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4.13 Mondaysat Metro Free music performanceby faculty,students and visitingartists. 2:00p.m.KingCenter Recital Hall MetrostudentReubenGregorycastshisballot in favorof increasing the RIDpassfeeon April2 in the CentralClassroom Building.Auraria

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semests aft€r it is finalizedby the governing boards of all three schools at Auraria. While studentswill pay $9 dollars more for unlimited local rides, it is far ByBrandonNelson lessthan they would pay otherwise. bnelso55@mscd.edu A similar passfor tle generalpub. Auraria studentsare OK with pay- lic costs$164 a month. At that rat€, ing more for tleir annual RTDpass. students using public transportation A record 3.557 studentsfrom all without the pass would pay approxitlree institutions votedon April 1 and mately$656 per semester. 2, with 94.3 percent voting in favor of Metro student fune Richard said increasing the yearly fee to $46. The he voted for keeping the RfD student passes. current price is $3 7. "It's important that studentshave There have been no petitions or disputesffIedregardingthe vote,which accessto public transport," Richard the ReferendurnElection Commission said. declaredvalid on April 3. Many studentstravel long distancThe fee will go into effect rhis fall es to get to campus. Richard said she

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havels from Erie in Boulder County and public transportation is important foi her commute. Cory Carvatt, an electrical engineering major at Metro, diiln't agree with increasingthe price of the pass. 'I don't want to pay a fortune for gas or !o use the light rail," Carvatt said. , Metro student Reuben Gregory said he is in favor of keeping the student passesbecauseof the money it saveshim. "I ride the light rail and the bus all the time," Gregorysaid. Siera Stevens,a Metro public relationi major, said shewants to keepthe student accessto public transportation.

"I use my bus pass all the time," Stevenssaid. "I like public transportation. I useit quite frequently." In the fall of 2008, the RID Board of Directors voted to increaseall cash fares by 25 cents on local routes and 50 cents on exprressand regional routes starting Ian. I becauseof tle increasein fuelcosts. Studentridership allects the price of the studentpass.The passprice is basedon the number of studentsriding busesand light rail services,Student use of public transit has increased12 percentsince the 2006-2007 school year, accordingto the Student Advisory Committeeto the Auraria Board, with bus rides up 18.9 peroent and light rail useup 4.2 percent.

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StudentelectionstartsApril 13 Metro studentswill get to choosetheir next presidentand SACABrepresentativesduring the weekof April 13. Threeother raceswill take place, but contestantsfor vicepresident,studenttrusteeand senatorsareunopposed. Thefollowingareresponses fbomcandidatesin contestedraces. Voting will take placevia MetroConnect.Studentswill be e-maileda link to the ballot.

PRESIDENT ANDREW BATEMAN Why chould you be precldent? I have the experienceand lnowledge to representthe studeutsto both the adminishation and the stateof Colorado.As a registered Independent, studeDtscan be sure that my advocacyis not motivated by partisan politics or party platforms. What goals do you have for the upcornlng school year? First and foremost, I hope to work with the state to re vise the student lee policies in such a way that givesstudents approvaVdenial authority for all student fee changes. Here on canpris, I am hoping to push for sensible student feepolicies,including both traditional student fees,as well as parking feesand other covert student chargeE. How do you propos€ nalrlng thes€ changee happen? Using the resourcesand corurectionsestablishedduring my threeyearswith the organi"Ation. I will collaboratewith (the) adminis-

ERIKSKELTON hation, faculty and studenb to enact Irositive changeat Metro, on Auraria and in Colorado. In [ght of .eccnt budget cuts, what plans do yon have to rnake 6e college alfordable for shdcnts? First, to try to stop thos€ budget cuts from happening. I have been participating in statewide efforts alongside student leaders from institutions across Colorado to reach out to the membersof the ColoradoGeneralAssem. bly and the governor to stop theseunreasonableand devastatingcuts.In 2008, I was inskumental in the passageof the Textbook Affordability Act. This year,I was one of only a few that was willing to stand up to parking fee increases, However,the mostimpactful costto shrdentsis tuition. By maintaining a consistentpresence at the Capitol,I am positionedto engagewith the lcgislature to push for reshicted tuition ratesand higher statefunding.

Why should you be president? Responsible,effective leadership is nec€ssary in the uflooming year and it is my belief that I am the candidate most able to provide that to the students.Simply put, I believethat I can leaveMeho Stat€a better schoolthan I found it. What goals do you have for the upcoming school year? My nunber one goal for the coming school year is to revarnp our advocacyshateg/ to ensure that Metro's Student Government is a proactive advocate on behalf of our students at both the school and statelevel.We must find a way to work around the massivebudget cuts we are facing, so we can still bethe institution I am proud to call my alrna mater. IIow do.you propose making tJresechanges happen? I believe our student government can do a better job of representingour students.This starts by ensuring your representativesare be-

SACAB MICHELLE SPROWL HANNAHKAUFMAN JEANNINEMALM Why are you runnlng? To represent the Metro student body on issuessuch as sustainability, buildine spaceand multicultural awareness. I,fiy should students vote for you? My history with the Metro State Environmental ScienceOrganization has sparkeda passionin me for pro- moting studentinvolvementwith the decisionsthat allect the "umbrella" of institutions under AHECwith student governmentand organizations. What would yru have done differcntly last year to make it a more successful one? As a repres€ntatir€of SACAB,I would have assistedthe Sustainable Campus Program subcommittee with their recycling servicedebut, as well as expedientlyrolled out a thorough educational program teaching environmentalresponsibility.

ing held accountable f61 sarning the money they are being paid. I will also sunrey Meko students in order to determine what students wdnt ftom their student government. I will also work with the s€nat€to cut the least essentialprograms, those which the majority of students do not use, and reevaluatethe Meho Master Plan. I will also rEquesta pay cut from the senate and ask students to give their input on where we can him the proverbialfat, In tight of reccnt budget cuta, what plans do you have to make the college affordable for student? While it would be foolish to assumethe budget cuts will not affect Meho students,it is my belief we can still make college an alTordableoption for everyone. In order to assureour studentsdo not suffer harshly under the cuts, we should reevaluate the Metro Master Plan to seeif it is still a feasibleproposition.

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'IlVhyare you runnlng? Why are you running? Why are you running? The power of the Auraria Board I am running for the posiflon I havegainedhemendousknowlof Directors is an influential and in- of SACAB representativebecauseI edgeholding the officeof senator for tegral part of the campus.I want to want to mal(e a positive inpact at the pastyear. be able to repr€sent the voices and Meho and I feelthis is one of the best My involvementwith the senate, opinions of the Metro studentswho ways that I can male a positive im- the Student Affairs Board and the form the cornmunity of the Auraria pact. Student Outreach Comrnittee have Campus, Why should $tudcnts vote for readied me for advancementin stuyou? Wby should students vote for dent governrnent. you? I will represent the students Why should students rcte for My knowledge,commitment and views and opinions, as well as listen you? passionfor the Auraria campuspro- to their concerns. I am passionateabout student vides me with a unique understand- What is your number one goal governmentand feel that I could be ing of the student population and is- for the 2OO9-2OIO school year? the student's ofrcial voice in comsuesthat we dealwith everyday.I will To do whatever I can to get the munications with the Auraria Board use these skills and act as a liaison parking costslowered. and AHEC. between the students of Metro and If elected, what role do you beWhat's your best skill / atbithe membersof the Auraria Boardof lieve your. posldon plays in the bute? Directors. SGA?How will you make more of I have been able to build a rap port with many students (who) I What ls the biggest mistake an lnpact? you've made in yorn high61 64sI believeSACABis a key element have comeinto contact with. I make cation can€€r and how did vou h representingthe views of Metro as fiends easily. correct it? a whole to the Auraria Board, I will I feelthat I havegainedstudenb' I am very proud of the things I do my best to make suro that Metro confidenceand they trust me, I sense haveaccomplishedduring my higher is represented well to the Auraria that I have been able to lower barrieducation career. I don't believe in Boardand that the school'sviews are ers and boundaries.I mate students mistakes. heard. feelat ease.

