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Leorning lolisten wilhoul heoring forms vision tohelp ofters studenl's By Clalton \l'oullard cwoullar{@mscd. edu In class Meto shrdent Emma Houser is paying altention, but her eyes are not alwap focused on the professor.And she doesn't always hear the lechrre or her classmatestalk, She is listening; she'sjust not relying on her ears to receive the message. Houser is hard of hearing. She can hear selectsounds if they're loud or close enough, like the buz of a lawnmower, but not voices, phones or alarrn clocks. She does not like to Le called "hearing-impaired.' Those in the hard of hearing and deaf cornmmity view the tide as outdated and offensive, partly because it indicales some kind of loss. 'You think I don't got shrff, but I've got more than you sometimesr' Houser, 19, said. "Poor me? Poor you, I'm doine ffne over here." It seems the notion that a loss of one sensetends !o heighten the others is tue for
Houser, who's in her second year of college. She has no sense of smell, which doesn't bother her much, and a diminished taste palette, but her other sensesmake up for iL When she's in the basement of her Lifileton home, where she lives with her parents, she can feel when someone's walking on the fl.oor above. When something's buming her lungs will start to feel like they're buming. And if the pilot light on the stove goes out, she said her eyes start to bum because they feel the gas, something most people with firII sensesmight never detect Her brother Sam, 11,has a name for his sister'sserxes. "My brother calls it my Spidey sense," Houser said. Despile her "Spidey sense," she still needs a liule help sometimes.An interpreter from Meto's Access Center accomDanes her to every class to assisther through sign l*go"g. with what her classmatesand the instructor say. Even though she can read lips
and wears a hearing aid, she said iCs nice to have someone who can clari& for her if necessary.She's only worked with interpreters since she was in high school, so she's still adjusting to using their help. "I'm even stJllgetting used to all of everything in the sameway the people in rny dass are still getting used to me," Houser said. She hasn't alwap been hard of hearing. According to Houser, when she was four years old she had a case of scarlet fever along with an ear infecfion. Her parents and docton could only assumethis may be a possible reason for her condition. It wasn't until she was in second grade that people around her ffgured it out, pardy becauseshe was trying to hide iL "I knew that there was something wrong, but I didnt tlink it was bad enough to let anvone else know." she said. She cheated by relying on her eyes for information to give her cues for how she should react to what someonewas sayingor
doing. It was also during that tirne she began to leam how to read lips. After she was udiscovered." she had to leam to speak properly. That s when speecly' l*g.r"g" pathologist linda Lane stepped in. She taught Emma how to speak properln showing her how not to thrust her tongue forward during speechwhen she swallowed, and explaining drat just because she can't hear sounds doesn't mean they're not there. But she was a shrbbom pupil at ffrsr "It s hard to have something as basic as talking and have someone say, 'Well you're doing it wrong, here's how to do it right,'" Houser said. Conversely, Lane also taught her pupil that she's not wrong for how she speaks or for being hard of hearing; she's just differenL Since that time, she has been in touch with her qpeech teacher and still viSts her
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CO-,LMP, the Colorado initiafive to sup port minoriry science and maih shrdents, has received $2 million from the National Science Foundafion for the next five y'ears. P('I The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in Science, Technolog,v, Fngineering and Mathematicsis a national pro gram designed to increase the numbers of under=epresentedstudentsgraduatinglldth degreesin theseareas. ( lont inr r e<[ I i'onr 3 About 100 shrdenisDarticiDatein X,Iecro State'sCO AMP program eveiy semester'. Colorado's program has been in exis- on a legular basis at her home in Litdeton. Lane also sen'ed as inspiration for Housels tence for l0 vears. aspirationsto become a speechr4anguage pathologist. - @Meho Houser plans to receive her master's - @N{eho degree in Speectf-anguage Pathology by 2010. "She w'as one of tLose people that whatever was going wrong with you ... she'll make it OK for you," Houser said. Lane describesher shrdenta:ra woman driven by lvhat mal<esher srong: her kind hea:l, work ethic, love of children and diF ffculties she has had to overcome. "She is so shong and independent and wise norv. She is caring and kind and emMETROPOLITAN STATE COLLE;GE of DEN\T,R pathetic. She is wonderfirl with children and establishes an instant rapport with them," Lane said. "The challengesshe has faced have molded her into a super sa\.ry womar. Her love of children has proven r,'aluable for Houser in her cunent lo-b.She works as an activity leader for an after-schoolprogram during the school year and a paraprofessional at Ames Elementary School in Centen nial in the summer. It's during the summer she gets to u:ork r.r'ith children much like hersell Last summer Houser w.orked with a girl who ra'asbom without cartilage in her body, so she's in a rvheelchair and can't hear or see l'ell. When she got on the school bus, the girl rvould ttrow her glasses, hearing aids and almost anything else she had uith her out the ltindow. Houser tried to help her orâ&#x201A;Źrcome her anger for her condition by telling her something she had to leam r.l'hen she was young. "You