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Holocaust survivor remembers prejudice, past Families, clergy and the state of Colorado were all represented in the March of Remembrance honoring victims of the Holocaust and promoting support of Israel.

First a gathering of young Hebrews in the aftermath of World War Two, Yom HaShoah was recognized by the Israeli government in 1953. In 1978, the U.S. Congress slated an eight day period–starting with Yom HaShoah at sunset the day prior–designated to honor victims and discuss current issues of discrimination and persecution.

The march itself originates in Tübingen, Germany, the ground zero of anti-Semitism, according to Hecker. Since its inauguration, more than 50 cities have joined the march every April.

Walkers gathered at Babi Yar Park in Aurora at 1 p.m., April 19.

Roselyn Kirkel, a child survivor of the Holocaust, spoke at the event, before which news editor Cassie Reid asked her a few questions.

CR: How often do you speak at events like this?

RK: Many years, but not forever. I think in 1985 I was invited by the history museum to come and do a talk and that was the first time I actually organized some kind of talk. I don’t know what happened— my life and so on and I got good feedback and said ‘well that was nice’ and then I’ve been invited to do talks in Brazil, Australia, Germany and around

Early election trends

By Cassie Reid

creid13@msudenver.edu The minority has spoken.

Auraria students had the opportunity last week to vote on the continuation of the Regional Transport District CollegePass and on a fee for the purpose of renovation and construction in the Tivoli Quad through the Auraria Higher Education Council.

Simultaneously, MSU Denver and UCD held their own elections for student government and for a recreation fee.

“When the AHEC issues came up, we decided to hold both votes, separate, but at the same time,” said BJ Layman, student organization specialist. “The next step is getting students to show up.”

Despite posters decking columns throughout campus, however, few students voted either

online or in person, and even fewer put their name in for candidacy.

Reports from AHEC indicate 4,089 students voted, totalling all three school on Auraria campus.

The total turnout was just over 10 percent of the Auraria campus student population. “(Auraria) is a commuter campus,” Layman said, “ Getting student attention isn’t as easy as posting in a dorm.”

According to Tyler Antikainen, Student Government Assembly election services manager, 1,182 students voted in the SGA Spring Election. All candidates ran unopposed in the contest. Additionally, the Student Rec ballot issue was passing by a nearly two-toone ratio early in the polls, but Antikainen declined to release a preliminary result by press time.

Unofficial sources have indicated that students are trending toward passing the recreation fee.

the United States.

CR: Have you talked at this walk before?

RK: No, I think the first time I was asked to light a candle.

CR: What’s the importance of this event being in April?

RK: There’s evidence, according to the memorial museum in Washington, they say the Jews fought back in all the ways they could everywhere. No one can truly understand the enormity, the magnitude of how it came down.

CR: How do you feel antiSemitism has either progressed or regressed in the last 70 years?

RK: Anti-Semitism goes back to time immemorial; it goes back many, many years. It became more racial in Germany in the 1800s as I understand it, where Jews who in the 1700s and 1800s were converted in some cases to Christianity like Moses Mendelssohn, who was a famous philosopher. His son and grandson converted to Christianity for whatever reasons people do but about the middle of the 1800s, Jews were seen as a race, Germans were seen Aryan race, and therefore you could not convert anymore.

The anti-Semitism is revived — it’s not as if it was then — but it’s still coming back, and it’s terrifying.

CR: What is the best means of showing support for Israel?

RK: I lived in Israel for two years. I think people are individual and do things individually. There are those who make Aliyah — they go to live in Israel — there are those who send money, there are those who support policies and particularly value the United States’ support and involvement.

It’s an ancient homeland: it’s been restored, renewed, rebuilt, re-modernized and so on and we need a homeland. There are 22 Arab countries. There is one Jewish homeland. One. Had it existed during the Holocaust, six million would not have had to have been murdered.

CR: Do you have a favorite verse from the Torah?

RK: I’m not an observant religious person.

CR: What’s the biggest hope — person or role model — you see in terms of moving on and hopefully ending anti-Semitism?

RK: I wish there were such a person. Different groups see it differently. Some groups say that it will be the Messiah. The Messiah will be a period of peace, it’ll be calming down; others say it’s going to be a person, others feel the Messiah has already come, of course.

