Volume 37, Issue 19 - Jan. 29, 2015

MSU Denver open admissions under fire

University fears bill could torch enrollment efforts

By Steve Musal smusal@msudenver.edu MSU Denver began with an idea: that all high school graduates should have the opportunity to be educated at a four-year institution.

Now, a bill in the Colorado Senate seeks to change the way MSU Denver handles admissions, in an effort to improve the school’s graduation rate and name recognition.

Senate Bill 15-072, sponsored

by Colorado Sen. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs, and Colorado Rep. Paul Lundeen, R-Monument, would amend state law to change MSU Denver’s admission standards from “modified open” to “moderately selective.”

According to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education Admissions Standards Policy, the state’s “moderately selective” schools are Adams State University, Colorado State University at Pueblo, Colorado Mesa University and Western State Colorado University.

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More relevant to prospective MSU Denver students, the change would also eliminate an exception to Higher Education Admission Requirement standards for firsttime freshmen and to grade point average requirements for transfer students.

The exception currently allows MSU Denver to admit any student over age 20 with a high-school diploma or equivalent.

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Colorado Sen. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs, and Colorado Rep. Paul Lundeen, R-Monument, center and right respectively, sponsored Senate Bill 15-072. The bill would change MSU Denver’s admissions standards to be “moderately selective,” eliminating an exception for high school graduates over the age of 20. MSU Denver President Stephen Jordan, left, opposes the bill.

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Alumnus to challenge Hancock in mayoral bid

Local activist Chairman Seku plans grassroots campaign, recalls MSU Denver days

By Kate Rigot krigot@msudenver.edu Local activist and MSU Denver alumnus Chairman Seku filed the initial paperwork last November to run for mayor of Denver in the upcoming city government elections slated for May 5.

Seku and three other candidates are challenging the well-funded incumbent mayor, Michael Hancock, in his bid for re-election. As of Jan. 26, these opponents include 2011 mayoral candidate and professional dancer Paul Fiorino; homeless advocate Dwight Henson, who also ran for mayor in 2003 and again in 2011; and resident Marcus Giavanni, who the Denver Post describes as a “frequent candidate.”

According to the Denver Elections Division, the candidacies won’t be final until candidates return certified petitions in March.

Seku stated that he is inclined to support issues pertaining to low-income, homeless and student populations, as well as to the environment. However, he plans to launch a website Feb. 14 that will allow his supporters to weigh in on, and ultimately determine, what issues they would like to comprise his final platform.

Seku, 62, said he tends to hang around with young people, and believes that this population, students in particular, will be key to his campaign — that and his ability to organize and galvanize a grassroots base.

“It’s a process, and it has to be organized,” Seku said. “Organization is the key — that and telling the truth.”

Seku, who describes himself as a “human movement organizer,” recognizes he’s more of a grassroots candidate, but stated that he believes that he has a “100 percent chance of winning,” due to what he sees as complacency on the part of the incumbent’s campaign.

“Michael (Hancock is) arrogant and lazy,” Seku said, referring to what he believes will be Hancock’s failure to take him and the other long-shot candidates seriously.

Seku first attended MSU Denver (then Metropolitan State College of Denver) in the early ’70s after dropping out of the University of Denver. At DU, he had been trained in organizing tactics by assistant dean John Rice, the father of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Seku was active with black student organizing activities at MSU Denver, working with civil rights activist Rachel B. Noel to institute a black studies department, and was the president of the Black Student Union Movement from 1974 to 1975.

Seku ran for student government in 1974 and won, but his victory was negated because he had supposedly placed a campaign poster in the wrong place. He attributes this not to his being black, but to being a “renegade.”

Seku said that he was expelled in 1976 after trying to choke Curtis Wright, then the vice president of

MSU Denver alumnus and Denver mayoral candidate Chairman Seku, stands on Welton Street in Denver’s historic Five Points neighborhood.

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student affairs, during a confrontation over the former’s involvement in an off-campus event that brought together representatives of various African resistance movements. “(Wright) said, ‘(Anti-black slur), sit down,’ and I just blew up,” Seku said.

Seku said he was first suspended, but by the time he was formally expelled, he had withdrawn and transferred to CU Boulder. He later withdrew from there with only eight credits left to go.

Seku later re-enrolled at MSU Denver in 2002. According to him, the administration failed to connect him with the record of his previous expulsion. He said his returning to MSU Denver was the result of a sort of “mid-life crisis” — he had wondered, “Should I go back to school or get a Corvette?”

In 2002, Seku helped organize a group of students into getting an all-black student government elected, with him as the president.

He was expelled for a second time when an administrator claimed he misappropriated funds. The group had the books audited by an outside CPA, but it took a lawsuit against the school to get the expulsion overturned.

He declared a double major in accounting and political science (having a previous associate’s degree in accounting from Northeastern Junior College in Sterling), finished his remaining credits and

walked at his graduation ceremony, but, according to him, was never sent his degree. Seku said this was because of a question over three transfer math credits, which he said he tried to test out of, but was accused of cheating both times he passed the test.

MSU Denver could not be reached for comment.

Seku said that despite the fact that he never received his diploma, his education at MSU Denver “prepared me for what I’m doing now,” as has his community activism experience and his history of running a business. Seku owned and ran Black Star International Florist for 25 years.

“It’s a process, and it has to be organized.

Organization is the key — that and telling the truth.”

A longtime resident of Denver’s historic Five Points neighborhood until recently, Seku bemoans the gentrification that is raising housing prices in the area — he was recently forced out of the neighborhood himself and is currently staying with friends in Park Hill.

On a cultural level however, he believes that the “spirit of the place” is strong enough to bring new residents into line with what he sees as

a colorful, close-knit community where everybody speaks to each other on the street.

Despite his optimism, Seku said that his mayoral candidacy was less about winning and more about his potential to contribute to a “conversation for empowerment” and “building a movement… because that is winning.”

Regardless of the outcome, this campaign will likely be his only shot, as he doesn’t plan to run again. “I’m 62 years old. When you come to understand the process, it’s time to get out of the way and let the younger generation do what they do,” Seku said. “It’s called passing the ball down the court.”

But, he said, “I ain’t dead yet. I got more work to do.”

Ever mindful of the community he aims to serve, Seku said that “the only way I can be powerful in this situation is to disperse that power and give it back to the community.”

While Seku’s entry into electoral politics is driven by this desire to empower the people he serves, he is clearly energized rather than intimidated by the electoral process in much the same way he is by his usual activism work.