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NICHOLAS MARNNEZ Why are you rrrnnlng? I feel it is my duty to help the schoolthrougb this financial crisis. AIso, if you want to change something, you need to take action and that is what I am doing. Why should students vote for you? I will be their biggestand loudest voice on campus.If you seea problem let me know I will do my bestto fix that problem. Also they want someonethat is not afraid to voicethe right decisions and has fresh ideas, thoughts and eyes, (I am) a personthat is outsideof the currcnt academicpolitical scene. What's your beet sktll / atrlbute? My best attribut€ is never backing down from something I believe in, never quitting, hard working, and (being)very passionatein causes that will help shrdents. My bestskill is looking at issues from a different way and thinking up new ways to solveold problems.

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tuition, norry we're bitchin'." Collegestudentsfhom around th€ state gathered on the west steps of the CapitolApril 6 to protest the additional 5300 million cuts lawmakersare proposing to the state budget All the cuts would come out of the higher.education budget. PhotobyLeah Millis. lmillis@mscd.edu

ByAnirew Flohr-spence spencand@mscd.ed u The news for collegesand universities in Colorado soundedlike a badjokeon April 1, but 'April Fool's" never followed. The foint Budget Committee, in an effort to balance next year's state budget, slashed funding for higher education by another $300 million. The cuts in higher-education funding now total $452 million. which is more than a 50 percent reduction from the current $770 million budget. Totalled,a full-timestudentcould pay doublefor collegethis fall semester, and hundreds of instructors face losingtheAjobs. "Unfortunately,cutting funding from higher education is the way we can balancethe budget," Rep.Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver,said. "Irr the next year, we as a state will only be able to mahtain funding for higher education,not insease it." To survive the cuts, larger schools.such as Metro. the University of Colorado,ColoradoStateUniversity and the Colorado School of Minesmay needto lower the number of enrolled students by as much as 25 percent, and many smaller state schools,community collegesand satellite schools,may be forcedto close completely. "We are looking at a very different world next semester,"Metro PresidentStephenlordan said. "We havet0 look now at how to becomea very focusedinstitution, and how to go aboutimplementingthat." Jordan said the cuts would hurt Metro but the collegewas relatively lucky, "There are a number of institutions that can't navigatethose kinds of budgetreductionsand certainly not within one year," he said. Metro will possibly receive $17 million in state funding next year, compared to $44 million this year. fordan said his office was looking at several scenarios to cope with the loss of money and he would work with students, faculty and stalT to getthef input on the dilficult process ahead. Oneoption is reducingenrollment at Meho by up to 5,00O students. Howerrer,ColoradoStatut€establishes Meho as an open-enrollmentinstitufion and reshicting the number of studentsenmlledwould meanchanging the law.fordan saidto survivethe new budget,cufting enrollmentwould haveto bean option. Another option is tuition could seea 53 percentincrease,Jordansaid. Normally this would violate Colorado

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$3,689.40 FiscalYear law, but the l€gislature has allowed state collegesto exceid a 7 percent annual increasein tuition, the maxrmum allowedby current law. This fall, studentscould get a double-hitto thewallet:the Colorado OpportunityFund, or COF,has been reducedby nearly 7O lrrcent. leaving studentsto pay for most of their tuition. Reductions in staff would be made to retain tenured professors, bui because full-time professors mean higher costs for the school, that would mean raising the tuition or loweringthe numberof students. "You can't sustainthe institution- we have now and make $29 million in budget cuts- and expect you're goingto havefull-time employeesand full-timestall un]essthereis

a givesomewhere," Jordansaid. He will meet with the Faculty Senateto give them an update and get their feedback. "Huge cuts like these will take the state of Coloradopretty much out of the business of fundinghigher education,"Faculty SenatePresident Lynn Kaersvangsaid. "If this goes through ... there will be a decrease in availability of college... which will undermine the conceptof accessible highereducationin the state." Onecatchto the cuts is Colorado will not meet the requirements for the federal stimulus money, which require states to make an effort to maintain 2004-2005 fu-ndinglevels.But lawmakershave told Jordan, Coloradocan get an exemptionto the rule.

"We are looking at doing everything possibleto preventthe citDens of the stateof Coloradoto missout on the opportunities of the federal stimulus money," Gov. Bill Ritter's spokesman,EvanDreyer,said. Ritter has spent the past two years trying to improve higher education funding. Dreyersaid,and continues to work to avoid cutting the proposed$300 million. While the governor respectsthe committee's decision. Ritter will work with them in the next weeksto seeif an alternative that would prevent further decreases in funding can befound,Dreyersaid, "Everything's in flux right now. It's an out-of-focuspicture right now. We'll have to take another snapshot in a weekor so and seehow things

look. Everything continues to move and change," Dreyersaid. The cuts would put higher education funding in Coloradoat by far the lowest in the nation, with lessthan $2,000 spent per student compared to the national averageof more than $7,000. "I think peopledon't really understand the full magnitude, yet," Jordan said. He urged all students and staff to get involved and call their state representati!€s,and said his staJTand Meho's Board of Ilusteeswould be working tirelesslyin the coming months to get funding returned to highereducation.but time wasof the essence. "This is a long process,"Jordan said."It's likeYogiBerrasaid,'It ain't over'til it's over.''

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CRISIS SLASHED. THEBUDGET THE CUTS of an Priorto theannouncement additional S300millionin cuts,Metrob hadaporovedat its BoardofTrustees Aprilmeetingto moveforwardwith someof the followingcuts.

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Cutsshrinkopportunityfund By Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu The state'sproposalto cut $300 million dollars from higher education would cut Meho's CollegeOpportunity Fund allocation by $28 million dollars. COF currently pays $90 per ciedlt hour for students eligible for in-state tuition. The amount COF will pay per credithour next year is yet to be decided, but with a $28 million cut from the fund, it is certain it will decrease, "The recentbudgetcutswill hemendously reduce COE" said Joint BudgetCommifteememberSen.Moe Keller,D-WheatRidge."Theproposed cuts are proportional to what schools receivefor COFand feefor service." Fee for serviceis another way the statefunds higher education and helps schools cover high-cost programs.Someinstitutionslike Metro receivemore COFfunding and others receive larger fee-for-servicefunding. For the 2008-2009 fiscal year, Metroreceived$43.986.120 in COF stipendfunding,br light of therecent proposedcuts, the collegeis looking at only $15,763,500in COFfor the 2009-2010 fiscalyear. COFwas created by SenateBill

a financialaid adhis borrowingoptionswith DeniseBrandenburg, discusses BrandonRichardson ' dmadura@mscd.edu FilephotobyDawnMadura viser,in the Officeof FinancialAid Jan.14,2OOA. 189 in 2O04asa rvayto fund higher education. Students have to aPPIY for the fund, then that moneyis deducted from the students'portion of tuition. Studentsreceivethe stipend for up to 145 credithours. The ColoradoGeneral AssemblY decideseach fiscal year the amount of funding each school will receive

for their portion of COFaspart of the budgetfor higher education. The fund is determined by estimating a college'senrollnent. AssociatedStudentsof Colorado Director of legislative Affairs Aaron "fack" Wiley said COF is nothing more than a force. Wiley also said that the estimateslegislaturesuse to

project COF are ineffective because they are not basedon actual enrollment m:mbers. The specific amount per credit hour is also set by the General Assembly, Once the long bill, which contains the state budget, is finalized, the amount of COFper school and student will be set.

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Federalfinancialaidunscathedunlikety By Clayton Woullard cwoullard@mscd.edu The secondround of cuts to Colorado'shigher-education fund won't negativelyaffectfinancial aid for Metro studentssignificantly. CindyHeil, director of Metro'sfinancial aid olfice,said that according to the Colorado Department of Higher klucation, as of April 2, statefinancial aid would not be a{fectedby the proposed$300 nillion in cuts, However, prior to the $ 300 million cut announcement,scholarship money for this coming academicyear had been slashed $ f 22,000, meaning approximatelylOO-200 students rnay not receivescholarshipmoney at Meho, Hell said. AcademicCompetiAIso,$240,O0Oof the Pre-collegiate tivenessGrant was reduced,affectingapproximately170 Metro students. "I don't Imow that we have a plan to compensatefor the lossof thosetwo programs,"He.ilsaid.

