Volume 32, Issue 10 - Sept. 24, 2009

THE

METROPOLITAN Vol. 32, Issue 10

Serving Auraria for 30 years

September 24, 2009

NEWS

Metro fuels new major Aerospace physics program responds to industry demands • A7 METROSPECTIVE

Last call for Oktoberfest Metro junior Anna Mapes pushes the ball past UCCS sophomore Sonja Johnson Sept. 19 at the Auraria Events Center.

The Roadrunners won a 3–2 victory over the Mountain Lions making them 3–1 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference this season. Photo by Nicholas Duckworth • nduckwor@mscd.edu

Volleyball victory bumped

by Tuesday setback After weekend wins, Regis shuts out Roadrunners 3–0 • A10

Funding runs out on future Larimer Associates celebrations • B1 AUDIOFILES Orange County rock band Something Corporate croons life changing music • B7

A3 • THE METROPOLITAN • SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

NEWS

“...it felt as though I’d fallen down an Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit hole; or was moonlighting as a chaperone for some undergrad frat party.”

CAITLIN GIBBONS • NEWS EDITOR • cgibbon4@mscd.edu

- J. Sebastian Sinisi on A9

THIS WEEK EVENTS

9.24

21st Century Economic and Cultural Integration: Mexico and the United States Symposium Conference exploring Mexico’s relationship with the United States.

7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

St. Cajetan’s Center

9.24 Homecoming Pep

Rally Help us cheer on the Metro State athletes.

Free pizza, prizes, music and more 11:30 a.m.

Auraria Flagpole

9.26

Political Science professor and Native American Studies Director Oneida Meranto lectures in her Native American politics class Sept. 17 at the King Center. Photo by Drew Jaynes • ajaynes1@mscd.edu

Minor gets mixed messages Program designed to fill multicultural void left in limbo

By Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu After changes to the structure of the Native American Studies program, Director Oneida Meranto is worried the program may be cut.

“In May, I was told I would no longer get release time. But keep the title, keep doing the work,” Meranto said.

This spring, Meranto’s release time was cut.

Release time, or re-assigned time, is given to program directors, department chairs and faculty for work outside the classroom, such as developing curriculum or advising. The paid time also decreases the time a professor spends in the classroom. Typically professors receiving release time teach only two classes.

Meranto will still serve as the program director in addition to teaching five classes.

The program receives no additional funding from the political science department.

Meranto said students have gotten wind of the changes and many are concerned they are minoring in a

program that may not exist by the time they can complete their coursework.

“We need to have answers to these questions,” Meranto said.

Jesse Bielak, a Metro student minoring in NAS, has heard the rumors surrounding the program.

“It concerns me, whether or not I’m actually going to be able to obtain my minor,” Bielak said.

Dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences Joan Foster said the program is not being cut.

“There is no plan to close the program. It’s a small program, but a very important one that meets the needs of some of our students, which is what it was created for,” Foster said.

Meranto’s release time was cut as a part of cost containment in response to the reductions in state funding. Release time was also cut for personnel in Modern Languages, Sociology and Anthropology, Foster said.

Reducing release time, “gets excellent faculty, like Dr. Meranto, back into the classroom,” Foster said.

Chair of the Political Science department Robert Hazan declined to comment on the situation.

Sophia Bagola, a political science major and NAS minor has not heard the rumors surrounding the program.

As a transfer student from UC Berkeley, Bagola said the NAS classes are the best she has taken anywhere.

Ramon Del Castillo, chair of the Chicano/a studies department also receives release time in addition to teaching his classes.

Although Castillo’s department is structurally different than the NAS program, he said, “[you] couldn’t expect someone to run a department and teach full time. It would be a job and a half.”

Meranto has won several awards in her time at Metro, including two Fulbright awards and a Longfellow.

She received full professorship and ten-

“I’m not asking for preferential treatment, I just want equity for my program.”

-Native American Studies Director Oneida Meranto

ure at Metro in 2004.

This is not the first time Meranto has been involved in a controversial situation at the college. She has been accused — and exonerated — of racism in the classroom, received politically charged and has had students demand her resignation.

Despite all the controversy, Meranto still challenges her students to think from the indigenous perspective and push their academic boundaries.

“I’m not asking for preferential treatment, I just want equity for my program,” Meranto said.

Meranto began creating the NAS program in 1993. In 1996 the program was approved, and helped to fill a void in the multicultural studies offered at Metro.

According to the office of institutional research, the NAS program has 19 declared minors for the fall 2009 semester. Chicano studies has 11, African American Studies 12 and Women’s studies 27 declared minors.

The NAS program supports four adjunct faculty positions. Meranto has 170 students this semester in the five classes she is teaching.

This fall, a new course is being offered for the NAS minor, indigenous film. Many of the NAS courses are cross-listed in other departments and many fulfil the multicultural general studies requirement.

“I don’t think they understand what it does for students, particularly the few Native American students we do have. It gives them a sense of pride.

I know what the program and its presence has done for all students at Metro,” Meranto said.

Meranto has submitted a list of needs to Dean Foster.

Foster, Meranto and Hazan will meet in the next week to discuss a course of action.

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

DID YOU KNOW? The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. • THE METROPOLITAN • SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 • NEWS • A5

Arrest at child care center

Allegations of abuse prompt investigation

by Denver Police

By Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu

Andrew Bisset abisset1@mscd.edu A Metro State student has been released on $25,000 bond after he was charged with sexual assault on a child at Auraria’s Early Learning Center.

Johnny Duran, 31, was arrested and charged with sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust Sept. 17 by Denver Police. He had been working at the ELC since December 2007.

Duran was released Sept. 19 after posting bond, but will return to Denver County Court for a hearing in October. He is suspended from the ELC without pay.

His arrest followed allegations made Sept. 10 by an unnamed student at the ELC that Duran touched them inappropriately. The accusations were passed on to the Director of the ELC, Mary McCain, who then informed the Denver Police.

Investigators would not comment on the specifics of the case, citing an ongoing criminal investigation, though Auraria Higher Education Center spokesman Blaine Nickeson said “Teacher aides are not routinely left one on one with children.”

A letter from McCain to the parents of children enrolled at the ELC said: “Auraria has taken and will continue to take all necessary precautions to safeguard your children. We will follow all notification and legal requirements in order to maintain safety and to provide information as it becomes available.”

The letter sent from the ELC to parents who have children enrolled at the Center states there was one child involved in the incident.

The Auraria Early Learning Center is located off the 9th Street Park and Colfax Avenue. The center provides full and part-time programs for children starting at age 1.

Photo by Taryn jones • tjone101@mscd.edu It also contains information for parents on counseling being made available by the ELC. “All ELC staff, including the suspect, have successfully completed a background check through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and Colorado Department of Human Services Central Registry,” Nickeson said.

An online search of Denver County Court records revealed Du-

ran had two previous minor offences, neither of which were severe enough to flag him in the ELC background checks. Both criminal and licensing checks are done for employees.

Not all previous infractions are grounds for disqualification said Nickeson.

Duran had been working at the ELC since December 2007 as a “classroom aide floater,” according to Nickeson.

These “floaters” move around the ELC as needed, doing everything from changing diapers to supervising nap times.

The ELC teaches children from toddlers younger than one to Kindergarten age children.

According to Nickeson, this is the first criminal investigation in the center’s 30 year history.

On the street By Ben Wiebesiek • Photos by Ryan Martin How important is Metro homecoming to you?

Not important at all. Just don’t really care. There’s nothing I really want to do associated with it. If it could have been basketball season or there was a football team then I think it would be a lot more meaningful.

Julian Johnson– Metro Senior

Budget back on chopping block

I have two daughters that go here to Metro and both of them are interested. They’re 21 and 20, so maybe it’s for that age range of people.

Jeanie Wilcox – Metro Senior

I haven’t done homecoming since freshman year of high school. I mean, what’s the point of it? At the end of the day it kind of depends on the social atmosphere. Everybody has been to dances and people do exactly what I’m doing now: looking at the girls.

Tristian Chambers – Metro Junior

It’s not that important to me. I only come here two days a week and I have a job so I have no time.

Mackenzie Duhamel – Metro Freshman

Updated revenue projections for the state were released Sept. 21 and the forecast matched the rainy day: gloomy.

Colorado must cut an additional $240 million from the budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.

“We need to be realistic. Every cut we make will cause pain. Every cut we make will hurt,” said Gov. Bill Ritter in a press release.

The state has already closed a $320 million budget shortfall.

With the last round of budget cuts, the appropriation for higher education was reduced by $80.9 million, or 12.3 percent.

Metro alone saw a decrease of $10 million in funding.

The reductions to higher ed. are being backfilled by federal stimulus money from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009.

The governor’s office had to apply for a waiver to obtain the funding, since the budget cuts dropped the appropriations for higher education below the 2006 level, which was set as a minimum.

However, these funds are limited to a two-year period.

In a welcome back presentation to the Metro Board of Trustees, President Stephen Jordan outlined how the college will utilize the federal stimulus money— $3.5 million for right sizing with technology, $1.9 million for transition positions, $2.4 million for the Capstone project and shifting some adjunct faculty to stimulus and $695,000 for student aid and scholarships.

The newly-released revenue projections are not final. Another projection will be released in December. The legislature will reconvene in January and the process of trimming the already lean budget.

“While the recession is forcing us to make some very difficult and painful decisions, I want to be clear: we will balance the budget just like we’ve been doing for the past year,” Ritter said.

The state has balanced the budget so far by implementing mandatory furlough days for state workers, closing medical facilities for the mentally ill and releasing prison inmates approaching parole up to six months early.

Many areas of the general fund are constitutionally protected from cuts along with federal mandates.

Department of Corrections, K-12 education and health care are some of the areas legislators cannot reduce.

Look for more coverage on the state budget cuts in upcoming issues of The Metropolitan.