“The work is the reason why (activists) do what we do, and that’s where the joy is,” Seku said.

“The end result is inherent in the work — (of being) organized and civilized. It’s all in the process.”

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Specter of senate bill looms over university’s open enrollment << ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 “MSU Denver opposes SB 72 as introduced,” wrote university President Stephen Jordan in a letter to his Cabinet. Jordan went on to emphasize the school’s “commitment to maintaining open enrollment for all students age 20 and above.”

When Jordan met with Lambert last week, the president was “surprised in the first couple of minutes when (the senator) informed us that he had already read over the desk a proposed bill,” Jordan wrote in a letter to the Board of Trustees.

The bill is scheduled for review in the Senate Education Committee Jan. 29. If it passes committee, it will head back to the Senate floor. Though Jordan said the school is “willing to discuss modification of admissions standards for students age 19 and under,” the bill’s sponsors are not currently entertaining amendments.

Lambert, the bill’s chief sponsor, said in an interview with political newspaper the Colorado Statesman that the bill’s ultimate goal was to improve MSU Denver’s graduation rates.

“We’ve been looking at (MSU Denver’s) success rates for a number of years,” Lambert said. According to the senator, MSU Denver’s graduation rates are among the lowest in Colorado. Efficient use of taxpayer money is also an issue, according to the senator.

Jordan, by contrast, raised the issue of the costs to MSU Denver. According to a fiscal impact analysis conducted by his office, between 325 and 1,200 students would not

have been admitted this school year if the proposed new standards were in place, which would have cost the school between $2.36 million and $8.71 million over the academic year. The lowest numbers assume many of the students over age 20 would qualify under the new standards, while the higher numbers reflect a worst-case scenario. Both include the costs of hiring new admissions employees to review applicants.

The school proposed an amendment restricting the “moderately selective” criteria to traditional students (students under the age of 20).

“We believe strongly that MSU Denver has a long history of serving these adult learners at an affordable price and with support programs that lead to high success in completion and graduation,” Jordan’s fiscal impact analysis read. “Using this proposed scenario we find no fiscal impact.”

The 44 students who would have been affected this year fall well within the 20 percent “window” that colleges — including “moderately selective” institutions — can use to admit students who are likely to succeed but do not meet minimum admissions standards, according to the fiscal impact analysis.

Jordan said he plans to send experts to the committee hearing Jan. 29 to oppose the bill.

A follow-up article will appear in the Metropolitan’s Feb. 6 issue. As Lundeen could not respond to our questions by press time, his statements should be included there, along with student reactions to the proposed policy.

A BILL FOR AN ACT CONCERNING ADMISSION STANDARDS FOR METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, amend 23-54-101 as follows: 3 23-54-101. University established - role and mission - governance. There is hereby established a university at Denver, to be known as Metropolitan state university of Denver, which shall be a comprehensive institution with modified open MODERATELY SELECTIVE admission standards. at the baccalaureate level; except that nontraditional students at the baccalaureate level who are at least twenty years of age shall only have as an admission requirement a high school diploma, the successful completion of a high school equivalency examination, as defined in section 22-33-102 (8.5), C.R.S., or the equivalent thereof. Metropolitan state university of Denver shall offer a variety of liberal arts and science, technical, and educational programs.

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Vagina Monologues producer, IWSS staff wins MLK Peace Award

By Matthew Lilley lilley@msudenver.edu Katherine Miller graduated from MSU Denver in December 2013 with degrees in women’s studies, psychology and history, but she still isn’t done picking up honors. Miller received recognition at the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Breakfast Jan. 14.

Miller, who works at MSU Denver’s Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, was singled out for her tireless volunteer efforts and fundraising tied to productions of “The Vagina Monologues.” However, she is quick to credit those around her.

“The award isn’t about me, it is about us as a community,” Miller said. “I don’t do this work in isolation, I share it with those who work with me — everyone. I can’t do what I do without all those people.”

In addition to those who have worked on the production with her, Miller has been indirectly assisted by others, such as her friend Erika Church, and friends Arlene Sgoutas and AJ Alejano-Steele, who she says encouraged her brand of feminism and social justice.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Award is awarded at a yearly breakfast the Friday before the holiday recognizing King. One student, one faculty or staff member and one community member are nominated based on their activism, advocacy and depth of involvement.

Miller, working with co-director Kayln Bohl, spearheaded the production of “The

Vagina Monologues” at Auraria starting in 2013. She is something of a co-producer, co-director, fundraiser and organizer for the production, which has raised money for nonprofits and scholarships.

“The Vagina Monologues,” a play by Eve Ensler, premiered off Broadway in 1996. It has since snowballed into the cornerstone of V-Day, a day on which people stage readings of the play to raise money for groups working to end violence against women and girls.

In its first year on campus, the production raised $1,500 for The Blue Bench, then known as the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program, a local comprehensive sexual assault prevention and support center. Additional funds were raised for the Pamela McIntyre-Marcum Endowed Memorial Scholarship.

The 2014 production raised an additional $4,800 for the McIntyre-Marcum scholarship, which awards money to MSU Denver students affected by interpersonal violence.

“Often, violence is the reason why women stop attending school and don’t graduate,” Miller said. She cited a statistic revealed in several recent studies that one in five women experience sexual assault while attending college.

Miller has set a goal of raising $10,000 from this year’s production of “The Vagina Monologues,” hoping to collect half of this amount through ticket sales and the rest through crowdfunding and donations from the campus community.

MSU Denver alumna Katherine Miller was honored at the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Breakfast Jan. 14.

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Seven McIntyre-Marcum scholarships were awarded with the $4,800 raised last year, but Miller wants to do more.

“When there are 30 to 40 women who apply, seven is not enough,” Miller said. “If we raise $10,000, then we can double the number of women who receive scholarships.”

The campus production of “The Vagina Monologues” is just one of many events to which Miller devotes her time. She volunteers

80 to 100 hours a month for the Colorado Network to End Human Trafficking, answering a hotline where people report suspected human tracking and survivors may call for resources. Miller also volunteers at Dolls for Daughters and Project Angel Heart.

To add to her collection of degrees, Miller is now in graduate school at the University of Denver, pursuing a degree in international disaster psychology.

“Having multiple degrees is a good idea; it’s hard to go wrong having more than one,” Miller said.

