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Metro's spring Student Government Assembly election has been halted by the electioncommission,citing a complaintfiled by a Metro student.

The commission will hold a hearing at I p.m. today in Tivoli Room 320C to hear and discuss the complaint, which was filed

by Metro senior Anna Davis the morning of April 22, soon after which voting was suspended.

Davis, a psychology major, claims that presidenFalcandidateZoe Williams and SGA Attorney General Will Safford were illegally operating a private polling station outside of the Arts Classroornurging Metro studentsto vote for "their candidates."

"In order for elections to be free and faia only the establishedgovernment of the people can operate polling stations,' she says in her complaint. 'This is an internationally recognized standard of elections that must be enforced in order for said elections to be declaredfree and frir."

Her complaint also lists four specific violations of the Election Commission bylaws:a fair and honestelection,conflictsof interest, breaking traditional balloting practices, and using stateproperty for campaign materials.

'It is vital that the legitimary of Student Govemnent and democracy at Metro State be upheld and defendedat all costs,even if it meansthe voting period is halted," Davis said in her complaint.

Williams claims her table was set up to distribute campaign material and offer students an opportunity to vote, It was not a polling place,shesaid.

She said her table offered students who might not have a chance, like the blind, to vote.

The election was suspendedthe morning of April 22,31 hours short of its scheduled closing. It is unknown if or when the election will resume or whether a new election will take place in the future.

The votes have not been purged and it is p6ssible for the election commission to re-

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open the polls, eventhough there is no article in the by-laws describing the processof even suspendingan election.

'The Election Commission felt it had no other recourse but to halt the elections in order to hold a formal hearing to determine how to proceedi reads a statement released 'Would by the election commission April 22. the election not have been halted, candidates could havearguedthat any decision made in a hearingwould not affectthe eleaion results," SGA President CandaceGill, who is running for re-election,said shefeelsthe election comrnission is doing the right thing.

"I think it's the most appropriate thing to do," shesaid April 24.'There hasbeen a lot of activity going on that's inappropriate."

Williams, however, said she believes the halting of the election is the rnost damaging and undemocratic alternative possible.

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Gill said Williams doesn't understand how sheimpededthe fair process.

"She doesn't understandthe value of a fair election, for students to make their own 'The choice," Gill said about Williams' table. activities I've seenhave been irrationall The election commission that will meet today was appointed by Gill on April 18, two daysafter former commission Chairman Alan Franklin and Commissioner Lindsey Trout resigned.Safford,who was serving asan advisor, a role he claims is jwtified by the SGA Constitution and Policy Manual, excused himself from any further involvement The SGA Executive Committee ratified Gill's appointments April 21.

In Franklin and Trout's place are Richard Boettner and Iames'Justice" Jaclson,two former cornmissioners, Boettner was removed from the commission in May when Gill's

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The Complaints Key points ofAnna Davis' cornplaint: .

Campaign table for SGA presidential candidate Zoâ‚Ź Williams violated traditional balloting. .

State resources were used to promote libelous campaign material against a candidate.

Key points of WiIl Seffotd's complaints: .

SGA President Candace Gill's appointment of election commissioners is unconstitutional . The Election Commission did not have the right to suspend the election, only the actions of which a cornplaint is filed.

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Pace 3

Students rally against halted election

by MattQuane TheMetropolitan Following tlre cancellation of the Metro Student Government Assembly election, presidential candidateZoe Williams and some of her supporters held a rally April 26 at the flagpole in protest of what they called"aggressive attempts to railroad the election process in favor of their own re-electiorf' by several incumbent candidates, 'Our positions and demands are nonnegotiable because you donl negotiate democrary," Williams said at the rally. "You either participate in it, or you subvert it."

Other speakers at the rally, Donna Graybill and current SGA Vice President for Communications Beth Ott, backedWilliams.

'When all else fails in a democracy, it is a rule that your vote still counts," Ott said. She reiterated that any rights taken away from any one Person can be regainedthrough the act of voting.

It was left to political Metro science professor Oneida Meranto to drive the partisan stake into the ground by calling out accusationsof a 'right-wing conspiracy"and thanking school politics for so closelyemulating national politics - sayingthat it gaveher something to talk about in her classes.

The rally was followed by an informal public forum - on the other side of the flagpole - conducted by IesseSamora,who is running uncontestedfor an SGA senateseat and who resigned as president of the Auraria CollegeRepublicansApril 25.

Samorastandsin staunch opposition to Williams' campaign as demonstrated by his outcries during the rally. Metro SGAAttorney General William Safford, who is under fire for his participation in Williams' campaign, among other things, in turn found several occasionsto intedect upon Samora'stalk.

"There have been absolutely no free or

fair tacticsin this election."Samorasaid."The student voice must be heard in a free and fair environment."

Metro psychology student Anna Davis alsostoodup and spokeout.

'When I sâ‚Źe a voting booth set up with one candidate's literature all over it, it is not fiee and fairi said Davis, who filed a complaint Apri.22 to the newly-appointed ElectionCommission.

The complaint accusesWilliams' campaign of operating an illegal, private polling station and allegesthat Safford said:'If I have anything to do with this election ... none of theseyahoos will get reelected," Throughout the courseof Samora'sopen forum, cries of 'Count the votes!" could be heard from the Williams camp.

Brian Glotzbach,SGA Vice Presidentfor Student Fees, who is running unopposedon SGA PresidentCandace Gill's Constructing Opportunities for Students ticket for the position of Student Tiustee,said he would be open to restarting the entire election or simply discounting the votes that came from the laptopsat Williams' station.

'All I want to seeis a fair and freeelection where every student's vote is equally valid and seethis whole thing start again without the partisan politicsi' Glotzbach said.

"This is just another black eye for the Metro SGA, We want atitonomy from the administration,but there is no way that we wiii get it after they seewe can't even run a simpleelection."

A news release- an 18 page document - issued by the Tirke Back Metro Coalition containsa timeline ofeventsleadingup to the rally, the formal letter of resignation from the former electioncommissioners Alan Franklin and LindseyTrout, and a studentcourt complaint filed April 24 by SGA Attorney General Wlliam Safford, among other documents.

SGA President Candace Gill did not return callsfor comment.

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Matthew fonas/ The Metropolitan Beth Ott, Metro Student Goyernment Assemblyvice president for communications, yells at a rally hdd April 26 near the flagpoleby supportersof SGApresidential candidate Zoâ‚ŹWillians in protest of the cancellationof the SGAelection.The electionwascancelledApril 22 by the election commission after it receiveda complaint accusingWilliams and her supporters of running an illegal,private polling station with laptops,urging Metro studentsto yote.

Aurariareachesnewheightswithclimbingwall by researchingcompanieswho build climbing walls. He found Eldorado Walls, a BoulderTheMetropolitan basedcompany.

"I wantedsomeonein Colorado to build A new climbing wall will be built for camit," Garland said,so the companycan provide pus recreationthis year to inspirestudentsat training and be availablewhen needed.

Auraria to conquernew heighls.

The wall wascustom-designed to student Students and the Outdoor Adventure program initiated the project as part of the ideasand requestsacquiredthrough a questionnaire Garland sent out to seeif students campusrecreationprogram. the initiative.

