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Despite roise,odiuncls dissotisfie part-time," Tobias said. Audience members brought up issues such as having professorswho teach at more Metro's adjunct faculty was compared to than one rmiversity aror,rndthe state and are never on campus to help with student probmigrant farm workers based on its compensation and beneffts in a meeting Nov. 29. lems. According to Belkin, none of Metro's adAccording to the American Association jr,rnct professors have health care and maly of Universiff hofessors. there are two maior tlpes of adjunct, or part-dme professors:lhe work multiple jobs just to make ends meet. The problem of faculty overloading was first are those who teach oart{ime and the second are those who teacli fulltime, but are also brought up. Waller said that because not tenured or on tack to be tenured. there are fewer of them, the frrll-time faculty is often overloaded. This semester,Metro's Board of Trustees Belkin said he would Iike to see a rauon approved a pay increase for adjunct faculty salaries,from $788 to $960 per credit hour, set of how many parttirne faculty memben to begin next semester.But some would say can each on carnpusso more tenurehack jobs could be created. that's still not enough. Keller said that Meto hesident Stephen A group of about 25 students, faculty and staff garhered in the basement of the Jordan has added 60 new tenuetrack posi tions at Mefro this year. However, the curGolda Meir Center to discuss the current rent adjunct faculry is not given any senioreconomic problem facing parttime and adjunct faxulty on campus. The meeting was ity in terms of being eligible for the tenured positions. sponsored by Oneida Meranto's Politics of l'hokr by \lattherv Jorras. jonasm@nrscd.edu Odrer discussedeffectsof not having tenEducation course. A documentary fflm showed part-time DonoWoller,vice president ured professorsincluded the lack of research of MUP Colorodo,debotesihe freotment of odiunctpro that is done and adrancements in the ffeld in faculty fiom across the nalion discussing fessors ot theGoldo Meir Leodership CenterNov. 29. os portof o poneldiscussion which a orofessor teaches. how they felt exploited by the insfitutions thev work for. which ffll needed oositiorB "If the majority of the faculty members for lesspay and no benefits. not keeping up with their profession, are "Growth of part{ime faculty on campus "Gro s' tlt oJ'p art -timefa cuhy then students are not ge$ing the best pos Colleges are hiring contingent faculty as is a huge trend in higher educafon," Belkin opposed to tenuretrack faculty because it is said. 'It's a.ffectingacademic and educationsible education," said Waller. on campr$ is a huge trend in Full-time faculty also sees a strain from more economically viable for the schools, al oualiw." 'Anoiher higlter education. I t'saffectthe video said. the increase in adjunct professors. point of the meeting was that are expected to do everything The .video parallels the life of part-tjme parttime teachers' rights to academic free ing ncademicand educational that"They faculty members to that of migrant farm dom are not Drotected Iike those of a tenthe entire departrnent of full-time faculty quality," worken in that thev are all exoendable. used to do," Waller said. "They have to do ured orofessorl all the scheduling, they have to do all the The panel of four included Mark Belkin, "All studentshave to do is iust make one representative for the American Federation complaint abour a professor... and essentialhiring and ffring and they have to do all the of Teachers. Dana Waller. vice oresident of Iy they are out of there,oMeranlo said. "Acacurriculum work." the Colorado chapter of Ameriian Associa- demic freedom isn't for adjuncts, it is only Both Belkin and Waller agreed that orgation of Univenity Professors,Kermeth Keller, for tenuretracks. It has a rippling effect on of faculty arotmd the counhy is considered nization is the best way adjuncb can gain a voice with the school and with the state. dean of letters arts and sciencesand Tabitha the type of discussionsin the classroom-" part-time. 'At Metro, 56.3 percent of our faculty is Tobias, a political science senior at Metro. According to Belkin, nearly 70 percent

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AHEI toword opproves cleon energy oncumpu S130,000 B;' BoYd Fletcher Jletcltar@rnscd.erh The Auraria board approved the spending of rougtrly $130,000toward clean enerry for Auraria on Nov. 16. A 2004 referendum allows the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board to collect $l per shrdenl per semester for three years to put toward a clean energJ program for Auraria. According to SACAB spokesperson Shaun lally, the clean energy subcommittee researchedaltemative energy sourcesfor the campus all last year. "Our goal is to have the Tivoli powered by 100 percent wind; which is, I thin\ a really great example to se!" lally said. According !o the Auraria board, no more than $130,000 will go to hadable re. newable credits [fRQ, which is a rray of purchasing power through the grid that is cleaner and can be purchased separately. Consumers purchase the electicity at the lowesi possible cost while purchasing TRCIs to offset that pollution.

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Xcel Energy offers this program, but is currendy sold out of units. "Wd originally wanted to go with them (Xcel) because drat would oftet some cosb with the Tivoli,' I ally said. "This way we are going there is no economic benefft but we are displacing greenhouseemissionsthrough this ourchase." SeCaS wil begin ihe bidding search Dec. 1. and lallv said that SACAB would deffnitely go with a Colorado-based comDanv, ' aB""i""[y, *" put an ad ou! give 30 dap and any company can respond to that bid," Lally said. "Accounting looks over the bids and pretty much decides from tJrere.' By the start of the semester in January, the contract should be fflled, and since there

is no physical installa.tion,once the contract is signed the energy will be switched over. "Education needs to haonen al everv level people need to be aware'of what clean air technology is," said Blaine Nickeson of student auxiliary services. "It's not puting a windmill on top of the Tivoli, it's buying (energT) from a zupplier just like any other commodity." Nickeson has been with the dean energy comnitlee as the staff liaison since the committee started in the fall of 2004. "I think the Auraria studentswho passed the referendum a few years ago set the stage as leaders,n said Susan krnis, Green Power Marketing Director of Westem Resource Advocate. Irmis said Colorado unive$ities are at

the forefront of demanding renewable energy for their campuses. She said that in 2000, CU-Boulder was the first school in the nation to increase fees for renewable enerry options. CSU gives its students living in the dorms the choice of selecting to power their dorm rooms with wind power. Another essentialcornponent to the purchase of wind power is education. SACAB plans on infonning studenb on just where their money is going. One idea is to put a kiosk in the Tivoli where shrdents can see the amount of enissions that are being dis placed by using clean energy. Another option would be taking student groups out to the wind farm. Lally said he would like to possibly get a turbine dedicated to the crunDus. "We rea$ do have long{erm vision with clean energy on Auraria,'Ially said. "I re ally feel like thls is the ffrsi step." The second half of the money goes to "eyelevel" clean energy projects, such as so lar-powered lights and safety phones to be put up arormd crunpus.

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echoes to neighborhood's home Compus ByVanessa Delgado delgadot@mscd.edu Every year, hundreds of studens graduate from Metro, a college celebrating 40 years of higher education. And ye! many of those strdenb are blind to the neighborhood and memories the Auraria Campus once held. In the wake of an opportunity to give lower income and non-taditional shrdenb a chance to attend college, several hundred residents were asked to leave their homes in *re 1970sso that the Auraria Campus could be built The camous is now home to Metro, CCDandUCD.' Still, residenb who call themselves "dis placed Aurarians," many of them Hispanic, hold the memories of a once clos+knig diverse community and now are working to preserve the history that remains at 9th Steet Park "I am fortunate to have been part of this neighborhood," said Gregorio Ncaro, 42. "Therc's a lot of history here ... dre feel of that oldness is somed,iog a young kid never foqg"b." IIis grandparenb, Ramon and Carolina Gorv:J.ez.^lived in the West Side for more than 50 yean, 40 of u&ich were spent at 1020 9th St The Goozalezhmily lived above *reir restaurant Gsa Mqriul one of the cit/s first Mexican restauranb. Alcaro said. Siting on the steps of the front porc\ Alcaro talked about surnmers he used to spend at the restaurant widr his mother, who worked there aNa manager. He also remembered the large window on the second floor where, rmtil he was 7 years old he would watch the sutr set over the capitol "For some rcasm I resrernber the sur! seb better here than anywhere else in Derr ver," Alcaro said. Now, the 13 restored Victorian homes trat were saved on 9th Str,eetserve a$ campus oftces. The homes were built between iSzZ and 1906,maldng 9th Street one of the oldest neighborhoods in Colorado. "It was a culalal gathering center and there was a lot of activity going on here," Alcaro said of the restaurant "It was a very festive and exciting place."

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LondscopeorchileclGregorioAlcoro sitson the porchof his grondporenb'former. reseorching the neighborhomeol lO2O NinthStreelon Nov. 20. Alcorois currently hood where his grondporentslivedfor 40 yeorsbeforethe creolionof Ninth Street Porkon Auroriocompusdisplocedfiem. Photo by Jenn LeBlsng o jkerriga@mscd.edu

In ib time, Casa Mayan was the hangout for the some of the city's well-known artisb and writers. Alcaro remembers the bg parties held on what was then a courtfard on the east side of the building. In 6e late 1960s the West Side was choeen by the city to be the spot where the Auraria Higher Education C-enter would be built In the mid '7(h the Denver Urban Renewal Auftority converted dre neighborhood. DIIRA offered residenb ffnancid aid at all 6ree of the colleges. By LW7, the campus was opened for all three schools. Tony Garcia, 52, who used to live in the neighborhood with his paren$ and 14 brothers and sisters,remembers the good times he shared io the West Side. "There was a senseof community,' Gar-

cia said. "I knew everybody and we were all kind of connected ... seldom, as hdq did we leave the neighborhood Everything we wanted was right there.n He and his family lived at 917 Champa St and in other parts of the neighborhood until they moved in 1967,but Garcia said he still hung out $'ith friends in dre neighborhood. Working as a part-time horlty in Meto's Chicano Shrdies Departnenl Garcia is not far from bis old stomping grouds. "I remember that we would all gather and play on the sEeet comer and the older guys would sing harmony," Garcia said. "I remember that there were open houses al Christmas time and right before t"id"idtt mass, they would have tamales at Casa Mayan."

