Volume 39, Issue 29 - April 12, 2017

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Volume 39, Issue 29

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April 12, 2017

From the graphic creations of an MSU Denver professor to the healing art of our country’s servicemen on display in the Sante Fe Art District, the art world came alive over the last week in Denver PAGES 8-9 >>

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Former associate vice president of MSU Denver’s Student Government Assembly calls out student vice presidential candidate Devyn Deeter for her stance on ASSET students and illegal immigration. Deeter responds PAGE 12>>

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News Briefs MSU Denver >> President Jordan to be honored by Colorado legislature School President Stephen M. Jordan will be recognized by both the Colorado Senate and House on Wednesday, April 19.

As his retirement nears, the state legislature joins the list of those reminiscing on his on his 12 year tenure the helm of MSU Denver.

Under his watch, the university coordinated often with government to further the availability of higher education for all, marqueed by a campaign that sought special tuition rates for undocumented immigrants.

The efforts were so successful that when Governor Hickenlooper signed the bill, he did so on Auraria Campus.

> Higher Learning Commission makes accreditation visit The Higher Learning Commission executed its site visit as it evaluates MSU Denver for reaccreditation.

Starting Monday, April 10 and continuing into Tuesday, five HLC reviewers held open forums and drop-in sessions for students, faculty and staff to assess the university in five criteria: mission, integrity, teaching and learning quality, teaching and learning improvement and resources, planning.

The school now awaits their decision.

Denver > Denver jail violence spikes Both inmate-inmate violence and inmate-staff violence increased in Denver’s two jails dramatically.

According to data given to the Denver Post, inmate-inmate incidents jumped from 307 in 2015 to 513 last year. Inmate-staff incidents also increased by 70.

With the average daily population in the jails standing at 2,221 inmates, many are blaming the surge on overcrowding, including the Fraternal Order of Police Denver Sheriff ’s Lodge #27. However, Denver Sheriff ’s Department ‘s has yet to officially correlate the two.

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Student presidential election heats up

By Jamel Jones jjone273@msudenver.edu

How to vote

Kicking off on April 11, the MSU Denver Student Government Assembly election week is in full swing.

Campaigns began in late February and the final list of the candidates was released on April 3. The student government president helps make many crucial decisions regarding student funding and spending.

Three students are finalists for the position.

Each of the students running for the position bring strong credentials as well as ideas.

Hannah Ho, a sophomore majoring in political science and minoring in speech communications, sees tremendous value in student involvement. Ho is a living example of her belief in community connections.

She is a member of a local group The Denver Element and Auraria Campus based community club Transform Denver.

These organizations are involved in innercity and LGBTQ communities. They build bonds between similar people by providing mentorships, healthy family environments and much more to encourage togetherness

In person: April 12 and 13 at the Multicultural Lounge Online: msudenver.edu/sga under the Electronic Services Commission tab and development.

“My goal is to encourage more school involvement both in events to unify the community and in SGA itself,” Ho said.

Her slogan,“school, spirit and involvement” directly pertains to this aspiration.

Candidate two of the three running for SGA president is former SGA Senator Joshua Gardner. Gardner has been very active on campus; serving as treasurer of the Student Organization Council, pushing to reinstate the SGA radio show “The Rewind,” and co-chairing a campaign against interpersonal violence among students.

Gardner continues to show his ambitious nature toward the advancement of the MSU Denver community, saying,

“I plan to build MSU’s visibility and credibility as one of the forerunners of higher education in Colorado.”

Gardner’s platform, “communication, accountability and community,” serves as the key point of what he feels will make this university an even better one.

The fi nal of the three presidential candidates is Brittany Stewart. She promotes her ideology through her personalized motto “Open for Business.”

Stewart sees college as a springboard for students to land their dream job in the future after attaining their desired degree.

Stewart said that because internships prepare college students for their carreer, “I will work hard to bring more companies to MSU’s career fairs and internship fairs so my peers will have the opportunities they deserve.”

The presidential race, however, is not the only tight competition in this year’s assembly election. A total of three students are running for the Trustee Delegate position and nine are competing for the Senator position.

Voting ends on April 14, with the results and new officers announced on April 28.

Three sides to the Syrian gas attack

President Bashar al-Assad

The Syrian government denied it was behind the most recent attack. In 2013, Assad agreed to turn over his chemical weapons. “Years of previous attempts at changing Assad’s behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically,” Trump said..

April 7, 2017 Tomahawk cruise missiles use state of the art avionics to strike their targets.

Typically launched from American warships or submarines, these missiles use jet propulsion to fly for up to 1,500 miles.

These weapons are typically used in retaliation strikes and have been used as a deterrent following similar attacks against civilian populations in other war torn countries.

Barack Obama

After the chemical attack on Damascus in 2013 Assad made an agreement with Obama and Russia to surrender his chemical weapons.

