students are employed by Student Services. That's more than twice the professional staff Metro as a whole employs. Metro is definitely an institution of opportunity, referred to by Ortega-Ericksen.

Metro has its work cut out for them this school year. With a motivated and

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20 years later, AIDS Walk turns 15 AIDS from 17 ...;__ forget why it is necessary, Benson said.

"I think people think AIDS isn't a problem anymore," she said. "There is no cure and the drugs don't work for everyone."

Twenty years after the discovery of nIV, people are still becoming infected, especially women, minorities and young people, according to the Colorado AIDS Project.

It is estimated that as many as 166 Auraria students are infected, and in Colorado more than 28 percent of people ~ewly-infected are between the ages of 2029. AIDS is the fifth-leading cause of death among Americans ages 20-49.

"People aren't dying from it as much, but they're not living healthy lives," Bensen said. ') - Across the globe, funding for AIDS service organizations has been cut and donations have started to stagnate.

Nationwide, AIDS funding is down 20 percent.

"This is one of the main ways to get i1oney into these organizations so they can keep providing services," Bensen said.

AIDS Walk has a special meaning for anyone who lives with HIV/AIDS or knows someone who does. For Bensen, AIDS Walk is not only part of her job, but part of her life.

"It's fun and I feel I have to do it," she said. She has two friends who live with HIV/AIDS, one who she says the "dr ugs don't work for."

"When you have people close to you so deeply affected, you just feel you have to do it," she said.

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The Roadrunners feature 14 new players, seven of which were recruited in an attempt to improve upon the 1.5 goals per game they averaged last season.

"We will be able to score goals this year," head coach Brian Crookham said. 'We've brought in more attacking players. We are not necessarily changing the system a lot, but we got a couple players that are a little more dangerous forwards. Whereas last year we relied on very few people, now we have kind of expanded the number of attacking players on the roster."

Anticapation is building with several transfer students who should prove to be valuable members of the team. Junior forward Alex Grecu transferred to Metro from Mesa Community College in Arizona, where he made the Junior College All-American first team. Junior midfielder Chris Bluml moved from Cloud County Community College in Concordia, Kan., where he made the All-Conference first team. Crookham also sees plenty of upside in walk-on freshman Zack Cousins.

If the newcomers can quickly mix and mingle with the seven returning players with starting experience, Metro should have no trouble rectifying last year's dismal record of 8-7-4, including a 3-6-3 record in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

Among the returning leaders are seniors Eric Butler, Jimmy Zanon, and Domonic Duran. Butler, the team captain and standout goalie, is one of the top keepers in the RMAC, as well as the current school record holder in goals against average (0.95), wins (28), and shutouts (18).

"He keeps getting better and better," Crookham said, "and we've been able to add players in front of him that make his job a little bit easier."

It has also made Butler's durability instantly swell.

In three seasons, he has missed only four out of 58 games.

"Sometimes he doesn't have to make a brillant save " Crookham added, "because he directs the players in fro~t of him to cut off a play before it becomes dangerous."

Zanon, primarily a defender who sneaks in for goals, finished with five goals and six assists in 19 games.

Duran, who had only two goals from his midfield position, will switch to forward this season, as Crookham looks to draw an offensive spark from his speed.

Even though there are big gaps to fill, chiefly from the graduation of 2001 RMAC Player-of-the-Year Tony Thomas, Crookham hates to use the term rebuilding (as all coaches do). One thing that doesn't need to be rebuilt is an already substantial line of defense.

'We do a good job from minute one in defending and that just translates into all the success we had in that area," Crookham said. ''Plus, we got a darn good goalkeeper."

Metrci had its best defensive season ever last season holding their opponents to less than one goal per game'. and limiting opposing shots to 13. 1 shots per game.

Butler led the defense, receiving honorable mention on the 2001 All-RMAC team.Yet, Metro lost five games by one goal last season and were shutout six times.

'We played very well defensively last season, but it all comes down to who can score more goals," Crookham said.

The annual RMAC pre-season coaches poll forecasts a third place finish for the Roadrunners. Although preseason polls are dismissed by many, including Crookham, they often reflect the final standings. Fort Lewis College is picked to win the RMAC tournament again this year, with the Colorado School of Mines coming in second, while Regis is the quintessential sleeper of the conference.

Fort Lewis, ranked No. 12 in the nation at the end of last season, lost their top two scorers, but will still pose a looming obstacle in the Roadrunners' path to the top of the conference. The two face off for the first time this season on Sept. 22 at home. On Sept. 2, Metro will play host to the 2001 Division II champions, Tampa University at Regis. It's a one-time chance to deploy all weaponry to see what kind of damage can be done.

