Volume 36, Issue 24 - March 6, 2014

March 6, 2014

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Haley Di Virgilio and Jason Bonham (center) perform as Hope Cladwell and Officer Barrel in “Urinetown,” a production from MSU Denver’s Theater Department, Feb. 25 at the Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theater.

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Theater department takes a potty break

MSU Denver continues season with “Urinetown”

By Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu The MSU Denver theater program kicked off the second half of its performance season with a high-energy production full of rousing music, dancing and — pee.

“Urinetown,” a musical satire by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, opened Feb. 27 in the Eugenia Rawls Courtroom Theater at the King Center.

“The play is centrally about corporate control of resources in the mythical town of Urinetown,” said director Scott Lubinski.

“The people of Urinetown are led to a revolution by the Poor’s leader, Bobby Strong, who eventually wins over the heart of the daughter of Mr. Caldwell B. Cladwell, the head of the ‘Urine Good Company.’”

The Eugenia Rawls stage was overtaken by a set of dingy, rust-stained walls and dirty pipes, which formed the stark outlines of buildings when lit up. Before the play started and during intermission, the sound of dripping water played overhead. The world of “Urinetown” was bleak, uncomfortable and painfully funny.

As Bobby (Andy Nuanhngam) started

the rebellion, one hilarious musical number followed another in rapid succession. Discolike spotlights swooped around the stage and the audience, actors ran in from every corner of the theatre and the music loudly parodied everything from gospel (in “Run, Freedom, Run!”) to traditional Broadway ballads (“Follow Your Heart”). They play is a very high-energy production and the MSU Denver cast did all they could to meet the challenge.

“Every single actor in this show is so dedicated and talented, so it’s not a big surprise that I think this production is full of energy and spunk,” said Haley DiVirgilio, who plays Hope Cladwell. “The crowds have actually been really wonderful. So far they’ve gotten all of our jokes and reacted really well to some of our more cheesy moments.”

The cast represented their characters purely, and DiVirgilio and Bryan Anderson, as the villainous Cladwells, were particularly good at creating their characters. A highlight in the show was the interaction between Little Sally (Stephanie Ferguson) and Officer Lockstock (Eli Stewart), two characters who often stepped out of the story to narrate what happened.

During the prologue, they list all the things that could ruin a play: “too much exposition,” “poor subject matter” and “a bad title.” All of which, as they explained, apply to “Urinetown.” The show broke the “fourth wall” in several other ways, too, such as one moment when a stagehand came out to untie Hope from a chair.

“This play is unique in that it recognizes in itself that it is a play,” said student lighting designer Kendrick Fischer. “The director wanted to play up this element and expose elements of the play to the audience.”

It’s definitely hard to criticize a story that spent so much time mocking itself. But it spent an equal amount of time mocking political stances that would resonate all too well with current audiences. At one point, the Poor hoist hand-written signs with slogans borrowed from the Occupy Movement.

“This production’s timing was interesting considering the current world conflicts about corporate control of resources and land,” Lubinski said. “The progression of the conflict in Ukraine has encouraged our actors to have discussions about how these conflicts parallel our play’s theme to some degree.”

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MetSports Long ball blasts Metro softball, twice

By Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu Not until the third game of a tripleheader against Chadron State College did the Roadrunners give the Eagles a taste of their own medicine.

Metro salvaged the final game of Feb. 28 with an 11-3 win over the Nebraskans who took the first two at the Auraria Field.

Metro senior catcher Kelsey Three innings Tillery. after the opening pitch of the series crossed home plate, Metro had a 3-0 advantage, scoring one run in each of the first three frames.

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“End It” paints hands red for awareness

By Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu Red X’s marked the hands of students hoping to enlighten others about human trafficking Feb. 27 on the Lawrence Street Mall at Auraria.

The event was in concordance with “Shine a Light on Slavery Day,” an awareness event sponsored by “End It.” “End It” is an activist movement that encourages participants to put red X’s on their hands and post pictures of them on social media.

Renee Davis and Luwam Teame, both UCD students, manned a table on the mall and encouraged students to take an awareness survey.

“Today, this is a way to say, ‘Not in our city,’” Davis said. “It’s an awareness event, but we’re planning to start a more active group on campus.”

CCD and UCD groups were still in the early stages of planning, Davis said, but MSU Denver’s group was much closer to becoming a regular student-run club on campus.

Teame explained that human trafficking in America is different than human trafficking on other continents, such as Africa and South Asia.

“In other countries, children might actually (be) sold into slavery by their own families,” Teame said. “In America, slaves tend to be kidnap victims or runaways.

Things at home may have been bad enough for them not to want to go home, but they have nowhere else to turn, so they’re stuck with the people who enslaved them.”

According to the National

Human Trafficking Resource Center, the organization received 27 calls from victims between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2013, from the state of Colorado reporting human trafficking. The majority of the calls came from the areas between Denver and Ft. Collins, with outlying hot spots in Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Grand Junction. The center reported about 75 percent of the calls reported sex trafficking, while 7.14 percent reported forced labor and 3.57 percent reported labor and sex as the type of trafficking.

Research by the NHTRC also showed that most slaves trafficked were adult women born in U.S. Men and foreign nationals made up the smallest groups. Minors fell in the middle of the demographic.

One of the problems that needs to be addressed, Teame said, was to change legislature so laws would recognize those victimized by human trafficking.

“I talked to a police officer who said they (police) didn’t know what to do,” Teame said. “He said they didn’t want to put a 15 year-old prostitute in jail if she’d been kept by a trafficker, but there’s really no law protecting her.”

Current laws will prosecute not only those who traffic people, but also those that are trafficked.

Courtney Allen, a UCD junior, stopped at the table to fi ll out a survey and mark her hands with X’s. She said she had read books by Kevin Bales, author of “Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy,” and had attended a seminar in Washington, D.C. on human trafficking.

“I was really moved by what I heard,” Allen said. “When I got home I held an in-service on

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News to know “Putin says Russia has right to use force in Ukraine” (Al Jazeera) “1 killed, 30 injured in massive I-25 pileup” (The Denver Post) “Obama sends $3.9 trillion budget to Congress” (Al Jazeera) “Shots Offer Lasting AIDS Protection in Monkeys” (Al Jazeera) UCD sophomore Jessie Crowe stops by the “End It” table at Auraria, Feb. 27. Students who stop by the booth were asked to put red X’s on their hands to show their support towards ending worldwide slavery.

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human trafficking. It wasn’t very big because it was just me, but it was a night of awareness and open discussion about slavery.”

UCD junior Joshua David handed out “End It” flyers while Teame and Davis staffed the table.

He emphasized that people could

not stop with awareness and that more had to be done.

“The response today has been positive,” David said. “But we want people to know that they need to be active or we’re helpless to change anything.”

