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On hundred years from now, there will be a long list of names on a plaque, and Delgado's name will be the first, he added.

This announcement received a standing ovation.

In his presentation "Reflection on Lalo," Torres reminisced about the 30-plus years he knew Delgado.

"His office was across from mine, so I saw him every day he taught," Torres said. He first met Delgado in 1970 at CU Boulder when he was a student. Delgado had come frorn Texas to work in the beginnings of the Chicano Education Opportunity Program, the forerunner to Affirmative Action.

"That was a difficult time period that historians now refer to as the Chicano Movementl Torres said. "lVhat has always stood out to me about Lalo during the years 1970to l972,whenl first knew him, was the mentorship he provided to rne and other young Chicano students."

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pholccourbsyof LizVanlandingham Denver Mayor fohn Hickenlooper announced the establisbment of the Denver Poet Laureate post. Late Metro professor and activist Abelardo "Ialo'Delgado was named as Denver's frst Poa Laureate in a tribute cerernony Friday, Sept. 10,

Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado was a part-time instructor in the Chicano Studies program at Metro for 17 years.Even when death was near, he was still worried about his classesand his students, former Chicano Studies Chair Luis Torres said.

Delgado passedawayh:ly 23.

A tribute to Delgado was held on Friday, Sept. 10, at North High School. Ddado\ wife, Lola, his children, grandchildren, friends and admirers attended the tribute. Throughout the dedication, family and ftiends read poetry.

Denver Mayor fohn W. Hickenlooper took center stagehonoring Delgado as Denver's first Poet Laureate.

"The city of Denver, indeed the entire country mourns the loss of Lalo Delgado," Hickenlooper said."His gifu to us were many: as a 1g4her, as a mentot as an advocate and as an artist and leader." The city wanted to find a way to honor him, Hickenlooper said.

"So, I'm pleased to announce tonight, on this special occasion,that the City and County of Denver for the first time is establishing the

them by marching, picketing and taking over campus buildings, Torressaid.

"Those were formative yearsfor me personally, and l,alo's mentorship helped shape my path," Torressaid."He helped us to understand if you engagein violence you betray the Movement and help defeat it."

Delgado taught Torres and many others to be creative,persistentand to come up with ideas to help people,he also said.

Throughout the dedication, family, fiiends, colleagues,community leaders,and dignitaries paid homageto the legendaryChicano poet and activist.

Former New Hampshire Gov. fean Shaheen read a letter sent by MassachusettsSen. fohn Kerry.

"His dedication to helping the people of Colorado is unmatched," Shaheenread. "lalo Delgado created a public voice for the private pain of the Chicano Movement. He aim€d to easethe suffering of Chica the frustration of those he lived beside,those r,worked beside:his people."

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Despite all the hardships the American John Elway, the former Denver Broncos economyhas faced under his tcrm- a recession, Quarterback, who led the team to two Super corporate scandals and terrorist attack-it is Bowl titles, introduced Bush. steadyand becoming stronger,Bush said.

Bushspentmost ofhis speechdiscussing the "Do you realizethe home ownership rate in economy and health care.He also defended his America, under my administration, is at an allactions in Iraq and his plan for the Middle East. time high?"he askedthe audiencc.

Both Samora and Robinson said Bush's B u s hs a i dp a r to f h a v i n ga s t r o n ge c o n o m yi s speechwas powerful and to the pointimproving health care.

"His deliverywasright on. I think he'snatu "In a time of changewe need to reform our ral at speaking.He delivered rvith such passion, health care system. Heath care costs are rising it was dead-on,"Robinson said. rapidly; thev're burdening our economy," he Samora said Bush's speech had similar said. themes to that of the Republican National Concluding his speech, Bush defended Convention, but it was tailored to Colorado. his stance on Iraq and questioned that of his ACR also had a dozen volunteers at the Democratic opponent, Sen.fohn Kerry. speech.

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a Native American tenurenow they want to bring me back is to seek due process for native students on a track faculty member and into the fold," he said. campus where we feel there has been a lack of NASU,{s faculty adviser, Culpepper said Ott, the due processfor minorities," Ott said. in which he accused her of SG.{s vice president of commuThe petition also asks for a thorough revipolitical bias in the classnications, and Safford,attorney sion of Metrot grievancepolicy. room. general, promised to represent Ott said the college'scurrent grievancepoliMetro gaduate Nick all students,and by going after cy is unfair becauseshe said it allows pmple like Bahl also filed a complaint one student, they have violated Culpepper and Bahl to report their complaints accusing Meranto of politithat promise. directly to the presidentt office rather than havcal bias.

"When you sign up to be ing to report through the proper channels.

Ott said Culpepper's a SGA member, you're there While Metro interim President Ray Kieft allegations are false and to represent all students, even appointed a task force to focus on the college's that she didn't even know myself," Culpepper said. "And grievancepolicy in the spring, Ott said she feels she was implicated until they didn't do that becausethey the task force is unfair because Culpepper was

by ClaytonWoullard Tuesday when she was told actively participated in a meet- allowed to appoint the members. her name was on tlre coming to get rid of me."

"The grievances at Metro need to be Ott said changed and the task force A Metro student and former Auraria College plaint.

She also said that laws Safford and she in place is not equipped to Republican has filed a complaint against two File phob /lre Metopcfan for murder or kidnapping on neYer represented do that," she said.

Student Government Assembly officials he an Indian reservation s1g n61 SGA Vice President of Com- themselves as offiIn a hearing last claims discussed killing him. different from those in the rest munications Beth Otl cials of SGA and Thursday organized by George Culpepper, who last year was chairof the country. their actions with State SenatePresident fohn man of ACR also said he filed a report with the 'I think it's quite evident NASUA are comAndrews, R-Centennial, Auraria Police Department Friday in which he that George knows absolutely nothing about pletely separateftom the SGA. Metro student and accusedMetro students Beth Ott and William "We are involved in the Native Republican William Pierce, Safford, both members of the SGA, of discuss- federal Indian law" Ott said.

Navajo native Michelle Rose, co-president Movement only as studentsj' she along with a student from ing possibly kidnapping Culpepper, taking him of NASUA, said she'sappalled by the allegations said. "Anybody claiming that this Colorado State University to an Indian reservation and killing him. hasany'thingto do with the SCA is and the University of He claims that Ott had told fessicaGreiner, againstOtt and Safford.

"I think it's absurd,"Rosesaid. "I think he's completely mistaken."

Colorado, testified about also a Metro student and SGA member, in a (Culpepper) just out there. He obviously wants Iesse Samora, current ACR political bias in the classprivate meeting, that Ott and the N{etro sturoom. dent organization Native American Students to fight us (NASUA) and I honestly don't under- chairman, said he will ask for stand why."

Safford and Ott's resignation or Piercefiled a complaint for Un-American Activities wanted to "set rid Culpepper said he isn't targeting Meranto their removal, not only for allegagainst Meranto Aug. 24, of" Culpepper and or Native American edly threatening a student, but for would take him to an File pl'nto /The lrtlebopdihn accusingher ofpolitical bias studentson campus. holding a meeting in which they and discriminating against Indian reservation 'Apparently Political professor Science Dr. pushed their agenda. him as a conservative stubecause the laws are Meranto has issued "Holding a me€ting like that is Oneida Meranto dent the previous day, the different there. her poison through not what any Student Government first day of class.

Greiner said so many students that member should do," Samora said.

Piercedropped the class she heard about the "Student Government members are there for they think that I'm after the 6rst day. threat, but because attacking one of their the students and not for themselves" "She inferred (sic) that we (conservatives) the investigation is own and that isn't the SGA President Candace Gill said what Ott are incapable of thinking critically, and should still underway, she case,"he said. and Safford are doing is separatefrom the SGA therefore drop her class,"Piercewrote in a letter can't comment on Culpepper also said as a body. to Percy Morehouse, director of Metro's Equal the case.

"The issuesthey're addressingare separate Opportunity Office.

Ott and Safford vioOtt, co-president lated the Student Code from that of the student government," Gill said.

He also wrote that Meranto said in class of NASUA and a of Conduct by not "l think they will be able to keep it separate and the reason most of those in the academicworld Choctaw native, and File phob / The Metropofbn informing the authorinot pull the student government into the issue are on the left side of the political spectrum is Safford, a non-native at hand' because they are able to think critically and member of the group, Former Chair of the Auraria College Republi- ties about the death threat and for holding a In the NASUA meeting Friday Ott and those on the right are not. directed a NASUA cans George Culpepper meeting to discuss him Safford also presenteda petition that describes Meranto said that ailegation is false. meeting Friday afterand how to eliminate alleged discrimination against Native Americans In her lecture, she said ideologues on either noon, which Culpepper claims was held to dishim, all of which he saiddisruptedhis academic on campus, including death threats made extreme of the political spectrum have a hard cuss how to remove him ftom campus. against Meranto.

