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Other instihrtions, such as Westem and Fort l-ewis experienced between 18 and 28 percent increasesin funding, along with their increasesin tuition. Metro's hrition and general fimding rate for shrdenb has dropped since 2000.

In his message,Jordan explains that Metro's frrnding inequities are due to the budget rescission, as well as the advent of the COF. He notes that while Meto was receiving funding ftrough COF based on its low hrition, other institutions received less frrnding from the COF, but were still able to get funding through "feefor-service" firnding for

By Josie Klernaier their higher<ost programs. jklemaie@mscd.edu "Aldrough Meho has higher<ost programs," he said, "we do not receive anv feefor-service funds."

The $180 raise in'the COF fundlng that was approved Colorado's Joint Budget Commiuee voted to give $25 r.uranimously by the JBC was another funding victory for million to Colorado instihrtions of higher education TuesMeto, In preceding weels, there has been much speculadan March 2l allowing approximately $2.5 million in sup tion communieabd to the SGA by Wylie over whether the plemental state frrnding for Meho, if approved by the Coloincreasewould be that high, or if it could happen at all. rado House and Sena.te.

The COF is a stipend, available for quali$ing underThe JBC also voted unanimously on Thursday, March gra.duate s0rdents who altend Colorado public instihrtions 23 to raise the College Opportunity Trust Fund, or COF, and participating privale institutions, that pays a portion of stipend level for Metro from $2,4O0to $2J80 per studenl the students' total in4tate tuidon. for said member is good news shrdenb," Capstone "This The ffrst time a student registers with Metro, they are Christine Staberg. "Meto will be able to beef up its proasked if they would like to apply for the COF, which readded futditg." grams becauseof this quires the sh.rdent'sname, social security number and birth group, working Meho's lobbying has been Qapstone, the shrdent qualiftes as an irmtate sh.rdenl they re date.

If with Meho kesident StephenJordan sinceJuly 2005, comceive an amount off of their hrition based on the number of municating with legislarors about the importance of state credit hours they are uking. fimding for Metro. They are currendy n-ackingabout 45 bills The stipend does not pay for basic skills coursesor other at the House that have to do with Metro, Staberg said. l{etmpolital File Phot<.r specializedcoursesand capsat 145 credits.

Staberg said without the revenue allowed by ReferenBefore COF, funding was a direct general frlnd approdum C, higher education in Colorado would be facing some MetroPresident Jordonoddressed lowmokers ' Stephen priafion to ihe institution, Wift COB the student authorizes in cub. $660 million tiiled"A Messoge FromthePresident." in o leti,er ihe Colli:ge Access Network to make a payment !o the inThe COF firnding increase will still have to pass in the The $25 million going to Colorado's colleges is only a stitution on behalf of the studenl which is then taken away House on Thursdav. March 30 and in the Senate on Thursday, April 6, mid Student Govemment Assembly President third of the $74 million the Colorado Commission for High- from their COF stioend accounL er Education asked for.

The amount of mottey paid toward the students' uri[on Jack Wylie. It will then go to Govemor Bill Owens for ffnal 'A MessageFrom the hesiden!"

According toJordan's is for each school, and is determined by the legdifierent approval; why Meho is islature each year, as with this year's possible increase for "TheJBC is staying true to what the voten asked for (in a handout sent to state legislators explaining approving referendum C) by giving a third to education, a in need of funding, Mebo experienced an 8.25 percent de' Mebo. crease in funding between the academic years of 2000 to Staberg said she is conffdent that the increasewill passall third to health care and a third to roads." Wvlie said.

Recent budget projections are looking higher than an- 2001 and 2005 to 2006, compared to a 0.68 percent decrease three stepswith liffle amendment.

Find out more about the COF stipend at hups://cof.colticipated, Wylie said. "But a lot of people are asking for that for Colorado State University, the only other four-year college in Colorado to lose frrnding. legeaccess.ne/cofapp/. money. Our biggest opponent right now is roads."

Committee approves S1B0raisein Metro's COF stipend funditg

crisis Metrostudents uyerlModelArohLeugue talceover all oolitcal affairs bv the rnilitarv."

Meto shldeni Yvette Orin-Martinez said.alt was really cool. Basically, we were just able After an attack on Syrians and Palestin- to take over all political afiain bv this looe ians in Syriq Sy,riais preparing to go to war. hole in this real Leaty."

Orin-Martinez traveled to Salt Lake City As delegatesto the kague of Arab Nations debate the proper course of action, the Suda- along with fellow Meho students Stephen nese delegation of theJoint Defense Council Norieg4Joshua Clesi, Kalilah Shelton, Steve invokes a lifileknown clause and seizespow- Lewis and Mctoria Martinez b participate er, shuting down the other League councils, in the Rocky Mountain regional meeting of so they can act quickly to avert widespread the Model Arab League, a program of the conllict and prevent the crisis from escalat- National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations.

From Feb. 23 tn 25, schools from the ing out of control. region represented countries of the achral Ids a frightening scenariowith worldwide implications, guaranteed to make front-page Arab l,eague in real-world scena.rios,giving studenb an invaluable opportmity to headlines if it occurred in real life.

This time, though, it occurred aspart of a not only leam Arab history and poli[cs, but meeting of the Model Arab kague, a group to get handson pracfice in the art of diplotlnt put college and high school studenb in macy, the role of diplomab.

"It ended up being an excellent diple Meto shrdenh repnesented Sudan and matic exercise because it dealt with not just took a bold, controversial action to block (the predictable) tensions between countries ,.. but also dealt with the naural 0ensionsbe Syria from acting rashly.

Even if the evenb were imaginary, the tween cornmittees and individuals and that made it a mudr more realistic model for anv possibilities are real "We had to use real (Arab Ieague) doc- large diplomatic body," Norieg:a said.

Meto's representativeswere forhrnate to umentation. We used their joint defense to B,v Cr-rry Casciato cascirzto@mscd. edu

have the opportunity to meet with Babiker Khalifa" a career diplomat from Sudan who has served as Sudan's ambassador to South Korea and aspart of Sudan's United Natiors delegation. lftalifa spent four hours briefing Metro's team on Sudan, Islam and related iszues.

The briefing helped the team stay in chaxacter and to see issuesfrom a Sudaneseperspective. ' "The most important thing I think, that comes out of (it) is that ... it forces us to come out of the box, and (to) rethink political affairs," Orin-MarHnez said. "We are then forced to think asArabs would, with a different set of priorities, with different needs.n Shelton said it humanized the abstract 'oroblems we read about and see everv dav. '"h "A lot of times, people see it ; it s just on the news; we're handling that They're just terrorists,' but if you see it from their point of view, Fom their perspectives on a human level, they are trying thea besl" she said.

The flip side is a better understanding of how the rest of the world seesthe United States.

"It reallv makes vou look al how we're being represented in other parts of fhe world, what people really think about us," Clesi said. "rvVhenyou have to go in some where and act like you don't like America, you have to start undentanding why you don't like America. It makes you really look inside and say, 'I see why people don't like the American perspective.'"

Metro's delegates didn't have class time to prepare for the event and lacked resources, zuch as an Arab language pro gftun or Middle Eastem shrdies major that many teamshad. Deqpite tha! they said they eamed the respect of their peen and were recogniu d for their efforb.

Clesi and Noriega received an award for Ourtanding Delegation for their performance on the Poliucal Affairs Committee.

Ori*Martlnez and kwis didnt win alry awards, but may ultimarely get even more recognition for taking over the kague via theJoint Defense Council.

"Becauseof it, the handbook might actually be rewritten, and I think we should be real proud of that " Noriega said.

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Mebo is charting a course on becoming the country's preeminent baccalaureatecolBy Jirnmie Braley lege in the country and to achieve this standbralE@mscd.edu ing, the school needs to better understand it's current image and perception.

Speaken ad&essed a crowd on carnpus March 28 to discuss "One great tag line is worth a thousand American studies in universities, Native the importance of Nafive words,' said Cathy Lucas, Metro's vice presAmerican aflcestry assertionsof Univenity of C,olorado at Boulder ident of communications. professor Ward Churcbill and the diqpute surrounding his inllamMetro's current t"g lir", "Colorado's matorv remarks.

College of Opporu,rnity," will be revised as The event was orgarrized by Metro Political Science professor part of the branding process. and Director of Native Arnerican Studies Za Merahto.

'The poliucs of irony is what the Churchill case is all abou!'

"We want !o change the current tag line to build on the fact that you have to work said Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, the keynote speaker. "Ward Chuchill hard to obtain a degree from Meho," Lucas has committed identiy thefl' said.

Elizabâ&#x201A;Źth Cook-Lvnn is of lakota Native American descent and Branding commonly known to involve a well-known author bn Native Arnerican sovereignty. a hot flame and iron rymbols difllbrentiating Shewasjoined by three other pan"li"t speal<ersincluding Denver livestock, isn't what Meto hesident Stephen Human Righb & Comrmmity Relations Director Darius Smith, Amy had in mind. His idea is to separate Jordan Weinstein,-executive director of the National Scholarship hoviders Meho from other institutions.

Association and Metro anthropology professorJack Schulu.

Branding is a cornmon marketing term Cook-Lynn said Churchill has also come under fire for his claims rneaning tademark, or distinctive name of Native American Qibwa heritage. identifing a product or a manu-facture.

