Volume 35, Issue 23 - Feb. 28, 2013

February 28, 2013

Volume 35, Issue 23

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Panther speaks on community activism MetroSpective CFI shows energy through art 8

InSight Oscars fail to acknowledge tragedy 6

Rants+Raves The “Vagina Monologues” snatches audience 11

MetroSpective MetroNOW showcases student work 9

MetSports Men’s basketball drops to No. 2 nationally Professor David Hilliard, founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, speaks during Auraria’s Black World Conference, Feb. 21 at the Tivoli Turnhalle. Photo by Brian T. McGinn bmcginn3@msudenver.edu

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Department Name

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Metro North I-25 & 120th

303-450-5111

11990 Grant Street, Northglenn. Near I-25 and 120th located in the City Wide Bank Building.

DEPT #

COURSE TITLE/CREDITS

CRN

DAYS/TIME

DATES

CPD 2300

Time Management

34622

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

5/04–5/11

CPD 2310

Stress Management

34718

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

4/20–4/27

PSC 3140

The American Congress and Legislative Process

33762

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

PSY 295E

Comparative Buddhist and Western Psychology

34293

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

SPE 1710

Interpersonal Communication

33366

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

Metro South

I-25 & Orchard 303-721-1313

5660 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Greenwood Village. Near Orchard Road and I-25 located in the Triad North Bldg. Directly across from the Orchard Train Station.

DEPT #

COURSE TITLE/CREDITS

CRN

DAYS/TIME

DATES

ACC 2020

Principles of Accounting II

33933

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

CPD 2310

Stress Management

34715

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

3/09–3/16

CPD 2320

Self Esteem

34723

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

4/20–4/27

CPD 2360

Multi-Level Wellness

34732

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

4/06–4/13

EDU 4300

Acting Like a Teacher

33397

S, 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

4/13–5/18

EDU 4700

Substitute Teacher Workshop

34857

S, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

3/16–3/23

HSP 3580

Therapeutic Resistance

34491

FS, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

3/22–3/23

HSP 4290

PTSD & Trauma Informed Care

34495

FS, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

5/10–5/11

PHI 1030

Introduction to Ethics

32788

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

PSY 3000

Theories of Personality

33714

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

SPE 1010

Public Speaking

33020

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

SPE 4300

Acting Like A Teacher

33398

S, 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

4/13–5/18

THE 3200

Performance of Literature I: Solo

33311

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

THE 4300

Acting Like A Teacher

33399

S, 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

4/13–5/18

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Hilliard brings Panther power to MSU Denver Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu Thursday was a proud day for the Black Panthers.

Professor David Hilliard, founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, spoke to around 250 students and community members at the Tivoli Turnhalle Feb. 21—the 48th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.

Using computer projections, Hilliard focused his talk on the actions of the party that were rarely seen by people outside of the rallies.

“One of the things I’m going to do today is use visual images to give you an idea why [the party] was called ‘the single greatest threat to the internal security of this country’ by J. Edgar Hoover,” Hilliard said.

The images that Hilliard displayed were ‘60s and ‘70s photographs of Black Panther Party members handing out free food, clothes and health care to members of the black community. One photograph showed

bags of food lined up on the stage at a rally, ready to be handed out to the poor in the assembled crowd.

Hilliard worked to shed the “thug-like” portrait that history has painted of the Black Panthers, pointing out that the party empowered women at a time when women nationwide were fighting for equality. He also spoke of the Panthers testing the community for sickle cell anemia and promoting research into the disease.

Funding for community work came primarily from sales of their newspaper, which sold for a dollar an issue and reached up to 300,000 readers.

“We also had Hollywood movie people like Jane Fonda and Marlon Brando who wrote checks that they could write off because they believed in what we were doing,” Hilliard said.

Members of the Black Panther Party were expected to do community work—a non-negotiable in the party. Food for the poor and breakfast for school children were

prepared by party members. Care and transportation were provided to seniors.

“This is what made us so dangerous,” Hilliard said. “We were a ‘threat’ because we were doing what the government was not doing. We shamed them.”

Hilliard encouraged attendees to check out the party’s Ten-Step Plan. The plan calls for the employment, housing, education and medical care of all black and oppressed people, and doesn’t mention issues with the police until the seventh point.

“The Black Panther Party was not designed to have problems with the police,” Hilliard said.

Rather than a group of thugs, Hilliard stressed, party members were educated and organized. The party was invited to meet international leaders, such as Mao Zedong, Yasser Arafat and Nelson Mandela.

“Of course, we went to Israel,” Hilliard said. “We have always been in coalition with the Jewish people.”

Hilliard finished his talk to a standing

ovation before answering questions and signing copies of his books.

Chaz Briscoe, a UCD grad student, said that Hilliard’s talk meant a lot to him based on the history of the party that he was learning.

“I’m learning that ‘we weren’t just guns, we were a food program,’” Briscoe said. “In that context, it’s really, really important to know.”

Also in attendance was journalist Roger K. Clendening, who has worked with the Black Panthers in New York. He said he was proud to see Hilliard on stage as an honored guest.

“I’m really proud to see he is out advocating and doing what he does to explain the movement, how it came about, and how it’s important to continue doing some of the things that the Panther Party is doing if things are going to change and improve for people,” Clendening said.

Left: Professor David Hilliard raises his fist duirng his talk, Feb. 21 at the Tivoli Turnhalle.

Right: Hilliard signs a copy of his biography for Linda Mizell.

Photos by Brian T. McGinn • bmcginn3@msudenver.edu

Changes for African-American Studies Collene Lewis clewis66@msudenver.edu Changes are on the horizon for the Department of African and African American studies, but their motto will stay the same.

