Volume 32, Issue 7 - Sept. 3, 2009

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Vol. 32, Issue 7

September 3, 2009

Rally calls for reform Denverites voice support for president’s health care plan • A5

Doug Hoff, left, and Dane Bushell join close to 1,500 supportive community members chanting “H-O-P-E, it worked before and we’ve got more!” at Organizing for America’s “Health Insurance Reform Now” bus tour at Denver North High School August 28. A group of about 50 stayed on the outskirts of the rally to protest the event. The Denver stop was third in a nation-wide push to foster support for the Obama administration’s proposed health care reform. Photo by Taryn Jones • tjone101@mscd.edu

Higher ed. chief resigns Women’s Skaggs cites differences with governor • A5 soccer METROSPECTIVE shuts out Angelo State MODERN DESIGN WELDS SPORTS

• A11

‹ Taylor Nicholls

FUNCTION WITH STYLE • B4

A3 • THE METROPOLITAN • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

NEWS

“One generation bows to the next leaving the monuments and the relics that they have built or neglected.”

- Colin Seger on A8

CAITLIN GIBBONS • NEWS EDITOR • cgibbon4@mscd.edu

Celebrating science, culture Diversity in the labratory spreads to Auraria event

“My parents didn’t want me to go into science, they wanted me to put food on the table.”

By Taryn Jones tjone101@mscd.edu More than 1,400 scienceminded students attended the first Denver regional conference hosted by the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, Aug. 28 and 29 in the Tivoli Turnhalle.

Working to integrate more people of Chicano/Hispanic and Native American descent into the science and technology fields, SACNAS has been hosting annual national conferences in various states for more than 25 years. The society aims to raise awareness of available opportunities and provide mentorship to those who would otherwise not give science a second thought.

Beginning with students in late high school and following through to postdoctoral education, this organization supports, advances, engages, innovates, and connects its 20,000 members to the science world at large.

SACNAS board member and biochemist, Maximiliano Vallejos is quick to point out the cultural differences that exist between families and heritages.

“My parents didn’t want me to go into science, they wanted me to put food on the table,” Vallejos said.

The expectations, Vallejos felt, placed his academic career simply as a prologue to future financial security.

“They thought I would go through high school, then graduate school, then finish med school and that would be it,” Vallejos said.

“To them, it was written in stone. After med school, there would be nothing for me.”

Elizabeth Bell, a thirdgrade teacher in predominantly-white Downingtown, Pa. school district agrees.

“On back to school night, white parents want to know how well their children are doing grade-wise, Hispanic parents want to know if their kids are behaving,” Bell said.

This disconnect, the in-

-MAXIMILIANO VALLEJOS, SACNAS board member and biochemist

Native American dancer, Tony Hedgepeth, performs a tribal dance, originally from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in 1883. Hedgepeth and a variety of other Native American dancers performed during the SACNAS Rocky Mountain Regional Conference Aug. 29 at the Tivoli Turnhalle. Photo

by Sean Mullins • smullin5@mscd.edu ability to see that in the land of opportunity, opportunity does in fact exist, is the driving force of SACNAS. Kermin Martinez, a SACNAS student board member and graduate student in chemistry at Purdue University said, the problem doesn’t arise from a shortage of intelligent and curious high school students.

“Failure isn’t happening because these kids are bad or dumb, it’s because they don’t know about the resources out there. We create a visibility of opportunities at these conferences,” Martinez said. The high school question-and-an-

swer panel proves that these students know what they’re talking about.

“What classes should I take now to get into good science programs later?’ ‘What do you think about a Ph.D. in the biomedical field?’ ‘How much research experience is enough?’ ‘How do you make sure you don’t become obsolete?’”

Culture, however, has many things to add to science, which seems, currently, to be devoid of such. Different backgrounds bring different sets of eyes, and with that comes new possibilities.

As one bystander joked, “A

bunch of old, white guys can only come up with so many things by themselves.”

“By the year 2050, or somewhere around there, Caucasians will be the minority,” said Paul Layborn, CSU staff, referring to a recently published study.

“To leave out the current minority is simply a waste of ideas and important man power,” Layborn said.

Lino Gonzalez, a SACNAS board member working in the biotechnology field, feels that by welcoming more minorities into this field, it makes America as a whole more competitive with other countries.

To uphold their philosophy that culture has a place within science rather than removed from it, SACNAS includes a cultural performance piece into every conference.

Holding true to the heritage that brought them here today, a Native American dance performance is put on before the close of the conference.

Sharing, listening, and understanding one another is something that has always been sacred to Francis Sherwood, singer and drum player, and to the brightly colored and festively adorned dancers who take the stage.

“When our warriors would come home, we would celebrate pow-wow with their state of return,” Sherwood said.

“Powwow is now done as a celebration of life, being victorious in school, and being good in our professional life.”

Rhythmic drumbeats and vibrating vocals lead the padded feet of Josh Running Wolf into a reflection of the message being shared here today.

The red cloth speaks of the bravery he has possessed in his journey, and the traditionally worn plumage quivers with the energy of accomplishment.

Faces of all colors stare entranced, filled with anticipation of the great things to come.

The next conference will be a national gathering in Dallas, Oct. 15-18.

According to the official SACNAS web site, the theme for the national conference is “Improving the Human Condition: Challenges for Interdisciplinary Science.”

For more information, check out the SACNAS web site at www.sacnas.org.

THIS WEEK EVENTS

9.4

SGA President Andrew Bateman’s State of the Assembly Address to the Senate The president’s plans for accomplishing legislative agenda 2:30 p.m. Tivoli 320

9.7

Labor Day College Closed

9.8

Lunch with Lawmakers series Colorado Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tivoli MultiCultural Lounge

INDEX INSIGHT ... A8 METROSPECTIVE ... B1 AUDIOFILES ... B6 SPORTS ... A11 TIMEOUT ... A14

WEATHER 9.3 • Chance of rain High: 84/Low: 55 9.4 • Partly Cloudy High: 83/Low: 54 9.5 • Partly Cloudy High: 82/Low: 54 9.6 • Chance of rain High: 84/Low: 54 9.7 • Partly Cloudy High: 83/Low: 52 9.8 • Chance of rain High: 81/Low: 50 9.9 • Partly Cloudy High: 83/Low: 54

By Kendell LaRoche

CORRECTIONS In the August 27 issue of The Metropolitan the incorrect high-risk age group was reported. The age group should include everyone under the age of 25.

In the same issue, the caption for the bottom left photo on page B4 should have read Jessica Justice.

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? Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state. • THE METROPOLITAN • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • NEWS • A5

Health care rallies support Rally draws crowd in favor of proposed reform

By Minerva Gawex galvezm@mscd.edu

By Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu More than 1,500 people rallied at Denver North High School to show their support and voice an opinion about the Obama administration’s proposed health care reform Aug. 28.

The event, which was sponsored

by Organizing for America, is part of the nation-wide “Health Insurance Reform Now” bus tour to raise support for health care reform. Health care has become a controversial subject for Americans as insurance premiums are rising and many people are left either unable to pay or without insurance at all.

Not all of the 1,500 people in attendance were in agreement with the Obama administration’s reform proposal, but most could agree that some change needs to be made.

Britt Landis, a sociology student at Colorado College, is insured through her parents, but recognizes the struggle American families are facing with insurance.

“I’m lucky to be insured, but I am happy to show my support for something I believe in and support my fellow citizens,” she said.

Auraria was slated to host the rally, but “The folks responsible for getting the bus here and the logistics decided to change venues,” Jeff Stamper, division director of support services said. “We were prepared to handle the event.”

Metro freshman Alex Trujillo, a computer science major, was attending the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science regional conference in the Tivoli, when he saw a group of people gathering outside and decided to hop on the 31 bus to attend the rally.

Trujillo said his insurance coverage will run out when he turns 21, which is soon.

“I’m concerned but I’m sure a lot of other people here are too, that’s why I’m here,” said Trujillo.

At Metro, all students taking 10 or more credit hours are required to have health insurance, either through an outside carrier or through the college.

Evelyn Simpson, a self-employed real estate appraiser from Lakewood ,

What Denverites have said about the proposed health care reform

“As a college student I have no health insurance. My only option is public health reform.”

–Cameron Lewis “I support health care reform that ensures everyone gets health insurance.”

–Dane Bushell “My issue is the public needs to be informed about health care reform in order to make better choices about their health care.”

–Marcee Mygatt is struggling to pay for health care for herself and her 14-year-old daughter.

“My business has declined greatly, My income last year was very, very low. If I compare the amount of my premiums for myself and my one daughter, it is over 80 percent of what I made last year,” Simpson said.

Jane Banzin, from Westminster, who worked for Anthem Blue Cross for 25 years and is now retired, is fortunate to have health insurance through her husband.

“I happen to have great health care and health insurance. I’m willing to pay more if my friends, people I know, people I don’t know, can have the same kind of care I have. I think insurance companies are bleeding us dry,” Banzin said.

Joseph Buchholz, of Denver, came to the rally to support the public option component.

“It’s the only way we can get serious competition with the health care industry,” he said.

His wife has worked for Excel Energy for 33 years. “She can’t retire because we can’t get health care,” Buchholz said.

His daughter, Aja Tolve, is insured through her employer.

“If Costa Rica can have national health care, we should have national health care,” she said.

Along with supporters of the proposed health care reform was a group of about 50 protestors. The protestors stayed outside of the main

event along 32nd Avenue near Federal Boulevard. Many carried signs with slogans such as “No Obama care for us!”

Laura Barnes, from Broomfield, and Brie Walsh, a student at Westwood College, attended the rally to voice their dissenting opinions.

Barnes said she does not believe the government should not run the health care system. “I believe we need reform, absolutely,” Barnes said. “Things are out of control, but the things that are in it are very detrimental to our civil liberties.”

Walsh expanded Barnes’ point saying, “There is a 2.5 percent income tax if you opt out of government health care. It will completely kill small business with payroll taxes for those that opt out.”

Both Barnes and Walsh are insured through their employers, but do pay some of the cost of their insurance.

The Denver stop is the third in the national tour. Gabe Liston-Zoline, state director of organizing for America said 50,000 signed declarations of support have been collected in Colorado. The declarations will be taken back to Washington and delivered to the legislature at the beginning of the new session.

For more information on health care reform, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services web site at www.healthreform.gov.

“The issue at hand with a health care reform program is it’s affordability and the ability to be accessible to everyone.”

–Denise Prakison “Health care is a human right, and it should cover everyone including immigrants who are here illegally.”

–Mario Vasquez

TOP: Ed Quayle shares a moment with his son Brian Quayle, 2, while waiting for the “Health Insurance Reform Now” bus tour rally to begin Aug. 28 at North High School. Quayle said he currently has good health insurance but is facing a 10 percent pay cut that will make it difficult to pay for his son’s medical needs who has severe cerebral palsy. “I support universal health care because… you can focus on dealing with your family’s chronic problems without having to worry about all the payment issues” said Quayle.

