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By CaitlinGibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu A feereferendumaskingstudents to foot the bill for the construction of a new building, and take the first stepto shaping Mebo's future, will be on this spriDg'sShrdent Government Assembly electionballot.

The proposedfeewill raise money needed to cover construction costs, esrimatedat $52 million, for the ffrst building of the college'sneighborhood plan.

The building will serveMetro students errclusively,the first on the campus to do so.

"This begins the fust component of developinga place on campusthat is exclusivelyMeho," Metro President StephenJordan said. "It begins to describea collegeand a senseof placefor students."

The new building, called the Student SuccessBuilding, would be built in the existing Tivoli parking lot and

provide I5O,OOOsquarefeet of additional spacefor the college.

"That spaceis equivalent to 150 trailers," said Jack Wiley a student outreach consultant and former SGA president. "If this doesn't happen the trailers will multiply exponentially."

Jordan said he worked with the SGA to determine t}le most equitable and proportional fee for students. He also said the proposal eas€sstudents into the fee and increasesthe amount over three years.The gradual increase acknowledges that upperclassmen may not bethe beneficiariesof the new building, and in effect will not pay as much. The feealsocapsout at a maximum of 12 credit hours. so students who take a fi,rll course load will not be penaliqedwith a higher fee,fordan said.

Starting in FaIl 2010, students will pay $5.25 a credit hour. In Fall to $12,10and 2011,the feeincreases in 2012 ta $19.80. The fee will not increaseafter 2012 but wi.ll continue until the full debthas beenpaid.

This will be the only building the college asks students exclusively to fund Jordan said. The fee cannot be

changedor increasedwithout the vote of the students.

The Board of Ttustees approved the neighborhoodplan, which proposes six new buildings over the net t 20 years,in December.

All of the institutions at Auaria are facedwith a lack of classroom space due to increased enrollnent, Mebo alonesaw a 49 percentincr€ase in fust-time applicationsthis year.

Mefro brought in modular classhailers-asatemporary solution.

"We haveto break out of the cycle of not having classroom and office spaceand adequatespacefor students to gather."fordan Said.

Limited classroomspaceis becoming more than an annoyance for the college, and adninistrators are looking at all possiblesolutions.

"If it doesn'tpass,if we cannot createmore sDace.we will haveto con-

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4,4. Snow Showers A more irnmediate proposal, not relatedto the fee,to help with the space High: 35/Low:26 crunch is to rent officespacein Writers 4.5 . Partly Cloudy Square at lSth and Larimer streets. High:42llow: 18 4.6. Mostly Sunny Sage Hospitalif is vacating 20,000 IJigh:S2lInw:29 squarefeetof spa.ce, 4.7. Partly Cloudy The collegeis looking into r€nting the spacefor approximately $20 per High:57lInw:32 square foot. The spacewould be used 4.8. Mostly Cloudy for adminisfative offices, and would High: 50/Low:29 LaRoche free up space in the Adminishative BvKendell building on 7th Sheet.

The space would imnediately be renovatedto accommodateclassrooms In the March 19 article and faculty offices.The r€al 6tate in "Takeprereqsearly,avoid Writers Squarewould be paid for with one-time funding within the college's holds" the required scoreon the ACT should havebeen f9 budget. ' The SuccessBuilding would con- and 460 on the SAI in Math. solidatemany of the college'sadminTonotifu TheMetropolitanof isfative olfices,freeingup spacein the Central Classroomand provide a one- an errorinany of our reports, stop shop for student'sadmission,r€g- pleasecontactEditor-in-Chief ishationand financialaid processes. lamesKrugerat jkrugerl@ mscdedu

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CONTINUEDFROIVIA3 All supporting ollices lbr these servicesr,r'illbe located in the building, and employeeswould be cross-trained to better serve students.

The vacated space in the Central Classroom and Adminishation buildings will be converted into classrooms.The new fee r,r'ouldalso pay for the renovations. In addition to administrative services,the Student SuccessBuilding would also house the program its name comes from. the First Year SuccessProgram. The program is aimed at greater retention and graduation rates for the student body. fordan said voting in favor for the fee would be :rn invesbTrent in the value of a deeree from Metro.

The first year program, coupled with other state-of-the-art features such as a decision theater used to model and soh'e policy-making decisions, will increase the

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If the fee is passedby student vote, th€ State Capital Der,,elopmentCornmittee in the Legislature will then have to approve the expenditure.

The committee has already received the proposal and is w'aiting on the result of the student vote.

If the student body and the conrmittee both approl'e the proposal. construction would begin Spring 2O10.

Seventy percent of the money from the lee rvill fund the constructionand debt seriice for the building. T\ €nty percent will go to scholarships lor Metro students and ten perccnt has been budgeted for equipment and maintenance. The Office of Financial Aid will appropriate the scholarship money generatedby the fee.

The fee referendum will be included in the SCA ballot, n'hich r,r'illbe e-mailed directly to students via l\{etroconnect. The e-mail will have a link to the ballot and students can cast their vote Anril l3 to 18.

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Nationwide studentshelp covercosts ByTara Moberly tmoberly@mscd.edu

When collegesand universities construct new classroom buildings or stadiuns, students olben foot a portion of the bill.

It's a standard practice to enact new student fees or increase existing ones to help fuhd a portion of constructions costs- iust as Metro is hoping to do - though students don't alwaysagreewith shelling out monemoney.

MeEo students will have their sayabout increasingtheir tuition bill when voting openson April 13, Studentsat Bowling GreenIIniversity in Bowling Green,Ohio, voted in favor of a $60 per-semest€rfee March 27 to fund the Shoh C€nter, an arena that will be usedfor events such as graduation and concerts.

Fifty dollars of the fee will go to consFuction while the remaining $10 will go toward new student parking lots. Studentswill begin be ing chargedthe feein 2Ol 1, after the arrenaopens, Initially, some students had voic€d shong opposidonto the new cost, saying th€y weren't given enough advance notice and that they didn't want to add another student fee.

Of the 3,812 studentsthat voted, more than 68 percent voted in favor of studentshelping pay for the arena.

Studentsat California StateUniversity-Iong Beach votid down a S95 per-semesterfeeMarch I I that would have frrnded three new playing fields,a 5,000-seatcampusstadium and 35 club sports and intramural programs.

Sixty percentof the 3,898 vot-18 percentof the school'stotal 'Students 'It seemslike a goodthing to "It's weird that the schoolwants ers "I would pay the $5.25 a credit are already hurting - were against the new population to cut funding, then take it hour. BeforeI vote, I would for money.That money should axeat€classrooms,but it's also fee. out on the studenl But overall go somewhereelse." want to know the reasonfor raising tuition. In the beginIn May the board of regents at like it is worth it," sounds such a big increase over three ning, the feeisn't too bad.' the University of Minnesota shot years."

-DJEFFERY -NATETAVES down a fee to pay for constructon, DAPHINS -DARCY -KIRAGILBERT RHODES Metrosenior Metrojunior saying they felt it sent the wrong Metrojunior Metro sophomore messageto ask students to pay a $l0O construction fee when the school had receivedmillions in state money for the projects.

At some schools, such as the University of Montana, only certain students are allected by construction-related fees.In 2007, journalism and law studentsat t}te unil,ersity had a $100 feetackedonto their bill for construction.

And while Metro'sproposedbond feemay seemlike a lot, considerthe 'Yes. If it makesthe coming-in 'I will vote in favor of it. I won't 'I deftnitely will not vote for it, "No. I already pay enough for caseof CUBoulderstudents. processeasier.I mean regishatuition and barely rnake ends It's a lot of money per credit benefitfrom the building, but C\rrent$ all CU Boulder stumeetasis." tion are you kidding me? I'm all hour and I will be graduating as long assomeonefu, it is dents pay a $30O capitol conaFucfor it." worth lt." soon " tion feethat is setto increaseto $400 year.

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Candidatesfor the upcoming SGAelection havebeeninvited to participate in a debate from ll a.m.to 1p.m. April6 in the Roger Braun room of the Tivoli.

Nic Garcia,managingeditorof ?heMefropolitan. will moderatethe debate,which will featurecandidates running for the president, vice presidentand student trusteeto the Auraria Boardof Trusteespositions.

Eachcandidater,r'illhavean opportunity to presenttheir platform.A seriesof questions about their platform will then be debatedby all of.the participants.

