Volume 35, Issue 3 - Aug. 30, 2012

August 30, 2012

Volume 35, Issue 3

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Beth Nagoda of the Columbus Zoo shows a cheetah to the crowd gathered to see Jack Hanna’s various animals, Aug. 22 at the Tivoli Turnhalle. Photo by Melanie J. Rice • mrice20@msudenver.edu

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A Republican in Tampa: Romney on Nov. ballot

Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu

It’s official — Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have received the Republican nomination for presidential office in 2012.

The Republican National Convention was supposed to kick off in Tampa, Fla., but was delayed until Aug. 28 due to Hurricane Isaac. The nomination was formally presented by John Sununu, former governor of New Hampshire.

“He knows how to fix the unfixable, and to help people perform to their highest potential,” Sununu said. “Mitt Romney is the right man at the right time and will be a great leader for our country.”

Romney and Ryan will be running on a largely fiscal platform, with a focus on job creation and economic growth. This emphasis on monetary policy will be more important than the hot-button social issues, said Dr. Robert Hazan, chair of the political science department.

“I think the crisis within the Republican Party is about social issues. The social issues are going to be delicately addressed,” Hazan said. “Given that unemployment is the highest it has ever been, [the economy] is a big issue. Jobs, jobs, jobs.”

On Aug. 11, Romney announced Ryan as his running mate, effectively solidifying a fiscally conservative platform.

“Paul Ryan definitely made a name for himself in national politics with his discourse on the economy and his critique,” Hazan said. “I think he has come up with alternative plans to promote growth and provide tax relief to citizens and corporations in ways that are really different than President Obama’s suggestions.”

After a primary season amass with different candidates and clashing ideas, the

convention will serve as an important venue to unite a party that has spent most of the year arguing among themselves.

“I think that the party will unite behind Romney and Ryan,” Hazan said. “There is a definite change in the way in which things were when the Republican debates were going on, because there were so many, and the divisions were so sharp within their own context.”

On Aug. 28, former U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Rick Santorum spoke at the convention in support of the Romney campaign.

“A vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will put our country back in the hands of leaders who understand what America can and, for the sake of our children, must be to keep the dream alive,” Santorum said.

Key points of the 2012 Republican Party platform are to stimulate economic growth, create jobs, repeal and replace Obamacare, reform education and welfare, and affirm traditional marriage beliefs and anti-abortion sentiment.

The belief in “sanctity of life” has sparked a heated debate over women’s rights issues, after U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo, made inflammatory comments regarding “legitimate rape.”

Hazan called these comments “despicable, unfortunate, and un-American,” and added that he doesn’t think the Romney campaign has sufficiently dealt with the situation.

However, despite his female dissenters, Romney’s wife, Ann Romney, spoke at the convention to appeal to women voters. She began her speech by telling the audience she wanted to talk about love.

Mitt Romney appeared in the Tivoli Turnhalle on Feb. 7, during Colorado’s GOP Caucus.

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

“It’s the moms of this nation — single, married, widowed — who really hold this country together. We’re the mothers, we’re the wives, we’re the grandmothers, we’re the big sisters, we’re the little sisters, we’re the daughters,” she said. “We’re too smart to know there aren’t easy answers. But we’re not dumb enough to accept that there aren’t better answers.”

Reince Priebus, Chairman for the RNC,

stressed the importance of the American Dream for the Republican party.

“This convention is an invitation to all Americans to join us as we fight for a better future,” Priebus said. “This is our generation’s rendezvous with destiny. It’s our time for choosing.”

DOE Audit prompts Financial Aid changes Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu

Due to a June audit by the Department of Education, MSU Denver’s financial aid department changed its dispersal policy from a complete distribution before the semester starts to a policy of partial dispersals three weeks apart.

The change left some students unable to purchase textbooks in time for their first class of the semester. The second disbursement will be on Sept. 6.

Junior Merna Mongelli was able to buy her books, but she still feels that the new dispersal is a bad idea that has been hard on everyone.

“It made it more difficult for the financial aid department,” Mongelli said. “They had to do temporary loans. No one could buy their books. It wasn’t a very good deal.”

The audit was not a result of any wrongdoing but because the school had never faced

an audit before. Changes were recommended to help increase the department’s efficiency, according to Cynthia Hejl, director of financial aid and scholarships.

“They told me that nothing prompted the audit as it has with other schools,” she said.

Traditionally, the university had dispersed financial aid about 10 days before the beginning of the semester so students had the money to buy books and school supplies.

The new policy is also kinder to first-time borrowers.

“It eliminated the single semester loans to be disbursed before the semester and then mid-way through the semester,” Hejl said.

“So these students actually receive their funds earlier.”

Hejl said that complaints coming into the financial aid counter tended to be less about the students’ inability to purchase

books, and more about how late the email was sent out.

“Unfortunately, we had such little time to research solutions and implement the change on [MSU Denver] Banner that we did not install the new changes until the beginning of August,” she said.

As a first time borrower for the summer semester, freshman Brian Moore knew that he would be getting his financial aid halfway through the summer. He received it just a little over a week before his first fall dispersal, making him one of the few financial aid students not adversely affected by the change in policy. He is confused by the change, though, saying that he felt that financial aid department seemed to be “shrouded in secrecy.”

“No one at the financial aid desk seems to be able to give me a straight answer,” he

said. “I’m still not entirely sure what’s going on with these changes.”

Hejl said that other options included waiting until after the census date for dispersal like many other schools do, or even charging by the credit hour. She said that both of these ideas were scrapped because they would “hurt students more.” She also suggested that the new dispersal method might be a learning experience for students.

“It can help with financial literacy since many students receive large checks at the beginning of the school year and then the students are in our office two to three weeks later upset that they have spent the refund and need more money,” she said.

The new policy will be reviewed at the end of the spring semester to determine how well it has worked for everyone involved.