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DisplacedAurarians video to debut Many families were displaced when Auraria campus was buiit in the 1970s.

Houses located on 9th Street are used as offices,but once belonged to Denver resrdents until they were forced to move when the campus construction began.

UCD Political Scienceprofessor Anna Sampaio produced a video documenting the history of the families who lost their homes.

The video will be shown, along with a presentation by Sampaio Thursday, Sept.

16 at 12 p.m. in Studio A of the media center.The event is hosted by the Auraria Library Diversity Committee and coincides with the annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. lHct. 15.

For more information, call (303)5563482.

Five Metro employees awardedat convocation During Fall Convocalion ceremonies Sept. 1, five long-time Metro employees received awards recognizing their outstanding achievementsand hard work. professor Kent, of fonathan Anthropology has taught at Metro for 18 years and has played a large role in the development of the college'sArchaeology Field School.

Kishore Kulkarni, Metro Economics professor has taught at Metro for 15 years.He has authored 70 journal articles, five books and is the founder and chief editor of the Indian Journal of Economics and Business.

Metro English professor Larry Langton has taught at Metro for 24 years and is the college'sresident expert on the 17th-century English poet fohn Milton.

Nancy Maierhofer, the'de facto CAPP queen',began her careerat Metro 27 years ago. She has helped to enhance the CAPP (Curriculum, Advising and Program Planning) system used for advising and degreeaudits.

Skip Crownhart's history with Auraria began 20 years ago when she developed an lnternational Studies program for all three institutions. Crownhart began working at Metro 13 yeals ago.

All the above-mentioned faculty and staff members received the Distinguished ServiceAward, which is the highest honor the collegecan bestowon an employee.

Gollege reminds faculty of policy Metro is taking stepsto ensure college faculty are aware of a conflict-of-interest policy that has been in the college handbook for yearsbut is easyto miss, according to Metro attorney Lee Combs.

The Policy for Outside Personal Aaivity and Relationships allows faculty to have additional employment outside of Metro and avoid the possible charge of a conflict of interest, provided they take the appropriate steps to report the employment.

The poliry was also designedto protect employees whose friends or family take a course taught by them, by requiring them to report the personalrelationship.

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The expansionof RTD's serviceswould offer N{etro students more options in transportation to and from school.

The projectt goal is to offer alternative methods to commuters as well as to help relieve the traffic congestion which will only grow as the greaterDenver areaincreasesin population. "ltt important to remember that we are expecting nearly one million people to move here in the next 20 yearsl said Jan Rigg, spokeswoman for FasTracks.

More than 40 miles of light rail, 79 miles of commuter rail and t8 miles of improved bus transit will be constructed in the proposed 12year project.

According to the financial plan presented to the public by FasTiacks on April 21, the proposed 0.4 percent (four cents for every $10) increasewould bring the current salestax fiom 0.6 percent to a full one percent and ryill not apply to groceries,prescription drugs, gasoline, residentialelectricity and heating costs.

This would mark the first time in 20 years RTD has increasedthe ta-\ rate and it would go specifically toward paying off the bonds used for the overal.l $4.7 billion projected cost of FasTracksAfter the bonds are paid off, the tax increases would roll back to 0.6 percent.

Opposition groups such as Taxpayers Against Congestion have attacked the tax rollback safng the bill is written vaguely and could allow for RTD to continue collecting the additional 0.4 percent long after the project has enoeo.

"The languageof the bill was acceptedand signed by the governor, and it clearly statesthe plan for the tax to sunset," Rigg said.

"Now, the tax can roll back to 0.6 Dercent,

when the original plan only called for it to go back to 0.8 percent,"she saidThe plan, proposed by RTD, calls for the construction of light rail and commuter train Iines and the rerouting of bus lines in nine suburban regions of the metro area.

The l2-year project is slated to begin construction in 2005 and would extend light rail servicefrom Union Station in downtown Denver to Denrrer International Airport, lefferson County, Longmont, Boulder, Wheatridge and Thornton as well as extending existing tracks into Highlands Ranch and Lonetree.

According to Metro's office of admissions, 93 percent of the nearly 21,000studentsattending Metro live in the seven-county metro area.

Many students choose to drive their own cars, while others rely on public transportation.

All Metro students pay a $22 per semester RTD fee, which allows them to use their student ID card as a local bus pas.

"I didn't have a car for two years. Light rail and the bus saved me; it was the only way I was getting around," said Metro student Keegan Walker.

Walker rides the light rail to school and sees the expansionof the systemas a good thing for students in the future. "l seepeople taking advantageof it now to beat the five-dollar parking," said Metro student Matt Grace."I'd pay it (the tax) ,ust so that other people going to school after us can haveit to useIf we are going to keep growing like we are we need to do something."

The project is extremelyimportant to young people, Rigg said.

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Delgado:Activist,poetleftlegacy fromcorer continued to chronicle the victories and the defeats of the Movement and in doing so gave birth to the Chicano Litgrary Movement, reaching an audience far beyond the Chicanos of the SouthwesternUnited States.

"Lalo Delgado worked tirelessly to fiee, in his words,'the poets and Picassosofour lvestern states.'I am a great admirer of his. I will forever be moved by his words and his courage,sincerely Iohn Kerrv."

DeloresHuerta, first vice president emeritus of United Farm Workers of America, spoke of her past rrith Delgado.

"I used to stalk Lalo becauseI was trying to get him to come and work for the Union," Huerta said. She told Cesar Chavez that they needed a poet in the movement but she could never get Delgado to commit becauseof obligations to his family.

Huerta said it was an honor to be around Delgado's family.

Phâ‚Ź{ocourtesyot LizVartandrEtEm The late Lalo Delgado'stwo sons and six daughters gather at the event honoring their father at North High School on Friday,Sept. 10. At the event, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced Delgado as the city's first Poet Laureate.

For Delgadot 65'h birthday, his family gave him a surprise party. Each individual got up and said how they felt about him.

Delgado was amazed becausethis was the audience he felt was hardest for him to win over.

In a previous interview, Delgado said his

writing had givenhim somethinghe thoughthe would neverhave.

'I have gained the admiration of my own children and grandchildren,"Delgadosaid."I havebeenadmiredby a lot of people,but when you gain the admiration of your own family that'sa lot."

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Culpepper said he did not plant Pierce but he did not chastiseher for political bias in She also said she read the Student Bill of or anvone else in her the dassroom. tlights-which outlined tlre grievance policy classesand he wrote the Culpepper said and rehat a student shou.lddo if they have a post to get a reaction he wasrit happy with problem with the way sheteaches--tothe class out of Meranto and the result, but he can and printed it on the syllabus. members of Creative acceptit.

At presstime, Piercecould not be reached Resistance, many of He said he is for comment.

Meranto told the classsheknew there were Republicanplants in her classes who werethere <lo monitor her and they should drop the dass becausethey would not leam anything. reactionout of her and from students who On the online messageboard for the Metro get the truth to come are experiencing or studentorganizationCreativeResistance, a left- out," Culpepper said. who have experienced ist protest group, Culpepperwrote in a post "I knew that if I stated that, stre would men- political bias in their classes.

Aug. 12: tion something in her classroom... that'I know He said they will be a non-partisan group 'All I know is Dr. Meranto hasONE chance some of you are planted."' and will forward the complaints to the statelegto screwup, which shewill, and sheis gone.Rest Kieft filed a disciplinary notice against islature and to the school,

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Meranto said the student's claim is still under investigation,but shesaidsheis confident it will be resolvedin her favorbecauseshetaped the lecture.

Shesaid this whole ordealhas been taxing on her.

"I'm very stressedout; I'm emotional,"she said."This stuff beginsto w€aron you. It's not fair I haveto rein in my passionfor something."

Robert Hazan, chair of Metro's Political Sciencedepartment,saidhewould not comment on the claimsspecifically, but wasdisappointed with how the studenthandledhis complaint.

He saidthe studentshouldhaveapproached Meranto and if he had no successthere, to approachHazanso the threecould havea meeting to discussthe matter.

Instead,Piercebrought his complaintdirectly to the administration.

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MagazinesHiEanic Outlook in Higher Mumtion nd Bhck ksues in Higher Mucation eachranked the collegeon lists of the best collegesfor minorities seeking degrees.

-' Hispanic Oudook in Higher Eilucation ..ranked CU-Boulder Tlst in awarding 'bachelor's degreesto hispanic students, while Metro ranked SOth and Colorado StateUniversitf ranked94th.

