Volume 37, Issue 33 - May 21, 2015

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Volume 37, Issue 33

May 21, 2015

MSU Denver graduation breaks records

MSU Denver spring class of 2015 graduated May 16 at the Denver Coliseum. This was the first graduation commencement held at this venue, and as the largest graduating class in the university’s history, the graduation was separated into two ceremonies. See story on p. 3. Photo by Jessica Taves • jtaves@msudenver.edu

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By Melanie J. Rice mrice20@msudenver.edu MSU Denver saw its largest class ever receive degrees Saturday, with 1,995 bachelor’s graduates and 162 master’s degrees granted.

The May 16 commencement was held for the first time at the Denver Coliseum and was split into two separate ceremonies.

University officials said the change to two ceremonies was prompted by an increase in the number of graduates.

Graduates from the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the School of Education walked in the ceremony that started at 9 a.m. The College of Business and College of Professional Studies grads walked in a second event, starting at 2:30 p.m.

This spring class also included a record 14 ASSET graduates and was the most diverse class in the University’s history. It included 619 students of color, with 384 Latino students, representing a 12 percent

increase in graduates of color and 16 percent increase in Latino graduates.

“These students are leaving a very good legacy for the other ASSET students who come after them,” said Dr. Luis Torres, MSU Denver’s deputy provost.

These graduates come from a variety of majors. Torres said they will be representing the Latino community, which is a major responsibility for them.

“I think it’s truly integration as it should happen,” Torres said.

He said the university took a bold and courageous step in developing a special tuition rate for qualified undocumented students amid strong opposition from the state legislature.

Torres called the success of these ASSET students a universitywide success story — one he said begins with the students.

The walk across the stage was one more step on the path to success for each of the graduates who received degrees Saturday.

MSU Denver graduates attend the commencement ceremony at the Denver Coliseum May 16. This was the largest graduating class in the university’s history, as well as the most diverse. Photo by Jessica Taves • jtaves@msudenver.edu

Mayor and president cut athletic center ribbon foot locker room and athletic training area. jtate15@msudenver.edu It started back in 2013 when A once vacant field two years MSU Denver President Stephen ago, the plot of land at Shoshone Jordan and a team of experts Street and 5th Street and south of started from a dream and more than $23 million in funding from a variety of donors. Jordan hopes that this state-of-theart facility will greatly support MSU Denver athletes as well as the surrounding community.

“I’ve said before that athletics is the front porch of a university’s house, and while academics are the most important part of our house, athletics are clearly the most visible,” Jordan said.

The field where the athletic center now stands was once Councilwoman Judy Montero of Denver’s District 9, Mayor Michael Hancock and MSU Denver something very different.

President Stephen Jordan toast at a ribbon-cutting May 6 for the Regency Athletic Complex at MSU Denver. Photo by Justin David Tate • jtate15@msudenver.edu Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who was in

By Justin David Tate

Colfax has become the Regency Athletic Complex at MSU Denver, a 13-acre behemoth of a facility that includes a soccer field, eight tennis courts, a multi-purpose fitness trail and a 23,000 square-

“I’ve said before that athletics is the front porch of a university’s house, and while academics are the most important part of our house, athletics are clearly the most visible.”

— MSU Denver President Dr. Stephen Jordan attendance, recalled starting his professional career nearby. He and his colleagues couldn’t imagine such a facility here.

“We used to look at this field, (and) this was not the field of dreams,” Hancock said. “This was just the opposite, it was where everything went to die.”

Current student and MSU Denver women’s basketball player Hannah Stipanovich has been enjoying the weight-lifting facilities since they opened on March 15 and can’t help but be in awe of the facility.

“We had a few weeks in the weightroom — unbelievable,” Stipanovich said. “It’s an amazing weight room.”

While driving by recently, Hancock saw how the facilities he helped bring into fruition were being used.

“I saw that the soccer fields were packed as students were practicing, looked over and saw some exercises taking place on the tennis court with the tennis team,” Hancock said. “We have put life into this property.”

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Students, faculty discuss race, police brutality while venting on the expendability of black life in America

By Justin David Tate jtate15@msudenver.edu Young black men are dying and nothing is being done about it. This was the topic of discussion when students came together in Room 320 of the Tivoli May 6.

Dr. B. Afeni McNeely Cobham, African American studies professor and the event’s organizer, sought to bring students together to not just vent their anger, but to have an open and hard discussion about race.