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Human trafficking stats Percent of human trafficking in Colorado Adults—56% Minors—29% Females—73% Males—26% U.S. citizens/legal residents—41% Foreign nationals—21%

Number of human trafficking calls in Colorado Unspecified sex trafficking: 7 Commercial Front Brothel: 5 Hotel/motel-based commercial sex: 3 Internet-based commercial sex: 2 Truck stop prostitution: 1 Residential brothel: 1 Pimp-controlled prostitution: 1 Personal sexual servitude: 1 Unspecified labor: 1 Door-to-door sales crew: 1 Information courtesy of The National Human Trafficking Resource Center

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Nursing program welcomes traditional degree

By Luke Faulkner lfaulkn4@msudenver.edu Twenty-four students are leading the way as the first group admitted into the new Traditional Nursing Option (TNO) at MSU Denver.

The process of getting a new nursing program wasn’t easy for the department of nursing, but the hard work has paid off. The nursing program’s curriculum has been around for 10 years, making MSU Denver a top school in Colorado and the nation for nursing.

“We started the process probably about four to five years ago,” Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and simulation lab coordinator Shawn Anderson said.

“It took some perseverance to get it through because there’s a lot of community partners that you have to have. So you have to have support from the hospitals.”

Support from hospitals wasn’t the only obstacle standing in the way of a new program.

“Then you have to work with the Board of Nursing to make sure that your curriculum is compliant with all the regulations,” Anderson said.

The Department of Nursing also went through national nursing accreditation boards.

About 200 students applied for the TNO program and only 24 were admitted. The program requires a minimum 2.5 GPA, but since it’s competitive, students should have a 3.0 GPA or higher.

The Health Education Systems Inc. admission exam assesses applicants’ knowledge on reading, writing and math.

“In order to increase our enrollment, we have to go through a process to make sure that it’s accepted,” Anderson said. “It again depends on a partnership with hospitals providing clinical space.

The Board of Nursing’s going to make sure that you have qualified faculty and resources such as classrooms and laboratory space.”

At the national level, the average pass rate for the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses (NCLEX) is about 80 percent. MSU Denver’s nursing program is in the 90 percent range.

“I would say that we have a very good curriculum,” Anderson said. “Our NCLEX pass rates were very competitive. I think that we’re kind of like a hidden gem. We have a faculty that’s dedicated to the

success of our students.”

And a hidden gem it is. The nursing program excels in academics, proving other Colorado schools the TNO at MSU Denver will be a success along with the Accelerated Nursing Option (ANO), and Baccalaureate Registered Nurse Completion Option (BRNCO).

“Three years ago, we were the only school in Colorado that had a 100 percent pass rate on our board certification,” Anderson said.

The TNO differs from the ANO and BRNCO in that the degree can be completed in two years—junior and senior years—and “is kind of like a traditional college program,” Anderson said.

The ANO is a 17-month, semester-based program designed to offer students who have a nonnursing baccalaureate degree the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). BRNCO is designed for students who have graduated from an associate degree or diploma nursing program to earn a BSN. “I was going to do the accelerated, but I got into this one,” said Camille Logan, an MSU Denver TNO nursing student. “The only difference was we don’t have to go to class over the summer.”

The program is rigorous, and students must pass all tests with at least a 77 percent.

“All of our tests are formulated like NCLEX style questions to set us up for success so we can pass our state boards,” said Natalie Peadia, an MSU Denver TNO

nursing student.

Last semester, the BRNCO admitted 175 students, but that number fluctuates. The ANO admitted 48 students this semester, while the TNO admitted only 24.

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Out with the old, in with the new

By Keifer Johnson kjohn247@msudenver.edu MSU Denver is diverging from its old academic planning system, Curriculum Advising and Program Planning, and moving toward a new system called DegreeWorks.

The university began its transition from CAPP, which has been used since 1997, to the new academic planning system in Spring 2014.

The university registrar, Paula Martinez, who is leading the changeover, sees the new system as an improvement.

“DegreeWorks provides a powerful academic advising degree audit solution,” Martinez said.

Students will be able to use the new system if they began classes at MSU Denver during the 20132014 and 2014-2015 school years.

In the future, more catalog years will be added to the DegreeWorks program for MSU Denver.

“All catalog years will be phased out (of CAPP) as we build DegreeWorks.” Martinez said.

Depending on what catalog years are available, returning students may continue with CAPP or be switched to DegreeWorks.

New students will exclusively use DegreeWorks for their academic planning.

“Essentially, new and some continuing students will be (using DegreeWorks) as soon as we have the system up and running.” Martinez said. “In the initial (startup), continuing students will be using CAPP until we get all students transitioned over.”

Continuing students should assume they will use CAPP until directed otherwise by academic advisors.

“With the emphasis on completion rates and the time to a degree, finding a better way to support student academic planning is more important than ever,” Martinez said. “The look and feel just seems really clear on where the student is at.”

One of the main reasons for the transition is the simplicity of the

new program.

“It’ll just be nice because it’ll be completely transparent for everyone here on campus,” said registrar’s office, Sonia Gonzales.

“Where we have two different looks of a CAPP report right now (for the student and the advisor) we’ll only have one system, everybody will have the same view of the same thing.”

While changing over to a new system can be confusing, there’s no worry in the registrar’s department.

Complete communication and training plans will be set up on a website soon for students and faculty.

According to its website, DegreeWorks is known for its online advising features and vast array of course-defining flexibility. It also offers an integrated note-taking

“With the emphasis on completion rates and the time to a degree, finding a better way to support student academic planning is more important than ever ” —Paula Martinez, University Registrar

option for advisors and students to use. Students are able to see what their course load would look like if they changed majors, minors or once they’ve completed a semester.

Gonzales explained that the integrated note-taking option allows students and advisors both to leave notes on the DegreeWorks plan. The notes will stay there so everyone involved in the student’s progress can see it at a later date.

“DegreeWorks includes academic planning tools and real-time counseling capabilities that create new efficiencies and foster more personal interactions between academic advisor and students,” Martinez said. “The look and feel is supposed to be more user-friendly for the student.”

DegreeWorks is owned by a vendor called Ellucian. MSU Denver already has a registration program that is compatible with Ellucian. Having this compatibility provides some extra perks for students.

“Our registration system is supposed to talk to the DegreeWorks system, so a student knows their degree plan and knows what courses they need to take within their program to finish,” Martinez said. “That’s exciting to me.”

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Students were checking out more than books at the Auraria Library Tuesday, March 4.

Auraria police arrested an individual in front of the library at 3:30 p.m.

Police on the scene declined to answer questions about the incident, citing policy.

Blaine Nickeson, Auraria Higher Education Center chief of staff, said a Timely Warning was not issued because the police arrested a suspect and because the situation was not ongoing.

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Pantel has worked four years in the Office of Student Engagement and Wellness as an associate Dean.

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Award season brings drama, not enough reality

By Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu In early March every year, the entire film industry has their eyes fixed upon one man­— one shiny, anatomically rigid, golden man.

At this same time, I find myself rolling my eyes and turning my attention away from the glitz and glam of the awards shows and to my own movie collection — a place I can find much more refuge in than the list of nominees for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t doubt, nor do I discount, the merit of the contenders for the highest acting and technical marks.

