Volume 35, Issue 15 - Nov. 29, 2012

November 29, 2012

Volume 35, Issue 15

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TheMetropolitan Opera Ensemble sings golden tunes MetroSpective The Barber of Seville Opera makes the cut

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Dr. Bartolo, played by Shaun Steavenson, plots on how to keep his love Rosina, played by Melia Tagovailoa, from falling for another man during the second act of “The Barber of Seville” performance by the MSU Denver Opera Ensemble Nov. 16 and 17 at the King Center.

Photo by Heather Newman • hnewman3@msudenver.edu

MetSports Women’s basketball split two in Holiday Inn Select Classic

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MetSports Soccer ends season with 2-1 loss to Orediggers MSU Denver sophomore forward Karisa Price wins a header against Colorado Mines defender Kelsey Neal at Auraria Field in the NCAA Division II regional championship game Nov. 16.

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Cassie Lambrecht goes for a layup against Colorado Christian University Nov. 17.

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Food bank feeds holiday feast to fewer families Nate Hemmert nhemmert@msudenver.edu

As many as 85 families didn’t get the Thanksgiving dinner that they had been hoping for.

In years past, the Student Government Assembly has been able to procure 100 holiday meal baskets for the MSU Denver Food Bank. This year, however, they were only able to donate 15 of these baskets for students and families in need.

“I can tell you flat out, it’s funding,” said Devan Kingsford, an administrative assistant for the SGA. “Our budgets have changed so drastically.”

It hasn’t just been funding that’s putting the pressure on the food bank and other organizations, though. There’s been an increase in need, too.

Joslin Salter, the external coordinator for the food bank, has seen firsthand the increased need for help.

The MSU Denver food bank can be reached at 303.352.7094 or by email at metrostatefoodbank@ gmail.com

“I don’t want to say [donations are] slower than usual, it’s more students coming in to the food bank than usual,” she said. “Our donations are great. It’s just harder to keep up with now that we have more students coming in.”

A lot of the items at the food bank come from outside donations and food drives held every semester on campus, which don’t necessarily support all the needs of MSU Denver students. The food bank also works with 9Cares Colorado Shares and Food Bank of the Rockies.

While 9Cares Colorado Shares contributes a lot of donations free of charge, Salter said they have to pay the Food Bank of the Rockies for their assistance.

It’s not just the donations that can be a challenge, either. The interactions with students can be heartbreaking, Salter said.

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“It’s harder when we’re in here,” she said.

“We have to explain to the students when there’s not a lot here. It’s sad because we’re students ourselves and understand what they’re going through.”

The fall food drive is going on now across campus, but students and organizations are always encouraged to do their own donation drives.

The food bank web site encourages organizations and departments to make “significant contributions to the MSU Denver Student Food Bank by organizing food drives. There’s no single right way to run a

food drive, but we have some tips to offer interested individuals.”

Drop-off donations can be made during regular hours too. Monetary donations are also welcome — as well as gift cards to food retailers.

9Cares Colorado Shares is also running a winter drive and has donation locations throughout the Denver area to help those in need.

As said on the 9Cares Colorado Shares website, “A small donation can go a long way in the life of a hungry family.”

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An SGA food basket prepared for delivery to an MSU Denver student family in need.

Photo by Nate Hemmert • nhemmert@msudenver.edu

Auraria comes together for season of giving drives Maalikah Hartley mhartle8@msudenver.edu The Auraria campus is giving back this holiday season with different organizations donating money, food, clothes, toys and time to the less fortunate.

This past Thanksgiving, the MSU Denver Student Government Assembly used money from their expense budget to put together 15 Thanksgiving meal baskets for families in need. Some of the items in the basket included green beans, pumpkin pie mix, cranberry sauce, and a voucher for a turkey.

“I feel like it was a great opportunity for SGA to help students here at MSU Denver,” said Justin Bush, MSU Denver junior and director Of community outreach at SGA. “I really enjoyed putting together the baskets knowing SGA was helping out 15 families to enjoy their Thanksgiving like the rest of the MSU Denver student body.”

Bush said students can still get involved by donating non-perishable food items at the donation box at the Student Government Office in Tivoli 307 or at the MSU Denver Food Bank located in Tivoli 145A. Before fall break, the MSU Denver Food Bank had just wrapped up a successful month-long donation drive taking in food

items and personal care items.

Partnered with the Food Bank of the Rockies and 9Cares Colorado Shares, they now have plenty to go around for the holiday season. All one needs is a valid student I.D. At the beginning of the semester, the food bank was struggling due to a high influx of students coming in because of the changes in financial aid.

“We have a lot of students who come in here that have their own families that are single moms are single dads,” said Jaclyn O’Hara, MSU Denver junior and employee at the food bank. “So it’s a little bit, but it just kind of helps them so they don’t have to invest as much in a Thanksgiving meal. “ O’Hara said for every three hours a student or faculty member volunteers at the MSU Denver Food Bank, the Food Bank of the Rockies will give them a $25 food credit.