I don’t know I think we all have a role to play. I speak to groups to educate them about the Holocaust because whatever happens to Jews will happen to Christians, will happen to other people, fellow Muslims and so on, and I think we all have a responsibility; there’s a power of one. I’m happy when people come to commemorations like this. They want to learn, they want to remember, they want to honor, and I think a lot of people don’t know what it was. Really, there’s people who don’t know what it is and how it affects everybody. Regardless what group it starts with, it’ll be about everybody.

CR: What are the best methods of being aware of these kinds of signs in the modern world?

RK: It’s been here for a thousand years for one thing or another. People need to be educated that Jews did not crucify Jesus. In my talk I say that we’re ordinary people, run-of-the-mill and everybody has an name and an identity and so on and there’s good and bad, I think there’s a lot of good in Jews.

You asked what signs? It’s scary You know, what happened in Paris, shooting children in a school, and in Belgium and in a museum. That lone wolves, or terrorists, whatever they’re called, I don’t know what’s making them behave like that.

This is a more immediately violent in turning those in universities, who are turning students against Israel. They don’t have the facts.

They blame Israel, they blame the Jews of Israel and they turn against us Jews in the diaspora. We are affected by what happens in Israel, I understand that, and I used to say I have no right to speak up because I don’t live there, when I haven’t lived there, but we are affected.

What signs? So I think where people act out of ignorance, they jump to violence. We have so much violence. I don’t know what turns people (to that) like in Australia or America and they want to be

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“Jihadists.” What is it? Have you heard anybody talk about that?

CR: I have not heard about that, actually. In a lot of cases it’s attributed to mental illness.

RK: It’s not that with everybody. They’re lost souls. Some of them are educated, they’ve been to college. I think that there are Imams that are inciting and actually telling them on the Internet, go out and kill, go out and kill.

They’ve deified death. We are for life. The other night, I heard a twelve year old play a violin at a commemorative service and it was so beautiful and I see amazing technological advancements and I see beautiful things people that have kindness and goodness in them, and against that to see violence, meaningless brutality.

It’s barbarism. I think we can each have a role. I speak out to educate people. People need to learn and tell others and protest when the chance comes, to demonstrate, to speak out, to write, to write the newspapers, to speak in your newspaper here to encourage people to listen, to learn, to I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know the answer.

CR: How do you define hate?

RK: Well you know, Elie Weisel said that the opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Because of indifference, it contributed to the Holocaust. There were countries, there were leaders, there were individuals, so you don’t have to be hateful if you’re indifferent. It’s already bad. Hate is just worse, I guess.

CR: How do you define absolution or forgiveness?

RK: That’s an individual thing.

I don’t carry around hate. I had a fascinating experience when I was a storyteller, and I was telling my holocaust story. It was a young group of in Germany, in Hamburg, I was speaking in the language of Yiddish, which they chose to learn. What they got from me, they were mesmerized. Just about my life as an individual, how I survived, and so on. They do learn in their schools, they do teach them. They’ve taken responsibility I think. Angela Merkel is an amazing, wise leader. But yet, they hadn’t heard it from a person like me, and they were stunned.

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Right: Joan Wallis showed short video documentaries of Holocaust survivors in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Tivoli Multicultural lounge, April 15. Wallis is the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor and told her and her mother’s story as a part of the event.

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Left: Stephen Brackett and Jamie Laurie, from the Denver-based band Flobots, rile up a large crowd before shutting down service at the McDonald’s across from Auraria Campus at the Fight for 15 march, April 15. Photo

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Population doubles for want of weed

By Dylan White dwhite@msudenver.edu The smell of marijuana wafted through Lincoln Park, letting everyone know it was April 20.

People came from all over to celebrate at the Colorado Capitol.

“We drove down to Denver last night,” said Missy Walters from Fort Collins. “It is pretty cool so far. It’s our first time here; we chilled for a little bit and met a lot of people. I love that it’s a social event and everyone can just smoke and chill.”

Out of state visitors flocked in as well to join in festivities illegal in their home state.

“I’ve been here most of the day,” said Lucy Diamonds from Washington D.C. “I woke up at noon, drug my friend down here and we’ve been playing music all day.”

Lucy and his friend were playing with a random assortment of strangers who also brought instruments. One person even had an old fashioned washboard.

“I just met these fine people. This is the essence of the revolution, this is the essence of what we’re doing, com-

munity instantaneously,” Diamonds said.

