Volume 32, Issue 6 - Aug. 27, 2009

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METROPOLITAN Vol. 32, Issue 6

Serving Auraria for 30 years

August 27, 2009

Perfecting their art Take an inside look at the trials, tribulations and process of auditioning for a play • B4

At the Nickel and Dimed audition, Stanna Bippus, second from left, and three fellow cast-hopefuls stretch before the last stage of callbacks Aug. 21. at the King Center.

Many actors prepare for their performances through controlled breathing, vocal and stretching exercises. Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu

NEWS

SPORTS

FDA makes flavored cigarettes unavailable after Sept. 1 • A3

Softball player rescues drowning girl • A21

Health Center plans for fall flu shots • A7

Two RMAC stars in Metro soccer • A20

Stealing your smoke

All in a day’s work

A3 • THE METROPOLITAN • August 27, 2009

NEWS

“I’m not a Barack Obama fan. I didn’t vote for him. I’d rather he hadn’t won the election, but all that being said, he is my president.”

- SAM BLACKMER on A9

CAITLIN GIBBONS • NEWS EDITOR • cgibbon4@mscd.edu

THIS WEEK EVENTS

8.28 - 8.29 The Society for Advancing Hispanics/Chicanos and Native American Scientists Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting College students and professionals: $35.

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Karinna Howard smokes a cigarette Aug. 23 downtown on the 16th Street Mall. Recently the FDA proposed a new regulation to ban all flavored cigarettes effective Sept. 1, 2009. Photo by Chancey Bush • cbush7@mscd.edu

FDA snuffs specialty cigs Upcoming ban stops flavored tobacco sales

By Andrew Bisset abisset1@mscd.edu Mandarin Mint and Izmir Stinger sound like flavors found at a juice bar, but as of Sep. 20, one place you won’t find these flavors is in cigarettes.

The Food and Drug Administration is banning the sale of what it considers to be “flavored” cigarettes, including flavors like mint, berry and clove.

These kinds of cigarettes are being banned because the FDA concluded that these flavors were being aggressively marketed toward young people.

Also banned, will be cigarettes marketed as “lights,” as the FDA felt these labels were misleading, implying these cigarettes were less harmful than those marked as “full flavor” or “original.”

Local retailers are feeling the pain of the ban, though some not as much as others.

“It’s going to hurt us a little bit,

but we don’t carry enough [flavored] product to make a big difference,” said Dave Ottenbacher of Tewksbury & Company.

The Larimer Square store specializes in cigars and pipe tobacco.

“We have had a lot of angry people come in, though,” Ottenbacher said.

While their customers are fuming, Tewksbury is already selling out of the soon-to-be banned cigarettes.

“We’re already sold out of ‘blacks’ and ‘specials,’” Ottenbacher said, referring to varieties of clove cigarettes that will no longer be sold under the ban.

The FDA was given the right to regulate tobacco under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which was passed June 11.

The bill gives the FDA the ability to regulate tobacco products as drugs, and in turn, the marketing and sales of tobacco.

Tobacco use, the bill states, is the foremost preventable cause of premature death in America.

According to congressional findings, tobacco use causes more than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, and approximately 8.6

million Americans have chronic illnesses related to smoking.

The upcoming ban affects flavored cigarettes, excluding menthols and any other tobacco not defined in the law as a “cigarette” including pipe tobacco, cigars, cigarillos and shisha, which is a mixture of tobacco, molasses and flavorings smoked out of hookahs.

A future ban, which the FDA now has the power to enforce, could affect these other tobacco varieties and take much larger bites out of retailers’ revenue.

“Any time the federal government interferes with us, it affects business,” Bret Goodman said, owner of Jerri’s Tobacco Shop and Fine Wines at the Denver Pavilions.

“I think it’s an unfair and unfortunate ban,” Goodman said.

Though Indonesian cigarettemaker Djarum is developing cigars flavored with cloves for the U.S. market, Goodman said.

Not many tobacco shops are supporting the new product because exploiting such a loophole in the new ban would cause the FDA to further their actions against other tobacco products, Goodman said.

At Smoker Friendly on Broad-

way manager Cathi Trail disagrees.

“Well, [the ban] is going to disappoint a lot of people but I think we’ll see a shift to flavored cigarillos — little cigars,” Trail said.

Smoker Friendly carries these little cigars, as well as, a myriad of other forms of tobacco.

It’s in these other forms of tobacco that cigarette companies have been focusing their advertising dollars.

Reynolds American Inc., the parent company of Camel, has been marketing the Camel Snus, a form of smokeless tobacco in pouches that doesn’t require spitting and testing Camel Orbs, which are flavored, dissolvable tobacco pellets.

Last year, tobacco giant Altria Group paid $10.3 billion to buy UST Inc., the country’s largest manufacturer of smokeless and chewing tobacco.

Time will tell what action, if any, the FDA will take against other forms of the most widely smoked plant on the planet.

But for now, some smokers and retailers will have to be the butt of the flavored cigarette ban.

Metro 2009 Welcome Back Ceremony for Faculty, Staff, Administrators 7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

King Center

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By Kendell LaRoche

CORRECTIONS To notify The Metropolitan of an error in any of our reports, please contact Editor-in-Chief Dominic Graziano at dgrazia1@mscd.edu

DID YOU KNOW? Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years. • THE METROPOLITAN • AUGUST 27, 2009 • NEWS • A5

Students helping others to ‘Excel’

Ambassadors aim toward increased enrollment, retention

By Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu

Metro students are helping to increase the number of minority students enrolling at Metro through the Excel Outreach Program.

The program was created in 1986 by the Office of Admissions to increase enrollment and retention.

The program is being expanded this year by adding two new outreach counselors who will work with Adams County High Schools in hope of increasing the number of Hispanic students attending Metro.

“We work with any student who is interested in pursuing a higher education, specifically to Metro. Most of the schools we visit have high diversity,” said Cynthia Núñez, assistant director of admission.

The program utilizes student ambassadors, who work directly in local high schools, mostly located in the Denver Public School system, on a weekly basis. Student ambassadors help students who are considering attending Metro, with the sometimes complex application and admissions process, said Núñez. The ambassadors work closely with the counselors and Future Center staff at each high school.

Cynthia Garcia and Arturo Rodriguez are the two new counselors who have been hired utilizing federal stimulus money.

Garcia and Rodriguez will be

guaranteed two years of employment with the college and during their time, Núñez said she hopes they can establish the expansion of the program.

“The Adams county area continues to grow each year in the number of Latina families it has. We feel that starting in those areas will hopefully increase our numbers,” Núñez said.

Student ambassadors are paid through work-study and are compensated from the time they leave their house to the time they return from a school visit.

Itzel Gutierrez is one of the returning student ambassadors from the 2008 school year. Gutierrez is a Spanish major, Chicano studies minor and a graduate of Denver West High School, one of the schools she works with as an ambassador.

“For me, it was hard to connect to my counselor. I graduated from West in ’05. The students feel like they can tell me more than they can tell their counselor. I always feel great when they say things like ‘I’m just scared’ or ‘my parents don’t understand.’ We come from the same background, and that helps,” Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez visits three high schools, Denver West, Abraham Lincoln and Adams City High School, once a week and spends about three hours at each school. Gutierrez helps students complete the application for the school and can tell a student if they will be admitted based on the colleges admission index.

“Personally, I know first hand what it is like to be a first generation student, I know what it is like to be a,

I wanted to say minority, but I never like to point it out that way,” Gutierrez said.

Abraham Lincoln High School Future Center Coordinator and College Advisor Cynthia Castillo works closely with Gutierrez and the Excel program.

“We have a great partnership with Metro. Gutierrez comes in once a week and is an entity of our future center. She is phenomenal. Our students trust her and she genuinely cares,” Castillo said.

Jamie Burciaga is another returning student ambassador. With a background in Human Development, and a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School, Burciaga enjoys helping students.

“It’s rewarding knowing you are helping kids realize they have the option to go to college.”

Burciaga worked with students at Alameda High School and Thomas Jefferson during the 2008-2009 school year. This year she will be working with South High School and will return to Thomas Jefferson.

As ambassadors, Burciaga and Gutierrez receive lists of interested students from the respective counselors at the schools. They then call students out of class to look at each individual case.

“It’s fun when you get that one student that says ‘thank you so much!,’” Gutierrez said.

To learn more about the Excel program, call Cynthia Núñez or Michelle Pacheco in the Admissions office 303-556-3058 or stop by the office in Central Classroom 106.

Itzel Gutierrez,an Excel Program student ambassador, left, and Excel Program Associate Director Cynthia Nunez, right, pose for a portrait in the hallway of the Central Classroom building Aug. 24. The Excel Program has been in existence for over 20 years at Metro. They helped over 600 DPS students during the 2008-2009 school year. Photo by Mark Farnik • mfarnik@mscd.edu

Metro hot on the trail of national cold cases Student groups investigate crimes of the past

By Morgan Bia mbia@mscd.edu Metro students will get to go outside the classroom and put their skills to use when working on real cold cases starting in the spring of 2010.

Delta Gamma Xi, the Criminal Justice Honor Society and Delta Phi Omega have joined a nationwide group, the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute based out of Baudeer College in Atlanta, Ga. The club’s main goal will be to talk to those who have actually worked in cases while the students gather more in-depth details and find possible leads that may have fallen through the cracks.

“We really want to get involved with current or former law investigators and speak on real world experience in working on the case,” said Sam Berkman vice president of the

Photo courtesy of Criminal Justice Honor Societies. analyst,” Berkman said.

Criminal Justice Honor Society.

“I can tell you right now, we “We’re not out there to solve the case, we are there to ask questions,” will be investigating the JonBenet Ramsey case of 1992,” Berkman Berkman added.

“The cold case club is going to said. “We decided to do that when we help criminal justice students with initially spoke about becoming apart a foundation for beginning for gath- of the CCIRI. We steadily pursued it ering evidence, gives them the op- for the fall ’09 semester.”