Topicsfor the debatewill focuson how will addressissuesaffecting eachcand'idate Metrostudentsandwork with SGAto find solutions.

The debatewill givel,letro studentsa chance,tomeetthe candidatesand heartheir plansfor the futureof SGAprior to voting.

PollsopenApril 13 and closeon April 18.

Thedebateis opento the publicand studentsarelvelcometo attend.

Auraria students participate in 26-mile memorial march A groirpof Auraria ROTCstudentsparticipatedin the 2OthAnnual BataanMemorial DeathMarch,on March 21. trekking26.2 miles through the desertat the White Sand MissileRangein New Mexico.

Theteam- ledby MetrostudentSarah Brennan- completedthe marchwhile carrying 3 5-poundrucksackson their backs.

OtherMetroteammembersincluded ZacharyFeterl,EmmaluelBarron and Sean Bottlemywho choseto run, not walk the entirelengthof the course.

UCDwasrepresentedby JamieCrownover and MichaelBurnet.DanielTempletonrepresentedCCD. This year'smemorial march drew a record numberof participants-5,394 peoplesigned up to participatethis year,trumping the previoushigh of 4,400 participantsin 2008.

The march honors membersof the armed serviceswho defendedthe Philippine Islands during World War II. On April 9, 1942, 70,O00Americanand Filipino troopssurrenderedto the fapanese.

The soldierswere then led on a 7O-mile march,with an estimated7,000 - 10,O00 dying of starvation,dehydration,disease or at the handsof the lapanesealong the way,

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hiatusvolunteering ByTaraMoberly tmoberly@mscd.edu Insteadof headingto the beachor bar-hop ping with friends,someAuraria studentsrolled up their sleevesand got to work participating in alternative spring break activities such as painting, building and preparing emergency food packages.

Studentsfrom all three institutions choseto serveothers during spring break; someheaded to Amarillo, Texas,to help Habitat for Humanity build houses,while others worked at sitesin the Metro area- all for a goodcause.

Metro's Omce of Student Activities organizedvolunteersto help at the FoodBank of the Rockiesand DenverUrban Gardensas part of Metro StateGetsUnconventional.

On March 24; Metro students helped sort food at the food banl, which distributes an estimated25 million pounds of food to nearly 400,000 people in the meto area, northern C-oloradoand Wyoming.

Studentssortedfoodand preparedit for dishibution.

Volunteershelped the Denver Urban Gardensmovenine tons of Larth as they prepared to expand their garden at the Bromwell Community Garden.

Kailei Hieginson, community basedlearning coonlinator for the ffice of StudentActivities,organizedthe event,the secondUnconventional activity the Metro has offered.

The first took place during the Democratic National Convention,with studeritsalsodonating their time to help at the foodbank.

While the turnout at the spring breakevent was lower than at the DNC events,Higginson pinned this on tirning. The spring break service eventswere only annsuncâ&#x201A;Źd a short time before the break, leaving studentswith little time to sign up.

Six studentsparticipated over spring break while the previouseventdrew I O0students.

This is the first time Student Activities has worked with Denver Urban Gardens,a nonprofit organizationwith morothan 80 gardens around the metro alea, mainly in low-income aneas.

"We focus on community and community empowerment as well as ensure that pâ&#x201A;Źople have accessto organic foods," said Lisa Blunt, volunteer and conshuction coordinator for the gardens.

Volunteers are vital to the gardens which is minimslly stalTed- which require constant attantion.

"If you're coming here and volunteering you're helping out the larger community," Blunt said.

And more than 400 miles away,in Ama- ' rillo, 2 I studentshelpedbuild housesalongside other Habitat for Humardty volunteers, ThomasSheridan,assistantdirector of Student Life at UCD,helped organizethe trip and accompaniedstudentsto Amarillo.

"We feelthat seMcelearning is a very important component of education," Sheridan said.

While the trip was still in the planning stages,Amarillo waschosenbecauseit wasnot too far away and had a needfor volunteers.The studentsleft Denveron March 22 and returned

March 28.

The volunteersspentthe weekworking on two housesin additionto sprucingup benches and tablesat a local park.

"We ended up gutting one of the houses, pulling up the carpets and tearing down drywall," Sheridansaid.

Therewassuchhigh interestin the trip that it resultcd in an additional prolect in Denverfor those unable to go to Amarillo. On March 26' studentsbravedthe heavy snow to work on a .Habitatproject near FederalBoulevard' While both proiectsprovided studentsa chance to give back to their communities, it alsoprovidedthem with a chanceto work with and get to know other students. "[t gives them a greater senseof community lt's really hard for studentsto makefriends on this campus,"Sheridansaid.

Metro volunteerBridgetBraun, who got her the handsdirty at the UrbanGardens.,enjoyed opportunity to get to know studentsshemight not haveotherwise.

"Having that sense of community with other students while also serving the greater Denver community - that was the best aspect," Braun said.

This isn't the first time Braun has volunteeredher time with serviceprojects,and with a break from both work and school,shejumped at the chance to help again - something she encouragedothers to do. .

- "I've always been a big advocateof community service,so it was a goodopportunity," Braun said.

Future Auraria students $'ill have the chanceto do the sameas both Metro and UCD plan on organizingfuture serviceevents.

Higginson said that after the successof the first two Metro State GetsUnconentional events,plans are already being formed for the fall semester.

"The collegegeneration- X, Y and the Mil'hey,letk lenniurn generation aren'tjust about getdrunk on springbreak.'Theydon't havethe hang-upsabout service,"Higgins said.

Prelirninary plans are in the works for a serviceeventthe weekbeforeclassesstart next fall.

And Sheridanplans to male the Amarillo trip an annual eventaswell.

"We might keep Amarillo as one of our year$ trips. We had such a huge interestin this Eip that we may add someothers," Sheridan said. "Just knowing that theseare the type of experiencesstudents are looking for is really beneficial."

Just as spring break trips begangaining attention for excessiveilrinking and other risky behaviors in the late '80s, the move to spend the break on serviceprojectsbegan. ' The alternative break moyement has grown steadily since the early '90s. Colleges and national nonprofit groqx such as Break Away are committed to encouraging students to spend tbeir school holidays giving back to the community through serviceproiects.

They also provide training and education to school groups and employeesto help them efficiently organize and lead alternative break . mps. collegestudents An estimated5,00O.OOO were on spring break over the past month.

Break Away estimatesthat of those, 65,000 participated in alternative spring break activities this year alone - an 1 I percent increase since last year and almost double the number of participants in 200

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What's blackandwhiteandreadaII 0r/ er?

I would like to beperfectlyhonest, I am not a journalism major. In fact, I am not even a iournalism minor nor hale I taken any classesin the subjecl HoweveqI do krow mostly from old television shows,that journalism should beconcemedwith obiectivefacts. Sor,rfiendid journalism becomechildish name<alling?

I recently walkedthe halls of the West Classroom- no I am not deranged,iust had sometirne to kill b+ tween classes- and pickedup some of the campus papers. Being interested in objective facts I was nahrrally drawn to a campuspapercalled the ConstitutionalReportzrthat proclaimed 'Truth, Unabridged" as it's munificent motto.

In the paper, I learned that "truth" is apparently{ormedfrom an ideologicaldochine and not objective fact. I would not havebeeninsulted, or evencared- [ haw pickedup the paperbefore,laughed a bit, then put it down without any serious detiment to my own sense of dignity.

However,as I pagedthrough the paper,one of the articles sEuck me, The article informed me that my friends and peopleI know are apparently part of, "a violent seventh-century barbarismthat meansto subiugate the West." The referenceis to the prophet Moharnmad, who was born in the seventhcentury, and the implication is that all Muslims are violent.

Ponderingthe journalistic int€grity of the publication "by and for

COTINSEGER cseger@mscd.edu Name-calling is not journalism, period,

whether it is calling a group of peoplebarbaric or merely printing the name of peoplewho did not ask to be identified and calling them redundant, expendable

or superfluous. the studentsof the Auraria Campus" I couldn't help but wonder how calling a set of people 'barbaric" qualifies as lownalism, or everrtruth for that matter.

