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The Metropolitan State College of Denver student newspaper serving the Auraria Campus since 1979

F acuity to vote on review plan ·Proposed post-tenure performance evaluation policy sparked months of debate. Page J

Push it

Jaime JarretUT/re Me1ropoli1an

Metro student Wendy Boagllo does push-ups on campus April 22 during health and fitness day at Auraria. The event Included health screening and spine testing, and featured Marines competing with students In various exercise tests. Boaglio was trying to do as many push-ups as possible In 60 seconds. Campus Recreation at Aurarla sponsored the event to encourage students to get Involved In physical fitness.

News Metro image campaign enters its second phase with new ads

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Sperts Metro baseball ranked No. 23 in latest national poll

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-Metro senate endorses review policy Months of negotiations on post-tenure evaluations come to fruition; Trustees have final say By Alicia Beard

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After months of haggling, the final draft of a proposed post-tenure review pol­icy was e-mailed to Metro's faculty April I 7 for approval. ·

Metro professors have I 0 days to ·'- respond with votes and comments on the

policy. Monys Hagen, president of Metro's

Faculty Senate, said she and her cabinet are endorsing this draft of the plan. Faculty and administrators started working on the plan in spring 1997.

Developing the policy has been a con­troversial and difficult process for both faculty and administration.

Metro's proposed policy was forged through extensive meetings between the

authority in deciding whether a professor is competent, Hagen said.

Furthermore, Hagen said it didn't provide any protections from admin­istrators arbitrarily end­ing tenure for profes­sors.

Faculty Senate President Council, Cheryl Norton, Metro's interim provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, Lee Combs, the college attor­ney, and Metro President Sheila Kaplan.

Last fall, some por­tions of the review plan were scratched after heavy criticism from pro­fessors.

Metro for several rea­sons Including Incom­petence and exhibit· Ing "moral turpitude."

Hagen said that under the revised plan, each department sets standards for perfor­mance, and if a tenured professor meets the

Some professors argued it gave their superiors, especially the provost, too much

requirements then their tenure cannot be terminated by' anyone outside the department. The departmental

guidelines will comply with guidelines Metro's trustees have issued for reviewing tenured professors.

Under the proposed plan, tenured pro­fessors would be evaluated every five years.

Another substantial amendment to the review policy is the inclusion of an appeals process for faculty that have received an unsatisfactory ratings.

The appeals process employs a com­mittee which is comprised of tenured fac­ulty and make recommendations lo Metro's president on whether unsatisfac­tory ratings should stand. The proposed plan states that if professors are still rated

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•New image campaign enters second phase

Keep your chin ups

By Reem Al-Omari - t. The Metropolitan

Metro's New Image Campaign, which was launched last summer to help revamp the school's image, is poised to enter its second phase this semester. The

.- first phase of the campaign recently won an award from The Council for the Support and Advancement of Education. Metro competed with 48 of the largest schools in the country, and won one of five silver second-place awards.

Metro Spokeswoman Debbie Thomas said that the first phase of the campaign was aimed to change negative perceptions about the school held by people in sur­rounding communities.

The campaign centered around giving , the college a new moniker, "The Met."

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Thomas said the nickname was fea­tured in a series of newspaper, radio and magazine advertisements for Metro.

Using "The Met" instead of Metro and Metropolitan State College of Denver was necessary to help end deeply embed­ded negative name associations with the college, Thomas said.

"We are an urban college," Thomas said. "The Met is a good reflection of the school."

Metro is considered an urban college because of its downtown location and diverse population.

A new series of ads featuring "The Met" will be published in newspapers and magazines and broadcast on the radio as early as May. The second phase will focus on specific majors and programs offered at Metro. The ads will also include a phone number that is only available in the ads to help keep track of the response from the public after seeing or hearing the ads.

"We will know that they saw the ad, and the ad lead them to take action," Thomas said.

But not everyone has reacted well to

the New Image Campaign. The college's nickname sparked con­

troversy last year because some people thought the college didn't do enough to get student input about it, said Gabriel Hermelin vice president of communica­tions for Metro Student Government Assembly.

The ~ssembly collected about 2,000 names on a petition last fall that urged the college to quit using The Met when refer­ring to the college.

"They changed the name of our school to "The Met" without letting any­one know about it," Hermelin said. "That is the main reason why we were so against it."

Hermelin, a member of the student

Gabriel Hennelln c o m m u n i c a t i o n s advisory council, protested the new

nickname, but later gave the campaign the thumbs up because she said it let people know about the school and what it has lo offer.

"The Met" is a very teeny tiny piece of the new campaign," Hermelin said. "The ads can't do the school any harm. They will either keep Metro the way it is or make it better."

Thomas said that the ads are a tool to raise the visibility of the school and what it has to offer, so potential students will consider Metro as an option when they consider enrolling for college.

"If [students] don't know we're here, they're not going to even think about us," Thomas said.

Meet "The Met" is another element of the campaign. It is a program that is an opportunity for high school students to come to the campus and meet faculty and staff at Metro. That program started last summer.

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Pablo Schwllch from the Emlly Griffith Opportunity School tries the chin-up challenge sponsored by U.S. Marines on Health and Fitness Day April 22 at Aurarla.

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A degree is just paper, but it's also a ticket

Michael BeDan

Perspective

Degree (of difficul­ty)?

I get one May 17. Exactly I 0 years, seven months and 24 days after the sojourn began.

Pretty sad if you look at it in tenns of efficien­cy. Some students gradu­ate in fewer than four years.

I have a brother-in­law who was born two days before I started college. He can beat me in video games, dress­es better than me, can curse like a man 10 years his senior and has already been in a major motion picture with Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr.

He turns 11 Sept. 21. His movie - OK, he only had one line -

should be out by 1999. I'll be 30 sooner than I'd like to admit. I've had my picture in this newspaper. I've had a couple of police mug-shots

taken a few years back. , I've never made more than $20,000 in a

single year. Christopher, my snot-nosed broth­er-in-law, got a free trip to Jamaica and $2,000 for his one-liner.

So, whr:re is this all going? Well, it's going to end May 17, that much

I know. No more formal education. But that's hardly the important part.

It's been far easier (the decade-plus it took notwithstanding) than I ever imagined. Not much homework. Not many sleepless nights worrying about tests. And better grades than I ever earned in high school.

So, why a bachelor 's degree? The journalism industry almost insists on

it. Though that was a different story 10-20 years ago.

And how else to get the riches provided by student loans. Though in six months I' ll surely regret those, too.

Really, though, it's the out-of-class educa­tion that comes from mixing with 30,000 stu­dents on an urban campus. The internship game. Free-lancing. I met my wife here. The experience of blowing it week in and week out at a college. newspaper. All worth the price of admission.

What is foolish is focusing too much on the classroom and the framed piece of paper we earn for that tunnel-vision.

The degree, really, is worthless. I know that an object dropped from a

building travels at 30 feet per second, squared. And that Christopher Columbus didn't

really discover the New World. But I could have gone to a library and

learned that for free. The degree simply is a VIP card for

employment· with a $60,000 sticker price. The education - on campus, off campus,

everywhere - is priceless. Anyway, while Christopher (my brother­

in-law) is laboring to find parts in movies, meeting the "beautiful" people in Hollywood, kicking my ass in video games and earning more for a one-liner than I earn for a month of work - I'll be spraying Windex on the glass

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Metro, DPS complete first round of curriculum modi-fications By Jason Dilg The Metropolitan units.