There were people smoking joints, vaping pens and even doing dabs out of bongs. A dispensary called Pineapple Exchange was handing out samples to anyone with a medical marijuana card. They also gave out mini dab pieces to people without cards.

“There was suppose to be tabling over on the plaza across the street but they rescinded the license at the last minute so they couldn’t do it they way they wanted,” Diamonds said “I would’ve liked to see that, but it’s been a nice event.”

The event was to be held at Civic Center Park, but when organizer Miguel Lopez couldn’t get a permit the event was moved over to Lincoln Park across the street.

“A permit was issued by the state for Lincoln Park,” said Officer Ken Morrill. “They can smoke over there but not over here.”

According to organizers about 3,000 people were in attendance.

The park erupted in cheers at 4:20 p.m. and a giant smoke cloud enveloped the park.

“That lady has the biggest joint I’ve ever seen,” Walters said.

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“If demographic trends continue, chances are many of you will appreciate firsthand what it means to be ‘non-traditional’ someday.”

— Tom Skelley

You’ve seen us in class, sitting in the front, wide awake early in the morning.

We chime in on classroom discussions, we do our homework on time and we talk to anyone who will listen about our jobs, our mortgages or our kids. We probably annoy you.

We are the “non-traditional” or, more accurately, the “old” students. On behalf of all of us, I would like to apologize.

I should start by saying that I originally attended college straight

out of high school. I remember being a fresh-faced freshman, eager to challenge my professors with my “completely unique” perspectives, and just as eager to get through class and on to whichever bar or party was on the agenda for that evening.

I also remember the old students.

I remember sitting in the back of the classroom, dreading every time one of those geriatric undergrads would speak up and doom the rest of us to another five-minute side conversation. I remember shooting resentful glances when the professor would ask “Who did the reading?” and one wrinkled hand would rise.

I had assumed that all of the older students in my classes were just there to enrich themselves in their golden years. Why weren’t they content to just sit quietly and run out the clock? Didn’t they understand that the rest of us just wanted to get through the lecture and go home?

Now, I am one of them, and I’m not alone. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 32 percent of full-time college students were older than 35 as of 2011.

While I now appreciate the difference between being a student in his 20s and a student in his 40s, I can imagine how the student I am now would irritate the hell out of the student I was then.

So, to all of you who wish that the oldsters like me would just shut up so we can all get out of class, I offer the following as apology, and explanation. Maybe, after reading it, you’ll roll your eyes a little less violently the next time the old guy in the front row raises his hand.

Forgive us for doing the reading. We’re not trying to make anyone else look bad, but we paid for this — and will be paying for it for many years to come — so we want to get the biggest bang for our buck.

Frankly, one would think that professors at this point would just stop asking that question, as the inevitably anemic show of hands has got to be demoralizing.

We’re sorry for talking too much. Way too much, in most cases. For many of us, being in class is the only opportunity we have to speak with other adults, and we are all too eager to talk about anything other than bills or potty training.

On that note, we’re sorry if we ramble on about our children

or our spouses. Usually, they are the only people beside you that we ever see, and we can’t really gossip about them to them, so we have to lay it all on you.

Forgive us for staring at you blankly when you talk about music that has come out within the last 10 years. It is flattering that you even include us in the conversation, and it really makes us feel hip, but unless it happened before the drudgery of adult life took hold, we have no idea what it is. (In our day, EDM was called “techno.”)

Hopefully now you will at least understand a little more about your older classmates. We try not to annoy you, but we know it happens, and we can’t help it. Change terrifies us.

If demographic trends continue, chances are many of you will appreciate firsthand what it means to be “non-traditional” someday.

Oh, we’re also sorry for gawking at you while you blaze away on your vaporizers. We still remember a time when we had to get stoned before leaving the house.

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Transcendence at CVA: BFA student thesis gallery

By Robert Kemp

rkemp9@msudenver.edu Metro Bachelor of Fine Arts students unveiled their thesis projects at the Center for Visual Arts at Friday night’s “Transcendence” exhibit.

The enormous amounts of time, sometimes years, that students spent on their projects all lead up to “Transcendence.”

“My project took me one year to complete,” artist Katherine Scofield said of her project, “Trappings.” The project featured a “living art” display where two human models posed on a raised platform in front of a series of photographs.