Domonic Velarde, an administrative assistant for the department, said one of the symbols of the department is the Sankofa, which represents empowerment through positive reinforcement. Velarde said Sankofa offers a platform for larger social issues and the department has aimed to address hiphop and how relevant it is to society today.

Spurred by the idea of “creating a shared history with the world”, Velarde said the department will be changing their name fall 2013 to the Department of Africana Studies, to incorporate a more global perspective on

African-American culture.

The office itself will be moving from room 109 in the Rectory Building, to the third floor of the Central Classroom Building, March 22.

Created by Dr. Wilton Flemon and Professor Rachel Noel in 1969, the department has been both a resource and point of study for students at MSU Denver. The department collaborates with the African Student Union, the Black Student Alliance, the Ngaathaje Development Project and the Support Africa Empowerment Foundation International.

The Department of African and African American studies can be visited Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. or contacted by phone at 303-556-3685.

Professor David Hilliard, founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party poses for pictures after his talk for the Black World Conference, Feb. 21 at the Tivoli Turnhalle.

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Revamped law protects free newspapers Maalikah Hartley mhartle8@msudenver.edu

Taking more than five free newspapers is still going to get you in trouble.

The “Newspaper Theft” law, Colorado Statute 18-4-419, which since 2004 has made it illegal to take more than five free newspapers, has been taken out of the Colorado theft statute, according to www.leg.state.co.us, and is now its own separate statute, 18-9-314, or “Interference with lawful distribution of newspapers.” The new statute removes the words “theft” and replaces it with “offenses involving communications.”

Last year, the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice proposed repealing the law (18-4-419), because they said it is hard to determine the value of a free newspaper, making it a “boutique,” or unnecessary law.

The Colorado Press Association did not want to decriminalize the act of taking multiple newspapers because it “deprives the public of access to information,” according

to Samantha Johnston, executive director of the CPA. Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, and Sen. Steve King, R-District 7 worked with the two parties to reach a compromise and eventually co-sponsored “Interference with lawful distribution of newspapers.”

This year it passed the Colorado House and Senate, and is scheduled to be signed by the governor at the end of the month.

“There’s still victims when people take free things in quantity,” King said. “There might be businesses out there that are using their last three or $400 in advertising to put into a free newspaper, and now that the newspaper has been stolen, they lose out on all that advertising. That has a chilling effect on not only advertising, but freedom of speech.”

The commission has accepted the new separate bill and is pleased to see it out of the Colorado criminal code.

“That compromise was okay with [the commission] because it really accomplished what they wanted to do,” said Lance Clam,

commission media spokesperson.

“This is just one among dozens of bills that they’ve looked at where they’re trying to make the statutes more cohesive.”

The revised statute makes taking more than five free newspapers an “unclassified” misdemeanor rather than simply a misdemeanor.

The punishments remain the same; up to $2,000 if there are 100 or fewer newspapers taken, up to $2,500 if there are 101 to 499 newspapers taken, and up to $5,000 if there are more than 500 newspapers taken.

Advertisers, publishers or regular readers of the newspapers in question, as well as anyone who has had their newspaper taken from them, can sue the person in violation.

All are entitled to actual damages and attorney fees and costs.

Publishers can get up to $10 for each newspaper taken.

“Under this new proposal, we recognize that the people who read, advertise in and publish newspapers are harmed when papers are taken to deprive people of access to information, but we do

so in a way that is more consistent with our other laws,” Levy told Ski-Hi News. According to askthejudge.info, there have been

five cases in which charges were fi led since the original bill passed in 2004.

Taking more than fi ve free newspapers is misdemeanor under the new law.

Photo illustration by Ryan Borthick • rborthic@msudenver.edu

Bill banning concealed carry on campus passes House Antonio Valenzuela avalen10@msudenver.edu Colorado state house democrats voted in favor of a gun bill that would forbid the carrying of concealed weapons on Colorado campuses.

House Bill 1226, sponsored by Clair Levy, D-Boulder, is in stark contrast to the 2003 Concealed Carry Act that permits the holding of concealed weapons on college campuses.

The bill still needs to go before the state Senate before being ratified, but it would directly affect concealed carry holders on Auraria Campus. if passed In 2012, the Colorado state Supreme Court ruled in favor of three University of ColoradoBoulder students who opposed the school’s banning of concealed weapons on campus, but House Democrats passed the bill anyway.

Katherine Whitney, a concealed carry permit holder at CU in Boulder, opposes the bill because, in her estimation, it does not curb gun violence and is more of a public safety issue.

“This will disarm law-abiding citizens and doesn’t add a higher standard for campus to provide protection to students,” Whitney said.

Whitney also points out that the bill is being touted as a way to protect 18 year-old students from being drunk and irresponsible with handguns, but the Concealed Carry Act of 2003 already makes it illegal for anyone under 21 to possess a permit.

“If you look at the bill, it erases the exemption for permit holders and makes it a class six felony for anyone to possess a concealed weapon on campus,” said Whitney.

Although lawmakers insist that there is data that suggests that disarming students will make campuses safer, they have not openly presented any studies that prove that.

Whitney cited the case of Nevada serial rapist James Biela, who brutally raped stu-

dent Amanda Collins less than 300 feet from a University of Nevada Reno police station in 2007. A concealed carry permit holder, Collins was without her weapon that night, as concealed weapons are banned on Nevada college

campuses. The state of Nevada is now working to lift the ban.

“I want my gun because I don’t want to end up like that,” Whitney said.

While the MSU Denver board of trustees has endorsed the “concept of the bill,” Student Government Assembly president Laura Noe said there is no official SGA stance on the issue and that it has yet to be discussed by the SGA Senate.

Anyone who wishes to voice their opinion on the matter is encouraged to email her at Lnoe4@msudenver.edu.

Additional reporting by Kelli HeitstumanTomko

Weapons cannot be openly carried on any campus or in the city of Denver.

