Volume 35, Issue 31 - May 2, 2013

May 2, 2013

Volume 35, Issue 31

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Gov. Hickenlooper signs historic ASSET bill

Governor John Hickenlooper finishes signing Senate Bill 33 in the Student Success Building on April 29. Senate Bill 33, also known as the Colorado ASSET Bill, will allow undocumented students to get in-state tuition at all public colleges in Colorado. Photo by Amanda Sutherland • asuther6@msudenver.edu

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Hickenlooper signs ASSET at MSU Denver Maalikah Hartley mhartle8@msudenver.edu History was made in Colorado April 29 when Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the ASSET bill into law. And he chose MSU Denver to do it.

Hundreds of tuition-equity advocates filled the Student Success Building lobby and cheered for the Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tommorow bill, which will allow undocumented students to receive in-state tuition at Colorado universities and colleges.

To be eligible, students must have attended a Colorado high school for three years, graduated or received their GED, and must declare their intention to pursue legal immigration status.

Present were the bill’s sponsors, state Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, and Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, who both thanked the audience for fighting for the bill, which had failed to pass the legislature six times since its first introduction 10 years ago.

“We live in a system where [undocumented students] hit the end of senior year and they hit a wall.

And those dreams all disappear,” Johnston said. “Well, today we’re here to tell you that in Colorado,

the doors are open and the dream is alive.”

MSU Denver president Stephen Jordan welcomed the crowd to “the most diverse college in Colorado.”

Jordan helped usher in MSU Denver’s own controversial Colorado High School/GED Nonresident Tuition Rate last summer, which allows undocumented Colorado students to pay less than out-ofstate tuition but higher than instate tuition. This rate will become obsolete once ASSET takes effect.

“We believed in ASSET when it was first introduced as leglislation more than 11 years ago,” Jordan said. “This sends a clear signal that the great American dream of the U.S as a melting pot nation is still alive and well in Colorado today.”

Marco Dorado, an undocumented Colorado student who also spoke at the signing, had to begin his collegiate journey in New Mexico where he could apply for in-state tuition. Later he had the chance to attend the University of Colorado at Boulder, with help from generous organizations and individuals.

“Those nine digits prohibited us from staying in Colorado and contributing to the only place many of us ever considered home,”

Dorado said of his lack of a social security number. “Access to higher education should not be contingent on good fortune, but rather on one’s ability to succeed.”

Gov. Hickenlooper told the undocumented students in the audience that while the doors are open, they still have to do all the hard work to achieve their dreams, and that ASSET is the first step toward larger immigration reform. “[Asset] is going to be great for our communities, great for our workforce. It’s going to allow us to create a stronger economy by preparing all students. We don’t have a luxury of an over-educated population. This is our opportunity to make sure everybody is prepared for the jobs of tomorrow... Now were ready to communally hold the pen,” he said before cracking his knuckles and signing ASSET into law.

Some opponents of ASSET believe it provides an incentive for illegal immigration. Sen. Johnston told The Metropolitan he disagrees. He said he wants to focus on the undocumented students already here who can work legaly and avoid deportation through deferred action, as passed last summer by the Obama administration,

and not have the door shut on them.

Colorado’s ASSET contains the College Opportunity Fund stipend along with certain scholarships, but does not include any other state or federal aid.

Attendee Victor Galvan, who was brought to America at eight months old from Mexico, has been hoping for the bill’s passage since age 13. He said it’s more feasible to graduate by not paying out-of-state tuition.

“There’s no words for it. God, I’m hopeful,” he said of the bill signing. “We love these communities. That’s why we’re fighting for our rights, because we want to stay here and flourish. Immigrants, the people who built this country had the drive to keep going and fight.”

Galvan hopes to return to MSU Denver in the fall or continue his higher education at another university studying journalism and possibly botany.

Governor John Hickenlooper signs Senate Bill 33 with several different pens in the Student Success Building April 29. Senate Bill 33, also known as the Colorado ASSET Bill, will allow undocumented students to get in-state tuition at MSU Denver and other Colorado colleges and universities.

Photo by Amanda Sutherland • asuther6@msudenver.edu

AHEC custodians protest conditions, demand change Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu

A marcher holds a sign that translates “Solutions not promises” in front of the King Center April 29 at the AHEC Custodians for Equitable treatment, safe working conditions, and an end to abusive treatment strike.

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

Fed up with what they feel is a blatant lack of respect in the workplace, Auraria campus custodians conducted a “March for Dignity” to demand higher pay and better working conditions.

The custodians, along with supporting students and faculty members from all three institutions on campus, met at noon April 29 on the Tivoli Commons and marched to the Lawrence Street turnaround. As they marched, they chanted for justice and hoisted signs, written in both Spanish and English, demanding mutual respect in the workplace.

“They’re looking for better conditions,” said Roshan Bliss, a UCD graduate student who attended the march in support of the custodians. “They’ve had hourly cutbacks.

They’ve had speed ups. They’ve just had a lot of disrespect from a lot of the management.”

Gathered in front of the

King Center, a building reportedly cleaned by only one janitor, marchers chanted “Respect now,” “Custodian Power” and “Si, se puede” (yes, we can). Members from groups like Politically Active Ztudents and Student Labor Action Project also marched to show support for the custodians.