DID YOU KNOW? Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world. • THE METROPOLITAN • SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 • NEWS • A7

Steam line leads to emergency dig Heating system, windows updated for efficiency

By April Zemyan azemyan@mscd.edu Emergency excavation work began on the Central Classroom Building Sept. 18 to replace the building’s damaged steam line.

The project is being funded through the Colorado State Architect, and is considered an emergency because the existing steam line is leaking.

Facilities Management Director Ken Ross said the Colorado State Architect is a State controlled maintenance fund with a budget of $2 million.

The replacement will cost about $250,000 said Auraria Higher Education Center Project Manager Pete Hagan.

“Without the steam line there would not be heat” Hagan said. “We wanted to get it in before the flakes start flying.”

Hagan said the damaged steam line was found a while ago, but the money to fix it took time to come in.

Ross, who has only been at Auraria since July, said he is not sure how long the line has been damaged.

The steam line, much like a furnace, provides heat to the building.

Central Classroom, the Arts Building and West Classroom all use steam lines. Newer buildings on campus like the Plaza Building use furnaces.

Hagan said he hopes the project will be finished within a month.

Matthew Boisvert, second from right, and Kelsey MacCallum take time to catch up with each other Sept. 22 next to a large trash container outside of Central classroom at Auraria. The container sits on the edge of a construction site stationed over a damaged steam line which leads into Central classroom. Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu There will be no closures in the building during the replacement process.

AHEC maintenance is also working on replacing the windows of the Arts Building, scheduled to be finished by the end of October.

Ross said the old windows are energy inefficient. The cost of replac-

ing the windows will be $950,000 and will come from a general maintenance fund. The Arts Building will also receive a new transformer, to be installed during Christmas break.

AHEC is also planning on replacing the heating and air units in the Arts Building next year, and the proj-

ect will cost $1.08 million.

A handicap ramp into the basement of the rectory building is being installed, Hagan said. The basement is being remolded into a Metro computer lab and should be open in late October.

Construction on the Central

Classroom building is not expected to cause any problems for pedestrians.

Work will be done on Fridays, the least busy day on campus. Signs will be placed around the work areas to redirect traffic as needed.

Aerospace program prepares for flight Metro to offer hybrid degree, fill niche demand

By Ben Wiebesiek wiebesib@mscd.edu In today’s highly competitive job market, knowing a second technical language can be the difference between a high-paid career and filing for unemployment.

Achieving this professional edge is the rationale behind the creation of the aerospace physics program, Metro’s first major combining disciplines from two schools: Letters, Arts and Sciences with Professional Studies.

One of the creators of the new program, Aerospace Department Chair Jeffrey Forrest, believes individuals who can combine management and science with an eye for entrepreneurship can fill an important niche in the emerging industry of space

commercialization.

“This is for the student who is looking for a more versatile background before heading for graduate school to study space exploration or planetary science,” Forrest said.

“Being in the aerospace industry and working with post-grads, I saw a unique need for people who possessed a fundamental working knowledge of both disciplines,” he said.

Forrest approached Metro physics professor Kamran Sahami during the summer of 2008 with the idea for the new program.

“The real value to the student at Metro State is that we have the flexibility, the expertise and the mechanism to allow two very different departments to come together in the individualized degree program and offer a degree that is optimally suited for the industry,” Sahami said.

Before the aerospace physics program came together, Sahami said students in both departments were searching for ways to balance their

degrees to get a job after graduation.

“What’s interesting is that we had students in aerospace looking for something a little more theoretical and foundation-based and we had physics students looking for something a little more applied and industry-related,” Sahami said.

The new aerospace physics program is still in the preliminary stages of becoming a permanent Bachelor of Science degree.

Metro is only offering aerospace physics this semester, through an individualized degree program where students propose customized majors for approval by the college.

Elizabeth Parmalee, director of the Center for Individualized Learning, said aerospace physics is on track to becoming a permanent degree, but must first pass a probationary phase.

“This particular program is what we call an incubator.” Parmalee said.

“It is run as an individualized degree temporarily while the department or departments involved

figure out what would work best for a permanent major. Once they’ve experimented for a year or two, and assuming it’s working for everyone, the next step is approving the curriculum.”

The process for approving curriculum involves several separate stages, including approval by the Faculty Senate, the president of the College and the Board of Trustees, she said.

In addition to aerospace physics, aerospace system engineering technology (ASET), another hybrid program, is also on track for the incubation phase with the college.

Forrest, who developed both programs, doesn’t want to rush process toward forming the permanent degrees.

“I’ve really been taking my time to get my ducks in a row,” Forrest said.

“The deans were very supportive and so were the faculty of both departments. But it is going to take time for administrators and faculty to get used to the idea of a program

crossing both schools and I want to take the time if there is some confusion about what’s involved,” Forrest said.

Matthew Hall, a commercial pilot and licensed flight instructor, is a student in the new ASET major through the individualized degree program, a degree he views as ideal for developing a dialogue between pilots, engineers, designers and business executives.

“In research and development for new aircraft, they need someone to be able to analyze a problem quickly and come up with a solution and be able to understand mechanical engineering and overall systems in general and then communicate the solution to everyone involved,” Hall said.

For more information on either of the new programs, visit www. mscd.edu/~cil.

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INSIGHT

"That's what pisses me off the most. I hate losing in general, but I hate when we lose like that."

— Cross Country runner ANTHONY LUNA ON A13

BIGGER VIEW

How technology could save us from Swine Flu

President Jordan, I'm gonna let you finish, but Obama is actually the best president in the universe right now.

Audrey Scolny S3 Public Relations

Illustrated and written by THE METROPOLITAN STAFF

THE POINT: AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE MEANS LESS MIDDLEMEN

Save insurance for catastrophe Fixing health care and fixing the insurance industry are two very different subjects. Health care, the pharmaceutical industry and health insurance are similar but three very different concepts.

Health care is a very wide concept that includes the medical industry, but is not limited to the medical industry. Diet, exercise, sleep, and generally taking care of oneself could all be included under the concept of health care.

The general concept of insurance is the idea that a group of people pool their money so should anyone have a catastrophe, they could then have access to the pool of money to pay for their expenses.

This is not what U.S. health insurance does, and this is the largest problem with U.S. health care.

Auto insurance covers drivers should they get into an accident; it is not a conduit through which we buy gas. Home owners insurance covers home owners against damage to their house, be it robbery, fire or natural disaster, but we do not go through insurance

SAM BLACKMER blackmar@mscd.edu companies to pay our utilities. So why, anytime we go to a doctor do we need insurance to be involved?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to just pay the doctor out-of-pocket if you are going in for a routine check-up or a cold?

This would have two positive effects on the health care industry.

First it would do away with the middleman. The trouble with middlemen is they cost money, wether they work for the government or insurance companies.

Currently in the U.S. for every two doctors, there is one health

insurance employee. These employees need to be paid, and it is patients who cover their salary. If you didn’t have to go through you insurance company every time you visited your doctor, it would be a lot less people to have to pay, thus lowering expenses of health care.

This would make insurance more affordable.

Second, if you had to pay outof-pocket every time you went to the doctor you would go to your doctor less. Not that there is a problem with going to your doctor if you need to, only a problem of how easy it is to go to the doctor when someone else is paying for it. By decreasing demand we will also decrease the cost of medical care and at the same time lower the cost of insurance by removing an unnecessary function that insurance companies have tried to fulfill.

Insurance companies would be better suited to deal with the catastrophic issues, as well as covering more pre-existing conditions than they now cover because they

would not be dealing with so many of the issues that currently take up resources. Some pre-existing conditions and illnesses would still not be covered because their cost is so high, but that will always be the case, not all things can be cured.

Constructing an argument for doing away with jobs during times of economic hardship may seem backward, but these jobs are serving no purpose but increasing the price of medical care. Remove the bureaucracy and health care will become more affordable.

This is not a panacea, health care will still be expensive without the bureaucracy, and the best health care is very expensive, and this is to say nothing of pharmaceutical companies and how to address the problem of medicine.

But by letting insurance companies deal with only catastrophic illness, and having people deal directly with their doctors for the majority of their health care needs, the system would be far simpler, more straight forward and more affordable for everyone.

When it comes to H1N1, nobody really knows what awaits us in the near future.

Paranoid preparation like Y2K? Or fullblown pandemic the likes of which the modern world hasn’t seen?

We hope for the best, but we should prepare for the worst — in our personal and business lives.

There are two things we know to be true: 1) Swine Flu requires human contact to transmit from one person to another; and 2) social media does not. So if you aren’t already posting, tweeting, blogging, updating, etc., now might be a good time to start.

In days of old, countries could be crippled by a lack of connection caused by any number of things – such as war, plague or natural disaster.

Today, technology keeps us hyper-connected, so that the world can learn of all matters significant and trivial in a nanosecond. It can feel annoying and intrusive at times, but think about the possibilities in times of crisis.

Social media is no replacement for physical socializing, but it does offer a sense of community – a community that you choose. And that may be a critical saving grace during a time when we may be fearful of external contact (or possibly quarantined). I think many of us would rather be connected than feel alone.

Before you and/or those around start feeling symptoms, why not come up with a social media strategy to help get you through the H1N1 flu?

Perhaps Facebook will be more than where you keep tabs on the class clown from elementary school. Now maybe it will be a true virtual meeting place among family and friends. You may expand your LinkedIn presence from merely having a profile to truly connecting through highly targeted groups.

The searchability of microblog service Twitter may prove its merits to the myriad doubters out there: in real time, you can experience answers to questions from people you may not even know…but who may have something in common with you. I wouldn’t be surprised if Twitter leads to many new friendships and professional liaisons in the event of a massive H1N1 outbreak.

Many of us blog a little bit, but expect blogs to take on an even more powerful role in the near future. Interacting with bloggers you can “trust” – learning from their posts, commenting, bantering with other comment-makers – allows for a deeper connection to a specific expertise or personality. That’s a void filler, and one that can be accessed day or night.