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CU Boulder regulates guns in dorms ConnectU lost in translation Maalikah Hartley mhartl8@msudenver.edu

Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu Boulder’s University of Colorado’s latest effort to prevent the presence of concealed weapons on its campus was met with varying views by both students and alumni.

The university decided that students with concealed carry permits will only be allowed to live in certain dorms away from general student housing.

CU Boulder issued a statement on Aug. 15 that only students living in graduate and family dorms would be allowed to have their concealed weapons while living on campus.

Sophomore Divinity Ray was disappointed with CU’s action.

“Personally, I don’t think any weapons should be allowed on campus,” she said. “I think that if you need something for selfdefense it should be pepper spray. Guns kill people, they don’t disarm them. It doesn’t bother me that they live in their own dorms, but I think it’s scary that I go to school with people who carry guns.”

Junior Greg Goede felt that the new rulings was a non-issue since many of the students living in the dorms are under 21 and not legally eligible to carry concealed weapons.

“The new state law decreed that university campuses were required to recognize concealed carry permit,” he said. “CU’s new policy does nothing in my mind to go against that. You can still concealed carry on campus. All it stops is people from storing their C.C. weapon in the dorms.”

After the regency ruling on the segregated dorms for concealed carry holders, two professors announced that they would refuse to teach classes if a student with a concealed weapon was present in their classroom. This is an action that would require questioning

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students about possible weapons before they entered the classroom, which is a violation of the students’ constitutional rights.

Attorney James Manley of the Mountain States Legal Foundation in Lakewood said that CU Boulder was quick to inform both professors that they would face disciplinary action if they canceled any classes or polled students.

“The scenario these professors are arguing is that classroom discussion is watered down because students are afraid a gunfight is going to break out,” Manley said. “CSU has had concealed carry on campus since 2003, and none of these nightmare scenarios have played out.”

MSU Denver’s administration isn’t butting heads with the Colorado Supreme Court’s March ruling that the state’s concealed carry laws included the right to carry weapons on college campuses. Seniors Karen Bays and Jennifer Dreher, have no issues with the possibility that students in any classroom might be carrying a weapon.

“I don’t think it’s more dangerous,” Dreher said. “People are less likely to attack if they don’t know who might have a weapon.”

Manley refers to CU’s weapons policy as “a policy in search of a problem,” and said that the university has not been forthcoming in how they are going to write or implement it. His organization represents the student organization that filed the original lawsuit against CU in 2008 and continues to monitor the school’s actions concerning the March ruling. He said that there is always the possibility of going back to court, but that all parties involved are trying to avoid that scenario.

Got problems? Connect U does.

As the fall semester kicks off, many students and faculty encountered problems with the new ConnectU portal that replaced MetroConnect.

The most frequent problems are student’s old MetroConnect passwords not working, unexpected outages, email icons missing and the inability to get into ‘My Services’ without logging in separately, according to Rick Beck, the director of application services in administrative computing According the Department of Marketing and Communications, as accounts were being moved to ConnectU, student’s passwords were being defaulted to their PIN. Beck said that configuration settings that needed to be changed were causing the password problems as well and that performance problems were causing the system to lock up. To fix all the errors, ConnectU’s vendor, Ellucian, recommends multiple changes that require several re-starts of ConnectU each time. Beck said that things are already running more smoothly and can be expected to get better.

“We will likely need a couple more outage periods for re-starts of the system, but now they will be planned at more convenient times for students, and not just in reaction to system-crippling problems,” Beck said.

“Because of a very short timeline to be ready by the beginning of fall term, there was not adequate time to double-check configurations, do exhaustive testing, and complete performance tuning on the system before going live.”

Another concern was the time limit before logging out.

“The current user timeout for inactiv-

ity is 30 minutes,” Beck said. “As soon as we have stabilized the system, we will be changing that to one hour, the same as it was on MetroConnect.”

A consequence of the technical difficulties so far is that some students on waitlists were not able to get into classes because they didn’t receive the notifications on time. Beck said most students have been understanding.

“I got pretty stressed out [last week],” said Michael Maes, sophomore. “I didn’t know where my class was at and I was trying to look it up. I believe it’ll get better, they’ll work out the bugs and everything.”

Junior Andrew Romero had to have the IT helpdesk try his password three times before creating a new one, and then had to reset his new password again because it wouldn’t work.

“I just stayed on top of it,” said Romero.

“If you start early, little problems like that won’t get you too far behind. People in [technical drawing] class couldn’t get onto their account. I think it maybe wasn’t visible enough what people have to do to enable their accounts.”

During the first week of classes the IT help desk had taken 3,017 calls — down 700 from the previous week, according to Will Kelley, Technology Support Manager.

Beck also warned students not to accidentally login to MetroConnect, as it is for archive use only.

“We sincerely appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding throughout the last three weeks,” Beck said. “The last thing we want is to inconvenience students, faculty and staff as they kick off our first term as a University, and we will continue to work diligently to make ConnectU a success.”

Former Colo. senator lost, Auraria legacy remembered Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver,edu

Former Colorado state senator Joe Shoemaker died on Aug. 13, his 88th birthday.

Richard Lamm honored Shoemaker at a memorial service in Confluence Park by quoting the eulogy of London’s architectural master, Sir Christopher Wren.

“They said, ‘If you seek his monument, look around you,’” Lamm said. “The same can be said of Joe Shoemaker.”

Shoemaker sat as a senator in Colorado from 1962 to 1976, and was known to friends and opponents as a powerful force who got things done.

“One of the things I learned from Joe was to get it done. Even if it meant reaching out to the other party, he would do it,” said Morgan Smith, former Colorado state representative. “He had a dream that reached way out into the future.”

Albert “Bert” G. Melcher, a retired engineer who has worked with RTD and the Sierra Club, remembers Shoemaker as a true bipartisan.

