Volume 36, Issue 26 - March 20, 2014

March 20, 2014

Volume 36, Issue 26

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Elite Eight in Evansville

By Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu The third-largest city in the Hoosier State will play host to the No. 1 team in the nation when the Division II NCAA tournament begins March 26.

Metro basketball punched its ticket to the Elite Eight in Evansville, Ind. with a 78-56 win over No. 3 Midwestern State University in the South Central Regional Championship game March 18 at the Auraria Event Center.

“The great thing about this group is I don’t have to do a lot of motivating,” head coach Derrick Clark said. “They knew what was at stake, and Midwestern had been the standard in our region. They went to three regional finals and three Elite Eights in a row.”

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Metro senior guard Jamal McClerkin goes up against Midwestern State (Texas) foward Xavier Blackburn in the NCAA Division II South Central Regional Championship game. Metro defeated Midwestern State 78-56 March 18 at the Auraria Event Center. Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

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Get into the “Big Belly” trash trend

By Luke Faulkner lfaulkn4@msudenver.edu Auraria Campus has introduced a new trash and recycable compactor system called Big Belly Solar.

The demonstration is taking place outside of the west entrance of the Tivoli.

“What they do is reduce the amount of frequencies needed to service a traditional recycle or sold waste container,” said Tara Weachter, AHEC director of facilities operations. “Not only does it save money, but it reduces litter, it increases recycling efforts, it conserves fuel, it reduces the carbon footprint on campus and it eliminates overflows that are unsightly.”

The cost of the trash and recyclable compactor is $7,000, and purchasing these compactors would be a one-time cost.

For now, AHEC doesn’t know how many compactors they will purchase and the ratio of traditional trashcans to solar compactors is about 5-to-1.

“We need to inventory the campus right now just to see how

many trash and recyclable containers we have outside,” Weachter said.

Big Belly was the first to approach Weachter and she believes their product is solid. A unit compacts 55 gallons of trash and recyclables three times before being serviced.

“They (Waxie Sanitary Supply) placed them here as just a demo for people to see what they are,” Weatcher said. “To get some exposure and hopefully people will see the benefits.”

The solar-powered compactors are more than just trash and recyclable cans. Weachter uses a website-based soft ware program on her computer that allows her see where on campus the compactors are, as well as when they need to be serviced.

Big Belly was established in 2003 and is located in Newton, Mass. Big Belly Solar can be found in every state in the U.S. and more than 30 countries worldwide.

Some places these compactors can be found include corporate campuses, parks, beaches, colleges and transportation. The company’s solar trash and recyclable com-

sbeets@msudenver.edu Sergeant Gabriel Martinez received the key to his new home donated by the charity, Homes for Our Troops, March 8, in Parker.

Martinez stepped on an IED Nov. 26, 2010 while on his second deployment to Afghanistan. The

IED caused injuries that required amputation. “(Martinez) gave up for his country freedom and independence, so today we are giving back by this home his freedom and independence to live a more normal life,” said President/CEO Tim McHale. “It’s an honor and a privilege to serve our veterans.”

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Sgt. Gabriel Martinez and his year old daughter Madelynn cut the ribbon to the family’s new home in Parker March 8. A key ceremony was held where he and his family were presented with the donated home.

Photo by Sara Beets • sbeets@msudenver.edu

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Big Belly Solar trash and recycle compactors are located outside of the west entrance of the Tivoli.

Photo illustration by Alyson McClaran • amcclara@msudenver.edu

pactors aim to save money, lower tipping fees, increase recycling and conserve fuel. In addition to the sustainability efforts these compactors provide, the containers also prevent animals from getting inside and eating litter.

According to bigbelly.com, “Big Belly Solar continues bringing its Smart Grid for Waste and Recy-

cling to every corner of the world.”

Weachter isn’t looking to replace the labor maintaining the campus with solar-powered trash cans. Instead, labor could go toward other projects such as planting and taking care of the trees.

“I don’t want to displace labor,” Weachter said. “I want to be able to use those resources elsewhere.”

Wounded soldier, family receive house

By Sara Beets

March 20, 2014

national charity based in Massachusetts that builds and donates specially modified, mortgagefree homes to severely wounded veterans like Martinez. Launched in 2004, the charity has built 165 homes nationwide.

The key presentation ceremony was held at his new home in Parker at 11 a.m. Friends, relatives, volunteers and fellow veterans were among those who came to witness and celebrate this event for Martinez, his wife Kayla and daughter, Madelynn.

Martinez rode in a fire truck to his new home and the ceremony opened with the singing of the national anthem, speeches and presentation of the key. He cut the ribbon with help from his daughter and the family took their first steps in their new home.

“It’s still settling in that it is our home,” Martinez said. “It’s just a surreal feeling.”

Attendees at the ceremony ventured through the new home with the family. Olive Garden donated food for lunch. A special dance and tumbling presentation by the

Denver companies, Toy Story and Mile High Tumblers 5280 followed.

Martinez has friends in Parker, which is why he decided to have his home built here. He also considers getting a horse someday.

“I love the open space,” he said.

Special accessibility features that Martinez’s home, as well as others that Homes for Our Troops build include single-level, open floor plans, roll-in showers, and roll under countertops and sinks.

Kohler, Whirlpool and Armstrong all donated products and materials for the home. One of the next homes scheduled to be built in the Denver area will be for amputee Marine Corporal Jason Hallett.

“When you meet these veterans, it’s life changing for us,” said Corporate Partnership Manager Kristi Galanek. “It’s a job I can’t imagine leaving.”

Donations can be made through the charity’s website at www.hfotusa.org.

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Food, fun and information at student organization carnival

By Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu It was a day of loud music, free food, bouncy castles and photo booths.

MSU Denver students were invited to the Tivoli Turnhalle March 17 to visit tables set up by various student organizations.

“We don’t really see a boost in membership after these events,” said Elise Torres of the Student Association of Social Workers. “But it really helps to get our name out there.”

Torres, vice president of the organization, said the SASW is an active club with a lot of outreach opportunities and emphasized that students did not have to be part of the program to participate in outreach.

“We have something going on at least once a month,” said Katelyn Gordon, SASW secretary.

Students who decided to visit the carnival were asked to sign in at the front table and received a carnival passport, a card that could be signed at each table and exchanged for a free lunch and draft root beer. Torres said the SASW used the passport to the advantage of the club.

“We don’t just sign those cards and let (students) move on,” Torres said. “They need to listen to what we’re about first.”

Tables ranged from academic to religious to fitnessbased. The Vertical Fitness Club brought in their pole and offered demonstrations of techniques member Student Activities staff member Jeff Carter laughs as he emerges from a could be taught. Those who visited the Students for stack of cups where he was serving draft root beer at the Student OrganizaExploration and Development of Space were able to

participate in a gravity experiment that involved trying get marbles into a cup by rolling them around the outer edge of a vortex.

“Events like this give us a presence,” said Desirae Sarabia, president of the Feminist Alliance. “Men sometimes avoid us saying they can’t be feminists, and I would ask ‘why?’ People need to realize that feminism should be everywhere.”

The Feminist Alliance table included a two-question test that students could complete on an iPad to decide whether or not they were feminists.

