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March 14, 2013

Volume 35, Issue 25

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Jefferson’s buzzer beater wins conference title MetroSpective “Kiss Me, Kate” begs for applause

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InSight Michael Bay concocts Ninja Turtle soup 6

Rants+Raves Wolf joshes around 12

MetNews Civil unions law passes CO House 3

MetSports Women’s basketball earns No. 6 seed 14

Metro junior guard Brandon Jefferson picks his piece of the net after the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Finals March 8 at the Auraria Event Center. Metro won in the last seconds of the game with a shot by Jefferson, advancing Metro to the NCAA South Central Regional Tournament.

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Metro North I-25 & 120th

303-450-5111

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DAYS/TIME

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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

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COURSE TITLE/CREDITS

CRN

DAYS/TIME

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ACC 2020

Principles of Accounting II

33933

S, 8:30 a.m.–3:15 p.m.

3/23–5/18

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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Snowmass dig yields prehistoric timeline Maalikah Hartley mhartle8@msudenver.edu

Between 130,000 to 40,000 years ago, mammoths, camels, short-faced bears, bison, giant ground sloths and mastodons roamed the Rocky Mountains.

This discovery came just twoand-a-half years ago when Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village was undergoing construction, and a bulldozer unveiled fossils of the animals.

On March 6, Ian Miller, curator of paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and co-leader of the excavation site, visited the Tivoli Multicultural Lounge to share his presentation, Snowmastadon: Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies.

“You can think of the lake as a time capsule,” Miller said. “As you dig down those layers of sediment, it’s like turning the pages of a book.”

Miller explained that during the ice age — 130,000 years ago — a giant glacier descended to where Snowmass Village is today and elbowed up the ridge of a mountain to form a tiny lake basin at the top.

Two thousand years later, the climate warmed to temperatures higher than what we see today, creating a lush forest with 200-foot tree lines that attracted creatures like the mastodon.

About 70,000 years ago, the climate cooled again to form a tundra bog at the lake site, which attracted the cold-dwelling mammoth.

“It’s an unusual site where you have mastodons on the bottom

Ian Miller speaking at the Snowmastadon event on Mar. 6, in the Tivioli Multicultural Lounge, discussing the ice age in the Rockies.

Photo by Katie Avery • kavery1@msudenver.edu

and mammoths on the top,” Miller said. “[The climate] warms up very quickly and cools off very slowly until you get into the most recent ice age, which started 40,000 years ago. What’s amazing is we have 90,000 years of time that Snowmass captures. It captures a warmer period, a cool period like today, and then the descent into the next cold period. Ninety thousand years of climate change in the high Rockies that’s just sitting up there and it’s this perfect time capsule.”

The animals at Snowmass died at the lake either from old age, predation from carnivores, or from starvation when the lake was drying up.

In the areas where landslides are present and whole mastodon families are found together, evidence supporting the theory of liquefaction — an earthquake phenomenon that turns solid ground

into quicksand due to the mixing of water and sediment—is found.

In the short PBS documentary “Ice Age Death Trap,” Dr. Dan Fisher, leader of the Snowmass dig site, said the animals got stuck in the ground during the earthquake and died.

“If an earthquake struck and the sediment began to undergo this process of liquefaction, it would then change [to] pudding essentially,” Fisher said. “Animals that had been standing comfortably on a substrate could begin to sink down into it. But when the shaking would stop, within a matter of seconds, that sediment would change back again to its firm state.

There’d be no way they could work themselves out.”

Miller also discussed the theory that there may have been humans present during the time of the mammoths. One mammoth skeleton found in the middle of

the lake was encased by boulders where no other boulders were present — a possible method of refrigerating meat used by ancient humans.

“But remember, this site is from 130 to 40,000 years ago,” Miller said. “The first humans in North America were present 15,000 years ago. So here we’ve got a site that looks like human, but it’s way too old for us.”

Miller took questions from the audience, including one from Hillary Cetress-Mclean, a biology major at MSU Denver who became fascinated with the discovery two years ago and decided to volunteer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

“It’s very interesting and I’ve been following this since day one, but no large carnivore bones were found and I still don’t quite believe how [that is] entirely possible,” Mclean said.

Miller responded that carni-

vores like the saber-tooth cat were present at the water hole, but did not die there.

“It’s not a bad day for a carnivore. [They] have a ton of food and they can drink the blood and stay alive, which they do. And so they’re dying somewhere else on the landscape, they’re not dying in the same place,” Miller said.

So far, the Snowmass dig has uncovered 60 mastodons, the largest mastodon discovery in the world.

About 6,000 bones and 41 animal species have been found, including the ice age horse, tiger salamanders, muskrats and frogs.

Scientists at the Denver museum are still studying tusks, pollen, beetle and wildflower fossils found at the site, to get a better understanding of what life was like in this pre-historic time.

Miller believes there will be a public exhibit in the near future to showcase their findings.

41 prehistoric species at Snowmass Mammoth Mastodon Jefferson’s ground sloth Camel Deer Horse Giant Bison Trout Salamanders Shrews Bats Weasels River otters Rabbits

Frogs (4 species) Snakes (2 species) Lizards (2 species) Birds (5 species) 14 rodents including: Beavers Muskrats Voles Lemmings Mice Gophers Chipmunks Ground squirrels

SB11 brings equality but comes with stipulations Collene Lewis clewis66@msudenver.edu Civil unions even the House, but will not benefit students’ financial aid.

Colorado Senate Bill 11 passed on a vote of 39-26 March 12, and will be sent to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk to be signed into law.

The bill will go into effect May 1 and will grant civil unions to Coloroadan same-sex couples in Colorado.

Colorado will be one of six states that have legalized civil unions, according to the National Conference of State Legislature website.

An additional nine states, as well as the District of Columbia, provide marriage licenses to same-sex couples, according to the website.

Steve Willich, director of the Auraria GLBT Student Services office, said the passing of SB11 is another step forward for all Colorado citizens.

He added that not all students may be at a stage where they are finding a life partner, but there are still benefits.

“The fact that equality advances and GLBT rights are moving forward would mean a lot for [students],” Willich said. “It means that they will have future protec-

tion under the law so that we have the same rights as any married couple.”

Willich said he felt the country is headed toward full marriage rights for same-sex couples.

“I think that the Supreme Court will eventually overturn DOMA, which is the Defense of Marriage Act, and vote on full equality for marriage here in the U.S.,” Willich said.

The Defense of Marriage Act is the 1996 constitutional amendment that, federally, defines marriage to be between a man and a woman, according to the website of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s.

Despite the House’s accomplishment, there are some downfalls to a civil union in contrast to a marriage and the rights that come with it.

According to the comparison by the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders of civil unions and marriages, same-sex couples are left in limbo between state and federal recognition of government functions.

Taxation, pension protections, and Medicaid may not change since civil unions are only recognized on a state level.

Megan Fowler, an Auraria GLBT Student Services employee, thinks the passing of the bill is a

good thing, but is more concerned with how legalized civil unions will affect financial aid dependency status.

“I’m curious to how that’s going to play out because I feel like a lot more people will qualify for dependency status,” Fowler said.