On April 15, Alma participants celebrated the completion Teachers and administrators at Denver Public Schools of the first set of project goals at the St. Francis Center.

are taking a big step toward multicultural education, thanks to Since 1996, the group of educators and Metro students.,,_ a joint project between Metro and the school district. developed a Latino Resource Directory and conducted work-

The project, El Alma de la Raza (The Soul of the People), shops for Denver teachers on how to research and include comes 30 years after the Colorado General Assembly passed Hispanic culture in their lessons. The DPS teachers also wrote a law requiring Colorado schools to teach how minorities, 20 new "curriculum units" to be included in classes from such as Hispanic Americans, have contributed to kindergarten to senior high. American culture and history. Curriculum units are guidelines teachers use to _

The project's goal is to broaden the scope of C:::: teach specific topics. They also spell out why the what is taught in Denver Public Schools. O topics are relevant to students.

On April 17, Gov. Roy Romer signed into law a The units have been endorsed by the public bill amending the 1968 measure to include lessons school administration, but must be approved by the on American Indians' contributions to U.S. history. Denver Public School Board.

Some say the Alma project could serve as a At the April 15 reception , Denver School Board model for other groups, such as American Indians, Chairwoman Sue Edwards said she supports the pro-to include more of the history of their contributions .. __ ilillllliilllll _ _. gram. Several project leaders said they expect the to U.S. history in public school lessons. board to approve the units soon.

The Alma project is probably farther along than any pro- The teaching units meet Colorado's teaching require-ject of its kind in the country, said Luis Torres, chainnan of ments for subjects such as geography, math, history and read-Metro's Chicana and Chicano Studies department. ing. 4

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Revealing Picasso's other side Painter's prints to be at Metro gallery By Sean Weaver The Metropolua11

The Metro Center for the Visual Arts will move to a new location in May and will celebrate in June with an exhibit of Pablo Picasso lithographs and engravings.

The exhibit, PicassQ: His Print Work, will open June 12 and continue through Aug. II.

Sally Perisho, director and curator of the center, said half of the exhibit will be on loan from the Denver Art Museum and the rest will be on loan from the El Paso Art Museum and private collectors.

Perisho also said the show is significant because it offers a rare glimpse of another side of Picasso's work that is often over­shadowed by his more famous avant-garde paintings and cubist creations.

"The works in this exhibit really cap­ture his experimentation with different mediums," Perisho said.

"Although Picasso made prints throughout his career, he did not concen­trate on that field until the late 1940s when he embarked on a series of innovations that resulted in a reevaluation of printmaking as a means of expression, In the modern era, Picasso is considered the innovator in print­making."

Timothy Standring, curator for the Denver museum's department of painting and sculpture, said the museum has only sporadically exhibited the prints over the last nine years, but the June show will be the first time they have been shown together.

"We're happy that we could help with this inaugural exhibition," Standring said.

Perisho said she is excited about the center's move.

'This relocation will greatly expand our ability to bring in high-quality exhibits

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that otherwise may not have come to Denver," she said.

Perisho said she has been negotiating with Jim Robischon, who owns Robischon Gallery at 1740 Wazee St. Metro's art cen­ter will lease space next door to Robischon Gallery at 1736 Wazee St.

"We've had three grueling days to bring the negotiations to a close," Robischon said. "We think (the Metro cen­ter) will make a good neighbor. They are probably more in tune to what we are doing here than other galleries ... It's about art."

Pins and needles

Andrea Fugate gasps as Bonfils Blood Center employ­ee Ric Hartford sticks a nee­dle into her arm to draw blood during the campus blood drive April 21. Fugate Is a Metro student. For opti­mal blood extraction, donors are instructed to repeatedly squeeze their fists.

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unsatisfactory after an appeal they will be put on a three-year action plan to improve.

If they are still deemed unacceptable after three years then the college can fire them.

Norton said the review policy has procedural integrity .

She said it's a system of evaluation that's objective and based upon evidence that's provided.

The reviews are also grounded more in annual reviews than they were previ­ously.

Professors are already evaluated yearly by their peers, supervisors and stu­dents on teaching, research, community service and other contributions to their academic discipline.

Professors are then rated either a sat­isfactory or unsatisfactory.

"The point is there are already about 17 categories of things you can get rid of someone, ranging from moral turpitude to incompetence, and post-tenure review should not be a substitute of a.nything else," Hagen said.

"Annual reviews are directly linked

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to post-tenure reviews so that we're not reinventing the wheel," Hagen said.

Doug Hartman, president of Colorado Federation of Teachers, a union some Metro professors belong to, said the review policy is now geared more toward professional growth than to dismissal.

But he said there are still problems

Monys Hagen

with the policy, such as the fair­ness of making some people undergo the eval­uation before oth­ers do .

Under the plan, everyone is not evaluated in the same year.

Norton said some professors think the plan won't be fair to the people who are reviewed first because they will have less time to pre­pare.

Norton said she has left it up to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee to decide who goes first.

If the post-tenure review policy is approved by the faculty, it will go before

the Board of Trustees for the State Colleges in Colorado, Metro's Governing Board, for ratification.

Hartman said at an April 20 campus panel discussion on post-tenure review that tenure is basically a due process pro­vision that protects faculty from arbitrary dismissal.

Colorado legislators and Metro's trustees have long supported post tenure review.

In spring 1997, a bill passed the leg­islature that would have mandated post­tenure review at state funded institutions. Gov. Roy Romer, however, vetoed the bill saying -it lacked due process.

But he later issued an executive order that set guidelines for the creation of a review plan for tenured faculty at state­funded schools.

Metro's post-tenure review policy will be published in the evaluation chap­ter of the faculty handbook.

Opponents of post tenure review have long contended that it could threaten tenure and academic freedom, while sup­porters say professors need to be held accountable for their performance even after they get tenured.

Be sure to read the registration dates and times in the Summer and Fall Class Schedules (page t 8) to determine the date and time you are eli­gible to register for the upcoming semesters!!! Dates and times for registration are determined by the number of credit hours, including trans­

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BEGINNING ON APRIL 20TH YOU MAY: 1) Call the phone system (303-575-5880) and deter­mine your date and time of registration.

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Conference rallies support for reparations· By J~ Stephemon

Students, community leaders and edu­cators converged on campus for a confer­ence on reparations April 22 to discuss why and how the U.S. government should reimburse black people for damage inflict­ed by slavery and discrimination.

The group also rallied support for a proposed national study to probe the effects of slavery on American descen­dants of slaves.

The study would include an investiga­tion into the effects of racial and econom­ic discrimination on black Americans.

Results of the $8 million project would be used to determine what items, such as money and land, the government should offer to remedy social and econom­ic disadvantages borne of discrimination and the aftershocks of slavery.

U.S. Rep. John Conyers, R-Michigan, introduced the bill to commission the study in 1997. It is still up for considera­tion by the House Judiciary Committee.

About 150 people attended the April 22 conference at Auraria to learn about Conyers' bill and the concept of repara­tions.

One conferee, Imari Obadele, a politi­cal science professor from Prairie View A&M University, near Houston, said repa­rations are a way of attaining social justice for black Americans.

