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Walkout, peace rally planned to protest war in Iraq Anti-War Auraria, a coalition of Auraria campus student clubs, is sponsoring an anti-war rally Nov. 4. The all-day event starts with a campus-wide walkout at 11 :45 a.m. in protest of a military strike against Iraq.

The walkout will be immediately followed by the rally at the Flagpole featuring student leaders, local politicians and educators. Auraria students will also stage various forms of political expression throughout the day. Anti-War Auraria urges Auraria students, faculty and staff to participate.

by Joshua Buck - The Metropolitan Speaking on behalf of Tom Strickland, Mike Johnston P?ints out the benefits Strickland would bring to Colorado if he were voted into the U.S. Senate. Strickland was unable to attend the voter education forum on Oct. 24 in TIVOii 320.

Heath's priority is education, he said.

"Always has been and always will be. I think we need to be accountable for every student in every classroom. Period," he said.

Schnelvar addressed an audience member's concern over supposed rights of students to receive free higher education. He said that the cost of higher education, if not paid for by individual students, will be paid for by Colorado taxpayers.

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- Mike Johnston, Spokesperson for Tom Strickland lege tuition more affordable. Two things we want to do are a tuition tax credit and increasing funding for the Pell Grant."

Heath said that education was his top priority.

He has both received the lifetime achievement award for his work on inner city schools and run a billion dollar company.

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Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi , professor of psychology at the University of Haifa in Israel, will speak on the topic "Tragedy and Hope in West Asia: Can We Find a Just Solution for Israelis and Palestinians?" at Metro Oct. 31 at 10 a.m. to l 1: 15 a.m. in Tivoli 320. The program is sponsored by the Golda Meir Center, Metro' s Psychology Department and Metro Student Activities.

Beit-Hallahmi is an internationally noted psychologist and the author of several books. He received the William James Award for Contributions to the Psychology of Religion. His essays on politics and history have been published in periodicals in lsrael, Great Britain, France and the United States.

by Travis M.Combs According to a recent Census Bureau study, if the current voting trends among young voters continue, by the year 2022 there will be an expected 4: I ratio of senior citizen voters to voters between the ages of 18 to 25 years old.

These statistics prompted the Colorado Youth Vote Collation to stage a candidates' address forum Oct. 24 to talk about the issues facing Colorado, particularly issues regarding higher education affecting Colorado students. The forum took place in Tivoli room 320 on the Auraria Campus.

The coalition-sponsored forum was presented in conjunction by both Metro and the University of Colorado at Denver's student body governments. lt was hosted by showcased candidates for Governor, candidates for the U.S. Senate and speakers both for and against proposed amendments 27 thorough 31.

Tax cuts for student tuition, along with college and university tuition hikes, environmental issues and voter apathy among young people were the main topics covered by the gubernatorial candidates and the spokesman for Strickland.

The guest speake~ included governor candidates Rollie Heath (D), Ralph Shnelvar (Libertarian) and Ronald Forthofer (Green Party).

Joel Harris acted as spokesman for incumbent Gov. Bill Owens (R). Mike Johnston was spokesman for Senate candidate Tom Strickland (D). Senator Wayne Allard (R) was not present, nor was a spokesperson. Also in attendance were speakers for and against the amendment issues.

Johnston, Strickland's stand-in, began the event by addressing Strickland's stances on the issues of education, in which the Strickland campaign promises to give all higher-education students a $12,000 tuition tax deduction and an increase in funding for the Federal Pell Grant if elected.

"What we're seeing is that the path of equal opportunity requires a college education," said Johnston. "College education is becoming more and more expensive.

"Now the average college student's debt is twice as much as it was eight years ago," he said.

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of education, that someone is everyone else," Schnelvar said. "It just doesn't make sense. " lt makes enormous sense for students to be paying for their own education. That which is not paid for is not valued. It is immoral, from the Libertarian point of view, to be taxing other people for things that you should be providing for your-

self," he said.

Forthofer generated the most audience applause. He said that higher education is the right of everyone.

Forthofer advocated basic rights for everybody. Among those rights to which everybody is entitled is the right to an education. " I call for publicly-funded education from kindergarten through the 12th grades, including the university system and trade schools," he said.

According to Forthofer, questions of where the money will come from is of concern, but a publicly-funded school system can be paid for in other areas of taxpayer-sponsored programs. " Instead of spending $400 billion a year on the military and $200 billion a year on corporate welfare, let's spend that money to work for people in this country," he said.

Harris, too, addressed the issue of education.

He said that the Gov. Owens promised to strengthen Colorado's educational system and has delivered on that promise.

"Each year he has been in office, the Governor has ensured our schools were fully funded," Harris said. "That means $750 million was funded into Kindergarten through 12th grade levels to ensure that no child is left behind.

The forum continued with speakers on both sides of several proposed amendments.

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Fly-fishing veteran to hold seminar Bobby Hix, a 20-year fly fishing veteran, is holding a free fly-fishing seminar Nov. 5 from noon to lp.m. in the Tivoli Turnhalle.

Hix owns All Pro Fish-N-Sports in Littleton, and he is recognized as one of the top guides in the Colorado region. The event is sponsored by the Auraria Rock CrawlersOutdoor Adventure Club. Anyone interested in attending should R.S.V.P. at rsvp@rockcrawlers.org. For more information, call Matt Meester at (303) 556-8068.

Deadline fo.r grant proposals nears Students interested in applying for a student travel grant for January 2003 must turn in their Student Travel Proposals by Nov. 1. The grants help fund the cost of travel to attend regional and national educational conferences.

The proposals are available in pdf form on-line at www.mscd.edu/student/resources/sfrc .

Completed proposals should be turned in to Arliss Sunderwirth Webster, director of the Student Finance Resource Center, in Tivoli 311 H. For more information, call (303) 556-4435.

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P.A.N.D.A. Games help encourage racial pride

People gather in Civic Center Park at an anti-war rally Oct. 26 to show their feelings about the possible pre-emptive strike on Iraq.

The rally attracted over 4,000 people in support.

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Auraria Higher Education Center will be cutting 23 positions to compensate for a $1.4 million cut in funding from its three schools.

The majority of the cuts will be made in facilities management, with more cuts in purchasing and the campus police department. Positions to be eliminated include one Auraria police lieutenant, AHEC director of external affairs and director of design and campus construction. AHEC currently bas 340 classified staff and 45 professional exempt staff, such as division directors and childcare workers.

The most visible results of the cuts lo students will be delays in the solving of maintenance problems on campus.

The cuts will be effective Dec. 3L said Dean Wolf, AHEC executive vice president of administration.

In addition to cuts, there arc about 25 vacancies, most of which will not be filled. Wolf said.

AHEC is, however, seeking police officers. three police communication technicians and a refrigeration mechanic. ironically. Wolf said AHEC has had trouble attracting police officer candidates. In two months, about six people have applied for police officer positions. '"We only found one (candidate) appropriate for this environment," Wolf said.

Approximately $600,000 will he saved from eliminated positions, and vacant positions will save about S2SO,OOO, Wolf said. AHEC's 20022003 budget was S20.6 million before the S1.4 million cut. The savings will come from the sec-

ond half of the fiscal year.

AHEC receives no state funds, which leaves its three institutions as its main financial providers. About $17.5 million comes from the three schools, partly through student fees, with the remaining $3 million coming from parking fees and the Tivoli.

The amount of money coming from each school depends on how much space its students occupy, said Lany Lopez, vice chairman of the Auraria Board. However. increasing enrollment at a school does not necessarily mean more money forAHEC. "If you look at the numbers," Wolf said, ·'our (2002-2003) budget is based on 2001 -2002."

With the Community College of Denver's 6,691 students, the University of Colorado at Denver's 11.760 students and 19.390 at Metro. that totals 37,841 students at Auraria. which is about 3.000 more students than last year.

"We're trying to stuff a Big Mac into a regular bun," Lopez said.

Increased enrollment did not afTect the 20022003 AHEC budget, Wolf said. Though AHEC was able to provide I0 extra classrooms this fall, a similar enrollment increase next year could leave students without a classroom.