She said her office plans to increasethe amount of the ColoradoCollegeResponsibilityGrant ftom $6OOto And an increasein Pell Grant money $800 a s€mester. and financial aid for thosestudentswho havean expected family contributionof $6,926 or lessare to be expected with an increasein tuition. However,at presstime, she was not able to say holrr the financial aid offlcewill otherwisehelp studentscompensatewith the lilely tuition increasewithout getting final numbersfrom the administration. "I think Dr. (Stephen)fordan's trying to make the leastincreaseaspossible,"Hejl saicl The state'sbudgetcuts will not affectfederalfinancial aid for shrdents.In fact, Metro receiveda $130,00Oincreasein federalwork-study for this coming '€ar as part of PresidentBarack Obama'sstimulus packagepassedin February, and the Supplement Education Opporturdty Grantwasnot cut, shesaid.

One place a group of legislators have proposedmaking up some of the lost money- at leastfor this year - is by removingit tom a $500 million rcservefrnd of a public workers compensationplan, called Pinnacol Assurance.But the presidentof that companyhasthreatenedlegalaction. "We certainly do not lr€nt to see higher educationhurt. But we'relery clear that tlese assetsbelongto Pinnacol.They do not belongto the kgSuzi islahrre,"Pinnacolspokeswoman Stoltesaid. Shor:ldthe proposalbe adopted,it will destabilDethe businesscommunity h Coloradoand makethe stateless atbactive to businesses,Stolte said, msaning there will be lesslobs for future graduates.

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youreducation? to continue intuitionaffectyourability increase Howwoulda 50percent "It would just dependon how financial aid would coverit and if they coverenough, then it would be fine for now. But overajj, it will hurt in th€ long run to pay thoseloans back" KyndraGallegos

"I'd probably not be able to go to school.I recently lost my father two and a half yearsago,so my mom has stayedhome alone and has tried to help me out with school.A 5O perc€nt increasewould pretty much shut me down for a while." ClayDubois

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Aurariamullsfundingmoves without allecting (the) health and that the schoolwill look at internal prolectsmay haveto be shelved. ByTara Moberly Shldents at CCDare also facing tmoberly@mscd.edu welfareof faculty and students,"said cuts and cost-containingmeasures News of a $300 mlllion cut ln fundlng has left Aurarta shlfdng funds and formulating plans to contlnue operating lvlth a dwlndling pool of funds. Aurar{a Higher Mucadon Center - wltlch is fundedby tbe three instF ' tutlons at Auraria - is formulatlng plans to make necessaryreductlpns whilo also providing the oame level of servlceto students. "It's dlmcult to cut any major servlcBsat Auraria, Mail neods to be disdbuted, campuscleanlngand maint€nance stlll need to happen and obvlouslysecurity and safetyare important 0oAurarla. We are seelng what we can do within theseareas

lkecutive VicePresidentfor Adminirtration at AHECDeanWolf. CurreDt coDstruction at Auraria will not be ajTected,Wolf said. UCD ls also facing tuition increasesand program cuts as a result of the Joint Budget Committee'sdecisloirto trim $300 mlllion from the higher-educationbudget. "From our p€rspective,the budget is such a moving target at this point that il's hard to determine where it's going to e[d. You know we're golngto take cuts," Unlversity of Colorado system spokesmanKen satd. McConnellogue McConnelloguewould not estlmate how tuition may be allectedby the decreasein state funding, noting

ffrst. "We haven't got to that point in the discussion,With our regents, .they want to look at wherewe're cutflng before they talk about increasing tuinon. Our priority is to Fy to protect our academlcand research enterpris€sas much as possible. When we look at cuts, we flrst look at the administrativeareas,Wedon't ffll poeltlonsor cut posltionsor make majorpurchases,'he said,"If sutsof the magnitudethey'retalking about come through, there'slust no way that we'regoingto avoidcuts." Capltalconstructionprolectsare usuallyfirstto becut,McConnellogue sald.Curreritprolectssuchasthe ScienceBuildingwill continuebut new

higher tuition as the ColoradoCommunity CollegeSystemcould losean estlmated62 percentof its funding. While community collegescould gair an ada[tional$ 13 million in frmds from gamblingrevenues,that money will not begin0ofickle in until 2011. In the meantime, CCCSis consldering several options to bridge the fundinggap,everythirng from increaslngtuition to closingcanrpuses. "We have to look at everytlrlng - tuition increases,closures- all of it Secause the cuts are so dramatic,"CCCSspokeswoman Rhonda Bentzsaid.While CCCShad prepared for the previous cuts, they were not preparedfor the additionalcuts announcedlastweek,

FEEMOVESTO A VOTE DavidKottenstette, MetroPresident Professor Stephen JordanandalumKevinHarrisdiscussed the proposedstudentfeefor capitalconstruction April6,in the RogerBraunRoom. Thethree,aswellasSGAPresldent Andrew C.J.Garbodiscussed Bateman andVicePresident thefeeandthe StudentSuccess Center, the name of the buildingthefeewouldfund."Wedon't havoanyspaceleft,"Jordan said."lhaveput 14 trailerson thiscampus;" Metro,hesaid,hasa 98 percentutilizationrateof classrooms. "That'sunheardofi'hecontinued. T[tefee,if approved, wouldbeginin thefall semesterof 2010.Seventypercentof the feewould go to capitalconstruction with the remaining30 percentallocated to scholarships andclassroom Thefeewouldbe 55.25percredit enhancement. hour,up to 12credithours.Thefeewouldrlsein 2011 to 512.10 and519.80 in 2012.The feewould paid for.A full-time continueuntllthe buildingis studentin 2012wouldpayanadditional 5237.60. Thebuildingwouldbe Metroexclusive andbe hometo allstudentservices including thefinansaidhe clalaldofficeandadvislng. WhlleBateman planson votingfor thefee,headvisedstud€ntsto lookat thefactsand"welghthe costandbenefits" for them.Students wlll be e-maileda ballotto thelrMetroconnect iccountsthe weekof Aprll13. Photoby LeahMillis. lmillis@mscd.edu

"It wouldbohad to contlnue,I guoraloanwboI couldcontlnue,but It wlll etlllbea lot. I camcto Meho in theflrtt placebecause theyareso cheap,"

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"Honoatly,lt would alTectmy ablllty to contlnue my educatlon. At flrst, I hcardsomethlngcrary llke a 3OO perc€ntirrcrcas€,so 50 percent doesn'tsoundasbadas that. I gu€ss it would iust end up gettingpaid. My parentspay for my college." JonathanMalockorrvd

WHATTHEY'RE SAYING "Is it too early to start drinkingl" MetroTrustee MariaGarclaBerry "You needto keepyour rcprcsentatlvesat the Capltolbusy.Gettogether and organizewith CtD and UCDnow becauselater is goingto betoo late." Mce Presidentof Student ServicesKathyMacKay "The one time funding from Pinnacol will help in the crunch, now.But next year,we ar€back in the sameboatwithout the Pinnacol life raft to save us." Rep.JamesKerr R-JeffersonCounty "We will not be ableto expandfunding for higher education.In the next yearsw€willbe ableto maintaln, but not increase funding. Weare hoping to keepthlngsstable." Rep.MarkFerrandlno D-Denver "We will neverrecover from thesecuts.Thisis somethingI didn't think would happen." Sen.Moe Keller D-WheatRidge "It's not a matter of shifting around money.Thereis simply not enough money." Rep.NancyTodd D-Aurora "I soea sign behind me that says'WTTwhereis ourfunding?'Well,OMG Plnnacol has itt" Sen.AlWhlte R-Hayden

'lt would afToctme drastlcally,I bellevo,BocaucoI do rchool through ffnancial aid, it payethe maiority of my tultion. If they were to incr€ase that lt would alco alfect the gowrnment fundlng me to cometo school. And possiblyallect me belng able to pay for my books and transportation and parking here on campus." StaciaMarks