The stories contained in the films that create all the Oscar buzz are remarkable and heart-wrenching —but altogether, they’re not my kind of movies.

When I go to the movie theater, I want a night of easy entertain-

ment. I don’t want to bawl my eyes out in public while watching “12 Years a Slave” or have an agoraphobic anxiety attack while watching “Gravity.” I’d rather smile, laugh or wonder at the entertaining marvels laid out before me. I want to see comedies, superhero sagas, action films and other-worldly fantasies at the theater. I don’t want to leave the box office in thoughtful silence, but rather in excited chatter. There’s something undeniably magical about seeing films on the silver screen — the flicks that crush huge numbers at theaters should at least stand a chance.

That’s not to say that I won’t see sweeping dramas like “Dallas Buyers Club” from the comfort and emotional safety of my couch once they hit their DVD releases, I will — I enjoy powerful cinema.

However, this brings about one of my largest problems with the Academy Awards.

There is such a rush to release

hard-hitting films in the last several months of the year so they stand out in the memories of the award committee’s voters. This doesn’t give the everyday person a chance to see all these movies, to reflect on their powerful storylines and performances and really root for them before they are honored in primetime television.

Furthermore, some of the excellent and widely acclaimed movies released earlier in the year, like 2013’s “Prisoners,” “42” and “Lee Daniel’s The Butler,” which all contained subject matter heavy enough to make them seem like locks for nominations, walked away with not even a glance. Movies of other wildly ignored genres, like the awe-inspiring “Iron Man 3,” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” and my favorite funny film of recent years, “We’re the Millers,” barely warrant a second glance, save in categories of special effects or sound.

Also, the increase in independent or smaller-market films, like “Philomena” and “Nebraska” are estranging – I don’t want to have to put that much work into seeing a movie, whereas with these titles, it’s a scavenger hunt of finding a theater that is actually showing them. Frankly, it’s off-putting.

I’m not saying the Oscars need to fit the whims of my early-twenties desire for easy-watching and pop-culture driven entertainment.

However, just a step down from the pillar of lofty, high-brow and toointense and a newfound appreciation of the box office giants would be a nice change. I would love to be able to root for a movie I remember seeing and enjoying, instead of perusing the list of nominees with disappointment and a sweeping feeling of that I lack culture because I haven’t seen any of the titles listed.

tkrause3@msudenver.edu Turning 30 last week brought back a lot of childhood memories.

Do you remember your first CD? Chances are, if you grew up in the pre-MP3 era of the early ’90s, you remember it, and the experience, quite well.

Mine was the soundtrack to “Wayne’s World,” an album full of some unforgettable classics like “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, “Time Machine” by Black Sabbath and “Foxy Lady” by Jimi Hendrix.

All things considered, it was a pretty darn good album to call my first.

I found myself at some random garage sale with just a dollar to my name. Granted I was about eight years old at the time and I didn’t even own a CD player, but that “Wayne’s World” disc spoke to me.

I couldn’t wait for the upcoming holiday season. My dad had promised me a CD player to play that long-awaited compilation of what rock ‘n’ roll meant to me at that age.

For years I spent my days at the record store, building a respectable collection of my own. I studied Rolling Stone and Spin magazines at my schools’ library for artists to watch out for.

As I got into high school, CD burners and re-writeable CDs became all the rage and made

building a music collection easier and more accessible.

Another holiday season came around and my sister and I begged our parents to get us an 8x external burner to install into our bulky IBM computer. Now, 8x isn’t exactaly the fastest way to burn a CD. In those days, it took almost 35 minutes to write, make a copy and burn a CD, which felt fast at the time and now seems like an eternity.

Then came along MP3 players and streaming services like Napster and Limewire that allowed people to (illegally) download just about anything. CDs slowly became obsolete.

I could hold hundreds of CDs on one handheld device, easily accessing anything I wanted.

But it wasn’t the same. I missed my wall of CDs. I missed riding my bike to the record store to buy something new. I missed struggling to unwrap a recently purchased CD in anticipation of giving it that first spin at full volume.

Just as bands feature free download cards to go along with their vinyl and analog cassettes these days, the same can be said for CD’s, making the little, plastic discs more worthwhile.

Every time I hold a physical CD in my hand, I feel a sweeping wave of nostalgia come over me. It feels good. Call me old school, but who doesn’t love a mix CD?

By Melanie Moccia mmoccia@msudenver.edu I was procrastinating on the Internet last night and came across an article in New York Daily News, where there is supposed controversy over a photo of President Obama.

The photo showed him in the Oval Office, on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, after Russian troops invaded the Crimean Peninsula.

It’s not the photograph itself that is causing controversy on the Internet — it’s what Obama is wearing.

The president is dressed extremely casual, in jeans and a denim button up shirt. Critics are saying that as Obama was dressed way too laid back and that since the phone call was such an important one, he should have been formally dressed. I disagree.

In this day and age, I feel like more people dress casually.

Times have changed, and I don’t think it’s necessary that important figures need to constantly be “dressed to a T.” I mean, Obama is in charge of the U.S., which must be extremely stressful, so why not let him wear what he wants?

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Waves of nostalgia Photo, no big deal

By Tobias Krause

The Metropolitan

Ron Christie, a former adviser to President George W. Bush told the Daily News that Obama’s wardrobe choice for the phone call to Putin wasn’t sending the right message. I mean, is what he is wearing more important, or the message behind the phone call?

After reading this article, it made me realize how much America and certain media outlets don’t really care about what’s going on in the world, but rather, they care about what someone is wearing.

It’s evident that no one really cares about the real message of the photo, but they would rather find anything they can to criticize the president.

He’s the president, and if he wants to wear sweatpants in his office, who’s going to stop him?

It seems as if Obama is more of a laid back preisdent compared to many, and I even saw another photo where some of the staff in the Obama administration were wearing jeans, as well.

To me, it’s not a big deal.

When I see this photo, I see the real reason behind it. That Obama took the time to call Putin and talk to him for 90 minutes. Not that he was dressed in denim.

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Artist quote “Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.”

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Artist Keiron Williamson, 9, in his studio.

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As an artist, I have always been astounded and envious of the stories of child art prodigies who have become widely successful so early in life.

Such as the child that can paint with the expressive style of Claude Monet, or the little girl that can paint abstract, colorful paintings, like Jackson Pollock. Seeing those children become so successful begs the question, what do they have that makes them so special?

Looking at the 9-year-old artist from England, Kieron Williamson, I would first assume that the “mini-Monet’s” parents have connections in the art world or are artists themselves, and really pushed him into learning the skill.

However, the youngster started drawing on his own when he was just five years old. His curiosity drove him to experiment with other mediums, such as pastels and oil painting. He has excelled with his open-air landscape paintings reminiscent of the work of Monet.

Kieron’s talents have also been encouraged by professionals in his community who have helped him develop his skills and foster his curiosity of techniques and mediums but his successes are his own.

