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MSU Denver assistant professor of art Anne Hallam, right, demonstrates how to make a three dimensional paper manipulation, as Erin Chan watches her direction. Hallam led the Paper Manipulations: 3-D Investigations Workshop at the CVA in Denver, July 10.

Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

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By Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu A mathematician who teaches art workshops might not seem to add up, but it did at the recent “Paper Manipulations” workshop, held July 10 at Center for Visual Art. The CVA usually hosts a workshop or artist lecture related to each new gallery show. The Paper Manipulations workshop accompanied its current exhibit, “Paper Work.”

The workshop was taught by two MSU

Denver professors: Anne Hallam, an assistant art professor whose work appears in the exhibit, and Ben Dyhr, an assistant professor of mathematics. In a stuff y room behind the gallery, they each led two projects designed to please both creative and logical minds, all using paper.

Hallam showed students how to make three-dimensional casts of objects using papier-machê, which is a technique she used in her “Paper Work” display. She also demonstrated a more complex art called “honeycombing,” in which the artist glues narrow strips of paper together to make a

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Locals protest Israeli violence in Gaza

By Melanie Rice mrice20@msudenver.edu

Terry Burnsed joined hundreds who marched in support of Palestine July 19 on the 16th Street Mall. Burnsed is an affiliate professor at MSU Denver, in the theater department Photo by Melanie J. Rice • mrice20@msudenver.edu

Several hundred people swarmed down 16th Street Mall July 19, protesting the Palestinian occupation and civilian deaths in the past two weeks of escalated conflict with Israel in Gaza, a 30 mile strip of land that runs along the southwestern border of Israel on the Mediterranean sea.

Beth Daoud of Colorado Boycott, Divestment Sanction, a coalition of Colorado groups working to end Israeli occupation, said several groups came together to organize the march, which was publicized on social media.

Customers on patios lining the mall looked up as marchers passed, shouting, “While you’re shopping, bombs are dropping.”

The group stopped near the old Market Street Station, where Terry Burnsed, an affi liate theater professor at MSU Denver, spoke to the crowd.

Burnsed said the protestors wanted to give the Palestinian

point of view on the fighting in Gaza.

“We need Coloradans and Americans to understand that this is not a battle, this is a massacre,” Burnsed said. “It would not be possible for Israel to perpetuate this massacre if it weren’t for American support in weapons, in money, in a torrent of ideological lies.”

Reports on the current conflict vary, with some sources reporting as many as 500 Palestinian and 20 Israeli deaths in the fighting since early July.

Daoud said she married a Palestinian man, but had no idea where Palestine was until she saw an image that changed her life.

“It was of the IDF, Israeli Defense Forces, breaking the arms of Palestinian boys — and then they threw stones,” she said. “That image was so graphic to me that I got up and screamed.” From that point on, she said she knew she would do all she could to help.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Cairo July 21 to advocate for a cease-fire.

Smoking policy does not outline smoke-free campus

By Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu The most recent campus smoking policy is not so new.

According to Katy Brown, director of communication and campus outreach for the Auraria Higher Education Committee, it is the same policy that was released in February.

A poll taken by the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board concerning a potential smoke-free campus did not factor into the policy that was ultimately adopted by AHEC. “From what I understand, SACAB did a survey in April to collect data on whether or not there is support for a smoke-free campus,” Brown said via email. “The survey was done in April, which was after the new policy was adopted.”

The AHEC policy was adopted Feb. 26.

The results of the SACAB poll show that most responders favor a smoke-free campus.

The poll, however, is not necessarily representative of the campus population.

With approximately 2,800 responders, the poll only reflects a small fraction of the nearly 48,000

combined students from all three institutions, or less than 6 percent.

Last year’s SGA poll fared even worse, with fewer than 600 students responding.

At the time of printing, SACAB representatives could not be reached for comment.

MSU Denver’s policy allows smoking more than 25 feet from buildings. No smoking is allowed in any campus building. In the policy, smoking refers to cigarettes, vapor pens and electronic cigarettes. Sales of any smoking apparatus is forbidden on campus.

Because the institutions at Auraria are federally funded, marijuana is illegal on any part of campus despite being legal in other parts of Colorado. Violators of this law are subject to arrest.

The policy extends to every person on campus, whether they are students, staff, visitors or contractors working on campus.

Individuals caught violating the policy will be reported to the appropriate authority, whether it be student conduct office, campus supervisors or contract foremen.

Visitors may be asked to leave campus.

AHEC’s policy is permissive compared to other colleges in the area. The University of Colorado-

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Weather forecast 7.24: Iso-Storms 98°/67° 7.25: Iso-Storms 97°/66° 7.26: Iso-Storms 93°/62° 7.27: Iso-Storms 90°/62° 7.28: Iso-Storms 88°/61° Caitlin McGee, a CCD science major sits outside the library at Auraria Feb. 27 to smoke. “Our culture is shifting the smokers further and further away from the population, and making it so that it’s more of a taboo, in general, McGee said.

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Denver’s Anschutz campus, the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Denver are all smoke-free campuses. Their policies include the ban of smokefree substances such as chewing tobacco and snuff.

On all campuses, public areas such as sidewalks and roadways on the perimeter of school properties are not subject to the smoking policies.

Should Auraria become a smoke-free campus, smoking

would therefore still be permitted at the Light Rail stations and bus stops, as well as sidewalk areas along Speer Boulevard, Colfax Avenue, Seventh Street and Auraria Parkway.

Satellite campuses, such as MSU Denver’s North and South campuses, UCD’s Lawrence Street Center, and CCD’s Lowry Campus, do not fall under the Auraria smoking policy.

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On fear and loafing in Spain

By Bryan Luchene bluchene@msudenver.edu Liberty is the heart of terror and as I reach the end of my studies, I’m terrified — faced with that existential crisis at the end of every endeavor: what do I do now?

Run away to Spain, of course. If I’m far enough away, student loans can’t catch me, right? Some people travel as conquerors, planting flags in new experiences.

Others travel for self-discovery, others are big game hunters, displaying photos like mounted heads on their return. I’m here in Spain now, at least in part, to delay the inevitable. I’m here to running away — from ends and from fear.

I work all day, every day, just to save enough for the off-season.

The most recent E.U. labor force survey shows the unemployment rate here in the south of Spain is more than 36 percent. The U.S. unemployment rate during the height of the Great Depression was a paltry 25 percent in comparison.

I would expect a bleak post-apocalyptic cityscape riddled with bread lines, ne’er-dowells, skyrocketing crime rates and masked vigilante justice — but that’s not the case. The crime rate is actually down — five percent,

according to Spain’s Ministry of the Interior — and these small gains are downright unnatural when you consider the lack of gainful employment. Kids play in the plazas well past dark. In the face of economic uncertainty the city seems to pull together. This place is an exemplar of stability.