On the second floor of the Tivoli, the MSU Denver Student Activities office partnered with a local anonymous organization, CCD Student Life, and UCD Student Life, to set up the “Giving Tree” for the Christmas season.

The tree is lined with paper ornaments

that give the gender and age range of a child.

Students can take a card, buy an appropriate gift for that child, and present it to the UCD Student Life office.

“It’s a way for students and the community to give back to a worthwhile cause,” said Matt Brinton, assistant director for student activities at MSU Denver. “We’ve been successful in past years collecting gifts so we feel we’ll meet the need we had in years past.

We can add more ornaments and make sure were getting adequate coverage for those kids.”

The Office of Student Activities will also be bringing Santa Claus to campus at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 13 in the Tivoli, as part of the “Auraria Shares” program.

They will invite the children of the Auraria Early Learning Center for milk and cookies with Santa.

To the left of the giving tree in the Tivoli, the CU University Honors and Leadership Program has set up a Coat Drive box where students can donate used coats that will then be given to the Denver Rescue Mission.

For parents with children attending the Auraria Early Learning Center, there is

another coat drive opportunity. The Auraria Early Learning Center has a donation box for Coats for Colorado, a non-profit, volunteer-based subsidiary of Dependable Cleaners that distributes winter coats to Coloradans in need.

The Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Church at Auraria will also lend a helping hand this holiday season by giving away Christmas care packages for pre-registered recipients, according to Lauretta Proulx, pastoral associate.

Proulx said the church also conducts a daily food line beginning at 11 a.m. every morning and ending “when everyone is fed.”

Students of MSU Denver’s Upward Bound program also donated their time Saturday, Nov. 17 to help 600 other volunteers feed 7,160 people at the annual “Daddy Bruce” Randolph “Feed a Family” event located in the Cole neighborhood.

The students collected trash, helped recipients get food boxes to their cars, helped with clean-up and broke down temporary fencing where the streets had been closed off.

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Police incident under investigation, details unclear Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu Two weeks after an Auraria police officer shot and killed a sword-wielding Jeff rey Albert Musick, there are still no answers to questions students are no longer asking.

Freddy Arck, AHECs director of communications, said that AHEC still has little information on the shooting as the investigation is in the hands of the Denver police and the Denver district attorney.

“I think it just got shoved aside because of the [Veterans Day] race,” CCD sophomore Ivan Aguirre said. “I think they didn’t want people to be scared. “ Aguirre had seen an online article about the on-campus shooting, but felt that more information would have been released after the holiday weekend. His friends sharing a table with him in the food court were not aware of the incident despite the fact that a timely notice had been sent out to all Auraria students, staff and faculty that afternoon.

Junior Laura Ash and freshman Kendra Maxwell, both MSU Denver students, felt that there should have been more of an alert

from the Auraria Higher Education Center.

They expressed concern that more information had not been forthcoming.

“There was a little blurb about it online,” Ash said. “It was shocking for me. This is my first year on campus, and I don’t feel safe.

There was that voyeur guy and now this.”

Maxwell said that she was worried about safety in Denver as well as on campus.

“It started with the Batman shooting and it’s all gotten weird,” she said.

Concerns about the lack of emergency notification have not been voiced to AHEC. According to Arck, the center has received only two calls suggesting that AHEC should have done more to alert the campus about the incident.

“We didn’t issue any more than a timely notice because there was not an ongoing threat,” Arck said.

The district attorney has an open protocol for investigating police-involved shootings that goes beyond the standard investigation. With all of the principles of a standard investigation met, extra care is taken to preserve the integrity of an investigation that

‘Rowdy Cards’ due by January Kailyn Lamb klamb6@msudenver.edu MSU Denver has taken another step toward stepping up its technology.

The new smart card, or “Rowdy Card,” will serve as a student ID and, eventually, a bus pass.

The card will cost students $15, and the university is working on a policy to make it a requirement that students carry the cards while on campus.

MSU Denver has been working with a company called Multicard to help with the development of the Rowdy Card.

According to Holly Booker, the senior account manager with the company, they are shooting for the card to be out by Jan. 2013.

“We have already started the transition,” Booker said. “It just takes all the players to get in line.”

One of the key players will be RTD. Right now, the cards are not set up to coordinate with RTD’s new smart card requirements. Since the buses and light rail will no longer be accepting regular school IDs with stickers on them, students will need to carry two separate cards for now.

Daria Serna, public relations manager at RTD, said the card will be accepted in new and different ways. There will be a machine on buses that you tap the card on and platforms for the light rail stations. According to Serna, there will also be RTD employees at the light rail stations to show people how to use the new cards.