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President Donald Trump

After the attack on April 4, Trump retaliated by ordering a cruise missile strike against Hims, Syria on April 7.

On April 4, 2017, an airstrike hit the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun, after which mass civilian deaths from chemical gas attacks took place. The United States and NATO blamed the Assad regime for the mass killings.

(Homs)

Two Syrian cities were the victims of separate gas attacks that took place 4 years apart from each other. The American response after each was markedly different, characterized by two different approaches taken by two very different presidential administrations.

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On August 24, 2013, rockets containing Sarin gas struck two opposition controlled suburbs in Damascus.

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Reduction of health insurance rates slated for fall semester

By Erika Foster efoste12@msudenver.edu Students can now look forward to lower numbers on their tuition bill starting in the fall semester of 2017.

Student health insurance rates are going down for MSU Denver students who rely on the school’s services.

Usually, rates go up and benefits get cut, making it hard for young people to have health insurance.

The plan that the Auraria Health Center offers was designed to help students afford health care, rather than put them in the tough situation of not being covered because of insufficient funds.

According to the Health Insurance Guide, students who are enrolled in the Student Health Insurance Plan enjoy benefits such as: 100 percent coverage for all medical services, free office visits, $20 maximum cost per prescription, no deductible, no co-insurance and no copayments. All of this comes at the price of $2,766 for 12 months of coverage.

Starting fall semester 2017, rates will drop by 7.95 percent, which equates to $210. Students will now only have to pay $2,556 for insurance. Not only are the rates dropping, but there will also be new services available to students with this plan.

Steve Monaco, director of the Health

MSU Denver students Jessica and Thomas Mindenhall exit the Auraria Health Center Plaza building on April 11. Photo by Lauren Cordova • scordo22@msudenver.edu

Center at Auraria, said that students can expect increased benefits coverage along with decreased prices.

“There will be six new additions to student health insurance,” Monaco said. “The plan will now cover intercollegiate and club sports injuries, add transgender benefits, cover learning disability testing, cover acupuncture up to 20 visits, cover high-cost radiology imaging – as long as there is a

referral from the health center – and it will change from secondary to primary.”

Monaco also explained that the plan is in compliance with the Affordable Care Act, so students don’t have to worry about meeting the requirements that the government imposes. The plan was made to help students by giving them a low cost, high benefit option so they don’t need to worry about getting a penalty fine.

Rates are decreasing because of the good year that the health center had.

“The plan had a good year in the fact that the dollar amount of claims paid did not exceed the dollar amount of premiums paid. During most years, many student health insurance carriers end up paying out more in benefits than they collect in premiums. When this happens, rates go up the next year, at times considerably as a means to avoid this pattern repeating itself,” Monaco said.

Good negotiation skills also helped.

Monaco and his team negotiate annually with caregivers to get the best rates possible.

Due to the productive year, they had more leverage to negotiate and were also able to get these new benefits at no extra cost.

Student Margaret Miller is relieved that rates are decreasing and that benefits are being added instead of removed.

“It’s nice that we won’t have to pay as much and we don’t have to worry about anything being taken away from us. The struggle is real as a college student trying to afford health insurance, so I’m glad that they are trying to make it more affordable for us,” she said.

The change in price and the added services will begin on August 20, 2017.

Students will have to renew each semester or submit a waiver if they have health insurance elsewhere.

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Panama Papers: Portrait of a Pulitzer Prize

By Madison Lauterbach mlauter1@msudenver.edu

Kevin G. Hall, Pulitzer Prize winner and chief economics reporter for McClatchy DC, speaks about his experience investiating Trump and the Panama Papers at the Denver Press Club on April 10. Photo by Lauren Cordova • scordo22@msudenver.edu

Convention hack and President Trump’s campaign. In addition to his collaborative investigation into the Panama Papers, Hall has also been looking into upwards of 700 of the Trump family’s businesses. During that investigation, Hall has found connections between the Trump family and Russian nationals, including Dmitry Rybolovlev, a

Russian billionaire who owns the battery technology company Alevo. The most public example of President Trump’s business connections with the Russians came in 2016, when Rybolovlev landed his plane in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the same landing strip President Trump would land on just minutes later.

The implications of business between Trump and the Russian government are vast. Not only has Trump continued to deny the allegations, Trump himself and his family have refused to divest from all of their companies. Rob Reuteman, a professor at Colorado State University and former business editor for Rocky Mountain News, said that Trump is allowed to skate by on the usual ethics of government because, “It’s new territory, we’ve never been here before.

You have half the country that doesn’t care when presented with clear ethical violations.”

The secrecy of the administration has only seemingly intensified the extent to which journalists are willing to seek out the truth.

Jude de Lorca, a freelance journalist who attended the discussion said, “Trump has brought us to be the best we can be by being honest, direct and critical thinking.”

As far as Hall is concerned, the work on the Panama Papers is far from over.