Graphic by Vincent Jiminez • vjimene6@ msudenver.edu

4600 Hale Parkway, Suite 490 Denver, CO 80220

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled March 2012 that the Colorado concealed carry law, as written, allowed the carrying of concealed weapons on public college campuses. A measure introduced

by Rep. Clair Levy, D. Boulder, seeks to change that law.

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Delayed aid leaves students struggling Sean Bobic sbobic@msudenver.edu Financial aid is often a heated subject, especially for those who can’t afford to have it delayed.

For Joshua Petrie, a junior majoring in political science, a delay led to hardship at the beginning of the current semester.

“The thing that is my biggest concern is they don’t even allocate enough money for us to get books. I did end up going online to get cheaper books, but I got previous editions. But I had to do that when I finally got

some capitol,” Petrie said. “And that took at least a month into the semester. It did affect grades.”

The disbursement of financial aid begins before the start of the semester, but students are receiving their aid in waves rather than a one-lump sum.

As of the 2012-2013 school year, the financial aid disbursement is handled in two payouts: one beginning 10 days prior to the start of the semester and one after the census date of that semester.

For Petrie, this is a sudden change.

“They could have started this last semes-

ter or maybe this semester, but it’s a delay in the first part of it,” Petrie said, “I understand the reason that Metro has this, is that it has such a high default rating compared to other universities. It’s very high.”

As of the 2010-2011 school year, almost half of the current students were receiving aid, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics.

A 2012 Denver Post article reported that at 11.5 percent, Colorado ranks third in the U.S. on default rates.

MSU Denver had a default rate of 10.7 in 2010, according to the Federal Student Aid

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Wednesday

Thursday

Pilates

10–10:55

Yoga for Stress Management

Yoga for Stress Management

Noon–12:55

Pilates

Pilates

1–1:55

Nia

Nia

11–11:55

3:30–4:25

Flow Yoga

Flow Yoga

4:30–5:20

Belly Dancing

Belly Dancing Zumba®

5:15–6:15 5:30–6:30

Friday

Hatha Yoga

Tivoli 640

Class time: 11–12:10

Zumba®

Class time: 12:15–1:10

Yoga Nidra

Zumba®

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Yoga for Relaxation

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Women of the Middle East have enjoyed belly dancing for centuries, celebrating life and the joy of the soul through this expressive art. This fun and exciting dance form is a great aerobic and toning workout, providing the means for improving posture and self-confidence.

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Petrie said he has good standing with his financial aid but found that it makes no difference when it comes to how disbursement works.

“I did research. I guess there’s no consideration for you as a student individually. It’s more of a broad based situation,” Petrie said.

Petrie said he found that filling out his Free Application for Student Aid form as early as possible makes no difference in when he receives his loans.

Instructions on the FAFSA forms encourage applicants to finish the forms as soon as possible, they but make no indication if that will have an effect on disbursement.

Petrie has learned that his fellow students have been having similar problems receiving their aid.

“Everyone has pretty much been going through the same thing,” Petrie said, “They’ll get maybe a small amount from the school. Like this semester I was allocated, I think, $300 initially. And that did not cover the book prices at all.”

MSU Denver’s website lists the university’s transfer out rate at 34 percent. The site mentions that one reason for transferring out is financial issues.

Petrie said he feels that transferring is not a viable solution for him.

“I’m under the impression that it’s actually worse at CCD given their default rating, and CU Denver doesn’t offer the classes I really need to graduate,” Petrie said.

Petrie doesn’t see the financial aid office as the problem; he said the staff is always very kind, and they do the best job they can with dealing with the federal lenders.

He said he was able to receive a shortterm loan, but it was barely enough.

“They’re very clear about what’s going on, but I believe this situation really does put students last. Their needs are not considered at all,” Petrie said.

Like many students, Petrie is a commuter to the university. He said he has had to make sacrifices and often has to turn to cheaper sources for books.

The Auraria Bookstore does offer alternatives such as renting books, but Petrie still can find the books cheaper elsewhere.

“It could be because there’s a lot more competition in the Internet market, but [bookstore] prices are significantly higher than others. So if I can beat the prices by maybe a half or a quarter, I’m going to go ahead and do that,” Petrie said.

Along with books, the loans Petrie receives are supposed to help with the cost of living. He said he finds this to be inadequate as well. He said he’s had to live off and on with his parents.

Petrie said he feels it is important for students to be getting the help they need right at the beginning of the semester and doesn’t feel that the school is taking the necessary steps to ensure that students are given enough resources.

“It’s just something we need, and this isn’t debatable,” Petrie said. “I don’t like a school that reminds me I’m going to a subpar university, and this kind of stuff reminds me I’m going to a subpar university.”

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InSight

Strength in the struggle of bullying Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu I was bullied from my earliest memory of first grade until my first and only semester at a college in Florida. Many of my tormenters stayed with me for years. Some of them were the adults in my life.

Humiliation was almost always their weapon.

In second grade, I was afraid to run into Wade Watson on the way to school because he’d throw my lunch into the middle of the highway, forcing me to retrieve it and walk to school alone. This seems trivial in the face of how bad things would eventually become.

The worst incident was during my final year of high school.

I was a student at a church school. The pastor was the main teacher and the principal. He was a long-standing friend of the family, and my last year of high school seemed to be a tipping point in my

bad relationship with him.

I was 17. I was not in touch with my body and it certainly was not in touch with me. Things happened out of order, and that made for some small embarrassments.

That was the case one day when I was sitting at my desk and my period started a week early. I was wearing a sheer yellow dress and I knew I needed to get to a bathroom quickly. Despite the fact he’d let several others go, though, the pastor would not let me go unless I told him why it was so important. The demand for an account was a new front in our little war, but I was too embarrassed to say anything other than that I just had to go. He refused to grant me permission. By the time class was over, it was too late.

