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The emergence and growth of corporate chains in the mainstream media can be viewed as a positive trend that bas led to an expansion in both the quantity of news and the technological resources used for newsgathering, according to John Temple, publisher and editor of the Rocky Mountain News.

Temple, the keynote speaker who gave the opening speech at the Fifth Annual Honors Program Conference Oct. 9 in Tivoli 320, continued that the expansion of the media in its various forms has given rise to a more objective stance within the news itself. This objectivity, according to Temple is comparatively rare in privately owned and often family run news organizations, such as The New York Times.

Having been employed for both privately owned newspapers and larger, corporately run - newspapers, Temple also expressed that both the news and the way news is presented are often strictly controlled by the owners of privately owned media businesses.

"The emergence of corporate chains in the media is not all bad," said Temple, "Family newspapers can be extremely idiosyncratic and can lack the professional values that the public might expect from a newspaper."

According to Temple, privately owned and operated media organizations also look at the bottom line of generating a profit as much as the larger corporate organizations.

"There's no question that Wall Street is a big factor in today's media companies," said Temple. "We can romanticize that the media titans of old believed that journalism had a higher mission, but many of them became very wealthy. Look at the Hearst Castle, where's the higher mission in that?

"I have worked as a reporter for privately owned and publicly owned newspapers, and the privately owned wanted to make money just as much as the publicly owned papers."

Temple, who also addressed the entertainment aspect in the news and the role of

Former Channel 9 anchor Ed Sardella and Westward Editor Patricia Calhoun discuss the effect of big business on the media in Tivoli Room 320 Oct. 15.

the media in a democratic society, was among several speakers and panels' attending the conference, some of which expressed opinions contrary to Temple's.

The conference, titled "Media and Society", featured a large and diverse sampling of speakers and panels over a two-day period on Oct. 9 and 10. With 22 speakers scheduled, wide ranges of specialized topics were covered in regards to the role of the various forms of media within society.

Dolph Grundman, Ph.D., professor of history and director of the Honors Program, acted as moderator for John Temple's speech as

Jim Cole-courtesy photo Rocky Mountain News editor and publisher John Temple talks to attendees of the fifth annual Honors Program Conference, Media and Society, in Tivoli 320 Oct. 9.

Temple gave the keynote speech for the conference about the media's role in soci-

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well other panels. Members of the student-run Honors Club within the program also organized the conference and moderated various speeches.

Among the participating members were Honors Club officers Travis Nicholson, Erin Durban, and Yolanda Meade, Honors Club Treasurer CJ Cole, and Dave Mason, President of the Metro Honors Club.

The conference, which is running in its fifth year, is almost entirely compiled and run by Honors Club students and is financed by student fees.

The topics covered in the individual panels on Oct. 9 consisted of John Temple's opening speech on the media and society; "Media Portrayals of the Middle East Crisis," presented

by CU-Denver's political science department, with Evan Zuckerman, associate director of the Anti-Defamation League-Mountain States Regional Office and Wadi Muhaisen, adjunct professor at the University of Colorado at Denver; "Media and Community Advocacy," presented by Project Vision 21 with Alan Prendergast, staff writer at Westward and Francisco Miraval, writer and talk-show host; "Gender Construction and the Media," presented

by Metro's history department, with Mary Anne Watson, professor ofPsychology at Metro, Bob Schatz, professor of psychology at Metro, Veronica Sepesy, graduate of the Metro Honors Program, Barbara Gagliardi, professor of psychology at Metro and Rosalind J, HarrisDiaw, lecturer, Metro History Department; and "Is There a Liberal Bias Media? Does it Matter?" presented by The Denver Post, with Dave Kopel, research director at the independence institute, Fred Brown, former political columnist at the Denver Post and Dianne Carmen, columnist at the Denver Post.

The panels on Oct. 10 consisted of "Media, National Security, and 9/11," presented by the

Metro political science department, with Nick Morales, assistant professorfor Metro s Chicano Studies Department, Norman Provi'zer,professor of political science at Metro; "Media and the Politics ofldentity" presented by the Institute for the International and Intercultural Education with Ward Churchill, professor in the ethnic studies department at the University ofColorado at Boulder, and Akbarali Thorbhani, director and professor of Metros African-American studies department. The closing speaker was Davis Barsamian, author and founder and producer ofAlternative Radio.

One panel, titled ''Media and Community Advocacy," addressed the issue that communitysponsored media should be run by community members for the community. Examples of this kind of advocacy media are community newsletters, in which the news covered in such publications are filtered by the needs of that particular community. The issues these publications address can sometimes go unrecognized by more mainstream news coverage.

"Community journalism is non-commercial, non-profit and is done by the community members for the community," said Francisco

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On The Cover: Metro student Kristina Hammack prepares for speech class in front of The Mercantile before luchtime on Oct. 14.

For a look at lunchtime on Auraria, see the Assignment on page 15.

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650 reasons to keep your wallet with you at all times A University of Colorado at Denver student reported money stolen at 3 p.m. on Oct. 11 from the North Building.

The student reported that her backpack was in the classroom during a lab class, and when she returned, the zipper was open and her wallet was missing with S650.

TOTAL LOSS: $650.

Turns out 'unlawful acts' are illegal who knew?

A Metro student was ticketed for "unlawful acts on school grounds" at l :2~ p.m. on Oct. 10 at the South Classroom.

The unlawful acts are not known to the public at this time, but the suspect will appear in court later this month.

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Diane Himming, a Metro student, has her picture taken by Karen Bensen the Director of GLBTSS for National Coming Out Day Oct. 10. The photo wall was created for those coming out of the closet and people supporting the day.

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NurSing department receives accreditation for next 8 years Chris Longest

The Metropolitan Metro's nursing department experienced an increased heart rate and slight fatigue after being recommended for eight years of accreditation. "[ think this will bring everyone's spirits way up," said Dr. Roberta Hills, Health Professions faculty member. "We are just so relieved to be done."

The National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission will receive a suggestion for the continued accreditation from Phyllis Currier and Lewis R. Amendola, NLNAC peer reviewers, following their site

visit last week. Along with the eight years of accreditation, the department will be required to submit a report concerning the status of the program to the NLNAC in three years.

Two things about Metro 's program especially impressed the accreditation commission. First was the fact that the flexibility and responsiveness the program shows to nontraditional students meets the college's m1ss10n. Second was the understanding of the program by the students.

"The students were articulate and wellinformed about the program," said Hills. "That helped a lot."

The NLNAC peer review uncovered only two weaknesses in the Health Professions

program. One concern was the endurance of the program, which must be tested and proven to be stable. This stability is expected to reflect in the three-year report that will be submitted by the department in 2005. The second area that the program will need to improve on is the time allocated for outside study by the faculty.

The accreditation could increase the number of students in the program, which would increase the amount of time allotted for outside study by the department. Hills said she thought that there were alternative ways to increase the number of students, such as accelerated and second-career programs to reach even more nontraditional students.

Brian Walker Candidates for Metro's open Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board {SACAB) position spoke on a variety of issues Oct. 14 and 16. Senior Lydia Morton and freshman Valerie "Imani" Hawthorne-Bey discussed issues on health care, parking and student needs.

Health care started the issues on which both Morton and Hawthorne-Bey spoke.

Both suggested a decrease in health insurance because the cost of health care has risen in the past years. A major concern revolving around the rise of health care costs came from low-

income students not being able to afford the mandatory insurance and consequently dropping from full-time to part-time, thereby reducing the amount of educational material they will be able to get in a full semester.

Another topic of discussion was parking fees. Reducing fees and trying to establish better parking rules so students' schedules do not revolve around trying to find a parking spot. The candidates also considered a re-entry pass, where students would be allowed to leave the campus and come back later.

Morton also stressed light-rail access.

Hawthorne-Bey was expected to address a drug awareness program as well as drug prevention. She said she felt that people

Computer software was reported stolen from the bookstore at 3: 15 p.m. on Oct. 9 from the Tivoli Bookstore.

A bookstore employee reported that the software was missing and there was no record of the sale of it.

Police have no suspects or leads at this time.

The software stolen was Macromedia Studio MX for Microsoft Windows worth $1 ,393 .

TOTAL LOSS: $1,393.

Shirt desleeved by thief, possible mullet involvement A "Denver Swat" long sleeve shirt was reported stolen at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 9 from a conference room in the Tivoli.

The sleeves of the shirt were later found in the student lounge.

TOTAL LOSS: $15.

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experiencing problems with drugs would have a last resort, a place to feel safe and a place to let their feelings out.

Planning conversation chat rooms was another issue Hawthorne-Bey was expected to address. Creating a place to discuss forums, getting the word of the student out and inspiring people to look for answers to their questions about our campus were reasons she gave.

"You don't know until you ask," Hawthorne-Bey said. She said she wanted to be the person with the resources to help answer those questions.

Besides reinforcing the stitching on the sleeves of all of your shirts, keep this in mind: Do not leave items unattended for any period of time. The story too often is "well, I turned my back for just a second."