A climbing group wascreatedbeforefinal supported 'We ended up with several hundred touches on the wall were made so that they responsegall positive," he said. could gain studentinput.

Nwertheless,"many probablyareskeptical The wall is scheduledto be completedthe about it becausethey'venevertried climbing weekof Iune l.

The wa1l,which will be 22 feet tall, will before,"saidRyanCampbell,anothermember occupy 1,300 square feet of the Fitness of the climbing group and coordinatorof the project.

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'I would just encourageeverybodyto do The climbing wall will be available durit, it. A lot of pmple would be surprised to try ing regular FitnessCenter hours. There will that they are able to actually climb better than be no chargefor studentsto usethe wall and they think they can." the requiredequipment,including rock shoes, To students toward their first motivate harness,ropes, and belay devises,will be free the wall was designedto climbing experience, of chargeaswell.

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Fee board changesby-laws Beginning this summer and leading into next year, the SAB will hold discussions in open session.Before this change,the by-laws saidbudgetdeliberationswereto be closed.

Earlier this semester, The Metropolitan objectedto the closedSAB meetings,in whictr the board deliberated on student fee recommendations,and cited them as being held in

by MattQuane violation of Colorado's Open Meeting Law. The Metromlitan Metro attomey Lee Combs wrote in an The Student Affairs Board approved e-mail that the SAB did not need to keep the changesto its byJaws April 26, implement- meetings open, according to his interpreta.- ing open meetings and attempting to provide tion of statelaw. more power to the student voice.

As a result, faculty representative Kenn The SAB, whidr is comprised of SGA Bisio excusedhimself from the March 15 and members,faculty representativesand admin- March 29 deliberations, saying as a Metro istrators. makes recommendations on how journalism professor it would be a conflict of the student afhirs fee,a combined $2 million, interest for him to sit in on a closedmeeting. should be spent. The recommendations are The SAB,however,did vote on the recomthen sent to Vice Presidentof Student Services mendations in open sessionthis sâ‚Źmester.

Changeswere also made to the positions e Karen Raforth, the president's cabinet and finally the board of trustees. of chair and vice chair,removingthe deanof

Studentboardwill open meetingswith 'SGAVP at helm

studentlife as the non-voting chairpersonon the board.The vice presidentof the SGAwill headthe board.

The position of vice chair will be filled by the chair of the student fee and 6nance committee of the SGA senate,rather than being a student electedby the membersof the SAB. "This is a step forward," said Dennis Bergquist, who is running uncontested for the position of SGA vice president.

1Astudent-runboardisrlt somenew radical idea," Bergquist said, and cited multiple other schools that use the system,including Mesa State College in Grand Junction. Part of giving the student members more power meant taking power away from the administration.

Arliss Webster,fiscal managerfor Student Services,voted against all the changes that would reallocate the Board's recommendations to Metro's president rather than her superiorRaforth.

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Faculty senate issues statementon academicfreedom A three paragraph resolution has been approvedby Metro's faculty senate.

It statesthat, "The FacultySenateof Metropolitan State College of Denver strongly reaffrms its commitment to academicfreedom.

Such freedom is as fundamental to the principles of liberty and democracy on which this country is founded as freedom of speech and freedom of the press," Hal Nees, faculty senate president, said that it took around eight weeks to put the resolution together.

The resolution also states that, "Rigorous academic debate requires the discussionof both popular and unpopular perspective,enabling the refinement of ideasand strengtheningof our understandingsof how the world operates.

It is not the popular ideas which requirethe protection of academicfreedom; rather, it is the unpopular ideas that are in need of safeguarding."

For more information surrounding the faculty senatet statement on academic lieedom, please visit http: //www.mscd.edu/-senate/. @ Metro

Students can meet with Board of Trustees Metro students now have an opportunity to meet Metro'sBoardof Trustees 8 a.m. May 4. The meetingwill be held in Tivoli Room 329,howeverthe room is subjectto change.

Students will be able to voice their concerns with the college to the board as well as meet them personally.A question and answersessionwill be the main event. please For more information, contact Student Trustee, Steven Ha% at (303) 556-2797, or e-mail him at haystep@mscd.edu.

Toy drive donations sought by Auraria Library

Ikistin Skvorc/ The Metropolitan A model hired by d'Anâ‚ŹIIi Bridds showcascsa straplesswedding gonmduring a hchion show in the Tivoli Turnhalle at the Metropolitan Bridal ExpoApril 26. The Exqrowasthe fnal project of trm Metro hospitality classes.

Metro, UCD and CCD along with the Goldenl(eyIntemationalHonor Societyare askingfor toy donationsfor an educational toy drive that runsApril t8-29.

The driveis for children3-)'ears-oldand youngerand thesponsorsareaskingthat the top donatedarelargeenoughthat they cannot be s$â‚Źllolt/ed, Top beingrequestedareblocls, rattdes, musicalinstruments/ba\ pianos,chil&en's books coloringbookq crayonsthat aresafe for drildren and puzzles.

Donatedo),s canbetakento theAuraria Library. For more information about the drivc pleasevisit SandimarTimberman at riossa@rnscd-odu - @Metro

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types willbe offered fortwo climbing Postponed: Wall:Training SGAmember sayspresident

Adventure program, which offers leadership development and organized activities such as and seasoneddimbers could enjoy it equally. hiking and rock and ice climbing.

Wheelchair accrss via a ramp and special The training and certificates will be climbing equrpment will be availablefor disoffered for two types of climbing-top roped abled students. belayed climbing, which means climbing For thosewith no experience,there will be while someone at the bottom balances the a one-time training class,lasting about two to climber through a rope; and boulderiog, three hours, where instructors will explain the climbing horizontally and climbing no higher basics.Upon completion of the training class, than 12 feet up the wall. a certificate will be issued to grant furtler "I thiDk ctimbing is a very safe sport access.Outdoor Adventure would provide the if you do it correctly and follow the safety forn F()SIP()0{EDonoer instructors and the training, but asof now, no procedures,"said Campbell, who is an expeadminisuation felt he wasnl making good specific sdredule or policy has been laid out. rienced climber himself, and added that there 'decisions.

All climbers will be required to present Jackson stepped down after the would be a three inch-thick pad on the floor special election in the fall. Gill was advised a certification card in order to use the facility. for climbers' protection. Helmets would also "It is entirely student fee supported, from

by Metro Director of Student Activities Zav be available,but are not required.

Dadhaboy and SGA Mvisor and Assistant the three schoo$ said Brpn Ferguson,assis'The wall would be another way to get Director of Student Aaivities Gretta Mincer tant director of campus recreation e4reripeople activei Garland said, stressing that to appoint the two basedon their ocperience. mental and environmental leaming.

Colorado has some of the world's best rock Ferguson also oversees the Outdoor Meamvhile, Safford is arguing that only he or the student court cnn appoint commis' sionerg referring to the SGA constitution and Student Court by-laws.

He hasfiled a complaint with the Student Court against Gill, SGA Vice President for Administration and Finance Dennis Bergquist, Vice President for Student Fees Brian Glotzbach,Vice President for Diversity Maziya Kaka, and Election Commissioners . Todd Zinck, Iackson and Boettner.