While Cook-Lynn, Meranto and others agree that some of For the new branding to tal<e place, a Churchill's essaysaxe able to help the Native American cause, his commrmications audit will be conducted by ancesby claims have done nothing but slap the face of every true Stacv l,ewis and Associates.in coniunction .Native American. '[\e withJordan's office and a task forcl of key RoclE Moudain Neus has repored that it has "identiffed 142 faculty and staff. direct forebears of Churchill and urmed up no evidence of a single "A common question that may be asked Indian ancestor among them," the survey pmcess is: if Mebo was a during At one point during the panel discussion, Smith came under car, what kind of car would it be? Is it ecoo Plxrto bv \latthew Jon25 jonasm@rnscd.edrr verbal anack by a prcChurchill Nalive American in attendance. ''II Native Americans crifique the handling of issues regarding nomical, reliable and dependable? Through theponelwhile that and other questions it will help shape lvlekoprohssorZio Meronlo,right,oddresses Native Americans, they come under a-frackand are regarded as in room640 in left, looks on Morch 30 the image of what Metro is," Lucas said.

Elizobeth Cook-Lynn, disloyal to the Native l\merican's overall cause," Smith said in his ' In addition to changing ttre tag line MetAmericon prothe Tivoli.

The ponel discussed Nolive studies defense. ro's logo may be expanded upon. groms,fie effectof Word Churchillon fheircultureondwoys He said what Churchill has done is create an aura of distust The purpose is to have a more integratamong partisan Native American groups. lo provideproofof tribolheritrrge. ed marketing approach, Lucas said.

Cook-Lynn said the only thing Churchill has accomplished Lucas said tha.t 10 years ago a ffrm cre th-"Ch hit claims seerrs to be a violent separation between conser- lv- from ethnic studies, not minorities," Cook-Lynn saidare ated a school nickname, the MeL "Indians vative and liberal Native American groups on issuesconceming the She also said she believes that Native Americans cannot ralioThe moniker was not well received by Naflve American commmity. they are shrdents and faculty. Lucas said that many In addiUon to Churchill, Meranto spoke about ethnic studies nally be placed under any sort of eihnic pretext because of the faculty used their own colors on busiin relafion to native shrdies, the concept of indigenous pe$pectives "indigenous oothe land.' they are and Nalive American iszues many respecb, different ness cards, instead of Mebo's colon.

"In in native shrdies and the issues within the Native American comto Americans,' Schulu said, responding to separating apply Native goal now is to create a new image The munity. that would convey what its shrdent body The panel of speakersspoke significandy about the importance ethnic and native studies. reDresents, of teaching Native America4 stu&es in our:universities independentSeePA\EL on 7

Portruyol bymedio skewed 0flruqoccupolion B,vBoy'dFletcher fletc/t.ar@mscrl.edu Two Iraqi joumalists, Urban Hamid and Eman Ahmad Ktramas, spoke to a crowd of about 75 people Saturday, March 24 at Augustana\ Lutheran Church about their perspectiveson the war, and how the United States occupation a.ffectsthe lives of the everyday haqi citizen.

Harni{ 46, is a freelancejoumalist working in the Middle EasL He was bom to a Swedish mother and haqi father and raised in Sweden. He was the only Swedish journalist in Baghdad during the war in 2004.

Hamid started the evening, and without a projector available for him to show images of the war, he found himself "winging il" as he discussedhis tavels in Iraq.

"Of course, I guess this is a very appropriate way to talk about the war in Iraq that is lead by an administration that is basically \^/inging'iq'" Harnid said. "In lraq, you jways have to improvise."

Hamid said people he has talked with in

Iraq would prefer going back to 'wartime," "It all happens under occupation, how is this free?" Hamid said. as opposedto "peacetime."

Hamid also touched on an issue that He talked about how power outagesduring the war were planned, and that hospitals Khamas spoke on, which was the newly crecould prepare for surgeries around those ated divisions of Sunni and Shiite we often outages. Since the war ended, power out- hear about. According io Harnid, this has ages have been sporadic. never been a problem in haqi society.

Hamid urged the partially firll audience have alwap been just Iraqi," Ha-mid"We to take responsibility and to make sure the said.

He also ended his speech urging the sfuggles in lraq are not forgotten and lost in the skewed media. He said the president Americar people to accept responsibility, has already said this problem will be passed and demand our administration to tell the along to the next adminisha.tion and, as truth and begin a withdrawal of toops.

Americans, we should not accept thaL "Whether or not we like il we must do "If the situation was not really as bad as it " Hamid said.

Khamas was formerly a professor of Engit is, then why is the Pentagon bribing the Iraqi media to write good things about the lish literanre at Baghdad University rmtil the war started and she devoted all of her time situafion?" Hamid said.

Hamid was in kaq from Oct. 15, 2005 and efforts to documenting crimes comuntil Dec. 15, 2005, during Ere time the new mined by U.S. and Iraqi forces, as well as Iraqi constitution was being written. What wornen's conditions in occupied Iraq in a should have been a sip.ficant time in arry monthb, newsletter, She focused her work on four main arnation's history, he said, was ma.rred be cause of U.S, representativesbeing involved eas: bombings, detainees, the missing and in the writing. hmilies.

Many more cities than we hear about have been and are bombed, even though intemational law says blanket bombings of cities are forbidden.

"You cannot bomb cities to find a few armed men," Khamas said. "They bomb everything, schools, markets, steets, shops, bridges."

Hospitals are shut down durlng bombings, Khamas said. Patiens are not allowed in and ambulances are not allowed out to retrieve the wounded. She said the bombings last until the Americans decide it's safe enough to invade. Then they come in shooting and raiding houses.

"They kill and injure during the raids, arresting all the men they ffnd" Khamas said.

The men who are not deemed "suspicious" are released after being identiffed and recorded.

The sibration of detaineesgeb worse and worse every day, Khamas said. While we hear about a few of the prisons here in the states, Khamas said there are an unknown

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. Education's role PANEL Schulu explained that becauseof the Native Americans' claim to sovereipty and indigenousness,the two studiesare extensively difierent and must be taught differendy.

"It is imporiant " Cook-Lynn said, "that we have authentic lrdian professorsto teadr native shrdiesto keep our true history intact, and nafive shrdies are dre only educational stralegy in use to keep Indian nations sovereigr."

According to Cook-Lynn, Native American children have the highest dropout rate; they have served the most time in the Arnerican penal system and are notoriously the poorest group of people in the nation.

Cook-Lynn explained that "the new generations of Indians are capitalisb," and she said she believes capitalism is what is at the head of the stuggling Nalive American commrmity because it "atempb to exploit

our resources.

"Change or be killed," is the message Meranto said she perceives from society toward the Native American.

She also said that in respect to a free na[on" by which we all assumingly live, that statement implies anti.Americanism itself.

Meranto claims it is un-American. bv deffnition, !o expect assimilation of the Native American culture into a society to which it does not pertaiq nor has it ever been rightflrlly a$liated with.

She also said what the Native American nations need among themselvesis functional and positive rlialogue where libelous claims can't lead to fruther discrepanciesof what it means to be a "true' Native American. .All of this creates such a firestorm that it impacb all groups, not just Native Americars." Meranto said.

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Boll ond Foncy forRID Ploin Vote upcoming for40th roors bock feereferendum student The Auraria Board of Directors, at the request of the Surdent Advisory Cornmittee to the Auraria Board, has approved a referendum to support renewal of the fee to provide for the RTD Bus & Light Rail Pass Program.

The prograrn has been in eflect since 1995. Both sh,rdentridership and available services have grown over the period of the Passprogram.

Polling places will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on April 5 and 6.

Studenb will need a current Auraria Campus Sudent ID in order to vote.

o Ll.S.role questioned IRAO number of prisons in Iraq.

Wards of tents containing thousands of haqi men are dispersed across the country, and, according to Khamas, the images of detainees being tortured at the Abu Gharib prison were not just isolated to that prison.

Kharnas said prisoners with whom she has talked, who have been released,said the conditions did get beuer for them after the Abu Gharib prison abuse pholos surfaced, however, abuse and tortlre is still a daily routine.

An American sergeant known to prisoners only as "Satano is one of"the worst known abusers. One of his favorite reported techniques is the "scorpion," which is when a prisoneds arms and legs are tied together behind their back for an extended period of time dwing interrogation.

Sleep deprivation and dragglng are other common methods of torture. The rnost dshunani?ing, however, is keeping ihe men by the thousards naked in the camps.

Thousands of prisoners are undocumented, and I(hamas estimatesbetween 5,000 to 15,000Iraqi men are being held in unknown prisons without charges.

"They ar9 leaving their families behind, worried for them," I(hamas said.

The proof of these missing and undocumented men comes from reports of other prisoners who have been released, as they often contact the missing person's family uPon rerezrse. lraqi and U.S. forces are also guilty of kidnapping entire families !o get to one or two of the men of that familv. ICramas said. . The condition of women in Iraq has also become worse with the post-war occupation, Khamas said.

"Iraoi women did not need the helo of hesideni Bush,ol(hamas said.

I(hamas, whose mother was college educated and whose daughten both a.ttendcollege, said the American public has been told many lies about the condition of women in Iraq dudng the regime of Saddam Hussein.

The ffrst female judge in the Arab world was an Iraqi woman in the '40s.

"The Iraqi woman is not a hiding creahue," Khamas said. *It is true that family is the ffrst priority, but women have always been docton, lawyen and professors.'

She said rape and abuse have become more corlmon during the occupation.