This year’s production of “The Vagina Monologues” will be held Feb. 20 and 21 at 7:30 at St. Cajetan’s Center. Miller encourages people who attended the last two years to attend again, saying the production team aims to do something different every year.

When pressed, Miller wouldn’t reveal any spoilers.

“I don’t want to give it away, because I am very excited about it,” she said. “But I will say it is better than the first two years.”

She added that none of the 21 students, alumni and community members who comprise the production’s cast and crew are professional actors, but all are nonetheless poised to amaze audiences — and all for a good cause.

For tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite. com/e/auraria-vagina-monologues. Those interested in donating to the McIntyre-Marcum scholarship can visit https://advance. msudenver.edu/makeagift and specify the scholarship fund.

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tulrich2@msudenver.edu An interview between talk show host Nancy Grace and hip-hop artist (and College Park, Georgia, mayoral candidate) 2 Chainz, went viral last week, where Grace advocated for the current drug policy, which still adversely affects minorities more than white Americans.

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specifically. According to Federal Circuit Judge Frederic Block’s book “Disrobed,” a Texas police captain related marijuana to violent Mexicans. Anyone who used this drug fell under its spell, relinquishing all sense of morals.

Grace seems to think along the same lines, minus the part about Mexicans. Her view on cannabis users seems to reflect a “Reefer Madness” opinion.

According to Grace’s defense of American drug policy, parents forcing their child to use marijuana automatically means that every user acts in a similar fashion. In other words, the laws protect Americans from cannabis users, who fall under a magical spell leading to immoral or illegal behavior. This means drug laws are needed to protect Americans from falling prey to immorality.

Drug laws are still racist, leading to greater incarcerations of persons of color, particularly black men. According to a survey collected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration, white people are significantly more likely to use marijuana, cocaine and alcohol.

Concurrently, black people are arrested three times more than white people for drug-related crimes, according to a 2009 Human Rights Watch report.

2 Chainz, who has been directly affected by these racist laws, defended self-governance. It’s simple: adults who are reasonably and responsibly using cannabis ought to be afforded the same rights as those who use alcohol and tobacco.

Grace and similar critics of this idea are seemingly awestruck by this, a bafflement that alludes back to the early idea of allegedly violent Mexicans who were supposedly incapable of responsibly using.

For Grace’s position, she has to defend the policy in place. This makes no sense if the system is unjust. Grace seems unsympathetic to the families affected by the drug war. According to the Justice Policy Institute, the U.S. incarcerates more people for drug-related offenses than any other nation. The

vast majority of these are black.

These statistics are readily available, and whether Grace has given them any credence is beyond my knowledge. If so, she is consciously supporting a racist system, but according to Grace, the laws in place work, and that’s all that matters. 2 Chainz countered her assumption, pointing out that marijuana was “as common as orange juice.”

In the end, the victims of America’s failed drug policy are common Americans. The lowest income-earners are already predominantly minorities, and laws made and enforced with prejudice against minorities further limits social mobility. These families are subject to living an incarcerated life one way or another, and Grace refuses to acknowledge their plight. Instead, the host orchestrates a circus rather than “television’s only justice-themed interview and debate show.”

Timothy Ulrich is a senior public relations major and selfdescribed rabble-rouser.

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“Yes, I remember, just a young boy, under the influence of drugs, who killed his entire family with an axe.”

By Steve Musal smusal@msudenver.edu “I speak to you as an eyewitness to the darkest pages in human history, of man’s inhumanity to man,” said Jack Adler, a Holocaust survivor, in 2010.

Adler’s speech at Buckley Air Force Base marked the fourth time I’d covered Holocaust survivors as a journalist.

This time of year is particularly poignant to me — Jan. 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most notorious concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

Around this time, I recall Adler’s words and the words of the other survivors I’ve interviewed over the years, some of whom are now dead.

They all have one common theme: This is what humanity is capable of when we forget our humanity.

During the Holocaust, 11 million people were killed, including roughly 6 million Jews, as well as Soviet prisoners of war, handicapped people, Romani, homosexuals and other people considered “undesireable” to the government.

Images of piles of shoes belonging to murdered prisoners, of skulls and crematoriums, will circle around.

While we have the remaining survivors, their memories help teach those of us lucky enough to be born later, in a different land, of the horrors of that time.

But as we rightly mourn the dead and piously chant “never again,” we ignore the fact that we’ve already failed in that pledge.

The Cambodian genocide killed between 1 and 3 million people between 1971 and 1975, and my generation has already forgotten. The Rwandan genocide in 1994 killed 500,000 to 1 million people, and we’ve already forgotten.

Google “genocides in the 21st century” if you want a sobering list of what — and who — we’ve forgotten.

We build historical villains like Adolf Hitler into cartoonish carica-

tures of evil and think we’ll be able to identify the next perpetrator of such atrocities before they happen.

What we forget is that the people who did this are humans, not moustache-twirling, overblown cartoon villains.

Hitler, by all accounts, loved dogs, children and painting. Stalin published poetry. Pol Pot taught literature. They were human beings who committed atrocities, not cartoon characters. And we forget this too often.

“That’s what hate is,” Adler said. “That someone who could perform such atrocities could go home and play with his own children, go to church, pray and then go back and keep doing these things.”

We also forget, as we remember the Holocaust, that things in Nazi Germany didn’t go from peace and love to death camps instantaneously.

“We remember above all that the Holocaust did not start with a concentration camp,” wrote former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.

“It started with a brick through the shop window of a Jewish business, the desecration of a synagogue, the shout of racist abuse on the street.”

That’s what should scare us now. The recent events in France,

where a satirical newspaper and a Jewish business were attacked, should scare us — as should the response to those attacks, with Muslims being accosted on the street and anti-Islam rallies.

The bombing of an NAACP office in Colorado Springs the same day as the events in France should scare us, as should the continued excuses we make for the racist, violent abuses of power by those we trust to safeguard our communities and laws.

These should scare us, not because they are committed by monsters, but because they are committed by our fellow Americans and our neighbors on the world stage. They are committed — not by moustache-twirling villains — but by human beings who honestly believe what they are doing is right for their people or their god.

If that doesn’t terrify you, consider that the Nazis were also human beings who honestly thought what they were doing was right for their people or their god.

We need to teach our children the cost of hate, that destroying a group of people is never “what is right.”

When we say “never again,” we damn well better follow through.

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Feline friendly cafe opens in Highlands

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Rachel Conner holds Professor Nibbles Jan. 24 at Denver Cat Company. Conner plans on adopting the cat and turned in her application earlier that day.