After class, he told me to hurry up and get to the bathroom before the next class started. I knew that I was going to have to deal with teasing from other students, for years

possibly, but I stood and walked out of the classroom to the ladies room, revealing the bloodstain on the back of my dress. I held my head high—defiant—trying to pretend it didn’t bother me. I cried in the bathroom until my mother came to pick me up.

The next day, I walked into school to find that someone had used a red magic marker to draw a large red spot on my desk’s seat.

“Make sure you use the bathroom before class,” a student told me. The only thing I could do was sit down. There were no extra desks to use.

After class, the pastor gave me a bottle of cleaner and rag and told me to clean the spot from the seat. I tried. I worked through lunch, but I could never get the spot out of the seat. For the rest of the school year—two and a half months—I came to school to that spot. It became instrumental in my effort and success in dropping out

of school and never going back. I found out later that my tormentor died of leukemia several years after high school.

Both of my sisters remember this as the worst I have ever been bullied, though we didn’t call it that back then. One has apologized to me for doing nothing to stop the incident. The other recalls my defiance as dignity. Over 26 years later, remembering it still makes me weep.

There is a saying that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

It seems trite in the face of adversity. It’s simplistic. It’s just a way of telling the person to suck it up and stop being a baby, but does nothing to ease the hardship.

Coming to school day after day to face that red spot taught me something about myself. What does not kill me does not make me stronger. It does not kill me because I am already strong.

Sinking low in education Awards ignore tragedy Lee Ridley lridley1@msudenver.edu

We wallow near the bottom of the pond in K-12 public education support: 42nd in per pupil spending and 40th in student-teacher ratios, according to Education Week’s Quality Counts 2013 data.

Colorado has not been investing enough funding into P-20 education (preschool through graduate studies). We rank 49th nationally — yes, almost dead last, according to the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.

How did we end up here? The answer is complicated, but it’s a downward trend that started in 1982.

The draining of public education funding began with the passage of the Gallagher Amendment in 1982. Then, voters approved TABOR, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in 1992, TABOR prevents any tax increases without approval from Colorado voters. The Gallagher Amendment changed the way property taxes are assessed, while the revenue stream supporting higher education has slowed to a trickle. The recession has made things worse, but we were sinking to the bottom of the pond prior to the recession.

Some Colorado citizens are trying to steer the Titanic of public education funding reform toward a better destination. Individuals from a statewide coalition of organizations launched a public awareness project last fall, “2013: Year of the Student.” Their message: Colorado’s students cannot afford another “business as usual” legislative.

Fortunately, some lawmakers are listening. Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, unveiled a school finance draft bill Feb. 18. The bill would increase revenues and create new ways to fund schools. But thanks to TABOR, if it makes it on the November 2013 ballot, voters would need to approve it. We should applaud Sen. Johnston for his efforts to haul Colorado schools out of the muck at the bottom of the pond.

One of the first things often heard from voters who oppose tax increases is “throwing money at a problem doesn’t fix it.” I agree, but I would counter that with, “Buying only one wheel for your bike isn’t going to get you where you need to go.”

We’ve been buying one wheel for too long. You can stand up and ask for what you deserve: a state that invests in its future by investing in yours. Sign the “2013: Year of the Student Call to Action” letter to legislators at www.2013forstudents.org. If enough of us act, Colorado students can bike down a new path toward academic success.

Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu

Everyone is talking about Jennifer Lawrence falling up the stairs, Meryl Streep not opening the envelope and Seth MacFarlane declaring, “We saw your boobs.” Nobody is talking about what the Oscars missed.

At the 85th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, about five minutes of airtime was given to “In Memorium,” a slideshow dedication to those who died in the movie industry this year. There has been speculation about several people left off the list, including big names like Andy Griffith and Phyllis Diller. However, twelve very important names were also forgotten.

John Larimer. Alex Teves. Alex Sullivan. Jessica Ghawi. Jesse Childress. Micayla Medek. Veronica Moser-Sullivan. Gordon Cowden. Alexander J. Boik. Jonathan T. Blunk. Rebecca Ann Wingo. Matt McQuinn.

These are the names of the twelve people who died July 20 at the Century 16 Aurora theater, during the midnight premiere of one of the summer’s biggest blockbusters. Somehow, the Oscars failed to see the obvious importance of these deaths and how intricately their fates were tied to the movie industry.

As I watched the awards ceremony, I kept expecting some sort of a tribute to the victims of the theater shooting. There was a tribute to musicals, a tribute to Bond movies and even a section dedicated to MacFarlane’s movie “Ted.” In all of the time used to celebrate the movie industry, not a single moment was used to mention one of the year’s biggest, most tragic movie-related events.

It was tasteless to ignore this tragedy in lieu of glitz and glam. Obviously, the Oscars are a night of celebration and a night of recognition, but they also should be a night of remembrance. Maybe instead of spending so much time on flashy dance numbers and long introductions, the Academy could focus a couple minutes on those who died while supporting the movie industry.

I’m not saying the pomp of the Oscars should go away. It’s the ceremony of it all that draws in viewers, inspires blogs and sparks countless “best/worst dressed” slideshows. It would just be considerate of the Academy to think about the world that is on the receiving end and watching the silver screen, rather than simply those on and behind it.

After all, the pain left behind from the shooting will have a much longer impact than Anne Hathaway’s dress or Ben Affleck’s acceptance speech.

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Innovators bring color, energy to campus

Jesse Van Horne stands in front of his abstract painting series, “Enter the Vortex” on display Feb. 21 at MSU Denver’s Center for Innovation. Photo by Brian T. McGinn • bmcginn3@msudenver.edu

Aaron Lambert alamber8@msudenver.edu The new exhibit at the MSU Denver Center for Innovation explores the concept of art as energy.