"We did not see rapes and beatings be fore; we did not seeprostitutes openly in the s8eeb." Khamas said.

"Our daily life has been desboyed. We have no health care systern- Medicines are in short supply,' Khamas said. "Women are killed in childbirth because of inadequate medicines."

When asked if she thinks whether pulling the toops out would stop the violence, Khamas replied that the troops are not the problem; the occupation is the problem.

"As bad !$ we were! now it is much wone," I(hamas said. "The occupation is angering people and the troops are only worried about protecting themselves, and rightfu[y so, but they are terriffed and shoot very quickly. They don't care and they kilI civilians."

I(harnas said the often-publicized division betwem Surmi and Shiites has been ampliffed into a conflict by the Western media and govemments, and our deman& that they must equally be represented in their goveErrrent "The Americans create this religion's division with thek demands." Khamas said.

"In 6,000years ofhistory we have never had a civil war. In the meantime, Iraq should be given the opporhrnity to truty be represented. The oresence of Americans in anv of our electiins makesthem void to us."

She said American authorities need to give the Iraqi people a date by which they will leave and a fue world coalition would be welcome in their place.

Kelly Dougherty, 27, was in attendance.

Dougherty, a former military police officer in Iraq, is now actively involved with Iraq Veterans Against the War. "Everghing she talked about tonight I have read about and heard about before. It confirms what I believed, but I take no pleasure in that. From my experience there, the way I saw the Iraqi people treated was pretty horrible. I just saw a lot of how the average kaqi civitans were teated by the mllitary."

"We simply need some goodwill, and we see none from the United States." Khamas said.

Khamas said she hopes her visit can help inform the American people of the reality of what is going on in baq, not as an kaqi or as a journalis! but simply as a citizen of the world.

"I have met some very sincere, wonderfi.rl, compassionate people here who are against the war," Khamas said. "I hope that my visit can help people see the reafity and react accordingly."

For the ffrst time in 10 years, the Metro hmily and co'mmunity zupporters mixed h:xes and tails, Calvins and Crocs, diamonds and dusters to raise money for the Metro Alumni Association's programs and scholarships.

The Plain & Fancy Ball was resurrected this past Saturday, March l& at the Hyas Regency at the Colorado Convention Center, in celebration of Mebo's 40th aruriversary. The last time the ball was held was for the College's 30th armivenary.

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Unlike many artists,hiphop and music in general is a love for me, notjust a hobby or a fad. So, when I decided to make my music available to the masses,much time, Iiquor and money wns spent to rearh the ffnal product There is never a back or song that sounds right, good or complete, There were many anxiety- and insomniafflled nights. Puaing out an album requires faith and skin thick enough to repel bullets in the form of envy, criticism and ouright disbelief--+rotonly fiom detactors but also from within. However, if one can stay fo cused and relatively sober, the result may be a work that not only satisffesthe ears of the listeners,but also soothesthe soul of the artist. You might be astonished to realize what you are capable ol!

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Gard,entngfre esusofp osiorufrom corporate erploitation l,ate this winter, I begal scheming with my best comrades to bring us a litde closer to liberation using one of the most popular hobbies in the United States.We were not plarming to erase our ffnancial debts with a rousing game of team sports on Wall Street, nor did we intend !o free ourselvesof socio economic barriers by staring blanlly into televisions.No, we began to plan a garden.

When most people think of gardening, they surely do not think of revolutionary activity. I undentand. Hoes, rakes,earthworms, drip irrigation and floral printed gloves did not always equate to resistance for me, either. Then, I was hit with a revelation.

I need food to suffive, yet I depend on

people I do not know to plan what foods I have accessto, how they are produced, how those working on the food will be hea.ted and where in the world th.y * grown. So many people in the United States,myself included, could not imagine providing their own food for themselves. This forces them to be dependant upon King Soopen, Safeway, Wild Oats ard other corporate giants.

We cannot provide the bare means of our own suwival-.How is that freedom?

The distancebetween us, and or:r body's fuel, is not the only disturbhg element of contemporary agriculhre.

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"Words" - Missing Persons Words are the backbone of this newspaper, and, for that mauer, any document worth reading. I have loved words since I began speaking them at around l&months of age. Some words I miss. You just don't hear anyone refer to themselves as feeling .dandy" a.nymore,nor is "swell" used much as an adjective these days. Before I die, I would love 'to to be told to "unhand" some one, ot "seize" them.

Some words I'm not so fond of ("fond," there's another one you don't hear very of ten in this, the 2I' Cenhrry), I never saw much use for the conFaction "mustrr't " haven't found any reason to use the word "cross" as an adjective, and though I'm late much more often than I'm on time. I hardlv ever refer t.,ompelf as being 'tardy."

What bothen me the most about both the sooken and the written word in this new mil;ntuq is that it---especiallythe spoken word-has become a series of one.word utterances. Blame it on the popular media, the undeserved influx of skeet culhrre, or just'plain laziness, but the current English language doesn't sound like the one I have hied so hard and so long to masler. . These days, instead of saying "goodbye," we end our phone conversadonswith the salutation, "late'" (because God knows saying the whole word "later" is so taxing !o the human vocal system). The first time someone ended a phone conversation with me by saying "late- I thought the phone line had been cut What the caller actually said was, "'I( bro', late'" Starting a phone conversation (or "convo" as Cwmoplitan so loves to say) with the irritaring and oh, so grammatically incorrecg "Where you at?" is, to me, akin to fingernails on a blackboard. Great for getting attention for when you want to sell your senices as, say, a shark hunter, but otherwise wortl ess.

There is a very good reason not to end a sentencein a preposition: you sound stupid when you do. Of coune, there are excep tions to even that nrle. As Winston Churdrill so eloquendy-and .lokingly-replied when asked whether using a preposition at the end of a sentencewas ever acceptable: sTbat is something up with which I will not put." lately, we have also become inrmdated with slang, acronyms, creative spelling (mosdy feahring the letter "2") and abbre viations. This I blame'on the hiphop cr-rlurre that thinla it s being clever when calling the police "5Otr,' and dre city of Adanta the "ATL" and misspelling virurally everything.

I consider myself to be a puris! maybe even a word/grammar snob in an "Eats, Shoots, and Ireaves" kind of way, so when I see a line of kids' dolls called "Bralz"which look tike cheap, sheet comer hooken, by the way-I cringe. I can only imagine documents written bv the fuure adulc who played with these d6lls as kids: We da homies of da United Statâ&#x201A;Źzof da A'' in order ta form a more phat Unio4 yo..." I shudder at the thoughl

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The tarman in sheep'sclothirg When I ffrst heard about taxes-at around the age of seven-my initial reaction was they're unfair, and I'll never pay them. As I grew older, I began to reali"e that taxes are an inevitable, necessary evil: they provide services we take for granted (and many we're not aware ofl, utd we haae b pay them.

But, who will know if you don't pay, you ask?Isn't the IRS too busy to pay attention to litde old me? Isn't the IRS more of a derei"ient?Thirrk again, wage eamer. According toJeff Schnepper, writing for MSN's financial Web site, the IRS has been offering sizeablebonuses since the 1960sto those w\o are willing to rat on their tax*haking neighbors. According to the article, every year the IRS 'collects more than $100 million (in unpaid taxes) and pays out from $2 million to $5 million to snikhes."

Is this program just govemment-sponsored harassrnent,or is it ach.rallybenefiting the IRS? Schnepper, referencing a report by USA Today srates,"In 2003, dre IRS paid out $4 million to informants who helped the IRS punue 190 cases,which logether recouped more than $61 million in taxes.'

$127 bilion." Or, to put it in perspectivet twothirds of running the war in baq-every yealr.

For anyone tempted to turn in a taxevader, just remember all rewards given out by the IRS are considered taxable.

As if worrying about your neighbon weren't enough, the IRS announced in 2004 that it will o.itrorlr"" tax collection to tluee private firms-firms guaranteed to be more diligent tha:r the govemment in coming after Gl-LOF'\,\:'OLLERIAN you--especiaiiy with a 25 percent Cb gwolbmt@mrd.e,rtu sion for successfir.lcollection. In an online articie by tax joumalist Kay Bell, she reporG, You might say, "Yeah, OK but who are "the IRS argued that such outsourcing would thesepeople secredyworking for the IRS? involve nrimarilv uncontested ttu\ debts and Certainly no one 1know." Unforhrnately, it would free up agency employees to more they rnight be closer to home than you aggressively prusue more egregious, and think. According to the Associated hess, richer, violators." nmore than three out of five people suweyed "When all is said and done," Bell continby the IRS Ovenight Board,' said tax-cheats ue4 "the IRS expects private debt collectors should be tumed in by their neighbors. ln will bring &e U.S. Treasury an additional Las Vegas, three out of ffve is pretty good $1.4billion in outstandingtaxes."

Don't sweatit. (Well, ur essyou're cheatodds--only this is in favor of the house.

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Human righe, environmental destruction, massive doses of poison and creepy biotechnology are polluting the process of putting food in our mouths.

One day, I realized the onions in my refrigerator could very well be farmed by an economic refugee from Mexico, who is undocumented and is getting paid stanation wages. My precious Fritos ale most likely made from corn that is genetically modiffed and the fruit I eat for dessert probably required hundreds more calories .]f nret to hansport acrossnational borders thal it pro vides for my body. I was forced to recognize that the reason my veggies have no blemishes from bugs are the floods of pesticides commercial farms douse them in.