When I used to hear reports of gifted children such as Kieron, I used to just think, “Well, they are lucky to have been born with such talent.”

Now, I’m realizing that these child artists face something that all adult artists also struggle with. It’s objective passion and focus in their work.

These child prodigies aren’t thinking about artistic breakthroughs, innovation or their monetary future. They don’t have developed egos like adults have or the distractions and vices that adults commonly burden themselves with.

Children simply have a pure curiosity about making things and that’s a lesson that students of the arts can benefit from. It’s to create with the curiosity and wonder of a child and to make art for the sake of art.

Get to know your moon

By Jody Mier jmier2@msudenver.edu “We are going to the moon that is not very far.

Man has so much farther to go within himself.”

—Anaïs Nin We sure do like our quotes.

We gravitate toward them, post them on Facebook and it wouldn’t be a fridge if there wasn’t a quote on it. Does that say anything about us?

Some might wave their cane at us and squawk that it’s our short attention span. But, we’ve always liked our quotes: Look, it’s a shiny one-liner.

A good quote stops us in our tracks and wakes you from a dreary routine. Boiled down wisdom and a potent sentence give us a burst of inspiration, make us look up and beyond ourselves at showers of hope and ideas. They’ll tap us on our shoulder and remind us who we are, pushing us back on to our path. So much can happen from a sentence or two.

On the other hand, I wonder if we forget the substance the quote originated from. Maybe we fail to recognize that the quote has a before and an after.

Maybe we’ve never read the book. Sometimes we only have time enough to consume a protein

bar, but that isn’t a meal. Nor is a quote a remedy. Slow down. Get some substance.

“Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to deleterious interrogation: her potency over effluent and refulgent waters: her power to enamor, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the calamity of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendor, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.”

—James Joyce, Ulysses Does the library have any Anaïs Nin or Ulysses?

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We are going to the moon that is not very far.

Man has so much farther to go within himself.

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Pass the bong, then the paint

By Melanie Moccia

mmoccia@msudenver.edu Heidi Keyes was just a working artist in Denver, until a friend suggested she hold a class at her home, involving newly legalized marijuana.

Inspired by the ever-popular “painting and wine classes,” Keyes decided to host “painting and weed classes.”

“I put (the idea) out on Facebook and asked, ‘who would be interested in this? I’m going to start these classes,’” Keyes said, enthusiastically. “It was overwhelming how many people were into the idea.”

The classes, called “Puff, Pass, Paint,” take place in Keyes’ Capitol Hill apartment and typically run two days a week. Each class costs $40, which includes paint, a canvas, brushes, snacks, and of course, complimentary hits from Keyes’ green bong.

Seven or eight people show up to each class and are encouraged to “BYOC” (bring your own cannabis) to share with others, as well as drinks, food or anything they feel is necessary while getting high and painting.

Holding the classes in her home lets the painters relax more, because it’s a more intimate environment. With relaxing folk music playing in the background and the smell of freshly baked cookies, students are bound to get in the mood to smoke and paint.

Also, because of the small number of attendees, people are able to socialize with each other and it feels like more of a hangout than a class.

“When people are smoking and painting, I feel that they are a lot less worried about what other people are thinking,” Keyes said.

“They’re all super relaxed.”

When smoking weed, people seem to be more creative, which Keyes has learned from personal experiences.

“I’m an artist, I’ve been working as an artist full time for the past couple of years,” she said.

“Definitely not that my work is based on it, but sometimes smoking a little bit kind of helps me with the creative process.”

Keyes leads the class with direction on how to paint a scene, usually involving a Colorado landscape. She encourages students to follow along, but she isn’t opposed to them expressing themselves and

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Heidi Keyes, founder of the “Puff, Pass, Paint” classes, stands with her tools of choice Portrait by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

going off on their own to create whatever they want.

“Everybody’s pieces turn out so different and I ask people who go to the wine classes if that is normal, and they say, ‘no, usually in the wine classes everyone’s turns out looking the same,’” Keyes said.

“I think because here everyone is relaxed and feeling like they can paint whatever they want.”

Since the classes started in January, Keyes has seen a variety of people attending. She has had everyone from 21-year-old college

kids to 80-year-old grandparents attending. One grandmother was a total hit.

“It was a girl and her grandparents,” Keyes said laughing. “It was awesome. No one even cared about painting or listening to me because she was just cracking everybody up.”

Keyes is from Wisconsin and has lived in Colorado for the past three years. She is amazed at how booming the marijuana industry is, and thought that it would be a great idea to get involved this

specific way.

“Puff, Pass, Paint” classes have been filling up every week.

For now, Keyes is still experimenting with the class. She’s eager to find out if the fad is going to stay around and as of now, it looks like her classes are gaining more popularity.

“It’s all people who want to do the same thing,” Keyes said. “They want to smoke weed and they want to paint. Even if they aren’t usually painters, and they’re just chilling and having a good time.”

Culture quotes “I think most people have that out-of-body experience when they win the Oscar.”

-Sandra Bullock “No matter where you come from, your dreams are valid.”

-Lupita Nyong’o

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Red Bull Showcase debuts in Denver

By Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu Not often does one of the most popular indie clubs in town join forces with one of the largest energy drink companies to put together a concert.

However, Denver’s own Larimer Lounge, in conjunction with local indie label Holy Underground and Red Bull, curated the first Red Bull Sound Select event of the year on Feb. 27.

“Red Bull Sound Select is a monthly event series that (will) give Denver the opportunity to be exposed to various artists across a variety of genres,” said Brianna Hernandez, Denver community specialist for Red Bull Sound Select. “This is a fantastic way for Denver music fans to discover new music within their own city.”

The Red Bull Sound Select concert series goes from city to city, pairing local and national acts with

one another, to support local music scenes and the people who make them happen.

“Red Bull is known for producing some of the most cutting edge action sports and cultural events,”

“This is a fantastic way for Denver music fans to discover new music within their own city.”

—Brianna Hernandez Hernandez said. “I was thrilled with the opportunity to work with them to bring (this event) to Denver.”

The event was free for those who RSVP’d prior to doors opening at 8 p.m. Those arriving later paid a $5 cover.

“We couldn’t have asked for a better turnout,” Hernandez

continues, noting that “the night truly exceeded our expectations ... we had more RSVPs than any other monthly event in any other city and we reached capacity at 9:30 p.m.”

The showcase featured four bands: The Detroit-based headliner, Shigeto, mixed live drumming with ambient electronica backing tracks to create a one-of-a-kind psychedelic sound.

Denver’s experimental DJ, RUMTUM, performed an equally trippy set.

Dream-pop outfit Inner Oceans and electro-pop princess Kitty Crimes were also present.

“This was a big event for me,” said Kitty Crimes, aka Maria Kohler. This was her first performance backed by a full band and according to her, “it felt new and right.”

Hernandez also said it felt right, emphasising that Red Bull’s mission is to help local artists get the national attention they deserve.

Maria Kohler, aka Kitty Crimes, starts off the Red Bull Sound Select showcase Feb. 27 at the Larimer Lounge.