“This project started as a product shoot so I could have some material to put on my business cards, but once we began it turned into magic,” Scofield said. “I looked at the images on the camera and I thought ‘holy shit, here are my dreams living and breathing on my camera.’”

The models posed while wearing pieces of art composed of steel wire, bone, hair and feathers, all Scofield sourced herself.

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rifying, but getting in there with my hands was so important to the process,” Scofield said.

The materials Scofield used in her project held special significance.

“A couple years ago I was moving cattle on horseback, and my

horse got scared and I fractured my spine. The limitations that put on my life were a huge part of my growth as a person,” Scofield said.

“The models in her project wore items that incorporated real vertebrae and human hair. The hair is the same color as the horse

that broke my back.”

Scofield, along with every other artist present had her own journey that lead her to art.

“In high school I was such a dark-room nerd, and I loved it,” Scofield said. “Then I went to the Art Institute (of Colorado) and

instantly fell out of love with it.

All of a sudden it was a product. It wasn’t something that stirred you and moved you inside.”

Scofield took a break from school and spent some time working as a photographer. After a couple years she enrolled at MSU Denver.

“I tried so many different majors,” she said. “I needed to take some electives in the arts, so I chose some foundations classes,” Scofield said. “I had this incredible teacher at MSU (Denver) that just pushed me in ways I didn’t know were possible.”

Scofield said this influential professor was a powerful woman who had a firce spirit and wasn’t afraid of societal boundaries.

“That’s when I decided to do what I needed to do in order to work with metals and photography,” Scofield said.

Not all of the students exhibiting their work planned to pursue an arts career, but Scofield does.

“After this, I would love to work in wearables and just keep building on what I’ve already accomplished,” she said.

Visiting Artists scat night away at King Center

By Tom Skelley tskelly@msudenver.edu Jazz is all about the synthesis of melody, improvisation and rhythm. A smooth mixture of chords and tempo was personified by the seamless blend of two vocal ensembles from two different cities April 15.

The MSU Denver Visiting Artist Series hosted “An Evening of Vocal Jazz,” a joint performance by Soulstice and The Standard from the Kansas City Kansas Community College and MSU Denver’s own Sol Phase.

Both troupes were preparing to perform at Thursday’s University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival in Greeley, but their dress rehearsal at the King Center was an event in its own.

After a clunky sound check, the silky harmonies of Sol Phase took over bringing the crowd on a journey through familiar territory and into uncharted musical landscapes. A warm-up on Miles Davis’ “Freddie Freeloader” got the audience into a groove they never fell out of.

Soulstice took the stage next, covering a range of songs from Ben Folds’ “Still Fighting It” to Marvin Gaye’s “How Sweet It Is.” The group is composed of KCKCC students

, most of whom are in their first year, but whose voices blended like seasoned veterans.

John Stafford, the director of choral music activities at KCKCC, said the trick to making new vocalists into a unified chorus is balance.

“Everybody wants to be excellent,” he said, “Getting them to work to the point to get there, I think that is a challenge. You want to be encouraging but you don’t want to baby them either.”

Stafford’s second group, The Standard, took the stage with “First Train Home,” a zippy number that had the audience bobbing their heads like they were keeping their balance on a rolling subway car. The group added some soul to Tears for Fears’ hit “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” but not before paying tribute to their host by playing “Rain,” a song arranged by MSU Denver’s director of vocal jazz ensemble, LaDamion Massey.

“Rain” is also the song that brought Massey and Stafford together, ultimately leading to their groups sharing the stage Wednesday night. The hit song was by one of Massey’s former projects, and Stafford, after he heard the song and “wore the thing

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out,” sought out Massey to get a chart of it.

Massey and the members of Sol Phase returned to the stage to close out the evening. The set finished with a medley of George Gershwin’s “Summertime” and

Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” — two jazz classics from different eras that fit together as easily as two jazz groups from different places.

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“We don’t ticket people unless they are outside of the gathering around the stage because then it would be considered public consumption just like alcohol.”

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Aaron Drew, 22, smokes a blunt at 4:20 p.m. at Civic Center Park April 18. Drew said he comes to this event every year to smoke weed and listen to music. This was a record-breaking year with an estimated 125,000 attendees over the weekend. Photo by Alyson McClaran • amcclara@msudenver.edu

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“What We Do in the Sadows”

By Robert Kemp rkmep9@msudenver.edu If “What We Do In the Shadows” can teach us anything, it’s that there are still fresh ways to look at increasingly stale film genres.