“We’re a very active club,” Sarabia said. “We have a lot of connections with community organizations and with the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services.

We don’t just participate in feminist issues but in human rights issues as well.”

Sarabia said one of the projects they were participating in was a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Women’s Studies and Services that focused on helping women negotiate equal pay at their careers.

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars offered information about their multi-institutional organization.

Geared toward upper classmen with high grades, the club also offers outreach opportunities in which members can participate, including a high school program to encourage students on their way to college.

Kristi Siciliano, secretary of MSU Denver Women in Mathematics, echoed a recurring theme at the carnival.

“Every little thing helps,” Siciliano said. “Overall it’s nice to know that everyone knows we exist.

tion Carnival March 17 in the Tivoli Turnhalle.

Photo by Amanda Sutherland • asuther6@msudenver.edu

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Pot goes pro

With the prevalance of newspapers, television, radio and social media, it’s become easier to find out what’s going on in the world.

An increase in mediums, though, brings inundation in some cases and fragmentation in others.

The news is everywhere, but where is it most effective and poignant?

According to the New York Times, a study done in 2013 by Reynol Junco, associate professor of library science at Purdue, found that students spend an average of 123 minutes a day on a computer, 31 minutes of this on social media, six minutes on email and four minutes on search engines.

In early 2013, the Boston Business Journal published a report from Howell Communications, which found that about 57 percent of Bostonian college students spend less than an hour a day on news, with the other 43 percent spending more than an hour.

In addition, 22 percent said print news is “often” their go-to source, and 37 percent said it “sometimes” was.

For television news, the “often” responses accounted for 26 percent and the “sometimes” made up 33 percent.

Of traditional media outlets, radio was the furthest detached, with 59 percent of students saying they never use this venue for news, as opposed to 12 percent saying they never use print or television.

For some students, news is mostly a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

“I think for mostly me, I wouldn’t say its really social media as much as I hear it from other people,” said Corey Burton, a freshman at Aims Community College in Greeley, Colo.

For Diana Romero, a sophomore at MSU Denver, print is still her main source for gathering news.

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“I like to read, and I like to see every detail that (is) put into the newspaper,” Romero said.

According to the Boston Business Journal study, in the world of online and social media, close to 80 percent of students used reliable, major news sites for their information, and 61 percent said social media was their go-to news source. About a quarter of respondents used an app for news.

Michael Holguin, a freshman at CCD said that he uses primarily both television and Facebook for news.

“I’m not on Facebook very often, but when I am, stuff pops up about news and what’s going on,” Holguin said. “And TV, just because it’s everywhere and it’s always on, usually on the news.

As far as social media goes, according to the Pew Research Journalism Project, about eight percent of American adults use Twitter to get their news, and 30 percent use Facebook for news.

The difference between the two, as is documented by Pew’s Amy Mitchell and Emily Guskin, is the demographic of Twitter users, who are “young, mobile and educated.”

About half of Twitter’s users are between the ages of 18-29. Another key piece of the Twitter-centric news is its emphasis on breaking a story and on passing along developments as they come to light.

This same piece from the Pew Research Center found that four in 10 U.S. adults use a mobile device of some sort to get their news, and more than six in 10 use a computer.

“I like Internet and Facebook and that sort of thing,” said UCD senior, Erin Costello. “I have a computer and I just use it all the time so it’s just right there.

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Budtenders, journalists, tour guides and growers united under one roof March 13, for Colorado’s first-ever cannabis job fair, CannaSearch.

The line to get in the door of the job fair, which was held at the headquarters of presenters, O.Pen Vape, stretched three blocks long and the approximate wait to get inside was three hours. Twelve marijuana-based companies set up tables in the small room and gave mini interviews to potential employees.

The event was for those who were 21 and older and was a non-smoking fair. Everyone from college students to entrepreneurs attended, looking to get in with the industry.

“There’s a lot of variety back there (inside the fair). Some of the tour companies are back there, some of the advertising companies are back there. A lot of cannabis centers are back there, too,” said O.Pen Vape co-owner, Tim Cullen. “There are a couple edible companies that are in there, as well. We wanted a diverse group of (companies) that would meet a diverse group of people. That’s exactly what we were able to come up with today.”

On top of potentially finding a career in the pot industry, fair attendees were also given the opportunity to educate themselves. The Cannabis Hemp Academy set up one of the most popular booths and handed out pot-leaf necklaces to gain people’s attention.

“The Cannabis Hemp academy is an online training school where we certify people to become certified cannabis specialists,” explained the Academy’s representative, Laura Kriho.

“They take a series of six online courses, they’re all on the Internet and people can take them at their own pace.”

For $420, students receive a certificate making them “specialists” in a variety of marijuana-based topics.

Other companies at the event included The Hemp Connoisseur Magazine, 420 Tours, Southwest Alternative Care, Organa Labs and Colorado Green Tours.

“I just want to get more involved,” said event attendee Kyle Seider. “I just want to dip my foot in the door and see what I have to do.”

The social media-advertised event caught more than enough attention.

“The (Facebook event page) grew from 20 attendees, to 40, to 60, to 100, to 200. We had about 650 people saying they would commit to coming here,” Cullen said. “Then, this morning, there were as many as 1,200 people in line at one time.”

The marijuana industry is growing and the event at 1058 Delaware St. in Denver was just the start of numerous jobs, expected to become available with the state’s new recreational laws.

“It just changes so fast — I really think on a macro scale, legalization is coming to the U.S. relatively quickly,” Cullen said. “If you would have asked me last year at this time what I thought we would be doing, I wouldn’t have guessed this.”

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Stress less despite mid-semester blues

By Cherise Scrivner cscrivn2@msudenver.edu We often forget to do the simple things for ourselves when life’s stresses become increasingly overwhelming. The to-do lists are always piling up.

As students, we manage schedules that are typically more than we need. Between school, studying, work, family and friends, stress can take a serious toll on the body. Students get so wrapped up in their schedules that they forget to take care of themselves. Killing your body isn’t the way to get through college successfully.

It’s imperative between all the madness of life that we take care of ourselves, our bodies and our brains. We’re the next generation, studying how to change and enhance our world.

It’s common for students to skip meals and replace them with mass amounts of energy-increasing substances like coffee, candy and

energy drinks.

In an interview with The Corsair, Yvonne Ortega, dietitian and nutrition professor at Santa Monica College, said that skipping meals leads to major drops in blood glucose levels, eventually making you extremely tired and lethargic. Ortega said to “eat a balanced meal of carbohydrates, fat and protein so that your glucose level remains steady.”

When students do eat, it is not unusual for them to eat fast food and indulge in greasy sugary delights.

Darany Hoang, a health educator and nutrition specialist at Cal State Fullerton’s Student Health and Counseling Center, said in The Huffington Post that eating healthy is the key to success.

“The capability of the brain is capped when the body is not receiving the proper nutrients that are in fresh food,” Hoang said.

“In clearer terms, the brain is not working to its full potential.”

Skipping meals leads to

increased blood pressure — hypertension of the body. What you eat and don’t eat affects the oxygen levels around your organs and can permanently damage them.

Eating right and eating regularly balances out your circulatory system.

Make exercise a part of your weekly schedule. Keeping your blood flowing in a healthy way always alleviates stress levels.