Bergquist, Glotzbach and Kaka are all running unopposed for offices for the 2005 school year. Safford said he named the three because they ratiEed the'illegal" appointment of Jaclaon and Boettner to the election commission. Safford also said in the complaint that Gill could not appoint Zinck as , chairman of the commission, as shedid.

"Basically, everyone but Candace could appoint comrniesioners,"Safford said.

Meanwhile, Gill, Dadhaboy and Mincer saythe election commission by-laws allow the presidentto appoint commissioners, When FralHin and Tiout remonedthemselves from the election, paper balloting, + which would have supplemented online voting, was canceled.

On April I 8, Saffordand Trout begancampaiping for Williams. Franklin began campaigning againstGill. Trout beganadvertising herself asa write-in candidatefor a senateseat and FranHint name wasput on a pieceof literature being distributed by WiJliam'sparty as * a write-in candidate aswell.

Williams' campaign has said Gill and the other incumbents personally put an end to the paper ballots.

'It's all fabricated lies,' Gi|| said- "I hope the students have the ability to see through the drama, the fabrication."

Safford and Franllin have also accused Gill and members of her party, Constructing ' Opportunities for Students, of violating the election commission byJaws by forming a party specifically to campaign only for her-allowing them to use a maximum $750 for campaigning when the by-laws state only $250 can be used for individual candidates.

Glotzbach, Bergquist, Manhart and Kaka are also running under the COS ticket. + Gill has spent $258 and Williams about 9245.

The presidential raceis the only contested race this year. This will be the last election under the current constitution.

The new constitution, which wasapproved in the fall specialelection, will reorganizethe SGA into a three-branch govemment with an executivg legislativeand judicial branch. Five students are running for Senate seats with ,- another ten still open. There must be at least 12 senatorsto fill quorum, a specialelection will take place until the minimum is filled

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formations perfect for climbing and therefore, more people should take advantageof it.

He said he's been rock climbing for l0 years and having a wall on campus would either help people pursue their passion for climbing or help them find it.

Another reason to have a wall on campus is to provide one more opportunitf for leadership dwelopment and team-building, Fergusonsaid, "It contributes to students'diversesrperienceon campusand it helps to keep students engaged,involved, becausethen they succeed (in their studies)i he said.

More information about the climbing wall proiect can be found rhrough on the online group on Metroconnect via the'Groups' function on Metroconnect, Questions and suggestionscan be sent to Ferguson at fergusob@mscd.edu or call 303-556-8363.

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Make smokingeasieron Auraraa They say it causes cancer, and I tend to believethem. Thereare many negative associations with smoking: it smells bad, it yellows your teeth, it stains your fingertips, it drains your money, JustinBreuer it kills your health and gives you bad breath.

EditoFin-ChieI Still, it upsets me to think that on a campus that sellsalcohol,you can't buy a pack of cigarettes.

At leasta third of the peopleon campus smoke. That's a reasonableminority in my mind. Youd think that somebusiness,or the collegesthemselves,would allow the sale of cigaretteson campus.

We all know the negativesof smoking.

We're bombarded everyday with commercials,magazineads,newspaperads,billboards and annoying people who approach you and say "that's bad for your health, in caseyou didn't know."

Every pack of smokeshas the surgeon general'swarning on it, and I quote,"smoking causeslung cancer,heart disease,emphysema, and may complicate pregnanry." I love the "may" part. It will causelung cancer,heart diseaseand emphysema,but it "may'' complicatepregnancy.Outstanding.

Despite all of the negativepress,I for one actually believe there are positive sides to smoking that no one seemsto want to point out. So I will.

Smoking allowsfor breaksthroughout the dap making it a little easierin our fast-paced societyto cool down, relax, and appreciate the day.

Smoking is excellent for social interaction in strangeand new places.Every smoker knowsthat when in a new place,goingoutside to smokeallowsyou th€ opportunity to meet other smokerson a small-groupbasis.This is a greatway to introduce yourself and get to know other people.

Smoking is an excuseto go outside and look around.How many of you usedto simply watch the clouds drift by? How many of you still do? When you're outside smoking with no one around, it's the perfect time to look up into the sky, maybe check out the mountain range if you havea good view, or examine your surroundings and appreciate the architectureand designof the buildings around you.

Most importantly,smokingallowsyou the time to reflect on life. In our hurried world, few of us have the time to examine our lives.

We worry about the paper due tomorrow, whetheror not it will be an A, whetheror not we'll fail the class,whetheror not we'll graduate,whetheror not we'l1get a decentjob and whether or not we'll end up like the guy with the stick poking through the dumpster at two o'clockin the morning.

How often do we ask ourselves"why am I here?"How many times do we ponder our actions, and our reactions to our actions, and what we should work on changing so we can grow? How much time do we assignto figuring out how to fix the homelessproblem, or the poor problem? How much time do we

Last Friday afternoon, the newly appointed election commission of Metro's SGA made the extraordinary announcement having th a t, received a forJoel Taggart mal complaint regarding the Columnist SGA elections then in progress, 'in the commission was halting the elections order to set up a formal hearing to hear all chargesand make a formal ruling."

Metrds SGA And, with this brief message, exciting realms of traghas entered new and farce. edy and I'rn not going to addresshere the nature of the formal complaint, as the commission hasnt yet seenfit to releaseit. Nor will I delve into the many gripesof variouselectioncandidates. I will, instead, restrict this letter to the incrediblefolly at hand: the commissiont halting of the election.

In their letter, the commission quoted Election By-Iaws, Section VIII, Subsection B-l: "Upon becoming aware of a[ activity

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New realmsof tragedyand farce allegedto be in violation of any provision of theseBy-Laws,the Chair may issue a temporary order, calling for the cessationof such activity until a hearingcan be convened.The Chair may only issue such order upon the to prevent belief that such order is necessary substantialharm to a fair and impartial election. and that suchorder will not causeharm in itself."

If only CandaceGill had appointedcommissioners who could read. The statute is perfectlyclear:if the commissionchair knows of a complaint regardingan activity in violation of election byJaws, he or she may order "the cessationof such activity until a hearing can be convened."

Ye! in a moveof resounding,astounding, confounding incompetenc€,the commission hassomehowconcludedthat the voting itself was such an activity and neededto be halted.

One must admit that it has a certain circular beauty, If there's a problem with the voting, then get rid of th€ votingl Problem solved!

But that's not all! As if in anticipationof just such boneheadedness,the statute also provides a key condition for halting any such 'that activity: suchorder shallnot causeharm in itself."

Oh, well, no problem there. How could stopping the entire election possibly harm it?

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It's not asif we can't haveanother. Perhapswe could hold it next Christmas break in a basement somewhere,and diligently advertiseit with handwrittennotespostedin the campus' deepest,dankestboiler rooms.

No, there are no happy endingshere.To hold an entirelynew electionwould be a slap in the faceof any challenger,and to open the voting for the dayor so remainingto it hasthe patheticair of a newspapercorrectionprinted in ten-point qpe at the bottom of pageC-39.

It's a way of admitting serious error in the shallowestof whispers.