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it'stimetofix it If thebudgetisbroke, . . cxperiencehath shewn that mankindare more disposedto suffenwhile evils are sufferablethan by to right themselves abolishingtheformi to which theyare accustomed-

would put Metro's current cost of tuition on par with that of CUBoulder's current averageof $3,639 a semester. A cut of 1,300 adjunct professors could dramatically increase the classsizeat Metro and alTectthe quality of edgcation, According to tie Metro website,the averageclass -ThcDeclarutionof size is 19 students. The cut would swell classesto unmanageablelevels Independence COTINSEGER and force tenured and tenure-hack professorsto take on all current sections. Itre obvious and inevltable pmmise The of the Declaration fhis peroukome would be dramatic cuts in a 56 Meho, aanslates into of Independenceand the republic the amount and frequencyof classes promise For cut to the current budget. of the c€nt born from it was a people'srigbts to change obiection- you, your tuidon could increaseby offeredand the delay of graduation able systems throug;h eternal sys- up to 53 p€rcentto pardally oflsetthe for many.Meko l66lf might have to tems of lustice, freedom and elec- lossin funding Firlng 1,300 adjunct changeits websitethat claimsits stution. The freedom to assembleand professorswould makeup the rest of dents receivea "high-quality educathe exerbiseof your voting privileges the budgetdeffciency,aswould a first tion that is Colorado'sbest value in are more inportant now than any ever cap on enrollment with stricter higher education," If you're angry after reading other time in your Metro car€er.The enrollnent standards. The state oI this, you arewholly jusfffied.The sad proposed Joint Budget Committee Coloradowould fall to dead last in kuth of the situation is tbe actions decisionto th6aten Pinnacol Assur- funding for higher education. In this doomsdayscenario,real- of the JBCwould not even be necesance by holding higher education's feet to tbe fire should move every time tuition infi€ases could force sary if it was not for the slow shangulation by theTABORAmendrnent. Meho's stat€ college allordability sh.rdenton campus and in er.aryinsfltution of higher education in the toward private school inaccessibiliff The itrappmpriatelynamedTbx-Paystat€,to prot€stthe useof education for many of the state'spoorest stu- er Bill of Rights guarantEesyou a dents, a population Meho has been refund from the state at the erpense as a bargaining chip. of higher education and many other servingsinceits lnceptionin 1969. If the IBC decidesto cut $300 An averagetuidon of 12 credit pmgrams. million from the higher education In a good year, the state takes budget, here is what you can expect hours cost$2,411.40.A 25 percent increasewould add $602,85 to one in a certain amount of money from in your new nrle as a pawn in the fBC'sgamewith Pinnacol.The $3OO semester of tuition. Paying more all the various taxes and exciseson its citizens. If in the following year million cut would grow to S5O5 than $3,000 a semesterwould put million, as federal-matching funds collegeout of reach for many who the tax revenue drops, a new base rely on the alTordiblecollegein the amount is establishedai whtch the would belost aswell asthe $ 1OOmillion that has already been cut. For heart of downtown. The increase statecan only sp€nd6 percentabove.

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If the bad year is followedby a giood year and tax revenue increases,the spendingamount stays at the previous bad year level and t}le overageis returned to the taxpayers, Colleges have to recover that money Those who advocate continual shming of unnecessary po-. sitions or firing people and hiring others to work for lessin the Metro bureaucracy have missed the point entirely.The school has been forced into a budgetcrisisby the slow shangulation of TABORand ib supporters. Future Metro shrdents,and those of you reading this column right now, could s€e your tuition raised by 32 percent while your classsizes more than double because of the irresponsibleand strangulating'IABOR Amendment. Most of Metro's studentsharrejobs, and if you have gottenyour refund or €xpectto get it soon,don't spendit You will needit when your tuition goesup. As students in a nation where voices must speak up to be heard over the low din of those who use the broad appealof freedomto cover up their plans to burden otberswith their tax schemes,the importance of noise is paramorrnt. Call your senator, pick up a protesf sign or better yet, brhg it up in class and talk to your fellow students about changing the TABORAmentlment so our electedofficials don't have to use us as pawns in their game of higher -educationfunding.

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H JessRichardson commentson a print done by the founderof Metro'sprintmakingprogram,RobertStrohmeier(pictured' right),at the recentlyrenovatedDry lce Factorygallery'sopeningori Friday,March27.PhotobyLeah Millis.lmillispmscd.edu

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When a friend decidedto buy an combination of two or more colors in art piece. t}re air was immediately orderto complimentthe print, '"He chargedwith loving elechici$. As the still stretchesthe boundaries This is Robert Strohmeier's first conversation begal, it was lar from like he usedto," Protsmansaid. gallery exhibit - at least the first one the usual critiques held in art school. . .After Strohmeier started to think " .. . .i ; with a iau !and. When Metro's art The talk turned to past memoriesand orrrennng lrom tnâ&#x201A;Ź pnntmaKmgpro-. departmentwas in its early stage,Sho- eventually made its way to the back- gram in I 98 3, therewasno better pick hmeier was the first professorto culti- story of the relationship Strohrneier than E.C.Cunningham to replacehim, vated the beginningsof the printmak- holds with the person purchasing his said Bev Shohmeier. Robert Stroheing program. After spendingclose to work. Shohmeierhas left a legacywith mier'swife. 30 yearsas a professorand beingthe each individual:someof his previous At 27, n'orking as a professional backboneof many students'success, studentsare still working with him. printmaker, Cunningham always had Strohmeier(or as his friends and famthe ideaof teachingin the backof his ily call him - Stroh), and severalol mind. " I D E T E RMINEDTHAT I his other previousstudentsare now When a student of Strohmeier's WA N T E DTOTAKE AND introducedthe artists.both men disholding a show at Denver'snew Dry G I V EA N O D T O T H E coveredtheir sharedpassionof pdntIce Factorygallery. The show brought back many of maling and refining a student'sperHISTORY OFTHE Strohmeier'sclosefriendsandrelatives sonalvoicethrough their artwork. P R INTMAKING to celebratesomeof his most distinct After two yearsoI part-timeteachPROGRAM, AND I'VE prints. More importantly, it brought ing,'Cunninghamwas givena recomA L S OT R IED TOBUILDA mendationby Shohmeierto take the backsomeof the storiesof the artist as S E N SOF E COMM UNITY IN reigns of the printmaking program. a teacher. There was tbe time Mark Sink r.tas The beginning was not much of a THESHOP.'' "encouraged" to uniurl a 50-yardE .CC . U NNINGHAM, rocky road, long roll of imagesdown a hallwayfor "I soyoung and soenP R IN T MAKING PROGRAMergeticthink I was a critique. There was also a time when and so passionatethat I just DIRECTOR kind of dovein and really - because Iim Cannatawasgivensomethoughtful advice- a teacher needsto know of that .- r,rasn'tprobablyaware of whethera studentsometimesneedsa For this particular exhibition, feff all the dangersand pitfalls that I rras pat on the backor a kick in ttre pants. Protsman framed all of Strobmeier's probablyawareof now that I'm expeKateMcGuinness recalledwhen "...the prints. Thirty years before, he was a rienced.Ignoranceis blisssometimes," good,the badand the ugly werepulled freshman in Life Drawing I at Metro, Cunninghamioked. from under the blanketsof the press learning from a man he now describes Cunningham has norv servedas bedsand sentstraight to the walls to be as "a wild coyote." the longest-serving facultymemberin judged."The storiesarekept in a typiFor Protsman, little of Strohmthe art department(with the exception cal three-ring,blackbinderfor visitors eiere's personality has chalged, even of three teachers,Cunningham has to read. at the ageof 82. worked with every full-time faculty go member) and said he believesMetro Yet the best storieswere shared "[He encouraged us to] throughlaughsand hugs Strohmeier ahead and draw outside the line - ex- needsto rememberits history and inreceivedas more friendsand previous pressyourself however y-ouu,anted to, tegratethe collegein the community. "It was kind of a shamethat we studentsfilled the gallery The polite He r,r,'antedto see a part of you in the commotionof peoplesidestepping were losingthe history of the departeach work," Protsman said. otherto talk with Strohmeierbeganan Prostman has gircn a lot of ment and I was kind of the last conprocess more even extended most of thought into framing Strohmeier's nectionand that sort of thing. I deterthem eventuallybumpedinto old col- pieces- mostly becausethe colors in minedthat I wantedto takeand givea leaguesor classmates they hadn't seen the prints cannot be matched to the nod to the history of the printmaldng sinceBeginningPrintppkpg., , , f1a4e, Tle frames, lhgmqelv.es peed a . prqqraqr.,andJ,veglpgtried tq build a ,

senseof community in the shop, " Cunningham said. In an elfort to preserve Metro's past, Cunningham. set up an exhibition space in the hallway as well as the shop in reverence to Strohmeier. Even the sign above the display casesis de&cated to prinffiiaking: the technique used to make it is called a intaglio. To Cunningham, the idea of printmaking is a balance between creative ideas and the technical means in which a print is created. The medium requires palience. incredible skill and a special type of energetic personality that Cunningham said he believes makes a great print artist. As he continues to teach through his own examples and sharing experience through creating prints, Cunningham begins to show a semblance to Shohmeier. "l believe in what I do. I believe in my artwork...My students inspire me. And I think once in a while I would inspire my students," Cunningham said.