Sleep is the most obvious stress reliever. Students hardly get enough sleep to manage their stressful days. The golden rule — at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night — helps you function and gives your brain rest. The National Institute of Health found that sleepdeprived students have lower GPAs due to the impact sleep has on the memory and on concentration.

Sometimes you have to just remember to sit back, relax and take a deep breath. Keep yourself organized and make sure you have your to-do lists written out day by day. Plan your week out in advance

knowing what days you have to do what, and plan some time in your schedule for yourself. Sometimes you just have to force yourself to put the books down and watch a movie — distract yourself from reality. Comedies are always really great, and make the heart lighter with laughter.

Baths are a great stress reliever.

Once a week, take 20 to 30 minutes out of your time for a hot, steamy bath. Put on Pandora or Netflix and just sit there, stretch and relax.

If you’re on campus and need to breathe — put your headphones on, find that perfect tune for you, close your eyes and do some deep breathing. Listen to an entire song focusing on your breathing. Relax your body from fingers to toes and slip yourself into a comforting bliss.

We all know how to relax, we just forget to do it. Fit room in your stressful schedule to take care of yourself. Your success in college relies on your health.

Pets part of family, deserve same protection

By Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu It seems that laws are constantly being rewritten to protect members of society.

There are laws in place to protect children under a certain age.

Punishment for killing a pregnant woman is harsher than killing a woman who is not. Caylee’s Law, the Amber Alert, Jessica’s Law and Megan’s Law all remember lost children.

It’s time to propose a new law to protect a beloved family member—the family pet.

To make matters worse, it’s the police we need to protect them from.

I’m not completely sure I understand this trend. I grew up in a society without leash laws and we never heard of the police shooting a dog unless it had rabies.

A barking dog was not a threat.

A police officer would have been in huge trouble if he’d shot a dog in its own yard.

But now, not only will a police officer shoot a dog at the slightest provocation, but their superiors will defend these officers and sometimes even cite pet owners for not controlling their pets.

St. Patrick’s Day was an un-

lucky day for a Mobile, Ala. couple who lost a beloved 12-year-old dog named Alfred when a police officer walked into their back yard looking for a suspect.

The couple’s dogs began to bark at the officer and the officer pulled out his gun and shot them both as the couple watched from inside the house. The second dog received a non-life-threatening injury.

In February, a service dog was killed in its own front yard in Idaho by a police officer responding to calls that the dog was loose.

The officer claimed the dog snarled at him, but his car-cam only recorded the sound of the dog’s yelps as the officer kicked him twice before shooting him.

The dog’s owner was inside hosting his son’s ninth birthday party.

Cases across the country stretch back to 2008. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals, about 50 percent of the times an officer fires a gun on duty, it is to kill a dog. Two thirds of those dogs are pit bulls.

In almost every case, witnesses claim that the dogs killed had not been threatening. In only a handful of cases were officers held responsible for their actions.

In one case, in Baltimore in

2013, the dog was barking at a suspect that had come into a yard and was hiding in a stairwell.

The owner restrained the dog, but when the dog continued barking, an officer fired six times, hitting the dog three times and killing it (no word on where the other three bullets went).

The police were unapologetic, but the suspect later returned to the home to apologize to the dog owners for inadvertently causing the death of their pet.

Another family in Milwaukee sued the police in 2008 after the death of their dog. They were shocked to discover that the Milwaukee police shoot about 40 dogs per year.

In 2012 in Dekalb County, Ga., police responding to a domestic incident found the family’s German shepherd chained in the garage out of the reach of officers.

When the dog began barking, police shot her in the head.

In many cases, police departments have assured the public that they would begin training officers how to deal with the animals.

If this has indeed been happening, it doesn’t seem to have slowed the death of family pets.

I don’t have a dog. Theoretically, I don’t have to worry.

Few people would mistake my seven-pound shorthaired cat for a threat. But with police officers so ready to start blasting away, I still worry.

The police are at my apartment complex to deal with problems frequently, and cats are known for sudden movement. I worry about her being shot out of the window by police officers already on edge.

I can’t imagine the concern blue and red flashing lights cause for dog owners.

Maybe it’s time for Alfred’s Law, something named for a sweet, grey-faced dog that did what dogs do.

He barked at an intruder in his yard. But this intruder came with a badge, a gun and a free ride if he decided to open fire.

We need a law for the German shepherd, the great Dane, the Rottweiler, the Labrador retriever and the terrier.

We need even stiffer penalties when pets are killed in the presence of the kids who love them.

We need to find a way to go back to that time I remember, when police officers didn’t shoot dogs and had to answer to someone when they did.

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Art and Literary Magazine

Jamaica Kincaid Parenthood in Pink speaks on criticism

Art events

Past Metrosphere entry:

By Jody Mier jmier2@msudenver.edu

3.21: Closing Reception: Preview Exhibition for ArtWorks Corporate Art Program Access Gallery @ 5 p.m. FREE 3.21: Tattoo in Contemporary Art, Juli Morsella 910 Santa Fe Dr. studio 104 @ 5 p.m. FREE

I remember reading Jamaica Kincaid’s short story, “Girl,” in an introductory literature class not long ago. I loved it for its vagueness and felt power in its brevity.

3.22: Elevated Art: A Rocky Through a mother’s long-winded description to her daughter of what Mountain Pole Show it means to be a proper woman, we are painted a picture of an extremely Oriental Theatre @ 7 p.m. complex relationship between the two. The story moved me in a way that a $30+ really great literary work sometimes can, and I treasured it.

But not everybody feels this way about Kincaid’s work. In her speech 3.21: The Rinie-Woodbury at Auraria on Monday morning, she described the role criticism has had Dance Company in her life and work.

Art andwriting Literary MagazineLakewood Cultural Center Reviewers have condemned her unorthodox style, saying @7:30 $20-31 that her sentences are much too long and that she lacks focus. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler even called some of her stories “almost 3.18: Family Day at the Opera insultingly unclear.”

Ellie Caulkins Opera House But Kincaid has never allowed criticism like this to affect her work, @10 a.m. and 1 p.m. FREE calling it more annoying than distracting. When I watched her talk about this, in her fabulous white reading glasses and bright floral scarf, I became wildly inspired.

The level of sensitivity I have felt when receiving criticism over the years has greatly affected my own writing, often making me reconsider my whole profession, wondering if I should find another passion.

I found Kincaid’s ability to brush off negative reviews admirable. She “If you do simply said, “Say something truthful. If it sells, great, but you must say to not breathe yourself ‘this is true and I have to say something about it.’” through writI realized that all of the energy I have spent worrying about what othing, if you do ers thought of my work was truly a waste. not cry out If I simply write my truth, the things that I must write, the rest bein writing, comes irrelevant. or sing in Kincaid warned her listeners against becoming a “Master’s of Fine writing, then Arts” writer, and by listening so closely to others’ analysis of my work, I saw that this was exactly what I would become. And then who would don’t write, write amazing stories like “Girl”, hated by some but loved by many? because our culture has no use

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Art and Literary Magazinefor it.” -Anaïs Nin

The Battle of Inner Voice Greetings Earthlings, Like you, my homework is piling up. Trouble is, I don’t want to do it.