In a move from the planned itinerary, the march proceeded to 9th Street to the office of operations and services for the Auraria Higher Education Center—the office that hires custodians—and demanded that the custodians’ complaints be met. The door was never opened and the police told the protesters that it was time to step back and dissolve the march.

“It shows how much power we have,” MSU Denver senior Joe Deras, a march supporter and organizer, told the crowd. “They’re afraid to open the door.”

The march was organized with the help of Rosario DeBaca of Colorado Workers for Innovative

and New Solutions (WINS) Local 1876. Colorado WINS is a union that represents Colorado state employees.

“There has been no increase in staff and, as you know, the campus has expanded,” DeBaca said. “Buildings that at one time had several custodians now have, at best, two.”

Many of the signs carried by protesters mentioned Tara Weachter, AHEC’s director of facilities and services. Most of the complaints the custodians brought to the march were targeted at Weachter.

“Once she assumed her positon, she started wreaking a lot of changes,” DeBaca said. “People who worked on a night shift were moved up to an afternoon shift.

They lost the night differential.”

The night differential is a two percent boost in pay for those who work overnight shifts.

DeBaca said that the night crew now had to try to clean buildings

while classes were still being conducted. Other complaints included Spanish-speaking employees being forced to sign forms that they didn’t completely understand.

Blaine Nickeson, AHEC’s assistant vice president of campus relations and chief of staff, said that AHEC was aware of the grievances and felt that the issues have been blown out of proportion.

“We feel that this is an issue with just a small number of custodians,” Nickeson said. “As of yet, there are no grievances on file with [human resources].”

Many custodians who attended the rally left before the march to the office of operations, returning to work after using break times to attend the march. Others were not willing to take time from their work schedule to answer questions.

“The grievance process that exists for custodians is ineffective,” Deras said. “The reality is that most of their complaints and most of their grievances are ignored.”

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MSU Denver among lowest cost schools Lee Ridley lridley1@msudenver.edu

Tuition takes a bite out of students’ bank accounts, but MSU Denver students may suffer a little less pain than their counterparts at other schools.

AffordableCollegesOnline.org recently selected MSU Denver as one of 100 “Most Affordable Large Public Universities.”

ACO assembles information about costs and financial aid at online and campus colleges and offers cost-saving advice to students. As reported by the MSU Denver Office of Marketing and Communication on April 15, ACO compiled the list of most affordable schools after reviewing data provided by the federal government and the Carnegie Foundation. Public, nonprofit 4-year institutions of 25,000 to 80,000 students were surveyed.

Colorado State University and the University of Colorado, Boulder also made the list. MSU Denver’s tuition and fees were the lowest of the three, at $3,809, followed by CSU at $6,307 and CU Boulder at $7,672.

“There are a slew of rankings and lists that promote the most expensive colleges,” said ACO founder Dan Schuessler, according to the MSU Denver Office of Marketing and Communication. “Our lists look at value colleges that also provide an excellent education. These schools are much more affordable for a wider base of students.”

MSU Denver students can also cheer the results of another recent report, “Higher Education Pays: The Initial Earnings of Graduates from Colorado’s Colleges and Universities Working in Colorado.” The report, released in March by College Measures and the Colorado Department of Higher Education, compares the median salaries that graduates from 15 Colorado schools earn in their first year of work.

Starting salaries for MSU Denver alumni are ranked fift h-highest in the state, at $38,547 for a graduate with a bachelor’s degree. Salaries for CU Boulder graduates were ranked sixth at $37,735 and 10th for CSU grads, at $36,777.

“It’s about time we get some recognition,” MSU Denver junior Siri Larsen said.

Top five most expensive public colleges Tuition quoted per semester

University of Pittsburgh $15,272 Pennsylvania State University $15,124 Temple University $13,006 University of Illinois $11,847 Univeristy of Michigan $12,440

Top five least expensive public colleges Tuition quoted per semester

University of Massachusetts $1,714 University of North Carolina $3,242 Boise State University $3,724 East Carolina University $3,348 Florida State University $3,100

MSU Denver comes in at number seven on this list.

MSU Denver was rated as one of the most affordable public colleges in the country.

Photo by Katie Avery • kavery1@msudenver.edu

She interns at 9News and says they told her that they “prefer Metro students interning than any other school in the state because they felt that we worked the hardest.”

When asked, several students said MSU Denver’s affordable cost was a big factor in their decision to attend.

“That’s probably the number one reason,” said MSU Denver junior Remigio Darby.

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Erin Trapp’s $30K raise not offset by fundraising Collene Lewis clewis66@msudenver.edu Despite “reporting issues” with MSU Denver development money and a twomonth leave of absence, Erin Trapp received a $30,000 raise.

Erin Trapp, vice president of advancement and external relations and foundation executive director, was given a $30,000 raise after a two-month unpaid leave as executive director for Denver’s Biennial of the Americas.

Trapp has worked with MSU Denver since Jan. 23, 2012, overseeing the departments of development, communications, grants and sponsored programs, and alumni relations.

Trapp’s foundation and capital campaign report at the board of trustees meeting April 4 displayed cracks in the foundation’s internal structure.

Trapp said Steve DeVisser, the foundation’s chief finance and operations officer, had been out on medical leave for three months and returned in mid-April.