ABOVE: Julia Hicks, who feels strongly about health care reform said, “I will go fight this if I have to walk to Washington D.C.” Photos by Leah Millis •

lmillis@mscd.edu

Goals of the proposed health care reform

•Reduce long-term growth of health care costs for businesses and government •Protect families from bankruptcy or debt because of health care costs •Guarantee choice of doctors and health plans •Invest in prevention and wellness

•Improve patient safety and quality of care •Assure affordable, quality health coverage for all Americans •Maintain coverage when you change or lose your job •End barriers to coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions

From http://www.healthreform.gov/about/index.html

“It saddens me that in a country that has so many riches, it can not take of its citizens with public health care.”

–Juanita Freeman “I am a hospice nurse and one of my patients was unemployed. He developed tumor because he had no way of accessing preventive care. He was rushed to the emergency room because the tumor had grown so much it shattered his arm. After hearing that story from him, I decided to join the fight for public health reform.”

–Kari Stemm-Wolf “Because there is no universal coverage, my grandson had to suffer the consequences, he was taken off Medicaid which prevented him from getting his daily medications, thus costing him his life. There needs to be a reform soon.”

–Johari Ade-Green

A6 • NEWS • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN • FYI: Licking a stamp consumes 1 tenth of the calorie.

On the street By Ben Wiebesiek • Photos by Ryan Martin

If you could spare any program, class or club from potential budget cuts what would you save?

“The theatre department only puts on one main stage production a year and if you’re going to cut funding in a place like that you’re kind of beating a dead horse because not only are you not using the money wisely, but that’s a place where you can gain money for the school because you’re selling tickets to these productions.”

Cameron Terry – UCD Senior

“I am a member of the teacher education program, I think that’s a pretty important one not to have cut, and I used to be a member of the music education program. The music program has gone under a lot of cuts so far and I think they shouldn’t cut anything else.”

Ashleigh Haase – Metro Senior

“Class materials and expenses. All of my professors can’t print out paper anymore and they can’t take us to the museums, to fund class trips, or other materials.”

Aly Peters – UCD Senior

“I wouldn’t cut anything in African-American Studies, anything as it relates to minority studies, more specifically African-American studies, Women’s studies, Chicano studies, a lot of the minority organizations, the minority groups, I wouldn’t cut nothing from them at all. First and foremost, nothing from African-American studies.”

Tracy Allen – Metro Sophomore

“Obviously, academics are the most important thing. I think sporting programs are also important. It’s tough. I think maybe we could cut back from all the programs. I hate to see programs eliminated. I think maybe manage the departments a little tighter and extend the use of supplies.”

Bill Thielke – Metro Senior

“I guess since I’m an SIO major I would have to say sports. Probably I would say foreign languages as well just because that’s an up-andcoming field that is definitely going to be important in the future.”

Josh Bamford – Metro Junior

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Student senators set agenda Mountain meeting motivates SGA reps for new resolutions

By Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu

By Ben Wiebesiek wiebesib@mscd.edu Metro’s student senators approved seven initiatives during their annual retreat Aug. 21 covering a broad range of issues including campus safety, textbook costs, parking fees and state funding for higher education.

The passage of the new senate resolutions will set the primary objectives for President Andrew Bateman and the executive branch of the Student Government Assembly for the 2009-10 academic year.

“The retreats were incredibly productive and a lot of good concepts and ideas came out of them,” Student Trustee to the Board of Trustees, Kailei Higginson said.

“The senators made some extraordinarily good decisions about what the focus is going to be on how to improve the quality of education at Metro,” he said.

The senate retreat was one of two SGA retreats held this summer in Breckenridge.

Among the agenda items decided at the two-day event, was an initiative to change how the SGA itself is funded.

The money collected from the student affairs fees — an amount totaling more than $2 million in recent years — is allocated to 16 student life programs, including the SGA. The student life programs receive a share of this revenue based on the appropriation of the Board of Trustees acting on the recommendation of the Student Affairs Board.

SGA members represent a majority of the SAB, a status that Bateman

Speaker of the Senate Hashim Coates, center, smiles during a Student Government Assembly meeting Aug. 29.

Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu described as “a potential conflict of interests,” between the representatives and the committees that determine the student government’s funding.

The new initiative, titled SR0910, would begin the process of removing the SGA budget from the jurisdiction of the SAB by drafting a proposal to create a separate fee for student government and to reduce the student affairs fee by the same amount.

The proposed budget for the SGA from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, is $299,452.

The senate retreat also placed campus safety as a top priority for the SGA. SR09-08 tasks the executive branch with the creation of several proposals aimed at reducing crime and increasing emergency preparedness on campus. Among these proposals will be an effort by the ex-

ecutive branch to improve nighttime lighting and an investigation into the installation of “panic buttons” in Metro classrooms, designed to alert police in the event of an emergency.

With steep cuts in higher education threatening the function of Metro programs, SR09-07 directs the SGA to coordinate with the Associated Students of Colorado, the Alumni Action Task Force and the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute to provide “information and perspective to the state as they continue to make budget decisions.”

The senate commissioned the executive branch on SR09-11 and SRS09-12 to work towards the creation of several programs designed to ease the financial burdens for Metro students, including “a free, online textbook marketplace” to operate as a service similar to Craigslist where students can buy, sell and trade text-

books without third-party expenses; and a “Student Admission/Registration/Financial Aid Survival Guide” to communicate information to the student body.

Another resolution, SR09-06 focuses on changing Denver Municipal Code to allow the construction of taller buildings at Auraria.

The building code of the city prevents the construction of any building on campus with a height 5,215 feet above sea level.

The ordinance, which grants an exception to Invesco Field at Mile High, was designed to maintain a viewing plane from the location of the old Denver City Hall west toward the Rocky Mountains. The old city hall building was located at 14th Avenue and Larimer Street but was demolished in the 1940’s and is now the site of a parking lot alongside Speer Boulevard.

Metro’s tenured faculty wins court decision

By Andrew Flohr-Spence spencand@mscd.edu Metro professors recently won a six-year court battle against the college’s board of trustees concerning job security for tenured professors in the case of a financial crisis, but the resolution seems to have only led to more questions.

The professors’ case, Saxe v.

Board of Trustees, the 12 member, state-mandated board that governs Metro, was a response to changes the board made in 2003 to the faculty handbook.

The rules govern employee rights and responsibilities for professors.

The changes gave the board and the president authority to decide tenured professors’ rights to keep their jobs or be transferred to a new department in the case of a financial crisis at the college.

“We see this decision as mean-

Department of higher education director resigns

ingfully protecting academic freedom and shared governance, the cornerstones of higher education in the U.S. not only at Metro, but by extension, for faculty throughout the country,” said Ellen Slatkin, president of the Metro Faculty Federation The federation, a local union that is part of the nationwide Association of Federated Teachers with members among the tenured faculty at Metro, supported the professors’ case during the six years it was in court.

Faculty Senate President Lynn Kaersvang said she is “delighted” the professors won.

“It’s essential for Metro moving towards preeminence that professor’s tenure rights be fully restored,” Kaersvang said.

She said such rules protecting tenured professors are standard around the country because tenure ensures academic freedom for profes-

sors to research what they choose.

When colleges need to make cuts during economically trying years without tenure laws, they might cut the most expensive faculty, the tenured faculty, Kaersvang said. “It’s of particular concern to the faculty in the economic environment we are currently in because such extreme measures could be a necessity,” she said.

The trustees’ date for appeal elapsed as of Aug. 17, leaving the final word in the case, Saxe v BOT, to the Colorado Court of Appeals June 5 ruling that that no changes be made.

The previous 1994 version of the faculty handbook establishes a set priority for tenured professors if the college has to reduce its staff, leaving such decisions out of the hand of the president and board.

Made during the college’s last state budget cuts, the handbook

changes were enacted before the majority of the current trustees were appointed, including President Stephen Jordan, who started at the college two years later.

Since 2003, Jordan and the board have further amended many of the rights of tenure in question in the handbook.

Jordan says in the five years since taking office he and the board have worked with the faculty on the handbook to make things right again. “I think the issues that were ultimately decided in the case were issues we already dealt with in the policy changes,” he said.

“If faculty members and their attorneys have differences in opinion about the intent of the court and its actions and the current policy, they are certainly welcome to provide that to us in writing and we will give it full consideration,” Jordan said.

David Skaggs, executive director of the Department of Higher Education and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, announced his resignation Aug. 28.

Skaggs served as executive director for two and a half years and his resignation comes during a time of funding turmoil for higher education. With the conclusion of the past legislative session Metro alone saw a $10 million reduction in state funding for the 2008-2009 fiscal year.

Higher education as a whole saw a $150 million reduction in funding.

The state is now looking at reducing funding by an additional $80.9 million for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.

In his official letter of resignaetion addressed to Gov. Bill Ritter, Skaggs states, “I very much regret that we have encountered a matter about which, with mutual respect and on a principled basis, we could not agree.”

Neither John Karakoulakis, director of legislative affairs or Evan Dreyer, Gov. Ritter’s spokesman elaborated on the disagreement.

“It is a crucial time for higher ed. in Colorado given the economy, the funding constraints and the need to keep costs affordable. There is a tremendous sense of urgency and importance to getting the position filled,” Dreyer said Metro President Stephen Jordan said he has not heard of any potential replacements for Skaggs.

“I think Mr. Skaggs was very interested around the question of how you get historically underrepresented populations into college and then retain them and persist them to graduation and that obviously is a population that we spend a lot of time working with so in that sense we really had a common agenda,” Jordan said.

“He is an extraordinary public servant and someone of strong principles and integrity. He is a good friend, and on behalf of the people of Colorado, I thank him for his service and his dedication,” Ritter said in a press release.

The Colorado Department of Higher Education was founded to “improve the quality of, ensure the affordability of, and promote access to, post secondary education to the people of Colorado.” CCHE, a division of the Department of Higher Education, was created by the legislature in 1965 to help create longterm solutions and policies for higher education.

The next CCHE meeting was scheduled for Sept. 10 at Front Range Community College.

All planned meetings for CCHE have been pushed back until October.

A8 • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN

INSIGHT BIGGER VIEW

— METRO MEN'S SOCCER FORWARD RI ARMSTRONG ON A13

Man, waiting in line for the health center is bad now; wait until it all gets nationalized.

Preparing for the Swine Flu Staff Editorial New York Times, Aug. 31, 2009 There was a lot of confusion last week about swine flu. A presidential advisory group issued a “plausible scenario” in which a swine flu epidemic could cause up to 90,000 deaths, three times the mortality in a typical flu season.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention countered that the toll would most likely not approach that number.

Our own take is this: A swine flu epidemic this fall and winter is likely to infect more people than a normal flu, but the virus will not be abnormally lethal. If it spreads rapidly after schools open, we will have to face it without vaccine, which will not arrive in substantial quantities until the swine flu epidemic has peaked.

The report that sparked concern was issued by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The council stressed that it was not predicting what would happen but was simply offering a scenario to help the government develop responses to a potential epidemic.