"Virtually all the statistics we have show black people at the bottom of the stack in terms of health, net worth, income and housing," he said. "We believe there are residuals from slavery have hindered the ability for us to get equal opportunity in those same things."

Obadele pointed to the pre-civil rights policies of labor unions barring black members as an example how black Americans face economic hardship stem-

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CAU FOR JUSTICE: Metro professor Obldlke Kamau discusses proposed gov­ernment reparations to black Americans. He participated In a conference on the subject April 22.

ming from racism. Metro student Simone Charles said

she and other black Americans are haunted by country's legacy of slavery.

According to Conyers' bill, approxi­mately 4,000,000 Africans and their descendants were enslaved between 1619 and 1865.

"Blacks still are ashamed of the slav­ery in the same way a woman feels about being raped," Charles said.. "We' re

ashamed of the fact we were in a powerful position, though some people believe we should get over the subject of slavery."

Charles said government reparations to would begin a healing process for blacks and whites alike - but warned that it could initially heighten racial tension among the two. Charles said some whites would resent funding reparations.

"It's not about (ending) racism, it's the beginning of a forgiveness process,"

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she said. " It 's about teaching black Americans about economic rights ... It's about America saying 'I'm really, really sorry."'

Charles said reparations could be given in the form of job training or busi­ness education.

"Some people believe reparations are just welfare, but it can also be viewed as a way to get people off of welfare," she said. "The concept of reparations scares white people, but black people believe it's good for America as a whole. It starts a healing process."

While many at the conference applauded Conyers ' bill. Others on cam­pus questioned the logistics of the mea­sure. Glen McCormick, a 27-year-old Colorado Institute of Arts student, said he's not sure how the government would be able to determine whether a black per­son deserves compensation under a repara­tion program.

"I think they probably should go ahead and so do some studying and research but I think that (criteria for get­ting reparations) would have to depend on a person's background and if they could prove their situation was a direct result of their heritage," McCormick said.

Metro Professor Obidike Kamau said the concept of reparations is nothing new.

"A reparation is an international legal concept employed when there is an aggressive state that commits a crime against humanity, such as genocide or slavery," Karnau said.

Foreign governments, such as Germany, have instituted reparation pro­grams to compensate those who suffered at the hands of the government.

In 1951 , a group of German politi­cians announced that compensation for Holocaust survivors is the country's moral responsibility and formed a program to pay those victimized by Nazi persecution.

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Tivoli weapon arrest results in 5 charges By Jason Dilg The Metropolita11

officers that he knew karate and that he could kill a man five different ways with his bare hands and he would shoot the next officer he saw. Auraria police detained a man April

16 on suspicion of " flourishing a weapon" at about 2 p.m. inside the Tivoli building. The man was not a student.

But what might have been a routine encounter got bloody when the man began threatening police and struggling when the officers restrained him .

After Moore tried to kick the student .,.. guard, Rulla wrestled Moore to the ground. As Rulla held him down, Moore continued threatening the officers, shout-

Stephen E. Moore of 1182 Clermont St., 19, now is facing charges of interfer­ence, disturbing the peace, threatening to injure police, assaulting a police officer and flourishing a weapon.

Moore said he thought police were "a little rough" with him during the arrest.

But Auraria police chief Joe Ortiz said the arresting officers acted appropriately.

Police said they approached Moore in response to a call that a man had an open knife in his hand in the Tivoli building.

Officers Paul Rulla and John Van Dyke, along with a campus security guard and a student security guard, confronted Moore on the wheelchair ramp outside the Tivoli AMC movie theaters.

The officers ordered Moore to put down the bag he was holding in one hand and take his other hand out of his pocket. Moore dropped the bag but kept his left hand in his pocket.

Rulla grabbed Moore's left ann and pulled it from his pocket. He then hand­cuffed Moore. As he was being hand­cuffed, Moore shouted that he had done nothing wrong.

"What am I being arrested for?" Moore demanded as Rulla pulled a small, black folding knife, which was closed, from Moore's right pocket. "For assault with a deadly weapon," Rulla responded.

Moore exploded into a violent tirade that lasted for nearly 30 minutes. He told

ing that he was being assaulted by fake police and that he had done nothing wrong.

At one point, Rulla shoved Moore's head down to the con-

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lifted Moore to his feet, he had blood on his face.

The officers took Moore to the holding cell in the security office in the Tivoli, where he kicked the bars and continued

shouting at police loudly enough to be heard clearly in the Tivoli's second floor hallways.

Auraria police turned Moore over to Denver police. Moore was released from custody later that night on $500 bond, according to a representative of the Denver Sheriff's Department

Auraria police offered Moore medical attention, but he refused it, Moore said.

"I just wanted to get out of there," Moore said.

Moore said that he carries the knife, which police say is smaller than 3.5 inches long, as a pocket knife.

"I forgot I was carrying it," he said. "I took it out of my pocket, opened it, looked at it, closed it and put it back in my pock-et."

Moore said that if he had it to do all over again, he would not react to police the same way.

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Portland m.an nam.ed new Business dean By Sean Weaver 711e Metropolitan

Metro's school of business will have a permanent dean beginning in the summer.

Cheryl Norton, vice president for aca­--. demic affairs, said James Robertson from

the University of Portland in Oregon has accepted Metro's offer for the position.

Norton said Metro offered Robertson the position on March 26, but interviews for positions at other schools delayed his

... decision. Robertson served as dean of the

School of Business at the University of Portland from 1987 to 1996. He is current-

ly a tenured professor at the university. "Dr. Robertson's extensive experi­

ence as a business professor and adminis­trator will bring a balanced perspective to this extremely important position," Norton said.

The school of business has been with­out a permanent dean for four years. Concern about departmental leadership arose afler a former dean, Jerry Geisler, was fired Sept. 28, 1994. A petition, circu­lated among the faculty after Geisler's dis­missal , said the firing was a breach in con­tinuity in the Business School.

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"Without some stability on our lead­ership, there's no way we'll be accredit­ed." Monroe said. "We're pleased and excited he accepted. We've taken a major step in the process of accreditation."

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fall 1995 between DPS Superintendent Irv Moskowitz and Torres.

"We talked about what such a project might look like, and (Moskowitz) told me to put it down on paper," Torres said. "Pretty soon, we had a project proposal."

They used the proposal to apply for a grant from the Colorado Department of Education in 1996. They got $150,000.

During the project's first year, Metro contributed $17,500 and nearly $60,000 in faculty release time, computer services and other costs.

Joan Foster, dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said Metro's expenses, and pro­fessors' time are resources well-spent.

"We're integrating very important information into the curriculum," Foster said. "This will affect generations of stu­dents."

Many educators hope the units will lower the dropout rate of Hispanic stu­dents attending Denver Public Schools. Forty-nine percent of Denver's Hispanic students drop out of high· school. The nationwide dropout rate for Hispanic stu­dents is 33 percent.

"We have to treat the schools more like a business and give the students what they want," said Steve Garner, a social studies teacher at West High School.

He said if teachers can get students interested in what's being taught in Denver schools, then he expects to see fewer kids drop out.

The new curriculum units will help instructors with topics including the role of Mexican muralists in American art, the history of the Mexican-American War and the importance of works by Hispanic authors.

For Metro professor Monica Russell y Rodriguez, it's not just a question of keep­ing kids in school. It's about the transfor·

mation of American education and what we value as a society.

