The
METROPOLITAN Vol. 32, Issue 16
Serving Auraria for 30 years
November 5, 2009
Auraria acquires H1N1 shipment ‘High risk’ individuals receive first round of flu vaccine •A3
Center for Visual Arts purchases new gallery property • A6
Illuminating honor
Sports
Women’s soccer gears up for RMAC championship • A11 metrospective
Rhythm and soul
Metro ensemble brings ancient West African rhythms to life • B4
Quinn Odhiambo, 5, holds a candle in memory of the dead during a Día De Los Muertos celebration at St. Cajetan’s Catholic Church on the Auraria Campus on Nov. 3. The festivities included food, music, speeches, plays, candy skull decorating and face painting. Photo by Mark Farnik • mfarnik@mscd.edu
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CAITLIN GIBBONS • NEWS EDITOR • cgibbon4@mscd.edu
New provost welcomed to Metro
THIS WEEK EVENTS
11.05 Coats for Colorado
By Ben Wiebesiek wiebesib@mscd.edu She has been on the job since the end of August, but on Nov. 3, Metro finally hosted a welcome reception for Vicki Golich, the new provost and vice president of academic affairs. “Jokingly, we said that we wanted to see that she stuck around a while before we threw the party,” Metro President Stephen Jordan said at the reception held in Central Classroom 301. A welcome reception was always part of the plan when Golich started the job, Jordan said, but busy schedules and long work weeks led to a slight delay in the celebration. “She’s a very genuine people person and a tremendous listener and that goes a long way when people know that their concerns are being heard even if there is nothing that can be done about the concerns right away,” Jordan said. For the staff and faculty at the reception, the position of college provost is something they already understand and are familiar with, but Golich acknowledged that her roles and responsibilities might be a mystery to many of Metro’s students. “A provost is responsible for making sure that the academic affairs division in a university or a college is put together in such a way that faculty and staff can do their very best to educate students,” Golich said. This duty puts the provost as second-in-command for the president at most higher education institutions, Golich said, and also puts the provost in a position to serve the educators themselves. “Much like the vice president of finance and administrative services makes sure that the facilities are working well by supervising the phone lines, the computers and all the infrastructure of the college,” Golich said. “The provost’s responsibility is to make sure that the faculty has the development opportunities, the time, the resources, the energy and the morale to do a good job.” While this is Golich’s first experience in the role of provost, she believes it is the next natural step in her career in higher education. In 1992, Golich was the third hire in the political science department at California State University San Marcos. Together with the other two founding faculty, Golich helped to build the department. Continued on A7
Benefit Concert The H.E.L.P. Circle presents the No Child Left Cold Fundraiser, hosted by LadySpeech 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. Tivoli Turnhalle Tickets are $13 or $10 with a coat donation. Contact helpcircle2009@ yahoo.com or call 720.690.05533
11.07 Metro Open House UCD student Melissa Lyons holds still as Metro nursing student Alicia DeAnda gives her the nasal spray vaccine for the H1N1 virus Nov. 3 in North Classroom at Auraria. Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu
Auraria arms flu defense Students designated “high risk” receive initial vaccinations By Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu Metro nursing students got out of the classroom and into the atrium of the North Classroom Building Nov. 3 for a dose of real world experience — administering H1N1 flu vaccinations. Auraria received a shipment of more than 900 H1N1 flu vaccines and began offering the vaccinations at 9:30 a.m. for all “high risk” individuals. Those at high risk include those under the age of 25, have chronic medical conditions, pregnant women, health care providers and all students living in campus housing units. The vaccination is paid for by the federal government and administered at no cost to Auraria students and staff. “It’s a mixture of two different forms of the shots and flu mist. There is more flu mist than the shots,” said Jeff Uszaki, associate director of the Health Center. The type of vaccination a student receives will depend on the current health of a student and their medical history Uszaki said. Students completed a brief medical history form and then were informed which type of vaccine they would receive. “All of our people that are vaccinating are Metro nursing students and faculty. This is a wonderful oppor-
tunity for our students and faculty to give back to the Auraria community,” said Martha Eaton, assistant director of the Auraria Health Center. Mary Alice Sawaya, an associate faculty member in the nursing program said students learning to give vaccinations within the first month of starting in the program as part of their fundamentals training. Handouts were distributed in the morning before the shots were delivered to refresh student’s memories on what type of vaccination a student should receive and the necessary dosage, Sawaya said. The volunteers met at 7:15 a.m. to set up and review the proper protocol. All volunteers were required to sign a confidentiality agreement. Sawaya said she received the vaccination, in the form of the shot, that morning. “As health care providers we are exposed to so much. I would hate to be that provider who passed it on,” she said. Students lined the hallway in North Classroom to get their shot. Amanda Marshall, a Metro junior studying behavioral science and education, was one student who decided to get the vaccination. “I’m a nanny and I work with kids, so I got the shot,” Marshall said. “It’s a lot like the regular flu shot.” Thomas Platten, a UCD junior majoring in finance said he is slightly worried about getting the H1N1 flu. “The line was short and it seemed like a thing to do. I wanted to make sure I had it, and it was free,” Platten said.
Metro accelerated nursing student, Chris Costanzo, volunteered his time to administer the vaccinations. “I feel like I’m helping the community, “ he said. He joked with students as he applied the flu mist to nostrils and helped his impromptu patients to understand why there were different types of the vaccination available. Many students, including David Rodriguez, a UCD senior studying biology, said they wanted to get the shot to be safe. Eaton said, to date, only one student at Auraria has been confirmed to have the H1N1 flu. However that student was not seen by the Health Center, and was hospitalized three weeks after being diagnosed with the flu due to underlying health conditions. “We have not performed the confirmatory lab test for H1N1 at the Health Center. They only perform that if we put someone in the hospital,” Eaton said. Eaton said the Health Center tracks how many patients come in with influenza-like illnesses. “I’ve ran a report every week. Our percentile, compared to the national average, has actually gone down in the past two weeks,” Eaton said. Eaton is working with the state, city and county officials to be able to offer more H1N1 vaccinations in the near future. For more information on the H1N1 virus and vaccinations visit http://www.mscd.edu/healthcenter/ health_alerts/
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October flurries cause campus closure Classes canceled due to deep snow, safety concerns By Caitlin Gibbons cgibbon4@mscd.edu Auraria students received an unexpected treat the week of Oct. 26 — not one, but two snow days. The campus closed at 1 p.m., Oct. 28 due to heavy snowfall and remained closed until Oct. 30. The safety of students, faculty and visitors to Auraria is the main factor in deciding to close the campus said Blaine Nickeson, director of communications, institutional relations and equal opportunity. Nickeson said that in his five years at Auraria, the campus has only been closed a handful of times, including the blizzard in December 2006 and once in 2008 for at least one day. While the closure was good news for students, it meant lost revenue for campus business and more work for facilities management and the Auraria Higher Education Center. Auraria Police Chief John Mackey said that during the course of the night Oct. 28, he kept in close contact with the officers on duty to asses the safety of the campus. “That particular night, there was
six to 12 inches of snow throughout campus. Our contractors and facilities maintenance personnel could not keep up with the snow. There was not going to be sufficient time to get it all done where it would be safe for our students,” Mackey said. Mackey said the department contacted RTD and asked them to make announcements on the light rail and busses to inform commuting students of the campus closure. Mackey, and other AHEC administrators also kept a close watch on other area closures to gauge the best time to close campus early. “Around us we kept hearing different times, and the snow was not letting up,” Mackey said. “Better to get students off early.” Parking Director Mark Gallagher said he budgets approximately $100,000 for snow removal into his annual budget. AHEC contracts with Sabell Snow Removal to assist in clearing the parking lots. Gallagher said closing campus for a full day equated to a $30,000 loss in parking revenues. The halfday closure resulted in an approximately $15,000 loss in revenue. Ken Ross, division director of facilities management, said his division is responsible for removing snow from the campus walkways, the city sidewalks that surround Auraria and
UCD student David Britt braves the snow and cold as he walks across the deserted Auraria Campus Oct. 29. Campus was closed from 1 p.m. Oct. 26 to Oct. 30. Photo by Mark Farnik • mfarnik@mscd.edu the RTD light rail platforms on campus. “We had probably 15 people working overtime on snow removal for a 12-hour shift,” Ross said. Facilities management spent close to $12,000 on labor, fuel and equipment to remove snow. Ross did not know the exact figure paid to Sabell’s
for snow removal, but he estimated it to be close to $18,000 for eight people working 15 hours. “They would make a path through campus, and by the time they would come back, everything was covered,” Ross said. Anna Cass, manager of Cimarron Café and Grill in the Tivoli, said
the restaurant lost approximately $2,700 in profit for the day and a half closure. Cimarron typically does $11,000 to $14,000 a week in sales this time of year. For information on campus closures, call the Auraria Campus Inclement Weather Line, 303.556.2401
“I went sledding. We went to Ruby Hill, which is down south by Santa Fe Drive.” Colleen Arnold Metro, Senior
“Just sat at home all day and we watched about six movies… and drank.” Lauren Ludwig Metro, Sophomore
On the street By Ben Wiebesiek • Photos by Daniel Clements “What did you do during the snow days?”
“Nothing. I baked some cupcakes for Halloween. And I also spent time shoveling the snow.” Christina Lujan Metro, Sophomore
“I drank. That’s about it. I got my car stuck three times trying to go to the liquor store.” Ben Morris-Rains Metro, Senior
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A6 • NEWS • NOVEMBER 5,2009 • THE METROPOLITAN THIS JUST IN: The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Precarious act of art
Speech by visiting Israeli minister stirs up debate By Taryn Jones tjone101@mscd.edu
UCD senior Mason Shelmire, left, UCD sophomore Gabriella Trujillo, center, and UCD senior Jessica Gross help support a 12- foot high art project made of books while UCD sophomore James Stambaugh places a shim at the top Nov. 2 outside Central Classroom. Photo by Jeremy Papasso • jpapasso@mscd.edu
College closes on new locale for student art gallery By Ben Wiebesiek wiebesib@mscd.edu Ending an 11-year business relationship, Metro and the property owner for the college’s off-campus art gallery have agreed to part ways citing three irreconcilable differences: location, location, location. The Metro Foundation finalized the $1.5 million purchase Oct. 30 of a 22,000 squarefoot property in the Santa Fe Art District to permanently relocate the Center for Visual Arts from the space it rents in LoDo. Jim Robischon, president of Building for Art, LLC, property owner of the CVA gallery space, said he wishes the college the best at the new neighborhood, but he was frustrated by comments from Metro’s Assistant Vice President Cathy Lucas regarding negotiations for the CVA to stay in LoDo. “It’s been nice to have them as a neighbor, but I don’t understand why Cathy Lucas gave that snarky comment to the Denver Post,” Robischon said. Robischon was referring to comments in the Oct. 18 edition of The Denver Post from Lucas disputing Robischon’s claim that Metro had decided to relocate the CVA. “It’s unfortunate that Jim’s not talking to us about this but is talking to the news media,” Lucas said in the article. Robischon feels that the Santa Fe Art District is not a necessarily superior to the LoDo artistic community. “A lot of galleries are looking to relocate from Santa Fe because of a more serious, professional environment that can be found here,”
Robischon said. Robischon added he has received a lot of interest in the 5,200 square-foot space the CVA is vacating in LoDo and he considers that a sign Metro did not invest the time and the personnel to maintain a connection to the LoDo artistic community. “People are knocking, knocking, knocking at our door about the property,” Robischon said. “I hope they hire a director for the CVA. When they had a dedicated director they were more tuned in to the Denver scene and not just a school gallery,” Robischon said. “Jennifer Garner has done a good job but she has to teach art classes too and that doesn’t leave her much time to be a full time curator for the CVA.” In a press release, Metro State Foundation Board Chair Jon Robinson said that the foundation had explored all its options before settling on the new location at 965 Santa Fe Drive, a decision prompted by changes in commercial property prices. “The current real estate market opened up some opportunities that did not exist a few years ago,” Robinson said. Director and Curator for the Center for Visual Art Jennifer Garner said that the CVA would host two remaining student shows for November and December before going dark to prepare for a March 1 move to the new location. “We’re going to miss LoDo for sure but we’re also excited to be in a larger art district where there will be a lot of opportunities in terms of educational outreach and community partnership,” Garner said.