The report posited an epidemic that could produce symptoms in 60 million to 120 million people and cause as many as 90 million to seek medical attention; up to 1.8 million could be hospitalized, 300,000 could flood into crowded I.C.U.’s, and 30,000 to 90,000 people could die.

Even some members of the advisory panel think their estimates may be a bit high. In any case, this is a virus that is no more lethal, and possibly less lethal, than normal flu strains.

In the initial outbreaks last spring, an estimated 800,000 New Yorkers, 10 percent of the city’s population, developed symptoms attributed to the swine flu virus. Only 54 died — an encouragingly low death rate.

Another encouraging sign is that the virus has not become more virulent as it wends its way around the world.

The rub is that a vaccine to prevent swine flu is still being tested and will not be ready until mid-October, too late to help most people if the virus spreads rapidly in September after schools and colleges open almost everywhere. The standard advice will be to cover our coughs, wash our hands, and stay home if sick.

“I was kicking myself throughout the game to just put one in, so I made sure I just buried it.”

This is the line for the bookstore buddy.

Illustrated and written by THE METROPOLITAN STAFF

THE POINT: YOUR ACTIONS FORM THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN

Get involved while you still can

The dog days of summer are upon us. The lazy doldrums where no news is good news and good news is hard to come by.

And yet the 24-hour news cycle can dredge up and inundate us with increasingly bizarre stories about how the health care reform bill will create “death panels” and then those death panels will travel around targeting Republicans and health care opponents and gun owners.

It is hard to believe, that people actually believe these outrageous remarks fostered by the fringe groups and obscure radio hosts, picked up by more mainstream media commentators and then birthed by legitimate and mainstream media outlets.

If you are worried that the new health care bill will target you for discrimination, don’t worry: the government already has your name.

Remember when you went to the DMV to get your drivers license and you checked a little box that said Democrat, Republican or Independent? Remember when you filed your taxes, registered your car or went to Mexico for spring break?

In fact, under the previous administration if you have attended college on financial aid, the Education Department has provided your name to the Office of Homeland Security.

That is the reality of the informa-

COLIN SEGER cseger@mscd.edu tion age and chances are if you can Google yourself and come up with something that you don’t like, the lowliest member of any government organization, or any idiot with a 56k modem, can find the same thing.

However, in amongst the increasingly asinine “debate” over health care has been legitimate and newsworthy events that shape our life and times.

I recently walked into the office where I work on campus to see a fellow student with whom I have had a good rapport for a few semesters now. After saying hello be exclaimed with obvious exasperation “man, celebrities need to quit dying.” He was of course talking about Ted Kennedy.

I decided to let it slide, perhaps that could be a different column.

But it did get me thinking.

Sooner or later every graduate of Metro is going to be in a position

of power, in business, in the home or in government. Even if it does not involve the power to command human beings, maybe it will be a position of responsibility or duty. That is the inevitability of passing time.

One generation bows to the next, leaving the monuments and the relics that they have built or neglected. It is left to the next generation to choose what to build or neglect, always with an eye on their own legacy, from the inheritance gifted to them.

With the passing of such important people as Ted Kennedy, the scepter is being handed down to the next generation of great leaders and willing public servants.

It is more important than ever that the next generation gets involved in all aspects of public life.

However, nothing can be accomplished in a vacuum of sincerity and agreement on common fact. We, as the up and coming future actors on the world stage, must decide what world we want to live in and what world we want to leave behind. Having public debates built on scare tactics and totally false innuendo is not the type of world I wish to pass on.

As we engage in our future vocations, it is our duty to demand that both sides of any issue be bounded by rationality and truth.

This starts with every student, every disagreement and every word.

We cannot let the future slip out of our hands. The very foundation of democracy is built upon the bedrock of the exchange of ideas and the compromising of will to create workable solutions that benefit all who choose to be governed by its principle.

But no such structure can be built upon the shifting sands of completely false claims and a win-at-allcosts mentality.

It is dangerous to have debates using false claims that are accepted as fact by those who spew them, and un-rebuked by those that hear them.

No possible compromise can be satisfactory to either side when one is willing to distort and manipulate fact in order to bend the ultimate agreement to their own will.

In the end, what is left will be uncomfortable and unworkable even to those who advocated it. Worst of all, it violates the spirit of democracy and compromise that so many in this nation have worked so hard to bring about.

We as students and as the inheritors of the future world must sit at the counter of the diner and act to instill the discourse of this nation with a dogged sense of honesty. It’s so much bigger than health care.

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Cinema buff reels out program

By Julie Maas pretko@mscd.edu Rebecca Gorman teaches barefoot, but don’t be scared, she does have a good reason.

“I have freakishly high arches and if I have shoes on while I’m teaching, I have a lot of pain at the end of the day,” the Metro English professor said. “The other reason, that I don’t really tell people about, is that I’m a classically trained actor and most of my acting classes were taught without shoes to make you feel more grounded.

Honestly, it’s gotten to be such a habit that it is distracting for me to wear them.”

Gorman, 34, left home early at the age of 17 to attend Dartmouth College, majoring in drama and English. After an internship at Seattle Repertory Theatre for technical theater, she realized that her heart was in writing for the theater, not starring on it.

“I felt playwriting was what I really needed to do,” she said. “So I applied to five schools and chose Carnegie Mellon and I got my MFA in dramatic writing.”

Finishing her schooling at such a young age proved to make finding a job a little difficult.

“No one is gonna hire a 24-year-old college professor,” Gorman said. “So I worked in technical theater writing plays for about five years. Really, it was luck or fate that this wonderful department had an opening for a dramatic writer.”

While teaching both playwriting and screenwriting at Metro, she also has invested a lot of time and effort in the Cinema Studies program, a recent development of the English department.

“It was Dr. Jim Aubrey’s force,” Gorman said. “I’m on the committee to give input. I had the training to contribute to it, but he was the driving force.”

The year-old minor has accrued 25 students to date and is slowly growing.

“We saw people taking the Intro to Film class and wanting more,” Gorman said. “We saw that we were able to put it together through classes that were already in place.”

Gorman was a strong player in helping create classes within the program.

“She was the one who came up with the idea of calling one of our advanced, variable topic courses Cinema Genre,” Aubrey said. “This was so that we would have a title that would allow us to teach various kinds of groupings of cinema, such as films from particular nations or particular styles of filmmaking or particular social issues, etc.”

Last year Gorman was honored with the 2009 Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award for Tenure-Track Faculty, an award bestowed on professors applying for tenure.

This fall, Gorman is teaching the course called Shakespeare on Film.

“Drawing from some of my most favorite professors and some self training and to just take a love of Shakespeare and a love of cinema, develop a course and have it pass by the department and be able to do it. It’s wonderful,” Gorman said.

There are about five professors from the English department teaching cinema courses as well as three more

f r o m other departments.

“The Cinema Studies program is being housed in the English Department, but the field of study is really interdisciplinary.”

Aubrey said.

Though screenwriting is not part of the Cinema Studies minor due to the amount of prerequisites needed, it is a class that Gorman recommends taking.

“I think it would be a lovely other dimension,” she said. “Everything I did in the theater made me a better play-writer. I think dipping your toes in as many aspects of it only enriches the experience. I am big on knowledge.

All knowledge is worth having.”

Expressive both in the classroom as well as her own office, she has a presence you’re not likely to forget.

“Rebecca’senergyandcharacterare not only great assets in the classroom, but also they give her a strong voice in the department,” Aubrey said. “When

she contributes in committees and meetings, people pay close attention to what she says because she’s smart and well-spoken and likable.”

Though her parents, who were both teachers, encouraged her to avoid the field, she couldn’t keep away. ”I absolutely adore what I am teaching, I’ve been trained in this,” she said.

Gorman is proud of her education and of teaching at Metro. It sounds like she won’t be going anywhere else anytime soon.

“Here you are around people who know their stuff. Be happy with it. Be joyful with it. Learn what you want because this is the time.”

Metro{spective}

Rebecca Gorman, English professor for Metro, proudly displays her collage of cinema posters plastered throughout her office walls. Along with her English classes, Goreman is involved in the Cinema Studies Program. She is currently teaching the course Shakespeare on Film. Photo by Ryan Martin • martirya@mscd.edu

Julie Vitkovskaya Features Editor uvitkovs@mscd.edu

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B2• FEATURES • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN

12 p.m. Sun. The Know 3 p.m. Sun. The Andy Hilton Show 9 a.m. Mon. — Fri. Morning Mix 11 a.m. Mon., Wed., Fri., Suicide Sunglasses 11 a.m. Tue., Thurs.

Classic Rock 1 p.m. Mon., Wed. The Undercurrent 2 p.m. Tue. Dark Side of the Tune 2 p.m. Thurs.

Winds from the Front Range 3 p.m. Mon., Wed. Thrash Time 3 p.m. Tue., Thurs., Fri. Sports 4 p.m. Mon. — Fri. Emerald City Mix Show 6 p.m. Mon., Wed. Underground Hip-Hop 10 p.m. Mon., Wed. Techno/Electronica

CLUB BEAT

Alternatives Pregnancy Center

By Ashley Moreland amorela1@mscd.edu

The Alternatives Pregnancy Center works to support student parents on campus and help pregnant students continue their education.

Auraria’s center is one of five Alternative Pregnancy Centers in the Denver Metro area. These centers offer resources for abstinence, pregnancy and post-abortion. There is also a 24-hour help line: 303-295-2288 or 1-800-395-HELP. Auraria’s program offers resources to assist parents and pregnant students get grants and other financial support to help pay for their education and childcare. The program also offers support groups, parenting groups and STD testing referrals. Free pregnancy tests are available on Wednesdays at the Auraria office and free ultrasounds are available at the Central Office, 1440 Blake St., Suite 200.

“The groups just wants them to be fully aware of their choices,” said Peg Fraser, who has been the organization’s advisor for the past four years.

“We’re just concerned. We just love the students and just want to be there for them for whatever they need.”

For more information about Auraria’s center, visit the Club Hub on the third floor of the Tivoli Student Union, or the organizations office in St. Elizabeth on the east side of campus or visit www.apcdenver.org.

Meet your representatives Part 3

Executive Branch

Interviews by Julie Vitkovskaya uvitkovs@mscd.edu Photo by Drew Jaynes ajaynes1@mscd.edu

Micah Wheeler

Director of Academic Affairs Major: Teacher License, with a BA degree from CSU — Pueblo What are your goals?

There are the grad programs starting in the very near future, we want to be involved with that, we want to have our current students have a say about how they want the grad students implemented, or how they want the grad programs implemented, or how they want their grad students involved back in campus life. They’re going to be redoing the faculty evaluations system and we want to have student input on that. I know we get complaints from time to time about students who don’t think the faculty evaluations are handled appropriately.

What do they say? Is it ineffective?

Yeah, that would be what I hear most often. Students don’t see its effectiveness, Right now, we have a lot of anecdotal-type evidence.

How would you go about doing that?

Well, we could do a variety of methods. Tess (Halonen) would probably be a good person to talk with about the actual methods, our P.R. director. I would have her distribute and collect feedback. We have the campus e-mail system, Corey Keasling, our I.T. director, he is working on setting up some online feedback and tracking system on the SGA website.