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Crystal Edwards leaps down the street during the Industry Keg Rolling Tournament at Oktoberfest on Larimer Street Sept. 20.

Photo by Chancey Bush • cbush7@mscd.edu

Erica Howe, second from right, and Eva Baylin, far right, wait to perform while Zea Neff, far left, tunes her instrument with the rest of the Boulder Spelemannslag Sept.

22 during Oktoberfest in downtown Denver.

Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu

This year’s annual German celebration may be the last

By Christin Mitchell csmitch39@mscd.edu It’s a crisp September day. You are eating a hot, smoked bratwurst smothered with sauerkraut, drinking a cold mug of beer straight from a keg, listening to a band onstage rocking a polka song. From the corner of your eye, you see a man run past you in only tight red shorts and a red lifeguard buoy. It’s not a bad dream, it’s Oktoberfest, but this festival could be over for good this weekend.

Larimer Associates announced Sept. 14 that this will be the last year it will produce Oktoberfest Denver.

The company has put on the event for 40 years.

“We’d love to see it continue,” event Director Margaret Ebeling said.

“I wish I had a crystal ball to see what will happen.”

The company is mainly focused on real estate and will direct its attention that way in 2010, according to Ebeling.

Larimer Associates has offered to sell the festival to any interested parties so that the event can continue.

A couple of businesses have shown interest in the event, Ebeling said, but there are no solid investors.

“I live across the street,” said Luke Shortridge, a first-time Oktoberfest attendee. “I came for the cultural aspect. I paid $30 for a beer, but I get to keep the awesome mug. Living in the neighborhood, I would be really disappointed if the event did not continue.”

Oktoberfest is a “German party,” as Ebeling said. It began in Munich, Germany, Oct. 17, 1810. Bavarian King Maximilliam I hosted a wedding feast for his son Ludwig’s marriage to the princess Therese von SachenHildburghausen. The feast was such a success that it became the country’s annual harvest festival.

Hertha Thomas-Zagari, a German immigrant, tapped the keg on Denver’s first Oktoberfest celebration in 1969. She wanted to celebrate the tradition and decided to bring it to

Larimer Square. She and her husband bought one keg and sold cups of beer for 50 cents each. They set up their stand where The Capital Grille is located today, according to the Oktoberfest Denver website. Without an alcohol permit, they were forced to shut down, so they gave the beer away.

Unfortunately, the only thing free at this event is the admission. You can expect to find different foods like pretzels, funnel cake, apple strudel, three different kinds of bratwursts and, of course, beer. There is also a variety of authentic German art stands. Spectators can catch a band playing at almost anytime during the festival.

Events include a keg rolling contest and a chicken dance contest. One of the most popular events, kicking off at 9 a.m. Sept. 27, is Das Hustlehoff, a 5K or 10K race that allows participants to dress up like David Hasselhoff from “Baywatch.” There are amusement rides and a jousting contest, which becomes more entertaining as the contestants continue to

imbibe.

Thomas-Zagari hoped to share the tradition of Oktoberfest and to draw more attention to the businesses downtown. She continued to celebrate the event until she passed away in 1999, Ebeling said.

She would probably have a thing or two to say if she were still alive.

Forty years later, Denver has one of the largest celebrations of Oktoberfest in the nation, according to the Oktoberfest Denver website. Nearly 500,000 people attend the event, over 75,000 cups of beer are sold and 7,500 bratwursts are eaten.

The festival moved from Larimer Square to Ballpark Neighborhood in 2007 because of the increasing attendance and expanding entertainment.

But now, coming to terms with the event’s demise, Ebeling is refreshingly realistic.

“I really hope that someone will buy the event,” Ebeling said. “If not, we may just have to hold up a glass and give it one last toast.”

The When and Where 20th and Larimer Streets 5 p.m. Sept. 25 to 1 a.m. Sept. 26 11 a.m. Sept. 26 to 1 a.m. Sept. 27 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 27

Julie Vitkovskaya Features Editor uvitkovs@mscd.edu

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

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CLUB BEAT

Art Guild

By Gabrielle Porter gporter8@mscd.edu

The Metro Art Guild is a student association reaches to involve Metro artists, art enthusiasts and their counterparts in the community in art exhibitions and events on campus.

The Art Guild’s largest event is the annual Metro Now exhibition. The four elected Art Guild student officers select one or two jurors to critique a selection of Metro student pieces.

The show is usually between two and three weeks long in February, and is held in the Emmanuel Gallery. Any student can submit art, and occasionally community members will show their work. The jurors are local artists, curators or other experts. Participating students get the opportunity to have their work professionally judged.

The Art Guild is in fact all—inclusive and has no requirements; student members don’t have to be art majors or even artists.

“You can just love art and be a member of the Art Guild,” faculty advisor Deanne Pytlinski said.

The club also occasionally sponsors visiting artists’ work and other art—related events like film festivals.

The Art Guild doesn’t have regular meetings scheduled.

For more information, contact student President Erin Mulrooney at mulrooer@mscd.edu or mscd.art.guild@gmail.com.

Meet your representatives Part 3 The Senate

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

tive bargain, the other costs like books and supplies present challenges in and of themselves. One of the somewhat unique characteristics about Metro State – that we cater to a significant non-traditional student demographic – helps explain yet another facet of the student financial situation: as working adults, a great number of Metro State students must weigh the desire to complete their degrees against the responsibilities of paying for things like mortgages or rent, food and clothing for their children, insurance… the list could go on and on.

David Crumbaker

Major: Political Science, Secondary Teacher Licensure Years at Metro: 5 E-mail: dcrumbak@mscd.edu What is the biggest problem facing Metro today?

The biggest problem facing Metro right now is funding. The institution itself is limited financially by state budgetary constraints; students are perpetually faced with the task of coming up with enough money to continue attending classes. Even though tuition for attending Metro State remains a compara-

How will you be more accessible to students?

I am available to listen to any student at any time.

Also, I am typically in the SGA office on Monday and Wednesday mornings, and nearly all day every Friday. Students may rest assured that what they bring to me – whether compliment or complaint, idea or grievance – will be brought to the attention of the people who serve them in the student government.

What will you be doing differently this year?

I am actually doing something new and different by serving as an SGA senator. I first became involved with the student government in January of 2007, when I was appointed to the Student Court. Eventually, I ended up serving for more than a year as chief justice of the Student Court until I resigned that office in May of this year. Serving as a senator has given me the opportunity to develop an entirely different perspective regarding the expectations that students have of their SGA officers.

John Kelty

Major: Political Science, minor in History Years at Metro: 2 E-mail: jkelty1@mscd.edu What is the biggest problem facing Metro today?

At the top of the list would have to be the budget.

Any more cuts to the budget affects everything else.

Also, we need to face the Viewshed Restrictions that place restrictions on how much space we have. Metro is a growing school — our enrollment increased this year. If Metro will be a viable part to the Denver community, it needs to be able to build accordingly.

What is something new you bring to SGA? I think what has struck me the most since I’ve been a senator is when I realized how little student participation there is. I wasn’t a part of the restructuring of the government, and that gives a fresh perspective. I was in the student government at Community College of Aurora. The structure in the community college and Metro is completely different. In that sense, I’m able to bring a fresh perspective.

How will you be more accessible to students?

I make sure that every time I get the opportunity to talk to students, I do. I make people aware that we exist. That’s the first step.

What can SGA do with the budget?

I think everyone is hopeful that we can do at least something. It’s kind of out of our hands. All we can do is make sure the student population are voicing their opinions to the Colorado Legislature so that way we can prevent any more budget cuts. I just worry if we have budget cuts we won’t continue to progress with other colleges in the state.

What is something that the SGA can do with space?

We’re working on the Viewplane Law and repealing that so we can build up. I have mixed

What can the SGA do to prepare themselves for the budget cuts?

The way that I see student government, and the way that I think many of my fellow senators see it, is an advocacy group. We can’t make those changes ourselves but we can speak loudly and powerfully to those who do make those decisions and we can influence them. One of the things that holds us back is the lack of student participation. If we had more than 700 people voting, we could really say, look, we really represent these people because they’re going to be the future of this community. Even with the participation that we have, we can build on that.

Justine Sandoval Major: Political Science, minor in Chicano Studies Years at Metro: 2 E-mail: jsando35@mscd.edu

feelings about it. I’m a native of Denver and I do like the mountain view. It’s more of how we can utilize space on campus with the new buildings and make it more efficient.

What is something new for the position?

My personal goal for this year is to create more visibility for the senate and to really represent the student body — not just to be part of the voting body. My goal is to make sure that I’m reflecting what students want for this campus and institution.

Katie Beals

Major: Communications, Public Address and Rhetoric, minor in Political Science Years at Metro: 4 E-mail: kbeals@mscd.edu What is the biggest issue facing Metro?

I think the implementation of the Master’s program is a big deal. I know that everyone else can agree that it’s a really big step forward for our college and it brings us onto a totally different level. But at the same time, we have to look at the influx of students coming in – how that will affect our student body, our facilities [and] our fees.

Is there anything that the SGA can do to prepare themselves for these budget cuts?

Absolutely. I know last semester we lobbied at the capitol, we did a lot of great work there. That’s really as far as we can go. We really need to be a voice for all of the colleges in Colorado. I really do think we represent a huge body of Colorado students because we are the second largest population. We have a responsibility to them.

As an interim senator, what is something new that you are bringing to the table?

My big thing was community. David [Crumbaker] and I came up with the big community initiatives — getting a recycling program going on what we call “Days of Action,” and bringing a more community feel to campus. Our “Days of Action” are going to be campus awareness recycling-initiated events that we’re hosting throughout the campus to have people to come, serve and clean up a little bit. For Homecoming, we have eight tables, which we’ve never done before. I think that’s great, and that was one of my biggest concerns — I didn’t know anybody. I didn’t want the same for other students in my position.