Don’t get me wrong. There is wariness here.

Eyes that look up through dark circles show fears of an uncertain future, but there’s something else here too. A steadfast resolve built on thousands of years of survival — faith that the lean years will return to fat.

So, this is what I’m figuring out on my summer vacation: my existentialist dilemma is a privilege.

As I shed the comfort of education for the uncertainty of its application, I should remember two things.

First, there is plenty of time to figure it all out and second, in the face of uncertainty the only recourse is steadfast work and openness to the possibility of the unknown.

We are constantly indoctrinated throughout our lives — especially during our education — with the nature of our limitations.

But there is plenty of time to figure it out.

We can’t lose what we never owned.

Truthfully, we have only borrowed our lives (as individuals, as a society, as a species) for a

time. It’s up to us what we would like to accomplish with that borrowed time.

But that’s not entirely true. I do feel a genuine pull here.

The south of Spain is the only place outside of Denver where I feel at home, but I’m also here because I still don’t know what I’m going to be when I grow up and I’m hoping that by the time I return, I’ll have it figured out.

In many ways Cádiz, is idyllic. Kids play on the beach and on the plazas until well after dark. The town watches out for them. It’s like a rock wall picture — in Spanish of course.

Photo by Bryan Luchene • bluchene@msudenver.edu

All officers should not be judged by a few bad cops

By Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu When I was younger I had this precocious little blond boy.

I did everything I could to teach my son to stay safe — watch for cars, stay away from the river’s edge, tell mom before you go anywhere and if you ever need help, find a police officer.

Early this month, though, a police officer found him. While my son was driving through Kansas on his way to visit a friend in another state, he was pulled over, his car searched and his marijuana found. He was arrested and taken to jail.

I won’t go into what I think of Caleb taking his pot with him.

I understand why he did it, and he understood the risks he was taking.

What bothers me most is the violation of his rights from the start by a company of people I had raised my son to see as friends.

His Colorado plate was profiled, as was his car. Did it look like something a stoner would drive?

This profiling constitutes a Fourth Amendment violation. The officer had every intention of searching my son’s car before he even had him pulled over. Caleb said the of-

ficer actually drove around his car as they both moved down the road, looking for a reason to pull him over. Caleb’s seat belt wasn’t on, and the lights started flashing.

Caleb denied the officer permission to search, so the officer claimed to smell pot — pot that was in tightly sealed containers and socketed away in a car that smells like an ashtray. The officer lied for “probable cause” to do something the Constitution protects us from. When Caleb tried recording the stop, which is legal in Kansas, his phone was confiscated in a blatant violation of Caleb’s First Amendment rights.

Over the course of the next three days, Caleb would be forced to forfeit his car, money and phone to the police. He would be denied phone calls. He would be essentially denied counsel until after a bond hearing. Labeled a “drug dealer,” a designation the state of Kansas never proved, Caleb’s belongings were confiscated by the police to be auctioned off. The words “the damn police” and worse have come out of my mouth more than once during this ordeal.

But then I stop myself. Ten hours after I found out Caleb was missing, it was a police officer who helped me find him. While we were being fed lies by police in Kansas,

it was a retired police officer who managed to get information for us. During the search, another police officer spoke with a friend of Caleb’s and gave advice on how to locate him.

There are police officers out there with God complexes who run roughshod over whomever they wish. These officers do not represent the vast majority of police.

A state like Kansas, with a lack of police transparency, is going to attract the kind of cops who want to lord it over the lower man and do whatever they want without a second thought about the checks and balances in place to keep them from doing just that.

But the majority of police officers are people trying to keep their communities safe. They are the people who stop speeders and reckless drivers in family neighborhoods, come to our aid when we call and do outreach to schools and youth groups.

They take flack for arresting bad guys and then turning them loose again (not a decision the police make), get yelled at for leaving tickets on illegally parked vehicles and are threatened with lawsuits by little Bobby’s parents when they pick little Bobby up for doing something illegal or dangerous or both.

The police are blamed if a murder isn’t caught quickly enough.

They’re blamed if a neighborhood isn’t safe enough. And yet they still show up to work every day with the intent of making the world a little safer at the risk of their own lives.

Police like those in Kansas who violated my son’s Constitutional rights do need to be called to task.

But the rest of the police officers scattered around the country shouldn’t have to deal with what a handful of bad apples are doing wrong.

In my online search for information that could help deal with Caleb’s case, I came across a website that declared the police as a whole to be the equivalent of Nazis. They warn readers to protect their families by teaching them, and the children in particular, that police are monsters to be avoided.

All I can think of is someones little blond boy, scared and alone and too afraid to approach the one person who can best help him.

It’s true that we need to know our rights and know when they’re being violated. But we also need to remember that not every cop who violates his oath of office is representative of the many police officers don’t.

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Liz Miller: Weapons, violence & insects

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Art events 6.14-11.30: Chihuly Exhibit Denver Botanic Gardens $12 - $15 6.20-8.02: Paper Work Center for Visual Art FREE 7.13-9.14: Beyond Pop Art: A Tom Wesselmann Retrospective Denver Art Museum $8 - $10 7.18-9.06: Robert Anderson: Photographic Abstract Robert Anderson Gallery 7.25-10.5: I Think I feel Something MCA Denver $5 - $8

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Splendiferous Jungle Warfare by Liz Miller at the Center for Visual Art

By Carlos Escamilla cescamil@msudenver.edu Filled with anticipation, I walked into the Center for Visual Art and found that Minnesota artist Liz Miller had transformed an entire corner over the course of four days. Her latest installation, Splendiferous Jungle Warfare, was created for the space from cut paper and is her first large-scale paper sculpture. She is perhaps best known in Denver for her 2012 installation at the David B. Smith Gallery in which she produced a felt sculpture inspired by the works of Clyfford Still.

This time she came to Denver with an equally challenging and exciting offer. Upon hearing the title of the show in which she was asked to participate, “Paper Work,” she said, “At first I was really worried about it.” She had previously worked extensively with stiffened felt, which is much more tactile and resistant to damage than paper.

“I am not a fragile person,” Miller said. However, after the experience of making this installa-

tion, she’s less reluctant to use the medium: “The paper is fragile but it’s not that fragile.”