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Competitors wax on and off in Auraria taekwondo tourney

By Cherise Scrivner cscrivn2@msudenver.edu Boards flew through the air, swords were swung like sticks, and nunchakus snapped left and right, as Auraria hosted the Lone Wolf Classic Taekwondo Tournament March 1 - 2.

Around 360 competitors joined in the Auraria Event Center to participate and cheer along teammates for the event.

Auraria’s taekwondo team, led

by Master Bill Pottle, competed in various events, including board breaking, a demo team, weapons, junk weapons, sparring, grappling and forms. Along with teaching Human Performance & Sports at MSU Denver, Pottle is the third headmaster of the Korean Academy of Taekwondo, one of Colorado’s oldest martial arts schools.

“It was great to see people from all over Colorado competing and giving their all,” Pottle said. “Another one of my favorite memories from the tournament (was when) one of our white belts (Xavier) was competing in his first tournament.

It was right at the beginning, so he didn’t know what to expect. Instructor Chris Webster won forms and (Xavier) starts jumping up and down, being really, really excited,” Pottle added on his Facebook after the tournament.

Taekwondo is a particularly aggressive Korean martial art, which uses punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.

Throughout the Lone Wolf Classic, the limits of the human body were put to the test as

competitors flipped and kicked through the air.

“I just love going to the tournaments with all my friends and new people,” said Christian Jeff ries who won the bronze in traditional forms. “Sparring is my favorite thing to do.” Jeff ries felt accomplished winning grand champion, and he said, “I’ve been training long and hard for every tournament.”

The two-day event ran smoothly and several Auraria taekwondo members medaled in the events.

UCD student Ivy Yang received gold in advanced level forms. Jenny Kim, of UCD, won

the silver and Leena Alsalem, of MSU Denver, earned bronze. MSU Denver’s Frank Cordova received gold in creative forms.

Joseph Jordan and Zee Nwuke, both of MSU Denver, won silver in their division of sparring; Zee also took bronze in forms. Thomas Faverty, of MSU Denver, took gold in traditional forms, and bronze in sparring. Darius Ray, an MSU Denver student took silver in traditional forms and bronze in Olympic sparring.

Jeff ries received the Grand Champion award. He also won gold in sparring and junk weapons, silver in grappling and three bronze medals in blaster pads, traditional forms and junk weapons in a lower division.

“I had fun getting more tournament exposure,” Cordova said. “My greatest memory (was) my friend (Lao) saving me from making a mistake I’d regret. I was going to decline an award, but he accepted it on my behalf. I felt like it was a gift and that I didn’t earn it, because I was the only one that competed in creative forms.

My mentality was to decline the award out if respect for those that worked hard and earned their medals.”

Sir Gregory Salonis and Laron Younger pose with their medals March 1 at the Lone Wolf Classic in the AuraPhoto by Cherise Scrivner • cscrivn2@msudenver.edu ria Event Center.

During the demo team portion, competitors put creative spirit into their traditional tae kwon do forms. Teams used their forms to create storylines accompanied by music and weapons like nunchakus and swords, captivating the audience’s attention and exposing the genuine athletic abilities.

“The demo teams were my favorite to watch,” Yang said. “It was another fun experience this year.”

Board breaking was a favorite among spectators. Competitors flung themselves through the air with back-flips, twist, and turns to build up to breaking boards with powerful spin hooks, back kicks or fist breaks that were landed into the board after jumping from six feet in the air into the splits.

The energy of the Auraria Event Center was vibrant and fi lled with hundreds of dedicated, respectful individuals. Visiting tae kwon do schools helped keep the facility clean as hundreds of boards were busted and broken; pieces flying in every which way by competitors Saturday.

Competitors cheered respectfully and the Auraria team did their finest to make visiting schools feel comfortable and familiar with the facilities.

“I think the weekend events went very well,” said mixed martial artist Sir Gregory Salonis, who is also an instructor for the ACT (Auraria Campus Taekwondo) competition team. “The way Bill Pottle organized it was a lot more low stress than doing the event in one day. Lots of people enjoyed themselves and left with smiles.”

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Empowering women with Harris-Perry

By Mariama Fofanah fofanahm@msudenver.edu Uplifting and empowering women is the goal of Melissa V. Harris-Perry, who served this year as MSU Denver’s Rachel Noel Distinguished Visiting Professor.

“I like this program because of the idea it is (a) bridge — a bridge all can, and shall, cross,” HarrisPerry said. “I try to bridge together Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday in January, black history in February and women’s history month in March.”

Harris-Perry, who writes a column for The Nation and is a professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans, believes women need to be empowered in all areas, especially in politics.

“We have to cast our votes for ourselves,” she said. “How is it we see and hear men talking, (but) we never see the women walking? This

is my thesis: To live in a democracy is to have the right to govern, not simply to be governed. To rule, not just to be ruled. To be heard, not to be silenced. To lose without fearing that winners take all.”

Harris-Perry brought humor to topics that could silence any room.

She discussed slavery, race, oppression, murder and women’s suffering, including slideshow photos of past and current atrocities.

“Struggles for voting, for rights, for segregation and all struggles are felt and experienced on real bodies,” Harris-Perry said.

She urged the women in the crowd to push for the empowerment and political voice they want to see and have. Her views inspired many in the crowd to think about the future of women in politics.

“Her views are important,” said MSU Denver student Leslie Meier. “Yes, I will vote for a female president.”

Harris-Perry’s fans are as diverse as her many careers and

accomplishments.

“Her battles with race discrimination in the South are a mirror to myself and wife’s life,” said community member Bill July.

“And, yes, I am a proud man that will vote for a woman.”

Harris-Perry also shared childhood experiences that have become part of her adult life.

“Every year since I was 5, my father would give me a birthday card signed, ‘The struggle continues,’ “ she said, which is the same message she relays when she signs her books.

“There is power in women’s suffering. It has the capacity for change.”

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<<continued from front page Ultimately, “Urinetown” offered a very pessimistic view of such issues. Although the Poor seemed to be the heroes for most of the play, they didn’t run their world any better than the evil corporation did. As Officer Lockstock says, “This isn’t a happy musical.”

But it was a very fun one. It deliberately broke the conventions of a Broadway musical and took cynical jabs at a host of political issues, all to the tune of upbeat, infectious music. The MSU Denver production left audiences with plenty to laugh about — and possibly a need for the bathroom.

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by Trevor L. Davis

Haley Di Virgilio peforms as Hope Cladwell in “Urinetown.” Photo by Trevor L. Davis • tdavis84@msudenver.edu

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Fandoms celebrated at anime convention, Animeland Japanese cartoons and countless fandoms came to life during Animeland Wasabi.

The convention, which aims “to give something more to the everincreasing anime community by providing a ‘New Way to Anime,’” as their website states, crowded the Crown Plaza at DIA Feb. 28 through March 2.

“Animeland, to me, reminds me mostly of that family reunion that you have. You have it once a year and you kind look forward to going but you also have that fear of what could happen this time.