Certainly an opinion, no matter how inaccurate or void of trut}, is a defensibleright that should be upheld by all in this nation. However, passing oneself off as a journalistic tool purporting t6 spread information as a newspaperis not

a defensibleright. Sure,I am aware of the ffrst amendment,fteedom of tle pressand how important these rights are to a ftee and iust society, but presentingoneselfunder the flag of a iournelistic enteq)riseis dishonest,plain and simple.

Newspapersare seen ar; an authority, a trust€d institution of inliormation gathering, though they are a human enterprise and therefore prone to rnistakeor intentional misstatement. fournalists are, to a certain extent, storytellers of the surrounding nrorld. The subjectmatter and plotlines are not to be fabricated, but uncorreredfrom various sourc€s and piecedtogether to give the reader a narrative of an event that they could not witness, attend or participatein. fournalism is not to beamalgamatedfrom the deffcientphilosoptryof Ayn Rand or tie int€Uectualracism of Mark Steyn. Blanket statements about an entire population, while readily available in tle writings of both, should not be the base from which a iournalistic enterpriseis built.

The people'sright to know is not an excuse for the dissemination of swaggering reasoning built on false logic. Instead. newspapers should act asa repositoryof current knowledge independent of political slant. Admittedly, they often lall short of that ideal, but to begin from an ideologicalstandpoint dilutes the prospectthat any fair and balanced

coveragewill result.

If freedom of the pressis to be defended as a fundamental right, as enshrined in the Bill of Rights, it must be understoodas separateand tlistinct from fteedomof spoech.

The irony that someonewould conflate the two and qrgue that intolerance is the way to protect A€edom of speech,which in its very es: sencebegstolerance,is a deliberate att€mpt to pass free speechoff as the exerciseof a freepressand it is a reminder of how constant vigilanc€ and the exerciseof free speechare eternally bound. Freedomrequires unceasing vigilance as a bulwark against those who would seek tb impose their ideals onto an otherwise free society. Name-calling is not journalism, period, rvhether it is calling a group of peoplebarbaric or merely printtng the name of people who did not ask to be identified and calltng them redundant, expendable or superfluous.

The students, faculty and stalf. of Metro deserveto not have their names used in a political rouse disguisedas journalism,'just llke the Auraria campus ileservesto have a newspaperthat prints the truth, no matter how inconvenientor influential it is to the'students, faculty and staff.

However,it doesnot need to be this one. There is still room on this campus for another independent newsgathering service, but it must benewsthat is actually gathered,

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frl Two women look at Bob Stiohmeiert work March27 at the opening of the Dry lce Factorygallery locatedat 3300 Walnut St. in the RiNoart district.The new co-op will featureart studiosas well as a sharedceramicsstudio for the . lmillis@mscd.edu Photos byLeah Millis artistsin residence.

Renovationinthe nilme of firt ByJulie Vitkovskaya uvitkovs@mscd.edu

Palmer has learned it's important for artists to share ideasand interact with The passion io celebrate the art eachother on a morepersonallevel.

Pahnerard hisfamib uuercsponsible of Denverhas led Matt Palrnerto turn a cnrmbling dry ice factory into a for transformingthebuildinginto a muftipolishedworkshopfor the city's artists. dimensional space.

"My father-inJaw and I ... did all But that's iust the beginning: Palmer plans to change the way artists and of the demolition.It took us six months - holding the contractors'feet to the professionalstalk about art.

"I want to shay away from the fire. We really,wantedto makesurethe typical co-o.p forryt - do.sornet-hing qrality washerc."Palmersaid.

Polishedhardwood floors, sniooth that is more conceptually driven," white walls and a warm, wooden Palmersaid.

In a normal artist co-op,Palmersaid ceiling wasn't exactly the way the he feelsdiscussionoftendeviatestoward three-story building was handed to the businessof art rather than helpfr:l Palmer. Before he and his father-incritiquesand advicefor the arGts. From iaw started laborious paperwork and remodeling,the building wasa wreck. his previousprojects, lust how much work Palmer and his family put into the co-op is hard to imagine. The main floor needed Iarge, rusty pipes removed and the '! j windows caused more shadow than it provided light. After the demolition, I the second lloor's 12 studios were just a largeroomswith columns.The boilerroom belowthe galleryhasbeen turned into an openceramicstudio for all of the artists in residenceto share.

Almost 42 tons of steelwere recycled after the interior was renovated.And the renovated space doesn't stop

growing - Palmer also plans to include a coffeeshop next door to the gallery.

MAKING II ABOUT COMMUNITY "There's something really intâ&#x201A;Źresting going on here. There are all of theseco-ops,all of thesepeople making art. The art scene,although it's small, [we are] very supportive of oneanother,"Palmersaid. ' Palner undeistoodthe businessof art beforehe put togetherRiver North Art District'slargestart co-op.

"Galleriesiust write you letters saying, 'oh, we don't fild you marketable.We don't needthe artist's statement.Yodr art needsto sell itself.'

And to me, that iust saysso you want the objectto sell," Palmersaid.

The idea is the most importart part of art, Palmer said. His goal is to getpeopleto discussart and learn ftom eachother no matter their educational background.

"Denver seemsto have a plethora of artists out there. A lot of them are amateur. but some of them are so hungry to learn more about (the) art making process,strengthentheir work. Evenif they don't have a formal art background they're ready to

jump in these discussionsand learn from them,"Palmersaid.

THE ARIISTS OF DIF For the artists, the spawn of a new spacgmeans new opportunities for a fresh collective.M Van Damn, one of the artists renting a room in the Dry Ice Factory said she feelsmore connected to the art community.

"This is great trcause I feel like more people have been at this longer and there'sso much I can learn from them - as far as focusingon, or not focusing,on art. It's interestingthat, so far, the work I've seenis sovaried in thisbuilding,"VanDamnsaid."There's quite a diversityof age,too."

By using her background as a percussionistworking for the Uttleton SymphonyOrchestra,shehas plansfor projects with more movement.which she couldn't successfullypractice in a stnallerspace.

"I comehere and there'snothing elseto think about.Iiustshedit all off," VanDamn said.

Palmer said he has the same attitude and has comfortably settled into the cc.op art scene. ' "I feellila I hare the freedomto do whateverI want. I don't haveto sellout," Palmersaid.

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Finding of spa,ce her orrrn ByJulieMaas pretko@mscd.edu of andi Calistrois not in the business tattooing penises.

So please- don't ask,

She will, however,be happy to tattoo just about any other location on your body. If you arewise,you will ask her to adorn you with her own personalfine art, and if you don't want it on your body,you better get somethingto hang in your house.

At 30, shehasaboutnineyearsof tattooing and a lifetimeof painting under her belt. Calistro saysshe started drawing at a very young age: 'As early as I can remember.How old are you when you can start?"

She has no formal art school training, which may surprise some people when they seeher work. "I still considerit at times. I feel like art schoolcan help anyone. If I go,then I will gofor somethingcompletelydifferent that I couldlearnlike sculptureor somethfng," Usingwood asher canvasis a way that Cal. istro standsout as a painter. What may have seemedlike an experiment inspired by a few heroesturned into a career."I think I had some scrap wood at my house, and I've seen some other people'swork on wood that I love.It iust looks so cool and I really like the texture of it.

A lot of times I get comparedto Audrey Kawasaki, but sheis way more accomplishedand, in my opinion, is way better than my stuff. I don't feellike it's very comparablethough exceptthat it's on woodand paintinfs of girls."

Although painting came fusL getting a handle on tattooing helpedpavethe way to her successas a painter. 'As soonas I could wrap my head around tattooing and be comfortable with it, I startedpaintingagain.I didn't actually try to show in gallerieson a regular basisuntil about four or five years ago when I started working at TwistedSol. I pretty much started

by SandiCalistroposesin front of a muralMarch25 shepaintedat the KazeGallery,whichdoublesas hertattoo parlor' Photo . bhanze@mscd.edHanze Britrney painting more and met somegallerypeople," Calistrosaid.

Working at Twisted Sol, a renolrmedlocal tattoo shop, gaveher the creative fteedom she neededto grow as an artist, but it was a shop in Boulder that helped her to break in taftooing.

"I've grown to absolutely love tattooing, but my original idea was iust to do something that made money with art. About eight or nine yearsago,I did a bunch of flash drawings and sold them around town. I went to a shop in Boulderand they askedif I wantedto learn.

That was deffnitely my intention but I was too shy to ask. SoI gavethem a verbalagreement that I would stay there for tn'o years. As an apprentice,you iust cleanand go getfoodand you'relike the shopbitch for a little vvhile.It's totally worth it though."