Abby Wilson, an Auraria office of financial aid employee, said that because the office goes by federal regulations, students’ financial aid status would not change, even with legalized civil unions.

“Something will have to change at the federal level,” Wilson said.

“Hopefully it will.”

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Student housing spruces up for the fall Sean Bobic sbobic@msudenver.edu

As Metro State University grows, so too does the need for student housing.

To help meet this need, The Regency Student Housing is getting close to finishing its new villas at their property at 3900 Elati Street.

“They will be done in time for fall semester, but some units may possibly be done as early as summer,” said Teresa Lozano, a desk assistant at the Regency.

Once added to the existing Regency tower, the villas will provide more housing options for students.

While the tower’s units are the traditional dormitory type, the villas are similar to apartments. Each unit has three bedrooms, and each bedroom has its own bathroom, unlike the dorms, which have one bathroom per unit.

“It’s supposed to be like a first apartment,” said Myty Smith, community assistant at the Regency, “They are going to have a full kitchen—everything you need.”

Residents will be able to take advantage of the preexisting amenities, such as the gym and bowling alley. Each unit is fully furnished.

Students already living in the dormitories will have priority access to the new villas and will pay a lower monthly rent than new residents.

“The villas aren’t coed [by assignment]. Students will be matched up like a guy with a guy,” said Smith, “but you can also choose who you live with and that

can be mixed.”

The property provides plenty of parking, but despite the projected increase in residents, there aren’t any plans to extend the free shuttle’s schedule to and from campus.

“You’d think they would have it run twice as much,” Smith said.

“It doesn’t run on weekends since it goes by the Metro class schedule.”

Final decisions on this and other matters will be resolved by the time the villas open for fall semester.

Meanwhile, the Auraria Student Lofts are undergoing a $2 million renovation to their property.

“We are expanding on the amenities on the site,” said Ryan Sundling, leasing and marketing manager for the lofts “The renovations will improve the rooftop with a lounge pool area, a 24-hour fitness center, a sports lawn for grilling, and a gaming lounge.”

The renovations are expected to be finished some time in the middle of the summer.

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Space swap leaves some with no room

Collene Lewis clewis66@msudenver.edu

Possible space swaps on the Auraria campus will give students with disabilities more room for testing.

The Space Planning, Allocation and Resource Committee met the week of Feb. 11 to discuss space swaps between MSU Denver, CCD and UCD. The swaps are intended to help meet the goals of the campus master plan. The committee’s next meeting to discuss campus space swaps will be March 13.

According to a university announcement in January, CCD turned over three rooms in the Administration Building to MSU Denver.

In the coming months, MSU Denver will give CCD a 3,197-square-foot computer lab space in the South Classroom building in exchange for three more rooms in the Administration Building. The South Classroom computer lab will be moved to room 260 in the Administration Building this summer. According to the 2012 campus master plan update, the Auraria institutions may swap spaces as departments or programs change.

This summer, the Access Center will also move from the library

Space swaps have given the Access Center more room on a day-to-day basis, but will force students out during high traffic times, like finals and midterms.

Photo by Daniel Fairbairn • dfairb3@msudenver.edu

to the space previously filled by the Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Events in the Plaza Building.

Gregory Sullivan, director of the MSU Denver Access Center, said the move to the Plaza Building would result in an increase

in square footage for the center, as well as more testing space for students with disabilities. He said this was something the center has needed, as it has served more students than ever within the last few years.

“In the past seven years we’ve

CU Professor gets radical ment for not providing some service to you, you will lose,” Huemer said. Huemer went on to say the Michael Huemer planned to one case in which the government merge common sense and politics. is obligated to protect a citizen is Using blunt irony and radical if that person is in government cusopinions, the professor of phitody at the time. losophy at University of Colorado“So the irony is they’re actually Boulder spoke in the Tivoli Mulobligated to protect criminals,” ticultural Lounge on government Huemer said. inadequacies. March 5 During his lecture, Huemer Huemer critiqued the Ameriaddressed personal disputes with can government’s authority as well “laws that are designed to protect as some current laws. you from yourself,” such as laws His arguments were drawn concerning marijuana. He also from his took issue with newest “laws that are “So the irony is they’re book, The supposed to actually obligated to protect Problem prevent you of Political from doing criminals.”

Authority. something imHuemer —Michael Huemer moral,” such as attributed laws concerning what he prostitution, as considered well as laws that faux government responsibility “get special favors at the expense of through the legal cases of Hartzler other people,” such as bailing out v. City of San Jose, Risk v. New Wall Street. Huemer said if the law York and DeShaney v. Winnebago is morally wrong, it is justified to County. He said through the prece- disobey it. dents set by cases such as these, the “If you’re on a jury in one of U.S. government is not obligated to those cases what should you do?” the people.

Huemer asked. “You should auto“If you try to sue the govern-

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matically vote to acquit, regardless of what the evidence is in the case.”

Huemer also urged attendees to evaluate politics from a moral, individualistic standpoint.

“I want to introduce common sense morality into political discourse,” Huemer said.

Though she said she found some aspects of Huemer’s lecture to be “radical,” LaTerrell Bradford, an MSU Denver human services major, said she enjoyed the conversation, especially his comparison between what the government does and what people do as individuals.

“Free thinking is very important to talk about and to introduce people to,” Bradford said.

Another student agreed with Huemer’s comparison between actions taken by the government and individuals. Eden Solomon, an MSU Denver economics major, said she particularly associated with Huemer’s opinion on the government being subjected to the moral principles of everyone else.

“It just makes sense. The government is run by people, for people, why shouldn’t it be subject the rules of the people?” Solomon asked.

gone from approximately serving 400 students to right now we’re up to about 1,300,” Sullivan said. “It’s significant.”

Sullivan said the Access Center’s current location in the library is not easy to find. He added that the newer location would be more

accessible for students and would be closer to additional resources.

“I think it’ll be helpful for us to be closer to Student Success Building and the resources they provide to many of our students,” Sullivan said.

One student is less than pleased with the summer move. Ameia Ramirez has worked for the Access Center since January 2008, and has seen two offices added to the already miniscule space.

Due to these additions, Ramirez said, the center lost their lunchroom and quiet testing room.

She said she finds the shrinking space irritating.

“As a student who uses the center and an employee here, we’re kind of the red-headed stepchild,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez said the Access Center sees approximately 50 students daily. But during midterms and finals, she said, the center is unable to house the several hundred students who come in per day for limited-distraction testing.

Ramirez said she thinks the new space will give a little more room for students, but won’t accommodate everyone during finals.

“Finals is unfortunately something we have to outsource. But it would be nice to not struggle during the week,” Ramirez said.

ASSET awaits governor’s signature Colorado ASSET, a bill allowing undocumented students in Colorado to pay in-state-tuition, passed the Colorado State House on Friday March 8 on a bi-partisan vote of 40-21.

After 10 years and 7 different versions, the bill is now waiting to be signed by Governor Hickenlooper.

Hickenlooper has stated many times in the past that he would sign Colorado ASSET into law.

If signed, the bill will go into effect in the fall 2013.

As outlined in the ASSET bill, undocumented immigrants will qualify for in-state tuition if they have attended a Colorado high school for three years, graduated, and declared their intention to seek lawful status.