"It's a great measuring stick for us right away," Crookham said. 'We've got nothing to lose. We can just fly at them and see what happens."

Although it will be the toughest opponent Metro faces this season, the next six games, all against conference opponents, will likely decide the top RMAC contenders.

With a subpar season behind t hem, the Roadrunners have made changes to combat the lack of offense that was so prevalent last season. While an RMAC t itle might be a difficult goal, it is never out of the question with Butler patrolling between the pipes. If Metro can take at least one victory from Fort Lewis and Mines, it might be right at their fingertips.

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Andy Fisher

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Grant Piernot

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Thornton, Colo.

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The world as we know it is divided between the known and the unknown. Those things known are comforting, but eventually become dull and mathematical, like rotating tires on a car.

It's the mysteries of exploration and discovery that serve as our sustenance. It's what takes us out of our comfort zone. It's why athletes push their bodies to limits never imagined.

It's why people eat sushi. It's why you look up at the stars and wonder if someone is looking back.

"It's all unknown," senior mid· fielder Meghan Sanders admitted.

"That's all there is."

While they are not after the Final Frontier, plenty of spelunking lays ahead for the Metm women's soccer team as they delve into their own version of Trivial Pursuit. Can new head coach Danny Sanchez bring his winning ways to Metro? Will the 14 newcomers and seven returners fuse or fuss together? Who will start? Is it possible to go from contentious to contention in one year?

Such questions coupled with the n ew arrivals h ave surprisingly brought a level of refreshing excitement back to a program trying to rebuild after a dispiriting 6-13-1 season, in which they finished last in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (2-9-1).

"I think everybody that was on the team last year deserves a medal for sticking thmugh the season," said senior forward Jenelle Brandt, who led the team in scoring with four goals and six assists. "Everybody suffered.

We all stuck it out togeth er, even though it was extremely difficult.

"This season will be a much more pleasurable experience. I just think last season was completely uncharac-

teristic of this program because every other season we've done fine. We've been in the (RMAC) championship tournament by the end of the year."

Last year was the first time since 1985 the coach was not named Ed Montojo, who retired in 2000 after 16 seasons and 163 victories which ranks seventh all-time in Division II. Under new guidance in 2001, the team felt misguided in the hands of new head coach Colin Gilmartin.

'That one person, the coach, didn't connect the whole team last year," senior goalie Danielle English said.

In the preceding whirligig months following the late firing of Gilmartin and the drawn out coaching search that eventually brought Sanchez into the fold, eight players fled the program. Sanders, Brandt, English, Meisha Pyke, Elin Otter, Louise Kjellquist, Joslyn Brough and Brittany Quillen decided to stay, proving their mettle to Sanchez, who applauds their dedication.

"They were the ones that were committed," Sanchez said. "They are the ones who stuck to the training program when there was no coach.

They are the ones that worked and stayed eligible and did what was asked by Joan (McDermott) our athletic director and Brian (Crookham) our men's soccer coach, who was keeping the momentum going while they searched for a new coach. The players that wanted to be here are the players we want here and those are the ones that are back."

The fresh new outlook begins with Sanchez, who has atb·active ere· dentials and is conversant at getting strangers to play for each other. While coaching both the men and women's soccer teams for seven seasons at Mesa Community College (Ariz.), Sanchez stockpiled an impressive 19951-12 record, despite the frequency of players transferring and the fact it is

only a two-year college. Every year it seemed like he was starting over. But the essence of Sanchez is he prefers to start with a clean slate.

"I wasn't here last year. I don't know what happened. To be honest with you, I really don't care," Sanchez said. "We are starting from scratch this year. It's a brand new team and a brand new level of expectations."

With 11 freshmen, mainly from neighboring high schools, an d four college transfers outnumbering the eight returners, the resulting competition for the 11 starting spots is intense and will probably last till midseason. But

by Metro's first conference game (Sept. 8), Sanchez expects to have some form of a starting lineup and rotation.

"There are no preconceived notions of who can do what," Sanchez said. "The players that are performing we will go forward with."

Freshmen Mandy Allen and Beckee Flynn have looked good in practice and are pushing English for the starting goalkeeper job.

Junior Colleen Fellin and sophomore Melissa Miller are two newcomers with lofty backgrounds. Both followed Sanchez to Metro from Mesa Community College, where they helped the Thunderbirds to a No. 2 national ranking. Fellin collected seven goals and eight assists from her back position and was named to the Junior College All-American second team. Miller was a fu-st-team AllAmerican selection after scoring 18 goals and recording 20 assists.