The transition from painting to tattooing

was a difficult one. "I shooka lotl I was ter'victim.' rified of it. My brother was my first I had to go back and fix that tattoo - it was so shaky! It's still super infimidating because everyonewants the perfect tattoo. It's a crazy art, I'm still learning. Any tattoo artist will tell you t}ley are constantly learning. There are so many factors in tattooing, " Calistro said.

Even a fine artist who makes the move into the tattoo world getsinterestingrequests.

"I've been askedonce or twice to tattoo a penis and I said no. At the first shop I worked at, there were theseguys who came in wanting swastikasand a fight almost broke out and we kickedthem out. I don't reallygetaskedto do anything other than my own stuff norv."

Although Twisted Sol was like working with family,Calistrohad to go in a different direction.A]icia Cardenas,one of the owners of Tn'istedSol,had a home waiting for Calis-

tro at KazeGallery.'Alicia had this spaceand I kind of just wantedto transitioninto a space that was more like an art gallery. I wanted to be somewhere that was more low brow art geared. That is what most of my tattoos are about now. I do pretty much what I paint.

There's no walk-in here, but I have a clientele base.I think most of my clients appreciateart and art galleries. This environment is just perfectfor what I do."

KazeGallery greetsyou with a wall mural paintedby Calistroherself and it iust addsto the dreamy comfort of the space. Behind the mural is her tattooing area, both small and private. At 7 p.m. April 3, Calistrohas a solo art show at Kaze,iust u'aiting for you to discover her art. But if you want a tattoo, you better makean appointment, and makeit now, becauseshe'susuallybooked,

honorsMetroprof PoetryFestival '90s.

It was human servicedegreein the late andpursued that I took up courage from Lalo academiafor a career.

Christina Chicano studiesprofessor TJld:What is plannedlor theJestivtJ.?

Sigalaspoketo lhe Metropolitan CS:Fun and experientiallearningexpeannual riences.We will beginthe poetry festivalat aboutthesecond 8:30 a.m.with a traditionalblessingceremoLoloDelgadoPoetryFestival. ny, followedby AztecaDanzaGroup.

Dr. Ramon Del Castillo, chair of The Met Wo wasLaloDelgado?

Christina Sigala: Lalo Delgado [was] Chicana/ostudiesand nationallyrecognized Denver'sfirst poet laureate,an honor be- poetBobbyLefebreharâ&#x201A;Ź an outstandingcast stowed upon Lalo by Mayor lohn Hicken- of poetsto entertain students.faculty and commrmitymembers. looper[posthumouslyin 2004].

We are rery happy to nelcome Denver's Lalo is knon n nationally as a Chicana/o civil and human rights activist and had re- secondpoet laureate,ChrisRansickto start ceived a handwritten award from the civil off the morning'sfestivities. trVer.r,ill have a free community lunch rights scholar/elderRosaParks.

Irom 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and Dr. Luis Tli/: Hou,did thepoetrgJestivalstart?

CS: I startedthe eventlast year to hon- Torres. MSCDinterim provost,r,l'ill speak or Lalo Delgadoand his dedicationas an aboutLalo along with DenverCity CouncilChicana/o studies adiunct faculty member man Paul Lopez,[artist] StevonLucero,cofounderof ChicanoHumanArts CouncilArt for I 7 years.

Lalo was one of my first professorsof Campa,and Rudy Gonzales,the executive color at MSCDwhen I was working on my directorfor Serviciosdela Raza.

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Wearealsohavinga Lalo'sArt Corner,a placefor up and comingpoets,r,'r'here [they] will haveopportunitiesto createcraftsand their own poetry book. \t'e will have the Bryant Webster Elementary School\{ariachi Groupperformat 4 p.m.to helpus closethe festival.

TMt Whatrlogou wantpeopleto takeaway lrom theexperience?

CS: We r,l.ouldlike students,faculty and staff asr.lellascommunitymembersto enioy themselvesand learn from the poetry and scholarslvho lvill beattending. shouldstudentsattend?

TM: tr4,/hg I believe this e\,â&#x201A;Źntpromoteshuman CS: global and diversity.In academia,rverarely experiencequalatativeresearchon indigenouspoetry.Lalo Delgadopoetry has, and is, beingusedin doctoralthesisnationally.

Thesecondanrunl LaloDelgadoPoetryFestival will takeplace8:jO a.m.to 5:30p.m.April7 at Center St.C^jetan's

Abelardo"Lalo"Delgadotaught at Metroand was Denvert first PoetLaureate.Photocourtesy of latinamericanstudies.org

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The ColoradoHouseof R€presentatives met April I to discusswhat'sto bedoneabouta $3.4 million bill deliveredto HouseSpeakerTerrance Carroll Monday morning. The bill is a statement of servicesrenderedby The Sun (aka EI Sol)and ad&essedto the stateof Colorado.

"The Sun has alwaysbeengoodto Colorado and my campaign eflorts, and so,apparently,we pork-barreleda deal,while passingsomeransportation legislationearlier this year,that gave our snow removal contract to The Sun," Carroll said."I don't really rememberagreeingto that, but I just get so darn sleepywhen the sun's shining overme."

On Friday The Sun (a yellow dwarf star from the center of the solar system)removed more than 18 inchesof snow from the streetsof downtown Denverand all along the front range with strong rays of powerful light generated thmugh nuclear fusion, which fusesThe Sun's hydrogenand helium to createthe ball of gas' po!\,erfrrlenergy, "The Sun works twice as hard asthoselazy, unionized CDOTemployeesand for half the price," mid The Sun'sspokesperson, a Godshapedcumulus cloud, 'And now he just wants what'scomingto him,'

Watch out!

Soutes are reporting that there's something right there behind you. Seriously,witnessessay, you may want to considerrunning away or at leastturning around.

"What are you still doing reading the damn paper?"one onlookeris asking.

As of presstime, peopleon the scenecannot comment whether it is a ghostor a poltergeist, but they are positiveyou should look overyour shoulderas soon asyou finish reading.

fordan remains on strike, hungry In a movercminiscent of the late Mahatma Ghandi, Metro PresidentStephrin|ordan vowed last weekto go without food until the schoolgets more funding.

Jordanannouncedhis hunger strike March 22 outsidethe stateCapitolbuilding,demanding more money for the collegefrom the state Iegislature.

Criticsof the strike calledthe movechildish and uffealistic. "I must sayit is a bold move," said one staterepresentative,"but I don't understand how skipping lunch for a coupleweeksis going to raisethe money the schoolneeds."

Meho spokesperson Cathy Lucias said the move is honorable and is in the b€st interests of the students.

She added that after 11 days of subsisting on only water and the

occassionalcup of coffee,jordan has becomedelirious.

"This won't stop until the studentsget the money they - no, I don't know where the pandashidetheir sticks,captain!"he said.

Metro mascotRowdythe Roadrunnerweepsgiant salty tearsat the lossof the school'sstudent-run newspaperMarch31 in front r the bottom of my cagewith now?"Rowdyaskedas he blew his nosecomically.When informed that there were more than 14 oth€ . dmadura@mscd.edu his tissueawayand askedwhere the closestAdyo-codnews bin was. PhotobyDaunMedura

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paper,was moneclear in detailing the TheMet's closure.

"See,the issue of the real problem, fundamentally speaking, for students tlat is, vltat really is at odds here, is we've decidedinstead to publish a yearbooktwice a year to highlight fashionmistakes,celebritynews and students/ strippersto bettercater to the needs.andwants of the people."Garicasaidamid a flug-vof hand '-' gestures.

By Andre Flora de Spence "We'vegot to give it 110 percent- a millSoecialto the Metrooolitan stonearound the neck," Krugman added.

After more than 3Oyearsof publication, The Studentreaction rangedfrom indifferent and Metrowlitin, aka TheMet, The 'Ropolitanor the disinterestedto Fetty much wholly apathetic fish-wrap factory eastsideof the Tivoli, will shut- and "wow that episodeof 'Lost' last weekkind of ter its doorsat the endof this week,citing rising blewmy noodlea littlebit."