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Illuminating the grainy details Metro student Nick Baldridge’s show in the Santa Fe Art District Sept. 18 - Oct. 10 features paintings and portraits on wood grain.

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By Julie Vitkovskaya uvitkovsk@mscd.edu The only way Nick Baldridge comes in close contact with cubicles or desks is by painting the wood that constructs them.

As a 31-year-old Metro and UCD student, Baldridge has achieved notoriety by painting on the different wood grain he and his brother find at the hardware store. Baldridge would get a preliminary idea and sort through the different types of wood to the pleasant curiosity of staff and customers.

His show opened Sept. 18, at The Event Gallery 910 Arts, and features 14 paintings of contemplative women or a variety of scenes that show the sensual curves natural wood creates. He uses bright sparks of color to distinguish small areas of the paintings — such as a fish or frog — but his pieces remain largely in the realm of nature.

“I just want to do something besides working for someone else,” Baldridge said. “I hate working for other people, I always have.”

Being an artist is not a task he takes lightly. Self-discipline and perseverance keeps Baldridge from becoming a “wage-slave” to society. He feels fewer people enjoy life because they’re living on someone else’s dime.

“If I have to work 40, 50, 60 hours a week, at least I’m doing

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Nick Baldridge in front of one of his paintings Sept. 22 in The Event Gallery at the Sante Fe Art District. Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu something that I love, instead of what I’m told to do,” Baldridge said. ”It started clicking.”

The first show had three pieces.

As a neophyte selling art, he tried to act cool and collected when a woman suggested one of his art pieces was probably worth $5,000. He told the customer that he would “think about it.” After the woman came back once more, Baldridge made up his mind.

“I sold my first picture for $1,000,” Baldridge said. “I didn’t even like it.”

After five years, Baldridge is surprised his art has taken off so quickly.

“I just started artwork, and it started clicking, and I started selling it,” Baldridge said.

Catching depth He hopes to jump-start his own portrait company. Baldridge started his portraits by creating caricatures for tourists on the 16th Street Mall.

Painting women is much more difficult than painting men. Baldridge attempts to pull out elements that show them as beautiful people.

He usually doesn’t know which angle to take first, but it seems to him it’s always the last photograph he captures that he uses.

His pieces show women with calm expressions in meditative moments. In one, an expecting mother is sitting on a grassy hill and holding her belly with her arms. Her eyes are closed and the wind is breezing through her hair. She is far away

from the city and it’s a moment of loneliness that the audience, the artist and the subject all share.

“Just the way he looks at stuff is so much different,” said Aaron Salley, an artist also showing his work in the same gallery.

Salley describes Baldridge’s work as not overly abstract or confusing, but simple — he said Baldridge redefines a portrait by showing the entire body, therefore breaking the conventional thinking that it needs to look like an 1800s bust.

“I feel like people use society as their mirror — the real mirror,” Baldridge said. “People want to see how you see them more, almost as much as they want the actual portrait.”

Amateur filmmaking displays Nigerian talent

By Beth Norris enorris5@mscd.edu

Only a few places on the planet come to mind when one thinks of prominent movie-making hubs. Familiar birthplaces of films seem easy enough to conjure up. California’s Hollywood or India’s Bollywood may instantly pop into mind.

But the subject of Ben Addelman and Samir Mal-

lal’s latest documentary is a celebration of the strange and enormously intriguing world of Nigerian filmmaking. “Nollywood Babylon” takes a look at the third-largest film industry in the world.

After a significant economic downturn during the ‘70s and ‘80s, Nigerian theaters closed, making way to for a huge amateur filmmaking movement. Since the early ‘90s, literally thousands of movies have been released. The gritty, fly-by-theseat-of-your-pants style of this documentary is merely a reflection of the Nollywood style itself.

The film centers around 37-year-old director, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen. Known as “Da Governor” by his small and loyal film crew, Imasuen is captured working on his 157th film. His arrogance and hotheaded outbursts are only exceeded by his dedicated directing style. Imasuen pushes the actors, gets in their faces when they need to improve and congratulates them with boisterous outcries when they succeed. Hand-held cameras are used for some scenes. Others use more sophisticated equipment. There are no expensive studios or sets

Nollywood Babylon 5:15, 7:45 p.m., Sept. 25 Starz Film Center

and no lingering talent agents — just pure guerilla filmmaking. Small crews are put together, where absolutely everyone is used and held accountable.

There is an urgency to complete the film and move on to the next venture. A key element to the success of Nollywood is its ability to create as much entertainment as there is demand, which, to say the least, is a lot. When several Lagos citizens were asked how many movies they watched a day, the answer never fell below one, some saying they watched as many as five per day. This may seem excessive; however, when you factor in that these movies are really the only form of accessible entertainment for the majority, it’s not that far-fetched.

Sex, violence, comedy, drama and lots of action are the main themes of Nollywood films. But the real gems deal with the collision of traditional African culture and modern day aspersions. Nollywood actors portray characters with as much gusto as audiences can handle. The style is comparable to “B-movies,” which may be a little too much for American viewers, but they have proven to be a hit beyond Africa’s borders. Nollywood is truly an industry Nigerians should be proud of and is the voice of a progressive and dynamic Africa.

Last week in my multimedia journalism course, my classmates and I were handed an assignment: find an easy solution to publishing our multimedia projects online. Our instructor gave us some hints on places to start, but for the non-technologically savvy student, the task probably seemed a little daunting.

In a previous class, everyone followed steps to set up blogs hosted on Wordpress.com, but due to the site’s inability to support entire folders of files, we found we couldn’t actually host our multimedia projects there.

Since external hosting costs money, and college students don’t generally have a lot of green to spare, options were limited.

Now, I have a pretty extensive background using the Internet and making web pages, so the solution seemed pretty clear to me: we could host the files on Rowdy — a web server run by Metro and available free to all students who want to use it.

Until recently, the server was called CLEM, but due to the software being too old and outdated to maintain, the college decided to upgrade and migrated all of the old CLEM accounts to Rowdy.

Rowdy is great for the random student wanting to publish a web page or even just store files, as long as you’re not using it for any business purposes. Metro’s information page for Rowdy has a slew of resources for connecting to and using Rowdy, too.

Our class found out first-hand, however, what a frustrating process it is to get a Rowdy account online.

The first step is to submit a form using your Metro e-mail address to initiate the activation process. After the form is sent, your request is placed in a help ticket with the Information Technology Help Desk and you have to wait until your account is manually activated, which usually takes about 24 hours.

Once the account is activated and online, the information page offers tips on software you can use to transfer files to and from your account.

Outside the basics, though, Metro doesn’t offer a lot of guidance for actually creating pages.

All I know is we’ve found a costsaving solution to our project-hosting woes, and my penny-pinching pupils have saved a little green in the process.

For more information on the Rowdy server visit mscd.edu/rowdy.

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Local brewing company unveil their ales at this years Great American Brew Festival Story by Amanda Hall • ahall8@mscd.edu Photos by Taryn Jones • tjone101@mscd.edu

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Customer Guy Oldaker waits for his next beer sample at Upslope Brewery. Bruce Immele, rear, enjoys his drink while reading one of beer aficionado Michael Jacksons’ books.

ABOVE: Dunkleweiss is one of the many beers brewed at Upslope. Holding undertones of banana, this flavor is void of any hoppy bitterness.

MIDDLE: Head Brewer Dany Pages checks the condition of a beer brew shortly after adding hops. As the beer mixes, temperatures will continue to rise in between in the brewhouse where Pages stands.

FAR RIGHT: Upslope Founder Matt Cutter leans against the fermentation tanks in the brewhouse. Cutter heads to Upslope after working his everyday job.

en or eleven years ago, Matt Cutter and some friends dreamed of starting a microbrewery. He was young. Money was scarce and credit for a small business was even more unattainable. He packed away the business plan and started a career in high tech.

One day in November, two years ago, Cutter was working on his business plan, again.

“So, what are you doing?” Cutter’s 10-year-old son, Gabe, asked.

Cutter explained he was putting together a business plan for a microbrewery. He told his son he didn’t know if it was something he’d ever complete, so Gabe shouldn’t get attached to the idea of a new business for the family.

It’s just something he’d dreamed about and was simply reviewing again.

“Well, you have to do it, if it’s your dream,” Gabe said.

Cutter and his wife, Lara, took out a second mortgage on their house. As they signed the papers, she looked at him and said, “You’re gonna make this fly right?”

By September 2008, Cutter’s microbrewery Upslope Brewing Company was up and running.

The guys canned their first beers in November, just a little too late to compete in the 2008 Great American Beer Festival. This year, they’re ready.

The guys at Upslope produce seven-barrel batches at their small brewery. The taproom and brewery are located in a warehouse in north Boulder. The tasting room is small with only a few bar stools and even fewer tables. It’s usually full of people from the neighborhood and friends of the staff.

Conversations blend freely.

Upslope hand-cans their beers, six pack by six pack, in recycled aluminum.

The beers are more portable for hikers and bikers. The packaging allows no light in, so their product can be sold unpasteurized, which allows for fresher taste.

Upslope is one of 55 new breweries competing at the Great American Beer Festival this week.

Cutter found Dany Pages, his head brewer at Upslope, on probrewer.com, a website for professional brewers. Pages and his wife, Lesley, wanted to relocate to Colorado, where she grew up. Pages knew about starting from the ground up.

Nine years ago, he started his first threeand-a-half barrel brewery in a chicken shed in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southern-

most city in the world.

Pages is still a partner in Beagle Brewery. The company makes an India Pale Ale, Fuegian Stout, and a brew they call Fuegian Ale. “The advancements Beagle made in eight or nine years, Upslope has made in one,” he said.

Pages says the troubled economy, difficulty getting loans and the fact that Argentineans don’t appreciate the same diversity in beer as Coloradoans and Americans made it difficult to start a business there.

