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Volunteer Stephanie Hogan tells Jacqueline Foster about prescription eyeglass exams at Project Homeless Connect 13 Sept. 17 at the Colorado Convention Center. Photo by Nikki Work • nwork@msudenver.edu
Volunteers offer help to Denver homeless Chances for change at Project Homeless Connect 13 • 3
INSIDE: Swoon at CVA • 5
Colorado flooding • 8
Janelle Monáe • 10
Volleyball • 12
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Denver volunteers to help the homeless
Amanda Steinken, a volunteer with Mi Casa resource center, folds a shirt in the clothing center at Project Homeless Connect 13 Sept. 17 at the Colorado Convention Center. Photo by Nikki Work • nwork@msudenver.edu
Stephanie Sorriento, a hairdresser at the Aurora Great Clips and a former MSU Denver student, trims Kevin McKinney’s hair Sept. 17 at Project Homeless Connect 13 at the Colorado Convention Center. Photo by Nikki Work • nwork@msudenver.edu
Denita Turner (left) and Ran Meng put hygiene packs together at the Project 13 event Sept. 17. The packs consisted of razors, combs, feminine products, and other necessary items. Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu
Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu @kelli_themet The courtroom can be a nervewracking experience for the average citizen. It can be worse for the homeless. It was for that reason that lawyers and magistrates were willing to volunteer time to offer legal help to hundreds of homeless people Sept. 17 at Denver’s Project Homeless Connect 13 event held at the Colorado Convention Center. “We have legal volunteers to help people with domestic issues—family court, divorce,” said attorney Peter Swartz, a partner at Davis, Graham and Stubbs. “The volunteers each have a 120-page binder with resources so people can be referred to the proper agency that will help them.” Attorney Timothy Macdonald, a partner at Arnold and Palmer, said a judge was on sight to hold a homeless court, helping homeless people who had misdemeanor warrants for non-violent offences. “Many of them can’t get jobs or housing with outstanding warrants,” Macdonald said. “The court system can be a scary process that many don’t understand, especially if they have a mental illness.” Legal help was only a small portion what Project Homeless Connect 13 had to offer. The event is sponsored by MSU Denver, Denver’s Road Home, Denver Human Services and Mile High United Way. The project has been helping homeless people in the area since 2005. In addition to the outpouring
of volunteers from the sponsoring partners, community businesses volunteered time and services. Tables, booths, examination rooms and even a childcare kiosk filled the convention area above the Convention Center’s B Lobby. A sea of volunteers clad in yellow —and a spattering of red, purple, green and pink—t-shirts aided those in need, guiding them to tables, helping them fill out paperwork or delivering them sack lunches. Guests were treated to haircuts courtesy of Great Clips of Aurora, to snacks by the Salvation Army and to free clothes by Nelson Ministries. Marcy McGovern, director of community mobility for Pregnancy Alternatives, said she gave out 16 cans of formula, 40 jars of baby food and 100 diapers in less than two hours. Zac Laugheed, a librarian with the Denver Public Library, posed with the city’s mobile library, DPL Connect. The unit is fixed to the front of a bicycle and offers free books and wireless internet. “There is a large homeless population in Denver, and it’s important to reach as many of them as we can,” Laugheed said. “We have books they can keep and trade. We have wireless so they can check email. It’s an outreach I’m proud to be a part of.” Guests could look for a job, apply for housing and food stamps or veterans’ benefits. A large section of the room was cordoned off for medical services included diabetes tests, HIV tests, pregnancy tests and flu shots. Curtained rooms acted as examination rooms, and local optometrists did eye examinations and handed out glasses. “It’s illegal to donate glasses to the public,” said volunteer Daniel Feldman. Marketing Manager for The Visionaries Group, a support company for optical businesses, Feldman worked at the optical table fitting guests with glasses. “When you drop glasses into a Lions Club box, those glasses go overseas,” Feldman said. “The glasses you see here have been donated by the manufacturers.” Feldman worked the optical section with Ken and Lisa Melies who were spending their ninth wedding anniversary volunteering at the event. More than just Denver’s homeless benefitted from the Project Homeless Connect 13 event. Sean Cowan has been homeless for three
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and half years and moves from city to city. He said he was looking for a place to get something to eat and maybe do some laundry. “This lady came up to me and told me that she knew where I could get a bite and a haircut,” Cowan said. “I came here and I got a massage and my hair braided. I had some lunch and got some new clothes.” Cowan couldn’t benefit from some of the services offered at the event because he isn’t from the Denver area. He was happy to see the outreach but said he was sorry that it was only a one-day event. “There’s a very high, very spiritual feeling here today,” he said. “It should be like this every day.”