Cobham drew a parallel between the protests and riots of the 1960s — her parents’ generation — to the protests and riots of today, following the death of Freddie Gray and others. She asked students: How valuable were these responses?

Cobham hoped she would be able to spark poignant conversation from students.

One such student willing to engage was Marcus Harrell, a black student wearing braids and a furrowed brow, who struggled to hold back his emotions as he spoke, his voice occasionally cracking.

“If you don’t learn from history, you’re doomed to repeat it, (and) I don’t think anybody in America has learned from its history,” Harrell said. “This thing that’s happened with the cops, black people — we’re disenfranchised. We realize we’re targeted not just in the criminal justice system, but MSU Student Marcus Harrell spoke three times at the #BlackLivesMatter event due to his passion for the subject of race and frustration at what little is being every institution across America.” done about police brutality against people of color. Photo by Justin David Tate• jtate15@msudenver.edu History was a common theme of the evening. From quotations of Martin Luther King Jr. to parallels drawn between the than a few shocked faces, she was still Cobham shared her own feelings on the fought and protested and rioted, and they death of Brooklyn community leader Arapplauded for her bravery for voicing an topic Fowler brought up and the emotional got responses.” thur Miller — who was choked to death by journey it took her through. Cobham voiced unpopular opinion. Other students came The discussion became more heated police in 1978 — with the strangling of Eric up, defending black women for their choice a specific problem she has with the #AllLiwhen other hashtag-named movements Garner last year in Staten Island, history to have abortions and noting inequalivesMatter movement that she sees as an atsuch as #LGBTLIVESMATTER. was used as a tool to identify a reoccurring tempt to include other discriminated groups ties in black women’s access to healthcare, Megan Fowler, GLBT student services problem, and also to seek solutions from the staff member, was angered by what they financial wealth and control over their own into the media attention shown toward the past. bodies. #BlackLivesMatter movement. Cobham deemed a misappropriation of the Black African American studies major Asia “I can tell you by the gasps in the room, sees #BlackLivesMatter as its own critically Lives Matter movement. Fowler believed Taylor read her poetry, promising to fight [Gills’ opinion] wasn’t well received, but important movement that deserves to stand that the LGBT community would be better as [African and African American studies alone. chair] Dr. Gray-Willis said, ‘We are in aca“From my perspective — and this is just demia and we are in a space of free speech mine — if all lives mattered, this wouldn’t but also we have to have the stamina to hear be one movement to have,” Cobham said. different views,’” Cobham said. “What an “So when I see it and people want to assert eloquent way for people to then say, ‘that that, it’s hurtful to me and I actually find statistic or perspective may be a bit flawed it very offensive and I’m actually having because of the historical things that have a tough conversation with a white female friend of mine because we’re about to not be happened to the bodies of black women,’ and maybe that’s something that she never friends. She doesn’t get that.” got to hear. So I think these kinds of spaces While the majority of the crowd tended back and not be another victim. Her poetry are beneficial.” to veer left and liberal, affiliated faculty suited by finding their own movement. was inspired by past freedom fighters, most Many students walked away saying they member Susan Gills offered the only opin“I’m an LGBT person and I have a real specifically the Black Panthers of the 1960s. ion that dissented on this front. She believed were able to voice things they had never problem when we say #LGBTLivesMatter.

She too used history to interpret current said aloud to more than just their closet that the most dangerous place for a young It feels pretty appropriative,” Fowler said. events and voice her support for the riots friends. Other students walked away with a black man was was not in the streets of the “I feel like we can have a different hashtag. going on in Baltimore. lot to digest from new perspectives. Political U.S., but the belly of a black woman.

And it can say, ‘stop murdering trans “I sit in classrooms and people talk science major Ryan Jellum belonged to the “So if all lives matter, then we need to people.’ I feel it’s important to acknowledge about how in Baltimore they’re burning latter group. talk about the most vulnerable, the most the intersections of our cultures, how our things down, they’re destroying their own “It was inspiring, it’s nice to hear other stories link and cross over with one another, unprotected lives that they are,” Gills said. community and it’s mindless, it’s foolish,” “We’ve lost millions of very special, wonder- people’s sides of it,” Jellum said. “Being a but I feel when we try to take over other Taylor said. “When you look at history, white privileged suburban kid, I don’t get to ful black humans due to abortion.” people’s language, we obscure where the that’s the only time we got answers. People see those points of view.”