Proponents of ASSET say there will be no state or federal aid included in the bill.

Opponents say the College Opportunity Fund included in the bill this time around will cost taxpayers money.

MSU Denver president Steven Jordan earlier instituted a separate tuition rate for undocumented students, known as the Colorado High School/GED rate.

This rate is lower than out-of-state tuition, but higher than in-state tuition.

Two-hundred-thrity-seven undocumented students are currently paying MSU Denver’s lower tuition rate.

The university has a history of support of ASSET, and Jordan spoke at a news conference at the capitol Jan. 15 when the ASSET bill was introduced.

If ASSET passes the governor’s desk, MSU Denver will likely adopt the new tuition rate.

More information can be found at www.coloradoasset.com

Compiled by The Metropolitan news staff

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Raise some shell Who’s got spirit?

Who do we have to thank?

Michael Bay, among a few other notso-noteworthy people.

Bay has some good flicks under his belt. I mean come on, “Armageddon” was freaking awesome. But his recent obsession with a shit-ton of explosions, high definition and sexy Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu chicks makes me want to leave Earth on a jet plane and blowup whatever alien spacecraft he’s planning on landing on this planet that will give life to the new alien turtles.

If the word alien has sent you in an uproar, please keep your shell on — this isn’t what fans need to worry about. It may hurt that our mutants are now extraterrestrials, but aliens are no strangers to the turtle universe. Krang was banished to Earth from Dimension X, the cute little Utroms are an alien spices, and Kirby (the fift h turtle) was technically from another dimension.

What fans have to worry about is the casting.

On his website, Bay announced Feb. 21 that Megan Fox would be joining the flick. This is surprising since Fox compared Bay to Hitler during the second “Transformers” movie. Her role is still not clear, though word in the pizzeria is she’s going to be April O’Neil.

Fact: Fox would be sexy in a yellow jumpsuit, but given that she’s a prissy, material, untalented Hollywood brat I don’t want her anywhere near my turtles. Instead of the heroine journalist we had in the cartoons and comics, we’ll have a dimwit piece of eye candy. Thanks, Bay. I guess all the blame can’t be placed on Bay, he’s only a producer.

So “Ninja Turtle” director Jonathan Liebesman (“Wrath of the Titans”) can also be thrown under the TurtleVan. The worst part is that on his website, Bay has told fans, “to take a breath, and chill. They have not read the script.” However, a TMNT fan page claims to have gotten ahold of the script (remember, the internet is your friend, find it). Apparently, Casey Jones and O’Neil are dating in high school, the “Foot” is actually a secret military operation, and Jones and the turtles travel to Dimension X to learn that there is a race of turtles-like aliens.

The only reason I’m not lighting a bag of rat poop on fire on Bay’s doorstep is because of writer (and one of the original turtle comic book creators) Peter Laird’s involvement in the writing process. He seems to have high hopes and faith in the fi lm, so I’ll keep two of my three fingers crossed he’s right.

Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu It’s Saturday night at Auraria Event Center – where are the fans?

Metro men’s basketball was ranked No. 1 nationally in Division II, for a record-breaking five weeks, yet you wouldn’t know it by the game attendance, which averaged about 400 fans during regular season games.

The Roadrunners are 27-2 overall and 20-2 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, earning the conference championship over the weekend.

Maximum capacity at the event center is 1,600, and the closest to that number that I have witnessed was the post-season game March 9 against No. 22 Fort Lewis, the only other RMAC team ranked nationally. It would havemade sense to see 1,000 fans at that game, as the Skyhawks were responsible for ending the Roadrunners’ 22-game winning streak back in February, and the game was for the RMAC championship title.

I wondered if low attendance was unique to the Runners or to Division II, but found that even Division I schools have seen some low numbers in the past five years.

Last season during the NCAA tournament regionals, games only drew about 77 percent capacity, the lowest since the NCAA started tracking those numbers in 1989, according to a report in USA Today.

A little closer to home, the University of Colorado is breaking attendance records. According to reports, the Buffs’ season finale crowd was more than 10,000, and during the 15 home games, the total was 155,884: the highest gross total in the school’s history. All of these numbers average out to 94 percent of the Coors Event Center capacity. And the increase is attributed to head coach Tad Boyle and the success of the Buffs’ over the last three years.

Metro’s no different in that aspect, having five players and the coach honored with RMAC postseason awards. Senior forward/ center Jonathan Morse was named RMAC player of the year, and head coach Derrick Clark, in his third season at the helm, earned coach of the year honors. Joining Morse on first team all-conference was junior guard Brandon Jefferson and sophomore Mitch McCarron.

Senior guard Demetrius Miller earned second team honors, while sophomore center Nicholas Kay was selected to the third team.

It makes sense to me – the combination of a winning season, a great coach, and dynamic players would increase attendance. But mine is not a shared logic.

MSU doesn’t deserve the criticism Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu I had already been eyeing MSU Denver as my transfer school when a Boulder Camera reporter gave me a gentle nudge toward the school.

“If you want a good school when you’re done with FRCC, then you have two in-state choices,” he said.

“Metro State or CSU.” Proud of myself for nailing the options so early in my college career, I proudly told people that when I was done with community college, I was going to Metro State. But the congratulations I expected never happened.

“I don’t know about Metro State,” people told me. “I’m not sure I would trust a degree from a college that used to be a community college.”

MSU Denver is a good school. I have heard great things about its journalism, criminal justice, psychology and speech language courses. In my own major, I have found a firm standard for traditional journalism, something other schools are abandoning as they concentrate on courses in “communication technology.”

But when I recommend my school to other budding journalists, the

overwhelming balk that I hear is that MSU Denver used to be a community college. The irony that I’m talking to students at a community college is not lost never me.

To set the record straight, MSU Denver has never been a community college. Yes, degrees were only two-year when the school was first established. That’s par for the course for start-up colleges. None of them begin with a full four-year curriculum — ones that were started in the past 100 years anyway. But the goal for MSU Denver was never to be a community college. It was always meant to be a four-year institution.

Because MSU Denver will “just take anyone” has also come up. Yep. We will. Students over 20 merely needs to produce an application and a high school diploma or equivalent and they are practically guaranteed entrance. How does that make us a second-rate school? What refection does equal opportunity have on the quality of the education that we offer?

The idea that a good education only comes from schools like CU, CSU, Princeton or Harvard is antiquated. A school with a mission to serve its surrounding community should not be cold-shouldered because only the rich or the upper middle class can afford to attend.

Talk to alumni. If they say they would make the same educational choice if they had the chance to do it over again, then the school deserves a second look.