"It's such a sham when you consider a 'well-rounded' education is so narrow," Russell y Rodriguez said.

"And when you ignore the contribu­tions of Mexican culture and history to the culture of the United States, you can. ignore the imperialism, oppression and colonization of Manifest Destiny." .

And if students expect to learn fully the history of Colorado and the Southwest,

then Mexican his­

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tory is important, he said.

Mexico's bor­ders included much of Colorado and extended north into Wyoming before the Mexican· American War of .., 1846-1848.

What is included in the public school's curriculum also sends a message about who matters in American -society, Russell y Rodriguez said. _

"It's not just adding spice. If the his- , _ tory of Chicanos and Chicanas is impor­tant, then we as a people are important," she said.

The project's grant money runs out in September, but Torres said he hopes DPS will fund the project.

Torres. said project leaders will also seek grant money from · foundations to support the project in the future.

Torres said that another 40 to 45 teachers are preparing to write another set of curriculum units.

With the Alma curriculum units as models, Torres said that it will be easier for other school districts to include Hispanic topics in their curriculums.

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Former student body president wants to be a student again

By Claudia Hibbert-BeDan The MetropoliJan

H er days usually start at 8 or 9 in the morning. Then it's time for class, a shift in the Tivoli Club Hub or a meeting with campus adminis­

trators or with students. Most nights she stays up until at least I o'clock, and

sometimes she's missed class because she didn't feel right about walking out of meetings.

Now Kannin Trujillo warfts to just be a student. April 23 marked the end of Karmin's term as presi­

dent of Metro's Student Government Assembly. It wasn't an easy decision, she said. Many expected her to run for a second term.

"All these people were saying, 'You've got to run again,' she said. "And I just felt kind of pressured more than anything. I mean my heart's totally there. And it's really hard when you fight so hard and work so hard to let go of it.

"But I guess there comes a time in everyone's life when they have to choose a direction. And I need to do what's best for me now."

Karmin, 21, always knew that she would attend col­lege. Her father, Bill, has stressed the importance of edu­cation all her life. She found out in her junior year at Green Mountain High School in Lakewood that she'd won a full-ride scholarship to Metro from Teachers for Colorado, a program to swell the ranks of Colorado edu­cators.

Karmin 's mother, Rose, died of colon cancer when Karrnin was 4 years old. Now Karmin must visit the doc­tor every two years for check-ups. The last one was this semester.

"I have a couple of memories of her," she said of her mother. "But the most vivid memories that stand out are her funeral. I remember the limo ride and my brother and I were arguing about the front seat.

"I think she cares and she's passionate about her edu­cation and also th.e standards of education at Metropolitan State College of Denver," Hazan said. "I think she had a great line of communication. She ran the meetings every well and made sure that every viewpoint in regard to particular issues was addressed."

If anything, the members were frustrated with students not attending meetings and panel discussions to

McConnell continued. "She's very outgoing, and she has just a way of talking to people and a real desire to get to know people. On the plane coming home, I remember we were all split up, and I remember hearing her talk to somebody she didn't know, and I just remember observ­ing her style and realizing that was the same style she

uses with everyone." A self-described dreamer and opti-

mist, Karmin's career goal is to be a address campus issues, he said.

Even so, Karrnin said she felt privileged to work with the group.

"When I think of each individual and what they accomplished, I can't complain at all," Karmin said. "Even the ones who resigned, there's no way that I could ever criticize the work that (they) did. No way -because they were incredible and had a lot to offer."

"I guess there comes a time In everyone's life

when they have to choose a

high school English teacher in the inner city. A career in politics is nowhere on her agenda.

" I have no desire to be a politi­cian," she said. "I totally loved what I was doing because I could help other students. And I had the power to do it because I had some cheesy title behind my name. And I think that's a bunch of crap. I think it's crap when faculty will direction.''

Jan McConnell, a Metro anthro-try to blow you off, and then you' re like, 'I'm student body president,' and

pology professor and adviser for Helping Hands, a community service club, feels the same way about Karmin, who is also a member of the club. McConnell spent spring break

- Karmin Trujillo, their whole attitude changes.

"I want to be a teacher because you see a lot of teachers that are in the school system today that are doing it just because it's a job. And that's not a good reason for being in the teaching profession. You're in the teaching pro-

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with the club members in Costa Rica. They were working on a trail-rebuild-ing project on a mountain 7,500 feet tall. It required a lot• of hard work, but Karrnin took it all in stride.

"ff you can imagine at 7,500 feet, it's much more dif­ficult climbing up the mountain slopes and they had to carry all the tools with them," McConnell said. "They carried heavy mauls and saws and machetes and that sort of thing in order to not only get the equipment to rebuild the steps but in order to even do .the work. They couldn 't have done it without them."

"She was the morale-booster for the group,"

fession because you want to teach and because you want to help students."

So Karmin wants to take more time for snowboard­ing and hanging out with her dad and friends. Karrnin and her dad went camping and hiking in Moab, Utah, last summer. He just finished climbing all 54 or Colorado's 14,000-footers, and now he's been taking her on the trails he's already mastered.

"There's ·so much to appreciate in life," she says. "Although there's a lot of stuff that happens, it's not

worth being so worried about it that you're not appreciating everything else

now. Maybe that 's just it. I just

"I can remember the casket in the back of the church because it was an open casket. I can remember being at the cemetery before they lowered (the casket) into the ground. I remember my dad walking up to it and crying.

"I knew that she'd died and that everything was I:. ._,._ i~\ over. But my dad said about a week later I was ~ \'.\ • ·

love life, and I love people. And I love hiking, you

know, stupid stuff." asking when Mom was coming home." ~~'1 • .o_\,. ·~ ~

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stomach April 21, a day after he helped A f Karmin get a new battery for her car. She { il'.' was worried, but she· tried not to let it get '~~ to her.

'There's not so much I can do," she explained. "L mean it's scary and it does trigger a lot of emotion because of my mom. But I mean it's something that's inevitable.

"If he's going to die, he's going to die. And I know that sounds horrible because you know I love him to death. I just kept it in my. prayers and hoped that everything turned ouJ fine and took it one step at a time."

Robert Hazan, a Metro political sci­ence professor and faculty adviser for the student government, said Karrnin was an exceptional leader. She seldom missed meetings, organized discussions about leadership and always let people have their say. He never heard a complaint about Karmin's performance from student government f '

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DCTC's lineup stronger than Blake Street's By Ricardo Baca Tire Me11vpo/11a11

T he Denver Center Theatre Company is pretty excit­ed.

DCTC Artistic Director Donavan Marley, who chooses the plays that make up each season, has

released the 411 for next year, the company's 20th season -and it should be a good one.

Keeping with a little bit of classic literature, the company will be performing more modern works next season -including a couple recent Best Play Tony winners, a work by a renowned comedian-turned-play­wright and a much celebrated world premier written and directed inside the company.

The piece that's most exciting is Master Class, Terrence McNally's meditational trib­ute to the life of Maria Callas and the nature of her art: singing.

As I 996's Best Play, Master Class ven­tures the joyous, and sometimes painful , con­tinuum of the arti s tic process. Classic McNally writing includes great music, glam­orous idealisms and a larger-than-life, cynical central character that is downright funny. This piece will play toward the end of the season, Mar. 18 -April 17, 1999.