I began looking into the fertilizers used to grow food to obese proportions.

According to the U.S. Public Interest Re search Group, chemicals like arsenic, mercurv and lead are orevalent in commercial fertilizen; two out o?three times, at levels so high it would be illegal to dispose of them in 'public landfflls. I-et s just say something told me that the nutritional values of my broccoli and qpinachwere not neutralizing the poison

and a Social Security card, a copy of your prior year's tax rehm and bank information if you're looking for a direct deposit on your rehm.

America may have been founded by a bunch of rich white guys who didn't want to pay them, but taxes have made America what it is today.

So, ieave your calculator at home and make your way down to a VTIA station near you before April 11, and before your neighbors get suspicious.You might think you're safe, but the call of cash can often trump the tenuous relationship between a tax+vader and his one-time nosy neighbor.

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feaJ Bu! time is mrming oul The last days to receive the assistancewill be April 4 at the Emily Griffith Opportnity School, and April I I at Auraria Campus in the Tivoli Snrdent Lotmge.

The VTIA staff can help you determine what you owe, or, hopefirlly, what the govemment owes Jo,e They'll and even ftle it for you-for free. Servic-esa-reopen to any residen! nonresident and international student who made less than $35,fin last year.

of rare and colorful olants.Becausewe were used to keep them pristine.

To resolve this. mv friends and I con- not working wi*r i profftdriven colporatacted Denver Urban Gardens. put down a tion. Seed Saven orovided instructionson deposit on three ploa of land, iccumulated each packet to harvest seeds fiorn our crop tools and sat down to plan an all-organic for next summer. I cannot wait to see what garden. We *ill use composted food scraps our Moon ard Stars u'atermelons, Oaxacan as fertilizer, marigolds as pest repellents and Green Dent Com and Cherokee Pumle torare species of plants from organic seed to matoesbring us in t}e yearsto come.

Besidesthe fear of imminent doom from ensure our garden is good for us and environmentally sustainable. Equally importanl a brutalized environment, I have realized we have agreed to give ow excess food to just hor.r' irnportant gardening is for us as organizations that feed anyone r,r'ho needs individuals. I know nothing more therapeutic than hacking soil, nurturing sprouts and it-groups zuch as Food Not Bombs.

Our current agriculhral situation is a di- playing in the dirt.

Plus, I feel closer to the people I love sasterwaiting to happen. We have come to depend on homogeny in our produce such and adore, from my parents who taught me as yellow com, green beans, red tomatoes how to garden, my friends who will join me and brown potatoes. Many of these plants this summer and all of the others we hooe are becoming weak and thinned ou! creat- to feed.

We are a generalion thal relies on fast ing the need for genetic modiffcation to enfood, plastic-pickaged meals and all-night sure that they do not become endangered.

There are so many other plant speciesin grocery stores. and we are taking ourselves efstence that produce black com, red po- back to the basics of providing food that is tatoes, spotted watermelons and practically good for us and our earth at a fraction of the anv other color of the rainbow in all your iost of any supermarkel It also gives us the favorite veggies. For our community garden personal satisfaction of independence from we found Seed Savers-a nonprofrt organi- corporate ex?loitation.

There are few freedoms beter than the zation emphasizing the importance of biodivenitv-that orovided us with an abundarce liberation you can taste.

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As expected, liberals throughout the nation have united together in defendeof Bennish. They're n:ying to convince us this is a matter of the Fint Arnendrnent right to free speech, thut it Ir OK to indoctrinate lS grade surdens (who should be learning where to ffnd Iraq on a map) with radical anti-U.S. kopaganda by insinuating our president is similar to one of the most evil men in history.

The fact that the far left agreeswith his illogical commenhry doesn't surprise me.

What surprises rne is that they actually be lieve they are advocatesof the Rrst AmendmenL If Beniish had made a derogarory remark about a minority group, would those same picketers be on the steet showing their support for his righb? I didn't think so. This is a malter of what is a necessaxydiscussion in a high school classroom, not freedom of speâ&#x201A;Źcn.

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the president talked about 'how America should be the cor.rntry that dominates the world," and that it is our' "duty as Americans to go out into the world and make the whole world like us. Sor,rndsa lot like the things Adolf Hider used to say.'

Apparendy, the left thinlcs this is an is. sue that should be discussed,since Bush is referred to as a Nazi by anti-war protesters on a daily basis. So let's discussiL Acbrally, I think a few questiong will sufffce. Is Bush sending millions of Americans to die in concenbation camps? Was Hitler invading Poland to promote freedom and democracy?

Wor d f{itler have made Condoleezza Rite one of his top officen? Would he have sup ported Israel?

This has really become one of the most ridiculous and unkue liberal conceptions of the right wing, that it is practically bne step awav from Nazi Germanv. This tired conparison is a classic case oi f"r-I"ft piojection if I've ever seenone.

Libenls will usually admit that communism is a far-left ideal. Some will go out of their way to defend it (if only it were run the wav Marx had intended. it would work 'they today, swear!), But Nazisrn is stictly right-wing and since it is right-wing, it's OK to consider it evil (thougtr some liberal moral relativists have trouble widr fiat word).

While the Nazis and Communists may have mutrallv hared each other. rhe differences

have had a very kotestant history, but just because Nazis didnt exterminate the Chris tians didn't mean thev abided bv arrv kind of Christian moral svs'tem.

Totalitarianism if any kind is a leftist idea, becauseit subscribesto the belief that the govemmen! not God, is the source of human rights, and that is always a dangerous system. Commr.rnism and Nazism, both of godlessinspinlion, combined to kill over 100 million people in the 2Ohcentu5r. Even theocracies, like Saddam Hussein's brutal Iraqi regime, claim to be religious, but always end up rejecting the bue meaning of their religion in what Urns out to be a power-hungry despotism. When a belief in some kind of higher power combines with freedom and iustice-like in America-it makes it much more difficult to commit crimes agahst humanity. This explains conservatives' pahiotisrn, which liberals twist inlo some sort of Nazi jingoismIs your everyday Democrat a Nazi? Of course nol Is the farieft? They may be a lot of bizarre things, but they aren't Nazis, either. Nazism is an exheme form of evil that, hopefirlly, will never again rise to power on this planel I'm simply trying to make the point that equating American conservatives, who promote freedom, with Nazis, who deny freedorn, is not only petty politics, it is flat-out wrong.

As a shrden! on Feb.7, I received an + mail fiom Mebo's IT Departnrent entitled nSecureYour Portable Computer." It saysin part "... never leave a laptop unattended not even for a minute ... when not in use, they should be locked up out of sight ... should require some kind of boorup password ... also should require a logon usernamefpassword or biomehic authentication before ... data can be accessed.Ask yourself what the consequenceswould be if your computer were stolen or data copied ..."

At hesident StephenJordan's March 9, "open meeting" he said Daniel Parks, the employee who had possessionof a laptop with 93,000 studenb' personal information on it when it was stolen from his home, has breached no Metro oolicies. has broken no laws, and is not considereda suspectin the crime by the Denver police.

As a Meho snrdenl I want to feel conffdent that every single employeefrom hesident Jordan on down-remembers that Metro is a public institution where students pay tuitionfees and where iheir tax dollars help support Meto. I want to feel confident that Shrdents'personal information is respected. How can I have conffdence at this point?

It's interesting Mr. Jordan "spoke out" in the March 10, 2006 issue of the Rocky

Moudain Neus, not on the identity theft, but on "Meho needs beefed-up state suP port" Although I would like to see Mebo receive additional frmds, is this the time to reouest thern? In the March 9 issue of Zfre Mitropolitan, Meho's spokesperson Cathy Lucas is quoted, saying "This is a crisis" in reference to the identity theft. I agree with I\{s. Lucas. At a time of crisis, it would seem imoerative that all hands be on deck to deal with the crisis. Focus should be on the fact that the penonal.

Maybe this was a crime of opportrnity where the thief was only interested in ger ting a laptop, any laptop. Bu! then again, maybe noL OE maybe once he/she realized what was on the laptop, it was sold, resold for its contents. In any case, students are at risk right now.

However, If you are a strdent at Metro, please consider checking www.â&#x201A;Źo.state. co.usy'dthe{fecurityfreeze.cftn for information from the Colorado Afiorney General on the New Colorado Security Frleze Option, effectiveJuly l.

With this law, you can stop the release of your credit reporl which is typically how a thief initiates a credit card or loan in your narne.

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(1 f Patrick'sday is often known to be one of the more rowdy and rambunctiousholidavs the year. It was no surprise,then, that the historicallyseedyDeno,erColiseum hosted a \of lvlrather surly group of ladiesknown as the Denver Roller Dolls for an eveningfrrll of bonecmnching, butt-bruising excitement.

The league'sdebut bout was billed as the "Dawn of the Dolls," and it createdwhat may be the dawn of a new era of extreme sDortsfor fans near and far.

The debut pitted The Green BarrettesagainstThe Bad Apples in the ffrst bout since the league was created nearly four months ago.

"It's a labor of love," Bad Apples' Kitty Kaos said."The amount of hours and planning and time that went into this and talking the Coliseum into letting an unknon n into the venue rvas a big, big deal."

Many of the DRD came from Rocky Mor.rntain Roller Girls league, rvhich began competing in August of 2004. Mary of those that split fiom the RMRG said it rvasin search of a more competitive "sport-like" environment.