Indeed, the Auraria Executive Committee considered enrollment caps at an Oct. 16 meeting, according to an Oct. 24 article in Silver & Gold Record. Wolf said such a decision will be up to the schools to decide.

Lopez said enrollment caps are a "reasonable thing to look at."

"When running out of space, what choice do you have?" Wolf said.

Wolf said a 100,000 square foot building

would be needed to accommodate roughly 3,000 more students. Such a building would cost about $23 million to construct.

In addition, more faculty would be needed, which is difficult when trying to save money, Wolf. said.

Renovations and repairs were the targeted cuts. Wolf said there will be a minimum of five years before Auraria students will see more renovations. and three years before any needed repairs will be made.

The funding cuts will be made '·based on the campus priorities, with the highest priorities being given to the health and life/safety and essential education support," said Julie Hughes, AHEC director of organizational development and performance. in an Oct. 25 memo.

For those losing jobs in facilities management. the aftermath of the cuts will be more tangible.

John Lovshin. director of design and campus construction, said he was disappointed, but not entirely surprised at being eliminated from his position. Lovshin said he anticipated the cuts about a month ago. '"I'm reviewing my options," Lovshin said.

He said he has been making calls and looking for work in the Denver area.

Lovshin said he was pessimistic about whether or not the Owens administration will be funding Auraria anytime soon.

"Auraria doesn't look enough like a highway," Lovshin said, referring to Gov. Bill Owens' funding of various Colorado highway projects.

The PAN.DA Games (Pan Afiican Nwturing and Development Association) will visit the Auraria Campus in February. The Student Government Assembly will co-sponsor this organization in order to further African American education.

TheP.A.N.D.A. Games are an academic competition designed to promote the accomplishments, struggles and contributions by people of Afiican descent throughout the world. This Jeopardy-type game show revolves around African history and factual knowledge ofAfrican Americans in their communities.

The P.A.N.D.A. Games contribute several forms of scholan;hip funding and prizes to the winners. There are three main purposes for this program: One, to instill in young people of African descent a sense of self-esteem and pride in their heritage. Two, to develop an interest in an education beyond high school.

And three, to promote the accomplishments of African culture.

The SGA has formed a group to help educate these high school and middle school students to ensure victory. Brotha Seku, Chris Chandler, Yosief Abraha and Valerie "Jmani" Hawthorne-Bey will relate their intellectual skills and factual advice to these children.

The P.A.N.D.A. Games have been a nationwide organization for 17 years. The Games are scored by answering questions correctly. The team with the most points at the end wins. The questions concentrate on anything from Angola to Zaire, Goobers to Gumbo, lndabas to inventions, and philosophers to Pharos.

This Program, "will bring the community to the campus," said Seku, SGA President.

It's like being a "preventative medicine," said Seku, when we can show the children and the community what college really is. To bring to them the realization that College is not far away.

The Games will be held in the Tivoli student w1ion, room 604 on Feb. 21-23, 2003.

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seemed to the top news story every day and night.

Innocent bystanders were now the No. l targets in a The Metropolitan madman's evil rage that seemingly had no rhyme or August I, 1966---12:30 the early afternoon on a reason. In the end, 11 people were murdered and three hot summer day. Would-be sniper Charles Joseph people injured before John Allen Muhammed and Whitman made his made to the observation deck and John Lee Alvo were apprehended and charged.

The chilling reality of being shot and killed is a unleashed 96 minutes of terror on the campus at the thought none of us likes to think about Some Metro University ofTexas in Austin while standing atop the University of Texas Tower. Students fled and ran to students lived the terror April· 20, 1999, in Littleton at find cover from the barrage of bullets while some stu- Columbine High School.

Now more than ever, we depend on local and feddents were pinned to their spots for the duration ofthe shooting spree. Local authorities tried to everything to eral police forces to keep us out of harm's way. So stop Wllitman. They even tried flying a plane over the how safe are on we Auraria Campus?

TheAuraria Campus police force boasts a total of tower to scare Whitman, but nothing seemed to work.

16 armed police officers. Chief Heather Coogan Finally, three Austin Police Officers stormed the tower in a heroic event and shot and killed Whitman before declined to comment on how many officers are on he could kill any others. \Vhitman shot and killed 13 duty at any given time.

According to Coogan, should an event such as people on the campus that day and wounded many, Columbine or a random s11iper attack occur on cammany more.

October 2, 2002, a sniper begins a tri-state shoot- pus, Auraria Police would respond by ·'letting the ing spree that sends the citizens of Maryland, campus know that we are there, and also we do Washington OC, and Vrrginia into a panic for 20 days. maxim foot patrols and bike patrols to be visible on Scenes on 1V showed people ducking while pumping campus at that time.

"We are always training. We actually had Denver gas. Local economies took a plunge. Many were afraid to leave home and many were even afraid to go PD come over and do some training on djfferent arrest to the window oftheir own homes. Reports ofa child, . situations and field force exercises," Coogan said a bus driver and many others being gunned down Although theAuraria Police do train for situations like

these, the Denver Police Department is in close contact with AP dispatch, and "if should something happen on campus, we won't wait to call Denver to come in," Coogan said.

In other cases in the past, police response times have been a key issue in either helping or hindering the outcome. "In policing, if one department calls for help, they drop everything they are doing and respond immediately with lights and sirens." Coogan said Because Metro is a city campus, the Denver PD is often visible on bike patrols and foot patrols by students and faculty.

"It makes me feel safe to see campus police and Denver PD," saidstudent Matt Thompson. ·'I think just having them around detours crime from happening."

The reality is that nothing could stop any person from unleashing any kind of violent act on any given day. The odds of these things happening are extremely low, but wid1 the events that are unfolding around the world it is hard not to be reminded of it every time CNN airs.

Having a private police force with direct communication to a larger city force decreases the odds of anything ever occuning on Auraria Campus. In actuality, students are safer on Auraria Campus than we are in almost any other place in Denver.

SERIAL SNIPER UPDATE: Police arrested John Allen Muhammad, 41 , and John Lee Malvo, 17, in connection with the recent sniper attacks. Muhammad and Malvo were taken into custody as they slept in their car at a highway rest stop west of Frederick, hours before dawn Thursday.

Virginia police filed murder charges against the two men on Monday. Authorities in Prince William County filed four indictments against Muhammad, including two counts of capital murder. Meanwhile, authorities in Washington State said Monday that they had linked Muhammad to the Tacoma, Wash., slaying of a woman whose aunt once worked for his car·repair business.

Investigators checked whether the suspects, to bankroll the operations, committed bank robberies in the Washington area. They also scrutinized a handgun recovered in the car for possible links to shootings elsewhere and the records of a Tacoma gun shop where the rifie allegedly used by the suspects was obtained.

The man listed as the co-owner of that car, Nathaniel 0. Osbourne, 26, was arrested in Flint, Mich., by federal agents. Osbourne, who is listed as co·owner of the car with Muhammad, was being held as a material witness in the sniper case. He was being ques· tioned in Flint. pending a bond hearing scheduled for Oct. 29, and law enforcement sources said he was "fully cooperating."FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weierman said he was not a suspect in the shootings, but that the FBI believed he had "valuable information" about the case.

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Speakers debate pros and cons of amendments from FORUM on 3 - - - - - - Included were parties speaking about: Amendment 27, which proposes to limit the amount of money individuals, political parties and political committees can contribute to candidates running for local and state offices; Amendment 28, which states that most elections held after Jan. I, 2003, would be conducted by a mail ballot; Amendment 29, which would remove the role of the neighborhood caucus and assembly meetings in selecting candidates for the primary ballot and would instead require candidates to receive a certain number of signatures to get on the ballot; Amendment 30, which would allow eligible voters to register to vote and cast their ballots on election day; and Amendment 3 1, which would require all public schools to be taught in English, and would require non-English speaking students to learn the language through English-immersion programs.

Phil Winters, Campus Organizer and C.E.C. of the Colorado Youth Vote Collation, who presided over the forum, said voter participation among 18- to 25-year-olds can literally decide an election's outcome one way or another.