Blackknes in HigherHucation rcr*ed CU-Boulder high in graduateschool programs.

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FORT COLLINS, Colo.-Libraries acrossthe United Statesturned a day of mourning into a day of action.

Three yearsafter the Sept. l l terrorist attacksthat killed more than 2,7N paple, CSUt Morgan Library participatedin the .1 SeptemberProjecl, which is designedto get studentsregisteredto vote and more invohredand educatedabout the government, The ideabehind holding this project in September,specificallySepull, is to usea sadday to invite students,facultf and staff to celebratedemocracy.

Librarians stationed themselvesat t tablesto show studentsvarious Web sites wheretheycangetinformation on the election and the issuesinvolved.

Associated Students of CSU and Colorado New Voters Proiect were also presentto registerstudentsto vote.

The New VotersProjectis a non-partisangrassroots organizationdesignedto register votersandencourage votirg.

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by ArmandoManzanares In aplaceknownas the epicenterofAmerican art, fashion and theatre, New York City is also home base for all maior American media outlets. The city hosted The Society of Professional Journalists 2004 National Convention this past week. The convention offered over 38 seminars, some specifically for the student journalist, and three prominent keynote addresses,along with an opening night reception, awards luncheon and closing banquet.

Many panelists and speakers were editors from nationally recognized publications like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair and Newsweek.There were also producers and broadcast iournalists fiom National Public Radio,"60 Minutes II" and "Dateline NBC." NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a letter to convention attendees,"Iournalism has been one of the strongest and most important industries (in the city) and has played a vita! role in making (New York) the World's Second Home."'

The 6rst keynote included both former "CBS Evening Newi' anchor Walter Cronkite and soon to be "NBC NightlyiNews" anchor Brian Williams.

They both discussedttle evolution of broadcast joumalism, investigative joumalism and how certain news organizations in journalism circles are being dubbed as state media organizations-in other words, spinning the news in favor of the current administration.

They also referred to how the integrity of journalism is being compromised by the use of Internet blogs where anyone with an Internet connection can deem themselves journalists.

One topic that dominated their discussion was how the national political party conventions have gone from providing raw, un-orchestrated material playing out on camera by convention delegates and attendees to rnodem connentions being described by Cronkite himself as pep rallies with balloons.

Williams said conventions are planned down to the minute and the media coordinators dictate the content that is aired.

He gave an.exar.nple of NBCt covrrage of the Republican National Convention, which was in New York City two weel$ earlier, the day California Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggergave his speech.

NBC began their coverageat 10 p.m. EST sharp and Schwarzenegger came on stagâ&#x201A;Ź promptly at that time, which gaveNBC anchor Tom Brokaw only seconds to introduce the coverage and did not allow any time for political commentary liom Tim Russert, the network's 'It Washington bureau chief. was designed so (Russert) couldn't get analysis inj'Williams that

said.

Williams said there is a news network for every qpe of philosophy. "The faithful now have their network, a network that matchestheir ideologies,"Williams said.

The seco.ndkeynote was by j'ournalist Bill Moyers, who hosts "NOW with Bill Moyers," which airs on PBS He spoke on Salurdag Sept. Il, thiee years to the date from the attacks that occurred in New York City at The Pentagon and in the countryside of Pennsylvania.

Armando llanzanares / The Metropolitan Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite and NBC anchor Brian Wlliams before their ioint keynotc address at the Society of Professional Journalists 2fiX nrtional convention in NewYork City SepL 10.'Raising the Torch" was rhe dde of their address and lhe title of this yeafs convention. about the current administrationb push for secrecyand how that plays into the hands of the terrorists. He said there are new barriers being imposed on public access to information and 'secret rule of government." this favors the To counter Moyers' remarks, a current White House spokeswoman said the administration has been as "transparent as possible."

Moyers talked about new measures that have taken place in certain parts of the country to make accessto public records more difficult, A town in Alabama has added more bureaucratic red tape to get accessto public records that were readily available before t}le change took place, and also in Florida where the state has added 14 new exemptions to its open records laws, Of this 'Secrecy is contagious, scandalous Moyers said, and toxic."

Moyers served as press secretary for the White House duling the Iohnson administration and has received numerous Emmy Awards over lhe years.

hopes to firmly establish the newscast so it will continue after he graduates.

"The only way 'The Met Report' *ill happen is if the student volunteers continue to be involved and work hard and continue to participate;' Brancard said-"They get first-hand experience by producing the newscast themselves."

"The Met Report" is not a one-man operation, he said. Brancard recognizes the volunteers, the Media Center and Student Publications for their support in making it a success.

Christine Tatum, a business reporter for The Denver Post, comes to Denyer from the Chicago Tibune .where she was a consumer technology reporter. She has had a number of involvements in SPf over the past five years, from being Chicago's professional chapter president and sitting on the national board of directors for the

SPf - Locally and Nationally Metro journalism professorDeb Hurley, won the post of Region 9 director for SPJ by more than 70 percent. The region includes Wyoming Utah, New Mexico and Colorado.

"The Met Report,' Metro's student newscast produced out of the Ofiice of Student publications, was nationally recognized as Best All-Around On-line Student Broadcast Station.

This was a Mark of Excellence award. which honors the best of student journalism across the nation in 45 categories including print, radio, television and online.

The road to the top started at the regional level last spring when "The Ma Report" was awardedfirst-place.Following thar. the "Report" Alex Brancard,"The Met Report'i" director, said the award is a great honor for everyone who has worked on it."Itt alwaysgreat to havesomething to show for your hard work," he said.

The WorkingPress,SPJ'sdaily newspaper Brancardsaidmostofthe peoplewho work 'Thd 'Mdt' Rtpiiif"arb- Volunteers,He. .., . l, .,hScgnvsntion,reported.thatMo,verstalked"'Ad the

lile photo / The Metropolilan Metro iournalism professor Deb Hurley in her office April 12, 2003, She was elected the Society of Professional Journalist's Region 9 director at their conference this past week in New York City.

Hwley has taught at*{etro.for- I 7 years, . . . .

Society, to serving as SPls Legal Defense Fund chairwoman. On the board, she was a former director at-large and is now the newly elected secretarv-treasurer.

Tatum's new post has her diving into improving the communication among SP|'s members, chaptersand the 12 national regionsl which are made up of 75 active professional chapters and 187 active student chapters. There are over 10,000 members in the Society nationwide.

Tatum has dedicated herself to the development and professional progression of the student joumalist.

She said her interest is in working with students, connecting with them and, "it is impor-" tant when leaving the classroom to understand rv\ and what are the principles that guide us through our profession-it's not for the money, that's for sure."

Over the course of the fall semester,Thtum is working in conjunction with SPJ'sColorado Pro Chapter to offer workshops and group discussions on corporate ethics, culinary journalism and faith and politics and the effect it will havf on this yeart presidentialelection.

Each of the three events is being lead by a working professioral frorrr The Detwer Post and all are free.

Tatum said regardless of students being or wanting to become journalists, every student needs to tre anare of the principles that guide them in their profession. .

"It is important for errerybody to understand the uniqueness,beauty and value of our first amendment.We take our right to speakand worship and assemble,and to petition and write for granted. It is time more people understand how that freedom affects them every day and the benefits from that and how SPJhelps explaineven to non-journalists-the importance of it," Tatum said.

Metrot SPI chapter is having its student launch on Sept.27 ^t 2:30 p.m. in Central classroom 209, where Tatum will speak about thJ benefrtsof joining gPf 4n{ r4o1eabgut coming â&#x201A;Źl:e.+Fi

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Thesong rematns the same New York, New York, the city that never sleqrs. What better place to hold a foumalism convention-and not just any Journalism convention-but one where keynote r indsaysandham speakers included "the most trusted man in NewsEfitor America." anchorman Walter Cronkite. Not only that, but the convention was held less than two months away from what could possiblybe the most impoftant election of my generation. All ofthis conveniently held during the three-year anniversary of 9/l I, the day terrorists attacked our nation, our economy and our fteedom.

I went to the convention with high hopes, aspirations. We woke up nice and early on the last day of the convention, Saturday, Sept. 11, and headed down to what has been dubbed Ground Zero: the World Trade Center site.

I had planned on interviewing all kinds of people, taking pictures and then writing some tear-jerking article about the victims' families three years later.

In theory good idea. But, in all actuality, I arrived at the scene and found myself emotionally paralyzed. Thoughs of that day three years ago flooded my head, my own personal memories so clear as if it had all happened yesterday.

I looked around at New Yorkers and tourists alike, all there struggling to gain some sort of understanding of the horrible attack that transpired that day and the world we are living in today because of them.

