Volume 33, Issue 31 - May 5, 2011

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Baseball slides to No. 1 in division

FROM LEFT: Metro center fielder David Fox knocks helmets with David Kaplan, Zach Krueger and Justin Stouffer after hitting a 3-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning against Colorado School of Mines May 1 at Auraria Field. Metro came back from a 8-2 deficit to win the game 11-8. Photo by Jonathan Ingraham • jingrah1@mscd. edu

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Background checks on Beak-to-beak SGA candidates reveals awards highlight one criminal record • 3 top sports moments • 21

2011 is the last year for summer Pell Grants • 5

Football shutout at inaugural game • 20

METROSPECTIVE

Metro students helping to program robots • 10 Knitting with a modern twist • 11

THE METROPOLITAN • MAY 5, 2011 • 3

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“The delay until the 2012 session will afford our board the opportunity to put together a clear and compelling case around the name Denver State University.”

— DR. STEPHEN JORDAN • INSIGHT • 8

Auraria planting for the future

INDEX INSIGHT ... 8 METROSPECTIVE ... 11 SPORTS ... 16 TIMEOUT ... 22

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Alex Zizinga from Uganda and Mary Ferrari from UCD joke around while shoveling compost on a newly planted plum tree on Auraria Campus on April 29. Members of CROP, Campus Raised Organic Produce, and volunteers from Uganda and Kenya planted two plum trees in the former construction zone just south of the Science building. The trees were donated by BoldFOOD and are the first sanctioned food-producing crops planted on campus in years. “Within three years, we should see actual plums growing which will be available to members of the group as well as Auraria students, faculty, and staff,” said Jim Laven from Metro. Photo by Rachel Fuenzalida • rfuenzal@mscd.edu

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Not all SGA backgrounds check Senator’s previous arrests could keep him from serving

By Caitlin Gibbons and Ramsey Scott A newly-elected senator for Metro’s student government might not be able to serve because of his criminal history.

The Metropolitan decided to run Colorado Bureau of Investigation background checks on all of the candidates in the 2011 Student Government Assembly General Election after an interpretation by the administration exempted candidates from background checks through the college.

Once members are elected and confirmed, they are employees and undergo a background check before they can be put on payroll.

The Metropolitan’s background checks showed Babak Sateri, 41-years-old, was arrested for a public indecency charge in 2005 and as a result, has had to register as a sex

offender.

“I was working in a gas station in the middle of the night. Two adult females came in all drunk, and we were flirting, and I ended up doing a striptease for them, which was completely on their consent. But because they deemed that place a public place, it was an indecency charge,” Sateri said.

“I think it is silly. Because of this, I lost even my work study job, because this disqualifies me. I can’t get a job really anywhere in the world, I’m screwed now because I have a misdemeanor offense.”

Sateri was also charged with failure to register as a sex offender in 2010. He said he thought he only had to register for five years after the offense.

“It happened in 2005, and I thought I would be done with it by 2010. I was supposed to only have to register for five years,” Sateri said.

Holly Smith, with the Arapahoe County Courts, confirmed Sateri pled guilty to failure to register as a sex offender for the 2005 misdemeanor charge. He was ineligible for probation and was sentenced to 18 months

in jail with credit for the 180 days he had already served.

“The judge tried to discourage me [from pleading guilty]; I should have listened. I just wanted to be done with it,” Sateri said.

It is Metro’s official policy to background check all employees. Judy Zewe, associate vice president of human resources, said not all negative information is an automatic disqualification for employment.

“College policy requires human resources to contact anyone whose background check comes back with negative information. The person has 10 days to respond and provide any necessary documentation about the negative information on the background check,” Zewe said.

Sateri had not sent any documentation to human resources as of May 3.

Whether SGA complies with the human resources hiring practices is up to them, Zewe said. Since the SGA is governed by their constitution and bylaws, they could technically still allow Sateri to volunteer for the assembly without pay. The SGA could also

direct human resources to conduct background checks on all candidates as well as employees if they were to write it into their policy and constitution.

“I need some guidance from SGA saying that is what they want to do.

I cannot make that decision on my own,” Zewe said.

The student government is also unclear as to what action they might or can take in this instance.

There is no precedent for removing an elected member before they are officially confirmed, Speaker of the SGA Senate Simon Ayesse said.

“The SGA bylaws are silent on this situation,” Ayesse said.

He also said it would be difficult for someone volunteering for the SGA to complete all the duties of a senator.

Without being a college employee a student cannot have key card access to the SGA office or administrative access to their server.

SGA Vice President Tess Halonen said it was her understanding the SGA has always followed college policy and human resources when it comes to hiring practices.

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Summer Pell Grants fall to budget cuts

By Ali Rodgers arodger6@mscd.edu The 2011 summer semester is the last summer Metro students will be able to qualify for the summer Pell Grant.

The federal government is making cut backs to balance the budget and the Pell Grant is one of the items on the list. According to Judi Diaz Bonacquisti, associate vice president of enrollment services, students should be taking advantage of summer classes while they have an opportunity for a grant.

The summer Pell Grant was introduced in 2010 to full time students who are on financial aid.

According to a Metro census from 2006-2009, student attendance averaged 7,700 for the summer semesters. Once the grant was introduced for summer 2010, student attendance increased to 9,243.

The fear of the summer grant being cut has not affected student enrollment. In 2010, the total headcount five weeks before summer classes started was 7,895 students compared to this year with a total headcount of 7,876 students, ac-

cording to Metro’s preliminary summer headcount summary.

Jason Doyle, assistant to the vice president for enrollment services, said anticipated enrollment numbers were predicted to be higher but registration started a week later than it normally does.

According to Diaz Bonacquisti, students enrolled in summer classes who depend on the Pell Grant will have to compensate, whether it is taking out more loans or working a summer job.

“It depends what our economy is looking like and they’re [students] going to have to make individual decisions,” Diaz Bonacquisti said.

There is no time frame for the federal government to announce their budget cuts which may include the Pell Grant. Metro will be notified once these changes are made.

“We are monitoring what is happening at the federal level,” Diaz Bonacquisti said.

Each higher education institution at Auraria has the choice to put the summer semester at the beginning of financial aid year or at the end. Metro’s financial aid is awarded for the summer after students have

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been enrolled full time during the preceding fall and spring semesters.

To receive financial aid for the summer, students must be enrolled at least six credit hours, which is considered full time, and previously taken out aid for the fall and spring semesters.

According to Doyle, there are 1,349 class sections offered for the summer semester including online and independent study courses.

Classes held in main campus buildings will be altered to coincide with the new schedule changes.

However, time changes won’t be completely identical and the availability of classrooms will not pose as a problem.

“Most classes are longer in duration so the schedule does not generally follow the grid pattern the way you would see for fall or spring terms,” Jeff Stamper, division director of Auraria higher education center, said.

The earliest impacts from cutting the Pell Grant may not be seen until after the 2012 summer semester is completed according to Diaz Bonacquisti.

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The Student Academic Success Center has streamlined its handling of students on academic probation by utilizing the Blackboard system to introduce the students into the probation program.

Students on academic probation, or readmitted under the probation policy, will now have to sign up for training, as well as pass a quiz before they can make an appointment with an advisor and agree to a probation contract, said Matthew Kring, a student success specialist for the Student Academic Success Center.

“When students find out that they are on probation they can be very emotional,” Kring said. “This new program allows them to deal with the initial shock of the information and learn about the program.”

According to Kring, the Student Intervention Services office expects to see nearly 1,000 students before the start of the fall semester, and between 3,300 and 3,600 over the course of the 2011-2012 year. This means about 13 percent of all Metro students are facing academic probation or suspension.

The upgrade is part of Metro President Stephen Jordan’s Rightsizing with Technology initiative, which was the primary beneficiary of government stimulus funds that will run out at the end of the 2011 spring semester.

New AHEC vice president April 28, the Auraria Higher Education Center announced it selected Barb Weiske for the position of Executive Vice President for Administration.

The search process took nearly 10 months starting in June of 2010. Weiske had served as the interim vice president since June 2009.

“It is incredibly exciting to be confirmed and to have the support to move forward and focus on initiatives,” Weiske said. “This is a wonderful and challenging time to be in higher education.”