The sentiment had much to do with the type of paper that she worked with for the project: a combination of wrapping paper, craft paper, construction site paper, rolled paper, and even doilies. The materials reflect her continuing desire to explore the divide between highbrow and lowbrow art forms and mediums. They also help to extend the audience’s conceptions

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patterned paper found throughout the floor portion. Concentric circles overlapped along a complicated pattern of reds, yellows, oranges, and greens. The sculpture looks as if it was modeled after a stylized eagle pattern or necklace.

Miller’s installation seems to push the medium to its limit, creating a sturdy structure that looks as if it’s floating. The installation not only defies gravity, it defies expectations for a Miller work.

For this project, she took the form

“The paper is fragile but it’s not that fragile.” of how paper can be used.

Upon entering the space, my eyes were immediately drawn to the ten large paper pillars emerging from the center of the structure. The tops were painted a bright green and the wall of the gallery was painted red, creating simultaneous contrast from a distance.

The pillars were evenly divided around a center form, which fed a pool of paper that spread across the floor. The center structure was painted with greens and oranges and contained various mixtures of

completely off the wall and mainly utilized the space on the floor. She started with the large forms offsite, cutting and spray-painting the large shapes that were inspired by weapon imagery.

Weapons have been an inspiration for Miller for some time. Her visit to a Colt rifle exhibition in 2007 launched her admiration for the shape and function of the rifles she saw.

She has explained a growing fascination with the contradictory nature of guns — the way they’re

manufactured and the form and functions they carry juxtaposed with their potential to be beautiful objects in a museum. She initially focused on their ornamental qualities, but then discovered the world of virtual weapons. Miller found their seamless movement between fact and fiction particularly inspirational and began creating her own hybrids as installations.

Her exploration of weapons and weapon imagery led her to begin looking at images of violence and the chaotic beauty usually captured in such images. She’s found inspiration in military marches and weather disasters, and most recently in invasive species and jungle warfare.

Her CVA installation has strong influences of hybrid weapons, jungle warfare, and invasive species. Her “wonky origami” structures and simply-folded paper patterns on the floor all reflect the various sources of inspiration which she references. However, the rest of her inspiration came from topography, vegetation, and Continued from page 5 >>

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and insects. While her varied sources of inspiration seem random, they all return to an interest in simultaneous chaos and structure.

That chaos and structure is well balanced in her installation and the way she created it. Her process is not typical of what’s expected for an artist who graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Minnesota — especially one whose degrees were both for painting.

She’s much more of an improvisational installation artist, approaching a project with an overall concept in mind and letting the rest happen as the materials and space speak to her. For this installation, she prepared a few pieces offsite, using regular and electric scissors, and then did a lot of the arranging after she arrived the Monday before the opening. This approach accounts for much of the subtle detail and slight pattern variations that viewers will notice after spending some time with the

installation.

Nothing is absolutely perfect and that’s what makes her work so exciting. Even walking up for the first time, the installation seemed perfectly symmetrical until I began walking around it and really experiencing it.

The effect is intentional. As she evolved as an installation artist, she began to incorporate viewer experience more and more into her work.

This project is the culmination of those efforts; its position on the floor and deep red wall are testaments to that. She enjoys allowing the audience to draw their own stories out of the abstract fiction that she presents to them.

Her roots as a painter are still reflected in her work despite the rare use of paint in her installations. She said that most of the time her color choices are at the will of her materials. As felt only comes in so many colors and hues, so she particularly enjoyed the freedom that using paper gave her for this project. Miller was able

Tree of Life

Gallery Rejuvenation. This gallery particularly caught my attention, as not only did the vibe and artwork theme have a sort of ‘weekend nature getaway’ therapeutic healing power, but to understand their overall goal and mission were inspiring like no other gallery.

Influenced by personal experiences, as well as dramatic events and stories from others, Terrie Boggs, the founder and owner, created the gallery as a means to support those suffering from invisible disabilities.

At Tree of Life Art Gallery Rejuvenation, people that are challenged by invisible disabilities such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and other debilitating conditions are able to display artwork that helps them through their symptoms of their disabilities. “I had an injury that really kind of set me back as far as how I process things, and I still have some symptoms from that injury,” Boggs said. “It just really inspired me to go out and support people that are going through the same thing I am.”

If you type “Tree of Life” into any search bar, you’ll find that its meaning is very spiritual, and

By Ben Tarver btarver2@msudenver.edu Walking down the Art District on Santa Fe Drive, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of people, live music, and art galleries that create the atmosphere there. With so many vibrant colors shouting at me from every direction, I could easily spend a few days studying each gallery, and what each one has to offer to the community. From all of the chaos surrounding the First Friday Art Walk, I was able to stumble upon Tree of Life Art

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to incorporate golds and greens otherwise unavailable in felt and alter the sculptural parts with her self-described “bad spray painting” to add a different texture through colors and patterns.

Patterns played a major role in this project, showing up in various places: the jungle-patterned craft paper, the shapes painted on or cut from the paper, and the entire structure itself. The patterns clash at times, adding a materiality and tension to the project, as it’s a discordant melding of the pleasing and contrasting. Again, her inspirations come into play through her patterns. Two major influences for her have been fashion and the ornamental elements of architecture.

The manipulated fabrics of Issey Miyake and Morana Krajnec were early influences, while the Spring 2013 line of Rodarte had a more recent impact on Miller.

Likewise, the effects of Versailles and the book “The Function of Ornament” by Farshid Moussavi reverberate throughout her work.

Watching Miller walk around her nearly finished creation, I began to better understand the way one is supposed to experience her sculpture.

It may be anchored to the floor, still required to obey the law of gravity, but it’s not a static thing that you look at from afar.

In order to fully appreciate the many layers that make up the work, you need to walk around it, get close to it, kneel down and immerse yourself in it, and then tell yourself a story of its origin and destiny. symbolic, spaning across many religions and representing all forms of life and healing.

Each featured artist being unique and different from the other is equally as important in supporting life, symbolizing the individuality of each and every tree on earth. Just as an escape to nature can be a sanctuary from busy city life, Boggs has created a similar environment of release within the downtown hustle and bustle, to encourage an inner state of healing for all who seek it.

“People are able to release through art in here,” Boggs said. “(Even) If they don’t have a disability, they really support it.”

A perfect example of this support is featured artist Lauren Spetcher, who draws butterflies that are displayed in the gallery.

Butterflies just so happen to be Boggs’ favorite insect. “Butterflies represent freedom and peace to me, and [Lauren] is very peaceful,” stated Boggs. “That symbolizes what our mission is all about, and what really attracts people here.”

As everyday life wears you down, you can find refuge under the shade of the Tree of Life.

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The sacred self-portrait

By Mariah Taylor mtayl103@msudenver.edu There’s something about a Frida Kahlo piece: a straightforward selfportrait, unibrow and mustache in full effect, unequivocally truthful and personal.