The card that the school has chosen to work with is an open architecture card. This means that if the university ever wants to add any applications or gather any data that the cards get, they can do that without having to get approval from a card company, Booker said.

“Visualize a fi le cabinet. Each drawer is locked with keys and is very secure,” Booker said. “You need the correct keys.”

For Tony Price, director of campus recreation, this means a lot of things for both the PE Building and student safety.

“For a number of years, this department has wanted to improve our ability to track student participation,” Price said.

“Really, we’ve been checking people in with a hard copy registration check-in sheet that we have on a daily basis.”

For the PE Building in particular, having the ID card with the smart chip information could help track important student information, if they have any outstanding fees, what equipment they have checked out and if they’ve rented a locker. Having this information could directly help cut down non-student theft on campus.

The cards themselves will have two forms of security to prevent break-ins on the card, Booker said.

“Student security is high on everybody’s list,” Booker said. “These cards will really help ensure that.”

may involve an officer’s own department.

According to the protocol, which can be found on the Denver District Attorney’s website, “the bulk of the criminal phase of the investigation is concluded in the first twelve to twenty-four hours.”

The Denver Police Department conducts a separate administrative investigation that can take much longer. The name of the officer involved in the shooting will not be released until then.

At the conclusion of both investigations, the Denver manager of safety issues an exhaustive letter outlining the details of the case that is available to the public via the district attorney’s website.

“An investigation such as this does take time and information is not released until the entire investigation is completed and our legal review has been completed,” said Lynn Kimbrough, communications director for the district attorney’s office.

Some students speculate about whether the shooting incident on campus could have ended differently.

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“You have to wonder if using a Taser wouldn’t have been better,” said CCD sophomore Teo Olivas.

Aguirre disagrees.

“It’s not like [Musick] was using a kitchen butter knife,” he said.

Food truck policy doesn’t satiate Bailey Mesch bmesch1@msudenver.edu Three weeks ago, a new policy was implemented restricting the presence of food trucks at Auraria campus.

The Policy Development and Shared Operations Committee started the policy when the sales of campus vendors began to decline. Applying restrictions to food truck vendors would allow for potential growth between competitors and improve the amount of free space on campus.

Food trucks can now be found on campus on Mondays only, between the King Center and St. Cajetan’s Center on Lawrence Way. A maximum of four food trucks can appear on campus at once.

Nathan Stern, Solar Roast food truck owner and UCD student, is thankful food truck vendors have any access at all.

“As much as we feel that the food truck policy is misguided in regards to what it aims to accomplish, we want to make sure to acknowledge the campus for writing a policy which creates a framework for food truck access on campus,” Stern said. “Most campuses ban food trucks outright, so it should not be lost that Auraria campus is still progressive in their attitude among college campuses.”

Stern went on to explain that, considering the circumstances, the Solar employees are happy with the number of trucks on campus each day and with the location in which they are allowed to park.

While the food truck owners are adjusting to the new policy, some students completely miss out on the benefits of having them there.

“I’m only on campus on Tuesday and Thursday, so I never see the trucks anymore.” said MSU Denver junior Elliott Peters. “Now, I just wait until the end of the day and eat at home.”

Some students wondered why the school would want to decrease the variety offered to students, while others seemed not to notice the change much at all.

“We want to take a survey of students,

faculty and staff about their attitudes about food trucks on campus, so that we can get more comprehensive student input when the policy comes up for review,” Stern said. “We suspect that food trucks do not take away business from on-campus vendors, but we would like to find out for sure.”

“We think food trucks should be on campus Monday through Thursday, because this would benefit student organizations and students through greater revenue for the AHEC bond fee, more food options and fundraising opportunities for student organizations,” Stern said.

Before the policy change, student organizations could utilize the food trucks as a fundraiser, with 10 percent of the trucks’ sales going directly to the organization that sponsored them. Now, each organization is required to enter a lottery for a chance to reserve one of the trucks every three weeks.

“Before, organizations could make between $75 and $150 a day, four days a week. Now, if they’re lucky and get selected, they make less,” said Student Activities staff member Dave Bourassa. “We’re not seeing many organizations participate in the lottery.”

MSU Denver’s first food truck day under the new policy was on Nov. 10, and only three organizations applied for the lottery, one of which only made $25.

“Student organizations are starting to think it’s not worth their time and are looking for other means to raise money,” Bourassa said. “It’s not really a money maker any longer.”

The policy will be up for review by AHEC in May and Bourassa believes they will be open to making some changes and adjustments.

“Now is a good time for students to voice their opinions and frustrations in a constructive manner,” Bourassa said. “I think the food trucks are wonderful and they bring variety to campus and create a sense of community.”