What has been working so far in the restructuring of SGA? It seems that the executive branch… were freed from the burden of decision making and we able to focus more on implementation. We’re able to focus more on setting bench marks, setting goals and less kind of broader decision making that the senate is responsible for.

In your position, what is the biggest problem facing Metro today?

I would say, personally, how I’ve seen Metro campus and how I’ve seen students interact in their classes, it’s a very disengaged process. The students don’t have a lot of input as far as what kind of classes are offered when they’re offered.

Alex Gomez

Director of Student Affairs Major: History, minor in Secondary Education Why did you join the SGA? Last semester, I noticed that there were certain things that were happening in SGA that didn’t seem to representing a diverse student body. I grew up in Miami, and Miami is a very, very diverse city. It’s an absolute melting pot. I grew up with this training, this perspective, this obsession, this value system that essentially is based off understanding the diversity. And so I felt that by bringing that to SGA, being able to be sensitive to what attracts these different groups of minorities that exist throughout this campus is exactly what I will be doing.

What does the student body need?

There needs to be a better line of communication between the students and the administrators. We essentially are… stewards of pathways of communication between students and administrators. By not having that line of communication, the administrators are assuming that what a student wants, that may not be right.

How will you gather information from students?

One of the projects that I’m working on right now is about parking.

There is a series of steps. Student organizations, will be gathering surveys to get what the students think would be ideal situation for parking.

Once we gather this information, then the appropriate people will then learn of this information and then be able to make decisions based off of what is also practical on an administration level but also very much taking into consideration what the students want And some of the things I started working with is actually looking at the mandatory health insurance. One of the things that is my function is to be available for students to essentially allow students to come and give me complaints, or give us complaints.

And then I look at the information and do research on the information. And then of course, make the appropriate suggestions to the appropriate people.

Sammantha O’Brien

Corey Keasling

How does the SGA budget look like?

I like it a lot better this year. We’re allocating a lot more resources towards campus improvement projects, which I think is going to be huge. I think it’s going allow us to reach out to the student body in a way that we haven’t before.

What are your personal goals?

My goals this year for SGA is to make sure our I.T. Infrastructure fully supports the SGA and our initiatives to increase student awareness of the SGA to help facilitate the initiates that [the directors], all of the initiatives are adequately supported by the I.T. Infrastructure.

Director of Administration and Finance Major: Business Management

Can you talk about some of the campus improvement projects?

From what I’ve heard so far, is that we’re thinking about putting in a community garden. I don’t if its going to be considered campus improvement work, it’s just going to be an initiative, but we’re working on the Textbook website again and that’s definitely the one close to my heart, the one I really want to work on.

Are you afraid that this year, considering the budget cuts, you’ll have less money to work with?

I’m not too concerned about this year; I am concerned about SGAs in the future. I think with all of the stimulus money and just the fact that they’ve already done the budget because of the fiscal year and stuff, we’re going to be okay this year.

What is a challenge on the Metro campus ?

Student apathy is my biggest problem.

Last year I was a senator and senators last year pretty much did everything.

But the new structure is completely different. There was a lot more responsibility put onto one person in SGA, which made us a little bit more inefficient, I found myself trying to get students involved but instead of having incentives they, they turned into bribes, like pizza turned into bribes. They would come and eat the pizza and leave and not really care what you’re talking about. It’s really hard to get students to voice their opinions and find out what they want. As a representative, that’s my most important aspect of my job is to find out what students want and giving that to them because they pay their money. I don’t want to waste their money on things they don’t want.

Director of Information of Technology Major: Computer Science and Philosophy, minor in Mathematics

What will you be implementing this year?

The initiative that I’m involved directly is the Auraria Book Exchange and the goal of that, in just a vague way, is to facilitate the exchange of textbooks on a peer-to-peer basis and hopefully decrease the cost of attendance by decreasing the cost of, or the expense of students. And I can’t go into any more details because we don’t really have them flushed out yet.

Your position is mostly for the SGA and not for the student body, correct?

I don’t know if I would say that at all. No. I mean, my position is to affect the wishes of the senate, which directly represents the student body.

However, I am very much open to input from students as far as their opinion on, or their experience with Metro’s computing infrastructure because it is also my duty to keep the executive branch apprised of the needs of the students.

What other issues can the student body come to you for?

Issues with lab computing, you know, with the computer labs.

Their experiences regarding the availability of software or the unavailability of software just are they able to use the technology we provided to ensure that they’re getting the best education possible and how could their education be improved by modifying the technology we provide to them.

THE METROPOLITAN • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • FEATURES • B3

Chase me to the finish line Skirt chasing is inspired by a clothing company that sells sleek designs to women who love to run with style. This year, the company based out of Boulder will have 6 runs across the country. It’s the ultimate girls rule, boys drool event.

Dacia Johnson djohn205@mscd.edu Tennis shoes, running skirts and knee high socks in a rainbow of colors lined Steele street on Saturday Aug. 29. The occasion: Skirt Chasers Race Series. Over 1000 Denverites sported their favorite running apparel. Some had feather boas, aviator sunglasses and a few men sported kilts. Women created teams with matching t-shirts and Mardi Gras beads swayed as anticipation filled the air. Eager runners lined up for Denver’s annual Skirt Chaser’s 5K race.

This is a race unlike any other, it is the ultimate men vs. women com- Amber McGregor, petition with a fun twist.

At 5 p.m. the women gathered at Skirt Chaser participant the stating line as “Girls” by the Beastie Boys blasted through the speakers.

Women are dubbed the “skirts” because the race is sponsored by Skirtsports and women are given running skirts with registration.

The women take off with the intention of beating the boys. The men, nicknamed the “chasers” lined up for their start while “Pretty Fly For a White Guy”

“This race is unique and fun. It’s something that we can do together.”

by the Offspring got them pumped up.

The name if the game, “catch me if you can.”

The men take off in the hopes of finding their female partner, or if single, tracking down a girl with a “single” sticker perfectly placed her rear end.

The announcer told the men to “Chase those girls down the streets of Denver” and they sure tried, but the women’s three-minute head start left the guys doing more chasing than catching. The first couple to cross the finish line won a prize pack and the first person to win, skirt or chaser won 500 dollars. The winner was a skirt with a time of 17:30 with a chaser on her tail at 17:44. A skirt nabbed third place making them the winners of the rivalry.

The finish line was met with applause from spectators as couples crossed hand-in-hand and other runners made their way through solo. One couple crossed as a family after grabbing their child from a friend cheering on the side.

The end of the race turned into a block party with a live band, free food and beer for the runners, and table after table of sponsors handing out water bottles, protein bars and energy drinks. A tag line of the race is “The only route that gives you beer when you’re finished.”

Paul and Amber McGregor, a husband and wife

team, heard about the race through a friend and plan on running again next year with a group of friends. “ (this race is) unique and fun, it’s something we can do together.” Amber said.

“It was well organized but the hills killed me!” said Paul. Paul tried to catch up to his wife but lost her on a hill. “She beat me by 45 seconds!”

Caroline Cryer, 23, and Meghan Scholbe, 23, said this race was great, lighthearted and everyone had a really good spirit.

“It’s something different and I liked that it was in the early evening” said Scholbe.

Cryer and Scholbe ran with a group of friends, “I was the last one of the girls to finish but none of the guys caught up to me!” said Scholbe. Both girls said their favorite part of the race was the block party at the end.

CEO of Skirtsports and creator if the race Nicole Deboom wanted to create a race series with the message “feel good, look good, perform better.” she also believes highly in “Work hard, play hard.”

Registration was $55 for women which includes a Skirtsports skirt and $50 for men which includes a t-shirt. Proceeds go to HERA, health empowerment research and awareness, a women’s cancer foundation. There are six races each year in cities like Chicago, Tempe and Brisbane Australia. The “catch me if you can” game is catching on quick and will be in more cities in the years to come.

Snow Leopard makes its debut TechBytes

By Drew Jaynes ayanes1@mscd.edu In a move called ‘risky’ by popular technology blog Ars Technica, Apple decided to take an unprecedented tack with the newest flavor of their popular operating system OS X, by not actually introducing any especially new features with it.

Rather than focusing on new capabilities, Apple instead centered Snow Leopard’s release on improving performance and stability.

Ars’ impression is that Apple took this route to maintain OS X’s robust codebase, in other words, introduce new improvements but not very many new bugs.

The best way to think of Snow Leopard is as a refreshment for Leopard, rather than a completely new operating system.

With this latest release come significant improvements in performance ranging from faster boot and shutdown times to quicker loading for images and PDFs. In addition, Apple boasts a both a speedier and smaller installation. The computer maker claims an average of seven gigabytes of disk space previously used by the operating system will become available to users again.

In addition to performance enhancements, Snow Leopard has gone to full 64-bit

functionality.

What this means for developers is the capability to harness more multi-threading technologies tied to multi-core processors. Users can now have both faster and more efficient computers, as well as the ability to add more memory.

Business users will also be excited to learn that support has been added for Microsoft Exchange has been integrated into Mail and iCal. Apple has nullified the need for all previous workarounds having to do with Exchange, and in turn likely made a lot of industry techs very happy indeed.

The support for Exchange is about the only feature Apple concedes could be considered ‘new.’

Users can also look forward to previously paid-only capabilities of the latest build of Quicktime Pro, renamed Quicktime X, and available free with Snow Leopard.

Feature improvements include a new look, which departs from the previous iTunes-like interface. Some limited video editing capabilities are also packaged with QT X. For people who currently have licensed copies of Leopard, the price of upgrading is a paltry $29.

Anybody else can expect to pay upward of $169 for a single user upgrade, or $229 for a family pack of five licenses.

What is different in Snow Leopard?

• Existing Leopard users can upgrade for $29 • Installation is up to 45 percent faster.

• Integrated support for Microsoft Exchange Server • Full 64-bit architecture enabling more RAM and better use of multicore processors • Includes latest flavor of Quicktime Pro for free, called Quicktime X

For more information visit www.skirtchasers5k.com

Signed, PBJ

By Patience Brady I can’t seem to organize my life. I’m always losing things or forgetting to get something done. How can I make sure I stay on top of things?

I feel where you coming from! I’ve lost a lot of things and I’ve forgotten to get plenty of things done. To keep from losing your items, try and find a specific place to keep the items at all times. For organization, day timers and appointment books are a must have! Write down anything you need to get done, such as a science project, getting your oil changed, or a night out on the town with friends. Check your day timer or appointment book frequently, and mark off anything you’ve completed. With that, kick back and relax. • PBJ

B4 • METROSPECTIVE • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • METROSPECITVE • B5

THE METROPOLITAN

The right piece in the right town

The meaning of

After Lewis Buckingham retired, he started traveling across the country and collecting art deco and modern pieces. He drives from Colorado to Michigan; stopping on the way at various cities to search for pieces with value.

“I have to stop in Omaha at the Brass Armadillo. You just hope that...you have an eye for it. You see it, or you don’t see it,” Lewis said.