“It’s more difficult to work in Argentina than in Colorado. Here there is a spirit of fraternity between the microbreweries,” Pages explains. “Argentina is much more competitive.”

Pages imports Patagonian hops for his brews at Upslope. It’s one of the little things they do that sets them apart from the vast number of breweries in Colorado.

Local breweries like Oskar Blues and New Belgium have helped Upslope work out the kinks as they got started. Oskar Blues, another Colorado brewery known for canned beers, sold them some pop tops for their cans and even sent their packaging manager over to “help them dial in” their hand canning process.

New Belgium offered to loan them hops or malts if they ever accidentally ran out of ingredients while getting the hang of the brewing.

“Craft beer only makes up, what, six percent of the market? At that rate, why should we fight for crumbs? We should be helping one another,” said Henry Wood, marketing and sales director for Upslope.

Wood said he and Cutter attribute their success in the beer industry to their lack of knowledge about it. Neither have any experience making or selling beer. They met through their brander, Pete Burhop, who also has no experience creating a brand for beers.

Chad Pieper, who runs the taproom at Upslope, thinks a stout may be next on the horizon for new brews. The company is already looking forward to expansion.

“We love it here,” Wood said.

“North Boulder is our home. We’d like to expand in this location.”

For Cutter, starting a new business while continuing to work at his previous career has taken time away from his family. But Lara and the kids, Gabe and daughter Jean, understand.

“How can you tell your kids, ‘you can do what ever you want to do with your life, follow your dreams,’ while they watch you not pursue yours?” Cutter asked

Taproom Manager Chad Pieper demonstrates the science behind brewing beer. A hydrometer is used to measure the gravity of the “wort,” the sweet liquid in the tanks before yeast is added.

Upslope’s Brews Upslope Pale Ale - clear, crisp and dry with a pleasant medium-hopped finish.

International Bitterness Units: 30 Alcohol by volume: 5.8% Body: Light to medium Upslope India Pale Ale - bold, deep and bitter ale with complex malty character that creates a wellbalanced IPA. IBU: 65 ABV: 7.2% Body: Medium Upslope Single Batch Series: American Brown Ale - dark brown body with a creamy tan head. Strong roasted coffee aromas. chocolate, toffee and East Kent Golding hops.

IBU: 40 ABV: 6.7% Body: Medium Dunkelweizen - dark, complex beer with a roasted, caramelized and chocolaty taste with hints of banana, nutmeg and other spices.

IBU: 16 ABV: 6.7% Body: Medium Belgian Dubbel - dark amber beer brewed in traditional Belgian style.

Hints of bubble gum and banana round out the dark malty sweetness.

IBU: 30 ABV: 7.5 Body: Light to Medium Time of the Season - light and dry with a crisp, fruity finish laced with light coriander spice, a Belgian pale ale.

IBU: 45 ABV: 7.3% Body: Delicate/light

B6 • AUDIOFILES • SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN

sounding off: Port O’Brien sets sail with new LP San Francisco’s Port O’Brien’s brand of high-energy, heartwarming folk rock is something to behold. The band’s live shows are filled with crowd participation and wonderful, catchy music.

The band’s new album however, is something a little different. After the death of founding member Cambria Goodwin’s brother, the band recorded Threadbare, giving the album a much different tone. Partially recorded in a friend’s living room, Threadbare has a very intimate and personal sound.

Overall the album has a cathartic and uplifting feel that is at times refreshing and uplifting.

Lead singer Van Pierszalowski talked about the new album, and their upcoming stop in Denver, while searching for a bass amp in Portland.

Interview by Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu MP: For those unfamiliar, what kind of band would you say Port O’Brien is and what are you guys about?

VP: I don’t really know... we’re proud of the music we make and we’re excited and proud of our new record. I don’t really know what it’s like or anything like that, but that’s kind of up to you guys to explain. We’re really excited about it and stoked on it.

MP: What are some of the band’s major influences?

VP: I listen to a lot of different kinds of music so it’s kind of hard to tell what influences you, if any of it, but we listened to a lot of [San Francisco’s] Papercuts when we recorded. That’s who produced most of the album so that’s going to be a pretty big influence.

MP: What is your process when it comes to writing a song?

VP: Oh, it just kind of comes. I mean each one is totally different. Sometimes it will just hit me in the moment, sometimes you try for a while but usually that doesn’t work so it’s kind of all over the map.

MP: Can you tell me a little bit about the new album? Are you happy with it?

VP: Yeah. We’re really excited. It’s a lot different than the last one. We’re a lot more focused as one cohesive piece than on the last album, but we’re really excited about it.

MP: You recorded part of this album in a living room, how do you think that contributed to the overall feel of the album?

VP: Yeah, I mean it’s definitely a recording studio it just happens to be in a living room. But Jason [Quevers]’s a dear friend and recording at his house with him was a really special, therapeutic experience for us.

MP: Threadbare deals with loss, and it sounds like it was a pretty emotional process, but overall do you think recording the album was a positive experience?

VP: Yeah, definitely. That kind of helps to have something to work on, something to say actively, something to pool all of your energies into… for that reason it was really important.

MP: What is your favorite part about playing live?

VP: I really like seeing all the different venues and all the different crowds and how that affects the performance. It’s a very integral part of touring, more than anything. The crowd is the most important.

MP: You guys tour pretty relentlessly, what’s one of your favorite stories from the road?

VP: Oh man we have all kinds of stories from the road. We got to smoke pot with Neil Young. That

Van Pierszalowski of Port O’Brien was pretty cool.

MP: What can we expect at your live show? Do you still pass out pots and pans?

VP: Yeah we still do that, but we’re gonna be playing a lot of new songs. We try to make each song sound totally different. Try different arrangements for every song, and switch around on instruments, depending on each live performance.

MP: Will you be performing any covers? I was looking on YouTube and saw a video of you guys covering Ludacris that was pretty awesome.

VP: We haven’t done that in a while, but you never know. We weren’t planning on any covers in the set but you never know when the feeling might hit.

MP: Do you think Port O’Brien has evolved since your debut and how so?

VP: Yeah, I mean in every way possible. Even the lineup has changed. We have a new drummer, new guitarist. And just in general like the direction and meaning behind all the songs has changed, from our jobs to personal experiences that we’re going through. Everything about us has really changed. Only the core elements, our style and the general essence of that… a lot of the aspects of our music will always stay the same.

MP: What’s next for the band?

VP: This is day two of our 49-day tour of the United States, after that we got about a week off and then we go to Europe for about four weeks. Then more touring and start getting ready for the next album.

MP: I hope you find a bass amp soon.

VP: Yes. We will continue our mission!

“[It] kind of helps to have something to work on, something to say actively, something to pool all of your energies into ...”

Sea Wolf w/ Port O’Brien 10 p.m., Sept. 26 @ Hi-Dive $12

Mile High and Rising

Colorado Bands on the Rise: Accordion Crimes In 1996, author Annie Proulx released “Accordion Crimes.” The novel, which is written from the perspective of an accordion, relates various interweaving stories to seedy characters, violence and the gritty realism that makes up the darker side of the United States. In the end, Proulx uses the power of music as her main motif, realizing the accordion’s redeeming qualities amongst a chaotic world.

Today, the Denver based trio Accordion Crimes, seems to draw their own musical principles from Proulx, perfectly implementing their moniker and its social relevance. Combining the dissonance of thrashing, indie bands from the early ‘90s with gritty, lyrical themes that convey the all-too-common notions of violence, loss and regret.

Lead vocalist and guitarist, Bryon Parker, writes such songs for the trio. Yet, Parker flushes out his instrumental compositions with interesting tunings, expressive chord progressions and howling feedback. Alongside Parker’s niche for

song writing is Brian Feuchtinger’s sonic genus. Letting his bass speak for itself, whether it’s through over-driven monologues or mouthy bass lines. Meanwhile, David Sprague’s consistent drumming style acts as the definition to Accordion Crimes chaotic reverie, creating the musical inertia every band should strive for.

However, the trio’s intensity is countered by their practicality as each song is just as accessible and melodic as the next. Five of these songs were captured at Feuchtinger’s Uneven Studios and subsequently released as the bands debut album, A Higher Quality Version of This.

Now, Accordion Crimes has begun to reach a larger audience that seeks out a certain brand of throwback. Relating to producer Steve Albini’s “lo-fi” sound, or even older punk and new wave bands. Though Parker and Sprague were a part of the local favorite Raleigh, while Feuchtinger was in the Hot IQs until their breakup this past July, each member looks at

Accordion Crimes this project as something new and different.

Accordion Crimes will be playing at The Outfit’s album release party on Oct. 17 at the Larimer Lounge, as they continue to support other local acts and focus on recording their new album which is tentatively titled, Extractor.

By Ian Gassman • img2007@comcast.net

This Album Changed My Life

By Krista Coulter • kcoulte2@mscd.edu

Photos by Mark Farnik • mfarnik@mscd.edu

BullMary lead singer and tambourine player Andrea Tadvick, center, croons into the microphone during a show at the Little Bear Saloon Sept. 19 in Evergreen.

BullMary lead guitarist and vocalist Paul Ewald.

The hybrid classic rock/roadhouse/folk group premiered several new songs, which are being considered for the album the band is planning to release this winter.

More Upcoming Shows If you missed Flogging Molly in December, don’t worry; the American Celtic punk band will be back at Red Rocks on Saturday Sept. 26.

Flogging Molly combine traditional Irish music with a thrashing punk sound. They offer a unique blend of songs, some about the perils of life and love, some just about Flogging Molly partying.

The band shows an equal balance of songs from their four albums.

From the moment they take the stage to the moment you leave the concert, you are taken over by a wave of energy. It’s not just the music that make this a show not to miss; letting loose and joining the excitement in the crowd is an equal part of the experience.