“People liked working with him because they knew he would get things done,” Melcher said. “If he couldn’t win you with politics, he would win you with charm.”

One of Shoemaker’s dreams was to clean up the Platte River, which had become a waste dump for local factories. In 1969, environmental cleanup wasn’t a great concern for

Denver’s residents.

“Unfortunately, it was a little too early for the rest of Denverites to realize how important that was,” Smith said.

Shoemaker was not one to give up, though, and in 1974, then-Mayor Bill McNichols appointed him chairman of the Platte River Development Committee. From this experience, Shoemaker founded the Greenway Foundation, an organization that aims to “advance the South Platte River and the surrounding tributaries,” according to its website.

“I mean, the guys was a visionary, and he was action-oriented, and he was focused on getting things done and he did,” US Representative Ed Perlmutter said. “And we all benefit from it.”

Shoemaker’s other great accomplishment was the establishment of the Auraria Campus, which houses CCD, UCD, MSU Denver and the largest student body in Colorado.

Former US Senator William Armstrong read from a statement by former US Senator Hank Brown who was not able to attend the memorial service: “Joe literally remodeled Denver. While many helped with Auraria, Joe made it happen.”

Brown went on to say that the Auraria project reshaped Denver and created one of the nation’s largest education centers.

Jean S. Watson-Weidner, Joe Shoemaker’s daughter is consoled by a friend at the memorial for her father on Aug. 28. Photo by Melanie J. Rice • mrice20@msudenver.edu

“The idea of creating an educational complex in Denver was always on Joe’s mind,” Armstrong said. “He wanted to do something for Denver because it was a place barren of educational opportunities at the time, and today, it’s one of the greatest educational venues in America.”

Denver city council member Chris Nev-

itt believes that Shoemaker would be proud of what he’s left behind.

“When somebody does something great like Joe and then someone comes along behind them and does something just as great, I think that’s a double testament to the value of someone’s legacy,” Nevitt said.

Additional reporting by Melanie J. Rice.

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ID laws block vote for Americans Luke Powell lpowel18@msudenver.edu

Come this November, on the sixth day of the month, the polls will be open for all Americans to cast their vote to elect a president for the next four years.

Unless, of course, you live in the following states: Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.

These states have passed a law that prohibits registered voters to cast their ballots without a photo ID and each of them have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to do so.

Is this really necessary?

Sure, a photo ID would provide an additional security measure that the people casting the ballots are who they say they are.

But is voter fraud really widespread enough to justify imposing such a requirement that would disenfranchise more than 5 million qualified voters? It’s more likely that this is an expensive ploy to sway the election.

Since 2000, there have been 10 cases of alleged in-person voter impersonation in the entire country, which leaves me to believe that this legislation is politically motivated,

especially in Pennsylvania. The man who designed Pennsylvania’s states law requiring photo IDs, State House Majority Leader, Mike Turzai, R-PA, was quoted at a Republican State Committee Aug. 16 saying, “[Voter ID law] is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania — done.”

This contradicts the usual Republican line that voter ID laws are for guarding against voter fraud to insure fair elections.

According to a study recently published by the Brennan Center For Justice at New York University School of Law, an estimated 800,000 voters lack a driver’s license or other IDs issued by the state. Defenders of the law point out that voters can satisfy the requirement with other photo IDs, including those issued by the military, universities and work photo IDs. But that still leaves many voters without a photo ID or the proper documentation required to apply for one.

In the past two years, 11 states with Republican-lead legislature have passed voter ID laws that would disproportionately affects millions of eligible minority voters,

including the young, the old and the poor.

In Ohio, Republican-lead legislature has also restricted early voting hours in Democratic counties while extending them in Republican counties.

After high scrutiny, the Ohio secretary of state, Jon Husted, ordered all of the 88 counties in Ohio to abide by the same early voting laws.

Saying that fraud is minimal doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or that states shouldn’t endeavor to eradicate it. Proposed reforms, such as checking voter lists against other government databases, would increase both involvement and accuracy and photo ID requirement could be acceptable if states would supply IDs free of charge while also eliminating the red tape that makes IDs hard to obtain. State and federal courts should be ensuring that the right to vote isn’t sacrificed because of a concern about voting fraud just to tilt the outcome of an election.

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porate the elephant into the family like it’s a common house pet. I can’t think of any land mammal, bears included, that could withstand a well-placed shot from a 40-caliber handgun. Why would anyone need 60 rounds of rapid fire to go hunting?

The last two months saw the heavily armed attack by James Holmes in Aurora, a shooter at the empire state building, and a California middle school student threatened by a classmate with a handgun.

There are 90 guns for every 100 people in the United States. As of 2007, Yemen had the next highest rate of guns per capita.

The worst part about gun regulation in the U.S. is that the officials we elect to represent us equate fighting special interest groups like the National Rifle Association to jumping on a grenade — in other words, political suicide. The NRA spends whatever amount of money necessary to discredit any

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How loose do gun laws need to be?

The continuous debate over gun control will not stop any time soon. Some people believe that the excerpt from the 2nd Amendment that states that we should have a wellregulated militia means that they should be able to arm themselves with unlimited amounts of guns and ammunition.

The same people also tend to believe that their weapons will protect them from intruders and the government alike. They like to play the emotional card and cite activities like hunting and family bonding when they defend what they say is their right to bear arms. What they have a hard time addressing is how their rights are to be granted to them without the rest of ours being violated.

Others, including myself, believe that the excessive disparity between the United States and the rest of the world in rates of gun violence is the elephant in the room that we don’t try to ignore. Instead, we incor-

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politician who campaigns on tighter gun regulations, and carries considerable clout.

The most alarming aspect of loose gun control is that most of us have access to weapons that could put a whale at the bottom of the ocean, yet states lack the resources to continuously monitor the individuals with that power.

States regulate our driving privileges.