While her opinion was met with more language came from.”

“People talk about how in Baltimore they’re burning things down, they’re destroying their own community and it’s mindless, it’s foolish. When you look at history, that’s the only time we got answers.”

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How your pity is worse than my cancer

By Cassie Reid creid13@msudenver.edu

Getting needles poked into my face has given me better breath control than Pavarotti, better imagination than Stephanie Meyer (not to say that’s a huge feat) and a sense of dark humor equal if not lesser than Louis C.K. This is part of the constant maintenance of Basal Cell Carcinoma Nevus Syndrome, or as I call it, skin cancer without the sun.

Every four to six months I have a choice: a radioactive facial that fries cancerous cells to a crisp golden-brown and the rest of my face to a bright, blistered beet red; or Mohs surgery, a process of slicing, waiting an hour, and slicing again that can take up to 10 hours and three weeks to heal the seared hole in my face.

I generally choose the latter, the $1,000 thousand-dollar chairs in the waiting room, naturally purchased pre-Affordable Care Act, are quite comfy and I am a masterclass bandager. In either case, I get the aforementioned personality perks. Other bonuses I get from others’ pity disguised as empathy.

Fox News anchors would connect the dots at this point that non-terminal cancer inherently makes you a better person and that everyone should spend three hours in tanning beds daily followed by a smoke. Were I to possess dangling genitalia, they might suggest I might go so far as to copy Randy

Marsh from “South Park.”

(If you don’t get the reference, be relieved. There are things that cannot be unseen).

Yet people do not do these things with this goal in mind.

Instead, outsiders categorize we who are diseased but not dying into two inherently contradictory perceptions: one for adults, one for kids. People diagnosed as adults are seen as being punished for making the seven deadly sins into a bucket list. Ironically, this then excuses them to pursue completing the seven deadly sins as a bucket list, but that’s for another day. If you’re diagnosed before you first use “student loan” in a sentence other than hypothetical, you are Tiny Tim. And in either case, you get the highest quality weed.

So, the student sufferer, comme moi, is left as unsorted as a Muggle at Hogwarts. Support networks are headed by folks decades our senior, and post-pubescent symptoms and feelings are difficult to discuss amid acne (which I still have plenty

of, anyway).

We have glimpses of hope like John Green’s “The Fault in our Stars,” which proves you can have just as average a love story as any healthy person and shouldn’t feel the need to be the chronic cryer. But naturally, the public’s take from such phenomenon is more directed more at the average romance than at the profound implications such a story can have for people who know what their nurses do over the holidays.

When it comes to the sick, feel free to avoid such attributions. It furthers the damaging assumption that you are dead upon diagnosis, even if death is not inherently involved. Fearing disease is tantamount to fearing taxes, it is a willing addition of stress to an inevitable condition.

Toss your pity out the window, apply +50 SPF sunscreen every three hours and know that at the end, there is only death.

By Mary-Kate Newton mnewton5@msudenver.edu

Prom photos are often awkward, but for eight students at Chaparral High School in Parker this year, embarrassment over a controversial prom photo goes beyond acne or an unfortunate orange spray tan.

I’m not thrilled to admit that it was students at my former high school that posted the picture — now plastered over social media newsfeeds — of themselves brandishing a Confederate battle flag and holding guns.

More upsetting to me than the picture itself are comments from

By this logic, I recommend the author of this webpage should use their — no doubt — extensive historical background and considerable ability to examine literal face value of symbolism to write another page: “The REAL meaning of swastikas.”

After all, the swastika, or the gammadion cross, is a decorative, Neolithic symbol and was also used in many Indian religions to connote good fortune.

The swastika had years of history before the Nazi party adopted it during World War II and stigmatized it with hatred in Western culture. In fact, the swastika has centuries of peaceful history more than the Confederate flag.

So, surely modern folks should be able to wear the swastika, pose with the swastika and a couple assault rifles, have tea over a swastika table cloth and otherwise be able to sport swastikas without judgment or harassment from offended parties.

Of course not.

Saying the swastika has no association with hatred would be gross distortion of history and an insult to 11 million killed in the

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Confederate flag: not a fashion statement my former classmates and Parker community members defending the photo.

On one discussion I saw, a trending sentiment was that the Confederate flag should not offend people at all, due to the literal, original meaning of the flag itself.

