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'How do you clean up underground water contamiSnrdentsand activist groups took !o the streetsTues nalion?

I don't know how. and one of the words they day for the second leg of a twodan independendy run 'mitigate.' 'We (Newmont) will mitigate.' How do use is educational effort to raise awarenessof the environmenhl devastafion that has occurred at the hands of New- you mitigate life? Water is life; how do you rnitigate thar" said Carrie Dann. resident of the Western Shomont Mining Corporation. shone Territorv. the rally at Newmont's protesters, who began The Armed witir drums and sacred chants,the Shoshone headquarters at 1700 Sherman St in downtown Denbegan the procession to the police line. Following be ver, wbre bussed to the Newmont shar:eholder'smeering at the Invemess Hotel near the Denver Tech Center, hind them were the remaining protesten, who carried widr them signs baring various slogans, all with similar where thev resurred the rallv. messages-Newmont must stop ib path of destruction or the gold producers in Newmont, one of the bfgest world, has facilities operating on ffve continenb. They face the consequencesof the global community.

The requestsacfivistshave made are numerous. The also mine copper, silver and zinc. Newmont declined StoD Newmont Coalition has asked that Newmont and to of the day's statement in regard either to make a all it's zubsidiariesimmediately ceasemining in protectevenb.

The protest was marked by the presence of several ed areas. as well as areas in which the commtrnity has not given consenl They also request that independent members of the Westem Shoshone Defense hoject.

In Nevada where the Shoshone's traditional land is parties be allowed to conduct environmental reviews located, Newmont continues to operate several mines of mining facilities, and that the indigenous people be without the consent of the Shoshone people. This, they compensated for ill effech previous mining has had on 'cited axgue,is in direct violation of the 1863Treaty of Ruby the communiW. a variety of violations from other Protesters Vallev. in which the United Statesrecosnized the Sho parb of the globe as well. One in particular seemed to .horrJ'r b,,d .igtrt .

The most recent data available from the Environ- fuel an especially heated dialogue drat spilled over onto mental hotection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory the sbeetsafter being discussedat Monday's conference shows that Newmont released 617 pounds of mercury "What hice Gold" in Tivoli 320.

The submarine tailing disposa[ or STD, is a method into the air in 2004 alone. Mercury can cuu$e severe health problems, including brain damage, birth defecb of disposing of mine wasteby piping it into neighboring bodies of water. Acdvisb have labeled it as a higtrly iland cancer.

Although the state of Nevada has adopted some legal and "immoral" process.

The most widely known implementation of STD is regulations, activists axe concemed that enforcing them at the Newmont Minahasa Raya rnine in Buyat Bay, would be impossible because the mining comPanies Indonesia.

There, *re Newmont Minahasa Raya rnine tests.

In addition, performing the would be in charge of these new standards don't require cornpanies to reduce has dumped more than 4 million tons of waste into the bay at a depdr of 82 meters, according to the No Dirty their mercurv emissions.

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By Jerem-y- Johnson jjohn3)\@mscd.edu According to self-proclaimed activist and medical marijuana grower Ken Gorman, an estimated 2,000 to 4,000 people smoked out Civic Center Park April 20 in a rally to support the legalization of marijuana.

Gorman, 59, said the rally-which consisted of a large number of high school students and homeless persons-wirs the largest hmout he had seen since he began organizing marijuana rallies in 1993. ''/r/zu religious nel]heritime rc to go out ano and ceteofare celebrate our our re[grous 4p0 rs is a ume go oua tage of marijuana,"

Gorman said. "It was the most beautifrrl

rally and the most people we've ever had."

But not everybody saw the rally as "beautifrll."

"I think the ti"mbe.s say something," freelancejoumalist Josiah Hesse said of the rally. But Hesse sighted a lack of an "eloquent voice of people supporting the legalization of marijuana," "4p0 isn't so much about the legalization of marijuana or any kind of political movemenq it's more just the outlaw culhre wanting to break the law in public," he said.

Marijuana legalizarion has been a hot-bed issue in Colorado for some time, but has been even more in the limelight wi*r the passing of House Resolution I-100, which allows adulb 21 yeaxs or older in Denver to legally possessup to one olmce of marijuana.

Critics of the bill point out that marijuana remains illegal under state law despite I-100. *We have contol of the state," Gorman said. *All we need to do is band together as marijuana users and people that understand what mariiuana is all about."

Police surrounded CMc Center Park for the rally but made no known mariiuana arrests.There was. however, at least one arrest for assiult "When you have a large number of people coming to gether like this you just want to \,vatch out and make sure people stay safe," Denver Police LL Ted Block said.

'The police acorally told me that they wouldn't have been there had it not been for the fact ihat in the very beginning there was a fight and at the end there was a fight " Gorman said. "And you'll ffnd that most of the ftghc involved alcohol. They had nothing to do with marijuana."

Although Gorman said he thinla it is unfair to compaxe alcohol use to marijuana use, the comparison of the two has been a springboard for marijuana advocates zuch as Mason

due !o an arrest during his third rally, which he clalmed caused a riol Gorman has had severalrrm-ins with the law. According to Denver court records, He has been previously arrested on other charges ranging from possessionof less than an ounce of marijuana, hespassing,drinking in public and driving without insurance.

According to the Web site Cannabisiy'aa4 Gorman was arrested in 1995for possessionof nearly 300 pounds of what he called medical marijuana.

Gorman admitted to being arested in 1996 for disribution of marijuana and said he served almost eight years in jail, in halfiuay houses,under house arrest and on parole. He supports medical marijuana and said he usesit for his chronic back pain and migraine headaches.Gorman also blamed politicians and oil corporations for marijuana's illegality.

"Once you understand why (marijuana) is illegal then vou'll understand the comrption that's involved with keee ing it illegal,' he said.

"ThaCs all it is. It's absolute greed and corn:ption. We wouldn't even be using peholeum now had it not been for making marijuana illegal and its petroleum that made it illegal in 1937."

Gorman also blamed the govemment's "war on drugs" for marijuana's bad reputation, saying pot is more accessible to rmderage people because the govemment does not monitor the drug. Gorman argues that legalization will keep dealers off the skeet and make rnariiuana less accessibleto underage users.

"Until they stop puting dealers on the sbeel it's their fault " Gorman said.

April 20, or 4f20, servesas a sort of religious holiday for marijuana usen. The term '4201' alwayspronounced "fotutwenty." has been rurnored to mean a number of different Photo try Lcah lllrrntschli . bluntsch@mscd.edrr thingi including the official police code for a marijuana arresL Steve(lostnomenotgivenfof Denverlieson thegross Gorman said the police code rumor is hlse and that the withhisfriendsin CivicCenterPorkin Denveron Thurs- phrase most likely began in high schools as a time after class to meet up and srnoke. doy,April 20, duringthe4/20 demonshotion.

According to Snopes.mm, an urban legends reference Tve( who fought heavily for H.R I-10. Tvert is the execu- Web ste, 420 began to be used as slang in l97l among a tive director of the Safer Altemalive for Enjoyable Recre goup of shrdenb at San Rafael High fthool in Califomia irho used the term to remind them o.-fthe time they planned ation organization.

SAFER's Web site claims "marijuana is a safer recre- to meet to consume marijuana, 4:20 p.rn.

Gorman said he lives by the motlo: "Keep on srnoking ational dmg than alcohol." joinb." the rallies them police have allowed the reason Gorman said and the public consumption of marijuana to go on is largely

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By Joe Nguven nguyejos@mscd.edu George Takei shared his experiences about being gay and growing up as aJapanese American on Tuesday in SL Cajetan's Center.

The 6.9year-old actor is best known for his role as Lr Hikam Sulu on *Star Trek."

He carne out publicly last year and is now on a lectr.rretour acrossthe country.

"Pm proud to stand before you today as a gay American and a member of the Human Righr Campaign advocating for the expansion ofjustice and equality," he said.

He began his speech about growing up during World War II, when his family was ordered out of their Los Angeles home by American soldiers and placed into intemment canps.

"When I was a boy, I looked out on the world from behind the barbedwire fences of American intemment camps," he said.

"Pearl Harbor was bombed, and ovemigh!

Japanese Americans were seen as the enemy, simply because we looked like (the afiackers)."

He compared the injustices of those days with dre treatrnent of g'a1a,zuch as the lack of samesex marriages, in toda/s society. nWhy are they being so protective (about sameeex marriages)?"he said" "Do they feel lhat marriage is so ft'agile that they need to protect it?"

According to hrc.org, Takei has been liv-

ing with his parher, Brad Altrnan, for dre past l8 years. They have been waiting for the samesex marriage law to pass in Califomia.

"We thought about Massachusetts or Canadq but we didn't live in Massachusetis and we're not Canadian," he said. "We wanted it to be real."

He qged the audience for more participation to "engage challenges" and work toward equality.

"Together, we will boldly go where America has never gone before," he said. adTakei said tba! while "Star tek' dressedthe issue of ethnic diversitv. it failed to cover the 'diversity of sexuality; because it was taboo to bring it up during the 1960s.

His costars were aware of his preference, however.

"My colleagues are sophisticated,worldly Hollywood actors," he said. "They have sensitiveantennas."

He said Walter Koenig was the ffrst one to indicale he knew. On the set, an attractive male exba walked by the traruof them and Koenig nudged Takei and gave him a suggestive look.

He said that it was difficult for lesserknown acton to ffnd work if they were gay.

Producers typically didnt hire actors with "exb:a baâ&#x201A;Źgage.'

Takei said he feared it would be difrcult to find work once he came out to the press, but he's made more guest appearances since.

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Center April 25 ot St.Coietons ofterspeoking ActrcrGeorgeTokeisignsoutcgrophs goy morTokeispokeobout Compoign. whileon o U.S.tourforo HumonRights lhothewosgoy.He is mostwell ond hisrecentonnouncement rioge,Hollywood, knownfor hisroleos Mr. Suluon "SlorTrek."

"I probably would have not been on 'Will and Grace'if I had not (come out)" he said. "Because I was appearing as a character named George Takei, who was gay."

He said in America's fiee society, people

have the rigbt to say what they want "We have to be tolerable of the divenity of Americ4'he said, "and that includes surpid people and racist people."

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As the speaker who sewed dre longest sentencein prison, Habe explained how he Four men, who were once held in Colo rado stateprisons, came to the camPusto in- felt when his freedorn was taken away from form strrdentsand teachers about the Crimi- him.