“Let’s paint the city, man,” said Jesse Van Horne, featured artist at the center. “Art is our impulse as a people, as humans. Why is it so difficult to do? Why aren’t dumpsters a canvas? Our cities should be seeping art.”

Jesse Van Horne’s declaration of artistic conquest manifests itself through his latest abstract series, “Enter the Vortex”, which celebrated its grand unveiling Feb. 21 at an open house showcase in the Center for Innovation gallery.

The opening comes as the first-ever showcase for a Center for Innovation client.

For the “Enter the Vortex” series, Van Horne drew his inspiration from “energetic” forces that are everywhere, and thinking about what it would look like if one could visualize those energetic forces.

“They permeate every person,

they permeate all the space, even buildings, different geographic locations,” he said. “That consideration was central to the formulation of this series.”

The “Vortex” centerpieces are colorful and abstract works in which each color strand is meant to be a representation of a different impulse or wavelength, he said.

Van Horne is devoted to seeing the current Denver art scene expand, and in changing the way society thinks about art. He is also a strong advocate for art education, and has given several lectures at MSU Denver.

“A piece isn’t quite finished until there’s that dialogue that takes place between the creator and the viewer,” Van Horne said.

Along with Van Horne, the works of Ann Cunningham were also featured at the open house.

Cunningham is also a client with the Center for Innovation.

She is primarily a stone sculptor, which led her to discover another passion: teaching tactile art classes to the blind at Colorado Center for the Blind.

Cunningham had a revelation while creating a slate sculpture in the early 90s, and wondered if somebody who was blind could figure out what the pictures were, she says.

That’s when her life changed and she formed the basis for her artistic career.

“Being blind is a very different way of being in the world, and it’s very cool,” Cunningham said.

“There’s advantages to it that we don’t even think about.”

Cunningham has also published a multi-sensory picture book entitled “Sadie Can Count,” which features large print and braille words, ideally for a blind parent to help a sighted child read, or vice versa, she said.

The Center for Innovation has proven to be very beneficial to both Van Horne and Cunningham in developing their entrepreneurial skills.

Van Horne and Cunningham are clients for the Create MSU Denver program, which is the first virtual incubator for creative entrepreneurs in higher education,

said Mick Jackowski, director of the Center for Innovation.

“We provide [our clients] with business advisement to help them become economically self-sustaining as [artists], and we are developing an e-commerce site as another means to showcase their talents,” Jackowski said.

The program has helped Van Horne to see himself not just as an artist, but as a designer and a creative entrepreneur, he said. He has since started his own design company, Skullflower Design Studios.

Cunningham said the program has helped her to become more familiar with the business side of things.

“It’s got me thinking on very different terms than I used to think about my artwork, my career,” Cunningham said.

The Center for Innovation itself is an entrepreneurship center separate from any of the schools of MSU Denver, including the School of Business. It was designed as such in order to provide entrepreneurial opportunities to all students, not

just business majors, Jackowski said.

Through the Center for Innovation, students are able to minor or earn a certificate in Entrepreneurship.

Rose Williams, a senior at MSU Denver and an intern at the Center for Innovation, is currently pursuing a minor in Entrepreneurship and hopes to open her own business someday.

“I would like to have a venue that helps people such as artists and musicians to show their business idea or to show their talents,” Williams said. “I also want to make it into a fair trade business as well.”

Through the Center for Innovation, Williams and other students have the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to be an entrepreneur.

“It’s teaching people how to be creative, how to identify a problem within the market and how to solve that problem,” Williams said. “It’s teaching people what their dream is and helping formulate what their big idea is.”

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Student art rewarded at Emmanuel Gallery Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu Canvas. Photographs. Metal.

Stuffed unicorns.

From the traditional to the modern to the downright weird, the artwork of MSU Denver students is on display at the MetroNOW 2013 exhibit at the Emmanuel Gallery.

“It’s just a way to recognize the talent of all the students on campus,” said Brenda LaBier, Gallery Manager. “It’s really great. A lot of our exhibitions for students and faculty are really well received. We have usually over 200 people at our opening receptions.”

MetroNOW is an annual juried art exhibit that is put on by the Emmanuel Gallery and the MSU Denver Art Guild. The opening ceremony was held Feb. 21 and featured refreshments and live music.

The art guild solicited submissions from MSU Denver students of any and all majors. The pieces were then narrowed down and selected for the display.

“The Art Guild puts out a call for entry for anyone at Metro, they don’t have to be an art student,” said Aidan Tunnell, president of the MSU Denver Art Guild.

“They can just bring whatever the heck they want. We encourage all media, even performance based.

[This year] we do have one digital installation.”

Four awards were given to student artists at the ceremony based on the decisions of this year’s juror, Ray Mark Rinaldi, an art critic at The Denver Post.

“As a journalist and critic, I try to view as much art as possible and this allowed me to see a lot of serious work in a brief amount of time and that made it a rewarding experience,” Rinaldi wrote in his juror statement. “I was impressed, first and foremost, by the youthfulness of the offerings. The ideas and approaches felt fresh and contemporary.”

“Courtney, Waiting Room”

by Sara Lightning won the award for Juror’s Choice, while “Shared Visions” by Tyler Daneman won Third Place, “Pulido 1948” by Antonia Fernandez won Second Place, and “Human Landscape Series”

by Kristie Rocheleau won Best in Show.

“As the lone juror, the final selections reflect my personal biases.

I favored painting and portraits in particular, because I see them as clear tests of an artist’s abilities,” Rinaldi said. “Because this is a student exhibit, I tried to encourage what looked to be potential in the works as much as what felt final and complete.”

Rocheleau’s piece is a series of three black and white photos exploring the contrasts and the

similarities between the human body and natural landscapes.