MetStaff Editor-in-Chief Brian T. McGinn: bmcginn3@msudenver.edu Managing Editor Kayla Whitney: kwhitne2@msudenver.edu News Editor Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko: ktomko@msudenver.edu Assistant News Editors Collene Lewis: cmtlewis@msudenver.edu Maalikah Hartley: mhartle8@msudenver.edu MetroSpective Editor Nikki Work: nwork@msudenver.edu Assistant MetroSpective Editor Kailyn Lamb: klamb6@msudenver.edu Sports Editor Angelita Foster: amayer1@msudenver.edu Assistant Sports Editor Zilingo Nwuke: znuke@msudenver.edu Copy Editors J. Sebastian Sinisi Kate Rigot Photo Editor Ryan Borthick: rborthick@msudenver.edu Assistant Photo Editor Heather Newman: hnewman3@msudenver.edu Online Editor Nathalia Vélez: nvelez@msudenver.edu Multimedia Editor Ian Gassman: igassman@msudenver.edu Adviser Gary Massaro: gmassaro@msudenver.edu Webmaster Drew Jaynes: ajaynes1@msudenver.edu Director of Student Media Steve Haigh: shaigh@msudenver.edu Assistant Director of Student Media Marlena Hartz: mhartz@msudenver.edu Administrative Assistant of Student Media Elizabeth Norberg: enorbert@msudenver.edu Production Manager of Student Media Kathleen Jewby: kjewby@ msudenver.edu

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“Sex Week” brings education and intrigue Kate Rigot krigot@msudenver.edu The image on the screen showed a mass of nubile bodies all suggestively intertwined — and all carved from crumbling beige sandstone.

“This particular picture is taken from the temples of Khajuraho, in northern India,” said Mary Ann Watson, an MSU Denver psychology professor. “[They’re] based on the ‘Kama Sutra,’ which, by the way, was written by clerics, by religious people — and most of these images are very much religiously based.”

Watson and fellow MSU Denver psychology professor Randi Smith presented academic research about pornography and other sexually explicit material, like the “ancient porn,” at Sigi’s Cabaret March 6.

The event, titled “The Goldilocks Dilemma: Too Much? Too Little? Just Right?,” was only one of a series of events held as part of “Sex Week,” a joint effort by Metro’s Institute for Women’s Studies and Services and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services office at Auraria.

The “Sex Week” events were designed to educate the campus community in a sex-positive manner about various aspects of human sexuality, and as a lead-up to Friday’s reproductive justice symposium, titled “Truth Is in Our Bodies: Full Cycle Liberation.”

The “Goldilocks” presentation drew material from a 2012 research project co-authored by Watson and Smith titled “Positive porn: educational, medical, and clinical uses.”

The professors were inspired to do the study after they saw another presentation on campus over a year ago, in which the presenter only discussed what she saw as the societal “evils” of pornography.

They wanted their presentation to take a more balanced look, and even focus on the more positive aspects of sexually explicit material, rather than vilifying it.

Watson, who has been teaching human sexuality classes at Metro since the 1970s, testified as an expert witness for the defense in several of the “porn trials” of the 1970s, which attempted to confiscate materials considered “obscene.”

She also maintains a private counseling practice focusing on human sexuality and cultural

From left, Shanna Katz, Fuzzy Dunlop, Mistress Saskia, and Jacki Fiegl. Sex Week organizers invited a panel of people active in BDSM or kink to provide students with a first-hand discussion about their daily lives, professions, and fetishes, allowing the realistic aspects of BDSM sensationalized by the popular novel “50 Shades of Grey” to be exposed and discussed in a safe environment. The “Fifty Shades of What??” event took place March 5 in Sigi’s Cabaret.

Photo by Katie Avery • kavery1@msudenver.edu

diversity.

During their presentation, she and Smith played excerpts from sexually explicit film material that Watson uses in her practice to educate and work with clients.

The two stressed the value of pornography as useful for not just clinical goals, such as assisting couples struggling with erectile dysfunction, but also for educational functions, or even just for fun or pleasure.

Matthew Rathbun, an MSU Denver student, appreciated the presenters’ balanced and positive focus.

“They had a good representation of not looking at just the negative social constructs of pornography, but it touched more on how it can be used to benefit relationships; and for people with disabilities, reaffirming that they’re not abnormal, they’re not strange or un-sexual,” Rathbun said.

The presenters screened a film

of two people with disabilities engaging in and discussing sexual activity.

They also presented research by former MSU Denver psychology student Mary K. Sharpe, who had studied how able-bodied people changed their attitudes about their willingness to date or even employ disabled people after they had watched the same clips.

Two other events took place earlier in the week.

The first, March 4’s “Ulrichs: The Queering of the 19th Century,” featured a lecture by MSU Denver professor Carol Quinn on the life and work of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a gay man who advocated for what would now be described as GLBT acceptance and legal rights during the 1800s.

The second was March 5’s “Fifty Shades of What??” event, in which a panel of locals talked about their experiences and involvement with BDSM and kink

lifestyles.

BDSM stands for “Bondage, Discipline, Dominance/submission, and Sadism/masochism.”

“Kink” is usually thought of as being overlapping with or inclusive of BDSM, leather, fetishism, ageplay and pet-play, and a variety of other activities — all between consenting adults, by definition — that, while not strictly sexual in nature, are considered non-normative or “alternative” to mainstream sexual activity.

Popular interest in BDSM and kink has grown significantly over the course of the last year, following the publication of E.L. James’ novel “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The novel portrays the development of a relationship between an experienced BDSM practitioner and someone new to the lifestyle.

The panelists discussed the differences between the relationships and behavior portrayed in the novel and what they see as the way

kink plays out in their own lives and communities.

They noted especially what they felt were problems with the way the book portrayed consent and boundaries, which are held as extremely important in BDSM. Panelist Mistress Saskia of Pavlovia Denver, a local professional dominatrix and MSU Denver/ UCD alum, said in a separate interview that what she saw as the male protagonist’s stalking and controlling behavior, dishonesty, and lack of negotiation with his submissive were out of line with the way BDSM/kink is supposed to be practiced.

“Predators take advantage of the fact that people new to kink won’t be cognizant of the difference between clear and honest communication about boundaries [as is the norm in BDSM] and domineering predators,” Saskia said.

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“Gig series” brings mellow musicianship Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu

It was almost as if a “VH1” crew was taping an episode of “Storytellers” March 7 in the Tivoli food court.

Singer-songwriter Paul Christian was on hand to display his musical talents for this month’s installment of MSU Denver’s “Gig Series.”

With over 900 shows under his belt, Christian has been back and forth across the country bringing his soulful David Gray-esque sounds to listeners for over 10 years. Playing songs in support of his most recent record, Summertime, Christian has traveled between both coasts and has big plans to take his act worldwide.

For a little more than two hours, Christian filled the busy student union with a different state: one of quiet.

“It was an awesome change of pace. Usually this place is so loud with people talking, the music is nice to study to,” said Metro student Avril Peterson. “It creates a nice atmosphere whenever someone is playing music in here.”

Christian prefers to play gigs

Paul Christian performs in the Tivoli Atrium March 6.

Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

like the showcase series.

“They are super easy and streamlined really well. I like being around students in this sort of setting. I think they can appreciate what I am doing on some level,”

Christian said.

Christian, a veteran of the stage, said this was not his first rodeo when it comes to this kind of concert, as well as venue. He played here three years ago.

“I’ve done a lot of lunch shows, just about every kind of lunch gig possible. Everything from the big stages in a ballroom with thousands of people, to the smaller busy gigs like this one,” Christian said.

“I was super excited to be back here after a few years.”