Who was I kidding? I couldn't interview these people, I was overwhelmed with a sense of my own grief and the idea of respecting their need to grieve.

We were fortunate to make the acquaintance of a New Yorker named Holly, who [ved in an apartment building no more than a block away from the site. She was kind enough to allow us on her roof so we could snap some good photos.

She told us her story from 9/11-how she was on her roofwatching the first tower bum as the second plane flew right over her head and into the other tower, She told us how she looked at the handfrrl ofpeople on the roof with her and they all sai4 "We're at war," before they took off running down 30 flights of stairs in fear of what dse could be coming, She told me her story which nearly brought me to tears, then she started talking about the aftermath and the positive things that came out of this horrific tragedy-how her sister, who she nwer got along with-now calls her everyday; how she now lnows all her neighbors; how her youngest son became Mr. Patriot.

So I came to the realization that although this was a tragedy some may never understand, it ultimately strengthened the American people as a whole and revived so many people's patriotism, So, I didn't come back with my awardwinning journalistic piece as I'd originally hoped, but, ultimately, I came back with much, much more.

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Spies,lies,andtwo schemingguys This week I offer you a sordid tale of two amoral young men, one twisted state s€nator, and the professorthey targetedto advancetheir political careers.Itt a spy story loaded with deception,deaththreats,and political intrigue.

We begin, once again, with George Culpepper, former drairman and founding member of the Auraria College Republicans.

As head of the ACR, Georgegainedsomenotoriety for attacking Metro political scienceprofessor --- JoelTagert

Oneida Meranto, claiming she tried to tluow the College Republicans out of Metro's Political Science Association. This claim was total bullshit, as the college later proclaimed.

However, Culpepper also claimed he had dropped one of Meranto's classes because he thought he wouldnt be graded fairly, When the Dmver Post qnestioned Meranto about this, she replied that she thought Culpepper had dropped her classbecausehe hadn't done the work necessary for the course.

Alas, Meranto had fallen into a cheap trap.

Culpepper complained that under a federal statute, teachers couldn't discuss a studentt grades without that studentt permission. Meranto had slipped, and the college recently issued a formal reprimand.

Now, honestly, I don t think Culpepper is smart enough to devise this little plot on his own. Lucky for him, he's got lots of unscrupulous ftiends. At the time, he was interning for State Sen. John Andrews, who, coincidentally enough, called an informal senate hearing for the poor college conservatiyes to cry about how hard they have it on campus. This coordinated nicely with Rep. Shawn Mitchell's proposal for a "Student Bill of Rights," which sought to lirnit what professors could say in their classrooms.

Mitchell's bill struggled in the legislature, so to saveface Mitchell wrangled a compromise with some prominent college presidents: he would drop his censoriousbill, and they would "investigate" claims of discrimination against cons€rvatives on campus. Here at Metro, a panel to investigate such claims was set up with-who else?--{ulpepper at its head.

Things were looking up for George. With his name now in the papers, Culpepper resigned his post with the ACR to become chair of the Colorado College Republicans.

The lesson is: it pays to persecute.

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Enter College Republican William Pierce.

As reported in last weekt Met, Pierce has filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Office against Meranto, claiming she attacked College Republicans in her class.

Pierce's alacrity is truly remarkable. It took Culpepper weeks to decide to attack Meranto.

But not the fearlessMr. Pierce.He wrote a complaint on the very first day of class.

'Wait, wait," you cry. "Maybe you're being unfair. Maybe the problem here is Meranto.

Maybe she rea.llyis as bad as theseconservatives claim. Maybe she didn't learn her lessonthe first time, and just keeps on attacking Republicans like a madwoman."

Right. Or maybe-just maybe-Pierce registered for Merantot class for the sole purpose of filing a complaint against her, thereby advancing his and his partyt interests. And maybe -just maybe-he did it at the behest of the very person seeking Merantot head last semester: Culpepper.

But enough from me. Let Culpepper speakfor himself. Here's something he wrote on Creative Resistance'spassword-protectedMetroconnect messageboard on August 12, 2004: "All I know is Dr. Meranto has ONE chance to screwup, which she will, and she is gone. (...)

Rest assured,someone IS in her classthat I asked to sign up for to watch over her. One mistake and she'sgone...Who'snext???"

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A LOT OF PEOPLE REACTED TO IT! HHHmmmmmm...,."

At this point, you might wonderwhy anyone would go this far in persecutinga professor,Why would someonerisk his or her reputationon such a ploy?Why would anyonewant to cause such pain to Meranto, who, with her name posted on right-wing Websites,has received deaththreats?

Coming full circle, we return to Sen.Iohn Andrews.Last Thursday,Andrewsheld a hearing at which a few conservativestudentsrailed againsttheir hatefrrl liberal professors.Among them-no surprisehere-was William Pierce.

The right finds vilifring professonusefrrlin severalways:it distractsfrom higher ed'sbudget crisis,whichtheyareresponsible for; it aidsthem in their questto privatizeschools;it discourages progressiveprofessorsfrom teachhg the truth and addsto the atmosphereof fearand paranoia they dependon.

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Punchingour wayto a betterAmerica Therearenine weeksleft until nlection Day. OnIynine moreweeksof decidingwhichpartisan l<etc}rupto put on your freedomfries,staringat the hypnotic mole on ]obn Edwarddupper lip

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What could I write about?

Giventhat the Electionis the biggestnewsstorf right now, noLmuch. I read the newspaperand if it wasnt about the election,it had somekind

of tie-in with politics. While I was in the middle of reading the paper I realized since I was now up-to-date with the Election news, I could now write about it. But I have promised myself (and you, though you weren't there to hear it) that I would take a breal<this week. Plus. I came across something that was even more important than the election of the next leader of our country.

What I found wasrlt in the newspaper.It was on television where all my important discoveries are made. I was watching a video Ape I had made of the FX network (the network where all FOX shows go to die. Dont ask me why I tape FX becauseI will have to kill you if you do). They had this show called,'Totally Outrageous Behavior Caught on Tape." Guesswhat it was about? Tiue to ib tide, I did see some behavior that could be called loutrageousi such as people peeing in theit co-workers' coffee pots. But one clip that

was shown on the program blew me away.What was it, you may ask?

Politicians fighting. Fist fighting.

The clip I saw was of politicians in Tiiwan having a fulI-on brawl. I mean "blows were being thrown" to use an archaic term. Women were pulling hair and having their hair pulled. The men were slapping each other and kicking. I sat totally in awe.

After viewing the short clip, I felt like I was Moses and God was talking to me through a burning bush. Except the bush was a tape in the VCR and it uasn t on fire and God was a bunch of Thiwanesepoliticians who were punching each other.

This is what U,S. politics needs.We need our politicians to fight each other. Not with words but wirh their fsts. Yes,I'm condoning violence, but only betweeo our country's law makers. I L.r';l*.;,f3

want politicianswho feelso stronglyaboutwhat they aresayingthat they are readyto kick assor g€t their ass€skicked over it When you know that what you say,do, or believein can get you knockedout, you arenot goingto bullshit.Being punchedin the faceby a fellow senatorovertrying to g* employmentlegislationon the floor hurts, but being kickedin the crotch over a vote you castfor somelobbyistgroup is stupid.

If only we could fnd someway to makethis happen"I can hearthe conversations on the llill now: "You want to cut SocialSecurity?Do it and you will be limping backto your office."

'Filibuster this,bitdr!"

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Leftover toxic and nuclear wastes,including plutonium and uranium, have been leaking into our environment and hangs around for thousandsofyears.

Cleaning up this chemical mess is a colossal task but Kaiser-Hill Co. reports that the Rocky Flats closure project is below budget and ahead of schedule.

In 1995, when Kaiser-Hill was awarded the contract to clean up Rocky Flats by the Department of Energy,the condition of the site

scientist and activist, and although the DOE has investigatedand dismissedmany of Brever's claims, they admit there are still some areasof concern at Rocky Flats.

One big problem is worker contamination.

Eight employeeswere contaminated in August, which is high considering that only five incidents were reported in the six months prior.

"Half of the eventswe had were becausethe workers were not careful enough tfing offtheir gear,"said Frazer Lockhart, DOE manager.

Orphan wasteis another concern. Although 80 percent has already been shipped off-site, there are still 25 drums of depleted uralium, called Tl, with no vendor to deal with their problematic chemical contents. "ltt (T1) the most troubling to me;' said

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Building 779 is also raising concerns. was reportedly disastrous.

Two of the buildings at Rocky Flats were Surfacerrater readings of more t}lan 250 pCtlg ranked the most dangerousplutonium storage (picocuries) are coming from the area.