Report all on-campus thefts to the Auraria Police Department at (303) 5563271.

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Art classes to change in fall John R. Crane

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In order to meet standards set forth by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, Metro's art department will be adding and eliminating classes for fall 2003.

Three new classes - and class fees will be introduced for spring 2003. The new curriculum and art fees have been approved by the Metro Board of Trustees.

Dennis Chamberlain, chair of Metro 's art curriculum committee, said 10 classes will be dropped from the art program, including survey of modern art, African art and advanced advertising design II. "Most deleted courses are being replaced," Chamberlain said.

For example, survey of modem art will be replaced with art of the 20th century or retrospective view of modem art, Chamberlain said. African art will be split into African art: the Niger to the Atlas Mountains and African art: the Nile to the Cape.

Six classes will be put on hold, Chamberlain said, because they will be crowded out by other classes. A professor has retired and some of the classes to be held are outdated, Chamberlain said.

Understanding visual language, glassworking and concepts in motion - a communication design and advertising class - will also be added.

Hopefully, the new curriculum will coincide with NASAD approval, Chamberlain said.

"We're still wa1tmg to hear from NASAD," Chamberlain said. A decision from the association is due this month.

"In terms of curriculum, it's a better curriculum because it gives students a thorough education in the area of their choice," Chamberlain said.

Four new art classes are being introduced in Spring 2003: World art I: art before 1200, history of communication design, figure painting and functional sculpture. The first two courses will each have a $10 fee, and the fees for the next two will be $50 and $65, respectively. Student art fees cover costs of art materials such as paint and chemicals for photo development.

Figures for art fee changes for Fall 2003 were unavailable. Metro's art department presently collects $70,000 in art fees a year.

The Metro Board of Trustees unanimously approved the art fee changes Oct. 2.

However, Ann Rice, vice chair of the board, said she resents the fee increases.

"I fee l the choice for the student is, either I pay this fee or I do not get to do this project," Rice said.

The students' views of fees have to be acknowledged, Rice said. Rice also said if she were a student, she would wonder why someone should not "whack" an administrator to cut costs, instead of increasing fees. Rice, however, approved the fee changes.

Amber Human, Metro art major with an emphasis in photography, said she dislikes art fees.

"I don't like the fees became I'm paying out-of-state tuition," said Human, a native of England. She said one drawing class cost her $250. Human said she had to buy paper, charcoal, brushes and turpentine.

Mark Masten, Metro art major, said he

has no problem with art fees.

"It's not that big of a deal," Masten said.

If the class is high-quality, then the fees are worth it, he said.

"You get what you pay for," Masten said.

Cheryl Norton, vice president of academic affairs at Metro, said such fees are necessary for any art program.

"It would be nice if there was enough money that everyone's material costs were taken care of," Norton said. "But I know of no colleges that do not have course fees."

Proposals for art fee changes are developed within the department, Norton said. Members of the department assess students' response to the proposal, which is then sent to the dean's and provost's offices for review. Next, it is sent to a student fee review panel and student services for review.

If approved by the two groups, student services and the provost meet to discuss and reconcile differences.The proposal then goes to the president's office and finally to the board of trustees for their approval, Norton said.

Feeling art Visually impaired Metro student Paul Sandavol feels Robert Underhill's adaptation of Fredric S. Remington's painting "A Dash for the Timber." Underhill put in 3,000 hours making the relief art piece so visually impaired people can experience the painting. Underhill presented the painting on Oct. 11 in the Combined Computer Access Center in the library.

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Metro fall choir concert will have American theme The public is invited to the Metropolitan State College of Denver Fall Choral Concert. The concert, titled "Songs of America," will feature the Metro Men's Choir, Women's Choir, Alumni Choir and Concert Choir.

The concert will be conducted by Michael J. Kornelsen, MB Krueger and Jerrald McCullom, and will feature works by such composers as Aaron Copland, Randall Thompson and longtime Colorado State University faculty member James McCray.

The concert will take place Sunday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the King Center Concert Hall. It is free of charge.

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Americans for Nation~ Parks and Metro's Political Science Association will host a Town Hall Meeting to discuss public lands issues with some Colorado Congressional candidates, their campaign representatives and others.

U.S. Senate candidates and Ist Congressional District candidates have been invited. Bruce Ward from the Continental Divide Trail Alliance and Tara Harmon from Americans for National Parks will also speak.

The purpose of the meeting is to raise awareness about challenges facing Colorado's public lands. Colorado Congressional candidates will have the opportunity to answer questions.

The meeting will take place Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. in Tivoli 320B.

Miraval, writer, talk show host and director of Project Vzsion 21. "If you do not tell your story in your own way, someone else will tell it their way."

According to Alan Prendergast, staff writer for Westward, who also spoke along with Miraval in the panel, Westward, a weekly publication in the Denver Metro area, strives to have no ideology except to afllict the comforted.

"The solution in regards to the issue of advocacy in journalism is to take on a watchdog role that challenges all orthodoxies, including the readers," said Prendergast. ''This falls closer to classic journalistic principles."

The reoccurring topic of a liberal bias in mainstream media was also included among the conferences panels. The speakers for "Is There a Liberal Bias in the Media? Does it Matter?" represented the conservative, moderate and liberal points of view.

Carmen, who called the notion of liberal bias in the media "preposterous", said she had never worked for a newspaper owner or publisher who has ever been a registered Democrat.

"There are many aspects to this issue, and I challenge anyone to look at media bias in broader context than just liberal and conservative," said Carmen. "Local newspapers really do try to reflect the community and its interests. We try to be relevant to the people we're writing for."

Kopel spoke to the contrary.

"I don't think there is anyone who would come close to a political conservative and really not even a moderate", said Kopel in reference to reporting in the news sections of The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. "Interestingly, the place in Denver newspapers where there is the least amount of bias is in the Editorial Pages."

In contrast to the opening speech given by Temple, the closing speaker, David Barsamian, author, founder and producer of Alternative Radio, located in Boulder, likened contemporary journalists to stenographers for various powerful organizations.

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Arakawa to speak at National Disability Awareness Day fair

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Channel 9 News anchor Adele Arakawa will give the keynote address for Disability Awareness Day Oct. 24.

A free vendor fair will take place from JO a.m. to noon. At II a.m., Debra ThomasSalsberry will sing. Free lunch will be provided at noon. At 12:30 p.m., Arakawa will speak. At I p.m., comedian Geri Jewel of the Facts of Life fame will perform.

The event will take place Oct. 24 in the Tivoli Turnhalle from IO a.rn. to 2 p.m.

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DMV policies Ldumbest' of city

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sports editor eric eames

photography editor joshua lawton

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reporters john r. crane, waiter gant, ian neligh, eric skougstad, donald smith, andrew lam, amy denning, travis m. combs, rami wilder, josh pacheco, chris longest, brian walker, jonathan kuenne, elisabeth seaton, roger norquist

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Walter Gant Staff Columnist There are numerous city offices that have completely been overhauled due to 9/11. At least that is their excuse. However, I have never had the time to truly see how lazy city offices have become until last week. I 1 witnessed the dumbest policies that the city has to offer courtesy of the Department of Motor Vehicles . This is the only place in the city where you can purchase identification. I didn't realize how important ID was until I didn't have any.

You can't cash checks, use credit cards or go to the liquor stores. The city basically makes it difficult for you to get an lD these days.

The reason I learned this is because a couple of weeks ago I lost my wallet. Since I carry nothing in my wallet of relevance but my ID, I wasn't worried. The last time I needed ID I was able to go to 16th Street and purchase one. To my surprise, that place has been closed for almost a year.

Not a problem, I thought, I can go to 27th and Welton and still get one. To my dismay they had two stipulations to receive an ID.

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finally arrive at the living hell of the DMV, 6th and Sable.

When I get there, the line is, as usual, out of the door. After waiting for an hour they notify me that I can't use an expired passport.

To me, that's the dumbest thing I've heard. A government document with my picture can't be used to receive an ID. Even though it's expired I look exactly the same. They tell me I need a birth certificate or numerous other picture IDs to prove that I was a legal citizen before I get an ID. So the expired document with my face that's only given to citizen.s is no good. I then go to my parents' home, dig through some documents and find my birth

two weeks thing about? That's ridiculous. I'm not paying for anything that I can't walk out with on the spot. This is an ID, not a house.

What makes that even worse is that the only places that you can get your ID is so far out of the way that no person staying in Metro Denver is close to it. You are in fact unconvinced to get something that life without is an inconvenience. Two years ago, every spot gave you an ID. Now they use 9/ 11 as an excuse for inept workers and policies. A change has to come in that office, and I mean soon. Their policies are all stupid. In the words of the great Mos Def, "Why do I need ID to get JD? lfl had ID, I wouldn't need ID".

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certificate. I finally go to somewhere in Westminster to finally get an ID . They give it to me with the birth certificate. Something without any picture on it at all.

What I don't understand about their logic is this: you take my fingerprint as well as my picture, so you have records of me being a Colorado citizen on file. All you would have to do is check my fingerprint and make sure my picture is me. That's why you keep stuff on file, so when people need it they can get it.