UCD history professorond Denver hislorion Tom Noel signs his newest book, 'Riding High," ol the DenverBook Moll. To oreserve the hsory of the West Side Auraria' neighborhood, Lo*r Alcaro and Garcia are working with othets on seParate proFcb to enlighten shrdenb and the conr munity of ib stories. As the artistic director at El Centso Su Teatro, Garcia has already begrm rehearsals for a play opening Dec. 13, which talls about the lives of seven generations in the Auraria neighborhood. The play is part of a project called the Saint Cbietan Rermiffcation Project Ib Purpose is to remind people and ty to bring the

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orphonog tofounding ofiourney w0m0n speuks Kenyun riage, Ermice moved from New York to Denver to live with her cousin, with the hope of starting fresh. She said "I would lift up (my) eyes rmto A Kenyan. wornan being sponthe hills and would be fflled with sored by Metro's African American hope." Ye! barely tr,r'o weeks after Strudiesdepartnent spoke to a dass moving to Denveq her cousin died Nov. 16 about going from being bagcally in a car acciden! leaving homelessto building a home for orKihenjo stranded and homeless in ohans. a foreip. place. She sai{ "it almost During her brief reblm to Denbroke me." ver, Eunice lfihenjo, the founder of Shortly after becoming hom+ Tumaini Ministries. a Kenvan orless, Kihenjo began volunteering phanage, spoke to professor berrick at the Denver Rescue Mission and Hudson's African Politics and Gova$empted to acquire a job with the emment class. Issacar Communitv, an urban leadKihenjo said she did not escape ership. program in Denver geared stuggle or hardship before reaching loward 1& to SGyear-olds.As an unher decision to move back to Kenya educated 40year-old single mother, and start an orphanage. Irr 1986,she she didn't exactly fit the requiremoved from Kenya !o the Uniied ments, but was offered a position Stares in pursuit of the American regardless. dream. She lived on the East Coast While working for the Issacar for 15 years before her marriage Community, Kihenjo becarne accame to an end. quainted with Hudson, then an orRecovering from a broken mar-

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Eunice Kihenjo, who founded the Tumoini Miniskies, on orphonoge in Kenyo, speoks to on Africon Americon Siudies closs, Nov. 16. Kihenio reloted the prob remssne encQuntered throughoui her life, such os dihomlessness, vorceond o trogic cor occideni.

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loons trims $udenl Congress lack of suppor! have repeatedly put the bill on hold. H.R 4241 will increaseconsolidationas well as loan charge fees from 0.5 percent to I percent for shrdents. The resolution will also exoand the teacher loan forgiveness p-gr"; by cuuing the 9.5 percent iariable floor income, increase the Pell Grant maximum per academic year, increase the quantiW of consumer information schools must make accessible for students and parents and will allow private schoolsto be included in the deffnition of higher education. The new bill overrides a Iaw Congress oassed -terest in 20(D that would have allowed inrate caps to drop to 6.8 percent by 2006. -Iulv'The companionbill in the Senate,which oassed Nov. 6. would cut $8.6 billion in ffiancial aid ptog.a-", but only increases the rate on parent loans to 8.5 percent and keeps the surdent loan rate intacL

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Two bills in congressslated to cut a combined $23.1 billion from the federal student loan program passedthrough the house and senatethis month. Both bills will be discussed in a conference cornmittee once each legislative body rebrrns on Dec. 12 from their respectivetwc week recesses.The budget reductions are a response to the pressuresof hurrican+relief expenditures, Iraq war spending and public demand for more tax cuts. House Resolution 4241, which passed by a 217-215margin Nov. 17, encompassed provisions in H.R 609, which is scheduled io cut $14.5 billion in shrdent aid in an effort to make the shrdent Ioan progrzun more efrcient and less wastefi.rl,according to its proponents. ' The bill is a part of a much larger effort to cut $50 billion in federal spending. House Republicans have been kying to Ihe WashingtonSquareNewsat Neu York Uni' pass this bill since Septembeq but due to a aersiEconlrihud to thisreportvifl U-WIRE. Photo by Williarn l\'Ioorer moorwill@rnscd.edu

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By Nlatt Quane mqtnne@mscd.edu Before perhaps one of the largest crowds ever assembled for a Metro Strdent Government Assembly meetin& newV<lected SGA president Aaron Jack" Wylie and ll sena.torswexe swom in to their ofrces. SGA Mce hesident Dennis Bergquist called tre crowd which included Meho hesident Stephen Jordan and Wylie's og ponent during the qpecial election, Inayet tladi the best urmout he had ever seen for an SGA event - free food fiomJerusalem's was offered, which may have helped with the attendance numbers. Jondan was in altendance to give an inhoductory speech and welcome the new members to the service of the school. "fm very happy that we have a full senate and can't wait to get down to worh" said

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SGA Speaker of the SenateJesseSamora. The meeting that followed the inauguration ceremony allowed the new senalors !o begin to work together, sharing ideas about the work ahead of them. It also allowed them to meet SGA Advir er Elyae Yamauchi, who will be acting as a resource and source of support for the SGA through the rest of the FaIl semester. The SGA also discussed attending dre Lessons in Leadenhip conference, which will be held Ianuarv lGl2 in EstesPark. The SGA had d6nated $2,000 the previous week to help pay for conference experules. The SGA decided that dre cost of attending the conference will be paid out of the pockets of the mernbers who atend raiher ihan out of student fees. which have been used in the past to send SGA members on

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progromJordon literocy Metro toho$reception gront receives Sl5,000 Metro's Family literacy hogram received a pre-holiday boost last week in the form of a $15,000grant from the Post-News Charities. a fimd of the McCormick Tribune Formdation. "We started the Family Literacy kogram in the spring of 1994with a minigrant frorn the Denver Housing Authority," said Adriarm Wycofl director of the program, adding that it has grown in the intewening years. Through the Farnily Literac), Pfograrn, Mero faculty and studentsprovide Spanishlanguage GF.D classes,T'.nglisfin5 a Second l,anguage classesand family literacy classes for parents with drildren ages 5 and under, to low-income neighborhoods.

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togive woys offers Aurorio The Auraria Sharesfundraiser to collect sifo and food for Denver's disadvanaged ihild.en kicks off at l0 a-m. Dec. l, in the Tivoli Student Union Atrium on the first floor. In Iieu of omamenb, the Auraria Library Mitten Tree is adomed with donated mittens and gloves tha.tare given to a needy school' The Colorado State Employee Assis tance Program (CSEAP) administerc an emergency assistancefind and food bank o provide short-term assistance!o state employees and their families.

'",tiilt"o o Preservins memories KENYAN AURARIANS leave. she was still unable to afford the plane tickeb to Kenya" With hope and a generous donation from a friend, she lefg as scheduled, in July 2003. By February 2004, without a kitchen, she had moved into the Tumaini house and began accepting orphans. Initially, I(henjo rejected children with HIV/AIDS, but under self-scrutiny decided that io deny children with HIV/AIDS, her orphanage would be abandoning the abandoned. Now, her orphanage houses33 children with room for seven more. Some of the children are HIV/AIDS positive and othe$ were iust abandoned. "Sometimes, it feels Iike a sleep-over," Kihenjo said. "After play time I imagine they'll all go home, but Tumaini is home." Tumaini is always accepting donations, laree or small. For more information on how to make a ffnancial contribution or to offer time as a volunteer, visit www.hrmainiministries.orq.

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Continued from 5 West Side community back to campus, Garcia said, The project is now in its tenth year of organizing events in the community. "The idea was to get strrdenb to remenber a community that sacriffced their homes to develop a campus,"Garcia said. The Auraria neighborhood was founded by William Russell in November of 1858 ut d -as incorporated by Denver in 1860 into what was then known as West Denver. Alcaro said he is working with others on a documentary to give auention to the history of the West Side and to tell the sto ries through the people who used to live on campus. "There ip something very extraordinary about this blodr, this neighborhood," Alcaro said. 'You have a sensevoute in a different time ftere)." Alcaro said he is working with his cousin Trini Gorzalez on recollecting the stories, records and photos of the Atrraria residents for a documentarv. for which he said he plans to make a refined version available next year. "Seeing old neighborhoods like Aura-'

buildlngs," said UCD history professor Tom Noel. "(Auraria) is really the place where Denver began.' In shrdying the history of Auraria, Noel said he was fascinated by the different cultures that lived in the area. Noel teaches Colorado history and has written and coauthored 35 boola on Colorado's history. In the early- and mid-lm0s Auraria was home to German Catholics. hish Carholics and others all living together. in the same neighborhood Noel said. For residenb who used to live in the will Presewe nei$rborhood they oy they 'they and their the"history and memories families have shared. -There ,are still times when I think of where things are on the carnpus and what used to be tlere," Garcia said. "So when I think about the Mercantile. I remember it used to be Eddie's Market and when I go by *re Library, that is where the lopezes used to live." A plaque stands in front of each house presewed along 9th Steet Park that tells the stories of pâ&#x201A;Źople and history that was there. "One consolatiou is that it's not all gone," Noel said.