The warm hint of spring draws me outside, and soon I’m realizing that the semester is almost over and that means summer break, is approaching .

Then I wonder, “Should I take summer classes?” and “When the hell am I going to finish school?” and “That’s what you get for screwing off in your twenties—you’re paying for it now.”

Insert panic attack… *here.*

But that warm hint is a ray of hope rising over Mt. Homework, and I’ve decided to take action with the mighty sword of meditation.

I’m sure there’s some kind of elfin name for this sword, but I am unaware of its title.

All I know is I’ve grown weary of anxiety’s rule over me. I’m ready to silence the evil Inner Voice, but is I.V. ready to be tamed?

I.V. is a tricky little bugger. She stands over me and casts a shadow with a list of things I should be doing with snarky comments about things I haven’t done.

“Oh, wow. You didn’t clean your garden in the fall. It sure is messy.” Taking a nap is a temporary solution.

The moment I wake up, she’s waiting to harass me. “You said you were going to take a 30 minute nap. That was a two hour nap.”

But I’m gonna beat that bitch.

Meditation can conquer anxiety.

Calmness will take its rightful place.

I shall sever the legs of anxiety! Arise! Arise and stress shall crumble—well, just sit down and close your eyes.

By Jody Mier jmier2@msudenver.edu Breathe in. “When are you going to start reading?”

Shut up, I.V.... Breathe out.

“Just remember! You need it for the midterm.”

Shut up, I.V.… Breathe in.

“Don’t forget about the essay, it was due yesterday.”

I know, I.V. …Breathe out.

“And you need to do your taxes.”

Breathe in. “You need to do them so you can fi le for financial aid.”

I know. Shut. Up. Breathe out. “When’s the last time you cleaned your house?”

I’m ignoring you.

Breathe in…Breathe out…

Metrosphere Staff Editor Sal Christ: schrist@msudenver.edu Assistant Editor David Alvarado: dalvara6@yahoo.com Contributors Kayla Whitney: kwhitne2@msudenver.edu Jody Mier: jmier2@msudenver.edu Mariah Taylor: mtayl103@msudenver.edu

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Campus events 3.21-3.22: College Music Society 2014 Conference King Center All Day 3.20: Class Voice Performance King Center @ 8 a.m. FREE 3.31: Roadrunner Book of the Month Club SSB 304 @ 11 a.m. FREE, Register at msudenver.edu

Around Denver 3.20: Feminism & Co. MCA Denver @ 5:30 p.m. $12-$17 3.21: New York Polyphony Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral @ 7:30 p.m. $10-$20 3.22: St. Patrick’s Day Skating Party Foothills Ice Arena @ 3 p.m.

FREE 3.20: Collaboration Fest Curtis Hotel @ 3 p.m. $50-$80

Entertainment news “Courtney Love is also obsessed with the missing plane” (CNN) “‘3rd person dies from South

by Southwest crash” (The Washington Post) “Brittany Murphy’s last movie finally heads to theaters” (Huffington Post) “L’Wren Scott found dead after apparent suicide ” (People) Stories streaming at time of print (3/18 - 7 p.m.)

Culture quotes “Theaters are great. They’re designed to sound good, not for basketball.”

- Les Claypool “I don’t have any real spirituality in my life - I’m kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it’s almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.” - Jack Black

Dave Devine (left) leads Jazz Combo No. 1 at the MSU Denver Jazz Combos. The confer was held in the ing Center Recital Hall March 11.

Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

Students improvise at school, prepare to dazzle

By Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu A crowd of MSU Denver music students jazzed up the King Center last week during two nights of laidback musical fun.

The MSU Denver jazz combos, March 11-12, featured several student bands and a wide variety of music, from classics like Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia” to a jazzy version of “Love Song” by The Cure.

On the second night, five bands played to an audience of about 75 people in the King Center Recital Hall. Four of the bands, which ranged in size from four to seven members, were named after times of day.

“We’re not very creative with names and those are the times that we rehearse,” mused Brienna Jarell, who sings for the 1:30 Jazz Combo.

They may not have been creative with names, but the combos showed a lot of creativity with music.

Although some performers were more experienced than others, all of them worked with their fellow band members to create a smooth sound, and each group seemed comfortable adding their own improvised touch to each song.

“There’s something kind of

freeing about playing (jazz),” said Simon Brown, 1:30’s guitarist.

“And within a group context as well — you get a good feel for who people really are when you play music with them, especially jazz.”

The concert’s atmosphere was relaxed and informal. Set on the small Recital Hall stage with low lighting, it had no introduction or closing speech as well as no intermission.

The musicians came onstage dressed simply — many wearing jeans or casual dresses — set up their instruments and began to play. Some introduced themselves, but others let their guitars and trombones do the talking.

After playing three or four songs, each band walked off the stage and sat down in the audience.

Some of the musicians have been playing jazz for years, but others are brand new to the genre.

Kari Clifton who plays cello for the 12:30 combo is one of these new musicians.

“I’ve been playing cello for about 12 or 15 years, since I was in fifth grade,” Clifton said. “But jazz was definitely a newer thing. I had wanted to do it earlier, but I had just been in the classical world for so long, I thought I would completely fail the jazz world.”

Her boyfriend Adam Sanders, who plays guitar in the same group, encouraged her to get into

jazz about a year ago.

Clifton found that it gave her “a lot more freedom” as a musician.

“You kind of get to tell your own story,” she said.

At the combo’s performances, the audience seemed to enjoy every group that came onstage.

They applauded and cheered, not only after every song, but after every solo.

Randy and Bernie Brannon came to see their son, Mike Patterson, play baritone saxophone in the 11:00 combo.

They come to all of his performances, which is quite a commitment, since the MSU Denver freshman plays in venues all over the Denver area, including the Mercury Café and Dazzle restaurant.

His parents commended the MSU Denver music school for giving him and his band so many opportunities.

“It’s nice that they get out into town a little bit, instead of just being here at school,” Randy said.

Bernie agreed.

“People from Denver and all over can listen to our college kids who are jazz majors, and they’re wonderful,” she said. “It’s hard to believe that it’s college.”

Most of the musicians in the jazz combos have plenty of performances lined up in the short term — the 11:00 group was scheduled

to play at Dazzle Wednesday night, and Clifton played with the Boulder Symphony Orchestra over the weekend — but over the long term, their musical goals vary.

“I’m looking forward to trying to get out there and perform as much as I can,” Brown said.

“Denver seems to be a great place right now to get out in the scene, there’s a lot of really great young players, and a lot of jam sessions around town that are really open to let people in.”

Jarell said she doesn’t plan to perform for a living, but is thinking about going into music education.

“I’ve thought about starting a small business and teaching kids music and jazz specifically,” she said.

Clifton just wants to keep playing the cello.

“I never want to stop learning,” she said. “I would love for it to be my main income, not always a part of it. But the main goal is just to have fun with it and never stop.”

The next jazz event at the King Center will be a “Celebration” featuring José Madera April 11.

The student combos, however, will keep ringing out blue notes around some of Denver’s most jazz-friendly joints. Graduating to the next level, even before receiving their cap and gowns.