Yet the latter will have to do; I can conceive of no other outcome, once this avalanche of eggwinds its way through whatever channelsand expendsits yo\ energyon the dazed,upturned facesof thoseresponsible.

And to hurry it along, there's nothing like a naming of names. First, the three election commissioners: Todd Zinck, Justice Jackson,and RichardBoettner,whosenames are,unfortunatelyfor them, on the document at hand.

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TheMetropolitanwantsyou, and not necessarilyin the kinky, bedroom kind of way.

Journalismand Englishstudentsreflecta high number of the chosenmajors at Metro, and sadly,we at this office seevery few of them. To English students.Featurearticles have a flavor of personal creative control (think magazines) that canbe quite satisffing.

TheMetroEhere,Metro'sown literary magazine,is alsoa greatopportunity to let strangers read your stuff. And lournalism students, what are you doing?The only tried and true wa)'to get into real-world journalism is to haveexperience-inthis business, experience is measuredin publishedclips-and I'm telling you, the most convenientway to do this during collegeis to work at the school paper.

I startedat TheMetropolitan aborstforr or five semestersago of my own accord. I came back to college at the tender age of twentyseven knowing exactly what I wanted to do with my time here. I knew I was going to be a Joumalismmajor beforesettingfoot in any classroom.I also knew that to eventuallywork at a large metropolitan paper, I was going to haveto gain experience(see"clips"in the previous paragraph).

With no prompting from anyonein the schoolt journalism department or anyone on the then current staffof TheMetropolitan, I found something to write about on the campusand proceededto do just that. I think it was a piece on the new campuslight rail station.

I wrote it, went to the Office of Student Publications (now Student Media) in the Tivoli building and gaveit to them personaily.

The editor ran the piece the following week as the lead story. I started hanging out at the office, slowly and sometimes quickly made friends and refirsedto leavewhen they threa! ened to throw me out, I wrote two to three articles a week for two semestersfor no pay,I dated a co-worker, partied with the editors, and even went to Las Vegasfor a convention.I eventuallyfinagled my way into a sectioneditor position, It has been a life-changing experience,becauseI allowed it to be so.

I do not know with 100percentcertainty that the work I've donefor this paperwill lead to a good position at Playboyor Maximum Rockand Roll,btt I will tell you I havea better shot than you do. And the irony is that many ofyou readersarebetterwriters,so comeone, come all and drop by the office, preferably witl a story in hand or in mind,

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My computer,my love and watchingDVDs an eye-poppingexperience,it can alsobecomea maior distraction.

Having all this entertainment at my fingertips sometimes(hell, I'll admit it: it's most of the time) causesme to abandonall contactwith other human beings.I often joke that since I learned how to surf the Internet I don't reallyneeda woman in my life (because, see, there are LOTS of women on the Internet, and most of the onesI've found aren't wearing too many clothes),but the sad truth is, itt not really a joke (the current SGA?Now that's a joke).

As you can probably tell by my ugly mug up there that I'm a little older than the averagestudâ‚Źnt-o nly chronologically, mind you, but still older-and it amazes I finally got a laptop, excuse me how far we've come technologyme, notebook computer. I got it wise since I was younger.My high through the computer loan proschool had no computers because gram here at Metro,somethingI personalcomputersdidn't existthen highly recommend,and it has,in (we didn't havean SGA,either,but I waysthat arenot all good,changed don't considerthat a bad thing). Cell my life. phonesdidn't exist,and neither did For one thing, having a notePDAs,iPods,the Internet or DVDs. book computer eliminates the In fact,VHS wasn'tevenavailableto necessityof having a vast array of the generalpublic until afterI graduother items lile a stereo,teler.ision ated from high school and BETA set and CD collection.it's all those (video tape in a smaller,and some thingsrolled into one and it weighs people felt a better format) VCRs lessthan i0 pounds. I no longer wererareand very expensive. need a stereo becausethis baby 'computer," By now you're probablythinking, 'Good came with harman/kardon* speakersand you don't have to follow it with Windows Media Playerl0; my televisionset 'cause,you know, laptop is self-explanatory God, man! You must be ancient,prehistoric, is obsoletebecauseI only usedit as a video whereasnotebookcan mean that thing you even." Not really, it's just that technology monitor anyway and thislthing has a 15.4 takenotesin, or it canmeancomputer which has been moving at a breakneck pace over inch high-def screenthat makesmovie char- can be confusing unlessyou follow the word the past 20 years or so and one good idea acterslook as if they live inside the thing and "notebook" with the word "computer."So, I produceshundredsof evenbetter ones.It's a I'm just looking through a window at them. think I'll just stick with laptop, if that's ok never-ending processthat will take technology to God knowswhereand will changeour I can now ditch my collectionof over 2,000 with you.

Anyway, back to the laptop. Having one, lives in ways we can't even imagine. Now if CDs becausethis unit camewith 60 gigs of hard drive space,enough to rip in most of while making studying and writing term they could only figure out a way to fix our music more efficient current SGA. the CDs I listento on a regularbasisand still paperseasier,accessing Author'snote: I really wanted to hmbaste SGA again this week; it's becomesomewhat of an obsasion of mine. But in keeping *ith the journalistic integrity of thk Tim Dunb.r flewspaPer, my editors suggested counaxt (read: demaniled) that I "write somethingeke."So,heregoesnothin'.

havespaceleft over to run essentialprograms like Word, Internet Explorerand "You Don't Know fack' (I just datedmyselfthere,didn't I?). Just a thought here: dont you think it's incrediblycool that you can rip hundredsof CDs onto a computer'shard drive,complete with nifty little picturesof their covers,and the machine itself doesn't get any heavier, or is that just me?Yeah,you're right; it's just me.

Did I mention that I think the current membersof SGAarea bunch of ... okay,okay, I'il stay with the new computer thing, geez! (they neverlet me haveany fun).

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An apology is not enoug William Safford's letter, in last week's Metropolitan seemed heartfelt. He leveled a series of powerfirl indictments against a worthless bunch of hypocritical Student Government Assembly officers and brought into the public eyethe result of a year of selfservingleaders.He evendid an excellentjob of taking responsibility,blaming himself for some of the past year's problems and failures. So first, to Mr. SaffordI say,well done and thank you. I appreciateyour courageof conyictions, and your willingness to shine the light of truth into the darkestcornersof corruption.

However.,.

It seems,upon rwiewing your words and the recâ‚Źnt coveragetn The Metropolitan, th^t more effort is required. The recent issue

contained an article entided "SGA election fraught with conflict," which painted a horrifring picture of abuseof the election process by incumbents, and another gut-wrenching review by columnist Tim Dunbar, in which the further incompetencies of President Candace Gill were laid bare for t}le student public. How can it be, with suchbehavioron the part of currentomcers,that no one hasyet taken action againstthem?

I wish to deliver a messageto Mr. Safford.

You claim to be "ashamedof the promises" 'deeply "embarrassedby the mockery" and sorry for ,..anotheryearoffailed studentgovernment,"However,you arenot taking action to put a stop to theseproblems.As Attorney General,you are in chargeof policy and laws for the Student Government Assembly, and you are supposedto enforce these policies

and laws. The time has come for you to take action, on behalf of us, the students,against the buffoonswho arerunning our school.