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The first one was that you needed ID to get ID and the second was that they mailed your ID to you. It takes two weeks to receive an ID. I was not feeling that resolution at all. The clerk then told me if I want an ID, I can go to Buckingham Mall or the DMV. on 6th and Sable. They allegedly both give you your ID on the spot.

I then grab an expired passport and proceed to go to the spot in Buckingham Mall. That place is also conveniently closed.

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Reporter Commentary A panel discussion was held on finding strategies towards confronting institutionalized racism as part of an event sponsored by the Community Education Project, a Metro student organization.

The panel discussed the importance of organization in order to bring about the eradication of racism and white privilege. White privilege being a concept that means an unearned, ascribed and unacknowledged advantage that is experienced by whites living in a white-dominated society.

Towards the end of the discussion, the problem was raised on what to do about white apathy, which is the indifference, lack of over-all concern and lethargy shown by the average college student towards actively fighting racism. The answers to these problems were attributed to fear and being unable to organize white anti-racist allies.

It seems to me white apathy is caused by a privileged living environment. If someone is not directly affected by the problems in our society and raised under the blank.et of privilege and ignorance, then how can they possibly begin to understand the need for serious social reformation? Even if, intellectually, they can begin to comprehend what is at stake, they seem

to only want to dabble in it as a hobby or just enough to get their feet wet. Much of the attendance to this important meeting seemed for some students to be a popular reason to have a fashionable social life.

With well over l 00 people in attendance and 99 percent of them being white, the only things contributed to the discussion by many of them was the sporadic ringing of cell phones or whispers about possible parties being held after the meeting. Apparently it is easy to put in 10 percent of your effort to a righteous cause, so long as you get to wear the appropriate radical clothing. After all, who wants to put everything into a cause when the results mean long hours and hard work or even possibly getting in trouble with the law, when it may jeopardize a future accounting job?

generation, much like the generation before you?

A member of the Metro student council said, " If you are thinking about struggling and you are not struggling, then you are not thinking. All that it comes down to is mental masturbation."

Ashanti Alston, a member of the discussion board, and former Black Panther, said, "If you're serious about this, then you're going to have to accept that you're going to have a very uncomfortable time."

But isn't that the problem? People who are not accustomed to feeling uncomfortable are likely to avoid it at all costs.

As students, we need to fight the intellectual paralysis created by an environment that protects us with privilege and ignorance.

The only time that I saw group participation

If someone is not directly affected and raised under the blanket of privilege and ignorance, then how can they possibly begin to understand the need for serious social reformation?

Members of the audience brought up the fact that white supremacy was effectively challenged in the ' 60s and '70s, it was easier to deal with white apathy back then as opposed to today. But when there is homework, a Playstation or a social gathering that might help influence your subconscious need to take part in procreation, why bother to take part in any sort of change when all of this is could be at stake?

In six years are these issues going to matter when you're trying to get your first promotion, and you're helping to unconsciously create the institutionalized white privilege for another

or interest beyond the superficial image of being a radical during the conference was when they got to yell, "All power to the people." I would like to acknowledge and thank the people who attended the meeting who were in fact serious, and who reminded me of my own ignorance, and our reasonability to do something other than whine about what we refuse to change.

We must do more than talk about there being a problem. Problems are solved only by taking action. The bourgeois intelligentsia are very good at talking about what they will never change.

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Brian P. Reed I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man.

An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts.

--Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

You are a duplicitous, lame excuse for a fractionated, carbon-formed, amorphous being!

My paltrid vocabulary be damned!

My "liberal" belief that Osama bin Laden should be held by a jury of his-albeit resurrected for this column-peers (i.e.

Ghenghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Chairman Mao, Mussolini, Stalin, Wagner, Hitler, Milosevic, Ghaddifi, Manson and Hussein) be damned!

I am right. I am wrong. I am left. I am right. But, unsuspectingly, I am beyond "Good and Evil." . . . your mother's worst bipedal nightmare. But, yet again, I digress ...

Have you read (the one sentence containing 285 words, 10 commas and 3 semi-colons) Amendment 31?

READ IT!

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Smoking serious health issue l.

Josh Pacheco Staff Columnist Did you know, according to the World Health Organization one person dies from - tobacco, every 13 seconds? And that doesn't include the suffering that people go through sometimes, for years, before they die.

There is one particular demographic on campus that, by quenching their own addictions, puts others at odds with them.

I realize that it must be tough constantly ' getting singled out for something that they can hardly control, but I am tired of feeling like a smoked-out caboose on a locomotiv,e when I walk behind one of these people.

Of course, 1 am speaking of smokers.

Recently I have felt that smoking has . :ecome somewhat of a national past time. It seems like everyone that I know smokes.

I am not dragging out this subject meaning to beat a dead horse. Rather, I speak of it because I am concerned for the welfare of my friends and classmates.

I realize that every smoker know the facts and statistics abo ut lung cancer and emphysema; however, doesn't that just make it worse that one knows the horrible outcome of smoking yet still does it?

It is a tragedy that younger generations are bound to repeat our ill-fated mistakes, such as smoking addiction.

I feel sorry for the younger generations, it seems that they hardly have a chance to stay away from cigarettes when the people that they look up to have habits that will steer them in a wrong direction. While some find it cool to smoke especially when you are in high school, J find it disgusting.

Beside the hea lth aspect of smoking there are many other reasons to be against it. The tobacco industry is a $400 billion dollar industry has been taking profit hits because of anti-smoking campaigns.

So these corporations have been taking aim at developing countries. lt sounds to me that the people running these operations are

not really concerned about who they hurt as long as they make their profit margin.

If tobacco companies are not using animal characters to advertise to kids then they are using psychological techniques in order to entrap their prisoners of addiction. l have heard allegations in which the tobacco companies vary the amount of nicotine they put in each cigarette so that the smoker never knows when they will get the nicotine high. Ever heard of this technique?

Does Pavlov's dog ring a bell?

It is sad that there are millions of Americans who can' t tum away from a habit that they would rather not have when there are cooperate executives somewhere getting rich off of them.

I realize that people who partake in this habit probably get pretty tired of being reminded of the downfalls. And I realize that most people who are addicted to cigarettes would rather not be trapped. But nonetheless I am afraid that smoking is becoming as popular in America as Big Macs or apple pie.

It is a big problem that we cannot ignore any longer.

Letters to the Editor

(Reader thinks elections do not work Editor, Voting doesn't work. Elections have only served to maintain dominant power structures yuch as private property, the military, male domination and economic inequality. None of these has ever been seriously challenged by voting.

Every major political advance in this century has been won outside the voting booth.

Union rights were won in the 1930s through â&#x20AC;˘ strikes, sit-ins and fights with scabs and the

National Guard. The rights of AfricanAmericans were won in the 1950s and 1960s through massive civil disobedience, riots and protests. Gains for gays and lesbians began with the Stonewall Rebellion. The movement against the Vietnam War was based upon mass demonstrations and student strikes. Voting doesn' t work.

We need Revolutionaries! We need people who are going to stir things up. Who are going to take risks. Who are going to challenge power.

We need Visionaries! Those who see clearly

that the time has come for the American people to take total control over the entire U.S. economic system.

We need fearless ones! Those who will never kneel to the capita list power elite. Those who will seize this moment in history to save our democracy.

The whole world is waiting!

John Cosselli Metro Student

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning English-language education in Colorado public schools, and, in connection therewith, requiring children who are teaming English to be placed in an English immersion program that is intended to last one year or less and, if successful, will result in placement of such children in ordinary classrooms; exempting from such requirements those children whose parents or legal guardians obtain annual waivers allowing the children to transfer to classes using bilingual education or other educational methodologies, but making such waivers very difficult to obtain because the school can grant them only in very restrictive circumstances and can deny them for any reason thereby reducing the liklihood that bilingual education will be used; requiring schools that grant any waivers to offer bilingual education or educational methodologies when they have at least 20 students in the same grade who receive a waiver and in all other cases permitting students to transfer to a public school in which bilingual educational or other methodologies are offered, with the cost of such transfer, excluding transportation, to be provided by the state; allowing a parent or legal guardian to sue public employees granting a waiver if the parent or guardian later concludes that the waiver was granted in e"or and injured the child's education; creating severe legalconsequences identified in the amendment; and requiring schools to test children learning English, enrolled( in second grade or higher, to monitor their progress, using a standardized nationallynormed test of academic subject matter given in English.

This stinks of racism , prejudice, ignorance and "legalese." I am reminded of Gandi"When I despair, I remember that through history the way of truth and love has always won.. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always. " There are defenders of truth , by word, deed, creed and mass weapons. I prefer the latter. Kiss my butt. If you vote for Amendment 31 , your head is in the dirt.

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Ron Henderson, Executive Director of the Denver Film Society welcomes a small crowd to the Independent Filmmakers reception Oct. 11 , one of many receptions the festival holds during the 10-day affair.