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SnowBall 2014 preview

By Tobias Krause & Melanie Moccia tkrause3@msudenver.edu mmoccia@msudenver.edu Good news everyone — The SnowBall Music Festival is just around the corner.

Now in its fourth year, the festival has shifted gears a little bit and is now taking place in the heart of Denver — Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium, April 4, 5 and 6.

After three years of bouncing around various mountain towns, one of Colorado’s biggest music festivals has finally found a home in the Mile High City.

SnowBall plays host to more than 60 world-class local, national and international artists. Spanning a number of different genres over three days and four stages — SnowBall Music Festival has something for just about any music fan.

Tickets are still available for single day passes if you don’t feel like raging all weekend. Three-day passes and VIP packages are going quick on the SnowBall website.

We here at The Metropolitan took it upon ourselves to sit down and examine each and every artist that will take stage at this year’s festival. It was extremely difficult to narrow down a list of artists to check out, but here it is, in no particular order of importance.

Jagwar Ma

The amount of psychedelic rock ’n‘ roll gravitating towards the States from Down Under in the past few years is something to get excited about. Jagwar Ma are sure to get your feet moving with their improvisational electro-dance music. The band got together in 2011 and spent the first few years together touring behind such acts as The XX and Foals.

2013 saw the release of their first full-length album, Howlin’ and seeing as the band spent last year touring the summer festival circuit on the other side of the world, wowing fans across the globe, their set at 9:30 p.m, Sunday on the Ballroom Stage might just go down as one of the festival’s highlights.

Warpaint The all-female indie-rock group Warpaint is sure to present their stylish blend of multi-instrumental brilliance and psychedelic improvisational skills at this years festival.

The hard-hitting rhythms and well-rounded skills won’t be something to miss after dropping their second full-length album this past January. At 9 p.m the band will grace the Ballroom Stage on Friday.

Postmodern art on display

By Melanie Moccia mmoccia@msudenver.edu A new exhibit by Denver transplant Max Kauffman opened March 15 at the Black Book Gallery in Denver’s Santa Fe Art District.

Kauffman portrays various mediums through his abstract art in the exhibit, called “Aether Ceremony.” Aether is a term described as “extinct in our time.”

About 150 people attended the opening ceremony, which offered beverages. The first 15 people through the door at 6 p.m. received

a print of Kauffman’s work along with a zine.

“I played with some experimental canvas pieces and a series of found cans,” Kauffman said.

“They were great, in that I had to really dig for a certain type of can so they ended up to me as these artifacts and a nice meta-scenario of what I like to portray in my work.”

Kauffman’s work is easy to differentiate from other artists. Each piece uses a variety of colors and post-modern shapes. Many of his works look as if watercolors were blended together to create a scene.

“This new work is furthering of what I’ve been pushing and explor-

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Rubedo Local band Rubedo are, as they put it, “a physical manifestation of sound streaming from the psyche of its members.” If that doesn’t tickle your fancy, we’re not sure what will.

The band dropped its new album, Love Is The Answer, this past January and are fresh off an epic week at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Then, Rubedo heads to the Northwest for the Treefort Music Fest this upcoming weekend. At 2 p.m. these psychedelic rockers will open up the Ballroom Stage on Saturday.

A Band In Pictures In Summer 2010, the Denver-based indie rock outfit A Band In Pictures released its debut EP, Orange You Glad. And, the band wore its influences so proudly, they sounded like a near Radiohead knock-off. Now, more than three years later, the quintet has evolved nicely. A change that has been showcased on the group’s brand new full-length, Who Killed The Dinosaurs. It’s can also be seen throughout its memorable live show, which is flushed out by some interesting guitar interplay and lush production elements. The band plays at 4:30 p.m., Saturday on the Ballroom Stage.

MiMOSA MiMOSA is another artist who isn’t new to the Denver EDM scene and is scheduled to play opening night at 8:30 p.m., inside the Groove Tent. This bass-heavy DJ never fails to impress with his eclectic mix of classic hip-hop and new-age dubstep. He’s no stranger to the music festival world either and has a pretty decent track record after playing Bonnaroo, Ultra and Wakarusa festivals. MiMOSA is sure to be one of the most popular performers at this year’s festival.

Pretty Lights It’s no surprise that Pretty Lights is playing and headlining SnowBall this year. Pretty Lights, aka Derek Vincent Smith, is a Denver-based artist/producer playing at 8:40 p.m., Saturday on the SnowBall stage. Pretty Lights has been a huge supporter of the festival since day one. He loves playing in his hometown and plans to bring out his Pretty Lights Music label mates: Michal Menert, Paul Basic, Supervision and Eliot Lipp at 8 p.m., Sunday for a super jam on the main stage. He’s played just about every big name festival in the world and puts on a phenomenal show. There’s no doubt that these two sets will be the hottest attractions at the festival, so make sure you show up early to get a good spot.

ing through the last few years — mostly work on paper made with watercolor and ink,” Kauffman explained. “Buildings dissolving in and out of time, space and dimensions.”

He also gets inspiration for his work from indigenous cultures, ranging from the Maya to the Egyptians, as well as various modern artists.

“I love work that takes risks and tells stories and that uses language in a subtle way,” Kauffman said. “Or artists who have their own language or mythology that they develop in their work.”

Kauffman lived in Denver for a short time before moving to Oakland, Calif.

“One of the biggest things for the show was returning home to Denver to build this show — it itself became a sanctuary for me after moving away,” Kauffman said.

About 40 of his pieces were out for show and for sale at the opening ceremony and will be at the Black Book Gallery until April 4. His work isn’t cheap: the cans he creates start at $200, while his watercolor and ink on paper pieces can cost up to $1,400.

Kauffman has shown his work all around the country, including his most recent show in New York at Scope International Contemporary Art Fair, March 6-9.

“My whole life I’ve drawn and

made art of some form or another,” Kauffman said. “As far as showing it to others, (I’ve only done that for) the last 10 years. My first show was at the Jewish Federation in South Bend, Ind. From there, I did posters for some pals and putting on little pop up shows, and it just blossomed slowly from there.”

Jon Chaplin and Sara Nagel attend the opening of Max Kauffman’s art show at Black Book Gallery. Mar 15 • Photo by Michael Ortiz mortiz 26@msudenver. edu

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Rants+Raves

Denver shows

“VICE”

3.22: Lorde Fillmore Auditorium @ 7 p.m. $43-$56

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3.26: The War on Drugs Bluebird Theater @ 8 p.m. $10+ 3.29: St. Vincent Bluebird Theater @ 8 p.m. $26-$30

Coming soon Movies opening 2/21 “Muppets Most Wanted” “Divergent” “Blood Ties” (limited)

Music releasing 2/25

Chart toppers Open Air’s Top 5

(Mar. 18-24)

1. St. Vincent St. Vincent 2. Damien Jurado Brothes and Sisters of the Eternal Sun 3. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Wig Out at Jagbags 4. Esme Patterson Woman to Woman 5. Beck Morning Phase

Source: www.cpr.org/openair

iTunes charts

Top song: “Happy” — Pharrell Williams Top free app: Smash Hit Top paid app: Bridge Constructor Source: www.itunes.com

Box office chart 1: “Mr. Peabody and Sherman” 2: “300: Rise of an Empire” 3: “Need for Speed” Source: www.rottentomatoes.com

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By Nikki Work

3.22: Jennifer Nettles Paramount Theater @ 8 p.m. $45+

Barry Manilow -— Night Songs Future Islands — Singles Kylie Minogue — Kiss Me Once Memphis May Fire — Unconditional

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Lost in the Dream by The War on Drugs Album art by Secretly Canadian Records

“Need For C Speed”

By J.R. Johnson gjohns93@msudenver.edu If you’re worried you might not get what you pay for, relax. “Need for Speed” is precisely what it touts — fast cars, and that’s pretty much it.