Despite the experience of the few, the rest of the field remains green, the waters uncharted and progress could be slow from the onset. Yet, Sanchez wants a quick fix to go with the firm foundation of high standards he has applied. The moment to bridge the chasm over last season's colla pse starts August 31 with the first game.

Women's Soccer Schedule a t Montono State-Billings Aug. 31 at Minnesota-Morris Sept. l INCARNATE WORD Sept 6 . *at Colorado Christion Sept. 8 *at Mesa State Sept. 13 *at Fort Lewis Sept. 15 Sept. 20 *REGIS Sept. 22 *SOUTHERN COLORADO NORTHERN COLORADO Oct. 1 Oct.4 at Central Oklahoma Oct.6 at Midwestern Stale (Texas) Oct. 11 *at New Mexico Highlands Oct. 13 *at Adams State *MESA STATE Oct. 18 Oct. 20 *FORT LEWIS Oct. 25 *at Regis *al Southern Colorado Oct. 27 *COLORADO CHRISTIAN Oct. 30 *New Mexcio HIGHLANDS Nov. 1 Nov. 3 *ADAMS STATE

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2002 Metro Women's Soccer Roster Returners Pos. Hometown Danielle English GK Arvada, Colo.

MF Lakewood, Colo.

Jenelle Brandt Meghan Sanders MF Denver, Colo.

Louise Kjellquist MF Stockholm, Sweden Joslyn Brough FW Littleton, Colo.

Meisha Pyke MF New Zealand Elin Otter Stockholm, Sweden MF Brittany Quillen MF Brighton, Colo.

Newcomers Pos. Hometown Colleen Fellin BK Tempe, Ariz.

Kristin Nason MF Broomfield, Colo.

Melissa Miller MF Mesa, Ariz.

Mandy Allen GK Broomfield, Colo.

Beckee Flynn GK University Place, Wash.

Emily Miller FW Littleton, Colo.

Manchester, N .H. Megan Dalrymple BK Amy Leichliter FW Greeley, Colo.

Shaunna Stefan FW Glendale, Ariz.

MF Jodi McGann Thornton, Colo.

Jamie Erwin BK Pryor, Okla.

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Megan Shivers Shelly Burry BK Littleton, Colo.

Kjirsten Brishle BK Castte Rock, Colo.

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Goals scored by sophomore transfer Melissa Miller last year at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Metro scored just 19 goals as a team last season.

Years in a row the Roadrunners had gone to the RMAC championship tournament before last year. In 1998 Metro made its only NCAA tournament appearance.

From left: Newcomers Kjirsten Brishle, Shelly Burry, Colleen Fellin, Megan Shivers and Shaunna Stefan sweat it out during preseason conditioning at Auraria Field Aug. 12. In the background assistant coach Dave Morgan eggs them on.

2001 RECORD: 6-13-1 (2-9-1 7th in RMAC) 2001 RMAC CHAMPION: Regis University

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• Campus ID is required to park in Lot R. • Report machine malfunctions immediately to Parking Services, (303) 556-2000, to avoid being ticketed.

• Car pool rates are available in Lot E ($1 .75), and Lots H and R ($3.00). Two or more persons of driving age must be in the vehicle to be eligible for the car pool rate.

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The Metropolitan Since joining the NCAA Division II, Metro has dropped six sports. Softball w~s the final one to go in 1990, and while that .expiration date is long overdue, now could lie a perfect time for a revival.

By the fall of 2005, Metro will need to add two new sports, athletic director Joan McDermott said. Softball, cross-country, and men and women's golf are strong considerations. Women's lacrosse and track * d field are also possibilities.

"My plan over the next six months to a year is to research into the cost of these programs," McDermott said.

This past year the NCAA raised the amount of sports required for Division II status from eight to 10. Metro curl'ently -ii.as 10 sports, but the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference requires schools without football to have two more sports over the minimum. Just don't expect the replanting of yellow field-goal posts at Metro.

Before 1990, Metro had an oval track tugging the rim of a regulation-sized football field. Club football at the school was highly popular in the late 1980s, until equipment costs overwhelmed the wallets of students who formed and ran the team.

To bring football to Metro at today's price a tfignificant budget increase would be needed, perhaps adding to tuition costs. On average, the RMAC schools with football spent $427,421 in gridiron costs alone in

2000. Last year, Metro spent over $1.6 million in athletics, matching revenues.

The last time Metro asked for an increase in the intercollgiate athletic fee was in 1990. Students denied the request that would have raised the fee from $14 to $20. As a result, Metro cut softball to meet expenses.