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Aimee Matheny and her husband Steven Tillinghaft came to the Denver Cat Company Jan. 24 to possibly find a cat to adopt. The couple already has one cat but wants to adopt another if they find the perfect fit for their family.

Carol Blair volunteers at the Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue and comes to Denver Cat Company to visit the cats before they are adopted Jan. 27.

A haven filled with cats, tea, books and art has sprouted in the form of Denver Cat Company.

One of many Japanese ideas popularized by the Internet, a cat cafe features a small selection of drinks and snacks with free-range felines making their rounds: napping in a window, climbing up a tower, snuggling with customers and, in the best-case scenario, finding a new home.

“Just last fall, I didn’t want to be a lawyer anymore and I didn’t know what to do, and this seemed like a really great thing to do,” said Sana Hamelin, the store owner.

“It’s fun and incorporates my love of cats, art, books and not being a lawyer all in the same place.”

A Denver native, Hamelin woke one morning to a new calling: Creating a cat cafe to unite a community. Hamelin asked around for sources of cats in need of a home when she was contacted

by Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue.

“I was exploring different shelters to see who I would partner with and they got in touch. They said they were a good fit and they are,” Hamelin said. “They’re cagefree so the cats are already used to being on the loose — so to speak.

They are a smaller shelter, so they needed the help more. We ended up partnering with them and it’s worked really well.”

Taking inspiration from art and wine workshops, Denver Cat Company offers weekly classes titled “Art and Cats” through the nearby Teller St. Gallery (less than two miles down 38th) for $30 a class.

“Both of these places are so interactive,” said Sarah Daugherty, who frequents both at the gallery and the cafe. “They make me feel so much better to be able to go somewhere and interact with people.”

Denver Cat Company is located at 3929 Tennyson Ave and has street parking available. For pilgrims of public transport, take the 38 toward Applewood at 15th and Arapahoe for a 40-minute ride to 38th and Tennyson.

The cafe is open Tuesday through Sunday (allowing new cats to acclimate to the environment on Mondays) at 10 a.m. Closing times vary. There is a $5 cover charge on weekends to keep drink prices low and cats’ bellies full.

“I love the idea of being able to come in and read and relax and pet the kitties,” Daugherty said. “I can’t bring a cat home, so this is the next best thing.”

Colorado Indian Market and Western Art Festival educates Denver

By Andrea Tsosie and Mary-Kate Newton atsosie2@msudenver.edu mnewton5@msudenver.edu The 34th annual Colorado Indian Market and Western Art Festival showcased Native American art and entertainment at the Denver Mart on 58th Avenue last weekend.

Artisans, both Native American and non-Native, offered southwestern, western and wildlife-related wares and designs for the educational, family-friendly attraction.

An enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe, David Weiden, assistant professor of Native American Studies and coordinator of the American Native Studies program at MSU Denver, said the

festival is a great educational exhibition of how Native Americans express themselves in a largely Anglo society.

“We exist in the 21st Century as well as in the 1800s,” Weiden said. “It is important for people to understand we work in a variety of genres — not just the classic — but also in modern techniques as well.”

Among the art at the market were artifacts such as pottery, paintings, jewelry and handmade flutes. Musical performance groups performed for festival attendees.

Dancers in traditional attire performed to music reminiscent both of contemporary music and traditional instrumentation. Simultaneously, two artists splashed and swished paint at an easel.

When the artists finished, the painting, was of a Native Amerian chief in headdress.

Luane Fortier, a Denver native and attendee of the event, has brought her son to the event as he has grown up because she feels that the education of Native American culture is limited in his school.

“I was very thrilled to take my little boy here,” Fortier said. “He could see Native Americans, see their art, talk to them, see that they are real people — that they wear tennis shoes, that they are not with the dinosaurs.”

Artist Brent Learned from Oklahoma City, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, uses acrylic on canvas as his medium not only to paint, but to teach.

“As an artist, you are not only depicting a subject matter, but (are) also a historian at the same time, because you want to be accurate in what you’re presenting,” Learned said.

Learned explained that artistic elements of his culture always have meaning and historical significance. Elements of Native art and dress are often wrongly perceived as simply decoration.

For artists of Native American art, Learned said, it is particularly important to be educated in the history and meaning of symbols.

Learned recalled an artist he once spoke with who didn’t understand the symbolism of how a horse was depicted in his own painting.

“When the person told me it’s just a horse with circles around the eyes, it was an insult, because to us Plains Indians it means something,” Learned said. “It means this horse fought in battle.”

Chris Turri, a non-Native metal sculptor from Albuquerque, has been sculpting for nine years, though this was his first appear-

ance at the Colorado Indian Market and Western Art festival.

Turri studied under a member of the Mescalero Apache tribe, where he learned the basics of many of the techniques and images that he uses in his work.

“The Native Americans were always interesting to me because they always made everything from the earth. They left soft footprints,” Turri said. “They didn’t destroy their paths as they left them, as the white man does today.”

For his own art, Turri uses reclaimed metals.

Turri said the festival was a great success, featuring nice work in a variety of mediums – “a real balanced show.”

The show featured over 200 artists this year. For more information, visit www.indianmarket.net.

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Back to school fashion: relevant or trivial?

By Kirsten Bitzer kstaggs4@msudenver.edu The Auraria campus is buzzing once again as students navigate between new classes in a sea of puffy jackets and riding boots.

The new semester inherently brings with it the pressure to make good first impressions; perhaps through punctuality, preparedness or diligence. However, in the hectic life of a typical student balancing jobs, schoolwork and family, how can personal style fit in?

For some, fashion is an afterthought, irrelevant and merely a distraction from the key objectives of school. For others,

MSU Denver graduate student and fashion blogger Amanda Kister shows off her self-described “urban” style on campus Jan 22.

personal style is paramount to establishing individuality.

Amanda Kister, fashion blogger for Fashionista in the Mile High and secondyear grad student in multicultural counseling, considers herself one of the latter.

“I wake up every day before school and work and want to put my most stylish foot forward,” Kister said.

While Kister claims fashion and style are a priority in her life, many students appear to share a propensity for comfort and convenience above all else. Kister says the typical college style “does not have to strictly embody sweats and sportswear.” Rather, it can be an outlet “to relay a strong, beautiful message to others.”