Winning the Tony for Best Play a year later in 1997 was Alfred Uhry's The Last Night in Ballyhoo, and that will be directed by Anthony Powell from Oct. 21 - Nov. 28 in the Ricketson.

Ballyhoo visits an Atlanta Jewish family dealing with complex prejudice as the U.S. enters World War II. The social event of the Jewish holiday season acts as a haunting backdrop for the show, see-ing two cousins as they search for romance through different conventions.

At the same time in The Stag(( Theatre, Denver audiences will get their first dose of comedian/actor Steve Martin's play­writing capabilities. His Picasso at the Lapin Agile, a comedic hypothetical meeting of Picasso and Einstein in a Parisian bistro, each on the verge of their respective breakthrough achievements, will play from Oct. 15 - Nov. 14.

This somewhat hard-to-follow script will, most likely, take on a new, more audience-friendly form on stage. The two char­acters go to battle over sex, art and science on the brink of a new age, and hopefully director Randal Myler will present it in well­staged format.

Closing out the season will be the world premier of DCTC member Nagle Jackson's The Election of Thieves (May 6 - June 5). This new play took 3rd in the Onassis Foundation's interna­tional competition for new plays, which attracted more than 24,000 applicants. It explores religious, social and conflicts fac­ing the world on the eve of the new millennium.

Other notable shows include Dream 011 Monkey Mountain (Jan. 14 - Feb. 20), which will be a collaboration between the DCTC and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Jan. 27 - Mar. 6) which is still playing off-Broadway; and the Shakespeare stan­dard: The Tempest (Mar. 11 - April 17), to be directed by Anthony Powell.

The low point of the season, as always, will be when direc­tor Laird Williamson rehashes the overly produced A Christmas Carol (Nov. 27 - Dec. 26). The press release calls this story "timeless," but this show has worn out its welcome and a yearly visit isn't necessary.

I'd rather see a good stage production of Charlie Browns Christmas. Who would they get to play Lucy?

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By Ricardo Baca 171e Me1ivpolt1a11

W clcome to Problem Solving I 0 I. Our first problem: you want to go to the theater, but

it's too expensive and you don't have very much money.

First of all , realize that it costs money to s tage a production, to rent the venue and to occasionally pay the actors. So, naturally the tickets are going to run between $15 and $70.

But I just happen to have the skinny on affordble, professional theater in Denver. Seven graduat­ing master 's students across the

street at the National Theatre Conservatory are performing Fifth of

July and Good Woman of Setzuan in repertory - and for $12, you' ll get your

money's worth. In Lanford Wilson's emotional comedy

Fifth of July, idiosyncricies take center stage as eight friends revisit their flowery hopes and peaceful dreams of the '60s when they regroup on a secluded Missouri ranch.

The first act is a classic example of captivating expo­sition as adequate - but still limited- information is given about the characters and their juxtaposing relation­ships. This sets up a surprising, emotional second act that stomps on your heart with golf cleats and then reassur­ingly pats you on the butt with an expected ending.

On the other hand, Bertholt Brecht's Good Womam of Setzuan has everything but an expected ending.

Brecht's farcical humor shines through golden, once again prcving itself timeless and universal. This story involves three quirky gods in search of goodness. When they find it in a penniless harlot, they temporarily give her all of her desires: money, love and friendship.

The catch with this play is the choose-your-own­adventure-style ending. Director Jennifer McCray Rincon staged this play with oddball flair an_d a twist of unexpected uncannyness on the rocks and in your face.

The acting in both shows was excellent, although, at times it turned a little academically stiff.

Presenting strong performances across the board, Patrick Goss captured the essence of the multiple charac­ters in Setzuan and was convincingly crippled and men­tally injured in July. His talent and personable versatility make him a much valued asset to any production

Julliet Smith is alko good in her eccentric roles, but it would have been better to have seen her dramatic side, also. Her Gwen in July showed emotion in the second act but that just left the audience yearning for more drama from her unfortunate casting.

The rest of the cast give strong performances and have few problems, but Rachel Kae Taylor seems to slack at times. As the good woman of Setzuan, her line deliv­ery paled to her cohorts. And granted it's a difficult char­,acter, her June in July lacked depth and energy.

Nonetheless, kudos to the conservstory's graduating class. Hopefully a few will stick around to benefit Denver's thriving theater community.

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Suicide king seeks a~dience with student Mob tale proof of industrys ability to create with little corporate involvement

By Mike Duffy ._The Towerliglrt

(U-WIRE) TOWSON, Md. - "If we ever wanted another take, we'd just ask him," Jeremy Sisto says of first time film director Peter O'Fallon, whose Suicide Kings opened on April 17. The film is a dark, emotional, and, at times,

_wickedly funny character study of five young men played by Sisto, Henry Thomas, Jay Mohr, Johnny Galecki, and Sean Patrick Flanery) who kidnap mob boss Carlo Bartolucci (Christopher Walken).

Filmed in just under a month for about $5 .million, Suicide Kings (which also features Denis ~eary and Laura San Giacomo) is proof that entertaining and thought-provoking films can be made with little studio interference.

Adapted from Don Stanford's short story Kings, the film tells the tale of Max (Flanery), ~hose girlfriend is kidnapped. Hoping Barlolucci can use his connections to help him find his girl­friend, Max persuades his friends to help him kid­nap the aging mob boss.

In a phone interview, Jeremy Sisto (star of Clueless and White Squall) spoke to me about Suicide Kings and his other work from New York,

- >where, he tells me, he is under a blanket, half hung over after a late night out and a long morn­ing of interviews.

"We went . . . somewhere," he strains as he laughs and tries lo reply to my question about

J. CREW CATALOGUE: Jeremy Sisto (T.K.) is flanked by the rest of the cast of Suicide Kings, including Jay Mohr (Brett what he did last night. I figµre that I'll do better

Campbell), Henry Thomas (Avery Chasten), Johnny Galecki (Ira Reder) and Sean Patrick Flanery (Max Minot). jl.Jst asking him about the movie.

"It's interesting to watch," Sisto says of Kings. His char­acter, T.K., stands out because he is one of the only characters who isn't physically harmed at the end of the film. T.K. is a young man who's under the delusion that he can be a doctor just because his father is a doctor, and who needs drugs to telp him satisfy this fantasy. However, his and all the other characters' fantasies of control are destroyed midway through the film with a surprising betrayal by one of their own.

Describing T.K., Sisto says, "in some ways, he feels the betrayal more deeply than anyone else."

Getting the film together was a bit tough, but once Walken was on board, cast members were fighting for parts. They were all doing .Walken impressions by the end,. but Jay Mohr (Brett), having previously parodied Walken selling

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Skittles ("fun fruit flavor") on Saturday Night Live, had an unfair advantage.

Would Jeremy Sisto ever consider behaving like the char­acters in Suicide Kings? "Hell, no," he replies quickly, assur­ing me that last night's adventure didn't blur his judgment too much.

His first big break was Grand Canyon, in which he appeared when he was 16. He found the experience memo­rable- he "got laid for the first time."

He's worked with everyone from director Ridley Scott (on White Squall) to Jon Bon Jovi (Moonlight & Valentino). ls Bon Jovi the consummate rock star off-camera? "He took me to a (Rolling) Stones concert," Sisto recounts. "He's actu­ally a really nice guy, even though he's walking cheese."