Weiske has made it a goal to build the “connectivity” between the institutions of Auraria and the city of Denver.

“The campus represents the future workforce of Denver and it is important to cultivate opportunities for students’ businesses,” Weiske said.

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New dean means business Ann Murphy is seeking national accreditation for Metro’s program

By Ali Rodgers arodger6@mscd.edu Metro has announced Ann Murphy as the new Dean of the School of Business. April 28, Vicki L. Golich, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs made the decision. The new position will take effect on June 1.

Murphy is currently the Associate Dean of the School of Business and has held that position since 2007. She has been at Metro since 1997 as a professor of accounting. Murphy has a B.A. in accounting and computer science from Boston College, an MBA from the University of Nevada, and a Ph.D. in business with a major in accounting from the University of Arkansas.

“The college has had a long record of internal candidates successfully serving as deans or interim deans,” said John Cochran, outgoing dean of the School of Business. “Dr. Murphy is the best prepared and most experienced going into the position.”

Cochran served as the dean for the School of Business since 2004 and will retire as dean May 31.

“In addition to Dr. Murphy’s academic background, quality teaching and scholarship resulting in tenure and promotion to professor, she was actively involved in all aspects of

overseeing the School of Business,” Cochran said. “Her significant accomplishments include strong leadership in development of the school’s assessment plan, participation in strategic planning — including taking the lead in the development of the school’s pre-accreditation application — and successfully oversaw the completion of the recently submitted accreditation plan to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).”

The AACSB is an international accrediting agency that officially accredits colleges and schools of business around the world.

The AACSB currently has about 1,200 members around the world. There are a significant amount of schools that the AACSB looks at when they are establishing their standards and criteria for accreditation, according to Murphy. “[Metro] has an application in with the AACSB,” Murphy said. “We have been working towards that and I have been working closely with Dean Cochran to get it set up.”

If the AACSB decides that Metro is following the best standards and practices that the school can, the School of Business will receive its accreditation. Once accredited, employers will be able to see the AACSB logo on the School of Business website and their promotion materials.

“We recently had a visit from our AACSB mentor and it’s a long process but we just submitted our accreditation plan. [The AACSB has] about 21 standards that we have to meet, so our plan is to close the gaps,” Murphy said.

“When she was here she was very positive and seemed to think that none of the gaps were

New Dean of the School of Business, Ann Murphy. • Photo provided by Metro. that significant to where we couldn’t close them.”

Murphy estimates the school will receive the accreditation within three to five years.

“Right now our vision is to be the business school of choice for students and employers,” Murphy said. “If we are accredited on a national level, employers will be able to see the quality of our program.”

Metro’s School of Business has 78 full-time faculty members, more than 50 affiliate faculty members and 13 staff members.

Around 3,800 students who attend Metro are business or economics majors.

NEWS BRIEFS Rep. Jared Polis speaking at 2011 graduation ceremony

Metro State has selected Colorado District 2 Representative Jared Polis as the keynote speaker for spring graduation, May 15.

Polis, the first openly gay representative elected to Congress, is scheduled to address the largest group of graduates Metro has ever had.

Polis was a web-entrepreneur before he was elected to Congress in 2008. As the founder of Proflowers.com, he is one of the five wealthiest members of the 112th U.S. Congress.

“I’ve worked nearly my entire adult life on education because it is essential to our nation’s economic competitiveness and every student’s pursuit of happiness,” Polis said.

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By Ramsey Scott and James Sienkiewicz While Colorado lost one journalism school at the University of Colorado at Boulder, it gained one in the heart of Denver.

The Community College of Denver has expanded its curriculum to offer a certificate in journalism. The program will offer students a chance to earn a two-year basic journalism certificate, which will transfer to a four-year institution.

The new program is the culmination of five years of work by program Director Kristi Strother, who joined CCD’s teaching staff in 2006.

“When I came aboard, there wasn’t anything there. We taught one class, and what do you do with just one journalism class?” Strother said. “Now I have five classes, I’ll have six by next year, and each one of those have multiple sections.”

“Kristi has been a mentor to me. If it wasn’t for her, I don’t know where I would be,” said Ursula Romaine, a CCD journalism student.

While there was a demand for journalism classes at CCD, the school had to seek approval from the State before they could officially offer the new program. The state’s approval process required CCD to produce a job-market analysis and form an advisory board before the state would sign off on the program. Strother took

the task on primarily by herself.

“It’s taken me all these years to put together a program that has some legs to it,” Strother said.

While other colleges like University of Colorado at Boulder have decided to close their journalism program, Strother and her students believe that CCD is in a unique position to be starting their journalism program now.

“Even though CCD is kind of late in the game, I think they have joined in on the buzz at the perfect time,” said Shelby Rossi, a first year journalism student at CCD who plans on transferring to Metro’s journalism program this fall.

Strother worked closely with Metro’s journalism department and other local media organizations while creating the curriculum for the journalism program. She said the goal of the certification is to give students the basic fundamentals in journalism before they transfer to other institutions or go out into the job market.

“I’m building this program for what journalism is today. You have a lot of programs … where the program had done very well for many years, but it didn’t adapt to the changes in technology that is now common in journalism,” Strother said.

“Students have an advantage to come experience those new classes and get a feel for it and see what they like and what they don’t like about journalism and test the waters out,” Rossi said.

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“I was at my house talking to somebody and they said that a bunch of people were saying Osama was dead. I was like, ‘OK, cool, I guess.’”

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“I have witnessed many incredible moments, from heartbreaking buzzer-beating defeats to walk-off homeruns.”

—MARK BABISH, SPORTS EDITOR • SPORTS • 21

Name change deferred, not defeated Over the past several weeks, many of our students worked hard in advocating that Metropolitan State College of Denver change its name to Denver State University.

While I know that they were disappointed by the April 21 Board of Trustees decision to defer pursuit of legislative approval to change the name at this time, I believe the decision was a wise one.

The legislature is preoccupied with a number of pressing issues in the few remaining weeks of the current session, and with new opposition recently raised by the University of Denver, the issue of changing our name had become contentious and divisive.

The delay until the 2012 session will afford our board the opportunity to put together a clear and compelling case around the name Denver State University; specifically addressing whether it would interfere with DU’s brand, marketing and recruitment.

Prior to the final selection of the name Denver State University we conducted outreach to students, alumni, faculty, staff, and business and community leaders, as well as higher education leaders – including the University of Denver. Once we heard of the University of Denver’s opposition to the name Denver State University, we made a good-faith effort to resolve the issue, realizing the value and very distinct role of each

institution to the Denver community.

Our years of study on this issue have centered around the assessment of whether our current name adequately described what our institution stands for and does, as well as an array of preferences for a new name.

The new name was selected on the basis of how well it addressed four objectives: 1) demonstrate the quality of a degree to our students and alumni; 2) add clarity to our geographic location; 3) eliminate any confusion, with respect that we are four-year state and regional comprehensive college; and 4) simplify the name.

After a very public process that included numerous stakeholders and more than 9,000 participants, 80 percent of whom believed in changing our name, the strongest preference emerged for Denver State University.

Now that we have identified Denver State University as the name that most accurately describes our mission and the caliber of our institution, and clarifies that we are a public state four-year institution in downtown Denver, the board has a solid foundation from which to conduct its additional work.

The trustees will be appointing a committee to involve additional stakeholders in the community, and to do a detailed study of the specific branding, marketing and other issues around the name Denver State University. The commit-

national convention. As a veteran freeloader, I went along.

Nobody called New Orleans the ”Big Easy” when I first saw it, early in 1968 as a young man working for a business magazine out of New York. Through dozens of visits since, the “Crescent City” near the mouth of Mark Twain’s Mississippi has changed. But its essence as an island of uniqueness remains.

Decades later, there’s still magic. Like the gumbo I inhaled along with dozens of justshucked oysters, the city is a delicious ethnic and cultural gumbo of Creole, French, Spanish and Caribbean cooking. Along with neighborhood eateries serving po’boy sandwiches with red beans and rice, are fine French restaurants that offer meals to remember. Few compare with the 1886 Commander’s Palace in the haute-architecture Garden District.

Music — jazz, blues, gospel, zydeco — and architecture draw from the same cultural wells.

