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DID YOU IN THE PAST 48 HOURS? Call The Health Center at Auraria NOW and find out if you are eligible* to take part in a pain reliever medical research study.

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Great American Smokeout event

Metro's literary and arts magazine, The Metrosphere, is looking for your artwork, ljterature, music, and multimedia submissions for its 2002-2003 issue. All current Metro students and alumnj are eligible to apply. Category (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or drama), name, telephone number, and student ID must accompany each submission. Submissions may also be dropped off at the MSCD Office of Student Publications, Tivoli 313 or emailed to gideyy@mscd.edu. Deadline is Friday, December 6, 2002.

Leadership Conference set for January The 2003 Metro Student Leadership Conference will take place Jan. 14 and 16 in Estes Park, Colorado. Applications are currently being accepted for students interested in attending the second annual conference. Students will be trained in leadership skills through experimental learning activities, and motivational speakers. For more information please contact Gretta Mincer, Assistant Director of Student Activities at (303) 556-2595.

Virtual Career Fair open to students

by Joshua Lawton - The Metropolitan Metro psychology professor Mort.on Hoffman addresses his Intro to psychology class in the Plaza Building Nov. 19. Hoffman will be teaching one the new Winterim classes over Winter Break.

basic Political Science and Psychology classes that would be general studies type courses all the way to more specialized courses, say in Education, Criminal Justice, Criminology and Industrial Design." · Over 270 students are currently enrolled

- Jeffery W. Johnson, Metro Associate Registrar

Students interested in enrolling for any of the Winterim classes for the Spring 2003 semester can find the list of avai lable courses on page 43 of the Spring Semester Metro State C lass Schedule or contact an Academic Advisor for further information.

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This event is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 21, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Tivoli Multi-cultural Lounge. Students are encouraged to attend.

by Travis Combs The Metropolitan Metro students wanting to accelerate or lighten their academic loads for the Spring 2003 semester will now have the option to do so by enrolling in one of the 20 Winterim courses offered during the winter break.

By enrolling in a Winterim class, students can complete a one or three credit course, which will count towards the Spring Semester academic term.

The classes, which are being offered to students for the spring semester registration period, will begin on Jan 2nd and run until Jan 17th. The condensed courses on average will meet five days a week, three hours a day and run through a twelve day period of intense concentration.

"We tried the Winterim program about 15 years ago," said Jeffery W. Johnson, Associate Registrar at the Metro Registrars Office. "We thought it would be something we like to try again for a number of reasons, some of th.em having to do with faculty resources, space resources and time and student schedules."

According to Johnson, both Metro's resources as well as the Auraria Campus' are straining to near maximum levels.

"The one reason we're doing this is to alleviate some of the pressure on recourses," said Johnson. "This whole campus has maximized its resources in terms of student enrollment and physical faculties that are avai lable on this campus.

"One way to alleviate some of the strain on these resources is by spreading out the time. There are several ways to do that, one way is to offer more courses on Fridays, another is to offer courses during the winter break."

The Winterim courses offered range in variety from general education classes, such as Introduction to Psychology and American National Government, to specialized education classes such as Technical Drawing and A Survey of Chicano Literature. " ln terms of the twenty courses offered, its kind of surprising the amount of variety that 's there," said Johnson. "We're offering quite a variety of courses, everything from

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in the Winterim classes, which are a surprisingly high number, according· to Johnson.

"We 're delighted with the interest and demand that's showing up," said Johnson.

"What. were most surprised with now that we're a few weeks into registration for spring is the level of interest. We already have 20-40 students enrolled in some of these classes. " If this ends up being successful, as it seems to be, in terms of the student interest, maybe the other schools on campus will do it

to, which, for the campus will be good."

Some faculty members are skeptical of the program, citing that they violate the academic integrity of the school because students may be unable to learn and absorb the material being taught in a 12-day course. '"A lot of the departments and faculty were, and perhaps, still are skeptical as to whether it would be possible to absorb that much material in such a short period of time," said Johnson. "But the departments offering the courses fe lt that it would be possible. A lot of it remains to be seen."

Though students can be motivated to enroll in Winterim classes to lighten up a heavy load of classes taken during the regular spring semester, Johnson warns that the courses may prove to be more difficult than what students may be expecting. fn terms of time students will be attending approximately the same number of minutes in a 12-day Winterim class, as they would be taking in a 15-week regular spring semester class.

"We want students to realize that these are

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All Metro students are welcome to attend the Virtual Interactive Career Fair.

Students may attend both regional events, the Western Region Fair is on Nov. 18 Nov. 22 and, Eastern Region Fair is on Dec. 2 Dec. 6.

Go to http://www.hotu.com/vcf and sign up for a user name and password. For more information contact about this event contact Shina duVall in Career Services at (303) 556-3664 or at duvallsh@mscd.edu.

Corrections TB test results clarification The roughly 1,000 students who tested positive for tuberculosis were shown to have a latent, non-contagious form of TB, not the active form.

A positive result from the skin test administered to Auraria students indicates latent TB . A chest x-ray determines active, contagious TB. Latent TB means the student has had exposure to the disease in some point of his or her life, but is not contagious.

Saliva tests on 11 students, who showed abnormal results from chest xrays, came out negative.

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Conference helps ~create Change'

Police Briefs

by Erin Durban

Guest Article Each fall, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force hosts the Creating Change Conference. Creating Change, now in its fifteenth year, is the largest annual conference for gay, lesbian, bisexual, Two Spirit, transgendered, intersex, and queer (GLBTTIQ) activists and organizers. This year ten delegates from the Auraria institutions attended Creating Change in Portland, along with 2,500 other human rights activists from around the world.

With over 150 workshops, panels, caucuses, and meetings designed to enhance political skills and build confidence in GLBTTIQ and straight ally activists, Creating Change offers the unique opportunity to become better educated about the large array of issues facing the GLBTTIQ community. The concerns of this community extend far beyond marriage rights and inclusion in the military. Some of these concerns include reproduction rights, adoption rights, immigration rights, labor rights, creating safe school and job environments, addressing the exploited aspects of globalization, and dismantling the various institutionalized forms of oppression such as heterosexism, sexism, class inequality, and racism in both the GLBTTIQ community and mainstream society.

The theme for the conference this year was "Building an Anti-Racist Movement: Working for Social and Economic Jus~ice and Freedom."

The objective of the conference was to understand and address the various ways that racism

CAR: DODGE NEON COLOR: GONE An Metro faculty member reported an automobile stolen at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 from Auraria Parking Lot B. A search of the area the two-door Dodge Neon was parked in turned up negative results.

There are no suspects or leads at this time.

STOLEN: 1996 Dodge Neon: $3,500.

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GUJTSS office staff- courtesy photo Metro students Nico Baker, Erika Church, Mary Robertson, and Julie Thompson (lying down) spending some time together in their hotel lobby during the Creating Change conference m Portland, Ore.

impacts the GLBTTIQ community. Since its beginning, the "gay" movement has been dominated almost exclusively by white men .

Because of that, queer people of color, and especially women, have often been excluded from the movement. Addressing this issue is especially hard for a movement with people that are in many ways still not included in mainstream society.

There is immense pressure for the GLBTTIQ community and movement to appear completely unified, which is an impossible feat due to the vast diversity of people that make up the queer community. The GLBTTIQ community has essentially assumed a "superhuman" front in order to be accepted and legitimized by the mainstream society, but this front denies any division or ineq uality among race, class, and gender lines.

GLBTSS office staff- courtesy photo These issues are very rarely addressed within the queer Back row - Netro students Mary Robertson and Erin Durban, Netro community, which is why graduate Gabriel Hermelin, CCD student Tatiana Feigenblatt, GLBTSS choosing this theme was a Director Karen Bensen Middle row - Netro students Julie Bemer and Julie Thompson, Netro progressive step on behalf of graduate Danielle Haraburda, Metro student Mishka Char Front row - Metro students Erika Church, Nico Baker and Mark Ross, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Rainbow Alley Director of Youth Services Julie Voyles

From the opening plenary to the last of the workshop sessions, the conference was dedicated to providing a forum for concerns about racism and inequality to be discussed. GLBTTIQ leaders from all around the world, including activists from Mexico, Pakistan, Taiwan, Nigeria, Brazil, Canada, and the various regions of the United States, came together to discuss their experiences in the context of multi-issue organizing, anti-racist organizing, and dealing with racial power dynamics and white privilege in community groups, political campaigns, and projects.

By the end of Creating Change, there was a community consensus that the GLBTTlQ rights movement needs to transcend its focus on sexuality and expand into a social justice movement committed to dismantling all forms of oppression.

The two groups from Auraria that attended this conference, the MSCD Feminist Alliance and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Student Services (GLBTSS), have made the commitment to bring what they've learned back to the Auraria community.

If you're interested in learning more about the Creating Change Conference, please visit the GLBTSS in the Tivoli or the Institute for Women' s Studies and Services on 9th Street Park. Or you can visit the National gay and lesbian Task Force website at http://www.ngltf.org

CU-Denver, Health Science Center: merging?

by John R. Crane The Metropolitan

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The University of Colorado system's Board of Regents voted 9-0 to authorize a study of a merger with the university's Health Sciences Center.

A task force made up of faculty, staff, students and members of the community will likely conduct the study, said Bob Nero, CU system's vice president of institutional relations.

The task force may begin the study as early as December and will have until June 30 to decide whether to recommend the merger, according to a Nov. 14 article in Silver & Gold Record.

The merger would not cost any money. " We think it will be revenue-neutral," Nero said.

The merger will be administrative, instead of physical, Nero said. The HSC is presently located at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard and will move to Fitzsimmons in Aurora in 2007_ If the task force approves the merger, consolidation of top administration

from both campuses could become a possibility. "lt remains to be seen if jobs are kept or not," Nero said. It would be "premature to say" at this point.

The idea of a merger has been floating around CU-Denver for a decade, according to Silver and Gold Record. Faculty, department heads and Deans at CU-Denver introduced the idea.

The Colorado Commission on Higher Education showed "no opposition" to the merger idea, Nero said. Regarding the need for state approval, Nero said, "We don't think legislation will (need to) be passed."

The nine-mile distance between Auraria Campus and the Fitzsimmons site has been an issue in discussions among CU-Denver faculty.

However, Cornell University, in Ithaca, N. Y., has a medical center located 180 miles away in New York City. Northwestern University has a health sciences center in Chicago, 14 miles away from its main campus in Evanston, Ill. A big reason CU is pushing for the merger is possible membership .in the American Association of Universities. TheAAU is an elite group of research universities across the nation.