A webpage hosted on trainweb. org (trainweb.org/seaboard/FLAG/ confederateflag.htm) was cited many times.

“And for the record(,) neither the design nor the content have anything to do with racism, slavery, hatred or white supremacy (—) or anything worse!” reads the webpage.

It states that anyone with a “basic knowledge of history” should know better than to associate the Confederate flag with negative racial sentiment.

Literally, the flag is the “Battle Flag of Northern Virginia,” and originally represented the thirteen original colonies of the U.S. The flag and variations of the flag were then adopted by Confederate states. “(The flag) is also most hated by those who are completely and totally ignorant of what it stands for,” the webpage reads.

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Holocaust.

Saying that symbols aren’t changed by culture or history is a disturbing logical fallacy.

Yes, originally the Confederate flag symbolized Confederate states.

But since being appropriated by the Klu Klux Klan, since being used at the forefront of racism and Jim Crow laws in the U.S. and — especially — since being abandoned by the South in the 20th century, the symbolism of the Confederate flag has changed.

The flag doesn’t mean Southern pride any more than the swastika means German pride.

There are many, valid, arguments for defending the legality of these students’ actions: the First Amendment being the most powerful one.

But arguing that the original meaning of the Confederate flag is good enough to absolve this picture of offense is naïve and insulting.

It’s not ignorance of history that makes people offended by such uses of the Confederate flag.

It’s awareness of history.

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Urban agriculture growing on summer courses

By Paula Thomas pgonza36@msudenver.edu As the urban farming movement grows in Denver, MSU Denver is expanding its reach to farms and the community to bring a new set of classes putting students in the forefront of the local food business.

Urban agriculture is like a fast moving train, causing urban dwellers to explore means of getting fruits and vegetables a tad dirtier than the average grocery store trip.

In the Denver metro area, urban farms are sprouting in many neighborhoods, and some members of the public are embracing local agriculture as part of a new lifestyle.

The new efforts at MSU Denver aim to create an urban farming certificate in order to address the needs of the community, and prepare students from different fields to play a part in the movement.

“Last year in our urban vegetable growing class we had nutrition students, food writers and hospitality students,” said Barbara Moore, executive director of Harvest Mountain Farms in Lakewood. “These students wanted to learn how to grow food, but also wanted to improve their knowledge

of the local food system.”

Urban farming helps unite a community and creates a healthy environment for children and adults.

That connection is an essential element for the classes. The students work part of the class time at a local farm. They learn how it operates, what it grows, how it’s grown and how the business side of it works.

Sprout City Farms is one of the affiliated local farms where students can earn handson experience working side by side with growers and the community.

The working farm, headed by Meg Caley, operates behind the Denver Green School.

It was founded in 2010 in partnership with Denver Public Schools, with the sole mission of growing produce for the school and teaching children the origin of food.

“I have always wanted to learn how to start and manage my own garden,” said Diana Pabon, an MSU Denver nutrition major.

“I’m fascinated with the idea of healing the body through proper food and nutrition.

I believe it’s very important that we know where our food comes from and under what conditions it is grown.”

The certificate comprises 21 credit hours of classes like food fundamentals, urban

vegetable growing, “farm to table,” water essentials, cost control for urban farming, greenhouse operations and urban agriculture food productions.

Experts in the subjects studied will be part of the class schedules.

Tom Cech, director of the One World One Water Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardship at MSU Denver, will talk about water conservation and laws.

“We’re also going to have guest speakers from local farms,” Moore said. “Local food is a hot topic and it’s where our society is moving to, and it will be great for students to hear directly from those working in the field.”

These new classes aim to display the modernization of our local food system, as well as encourage opportunities for business and future careers.

“Having the knowledge of food and how it’s grown can help students in many fields,” Moore said. “I mean, a food writer can write better articles, or a nutritionist can have an Erika Church looks out onto the farmland at edge over others if he or she knows how to Delaney Community Farm before getting to work, work with a school’s or hospital’s garden.”

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Denver’s Bluesman Willie Houston & His Blues Band thrilled the crowd at the Jimmy Trujillo Stage at Five Points Jazz Festival on May 16. Houston, in his eighties, is one of the elder statesmen of “The Blues.” Photos by Melanie J. Rice • mrice20@msudenver.edu

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Above: The Sammy Mayfield and his Blues Review had the crowd on its feet and left them wanting more at Five Points Jazz Festival May 16.

Rain didn’t stop the crowd of thousands from coming out to Five Points Jazz Festival May 16.