Discussion of Iran’s nuclear weaponry hit campus hard as both sides of the controversial coin turned up to debate. St. Cajetan’s Center held more than 50 students, staff, and activists Oct. 28 long after campus had shut down due to inclement weather. They were there to hear Uzi Landau, Israel’s minister of infrastructure, speak his mind on the current state of affairs between Iran and Israel. “Iran promotes terror against the Middle East, the deliberate targeting of women, children and the use of rockets and missiles. They use their own population as human shields. They launch their rockets from hospitals and schools. This is our tragedy. We have, on the one hand, this culture that sanctifies death that aims to replace our culture that sanctifies life and freedom. That is the big challenge we have in the free world today,” Landau said. Later, he went on to state that Iran is making nuclear weapons at a rate of about 25 a year and that Israel is just the first stop on the Iranian route of destruction. Because of this, Landau said he feels Iran is the greatest threat to world peace. “The time has been ticking. And at the end we find ourselves facing an Iranian regime five years in our midst, which is not only oppressing some people, but promoting terror. This is basically the last round of negotiations with Iranians to persuade them to stop with their nuclear initiatives. No more time is left. In fact, we have to make a course with means to stop it, but a timetable must be set,” he said. After more than an hour of lecturing, Landau opened the floor to questions. Confusion set in as conflicting views and facts were brought to light. Many were angered with the replies and felt the situation being discussed was actually opposite of what Landau was discussing that night. Nick Brown, an Auraria campus student, who chose not to name the college he attends, said, “recent statistics I saw, since 2000, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has resulted in the death of 1,400 Palestinian children and only 123 Israeli children. How do you switch that around to be in self-defense?” “Sir, I don’t have to really explain why, in
war, one side of the defense finds themselves in a situation where the enemy civilians were hit more,” Landau said. Brown countered by reading a quote from Golda Meir in a speech from 1961. “This country exists as a promise of the fulfillment by God himself. It would be ridiculous for [Israel] to account for its legitimacy.” When Landau was asked if he agreed with the quote, he replied simply, “Of course. I think a Frenchman does not have to account for his legitimacy.” Unsatisfied, Brown later reported that he thought of Landau as a warmonger against Iran. “My point of view is that Israel is the real threat. It is sad that an academic institution in the Denver area invites people promoting oppression. It reflects on them,” Brown said. Robert Hazan, Metro political science chair, also took issue with what he described as the anti-peace messages behind Landau’s belief that Israel is promised to the Jews only. “You make my job as a professor in an institution of higher learning difficult,” Hazan said. Later, when asked what he meant, Hazan said, “I talked about his inability to communicate a language of peace. I teach at an intellectual state with students from almost all continents. We are here to create an atmosphere, a climate of learning in the classroom where the students transcend their idiosyncratic identities and coalesce to learn.” But those oppositions are exactly what should take place in such a higher learning atmosphere, according to Roman Kikirov of American Israel Student Affairs. “It was an opportunity to invite someone from within [Israel]. This is academia, it is college, and we should welcome all viewpoints. The professors speak their minds, and why not have someone who has actually been there, done that to speak in the same fashion with us? This does not mean you should believe everything you are told. This is the process of academia. Go home and do research.” One student, Joshua Inkeles, summed up his experience of the evening. “I came because I was interested in the topic and wanted to learn more. I think I am more uncertain than I was before,” he said.
Israeli Minister of Infrastructure Uzi Landau, right, Oct. 28 before sitting down in St. Cajetan’s Center. Landau was invited by Metro Office of Student Life to speak about of Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons. Photo by Taryn Jones • tjone101@mscd.edu
F.Y.I: A rat can last longer without water than a camel.• THE METROPOLITAN • NOVEMBER 5, 2009 • NEWS • A7
Timeline of funding reductions January 2009
Higher ed. hit hard
Latest budget cuts take funding below mandated level By Andrew Flohr-Spence spencand@mscd.edu
State budget data show a $1 billion plus deficit. Metro President Stephen Jordan enacts all three tiers of budget reductions for the college. State asks higher ed. to return funding increases from the 2008-2009 fiscal year.
April 2009
State legislature proposes a $400 million cut to higher ed. funding. Due to public reaction, they settle on $152 million.
July 2009
The state cuts an additional $82 million from higher ed.
August 2009
Updated revenue projections show an additional budget shortfall of $270 million. Gov. Bill Ritter announces $145 million more in cuts to higher ed. This cut will be backfilled until 2011 with federal stimulus money.
If Metro’s Chief Financial Officer, Natalie Lutes, needed practice making a budget, she has had plenty this year. Colorado Higher Education’s budget lost $145 million Oct. 25 when Gov. Bill Ritter announced his newest plan to make up for the state’s lagging tax revenues. Faced with a new $271.4 million gap in the 2009 to 2010 state budget — a deficit that totals more than $2 billion since last year — the governor proposed cutting money in several areas, taking more than half of the sum from higher education. “We’re managing the state’s finances in the worst economy since the Great Depression,” Ritter said in a statement released with the plan. “This isn’t a one-time hiccup or a temporary blip. This is a massive correction and a new economic reality.” The cuts to higher education, now totaling more than $370 million, leave less than half of last year’s budget, money Ritter intends to replace this year with federal stimulus money. The catch is, the federal stimulus money comes with rules attached saying in order to get any federal money, states are required to maintain school funding levels from 2005-2006, in Colorado’s case, around $555 million. Ritter’s office said it intends to apply for a waiver to the federal requirement. Metro’s share of the cut is not known, Lutes said, but President Stephen Jordan is scheduled to meet
with the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, the board governing Colorado’s schools, Nov. 9 and he expects to learn the amount then. “We’re waiting to hear from the state,” Metro spokesperson Cathy Lucas said. “But we’ve been assured by the state that the money will continue to be back-filled to cover the difference.” And then Lutes gets to work out this year’s budget. Again. “I’ve done three budgets since June,” Lutes said. “It’s been a lot of work.” Lutes said the amount would probably be between $7 million and $9 million, depending on if Metro’s enrollment growth was factored in. Either way, the college has few places to find more money.
One area, Lutes said, was the school had almost $4 million in reserves from tuition money from the growth in enrollment. Another possibility is the use of the 37 “right-sizing” projects Jordan initiated. The plan is to hire personnel temporarily tasked with upgrading operations using technology to make the school more efficient and eventually reduce the need for a number of staff. Lutes said because Metro’s budget has been cut so much in the last decade — 1999, 2001 and 2004 — the college had already reviewed all programs and departments for excess. “Over the last decade we’ve picked all the low hanging fruit,” Lutes said. “I don’t know how much more we can do.”
Components of Gov. Bill Ritter’s budget balancing plan $10.8 Million Refinance certificates of participation $14.2 Million Suspended clean energy fund transfer
$6 Million Fitzsimons trust fund cash transfer $3.1 Million Medicaid provider rate reduction
$3 Million TANF refinancing $2.8 Million County tax base subsidy
$16.3 Million Medicaid payment adjustment
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Higher Education $37.4 Million Severance Tax grant funds
* with 100 percent Federal Stimulus money backfill
$45.1 Million Recovery Act State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
On Oct. 28 Gov. Bill Ritter announced an additional $271.4 million gap in the state budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Ritter will submit his budget balancing proposal to the Joint Budget Committee Nov. 6.
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Provost well received at college Continued from A3 Golich quickly moved up the ranks at the university. She was granted full professorship in 1998 and became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2002. Political Science Professor Cynthia Chavez Metoyer has fond memories of Golich during their 15 years together at CSUSM, both as a colleague and a friend. “She played multiple leadership roles at the department, college and university levels and she has directly and indirectly mentored dozens of young faculty, including me, when I arrived in 1994,” Metoyer said. In the seven years Golich was dean, Metoyer said the political science department and the college, as a whole, was highly supportive of Golich’s leadership and her absence will be hard to fill. “I will miss her for many reasons, but mostly for her friendship,” Metoyer said. Leaving CSUSM was a difficult decision for Golich, who, in addition to being dean, had developed several programs to grow internal leadership and encourage faculty development. “I had a lot of things left in my grand vision that I wanted to see accomplished there,” Golich said. “I loved that place and leaving was not an easy or a flippant thing by a long shot. Even though I believe stable leadership is very important to any institution of higher education — when you have too much turnover there is too much insecurity and there is too much uncertainty about what expectations are — no one individual should be in a leadership position forever.” Because Metro provides an opportunity for a college degree to many students who might not otherwise get the chance, Golich believes her responsibility is not just to the students, faculty and staff, but to the larger communities of the Denver metro area. “The value added to the students who come to a place like Metro State so far exceeds the value added to a student who goes to Harvard and is much more important to the community,” Golich said. In the two months they have worked together, Jordan said he has been impressed with her style in reaching out to faculty to work through any issues that might exist. “My experience, so far, in this short time, is that she’s a real problem solver. She doesn’t ask someone else to solve a problem for her; she figures out ways to solve problems herself,” Jordan said. “I just think she’s off to a great start. I think she has a terrific future here.”