The first time I did a selfportrait was by force. It was in an introductory college painting class, when my professor described the project saying “Just, paint yourself.

That’s all,” I rolled my eyes. So we all sat in front of mirrors and did just that. But shortly into the project I realized the depth that went in to “just painting yourself.”

Staring at myself in the mirror for hours and recreating every detail made me see everything.

The scars on my forehead from when I scraped the pavement running away from my father when I was 4. The dark spots under my eyes from lack of sleep the night before.

Every tattoo I kind of wished I hadn’t gotten and every split end in my ratty ponytail. And as I moved down, my lack of breasts began to infuriate me. I started to sweat. The extent of my self-consciousness suddenly became so clear.

So what did I do? I kept going.

I stayed in the studio and painted me, every blemish exactly as I saw it. I painted my nose in all of its glory, big and wide and unapologetic. I included every line and tattoo, and even the fuzz on my upper lip.

I saw every imperfection as a true artist should: as pure perfection. My face and body became a landscape; my nose was like a beautiful mountain peak, and my breasts a grassy plain. And it was beautiful.

I walked away from that painting not with a masterpiece to be hung in a museum — in fact, the painting isn’t all that good.

I did, however, walk away feeling just a little bit more complete. I had looked my imperfections down, for hours, and found perfection in all of them.

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And now when I look at it, I can see where I have grown and changed over the years and where my perception of myself differs.

It could be said that the origin of the self-portrait wasn’t all this flowery. Many artists painted themselves simply because they had no one else to paint.

Frida Kahlo used herself as a model because, after a terrible accident, she was left bed-ridden with nothing to look at but her own reflection. In other cases, artists just found themselves to be a cheap and easily accessible model.

And while this might be true, I refuse to believe that the process of painting yourself proves to be anything less than extremely intimate and self-revealing. So while Kahlo might have started painting herself simply due to a lack of resources, there is no doubt in my mind that the process grew into something much more, which shows through in all of her work.

Pieces like “Henry Ford Hospital,” “A Few Small Nips,” and “Selfportrait with Cropped Hair” are clear indications of her use of selfportrait to make sense of herself and the world — every object in these paintings holds value. Each part of the painting is a part of Kahlo herself.

Of course, we can’t all be Frida Kahlos, creating fabulous selfportraits that make the public sigh in amazement. But understanding art means understanding and accepting that the finished product is just a small fraction of making it.

It’s the process that I have come to love so much.

This process is what makes up the real “selfie.” I am sick to death of meticulously captured self-shot photos with the right balance of lighting and makeup that make you look nothing like yourself.

I hope that we can see more clearly that the self-portrait is nothing less than sacred. I want to encourage you to get in touch with your inner Frida Kahlo. Be fearless and experimental and “just paint yourself,” mustache and uni-brow included.

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Around Denver Theatre: 6.7-8.3: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, @ University of COBoulder.

Times and cost dependent on performance.

Music: 7.24: The Music of ABBA Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ 7 p.m. - $32 - $36 7.28: Lyle Lovett and his Large band and Robert Ear Keen Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ 8 p.m. - $39.50 - $95

Film: 7.24-27: Sci-Fi Film Series Presented By Denver Museum Of Nature & Science and the Denver Film Society @ 7 p.m. visit denverfilm.org $50 - $75

Food & Drink: 8.2: Sesh Fest “Enjoy dozens of breweries paying homage to session-style beer at this summer’s Sesh Fest. Plenty of art, food, lawn games and music to complement Colorado craft beer.” @ Sculpture Park 1101 13th St, 80204 3:00 p.m. - 7 p.m. $20

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Culture quote “I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”

- Thom Yorke

Denver gets bazaar

By Melanie Rice @msudenver.edu The Mile High Global Bazaar held July 18 and 19 at Skyline Park featured not only international arts and crafts, but plenty of local goodness, too.

Colorado-based band Irie Still, created an island flavor with its reggae groove, layered with elements of calypso and hip-hop. Lead singer Ronny Irie Noel, who writes most of the band’s music and lyrics, delivered them in the accent of Trinidad and Tobago, where he was raised.

Andrew Cepeda, a 2014 MSU Denver graduate, manned the drums and set the beat along with Noel’s hand work on the djembe, a goblet drum. Irie Still’s world vibe was punctuated by occasional screaming guitar riffs that hinted of Santana’s influence.

Shoppers sipped on fresh juice and lemonade and browsed through more than 20 booths featuring scads of jewelry, accessories, wood carvings and trinkets from places like Uganda, Indonesia and Nepal, though none of the international sellers had made the items themselves.

But local artisans and crafts people were on hand. Some even demonstrated their work for shoppers.

Artist Brian Micheloe Doss of Denver worked on one of his acrylic paintings while DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince’s “Summertime” drifted from his booth.

Nearby, Jana Hope of Northglenn showed her botanyinspired jewelry and illustrations.

Hope is a former MSU Denver student who plans to return to finish a few classes to complete an art degree.

“I’ve always been drawn to natural sciences,” Hope said.

Hope’s mother was a nurse and she said she was enthralled with her medical encyclopedia.

She said scientific illustration is her number one inspiration, but she is also interested in having “visual conversations of the natural sciences and the issues that relate to it.”

She said her series, “The Human Element,” talks about the connection of the human animal to the animals and plants around us, and emphasizes our visual and literal connection.

Hand-blown glass pipes and bongs in the Hazed and Confused booth were another draw for shoppers. Artisan Sara Erkes-Bond says she learned the craft of glass blowing in Oregon and has been in Colorado for about a year, working out of a studio in Golden. Her pipes

Irie Still’s lead singer, Ronny Irie Noel, shows off his abilities on the djembe at the Mile High Global Bazaar International Festival July 19 in Skyline Park.

Photo by Melanie J. Rice • mrice20@msudenver.edu

feature intricately twisted centers and marbling.

The bazaar, sponsored by

Colorado Events, was a natural fit for Denver’s diverse culture.

Nature and science museum unlocks ancient Maya

By Lauren Elden lelden@msudenver.edu Intricate sculptures lined the dark, narrow hallways. A giant monolith of a great corn god blesses spectators as they fill the room. With an eerie feel to the atmosphere, a video is projected onto a replica of a Mayan temple, beginning the story of an ancient world.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science transports visitors weekly to the ancient Mayan domain at their newest exhibition, ‘Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed’.

With a distinct sense of the ancient and complex culture, the museum presents the exhibit in a series of 10, easily navigable, journeys that each depict a distinct part of the Mayan lifestyle.