"There's a lot of showmanshipin roller derby in the past and its kind of been tied to wresding" the Green Barrette'sSissyRinlahaw said. "But rl'e as a leaguedecided we would not do the fake ffghting thing."

"If ihere's fights, they'll be for real; I can guarantee that," Finkshaw added. "We made it a spor! again.'

And a brutal sDort it is.

Roller Derby ionsists of t\^r'oteams and an oval track. Though the fracks are haditionally banked. the DRD comoete on flaL concretehacks.instead.

Aggressive by naUre, the hip-checking, pushing and spilling can tend to over-shadow a sport that relies squarely on endurance, agility, speed and strategy. And, perhaps, a litde Sf Patty's day luck.

"Roller derby beatsout every sport there is today," Green Barrette'sFriction VixXren said.

"There's a lot of shategythat goes into it bui sometimesyou're just all Harry Carrey all over the hack just b,l'inC to stay up."

The goal of roller derby is simple.A bout consistsof tlree timed periods and the objective, like most soorts.is io accumulaiethe most ooints bv the bouCsend.

Each team consistsof five skatersrhat include ihree blockers, one pivot and one jammer.

The pivot usually sets the pace for the pack, while the jammer is the only player on the team that can scoreooints. Skaten often rotate Dositionsfrom one round to another.

The blockeis and pivots begin each round at the singleu.histle.Secondslater, the jammers take offto a double whistle and begin pursuit of the pack. The first jammer to cut through the entire pack, without being knocked out of bounds, is the leadjammer. At that poinl the "jam" has begun arrd both jammers cal begin to scorepoints based on how many opposingskaters thev passwhile remaining in bormds.

The jam ends after two rninutes. The lead jammer ca:r also end the jam at any point arld may due so for strategicreasons.

The rules of the rink are similar to those of the hockey kind. Hitting is allowed in the form of hip, torso and shoulder-checks.Another legal move is "whipping," in which a skater (usually a blocker and sometimesthe pivot) "whips" the jammer around, increasingher speed and sometimesallowing her to passmore quickly through the pack. uYou knol' the big girls are going to be arvesomeblocking and the litde girls are going to be awesomejamming," Bad Apples'Jersey Trouble said. 'Bui it a.llcomes down to 'Do you have the heart for- it and a-reyou going to go out there and rvork your assofl' If you are, you'll be a great roller derbv girl."

R oller Derby bega.nduring the Great Depression when promoter leo SelEer created the sport to compete with the popular hend of dance marathons. The sport has morphed through severalstagesof theatricsand doomed econornicsin the decadessince,but is looking for a new revival in today's shifting sports market.

"I thtrk rolier derby is quite the phenomenon," Kaos said. "Especiallythe fact that this is such an old sport and that it is making such a huge comeback.'

And the intensity and sincerity of the sport - and perhaps the shod skirts and decoratiye panites - r,lill likely keep the crowds coming back for more.

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n wheels "I said ffnt and foremost that it was reaily just a great excuse for the exhibitionist buried :ep inside," VixXxen said.

"And some of us that don't have it buried very deep inside," recruit Sin Dixie added with laugh.

It's not all fun and flirting though.

"It's absolutely a sporl" Green Barrette's Sheila Tack said. "Anybody that saysit's not can ssmy ass.

The true cause for the Denver derby revival is largely due to the efforts put forth by the .embersof the DRD. "Not only are they hard-core bitches on the track, they are powerhouses," DPD spokesom;rr and Green Barrette Audrey Rugbum said. "I mean, we organized this and put it ail on rrselves in a matter of months and its really inspiring."

The skatersas a whole are an insoiration. Manv of them trained two or three fimes a week order to prepare for the debut and the atlrletes that make up the league are professionals, Lrdentsand mothers in their snare time.

"We're doing it for a good iause and we pay out of our own pocket and we work our asses I,' Rinlshaw said. "I work full-time and have a three-yearold daughter and roller derby is the her oart of mv life."

Eich member of the DPD is also requted to do 2,{ hours of seruice to charities of their roide and the league itself works with cliariUes such as The Gathering Place, Habitat for Huanitv and Project Angel Heart.

"We wanted to do something for the community," Green Barrette's Pho Kp said. We felt was important 0ogive back to the community."

And for the men, the bout provides all the competition and grueling athleticism that has ways fascinated the lesser species.Along with a little bit of leg.

"Any time you get girls bumping into each other and falling down in litde short skirG; it's ways firn. Right?" spectator Brian Knowles said. "So I say 'Come all.'"

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Allin thefqmily gomes EA theviolence toconsoles brings oftheunderworld, ring boxing The Godfather Publisher: EA Games Price: $39.99 Platform: Xbor, PS2, PSP There are offers you cant refuse and ofrers that, well, you could take or leave.

Unforurnatelv. EA Games' video game adaptatiori of "The Godfather" is more of the lafier trran the former.

Despite a degree of engaging game play and a good dose of nostalgia for hardcore fans of the original fflm, the feel of the game owes too much to predecesporsto offer any fresh dvnamics.

Thls is EA's bid to enter the profftable realm of the Grand Theft Auto series,complete with the freeforrn action and the option to hijack can and wreak violent chaos. For GTA veterans, the main elements of dre game ring a bit hollow in their familiarity, even as the cinematic elemenb distinguish the plot Thongh actor Al Pacino and director Francis Ford C,oppola both disavowed the projec! the game makes a point to complement the 1972classicfflm.

There is a respect and a devotion to the original that shine in the details of the game. Despite the holdoub, EA managed to hre many of the origi4al mqjor players.JamesCaan, Robert Duvall andJohn Martino all reprise their pivotal roles as members of the Corleone family and crew. Even Marlon Brando recorded with the EA crew before his death. Unforumately, the sessiondid not provide enough usable malerial, and an imitator performs most of Don Corleone's lines.

The designen make fi:ll use of this impressive castin the game's stucb:re and cut scenes.This is not a "choose your own advenhre" version of the fflrq as no moments frorn the fflm are altered in the course of the game play. Luca Brasi still sleepswith the fuhes and the Don is still gunned down in the steet.

The action of the game resides in a new character, who

Fight Night Round 3 Publisher: EA Ga^mes Price: $39.99 - $59.99 Platforms: Xbox, Xbor 360, PS2, PSP Video game boxing has come a long way from the days of "Punch Out's" Iitfle Mac. Electronic Arts has been the top dog in the ffeld of boxing games since it larmched the 'Knockout Kings" series in 2001. Its latest release,"Fight Night Round 3," is the first to take the virfual spod to the next generation of consoles. Its mind-blowing graphics and more realistic game play make it one of the better games !o come out for the Xbox 360.

On a highdeffnition televisi'on,the graphics add a new degree of reallsm. Fighters are seen in high resolution, down to the lifile impact ripples of a stiff punch. This effect is best seenin the slow-motion replays after the boxer is knocked down.

Several new boxers were added to "Round 3," such asJeff Lacy, Jesus Chavez and current Mddleweight champion Jermain Taylor. This also means many from the previous installmenb have been left ou! but those with a litde patience can recreate them in the vamped up Create.a-boxer mode.

Players can now customize *re snall-

ery element from the placement of the mole on the charactey'sforehead to the dep*r of his chin .cleft The stock name is Aldo, but the depth of design choices offers a highly personalized quality to the action.

The game starb out with petsy crimes: extorting businesses,bumping off enemies and taking over rackeb.

These stock missions are augrnented by the main story line, which involves all the familiar Corleone drama To be trained by Luca Brasi and to be advised by consigliss Tom Hagen is entertaining in its novelty and afiention to detail. As dre character rises up the rar*s and gets nearâ&#x201A;Źr to the prime position in the familv, the 4tten[on !o the fflm comes tloouglr.

The conhols rely heavih on the joysticla. Like its no'table sports titles, EA has put all the power in the joysticks.The right stick controls the combat with different options for quick and power attacks.This dynamic offers one of the rare depaxtres from the familiar and repetitive forma! as it offen a visceral element to the game play. The choices of weapons waib in the wings dudng aI the pivotal moments of the plot are fairly standard !o ihe maffa genre, inclu.ling a magnum, and exacts revenge when appropriate. The ultimate goal of a tommy gun and a garrote. the game is to replace Don Corleone as the Godfather by Despite its cinematic and popcultr.re appeal, "The Godtaking over New York's warehousesand businessesand cutfather" is still heavily beholden to ie predecessors.Hijacklng ting out the competition. cars and wandering big city streetsjust isn't as fresh as it was The game's map is extensive and comprises not only ffve years ago. four New York neighborhoods, but part of NewJeney as Still, there is an impressive degree of detail and cormdess well. The in0erfaceis impressivein its interactive detail as evinside references for any fans of the cinematic masterpiece. ery pedestrian ofren conversation and most doors are accesThe impressive cast and nuanced setring lend for a faithfirl sible. The streeb axe peppered with classic 194{h autos that ode to the fflm's original vision. uMafia," are free for the taking. Unlike Gathering's 2UX bid Somedav-and that dav mav never come-EA mav build to recreale the excitement and freedom of the GTA format, upon this .6hd fo,-d"no'n of a game to creale .otiethit g the driving offers the potential to pull off some impressive fresher. But until that dan accept this game as a gift for any and deskuctive vehicular sh.rnts. fan of the classicmafia film.

The character control is similarly responsive and oflers a degree of detail reminiscent of EA's successfi sporb game.