"In the 2000 presidential election, the highest office in the land was literally determined by a few hundred votes," Winters said. "There were tens of thousands of young voters in Florida alone that did not participate in that election.

"Jf we can just get enough young people out to vote, they can become a constituency and have a lot of innate power,'' he said. "If more young people voted, we could go into the future senator's office and say 'look, our educational costs are skyrocketing and we want you to do something about it.' We don't have that opportunity right now because we're not looked at as being , that important."

Readers wanting further information on the candidates and the ballot issues can go to NEWS4Colorado.com for further information, on-line discussions of key candidates and election results.

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Bet on the Lakers this year Brian P.

Reed Pep assemblies become rallies; revolutionary debris litters the floor of Wall Street.

Your children have taken over, you have been warned. The representatives of gluttony will be given 24 hours to vacuum and shave their ways or leave, or they will be weeded out and assasinated with a hoe to the back of the neck to save bullets.

-Kurt Cobain, Nirvana In retrospect, it is difficult to put an exact "spin" on the influence that Kurt Cobain and Nirvana have had on my life.

It may sound silly; but for me, and many of those in my generation, the sound, angst and chaotic, dionysian order they produced gave many of us strength.

I had taken a job in Seattle the first of January, 1994, the so-called birthplace of Nirvana, and had long-before, in Denver, admired their revolutionary style.

I often found Nirvana playing in some "shit-hole" bar-booked under some "guise" band name, like the "Runny Boogers"-that quickly closed and lockedits doors for Nirvana to perform for as few as 100 people.

I could come home on Friday, put on some Levi's and quickly exit the cumbersome mental crap that had been amassed from the previous week.

Their performances were better than drugs, sex or {for you right-wing, ChristianFundamentalist dorks) abstinence. It was poiesis.

You see, I could justify having majored in Philosophy and English Literature and becoming a "businessman" by throwing all ills to the wind, at least for the moment, while listening to their poetic yet violent emergent indignation of the "booboisie."

I now see the difference between the mind of an 18-year-old college student and a 34-year-old college student. Anyway, as I lived across the street from the "Seattle Center'' (the site of the World's Fair in 1962), I realized that something bad had happened as I drove home from work on April 5, 1994.

Approximately 2000 people had left work early to attend a vigil at 'The Center:' It had just been announced that Kurt Cobain had blown off his head. Wake up call . . .

Mind you, again. Nirvana released their first album without pomp and circumstance on the black market. Their second album, Nevermind, however, was picked up by a major firm and blew the crap I ,as a "degreed" adult, had been force-fed for ten years.

Nirvana displaced Michael Jackson, M.C. Hammer, C&C Music Factory, Michael Bolton and other non-artistic, amorphous blather from the "Billboard Top Ten" charts within a week of the album's release.

Some might say .. . this is just nostalgic nonense. But by popping "Pop" off the charts for the first time in almost a decade, Nirvana single-handedly opened the door for R&B, Country and Alternative Music to have a place in the Billboard "Top Ten." Nirvana made it to the top, living out of vans in roadside stops. When Kurt Cobain committed suicide, he lived in a multi-million dollar house in the nicest part of Seattle with a wife and a child. He still decided to kill himself, not in the house, but in the garden shed.

Money doesn't change anything.

This is my favorite time of year.

Halloween is here and football and hockey are in full season. :'vly enjoyment is only amplified by the fact that the basketball season starts in a couple of days. The anticipation is high for me. I just wish that the Nuggets had a worthy product.

Right now I'm going to breakdown Walter my hopes for the seaGant son, as well as my predictions.

Let's start with the Nuggets. Kiki Vandeweigh may be the smartest GM in the league not named Jerry West. In one year, he basically wiped out every bad contract the Nuggets had allowed to happen. He let go of Antonio McDyess, which seems to be a very good move thus far. He drafted two people we never heard of, but that's the way of the NBA today.

The next thing he did was position himself to have a chance in the Lebron James sweepstakes scheduled to take place following the season.

Make no mistake about it; the Nuggets will battle with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks this year for the worst record in the league. Even if we don 't get the first pick in the draft, the Nuggets' next emphasis should be on getting a point guard.

This promises to be a great draft in that

department. Keep a look out for Duke PG Chris Duhon who could easily be the best PG in the nation this year.

Now, let's discuss the rest of the league.

The league has gotten closer to the Lakers but not much . It doesn't matter if they have home court advantage or not, nobody can hold Shaquille O'Neal. The next closest teams to the Lakcrs are Portland, Dallas, San Antonio, and Sacramento.

The Spurs and Sacramento have the best chance to beat them, but none of them will.

Sacramento and the Spurs are tough enough for the Lakers. Dallas plays no defense.

Portland is just Portland, so they will

all in the West anymore. The Nets, Celtics, Hornets, Pacers, and Hawks will run with any team in the league this year. 1 like the Nets and Hornets the most because of what they did this year. The Nets got rid of Keith Van Horn and received Dikembe Mutombo.

That's a steal to me. They also got Rodney Rogers and Chris Childs. The Nets look real good.

The Hornets did the best they could when they left Charlotte for the cozy confines of the Bayou. They made no changes, but added an extra couple of role players.

The core of that team is there and they were tough to beat last year.

Enjoy a dominant forward in Jazz's Malone.

You will not see it again, any time soon. blow up at any minute. The Clippers will make the playoffs this year and will probably upset one of the teams that I just mentioned.

The Jazz will not make the playoffs, so go and see the best power forward in history. Karl Malone will probably retire this year. That means that John Stockton is gone too. You won't see a forward dominate like Malone for a long time, so enjoy it.

The East is the East. Mark my word,s the east will compete and the best teams aren't

The Washington Wizards will also do a good job. They had the most dramatic overhaul of any team and their play is showing it. They will be ready for the season.

The Chicago Bulls will also surprise a lot of people and they will make a serious bid for a playoff seat.

My predictions are this: Lakers over the Kings in seven games. The Nets will beat the Hornets in seven games. The championship still goes to LA . They will beat the Nets in six games.

Can we put a price on friends?

In my years at Metro I've seen some interesting people come in and out of my life. The social scene here doesn't always get the greatest of reviews. However, wherever people congregate, relationships will be found.

Though it is awkward to write about at times, it really deserves some thought. Making friends is the cornerstone of our college experience.

I mean, who could live without the friend that will console you when Josh you feel like the world is Pacheco tumbling in on you; or, what would you do without the buddy who treats you to lunch to watch the Broncos play?

These are the people that we should consider more than friends, we should consider them family.

College often gets a bad rap because of some of the immaturity that still exists while in the maturing process of life.

Students might over indulge in partying and drinking, but the lessons learned through such situations are valuable. I don't think that there is a person in college that doesn't have a horrible experience with their peers.

Such experiences may be hard to deal with at the time, but they serve as an amazing opportunity to learn and grow.

For some of us, this semester will mark the beginning of our college experience.

For those, the years ahead will quite possibly be the most life changing years in their lives. The person who still has a long road left to walk will find that life has barely even begun and even though the road looks long, it is not.

When it comes to the friends that you make here at school l only have one bit of advice-value them. Everyone can think of a relationship or a person that we wished we had taken better care of, or one that we had taken less for granted.

College is a place for learning and we endure the years here so that one day we

fully we are learning that it is important to treasure the people we have in our lives.

And for those who are finishing up college, their minds are on things beyond. The " real" world. Fears may come about because of wasted opportunities in school.

It is always uncertain when you are in a point of transition in life.

When they leave school they will go with more than just a degree, they will go with the memories that have been made along the way, and the lessons that those memories have taught them.

Obviously, whatever stage of school

Life is much easier to swallow when you have somebody there to help you. can have a great job and earn a good income. However, if we don't learn that we are each other's most valuable resource, then how much is that income really worth?

For some of us, our college career is in mid swing and we have had enough of a taste of the social scene to know how bitter or how sweet it can be.

So far, we have learned that it is important to make friends and it is more important to keep friends. We are learning that life is much easier to swallow when you have somebody there to help you, so hope-

that you are in here at Metro, relationships play a big part in you life. I am a true believer that the people that we meet and the friendships that we make along the way in college are half the fun.