“With Steve’s leave and the departure of our previous director of advancement services, we’ve been cut a little short,” Trapp said.

“So that’s something that’s heavily on my mind, just on the foundation structure and how we can do a better job on having backup systems, so that if a person is not available then the work can still continue.”

Trapp also said in the meeting that the foundation has had “reporting issues… on how in-kind [funding] gets reported to the branch LC.” Trapp added that the foundation has had “unfulfilled pledges and bad pledges” to account for.

“All that makes the reporting challenging, we need to have those backup systems in place when someone like Steve is out. So unfortunately that’s a lesson we had to learn the hard way,” Trapp said.

Trapp said the capital campaign has been a “rebuilding year,” with several gifts in the seven-figure range, which may take more than a year to come to fruition.

“We’re hopeful that we’ll have something good to report there quite soon, but you don’t just ask somebody for a million dollars when you first meet,” Trapp said.

Trapp attributes some of the difficulty in fundraising to other organizations’ smaller budgets. She explained that the Boettcher Foundation, a perennial donor to MSU Denver, said they had $500,000 to give, which was a significant decrease from the past.

Trapp added the foundation was lucky to receive $100,000 from the Boettcher Foundation.

“We’ve got some nice gifts coming in, but like everything, we’re finding that we have to ask for more to achieve the same results,” Trapp said.

The capital campaign finances MSU Denver fundraising projects. Included in the campaign are portions of the $8.5 million cost for MSU Denver’s 21,000 square feet of academic space in the Hotel Learning Center, according to the MSU Denver advancement and external relations website.

Stephen Jordan, the MSU Denver president, said Trapp’s leave of absence came as a request from the governor’s office and her past work with Biennial of the Americas

during its 2010 Denver debut. Jordan said that while Trapp was on leave with Biennial of the Americas, she was offered a permanent position as director.

“We gave her the leave of absence to do this interim job, and had an agreement with her on the maximum length of time,” Jordan said. “What we did not count on was that their board, for the lack of a better term, tried to snake her from us.”

Jordan said there are policies to counter an offer from another institution on a faculty or staff member that is believed crucial to the operations of the university. He said he made Trapp an offer that was not as high as

the written offer she received from Biennial of the Americas, but instead reflected salaries of other university senior officers.

“It was really important to try and retain her but not do that in a way that damages the whole salary structure that we have in the institution relative to the other senior officers,” Jordan said.

The 2013 Biennial of the Americas begins July 16, and will gather leaders for four days of seminars and peer workshops celebrating the Americas in Denver, according to the organization’s website.

Because of Trapp’s work on the Hospitality Learning Center capital campaign, fund-

raising for both the athletic fields and CVA, and endowment for student scholarships through MSU Denver’s foundation, Jordan said it was important to keep Trapp on staff.

“It ultimately is a compliment to us to have other organizations coming after our best people,” Jordan said.

Correction In the April 25 issue of The Metropolitan, Susan Lowrance’s name was misspelled. Lowrance is the correct spelling.

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Degrees of harassment Servers are people too Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu It’s hard to believe that all “harassment” is actually harassment.

When I was in my 20s, my sister Kate and I were discussing Sean Connery. At one point, Kate said, “Couldn’t you just jump right into bed with him?”

I was a little taken aback and told her that it hadn’t crossed my mind.

She chalked it up to my being married.

It wasn’t the only time opinions of men were shared. When San Francisco and Denver competed in the Superbowl in 1990, the same sister and her friend headed to my grandmother’s house to watch. I reminded her that she didn’t like football.

“Football?” she asked. “We’re going to watch John Elway and Joe Montana’s butts.”

It seems lately that every word that comes out of a man’s mouth is harassment. Wolf whistles and cat calls are taboo. So are double takes. In some place, just complimenting the way a woman looks could be considered harassment.

So, why isn’t it the same when a women does it to a man?

The double standard is pretty blatant. Women can sit at a Girls’ Night Out and make comments about men, their bodies and their prowess.

They can hire a male stripper. No one thinks it’s out of line.

The same can’t be said for men. It seems that nearly every campaign against harassment singles out even the most innocent gesture a man might make toward a woman. Pictures of half-dressed women hanging in a garage are “objectified,” but a woman can carry a coffee mug with a bare-chested man pasted to the side of it and no one even blinks.

So, why is it OK for women to do exactly what a man will be slapped with harassment charges for doing? I suppose the case might be made for “they’ve been doing it for so long, it’s our turn now.” But at the cost of blatant hypocrisy?

The funny thing about equality is that it means all sides are equal. It doesn’t mean “we didn’t like it when you did it but we can do it.”

What it means is that the next time any woman makes a comment about a man, she should stop to think about the hypocritical words coming out of her mouth. What makes those words any less objectifying, sexist, or wrong?

I’m not suggesting that we ignore true sexual harassment, abuse or violence. What I’m suggesting is that we realize that not every man is a predator and not every comment is harassment.

And maybe, ladies, we need to realize just what hypocrites we can be.

Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu It’s a Friday night and there are 25 people all looking at one person. They are thirsty. They are hungry. This one person is their only hope.

We all eat at restaurants and have had service that runs the gamut from excellent to atrocious, but not everyone has been on the service end.