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Denvernative Andrew Novickfinds himself sitting among his collectionof Barbiedolls,figurines and variousstuffed animals, Novickwill contribute parts of his collectionto the FoundFootageFestivalpremiering8:30 p.m.April 10 and 1I at the Starz Film Center. . PhotocourtesyofThe Labat Belmar.

By DominicGraziano l Pmscd.eddgrazia How did you get started collecting 166 ,rn6ollectd I havealwayssavedmy ID cards,ticket stubs,pocketphone books,credit cards, dentalmolds.,.sortof as an archiveof my existence- mostly to rememberthings I experienced. This is not uncommon, unless you saveeverything. I saveall of thosepersonalthings and, as time weDt on, I started saving anything I came acrosstlat I found interesting, like found photos, old menus, dental brochures,BB0 cookbooks,weird videos, crazyfioodpackaging...toname a few. What is the best lten ln your collection? That is almostimpossiblebecauseI like

somany things for somany reasons...any Where did you ftnd those videos? of the thrift store paintings would rank pretty high though,becausethat is someI found a flyer in Las Vegasin the thing original, where nothing is known 1990s that lookedlike it was for a punk aboutthe source,which I find intriguing. rock show.It said,"DeathExtractedFrom Mouth." I calledthe nurnber and talked How did you get involved, or in to the guy for an hour abouthis plea,and contact, with the Found Footage theh got him to sendme the video. Festival? In interviews and articles, you've I have a performance project called said you don't see yourself as an art"GetYourGoing,"whereI singalongwith ist. What do you think is the distincobscure songs, and I was doing a show tion? singing along with craz5zsongsand video from a 1980sWendy'straining videotape I'm not creating, I'm just archiving I got at a tbrift store. things that alreadyexist. I found out that there wasmore mateI supposethat a collection of things rial out there and went searching,that's itself could be seenas art becauseby put'like' when I found the guys from FFF- they ting things together,that can invoke more than the singular objectsdo - in sendme the tape overnight! that case,I could be construedas the artist, where the art is alwayschanging and growing asthe collection grows.

The 2002 book "sahara" doesan admirable lob in bringing "the largest and most austere.deserton earth" to life. Considering the Sarahais indeed,"The GreatNothing,The land of terriblethirst, a sea EndlessEmptiness, without water, a place of fear, of sandblasted boneson the desertfloor,a wildernesso[ sand and stoneand barrenrock." I pickedup this book on the whim of getting a bit of the nuts and bolts of the Sahara Desertafter seeinga blurb about the book in a magazine. I was treated to a choice expediton of the Saharaby the book'stwo authors. I could take the caravan ride from the comfort of the light rail or my favorite chair. "Sahara" is a great book full of inages and factsthat will keepyou in the pageand get you in the know. "Sahara" took me from oasisto salt mine, from the scorching heat of the day to the chill temperatures at night, ftom the place of no shadeto being "swallowedup, plungedinto the pikhy night" by a l0Gfoot-9-mile-wide dust cloud. "Sahara" gives description to many areas of the desert and describesDarfur as 'an Islamic Sultanate." At the time this book was published, the Darfur region of Sudan was not the terrible reality of today. lt was not a place of civil war. Depending on how you count, the Sahara is part of 12 !o 14 African nanons. The Sahara is home to the Tuareg, the Moors, the Chaambaand the Berbers,nomadic tribes who live today much as they have for a millennium. The numerous tribes of the Saharaare observedand explained most excellently in this grand book. The day-today and historical lile of these cultures is touchedupon in all chaptersof "Sahara." From the sand seasto its mastiffs and inhabitants, "Sahara" gives fine lessonsin geography archeologyand geology.It suppliesa generousstudy of tribal life and many instancesof survival. "Sahara" takesus througb the times when salt was a currency and slabsof it werehauled by camels to drawing u'ater from wells that today are thousandsof feet below the surface, when in the time of ffueftepans f[6y wereonly dozens. "Water of courseis a necessiwbut shadeis a miracle," the book says. At one time, the Sahara was an obstacle; today the Saharais home to a vast amount of peoplewith room for them all. Camelsturned the Saharafrom a barrier into something ap proaching a community. . One might seea Berbernomad zigzagging tlrough the deserton his camel,the only sound beinghis jansling jewelry in the vastnessof the empty sand.Don't be troubled he has not gone astray nor is he aimless;he is home.

Harvard vs.Yale: favorite footballrivalry sourlyrevisited ByKaraKiele the drunken anti-Princeton hiiinx kkiehle@mscd.edu of schoolmatePresidentDubya in You could say the praise for Kevin Rafferty's "Harvard Beats Yale" has generallybeengushing. This collection of interviews with the stars of the legendary'6 8 football game,eachintercut with a play from the gameitself,had been making loquacious sports writers out of every fiIm critic who ever dreamed of being a football star between the pagesof all the biggestpapersfrom coastto coast, As sad as it is to behold overthe-hill men being ego-stroked into reliving the high points of their lives playing collegefootball, their gilding of the memorieswith tirelesslvy league pride and competition is something close to torture to anyonewho wasn't thert. Tommy Leefones, who was a guard for the Harvard team during the ganre,seemsas bored and embarrassedto be there as one can enduring a viewing of this pretentiousyawnfest. His anecdotes about funnyguy roommate (wait--{eriously?) Al Gore seem forced and insincere. Others who beamingly honor

the midst of anti-Vietnam outcrv are almost offensive. The camera lingers an inordinately long time over a photo of Meryl Streepwith one of the athletes, at the time her collegeboyfriend. Although tbis attention is probably to make every dollar of the fee she was likely paid count, there's something creepy about it; as if by association,the future glamour of Streep'sacting career rubbed olTonto the game,validating its glory. The fame of Doonesburycreator Garry Ttudeau, who satirized the iocks in school with an early version of the comic saip, is also dotedupon lovingly You can find these celebrities advertisedon the "Harv-ardBeats Yale"movieposter. We shonld applaud the men who were part of the game that retained their dignity and moved on with their lives,like NFLHall of FamerCalvin Hill. Therearr enough documentaries that capitalizeon baby-boomer '6Os' nostalgia already.Do we really need the opinions from the

hometown heroeswho readily admit they went aboutlife in a bubble apart from the rea.lworld? Maybe it comes down to the viewer'sreverencefor the game,or tolerance for exDosureto the bliss

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Randolph& TheFamilyBan4 Mat KearneytDeadConfederate; JerryJosephand TheJackmormons, Erin ;JoeP BTACKKIDS NIulti-racial, mlx-gendered jacksonville nen/-rvave quintet Black Kids are a guilty pleasure that most self-respecting adults should probably just keep to themselves. Yet their tooth-rottingly sweet, irresistable synth-pop and prom-rock, transcends genres (from '80s icons like The Cure or New Order to more contemporary counterparts such as Arcade Fire) and generations,piquing interest of the snobblsh editorial staff at SPIA',who named Black Kids' sophomore album Psrtie TraumaticNo. 2 3 on their list of Top 40 albums of 20O8. Frontman ReggieYoungblood's vocals smack of heartbrealing desperation and his guitar hooks are adequately armed with contagious dance rhythms. Sure, the lyricism is the stuff of a 15-year-old's Myspace blog, but this time around you'll be the coolest kid at the high-school dance when Black Kids play April 15 at the Oriental Theater. Grab a double Shirley Temple.tune in and spazout.