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Constsuction on the Tivoli is coming to an end. A raxity in the world of conskuction is staying within budget and meeting deadlines, but this is to be the case for renovations on the l2l-yearold Tivoli. The renovations of the Tivoli have been estimated at $28 million and are slated to be complete by January. The budgel as well as the completion date, is right in line with exDectauons. "We are still coming within budget with everything," Barb Weiske, director of Shrdent Auxiliary Services said. "Right now, we are rebalancing the mechanical system and working on the unseen items, aswell as touch-up painting and punch-list stuff as well as clean up.' The main focus of the renovations has been the removal of the buildingt original white paint and restoring the original brick, a process that began inJuly 2003. Over the last few weeks the ffre alarm has sounded at the Tivoli. Weiske said the ffre alarm is working Photoby Leah Bluntschlir bluntsch@rnscd.edu properly, but that it has been triggered three toysofetyguidelines times. Once it was higgered by buming Reseorch Group(CoPlRG), demonstrotes withtheColorodoPublicInterest Rochel Liston, o consumer odvocote Centeron Nov.22. tisionnomedseverol bread once because of a drop in the water studenhol fie AurorioEorlyLeorning ondpobniiolhozordsb o groupof kindergorten hcys-suchos thoserod" Jf soh,che,n obli rubber-fiot moycontointoxicchemicolt,whichconbe hormfulto children.Other pressurein the sprinkler s;zstemand another time becauseof construction dusr hcysLisicnmentioned includethosethotmoyposeo chokinghozordondthosethotmoydomogeheoring. hozordous

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I'd like to take this opportunity to say in my last column for the Fall semesterthat I have enjoyed writing this parlay between philosophy, political commentary, and pop culture and really address the need for students at Metro to challenee their own thinking-and mine if need bel I have found there is a sad lack of students who read their own student run and produced newspaper despite the facts that it is free, tries desperately for their perspective and is funded by their hard earned and borrowed tuition fees-so maybe it's not complebly free-and might give you something to think abouL The problem may nm deeper than thaq perhaps it is a question of values. Maybe my column zucks and I have been all this time, writing something that big-shot consulting editon ttrink is dull. Perhaps my sense of humor is too dry and my column too frenetic as a resull I have tried to give my take on a variety of issues.ff it's possible, &rn you, the reader, be so bold as to make a friendly suggestion? I have an empty email box. Not even a sin. gle death threaC I have gotten two relatively angry e-mails from a pseudo-intellechralwho called me a neoconsewative (miss the Ocl 20 publication?), a large<apacityblog from someone I know (as a joke), and a comeon of epic proportions where the reader asked me out to "coffee." I guessthat's what "smart" liberals drink. Make sure it's not Starbucks,so we don't have to read another column about iL Perhaps what I need is market research into who my demographic is and the best way to write what would appeal to their at tention spar. Afterall, philosophy has to be more real to stay relevan! right? Wait. Actually, a lot of people do think philosophy is bullshit. If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me how the hell it's usefrrl, I wouldn't have anxiety altacks over how I will pay for next semester. I could discuss the demand for Xbox, celebrity gossip and Top4O music. Has higher education al Mebo been raided by the MTV generadon?In history, my teac-her asked the class,how many people had read the constitution and three people raised their hands. Just 90 percent claimed to be registered voters. Wow. The point is, people, that I would share my love of this discipline with you so that you would remain relevant to your own thlnkins. That you dghq ,s a result, find a compelling thought to share with one of your classma+â&#x201A;Źs,have a conversaiion lopic for your "coffeeo date, or have something to be confused aboul That is what everyone wants to know: How quickly (convenience) can I synthesize puzzword) this data (bi""V), so thar I might graduate and have a beBer career (money)? Here's the equaton: C+S/W2= education. I could put it on a spreadsheeL Whatever happened to a love of thinking in your life? Food for thoughg as you indulge in this beautifi.rlly commercial and overwrought holiday season.

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First off, we can quit being wastefi.rl.I do not just mean we should put our Coke cans in the recycle bin. I mean we should quit accumulating and consuming things we don't really need until every one has what they need. Let's start off with meat' According ro John Robbins, author of "Food Revohition," 22 pounds of grain are required to produce one pound of edible a::irnal flesh. It is sickening to think that the resourcesre.

ti;fiiiairu@rnscd.erfi made GIJoes or toy guns in their stockings while the children of Palestine,El Salvador, Sudan and so many other countries have to walk to school facing real gun barrels right and left. Holidays should not be a time for twisted irony. You and I can stop this. We can quit sacrificing our humanity in order to be comfortable. We can quit permi$ing aFoci ties. We can rise together and watch the status quo fall like winter snow- Consider this our Chrishnas gift o the world.

that number changes,let's lay off the cloven hoof and opt for barley pilaf. Nex! we can quit finding the pain of others. Slave laborers in Seirra Leone mirr ing diamonds for DeBeers would probably be quite happy to have chesbruts roasting on an open fire rather than nursing

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I am sad to report this will be my last column for Ihc Meaololitan Please, stop crying. However, I am not leaving you so I can go drinking or carousing with loose women (I think my girtfriend would kill me for the latter). I am leaving to pusue my student teaching in *re spring. I will miss spending my Thursday afternoon writing these gems for you, the reading community, and I hope I was able !o give you something in rehrm. Smce I began this column in August, I have had a lot of people read and comment to me about the tone of these pieces. "They're very upbeat and happy," one woman told me during a break in one of my classes.I have been told in several olher ways that my columns give a stark contrast to the very serious tones of my colleagues' pieces in the krsight section. There is a reason for this: comic relief. For those of you not farnilar with this literary term, the comic relief is a character whose sole purpose is to give a bit of levity to an otherwise serious siuralion or plot theme. Nathan Iare or Jason l*e uzually play this penon in any movie. However, the comic relief is not there for simple levity; it gives people a chance to catch their breatr and maybe look at dre world through the eyes of someone who is removed oi simply optimistic. This world does hold a lot of horrors, we all know that My colleagues at dris paper have given you, the dutifirl reader, a lot to think abouL They have taken you to the deptls of human depravity and uplifted you with toucbing stories of dre perseverance of the human spirit My job was to come in and make you laugh or simply smile. Sure, my pieces can be called flufi, but sometimes that is what we all need. If this weren't kue. Dave Barry wor.rld have spent his life working at a Dairy Queen instead of writing about boogers and bowel movemenb. He makes us smile. I hope I have made you snrile, too. I should also mention this wam't my first job as a columnisl I went to the Univemity

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of Northem Colorado in Greeley for four years and one of them I was a columnist ar Ihe Mirtor, UNC's shrdent newspaper. My columns tended to be on the more serious side with an obnoxious one now and tlen. I used my columns more for post-adolescent venting than anyltring. I got a rise out of some people and others simply didn't care. I look back on those da1'sand wonder why. The time I have spent at The Metroplilan ha.sgiven me parsâ&#x201A;Ź on this thought, evm though I am not going to become a joumalist in the fuOlle, I thought t]ris job could be somebing I could do to help my friends at Ilv Met' andhave a good time as well. I have had a good time this semester and I hope you did as well. I wish everyone who reads thls the best of luck and the fullnessof hope.

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Thenightma,rebeforeehristmas:beingsingle Christrnas is zupposed to be "the most wonderfrrl time of the year." All too often it isn't. Christnas can make your heart complete or it can be a heartbreaker. What really makes a holiday as special as it is? Is it the presenb we get, the tee we decorate and the candles we light? Or is it the people who surround us with love-the love that ftlls oru' lives. What really fflls us up, and makes us as happy as we axe on these cold and starry nighs? And if we don't have somebody we love with us on these cold Cluistrnas nighr, is it still a special time? As we get older and build our own lives, it is harder for sorne of us to make it home for the holida;rs. School, work, and the price of a plane tickel Friends we don't want to leave behind for the holidap. Traveling home seemslike so much work. We call mom or dad and wish them a Merrv Cbristmas. We send a card to our hde brother and make a phone call to our older sister.We muster up the excitement in our voices to tell drem what a ulreat Christmas Eve" we're having and thJn we make our lonely way down to the neighborhood bar hoping for some old fashioned eggnog. Our Christnas cookies consist of those new Oreos, the ones with red filling rather than white. We pretend they taste the same as the gingerbread men we used to decorate with mom. But tying to convince ounelves of this onlv makesthem taste even more like

sawdusl I have been thinking hard about the meaning of the holidays lately. This will be the ffrst Chdsbnas in six years that I have been officially unafrached.Single. The word still echoesback al me every time I say iL Si"gl". I baveled all the way home for Thanksgiving and if I go home just foir weeks later, I think my paxentswill begin to wonder what is wrong with me. I hate that look of symparhy. Every time I think about the word "single" I feel a sort of emptinessin the pit of my stomach. Alone for the holidays. I wonder how much fitr Christnas will reallv be this year, I can't remember what Clristnas was like without a bovFiend. Maybe I sh6uH begin an emergency mission to find a new boyfriend. My Christmas party at work is in just three weeks. Am I going to be the only girl who doesn't bring somebody? Am I going to be the drunk girl in the comer, drinking too many cosme politaru? Maybe I should call up the boy I met-on Halloween? Waig I think he lives in New Yorlc Isn't there some sort of thing called rent-adate? I t}ink I saw it once in a movie-a really depressingmovie. I have realized as I get older that Christmas is not about the presents.It's not about the candy canes, and the hardest question isn't what should go at the top of rny wish

list dris year. I only want one thing this year, but have no idea who is going to ffnd it for me. Who am I supposed to aslq is Santa really real? All I want is to fall in love. That tsue, heart-wrenchinglove. The kind you can't ignore, as much as you try to. .You try not to think of hirn, but he pops into your head all throughout the day. You sit by the ffre; you cuddle under the covers at nighL YeaI5 that sickening kind of love that you see other people swallowed up in. That is what I want for Christnas. And I have no idea where to find it I have no idea where to look. Does love just full into your lap like the presentsunder the Eee, or is it something you search for? And around the holidap are we all looking for love, or are most people content with the amount of love they already have surrounding them. I have decided that I am going to stop looking for love. I an going to surrormd myself this Christmaswith dre people I love-rny friends. I'm going to put up a hee and lob of lighe. lm going b bake cookies, and I am going to wrap presents by the ffre-alone. lm going to keep wishing on stars,the same wish I always wish, But I'm going to wait for it to fall into my lap. Becauseeverything happens the way it is supposed to. And I'm going to stop wasting my time looking. Merrv Christnas.