As a spectator, the world opens up before one’s eyes immediately upon entering the

exhibit. After sitting through a short film describing the purpose of the exhibit, viewers move into the first section of the hidden world, “Unlocking the Maya Past.” Chock full of interesting and credible facts about the life of the Mayan people, a crucial part of the exhibit lies in the interactive aspect.

The museum makes a key point in integrating its visitors with the history through puzzles, games, electronic activities and more.

Enhancing this aspect helps encourage a deeper understanding of the sand-covered stories.

The mock archeology field camp, where visitors learn to piece together broken replicas of Mayan artwork, along with large interactive tablets allow others to explore in a temple for bones of famous gods. The exhibit also has electronic boards where

spectators can create Mayan god/ goddess names to print out as souvenirs of their “journey.”

The dependable storytelling from the volunteers of the museum is essential to the exhibit as well.

Allen Holmes, a volunteer for the exhibit, is one of many knowledgeable staff members.

“The Mayans are fascinating (to me),” Holmes said. “They got nothing wrong. Their knowledge of the world is what makes them so prominent today because they predicted events 100 years before they even occurred.”

The Mayans would create detailed descriptions on tablets of stone to tell their predictions of the future life and death scenarios for the world.

Dean Brooks, an avid Mayan historian and volunteer, spent months researching the intricate and complicated symbols they

used in their artwork.

“They had many different symbols for the same thing,” Brooks said. “It was hard work, but now, it makes every piece of art more interesting when understood as to why they created it. They tell a story.”

From life and death rituals to a complex game of Mayan ball, where opponents must hit the 8-pound mud ball, into a goal using only their hips, spectators leave in awe of not only the exhibit, but the liveliness of the Mayan people.

With an eye toward the future of the Mayan culture, the exhibit demonstrates the impact of the lives of the Maya people.

Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed will be at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science until Aug. 24.

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“Paper is such a diverse medium,” she said. “You can do something that is so incredibly organic, even just by distressing it and wetting it and it becomes like this pulpy material, or it can be extremely rigid. I mean, we’re not doing any folding exercises like origami, but this is like the polar opposite of origami.”

As one example of paper’s diversity, Dyhr demonstrated two artistic projects based on mathematical concepts. The first, based on an idea called “orientability,” involved making a strip of paper

into a circle, twisting it, and then cutting it in half lengthwise. Depending on how many circles each artist made, the paper would twist into a seemingly infinite number of looping shapes.

The second was a tiling exercise where students fi lled in a geometric shape with colored paper squares. If they used three different colors with each color facing a different direction, each design ended up with an equal number of each color, as Dyhr predicted based on probability theory.

“I’ve always been interested in the sort of intersection between mathematics and art, and using art activities to explore mathemat-

ics,” Dyhr said.

About twenty students came to the workshop, and they kept up energetic chatter throughout its two-hour length. Several were teachers who heard about the event through “Theory Loves Practice,” a study group for art teachers in which Hallam is involved.

Dale Zalmstra, an art teacher at Village East Elementary School, spent most of her time at the honeycombing table. She had only good things to say about the workshop and the “Paper Work” exhibit.

“That show is amazing out there,” she said. “I think it’s one of

my favorite ones I’ve ever seen in this building.”

Daniel Marion, an adjunct in MSU’s anthropology department and a big fan of puzzles, got excited about Dyhr’s tiling project.

Instead of fi lling in every square, he left some blank to create a striking 3-D pattern.

“I hear the rules, but then I gotta play with them,” Marion said.

This wasn’t the first time Hallam and Dyhr have teamed up.

Two years ago they brought two classes—Dyhr’s Mathematical Modes of Thought class and Hallam’s 3-D Design class—together to make a collaborative art project.

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The math students described geometric designs that the art students made into three-dimensional sculptures.

“It’s really important in an artist’s work to be able to communicate really precise geometric ideas,” Dyhr said. “So some of the work we’ve done in our classes is sort of, with math students, making them communicate their ideas to the artist.”

Hallam and Dyhr hope to do a similar collaboration next spring.

The “Paper Work” exhibit, featuring work by Anne Hallam, Liz Miller, Melissa Jay Craig and many others, will be on display at the CVA until Aug. 2.

New dating show at MSU Denver penetrates radio waves

By Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu Starting in August, KMet Radio will air a new dating and relationship show called “Social Penetration.” MSU Denver students Stacy McDonald and Erika Lovato will offer advice, host dating games and interview guests at 7 p.m. every Wednesday — and they want to get other students involved.

McDonald and Lovato said they want

their show to be sophisticated as well as fun.

They plan to invite professors and experts on sexuality as guests, and their dating game will use the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator, along with a survey on hobbies and interests, to pair new couples. Even the name “Social Penetration” comes from a psychological theory of communication. But listeners should still expect to hear plenty of jokes and colorful language between the scholarly bits.

McDonald and Lovato are looking for MSU students who want to be on “Social Penetration.” Anyone interested can take their dating survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/socialpenetration or meet them in the KMet headquarters in the Office of Student Media. Their Twitter handle is @socialpnt, and they plan to use it to answer real-time questions on the show.

McDonald assured all potential daters that “Social Penetration” won’t play around

with their relationships.

“We’re not serious about very much stuff, but we are serious about not hooking people up with turds,” she said.

Top five films of the year...so far

By Stephanie Alderton

By Hannah Tyler

salderto@msudenver.edu

htyler@msudenver.edu

This has been a big, loud, spectacular year for movies. We’ve had superheroes left and right, quirky animated characters, monsters of every description and one or two delightful indie surprises. And 2014 still has five months left to go!

We took an office poll of the Metropolitan staff and came up with our 10 favorite movies of the year. If you haven’t spent much time at the cinema lately, these are all well worth checking out. Especially since most of them are at Redbox now.

5. X-Men: Days of Future Past As the highest-grossing X-Men movie, “Days of Future Past” is considerably one of the best in the series. It serves as an interesting prequel to the X-Men story, but Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Jennifer Lawrence as a young Mystique can’t dissapoint.

3. How to Train Your Dragon 2

Another sequel done right, “How To Train Your Dragon 2” came close to recapturing the magic of the original while giving us more adorable dragons, plenty of fun action and a whole lot more warm feelings.

2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

4. The LEGO Movie Who doesn’t love seeing their favorite childhood toys come to life on the big screen? “The LEGO Movie” proves to be one of the most creative and hilarious feature-length toy commercials we’ve ever seen. And it’s endlessly quotable. “SPACESHIP!”

This sequel surpasses the original with a fast-paced story that flows just like the comic.