"They said at the hial that I showed no nalJustice Deparhnent and what life is like remone for my crime. How can someone behind bars.

Susan Couono a criminal justice profes show remone?" Habe said. "You cant show sor at Metro. welcomed shrdents and intro- it, ids built in to you. It eats away al you."

Freedom was an underlining theme as duced tre team of speakers,who were part of the Colorado Citizens United for Reha- each of the exronvicts described their time in prison. Travis spoke of missing freedom bilitation of Erranb, or CIJRE. Bruce Blovefr, a Mebo student and presi- and wishing he never took it for granted.

"Consider yourselves blessed," he said dent of the Delta Gamma )O Honorary Society, said he was very excited to bring CLIRE as he addressed the audience. " No one took the time to tell me about what happms to .campus. when you comrnit crimes." and gives "This team speala to groups Criminal Justice sh.rdent Marc Malajia them an understanding of prison eryeriences. It gives Criminal Justice majors a visual was stagrrantin his feelings toward the men of the rystem from the inside ou! instead of in the CURE team.

"You kind of feel sorry for them, but at the outside in," Blovett said.

This is the ffrst time CURE has spoken at the same time you have to remember, they Auraria and Blovefr said he hopes it will be were put in jail for a choice they made. A choice that they made and have to live with an annual evenl for the rest of their lives," he said. with naCouon began the presentation The criminal justice departnens brought tional statisticsconceming prisons and policy reform. She explained that CURE makes the CURE team to carnpus in the hope that efforb to reduce crime through criminal jus. the department and students would gain a tice reform. As of 2001, U.S. prisons housed higher undentanding as to what incarcerover 2.1 million inmates. This number is ated individuals are actually put tbrough in the system. Even though the men were rapidly increasing due to changes in poliry placed ln prison, they still believe in the over the past 10 years, she said.

American justice sJ'stem.Travis agreed that goal behind the CURE system is "The to ensure the prisons are reserved for those some people need to be incarcerated in orwho deserve them, and those who are in der to protect society.

Mgrk, another speaker from the teanr, them are provided with all the abilities necexplained his take on prison: "We are sent essaryto trm their lives around," she said.

The four men, along with hundreds of to prison for puishmenq we are not sent to other ex<onvicb around the counEy, af,e prison as punishmenL" Many questions from the audience ffndjrlf it hard !o assimilate back into soci prompted discussiors about the hardest ety. Habe, Travis and Mark decided to join the CURE team to speak to the public about things the men had to overcome in order for how hard it is for a person of their status to thern to feel comfortable in society again.

Travis said the hardest obstacle to overincoqrorate themselvesback into society.

Ilabe, 68, rqas the first speaker of the come were the obstaclesthemselves.He had aftemoon's event After being in prison for to find a way to make himself feel he be more than 50 yearg he was ready to get longed in his new world.

"When your freedom ls yanked from back into the life he missed. However, being away for so long, the world changed around you and the world changes,you dorft know him so quickly that taking the city bus be what to expect " Travis said "I achrally got lost coming hene this aftemoon because I came an advenurre all over again. still get confused as to which way the stseeb take the remember trying to bus and "I the driver gave me a hansfer. I didn't real- and avenuesrun.o

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The result of such dumping can be widespread. Populations of operrocean species that deoend on the coastal habitat have been decimated and healy rnetals have been found in the fish and plankton.

A 2003 report made by the Indonesian Forum for the Environment showed that NMR's tailings carried four times the legal llmit of cyanide levels. It also found elevated levels of mercury, cadrnium and arsenic in the water.

In addition to the ecological damage mine tailings have caused, many indigenous people have zuffered health problems from toxins in the environmenl Villagers who live in close proximity to Buyat Bay-rhe oudet site for ihe tailings-have reporled skin rashes, body sores, headaches, h:mon and reproductive complicalions.

As the protest continued, Dann ap proached the megaphone to the sound of applause as she addressedthe crowd for the second day.

"Whenever you buy a litde gold ring, you are one of the people that are also destroying the land. It takes approximately 38 tons of waste rock to build a man's wedding ring. ThaCs a hell of a lot of waste rock," Dann said.

The protesters eventually boarded their doubledecker bus and retumed to Newmonds headquarters to resume their efforis.

"Visibility," as one protester said, was the key word of the aftemoon.

ELEflION Continued from 3 which results in what he said, is a false stigma.

"We have some of the besi programs in the country,o Wylie said, "and we are tuly a unique campus," Wylie said Meho's diversity conhibutes to the leaming experience, because there is an abundance of perspectives on issues.

Wylie said that divenity in the speaken who come to campus would benefft shrdents as well.

'The speakers we have had are grea! but they have just skimmed the surface," he said. "I'd like to see some more controversial people," and he said the SGA could fimd zuch events.

Wylie's goal to 'bring more legitimacy back to the SGA" stems Fom intemal conflicts he has seen in the past.

"This year, I think we have built up a good relationship with the adminishation, and next vear. I want !o build a better relationship with the student body," he said Breuer also said he wanb to create a better relationship with the shrdent body, mainly by creating more ouheach progmms to get shrdentsmore involved in axtivides.

"If you want Metro to be a great community, you have to add all these litde things," he said about the programs he believes will make sbrdenb feel more connected.

Breuer said he wants to organize a way to enable shrdenb to gather for forums !o discuss current issues,such as immigraton, Katrina and diversity on campus.

Breuer said he believes the SGA can do a betrer job with more "steering and keep ing people in check" "There's a lot of potential there. They don't need a strong hand, but a ffrm one," he said.

cano people tlroughout the years. "Symbols of Resistance" has been adooted as a textbook for several Chicano Suriies classes. 'lalo' DelChicano activisn has a Iong, rich history Salcido interviewed Abelardo in Colorado, and the studenb who belong to gado, a former Metro professor of Chicano the club l-os Herederos de Change y Espe Studies and a successfrrlpoe! before he died ranza want to capture it and make it part of inJuly 200a. their education.

Delgado worked with Cesar Chavez in "Instead of students being conzumers of the farm workers movement of the '60s and ideas in the classroom, they want to be pre was involved in the Coloradobased move ducers," club president Daniel Salcido said. menl Crusade for Justice. He was named The club, whose name b:a:rslatesto "the Colorado's first poet laureate the year after Heirs of Change and Hope," was developed his death. while working on "Symbols of Resistance," Los Herederos also published "The the club's ffrst book.

Stuggle for La Sierr-4" a book about the Studens gathered information for the existing land-right struggle between the Chibook by interviewing people who were cano cornmunity and local govemment in sbongly involved in social acfivism for Chi- southem Colorado.

By Generieve Schlosser schlosse@mscd.erlu

Next semester the club is looking to publish a book based on videos of different speakers put together by United Mexican American Studenb, an otganization at the Univenity of Colorado at Boulder.

Although individual members of Los Herederos are involved in the current political activism of the Chicano commr:nity, they are not involved as members of the club.

The purpose of the club is to provide informafion, "Our mission is to transform Chicano Studies and education in general, to make shrdentsa.tive members who produce leaming" Salcido said. "LJltimateln trat leads to discussion and change."

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TI}T DU]{BAR dunhar@msal.edu

Weathen or not Television weathermen have the hardest job of anyone who works for a living. At least thaCs the impression they like to give us. the viewen.

The whole concept of TV weather is really nothing but a crapshoo! espe,'ially here in Colorado, the only place on the planet where they can say, "Don't Iike the weafher?

Wait a few minutes, it'll change," and mean iL My guess is that somewhere in the "Weather Center," or off-camera in "The Backyard," there is a big dartboard and a blindfold. Ed Green, Karhy Sabine, Mke Nelson and the like probablv make a ritual out of putting on tLe blinilfold, spinning around in a circle three times and taking a shol "... And the high today will be (fivootoom) 84 degrees,and the low tonight should be around (fi'rroosh ... ddddd) bull's-eye!No, make that 50."

When the weather changes,the news maIrc it the lead channels Plroto lrr \[attherr Jortas o jolrsm@urscd.edu

whileholdingUnitedStotesondMexiconflogsApril t 9 ot the Morethon2500 peoplegotheredondchonted"Si,SePuede," wolkedoutof closses prolest proposed immigrofion.

Mony ot neorbyhighschools stotecopitolto legislotion on of theprofeslers to ofiendtherolly.

f,[.S. economicoccupation turns immigrants into re.fugees In the midst of the current civil rights up rising of immigrants, I realized something.

IMJreqeverI spoke of,Mexican.folks lleeing their country's bleak economic situation without permission from the U.S. govemmen!

I always called the people "undocumented irnmigrants." Sure, the term is politicallv correct enough, but it missesa really big poinl After all, the people of Mexico aren't coming to the United States because they like the view; it is a matter of crippling poverty or a chance at opportunilv. lmmigrants from Mexico are much more than workers with or without a green card; they are refugees.

Allow me to exolain. The North American Free Trade Agreement signed by Canada. the USA and Mexico loosenedpolicies on imports and provided benefftsto companies from *re United Statesmoving their factories to Mexico. It guaranteed that corporations vould not be obligated to follorv govemmental protections of human rights.

That's right, no human righb for Mexican workers, just profit for companies fiom the United States.

Suddenly Mexico's economy depended largely on the United States. Following NAFTA, the Mexican economy slumped so low it was almost underground. In 1996, tlti percent of Mexico's exports came from the maguiladoras,or foreign owned sweatshops.

Maquilo.dnraslhtations are no joke. Mexican laborers make Gap jeans for some 28 cents an hour-one tlird of the living wage for a family in Mexico. Bossesare permitted to require female workers to prove that they

acrossthe border are the victims. This is an economic occupation.and as with all occu., .,. . . .

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The hinceton Unir.ersity deffnition of occupation is the mle of a country by foreign power. The United States conhols the Mexican economy with its corporate death grip on the job markel NAFTA has allowed our economic immorality to ovemrle any protections of the Mexican people- Our ZOE WILLTT\IS military has provided a surplus of rveapons evilliamz@msut.erlu to Mexico 0o ensure that the operations of are menstruating once a month to keep their the treatv are prolected. Our gol'emment job. lVorken in the Nike and Reebok maqui- and businesseshave vowed to souelch anv ladoras mak:ng merchandise for universities uprisingsof the Mexican peopl", such asthL filed reports that they were regularly being Zapatistas.