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MaybeI shouldbeginan emergencymissiontofnrl a new bolfriend. f4, Christmasparty at work is injust tltree I going to bethedrunk girl in tlrc week.AmI going to betheonly'girl wlto doesn'tbring somebody?Am corne4drinking toomary cosmopolitalu? Maybe I s/touldcall up the boyI met on Halloween?Wait, I think lrc livesin New York.Isn't tlteresoinesort of thing called rent-a-date?I think I saw it oncein a mooie a realb'depressingmoaie.

THEIR OPI}.IIOI{ 'Juck' ByAoron Wylie As this semestercomes to a close your Shrdent Government is just getting started. Since last May, a small number of elected and appointed studentsstarted doing the work of what was intended for many more. It look a greai deal of effort and time, but at last a special election was held. Finally, the eleven vacant positions have been filled, and the SGA can begin to fr:nction as it was intended. To those who have served since the Spring the time and effort that you spent was invaluable to the future of the SGA. Thank you. The firll group can now share the immerxe responsibility that was held by those who were elected in the qpring. To all students,I am huly honored to have this chance to be your presiden! and I am pleased to see so many dedi-catedstudents serving with me. We have huch to do in very linle time, but I know that the people you have elected will serve you well, and fulfill the oath they have taken. The SGA has three main goals that must be accomplished during our term: We must continue to build relationshios with the shrdent bodv. and ensure that their voice is heard. We must assert ourselves at-the State legislah,De so that Meho continues to be a fimding priority. We will continue to work with ihe Administradon of Metro to continue to foster growth and to better the resourcesthat this great instifirtion provides. To accomplish this, we need your help. There are around 60 committees that have vacant seatsfor students.These committees make the decisions that dAecdv affect vou and the other studenb of this school. Whatever you may be interested in" there is a plaie where your voice is needed. Your SGA representativeswill be meeiing with state legislatorsto remind them, if needed, of Meho's importance and value. At this moment, the future of higher education is rmcertain. Referendum C passed,yet Metro may see little if any of that money. The voters made it clear that higher education must be a funding pdority, but as it now stands, the money intended for us may be used for other things. We as shrdentsmust assertoursehes !o our state representatives,and emphasizethe irnportance of affordable, quality education. We cannot sit by and let the money approved by voters-for us-to be taken away. I propose this to you, the student body: Come stand with us, your Shrdent Government, qnd let your voice be heard. Though your life is hectic and demanding, if you can, take some time to get involved. Your school needs you. The well-being of all current students, as well as those in the future, depends on someone standing up to acL Not all shrdentsare able to give their time, but those students who do would be a hemendous assel Think about iL and come by the Su.rdentGovemment office, Tivoli 307. We would love to have your help. Aaron 'Jack" Wylie is Metro's neut SGA presid.enL He tnay be reachcd at a4yli@nscd.edu

WORKII{C IT gboley@mscd.edu ByGory Boley.

I know your office provides workshops and coaching on developing interview skills. What else can I do to ensure rny interviewing improves? Mi.shka Char, sports and operations major Alan Forker of the Careerlab in Denver describes his interview style as passing out enough rope for the candidates to hang themselves with. Interviewing is serious business,as this statementproves, and only those who prepare and rehearse succeed. My suggestionis to know your audience and know what they want. It is OK to memorize standard answersto standard questions like tell me about yourself or where do you see yourself in ffve years? The objecfive is to meet your goals for the interview and maintain a comfort level that allows you to accurately reflect what you're like to work with,

Gary Bolqt is the Metro Director of Careet Senices ond utill respond to your career questions euery u:eek in this coluttn.

The.lfenopolinurl clcontesall letl.ersfrorn lletro studcnts,teachcrs,facarrdsubnrittedto thc Inultr,'arrd:itlministration.Lcttersrnustbc tr,r:red 'plod j p.rrr.llre rveekof Sendletlersto rrcriort. sightE,litorhr'\lorrrla.r: niarci20@nrscrl.edu oi leavcyorrrletterfor Nic Garciain the Officeof Tivoli StudentLiriorr,Room 1113. Editorsresen-etlrc right to SiudcntX'Iedia, edit all letters f<rrcontent. clarih and space.Lettcrs must be signedand dated with contact information ior thi n riter. Letters mav be no lon{er thar 3fi) *Their Opinion." {ll nords. A.nysubmissionslonger will be considered?or rules appl-vto longer essays.tsssa]s may be no longcr than 500rvords.

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Please ioin Lrsat the follorvins events on the Auraria Oampus in d":*trtornm Denver: LECTURE . SLIDESHOW. MUSIC ART UNVEILING Anthony J. Garcia, Daniel YaJdez& Carlos Fresquez Tuesday December 6

L:00p.m.- 3:00p.m. St. Cajetan's Free and Open to the Public

VISITING PROFESSORPANEL Tish Hinojosa & Rosana De Soto Friday,December 16 3:30p.m.,St. Cajetans Free and Open to the Public

WESTSIDtrORATORIO Friday, December 16

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7:30p.m. Kenneth King Performing Arts Center With specialperfomancesby Tish Hinojosa & RosanaDe Soto For ticket information pleasecall 303-556-6885or visit www. mscd.edv/ -lfsa/activities.htm

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Dual Shock contoller, the mini guitar places players in the band and lets them crank it up to 11. It includes ffve brightly colored fiet buttons on the neck along with a skum bar where the strings should be. Playen can bend notes with the whammy bar and more sophisticated moves, such as video for the perfect game Hero" is "Guitar any air guitarist who feels just a lifile too empty- hammer-ons and pulloffs, are done with ease. Varying skill levels malce "Guitar Hero" a handed. It is one of the most entertaining and for beginners and shredden alike. The challenge for Sony interactive music games to be released beginner skill level oflers few challenges,but is a Playstafon 2. The PS2 exclusive combines the best elemenb good place for inexperienced guitarisb to grow of rhythm and music games and backs it up with accustomed to following notes and rhythms. Power chords and excessive soloing come a 47song hard rock soundhack. Players become part of the band, playing everything from classics along in the more difficult sesings. I've played by David Bowie and Jimi Hendrix to new rock guitar for over four years, and for,rnd it nearly irrr standardsby Queens of the Stone Age and Franz possible to keep up wr$ Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moonn on the experi settjng. Ferdinand. Even though dre game is all about the music, The game also gives new meaning to Boston's a story line is included. The playen' mission is to "More than a Feeling." "Guitar Hero" succeedsas an interactive expe- tale a rock band out of the garage and into the rience thanla to the included Gibson SC-replica arenaAt the beginning of a career, players choose a guitar controller. 'n' k$tâ&#x201A;Źad oI mashing buttons on a Playstation character and a guitax. Mosdy animated rock Guitar Hero Red Octane Publisher: Price: $69.99 2 Platform: Playstation

roll stereotypes, each character has clothing and personality traits to fit a particular era in rock history. Similarly, the axe collection spansthe history of Cibson guitars, and includes various incamations of the l-es Paul and SG. With ea-chvenue, there's a list of progressively challenging songs. Playen must hit notes as they appear on a moving fret board. Notes and chords are represented by colored dots that correspond to fret buttons on the controller. Miss too many notes and the band is booed off the stage. It's easy to let hours slide by while kying to perfect Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" or .Ace of Spades."I got M<ikirhead's tour de force, better musician if I spent be a much the feeling I'd half as much time pmcticing on a real guitar. One of the only real drawbacks of Guitar Hero is the $70 prlce tag. Unlike some of the new Xbox games, extra songs aren't available for download. Hopefirlly, there will be new editions of "Guitax Hero" in the fuhre.

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Grondmo smilesupon seeingher hometown,CoulonioSuperiore,for the firsttime in 78 yeors.