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25th Starz Denver International Film Festival continues in full gear Several days remain to experience festival's original presentation of moving image Denver's oldest celebration of cinema started Oct. 10 and will continue through Oct. 20. This year's festival is showcasing 150 films from around the world with more than 80 directors, actors and filmmakers who have already attended or are expected to attend the festival. Many celebrities and directors have come in the last several days to screen and talk about their films with audience members, providing a unique perspective into the filmmaking process. Various receptions, premieres and tributes have already happened with much ado. Closing night festivities will be Oct. 19 with the screening of Bowling For Columbine, a qew film by Michael Moore examining the culture of gun violence within the backdrop of the Columbine high school shootings. This will take place at the Buell Theatre with the Last Reel Party follwing at the Blue Sky Grill at the Pepsi Center. The remaining regular film screenings will be in the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli. story & reviews by Travis M. Combs, Ian Neligh, Megan Ehlers & Brian Deegan

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The 25th Stan Denver International Film Festival held a reception in the Crescent Room at the Buell Theatre for participating filmmakers and patrons of the festival Oct. 11.

The long-running film festival is dedicated to showcasing independent films, which are rarely seen in the popular, corporate theatre chains backed by large Hollywood production companies.

"We showcase films that would not be seen outside the context of the film festival and provide a platform for filmmakers to interact with their audience," said Ron Henderson, Executive Director of the Denver Film Society- producer of the film festival.

With the opening of the Stan FilmCenter, independent films will have a regular location for showcasing them.

'This is a new era in the organization," said Henderson.

"We can do what we've essentially been doing year round."

Many filmmakers showcased in the 10 day festival, which

started Oct 10 and ends Oct. 20, were in attendance to discuss their films, compare notes and work on future collaborations.

Filmmaker Douglas Houston said that many independent films can often be ignored by the mainstream market and have difficulty in finding viewers on a large scale, which is why he is showing his film in the festival.

"I couldn't hope to approach a big production company," said Houston. "Independent films are below the market mainstream."

Though reaching an audience can prove frustrating for independent filmmakers, the audience feedback it does receive tends to be more direct.

"Independent filmmakers make films and get honest audience feedback," said Houston. "Mainstream Hollywood shows the film and get demographic and other studies back.

We just don't have that luxury."

Houston, a participant in the Colorado Filmmakers Showcase is presenting a short film entitled 18 With Che, a satirical piece about a round of golf between Fidel Castro and Che Guevera in the late I950's. The film foreshadows the coming cold war relations with the United States.

Joel Sadilek, whose piece is entitled "Summer House", said that an unfettered expression of the filmmaker is a major component of independent films.

"Independent film is an expression of an idea or a story to tell by the writer or director," said Sadilek. "They want to tell it and they don't want anybody to tell them how to do it."

Often, with a lack of financial resources at their disposal, filmmakers sometimes find funding by alternative means.

Joshua Lawton -The Metropolitan "From my personal observation, 90 perPatrons of the Denver International film festival enjoy the accomo- cent of the time a wealthy relative or friend dations provided for them in the hospitality suite in Tivoli 440. will help out financially," said Sadilek. 'The From left: Michele Gibson, festival sponsor, Howard Zucker, board other IO percent of the time you'll find peo-

member, Lu_Bolognue, filmmaker and Chris Law, board member.

pie with a Jot of money who are fascinated with films and filmmaking."

Sadilek, who was a former city planner for the city and county of Denver, had never picked up a movie camera until he was 26 years old. He believes that people, particularly artists, should pursue what they really want in life. " You should honestly follow what you really want to do in heart and refuse to become trapped into the ritual of selling out," said Sadilek.

Cheng battles in Come Drink With Me "Queen of Swords" Cheng Pei-pei came to the Auraria campus as part of the film festival 's salute to Chinese cinema Most recently, she played the evil Jade Fox in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which earned her the best supporting actress award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

"I'm no longer the main character in these movies so I get a chance to do more than before. I can try all different roles like in Crouching Tiger and be Jade Fox, a bad guy, that's my first time," said Cheng. "They always think I'm too nice to be a bad guy, but Ang Lee doesn't think so."

Cheng appeared at a special screening of Come Drink With Me, directed by King Hu, which became an instant classic when it was first released in 1966. Produced by the famous Shaw Brothers studio, the film is part of a long-term commitment to restore and re-release the entire Shaw Brothers film library using the latest techniques.

Come Drink With Me, originally called Big Drunk Hero, has been the inspiration for generations of wuxia (martial arts) films, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. King Hu in turn took much of the films inspiration from the samurai films of the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurasawa.

"You can see a lot of martial arts movies come from this one, there are a lot of similarities that you can see in other films, l think, even Crouching Tiger," said Cheng.

The movie starts after an evil Kung Fu master has been arrested and the helpless son of the governor is kidnapped in

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return and held for ransom by a malicious gang of outlaws. Cheng made her first martial arts film and debut at the age of 19 in a role she later perfected as "Shaolin Swallow;' the governor's daughter. In Golden Swallo11, she is sent on a mission to find her missing brother. Filled with lightning-fast martial arts and a good mix of violence and humor, Cheng's character tights her way through an almost Disneyland-like version of ancient China, using some of the best moves in martial arts cinema. "! usually only practice the martial arts if I'm in the movies. I'm more ofa dancer than a martial arts person, but 1 think that helps me stay healthy. I think that's why my career has lasted so long," said Cheng.

While beating up outlaw assailants in a restaurant during a scene similar to one in Crouching Tiger, she is noticed by Drunken Cat (Yueh Hua) who helps her along from the shadows. Eventually it is revealed that Drunken Cat is a formidable Kung Fu Master and is pitted against an evil abbot secretly in charge of the outlaw gang.

Surprisingly funny, and most of the time on purpose. this movie demonstrates its incredible fighting choreography on more than one occasion.

The film's only sour point is that the ending is wrapped up too quickly and that there are some remaining loose ends.

"We thought about doing a remake because the ending is too rushed, but when I saw it at the Cannes Film Festival, I don't think anyone can do this. So now rm trying to do a sequel," said Cheng. "Right now Hong Kong's movies are very dark. l think that martial arts movies have changed in many ways.

"After Bruce Lee and Gung Fu. the movies themselves have changed and become more bloody; the story is becoming lighter and lighter. I think that's why Ang ~ee's movies do so great, it's because he goes back to the beginning and has more story."

Fictional documentary genre explodes with Assassin Interview with the Assassin was directed by Neil Burger and shown at the film festival four weeks before its official New York premiere. The movie was shot in just over 20 days with a $700,000 budget.

An out-of-work TV reponer/cameraman, Dylan Haggeny. stumbles across the story of the century when his neighbor, an old ex-Marine, Walter Ohlinger, learns that he is dying of cancer and decides to come clean and tell Dylan that he was the second gunman on the 路'grassy knoll" who actually killed John F. Kennedy. The mysterious Walter claims that Lee Harvey Oswald was set up, while he, Walter, actuall) carried out the mission. As Walter admits during one part of the film, '路If you kill the most powerful man in the world, I'd say that makes you the most powerful, I was ready for that."

The need for both Dylan and Walter to find recognition drives them into a desperate search for the truth in a dark world of paranoia and lies.

"The movie is about what is probably one of the most confounding mysteries in American history," said Burger. "It's a very personal movie that has a very distinct personal point of view. As much as it is about the Kennedy assassination and conspiracy, it is also about these characters trying to find meaning in their lives."

Unlike many other fictional documentary movies, Assassin pulls the audience into the story with a rich combination of suspense and realism, creating an intense environment that is as disconcerting as it is intriguing.

"If you think about the Kennedy conspiracy, you start to wonder who these people are, who could they possibly be, where are they now years later, and how could they live with themselves," said Burger. "If there was a second gunmen and he wasn't dead, then where is he and what would his life be like today."

Coming from a background of documentary filmmaking, Assassin is Burger's first independent film. "I've always been interested in regular documentaries and I feel like what you often see in real documentaries is much more harrowing, hair-

Joshua Lawton -The Metropolitan

Outside the Starz FilmCenter Oct.15. The film festival ends Oct. 20 with screenings of 13 of the festival's 25 greatest hits as determined by the festival's program staff. raising, and disturbing," said Burger. 路'It has so much more impact than if it's just a Hollywood movie. So I wanted to get that kind of energy into it. "lf I see a fake documentary. it better be something that I could never see in a real one, so I thought that the solution to the Kennedy assassination would be a documentary that l would want to see," said Burger. "There is so many people making movies and there are so many movies out there, aspiring film students need to make the movies

Joshua Lawton -The Melropolitan

The lobby of the Starz FilmCenter is a busy one during the festival. Festival-goers can pack the lobby as films end and begin throughout the evening. that need to be made, either that they are really passionate about or that it's something that you haven't seen before."

Interview with the Assassin opens Nov. 15 in New York and Los Angeles. It opens a week later here and in about 12 other cities.

Two Johns movie gigantically unusual ''They might be giants, boy. They might be giants.

'They might be brain. They might be washed.

They might be Dr. Spock's backup band."