In this high-stakes, tire-peeling thriller, Aaron Paul takes on his first leading role on the big screen

The War on A Drugs

By Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu A few years back I got the chance to see The War on Drugs, an indie rock band from Philadelphia, open for singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten. I was in no way prepared for what was to come that night.

In support of Van Etten’s headlining tour across the country, The War on Drugs were wowing crowds left and right with their ambient, shoegaze rock ‘n’ roll sound.

“VICE” Show poster by HBO

“Need for Speed” Movie poster by DreamWorks

after finishing his outstanding run on “Breaking Bad.” Paul does the best he can with a movie that seems like it was rushed into theaters.

Paul jumps behind the wheel as Tobey Marshall, a street racer with a gift for driving who channels his passion into working under the hood at his father’s auto shop instead.

A former rival comes into Tobey’s life with a once-in-a-lifetime deal he can’t pass up, but it ends with him in handcuffs, framed for the murder of his friend.

After serving his unjust jail

time, Tobey is hell-bent on earning his long overdue revenge.

A simple plot isn’t always a bad thing, but “Need for Speed’s” is extremely undeveloped and the chore of waiting for the predictable ending begins to drag on.

Nice cars, ridiculous stunts that utilize the 3D awesomely and a few pretty girls can only take the movie so far — and that’s well short of the finish line.

“Need for Speed” runs out of gas long before it gets close to the checkered flag.

It almost brought a tear to my eye as I stood there in awe of the brilliant display of musical genius unfolding on stage.

The band released their third studio album, Lost in the Dream, March 18 via Secretly Canadian Records.

Opening with a near-nineminute ditty called “Under the Pressure,” the band picked up right where they left us with 2011’s Slave Ambient, but now featuring a subtle beauty and sense of mature craftsmanship not seen before.

Fans of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and My Bloody Valentine will take solace in the catchy and repetitive blend of folk-rockmeets-lo-fi rock ‘n’ roll that plays

like a modern day Shakespearean tragedy come alive.

The distorted guitar work from frontman Adam Granduciel meshes well with an overdubbed tinge of drowned-out rhythm from drummer Patrick Berkery’s consistently tight fi lls, leaving listeners with a fresh outlook on the modern day Americana genre.

A simply breathtaking display of purely raw, emotional joy (or pain) is demonstrated throughout the duration of the other nine tracks that showcase the many talents that the band is able to convey through each and every note.

Lost in the Dream is a fantastic album that soothes the soul on each listen.

Between basketball games in North Korea, heroin addiction in Mexico and navigating ghost towns in China, the guys at “VICE” are no strangers to intense, hard-hitting news coverage. Back for a second season, the stakes of the HBO show’s in-depth reporting haven’t lowered at all.

Season two of the documentary news program, named after the New York-based media group VICE, premiered March 14 and found reporters in two of the most dangerous places in the world: Kandahar, Afghanistan, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Kandahar, VICE co-founder Shane Smith looked into the misuse and waste of American funding, finding that billions of U.S. tax dollars are going to waste amidst corruption and failing infrastructure. In Rio, despite efforts to clean up slums in the city, crime and poverty rates are soaring. With the 2016 Summer Olympics set to be held in the city and the 2014 World Cup rapidly approaching, the efforts to crack down on drugs and violence are increasing, but not necessarily with much success.

“VICE” is the most nervewracking television news program I have ever experienced.

While the news organization undeniably sends its reporters into some incredibly dangerous situations, the results are incredible.

They ask real questions and, remarkably, get real answers. Instead of polished, the results of VICE’s reporting are raw. The stories are powerful, and a large part of that is because of the caliber of sources reporters use. Instead of only interviewing officials, experts or easily accessed witnesses, VICE reporters talk to the underbelly of society, often their subjects, those directly impacted by massive issues and those who have inside insight — no matter how dangerous the acquisition of their testimony may be.

While the program’s sharpness and candor is harsh at times, “VICE” delivers important current events in a way that is revolutionary for the cable news business.

The quality of reporting and presentation overwhelms anything presented by CNN and other cable news stations.

It’s news that viewers may not want to see, but need to know — and that honesty is something the current world of media sorely needs.

“The Grand Budapest A Hotel”

By Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu The latest big-screen creation

by Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” is a hilarious, exciting and ultimately bittersweet romp through a bygone land of luxury.

Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes) is the well-dressed and wellperfumed concierge at the Grand Budapest Hotel in the imaginary country of Zurowka. His story begins in 1932, when he hires and then befriends an immigrant lobby boy named Zero (Tony Revolori).

After the sudden death of one of Gustave’s patrons, Zero accompanies him to the will reading. The two are quickly caught up in an art theft and then a murder investigation. From there, the movie is a series of increasingly over-the-top chases and escapes, with witty and heartwarming moments sprinkled throughout.

It all unfolds as a story within a story, told by an unnamed writer who is describing the tale he heard from an older Zero.

Anyone familiar with Anderson’s previous work (“The Life Aquatic,” “Moonrise Kingdom”) knows exactly what kind of humor to expect from “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” For those who aren’t— well, it’s difficult to describe on

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By David Tan dtan@msudenver.edu Alameda Burrito is a gem hidden in plain sight, located at Alameda and South Pierce Street. This restaurant has a great variety of Mexican food and their burritos are absolutely delicious. Ranging from breakfast burritos to fully loaded smothered burritos, there are enough choices to have a different burrito each day.

A great way to start the day is with one of their breakfast burritos. The chorizo breakfast burrito a has mouth-watering mix of eggs, hash browns, cheese, chorizo sausage and hot sauce that explodes with flavor in your mouth. It’s very filling, but you won’t be able to stop just at one.

Come back again at lunch for their smothered burritos, with four different options of meat to choose from: chicken, steak, ground beef or pork, accompanied by beans, cheese,

paper, but this is the kind of movie where someone can unexpectedly throw a cat out a window without changing expression; or where two characters can argue about perfume while four thugs hijack a car in the background.

Fiennes has beautiful comedic timing that works perfectly with the script’s deadpan jokes. He’s not alone in this star-studded cast, which includes Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Jude Law and Willem Dafoe, among others.

The scenery also helps with the movie’s comic effect—some of the improbable architecture looks like it belongs in a Claymation film, which makes the chase scenes across cable cars and through candy-colored hallways even more entertaining.

However, the characters provide the heart and soul of the movie. Gustave is larger than life and full of contradictions—a sincere, gentlemanly con artist who secures his elderly patrons’ loyalty by sleeping with them, and recites poetry and profanities with equal ease. His unlikely friendship with Zero, the over-earnest lobby boy, is as touching as it is funny.