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Musing Thanksgiving memories and political realities Watching Macy’s Thanksgiving parade on TV on Thanksgiving morning is always bittersweet. For years, it was always a touchstone to magical childhood memories. When Dad would take me, by subway, from Brooklyn to the crowds around Herald Square at 34th Street in Manhattan, also known as “New York” in the parlance of our neighborhood.

In that long-lost world of the late 1940s and early ‘50s, every man in America still wore a felt hat and dressed up — suits, ties and long coats — to journey to “New York.”

There was only one Macy’s, at 34th Street, instead of an overpriced outpost in nearly every mall. And the parade itself — crowds and all — held magic.

Now, the televised spectacle seems little more than a backdrop for one long commercial, interrupted by vapid interviews with TV celebrities I’ve never heard of pimping TV shows I’ll never watch with only afterthought glimpses of the parade’s giant balloons and marching bands. And post-parade Thanksgiving Day afternoon — what used to be the leisurely family dinner centerpiece — has been bastardized into a hurry-up drill of eating too fast to watch NFL football with three games stacked one after another this year. Football isn’t even over before it’s time to drive to the mall to get in line for “Door Buster” sales when store doors open as early as 6 p.m. Thanksgiving evening for the fool-fest known as “Black Friday.” It starts hours before Friday, lasts all weekend and sets the stage for “Cyber Monday” hype. Is this what the Pilgrims had in mind?

This year, before we left for a large Thanksgiving dinner with friends and their family, I phoned my sister in Buffalo. With me using a cell “stupid” phone, we swapped childhood Thanksgiving memories of the Macy’s parade and big family dinners for a link with long-ago holiday magic that’s been dissipated over the decades during a process

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sinisi2@msn.com called “growing up” and one I’ve avoided whenever possible.

Like most magic, childhood magic can’t last. But it was nice to briefly recall at a time of carpet-bombing Black Friday ads that replaced — without missing a beat — the cacophony of political attack ads we just finished enduring. Which brings to mind the steady stream of post-election lies those who lost the election keep circulating in the hope that the bigger the lie, the better its chances are of being believed. Provided it is repeated often and loudly enough.

Those who vowed as their first and really only order of business to make Barack Obama a one-term president are more whacko-livid than ever. Some of their responses, and solutions, make the Mad Hatter’s tea party (no pun) in “Alice In Wonderland” sound like a rational discourse.

Romney wasn’t conservative enough, they insist. Romney would have won were it not for Superstorm Sandy and never mind that the hardest-hit Northeast went solidly for Obama. Democrats benefited from massive voter fraud that gave hundreds of thousands of votes (count ‘em) to Obama — this from a Republican Party that accepted tainted election results in 2000 and 2004 without a peep. Nor did a peep or bleat come from anywhere else — least of all the “liberal media.”

Many of the teabag boys and girls who are neck-vein-bulging livid about Obama’s re-election are now organizing petition drives to secede from the Union. With a

straight face. As of early this week, dissidents have amassed more than a million petition signatures from all 50 states on their “We the People” website.

With 25,000 signatures from a state needed to gain an official review by the Administration in Washington, 11 states have cleared that barrier. They’re led by Texas with 126,039 , followed by Georgia (52,729), South Carolina (30,402), Missouri (34,042) and Tennessee (31,068), trailed by North Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio.

Oddly, only Missouri and Ohio — Oklahoma wasn’t a state yet — were not part of the old Confederacy that seceded from the Union in 1861 to trigger the American Civil War. This isn’t 1861, but tea party zealots may not have gotten the memo or email. Or maybe Southeast Conference football no longer suffices to slake good ol’-boy bloodlust.

The same zealots and their minions in the U.S. House of Representatives continue to insist that an Obama administration “coverup” of the Benghazi attack on the U.S. consulate that killed four Americans in Libya last September 11 was a far worse coverup than the Watergate scandal that forced Republican President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974. Good luck with that one, too.

What the House zealots plan to do about the “fiscal cliff ” spending cuts looming in January, if anything, is less clear. Republicans call for cutting “entitlements” and more revenue but remain adamant about not raising taxes for the richest Americans.

For some Americans, however, fiscal cliff mysteries are less than compelling because they’re too busy shopping. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving — while riots broke out among Syrian crowds fighting to get food and fuel for the winter — a U.S. mob fighting for Black Friday bargains led to fist-fights at a mall and a shooting over a parking space.

Happy holidays!

Fall Break is bigger burden more than rightful reprieve Ian Gassman igassman@msudenver.edu

Every fall semester, Thanksgiving leaves me stuffed and Fall Break leaves me equally full — of anger.

Yes, the gap provides students with ample time for rest, relaxation and holiday feasting amongst family. At the same time, it allows anyone trudging through the long semester a chance for a week or so of impulsive debauchery and GPA-hindering procrastination.

Essentially, the “break” lures students in with its false hopes of a quickly ending semester where there’s barely any work left and finals have distant deadlines that will be effortlessly prepared for and awaited without stress.