According to the Fourth Geneva Conphysically abused by their managers.

Additionallv. Me'dcan farmers growing vention, an occupying power is obligated to rice, sug'a.rand soy are closing their lands care for the people who reside in the terdue to a:r inabilitv to comDete with the mas- ritories they control. Therefore, the United Statesgovemment is responsiblefor every sive U.S. farm indus*y.

One of the hardest hit crops has been starving, poverg'-sh:ickenfamily begging for Medcan coffee. Mexico's coffee produc- a life at our borders.

Current legislationproposed by Demo tion has fallen .[0 oercent and incomes have and Republicans alike suggests that crats In dropped 70 percent. the United States, the retail value of coffee rose over 30 oer- Mexicat economic refugeeswho have not cent. This is becausecompanies like Sara received the grace of Gdy Liberty's green I.ee, Starbucks and Nest.leare the compe[- card should be deported in swafhs totaling tion to family-owned coffee farms that saw up to an estimated I million people. That their crop to be an art. Now, these farmers means back to Medco, back to poverty and are qving to make it to the US, though many ba& to occupation. The U.S. governrnent die. In May 2001, 12 of the 14 refugeeswho is aftempting to swindle intemational lat' to died crossing the deserb of Arizona were militarize our borders, be the grand puppeteer of foreign nations and defend profit at coffee farmers.

Our govemment is imposing this eco every exPense. nomic tlranny. Our fellow human beings S e eZ O E o n 1 1

Last weekend, after we had enjoyed a few beautifirl dap in the 80s, it h.rmed cold. Of course it did, it's Apd! Sfill, the weather gup Eeared it as if we were being invaded bv terrorists. instead of cold air. Thev used #ords like, ;The cold ur is oeeping in Eom Ca.nada(VVhenI heard that, I thought, 'why can't those damn Canadians keep thea air to themselves"), and a cold blast oI uir, g"ing the weather forecast a war-like feeling. Now, I'll admit, I hate cold weather more than the average person, but treating it like a war on air doesn't make me feel any wanner, or Admifredly, it must be terribly difftcult to stand, year after year, at the Eisenhower Tunnel and report thal yep, it's snowing like a mofo. (What I wouldn't give to one day actually heax one of those guys say, "yep, it's snowin' like a rnotherf@&#er. Back to you, Bob.") I u:uly feel sorry for those guys-and they usually are guys, who've only been at the station a short time-because not only are their reports pointless, but it's also damn cold--or wel depending on the season-up there. The TV stations wouldn't be hurting anyone's feelings if they just used file footage to show the snow at the mouth of the tunnel; the understanding viewers wouldn't begmdge *rem a thing.

The worst job, though, has to be a Weather Channei reportet's. Every hurricane seasonthev send some Door schmuck down south, tether them to a telephone pole and have them report on wind that has the potential to kill people (especially people u'ho happen to be tethered to a telephone pole). Ard, really, what are they supposed to say?It's windy. Really, really windy. Stuff is blowing around. Children look like standins for Sally Field on "The Flying Nun' (See, there was this TV show back in the '70s --never mind). Aty."y, iCs windn so windy no one should be in the area- Bu! there stands the fatefirl, tethered weaf-herman,dc ing the hardest job in the world.

Back to vou. Bob.

TIIE I\{ETROPOI-ITAN . APRIL 27 2006

'Space'fo, GOPin 2006 No

The Intemet hosts many social-networking Web sites, and MySpace is the granddaddy of them all, serving accordtng to The New Ymk ?izres,'something on the order of 50 million users."

Earlier this month, the Times reporied, Nielseqf.{et Ratings put MySpace l0th among nWeb Sites by Brand," topped only by establishedhearl.rveights such as Yahoo!, MSN and Google.

The ranking was undoubtedly good news for News Corp., which acquired MySpace last year in a $580 million deal. That s right, the company that brings you Fox News Channel now owns your favorite online hangouL So now, along with worrying about proqpective employers perusing pages, and law enforcement oftcials combing for illegal acuvity, MySpace userc can consider themselvesjust another statisticof the News Corp. media conglomerate.

Last vear. the online edition of Bzsrzsss Week sud the MySpace/'{ews Co1p. deal reflected "Fox's ambitions !o establish a premier presence on the Web," and could help MySpace executives 'realizs thsir ambitions," because Fox could "conhibute massive a.[rounts of capital to the site." This sounds legitimate, even if you're not a fan of Fox News-it's not like Fox is going to start pushing its agenda on Web pages that some

CEOI.-WOLLERNI{N ryollerm@msuleda critics, according to lhe Timzs, have called 'Blossom.'' "cheesier than an episode of The danger lies in data rnining. Advancing technology is allowing analy,sb to categorize and examine large chunks of information-such as the ages and interests of 50 million Web site users-and dara mining is the premiere tool for accornplishing this.

All a company has to do is collect the information it wanb anallzed and hire a few proglammers to categorize i! giving them a clean, tidy and informafive picfi,lre of their target demographic. Ever wonder why you get unsolicited product-speciffc mail? Thank data mining. Just tbink of it as Direct Mail 10.0.

And it's not just companies who are capitalizing on this trend. Political groups are relying more and more on data mining to reach their voters in just the right way. lmagine receiving a letter or e-mail from the Reoublican Parw that addresses.eerilv. all yo,ir speciffc and pertinent compiaints ibout Iife, and what the Republican Party is going to do 0ofi-x them. I've heard of people poli[cs, but some things can be taken too far for their own good-like reality television.

I like the idea of MySpace: people sharing their personaliues and ideas with the world through pictues, video, writing and music. Bu! r'hen its new parent company, News Corp.-what some call "overtly partisan"-has accessto a heasure hove of intimate details about the largest demographic this counky has ever known-us-it creeps me out a litde.

Bv all accounts. the main focus of the Republican Party right now is 0o ensure that corservative poliucs wlll be around long after Republicans ale gone. If my penonal Web page-which potentially has nothing to do with politics at all-is going to be used for political ends, then I don't want to share it with even 100 people. Don't make it easyfor Republican leaders to tsame their next message campaign: say no to MySpace in 2006.

Anti- abortionistsad,vocate fetus' right to lfe The logic used by the abortion rights carnp has always made me scratch my head.

They argue that a woman should have "the right to choose' whether or not they should terminate a pregnancy, because,frankly, it's "her body." They drive around with bumper stickers like "Agairst Abortion? Don't have onel" The hardcore abortion rights people even advocate abortions beyond the ffrst kimester. when a baby can suwive outside its mothet's womb.

In some ways, the progress thb counky has made over the years has been remarkable with events such as the elimination of slavery and segregalion and the sufi:age of women. Yel in other ways, we have taken a step baclq like the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

Millions of aborted fehrseslater, the staneof South Dakota has challenged the decision by rnaking most abortions illegal.

South Dakota's decision is a sten in the right direction because it advocates'life, not death. Eventually, we may one day seeRoe v. Wade completely overhrrned, and that will be a wonderfirl day for humanity. Sure, it may lead to all-out war with the feminist movement and in liberal supporten, which make abortion its most sacred right But it will be worth i! as long as anti-abortionisb stick to logic and do not waver in dre fighr Abortion rights people will never get iL Do they really believe that conservatives want Roe v. Wade overhrmed becausethey want conbol of a woman's body? Do they realize that when a woman aborts a fenrs,itis not what she\ doing to her body that gee people worked up, but \ /hat was just done to the bodv of another sou.l.whose chance at life has just ended? The abortion righb crowd wanb to protâ&#x201A;Źct women's right to choose; anti-abortionisb want to protect the fetus' right to life. I think the laner sounds better.

NITKEDANELEK mdanelek@mscdedu The leffs sametwisted logic is employed with those who san 'Against abortion? Don't have one!" This is ridiculous. If a person isn't a supporter of abortion, it is because they rmderstand that abortion is murder.

Therefore, there should be a law against it that applies to everyone. You wouldn't see someone with a bumper sticker that read, "Against anon? Don't do it!' That would make no sense,becausearson is a crime.

Peoplecannot pick and choosewhich moral values to abide bv if thev endanser tle lives of innocent victims. That s wh/we have a tling called "the law." It's the comentone of civilization.

Granted, abortion is necessary al rare times, like when the mother's life is in danger. The toughest issue is whether or not it should be legal if the woman is raped. On the one hand, she did not become pregnant by her own choosing and sufiered gready.

BuL on the other hand. should the child be the one who has to pay the price? Whal about adoption?

Abortion rights people always leave the idea of adoption out of the equalion because it's an altemative that doesn't involve stoo ping a bearing heart There is no law that sa)a a woman must keep her baby. Having an abortion as a means of birth control is not an excuse becauseof the choice of adoo

tion. This is what people should mean by pro-choice, whether the mother should keep the baby or give it to a set of loving parents, not by desfroying it. Yet, women continue !o abort fetuses as a casual means of birth conhol, without checking out all the altematives.

The Democrats have come to the foreIiont as the party of "choice," Over the past few decades.it has slowly become a fact thal anyone who wants any real power within the Democratic Party has had to take a firm stand against the abortion rights campaign.

People such as Blll Clinton, Dick Gephardt, JesseJackson and Al Gore all used to lean to the right on the issue, but as they realized the Democrats were progressing toward ur abortion rights stance, they changed their tune. Gore, for example, voted on a 1984 bill that an unbom child should be considered 'a person' from the time of concep tion. Sixteen years later, while nrnning for presidenl Gore called for a rejection of the "anti<hoice exhemists.'

Something is ffshy here. It's difficult to bust any belief Democrals claim to have, becausemost of them will do whatever it takes to get power. It's all pottics. Other Iiberal presidential hopefirls, IikeJohn Kerry, try to play the flipflop card on this iszue.Kerry, in classicfashion, tried during the 2004 debaies to convince the voters that he was personally against abortion, but still believed in the woman's right to choose. So, he claims to be against it? That means he must consider it murder then, right? Yet he believes in the right for others to commit the murder.

Abortion should never be about politics; the decision of whether it's right or wrong should be made based upon values. At least we know where the farJeft standg and they know where the corservalives stand. What we should ask ourselves, however, is where would the baby stand?

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ZOE The oppressed are striking Contir.ruedfrom 10 When our government refuses to co ooerate with intemational standards of hurian decencv. we must hold it accountable.

When I say '\are," I mean that you, your friends and I need to start enforiing some international law.