French Quarter buildings date from 1718; graceful antebellum homes in the Garden District started in 1838. An architecture aficionado can spend entire days photographing the lacy wrought-iron balconies; ornate brackets, doorways, shuttered windows, hidden court yards and real gas-lamps in both sectors.

It takes many visits to savor the city and years to burnish what I’d call a “patina of memory.” But moods remain relaxed and I last week had great conversations with visitors from Michigan, New England and the West Coast. During a by-bike swing around the city, there was also an enjoyable chat in the William Faulkner bookstore tucked into Pirate’s Alley in the Quarter, home to Faulkner when he wrote his first novel, “Soldier’s Pay,” in 1926.

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Metro President Stephen Jordan tee will report to the full board their conclusions and a recommendation on whether to proceed with the name Denver State University.

I am grateful to our passionate and committed students and the Student Government Assembly who have worked tirelessly in advocating for their institution and the name Denver State University.

It is because of our remarkable students that we undertook the strategic name initiative in the first place. And it is our commitment to serving our students fully that fundamentally supports the remaining work left to do.

New Orleans offers far more than Jazz Fest Despite the still-evident effects of Katrina and the BP oil spill, New Orleans — where I visited last week and caught the opening sounds of the 42nd Jazz and Heritage Festival — still offers a refreshing antidote to the sameness that has overtaken much of America.

Once you’ve traveled a bit, you may have found that large chunks of America — excluding the National Parks and much of the American West — have become numbingly similar. Were you to drive only interstate highways through the region generically known as the American “South,” you could go scores of miles without ever knowing what region you’re in. Because lots of the South —despite the mythologies and music — has become much like the rest of the country. With nearly every other interstate interchange offering the same Holiday Inns, the same McDonald’s, strip malls and tedium.

Unique locales remain. But if you want to savor what’s left of what Thomas Wolfe, in the 1930s, called “the dried, caked colors of America,” you have to exit the interstates for two-lane blacktops and lesser back roads. From them, you’ll see incredible sandstone formations in Central Utah. And, as I once discovered in South Georgia, you can still find countrycrossroad general stores with glass-top gas pumps straight out of a 1930s Walker Evans photograph.

New Orleans doesn’t suffer from sameness and going there is like taking a road less traveled into a different and earlier America that actually offers more European ambiance than can be found anywhere else in America.

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J. SEBASTIAN SINISI sinisi2@msn.com neighborhoods East of Elysian Fields Avenue.

In areas still showing Katrina damage, residents had no real reason to smile at or greet a white person with “How y’all doin’?” But they did. And being back in New Orleans reminded me, as does Chicago, how white Denver is; except on the Auraria campus.

Friday at the Fair Grounds served an allday dose of jazz, gospel, blues, zydeco and more.

Bon Jovi, Ricky Skaggs, Jimmy Buffet and Arlo Guthrie wouldn’t take one of the eleven stages until later that weekend, but Friday’s lineup had Keb’ Mo’, Blusiana, Jeff Beck and gospel choirs; all crowd-pleasers.

Thousands of fans packed the Acura Stage area for Robert Plant & the Band of Joy at 5 p.m. Plant — once with the ‘60s group Led Zeppelin — didn’t disappoint and gave a wide range to his cohorts with sounds running from rock to country to Celtic. While Plant looked old on the giant HD screen that shows every ravaged wrinkle — energy wasn’t lacking and fans loved it.

“Laissez les bon temps rouller!” Translates to “let the good times roll!” They did — and not only at Jazz Fest.

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ETROSPECTIVE

Liberating the classroom experience Business students host Cinco de Mayo art exhibition to benefit mental health awareness

By Megan Mitchell mmitch46@mscd.edu Metro business students will take over the Rockstar Lounge May 5 when they transform the venue into a glass blowing, body painting and print art exhibition in the name of mental health awareness and Chicano art.

Students from the Center for Innovation at Metro are required to take an introductory class to entrepreneurial studies called Creative Problem Solving. The program, which began in 2007, was designed for students to create and apply successful business models for a social issues outside the classroom.

“So you don’t have class assignments, you have real world assignments,” Metro senior Jennifer Levine said.

Levine and the five other members of her group took this challenge and built Indico, a company that seeks to provide an online community for people with mental illnesses.

“Our team is focusing on what is essentially 'cause marketing,'” Metro senior Michael Provenzano said. “We put together an event, we draw people to that event, but we attach a cause to it to really hook people in.”

Founding advisory board member, David Sandusky, teaches Creative Problem Solving as a practicum course where students are expected to work together to design a functioning business.

“It was about finding your passion and finding a problem,” Levine said. “You also need to see what the community needs first.”

"If you understand more of who you are, then you understand how best to function in the world that you create."

JENNIFER LEVINE, METRO SENIOR During the first phase of the semester, students are placed into groups and asked to identify a problem with a marketable solution, which they must solve through communication, advertisement and at least two community event projects.

“You’re thrown amongst strangers with a lot of different backgrounds, and it’s really interesting to see how team dynamic evolves basically from pulling a name out of a hat,” Levine said. “It’s been a lovely experience in that you learn each others' strengths and weaknesses, which is what the course sets out to do.”

After lengthy debate and a tumultuous battle of wills, the members of Indico settled on establishing an online mental health medium for community dialogue and information sharing.

“We have six people on our team, and just

Metro senior Jennifer Levine poses May 2 outside Tivoli. Levine and five other Metro students created Indico, a web-based company that focuses on mental health awareness for Creative Problem Solving, a course in the Center for Innovation.

Photo by Sean Mullins • smullin5@mscd.edu

through discourse — me having A.D.D. and two other members being bi-polar — we came up with something that didn’t only directly involve us, but indirectly involved a lot of different people,” Levine said.

Indico’s online forum will incorporate blogs, a discussion forum, resource information, connections to nonprofits, diagnosis assistance and a community of people who help each other understand and deal with their respective mental health issues.

“If you understand more of who you are, then you understand how best to function in the world that you create,” Levine said.

The May 5 event, called Liberate Your Mind, Liberate Your Soul, will include an art show with original work from local artists including paintings, prints and photography. Levine will also host a live body-painting exhibition and her own hand-blown glass creations will be on display.

“People don’t really understand how long it takes for body painting," Levine said. “So I thought this might be an interesting format along with Liberate Your Mind, Liberate Your Soul.”

Metro senior Dwight “DJ Digi” Howard, another member of Indico, will be the house DJ

during the evening.

“A percentage at the door, since we are about community outreach, will go to the CHAC (Chicano Humanities and Arts Council) Gallery,” Provenzano said.

CHAC is a venue where Chicano artists explore visual and performance art to promote and preserve the Chicano culture through artistic means.

Metro senior Jay Jaramillo is part of the Creative Problem Solving class, but isn’t in the same group as the members of Indico. Jaramillo’s family owns CHAC and he suggested they incorporate the organization as a charity as a thematic correlation with the event on Cinco de Mayo.

“The website launches May 5th, so it’s our

launch party,” Provenzano said. “We’re celebrating that, and we’re celebrating creativity and art and freedom of expression."

As part of the promotional aspect, Provenzano has been canvassing campus with flyers, created by Houser, stuck into a black top hat, trying to entice guests with T-shirt sales at the event and spread awareness about the website.

“The business model — what Indico would do — is create an event and market that event by putting a cause to it, so people will go to this event, because it’s for charity. That’s what it’s supposed to do and what it’s doing.”

Liberate Your Mind, Liberate You Soul begins at 8 p.m. at Rockstar Lounge. Admission is $5.

LIBERATE YOUR MIND, LIBERATE YOUR SOUL Cinco de Mayo benefit exhibition Rockstar Lounge, 940 Lincoln Street (303) 912-1992

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Students helping design ‘bot brains

By Ashley Moreland amorela1@mscd.edu Photos by Sean Mullins smullin5@mscd.edu Jim and Louise Gunderson’s love for science and robotics has led to the creation of Gamma Two Robotics, a Denver business working on prototype models of service and security robots.

“The ultimate driver was ‘I want robots in my house.’ And it looks like they should be useful; it looks like they should do cool things.’” Jim said.

The couple said the service robots are beneficial for the elderly whom want to live on their own, but need assistance; it gives them a sense of freedom while giving loved ones reassurance.