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Sisto has many films in the pipeline, including Robert Towne's Without Limits, in which he will play Olympic ath­lete Frank Shorter next to Billy Crudup's Steve Prefontaine. "It was really tiring," Sisto says of Without Limits, "but it taught me how lo run."

Also ahead for Sisto is Bongwater, which he describes as a "warped comic book." In this film, he's one half of a gay couple alongside Newsradio's Andy Dick. "Andy is so fuckin' funny" Sisto says.

In addition, Sisto will play an "elusive charmer" opposite Juliette Lewis in Men. "I break her heart," he explains. "It's kind of an extreme role."

For now, though, Jeremy Sisto is very pleased with Suicide Kings. "I want people to see this movie," he says.

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Editorial

News: Metro won't mail grade reports to students anymore.

Views: The college is inconveniencing students to save money.

Maybe it's not the worst thing the college could have done, but that doesn't make it right.

Students won't be get­ting a grade report in the mail anymore. Metro wants to save money. It costs about $7,500 to mail the grade reports.

The college would rather spend $2,400 to send postcards alerting students to the new policy, then force students to chase down their grades.

Granted, students can find out what their grades are. The phone system, the college's Web site and "Ask Rowdy" kiosks will all have grade information.

But why downgrade service to paying cus-

tomers? The.almighty dollar? That argument doesn't fly here. There are some 17,000 students on campus.

Student fees are increasing and if our math is correct, it doesn't cost much per student to mail the grade reports. Is 44 cents per student too much?

The grade reports list students' grades for every semester attended. It's an unofficial transcript. And after spending thousands of dollars to attend school, burning hour after hour studying and red-lining on stress, a grade report in the mailbox is a nice reward.

Metro can afford to mail grades. It just doesn't want to.

The college should consider the ramifications of this move.

Students should question Metro's customer ser­vice.

How many refrigerators will go undecorated as a result?

Eight years and ready to bag· it Dear Satan, Perhaps you can help me. Some people describe col-

lege graduation as a time of uncertainty, bittersweet reflec­tion and perhaps remorse.

I don't.. I am filled with utterly

gleeful anticipation of my grad-Jesse Stephenson uation this spring.

The Scoop Not just because I've spent the last seven years as a Metro student. And definitely not

because I embrace some half-baked notion that pos­sessing a bachelor of arts degree in journalism will lend me an air of professionalism or even financial solvency.

I breathlessly await graduation for but one rea­son: Soon I will end my eight-year stint as a grocery store clerk.

You see Satan, I'm not just going to burn this bridge, I'm going to vaporize it.

In the interest of fairness, I'll note that the hours I've logged in the express lane have financed my edu­cation and enabled me to purchase a set of used but functional living-room furniture.

And I will forever cherish the friendships I've built with many of my fellow grocery-store worker drones and some of my customers as well (you prob­ably won't be seeing any of them for the rest of eter­nity).

However, the moment I'm offered another job, I'm going to set fire to my big red-and-blue acrylic apron and savagely hack my Safeway-logo necktie to shreds. After that, I shall stomp to bits my name badge that proclaims, "Serving You Since 1990."

Why? Because of the approximately 784,965 customers

I've "served," more than a bagful deserve to be rele­gated to your sav-o-mart in hell when they die. They have insulted me. Enraged me. Made me want to wipe snot on their broccoli florets.

And the worst part of it is that many of my dear checker friends will undoubtedly have to put up with these shopping sinners for years to come. Worse still, millions of poor souls relegated to grocery store work will have to endure the, pardon me, hell of customer service.

So Satan, seeing as how you're in charge of eter­nal afterlife tortures, etc., I politely request that you

consider the following tortures I've recommended for the shopping sinners who make the clerks of the world a miserable lot.

Here goes: Shopper sin No. 1: launching complaints in form

of hypothetical questions. Sin Scenario: Checker: Hello ma'am, what type of bags would

you like today? Ma'am: Why is it you people never carry Brand

X frozen pot roast? Why is lettuce so expensive this week? Why do your shopping carts have crud under­neath the baby seat?

Recommended Punishment: After they arrive in hell, how about asking these depraved souls end­less questions, such as how many ounces of water were in the Bering Sea in 1924. For every wrong answer, fire a battery of molten Ding Dongs at the sin­ner.

Shopper sin No. 2: checkstand elitism. Sin scenario: Customer in back of line to checker: Excuse me,

I'm in a hurry. Why can't someone open up another line? I haven't got all day, you know.

Recommended Punishment: How about rele­gating these sinners to the back of a 67 million-mile express lane in hell 's sav-o-mart. While they are wait­ing, continuously pipe in a couple selections from the Chipmunks Christmas Celebration album at 70 mil­lion decibels.

Shopper sin No. 3: Common courtesy sabotage. Sin Scenario: Checker: How are you today, sir? Customer: (No reply) Checker: Would you prefer paper or plastic

today? Customer: (gruffly) Plastic. Checker: OK then (finishes bagging items).

Thank you. Customer: (No reply) Checker: Have a nice day. Recommended punishment: Why don't you

design a torture chamber where demons who resem­ble Ann Landers and Judith Martin hold down the sin­ner while a spike-heeled, enraged "Abby" marches up and down their naked backs.

Thanks for your consideration Satan, See you again soon in the express line.

Jesse Stephenson is a Metro student and the news edi­tor at The Metropolitan.

Metro music students, faculty deserve finer facilities for studies

. It never fails, whatever practice room I'm in, I can hear what every­one else is studying. I cock my ear to one side and the pianist in the next room is studying Chopin. Listening to the room on my other side and there is a clarinetist butchering Handel. The room across from mine

Dave Romberg has a trumpet player warming up.

Jive With all the racket, my practice time quickly evolves into a study of selec­tive hearing . .

That's not the way it should be. But that's the way it is. Every music room on this campus is an illustration of how not to build a music school. It could have cost Metro music its accreditation, according to Ron Miles, Metro music professor.

"When (the National Association of Schools of Music) inspected the facility 25 years ago, its inadequacy was an issue," Miles said.

That's not the way it has to be. Auraria is about to break ground on what has been

called the new "Performing Arts" building. This is where the music school could go. This is where the visual arts department could go. Then, those departments that don 't need anything other than four walls, some desks and a blackboard (like English or history) could easily take over the space music holds and make it usable.

This is the scenario that makes the most sense. Which is why, on this campus, it probably won't hap­

pen. Instead, the Performing Arts Building is being billed

as a place to showcase. The $2. I million complex will boast a 550-seat concert hall and a 350-seat theater. According to the designer, Peter Lucking, it will be a standard-setting facility.

So when we play in public, it will be that much eas­ier to hear how badly we sound.

That may be overkill, but the point is there: No mat­ter how splendid your performance space is, if your learn­ing space is inadequate, your sound will only reflect that.

The reason I originally came to Metro was to have the opportunity to study under accomplished musicians in a relaxed, yet highly educational atmosphere. I wasn't let down. The music faculty here are the best I've seen. That's including the University Of Northern Colorado, whose music school was rated fourth in the nation by the NASM while I was in attendance.

But the facility is at the bottom of the barrel. There is no performance space, true. But that doesn't

begin to cover the Jack of decent practice space or teach­ing studios. There aren't even enough offices to go around to the professors - office space that could be used as teaching space.