Homelessness in Denver Total number of homeless
11,167 Total number of unsheltered homeless
927 Total number of newly homeless
2,836 Total number of homeless with children
1,853 Total number of formerly employed homeless
3,685 Total number of homeless due to domestic abuse
1,395 Statistics courtesy of Metro Denver Homeless Initiative
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InSight
When tragedy hits the ones we love
Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu @kelli_themet My children lost a couple of friends last week. As the creek was rising in Boulder, four teenagers attempted to drive home from a birthday party Wednesday night. When water swept their Jeep off the road, Wesley Quinlan and Wiyanna Nelson, a young couple, climbed out of the overturned car. Water swept Wiyanna away, and Wesley went after her.
Authorities found Wesley’s body Thursday morning. Wiyanna was missing until her body was found the next day. I only met Wesley and Wiyanna once. I didn’t know them the way my kids did, but both of them were young people who lived life like it would end tomorrow with a “take no prisoners” attitude. A memorial post on Wesley’s Facebook page suggested that he’d “lived the life of 10 men.” The picture their friends paint of the couple tells a sweet story: one boy loved one girl and tried to save her, losing his life in the end. Shakespeare couldn’t have done it justice. Their deaths hit me hard despite not knowing them. They reminded me of a boy I knew named Greg Karpenko. Greg went to church with us. By the time he was 11 years old, he had pushed life to the limit and then pushed more. There wasn’t a
tree too high, a path too steep or a stream too wild for him. He died in a freak accident in his home just weeks before his twelft h birthday. My kids were 8, 7 and 5 years old at the time. It wasn’t the first death they’d had to deal with, but they struggled with Greg’s absence for months afterward. The shock of “there one day and gone the next” has not changed. Kids suddenly realize they’re not invincible. Mothers are terrified by how easily it could have been their child. Who decided that Pam Karpenko, on a regular Tuesday in March, would go to bed that night without one of her children? How could Glenda Artexuloeta or Jennifer Nelson know that their children would not be coming home from that party in North Boulder? My instinct at the time of Greg’s death was to lock my kids in a safe place, to protect them from harm and never let them know
LettersToTheEditor/ GuestColumns
Free parking on campus
Ryan Gendel gendel.ryan@gmail.com
The Auraria campus administrators are doing a great job of positioning us students to become moneymaking machines when we graduate. I know that I will be very successful when I graduate because I now know that nickel-and-diming people is a successful business strategy — regardless of the long-term effects. During the first week of the new semester, people couldn’t walk anywhere around our buildings of higher education without being harassed by someone trying to sell something. Not only are they going after the wrong demographic — we as students are not the most affluent group — but the school’s administration is devaluing the college experience by never missing a chance to exploit the students for financial gain. Not only has the tuition and cost for books gone up significantly, I cannot imagine how much Comcast and U.S. Bank, along with the myriad of other businesses, paid to have the opportunity to speak with 30,000 people in four days. Auraria campus made non-education related money from allowing vendors to have booths on campus. Now, I am not advocating that higher education become a strictly non-profit industry. If that happens we lose a good teacher and the overall quality of the good down. However, what I am saying is that once an entity desecrates the experience of something, the value of that experience goes down. For example, I guarantee Harvard, MIT, Yale etc. doesn’t have the same level of commercialization for their first week of school. Thus it’s in our best interests to not turn the first week of school into a commercial free-for-all, because in the long run we lose the sanctity of education. But since it is going to happen anyway, and if we as students have no choice as to be solicited by vendors, we should be gaining something as well. It should subsidize the cost of school. With any other industry when solicitation is added to the content of the experience, the cost to the consumer goes down. With TV, Radio and the Internet (entities such as Hulu and Pandora); consumer get to experience the content for free because the advertisements pay for the creation and distribution of the content. In school, we pay for the content by paying tuition, buying books, clean energy costs, the Metro Bond Fee, AHEC facility and Bond Fee, Student Affairs fee and other fees. If anything, considering the fact that the campus made so much money from soliciting to us we should have tuition rates subsidized — just like any other commercial entity. Like a drop in tuition or a few free parking days. Education is by far the most important part of a human’s life because it is the catalyst for evolution and the great equalizer. But when there is this much advertising and solicitation, we deserve some benefit for having to deal with taking a run through the gauntlet of vendor booths to get to class. Now, I love parking as much as the next guy, but if the school makes money through soliciting to us, we should not have to pay for parking. It’s a fair deal, because parking is external to education, just like the services offered to us by zealous salespeople. Therefore, next time someone asks you for a parking pass or you are leaving, make sure to follow the example that has been set, and try and make a buck. Sell someone your parking pass for $3, give it to them for free or whatever. Just make sure to help subsidize other students cost for parking because it is only fair to get cheaper content. It is also our obligation as students to follow the example that the educators are setting and make money, however possible. The Metropolitan would like to note on this Letter to the Editor that there are fines associated with selling and giving away your parking pass to others.
hurt. The reality, though, was that I feared something more than standing over my children’s graves. I realized then that my worst nightmare was standing over their graves whispering, “They never had a chance to live.” As much as I want to see my children outlive me, I also want to see them live Life. With a capital L. That’s what Greg lived. It’s what Wesley and Wiyanna lived. And as much as it hurts, as scary as it can be, I want my kids to take that chance, to live to the fullest and never look back. That means celebrating the Gregs, the Wesleys and the Wiyannas as my kids try the next exciting adventure. It means understanding “see you later” doesn’t mean I will. It means letting go anyway. It means never living my worst nightmare.