still need to be vour own person and be indeoendenl" Houser said. "ln the N{ust file an Application for Graduation end, she actuallyleamed a lot." in the officeof the Registrar(CN105) ICs Houser's independence that might nanslateas defiance as she doem't take or by Friday,June9,2006. ders nicely, said 20year-old Shane Oakley, nho's been Houser'sfriend sincethey w'ere The Application for Graduation is availablenow in in preschool. the Office of the Registrar(CN105) and on-line: nEmma's the $pe of person that even rutu.u.mscd.edu/enr oI//regi strar/d ocs/i ndex.ht m if you do tell somethingto her, she'sgoing (May be faxedto (303) 556-3999.) to do w'hat she wanh to do," Oakley said. "And we're both the snme way, so that's probably why rve get along so well." Oakley, who's a student at Regis Universitv. said his friend has been the most inlluShould havea CAPP Compliance Report run ential personin his life. And he said despite NOW l.t their .ttajo. department or her shrbbomness,and while she may come the Academic Advisinq Center (CN104). acrossas distant or even cold {that she mav not act like a "Cnl"), she's really a shong, fighting, insigh$n person. And her hearing loss has allowed her to gain more in shength than others her age. 'It develops a strong person, because you have to be strong" Oalley said, "becauseyou have to be assertiveand not care what other people think all the time." Her strength is what guides her positive oudook. "It's nice to know you're not the only one out there who's going through tha!" Houser said. Joan Foster,chair and professorof biology. has been elected faculty fustee on the Metro StateBoard of Trustees. Fostel brings a solid kno*,ledge of the Collegeand alsohas the added perspectives of a chair, an alumna, the facullv representative to the Alumni AssociationBoard and a former presidentof the Faculty Senate. In addition, Fostel rvas a five-year member of the I'aculty Advisory Committee, or IAC. Foster replaces Engllsh professor Eugene Saxe. lvho had served in the position since2C)02. l'oster's tw-o-yearterms surtsJuly L
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Kulinowski collsongrodsto leqd Bl Kate Johnsorr .fokathry@m-ctrl.erht On Sunday, May 14, President's Ar,r'ard recipient Samantha Kalinowski stood before more than 1,300 fellow Metro graduates armed with a list of numbers - an oudine of her collegecareerto which shehoped others could relate. In her speechKalinowski estimatedshe consumed over 500 cups of coffee and lost 708 hours of sleep during her time at Metro. She also wrote 87 papers, listened to 1,250 hours of lechues and rvorked a total of 3,300 hours at variousjobs. "I got the numbersidea becausemy family is just weird like that. My uncle, when he was flying in for the graduation, rvas kying to calculate the trajectow of [the plane's] descentinto Denver...It runs in the famil5 weird things like that," Kalinowski said. The President's Award is given to one senior v'ho has a GPA of 3.75 or higheq and has displayed exceptional academic achievement and suoerior service rvithin a certain xeld.
Kalinowski, who has a 4.0, is a psychology major with an individualized minor in community action and social change. Her conbibutions to her field include a recent intemship with the Aurora Mental Health Center, where she continues with research that will aid in the evaluation of paflent progressand the construction of an improved patient care model. Kalinowski was home schooled throughout high school and, though shewas pleased with the education shereceived, she acknowledged that she missed out on a substantial amount of everydav socialization. When she entered college, she found public speaking a somewhat unpleasant experience. During her freshman year, Kalinowski landed in professor Richard Swanson's up perdivision psychology class.Instantly gravitating to his curriculum and teaching style, Kalinowski utilized Swanson's course work and mandatory dass presentation in order to easeinto college life. "I think meeting him deffnitely helped shape the way my college career tumed out becausehe helped me get over the whole public speaking thing, and he's been a great mentor," Kalinowski said, Swanson took notice of Kalinowski after she continued to score on his tesb around 10 poinb higher than the next closest student.
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dressed the graduates with a sense of camaraderie and accomolishmenl While acknowledging the imminse diversity of the graduating class,she began by saying it was her aim to deliver a speech on behalf of all graduates. She had many people to thank, most notably her mother, who is currendy a history major at Metro. The two acted not only as study parbrers, but also as an ongoing suF port syslem for one alother. Kalinowski's speech went on to emphasizethe need for graduatesto become aware and active in societv. and to urili"e their education and talents'to affect positive change in the world. "When lve leave here todav and reenter the larger community as graduites ... no mat-
ter what hardships or hagedies or setbacks we encounter, we can zucceed, because we have already succeeded despite them," Kalinowski said. "We are also taking on greater responsibilities, and that is the strive for excellence in our chosen ffelds, to never let the knowledge that we gained here atrophy, and most importandy, to use our knowledge to challenge our leaders and society when we feel that their actions are unjust and destsuctive." She conduded her speech with a ffnal thanls to the graduating class. "To stand here as a representative of your knowledge, of your compassion, of your perseverrmceand ultimately, your success,is truly an honor," Kalinowski said.