The thought behind this is simple: we don’t want some one operating a motor vehicle if they could potentially harm other people. If some one is granted the freedom to operate a powerful weapon like an assault rifle, attempts should also be made to make sure that this human being — with human emotions and human capacities to regulate their emotions — won’t “flip out” and go on a mass shooting spree.

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Tivoli goes wild with Jack Hanna

Brent Zeimen bzeimen@msudenver.edu

The Tivoli Turnhalle was host to quite the crowd of interesting creatures Aug 22, when Jack Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus, Ohio Zoo and Aquarium, came to Auraria.

The 65-year-old zookeeper began the show by urging students to follow in his footsteps, not necessarily as zookeepers or as animal advocates, but to pursue their dreams.

“I live the dream of a lifetime,” Hanna said.

Hanna showed a video of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. His crew traveled 8,000 miles to observe the gorillas, an hour a day for a couple of weeks.

After the video, his assistants brought out the animals, starting with a snow leopard.

“When it gets 50 to 60 below zero up there, this cat gets corner of a cave and will put that tail around their body like a coat,” Hanna said about the snow leopard.

The snow leopard was followed by a black-footed penguin. The black-footed penguin needs warm weather to survive and lives in southern Africa. If the temperature drops below 35 degrees, these penguins will die. When the curious seven-month-old penguin was presented to the crowd, its handler had to hold it back so it wouldn’t run around to explore the hall.

Next up was a Carico cat. This unique species is one of few cats that can catch birds in free flight.

A small alligator then took the stage.

These reptiles, while now common in the Florida Everglades, were on the brink of extinction at one time. Now there are millions in that area.

After the gator, a pair of 6-week-old Siberian lynx was brought to the table. Just last year the Siberian lynx was declared extinct in the wild inside most of its usual habitat.

“Honey badger don’t care,” Hanna said, as the next animal entered the stage.

Hanna described how the honey badger can survive a bite from a king cobra. One drop of a cobra’s venom will take down an elephant, but honey badgers just go to sleep for a few minutes after being bitten.

Hanna then displayed a rare clouded leopard. The cat’s coat looked like a sky with clouds, except it was darker and wasn’t blue.

A handler came out with a two-toed sloth dangling between her arms. These animals roll up into balls in the trees and move so slowly that algae grows in their fur, causing them to take on a green hue when living in the wild.

Next, Hanna showed a clip of Rolling Dog Ranch, which caters to disabled animals. The shelter plays host to blind cats, horses and dogs with birth defects or diseases that make normal life difficult.

The last batch of animals began with a

Above: Jack Hanna brought a White Tiger, which is native to Malaysia, for his presentation at the Tivoli Turnhalle on Aug. 22.

Below: Jack Hanna holds Ingrid, an eleven month old Gray Kangaroo, after his presentation.

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white tiger. The tiger rolled around on the table playfully, nuzzling its handler and gently swatting her hands with its paws.

A handler entered with a python, one of the largest constricting snakes in the world.

On the topic of snakes, Hanna talked about the Anaconda, which lives in the Amazon rainforest. Snakes like these have jaw muscles that freeze when they bite down, making it impossible for the snakes to let go of their prey for as long as half an hour.

Hanna recounted a time when an Anaconda bit his right hand. He had to wait for the animal’s jaw muscles to loosen before he was able to see if his fingers could be saved.

The grand finale of the show was a fullygrown Cheetah, the fastest land animal in the world, which has been clocked at 70 miles an hour. While the cheetah was on stage, the audience had to remain perfectly still. If anyone moved, they might trigger the cheetah’s attention.

Seeing these majestic creatures outside their natural habitat is fairly rare, especially for some of the species that are endangered.

“It’s cool we could have a figure like him come to our school and to see all the unique animals we normally couldn’t see,” Kelsey Schippers, a biology major at UCD said.

Hanna repeated how important it is for the students in attendance to live their dreams like he has lived his dream for the past 49 years. Student activities was the MSU Denver event sponsor.

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Kizuna: takes bamboo to a whole new level Botanic Gardens Info 1007 York St. Denver, CO 80206 720-865-3500 www.botanicgardens.org Summer Hours (May 12-Sept. 30): 9a.m.-8p.m. daily

Winter Hours (Oct. 1-May 11): 9a.m.-5p.m. daily

Admission: Adult- $12.50 Senior (65+)- $9.50 Student (with ID)- $9 Children 5-15- $9 Above: Tetsunori Kawana’s piece “The Shape of Fundamental Energy II” reaches towards the sky near the entrance to the Botanic Gardens.

Artists’ Websites Tetsunori Kawana: www.kawanaworld.com Stephen Talasnik: www.stephentalasnik.com Margaret Kasahara: www.margaretkasahara.com

Left: Stephen Talasnik’s “Floating World” decorated the pools at the Botanic Gardens.

Right: A small bonsai tree, purposely manipulated to create its shape, is one of many featured in the Hosokawa Bonsai Pavilion.

Story and photos by Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu When it comes to bamboo, people might envision pandas enjoying an afternoon snack or think of a small plant arrangement sitting in rocks on the kitchen windowsill.

But bamboo can also be used as the material foundation for magnificent art that curves and bends in such ways that it arouses your senses.

Since May 5, the Denver Botanic Gardens exhibit Kizuna: West Meets East has been featuring art from Tetsunori Kawana and Stephen Talasnik who have created several bamboo sculptures, which are standing and floating throughout the gardens’ outdoor exhibit.

“We knew we wanted to celebrate the art and culture of Japan this year,” said Lisa Eldred, director of exhibitions, art, and library collections at the gardens. “The displays you see [in the gardens] are living. These are our Mona Lisas.”

There are two pieces created by Kawana, “The Shape of Fundamental Energy II” and “Passages: Culture Current.” Both works use full pieces and strips of bamboo and a bit of wire. The pieces were built using 400 bamboo shoots at the gardens prior to the exhibit opening.