Entertainment cruelty Lizzy Lind lizzylindbrown@gmail.com
By now, many of us know that the circus is not the wholesome family entertainment we were brought up to believe. Exposés of animal abuse are leaking out more and more, and I’d be willing to bet that most of your readers have a friend on Facebook who has shared a story about animals suffering at the hands of the circus. I bring this up because Ringling Bros. is coming to Denver the first week of October and I would urge your readers to do their due diligence before buying a ticket to attend. We go to the circus to be astounded, amazed and awed. But a quick Internet search about Ringling Bros.’ treatment of elephants — Google keywords include: Ringling Bros. + cruelty, Ringling Bros. + elephant abuse, Ringling Bros. + baby elephant electroshock, Ringling Bros. + slapped with the biggest fine in circus history — will provide you with astonishment, amazement and awe of a different kind. Buying a ticket to this circus directly contributes to deplorable acts of violence and animal cruelty. I know we yearn to take our children to the feel-good family entertainment of something innocent and fun, like the circus. The hard truth is that the circus has never been innocent and fun. From the start, we’ve been duped. And it’s time we stop playing the fool and show the circus that we care more about protecting these beautiful creatures than sitting in a stuff y tent and eating popcorn. Instead, support a non-animal circus. Cirque du Soleil’s least imaginative shows are still more impressive and applauseworthy than anything under the big top. Or do something that truly feels good: donate to organizations that rescue former circus animals.
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New York artist brushes through CVA
Street artist Caledonia Curry, aka “Swoon,” signs autographs in front of her work Sept. 11 after finishing a public lecture held at MSU Denver’s Center for Visual Art. Photo by Kristy Chaparro • kchaparr@msudenver.edu
Kristy Chaparro kchaparr@msudenver.edu Not even the rain could stop visitors from showing up to meet mixed media and street artist Caledonia Curry, aka “Swoon.’ The event at MSU Denver’s Center for Visual Art was split into a public lecture on Sept. 11 and a mural unveiling the next day, despite major floods and road closures. As a part of The Visiting Artist, Scholar and Designer Program, this event aimed to bring nationally and internationally renowned artists, designers and scholars to engage with MSU Denver’s art department. Speakers at the lecture event included Cecily Cullen, creative director at The CVArt and Assistant Professor Tamiko Jones, who introduced Swoon. “I love this, this is exactly what we wanted,” Jones said. “All these people here, excited to see the possibilities of engaging with artists from around the world.” Swoon began the lecture by thanking everyone for attending, despite the weather conditions. She then explained how she has been in the same line of work for 15 years, and there was no way she could display all of her work. “This gets me thinking about how we frame the stories that we tell, and what are we communicat-
ing,” Swoon said. This thought led to her decision of the theme for the evening — an everlasting search for home. Swoon seemed nervous as she revealed how she was born in Connecticut to a family of two drug addicts. Swoon shared that it often felt like a dark place to grow up, also claiming that it wasn’t the whole story. “There was a lot of love and there were moments of stability,” Swoon said. It was during one of those periods, at 10 years old, that her mom took her to a painting class where she remembers feeling at home. “I was like, ‘this place is for me. I can always return to this place,’” Swoon said. “It always gives back to me what I put into it.” According to Swoon, this was when she knew art was a good fit for her. After arriving in New York at age 19 to attend Pratt University, Swoon recalls how she didn’t know whom this world was created for, or who it was created by, often suspecting that it wasn’t for her. As an outsider to graffiti culture, Swoon said that she had to ask herself how can she make something that brings the world inside herself to the world she see’s visually. Although Swoon never thought her phase of wheat pasting and paper cutouts in the streets would last long, she was easily sucked
in. She quickly became known for depicting people as her subjects and placing her works in somewhat uninhabited spaces like abandoned buildings, bridges and street signs. Swoon places her art in such areas because she wants to integrate with various surfaces of cities. “A lot of abandoned and neglected spaces have lost their identity so they’re in a state of flux,” Swoon said. “[This is] where there’s a role for people to play in what those spaces become.” Swoon then spoke about her work in Haiti where she has built a community center and two homes so far. “I wanted to talk about the work in Haiti because it was such an important point in [the] evolution of my thought process of expanding what art making and community building can be,” Swoon said, “and of course talking about this theme of finding and connecting with home.” The lecture ended by pointing out how many people had been involved in the processes she had just mentioned and how Swoon said she owes gratitude to those helping out. “So if there’s anything that I’ll end with, it’s what I got when I was a student, which is find your people and stick with them, because that’s the only way we can do anything,” Swoon said. “We need people in this world.”