Educolion Cooperolive inlernships loollsludents olMelro 0ffice offers ByAllison Bailey abailel9@mscd.edu Many Meho studenb don't realize the Cooperative Educatjon Intemship Center is located on campus and, according to Brenda Sabo, a coordinator at the center, they often don't know how to use the oftce to set placed in an intemship. Su.rdents interested in an intemship should call the ofrce and schedule an ai poinfrnent with a coordinator, Sabo saih. To quali| for an intemship, shrdents must have at least a 2.5 GPd 30 completed credit hours and be emolled at Metro for a minimum of one semester. "What we do is out them on a list to receive job notices that are relevant to their major,' Sabo said. "They get those, look them over, decide if they want to apply and then thev contact us." One-way shrdenb get intemships is by contacting a company direcdy and sending a resume.
"We're happy to help s!.rdentswith their resunes, and basedon our long experience with our internship employers, we know what they're looking for in a resume," Sabo said. The Cooperative Education office can also help students who are not getting the kind of experience they expected from an intemship. Sabo said students need to talk 0o the employer ffrst and the Cooperative Education Center can counsel shrdents on how to do that effectively. "If that doesn't work we coursel them on how to quit their jobs," she said. "We usually expect students 0ogive two weelis notice." Having hands-on experience is a huge advantage when looking for a job and studenb are often able to network during an internship, so they can know people in the industy when they grad"ate. According to Sabo, an intemship may also show students that a particular career path is not for them. "It's better to find that out now than to find out a.fteryou gnduate," she said.
But the most important thing is work experience. "What sets you aside from all the hundreds of thousands of other eraduates out there is if vou have actuallv ivorked in an environment that is similar'to what they're going to be offering you," she said. The Cooperative Education Center has recently helped place students at companies like Time Wamer Cable, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, RTD, the Food and Drug Adminisbation, various Colorado school districts and the govemor's office. "We work with large corporafions and small businesses,we work with govemment agencies and we work with nonproffts," Sabo said. For strrdents to get the most out of arr intemship they should take it seriously and thev should be assertive enougfi to ask for the'kind of experiencethey feel they need. Through the Cooperative Education Center shrdentscan decide with their faculty
advisor and their employer what they intend to accomplish during the internship. Studentsalso participate in an evalualion processrvhere they and their employer each complele evaluation forms. This gives the str:dent feedback on his or her sbengthsand weaknessesand what needs to be worked on. The employers don't see the written eraluations by studenb and the Cooperative Education Cinter may use the info'rmation to determine if an employer is a good place ment for students, "We're right here near Einstein Bros. and just west of the West Classroonr," Sabo said. "We'd like you to just walk in the office and chat with us." "Whether it's gesing help with a resume or seeing what job opporhmities are out there, the coop experience will help you get a job down the line," she said. The Coooerative Education Intemshio Center is located at 10,15Ninth St., which is in dre Ninth St Park. The phone number is 30955&3290.
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hut large-scalepropaganda Everyone has their 9/1 story. The place they were aq the people they were with and what they were feeling are permanendy bumed into the rninds of every person in the U.S. who was not an infant or in a coma as the planes began to strike their hâ&#x201A;Źets. I, for one, was on a ffeld in a marching band. I immediately called my father as soon as I could, both to see if my sister in New York was OK and to get out of school for the day. That night on every television station, a video loop played of collapsing buildings, people screaming, flags waving and violins soaring. I must have seen the Twin Towers hll 45 times in 24 hours. Five years later director and writer PauI Greengrasshas done us the courtesy of making a heart-wrenching, action-packed Hollywood rendition, called 'Flight 93," named after the fourth plane that crashed into a Pennsylvaniafield. "Flight 93" is the political equivalent of nThe Passionof the Christ.' It sewesno purpose other than to stir up emotions. We all remember SeoL -We11. 200I. It is not an unknown story. know tenible things hap
ZOEWILLIA}TS cvilliamz@msul.edu pened, that many innocent people died. No one has forgotten. Regardless, in this empire, such propaganda is necessaryto retain the support of the nation in order to preserve its global nue. After Sept. 11, I was terriffed to be a part of this counky. Everywhere I looked, the stars and ban flapped. T-shirts, lapel pins, bumper stckers and vigils were pumped with nationalism demanding us to stand united, and reminding us "These colors don't run." I remember people talking about how this counhy changed and how '\,,re were all
Americans.n I remember ffnding this Aonic after reading stories of Arabs, and anyone who passed as Arab, being attacked. The only Muslim student at my high school quit wearing her hijab for fear of harassment. Racism brewed as the nation united under the crossand the clusterbomb On the day of this writing 30 Afghan civilians died in one U.S. bombing. Iraq is on 6re with what analystJuan Cole counts as four wars: Sunni Arab guerillas battJethe U.S.; Shiite guerillas are attempting to expel the British from the south; Sunnis and Shiites battle each other; and Kurdish guerillas are fighting Arab and Turkmen guerillas. These events are all elemenb of ihe aftermath of SepL I l, the ones I know and the ones the masterminds of "Flight 93" would like us o forgel We are supposed to revert to the stance of fear. pain and anger, again relying on revenge, submission to the goverrrment and blind spite of all who are not like us. For anyone who ventures to the theahes for this ffrst-rate propaganda" I ask you to take the movie's slogan "Never forget" and apply it to all the eventsof Sept. 1l; whether or not "Flight 93" remindsyou.