So when you go to your classes and when you are walking down the halls, make sure to remember that it is a~ important to embrace those people who simply say "Hi," as it is to value the ones who have been there you whole life.

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Letters to the Editor

Please do not steal from the less fortunate Are coffee cups truly disposable?

Dear Editor,

by Elisabeth Seaton Guest Columnist

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I'm worried. The other day, I ordered two iced mochas at a certain coffee place.

Whether I was really lacking caffeine or a colliding of alternate universes happened, I dropped one in the entranceway. l managed to catch the cup on the re-bound. "What luck," I clucked, "J'll just re-use this cup."

Before I brought the cup to the counter, though, the barista had already begun a new one. A new cup.

The cup worried me. l took the burden into work and tried to ignore the superfluity of its existence. I didn'.t throw them away. I couldn' t bring myself to add to these looming landfills in some distance, veiled from society's eyes. My boss tossed them, in an effortless swoop, into the sad mouth of the wastebasket. I sighed.

In Germany, France, and, I'm willing to wager, even, Lithuania, they use glass mugs for coffee with the option of a lonely, one sized "to go" cup. It is not promoted to have coffee "on the go." Coffee is a social event, a time to reflect, and a pause in the day.

Here, it is about and for money.

We grab our coffee to start our engines, to make money for someone else. I suppose, that's beside the point. However, it is one of the symptoms of our "to go" society, in a plastic cup. Jn the USA, we expect swiftness and comfort due to the time crunch imposed upon us. We must maximize output, minimize human error.

Is this what Ralph Nadar is proselytizing? If we don't begin the process of earth rejuvenation through the everyday wasteful conditions, are we going to find ourselves, literally, in a world of hurt and have no resources left to counteract the process? It will have passed us by, while greedy corporations will be sitting in their sterile 2,500 square foot living rooms.

Then l was at a certain grocery store. I stood behind an elder, double bagging her cola's. She is from the land where plastic was born. She 's from the era that promoted

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the office garbage. She might wade into the Speer canal in the name of a discarded beer bottle.

Will her fanaticism make a dent? While barista's offer eternal extra plastic cups, and generations of Americans accept the "Plastic" as the option at the Grocer, will we cause even a ripple of hope? J haven't, personally, thrown away a plastic bag since l saw a movie on recycling in eighth grade. J do forget to bring my bags with me to the Grocery

My girlfriend saves everything. She rescues cans from wastebaskets downtown, while we're on the way to dinner, and throws them in her oversized shoulder bag. Jn her backseat lie three garbage bags weighed with organized waste. She doesn' t have the luxury of curbside recycling. She is a rescue worker; an upwardly mobile bag lady. Sherri will rescue plastic on a curb, pick things from News Editor Megan Ehlers

store. I also have a whole closet of plastic bags.

Will my shame induce any kind of world makeover? I don 't know. We can only hope, for now. Like Nadar quoted at his rally, the wise and hopeful words of Gandhi, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they figh t you, then you win."

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Each year at this time, members of Golden Key International Honour Society and Sigma Tau Delta sponsor a campusw1de drive to collect food, clothing, toys, and blankets for Denver's less fortunate citizens. Collected items are turned in to Channel 9 for their "9cares, Colorado Shares" drive and are distributed to more than I 00 local food banks and other rescue/assistance facilities. The boxes are located at strategic locations around the campus and are posted with signs describing their purpose.

This year we have discovered that some items are being stolen from the collection boxes. We realize that although 99.9 percent of the Auraria Campus population is composed of honest citizens, there are apparently a few (a very small minority) who do not subscribe to the philosophy that it is better to give than to receive.

Everyone knows that payday often seems a long way off, and if a hungry student helps himself to a can of soup from a collection box, this is, although not excusable, at least understandable. A bag of toys or clothing, however, is neither of the above.

Golden Key and Sigma Tau Dalla members are grateful to those who donate so generously each year to this drive, and we encourage those who consider the contents of these boxes as merely a source of collectibles to re-think their philosophy and, if possible, return the items they have taken to one of the collection boxes before the drive ends on November 14.

Dorot hy Hicks Alumni Liason, Golden Key and Sigma Tau Delt a

Reporters John R. Crane, Walter Gant, Ian Neligh, Eric Skougstad, Donald Smith , Andrew Lam, Amy Denning, Travis M. Combs, Rami Wilder, Josh Pacheco, Chris Longest, Brian Walker, Jonathan Kuenne, Roger Norquist, Brenden Martin

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using as much of it as possible, for ease and comfort. I don't blame her.

I did want to donate my cloth bags to her, and offer to help her to the waiting van.

While scads of Americans double bag their colas, am l one of a handful of people, plus the two cities of San Francisco, and Berkeley, who are re-using their bags or utilizing a single, over sized cloth? Are we aiding a movement or just fighting upstream to some unknown kismet?

Opinions Editor Brian P. Reed

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Adviser Jane Hoback

Donations are being stolen from collection boxes.

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Page 11 Fact Sheet The Fact Sheet is the place to learn all about the person we are profiling - a collection of facts about that person.

Age: 20 Favorite movie: Braveheart Favorite quote: "I cried when I had no shoes until I saw a man with no feet."

Favorite radio station: 93.3

KTCL Favorite musical artist: Paul

by David Merrill - The Metropolitan

Metro junior Travis 'T-Bird" Brown, is a business administration major and works at Nordstrom in Park Meadows Mall.

Oakenfold or George Acosta Favorite pastime: working out Family: 1 brother, mom and dad Marital Status: single Major: Business management Favorite color: green Favorite restaurant: Cheesecake Factory

'T-Bird' keeps it busy with school, youth Metro junior gets nickname from the Ford Thunderbird his dad loved

by Jonathan Kuenne The Metropolitan

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Travis Brown, or "T-Bird", is currently a junior at Metro. Brown is pursuing a business management degree and also is a co-founder of a new innovative youth organization.

Travis is a 20 year old Colorado native who earned the nickname "T-Bird" when he was just a little one. The name T-Bird comes from his initials TB, coupled with the fact that his dad loved the classic Ford Thunderbird.

"Most of the people who know me refer to me as T-Bird", Brown said. " I like it because it's

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ed on my head," Travis said. "I had these nasty bruises on my knees and a headache you couldn't imagine," he added. Fortunately, Travis did not have any knee problems or head injuries from the accident. "The T-Bird was not able to fly away from the on-coming vehicle," Brown said sarcastically. Travis has not been hit by any oncoming traffic si nce his accident in middle school.

After middle school , Travis continued on and graduated from Lutheran High School in 2000. "My best memory of high school is definitely the high school prom," Brown said during an interview on Friday. "You' re look-

My favorite memory of college would have

to be running around Washington Park in my underwear.'

- Travis Brown, unique." The T-Bird keeps a busy schedule with a new business, a full load of courses, a full time job, working out and studying hard.

In talking with Travis, I learned about the pivotal events which made T-Bird the man he is today.

It all started when Travis was in middle school. He remembers being hit by a car just outside bis house. "I was coming out on the street and a car came flying by. It threw me into the air. I did a double back flip and land-

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ing at the prom king, baby!"

Travis chose to further his education here at Metro. When asked what his favorite memory of college is so far he responded, '路My favorite memory of college would have to be running around Washington Park in my underwear. I lost a weightlifting bet with a friend . I had to run the three miles around Washington Park on the Fourth of July - in Italian cut underwear. I had the words ' I lost a bet' painted across my chest. It was great to

see everyone's reaction.'' Brown has not revisited the park since . However, if you arc enjoying a nice afternoon in Washington Park. keep on the look out for a man running around in his underwear; it just might be T-Bird.

So far, Travis路 favorite class here at Metro has been Taekwondo. " I enjoyed taking Taekwondo because you got to wear cool robes and learn crazy moves." he said. "My favorite move I learned was the spin hook kick. I think that if I was in a dark alley downtown getting mugged, I could use the moves I learned in Taekwondo and hold my own," he added. However, Travis has not yet been in a dark alley downtown and doesn't plan to be.