Meanwhile, as our professors are piling on the stuffing and mashed potatoes at home, they’re also getting ready to dish out mind-crushing finals work by composing

tests fi lled with unsolvable enigmas and detailed grading rubrics for papers with unfathomably long word counts.

I blame my underdeveloped brain for my lack of diligence over break. For some reason, my mind doesn’t allow me to work when it realizes — at the start of Fall Break — that it has a few days to go wild and stay up late. Then, it takes the rest of the week to wake me up from my food coma and let the sleep-inducing tryptophan wear off.

By the time I get back to school, I am just regaining my bearings after so much play and very little work. The worst part is that we, as students, only have two weeks to catch up on everything.

It will never change, but it’s obvious that Fall Break needs to happen earlier in the semester, similar to Spring Break, which takes place from March 25 to March 30 next year. That’s nearly two months prior to finals week. Maybe the small change in scheduling is why those studious, scholarly producers

over at MTV love Spring Break so much and make their affections so widely known.

If MSU Denver doesn’t want to allow us more time off before Thanksgiving, then it should only give us a holiday weekend — Thursday through Sunday — like back in the good old high school days, when we were all overworked and hated life but there were no illusions of leisure. It’s great that the responsibilities of higher education grant us more vacation time when it counts (e.g. Winter, Summer) but during the semester, I need to be kept on my toes.

There’s nothing more unnerving than deadlines encroaching upon you as your slowly slipping grades begin to flank your sense of calm just before finals week. But, Fall Break makes me feel so safe, secure and prematurely free that I’m not keeping watch on what’s ahead. By that point, my position has been overrun, leaving another less-thanperfect semester.

Granted, the break was just fine.

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Transgender hate crime victims remembered Collene Lewis clewis66@msudenver.edu Nearly five people a week were killed within the last year for identifying as transgender.

Students, faculty and staff gathered in the Tivoli Multicultural Lounge Wed. Nov. 14 for the 2012 Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Hosted by the office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Student Services, a candlelit memorial service and passionate speakers recognized the 265 individuals killed through transphobic violence or violence against transgender people.

Attendees fell silent as Sable Schultz and Courtney Gray spoke on what Transgender Day of Remembrance meant to them. Gray said she doesn’t enjoy the yearly memorial because it forces her to confront her fears as a transgender woman.

“I’ve seen some of the worst things imaginable,” Gray said. “But I’ve also seen some of the strongest people.”

Inspired by the strength of the community, Gray chose to focus on the benefits stemming from Transgender Day of Remembrance. Gray was particularly pleased by President Obama’s consideration of transgender folks.

“He says the word ‘transgender’ in many of his speeches,” Gray said. “That’s never

happened before.”

This progress was important to many attendees, as the amount of people killed from transphobic violence has increased yearly.

According to a 2012 Transgender Europe press release, there were 162 such reported deaths globally in 2009, 179 in 2010 and 221 in 2011.

In addition, acts of violence affect a majority of transgender people, as 61 percent are physically assaulted in their lifetime and 41 percent have attempted suicide, according to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey.

The event brought up intense emotions for one attendee. This year’s ceremony was important because it honored people who stuck true to their identities, regardless of what other people thought, said Jinx Allyn, a business major at MSU Denver.

“It brings a tear to my eye to think of these people,” Allyn said. “They’re in so much danger.”

The lights dimmed, candles were lit and the names of people killed by transphobic violence were read out loud.

For Tyler Carranco, a marketing major at MSU Denver, listening to these people’s names and stories gave him a better understanding of the struggles they had been through.

“I found out what it means to be transgender today,” Carranco said.

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Courtney Gray, Transgender Programs Coordinator for GLBT Community Center of Colorado, before the memorial ceremony at Transgender Day of Remembrance Nov. 17 in the Tivoli Multicultural lounge.

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Feminist Alliance hopes for new members, men included Kailyn Lamb klamb6@msudenver.edu

Rosina, played by Melia Tagovailoa, is delivered a letter from the barber, Figaro, played by B’Edward Grosbach in the second act of “The Barber of Seville” performed by the MSU Denver Opera Ensemble, Nov. 16 and 17 at the King Center.

Brent Zeimen bzeimen@msudenver.edu The King Center’s concert hall played host to MSU Denver’s first ever full-length opera performance by the MSU Denver Opera Ensemble.

“The Barber of Seville” was performed in the King Center’s concert hall Nov. 16 and 17 in collaboration with the MSU Denver Symphony Orchestra.

The opera was originally written in Italian but was performed in English by the ensemble, with director Gene Roberts at the helm.

“Well first of all, you have to find a really good translation that — you know any language when you translate it, when it’s set to certain notes for an original language, then the notes don’t necessarily fit when you translate it,” Roberts said.