Jim said the service prototype is also good for those with cognitive disorders. The security prototype would be used to replace late-night security guards at locations such as the Pepsi Center, Jim said. Each robot is designed to look more like furniture than a human and has a 400–500-word vocabulary.

While Jim said a lot of work in robots is being done, it is mostly in industrial robotics and laboratory automation.

“We know how to put a robot in a tightly controlled environment and how to do the same thing precisely over and over and over again,” Jim said. However, he explained that robots do not do well in more chaotic locations, such as homes.

For three years the couple studied the neuroanatomy of brains in order to program a “brain” for a robot to be able to function properly for home use.

“So basically what we said was ‘if these things are there, and they’re still there, and they’ve been there, across all these species through all this time, then they’re probably doing something useful,’” Jim said. “No brainer, right? Let’s see what those components are doing, and then let’s see if we can build software, something that does the same kind of thing.”

So they did, and for the past year and a half, Metro’s computer science senior experience class, Software Engineering Practices taught by Jody Paul, associate professor of computer science, has been assisting the couple with writing their software.

“One of the things that has developed out of Metro’s curriculum is that you can’t just pick somebody and teach them a bunch of stuff in the classroom and then turn them loose,” Jim said. “They need outside, real-world experience.”

Each semester, the class is split into groups for a semesterlong project. This semester, the group assigned to work for Gamma Two developed a robot-monitoring software.

“So if we had a problem, say the robot ran into a wall [or got

FROM LEFT: Metro computer science students Timothy Messing, Kenny Sotelo, Michael Bawiec and Darrell Uglean discuss the strategy for presenting their final projects May for the Software Engineering Practices class, taught by Jody Paul, associate professor of computer science. The students designed a Robot External/ Internal Monitoring System for their senior project in cooperation with Gamma Two Robotics. turned around] … and we said ‘go to the door’ and it turned in exactly the wrong direction and headed off the wrong way, we can take the log file and feed it into this thing, and this viewer will show us where the robot thought it was and how it was turning and moving,” Jim explained.

Jim said the software the group developed takes live data from the robot as it is moving and shows it, giving a real-time display.

On May 3, the group, consisting of Michael Bawiec, Christopher Cai, Timothy Messing, Bradley Rowe, Kenny Sotelo and Darrell Uglean, presented their project to their classmates and guests. They said their goals were to accept data packets over a network, update a visual display of the robot’s internal status, update the robot’s position and provide visual mapping of the area being patrolled. They said they met all of their goals and

FROM LEFT: Jim and Louise Gunderson of Gamma Two Robotics show off their autonomous mobile robots May 1, at their Denver shop.

A tabletop robot prototype rest inside the Gamma Two Robotics shop May 1. The shop specializes in constructing autonomous mobile robots for home and office use. created a useful product.

In total, the group put in 1,200 hours of work and added 4,451 lines of unique code, Bawiec said.

“I assume the students are enjoying it, the instructors are enjoying it, because this is real. We are not a synthetic client,” Louise said. “We had to change some code three weeks ago that changed the log files completely, and they had to rewrite their code to match it. So this is like a real exercise.”

In addition to the students, the Gundersons also receive help from art enthusiasts. Located at 209 Kalamath Street, the shop is just one block from Santa Fe Drive, the location of the First Friday Art Walk. When art businesses in the same building began opening their doors for the art walk, Jim thought, “Cool. We’ll open up, too!”

On First Fridays, the Gundersons open their shop to the public from 6 to 9 p.m. and serve refreshments, which one of the robots will deliver to guests. But while the visitors are enjoying their snacks and learning about Gamma Two, they are actually giving the couple valuable input.

“It’s useful for me to know what people want [a robot] to do.

And so people will come in and say, ‘Well, what I really need is’ or ‘What my parent really need is,’” Louise said.

“And kind of the bigger lesson we learned out of that was we really don’t want computer scientists and engineers to design things that normal people are going to work with, because the model that we have is so different than the end user,” Jim added.

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Art professor knits together Pollock and feminism

By Brittney Dahl bdahl4@mscd.edu Jackson Pollock was the pioneer of abstract expressionism, and is widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. His paintings are notoriously complicated and involve intricacies nearly impossible to replicate. In recognizing his incredible skill and influence, Metro assistant art professor Rachael Delaney has recreated Pollock’s trademark “No. 3” — by knitting.

“My work is about having a personal narrative,” Delaney said. “I have never shied away from [my identity] as a woman, as a mother and so on, but I was fixed on the idea of what I wanted to communicate.”

Delaney said the basis for the project was the idea of taking an iconic male artist with a profound legacy and redefining his work through a female perspective. Delaney is a metal smith by trade, and had no experience with knitting before this project.

“You can learn anything on YouTube,” she said. Delaney also had the assistance of seasoned knitters within her own department to teach her the craft.

The Pollock recreation was a collaborative piece created with 18 artists, educators and expert knitters. Delaney created the pattern by tracing Pollock’s painting twice to scale. “I divided up the pattern between each of the artists,” she said.

Each of the individuals worked on 16-by-16-inch sections, and then came together to stitch each of the pieces together on the canvas. With all the sections sewn together the piece is 8 feet by 4 feet. The collaboration was also a meditation on the piece’s universality.

Pollock’s work is characterized by dramatic paint splatters and drips stretched across the canvas in varying colors and shapes, which define emotion and evoke a uniquely individual interpretation.

Metro assistant art professor Rachael Delaney.

Photo by Mark Farnik • Special to The Metropolitan

A yarn rendition of iconic abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock’s work, “No. 3,” created by Metro assistant art professor Racheal Delaney and 18 other artists. Photo courtesy of Racheal Delaney.

“It was hard as someone who is a knitter because it was all free form rather than following a very strict prescribed pattern,” said Christine Dupont-Patz, an art history professor at Metro. “It was problem solving, but really enjoyable.”

A lot of brainstorming was done beforehand in order to have a frame of reference for the end result in addition to talking about different types of yarns, colors and sizes, Dupont-Patz said.

“It is important to be a maker myself. Students need to know it’s OK to take risks, and if we don’t, I am not allowing for their true artistic abilities,” Delaney said. She wants students to know she is a practitioner in that she actually does what she says.

It is essential to understand how art continues to be an important part of our cultural history and understand today’s society, said assistant art history professor, Carmen Ripolles. She added that it is central to learn about the issues involved in making art, such as race and politics. “[Art education] is a critical and influential aspect in K-12 education. It is about getting kids to think, not just drawing pretty pictures,” Delaney said.

She sees a deficit in education when kids are not encouraged to create their own designs, but merely repeat other artists’ works early in the educational process.

“I have seen a lot of make and take in the classroom and no

one really knows the process of why it was created,” she said.

“Kids don’t get exposed to contemporary art and that’s where the Pollock came from.”

Fortunately for Delaney, art has been something that has always been a part of her life. As a child, she created objects that she would play with rather than toys.

Art started Delaney on her career path at the age of 18 after a high school teacher helped her create a portfolio. It gave her the freedom to do research, as well as critically and creatively interpret society. Art is more about investigation, thinking and starting a conversation, she said.

“For me, dialogue is very important through visual literacy, visual imagery and object picking,” Delaney said.

The most rewarding aspects of being a professor for Delaney is easy to answer: “Walking into the classroom and to be able to develop as an educator. Teaching is a space where I can constantly engage in investigation, thinking and dialoguing,” she said.

This department offers a full range of studio art courses in the concentrations of art education, ceramics, communication design, digital art, drawing, jewelry design and metal smithing, painting, photography, printmaking or sculpture.

“We believe in the power of art and art has the ability for transformative experiences,” Delaney said.

Metro Christian athletes use club to put prayer into practice

By Matt Hollinshead mhollin5@mscd.edu In summer 2009, Tyler Cline, Metro women’s assistant basketball coach, and Andy Schlicting, Metro’s sports information director, founded Metro State’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which welcomes students of all denominations of Christianity. “[We] just bring in athletes, talk about God and how we can bring God more into our lives, especially through the sport aspect,” said Danni Hedstrom, Metro’s softball rightfielder and FCA’s vice president. “It definitely is [an expectation] to apply faith on the field, [for] how we play our game, how we relate to situations that happen in our specific sports, instead of just life in general.”