So intones actor Harry Shearer in one of several celebrity deadpan readings of the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants' song lyrics in the documentary Gigantic. A Tale of ttl'O Johns. The feature-length movie by first-time director A.J. Schnack covers the band's 20-year history using interviews, concert footage. and other unusual methods.

The movie. which screened Mice at this year's festival, paints a vivid picture of the careers of band members John Linnell and John Flansburgh. the two Johns of the title. It starts with their junior high school friendship and continues through the present day.

We learn about the band's early days in Brookl111, NY, when their audiences sometimes consisted of five people, and about their "Dial-ASong" phone service, which won the public's attention.

The band, we learn, decided early on not to write love songs, which eliminated many potential subjects for songs. Instead. they write vel)' dark lyrics that are set to very cheerful. upbeat music. interviews with people like Sarah Yowell, Syd Straw and manager Jamie Kitrnan ponder the strangeness of dancing to lyrics like "Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful."

Sprinkled throughout the band's story are straight-faced actors like Shearer, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Richter and Michael McKean reading the band's sometimes stanlingly unusual lyrics.

Extensive concert footage shows off the strength ofTMBG's live show, and the audience is treated to backstage looks at the band's shows. At one concert in London, they receive cupcakes and fudge from a fan.

"We love you more than fudge," the enclosed note reads, "so you get fudge."

The camera swings over to band member Dan Miller, who stops laughing and adopts a serious face.

"There is no way I am eating any of that," Miller

tells the camera.

Giganiic is put together' in a funny, engaging way that hooks viewers at the beginning and keeps them interested throughout the whole movie. It provides lots of new information for the seasoned fan and might just win TMBG new audience members.

Southern lovin' in Briar Patch Director Zev Bennan's debut film Briar Patch is a story about a poor southern girl and her search for her true love. The movie is set in backwoods '.'forth Carolina in 1974. The unspecified time frame reinforces the despair of the poor southern lifestyle.

The story starts out with the main character Inez played by Dominic Swain recruiting the help of her anlateur psychic friend to help with the search for her true love. Letting the audience know Inez's true love must be someone other than her two-bit criminal husband, played by Henry Thomas, Inez's husband quickly gets suspicious of her visits to her psychic friend and in true southern domestic abuse fashion chains her to the couch.

Her husband enlists the help of his best friend Flowers to guard her while he performs his daily chores of unloading stolen tires and planting marijuana. The character Flowers looks like the worst white trash perpetrator you have ever seen on Cops, times two.

In fact, Jrish actor Arie Verveen slept in his truck for the entire 21 clays of filming to help him look the pan.

As the plot develops, Inez continues her search with the help of her psychic friend, although complications ensue because she is not giving her friend the whole story. The film's visually-pleasing ending, which is the best cinematography in the movie, is predictable yet clever, giving a satisfying resolution to the audience.

The most intriguing pan of this film is the way the poor, uneducated characters express themselves with passionate, flowery words. The contrast of such beautiful words coming out of these dirty and strange characters has a very cool effect, much like the intelligent conversations the low lifes of Pulp Fiction have. The dialogue, coupled with the strong acting performances of Swain, Thomas and Verveen, make Briar Patch an enjoyable film.

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Barsatnian closes Media and Society Honors Conference HONORS from 9 According to Barsamian, mainstream media organii.ations in the United States are growing more to resemble the propaganda styles produced under the German Third Reich in the 1930's and 194-0's. '"The media is no longer operating as a fourth estate," said Barsamian. ''They are no longer upholding the classic adage of comforting the affiicted and affijcting the comfortable. They have completely turned that around and are now comforting the comfortable and affiicting the ·~ affiicted. ''They have identified with state power and other powerful organizations. Instead of watchdogs they have become lapdogs."

Barsamian continued by stressing the need for access to an independent news media in society. ''We need an independent, unfettered press that provides a breadth and spectrum of viewpoints," said Barsamian. "A really functioning, democratic communications system provides citizens are range of opinion from A to Z. What we have today is a range of opinion from A '-· toB." According to Barsamian, censorship does occur within corporate-nm media.

"Most of the censorship that goes on within the corporate-controlled media is that of omission, of what's left out, not of what is included," said Barsamian.

Barsamian said that propaganda as a means to influence and control, in its various forms, proliferates American media and Likened it to the "Newspeak" media found in author George Orwell's fictional book 1984.

''This is the United States and there is a veneer of freedom and democracy," said Barsamian. ''They way to control American citizens is not with the baton or the AK-47, but through controlling their minds."

According to Grundman, the conference was one of the best the Honors program has organized.

"The panels were consistent and the attendance was good," said Grundman. "This demonstrates that students are interested in discussing the issues."

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Gilbert has winning plan Junior transfer dedicated to b路e ing the best Eric Eames

The Metropolitan "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. "-Henry Ford.

At 21, Shawna Joe Gilbert holds the world by a crystal-a clear and bright future lies ahead. She doesn't see the obstacles. She knows exactly what she wants to do and she is meeting her goals-college volleyballand others are in binocular range-a social work degree, master's degree, a family-and no one doubts her. Sure some goals have slightly changed as the years ticked away, but the objective remains the same, to succeed, at everything.

"I have this dedication to whatever I do," Gilbert said. "Whatever I do I want to be the best at it, and I'm going to work until I'm at a level that I feel is the best I can be."

For most of us, someone has to light a fire under our butt to get us going. Not with Gilbert. It's what she's been spoon-fed at home by a rock of a mother, who taught her to give it her all.

"It all starts at home," said Gilbert's mother, Darcy Janssen.

The same be-all-you-can-be message had to be forced fed later on, though.

Julie Anderson was a driving force during Gilbert's years at Burlington High School. Back in seventh grade, Gilbert initially began playing volleyball to supplement her skills in basketball. She took up track in high school for the same reasons, to jump higher, move faster and have better balance, all for basketball. She wanted to play for Colorado State University or the University of Colorado (Boulder), because their women's basketball teams always appeared in the papers at the town library and on television during March Madness. No one talked about volleyball, until Anderson.

The Cougars head volleyball coach pulled Gilbert aside for a heart-to-heart.

"As I went through high school, Julie Anderson, she was just an amazing coach and just inspired me to try harder and work harder at everything that I did and it just created a passion in me to be the best I can be in volleyball," Gilbert said. "With basketball, I didn't gain more passion for basketball. It wasn't as much fun to me. Volleyball became more fun."

Gilbert said.

After playing two years at Sheridan Junior College (Wyo.), where she earned All-Academic honors both years, Gilbert's chance to play at a four-year school dangled like a golden Aspen leaf.

"As the recruiting process went on, I couldn't find a school that offered what I wanted educationally and that had a volleyball program that was a right fit for me," she said. "I'm really glad I found Metro."

The feeling is mutual.

From the moment Gilbert tried out for the Roadrunners this past spring, the coaches immediately wanted to sign her up. It's easy to see why. Gilbert tornadoes through the middle and explodes into the ball with such force that all you see after she swings is a white blur hissing to an open space and ricocheting off the floor with a echoing report.

You almost feel sorry for the ball.

"She is just a strong athletic kid and we knew we were going to need someone to come up and just hammer some balls for us," Metro head coach Debbie Hendricks said.

"We were losing (seniors) Marina Bazana and Diana Marques, whose trademark was their ability to pound balls and we liked the fact that Shawna would be a little bit of an intimidator from that standpoint."

A little goes a long ways.

Gilbert has become a huge driying force in the middle blocker position for the Roadrunners, flatten ing balls with a .377 bitting percentage, the second best percentage in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

She also averages 2.65 kills and a team-best 1.04 blocks per game. " I expected to come in here and work and earn my spot and I feel like that's what has happened," Gilbert said. "I've come in here and I've worked hard and it's just fit together."

Like the way she approaches life, Gilbert's first instinct on the volleyball court is aggressive, then she worries about the consequences. When setter Devon Herron is getting ready to set the ball, Gilbert is yelling at her for it-"Yeah! C' mon !

C'mon!" ''l wouldn't want to play against her, I tell you that," Herron said. "She is the most explosive middle I have every played with.

She's fast, explosive and she jumps. She's got the whole package."

"She goes hard everyday," Hendricks added. " When she makes a mistake she tries to figure out what she did wrong and moves on to her next opportunity. She has a work ethic you would desire in any player that you have on the team. She's brought that since day one."

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Shawna Gilbert By junior year her dreams had flipped.

Now, she wanted to play college volleyball or bust.

"I really wasn't going to be happy if I didn 't get a chance to play in college,"

ties into big-time dreams. Growing up on the family farm in Burlington, Colo., population 3,200, Gilbert was a sunflower among the leaves of wheat.

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age," said Janssen, who says the drought continues to devour the economy on the eastern plains. "She always seemed older than she was. She's always been a really aggressive, generous-type person. She helps others before she helps herself."

The challenge for life in general is to love those 路who are hard to love and for Gilbert, a prickle digs at her heart in an urge to help others besides just a few close people. In Burlington, she volunteered her time at the city's mentally and physically challenged center. She also volunteered her time with youth programs, like the swim team, summer basketball and in volleyball camps.