“Major case work won’t start unportunity to get their feet wet and be apart of a club with a professional til next semester,” said the President

of the Criminal Justice Honor Society Geoff Critzer.

Meetings for both groups are scheduled for the fall but locations have yet to be finalized.

Both the DGX and DPO have been trying to get the cold case group started but had issues involving many members graduating or leaving and they are now trying to reestablish a list, the President of DPO, Justin Stadelmen said.

Stadelmen worked as a certified police officer for the state of Colorado but decided to go back to school and get his degree. Now, he wants to “put the fuel back into the fire” and get the cold case group up and running, Stadelmen said.

“We will be getting together and deciding what cases to do,” Stadelmen said. “We won’t physically talk to victims or families. We’ll be gathering newspaper clippings and online clues and sending it off somewhere. It’s something fun, but not really a joke.”

“It gives the students a chance to do different things beyond class work

stuff,” said Jenn Capps, the Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice.

They will get to put to use their analytical skills and talk to some of the people who were involved in the cases, the students will give them a “fresh set of eyes,” Capps said. Some of the cases they have considered doing are Tupac Shakur and Natalie Holloway.

A conference will be held Feb. 5 and 6 at Metro in which a nationwide figure from the CCIRI will speak to Metro students, Capps said.

If you have a GPA of 3.2 or higher you can join the Criminal Justice Honor Society and DPO. The organization is open to all students affiliated with the criminology or criminal justice school, Berkman said.

•Criminal justice open house from 5-9 p.m. Sept. 9.

•Cold case group meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 2 •DPO ‘s next scheduled meeting is Dec. 2. *All meeting locations are TBA

A6 • NEWS • AUGUST 27, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN • FYI: 48 percent of astronauts experience motion sickness.

On the street By Gabrielle Porter • Photos by Drew Jaynes

What do you think about the health care reform plan proposed by the Obama administration?

“I’m sure if I was out there on my own it would probably matter. I go through the school for health insurance though. I have a year and a half left, so once that ends, it’s really gonna matter.“ Chris Morrell – Metro Junior

“Basically they’re trying not to socialize health care, but they’re trying to get everyone that’s uninsured health insurance, but that limits your options to go see doctors that you want to go see.“ Lauren McNeil – Metro Junior

“I know [Obama] is trying to get health care for the families who really need it, and personally, I’m one of the families having a hard time getting health care.”

Kailee Lucero – UCD Sophomore

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Thanks, Obama.”

Ehren Azeris – UCD Senior

“I think it’s really sad that we live in one of the richest nations of the world, and it’s taken us this long to get any progress on health care. I mean, it’s disgusting that there’s still a lot of people that are uninsured.”

Jessica Bustillos – Metro Junior

“I’m actually still with my parents’ [insurance], I don’t really know too much about how a lot of it works, but my understanding is that I wouldn’t agree with it being required or anything.”

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THIS JUST IN: Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the U.S. THE METROPOLITAN • AUGUST 27, 2009 • NEWS • A7

Auraria to offer Late Starting Classes flu vaccinations & Weekend Options

with Extended Campus Fall 2009

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By April Zemyan azemyan@mscd.edu With the government recently announcing a delay in production of vaccines for the new H1N1 influenza, the Health Center at Auraria, along with many other health care providers, is planning for a smaller supply of the vaccination.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first predicted to receive 120 million vaccines by Oct. 15. The delay in production has decreased that number to 45 million.

This reduces the number of vaccines Auraria will receive, Martha Eaton, assistant director for the Health Center said. The Health Center will be administering the shot for free because the federal government pays for the vaccinations, she added.

Eaton does not know the specific number of shots the Health Center will receive because of uncertainties about the production of the vaccine.

“There are many unknowns, I don’t know how many [vaccines] Colorado will receive so I don’t know how many we [Auraria] will get,” Eaton said.

Desiree Paoli of MedExpress Urgent Care, said they will offer the H1N1 vaccination if and when it becomes available.

“Everything is up in the air until the vaccination is released, we don’t even know if we will get the shot,” Paoli said.

Paoli said the H1N1 shot will not be given for free at MedExpress locations because the vaccine is limited in supply. Many health care providers and clinics don’t know if and when they will receive the vaccine.

“We stand ready to help in whatever way the government requires us to do,” Walgreen Co. Spokeswoman Tiffany Washington said.

Our staff has a large amount of experience administering vaccinations; we will be prepared for whatever happens, Washington said.

Walgreen Co. will offer the seasonal flu shot for $24.99 starting Sept. 1. Since there will not be as many H1N1 shots administered, the vaccines will go to high-risk patients first.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, high-risk populations include pregnant women, health-care workers and caregivers, as well as young adults between the ages of 19 and 24.

Because so many students fall into this age category, it is especially important for students

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COURSE TITLE/CREDITS

CRN # DAYS/TIME

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ACC 2020

Principles of Accounting II (3)

55898

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12–12/12

COM 366Q Creating Multimedia ELearning Tutorials w/Adobe Captivate 4® (2)

57156

FS, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

09/11–09/19

COM 366R Creating Online Knowledge Bases w/Adobe RoboHelp 8® (2)

57159

FS, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

10/02–10/10

CPD 2300

Time Management (1)

56038

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

10/24–10/31

CPD 2310

Stress Management (1)

56026

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

09/26–10/03

CPD 2330

Assertiveness (1)

56028

S, 9 a.m.– 5 p.m.

12/05–12/12

ECO 2020

Principles of Economics-Micro (3)

56040

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12–12/12

EDU 4300

Acting Like a Teacher (2)

55698

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/17–11/07

SPE 4300

Acting Like a Teacher (2)

55699

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/17–11/07

THE 4300

Acting Like a Teacher (2)

55700

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/17–11/07

HSP 3600

Domestic Violence: Perpetrators of Abuse (2)

56238

FS, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

11/06–11/14

MKT 2040 Business Communication (3)

55724

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12–12/12

MKT 3000 Principles of Marketing (3)

55725

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12–12/12

NUT 3200

Introduction to Nutrition (3)

56128

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12–12/12

PHI 1030

Ethics (3)

56153

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12–12/12

SPE 1710

Interpersonal Communications (3)

56236

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12–12/12

THE 2210

Introduction to Theatre (3)

55728

S, 9 a.m.–3:45 p.m.

10/12–12/12

METRO NORTH • 303-450-5111 TOP: As flu season approaches, the staff at the Health Center at Auraria advises students to use sanitizer, facial tissue and masks. Photo illustration by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu Martha Eaton, assistant director for the Health Center, demonstrates a sneezing technique to better prevent the spread of illness. Photo by Drew Jaynes • ajaynes1@mscd.edu

to take precautionary measures, Eaton said.

“If you’re sick, notify your instructor and don’t come to class,” Eaton said.

Washington said the employees at all Walgreen’s locations urge patients to take common sense measures and wash hands as well as use anti-bacterial soap.

There are anti-bacterial stations throughout the campus, Eaton said.

The H1N1 shot is administered in two doses, three weeks apart. Eaton said the two doses are important to make sure of full immunity.

She also encourages students to get the seasonal influenza shot as well, for a total of three vaccinations.

“People need to know when they get their [first] shot they are not immediately protected,” Eaton said.

The seasonal flu shot will be offered at the health center for $20 starting for high-risk patients on Sept. 15 and Sept. 23 for all others.

“Be aware, don’t ignore informational messages across campus,” Eaton said.

For more information about both flu vaccinations go to www.flu.gov.

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COURSE TITLE/CREDITS

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DATES

CPD 2300

Time Management (1)

56024

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

11/07-11/14

CPD 2310

Stress Management (1)

56019

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

10/10-10/17

CPD 2320

Self Esteem (1)

56022

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

10/24-10/31

EDU 3000

Introduction to Education (1)

55784

S, 8:30 a.m.–1200

10/17-11/07

EDU 4700

Substitute Teacher Workshop (1)

55701

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

09/12-09/19

HSP 4290

PTSD Counseling (1)

56202

FS, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

12/04-12/05

PHI 3360

Business Ethics (3)

56156

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12-12/12

PSY 3250

Child Psychology (3)

56053

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12-12/12

SPE 1010

Public Speaking (3)

56237

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

10/12–12/12

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COURSE TITLE/CREDITS

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CRN # DAYS/TIME

DATES

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Drawing from the past

By Ian Gassman img2007@comcast.net Within a cozy, ranch-style home nestled at the base of Colorado’s northern mountain range, Melanie Yazzie and her husband, Clark, live a life of humble prosperity.

A Native American, whose roots lie with the Dine-Navajo people of northeastern Arizona, Yazzie has been an artist since her childhood.

“My mom made artwork when I was little…

I used to take mis-matched socks and make little dolls out of them and give them away,” Yazzie said, mentioning how her hobby transformed into her foremost passion.

Yazzie has garnered trinkets from each place she’s visited, chronicling her world travels in a collection of memories. Whether it is an Inca bowler hat sitting on top of a cabinet, or scattered 1950s figurines depicting Native American people, her home is a personal museum.

Amid a basement lined with paintings and prints, Yazzie’s collections of artistic tools find a purpose.

Yazzie juggles creative projects with teaching.

As an assistant art professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, she draws energy from her love of different cultures and her need for artistic expression.

Within Yazzie’s world, many cultures meld together into one evocative whole.

“The indigenous perspective is added to the Euroamerican perspective … the art provokes something from you,” Dr. Zia Morento, the Metro director of Native American Arts, observed.

This idea of coexistence exhibited by Yazzie applies to the new exhibit in Metro’s Center for the Visual Art, “Currents: Native American Forces In Contemporary Art”. On Thursday, Aug. 27, the show will offer a look at the Native American influence on a multi-faceted, contemporary format.