The 63 member schools include Duke, Yale, Princeton and Harvard, according to the Record.

Neither CU-Denver nor HSC qualify for membership alone, Nero said. "HSC has no programs other than health sciences. To qualify, a school has to include programs in arts, humanities, as well as the social and physical sciences.

A merger would bring those academic programs together under one school. " We have to have a general campus and a medical center," Nero said. "HSC and UCD can't do it alone."

Another motive for the merger is possibly becoming Colorado's third Research I institution, under state statutes and current Carnegie classifications, the Record reported. Colorado State University and CU-Boulder are Research I institutions. CU-Denver and CU- Colorado Springs are the two non-Research I schools in the CU system.

The merger would help CU-Denver fulfill its Vision 2010 goals, Nero said.

Those goals include building a culture of excellence, focusing on diversity, breaking down barriers between academic disciplines and integrating infrastructure.

An Metro student reported his vehicle vandalized with scratches at 4:00 p.m. on Nov. 15 in Auraria Parking Lot A. Two scratches down the side of the victims' 2000 Jeep Wrangler were of varying lengths.

There are no suspects or leads at this time.

Cost of damage is unknown.

CURRENTLY THE CURRENCY IS CAPUT An Metro staff member reported her wallet stolen at 4:45 p.m. on Nov. 14 from the Plaza Building.

The wallet was stolen from a purse in an unlocked office.

STOLEN: ladies wallet: $40, U.S. currency: $270, and misc. credit cards, I.D. cards and a $33 check payable to the victim, all of unknown value.

There are no suspects or leads at this time.

TOTAL LOSS: $310.

A BRIEFCASE, A CATERED EVENT, ST. FRANCIS, AND A BOX OF OATMEAL An Metro student reported a briefcase missing at 9 a.m. on Nov. 8, from a catered event at the St. Francis Center on Auraria Campus.

The briefcase was left accidentally, and was not found the next day.

MISSING: a leather briefcase: $250, Skytech cell phone: $ 100, keyboard for a Palm Pilot: S 100, a S500 uncashed check to the victim, and misc. papers and disks: all of unknown value. l lied about the box of oatmeal.

There are no suspects or leads at this time.

TOTAL LOSS: $450

HOTWIRE A LA CART An Auraria Higher Education Center employee reported suspicious behavior regarding a motorized cart at 11 :05 p.m. on Nov. l 0 at the Tivoli Building.

Two unidentified males were playing with the E-Z-Go motorized cart. They started the engine, but when it was discovered that it was chained to a staircase support pole, they fled the scene, the witness said.

The wires had been pulled from the back of the ignition switch and twisted together to bypass the key.

Police have no suspects or leads at this time.

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The Student Travel Program a unique student fee-funded program that enables MSCD students and MSCD Student organizations and Clubs to participate at regional and national conferences for the academic and educational enrichment of all MSCD students.

HOW CAN I GET THEM TO PAY FOR MY TRIP? Please stop by our office, Tivoli 311, and pick up the Student Travel Proposal Packet.

The Student Travel Program may give awards for transportation, conference registration expenses, and lodging expenses (on a case-by-case basis). Please call us at (303) 556-3559 or (303) 556-4435 for further information. Complete our travel application at

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Music at Metro events keep dept. busy

by Ian Neligh The Metropolitan The Department of Music at Metro serves both students and the community by presenting a variety of concerts, recitals, and master classes in addition to fulfilling its academic mission.

Contributing to the cultural life of the Denver metropolitan area, the Music department believes in creating these opportunities for both student and public access.

"We have some interesting things going on this semester and the word is going out," said Music Department Administrative Assistant, Joice Gibson. "I think for anyone out in the community, going to music events is just pure entertainment. It's a chance to step into a different kind of space and time, where you're in a setting that our society sets aside for the performance, and enjoyment of music. You can take yourself out of the hectic pace of life."

Gibson believes that for most students the music programs allow for them the chance to relax, during the time of the semester when exams and papers looming on the horizon.

"It's an opportunity to kind of take a break and let your mind be somewhere else, and maybe even rejuvenate your soul a little , with some good music, so you can go back a bit refreshed into the daily routine," said Gibson.

"This is normal operation for us, in the music department we have approximately 55 concerts a semester," said the Chairmen of the Music department, Larry Worster.

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"You might say that there's another reason why we have so many events, and that is that the music department has grown steadily over the last decade. In the last five years the music department has grown 50 percent in majors. We are drawing students to the campus, this is tremendously exciting for the music department."

Gibson said that last year the Music department started the Music at Metro Artist Series, in which the Music Activities Committee make recommendations through the faculty for artists they would like to see come to campus.

"What happens with the artist series is that in addition to just having great performances for people to enjoy, these are tied in directly with student experiences for their personal, professional, growth and development as musicians," said Gibson.

Often times this can come in the form of a master class, which is a work shop like setting where some students are selected to perform a short piece or a portion of a piece for the artist, and receive one on one feedback.

"Sometimes the artist will be side by side playing their instrument, while the student has theirs, if it's a vocalist they might talk to them about how to make a small adjustment, and try different things," said Gibson. "Giving them pointers, tips, and cues, it's so valuable and it's an amazing experience."

Gibson said that the Music department also sends out letters inviting the various Colorado high schools to bring their flute students to participate in the different activities.

"It's also an opportunity for us to have a bit of community outreach," said Gibson. Jt makes

sense from a recruitinent perspective and all of these things just from a PR perspective help to establish music at Metro as a very credible educational experience and opportunity for musicians.

The Music department gives out information about the different programs going on through out the semester to newspapers, websites, and radio stations.

"We just try to get the word out there. 1 think that Metro has been a jewel in the heart of the metro area for a long time, but people haven't really known that much about us," said Gibson.

"Most of the time over the years it's been the people in the ensembles and their friends, family and maybe some class mates. That's largely been the attendance, and the targeted audience, but there is too much good stuff going on."

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going to be very quickly paced courses, and there's going to be a lot of wo rk to do," said Johnson. "Not only in the classes, but in between classes as well.

"As long as they realize what they're biting off here in terms of intensity, I think it's a great thing for students."

Johnson offered advise to students currently enrolled in Winterim classes, as well as those who are going to enroll, on what will help them succeed.

"Number one, don't get a late start,'' said Johnson. "Secondly, don' t get sick. Literally, by missing one class period, you're missing close to a week and a half of work in terms of a regular course. This would be devastat. ing for most people.

"Be absolutely certain that you study the syllabus from the start, because the class is going to move faster than fast. I would also say to structure your time out~ide of class. If the general rule follows that for every one hour of class there's two hours of work, then you have eight hours of homework.

"These classes will be incredibly demanding for people. You're going to be living, sleeping and breathing your class."

Students interested in enrolling for any of the Winterim classes for the Spring 2003 semester can find the list of available courses on page 43 of the Spring Semester Metro State Class Schedule or contact an Academic Advisor for further information.

Must File an Application for Graduation card in the Office of the Registrar (CN105) by Friday, January 31, 2003

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As I was getting my hair cut the other day, the hairstylist told me her fiiend is pushing her 17year-old son to quickly finish high school. If he hunies, she said, he can get a college deferment in the event of a draft.

The hairstylist and l agreed in our opposition to Bush's upcoming adventure in Iraq.

The conversation made me think of the lies our government has told us in the past to fuel fears of being overtaken by a small population of brown Jo hn R. people, led by a pettyCrane tyrant in a "zoot" suit.

Phillip Knightley, in an Oct. 4 analysis in the British newspaper Guardian Unlimited, laments the propaganda used by the U.S. to stir sentiment in favor of the Iraq invasion in 1991.

He tells the story ofIraqi soldiers storming into a Kuwaitj hospital and throwing babies out of their incubators, leaving them on the floor to die. The problem for U.S. saber-rattlers was the lack of images for television and the conspicuous absence of mourning, angry mothers.

Enter Citizens for a free Kuwait, who signed a $10 million contract with Hill & Knowlton, a U.S. public relations. firm, to campaign for America's removal of Iraq from Kuwait.

Hill & Knowlton coached and rehearsed a 15year-old Kuwaiti girl to bawl on behalf of the babies before a congressional committee to persuade lawmakers to support an invasion.

Seven senators alluded to the incubator story during hearings, as a result. The Senate voted for an Iraqi invasion by a five-vote margin.

Two years later, the story was found to be a lie.

"Nariyah," the 15-year-old girl, was the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. Another justification used for an invasion of Iraq was the build-up of Iraqi forces on Saudi Arabia's border; a threat to a key-oil supplier for the U.S. Pentagon officials cited "top-secret satellite images," showing roughly 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks on the border, according to a Sept.

6 article in The Christian Science Monitor.

However, a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida obtained two commercial Soviet satellite images of the same spot, taken at the same time. The images showed no troops or tanks at the border- just desert.

When the reporter, Jean Heller, contacted Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney three times for evidence refuting the Soviet images, a tight-lipped Cheney just said, ''Trust us," according to the Monitor.

Fast-forward to the Sept. 7, 2002 news conference with President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Bush cites a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that said Saddam Hussein was six months away from pro-

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ducing a nuclear weapon when weapons inspectors left in 1998, according to a Sept. 27 article in The Washington Times. ''There's never been a report like that issued from this agency," IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky told the Times.

The White House back-pedeled, saying Bush was actually referring to a 1991 report, claiming Hussein was six months away from his goal in 1991. Gwozdecky said no such report was issued then, either.

An insignificant little gaffe from an awkward chief executive? Maybe. But, little things add up, especially when an administration, in the absence of any significant proof of Hussein's threat to the U.S., resorts to sweet little lies in a desperate attempt to market a bogus campaign.

White House chief ofstaffAndrew Card, referring to a possible Iraq invasion, told the Bush administration in August that it was not smart, from a marketing standpoint, to introduce a new product before Labor Day. Bush made his pitch to the United Nations Sept. 12, and about the same time the media started shoving pabulum down our throats regarding Iraq.

Perhaps Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, paraphrasing Winston Churchill during a press briefing in September 200 l , said it best, "Sometimes the truth is so precious it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies."

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So left, I'm right. So right, I'm correct. (HA!). Their are many of us anxiously awaiting (and lying in wait) for the "improvised" and circumspect "revolution."

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Albieit for me to worry about invasions and war. Hell, I'm crippled!