McClatchy has published over 50 subsequent stories about further connections since the story broke a year ago.

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On April 10 the Denver Press Club welcomed Kevin G. Hall, the chief economics reporter for McClatchy DC, to speak about President Trump’s business dealings, his connection to Russia and the Panama Papers.

Hall and his team, along with reporters at the Miami Herald, found out earlier the same day that they had won the Pulitzer Prize for their investigative work into the Panama Papers.

The Panama Papers, which have since been described as the biggest leak in history, are comprised of 11.5 million confidential documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.

“This wasn’t just about Putin or the prime minister of Iceland, this was about the rich and powerful, whether they’re politicians, drug lords or mafiosos, how they move their money around the world in clandestine ways and the whole industry that’s set up to help them do that,” Hall said.

The information, which totaled 2.6 terabytes of data, was leaked from an anonymous source to the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. This leak ultimately lead to a collaborated reporting effort between 100 media outlets in 80 countries, which was published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The documents showed was that since 1983 more

than 130 wealthy people hid their money in legal, offshore anonymous shell companies in Panama.

Although using the shell companies is legal, the reasons for hiding money can be for both ethical and unethical. Some world leaders have been identified and appear to have more sinister reasons to launder their money. These include Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Saudi Arabian King Salma and Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, who stepped down after the findings. Russian President Vladimir Putin was not directly named in the documents, but the leak shows a $2 billion ring that links several close associates and leads back to Putin’s family.

“If you look at the Russian actors and how their money gets into the system, what the Panama Papers teach us is the Russians are using the offshore world to camouflage,” Hall said.

Relatively few Americans were implicated in the papers.

“We have a tax code that is heavily weighted in favor of the wealthy,” Hall said.

Although President Trump himself is not named as an owner of any offshore company formed by Mossack Fonseca, the Trump name does show up on 3,540 of the leaked documents, according to a piece published by Hall in McClatchy. From this information, connections have been drawn between Putin’s government, the Democratic National

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April 12, 2017

Student Government: For students, by students

By Gabriela Rodriguez grodri33@msudenver.edu The Student Government Elections will close this Friday, April 14. Vice presidential candidate, Devyn Deeter, defended a stance against illegal immigration in support of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico. She also advocated for a penalty on sanctuary cities, which are cities that choose not to provide any information about undocumented immigrants to ICE officials without a court order.

As the former Associate Vice President of the Student Government Assembly and as a student advocate for the rights and protection of all student identities and experiences on Auraria Campus and school grounds across Colorado, her public stance is concerning.

I will not be voting for her. Students who believe in social and economic equity shouldn’t either.

Deeter displays her slogan on her facebook campaign page. It is, “stronger leadership, better use of funding.”

Strong leadership is understanding and representing the interests of your constituents, which in this case is the MSU Denver student body. Is Deeter aware that MSU Denver has a strong and open history of advocating for undocumented students?

Stephen Jordan, President of MSU Denver, in January published a column in The Denver Post titled, “We will continue to open doors for undocumented students.”

Jordan reassured audiences that MSU Denver would stay true to its core values of access and diversity.

In 2013, Colorado passed the Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow bill. It made in-state tuition available to students who met specific criteria and expanded access to higher education for undocumented students all across Colorado.

Now, MSU Denver’s ASSET students represent 56 percent of the state’s enrollment of undocumented students. Jordan also proudly said, “we lead the state in offering support programs for people of color, immigrants and refugees.”

Someone who oversimplifies the problems of immigration and stands firmly against advocating for undocumented immigrants should not preside over a student body that accounts for half of the state’s undocumented

student population.

I am even more alarmed by the way she approaches and argues for the issue. Deeter summarized that the argument from the left is that “trying to stop illegal immigration is racist, sending people back to their country is racist, and that building a wall is racist.”

This confirms her inability, or maybe just unwillingness, to understand the complexities of the issue.

She says she understands that the country is a melting pot, but I am confused whether in her argument she concedes that racism is an issue, but is not as important as following the law. Or does she mean to dismiss that argument in claiming it’s not about race at all.

Her main arguments are that undocumented immigrants aren’t paying their taxes and that it isn’t fair to the people who try to come here legally and are stuck on the waiting list.

According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants make significant contributions to their state and local economies. Collectively, undocumented immigrants pay $11.74 million in state and local taxes a year. On average, they pay an estimated eight percent of their incomes in state and local taxes. Granting citizenship would increase the revenue.

The study by ITEP also said, “The top one percent of taxpayers pay an average nationwide effective tax rate of just 5.4 percent.”

Undocumented immigrants pay more of their income into local and state taxes, than the top one percent of taxpayers.

Regarding the fairness of undocumented immigration, many are childhood arrivals.

In fact, many undocumented students were brought to the U.S. as children. They came with their parents and siblings not only from Latin America, but Asia, the Pacific islands, Africa and Europe. Many have escaped states corrupted by violence, war, poverty and famine.