Presented in a dry documentary style, the film follows three vampires: Vladislav (Jemaine Clement, “Flight of the Concords”), Viago (Taika Waititi) and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh).

K.A.A.N. “Abstract Art”

By Timothy Ulrich tulrich2@msudenver.edu If you don’t know who rapper K.A.A.N. is, I highly suggest you look up his videos. His flow is so distinctly fast that he stands apart from a majority of those in the game. He’s so quick and witty with his rhymes that it makes the listener

Cinderella

By Mary-Kate Newton mnewton5@msudenver.edu Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella is satisfying for the same reason his Shakespeare interpretations are: it’s a fresh realization that closely follows the story line.

Fortunately, he was loyal to the Disney version and not Brothers Grimm, because Branagh likely wouldn’t shy away from birds pecking out eyeballs or stepsisters hacking off their own toes.

Don’t go and see this Cinderella if you are looking for a creative

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

By Mary-Kate Newton mnewton5@msudenver.edu This Netflix series is my Gossip Girl.

Phryne Fisher, the female sleuth is my Carrie Bradshaw, and her murder mysteries are the ones I follow instead of those on Pretty Little Liars.

I mention all of these shows because I put Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries in the same category: chick-literature adapted for television.

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The film openswith Viago levitating out of his coffin and smiling politely, after turning off his alarm clock. He then went around to wake his roommates, saying, in a cheesy eastern European accent, “Vake up everyvone! Vakey! Vakey!”

Voiceovers and talking-head style interviews interrupt the action, with the vampires describing the struggles of life as a vampire and living with four vampires under the same roof.

The film tackles common vampire mythology with humor. For instance, the vampires hold a flat meeting to sort out daily chores and Viago requests that his roommates

put down newspapers or towels on the couch before eating victims.

As to why vampires drank virgin blood Vladislav explains, “If you are going to eat a sandwich, you would just enjoy it more if you knew no one had fucked it.”

Their world is changed when their fourth roommate, an 8,00year-old Petyr creates a new vampire, Nick (Cori Gonzales-Macuer).

Nick invites his human friend Stu over to the house and the vampires learn how to use the Internet, Skype and digital cameras.

Clement is hilarious as Vladislav and the cast of lesser known actors mesh incredibly well together.

The humor is dead-pan and silly in a way that, while reminiscent of “The Office” and “Parks and Rec,” still manages to put its own twist on the mockumentary genre. It brings to mind goofy home videos and is stronger for it.

“What We Do In the Shadows” is a pleasant surprise and definitely worth a watch.

wonder why he isn’t a bigger player.

While his new EP, “Abstract Art,” showcases his talent, it also reveals why he isn’t huge. His skill comes at the price of his sanity.

Throughout the album, he focuses on his personal issues so much, it becomes apparent. His internal reflections are brutish looks into his psyche, lacing bars with lyrics about panic attacks, hallucinations, being raised by a crack addict mom and a deadbeat father.

Lyrics on his previous album,

“Losing My Religion,” showshow another side of him: oppression alongside depression. For example, songs like “Gospel of Mark” eloquently capture the struggle of being black in America. There were plenty of songs about his psychological issues, but these were balanced with political and religious critiques. “Abstract Art” lacks that balance, and I had really hoped to see more of this given the masterful lyrics found on his previous album.

Aside from that, the album

is still K.A.A.N. at his finest. As he puts it in his first track, “Sorrow,” hell “blow your mind with these rhymes / paint a picture with words.” He does exactly that at breakneck speeds and an impressive vocabulary. At the end of the day, it makes him a legend in his own right. Even though I felt a bit let down by the introspective nature of the album, it’s still this young genius doing what he should be doing: tearing it up behind a mic.

take on the classic cinder-girl tale.

The originality of this movie comes from detail and execution of the Disney classic.

It’s the same story we all know and love: the kind, gentle girl who rather than falling victim to her tragic circumstances takes fate into her own hands (with the help of a little magic) and lives happily ever after. As adults, we know it’s cliche and idealized, but as audience members we want to be convinced and taken for the magical ride.

The movie gives audiences permission to be kids again.

Of course it’s top notch special effects that turn the pumpkin into

a carriage and lizards into footmen, but for the moment, it’s magic.