But (at) Animeland you see those people that you can relate with,” said Warky T. Chocobo, a musician and strong player in Animeland preparation.

The three-day weekend didn’t stop at anime. An artist alley offered attendees the opportunity to buy and gawk at art from local and independent artists. The dealer’s room featured a plethora of tables with an array of products, from swords and toys to Japanese style snacks and mangas (Japanese graphic novels) all just waiting to empty the wallets of admirers.

Animeland included big name celebrities, voice actors, musicians and many other special guests.

Among the list was “Futurama’s”

Bender and “Adventure Time’s” Jake the Dog voice actor, John Dimaggio; “Futurama’s” Phillip J. Fry voice actor, Billy West; and “Power Rangers’” Johnny Yong Bosch.

A popular question among the celebs was who their favorite character is, to which West replied, “It’s really hard to pick. I guess I’ve loved them all so much that I’ll think about them the rest of my life whether I’m doing them or not.”

Throughout the weekend, multiple panels were scheduled that covered a variety of topics popular with the fandoms of the convention. Between voice acting, costume making, publishing and artist spotlights, there was some-

“We just had, in my opinion...one of the most talented costume contests I’ve ever seen.”

“We’ve cried together, we’ve laughed together and it’s been a wonderful experience.”

“The whole thing about cons that I like is that it’s a place for everybody to let their freak flag fly, so to speak.”

By Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu

— Karl “Uncle Yo” Kuster

Geek-Specific stand-up comic, MC

—Lorelai Lyn Cosplayer/musican, Angel Anatomy

—John DiMaggio Voice actor, “Futurama”

thing for everyone.

The in-state produced and created comedic web series “One Die Short,” was not only screened during the weekend, but members of the series hosted panels throughout the convention.

“I thought (Animeland) was fantastic,” said “One Die Short” creator and MSU Denver Scholar Success Specialist Matt Forcella.

“Awesome people, fun panels and great cosplay. It’s a really good emerging con that I think is only getting better and more exciting each year.”

Like most conventions, costumes were a main attraction.

From professional cosplayers, like Tanglwyst De Holloway, Nicole

“Something about this crowd is very lively, very vibrant and it’s beautiful.”

—Danielle McRae Voice actor, “League of Legends”

Marie Jean and Destiny Nickelsen, to all the attendees who dressed up, creativity brought fictional characters to life. During Saturday’s charms, attendees were able to enter a cosplay contest judged by professional guests. The winner was an attendee dressed as Skull Kid from “The Legend of Zelda.”

“She airbrushed her fabric, used latex to make her arms and legs look like bark,” said Nickelsen on Facebook. “I could go on and on but pictures don’t do it justice. And her performance was amazing.”

Even through last minute event changes, scheduling conflicts and miscommunications, the convention was a major hit.

Photos by Kayla Whitney

“Animeland has a rhythm that is it’s own rhythm. It will never be the same as any other convention out there.”

—Warky T. Chocobo Musican and Animeland partner

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Coming soon Movies opening 3/7 “300: Rise of an Empire” “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” “In Fear” “Grand Piano”

Music releasing 3/11 Elbow — The Take Off and Landing of Everything Ozomatli — Place In the Sun Edie Brickell/Steve Martin/Steep Canyon Rangers — Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers Sara Evans — Slow Me Down

Open Air’s Top 5 1. Broken Bells After the Disco 2. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Wig Out at Jagbags 3. Damien Jurado Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son 4. Beck Morning Phase 5. Sharon Jones & the DapKings Give the People What They Want Source: www.cpr.org/openair

iTunes charts Top song: “Happy” — Pharrell Williams Top free app: Tiny Flying Drizzy Top paid app: Bridge Constructor Source: www.itunes.com

Box office chart 1: “Non-Stop” 2: “Son Of God” 3: “The LEGO Movie” Source: www.rottentomatoes.com

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Kids for Cash Poster by SenArt Films

St. Vincent Album by Republic Records

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By J.R. Johnson gjohns93@msudenver.edu A documentary fi lmmaker’s job is to present the truth. Sometimes that truth is inspiring, uplifting or enlightening. Other times it’s shocking and frightening. The latter is the case with “Kids for Cash.”

In this heartbreaking story, director Robert May documents the stories of several people who suffered from an infamous judicial

St. Vincent A St. Vincent

By Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu The recent output of sonic, luminous joy from singer, songwriter and guitar prodigy Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, is nothing short of perfection.

The self-titled, full length album is Clark’s fourth, and is full of an eclectic mix of synthesized

scandal, which changed the lives of thousands of families in WilkesBarre, Pa. An outwardly hard-nosed judge is revealed as a pillar of a conspiracy to put young children into a private juvenile detention institution, in exchange for financial kickbacks for the conspirators.

Millions of dollars and handshakes were exchanged to create this scheme, which would become a lasting stain on the American justice system.

The story is tragic in every sense of the word. The fi lm moves from the day the kids’ lives were changed forever as the conspirators tamper with their fate for the sake of greed. art-pop noise meshed, layered and mixed with an experimental, yet consistent, blend of indie-pop brilliance.

There’s no beating around the bush on this album. St. Vincent gets right down to it on the first track, “Rattlesnake.” The buzzing, reverb-soaked guitar crack echoes and breaks through an electronic tinge of add-ons. The drum lines sound distant and a touch “Twin Peaks”-esque. The bass line grooves, flows and explodes in a harmonious, but grimy kind of way.

Non-Stop Poster by Universal Pictures

The documentary concludes by showing the children as adults, returned to society.

After they have been tainted by the hands of injustice, the fi lm shows the sad, full picture of this vicious cycle.

This fi lm taps into that bit of empathy everyone carries with them, as viewers hear the accounts from every person involved in the story, from the parents, friends and the children, to the judges and men who helped corrupt the world around them.

“Kids for Cash” is a story everyone should see and internalize, because corruption continues all over America today and it’s a disease that needs to be cured.

The in-your-face, hard-hitting grooves on “Digital Witness” unfold like a spoken word poet meets the brass section of a marching band on acid.

St. Vincent changes the beat a bit on track six, “I Prefer Your Love,” with a plush, down-tempo groove.

Released Feb. 25, St. Vincent dives deeper into some sort of dark musical realm of consciousness that showcases Clark’s experimental side better than anyone could have expected. This album is another one for the ages.

Compared to Liam Neeson’s early career, you’d be hard-pressed to find the 61-year-old in a movie without a gun these days, hunting down terrorists.

Despite being a fixture of the action movie genre, Neeson has finally hit some turbulence with the high-flying thriller “Non-Stop.”

Neeson plays Air Marshal Bill Marks, who is haunted by a past that led him down a troubled road of alcoholism and depression.

On a routine flight, something surprising throws Marks into a whirlwind of madness. An unidentified passenger texts the marshal mid-flight, threatening to kill a passenger every 20 minutes until he receives an enormous ransom. As Marks runs out of time, he figuratively turns the plane upside down in hopes of uncovering the assassin.