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INSIGHT BIGGER VIEW Academic salaries: Paying the smart money Staff Editorial Los Angeles Times, Nov. 4, 2009 Whatever happened to the shabby, lowpaid academic, pipe in mouth, tweed jacket frayed at the elbows? To start with, many were smart enough to give up smoking. But something has been happening with salaries too. Though most college instructors still earn low pay considering their high education level, there's no question that at the top levels of college management, rock-star contracts have been making wealthy people out of yesterday's intellectuals. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the number of private college and university presidents earning more than $1 million in total compensation has been growing. But before you start yelling "excesses of the financial industry all over again," it's worth noting that this elite club is still tiny -- 23 college presidents among the 419 reviewed by the publication. The median salary for the president of a large research university had risen to $628,000 -- though the figures cited by the publication were for the 2007-08 academic year. As the economy spiraled downward in 2008, many college leaders took no raises or volunteered for pay cuts. Still, running a university pays a hefty chunk of cash that often leaves the public fuming, especially the parental public that shells out an average of $40,000 a year for tuition, room and board. We agree that colleges and universities could do more to contain costs. The academic arms race for prestige names has kept tuition costs on an inexorable, family-budget-crushing trajectory upward, regardless of the pain in the rest of the economy. And then there was the time the University of California paid an administrator a $125,000 relocation bonus to move 70 miles. But excellent college leadership is necessary, now more than ever, and that costs. University presidents usually are respected scholars in their own right who must combine a broad grasp of academic issues with administrative and public relations skills — and perhaps above all, a knack for fundraising. Great university management draws great faculty, who in turn attract top students, fellowships and grants. Just look at USC, where President Steven B. Sample announced days ago that he will step down next summer. In his 19 years at the university, Sample built its academic reputation and oversaw the growth of its endowment by more than $2 billion. The school's national ranking in U.S. News & World Report rose from 51st to 26th among research universities as it drew more high-achieving students with merit scholarships. His salary, currently about $800,000, should be considered a bargain.
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THE POINT: MARIJUANA LAWS READY FOR A CHANGE
Legalize pot, see crime diminish
Recently, President Obama has made the biggest national change in policy regarding marijuana. With a memo recently released by Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden, the federal government will no longer prosecute medical marijuana distributers in states where medical marijuana is legal. This is a great move, not just putting states in greater control, but also moving marijuana prohibition in the right direction — doing away with it. While the issue is a favorite of college students around the country, and you frequently hear arguments of marijuana being less dangerous than alcohol, smoking and distributing marijuana are victimless crimes and its prohibition is a nanny law; protecting people from themselves. While I think these are good reasons, I do think there is still a better reason to decriminalize marijuana. I should start by saying I don’t have a personal stake in the matter. I do not smoke, I do not want to smoke and were it decriminalized tomorrow, I’d not take up smoking marijuana. I feel it is a waste of time. I feel it does damage to many peoples’
SAM BLACKMER blackmar@mscd.edu lives, and destroys others'. But, none-the-less, I feel it should be legal. The logic of my argument is borrowed from the economist Bruce Yandel’s framework of the Bootlegger and the Baptists. Yandel’s theory is based on the idea that unlikely alliances between normally opposed parties can result in mutual benefit arising from regulation. The theory, in a nutshell, says Bootleggers and Baptists don’t plan to work together and they don’t get together to discuss legislation that will benefit them both. Instead, the Baptists push to make booze illegal on Sundays in the name of the public good, and the Bootleggers then get a day of market for their products they wouldn’t have if you could legally
buy alcohol on Sundays. Marijuana has been criminalized in the name of ‘the public good’. It was with the best of intentions, to protect people from themselves, and society from the evils of a drug. But in doing so it has created a black market that makes the sale of marijuana extremely lucrative. Its being illegal has created an industry of drug running across the Mexican border, and is currently supplying criminal elements in Mexico with funding to wage a war on the Mexican government and people. In the states, the black market has created a criminal class that wouldn’t naturally exist — the marijuana dealer. This new criminal class not only commits the crime of selling marijuana, providing a product that U.S. citizens demand, but now also commit other crimes outside of dealing they wouldn’t commit if the black market didn’t exist. This leads to an expansion of another industry, the drug enforcement industry, an unintended consequence of the regulation. Police are forced to prioritize a limited amount of resources such as money, time and equipment, to
enforce a law designed to protect people from themselves. They also must deal with drugrelated crimes that would not happen were the drug decriminalized. Were marijuana decriminalized, the illegal market would be deflated, and the amounts of money currently being made off the drug would go away. It would, in effect, cut the funding of the war in Mexico, reduce crime in the U.S. and free up our police force to concentrate on dangerous criminals while reducing prison populations. Keeping marijuana illegal to protect people from themselves, or protect our society from moral decay, is costing our society far more than the moral decay itself would. To be sure, new problems would affect society due to its being illegal, many of the problems society already suffers from due to alcohol and alcohol addiction. But these problems pale in comparison with the problems created by marijuana being illegal. I’m happy to see the Obama presidency push a long overdue reform of marijuana legislation, I’d like to see the reform pushed much futher.
Julie Vitkovskaya Features Editor uvitkovs@mscd.edu Gabrielle Porter Assistant Features Editor gporter8@mscd.edu
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Spirit
B1 11.5.2009 THE METROPOLITAN
Found In Translation: Terms from martial arts
Wushu: A modern exhibition Sifu: The term used for one’s and full-contact sport based on master in Chinese martial traditional Chinese martial arts. arts, equivalent to the Japanese sensai.
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warrior Metro alum teaches students discipline of wushu Story and photos by Mark Farnik mfarnik@mscd.edu
Sifu Jerry Silva helps one of his beginning students practice his kicks at the National Martial Arts Academy July 30. Silva has run the NMAA for three years and teaches students the discipline and technique of Chinese wushu.
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ne by one, Jerry Silva’s students make their way across the room, contorting their bodies in a series of blazingly fast movements, slicing through the air with brutal and precise elegance. Silva takes a step back and looks on, occasionally shouting out corrections and encouragement as his students take the art of ancient combat and elevate it into an expression of breathtaking dance.
Ridley Avila, 6, foreground, and Kennedy McCardy, 11, unleash their inner warriors while practicing their routines at the National Martial Arts Academy July 30.
National Martial Arts Academy 18511 E. Hampden Ave. Suite 216, Aurora (720) 870-7471
Silva, 37, is the headmaster, or sifu, of the National Martial Arts Academy. The Aurora-based school follows a system created by Beijing wushu superstar, Grand Master Zhuang Hui. He teaches an entirely Chinese-based martial arts curriculum which includes Traditional Kung Fu, Contemporary Wushu, Tai Chi Chuan and Gong Fu. The school’s curriculum is dedicated to the study and pursuit of contemporary Chinese wushu, Silva said.
“We’re primarily teaching all of our students, no matter how old they are, no matter how young they are, the basic foundations of Chinese martial arts, how it is taught in mainland China today,” he said. Silva began his storied martial arts career training in the Chinese martial arts system at age 4 under an uncle, a former wushu Grand Master who trained in China. “I was raised in martial arts within my family.” Silva said. Silva spent several years “bouncing around” and as he trained, he developed a love/hate relationship with martial arts. “The main thing is that it was forced upon me; it wasn’t something I really wanted to do,” Silva explained. “It was something I had to do, being a part of the family system.” Silva got away from martial arts in junior high and tried other sports, but got back into it when he started experiencing negative peer pressure and bullying in his high school years. Silva continued training after high school, and in 1995 began training “hard core.” His hard work paid off when he was selected for the 1995 U.S. Olympic Tae Kwon Do Demonstration team, which he stayed with for a year and a half. He went on to capture two world titles and two national championship titles on the open circuit in 1997, and then won 16 national titles and defended his two world titles in 1998. After winning his titles, Silva took on some roles as an extra in several movies, but ultimately found it unfulfilling. “I tried doing stunt work in front of green screens, but it wasn’t really what I was looking for.” Silva said. Silva says that martial arts has changed the way that he looks at life and interacts with people, but has also taught him the value of hard work and reaching higher.
“We always want to push ourselves to the next level with anything we’re doing, whether it’s with relationships, with education, or within a sport, we want to make ourselves better,” Silva said. Growing up in inner city Denver, Silva sought to make a better life for himself: a better life that he found through the pursuit of martial arts. “With martial arts, I always wanted to work harder; I wanted to see what was on the other side of life,” Silva said. “I didn’t want to be stuck in one area only — it’s broadened my horizons.” Silva’s expanded horizons led him to pursue higher education, the first in his family to do so. He has earned a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from Metro, as well as an MBA from Regis University, and still wants to take his education even further. “I’m strongly looking at either going into law school, or possibly getting a Ph.D. through the University of Denver,“ Silva said. With a sixth-degree black belt, Silva is considered a master in the system, and he has trained very hard to get where he is today, but he says the training goes beyond the physical. “I’ve trained not only with my muscles and my body, training through a skill level,” Silva said. “You have to be able to have reason, you have to know how think on a higher level.” For those who are merely observers of wushu, it is just a highly aesthetically pleasing martial art, but to those who practice it, wushu transcends into a philosophy for life. “Martial arts [wushu] gives us the vehicle to move further throughout our lives, shows us the roadway to get there,” Silva said. “If we don’t understand that, then all we’re doing is waving our arms, punching and breaking boards and bricks. It’s a metaphor — it teaches you to go through something and don’t stop.”
B2• FEATURES • November 5, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN
12 p.m. Sun. The Know 3 p.m. Sun. The Andy Hilton Show 9 a.m. Mon. — Fri. Morning Mix 11 a.m. Mon., Wed., Fri., Suicide Sunglasses 11 a.m. Tue., Thurs. Classic Rock 1 p.m. Mon., Wed. The Undercurrent 2 p.m. Tue. Dark Side of the Tune 2 p.m. Thurs. Winds from the Front Range 3 p.m. Mon., Wed. Thrash Time 3 p.m. Tue., Thurs., Fri. Sports 4 p.m. Mon. — Fri. Emerald City Mix Show 6 p.m. Mon., Wed. Underground Hip-Hop 10 p.m. Mon., Wed. Techno/Electronica
Numbers How many cups of coffee does it take to buy a new textbook on campus? We do the crunching (and munching) for you. 67 = Cups of regular coffee from Einstein’s it takes to buy a beginning psychology textbook 581 = Orders of pancakes from the Cimarron it buy to get a Mac laptop computer $1 = The amount of
money Pete’s Arena charges more for a large, 1 topping pizza compared with Dominos
$1,187 = How much more money a nonresident pays for one class at Metro for the Spring 2010 semester 2 = How many more senators the UCD Student Government Association has than the Metro SGA 5,882 = The amount of gate visits the Auraria Library had on Monday Nov. 2
30 = Overdue days it takes for a student to be charged $125 to replace a book at the Auraria Library By Julie Vitkovskaya uvitkovs@mscd.edu
CLUB BEAT
The face of modern feminism Metro club takes initiative in educating public about womens’ issues and those of all minorities By Ashley Moreland amorela1@mscd.edu The Feminist Alliance is a student organization that originally worked to bring attention to women’s issues. However, the Feminist Alliance no longer focuses solely on women’s issues. The organization has expanded their mission to promote awareness of all minorities. It has worked with the Black Student Union, ALPACA (formally the Metro Anthropological Society), the Political Science Association and the Gay/ Straight Alliance. The organization is active by hosting and participating in various events “that bring awareness to the things that still affect the lives of minority communities,” said Kassie Seddon, the organization’s president. So far this semester the Feminist Alliance has made posters for “Twilight,” screened the documentary “FLOW,” hosted Love Your Body Day and volunteered at Project Homeless Connect. The next event that the organization will be hosting is Living with HIV in correlation with World AIDS Day. The event will be from 1-2:25 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1 in Tivoli 444. “We will be featuring a panel of individuals sharing diverse perspectives and experiences,” said Joanna Snawder, the organization’s advisor. “The topics of health care access, prevention, advocacy and activism will be highlighted.” There are also networking opportunities available. Seddon and other members of the organization will be traveling to Atlanta for the National Women’s Studies Association Conference Nov. 1215. There the members will learn about scholarship and political action. The organization has many events planned for the spring semester, including a spiritual and wellness festival. They will also be working with the Black Student Alliance to host a bridge speaker for Women’s History and Black History Month in February. The organization is always looking for new members and anyone can join. “I would encourage men [to join],” Seddon said. “I know that men sometimes are afraid; they think this is a women-only place, but men can be feminists too.” For more information or to join the Feminist Alliance e-mail list, e-mail the organization at MSCDTriota.FeministAlliance@gmail.com.