From 1988 to 1989, McDermott split time coaching the Metro softball and volleyball teams. The softball team collected a

record of 50-37 in the two-year span, and tied a school record with 26 wins in 1989.

Although, McDermott left after 1989 to coach softball and volleyball at Morningside College in Iowa, the bitterness of softball's annihilation at Metro was felt across the board like molded jam spread on hard toast.

Bill Helman swallowed the most of it.

Helman was athletic director at Metro from 1982-1998. Since Metro joined the NCAA in 1983, he had to drop wrestling;

Joshua Lawton -The Metropolilon Maintence worker Shawn Mattern finishes mowing the old softball field on the north west corner of the Auraria Campus that was last used in 1990. If softball were to return at Metro the field would have to resemble the current baseball field to conform with Title IX. '

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men's gymnastics; and men and women's track and field and cross-country mainly due to inadequte scholarship money.

"That was the lousiest part of the job," Helman said from his Florida home. "That was really bad, because we had good athletes and coaches. We tried to help them all go to other schools to compete and cru:ry their scholarships if they stayed with uswith what little scholarships we had. But if somebody was on one, they still kept their scholarship. But at the same time we still dropped the sport they were competing in, so it wasn't any fun."

Helman believes he made the right decisions. He recalls how players had to sleep on mats in a opponent's gym because they couldn't afford to stay at a hotel and how a decrepit traveling van caught fire and burnt down on interstate 25.

The softball team was cut by default.

Having to travel to Iviissouri, Nebraska and Utah for road games stressed travel expenses. (Adams State and the Colorado School of Mines were the only other Colorado schools sponsoring Division II softball at the time.)

"I would love to bring softball back," McDermott said.

To do so the old softball field would require a major facelift to comply with Title IX, which requires equal facilities for both sexes. That means the field, batting cages, and dugouts would have to equal the current baseball field.

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Basketball camps appeal to all ages Eric Eames

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Lindsey Berens ambled into t he lush Colorado Athletic Club at Inverness and onto the plush red carpet rather timorously. Yet, full of optimism, too.

Wearing dark blue warm-up pants, a neon orange basketball t-shirt that said "Girl Power," glasses, and a shy grin. Berens was excited and nervous at the same time. She loved basketball, but felt she was a "so-so" player.

As she walked through the double doors the first thing she saw was a lengthy thin-framed man with a long stride, big hands and arms longer than she was tall. The man disappeared down the steps to her left as she approached the information desk. ''Basketball camp?'' the nine-year-old asked softly. ''Follow that tall guy down the steps" the clerk said.

That was easy enough. The "tall guy" was Metro men's basketball player Patrick Mutombo, who stands at 6-foot-5 and has a 7-foot wingspan. The 2002 Elite Eight most outstanding player is not one to disappear from view quickly.

Soon enough, though, Berens blended in with 50 or so other children, between the ages of 5 and 10, during the morning session of Metro's Smart Start Basketball Camp.

A group of 11- to 15-year-olds, numbering about 69, participated in the afternoon session . ''I have fun with them all summer long," junior center Lester Strong said.

And the children have fun with Strong. Eight-year-old Courtney Fromm got one look at the 6-foot-7, 220-pound junior-to-be and could have sworn she had seen him at a Denver Nuggets game. Not in the stands, but on t he court

playing. ''Which team do you play for?'' she asked eagerly. "Huh? Which one? Do you play for the Denver Nuggets? I bet it's the Nuggets."

"Naw," Strong replied humbly and with a slight blush to his cheeks, "probably in the future though."

The camp ran from July 15 to July 19. It was the eighth and final week-long camp the Metro men's basketball team conducted this summer. Other camps we1·e held at various elementary schools, middle schools and recreation centers throughout Colorado, including a camp in Castle Rock. Most camps are for children between the ages of 5- and 15 yearsold, but one camp at the Denver Athletic Club was available for players of all ages.

In addition to the camps, Metro sponsors a high school varsity and junior varsity basketball tournament that head coach Mike Dunlap said is one the biggest in the state.

Eric Eames - The Metropolitan Assistant coach Derrick Clark acknowledged that 64 varsity basketball teams competed at Courtney Fromm takes aims while at the Met ro Smart Start summer Thornton, Ralston Valley and Broomfield high basketball camp July 15 at the Colorado Athletic Club at lverness schools this summer, while 30 junior varsity in the camp at the Inverness athletic club. teams competed at the Auraria Events Center.

Mutombo, Strong, Clayton Smith and Ryon Nickle Ironically, it is the same high school tournament that Strong garnered recognition as a possible Division I player joined new Roadrunner recruits Michael Morse, a Northern Colorado transfer and former Fairview High School standand where Metro coaches noticed his abilities.