After working with Swoon, Cullen described her as an inspiring, audacious and easygoing storyteller. She also said how Swoon is rather unique among street artists because she is a woman who spends a substantial amount of time in the studio drawing, carving, printing and cutting the work she pastes up in streets. “I love that she said don’t wait for an invitation to do something, whether it be an exhibition, building a boat or crashing the Venice Biennale,” Cullen said. “Use the knowledge and resources you have now, get out and fulfill your vision.” Angel Lujan, who graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder, heard about the event through his sister who attends MSU Denver. “I would’ve been kicking myself for missing such a great opportunity,” Lujan said. Lujan first heard about Swoon in college. Since then, he has seen Swoon’s work at the Art in the Streets Los Angeles Exhibit, held by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011. “The detail, size and interaction with the work are not done justice through photos,” Lujan said. “It’s definitely something you have to experience.”
After a public lecture, mixed media and street artist Caledonia Curry, aka “Swoon,” had a meet and greet Sept. 11 at the Center for Visual Art. Photo by Kristy Chaparro • kchaparr@ msudenver.edu
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MSU Denver to be future site for Master Sommelier testing
Master Sommeliers clasp glasses and stir aromas at An Evening With the Masters Sept. 15 at the SpringHill Suite at Auraria. Photo by Charlie Hanson • chanso12@msudenver.edu
Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu Auraria Campus SpringHill Suites bustled Sept. 15 with patrons in suits and gowns, tables of fine food, expert chefs and faculty and wine — lots of wine. MSU Denver showed off its classy side by hosting “An Evening with the Masters,” an event that highlighted the people who dedicate their lives to serving the most sophisticated of beverages. The event began at 5 p.m. with
the choice of two private wine pairing dinners, a silent auction or a guided wine tasting — depending on the size of the guest’s wallet. At the tasting, Brandon Tebbe of Synergy Fine Wines showed guests how to find the identity of six highquality wines using the “tasting grid,” a list of criteria dependent on the senses of sight, smell and taste. Tebbe is a Master Sommelier and a hospitality expert whose job is to know everything about wine. Sommeliers, or “somms” for short, are servers in high-end restaurants
and hotels that inform guests which wines go with specific foods. To become a Master Sommelier, the highest position in the business, one must be able to tell what kind of grape a certain wine comes from, where it was made, when it was made and how it was made, just by looking, smelling and tasting it. The documentary “SOMM,” which was screened after the dinner and wine tasting, showed just how complicated a knowledge of fermented grape juice can be. The
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fi lm follows the journey of several young men through the rigorous Master Sommelier exam. The exam includes a blind wine tasting, a comprehensive theory section and a service section. The test has a 90 percent failure rate, and as of 2013, only 211 people have passed. Those who do, however, are instantly catapulted to the very top of the hospitality industry. Seven Master Sommeliers attended Sunday’s event, including Wayne Belding, the first Coloradan to achieve the standing and Madeline Triffon, the first female from North America. Bobby Stuckey, another Sommelier from Boulder was scheduled to attend, but was unable to due to flooding in his area. Those in attendance gave a Q&A session after the fi lm, moderated by Shayn Bjornholm, the director of America’s Master Sommelier exam. “The motivation [for hosting this event] was to do it as a fundraiser for the hospitality school,” said Amy Larson, the event’s press contact. “And then, as a result of this event, it has garnered MSU some visibility in a more national spotlight.” Proceeds from the event benefitted MSU Denver’s hospitality program, according to the press release. The crowd consisted of
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professionals involved in the food and wine industry, connoisseurs and “foodies” out to have a good time. One of these was Melissa Kroge, an MSU Denver alumna who came at the suggestion of a friend in the magazine industry. Kroge said she was especially impressed with the dinner hosted by professional chef Kevin Taylor. She also said she would go away with “a better appreciation for wine, and an appreciation for the people that serve you at a restaurant.” MSU Denver President Stephen Jordan said in a short speech before the fi lm that he hopes to make the university “the Cornell of the West.” He praised the university’s hospitality program and the Marriot’s SpringHill Suites teaching hotel, and finally announced that MSU Denver will become a testing site for the Master Sommelier exam in the future. “This is part of what you do to build up community support, particularly from people who are in the industry who may not be familiar with our program,” Jordan said. “It gives them a chance to think about how they can partner with us.” Jordan’s message to MSU Denver students was, “If you’re not a hospitality major, you ought to think about it.”
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Nial Romanek, a Rail Jam snowboarder, grinds a rail Sept. 14 at the Snowboard on the Block festival in Denver. Photo by Danielle Shriver • dshrive2@msudenver.edu
Covering Denver in September snow
Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu @kayla_themet
Winter came early for Denver Sept. 14. The Snowboard on the Block festival lined several blocks of Downtown Denver with tents, booths, stages and boarding accessories for a celebration of all things snowboard related. Along with the booths, patrons were given music, films, photog-
raphy and gear sales. Three stages were set up for live music and rails were also set up where pro-boarders showed off their skills. Around 20 tons of snow was brought to Denver for pro-boarders to compete in an hour-long Rail Jam. Boarders such as Scotty Vine, Dylan Thompson and Frank April took part in the occasion. A major organization that took part at the event was Protect our Winters, founded in 2007 by proboarder Jeremy Jones. Their mis-
sion, according to their website, “is to engage and mobilize the winter sports community to lead the fight against climate change.” “The largest community of POW members in the U.S. is in Colorado, so we’re thrilled to be part of this amazing event and spreading the word that we all have a part in protecting the Colorado winters we love so much,” Chris Steinkamp, POW’s executive director, told Transworld Snowboarding.