I sayfile charges.File a Complaint against each and every one of these idiots, and let the Student Court work it out. After they are removed from office, we can get back to the businessof being students,watching out for our fees,and building better school Programs.

Sincerely, NathanPitman Notefrom the editor:At the time of press release, a formal complainthasbeenfleil with the EledionCommission.

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Architecture of the mind - pigmentprint Pictures are said to be worth a thousand words.What if the piezography.

1. photographic image is made of a thousand parts?

Until recently this was not available. It is said that this A new art show of "photo-based work" from Denver artist processcan produce far more advancedresults than traditional SusanGoldsteinopensFri&y, April 29 at the EdgeGallery.This darkroomprinting. showis a amalgamof original photographylayeredwith various and Goldstein's"Elements"showusesmany ofthe processes typesof mixed media-taken backto one photographicprint. conceptsof piezography, but it differs'inthat theseprints arein "The show is a combination of a variety of processes I've color.In pastshowsshehasusedit, placingher work in a whole used in the past, but taken severalsteps further than I've ever new dimension.

LanducciwasGoldstein'scollaborator,in short,her technical . takenbefore,"Goldsteinsaid.

Shesaidthe original imagerystartsout asa black and white editor. His expertiseis knowing how it's going to print on the photograph using medium format and a plastic toy camera paper,he said. known asThe Diana.

Once the work was createdby Goldstein, Landucci scanned "The way I usetle Diana endsup giving me very dream-like the final product, (the photographicimage and mixed media and sometimesvery abstractedimagery which I havethen taken piece) performed color corrections and adjusted tonality, and turned into transparenciesand layeredthem with glassand brightness and contract (similar to a film project where you lapanesepapers and Victorian trade cards and pieces of old movefrom produâ‚Źtion,to postproduction,involvingthe editing books and steell Goldstein said. and desip, etc.). * Arrd in doing so shecreates'something completely new."

Landucci saidhe works with many artists but his relationship She then pulls that image apart and re-presentsit as a with Goldstein allows him to work with her, paying special composite-tle original photographic image and numerous attentionio detail. portions of it transformedto givea wholenew presentationand "When I work with an artist like Susan,I forgetthat itt not effect. mine and take more time then I have to to make it perfect," he 'I realized that said. within the new whole All of Goldsteins work piece, numerous was printed on watercolor + paperbecauseit holds a fine other pieces that I call elements that quality, l"anducci said.

"I enjoy working with were really beautiful to me were created Susan because of her inadvertently," she maturity as an artist. She said. is very confident and has a "Elements," the specific vision which leads title of the show, is to a very fine, detailed end - made up of initial product,"Landuccisaid. photographic The entire workflow images. Each image is very new and original. is then worked into This work is going to get a composite of the recognized as worthy and original image and somethingsignificant." numerous Goldsteinhasbeena part Parts thereof, some of of the Denveralternativeart scenefor over l0 years. , which contain as many as 13parts.

She began her foray "This show has photography as a into Elements - combosite photojournalist and evolved wholes and pieces of wholes and composites into a fine art photographer. of piecesand the wholes,"Goldsteinsaid.

Currently,she combinesthe two with mixed media and some This show is not simply another photographic art show installationwork.

"I haven'tseenanlthing like this nor has my collaborator becauseit invoivesa very distinct and specialprocessingand printing process unmatched anywhere today.

Ron l,anducci. Theseworks wouldn't be what they are without -.

ShowcollaboratorRon Landucci,a "masterprinter" out of him." Goldsteinsaid.

Golden, Colo., has worked with Goldstein on works produced She has coined a new term in art, "photo-basedwork," overt}te pastthreeyears. which sheusedto explainher show.It alsoholds a continuous Landucciis a fine art print maker and photographerwho elementtlat has been used many times in previousshowsof learned the trade of print making from digital print making . hers-----ethereal imagery,stuff sheloves,shesaid. innovator Ion Cone.

"I'm excitedabout it and really pleasedwith the work I have Cone developedThe ConeTechSystem-a black and white done. It's a body of work that I will continue of making main digital printing systeminvolving specialformulationsof black imagesand deconstructingand reconstructingthem,"shesaid. ink with custom softwareused in Epson ink jet printers that The Edgeis a cooperativegallery.The artistswho showthere "producescontinuous-toneprints that havea greaterdynamic are alsomembers,requidng monthly dues.The Edgeis part of rangethan traditional darkroom prints."This is kalsonown as the cityt long-standingalternativeart scene.

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GalleryReviewby AdamH-Goldstein The Metrooolitan David Alfaro Siqueiros devoted his life to revolution.

As a sergeantin the Mexican Civil War, a colonel in the Spanish Civil War, and an active organizer of Mexico's labor movement,the Mexico City native made every physical effort to effect social change.

However, for all his activism and military service, Siqueiros' most lasting and profound contribution to the struggle againstthe oppressivestatusquo was made not with a gun, but with a paintbrush.

"Siqueiros: Spirit of a Revolutionary," the current exhibit at the Museo de las Americas, featuressome of the artist's most socially stirring and pertinent work.

Along with Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, Siqueiros led the modem Mexican muralists, a movement that sought to educate the oppressedand incite the massestowardsjustice, The push towards a sweepingcommunal activism is clear in the present exhibition. Siqueiros' bold strokes and dynamic brushwork seem to buzz with action; he paints traditional subjects with a fresh energy and consequencethat demandsinteraction.Scenesfrom rural

life, abstract explosions of color, and highly stylized portraits all exude a similar senseof immediacy.

Siqueiros' experimentation with qolor and form is clear in the abstractpiece,"ControlledAccident."

A raw exploration into the effects of pure color and contour, this piece would become a model for later abstractpainterssuch as JacksonPollack.

Although the artist traditionally focused on rural subjects that highlighted the sufferings of the masses, this experimentalpiece from an unknown date displays the extent of Siqueiros' ideals.

In addition to his efforts to educatehis audienceand incite changethrough action, Siqueiros maintainedthat any cultural transformation had to involve new modes of expressionand new ways of seeingthe world.

The mural "The People to the University and the University to the People," completed in 1956 and commissioned for the Administration Building at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is a tribute to educationand enrichment.

In tle sprawling mural, middle-class and workingclass studentsgrasp pencils, books and compassesin a

concertedand committed effort towards learning.

In an effort to fully take advantageof the medium, the artist spent years studying his canvas: the wall of the school.

He soughtto understandthe possibleperspectivesof his entire audience,from the nearby observerto drivers gazing momentarily from the nearby highway.

More than any other piece, this captures the philosophy of Siqueiros and of the Muralist movement in general.

More than a diversion and more than simple selfexpression,Siqueiros and his contemporariesused their art as a tool towards building a more conscientiousand motivated world.

For all the violence and bloodshedthat marked the era of t}te Mexican and SpanishRevolutions at the turn of the century, artists like Siqueiros pmved that ideas and culture could be just as effective as guns and blades in the fight for social justice.

His art advocated not only political action on the part of his audience,but also an intellectual and cultural activism that would changepeffonal viewpoints.

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Left: "Weakness/Desfallecirniento."19aaPyroxylin on cardboard.