Assuming an elected position at the SGA means advocating for the representation and empowerment of the entire student body.

After Donald Trump was elected president, undocumented students no longer felt safe, they no longer felt like they could express themselves honestly. After gaining a voice and being encouraged to share their story, the cold and misinformed rhetoric that circulated after the election invaded their sense of safety and dignity, forcing them back into silence.

Deeter has not hesitated to represent those forces of silence.

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Student Government elections are in full swing this week, and as a candidate I would like to respond to Gabriela.

It is true that I wrote a piece for the paper about illegal immigration, something that was co-written with Esteban Fernandez as a sort of political panel.

My view on the issue was about law and order. If I focused on that in the few words provided, that was why.

These political panels were written about once a week and were specifically about the presidential elections and the issues discussed.

We were only allowed a few hundred words, so unfortunately I did not have that much room to fully express my views. If that makes it seem like I don’t understand the issue then that was not my intention and I regret that people could see it that way.

Had I had more room, then these opinions would be more fleshed out. If you would like to talk about it in a formal setting, I am more than happy to debate on the topic on my radio show, “Politically Direct.” I hold it weekly and appreciate a differing view point.

That said, the position of school Vice President is not a political position. I would be mostly dealing with student organizations and student organization funding, not politics or DACA students. I see the concern from these students, but I am a big advocate for freedom of speech. It is not my goal to silence anyone’s views and one of my campaign platforms is freedom of expression and ideas. I may not agree with you, but I will always support your right to voice your opinions.

I don’t want any students to feel silenced, as that is a common occurrence for conservative students on campus.

Editors Note: Pressured by the looming voting deadline, we decided to run these competing op-eds in the interest of neutrality due to the timing of the submission critiquing candidate Deeter’s campaign.

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Theater Corner: Meet the cast, ‘The American Clock’

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Students begin their journey into acting with ’80s production Story and photos by Avery Anderson aande133@msudenver.edu All professionals must get their start somewhere, whether from observation, getting their hands dirty or in this case taking classes. For MSU Denver students William Hunter and Miranda Ireland, that start is right here in the MSU Denver Theatre Department.

Hunter is a theater major with an English minor. He hones in on his acting craft while flexing his creative writing muscles through playwriting.

“My first passion would be theater and acting, and then writing after that, especially playwriting,” Hunter said.

“I’ve written my own play called ‘Opium’ that just got picked up by a publisher earlier this year.”

Just as Hunter is a surprising man, his take on opium will surprise some as well.

“It’s not opium the drug which I assume people would assume, it’s the perfume. And it’s kind of a murder mystery, but not really. It’s about these two people in a room and they are plotting to kill this guy, and then they go out and do it,” Hunter said.

Hunter said that his love for playwriting goes hand in hand with his acting and that seeing the writing process has only made him a better actor.

“I think when you’re an actor you kind of look at the page and you think that the playwright had a very specific idea for how exactly a scene should go and how lines should be said. But then when I started writing the play, I realized that writing was more of a springboard for the actors to take it in several different directions,” Hunter said.

Hunter’s true passion is Shakespeare.

“Everything he says is beautiful, but also there’s an — especially with, like, “Taming of the Shrew” there’s a lot of sass in his characters. And I think people often label Shakespeare as boring simply because he’s written so long ago. But a lot of the messages are still relevant today.”

College is certainly not the end for Hunter in his theater journey.

“I want to continue playwriting, continue publishing more things. I think my main goal right now is the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. So, outside of school I’ve done “King Lear,” also, and I did some Shakespeare in high school, too, and Shakespeare here.”

Fellow student Miranda Ireland and co-star of “The American Clock” also has a bright future in the acting world.

After getting introduced to the performing arts by reciting Bill Cosby

“I don’t know if it’s a good thing or, like, OK, clearly you can’t do anything else so we’re just going to cast you in this thing that requires no acting. But it’s fun.

I like it. I think it’s super meta.

So, every time it happens I’m, like, ‘Ah ha, I got it as myself.’”

- Miranda Ireland

“I think when you’re an actor you kind of look at the page and you think that the playwright had a very specific idea for how exactly a scene should go and how lines should be said. But, then when I started writing the play, I realized that writing was more of a springboard for the actors to take it in several different directions.”

- William Hunter

If you go Location: MSU Denver Studio Theatre in King Center Times: 7:30 p.m., April 13-15 and April 20-22; 2:30 p.m., April 23 Cost: Free for students; $5 for everyone else routines as a child, her love for the theater has only grown.

Though her love for the arts grew out of comedy, Ireland has as much interest in dramatic roles.

“It really depends on the role and it depends on the person that I’m portraying. Obviously there are some dramatic roles that I’m, like, ‘Yes, this is everything I’ve ever wanted.’ There are

some comedic roles where I’m, like, ‘I literally just want to make you laugh,’ ” Ireland said.