“Passages” twists and turns, creating a roller coaster of bamboo that wraps around the path and continues, in waves, on the other side of a pool decorated with lilies.

“The Shape of Fundamental Energy II” is a tall, vertical piece that the gardens will keep after the exhibit closes.

By taking such a hard and unbendable element like bamboo and creating flowing shapes and angles, Kawana’s pieces are truly enchanting.

“The two artists work very differently in that Kawana did everything on site and we brought in the raw materials,” Eldred said.

“Talasnik works differently and he and his team in New York worked in a studio setting for a number of months creating the frame-

works for some of the different elements and we trucked them here.”

Those who visited the gardens in April were able to see the construction for the exhibit that lasted several weeks and took many volunteers to complete. Kawana’s pieces took three weeks to put together, on site, with around 100 volunteers working in shifts.

Talasnik’s works took several months to plan and construct, as well as two to three weeks to install at the gardens with the help of three to five volunteers.

Talasnik’s work, “Floating World”, features geometric shapes that float through a few of the pools and use the reflection of the water to create an illusion of depth within the different pieces. Unlike Kawana’s pieces, “Floating World” was created using skinnier rods of bamboo precisely held together with wire and obtrusive, black zip ties.

“For us it’s a great opportunity, and really a once in a lifetime one, because there is no way this will travel anywhere else and

it’s completely site-specific,” Eldred said.

“Kawana’s work will be completely dismantled. There could be parts of Talasnik’s work that, because it’s so modular, find homes, but it will never be exhibited like this.”

The pieces were featured to complement the garden’s Japanese garden, as well as its Bonsai Pavilion. Visitors can also admire Koi fish in the Japanese garden, a Haiku tree and Tea Garden.

Indoors, there are also a series of paintings from Margaret Kasahara entitled “Someone Like You.” They reflect identity and stereotypes using pop culture references in her exquisite paintings.

Until the exhibit comes to a close, visitors can enjoy these moving and extraordinary works of art.

All those who have never been captivated by bamboo before. Make sure to visit Kizuna before it closes Nov. 4.

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Former comic nails reality show Caitlin Sievers csiever2@msudenver.edu When Katie Cazorla first moved to Los Angeles from her small hometown in upstate New York, she was a struggling, stand up comedian, living out of her car. Now she owns her own nail salon, and is the star of “Nail Files,” her own reality series on the TV Guide network.

“I’m a former comic who owns a nail salon,” Cazorla said. “I kind of feel like it’s made for TV.” For 10 years, Cazorla was just scraping by. She booked occasional gigs on Jimmy Kimmel, and the E! Network but she never made a good living. She ate a lot of ramen noodles, pre-cooked beef stew, and swears she can eat on $5 at any restaurant. When she turned 30, she realized that things needed to change.

Cazorla borrowed $5,000 from her father to open her nail salon. But the bulk of her start-up money came from her own savings. She had a vision for a different kind of nail salon, and was determined to make her dream happen.

Her salon attracts many celebrity clients because it’s different than most nail salons.

Guests at the Painted Nail get free cocktails and sit in oversized, comfy chairs. Cazorla said she wanted the inside of the spa to feel like “Alice in Wonderland.”

A TV producer just happened to attend the salon’s grand opening, and offered Ca-

zorla a reality show.

The perfectly manicured, bleached blonde Cazorla thinks her show, which follows the ups and downs of running her nail business, is more interesting than others because she is more down to earth than most reality stars.

“I think people actually wanna see somebody who does something, who struggles every day and its real,” Cazorla said.

Although 34-year-old Cazorla read many books on business before deciding to open her nail salon, she thinks you need that little extra oomph if you want to succeed.

“You have to love what you do,” Cazorla said. “You have to have a passion for it. If you don’t, you won’t make money.”

“Nail Files” is now in its second season and Cazorla is traveling the U.S. with her mobile nail spa to promote the show. Guests to the mobile spa get free nail paintings inside the roadside truck. The mobile spa stopped in downtown Denver on Aug. 24-26 after visiting cities on the west coast. Future stops include Minneapolis and Detroit.

Star of TV Guide network’s “Nail Files,” Katie Cazorla came to Denver with her mobile nail spa.

Photo by Dan Fairbairn • dfairba3@msudenver.edu

Cazorla’s tips to keep your manicure looking fresh 1. Apply clear topcoat three days after the manicure to keep it from chipping.

2. Rub cuticle oil into your cuticles to keep them from getting dry.

You can use olive oil if you can’t afford cuticle oil.

3. Olive oil can also be rubbed into the heels of your feet to keep them from getting dry and cracked.

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Artists come together for CVA show

Exhibition features work from three different groups

The CVA’s volunteers gather at the opening for an exhibit featuring work from Metrosphere ­— MSU Denver’s literary magazine, the artists of the CVA and Impressions — a painting workshop held in New Mexico.

Photo by Mike Fabricius • mfabrici@msudenver.edu

per, saw quite a bit of foot-traffic — literally.

It had been walked upon and trampled, and was torn apart by the end of the show.

“If you’re going to cut some paper and throw it around on the floor of a gallery, I don’t know that you should expect people to walk around it,” Frazier said.

It took Frazier more than 8 months to create the piece.

“It’s like offering yourself to the audience, your time and your creative energy as a consumable,” he said.

For Frazier, art is about the people. He realizes that his piece isn’t something that will necessarily sell.

“Art is most powerful when it becomes a talking point, a point of community,” Frazier said.

The Center for Visual Art was alive and full of vibrancy Aug. 24 for the opening of Metrosphere, the artists of CVA and Impressions.