Andrew Brewer competes in the Rail Jam competition during the annual Snowboard on the Block festival Sept. 14 in Denver. Photo by Timothy Hurst • thurst3@msudenver.edu
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An on looker stares down at the stairs that once led into the public open space at the Kelly Dam Sept. 16 in Denver. With the recent flooding, trails have been lost to the enormous body of water that now resides in the area. Photo by Danielle Shriver • dshrive2@msudenver.edu
Sept. 10 brought clouds, rain and trouble. By the time the sun returned through thick, roiling clouds on Sept. 14, it shone on a state nothing like the one it left. In place of land, there were floods. Where roads used to crawl, debris blockaded. Where houses punctuated streets, rubble remained. With more than 1200 people still unaccounted for, Colorado was in a state of emergency and a state of disarray. On Sept. 12, President Barack Obama approved Gov. John Hickenlooper’s request for federal disaster assistance. By Sept. 14, the president had signed a disaster declaration for the state. Boulder was underwater. Lyons was closed off from the rest of the world. Jamestown was wiped off the map. Thornton and Aurora were more than a little soggy. Though seated in the middle of a drowning state, the Auraria Campus remained relatively unscathed and open. Sept. 12, the Auraria Campus tweeted, “Based on conditions in the immediate campus area, campus is open and operating normally.” According to Jeff Stamper, assistant vice president of operations and services, there was much more that went into the decision to keep campus open. “We look at a number of different factors, primarily safety issues with respect to access and egress, both from the campus perspective as well as from the citywide perspective,” Stamper said. He also said the Auraria Executive Council was watching conditions and making decisions hour by hour on whether or not to close campus. “We take direction from the various police departments and so forth about what those conditions really are,” Stamper said. “If roads are passible, and if we’re able to keep up with whatever the event is here, be it snow or rain or something like that, we’ll do that. We also look at what other institutions are doing.” According to Stamper, the cam-
pus only suffered from a few roof leaks, a few instances of pooling in lots, and some slight delays in construction. Most notably, crews have been set back a week in the construction of the 5th Street Garage. “We’ve had some minor-ish roof leaks, and that’s just something that kind of goes along with the age of our buildings, but really, we fared quite well,” Stamper said. “We didn’t have any major floods of any magnitude, we didn’t lose any major pieces of equipment, no elevator shafts were flooded. We came out pretty clean, really.” According to Jessica Quint, a junior meteorology major at MSU Denver, with the weather patterns at work what happened in the state was unavoidable. “We had monsoonal flow coming up from the southern parts of California, and a front coming down from Canada,” Quint said. “The monsoonal flow kept the atmosphere moist, causing the rain to keep falling because the moisture wasn’t running out.” Quint added that though this was the main reason, there were other factors at work that kept the rain pouring. Alicia Baca, a senior at CU Boulder, was lucky enough to make it out of the floods with no personal or property damage. “Physically, I somehow managed to make it out completely unscathed,” Baca said. “I had an interesting emotional reaction to the whole event. I ended up walking a rather long walk along Boulder Creek Friday afternoon, the day after the major part of the flood had happened. I was completely in awe of how much destruction the flood had caused. It was kind of like I had walked into a completely different world.” Baca said that the experience was powerful, and that she couldn’t help but feel a sense of optimism after seeing just how much there is to be done. “I don’t think it’s good to focus entirely on the destruction,” Baca said. “It might just be wishful thinking, but I’d expect some new life, in any shape or form to come out of this. It’s kind of like give and take, the way I see it, at least.”
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Flooding begins at Four Mile Creek and Boulder Creek.
Flooding continues across Front Range. Evacuations begin. First casualty confirmed.
President Obama signs disaster declaration. Two more casualties confirmed.
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It started with a summer rain. More than a dozen cities underwater, eight major highways closed and one state of emergency later, Colorado became the largest flood rescue effort since Hurricane Katrina. Even at 5,280 feet in elevation, the Centennial State couldn’t find enough high ground.
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people confirmed dead people still unaccounted for inches of rain fallen in Boulder, among the highest totals in the state homes damaged or destroyed
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With extreme conditions across the state last week, do you think campus should have closed? Words: Nikki Work • Photos: Scott Lentz
Above: The Cherry Creek overran its banks, washing over bike and pedestrian paths Sept. 12 near the intersection of Speer Boulevard and 14th Street. Photo by Kailyn Lamb • klamb6@msudenver.edu Below: Following last week’s surge of high waters and flooding during the heavy rains, Sept. 16 the banks of the Cherry Creek were washed out and eroded, with some spots of the creek still running irregularly. Photo by Nikki Work • nwork@msudenver.edu
Nick Barnes, MSU Denver senior
rivers still experiencing moderate to severe flood conditions current road closures
“I felt it wasn’t too bad today. It didn’t feel like it was too inconvenient for people.”