A picocurie is a measurement of buildings in the United States. "\\'e had tanks and pipes that were leaking radioactivity- The environmental level deemed in the buildings," said John Corsi, media and safeby federal standardsis 50 pCi/g. "lt's a smoking gun," said Lockhart. community relations managerfor Kaiser-Hill.

Kaiser-Hill claims that their current cleanup Questions have been raised as to whether levels for soil and water far exceedthe federal these contamination issues are being handled and statestandards,although some disagree.

"They have a history of hiding things," said Dr. Neils Schonbeck, N'[etro State chemistry professor.

Recently,JacqueBrever, a former employee at Rock7 Flats, blew the whistle accusing them of making falsestatementsto regulators and of hiding waste in several areas.

Brever is currently an environmental

aggressivelyenough. "\\'e are closely monitoring the situation," said Steve Gunderson, spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Public Health.

Some obvious victims of the post cold war cleanup efforts, and yet another problem for Rocky Flas, are the numerous birds, mostly swallows, which have been found in concr6le sewagâ&#x201A;Ź treatment tanks containing ethylene

glycol. havebeen taken One hundred bird carcasses in for examination as part of an inyestigation by the Department of Interior. They are investigating this matter in line with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, which was passedto protect migratory birds.

In 2001. U.S. Sen. Wavne Allard and Udall, co-sponsored Congressman Mark legislation to make Rocky Flats a wildlife refuge and recreationalareaupon closure,which poses safetyconcerns.

It is not, however, in the plan to have the core indusrial area of Rocky Flats open for recreational use. Instead, a monitoring station is expectedto go there and it has not yet been decided whether that area will be fenced off, said

environment is a threat to us all, it could pose a more seriousthreat to nearby residents.

"There was a time when spill damage levels were determined and later it was found that there was much more than ever originally thought.

How many more times has that happened?

"Time is an isue with exposure. Are you a rancher there or a once a year visitor?" asked Schonbeck.

Some, however, feel confident about the projected cleanupefforts at Rocky Flats.

"I have a two-year-old son, and a one-yearold baby, and I will have no problem bringing them out here. As a matter of fact, I'm looking forward to it," said Corsi.

There are approximately 10,000truckJoads ofwaste left to be removed.The trucks travel on Interslate25 en route to New Melico.

The waste is stored in large metal cylinders that have been tested to successfullywithstand

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Although it is said that Rocky Flats will be safeupon closure,some remain skeptical.

"Their decision was more PR-basedthan a rmpact.

In the event of a traffic accident, there is health concern. A recreation area gives them a rvaste, more of a risk that one of the crlinders might much better PR picture. \4'egot rid of our crush a car than there is that one might break come to Colorado," said Schonbeck. and spill, said Corsi. whether open concerns about Not only are there Soon, and for the first time, Rocky Flats followed, or not the set guidelines are being waste blr rail. Some of this plans to transport of those there is also concern that the standards temporarily at the Denver north will stop There waste not set high enough. guidelines may be ofAdams County. yard, on the border waste after closure. left behind still may be some is expected to have the rvhole Kaiser-Hill feet or more rvaste that is six Ren.roving project by 2006.

Flats closure completed a Rocky ground is made on is a decisionthat belov'the plans to lay off less month, Kaiser-Hill This said Corsi. "caseby casebasis,basedon risk," workers. one hundred poses greater than a Underground contamination "There are currently 2,300 (employees)on concern with uranium because it is soluble now and we expect to have lessthan half of site letting it move into ground water. by next year," said Corsi. left in the that nuclear waste Althoush

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Part 4 The Iost Boys of Sudan have finally found a home and sorneone to care.

The running stopped, the monotonous life in the refugee camp ceased to be an everyday reality and they were offered a new chance, a new start.

A resettlement project initiated by the U.S. State Departrnent began in 2001. Out of tlrousands of Sudanese refugees living in the

Kakuma camp in Kenya, 3, 600 young men and boys were selected, after exhausting interviews and background checks, to be resettled in the Unit€d States.

An ongoing civil war in Sudan has taken the lives of some two million people and has displaced four million with no hope for them to return and start anew.

In 1987 the Arab militia, unofficially supported by the government in Khartoum (the capital), began raids in southem Sudan where black Christian Afticans lived, committing atrocities on a massive scale that no one in the global community seemedto notice. In the processof that religious and ethnic cleansing,many

children were orphaned and forced to run for their lives,enduring a trek of hundreds of miles through the desert.

A great number of them were lost forever, but those who survived, after spending almost 10 years in the Kakuma refugee camp in lethargic existence, grasped the presented life-altering opportunity and arrived il America. All were armed with hope and enthusiasm for the endless possibilities the new land held within an armt reach. Or so they imagined.

Two agencies were assigned to help the newcomers navigate through the complicated order of matters in the civilization of fast-ticking clocks and money-making machines. The Aliican Community Center and Ecumenical Refugee Services did everything within their power and beyond to ensure some stability for the 61 Lost Boys resettledin Colorado.

Each of the boys received a $400 initial sum to cover their rent for lhe first month, for deposit, for furnishing the two-bedroom apartment where four people were to live together; to buy won&ous stuff from pillows and mattresses to soap and toothbrushes. On the first day of their arrival they were fed traditional Sudanese food complemented with yellow bananas. lots of them. "i remember this amazing occurrence when we first arrived at the DIAj'Simon Garmg,a25year-old refugee slowly begins to talk. "We got into a train that was moving so fast, but when I looked around I couldnl see the driver; there was no driver."

The airport seemed so big to Simon and his fellow Sudanese,they thought that it was the city of Denver itself.

Now Simon talks about it with a smile.

Within 72 hours after their first step on the soil of The Promised Land, all refugees attended a mandatory orientation. Being children of nature, everything seemed confusing, even ftightening to them. Everything had to be explained and demonstrations were given on thhgs such as how to take a bus, how to use the stove, how to get oriented in a grocery store, how to work the faucet with hot and cold water. or iust learn skills that most people consider inborn, something that comes with the package ofbeing born in a developedcountry.

'In a new country things work differently culturally," said Makercot Manfel, a case manager at the African Community Center, a Sudaneserefugee himself. "They (the boys) were happy to be here, because there are so many opportunities for them to get an education, to get a job and learn to be responsibleas a man should be."

Every beginning is hard. Sometimes the boys would get lost on the streets of Denver, with no senseof direction, speaking broken English and with look that people didn t trust. Many challengeswould bring back their basic instinct of survival, this time not to ward off wild animals, but to withstand the paralyzing angry roar of the passing traffic, and how to manage to get to and back fiom worlq often many miles away.

AII of the Sudanesehave a story to tell about how they had to battle with the unknown, to find strength to overcome it and go forward with a new flow of energy.

Arok Garang,22, one of the Lost Boys now living in Denver, recalls one of his first dramatic

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continuedfiom 14 experiences,two days after his arrival in 2001.

"My cousin and I uere watching TV lvhen all of a sudden we heard something that sounded like a gun6re; we ran out and saw carsspeeding in different directions, the sky was all lit and we thought there was fighting going on," he explained with a serious tone of voice and no smile, becauseit wasn't funny then. It doesn't sound funny now, either.

It was the 4th of ]uly celebration with the traditional fireworks and the usual hoopla in the streets,but the young men didn't know. They had grown up in a time of war and constant fear of death and a perpetual run for their lives, so in the natural course of things in their world, a fight was a logical explanation for what was happeningoutside.

"We tried to run around and we got lost," Arok continued. In their frantic run they tried to stop some people on the street and ask for help, but nobody paid attention to them. Desperate, they knocked on doors until someoneanswered, "But the guy got scaredof usj'Arok uttered with a quiet sigh. "He couldn't understand what we were saying."

Finally, the man called the police, not being able to understand the tall lanky foreignerswith wide-open eyes yelling something at him and pointing out to different directions. The police calmed them dorvn and askedthem rvherethe-v lived, but the Sudanesedidn't knou'. Luckily Arok remembered that, in case of emergencS he had their new addresswritten on a piece of paper.All ended without incident.

It has been alsovery diflicult for the refugees to find jobs in the overall slolv rise of the state's economy and the fact that the young men didn't haveany work history.

Working minimum-wage jobs, sometimes two or three at a time, they barely scrapefor rent, groceriesand to put a little something aside to send home to siblings who still live in Kenya's

calledparentsbythe l,ost Boys."The relationship felt right," she saidBassoff was pleasantly surprised when, during their first encounter,Simon askedabout books,the librar,v,and eventually,about a college he could attend. Bassoffwas impressedby how lvell readSimon was and how determined he was to continue his education.