As the whole story is set on a plane, the characters have to do nearly all of the heavy lifting.

Sadly, not everyone pulls their own weight, and even Neeson just relies on his naturally commanding presence to carry his character.

As a result, the characters have the same amount of substance found in most action films: very little.

That’s just half the problem.

The other half is the pacing. A slow build-up makes it hard to connect with any real sense of panic, though a burst of sensible narrative at the end brings the story to a full circle.

The plot, which unfolds predictably, hopes to keep you guessing. It hardly succeeds.

Instead, “Non-Stop” builds toward an unsurprising end with just the faintest pulse of excitement.

Though the plot is sound, if a little hackneyed, “Non-Stop” manages to ruin it. Worse, it makes it boring — a sure crash landing for any self-respecting action flick.

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Beck A Morning Phase

By Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu Beck is one of the most, if not the most, prolific artists of our generation.

He continuously reinvents the genre wheel with whatever he does.

His newest project, Morning Phase, out Feb. 25 on Capitol Records, picks up right where he left us back in 2002 with the release of Sea Change.

Morning Phase could be seen as merely a follow up to Sea Change, but for the singer/songwriter, it’s an incredibly sound output of musical brilliance that sets him apart from the rest of the musical world once again.

Morning Phase evokes several different emotions throughout its 47 minutes, lingering around the feeling of letting go of your ego and being part of a wholesome oneness.

The album has cleansing aspects, hinting this time around, Beck left out all of Sea Change’s unnecessary notes, leaving listen-

ers with a brilliant album: his best masterpiece to date.

The album opens with a touch of heavily produced string work layered to make a deep, ’70s Laurel Canyon sound reminiscent of the constantly evolving, genre-bending musician Beck is.

The acoustic chord progression throughout the entire album are stirring. The string arrangements are something to cheer for and also showcase the talents passed down from Beck’s father, David Campbell (a famous song arranger), in a postmodern, new-age kind of way.

It’s hard to choose a few highlights to showcase, because the entire album, from start to finish, is a work of art and should instantly go down in history as the greatest Beck album ever made.

86th Academy Award winners Best Picture: “12 Years a Slave”

Best Foreign Feature: “The Great Beauty,” Italy

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”

Best Visual Effects: “Gravity”

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave” Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity” Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyer’s Club” Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

Best Cinematography: “Gravity” Best Costume Design: “The Great Gatsby”

Best Adapted Screenplay: “12 Years a Slave” Best Animated Feature: “Frozen”

Best Music (Original Song): “Let It Go” from “Frozen” Best Production Design: “The Great Gatsby” Best Short Film, Animated: “Mr. Hublot”

Best Short Best Documentary Feature: Film, Live “20 Feet from Stardom” Action: “Helium” Best Documentary Short: “The Lady in Number 6: Best Sound Music Saved My Life” Editing: Best Film Editing: “Gravity”

Best Original Screenplay: “Her”

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Metro sports Women’s basketball 3.7: RMAC SEMIFINALS-TBA 3.8: RMAC CHAMPIONSHIPTBA

Men’s basketball 3.7: RMAC SEMIFINALS-TBA 3.8: RMAC CHAMPIONSHIPTBA

Softball 3.8: @ Colorado Christian Lakewood @ 11 a.m.

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Complete game precedes three-run loss

By Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu

Game 1 Nick Hammett took the ball for game one against Colorado State University-Pueblo and never gave it back.

The junior starting pitcher dispersed three hits to accompany three strikeouts across nine innings of a 10-0 win over the ThunderWolves Feb. 28 at the Auraria Field.

The success Hammett had in his second start of the season began before he even took the mound.

“I felt good starting in the bullpen,” Hammett said. “I was throwing all my pitches for strikes.”

Hammett evened his record to 1-1 with the complete-game shutout — and worked six frames of no-hit baseball around one hit in the second, sixth and seventh innings by the ThunderWolves — despite not having his best stuff early on.

“The first few innings, my offspeed (pitch) wasn’t really there,” Hammett said. “But as the game wore on, my off-speed felt more comfortable and I was throwing more pitches for strikes.

Hammett lowered his earned run average from 9.66 to 3.29 after

3.9: @ New Mexico Highlands Lakewood @ 12 p.m.

3.9: @ Colorado Christian Lakewood @ 2 p.m.

Baseball 3.7: @ Adams State Alamosa @ 3 p.m.

3.1: @ Adams State (DH) Alamosa @ 12 & 2:30 p.m 3.2: @ Adams State Alamosa @ 12 p.m

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retiring 31 batters without allowing a run.

“Nick Hammett did a phenomenal job on the mound,” head coach Jerrid Oates said. “He was in control of the game from the first pitch to the last pitch.”

The Roadrunners’ offense assisted their pitcher’s cause by putting up 10 runs.

“It really helped,” Hammett said. “The offense getting me some run support, so that made my job easier.”

The Roadrunners’ first through fifth hitters combined to go 11-for21 with nine runs scored and nine runs batted in. Senior right fielder Gavin Purvis knocked in four runs from the lineup’s threehole, while junior center fielder Mitch Gibbons had a team-high five RBI’s from the cleanup spot; three of which came on a home run.

Metro complimented its 13-hit outburst with zero defensive errors.

“We did a really nice job across the board, the entire execution of the game,” Oates said.

“Defensively, offensively and on the mound, we did everything as well as we could have.”

Game 2

3.7: @ Northern Colorado Greeley @ 12 p.m. (woman’s) @ 2 p.m. (men’s) 3.8: @ St. Edward’s (Texas) MSU Denver Tennis Facility @ 12 p.m.

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Metro junior starting pitcher Nick Hammett delivers an off-speed pitch during in Metro’s 10-0 win over CSU-Pueblo Feb. 28. Hammett pitched a complete game at the Auraria Field.

Photo by Courtland Wilson • cwils104@msudenver.edu

The ThunderWolves took the second game 5-2.

Purvis accounted for Metro’s two runs with RBI singles to left field

in the bottom of the first and third inning.

The ThunderWolves answered with two runs in the top of the fourth inning off junior starting pitcher Tanner Roth, who went four innings for a no-decision.

Sophomore pitcher Ryan Baca (0-1) took the loss in relief of Roth, going one inning in which he gave up two earned runs on three hits with one strikeout and one wild pitch.

CSU-Pueblo added another run in the top of the sixth inning off junior pitcher Patrick Gojan, who worked the sixth and seventh frames for the Roadrunners.

“The biggest difference between game one and game two was in game two we just didn’t get the next hit like we did in game one,” Oates said.

The scariest hit of the game came with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning and freshman second baseman Jake Thurston at the plate.

Thurston suffered a broken nose after a wild pitch ricocheted off the bill of his helmet.

Junior designated hitter Chris Spirek followed Thurston’s frightening plate appearance with a single to left field to load the bases.

But Metro’s best scoring chance in the game concluded when a frozen rope from junior third baseman Danny Westerberg found his counterpart’s glove to end the inning.