When you can get past the agendas of "our" politicians, you still only witness (if you are "God"-fearing) the perfect excuse to get the right thing

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-William Butler Yeats p.s. God did not give us Bush.

Stupidity did. Miss Rand was a coward, non-child-bearing bahl of poop!

Reporters John R. Crane, Walter Gant, Ian Neligh, Eric Skougstad, Donald Smith, Andrew Lam, Amy De nning, Travis Combs, Rami Wilder, Josh ·Pacheco, Jonathan Kue nne, Brian Walker, Roger Norquist , Bre nden Martin, Kristi Starns, Noelle Leavitt, Mindy Jamie!, Jonelle Wilkinson-Seitz, Andrea Scott, Elena Brown

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Dear Editor: Condoleezza Rice for President! Bill Owens for Vice-President! I'm sick of socialists. I hate ·welfare. I'm sick of collectivism. Dante would would have included The Metropolitan's use of the word "together'' in every level of his inferno, and rightfully so.

"Share" is the most repulsive word we're taught l prefer the taste in my mouth after a long night of drinking much more than the one I get when a liberal nears me.

Blame President Bush for 9/1l, whine about the economy and protest war if you feel you must, but don't include me or thousands of other students who didn't attend the anti-war protest in ignorance of those who did. Ignorance becomes thoughful activisism when it combines with freedom and speech. Words are deceiving as The Metropolitan has demonstrated.

War has always been good for the economy.

Altruism through appeasement is dissolving the fabric of America's ideological foundation (lnGod we trust). Humanitarianism is a disgrsce to humanity. Who ever came up with idea that security is relevent for survival should try it.

Without national security we no longer have a nation.

Democrats have succeeded in teaching the American people their follow-the-leader mentality under the veil of individuality. What a surprise! Liberals control the media, as is obvious with The Metropolitan's use of the word "together," they control higher education, and with those things they try to control the masses (Fear not, we're result oriented).

Humans are selfish but reasonable.

Socialism is selfless and unreasonable.

Capitalism uses our selfishness to better our quality of life. Survival is selfish abd requires security. Education teacxhes reason that essentially can transcend liberal spin. The Republican platform is selfish which is reasonable and necessary for growth and survival.

Believe it or not the American people still notice cause and effect. Our supply-and-demand mentality observed that the liberals couldn't supply the demanded quality of life with empty promises. The effect is: control of the House, Senate and the Presidency. Altruistic blame game politics won't solve the Democrats ideological void this time. The American public finally saw through it. In God we trust!

Nicholas Bahl Hail Republicans

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by Joshua Buck - The Metropolitan

Metro's Holly Rule: artsy traveler Rule's artwork inspired by the many places she's been

by Jonathan Kuenne The Metropolitan If she isn't in Colorado, you most likely

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Holly Rule, a freshman here at Metro, has traveled the world three times over it seems and her artwork is inspired by the many places she's been.

She started her legacy of artwork in seventh grade. By the time she was in high school her artwork had been put in shows around the city.

"I like to combine different thi_ngs together. One time I created this head sculpture that turned into a butterfly face. The nose was the body and hair was wavy - It was really cool," she said.

Rule also likes to combine different techniques such as nail polish and water color. "l like to come up with new ideas and be creative. I like to put what's in my head onto paper," Holly added.

Putting those thoughts in her head on to paper takes away all frustrations that Holly may have. Sometimes when she has nothing to do, she resorts to creating new artwork. "l get bored and draw; I have palm trees on my wall. Right now I'm working on a chair for my parents," she added. Holly plans to use her artistic abilities for her career.

Rule is a graphic design major and has an interest in creating advertisements in the future. She hopes that she will never have to work in a cubicle.

Holly says that it is mainly the places she

has been that inspire her to draw, paint, sculpt, and photograph things.

"Seeing different places and how the culture is I think inspires me," Holly said.

"I love to travel," she added. England, lreland, Southeast Asia, Scotland, France, Australia, Cayman Islands, St. Thomas, and Mexico are just a few of the places that she has journeyed to. Her favorite is Australia.

"J met the crocodile hunter," Holly said. " I have pictures to prove it." It was however, before the premier of the crocodile hunter movie.

In addition to visiting almost every continent - Holly has been on cruises ever since she was two. " Every birthday, from my sixth to my 10th, I went on a cruise," she said.

Holly plans to take a cruise that has an ice rink and a rock climbing wall in the near future.

In talking with Rule I found that she considers one of her greatest accomplishments attending college.

"Getting this far and continuing my education and making my parents proud - is something I am proud of," she said. "J also think that having traveled to the many places I have been is an accomplishment many people wish they could say they've done," she added.

When asked if she had any true hero she responded: "I really look up to my parents.

They are more than my parents; they are my friends. They are someone I can bang out with and have fun with. They are also some-

one to be there for me and care for me."

Holly currently lives with her parents who are also the co-presidents of the Colorado chapter of the Jimmy Buffet Fan Club.

She was born in Aurora and moved to Highlands Ranch when she was five. She attended Cresthill Middle School where she began her journey of education. "l remember getting called down to the principal's office one day. I was so scared it was my first time in the principles office," Holly said. She was the only one walking down to the principal's office and her teachers pretended if she was in deep troub le. The apparent punishment puzzled Holly.

"I tri ed to remember if l did anything wrong that day- and I didn't. When they got me down to the office they told me l was on the honor roll."

Holly remembers her favorite teacher at Cresthill, Mrs. Sweden. "We had a big report due and l was in England and France at the time so she let me videotape my report."

Holly continued on to Highlands Ranch High School where her artistic ability blossomed. Her favorite teacher at High lands Ranch was Mr. Cushing. "He encouraged me to keep working hard and always gave me positive feedback on my artwork," Holly said during an interview on Sunday.

After high school Holly took a year off of school.

But, for now, Holly is busy studying, drawing palm trees on walls, and traveling the world.

Fact Sheet Birthday: Dec. 16, 1982 Age: 19 Major:

Graphic Design Pet Peeve:

Grumpy people Favorite vacation spot:

Swimming with sting rays in the Cayman Islands Favorite music:

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Let's talk about sex

by Elena Brown The Metropolftan He can be called a lot of things. He's a father, a husband, a distinguished actor and director- but he's no activist. There is something disengaging in hearing that word he says. He is just an "artist citizen" doing his duty. Acting is his life's work, being a citizen is his life. He is helping to create the possibilities of a just world.

Danny Glover, 55, has just assumed the Board Chairmanship of the TranAfrica Forum.

The TransAfrica Forum is a non-profit organization, which focuses on organizing, educating and advocating for policies in favor of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Glover, along with TransAfrica Forum President Bill Fletcher, Jr., spoke to an overflowing Tivoli Turnhalle crowd on Thursday, Nov. 14. Both speakers gave a keynote address on Human Rights and AIDS/HIV in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States. The event was sponsored by Metro African American Studies, The Health Center at Auraria, Metro Student Activities and University of Colorado at Denver Student Life. " I am committed to not being a lone voice in the wilderness. I took on the chairmanship of TransAfrica Forum because I understand the power of institutions. I see the organization as an opportunity to make change, build alliances, and forge new activism. We are deeply involved in connecting with the student movement and creating a vibrant youth arm of TransAfrica because we believe that is our true assurance of a future.

We are also partnering with youth and students, labor organizations, academics, community activists, and individuals whose interests converge with TransAfrica's," said Glover to the National Press Club just days before speaking at Auraria.

Both speakers informed the crowd of the lack of awareness and concern that AlDS/l-IIV is still killing people all over the world. According to Glover, the intolerance for people living with

HOW TO GET l'.\'\'OL\.ED • DAWA, Denver and Africa Working against AIDS, for more info. contact them at (303) 832-4765 or on the web www.dawaids.com.

• Auraria will hold a World AIDS Day event Dec. 2 with free IIlV testing. For more information contact the Health Center at (303) 5~2525.

AIDS in Africa is stunning. Glover spoke of women being stoned for having the disease and 11 million estimated orphans having lost both parents to AIDS. He urged people to step up in the battle against AIDS and HIV. According to the Atlantabased Center for Disease Control, AIDS/HN has infected over an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 Americans. And 300,000 don't even know they have it, yet. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS by killing or damaging cells of the body's immune system, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers.

"To deal with HIV we have to talk about sex," said Fletcher. He blames the complacency and a certain social taboo limiting the frank discussions about sex. All sex: oral sex, homosexual sex and heterosexual sex needs to be discussed.

by Joshua Bude - The Metropolitan AIDS/HIV isn't something that is happening, "to them" or "to those Film actor and director Danny Glover appeared at a speaking engagement in the Tivoli Turnhalle Nov. poor people over there."

14. Glover spoke to Auraria students, faculty and staff about the growing AIDS epidemic on behalf of AIDS/HIV affects nearly 7 the TransAfrica Forum. times more blacks and three times more in Hispanics then Development Program. Glover has supported the and confidential testing method is called Orasure, Caucasians. Currently there is no cure for AlDS. TransAfrica Forum by using his high-profile visi- the Oral HIV Specimen Collection System and is Having unprotected sex with an infected partner bility to advocate and help raise funds on behalf available to staff, faculty and students. The Heath most commonly spreads AIDS/HIV. The virus of the organization. He was praised by many by Center is located on the Auraria campus in the can enter the body through the lining of the vagi- not allowing his fame and fortune to get in the Plaza Building room 150.

Denver has joined the global awareness na, vulva, penis, rectum, or mouth during sex. way of his deep consciousness.

Both speakers said in order to prevent the cause with DAWA, Denver and Africa Working HIV also is spread through contact with infected blood and by injecting drug users sharing needles. spread of AIDS/HlV the community must stand against AJDS. DAWA is a coalition of individuScientists have found no evidence that HIV is up to the challenge. Churches, Synagogues and als, organizations and the City & County of spread through sweat, tears, urine, feces or kiss- Mosques should be frank with their followers Denver working to improve the health of all peoing. While "deep kissing", kissing which about AIDS/HIV. Families needn't be shamefaced ple in Denver and sub-Sahara Africa. Honorary exchanges large amounts of saliva or oral inter- to discuss what could possibly kill their children.

DAWA Co-Chairs include Denver Mayor course is still under debate.