Buckingham stops at thrift stores, antique malls and estate sales on his cross-country tour near every city on his way. After he retired, he decided to start collecting chrome products from the ‘30s and ‘40s.

When he looks for his pieces, Buckingham looks for a “sub-category” of Art Deco design.

MOD D

From Deco Denver

Denver is full of design. It can be found in the living rooms of historic Capitol Hill homes or the hole-in-thewall restaurants. But we can never forget about the stuff that sticks: modern design. Locals still collect and dig for the style that works in both form and function.

By April Zemyan azemyan@mscd.edu

B

ring back the shag carpet and retro chairs among other household items and step into a period called modernism. The arts and items of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s are a flashback for some people. But in Denver, Modernists are always in search of ways to portray their interest in this unique century.

By definition, Modernism means a style of art from the early 20th century, but to modern enthusiasts it’s a way of life.

The Denver Modernism Show where dealers were able to exchange items and share stories as well as sell to Modernism admirers, recently came to the

From Mod’ Livin’

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Pairing passion with design

By Julie Vitkovskaya uvitkovs@mscd.edu

Photos by Drew Jaynes ajaynes1@mscd.edu

National Western Complex. The show featured a number of modern artists and collectors.

From modern furniture, art, and appliances to vintage purses, the show was a one-stop shop for modern fanatics.

Peg Gwin, co-owner of Pursonal Baggage, said she has a booth at the modern show every year. Although the company is based in Loveland, they buy and sell throughout the state.

Gwin started her retro purse collecting with her sister when she retired. She said they find purses at garage sales and auctions. Mostly, Pursonal Baggage books home parties and sells purses that way. But the Modernism Show has brought good things to their business.

“When we decided to go to the Modernism Show, we were very successful,” Gwin said of the show this year and in past years.

For Denver modern architect Dan O’Brien, Modernism is a window into other designs.

O’Brien said when talking about modern architect in Denver, it’s important to make a graceful interaction with existing neighborhoods.

“As a designer your’re shaping environment, our object is to create a visual,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien, who designs both commercial and residential, says Denver is young when it comes to adopting modern architecture. When comparing Denver to L.A., O’Brien said he thinks L.A. is more comfortable going the radical route and embracing modern architecture.

“Denver is a fledgling on a world spectrum,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien also does some designing in China, where he said trends move at a much faster pace than in the U.S. and Denver.

According to O’Brien, popular Modernism trends in architect includes designing open floor plans. O’Brien said residential design people are becoming more willing to try different materials, forms and shapes.

“There has definitely been a growth in range of comfort,” O’Brien said, speaking of people branching out to modern design.

To California modern artist SHAG, whose real name is Josh Agle, Modernism developed

during a time when people were optimistic and looking ahead. Agle said people wanted to create a style they could include in their lives.

And when asked who he thinks is interested in modernism these days Agle couldn’t point a finger to one group.

“There is a big span, from kids in high school to people old enough to be my parents, people are becoming more aware of it,” Agle said.

Agle recently had a booth at The Denver Modernism Show. He said Denver has many representations of modern art.

“From the neighborhoods and shops in Denver to the ski resorts in the mountains,” Agle said there are plenty of places to find modernism in Denver.

One misconception of modernism that both Agle and O’Brien said they would like to clear up is that it’s cold.

O’Brien said when people in the U.S. first started imitating modern buildings from Europe they thought that’s how they were supposed to be.

“Now it’s seen as interesting details, and not as cold,” O’Brien said.

Agle said he also thinks people see it as cold and uncomfortable too often, when really “it all depends how you do it. The future of Modernism as with anything is uncertain, but designers and artists alike agree it will always have its place. O’Brien relates the future of modernism to new and advancing computer equipment.

He said computers are enabling people to develop different forms than the first modern homes in Europe had. O’Brien said the program allows integration with actual building materials and new designs.

“Nobody’s ever going to walk away from it, there will always be continuing aesthetics,” O’Brien said.

Agle said he is confident that Modernism is going to stay put.

“It’ll always be there since it’s kind of retro, it’s one more thing people can borrow from for inspiration,” Agle said.

He searches for aerodynamic design that has a space-age quality.

Since he has started Deco Denver, Lewis has sold pieces to individuals and galleries around the state, most notably the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art. “Modernism is a period that’s going to stay with us,” Lewis said.

From Mod’ Livin’

The art of entertaining Stacy Tiese and her mother started Retro Chic to combine their talents as designers. The mother-and-daughter duo sell dinnerware online on Ebay and focus on the design of ‘30s and ‘40s.

For Stacy, the design style of the china has distinct shape and pattern that cannot be found anywhere else.

“Entertaining is a really lost

form now. I think that if you can appreciate what you’re eating off of, you can appreciate what you’re eating, and you can appreciate the time you’re spending doing it. It brings the experience and it ties everything together,” Stacy said.

From Retro Chic

Rediscovering the antiques

From Wanda Lust Collects

Sometimes the best items are those previously owned.

Where do all of their collections come from? Tony Widinski laughs and says, “Dead people.”

Dale Taylor and Widinski of Wanda Lust Collects travel to various estate sales collecting vintage clothing, dinnerware and decor.

“They did style back then,” Widinski said.

When they travel to different estate sales, they don’t look for anything particular. However, Taylor’s interest in Fire King Bowls and Widinski specializes in fabric. Together, they sell what they find at a booth in the Village

Antique Mall on 827 Corona St. Widinski’s favorite thing about modern design is the entire era.

“A lot of the stuff, the colors that they used, the visuals that they had, the textiles...colors seemed more vibrant back then,” Wikinski said.

The clothes women wore in the ‘40s and ‘50s inspires Wikinski to continue to look for pieces that help add a distinct style for women.

“Women back then wore their clothes and it sort of made them the women. Nowadays, the clothes are sort of wearing them,” Wikinski said.

It started with a dream. Well, and maybe some previously collected items.

But for Jill and Eric Warner, there was never a business model for starting Mod’ Livin’ – the spacious modern furniture store on 5327 E. Colfax Ave. “(Eric) said, ‘you know what, lets just buy a building and start a store.’

Literary, that was it,” Jill said.

Eight years ago, the Warners were flight attendants with a passion for gathering modern pieces and expanding their collection. Their house, as well as their garage, was a modern museum. With no previous experience, the Warners took the opportunity to start a strictly vintage furniture store in a tight market for specialty stores.

“Most people that are collectors, that are true collectors that really like the vintage, they will tell you that they have, like, a million chairs,” Jill said.

Jill’s collecting habits really began when she was in sixth grade. She would take the bus to visit her grandmother and go through her items. Her grandmother was convinced she wouldn’t grow attached to the items.

“We would go through everything and she said, ‘you’re just going to hate this stuff when you get older,” Jill said.

“And I’m like, ‘hmm, no.’”

The inventory was enough to fill the original, small store on Broadway.

As the business expanded, Eric chose the real estate on Colfax for a lot more breathing room. The couple moved in upstairs and continued to run the business.

“It was definitely a huge learning curve,” Jill said.

Not only did the Warners learn how to manage their store, but learned how to appropriately market and advertise themselves. That’s not to say they didn’t go through their own bumps in the road.

Almost a month after the new store on Colfax opened, Jill was due to land in Newark, NJ. - a typical route for United Continental. Except this day was September 11, 2001, and an earth-shattering day for all of America. The event stayed with Jill, until less than a week

home, a drunk driver smashed the store’s glass front while the couple was living upstairs. It forced the store to be boarded for six months.

Yet the Denver community didn’t forget Mod’ Livin’.

“The only reason we stayed in business is because everybody in the neighborhood would come over and just like, ‘here, I want to buy something. Don’t leave,’” Jill said.

Since then, the space changed from being a traditional vintage store to mixing in modern and contemporary design. Local restaurants go to Mod’ Livin’ to purchase unique items; Mezcal, Atomic Cowboy and Joansey’s EatBar all came to the store when they

needed a design lift. For students that are on a budget, Mod’ Livin’ offers a ‘Bargain Basement’ filled with modern paintings, furniture sets and different collectible items.

As another way to give back to the community that helped them, Mod’ Livin’ began to host ‘Denver by Design’ as a chance for local artists to create unique pieces of furniture and to gather influential designers to discuss the direction of modern style.

Modern furniture has design; whether it’s new, from a new manufacturer, whether its vintage…they all have thought behind them. And clean lines. You get that together and it’s just cool. It makes me happy,” Jill said.

Jill Warner — co-owner of Mod’ Livin’

B6 • AUDIOFILES • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN

SOUNDINg OFF: The Black Diamond Heavies abide

The Black Diamond Heavies from Nashville are all about Southern soul. The organ and drum duo of John Wesley Meyers (aka James Leg) and Van Campbell are a high-energy blues outfit, and Meyers’ voice is disturbingly similar to that of Tom Waits.

The pair will be taking the stage as part of Lebowskifest on Sept. 8 at the Ogden Theater.

The combination of reckless punk blues with old-school influences, mixed with the laid back, stoner atmosphere of The Big Lebowski will be something to behold. Meyers discussed the upcoming show as well as future endeavors for the band with The Met.

• By Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu

Fantastic Free Music

Artist: Drag The River Album: Live At The Starlight

Campbell (left) & Meyers of The Black Diamond Heavies

MP: What are The Black Diamond Heavies all about?

JWM: We’re all about the night moves. Ass-shakin’-drugtakin’-earth-quakin’-baby-makin’ Southern punk rock and soul.

MP: How much of an influence is Tom Waits on your music, and what are some of your other influences, musical or otherwise?

JWM: Tom Waits is great, but little to no influence there.

Though we do hear that a lot and take it as a compliment. Me personally, I would count Ray Charles, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Stones, Stooges, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Them is prolly my biggest influences. Oh and Jesus too.

MP: What’s a Black Diamond Heavies live show like?

JWM: Mmm. Very much like an out-of-control, spirit-filled tent revival service except with carnal lyrics and worldly women.

MP: Do you play covers at a live show? If yes, what songs?

JWM: Yeah we do some covers sometimes. Crowd pleasers some, and some that we dig and have fun playing. We’ve been known to play songs by The Stooges, The Stones, Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, AC/DC, Van Halen, Paul “Wine” Jones, Velvet Underground. [It] just depends on our emotions at the time really.

MP: Why did you decide to play organ instead of guitar like some other duos?

JWM: Umm…weren’t much dicidin’ involved. I can’t play guitar for shoot. [But I’ve] been playin’ piano for 29 years, been usin’ Fender Rhodes pianos for about 10 years now. And besides, there’re plenty of guitar players already. You could say it’s become an over-population problem. No offense all you pickers.

MP: You guys have been playing other Lebowskifests in other cities, what can the people of Denver expect at the festival?

JWM: We did the Lebowskifest in Louisville a few weeks back and it went real well so they asked us to do this tour with them.

They had some great acts perform as well as some guest appearances from some of the cast. Lots of people in costume

from the movie. Then of course you get to see the movie on a big screen with a bunch of like-minded fanatics. It’s a very “Dude” experience.