PROFILE
Teacher on a roll Tom Davinroy inspires alternative commuting methods and keeps his family a top priority By Jerilin Brewer jbrewe15@mscd.edu It is 4:30 p.m. Monday. Traveling northbound toward Boulder from Denver, I-25 is crammed in bumper to bumper traffic. The heat of the day is gone but Metro teacher Tom Davinroy makes his it is still a scorching 80 degrees outside. Loud music is 50-mile commute on his “$1,000 baby” bumping from surrounding cars; a few cars honk in a every good-weather day. Photo by Mark Farnik hopeless attempt for any forward progress. With little • mfarnik@mscd.edu Although Davinroy’s wife, Kathy, doesn’t ride a movement in the last hour there is still an hour commute and 15 miles to go. Tom Davinroy gladly avoids bike to Horizon High School, where she works as an this horrendous traffic jam, as he cruises freely down English teacher, she does drive their Prius. Last year the Davinroy family installed photo volWadsworth. “I feel peaceful and at one with the world,” says taic solar panels on their house. The Davinroy family Davinroy of his 24-mile bike ride from his home in is wary of how they use electricity and their impact Louisville, just east of Boulder, to the Auraria cam- on the environment, but their love for bike riding and the outdoors has spawned more than a green outlook pus. Three years ago when the RTD went on strike, Da- — it’s created a family closeness. As with the environment, when it comes to famvinroy could no longer take the bus to Metro where he has worked for the past five years as an oceanogra- ily, Davinroy says it is the little things that count. “We always eat dinner together,” Davinroy said, phy professor. Instead of driving to work and getting stuck on I-25, Davinroy decided he was going to ride “even if it means waiting until 8:30 for someone to get home.” to work. Whether they are biking, hiking, skiing or camp“That first trip nearly killed me,” Davinroy said. After a speedy hour and fifteen minute bike ride, ing, the Davinroys love being outside. Last spring break the whole family took a trip to Davinroy arrives at his office. Cardboard boxes are spread across the floor so the the Grand Canyon where Meghan, who was 9 at the mud from his tires won’t soil the carpet. With the dry time, influenced everyone to walk to the bottom of the air and cool mornings, Davinroy says there is no need canyon and back up in one day, a 17- mile hike. Alfor a shower, but merely a quick wardrobe change. He though Davinroy is adamant about the environment, opens the bottom drawer of his desk where several it is easy to see what is truly important to him. Last July Davinroy was registered to participate in clean shirts are ready for him. He prepares his things the Triple Bypass, a 115and he is off to fill the eager mile bike ride from Everminds of his students. green to Avon. With only As an environmental “If I can plant the seed today, applicants acceptscientist, Davinroy knows maybe people will make those little 3,000 ed and 80,000 attempted the importance of ecologiregistrations, Davinroy cal education. Davinroy changes.” was lucky to have gotten doesn’t expect everyone to TOM DAVINROY, OCEANOGRAPHY his spot. start riding their bikes to TEACHER AND BIKE ENTHUSIAST Unfortunately, the school or work, but he beday the ride was scheduled was also the day of lieves it is the little things that add up. Recycling, turning off the light when you leave Meghan’s regional gymnastics meet. Davinroy never even considered missing his the room and taking shorter showers are ways Davinroy says anyone can make a difference. This is some- daughter’s meet, so he tried giving away his registration for free, but on such short notice, no one could thing Davinroy hopes to convey to his students. “If I can plant the seed today, maybe people will take it. Luckily the meet turned out to be at 5 p.m. so Damake those little changes,” Davinroy said. Students say Davinroy is fun in the classroom and vinroy left on his ride at 5:30 a.m. and was in Avon by always makes learning exciting, but more important- 1:10 p.m., with plenty of time to get back and see his daughter compete. Davinroy describes this as one of ly, he cares about their education. “He answers our questions and goes out of his his happiest days because he got to ride and be with way to make sure we understand the material,” said his family. After a full day at school, Davinroy packs up his Kelsey D’Antuono, a freshman in Davinroy’s Oceanography class. “Every day is exciting. He makes it so things and gets back on his bike. Riding home gives him time to contemplate his day, think about tomorwe want to learn.” Davinroy hopes that his students will not only row and by the time he gets home, any aggravation learn what he has to teach but maybe even apply it he may have had is gone. Davinroy’s wife Kathy, who has been married to to life. At home, Davinroy has already impacted the him for almost 23 years, says he is, “one of the most lives of his family. At ages 14 and 10, Hannah and optimistic and generous people I’ve ever known.” Meghan ride their bikes to school, weather permit- When he arrives home again, he puts away his bike and has dinner with his family. ting, and have since they were in first grade.
THE METROPOLITAN • NOVEMBER 5, 2009 • FEATURES • B3
Singing for the past
Cooking up an addiction
A style of traditional singing from the 18th century makes its way to urban Denver
TechBytes
By Gabrielle Porter gporter8@mscd.edu
By Drew Jaynes ajaynes1@mscd.edu
A solid block of noise seems to emanate from the small group of people gathered in a few rows of chairs. The sheer force and volume of noise produced seems disproportionate to the relatively small number of people singing: a product of the somewhat lost tradition of each singer belting out at the top of his or her lungs. In this age of breathy, sensual indie crooning, the ebulliently wild blast of sound that defines Sacred Harp singing, shocks the uncultivated ears of first-time listeners. At “sings,” as these meetings are traditionally called, chairs or pews are arranged in a square shape so all members are facing each other, because Sacred Harp singing is oriented on participation, not performance. One singer will “pitch,” or conduct, from the hollow in the middle of the square. Sacred Harp, a term which originally referred to the human voice, now describes a style of traditional Anglo-American music that has existed virtually unchanged in the U.S. for more than 200 years. It has slowly been making a reappearance across the continent, including urban areas like Denver. Though it remained hidden in rural areas of the South for most of this time, it began to break out in the mid ‘80s when a group of Chicago singers started delving into it and ended up publishing a newsletter about Sacred Harp. “They made it sound like such fun,” said Sharon Kermiet, the organizer of the Denver Sacred Harp group. “They got together for pot lucks; they got together for parties.” Kermiet, who works for Goodwill Industries of Denver in finance and administration, became involved in Sacred Harp through Swallow Hill Music Association, a Denver folk music center. She started the practice group with six people around Kermiet’s dining room table, and has since grown into a weekly session of strong singers who meet Mondays at St. Mark’s Orthodox Church in Denver. Originally a deeply religious phenomenon, Sacred Harp music has been fascinating people of all walks of life in its trip across the U.S. with its untamed harmonies and particular style. Sacred Harp songs are mostly old hymn texts set to four-
My name is Drew, and I have a problem. I might have uttered these simple words — no doubt in some gloomy local high school meeting room — had I not come to the sudden realization that Facebook games were starting to dictate my life. We’ve all played them. Puzzle games, avatar games, action, sports; you-name-it games. And their wide availability on Facebook, the nom de plume of college student boredom, doesn’t help, either. The other week, I got sucked into the latest in a slew of time-wasting avatar-based games, Café World. At first glance, its plot seems ridiculous and painfully ordinary. Players are outfitted with a café, some money, a couple of tables, three stoves, and three counters. The entire goal is to cook food and serve it to people in real time. For instance, if you put on a roasted chicken, it will take one full day to cook before you can serve it. Players learn to budget what they’re cooking so that there will always be food on the counters to serve to café guests. What is ultimately wrong about this scenario, however, is since the food is cooking in real-time, you may be inadvertently tempted to check back later. This is where the lifeinterruption part comes in. I know friends of mine who literally were setting timers for when their food would be ready, so they could serve it before it spoiled. There’s always something wrong with interrupting real-life activities to maintain online fantasy-world ones. I think it all boils down to the virtual peer pressure Facebook breeds. We have live feeds of what our friends are doing all the time, supplemented by updates from our gaming applications. What’s worse are the updates made in jest, the, “Joe just beat your Tetris score, challenge him now!” posts. It doesn’t matter why you logged in, if you see something like that, you’re more likely to take notice. And that’s Social Networking 101. There is little about social networking that allows for nonleisure use. It’s really not built for that. The purpose of Facebook is to create a portal into your personal online network and provide you with updates you care about. But maybe, just maybe, you should stop caring so much.
Sharon Kermiet belts out a tune Sept. 21 at St. Mark’s Church in south Denver. Photo by Andrew Bisset • abisset1@mscd.edu
part harmonies, and are published in a few different Sacred Harp song books. Sacred Harp music — also known as shape note singing — is characterized by its religious texts, its bold and primitive harmonies and the only volume at which it is sung: earth-tremblingly loud. David Lee, owner of a wholesale commercial equipment company in Hoboken, Ga., is a member of a “singing family” of the Deep South, where much of Sacred Harp exposure comes from family and local culture. “I think more people have become aware of it,” Lee said. “We still have new sings and new people coming all the time.” There are now thriving Sacred Harp groups in most major cities across the U.S.; notably, Portland, San Francisco, New York and even Denver. The tradition lives on its home in the South, though; Lee’s hometown of Hoboken, in southeast Georgia by the Okefenokee swamp, is known as a Sacred Harp singing town. Almost every family within miles owns a Sacred Harp book, and sings are part of the fabric of life. “I was born into it. According to the knowledge that I have, my great-great-granddaddy sang Sacred Harp, and of course it passed down through the generations,” said 54-year-old Lee, a grandparent himself. “Sacred Harp was part of our world.” The attraction of singing old and unfamiliar hymns varies somewhat regionally. Paul Lindholm, a member of the Denver group, commented that while in the South, Sacred Harp is a traditional part of life in a more religiously homogenous culture, more secular parts of the country have embraced it for different reasons. In the northeast and California, Lindholm said, it’s a younger and college-aged crowd attract-
ed by the sound without necessarily being drawn to the texts. There’s often a striking dichotomy in these regions, Lindholm pointed out — atheists singing religious Sacred Harp. Groups in Colorado and the Midwest seem to be mixed and fairly varied on how and why they have become involved in Sacred Harp, Lindholm said, as evidenced in the Denver group. “I was always interested about knowing something more about the really old roots of AngloAmerica,” said Denver member Patrick Dolan, a retired English teacher. For Kermiet, the allure of Sacred Harp lies in the notes themselves. “What I’m really drawn to is the sound of the music, the really primitive harmonies,” Kermiet said. “I love that.” Lee has seen a deeper connection between Sacred Harp and its new singers than the notes or the historical context in his travels to around-thecountry conventions. “Today, a lot of people grow up without strong family connections. We all have certain basic needs, to love and be loved,” Lee said. “I think they’re actually just missing connection with other human beings.” At Sacred Harp sings in the South, Lee said he frequently sees people singing with tears streaming down their faces. “We can meet together and sing together and create something bigger than we are,” Lee said. “We need that.”