The T-Bird is pursuing a business management degree and is currently a co-founder of a new innovative youth organization. "I fee l that today's yo uth are ignored," Brown said. "There isn 't a place where kids can go and be themselves. We plan to open a nightclub where teens can use their creative talents to be heard. " The club, 1 Liquid House, is currently in !he developmental stages and plans to start building in 2004. Travis plans to be a mentor in the club when it opens.

In addition to starting a new business and taking a full load of courses. Brown is working full time. Five days of the week Travis clocks in and out of Nordstrom in Park Meadows. He is a salesperson in men's sportswear on the first floor. He wanted me to mention that he does work on commission.

And, like most college srudents. he could use some extra cash. So if you need new fall clothes, you know where to find the T-Bird. l asked Travis what bis favor ite quote is.

"I cried because I bad no shoes, until I saw a man with no feet," Brown responded. "This quote teaches . you to appreciate what you really have. I think we take everyday things

for granted." Travis was wearing shoes that day.

T-Bird is a big fan of techno music. His car is constantly filled with the funky beats and sounds oftechno. "I don't have a favorite artist. But if 1 were to choose it would be a toss up between Paul Oakenfold and George Acosta," he said.

If you don't find the T-Bird at work or school, you'll find him in the gym. When asked what his favorite pastime is he responded, "My favorite pastime is definitely working out." Travis works out 3-4 times a week with his work out buddy and fellow MSCD student Garon Wennen. ln l 0 years Travis plans to be working and mentoring at 1 Liquid House. In 20 years he plans to be married have kids of his own. But for now, the T-Bird is busy with a new business, a full load of courses, working full time, pumping the iron, and studying hard.

Reader Info ,

Introducing new People section The Metropolitan is introducing a new section this week called People. Every week we will do an in-depth feature on someone who has a campus tie, be it a student, a teacher, a janitor or a homeless person who sleeps on campus.

We would appreciate suggestions on who to do our features on. If you know of a campus person with an interesting story to tell, e-mail suggestions to Editor Jenni Grubbs at grubbs@mscd.edu.

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graphic by Christina Jenkins - The Metropolitan The above graphic was produced in honor and reference to Mexican graphic artist, Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). Best known for his skeletons or "calaveras". Calaveras are portrayed actively engaged in everyday activities and with humor and irony, show the absurdity of the human condition.

Often representing political and popular figures, they are re-created today to remind us that we are all skeletons -working, walking, talking, playing.

Therefore, we should not take ourselves too seriously.

by Annando Manzanares The Metropolitan Ancient civilizations from both east and west had a very uncanny method of welcoming death and celebrating it. During this time the Egyptians basked in their majesty of creating grand tombs filled with riches, personal items and other elements of the person for whom they created it. Assisting the newly dead on their journey through to the afterlife.

In the western hemisphere, the Aztec civilization created tombs similar to those of the Egyptians. However, their celebrating was not necessarily for the newly dead but of remembering the dead and honoring the dead, present and past.

This celebration was originally held, accordi ng to the Aztec calendar, at the end of July and beginning of August. With the Spanish conquest about, it was transformed to coincide with the Christian holidays of All Saints Day and All Souls Day - the beginning of November. Trying to define the similarities between the Christian beliefs and those of the indigenous people in order to convert them, the attempt was to evolve this heretical-type ritual

into a Christian celebration.

Both of these ancient civilizations looked at death as a new beginning, a doorway to the next life or to new existences. If fact, death was coveted and greatly anticipated.

Nov. I and 2 marks Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). It is celebrated in many Latin American countries as well as here in the United States. The celebration involves the appreciation and respect for the people that have moved on from this lifetime, that have died.

It is believed that during these two days, the dead walk back through that doorway and are reunited with their fami ly or loved ones.

They eat, drink and commune together before returning back to their graves for another year. It was believed that the dead had the same desires and needs as the living. The lives of the living depended on the treatment of their dead.

Therefore, careful preparation must take place to ensure the soul's arrival and special treatment. With great respect and reverence, the dead are welcomed home.

The same holds true today for current participants in this wondrous and mystical celebratlon. The dead are greatly respected and preparation for the undertaking is done sometimes weeks in advance.

People build altars to welcome and honor the soul of the dead. Placed upon the altar is usually one or several pictures of the person that has passed on, along with many daily items that the person would use as if they were living.

Special or favorite foods of the dead are placed upon the altar, as if being served a plate at the dinner table. The altar is also adorned with personal items of the dead as well as lit candles, candy, alcohol, chocolate milk, blankets - pretty much any item you can think of, all depending on the age of the person when he or she died.

Music is also played to serenade the altar, usually music attuned to the dead person's tastes.

In Mexico, the celebration begins on the first day with church bells ringing every 30 seconds throughout the night to call the souls back.

A path of marigold, or zempoal.xochitl, petals are placed from the street, through the yard into the deceased relative's house to guide the soul back home from the cemetery.

That evening. traditional foods and celebration-specific foods such as what we call chicken mole, tamales and special bread recipes just for this occasion are prepared and indulged upon. Visiting friends, relatives and co-workers wander the streets, bearing gifts of candles. flowers and that special bread made only at this

time of year. Partakers visit many homes throughout the night - it has been referred to as a ritualistic "trick or treat." Atole, a com-based drink with sugar and spices, is offered all about.

So is Tequila as mariachi bands play. This is a public mourning of the loved one, lasting all night.

The next day everyone re-gathers at the appropriate house, gathers all the items on the altar and procession back to the cemetery of where the body was laid to rest. The items of the altar are spread around the gravesite. Music floods the air from guitars being played and songs sung grave to grave to sing the souls back to the graves. Many stories are told and remembrance is given. All ofthjs ends at sundown. The living and dead are re-united once again.

Death is recognized as occurring daily within each of us in many ways, or at least to those of whom that celebrate Dia de Los Muertos. The preciousness of life is felt and there is an ever-present balance between darkness and light.

Embracing death allows life's embrace as well. The dead are not truly dead, while the living arc not complc:ely alive. This is the paradox that the Day of the Dead brings to remembrance.

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The first snow of the season didn't bury all the evidence of autumn. A leaf sits atop fresh snow that

blanketed the green grass.

Left:

Snow falls all around as Amanda Grady, a junior at Netro, walks throu~ the campus on Oct. 29.

Below: An unidentified cyclist rides thr~ Lawrence Street Mall in front of the Plaza Building Oct. 29.

Tuesday marked the first snow of tfie season with temperatures reaching a high in the upper 30s.

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Saperston to tell of bus life musicians, and a surf legend, just to name a few. " He got to graduation with a degree, and wasn't sure where he The Metropolitan wanted that to take him. It's normal for people to graduate and not know what they are going to do," said Brooke Dilling, the associate In 1993, Eric Saperston graduated from college, got into a director of Metro student activities.

I 97 I Volkswagen Bus with his dog Jake, and set off to "It's just making the most out of follow the.

Grateful Dead. the package that you've been Challenged by his college mentor to handed." make his Deadhead experiences ''He's got this really more meaningful, As Saperston puts great message for anybody of any it. "I decided to call up some of the age," said Dilling. "I was so most powerful people in the world inspired by him that 1 told myself and ask them out for a cup of cofthat whatever school I was at, 1 fee." would try He sold everything he and make a point to bring owned, and bought a VW bus and set him to that campus." out on the road.

"I've got some really The Journey, a 9 I-minute docuamazing insight from some mentary chronicles Saperston's years on very powerful people," said the road as he asks an array of movie Saperston. stars, CEOs. artists, and a former U.S. "I have the opportunity to be a conduit between those president for advice on how to lead a sucpeople who are extraordinary folks. and bring their message to a cessful life. new generation."

"To find out the values that they live by.

His journey has become the basis for what struggles they have endured, and what an award winning feature and short film as advice they have for our generation to better well as an award winning college performprepare ourselves for the road ahead," said ance called the 'Do Your Thing Tour.'

Saperston. "I've been able to meet people Eric Saperston will be speaking on who have consistently achieved greatness campus on November 7th at I :OOpm at the over their life, and they have some pretty Tivoli Tumhall.the event 1s free and doors amazing guiding principles. ideas. and conwill open at 12:30. cepts that have worked."