A fallen figure represents Mexico, a nation weakened and iniured by revolution and bloodshed. Although Siqueiros did not believe that eyery struggle against oppression would end successfully,the artist maintained that the struggle itseH was worthwhile, that the fight for justice would ultimately stoke the revolutionary fire for future generations.

Righc "TFanVEl Verdugo." 1962Acrylic on Plywood.

This piece,painted while the artist was irnprisoned for subversiveactivities, portrays one of the most oppressiveand dreary penitentiaries in Mexico: the Black Palaceof Lecumerri.

Eventhough the artist suffered serious stints of depressionin his dark and solitary cell, he completed over 350 studies during his captivity.

Left : "Self-PortraiUAutoretrato." l9116Charcoal on paper.

Siqueiros' self-portrait relies on a simplified, stylized approach to portray a powerfirl and unyielding gaze,During his lifetime, Siqueims served asa colonel, a general,a revolutionary, and, rnost regulady an artist.

The exhibit "Siqueiros:Spirit of a Revolutionary" is on displayat the Museo de lasAmericas, 861 SantaFe Drive,Denver.

For details,call (303) 571-4401.

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Film combinesplot twists,deceptionto challengethe traditional love story

by Heatherwahle Theiretropolitan There is no "I" in love and there is no love in this movie."Dot the I" challenges the traditional romantic story theme.

At first glance, the film is merely yet another attempt at a love-triangiestory.As the plot developsand topics are explored fully, the film becomesmore than the clich6, but not much more.

The film focuseson a confused and intense character,Carmen, played by Natatia Verbeke. Originally fiom Spain, Carmen work odd jobs in London. Shemakesall the wrong choices,and findsherselfunemployed quite frequently.

"Dot the I" beginswith Carmenenjoying a bachelorette dinner witJr her girlfriends.

The maitred' tells the ladiesthat there is an ancient french tradition wherethe bride-tobe must kiss a strangerthe night beforeher wedding.

The kiss servesas one last romantic endeavorbefore committing to her husband for the rest of her life. The tradition. like many other details in the film, wascontrived strictly for the story. This is not remembered as Carmen and the handsome stranger embracein a kissthat stretchestime.

Carmen is a realistic woman, complete with her shareof emotional baggage.Fleeing from an abusive relationship, she wants a storybook romance to sweepher off her feet and keep her safe.

Instead,she is plaguedwith the choice between two men, neither of whom are capableof giving her everything sheneeds.

Barnaby,(famesD'Arry), Carmen'sreliable and stable fiance, plays the affluent Prince Charming role almost too well. Constantly supportiveof Carmen,he is plaguedwith selfdoubt by the indecisionof his wife-to-be.

Enter the mysterious stranger. Kit, played

by Gael Garcia Bernal, is werything Barnaby cannot be for Carmen----exciting,forbidden and passionate.An unemployedactor,heofferslittle support for Carmen other than the intrigue of somethingmore than a mundanemarried life and the chanceof an exciting turn of events.

The first half of the movie we are led

film booststhe comparison; the plot doesnot deliver.

While Carmen mutters tlat her beau "dots the I in loveJ it iust causesconfusion like much in this movie does. She saysthat the figure of speechdoes not translate in English, but it does not translate in many languages.Love,in fact, is literally translated in French, Spanish,Portugueseand many other languageswithout an "I." It makesone wonderwhy the script would add yet another discrepancyto the film.

'Dot the I," recoversin time for the revelation of the story-within-a-story.The movie uncovers the deceptions quickly and nearthe end,in order to contradictthe initiai lovethemeof the story and pushthe plot into an entirely different direction.

The 6lm plays with the audience's emotions-toying with the ideaof a romantic theme----onlyto disregard love altogether to focuson the tainted trail of trickery.

"Dot the L" tries to model itself to classic noir films. That said, the typical theme becomes excusable in exchange for the through chaosasCarmen toils about making surprising twists that the plot uncovers near her decision.While Barnabyis emotionally the end.

Director and screenwriter Matthew and financially supportive of her, he lacks the intensity that Kit holds. While Kit is Parkhill is fortunate to debut his film with a mysteriousand forbidden, Bamaby is steady talented cast. The film is notable becauseit and reliable.Carmen strugglesbetweenwhat transcendsmediocritv within the hour and a is right for her and whether her heart and half.

It starts predictably and evolves into an mind are leading her in alternate directions. intricatetapestryof surprisingplot twists.The C,omparing'Dot the I" to the 2001film "Memento" is a stretch that the film fails to film ends with the viewer feeling satisfiedreach.While clues to t}re twisting plot lines confusedbut satisfiednonetheless.

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by DaveWatkins TheMetropolitan A student-run record label is buried deep within the Collegeof Arts and Media ofiEce in the Arts building. The label is CAM Records and its sole purpose is to promote local music. "lt's our way to make the community take a secondlook at the local music scenei' CAM Records label manager Matt Hix said.

The CAM Records class began in 1999 with a grant fiom UCD. "They gave CAM Records to us in a box," UCD Professor Stan Soocher said.

"The first semesterwas really hectic."

The aim of the class is to give students hands-on experiencein the record industry. The class is run through committees and the studentspromote artists, plan and run concert venues, and release albums.

The label is entirely staffed and operated by UCD students enrolled in the CAM Records class,although they do usea number of volunteers from outside the class.

CAM Records has released six albums to date, including Revolutionsin Music 1 through 3, UnCommon Dance: Jazz, Dofl't Pank, and Paradise6 lllusions: Music From Iamaica. The label is orrrently working on its next album. to be titled Colorailo Cuts.

ColoradoCursis slatedto be releasedin the fall and will heavily favor singer-songwriters, "C.olorado has a strong singer-songwriter tradition," Soochersaid.

The label has seen some successin its

six year stint.

Most recently, former UCD student and CAM Records employee Issac Glade of The Fray signed a record deal with Epic Records.

Glade worked with CAM Records during his time at UCD and evenplayeda concert on campus. The label held a concert at the King Center last fall with The Fray, Hazel Miller, Born In The Flood, and UCD student silger-songwriter Gann Matthews.

CAM Records' biggest successhas been its "Support Colorado Music" campaign.

The label worked to promote local music through radio public service announcements on mainstream stations such as The Mountain and KTCL. The campaign also aired video public service announcements and releasedan album featuring local musicians.

Music isn't the only form of local art the label is trying to promote. CAM has been working with local artist John Bukaty to produce album art. Bukaty actually paints live on stageas the artists perform, The label plans to use his art for its future albums to even further promote the Denver music scene.

CAM Records is planning another on-campus concert for the fall. They're looking for artists to perform. No date has been set.

"We're still in the early stages,"Soocher sato.

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Mingus is best known as one of the great virtuosos on the bassand as a musician who drew from a wide range of musical styles to incorporate into his own.

Being a light-skinned black man, Mingus felt like an outcast, not black enough for blacks, not white enough for whites. So he irnmersedhimselfin the multitude of cultures that made up the Watts section of LosAngeles.