After
bridges destroyed FEMA workers on the ground universities closed times the state has declared a state of emergency since 2008
For those affected by the floods, help is available through the Salvation Army, Red Cross, Help Colorado Now, Foothills United Way and Larimer Humane Society. Links to these resources are available on metnews.org.
Carli Moran, MSU Denver freshman
“I’m pretty alright with it, I’d be kind of mad if I came all the way down here and didn’t have English.”
John Robert, MSU Denver junior
Additional reporting by Angel Foster, Kailyn Lamb, Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko and Mario Sanelli. All statistics were gathered from The Denver Post are were current as of Sept. 17 at 11 p.m.
U.S. Department of Transportation announces emergency relief funds. Gov. John Hickenlooper signs executive order declaring a disaster in 14 Colorado counties. Fourth casualty confirmed.
Friday
“I’m okay with campus staying open so long as professors understand that some people just can’t make it, and there have to be accommodations made for that. And so long as that’s happening, I have no issues with it, but if that’s not happening, that is a problem absolutely.”
RTD resumes travel between Boulder and Denver. Fifth death confirmed.
Saturday
“I mean, if it was any worse, I would think they should close it, but I mean, right now it’s fine.”
Melanie Titzer, MSU Denver junior
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HBO’s “The Newsroom” season two finishes on a good note Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu @nikki_themet
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After two incredibly tense seasons we finally get a happy, feel-good
episode. Despite the cheesiness, the
season two finale of HBO’s “The Newsroom” was a beautiful, fulfilling piece of television. It was tense, it was human and to the delight of my little reporter heart, full of spirited journalism. And oh, the wit. As per usual, the funniest characters kept me in stitches, and the
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Holy crap Holy Ghost! Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu @tobias_themet
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Even though LCD Soundsystem aren’t churning out electro-dance hits anymore, James Murphy continues to lend his musical genius to a few lucky and I mean lucky projects — blessing them with his skills and talents. Murphy’s influence on the new Holy Ghost! album, Dynamics is as pristine and perfectly executed as any new wave dance album can ever get. Brooklyn’s synth-pop duo, Holy Ghost! is heavily influenced by electronic music, disco and some serious new wave ‘80s grooves from the likes of Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and The Cure. The follow up to their self-titled smash hit that rocked everyone’s eardrums in 2011, is another fantastic slice of electro-pop heaven, brimming with 11 excellent tracks. Dynamics is a solid chunk of
compelling dance music from start to finish that will surely get your feet moving. The incredible instrumentation and musical arrangement sounds sharp, crisp and wonderful as a vivid musical color map is unveiled with the start of each track. The intricate detail and finely tuned production behind each and every synthesized note balance out an incredibly well constructed series of creative bass lines and repetitive drumbeats. Dynamics seems as if Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel got more personal and down to earth on their sophomore album. The ‘dynamics’ of dealing with ones relationships and personal struggles are prevalent themes throughout the entire album. The ablum’s second track “Dumb Disco Ideas” is an eightminute jumbled ballad that takes off and sounds sonically reminiscent of LCD’s “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House,” which in turn is a retro vintage take on Murphy’s
hilariously and unsurprisingly on the verge of a mental breakdown. But mostly, watching the whirlwind, high-drama second season of the HBO show wrap up in a busy newsroom on Nov. 6, 2012 brought me back to my first election night at a news desk. At the time, I was the news editor of The Metropolitan, and I had been the primary political reporter throughout election season. Watching “The Newsroom.” This Sunday took me back to hitting refresh on the CNN website, huddling around the office’s only television and then jubilantly speed-typing out a story.
once coveted, prize possession. “Dumb Disco Ideas” acts as the Holy Ghost!’s anthem that sets the album off in a colorful, sharp, new age dance music kind of way. Overall, Dynamics, is very much a new-age disco pop album with tracks like “Dance a Little Closer” and “Bridge & Tunnel.” The smooth transitioning choruses balance out the synth heavy pop music that really get your juices flowing. The album is a step in the right direction for Holy Ghost! as the duo have refined their sound just enough from their first album to send them in the right direction with the end result of an incredible album.