This is the organization’s first official semester on campus, Schlicting said. “We just want to give our student-athletes an opportunity to have a chance to hang out with other studentathletes that share the same faith.”

From food drives to feeding the homeless, there’s plenty FCA can do to help those in need.

“We collected ‘Cup of Noodles’ at our last game,” Hedstrom said.

After the food was collected at the game April 23, against Regis University the softball team, as well as a couple players from the volleyball team, went to the Denver Rescue Mission to distribute the non-perishable items to more than 100 homeless people.

They prepared the food with hot water in the back of a pickup truck. In addition, they had the opportunity to listen to the homeless tell their experiences.

Andy McClure, Metro’s public address announcer at indoor sporting events, as well as the school’s FCA leader, said he believed in putting this project together, considering his experience of feeding the homeless as an ordained pastor.

“A few weeks ago, I challenged the kids [saying], ‘it’s great that we meet, but if we’re going to call ourselves men and women of God, we need to do what he commands,’” McClure said. “I had a lot of experience doing that here in the greater Denver area, but also in the Phoenix area. The simplest thing to do was to make something self-contained, so ‘cups of soup’ was the idea.”

“We received all of the supplies by promoting it through baseball and softball, asked for donations, [and] we prepared them on the streets [outside the Denver Rescue Mission],” he said.

The organization, led by senior softball shortstop and club president Amber Roundtree, meets every Wednesday.

CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: Amber Roundtree, Annalyse Garcia, Brittney Padilla, Danni Hedstrom, Caitlin Jenks and Molly Clark pray after softball practice April 29. Photo by Rachel Fuenzalida • rfuenzal@ mscd.edu

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Sounding Off

déCollage distorts original vision For years, Reed Fuchs has been making artsy, sample-heavy music under the moniker déCollage. And, like most artistic movements, déCollage is slowly evolving. This spring, Fuchs expanded his solo déCollage recordings by adding four good friends. In December, they will release their own full-length. But before that happens, Fuchs will be putting out The Telos Amaranthine, which highlights his solo work. Fuchs spoke to The Metropolitan about his new approach to déCollage, his philosophy behind art and what this July 22 release is all about.

Interview by Ian Gassman • igassman@mscd.edu IG: When did you start déCollage?

RF: I’ve been writing music since the eighth grade and it’s been my dream, my whole life, to [make music]. That’s also one reason why I do it alone, but have friends help me on stage.

IG: You’ve always had this solo project and now you’re working with a full band. Did you always want to get a band together?

RF: Yeah, I did. Basically, I play all the instruments that I want to use [and] I use a lot of samples. Since I play a bunch of instruments, I know how they sound good together, like, for my vision of how I want it to sound. So I do all the recordings. But I think that all art is collaborative. Painters don’t make the canvas they use, or the paintbrushes, or the paint … I want to make that apparent in my music … that [the band is] a collective or a community of people.

IG: After going solo for so long, does it feel invigorating to have more people on board?

RF: Yeah, it’s great because I found a bunch of like-minded people. They have similar ideas [and] I love collaborating with [them]. It brings out the best, I feel like.

IG: Who’s in the band? What roles do they play?

RF: Well, we pretty much all sing. I play accordion, guitar and banjo … Ryan Schlichtman, he does guitar, bass, samples and synth. Andrew Horwath, he does the “trash” kit and drums.

John Roberts does banjo and synth [and] Cody Coffey does glockenspiel and keyboards.

IG: What does the name déCollage signify?

RF: Good question. A collage brings a bunch of stuff together.

[With] a déCollage, you take an existing image and just tear it

Reed Fuchs is déCollage. Photo by Ian Gassman • igassman@mscd.edu apart. The meaning of it for us is [that] we’re all taking pieces of ourselves from inside of us and showing those pieces [as well as] a bunch of pieces from all of us.

IG: What is your writing process?

RF: I’ve always really dug concept albums and, for some reason, that’s how my brain works, by making things cohesive. For my first album, I wrote [about] materialism and things not lasting and being ephemeral. It was also [based upon] an ouroboros, which means it goes on in a circle forever. So I made the songs just flow together. Even from the last song, to the very first song, you could just listen to it and it would never end.

IG: Why do you like sampling so much?

RF: I’m really into aesthetics and philosophy, [and] I really like thinking and pondering on [the question of] “What is art?” I have this line from a song that’s like, “words are coat hangers upon which we hang our memories,” because I think [words] are social constructs. The word “art,” it’s been debated for centuries, but I think that we don’t need to define it because it’s just a word. I think art is either everywhere or it’s nowhere.

IG: How do you go about sampling?

RF: I have a field recorder [and] I try to record all the sounds myself because I feel like it’s a lot more personal and it’s fun to mess with them. [The Telos Amaranthine] has a train theme throughout it, so there are a bunch of samples of trains that I recorded in Durango and Silverton. I’ve recorded Zippo [lighters] opening and closing; typewriters [are] so much fun to sample and zippers. Probably the coolest thing I’ve [recorded] is circuit bending. I hooked up all these keyboards and came up

with these really cool sounds.

IG: How long did it take you to compile samples for The Telos Amaranthine?

RF: I’ve been working on that material for the last two years.

IG: Well, has your recording process changed now that you have a full band?

RF: No, I still really like [recording] solo, so I’m going to keep doing it. Whatever instruments I can record, I will play … but we’re recording drums at [our friend] John’s house, because he has a studio. Also, I’ve been working with Cody a lot more [and] the song on our bandcamp has him on it.

IG: déCollage is playing May 13 at Rhinocerpolis. What can listeners expect at déCollage’s live show?

RF: My vision is to have 10 people on stage, [with] just a bunch of stuff going on. [We want] that sensory experience [and] audience participation. We have a “trash drum kit” that I made.

I attached all this trash onto a dolly and the audience could bang on that or use shakers that we bring … usually, we have a painter on stage. I love painting; so one idea I have is to always have painters on stage.

déCollage

9 p.m., May 13 @ Rhinoceropolis, donations welcome

Band on the street

Wombmates’ share brotherly bond At a recent benefit show for local bicycle collective, Derailer, The Metropolitan spoke to one of Denver’s more memorable bands: Wombmates. Since early 2011, the aptly named Wombmates — who is comprised of two sets of identical twins — have been carving out a well-deserved spot in the indie scene with their brand of rowdy rock ‘n’ roll.

Coated in sweat and a few beers deep, Austin Pulford, Broox Pulford, Spencer Stone and Seth Stone stepped away from the festivities to talk about how they met and started creating music together, as well as what the future holds.

By Thomas Stipe • bstipe@mscd.edu TS: So I’ll start with an easy one, where did the name come from?

BP: We’re all twins and someone [messaged] Austin “happy birthday to you and your wombmates” [on Facebook]. That was the inspiration.

AP: It was my friend Marie who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, [she] also has a twin. They live together and their roommate is also an identical twin.

TS: How did you guys start playing together?

Spencer: We ran into Broox at a party [and] we were like, “Hey man, we heard you had a twin? Oh, you play music too? Cool, let’s jam.” So we did.

BP: Originally, we talked about being in a tandem bicycle race together … we continued to talk about other things and music

FROM LEFT: Broox Pulford, Austin Pulford, Spencer Stone and Seth Stone (not pictured) are Wombmates . Photo by Thomas Stipe • bstipe@ mscd.edu popped up. Austin and I had been playing in another band that had just broken up, so we were looking for some other creative project and it just seemed like it would be really fun to play with these guys. They were twins and grew up playing music together the same way Austin and I had.

TS: How did you find your sound?

AP: We started playing together and it just sort of clicked. We all kind of melded into it … to a certain point that set, where we are now.

BP: We all had a few things that we were working on [and] we wanted to [turn them] into something bigger. Seth and Spencer are much more well-rounded [when] writing complete songs …

Austin and I had a few songs and they had a few songs, [so] we

all just worked together to make some good songs.

TS: What do you all plan to do next?

AP: Just keep playing and having fun.

TS: Also, you mentioned something about a “twin festival?”

BP: Dude, Twinsburg, Ohio has [twin days] every single year and we would love to play it.

Seth: We would love to be the first twin band to ever play it.

AP: We’ll see how it goes … I need to get in touch with those people.