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‘Spring’

By Justin David Tate jtate15@msudenver.edu Romance movies about men who journey through hell for women they love only work if the audience can buy into the relationship.

“Spring,” an independent horror-romance now available online, has a female protagonist in Louise (Nadia Hilker) who is seductive and witty enough to win an audience over. By the end of the film, those watching will root for the male protagonist, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) to find a way to be with the love of his life against monstrous odds that threaten to tear them (or rather him) apart — literally.

Grim circumstances compel

Fields

By Kate Rigot krigot@msudenver.edu It first helped me get through a difficult and emotional move. Last week, years later, it helped me get through a difficult and emotional finals week.

Junip’s 2010 album “Fields” has always had a kind of meditative, almost hypnotic power over me – comforting despite its sometimes bittersweet lyrics and chord progressions, probably because of

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Evan to leave the U.S. for the fresh air of Italy. His drunken American friend back home was of little comfort.

Then his new-found drunken British buddies upon arrival in Europe provide only temporary relief to the pain in his heart.

Louise, in a red dress, sprouts from a canvas of beautiful, but mostly brown and tan-colored, Italian villages.

Even as she stands out, Louise proves elusive at first, turning away Evan’s attempt to go on a date, telling him instead that she prefers anonymous sex and nothing else.

It is not until another chance meeting that things start to heat up between the two.

After a brief sex scene, the audience gets their first glimpse of the monster side of this “creature feature meets indie romance mash-up.” The twists and turns

are plentiful as filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead only show flashes of the cleverly designed monster. Audience members are kept guessing from scene to scene what this creature is.

There’s fur. Is it a werewolf?

There are also sharp fangs. Is it a vampire? There’s gooey, peeling, bumpy skin. Is it an alien? In a well-written climax, Evan finally asks what this creature is and gets an answer that would be a crime to reveal. This crawl toward Evan’s inevitable discovery of the creature that plagues Louise crescendos in a fantastic “reveal scene” that sets off a series of little payoffs during the film’s conclusion.

Pucci and Hilker bring Benson’s script to life in such a way that their characters have flesh-and-bone gravity that make their decisions, even the dumb ones, plausible. The leisurely pace

of the film gives the actors time to sink in. Even the explanation of the creature is dealt out in pieces instead of a tell-all speech vomited out at the speed of light like the end of lesser horror movies.

Before “Spring,” Benson wrote the inspired “Resolution.”

That effort, also co-directed

by Moorhead, was funny and genuinely scary. While not as scary, “Spring” is definitely the better film. While “Resolution” exploded with ideas and invention, “Spring” decides it is better to introduce its spin on the horror genre in slower-paced and smaller increments.

The film’s focus on romance can lead to a sense that the film does not even need its horror component, but the creature feature side of the film is so well done that it becomes a welcome addition.

all the gently rocking rhythms you can lose yourself in.

The Swedish-based indie band’s instrumentation consists of neat vocals over several layers of moogsynthesized rhythms and melodies, accompanied by percussion and sometimes organ and bass. Lead singer José González’s voice is, as ever, understated yet subtly earnest. Each note of every song is carefully placed without being overwrought.

The album spends most of its time in in softly contemplative yet gently driving stretches. Patterns that are nothing short of geometric weave around each other and lock

together until everything just feels right and whole.

“Fields’” overall tone is at once cooling and warming, and is somehow saturated with both firm gravity and fluid lightness.

Mildly melancholy but simultaneously uplifting, it at times takes on a quiet power that slowly builds to a kind of impossibly controlled yet transporting ecstasy.

And just when you’ve gotten used to the careful yet complex precision, the band slips some deliciously slidy, synthy licks into “Without You” that loll around delightfully between the last

phrases of the song, drawing you in even more.

Each song is distinct from the others, yet all work together in a kind of album Gestalt.

Whether your own personal crises demand a short yet full album of nerve-soothing music, or you just want some chill-out tracks, let yourself be soothed and uplifted by the beautifully crafted gems that make up Fields. I’d also recommend pretty much anything else by Junip for the same purposes — or José González, for that matter, whose solo album “Vestiges and Claws” dropped this February.

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Mobile purchasing: Tantalizing new tech, or another fad?

By Trevor Hoyt thoyt1@msudenver.edu A shopper strides through Starbucks, snatches her prepaid drink and strolls out the door — no purse, wallet or pesky human interaction. Efficiency is her goal.