"I just couldn't believethat Sawyerrvastakcosts in newsprint, coffee and a lack of stories about student governmentand mediocreresfau- ing over the whole island," Metro finance, ecorants asreasonsfor the closure. nomics and lcelandic mythology triple major "Our backs are against the wall; the buck MichaelMcKJively said. stopshere," said Editor-in-ChiefJimmy KrugThe Met began publishing in 1979, altet man, who, like a gooddeal of the papersreport- students feared technological developmentsin ing, could only find clich6sto describethe situa- laserdiscs,Beta cassettesand the Atari 2400 tion. "We got our foot in the door, but like good wouldput newslnpersout of business. soldiers,we haveto think outsidethe box."

"We iust wanted to give students more opHe later added,"rvhat's he been smoking?" tions of important things to ignore around camand "knock one out of the park," for no readily pus," Ifte Met's founder EmersonWorgesssaid. apparentreason.

However, the paper and its successwould Nick Garica,the secretaryof nightlifefor the provehard to ignore as art studentsfrequently publication who clairns to design,write, pub- used issuesfor papier-mAch6 projectsand ?h.e lish, typeset,take photographs,blog, tweet,sell Met singlehandedlyboostedthe localnewsprintadvertisements,deliver ald actuallv edit for the recyclingprogramby morethan 32 percent.

Iournalism shrdentswill be hit particula hard by the closing, which came as a shock an economywhere newspapersare thriving I the most opulent era of the munificent Rom Empire.

"Where will we go to be shunned and hr our storiesturned down?"Metrojournalismn jor JeffraWollermansaid."I mean,if I have wait until after collegeto get to the heart of p'r lemslike squirrels.andsciencebuildings,the might just switch my major to Icelandicmytb ogy like everyoneelsb."

'And are Sawyerand Kate even going to l back together?I don't know what's goingto hg pen anymore,"sheadded.

"L'etat,c'estmoi," Krugrnansaid.

TheMet currently employs163 unpaid st members,with Garicathe only contributor w could be found in the ofEceat any g,ivenn ment.

With the nation's media indusfy flourir ing similar to a young Mozart first lalng out . genius for the r.r'orldto bear witness to a hea alrnostFaustian,m elody,TheMetropolitnn'sw ers, editors and people who carr5rcameras i sullenbut optimistic.

"We're sullen, but, you know, optimisti Assistant Camera Carrier Daun Medura sa "What moreis thereto say?" s The staff at the paper'smajor on-camf competition, the Advo-cad,is thrilled with t prospectof the numberof newspapers at Aul

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Well here it is Metro, nay Auraria students.- Don't Vote.Ever.

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On the other hand, a single "nay" could leadus spiraling into a bus-lessexistencewherewalking is the only freemodeof travel.

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Now you're on the right track, and wtrile we're at it, we catr apply this mode of thinking to all areas of our lives.

Instead of acting on this stage of life, let's all just sit back and let it happen. Evenif it means letting nothing goodhappento us, at least nothitrg bad will happen.

Yeah. It wo*ed for Britney Sryars, ifiibr'tit?

Lasth if you must vote,at least vote yes. Who the hell is dumb enough to want to pay extra for the stinky 0 or the sketchyI 5.

dstazia 1@mscd.edu !YY'' :!:':'!l'ff nwcn we wa Jor our 'us unfulfilld promisesand hurt.feelings.

I posit again that no one votes.

If no ballots are cast they cant do anything to us, that's a fact. It's written down somewhere,look it s.st& onder Cortade Obama up if you don't believeme. havtishownus any'thingit's tbat One vot€ for allowing the fee pmintsed change. only leads to increase will mean the continuayou are a whiny lot, and problem.Bvenif only the of studentsvote.some'is bou-ndto change,and who waFfs change? l'If thesefirst couple months of

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And I happento like how TheInvutigatnrelookslike it was laid out by a 6-year-oldon a neither Oe-ng Cao5heese is ,time crunch.

TheFedereatist rnvestisttore, u,ri Maybe if the 'Ropolitanstaff athowlittleI actuallya student nor a r€al pel-son' wasshocked paper' He can be contacted by spent a little less time on fancy knewaboutmyex-favorite things like layout and balanced Readers, did you knowthat smok€ signals rcleased from the Plaza Building' reporting, they wouldn't be ispaidil thestalrorthe'Ropolitan Ithe Officeof StudentM€dia."Whatwill I line sacksof sa-lfron,which is worth more than its weight walking out of the student center with large canvas studentpublications it Auraria,Rowdythrew in gold?And did you know that for every copy of the sacks6lled with fine spicesand adorned with novelty paper picked up, higher-ups at the Office of Student money symbols.

Student'snot€lty moneysymbolsto beexact.

Mediakill23 ladybugs. y ria dwindling to only 14 and one-third.

I realizethe irony in sendingthis scathing letter to It's true, I read it in a newspaper.

"This is absolutelyfantastic," saidan elatedL. n Granted the paper I read it in was riddled with the very publication I intend to scathe,but as it turns e Reily Ugginsmith, editor of the Advo-cad."Now, spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors. and ovt,Thelnvestigatore only prints letterswritten by its pit fighter/publisher/copyeditor/president/Metatron. n we can dominate the market with out-of-focus yes,the reporting seemeda little one-sidedat times. photos,bar reviewsand sexissues."

That'sthe signof a truly greatnewspaper.

But iI wecan'ttrusta student-runpublicationthat 'media', Eventhoee outside.of the meaning e r- thosenot involvedin catering to campusadmino istraton policiesand leftist ideals,had a positive TI t takesa lot to bethe manager reactionto th elateof TheMeL I I for a Division II men's "Uh, guns good.Feesbad," saidpit fighter/ I I basketball leam, but the l- publisher/copyeditor/president/Metatronof ?he Metro State Roadrunnersare in Federcalist luck - they'vegotJoePotts.

Investigaford JonMoriarty. "Um, yeah, lt truth and freespeechand stulf.

Potts spent the enthe basketball seasonin the shadows, Yet despit€ the unbalanced mix of apathy and I elation,Thelvlet'sabsencewill no doubt leavethe never wanting to be the focus of attention. campuswithout its paper of record. Feelingsof lf remorseare understandable.

Whenhe isn't cheeringon the "I don't know what the hell a Metropolitan o team or making sureeveryonehas water, Pottsspendshis time in the F is, but you better tie your shoesand get ready for what's coming up for the seasonfinale when Olfice of Student Media, sharing t- you seewhat's really behind Ben's bookcase," his expertise.

"We owe a lot to Joe Potts." is said Matthew Fox, who plays fack Shepardon y, ABC'shit series"I-ost," which is in the middle of said Head Carnera Carrier Kora l- its ffih seasonand airs at 9 p.m, / 8 p.m. central Cemp. "He taught me how to 'e on Wednesdays. shootand alsohow to love."

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The 'Ropolitan is supported by your lunch money and is publishedwheneverwe get around to it, but never more . than thrice a month.

The 'Ropolitan is distributed to all campusbuildings worth oui time, No personmay take more than one copy of each edition of The 'Ropolitan without prior written permission.

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In the follow-up to their 2006 release,ShowYour Bones,the YeahYeahYeahssurprisethetr fansby taking it down a notch. It's Blitz, is not as riot grrrly as previous elforts, but they play with such fnesse and energy, that though it seemsdilTerent,it sfill feels right Inspired by more of an '80s new-wavesounil, rather than their usual punk rock, the whole album bridgesbot\genres liom start to ffnish. "Heails WiIl Roll" delivers an amadng dance track that transcendsto another time, while hacls like "Hysteric" and "Little Shadon'" act as a delicateending to an otherwiserockin' album. Karen O holds back on her vocals, but with such sweetnessand perfection,you don't miss the usual riotous growls shenormally delivers.This is another level for the YeahYeahYeahs,and they just keepgetting better astheir layersunfold. ShowYourBonesis 3 lsvsnling r€Eordthat is sur€ to pick up new fans, while satiSing the old ones,

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. HAZARDS OFLOVE THEDDCEMBBRISTS The term mck opera is a scary one becauseof the visions of cheesinessit coniures, but there is no better term for The Decemberists'new album TheHazardsof Love.It is a monster of an albtnn so ri'ell crafted and intricate that it can't be described as anything but a rock opera ... and there's only a hint of cheese.On its 17 tracks, the album tells the story of Margaret (foiced by LavenderDiamohd's .