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Mosherscrowdsurf during an April 3 performanceby Denver'sTheDualisticsat concertwasjust two daysbeforethe a Nirvanatribute showat the Hi-Dive.The deathof singerand guitaristKurtCobain, 15th anniversaryof the controversial Nirvana'senigmaticand oft-troubledfrontman.Formanyyears,fanshave widow, speculatedthat Cobainwasmurdered,often blaminghis inconspicuous CourtneyLove. Cobainand Nirvanaareoften creditedas beingone ofthe first and most influentialgrungebandsof all time. Fansat the showpaidtribute by adorning gearatypicalto the grungemovement,whichoften includedtorn jeansand open,flannelshirts.

er's ears, r,r'heretle music spawns daydreams of fleeting love and lazy days lying in the grass. "(Our music) is positive," Brasil said. "It's not overly ambitious to the point of being mental masturbation." '6Ospop The PseudoDates'sunique sound harkens back to bands like The Zombies,The Beach Boys and The Kinks. yet with the modern touch of Nirvana, \A/eezerand The Strokes. Their distinctireness also comes in part from the bandmembers' various backgrounds. BassistSuzi Allegra has played in a riot-grrrl band: drummer fohn Fate is a former punk-rocker; Brasil has past indie experience and guitadst Taylor Rice brought his brand of pslchedelic-chording to the band last fall. "\Ve got together specifically to \ Tite and do our olvn songs," said Brasil, who began the band with Allegra Iast year Since then, The Pseudo l)ates ha','eplaled little, local venues such as Hi-Dire and Lion's Lair. as well as the B]uebird Theatcr, Boulder'sFox'l'heatre ancl .{uraria, r,vhereAllegra and Brasil attend N4etro.and Fate attends ULID. Last 1'ear,the band also played thcir tirst !!'est Coasttour. ''l think uâ&#x201A;Ź got to know each other's personalitieseren better and learn how to toleratc each othcr, not that $â&#x201A;Ź hatc '1'es. 'lqnd it contirmed the idea that each other." Allegra said. I want to kecp doing this. I rvant to keep making music and touring as much as possible."' And so,The Pseudo Dates continue their quest, releasing an album in trlay or fune, 100 SontrOdd.Songsirr 4{)0 Sonrc Odd Nights, which will be followed b5r a monthJong \A/est Coastand Southwesttour. The band's upcoming albutn uses digital technologl', compared to the band's previous eflorts on an analogtapemachine. "l{'e're all psyched, it's fucking unbelievable." Fate said of the new album. "I heard it for the first time since I did the

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THE POINT:DON,TSUPPORT A FAILED WAR

Thewrong drectionin Nghanistan Vote'No' on fee I thought we as Anericans learned our lesson n'ith our last president Operation haqi Pr,eedom is a war basedon personalgains and corruption. Now that PresidentBush is goneand hesident Obamais in office, we will harrcpeaceand prosperity. Right?Wrongl Obama has talked about ending the war in Iraq but has set a very

u/eakwithalrawdplan to get hoops JOE POTTS out. AfghanistanhasbeenObama's . 1@mscd.edu mainrocusof his foreip p.li.v;; ipottsl it's hurting this country.Afghanistan is a war we can't win iust like Iraq. The reasonvictory is not possiblein Afghanistan is due to the networ&of t€rrorists. Ihis group is widespread, and evenwtrentheb leadersareeliniinated, there are able replacements waiting in the wings. New members arebeingtrained in isolatedlocations around the world. The U.S.can't stop the termrists from growing. All we can do is protectour bordermore and alwaysbeready, This president has now made our counhy rneaker by deploying moretban 2l,0OO moretroopsto Afghanishn than PresidentBwh ever did. Somethnk that Obamais doing

this becausethe surgein Iraq is sup posedlyworking. It is not, When the U.S.leavesIraq, the couniy might break out into an all-out civil war, A surge of hoops in Afghanistan will not work either and we need to get out now. We as Americans need to take back our home and say enough is enough. There are Americans dying orrerseasdaily in a pointless cause that we can't win. Though we may lose the Iraq batde, we can r,l'in the war on tenorism by protecting our borders. Money and soldiers' lives need to quit being wasted.hesident Obama, who I voted for ln Novem-

It's not like we thlnk the pmposedfeeincreasefor studentsto fund the new ber, made himself out to be the antiwar candidate.I say bullshit. This Metro building at Auraria is wrong - the timfng is iust not right. Maybethe statewon't cut the proiect€d$ 3O0million for higher educafion F€std€nt is incr€asing our prcsence in Afghanistan and leadlng us down and the sky won't fall on Meho, (rather unlibly, but possible),but evenst'rll, 'the wrong road. Has he even talked cuts to Metro a!€ coming. Lnfairness,the adrninisbation should be commendedfor seekingstudent aboutgetting out?Why doesAmerica needto repeatits mistakffi again and feedbackwhile developingthe plan and trying to comeup with the fairestfee - in this caseone that leaveslessof a burdenon thosewho won't evenseethe again? In the past, how have Ameri- building in their time in school. cans made tue changein America? While we might 16t be completelysold on PresidentStephenfordan's Iet's look at the civil rights move- clairnsthat this building will "enhancethe value of a student'sdegree," Meho ment of the 1960s. the youth and building its own identity, hiring more tenured faculty and developingproyoung adults took to the streetsand gram's aclusive in the state (like the proposeddecisiontheater) are all great demanded change. We saw Eome ideasthat studentsshouldgetbehind.Ideasthat areworth the studentspaying of this while the national spotlight for like studentsat CUand other institutions do now and studentsat Auraria ca.mehere to Denver for the Demo- havedonein the pst in August However, - students should not be expected to even considcratic Nadonal C-onvention and Iraq VeteransAgainst the War er this vote when facing a spike in tuition, cuts in services and took to the streetswith about 3,00O the vttual disappearance of the College OpporhDity Fttnd. other antiwar protesters. The anti- Jordanmid, "if we loseour funding, we will drop the fee." And the adrdnistra'dramatically" the feewill war protest seen in london during tion's pressoffice also has said that if tuition rises the G-20 meeting is what America's not be enactedaswell. government needs to see. let our What if we locepartial funding? Maybeonly a 30 perc€ntcut insteadof voicesbe heard. This is our county, the possible65 percent?What is the definition of ilrarnatically'?Possiblyonly It's our family membersand frientls a 2 5 percenthike in tuition insteadof 53 pen:ent? pushto getshdenb to fund the building but Wesrpport the aihminishation's overthere getting killed for what our government thjnks is right. Now is right now,ue needto wait sothereisn't anyambiguityasto &{rerewe asstudenb the time America that we learn ftom standin our abilityto frrndit - or in tle administration'siileasof that abilitr We'reurging you to vot€'No' on the Fopocedfeeincrease,but that doesn't our past.[€t's not allow anotherpres'Yes.'In this economy,it wouldn't bepruident to l@epus in another pointless mean we'reurging you to nevervote war,Iet's takebackour counky dent to iust approvea new fee. If the proposaldoesn'tpass,somemight ask how we can er<pect the state to fund our collegewhen we'renot willing to?Our answeris that we're willing !o fund our college-we iust have to know if we'll be ableto allord to attend oneffrst.

THE POINT:AFGHANS DESERVE STABILITY

AIittIepraise forObama I'm not a big fan of our pr€sident. I attributc this mostly to being oppooedto hope, I'm really not surr what it's goodfor. Readingthe news Erges over the last severalmonths, I can't count the nurriber of tlmes they have sent a cold shiver dovvn my spine. More than $787 billion? Removingthe C?Oof a private company?Bailoutsof companiesthat deserveto fail?Pleasetell me it ain't sol We are goingto pay for this. Sowhen I tell you I am for a policyof our president, 5'oucan believeI really believe what I'm mying and I'm not merely Eweptup in the current political fervor-we needto win in Afghanistan, I realizethe difrculty of the task at hand. I servedin Afghanistanfrom 2005-06 with the 82nd Airborne Division as an intelligenceanalyst.I€t me give you a brief synopsisof the situation in Afghardstan. The Taliban, our niain opponentin Afghanistan, is prirnarily composedof people from the Pashtutribe, the mct populous hibe in Afghanistan. When the Durand Line, the borderbetweenAfghanistan and Pakistan, was being drawn by the British in 1893 - it's a long story books hal'e been written about it - rattrer than recopize tbe hibe and draw the boundaries accordingly, the British drew the boundariesalong natural landmarls splitting the Pashtu peoplebetween Pakistan and Afghanistan. I unonder if the Brits had any ideathe trouble it