Interestingly, she said she is always cast in roles that are simply an extension of her.

“I don’t know if it’s a good thing or, like, OK, clearly you can’t do anything else so we’re just going to cast you in this thing that requires no acting. But it’s fun. I like it. I think it’s super meta. So, every time it happens I’m, like, ‘Ah ha, I got it as myself,’ ” she said.

Although Ireland has enough credits to be a senior, she still has a couple of years left because she is a double major in psychology.

“I just really like, and I think this is why I’m drawn to, theater. I just really like the insides of people’s brains. Like, I just really like knowing how people work and what makes them tick,” Ireland said.

Ireland portrays three different characters throughout the show. “The hardest part is getting them to be distinct,” she said. “A lot of the changing character comes from dialects and physicalization. So, it’s really interesting to see how they’re sort of making themselves known.”

In MSU Denver’s production of Arthur Miller’s classic “The American Clock,” Hunter plays Lee, a character that audiences get to see as starting out at the age of 14, but then follows him as he ages.

Although this play premiered in 1980, both Hunter and Ireland feel very strong about its relevance in modern society.

“The stock market crash of 2008 was fairly recent and fairly devastating and very similar to the stock market crash of 1929.

So, I think there’s a lot that people can take away from this show today even though it was written in the ‘80s,” Hunter said.

Ireland enjoys the relevance of the show as well as the script itself.

“There are a few really well-written monologues that are very relevant still.

Which is sort of interesting. There’s a monologue that talks about, like, an entire generation of younger people coming up and he (Miller) says that they’re withering away,” Ireland said.

There is no doubt that both Hunter and Ireland will be artistic forces to be reckoned with in the future.

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April 12, 2017

Anthropologist by day

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By Maria Muller mmuller4@msudenver.edu As students, we sit in our classrooms listening to professors that we often know little about. They tell us their credentials the first day of class and as the semester passes they might offer tidbits about themselves, but we rarely learn much about their hobbies or passions.

Professor Jeremy Stoll is no different.

He teaches Anthropology courses at MSU Denver, but he is just as passionate about creating comic books. As a cultural anthropologist specializing in folklore, telling stories through comic books doesn’t seem unfathomable.

But the extent of how deep Stoll has dipped into the comic book world might surprise his students that don’t know him very well.

“I’m a folklorist by training so I focus on performer centered ethnography, which is a cultural research related to doing fieldwork and interviews and getting an insider perspective of culture,” Stoll said of his research work.

His interest in other cultures and comics took him to India in 2010 and 2013, where comic books had been extremely popular since the ’80s. Many of them include religious myths and folktales.

While in New Delhi, Stoll worked with and interviewed a group called the Pao Collective, a group of five comic book creators that included Orijit Sen, who created India’s first graphic novel and whose work Stoll has great respect.

“Their idea is that they wanted to create a collective for comic creators to be able to earn a living in India. To create events and anthologies and to find funding and make inroads so that people could have careers in comics,” Stoll said.

He also focused on a collection that came out about a year ago called, “Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back” done by all female comic creators.

This collection was about what it means to be a woman in India.

While in India, he started giving his comic books to the people he interviewed, who encouraged him to print them and have them published.

“We have similar values about comics and community,” Stoll said, “Not really being interested in mainstream

and superhero comics. We were more interested in comics journalism.”

In 2013 he collaborated with comic creators in India and produced “Dogs!

International Comics Anthology”.

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“We knew we wanted to ask people in New Delhi, we knew we wanted it to be international and we knew pretty quickly we wanted to give away the proceeds to nonprofits,” Stoll said. “We worked on that for two years. It was a really amazing process and everyone involved was so incredibly patient and excited about it.”

Since then, Stoll has been focusing more on queer comic creators in India, but hasn’t had the chance to go back yet or do as much interviewing.

Stoll attempted his first comic book at the age of 18. “In retrospect it was terrible,” Stoll laughed. “There were no panels and it was very weird, but it was pretty fun to make.”

He started incorporating more characters and comic elements. He might of stopped, but his professor, who was a graphic novelist, encouraged him to keep trying. She shaped his appreciation for comics and for understanding comics.

“I remember I tried to make a superhero comic and she said ‘No, don’t do it. Make something else. Try out other kinds of narratives,’ Stoll said. “She quickly became a huge role model for me.”

Our professors can surprise us. They’re not just in our classrooms to intimidate and hand out tons of homework. They’re human just like us and they might still struggle to learn, just like us.

MSU Denver Professor Jeremy Stoll sits at his comic-clad booth at the DiNK Comic and Art expo in Denver on April 9 Photo by McKenzie Lange • mlange4@msudenver.edu

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Jeremy Stoll’s comic “My Self” was recently printed for the DiNK Expo.