The opera depicts the antics of two lovers, the count named Almavia, and a beautiful woman named Rosina. Almavia disguises himself as a penniless musician named Lindoro to see if Rosina will love him for who he is, whether or not he has money.

He’s blocked by the surgeon, Dr. Bartolo, who acts as guardian to Rosina, and wants to marry her himself. Almavia enlists the

student pursuing a help of his friend and the city’s factotum, or bachelor’s degree in multi-talented servant, Figaro, to disguise shorthand technical him, allowing him to enter Dr. Bartolo’s theater. She worked household and elope with Rosina. as the lighting de“It’s always fun to be the hated character signer, the light board of the whole opera, but at the same time to programmer and the bring a human element to it as well where light board operator for people can relate to that character,” said “The Barber of Seville” Shaun Steavenson, who played Dr. Bartolo. and worked with Roberts to The opera may depict a serious situation, get the lights just right for the but is more a comedy than a drama. The characters play off each other and respond in performances.

“It’s almost like a musical, humorous ways. For example, Figaro may be but more elaborate, bigger, and reluctant to help Almavia at first, but perks they sing a lot more than just a up at the mere mention of money. musical,” Huss said.

The comedic nature of the opera also The MSU Denver Opera Enmakes playing a villainous character easier semble plans to host performances of and more enjoyable.

“You can be over-the-top with it as much scenes from various operas in spring 2013. as you can and really relate to the audience,” Steavenson said. “It was hard during rehearsals because we have all these jokes that we say during the opera and of course you don’t get feedback on the jokes or anything, so I think performance nights went really well.”

The set design and the whole crew’s support of the director’s vision can be just Dr. Bartolo, played by Shaun Steavenson during the second act of “The Barber of Seville.” as important as good acting. The lighting was done by Dana Huss, a MSU Denver Photos by Heather Newman • hnewman3@msudenver.edu

The Feminist Alliance at MSU Denver seeks to empower students in women’s issues and involve women as well as men in their discussion.

“In order to really advance women’s rights from here on out, we really do want to be inclusive of men in that movement,” said the group’s secretary, Kristin Podgurski.

Men need to realize that not all feminists are radical, “male-bashing” individuals, Podgurski said.

The Feminist Alliance specifically wants to recruit men as well as women, so that they can orchestrate discussions that include everyone on women’s issues.

One of the ways that they try to put these conversations together is by hosting brown-bag lunch discussions every Tuesday and Thursday at the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services. The discussions last from 12 to 1 p.m. and are a way for the group to create allies, said the group’s president, Desirae Sarabia.

The group also tries to connect with and support feminism movements outside of the school, and in the Denver area. An example is the “V-Day” event they will be hosting in St. Cajetans, as well as all across campus for the One Billion Rising Campaign.

The campaign is “a global strike to demand an end to violence,” and asks that people get up and dance on Valentine’s Day to help put a stop to domestic violence.

In accordance with the group’s idea to get everyone involved, they ask that anyone with ideas for the “V-Day” event come to the

The MSU Denver Feminist Alliance held an open house Nov. 13 at the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services to help recruit new members for the spring semester. President Desirae Sarabia (left) a MSU Denver senior speaks to staff member Judith Wonstolen (middle) and MSU Denver junior Amber DeLay (right) along with a room full of diverse women about the group’s future plans.

Photo by Heather Newman • hnewman3@msudenver.edu

IWSS office in 9th Street Park.

“What Billion Day Rising is about is a call for one billion individuals on the planet, male or female, to rise together as an act of declaration to stop violence against women and girls once and for all,“ said the group’s treasurer Cristina de la Luna.

De la Luna and the rest of the members practice what is considered third-wave feminism. The third wave of feminism is one that embraces all the different shades of being a woman and says that the movement doesn’t have one individual idea that defines it, which is what makes it different from the

second-wave.

The second wave of feminism started in the 1960s and was focused on things like reproductive rights and sexuality while the first wave was focused on suff rage.

This also means that there are several different perspectives on what feminism is.

De la Luna, for example, feels that a lot of the violence caused in today’s society is rooted in the military.

“The U.S. culture in a very covert way has become militarized, so we have a very militarized cultural way of being,” she said.

“They then become socialized into a milita-

rized masculinity which supports violence, and women always bear the brunt.”

On the other hand, for Podgurski it was more about challenging the idea of who women really are.

“I think a lot of the issues with people’s stereotypes about feminism and it kind of being this dirty word almost, of associating it with being radicals,” she said. “It really is this sense of, it’s not about being better than men, it’s about having that sense of equality and equal opportunities to pursue whatever we want to do and not be confined by a history of patriarchy.”