The down-to-earth folk singer’s vibe brought smiles to many, as students and faculty alike stopped to watch Christian play.

“I had no idea this would be going on today, but I like it,” said student Patrick Betts, who opted to take a seat and enjoy the music rather than sit outside on his break between classes.

Christian also spoke on what it meant for him to be a musician, and his goals for the future.

“There’s nothing better than waking up and getting to do what you love for a living,” Christian said, “My number one goal is that I want to be a full-time musician the rest of my life, and I don’t care what I have to do to make that happen.”

Christian has taken a not so popular path to making it as a professional musician. With the number of shows under his belt, he does whatever he can to make sure

he does what he loves.

“Everyone would like to be popular which in turn makes life a lot easier, but that’s not my number-one goal,” Christian said. “My number-one goal is to get by each day, living paycheck to paycheck, if you know what I mean.”

Christian prides himself on being an original artist. His background tracks accompanying him provided pleasant drum beats and bass lines with the occasional guitar licks that he had recorded himself.

“I only want to do original music. Anyone can be a full-time musician playing cover songs, but I’d rather kill myself than play someone else’s music all the time.”

Aspiring musicians can take a page out of Christian’s book of what it takes to be a professional musician.

“If you build yourself up, give yourself three months of income to survive on and then quit your job, [you can] focus completely on your music career,” Christian said.

“The pressure of striving to get by and make things happen is how someone like myself makes it in this business.”

Dr. Charles V. Branch scholarship honors legacy Brian T. McGinn bmcginn3@msudenver.edu Dr. Charles V. Branch, a prestigious administrator and professor, dedicated his career to teaching and practicing social justice at MSU Denver.

Branch died Feb. 11 at age 83, after battling a respiratory illness.

A celebration of his life will be held at 2 p.m. March 20 in St. Cajetan’s Event Center.

For more than three decades, Branch worked full-time at MSU Denver, holding his first position in 1978 as dean of education, and later dean of the School of Professional Studies in 1985 before becoming a professor for both teacher education and human services.

Even in post-retirement, he volunteered at the university and held many assistant and affiliate positions after being honored as administrator emeritus for the department of human services.

In addition to his legacy and the countless students and faculty confidants he mentored, an endowed scholarship has been established in his name.

Shawn Worthy, an associate professor of human services, was hired by Branch and worked with him for 18 years.

“I’ve worked with him from the beginning of my career on,” Wor-

thy said. “He was always a person that believed in social justice and acted upon those beliefs. Charlie was always an advocate for people of color, for women, for people who are differently abled. You could observe that in who he hired and how he interacted with people.”

His wife, Lucy Branch, said he would head to work early in the morning and have his jazz music full blast on the way. Branch played trumpet professionally in dance bands, starting as a teenager in Kansas. After college he began teaching K-12 for 14 years. His focus became finding opportunities for at-risk youth and curriculum development projects that assisted thousands of teachers every year.

Branch completed his doctorate at the University of Florida and went on to be the director of the K-12 Laboratory School at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., before finding his home at Metro.

Due to his continued commitment to the campus, Debora Martin, human services program assistant, said she gave Branch nicknames over the years, including “Mr. Metro” and “Silver Fox.” He was known for encouraging students by putting their younglife crises in perspective and reassuring students that they can get beyond any of life’s obstacles.

“A lot of students went to him upset or concerned or having is-

sues, and he’d say, ‘Oh come on now. A hundred years from now no one is going to care,’” Martin said.

His coworkers said he dressed sharply in a suit and tie every day, never missed work, was always energetic and came into the office early every day snapping his fingers to jazz music as he worked.

“He loved his job. He loved being in that environment, he loved the students, he loved to be an administrator and he loved being a professor. It was his world,” Lucy Branch said.

Among his many contributions to MSU Denver was the 2+2 program, which allows students to transfer two years of credits from community colleges.

“He was very understanding and generous — if students were hungry, he would hand them $5 and say ‘go get something to eat,’” Martin said. “There are a lot of people that are interested in honoring him.”

Worthy said Branch relished the diversity of Metro and was known for reaching out to encourage others.

“He really held the values of Metro, in terms of a school of opportunity, in finding folks who could use a break, who could use something good to happen in their life. And he was always there to help them do that,” Worthy said.

Photo courtesy of Kenneth Bisio • bisio@msudenver.edu

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Theatre department wows with “Kiss Me, Kate” Kailyn Lamb klamb6@msudenver.edu MSU Denver’s Theater and Music Departments wowed crowds with jazz-hands, laughs, gangsters and Shakespeare in their production of “Kiss Me, Kate.”

“Kiss Me, Kate” ran March 28-2 and 7-10 at the Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theater in the King Center.

The stage was set with a grimy brick building and sitting atop was the orchestra. Throughout the show, the actors would sometimes interact with the orchestra, asking them to cut certain parts of the score or to stop playing. The cast also breaks the fourth wall several times via audience interaction.

The story is partially about a theater company opening a musical version of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” and partially about the relationship troubles of the show’s main actors, who were previously married.

The two main characters were portrayed by Amanda Blair and Jordan Roberts.

When the characters were off-stage, Blair played a spunky actress named Lilli Vanessi who is now dating a “mystery man,” and Roberts played her egotistical exhusband Fred Graham.

Both Blair and Roberts were praised at the end of the show by Cyndie Fletcher, an MSU Denver graduate student.

“The leads were amazing,” she said. “They matched up so well.”

Trouble started for Graham when another actor in their company for the Shakespeare play,

Karlond Irlanda, as Bill Calhoun, embraces Melissa Valdez, playing Lois Lane, in a scene in Kiss Me Kate Feb. 25 in the King Center Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theater.

Photo by Daniel Fairbairn • dfairba3@msudenver.edu

Bill Calhoun, went to a casino and signed a $10,000 IOU in Graham’s name. Calhoun was played by Karlond Irlanda.

Eli Stewart and Chandler Reed played the comical gangsters who come to retrieve the money from Graham on opening night.

They delivered the witty lines with ease and had their own musical number, “Brush Up Your Shakespeare,” informing the audience that reciting the playwright and poet is the best way to get a lady’s attention.

Some of the other minor characters did not fare quite as well, said KT Fletcher, an MSU Denver freshman.

“They didn’t commit as fully,” she said.

The dances in the production were really flashy The dancing in the beginning of the second act to “Too Darn Hot” was jazzy and passionate, with some sensuality thrown in for good measure.

Jokes were present throughout the whole play, in both the song lyrics and in the storyline. Some

of the funnier scenes came when Vanessi received a bouquet of flowers from Graham, only to later find out they were meant for another star in their play, Lois Lane, played

by Melissa Valdez. Vanessi and Graham’s characters “ad-libbed” several of their Shakespeare lines while the rest of the cast watched in amazement and confusion.

The show is also done as if they are performing “The Taming of the Shrew” to a live audience, so when things go wrong, they act accordingly, making for some very funny

skits, like when some dancers get caught on the wrong side of the dropping curtain.

“Kiss Me, Kate” is both Samuel and Bella Spewacks’ (authors of the book) and Cole Porter’s most successful musical. It was the first musical to ever be awarded with the Tony Award for best musical.