- Adam Goldstein . goldstea@mscd.edu In designing the main character, it is possible to design ev-

a sport based on rankinp, and to remove &is staJusis blasphemous. Seeing a ffghter's progression through the ranls brings greater pleasure than seeing an absbact bar rise.

The addition of rivals to the career mode is a nice touch. Through the course of a boxer's career, he has an opponent who shadows him, similar to Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales. But unlike those tr,voffghters, there's not much to distinguish a rival fiom his normal opponent.

There's also a massive amount of product placement within the game. Players can win the Dodge and Burger King hophies, while a giant Staples logo sits in the middle of the ring.

Similar to the Madden series, those who've graced the "Fight Nght" covers have encountered a sting of bad luck. RoyJones Jr., once considered one of the top boxers est details of their boxer; from the way he more realistic feel to the game. in the world, is on a three.ffght losing streak. punches !o the way he stands in his ready There are tips on the loading screen,but Bemard Hopkins, who had won 24 sbaight, position. many just state the obvious. Hinb such as lost twice toJermain Taylor this past year.

There are a few changes in the ffghting "more stamina means the boxer lasts longer Oscar De I-a Hoya is this yeat's coverwstem from its oredecessor. The most no- in fights,' and "hrming down the difficulty boy. Will he fall prey to the "Fight Night" dceable is the slowing down of haymakers. level if the game is too challenging" are cu.rser Before, players could quickly and easily wail hardly helptul.

"Fight Ntht" is a solid one-player game awiry on their opponenb with devastating The biggest gripe is the popularity meter despite its flaws in the career mode, but its haymaker combinations. replling the ranking system in the career tue purpose is to create bragging righb The slower atacls are now easier to mooe. among friends as to who is the true chamread and counter, making hooks and iabs Players must now fill dris meter before pionmore effective. This, along with the removal they are allowed to advanceto t}te next stage -- Joe Nguy'en . ngu5,'ejos@mscd.edu of the headsup display, or HIJD, creates a in their careers. Boxing has always been

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they pioneered gave birth to a rl'hole new' subgenre known as emo.

Formed in 1990 by singer Ari Katz and guitarist Dan Yemin, the band suwived When they started out 16yean ago, New Jersey hardcore band Lifetime was consid- personal conflicts among itseH, numerous lineup changesand lam-packed, rindon'less ered a joke. In those days of practicing in garages,handing out demos and lpic sheets tour vans in the hottest of summer months that lacked contact info, their legacy r,r'asn't before it even recorded its fust album.

That debut b:urr., Background, catte a consideration.They ra'ereoften made fun out in 1993, but it rvas Hello, Bastards, rcof for being a "melodic" hardcore band.

"Everybody just thought (of us as) this leasedin 1995,that put Lifetime on the map. 'faggy'litde band, and we kind of lived off Their ffnal, most groundbreaking release, tha!" original guitarist Scott St. Hilafe said Jersel's Best Danrars is easily the band's best in a 2005 intervieu' vith I ltematioe Press. and most inlluential work. It's the album and mission Despite the lack of respec! today I-ife- that summed up their time is. cited a.sone of the most inlluendal.. . asa hardcore band forward lpics ald their DIY ethic. hardcore bands of the decade.

They changedthe standardsofthe genre Several bands, including New Found by being the band wilhng to draw flowers Glory, Thursday, Taling Back Sunday and on T-shirts and write songs about catching Saves the Day, list Lifedme as a direct influence on their music. SavesThe Day *'as raindrops on their tongues. The,v made it 'Jersey'sSecond OK for a hardcoreband to write love songs. el.en given the nickname, They weren't wrapped-upin the machismo Best Dancers" for the obvious impact Lifetime had on their music- In 1997, iust after attitude and the escalatinq rdolence rd*rin the scene.

Jersel'sBest Dancerswas released,Lifetime Liletime created music that '*'as relevant called it quits. in a new decade by rebelling against the Last week,Jade Tree Records released standards set by the previous generation. Somzwherein the Swampsof Jersel (he nt)e They reacted to the demise of the straight- taken from a Bruce Springsteen\.ric) as the edge style, DC hardcore subculhrreknown label's 100d release. The album feahues as nyouth-crew' by pufiing forth a greater - three different versions (one re-mastered, sense of experimentation, slor,r'er,less ag- one remlxed, one live) of their crucial, outgressivesongs,and a new direction for ema of-print debut album, along with a handful tion4fnelodic hardcore altogether. of traclc from early seven-inch singles and Their raw guitars, rapid-ffre dmms, sand- compilafion albums, including "Theme Song paper vocals and authentic, sincere, per- for a Ner.r'BnrnswickBasementShow," one sonal lpics helped kickstart an East Coast of their best-known songs. The album also hardcore scene that recognized a dose of comes rith a S2-page,perfect-bound book pop melodies didn't necessarily mean the of liner notes, lpics, inten'iews and more motive or meaning behn:d the music was than 40 rare photographs.Newcomers to any diflerent. The melodic hardcore sound Lifetime's music would be better served

Photo corrttesr of .ladcTree ltccords

Themembersof Lifetimeenioy the time of lheir livesos lhey look for on emo record thevdidn't influence by buying Jersels Best Dancers, or Hello, Bastards, but dedicated fans will find dds releasea treasure.

Although the band officiaily ca.lled it quits in 1997, last August Lifetime played three w'ell-received, long-awaited reunion shows and donated proffts from these shows to charities such asThe OUT Fund and The Nah:re Conservancy. In November, they announcedthree more reunion shows,then dals later followed with an announcement that they had decided to reform.

Since then they have appeared at the 2006 SXSW Festival, and will be playing at New Jersey's Bamboozle Festival in May.

They are currendy teamed up rvith Shirts for a Cure, donating an exclusive T-shirt design to help raise money for underprivileged women with breastcalcer.

By inspiring a shift to express emotion and melodicism within hardcore. Lifetime may have helped keep the form alive and vital for the foreseeable fuhre. In the liner notes of Someuhere,Norman Brannon, a member of severalbands that plaved with Lifedme. expressedit besL "Hardcore is not a background beat for you to move your dancing fee! it's the life for thosewho love [iwing,"he said.

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ticket to a better versionof life.

Three of the sevenmembersof F.L.AM. have shown up for the inten iew, but the energy in the room is already elevated and O.P. is impatiendy pacing the floor r.r'aiting to get started.

"I'm O.P., better known as Prime ...," and we're off. The next hour is a oerfect blur. Everyonehas somethingto say, some one to bash,somewhereto be.

O.P. takes care of the forma.lities of introducing the crew. "Me, Streets,D Gaf, Mag Papa, Remo, Ro Bandit, Mels, andJ Paul Gheno, that makesthe F.L.A.M team.

Everybody plays a pa.rtin everything.J Paul does our choreography. Sbeet is my brother, D Gaf is my brother, and they both have solo a.lbums.Street and Paoa also have a solo album. I'm gonna stepback and let the artists tell vou more about iL

The lights of the Big Apple have dralln a mlriad of performing adists to dre East Coast for a shot at fame. W-ho lvould ever think of leaving Nerv York City-the me hopolis where dreams become reality and niehtrna.re in the same breath{o build a base camp in Denver, Colo. in hopes of ffnding limelight? The notion is bizarre, to say the leas! but the Denver-via-Brooklynbased hiphop group F.L.A.M. (For Love And Money), a seven-memberoudt, lives by the old idiom: it's not u'hereyou're from; it's where you're at. ,:, The hiphop lifestyle.as it is pomayed on prime time iel.evision,produqes dramatic images of hardcore gangsters u'ho live to

young ropper Gowesl, Brooklyn hip-hop crew invades Denver to seekfame"fortune

the stereotlpe,the smellsof a home-cooked walks Shee! ready to tell the world how it is, meal and the sounds of a tightly knit fam- versus horv it should be, according to him.

"We Brooklln natives man ..." bursts Stree! ily greet ar,yone stepping into the home of O.P.. F.L.A.M.'s main producer. His kin "...we from New York and we represent are comfortable in the kitchen admiring the those Brooklyn streets.You figure there's a lot of food out there to eat, so we cane out family's latest addition, a small puppy. In the basemen! a recording shrdio no bigger here to seehow we can get fat out here." His most people's bathroom is where F.L.A.M. SeeFLAM on 17 spends most of their time producing their

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Ten and Ti'acer In Such a FLr to Be soFertile

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The Dresden Dolls Yes,Virginia...

(Roadrunner,2006) B,vI'Iegan Carneal mcarneal@mscd. erlu Many bands in the past have used visual contrivances to add something extra to their acL The Dresden Dolls are no differenL Grouos from KISS to The Misffts have done tiris to try and keep the audience from noticing tha! in facl dreir music is, well, really terrible. With their second album Yes, Virginia, The Dresden Dolls prove that their gimmick works for them, but in a very unusual way.

The music of The Dresden Dolls is so bizarre it would be impossible 0o imagine anyone besides two freaks with mime-like faces dressed ln the latest style for a jazz-ageprostitute. Besides thea image, they only have three instruments: a piano, dmms and Amanda Palmer's voice, which is truly the most powerfi:I. Somehow. with onlv their skeleton set of tools, they manage io produce an incredibly powerfrrl sound.

Palmer belts out highly feministic and somewhat offensive l),rics over a chaotic and dissonant piano. Her manic voice mixes with the cacophonouspiano keys to create a beautifi:l effec! udth just enough tension to keep it from becoming boring.