Students Nick Holcomb, David Pfeiffenberger and David Majerus appear to have each found their own balance between comfort and style, donning current male staples including Oxfords, slender-cut jeans and pea coats. Self-proclaimed “preppy” Holcomb favors higher-end department stores such as J. Crew and Brooks Brothers. Majerus, on the other hand, echoes the sentiment of many students on a budget, saying he prefers to shop “wherever the sales are.” Pfeiffenberger agrees, adding that he enjoys perusing the racks at various Goodwill locations.

“Fashion often appears unapproachable,” Kister admits, addressing the idea that good fashion is too expensive or impractical for most students. Kister, who appreciates a good sale, says she loves checking out local thrift shops, particularly the Goodwill in Glendale.

Location plays a large role in style, and Denver is one of the most active cities in the world – a fact many students perpetuate while clad in ski jackets and hiking boots.

Outdoor clothing companies continue to flourish in the area; The North Face and Marmot pieces are staples in many wardrobes among both men and women.

Unisex trends are also on the rise as men and women are finding commonalities in style preferences. A growing number of women are sporting Oxfords and the man

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Auraria students, left to right, Nick Holcomb, David Pfeiffenberger and David Majerus exude confident style outside the King Center between classes on Jan. 22.

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bun, or “mun,” is rapidly increasing in popularity. Sorel boots or puffy vests can be seen on men and women, often in conjunction with the ever-popular flannel shirt.

“Button-up tunics with slim lines and seams are another trend I love on both women and men,” Kister said. “I have noticed more men wearing button-ups with the buttons fastened to the top of the neck, and I think it is just so classic and attractive. I hope to see more men and women on

campus rocking that look.”

Students have the freedom to express themselves without the many confines of the professional world, where patterned leggings and beanies are no longer statement pieces.

The development of individual style is a freedom Kister believes students should exercise.

“Fashion is much more than dressing up for an occasion,” Kister said. “Fashion can be an extension of who you are, if you let it.”

What was your New Year’s Resolution?

And did you keep it?

“To work out – and moderately so.” – Jocelyn Halferty MSU Denver junior

“I don’t make resolutions.” – Venni Paul MSU Denver sophomore

“To get outside more and hike fourteeners, but I haven’t done it yet.” – Jose Parra MSU Denver

“To start saving money, and so far I started saving.” – Christian Wallis MSU Denver senior Photos by Michael Ortiz • mortiz26@msudenver.edu

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FATHER JOHN MISTY “I Love You, Honeybear”

By Matthew Lilley lilley@msudenver.edu Joshua Tillman continues his spectacular and confounding evolution on his second album as Father John Misty.

This album is packed with beautiful, brooding ballads coupled with biting lyrics. “Chateau Lobby 4 (in C for Two Virgins)” sounds like something for a wed-

VIET CONG “Viet Cong”

By Matthew Lilley lilley@msudenver.edu A sinister, distorted tom drum kicks off this album. When the barely recognizable guitar tones join in almost a minute later on “Newspaper Spoons,” it’s immediately clear that Viet Cong have something important to add to rock music.

Hailing from the Calgary music scene and comprised of some members from that city’s

TY SEGALL “Mr. Face”

By Tobias M. Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu Ty Segall is a 27-year-old phenom.

He’s a prolific songwriter, incredible multi-instrumentalist, has seven full-length albums under his belt, and a slew of other singles, EPs and side projects to boot. Did I mention he’s only 27?

“Inherent Vice”

By Trevor Davis tdavis84@msudenver.edu A narrative full of misdirection, “Inherent Vice” is at times stimulus overload, but with Paul Thomas Anderson at the wheel, Thomas Pynchon’s story is in safe hands.

On the first glance, one might find it difficult to know what to focus on. The viewer can get the gist of things with one watch, but the story is full of misdirection and requires multiple examinations to

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ding, but the line, “I want to take you in the kitchen, lift up your wedding dress someone was probably murdered in,” will probably give pause to a few of the guests.

Long gone is the earnest folk rocker who played drums for the Fleet Foxes. Tillman told Seattle radio station KEXP that he decided to change his style and entire persona when he realized the audience at his shows responded more to his between-song banter than the songs themselves. “I Love You, Honeybear” expands on the quirky Fear Fun where Josh Tillman ended up in Los Angeles and first introduced fans to Father John

Misty, the irreverent stream-ofconsciousness storyteller.

Self-aware and oozing with caustic sarcasm, Father John Misty’s newest album sounds even more informed by Los Angeles, dripping with strings and other cinematic arrangements.

Sounding like a big budget album from the 1970s singersongwriter scene, the thoroughly modern lyrics with post-millennial snark appear like winking anachronisms: “She blackens pages like a Russian romantic / Gets down more often than a blow-up doll.”

On an album full of highlights from the drum-machine-driven

“True Affection” and the countrylite “Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow,” the highlight might have to be “Holy Shit,” which gives us this gem of a line: “Maybe love is just an economy based on resource scarcity.”

On “Bored in the USA,” Father John Misty uses a laugh track in the arrangement. A bit off-putting at first but this the is sort of bold move that makes one take notice of his songwriting prowess. He’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but, holy hell, the man can write a song.

now defunct Women, Viet Cong — for those who care for labels — is widely referred to as a postpunk revival band (no idea what this is supposed to mean). They might have certain touchstones with other bands in that scene but paint with a different brush entirely, pulling from a palette that includes psychedelic flourishes and rich tonal sheens.

Texturally, this sounds like music for dive bars being played with razor-sharp precision by aural auteurs — think of a grimy downtown ally adorned with colorful abstract paintings.

This is a fantastic album — think Liars before they embraced

synthesizers and drum machines, or “Cryptograms-era” Deerhunter. This is an album of art, ambition and circumvented expectations. Throughout its 37 minutes, Viet Cong’s self-titled debut is packed with left turns and unconventional arrangements — shimmering guitar lines and simple percussion gives way to a foot-tapping jam on “March of Progress.”

Even when this album flirts with the familiar, there lurks a menacing undertone with guitars and synths that wax and wane over a solid rhythm section of nightmare drums and aggressive bass.

The album isn’t perfect. The vocals are fine and mild but add nothing new or essential to this album. Likewise, the most obviously immediate and familiar sounding song “Continental Shelf” disappoints, lacking in the sonic ambition that colors the rest of the album.

All is redeemed with the closing track, the epic 11-minute “Death.” The pulsing bass-led groove punctuated by machinegun snares mutates, twists and turns into a dirge. Even at that point the song is only half over.