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many yea$, my grandma has been interested in going to Italy. The counky of her birth has been in the back of her mind since she came to America. It has been a constant fl presencein her subconscioussince shewas a toddler. I Three weeks ago, my grandmother, along with nine other members of my farnily and I, traveled overseasfor the 6rst time in an attempt to ffnd a place known to us only by naps, gue stories and my grandmodrer's birth certiffcate. When we set out on this voyage of seHdiscovery, we had a vague idea of where in Italy she was from, but we werent sure. Tluoughout my life, whenever anyone would ask Grandma where she was from, the answer was always Reggio De Calabrta- Calabria is a region in southem Italy and Reggio is a small metropolitan area. To rnake sure this was really the place, we checked her birth certiffcate, Grandma was wrong. The birth certiffcate says Car:lonia Superiore. Caulonia is still in the Calabria region, but it is on the opposite side of the peninrulaNow that we had a clear idea of where we were going to visil it was time to make the excursion. With gear to last us two weeks, we landed in Rome. After four days in the timeless city, we headed south intc the land of our ancestors,not knowing what tb expecl The next day, we headed east to fulfill fhe wishes of my grandmother, a woman who had never known her hometown. It hrms out there are two towru in Italy named Caulonia: Caulonia Marina and Caulonia Superiore. Marina wasn't quite what we expected. We thought the entire town would look like the quintessentialItalitn vilage, complete rr.ith narrow cobblestone roads and rolling hills. Irr actuality, Marina is a hip beach town that loolis like any community on the southem coast of Califomia

It hfiied out that our hopes were not entirely unfounded: Superiore was everything we expected and more. The town was pictu.resqueto an almost unbelievable degree, with laundry hanging fiorn lines out of windows and all the go{geous scenery of a C-oppolafilm. The next challenge was figuring out where in the city grandma grew up. The only thing she remembers about her house is a story her parents used to tell that included a blue door. Superiore is a small town, but we didn't have enough time to search all the houses for a blug door. The courthouse was our best bet to solve the mvsterv. We found the courthouse and tried to commmicate our objective the best we could to the female oftcial. We could tell the lady was cautious, but when she heard our name she perked up. Becauseshe perked up, we perked up. In broken Englis\ she told us 0o come with her. Did she know where grandma had lived? This is when Grandma's emotions kicked in. Her eyes began to tear up and she was grinning like a l2-year-old. We hopped into the car, drove a few blocla drough winding avenues bo another sbange building. Here we found some oftcialJooking Italian documenb that bore the narnes of my grandmother's parents. We knew we were gefring somewhere in our search. The lady from the courthouse again told us to follow her. As we walked through the town making small talk, the courthouse official nonchalandy announced that we were on the street where my grandmother's childhood home had once stood. At the end of the stseetwas a tobacco shop owned and operared by my grandma's third cousin, a short lady who talked a million miles an hour and instandy treated us like tnmediate family. We had accomplished our goals. We saw Italy for the ffrst time and answered some lingering family questionsin my grandma's mind-

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For more than a decade, these beastsdeffned Phalen's mouth it was clear these guys had come to bring the rock in all ib adolescent glory. the sound of rock's golden age before strongeq more "Get a litde closer .., our fluids should become your specialized creatures evolved and took over, ending the reign of colossalriffage, dumb-as-a-postlpics and macho, fluids ... by the end of the nighl everybody should have a Iitle blood and a liule cum on therq' he said as he sâ&#x201A;Źxist swagger. stepped to dre mike, beckoning the crowd forward. HesiUntil now At a median age of 27, Damond Nights weren't even tant at ffrst, the crowd began to move forward as the set out of diapen when the ffrst great wave of cock rockers progressed.For "The Girl's Atbactive" they inviled most of the women in the bar onstage to dance. By the time were perfecting the lifestyles that would someday land them an episode of VHl's "Behind the Music.' Despite they reached "Sanrday Fantasic," their obligatory ode to the weekend, they bad the audience slapping them high&at handicap, tris band has managed to caphre t}le primal urgency and raw sexuality of the geme and have ffves, tluowing the devil homs and gmerally acting in the spirit of dumb-assrock revelry. dedicated their lives to bringing it back into the world. And dumb-ass is the term for iL There's something Diamond Nighb' music is a turbocharged blast of aggressively immature about the kind of thumping riff rock, built on a frame of power pop, riding on a glam suspensionand powered by a roaring hard rock engine rock they deliver, but according to Phalen, its simply a that occasionally injecb a shot of prog or metal for an natral result of his rurusual biology. "The dring is, my (baby) teeth never fell ouq I had exh'a boosl It's one sweet ride that, not coincidentally, would sound right al home blaring out the windows of a to have them removed. So we're just kind of living our souped-up Camaro fi.rll of mullets, cheap beer and under- adolescencenow," he said. "It took us a long time. I just stopped peeing in my bed." a8e g[N. Like their forebears, Diamond Nights /iaa rock. Once Their sormd covers everything from Zeppelin-esque stomp to C-arscool T. Rex swagger to Sabbarh sludge. the show is over, fhe night's just beginning. They make no secret of their love of booze and other delighs of It's like a rousing game of-classic rock connectdredots, touring. a .deft qplicing of rock's most bombastic momenb into nWe were just in Ias Vegs two days ago. I qpent dre a heady brew of sexy, stupid splendor. They cover a lot of territory weaving together divene elements in an whole next day vomiting everything that I afe. Somebody said. After a momends rellection he appealing way. It makes for an eclectic, but surprisingly slipped ln ig" Phalen corrected himself, 'It wasn't my vomit, it was somebody coherent sound-not that the record company suits seeit else's vomit (they slipped in). I had my own vomi! but that way. nobody slipped in iL" "Sometimes... music indusky people, they're like 'maybe you should just write more sirnilar songsbecause Even in Denver Phalen has managed to find some tawdrv rock mornmts. people aren't going to get it'" drunmer Tim Traynor "last time we were in (Denver) we had a wild time. I said. "I think that's B.S. because bands like Queen and Zeppelin ... they were never concemed with having an went back home with these two girls who were makeup artists and they did a whole makeover job on me on album of l0 songs that all sound exacdy alike. They just me ... I couldn't get the eye makeup off for like a week wanted to make music." or so," he said. "But it was good times. They srnoked a Singer and guitarist Morgan Phalen puts it in more lot of marijuan4 those girls. A loc And then they ... put Doetic tennsuWe're gardeners and we plant seeds in our garden makeup on me. Young ladies have ointrnents and creams of different kinds of plants. Whatever grows the fastest to remove makeup, and I don't have that" When drummer Tim Traynor mentioned the "outand the hearties! we pick its fruits. Some others die, some are just dirty weeds and they can't do anything of-conhol groupie acUon' they've seen, Phalen 0ook a moment to wax philosophical on that most imPortant of with them," he said. "(Ihe songs)have a life of their own ... We always have, like, a hundred songs,litde pieces of topics. "I don't know what groupies are, but I think there are songs, that we're working on, you only get really l0 out girls that like bands a loL And we've met them. It's not of each hundred. ICs kind of Darwinian" like the good ole' days, like Led Zeppelin times. I think Their album Popsicte (wh1ch followed their debut FP Onte Wc l{ere Diamonds) marrages to recapih. ate (the groupies) all like Limp Bizkit now," he said. Clariling his band mate's lnslght, Traynor added his the hlghlight of rock history in just under 40 minutes. 'I Alongside Phalen and Traynor, Rob T'asko slings a own thoughts. think the definition of groupie is kind second gu.itar (and the occasional synthesizer) and Seth of hazv these davs. It used to mean someone that would follow a band ... but now I think it iust means whatever Rumsey's bass completes tre rhythm section. Together, guls you fim coerce into going back to your hotel room the four of them have created an album of simple, but you after the show," he said. catchy hmes drat just beg for airguitar accompanimenL ' with'That's the thing, there are lob of just average reguare and The songs may be simple, but their shlls solid they pull them off witr a commanding flair. The end lar girls that say they've never done that before," Phalen said. "Girls like cocaine and hotels." result is a slick shot of decadent sleaze.firll of rewed-up It remains to be seen whether Diamond Nights can anthems celebrating the etemal values of good times ani lead cock rock back to world domination, but they aren't brd $t1". It's not terribly original or profound, but it's concemed. l,ike their music, their ambitions are sirnple damn frrn, which is really all it needs to be. and direct At times, the album seerns a liule calculate4 almed nl'm hoping for more flashen in our audience ... at milking the deep vein of noshlgia nrnning tlnough the We'll take flasher dominarion instead of world dominahearb of everyone who grew up fistenlng to classicrock in the back of dad's car. On stage, any questions about tion." Travnor said. iwho'."t". about world domination we just want to their sincerity quickly evaporated. Despite a tiny, apalhet-ic be able to do this some rnore." 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Bv Celia Herrera chlrrel2@mscd.edu WhileA&R repsarebusyconjuringup the next ghetto penona for urban (and not so urban) America to hll obsessivelyin love with, youth advocates are playing their role in a counter-attack on the negative imPact these marketing strategies will have on a much younger generation. Mario Rornero, founder of Denverbased promotional company MestiSoul Entertainrnent, decided it was time to become involved in an educational approach to the culhre everyone was latching onto-hip hop. He found an unlikely parbrership dnt has since united the cultrre of hiPhoP with

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Words Can Heal, founded by Global Caoital Associates CEO hwin Kabof, is a nadonal media and educational carnPaign desigred to reduce verbal violence. After ib introduction into the Bop & Gtuls Clubs of Mebo Denver, Romero started ryorking with BC'CMD and WCH Coordinator Tonja Mitchell. Througb WCFI, both Romero and Mitchell have made it possible for hip hop !o play a major role in sharing a positive vision. "Through my involvement with the WCFI program, I have had the opportunity to see teens and other members grow with the program. They have been very excited

about performing in the assembliesand facilitating WCH workshops in the community. More importantly, they have leamed about the WCH messageand been able to share that messagewith thousands of youth, teeru and adult," said Mtchell. Applyine his years of eniertainment experietiie, R6mer6 has developed the WCH program inbo an impressive assembly performance. With the help of a cornrnunity coalition, BGCMD has developed a clas+ room curriculum to accompany the assembln making for a usefirl experience for its young audience. At the show, the stageis set with the ap pearance of a high school hallway and large signs with phrases like "Stop Dissing, Start Acceptingt and "Gossip Free Zone" hang from small sca"ffolds.Denver hip-hop pio neer, Scratch G deejap from the rear of the stage while Pierre McNair, who is also the show's director, plays the role of the wi6y school ianitor and narrator. Alongside McNair, the cast is comprised of nine highly talented youth. Akil LuQ man. 16. a student from Denver School of the Arts plays the role of "Kyle" who is the outcast nerd desperately seeking accePtance from his peers. BreOnna Tindall, 14, has been with-the Bovs & Girls Clubs since she was just 7 y"ut 6ld and has been performing in the WCH assembly for the past year. "I thought (the show) had a good message and wanted to be part of spreading the word," statesTindall. The storyline is predictable, but the follow-up work separatesrhis effort from many other auempb at utilizing popular culhre as a medium for education. As the performance ends, McNair engagesthe young crowd in a dialogue responding to certain scenes.This