She's been accepted into Metro's social work program and has told her mother she wants to focus on child welfare.

"She is very interested in helping children that are Jess fortunate or caught in circumstances beyond themselves," Janssen said.

In fifth grade, Gilbert was caught in the middle of her parents' divorce. She moved with her mother to Burlington, uprooted from Kiowa, Colo., where her father Joe Gilbert resides.

ShawnaGilbert accepted the new role thrust on her as she started over and made good with what she had. She eventually graduated from Burlington High School with

a 3.83 GPA and was.highly active in several clubs, the National Honors Society and was a tour guide at Old Town, a tourist attraction featuring vintage wagons and a gun-slinging saloon. She was so good working with people, they asked her to return every summer.

"It's almost like when she got here she had to prove herself again," Janssen said.

"And from then on she was just an absolute success at whatever she did, with athletics and academics and all the other things she does .... And l think that is why she is geared toward working with youth. She knows what it is like to have such a transition in your life and how hard it is to overcome some of those things."

Well all great athletes have a speck of cruelty grown into them, get Gilbert out of uniform and she makes an honest return to her roots. When you know where you come from, you know where you are going.

"She is kind of like a teddy bear," Herron admitted. "She is mean and she is rough when she wants to be, but on the other side she is the nicest person. She is very caring.

She is always looking out for everyone's interest."

Back near the Kansas border, Gilbert's mother, an emergency coordinator for three counties, is doing the same thing.

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No. 12 Metro, Allen blank foes_ Donald Smith

The Metropolitan The No. 12 Metro women's soccer team went on the road this weekend and have continued to dominate, improving its record to 11-2 overall and to a Rocky Mountain Conference leading 7-0.

Starting with the defense, freshman goalkeeper Mandy Allen, who has recorded 3 9 of the teams' 48 saves this season, posted two shutouts over the weekend in a 1-0 win over New Mexico Highlands Oct. 11 and a 3-0 win against Adams State Oct. 13.

Allen increased her shutout total to six on the season and dropped her goals against average to 0. 74 in over 850 minutes of work. But these numbers have been made Mandy Allen possible by the Roadrunners' defending in front of her, whom have allowed only eight shots a game (101 shots in 13 games). Midfielder Elin Otter and Kristin Nason along with defensive backs Collen Fellin and Megan Shivers have become Allen's personal bodyguards in the last few weeks. Along with the Roadrunners veiy mobile midfielders the two defenders have been controlling rebounds and limiting opposing forwards to little or no shots.

The defense started its return to dominance against New Mexico Highlands (4-6-2; 2-4-2 RMAC) as they allowed only three shots, (two were saved) from the Cowgirls. The Roadrunners would have to play a long, tough game as Highlands held the Roadrunners to a scoreless first half. But in the second half, Joslyn Brough would make her fourth goal of the season, a game winner, on a pass from midfielder Jenelle Brandt as Metro took the game 1-0.

The next hurdle Metro would overcome was at Adams State (76, 2-6 RMAC), who has a women's team competing for the first time ever. The Grizzlies would be the next team to suffocate under the Roadrunners D', getting only six shots off, with Allen swatting away four of them. On the other side, the Roadrunners peppered Adams with 44 shots. The Roadrunners threw the knock out blows early as Amy Leichliter scored her 12th goal seven minutes into the game on a breakaway set up by Brough to take a 1-0 lead. Eighteen

minutes later junior Melissa Miller fired a shot from the top of the goal box to beat the keeper in the 25th minute and add an insurance goal as Metro took a 2-0 halftime lead.

The game didn't get any better for the Grizzlies. The only goal scored in the second half was tallied by Metro's Meisha Pyke who was set up by a nice first touch from Brandt. It was Pyke's fourth goal on the year as the Roadrunners walked away a 3-0 winner.

The question right now is, How much better can the · Roadrunners get?

"There's plenty ofroom for improvement," Metro head coach Danny Sanchez said. "We have seven conference games left that will determine the RMAC championship and an NCAA tournament birth, so we can't relax for a second. As the season's gone on our game's have gotten tighter and tighter and although we're playing better the other teams we're playing have gotten better, so we need to stay consistent and focused in order to continue getting the results we've been getting so far."

Metro right now has beaten eveiy RMAC team they've faced with a stifling defense and a run-and-gun offense that has been lighting up the scoreboard. They're ranking jumped up six spots to No.12 and they are tied for first in the Midwest Regional with Central Oklahoma, whom they beat 1-0 Sept. 29. Metro has dominating players on each -side of the ball, (Leichliter on offense and Allen on defense) but most of all, they are playing with the one thing championship teams have-confidence.

"We have some go-to players, but l've been pleased in that we have nine different goals scorers and ten different players that have registered assist this year," Sanchez said. "Obviously, Amy has done veiy well, but teams stan to focus in on her, so the rest of the attacking players [have] really picked up the slack and done well. The more weapons you have the more dangerous you are."

Who knows, we may have both women's teams (volleyball being the other) holding R.MAC trophies in November. The Roadrunners will go back into action on Oct. 18 against Mesa State (7-3-2, 3-2-2 RMAC) at 1 p.m. and Oct. 20 at noon against Fort Lewis College (1-8-2, 1-5-1 RMAC) at noon both games will be held here at Auraria.

file photo/Danny Holland -The Metropolitan Metro jumped six spots in the national rankings to No. 12. Amy Leichliter (above) scored her 12th goal against Adams State Oct. 13.

She is 24th in the nation with a 2.33 points per game average. ,'

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Swimmers geared for Nationals .. Andrew Lam

The Metropolitan One of the most adaptable animals in the New World thrives in the rugged, unforgiving lake region of southern Ontario, Cananda. Known as the muskrat to the layman, this rodent is one extraordinary swimmer.

Metro's swimming and diving team has nothing in common with this aquatic mammal, except, well, both are mammals and swim like a fish. But unlike the furbearer, male swimmers are notorious for shaving their legs, arms, torso and head. It's their distinction. And for those who know, it does indeed make a difference.

Unlike early Egyptians who drowned in the Nile because they didn 't know how to swim, the men on Metro's swim team not only avoid drowning, they are quite adept at navigating a pool at high ~ speeds.

Returning from a year that ended at the Division II Nationals is Metro's swimming sophomore sensation Mathieu Mermillon. Mermillon was the only Roadrunner to get an automatic qualifying time for Nationals. On Feb. 3, against Wyoming University, Mermillon completed the _._ 200 meter breaststroke with a time of two minutes and 8.24 seconds, the second fastest time in school history and a top 20 time nationally. The school record is held by Scott Watson with a time of 2:03.03 set in 1998. Mermillon also had team-best times in the I 00 meter breaststroke (59.46) and the ~ 200 meter free (I :46.82).

Head swimming coach Rich LeDuc anticipates Mermillon to qualify for Nationals as early as November this season. Other aqueous standouts are senior J.D. Settlemire, who swims in the backstroke, butterfly, distance free and individual medley and junior Tim Auty (sprint and middle dis! tance free). Jonathan Sterchy had team-best times in six categories in 2001: the 1,000 meter free (10:41.21), both the 100 (56.81) and 200 (I :58.49) meter backstrokes, the 200 meter butterfly (2:03.25) and the 200 (1:58.49) and 400 (4:17.15) meter individual medleys.

Top underclassman are sophomores Mert Saygin (butterfly, sprint free), Noah Pavlakovich (breast, individual medley), Jared Schmidt (sprint and middle distance free) and freshmen Casey Story (breast, sprint and middle distance free) and Ned Garthe (sprint and middle distance free).

"Noah Pavlokavich is every bit as good if not ., better than Mermillon in the same events," LeDuc said. Pavlokavich time in the 400 meter individual medley is three seconds under the National auto-

Danny Hollamd-The Metropolitan Junior Jonathan Sterchy works on his backstroke during pratice Oct. 15. Metro is set to compete in its first swim meet the Early Bird Invite, a two day event held at Colorado State University Oct. 18-19. rnatic qualifying time of 4:37.09.

There are two divers that make up the diving team and that is two more than last year's team finished with. Sophomore Vu Ngo and freshman Steve Snyder act as Metro's "strike breakers," after a team exodus took place due to coaching conflicts.

The majority of the swimmers have been recruited and are on scholarships, but to be a solid duel meet team walk-ons are a necessity.

"We have a better championship team," LeDuc said. "l would expect somewhere between five and eight guys going to Nationals this year."

With the specialinltion of this squad, the only major obstacle are the duel meets, where depth with an average talent level is more important than having a handful of good swimmers in only a few events. Most of the swimmers who are new to Metro have transferred from other schools. The

men's swim team has a tough schedule, with three teams in the Central States Conference ranked in the top 11 nationally. If Metro can make a dent in the conference, a national ranking should certainly follow suit.

"If everyone swims like they are capable of swimming, we should be in the top I0 in the country," LeDuc said.