Those who have been know it can be wonderful, rewarding, frustrating, depressing, and at times, downright ridiculous.

I have worked in food service for more than 5 years. I love being a waitress, and I understand that rough shifts happen, and they just make the good ones that much better. The only thing I have never understood is why some patrons feel the need to treat their servers like servants.

When I say “I’m Nikki, and I’ll be taking care of you this evening,” I mean it. I will happily bring you whatever it is you need, want or even think you might fancy during your visit. But I would prefer to do so in a civil exchange. Treat me as a person, and I promise your night will go swimmingly. A happy server equals better service.

And though I can’t speak for all servers, I do want to say that we don’t ever give bad service to spite a table — sometimes, the seas of the restaurant are too stormy and we can’t quite keep afloat. At the same time, servers have absolutely no control over some of the things people get upset about in a restaurant. I don’t cook the food, and be glad: if I did, all that would be on the menu is a grilled cheese that is burned on one side.

At times, we deal with puking kids, yelling guests, angry co-workers and kitchen mishaps, all while trying to make every single table’s experience memorable and cheerful. We celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, reunions and every special event imaginable with our tables. Your occasion is our occasion, if only for a few hours. Not to mention, we are open on nearly every holiday, and we are here to make them special for you.

On the subject of tips — don’t even worry about it. I will treat you as well as I possibly can, you leave me what I think I deserve. Percentage rules be damned. Tip me for my service, not for what the number on your iPhone app says. I am more than 15 or 20 percent — I’m a person. My goal is to cater my service to your experience. Assembly line service be damned, and assembly line tipping as well.

I want to extend the warmest of thank-yous to those who treat their servers well – I know you are the majority. We notice, we promise, though we all have a terrible tendency to only highlight the bad. It is people like you who remind me why I love my job. Just your smile goes a long way.

The exclamation point: an exciting history!!

Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu We’ve become a generation of textual communicators — emails, text messages, Facebook statuses, tweets and so on.

A big difficulty in such a world is conveying emotion. It’s hard to comprehend tone in writing. Exclamation points play a large part in trying to communicate multiple feelings. Excitement! Intensity! Anger! Importance! Astonishment! Or just because! But can they go too far? Why yes — yes they can.

Everyone seems to have his or her own rules when using the symbol of exclamation. One is standard, two is acceptable and three is usually pushing it. Having a sentence that ends in “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” is far too much. Nothing is that exciting, no matter how much you love the punctuation.

Before deciding what your exclamation ration method is, perhaps it would help to know where the punctuation originated and what it means in different fields.

According to smithsonianmag.com, the Latin exclamation of joy was “io,” where the i was written above the o, making it appear like a, what is now, exclamation mark.

The use of the point varies through different subjects and fields.

In the world of mathematics, for example, a “!” represents a factorial operation. So 4! means 4x3x2x1=24.

According to Wikipedia, an exclamation in parenthesis implies a sarcastic statement. It is Wikipedia, so it has to be true(!)

A completely acceptable use of the punctuation can be found in comic books. Many writers thought that a regular period would become lost through the printing process, so exclamation points became a custom. Soon, the point was just used because writers liked it, according to comicbookresources.com.

Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee even tried to establish a ban on the mark because he found it juvenile — but the ban wasn’t effective and didn’t last. Other writers, such as Elliot S! Maggin and Scott Shaw!, liked the mark so much they incorporated it into their own names.

Now that we know some history and uses of the mark, perhaps we can steer clear of inappropriate uses of it, like, “OMG ladies’ night!!!!!!!!” or “got an A on my final!!!!!!!!!!!!!” or “How dare you!!!!” Just remember that there is such thing as too much.

Sure, the exclamation point is one of the funniest punctuations to use, as long as it is used right. If the citizens of the textual world fail to recognize proper use of the mark, it

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“Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge”

MSU Denver’s Men’s basketball players DeShawn Phenix, left, and Tyler Cooper, right, sling dodge balls during MSU Denver’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) First Annual Dodgeball Tournament April 25, in the Auraria Event Center. The tournament, consisting of 12 teams, had double the expected turnout with all proceeds going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Photo by Scott Lentz • slentz@msudenver.edu

Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu As dodgeball legend Patches O’Houlihan once said, “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”

For 12 teams dressed up as goofy hipsters, color-coordinated tennis players, and a hodge-podge of equally interesting characters, those words were more than relevant this past Thursday inside Auraria Event Center. MSU Denver’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) hosted its first annual dodgeball tournament that was held as a fundraising event to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Various clubs, departments and programs from campus got together to line up across the gym from one another, separated by nothing but ten dodgeballs and the will to win.

Assistant women’s basketball coach Ciara Carl was excited with the turnout. “It’s really great to see people coming out and supporting this event, which helps the MakeA-Wish Foundation,” Carl said.

She and assistant women’s volleyball coach Lindsey Terry were in

charge of organizing the event with help from the SAAC advisers Sam Schall and Ryan Joyce.

“It’s kind of like organized chaos,” Terry said.

As faculty advisers to the SAAC, both Carl and Terry saw opportunities to improve the event the next time around, but overall they thought it was successful.

“We are really looking forward to doing it again next year,” Carl said.