By Ashley Moreland amorela1@mscd.edu

Flogging Molly 8 p.m., Sept. 26 @ Red Rocks $35

Citizen Cope, from Memphis, will be playing at the Fox Theatre in Boulder Sept. 27 and 28. Citizen Cope is a one-man band featuring Clarence Greenwood playing the keyboard, guitar, turntables and vocals. The sound of Citizen Cope is a mixture of hip-hop, folk and blues.

The majority of his songs are made up almost entirely of beats with the lyrics sung in a road-weary voice.

Greenwood is a talented songwriter that also produces all of his own music. Greenwood also wrote and produced a song for Carlos Santana that was featured on Citizen Cope his Shaman album.

Greenwood released his most recent record, Every Waking Moment, in 2006. Since then, several of the songs from the album have been featured in television and film.

With such a unique sound, it’s a show you won’t want to miss. And with two chances, you really have no excuse.

By Rachel St. Clair rstclair@mscd.edu

Citizen Cope 9 p.m., Sept. 27 & 28 @ Fox Theatre $28

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There are very few moments in my life that I remember quite as clearly as my first concert, and there’s good reason for that. Because Something Corporate fell into my lap at just the right time in my life, and has proceeded to stand by me in all my greatest times of difficulty since.

Leaving Through the Window My relationship •Something Corporate with my father had always been tumultuous, to say the least, and during my freshman year of high school, when my biggest problem should have been fitting in with a new crowd of strangers or fighting pettily over curfews with my mother, my father continued to create a rift in my life. By the time things were said and done, my father had left for good, I was left thankful but empty, a harsh combination for a teenage girl. I was relieved to be rid of him, but dejected, feeling miserable at the notion of never seeing my father again.

My friends couldn’t understand what I was thinking or feeling, and though their help during my time of need was meant well, it only served to be more frustrating as they empathized with me.

So when I attended my first concert, and Something Corporate took the stage as the opening show, I was blown away. It wasn’t just that the piano was beautiful and haunting, yet heated and poignant at points. And it wasn’t the guitar that was less than technical but just as heartfelt. It was the music itself, and the way the band played it, which left me standing outside the venue on Colfax thinking, “That’s everything I’ve ever tried to put into words.”

And when I bought their first CD Leaving Through the Window the next day, it seemed it didn’t leave my stereo for the next year. Because all of the teenage angst and hurt I had been feeling was summed up in those 14 songs. Songwriter Andrew McMahon knew when I was feeling used, like in “I Want to Save You,” or when I was feeling completely hopeless like in “Fall.”

Since that CD, Something Corporate has been there for me in ways that even a best friend can’t be; the only constant in what was a rapidly-changing life. It was there for me when I saved up and bought my first car, and when I wrecked it. It was there for me when I found my first love, the silly fleeting kind, and it was there when he left. Most of all it was there for me in times when no one else could be, because it seemed like no one else could understand.

Leaving Through the Window is still the first album I play after a rough night at work, or when it feels like the people closest to me have turned their backs. Because I know that the sound of those piano keys will bring me a comfort that no one else can.

Photo Flashback: BullMary

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Matt Pusatory mpusator@mscd.edu Music Editor

On this day in 1991, Nirvana’s breakthrough album Nevermind was released.

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THE POINT: CAMPUS A BREEDING GROUND FOR YOUNG AND OLD

Puttering around Auraria

Everybody has seen the TV and billboard beer ads with guys, surrounded by adoring women, in a bar, wearing their hats backward and having conversations that couldn’t confuse a four year-old.

On billboards, we see kids toasting “drinkability” with the same goofy as-seen-on-TV grins suggesting they all got a group rate on lobotomies.

On TV, billboards and in print, for beer or for any number of other proffered products, pitch people share a couple of things in common . Nobody in their jolly company is troubled by a job or any other kind of work. And nobody is ever much over 30.

Nor are any of those pushed products aimed at me or my demographic, even though numbers I didn’t concoct say we have lots more money to spend than the 18to-34 demographic darlings.

For us, they offer erectile dysfunction aids with a couple in matching bath tubs waiting for “when the moment is right.” Then a caveat urges calling a doctor if an erection lasts more than four hours, when maybe the lucky stiff should consider calling his old girlfriends instead.

On semi-serious TV shows, obviously not for the fun-seeking 18-to-34 niche, there are rafts of remedies for middling-to-geriatric health problems I never even knew

J. SEBASTIAN SINISI sinisi2@msn.com were out there. But in terms of who most advertisers spend the most millions to woo, I’ve been demographically dead for years.

Being post-sellable comes into very sharp focus on campus — the traditional country of the young.

Even on a campus like Auraria, where many students work part and full-time jobs to raise the afternoon and evening age, I’m still decades removed from the median.

So why am I on campus? Glad you asked. To ogle all the cleavage that Ray Charles wouldn’t miss, were he around today? Not exactly.

UCD offers programs that allows seniors, with the instructor’s OK, to take classes without having to pay tuition, take exams or write papers. You must admit to age 60 or above and agree to receive no course credit. But the price is right.

I like to call the program UCD’s “GI Bill for seniors,” and if “GI Bill”

doesn’t ring a bell, you’re way too young to qualify anyway.

As an academic freeloader for nearly three years now, I’ve taken about a dozen courses that way – mostly in architecture. In the back of my mind lurks a vague notion of one day paying real money to earn a real degree in architecture; something I’d written about for years in The Denver Post.

Along with architecture, I’d also done a stint covering higher education during that previous life at the Post, and was no stranger to either CU’s Boulder or Auraria campuses.

But I hadn’t been an actual student since working on an aborted graduate degree at the City University of New York before coming to Denver back in the 1970s. That also involved a commuter campus.

But the student world has changed since the days of $15 hardback textbooks.

When first walking onto the Auraria campus as a student and not a reporter, it felt as though I’d fallen down an Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit hole; or was moonlighting as a chaperone for some undergrad frat party.

Students, floating across campus in a cell phone haze, were mostly 20-something, and even instructors were 15 or 20 years younger. In class, that meant my recollections and frames of refer-

ence often escaped both of those younger groups. This translated to blank stares greeting comments I thought were profound as hell and joke-attempts falling flat on their figurative faces.

Also in class, I used low-tech spiral notebooks in lieu of a laptop; on which some students play video games, surf sports scores or download porn. Nor do I wear a Bluetooth or spend half the day texting.

No baggy-ass pants or backward hat to hide my white hair, either.

Outside, it was hard to relate to dudes on skateboards or wannabes sporting gangsta looks. All of which made me — in and out of class — a total misfit.

But that off-balance condition didn’t last long. In subsequent semesters, I kept coming back for more, while the seasons settled into a rhythm that was part of something that remained challenging and was also — dare I say it? — fun.

And it occurred to me that if youth is wasted on the young, as some oldsters claim, then maybe my undergrad years before the last Ice Age were also wasted because I wasn’t ready, back then, to learn very much. Now, this time around, maybe I am — with only a portion of that education coming in class.

And that may be the whole point of education; higher or otherwise.

THE POINT: PRO ATHLETES MUST ACT MORE PROFESSIONAL

‘Criminals’ make poor idols

The last time I checked, it was pretty hard to get a job, especially if you have a criminal record. Being convicted of a crime is something the American work force takes very seriously — unless of course, you are a professional athlete.

Michael Vick, a former Atlanta Falcons Quarterback, was recently released from prison after serving time for running a dog fighting operation. Now, he will make his debut with the Philadelphia Eagles Sept. 27, after serving a paltry twogame suspension.

Denver’s beloved Carmelo Anthony was charged with a DUI in May of 2009 after being ticketed and “released to a sober driver.” He was suspended for two games the following season.

America turns their heads the other way when a pro athlete makes the headlines and time and time again has admitted that it’s more important to win a championship than to be rightfully punished for a crime.

Lineman Tank Johnson, of the

DACIA JOHNSON djohn205@mscd.edu Chicago Bears, was charged with possession of an unlicensed gun in 2006 and was suspended for eight games. He now plays for the Cincinnati Bengals.

In February 2004, Baltimore Ravens Running Back Jamal Lewis was charged with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms of cocaine. In February 2005, Lewis spent four months in prison and was suspended four games. He now plays for the Cleveland Browns In a July 2004 20/20 special, “Out of Bounds,” it was reported that 21 percent of NFL players and

40 percent of NBA players have a criminal record.

The head of the NBA Players Union insisted forcefully that NBA players are role models, and I would have to agree. Whether they make bad decisions or not, professional athletes are idolized by much of America.

If so many players are leaving the fields and courts with criminal records then why do we idolize these players? It’s quite alarming that almost half of NFL players have been in trouble with the law.

So many athletes are playing with selfishness and greed — and why not if they can get away with it? Why does the NFL and NBA allow players to return to the game after serving jail time? The last thing these leagues need is to have a criminal as a representative of the sport.

Why can’t we have a team full of Michael Jordans? A guy who understood and respected his role as an idol for many young men and women.

Those were the days when

sports were about sports and there were no underlying issues and controversies like pushing back Anthony’s suspension so he could play in the NBA playoffs.

We do have home-town hero, and Nuggets point guard, Chauncey Billups who graduated high school here in Denver. Billups has never run into trouble with the law during his professional career. Instead, he has given a great amount of time and money back to his community.

Shaquille O’Neal, a center for the Miami Heat, is a reserve police officer in Miami during the off-season and according to NBC Sports, O’Neal has said he is most interested in working with the special victims detective unit to help stop crimes against children.

There are talented athletes out there who are not involved in criminal activities. Athletes who appreciate their role as athlete and idol. The fields should be reserved for athletes who deserve the opportunities given to them.

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SPORTS

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SIDELINE THIS WEEK

9.23 Women’s Soccer

2:30 p.m. vs. Mesa State College

9.25 Men’s Tennis

9 a.m. vs. Colorado Christian Univ.

Women’s Tennis 9 a.m. vs.Colorado

Christian Univ.