The CVA, MSU Denver’s off-campus gallery, kicked off its two-week exhibition featuring the works of the school’s art students and alumni. The show, running from Aug. 24 to Sept. 8, features works from Metrosphere, the campus literary arts magazine; Impressions — a painting workshop held in northern New Mexico — and artists of the CVA. Many of the artists were at the opening to display their pieces. Some were running around putting on the final touches and making sure their works were hung correctly as the doors opened and people started to trickle in.

Almost immediately, the gallery was full of patrons — relatives of artists, fellow MSU Denver students and art junkies were all milling around to take a look at what the artists had to offer.

“The really exciting thing about this exhibition is that it’s a way to bring students from Metro in and make them realize that this space is for them,” Cecily Cullen, assistant director and curator of CVA said. “We have never done a student show outside of

the bachelor of fine arts thesis exhibitions.”

The show wasn’t limited to wall paintings, either. There were three-dimensional pieces, rooms dedicated to video and even a piece spanning the floor by the entrance.

One exhibit that was getting quite a bit of attention was a collection of failed freeenergy gadgets from one of CVA’s artists, Scott Holland.

Free-energy contraptions are little machines theorized to be able to produce an endless source of energy via magnetism or perpetual motion. Apparently, even electrical engineering can be artistic. Holland’s interest in free-energy engineering began on the internet, where plans and testimonials for this faux-science run rampant, he said.

“Of course this all violates the second law of thermodynamics, so it’s absolutely impossible, which is what’s fun. It’s unachievable,” Holland said.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of Holland’s art is the fact that all of his pieces come from salvaged and scrapped electronics. They are created from pieces of old VCRs, front porch motion detectors, old DVD players and other recycled materials.

While some of the creations came from items kept out of the trash, there was one piece that was ultimately destined for the dump.

Michael Frazier’s intricate and detailed floor covering, which was created with pa-

Tony Ramirez of Denver studies a painting during the opening night of the Metrosphere exhibit.

Photo by Mike Fabricius • mfabrici@msudenver.edu

Onlookers check out the art at the opening of Metrosphere and the CVA on Aug. 24. The art featured includes paintings, videos and free-energy contraptions.

Photo by Mike Fabricius • mfabrici@msudenver.edu

Nate Hemmert nhemmert@msudenver.edu

Deyanira Haro and Brittany Leddy stand in front of the first Metrosphere exhibit at the CVA Photo by Mike Fabricius • mfabrici@msudenver.edu

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‘New Super Mario Bros. 2’ not worth your coins the mechanics all fit nicely into the package.

Fast forward to August of 2012. Nintendo has since made a Wii-based adaptation of the New Super Mario Bros. formula, dubbed New Super Mario Bros.

Wii, which turned out to be kind of a party game.

It was more focused on messing around with friends than serious platforming like the first game. Now, however, they’re releasing the first numbered sequel in the series with New Super Mario Bros.

Photo courtesy of www.nintendo.com

Brent Zeimen bzeimen@msudenver.edu Back in May 2006, Nintendo released New Super Mario Bros. for the DS handheld system.

On paper it was a great idea: going back to a side-scrolling Mario experience with new items, enemies, and levels for the first time since Super Mario World in 1990, or Yoshi’s Island in 1995, if you count that as a Mario game.

And, the new Mario game actually lived up to the hype and is still one of the best handheld Mario titles to date. The new items were clever, the levels had great design, and

2 for 3DS. Again, the idea on paper didn’t seem so bad. Take the New Super Mario Bros. style of play and add a secondary goal on top of rescuing the princess: collect 1 million coins.

At this point, the idea didn’t seem too outlandish, if done well. It gives the player a reason to keep playing after finishing the linear path of the game. Still, the idea doesn’t feel so great in practice. The game does nothing to encourage the player to reach the million-coin goal. The game gives a pop-up update when a milestone is reached, but nothing new is unlocked. It’s just a number to build up over time. That’s it.

The game has a coin counter that’s on-screen for the majority of the game. The game’s mechanics also throw more coins at the player than a usual Mario game, but the “lives” mechanic that has been around since the first Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo is still in effect.

When a player grabs 100 coins, they’re awarded with an extra life. The upshot is the player never really has to worry about getting a game over, since they have more lives than they know what to do with. The other side of that coin is that lives and 1-Up mushrooms don’t feel nearly as important anymore.

When the player stumbles across a secret block with a 1-Up ‘shroom in it, grabbing it doesn’t feel good. It feels tedious, like it’s just one more thing to collect. Additionally, if the player fails a level a given number of times in a row, an additional block appears when they re-enter the level.

This block has a white leaf power-up on it. The white leaf makes the player White Raccoon Mario, who is invulnerable to enemies and hazards (except for bottomless pits and lava) and has the same glide and fly powers that normal Raccoon Mario has.

The insulting nature of the gesture aside, it makes lives even more worthless because now the player is almost guaranteed to get through the level just fine.

Another change from the last handheld New Super Mario Bros. game is the lack of any of Mario’s new abilities from his adventures since Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES. The Blue Koopa Shell from New Su-

per Mario Bros. doesn’t return, the giant mushroom shows up rarely, and none of Mario’s new toys from the Galaxy series are anywhere in sight.

Whilst the original New Super Mario Bros. had a sparse multiplayer mode devoted to a few pre-set levels, New Super Mario Bros. 2 has a more developed co-op mode where two players can tackle all of the single player levels as a team.

Yet, like most of the game, there’s one huge glaring issue with multiplayer mode — the second player’s screen follows the first player. Let’s take a look at how ridiculous this is.

Two players each have their own 3DS system, each with its own pair of screens.

Four screens and the second player’s main play screen follows Mario, not Luigi.

It makes playing with friends infuriating to say the least. Nintendo could have even had a picture-in-picture style view of the other player’s screen in a part of the lessused bottom screen. Having both screens follow Mario renders the Co-Op mode pretty much useless.

In the end, New Super Mario Bros. 2 doesn’t really add much to the entire New Super Mario Bros. formula.