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but all other instuments have their place. Many rockabilly acts like to use older instru;ent. Smitl who uses a 1958 Grebch 6120 and a 1960 Gretsch double anniversary, said, 'We like 0ouse vintage gear, not beiause it ffe the part, but becausethey just can't_reproduce the sound of the old, cool gear. The rockabilly scenehas had a very welcoming home in'Denver. "It started geting '9Os,kind of bis in Denver around the mid wfren swing was also geting popular,' said Somewherealong the way, rockabilly Srnith. 18 Wheeler and Eddie Clendening wasdevoured.by Pu"k tgckj 'The qpirit^of and the Blue Ribbon Boys are two bands By Megan Carneal that were at the start of the rockabilly explosion in Denver. Some other bands respon' just a middle finger to whatever people think Smokey bars, taltooed greasers, guita$ sible are Paul Galaxy and th'e Galactix, The and girls. The Denver rockabilly scene is you should be doing" Clendening said. Dalhart Imperials, Halden Wofford and the coming back. Once aflain rockabilly fused with anothnoikabilty is a genre with rooh deep in er style of riusic. fturk rock made rockabilly the past. It is one of the very few genres of darker, louder and faster and out of that music fiaJ has lasted over ffve decades and firsion came psychobilly. Clendening said despite a few alterations, ha< managed to the difference between'rockabilly *d prystay chobillv is "about ffve UIIns on the volume ' true to its original sound. '50s '80's with Bill knobs ... a takeoff ftom neo-billy," (the "It started back in dre early '50's tlailey'and and OreSaddle Men, when they. likg rockabilly).'-"k revival of Elvis countless others, combined hillbily h"t Perhaps the r"""on "ttbilly music with mck and roll," said Bobby dured half a cenury is ie incomparable Smith of dre band 18 Wheeler. Blood said, of Ghost sound. Iason Gardener It was a very exciting time in the early "Since iockabilly has zuch diverse influenc1950s;the county was about to see a huge es, it allowed musicians to really be unique change with the start of the btack civil rights with it" It may have different zub-genres, movement. Even bigger _revolutions were but one thing almost all "Silly" has in combeing made in music. White counky acq mon is the use of an upright bass. The de started to combine-or steal-{heir so-und ffning quality that separ-ateirockabilly from from black artists. Eddie Clendening from othei cenrei Smith said "is the combination with Ed&e Clendening and the Blue Ribbon pl"yr"g style style with slap ptayine upright bass bass .l"p of the-uprieht Boys said, "Rockabilly started out ias a term, the ffngerpickin' Bop playing. playing. You You pr-pickin' style style guitat Cuitat used by the counEy singers to make fun of can't ffnd that uptidrt .l"p bassstyle on oth'black' .r,t^^t-t .r- ^ ---'-r^-:-+L'^ -^'-^ -^-,-l:-sounding er forms of music. th" guys playing the more

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dialogue is then taken a step further when the contenb of the show are integrated into the schools of the participanb as part of a l2-week curriculurn WCH presenb a tsuly thorough effort in hopes that the messageof the program can impact its yormg audience with a lasting effect Satia, 6, was a member of the audience at a recent showing of WCH. She and her classmates from Carson Elementary's Kaleidoscope Corner program were arnong roughly 100 other kids !o attend the show. 'I "It;/as fabulous," said the ffrsi grader. saw the big kids thought that Kyle had funny clothes and everyone made fun of his poems. If you see someone getting teased |r bullled vou have to tell th-eteaJher if it doesn't stop, or you have to help the other kid." Three weeks into the WCH curriculum, Salia sap the prograrn has helped her al school. "One day when we were going outside, this girl teased me because she thought that rny hair was frazled up all the time. I told her to be respec6rl to othen becauseit's not very nice to tease." Through his partrership with the BGC MD, Romero has presented a new PenPective for irurer-city kids who have already inherited the hiphop culture and way of life from their family and peers. From the young performers to an even younger audience, the positive effectsof this program are leadine into a new era of education and entertainirent that hiphop leader KRS ONE has appropriaiely coined "Edutainment." For more inforrnation on "Words Can fleal," contact Tonja Mitchell at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, 303-892-9200 ertension lll, or e-rnail tonjarn@)gcrnd.org.

Hi-Beams, GT and the Sidewinders, and The Hillbilly Hellcab. The roikabilly scene has been alive in Denver for sorne time now, but always coming in waves of popularity. Right noq the scene is on the upswing. In recent years there have been major label rockabilly acts such as Tiger Army, The Nekromantixs, and The Horrorpops gaining in popularity. Denver is still a grea.tplace to cafth local rockabilly acts. With a slew of different venues, there is a different rockabilly band to see every day of the week. Some great venues to go to are The Skylark lounge, Benders 13n Ave. Tavem, Cricket on the Hill, The Lions Lair, and The HomeL

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In the past weeks, I have explored a few bars that provide karaoke enjoymenl They are scatered and sometimes dead. But one thing is for sure, when your friends crap out on you, getring up on stage!o sing a horrible rendition of "Oops, I Did It Again' will perk Wilco you up right away. The best karaoke experience can be Kickins Tbleeision (Noneiuch,2005) found at the Hi-Dive on Broadway. Things get started around 10:25 p.m., and right Wilco's new albwn, Kicking Teleoisim: away there are people onstage.The bar ofLioe in Chieagoplap like a sonic collage. fers plenty of room to dance, tables to sit at, All the varied musical and atrnospheric . pobt t"bl", and a stage big enough to fit fruib of the band's past labors coalescein three people plus equipmenl Every Mona live seting. day "ight, Mr. Pacman is the host for whal F,lecbonic sound experiments, earthy he calls "Exreme Karaoke." He provides a alt-rock timbre and extended forays into long tist of songs from oldies to lttdi". Th" '80s' '90s white noise come together in a single setmain focus is on music from the ting, on a single stage. and presenL The result is a live album that is both Ii doesn't mafier which song people : d;zyng in its diverse sounds and dadng choose to sing or how well the person sings iin i6 c6nstant cohesion. Kitking Teleuisioi the song.All that matten is that People have serves more as a common denominator a good time. People dance, cheer, drink, than a mere live album, a musical r:nified and sing. The bar ibelf isn't a fancy place, so field theory that melds all of Wilco's dispathe people don't really need to impress anyrate sounds. one. Everyone goes looking to have frrn. The album's performances come from Bendefs Tavem on East 13* Avenue four concerts at Chicago's Mc Theafe earalso offers something exciting. On Tuesdays lier this vear. The continuitv of the recordand Thursdays, the bar is home to "new wave and indie' karaoke. They offer a large area to watch karaoke, plenty of room to sit, The band is an amalgam of styles and cul- cianship the band exhibib. Jay Smith pro brres that writhe and meld in the form of vides the hard, polished veneer that gives and many pool tables. The people are of'n' roll. the band much of its appeal, and Jonathan ten more interested in playing pool, but the simole and unabashed rock Los Burbanks ^What out found pounding can be the Nelson LitGotdieb FP Odd out first on ones who sing have frn. With a hefty list of stands Nightmnn: OddLittle tle Nighrmare,is that lead singer and bassist the skeleton of every song out of tried-and- songs from the new wave and indie genres, EP (INFIDEL Records, German Brisefio singsin Spanishasmuch as bue rock fossils-blowing off the dust and there's no lack of interesting songsto sing. making them sound fresh again. The players . At Bender's, the audience likes it when he does in English. Raised in Mexico City, 2005) you sing well. There are still those awkward even exhibit a melodic streak as eddenced it is easy to understand why his delivery on the track "Locusts." It is clear that Briseflo -omenrs when someone drank mo much, feels more natural and laced with emotion is ttre blood, muscle and sinew of this beasl then hopped on stage only to sing horribly Upon ffrst listen, Los Burbanks sounds during these times when he not so much When he is less than his firebreathing seH, out of tune. For the most par{ though, the like many other bands that have emerged sings, but snarls his way through songs in his nafive tongue. Where the tunes in Span- the whole production falters. Los Burbanks people ai Bender's take their karaoke serifrom the Sealtle music scene: loud, some hits the taryet more often than not, but the ously. what vroty and mired in the gnrnge/garage ish are rough and edgy, Brisefros' singing in misses are frustraring in the midst of such core lacks the steely On Srmdavs, a liale bar call Charlie is tentative and musical English tradition that has shaped dre city's Brown's on G'rant Steet provides a more of songs like "Sbaight Line" and "These promise. image since dre late '80s. Listen a little deep - Frank Rornero romcrfra@mscd.edu stereotlpical karaoke experience: a bar with Skies," where he mixes in both English and er, though, and it becornesapparent that Los a tiny stagein the comer, and a large screen just Spanish. of the many one Burbanlssis more than This in no wav soeaks about the musiat the back of the bar for everyone to sing copycat bands ihat call the Norihwest home. with. Even the DJ and servers get uP on stageto sing throughout the night. like most they leaveto their new home at DefJam, the Ofl-a chill reggaeperformance taken from karaoke bars, there is a thick list of songs to title of this collection may be a bit mislead- the sound check before a show in Cincinchoose from, but this bar offers some obnali, "You Got Me'-the band's Grammying. While these two discs are a perfect inboscure and hard to find songs,too. winning hit that feaures Philly natives Eve duction to the world's most prolific hiphop At ffrst, the crowd appears hostile and band, more than anlthing Home Groun! is and lill Scou (who's ihe author of the song's closed-minded. After a while, though, they hoo( originaliy sung by Erykah Badu) ;d for diehard fans. are friendly and welcoming. Some of the "Don't Say Nuthin'"---a dope remix of a singers have amazing talenl they belt out Roots drummer Ahmir "?uesdove" (pro nounced: questlove) Thompson personally song I hadn't liked much und now. amazing renditions of their favorite songs. Besides these rarifies, and most entic- Of course, being a hand-picked the collection, lacing between lpical karaoke experiing for fans are essential Roots' tracls like the group's classics and more mainsteam no lack of tonedeaf, drunken there is ence, The Roots "Good Music,' "F-ssaywhuman?!!!!'and singers. Either way, the crowd cheers and hits ("Silent Trealrnen!" "The Next Move. tr{ome Grown! The Besinner's Guide to from their debut indiement" and "What They Do") some b-sides "PassThe Popcom" -Organu, welcomes each person who climbs up on l&2 The Roors,Vols. from when the Philalabel release, and rare gems ("Quicksand Mllennium," stage. (Geffen,2005) delphia collecgve was sdll known as the "It's Comin'' and'Y'all Know Who") with Gesing onstagetakes gumption, but can a live, Square Rooh. "Essaywhuman?!!!1," Any band takes a risk with a greatest a few previously unreleased tracks. One of be really firn. Even if the shy bug bites, it is these ilazzling jewels is The Roots' incred- fai favorite, is the foundation of The Roots fun to sit and wafch other people perform. hits collection. They risk alienating longtime ible live medley of the single "The Seed" raw, liveinstrument sound that has made Karaoke adds flair to the boring bar experifans by not offering anything new and they and "Web' on Gilles Petenon's legend- them one of the most enduring hiphop acts, ence. Each night of the week there's a bar by not ofiering risk shutting out newcomers if not for their ability to sh-addle the main- somewhere hosting karaoke. arv Worldwide Show on BBC Radio One, their most popular hits. Luckiln The Roor" sbearnlirndergror-rnddivide. talent at sonigroup's have avoided both wi& Hotu Grown! The dimonstating the In a time when rappen like 50 Cent are For inforrnation about other places to swhling with live instruments dancing I I cally Tlu Volumu to Rnts, Bcginur's Guide 2, a 30song collection of the group's most around the immaculate, deadly, alwayson- trying to com:pt the art form, Hnne Grown! eqloy karaoke, go to westword.corn is'a ieminder of why hiphop is ultimately They have an extensive list of bat s dl successfrrlsingles, fan favoriles, b+ides and time rhymes of lead MC Bhik Thought The altemate versions of dre group's worth fighting for and The Roob are our previously unreleased tacks. around Colorado heroes in arms. No doubt an altempt to cash in on the hit are what make this collection shine for - Clayton Woullard cuoullar@nscd edt tacks they've recorded with Gefien, before newbies and fans alike. There's "Break You