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He started out playing the cello, learning the strings classically.Iater, at the urging of his buddy Britt Woodman, and after hearing bassistRed Callender,Mingus switched to the bass.Callendersoon becamehis teacherand the two developeda brotherly relationship, in part becauseMingus dug Callender'ssound, the way he alwaystried to get the most sound out of the instrument.

As Mingus began to develop his skills as a composer,he also becamebetter on the bass,which propelled him quickly into the bands of New Orleans giants Kid Ory and Louis Armstrong. In these bands Mingus establishedhimself as a respectablejazz musicianamonghis peersand elders.

In 1947,Mingus hit the national scene when he joined the band of swing giant and former Benny Goodman Band member Lionel Hampton, By that time Mingus had already shown an impressivefaciliry displaying influences of bass virtuoso |immy Blanton, who made himself famouswith Duke Ellington,Mingus' idol.

As he earned a wider reputation, he settleddown in New York at the ageof 29 and played in groups Ied

by Miles Davis, Charlie Parker,lennie Tiistano and Art Thtum, under whom Mingus once studied, Perhaps the height of his career as a

'The bass player was his performance with Quintef which was Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dizry Gillespie, Bud Powell and Max Roach, at MasseyHall in Toronto in 1953. It was the last time the four bebop giants would play together. For Mingus, it signaled his acceptanceby thesebebop giants, and showed the world that he was talented enough to play alongsidethem.

When Mingus started to form his own bandshe beganto truly grow as a composer.

His compositions were so brilliant and complex that even his idol Duke Ellington had doubts about whetherhe could play one of Mingus'pieces.

In 1969,Mingus was scheduledto direct an orchestra to play his extended piece "The Clown" as part of a two-day tribute to Ellington on his 70th birthday. When Mingus failed to show up, Ellington was confronted with the task.

"Duke said'I don't know if I can play this. You know, CharlesMingus is a diâ‚Źhcult composer,"' said Mingus' widow Susan Graham as quoted by biographer Brian Priesdey.

That statementis ironic consideringthat Mingus was influenced the most by Ellington.

Like Ellington, Mingus wrote compositions that encompasseda wide array of stylesfrom Mexican and Iatin rhythms, to European classicalstructures, to early felly Roll Morton compositions,to gospelmusic Throughout his career Mingus rejected any labels. He didn't play jazz. He wasrlt an avant-garde or ftee jazz artist, where jazz historians would placehim.

He wasjust playing music.

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Thirty years ago, hip-hop spawned from Bronx youth lashing out against their elders and the oppressionof mainstreamAmerica.

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Throw away that Puma suit and step up to that pinstripâ‚Ź suit you save only for formal events,the Revolution@ will now be televised.

Justin Rennolds In 2005,graffiti Mrrsic Columnist art graces the doors of corporate America. Breakdancers get down in the lobbies of office buildings. DJs have become the nightingales of the post-industrial millennium.

Ifyou havebeenlistening to hip-hop lately I'm sure you've noticed the change.Business hasincorporatedhip-hop in all facetsof their marketing and advertising. Hip-hop thrives on it.

Hip-hop is about self-promotion and sellingoneselfin order to expandone'sfunds and image.Money makesthe world go round and if an artist is able to capitalizeon his work and exposehimself or herself on a larger scale, they havemy blessing.

Large corporations have teamed up with former street hustlers and reaped financial rewards of gigantic proportions, Former hustlers-turned-rappers have benefited becausethey were given the opportunity to make money in a legitimate manner.

For example, Curtis Jackon-aka 50 Cent-made over $50 million last year in numerous business ventures, He has everfthing from downloadable ring tones to vitamin waters and jewelry. 50 Cent has becomea brand name. fackson'shustle is defnitely on. A lot of rap culture purists label this as selling out-I disagree.

When artists like 50 Cent have the financial meansand resourcesto make waves in corporate America they promote and enhancethe culture.

Hip-hop is enhancedby the polishingthat makesit more presentableand appealingto the averageconsumer. The content's quality doesn't necessarilysuffer, itt just altered in order to accommodatea growingfan base.

Hip-hop artists who are able to utilize the resourcesprovided to them through commercializationarerole models.

They prove to the world that the entrepreneurial spirit exists in all of us and you don't need to have an education or an ideal upbringing to make money doing

somethingyou arepassionateabout.

Crrporate America, including the music industry is built and run by privileged people who receive expensive educations and have opportunities handed to them. Hip-hoppers who come from squalid conditions and hit it big provide inspirationand motivation to the under-privileged.

Business benefits from the marketing opportunities offered by superstars.Artists benefit from the exposure and ability to operateon a national scale.As long as this remains profitable to both sides,the culture will continue to grow and evolve.

Of course, there are those who frown upon the enterprising hip-hop community and corporate America's willing marriage to them. When hip-hop "invades" and threatens they retaliate. the establishment, Conservativeslike Bill O' Reilly hate hiphop. They seehip-hop's influenceon society as completely negative,promoting misogyny and reckless behavior to impressionable youth. But by looking only at the negatives, they miss the benefits.

Hip-hop is everywhere,but how is it a bad thing? The exploitation of women by some hip-hop moguls is deplorable,but achieving the American Dream and being able to boast about it to the young audience is a good thiog.

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The Roadrunner baseball team pulled a decisive four-win sweep against Colorado School of Mines this past weelan4 pushing them to fourth in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and back into batde for a bid to the conference toumament, which startsMay 12.

'We understand that when we relax and play ball the waywere taught to play it, we play our best" said head coachVrnce Porreco.

Friday's game saw the Orediggerstake an early two-run lead in the first on a double, but the Roadrunners answeredback two innings later with two runs of their own, then exploded with nine more runs, including fteshman fake Palmert go-aheadhome run in the sixth.

Senior outfielder Nick Thorne led the Roadrunners in hits with three singles and junior pitcher Ryan Bright threw a complete game for the 'Runners, his sixth of the year, Metro ended the day with an I I -3 win.

Saturday'sfirst gameof the double-header sawthe Roadrunnersjumping to an early start with Metro scoring two runs in the first inning on a double by senior Clint Cleland.Metro went on to scoresevenmore runs in their 9-2 victory. The Orediggers'runs camefew and far between,the first on a double-play ball to the short stop and the second in the sixth inning on a bases-ftrllbalk.

The Roadrunnerscame out hot in the third game of the weekendwith four runs in the 6rst inning. Thorne scored from second ori a single to left field by first basemanMike Hoefs to start things off. Cleland, who went 4-for-8 with seven RBI and two doubles in Saturday'sgames,brought in three more in the first with a horner to left 6eld.

'Hitting was strong for us this weekend," 'We had said senior pitcher fustin Bishop. goo4 timely hits."

The defense was strong in both games Saturdaywith sophomore lason Hanna pitching his first cornplete game of the season, allowing only two hits on four runs in the fust game.Mike Bilek pitdred six innings for Metro in the secondgame allowing only three runs off four hits in Metro'ssecond1l-3 victory of the weekend.

The Orediggers'batspicked up on Sunday, but the 'Runners were able to keep up. After Metro scored two runs in the first inning, Mines cameback with three runs, one scored on a wild pitdr by senior SergioMoreno.