"We are going to be cooking grill Saperston has met and talked with: cheese sandwiches in the background as Jerry Garcia, The Indigo Girls, Henry people are coming in, so that people can Winkler, Billy Crystal. Jimmy Carter. the grab one and see what he has to say," said Eric Saperston and his VW bus.

CEO's of UPS, Coca Cola. Home Depot.

Dilling. www.thejoumeyfifm.com and a huge variety of senators, authors,

by Ian Neligh

Sexy Kind Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Made With Love For One Dollar

by Eric Saperston I have found what prevents many of us from going on great adventures is the lack ofCHC (Cold Hard Cash). My journey was no different. It was Eleanor Roosevelt who said, "Do what you can, with what you have. where you are." I believed her. Since I didn't have any money when I started this trip, I had to figure out how to keep the dream alive without actually having to get a job.

If any of you folks have ever traveled around this great country of ours and pulled into a rest stop you might ha ve seen me and not remembered. You see, how l funded this trip was by driving my Volkswagen bus into a rest area, putting my Golden Retriever, Jack, in the passenger seat with the w indow rolled down to attract people's attention, setting up my Coleman stove and selling "Sexy, Kind Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Made With Love for One Dollar." People would ask what 1 was doing and I would tell them r read a quote in college that said. "To know the road ahead, ask those corning back." So on holiday, I decided to call up some of the most powerful people in the world and ask them out for a cup of coffee. The reason: l wanted to know what pushes and drives them to do what they do, struggles they've endured and what advice and counsel they'd give our generation to better prepare ourselves for the road ahead.

Guess what? People actually bought my sandwiches and not only did they give me a dollar they gave me five, ten, I even got a fifty dollar bill once. As far as I'm concerned, that's what my college education was all about: fifty-dollar grilled cheese sandwiches. Not only did people help fund my journey; they even told me where to go ... in a good way. They gave me names of people to interview and even invited me to stay at their homes.

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ies Jackie St. Joan, talks aOOut: her experiences with being an original founder of Big Mama Ras, a lesbian feminist newspaper in Denver during the 70's ancf SO's. St. Joan and other women ofthe paper's past gathered to tell stories of how

by Joshua Lawton- The Metropolitan

Kristin Erickson (left) reacts to Jim Whiteman during a perfomance of Edgar Allen Poe's works in Sigi's Cabaret in the livoli Oct. 29.

Poe honored for Halloween

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they seethe future of feminism in the upcoming years during a panel discussion Oct. 28 in Twoli 440.

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by Shannon Davidson

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?"

-from The Premature Burial, 1844

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Perhaps one of the most beloved and well-known masters of the me lancholy, Edgar Allan Poe is acclaimed as both the greatest and unhappiest of American poets.

Jn his supernatural fiction, Poe sometimes dealt with the deep-rooted paranoia, mental enfeeblement, obsessions, damnation and death.

Born in 1809, he suffered throughout his life from bouts of madness and depression, and in 1848 he attempted suicide. Poe, a gambler, a soldier, and a widower, disappeared for three days a year later after a drink at a birthday party and on his way to visit his new fiancee in Richmond, Ya. He turned up in de li rious condition in a Baltimore gutter and died on October 7, 1849.

An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe was shown at Metro in celebration of this year's Ha lloween presented by the Hunger Arti sts Ensemble Theatre. The event was sponsored by LINKS (Leadership Interaction Networking Know ledge Success) an on campus organization dedicated to increasing student success and retention.

"We started this last year, we took and added a few more stori es to it because we got such great results last year so we decided to bring it back add a little to it make it a little bigger show and it will continue for a few more years by the look of it," said Stacey Nelms, the show's di rector and one of several Metro students and a lumni involved in the acting troupe. "Before there wasn't rea lly any stage reading of Poe so there were a lot of us Poe enthusiasts in the ensemble and we decided that, well, why don't we make a play form of Poe and have the actual characters telling the story, that is kind of how it originated."

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Spirits of the Dead

by Edgar Allan Poe, 1827 (This poem is also called Visit of the Dead.)

Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tombstone; Not one, of all the crowd. to pry Into thine hour of secrecy.

Be silent in that solitude, \ 'Vhich is not loneliness- for then The spirits of the dead, who stood In life before thee, are again In death around thee, and their will Shall overshadow thee; be still.

The night, though clear, shall frown, And the stars shall not look down From their high thrones in the Heaven With light like hope to mortals given, But their red orbs, without beam, To thy weariness shall seem As a burning and a fever Which would cling to thee for ever.

Now are tho ughts thou shalt not banish, Now are visions ne'er to vanish; From thy spirit shall they pass No more, like dew-drop from the grass.

The breeze. the breath of God, is still, And the mist upon the hill Shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken, Is a symbol and a token.

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In Game 1 vs. Regis Sept 20, the Metro women's soccer team was tryi ng to gain control of the Rocky M ountain Ath let ic Conference lead and break into /- the nation's top 25. It was also important to most of the returning players to prove that last year was behind them and that they wouldn ' t be road kill for Regis University, the defending RMAC .( champs, who had a prefect conference season in 200 l.

Well, to make a long story short, 90 minutes later the Roadrunners had a 2-0 victory over the then No. 11 Rangers. The win started Metro's month of ;.. momentum as they went from unranked to now owning the No. 11 spot in the nation. It also struck confidence into the team as they dominated Regis in almost every statistical category.

But that was then and this is ~ now.

In Game 2 vs. Regis Oct. 25, with no more surprises no more adjusting, no more secrets, the game ended with a scoreless tie in double overtime.

"Last time we played them we ~ got the result, we scored the goals, they didn't," Metro head coach Danny Sanchez said. "l expected (this time for) it to be a nip-andtuck battle all the way to the end and it was. All though, we want to :.. win, we are not disappointed m

Men's Soccer at Colorado Christian 1 p.m.

Nov. 2 V路ball vs. Chadron State College 7 p.m. at Auraria* Nov. 3 Women's Soccer vs. Adams State College Noon at Auraria*

WEEKLY RESULTS Oct. 27 Women's Soccer tied Southern Colorado 1-1

by Shannon Davidson - The Metropolitan Metro's ~ Sanders takes the ball away from Regis University's Alli Rausch Oct. 25. The game ended with a scoreless tie in double overtime. Metro came into the contest ranked 11th nationally and Regis was 18th. the result."

Two days later, Metro endured ano ther double overtime in a 1- 1 tie against Southern Colorado in Pueblo.

The two ties allow the Roadrunners to keep control of thei r own fate b ut it didn't increase their conference lead

over their advisories from Regis.

In fact Metro is currently trailing them 31 points to 29 points in the conference stand ings.

The Roadrunners have three games to take back the lead from the Rangers, who only have two games remaining in their season.

"We win out, we are confer-

ence champions," Sanchez said.

"If we are the No. 1 seed in the tournament, we host and get a bye to the fi nal. lt is as simple as that and that is what we have been looking for all year."

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by Eric Eames The Metropolitan

Halloween night might be another story, but when Metro volleyball setter Devon Herron walks on the court she doesn't seem feefi-fo-fum scary. Nobody can be .~ scary at 5-feet I 0-inches, when you're about as normal sized as a flight attendant.

But those notions belie the rampage she has been on this season and the resulting carnage upon opponents. For the past six games (dating back to Oct. ll), Herron has been at her best. ln those games, she's collected 275 assists for an amazing 14.47 assists per game average. Even head coach Debbie Hendricks, a school record-

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breaking setter herself while at Lubbock Christian University from has 1985-88, been impressed with her courtruling and direction-calling qualities that the setter position

requires.

"Over the past couple weeks she has become more creative in the plays the she is calling and the set selection she is making," Hendricks said.

Against uptown rival Regis Uni versity, Herron was at it again recording 44 assists and I 0 digs in

the straight set 32-30, 30-20 and 30-25 victory Oct. 25 in front of 250 fans at the Auraria Events Center. With the win the Roadrunners (20-4 overall, 15-0 RMAC) climbed two spots in the national rankings to No. 10 and ran their unbeaten streak to 15 straight matches, all against Rocky Mountai n Athletic Conference competition.