They sormd like they could have been the band at one of Gatsby's backyard parties, but instead of gin tire guesc wot d be drinking absinthe mixed with opium. The Dresden Dolls have managed to caphrre the carefree attitude and drama of the flapper era" but they have added their own twist v/ith poâ&#x201A;Źky-infused lpics and hinb of modern pop progressions on the oiano.

-voice Pa]mer's is all over the place; in one song she will gently cry in a-whisper fflled with pain and misery, next she will shout out with apaihetic and disobedient -she tones, and then will aansform again into a sexy lounge singer. Wha.teverstyle she is emulating there is an underlying bittemess,possibly from being kicked out of one too many speakeasiesafter terri!ing the men.

The two best hacls on Yes, Virginia are "Mandy Goes To Med School," and "My Alcoholic Friends." Both songshave fast tempos, singsong vocals and sarcaitic lyrics that showcase Palmer's range as she flawlessly weaves back and forth from monotone spoken words to operatic howls.

It's true, The Dresden Dolls would not be the same without the elaborate costrmes, but only because they have creahd such a surreal world with their music that the makeup only adds to the feeling of being lost in another era-

On the mini-albtm In Surh a Fk to Be so Fertile, Colorado experirnental electronic artist Ten and Tracer slices,dices and terrorizes his sounds to create a tense, claushophobic musical nightrnare that would make the perfect soundtrack for a Japanese horror movie about ryborg insectsthat live on the underside of reality.

The opening moments of the ffrst baf,k, "Chanting the Secant Deiffc' offer litde hlnt of just how sb'ange things are about to get, starting with a lurching beal some skipping high hats and a few buzzing synth lones mixed in here and there. It could stand in for the opening seconds for any breakbeat tack, but instead of resolving into a typicai dance hack it quickly takes a tum for the weird. Additional layers of percussion enter and ratde against the main beat as a low, hollow sub-basspans back and forrh. Chiuering, insectile noises of unknown origin begin to swirl around the beat as if they are looking for a way in. Toward the end of the song a quie! almost subliminal string-like tone enters, its relatively familiar timbre standing in sharo contrast to the rest of the track. ihe second track, *Having Once Tumed Around - WaIk On," dives even deeper into the rabbit hole.

Mhimal, intermittent percussion rises and falls in a sea of modulated static.Distorted, half-heardvoices occasionally bob to the surface. Hints of rynth shings appear, only to be tansformed secondslater in atonal ringing sounds.

The two best tracks on the album arrive in its second half. Chopped-up drum breaks interspersed with feedback tones, shards of digital noise and quie! mumbling voices male up "Karl Marx.' The track

surges back and forlh between regular, almost dance able beats and twitching spasms of distorted percus sion. It's hard to see the connection with the father of Commr.rnism, but links to Aphex Twin and other luminaries of experimental elechonic music are much more obvious. The final song "lndian Pail," ends the album on a quieter, almost contemplative note. A lowkey beat propels the song at a leisurely pace while waves of eerie, spaceynoisestrace minor-key melodies as they reverberate through the interplanetary ether.

Half-heard voices flit in and ou! staying just long enough to tease the ear before dissolving again. The beat mutates, multiplies and folds bark on itself before reUming to something close to its original form.

This album rewards carefi:l and repeated listening.

On ffrst listen it doesn't seem to be much more than a confusediumble of distorted percussion and shapeless noise. Uoon closer examination. worlds of minute de tall appei. Fragmentsof sound enrpt in pulsing waves, flitting aimlessly until suddenly coalescing around the beat like moths around a sheedighl Intricate patems and complex sonic interactions emerge and disappearThe result is an album that gets better and more interesting every time it is played. It\ a challenging listen, but a fuly rewarding one.

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o All abouttheir business F.L.A.M. voice pounds around the small basement studio as if the volume of this conversation

provesits credibfity. Streetis indiqputably the salesrep of the crell'.

'Colorado don't have rappen," claims Sbeer "They ain't on the map. I feel like the reason they ain't on the map is because everybody else is pullin' each other down.

They need a whole new entity to come in here and make it happen for this stale, for the city, for the lifile hoods-Montbello, Five Poinb. You got dudes here that can make it happen, but they're not taking that initiative, then let us reign supreme out here. And then we cal put those on out here that was hatin'on us. That s how much love I gol They can hate on me but lm gonna still show them love."

The lack of unity in the local hiphop sceneis a hot toDic.O.P.'s evesdart around the room as he iearches for'the right words to explain his exlrerience in Colorado- "It's all about having some unity out here. A lot of rappers out here can flow but don't wanna get with us becausewe're from the East Coas! so they feel like since we didnt originate from here, we ain't got no bearu being here- We're gonna rep Colorado no matter who don't like us,' he says of their efforts.

"All we're asking is hear what the hell we're saying," interrupb Sheet, *There's something behind what we're talking abouL" O.P. refersto F.L.A-M.'s styleas'Motmtain Boys" music-a coinable desigration.

"I'm no different than the next oroducer."

""L'olorrtrlo don't ha+'erappers. Thq ain't on t/te mnp. Tltef need a cvholenew entity"to comein lrcre and make it /tappen for ilzisstate,for tlte city;for tlte little lnods"

STREET fromF.L.A.M.

O.P. sap in a calm voice. "When I do my music. I do it with mv hearl If it's hot we roll with it. If it's nol i'm gonna go back to the lab and brins different flavor to it You won't hear the safue sound in the next track.

I hit all angles with the music," claims O.P. And he's largely right. Their latest release, Da Mix Volunz /, proves them able to hold down the underground and easily excel in the mainsheam. The album ofiers a creative vadety in both production and lyrical deliverv. A secondvolume is in oroduction now foi releasein Iate 2006.

"Me, Sheeb,I'm vivid, yo. I'm clear,I'm bright ... you can SEE me."

It s time for Street to leave, but the crew pressureshim into spitring a freestyle verse, first- He eagerly grabs a microphone and in 60 secondsflat he has proved that his rowdy oersona is in attendanceboth off and on the rnic. A few handshakes are exchanged and he disappears out the door as swiftly as he came ln.

Mel joins in the discussion and immediately rejects the idea of having his photo taken. "Naw, don't do tha! none of tha!" he grunts. His discomfort at the fact that there is a camem present doesnt deter him from

jumping in where Sheet left off. "I'm one of the original memben of F.L.A.M., straight from Brooklvn. bom and raised. A lot of ca.b can't even understand where we're coming from. I'm gonna put it like this: the game don't need no more generic-assniggas. It's time for somebody to hear us." Be tween statementshis intenselv focused stare identiffes Mel as the theorist of the crew.

Their New York accents untainted by midwest slang and Brooklyn characteristics are obvious in every aspecl The circle reminisces for a moment over mernories of their past life in Brooklyn's BedStuy neighborhood. As young black men in Brooklyn, their entourage has experienced a hefty share of life's miseries. "We've been there, done that. Husdin', locked up, horneless, shootin', shot at-you name it. Niggas got the scarsto prove iL" sayaMel. Perseverance through these times has led them to olace hemendous faith in their talents, and a one-in-a-million shot at relocating to the Mile High City more than ffve yean ago. On a parting note, O.P. offen his candid prophecy: "Suit up. We comin', and we comin' hard. We ain't just about this on a street level. We're about our business."

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Mebo's road trip to Grand Jrmction proved to be a tough one as the Mavericks of Mesa StaJeswept the Roadrunners in a seriesthat saw Metro have a lead in every game, "We kept lefring back in key sibralions," head coach Vince Porreco said. "And when you do that to good teams, they are going to take advantage of it."

In a tie game heading into the fourth inning, Metro exploded for three runs !o take a .12 lead in game one. After a single, a walk and a hit$ypirch that loaded the bases, sophomore Reece Gorman singled in two runs off sophomore pitcher Freddie Hampe drat put the score at 42.

Junior DJ. Edwards reached base on an error by the second baseman, driving in the fffth run of the game. But Metro could not hold the lead as Mesa scored six runs in the next three imings to give the Mavericls an &5 edge.

The Roadrunners cut the lead to one in the eighth inning when freshman Dakota Nahm, who pinch-hit for freshman Tommy Frikken, hit a triple to deep right center ffeld scoring two runs. But the Mavericks held off the 'Runners asjnniol pi1"1*. B."tt Armour struck out the side in the ninth inning to record his fourth save of the season.

Senior Ryan Brighl who won the Roclcy Mountain Athletic Conference Pitcherofthe- Week for his two hi! complete game shutout against New Mexico Hig and la.st weelq got the loss.Bright (&3) pitched six inninS, gving up eight runs on I I hits while skiking out six.

"The biggest key is to not put guys on; we really hurt ourselveswith \,!"lks," Bright said about the overall pitching in the series, which included 17 baseson balls.

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By Lennon NIcCarthy lmcurt1@mscd.edu With the bouncing of a ball, the squeak of sreakers and the voices of comoetition. inhamurdl basketball at Auraria is'uo artd ruming at fr.rllspeed.

Teaming with Playcoeddenver.com, a Web-based comp.ury that organizes and creates intramural and recreational sports leagues in the meho area, Auraria personnel developed leagues, while sfirdents and nonstrdents registered and fonned teams, according to Tony kice, director of informal qporb at Metro.

"Hooking up with Play Coed, I felt it was an opportunity for our leagues to expand," hice said.