MULTIMEDIA
To see Denver’s Sacred Harp group singing, visit themet.metrostudentmedia.com
A song with an inspirational message By Katie Kwiatkoski kkwiatko@mscd.edu An inspiring story of the Senegalese singer, “Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love” is a documentary by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi that artfully portrays N’dour and his spiritual songs as they have changed the world’s image of Islam. N’dour, a “griot,” or storyteller through song, takes his traditional style of music to a modern Mbalax (African Rock) level. The film focuses mostly on N’dour’s album “Egypt,” his most controversial to be released — the pop songs were in celebration and in memoriam of Sufi Islam reli-
gious icons and saints. When originally developing the project, N’dour saw it only as a personal endeavor and homage. But then decided to release the album three years after the Sept. 11 attacks in an effort to better the image of the Muslim community. Senegal was split after the release, half wholeheartedly for the album and its message, and half insulted to hear worshipful music irreverently played on the radio with other pop songs. Once N’dour won the Grammy for “Egypt,” however, the atmosphere changed dramatically, and brought hope to Senegal and the Muslim community. The film fea-
tures three years of touring around Africa, Europe and the United States, along with performances at the G8 summit and Amnesty International. The movie is beautifully developed, and N’dour has a voice that sends chills down the spines of his audience. The cinematography effectively captures the culture and gives an insight into the thought processes and beliefs of practicing Muslims, especially how N’dour presents those beliefs through song. With a strong voice that rises above the music and drops down into a low baritone, N’dour sings with a powerful intensity that captures struggle and compassion in
his song. Using music as a language with it’s own message, N’dour blurs the lines of religion that divides West Africa. As a must-see for anyone who loves music, joy, hope for peace, or is interested in the religious aspects of Middle Eastern culture, this movie is a work of art.
Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love Starz Film Center Nov. 6 — 12 www.denverfilm.org
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TOP: Heritage African Drum & Dance performer Senakhu Riddick moves her body to the beat of the Metro State African Drum Ensemble Nov. 2 during the Music at Metro State performance in the King Center at Auraria. ABOVE: Mahailia Nejelski, 5, center, and Nyel Settles, 3, second from left, check out the scene backstage while standing with the rest of the Heritage dancers as they wait to go on stage.
Feel the beat Story by Gabrielle Porter gporter8@mscd.edu Photos by Leah Millis lmillis@mscd.edu The pulsing, undulating rhythm throbbing from the arc of drummers weaves between them and the brightlyclad women dance barefoot in the middle. The dancing women, occasionally bursting out snatches of high, piercing and somewhat eerie song, separate into two groups, one echoing the other as their song rises to a higher-pitched intensity — never missing a step. While reminiscent of a scene from a village in rural Senegal, one look at the rest of the audience comfortably seated in the King Center Concert Hall at Metro, could remind viewers where they really were — at Metro’s African Drumming Ensemble’s concert Monday evening.
The ensemble has about 16 members this semester, none of whom are actually African, group founder Peter Schimpf said. Students are generally captivated by the sound of the drums first and come to gain an appreciation of the cultural value it has, Schimpf said. Robin Lander, a first-semester drummer, said she loved the rhythms when she heard them at a concert as a freshman. “It’s so much fun,” said Lander, a sophomore studying music education at Metro. “I remember a concert of theirs I went to last year, and at the end they allowed the audience to participate… that kind of made me want to join.” Recent Metro graduate Sam Young has played with the ensemble for two and a half years. A percussionist and music major in Metro’s predominately classical program, Young said he was drawn to the vibe the
music gives off and the simple interlocking rhythms which synthesize to create a uniquely complex and primitive sound. “It’s a little more organic and laidback,” Young said. “I like the repetitive, kind of hypnotic nature of it.” Director Bob Hall also has a long history with percussion— he was no older than 8 when he decided to be a drummer. He eventually discovered the sound of African drumming in the early ‘70s when African pop music started to be popularized in the U.S. “I’m kind of holding onto my roots, my heritage,” said Hall, who later traveled to West Africa in pursuit of drumming knowledge. Hall has been playing and performing in Denver since 1978 and has directed the Metro ensemble since it’s inception in 2007. While most students come for the pounding rhythms, Hall said he tries to
Musical Director Stephan Griffin closes his eyes in concentration as he leads the rehearsal before the Ensemble’s evening performance.
emphasize the cultural significance, giving them the feeling that they’re participating in something much larger than themselves. “I have to get all the students first of all to understand what they’re doing,” Hall said. “Yes, we’re playing drums, but there’s a lot more to it than that. You’re not just randomly playing the drum to get any sound… These drums do talk and sing and they are still used to communicate in Africa today.” However, not all African cultures use drums, Hall said. The western African countries which have the most prominent drumming cultures (including Senegal, Ghana and Guinea) use percussion to illustrate and celebrate all the phases of life — birth, adolescence, marriage, harvest and death. “To me, [African drum and dance] is almost like a way of life,” said Carmen Toure Lorenzo, artistic director and co-
stuff over and over again,” Young said. “[Then] the dancers come and it just all makes sense all of a sudden, because you see these cues that you’ve learned but you don’t really know what they’re cuing… you see how the dance fits in with that and just how the physical movement of the dancers matches and kind of complements the rhythm and how they interact together.” The dancing itself is an interesting sight, Young said. “I don’t know if it is actually imitating things in nature, but it always seems like that,” Young said, comparing the fluid movements to trees swaying in the wind. “It’s such a different movement from what I think of when I think of… going out to a club or something… It seems more natural and real to me.”
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Director Bob Hall (standing center right) watches as the Metro State African Drum Ensemble perform before a live audience.
founder of Heritage African Drum and Dance. “When people do this stuff in Africa, it’s not just for fun, it’s not art for art’s sake. It actually has a purpose. A lot of the dances are for harvest. You don’t get to go to the grocery store and pick out all your food… Some people have to work hard and grow the crops, and so you celebrate the harvest.” At most performances, Hall invites special guests like Toure Lorenzo’s dancers. “[The dancers] definitely bring more life and they bring more excitement,” Lander said. “We have to keep up with them and the speed tends to pick up.” Young agreed that having dancers to perform with takes the experience to a completely different level. “You work on these rhythms and they are repetitive… sometimes in rehearsal you’re just kind of going over the same
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sounding off: Hearts of Palm calls it quits, moves forward Denver band Hearts of Palm have officially decided to break up. The band, formerly known as Nathan & Stephen, will be playing two farewell shows at the Hi-Dive. The news of these final shows comes hot on the heels of Everything Absent or Distorted’s untimely demise, which might feel like quite a one-two punch to the local music scene, but saxophonist Leanor Till remains positive. Till discussed the final shows as a band and moving on to different projects in the future, including a new band with her husband and Hearts of Palm vocalist Stephen Till. Interview by Matt Pusatory • mpusator@mscd.edu MP: Is the Nov. 6 show at the Hi-Dive really your last show? LT: No and yes. The last show will actually be on the 7th at the Hi-Dive with our friends’ bands, Bad Weather California and Bad Luck City opening up. MP: Why is the band breaking up? LT: Basically, we already broke up sometime last year and decided more recently to play a last show. As to why, there are many reasons ranging from people having differing visions for the band and priorities. But the most important thing is that we are all still in each other’s lives. MP: What can fans expect from your last show? LT: Eight friends on stage surrounded by friends off the stage, singing along to the songs we all came to love and cherish. What more could we ask for? MP: Have you achieved the goals you wanted to achieve as a band? LT: Yes and no. Obviously we never thought we would receive such an honor as to be awarded Denver’s Number One band for The Denver Post, and we loved the opportunity to play for amazing local crowds at such venues as the Hi-Dive and Meadowlark. We also did get to travel to South by Southwest for an amazing week and record at two noteworthy studios. So, yes we are satisfied but there are also so many goals that were not achieved, such as playing more out of state and wearing down the van! MP: What kind of impact has being in Hearts of Palm had on you personally? LT: For me it was a beautiful expression of what can happen
when friends from church really tried to see if we could bridge our musical styles. The depth of the relationships gave us the freedom to be joyous on stage and off. MP: If you had to write an obituary for the band, what would it say? LT: “Here lies Hearts of Palm, who?” MP: I read an interview with Lucero recently that cited Hearts of Palm specifically as an inspiration for them to use horns on their new album. How does that make you feel? LT: Again, for me, being the saxophone player for Hearts of Palm, this is the exact type of effect you hope to have on other bands. To be able to open other musicians’ eyes (and ears!) to the blessing that is a horn section is a massive achievement for this band geek and all band geeks out there! MP: A lot of great Denver bands have called it quits recently, do you think the Denver scene is dying? LT: No. Change is good. I went from a Denver ska band, Five Iron Frenzy, to Hearts of Palm, and that wouldn’t have occurred if Five Iron Frenzy continued. So, personally I am excited to see what God has for each of the former Hearts of Palm members, and I have no doubt that many of us will continue to be in bands. Success for me is not measurable by the amount of fans or tours, rather whether or not the joy is being transferred. MP: Is there any unreleased material and do you plan on releasing it at any point? LT: We did have some songs that I loved that never made it to
“Success for me is not measurable by the amount of fans or tours, rather whether or not joy is being transferred.”