BeckyStark) who, after discoveringsheis pr€gnant by a shape-shiftingforest creature named William, setsoff to find him, only to have their love tJreatened by the ForestQueen(My Brigbtest Diamond's Shara Worden).The plot sounds a bit pr€tenfious and can be hard to follow. Even if you'rc not in it for the story,The Decemberistsmake it work with a impressi!€ rangeof musical stylesfrom ambient, to walE, to metal-likeguitar clashing.The charaetershave their own distinct accompanimentsto help decipherthe narrators and their saga.Worden'stwo For€stQueenhacks arethe hiehlight of the alb"m, asher seny,powerfrrlVoicefiowing wer thunderous guitar licks and pounding organlend toThe Decemberisb'tansformation into a wonderfrrllyheavy and bluesy indie outflt. While it is probably not for everyone and the shifts in style can get a litde dizzying,The Hazardsof love is a solid and shiking exanple of The Decemberists'grandlosestyle, and a style that fans will surely appreciate,If any band could bring the rock opera into the 21st century, it's this oire, and they've done an encellentjob.

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Hailing from the barbaric desertsof Santa Fe, N.M., Fieldsof Elysium are a fresh act putting an innovative spin on the all-too+tale death-metalscene.

UnmvelingArcaneDynamicsis definitelynot your typical brutal death-metal album. Dqnnmicshas all the blast beats. gutturals and pig squeals,heavy bass and technical guitar work that is mandatory for Eue, brutal death metal, but the songstructuresthis band pulls off are atypical, Ther,eare plenty of slamsand gmoves,but it is an unpredictablelisten that will keepyou guessinguntil the end.

One great exampleof FOE'stechnical prowessis the song "FeedMe a Stray Cat," which featuresmelodic, soft elementsin betweenthe gruff guitar blasting. FOE's lpicism is in the style of socialcornmentarieson topics including overpopulation, religion, greed and a bleak future. But unlike most death metal, FOBalso offers upbeat anthems like the song "Millipus," an ode to positivethinking: "Live your liveswith the bestintentions and enioy the karmic aftermath." In true classicrnetal fashion, Dynamics'eight n-acksare iust more than 20 minutes long total, because any longer and it would more than likely overstayits welcome,

. By GeoffPage. gpage2@mscd.edu

. KINGDOMOFRUST DOVES

Manchester'sDovescould've easilyresorted to becoming a Coldplaycopycatact, but insteadhave manhgedto stay mostly original, though peppered enough by their influenccs to be teriable.On KnSilom OI Rust,lead singer and bassistJirni Goodwin and brothers guitarist Jezand drummer Andy Williams pwh the limits of their creativity while still staying Fue to the sombersound that has not yet found a mainsfream audience.The album pulses right away with the opener,"Ietstream," which smacksof New Orderinflu:c and establishesDoves'useof spaceysynchsand dublike reverb that set it apart from their previousthree albums.Doveshaveahrvays shirrcdto makeanthem rock, but it's more apparcnthere with songslllre "Winter Hill," a cookie-cutter,iet endearing lovesong;and the albnm'sbesttrack, " l O:O3," which startswith rising choral tones,a snappyEass,and comesto a Coldplay-esquecrescendowith a showerof drurns. 'Spellbound" is mor€ baditional Doves,but with slightly more optinism and a gorgBousmelodysoMiffed withGoodwin's passionatevocals.And though Pusabry. mpusator€rmscd.edu Kingdomleavessomethingto bedesiredconpared to Dores'previoustwo albums, 'Lifelines," soarabovethe clouds,wherethe vocalssuch asthe onesin the closer, Doveswant the listener to end up: freeof the sombermuc.k.

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the Blrd and the Beeoller an eclocticarray of pleasantindie pop with thelr seconilfrrll-length e leaseRayGunsz{reNotlux flu Future.the Btd and the Beeare GregKurstin and Inara George,trvo seasonedmusiciansfrom dirrersebackgrounds.Ifurstiro has lent his songwriting, production and multi-in' strumentaltalents locommerclallysucc€ssfrrlartists such asBeck,The FlamingLips,Peachesand Uly Al. len. (Kurstin wrote and producedAllen's secondaIbum, Itt Not Me,Itb You.)Kurstin brings a light synth-poptexture that blendswell with the melodic voice of Inara C'eorge.Georgeis a Shalespearianachessu'ho comesfmm a musicalfamily: her father is Iowell George,guitarist and songrdriter of the highly successfulband Little Feat,Georgecame into her own with a postgrunge band calledlode. Ray Gun'sradto single"Iove Ietter liom Japan"blends electronic melodieswith dep backbeatsthat crcatesa beckoning dance track.

"What's in the Middle?"continues the band's pattern of instrumentally hybrid, dreamycompositions.Overall,The Bird and The Beepresenta unique serving of musical artishy with '50s influencesand progressivepop sensibilities.

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Ruildrng oI'sproblems saren't thefinsw erto scho Whent waslearning howto ilrive, rry father told me I should alwaysbe looking two stoplightsin hont of me while beping focuson what cars are imnediately amund me.

Honest hour: more than once, I've run a r€d light becauseI was focusingtoo much on the ligbts two blocks ahead of me (that tur:raed green ffrst) and not enough on the light I was currently in front ol Cathy Lucas, the spokeswoman for Mefro, and I had a concrsation a few weeksagoabout a wide range of topics.Towardthe end of tle conversation,she askedme what I thought the moodof the campuswas. 'l{re students enioying the.servicesolTeredto them by the school?" sheasked, I told her I didn't know.

BesidesMetroConnect and the turnitin.com - a websiteusedin the classroomto crack down on plagiarism - I really don't useany service the school olfers. There was a time when I took advantageof the therapists on the sixth floor of the Tivoli, but that's a diflerent column.

"To be honest," I continued, "I

order, I also hear a lot about retention and graduationrates.Beinga preeminent institution. A HispanicServing Institute. The list goeson ...

Moreover. our student leaders continue fuhting amongst themselvesand try to figure out how to "govern.

But it will be all for naught if NICGARCIA Meho doesn'tdo moreto help ib current studenb and incoming freshdon't know all the servicesthe school men immediately.

I earnestly trelieveMeho Presidoesolfer."

I think there'stutoring available. dent Stephenfordan has this instituBut I have no idea where to ask for tion's bestinterestat heart. But I fear help.And I'm farnitar with our com- the powers that be are running the puter labs- and the fact we have to red light in front them. pay to print. I get a dollar off at the At rhis point, our administrators movieswith my schoolID, too. should be more concerned about Beyondthat, I haven't a clue. building a community rather than Being managing editor of lhe erectingbrick and mortar.

MetropolitmlI'm hearing a lot about The fact of the matt€r is: it r€ally the grand plans our administra0ors does take a village to raise a child. arecookingup. If, and that's a capitol Don t gtetme wrong, one building, a I-E all goesaccordingto plan, Metro building with werything a shdent will start offering master'sdegrees,a needs in one place, can certainly fully-operationalhotel and we'll have help. But it alone is not the ansurer. a brand new building aptly named Mostly becauseit doesn't sohe the problem:studentsareblind to the vilthe "Student SuccessCenter."A tall

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lagearound themAnother round of honest hour: I don't remem.bera darnn thing bom my orientation orcept my leaderrepeatedlyreminding mehow luclry we all wer€ to get everlthing r,r'eneeded to know about Metro out of the way in five hours and not spendan entire weehnd familiarizlngourselveswith the carnpuslike a lot of schoolsrequir€.

I think he waswrong. The feeling at my orientation sessionwasrushed.

From day one, I've been told Metro was a "cornmuterschool."Comeand go. C'trand come.That's the way of life for a Roailrunner.That's the way of life hr a chicken with its headcut off, too.

Our school adminishators and student leaders must stop looking two stoplightsaheadand comeback to the moment in front of them. In a matter of weeks,new students will begin orientation. While it's too late to complaely restucture the first impressionstudentshaveof the institution (although a seriouslook at the orientation progam couliln't hurt), it is not too late to rethink someof the

Ianguage used to greet those fteshmen. [t's not too lat€ to rework a few things to backup the ffrst impression you want to gftrestudenb, either.

Drive it home folks: Metro is first class. Professorsfrom around the world are here to provide you with hrowledge. The latest technologz is at your disposal,too. A support stalf is just amund the corner to ensureif you loseyour way,they'll be there to help. Come,stay,grow. Tell the next generationof Metro studentsto lean on the college,to lean on eachother.