MP: How were you approached to play Lebowskifest? Are you fans of the movie? Favorite lines?

JWM: Yeah man. I’m a fan of the Coen brothers’ work in general and this movie lives in my VCR at home. Favorite lines: “It don’t matter to Jesus.” And: “We fuck you up. We takes the money.”

MP: Are you going to be playing any songs from the movie? Kenny Rodgers maybe?

JWM: Yeah we’ll be doin’ some of the soundtrack. I ain’t gonna give it away though, y’all’ll just have to come out and dig it.

MP: What have you been listening to lately?

JWM: Just got the newest releases from Left Lane Cruiser and also Chooglin. Both badass records from badass bands. Right now I’m listenin’ to an old gospel compilation. [It] makes me feel a little better ‘bout everything.

MP: Is there a new record in the works?

JWM: Yeah, we got a live LP comin’ out on Alive Records.

Should be out late fall. [It was] recorded at a house party at Dr. Johnny Walker’s (Soledad Brothers) place in Covington, Ky. Workin’ on a new studio record now as well, should be out first of the year.

MP: Any other plans for the future?

JWM: I’d like to learn French. Maybe calligraphy.

MP: Anything you would like to add?

JWM: I reckon that about does it...wraps ‘er all up.

Lebowskifest with The Black Diamond Heavies 8 p.m., Sept. 8 @ Ogden Theatre, $25

more upcoming shows Hometown heroes Dressy Bessy will be bringing their unique, bright brand of indie pop to the Gothic Theatre with local super group Snake Rattle Rattle Snake.

The band has been a big part of Denver’s scene since the late Dressy Bessy ‘90s and with so many of our beloved local bands calling it quits lately, it’s refreshing to see Dressy Bessy still going strong.

The band’s instantly catchy songs are filled with great hooks, simple melodies, and singable choruses.

Their live show should be a lot of fun, and with Snake Rattle Rattle Snake featuring members from a handful of Denver bands, it should be a show packed with local love.

• By Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu

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Dressy Bessy 8 p.m., Sept. 5 @ Gothic Theatre, $12

The Killers will be at Red Rocks Amphitheatre Sept. 9. The band is touring following their latest album Day and Age, which came out in November 2008. The album was highly sucThe Killers cessful, and the band has had several chart-topping singles.

The Killers are always sure to have interesting, lively shows with lead singer Brandon Flowers and his fellow band mates giving their all to usually sold-out venues.

The band hasn’t been to Colorado since early January at the Magness Arena, and Red Rocks will be the ideal place to see an amazing onstage performance with beautiful acoustics.

• By Krista Coulter • kcoulte2@mscd.edu

The Killers 7:30 p.m., Sept. 9 @ Red Rocks, $42.50

The good folks at Suburban Home Records are giving you the hook-up once again. This time they are allowing anyone who wants it to download the full-length live album Live At The Starlight by Colorado’s own country punks Drag The River.

Originally released in 2002, the CD has since gone out of print, but now thanks to the wonders of the Internet, it has surfaced yet again at absolutely no cost to you.

The album features Drag The River’s classic country twang and energy, magnified in a live recording to make you feel right at home with the band as they tear through a 16-song set, pausing occasionally to talk to the crowd.

The set features a little bit of everything from rockin’ cover songs like the opener “Mars Motors” originally by Pinhead Circus, to slow, slide-guitar drenched ballads such as “Barroom Bliss.”

The album still feels fresh and new despite being released seven years ago, and the raw energy of their live show is displayed quite well. Break out a PBR and enjoy some great Colorado country. The price is right.

To Download http://www.suburbanhomerecords.com

Artist: Sage Francis Album: Sick of Wasting Sage Francis’ latest mix tape is a continuation of his “Sick Of ” series started in 1999 via his label Strange Famous Records. Sick of Wasting features new material from the Sage as well as demos and guest appearances from other Strange Famous rappers like B. Dolan and Prolyphic. The album also features fresh beats and scratches from the likes of Buck 65 and Reanimator.

Lyrically, the album is the same mix of humor and cynicism one has come to expect from Sage Francis.

The opener, “Strange Fame,” is a hilarious look at a world run by technology, featuring a great beat courtesy of David Bowie’s “Fame.” It’s an explosive opening song and a definite highlight.

In between Sage’s humorous word play (“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things”), there are some true gems like the clever “Needle” featuring some great spinning from Buddy Peace.

The rocking, guitar-heavy “Pump” is pure energy with a great hook, rapid-fire drums, and some scathing political commentary.

On Sick of Wasting, Sage Francis proves once again that just because an album is free doesn’t mean it’s low quality.

Any fan of Sage or underground hip-hop in general will enjoy this one.

To Download: http://www.strangefamousrecords.com

• By Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu

Met’s Music Picks out of 5 Soulsavers • Broken

• By Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu

Single serving Artist: The Fall of Troy Single: “Panic Attack!”

Album: In The Unlikely Event (Oct. 6) The first offering from The Fall of Troy’s October release, In The Unlikely Event, is a bit of a departure from earlier albums.

“Panic Attack!” is still undoubtedly a Fall of Troy song with heavy and intricate guitars and lightning-fast drums, but the band is certainly headed in a more accessible direction.

The vocals are more melodic, with only a few screamed lines. The chorus is as catchy as any pop song, but instrumentally the band has not surrendered any of their hardcore roots.

With this new song, The Fall of Troy may draw some new fans, but may have to drown out cries of “sell-out” from fans of their earlier releases.

• By Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu

Though the album has been available on iTunes since Aug. 11, Thrice’s latest CD Beggars is going to be up for sale in stores on Sept. 15, including five extra bonus tracks as an incentive to pick the album up. But Thrice doesn’t need a large marketing ploy to get people to buy their album. Though they have yet to reach any real mainstream success and probably won’t with this album, Thrice’s devout listeners are well aware of the new album and should be willing to pay for it.

What Thrice has reached with their new album is an original level of maturity, and that’s something to be said for a band that has already transformed with each album they’ve released. With guitarist Teppei Teranishi producing without any outside assistance, Beggars has an intimate feel unmatched by their previous records. Each song is a little different, with familiar drum- and guitar-heavy tracks like “Talking Through Glass.” You would hardly recognize the band on the piano-laden song “Doublespeak.” However, the album still has the same underground sound that has always been associated with Thrice and probably won’t draw any new listeners.

The band has come a long way since the days of their debut and with jazzier riffs and breathtaking lyrics, this album is sure to please their fans, just not MTV.

• By Krista Coulter • kcoulte2@mscd.edu

Third Eye Blind • Ursa Major Third Eye Blind’s new album, Ursa Major, is a flannel flashback of 90s alternative rock.

Reminiscent of their hit 1997 debut album, lyrics about Mp3 players, flat screen TVs and today’s social issues are the only way to differentiate some of those songs from earlier work that threw them into the spotlight over a decade ago.

Stephen Jenkins and Tony Fredianelli’s honest lyrics do not disappoint. Simple, yet provocative verses mix with upbeat, catchy choruses throughout the album.

Prior to the Aug. 18 release, an acoustic version of “Bonfire” floated around online. Not only does the album version match it, but the simple guitar accompaniment and unique percussion add meat that the acoustic version lacked.

“About the Break” is more of a ballad, which subtly takes on social issues and examines American society today. With melodic, questioning verses and a harsher, distraught chorus, this is the album’s strongest song.

The band plans to release a follow-up album, Ursa Minor, at the end of the year.

• By Ashley Moreland • amorela@mscd.edu

This Album Changed My Life Just after my sixteenth birthday, my father and I had a falling out. Neither he, nor I, can say what drove us to estrangement and perhaps we both don’t need to know why. Time has passed and my father and I have reconciled our differences. Yet, I find myself thinking back on that troubled year of unanswered questions, still wondering how I made it through.

With my thoughts of loss and indifference fighting each other, I turned toward music as a relief from my confusion. It’s funny to know how something so intrinsic to our daily lives can have such an outstanding effect. Like ten simple songs, compiled on a relatively unknown album.

Bruce Springteen’s Nebraska was born in 1982, out of depression and, most likely, Springsteen’s need for catharsis. Originally, each song was written for a studio setting. Yet, when Springsteen and his band couldn’t capture the same emotion of the foremost demo-recordings, the songs were kept in their original format. Though Springsteen’s rough takes are almost 30 years old, his unbelievable song writing stands the test of time. Each song is created with the resonating notion that pain is only temporary and that the hope for a brighter tomorrow will always remain.

The aesthetic of everyday life that is usually attained by Springsteen is complemented by his sparse arrangements on this album. The bare essentials of a four-track tape recorder and an acoustic guitar lay the foundation for each song, letting Springsteen’s lyrical content and strong visuals become Nebraska’s fundamental element. Within his minimal pallet of sound, Springteen’s vocals fluidly transform from whispers to passionate cries, pressing upon each listener’s emotional allowance.

A good friend of mine knew that I liked folk music and gave me Nebraska,

obviously as a cheap Christmas gift.

With the $7.99 price tag still stuck to the album’s plastic wrapping, I saw it as a sign of inherent mediocrity. Yet, within my most troubled year, I was given a guide. I put the disc in my car stereo right then and was forever entranced.

The title track reveals the tone of the album immediately, using the true events of a 1958 killing spree that took place in Nebraska and Wyoming to paint a violent picture. While the lyrics had already begun to call out to me, I desperately tried to grasp the complex meaning of the song and each track after that, knowing that Springsteen had a message for anyone in a state of anger and confusion, like me.

Many of the album’s other themes dwell upon nostalgic memories or linear story lines that lend to a deeper subtext. Such as “Mansion on the Hill,” telling the story of a rich person’s manor on the edge of a poor man’s town. Or the tale of two brothers caught on either side of the law in “Highway Patrolman.”

Springsteen carefully uses the first person narrative of his characters, whether fictional or not, to write his own musical journal about America, polarizing the lives we lead. From pessimism to optimism, anguish to joy, Springsteen left me realizing that regular people can persevere throughout their lives, but only if they see each emotional moment for what it is worth.

• By Ian Gassman • img2007@comcast.net

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Soulsavers is technically an electronica duo made up of Rich Machin and Ian Glover, but Broken is by no means an electronica album as it has more in common with a rock or gospel album than anything intended to get you on the dance floor. It is dark, heavy and beautiful.

As with their previous release, Mark Lanegan, most recently of The Gutter Twins handles the majority of vocal duties but the album also features collaborations with the likes of Mike Patton of Faith No More, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, and Australian newcomer Red Ghost who commands attention on songs like “Praying Ground” and “By My Side.”

The album contains a couple of instrumental tracks including the opener, “The Seventh Proof,” which is a stark, piano-based song that is sorrowful and simple, setting the gloomy tone of the album before giving way to the fuzzed-out guitar of “Death Bells.”

Broken does a good job of remaining balanced between straight rock and slower balladry. Lanegan’s voice lends itself well to both styles, but his weathered vocals really stand out on the slower songs such as the highlight “You Will Miss Me When I Burn,” a song that is as heartbreaking as it is memorable.