About 2,000 partcipants took part in the eight camps , out; Jimmy Dadiotis, a former East High School star; and where they learn poper passing, footwork, dribbling, shoot- walk-on freshman Greg Muth to coach the camps along ing and leadership techniques. Each youngster is invited to with Dunlap, Clark, assistant coach Tim Harrison and new a Metro game, said Dunlap, whose three children took part assistant coach Brady Ber geson.

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General Process Support Group MSCD Counseling Center. A good fit for male and female students working on a variety of issues - relationships, assertiveness, social skills and selfesteem. Tivoli 651 3 groups, 3 times.

Tues. 2-3:30p.m., Wed. 10:30a.m.-12p.m., Thurs. 1-2:30p.m. For information or to sign up, call (303)556-3132.

Eating for Health and Energy - 10 sessions filled with information to learn healthy eating and achieve goals.

Tuesdays, 12-lpm, Begins Sept. 10 1020B Ninth Street. For more information, call Susan Krems at (303)770-8433.

Free Blood Pressure Screenings Every Friday, 2-4pm, at the Health Center, Plaza Building 150 . . For more information, call (303)556-2525.

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

Yoga - Relieve tension and stress. Begins Sept. 3 Tuesdays, 12-lpm & 5-6:15pm, & Wednesdays 12-lpm, Tivoli 444. For more information, call the Health Center at (303)556-2525.

T'ai Chi for Body and Mind exercise muscles and achieve integration between mind and body. For all levels. Begins Sept. 5 Thursdays, 12-

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Strides: Lunchtime Walking Program - Get out and walk. Begins Sept. 3 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1212:45pm and Wednesdays, 1-1:45pm at the flagpole on Lawrence Street Mall.

For more information, call the Health Center at (303)556-2525.

Application for Graduation Cards due to Registrai· by 5p.m. in order to graduate.

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Sat, Aug 31

AIDS Walk Colorado - 8a.m. Cheesman Park. Come walk a lOk to raise money for AIDS support organizations. Register on www.capwalk.org and join Auraria Team #11 70. Pi·izes will go to highest fundraisers.

Thurs, Aug 22 Natural Highs: Feeling Good All The Time - 1-2p.m. Dr. Hyla Cass speaks about how to increase energy, improve mood and beat stress. Lunch and booksigning will follow.

RSVP wilkinli@mscd.edu.

For time information, call (303)556-6333.

Fri, Aug 23

Academic Deadline - Last day to drop full-semester classes for 100% refund.

Wed, Sept 4

Tue, Aug 27

Academic Deadline - Last day to drop full-semester classes for 50% refund and removal from academic record.

GLBTSS Welcome Back Reception and Open House - Our office has moved and we want to show off our new space.

Stop by and say hi to Julie, Nico, Tatiana and Karen and the i·est of campus family.

Tivoli 213 10a.m.-2p.m. Lunch provided.

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International Friends club Volleyball, gifts and lunch.Meet at flagpole outside the library. lla.m.-2p.m.

For information, call Kraig Meyer (303)422-5108.

Wed, Aug 28 International Friends club - Pizza and discussion. Tivoli 542 12-lp.m. For information, call (303)422-5108.

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International Friends club Horseback riding. 9a.m.-4p.m . Bring sack lunch. Cost is $28. RSVP to Kraig

International Friends club - Trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. Cost is $5. 9a.m.-4pm. To register call Kraig Meyer at (303)422-5108 or email interlfriends@cs.com

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Classified ads are 10¢ per word for stu, dents currently enrolled at The Metropolitan State College of Denver.

• Fo:r: all others - 20¢ per word. Maximum lengt,h for classified word ads is 40 words.

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Classified ads may be placed via fax, in person, or online at www.universaladvertising.com. Deadhne for placing classified ads via online orderi~ is 3 p.m. Friday for the following week. For information on classified display advertising, which are ads' that contain more than 40 words .c. _ or contain larger typ~. borders, or artwork, call !303)556-2507. ,. c

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8/29 DO YOU NEED A JOB? ARE YOU A student? Do you want to work in the greatest program on campus? Have you considered working for Campus Recreation at Auraria. CRA offers students the opportunity to work and · grow in the best department on campus. We are lookil}g for students that are outgoing, motivated, and that are interested in having fun while they are attending classes. If this sounds interesting to you please contact Jeremy Elliott or Scott Reetz at the Campus Recreation atAuraria office in the PER Events Center Rm 108, or give us a call at. (303)556-3210.

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