When Lily James spins her torn dress and shimmering blue tule materializes, five-year-old to sixtyyear-old girls alike are wrapped in the fantastical moment.

James assumes the role of the well beloved princess well, and it’s refreshing that she could actually be 16, as Cinderella is supposed to.

However, on performance alone the evil stepmother wins.

Cate Blanchett feels like she should be the original stepmother.

Blanchett is to Cinderella as Kathy Bates was to Miss Hannigan in Annie. It’s going to be hard to picture

anyone else in that role from now on.

Helena Bonham Carter as the Fairy Godmother was also a particularly brilliant casting choice.

Whitney Houston owned the Rogers and Hammerstein fairy godmother, but Bohham Carter’s portrayal was delightful.

Spin-offs and risk taking have become the stereotypical Cinderella, so a straight forward and well executed version is a cinematic achievement when it comes to this well-known story.

by Every Cloud Productions, an independent Australian production company.

For the first couple episodes, subtitles are necessary if you’re not used to the thick Aussie twang of most of these characters.

Miss Phryne Fisher is a fabulous “lady detective” as her business card reads. Scandal, murder and sexual tension follows her like the fur trim on the end of her car coat.

In 1920’s Melbourne, Australia Fisher is a thoroughly “modern” woman, with bobbed hair and skirts just below the knee.

She takes on lovers and hobbies and drinks whiskey. She wears

all white to bloody shoot-outs, and metallic fringe to nightclubs.

She carries a tiny hand gun in her garter that is knocked out of her hand dramatically at least once an episode. She lives recklessly with no consequence.

Fisher is played by Essie Davis, who was 42 when the series began filming. Rather than being portrayed as a spinster or supporting-role motherly figure, she is portrayed as a vibrant, attractive woman with a career and no desire for a husband or family life. She is a rare find in a heroine on today’s television programs.

The mysteries themselves are not-surprisingly sensational.

Just enough evidence is discovered to lead Miss Fisher and the Melbourne Police Department to justice.

No doubt as a nod to Sherlock Holmes fans, Fisher’s address is actually 221 B. Loose ends are always tied up, and with occasional wit, an episode is a satisfying hour of your life.

For what it is — a guilty pleasure, turn on while doing homework show — Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is worth at least adding to your Netflix queue.

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In softball, Runners take three of four over Rangers

Metro honored its senior players that have been a key factor of the team. Left to right: Mary Towner, Britney Thomas, Susie Oury, Kaylynn Harmon and Chelsea Brew Photo by Abreham Gebreegziabher • agebreeg@msudenver.edu

By Mike Tolbert mtolber3@msudenver.edu In a game that didn’t claim a winner until the bottom of the ninth, the Lady Runners fell a run short of the Rangers, 11-10 in a thriller April 20 at Regis after beating them three times in the four-game series.

Beginning with a 6-1 lead in the fourth inning, the No. 23 Roadrunners got off to a hot start with the Metro batters taking full advantage of Regis junior pitcher Nicole Hull. She struggled at the mound allowing seven hits and six runs scored in four innings.

Senior shortstop Susie Oury caused the brunt of Hull’s struggles, as she tripled to right field scoring two RBI. Oury finished 2-for-3 with two RBI and three runs of her own. She also won player of the week in the Rocky Mountain conference for her dominant play on the field.

Third baseman Mary Towner likewise had a dominating afternoon at the plate, starting with an RBI and a run before the Rangers made a pitching change to junior Nicole Aviles to start the fifth inning. Towner completed the game hitting 2-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored.

Allowing no runs on no hits, Aviles quickly got her team out of the top of the inning giving Regis a shot at making a mid-game comeback. That’s instantly what took place as Metro allowed five runs in the bottom of the fifth alone.

Tied at six, Metro’s go-to hitter Towner provided an RBI double to right center field scoring junior utilities player Lani Redmond for her sole run of the game. A single up midfield by senior second baseman Kaylynn Harmon advanced Towner to home plate to go up 8-6 going into the seventh.

The Rangers strung together two runs to take the game to extra

innings.

The Roadrunners put their own two runs on the board in the top of the ninth off RBI singles from freshman Carissa Terry and Redmond.

When Regis got its last chance at the plate, they hit two RBI tying the game at 10 runs with one out left. The Rangers closed out the game with a walk-off error in the infield to take the 11-10 victory.