While the album may be a tad long, clocking in at around 70 minutes, it showcases some great talent and is a strong collection of powerful music.

Thrice • Beggars

B7 9.3.2009 THE METROPOLITAN

Matt Pusatory mpusator@mscd.edu Music Editor

On this day in 1970, Al “Blind Owl’’ Wilson of Canned Heat died in Topanga Canyon, Calif., at age 27.

THE POINT: CEO’S SOLUTION MAKES THE MOST SENSE

THE METROPOLITAN • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • INSIGHT • A9

There is a health care solution

Let me be the first to say both the left and the right have got it wrong on health care reform.

This is not to say the right and the left have legitimate views in the health care debate but the those legitimate views have been suffocated by talk of evil insurance companies and death panels.

The only thing worse than the demagogues on both the left and the right is the lack of students standing up for themselves in the health care debate. The simple fact is the country is going broke and it’s us that pays for the consequences. Current recipients of Medicare have nothing to loose.

It doesn’t matter whether or not health care reform passes or fails they will still have the same benefits. It is the current work force or those heading into the work force that are subsidizing their health care while we get nothing.

What should students do guarantee themselves health care?

The best answer to health care reform comes from an interesting source: John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods. Though conservative and fiscal conservatives seem to be quite the hypocrites recently, Mackey’s proposal does provide ideas and some sound economic argument to a health care debate that is more focused on winning news cycles and distortions then actually finding solution.

ROBBIE DRAN dran@mscd.edu In his opinion piece Aug. 12 edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mackey’s first proposal is to “Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually-owned health insurance have the same tax benefits.” Employers get their insurance completely tax deducible but in the private insurance market it is not deductable. This puts individuals who do not get their insurance from an employer at a disadvantage.

His next solution is to “repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.” Health insurance should be purchased where ever the best quality and price exist. State laws grant virtual monopolies over their state. This increase prices because of reduced competition. Insurance companies do not have to worry about quality or price because they have few

competitors. Additionally, one should not be mandated to change their insurance providers when they move to another state.

“Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover,” Mackey wrote.

These mandates increase the cost of health care and in many cases are not needed. The individual should determine what they need covered and seek out the proper insurance. Forcing companies to cover unneeded procedures is wasteful and hurts consumers.

Congress needs to pass tort reform. Everyone sympathizes with those who suffer from medical malpractice but many frivolous lawsuit damages are too high. This drives up the cost of providing care and insurance which we all have to pay. For it is just as wrong for everyone to pay for few mistakes as it is for those few mistakes to go unpunished.

“Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost.” The fact is people don’t know how much health care costs. When we have a more transparent system then consumers are smarter and buy better quality insurance.

Mackey continued, “enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms.” How to do

this is tricky but students should take a particularly active approach here because at some point the money is going to run out and people will not get their tax dollars’ worth. For every town hall meeting with a protestor on medicare there should be two students railing against the cost of the system.

“Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.” Americans are charitable, it’s time that we give us the proper incentives to help each other without mandates. Just because an individual is against more intervention in health care does not mean that we are willing to provide the needy some help.

This would be particularly helpful to those who struggle to pay for college because they can’t or don’t get assistance from their parents.

Many people will not agree with Mackey’s proposal but it is time students become part of the health care debate and we focus on solutions rather than the political chaos we are experiencing right now. If you don’t agree with Mackey or myself then you should provide your own plan.

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

GRAPHIC DESIGN Kathleen Jewby kjewby@mscd.edu

LETTER TO THE EDITOR is no place for profanity in our college newspaper. I don’t read it in the New York Times, I don’t read it in the Washington Post, and I don’t read it in the Denver Post either. Using profanity only shows the writer’s ignorance in ways to express themselves more imaginatively.

I certainly hope that the editors will start beginning to do their jobs and edit the articles in the paper before it is published. I am not advocating censorship at all. Just common sense and some pride in the publication. But it can be ‘censored’ by using the familiar ‘explicative deleted’ phrase, or #@$%!!!! or similar character string. Again,

I don’t pretend to be a prude, but I feel that common sensibilities need to edit such responses. I also feels it lessens the reputation of our institution, and I don’t feel that is good for any school, especially in these times of budgetary constraints.

Legislators love to see things like that so they can cut funding for higher education.

I also cc’d members of the student government and wrote president Jordan about the issue, though I do not know if I will hear back from them.

I’m not afraid of taking the heat for something I feel strongly about, but I would prefer that edi-

tors do a better job with limiting the profanity.

As I stated before, I don’t read it in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or even the humble little Denver Post. And I think good journalism, which I would hope the editors are trying to create, means that such language has no place in a publication like The Metropolitan. I think it stretches the credibility of the paper, if not allowing it to be lost, and gives Metro State a bad image to those that read something with that profanity in it.

to the idea that members of our community, or any community, have the right not to be censored.

The staff of the Met does not profess to be professional journalists. On the contrary, we are all students and view our time at the newspaper as a learning experience.

That being said, we pride ourselves in using discretion and judgement we hope would pass muster at any publication.

On the issue of profanity, The

Metropolitan has a simple policy: no quote will be censored and articles submitted as opinion are edited for grammar and spelling only.

The staff of the Met does not expect every reader to be OK with profanity, just as we don’t expect every reader to agree with any other belief represented in this newspaper.

If we were to censor offensive language, what would be next?

Certain people may find discussion of sexual beliefs offensive,

should that stop us from writing an article about the Gay-Straight Alliance at Auraria?

We believe that any form of censorship is abhorrent and should be avoided at any cost.

That doesn’t mean we don’t take criticisms to heart. While the argument on profanity must end on an “agree to disagree” note, the discussion should still be taken seriously.

Thank You, Steve Williams

OUR VIEW Thanks to the Bill of Rights, Americans are granted certain inalienable freedoms. Of those, two directly apply to what fills the pages of The Metropolitan.

The First Amendment states, in short, “Congress shall make no law...prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...”

The First Amendment was not written to give free reign to anyone to say anything they choose.

It does, however, give credence

Since 1979

ADVERTISING Tucker Knight tknight7@mscd.edu

Profanity in the Met I have become increasingly irritated by the allowing of profanity to be printed in The Metropolitan this semester. The current issue (August 27, 2009), is blatantly ignorant in good taste. Page A6 has miniviews on the health care debate. Ehren Azeris, a UCD senior rants about not getting any pain pills, with profanity.

The last two columns by Jimmie Braley use profanity to get his viewpoints across.

Do not the editors edit the paper for this? If this is the way we want our school represented in the media, I am embarrassed for them. I’m not a prude, but there

THE METROPOLITAN

The Metropolitan Staff

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.

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Opinions expressed within do not necessarily reflect those of Metropolitan State College of Denver or its advertisers.

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SPORTS

“Modernism is a period that’s going to stay with us.”

-LEWIS BUCKINGHAM, FOUNDER OF DECO DENVER, METROSPECTIVE, B5

Kate Ferraro • SPORTS EDITOR • kferraro@mscd.edu

SIDELINE THIS WEEK

9.4 Volleyball

3:30 p.m. vs. Western Oregon Univ.

7:30 p.m. vs. Concordia Univ.- St. Paul Women’s Soccer 5 p.m. vs. Minnesota State Univ.- Mankato Men’s Soccer 7:30 p.m. @ Midwest.

State Univ.

Men’s Cross Country 5:45 p.m. @ UCCS Women’s Cross Country 5:15 p.m. @ UCCS

Metro forward Jen Thomas prepares to launch the ball ahead of Angelo State University defensive players Karli Maxey and Megan Schaffer Aug. 30 during the women’s soccer match at Auraria Field. The Roadrunners won the game in double overtime 1-0, holding on to their ranking of third place nationally. Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu

metro 3 - UNO 1, metro 1 - angelo state 0

Strong play propels Metro to victory Thomas leads team with points in season opener

By Brent Ratliff bratliff@mscd.edu The Metro women’s soccer team opened their season with a 3-1 win against University of NebraskaOmaha, Aug. 28 at Auraria Field.

Metro forward Jen Thomas came out attacking the ball from the first whistle on, heeding head coach Adrianne Almaraz’s rally cry.

Thomas scored the first goal just 10 minutes into the game and she could have scored shortly after. She found a breakaway opportunity minutes after her first goal but UNO goalkeeper Elizabeth Odorisio committed at the right time causing Thomas to miss off the post.

“I wish I had that one back,” Thomas said.

Forward Becca Mays, one of the most dangerous players in NCAA women’s soccer, is suspended for the

first two games of the regular season due to a passionate style of play that resulted in two yellow cards, the equivalent of a red card, from the end of last season. Mays, selected as preseason player of the year for the 2009 season, has been suspended for the first two games of the season due to the carry-over from last season.”

Metro was only able to score on three of their 18 shot attempts and didn’t take full advantage of their scoring opportunities.

“It should have been 6-1,” Almaraz said.

Metro forward Ashley Nemmers was satisfied with the way the team played in their first game of the season.

“We played awesome, came out strong,” Nemmers said. “Basically we brought it.”

Goalkeeper Becca Maloney and midfielder Kathryn Gosztyla controlled the defense with a commanding style of play. Only one shot was given a chance to go in the goal and it was a perfect shot. There wasn’t

anything that Maloney could do about the rocket of a shot that went into the upper 90 of the net.

“She should have been marked,” Gosztyla said, while shaking her head.

Metro also won against Angelo State, 1-0, in overtime on Aug. 30 on a game-winning goal from Thomas and an assist from forward Taylor Nicholls.

The Roadrunners look to avenge an overtime loss from last year’s opening game to Minnesota StateMankato, Sept. 4 when they host the Maverick’s at Auraria Field.

“We played awesome, came out strong.

Basically, we brought it.”

METRO FORWARD ASHLEY NEMMERS

9.5 Volleyball TBA

9.6 Women’s Soccer

12 p.m. vs. Winona State Univ.

Men’s Soccer 12 p.m. vs. Northeast.

State Univ.

STATS BOX Game 1 - Aug. 28 Goals by Period 1 2 Total UNO 0 1 1 Metro 2 1 3 Scoring Summary 11:17 MSCD J. Thomas, C. Ryan 25:54 MSCD A. Nemmers, J. Thomas 60:53 MSCD J. Thomas, C. Ryan 70:29 UNO Lindsey Nealon Game 2 - Aug. 30 Goals by Period 1 2 OT Total Angelo State 0 0 0 0 Metro 00 1 1 Scoring Summary 103:02 MSCD J. Thomas, T. Nicholls

Say What?

“We possessed pretty well and worked hard all over the field. We didn’t give them an opportunity to get behind us.

The back four [defenders] did well so [goalkeeper] Dom [Griffith] didn’t have to do much.”

MEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH KEN PARSONS

A12 • SPORTS • SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN • In ancient Rome, when men played in the Olympics, they would compete in total nude.

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Volleyball takes first in tournament Three ’Runners receive honors opening weekend

By Enrico Dominguez edoming2@mscd.edu

The Metro women’s volleyball team sent shock waves into the national rankings Aug. 28 and 29 as well as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The women traveled to San Antonio for the St. Mary’s/Texas MedClinical Invitational on Aug. 27 with perfection on their mind.