“I’ve never won anything, so it feels awesome,” Rocheleau said.

“I didn’t think I’d even get in the show, honestly. I [was] like, photographs, who cares?”

The second place piece, “Pulido 1948,” is a portrait of Fernandez’s friend’s father, who had an important and positive impact on her life. It is one of two pieces by Fernandez on display in the exhibit.

“I’m working on a series about men that I respect and admire,” Fernandez said. “I want to represent them in a great light.”

Elicia Diepenbroek, a senior at MSU Denver, said the photography on display by Tunnell reflected her own ambitions and inspirations. “[I liked] just the complexity, and the fact that she was taking pictures of pictures,” Diepenbroek said. “It’s sort of what I’m doing with my photos.”

Other students thought the strength of the exhibit was within the gallery and the presentation.

“I think that the setup was really well put together,” said Sarah Ortegon, an MSU Denver senior.

“I like coming to the Emmanuel Gallery, because I know the history behind the art.”

The exhibit will be on display until March 7. The Emmanuel Gallery is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“I think [the exhibit] is extraordinary,” said Christina Parsons, a junior at MSU Denver. “It’s great to see the different varieties our school has to offer. Seeing the different mediums and stuff — it’s very dynamic, and they’re all strong pieces.”

Top: Antonia Fernandez (left), winner of the second place award at this years opening reception for the MetroNOW student art show, stands in front of one of her two paintings while discussing her win with Aidan Tunnell(right), President of the MSU Denver Art Guild. The MetroNOW gallery opened Feb. 21 at the Emmanuel Gallery located at Auraria. The student art show will be on display in the gallery through Mar. 7.

Middle: “Human Landscape Series” by Kristie Rocheleau won Best in Show at the opening reception of this years MetroNOW student art gallery.

Bottom: “Pulido 1948,” the piece by Fernandez that won the second place award, is part of a series showcasing men whom she admires.

Photos by Heather Newman • hnewman3@msudenver.edu

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One World One Water passes awareness through art Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu The world’s most abundant resource is becoming scarcer in our own backyard.

It seems ridiculous that the thought of the Colorado River running dry in certain areas is even a possibility, but soon, it could be a serious problem.

On Feb. 25 and 26, MSU Denver’s Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardships held its first-ever “Water and the Arts” at the Tivoli Turnhalle. The event was a water convention dedicated to addressing the questions and themes of water and the environment.

Fans of the environment and the arts alike flocked to campus to listen to many environmental activists, filmmakers, and artists present opportunities to express their views through artistic endeavors.

Through diverse mediums like poetry, dance, live music and water designs, many artists were able to display their feelings about the current state of water in Colorado.

Over the course of the two days, students were able to express themselves creatively and artistically in a way that might go unnoticed to

the average person.

“The arts are a great way of connecting the ‘uninformed’ with the people ‘in the know,’” said Ivy Barron, events coordinator for the One World One Water Foundation.

“I’m really excited for every event over the two days.”

Curly haired and jovial cochair Rik Sargent was on hand to bridge the so-called “gap” between water and the arts.

Sargent is responsible for the One World One Water sculpture outside of the student success building. Sargent made it possible for attendees to better understand how water and art can be so closely intertwined.

The One World One Water foundation’s director Tom Cech was thrilled to be a part of MSU Denver’s first symposium.

The idea of combining water and the arts is a brand new event with the goal of looking at water not from a scientific standpoint, but from an artistic one.

“We got the idea for the symposium after a group that did this in the United Kingdom,” Cech said. “It’s spoken word. It’s music.

And we have a number of explorers that have gone down the Colorado River to give their own perspective.”

The first day’s overall message was that of art, and how it is possible to bridge the gap between the two from an artistic perspective rather than that of a scientific one.

Colorado native, kayaker and environmental blogger Zak Podmore was on hand to discuss his film “Down the Colorado” and his endeavors while traveling more than 2,500 miles down the Colorado River.

By kayak, foot and raft, he was able to chronicle his experiences through a number of different mediums and gain a perspective on the river itself.

“The idea of conservation awareness was a huge issue throughout our journey,” said Podmore.

The second day’s focus was on expression through words. Storytelling, live music and poetry filled the day, while guest speakers like the Flobots’ Jonny 5 took to the microphone.

Tuesday afternoon also saw co-chair Colorado Supreme Court Justice Greg Hobbs perform a rap song about the Colorado River, with accompaniment by Boulder Western Resource Advocate Jorge Figueroa and backed by a fourpiece ensemble.

This mixed-media art piece by Sarah WIlliams was among the art featured at the “Water and the Arts” symposium Feb. 25-26 in the Tivoli Turnhalle.

Photo by Katie Avery • kavery1@msudenver.edu

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“Vagina Monologues” feel like a trap Brent Zeimen bzeimen@msudenver.edu Not often does one hear the phrase “Chocolate vaginas! $2 each!” but that is exactly what met my ears as I took my seat for “The Vagina Monologues.”

On Feb. 22 in St. Cajetan’s Center, the MSU Denver Feminist Alliance put on the show, which features a series of short stories presented by a variety of women talking very explicitly about sex and the vagina itself.

The show has been put on since 1996 and is re-written by its author Eve Ensler each year to add or change aspects of the show. The script is then syndicated to various performing groups internationally.

The script itself is sound when viewed in halves. The first half of the show is mostly amusing anecdotes and funny stories about women confronting their sexuality and their vaginas. The second half takes a dark turn, discussing rape and abuse, and going into grisly details about some women’s experiences. In the end, this dichotomy makes the show feel like a trap. The funny stories draw you in so that performers can spring statistics and gruesome stories onto the

Marie Medina performs at “The Vagina Monologues,” Feb. 22 in St. Cajetan’s Center. Photo by Katie Avery • kavery1@msudenver.edu

audience.