It’s not worth the full price of $40, really, but it is a good 2D Mario platformer at $30.

So wait for a price drop on this one and if waiting is too hard, go find a copy of the first New Super Mario Bros. to bridge the gap.

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Women’s soccer win exhibition Story and photo by Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu

MSU Denver women’s soccer kicked a shutout over Northwestern College of Iowa 6-0 in exhibition play Aug. 25 at Auraria Field.

The return of MSU Denver midfielder Camilla Rodrigues made the game; she scored two goals for the Roadrunners. The redshirt freshman tore her ACL in exhibition play last season. After being on the sidelines for seven months, Rodrigues is back to playing status.

“It’s good to score, because you can see the work you have been doing the whole week,” Rodrigues said. “You can apply on the field and help the team to have a win.”

Although Rodrigues is happy about being back on the pitch, she says that she is still working on fitness and getting in shape so she can continue to be an asset to the Roadrunners.

MSU Denver head coach Adrianne Almaraz was pleased with Rodrigues’ performance, and agreed that fitness may be an issue, but not one that Rodrigues can’t handle.

“It’s taking her a bit of time, but ultimately she wants to play. She wants to be on the field, and she can do special things with the ball,” Almaraz said. “I think it is more of getting her fitness back to be able to play, but that’s going to come and she is just going to get better and better over time.”

Aside from Rodrigues’s play, Almaraz evaluated where her team is and what areas need improvement.

Women’s Soccer 2012 Schedule Sept.

Sat. Rollins (Fla.) 1

Roadrunner #8 sophomore Karisa Price scores against Red Raiders Ariel Watts in the MSU Denver 6-0 win over Northwestern College (Iowa) in exhibition game Aug. 25.

“I am pleased with the play today,” Almaraz said. “We had tons of chances and I think we just need to finalize getting crisper in the final third of our decision making. At least we are creating the chances.”

The Roadrunners had plenty of opportunities to score against the Red Raiders with 20 shots on goal and 35 total, but it may be wishful thinking that the same chances will be there in upcoming games.

“I wish that was normal but I don’t think we are going to get quite as many opportunities as we did today,” Almaraz said. “The RMAC is a tough conference and every team shows up to play, so I think 20 shots today against an NAIA school is fair but I assume we won’t be getting that many opportunities

in our conference.”

Almaraz said that she felt the Roadrunners defense played very solid, but the team will need to work on combining and finishing up on scoring opportunities. Almaraz has not made a decision on fielding a starting goalkeeper yet but she does know what she is looking for.

“I am really looking for someone who has a presence, someone who can make the saves and has the ability to keep us in the game,” Almaraz said.

The Roadrunners begin their regular season against Rollins College, 1 p.m. Sept. 1 at Auraria Field.

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Colorado Mesa*

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* RMAC game Home matches are in BOLD

Volleyball: little competition for 2012 RMAC win

Nick Ohlig nohlig@msudenver.edu MSU Denver’s volleyball team doesn’t rebuild, it just reloads. It seems unfair to the competition, but this 2012 squad should continue the great tradition.

The Roadrunners have gone to the postseason every year since 1999, and they have always been a threat when it come to winning the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Yet, they haven’t been favored in the preseason coaches’ poll to win the RMAC since 2003.

That has changed. For the first time since

2003, the Roadrunners are finally favorites to win the RMAC. The big question is can they do it? They have history on their side.

The Roadrunners won the RMAC tournament in 2003, 2006, and 2009. I am not good at math, but I see a trend. The only potential problem I see with this team is its younger members. This season, the Roadrunners should start 8 freshman or sophomores. What they lack in experience they make up for in size. Audri Marrs and Kaleigh Carroll are both 6 feet tall and should be a force at the net. The Roadrunners also have two preseason all-RMAC players, Lauren Quijano and Aylsa Heath. Last year, Heath averaged 1.71 kills and hit .260 while averaging .58 blocks. And Quijano had 2.14 kills per set and averaged .86 digs and .57 blocks.

As I look at the preseason polls, MSU Denver will be playing in the tougher division. The east division is home to Colorado School of Mines and Regis University, and both of them have been a pain in the Roadrunners side over the last few years. If

the ‘Runners are going to lose a couple of games in the RMAC, I expect them to be at the hands of the CSM Orediggers and RU Raiders. The other teams in the east do not frighten me at all. The Roadrunners have not lost to Colorado Christian University since 1999 or University of Colorado at Colorado Springs since 2007. I don’t think CCU can compete, and although the Mountain Lions have played tough the last couple of years, four out of the last six games have gone five sets. The Roadrunners should contain these cats.

Then, there is Chadron State — the school that hasn’t beaten MSU Denver since 2004. After the 2004 defeat, the Roadrunners have dominated the Eagles, sweeping them in 12 out of the last 15 matches. And by the way, Chadron State went winless in RMAC play last year. Finally, there is a new addition to the east division, Black Hills State, who went 11-21 last season in Division III. For the record, they were picked last in the RMAC preseason polls.

Meanwhile, the west division isn’t any-

thing special. Fort Lewis and Western State won a combined five games in the RMAC, while Adams State and Western New Mexico are the favorites in the division, and are expected to finish four and five in the preseason polls. Then, there are New Mexico Highlands, Colorado State University Pueblo and Fort Lewis, none of which I think can compete with the Roadrunners.

‘Runners fans know we should be able to win the RMAC. The biggest concern I have is the playoffs, where MSU Denver is 10-19 in the NCAA tournament. The last time MSU Denver was a No. 1 seed was in 2003 when they were predicted to win the RMAC. That year, the Roadrunners were 18-1 in RMAC play, yet, in the tournament was eliminated

by Rockhurst in the regional semifinals. A good season should have the Roadrunners as the No. 1 seed in the RMAC tournament and winning it. Getting deep into the NCAA tournament.

It is a little unfair. MSU Denver is playing these young players, yet we are favored to win the RMAC and hopefully beyond.