Teams were spread out across the bracket as the double elimination tournament got off to a heated battle. From the get-go, the men’s basketball team, scantily clad in shorts, faced off against the financial aid department. Determined and willing, the two teams battled it out to the end as the men’s basketball team barely advanced to the next round, while the financial aid department aimed to take the next match with the hopes of advancing through the consolation bracket.

Teams consisted of 7 to 12 players that rotated in and out during the best of three 4-minute games.

Standard dodgeball rules applied.

Once players get hit, they’re out, and the only way to get back into

the game was with the hope of a teammate catching a ball from an opposing player.

Spirits were high as the teams battled against one another, hoping to be the last man standing and advancing to the next round. Spectators, friends, students and faculty filled the gymnasium, as people watched one team drop after the next. As teams made it deeper and deeper into the tournament, the competition became more fierce.

Head shots came in at full force, and body shots were equally as painful to watch as players and teams dropped like flies. As teams were slowly eliminated, it was apparent there were no losers on this spring afternoon.

Sophomore Marquis Johnston was ecstatic about the entire event.

“Even though we lost in the second round, I had so much fun,” Johnston said. “I haven’t played dodgeball since grade school, and the fact it was for a good cause made it all the much better.”

Johnston and his friends got together after seeing the event on the school’s calendar. For competition’s sake, teams were out for glory and the chance to strut their

stuff around campus as MSU Denver’s dodgeball champions.

Faculty from the athletic department dressed in wigs, short shorts, tight shirts and tall socks while chanting “let’s get weird.”

As they marched their way into the finals with a fearless look upon their faces, things truly got a little weird as their skills and outfits left little to the imagination.

After knocking out the men’s basketball team, team Let’s Get Weird seemed as if they were a shoe-in as the dodgeball champs.

With less flash and flare, team New Kids On The Block marched their way into the finals, taking on Let’s Get Weird. It truly was a battle of the ages — titans versus gladiators.

The best of three matchplay went underway as Let’s Get Weird got off to an early lead. Balls were furiously flying through the air as the New Kids slowly fought back to even out the match. The New Kids sent several balls across the middle line with a vengeance and determination to win the championship. After a heated back and forth match, the New Kids took an early 1-0 lead in the finals. Team Let’s Get Weird didn’t give up

easily, though, and where there’s a will, there’s a way. Spectators and other teams watched the two teams battle it out. Junior Keenan O’Neil stuck around to see the finals.

“My team lost early, but I really wanted to see who would win” O’Neil said.

The team camaraderie was ever present as the New Kids worked together to pinpoint their opponents with precise throws and consistent teamwork that helped them fight back from a few people down in this nail biter of a match.

Spirits were high and tensions were shown as the clock ticked down.

After a few rocket-like throws from the New Kids, the buzzer sounded and ultimately revealed them to be the champions. With sore arms and blistered feet, the New Kids On The Block were dubbed MSU Denver’s champions.

The SAAC and everyone participating saw the first annual dodgeball championship as a successful event. Even Ben Stiller would have been proud of these average joes.

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Denim Day brings inspiration despite pain Kailyn Lamb klamb6@msudenver.edu Decorating jeans and judo throw-downs don’t necessarily add up to sexual violence prevention, but on Denim Day, that’s what it is all about.

In Italy in the ‘90s, a young girl was raped by her driving instructor. Although he was originally charged with rape, the Italian Supreme Court overruled the sentencing. Why? Because her jeans were so tight that she had to “help him pull them off.” It was ruled as consensual sex.

According to the Denim Day website, www.denimdayusa.org, the women of the Italian Parliament immediately protested by wearing jeans to work. This protest caught on in Los Angeles, and the first official Demin Day in the U.S. was held in April of 1999.

“I’m really passionate about [ending] sexual violence,” said Phoenix Center employee Jacki Fiegl, “hopefully to change a shift from awareness to stopping it.”

In honor of the day, MSU Denver asked students to wear jeans, and several students also had stickers showing their support of the event.

The first official planned event was jean decorating. In the Tivoli Commons, there was a stand with several pieces of decorated jeans that said things such as “no means no, stop means stop,” and “rape ends with me.”

Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison was the keynote speaker at the event, and started off by reporting that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men will experience sexual assault in their lifetimes. “[This gold medal] has given me this platform where I can speak out and I can talk about this ugly thing, and hopefully somebody will listen,” Harrison said.

Harrison was sexually abused by her judo coach from her preteens all the way until she was 16, when she finally had the courage to tell her parents. Her coach was 17 years older than she was. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Even after his sentencing, Harrison felt like she was partially to blame, as “it took two to tango,” and that if he was sentenced to jail, she should be too. To her, judo began to feel like a prison, and even after winning the U.S. Open, she said it was a struggle for her to keep going.

After winning, she went to tell her new coach, Jim Pedro, that she was quitting. She said that what he told her was the pivotal moment that started her track to healing.

He told her that the sexual abuse did not define her, and that she was only a victim if she allowed herself to be.

Top: The MSU Denver community came together Wednesday April 24, to support the international protest against an overturned rape conviction, primarily because the victims jeans were deemed too tight, by decorating pieces of denim.

Bottom: Michaela Jones, Student Ambassador at the Phoenix Center of Auraria, participated in decorating denim to show her support for the cause.