The overall message from the show is one of power and independence and of fighting back against the patriarchal societal norms in the world today. That is something anyone can get behind and is inherently a positive thing.

It was a shame, then, that the performance wasn’t especially good. Some of the speakers didn’t speak clearly into the microphones, while others suffered from faulty microphones that cut in and out and were distracting. One speaker didn’t use a microphone at all and paced the stage in heavy boots that made loud, clomping noises.

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I, as a man, am inherently not the audience that this show is meant for. I admit, not all of the humor or stories made perfect sense, since I do not know what it is like to be a woman. I don’t hold that against the show, the script or the speakers, but it’s harder for me to try and understand any of the humor or stories properly when I can barely hear the presenters.

In the end, “The Vagina Monologues” is a good piece of work that deserved more rehearsal, and is probably totally worth seeing when presented by professional speakers or in a venue that isn’t plagued by unreliable equipment.

Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu For a comedian that prides himself on being as far out of line as possible, Anthony Jeselnik’s new show seems tame.

Jeselnik is most known for his work on the Comedy Central roasts and as a writer on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” His new show, “The Jeselnik Offensive” debuted at 8:30 Feb. 19 Comedy Central, airing right after popular Internet parody show “Tosh.0.”

It is clear that the show aims for a dynamic similar to that of Daniel Tosh and of Chelsea Handler from “Chelsea Lately.”

The first half of the show consists of a monologue and one-liners, and the second features a panel of comedians.

Despite Jeselnik’s claims that he makes the jokes that nobody else will, the show doesn’t seem to push many boundaries that haven’t already been pushed.

The pilot episode featured a segment full of cancer jokes, in which Jeselnik visited a cancer support group and did stand-up to patients. While this had the potential to be over-the-top and distasteful, as is Jeselnik’s forte, it showed a classier side of his comedy instead.

Photo courtesy of Comedy Central.

Even the critically acclaimed king of offensive didn’t come off like a total tool.

One thing is apparent — Jeselnik is funny, but the context of the show seems too stuff y for the stand-up comedian. His jokes came off as forced during the monologue, and his punch lines were too reserved to offend. During the panel, though, he seemed more in his element, and the natural delivery of these jokes changed the entire tone of the show.

After watching the first episode, my response to “The Jeselnik Offensive” is up in the air, but I’ll still be tuning in to see how the next few episodes unfold.

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Runners Wrap-up Baseball Metro lost a doubleheader at Eastern New Mexico Feb. 23.

The Roadrunners lost 10-4 in game one after leading 1-0 after the top of the first from a leadoff double by senior shortstop Erik Cammall.

Freshman outfielder Reilly Mau hit a two-run double to score freshman infielder Andrew Paust and senior catcher Markie Ortivez in the fourth, then Cammall drove in Paust with a single in the sixth.

The Runners lost game two 6-4.

Sophomore pitcher Nick Hammett threw seven shutout innings for a 7-1 win over Eastern New Mexico on Feb. 24. Hammett was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week.

Men’s basketball Metro 69, Adams State 56 The Roadrunners recovered from their first loss of the season to Fort Lewis to beat the Grizzlies Feb. 23, and clinch the possession of the regular season Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship, their first since 2009 and seventh all-time, the most of any RMAC school.

Track & Field Junior hurdler Darius Reed won the RMAC men’s 60-meter hurdles title Feb. 23 in Spearfish, S.D. Reeds 7.89 seconds was his sixth automatic qualifying time for the NCAA championships this season

Women’s basketball The Roadrunners lost two on the road, 64-48 to Fort Lewis Feb. 22, and 59-53 to Adams State College Feb. 23.

Metro shot a season-low 23 percent against Fort Lewis, while senior guard Emily Wood led the Runners with 11 points.

The Runners fell 17-8 overall and 15-5 in conference with the loss to Adams State.

Women’s tennis Air Force 7, Metro 0 Division I Air Force Academy shut out Metro women’s tennis Feb. 23 in Colorado Springs.

Metro dropped 7-9 for the season.

Compiled by Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu

Morse rebounds to the top

powerhouse has been giving opposing teams trouble.

Head coach Derrick Clark has been coaching Morse for three Senior Jonathan Morse has years, with a 70-16 overall record . been causing havoc in the paint “There is no coincidence that this season. we have 70 wins, with J [JonaStarting the prethan] being there every single season with RMAC year,” Clark said. basketball Player Morse has improved every of the Year and year, and his work gets results.

Defensive Player of “My freshman year we won the Year honthe RMAC tournament chamors, this 6-foot-8 pionship, we went to the regionforward/center als, and then the next year, we won a game in the regionals,” Morse said. “Last year we went to the Elite Eight.

We’re very blessed to be here and I’m very happy in how my career has turned out.”

The Basketball Times Preseason All-American has been averaging 13 points a game, is shooting 51 percent from the field, and has 30 blocks this season. He is also averaging 9.3 rebounds a game, the Metro senior forward/center Jonathan Morse holds the second-highest in school record in rebounding with 941. Photo by Ryan

Zee Nwuke znwuke@msudenver.edu

the nation, leading the Roadrunners to a 23-1 overall record. Morse also broke the school’s previous rebounding record, 914, set by Shun Tillman, accumulating 941 rebounds to date.

“From year one to year three, if you look at his statistics, they don’t differ very much. They have gotten better every year,” Clark said. “This year he’s taken more of a leadership role.”

Morse has had a successful career as a Roadrunner, and hopes to finish his career with a national championship.

“We have to try and make a run. We want to try and win the RMAC tournament,” Morse said.

“That’s something the coach has never done, so we want to get that done for him this year. We also want to improve from last year and go back to regionals and try and make a push to the Elite Eight one more time.”