BP: That would be an awesome road trip. Who doesn’t want to drive to Ohio?

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Are you ready for the sunshine?

More upcoming shows

A summertime concert guide

By Stephanie DeCamp • sdecamp@mscd.edu and Ian Gassman • igassman@mscd.edu By today’s standards, post-rock is nothing new; it’s just something different. Perhaps when Mogwai started back in 1994, or Explosions in the Sky was picking up their first Mogwai album in 1998, post-rock was still mysterious. But now, post-rock bands are everywhere and they’re exploring all sorts of sonic territories.

May 25, This Will Destroy You is bringing their brand of slow-moving, slightly thematic and somewhat 9 p.m., May 25 glitchy post-rock to the Larimer @ Larimer Lounge, $12 Lounge. The great part about this Austin-based quartet is that, like many modern post-rockers, they don’t draw directly from their predecessors.

In fact, they have a refreshingly good balance of the old and new that is sure to please any avid post-rock fan.

This Will Destroy You

Iron & Wine’s Samuel Beam began crooning his acoustically perfected tales in 2002. But most know Beam from his 2004 album, Our Endless Numbered Days, an intimate collection of songs that feature Beam’s delicate lyrics and bedroom-level voice. On this release, Beam constructed the perfect soundtrack for late night lovers, and ever since, he’s been 8 p.m., June 4 a long-standing indie hit. Catch @ Boulder Theater, Sold Out Beam and company June 4 at the Boulder Theater as he tours in support of his January release Kiss Each Other Clean. Undoubtedly, it will be an excellent way to spend a soft summer evening.

Iron & Wine

Although country music legend Willie Nelson is almost 79-years-old, he hasn’t run out of engaging material. Or, for that matter, worn out his great live presence. June 21, Nelson will be hosting a good, ol’ fashioned country throwdown at Red Rocks.

This one-day festival features some of the best up-and-coming songwriters in country music.

From tongue-in-cheek roughnecks like Jamey Johnson — who co-wrote the timeless classic “Honky 3 p.m., June 21 Tonk Badonkadonk” — to crossover @ Red Rocks, $65 artists like Lee Brice, this throwdown offers a decent mix. Even Nelson’s 22-year-old, guitar-slinging son, Lukas, has a slot.

If you’re a fan of Nelson, like new country or you just want hang out in the shade of those majestic rocks, there’s sure to be some summertime fun at this concert.

Willie Nelson

If you’re going to see one bigticket show this summer (as opposed to/in addition to a glut of outdoor festivals) then it’s hard to pass up the two giants of indie rock weirdness: The Flaming Lips and Primus.

Alone, The Flaming Lips put on a worthy show, complete with massive props, costumes, human-sized 7 p.m., Aug. 3 bubbles and confetti. Primus, on the @ Red Rocks, $50 other hand, is known for their barebones approach and their eccentric, funky sounds, as well as the zany lyrics of Les Claypool. Either way, it’s an awesome bill — and it’s at Red Rocks. If you haven’t already decided to go, just stop thinking about it and seal the deal already.

The FIaming Lips

On The record

Pantera breeds rebel metalhead

By Sean Mullins • smullin5@mscd.com It all happened on a sweaty, sultry, summer day in 1992. I found myself cruising down a country road in rural Alabama with my older sister’s boyfriend, Marty. My impressionable 7-year-old ears were always greeted with new music from assorted genres in Marty’s car. He said “Check this shit out” as he popped a cassette tape into his dusty car stereo.

The first guitar riff from Pantera’s Cowboys From Hell began to play and the rest is history — a metal -head was born.

I can clearly recall the feeling of freedom as Marty and I flew down the road with the windows down and Pantera blasting through the speakers. I felt like a badass. I mean, how many other 7-year-olds got to listen to cool vulgar music like Pantera on a regular basis? I was a rebel, a 7-year-old Southern rebel listening to four metal outlaws from Texas.

Up to that point, I had really been into bands like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, AC/DC, and Guns n’ Roses. I had heard Slayer a few times but I thought it just sounded like noise. I didn’t really care for Metallica either. Pantera was different. It was much more accessible for some reason. It was hard and fast as hell. The song structures were intricate, the guitar solos were the best I had ever heard and the vocalist blew my mind. It became an addiction.

But my parents wouldn’t let me listen to this music at home and none of my friends could either, so

every time I was riding in Marty’s car, I would demand that he put on Cowboys From Hell.

I was persistent enough that he eventually started lending me his cassette tapes for late night Walkman listening sessions in my room. I think my parents finally accepted the fact Pantera would be an important part of my life when I These guys corrupt 7-year-old boys. Photo courtesy of Pantera. was about 10.

Moving past the title track, the album is an in- utilizing the last remnants of his hair metal falsetto credibly diverse plethora of metal, winding through voice without getting annoying. “The Sleep” is a heavy grooves like “Primal Concrete Sledge,” picking lesser-known song on the album and my personal up the pace with “Psycho Holiday,” and slowing way favorite. On this track, Dimebag unleashes yet andown with the epic metal ballad, “Cemetery Gates.” other ass-kicking solo for a whole minute and a half.

Dimebag Darrell’s guitar churns and squeals like a It’s complete and utter ear candy.

Pantera’s Cowboys From Hell is quite simply buzz saw through track after track of sonic destruction, with his talent climaxing during the “Cemetery the perfect metal album. It should be the standard Gates” solo. Darrell left us with a legacy of shred af- that all others are measured up to. I cycle through ter his untimely death December 8, 2004. At least albums on my iPod constantly, but Cowboys From the man got killed doing what he loved, playing a Hell remains steady on my playlist, 19 years later.

Phil Anselmo, Vinnie Paul, Rex Brown, and the late metal show.

The second half of the album is relentless and Dimebag Darrell executed their unforgettable brand is a must-listen for someone who has only heard of groove-laden, booze-soaked thrash metal with the singles off the first half. Phil Anselmo puts on style. his best vocal performance during “Medicine Man,”

5.6 Joe Pug

8 p.m. @ Hi-Dive, $12

5.15 The Cars

8 p.m. @ Fillmore, $42.50

5.20 Air Dubai

9 p.m. @ Bluebird Theater, $8

5.29 Mayer Hawthorne 9 p.m. @ Summit Music Hall, $10

6.3 Bright Eyes

8 p.m. @ Fillmore, $32.50

6.11 Toots & The Maytals 8 p.m. @ Fox Theatre, $30

6.29 Meat Puppets

9 p.m. @ Bluebird Theater, $16

7.2 The Glitch Mob

7 p.m. @ Red Rocks, $40

7.18 Soundgarden

7:30 p.m. @ Red Rocks, $65

7.21 Fleet Foxes

8 p.m. @ Fillmore, $32

8.2 A Perfect Circle

8 p.m. @ Red Rocks, $39.50

8.19 Atmosphere

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“I have seen a lot of make and take in the classroom and no one really knows the process of why it was created. Kids don’t get exposed to contemporary art and that’s where the Pollock came from” —METRO ASSISTANT ART PROFESSOR, RACHEL DELANEY • 13

SIDELINE This Week

5.05 Softball

12:30 p.m. vs UC-Colorado Springs in Golden RMAC Tournament

5.06 Baseball

3 p.m. @ Colorado State-Pueblo (doubleheader)

Softball TBA RMAC Tournament

5.07 Baseball

1 p.m. @ Colorado State-Pueblo (DH)

Softball

TBA @ RMAC Tournament

RMAC Awards

Metro’s Zack Kruger is forced out at second base by Colorado Mines second baseman Kyle Wallace May 1 at Auraria Field. Metro would go on to win the game by scoring nine runs in the ninth inning. Jeff Ingraham • jingrah1@mscd.edu

Baseball hits No. 1 spot Metro sweeps Mines, regains control of Mountain Division

By Ryan Ward rward19@mscd.edu Metro’s baseball team captured a four-game sweep in dramatic fashion over Colorado School of Mines May 1 at Auraria Field.

The wins propelled their record to 28-12 overall and 24-11 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Metro now leads the Mountain division by a half game in the RMAC. Metro forgot to show up in the finale of the series. Having already beat the Orediggers in the previous three games, CSM would not roll over and let the Runners beat them easily. That was far from the case.