But the impending war, and what it will do to the hotel, always casts an ominous shadow over the story. A touch of sadness anchors this outrageous comedy to the real world.

“The Grand Budapest Hotel” is well worth a trip to the Landmark Esquire. Unfortunately, that is the only theatre showing it in the Denver area, and it was completely sold out during opening week. So be sure to buy tickets in advance. lettuce, tomatoes and guacamole, wrapped in a flour tortilla and topped with homemade red chili and cheese. These gooey delights will melt in your mouth and tickle your taste buds.

Alameda Burrito does offer other Mexican dishes besides burritos. Chimichangas and homemade tamales are also on the menu and just as good as the burritos. The chimichangas have a toasted tortilla outside coated with sour cream and lettuce stuffed with beef or chicken and cheese.

Whatever you decide to eat, your stomach will thank you.

Whether you are on the run or dining in, Alameda Burritos serves guests quickly and everything is made to order.

You won’t have to wait long for your food, which usually takes about seven minutes, or about 15 on a busy day.

Alameda Burrito could use more variety outside of burritos, perhaps giving more choices on top of an already solid menu, but that would just be a bonus at this point.

Finally, many of their items are under $10, so it won’t take a big bite out of your wallets.

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“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Movie poster by Scott Rudin Productions “Veronica Mars” Movie poster by Warner Bros.

Small Black A Real People

By Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu The most recent product from Small Black, an electro, indie-pop band from Brooklyn, is the brand new EP, Real People, out April 1 on Jagjaguwar Records.

The EP comes just a few short months after the band released Limits of Desire, the second fulllength album in several years.

With only five tracks, the EP is

“Veronica A Mars”

By Steve Musal smusal@msudenver.edu Most fans of cancelled television shows wish they had just one more season, or a movie. Most cancelled television shows wish they had fans this devoted.

When “Veronica Mars” wasn’t renewed after its third season in 2007, fans of the series revolted, sending Mars Bars and marshmallows to the CW’s offices in support of the cult favorite show. When “Mars” still got cancelled, the fandom held out hope for a web series

Real People by Small Black Album art by Jagjaguwar Records

heavily influenced by ’80s electropop and infused with a joyful, uplifting and consistent synth presence throughout the entire EP. The title track, “Real People,” is a Tears For Fears-meets-INXS track littered with heavy post-production (sounding) add-ons like overdubbed electronic noises and a solid breakbeat. The instrumentation and electro work blends together perfectly over the consistent drumfills and groovy basslines.

Josh Kolenik’s voice echoes with some sort of tinge of reverb brilliance.

The album really opens up on track three, “Consequences,” which sounds a lot like some sort

of new-age version of the now defunct LCD Soundsystem. Kolenik’s voice seems to flow effortlessly along, bobbing and weaving, in and out of the constantly growing beat.

“Reconstruction” is most definitely not a track to miss.

The electro-drumming from Jeff Curtin grabs you by the gills and wraps you around a sonic chorus you can’t let go of.

The album ends with “Downtown Lights;” Small Black is able to showcase their constantly evolving sound in just under 23 minutes.

Make sure to check out Small Black April 2 at the Hi-Dive alongside Snowmine.

— or even, one day, a movie.

In early 2013, series creator Rob Thomas, along with stars Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, and others, started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a film.

They hoped to earn $2 million, to convince Warner Bros. there was enough interest in a potential film.

Instead, 91,585 backers donated $5.7 million. Warner Bros. covered a bit more. Thomas’ team shot the film in 30 days in late 2013, running on a tight budget. With any other show, it would be a recipe for rushed disaster.

For “Veronica Mars,” the result was everything fans wanted from a movie. From a solid plot as twisted and noirish as anything from the show, to the familiar setting of class-struggle-ridden Neptune,

Calif., to cameos from almost every “Mars” character still alive after season three, the film aimed to thrill fans and still deliver a good film.

And thrilled the fans were when the film came out March 14, to the tune of $2.6 million dollars in the opening weekend (nothing to sneeze at for a limited release of 291 theaters worldwide). Talks are already in the works for a possible sequel.

But the success isn’t surprising for long-time fans of the show. As the most-frequently quoted line in the show goes, the story is “epic: spanning years and continents; lives ruined and blood shed. No one writes songs about the ones that come easy.”

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Track & field Metro had a big showing at the NCAA Indoor Champions March 14 and 15 in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Runners came away with the schools first ever All-Americans after the women’s team of Breanna Hemming, Janelle Lincks, Belle Kiper and Judith Chavez finished fifth in the women’s distance medley relay March 14.

Hemming was able to move Metro from tenth to fifth after her career day when she finished the final leg of the race and solidified the Runners school record time of 11:48.89.

One day later, it would be both men’s and women’s that had All-Americans as Kirk Harvey earned the honor when he placed seventh in the men’s 3,000 meter with a time of 8:23.07.

Hemming had a strong outing for her race as she led throughout the entire mile before she stumbled and dropped to sixth place with 10 meters remaining and just shy of fifth by .007 seconds.

Women’s Golf Metro’s women’s golf team couldn’t quite get on the green as they finished 17th at the Midwestern State Invitational March 1718 in Wichita Falls, Texas.

The Roadrunners ended with a score of 709 as Dallas Baptist won with a score of 606.

Juniors Nathalie Gallacher, Dani Look and Jazmine Roland finished the two-day tournament with scores of 171, 175 and 177 respectively.

The team will be back swinging on March 31 for the Regis Invitational.

Roland leads the team with a stroke average of 83.00

Compiled by Scott Corbridge kcorbrid@msudenver.edu

Softball splits double header Pitcher’s mound sees complete games from both senior and freshman stars

Metro starting pitcher Aubree Maul winds up to deliver a a pitch against Regis University March 16 at the Auraria Field. Maul has a 4-2 record and an era of 4.24 on the season. Photo by Alyson McClaran • amcclara@msudenver.edu In the March 13 issue of The Metropolitan, we misprinted the caption for the story, “Inaugural home matches a split”. The player in the photo is Naomi Halopainen on March 8 against St. Edward’s University (Texas) at the Metro State Tennis Facility.

By Mario Sanelli

msanelli@msudenver.edu The Roadrunners only needed 11 of 14 scheduled innings to register two wins against Regis University and Western New Mexico University.

But it was Metro who lost by a combined three runs in the final two games of the four-game series at the Auraria Field.

Senior pitcher Aubree Maul (42) battled Regis University in game one of the March 15 doubleheader and pitched a complete game in a 9-1 victory in six innings, giving up one earned run on six hits.

Day one of the games against Regis and Western New Mexico commemorated Teal Day, in support of the fight against ovarian cancer. Maul is a survivor of this disease and went through her final treatments in April of 2013.

Tied 0-0 until the fourth inning, Regis took a 1-0 lead, to which Metro answered with seven runs. “(The rally) was started, not with big hits — it was just people finding different ways to get on base. Laying down bunts and getting steals,” said head coach Annie Van Wetzinga.

The Roadrunners followed their win against Regis with a 12-0 victory over WNM in five innings.

Back-to-back five-run innings plated Metro to a 10-0 lead after two innings.