Plus, with Chris Evans bringing a true sense of depth and emotion to his Captain America role, “The Winter Soldier” is one of the greatest and grittiest Marvel fi lms yet.

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel Funny, quirky and bittersweet, with a candy-colored backdrop, this is Wes Anderson at his best.

Ralph Finnes plays the quirky, aging concierge of a grand hotel located in a fictional European mountain state called the Republic of Zubrowka. After being accused of murder, he teams up with his teenage lobby boy to clear his name and plenty of adventure ensues.

Although “Grand Budapest” may not have spent much time in mainstream theaters, unlike Anderson’s last effort, “Moonrise Kingdom,” it was definitely the most popular movie of the year with our staff.

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Rants+Raves

Denver shows

Shovel Knight

By David Tan

7.24-7.27: Underground Music Showcase 18 stages up and down So. Broadway, Baker District see www.theums.com for times $75 for 4-day pass

dtan@msudenver.edu

7.28: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Bluebird Theater @ 8 p.m. $20- $25 7.7: Ted Nugent Gothic Theatre @ 8 p.m. $35 - $40 8.1: Rowdy Shadehouse, Eldren & Champagne Charlie Bluebird Theater @ 8 p.m. $10 - $13 8:8 - 8.9: Pretty Lights Red Rock Amphitheatre @ 7:30 p.m. - SOLD OUT 8.9: OK Go Gothic Theatre @ 8 p.m. $15 - $18

Chart toppers Open Air’s Top 5 1. Jack White — Lazaretto 2. Bob Mould — Beauty and Ruin 3. Morrissey — World Peace is None of Your Business 4. First Aid Kit — Stay Gold 5. Chet Faker — Built on Glass Source: www.cpr.org/openair

iTunes charts Top album: “5 Seconds of” — 5 Seconds of Summer Top free app: Kim Kardashian Top paid app: Heads Up! Source: www.itunes.com

Box office chart 1: “Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes” 2: “The Purge: Anarchy” 3: “Planes: Fire and Rescue” Source: www.rottentomatoes.com

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Movie poster from 20th Century Fox

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

By Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu We live in an age when digital characters can be more compelling than live human actors. “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” is the latest example—a movie that makes the audience care more about digital horseback-riding monkeys than an entire city of humans.

Of course, some of the credit has to go to Andy Serkis, who does a spectacular job as a voice actor portraying Caesar, the abused chimpanzee who became the leader of a sentient band of primates in Rise of the Planet of the Apes back in 2011.

“Dawn,” the second in what will likely become a trilogy of prequels to the 1968 classic, picks up about ten years after its predecessor left

Vince Staples - “Nate”

By Mariah Taylor mtayl103@msudenver.edu If you haven’t heard of Vince Staples yet, it’s entirely likely that you’ll soon become acquainted with his work.

He hasn’t put out anything major yet, just some appearances on tracks with artists like Common and Earl Sweatshirt and a few of his own tracks for mixtapes. But that’s not to say that Staples’s work is anything less than, well, major.

This became irrevocably clear to me when listening to his newest release, a song simply called “Nate.” It’s almost alarmingly blunt and violent, but it goes on to movingly declare the relevance

If there is only one game you play all summer, make sure it’s “Shovel Knight.”

“Shovel Knight” digs back into the golden era style of gaming.

Everything about it will make you feel nostalgic. The 8-bit graphics, the music and the games extremely difficult stages will having you digging in your attic for your old Vince Staples Shovel Knight graphic Portrait from Facebook video game consoles.

Shovel Knight image from Yacht Club Games Players play as the Shovel like Serkis, they not only look realoff. The virus accidentally created Knight, an adventurer who must istic, but also act and relate to one by scientists in that movie has save his friend from an evil enanother in a very compelling way. wiped out most of humanity, but chantress and end her reign across Caesar is unquestionably the Caesar’s group is thriving. the land.

Using his shovel as his star of this movie, and his struggle The apes aren’t even sure there primary weapon, he sets out on to maintain peace when his own are any humans left until they his journey.

It is simple and to the people start doubting his leadership stumble upon a group of survivors point like all the old games were, is the heart of the story. from San Francisco. giving players a single objective Their grunted phrases like “Ape Things get off to a bad start and letting them go straight to the not kill ape,” but the simian charbetween the two species when a acters somehow come across as far action. panicky human shoots an ape, but “Shovel Knight” is a side more intelligent and complex than Caesar and one of the human leadscrolling action platform. Drawthe humans. ers try to find a way to live peaceing inspiration from old games “Dawn” takes itself very serifully together. Meanwhile, Caesar’s like “Super Mario Bros. 3” and the ously for a movie that prominently bitter fellow lab escapee, Koba, has cult-classic “Castlevania,” you’ll features screaming monkeys with other ideas. be jumping across platforms and AK-47s. But if you sat through its “Dawn’s” biggest weakness lies beating enemies to death with a predecessor, or any of the remakes in its homosapiens. Jason Clarke shovel while dodging fi reballs and and sequels in the “Planet of the plays a generic Good Guy named other dangerous obstacles. Levels Apes” franchise, you’re probably Malcolm, who instantly recognizes increase with difficulty to the point used to that sort of thing.

Caesar’s intelligence and wisdom, of frustration.

Underneath the ridiculousand spends the rest of the movie The shovel knight isn’t limited ness of “Dawn’s” premise, and a heroically trying to prevent a war to just a shovel, though. He is able few flaws in its execution, lies a sad, and protect his generic Love Interto buy new abilities with his gold, est and Angsty Teenager. Gary Old- thoughtful story about the difficullike shooting fireballs and temties of sharing planet earth. man’s character barely gets screen porarily becoming invulnerable.

And although that story has time, so the one chance to create an Th ere is no set amount of lives, but been told many times before, it interesting character was wasted. you do lose 25 percent of your total unfortunately never gets outdated.

The apes are a different story. gold each time you continue.

This Thanks to beautiful animation and B+ gives you an incentive to fi nd treathe talents of motion capture actors sure as dying gets very expensive.

Each stage is unique and has ing amount of love for his father of having a drug dealer father enemies fitting the theme of the maintained in his words. He reand growing up in Compton, level.

Th e colors and design of calls his honesty, that he “always California. each level are well done and have told me that he loved me, fuck The song is fi lled with all of an authentic retro feel. A limited his foolish pride,” and that he the somber life events that one amount of colors along with catchy worked hard so that Staples could would expect to hear in a young throw back music accompanying walk in “the first day of school, man’s account of his boyhood each level give you a truly oldsurrounded by the drugs and vio- new J’s and all that.” school experience.