Tell us.

Showus.

Again and again until it's well krown: the path of successstarts with us, but help and support is along the way.

The fact of the matter is, Metro is a goodschool.Hopefullybeforethe classof 2013 graduates,Meho will be a great school. A school that is welcoming,a schoolwith a community of teachers and students who work together - not tust a school with a fancy building to help studentssucceed,

A BADSALE THE POINT: HYPOCRISY

Republicans econlmics for deluded Minnesota's 6th Congressional Dstrict electedsomeoneint€rest€din boarding a ship and sailing to lands with more freeeconomicrules.

Many of you may rememberRepublican Rep. Michele Bachmann.

Iast October, she wanted to hrow who was "anti-American" in Congressand wanted the media to root them out.

On March 25, in a radio interview with SeanHannity, Bachmann called for people"to rise up and say no more" to PresidentObama'seconomic antics.

The audacious part is the free market econornyseemedto fail miserably,and Bachmann is either blind 1o16a1q rrnahleto admit it. Whicheveroption, sheboldly continuesher antics.

"We have to take this courrtry back soon." she said. becauseshe thinks the country is goingto become so reshictedit will forceRepublicans into v€ss€lsto scour the earth for a new counky to rebuild the United States.

Is the hypocrisy too resounding?

Bachmann, the crusader against "anti-Americans," thinks Obama is going to plunge the country into irreparability. It sounds to me like Bachmannis goingto movpto another counhy, and, I'm not a prcponent of using the term "anfl-American" becausethe phraseis ridiorlous, but should she consider hersef "antiAmerican?" If I were forcedto label anyone" anti-American," Bachmann

she said in the same interview. Barack Obamahas been in office for a little more than two months, and suddenlyhe shouldersthe blane for the financial meltdownthat garnered most o{ its momentum under Bush.

These sullering people Bachmann refersto must bethe American International Gmup'sCEOs,eventhough millions of people are losing their housesandtheir iobs.

In tle same interview Bachmann also deludedherseU- in the hopesof deluding others- that the would top the list.

"This is our very freedom, and United Statesis trytng to cr€ate an we have 230 years- a continuous international currency and scrap link of freedom - that every gen- ping the dollar. But Tteasury Secreeration has cededto the next gen- tary Timothy Geithneris at oddswith eration," shesaid.Bachmannthinks Bachmannand thinks the dollar will this "Unk" is going to be severedby continue asthe biggestinternational Obama'spolicies.Of course,the Bush currenry for awhile.

Bachmann is a melodramatic administrationalreadybrokethe link in that chain when he beganorder- propagandist.She is trying to scare ing wire-taps on Americans' phones people into thinking Obama will illegally. Where have you been, Rep. make the United States uninhabitablebecauseof all the lost freedoms, Bachmann?

Shemust beconcernedwith only becauseof the "t]'ranny" of the goveconomic freedom though, because ernment. She envisions sailing to a new America perhaps. I thought I don't rememberhearing her rallying crieswhen Bush tried to strip the tle Democrats were the cut-andcounty of-its habeascorpusrights, runners,but Bachmannhasnow set the right againstunlawful imprison- a precedentfor Republicans,when sheis willing to live in another counment. Didn't Bush's actions throw hy becauseshedoesn'tlike Obama's Bachmanninto an unconhollable fit moderatepolitics. of lury? Wasn't she concernedwith ' Bachmann, like the rest of the the freedomslost by those detained Republican machine, iust wanls to by our governmenP "But where tyranny is enforced rile you up about Obama.Don't beupon the people,asBarackObamais lieveher, doing, the peoplesuffer and mourn,"

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REMEMBERTNGR]MANDA Disrnantling theMytlt of tlte Otlter A commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide n April 6, 1994, the tiny country of Rwanda in Central Eastern Africa was plunged into /'\ tragedy of apocalypticproportions. At the end of 100 days,800,000 people &ed at the \,fa hands of their own countr;'rnen,while more than 2 million were sent into exile.

The tragedy was named the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. For the past 14 1cars, the Rwandan people observe a week long "mouming period" to honor their dead. They hwe orgzniznd ceremonial burials for people whose bodies were scattered all over the country as relatives and friends have gathered the remains for a proper burial. Rwandans have also spent time reflecting on the events of 1994, sharing ideas on how to make sure this never happens again.

This year,Dr. Hadidja Nyiransehrye is partneringwiththe Africsn Student Union and the Department of A-&ican and African Amedcan Studies

Together urith the students on the Auraria campus, we will

,**qr on individualsand commuaities whereverthey would be from and the consequencis the A&ican Studcnt Union, the Department of A-&ican and African American Studies and Dr. Hadidja Nyiransekuye invite Jrouto come and be a part of this memorable event.

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OffenseoutscoresMines Roadrunners score13 runs

lie Nishikida blasteda two-run home iun to center field, capping off another6.ve-runinning.

'At times, we can shing a lot of runs together,"Metro head coach

By Josiah Kaan Fisher said. "Danni Hedstrom |en jkaanPmscd.edu and lennessaTesonehad a great day Metro softball split two games at the plate."

Pitcher March 29 at Auraria Field against Christie Robinson pitched all five innings, earning her ColoradoSchoolof Mines.

16th win of the season.allowing The Roadrunners came out ready to play in the first gameof the singleruns in both the first and fifth day scoringearly and winning I 3-2, irulings.

"Run support always helps," ending the game early due to the Fisher said. "CMstie (Robinson) is mercy rule.

'Iumping out to an early lead goodregardless,but it allowedher to " like that helpaon defensea lot," Met- pitch more aggressive. ro shortstop Amber Roundtreesaid.

Metro fell in the secondmatch "It really takesthe pressureoff of the of the day in a tight defensivegame pitcher." that was won on a fifth-inning home Metro started the game strong' run by Mines shortstop fack-veLaedgedMeho by by jumping out to a 5-1 lead after gen.The Orediggers the fust inning on a three-runhome a scoreof 3-2. "l!'e capitalized on theirmistakes run by right fielderDanniHedstrom. ' "It felt greatto hit my first three- in thefirsltsame.Fishersaid."Mines run home run of the season."Hed- playedreallywell. They didn't make strorn said. "The first three batters mistakesin the secondgame,and startedit olT,andI just continuedthe n'e couldn't string hits together.It lt'asn'ta lack of focusor effort." rally" Pitcher Brittany Moss pitched The Roadrunners didn't take their foot oll the gas pedal for the the entire gameand struck out l0 secondinning, as center fielder Kel- battersin 29 at bats.

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"Brittany Moss pitched really well and I feel bad we coulcln't get the win for her," Fishersaid.

Metro was scheduledto play four gameswith Mines,.but snow canceledtwo of thosegames.

Prior to their series with the Orediggers,the 'Runners had swept their third consecutive conference seriesMarch 21 and 22 againstFort Iewis Collegein Durango, and then split the secondtwo-game seriesof the seasonagainst RegisUniversity March 2 5 at Auraria Field.

Meho is currently in first place in the RockyMountain Athletic Conference East Division and widened the gap between fust and second, improving to 19-3 in conference playand 26-6 ol'erall.

The postponed games from March 28 were rescheduledfor March 30, but râ&#x201A;Źre canceledbecauseof the snow.

"I don't think that the postponed gamesaffectedus really,"outfielder Hedstromsaid. "We can't control the rveather,and we knevr'that other teamshad to canceltoo."

'Jumping out to an earlv lead like that helps on defensea

lot. It reallv takesthe pressureoff of the pitcher."

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Baseballcomesbackwithvictory air, but I didn't get it," Stouffer added. "That really showsthe character of this team when someoneelsesteps up," The teams originally planned a four-gameseriesbut had to settlefor a single game due to the blizard's eflect on the field conditions. The gameswill be made up, though this hasnot beenconfirmed. hior to the serieswith the Rangers, Meho went 3-l in a four-game setagainstColorddoSchoolof Mines March 2O-22. Metro did improve to 18-12 overalland 9-8 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.The 'Runners have won ffve of their last srxgames.

Meho will face Colorado State Universityat PuebloApril 3-5 in a four-gameseriesin Pueblo.

Metro captures win after being down bv one ByRobertDran rdran@mscd.edu Metro's baseball team rallied against Regis Unil'ersity March 29, winning rhe game 14-l3 at Auraria Field.