"If I look back at my history and all that I have gone through, there is no other lvay of reversingthat trend (the war in Sudan).I look at education as something I havebeeninstructed to do by my parents.I have it as a mission of what I should do to pay r€spectto my parents."Simon said gaspingfor air, gazing through the window, focused on something out there. "I don't think that my story and the story of my people-the ones rvho died or are being trapped in a refugee camps---{anbe told without education.

Bassoffmet with admissionsofficials at CUBoulder and assuredtlem that Simon and his friend Kur Deng had great potential and would make excellentstudents.

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But money isn't the most important thing.

They are patient, becausethey all have set goals for the future, which in the long run will produce great benefitsand satisfactionEducation is their major in\€stment. As the refugesput it: it is their mother and father.

Daysafter their arrival, the Sudaneserefugees began attending classesspecificallydesignedfor them to learn English, to provide some jobtraining and GED courses at Emily Griffith Opportunity School and the Spring Institute.

Simon was the first to pass his GED exam after only five months in this countr,v. He also scored well on his ACT, but this was iust the beginning. The next stepwas a higher education institution that would make his dream "to become a well educated man and powerful enough to change the world for better" come true.

The compelling story of the Lost Boys inspired manypeople to help in anywaypossible.

It brought humanity to life and spreadhope that the feeling of compassionand care for another human being is not a remnant from an old era, but is the link to the very depth of a human soul where the good resides.

Evi Bassoff,a Boulder psychologist and her husband Bruce, an English professor at CUBoulder were among the first volunteers, eager to help the Sudaneserefugeeswith anything they needed.They made a list and later filled up their car rvith suppliesand books.

"For one year,we spent every Sunday with them. I was overwhelmed:hon would they meet their needs,iobs, bills, and evervdayproblems," Bassoff said. She and her husband came to be

are remarkably intelligent, they speak several languagesand learned English quickly and are also very obsen'ant,"said Bassoff.

Both were acceptedat CU-Boulder and not after long both made the Deank list with GPAs higherthan 3.5.

Simon plans to finish his undergraduate studiesandpursue either a degreein immigration law. or become a defenselawver for low-income people,asif in return for his good fortune and all the help he has receivedhere in this country.

To pay his tuition Simon takes loans, gets awarded scholarships,and receivesfederal and stategrants.

Almost the entire Colorado contingent of the Lost Boysattendscolleges.Many ofthem are enrolled in the Community Collegeof Denver.

Arok Garang wants to becomea pharmacist, so one day when the peace in Sudan happens, he can return and introduce cures induced by science and research,instead of by traditional healers.

"I come ftom a family where no one had gone to school before, Arok said. "The war in Sudan started, becausepeople in the South are not educated. and the North wants to control the land," he whispered as ifwondering out loud whv his country is at war.

An intentional Arabization and Islamization was imposed by President Numayri, who declared in 1983 that Shariaah (lslamic Law) should dictate the rvayof life; that Arabic should be the only languagein schools,and the Koran versesbe recited.

C)verall,tne North hoids the inteliectual core o I t h e c o u r trr t , s tr i c l l vo l ' A r a b i c, ' r i g i r r .

In the genocide that has been going on for decades,Arok's parents $-ere killed, and of his eight siblings one brother remained in Kenya.

No one knew if the rest were still alive, and if they were, where they might be. But despite the lack of his immediate family Arok is not alone; he has found a new famil-v.

Mama lean has her hands full. She has 61 children to take care of and to u'orry about whether they need anything, how are they doing at school, at work do they manage to pay their bills on time, and are they healthy and happy, and most importandy, how can sheraiseenough money for all of them to continue with their studies. lean \'!bod of Louisville has become the Lost Bovs mother in everv senseof the word. A former high school English teacher,she watched a special on Sudan seven or eight years ago and was shakenby the war images,the poverty and the slavery that thrived there. In 2001, she learned about th€ Lost Boys and that some of them would be resettled in Colorado. She

given to us to build a new life, he said.

Despit€ the fact that they all consider themselveslucky for having survived throughout the yearsand for being here, there is something that keepspulling them back, as if the blood of their dead relatives and friends is calling, and their ravagedhomeland is wailing for help.

"Sudal is alwaysin my heart, but I can't go back now; itt dangerous,"Arok said and paused, perhaps collecting memories, good and bad, to help him expresshis feelings."I cannot predict what is going to happen in the future, I only know what's in my heart."

Simon sits looking grim and pensive.He is searching for an answer to the question: after all that has happened,doeshe considerhimself lucky?Yes,he carefully pronouncesas if to make sure his lips don t utter a lie. He is lucky, but he keepsthinking about the others-the ones who died becauseofthe war.

"Almost half of the people I knew when I was young are not alive. That\ so bad," he whisperedand lowered his eyesin silence,maybe

answeredthe pleading call of humanity in crisis.

Backed by an attorney at RE/MAX of Boulder where she work and Calvary Bible Church in Boulder, Wood started the nonprofit organization Colorado Friends of the Lost Boys of Sudan (coloradolostboysofsudan .org). She goes out and talks to people, telling the remarkable story of the Sudaneserefugees, and raisesmoney to cover their tuitions. Many of the guys participated in the Bolder Boulder marathon in July for fundraising purposes.

"I truly love them, my Sudanesesons,"Wood said, her voice trembling. "For me, this is all about helping them; it's not money. My overall goal is to go with them to Sudan and help them rebuild their country."

This pure altruism and selflessnessin the name of somebody elset happiness disperses sparks of hope into the atmosphere that, yes, this world can be a better place,but only if we all make the effort. And, fortunately, many people do.

Without question, the young Sudanesemen appreciateall the help they get and try to r€1urn the love and compassion.

"This society is really a good society,"Arok said. "l like the way the Lost Boys of Sudan are rvelcomed here and I'd like to contribute with something."

And he remembers how, after the tragedy of Septemberlt, he and his friends went to a church, and gven though none of them had a job at the time, eachdonatcd$10 to the victims' familiesThafs iroiv I thinir-we can iive in iiris society, by being gratetul tbr the chance tirat has been

to honor their memory. "Sometimes I think, 'wh,v,why should it be me to survive,' but God makesa plan for each individual."

Being that wise at such a tender age does not always helps to accept the faas of life philosophically and to continue the struggle for better future. It happens to all of the boys.

Suddenly some of them v,'ould feel dorvn and But their strongsense nostalgic,often depressed. of community and traditional Dinka (their tribe) values of comradery and consideration of the others, would createa safety-rretand give couragethat everything is fine now. There is no time to wastein grieving, explained Bassoff,n'ho has observed the young mens' way of dealing with their post-traumatic stress.

The Lost Boys of Sudan have put the horror of their childhood behind them and have been transformed into ambitious young men with goals for their future well-mapped out. Through education, they are convinced, they can help their people break liee fiom the Arab oppression and build a new Sudan that is "peaceful and prosperous."

But one genuine human dream remains unrealized for each of them: they each want families of their own; to have good wives at their sides and children for whom to provide everything they didn't have.

One thing is sure-while waiting patiently for that to happen, they are working hard, because yesterday is yesterdal', but they all know that today's effort will define tomorrow's happiness. So they keep on living as a lalrrable source of inspiralion and a grear example of optinlism to be follorveci.

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R)'an Fox doesnl have a home. The multiinstrumentalist for The Good Life is on the road so much that when he does end up back in his homedown of Omaha, Neb. he has neither a job nor a place to live: 'I stay with friends or stay with my parents or stay at the studio," he said. "I've only been in Omaha probably fewer than two months this year!'

Fox is kept busy, not just with The Good Life, but with various other musical projects,

The Butthole Surfersarrived on the scene in the 1980sfrom California by way of Texas.

On stage,the band's live performanceswere a musical hurricane of dense instrumental noiseand distorted megaphonicvocalsbacked by disturbing and intense visual projections.

Fronting this psychotic cyclone was Gibby Haynes.

Haynesis backon the road with a new side projert, Gibby Flaynesand His Problern.Their first album was recendyreleasedon Surfdog Recordsand th.y ,"i11arrive at the Larimer Iounge this 9turday.

Tirking a more electronicapproachto the songwritingprocess,thebanduseslaptop computer programs.SONAR3 and Projectswil be . Topfve l.y$,irr

including Saddle Creek label-mate Rilo Kiley, although he is not the only one moonlighting in the band.

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Fox said.'We try to figure it out and play to people again and tour."

Last summer, the group decided to put out

kwis can be found working with Inner Clcle and The Dirty Dozen BrassBand.