Herron received plenty of help from senior Nicki Fusco (15 kills), Shawna Gilbert ( 12 kills), Beth Vercic (11 kills) and Jessy Roy (10 kills, ll digs). Ysabel Martinez led the Rangers with a game-high 17 kills along with Julianna Bayley, who had 12 kills and 17 digs.

Despite solid contributions up and down the lineup, the

Men's Soccer tied Fort Lewis College 3-3

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V路ball def. Regis University 32-30, 30-20, 30-25 Women's Soccer tied Regis University 0-0

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Roadrunners feel they didn't play up to their potential.

"We didn't play well tonight," Hendricks said. "We were a little out of sync. l think It was a good sign that we can have an off night but still dig in and do the job the way that we have to in order to win.

"We knew Regis would bring its best game that they could against us and they did and we did some things well tonight, but there were some other things we didn't do up to our potential."

It's been a good four games since Metro faced an opponent with the Rangers' pedigree, although since being ranked as high as 21st in the nation in mid-

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Sports Briefs Swimmers place 4th Metro men's swim/dive team placed fourth at the Early Bird Invite Oct. 18-19 at Colorado Springs University. Noah Pavlakovich finished second in the 200 Breaststroke. Jonathan Sterchy came in third in the 200 lM and Mert Saggin placed second in the I 00 Fly. The Roadrunners finished in the top 10 in 13 other events.

Steve Synder took third in diving.

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Yet, when Metro and Regis meet the atmosphere takes on a playoff intensity, not regular season. In a rivalry that ripened in 1977 (the inception of Regis volleyball), the Rangers currently have a 39-30 all-time series lead over the Roadrunners.

"Ifs been a while since we've been in front of a large home crowd and had a good competitive opponent on the other side of the floor," Hendricks said. "It was good for us to be tested a little bit. test the nerves and play through that and we did.''

The rivalry was in full tradition in the first game. Metro would score four straight points.

Regis battled back. Metro took a 26-22 lead. Regis battled back.

"In game one we played pretty bad," Herron said. "We had a lot of errors and stupid plays that are not in character with what we usually do. I think in game two and three we minimized those errors a lot and that is how we were able to pull away."

Metro easily took game two, out-hitting Regis .333-to-. I 96. The score was tied at 22-22 in the third game, before the Roadrunners left the Rangers behind. Herron put the nail in the coffin with kill off a dig by Bayley that sailed long over the net.

Recently, Herron has proved she is no malinger~r to irtjury or to watching countless hours of game film. Three days before the Regis game, she twisted her ankle late in the match in a win against Colorado Christian University (Oct. 22). She

missed only one day's practice.

This year the junior setter has become more acquainted with the rewind button on the VCR, unraveling opponi::nfs idiosyncrasies, while hiding her own.

"We do a lot of discussing about what plays are better at a certain time," Hendricks said, "and having her look at her tendencies and making sure she doesn't get locked into doing the same things in every rotation all the time."

With the green light to call her own plays, the film has helped Herron read a defense inside out, she said. One play that has been unstoppable all year for \1etro, is when Fusco or Roy leave their outside position and come running down the middle for a kill. Metro rnrely nms it, though, so not only is dominant, but an opponent never knows when it is coming. The Roadrunners ran it four times to perfection against Regis.

Admitting her struggles in the first part of the

year, Herron's confidence has ballooned as Metro continues well into the evensong of the season.

"At the beginning of the year I felt a lot of pressure from other people and specifically form myself," Herron said. "I fmally tried to sit myself down, have a talk with myself And I was like forget it. I'm just going to go out there and play hard and have fun, because rm a junior and it is going so fast to the point it's going to be over, so 1 just want to make it sol am the best I can be."

With four games left, including a showdown in Kearney against Nebraska-Kearney (26-2, 14-1 RMAC) that could detem1ine who hosts the RM.AC Championship toun1ament, Hendricks is - ~ still looking for the best from the Roadrunners. It may come at the most opportune time. Playoff time.

Metro plays at home against Colorado School ofMines(I-23, l-14RMAC)Nov. l andChadron State (10-13, 7-8 RMAC) Nov. 2.

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Back-to-back double OT's draining fromTIESon17 - - - - - - - - - - RMAC) had established its arsenal and No. 18 Regis (13-3- 1, 10-1-1 RMAC) started to show signs of weakness as the two met again. Before the game the Raodrunners were all smiles, as confidence seemed to be ,... all that came from the team. They had a four-game win streak, nearly perfect team chemistry and the RMAC lead going into it. The team's weapons were ready, willing and able, starting with RMAC Player-of-the-Week Jenelle Brandt. Brandt was coming off a big four-point game ( l goal, 2 assists) in a 6-0 blowout of Fort Lewis College (Oct. 20) to go along with Joslyn Brough's three ....;.:· assist and two goals from Miller and Leichliter. But were they ready for Regis?

"We've beaten them once before why can ' t we do it again?" Allen, the starting goalie, stated. "We're a strong team we can beat them." " I feel confident," Lechliter added, "but at the same ¥ time really nervous. This is a really big game for us because if we win there's a chance we might get to host the (RMAC) tournament, but I'm still nervous because they're a really good team."

But with their nervousness cast aside, Metro set the pace early. The Roadrunners retained possession for ;. most of the half, putting an early scare into the Rangers, but a ll the pressure couldn 't result in a goal. Last week's defensive player of the week goalkeeper Taresa Cavaliere rose to the challenge and saw seven shots came but no goals were allowed to enter the net. Allen saw 5 shots cast at her, but none would enter. The two keepers stopped each other's offenses a nd took a 0-0 score into the half.

I. In the second half, the keeper's job wouldn' t get any easier as they would each get beaten but not defeated on the play.

Late in the second half, Regis would get a 2-on- I breakaway chance on Allen but missed a wide open net on the play, shooting the ball wide on what looked like a ;... possible game winner. Then, Metro would get its opportunity as Jenelle Brandt took a shot from 35 ya rds away.

The ball hit the cross bar, the post, then the opposite post, only to roll out away from the net and have Regis

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defenders clear out of play.

Finally, with just minutes remaining, Metro was called for a foul inside of the keeper area resulting in a free kick only seven yards away from the goal. The Regis midfielders rushed the play and the s hot was blocked in front and cleared away from the area by Metro defenders. who lined up to creat a human wall from goal post to goal post.

These three opportunities would be the closest the two team' s got to winning in regulation. Overtime wasn ' t much better for either side as both teams, tired, battered and bruised gave it their all to try and untie the game in both overtimes, but had to settle for a tie .

"My legs don't want to work right now. That was a long game," Brough said after the long intense battle.

She had to gather her breathe before continuing. "The· first time we played, they did not expect us to be as good as we are. This time they came out expecting what they saw. It was a great game, battled both ways very well.

Today, a tie is not wonderful, but it is not a loss."

Two days later, the Roadrunners traveled to Pueblo and ran into another foe they had seen once before. This time it was the Southern Colorado (8-6-3, 5-4-2 RMAC). The Thunderwolves came to play the Roadrunners last time only to leave with their ta les between their legs in a 2-0 win by Metro Sep 22. Again, that was in the past.

This time the Thunderwolves were improved and ready for the Roadrunners as they held Metro to only six shots in the first half forcing the Roadrunners to go over 150 minutes without a goal a s well as keeping the score 0-0 heading into the break. In the second half, Brandt attempted to end the game in the 62nd min ute scoring on a penalty kick to make the score 1-0. But Southern's Casey Cla rke tied it seven minutes later, forcing yet another overtime. In the two overtime sessions, the Roadrunners would o ut shoot the Thunderwolves, but not outscore them leaving the score tied at 1-1.

The Roadrunners finish the season against Colorado Christian University (4-10-2, 2-7-2 RMAC) Oct 30 (after press time), New Mexico Highlands (4-9-2, 2-7-2

by Shannon Davidson - The Metropolitan RMAC) Nov. I and Adams State College (7-9-0. 2-9-0 Metro's Jenelle Brant heads the ball during an away game against Regis University RMAC) Nov. 3.