There are 24 total men's teams divided into two separate leagues: a Monday night league composed of 16teams and a Wednes day night league composed of eight In addition to the all men's leagues,there is a coed league that plap on Mondays as well, Teams registered online at Play Coed for $175 for all surdent teams, with an additional $50 option should they decide to purchase shirts. Teams composed of both shrdents and nonstudens could register for $300 dollars, according to ftice.

Each team participates in seven regularseason garnes. Every tearn in each league

makes the playoffs. Depending on time and facility avallabllity, a double or single elimination tournarnent is put together. The winning tearnsreceive shirts and'other small prizes, such as restaurant gift certiffcates.

"This vear. there is a lot more oarody in the leagues,"Price said."I think an:yonecan win this tlfng."

More than orizes and the small amount of revenue the inhamural leagues generare, the most important things inhamural leagues accomplish a.re carnpus unity and living a healthy lifestyle.

'The important thing !o me is to see students have an opportmity to do actjvides on campus,' Price said. "Participating in sports is beneficial to your health. I think we're do ing a preEy good job of if" Adam Maxey and Al Carmosino, teammates and participants in the Monday night men's league, echo the sentimentsof hice.

"It's organized and fun," Carmosino said.

"I love basketball and love competing.'

Maxey said he loved the time on the court with his friends.

"I played with these guys at (Awada) WesL We are all basketball junkies and inbamurals is all we have," Maxey said. hice wants to see all the intamural sporG grow in paxticipants and popularity.

While he seesirnprovernen! hice believes that betler advertising will ganr more student interest and the leagueswill grow. hice said he hopes to add more qporb to *re list of choices strdene already have.

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Bug on St Patrick's Day, I was drawn by the siren song of the Denver Roller Dolls and now I've found my new favorite pastime: roller derby.

For those who have seen the aforementioned movie or have other oreconceived notions about the ratdity of roller derby, vou are sadlv mistaken and a sure victim to ihe dolls' dangerous ways. Roller derby is as real a qport as I've seenin some time and far more dangerous and painfrrl drarq say, golf, baseball or basketball.

The Dolls' uniforms are a savagepunk- . rock combination of stitched fatigues and tank tops with stenciled names, numbers and patches ranging fiom PBR to Bukowski.

Bu! who among us could concentrate on the uniforms?

Simply put the Dolls were ever 6o ho! . wearing tiny skirb and an array of flashy underwear they had no obi'ection to showing off.

Take fan-favorite Pho Kyu, for instance.

After becoming the lead jammer during a session,Kyu raised her skirt up to reveal the messageprinted on her behind: KISS Uf KYU. See, now you're a fan, too.

But the action is brutal nonethelessand strategy reigns supreme for the more skillfirl derby Dolls. One rnisguided whip can land a jammer on her ass, and that's when the pileup begins. And some of the jammers, who tend to take the bottom of the pile, are slim, petite, fast and agile girls. The blockers who fall on them from behind are of corsiderably larger girth. ln the end, the spofi is exciting vile and ill mannered, and the most fun I've had on a Friday night in a very long time.

And then there was the after-party at Three Kings Tavem on 60 S. Broadway. I began my intervieu/s of the Dolls after two Guinness and two shots ofJameson. Turns out thal those dolls sure can drink.

Sisqy Rinkshaw said "I need a PB( durlng the middle of our interview. Considering Sissyis my future wife, I was quick to oblige and we resumed our interiew once the beer was in her hand.

From that point on, the interviews degeneraled as the consumption increased. In the en4 dre Dolls danced the night away to the dope DJ, and I dld, too. h ias i good time had by all and the frm I had made up for the next day's hangover, So, the next time the Dolls roll into towr\ roll on over to the Coliseum and take a peek- You won't be disappointed.

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By JeremyJohnson jjohn308@mscd.edu The Metro men's tennis team won ffve of six singlesmatches ald took two of three doubles matchesto take the 7-2win over Winona State on March 16 at Auraria Courts.

The win moved the Roadrunne.rs from the No. 8 to the No. 6 ranking in the Nonh Central region.

Senior Andre Nilsson and sophomore Riley Meyer set the pace by winning the ffrst doubles match with a swift 7-2 defear Nils son and Meyer are now ranked No. 18 in the region in doubles play in the region.

Nilsson also won his singles march againstGage Davidson,7$,7-6, to eam him the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference player of the week. Nilsson rallied back from a G3 deffcit in the first set to gain the win. "(Nilsson) staxtedto get back to his old form and he played well," head coach Dave Alden said. "Any tirne you can play with that conffdence at that caliber you car use that as a springboard in upcoming matches."

Jr,rnion Drew Machholz and Mark Milner continued their winning shea\ defeating Winona'sJosh MaIwiE and Davidson by a narmw 98 (2) margin.

Meyer, Machholz and Mlner took all three of their singles makhes in straight seb.Junior Will Meyer took ttre fffth singles match, also in stâ&#x201A;Źight sets.

"It's deffnitely the best match welve had this year but we have to build upon thal' Alden said. "We can't a.fford to tal<e any steos - back.'

Mebo improved to 84 on the season while Winona went to lG5 overall. The Roadrunners were scheduled to open RMAC play againpt Mesa Stae on March 25, but the game was rescheduled due to weather. The mahh has been rescheduled for April 7.

Tire Meto men will tavel to Colorado College on March 31.

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. Metro menstruggleon theroad BASEBALT the score at 1{. Bul again, the lead did not hold as Mesa scored single mrrs in the ffrst "Other than that, it was Mesa's timely hit- and third innings.

The Roadrunnen fought back to tie the ting; they really put the ball in play."

Game{wo saw Meto jump to a 1{ lead game at two in the fourth inning when Juafter its half of the first inning but the game nior Alex Krohn scored on an error by the was never close after that as the Mavericks cakher. With the game tied at 13, Mesa once again came through in the fffth inning dominated the 'Rr.urners92.

Metro's starting pitching was roughed when junior Matt Pavlich hit a two-nrn home up once again as sophomoreJosh Eckert al- run that put the score at .13.

The last game of the serieswas a thriller lowed nine runs on 11 hits and wdked ffve batten in ffve innings of work Mesa put up to the end as Mesa scored the game-winning three qpotsin the ffrs! third and fifth innings run in the bouom of the ninth inning to comard saw at least one hit from eight of the plete the sweep of Meho.

The Mavericks overcame a 74 deffcit by nine starters.

SophomoreMatt Bodenchuk led Mesa's scoring four n:ns in the final three innings. offense going 2 for 3, scoring two rurs and With the game tied at seven heading into two RBI. Senior Luke Cheever won his fourth the bottom of the ninth inning senior Mike game of the year (40) going fte distancegiv- Hoefs, who is known for his power at the ing up only two nrns--{ne earned--on six plate. was pitching for Mero as the inning started. Hoefs walked the ffrst two batters hits and striking out six Roadmnners.

Gamethree saw Meho take the lead ear- and, after a sacriffce bunt that advanced ly for the third time in the series as sopho- the runnen. intentionallv *alked the bases more Jake Palmer singled in a run to put loaded.

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Senior Kyle Deck struck out looking, to become the secondout of the inning.

Looking for one more out and extra innings, Hoefs pitch was hit back to Nalm, who went to second for the olav. instead of the sure bet at ffrst. The umpire called the rurmer safe and the runner at third scored, giving the Mavericks an &7 win. "lt was one of those leaming experiences," Porreco said about the last play of the game. "Nahm felt he had a chance at second, instead ofjust coming up and throwing it to ffIsL The situation was there; Mike made the right pitch and I think if we come up with that play, we go out and win that ball game."

Hoefs took the loss asjunior Chris Skalet recorded the win, grring up only one run on hvo hits, shiking out nine in ffve innings pitched.

Meho comes back home for its next series against Nebraska-Keamey in RMAC play starting March 31.

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Wednesdays l0-ll a.m. in the St. Francis the spirit of Cesar Chavez.Highlights for recognizedmusiciansand bring students Ahium.

Free Bhod PressureSoeenings - Every this yeafs conferenceinclude a keynote from all over the stateto Metro. Tlte lazz Friday at the Health Center,Plaza150from addressfrom Dr. Maria GuajardoLucero, Celebrationruns from Aoril 6 to 8 on the Mct Pihtes - Mondays and Thursdays 2 - 4 p . m . executivedirector of the Mayor'sOffice for Auraria Camous. For more information 12 - I pm, Tiresdays, 9 - 9:55 a.m. and Education and Children in Denver. The and concerttimes,contactCharlaBevenThursdays9:15 - 9:55 a.m. in the St. or log on to Free HIV and Tuberculoti"s(TB) Tating conferencervill also include educational Jones at bevan@mscd.edu FrancisAtrium. http:/y'rww.m scd.edry'newsfortyyears/ - Ongoingat the Health Centerat Auraria. sessionson suchleadershiptopicsasyouth fundraising news.html. activism,spirituality, leadership, Call (303)556-252s.

Meditation and Qigong (Chinese Yoga) and communityinvolvement.The Summit - Have fun learning simple flowing Eatingfor Heakh and Energ! -Pleasecall will begin at I a.m. in the Tivoli Student All the World,'s a Stage: The Model - Award-winning actor on movements & deepbreathingexercises SusanKrems at (303) 770-8433or (303) Union.Formoreinformation,contactGreta Minority Mlth Tuesdays1l - noon and ThursdaysI - 2 Wong is a versatile and unique figure B.D. Mincer at (303)556-2595.

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