Regisgrabbedthree runs in the top of the ninth inning to take a onerun lead over Metro. But the Roadrunneis took back the game in the bottom of the ninth to win the hiehscoringballgame.

The wind was a primary factor as it blew baseballsout of the park.

Metro and Regishad a combined l0 home runs in the game.

"I've neverseensomany pop flies go out in my life,' Metro head coach Jerry Schemmelsaid. "When you got this altitude and metal bats,plus the wind, you'll seea lot of home runs. I rhink our pitcherspitched a lot better than the score," Meho catcher Terry Abshire came through in the clutch, driving in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning.

PitchersJoel Iockhart and Sean Walter had five strikeouts and only one walk betweenthdm. but in the

Metro shortstop Maft McGonnellslidesinto secondbaseduring the Roadrunne/sextra-inningsloss . abissetl March 15 at the AurariaFields PhotobyAndrewBisset @mscd.edu bottom of the ninth, pitcher Kyle Orgill ran into trouble with singles.

'Just to calm the pitcher down," Abshire said on what to do in that situatiotr. "We were trying to get a ground ball to end the inning but Regis kept hitting the gabsto keepit going. They're combativeand scrappy."

Metro's defensewas also won in

the battle of errors, which has been an occasional weak point for the team this season,Meho cornmitted only one error while Regisfinished withth€e.

"I am pleasedwith the pitching," 6rst basemanJordan Stouffer said. "(We had) no lapees€xcept one error."

Shortstop Matt McConnell had a big day at the plate with four hits in six at bats.Third basemanDakota Nahm and designated hitter Brett Bowman providedhome runs.

Stouller did hit a homerun in the game,but struck out right beforeAbshire hit the game-winning single.

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"I've neverseenso many popfliesinmy life. When you got this altitude andmetal bats, plus the wind, you'll seea lot of home runs.Ithinkour pitcherspitcheda lot better than the score.

Baseballheadcoach JerrySchemmel

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By EnricoDominguez edoming24@mscd.edu Metro men'stennis team went 2-1 at the Abilene Invitational tournament March 27 and,28 in Texas.

The women's tean finished 1-2 at the tournament.

The men's team came out hot, beating New Mexico Military Institute, a team who is ranl<edNo. 7, 7-2. Senior Sasha Ruckelshausen and junior Scott Braclley won 8-3 in No. 1 doubles. Sophomore AngeloFaustinowas on top of his game with junior Georgie Perez,beating their opponentin No. 2 doubles8-4, showing no fatigue, eren with the Metro No. 1 doubles playerMiriam Evangelistareturnsa low voF ley Mar.2 at the AurariaCourts.Evangelistaand seniorMitra Hirad long haul to Texas.

WinonaStatesophomoreHeatherPierceand junior defeated "It was hard to get any sleepin Mary Hesterman,&6, PhotobyLinhNgo- Ingoqmscd.edu the vans," Faustinosaid, "It ma<ieus really tired when getting there and of the tournament, Abilene Cbris- played.FreshmanYerica Pessoalost had someeffectin our matchesslow- tian University, 9-0. Ruckelshausen her singlesmatch 6-l, 6-1.

"We knew what we were getting ing us down a little bit." was leading in his singles match The Roadrunners swept College against ACU fuan Nunez, before he into," Pessoasaid."Knowing that the of the Southwest9-0, Perezwas the got hurt and had to retire the rest of other teamsn'erea lot better than us, we still put up a good fuht and did bighligbt of the match in singles, his match.

The women start€d the touma- not let anything infrmidateus." showing that the long ilrive and lack Later ttrat day, the women of sleep wasn't going to slow trim ment with a 9-0 lossagainstNo. 13th down, as he swepthis opponent 6-0 ranlad Tarleton State. They were strapped up for their next match and again'5-0. swept in No. I and No, 3 doubles, against CSW winning 9-0. Pessoa The men were sweptby the host winning only two of the 10 games cameback to win 6-l in her first set

and sweeping64 in her second.

"I can't wait for the many more to come,"Pessoa said."Youcan'l win them all, but you can alwaystry your hardestand improveyour game."

The women also lost to the No. 7 rankedACU9-0.

Junior April Hirad said she believesthe trip wasvery long, but can't wait to start tournament play, "Theweatherwasbad in Texas."

Hirad said."Wehad to play all of our matches indoors on tbree courts.

First RMAC match on Friday. I'm very excitedfor that."

Both tearns start their conference play April 3 against NebraskaKearney at the Auraria Courts. The women will also play April 4 against Southern Oregonat Auraria Courts.

"It was hard to get any sleepin the vans.

It madeus reallv tired when gettingthere."

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first coachof Lionsrugby team ByWillHoward howarwil@mscd.edu In a land rife lr'ith conflict, a former Metro student is helping to bring a little sunshine to an otherwise gray existencein Palestine.

Stephen lewis is the current coach of the Beit Jala Lions Rugby Club, believedto be the first Palestinian rugby team in history Situated in the turbulent West Bank, Beit jala is a predominantly Christian Arab town in the middle of the conflict zone where Israelis and Palestinians have been fighting for decades.fust l5 minutes from ferusalem and next to Bethlehem, the conflict has taken its toll on the small town.

"The economy has been decimated by the occupation, which restricts movement and commerce."

Lewis said. "Young men have few recreational opportunities such as organized sports."

Afier reading about the team in a local Palestinian paper,Lewis decided to volunteer his servicesas coach. "l wanted to spendsome time in the West Bank and get to knorrr' some Palestinians," he said. "These Lions are the same mix of university student, engineer, accountant, laborer. nutcase and goolball that their Denver counterparts are."

Before Lenis arrived, the team did not have a coach. They rvere led by team captain Nicola Stefan, who said he hopes to altend a coaching clinic in one of the major rugbyPla1ringnations.

Lewis started playing rugby at the age of 5 in his native land of Scotland and has played for \{iest of Scotland and Clasgow at a provincial level. He came to the states as a player and coach for Vail in 1991.

In his fourth year of coaching for the Denver Highlanders. he has also coached at Metro, Adams State and for Western USA IIen and lVestern l.lSA CollegiateNIen. Lelvis studied international politics at N{etro rl'here he said a classon Middle-East politics sparked his interest in the field. Lewis is currently a graduate student in international studies at University of Denver. He arrived in Jerusalemin early January for a quarter abroad and will be staying until March 21.

Now he brings his experience and knowledge to a group of young men on the West Bank, where the Lions continue to defy the odds.

"Their problems are a lack of competition, lask of funds to travel and lack of knowledge," Lewis said.

"The Lions have played a grand total of four games, three of them on a tour to C]?rus."

Former Metro student Stephen Lewis directs his playersduring a practice in Palestine.Photosprovidedby StephenLewis

"I wantedto spend some time in the West Bank and get to know some Palestinians.

TheseLions are the same mix of university student, engineer, accountant, Idborer, nutcase,and goofball than their Denver counterparts are."

StephenLewis,coachof the BeitJalaLionsRugby Clubteam .

Stefan has been trying to set up matches against Israeli teams, in hopes that playing rugby might contribute to the peace process,but the political climate makes that dillicult.

For now the team practices twice a week, one evening on a basketball court and Sundaysat the municipal stadium. They learn r,r,'hatthey can from their visiting coach. and they keep their spirits up.

In an area r,r'hereconflict is the norm, the Lions lind solace in rugby.

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.He has playedrugby for Westof Scotlandand Glasgowat provinciallevel. . lewis is in hisfburth yearol coachingthe DenverHighlanders. . Has coachedat Metro, AdamsStateand WesternUSAMen and Western Men. USACollegiate . Decidedto coachthe Lions after readtngabout them in the newspagrr. . Studiedintâ&#x201A;Źrnational politics at Meho. Saida classon Middle-Bastpolitics sparkedhis interestin the field. . Iewis is currently a graduatestudent at University of Denver.

BeitJalaLionsRugby . Believedto be the fust rugtry team in Palestinehistory. . Beit fala is a Christian Arab town. . Beforelewis arrived, they were coachedby l.eamcaptainNicola Stefan. . The team has playeda total of three of them on four g,arnes, tour to Cyprus. . The tram practicestwice a week, one wening on a basketball codLrtand Sundaysat the municipal

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