May I is Intemational Worker's Day. On this dan irnmigranb and those who side with the oppressed over the oppressor axe declaring a general srike. A general sbike means a halt of everything that either brings you to work or makes someone else work.

That means no going to school, no going to work, no eating ou! no shopping, no riding buses and no filling up on gas.

General strikes become zuccessfi:lwhen evervone who isn't in oower demands a voice. That means elrery single penon in this nation recognizes the racism of the current immigration debate and demands human rights for immigranb.

After a[ when human righb are at stake, there is no work more impofiant than the work to be done in the streets.

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NIC GARCIA

Found ln â&#x201A;Źwffiffi%lotion o the left of the sink is the famous World War II poster: "We Can Do It!" exclaims a blond, fair-skinned woman, flexing her muscles.To the right of &e sink, on the other hand, is a mirror, framed, in multiple colors. with different stvles of men's beards.There's the anchoand Frenchfoule. The hulihe.

And a dozen or so others.

I'm standing in T's reshoom. It s rell organized, like a woman's. Still, you can't help but feel like you're standing in a man's. The towels don't exacdy match and there is no sign of makeup remover or lipstick.

When I ffnt spoke with T, I asked ha (a genderneutral pronoun) if sie (another gender-neutral pronoun) was an MTF (male-tofemale) or FTM (female+cmale).

Sie explained sie was neither.

"I'm gender queer,n sie explained. "I don't identi! with any gender."

Aga.in, when we sat down in hir home, I asked hir what pronouns sie liked, a corrunon practice in the commrmity whenever interacting with a trarsgender or gender queer individual. Sie said sie didn't care. "Mix them up," sie laughed, nBut then again, I guess that doesn't work too well with print?"

Hir skin is white like a Colorado snor,r.,hir hair is black as night, sansthe moon. It's cut short, with a litde bit of afiitude. Hir glasseshide hir brown eyes,or maybe they're blue. Hir voice reminds me of a boy in puberty.

It's raspy sometimes.Deep others.And stll, soft When sie does smile, iCswide and brighr Hir nose is stubby.

Hir jaw is chiseled but smooth and hir eyebrows are plucked.

Biologically, T is a female. And sie w-asreminded all to often when she was younger because her mother would push her into traditional gender roles-Jresses, play dates with other girls. "The gAls rvere alrvays playing imagination," sie says. So at recesses.sie ll'ould play with the boys.

"Every time someone fied to push me into a gender -role (even at a young..age)-.Ihad to stop ard sarv(to hirse$ I'm not that kind of girl," sie said.

T found hirself running more and more with the boys as she grew up. Sie excelledin soccerand basketball.

"It made sense to me," sie said. "The only time it (recess)was uncomlortable was when people tried to change me.'

And try they did. Perhaps the person who tried the most was T's mom. "I'm not the daughter my mother expected to have." At one poin! T's mother wouldn't allow hir to buy any new clothes because they weren't appropriate for girls. "I would come home and there would be new clotheson my bed," siesaid. Meanwhile, her father always embraced the "boy" in T. They would play ball and cook, sie said. "My dad really didn't know what do with a daughter, so he just loved his kid."

Even though T would hang out with mostly guys through hir childhood and teen years, sie still dldn't feel like sie belonged anywhere. "I never had the boy or girl mernbership card," sie said. T said sie believes a lot of her struggle came from the lack of language.It was set in stone for hir: boy or girl. Sie began to think of hirself as a man in a woman's body. Testosteronewas considered, but sie never went through with ii. And sugery was never a an option because"it hurts." It wasn't until sie went to a private-progressive boarding school that sie learned of the GLBT community and discovered words like hansgender and queer.

"I spent more tirne knowing whal I wasn'Lo Sie was 18 when hir friend Mary introduced her to the idea and word "queer." The traditional meaning of queeq according to dictionary.com is'Deviating from the expected or normal." To T, it's her life.

"When I look in the mirror, I seeme. I don't see a boy or a girl. ICs my reality."

T has, for the last few years, come 0o terms with hirself and hir ambiguity. Sie has the freedom to be a boy or a girl. Both. Neither.

Sie identfies hirself sexually queer, as well. Sie sals sie's been attracted to people acrossthe spectrum. "An attractive person, is athactive, right?" sie asked.

In this world, sie says,so many people axe tr-ying to put each other in boxes. From day one, sie explained, society wants us to conform !o norms. "'Is it a boy or a ghll is the ffrst thing people ask when you're having a babn" sie points oul Not knowing which gender sie was, T saysthere has been a lot of confixion in her life. Both intemally and extemally. nI feel scared.There is a lot of uncertainty out there.

And being lost is very scary."

While T generally dresses plainly in jeans and Tshirts, swea.ters,etc. sie says,"People, sometimes,have a problem with my gender presentafion."

Wlen sie was 16years old, T was once kicked out of a women's restroom in the Cherry Creek mall because two women thought sie was a boy.

T waited outside the resFoom, waiting for the womm to leave. Sie prayed they weren't going to make a big scene when they left Sie wondered if they were going to call security or worse, their husbands.

Today, reshooms still cause some problems for T and many transgenders.Several factors weigh in. What gender can they passfor? What, if any surgery, has been done? Who will notice, who will care? T often does what many call risk assessments.

Some comfort is found at gay clubs and bars. Howeveq the mairsheam gay/ lesbian community often has as many problerns with transgenclen and people who identi! themsel".'esas bi or queer as the heterosexual community, because they are seen as being greedy or hypersexual.

T has a lot of frustration over how members of her own cornmunity can be so harsh and wrong about transgenders and queers. Sie believes that, outside the community, people group all of the GLBT community together and if there is any disunity among members it will do more harm. "These statementsare perpâ&#x201A;Źtuaring a mindset that keeps (the) gay and lesbian communif oppressed,"sie said.

Becauseof this, T doesn't spend a lot of time with the mainsheam gay cornmunity. "I don't understand why we push people into boxes."

While T believes all people are queer on some level, sie said sie respectseveryone for their lifestyles.And sie hopes one day, sie lr.ill be too.

"I'm just hying to make space for me in the world."

According !o some, there is a big wave of young hansgenendersand more and more people are adopting the term queer to identi! their gender or sexuality. For this, T is very happy.

"We're starting to allow people to make their own identities," sie said regarding the surge in younger trarsgenders.

Today, T is more comfortable with who sie is ... or isn't. Sie has the freedom sie has always wanted: the freedom to be hirself, wear whatever sie wanb ard to

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have a crush on a former boy band star and footwear.

"I have the biggest crush onJustin Timberlake, then again, I don't know if I want to be him or do him," and sie added, "I love high heels.The world is a better place becauseof stilettos." h" interior of T's houseis derived from a grey 7Tl palate. It's hir favorite color. Hir jeans are a I dark, tom blue and the sweatersie is wearing I 4 is a heather, knit grey. Sie applies lipgloss and says:"I'm a sucker for the underdog. And really, it's neither black nor white. There's a lot of depth to grey.

ICs ambiguous. It feels good and warm."

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I have to be honesL I love watching teler,ision.I mean I really love iL I love watching "24," "Scrubs" and "Heist." I love my Sah:rday moming ca.rtoons.I love my "Daily Show." I love my History Channel.I love my Cartoon Network. I love my "Myth Busters." I love my Animal PIaneL I love them all!

And, if it weren't for television,I would be out of a job. I write screenplays.I write animation plays. Where would I be if everyone decided to stop watching television and go for long walks or plant a garden?

I would be on the streets,poor, asking you for spare change while you were on a walk. And, I would not be alone. There would be millions more people out on ihe street-broke, drinking and pan handling.

Get rid of talevision,1'ou get rid of jobs.

Imagine thousands of actors, producers, editors, sound people and whoever goes into making a television show suddenly out of ajob.

Does that world sourd interesting to you?

But then, why stop at television? Why not also break the habit of the Intemet and radio? They zuck up our attention just the same.And then, afur all forms of entertainmentare gone! rve can sit around a fire and talk about our boring day.

Maybe I'm being too rash.Bu! television is one of the greatest creations ever. When I'm sick and can't move, I fum it on. I can't go for a walk or planl Hell, if I go for walks and start planting, I would have to cornmunicate with people. I don't want that I don't really like them. I'm not surrounded by beautifi,rl people-I live off of Colfax. ln fact what are a]l the benefits of television? I can see places I u'ill never have the money to go and visit I've gosen to watch spaceshipstake off and land. I've leamed more about our country's history.

I've leamed how to cook new mea]s,train my dog to do new tricks, leamed how to be a better scree ,!Titer,had my alphabets and numbers reinforced, watched two great buildings in my home state crumble to dust and watched Michael Jaclson's steady progression to becoming a white female.

So, I have to put up with commercials.

So, I'll become a walking advertisernenLSo, I'll be iust another slob at the water cooler talking about Jack Bauer. So. Great. Take away television and I'll be one pissed off man.

Though, this isn't to say that I don't agree with several of Ms. Williams' points. I do agree that children watch way too much 0elevisionfor their own good. I guess that's my only agreemenl So, during this 'TV Tumoff Week"" I'll be watching more 0elevision and I will encourage people to watch the new episode of "24." "hst " "Prison Break" and "HeisL" I'll continue being a television whore becauseI like feeling cheap.

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By Nicholas Dewart . dewart@mscd.edu Photos bv Latthew Jonas r ionasm@mscd.edu

pirihrals were steered by a history of slavery and oppres siorl but are driven by hope. l:rfA Denver-based nonprofft organizarion, The Spirihrals hojec! utilizes the mind, body and spirit to deliver this messâ&#x201A;Źe in ways that apply today.

Spirituals are folk songsthat were sometirnesused by African-American slaves to communicate messagesunbeknownst io th"it - t".". More notably, the use of rpi.it"ut extended 0o uplifting the spirit of the siaves and, in tum, helped them survive ihe harsh conffnes of the plantation and maintain a senseof corununity.

"A true folk song has no known author, but is created and refined by a community, expressing individual and common feelings,values and issues,"said Arlen Hershberger dAector of The SpiritrralsProjecr's choir.

The need for spirituals still persists today where, in the .United States,human slavery no longer exits as a dominanl socially acceptable entity. Still, parallel inlustices have manifested themselvesinto the mind.