I'll put up Metro's music professors against any. They are accomplishing a very difficult feat: turning out quality musicians who bolster the school's reputation from a facility built almost to do the opposite. But it's time Metro and Auraria realizes that not every student who attends class here wants to go into business. There are plenty of arts students who can' t afford the big-name art or music schools. Students with just as much talent as anyone at the Chicago Institute of Art or Juliard.

Why shouldn't these students get the same quality education as those in more ethereal pursuits of study? ,

Dave Flomberg is a Metro student and a columnist/copy editor for The Metropolitan.

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Fifty cents hardly constitutes rape

Claudia Hlbbert-&!Dan

Have you ever lost 50 cents? How about $2.50 or $10?

It's only a big deal if that's all you have and you don't have any friends who will help you out.

But my C?lleague, Dave Flomberg, a copy editor/columnist for The Metropolitan, said it was a really big deal in a column April 17.

It's the equivalent of rape in his opin-

Soapbox ion. Frankly, I don't see the connection. Auraria administrators will raise park­

ing rates an extra 50 cents by the summer semester to pay off debts for Auraria's parking garage. But Flomberg doesn 't think students should pay for parking because they're already slammed with a slew of olher fees.

The increase could cost students, faculty and staff an extra $2.50 per week or $I 0 per month if they continue to drive and park their cars in certain lots on campus.

"First they rape us, Lhen Lhey tell us to like it," his column begins.

Last year, students vying for positions on the Student Government Assembly used Lhe same tactic. The Student Involvement Party got slammed for posting campaign fliers with

eye-catching phrases, such as "We Get Raped Every Semester.:· It turns out they were talking about high prices in the campus bookstore.

Rape is much uglier than this. And Flomberg and members of Lhe Student Involvement Party, although the group quickly apologized, trivialized that.

· "Believe me, having a car stolen, or your house broken into, or being mugged or being dumped - while all of these are all terribly painful and humiliating, angering experiences - feels nothing like being raped," writes one woman on a Web page she designed to deal wilh her roller coaster of emotions.

All these things can be replaced, she says. Replacing one's sense of security, however, is a more daunting task.

"I can never get back the January night when he held his knife to my throat and said, 'Don't scream,'" the woman contin­ues. "I can't seal the seams of my scars and make them never have happened, make him never have cut me, make me never have cul myself, trying to get him out."

Rape is a life-threatening act of violence. Paying higher fees for parking is not. It's a mild inconve­

nience most everyone on campus will put up with and it won't really affect them one way or the other.

The same thing can't be said about rape.

Claudia Hibbert-BeDan is a UCD student and a columnist/copy editor for The Metropolila11

Letters 'Quite {sic) spending so much time on sports'

Editor, My name is Calherine Campbell and I ran as an independent

candidate for the V.P. of Communications in the recent Metro Student Government election.

I would like to Lhank everybody that voted for me, your sup­port was greately (sic) appreaciated (sic). I would also like to address Lhe issue of the papers (sic) complete lack of support for independent candidates running for office. The idea that indepen­dents were unclear about issues was bolh inacurrate (sic) and uncalled for and it was expressed during election week thus giv­ing no time for independent candidates to refute.

I personally have had input into the creation of a handbook for disabled students and I was instrumental in causing The Metropolitan to be printed in an alternate fonnat, Lhus making it avaiable (sic) to all students. Further, I recently took part in con-

ducting an Emergency Procedures lour of campus with Lieutenant Jefferies of the Denver Fire Department.

These are significant issues that affect many students and it is a pity that the paper has been more occupied with sports this last year than infonning Lhe students about these and other impor­tant issues, most of which the paper has been made aware of. Perhaps if the paper would report on issues of interest to the stu­dents and quite (sic) spending so much time on sports and per­sonal rhetoric, the students would be better informed and thus be able to get involved in the activities and issues Lhat take place on campus. As it is, the only use I have found for the paper in the last year has been as a liner in my bird's cage.

Catherine M. Campbell Metro student

Recycling program needs your help at Auraria Editor, I am an environmental psychology student who is volunteer­

ing with the recycling program at Auraria. The recycling program is having a problem that needs attention.

Auraria doesn't have color paper recycling, but people mis­takenly put colored paper in Lhe bins. This defeats the whole pur­pose of recycling because Lhe colored paper wastes Lhe whole bin and makes the bin ineligible for recycling. Olher items that cont­aminate the paper bin are sticky notes, envelopes, trash and refill paper covers.

People might wonder why we don't have color paper recy-

cling at Auraria. In order to get color recycling, the program needs lo make money. At Lhe present time, it is breaking even. If recycling participation increases and less contamination occurs, maybe enough money will be made to afford colored recycling.

If students are interested in helping the recycling program, contact Jessica Walsh at 556-6468.

Thanks for your interest.

Candi Trujillo Metro student

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Metro earns

appearance Baseball team pitches way past USC and into Top 25 By Nick Garner The Metropolita11

The four-game series with the University of Southern Colorado on April 19-20 was not just another series the Metro baseball team won - the outcome made history for the entire program.

By taking three of four games from USC, the Roadrunners clinched their first postseason berth since the team joined the Colorado Athletic Conference in 1991 . It has since become a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

In addition to the post season berth, the Roadrunners jumped into the Collegiate Baseball Division II Poll at No. 23 as of April 19. It is the first time the Roadrunners have been in the rankings under coach Vince Porreco.

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Porreco said. "But we cannot relax on the last games of the season."

Relaxing is what the Roadrunners did in Game 2 of a doubleheader on April 20. USC pitcher Darren Avila no­hit the Roadrunners, striking out 13 and walking six in the Thunderwolves' lone win of the series.

"The guy had a decent fastball and a good curve," senior catcher Pat Maxwell said. "I give the guy

credit. It was not meant to be for us in that game." With the loss, the Roadrunners still have a chance

of winning the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season title, but they will need some

third baseman Thomas Schilling and Maxwell got into a lteated verbal exchange.

"He Alomar-ed me," Maxwell said, meaning Schilling had spit in his face as Baltimore Orioles' second baseman Roberto Alomar did to an umpire near the end of the 1996 season.

Metro's starting pitcher T.J. McAvoy walked past Schilling and pushed him. McAvoy and Schilling got into a shouting match, which resulted in both benches clearing onto the field. After the teams went back to their dugouts, the home plate umpire ejected McAvoy and Schilling. The USC third baseman had hit two home runs earlier in the

day in Game 1 of the doubleheader. Schilling leads Division II baseball with 22

home runs. Porreco ~ent to his

bullpen and brought Ryan in to finish the game.

"He Alomar-ed

Ryan went six innings, giving up four hits, two runs and striking out six Thunderwolves to earn his first win of the season.

help from USC. The Thunderwolves

meet first place Fort Hays State, in a four game series April 25-26 at USC. For the Roadrunners to win the

regular season title USC needs to at least split with Hays, and Metro must win three of four against New Mexico-Highlands in a series scheduled for the same days in Las Vegas, N.M. That would give Metro the No. I seed in the conference tournament May l in Colorado Springs and its first regular season RMAC title.

"It proves a point," junior pitcher Bill Ryan said. "Metro is not noted for its baseball program .

"Some of the teams in the RMAC think that our pro­gram sucks. We want to prove to these guys that we are for real and we can compete with the best teams around."