With the two-game split, the Roadrunners are 2-4 this season and will travel to Alamosa March 7 for the first of a four-game series against Adams State University.

Sports quotes “The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front.

The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.”

-Steve Garvey “Wrestling is ballet with violence.”

-Jesse Ventura “The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.”

-Ernie Banks

Track & field day one

Track & field day two

Feb. 28 — The first day of the regional Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference indoor track championships, held in Alamosa, were highlighted by Metro’s finish with four provisional qualifying times.

Senior sprinters Belle Kiper and Jon Clarke both hit provisionals along with the men’s and women’s distance medley relay teams.

Kiper finished fourth in the long jump and set a school record with a distance of 5.63 meters, but her day didn’t end there...

March 1 — As the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference indoor track championships came to a close in Alamosa March 1, Metro walked away with five more NCAA provisional qualifying times, as well as three school records.

Senior sprinter Belle Kiper had a big day finishing with one provisional and three school records.

In the triple jump Kiper finished eighth and jumped a distance of 11.46 meters, which tied her school record from earlier in the season...

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16 March 6, 2014 MetSports TheMetropolitan <<continued from front page From there, the Chadron State home run derby commenced: 10 total home runs — five in the first game, four in the second and one in the third — accounted for 18 of the Eagles’ 21 runs in the series.

Two solo shots in the top of the fourth inning of game one drew the Eagles within one run, and a double down the left field line tied the game 3-3.

As the game wore into extra innings, a third solo blast put Chadron up by one in the top of the eighth inning.

Junior shortstop Susie Oury tied the game 4-4 in the bottom half of the inning with a round trip of her own over the right field wall.

Two singles and an error in the top of the ninth loaded the bases for Eagles center fielder Rebecca Wetsch, who, with two outs, deposited a pitch from junior reliever Dominique Garcia over the left field wall and onto the soccer field.

Senior catcher Kelsey Tillery scored in the bottom of the ninth off a single from junior first baseman Chelsea Brew, but Metro’s rally fell short for a 9-5 loss.

The Eagles gobbled up what Metro’s pitchers were dishing out in game two, as they jumped to a 3-1 advantage with a two-run homer in the top of the first and a solo shot in the third inning off senior pitcher Aubree Maul.

A sixth inning single from junior left fielder Britney Thomas tied the game at 3-3, but the Eagles took the lead on another solo home run the following inning, and stretched their lead to two runs after a bases loaded walk from Maul.

Sophomore pitcher Hailey Eisenhauer took the mound during the seventh inning in relief and served up a grand slam, which increased the Chadron lead to 9-3.

“They took advantage of our balls (that were) left over the middle of the plate,” said head coach Annie Van Wetzinga. “They crushed the ball when they had the opportunity and they made the plays, they didn’t give us any extra outs.”

Tillery walked in the bottom of the seventh to load the bases, and junior second baseman Kaylynn Harmon got a run back on a sacrifice fly that scored Oury to make it 9-4. Maul re-entered the game from the designated player position but grounded out to third base to end the game.

“We weren’t ready to go. I thought we were extremely flat the first two games and it showed the way we performed,” Van Wetzinga said. “But I don’t want to take anything away from Chadron. I thought they did exactly what they needed to do.”

By game three, the Roadrunners revisited how they began game one and carried a 3-0 advan-

Men survive Mesa shootout

tage into the third inning. Chadron tied the game 3-3 with a two-run home run in the third and an RBI single in the fourth.

Leading 7-3 entering the sixth inning, junior third baseman Mary Towner and Brew connected

for back-to-back solo home runs, which gave Metro a 9-3 edge. Oury added an RBI single and Tillery later singled to score Oury, which implemented the mercy rule (eight run lead by six innings).

“It was just frustrating because

A dominating performance by No. 1 Metro led to a 77-67 win at Colorado State-Pueblo as they set the record for wins in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Runners improved to 24-1 overall and 21-0 in RMAC play.

Senior guard Brandon Jefferson had game high 20 points (7-14 FG).

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Junior center Nicholas Kay comes up with a huge block during Metro’s win in the RMAC Championship quarterfinal game. Kay recorded his 1,000th career point as Metro defeated Colorado Mesa 83-74 March 4 to advance to the semifinals.

Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@ msudenver.edu

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The women’s team defeated CSU-Pueblo 62-50 to improve to 1312 overall and 12-9 in RMAC play.

Senior guard Kya DeGarmo played a gamehigh 38 minutes and recorded seven points, while senior forward Amy Nelson led Metro with 12 points.

we didn’t ever flip the switch and get things going the first couple games,” Van Wetzinga said. “(It was) nice the last game to light the fire a little bit and make the adjustments.”

Women fall to CSU-Pueblo

Feb. 28 Wrap-up

By Scott Corbridge

It all came down to the wire for the No. 1 Roadrunners, beating Colorado Mesa 83-74 in the quarterfinals of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Shootout at the Auraria Event Center March 4.

A slow first half by the Runners kept it close and the transition game wasn’t turning into points.

“I think to start the game we were a bit sloppy. We really picked it up in the second half,” junior center Nicholas Kay said.

Kay, who went 8-for-12 on the night, finished with 21 points and eight rebounds as well as recording his 1,000-career point.

Mesa pressured Metro most of the game and limited senior guard Brandon Jefferson to only two points (1-5 FG) in the first half.

Luckily for the Roadrunners, junior guard Mitch McCarron made up for it with 14 points in the first half on 6-of-8 shooting.

One contrast in the game was the three total fouls called in the first half. By the end of the game, the number was 31.

“When you get free throws, it takes the pressure off your offense,” head coach Derrick Clark said.

Junior left fielder Mary Towner readies to contact a pitch in game two of a tripleheader against Chadron State College Feb. 28 at the Auraria Field. Metro softball lost the first two games in late and extra innings before taking game three 11-3.

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Senior forward Amy Nelson puts up a jumpshot in the lane against Adams State University Feb. 22 at the Auraria Event Center. Metro lost to Colorado State University-Pueblo March 1 on the road in the first round of the RMAC tournament.

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The Metro women’s basketball season came to an end as they fell to Colorado State University-Pueblo 51-46 March 4 in Pueblo.

CSU-Pueblo improved to 22-7 and Metro dropped to 13-14.

The ThunderWolves opened the game with a 10-0 run before freshman guard Kaysha Fox hit a three pointer.

The Runners constantly tried to take the lead, but CSUP continued to go back into the lead, with their biggest at 11.

Senior guard Kya DeGarmo cut the deficit to one at 40-39, but that was the closest the Roadrunners could get.

CSU-Pueblo kept leading by as many as seven points before Metro would cut into the deficit by winning the battle on the boards, outrebounding the ThunderWolves 45-37, before finally losing in the end.

Metro finished 17-of-57 shooting from the field (29.8 percent) and 4-of-19 (21.1 percent) from behind the arc.

The Roadrunners’ season concluded in Pueblo as the loss ousted them from the tournament.

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