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The second and third floors of the McNichols Civic Center were packed this weekend with sci-fi and fantasy characters from

modest and demure to political in every style on the covers of co visitors walking by to pick them Professor Stoll stood quietly several samples of his work on A Independent Comic and Art Ex was created by brothers Charlie Greca was one of the founders o “But they moved away from for local creators and really brin that’s not Marvel or DC. They w feminist creators, queer creators said. “People who are more poli writers and artists.”

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Veterans and the community

By Jonson Kuhn

jkuhn2@msudenver.edu Art can be a lot of different things, for some it’s a means of expression, for some it’s a means of finance, for others it’s a way to heal.

Using art as a way of working through a traumatic experience has been proven over the years to be valid and effective. Perhaps there’s no one that understands that better than the folks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1 located in Denver’s Santa Fe Art District.

On Saturday, April 8, an open house was held in an effort to welcome new artists to the VFW, as well as showcase the work of existing members.

Founded in 1899, the John S. Stewart Post 1 is the first VFW Post established in the entire nation. Though the VFW remains every bit as dedicated to its founding mission statement to, “honor the dead while serving the living,” they also feel it’s equally important to never become exclusive all unto themselves. Instead they always offer services to non-military members of the community as well.

Jim Stevens, who serves as not only the Arts Council Director, but as an accomplished artist, explained that their space stands apart from most common perceptions of what a VFW can be. ​“In our gallery 80 percent of all the art in here is done by veterans, 20 percent is by non-veterans, community artists, and we did that because we wanted to be good neighbors,” Stevens said.

Being the international award winning artist and author that he is, it’s more than fair to suggest Jim knows a thing or two about being a professional artist. That’s why it remains essential to him that the VFW never become a bar for veterans to drink and commiserate over painful memories. Though he recognizes there’s a time and a place for commiserating, he’d like to see their venue continue to provide more than just a place for recovery from the past but an

pendent comic creator Andrew M. kson is the writer of the science World the New Pioneers.” go,” Jackson said, “I’m not an artist,

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here weren’t really any women or cs, so there wasn’t much published Gillman said. ugh the Denver Drink and Draw. ars now,” Gillman said of Stoll. “I’ve His work is very detailed and he puts ories. They tend to be kind of quiet red, very intense emotionally.” as vibrant and growing comic book Denver see if you can get involved ink and Draws. There’s a lot of cal comic book creators.”

Douglas Alvin Foulke prepares his art for display.

Artist Jim Stevens poses for a photo inside the VFW Post 1 during their event Open Call for Art on April 8 in Denver. VFW Post 1 is a veteran run art gallery in the Santa Fe Art District.

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opportunity for the future.

“We work with artists who are at a point in their development where they’re good enough to let the public see their work and what we want to do is help those individuals move forward into a career as an artist. We want to be that next step, whether a veteran’s working their way through PTSD or just working their way to try and be a better artist, we want to be that next step of having their work seen and sold,” Stevens said.

Every available space on the walls is

occupied with art, but immediately upon walking through the doors it’s hard to deny that one piece stands alone, at 12-feet tall It’s Rod Ford’s robotic sculpture titled “PTSD”. Both nationally and internationally recognized for his work, Rod has been commissioned by NASA, Johnson Engineering, International Robotics NYC, Vogue Magazine, Elitch Gardens, Industrial Computing Magazine, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science just to name a few.

Having served in Vietnam, Rod said the inspiration for his giant robots came to him while returning home from war. After making a few smaller models from bronze he thought it might be an interesting idea to build life-sized replicas. Though it took a year to build the first one, it took three years to just collect all of the machinery, due to Rod’s strict rule of only using throw away materials because he feels he and his fellow veterans aren’t much different.

“I only use throw away materials because with being in the military we were once throwaways, too, so now that’s the only material I’ll use. Art work is the best kind of therapy there is because you can take that focus off the negative and put it into something positive,” Ford said.

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Sports Stance: The search begins With Derrick Clark’s firing, the Athletics Department must decide what traits and qualifications they want in the basketball team’s next leader

Roadrunner News » Hankins shines for women’s golf MSU Denver’s women’s golf team finished the second and final day of competition at the Mustang Intercollegiate on April 11 in 18th place.

Freshman Jennifer Hankins led the team and finished the tournament in seventh place overall and shot 73 and 71 in the two respective rounds. Junior Lindsey Gullikson finished in second for the Roadrunners and 63rd overall with rounds of 83 and 77 respectively. Junior Meg McMullen finished with the third best score for the Runners and had two scores of 81, good enough for 71st overall.

The Runners next compete on April 17 at the Maverick Spring Invitational in Grand Junction.

By Jordan Roland jroland1@msudenver.edu After MSU Denver parted ways with men’s basketball head coach Derrick Clark on March 27, an immediate search for a new head coach began.

During Clark’s seven years as head coach, he was the second most accomplished coach in MSU Denver history.

His peaceful departure from the team now puts the athletics department in the driver’s seat to recruit a coach who can continue the great success the program has achieved.