Yet,even with the constant moving and shaking within the band, The Good Life isn't meant as a supergroup side project. The four juggle

an EP and a fulllength. In December, they began recording and eventually ended up with the sixsong disc Loven Need Lawyers ar'd the l2-song follow-ttp Album of the Year.

Both albums are a progression of the morose and mellow sound establishedby 200Q'sNovenq on Nocturn and,2002's Black Out. Thematicallv, The Good Life touches on the awkward period of heartacheand loneliness

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Expect a chaotic set of new material such as "Kaiser,"'I Need Some Help" and "Redneck Sex." The song titles alone tell you to expect a night of absurd lyrical wir As Haynes himself says, "I dont know whatt going to happen. Maybe thatt the scary part."

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The day and month of his birth are definite: Sepr 20. Yet,the year,like so many other aspectsof the life of Ferdinand"Jelly Roll" Morton, is shrouded in myth, hearsay, and conflicting accounts. Recent genealogical researchsuggestsan 1890 year of birth for Morton, although the musician himself always daimed to have been born in 1885.The earlier date would have given him the proper age in 1902 to support his other, more outlandish and notorious assertion-that he invented the musical genre that came to be known as iazz.

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both a haven for haute culture and refined artistic tradition, and a cradle of vice, depravity,and lawlessness.

These two distinct social landscapes would intertwine to foster a cultural explosion that forever altered the faceof popular music in America. A former French colony, a major port that served as a main market for slave traders and a renowned bastion for debaucherv,New Orleans boasted a unique cultural ambience.

Music was everywhere: street vendors sang stridently of their wares, ragtime piano played

continuediom page16 ing the pre- and post break-up of a relationship, Kasher's lyrics feel like a one-man conversation to the pigeons in the park the morning after an emotionally turbulent night. Comparatively, the band's name seems more of a deliberate sarcastic claim than a just a borrowing of Nebraska's state motto.

When it comes to Omaha, Fox speaks like a well-wom traveler who, despite a wanderlust, always knows how to get home, "It's hot and humid and terible in the summer," Fox said, "And cold and snowy and terrible in the winter. It's great in the spring and great in the fall. It's easy to live here. I think it's really comfortable."

The recent media spotlight on Omaha's music scene hasn't eschewed Fox's perception either.

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terfrbinfuewintd' -RymFwTheGoodW "It's weird for me to have grown up here and to see everything sprout up and get the kind of national attention it has," he said. "lt's still iust Omaha to me."

Fox moved out of his hometown after l8 years to California for school. Unsure of what to do after graduation, he came back to Omaha where he, more or less,[e[ into a music career.

"I spun my wheels for a year and started playing with The Good life," he said. "And I thought, well, I'm not doing anything else.I like this band,I like playing music and it's just sort of becomemy lifestyle."

And though things have worked out so far, Fox admits it was never something that he had planned.

"It wasn't some dream I had when I was four years old that I m finally fr:lfulling," he said, "it wasjust something I took an interest in and kept

in the bars and brothels of the red-light district of Storlville and throngs of musicians would accompany the recently departed as funeral marches wound their way through the city. New Orleans tlpified the melting pot of America at its most diverse,and Mortont musical identity would be molded bv the citv's cultural contours and nuances.

Morton, a Creole of French and Haitian descent, showed an early interest in music, experimentingwith severalinstruments before finaly settting on the piano. After the death of his mother,the l4-year-old wassentto live with his great-grandmother who viewed popular music as unequivocallyevil, Lured by the night life, Morton secretlytook a job at a brothel asa piano player.

It was in this salaciousenvironment that Morton developedhis unique musiol identity, He peeredthrough the brothel's peepholes,he mixed with whores,pimps, and gangsters,and he immersed hinself in the seedyscene.His moniker,JellyRoll, camefrom a lewd term used to describean expertly executedsexualmove.

His bawdy lyrics and lively rhythmic punctuation, inspiredin part by what he watched through the peepholes,broke ftom the rigid-

ity of ragtime. His compositions combined the theory of European classical music with the improvised spontaneity that came to define jazz music. What's more, he was tJrefirst iazz artist to

write his compositionsdown on paper.

When Morton's great-grandmotherfinally discoveredwhat he wasdoing with his nights,he was permanerrtlyexpelledfiom the houseand r laundcd into a careerof roving and wandering that would last the rest of his days.He crisscrossedthe country rnakingmoney asa pimp' a pool shark and a Vaudevillecomic' He peddled an elixir he claimedcured consumption:a sac-

anonymity until his death in 1942.Morton had been an unabashed braggart. He wore a diamond in his fiont tooth and sported oudandish clothes. More significantlp he freely told anyone willing to listen that he had invented jazz, and. even had the claim printed on his business cards.

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Although he was the first jaz composer to write his music dovm, the claim that he had invented jazz was overblown. Its origins

involved a nryriad of different innovators in different cities. Yet, no matt€r wh€re or when he played, Morton's compositions always retained charine mixture of salt and C,oca-Cola.

All the while, he played piano and wrote the passion, the complexity, and the vibrancy 'n that distinguished the early New Orleans sound. new compositions.In Septembero( 1926, Chicago,he recordedwith his Red Hot Peppers His innovations helped bridge the gap between group.Thesehistoric sessions becamejazz gems, ragtine and jazz, and he contributed a number encapsulatingthe early New Orleanssound and of compositions that became jazz standards. displayingan expert balancebetweeninspired Throughout his life, Morton remained a living epitome of those early days, when an American improvisationand well-definedstructure.

For all his contributions,Morton wasneYer art form that would break barriers and set new

properly recognized.He did not enjoy great standards was born in backhouse brotlels and commercialsuccessand he struggledin relative seedysaloons.

A pleato the Metroathleticdepartment I have to confessthat I've never been to a Metro sporting event (or a CU sporting event for that matter). In fact, I have never been to any

and can continue to kick assin whateverthe hell division they're in. It was not only a victory for the teams and fans,but a yictory-albeit a small one-for

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Before I digressinto politics, I should return to what's importanl music. As I was saying,I've neverbeento a Metro sporting event,but I think I can safelyassumethat the song "Roadrunner"

by The Modern Loversis not being blastedfrom those hollow-sounding gym speakers.The reason is that most non-nerds do not know who The Modern Lovers are (remember that cor-

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cant inverse correlation betweenlove ofsports and Iove of music.

I am a nerd and I can live with that.

However,that does not mean that I have any disdain for the atiletics department- The jocks on this campus are not exactly the jocks from "Revengeofthe Nerds." In fact, at this point I'm happy the Metro athletic department still exists.

With the recent slew of state budget cuts,

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Strangely,The Modern Lovers were ftiends with Gram Parsons.The Strokeskind of sound like them.

Of course,for you non-nerds,none of this is important. What is important is they have a song called "Roadrunner," which has the chantable, easily-comprehensiblelyrics: "Roadrunner, Roadrunner! Goin a thousand miles an hour!"

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meJYl9Kry$** Forget the Roadrunners. Irt's call them the Road-Warriors.

The Metro State woment soccer team began a four-game Rockf Mountain Athletic Conference road trip last weekend with two trips south of the Mile High City.

They came back to town with two more victories (their first road wins of the year), and a sunny disposition that should serve them well throughout the rest of tie season.

The first match came in [^as Vegas, N.M., against a highly regarded New Mexico Highlands team looking for an upset ofthe No. 9 Roadrunners. Metro came out strong and played tough, winning 4-1 behind two goals by RMAC leading scorer Kylee Hanavan.

"Kylee's doing really well for us," said Roadrunner head coach Danny Sanchez.'We knew she was a quality player, and with our other weaponslike Amy (kichliter) and Ymara (Guante), we knew she'd fit in really welli' All the weapons in the Metro arsenal were firing on Friday night against the C,owgiris, with three different Roadrunners scoring on goal, and a difference in shots favoring Metro 25-6. By the end of the match, eight different Roadrunners had shots on goal.

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very pleased with our performancei coach Sanchez said. "Las Vegasis a tough place, and we came out and played very well."

The next stop on the Roadrunners Magical Mystery Tour was Alamosa, Colo., for a matchuP with the Adams State Grizzlies. Last year's battle in Alamosa yielded a 2-l overtime victory for Metro, so no one vias taking Adams State for granted.

The visiting Roadrunners came out of the gate fast, with senior defender Meisha Pyke scoring in the drird minute of play, and senior defender Elin Otter adding her own goal in the fifth minute, The goals were the first on the season for each player. The two goals really set the tone for the match, as Metro again dominated in the total shots column, with 39 to Adams State'sI l. The final score:Metro State3, Adams State0.

"It's nice to be undefeated in the RMAC," Pyke said. "We haven't really gotten to the challenging part of our schedule yet, so we rc staying grounded. Being on the road this week will be a challenge though, so we've got to be ready."