The women's team will have 14 swimmers on the roster. Returning from last year is the Roadrunners top sprinter, junior Brenna Fernandez, who swam the 50 meter free in 29.68 seconds. Christine Tracy's specialty is the backstroke with team bests times in the 100 ( I :07.63) and 200 (2:24.41) meters last year. Junior Mikel Ziruolo is perhaps the best all around swimmer.

She had team highs last season in the 200 (2:09.06) and 500 (5:43.06) meter frees, the 200 (2:41.57)

meter breaststroke and the 200 (2:25.84) and 400 (5: 10.98) meter individual medleys.

New to Metro are sophomores Christine Jiskra (sprint) and Stephanie Horcheder (sprint and middle distance free). Both of the divers are also new to Metro, freshmen Lindsay Ostenson and Jamie Clifton. Annalisa Vecchi is the top addition to the women's team, but will have to redshirt, because the NCAA did not accept the state sponsored version of the SAT she took.

With so much emphasis on individual accomplishments in swimming, it is easy to overlook the importance of the team. ln order for the team to advance as a whole, each swimmer depends on their teammates to win their races.

"Most [swimmers] have individual goals, but they put the team before themselves," LeDuc said.

"Together everyone achieves more."

Metro stays perfect on road, bus woes remain Eric Eames

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When the newly ranked No. 12 Metro volleyball team gathers in the locker room to evaluate its play after a match, they o nly take into consideration those things they can control- aggressiveness, intensity and communication, to name a few. But you can te ll a lot about a person by how they handle two things: being lost in the middle of nowhere when someone else is at the wheel and having their car break down at the most inappropriate time.

If the Roadrunners had to assess such bug-aboos, they would pass w ith flying colors.

After toppling Western State in four gam es (30-17, 27-30, 35-33 a nd 30- 19) Oct. 11 , the Roadrunners bus broke down late at night outside Western's gym in G unnison. The inconvenience wasn 't even much of a hiccup to the Roadrunners as they preceded to dirty Mesa State's undefeated record in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference w ith a straig ht set (30-27, 30-19, 31-29) win Oct. 12. The latter win gives Metro the distinction of being

the on ly undefeated team remaining in the RMAC. They improved to 16-4 overall, 11-0 RMAC. "They (Mesa) were undefeated and we were undefeated and I just wanted to destroy their record. l wanted us to be the ones to come away with the victory," said senior Nicki Fusco, who was named R.J\1AC Playerof-the-Week after averaging 5.57 kills and 4. 7 1 digs per game during both matches.

F usco followed her 18 kill and 20 di g effort against Western, w ith 2 1 kills and 13 digs against Mesa. Second in the conference with a n overall 4.44 kills per game average, F usco continues to produce despite a slight tear of the meniscus in her right knee and a possible tom ligam ent in he r wrist.

"Lt' s a pleasant s urprise," head coach Debbie Hendricks said. "When those injuries occurred we felt like perhaps we were going to be playing without her or she wouldn' t be able to perform at the highest level. She has done a very nice job of overcoming those

things and made a significant contribution."

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Bonnie DeLaughter had a career-high 18 kills.

Shawna Gilbert (13 kills and 4.5 blocks) and Jessy Roy (I 0 kills and 18 digs) and setter Devon Herron (58 assists and 13 digs) Nicki Fusco helped out offensively and defensively.

"We don' t have one or two players that totally dominate a match, but that is what l like about this team," Hendricks said. "That's what makes it difficult to stop our team, we have so many different individuals that can step up at any given time."

Game three's 35-33 win was one that puts gray hair on a coach, a two-point back-and-forth affair. Metro was able to fight off two game points and the 355 loud Mountaineer fans.

"Personally, l was thinking we are not going to lose," DeLaughter said. "We are not going to lose this game. It was just an impossibility. The gym was very exciting and everybody was up and everybody was playing at peak performance.

It was very intense. It was a lot of fun. I really like the pressure situations."

Being able to pull away took "the wind completely out of (Westem's) sails," Hendricks said. "lt might have been a different match, if we had

not won that third game."

Metro would hate to look at it as a bad omen, but they are 0-2 for clean road trips. ln its first trip out, the bus driver took a wrong tum and got them lost while on the way to play a match at Chadron State Sept. 21. This time the bus died on them while loading up after the match against Western at about 10 p.m.

After spending the night in Gunnison, Metro got on a new bus (the other one was still at Western State during press time) to start the day at 8 a.m. for a two and half hour drive to Mesa State. The match was at 7 p.m.

Without a hotel, the Roadrunners meandered through the Grand Junction mall for three hours and spent the rest of the time killing time, spread out like Legos inside the Maverick's field house.

"We were tired and lethargic from the day," Hendricks said, "but l was so pleased with the way we prepared to play and the way we preformed that night. That kind of situation is one where you can see a team come out flat and play · to another team's level."

But the Roadrunners are in a battle against themselves. With every reevaluation and every game they play, Metro is looking to be a better team than they were the night before. Not just better than the other team. And when Herron puts the right touch on her sets, they are nearly perfect.

"Devon just did a fabulous job that match," Hendricks said. "She ran some plays and set some options that she badn 't in a long time. She was very creative that night. It's something that you can't necessarily recognize in a box score, but watching it and seeing what we did offensively, it was one the best matches we've had in a while."

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Metro's Domonic Duran is denied a goal by Regis goalie Mike Montgomery Sept.

28. It's a microcosm of the year as men's soccer dropped to 4-7-1 with a 6-2 loss at St. Edwards Oct. 11 and a 4-1 loss at Incarnate Word Oct. 13. The men play at home 3 p.m. Oct. 18 vs.

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The Carl and Hazel Felt Laboratory for Asthma Research at National Jewish Medical and Research Center is currently seeking participants for several research studies and clinical trials for people with asthma.

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If you or someone you know may be interested, contact us at: (303)398-1443 Email: martinlab@njc.org

Global Leader in Lung, Allergic and Immune Diseases

Financial Compensation for qualified participants.

1400 Jackson Street Denver CO 80206

Medical and Research Center

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Ongoing <nneral Process Support Group - MSCD Counsel ing Center. A good fit fo r male and female stude nts working on a variety of issues - relationships, asserti veness, social skills and se lf-esteem. Tivoli 65 1 3 grou ps, 3 times.

Tues. 2-3:30pm, Wed. I 0:3 0am-l 2pm, T hurs. l -2:30pm For informati on or to sign up, call (303)556-3132.

Eating for Health and Energy - 10 sessions f"tllcd with information geared toward learning healthy eating and achieving goals. Tuesdays, 12-1 pm, Begins Sept. I 0 I 020B Ninth Street.

For more information, call Susan Krems at (303)770-8433.

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

Free Chair Massages Every Thursday, I Oam-1 pm, at the Health Center, Plaza Building 150. Sign up on massage day, begin ning at 8:30am. For more information, call (303)556-2525.

Mat Pi/ates - Mondays 12-1 pm Tivoli 444. For more information, ca ll (303)556-2525.

Yoga - Relieve tension and stress. Tuesdays, 12-l pm & 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 between mind and body. For Thursdays, 12-1 pm, Tivoli information, call the Health

Strides: Lunchtime Walking Program - Get out and walk. 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.

A.A. Meetings - Wednes days, 11 :30am12: 30pm in the Auraria Li brary room 205. For more information , call Billi at (303)556-2525, or call the A. A. Central Office at (303)3224440.

Truth Bible Study/Menorah Ministries - Join us for a Messianic Jewish Bible Study every Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3-4pm in Tivoli 542. For more information, call Jeff at (303)355-2009.

Metro Center for Vis ual Arts - G raciela Iturbide: Images of the Spirit, 9/6 - I 011 9.

Images of the Spirit demonstrates Graciela's emphasis on creating dramatic and intense imagery that suspends reason and gestures towards the spiritual. For more information contact the Center for Visual Arts (303)2945207.

Holiday Dri ve for 9 Cares, Colorado Shares Drop off non -pe ri shable foods, clothi ng , children's books, toys, blankets, personal care items to brighten the holiday season for Denver's less fortunate at MSCD LAS, Eng. dept., History dept., Women's Studies dept., the Health Center at Aura ria, or the A uraria Library. Sponsored by Golden Key/Sigma Tau Delta. 10/7-11 /1 4. For more information, call Dorothy at (303)454-8 122.

Moderatel y integration all levels.

444. For Center at

~3)556-2 525.

Thu, Oct. 17 Club Drugs- Workshop focusing on the effects and possible dangers if drugs that are

popular within t he "club scene" 2pm-3pm Tivoli 651

Jazz Guitar - Bebop whiz and CU-Denver faculty member Drew Merrell will perform in the King Center Recital Hall at 7:30pm. $10 general admission, $5 CU-Denver students $7 seniors and other students.

benefit s of healing herbs and of smudging will be discussed. 1-2pm in Tivoli 640.

Wed, Oct. 23 Knowledge is a Weapon: Voter Education Series Part 2 - Mingle with the candidates wednesday October 23 7pm Tivoli

Fri, Oct. 18

444

Building Cultural Competency - The 2nd Bill Hill, CS O percussionist Friday, Oct. 18 7:30pm King center Concert Hall.