Last year was kind to Segall — his most-recent album “Manipulator,” propelled him into a realm of stardom, popularity and fame as the masses finally caught on to the guy’s genius.

Segall’s present to us in the new year is a four-track EP dubbed “Mr. Face,” which came out on Famous Class Records.

Although it’s a bit tamed down from his last album, it’s another flash of the experimental psychrock that Segall emits from his never-ending musical mind.

Released on two radiant

7-inch records (one song per side), which also came with a pair of 3-D viewing glasses to better view the album’s reflection while being played, “Mr. Face” is 13 minutes of perfection, start to finish.

The album opens with the self-titled track, which sounds like a quick homage to the late ‘60s lead guitar shredding sound, all the while addressing the mid‘70s punk revolution.

The workings of post-glamrock David Bowie shine through Segall’s acoustics. He’s among

a sea of reverb, tonal perfection and a dizzying amount of electricity that echoes from wall to wall.

See track three, “Drug Mugger.” It’s got the inner workings of a young and angsty Iggy Pop sans the chest-cutting antics.

Ultimately, “Mr. Face” shows Segall’s consistent level of songwriting, and fantastic musicianship — considering he wrote, sang and played every instrument on the EP.

appreciate its richness.

It has the eccentric structure of a postmodern novel. This is not to be taken as a negative aspect, though the film has much to reflect upon. As Joaquin Phoenix’s character, Doc Sportello, explains early in the film, “Don’t worry, thinking comes later.”

Phoenix is at his best, as usual.

He is perfect for this role. There are few actors that could have given the performance he does.

Those who saw “I’m Still Here” and didn’t see the irony will think he’s just playing himself, but there is much more to his performance.

He is a master of the subtle and nuanced emotive qualities that all actors and actress aim to perfect.

Josh Brolin is equally enjoyable to watch. At first one may think he’s just another jerk cop, but as the story unfolds, we learn he is a damaged man, in need of the cathartic release that comes when least expected.

Men aside, the film is full of stellar female performances.

Shasta (Katherine Waterston) leaves the viewer in need of more, and also unsureness of whether or not they’ll be satisfied. It’s her disappearance that’s the emotional

drive behind the film.

Jena Malone only has a few minutes of screen time, but leaves an impression throughout the story as a reformed addict in search of her partner.

The film mixes sunshine noir with all the classical aspects one would expect. There are scenes obscured by haze underneath the rich of tenebrist values. Still, the aesthetic isn’t compromised to justify the stylization. The film is seamless and coherent even at its most self-indulgent moments.

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Runners four-game road trip starts strong The road can be an unpleasant place. For a four-game road trip, it can be flatout brutal.

The Metro men’s basketball team kicked off its four-game stretch away from the Auraria Event Center with two key conference wins. They first traveled to Grand Junction Jan. 23 to play the Colorado Mesa Mavericks. The game ended in a nail-biter with the Runners getting the 51-50 win.

Game 1 was a battle of the halves. Metro was outscored 3024 in the second half, but managed to grab the one point victory after taking a seven-point lead into halftime.

Part of the success for the Mavericks in the second half was their ability to hold senior guard Mitch McCarron to seven total points in the game.

The Mavericks shot 43 percent from the field (10-23) and 45 percent (5-11) from beyond the 3-point line.

Although the Runners were outshot in the second half, the efforts of senior center Nicholas Kay and senior forward Sam Porter helped the Runners hold the lead and get the win.

Kay finished the game with 11 points, four assists and three rebounds. Porter lead the team with 14 points, one assist and three rebounds—shooting 50 percent

from behind the 3-point arc.

Porter sealed the win for the Runners after he stole the ball from the Maverick’s leading scorer, junior guard Julian Vazquez, as CMU threatened to pull off the upset.

GAME 2: The men traveled to Gunnison the next day for their meeting with the Western State Mountaineers.

The result was less nerve racking than the game prior as the Runners ran away in a 23-point rout of the Mountaineers, 73-50.

The senior tandem of McCarron and Kay gave Metro the spark it needed as both combined for 46 points.

McCarron led all scores with 25 points, adding two steals, two rebounds and four assists.

Kay added nine rebounds and three assists.

The Roadrunners dominance was a result of aggressive defense and consistent offense. Metro held the Mountaineers to just 31 percent from behind the arc and under 50 percent for the game (44 percent).

Turnovers were a key contributor for the Runners, forcing 17 Mountaineer mistakes. The Roadrunners were cautious themselves, finding the open shooters to take quality shots and only turning the ball over six times.

The No. 14 Runners had big contributions from the bench.

Junior guards Zoran Arsenovic and Eric Rayer provided the insurance that the Roadrunners needed to pull away and notch their 16th win of the season.

Rayer provided nine points and one rebound and Arsenovic contributed four points, three rebounds and an assist.

Metro won the rebounding battle 30-28 and continued to attack the paint with its big men Kay and senior center Will Sinclair.

The largest lead of the night was near the end of the game when the Runners held a 26-point advantage, 73-47.

The road trip continues as Metro crosses state lines into Nebraska to take on the Chadron State Eagles Jan. 30 before returning home for a quick two-game homestand.

Head coach Derrick Clark’s team will look to climb the national standings when his Runners finish their four-game road trip against Black Hills State in Spearfish, S.D. Jan. 31.

Metro will be home Feb. 6 to play Colorado Mines. The Orediggers beat Metro 59-57 at the buzzer Jan. 10.

Reporting by Jose Salas and Scott Corbridge

Then-Metro sophomore guard Jourdon Hunter puts in an easy lay-up against Colorado Christian Jan. 10, 2014. Hunter played 36 combined minutes in the two wins over the weekend. Photo by Philip B. Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

No longer an all-star game for the NFL

By Jose Salas Commentary The 2015 NFL Pro Bowl was played Jan. 25 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

The game showcased the best players from both conferences and, for the second time in league history, it was played outside of Aloha Stadium in Hawaii.

The Pro Bowl relocated from Hawaii for the first time in 2010.

The game was moved to the Super Bowl host city of Miami, Florida that year in an attempt by the league to expand the game’s market and create a bigger fan base for an otherwise meaningless game.

Other changes to the Pro Bowl in recent years included a format

where the league selected two alumni captains who pick their own teams, regardless of conference. This year’s captains were hall of fame wide receivers Michael Irvin and Chris Carter.