"The thing that the spirituals give us now is hope,n The Spirituals hojects choir direclor Bennie Williams said. "I think for those of us who axenot in the upper quadrant of the economy, we are, in a way, being beaten and salt is being rubbed into (the wounds oQ our psyche by the way we are being beated. It's not a slavery of physical, but there is an emotional torment that dfnking people are sufiering at this poinl Singing Bpidhralscan help you to survive this."

The Spiritrals kojecl founded by ArthurJones, uses the intimate rnedium of its choir's live performance, directed by Henhberger and Williams, as a vehicle to take the art form off of the page and to drive the feeling of the spirituals to their audience.

"Spirituals, like jaza have !o have a certain altihrde," Williams said. "People get so caught up with what's on the printed page and they never allow their hearb to get involved." ' Wlrile the choir brings the visceral aspect of spirihals'to dre community, the project doesn't neglect-the page by deIivering lectures and qpeecheson the historical importance of the soirituals.

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Undentanding the history of rvhere these songscame from an immense knowledge base about the history of spiribrals allows the penon to gain an empathetic point of view of the that compliments the emotional passionWilliams brings to the spiritua.ls and renders them an inspiring lool in overcoming projecl adversity.

"It\ lnteresting becauseI can sit and chat with Art flones) "I began to appreciale the almost unlimited potential of and we can talk about the philosophy of the music and it's the spirituals as sourcesof wisdom and guidance in addressing grand," Wodell said. "Then I can talk with Arlen (Henhbergcurrent societal and psychological iszues,"Jones said in his er), who has forgotten more about some of the history of the music then many people will ever know and then I can talk book "Wade in the Water: The lVisdom of Spiriurals." and I can get this incredible intensity Like a language, spirihrals are alive and change in vocabu- with Bennie (Wrlli*) lary as time goes on. This durability makes them a tool for of feeling."

Pa.rtof the project's goal is to be more than just an educacontemporary application.

"One of the spiribrals that became almost the anthem of tional tool for the public to utilize, the project aims to leave a the civil rights movement was 'Oh Freedom,' and one of the culhrral impact on the community. components of spirihrals,aswith most folk music, is that singers "It's very encouraglng for us to do things in social and not can make lyrics up," said Geoftey Wodell, a Spirihrals koject iust artistic contexts,' member. "So, hew lyries were addid on top of 'Oh Freedom,' Hershberger said. 'We want 0o get more involved with which (originally) said, 'I'd rather :be dead in my grave than the community and have worked with organizalions such as buried as a slave,' then they added 'oh segregation' and they Colorado Youth at Risk and elementary schools,for which we have been seeing a growing number of requests.' added other words to it and it becomesa new song."

The animate nah:re of the soirituals is fostered bv the fact According to The Spirihrals Project's Web site, htp.//spiri they are not deffned by a rigiil deffnition of a genre, such tualsprojeclorg, the project was formally incorporated in 1998, as gospel, which was originated by Thomas Dorsey. Gospels but its roots stretchback to l99l when Jones did a program, originated from spirihrals as Dorsey blended the spiritual's mu- along with his piano accompanist lngrid Thompson, about sic with lyrics from the Gospels. soirih:als at the Denver Museum of Natural History as part In his boobJones elaborated on how the tradition of spiri- oi tlt" M,r."..-'s arurual A-frican-American Heriag;e Month tuds has an influence on the art of today as he commentec progmmming. on lyrics by Arrested Developmenl from the song 'Raining Jones, a clinical psychologis! researched and planned the Revolution." program as a stepping stone into other music he was interested in performing but as his research continued he found himself "Refreshingly, new sounds rise up into the air, again pra viding us music which signals the arrival of new hopes anc thorougtrly immersed in the spirituals. new visions,"Jones wrote.

"I began to focus almost exclusively on spirituals," Jones The project s goal is to educate people about this art form wrote in his book. "I read about them, sang them, attended and to preserve this American culhrral tradition. concerts and listened to recordings, dreamt about them and The Spirituals Project achievesthis by being an educationa- absorbed them thoroughly into my consciousness." resource center, through its choir, through its multimedia Web Since the projett's beginning as a small song and lechrre site, through its youth initiative, through its national network- progmm, it has $own to include more speakersand a choir of ing and by inviting additional outside ardsts.

60 to 75 voices fiom all backgrounds, races and traditions.

Mqior source of achieving this goal comes sh:aight from the menbers themselves while Jones and Hershberger have

There is an emotional torment that thinking people a^resufferingat this point.

Sirg"S spirituals czrnhelp you to survive this.

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(ontinue lruditlon Festivul founders Local filmmakers feature up and coming talent of Southem California was rejected because it was "too long and too boring," he said.

The fflmmakers reolied with a.n e-mail savDon't mess with Wade Gardner and ing USC was the greatest ffIm school in the country and questioned their decision to not Josh Weinberg.

When "Don't Mess With Texas," a short include iL A responseto that letter was never sent. fflrn Gardner and Weinberg created, didn't "If we did send them a lener," he said, get accepted into the sirdent festival at his would've said, 'Yeah, you may have "we college, the two of them created their own had the most expensively produced, the showcase:The Fint Iook Film Festival. nlf ours didn't get shown at the shrdent most well-shot fflrn that we've ever seen or showing," Gardner said, "how many other that USC's ever seen,but if it didn't have an student projecb, not only in C,olorado, but entertaining story, how cotrld we play it in aror.md the world, probably haven't been ftont of an audience?'"

Gardner said the oroduction value of the able to be screened in fiont of an audifflm is not factored into the selection proence?" cess.Ralher, it's whether or not the fflm has In 2001, the two shrdents naveled to lo cal schools and solicited material for their a thoughtfrrl or entertaining story.

Unlike many short fflrn festivals around festival. When they were ffnished, they had the countv. the First Ilok Film Festival collected over 30 short fflms. *The surprising thing was that everyone doesn't have an overall theme to its colsat through the entire threehour program," lection of movies. He said a global theme would limit the types of shorb that are in the he said. "We knew we had to do it aâ&#x201A;Źain."

Ironically, a year after the festival started, festival and some good shorls may be left "Don't Mess With Texas" was acceDtedinto oul However, two running night themes axe the Starz Denver Intemalional Film- Festival. included annually: I-ate-night zombie shorts In its second vear. Gardner and Wein- and a Colorado directors screening.

Gardner and Weinbeqg have chosen not berg fomd an online submission service that they've been using to this day. Now, they an- 0oinclude any of thea films inside the event nually receive over 4O0enties from around they started, as "it would take a spot from somebodyelse." the world. "[he directon) are not jaded by Hol"We get stories that are personal, sad, lywood," Gardner said. "They're not doing frrnnn thoughdrl, but always from the passion of the studenb doing the work ' he it to get a buck. Yeah, they're doing it to get a grade, but a lot of times the passion said.

One year, a beautifirlly shot fflm with just comes through and the audience is just high production value from ihe University blown away by the independent nature."

Nicole Queencontribuledto this article.

By'Joe Ngu.ven nguyejos@mscd.edu

MOVIE REVIEWS

Bigscreen love, zombies The Fi$t look Film Festival held is opening night last Thunday at the Starz FilmCenter.

A total of seven short films were showrl ranging from a nostalgic love story to a dishrbing display of violence.

The theater was sparse,with roughly 4{) in the audience. Wade Gardner, one of the festival's founders, said the lack of patrons on opening night was common in past yea$, but he expected beter attendance in the da)a to come.

Aslrley Lyle, a graduafe shrdent from Columbia University in New Yor\ screened her love Eiangle comedy, "Dirty Dewey Decimal.'

"I hope you don't hate my movie," Lyle joked to the audience prior to the screening.

Thev didn't as her ffIm won the Audience Choice Award on Sunday.

The 38 fflms included in the festival were selectedfrom over 4O0entries. Gardner and cofounderJosh Weinberg said they selected the fflms based on the predicted enjoyment of the audience.

Sean Wilson's 'Mercy Me" is a captivating portait of a recycler named Ken Kyle in Humboldt County, Calif. and his borderline obsession of collecting glass bottles for a living. The fflrn takes an intriguing and microscopic view of the characteds private obsession.

Ian Ogden's "Copperhead Road" was about the violence a young woman endures

at the hands of a com.rpted police officer, who oulls her over after a New Year's Party. T[re graphic acts of violence, an open ending and the constant uneasy feel of the fiLn left the audience stunned as the credits rolled. One enthusiasticpatron tried to start a round of applause, but to no avail.

"My Backyard was a Mountain," directed by Adam Sctrlachter, is perhaps the sweetestfflm ever made about a goat. The drama tugs emotional skings as a young boy has to leave behind his pet goat and a blossoming love with his childhood friend as his family prepares to relocate to the United Statesfrom Puerto Rico.

Despite a few small technical glitches earlv on. the First look Film Festival kicked off with a bang, showcasing a number of tuly memorable short movies.

-Joe Nguyen . nguyejos@mscd.edu Cinematic zombies descended on the sixth annual Starz Fint l-ook Film Festival Friday night, bringing with them a supematural and eerie atnosphere that is a staple of horror fflms.

The dead-alive movie monsten. however, weren't what we're used to in more traditional zombie flicks. The featured student fflmmakers fiom universities all around the nation deffnitely strekhed the limits of the zombie theme.

These zombie fflms ran the gamut of scenarios, from a more haditional scene of

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Fromleh,JoshWeinberg ond Wode Gordner, foundersond orgonizersof the Firsi LookFilm Festivolot the Sirrz FilmCenter,greet moviegoerson April 22. Now in its sixthyeor, the festivolshowcosesstudentfflms.When oskedhow long they plon to continuethe went, Weinberg ond C'ordneriokinglyrepliedthot theywont to keep going for ot leostI 8 yeors,or until theydie. two non-zombie soldiers stuck in a Russian nuclear testing sight infested with everydring from flesh-earingzombies to sex-crazedzombies. Even the Cookie Monster was thrown into the mix as a stalker and Jesus Chrft made an appearance as a resu.rrectedzombie (I guessyou just had to be there).

One of the more far-fetched fflms included sexually driven zombies controlled by an S&Maddicted dominatix, who took to the streetssurging with sexual energy and grrating hips. Abstinence Man proved to be the foil in Chris Obal's "Abstinence Man ard The Orgy of Death.' These sihrafions are definitelv not what one mav be used !o see ing in a iypical zombie flick, but nonetheless, thev 'Aare funnv as hell. fflrn that could have been left out of the lineup was "I'll Meet You in Your

Womb," directed bv Brian Davila" which was 25 minutes of priscription drug-induced sexual hallucinations, lots ofblood and utter con-firsionas to what the point really was.