Four decades of funk
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In the ‘80s, it was Michael Jackson. In the ‘90s, it was Mariah Carey. Since the turn of the century pop music has been dying, until the emergence of Janelle Monáe and her new album, The Electric Lady. It’s a guaranteed classic and worthy of placement among the great pop artists of the past. Pop music is arguably one of the most mainstream genres on the radio. It’s only once a decade or so that a genuine artist emerges from
the pop scene. Throughout the album, Monáe pokes fun at the robotic nature of female singers like Rihanna and Lady Gaga. She embodies the character of a robot and in one of the interludes, DJ Crash-Crash states: “she is jammin’!” The second track, “Givin Em What They Love,” featuring Prince, is definitely a jammin’ tune. It’s always nice when an R&B artist breaks away from the overproduced, synth feel of some pop songs and incorporates guitar riffs and licks. One thing I noticed about The Electric Lady is that an actual bass-
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Break out your platform shoes and bell-bottoms because the funky disco sound is back courtesy of Earth, Wind & Fire’s Sept. 10 release, Now, Then and Forever. It has been eight years since the release of the Grammy-nominated Illumination, but Earth, Wind & Fire has returned — sans the afros, but still deeply rooted in soul quality with a thick gospel influence. Popular artists like Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke may have reignited the unique sound of the ‘70s, but Earth, Wind & Fire are credited with being an instrumental group in making the dance music popular in the first place. The boys from Funky Town are just picking up where they left off on their last few albums, with tracks like “My Promise”
and “Night of My Life” that are reminiscent of the classic sound of “September” and “Boogie Wonderland.” Earth, Wind & Fire purists may be only slightly disappointed when they hear the “Splashes” track. It has the experimental infusion of a synthesizer, straying a bit away from the classic cool sound the funky soul group is known for. Once you hear the signature falsetto of lead singer Philip Bailey, accompanied by the full flavor of strings and horns, the percussion of Ralph Johnson and the bumping bass of group co-founder Verdine White, you know you are listening to Earth, Wind & Fire — fun, fabulous and downright groovy. If you are looking for a brief September vacation or looking for an excuse to bring back your Soul Train dance moves, dust off your 8-track and groove out to Now, Then and Forever.
Photo courtesy of DFA Records
Janelle Monáe satisfies role of pop diva Maureen Bayne mbayne@msudenver.edu
I remember the intensity, the pressure, the feeling of importance — and “The Newsroom” captured it perfectly. It was a great resolution the end of a very traumatic season — since June, we’ve suffered through Africa, Genoa and more Jim - Maggie drama than anyone should have to handle. And now, we have an engagement, a budding romance, and a whole lot of Sloan interruptions. And an official sign-on for a third season? I can’t wait to see what News Night and Will McAvoy will cover next.
most dramatic ensured the mood of the hour was taut and tight. Possibly best of all, my favorite two characters FINALLY got together — Sloan and Don forever, what he has can’t be taught — and the two characters with the most history and romantic tension, share a fierce kiss and an engagement ring. For anyone who isn’t caught up yet, just know that Mac has never been a more fitting name for ACN’s executive producer. Among a commendable cast, Sam Waterson is as notably brilliant as he always has been in his role of Charlie Skinner, who is
ist plays the bass. It makes a huge difference in quality and gives it a vintage feel that Monáe attempts to portray. I would love to have this album on vinyl as it wouldn’t be out of place in between listening to David Bowie and Fleetwood Mac. “Can’t Live Without Your Love” is my favorite song on the album. When Monáe hits a high note during the chorus with a brief intensity, it takes the verse to an emotional high and immediately makes the song a hit. To be fair, not every song on the album is good. Being a child of the ‘90s, I remember that R&B can sometimes be cheesy and not catchy at all.
In “PrimeTime,” Monáe fails to bring the opening hook to a complete circle in the chorus and it just has the feeling of a crappy ‘90s song. In fact, there are several songs in The Electric Lady that could fall into the category of agonizingly lame. I would also say that the interludes are really annoying. They’re interesting upon the first listen, but after that, not so much. However, the overall quality of the songs and the soothingly versatile range of Monáe’s voice still make the album a good buy. I would suggest turning it on if you’re planning on a long makeout session with your significant other. It’s bound to get the romantic vibes flowing.
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Men’s basketball to compete in NIT tourney The Roadrunners are only the second DII school to compete in the DI event Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu @angel_themet
No. 3 Metro ends No. 1 West Liberty’s (W. Va.) season 83-76 March 30, 2013 and advances to the Division II championship game in Atlanta, Ga. against Drury University. Photo by Cos Lindstrom-Furutani • clindst1@msudenver.edu
Metro men’s basketball was selected to play in the 2013 National Invitational Tournament Season Tip-Off, making them the second ever Division II team to be invited to the predominantly Division I event. The Roadrunners will head to Tucson, Ariz., the host city for the West Region games, to face Rhode Island in the first round Nov. 18, and will then play either the University of Arizona or Fairleigh Dickinson. If the Runners advance they could face Duke, Alabama, or Rutgers at Madison Square Garden in New York for semifinal and championship games. “The University of Arizona is a nationally prominent basketball program, so to be down there, obviously we should get some great coverage of it locally in the press,” MSU Denver president Stephen Jordan said. “Also, our game will be broadcast nationally, and I think in the same way that people around the country got to see and learn about us when we were in the national championship games, can
have that same kind of impact.” Metro men’s basketball head coach Derrick Clark agrees that playing in the NIT at the national level against great Division I teams is a good opportunity, but the reality of getting the job done in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference is first and foremost in his game plan. “It’s invaluable exposure and any publicity we bring to the university is positive,” Clark said. “I just don’t want my guys to get so wrapped up in these games that they forget we play at the Division II level and how important it is to win those games.” Clark is referring to the South Central Regional opponent games Nov. 15 against Texas A&M Kingsville and Nov. 16 West Texas A&M in Pueblo, Colo. “We have to make sure we take care of business on the 15th and 16th, then we can go to Arizona,” Clark said. “That is dessert, but the meal comes first.” Although the NIT invite reflects the success of the 2012 RMAC champions team, who finished 32-3, Clark credits the efforts of past teams and coaches.