Photos by Katie Avery • kavery1@msudenver.edu

Top: Alex Eddy, a UCD student, decorated a piece of denim reading, “There is no excuse for rape. End the violence.”

Bottom: A pair of decorated jeans hanging in the Tivoli Commons.

Photos by Katie Avery • kavery1@msudenver.edu

That was when she started working toward her goals in judo.

“Slowly but surely, it started to fuel itself, this dream was the reason I got out of bed every morning,” Harrison said. “I was able to look at myself in the mirror. Not just success on the mat, but suc-

cess off the mat. I started going to therapy and I started talking.”

There was a question and answer session after her story, where attendees talked about their stories, and even got to witness a judo throw-down. Harrison also talked about her current plans

since winning a gold medal, which include setting up a foundation for sexual abuse survivors.

For Albaleea Campos, an MSU Denver freshman, the talk was about empowerment.

“I’m a survivor of sexual abuse, so for me it’s a way of meeting

other people who went through the same kind of struggles and finding out ways to kind of empower myself because I still find I struggle with it, and her story was — she actually inspired me to talk to people about it,” Campos said.

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Rants+Raves

MSI proves always a hot mess

The return of Iron Man

Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu

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When an album’s opening line is “Son of a bitch,” it could either be awesome or terrible.

Or, as in the case of How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence, it could leave a listener with such mixed feelings that it’s both and neither at the same time.

The first track on the new Mindless Self Indulgence record, “Witness,” starts off so strong, but quickly deteriorates into sounding — however hipster this may seem — way too mainstream.

This progression from awesome to lackluster is exactly what happens throughout the rest of album. It’s a constant Tilt-a-Whirl of erratic beats, vocal squeaks and copius profanity.

There are moments I love on the album, namely when singer Jimmy Urine hollers, “I want to be black like Morgan Freeman.” Songs like “Casio” and “Anonymous” are perfectly MSI — they are crazy, spastic and unpredictable. However, too many songs on the album fall into what I can only classify as conventional insanity.

MSI is still as wacky and of-

Photo courtesy of Mindless Self Indulgence.

fensive as they’ve always been. That holds true from the opening line all the way to the end. However, too much obviousness ends up making this album my least favorite from the band to date.

If this were the first record I had heard from the potty-mouthed cult favorite, I wouldn’t keep listening.

But don’t despair. For each low point, there’s a high — and a balls-

grabbing high note, at that. How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence is a seismic mess, but the peaks are so good they’re worth the aftershocks.

To read The Metropolitan’s Q&A with Jimmy Urine, visit metnews.org

Can’t get enough of Marvel’s geniusbillionaire-playboyphilanthropist?

Neither can we.

“Iron Man 3” hits theaters on Friday, and The Metropolitan is practically peeing their collective pants with excitement. If you are too, you’ll be happy to know our superherosized review will be available at midnight on the night of the release. Check it out before you head to the theater.

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“WWZ” to bring entertainment of apocalyptic proportions Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu Stock up on food, have plenty of water, and arm yourself — another zombie movie is coming.

“World War Z,” adapted from Max Brooks novel “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,” is set for a June 21 release.

It focuses on main character Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) who travels around the world after a zombie pandemic consumes the world

while he tries to find its origin.

Marc Forster (“Quantum of Solace,” “Finding Neverland”) directed the flick and dissected its entrails during a conference call on April 24.

KW: For fans of the book “World War Z,” what is the biggest difference they can expect if they go see the movie?

MF: Basically Max Brooks’ book sets the table for our fi lm, but it is more a template, not

a standard minion narrative.

Therefore, when we adapted it into an enigmatic narrative we sort of expanded into different areas.

The main thing is, in Max’s book, they’re telling the story from the past and our fi lm starts sort of in the present. And him, Gerry Lane, is the lead character trying to find out where the origin started versus in [the book] you’re talking about the past.

Obviously in Max’s book you have the whole discussion between

slow zombies and fast zombies and those fans are divided. In the book, there are obviously slow zombies — we have fast zombies and slow ones in the movie as well.

KW: Zombies are clearly a big part of entertainment right now. What was your reasoning for going for “World War Z” for a movie?

MF: I basically chose “World War Z” because I was fascinated. I always love zombies as a metaphor; I loved the potential of the story.

There’s very seldomly where you have a story where I thought, “Oh, this could be such a fun ride, an entertaining ride, but at the same time there’s the second layer to the story.” Which I thought it is so fun because everybody has their own interpretation of the movie and some people prefer pure entertainment and other people read more into it. I think it was a great opportunity to make a fi lm like that.

Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

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Phoenix: Out with Coachella and in with Bankrupt!

Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu

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Fresh off a questionable, yet tantalizing, Coachella performance with R. Kelly (don’t worry, no one got peed on) French pop stars Phoenix have released a new album titled Bankrupt!

The alternative rock band from Versailles followed up their 2009 epic synthesizer-filled alt-rock album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, with a similar yet satisfactory album. Since making the jump from being an underground cult favorite

among indie fans to becoming a festival headlining mainstay, Phoenix have been just as consistent with their anthems since day one.