And in under-serviced communities it important Wellington E. Webb and his wife, Wilma. In the to educate people, using prevention programs. Denver metropolitan area 807 people have been "The cure for AIDS is prevention to educate," said Glover. "Stop making the topic of sex Glover presented the 'Shades of Genius newly infected from April 2000 to March 2002, taboo:' Fletcher agreed, "It's time for some Community and Leadership' awards to both local according to the Colorado Department of Public mature discussion of sex," he said. community activists, Bro. Jeff Fard, and the Health & Environment and the Denver Mayor's Harsh words were also spoken against the Metro Denver Black Churches Incentive. Both Office of HIV Resources. There are over 7,000 U.S. pro-war stance against Iraq. The United recipients were awarded for their grassroots people living with AIDS/HIV and about 67 per cent of people taking HIV medications.

States spends "billions of dollars preparing for an efforts of meeting the AIDS/HlV challenge. illegal war" when AJDS/HJV "destroys, disrupts Both Glover and Fletcher will continue on "I am moved beyond belief by the courage and destabilizes a community." "Where is the and dedication by Bro. Jeff Fard and the black the speaking tour on college campuses. They are concern for what is happening within our bor- churches," Glover said. scheduled to appear Jan. 17 at Boise State ders?" Glover has extended his tenure as Jn September the Health Center at Auraria University and Feb. 14 at Yale University.

Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations began its new method for HIV testing. The free

Revolutionary photog led the 20th century

by Ian Neligh The Metropolftan "I was born in Hoboken. I am an American.

Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession. "-Alfred Stieglitz, 1921 "People were most fascinated not by the composition so much, but by the fact that he (Stieglitz) was out there photographing snow, he had taken his handheld camera and got out there in the real world," said David Turner, president ofthe Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, in his lecture on, "Stieglitz and the Modem Artists He

Championed."

The lecture was hosted by Metro's Center for the Visual Arts as part of the exhibition "The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe's Enduring Legacy," which will be shown through December 14th.

J;Jorn during the Civil War, Stieglitz had a powerful impact on twentieth-century American art and culture. Stieglitz watched first hand as the Industrial Revolution made America grow from a rural, agricultural nation to an industrialized superpower.

"He's really a central figure in the introduction of modernists from Europe to the United States," said Eric Paddock, University of Colorado at Denver professor and curator of photography at the Colorado History Museum. "(Stieglitz) also

was one of the first curators in this country to develop exhibitions that combined modernist paintings, with ethnographic arts from Africa."

Through his New York art galleries, Stieglitz introduced modern European art, organized the first American exhibitions of Pablo Picasso, and promoted American modernists such as Georgia O ' Keeffe who would later become his wife. From 1923 until his death in 1946, Stieglitz worked to promote O'Keeffe and her work.

"He was a mentor to other photographers, and he also was a mentor to other artists in the fact that he was able to open up other ideas to them," said CU-Denver student Brian Shaw. "Stieglitz was just this great intermediary between the arts in Europe and the arts in America, he basically

brought the modernist culture of Europe into America."

As a photographer, Stieglitz foresaw that photography would revolutionize the way that we communicate and learn.

After Stieglitz's death Georgia O'Keeffe chose the George Eastman House museum as the recipient of many photographs by Stieglitz, which is now the basis of the traveling exhibition. The exhibition has I LO works at the Center for VISual Arts located in Denver at 1734 Waz£e Street.

"Stieglitz swore to never be involved in projects that are reliant upon committee's contribution," said Turner. "He really wanted a kind of voice of his own and a chance to show things that he had complete control of."

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1978

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Pat Joh~ (far left:) coached the 1978 Metro volleyball team to a perfect 33-0 record and its second-strai!tlt District VII Championship.

Reaching 35 years of Sport

by Eric Eames The Metropolitan At 67-years-old Pat Johnson is more prime than over the hill as the she continues to chalk up area championships.

The former Metro volleyball coach won three District VIl Championships and one NAIA Regional title from 1968-to-1987. In 1978, her squad was a musical diamond of the first water, achieving something no Metro team had accomplished or has accomplished since-the perfect season. The 33-0 mark is a definite highlight on Johnson's facsimile, along with the fact she has more wins (390) than any other coach in Roadrunners' history.

But this time, Johnson is at it alone. After winning the 2002 Colorado Women's Golf Associatiqn Super Senior Championship this summer, Johnson snake-putted her way to winning a gold medal at the Huntsman senior games in Utah.

"I'm not sure you can compare golf to volleyball," Johnson said. "Of course as a coach you don't do it all, the players are the ones who play, so you can't take all the credit. 1 had just as much fun winning trophies coaching as 1 do in golf as a lone participant for myself. I actually enjoyed coaching for that reason, because I was able to consider myself as a participant."

Its obvious from the plaques adorning one wall of Johnson's basement in her Aurora home that she doesn't need a paper to tell her if she has won.

But way back in the beginnings, well-before any banners were bung inside the Auraria Events Center, the college's founding dictatorship held a firm noose on the creation of intercollegiate athletics at Metro.

On the fifth page of the what is known as the Green Report (the founding principles of the college) there is a stipulation that could have kept all the wins and two national championships from being anything more than a whispered rumor, if it wasn't for the push of a few teachers, physical education administration and a group of talented students.

CertJlin things will not exist....

In 1965, with $1.8 million in funding, the Metropolitan State College of Denver was born to accommodate a diverse student body- inexpensive and easily available.

Just as today, Metro students in the '60s commuted from all over the Front Range, held jobs and raised families, but they all had similar educational hungers in hopes of carving out a life filled with opportunity.

With students focused on one goal-a degree-and with their responsibilities stretching beyond campus, the college panners questioned the practicality of athletics, citing a lack of student interest and available facilities.

The then-Trustees of the State Colleges, which became Metro's governing body, took that into account wben they created the Green Report that would be presented to the legislature. On page nine, Physical Education is listed last among budget priorities. But the stiff arm came on page five, third paragraph down, where it reads: "It follows that cenain things common to the typical resident college will not exist at Metropolitan State College: among them, varsity athletic teams, stadium, marching bands, baton twirlers, dormitories, and social .fraternities and sororities. " "I though it was a pretty strong statement," said Metro math professor Jon Plachy, 69, who is an original faculty member and will retire after this fall semester. "I always felt that there are a lot of students walking around the streets of

Denver with talent in areas like art or music or drama or athletics. I couldn't quite accept the fact that they couldn't have athletics here."

By 1966, Plachy and Pat Kiley, the school's director of data processing, had organized the first Roadrunner's club team, men's basketball. The club played at the downtown YMCA, going against teams from different businesses.

By '68, in addition to men's basketball, Metro had club teams playing soccer, volleyball, softball, golf, tennis, swimming, bowling, badminton, a ski team, wrestling and women's basketball. The teams played and practiced at various city parks, recreation centers and area high schools around Denver, including the YWCA Each place was rented with the allocated PE budget. "With such a manacle placed on money, most teams could only afford to practice two times a week. It wasn't until five years later, with team fundraisers, that they were able to practice five days a week.

Also in '68, despite no true intercollegiate athletic program, Duane Mehn, the first Metro athletic direc!or and chairman of the physical education department, got Metro enrolled as a member of the Rocky Molltl!ain Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), with the hope of fielding official teams during the 1969-70 season.

After teaching one Monday afternoon class,engineer professor Harry Temmer was app~hed by a group of male students, who asked if he could help them organize and coach a soccer team they were trying to put together.

Temmer happily obliged Men's soccer went against city club teams, like the Littleton Lions, and college junior varsity teams.

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BY THE NUMBERS 2002 NCAA Division II Champs Record: 29-5 (16-3 RMAC, 2nd) Metro had the 8th best defense in the nation last season, giving up just 64.7 points on average, while forcing a league-best 19.9 turnovers.

Luke Kendall 's 38 points in the regional finals tied Metro's single-game high for pomts held by Gene Edwards a nd Ralph Ri vers.

Men's Basketball Schedule (All games at 7 p.m. except noted)

Western Oregon Classic Nov. 22 at Western Oregon Nov. 23 vs. St. Martins College Nov. 27 Texas A&M Kingsville

Runners Thanksgiving Classic Nov. Nov. Dec. Dec.

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file photo by Adam Houseman - The Metropolitan Netro point guard Clayton Smith fights for loose ball during the 2002 Division II National Championships in Evansville Indiana March 20.

National champs ready to work

by Eric Eames The Metropolitan Following nearly every crack-butt-of-dawn morning practice, point guard Clayton Smith and assistant men's basketball coach Derrick Clark are always arguing over something. One day it's whether or not Smith can hit 10 threes in a row. He couldn't and it cost him 25 pushups. On another day, Smith is guaranteeing he'll pull down five rebounds a game this year, despite his l.4 career a game average and 5-8 stature. C lark demands six.

This is the Metro men's basketball team.

Fueled from within, the defending national champions are filled with mavericks-selfish players with lunch-bucket attitudes always trying to overtake each other. You see it when the large class of newcomers (eight) and seven returners, including four returning starters, stay a hour after practice to work on their jumpers, free-throws and three-point strokes.

Over the summer, it was more of same. From big man Lester Strong lifting weights twice a day to 2002 Elite Eight MVP Patrick Mutombo, who never went home to France, practicing his polished jumper and not leaving the gym until he makes 400 shots.

"You are being selfish in that sense," Mutombo said, "but at the same time you are working to the advantage of team, because you want to improve, you want to get better. And whenever you have competition within a group, that is when people are able to rise up to the next Level. We need selfish people and once you get into a team concept then you apply what you learned in the summer. Sometimes you have to give up a part of your game."

Half of knowing what you want is knowing what you have to give up to get it. While head coach Mike Dunlap will be the first to tell you that players win championships, he' ll also tell you that players who can ac:cept the roles thrust upon them is a big chunk of the equation.

Examples: Strong governs the middle of the floor and the boards. The 6-7, 220 pound center is built Like a sprinter and moves like one, streaking down the floor, looking for the alley-oop dunk.

The junior averaged nearly a block a game and was the Roadrunners Leading rebounder in 21 of

the 35 games last season.

Mutombo, who exploded for 29 points in the national title game and led the team with a 16.6 point per game average, can score at will from anywhere on the floor. The same holds true for junior guard Luke Kendall, who was named North Central Region MVP after a 38-point performance. Kendall was also third in the conference with an average of 4.2 assists and 2.37 steals.

Transfer Jamar Bohannon, who was the leading scorer at Southwest Community College (Iowa) for two years (16.3 ppg), will look to fill Lee Bethea's shoes. Originally from Aurora Central High in Colorado, Bohannon is built like Mutombo, with Long intimidating arms that allow him to shoot the ball over defenders.

Still, it all has to come together.