could spark a civil war and Pakistan can't let us pursuethem for the same reason.There are no short-tenrr so lutions, only long-term solutiors, and the solution is to establishstability in Afghanistan.There is errenthe possibility the stability of a free Afghanistanmay spreadto Waziristan, giving the Pakistanisa s€curity they havenerzerhad. What is touted as a short-term solution is to cut our Iossesand pull our troopeoul This is not a solution. A solution solvesa problem and this would causethe U.S.more than lOO would only make the problem much years later, perhaps it would halr worse.The result of a U,S.withtlrawgirrcnthem a goodlaugh. aI from Afghanistan can't be knonrn for sure, but it would likely result ln The difrculty the U.S. faces in Afghanistar involves two aspects: the same situation as when Russia orc, gaining the trust of the Afghan with<lrewfrom Afghanistanin 1989. pmple, and two, dealingwith the sit- Warlordsfougbt overpoweruntil the Thliban took power. Not only were uation witl the Pashtubibe, half of whom currently residesin Pakistan. the Taliban brutal, but they also were instrumental in the plans of al The ffrst problemcan be dealtwith in much the sameway the sameprob- 0ada" It is true, the U.S,cannot win the Iem was dealt with in Iraq, the U.S. military must build small outposts War on Terror becauseterrorism is a among r€mote regions and provide strategy,not an enemy,but the U.S. presenceand securityfor the Afghan can defeat insurgents and the U.S. pegple. can contain radical Islam, FurtherThe secondtask will prove to be more, the U.S.doesnot havea chotce the more di{ffcult task. The insur- in the matt€r, we can choos€not to gentscan flee to Waziristan(the Pa- fight, but our enemieswill continue shtu regionof Pakistan)where,if the to ffght. The only r€al victory in the U.S.purzuestheru they will beviolat- current shuggle is a stable Midille ing the sovereigntyof Pakistan.Paki- East,and we will not achievethat by stan cannot pursue the insurgents mer€lypmtecting ourselves.The war because to pursue the iDsurgents must bewon in the Middle East.

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4.11 Metro designatedhitter TaraMickelsonbreezesthe baseslate in the secondgame of a doubleheaderApril 3 after scoringthe Roadrun' abissetl ners'fourth and final run at AurariaField.Photoby AndrewBisset @mscd.edu

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in EastDivision By Josiah Kaan jkaan@mscd.edu Metro softball snuck in two wins April 3 with great team play against ColoradoStateUniversity at Pueblo, before two games werâ&#x201A;Ź postponed April 4 due to snow on Auraria Field. "We hied to play this (Sunday) morning, but when I got to the field there was half an inch of snow so we had to cancel," head coach fen Fishersaid. The Roadrunners started the day by ending a CSU-Pueblol1gamewin steak with a 9-6 win due to great pitching by Christie Robinson. Robinsongained her ITth win, which was backed up by effective team hitthg, "Christie(Robinson)pitchedvery well that game," Fisher said. "She gave up 13 hits, but most of them 1vs165ingles.Danni (Hedstrom)had a big game with two RBIs, a single and a double." Designatedhitter Tbra Mickelson

started the scoring for Metro in the secondinning with a home run to right-canter fleld in her first at-bat then helpedthe Roadrunnerstie the gameat four after three innings. "It was cool becauseit was a change-up and I pulled it to rightcenter,"Mickelsonsaid. " It wascool to seeit go overthe fence." The Roadrunners took a commanding 74 lead after a three-run fourth inning and gooddefensiveplay that held CSU-Puebloscorelessin the third inning through the fifth. Meho endedthe gamewith a two-run sixth inning that wa6 matched in the top of the seventhinning by CSU-Pueblo. "Our team all-around hit well," Hedstrom said. "We were in attack mode,and we need to come out every gane the same." Metro took the secondgame4-2 in a defensivebatde that was won due to a late burst of scoring in the fifth and sixth innings. Mickelson put the Roadrunners on the boardearly with a first-inning singleto left ffeldthat brought in two runs and helped Metro take a 2-0 lead. "Anytime anyonehits a big hit, it keepsus motivated and can pick us up," Mickelsonsaid.

Aft er holding theThunderwolves scorelessthrough four innings, Metro gaveup two runs in the top of the fifth beloreamwering with a fifth-inning run of their ov.'nfollowedby a Mickelsonleft-field home run in the sixth inning. "Tara Mickelson really had a great game," Fisher said. "Her solo home run in the sixth gaveus some insurance." Brittany Mossheld CSU-Pueblo to two runs through six innings before Robinson came in to seal the win with a scorelessseventh inning. "The last couple second games in the serieswe've lost," Mickelson said."We did a goodjob of coming out ready to go and made sure to stay focused and keep our energy up." With these two wins, Metro maintains theil hold on first placein the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference'sEastDvision and irnproves to a 28-6 overallrecordwith a 2l-3 conferencerecord. Metro will eavel to the University of Coloradoat Colorado SpringsApril 10 and 11 for a two-day conferenceseries.

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thlrd gtm. Aprll5 !t CSUPucblo. MetrooutfiolderChrlrReddlngdlverbrck to firct basefiom hlslead-offdurlngthc RoadrunnGrl' . jingrahl@mscd.edu Ingraham PhotobyJonathan waseverythlng, " Defense wasalsoanlssue,though not asr$porBlbleaspltrhlflB.M€tro allor,wdslx errors[n the four-game Threeo[ the slx etnorucame serles. game two.though the gnowwas ln popular a Bbry In the newsoverthe weelcnd,theweatherhada mlntmd elTect on theserles. Aprll 3 The flrst doubleheader good weathwasconsldered baseball erbytheteam,TheAprll 4 gamewas canceledbecauseof the weather,

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late ln the season.Weneedto help golngto beanothereaeyday.Wehad to sltaroundln thehotelonSaturday out." ourpltchers Schemmelwar partlcularlydls- (Aprll2) andwelortourfocus." However,Schemmelwf,s comappolntedln the ollense,whlch har beenMeho'setrengthall season. plemlntaryto hls catchers.Catcher Mehoonlyscoredslxrunsln theflnal TyreeAbshtredld havea homerun two gamesmmparedb the 25 runs andsh RBIsln theserles,Schemmel thoughtthecatchersasa unlt played theyscoredln thefust hvogomes. "We weren'tsmarthltterc,We wellorcr theweekend, Mebo wlll comebackhometo dkln't workthepltchcount." $phenrnel sald.dwe got somehltEln the play a foungamecedecAprll 9-11 fust lnnlng (of the thlrd game)and aBslnrttheUnlverrltyof Nebrarkaat thlnklngthlswf,s Keorneyat AurarlaFlold, wBgptcomplacent,

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playonrightfoot Tennisbeginsconference Roadrunners win againsttopranked UNK ByEnrlco Domtngucz edoming2@mscd.edu Metro men's tennb won tleh flrst conferencemaich 8-l agalnst Unlverslty of Nebraska at Kesrney Aprll 3 at the Aurarta Courh. "[t was our flrst conference matchof the season,and we wanted to stert lt off rlght." sophomoreAngeh Faustlnosald. After senlorSaschaRuckelshausen and lunlor ScottBradleywon ln No. 1 doubles,Ruckelshausensat out No. 1 stngles, slncehe ls stllllnlured from the weekbefore. CoachBeckMearesls only playing Ruckelshausenwhen neededagainst the bougherteams.Mearessaidshebs lierresthe more matcheshe plays,the more lt affectshls lniury and ts bl'lng to llmit hls nrmber of matches. "I have lookedover the schedule and wlth Sascha (Ruckelshausen) we know whtch matches he can slt

workthroughthls to dor hat lr b€8t for hln," Meartsrald,"It'oaho glvlng other playersa chanceto step up lnto a hlgherposltlon6nd prort€ " themselves, Onthewomcn'sslde,UNKcame lnto the matchraflled No. 2 ln the Cen$alReglon,but theRoailrunnerr held thelr own, wlnnlng 5-4. They lost one doublesmatrh and three to take slnglesmatchesbut managed thewln. "Whenlt comesto matchplay, It'saslf wBknowwhatto do,' rophomoreMandyBowllngsald."Weare havlngtroubleflnlshlnga polnt." Thewomen's teamalsolostAorll ' Southerrr 4 agalnstnon-conference Oregon 7-2. lungesfor a shotdurlnga matchagalnst JunlorScottBradley Boththemenand$omenarel-t) Aprll3 at the AurarlaCourts. at Kearney Unlversltyof Nebraska ln RockyMountalnAthletlcConbyDaniel the thedaywltha scoreof 8-1' Photo Men!tennlsdomlnated ference.The men lmproredto 5-4 . dclemel2@mscd.edu Clements to overall,whllethewomendropped and whlch oneswe really needhim No. 2 and No. 3 doubles.Sophomore 8-9 overall.Thetwo teamswlll host Aprtl8 Chrlstlan to play."Mearessald."It's more lm- Matt Ferrari was the only loss of theNo.7 Colorado portant for hlm to be ableto backup the day in No. 6 slngles.Ercn wlth at theAurarlaCourts. laterln the seasonthan rlght now." Bradleysteppedup in No. I sinlles wlnnlng 7-6 and 6-4. The rest of the slnglesNo. 2 through No. 5 defeatedthetr opponentsalong wlth