Ten years and four albums have enabled vocalist Thomas Mars, bassist Deck d’Arcy and guitarists Laurent Brancowitz and Christian Mazzalai to become a household name among music fans. Through this process, Mars’ lyrics have provided listeners with a sort of catchy feel good listening vibe that pleases the ears. Bankrupt! is no different.

It’s the first album from the French foursome since making it big and the typical Kings Of Leon

or Black Keys slump of becoming arena rockers is not present.

Bankrupt! is an emotional tsunami that bobs and weaves through low key synthesizers and trippy Pink Floyd-esque guitar solos. The opening single, “Entertainment,” bears a perplexing similarity to the Wolfgang Amadeus hit “Lisztomania,” but comes with less of a contagious chorus and drumbeat.

The solid bass lines from d’Arcy bridge the gap between the song’s strengths as a catchy radio pop gem and the charismatic passion behind Mars’ crisply produced vocals. The long awaited bridge

which finally comes in with about a minute left leaves listeners wanting more from this obvious hit with lyrics suggesting that Mars would “rather be alone.”

Much of the rest of the album leans towards a ‘70s synthy pop sound that transitions well to a wonderful take on Purple Rain-era Prince. The album’s fourth track “Trying to Be Cool” is a pleasant take on just that. It possesses more of a love ballad type feeling with solid guitar work to back it. It’s a bold and successful attempt at not being a carbon copy of songs like “1901” and “Fences.”

Photo courtesy of Phoenix.

Overall, Bankrupt! is a solid album full of off-kilter pop songs, which Phoenix does so well.

School Knights graduate from garage-rock Ian Gassman igassman@msudenver.edu

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Photo courtesy of School Knights.

School Knights formed in 2010 as a band intent on playing frenetic neo-garage-rock for disaffected dropouts hanging around the outfit’s college-centric hometown of Boulder.

Three-and-a-half years since this dirty, punk-inspired birth,

the now Denver-based quartet has aged perfectly. And, May 3 will mark the physical release of School Knights’ new album Lethargy.

Despite its title, this effort is full of life. But it has a different sort of vivacity than the band’s previous material — less youthful and more long-lived, each track comes complete with a hint of newfound wisdom and bittersweet acceptance.

Yes, the snarling vocal hooks of co-frontmen Michael Stein and Ben Donehower carry on the group’s inherent gritty-garage attitude, especially on certain cuts like “Heritage” or “Weird Times.” Now each song has been taken further by the exciting fret-wizardry of both Stein and main guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky.

Meanwhile, bassist Donehower and drummer Cameron Rottner

subtly and fluidly weave their way through various tempo changes and shifts in time signature.

The result is eight riff-driven, sonically complex compositions that, arguably, are School Knights’ most significant pieces of work.

Granted, if each member keeps moving in the direction of Lethargy, then, perhaps, just like life itself, the best is still yet to come.

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Roadrunner Wrap-up Baseball Metro baseball swept a fourgame series versus Adams State April 26-28 in Alamosa.

Game 1 Metro won 7-2. Senior third baseman Jacob Nelson collected five RBIs on two-run and three-run homers. Sophomore starting pitcher Patrick Gojan gave up one earned run and struck out five for his fourth win of the season.

Game 2 A six-run second, four-run third, and three-run sixth inning propelled the Roadrunners to a 16-10 victory.

Nelson went 3-for-4 with another five-RBI performance, and senior outfielder Alex Schrupp contributed to the winning effort by going 4-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs.

Game 3 The Roadrunners won 15-2 in game three. Sophomore starting pitcher Mike Thill threw a four-hitter over six full innings. Sophomore catcher Darryl Baca went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs.

Game 4 Grand slams by Nelson and freshman outfielder Derek Stimpson gave Metro eight of its runs in a 21-7 blowout of Adams State in the series finale. Stimpson’s hit came in his first career at-bat. Sophomore starting pitcher Nick Hammett earned the win, throwing 103 pitches over five innings.

Track & Field

Runners sting Yellow Jackets 3 times Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu

Metro softball defeated Black Hills State 6-4 April 27 at Auraria Field on Tell Every Amazing Lady’s Day, a fundraiser for Ovarian Cancer in honor of teammate Aubree Maul who is battling the disease.

Down 3-1 entering the bottom of the fourth inning, sophomore left fielder Mary Towner pulled Metro within one on her solo shot to center field.

“I just went up there not thinking too much into it,” Towner said of her home run at-bat. “Just relaxed and went from there.”

Sophomore shortstop Susie Oury tied the game with a double to center field, and junior catcher Kelsey Tillery capped Metro’s fiverun inning with an RBI double.

The Yellow Jackets scored one run in the top of the sixth inning, after a one-out single and double, but senior starting pitcher Brittany Moss forced two groundouts to end the game and seal the victory.

“We had nothing to lose other than to play hard, play for each other and have fun,” Moss said. “I wanted to play hard for Aubree. I wanted to play hard for her and for our team.”

Moss did just that, pitching all seven innings for the Lady Runners. She threw 50 of her 78 pitches for strikes, giving up only two earned runs on seven hits, over the span of 33 batters.

“B-Moss threw a great game,

Metro sophomore left fielder Mary Towner hit a homerun during a 6-4 win over Black Hills State April 27 at Auraria Field.