“The title of the exhibition refers to what is happening now, in contemporary art, but also

speaks to the reality of Native American cultures

Trinkets line many of the shelves in Melanie Yazzie’s living room. as [they are] living, changing and growing,” said Cecily Cullen, the head curator for the show.

Cullen wants the public to know that Native Americans should not be seen as having, “extinct cultures that remain frozen in time, as is often depicted in museums or, in our minds.”

The stereotype of clay pots and peace pipes does not represent the true Native American artistic inheritance.

All of the participating artists were chosen based on their contribution to contemporary art.

“This is, of course, a Native American exhibition, so we looked for artists with a Native background,” Cullen said.

Specifically, Cullen chose these artists for, “formal and conceptual reasons, having to do with

the aesthetics and depth of their work.”

The six selected artists, Norman Akers, Nicholas Galanin, Jeffery Gibson, Jaune Smith, Marie Watt, Will Wilson and Yazzie herself will engage their audience with their passionate and contemplative pieces.

Each of these artists from different cities across the US has gathered his or her artwork to break the generally perceived mode of Native American art history as being romanticized folk art.

“These artists shake up the general perception of what ‘Native American art’ would, should or does look like,” Cullen enthused.

Between the members’ preview at 6 p.m. and the free public reception at 8 p.m., an open discussion will be held with Galanin, who is flying in from Alaska.

The work of artist Will Wilson has Bobby Hill, a third year art and design major at Metro, longing to see more.

“I had seen Will Wilson’s stuff before, on [the internet]. But none of this,” Hill said. “It’s quite surreal, in a sense.”

Wilson, who works primarily with photography, was invited to be a panelist for the exhibition due to his mastery of contemporary mediums. A San Francisco resident, he spent his childhood on a Dine-Navajo reservation and pulled from the experience for his provocative series, “Auto Immune Response.”

Yazzie deals with a more abstract and lighter side of Native American art, though also inspired by her own personal experiences.

“I draw from home and I also draw from the different places I have traveled to,” Yazzie said.

Dealing with printmaking mediums, acrylic and soy-based paints, Yazzie initiates colorful depictions of childhood memories that meet adult realities.

The new exhibit gives a fresh perspective on contemporary art; it alters the previously conceived notions of Native American art history and puts it on a new canvas.

Metro{spective}

Melanie Yazzie laughs and blushes in front of some of her recent artwork. Aug. 25 at her home in Erie. She admits she is not used to keeping company with more than a few people at a time. Photos by Taryn Jones • tjone101@mscd.edu

Julie Vitkovskaya Features Editor uvitkovs@mscd.edu

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Meet your representatives Part 2

Hannah Kaufman

How will you be more accessible to students?

Metro SACAB Representative We have office hours so students Major: Spanish, Minor in elementary can come in and meet with us. Mine education are going to be Thursdays from 2:30 Years at Metro: Five until 3:45, so I’m available for that E-mail: hrkaufman@gmail.com and by appointment. My phone number for the office is on the website so any of those methods will work.

Can you describe the position of a SACAB representative?

Well SACAB is made up of two representatives from each school and they meet with each other every week, and we just talk about things that relate with the whole campus.

CLUB BEAT

The Muslim Student Association

By Ashley Moreland amorela1@mscd.edu The Muslim Student Association (MSA) is an organization which is active in the Islamic and non-Islamic community, both on and off campus.

The focus of the organization is two-fold. First, it serves to help Muslims increase their faith and community. Second, it serves to educate others about Islamic culture.

Patti Lohman, who has been the MSA’s faculty advisor since 2000, said the group is always busy. The organization participates in events such as the March for the Cure and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Walk. Members also volunteer at homeless shelters.

On campus, MSA is busy with events and panels. The organization recently hosted a panel discussion about the 2009 G8 Summit.

Lohman says that she is impressed by the students.

“They get asked some hateful and unreasonable questions.

They’re always patient and answer in a respectable manner,” she said. “They really shine.”

The next event that the MSA will host is Fast-a-thon, which is held at the end of Ramadan in September. The MSA will invite the campus to the event to break the month-long fast and learn about the holiday.

For more information, contact MSA secretary Mani Hashemi at pr3cision@comcast.net.

Interviews by Julie Vitkovskaya uvitkovs@mscd.edu

Executive Branch

Photo by Daniel Clements • dcleme12@mscd.edu

What is the biggest issue for SACAB? Last week we worked on a committee for the Club Hub, which is

where … all of the student organizations … have an opportunity to have office space. And I was out of town last week, so I wasn’t at that meeting.

What are your goals for this year?

I want to make information available to students about different things that we are working on … different things that they can do to get involved and different ways to contact us if they have things they need to talk about or ideas, just make us more accessible to students, not that we’re not or haven’t been in the past.

By what means will information be available to students?

We’re going to do different flyers and advertisements once I figure out how to do it. But I figure I would do

press releases to different newspapers on campus.

Do you have a criticism of the Auraria campus? Is there something the Auraria campus needs to change?

I think that we need to take a look at the different ways people are using the services just to see the kind of ways we can improve the organizations that we have here available for students.

What is one thing that is working on the Auraria campus?

I think our recycling program is awesome. I don’t have recycling at home so sometimes I’ll bring in my yogurt cups or cans … So it’s there, it’s available. [Also], I think that we have a great student union.

Michelle Sprowl Metro SACAB Representative Major: Enviromental Science Years at Metro: Four E-mail: jsprowl@mscd.edu

How will you be more accessible to students?

Personally, I make myself more accessible to the science students. My plan is to kind of introduce myself when school starts as a SACAB rep and if anything comes up that anyone wants to talk about, I’ll do my best to bring it forth.

What are some of the things you do in your position?

SACAB is Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board, so there are two of us from each institution to represent all of Metro students, our voice and different tri-institutional issues. We are the biggest school but we do have to keep in mind that CCD and UCD have a voice and how to keep them, their names, just

as big as ours. I’m personally a representative on the Board of Directors so, with that role, I have to represent all of Auraria students so I have to take forth the feeling on issues that SACAB has come up.

In your position, what is one thing you would like to change?

There’s a lot of change that can happen, but it’s all very difficult to do.

At this moment in time, there are a couple of issues with vendors. There were open spots for vendors on campus and I want to shoot for offering some healthy alternatives.

Things that need to be changed, like I said, before I was in student government, I was very lost as far as what

Photo by Ryan Martin • martirya@mscd.edu goes on with all of these issues.

So, I think that is our biggest room for improvement, is keeping the students informed on the positive note.

Letting them understand why the decisions were made. I know the biggest issue right now is our space. We, as a

campus, are just totally packed, almost 100 percent, and so I want to inform students on why the Success Building is so important and to look forward to that and the Science Building coming up and to keep in mind all of our resources might be slimmer during the busy times.

Tess Halonen

Director of Public Relations — SGA Major: Physics, with music degree from DU Years at Metro: One and a half E-mail: thalonen@mscd.edu

Photo by Drew Jaynes • ajaynes1@mscd.edu

How will you be more accessible to students?

I think the best way that we have decided to tackle it is [to] have set schedules this year.

It’s just easier for everybody. I am very receptive toward e-mail, if anyone ever wanted to e-mail me. If anyone on campus ever wants to be involved with SGA and volunteer we would love to take them.

Your position is new. Can you talk about your role and your goals?

I think the biggest thing that I’d like to accomplish this year is getting more of a community on campus. I think there’s a lot of things that happen here that are so cool that go completely under the radar because it is a commuter school. I mean, we had 700 people vote for president and vice president last year out of 40,000. And as the PR person, my biggest target is advertising and getting the message out … to hopefully create a tighter community. With the induction [of] the graduate program, that’s going to happen. Going to DU

and going here, I can tell you that the classes here are just as challenging as the classes there. There should be no reason in the public eye that we don’t have that image.

What is the biggest problem facing Metro?

Right now … the budget is the biggest thing facing Metro. Basically what happens is the economy suffers, people sign up for more classes, all the sudden your enrollment rates go through the roof and funding gets cut at the same time.

So you kind of get hit at it from two angles and that’s what Metro is experiencing right now. I think it was six to 10 million that was cut and they’re proposing another six to 10 million to be cut. The biggest thing that I can do internally with SGA is allocate the money that we are given from the government extremely carefully, making sure all of that money goes back to the students who paid for it …. Any money that we do get has to be extremely well budgeted, extremely well reported and accounted for and extremely supportive toward the student body.

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Givinggallons

79,065,731 No, this isn’t a population number or the lottery jackpot. This is how many gallons of water Healing Waters International has distributed to the people of underprivileged countries since 2002.

By Dacia Johnson djohn205@mscd.edu Healing Waters International is a nonprofit organization that provides inexpensive drinking water to 69 cities in Mexico, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. Founders Tom and Dana Larson saw a tremendous need for clean drinking water after Hurricane George ripped through the Dominican Republic in 1998. They teamed up with fellow church members in Golden to create an inexpensive filtration system. The system was placed at La Victoria Church in Santo Domingo, a sister church of the Larson’s church. La Victoria took on the project of running the water purification system. They hired church members to sell the drinking water for 30 cents, about 1/4 of the cost of store-bought water or other vendors.

The revenue earned keeps the system running and any of the remaining funds is required to be put back to the community by the church, said HWI Senior Development Officer Aaron Walling.

Walling, who spent years working with similar projects in different cities, is now based in Golden. He spends most of his time developing new technologies and fundraising.

HWI, a faith-based organization, now serves 123,008 people on an on-going basis and runs on donations.

HWI teams up with local churches to provide drinking water.

There is a rigorous approval process when choosing churches to support the projects. The denomination and history of the

church is taken into consideration.

W h e n choosing a location for a new water project, HWI finds urban areas with a large population that already have running water that Healing Waters Senior Development Officer Aaron Walling holds is unsafe to drink. a glass of Healing Waters’ purified water outside his offices on Aug. 21 in Golden. Photo by JAMIE COTTEN • jcotten1@mscd.edu “We’re different, most [suppliers] go to rural areas,” Wall- a park and basketball court, put on puppet shows for the local children and taught them ing said.