Hearts of Palm the studio, such as “Little Squares of Paper.” I am not sure, as the sax player, I have much sway but if I had my way we would lay down some tracks. It shouldn’t be too hard since most of us are still in Denver. MP: What are some career highlights? LT: For me, playing at Monolith Fest while I was pregnant and playing at Illegal Pete’s on 16th Street Mall. Nothing beats free burritos. Making a video with Locker Partners was amazing fun too! MP: Are there any plans to form a new band yet? LT: [Vocalist] Stephen [Till], my husband, and I have already played one show as his new project, A Mouthful of Thunder. I was happy to play for Everything Absent or Distorted’s last show and I may join Boba Fett and The Americans. I know [guitarist] Dan Craig and his wife, Jessica Sonner are creating music together and Phil Donovan, our trumpet player, is also trying his hand at songwriting. My brother-in-law, Matthew [Till], is in a successful Denver band, Houses along with [drummer] Stephen Brooks. [Drummer] Jared Black now resides in Brooklyn, NY and plays in a band called Dynasties. Jonathan continues to perform with d.biddle when they have shows. And of course, there is more to come as always. MP: Are there any parting words you’d like to share with fans and supporters? LT: “And we’re all gonna fall on the beat of our dancing feet, and we’re all gonna stand back up together!”
Hearts of Palm 8 p.m., Nov. 6 & 7 @ Hi-Dive, $3
More Upcoming Shows Saul Williams, celebrated slam poet, rapper, actor and writer will be taking the stage at The Fox Theatre in Boulder in support of his most recent album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust. His style of hip-hop mixes the spoken-word poetry of his roots with unique word play and pulsing, bone-rattling beats. Production on Tardust was handled by industrial rock guru Trent Reznor, giving the beats a raw and somewhat mechanical feel that works well with Williams’ style. Williams has a reputation for his driving political messages as well as his commanding stage presence. This show is sure to be a high-energy experience that is not to be missed. Classic rockers Earl Greyhound will open the show so be sure to get there early to experience a fantastic mix of genres.
Saul Williams
9 p.m., Nov. 8 @ Fox Theatre, $25
By Matt Pusatory mpusator@mscd.edu
Georgia’s The Whigs will be bringing their Southern-fried rock to the Bluebird Theater Nov. 10. The trio’s brand of rock ‘n’ roll features heavy drums and even heavier guitar riffs. The Whigs bring to mind the rock music of yesteryear. They aren’t doing anything fancy, but they don’t need to. The band is touring in support of their upcoming album In The Dark, due out early next year. The album is the follow-up to last year’s Mission Control, which generated plenty of buzz and grabbed the attention of fellow rock ‘n’ roll saviors Kings of Leon. If you want to rock out, this blistering performance will surely do the trick.
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Them Crooked Vultures, the newest in what seems like an endless parade of super groups, has generated a lot of buzz. With “New Fang,” the trio proves that the hype was warranted. Made up of Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, The Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl on drums, and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones on bass, the band packs a lot of power. Them Crooked Vultures Opening with some monstrous “New Fang” drums, heavy slide guitar is then inThem Crooked Vultures troduced while the bass establishes a out Nov. 17 perfect groove. Musically the band operates in the same vein as Homme’s other projects, with lots of distortion and crushing riffs, but with such great talent backing him up, his usual formula is cranked up to 11. Their self-titled debut is out Nov. 17, and if “New Fang” is any indication, it should place Them Crooked Vultures at the top of their super group counterparts.
New York’s Chin Chin brings the funk. Their six-song EP Go There With You is a fantastic mix of danceable grooves and laid back chill tracks. With a blazing horn section, synthesizers, effects-laden vocals and the occasional bongo drum, these guys bring a sly sexiness to their music that even Prince would envy. The title track sets the mood perfectly. It oozes sex appeal in an old school slow jam complete with perfect falsetto vocals and great Chin Chin horns. Go There With You “GG and The Boys” lays down some super funky bass and simple guitar licks and lets the keys take the lead. “Ohio” takes a truly jazzy turn in its four minutes. It’s a great chilled out track before the epic rock of “Don’t You See” comes bursting in. This is a definite highlight with its great build up and sizzling guitar solo. The EP also includes a seven-minute remix of the song “Toot d’Amor” just in case you weren’t ready to stop the dance party. This is a great, unexpected surprise from the people at hip-hop label Definitive Jux. Check it out.
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Thug life perfected on All Eyez On Me It was the ass shaking beat and hook of “California Love” from All Eyez on Me by 2Pac that introduced me to my “thug side.” “California knows how to party/California knows how to party/ In the city, the city of Compton/ We keep it rockin! We keep it rockin!” The two-disc set Eyez, Pac’s fourth album but first two on Death Row Records, is so influential because it was the last album released during his lifetime. What makes it even more phenomenal is that Pac finished the album in two weeks. After I sat down and listen through Eyez for the first time, I fell in love with rap. Not the all-soundsthe-same rap of today about nothin’ but living the high-life. It’s the old-school rap full of the realities of ghetto life and gangsta problems. It was his conflicting persona that made him stand out from the rest. He had the ability to be the hardcore thug with a sensitive side. Of all the rappers out there, Pac was one of the only ones who showed women in a positive light, in rap songs even through verses about bitches and hos. Nothin’ like the images of women dancing and gyrating in today’s rap videos. 2Pac was a lyrical genius. Eyez is full of his
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When listening to Yeasayer’s newest offering “Ambling Alp,” off their sophomore release Odd Blood, due Feb. 19, you might scratch your head. The New York band has definitely expanded its sound. Their debut, All Hour Cymbals, was critically acclaimed and filled with organic psychedelic jams with a middleeastern feel. Yeasayer “Ambling Alp,” on the other hand, “Ambling Alp” opens with heavy beats and a notOdd Blood out Feb. 19 quite-techno vibe that may catch you off guard. The song is bubbly and light, not to mention insanely catchy. The song’s vocals are stronger than ever and really take center stage, whereas on the band’s debut, they felt secondary to the ethereal music. The chorus is sure to get stuck in your head. “Ambling Alp” sounds more focused than Yeasayer’s debut and it is clear the band has evolved. If you’re a fan of All Hour Cymbals, the song may take a little getting used to, but once it grows on you, it will be hard to take off repeat.
These days, when it comes to indie electro pop it’s hard not to instantly draw comparisons to The Postal Service. The band effortlessly, and quite successfully, bridged the gap between accessible pop melodies and electronica, while at the same time launching a slew of imitators that could never quite achieve the same success. The Pragmatic • Circles Cue St. Louis’ The Pragmatic. This duoturned-five-piece is sure to turn some heads with their free Circles EP. While the EP is definitely Postal Service-esque, it is also clear that the band is not trying to rip anyone off and they are not covering old ground. Armed with four synthesizers and a drum kit, the band can certainly make some noise, and drops some great beats all over the five tracks on Circles. The opener and title track is a near perfect example of what electro pop should be. It gives the vocals room to grow and isn’t dominated by blips and bloops. It is a great way to kick the album off and will hook you right away. “Can You Blame Me” has a fun fake horn line, and “The Academy” has a great beat that’s sure to get toes tapping. On “Deathmatch” the band channels The Faint with a pounding bass line and a darker feel that really makes the song stand out. If you’re a fan of The Postal Service, The Pragmatic is a must-download. It’s sure to put a smile on your face.
anger, pain and joy, which probably stems from his stay in prison four months prior. From full-on bass bumping hits like “How Do You Want It,” “California Love,” “All About U” and “Skandalouz” to soulful slow jams like “Life Goes On,” “All Eyez on Me,” “Picture Me Rollin’” and “Heaven Ain’t Hard to Find” Pac shows that he was a true playa. Pac’s signature voice and punctual delivery aren’t the only things that make this album; it’s the collaborations. All the great emcees appear on Eyez, from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Nate Dogg to Jodeci, Method Man and Redman. And, it’s the samples that make most of the songs hits. There are samples from Richard Pryor, Cameo, Kool & The Gang, Joe Cocker, Hank Crawford and more. It was from this album alone that I learned who the top playas in rap were. Not only did Pac turn out lyrical masterpieces on Eyez, but the music videos are masterpieces within themselves. What happened to the days when rappers actually had substance and storylines in their videos? Pac showcased the brilliance behind not only selling the music but selling the story behind it. His videos were full of famous “thug life” faces like Chris Tucker in
2Pac • All Eyez On Me “California Love” and parodies of rival east coast rappers Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G and Sean Combs (then Puff Daddy) in “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted.” As a teenage trick chasing after the bad boy thugs, I loved rollin’ up in the club or cruisin’ the streets just dancing and listening to Eyez. And, even today I still get that ghetto urge to get up and “Shake it shake it baby/Shake it shake it baby/Shake it shake it mama/Shake it Cali…”
By Lindsay Lovato llovato5@mscd.edu
On Nov. 5, 1936, Ike Turner was born in Clarksdale, Miss. He was married to Tina Turner from 1958-76. The duo’s biggest hit, “Proud Mary,’’ hit No. 4 in 1971. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
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“Off-year” elections, like what took place this week, don’t generate lots of excitement with school board races and local issues, although one proposition this year promised to have your car seized if you couldn’t produce a driver’s license during a routine Gestapo-stop. Guess who that was aimed at. Hint: it wasn’t Republicans driving SUVs in Douglas County. Fortunately, the citizens of Denver shot down I-300. For me, ghosts of elections past hold a Halloween-like closet of mixed memories, where political ghouls and goblins outnumber the good guys. Having worked for lots of losers — always Democrats — it was nice to have worked for a winner, for a change, with the Obama campaign last year. The 2008 presidential race — that had overtones of an Armageddon battle for the soul of America — pulled big ratings. Sixty-one percent of eligible voters, or more than 125 million, voted. It wasn’t close to the record 67 percent in 1960, when John F. Kennedy edged Richard Nixon by about 100,000 votes of 70 million cast. But a voter turnout of 61 percent is hot stuff in America. Enduring images remain from election night a year ago. After West Coast returns put Obama over the top, we saw a sharply-etched con-
J. SEBASTIAN SINISI sinisi2@msn.com trast. Against a million or more jubilant, multi-ethnic faces of all ages in Chicago’s Grant Park, we saw the tight-jawed, angry white John McCain supporters outside the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix. When McCain graciously said he had called Obama with congratulations, McCain was loudly jeered by his own supporters. That ugly moment may have been a harbinger of things to come - where losing with grace (think Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado) is as much a rumor as civil dialogue between opposing ideologies. Whether “change we can believe in” materializes remains to be seen a year later as Congressional Democrats continue to disappoint. Still, it was nice to be with a winner. In my time — a long time — I’ve worked for losers dating back to antiVietnam war candidate Gene McCarthy in 1968. Those of you who
tuned in, or were born, a few decades later can Google “Gene McCarthy” and “Vietnam war.” When, in more than a decade of fighting and 55,000 American dead, we accomplished absolutely nothing. Sound familiar? Working for losers pointed out that the national Democratic Party often has a death wish. They demonstrated it with George McGovern in 1972 and a disastrous John Kerry campaign in 2004. Later, Democrats continued to tacitly support the Iraq war with one wimp-out vote after another. Now, they show every sign of doing it again on health care reform. Everything the Obama campaign had going for it was missing from the Kerry campaign in 2004 that I was, alas, also part of in Colorado. Alongside George W. Bush, my cat is charismatic. But Kerry still managed to put people to sleep almost as well as Al Gore did in 2000 in an election finally decided by a 5-4 conservative majority in the U.S. Supreme Court. In an ill-organized effort, Kerry’s handlers avoided counter-punching; even against the “Swift Boat” lies that had Kerry serving less than honorably in Vietnam. During that war, Bush was in fact hiding in the Air National Guard and seldom even showed up for training. Nobody in the Kerry camp pointed that out.