Before Clark’s resignation, he finished the season 1713, one of the worst records he obtained during his seven years as head coach.

Also, the Roadrunners did not qualify for the NCAA Division II tournament as they had in previous years, a huge disappointment for the program.

However, Clark tallied an impressive resume during his time at MSU Denver that leaves some big shoes to fill for the vacant position. Before there is any change to this program, the program itself and its players should be evaluated as to how they can achieve the greatest possible success.

MSU Denver is known for its recruiting pipeline from Australia that both former head coaches Mike Dunlap and Clark embraced. This is a great asset that brings in talent from overseas and can introduce different styles of play to the program.

The program would best benefit from a head coach who can coach both sides

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of the ball. The men’s team has shown game after game how efficient they can be on defense, wreaking havoc on their opponents, but what about the offense?

There have been signs of lapses in the offense that made it difficult for MSU Denver to stretch the lead over its opponents when they have had the advantage. Judging by the team’s overall talent, they posses the ability to have a strong inside-out game that makes them effective inside the paint and on the perimeter.

Throughout the season, we have seen them settle for too many jump shots, which resulted in a paltry 36 percent from the three-point line.

Last season, the Roadrunners had five players who were arguably AllAmerican caliber in Cameron Williams, Andre Harris, Sunday Dech, Brian Howard and Peter Moller. Yet at times it looked as if there was no cohesion on the court during games when winning mattered most. This is not negative criticism toward players or coaches, however, it was hard to excuse the fact that the Roadrunners did not play to the level of their potential on a consistent basis.

A coach who can draw the

best out of his players on both ends of the court is the kind of leader that is needed to get the Roadrunners over the hump come tournament time. Players like Harris, Dech and Williams are the type of players who you look to as the motor that drives the team. An elite guard with Williams’ talent paired with a solid big man like Harris and a wing shooter like Dech is lethal to an opposing team.

Even though the Roadrunners will be without senior center Harris next year, the future head coach will need to consider how they can dominate teams inside the paint. Players of Harris’ caliber and scoring ability should be utilized in pick-androlls, pick-and-pops and have several touches in post. To really be intricate with your offense, having a coach that teaches spacing and constant movement on offense, which allows players to work off each other in a motion-style offense, is important. The Roadrunners have athletic players across the roster who can affect the game in a variety of ways outside of scoring.

The perimeter shooting will still need to be an important factor because the Roadrunners have players who have the ability

to stretch the f loor at the guard position. However, implementing a motion-style offense that utilizes a lot of pick-and-roll and creates open shots for others is the kind of offense that can change their efficiency. Maybe that is already their identity as a team, but has not been maximized to its full potential.

Whoever receives the head coaching job will need to consider how to maximize each player’s full potential.

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» Softball finishes weekend 2-2 MSU Denver’s softball team maintained their spot in second place in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference April 8-9 on the road against Chadron State. The Runners grabbed two wins out of the four games they played. They lost the first and won the second game of a doubleheader on April 8 and did the same thing on April 9. Freshman Darby McGhee earned both wins for the Runners and currently sits at 7-2 on the season. The Runners are currently sitting at 30-13 overall and 22-6 in the conference. Junior Sarena Espinoza leads the team in RBIs with 41. The Runners next take on Black Hills State on April 14 for a four-game series at the Regency Athletic Complex. The first game starts at noon.

» Baseball sweeps UCCS, gets swept by Regis The Roadrunners baseball team won two games against UCCS and lost two to Regis from Aprli 7-9. The Runners are now 16-18 and fourth in the conference. They next take on Northern Colorado at 2 p.m. on April 14 in Greeley.

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Nationwide News » DU wins NCAA hockey championship The University of Denver hockey team captured its eighth NCAA national championship on April 8 with a 3-2 victory over Minnesota-Duluth. The Pioneers were led by three major award winners in the game. Defenseman and Colorado Avalanche draft pick Will Butcher won the Hobey Baker Player of the Year award, head coach Jim Montgomery won the Spencer Penrose Coach of the Year award and goalie Tanner Jaillet won the Mike Richter Goalie of the Year award. Sophomore forward Jarid Lukosevicius provided all of the scoring for the Pioneers and recorded a natural hat trick in the second period.

The Pioneers are now tied with North Dakota for second place in most NCAA championships won. Only the University of Michigan has won more championships than the Pioneers’ eight with nine of their own.

» Westbrook spoils Nuggets’ playoff run The Denver Nuggets were eliminated from the 2017 playoff race in historic fashion on April 9. The Nuggets took on MVP candidate Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder, needing to win their final three games and the Portland Trailblazers to lose their final two in order to secure the eighth seed in the playoffs. Westbrook recorded the final assist to get his 42nd tripledouble and broke NBA legend Oscar Robertson’s 55-year-old mark of 41 in a season. Westbrook proceeded to score the final 15 points for the Thunder.