According to the World Health Orga- about the importance of clean water. They nization, about 3.6 million people die each also toured the water project and met the year from water-related diseases. When HWI people of the church who run it.

“The trip was well organized, I felt reoffers to help provide safe, clean drinking water, communities welcome them with open ally safe and the [leaders] showed us a great time,” said Kleen, who heard about HWI arms, according to Walling.

As if providing drinking water wasn’t through a friend.

She also said it was an amazing experienough, HWI also does “transformation trips.” These trips last three to four days ence to see how others live.

“It was spiritual, it’ll change you. It’s and provide volunteer work and education for anyone who wants to lend a helping good to experience what there is to experience,” she said. hand.

HWI is moving forward to create new Metro student Kelsey Kleen was on a transformation trip to Guatemala in March projects. They are touring countries in Africa 2009 and said her favorite part was meeting to further extend their services and provide clean drinking water to those who need it the people in the community.

“The locals were great. We learned to un- most. For more information on Healing Waderstand each other even though we didn’t ters International or transformation trips visit their website www.healingwatersintl. speak the same language,” Kleen said.

While on the trip, the group cleaned up org.

Illustration by Jenn Johnson • jjohn351@mscd.edu

Former love discovers paranormal connections Beth Norris enorris5@mscd.edu After nearly a decade of documentary film making, director Monika Treut returns to storytelling. Praised at gay and lesbian film festivals around the world, “Ghosted” now hits American audiences. Known for her seductive and sensual style, German native Treut tells a twisting tale of haunted lovers.

The film centers around German artist Sophia Schmitt (Inga Busch) as she deals with the abrupt death of her Taiwanese lover Ai-ling (Huan-Ru Ke) in Hamburg, Germany.

The two had met when Ai-ling, trying to find out the truth about her father, left Taiwan and visited her uncle in Germany. There she met and quickly fell in love with Sophia. But after a lover’s quarrel, Ai-ling goes out on the town and is killed in an accident that might actually be a murder.

love-triangle begins between her, Mei-li, and the haunting memory of Ai-ling beings.

“Ghosted” is a dramatic and slow moving film that jumps between the past and present of these three women.

Stylishly shot in Taipei, Taiwan and Hamburg the movie clumsily navigates through German, Mandarin and English. The subtitles seem unrealistic at times, using unnecessarily casual English vernacular. But the mystery of what happened to Ai-ling is enough to keep you captivated.

The film seems to deliberately leap be“Ghosted” tween reality and the subconscious.

Aug. 28 Landing on a traditional Chinese Starz Film ceremony to honor Ai-ling, “Ghosted” ends Center softly. It may be thoroughly confusing, 5:00 p.m., however, the feeling is intentional. Well done 7:45 p.m., overall, this film may leave you feeling in 9:40 p.m. absentia more so than the characters.

Sophia is utterly heart broken.

At the premier of her video instillation dedicated to Ai-ling, Sophia is approached by journalist Mei-li (Ting-Ting Hu).

The beautiful Mei-li tries to inquire about Sophia’s art, but soon begins to secretly investigate Ai-ling’s death. Shaken by how much Mei-li reminds her of Ai-ling, Sophia refuses the interview and Mei-li’s advances. But as Mei-li’s persistence grows, Sophia lets her guard down and a strange

Storage in the PC: A hard drive TechBytes

By Drew Jaynes ajaynes1@mscd.edu I was on a PC repair job where the client had a dinosaur of a computer and the only solution for her upgrade woes was to replace the entire unit.

When I went to open the case to pull out the old hard drive, I initially did a double take – the hard drive was nowhere to be found. After taking in the archaic components, dusty wires and cables, I located what could be considered a relic of the computer age, a 5.25 inch hard drive.

Imagine a hard drive the size of a CD burner, but capable of holding only a tenth of the amount of data.

I turned to the client and with unfiltered exclamation said, “Wow! I’ve heard about these! I’ve never seen one though.” I instantly regretted it.

Her face was filled with embarrassment. I never would have imagined that someone could still own such an outdated computer.

It’s experiences like these that bring home the fact that technology and data storage has grown exponentially over the last decade and a half.

The drive in my client’s computer held a paltry 10 gigabytes; the most common ones hold one terabyte.

Storage devices are only getting smaller, cheaper and higher in capacity. So one has to wonder whether today’s consumers have become a sort of horde of socially-acceptable packrats.

We’re living in a time where deleting things has essentially become unnecessary. I remember a couple of years ago when Google first debuted the now wildly successful Gmail application. Users were galled by the huge amounts of storage the e-mail service offered, and Google’s stance was simple: We’ll give you so much space, you’ll never have to delete anything.

People are increasingly turning to online outlets for news, videos, games, collaboration, writing and other tasks that were formerly limited to personal computing.

Gone are the compact discs, the walkmans and the cloth-bound books of yesterday. Many of these old technologies have been steadily replaced with their electronic counterparts.

Cheaper to produce, cheaper to consume, everybody is working hard to find easier ways to get what they want.

And so, to ye olde ignorati like my client who continue to use the old gear of yesteryear I say, go forth, upgrade, and you’ll never delete again.

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Stanna Bippus, center, stretches her arms wide during a theatrical warm up. The exercises are essential in an actor’s process of getting into character and shaking off nerves.

It really gets your adrenaline going. I have one minute to convince you that I’m right for this part - Winston King

Christy Montour-Larson, the director of Nickel and Dimed, discusses the details of an improvisation exercise to a group of actors during callbacks Aug. 21 at the King Center. Each actor performed a prepared monologue before they were called back for cold readings from the script along with improvisation.

Standing Breaking into any production has its challenges. You obsess about it the day before. You make sure you’re on time. You’re there. Now what?

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rica Lee Johnson is a 22-year-old Metro theatre student. On Aug. 21 she sits in the lobby of a local theatre and waits for her name to be called. She uses the opportunity to size up her competition

out

of the crowd

and use deep breathing exercises to calm her nerves. As she quickly runs through her monologue, her name is called. She tries not to let her nerves kick in as she stands on a small stage and puts her job security into the hands of three strangers.

Mention you’re an actor and everyone becomes interested. After all, who in their right mind wouldn’t want to be the next Brad Pitt or Kiera Knightly? But acting isn’t just fun and games, and at times is extremely stressful.

“It really gets your adrenaline going. I have one minute to convince you that I’m right for this part,” Winston King, a Metro theatre student, said.

And being right for the part is how actors pay their bills. For every successful actor, auditioning becomes a “necessary evil,” as King puts it, in order to follow their passion.

“For me (acting) is a way to change the

“I sometimes get frustrated because I feel sometimes you get looked over time and time again, but that’s the name of the business I guess.”

- Larraine Morales

Justin Weiss is full of energy as he performs a prepared monologue for the director, assistant director and stage manager during the first part of his audition.

Weiss says that in order to do well, he likes to take time by himself before the audition to calm down.

I love them. I feel they are a time to get up and play and really show them what you got. I’ve never let it get to me because I know I may not be right for a certain show or role and I’m just more excited for the people who did make it and can’t wait to see the finished product.

- Chris Russell

Story by Stephen Swofford sswoffo1@mscd.edu Photos by Leah Millis lmillis@mscd.edu

world,” King said. “It’s a way to make people think and change.”

Larraine Morales, a Metro Senior, said auditioning is her least favorite part of her profession.

“I learn from every audition I go to,” Morales said. “I sometimes get frustrated because I feel sometimes you get looked over time and time again, but that’s the name of the business I guess.”

Actors can spend weeks or even months preparing for an audition. Reading the play they are auditioning for is an important part of the preparations, and afterwards finding an appropriate monologue, which can often be a rigorous process.

“I try to read the play I’m auditioning for at least once before the audition,” Johnson said.

“Then I read the play where my monologue is from so I have the context behind it.”

Some auditions ask the performer to do what is commonly referred to as a “cold read” where the director has chosen a few pages from the play to be performed “cold” or without prior preparation. While these auditions are more stressful than those that allow you a practiced, prepared audition piece, some preparation is still possible.

“When I know I’m doing a cold read, I make sure to read the play at least three times,” Johnson said. “I just try to look at auditions as an opportunity to perform for someone.”

Most actors agree, viewing auditions not as something to be endured in order to perform, but a different kind of performance.

“I love them,” Chris Russell, a senior at Metro, said. “I feel they are a time to get up and play and really show them what you’ve got.”

Of course rejection goes hand in hand with auditioning by its very nature, and while

it can be the hardest part of being an actor, a positive outlook is necessary to survive in such a cutthroat field.

“You have to look at it like a job interview,” King said. “It was hard at first, but you have to have the tenacity to never say die.”

Of course even when the hard work and tenacity pay off, the checks barely do. Every actor in Denver, no matter how professional or hard working, has to have a second job to pay

the bills. Long hours, hard work, and small pay are the actor’s creed, but they don’t do it for the pay.

Actors don’t act for fame or money. They act for an emotion connection, to change the world, or simply, as Morales says, because it’s her passion.

(TOP): John Katona closes his eyes and silently rehearses a monologue he will perform for his audition. Each actor has a different method for dealing with the pressure of auditions, but most find it helpful to spend some time alone to collect themselves prior to performing.

(FAR LEFT): Erica Johnson takes a moment to stretch and breathe as she attempts to quiet her jitters before her audition.

(LEFT): Holcomb takes a pause between lines while practicing his monologue.

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sounding off: The Wheel rolls on Reinvention seems to be a consistent part of Nathaniel D. Rateliff’s personal and musical world. Whether pulling up his roots in Hermann, Mo., and relocating to Denver, or changing his once solo effort to a six-piece band. Rateliff’s continual side-project The Wheel finally made the transition to the limelight this summer and as new members were added, more opportunities arose. The Wheel first supported international acts like Bon Iver and The Delta Spirit as they came through Denver and Boulder. They now focus their time on touring with The Fray this September, hitting mostly college campuses and a few festivals.