Photo by Cos Lindstrom-Furtutani • clindst1@msudenver.edu

and she threw a lot better than the score indicated,” head coach Kristi Lansford said.

Metro registered its 15th win of the season with the victory over the Yellow Jackets of South Dakota.

“We got key hits and I think we settled down defensively in the last couple innings to get outs,” Lansford said. “We came through when we needed to.”

Metro overcame six errors to

Metro wore teal jerseys for the game in support of their teammate.

“It was a really emotional day,” Lansford said. “She’s an amazing kid and has got a lot of support.”

Maul’s teammate and close friend Towner added, “[Maul] is a really close friend of mine. We’ve gotten really close since I’ve been a freshman, and just all the support shows what an amazing person she is all around.”

Softball Wrap-up

Metro track teams captured medal honors in six events April 27 at the Colorado School of Mines preconference meet.

Men Senior Kellen Focklyer ran a personal-best 5K in 16:03.70 for second place. Sophomore Erik Boss won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:00.83. Juniors Tim Townsend place third in the 1,500-meter, while Austin James earned medalist honors in the 100-meter in 11.23 seconds, and Darius Reed won the 110-meter hurdles in 14:02.

Women Freshmen Janelle Lincks and Elysia Erickson won the 1,500-meter and 800-meter respectively.

Junior sprinter Belle Kiper won the 400-meter in 58.88 seconds.

Compiled by Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu

pull out the win.

“We’ve been pretty strong defensively this year, we really have,” Lansford said. “It definitely wasn’t pretty but we got it done.”

Strong can be used to describe senior pitcher Maul, who just finished chemotherapy.

“The support for Aubree has been amazing, it’s been overwhelming,” Lansford said. “All the other teams in the RMAC have been very supportive.”

Metro sophomore shortstop Susie Oury slides past Black Hills State catcher Erica Everson April 28 at Auraria fields. Metro won 6-4.

Photo by Ryan Borthick • rborthic@msudenver.edu

Metro softball won three of four games versus Black Hills State April 27-28 at Auraria Field to conclude its 2013 season.

The Lady Runners led 6-3 after four innings in game one, but a three-run fifth, six-run sixth, and two-run seventh inning by the Yellow Jackets handed Metro a 14-6 loss. Junior center fielder Dani Sandel went 1-for-4 with two RBIs. Junior starting pitcher Monique Hernandez took the loss, with 11 runs (six earned) on 12 hits, over 5.2 innings.

Metro won game three, 10-2.

A five-run second and three-run fourth inning propelled the Lady Runners to the five-inning mercyrule win. Sophomore shortstop Susie Oury scored four times from the leadoff spot. Sandel and junior catcher Kelsey Tillery knocked in two and three runs, respectively.

Hernandez earned the win, giving up two earned runs on seven hits, over five innings.

The Lady Runners ended its season with a 6-4 victory. Tillery collected two RBIs with a solo homer in the bottom of the first and a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third inning, giving Metro a 2-0 lead. The Yellow Jackets tied the game 2-2 in the top of the fourth, before sophomore left fielder Mary Towner blasted her team’s second solo-shot of the game. Metro scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and hung on after the Yellow Jackets pulled within two in the top of the seventh. Senior pitcher Brittany Moss ended her Roadrunner career with a 106- pitch, complete game victory.

Compiled by Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu

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Diver sets two national records Metro diver Hannah Herbold won two gold medals April 20-21 at the East Coast Collegiate Swim Club Nationals in Atlanta, Ga. This is her first year on Metro’s swimming and diving club team, but that hasn’t stopped her from leaving her impact on the sport.

“It’s been a lot of fun,” Herbold said.

Herbold won the 3 meter diving title April 20, then brought home a second title, winning the 1 meter on April 21, setting new ECC championship records with both performances.

“It was really hard work,” Herbold said. “We put in a lot of time, but it’s awesome. It feels good.”

Being a student didn’t hinder Herbold from finding enough time to prepare for the meet hosted by the Georgia Tech Swim Club. She trained three days a week, despite a busy schedule, to ensure her

spot at the top of the podium.

“One of her main struggles is that she is a full time college student. She is working nearly full time on top of trying to train,” head coach Kevin Sage said.

Sage said that Herbold brings a lot of competitive experience to the team. She has been diving since she was in middle school with the Mile High Dive Club, where she competed against some of the best competition in the United States before she graduated from Eaglecrest High School. It has been 10 years since Herbold has been involved in the sport, but she is slowly getting back into the groove of things and plans to continue diving for Metro’s club until she graduates.

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September 23 -October 22 If you have a friend that is an Aquarius and the two of you are fighting right now, you may not want to accept a caramel apple from them.

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October 23 -November 21 Avoid parking under telephone wires this week, unless you like your car covered in bird shit.

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November 22 -December 21 You’ll go out for Chinese food this week. At the end of the meal you’ll receive a fortune cookie with a fortune that will read, “Made in the USA.” That sure does suck.

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The Regency is home to students who want a place to get away from it all and have it all.

Over 99 amenities including an art studio, study areas, indoor basketball courts, a bowling alley, free parking and a free shuttle to the Auraria Campus. Double and single rooms, suites and apartments. The Regency.

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regencystudenthousing.com // 303 477 1950 // 3900 Elati Street, Denver