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Clearing up funding misconceptions We in the Student Government Assembly were disappointed to see yet another uninformed editorial from Mr. Seger in last week’s issue. While we will always acknowledge and encourage a publication’s right and responsibility to challenge authority and suggest courses of action, we believe such an opinion should come about from careful research and thoughtful consideration. In Mr. Seger’s most recent rant against the SGA, he attempted to make a case for the SGA to resume funding for student organizations. Unfortunately, he left out a sizable portion of the truth. Yes, one of the major reasons SGA halted funding for student orgs was that there was already a very well funded resource for these groups already in place. But the bigger issue was a legal one. The US Supreme Court ruled several years ago that funding for student organized activities must be done with “viewpoint neutrality”, which means that the people who decide how to distribute the money have to be able to prove that they made their decisions without consideration of what the organization believes or advocates for. As such, we were forced to develop systems of repeated presentation and scoring of student organization proposals to ensure that we could defend ourselves in a legal challenge. Because of this, during the year that SGA was funding organizations, it was all we did. It took up so much of our time and resources to handle the constant stream of requests, that we had none left to be able to do any of the things Mr. Seger proposes, such as arguing for better campus safety or fighting for more state funds for Metro. Now that we have stopped club funding, which was always a duplicate service, we are free to use the student
fee money we are granted to actually represent students. Some students will not be happy about this decision, and we are more than willing to meet with them to explain the rationale, but student organizations make up only a small portion of our student body of over 23,000 students and each organization can already get over $5000 each year for activities under the current system. We believe that is more than enough, and if a group really needs more than that, they should seek a department of the college to help plan and co-sponsor an event. If that event concerns a current initiative of SGA, we could be that department. If not, there are plenty of others to choose from. That having been said, if student groups are interested in partnering with SGA to hold events or other activities around campus safety, higher education funding, student advocacy, textbook prices, parking, or any of the other projects we are working on, they are encouraged to come and see us, and we’ll try to work with them, but we will not simply hand out student fee money blindly to anyone who asks for it. Finally, students should understand that things are happening right now, things that are far important than club funding. For one, a state budget crisis threatens potential college closures, large tuition increases, and massive cutbacks in the next year and a half. We are working hard to prevent this, and if any students out there want to pitch in, they can contact me and we’ll find a way for you to help.
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The “Swift Boat” lies demonstrated that Joseph Goebbels’ “Big Lie” theory could still work in America. Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda, worked on the theory that the bigger the lie, the better a chance it has of being believed IF it was repeated loudly and often enough. GOP strategists from Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes (now a Fox News executive) to on-air Fox fire-eaters have run with that formula for years. Big Lies like “death squads” for seniors don’t trouble the pharmaceutical giants, HMOs and medical lobbies that have spent millions upon millions to scuttle genuine health-care reform. Their efforts included bus loads of paid pimps and shills sent to disrupt “town hall” meetings while posing as “grassroots” protesters. Against this Niagara of misinformation, Democrats meekly seek bipartisanship that is clearly not going to happen. After the election of 2006, when Democrats gained some workable numbers in both houses of the U.S. Congress, Bill Mahr on TV said “… nobody ever accused the American people of being quick (as in astute) but they may be beginning to finally get it.” Voters may have gotten it, but the party hasn’t. At least it’s not 1968, when I rang doorbells for Gene McCarthy as a young kid with short hair when
short hair was not at all cool. McCarthy lost the Democratic nomination to Hubert Humphrey at the Democratic Convention in Chicago when Mayor Richard Daley’s storm troopers assured that there was, literally, protester blood in the streets — the curious can also check that on Google; the collective memory of our time. A decent man, Vice-President Humprey carried the albatross of Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam war. He lost to Richard Nixon in an election not decided until 2 p.m. on the East Coast the following day. It had been a heady year, filled with demonstrations on campuses while some seriously thought “revolution” — whatever that meant — was at hand. Never mind that nobody had figured out who would pick up garbage after the revolution. With Nixon’s win, the clock was turned back with a neo-Fascist “law and order” regime complete with a White House “enemies list” and detention centers set up for dissenters. Vietnam dragged for nearly six more years until we finally lost in 1975. Since then, we haven’t learned much about unwinnable wars, or that Afghanistan was the Soviet Union’s Vietnam. I worked for change in 1968, didn’t see it then and did the same 40 years later with lots of stops in between. I’m still waiting.
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Noon RMAC Semifinals @ Auraria Field Volleyball 7 p.m. @ UCCS Women’s Basketball 7 p.m. @ UNC
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From left: Midfielder Ashley Nemmers, forward Jen Thomas, midfielder Madison McQuilliams, midfielder Ashley Munchiando, forward Aleah DeGeneres and defender Carrie Aversano celebrate after McQuilliams scored the game-tying goal Nov. 1 at Auraria Field. The Roadrunners went on to score four more goals and beat UC-Colorado Springs 5-1. Photo by Matt Gypin • mgypin@mscd.edu
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Soccer captures 8th consecutive regular season championship By Matt Gypin mgypin@mscd.edu The Metro women’s soccer team is moving on to the postseason after beating UC-Colorado Springs 5-1 Nov. 1, securing their eighth straight Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season championship on Senior Day at Auraria Field. The NCAA No. 4-ranked Roadrunners roared back from a 1-0 halftime deficit with five second-half goals, capping off an undefeated conference season and building momentum heading into the playoffs. “This win gives us a lot of confidence,” Head Coach Adrianne Almaraz said. “For us, it’s huge because we can build off it. If we had lost today, we’d maybe have our heads down, but I think for us, just knowing we can battle even if we are down, and we will battle, it’s great for going into the postseason.” Metro fell behind in the first five minutes when Mountain Lion midfielder Julia Saenz’s corner kick bounced off utility player Josi Heer’s
head before getting headed into the net by defender Jessika Williams. The UCCS goal was their only shot attempt of the first half and was the first goal allowed by Metro goalie Becca Maloney in six straight games. “It was just a miscommunication in the back,” Maloney said. “A mark got loose and scored on a header. It’s unfortunate, but it happens.” The Roadrunners were unable to answer the rest of the half, putting just four of their 13 first-half shot attempts on goal. Almaraz said the Mountain Lions were able to stop Metro because her team wasn’t doing the little things it takes to score goals. “It wasn’t really so much what they were doing, it was more what we weren’t doing,” Almaraz said. “We weren’t executing, we were kind of giving up things when we really could have taken an extra touch or gone to the byline and pulled it back or cut in. We didn’t do those little things that can create goals. For us, it was just getting the little things a little bit sharper and we did it in the
second half and got five goals.” Metro tied the game 11 minutes into the second half when forward Aleah DeGeneres deflected a corner kick by defender Courtney Ryan to midfielder Madison McQuilliams, who slipped it past Mountain Lion goalie Kayla Millar from close range. Ryan scored the go-ahead goal, and eventual game-winner, two minutes later on another corner kick, which curved and went through Millar’s hands. “I wasn’t planning on curving it that much,” Ryan said. “I curved it and it just went right in. The goalie was kind of off her line.” Forward Becca Mays scored her 20th goal of the season in the 65th minute, marking the eighth time in school history a Roadrunner has reached the 20-goal plateau. DeGeneres scored four minutes later on a rebound, after a shot by forward Ashley Nemmers was blocked by backup Mountain Lion goalie Ashley Armstrong. Forward Rachael Michaels scored the final goal for Metro on a penalty kick with just under six
minutes left. Almaraz, who is in her second year coaching the team after playing for the team herself, showed pride in Metro having won the conference eight times in a row and said she is looking forward to the postseason tournaments. “For the last eight years we’ve been able to achieve this and that says a lot about these girls,” she said. “It’s been a whole different realm of players, even when I played, but everyone is here for the right reasons and they all work hard. For me, I’m very pleased and excited going forward into the RMAC tournament and NCAA tournament.” The Roadrunners also won against Adams State 2-0 Oct. 30 in Alamosa. Metro will host the RMAC Tournament Nov. 4-8 at Auraria Field. They will have a bye the first round and then play either Mesa State or Regis at noon Nov. 6 at Auraria Field. If they win, they will move on to the championship game at noon Nov. 8, at home.
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Say What? “I’ve always been fascinated by swordplay. Off and on, for years, I’ve been fighting Shinai with my friends, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to learn something new.”
FENCING JUNIOR ROBERT SCHMITZ, A12
FUN FACT Metro is partnering with fellow RMAC schools Colorado School of Mines, Colorado Christian University and Regis University for Miles for Myles, a benefit for cancer research in honor of the late NCAA president Myles Brand. The four RMAC schools will host a three-mile run/walk Nov. 8 on Auraria campus.
A12 • SPORTS • NOVEMBER 5, 2009 • THE METROPOLITAN • Metro men’s basketball is picked No. 1 for the East Division in the preseason poll, while the women’s team is picked No. 5.
metro 3 - Mines 0 • Metro 3 - chadron state 0
Volleyball struggling to clinch regional spot By Enrico Dominguez edoming2@mscd.edu The Metro women’s volleyball team struck fear into the hearts of the Colorado School of Mines on Halloween night Oct. 31 in the Auraria Event Center. Defensively, the ’Runners held the Orediggers to a .158 hitting percentage with five aces. Libero Amy Watanabe had 13 digs while outside hitter Bri Morley added 11 digs of her own, giving her seven double doubles for the season. Offensively, the women outplayed Mines with setter Gabe Curtis dishing out 40 assists on the night, helping the team hit a total of .361 in the match. In the first set, middle blocker Anna Mapes and outside hitter Emily Greenhalgh struck fiercely with three kills apiece. Defensively, they held Mines to a .065 attack percentage. The ’Runners took control early with a 6-5 lead, then caught a streak scoring the next six-of-seven points; winning the match 25-16. The second set was closer with both teams tied at 13 when, suddenly, the ’Runners caught another fit of points, scoring the next five-ofsix points; giving them a 18-14 lead. The Orediggers fought back to shorten the lead to 19-18, but the Roadrunners took advantage of a pair of Mines muffs and a kill with perfect
Metro volleyball middle blockers Lisa Jones, left, and Julie Causseaux reach for a block from University of Nebraska-Kearney outside hitter Chelsie Carson Sept. 26 at the Auraria Event Center. Metro beat Chadron State and Colorado School of Mines Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 3-0 at the Auraria Event Center.