"What we are interested in is achieving at a high level and when no one cares who gets credit for the achievement that's when you have a true family," Dunlap said. "We have a team ego and we have a team culture. The assistants coaches around here are as important as I am, and the players are what drives the engine."

The head honcho on the floor, though, is the smallest and wears the biggest number.

Smith is at the vortex of Metro's offense. He was the best passer in the conference (5.0 assists) last season and had a heyday hounding Kentucky Wesleyan guards in the title game. An Elite Eight All-Tournament selection, Smith's 12 assists and four steals against top-ranked Kentucky Wesleyan was the best display of how a point guard can control the game, while o nly scoring nine points.

Every successful coach needs a suc:cessful point guard and Metro is no exception. Controlling the ball and communication rank l and Ia on the keys to winning list Smith, now a senior, knows how to do both. He recorded the conference's best assist-to-turnover ratio (3.56), and knows Dunlap's system inside and out "That's your point guard, the front door to your house," Dunlap said. "If your front door is weak, then you are going to have a weak team. If your front door is strong than you' ll have a strong house. The point guard is the general, he runs the operation and if too many people talk at the same time then no can be beard and the first person that bas to be heard is the point guard."

There's a lot riding on the shoulders of the 155-pounder, but Smith doesn't look at it that way. "l wouldn't call it pressure, more like responsibility," Smith said. "You have a lot of responsibility if you are going to be a point guard in this program. That's something that I like."

Of course, since we can't avoid the subject, last season the NCAA Division II men's basketball championship went to the underdogs, which makes the trophy's prominence in the lobby of the Auraria Events Center all the more glitzier.

After missing out on two Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference trophies- Nebraska-Kearney won the regular-season title and Fort Lewis College captured the tournament championship-for the first time in four years, the Roadrunners still got a 2002 NCAA tournament bid. But with the loss to Fort Lewis in the conference semifinals, many felt they were a first-round and done team.

"Every year is different and the best things are unexpectant," Dunlap said. "It was very unexpectant of us to go as far as we did, so that was wonderful."

Dunlap is receiving plenty praise for the job he's done at Metero. In six years his record stands at 138-28, he has won three national Coach-ofthe-Year awards and appears in this week's Sports 11/ustrated article on coaching fundamentals .

Street and Smith's basketball magazine considers him to be "the best coach at any level." But the spotlight is not Dunlap's pride and joy. "(Success) drives me to another level of hunger," Dunlap said, "and you just tape everything (awards and trophies) up and put it into a box and continue to work hard. " The kudos keep coming, though. Being that is was the third time in the past four years the two teams have met for college basketball 's top prize the Division II Bulletin is predicating Metro and Kentucky Wesleyan to meet for round four in Lakeland, Fla., the site of the 2003 Elite Eight Tournament. Metro received a pre-season No. 2 national ranking behind Kentucky Wesleyan. The Roadrunners are also picked to finish first in the RMAC. "That is the worst thing you can do at this point in time," Smith said, "to look at the national championship as a goal."

And he's right. It's just to improve within.

Holy Names (Calif.)

Grand View (Iowa) Adams State* Fort Lewis College*

at College of Notre Dame Dec. 20 at San Francisco Dec. 21 at Sonoma State Jan. 3 at CU-Colo. Springs 8 p.m. * Jan. 4 at Western State 8 p.m. * Jan. 9 Mesa State* Jan. 17 at N.M. Highlands 8 p.m.* Jan. 18 at Southern Colorado 8 p.m.* Jan. 23 Nebraska-Kearney* Jan. 25 Fort Hays State* Jan. 29 at Regis 5:30 p.m.* Jan. 31 Chadron State* Feb. 7 at Colorado Christian 8 p.m. * Feb. 8 at Colorado Mines 8 p.m. * Feb. 13 Regis* Feb. 16 at Chadron State 6 p.m.* Feb. 20 Colorado Christian* Feb. 22 Colorado Mines* Feb. 26 at Fort Hays State* Feb. 27 at Nebraska-Kearney* Hom e gam es in bold *Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Grune

PROJECTED LINEUP

STARTERS (Returners Bold) No 55 12 2 15 44

Pos PG G G/F F F/C

Player YR HT Clayton Smith Sr. 5-8 Luke Kendall Jr. 6-4 Jamar Bohannon Jr. 6-6 Patrick Mutombo Sr. 6-5 Lester Strong Jr. 6-8

BENCH No 5 11 24 25 10 20 42 35 43 52

Pos G G G G GIF G/F G/F F F F/C

Player YR HT Benas Veik:alas Fr. 6-3 Christope Lombe Fr. 6-2 Jimmy Dadiotis So. 6-2 Greg Muth Fr. 6-1 David Barlow Fr. 6-8 Mark Worthington So. 6-9 Ryon Nickle So. 6-6 Jovan Obradovic Jr. 6-5 Michael Morse Jr. 6-6 Ben Ortner So. 6-3

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BY THE NUMBERS Record: 12-15 (10-9 RMAC, 8th) 2002 RMAC Champ: Mesa State T he Roadrunners were the best free-throw shooting team in the RMAC with a .752 percentage .

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Metro had the fourth-best offense in the conference last season, averaging 69.8 points

Women's Basketball Schedule (All home games at 5 p.m. except noted)

Emporia State Classic Nov. 22 vs West Texas A&M 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 23 at Emporia State 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 29 Grand View 1:30 p.m.

Dec. 4 at Colorado State 7p.rn.

Dec. 7 Northern Colorado 7 p.m.

Dec. 12 Adams State* Dec. 14 Fort Lewis College*

Grand Canyon Classic

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New team, style, attitude

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This Metro women's basketball team is going to be very different this season.

How different? How about eight new players in the line-up? The Roadrunners only have five players back, who were active on last season's team that was knocked out in the first round of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conferenc;e Tournament and finished with a 12-15 record.

The five returning players: Natasha Molock, Rachael Grove, Saree Meccage, Crystal Deichert and Malene Lindholm have a difficult task in front of them as they try to learn a new set of offensive and defensive plays with brand new teammates.

"It's challenging because it's a big adjustment every time you get a new (coaching staff)," Lindholm said. "It's going to take some time, a lot of playing games, a lot of playing together, experience that we don't really have and with only two seniors .. .it's just gonna be hard."

Lindholm is one of those seniors, along with Meccage, and both are expected to be not only leaders, but possible go-to players. Lindholm, listed as a forward/center, is currently the team's biggest offensive threat, earning First-Team AllRMAC East Division honors for averaging 14.7 points a game to go with 47 three pointers.

Meccage, on the other hand, has an all-ornothing attitude. With this being her final year as

a Roadrunner, she has the opportunity to leave a lasting impression With the ability to create, Meccage shot 44% from the field last season.

Another key person to watch on this year's team doesn't dominate the offensive stat book at all, but Natasha Molock has the hustle board all to herself. Because saving a possession, diving to deflect balls out of bounds and setting good picks aren't in the official stat book, her presence can't truly be measured. But her teammates and opponents all know when she was on the court. She brings her floormates to Life when she is out there with the defensive "intensity picking up. At least one of Molock 's stats was measured. The sophomore led the RMAC with 89 steals and most of them she either turned into assists or lay-ups.

But if the Roadrunners want to improve on their l 0-9 conference record, the newcomers will have to step up. Eight new players whom consist of both freshman and transfer student's might just speed up the so-called rebuilding process.

Out of six transferring players Kristin Hein, Courtney Pettit and Jillian French could impact the line-up right away.

Hein, a junior, has the ability to play both guard positions and can drain the jumper. Last season she averaged 12 points at Reedly Community College (Calif.) and shot 85 percent from the free-throw line.

French helped Northeastern Junior College capture the Region IX Championship last year.

She contributed by shooting 50% from the field

to go with 24 assist and 30 steals.

Pettit, another point guard, transfers from Irving Valley College (Calif.). At Irving Valley she averaged 13 points a game and was the second best rebounder on the team, grabbing 181 boards.

New head coach Dave Murphy is a transfer himself in a way. The fonner head coach at CUColorado Springs, Murphy was a foe turned ally for the Roadrunners during the off-season after Mike Powers departed.

Murphy led the Mountain Lions to the fourth-best league record at 17-8 overall and 136 in conference. Now, he looks to take a team who was No. l in free-throw percentage (75.2 percent) and f ourth in scoring (69.8 points a game) and turn them into RMAC contenders.

Murphy plans to run a conservative offense and not try to run-and-gun teams out of the gym.

But when the opportunity is there, he wants the guards to push the ball inside to the forwards.

"We've got great free-throw shooters on the inside," Murphy said. "l feel like (players) that are shooting 80% from the line ought to be trying to get 50 to 100 free-throw attempts a season, that means we have to pound the ball inside."

On the other side of the ball, Murphy plans to mix up the man and zone defenses to make it tough for opposing teams to score and believes by the end of the season the team will play "every conceivable defense known to mankind."

Dec. 28 at Grand Canyon 4 p.m.

Dec. 29 vs.Georgetown (Kent.) 2 p.m.

Jan. 3 at CU-Colo. Springs 6 p.m. * Jan. 4 at Western State 6 p.m.* Jan. 9 Mesa State* Jan. 12 Morningside College 3 p.m.

Jan. l 7 at N.M. Highlands 6 p.m. * Jan. 18 at Southern Colorado 6 p.m.* Jan. 23 Nebraska-Kearney* Jan. 25 Fort Hays State* Jan. 29 at Regis 7:30 p.m.* Jan. 31 Chadron State* Feb. 7 at Colorado Christian 6 p.m. * Feb. 8 at Colorado Mines 6 p.m. * Feb. 13 Regis* Feb. 16 at Chadron State 4 p.m. * Feb. 20 Colorado Christian* Feb. 22 Colorado Mines* Feb. 26 at Fort Hays State 6 p.m.* Feb. 27 at Nebraska-Kearney 6 p.m.* _Home games in bold *Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Game

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12 PG Natasha Molock So. 5-5 5 G 24 G

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15 F Rachel Grove Jr. 5-11 44 C Malene Lindholm Sr. 6-2

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Michelle Duncan Jr. 6-3

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by Joshua Lawton- The Metropolitan Metro's first volleyball coach Pat Johnson stands next to some of the awards and plaques earned over her career as a Roadrunner and now as a golfer. She compiled a 390-224 record as coach.

by Shannon Davidson - The Metropolftan Jane Kober was the origin! women's basketball coach when the team enter the NAIA in 1969 and the first person to ever make a basket in the PE building gymnasium.