They saved the best for last with *Penny Dreadfi,rl," directed by Bryan Norton. "Penny Dreadfirl" focused not on zombies, but on glosts of the future haunting Penny\ newly inherited home. The quality of the fflm was excellent and the plot enticing and susperxrefrrl. The fihn succeededdespite a few technical glitches, which left the audience waiting for the disc to be cleaned before the fflm continued.

Not on-the-edgeof-your*eat scary, but deffnitely entertaining this year's late-night horror show was a successin all its masochistic, sex-crazed,flesh-eating zombie glory.

-Nicole . nqueen@mscd.edu Qgeen

Hey,kidl'letsrockold'school When a news release anrrouncing Kid Rock's upcorning "oldparty-rock experience" school appeared in our e-rnail, we knew it was sornething we had to covef.

The only problern waq we're aII

rnetal has given us sorne knowledge of the black arts. A srnall sacrifiice. a rnuttered incantation and. .roilai we channeled the spirit of an old-school reporter and coerced it into inhabiting our own Adann Goldstein.

Problern solved? Not quite. Unrnagic is definitely fortunately, rnore a.rt than science, and instead of the o70s-era Rolling Stone rock writer type we'd hoped for, we ended up with a really old-school frorn the late reporter-apparently 1940s.Sure, it wasn't ideal, but the hour was getting late, we didn't have another larnb and no one \alas really sure how to rernove a spirit other than letting the spell expire.

Besideq it's just rock 'n' roll. One old school is as good as another. right? With no other optiong we sent out our possessed reporter to get the scoop on the Kid.

Bv .'\danr"Scoop" Goldstein gtIdsteaC@ntscd.erlu ood eveningMr. and Mrs. America^from border /-l border and coastto coastand all the ships ar | -b Warm up the telegraphlines, dear readers!Tum up the electric torch and hrrn off your Mchola, becausethis news is sure to shock! This iust in: music sensationKid Rock drops into to Denver h-[<ea torpedo from a German Lr-Boatl The singing sensation stopped by the Denver Convention Center last Friday, athacting a sizable crow'd of enthusiasticfans.

Though Rock's particular genre of music is something completely foreign and strange to me, it seemed to please the young folks in the crowd.

Wait, stop the presses,ladies and gendemen.As I write, new information is pouring in from the wire.

Apparently, Kid Rock is a "rocker" rvho incorporates elements of "hiphop." This may come as a shock to many of you out there, but apparendy both of these musical expressions :tre very popular among the young folks of today.

One thing is cedain, when Kid Rock and his crew quit mugging light and started to mug heary, the crowd responded with a due amount of cheer. This Rock fella sang with a moxie that would kill a goal The key to successin show businessis theah:ics,and Rock didnt fail. He made ar enhance reminiscent of Bette Davis in "The ktter." Rising out of the stagefloor on a mechanized pladorm, Rock appeared wittr a fftting amount of grandiosity and pomposity. The multi tiered stage made for an almost theatrical setting, as Rock and

his musicials scrambled along the different levels. Dancing girls g1rated in the background, making this reporter wonder if the antics were approved ma0erial under the Hayes Code. I will confessto vou, those cararies gave me some thoughts that will only be excised by a priest.

Rock and his band, the Twisted Brown Trucker Band delivered a solid sender ihat lvould chill va when thev broke into a cover number titled "Freebird." Again. dear readers, although this comes as news to this reporter, the song is apparendy a favorite among classic-rockfals. Personally-,Artie Shal,,'sversion of "Begin the Beguine" is a much more durable anthem, but there's no accormting for popuJartasre.Still, Rock's an6csreminded me o[ mv days on the Vaudeville circuil as he seemed to conjure the spirit ofAlJolson in his rim and vigor.

The crowd welcorned the cover with unfettered glee, as it respondedto Rock's big hits, his big senders,see?

When he played numbers zuch as "Bawitdaba."the kids screamed,-thekids conr.rlsed,the kids went mad. Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra would surely drool *ith eruy at Rock's eflect on the young birds in the crowd.

Kid Rock and his coterie of playen tout themselves as nold-schooi rockers." Now, I will confess that I don't know what that mears. exacdv. but as I'm over 100vears old, I can confessthat these kids had the spunk-of a youngJake l-aMotta- Bull am!

Rock and his sidemen kicked out a barrelhouse bash that made the w-allstremble and the floors pound. I will be completelyhonestwhen I say that this young strapper and his gang went to town, they gave it a ride and they -Eot hot.

Sure, I'm a fella who likes a good Coleman Hawkins or Rudy Vallee when I sit down*to smoke my cigm, but this Rock swinger sure lit up the crowd.

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By Sarah Con'w'ay sconway6@mscd.edn After the demise of The Movielife, one of the most energetic, rowdy hardcore bands to ever grace the East Coasl fans were left with very few arxwers and much heartache.That was until 2004, when vocalist Vinnie Caruana formed the rock quinte!

I Am the Avalanche, and launched a whole new version of Brooklyn punk.

The band's self-tided debut was r+ leased exacdy two years to the day that The Movielife broke up. Caruana maintains the same energy in iris new project that he once ooured into The Movielife. I Am the Avalanche inhoduces a more melodic and vulnerable side to the once in-your-face auiurde that The Movielife delivered and approaches the stage more hurnbly after experiencing the woes of having a real .|ob.

The band mixes dreamy harmonies and infectious powerpacked rift with lpics that read like they were written at a workshop for journal writing.

Thanl$illv. Caruana wanted I Am the Avalanche to continue as a touring band and he and the band are currendy on The New Hope Tour with Boston quintel The Receiving End of Sirens, along with Hit the Lighb and As Tall as lions.

Just off the Taste of Chaos tour, The Receiving End of Sirens is already b.i"g"g F.astCoast post-hardcore back on the road in its ffrst ever-headlining !our. For a band that onlv has one album. Beftoeenthe Heart and the'Syupse, these guys sure know what they're doing. Their music is experimental, but not unrecogniable, souli:l and honesl but not typical or cheesy and has some of the most intriguing lyrics and penonal style to boot.

After being involved in a recent accidenl vocalist and guitarist Alex Bars fell l l feet down a flight of stairs,resulting in three fi'actured ribs, a fiactured shoulder blade, a punctured lung and damage to a few vertebrae. He spent two nights in the hospital, and is currendy spending some down time have dein recoverv. As for the band. thev 'upcoming cided not'to cancel any of tireir headlining shows for The New Hope Tour.

It is undetermined how soon Ban will re cover, or how large a role he will play once he is able to grace the stageagain.

The New Hope Tour will behittingtheMarquisTheater,at 2009 Larimerst.

Fridoy,April 2B at 7:30 p.m Ticketsare $10.00.

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One such se! recorded in 1996 at the Fox The ahe in Boulder, features songs fiom the first two Soul Coughing albums. The set catches the band in ffne form, highlighting their abfity to flawlessly recreate

the improbable song strucures of their recorded work and their habit of twisting ihem just enough to keep things freaky. It's solid enough to serve as a decent introduction to the uninitiated, but also throws in a counle of rarities for dedicated fans. namelv a nice 'Don't version of "16 Horses' and the never-released Parking the lnst in the Lot)." go Wreck Car (Got The top-notch performances stick close to the albums, but include enough variation to keep things fresh for fans who have taken the time to memorize everv note of the officiallv released versions. A killer version of "Moon Sammf' and possibly the coolest "Casiotone Nation" the band ever played-in which Doughty name-drops Pifall, Yar's Revenge and Missile Command!-are worth the price of admission (that'd be free, y'all) for old-school fars. There's no "True Dreams of Wichita' or Janine' but apart from tha! it's just about an ideal sel The recording is toP notch except for being recorded too quiedy; but hey, that's what the volume knob is for. Download it, hrm it up and bathe in the majestyof the future's"best band no one knew." .

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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs second firlllength release, Show Your Botus, coufd have been sbipped dom to bare bones, removing all instrumentation except the vocals and it would still be an amazing album.

The vocals are complex and passionate, but there is an underlying sense of comfort in lead vocalist Karen O's voice throughout Show Your Bones.At times it sounds like she is holding back tears as her voice waivers and cracks during admissionsof heartbreal and guill The tone of the vocals changes from one hack to the next while still keeping her scratchy, vibrato style. In "Way Ou!' she sounds slighdy childish and deffan! but in 'The Sweets,"O's voice is filled with a pain-inflicted wisdom. Even the style of gemes changesin her multi-faceted voice. "Mpteries,' has a minor counhy twang to it, while "Phenomenq" is a booty+hakin', bass-thumpin' dance trackThe pircussion and guitar are mostly subdued with simple beats and chords harmonizing with the vocals. Although the vocals are remarkable, it is disap pointing to not hear anything from the other two Yeahs, because,given a chance, their insfumentation can take ihe vocals to a higher level.

The only song the percussion and guitar carries is 'Fancy." This track has a sbonq indush-ialaltihrde that could not have bien achieved by the overdriven voca.lsalone. The slorv, but elaborate dnmming, fas! urgent bass lines and eerie riffs are rahat really give this back its shength.

"The Sweets." is bv far the most heartbreaking song on an entire album driven by depressionand regret.As such it should come with a waming that listeners should avoid this uack if they have any of the following: a history of mental illness.a recent break-up,or a sensitive disoosition. The lwics chronicle the tragic post-breakup questioning of what if, what could have been and what now.

The song is simple and understated until the ffnale, when everything is bmed up and electrified as if the singer has tumed her depressioninto anger.

This album showcaseswhat a singer with sincere lyrics and a bipolar range of emotions can really do. The percussion and guitar should have been played up more, but it creates a simplistic honesty in the album, which can only be created by a sbaighdorward, backto-basics ap oroach.

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Men's tennis falls to Kearney

The Metro cydingdub will be wrap ping up its inaugural seasonthis weekend at the conference championships in Iararnie,

wyo.

The even! hosted by the University of Wyorning cycling team, will feaJure the entire Rodry Mountain Collegiate Conference, The RMCC has been considered the top conference in the counky with perennial powerhouses University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State Universitv.

Metro has several top 20 ffnishes against these powerhouses, even though they have consistendyffelded a much smaller team.