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This revamping of the 1976horror classicsticksto the fundamenta.lplot of the original: rwo ra'ell-meaningand un$'itting adoptive parents $ulia Stiles. Liev Schreiber) talie in the spawn of Saranas their ollrr. Needlessto sav, i.heresultsale epic in theii moral implications as the bouncing baby boy grows to suirnnon his sinister biological trais. Forecast:,Any remake of a classichas its cards stackedagairxt iL Still, N{ia Fan'orv'sretum to the screenas the protectivena:rn'"'Nlrs.Iiivtock links the remake to another classic, nRosema4l5Babv," and should proride son.renosta-lgicmomentsfor horror buffs.
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Not yet rated f)ir. Gore Verbinski Jack Sparrow flohnny Depp), lVill Tumer (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabe& Swaan (Keira Knighdey) retum for more seafaring advenhues. This time Sparrow finds himself in debt ur the legendary'captain DaveyJones.His problems intedere wi& Tumer's'and Swann's wedding plans when they are forced 0ojoin him on his escapade. Forecast: Knightley, Bloom and Depp provide plenf of eye candy for every demogr aphic and euryoneloves pirates.
Iady in the Water (]uly 2i) PGI3 Dir. N{. Night Shyamalan A Prairie Home Companion (June8) Paul Gamatti plays Cleveland Heep, a building manager who rescues a mysterious PG-I3 young \{oman named Story pryce Dallas Howard) from the building's swimming pool. Dir. Robert Alunan \4lriter Garrison Keillor brings his long-running radio variery program to the big She tums out to be a "narf," a nymphJike creature who has come to our world from an screen rith the aid of Oscar-winning director Robert Altrna:r and zr roster of top name epic bedtime story. Forecasr Sinceit's a Shyamalanmovie, expect a huge plot twist at the endactors,including !!'oody Hanelson. l-i11'Tomlin,Tommy Lee Jones and lv{eryl Streep. The lilrn centers on a cor?orate bu1'out of rhe program's radio-station home and the final My Super Ex-Girlfriend $uly 2t) episodeof "A PrairieHome Companion." Forecast: With a topnotch cast and a stellar director, Keiliols dry wit and rustic Not yet rated Dir. Ivan Reibrran charm should find a fitting expression on film. Be foreu'arned, however, this is not stanMatt Saunderspuke Wilson) dumps his girlfriglqJ"yy pma !unman),,ty dard summer blockbusterfare. Keiilor is not abor:t car chasesand explosions. discovers that she's really a superhero knolvn as G-Girl. Using her powen, she turns his life into a living hell. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift $une lti) P G 13 Forecasl fu Saunderswill see,brealing up is hard to do. Dir. Iustin Lin Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (August 4) Shain Bosrvell (Lucas Bla.ck)is sent to live with his uncle in Tokyo after getting into Not vet rated houble with the law. Soon he discoversa rvodd of steet racine he's never seenin the Dir. Adam lVIcKav States:driftins. Ricky Bobb,v [4'ill Ferrell) is a cockl' NASCAR sur n'ho lives by the motto, "If you lbrecast:Action-packedscenes,last cars and hot lvomen - iCsthe essentia]mindless ain't first, you're last." \4rhen a French Formula I driver, Jean Girard (SachaBaron Co summer flick. hen), moves in on his tud, Bobby has to battle him for the top driver title. Forecast l'errell till continue his reign as the ultimate anti-hero actor of the neu' Nacho Libre flune lu) cennn).' PG Dir. Iared Hess The Ant Bully (August4) Jack Black pla,vsa pdest t'ho enter: rhe lr'orld of Nlerican rrestling, or Lucha Libre, NOtyet rated in order to help the children in his orphanage. Dir. Iohn A. Davis Forecast:Only Black can pull ofl playing a llesding priest with a heart of gold. lGy6ar-old Lucas Nick.le(Zack Tyler Eisen)is iggroredby his parents,teasedby his teenage sister alrd. to make thing: worse, has become the main talget for the neighbor Click flune 23) hood buily. Lucas takesout his frushadonson the ant colony in his backyard,only to be PG-IJ shrunk to the sizeof an ant by the ant.,r'izardZoc (NicolasCage). Dir. Frank Colaci 'Bullv" brings Forecast Computer-arimat€d movies about arts are nothing new, but IV1ichaelNewman (Adam Sandler)has a beauti{ul family, but due to the hours he puts in at his architechrre ffrrn, he rarely gets to see them. \A/hen he gets his hands on a nevi twist to the genre. a magical universalremote control {iom an eccentrictsed, Bath ald Beyond emplo,vee riJorld Tra.rie Cenier (A (Christopher Walken\, he Lr.kescontrol of his lifeNot yet rated Forecast It's hard to say no to a movie n'ith Christopher Walken, The Fonz and DA. Oliver Stone David Hasselhoff. Stone tells ihe true story ofJohn lvlcloughlin (Nicolas Cage) and WilliamJ. Jimeno (Michael Pena), the police officen rvho were the last tlvo survivors rescued from Ground Zero. IorecasL A surefiretearjerker.