After playing poor defense and with a lackluster performance by senior starting pitcher Zach Cleveland, Metro found themselves down 8-2 going into the bottom of the ninth inning.

Cleveland surrendered seven earned runs in seven innings.

The Roadrunners would score nine runs on seven hits, highlighted by sophomore third baseman Sean Reeves.

Reeves provided the unexpected heroics, smacking a three-run shot to break an 8-8 tie. Metro won 11-8.

“We were talking about not coming to compete that day. We played bad defense and didn’t make offensive adjustments early on in the game,” Head Coach Tom Carcione said. “Obviously, the guys didn’t give up in the ninth inning and the offense pulled it out. You have to give those guys credit for responding and pulling something like that out. It doesn’t happen very often.”

Senior pitcher Bradshaw Perry came out in the first game of the series and dominated. He pitched seven innings and allowed just two earned runs while striking out five.

He controlled the strike zone for much of the day and avoided trouble with good defense behind him.

“I felt like I was a little bit off, but I just tried to throw strikes and give us a chance to win,” Perry said.

Senior outfielder and leadoff hitter Zach Krueger led the team with three hits and senior outfielder David Fox extended his hitting streak to seven games with two more hits.

Metro pulled away with the 9-5 win over the Orediggers.

Going into that game, CSM had won eight of their last ten games, including three straight.

“I got lit up against them the last time, so I really wanted to get this win,” Perry said.

Senior outfielder Brennan Brown brought his hot bat to the first game of the doubleheader April 30 going deep in the first inning with a bomb to left field that gave Metro an early 3-1 lead.

CSM would rebound with six runs in the second inning to take a commanding 7-3 lead.

Brown would strike again in the bottom half of the second with a grand slam that capped off a six run inning for Metro.

Senior starting pitcher Corey Collins was roughed up in the beginning of the game, but settled in and would not give up another run until the sixth.

In the meantime, Metro’s offense just kept scoring runs. They walked away with a 15-10 win in an offensive shootout.

Brown led the Roadrunners in the game with seven RBIs. “[My] swing finally felt good.

They gave me pitches to hit. [When] guys get on in front of me, it makes things easy. They have to pitch to me. They come in the zone and I was able to make it hurt,” Brown said.

The second game of the doubleheader went in Metro’s favor and

they ran away with the 11-0 win behind a brilliant performance by senior pitcher Nate Van Bibber.

He hasn’t gotten to start very much this year but when he has, he has made the most of it.

In the game, he pitched his first career shutout and allowed eight hits while striking out three.

Carcione needed a strong performance from Van Bibber after senior starting pitcher Jake Draeger reinjured his groin last week.

“It was awesome. He is a tough kid, a workhorse, and he wants the ball. He has just been a great asset for us,” Carcione said.

Metro will close out the regular season at Colorado State University at Pueblo May 6 and 7, hoping to secure at least the No. 2 seed in the RMAC tournament.

RMAC Standings Mountain Division Metro State 24-11 Mesa State

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CSU-Pueblo 19-17 Colo. Mines 12-22

Metro swept the weekly player awards for the RMAC this past weekend. Senior softball leftfielder Jennessa Tesone took home honors after she batted .688 and had 16 RBIs, hitting six home runs.

Senior outfielder Zack Krueger was named player of the week after he batted .588 with 8 RBIs and six runs scored for the weekend

They said it: “For us to be able to play in this game, it lets us see where we’re at.”

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Softball wins RMAC for third straight time Metro shares regular season title with Colorado School of Mines Daniel Laverty dlaverty@mscd.edu

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The Roadrunners finished the regular season winning their third straight Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season title, taking three out of four games against Nebraska-Kearney April 30 and May 1.

Senior leftfielder Jennessa Tesone played out of her mind against the Lopers, posting a .688 batting average and 16 RBIs. Tesone was named RMAC player of the week, adding six home runs and scoring 11 times.

“We’re peaking at the right time,” Tesone said. “We started off slow, so it’s perfect timing for us to all be firing on offense and defense and pitching.”

Tesone set the pace for the series in game one, April 30. She started the scoring with a three-run home run in the top of the first. Senior third baseman Caitlin Jenks would also add an RBI double to give Metro a 4-0 lead after the first inning.

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ternoon was giving up a solo shot in the fourth inning. Metro won 14-1 in five innings.

The Roadrunners didn’t waste time scoring in game two, throwing up five runs in the top of the first. The Lopers answered immediately in the bottom of the first with five runs of their own.

That was all the damage Metro pitcher Caitlin Jenks would allow. She kept the Lopers off balance, allowing only two hits the rest of the game.

With the score tied 5-5 after the first inning, Tesone blasted a solo home run to lead off the second. She would also hit home runs her next two trips to the plate. Metro blew the doors off by scoring 12 runs total in the fourth and fifth innings. Senior catcher Lauren Hainlen added a two-run shot as the Roadrunners again mercy-ruled the Lopers, 17-5.

“Our defense has been strong this year, [but] it’s big to have our offense going on all cylinders,” Head Coach Vanessa Becerra said.

The two teams faced off for the last doubleheader of the regular season May 1. Metro appeared to be destined for another huge win after Jenks blasted a two-run shot in the second to give the Roadrunners a 2-0 lead.

The Lopers answered back and put together a couple of RBI hits in the fourth inning to take a 3-2 lead.

Clark hit a two-run single to put Metro back in the lead in the sixth, but Diehl gave up a two-run, two-out home run to Lopers’ third baseman Sarah Rome. The Roadrunners couldn’t come back and lost the game 5-4.

Metro quickly forgot about their game one woes. Senior shortstop Amber Roundtree led off game two with a home run, and Clark hit a two-RBI single for an early 3-0 lead.

The Lopers also jumped on game two starter Jenks, hitting a two-run homer and some RBI hits to take a 6-4 lead after four innings.

The lead wouldn’t last for long.

After Hainlen hit a solo-shot in the fifth to climb within one run, Metro broke out to score five runs in the sixth, including a three-run bomb from, once again, Tesone.

“It felt good, I was seeing the ball well,” Tesone said. “I made (their pitchers) pay.”

Jenks improved her record to 5-0 on the season as Metro won 10-7.

Metro will enter the postseason playing their best softball, winning seven of their last eight. The offense is grinding-out at-bats and scoring runs, averaging 9.25 runs during that stretch.

“We’ve had some good wins the past few weeks,” Hainlen said. “Taking that momentum into the postseason is definitely what we want to do.”

The RMAC tournament will be hosted by Colorado School of Mines in Golden. Metro (28-11 RMAC; 33-14 overall) will face off against UC-Colorado Springs (19-20 RMAC; 22-26 overall) May 5.

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Senior Pitcher Bradshaw Perry. Photo By Carla Ferriera • cferreir@mscd.edu

Perry utilizes instincts on and off the field

By Ryan Ward rward19@mscd.edu Metro senior baseball pitcher Bradshaw Perry has proven to be instinctive on the mound, as well as the bird-hunting field, which is one of his major passions away from the diamond.

“I like hunting and fishing. Mostly doves, geese, pheasants [and] ducks,” Perry said.

Although he’s aggressive on the mound, he is a laid-back person off the field.

“When I get out there, it changes,” Perry said of his attitude. “When I have to change [my attitude], I can do it.”

He has proven to be a reliable asset with his 7-1 record and a 3.79 ERA this season. He is two wins away from tying Metro’s single-season wins record.

Perry has been playing competitive baseball since he was eight-years-old and has traveled through the United States and even to Guatemala.

“I went to Guatemala when I was a part of the Dallas Baptist team. It was a pretty fun trip.

We got to put on camps for little kids and teach them how to play baseball. I thought that was pretty sweet,” Perry said.

Not only has he taught Guatemalan children, Perry raises two kids of his own. Although fatherhood can be difficult at times, Perry has learned to persevere in life. “[My parents] taught me to stick with it and never give up,” Perry said. “Don’t back down

[and] accept the challenges.”

Perry was a 2007 graduate from Cherokee Trail High School and was rated as the best pitcher coming out by the Rocky Mountain News. Going forward, he ended up at Lamar Community College for a year, followed by a year at Dallas Baptist University.

He later landed at Metro, where he became a veteran presence. As a Roadrunner, he’s developed a knack for wiggling his way out of trouble when other teams threaten him at the plate.