Some of the new changes added to last weekend’s star-studded game included narrowing the goal posts from 18 to 14 feet. Each team received two timeouts per quarter..

Regardless of what changes the league made to the game, many of the biggest names in the billion-dollar business that is the NFL withdrew before the fans got a chance to see them on the field. Let’s put it this way: think of the Beatles’ Paul McCartney being replaced by Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger before a concert you planned to attend.

I am not hinting at the idea that Nickelback or Kroeger is bad, but if you had the chance to see the Beatles and found out Kroeger was replacing McCartney, would you still attend the concert? Would you even buy tickets if you were aware of a possible change?

I bought tickets to the Pro Bowl and, due to unexpected events, I didn’t attend. Trying to sell those tickets felt as if I was giving away the seats.

Some players withdrew because of injury and some just didn’t want to be a part of it.

According to NFL.com, some of the biggest name players who withdrew were Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback

Ben Roethlisberger, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Jeremy Maclin and running back LeSean McCoy, San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers and Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson.

When a player withdraws from the game, an opportunity opens for another player in the league to participate in the game. I was happy to see rookie wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. from the New York Giants added to Team Irvin.

Beckham replaced Johnson and was selected fourth overall during the Pro Bowl draft. Beckham was also the first rookie to be drafted by Team Irvin and I am happy he got to enjoy what should be thought of as a well-deserved honor and not a burden.

If you were looking for an in-

sight on how the game played out, you should have stopped reading a while ago. Instead, let these words be a realization that the Pro Bowl cannot compete with the NBA, NHL and MLB. Each of those leagues has an all-star weekend that includes the skills challenge, dunk competition and famous Home Run Derby leading up to their respectable all-star game.

This fan in particular will care about the Pro Bowl when all the players care. This is the reason I gave away my tickets to what I thought was a once-in-a-lifetime event.

The Pro Bowl used to be a big deal and an honor for the players, now it seems the spirit of the game is gone now, too.

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College playoffs look promising Lady Runners go 1-1

By Scott Corbridge Commentary With Super Bowl XLIX rapidly approaching, football is in its final stretch before the offseason begins and millions of fans will only have hockey and basketball to watch from the four major sports.

But a silver lining for football crazed-fans is that college football is going to be much more entertaining with the new playoff system, which may expand from four to eight teams.

In its first year with a playoff system implemented, the NCAA selected the four best teams and had the semifinals be bowl games themselves leading up to the national championship. Heismanwinning quarterback Marcus Mariota and the Oregon Ducks took on Jameis Winston and the Florida State Seminoles in the Rose Bowl. Head coach Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide played Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes in the Sugar Bowl.

Fans not only got to enjoy both bowl games, but they enjoyed it more because the teams were selected based on how they’ve performed over the course of the year.

For decades, the national title game was decided by the two topranked teams in the country. Now, the NCAA has added two additional teams but seeds them to play each other like any other playoff format.

Oregon thoroughly handled FSU 59-20 and Ohio State upset the No. 1 ranked Tide 42-35. The playoff was already off to a good start, with the top seed upset and the lowest seed winning it all as the Buckeyes handed the Ducks a 42-20 beatdown in the College Football National Championhip.

This alone should provide enough evidence that when you add a playoff system, any team has a chance of winning it all, not just the No. 1 and No. 2 teams.

For the first time in a decade, an SEC team did not contend for the title. This should tell the NCAA that placing teams from certain conferences leaves other teams that could contend for the championship off the short list.

In a new report from the Sports Business Journal, the NFL is also considering changing its playoff system, adding two additional teams and having those games played on a Monday night. This would coincide with the college

football national championship.

NFL commissioner Rodger Goodell met with College Football Playoff executives to discuss the playoff expansion for the NFL and how it would affect the national championship game.

The NCAA is staying firm with its decision to compete with the biggest sports marketer in the world and potentially see a drop in ratings.

This could be a smart move for the NCAA. They now know that anyone, like in the NFL, can win on any given day. It doesn’t matter if you’re 13-0 and the No. 1 seed, or 10-3 and the No. 4 seed.

Sports is all about the competition. When that competition starts to falter, then you lose all sense of excitement for the game.

The college playoffs are under contract to be televised by ESPN, and not ESPNU or ESPN2. The contract also denies ABC to televise the CFP title game or the NFL’s wild card games.

None of this will come into effect for another couple of years, but I believe that the college playoffs will level out the playing field and give every team the same chance to win.

So if it’s not broke, don’t fi x it.

By Scott Corbridge kcorbrid@msudenver.edu The Lady Runners split two games on the road to start their four-game road trip.

The first of four was a 7048 loss to the Colorado Mesa Mavericks in Grand Junction, Jan. 23.

The Roadrunners found trouble early as they allowed the Mavericks to take a 12-point lead at halftime, 36-24.

Despite winning the rebounding battle 42-39, the Runners lost the turnover battle 15-12, a deficit which proved to be too costly to overcome.

It was a poor shooting night for Metro, going 16-of-51 (31 percent) from the field and only shooting 12 percent (1-of-8) from beyond the arc.

Senior forward Deni Jacobs led Metro in scoring with 15 points. Freshman guard Emily Hartegan added 10 points.

The Mavericks tied a season high with 11 three-pointers in the win. Sophomore guard Erin Reichle led all scorers on the night with 25 points and four rebounds.

For the Runners, their second game against the Western State Mountaineers was all Metro as they won 60-46 in Gunnison Jan. 24.

The Roadrunners lost the turnover battle 16-9, but won the rebounding battle 49-33.

Shooting was again a struggle for the Roadrunners, going 18-of-54 from the field and only 6-of-18 from behind the arc.

Jacobs, for the second straight night, was the leading scorer for the Runners. She contributed 16 points and eight rebounds. Sophomore forward/ center Brittany Curl added 11 points, three rebounds and one block.

The defensive effort by the Runners stumped the Mountaineers, containing them to 26 percent (15-of-57) on the night and a pedestrian 1-of-9 (11 percent) from the three-point arc.

Metro (11-6, 7-5 RMAC) continues their road trip Jan. 30 when they play the Chadron State Eagles in Nebraska, followed by a trip to South Dakota to take on the Black Hills State Yellow Jackets.

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1.30, 1.31: RJD2, Tnertle, Lily Fangz Location: Bluebird Theater Price: $25 Time: 9 p.m.

1.31: Mates of State, Fictionist Location: Larimer Lounge Price: $20 Time: 9 p.m.