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Roadrunner men off to 3-2 start in first two weeks By Matt Gunn gunnma@mscd.edu The Roadrurmer men's basketball team opened the season 32, enduring the early seasonchallenge of building a new team. The Rtrnners started at 24 with an 8474 win over St Gregory's University, followed by a 6564 nail$iter over Weshnont College in the Comfort krr Downtown Denver Cla.s sic.' Mebo's defense made the difference in both games. "We like to pressure the ball, and that's how we've played since I've been here," head coach Mike Dunlap said "As this new group geb used to playing at that exheme level then we'll get better." Senion Greg Mudr and Drew Williarnson led the asack wifi 18 poinb and ffve rebounds each in the home opener. The first half against St Gregor/s feaured six lead changes as each team came out of an ofr-seasonslumber. The score was lnotted at ,lO poinui at the balf. The second half saw more lead dranges, and the game wasnt decided until lare. A pair of free throws from junior for'Rururen' ward Wilson ftice solidifted the in the remaining for good with 3:28 lead game. In game t,rro, the Roadrunners hosted a determined Westrnont College team. Metso shot 47 percent from the field, and Williamson led all scorerswith 27 poinb. For his effor! Williamson was named Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Week. 'Runners 4O35 Westnont outscored the through much of in dre second half and led the ffnal seven minutes of play. Sophomore Hayden Smitb scored on a layup with 33 secondsrernaining. Smith's contibution was enough for Meho to secure ib second win in the twogame homestand.

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The Metso women's soccer team's quest for a second*traight NCAA Division tr championship carne to end in a disappointing shootout loas in Searle on Nov. 19 in 6e Elite Fighr It was the second time an rmdefeated No.l*eeded Roadnrnner tearn lost on perr dty h"l<s in *rc quafierfinals in three years. After winning 2l regular*earcn gartes in D03, Meto lost to the University of C-alifornia, San Diego in the same marmer. Shannon Lovejoy buried trc fffth of No. 2+eeded SeatdePaciffc's penalty hcla after the game remained scorelessthrough two overtimes to advance the Falcons to the Division II Final Four in Wichita Falls, Texas. "For those of tu that have been around soccerfor awhile, that'sjust how it is," Metro head coach Danny Sanchezsaid. "It was disappointing, yes, but I was very pleased with how we ptayed and how we cornpeted" The Roadrunners were oubhot for the fust time this season.The Falcons posted a 2G9 advantagein shob on goal "It was a game fftling of one versustwo," Sanchezsaid. "We knew it was going to be a onegoal game, but we carne out on the wrong end of fie pendt), kicks.' With the victory, SeafflePaciffc remains rmdefeated this seasonwith a 190,1 record. Mebo ended the season without a loss at 23O1, but their tlGgame win sEeak comes to an end. Since the Metro defeat came via penalty ki*s., the Roadrunners were Dot credited with a loss. Iunior forward Kylee flanavan had the doiest scoring attempt for *re Roadrunners in the Nov. 19 game, pushing a l.lyard shot -iust risht of fie post in the 30& minute. Miro's frdhman goalkeeper Rachel Zollner posted three saves, while Searle Paciffc goalkeeper Jennifer Bums had four savesin her eighth shutout of the season The game marked the ffrst time thls year that the Roadrunnen were shutouL Mefo ranked tops in the nation with 97 goats. Hanavar\ the team's leading scorer this season,missed the secondof Metro's penalty kicks after doubleovertime, A,nne Ormro4 Amy kichliter, Kira SharP and Jodi McGalln all converted their penalty kicks but the solo miss pmved cosdy. "We wouldnt have been there without Photo by Matthew J6125 o jonasm@mscd.edu (Hanavan),n Sanchez said. "We win as a lvletroguordGregMuthbottlesthroughSt.Gregoy's.heovydefunseio mokethe team and'we lose as a tearn." bosketot theAurorioEventCenbron Nov. 18.Muthhod l8 poinls,sevenossists tlanavan ffnished the seasonsixth in Division II with 30 goals. Ilanavan's prohfic ond five rebounds.l"lelro debobd St.Gregoy's 84-74in theC.omb*Inn Do"rnperfonuance this season set Meho records townDenverClossic. in goals and poinb scored pl). The Roadrurure.n' win streak was one of the longest in Division II women's soccer history, and despite the tie, Sanchezwas quick to give credit where credit was due. "We go out every game to win and dreY Sophomore Paige Powers scored 20 in dre fint half to lead all playen with nine did that and you can't really ask for much points and led an offense that featured ffve points, ffve rebounds and two blocks. 'The main . "I'm just out there Eying tro do whar I more than thar." Sanchez said. players who scored in double digib. The Roadrunners won in rebounds 42- can," Harris said "and whether I'm coming thing is that I'm pleased after last year that there wa$'t a letdown Thev' were still hunof mistakes made off the bench or whether I'm starting Im 36, and took going to come out and play my game.n ilry and succesfrrl.' by Black Hills State by scoring 42 points off Metro was succesrfirland has been since Despite Harris' strong play, the Roadhmovem. Sancheztook over as head coach four years "Our h'ansition defense is grea!" fresh- runners led by a 3G28 margin at dre half. ago, The Bunners hope to continue that man guardJessica von Tillow said. "We get The second half was a defersive stuggle. in difierent pressesand rotate off of every- Both ofienses played jn ffb ard starb, and siccess nerd seasonas l5 playen from this seasonlsteam could potentially reutm. there were eight lead changes in the ffnal thing." Not to mention, Sanchezhas already beStrong defense was an essentialingredi- 20 minutes. gun scouting and is preparing for dre Feb. I Meho took the lead for good with ll:44 ent in Mebo's next game against Wayne Powers helped drive the offense sfning date for new recruits, State University. The Rurmers defenseheld nHopefirlly we can bring in some players wift nine second-half poinb, and helped the visiting Winiors to 49 poinb, and while points. The mimy as 13 lead to as will carrv on the brch that the seniors stetrh the that the ofiense shtrgled at times, Metso's 63 leaving have'snrted and the mommhm we poinb were enough to sectue the win. on 29 See'RUNNERS have as a program.n Jrmior Rianna Harris carne ofr the bench

loss ofieropening fireeslroight wins Women's boske$oll By Matt Gunn gunnma@mscd.edu The Mefo women's basketball team hasn't faltered since opening this seasonwith a loss. The Roadrunnen won three staight games and eamed a &l record in the first two weeks of play. Mebo lost to Tarleton Stare Univenity 7F73 on Nov. 18, in the Al Kaly Shrine Classic in Rreblo. The Runners built a l3?oint lead wift just under five rrinutes A number of missed shob and fouls led to

demise, theRoa&rumers' TheRunnersdidn'tmakethesamemis takes the next evening against Black Hils Stab University. Meho dqninabd 6e YellowJackeb on its way to an 87-53win.