The Roadrunners continue their quest for a perfect RMAC season on the road this weekend, taking on Mesa State on Friday in Grand Junction, then traveling to Durango to do batde with the Skyhawks of Fort Lewis on Sunday.You can get your Metro State Soccerfix 24 hours a day at www.mscd.edr:/-runners.

Danny Holland / The Melropolitan Sophomore forward Ky'ee Hanavan rushes to score against lncsrnat€ Word Sept. 5, Hanavan leads th€ team in points with a iotal of 20. llanavan, a secondt€am All-Americ.n transfer from Western Nebraska Community College,also leads the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in goals scored' 9.

Likea taleof 3 fortunes; joy,hopeandfrustration

Carol A. Diekic / The Metropolitan The volleltall team cheersafter winning a point against the No. I Nebraska-Kearneylopers on Sept. I 0.

The Roadrunners night ended early after they lost in three straight games,30- 17,30-16 and 30-26,

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by NateTimmons 'Runners The lost to two Top 25 teams over the weekend, No, I Nebraska-IGarney Lopers and No. 15 Fort Hays StateTigers (Kansas).

Metro (3-7, 0-2 RMAC) faced NetrraskaKearney (10-0, l-0 RMAC) Fridap Sept. l0 at Auraria in what is becoming an ugly pattern.

The'Runners were swept 3-0 by the Lopers.The team continues to compet€ in every game, but have yet to find a way to win, said head coach Debbie Hendrick.

Metro's schedule has been brutal so far. "\4'e'veplayed a strong scheduleand that makes it hard for a young team to build confidence," Hendrick said.

The Roadrunners took on Fort Hays State (8-1, 1-0 RMAC) Saturday, Sept. 11 at home.

In the first game, Metro used a fulie Green spike and an Andra Pedersenblock to build a 16-14 lead over the Tigers,but it wouldn t last.

The Tigers put together a l2-0 rally to go 'Runners batded back up 26-16 over Metro. The to within four points of the Tigers,but it wasn't enough. Fort Hays closed out the first game 30The second game was a forgettable one for Metro. The Tigers won easily (30- 13) and Metro needed to regroup, During the l0-minute intermission Hendricks had a talk with her team.

Hendricks said she told her team to take some

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I guess you could call this a numbers game, because over the weekend, the Metro women's soccerteam went 2-0; the men s team went 1-1 and the'Runners volleyball team went 0-2. women's The soccer team is now back in the hunt for the No. I spot; the ment soccer team is Iooking to recover from the 4-2 loss they received from No. 17 Fort Lewis and the volleyball team is just Donald Smith SportsColumnist looking to play longer than three games (or at least-if there is a sweep-not beingthe victims of it).

Volleyball (3-7 overall, 0-2 RMAC) This tearn is gone ftom the Top 25 poll. Their schedule has not been kind to them at all after playing and being swept by their last five Top 25 opponents (No. 14 North Alabama, No. I1 Central Missouri State,No. 17 Augustana,No. 1 Neb.-Kearneyand No. 15 Fort Hays State).This team might have been beaten up since Sept. 3, but hopefully playing the unranked Colorado Christian Cougars and Chadron State Eagles will put some "W's" in the win column and some confidencein the young squad.

No, 9 Womeris Soccer (5-l overall, 3-0-0 RMAC) 'Runners Sadly for conference foes, the women didn't fall into depression after los-

ing to Cal State-Bakersfield 2-0, because they returned to conference play and put the boot to both New Mexico Highlan& 4-1 and Adams State3-0, In the game against Adams State, Kylee Hanavan used her foot for assisting, elevating two beautifr.rl corner kicks to two of Metro's most dominating defenders Elin Otter and Meisha Pyke in the first six minutes of the game to make certain her squad would remain unde- <' feated in conference play.

Although it's always great to be dominant, I wonder if this Metro team can remain sharp, becausethey may not seeanother ranked opponent until the regional playoffs. So again, this team looks like they'll go undefeated in the conference.

Men's Soccer (3-l-0 overall, l-l-0 RMAC) Although these guys are no longer undefeated they are still right where they want to be: in the thick of things. If they can win their next two games on the road against regional and conference foes Colorado School of Mines and Colorado Christian, they could seethemselves in the hunt for not only one of the top three conferencespots,but also the top three regional spots.

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The ment soccer team played two games of tieir four game road trip this weekend,winning the first one 3-0 against the Regis Rangers and losing to the No. 17 Fort tewis Skyhawks4-2.

Head coach Ken Parsons said it was important to get the win in their first conference game, particularly becauseit was on the road.

The men's soccer team took their undefeated record to Regis Field on Sept. 8 as they faced their conference foe, taking it to them early.

Sophomore forward Phillip Owen scored his third goal of the seasonin the 37'hminute when he took a pass from Chad Pearson and put it behind RegiskeeperTrevor Sleege.

The second half would prove Metro striker Owen had not finished as he took an Andrew Donnelly assist and struck the back of the net in the 61" minute to give the Roadrunnersa 2-0 lead.

Metro then put one more in the net when sophomore forward Antonio Porras scored an unassistedgoal in the 65s minute. Metro junior goalkeeper David McReavy, who only had to make three saves on ten shots, recorded his second shutout of the season as the'Runners beat the Rangers 3-0. Coach Parsons said the team did an exceptional job of moving the ball down the field while not letting the Regis crowd affect their play, The Roadrunners tried to go 2-for-2 on their weekend road trip when they walked onto Dirla Field on Sept. 12 to play the Fort I€wis Skyhawls. Though Metro was looking to keep their conference record perfect, the No. 4 ranked Skyhawks had other ideas.

The two teams played scorelesssoccer for the first 30 minutes of play, but in the 30d minute, Fort Lewis let loose. Forward Cole Sweeter started off the S\Aawk scoring when he took a John Cunliffe pass and put it home. Four minutes later, Cunliffe scored a goal himself off a Rvan Kerr assistas the'Hawks took a 2-0 lead into halftime.

Unlike the previous three opponents, coach Parsons said Fort kwis'defense in the first half was just not giving Metro any spacebehind their own defense.

When play resumed so did the Fort lewis scoring. In the 49h minute, Kieran Hall took another Cunliffe pass and netted the third and eventual game-winning goal, giving the'Hawls a commanding 3-0 lead. Finally, the Fort kwis scoring stopped in the 58'hminute when Cunliffe scored his second goal of the match off of a Ryan Pearsonand Ryan Brooks assist.

'Runners The refusal to quit paid off as Metro scored two quick goals in the last ten

Brad Wakoff/The Melrooolitan Sophomore forward Phillip Owen challengesfor a header against Regisdefender TomnyTerrill S€Pt 8.

Owen scored two goals on freshman goalkeeperTrevor Ste€geto help the'Runners securea 3-0 win' minutes of play. Junior forward Nagui Sabbagh converted a penalty kick in the 806 minute to make it 4- 1.

Thirty seconds later, Owen tallied another goal to cut the lead in half. Shortly afterward, the final whistle ended the game and Metro's threegame winning streak. "(In the) second half, I thought that we did a much better iob and I would say that we orobablv had the better of the half. The first

half was all Fort lrwis and the second half I would say was pretty much all Metro, and, unfortunately, qpotting them a four goal lead was iust too difficult to overcomei'said coach Parsonsabout the loss.

'Runners now set their sights on The retuming to their winning ways on Friday when they face the C,olorado School of Mines on the 'Diggers'home field and then finish up their road trip Sunday,Sept. 19,at Colorado Christian.

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Carol A. Dieklc / The Metropolitan s€tter(7)B€thanySplidecongrahlate her t€ammateErin Arnold ( 12)aftera Nebraska-IGarneyjunior poin agelrtsttheRmdrunners,Splideis ranked24rhtnthe nation in assistsper gamewith a 12.18avg.

chances in the third game and to be more aggressivewith their serving.

Fort Hays won the third game 30-18. "We didn't serve aggressivelyi Hendricla said- "They have some nice athletes and we didnt get them out of their system."

Hendricks said her team needs to work on terminating the ball, but she liked the way her team defended and thoight they displayed better ball control against Fort Hays.

'Runners will look for improvement, The starting with their practices. "We need to practice with more htensity," said junior middle blocker ReneeHadewood,'We iust need to start playing like a winning team again."

Freshman outside hitter Julie Green has no doubt the team can get back on track. "We all can do it," Green said, "We just need to step up ... and play with a ki&-butt mentality."

Metro tra\,els to Lakewood to play the Cougars 7 p.m,, Tuesday,Sept. 14. The'Runners host Chadron State 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 17.

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