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CCU spikes Metro’s 13-year winning streak Cougars 3, Roadrunners 2 Matt McVey matt.mcvey49@gmail.com Metro women’s volleyball lost in five sets against Colorado Christian University at Auraria Event Center Nov. 13 in the first round of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament — the first loss to CCU since 1999, snapping a 26-game winning streak.

The Roadrunners started out strong winning the first set 25-20. The set was a hard fought one, as both teams held the lead multiple times and the score was tied five different times. It was a strong set for senior setter Vanessa Gemignani leading the team with three digs and nine assists.

The Cougars took the second set 25-22.

The Roadrunners started down 14-8, but found their way back into the game tying it 17-17 on an ace by sophomore outside hitter Kylie Haun. The Roadrunners would gain the lead at 19-17 but would not be able to hold on. The set was defined by 13 Runner errors.

The Roadrunners dominated the third, going up 16-11. It was a very nice set for ju-

nior outside hitter Alyssa Heath leading the team with six kills in the set. The Runners won the set 25-18.

It was a sloppy fourth set for both teams on the serve. Metro committed five service errors. CCU had six, but was able to capitalize on the errors and won the set 25-17.

The final set was all Cougars, who won it 15-8. The Roadrunners could not find their block on the final set and once again committed too many errors pushing their total to 38 on the night.

“We just didn’t play as well as Colorado Christian,” head coach Debbie Hendricks said.

The Roadrunners had two players earn all-region honors. Sophomore right sider Lauren Quijano earned first team South Central Region, while Heath garnered the region’s honorable mention.

“It’s been a ride for sure. It’s been a little up and down more than we wanted it to be, but I wouldn’t want to be with any other team,” said Heath about the Runners season so far.

Roadrunners qualify for NCAA tourney Despite the loss to the Cougars in the first round of the RMAC, the Roadrunners qualified for their 13th consecutive NCAA tournament.

The No. 8 seeded Roadrunners head to No. 1 seeded Regis University on Nov. 29 for the first round of the South Central Region.

Metro redshirt freshman middle blocker Audri Marrs spikes the ball against Colorado Christian University Nov. 13. The Roadrunners lost 3-2 to the Cougars, breaking a 26-game winning streak.

Photo by Cosme Lindstrom-Furutani • clindst1@msudenver.edu

Roadrunners basketball goes 4-0 Nick Ohlig nohlig@msudenver.edu

Sophomore guard Sam Porter was 4-for-4 from the line, adding to Metro’s 95-73 win over Johnson & Wales Nov. 20 at Auraria Event Center. The Roadrunners are 4-0 on the season. Photo by Heather Newman • hnewman3@msudenver.edu

Metro men’s basketball defeated Johnson & Wales 95-73 Nov. 20 at Auraria Event Center.

Metro senior forward/center Jonathan Morse led the Roadrunners with 20 points and 12 rebounds, as Metro went 4-0 against the winless Wildcats.

“We’re bigger, faster, stronger” head coach Derrick Clark said, “They were very scrappy, I don’t want to disrespect them in any manner.”

The Roadrunners started out with a 27-5 run.

The Wildcats made a run and came close late in the first half as they cut the lead by nine.

“We let ourselves down at the end of the half,” sophomore guard Mitch McCarron said. “Not keeping the ball in front — that was kind of the talk at halftime.”

McCarron wasn’t the only one who wasn’t pleased by the way the Runners faded late in the first half.

“We got lazy defensively, we got antsy,” Clark said.

“This is a game where it tests your discipline a little bit.”

The Roadrunners proved why they are the No. 3 ranked team in Division II by starting the second half with a 15-3 run. Although the Wildcats attempted to get

some consistency from their offense, it was clear they had no answer for the Runners’ defense — who pressed the ball and forced 20 Wildcats turnovers for 33 points.

“Press them, that is what we do,” Morse said. “They are turnover-prone.”

The Runners out-rebounded the Wildcats 49-22 and had 28 second-chance points, scoring a season high 95 points.

Clark went to his bench in the final six minutes of the game. Sophomore forward DeShawn Phenix scored a career-high eight points with eight minutes on the floor. Freshman guard Jourdon Hunter had six points off the bench.

McCarron had a solid performance with 16 points, 7 rebounds, six assists and three steals, while fellow guard Brandon Jefferson had 15 points and 4 assists. Sophomore forward/center Nicholas Kay had nine points and eight rebounds. Kay also tied a career high four steals.

On the road

Metro defeated No. 7 Winona State (Minn.) 84-72 Nov. 16. Senior forward/center Jonathan Morse scored 20 point and had five rebounds.

The Roadrunners beat Bimidji State 67-41 on Nov. 17.

All five starters scored in double figures.

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Women’s basketball 1-1 in Holiday Inn Select Classic Zee Nwuke znwuke@msudenver.edu Metro women’s basketball split two games in the Holiday Inn Select Classic at Auraria Event Center.