The Roadrunners came right back with an unanswered run in the secon4 followed by three more in the third. Mines batded all day, though, scoring two more runs in the third, bringing the game back to within a run, However, Metro powered the bats, scoring twice in the fourth and once in both the sixth and eighth innings. Mines rallied three rnore hits in the eighth inning, but Metro shut them down in a scorelessninth, securing a l0-8 win.

"From here on out everygame is important for us," Porreco said. "We know we have to take it one garneat a time."

Metro hasnow won nine out of the last 12 gamesand holds fourth place in the RMAC, a half-gameback from Kansas'Fort Hayes,who come to Metro for a four-game seriesstarting Friday at 3 p.m.

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by NickTaclnas TheMetrooolitan In the closestof the quarterfinal matches in Friday's Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament, the Metro meris tennis team lost to CU-Colorado Springs 36, prompting an early exit to the conference tournament and the season.

Coming in to the match,the'Runnershad some confidence.In their last meet,April 3, the Roadrunners(8-12,2-4 RMAC) beat the Mountain Lions 6-3. But old recordsaside, Metro could not measureup to the Lions.

"I expectedand would like to still be playing right now but we don't have all the piecesnecessaryto excelas a team this year;' saidjunior ]amesSchumacher.

Metro wasoffto a quick start astheywere ahead2- I going into singlescompetition.

The Roadrunners struggled and CUColorado Springs(8-6, 2-4 RMAC) rvon five of six matches.Metro made the Mountain Lions earn their victories as four of the matcheswent to threesets.

"I was surprised afterwards," said junior Andre Nilsson."Lasttime we provedstronger in singles."

Nilsson brought the Roadrunners their only victory in singles;he beat his opponent SeanVoorhies,in the No. I singlesspot 6-4, 4-6.6-4.

In the No. 2 singlesmatch, Schumacher felt his match slip awayashe wasin command 6-4 of the first set and then 5-2 of the second set. Schumacherlost two match points in the second set and never rebounded mentally from the missedopportunity.

"I couldnt get that out of my head," Schumachersaid."I got a litde tired; his game picked up and he started playing a lot better."

The light at the end of the tunnel looks bright, there are recruits on the way and the core of the team is persistenton success.

'We have two, potentially four players who can help us on our upper half of the lineup," head coach DaveAlden said.

Schumacherand Nilsson will be seniors next year and are hoping on good recruits as both are hoping on making Nationals.

'The seniors add one element to our team: experience,By senior year you have to have results,"Alden said 'They also need to be good exampleon and off the court," Despite a 12-5 record, Nilsson said that

Andre Nilsson, juaior from Orebro Sweden, plays at the Auraria tennis courts, April 19.

Against CU-Colorado Springs, April 22, Nilsson brought the 'Runners their only singles victory as rhey fell 5-3 and wers clirninatg{ from the RMAC tournament. The Roadrunners finished their season8-12.

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this has been his worst collegiateseason.With only one lossagainsta lower ranked opponent and a No. 5 regional ranking, Nilsson hashigh expectationsfor himself.

"I put too much pressureon myself until the Iast two weeks,I started letting that go and not focus on results and statistics," Nfuson said-'I just started to find the timingl The No.5 regionally ranked Nilsson and teammate Schumachershare thesegoals, and want to bring Metro along with them.

The No. 2 doubles team in William and Riley Meyer, who were honored as first team AII-RMAC, took pressureoff the No. I team of Nilsson and Schumacher.

The team is losing the fighting spirit of their team-senior Scott Flanigan, who is graduating into army life, also earned first teamAll-RMAC in the No. 6 singlesposition.

Many of the Roadrunners said that this wasa learning seasonwhere they gained much neededexperience.Becausethe team is adding more recruits and only losing senior Scott Flanigan, they plan to be more competitive next y€ar.

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Teamknows it is not all about wins the play in the No. 1 doubleswhere Coppola and sophomore Tia Mahoney, unknown to TheMetropolilan each other at the beginning of the season, The Metro woment tennis team faced a were thrown together in doubles play.

'Tia and I have grown a lot as a doubles rough road to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament as they faced third combo and it showedduring the last month," ranked Nebraska-Kearney,losing all but one Coppolasaid. matchI-8.

The season tapped into each player's The sixth ranked Roadrunners(l-18, 1-5 potential as a young team of mostly walk-ons RMAC) lost to the Lopers' for the secondtime and inexperiencedcollegiateathletes. this season.

In looking forward, the team never forgets In the 6rst match this season,the'Runners their past. Nadia RebeccaAlden, bom March took three matches into tiebreakersbut still 22,2M5, is named in honor of former team lost 0-9. member Nadia Barghelame, who died in a Sophomore Kinoshita's had the lone plane crash Dec. 17, 2004. Coach Alden and victory in the No. 3 singlesspot asshebeat the his wife never discussedthe naming of their Iopers' fennaEichman3-6,6-4, l-0 ( 1l-9). daughter;Alden said they "just knew."

'The desire to never give up is just Nadia was just one of those people who something that can't be taught," said head would step into a room with a commanding coadr DaveAlden. The coachessaid they agree presence.It wasnt just her smile or attitude; that Kinoshita hasthat quality. shewasjust special,Alden said.

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The team takesa moment of silencebefore every match. As this team has found out, tennis is only a gamq but betweenthe fauls is the need to acknowledgethosearound us.

'Frorn a coach'sstandpoint, at the end of the day,in any sport, we are a part of people's lives,"Alden said."In the end it's not about the score,wins or losses;it's about being fortunate enough to be a part of peoplet lives."

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Okay, I have good news and bad news, First, the bad news: our men and women's tennis teams lost in the fust round of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament in Pueblo.The good news is: the baseballscuad discoveredthat the little round ball that\ been hurled at them all seasonis supposedto be hit with the metallic object they eachget to hold rvhen they're in the batter's box. They held and swung the metallic object for 41 runs against Colorado Donald Smith SportsColumnist Mines. Metro swePt the Orediggers this weekendto placeitself in the No. 4 seedand now controls its own playoff destiny.

Baseball (24-23,9-r 0 RMAC) Wowl Itt like... I don't know how to describeit. The men'sbaseballteam,whose pitching staff had been plalng relatively well-they've only given up a little more than six runs a game-finally got some offensive assistance.And guess what ,.. they wonl This season'spitching staff was brilliant this weekend, with Ryan Bright starting things off by going eight innings and only allowi-ng one earned run. This was followed by lason Hanna and Mike Bilek, who, combined, only gaveup four runs wbile getting 20 runs worth of support from their teammates last Saturday,added two more victories to the win column. The Roadrunners then broke out the brooms as fosh Eckert, Sergio Moreno and JessJacobshad to closethe door on the Orediggers chance of gefting a win from the now- playoff-bound Metro.

For the 6rst time this season, the 'Runners might have gotten the attention of the conference and, more importantly, of the voters, who could decide their fate at the end of the seasonas they have extended their winning streakto six and aren t looking to have it snapped this weekendagainst the current fifth placedFort HaysTigers.If Metro can sweepthis weekendt series,it can almost assureitself a playoff spot. But, arything less than a split and they are right back on the outside, looking in. For the Roadrunners, from now until ... whenevertheir seasonis ended, will be and should be playing every game asif it were a playoff game.

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