The hardest matchups for Morse have been the big men at Colorado School of Mines and Fort Lewis, but he loves the challenge.

“Alex Herrera and Trevor Wages, they’re big fellas,” Morse said.

“They outweigh me and they’re taller than me, so it’s a challenge.”

Morse hasn’t done all this by

himself. He has had a lot of support to get him where he is today.

He has two older brothers who were also Metro basketball players and introduced Morse to the game.

They showed him how to play around the time he was in middle school. They have been a big influence on his basketball career, but Morse always tries to be the best player he can be. He also tries to be the best person he can be on the court and off of it.

Clark said Morse is incredibly smart, and picks up things fast, and learns to adapt.

“You only have to tell him things one time and he understands,” Clark said.

Morse is majoring in biology.

“I like to learn how things work in the world. I like anatomy and physiology a lot. I like to know how the human body works,” Morse said.

He hopes to continue his basketball career after graduation.

“It is something I love to do and I’ve always aspired to play basketball professionally,” Morse said.

When he isn’t busy with school or basketball, Morse loves to listen to all types of music, hang out with teammates, and play a few games of golf.

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Loss drops Runners to No. 2; still atop RMAC Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu Metro men’s basketball lost 6154 on the road to No. 17 Fort Lewis Feb. 22.

The Roadrunners are now 23-1 overall and 19-1 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

The loss to the Skyhawks moved the Runners to No. 2 nationally.

The Roadrunners had narrowly defeated Fort Lewis by a six point margin at their last meeting Jan. 19, and had a game plan going into the match-up.

According to assistant coach Taylor Harris, who spoke with KMet Radio’s Justin Taylor, they knew it was going to be the toughest roadtrip of the season.

“It’s not every day that you get to go into an environment of 2,200 people and have the offensive and defensive linemen starting the Harlem Shake before the warmups, in an atmosphere where they didn’t come to see you win, they came to see you lose,” Harris said.

The Runners’ game plan: work the ball inside out, get the ball to Jonathan Morse, rebound, and create turnovers, and capitalize on those turnovers. The Skyhawks didn’t get that memo, and came out and shot 9-of-13 in the first 11 minutes, including five from outside the arc.

“We had a lot of defensive breakdowns early in the first half and we were playing a different lineup because we had guys in foul trouble,” Metro head coach Derrick Clark said.

Senior guard Demetrius Miller got in foul trouble early and only played six minutes in the first half, which disrupted the Runners’ flow offensively, Clark said. Sophomore guard Mitch McCarron fouled out in the second half, which also hurt the flow.

“It affected us a lot because, one: he’s an effective ball handler, and two: he is our best play maker in terms of creating opportunities for other people,” Clark said. “If Mitch is not out there, the floor is

not spread as much and you can really double down on the post, so that was a big loss for us.”

Sophomore forward/center Nicholas Kay also fouled out in the second half.

“It really limits how aggres-

sive you can be,” Clark said. “We guarded well enough to win the game, believe it or not; we gave up 61 points. Where we ran short was offensively; we didn’t get a flow offensively.”

Metro sophomore forward/center Nicholas Kay makes a move in the paint as the Roadrunners fell 69-56 to No. 17 Fort Lewis College in Durango Feb. 22. Kay fouled out in the second half with six points and fi ve rebounds. Photo courtesy of Metro Athletic Department

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Sudoku

Horoscope

By Kayla Whitney • kwhitne2@msudenver.edu

Taurus

Capricorn

April 20 -May 20

December 22 -January 19 Just because your best friend is a dwarf doesn’t mean you should introduce them using a Tony Montana voice while screaming, “Say hello to my little friend!”

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father.

Prepare to die.

Aquarius

Gemini

January 20 -February 18

Difficulty: EASY

May 21 -June 20

The next time you’re waiting for the stoplight to let you cross the street and it just won’t change, do your best Stephen Jordan impersonation and run across the street screaming, “It’s a great day to be a Roadrunner!”

You want a horoscope? The stars ain’t got time for that. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Libra

September 23 -October 22 You will decide to venture to the end of a rainbow.

Instead of a pot of gold, you’ll fi nd a meteorology book with a bookmark in the chapter that explains how the spectrum of light works.

Th is horoscope is inconceivable.

Cancer

Pisces

June 21 -July 22

February 19 -March 20

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So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Virgo

August 23 -September 22

Leo

Aries

Scorpio

October 23 -November 21 Wearing white clothes in a blizzard isn’t fashion, it’s camouflage…and very dangerous.

Sagittarius

March 21 -April 19

July 23 -August 22

November 22 -December 21

When the only things in your recycle bin are Girl Scout cookie boxes you may have a serious problem, and should probably legally change your name to Cookie Monster.

An owl will appear outside your window. Don’t get your hopes up — the owl will have a dead rat, not your acceptance letter to Hogwarts.

Having one of those awesome mini-motorcycles is fun and all, but you probably shouldn’t use it as your mode of transportation during a snowstorm.

Difficulty: HARD

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Tivoli 140 @ 2 p.m. Free 3.4 Vocal Jazz Ensemble, “Sol Phase” King Center Concert Hall @ 7:30 p.m. Free 3.5 Substance Abuse Meeting Auraria Library Room 206 @ 12:30 p.m.

3.6 The Discovery of Snowmastodon, an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies Tivoli Multicultural Lounge @ 11 a.m. Free

Events Around Denver 3.1 First Friday ArtWalk featuring Today’s Paramount Denver Art Society @ 6 p.m.

Free 3.1 Passion Pit 1stBank Center Doors open @ 6:30 p.m.

Show @ 7:30 p.m. $30 - $40 3.3 A Conversation With Edith Head A stage production of costume designer and eight time Oscar winner Edith Head.

Denver Film Center @ 7 p.m. $25-$40

TheMetropolitan February 28, 2013

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