Volleyball places third in CPC Mario Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu @mario_themet
Metro outside hitter Kylie Haun strikes the ball over the net against University of Nebraska-Kearney Sept. 13. Photo by Scott Lentz • slentz@msudenver.edu
Metro women’s volleyball lost in straight sets to No. 11 Angelo State University and No. 3 University of NebraskaKearney in the Colorado Premier Challenge tournament Sept. 13 at Auraria Event Center. Metro fell to Angelo State 25-21, 25-18 and 25-19 in the first game, and was defeated by Nebraska-Kearney 25-17 in the first two sets, and 25-18 in the third. The two losses dropped Metro to 3-3 overall. “At times we did things well, and at times our composure was fine, but we almost had a pattern today of starting well and being good to about 10 points, then we just kind of come unglued,” head coach Debbie Hendricks said. “We let our opponents do what they wanted to do instead of controlling them. Overall our composure wasn’t good enough to beat two good teams.” Defensively, senior libero Alex Green led the Runners with 16 digs versus Angelo State, while sophomore outside hitter Kylie Haun added 15 to accompany her seven kills. Senior outside hitter Alysa Heath tallied 12 kills and three blocks in the first game.
In game two, the Lopers neutralized Heath offensively, but Haun filled the void by contributing 11 kills, a team high. Green posted 17 digs and made some tremendous hustle plays to keep points alive. “Alex is our libero, she needs to be making those plays,” Hendricks said. “I kind of called on her after the first match to step up a little bit, in being a little more aggressive on the floor, and I thought she did a nice job of that in the second match.” Freshman setter Brandi Torr registered 16 assists in game two, while junior setter Betty Van Lith added 14. Heath hit .435 versus Angelo State and nailed seven kills against Nebraska-Kearney. “Alysa Heath, for six matches now, has played like an All-Region, possibly All-American player,” Hendricks said. “She’s very dominant on the right side, and we need her to be consistent in that regard as we catch the rest of our offense up to speed.” Hendricks added, “We had other people step up at different times. I’d like to see us use the middles a little bit more, but Alysa has played very well for six matches now.” Metro split two matches Sept. 14 to take third place in the bronze division, defeating Adams State University after losing to Florida Southern College. Continued on page 13 >>
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<< Continued from page 12 The Runners dropped all three sets, 25-19, to Florida Southern and registered a lowly .064 hitting percentage, the team’s lowest mark of the season. In game two, Metro’s offense found their groove, hitting .237 as a team, while Heath tallied 21 kills. Junior right side Lauren Quijano hit .471 for the match and Van Lith contributed an eye-popping 40 assists after she replaced Torr, who was injured in the first set against Adams State. The lady Runners are 4-4 and head to Chadron State College Sept. 20 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference opener for both schools.
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Metro men’s tennis defeated Univeristy of Texas-Permian Basin 6-3 Sept. 13 in Colorado Springs, while the women’s team lost 5-4 to UTPB and 7-0 to Air Force. Men’s No. 1 doubles freshman Trevor Jons and junior Nick Baker and No. 2 doubles senior Adrien Delvaux and freshman Josh Graetz won their matches. Graetz (No. 1), Delvaux (No. 2), and Baker (No. 3) also won their singles matches, along with junior John Qualls who won at No. 5 singles. The women’s team lost to UT-Permain Basin, 5-4, Sept. 13 Freshmen No. 2 doubles Wanda Holopainen and Taylor Larreau won 9-7. In singles play, the freshmen trio of Naomi Holopainen (No. 1), Wanda Holopainen (No. 2), and Cristina Oropeza (No. 3) all won their individual matches. The women’s team fell to Air Force Academy, 7-0, Sept. 14. Compiled by Angelita Foster amayer1@msudenver.edu @angel_themet
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Around Denver 9.21 Method Man & Redman Doors @ 8:30 p.m. Ogden Theatre $27-$60 9.21-9.22 Riot Fest. Times vary @ May Farms $55-$190
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January 20 -February 18 Your intimate relationship with Betty Crocker will no doubt lead to type 2 diabetes
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February 19 -March 20 If you’re looking for something fun to do tonight, call a random number on Craigslist and get super angry at them about your pizza not being delivered yet.
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November 22 -December 21 What if the end of Breaking Bad is really just the start of Malcom in the Middle?
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