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Bl'Heather Embrey /tembrq@rnsr:d.edu AndrewJordan, or Andy to his friends, knew that when he started a band, he would never be in it for the money. He and the other three members of Marchbook Romance (not to be mistaken for Matchbox 20) plarured to write and perform music with the intentions of working hard for a living, 'The most rewarding part of making music is not the amormt of money you make," 'It s reaching out to those who Jordan said. want to hear it and making them think about what they just heard." As the lead singer of Matchbook Rc mance, Jordan, along with Ryan Judas" DePaolo, Ryan Kienle and Aaron Stem, created a monster from which they cannoi escape. "The music we write migh! gg oyel ,vour heari, but that's OK. We knou' it's not for everyone. Just anyone who walts to hear the music for what it is,"Jordan said. The band 6nt took shapein upstateNew York when Jordan, Kienle arrd DePaolo started The Getaway. Thev played several venuesjust to pay rent. It rvasn'tuntil they recruited a new drummer from Manhattan
that things began to pick up for the bio. "He had iust Ieft his old band and was looking for jgroup who was serious about music. We auditioned him and we fell in love with his style,"Jordansaid. The band now had a new member and a new name, The Getawaywas abandoned afur they were ordered to cease and desist from a Canadian recording company that claimed it was the name of another rock band, The Getaways. For Jordan and the rest of his band, it was refreshing to start with a new name. "I like to think we capb:re the essence of romance, and we wanted our nane to reflect tha!" Jordan said. "We have an oldschool, romantic black and-whitemovie tlpe of slvle where men would pick women up and write their phone numbers on old maJchbooks." ...]Ilea image is emo but their sound is darker and more passionate,Jordan said. The melodies of each sons in0ertwine with the melancholy rhythm, cieating a slor.r,er paced album than 2003 FP Storiesand Ali4' l.
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had achieved their "orchestratype' sound Ior Voices,which they released in February. Power ballads have long been a staple of hard rock bands, but now Matchbook Romance is tackling the beast and creating their ollrr mix of balladry and altemalive rocK. Becausetheir new style was not yet established in the music indusb-y, Matchbook Romance for:nd it hurt them when no one wouid pick them up. "We knew that we had a different sound and it was difFcult for people to hear us unlesswe were on the radio," saidJordan. They had to ffnd a new way to advertise their style to the world without selling out. The intemet became their breeding ground. "The intemet these days is allowing thousands of bands to be heard even if
clon't get play on the radic," "We lvere signed from fans listening to our EP and by creating a new geffe of music entertainment. Not only does it help get oru word oul but it givesus greatfiee exposure that we rvould not normally have." Establishing themselvesas a serious rock band was harder than it seemedfor Matchbook Romance. They had to prove they were serious,and that people needed ald w-antedto hear their message. According to Jordan, you sometimes have to eam vour olace in the music indus fy. And Mat;hboo-k Romance likes to think they eamed thea olace and have contributed to the evolutio,^n of rock. "trVe live in a r,l'eird world and rve iust have to go r.rith the 0orv and adapt to tur surrounding," Jordan said. Though the band continues 0owrite mu sic, their neu'estafb:urr'Voices has exceeded their standards. "This r,r'asthe hardest album to make," Jordan said. "I alw'avsfelt bad taking a day off. There rvas so much Dressure to make this a.lbum our moment to shine that rve didn't think about an1'thing else for along time-" He said that Matchbook Romance didn't w'antto ueate some nelv record; they simplv rvanted to shorv they grerv as a band and became more mature in their lifesty'les as lvell as their music. Matchbook Romance is hining the road this summer rvith dates scheduled in August for Denver. Periarmins in Colorado holds a specialplace inJordanis heart. Jordan's girlG:iend was born and raised in Eversreen and movcd to Califomia to altend co11ege.They met in California and he slvepther awav back eastto be with his band d'uringrecoiding sessions. "ICs great bringing her on tour with me. Ifs like having your best friend with you all the time. We loved coming to Colorado becauseshe can \isit friends and take me around Denver," he said. "I love Colorado."