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Roadrunners get schooled by alumni Metro State wins over MSU Denver in soccer, volleyball Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu Alumni weekend is a time when former athletes come home to visit old teammates and have some fun. Or is it? This year, Metro State alumni showed MSU Denver teams they were here to compete — old school versus new school.

The former athletes schooled the youngsters.

In men’s soccer, the alum team defeated the Roadrunners 3-2 and in volleyball, lady alum won 3 sets to 2.

Although MSU Denver midfielder Carlos Mendez easily walked the ball into the net at the 6:27 mark, the rest of the game wasn’t as easy for the Roadrunners. Mendez woke up a sleeping bear in former Metro goalkeeper Ryan Vickery, who had 14 saves for the alumni team.

“I thought it was just going to roll into the box and I would pick it up but he came in and snuck past me,” Vickery said.

Vickery, who played for Metro from 2007 to 2009, said he doesn’t have time to play soccer and that the alumni game is the only time he does get to play.

“It’s always good to be able to come out and play with the alumni men, it’s always a good game and we have a lot of fun,” Vickery said.

The Roadrunners went into the second half of the game leading the alumni team 1-0, but Philip Owen tied things up, getting the ball past redshirt freshman Thomas Obering at the 52:39 mark.

Roadrunner midfielder Brenden Hughes responded promptly and put MSU Denver back on top (2-1), off a penalty kick.

Alumni player Josh Elbaum tied things up again, setting the stage for the alum win.

Scott Crawford, who played for Metro 2008-2011, scored the winning goal for the

Alumni Chad Pearson slide tackles Dustin Berg during the Alumni vs. MSU Denver exhibition. The Alumni scored in the 89th minute winning 3-2. Photo by Mike Fabricius • mfabrici@msudenver.edu

alumni team with 12.5 seconds left.

“That last goal, we just wanted to play for a win. Last year they won, and that was my senior year, so I wanted to be a part of a winning alumni team,” Crawford said. “There was one more chance in the game and that is what we were looking for and we just got that opportunity.”

Mendez had mixed feelings about his one-time teammate, Crawford, scoring the winning goal of the game.

“It’s bittersweet that Scott got that last goal against us because he is a good buddy of

mine,” Mendez said.

Mendez said that he isn’t worried about this season, but he knows that there is some work to be done.

“Freshman are still trying to find their own and it is just how quickly you can adjust to the games,” Mendez said. “Right now, guys play great in practice and they get in a game and think it is a different game but it’s not.”

Head coach Ken Parsons thought the alumni team had a good game and said that his Roadrunners still have some work to do.

“I think the alumni did a good job to create four or five opportunities going forward and scoring three of them and we probably left four or five goals unfinished on the field,” Parsons said. “I thought we lost a lot of goals on the field and not in the back of the net and that was the bottom line.”

The ‘Runners will play the first two regular season nonconference games in Fayette, Iowa, Aug. 31 and Sept. 2 against Upper Iowa and University of Mary.

Club sports tryouts Zee Nwuke znwuke@msudenver.edu

Alum player #5 Darcy Schwartzman stretches out at the net to win a point against the MSU Denver in the alumni game Aug. 25 at the Auraria Event Center. On the right, sophomore Betty Van Lith, sets the ball for a return. The alumni defeated the Roadrunners three sets to two. Photo by Cosme Lindstrom-Furutani • clindst1@msudenver.edu

MSU Denver has three club teams holding tryouts — inline hockey, baseball and football.

All the teams will compete against other universities, and are looking for the best athletes to represent MSU Denver.

Inline hockey is holding tryouts Aug. 30, at Rocky Mountain Roller from 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.

They are looking for players for every position and there is no fee.

Visit www.metroinline.org for more information.

Baseball tryouts will be Sept. 1, at 10 a.m. at Brent Mayne Field.

There will be a $20 fee. Wear appropriate attire and submit completed insurance waiver and player information forms, which can be found at www.metrostateclubbaseball.com.

Football tryouts are Sept. 9, from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. at Bear Creek High School. There is a $45 fee. Bring shorts and cleats to the tryouts. If you are eligible to play you can email metrostatefootball@gmail.com.

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This Week 8.29-9.1

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of the zodiac 46- Draft classification 47- Baffled 48- Ladies of Sp. 50- How to harvest a carrot 54- Fragrant compound 58- Water-bottles 61- Suffer from a loss 62- Skunk’s defense 63- Knot again 65- Ship’s company 66- ___ avis 67- Shed ___ 68Italian bread?

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hearth 2- Pertaining to the small intestine 3- Movie critic Roger 4- Bring back 5In stitches 6- Big head 7- Shaft shot from a bow 8- Intervening, in law 9- Guide 10Novelty 11Butter alternative 12- Acquire through work 13Dagger of yore 21- 100 square meters 23Cooking appliance 25- Slugger Sammy 27- ___ vu 29- Actor Penn 30- Bern’s river 31- Village People hit 32- Tough soap

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Texts From Last Night

Today in History 8.30

On a toatally unrelated note, I see music in my hair

30 b.c.e. Cleopatra commits suicide.

Indeed. Apparently I called my sisters and told them I wouldn’t get arrested because it’s not a real sword.

1918: Russian leader Vladimir Lenin shot after a speech, survives.

I’m going to empty my bank account and roll around in the cash. Want to join?

I just passed a truck with its bed lined with a tarp and filled with water with six dudes chilling in the back driving through campus. That looks fun.

All I know is that I’m not gonna send out SOS messages via twitter for your rescue this time.

1963: U.S.-Soviet hot-line goes into operation 1967: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court Justice.

1969: Ho Chi Minh responds to Nixon’s letter, accusing the U.S. of waging a “war of aggression” 1983: U.S. Air Force Lt. col. Guion S. Bluford becomes the first African American in space.