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seventn rn regron By\\h'r.ne Bart bart@mscd.edu The Meho hockey team hosted a threegame series Nov. l7l9 and went into the fall break wirudng two and losing one, rai.s ing ib record to 9&0 on the season. The 'Runners started off the weekend bv beating Weber Siate University 64 on Nov. 17 at Sun Mcrogntems at the homenade in Wesbninster. Despite having a home game at an arma that was not their home ice, Meho carne out sbong. They quickly establisheddominance by a goal from forward Luke I-amming in the first ffve minutes of the first period. Metso spent most of the ffnt period in the offensive zone, scodng two more goals, one shorthanded, before ffnishing the ffnt period with a 34 lead. Weber State showed some sigrs of life at the start of fhe second scoring three minutes after gefring on the ice in the second. Metro answered that goal with two more of their own, sending a visibly frushated Weber Stare team to the locker room a.fter the secondperiod. Metro led 51. A confident Meto team appeared in the third period, underestirnating the determination of the Weber State hockey club. -Weber State scored in the ffrst 13 seconds of the third period. Weber State continued by adding two more goals and coming within one goal of Metro, who w3s holding onto a 54 lead. Meho went on the power play in the last two minutes of the third period, and Weber

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Metro goolie CoseySherwoodmokeso sovein o gome ogoinstWeber Stote.Meho beot Weber 6-4 on Nov. l7 in Westminster. TheRoodrunnersbeot Weber ogoin the bllowing night 7-5 in Lifilebn. State pulled its goalie for an exta skater. Meho put the nail in the coffin, scoring an empty net goal with onesecond left in the game to win by a final score of G4. Metro took on that same team on Nov. l& this time back at the Edge Ice Arena in Litleton. Al*rough a higher scoring affair, Metro kept the same margin of victory, winning by two goals with a ffnal score of 7-5. Meho improved its record to 97{ on the season, and 2{ on the weekend. Metro wrapped up its weekend against

the Univenity of New Mexico on Nov. 19 at the Edge Ice Arena. It was a hard-hifring, phpical game drat did not mesh well with a Mebo team playing its third game in as many night. Despite the physical play, the Roadn:nners jumped out to a 2{ lead in the ffnt period; it was short-lived. New Mexico proved to be a more difffcult challenge, coming back to take away Metro's lead. New Mexico pressed hard on offense and played solid defenseand, by the end of

Man's bestfriend brings out bestin thegameq My friend's best Fiend was in an accident the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Jefi Klein is one of my very best friends. I've known him as long as I've lived in Denver, and that s been a while, Jeff is a cross between a motivational guru and a future senatorial candidate. His enthusiasm and energy lcrow no bounds. Jeffs talents are endless. In 1998he took up golf as a hobby, and now teaches the game for a living. Anyone who knows him envies him. Anyone who has ever picked up a 7-iron envies his abilities and his career, Jefi has gotien drunk with me. He has laughed with me. He has taught me dre ffne art of fantasy football. He has helped me cope with lost love. And, perhaps most importandl he has taught me how to golf. Jeffs dog, Hogan, was the spising image of him. Named after the famous golfer Ben HogarL this canine was the ultimaie underdog. Short and broad in appearance,Hogan was, in fac! heavy, shong and thick. When Jeff was teaching at the course, Hogan was the warchdog over his wife, Tasha" and his infant sorq Sawyer Ryan. Hogan had a sidekick in his srnaller sisteq Mar{ey. Jef got the news while playing Golden Tee and watding fooball at the College km. I talked to him later on the phone and all he could do was sob and te! 49 "M,y

JEREMYJOHNSON jlbhn3B@msul.eda Hogan's dead." Finally, we hung up and I cried for a while as well. After three da;n mourning, Jeff called me Wednesday morning. Since I like to sleep in---andJeff knows this--the call could only be for golf. Jeff picked me up two hours later and I threw my gear in the back and hopped in his tmck. His face was pale and shained, but he smiled at me and said, "Hey,lf," in his usual manner. We began to drive to Mira Vista golf coune in AuroraSmall talk does not last long and, before I knew i! the zubject of Hogan came up. I askedJeff how Hogan wenl and he ga.veme the details. A car had been speeding down the alley behind his house. His wife's hands had been full wilh two dogs and a child. It

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And then came the inevitable question: "Why?"Jeff askedme. "Why did it happen? It s just so fucking senseless." He was righl It was fucking senseless. We both cried for l0 minutes or more, wondering about the meaning of Me and pondering the existence of a God who would take a man's best friend. We reached the golf course with eyes squinted and red. Jeff is a golf celebrity of sors. He knew everybody at the course, including playen and sta.ff,and all of them offered condolences over his recent loss. He got us out on the course for free.Jeff is always good like thal knowing I'm a broke-asscollege bum. A hectic school schedule hadn't allowed me to play golf in over two months, but I wasn't nervous as I approached the ffrst tee box. Instead, I felt calm and pure. I swung away freely. Poorly, yes, but freely. The day was perfecl There was not a cloud in the sky, and temperahre was unseasonablywarm. If God did exisg he meant drat day for golffng. Jeff and I plugged ttrough our game with an old friend, Stevie, telling jokes and puuing our ar:rs around each other occasionally to show our sincerelove and respect for one another. We hacked at the earth and yelled at the sky.

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t ffnished. The 'Runners skated hard and came reaching distance of New Mexico at but New Mexico put one rnore in and ro lost by a final of 57. The Roadrunners ffnish out the semester the road, fust playing the University of yoming on Dec. 2 at the Ikon Center in Cheyenne, Wyo. The 'Runnen thm head into a huogame

lf andltfe hole when I managed to hit a tee shot straight and long up the fairway, about 120 rards fiom the pin. ' I'd been r,-L'vinga hard time hiung the green that day and expressed my dismay to Jeff, who was 20 yards across the way. "Dunk it," he said to me. "Put it in the hole. What have you got to lose?" And he was right Fate is ffckle and life is fleeting and the best thing we could do was seize that most precious momenl We then shrck our $irons within 15 feet of the pin. For most of that day, Jeff played more poorly than I had ever seen him play any game. I played even worse. But rmderstand that golf is usually a game of shot control and course managemenl In Iight of our heary moods, that logic simply didn't fly. See,thanla to the loss of Hogan, we realized some things about golf and life. There are so many impossible moments that seem 0oo heavy to overcome. There are so many unique opporlrnities that may never come around again. The idea that day wasn't 0o score well. The idea was to take advantageof every op portmity we had in hopes of nrating dnt one great shot As fate would have il and as Hogan would've wanted ig we all managed to make

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Eatingfor Health and Energy -Please call Susan Krems at (303) 770-8433 or (303) 556-6818for information. Tbbacco Cessation SuPPort - The Health Center offers many types of help to stop. Call (303) 556-2525.

Mishmash: Metro State Thesis Ethi.bitionJoin Metro State student artists as they premiere their works in the fields of photography, multimedia, painting and drawing. The pieces will be on display at the Metro Center for Msual Art, 1734 Wazee Street, Denver. The exhibition will run until November 1Z from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tiresdav to Fridays and noon to 5 p.m. on Saturdays.For more information, contact Luke Giltner at (303) 596-5236or at lukesrant@comcast.net.

December2,2OO5 Mixed Greens - BM Thesis Exhibition Join Metro students and alums for the second of two sectionsof graduating BFA studentsshowcasingtheir thesiswork. The opening reception will begin at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public at the Center for Msual Art, 1734Wazee Street. The exhibit will run until the middle of December. For more exhibit hours and additional information, call the CVA at (303) 254 -5207.

Ahoholics Anonymous Meetings - On the lst Annual Latina Youth Leailership Auraria campus, Tiresdays 11:45am-1pm - Lambda Theta Nu Sorority Conference 1020gth St. Park, #B. Call (303) 556-2525 Inc. will be hosting this event for middle for more information. school Latina students. This conference will bring 8th graders from local Denver Cancer &tpport Groups - Please contact schools to Auraria for workshops that Linda Wilkins-Pierce for details at 1303) adresscurrent issues.The event will begin 556,6954. at 9 a.m. in the Tivoli. For more info, contact Angelina at jackange@mscd.edu.

November28,2OO5 Math AssessmentIfutoring SessionThe Metro State Tutoring Center will have a free walk-in study session for any Metro Studen who is preparing to take the Acuplacer Math Assessment.The session will be held from I to 2 p.m. in Tivoli 640. For more information, call (303) 556-6439 or e-mail dunkere@mscd.edu.

December 4,2005 Metm State Wind. Ensemble - Conductor David Kish and Metro music studentswill perform a diverse program, including "Fanfare' by Wataru Hokoyama, uGloriosa" by Yashuhide Ito and "El Camino Real' by Alfred Reed. Tickets are free for Metro State faculty, staff and students. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the King Cenier Recita-lHall.

December9,2OO5 Metro State Choral Ensembles: A Holiilay Card to the City - Metro State's Men's choir, Women's choir, Metropolitan Choraie and Jazz Voices will perform a variety of Christmas music for the whole family to enjoy. Tickets are free for Metro State students, staff and faculty. This event is likely to sell out quickly. For more information, contact the Department of Music at (303) 556 - 3180.

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