1.31: The Floozies, Gibbz, SunSquabi Location: Ogden Theatre Price: $20 Time: 9 p.m.

1.31: Pinhead Circus, the Nobody’s Location: The Hi-Dive Price: $15 Time: 9:30 p.m.

2.2: Logic, DJ Rhetorik, Michael Christmas Location: Ogden Theatre Price: $23 Time: 7 p.m.

2.5: Bush, Theory Of A Deadman, Stars in Stereo Location: Ogden Theatre Price: $50 Time: 7:30 p.m.

Auraria Events 1.30: Scholar’s Recognition Program Fall 2014 9-11 a.m.

Tivoli Turnhall

2.2: Homecoming Week All Week Student Success Building Second Floor Lounge

1.31: Boulder Brass 7:30 p.m.

King Center Concert Hall

2.4: Open Mic Night 4-6 p.m.

Tivoli Multicultural Lounge

OpenAir 1340 Top Five 1. No Cities to Love, Sleater-Kinney 2. Pom Pom, Ariel Pink 3. The Natural World, Land Lines 4. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, Panda Bear 5. A Lesson Unlearnt, Until the Ribbon

Seven-Day Forecast 1.29: Sunny

48º/32º

2.2: Sunny

50º/23º

1.30: Cloudy

53º/33º

2.3: Cloudy

47º/23º

“Facebook blocks pages deemed insulting to Islam in Turkey” (Al Jazeera America)

1.31: Snow

37º/20º

2.4: Sunny

51º/23º

“Bottoms up: Why these seniors are embracing cocktail parties” (BBC)

2.1: Sunny

41º/21º

“Patriots’ Josh McDaniels admits to mistakes when Broncos coach” (Denver Post Sports)

Source: www.weather.com

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Horoscopes Capricorn

December 22 -January 19

Your enjoyment of the Riddles section is cut short when you recognize one of them from “The Hobbit.”

Well done, you. Way to be a buzzkill.

Leo

Aquarius

January 20 -February 18

July 23 -August 22

Your birthday party is ruined by the knowledge that yes, you ARE the father. Including you, women of Aquarius.

Hugh Jackman is living in your fridge. Wait, did I say Hugh Jackman? I meant Adam Sandler. That’s better, right?

Pisces

Virgo

February 19 -March 20

August 23 -September 22

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.

Unfortunately, your boyfriend tells you he’s a Nice Guy. Run screaming, and don’t leave a forwarding address. Trust me. If someone has to tell you they’re nice, they’re not.

“I’m just here so I don’t get fined. So, yeah.”

Aries

“So, drunk already?” “It’s 9:30 in the morning.” “... so, drunk already?”

“Emma Watson is the first Disney princess I’d go lesbian for.”

Explaining that your sign is a ram, not a goat, is ultimately futile when that West Texas sheep farmer dumps you anyway.

Taurus

Sagittarius

62. Russian river 63. Squared up 64. Rectangle part 65. Numerous

Down:

1. Vaulted recess 2. Parser’s part 3. Retained for oneself

Source: funhuh.com/fun-riddle/riddles-andanswers-501/

November 22 -December 21

Sudoku

No matter how much you want it to, the fivesecond rule does NOT apply to lemon custard pie.

Heed the advice of the stars, or suffer unending gastrointestinal distress.

Across:

1. ‘’Lonely Boy’’ singer 5. Kennel features 9. Meet customs requirements 14. Cummings attraction?

15. Word of hearty concurrence 16. Large crowd 17. Crab Nebula origins 19. Florida city 20. Supplicate 21. Formulated 23. City north of Des Moines 25. Old Westerns 26. Positron, e.g.

31. Ends of a new moon 32. Actress Sommer 33. Be litigious 36. Algerian city 37. Australian gemstones 39. Em, for one 40. Jabber 41. Ahriman’s forte 42. Belief 43. Demarcation line for 58-Across 46. Angel’s abode 49. Hebe’s mom 50. Give the rubber stamp 52. One with a spread 57. Half-cocked 58. Hawking’s astronomical body 60. Superman portrayer 61. Symbol of liberty

Scorpio

E: Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

For you, this was the day your hero came to town, shattered your dreams, ruined your future and rubbed salt on the wounds. But for me, it was Tuesday.

May 21 -June 20 Th is is how the world ends.

Th is is how the world ends.

Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

September 23 -October 22

D: A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. What is it?

October 23 -November 21

Gemini

Hear something that makes you laugh?

Shake your head? Roll your eyes or say WTF? Tweet it to @themetonline with the hashtag #overheardoncampus

C: Where do you find roads without vehicles, forests without trees and cities without houses?

Be the leaf!

April 20 -May 20 Woman up, Taurus. You’ve got this.

B: Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?

Libra

March 21 -April 19

“Last semester was great, because at least I had wine class before her class.”

A: When set loose I fly away, never so cursed as when I go astray. What am I?

4. Pt. of U.S.A. 5. Central American country 6. Expressive one 7. 36th st.

8. Break sharply 9. Harmonized hymn 10. Track down 11. Delete

12. Austrian psychiatrist Alfred 13. Has a novel experience?

18. Obtains from effort 22. Cuts of ham 24. Covert movement 26. Salty salute 27. Asta’s mistress 28. It’s catchy 29. Place to turn in, perhaps 30. Out of sorts 33. Famous canal 34. Reverse command on a computer 35. Henry VI’s school 37. They may run on gas 38. Word with bobby or firing 39. Jackie’s ‘’O’’ 41. Turned inside out 42. Model T accessory 43. Develop 44. Harbinger 45. Delphi prophet 46. Welty novel ‘’The Ponder ___’’ 47. Stage direction 48. Bye-bye, in Burgundy 51. Slackens 53. Fish bait 54. Joyous round dance 55. Distinctive flair 56. Lean on 59. Luau loop Source: OnlineCrosswords.net

“I was so baked that I forgot what classroom I was going to. Then I was like 45 minutes late.”

June 21 -July 22

Difficulty: EASY

Difficulty: Medium

Answers:

“Their 2012 party convention was at the Holiday Inn Express in Cullman, Alabama! That puts them on the same level as my LARP group.”

Tough break. Tom, that half-assed guitarist from Blink-182 is rumored to have quit the band. In other news: Blink-182 is apparently still a band.

Riddles

Cancer

Answers: A. A Fart. B: A kitchen strainer.

C: On a map. D: An egg.

E: Counterfeit money.

Overheard on campus