Annual Shane Marie Morrow Endowed Lecture featuring Carmen Williams, Ph.D. Associate Prof. of Counseling Psychology CUDenver. 9-9:50am Plaza M-205.

Sun, Oct. 20

Mingle W/ The Candidates - Meet the candidates running in the November 2002 elections and find out about their platforms a nd h igher education. 7pm in Tivoli 444. For more information, call (303)632-0555.

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M us ic at Metro - Wind Ensemble, Su nday, Oct. 20 3pm King Center Concert H all.

Thu, Oct. 24

Tue, Oct. 22 Celebr am os Un idad! - Annual High Tea for Allies to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. Please RSVP by Thursday, Oct. 17 to (303)556·6333.

The Changing Com plexion of People with Eating Disord ers - This workshop will explore issues related to eating disorders in minority populations. We will att empt to dispel t he myth t hat eating disorders are exclusively a problem for wealt h y white women. 1-2:30pm in Tivoli 651.

Spiritual Tools for Daily Living · In t hese days of uncertainty, explor e th e benefits of going within yourself to find inner peace. The

Disability

Awaren ess Day - Adele Arakawa will keynote with special guest comedian Geri Jewel, a free vendor fair, singer Debra Thomas-Salsberry and free lunch. 10am·2pm in t he Tivoli Turnhalle.

Coloradans In Occupied Palestine - Two returning delegates share th eir experiences in the West Bank City of Nablus. Visiting lecture by Sama ntha Messier a nd Jill Dreier.

4-6pm in Tivoli 440.

Music at Metro - Artist Series: Maestro Roshan Bhartiya plays sitar with Ty Burhoe on t abla. 7:30pm in the King Center Recital Hall. Metro students: free, other students: $10, seniors: $5.

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• Brother's BBQ 6th & Washington

• Central Public Library 1357 Broadway I Colfax

• CO & Santa Fe Land Office Bldg.

701 East Colfax (Entrance in Rear)

• Denver Diner Speer & Colfax

• Goodfriends Restaurant 3100 East Colfax ~•

the following off campus locations:

• La Familia Recreation Center 65 South Elati Street

• National Jewish Center 1400 Jackson Street I Colfax (front dest)

• New York on 17th 837 East 17th Avenue

•One Denver Place 999 18th Street (lobby)

• Platte Park Recreation Center 1500 South Grant Street

Harvard Gulch Recreation Center • Racine's Restaurant 550 East Iliff Avenue 9th and Speer • La Alma Recreation Center • RTD 1325 West 11th Street (j_:

1550 Broadway I Colfax

• RTD Market Street Station 16th & Market (Basement)

•Saint Joseph (main entrance) .

Enter off Lafayette, North of 1Bth

• Sunny China Cafe 11!?,6 South Broadwa~

• University Hospital 4200 East 9th Avenue

• Wall Street Deli 4200 East 9th Avenue

•Waterworks Car Wash 276 Broadway

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Phone: (303)556-2507 Fax: (303)556-342 I In person: Tivoli #313 Advertising via Internet: www.universaladvertising.com Classified ads are I 0¢ per word for students currently enrolled at The Metropolitan State College of Denver. For all others - 20¢ per word. Maximum length for classified word ads is 40 words. Pre-payment required. Cash, check, money order, VISA, and Mastercard accepted. Deadline is 5pm on Thursday prior to the week of publication. Classified ads may be placed via fax, in person, or online at www.universaladvertising.com. Deadline for placing classified ads via online ordering is 3 p.m. Friday for the following week. For information on classified display advertising, which are ads that contain more than 40 words or contain larger type, borders, or art-· work, call (303)556-2507.

Help Wanted RESEARCHER WRITER: I Internet researcher wanted by local news outlet. Walking distance to campus.

Flexible hours. Must possess strong writing skills, computer skills, and work well under deadline pressure. Journalism a plus. Email resume to Laurie@tjfr.com or fax to (303)296-0059.

10/17 HELP l.JS IMPROVE THE PAPER Please give us your opinion. Go to www.pulseresearch.com/metropolitan and give us your suggestions in our online reader survey. Your name will be entered in a drawing for a $75 first prize.

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Call (866)291-1884 ext. U220.

10/31

#1 SPRING BREAK VACATIONS! Mexico, Jamaica, Bahamas, Florida.

Texas! Campus Reps Wanted! Best Prices. Free Parties & Meals! (800)2347007 endlesssummertours.com 12/ 05 ATTENTION STUDENTS: VECTOR has part time openings. Flexible schedules. Customer service, and sales. The pay is $16.00 base appt. l 00 scholarships are awarded annually, and internship credits are available. Conditions exist.

Call (303)337-0155: south/southeast suburbs or (303)238-4993 for west metro area. workforstudents.com 11/21

KRISHNAMURTI ON DENVER Community Television Channel 58.

Sunday at lpm and thursdays at lOp~(www.KFA.org).

10/17

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NEED HELP TO GET A LOAN OR need floor plans drafted for a house, I can help with both. Jo Ann Bowes (303)832-1007 or Bret Wikewitz (303)745-5626 with SWFinacial Corp.

11/07-

TIPMAN PRO-LITE PAINTBALL Gun. With large capacity paintball canister, 2 large C02 cartridges, camouflage shell, and face mask.This gun is fast and accurate. $150 obo. Call (303)556-5537 for more information.

10/ 17

PREGNANT? LOVING, ADOPTIVE, family of four welcomes baby of any race, through licensed open adoption agency, married 12 years, in Boulder, cal,! Beth (303)442-7628.

11 /07

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10/ 17

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DOWNTOWN STUDIO CONDO rent or rent to own. Only 2 blocks from Auraria campus! Luxury building including pool. large gym, etc! Rent starts at $895, including all utilities and cable TV. Small pets okay. Call (303)825-8378 x3.

10/24

HOW ARE WE DOING? Please give us your opinion. Go to www.pulseresearch.com/metropo I itan and give us your suggestions in our online reader survey. Your name will be entered in a drawing for a $75 first prize.

10/17

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Huge Kitchen. Gated. Quiet Storage.

Lake. Pools. Hot Tubs. Athletic Center.

Bar. More! Call Denise: (720)530-3098.

10/17

THE ATHEIST VIEWPOINT ON ..--.,,...___,,,T'!Zf'....,....._l'T'" Denver Community Television. Channel 57.

Mondays at 9:30pm (www.atheists.org) 10/24

Fraternities• Sororities Clubs • Student Groups Earn $1,000-$2,000 with the easy Campusfundraiser.com three hour fundraising event.

Does not involve credit card applications.

Fundraising dates are filling quickly, so, call today! Contact Campusfundraiser.com at (888) 923-3238, or visit www.campusfundraiser.com

Egg Donors Needed.. ,for infertile women.

If you are age 19 to 32, healthy, a non-smoker and have some college background, you could have the satisfaction of helping someone in a very special way.

Contact.the Colora:lo Cent.erfor RepraductW Medicine at:

(303) 7a& ... a3oo $5,500 for t;he first; donat;ion $4,000for repeat; donat;ions Please visit our new web site at:

vvvvvv.coloeggdonor. com for more information.

Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine 799 E. Hampden Avenue, Suite 300, Englevvood, CO 80110

CALLING ALL ATHEISTS, FRE£""" Thinkers, Secular Humanists! Join the Godless Americans March on Washington D.C. November 2, 2002. (www.godlessamericans.org).

10 17 GOLF TOURNAMENT AT DAVE and Buster's through the month of November come play the 19th hole simulator and compete for a trip to Hawaii and other great prizes. Entry fee is $40.00 per player. call (720)280-0843 for details.

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Ca/11(800)522-7737 Classes begin October 26th!

~a~~ Artist Series: Bill Hill, CSO percussionist Friday, October 18, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Concert Hall $10; Students and Seniors: $5; MSCD students: free Mondays at Metro: Student Recitals Monday, Oct. 14 and 21, 2002, 2:00 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall, Free Wind Ensemble, Paige Vickery, director Sunday, October 20, 2002, 3:00 p.m.

King Center Concert Hall, Free

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Artist Series: Maestro Roshan Bhartiya, sitar with Ty Burhoe, tabla Thursday, October 24, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall $1 O; Students and Seniors: $5; MSCD students: free Artist Faculty Recital: Phillip Howard, piano with Stacy Miller, clarinet and Debra Schmidt-Lobos, piano Saturday, October 26, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall, Free

------------------------------------~ For more information call Music at Metro at 303-556-3180.

For tickets call 303-556-2296.

Music at Metro would like to thank the Music Activities Committee and the MSCD Student Affairs Board for their support in sponsoring our events.

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Call The Health Center at Auraria NOW and find out if you are eligible* to take part in a pain reliever medical research study.

If you qualify, you will receive financial compensation and study-rel~ted care at NO COST to you.

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:00pm, call (303)556-2525 After 4:00pm & on weekends, page (303)266-7063

*El igibility is determined by study criteria

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