The host Roadrunners lost the first game of the tournament 81-68 to No. 1 Lubbock Christian University Nov. 16 “I was real excited about this game. I knew it was going to be a tough test for us with a really good team,” head coach Tanya Haave said. “They played well, and we didn’t shoot the ball well, so we just got to pick up the pieces and move on.”

The Roadrunners played good defense against the Lady Chaps and took an early 8-2 lead.

“We played really good defense for about fifteen minutes and then we kind of let them back into it,” junior forward Amy Nelson said. “So our goal was going to be to play great defense the entire game.”

The Roadrunners started to pull away, hitting their open shots and improving the score 13-6, but the Lady Chaps started a comeback.

With 10 minutes left in the half, the Texas team tied the game with a threepointer then hit another from outside the arc to take the lead.

The Lady Chaps locked up on the defensive end, making it hard for the Roadrun-

ners to get an open shot. The Lady Chaps’ momentum carried them through the half, and they hit the locker room up 35-26.

“I just think we weren’t making them feel uncomfortable and that’s what we need to do more of,” senior guard Kristin Valencia said. “Give them credit. They were making tough shots.”

Both teams started the second half very aggressively, but three minutes into the game, the Lady Chaps increased the lead 43-28.

The Lady Chaps’ zone defense gave the Roadrunners trouble, making it hard to advance the ball.

Junior forward Amy Nelson led the Roadrunners with 21 points and seven rebounds. Senior guard Kristin Valencia had 12 points and seven rebounds.

The Roadrunners redeemed themselves with a 73-61 win over Colorado Christian University Nov. 17.

The Roadrunners controlled the game from the tipoff. The Cougars tried to slow the game down with a full court press, but the Runners broke the press every time.

“We knew they would come out aggressive and we had to take care of the ball,” senior guard Kristin Valencia said. “We couldn’t do it alone. It had to be a team effort to get past it.”

Despite the Cougars’ press, the Roadrunners scored 18 points and only had three

Metro senior guard Kristin Valencia boxes out a Colorado Christian University player in a 73-61 Roadrunner win in the Holiday Inn Select Classic Nov. 17 at Auraria Event Center. Photo by Cosme LindstromFurutani • clindst1@msudenver.edu

turnovers. Junior center Tai Jensen had a big first half. Senior guards Emily Wood and Brandi Valencia also had big games.

“They’re a really good team,” senior guard Brandi Valencia said. “We knew they weren’t going to give up even if they got down, so we knew we had to keep playing our best, and play hard.”

On the road Metro beat Central Washington 76-67 Nov. 23. Junior guard Cassie Lambrecht had a career-high 17 points.

The ladies lost 55-54 to Northwest Nazarene Nov. 24. Senior guard Kristin Valencia led the team with 16 points.

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The Roadrunners ended their season with a 2-1 loss to the 15th ranked Orediggers Nov. 16. in the South Central Region championship at Auraria Field.

Forward Anna Evans scored at 38:24 and the Orediggers went into halftime up 1-0.

The Roadrunners outshot the Orediggers 4-0 in the first 10 minutes of the second half, but midfielder Megan Woodworth put the Orediggers up 2-1 at 65:03.

The Roadrunners got on the scoreboard with 2:15 left in the game. Sophomore forward Abby Rolph put one in the back of the net off a penalty kick.

Although the Runners outshot the Orediggers 16-11, they weren’t able to convert them to a win.

It was the final game for seniors Jordan Simkins, Kelci Newlin, Hayley Renko, Aubrey Fondy, and Allyn Parrino.

The Roadrunners finish the season 15-6-2.

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Healthy Moves Classes will be held in the PE Building lobby (except 12:15 and 1:15 classes) Class participation is free and available on a first come-first served basis for the Auraria Campus Community (Students have priority)

Metro 6K runner Janelle Lincks set a new school record, crossing the finish line in 21:36.5 Nov. 17 in Joplin, Mo. It was the freshman’s first appearance in the NCAA Division II championship.

Lincks placed 52nd out of 249 runners.

Fall sessions end December 6. Look for the spring Healthy Moves calendar in January.

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Sophomore 10K runner Nick Kadlec placed 57th out of 245 runners in 30:49.4.

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Derik Room: PE 215 12:15–1:15

Beg. Flow Yoga

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Kadlec set a new school record by 31 seconds, set by Todd Tolentino in 2008.

Kadlec helped the Roadrunners finish ninth as a team at the 2011 NCAA championships, the highest finish in school history, and he placed 124th in 33:53.4.

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Regis rival games No. 8 seeded volleyball will play in the first round of the South Central Region at Regis Univeristy Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

The Metro women’s and men’s basketball teams will host Regis Dec. 1 at 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. at Auraria Event Center.

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May 21 -June 20 Just coming to school in a suit and introducing yourself as “Bond, James Bond,” does not make you a secret agent.

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