Porter also won best composer and lyricist for the production.

Cyndie Fletcher sent a message for the theater department at the end of the show, saying, “we need to do more musicals.”

Brooks anticipation high after zombie movie Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu Nothing goes better with a zombie movie than pizza, popcorn and candy zombie body parts.

“Shaun of the Dead” was shown in the Multicultural Lounge March 11 in order to heighten undead spirits for the welcoming of zombie aficionado Max Brooks. Brooks hosted the “Oral History of the Zombie War” on campus March 12 in the Tivoli Turnhalle.

The zombie comedy didn’t lure too big of a crowd, only around 20-30 people, but offered plenty of food and candy. CCD students Destine Romero and Derek Hall handed out popcorn to patrons looking for something other than brains to munch on.

Brittany Richardson, UCD Denver, was in charge of pressing “play” and handing out the costume prize. She attended Brooks lecture Wednesday and is finishing up “World War Z.” “I think [WWZ] will be OK,” Richardson said. “I really don’t have a lot of faith in movies that are made from books.”

The night also featured a zombie costume contest. The winner received a Zombie Survival Package comprised of season one of “The Walking Dead,” “Zombieland,” and a copy of Max Brooks’ “World War Z.” The contest was easy to judge, given that there were only two attendees in undead attire. The winners were Alie Holden, UCD, and Rick Morris from Colorado School of Mines.

Max Brooks was here March 13 Tivoli Turnhalle For coverage on Brooks’ appearance on campus where he discussed his book “World War Z” and zombie survival techniques visit:

UCD student Alie Holden (left) and Colorado School of Mines’ student Rick Morris (right) attended the Zombie Movie Night March 11 in the Multicultural Lounge. The pair were the only attendees dressed as zombies and won the Zombie Survival Package. Photo by Kayla Whitney • kwhitne2@msudenver.edu

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Josh Wolf brings raucous brand of laughs Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu

It’s hard to believe that, between appearing as a regular on the Chelsea Handler’s show, “Chelsea Lately,” putting a book together, writing a script for Adam Sandler and other writing gigs, comedian Josh Wolf has the time to go on the road for a standup comedy tour.

Wolf’s downright brutally honest comedy has been gaining attention over the last decade.

“Some people call it crass, but that’s me,” Wolf said.

With acting and writing credits attributed to a number of different television shows, Wolf has always found the time to perform his unique stand-up routine whenever possible. He was in town to perform a number of shows at Comedy Works South March 7-9.

“I love coming to Colorado, the people are great here” Wolf said.

His unique, quick-witted brash style of engaging crowds was quite a hit over the weekend.

Wolf is a highly sought-after comedian these days. When he isn’t busy feuding with D-list celebrities (if you can call them that) like Jose Canseco, he can be found as a staple on “Chelsea Lately.” His witty banter is the perfect addition to a round table of popular comedians.

“Working with Chelsea is amazing, I know what her public persona is, and she truly is the most generous and loyal person

you’ll ever meet,” Wolf said. “To put up with her honesty is the challenge. With a pat on the back might come a slap in the face.”

He’s been one busy man over the last year. He was commissioned to write a fi lm script for Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production company about the true story of a traveling youth baseball team whose coach committed robberies in the towns they went to.

“From what I understand about what’s going on over there, the script is in a pile. Let’s hope it works its way to the top,” Wolf said.

He said he enjoys the writing because it presents him with new and different opportunities.

“I love doing the writing thing — getting to make up people and put them in crazy situations has always been interesting to me. It’s very challenging to me, but I love it.”

Wolf has also been busy preparing for a nationwide book tour starting March 19. His first book, “It Takes Balls: Dating Single Moms and Other Confessions of an Unprepared Single Dad” is a real down-to-earth look at Wolf’s life and struggles raising his children for the last 15 years.

“I hope child protective services can’t go retrospective and take my kids away” said Wolf. His book is a personal reflection about being a young guy in his twenties raising three children. He met a women who developed a drug habit and he was forced to raise his kids on his own, all the while trying to make it

as a comedian in Los Angeles.

“It’s about that time in my life that I was still young and horny while making $1,500 a month raising three kids in a one-bedroom apartment in L.A.” Wolf said.

His comedic wit transfers over to the pages to read as if he were telling you the story himself.

“There’s a lot of parenting books [or] stories written by single mothers, but not many by dads — funny ones that is. The guys’ point of view is often overlooked.”

Wolf was accompanied by a few Denver comedians. Most notably, Boulder’s Hippie Man was quick to warm up the already buzzing crowd. Comedy Works South is home to a different crowd than its downtown location. Filled with mostly business suits and their company credit cards, the place was almost sold out.

Right off the bat, Wolf had the crowd fully engulfed in laughter.

He and the sound guy played on peoples perceptions of different comedians based on their opening music.

He was very excited to be in the Mile “High” City, noting the state’s recent ruling on Amendment 64.

His crowd-engaging antics had people on the edge of their seats all evening.

“I prepare my jokes based on my location and who I think will be in the crowd,” Wolf said. His jokes about gun control and taking stabs at John Travolta literally had one woman falling out of her chair.

It was safe to say that the faces of everyone in Comedy Works hurt

Photo courtesy of Josh Wolf.

from laughing so much. Wolf did a tremendous job performing to a not-so-typical crowd.

Overall, Wolf had me laughing so hard, I almost fell over my table.

I found that his witty banter went over extremely well and I thor-

oughly enjoyed the show from start to finish. Wolf had me engaged and deeply rooted in his jokes. It was easy to keep up with his flow and it made for an entertaining evening down south.

With “Oz,” Franco dusts off the Emerald City Kailyn Lamb klamb6@msudenver.edu I need to go jump into a tornado in Kansas.

In his new movie, “Oz the Great and Powerful,” director Sam Raimi used high-tech CGI to bring the world of Oz to life. Despite certain setbacks, like Warner Bros. having the copyright to the ruby slippers, Raimi was able to recreate the Land of Oz that viewers of the 1939 fi lm “The Wizard of Oz” know and love.

“They have all the elements you need in order for people to recognize the world of Oz,” said James Franco, who plays Oz, in a conference call hosted by Disney Feb. 17.

“You have the yellow-brick road,

Photo courtesy of Roth Films.

the emerald city, witches and flying monkeys, and a bunch of strange creatures and munchkins and all the things that make up what we imagine Oz to be.”

For example, the story starts in a black-and-white Kansas. Oz, a young magician, is trying to trick circus-goers into thinking he has real talent. However, his womaniz-

ing antics catch up with him, leading him to escape the circus in a hot air balloon — straight into one of those darn teleporting tornados.

It is the tornado ride, and the following journey into Oz, where the fi lm starts trying really hard to show off its 3D effects. I’m not a big fan of 3D movies, but since this movie is geared strongly toward children, it means well. Especially because once he reaches Oz, the colors become astoundingly unreal.

After he crashes his balloon into a lake, Oz is found by Theodora (Mila Kunis). He introduces himself, and she excitedly tells him he is the wizard of a prophecy to save the unknown country he has landed in. He agrees to go with her to the Emerald City purely for self-

ish reasons.