Multiple food retailers have entered the mobile commerce economy, determined to save time and stay innovative in the age of technology. The orderahead feature allows patrons to place and pay for orders in advance.

Without a wallet, there’s no physical sharing of precious financial information except on the device itself. It’s all in the application. Customers simply pay using a login and password

on a mobile device. It’s strictly a grab-and-go interaction.

Yet customers are finicky.

“I would try it, but it seems like a novelty to me,” said Adam Bowers, MSU Denver physics major. “I don’t know if I would use it.”

Mobile ordering is a logical step in the rapidly changing restaurant industry. Ordering delivery online is a multi-billion dollar business, according to Business Insider. Within three years, online ordering startup GrubHub experienced exponential growth to its $2 billion net worth. While GrubHub has paved the way for mobile ordering, some customers think the buck stops at ordering food online.

Joseph Rutherford, a marketing and recruitment

executive for the Grassroots Campaign, thinks that mobile ordering might not be for him.

“I just feel like it’s a way to look fancy. I’m still going to have to go through the drive-thru.”

Rutherford likened mobile ordering and mobile payment to “just a new technology. Did withdrawal of money from an ATM signal the end of personal interaction? No. But people thought it would.”

Starbucks baristas have pointed out half-jokingly that it’s not a human interaction for them to take an order anyway.

Jesse James has been a Starbucks barista for two years. He thinks that being able to order ahead is going to complicate the fine-tuned machine of Starbucks.

A printer is placed next to

the cash register. When someone orders using their phone, a sticker is printed. Baristas are supposed to start the drink three minutes before the customer is supposed to get there.

This system is complicated, but as with the introduction of any new technology, routine human facilities will be impacted. That is, these new mobile commerce technologies must be examined in the context of how they will be used and what they portray — allowing society to catch up.

Industry professionals are excited about the new opportunities, although they know new technology is not without the element of risk.

However, Joanna Lareau, manager of Brooklyn eatery Le Pain Quotidien, is worried

about how the decreased human element may impact the emotional well-being of her employees.

“A successful mobile ordering program could have a significant impact on the dynamics of a brick-and-mortar restaurant,” Lareau said. “But customers might be more rude because there is less of an opportunity to experience the humanity of people serving them. But I can also see the benefits to the company of offering a new way to interact with the brand.”

Every new technology disrupts the status quo.

However, society loves new things: Innovation is the spark of economy. One day soon, the human element of customer service may be optional.

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Roadrunners strike out in San Antonio

By Robert Kemp rkemp9@msudenver.edu The Lady Runners ended their season with two losses to the No. 7 St. Mary’s Rattlers in San Antonio, Texas May 10.

Head coach Annie Van Wetzinga said, “Obviously any time your season ends it’s disappointing, but the team has nothing to hang their heads about. We had a great season.”

The Runners entered the NCAA tournament with a decisive 2-1 win over Regis, the team that defeated Metro in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship game May 8. Metro had only four hits the entire game, two of which came from freshman catcher Sarena Espinoza.

In the fifth inning, senior third baseman Mary Towner hit a single that allowed junior rightfielder Lani Redmond to score.

Pitching figured prominently in this game, and sophomore pitcher Cassidy Smith kept the game tied up, allowing no hits for three and a half innings. Espinoza ended the game in the seventh inning when she hit her second double of the day, allowing Redmond to score.

Metro continued with a close 6-5 victory over St. Mary’s May 9.

The Rattlers then went on to defeat

Senior third baseman Mary Towner eyes an incoming line drive against St. Mary’s in the NCAA tournament in San Antonio May 9. The Lady Runners won 6-5, before dropping their last two games against the same team to put an end to the season.

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Regis and set the stage for the final showdown with the Roadrunners.

Metro lost its first game May 10 with a score of 5-3. The Rattlers scored three times in the fourth inning, one of them unearned, and twice in the fifth. In the seventh inning, senior shortstop Susie Oury provided a glimmer of hope with a three-run homer but it wasn’t

enough to bring the Runners back.

In its final game, Metro gained an early lead in the first inning with a two-run home run by Espinoza. The Rattlers quickly evened the score with a run in the first inning and one in the second.

The Rattlers pulled ahead in the fifth inning with an unearned run which changed the momentum

completely.

“When you start something with an error against a good team, a walk, or a call doesn’t go your way, you set up their really good hitters,” Van Wetzinga said.