File photo by Nicholas Duckworth • nduckwor@mscd.edu timing from Greenhalgh to take the lead, 22-18. The ’Runners scored three of the last six points to put the nail in the coffin of the second set. Metro was just warming up, with
the third set being the most dominating of the night, hitting .467. Morley had eight kills of her own. The Roadrunners led early, 13-9, just off a three-point streak when Greenhalgh
had a pair of kills and took advantage of an Oredigger mistake, making the score 15-12. Middle blocker Lisa Jones ended the match with kills, helping the ’Runners score four of
the last five points with a final match win, 25-19. Curtis had 40 assists on the night — helping three players reach double figure points with Morley scoring 16 points, Greenhalgh with 11 and Jones with 10. The women hit over .300 in each set against Mines making this match the fifth-highest for the ’Runners this season. The women hosted Chadron State Nov. 1, obtaining their 19th win this season at the Auraria Event Center. “We came out sluggish and not communicating very well,” Head Coach Debbie Hendricks said. “I told them that it was not OK, they needed to play the way they were capable of.” The win improved Metro to 9-7 overall and 12-5 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The women are in the eighth seed right now for making regionals, which means they cannot lose another if they want to qualify for regional’s. “Our backs are against the wall for regionals,” Hendricks said. “We must win out, we needed to win both matches this weekend and we had to win both matches last weekend. Their final matches of the regular season will be on the road at UCColorado Springs and then to Colorado Christian University Nov. 6 and 7 in Colorado Springs and Lakewood.
Athletics looks to add fencing to club sports By Josiah Kaan jkaan@mscd.edu En Garde! Watch out Metro students, there’s a new sport on campus. Club fencing, started by Charles Burden and a few of his friends, is only an athletics department approval away from being Metro’s first athletic fencing club. “I think there’s been a fencing club through student activities as a, kind of, friendly group club,” Club Fencing President Charles Burden said. “As far as I know, this is the first fencing club to come from the athletic department.” For a club to become an official Metro club sport, the athletic department must meet with the founders and approve a budget for the club sport. Once a budget is approved, fencing will be recognized as an official club sport. “Until we get recognized [by the athletic department], we really can’t do much,” Burden said. “We can’t reserve space, we can’t set up things until we have that recognition from the athletic department.” Club fencing adopted a constitution Oct. 26 bringing it a step from being a full-fledged Metro club
Fencing junior Robert Schmitz, center, practices his technique Nov. 2 while Andrew Eckert instructs during a practice in the Auraria Event Center at Auraria. Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu sport. “Last Monday, we adopted our constitution,” Burden said. “I’ve got to meet with the [club sports director] and then we’ll get recognized as a full club.” Burden started the club after reigniting his passion for fencing through a fencing class he is taking this semester. “I started [fencing] when I was about 12 or 13 and fenced for about two or three years.” Bur-
den said. “This semester I’m in the fencing class. I got back into it and remembered how much I liked it and there was no fencing club here at Metro.” Burden and his friends got together and decided that they wanted to start a fencing club. He spoke with Club Sports Director Ken Parsons, and one thing led to the next, resulting in club fencing. The club sport has had a lot of interest, as about 12 people, both
male and female, have signed up as club members in the few weeks since club fencing launched, Burden said. Club fencing junior Robert Schmitz said he had seen fencing in movies, but had never fenced before he joined the club, which he heard about through a mass e-mail sent through MetroConnect. “I’ve always been fascinated by swordplay,” Schmitz said. “Off and on, for years, I’ve been fighting with Shinai [a type of bamboo cane sword] with my friends, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to learn something new.” Schmitz said that he was drawn to the club sport because of the competitive nature that accompanies fencing. “My favorite thing about fencing is the competitive violence,” Schmitz explained. “I get to stab a person, while knowing that I’ve bested them in a sport, and haven’t actually hurt them.” The club will not be competing for a while, as there are a lot of kinks to iron out before the team will be ready for competition. “We hope to get up to competitive level but, I mean, realistically that’s going to take a couple of semesters before we’re at that point,” Burden
said. Burden said that much like martial arts, there are a lot of competitive fencing leagues and tournaments that can be entered. “There are independent leagues, tournaments, regional tournaments and things like that,” Burden said. “We can always, also, just set up exhibition matches with other schools. Air Force Academy, DU, they’ve all got fencing teams.” Because the Metro fencing club does not have their own equipment, the Roadrunner fencers must provide their own supplies. This is expected to change once their budget gets approved, Burden said. “Once we get recognized by the athletic department, we’ll have our own budget. So we’re trying to set it up so that we can have some club equipment people can borrow and use,” Burden said. “We’ll try and help, you know, do fundraisers so people can buy their own equipment.” If any Metro students are still interested in joining club fencing, they can either show up to their practices, which take place at 4 p.m. Mondays in the Auraria Events Center lobby, or e-mail Burden at cburden2@mscd. edu.
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” Woodrow Wilson • THE METROPOLITAN • NOVEMBER 5, 2009 • SPORTS • A13
Metro professor experiences life after death
By Mike Nicholls nichollm@mscd.edu
Metro professor Winthrop Dyer died three years ago as a result of complications from a stroke he suffered while on a road trip with his swim team in North Dakota. He was 47. He died much too young. He had accomplished a lot in his life, but he would have accomplished much more if he had lived longer. So he decided to quit complaining about being dead and come back to life. The man nearly died and it would’ve ended an extraordinary life way too early. Dyer has been in the Navy, served in operation Desert Storm and trained Navy Seals. He has a degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins, and, in addition to being a great swim coach, he teaches biology here at Metro. He is buried in $400,000 worth of medical bills. He is blind in one eye and doesn’t have feeling in his left arm. It is extremely difficult for Dyer to recognize faces and he has to focus much harder than a normal person to remember where he is or what he is doing. The debt and the extensive rehab
Metro biology professor Winthrop Dyer. Photo by Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu puts an enormous strain on him and his family. You wouldn’t know any of this if you’ve spent any time with him. He works hard every day and doesn’t complain about anything. In fact, he’s the happiest person in the world. He has a lot to complain about if he wanted to, but he doesn’t. He fig-
ures, “there are people a lot worse off than me.” With all that, wouldn’t he be happier chasing money and paying off his debt quickly? He could if he wanted to. He used to make six figures analyzing corpses and finding out exactly why someone died. Dyer doesn’t want to do that though, and
Orton outplays Cutler in first half of regular season By Miguel De Santiago mdesant@mscd.edu With all the story lines that are coming out of the National Football League this season, one that is not losing any steam is the tale of two quarterbacks that will forever be linked in NFL lore. Both Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and Denver Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton have moved on since they swapped area codes back in April. But when the 11th overall pick of the 2006 draft from Vanderbilt was traded to Chicago in exchange for Orton, it sent ripples around the league that are still being felt today. Orton, who was a fourth-round draft pick from Purdue University, was selected in the 2005 NFL draft by Chicago. Since the trade and arriving here in Denver, he has exceeded expectations by leading the Denver Broncos to a 6-1 record. The trade, which included Orton and a couple of first-round draft picks in this year’s draft and another pick in next year’s draft, now seems to be a steal for owner Pat Bowlen and the Broncos. Bowlen and first year Head Coach Josh McDaniels are looking like geniuses as the Broncos sit comfortably on top of the division with
a two-game lead over the San Diego Chargers. In contrast, Cutler’s Chicago Bears have a 4-3 record with a mediocre passing game that has many Bears fans wishing Orton was still in Chicago. Since the trade, the two QB’s have been closely watched and scrutinized and both have had their fair share of the limelight; albeit for different reasons. Going into week eight, which is the halfway point of the regular season, Orton has 1,617 yards, nine touchdowns and one interception; an interception that happened to come on a Hail Mary pass against the New England Patriots. Cutler, on the other hand, has similarly 1,677; 11 touchdowns and a whopping 11 interceptions. Last year, Cutler set franchise records with the Broncos en route to his first Pro Bowl in Hawaii. He had a total 4,526 yards, 25 touchdowns and 18 interceptions with a 86.0 passing rating. Cutler had a record of 17-20 as a starter in Denver. He tallied 54 touchdowns and a total of 37 interceptions while there. Orton, with the Bears last year, had a total of 2,812 yards, 18 touchdowns, 12 interceptions and a passer rating of 79.6. During the season, Orton completed 205 straight passes without an interception. Recently, Cutler got an extension
with the Bears worth an estimated $30 million, with $20 million of that money guaranteed — which keeps Cutler in Chicago until 2013. Orton, on the other hand had a base salary of $1.3 million with Chicago last year and is overdue for a contract. While in Chicago, Orton was 10-5 when he started. He had an eight-game winning streak at one point and earned the respect of his teammates. While at Purdue he matched fellow alumni Drew Brees, the current quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, record of 522 yards in a single game. Orton is a legitimate quarterback that needs to be, and should be, compensated. This year alone he has already beaten counterparts that include Dallas Cowboys’ Tony Romo, New England Patriots’ Tom Brady and San Diego Chargers’ Phillip Rivers — all of whom are marquee quarterbacks in the NFL and who surely are living a bit loftier than Orton. Orton has excelled under McDaniel’s offensive schemes and Cutler has struggled with interceptions as he threw another pick Nov. 1 against the Cleveland Browns. At the end of the season, or at the end of these two quarterbacks career, we will know what franchise ended up with the better deal.
he’d rather get paid less to teach people how to live. Most importantly, he has an amazing wife that didn’t leave him just because he died. Instead of grieving his death, she helped will him back to life. He had no idea who she was when he woke up from being dead
and was pretty thrilled when he discovered a beautiful, intelligent woman was waiting by his side. She will always be by his side and this makes him happy. Coaching the swim team makes him happy. Not complaining about his medical bills makes him happy. Being an excellent athlete, a 12-time All-American at Johns Hopkins, four-time national champion in water polo, makes him happy. Teaching science to students makes him happy. Dyer refuses to give up. He refuses to whine and complain about how bad his life is when he’s having the time of his life teaching students to enjoy life and relish their health. He pushes the swim team and pushes his biology students because he knows that will make them happy in the long run. Challenge them and make them respond. He knows what’s best for his students and he knows what’s best for himself. He figured life out. Being alive is the only important thing. To stay alive, you need to be healthy. You need to be in great shape in order to handle whatever life throws at you. If Dyer hadn’t busted his butt his entire life and been in incredible shape he might still be dead today.
SPORTS BRIEF
Becca Maloney
Jen Thomas
Metro women’s soccer goalkeeper Becca Maloney and forward Jen Thomas earned ESPN the Magazine College Division Academic AllDistrict 7 honors Oct. 29, announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Maloney was on the second team, while Thomas was on the third team. To qualify, student-athletes must have completed at least two consecutive semesters at their current school, have a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or above and be a starter or key reserve. Maloney and Thomas are the first Metro women’s soccer players to be on the team since Rachel Zollner in 2007. Maloney has started every game this year and leads the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference with a 17-1-0 record, 0.50 GAA and .857 save percentage. Thomas is second on team with 29 points on 12 goals and five assists as of Oct. 29. Photos by Sean Mullins • smullin5@mscd.edu and Leah Millis • lmillis@mscd.edu
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