• By Ian Gassman • img2007@comcast.net

IG: You have 34 demo tracks that are all new, right? Do they contain different elements compared to the tracks on Desire and Dissolving Men? NR: Part of that 34 songs is Desire and Dissolving Men, I still do stuff on my own and sometimes we record, sometimes we don’t, I still write the songs alone. You know, I’m not much of a producer, that’s not really my job right now, my job is to write. I’m not capable of making a well-produced album at home, so I will be going to a studio. I don’t know where or who with.

IG: Is the outcome a polished product?

NR: You know some bands make too much of a studio album and I want to meet in the middle, there’s a lot of albums that sound polished but don’t.

IG: What are some of your major influences? What are you listening to right now and does touring shape your song writing in any way?

NR: I usually don’t write a lot on tour, I listen to a lot of things, but I don’t think they influence me right now. I’m reading a fantasy series right now, that is just mindless, but that doesn’t influence me either. I’ll just write songs that I think work, or are really cool at the time, but sometimes they just don’t work.

IG: On this last tour through the West, you were with your friends.

What was it like playing with Carrie Beeder (violin), James Han (piano), Julie Davis (upright bass), Ben DeSoto (drums) and Joseph Pope (guitar) on a day-to-day basis? Were there any tensions or is it a constant good time?

NR: Carrie didn’t get to go out with us the last tour, she is coming out with us on this tour. With the five of us it was great, we broke down a lot and drove with the heater on. I think all of us really like being out there and that’s what we want to do right now, be out on the road.

IG: Having six members seems to be a major change from your former solo, or three-piece shows. Do you hear a fuller sound now and if you had the option, would this be the permanent setup?

NR: Yeah, I’d like to continue to keep playing with these guys, the nice thing about the music, is that it can tour in multiple facets. We can go out as a six piece, or a four piece, or a three piece. It just ended up that I put the full band together for some people that were coming out to see us. I just kind of wanted to do something different and added Joseph Pope and Ben DeSoto, I liked the way it worked.

IG: A while back, you worked on the soundtrack for Skills Like This.

Is there any talk of contributing to another soundtrack, compilation

or new collaboration?

NR: I was just on a compilation that’s being released in the UK, of Townes Van Zandt songs.

I also did a Harry Nilsson song, that was from the soundtrack of this animated children’s movie called The Point. Andrew Bird is on it, I’m on it, we all contributed songs.

IG: How does it feel for you to have to work with legal teams, booking agents and tour managers all day? Does this get in the way of creativity or is it just part of the process?

NR: Nothing really gets in the way of creativity, you’re actually kind of busy. In your time off, you go see a movie and take it easy.

There is nothing complicated about it. As far as legality and accounting, we wanted to make this our job, our career. There’s some things you may not want to be doing, like taking a business call. But it’s exciting to learn all of these things. It’s almost like running a business, I guess. I have my family, my five bandmates, and other people working for me. It’s a lot to take care of.

IG: Do you have any advice for artists going through this process? Is there anything they should do?

NR: Touring is way more important than I ever thought it was, and way more fun. I always thought there was a way to get around it. If people like your music they want to see it.

IG: Will there be another campus tour after this one? If so, will the Auraria campus or other Colorado colleges be included?

NR: We got really lucky with this one, I’m sure we will be hitting up a lot of colleges, I don’t know if we will play at Auraria. It would be nice to. I don’t exactly know what’s in the works right now. After that CMJ (music festival) and some other shows, I don’t know what yet.

IG: With the success of The Fray, do believe this tour will bring just the right amount of exposure to expand your musical career?

NR: I would like to be able to draw a younger audience, if they would like to hear the music, they will be able to hear it.

IG: So could you tour full-time?

NR: That’s what we’re trying to do, we are now with Highroad Touring. That’s a good thing. You can check out their roster, it’s pretty ridiculous, they have really great bands that they work for. Hopefully we get really great shows, we are getting really great shows.

IG: The recent dates with Bon Iver were great and the upcoming dates

more upcoming shows

with The Delta Spirit look awesome too. How did you get in contact with both of these bands and are you planning more gigs with either of them?

NR: There is talk of it. I know Bon Iver — Justin (Vernon) is really busy these days. I think he is going to take a break, because ever since his album came out, he has been touring. The Delta Spirit are friends of mine. I met them at the Hi-Dive through a mutual friend. We just hit it off. We stayed with them on tour and had a really good time.

IG: You’ve said the music of The Wheel is closer to your heart than rock ‘n’ roll, but when will the hiatus with Born in the Flood end?

What will happen to your other band now that The Wheel is rolling at full force?

NR: You know, I don’t know. I can’t say if we’ll have a show again soon. I don’t know if I’ll continue to do The Wheel or sit on Born In The Flood. We have nothing but time now.

IG: Do you stress about the future or are you optimistic? What are your long-term goals with music?

NR: Definitely to be able to support myself, my family and my band members. I’m not asking for anything too lucrative, I just want to be able to buy a piece of property.

The Wheel w/ Delta Spirit 9 p.m., Aug. 27 @ Belly Up Aspen, $17 8 p.m., Aug. 28 @ Boulder Theater, $19.50 The Wheel 7 p.m., Aug. 29 @ Everyday Joe’s, Ft. Collins, $12

• By Ashley Moreland• amorela1@mscd.edu

Eccentric guitar virtuoso Buckethead (aka Brian Carroll) will be hitting the stage Aug. 27 at the Gothic Theatre. The incredibly prolific artist has released 27 solo albums and has been featured on several others. So far in 2009 he has put out three albums.

Probably most well known nowadays for his songs featured on the Guitar Hero videogames, Buckethead has been making eclectic, genre-jumping, progressive music since the ‘80s, playing anything from metal, to jazz, and even dabbling in some hip-hop with collaborators like Saul Williams.

His high-energy music should be on full display at the Gothic, with Buckethead plenty of shredding, and face-melting intensity that shouldn’t be missed. His opener, Wolff, should be just as interesting, playing just drums and tuba.

With such a bizarre line-up the show should be an eyebrow-raising experience. Who knows what could happen at this show? If you’re into avant garde rock, mark your calendars because this one is gonna be a doozy.

Buckethead and Wolff 9 p.m., Aug. 27 @ Gothic Theatre, $25

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Nathaniel Rateliff of The Wheel

Modest Mouse floats on to Denver as part of their recent tour supporting their new EP, No One’s the First and You’re the Next. Despite the fact that guitarist Johnny Marr will not be on the tour, their trademark indie rock shouldn’t suffer too much.

On tour with his other band, the Cribs, Marr also Modest Mouse missed the band’s tour earlier this year. Former Granddaddy guitarist, Jim Fairchild is filling in for him. Their last tour was a success despite the switch. The current tour is sure to follow suit, with seven shows already completed.

Their music has been described as “white-boy funky” and their live show has been hailed for its killer material.

Modest Mouse’s shows have a diverse playlist, with the band playing at least two songs from each album. Their quirky melodic style mixed with the high energy of their devout fans makes their show one not to miss.

Modest Mouse 8 p.m., Sept. 2 @ Fillmore Auditorium, $29

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Artist: Radiohead Single: “These Are My Twisted Words” Album: N/A

The Many Moods of Jack White Jack White first hit the scene with Meg White and though the couple’s marriage was short-lived, The White Stripes’ popularity was not. Now Jack has gone on to bigger (and possibly better) things and White fans are left to ponder how did he get from there to here?

When the White Stripes began in the late ‘90s, critics were puzzled by the band’s overwhelming popularity despite the fact that their music featured raw guitars, very little production and was short a bassist.

But White remained firm, insisting that the band including only one guitar and drums gave their albums a more one-on-one feel. Fans ate it up and they scored several hits including “Seven Nation Army” and “The Hardest Button to Button.” With The White Stripes, White was even named number 17 on Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Guitarists of All Time, outranking guitar legends Frank Zappa and Eddie Van Halen.

In 2005, White started recording with Detroit friends after the group easily wrote the song “Steady as She Goes,” forming the Raconteurs, which reached number one on modern rock charts. White took advantage of the Jack White with The Raconteurs bassist and extra guitarist, blending backup vocals and solos together with paired songwriting with band member Brendan Benson, who recently released his second solo album My Old Familiar Friend on Aug. 18.

When White began having trouble with his vocals during tours with the Raconteurs, Kills singer Alison Mosshart came to the rescue, lending her voice to the band with an on-stage chemistry that couldn’t be beat. Once White was feeling back up to par, the duo realized their potential and jumped to the studio to record Horehound under the name of The Dead Weather.

The recording took only three weeks but the results were there. White took to the drums but threw in his vocals on such tracks such as “I Cut Like a Buffalo,” which they shared with Denver at a sold-out show at the Ogden Theater Aug. 17.

The lyrics are as interesting as ever, with its slightly gothic yet bluesy sound and White’s other two projects are going to be given a run for their money with this new album.

So what’s next for White?

White will be appearing in the upcoming film It Might Get Loud.

The film details the musical journey of White along with U2’s guitarist The Edge and rock icon Jimmy Page as they share the developments of their unique sounds and styles and the influences that led them there. The film will be opening at the Mayan Theater Sept. 11 and will feaJack White with The Dead Weather ture new music from White.

• By Krista Coulter • kcoulte2@mscd.edu

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This Album Changed My Life Tom Waits has had an amazing impact on the music scene in general from his beginnings as a crooner to his transformation into a junkyard bluesman in the ‘80s.

His persona drew me in and blew me away.

The experimentation with different styles and instruments was perfected on 1985’s Rain Dogs. It was unlike anything I’d heard before. The album showcases Waits’ unmistakable vocal growl and his legendary songwriting. Waits’ songs have been covered by everyone from Rod Stewart to Norah Jones. It remains one of my favorite albums of all time and has allowed me to experience many other musicians as well as authors who have influenced Waits’ writing. After I heard this album I became obsessed with everything Waits. Because of it’s overall creativity, it still sounds fresh over 20 years later.