Men’s Tennis 3:30 p.m. vs. CSU- Pueblo Women’s Tennis 3:30 p.m. vs. CSU- Pueblo Women’s Soccer 4:30 p.m. vs. UCCS

9.26 Men’s Tennis

2 p.m. vs. Mesa State College Women’s Tennis 2 p.m. vs. Mesa State College Women’s Volleyball 3 p.m. vs. Nebraska- Kearney

9.27 Women’s Soccer

Noon vs. CSU-Pueblo Men’s Soccer 2:30 p.m. vs. Fort Lewis College

Say What?

“Overall I think we had a pretty great race as a team. I think the women’s team ran very strong.”

METRO CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER DANIELLE KEHOE, A13

Metro setter Gabe Curtis goes up to set the ball Sept. 18 at the Auraria Events Center. The Roadrunners won a 3–0 victory over Colorado Christian. Photo by Nicholas Duckworth • nduckwor@mscd.edu

metro 3 - CCU 0; metro 3 - UCCS 2; metro 0 - regis 3

’Runners top CCU for 19th straight time

By Matt Hollinshead mhollin5@mscd.edu The women’s volleyball team regained their confidence after a tough loss to Mines on Sept. 11.

The Roadrunners blanked Chadron State on the road 3-0, Sept. 12 and then destroyed Colorado Christian University 3-0, Sept. 18 at the Auraria Events Center.

In the match against Colorado Christian, Metro had 37 team kills, eight team errors and five team blocks, compared to the Cougars’ 20 team kills, 25 team errors and two team blocks. Metro, now 10-3 this season and 3-2 in the RMAC, has won 19 consecutive matches against the Cougars. The Cougars are now 2-8 this season, 0-3 in the RMAC. The Roadrunners got off to a fast start in the first set, going up 3-0 and eventually to a 15-9 lead.

Metro then went on a 10-4 run to win the first set, 25-13. In the set, the Roadrunners had 15 team kills, three errors and had a game-high

.500 attack percentage. Metro setter Gabe Curtis had 13 of her gamehigh 30 assists in the first set alone.

However, the key factors to their first set win were defense and sensational teamwork. Meanwhile, Colorado Christian had a match-low five kills, six errors and ended the set with a negative .053 attack percentage.

Despite a strong start, Metro became slightly sluggish midway through the second set. With a 15-7 lead, Colorado Christian went on a 5-1 run, cutting Metro’s lead to 16-12. During that span, Metro had four errors, including two service errors, their most of any set in the match. However, the Roadrunners would come through, as outside hitters Bri Morley and Emily Greenhalgh led Metro with five combined kills to win the second set 25-17.

Despite their four team errors and a match-low .278 attack percentage in the set, Metro dominated the set offensively with 14 team kills. Even though they lost the set and had eight team errors, the set would be

Colorado Christian’s best of the entire match, with 10 team kills and a match-high, but a low, .056 attack percentage. However, the best was yet to come for Metro.

Metro got off to a 7-1 start and eventually jumped to a 14-4 lead in the third set. Colorado Christian had their worst set of the match with a team-high 11 errors and a woeful -.273 attack percentage. The most significant story in the third set was the play of Metro’s outside hitter Emily Greenhalgh. She had two of her eight kills in the third set, including the game-winning kill for Metro, who would take the set, 25-9, to win the match.

“Emily’s amazing,” Curtis said.

“She’s a great athlete and a great teammate. I love setting for her.”

The key to the match for Metro seemed to be their mental preparation.

“We just went back to the way we were preparing for our preseason tournament,” Greenhalgh said. “We came together in the locker room

and had a really great night.”

Head coach Debbie Hendricks also added, “We’ve recommitted ourselves for how we prepare for each opponent. Every team is coming after us and you have to prepare for that battle.”

Metro defeated University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Sept.

19, 3-2. Libero Amy Watanabe had a career-high 37 digs, only four digs shy of the school record of 41, set by Taryn Drescher Aug. 27, 2004.

Metro lost to Regis University Sept. 22 in three straight matches, making 25 attack errors, the most in a three-set match since Nov. 16, 2007 against UCCS. Their highest hitting percentage of the night was in the first set with .132.

Curtis managed 31 assists and had nine digs. Watanabe led the defense with 16 digs, while outside hitter Amanda Cook had 11.

The Roadrunners will play at home against Nebraska-Kearney Sept. 26 and New Mexico Highlands Oct. 1 at Auraria Events Center.

A11 • SPORTS • SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN • Honey has been used both as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze.

metro 3 - UCCS 0; metro 2 - CSU-Pueblo 1 OT

Roadrunners fly past ’Lions and ’Wolves Metro gains ground in RMAC with two wins

By Mike Nicholls nichollm@mscd.edu Due to a strong second half effort against University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Sept. 18 and a crucial double overtime win against CSU-Pueblo Sept. 20, the Metro men’s soccer team came away with two wins and six points, leaving them tied for first place in the conference heading into homecoming week.

The Roadrunners started the weekend road trip by defeating UCCS 3-1. The team started out slowly in the important conference opener, failing to establish a rhythm.

The ’Runners came out focused in the second half, however, and scored three goals to put away their opponent, two by center midfielder Steve Emory.

Defender Pat Laughlin found the net in the 75th minute on an assist from forward Ri Armstrong. Emory added another goal in the 84th minute on a pass from Mike Martinez. He finished things off with yet another goal in the 88th minute on a penalty kick following a yellow card on the

Metro midfielder Steven Emory kicks the ball toward Regis’ net last season in a game at Regis Field.

The men will face Regis Sept. 25 at Auraria Field. File photo by Andrew Bisset • abisset1@mscd.edu UCCS goalkeeper Adam Liszewski.

Metro outshot the Mountain Lions 19-7, including 9-4 on goal.

Emory and forward Scott Grode each led the team with six shot attempts.

“The team played well. We finally put away our opportunities,” Emory

said.

The team put away another opportunity Sept. 20 against the 24th-ranked ThunderWolves.

“Pueblo is a difficult place to play,” head coach Ken Parsons said.

Emory played a supporting

role, assisting on a goal by Laughlin less than a minute into the second half to give Metro a 1-0 lead.

The ’Runners did manage three corner kicks in the period but no goals.

Forward Scott Grode

took a shot that went high in the 104th minute, but a counter-attack by the ThunderWolves led to a save for Metro goalkeeper Dominique Griffith just seconds later. Laughlin nearly ended the game in the 108th minute with a shot that hit the post, but Martinez ended what Emory called “a day of frustration” with the winner less than a minute later.

Midfielder Tyler Hambrick found Martinez directly in front of the goal for the tap-in. It was reminiscent of a goal he scored earlier in the season.

“I finished just like the Western Washington game, Déjà vu.”

Martinez said.

It was a big goal and gave the Roadrunners a win early in the season. Martinez and the Roadrunners have big goals for the rest of the season as well. But the focus is on Regis Sept. 25 and then the homecoming match against Fort Lewis Sept. 27.

“They are our biggest rivals, we need to net some goals,” Martinez said.

A 5-2 record with five of the first six games on the road is promising.

More beautiful play this week will be required to defeat Regis on the road before they battle their rivals on Sept. 27 at home.

metro 3 - FORT lewis 2 OT

Metro rallies back for conference victory

By Matt Gypin mgypin@mscd.edu The Metro women’s soccer team overcame losing a star player to injury and a 2-1 halftime deficit, to rally and defeat the No. 11-ranked Fort Lewis Skyhawks 3-2 in double overtime Sept. 18 at Auraria Field.

The Roadrunners were led in the second half and overtime by forward Aleah DeGeneres, who scored both the game-tying goal, with less than 10 minutes left in regulation, and the overtime game-winner in the 102nd minute.

Both goals came off quick passes from her teammates and DeGeneres was happy to share the credit.

“On the first goal, Courtney [Ryan] crossed it in and I was there to get a chest on it,” DeGeneres said.

“On the last one, I saw Maddie [Madison McQuilliams] running and she had a chance to shoot it. I called for it, she passed it across and I was there to finish. It was perfect placement.”

The win did not come easy.

After reigning RMAC Offensive Player of the Week forward, Becca Mays scored to put Metro up 1-0 in

Metro forward Aleah DeGeneres celebrates with teammate forward Ashley Nemmers after scoring the game-winning goal against Fort Lewis in double overtime Sept. 18 at the Auraria Field. Photo by Ryan Martin • martirya@mscd.edu the ninth minute of the game. Fort Lewis stormed back, scoring twice in 13 minutes to take control. The Skyhawks also stepped up their defense, stifling Metro’s ball movement and stopping scoring chances.

The next time Mays had a scoring chance would be her last action of the game.

With just under eight minutes left in the first half, Mays, Metro’s third all-time leading scorer, collided with Skyhawk goalie Christine Schmelze in midair while going for a header in front of the net. The hit left Mays shaken and stirred, writhing on the ground for five minutes before teammates helped her off the field.

She did not return and was seen after the game with her arm in a sling.

Metro head coach Adrianne Almaraz said losing Mays hurt, but the team rallied together in her absence.

“I think it affected the team as far as leadership because she can score goals easily for us,” Almaraz said of Mays. “But everyone came together and played really well. It was a very big win against a very good team and to beat them at home is big because we still have to play them at their place.”

Sandee Mott, associate athletic director at Metro and a fan who watches all the games, said at halftime that Fort Lewis is one of the toughest teams Metro will play this season, despite losing to No. 15-ranked Minnesota State University-Mankato, Sept. 4 2-1.

“They are bigger than all the teams we’ve seen this year,” Mott said. “Fort Lewis is much better than Mankato. They put a lot of pressure on our defense.”

Despite trailing 2-1 and losing Mays, Mott was confident Metro would come back.

“Coach Almaraz is very good at

making halftime adjustments,” Mott said. “She has been doing it all season long.”

Sure enough, Mott’s prediction came true.