And so the story of how the Wizard of Oz came to be commences. Franco plays the role of a selfish man becoming something more very well. Evanora (Rachel Weisz) does wonderfully as the deceitful Wicked Witch of the East, while her counterpart, the bubble riding Glinda (Michelle Williams) is just as fabulous. Kunis as Theodora did a wonderful job of portraying the woman scorned by Oz. However, her transition to the Wicked Witch of the West is less believable.

Raimi found the perfect balance for fans of the books, as well as fans of the original fi lm. The story and visuals are carried by some fairly good acting, although it does drag in some parts.

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We’ve also got some great speakers on tap, including NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue, Jezebel.com founder Anna Holmes and Upworthy’s Eli Pariser.

They’re all coming together for three days of inspiration, celebration and fun at the best conference devoted to media, technology and democracy.

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Double album achieves twice the awesome on The Living Infinite Aaron Lambert alamber8@msudenver.edu A double-album for any band is a daunting task for any band, but for a metal band, it’s practically unheard of.

When legendary Swedish metal masters Soilwork announced that their latest opus, The Living Infinite, would be a double-album, many were skeptical.

No need to worry though — Soilwork have completely outdone themselves with The Living Infinite and have created what is destined to be heralded as their masterpiece.

2010’s The Panic Broadcast displayed a newly focused Soilwork, and The Living Infinite keeps the momentum going better than ever before, even in spite of the departure of founding guitarist and principal songwriter Peter Wichers.

Wichers departed the band once in 2005 and re-joined in 2008. He left the band again in 2012.

For those fans who were worried, rest assured — the dual guitar attack of Sylvain Coudret and newcomer David Andersson will ease your worries and make you forget that Wichers even left.

Powerful melodies and soaring choruses are rampant throughout both albums, with tinges of styles from all ends of the rock and metal spectrums.

Lead vocalist Bjorn “Speed” Strid has never sounded more powerful or focused, and his vocals are much more compelling

than what many vocalists attempt nowadays.

Seriously, just listen to “Tongue” or “Long Live the Misanthrope” and try to forget those melodies.

Drummer extraordinaire Dirk Verbeuren gives one of the best performances thus far in his already extensive career, proving yet again that he is without a doubt one of the most passionate and versatile drummers around.

There really is something for everyone on The Living Infinite. Whether it’s emotional ballads such as “Antidotes in Passing” or “The Windswept Mercy,” or surefire headbangers such as “Vesta” or “Parasite Blues,” the virtuoso Swedes in Soilwork are master songwriters and are among the best at what they do.

They even threw in a few instrumental pieces (“Entering Aeons” and “Loyal Shadow”) as intermissions of sorts. The centerpieces for both albums are the titular tracks of each, “The Living Infinite I & II,” timeless metal hymns which are bound to become staples in Soilwork’s live set.

The Living Infinite was created to be experienced as a whole. From the opening symphonic strings of “Spectrum of Eternity” to the crushing mid-tempo crawl of album finale “Owls Predict Oracles Stand Guard,” Soilwork will take you on a musical journey unlike anything else you’ll hear this year.

Pick up a copy of The Living Infinite, and be sure to catch Soilwork when they headline the Infinity Tour April 12 at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood.

This action-packed event includes: • A film festival featuring Sundance winners Miss Representation and Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry • Hands-on workshops on video making, how to build your own radio transmitter and more • An interactive public square with art galleries, poetry readings, a tech and media playground … even an old-school soapbox Student-registration rate: $95!

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Men’s basketball new RMAC champs Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu

Metro men’s basketball prevailed in championship fashion, defeating Fort Lewis 61-60.

The Roadrunners won the defensive battle over the Skyhawks when senior guard Brandon Jefferson sunk a fade-away jumper with one second left on the clock.

“To be honest with you, their best player made a play, and one of our top guys was fortunate to make a play, and that’s what championship games are supposed to be about,” head coach Derrick Clark said.

The Roadrunners are 27-2 overall and 20-2 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

The win moved the Runners to No. 3 nationally, and earned them the No. 1 seed and home court advantage in the upcoming South Central Region tournament.

Defensively, the Skyhawks were able to cause the Roadrunners to commit six turnovers in the first half, when they average only 10 turnovers a game.

Although the Runners didn’t take full control of the first half, they kept within a field goal, and went into the second half down 32-30.

Senior forward/center Jonathan Morse said that he looks forward

to games like the one against the Skyhawks.

“You want to play against the best competition and see how you stack up. It was a physical game for the entire 40 minutes we were playing,” said Morse, the RMAC Player of the Year.

The Roadrunners only led for one minute and 41 seconds in the second half, shooting 44 percent from field goal range and 45 percent from 3-point range. The only bucket that counted was by Jefferson.

“Coach told us to stack the top of the key and the first player to get it take it in to the basket,” Jefferson said. “In my head, I thought I lost the game for my team.”

Teammates help Metro junior guard Brandon Jefferson up after a play.

Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@ msudenver.edu

Metro men’s basketball players celebrate a championship 61-60 win over Fort Lewis March 8 at Auraria Event Center. The win improved the Roadrunners to 27-2 overall and 20-2 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Roadrunners earned the No. 1 seed and home court advantage for the South Central Region tournament. Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

Lady Runners earn No. 6 seed Story and photo by Matt Hollinshead mhollin5@msudenver.edu

Metro guard Cassie Lambrecht drives to the basket past Colorado Christian University forward Kate Louthan.

Although the Roadrunners made a run at it, they couldn’t make up for the damage done by early shooting woes.

The 7-of-30 in the first half resulted in a 53-48 loss March 8 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Shootout Semifinals at Brownson Arena in Grand Junction.

When the Metro women’s basketball team needed key first-half baskets, they couldn’t finish. That proved to be costly.

Colorado Christian University established control of the tempo and got the job done in transition, which hurt Metro.

“Just couldn’t get all the way over the top, missing some key shots,” head coach Tanya Haave said. “We’d miss a shot, then we’d kind of let them do what they want

on the other end.”

CCU attacked the basket early, and often. After tallying 16 points at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs on March 5, CCU freshman point guard and RMAC freshman of the year Taylor Torres was held to just three points. And because CCU junior center Gillian Foster had torn her ACL and MCL prior to the trip to Grand Junction, which meant other players had to step up on both ends.

CCU’s depth worked to their advantage. They got necessary stops, and shot the ball efficiently.

“We knew we had to disrupt what they do offensively. They pass the ball so well,” Cougars head coach Tim Hays said. “We knew we had to change up on them to kind of get them out of their comfort zone. Ultimately, that turned into some rough shots.”

Metro was down 31-19 at the half.

“At halftime, we could tell

[coach Haave] was disappointed in us, and I hate that,” Roadrunners senior guard Brandi Valencia said.

For much of the second half, it was more of the same, missed layups, missed 3-pointers.

Metro started building momentum with about eight minutes left. Sophomore guard Jenessa Burke hit several inside shots. Her teammates tried to feed off of her.

Senior forward Brandi Valencia and junior guard Cassie Lambrecht started hoisting perimeter shots, but none went through the net.

The final outcome stung Metro, because they were down two points in the final minute, and couldn’t get ahead of the curve with 3-pointers.