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Robinson readyto route'Runners vada at LasVegas,utrere sheleft her mark on the Rebels'pmgram. As a true freshman, Robinson appeared When it comesto pitching in the in 42 games and earned Mountain Rocky Mountain Athletic Confer- WestConferencePitcher of the Week ence,Metro'sstarting softballpitcher honors twice. "Coming from a small town, it CbristieRobinsonis tle creamof the crop, placing in the toplo in nine r,rasreally cool to go to a Division I RMACpitching statisticalcategories. school and get Pitcher of the Year," "Rbbinson is really a good per- Robinsonsaid. In Robinson's sophomore year son," head coach Jen Fisher said. "Sheis very focusedand respectedby at IJNLV,she appearedin 39 games her teammates.She is a really good and produceda 15-5 recordand was named the MWC Pitcher of the Year competitor and lovesto win." r.ikemany kids, Robhson got her and was selected to the touisvi.lle start playhg litde league tee-ball, Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches whicb eventuallyturned into playing AssociationAll-West Regionsecondteam. for a traveling team. "I pitched in a win again5{fhs. "I had a good friend," Robinson said."She was my catcbergrowing Unil'ersity of Oregon,which is a big up, who started to play for a travel- PAC-10team," Robinsonsaid."That ing team. She got me into that. I and pitching against tle University started out catching, then moved to of Washington,sinceI'm from Washpitcher." inglon, were a couplebig memories At South Whidbey High School for me from UNLV" A-fterher sophomoreyear.Robinin Washington, Robinson was an All-Star as shepitched all four years, son decidedto transferto Metro behelping the Falcons to four North causesheliked tle schooland AurarCascadesConferencetides in a row, ia and wanted play for Fisher.A more and three top-fi.vestate tournament family-friendly collegealso attracted finishes. tn Robinson's sophomore Robinsonto Metro, as she wanted to through senior season,she was se- find a school that was more acceptlected as the NCCPlayer of tlie Year ing for her and her 16-month-old and won Bverett Herald's All-Area son,Jaden.From UNLVto Metro, Robinson Pla]'erof the Yearin 2003. After graduating high school, continuesto perform on the field and RobinsonaftendedUniversity of Ne- is currentlyfirst in the RMACin wins By Josiah Kaan jkaan@mscd.edu

with a l7-l record and complete games pitched at 16. She also has been.named RMAC Pitcher of the Weektwice this season. "Robinsonbrings a lot of maturity to the team, she doesn't let things bother her," Fishersaid."Having someonethat balancedwho can keep things. in perspectiveis really important for a young team." Robinson'ssolid play has helped Metro to placefirst in the RMACEast Division and to a NFCANo. l2 ranking. Robinsonhas high hopesfor the team and wants to direct her team to the playoffs. ' When Robinson is not on the softball field or in the classroom,she spendstime with her son and likes outabor activitieslike hiking and taking Jadento the park. "[ want to really help lead this team into the glstseason and as far as we can possiblygo," Robinson said.

"Robinsonis really a goodperson.Sheis verv focusedand her respected'by teammates.Sheis a really goodcompetitor, and lovesto win. " coach . Softballhead JenFisher Pitcher Christie Robinson Photoby LeahMillis. lmillis@mscd.edu

Swimmingbreaks12records Lunarecordssecond By lauren Schaedig ls c haediP m sc d .e d u Somethingincredible is happening at Metro. Slipping quietly under the hype of the varsity sports, one teamis makingstridesand achieving excellenceusually expected out of their varsity counterparts. With true dedicationand the ilrive to win it all, Metro's club swim team took fifth in nationals April 4 and 5 in Oxford, Ohio, beating out teams more than twice their sizein numbers and with yearsof experience behindthem. Setting 12 National American Swimming Association University records,Metro dominatedtheir races and proved to all the big clubs out tlere tle Roadrunnersare a force to bereckonedwith. With only 15 swimmers, the Meho swim team was the smallest team participating in nationals. Op ponents like University of Colorado at Boulder and Penn Statehad more than 30 swinners who could rack up points for their team by placing third and fourth in their races. Despite lacking points, Metro was frustratitrg their opponentswho wer€ "talking smack" well within earshot."Metro State" was read over the microphonetime after timg asthe Roadmnnersbrokerecords.Their op ponent's r,lords didn't phase them, however, with swimmers like Ken-

fastesttime in country By S.DouglasBassett sbasset4@mscd.edu The Metro men and women's track team competed in the CSUPueblo Spank Blasing lrvitational April 3 in Pueblo. Junior Anthony Lula clocked the secondfastesttime in the counFy at 3:53.80 (convertedto 3:49.15 for altitude) in the 1500-meter run. Just over the school record of 3:53.O0, Luna still set an NCAA provisionalqualifying mark. Metro swimmeE JoeyYoungand ChrisFarriscompeteat the sec"I ran a pretty fast race despite ond AnnualASAURegionalmeetMarch14and 15 held atthe Uni. versity of Coloradoat Boulder. PhotobyBarbara Fordfordba@mscd.eduthe weather,"Luna said. He only expectedto run the fust push "We all l20O metersof the race as a pace ilra Dobieand Danny Keelingsetting said freshmanTller Volz. personmultiple recordsand making each other and we are all dodicated setterbut decidedto ffnish and came in second place to Adams State's al bests.Keeling,who had an appen- swimmers." year, Aaron Braun. who is the two-time dectomythree months agoand took a I-ooking to next the Roadmonth oII from swimming to r€colrer, runners have higb expectationsfor defendingnational champion in the lSoGmeten swamlifetime bestsby settingrecrirds their team and hopes for greater in preliminaries,then breaking those numbersin membership. funior ToddTolentino dominat"If we can keepthe quality of our records again in thd ffnals. Dobie ed a field of 18 competitors to win also set three national rccords,even team, but on a larger scale,we can the So0o-meter run with a time of juyear" though sheis only a fteshman. takefirst [in nationals] next L5:17.24. Such achievements for such a nior Brian Kinnear said. SeniorChelseaRutter and freshWith all they have achieved in man Xenia Floreseachsetschoolresmall team seemimprobablewithout year, there is no doubt cordsin their respectiveevents. an enormouEarnount of dedicadon, their first and you will not ffnd anyone more Metro will continue to dominate the Rutter beat her previous record time by nearly 12 secondsin dedicatedto their sport than the Met- world of club swimming next season and will be evenclos€rto gaining anro club swimmers. the 3o0O-meterand Floresbeat the schoolrecordin the Soo0-meterrun "It's the drirrcto win, to getbetter," other national title for Metro.

in 19:08.94,comingin secondplace. But in spite of running into a 20-mph headwind, Derek Fiorini finished 0.01 secondsout.of first placein the loO-meterdash. The beginning of the outdoor seasonhas beenmired by postponementsdue to inclement weather,but the team has been able to presson, The start of the seasonalso allows the team to switch things up and allow the athletes to run in events they might not otherwis€comp€te. By switching things up, head coach PeterJulian is able to gauge how athleteswill fare betterin dillerent events,which *1II pay dividends not only in the near future, but for the Rocky Mountain Athletic ConferenceChampionshipsnext month in Alamosa. "The team aspectof tack is really important," Luna said."It's cool to helpthe underclassmen." _Wth the combination of good training and participation from up perclassmenlike Luna and Tolentino, Julian is happyto look aheadas tle outdoor seasonstartsto heat up. "I expectgoodthings in the next coupleweeks," fulian said. The team will compete at the University of Colorado Invitational April 1l in Boulder.

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