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The playvright Eugene O'Neill once said, "Curiosity killed the ca! but satisfaction brought it back." Upon discovering The Raconteurs, formed by the mischievous and deranged Jack White of The White Shipes, curiosity not only killed my metaphorical cat-it buried it in the backyard, However, after [stening to the band's new album, Broken Bay Solde rs. satislaction infused it with a "itatity it lacked in its -calls orevious life. The band itself a "new band rnade up of old friends," and was formed in a musky attic when White and power pop a.rtistBrendan Benson got together and started writing. Jack l,awrence and Patrick Keeler, from The Greenhomes, a bluesy R&B band, joined later. Overall, band, fraught with hippy '70s pop elements. BrokenBoySoldiers,the lirst frrllJength releasefrom The Raconteurs,takesa ride through the '60s and '70s, then rockets into the late'90s postgrunge era. Each song features something different givingthe album its many surprises."Steady As She Goes" is not only the inspiration for the band, but is also its ffrst single. The song rnixes a heav,vbass riff with whammyledal enhanced guitars, and \4-hite's high-pitched, nasal, boy band-inspired vocals are oflset by the deep, low voice of Benson.Keeler's drums are uptempo, fun and forceful, adding to the pop feel. "Blue Veins" slows the tempo to a heart-nrenching, bluesy crawl. \4lhiny, shrill vocals sorrord.rlly reassurea womar of lore and trust'in a relationshio. Keeler's and Lawrence's simole drums and bass fit the overall tone lvithout overshadorvingthe piaro playing lighdy in the background. Benson'sdeep and muted hums createa soookv feel. Broken BE Sotdier; allois the band to shorv off their abfii7* to skip from genre to genre and to des labels. "call It a Day" standsout as the only deffnably grungv songon the album. Benson'sdark vocals overpowerthe mufled guitar and drums that gendy pull the song along until the ven end. rvhen in one moment of intensitv, every,thingmeets, causng a ffnal statement of distastefor love. "Store Bought Bones" has psvchedelic, me1lowvocals fused wiih powerftrl, wailing guitars. Keeler's drums give the song a bluesy, '60s pop rock sound, and Lawrence's bass adds to the ambience and occasionally breaks through the eagerguitars in moments of smooth ca.lmness. After years of rea&ng about White's silfy antics. sheer curiositv makes Broken BE Soldiers intriguing. ihe Raconteurs have created an album that notoriety will sell. but talent will propagate.
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Not only do they sound like many East Coast punk bands that teeter on the edge of hardcore, thev also make the same mistakes.Hardcore inlluenie in punk has always been a great merge of gerues, but getting the right combination can be tricky. Shotgun Democracy has added hardcore style drumming, lyrics and some guita.r to their ourk base. Hardcore is more musically complex than punl, so adding hardcore-style drumming can give depth and variation. Since punk usually has an upbeat tempo, adding hardcore lyrics$vhich tend to be insightful ald, oddly enough, sensitive-caJr mal<e a track sound more like erno or pop punk. They a.lsogain more of a post-hardcore sound from their unstructured guita-r tralrsitions and echoedriffs. Even *ith the minor blunders that can come from incorporating hardcore styles,ShoQun Democrac)/ proves they are still punk by using the tried and true technique of playing three super-fast chords, and velling out their disdain for the current state of things.