He credits his inside fastball and slider as his go-to pitches.

“The way Bradshaw has been pitching, it’s easy. It’s fun to come to the yard everyday because you know you won’t have to put up 1520 runs like we did in 2008. We had to average 15 runs to compete but now we can score five or six runs and we know we have a shot to win,” senior outfielder Brennan Brown said.

Aside from baseball, Perry’s second favorite sport is football. He played while he was growing up and still enjoys watching football in his free time.

Perry will finish his exercise science degree in December. After that, he plans on joining the Marines and becoming a pilot.

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Football fumbles out of the gate Roadrunners show glimpses of greatness on defense Ben Bruskin bbruskin@mscd.edu April 30 was the day Metro had anticipated for so long: the school’s first club football game in 20 years.

However, this sweet moment turned bitter after the team lost to the Colorado Springs Flames, 37-0, at Hinkley High School in Aurora.

The Flames, a semi-professional team that finished second in the Colorado Football Conference last year, were dominant in the second and third quarters of the game en route to the shutout.

Despite losing, Head Coach Darius Watts was proud of the effort his players displayed.

“I think it went pretty good,” Watts said. “I’m proud of those guys going out there and fighting. It was a dog fight.”

Metro’s defense played terrific throughout the game, contrary to what the scoreboard indicated, coming up with a few goal-line stands and forcing the Flames to punt on multiple occasions.

Early in the first quarter, the Runners forced and recovered a fum-

Linebacker Donte’ Stewart of the Colorado Springs Flames sacks Metro club football quarterback Jon Day April 30, during a 37-0 Metro loss at Hinkley High School, in Aurora. Photo

by Sean Mullins • smullin5@mscd.edu ble setting up their offense 16 yards away from the end-zone. However, Metro was unable to put points on the board as they botched the snap on a fourth down field goal attempt.

A scoreless battled ensued, until Colorado Springs running back Antonio Rouser took a handoff 22 yards for a touchdown with 12 min-

utes left in the first half. The Flames would go on to score three more times in the first half: Once on a safety, once on a 55-yard interception return for a touchdown and once on a 15-yard touchdown run with 40 seconds left in the half.

“For us to be able to play in this game, it let’s us see where we’re at,”

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kick returner Ashton Campbell said.

“Our defense is pretty solid, so when we get the offense rolling I think we’ll be one of the top teams.”

In the third quarter, raw temperatures and crisp winds gave way to snow flurries which peppered the stadium. The Flames scored 13 points that quarter, making the score

37-0 which ended up being the final after a scoreless fourth quarter.

Fans of Metro who endured the spring snow did not get to see their team win, but that did not dampen their spirits, as some were just excited to watch the team play.

“I think it’s great for them to have a team,” said Osomoe Mauga, whose son plays defensive line for the team. “I think it helps the Denver community.”

Although the one-sided tilt was not what the team was hoping for, coach Watts and his staff said they believe the players showed a lot of heart.

“I was looking for that, for guys not giving up and quitting,” Watts said.

Auraria students and supporters will have to wait until next year for the team’s next game, but both players and coaches believe the future looks bright.

“Once the season starts we’ll have a whole lot more players out here,” Campbell said. “It’ll be lovely.”

Coach Watts agrees with that sentiment.

“We’ll have more people being able to show up and they’ll be able to work on more things and get more things accomplished.” Watts said.

“We’ll be a whole lot better.”

FYI: During Mark Babish’s time covering Metro sports, he has had to cover or at least know what happened in 1,246 games

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A final farewell to Metro sports

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join them in the final.

It was amazing to see all of them cheering at the stats on the screen.

These girls had one of the biggest games of their life less than 24 hours away, but they weren’t worried about their game. They were rooting on the men from 2,000 miles away.

The final Beak-to-Beak award is the best K TO BE EA 011 A 2 moment. This is the moment that RMAC Moment after all the socA WARD cer, basketball, baseball, softball, tennis, and cross-country sporting events I have covered stands out.

It is actually two moments thanks to a couple of outfielders for Metro softball. Metro was up 7-5 in the fifth inning of the RMAC Championship game, with runners on first and second base, Mesa’s Aslee Duffy drilled a shot to center field. Metro’s Molly Clark sprinted back, jumped up and crashed through the centerfield fence making a rebeakulous catch taking the homerun away from Duffy. It was the best catch I have ever seen in person.

After advancing to the NCAA Central Region Finals the team had to face Wayne State (NE). Wayne State pitcher Katie Goetzinger was shutting down the powerful Metro lineup. Headed into the seventh inning, with a 1-0 lead, she retired 11 K

ger called another timeout and the entire crowd at the Colorado State Fairgrounds was standing, applauding and a few had tears in their eyes.

Those few seconds reminded me why I love sports; it’s for moments like this, with a D II senior basketball player not wanting to be helped off the court, but to walk off the court on her own power for the final time.

The next Beak-To-Beak award goes to K TO BE EA 011 A Favorite Team.

2 The 2011 womBest Moment en’s basketball A WARD team easily takes the award.

I was privileged enough to call many of their home games on the Metro State Broadcasting Network, as well as follow the team throughout their NCAA tournament journey. I could tell you countless stories of Alyssa Benson draining a 25-footer or Cassondra Bratton with her unstoppable post move to her left, but what made this team special on the court was an off-court story.

It was the day before the NCAA Central Region tournament final vs.

Adams State, and the team was at dinner at a local Italian restaurant.

Near the end of the meal, I looked around and saw six different phones out with players huddled around each, watching live stats to see if Metro’s men’s basketball team could K

the piss out of it.”

Later on during the interview when asked about the RMAC tournament Championship she mentioned how the team “wants to finally win that stupid fruit platter again.”

No other athlete was as blunt and truthful an interview as Becca Mays The next Beak-to-Beak award covers TO BE K my favorite EA 011 A 2 moment that Favorite I watched in Team A the RMAC. WARD Back in 2008, Colorado School of Mines and Colorado State University at Pueblo were facing off for the women’s basketball RMAC Shootout Championship. Midway through the first half, senior Sarah “Peanut” Eickleman and sophomore Brecca Gaffney collided while going for a loose ball.

Gaffney was taken off the court on a stretcher while Eickleman went to the locker room. Eickleman returned to the bench to watch the rest of the game with a giant hematoma under her right eye.

With the game already decided, as CSU-Pueblo was up double digits, Mines Head Coach Paula Kruger took a timeout to put “Peanut” in.

The ball was inbounded to her, and she held the ball like a two-year old holds its favorite teddy bear. KruK

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In the past four years I have covered Metro sports, I have been to hundreds of Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference games. I have witnessed many incredible moments, from heartbreaking buzzer-beating defeats to walk-off homeruns. The question then becomes how do I make this last column special and memorable? How about the first and last Beak-to-Beak awards.

Beak-to-beak was started this year during the women’s basketball season by a couple of reporters to try and get a new catch phrase for Metro.

The First Beak-toBeak award K TO BE EA 011 A is for the to 2 best player Player quote.

I have Quote A WARD i n t e r v i e we d countless athletes, from my first interview, men’s soccer Stephen Emory, to my last interview, baseball’s Sean Reeves.

There have been many memorable quotes, but no one holds a candle to women’s soccer player Becca Mays.

Mays played for the Roadrunners from ’06-’09. In the fall of ’08 on MetRadio’s ‘Inside the Nest’, she sat down with Eric Lansing and myself to talk about her game-winning goal vs. Fort Lewis College the previous weekend, “I got the ball and I just struck

Mark Babish mbabish@mscd.edu straight batters before walking leadoff hitter Tara Mickelson. Up next was Jennessa Tesone who blasted the 2-2 pitch to deep left field giving Metro the win and taking them one step closer to the College World Series. I was lucky enough to be calling the game for the MSBN and it was an amazing moment.

At the end of the day, I have spent the majority of my college career covering sports at Metro. I would like to thank Athletic Director Joan McDermott and her staff for always being willing to help get interviews and allow me to cover the games.

Finally, while covering all those sports, I have worked with many reporters, and from that I have made friendships that will last a lifetime.

Thank you, fellas. If there is a thing I would like everyone to remember, it’s simply, BEAK-TO-BEAK.

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