Metro athletics: From scrap to champs from HISTORY on 4 - 1 6 - - - - - "A year after we got varsity approval (NAJA)," Temmer said. "Denver University held the national scoring record when they beat a team 18-0, and they wanted to play Metro to try and beat their own mark. They only beat us by a score of l 0- l."

In the spring of '69, the PE department circulated surveys amongst Metro students, and the response came back highly in favor of supporting intercollegiate athletics existence. Metro president Kenneth Phillips and student-body president Douglas Holcomb, a PE major, shared the results with the state board of trustees, and by summer the group cleared the school to begin a "limited" program of college athletics.

"They made such an argument, that the legislature said, 'Ok, but no marching band and no football,' " said Jane Kober, who arrived as a PE professor that year. In '69 Metro competed in men's and women's basketball, track and field and tennis; men's golf, wrestling and baseball; and women's field hockey, softball and volleyball.

The men's basketball team coached by James Bryant went 0-25 that year and would not taste victoiy for 56-straight matches.

The Roadrunner (named after the wily students dodging downtown traffic to get to class) was officially born. But the beginnings weren't so speedy.

Against school policy Wms were hard to come by for the men's teams and so was in-state competition. A number of Colorado colleges, including Denver and Regis universities, Adams State, Western State and Colorado State College-Greeley (now the University of Northern Colorado), refused to play or schedule games against Metro. Each of these colleges had trustees who had made up the Green Report, and they felt Metro was in direct violation of the policy.

"The college trustees had to make an agreement when the college was formed that we wouldn't have athletics, so we had trouble getting games, because colleges didn't think we should have that program," Plachy said. ''They didn't recognize us."

The women's teams didn't experience such scheduling problems, they were involved in the Intennountain Conference for College Women. When Johnson arrived at Metro in the fall ofâ&#x20AC;˘ 68, she immediately coached nearly eveiy women's team-volleyball, softball, basketball and track and field-aside from her PE teaching duties. ln 1970, Betsy Clark was hired as a PE teacher and also coached field hockey and soccer.

"We didn't have full-time ¡coaches," said Kober, who upon arrival in ' 69 relieved Johnson from women's basketball coaching duties and also coached women's tennis. "We were teachers that coached on the side, so it was part of our load, but we didn't get paid extra for it" Coaches posted flyers and ran ads in the school newspaper, simply called The Paper in the 1970s, for students to come and try out.

"I can remember walking across campus and seeing somebody that was pretty tall, whom I thought might be a volleyball prospect and tapping them on the shoulder and inviting them to come in and tiyout," Johnson said "We didnotreallyrecruitin the high schools until 1975."

Most of the athletes on the iearns were PE majors and Kober said early on no one got cut and even though they were considered "club" teams until the '69

approval, no one had to pay to play.

Despite the vote of confidence and 50-piece jazz Most of the money came through fundraisers. Metro band that played the school song before a few PE students would raffle off a new 1970 Dodge Charger Roadrunner games, the acceptance of Metro sports didor a Plymouth "Roadrunner," in order to pay for equipn't show up in stands, which remained relatively vacant.

The empty feeling along with no available athletic scholment and jerseys. In the first three years, women's softarships lead Biyant to believe no one cared. ball, basketball and volleyball teams shared jerseys. "'No one cared' means just that," said Bryant, who Initially, the women's teams competed in what was coached men's basketball until 1972 and was only 29 called "Sport Days," where all of the schools in the their when he was first hired. 'The tone was that athletics was conference gathered at one college and played against each other. Metro went up against some big-time cola secondary to education and that there would be little leges like Brigham Young University, University of budgetaiy support for such ventures. The average age of Wyoming, CU, Utah State and Idaho State. a student was 26, and they were more interested in getFor Metro, the "Sport Days" were as fierce as ting a degree than a winning basketball team...There today's battle for the conference championship. They were a few people like Jon Plachy that cared, but generpracticed regularly and everyone was out to win. But, in ally few others." order to keep the Roadrunner alive, Metro would have to Freshman volleyball player Karen Loucks of win over its students. once Aurora, Colo., received the again. veiy first athletic scholarStudents Protest Against ship in 1972, the year Title Athletics lX was passed. But the money crune from Colorado When fall semester started in '69, just months Scholars Grant money, not after Phillips' announcement, from the school. it took a group of concerned Jerri Marshal also students just two days to received a scholarship as a women's tennis player. accumulate 600 signatures "She had two kids and on a petition calling for the the oldest was 12," Kober removal of intercollegiate athletics inunediat.ely. said of Marshal. "She had never gone to college either, "People never thought so she was what Metro was that this school would need made for." anything like athletics," Kober said, "because this Metro Sports Fall and was a commuter campus and Rise we're here to be educated With no scholarships, and we shouldn't spend our athletes had to work on the side to make enough money money for stuff like that, after all I'm working too." to pay for tuition and books,

by David Merrill - The Metropolitan and usually skipped prac"Some of the students were veterans coming back Netro math professor Jon Plachy started the tices to do so. first basketball team a.t Metro in 1966. from the Vietnam War and "We weren't able to they didn't see that need and compete on the varsity level with other schools that did have scholarships," said they didn't want to spend that money for it in the student Frank Powel~ who was the head wrestling coach and fees," Plachy said. served as athletic director in the mid '70s. "For instance, Metro student Peter M. Torsiello led the boycott through several letters to the school newspaper. He called Regis beat us like 100-50 in basketball one time." athletics a "menace to many colleges across the nation," Dismal records or money shortage or both lead to in that it detracts from academics by making students several programs being cut from 1978-to-1990. Men's basketball (1978) was the first to go, then wrestling beer burping sport fanatics.

(1984), men's gymnastics (1986), men's and women's Out of the 3,936 students surveyed, 2,552 replied and I, 729 said they would support the teams, while 723 track and field (1986) and cross-country (1986) and softball (1990). said they wouldn't. Torsiello still believed the students didn't get a fair chance to vote on the subject. His two Metro president Richard Fontera, who arrived in biggest arguments hinged on the fact that $19,950 1982, immediately realized the important role athletics and basketball would play in giving students a sense of ($2, 700 for intrarnurals, $3,600 for women's athletics and $13,650 for the men's program) was being wasted in pride and building Metro's image. He shared his dream athletics, when it could shore up academic needs, and with recently hired athletic director Bill Helman and that students would have to pay an escalating athletic fee. asked him to draw up a plan on how to bring hoops back.

The 600 students vetoing intercollegiate activities, "(Fontera) had a vision of making athletics an was enough to approve a referendum, which was voted important part of the college and he knew to do that he needed a centerpiece for it, something that draws people on in the spring of 1970. If rejected, it would destroy Metro's stepchild-the athletic program. and gets publicity,'' said Bill Hehnan, who was named In a l,601-to-1,258 decision (1,569 did not vote) at athletic director '82. " In college only two sports do that spring registration, the Metro students were in favor of to a large extent-football and basketball. Well, there intercollegiate athletics and of giving no more than 5 was no way there was ever going to be a football team at the school, so he told me to give him a proposal on how percent of the student budget to it for the next five years.

we can bring back the men's basketball team."

Men's basketball was brought back in 1984 and they won its first game against Kansas-Wesleyan University 80-68. The win ended a 26-game losing streak hanging over the Roadrunners' heads for the six years the program was suspended.

Fontera never got to see the basketball team in action, dying of cancer in '84, a year and half after he planned to bring it back.

Paul Magelli took over as president in '85, and decided to take Fontera's dream to a new level. Magelli funded the athletic program to a high enough level that each sport had scholarship money available for in-state and out--0f-state players. He also appointed a committee to study the necessary changes for the Roadrunners to jump from the NAJA to a NCAA Division I program.

The women had already made the jump from NAIA to Division II in 1984.

Metro history professor Dolph Grundman chaired the committee for Magelli and recruited help from Cedric W. Dempsey, the athletic director at the University of Arizona. Due to escalating costs, the commission recommended dropping track, crosH:Ountry and men's gymnastics and suggested that Metro make a commitment to Division II participation.

"The amount ofmoney it was going to cost was over and above what we were going to get back," Helman said. "It was either we were going to do well at Division TI or stink at Division I, so we choose Division TI and it turned out to be a good decision. And you never know what might happen in the future. But it is getting to be awfully expensive. Once you are in Division I you are jumping all over the place. The expenses for eveiy sport just start to doubling and tripling itself."

By January of' 86, Magelli agreed with the committees findings. The men's teams left NAIA and became apart of the Great Northwest Conference in Division Il. That was composed of two teams from Alaska, including on in Fairbanks, where current men's basketball coach Mike Dunlap was born and raised. In 1997, Dunlap was the last coach hired by Helman.

"I leave proud of that one," Helman said. "I figured I missed plenty along the way too--(two men's basketball national titles)-but there were some good things that came as well."

Lost Forever?

Before the men's basketball was restored, athletics at Metro were fickle at best. It's the natural order of sport; sooner or later, accomplishments are forgotten. Open up any media guide on a Metro sports team and most records don't start until 1984. Most of the records are in the basement of the Auraria Events Center or lost.

Johnson has several files of stats at her home and has asked time and again ifthe athletics department would be interested in them.

It was in the spring of '69 when Johnson coached the women's track and field team to winning Metro's first trophy. Johnson, Mehn and one of the women competitors presented the trophy to Phillips.

"I think he was pleased with it and surprised," Johnson said. "But it was a trophy that had actually been won by women in a track and field class and some other women students who had done some amateur track stuff outside of college. That was the first trophy. I don't even know where that thing is now."

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English prof. headlines local band "There's so many people out there doing it that competition is immense. There are so many The Metropolitan writing schools now and there are so many writers, you look at these little magazines and they "To me, what the arts do is something that get 30 thousand submissions a year, it's a tough nothing else can do, and that's why I am racket." attracted to them. They deal with human emo"It's a tough way to go its just one of those tion, they deal with the problems of human things I think that's in you, you have to do it, life, and the subtleties of human interaction and you really don't have any other choice that you just can't get any other way," said because anything else you do is just not satisfyauthor, singer- songwriter, guitarist, violinist, ing and makes you miserable," said Williams. mandolinist, and Metro English professor "You have to be extremely hard headed, ten David Williams. thousand rejections are not going to put you Like many of Metro's teaching staff, down. You have to have this thing where no WilJiams has a very diverse educational and matter what anyone says, I'm going to do this professional background, which adds to his until I drop." classroom teaching philosophy. Originally an "l think there are those people who have to art major, Williams then got his degree in do what they have to do and nobody is going to anthropology, before returning to school to get stop them." a master's and then Ph.D. in English.