The album opens with “Singapore.” A delightfully off-kilter song about sailors fueled by a marimba and Waits’ own strange lyrics including such gems as, “The captain is a one-armed dwarf/He’s throwing dice along the wharf.”

The song sets the tone for the rest of this album perfectly: Strap yourself in because this is going to be a strange ride.

An early highlight is “Jockey Full of Bourbon,” a dark, bluesy song featuring a biting guitar riff, bongo drums and just a touch of sax. Waits’ nearly whispered vocals compliment the song quite well.

“Big Black Mariah” is a straight rock song with a great foottapping rhythm and guitars courtesy of The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards. It’s packed with energy and Waits’ vocals are in rare form.

The album also includes bizarre waltzes such as “Diamonds and Gold” and ballads like “Hang Down Your Head” and “Time,” a song that can only be described as beautiful, showing that Rain Dogs has something for everyone among its 19 tracks.

The spoken-word track “9th and Hennepin” sounds like it could have been taken from a film noir and proves beyond any doubt that Waits is truly a poet.

The album closes with one of Waits’ most popular songs “Anywhere I Lay My Head” a song brimming with pure emotion, desperation and loneliness.

Tom Waits continues to make music, most recently releasing the 2006’s career-spanning compilation Orphans

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Jack White with The White Stripes

Radiohead’s new single “These Are My Twisted Words,” offered for free on the band’s website and countless blogs around the internet, offers more of the same haunting, ethereal groove as their previous internet-released opus In Rainbows.

The song is constructed around a simple, effective drumbeat. The bass line accompanies it, laying down a solid foundation and allowing the song to grow.

The guitars add even more to the song as they swirl, echo and buzz around the core rhythm section. Instrumentally the song continues to build this way until you may start to wonder if “These Are My Twisted Words” has any vocals at all.

Thom Yorke’s unique voice, familiar to music listeners around the globe, finally comes in at around the 2:40 mark, giving the song a sense of completion with soft, eerie vocals throughout the remaining three minutes.

Similar to the In Rainbows single “House of Cards,” “These Are My Twisted Words” showcases the band’s uncanny knack for creating great slow songs. Free or not, it’s just as strong as song as anything they have previously released.

Matt Pusatory mpusator@mscd.edu Music Editor

On this day in 1990, Grammywinning blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, was killed when a helicopter crashed into a hill in East Troy, Wis. The helicopter was returning the performer from a concert with Eric Clapton and Robert Cray.

Three members of Clapton’s entourage were also killed.

A9 • AUGUST 27, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN

INSIGHT

“I was nervous and scared, but confident that I knew what I was doing. I'm just happy and relieved she's ok.

I'm glad I got to save a life.”

— ALAINA LARSON ON A13

THE POINT: OBAMA NEEDS TO BE HELD TO HIS RHETORIC

Bipartisan promises must be kept

Unlike most of my academic counterparts, I’m not a Barack Obama fan. I didn’t vote for him and I’d rather he hadn’t won the election.

But all that being said: he is still my president.

He has had some success in getting his policies passed with the help of a large majority in congress, but he is now beginning to see some of that support falter.

The conservative in me is a bit giddy. I’m not exactly proud, I wish I could say I was less partisan, but I know I’m not, with his current agenda, I’d like to see the president fail. But I can say proudly I’d have much rather he’d succeeded.

I realize this sounds like a contradiction — I can’t be glad he is floundering and at the same time hope he is successful, but it’s true.

As a candidate he promised a bi-partisan presidency. I don’t hold much stock in his words — George Bush ran on the same promise, then proceeded to ignore

SAMUEL BLACKMER blackmar@mscd.edu the minority party right up until they were no longer the minority and he couldn’t ignore them anymore.

I’m not a big believer in bipartisan politics. Each party has an agenda, and when they are in power they will pursue their agenda and ignore the minority.

The only time a bi-partisan agenda is achieved is when one party controls the presidency and another party controls congress.

But I’d like to think it doesn’t have to be this way, I’d like to think one party can have total control of

both the congress and the presidency and still include the opposition in the debate. I don’t believe Obama can do it, though I do believe this is his best chance for success.

At this point in his presidency his closest act of bipartisanship has been to call on Republicans to support his agenda for the sake of the country.

This is despite their exclusion in the writing of legislation, their not being included in the discussion and their not having any say in the direction our nation is currently taking.

There are many liberals who say it is their turn, conservatives be damned, they were voted out.

And there are many who say the Republicans didn’t give them any say in the direction of the nation for the six years the Republicans controlled congress and the presidency.

And they are right — the Democrats were voted in so they don’t have to give in to any Republican

wishes, and it is true Republicans didn’t give any power to the Democrats while they were in control.

But President Obama is losing ground, and his policies have been unpopular. He did promise to bring a new tone to Washington and to bring both sides into the debate.

So far he has let the Democrat led congress legislate as it pleases and he hasn’t made any attempt to get his congress to work with the Republicans.

I believe President Obama’s talk of being bipartisan was all election rhetoric; I don’t believe he believes a word of it or if he does he has a very strange idea of what bi-partisan is. I would love to see him prove me wrong.

Obama’s first term is far from over, and at this point he is in no way a failed president, but if he continues on the route he is on he will be.

Watching the news so you don't have to The news cycle is at a low point. The machine is in a backspin, but don’t panic, this is normal. It happens.

It’s a good thing, to be sure, because it's times like these that we get the chance to sit down and consider the value of the media.

It won’t be long before we’re back to the old mind bend and it will be much harder to cross that patch of grass without stepping in the bullshit. But in case you are not au courant, as they say in Paris, here is the news, fresh off the wire. To wit: A partially-famous woman, now more so for the following circumstances, was found in a dumpster somewhere in southern California, stuffed in a suitcase with her teeth removed and her fingers missing. She was later identified by the serial number on her breast implants. Good enough? No. This unfortunate episode has become a box-office hit, and the flesh eating frenzy of pervert journalists following this story have an insatiable appetite. But they have yet to convince me that it is newsworthy, I still don’t care about it, and I don’t think saying so makes me a bad person.

Moving on, the Cable News Network ran at least three stories online this past week about the self-deprecating fad of hat-

JIMMIE BRALEY jbraley@mscd.edu ing one’s own ankles as though it were a new psycho-phenomenon among those actively searching for reasons to hate themselves.

Chalk this one up to poverty of invention on the part of Time Warner’s salaried goat-writers who understandably have a hard time sensationalizing when stories like this next one appear.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi apparently has plans to camp out on the lawn of a Libyan owned residence in Englewood, NJ, while he attends the UN General Assembly meeting in September. His tent is reported to be “air-conditioned,” which dramatically reduces the chance that the Libyan leader will succumb to the infamous September New Jersey heat. Gaddafi has been known to pitch a tent on numerous occasions when visiting foreign countries, but for unexplained reasons, his original

request to set up in Central Park was denied. Although there does not appear to be any justifiable reason for such a denial, the entire affair, which I am not making up, has managed to anger the Jewish community considerably, as most things do. Lawsuits are pending.

Take a moment to breathe.

The Alaskan coastal waters are turning into acid, threatening the state’s economy with terminal uselessness — a point which never ceases to make its way into this story well before anyone bothers to say “screw Alaska’s economy.”

In light of the fact that an ocean of acid is a far worse prospect than jobless fisherman.

President Obama has nominated Ben Bernanke to a second term as the chairman of the Federal Reserve due to his “bold and brilliant” efforts to steer the economy back on course. However, the real reason for this is much less attractive and is analogous to a philosophy which suggests that when you are driving a busload of dynamite at top speed, blindfolded and narrowly miss colliding with a preschool, you do not pull over to explain yourself or find someone else to drive. You just keep going, no questions asked.

Yeah. Anyway, Rupert Mur-

doch’s Nazi News Corps has taken considerable financial losses of late, which is the only good news I have here to report. May he roast in the kiln of a thousand suns.

It has been predicted that Swine Flu will reemerge early in September to finish what it started, possibly killing anywhere from 30,000 to 90,000 people in the U.S. alone. The seasonal flu kills about 40,000 people in the U.S. every year, but we rarely see flights delayed for nine or ten hours due to this fact. The two of these menacing bugs combined, however, have the potential to kill more than 100,000 people, but history has shown that when two genocidal killers meet, they rarely work together. Consider the diplomatic record of the Bush dynasty, Hitler and his shady backstabbing or Truman and Stalin.

All of this serves to prove one point and one point alone. That being, just like Alaska’s future in the whaling trade, the media organism that has plagued both our sense of honest awareness and of decent entertainment is hysterically useless, and it ought to be jettisoned off the face of this planet to roast somewhere in space with Murdoch and his goons. Down with the curtain; let the folks see the stage.

THE METROPOLITAN Since 1979 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Dominic Graziano dgrazia1@mscd.edu MANAGING EDITOR Lindsay Lovato llovato5@mscd.edu NEWS EDITOR Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Ben Wiebesiek wiebesib@mscd.edu FEATURES EDITOR Julie Vitkovskaya uvitkovs@mscd.edu MUSIC EDITOR Matt Pusatory mpusator@mscd.edu SPORTS EDITOR Kate Ferraro kferraro@mscd.edu ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Josiah Kaan jkaan@mscd.edu PHOTO EDITOR Drew Jaynes ajaynes1@mscd.edu ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITORS Leah Millis lmillis@mscd.edu Ryan Martin martirya@mscd.edu COPY EDITORS Sam Blackmer blackmar@mscd.edu Morgan Bia mbia@mscd.edu Dacia Johnson djohn205@mscd.edu Lucien Layne laynel@mscd.edu ADVERTISING Tucker Knight tknight7@mscd.edu GRAPHIC DESIGN Kathleen Jewby DIRECTOR OF STUDENT MEDIA Dianne Harrison Miller harrison@mscd.edu ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF STUDENT MEDIA Donnita Wong wongd@mscd.edu ADVISER Jane Hoback hobackje@comcast.net The Metropolitan is produced by and for the students of Metropolitan State College of Denver and serves the Auraria Campus. The Metropolitan is supported by advertising revenue and student fees and is published every Thursday during the academic year and monthly during the summer semester. The Metropolitan is distributed to all campus buildings. No person may take more than one copy of each edition of The Metropolitan without prior written permission. Please direct any questions, comments, complaints or compliments to Metro Board of Publications c/o The Metropolitan. Opinions expressed within do not necessarily reflect those of Metropolitan State College of Denver or its advertisers.