Freshman Kenzie Mattey got the start for the Runners, allowing four earned runs off five hits in the loss. Sophomore Cassidy Smith also helped out on the mound as she allowed four hits and four earned runs herself.

Metro will finish the regular season against Northern Colorado in a doubleheader at The Regency Athletic Complex, April 22, before taking on Chadron State in Nebraska for their last game of the season.

The RMAC will host the playoff tournament in Nebraska beginning April 25. The Runners maintain a 33-11 overall record (24-6 conference) with hopes of catching Colorado Mesa who currently sits first in the RMAC at (32-17 overall, 28-7 conference).

Although Metro has one win more then the Mavericks and six fewer losses, Mesa has more wins in the division which takes precedent.

With just three games remaining in the regular season, the Lady Runners will likely stay at their number two spot in the tournament.

Not having played Colorado Mesa since February of last year when the Roadrunners won three of four games, Metro will face them in the first round of the tournament.

Last season the Runners won in the RMAC tournament to advance them to the NCAA II playoffs.

They would eventually lose to Midwestern State and then No. 1 West Texas A&M in the second round.

Granted the Lady Runners make it past the second round of the NCAA II playofffs, they would be the first to do so since 2010 when they made it to the College World Series.

Series Results vs. Regis Metro won 3-1 Game 1: Metro State 7 9 1 Regis Rangers 3 6 1 W: Kenzie Mattey (10-2) L: Nicole Aviles (16-6) Game 2: Metro State 5 8 1 Regis Rangers 3 11 0 W:Kenzie Mattey (11-2) L: Nicole Hull (9-9) Game 3: Metro State 9 13 2 Regis Rangers 0 2 2 W: Cassidy Smith (15-5) L:Nicole Aviles (16-7)

Roadrunners master RMAC golf tournament, records

By Scott Corbridge kcorbrid@msudenver.edu They didn’t get the green jacket, but they did take home the hardware.

The Lady Runners golf team set records for lowest round and lowest tournament score on their way to Metro’s first Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship April 21 at Coldwater Golf Club in Arizona.

The Roadrunners won with a 298 in the second round which broke Western New Mexico’s record of 299 in 2012, and with its 301 April 20, the 599 was enough to break the 607 record that was set

twice before.

Metro finished 19 shots ahead of CSU-Pueblo and with the golf program in its second year under head coach Ben Portie, the team hopes to win more.

Two tied for third place in the tournament with sophomore Cha Cha Willhoite and senior Nathalie Gallacher both shooting 147 just behingd Hee-Leina Kim and Julie Sanchez of CSU-Pueblo.

Sophomore Allie Johnston and junior Valerie Cruz finished eighth and ninth respectively with a 152 (78-74) score for Johnston and 153 (77-76) for Cruz.

Gallacher was named the RMAC golfer of the week April 16 for the second time in her career.

Gallacher previously won the Maverick Spring Invitational April 13 and 14 in Grand Junction. She shot a 144 with a 73 first round and 71 second round score. Gallacher’s first tournament win was also in the Maverick Spring Invitational in 2014.

The Maverick Invite was the second time this season that the Roadrunners won, also winning the Colorado Christian RMAC event in which five Runners finished over 80.

The event was the first ever tournament win for the Lady Roadrunners.

Hopefully next season will bring more tournament wins for Metro.

Metro won the RMAC championship with a combine 599 which broke the previous record set by Western New Mexico in 2012 when they shot a 601. The Roadrunners also set a lowest round score of 299 on the first day. Sophomore Cha Cha Willhoite finished the highest at eighth.

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Pitching a beauty in Roadunners rout of Mines

By Mike Tolbert mtolber3@msudenver.edu Coming off a close 3-2 loss to Regis, Metro stormed ahead of Colorado Mines earning the 7-1 victory in the first of four games April 18-19 at The Regency Athletic Complex.

Led by senior Kris Lalk, who started on the mound for the Roadrunners, pitched eight shutout innings while striking out 10 batters in the win. Lalk allowed only two hits with no errors for the game.

“It felt pretty good just trying to work ahead of the count,” Lalk said. “You get most success that way.”