Also a cartoonist, Williams has worked for "My whole life has been centered on the The Chronicle of Higher Education in arts," said Williams. "I've been playing music Washington DC as well as a freelance cartoonsince 1 was about ten years old, and l 'm 49 ist. ") now so that a lot of years."

by Joshua Buck-The Metropolitan "l was always that kid in class who sat in A musician at heart, Williams originally wasn't interested in becoming a college pro- Metro English professor David Williams plays the requinto, a Mexican guitar, in his King the back and drew cartoons, so I spent my fessor, however after be did it for a number of Center office. William's band, David Wiiiiams and The Hot Club of the Rockies, specializes whole education drawing cartoons in the back of classes," said Williams. " I love doing them years be began to grow more comfortable with in Django, or Gypsy Jazz music. for The Chronicle of Higher Ed. because I get a teaching. chance to skewer the academic world, and there "It's a weird thing, but you find yourself playing music, writing songs, and being a songwriter. Though is a lot to make fun of in it." getting excited and getting into it, and that is a cool thing that when I was in school I concentrated on poetry and fiction writ"I love this quote from WC Fields; ' Until your able to see happens," said Williams. "Teaching has a lot of rewards that ing." way. I've bad students that were published in various magazines "I think its very difficult to write poetry well, and being a yourself as a cartoon you haven't seen yourself very clearly,' It and that's always thrilling for me. " song writer I wanted to use those elements of poetry in song writ- kind of brings out that sense that we are all fools and we need to Williams has a band that plays in Denver called the "Hot ing and not just write stupid songs but have some songs that have keep ourselves in check and not take ourselves so seriously, Club of the Rockies," which specializes in the gypsy swing music some character and wit and some depth to them," said Williams. where all just a bunch of buffoons basically."

"When you write a story its kind of a window into that Williams didn' t get into writing fiction until he was in his of the 30s, a combination of blue grass, jazz, and swing music. whole psychological process and when you write a song it defi"The kind of music that I play has drifted over the years, in 30s, when he wrote several children's books. different areas," said Williams. ''It started when I was in high "The 1st one 1 got published was just like a total fluke, nitely deals with that emotional mystery but all the arts deal with those subtle mysteries to help get us through this life." school playing rock. My life artistically has been centered on

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Culinary arts program hidden treasure

by Annando Manzanares The Metropolitan When dining out, have you wondered about all of the different elements that had gone into your meal, your drink, your environment or your experience?

Have you ever attended a convention and had to travel to it or enjoyed a cocktail party on behalf of a company and consider that someone had put time and effort in making your experience seamless, effortless and enjoyable?

The individual who works in these fields typically have had lots of training and on-the-job experience to work, facilitate or manage the environments within these career choices. It is not something done by an individual that decided one day to become a chef or a travel agent or an event planner. Finding a person who can understand the infrastructure of these industries and have your experience be as professional and as pleasing as possible is definitely a task. Well look no further.

Everyone eats, drinks, sleeps and interacts with others and the majority of them travel while doing so. This is the underlying notion by which the Hospitality, Meeting and Travel Administration department (HMTA) has designed its program here at Metro.

One professor that was well positioned before coming to Metro is Michael Wray. He heads the Restaurant and Culinary Administration emphasis of the program. He has helped evolve the department to include the culinary arts program, which has been operating for about two years. This program is still in its infancy and is growing.

This emphasis offers an array of courses from basic kitchen procedures to American and international cuisine. Also offered are courses in Beer and Spirits and the Study of Wine. A new course was offered this semester, Healthy Cooking Techniques.

This course focused on creating a meal with the word healthy in mind. The students in the class work together in creating various dishes that offered a delicious bite while the calorie content remained on the low side. A project the class had to do was to present a holiday menu of items that could be altered to be categoriz.ed as low fat or low calorie.

Tuesday, November 19 the students of this program present-

ed a holiday menu to an audience of about 25 in Plaza 128. The classroom where the presentation took place is adjacent to the exceptional kitchen facility where all of the items were created.

The menu offered several dishes including poached salmon with dill sauce and a grilled bell pepper and eggplant terrine to a variety of desserts including a colorful angel fruitcake.

Other items on the menu were designed with the health conscious element but wanted to offer a new twist on traditional holiday eats. The audience basically taste tested all of the items on the menu and afterward was to offer a critique.

The FANS (F-flavor, A-appearance, N-nutrition, S-satient) test was used to grade the presentation. There were 13 students apart of the presentation and all contributed to different aspects of it. Junior Coe Sperry took part and presented the poached salmon dish. He explained the ingredients, preparation and serving of the dish. "Anybody can learn how to make food that is healthy and good for them," Sperry said. He plans to utilize this program and degree to pursue hopefully a high-ranking chef position at one of the many resorts he frequents while on his snowboarding ventures. He explained that, "Chef Wray can make anybody a good cook."

Wray has been a professor for I 4 years. He envisions the program to equal that of some of the specialized schools for culinary arts. Beyond creating exquisite cuisine, he wants his program to focus students to be better managers as well as welltrained chefs. "We teach the students about all that elements involved in running a kitchen," Wray said. "We not only train them in the culinary aspect but we focus on the accounting and finance. Most culinary programs don't do that, they just focus on the production and presentation." "We train our students to be leaders in the kitchen and provide for them the background and resources for becoming successful in this career, " Wray said. He was quite excited and satisfied with the class's presentation. The program offers several presentations each semester with many of them open only to invited guests. Many of the administrators for Metro frequent these presentations.

With the five separate concentrations the HMTA department is pretty busy. The department's objective is to develop and prepare the students for multiple ÂŁareer opportunities that lie within

by Shaman Davidson- The Metropolitan Here is a sample of the types of food a part of the Healthy Cooking Techniques class's presentation Nov. 19 in Plaza 128. The presentation Included an overview of the menu items as well as the fngredfents, preparation and servtn11 of three meat dishes with sauces, a veuJe sandwich, two - - - - - - - - - - - - s e e FOOD on 18 dips, a salsa and three desserts.

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Hospitality program focuses on community service from FOOD on 17 - - - - - - these industries as a whole. Providing a solid foundation for students and fostering them to work and succeed within these industries.

Hotel Administration involves all segments of the lodging and resort industries, orienting the student to all aspects of managing and possibly operating their own.

Restaurant Administration prepares for management positions in commercial and institutional food service areas including restaurants, hotels, resorts, scholastic institutions, health care, business and industry on-site facilities and catering.

Meeting Administration incorporates the managing and facilitating of independent or

corporate meetings, conferences, trade shows and conventions.

Travel Administration prepares for corporate travel management, as well as agency management involving both commercial and leisure travel and other elements of tourism services.

Lastly, the Culinary Arts Administration covers restaurant operations while focusing on food production including beverages and integrating specialized techniques. It also expands into international cuisine as well as emphasizing the administrative elements of managing and directing a kitchen. Each area of concentration is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills and practical experiences needed to be successful in the rapidly expanding hospitality industry'.

There are about 350 students taking any one of the classes offered by the department at any given time and about 200 students that are

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The hospitality industry is the secondlargest industry in Colorado and continually growing. The faculty of this department is well positioned and very experienced in their respective fields to help achieve the department's objectives. Cynthia Vannucci, one of the six full-time faculty of the department, explains that, '"All faculty have at least 10 years of realword working experience behind them as well as their appropriate education." Vannucci heads the Meeting Administration emphasis and herself has well over 10 years experience in event/meeting planning as well as several certifications and holds a doctorate.

"They (professors) bring all of their experience into the classroom," Yannucci said.

Yannucci is also faculty advisor for the Rocky Mountain PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association) student chapter here at Metro.

She states that hospitality is a community service. With this student club they have facili-

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Burton recently bought into a partnership with Jay Paul Apodaca of the Luz Gallery located on I st and Broadway. Burton became co-owner of the gallery with the hopes of heightening local contemporary artists. Currently, Burton has his IT business in the hands of trusted business partners and he is actively involved in promoting local artists. l

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by Eric Eames The Metropolitan After losing its final-regular season match, the Metro women's volleyball team reinvented themselves with a bang. Their intensity, explosiveness and all-out courage could not be denied as they repeated as Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament Champions Nov. 17.

Now there is a great deal at stake, as Metro, the No. 3 seed in the Southwest Region, heads to Canyon, Texas, with hopes of gaining the program's first taste of the big time. They'll take on St. Edwards (30-8) in the first round Nov. 22 of the single-elimination tournament with the regional title game to be played Nov. 24. The winner heads to the Elite Eight, where Metro has never gone.

No. I seed West Texas A&M (33-2) will host the tournament and awaits the winner of the other first round match between No. 4 seed University of Nebraska-Kearney (31-4) and No. 5 seed Central Oklahoma (30-6). Meanwhile, No. 2 seed Rockhurst (36-4) will play either Metro or St. Edwards in the other regional semifinal Nov. 23.

By all accounts, if Metro (26-5) can play the way they did this past weekend, specifically in dominate wins over rivals Regis University in the quarterfinals and UNK in the championship match, the Roadrunners could be playing Thanksgiving weekend when the Christmas rush begins. They just have to stay hungry.

"We just need to continue what we started here in this (conference) tournament and we just need to keep improving," said senior Nicki Fusco, who humbly accepted the tournament's MVP award.

"There is still a lot of room for us to grow and we only have two more weeks and I think we are going to maximize and peak when we need to."

The fact that Metro believes they still haven't played its best match is exciting on one end and a bit frightening on the other, depending on your view. UNK bead coach Rick Squires had the latter

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Women's Soccer National Quarterfinal Match at Auraria Nov.24 Metro vs. UC-Davis 1 p.m.

Volleyball Southwest Regional Tournament at West Texas A&M Nov. 22 Quarterfinal Metro vs. St. Edwards Nov. 23 Semifinals Rockhurst vs.

Metro/St.Edwards Nov. 24 Championship Game Semifinal Winners Western Oregon Men's Basketball Classic Nov. 22 Metro at Western Oregon Nov. 23 Metro vs. St. Martin's College (Wash.)

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Soccer: Regional Champs!

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It was an exciting weekend for the Metro women's soccer team as they walked into hostile territory and walked out victoriously with the 2002 Midwest Regional Championship. Not bad for a team that was predicated to finish fourth in the conference at the end of the regular season.

'We are excited with what we have been able to accomplish so far." head coach Danny Sanchez said, "but in the same sense we are getting a little bit greedy and why not just keep it going?"