The championships, which start on Satr:rdan will include a road race, team time tial and a criterium.

Ian Stanford is scheduled to compete in the Men's A road race on Saturdan which is l0l kilometers and will ascend 3,660 feet Club hesident Ben Stein will comoete in the 65 km. Men's B, along with lintonio Molina- Five other Metro riders will corrr pete in the Men's C road race.

The 20 km Vedauwoo team time trial will be a dlsplay of teamwork and dedica tion, following dre road race. Team memben will ride in single ffle, to block the wind for dreir fellow riders to follow. Using this drafting technique, these riders will save their energy for their brm at the fronL The front of the team will be in constant rotration as the tearnrnatesh.ke turns keeping up the rnomenhrm. The hial ends when the last team member crossesthe line. The shongest and most dedicaled riders, who are willing to sacriffce themselves for their team, will win.

The last event on Sunday will be the criterium. An easyway to understand a 'crit' is !o think of a NASCAR race on bikes. Riden l"i[ try to ouhnuscle their opponents by riding faster and pushing up the pace until the determined number of laps is reached.

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By Jeremy Johnson jjohn308@mscd.edu Nebraska-Keamey doubled up the Metro men's tennis tearn last weel beating the Roadnurnen at Aurada Courts in an April 20 mafch to rank the team fust place in the Rockv Mountain Athletic Conference and again-on April 22 to win the RMAC toumament championship.

The No. 5*eeded Metro women's tearn lost to Ft Hap State in the ffnt round of the RMAC toumament Bul the Roadrunners beat Nebraska-Kearney, 54, in their final regular+eason match to 6nish fffth on the seasonin the RMAC. Sophomore Raghnild Kinoshita won her singlesrlatctr, GA G4, and junior Akiko Kinoshita won her singlesmatch in three seb to take two of Meho's four singles matches.

The sistersalso took a tight and crucial 97 doubles match to lead Mero b ib second RMAC win of the season.

Freshman Mitra Hirad and junior Tia Mahoney also won their singles matches in straight sets en route to the seasonffnale wln.

The men's team suffered a narrow, 54, loss when Nebraska-Keamey's Luke Backhaus came back from a ffrst{et loss to beat junior Will Meyer, 1$, G2, Gl in the ffnal and deciding singlesmatch.

Meyer paired up with sophomore Sean Carlton on the third*eed doubles tearn tha! after hking a74lead over the lopers, lost the ffnal three garnesto give up the sel 97.

Sophomore Riley Meyer and junlon Drew Machholz and Mark Milner won three straight singles matches after senior Andre Nilsson's opening loss. Carlton lost the No. 5 seed singlesmatch to set up the tiebreaker betweenMeyer and Backhaus. ' Machholl and Mlner also won their doubles match" &5.

The Metro men ffnished the regular season in second place in the RMAC with a 4l record. Their ffna] record was 12â&#x201A;Ź overall.

With the win, the Metro women improved to 12$ overall and ended the season 24 in RMAC competition.

The No. 2+eeded Metro men's tennis team advanced to the RMAC tournarnent ffnals. but were defeated for the second time in three davs bv Nebraska-Keamev. After a 'bye first-round and a second-rouni, G2 ,rictory over UC{olorado Springs, the 'Runners were defeated in the championship game, F2, by the No. l-seedlopen.

Riley Meyer and Mark Milner beat the same singles opponents they had faced trvo days before, but it proved too litde of a boost for the fatigued 'Runnen.

Mlner and Machholz also beat a familiar pair in doubles play, &5. The duo was responsible for Meko's only two doubles victories agairst Nebraska-Keamey this season.

The Meho women were eliminated in the ffnt rormd of the RMAC tournament af ter bking just one singles and one doubles match against No. 2*eed Mesa State.

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Metro iunior Drew Mochholzsmosheso serveloword Universityof Nebrosko-Keorney April 20 ot the Aurorio TennisCourts.The Lopersbeot the Roodrunners5-4. The lwo teomsmei ogoin in the RockyMountoinAthleticConferencetournomentchompionshipApril 22. Maro fell to Nebrosko-Keomey5-2.

Akiko Kinoshita won her singles match in three seb, while the duo of freshrnan MAiam Evangelistaand Mahoney squeaked out a doubles win, 98 (3).

Mesa Sane ffnished second in the tournament when it was defeated by No. l*eed CSU-Pueblo. 53.

Three Metro men's singles playen earned first-team honors, the RMAC office armouncedApril 21.

Riley Meyer, Machholz, and Milner earned numbers two tlnough four ffrst-team honors,respectively.

The doubles team of Machholz and Mlner earned second+eamdoubles honors, while Will Meyer was named to the singles AILRMAC second team.

Rankings for the upcoming NCAA Division II toumarnent had not been arrnounced at the tirne this article went to prinL

'Runners locrosse prepores forDU B v N l a t tC u n n gunnma@mscd.edu The Meho lacrosse team is taking on dre University of Denver club lacrossetearn at the Petei Barton Lacrosse Stadium dris weekend.

Faceoff is at 6 pm. April 29 at DI-Ps new lacrosse-soeciffcffeld.

The 'Runnen' schedule has feaurred garnes against Colorado State UnivenityPueblo and Colorado School of Mines. The team is currently 14, and is made up of players between the ages of l8 and 24 with varying rangesof experience, club representafive Shea Haney said.

Meto hopes to join the competitive Rocky llountain LacrosseConference Division B in the fall. The Roadrunnen hope to gain more support and momentum through the end of this vear.

For more information on Mebo lacrosse, cdlEatey af7&9397795 or email the team at aurarialax@yahoo.com.

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The face of women's rugby in Colorado "YoLtkick someone's ass on thefield, but afterward you're having beerstogether h's a aerysocial sport."

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It's a physical game in which players are asked to ffght ttrcugh the pain. Everyone's a cornpetitoq and no one leavesthe ffeld until the SGminute clock runs ouL When not playing, teams spend most of the year haining for toumaments and divisional play.

"It's really frrn being in a garne where you depend on people and people are depending on you," said wing Martha Camp bell. "I think ihat develops a relationship on the field and off the ffeld as well."

Off the ffeld, rugby is about community and camaraderie. A player, or rugger, is never alone. Regardless of background or skill, each shares a comrnon bond: her love for the sporl The social aspect of rugby is as important as the game itself.

"You kick someone's ass on the ffeld, but afterward you're having beers together," said Bed<y Hentges, a rookie on the Harle quin Olde Glrls Rugby Club. 'It's a very Fiendly'rugfuer\ sport off the ffeld."

A competitive side is matched only by her commitnent to expanding the sporL The Olde Girls have been on the Colorado rugby scene since l98l. Although they compete at a national level, the only requirement of team members is a desire to Ieam and compete. Players' ages range from 18 t D3 7 .

They are one of onlv four women's clubs cornpeting in Colorado.

"Everyone who's played the sport loves i!" said Katie Wursl who plays the power position of prop for the Olde Girls. Wunt also works for USA Rugby, the national body of the sporl Her goal is to share her of rugby with people who aren't so hmiliar with the game.

"It's all over the entire worl4' Wurst said, "I've been to more countries than I can cormt just for rugby.'

Intemafionalln supporters of the game are like American football fans. People can't get enough of rugby, regardless of whether

they've played it or noL It's a great way to start a conversation that often leads to friendship.

"It's just like this dependency of the rugby community that you can count on it and it s alwap there for you," said Harlequin "Social Babe"Jaime lange. "It's intemationallv ' there as well."

RrSy originated in England, and has spread primarily in Western Europe, the South Paciffc and South Africa.

The game continues to grow within the United States because of its accessibiliF. It's played on a pitch rougtrly the size of an Arnerican football field. The goal is to score tries and conversions, worth ffve and two points, respectively, by taking the ovoid ball to the opponents' goal zone.

Players can pass the ball to each other larerally, and the lead offensive player is allowed to make forward kicls. Rugby's a garne that needs to be experienced firsthand to be fully understood.

Many of the Olde Girls described their ffrst experience with the team as something special. Whether they'd played before or noL "I fell in love the ffnt time I got tacHed," Henlges said. She began playing in Fargo, N.D., and found the Olde Girls through a Google search.

The team works on tackling and everything else rugby on Tuesday and Thursday eveningsat Glendale's Mir Park Their head coach, Mark Bulloclq tâ&#x201A;Źlls them to "be passionate," and says,"How we practice is 6ow we play.'

Through early April, the team was baining for the Best of the West Toumament in Austin, Tex. The Olde Girls practiced hard, each player ffghting for a spot on tre playing roster.

The Olde Girls cited toumamenb as another way to grow closer as a group. Travel is also a step toward progresing the sport acrossAmerica" and a way to mix competiflon beyond local garnes.

'I like competition," team vice president Paula Bailey said. 'Sometimes I dont know; rny foot's swollen, my knee hurts and I want to go home. Honestly, it's the camaraderie, the competition, stalng in shape is a big thing, and - I know this sounds surpid - but being a tough girl."

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With only three series left to go for the Roadrururers, every Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference game is a "must win.

"Metro currendy holds the fifth spot in dre RMAC standings and needs to move into that fourth position to quali! for the RMAC playofis.

It hrrned out to be "homesweet-home" as the Meho baseball team took ilree of four in an RMAC series against Colorado Christian University.

"Anytime you can win a series,you can feel good," said Metro head coach Vince Porreco. "However, this is a serieswhen you think you can bring it home. They (CCtt) haven't had a great seasonand ll'hen you need to win, you need to sweep them."

Porreco was referring 0o the final game of the seriesr.r'henMeao failed to finish the seriessweep,hoping that one game doesn't come back to haunt them.

"We didn't play," he said. "They out-hit us, they out-played us, and they were just giving it to us while we just took iL" Mero got off on &e right pitch as game one featured a spectacular pitching performance from jrmior Braden Ham. Ham, who

leads the team with six wins, pitched a complete shutout game while allowing only six hits and stdking out three Cougars. Ham did see early touble by allowing the ffrst tr,vo batters he saw to hit corsecutive singles.

It did not seem to faze him as he stuck out freshman Jay Beleu and got freshmen Patrick Garcia and Chris Polton to fly out to end the inning without a scralch.

'I'm just tying to throw strikes and leam from the sther guys," Ham said. "I watch Ryan (BrighQ a lot and am leaming to work down in the strike zone-" Meo:o did not fare much better in the hits category as it only produced sever5but they took advantage of its base runners by scoring two in the third inning and one in the six.