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A11 • August 27, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN

SPORTS

Kate Ferraro • SPORTS EDITOR • kferraro@mscd.edu

“For me, acting is a way to change the world.

It’s a way to make people think and change.”

— WINSTON KING, ACTOR AUDITIONING FOR NICKEL AND DIMED, METROSPECTIVE, B4

’Runners ready to ‘make noise’

THIS WEEK

8.28 Women’s Soccer

By Matt Hollinshead mhollin5@mscd.edu Despite an undersized crowd at the volleyball alumni game Aug. 22 in the Auraria Events Center, there was a sense of intensity on and around the volleyball court.

The current Roadrunners screamed with excitement as they stormed onto the court. From start to finish, they were in complete control of the match. The alumni team struggled with returns and capitalizing on finishing plays, which the current Roadrunners took full advantage.

Sophomores Ngoc Phan and Bri Morley were two key contributors for the Roadrunners. Phan appeared to be confident and was consistent with her serves and Morley was spiking balls with great strength.

The current Roadrunners continued to execute plays throughout the game while the alumni became fatigued and flustered. To add insult to injury, the alumni team appeared to have difficulty communicating with one another.

For Athletic Director Joan McDermott, who was also the alumni coach, it was good to see the old players again.

“It’s just really cool to see them come back,” McDermott said.

At the same time, the Roadrunners had their own issues to deal with.

They struggled with serves, as a team, which head coach Debbie Hendricks said she believes they will get it all worked out.

“We feel like we have the talent,” Hendricks said.

After the second period, the alumni started playing more aggressively and confidently for the rest of the match, but it was not enough. Nevertheless, the game was definitely worth seeing as a preview to the upcoming season and to see how the current team would fare against an experienced squad.

“It shows how our season is going to begin,” Morley said.

Not only is the alumni game a good opportunity for the current team to practice against a more knowledgeable group, but it’s also a time for the current team to come together with the alumni.

“It’s always a great opportunity to see old players,” Hendricks said.

This also meant a lot to former and current players.

“I’m always here for the alumni games,” said Metro alumna Audra Littou. “I loved every minute of it.”

Phan agrees with Littou.

“It’s an honor,” Phan said. “I’m here to just do my job.”

Morley said she believes her team

SIDELINE

5 p.m. vs Univ. of NebOmaha @ Auraria Field Volleyball 10 a.m. vs Millersville Univ. @ San Antonio 4:45 p.m. vs Central Oklahoma Univ. @ San Antonio

8.29 Volleyball

10 a.m. vs Florida Southern College @ San Antonio 2:30 p.m. vs St. Mary’s Univ. @ San Antonio Men’s Soccer 1 p.m. vs Univ. of Mary @ Auraria Field

8.30 Women’s Soccer

11 a.m. Angelo State Univ. @ Auraria Field

Say What?

“Last year we only made it to semi’s, so there is more pressure on us this year since we’re essentially the same team as last year. We need to get a win early to help propel us through the rest of the season.”

BECCA MAYS SOCCER FORWARD

Middle blocker Anna Mapes, left, and outside hitter Bri Morley go up to block a spike from the alumni team Aug. 22 while alumna Devon Herron, right, watches in anticipation during the alumni game at the Auraria Events Center. Photo by Daniel Clements • dcleme12@mscd.edu is ready for the upcoming season and is confident in her team this year.

“It should be our strongest season,” Morley said.

The first game of the 2009-2010 season is the St. Mary’s Invitational Aug. 28 in San Antonio. The way the Roadrunners played Aug. 22 indicated they are ready to make some noise this season.

2009 Volleyball Roster Gabe Curtis (Sr.) Amy Watanabe (Sr.) Amanda Cook (Sr.) Anna Mapes (Jr.) Kimee Clark (Jr.) Lisa Jones (Jr.) Angela Figueroa (Jr.)

Darcy Schwartzman (So.) Emily Greenhalgh (So.) Shayne Kovach (So.) Adrienne Matthews (So.) Julie Causseaux (So.) Bri Morley (So.) Ngoc Phan (So.)

FUN FACT Metro students can now receive game results and news from the athletic department through text messages. To sign up for free Metro athletic text updates, visit www. gometrostate.com and fill out the signup form. Standard text messaging rates may apply.

A12 » SPORTS » AUGUST 27, 2009 » THE METROPOLITAN • About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the around 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.

Mays and Emory preseason players of the year

By Enrico Dominguez edoming2@mscd.edu Every year, head coaches from across the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference send their votes in of who they think is the biggest threat as a single player before the season even starts. This year Metro has players for both of the soccer program’s rosters.

Women’s soccer forward Becca Mays holds the title Preseason Player of the Year for RMAC this year. Last year Mays scored 52 points on 22 goals and eight assists with 77 shots on goal in 24 games. Mays had nine game-winning goals last season which is the second most in Roadrunner history.

Mays said her main goal this season is winning the national championship before her career at Metro is over.

“Last year we only made it to semi’s, so there is more pressure on us this year since we’re essentially the same team as last year,” Mays said. “We need to get a win early to help propel us through the rest of the season.”

Metro lost their season opener last year and is looking forward to starting this season with a bang.

The 5-foot-8-inch senior hails from San Antonio, out of Madison High School and is majoring in Criminal Justice.

Mays will help the ’Runners continue their eight-year conference title streak by returning nine starters from last season’s roster. The women’s team hosts University of Nebraska-Omaha Aug. 28 at Auraria Field.

Metro men’s soccer midfielder Steven Emory and women’s soccer forward Becca Mays. Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu The men’s Preseason Player of the Year in the RMAC is Metro midfielder Steven Emory. Emory has played in all 44 games of his college career and tied for fourth on the team with five goals and one assist for 11 points.

Although Mays may see the title of Preseason Player of the year as a compliment, Emory sees the title like

making the Madden Cover, it is only a curse.

“It’s weird because the season hasn’t even started,” Emory said.

“It’s been a curse in the past from what I have been told. I am going to try to break the curse this year.”

The 6-foot-2-inch junior will be helping the ’Runners make the NCAA Tournament with help from

senior Tyler Hambrick who was the men’s third-leading scorer last year with five goals.

“This year our main goal is making it past the first round of the tournament,” Emory said.

The last three years the men’s team has made it to the NCAA tournament but has yet to make it past the first round of the tournament.

This seems to be the more underlying curse than that of having the Preseason Player of the Year on the roster.

Emory is from Fort Collins and attended Fort Collins High School.

He plans on majoring in Health Care Management.

Loss of key components affecting Broncos

By Josiah Kaan jkaan@mscd.edu Last fall, the Denver Broncos were primed and ready to take the American Football Conference’s West Division by storm and make a deep play-off run.

Newly acquired veteran running back, Michael Pittman, was ready to take the torch from a long line of Mike Shanahan produced 1,000yard rushers, and Jay Cutler was still the big dog in town.

Oh, how a year can change things, drastically.

After a disappointing 8-8 season in 2008 that saw the Broncos miss the play-offs for the third consecutive year, due to a monumental late season collapse, the team did the unimaginable to Broncos nation: They got rid of head coach Mike Shanahan.

The loss of Shanahan undoubtedly sent the Broncos Nation reeling, and instead of consoling the loss of a legend with the hiring of a veteran head coach, the Broncos went with inexperience. They hired the offen-

sive coordinator of the New England Patriots, Josh McDaniels.

As the offensive coordinator of the Patriots, McDaniels helped the team to the only 17-0 perfect season, along with breaking a slew of offensive records. As impressive as these sound, one must consider the spectacular talent that McDaniels had at his disposal.

Starting at quarterback, threetime super bowl champion, two-time super bowl Most Valuable Player, and 2007 National Football League MVP, Tom Brady and at wide receiver, sixtime pro-bowler, Randy Moss. These are just the two biggest names of a star-studded offense that McDaniels had to work with. Not to mention he was working for modern football genius, Bill Belichick.

The first thing McDaniels did as the Broncos’ new head coach was infuriate the face of the franchise, Jay Cutler. It’s not the route that most new head coaches would take, but it was McDaniels intent to make his brainchild, career back-up Matt Cassel, into a starting quarterback.

In an attempt to acquire Cassel, McDaniels alienated his pro-bowl quarterback and effectively ended Cutler’s reign as the Broncos’ quarterback; sending him into a fury that started out as a trade demand and ended with the Chicago Bears.

Cutler was traded to the Bears for draft picks and, as the eventual replacement for the pro-bowler, Kyle Orton.

For the second time in the young Bronco off-season, the Broncos Nation was sent reeling. This time it was a different animal, as the fans turned on themselves; split down the middle with Cutler sympathizers and McDaniels sympathizers.

The argument that Cutler is a “cry baby” and that he needs to bow to the wishes of team owner Pat Bowlen, may have been the loudest initial cry, but then they saw Orton play.

Now the opinion that trading Cutler was an awful idea doesn’t seem to be so far fetched.

During this preseason, Orton has thrown four interceptions and one

touchdown. While Cutler hasn’t put up Pro-Bowl numbers with a single touchdown throw, he only has one interception compared to Orton’s four.