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June22 Bluebird Theater 9 Jt.m.,doors open lt 8 S I5 in ad",,urie.S l7 nr tlrc door 16+ Contemporary country's biggest oudaw, Hank Williams III is coming to Denver in support of his latest album, Straight to Hell. Throughout his career, Williams has distanced himself from the Nashville pop country scenewith lyrics like "I'm here to put the dick in Dine and the cunt back in country.n A typical set begins with a mix of Hank Itr originals along with covers of his father's (Ilank WiltiamsJr.) and grandfathels (Hank Williams) songs. From there, his band hansforms into the hellbilly group Assjackhrnk legend G.G. Allin's former band The Murder Junkies is opening for WiIliams. -Matt Gunn, gzz nma@ms cd edu
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The Denver Roller Dolls kicked off their seasonwith a double-boui opener on May 17 at the rustic Denver Coliseum. Radicals and rednecks alike fflled the bleachers,Pabst BIue Ribbon tall-boys in hand, to bear witness to the beginning of a new era in competitive roller derby in Denver. The bout pitted the Green Barrettes against the Shotgun Betties, while the Bad Apples took on the BusinessCasualties. The Shotsun Betties and the Business Casualties ate both expansion teams consisting of new recruits as well as players previously on the Bad Apples or the Green Barrettes"You have to be ouite dedicated and all the girls take it very ieriously,' said Daisy Cutter. new recruit and member of the Shotgun Betties. The new teams were formed by expe rienced and inexperienced skatersin order to have a rotating, four-team schedule, and
to create parity and fair competition in the young and upcoming league. "Some of the girls have been skating with us one month and some eight rnonths," said Shorgun Beuies' co<aptiin Audrey Rugburn. "But either way, once you get out there and skale against the other teams in a bout, it's a whole new lvorld." Rugbum and veteran Sissy Rinkshaw are examples of veterans who split ofi to createthe new teams.Now members of the Shotgun Befies, both were previously on the Green Barrettes. The Barrettesmissed the tlvo veteransin the seasonopener as the Bettiesjumped out to an early lead in the ffrst half and skated on to a 63-52rictory. The Barrettes were down bv as manv as l0 poinrs in the first half, but cut the Betties' lead to eight. After the half, the Barretteswere marred with injuy and equipment problems and were down by as much as 19 points with less than 10 minutes to skate. "The compefton was rough and really intense," Cutter said. 'The excitement and adrenaline of it all keeps you going." The second bout of the evening proved a bit more fast-pacedand ugly as the undisputed Bad Apples put a 9573 pounding on the BusinessCasualtiesgirls. The Casualtieswere penali"ed early in the bou! causing thern to lose their jammer and thus being unable to score any points. The Apples went up &0 after the first jam and never looked back. The Denver Roller Dolls is one of over
100 roller derby leagues nationwide but is, according to Rugbum, different than the othen becauseit is a nonprofit organization ac[ve in community services and charities. The local league is gaining a strong reputation, bringing out everyone from hipsten on Caoitol Hill to mullets from the mountains to Rocky Mountain rockabillies. Longtime enthusiastJohrury Roastbeef refereedthe seasondebut and was carlring a u'hisde for the league debut on March 17, too. Alongside him was semirelebdty "Ratdesnake" Rob Wright from the PBS reality show "Texas Ranch House." Image magazine writer and general man-about-town, Orange Peel Moses, resumed his duties on the mic as the event's emcee. Rugbum said the league is hoping to exoand to six teams next seasonto accom-6dat" tte* talent cropping up due to the sport s popularifv. "Our haining and recruitrnent team is really amazing" Rugbum said. "We will definitely be expanding. The sky's the limlr" At the end of the season, the cream of the crop will be chosen from each team and formed into an AIlStar team that will compete nationally. "We could definitely be competitors," Rugbum said. "We've had the league for such a short period of time that there's a lot of improvement needed, but we have tons of support from the cornmunity." The Denver Dolls' season continues at the Coliseum on July 14 with another double boul
performunc goes Porreco lo boloverleum's Cooch Ily Eric f,arrsirrs I u n.si ng@'m.ut /. cr! tr The saying goes, 'You r+in some. you lose some."And sometimesyou lose again. This was the case for the 2006 Metro baseball squad, as they ffnished with a fairly even season record of 2G25. ln the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference they maintained a respectable1913 outing. Four times throughout the season tle Meho squad had three or more consecutive wins. One winning steak included a seven game stretch at the beginning of April when Metro oubcored its opponents 47-21. Blut the losingsreaksmatchedthe winning ones. The hardest one Meho endured was a sixgame skid to start the season. The 2006 Metro roster included only three active veter"n seniors and a lot of new faces,including ffve freshmen and 13junior college barsfers. "With all the new guys that carne into the new program this year, it was an adjustment period as you saw at the beginning of the season," said Metro head coach Vince Porreco. 'It was about getting to know the system and gefiing to know each other and knowing how well we can play." It wasn't the team's record that deffned its season,it was the team play that insplred the young playen to excel along with the big bols of the RMAC. "They really stayed together throughout