On the offensive side, two stolen bases from the Runners advanced junior outfielder Jeff Levett to an unearned score getting on the board first in the top of the first inning. Levett finished 1-for-2 and two RBI. Sophomore shortstop Jake Thurston doubled to right field in the second to advance junior second baseman Nick Comito to home plate. In Levett’s next chance at bat, he hit a homer to left center

Redshirt freshman Julian Garcia pitches against Colorado Mines April 19 at the Regency Athletic Complex in Denver. The Runners lost the game 7-2 but split the series with the Orediggers, winning 7-1 and 8-6 but losing 5-2 April 18. Senior pitcher Kris Lalk threw a two hit game against Colorado Mines in the first of the four games. Metro continues its season with a four-game series against Colorado Mesa before finishing the season against Colorado Christian for another four game series. The RMAC tournament begins May 7. Photo by Abreham Gebreegziabher • agebreeg@msudenver.edu

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scoring two RBI on the same play to go up 2-0. Thurston ended going 2-for-4 and an RBI while Comito finished 1-for-3.

The scoring frenzy continued for Metro later in the fifth after junior outfielder Alex Walker reached on a fielder’s choice to get redshirt freshman Trent Maloney home for a score.

The Roadrunners added two more runs in the seventh inning to take the 7-0 lead in the ninth.

The Orediggers tacked on a lone run in the top of that inning after a line drive to left field brought home infielder Logan Smith.

Metro closed out the game with the 7-1 win raising its record to 2114 overall (16-9 RMAC).

“That’s who we are,” head coach Jerrid Oates said. “We want to pitch and play good defense. We did both of those and had some big time hits along the way.”

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As NFL Draft nears, teams have big decisions

By Scott Corbridge Commentary Boom or bust. That’s what you have to watch out for every year, because there’s always one.

As soon as the Super Bowl ends every year, all 32 NFL teams begin their offseason. The all-important free agency period begins in midMarch and each team looks to find that missing piece to add to their roster for the right price.

Just as any business deal should go down, the front office needs to look at just how important the player will be and what they will do for their franchise.

The epitome of the National Football League is the annual draft, which brings up-and-coming college athletes to have their name called by the commissioner and be officially entered into the league as a rookie.

But much like free agency, teams should tread with caution before giving their pick to be announced.

Ask any football fan to name the top five draft booms and the

top five draft busts and that list could vary.

Jamarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf, Akili Smith, Brian Bosworth, Tony Mandarich are some of the biggest draft busts in NFL history, with Leaf perhaps being the biggest ever.

Each were either injury-plagued during their careers or they just didn’t care about the game enough to try, and were questioned the day they entered the league.

These men are why teams should be cautious and aware of what they will be getting into before making the long commitment to a prospect.

Leaf came into the league the same year as Peyton Manning and many wondered if he would be the better of the two at one point.

A precise play-caller out of Washington State, Leaf seemed to be the next franchise quarterback for the San Diego Chargers after they selected him second overall.

Let’s just say that he didn’t have the career that hall of famer Dan Fouts did with the Bolts.

Leaf was constantly under fire for his immaturity and off-the-field antics. Eventually he got into drug

problems that saw him out of the league after only four seasons with four teams.

At the other end of the spectrum, there have been countless players that have been draft gems that go above expectations that teams hope for when they select them.

Peyton Manning, John Elway, Roger Stabauch, Deacon Jones, Tom Brady and Joe Montana are some big names in the world of football and yet only two are number one draft picks: Manning and Elway.

Brady is perhaps the greatest steal of all time, considering his heavily impressive hall of fame resume that includes two MVP awards and four Super Bowl rings.

The fact that he fell all the way to the sixth round is mind-boggling and even more that he was the backup to Drew Bledsoe before getting his shot after Bledsoe got hurt.

These men show that the draft process is as exact as you’d like it to be but you never truly know what your in for until you give them a shot to show what they can do.

With the 2015 NFL draft approaching on April 30, many speculate that Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston will be selected as the number one pick and others believe that Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota will be a better player in the long run.

The NFL is intriguing in that they don’t have a minor league system to send prospects down to develop their game before stepping to the majors. All they can do is

pick, train and hope for the best for all seven of their draft picks. Not to mention that there’s a supplemental draft that teams are able to pick as well.

It could be a final stand for one team and a rebirth for another.

But wait and see what the future holds as we wait to hear those words from Commissioner Goodell, “With the first pick in the 2015 NFL draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select...”

Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf were considered as the top prospects in the 1998 draft and many debated who should be picked first overall. While Manning has enjoyed an illustrious career, Leaf was considered as the biggest bust in NFL history.

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