The ’Runners started the weekend off with a crushing victory over Millersville (Pa.), to mark the second straight year the women have opened the season with a victory.

They took Millersville 25-7, 25-25, 25-13, and along the way, Metro pulled the 5th highest hitting mark in school history with .489.

Senior Amanda Cook had a perfect morning with seven kills out of seven attacks. Sophomore’s Emily Greenhalgh and Bri Morley each hit .438, Greenhalgh had eight kills with Morley tallying seven. Sophomore setter Darcy Schwartzman led the team with 18 set assists after senior Amy Watanabe had 10 digs.

In the second game Aug. 28, the ’Runners defeated the University of Central Oklahoma. The ’Runners had 18 service errors, which is the most since their 2007 match against Western New Mexico, which they

lost. But with Morley, Greenhalgh, and junior Anna Mapes killing the ball a total of 43 times, the Roadrunners emerged with an impressive victory. Defensively, Watanabe had 19 digs in the match. Sophomore Ngoc Phan had 12.

The women captured head coach Debbie Hendricks’ 200th win with a tough victory over No. 16ranked Florida Southern. Morley dominated again against Florida Southern with an astonishing 18 kills against the highly ranked team.

The women led the first set, 19-9, at one point to propel their confidence even through the third set. They lost 17-25, but brushed it off in the fourth game for a 25-20 victory.

“During the match we were nervous because Florida Southern was the team to beat,” Bri Morley said.

“It was ironic because if Florida Southern would have won, it would have been their head coaches’ 200th win as well,” Amy Watanabe said.

The last game against St. Mary’s was not overlooked in the end to finish a perfect weekend. The Roadrunners seemed to be plagued by little errors in the first set, even trailing 11-8 at one point in the match. But instead of getting frustrated, the women tightened their focus and finished off the set with a kill from Greenhalgh.

During the rest of the match, the ’Runners cleaned up their serves for what looked like an easy win over the Rattlers. The Roadrunners are this year’s St. Mary’s/Texas Med-

Clinical champions after the win over St. Mary’s.

“The girls were focused and prepared and didn’t seem nervous at all when stepping onto the court,” Hendricks said.

After giving the coach her 200th victory and earning a championship trophy by going 4-0 on the weekend, the team celebrated with ice cream from Dairy Queen.

“After a perfect weekend, how could I say no” Hendricks said.

The women’s next game will be part of the Colorado Premier Tournament, Sept. 4, against Western Oregon, then against No. 2 ranked national champion St. Paul-Concordia at the Auraria Events Center. They will finish the tournament Sept. 5 at the Auraria Events Center.

“If we play like we did in San Antonio, we will have nothing to worry about.” Hendricks said.

“During the match we were nervous because if Florida Southern would have won, it would have been their head coach’s 200th win as well.”

OUTSIDE HITTER BRI MORLEY

Senior Amy Watanabe was named to the All-Tournament team Aug. 29. She helped the team averaging 3.79 digs/set with 53 digs in 14 sets throughout the tournament.

Watanabe’s strong defensive play helped Metro hold its opponents to a .069 hitting percentage in the four matches, including a negative hitting percentage in two of the matches.

Senior libero Amy Watanabe.

Photo by Gabe Christus • christus@ mscd.edu

Metro outside hitter Amanda Cook tips the ball over the net Sept. 5, 2008 at the Auraria Events Center. The Roadrunners lost the match to Grand Valley State, including three other games in the Colorado Premier Classic. File photo by Linh Ngo • lngo@mscd.edu

Sophomore Bri Morley was named to the All-Tournament team Aug. 29 and was named Offensive Player of the Week Aug. 31.

She led Metro with 4.08 kills/set, a total of 53 kills in 13 sets.

Morley hit .370, while adding 17 digs and four blocks. She led both Metro and their opponent in kills in each of the final three matches.

Senior Gabe Curtis was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament. Curtis averaged 10.46 assists/set, totaling 136 assists in 13 sets. She also had 13 kills, 31 digs and five blocks, while dropping five service aces.

Curtis helped Metro hit .321 in the tournament and averaged 13.71 kills/ set.

Senior setter Gabe Curtis. Photo

by Gabe Christus • christus@mscd.edu

Sophomore outside hitter Bri Morley. Photo by Gabe Christus • christus@mscd.edu

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Metro nets win in season opener

By Lauren Schaedig lschaedi@mscd.edu The men’s soccer team opened their season with a 2-0 victory Aug. 29 over the University of Mary, who came to Colorado from Bismarck, N.D. After shaking off some first-game jitters, the Roadrunners dominated ball possession and immediately put pressure on the Marauders’ goalkeeper, Derek Luptak. The Roadrunners, however, struggled to find the back of the net, recording 29 shots with nine on goal. Only two found their way into the net.

“There were a lot of opportunities we could have finished,” said head coach Ken Parsons. “We won’t get the same number of opportunities next weekend, so finishing is a big concern.”

The Roadrunners scored their first goal in the 9th minute, with forward Scott Grode burying the ball in the net after being assisted by defender Ryan Brooks. Their second goal didn’t come until the 18th minute, when forward Ri Armstrong scored off of a header from a cross by midfielder Scott Crawford.

“I was kicking myself through-

Metro goalkeeper Dominique Griffith reaches out to block a shot during a practice drill Aug. 30 at Auraria Fields. Griffith was named Defensive Player of the Week Sept. 1. Photo by Ryan Martin • martirya@ mscd.edu

out the game to just put one in, so I made sure I just buried it,” Armstrong said.

Despite finishing only two of their opportunities, the Roadrunners dominated ball possession.

“We possessed pretty well and worked hard all over the field. We didn’t give them an opportunity to get in behind us. The back four [defenders] did well so [goalkeeper] Dom [Griffith] didn’t have to do much,”

school.

As a senior in high school, Newland once again qualified for the two-mile run statewide as well as the one-mile and left for OSU the following year.

But he didn’t meet NCAA Clearing House eligibility standards and had to pursue an associate’s degree at Cowley County Community College in Arkansas City, Kan. before he could return to OSU. The National Junior College Athletic Association named him an AllAmerican in the 1500-meter run as a freshman, and he later qualified nationally in the one-mile run.

Newland enjoyed his time at OSU and CCCC, but came to the realization that, while running at a Division-I school was a great opportunity, he didn’t need to do so to succeed.

“I knew I would get faster [wherever I went],” Newland said.

He had a lot of family in the area and knew that the competition in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference would be great. Newland began to explore the possibility of attending classes and competing for Metro.

“I knew they were getting really good,” Newland said.

Interim cross country head coach, Sean Nesbitt, met Newland years ago and actively recruited him, but to no initial avail.

“We could make him a better runner than he was,” Nesbitt said.

They kept in touch and, in the

end, Newland essentially recruited himself, Nesbitt said.

Once he became a Roadrunner, Newland knew good things were soon to come.

“This was a really good opportunity for me to improve as an athlete,” Newland said.

Newland had a break-out year in the 2008-09 season for both the indoor and outdoor seasons including a win in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the CU Invitational April 11 and earned an NCAA Championship qualification in the 1500-meter, both outdoor events.

Nesbitt forecasts a great year for the sophomore, which could include nationally qualifying for at least three events.

“If all goes well, he’s going to be an All-American three times if not more,” Nesbitt said.

Newland knows that the upcoming cross country and track seasons hold high expectations, but he’s ready to meet them with force.

“I know I can run with the best of them,” Newland said with confidence.

Newland and the men’s and women’s cross country teams will compete in their first events Sept. 4 at the UCCS Invitational in Colorado Springs.

Parsons said.

Griffith recorded a shutout with five saves.

Although this was a good beginning to their season, Parsons has some ideas about what the team will

need to work on to prepare for upcoming games.

“One v. one defending will be important; we let them off the hook too easily Saturday,” Parsons said.

“We also gave up a lot of set pieces because we were not clean enough in defending.”

Parsons had pointed out to his team, prior to the game, that University of Mary would be dangerous on set pieces.

“They have some big guys, so set pieces were a concern,” Parsons said.

“We had a lot of silly fouls, and that was a point we struggled with.”

Despite nine fouls against the Roadrunners, the Marauders did not capitalize on any of their set plays.

“We’re making mistakes, but it’s August,” Parsons said. “There wasn’t an inordinate number of things we did poorly, the majority of things were right. We just need to clean up some things and polish some things. We’re moving in the right direction.”

The Roadrunners begin a sevengame stretch on the road as they head to Texas. They will play Sept.

4 at Midwestern State, and again on Sept. 6 against Oklahoma’s Northeastern State.

Newland commits to cross country over football

By Scott Bassett sbasset4@mscd.edu

After facing a decision between football and cross country, sophomore Nate Newland knew his future was brighter off of the field.

The 6-foot-1-inch sophomore not only had loyalty to the game of football, but also began his college running career at Oklahoma State University.

Newland played on both the offensive and defensive sides of the football field at Ponca City High School in Ponca City, Okla. and began running track to stay fit in the offseason.

On the suggestion of his coach, Newland, who had previously been running sprints and the open 400, gave the one-mile run a shot and, from then on, his coach made sure distance running was his niche.

Newland became a state qualifier in the two-mile run during his junior year and by that time knew he had to choose between running and football.

“It was a really hard decision,” Newland said. “I loved football.”

However, more potential lay in his new-found love for cross country and track, even though he had plenty of success playing running back, wide receiver and defensive back at Ponca City.

“My future in running was better than in football,” said Newland, who hopes to run professionally after law

Metro cross country runner Nate Newland. Photo by Leah Millis •

lmillis@mscd.edu

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First Friday Art Walk

6:30 P.M. D Note — 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada Free

6 — 9 P.M. Santa Fe Drive between 5th and 10th Free

“Writer of the Year” Panel 7:30 P.M. Tattered Cover — 1628 16th St. Free

“Purple Rain” MIDNIGHT Esquire Theatre — 590 Downing $7.25

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Skatebike Competition 2 P.M. Emage — 1620 Platte St. $15

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Downtown Farmers Market

7 P.M. Mi Casa — 360 Acoma St. $15

6 P.M. Denver Public Library — 10 W. 14th Free

9 A.M. — 2 P.M. Tiri’s Garden — 15th and Larimer St.

Open Mic Comedy

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Denver Cruiser Ride “Cops and Robbers”

8 P.M. Lions Lair — 2022 Colfax Ave. Free

7:30 P.M. Ogden Theatre — 935 E. Colfax $20.50

6:30 P.M. The Gin Mill — 2401 Larimer St. Free, wear a costume

10:30 A.M. — 10 P.M. CIVIC CENTER PARK FREE Enjoy Colorado’s favorite festival all Labor Day weekend. Since 1984 A Taste of Colorado has offered food, music and arts and crafts brought to you by some of the state’s finest. Keep in mind, this will be the people of Colorado’s last chance to get together before the autumn chill sets in — expect the park to be packed.