“When you go up against good teams, however, those things get started, they’re very good at capitalizing.”

The Rattlers capitalized by adding five more runs before the end of the fifth. The 6-2 loss ended the season for the Roadrunners.

In Van Wetzinga’s first season as head coach she led the team to its first NCAA tournament win since 2010 and a record of 33-17. A huge improvement over their 2013 record of 17-28.

There’s much talk about a change in culture since Van Wetzinga’s arrival at Metro.

“I think it all starts with culture,” Van Wetzinger said.

“Like any team we talk about and practice physical adjustments but I believe 100 percent that if you don’t have a championship mindset and have really high expectations for yourself, you won’t reach your potential.”

The Lady Runners end the 2014-2015 season with a record of 42-16, the second-most wins in school history.

“Coach Van changed the tone of our team and she got us where we wanted to go,” senior shortstop Susie Oury said.

Seniors Chelsea Brew, Kaylynn Harmon, Britany Thomas, Oury and Towner left their teammates with a mandate: “You guys better be here next year. You better win it.

Make us proud. Make the seniors proud. Make coach Van proud.”

Outdoor track sprints into NCAA tournament

By Robert Kemp rkemp9@msudenver.edu The Roadrunner track team traveled to Pueblo May 3 for the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships with hopes of making the NCAA tournament.

Any athlete or relay team finishing eighth place or better earned points for the team, and the Runners had seven individuals and two teams finish well enough to contribute.

Senior middle distance runner, Breanna Hemming, earned RMAC academic athlete of the year and had the best finish of the meet for the Roadrunners. Hemming placed second overall in the 1500-meter

run with a time of 4:41.17.

The men’s 4x100 meter relay team, composed of senior Jon Clarke, freshman Robert Carlson, junior Alejandro Montoya and freshman Julian Dulaney finished third with a time of 41.48. Their time was good enough to set a new school record for the third consecutive meet.

The women’s 4x400 meter relay team, composed of freshman Morgan Myers, sophomore Sarah Johns, freshman Amber Sborov and Hemming finished eighth overall with a time of 4:13.44 Clarke also contributed points to the Runners’ score by placing third overall in the 200-meter sprint with a time of 21.54 and fourth in the 100-meter sprint

Left: Freshman distance runner Mali Smith heads toward the finish line at the Mines Last Chance Meet in Golden May 9.

with a time of 10.64.

Sophomore Sarah Hughes and Carlson added points in the triple jump. Carlson almost broke another record when he finished fifth overall in the triple jump. With a distance of 14.3 meters he was just .05 meters shy of the school record.

Hughes finished seventh in the triple jump with a distance of 11.1 meters.

Michael Warburton also contributed in the middle distance with a seventh place finish in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:01.1.

Though the season ends for most of the team, two athletes will advance to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

Hemming and Warburton will travel to Allendale, Michigan to represent Metro May 21-23.

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Runners drop RMAC championship with walk-off

By Mike Tolbert mtolber3@msudenver.edu Suplizio Field in Grand Junction was the host site of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship game May 10. A match involving two of the conference’s best met for a bid in the NCAA playoffs.

Off a fast pitch from sophomore Ryan Baca, Colorado Mesa outfielder Alex Fife blasted the walk-off home run to punch their ticket in the NCAA tournament in the ninth inning. The 7-6 loss put an end to the Roadrunner’s season at 28-22, while Mesa finished with a 47-7 overall record.

“I was leading off the inning facing a lefty,” Fife said. “I was just trying to be patient and finally got the fastball I could handle.”

Baca threw one inning and allowed one hit and one earned run.

Before he entered the ballgame in relief, senior Kris Lalk started on the mound for Metro. In Lalk’s six inning stint, he allowed five earned runs off six hits.

The two teams were evenly matched with the Runners striking first. A Trent Maloney double

to right-center brought home junior outfielder Jeff Levett in the top of the first. That was followed by a single to left side by older brother Darryl Baca to advance Maloney to home plate.

The Roadrunners then took a 2-1 lead after CMU catcher Austin Wallingford added an RBI when he singled up the middle.

The opening inning came to a close with a Mavericks’ reach on a fielder’s choice.

The Runners scored once more in the third inning before Wallingford belted a three-run home run to left field to take a 4-3 advantage.