Senior catcher Kelsey Tillery sent a two-run double down the right field line in the bottom of the third inning, which extended the Roadrunners’ lead to 12 and made the next two innings a breeze as freshman pitcher Cassidy Smith (6-0) finished off a complete game for her sixth win of the season. “(We) got really good pitching performances from Cassidy and Aubree,” Van Wetzinga said. “Neither one of them walked anybody on the day.”

Metro dropped the March 16 doubleheader with a 5-4 loss to WNM, followed by an 8-6 loss to Regis. The big innings that came the day prior didn’t materialize for the Roadrunners the second time.

“In the two games, we left something like 18, 19 people on base,” Van Wetzinga said.

Metro came out flat on day two, unable to carry over the momentum from the day before.

“We ended up playing tight once we realized things weren’t coming easily for us,” Van Wetzinga said.

The Roadrunners are 12-6 overall after the four-game split and take to the road for the next three weeks, not returning home until April 12.

Metro has posted a 4-1 road record this season, which is encouraging to its head coach.

“We’ve been playing better on the road anyways,” she said. “So maybe (this road trip’s) a good sign.”

NM Highlands pitches Runners four losses

By Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu Four close games translated to four losses for Metro baseball against the University of New Mexico Highlands.

The Roadrunners lost by a combined nine runs over the fourgame series, never falling by more than four runs in any single game at the Auraria Field.

Two home runs by the Cowboys in game one generated three of their four runs to carry a 4-0 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning.

Metro managed one run in consecutive frames later in the game on singles from senior shortstop Zac Baldini in the seventh and junior catcher Darryl Baca in the eighth inning.

Still, the Roadrunners couldn’t manage any more run support and went down in order to end the game with a 4-2 loss.

Tied 4-4 after four innings in game two, NMH struck for one run in the top of the fift h inning, only

single to right field. to see Metro even the score two Baca capped the inning with innings later. a single of his own, which scored Two NMH runs in the eighth Purvis from second base. and final inning was the Road“Mitch Gibbons had some good runners’ downfall as Metro only answered back with one in the bot- at-bats when it mattered,” Oates said. “In a couple of the games they tom of the eighth for a 7-6 loss. were pitching around him a little “We had some big hits along bit, and he didn’t go chase some the way, but we just didn’t get the balls.” next one,” said head coach Jerrid Metro added Oates. “That’s two more runs in really what it “Nobody was the seventh to pull came down to.” within one at 8-7, Game three spectacular, but we but NMH scored was the highest weren’t horrible either one run in the top scoring affair of of the eighth and the four games, along the way.” ninth innings to ending at 10-7, —Coach Jerrid Oates finish the game. again in favor of In the final the Cowboys. game, the Cowboys jumped to The Roadrunners faced an 8-1 a 6-1 lead after trailing 1-0 with hole midway through the game, three runs in the both the second due in large part to a five-run first and third innings. inning from NMH. Metro drew Metro scraped out one run within 8-6 with four runs in the in the bottom of the fift h on a bottom of the fift h inning. groundout by junior second baseSenior right fielder Gavin Purman Chris Spirek that scored vis sparked the rally with an RBI sophomore left fielder Reilly Mau double to right-center field, and junior center fielder Mitch Gibbons for the Roadrunners last score in a 6-2 loss. gave Metro two more runs on a

“It was a series of missed opportunities,” Oates said. “We had base runners, we maybe made a mistake here or there, and we didn’t get the next whatever — whether it was the next defensive play, the next hit or the next out.

That really was the difference in the games.”

Oates attested that the fourgame series against the Cowboys fell into the category of a grind-itout weekend.

“Nobody was spectacular, but we weren’t horrible either along the way,” he said.

The Roadrunners stand at 3-11 on the season and have lost their last six games, but Metro has 28 regular season games remaining.

Heading into this weekend, where Metro will play Colorado School of Mines March 21-23, eight of the Roadrunners next nine games in March come against conference opponents.

“Everything is still right in front of us,” Oates said. “It’s still in total control of what we want to do with it.”

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Total Fit PE 104W • Will 11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.

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Pilates PE 103 • Beth 12:30–1:25 p.m.

Pilates PE 103 • Beth 12:30–1:25 p.m.

Indoor Cycling PE 201 • Rowan noon–12:50 p.m.

Indoor Cycling PE 201 • Jody noon–12:50 p.m.

Indoor Cycling PE 201 • Rowan noon–12:50 p.m.

Indoor Cycling PE 201 • Jody noon–12:50 p.m.

Hydrobix PE 102 • Rachel 12:30–1:20 p.m.

Warrior Women PE Green Room • Maureen 12:30–1:20 p.m.

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Warrior Women PE Green Room • Maureen 12:30–1:20 p.m.

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Comic created by Robert Shea • rshea5@msudenver.edu

Riddles A: What is the coolest letter in the alphabet?

B: Why don’t most buildings have a 13th floor?

C: What is the most common use of cowhides?

D: What goes in the water black and comes out red?

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Overheard on campus

E: What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

F: Who gets paid when they drive away their customers?

G: What is as ancient as the earth but new every month?

Answers: A: ‘B’, because it’s always surrounded by AC. B: They aren’t all that tall.

C: To keep cows warm. D: A lobster. E: Carpet.

F: A taxi driver. G: The moon.

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Sorry, but those Crocs you got for your birthday will never be cool.

Treat yourself to a weekend of mid-’90s reruns of “The Jerry Springer Show.” We feel you might learn a lot about yourself.

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January 20 -February 18 Try visiting a palm reader or a psychic of some sort this weekend, because we got nothin’ for you.

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February 19 -March 20

Sudoku

That Buzzfeed quiz you took last Monday does not give you the right to be an asshole.

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March 21 -April 19 Feeling bored today? Try T.H.C. It’s the best cure for boredom.

Taurus

April 20 -May 20 It’s gonna take a lot of booze this weekend to get over what you saw on Fox News today.

Difficulty: EASY

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May 21 -June 20 All those hair bands from the ’80s are terrible role models. We’re looking at you Bret Michaels, David Lee Roth, Jon Bon Jovi and Axl Rose.

Brain Teasers Difficulty: HARD

Cancer

December 22 -January 19

Last issue’s answers (reading from right): black eye, the beginning of time, apply within, reading between the lines, pick up after yourself, standing room only, flip flops

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July 23 -August 22 Feeling sad that St. Patrick’s Day is over? Have no fear, the weekend is almost here.

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August 23 -September 22 If your stomach begins to violently tremble, don`t worry you’ve just experienced a PANQUAKE.

Libra

September 23 -October 22 When all of your work suddenly gets erased 10 minutes before it’s due tomorrow, you truly will learn the meaning of #LOTE (Livin’ on the edge).

Scorpio

October 23 -November 21 Save some money this weekend by fi lming your own porn.

Sagittarius

November 22 -December 21 People laughed at you when you had an idea for a bacon flavored cologne. Now you own your very own Kevin Bacon poster.

“Do you have any spare bills?”

“Gypsies are probably the new hipster.”

“I get all my news from The Daily Show.” (Political Science professor) “Dude, I don’t have my parents’ HBO GO login because they don’t have HBO.” “Your opinion is an acquired taste, much like Rocky Mountain Oysters.”

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