To even further hurt the Q.B. situation in Denver, back-up Broncos’ quarterback Chris Simms, son of legendary quarterback Phil Simms, has yet to throw an interception, but has already completed two touchdown passes ­­— and he didn’t play most of 2008 because of a ruptured spleen.

The Broncos have had their identity stolen. If Broncos’ fans wanted to root for the Patriots then they would have. Instead the Patriots have come to Denver dressed in Broncos blue and orange, but still acting just like a Patriot.

The Broncos will play their first home game of the season Aug. 30 against Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears. It sure is ironic that the once heir to the Elway throne is coming back for the first game in Denver, except this time it’s a different shade of blue and orange.

Broncos Schedule Preseason 8/30 vs. Chicago Bears 9/3 vs. Arizona Cardinals Regular Season 9/13 @ Cincinnati Bengals 9/20 vs. Cleveland

Browns 9/27 @ Oakland Raiders 10/4 vs. Dallas Cowboys 10/11 vs. New England

Patriots 10/19 @ San Diego

Chargers 11/1 @ Baltimore Ravens 11/9 vs. Pittsburgh

Steelers 11/15 @ Washington

Redskins 11/22 vs. San Diego

Chargers 11/26 vs. New York

Giants

“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” Joe Paterno, head coach of the Pennsylvania State University’s football team • THE METROPOLITAN • AUGUST 27, 2009 • SPORTS • A13

Larson rescues girl while lifeguarding

Softball player’s quick thinking saves child’s life

By Will Howard howarwil@mscd.edu

What started out as another day at the pool, quickly turned into a life and death situation for Metro student and lifeguard, Alaina Larson.

Larson was part of a team that rescued a 5-year-old girl from drowning Aug. 14 at Aztlan Recreation Center in Denver.

“We think she may have had a seizure in the water,” Larson said.

“Her friend went down to get her and brought her up to the surface, and I met them at the side of the pool.”

That’s when her training took over.

“I pulled her out and checked her pulse,” Larson said. “She wasn’t breathing and had no pulse, so I started CPR on her.”

While Larson continued chest compressions, another lifeguard, Myrisa Garcia, started rescue breathing on the little girl. Meanwhile one of the other lifeguards on duty, Zach Stout, called Emergency Medical Service and brought out the defibrillator (a device used to jump-start a stopped heart) in case it was needed.

“We got her to cough up some water, so we turned her on her side, but her breathing stopped again,” Larson said. “We flipped her back onto her back and I started a second set of chest compressions.”

EMS arrived five or six minutes after they were called, and they took over from there, Larson said.

This was Larson’s first experience saving anyone.

“I was nervous and scared, but confident that I knew what I was doing,” Larson said. “I’m just happy and relieved she’s OK. I’m glad I got to save somebody.”

Denver police recognized Larson and her team for their actions by giving them a Hero Medal Aug. 21.

“I wasn’t expecting anything, but it feels good to be acknowledged,” Larson said. “I’m just glad she’s OK. Being recognized was just a bonus.”

For Larson, being a lifeguard runs in the family. Her father and sister were both involved in lifeguarding, and her brother is currently going through the process of becoming one. This is Larson’s second summer as a lifeguard, but first at Aztlan. She started last year at Scheitler Recreation Center in Denver.

Larson loves being around kids and loves the water.

“It’s fun doing something that I really enjoy,” Larson said. “I plan on

doing it for as long as I can.”

Larson has been playing first base for the Metro softball team for three years now. She’s been playing softball since she was 8 years old.

Her dad was a coach and got her interested in it.

Larson is from Wheat Ridge and enjoys being so close to home at Metro.

“Metro is the perfect fit for me,” Larson said. “My parents went to school here too and they can come see all my games.”

Academically, Larson is merging her passion for athletics and her fondness of kids into a degree in human performance and sport, with an emphasis on K-12 physical education. She wants to someday pass on that passion and knowledge to kids.

“I wasn’t expecting anything, but it feels good to be acknowledged.

I’m just glad she’s OK.”

ALAINA LARSON METRO SOFTBALL FIRST BASEMAN Metro softball first baseman Alaina Larson. Photo by Drew Jaynes • ajaynes1@mscd.edu

ATTENTION METRO STUDENTS! DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR COMPUTER LABS ARE? Student Lab Hours & Locations LAB

Platform

Mon–Thurs

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

KC

317

PC

8 a.m.–9 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed

PL

246

PC

8 a.m.–9 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed

PL

307

Mac & PC

8 a.m.–9 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed

SI

124

Mac & PC

7 a.m.–10 p.m.

7 a.m.–8 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

12–4 p.m.

SO

103

PC

8 a.m.–9 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed

SS

119

Mac

8 a.m.–9 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed

Closed

TIV

225

Mac & PC

8 a.m.–8 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed

WC 244

Mac & PC

7 a.m.–10 p.m.

7 a.m.–5 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed

WC 243

PC

8 a.m.–9 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed

Metro South

PC

8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Closed

Metro North

PC

9 a.m.–8:45 p.m.

9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

9 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Closed

(varies)

Metro State IT Computer Labs have implemented a printing policy. For detailed information, please visit: www.mscd.edu/~infotech/complabs/policies.htm.

Remember, no drinks or food allowed!

IT Labs can not be responsible for lost items including jump drives. Please visit the Tivoli lost and found for assistance.

A wealth of information about the Metro State Computing Labs can be found at www.mscd.edu/~infotech/complabs/info. Here you will find information on lab hours, lab locations, software availability, policies or employment opportunities.

Metro State IT Computer Labs are Green!… Starting fall semester, all printers in the Computer Labs will default to duplex printing in an effort to reduce the amount of paper consumed. Join our efforts to save our environment!

Students using Metro State IT Labs and associated resources should be aware of the rules and procedures that make up the Metro State Responsible Usage Policy.

To learn about responsible use of information technology resources at Metro State, go to: www.mscd.edu/~infotech/complabs/policies.htm.

Metro State has labs that are equipped with PC or MAC systems. The computer labs are not just for students taking computer classes. Any Metro State student who is currently enrolled may use the equipment. Word processing, spread–sheet, database and programming software is available. Laser printers are available in each of the labs as well as access to the World Wide Web.

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FML: Everyday life stories

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Today, I was driving my car and I thought the construction guy was flirting and waving at me. So I drove by him, waving back and hit an oil spill and my car ended up spinning out of control. He was trying to direct me away from the oil spill. FML Today, I was eating with a friend while walking on the sidewalk. A couple of pigeons were bothering us so I threw a fry onto the street. As a flock of pigeons were gathering around the fry, a truck drove by.

Only four survived.

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FABRICATED TALES

World’s armies preparing for ‘anything’

Texts from last night (805): found: crazy homeless guy quoting Quagmire lines to every chick he sees. i think i win the scavenger hunt.

Across 1- Change for a five 5- Clock face 9- First name in country 13- Track event (813): Haha 14- Division of a long poem Tomato, Tomato. That 15- Epic narrative poem doesn’t work very 16- Novelist Waugh well via text 17- Diciembre follower 18- Dynamic beginning (914): We just saw 19- Closer a waitress walk by 21- Microwave with a tray of bacardi 22- Unhearing and whipped cream. 23- Chow (1-914): Whoever 25- Bristle ordered that deserves 27- Three points scored by one player a pat on the back 31- Saw for cutting wood with the grain and the “classiest 35- French 101 verb customer” award.

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By D. Graziano dgrazia1@mscd.edu Based on a bevy of recommendations from the United Nations, armed forces of most of the free world have begun training for what is only being referred to as “anything.”

Soldiers practice tire-changing “Let’s be serious drills recommended by the UN. for a moment,” said Ki-moon said the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “The universe is a trainings have nothing to do crazy place and we need to be with an impending attack on Earth, but rather that soldiers ready for anything.”

Soldiers will take courses should just be prepared. “‘Visit,’” he said, “would on subjects like interstellar hand gestures and the use of be a much more appropriate word.” mirrors against death lasers.

WEEK{PREVIEW} SATURDAY/ 08.29

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Great Whiskey Debate

Hit and Run: Musical Improv

6 P.M. Mile High Station — 2027 W. Colfax Ave. Free

8 P.M. — 10 P.M. 9 A.M.— 1 P.M. Bovine Metropolis Theater — 1527 Champa 15th and Wynkoop St. Free $12 Burlesque As It Was

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SUNDAY/ 08.30

The School of Rock Presents Kidstock: Celebrating Woodstock’s 40th Anniversary 2 P.M. The Soiled Dove Underground $8

Lucky Mutt Strut 7:30 A.M. Washington Park $30 — $35

Magic Underground

11:00 P.M. — 1 A.M. Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret — 1601 Arapahoe $10

MONDAY/ 08.31

10 P.M. Denver Civic Cabaret — 721 Santa Fe Drive $15

TUESDAY/ 09.01

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8:30 P.M. University of Denver’s Historic Chamberlin Observatory $3

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Chamberlin Observatory Astronomy Public Night

No Garage Garage Sale in LoDo

Beginning Belly Dancing Class

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz

7 P.M. Mercury Cafe, 21st and California $10

8 P.M. Moe’s Original Bar B Que — S. Broadway and Eastman Avenue Free

Marijuana is Safer: Book Talk 7:30 P.M. Tattered Cover — 16th and Wynkoop.

FREE

Last Day at Metro to drop classes with 50 percent refund.

WEDNESDAY/ 09.02

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FRIDAY/ 08.28

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THURSDAY/ 08.27

METRO FALL FEST

10 A.M. — 4 P.M. TIVOLI COMMONS FREE Come celebrate fall and experience at the higher education equivalent of a county fair. Get involved with a club, buy handmade jewelry and sample Thai barbecue sticks all in between classes. Student organizations, local arts and crafts, food vendors, music and dancing fill the sidewalks at Auraria for this tri-institutional event.