“It was a just a grind-it-out kind of game,” head coach Jerrid Oates said. “We made a couple of errors and that was the difference.”

Later in the sixth, down 5-3, junior second baseman Nick Comito hit a sacrifice fly to cut the deficit back to one.

Colorado Mesa infielder Zach McLeod hit a solo home run to left field in the bottom of the seventh to push the margin back up to two.

When Metro got its chance

again at bat, junior outfielder Alex Walker hit a two-run single with no outs in the eighth inning, tying the ballgame at 6-6 before the eventual game ending walk-off sealed the victory for the Mavericks.

“I thought Metro played really hard,” said Colorado Mesa head coach Chris Hanks. “I thought they were playing at the top of their game. The only edge I felt we had was the last at bat, honestly.”

Both Maloney and Darryl Baca finished 2-for-3 with an RBI while Walker finished 1-for-3 with two RBIs. On the season, senior centerfielder Mitch Gibbons finished hitting a team high of .342 at the plate with Maloney just behind, hittting .323.

Senior pitcher Mike Thill, Gibbons, Lalk and sophomore catcher Marcus Bean were all named to the all-tournament team.

The Roadrunners completed their first full season at the new Regency Athletic Complex with a home record of 20-6 and just 7-16 on the road.

Metro senior centerfielder Mitch Gibbons attempts an early side in the 7-6 loss to the Colorado Mesa Mavericks in the RMAC championship game May 10 in Grand Junction. The loss ended the season finishing 28-22 overall.

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Capricorn

Cancer

Stay hydrated, you’ll get lost in the desert.

Leo

Aquarius

July 23 -August 22

January 20 -February 18 Next week is going to be big for you. Be prepared to share your recipe for Polish Bacon Buns.

“I’d pay someone if they had a flask right now.”

“I thought it was a gay guy, right.

Cause we’re watching gay porn.

But it wound up being a girl.”

Pisces

You’ll fi nd yourself floating down the Mississippi River on a makeshift raft this week.

Virgo

August 23 -September 22 Its a good week to get a smoothie. Stawberry bannana will bring you great fortune.

Aries

Libra

March 21 -April 19 Be prepared for anything this summer. Opportunities will drop on you like a sack of potatoes.

“I’m moving to Phoenix.”

Your father will tell you a story that will leave you bored and confused.

February 19 -March 20

“What are you gonna do with those boats, man. Pair-uh-docks.”

September 23 -October 22 You’ll hit your stride with “Mad Men” fi nally, never leaving the couch for two full weeks.

Scorpio

Taurus

“Who ya expectin’? Santa Claus?!”

October 23 -November 21

April 20 -May 20 You’ll meet a beautiful brunette when you go skydiving and land off course in the middle of a shetland pony ranch.

When you go to the bar this Saturday, approach the most beautiful person you see. They’ll be waiting for you.

May 21 -June 20

November 22 -December 21

Walk soft ly and carry a big stick. Literally. You’re in danger.

You’ll meet a talking dog, then check yourself into a mental hospital. Good job.

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Aquaman! I would kick his ASS! — Timothy Ulrich I’d fight Robin. Aquaman or Robin.

— Justin Tate Oh, I don’t like fighting.

— Mary-Kate Newton Harley Quin, cause it’d be hot.

— Cassie Reid I’d fight Batman, cause I know he wouldn’t kill me.

— Trevor Davis Who’s the easiest?

— Alyson McClaran

Mary Jane from Spiderman. She’s pretty annoying.

—Joella Baumann

Sagittarius

Gemini

1. Trucker’s allowance 5. Contradict 10. Leaders of the pack?

14. Monster of the Himalayas 15. Certain potentates 16. Instruction for the chef 17. Some farm utensils 19. Relating to the ear 20. Tours-to-Nancy dir.

21. It has banks in Bern 22. Extracts 24. Friend in a fray 25. Grind, as one’s teeth 26. It may be elementary 29. Kind of party 32. Some underground pipes 33. Israel’s Sharon 34. Tahiti, e.g.

35. Get in on a deal 36. Readies for release 37. Make a short cut?

38. One way to remove a branch 39. Quarry units 40. ‘’The Remains of the Day’’ star 41. Period of preparation 43. It’s not quite a mouthful 44. Haley’s chronicle 45. Casual turndown word 46. Sauteed seafood dish 48. Do ablutions 49. Foreman superior, once 52. Napoleonic battle site 53. Engineers’ gear, once

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