“I thought we showed a lot of heart and character, trying to make the comeback. We didn’t do enough, making [CCU uncomfortable on the defensive end,” Haave said.

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Baseball splits double header Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu Metro baseball split a double-header with Adams State March 8 in a snow-shortened weekend series. The Roadrunners won the first game 8-2 and lost the second, 4-2, at the Auraria Field.

After a one-out single put Adams State on the board in the top of the first inning in game

one, Metro scored three runs in the bottom of the second.

Junior third baseman/pitcher Sean Reeves doubled to left field, scoring sophomore center fielder Mitch Gibbons and moving sophomore first baseman/catcher Darryl Baca to third base.

An RBI groundout by senior catcher Markie Ortivez scored Baca, and gave Metro a 2-1 lead.

Senior pitcher/outfielder Forrest Carpenter doubled to left center, which brought Reeves in,

giving the Runners a 3-1 lead.

Metro never relinquished the lead. The Roadrunners scored four runs on two hits and one error in the bottom of the fourth, and added one more run in the bottom of the fifth, as Carpenter worked a bases loaded walk, to make the score 8-2.

Sophomore pitcher Patrick Gojan evened his season record at 2-2 with the win. The Colorado native went the distance against the Grizzlies.

He pitched all nine innings for the Roadrunners and faced 36 batters.

“It’s awesome. It helps the bullpen if you can get nine innings out of your starter,” Metro baseball head coach Jerrid Oates said. “It gives energy to the whole team too.”

Gojan gave up seven hits and two earned runs over nine frames, and recorded an impressive 16 of 27 outs via the groundball. Gojan is one of four returning pitchers to the Runners’ starting rotation this season.

“It gives us stability,” Oates said. “(To have) guys that have been through a full season, with travel, and know what the RMAC is all about.”

GAME 2

Metro sophomore first baseman Darrly Baca attempts to get an Adams State University runner trying to steal off of first base. The Roadrunners split a double header with the Grizzlies March 8 at Auraria Field, winning 8-2 and losing the second gane 4-2. Photo by Cosme Lindstrom-Furutani • clindst1@msudenver.edu

Metro fell 4-2 to Adams State in the second game.

Senior outfielder Alex Schrupp collected two RBIs for Metro, both on sacrifice flies to center field. Schrupp’s first sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first inning scored junior middle infielder Zac Baldini, and his second in the bottom of the third inning scored senior shortstop Erik Cammall.

Softball Game 1 Metro lost to UC-Colorado Springs 11-4 in game one of a three-game set March 9. Sophomore shortstop Susie Oury put Metro on the board with a solo homerun to left field in the third, and sophomore first baseman/ right fielder Chelsea Brew added two more runs with a round-tripper of her own in the same inning.

Game 2

A nine-run first inning by the Mountain Lions resulted in a 10-2 loss after five innings for the Roadrunners. Sophomore left fielder Mary Towner sent an RBI double down the left field line in the second inning, and junior middle infielder Dani Sandel homered to center field the following inning, producing Metro’s two runs.

Game 3

Metro lost game three, 8-7.

Senior second baseman Annalyse Garcia had a two-run double in the first inning, and Oury added an RBI single in the second, putting Metro up 3-0. UCCS claimed a 4-3 lead, Towner put Metro ahead with a three-run homer. A walkoff single to left field by the Mountain Lions’ Allie Corids broke the 7-7 tie and handed Metro its third straight loss of the day.

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Metro men’s junior indoor track runner Darius Reed earned All-America honors March 9 after finishing fourth in the 60-meter hurdles March 9 at the NCAA indoor championships in Birmingham, Ala. It is the 14th All-America honor for a Metro athlete in indoor track in the school’s seventh year of its current track program. Reed finished in 7.95 seconds, well off his season-best time of 7.77, the school record and 10th-fastest time in Division II history. Metro State will begin its outdoor season on March 16 at the Potts Invitational in Boulder. Photo by Garrett Finke, Sports Information Director, Western State Colorado Univeristy

Metro hosts NCAA South Central Region Tournament Schedule of games: Metro women’s tennis fell to No. 12 Cameron (Okla.) 8-1 while the men fell to No. 20 Cameron March 8 at the Gates Tennis Center. The loss dropped the women to 7-10 and the men’s loss dropped them to 5-7 on the season. The women’s only victory came from the doubles team of Nicole Herrmann and Nikki Amos in No. 3 Doubles. The men’s No. 3 doubles partners Jonathan Evangelista and Ryan Joyce came back from behind to win 8-6. Evangelista and Joyce faced a 6-3 deficit before rallying to win fi ve straight sets to take the match 8-6. Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

Saturday March 16, 2013 12 p.m. #3 Fort Lewis (21-7) vs. #6 Adams State (20-8)

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2:30 p.m. #2 St. Mary’s (21-7) vs. #7 Cameron (18-8) 6 p.m. #1 Metro State (27-2) vs. #8 Tarleton State (20-9)

Tuesday March 19, 2013

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Taurus

Capricorn

December 22 -January 19

April 20 -May 20

Art is a good way to release stress, so consider taking it up as a hobby. Don’t expect to be the next da Vinci, but your mom may hang your pretty fi nger paintings on the fridge.

You’ll see an attractive someone on the bus. After some small talk and an exchange of digits, you’ll go on a few dates and realize you’re in love. The next day you’ll fi nd out they’re your cousin.

Aquarius

Gemini

January 20 -February 18

May 21 -June 20

Spock is one of the greatest philosophers of our generation. So remember, “live long and prosper.”

When life gives you lemons, strongly question where they came from. Unless you have a friend named Life and he has a lemon farm.

Difficulty: EASY February 19 -March 20

Pisces

Cancer

June 21 -July 22

If you’re looking for a new profession, consider becoming the new pope. If you’re elected, white smoke will emerge, the bells of St. Peter’s will ring, and you’ll totally feel like a rock star.

On your way home from school you’ll fi nd a baby alligator in the gutter. You’ll it them home, raise it, and after a few months and some lost limbs you’ll realize alligators make terrible pets.

Leo

Aries

July 23 -August 22

March 21 -April 19 Some words of advice: don’t trust the weathermen in this state. They’re evil, sadistic liars that are set on ruining your day.

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Virgo

August 23 -September 22 “Dead Space 3: Awakening” came out this week.

Too bad you don’t have a new Xbox to play it on unless you know an awesome Leo who’s a beta tester.

Libra

September 23 -October 22 The saying “hear, hear” is a little outdated, so it may not be what you want to shout when you agree with something your professor says in class.

Scorpio

October 23 -November 21 The “Harlem Shake” is no longer, nor was ever, cool. So stop doing it, for the sake of humanity.

Sagittarius

November 22 -December 21 Apparently, Curiosity — the mars rover remember? — found that conditions on Mars might have been suitable for life. So when the lease is up on your apartment, consider buying property on the red planet.

Difficulty: MEDIUM

Brain Teasers

Have you noticed the fantasy fashion dress code on campus?

What are you talking about?

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So?

Nerd.

Hypocrite.

If you had pointy ears and a bow, Peter Jackson would sue.

Comic created by Robert Shea • rshea5@msudenver.edu

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