In the end, what Staples really lence of Compton. He explains “Shovel Knight” proves that saw in his father was an unwaverthese saddening aspects in his older platform-style games can still ing strength that was so impresearly memories of his father. be fun even in 2014. It’s easily one sive to a young boy. He saw a But somehow, being the of the best games I’ve played all man who was, however flawed pliable son that he is, Staples is summer and possibly all year. and misguided, able to maintain able to justify this behavior. He For those that never owned a the kinds of qualities that can admits the complexity of having Super Nintendo, this is about as be so universally admirable: such a flawed father, saying “[I] close to the experience as you’ll strength, determination, and knew he was the villain, never ever get.

“Shovel Knight” was resome sort of moral code. Staples been a fan of Superman.” He leased on digital download for PC communicates this incredibly witnessed his father abuse his and on Nintendo’s E-shop for the multifaceted relationship with all mother, and recalls that he made modest price of $15. the eloquence of a modern poet, not one of his football games, I promise you — you won’t and with a sense of beat in his where Staples proudly played regret buying it. rhymes that is astounding. as a quarterback for Compton High. Still, there is an unwaverA+ A

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MetSports

Denver sports Denver Outlaws

7.26: @ Ohio Machine Selby Stadium @ 2:30 p.m.

7.31: @ Chesapeake Bayhawks Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium @ 5:30 p.m.

8.9: @ New York Lizards Shuart Stadium @ 3:30 p.m.

Colo. Rapids

7.25: vs. Chivas USA Dick’s Sporting Goods Park @ 7:30 p.m. p.m.

8.2: vs. Real Salt Lake Dick’s Sporting Goods Park @ 7:00 p.m. p.m

Colo. Rockies 7.25-7.27 vs.

Pittsburgh Pirates Coors Field 7.25 @ 6:40 p.m.

7.26 @ 6:10 p.m.

7.27 @ 2:10 p.m.

7.28-7.31: @ Chicago Cubs Wrigley Field 7.28 @ 6:05 p.m.

7.29 @ 6:05 p.m.

7.30 @ 6:05 p.m.

7.31 @ 12:20 p.m.

Today in Sports history

2004: Another event is added to the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry after Red Sox starter Bronson Arroyo hits Alex Rodriguez with a pitch. As A-Rod stares out at the mound on his way to first, Boston’s catcher Jason Varitek, after a verbal exchange, pushes his glove into the All-star third baseman’s face initiating a bench-clearing brawl between the divisional foes.

Men’s soccer heads into new season

By Mackenzie Masson mmasson@msudenver.edu Fall of 2014 is a new season for the Metro men’s soccer team, and its young talent works to prepare.

The Roadrunners fell short last season of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship after two losses late last season, which gave them an 8-4-2 mark in the RMAC and a 10-6-3 record overall.

Although they didn’t claim the conference title, the men overcame both mental and physical boundaries which prepared them for the upcoming season.

The roster consisted of ten freshmen, five sophomores, only three juniors and five seniors.

Head coach Ken Parson’s squad compensated for their young age and inexperience with physical determination and mental toughness. “(We had) good young players; there’s a ‘good young’ and a ‘bad young’ and I think with ‘bad young’ you have a lot of young players on the roster that are clearly not ready to make any contributions to the team,” Parsons said. “Then you have ‘good young’, where you have a lot of good players who are able to contribute.”

“It was a long season our young

kcorbrid@msudenver.edu

“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do — and I believe that.”

—Derek Jeter, Yankees short stop, who will be retiring after this year.

going to be one of the big goals, to win RMAC or do some damage in the tournament. We have the squad to do it and it will be interesting to see how the season shapes up.”

Parsons believes that when you strive to be excellent in all areas of your life, you will succeed.

“We’ve always had three pillars in the program, which are being good people and people of good character, being good students, and being good players,” Parsons said. “If you do those, I don’t think we need to necessarily set benchmarks. If we work hard in those areas and work hard at just being good people, then that’s a good reputation in the community and what we do outside of our team.”

While the Runners continue to work toward taking the RMAC and earn a berth in the NCAA tournament, they are building a legacy in the process and creating lifetime memories. “(The team has) just really done some positive things for me and I wouldn’t change it for the world,” Hand said.

Parsons, who enters his 11th season as head soccer coach this fall, has also made his own memories at Metro.

These include winning an RMAC championship in 2004, and

making four NCAA tournament appearances, and being named RMAC Coach of the Year in 2007.

“It’s hard to believe I’ve been here 11 years, because it’s gone by so fast. Obviously, as fast as it’s gone, there’s been a lot of great memories and a lot of great experiences,” Parsons said.

“Watching players come into the program and leave as mature young men ready to contribute to society, it’s been obviously an absolutely rewarding experience with everything that’s going on and just about every facet of everything that I deal with on a day-to-day basis at Metro State.”

The Roadrunners make their first season appearance Aug. 7, in an exhibition game against Hastings College at the Regency Athletic Complex at 2:30 p.m.

Senior goalkeeper Keagan Hand (L) and sophmore defender Brock Labertew (R) both hope to improve on last season and make the postseason with a chance to win a title. The Roadrunners are coming off a 10-6-3 record.

Photos courtesy of gometrostate.com

Op-ed: Snyder has big decision to make

By Scott Corbridge

Sports quotes

players weren’t used to. Playing the number of games that they did at the intensity of the number of games that they did,” Parsons said.

“There’s never a point in the schedule where you go, ‘Oh we can give some players a rest.’ It’s just not like that in our conference, it’s so competitive from top to bottom.”

All ten of last year’s freshmen will be returning for the 2014 season, this time with experience on their side and as a stronger team, not only on the field but also outside of soccer.

The team bonded over their inexperience and lack of upperclassmen and they looked inward.

“We all turn to each other and (we) all realize that we have to count on each other, with not much experience, to go out and play hard,” said sophomore defender Brock Labertew.

“We all realize that we each have to do our part and look up to each other instead of one person, which helps unite the team.”

With stronger chemistry as a team, the Roadrunners are confident and ready to compete for a conference title.

“I think we had a great chance last year to win the RMAC, and we kind of faulted a little bit late,” senior goalkeeper Keegan Hand said. “I know for me this year that’s

The world of sports has many aspects that fans come to love. The most popular aspect is the face of franchise. Our name makes us who we are. It’s our identity, and it’s what defines us. Without it, then it would be nothing more than players with no identity.

One team that has been stirring up the waters recently is the Washington Redskins. Based out of our nation’s capital, the Redskins have had a long and proud history that includes three Super Bowl titles (1987, 91, 92), various hall of famers, and one of the big-

gest fan bases in the entire NFL. Yet, despite all of these accomplishments, the Redskins’ name has been under scrutiny for being derogatory toward Native Americans, many of whom want owner Dan Snyder to change the name to something else.