Metro shortstop Dokoto Nohm logsout Colorodo Christion's
chance to win every ballgame.' The staff, composed of senior Ryan Bright, juniors Braden Ham and Mike Bilek, and sophomore Josh Eckert, combined for 19 complete gamesand five shutoub. Ham rvasnamed second team AII-RN{AC and Ied the team with eight wins. Eckeri had six. BudWil The young Meho hitters often sauggled at the olate and were r:nreliable in clutch bom on o steolottempt sihrations.Eight of the team's lossescame by two nrns or less, and in ll lossesthe team during o less. regulorseo- scoredtluee runs or Senior Mike Hoefs led the team in batson gome ting average, at-bats, RBIs and total bases. in Moy ot His presencewill be missed, Porreco noted, Aurorio citlng that opposing pitchers changed their game plan around Hoefs. Field. There is optjmism in the hitting category, as sophomoreJake Palmer, who was awarded ffrst team AII-RMAC, will retum after Photo bv \\'illiam \loore . rnoortill@nrst'd.edu blasting a team-leading 13 home nrns, AIso rehrming is second team AII-RMAC sopho the whole year." Porreco said. "Sometimes the Roadrunners earlier in the seasonwith a more catcher Reece Gorman, who led the you go into slumps and they shrck together fourgame sweep in March. This game \ /as team with 23 stealsand 44 nrns scored. and oulled themselvesout of iL" no different as the Mavericks, who went on Porreco is oDtimistic about the team's lfretro came down the shetch with a $ to win the toumarrenq beat Metro 7-3. chancesof urming adjust[enb into wins. 4 record and placed fourth in the RMAC. Porreco thought his was one of the best "Now you work on something where With the addiuon of Colorado Christian teans going into the tournamenl but felt the you just ffll in the pieces," Porreco said. Universitv to the RMAC. the conference team needed to play perfect-finish baseball 'I-ast year we had had a whole bunch of expanded ib playoffs to six teams instead and did not do so. pieces to ffll in and so we ale really excited of four. Looking back on the season, the pitch- about the guys coming in next year." Seeded fourth in the tournament, Metro ing shff was key for the team as they ffnIn other words, in 2007 Metso is looking faced No. Sseed CSU-Fueblo and lost ,{-2 to ished third in the RMAC in FRA. to change the cliche into, 'You win some, open the toumament Their next opponent "Our pitching staff did just an outstard you win some more. And then you win was ton-seeded Mesa State who obliterated ing job," Porreco said. "They ga.ve us a agajn."
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DanceLessowat CampusReueation: Ballroom Baot Camp- This classwill featureinstructionson differentdance styles,including swing,foxtrot, tango and waltz. Latin partnerdancingwill also be featured.There is no dance experienceor partners needed for either class.Both singlesand couples HIV and Tuberculosis gB) arervelcome. The classes will run from Mat Pilates-MondaysandThursdays, Free Testing Ongoingat ihe HealthCenter 14th toJuly 26th on Wednesdavs. Noon- I n.m.Pilatesis a combinationof June at Auraria.Call (303)556-2525. The costis $40 for a 6 week session stretchingand strengthening exercises for studentsand faculgv'$45 for nonthat emphasizebody symmetry and Eatingfor Health and Energy- Please Physically Challenged Summer students.To registerby phone, call abdominalcontrol. or Programs: Adaptiae Bowling at (303)556-3210 call SusanKremsat {303)770-8-133 or comein personto PE (;103) 5,)tl lor information. ii8l8 Brunswick Lanes This program 108. WednesdavsNoon Gentle Yoga -1 p.-. Gentle Yoga is about gently will provide an opportunity for fun Tbbacco Cessation Support - The competition and involvement for bringing your body and mind back Health Center offers many types of physicallv challenged persons. in touch with each other and giving 5562525. hefp to stop. Call (303) Interesied bv calling partiescanregister yourselfa chanceto heal.It encourages Decadesof Influence:Colorudo1985 303556-3210. your body to let go of built up tension - TheCenterforMsualArt, toPresent AlcoholicsAnonymousMeetings- On and stressThis gentle,slorverpaced in collaboration with the Museum of the Auraria campus,Tuesdays11:45 to peopleof practicemakesit accessible Contemporarv Art of Denver, presents am I p.m.10209th St.Park.#B. Call ail sizes,ages,and fitnesslevels. an exhibition that will showcase (303)5t6-2525fol rnoreinformation. (All Price Entertainment? of contemporarv artists from Colorado "What Yogaas Therapy- \\iednesdaysl:15 the Them Cynics)" \lltness premiere who have been instrumental oler the -2:15p.m. Hansa'syogateachingcan CancerSupportGrozlbs Pleasecontact of this independent documentarv past decadesin shaping the creative Linda\filkins-Piercefor detailsat (303) adapt classicalyoga posesto people thar follols the trials and travails of landscape,and will run from June 16 556-6911,1. who have physicalchallenges.Learn I\{acKenzie \Iichaels, a comedianT'- August 26, 2006. The CVA is open how.l,ou canbenefitfrom hathavogaat - Fridayfrom 11a.m. - 6 p.m.. The film will premiere Ti-resday SummerSoftball- CampusRecreation alcohoiic/virgin. any ageand in any condition. Saturdavfrom noon to 5 n.m. at Aurariais offeringa summersoftball at 7:30o.m.at StarzFilmCenter.
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