Oct. 25. After two over times the game er1ded in a 0-0 tie.

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by Joshua Buck - TheMetropolitan Regis goal keeper Mike Montgomery makes a save in front of Metro's Alex Grecu during a home game Oct. 23. The Roadrunners lost the game 2-0.

Metro men's soccer coach Brian Crookharn has had a roller coaster of a career. With a 61-68-6 record since taking over in 1995, Crookbam has had two winning seasons, and with only two games left in this season he will finish with another losing record and will miss the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship tournament for the second year in a row.

The two remaining games at Colorado Christian University (Nov. 1) and at home against no. 19 Colorado School of Mines (Nov. 3) will prove to be rather pointless for the Roadrunners' final ranking, regardless how many goals are scored.

Coming off of a 2-0 loss to Regis (Oct. 23) and a 3-3 tie against Fort Lewis College (Oct. 27) in Durango, the Roadrunners continue looking at missed opportunities that have caused them losses. With only one win against a conference team, Metro (5-10-2 overall, 1-91 RMAC) sits in the basement of the RMAC standings and ending the season with two conference wins, however uplifting to team spirit, wi ll not pull Metro into contention for a invitation to the conference tournament.

Metro played Regis on its home field Oct. 23, and despite the usual raucous home crowd that turns out for the showdowns between the crosstown rivals, the Roadrunners got shutout 2-0.

Freshman goalkeeper Zach Franklin stopped four of the six shots Regis got on goal, while Metro failed to score despite five shots on goal, two of which came from junior Alex Grecu, who is tied for the team lead with four goals.

The Roadrunners first fell behind with five minutes remaining in the first half but despite the score was still very much in the game.

Metro racked up eig ht shots to Regis' three, with five on goal.

The Roadrunners' offensive threat fizzled in the second half, however, with three total shots to the nine from Regis. Metro's inability to focus on specific threats on the opposition was obvious, with 11 of 12 shots coming from three players, and Regis midfielder Lance Snodgrass scoring his 15th and 16th goals on the year.

"We let Snodgrass get away from us twice," Crookham said. "He

had three opportunities and we let him score twice."

The ensuing game against Fort Lewis showed that Metro can indeed score goals, but scoring more than the other team proved to be difficult as the game finished in a 3-3 tie.

"Jfwe score three goals, we should win the game," he said The Skyhawks (6-6-5, 4-4-2 RMAC) got on the board first in the 32nd minute, and Metro responded with six seconds left in the first half as junior Jeff Manson came off the bench and weaved through the defense to tie the game going into halftime.

Three minutes into the second halfFort Lewis regained the lead, and another three minutes later Metro freshman Chris Bolton was assisted by junior Michael Abeyta to even things out.

"We traded opportunities all game," Crookham said. "It was very competitive."

The excitement slowed until midway through the second half when Fort Lewis capitalized on a fumble by Franklin in the goal area to take a 3-2 lead. But senior Domonic Duran came through to avoid another conference loss when he scored with six minutes remaining.

With wins in the final two games. Metro's record would improve to 7- 10-2 (23 points) and Crookham would avoid his worse season ever, since he went 5-15-0 (15 points) in his first year at Metro.

However Metro has already dropped matches to Colorado Christian and Mines this season.

Metro can play spoiler, though. A win against Colorado Christian (4-9-2, 4-4-1 RMAC) could keep them o ut of the RMAC tournament, and a win against Mines (12-4- 1, 7-2-1 RMAC) could cause a lot of problems in the national tournament.

In a season plagued by injuries, most notably senior goalkeeper Eric Butler, younger players have been able to get more playing time. Franklin did not expect to play much this season, starting out as Butler's backup, but Crookham has seen him mature greatly.

"Zach has played well," the coach said. "Every game be has matured."

Metro not only wants to disrupt its opponents' post season hopes in the final two games, but the squad still has players sorting out their future within the soccer program.

"We have a lot of pride in finishing strong," Crookham added.

"We owe it to our seniors."

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Strides: Lunchtime Walking Program - Get out and walk. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12-

12 :45pm and Wednesdays, I -1:45pm at the flagpole on Lawrence Street Mall. For more information, call the Health Center at (303)556-2525.

A.A. Meetings - Wednesdays, 11:30aml 2:30pm in the A uraria Library room 205. For more information. call Billi at (303)556-2525. or call the A.A. Central Office at (303)3224440.

Truth Bible Study/Men orah 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.

Holiday Drive for 9 Cares, Colorado Shares Drop off non -perishable foods , cloth ing, 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 Auraria, or the Auraria Library. Sponsored by Golden Key/Sigma Tau Delta. 10/7- 11/14. For more information, call Dorothy at (303)454-8122.

Thu, Oct. 31 Music at Metro - Jazz Ensembles, 7:30pm in the King Center Concert Hall.

Tragedy and Hope in West Asia - Can we find a just solution for Isrealis and Palestinians? A lecture and talk given by Dr. Beit-Hallahami, professor of religious studies in Isreal. 10-11: 15am in Tivoli 320.

For more information, call (303)556-4445.

Sat, Nov. 2 Moscow String Quartet- 7:30pm in the King Center Concert Hall.

Sun, Nov. 3 Music at Metro, Ch o ra l ConcertF eaturing the Men's Choir, Women's Choir, Concert Choir. Alumni Choir and guest artist Alex Komodore on guitar, presenting "Songs of America." Free, 7:30pm King Center Concert H all Spirit of America- CU Alumni Choir, 3:30pm in the King Center Concert Hall.

Mon, Nov. 4 Resumes that Work - How to write an effective resume. Four types of resumes will be discussed: chronological, skills, combination and scannable. 2-4pm in CN 203. For more information. call (303)5563664.

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20-year veteran Fly Fisherman will be giving a free seminar. Bobby is the owner of All Pro Fish-N-Sports in Littleton, Colo. and is well-recognized as one of the top guides in the Colorado region. Please RSVP to rsvp@rockcrawlers.org. 12-lpm in Tivoli Turnhalle.

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Mon, Nov. 4 A J ourn ey Through Life in a VW B us The story of Eric Saperston, touring the nation in a VW bus. lpm in Tivoli Turnhalle.

In terviewing Skills - Review of the interviewing process: questions, preparation and presentation. 2-4pm in CN 203. For more information, call (303)556-3664.

Upcoming T r ans A f rican For u m - Danny Glover discussing Human Rights, Political Issues, AIDS in Africa. Thursday, Nov. 14.

Tue, Nov. 5

Campaign 2002 on News 4 - Specially produced live webcast: discussion of the issues, online interactive chat, continuously updated election results.

Live on news4colorado.com 6pm-10:30pm.

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Stress Management - Discover what stress is. how it affects your body and how to manage it in this seminar. 3-5pm in Tivoli 651. For more information, call (303)5563132. ~-

Secrets from a Healthy Asian Kitchen An Asian diet has the reputation of being the most healthful diet in the world. Ying Chang Compestine will share secrets from this diet .

A traditional healthy Asian lunch will be provided. 11:30am-lpm in St. Cajetan's.

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Choral Concert, "Songs of America" Dir.: Michael Komelsen, MB Krueger, Jerrald McCollum Sunday, November 3, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Concert Hall, Free

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 Colorado CenterfurR.eproducti\.e Medicine at:

Navy Brass Quintet, "5-Star Brass" Thursday, November 7, 3:00 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall, Free

{303) 788-8300 $5,500 for the first'- donation $4,000 for repeat'- donations

Mondays at Metro: Colorado Chamber Players Concert Preview Monday, November 11 , 2002, 2:00 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall, Free

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Jazz Combos Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall, Free

Artist Series: Dale Bruning Quintet with Jude Hibler, narrator ''The Timeless Music of Richard Rodgers" Thursday, Nov. 14, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall $15; Students and Seniors: $10; MSCD students: free

For more infonnation 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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INTHE 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 win-receive financial compensation and study-related 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

*Eligibility is determined by study criteria