Snyder has already stated that he isn’t going to change the name even though various groups have petitioned for a change, even going so far as to urge NFL commissioner Rodger Goodell to force Snyder to change it.

Everyone has a right to their opinion, but the only thing that I have to question is: why just the Redskins? By this I mean why is it just them who cause so much controversy? There are many teams in the big four (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) that could raise the same controversy. The Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Braves, Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs — all these teams have a similar name to the Redskins but it seemes interesting that none have been questioned

like Washington has as of late.

Snyder has said that he understands why the groups want a name change, but that he was keeping it because he believed that it kept a tradition that fans of the team remembered and loved.

Personally, I grew up with football so I’m OK if he changes it or not. If he keeps the name, the history is still there — but if he decides to change it, then the history is still there but with a different name. Either way, the history isn’t in the name.

In a recent poll by Public Policy Polling, 71 percent of people said that the Redskins name didn’t bother them, while 18 percent said that they found it offensive and should change it, and 11 percent said they weren’t sure. Since there is no clear concensus, Snyder ultimately needs to make the decision.

Let’s hope that he makes the right one.

The only question left to ask is, have the Redskins lost their identity, or has it been lost in translation?

By Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu From agony of defeat to the triumph of champions, Metro has had its great sports moments. The Metropolitan is counting down the top ten sports moments in Roadrunner history over the next ten editions.

No. 10: Women’s golf becomes the 16th NCAA Division II sport at Metro.

On May 6, 2013, Metro Director of Athletics Joan McDermott announced the addition of women’s golf to compete in Division II sports. The first season for women’s golf turned out to be positive after participating in their first full season. Head Coach Ben Portie was named Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Co-Coach of the Year.

Stay tuned for the No. 9 moment in the next edition, coming soon...

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StudyBreak

Horoscopes

Riddles

Capricorn

A: What goes up and down without moving?

B: What goes up white and comes down yellow?

C: What grows up while growing down?

Answers: A Stairs. B: An egg. C: A goose. D: Fire. E: Mississippi. F: A doughnut. G: The ocean.

Source: corsinet.com/braincandy/riddle1a.html

Rumor has it Rob Kardashian got braces. Fashion tip, braces are cool again.

Leo

Aquarius

You’ll make your way to the front of the stage at the next concert you next. Hello lead singer, goodbye fear of public speaking..

July 23 -August 22 Live by this rule: hand down, man down.

Pisces

Virgo

February 19 -March 20 Little did you know NBA superstar and worldwide icon LeBron James is going to ask you which number he should wear in Cleveland. It’s OK; you only have to choose between 6 or 23.

F: What has no beginning, end, or middle?

G: What has no beginning, end or middle and touches every continent?

June 21 -July 22

January 20 -February 18

D: What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

E: What has four eyes but cannot see?

Cancer

December 22 -January 19 When life gives you lemons, forget the lemons and drink some lemonade.

August 23 -September 22 If another human requests a trade for something with you, there’s a thought process you must go through before reaching a decision.

Aries

Libra

March 21 -April 19

Breaking up with Fire Ball (whiskey) will be the best decision you will ever make — trust us.

September 23 -October 22 Eating pizza for breakfast is the safest way to save money on eating out.

Scorpio

Taurus

October 23 -November 21

April 20 -May 20 After three long summer months of no school, you’ll soon come to a tragic realization when you show up to the fi rst day of school with no cloths on.

Moving away from you favorite bar is a good way to combat your love of alcohol.

Sagittarius

Gemini

November 22 -December 21

May 21 -June 20

Sudoku

You’ll fi nally start to take constructive criticism when your comb over stretches across your scalp.

Roller blades are making a come back. You might want to invest in a fresh pair. They are great for getting around the city.

pound it 33. Author Umberto 34. Summer zodiac sign 35. “Not ___ bet!”

36. Material boxer?

41. “Lenore” poet 42. Dapper dude?

43. Saucer crew, for short 44. He’ll eat anything 47. Sounded once per second, maybe 51. System of servitude 52. Bake, as eggs 53. Carol syllables 54. Some microbrews 57. Bard’s “before” 58. San Diego attraction 60. Material Hall of Fame pitcher?

64. Bit of work 65. Take wing 66. Elaborate do 67. Susan of “L.A. Law” 68. Tried to break down 69. Grad student’s grilling

Difficulty: EASY

Difficulty: Medium

Overheard on campus

Across: 1. Latvia’s capital 5. Stark raving sort 11. ___ Mahal 14. Dumpster emanation 15. Ukrainian seaport 16. Golden yrs. savings 17. Material bandleader?

19. Fall away 20. Drop the curtain on 21. ___ buco 22. Prefix with propyl 24. Whirlybird whirler 26. Bonkers 30. “Cut that out!”

32. Employment seekers may

Down: 1. Coxswain’s crew 2. Unexpected words at a wedding 3. “___ the last drop” 4. Suffix with dull or drunk 5. Talc-to-diamond scale 6. Sidewalk stand drinks 7. Fiddler of legend 8. Doctrine

“These summers are really starting to get to me. It’s hard staying out til’ 3 a.m. drinking every night and then stumbling to campus for 11 a.m. class” “I heard this group called ISIS was threatening to blow up MSU. Woah.”

“Remember that one time?”

“No.” “Me either.”

“That professor has incredible teeth.”

“Those dudes really know how to party, especially after class is over.”

“When does fall semester start? I’m really scared about having responsibilities.”

“Do you even lift bro?

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9. Botanist Gray 10. Incisor’s neighbor 11. Get smashed 12. Certain Wall Streeter, briefly 13. Sharp left from Ali 18. His skull appears in “Hamlet” 23. Director Peckinpah 25. Crude letters 26. Buddy, Max, or Bugs 27. Long-legged shorebird 28. Part of A.D. 29. Amtrak stop (abbr.)

31. Chihuahua or Pekingese 32. Two-dimensional 36. Seven Hills site 37. Winemaker’s science 38. Farmyard female 39. Phrase in a playground argument 40. “The Nazarene” writer 41. Weasel word?

45. Concert ending?

46. Poughkeepsie campus 48. Actor Sutherland 49. Book boo-boos 50. ___ Burnham Lambert (former investment firm) 54. Economist Smith 55. Suffix with electro 56. Just managed, with “out” 58. Z, to a Brit 59. Assayer’s specimen 61. Film’s Gardner 62. Matchsticks game 63. Sci-fi transport Source: OnlineCrosswords.net

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