With less than five seconds left in the game and the Thunder down by two, Westbrook made a three from about 10 feet beyond the three point line at the buzzer to win 106-105 to eliminate the Nuggets from post-season contention.

Ian Heinisch: From behind bars to MMA

By Jake Howard jhowar50@msudenver.edu Ian “The Hurricane” Heinisch is an undefeated middleweight mixed martial artist training out of Factory X. The Hurricane nickname not only embodies his fighting style, but it also symbolizes the whirlwind of a journey this young fighter has faced outside of the cage.

“Honestly I try to relive those dark moments right before the fight,” Heinisch said when asked about his past. “I know my opponent hasn’t been there and I just know that I was mentally tough enough that I survived what I survived and I know I am going to keep surviving. I’m here for a purpose.”

Heinisch is undefeated in his mixed martial arts career holding a professional record of 7-0. That’s not to say that Heinisch hasn’t been knocked down many times before.

Heinisch recalled being deported from Canada back to the U.S. while working there illegally.

Instead of finding legal work in the states, he ended up getting into the drug trade. Then, Heinisch was set up in a sting by a DEA task force.

“I started getting some pills sent to me and just started selling them little by little, making good money,” Heinisch said. “It was just addictive and eventually, I got set up. Walmart parking lot, I’ll never forget, gun to my head, drug force, boom, they put me in and I remember, I bailed out and I said no way am I going to jail at this age for years. No way.”

Heinisch then left his family and hopped on a Greyhound bus to Indiana. Shortly after arriving in Indiana, Heinsch traveled to New York before ending up in Amsterdam.

“New York, to Amsterdam with about 1,000 bucks in my pocket, didn’t know anyone. It was kind of a dream I had to backpack the world and this was kind of the big push that says it’s time to go.”

Heinisch said.

From Amsterdam, Heinisch headed to Belgium then to England where he lived in the same apartment he worked, painting during the day and camped out at night with no furniture, hot water or carpet.

“I needed something better, so I went down and I found out all these English people go to Tenerife, go to the Canary Islands,” he said. “I cruised down there and I met this American out there, whose father was Cuban and they took me in like family, they still are like family and I lived with them for a while then after I got my head straight they said, ‘Hey gringo let’s go make some real money.’”

Heinisch then got into the drug trade full-force.

“That’s when it started again. I

Ian Heinisch, right, works the pads with his partner in preparation for his April 21 fight at Legacy Fighting Alliance 10 in Colorado Springs. Photo by Old Soul Era

started going down to Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba. We would get the merchandise and bring it back. I think after, I don’t know how many trips, but after a while I had too many stamps in my passport and they took me in.”

Heinisch received a three-anda-half year sentence after sitting in prison for an entire year in the foreign Canary Islands without knowing anything.

“They broke me a few times in there where I just said I don’t care what happens to my life. That’s how you had to be, that’s how you beat them.”

While in prison, Heinisch was able to continue in combat competition and training.

“It was their style called lucha canaria. It was takedowns only in a gladiator pit type thing in the sand,” Heinisch explained, “I got to wrestle in there and kickbox in there.”

He was then moved to another prison that had a great boxing program.

“It just was all meant to be. I got some good training in there and it was a good look for me for sure. Who knows what would have happened if I didn’t have the access to train.”

Heinisch’s opportunity to train while incarcerated is the driving force behind his ultimate goal: opening a halfway house with a gym for kids that receive long-term prison sentences.

“Just give them a way out because going to prison in America will just ruin anyone. I don’t care who you are,” Heinisch said.

He understands there are necessary steps to take in order to achieve his goal of giving back to the youth.

“The first step is winning the world title in the UFC.” he said.

With that said, Heinisch believes his fight April 21 at LFA 10 v. Lucas Rota in Pueblo should be his ticket to the big show.

“I believe that if I do the job I know I’m going to do and take care of business and finish Rota in the first or second, I will get a call from the UFC. It’s my time.”

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Unexpected social invitations might fi nd you meeting people in the healing professions - doctors, surgeons, nurses, or technicians. They may prove valuable to you later.

Aquarius

"My choice early in life was between whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any

The vast social whirl of late might have overwhelmed you with new names and faces, all of which you want to remember. Today would be a good day to follow up with some of them.

You should feel especially strong, motivated, and focused, Leo. Relations with others should be warm and cooperative so this is the time to start an enterprise with others.

Virgo

“What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.”

Aries

You might want to leave the office early today to finish all those pressing errands, Virgo. Phone calls could keep you busy, as could small tasks that still need tending around the house.

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Emotional reunions with friends or relatives you haven't seen in a long time could take place today, Taurus. An evening spent relaxing at home with loved ones increases your sense of security.

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A talent for writing that you haven't tapped may surface today, Gemini. It's also a good day to handle paperwork relating to finances. You should breeze through it.

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