Almaraz said she changed the offense with 20 minutes left to put more pressure on the Fort Lewis defense.

“At the end of the day we wanted it more,” Almaraz said. “Our players had more of an extra drive, not wanting to lose or even tie.”

The win improved the No. 20-ranked Roadrunners to 6-1-1 overall and 2-1-0 in conference play, while handing Fort Lewis (6-1-0, 2-1-0) their first loss of the season.

Metro travels to Durango Oct. 11 for the rematch.

In the meantime, Metro will travel to Colorado Springs Sept. 25 to take on University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. They will come back home Sept. 27 to play Colorado State University at Pueblo at Auraria Field.

A12 • SPORTS • SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN • “Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.” Lou Holtz, former NCAA football and NFL head coach.

SPORTS BRIEFS RMAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Metro forward Aleah DeGeneres Metro women’s soccer forward Aleah DeGeneres was named RMAC Offensive Player of the Week Sept. 22 by the conference. It’s the first time in her career she has earned the honor. DeGeneres scored the game-tying and game-winning goals Sept. 18 against Fort Lewis. Metro won the game in overtime 3-2.

Metro libero Amy Watanabe

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Metro volleyball libero Amy Watanabe was named RMAC Defensive Player of the Week Sept. 21 by the conference. This is the second time she’s earned the honor this season and the third time in her career. Watanabe had 47 digs combined against CCU Sept. 18 and UCCS Sept. 19, and also had two assists.

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Strong finish leads to drop in rankings Men drop to 8th; women fall out of regional rankings

CSU CLASSIC RESULTS Men

By Scott Bassett sbasset4@mscd.edu The Metro men and women’s cross country teams both finished in third place overall, but were bowled over by a conference nemesis Sept.

18 at the Colorado State University Classic in Fort Collins.

The men’s side had the displeasure of facing an Adams State University team that had runners place in the top-5 rankings, and had a perfect score which led them to take first place overall in the 4-mile race.

“That’s what pisses me off the most,” Metro runner Anthony Luna said. “I hate losing in general, but I hate when we lose like that.”

But that’s not to say that the race was all for naught.

“There were some guys that actually ran faster Friday than they did two weeks ago,” interim cross country head coach Sean Nesbitt said. “I think they’re more fit.”

The loss also helped to motivate the team to improve and get ready for the thick of the cross country season.

“I think as a team, we realize what we have to work on and I think that all kind of upset the team,” Luna said. “I think we’re all ready to train hard and get focused.”

Luna topped the men’s side, ranked seventh in the Central Region, with a 13th place finish out of 62 runners with a time of 20:08 in the 4-mile race with sophomore

1) Adams State 2) Colorado State University 3) Metro 4) Garden City Comm. Coll.

5) U.S. Air Force Academy 6) Univ. of Northern Colorado

Women

1) Adams State 2) Colorado State University 3) Metro 4) Univ. of Northern Colorado 5) U.S. Air Force Academy 6) Garden City Comm. Coll.

Metro runner Anthony Luna, second from right, runs in the men’s 4-mile race at the Colorado State Classic Sept. 18 at Hughes Stadum in Fort Collins. Luna placed 13th in the race with a time of 20:08.

Photo by Mark Farnik • mfarnik@mscd.edu Nate Newland in 20th, and senior Brandon Johnson at his heels, placing 22nd.

The men’s 4-mile course posed a disadvantage, because the men’s team wasn’t familiar with the layout, which, if they had been more prepared, could have made the difference, Luna said.

“I think we could have placed higher as a team,” Luna said. “I could have run a little harder in that last mile, but I’m not one to make excuses.”

Sophomore Danielle Kehoe placed 8th in the 5K race, which makes consecutive top-10 finishes, to lead the women’s team.

“Overall, I think we had a pretty great race as a team,” Kehoe said.

“I think the women’s side ran very strong.”

The women’s squad dressed six runners at the event, which left them outnumbered by all but one team, last place Garden City Community College from Kansas.

“With the numbers that we have,

I think we’re doing very well,” Kehoe said. “But it would be nice to have more depth on our team.”

Both teams ran longer races, which leads to slower times, but both are ahead of last year’s pace. For instance, the Metro women’s third finisher ran the same time the first woman ran last year’s race.

“Kerry Allen stepped up for us huge,” Nesbitt said of the sophomore.

Some of the athletes voiced frustration because they felt like they

could have run better.

“This time of year we’re learning to put the whole package together,” Nesbitt said.

The next two months will make or break the teams as Metro prepares to host the Rocky Mountain Conference Championships in October and aspire to qualify for the Central Regional and the NCAA Championships in November.

But the teams are confident and ready to face the challenges ahead.

“We’re going to start really killing the competition,” Luna said.

“We know where the goal is.”

The Metro men and women’s track teams look to improve their position Oct. 3 at the University of Colorado Shootout in Boulder.

Men’s soccer team permanently dismissed starting defender

By Josiah Kaan jkaan@mscd.edu The Metro men’s soccer team lost more than just a game Sept. 12 when the ‘Runners lost to Seattle Pacific University 4-1 in Seattle.

Metro senior starting defender and midfielder Ryan Brooks was dismissed from the men’s soccer team with no possibility of rejoining the team after the SPU loss. During the game Brooks acquired his second yellow card of the season, and 10th of his career, in the 86th minute of the game.

Men’s soccer head coach Ken Parsons said Brooks is no longer on the team and that the reason for his dismissal is “team information only.”

“It’s just between the team and Ryan [Brooks],” Metro Sports Information Director Andy Schlichting said. “He violated a few rules, so it’s all internal.”

Brooks started his collegiate soccer career at Fort Lewis College, in Durango and played his sophomore

Dismissed men’s soccer defender Ryan Brooks. Photo by Linh Ngo •

lngo@mscd.edu

year, after redshirting as a freshman.

“When [Brooks] first came in as a freshman, he red-shirted his first year, then as a red-shirt freshman he played fantastic [at] left midfield and left-back,” said Jeremy Gunn, University of North Carolina at Charlotte men’s soccer head coach and former FLC men’s soccer head coach. “[He]

was an integral part of a very successful team.”

As a redshirt freshman Brooks helped the Skyhawks to a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference best 15-4-2 overall record and 9-1-2 conference record. Along with being awarded with the RMAC Freshman of the Year award and second

team All-RMAC honors, Brooks tied for ninth in the RMAC in goals and shots, and sixth in shots on goal.

“He was just a very sharp, intense, aggressive player that was very difficult to play against,” Gunn said.

Brooks’ on-field success was accompanied with struggle on the academic side of the ball.

“Through the year, he obviously made some poor decisions school wise where he just wasn’t quite as mature as he needed to be,” Gunn said. “It was just, you know, he didn’t keep up with the academic side of things. That was the only problem.”

Brooks transferred to Metro and made an immediate impact starting in 17 of 19 games that he played in.

Brooks won Offensive Player of the Week Oct. 23, 2007, just nine days after he scored the first goal of his Roadrunner career and gave Metro a lead that they would not relinquish as they beat Brooks’ former team.

Last season, which turned out to be his final complete season at Metro, Brooks was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of Amer-

ica/ADIDAS first team, All-Central region team and was awarded RMAC All-Academic honors. After helping Metro to a second-place finish at the RMAC tournament, Brooks was named to the RMAC All-Tournament team.

In the five games Brooks played in and started this season, he had one goal, at Western Washington University, in five shots on goal and three points. Only five players on the Metro roster have more goals this season than Brooks.

As per Metro Athletic Department guidelines, coaches, studentathletes, which includes dismissed student-athletes, and athletic department staff cannot comment on the departure or dismissal of a studentathlete, Associate Athletic Director Sandee L. Mott said in an e-mail.

Because of the Metro Athletic Department guidelines Brooks could not be reached for comment.

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By Dominic Graziano dgrazia1@mscd.edu Concerns of a swine flu epidemic have hit hard in the fairytale land of Winnie the Pooh, putting one of Pooh’s best friends in a tough spot.

“I understand where they’re coming from,” Piglet said about his friends, “but I wish they understood they can’t catch it from me. Or any pig for that matter.”

Piglet, far left, has been kept under “surveillance” since swine flu scares first surfaced earlier this year.

“What he doesn’t understand is we need to keep our home safe,” said Pooh. “And if he’s going to be going around all nimbly-wimbly and infecting us — well we just won’t stand for it.”

Christopher Robin could not be reached for comment.

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THURSDAY/ 09.24 Office Decorating Contest Verdict

Women’s Volleyball Pre—game Party with Qdoba

Women’s Soccer versus Colorado state — Pueblo

9 A.M. — 11 A.M. Auraria Offices Judges will score participating offices.

2 P.M. — 3 P.M. Auraria Events Center Lobby Free

12 P.M. Auraria Field

11:30 A.M. — 1 P.M. Auraria Flagpole Free Free pizza, games, prizes, music and more.

“Mexico and the U.S.” Symposium 10 A.M. — 4 P.M. St. Cajetan’s Free Explore the U.S. — Mexico relationship including economics, free trade, health care and drug trade.

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Homecoming Pep Rally

Stomp the Yard

FRIDAY/ 09.25

8 P.M. Tivoli Commons or Auraria Field Free Enjoy an outdoor movie with free drinks and snacks. (Note — this movie is rated PG —13)

Free

Women’s Volleyball game versus Men’s Soccer Versus Fort Lewis Nebraska Kearney 2:30 P.M. 3 P.M. Auraria Events Center Students $5

Metro State Alumni Baseball Game 11 A.M. — 1 P.M. Auraria Field Free

Auraria Field Free

Metro Appreciation BBQ 1 P.M. — 3 P.M. Between Auraria Field and Tivoli Free with R.S.V.P.

Metro welcomes students, faculty, staff and Alumni play the 2009 — 2010 Metro baseball alumni and their families to a barbecue . team in a fun exhibition game.