There's no reason they shouldn't, especially with a defense that continues to bottle teams up.

Metro (1 8-2-3) snuck by WestTexasA&M 2- land Central Oklahoma 2-0 to grab the title.

The wins bring the Roadrunners back home to host a Elite Eight Tournament match against the University of California-Davis l p.m. Nov. 24 on the Auraria Field. UC-Davis beat three-time defending national champion UC-San Diego in the Far West Regional final to make it to the Elite Eight. The winner heads to Vuginia Beach for the Final Four on Dec. 6.

"Whenever you get to this part of the season I don't think there really is underdogs or favorites," Sanchez said. "We've never seen (UC-Davis), they've never seen us, we have no common opponents with them, so we are just going into it with., a) we win you get to go the Final Four."

The harsh road to the final eight started in Canyon, Texas, against West Texas ( 16-4), the No. 2 seed in the region. A scrappy first half between the teams ended in a scoreless tie. 路 But with the second half only 54 seconds old. the Buffs did something no other opponent had done against Metro in 302 minutes as Daisy Lopez broke the shutout streak when she scored on a pass from Aubrie Hunter. The Roadrunners were behind, but not out as almost four minutes later Jenelle Brandt fired a shot past net-rniNJer Brigid Maruszak to even the score at 1-1.

But sometimes where the scoring ends, the drama beings. The Roadrunners and Buffs played the rest of the game and two overtimes to a draw.

Both goalies clamped down to the point where the match was determined in a sudden-death shootout.

"We knew that because of the [harsh] conditions, the wind and [field], if we could take them to [penalty kicks] we'd have a better chance," said Metro defensive back Colleen Fellin.

Goalkeeper Mandy Allen stopped the Buffs first shooter in the sudden-death shootout to set up Joselyn Brough 's game winner.

"Everybody was pretty nervous during the shoot-out... but that's j ust the way penalty shootouts go (they are) very unpredictable," Brough said. "In the second half of the shootout it was (down to) a golden goal... so we stepped up and took care of business."

Next, the Roadrunners' traveled to Edmond,

Okla., to face No. l seed Central Oklahoma for the regional title. The Bronchos were looking to avenge an mid-season loss to Metro and it didn't look good for the Roadrunners early as their defense took on an offensive surge from Central Oklahoma. The Bronchos fired seven first half shots, four on goal, but still came away with zip.

"They had their best chances early in the first half and we were able to weather the storm and gain some confidence playing at their place in a big game," Sanchez said. "Going into halftime at 0-0, 1 felt very good about where we were at."

In the second, the Roadrunners sent doubt into the Bronchos hopes of avenging their 1-0 loss to Metro back on Oct. 4. Thirteen minutes into it, Brough scored on a pass from Brandt.

Brandt, though, wasn't done sharing the love.

Six minutes later she recorded another assist, when Amy Lichliter scored her 19th goal on the year to take a 2-0 lead. "(Their) forwards actually pressured us more (than West Texas) and we had to deal with them more, but that just make us step up our game more," Fellin said.

The Roadrunners go into quarterfinal game against UC-Davis with total confidence, since the last time they've lost at home (Sep. 6 vs. Incarnate Word) most students were still wondering if they should drop their classes or not. Metro also takes a 10 game winning streak into the game as they try to gain its first Final Four appearance ever.

Emporia State (Kan.) Women's Basket ball Classic Nov. 22 Metro vs. West Texas A&M 5:30 p.m.

Nov. 23 Metro vs. Emporia State 7 p.m.

WEEKLY RESULTS Women's Soccer Midwest Regional Tournament Nov. 13 Semifinals Metro defeats West Texas A&M 1-0 Nov. 17 Championship Game Metro defeats Central Oklahoma 2-0

V-ball RMAC Tournament Nov. 15 Quarterfinals Metro deats Regis 30-18, 3021, 30-19 Nov. 16 Semifinals Metro defeats Western State 30-19, 32-30, 30-26 Nov.17 Championship Game Metro defeats NebraskaKeamey 30-27, 30-24, 30-22

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Metro travels with mOmen-tum to regionals from REPEAT on 21 - - -- -- as he watched his team lose the conference title in straight games.

"Metro was nearly mistake free," Squires said.

"The put up an attack every time they possessed the ball."

On Nov. 8, the Lopers stretched Metro to five games at Kearney. So when both teams swept their quarterfinals and semifinals opponents, an intense Little war was expected for the title. It turned out to be nothing but a dud, even though the Roadrunners remained its dynamite self The 30-27, 30-24 and 30-22 sweep over the third-seeded Lopers was vintage Metro and reminded everybody at the Auraria Events Center why the 12th-ranked Roadrunners are the champs.

"I was a little nervous at the beginning of the match, because Kearney is always a battle for us," Metro head coach Debbie Hendricks said. "But once we got on track and we played the way we did, l never questioned whether we were in control of the match."

Looking fresh the Roadrunners came out supercharged in the quarterfinals Nov. 15, while Regis (15-14) came out comatose, and lost their will. Actually, Metro stole it from them with a stalwart defense, solid ball control, cat-quick sets and a smorgasbord of attacks that kept the Rangers stuck in first gear. Metro took the match easily 3018, 30-21and30-19.

"Our ball control was there, we were very aggressive serving, we were very aggressive offensively," Hendricks said. "We had a game plan and we followed it. The most important thing to me is it was exactly the response we were looking for to what happened (in the final regular-season match against Fort Hays State Nov. 9.)"

Middle blockers Shawna Gilbert (14 kills, 2.5 blocks) and Beth Vercic (10 kills, two blocks) both made their presence felt against Regis, as they did in the 30-19, 32-30 and 30-26 semifinal win against Western State College Nov. 16. In that match, Gilbert (12 kills, 2.5 blocks) and Vercic (JO kills, 1.5 blocks) combined with ever-solid veterans, Fusco ( 16 kills, three blocks) and Jessy Roy {12 kills, 12 digs).

Devon Herron, the RMAC's leading setter, quarterbacked the Roadrunners with a 15.1 assists per game average during the tournament., which included 47 assists against UNK. "Devon is unbelievable," Squires said. "She gets the ball to hitters in good situations."

With the demands of volleyball constantly up for calibration, Fusco and Roy continue to press forward, despite annoying injuries. A deep atavistic rises in them and defeats the pain, especially during playoff time.

Fusco, already playing with a slight tear in her right knee, aggravated the injury in the third game of the semifinals. Fusco played out that match against Western, but the knee appeared swollen as she walked out of the locker room.

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Fusco came back the next day and recorded a match-high 21 kills against UNK, while Roy had 17 kills, 16 digs and was named to the AllToumament team. Roy continues to suffer from shoulder problems on her hitting arm. Every night the junior goes to bed sore.

"I'm just sucking it up," Roy said after the championship game, while holding the RMAC trophy. "When it's a match that is really important like that, I'll just give it all for the team. Right now, you have no idea how painful it is, but I'll deal with it."

Metro's defense dealt with nearly every blow in the tournament. Players were diving, scraping elbows and knees to keep the ball in play. Back-

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get bloody noses and are iffy after being knocked _ backward. Not Highstreet. The ball ricocheting off her nose, she masterfully floated the ball over the net, where it fell for a point, giving the Roadrunners a 16-15 lead and all the momentum they would need to close the match.

"I heard the crowd go 'Ohh' and then ' Yeah,' but I didn't know where I was," Highstreet said.

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The Metropolitan State College of Denver Child Development Center Early Childhood Programs Offer

tttftl • Cognitive, social, & physical development • Morning classes for your 3 to 4 year old • Afternoon classes for your 4 to 5 year old • Optional care before & after class

• A high adult-to-child ratio • Competitive prices • Fall and spring sessions

303-556-2759 THE METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE of DENVER The Child Development Center is a program of the MSCD Department of Teacher Education.

Student Housing available at

TEIKYO LORETTO HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY 3001 S. Federal Blvd., Denver

Monthly Rates: Single Occupancy: $450.00 Double Occupancy: $600.00

You FOCUS on your studies, Let us focus on your finances!

Rates include utilities, local phone service, cable television and high speed internet access.

-Consolidate your bills-Reduce your interest rates-Clean-up negative credit-Budgeting workshops-Stop harassing phone calls-Student Loans, Credit Cards, and More-

Housing applications and policies available on-line at t/hcampus.org/event For more information, or to tour the campus ca// 303-937-4009.

Also accepting applications for resident hall assistants. Students from any metro area college or U!!iversity are welcome to apply. Lodging with private bath and financial stipend of$450.00 per month for qualified applicants.

Call 303-937-4009 for more information.

WE CAN HELP! CALL NOW FOR YOUR

FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION NO OBLIGATIONS

COMMUNITY CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES 303-233-2773

www.community-credit-counseling.com

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Women Helping Women Egg Donors Needed.. .for infertile vvomen.

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 vvay.

Contact.the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine at:

(303) 788-8300 $5,500 for "the first donation $4,000for repeat; donations Please visit our nevv vveb site at:

vvvvvv.co/oeggdonor. com for more information.

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

presents

Symphony Orchestra

William Morse, director Thursday, November 21 , 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Concert Hall, Free Auraria Chamber Ensemble Tamara Goldstein, artistic director, piano Friday, November 22, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall $10; Students and Seniors: $5; MSCD students: free

Mondays at Metro: Student Composition Recital Monday, December 2, 2002, 2:00 p.m.

Kng Center Recital HaU, Free Percussion Ensemble Mart< Foster, director

Monday, December 2, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Concert Hall, Free Student Chamber Music Recital Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 7:30 p.m.

King Center Recital Hall, 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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TUBERCULOSIS EDUCATION INITIATIVE

Plaza Building, Suite 150 â&#x20AC;˘ 303-556-2525 http://www.mscd.edu/student/reso11rces/healdl/

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SCHEDUl"'E Reduce wait time! Attend one of the scheduled mass testing scs..,ions below.

Ses...ion One

Test Drue: Monday, ~ovember 11, 2002, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Return Date: Wednesday, November 13. 2002, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ~iota 'l\'\-'O

Test Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Return Date: Thursday, November 14, 2002. 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Ses.fiiiou Three

Test Date: Monday; November 18, 2002, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Return IY.ite: Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Test lYate: Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Return Date: Thursday, November 21, 2002, 8::)0 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

FREE TB Testing and associated follow-up care (chest x-ray, INH medication) is routinely offered year round at tbe Health Center at Auraria.