The third inning began when freshman Tommy Frikken singled and advanced to second on an error by Garcia. After junior Kyle Bowman lingled to move Frikken to thad base. soohomore Reece Gorman brought Frikken lio-e on a groundout with his 2lo RBI on the year.

Senior Mike Hoefs also contributed in the third with a double that scored Bowman. SophomoreJake Palmer hit his eighth homerun of the season ofi freshman Cam Corbett in the sixth inning to ffnalize Meko's scoring at 34. Corbett (l-9) pitched a good game going six innings allowing only three nms on seven hits but recorded the loss as the offense could not produce a single run for the oitcher.

The Roadrunnen offense showed uo in game tlvo as Metro pounded out I0 nrni on 13 hib to outlast Colorado Chrisuan 1O6.

The 1-2-34 hiters for Metro, which included Bowman, Gorman, Hoeft and Palmer, went a combined 9for-13 with 7 runs, four homeruns and l0 RBI. Frikken and iunior Troy Spahnalso contributedtwo hits ipiece

fbr the Roadrururers.

Metro got down early to Colorado Christian by allowing the Cougars to jump . out to a 40 lead tluough the ffnt three innings. SophomoreJosh F,ckerl who started for Metro, was hit for two runs on four hits in the first iruring and two nurs on three hits, including an error that moved nurneN into scoring position in the third. Metro backed up their startlng pitcher when they exploded for eight runs in the next four innings with three in the third, single runs in the fourth ' and fffth innings and another three spot in the sixth.

With the score at &6. HoeB provided some insurance runs with his secoid homerun of the game taking fieshman pihher Matt Jones deep to left ffeld for a tworun shol Eckert (44) won his fourth game on the season even though he allowed 13 hits !o the Cougars and it seemed Eckert was pitching out of jams all day long. ' Meho won its fourth game in a row in game three as junior Mike Bilek pitched a four-hitter and the ofiense scored ffve nns in the fifth inning to beat Colorado Chdstian &1. Bilek had his hstball and slider working all day as he struck out six Cougars and went the distance for his third win on the year.

"Mike did a greatjob today and we had some key hits.'Porreco said about game. three. 'Reece (Gorman) ca*e up and iinch hit and hit a double that cleared the bases.

Mike did a good job the whole game."

Heading into the frfth inning, the Roadrunnen were dinging to a 2-l lead. With the basesloaded, Hoefs scored on a wild pilch from freshman pitcher Will Munsil and the next batter, junior Alex Krohn, hit a sacri-, ffce fly to put Metro up 41. Metro again' See BASEB.\LL on 25

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My obligatory autodrafted fantasy baseball team is ofrcially fully frrnctional and ready to kick some ass. I've been to three ball games in a month, including two spring training games in Arizona and a recent Sunday game at Coors Field ttrat included ffve ejections and a Barry Bonds sighting.

It's safe to say, baseball is in full spring swing. And I couldn't be happier. Even with Bonds on my fartasy roster.

I chose an autodraft for mv fantasv league becauseI don't have as much timb B.yJeremyJolrnson to devote to fantasy baseball as I do fantasy .jjohn308@mscd.edu football (I am already preparing for fantasy football season this weekend, as the NFL Joe Table. for those who oppose immigradraft develops). tion). Silendy, I was disappointed.

No, fantasy baseball, for me, is a time That's right. I was hoping to see Barry to brag to friends and keep in touch with bash one long and deep into right ffeld. people who otherwisemight disappearover Not just becausehe's on my fantasyteam the long summer apart and away from the and I need all the power I can geL And not office. because I'm a long-time Piusburgh Hrates That is d1e point of the autodraft. You fan (don't you dare snicker) or because the get a team and work with what you're giv- Bucs were the team where Bonds began his en. major leaguecareer.

I was given Bonds.

No, I was rooting for Bonds for more So, imagine my disappoinhnent when I reasonsthan just those. I root for Bonds show up in the second inning of Sunday's because he's the anthero of my baseball garne to ffnd him sifiing out of the lineup. generation. He's the guy I've watched abuse Plus, I had missed a bad-blood ffrst hning pitchen throughout the National l,eague for that included tlvo beaned batten and three nearly 20 years, which is a good portion of eiections. my life.

The game hmed out to be yet another See, Roger Maris was hated during surprising pirching duel at the infamous his run on Babe Ruth in 1961.And Hank bashing grounds we call Coors Field.

Aaron was targeted heavily by fanatics for And, o the scorn of most of the audi- racial reasons.None of us could reasonably ence, Bonds ffnally made an appearance as condone that kind of behavior these davs. a pitch hitter in the ninth inning. He stuck cor:ld we? out on a 94 mph fastball byJose Mesa (or

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So why do we condone the hating of l, Hoels, Runs Boiled In: filelro, Gormcn, l, Bonds? Sure, it's a pretty likely bet that Polmer, l. ((U,none.

Bonds has been under the influence of stePikhers:W-Hom L- (orhn 16-31. roids and performance enhancers. But dte ((U,6rhil,l. ltelrq Hom,3.

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ers such asJose Canseco,Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa"Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Rafael "I did not take steroids" Palmei ro. All of them are or were more juiced than me at mv neohew's bar miuvah.

It ce'rtalnly seems like an over-zealous wiich-hunt to me.

The reason we condone the way Bonds is being healed is becauseBonds gives us the impression that he just doesn't give a shit And that ratdes the average fan.

We, as an audience, like io get under a player's skin. Bonds' production might suggest fans have done thaL But maybe he's 'iust a 4l-vearold who's hit home runs off of hore tlan 400 professional pitchers and his body is ffnally wearing down.

I-egitimacy is questionable throughout baseball in today's media-hyped virtual world. And Bonds is really no less legit than many otners.

Sure, lm a baseball purist. But what about technology?Tighter wrapped balls?

Corked bats?Fancy hitting gloves?The thin air of our beloved Coors Field? Do we asterisk everything, or just let the boys of summer be boys?

Where, and for whom, do we draw the limestone line?

I say *r'ing away, Barry. And next time you co-meto Coors Field, pleasetake advanmge...Iorme.

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Of grearpuck and badluck BASEBALL Continued from24 I am the epitome of bad luck.

Monday nigh! the Colorado Avalanche took a 3{ lead over t}re Dallas Stars in the first period of the second game in a best-ofseven series.

I missed the first tbree goals while walking to the bar. Instead of seeing the puck in the ne! I was treated to a phone call frorn each of my tlree friends, l], Gunn and Jonas-one for each goal.

When I arrived, the conversation was focused on how great it was that we were

By X{att}rervQuane all ffnally able to get out and watch a great mquane@mtcrl.edu hockey game together, but our demeanor was soon to change.

Noq I ffgured it was way too late for My attendance at the bar unluckily co- the Avs to have tied up the game and force incided with the four unanswered goals the an overtime -so what the hell could he be Stars came back with in the second period talking about? and I was prompdy blamed by all for harAs it tums out, just after we left the bar, boring ill feelings toward the Avs and bringthe Avs scored a short-handed goal, to tie ing some sort of curse upon the game at the game. And ffve minutes into overtime, hand.

Joe Sakic sent the puck into the Dallas net "Oudr," read the text messagefrom my for the game winner. roornmate, as Dallas took the lead at the Obviously, I had taken my bad luck end of the second. fiom the equation by leaving the bar that With about four minutes to go in the nigh! leaving the Avs' inevitable win in the drird period, the Avs took a minor penalty hands of fate. and we declared the game over. We paid And my fiiends would not let me forget our bill and shufled, disgraced, out the iL ooor.

I got back to my apaxhnentjust in time After a long walk back to campus, I to catch the recap on TV. hopped into the back of Gunn's car with l] I sprawled out on the couch to gorge !o get a ride home, while Jonas took off on myself on hockey replays, confident in the his own. fact that my bad luck could not a^ffectthe About half*ay back to my apartrnent, pasL I received a sh'angetext messagefrom my But one last text message from Jonas roomrnate. awaited me that night "You are not allowed "Nice!" it read. to watch Avs games with me anymore."

loaded the basesin the inning when Porreco brought Gorman in as a pinch hitter.

It almost looked as if they were ready to bdng out the brooms before it was over.

However, dre Cougars did the mopping as they denied the sweep and beat the Roadrunners F3. The pikhing combination of freshmen Bud Wilbom and David Hendricks came through for the Cougars as they gave up only three runs on four hits while striking out four balters.

The one stat that jumps out from the box score, however, is the nine walls given up by Cougar pitching.

Metro had great opportunities to score in the fourth and fifth innings when Wilbom and Hendricks walked the bases loaded.

The Roadnurners came away empty both times, leaving a total of l0 rnen on base.

"We didn't take advantage of dreir mistakes." Porreco said about CCIJ,s freshmenheavy roster. "When vou have a team like that ind give them some inspiration and you give them the momentum after the bases loaded and you don't score,the conffdence builds and the pikhers get better."

Senior Ryan B.jCht (.56) took the loss as he gave up two runs in the second and two runs in the fifth. Bright struck out ffve Cougars and gave up five runs on nine his. Wilbom also had a good day at the plate going 34 with one run and Garcia had two RBI on the day going l-for-4. Metro is on the road next week to take on Colorado Mines, who is 1231 overall with a ,1-20RMAC record.

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April 30,2006 Director MichaelJ. Kornelsenwill lead Metro music studentsthrough choral and symphonic pieces by master composers.

The performancewill begin at 7:30 p.m. in the King Center Concert Hall. The concertis free for membersof the Metro State Community. For more information, call the King CenterBox Office at (303) 556-2296.

Moy |,2006 Metro State Guitar and Percussion Ensembles-DirectorsAlexKomodore and Mark Fosterheadperformances

by Metro music students.This concertwill feature Metro'sguitaristsand percussionists in an intimate and friendly atmosphere.This event is free and open to the public. For moreinformation,call (303)556-3180.

Moy 2,2006 AAM-Colorado Google Earth/ Googlecatching Workshops- These workshopswill focuson GoogleEarth, a programthat allowsusersto point and zoom to satelliteimageson the screenthat correspondto actuallocaiionsaroundthe world.The applications ofthisprogramcan be an integraltool for educators, historians and travelers.These workshopswill run from 6 to 9 p.m. in CN 101on Tuesday, May 2 and Monday,May 8.

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