Excluding the last game of the series, the Roadrunners' pitching and defense kept the Roadrunners in all of three victories while the hitters mostly struggled.

"Our bats can b~ explosive, but we have not peaked yet," Porreco said. "I'm still waiting until we swing to our potential."

In Game 2 of the doubleheader on April 19, the Roadrunners got pitching from an unexpected source.

After the third out in the top of the first inning, USC

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"This was the longest outing for me

this season," Ryan sai'd. " I went four innings

against Northern ColQrado and did well."

While Ryan was shutting the door on USC, Maxwell was crushing

any hope for the Thunderwolves lo win the game .

In the bottom of the first trailing 1-0, senior right fielder Josh Castro singled and center fie lder Jim Johnson walked. On a 2-1 count, Maxwell crushed his third home run of the year, giving the Roadrunners a 3-1 lead.

'The pitch was belt high," Maxwell said. "I just jumped on it."

Clinging to a one run lead in the bottom of the third (3-2), Johnson bunted his way on. On the next pitch, Maxwell smacked his second round tripper of the game to give Metro a 5-2 lead. USC scored another run in the sev­enth to make the final 5-3.

In Game I of the doubleheader, junior pitcher Ariel Garibay went six innings, allowing three runs on five hits in a 4-3 eight-inning victory.

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Helman, 6 others in Hall of Fame

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Coaching baseball at Metro was more than just a job for Metro's current Athletic Director William Helman.

"I would go out on the field and just look around," Helman ~aid. "I would think to myself, 'I can't b• :eve that they are paying me to do this when I would do it for free .'"

Helman along with six other former Metro athletes and coaches will be induct­ed June 6 in the Roadrunner Hall of Fame. Both the time and place will be announced at a later date.

Helman, who coached baseball at Metro for 14 years, posted a 338-293-2 record. One of his teams posted a school best 34-15 record in 1987. His teams were nationally ranked twice (13th in 1989 and 3rd in 1990). In four of his last six seasons coaching, the Roadrunners boasted 30 wins or better. Helman coached the NCAA Division II batting champ, Torin Berge (.487) in 1987. More than 50 play­ers were named to All-American, All­Regional or All-League teams in his tenure, and seven players advanced to the professional level.

"When I finished coaching, I never thought I'd be in the Hall of Fame," Helman said. "I am honored to join the others."

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Rusty · Beefus, another of Helman 's former players, completes this year 's baseball class. Beefus played at Metro from 1989-1992. He was a pre-season All­American selection in 1990. Beefus is first in numerous categories on the all-time list. He is first in games played with 205, hits with 247, runs scored with 184, RBI with 203, home runs with 45 and in total bases with 444. ·

Metro 's second winningest men's basketball coach Bob Hull will be induct­ed as well. Hull, who saw two of his squads go to the NCAA Division II North Central Regional Tournament in the 1989 and 1990 seasons, set the school record for most wins in a season with 28. The 1989 team won the school 's first ever confer­ence title. Hull coached four All­Americans and was named Basketball Times National Coach of the Year in 1990.

Verna Julaton, a former volleyball and women's basketball player, was voted into the hall. She played two seasons with both teams, ranks fifth all-time in assists for the volleyball team with 2,703 and

career assists per game with 8.98. She ranks fifth in digs per game.

Former All-American swimmer Jedd Neary was elected. Neary finished in the top six at nationals in the I 00 breaststroke and in the top 12 both years in the 200 breaststroke. He was named Intermountain Swimming League Male Athlete of the Year and still holds several school records in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke and the 200 individual med­ley.

Rounding out the list is Kathy Crusan-Walker. Called by her coach, the best defensive player in the Rocky Mountain region. Crusan-Walker played on three teams that went to the National Tournament.

There are three criteria that one must meet to be elected to the Hall of Fame. Se.lections are made every two years.

Each nominee must be a former Metro athlete, coach or staff member, and graduate from a four-year col­lege. Each must be out of Metro ath­letics for four years. Anyone can nominate a candidate meeting the cri­teria for the ballet. Once on the bal­let, that candidate will never be erased from it. A committee, consist­ing of six people, votes on a points system. After the voting is complete, the committee looks at the points and decides who gets in .

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Kyle Ringo

nobody else does.

The time has come to bag the ten­nis programs at Metro.

I say replace these teams with with softball and men's golf.

It isn't anything personal. I like ten­nis. The problem is

Here is the typical response given by just about everyone in the athletic depart­ment to any question involving either of Metro's tennis teams.

"I don't know." The athletic department recently

called another school to inquire about the schedule of a tennis tournament only to find out that Metro was hosting the tour­nament.

One . athlete on the women's team played through five matches before any­one discovered she was not academically eligible. The school reported the mistake to the NCAA, which has since decided that Metro's punishment will be to hold her out of the same number of matches once she becomes eligible.

Four different coaches have come and gone in the last three years.

Nobody in the athletic department knew when the first tennis match of the season would be played until the day it happened. ·

After toiling away for a full season last year, the athletes watched as the con­ference championship tournament was cancelled due to bad weather.

That is how much people care about tennis around here.

It's a joke. And it's a shame. Metro should help these athletes find

other programs to transfer to, or let them oontinue to attend classes here for the life of their scholarships. But Metro should get rid of tennis.

To qualify to participate in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, each school must participate in at least I 0 sports - five men's and five women's.

So the teams would have to be replaced should they be canned.

Metro once fielded a softball team. I don't see why it doesn't do it again. At least people would come and watch.

Men's golf is another story. No one would care. But having one team no one cares about is better than two.

Money is always an issue. But I guar­antee softball has a better chance of mak­ing money lo help support itself than ten­nis does.

I'd like to see tennis succeed al Metro. But it will never be more than an inconvenience to the athletic department.

Hell, if Metro had a golf team, at least everyone in the department would be where they really want to be on the days that team played.

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- MON. APR. 27 -Audition: Tryouts for Metro Cheerleading Squad launch with mandatory clinics on April 27, 29, and 30, at 6:30 p.m. Pick up registra­tion packet in the Tivoli athletic officebefore the clinics. Tryouts will be held at the Auraria Events Center. 556-8300.

- TUES. APR. 28 -Seminar: "Mad About You!" 3:30-4:50 p.m., Tivoli 651. Sponsored by Metro Counseling Center. 556-3132.

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CelebrASIAN: Asian film festival. 3-5 p.m., Plaza Building, Room 344. 556-2578.

Tea: Come drink tea and eat sweets and wee little biscuits at the Institute for Women's Studies and Service. 2:30-3:30 p.m. 1033 9th Street Park. 556-8441.

Audition: Tryouts for Metro Cheerleading Squad

Nooners: "Casino Dancing Part II" with Carmen Nelson of Kakes Studio. Noon, Tivoli 329. 556-2595.

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Gig Series: 11 :30 a.m.-1 :30 p.m., Tivoli atri­um. 556-2595.

Rap Session: "A discussion of 50 years of Israeli independance." 2 p.m., Tivoli 320A-B. 556-4247.

Student Government Meeting: Get involved with student government every Thursday 3:30-5:30 p.m. Senate Chambers, Tivoli 329 . Contact Gabriel Hermelin, vice president for Communication for more information. 556-2797.

Audition: Tryouts for Metro Cheerleading Squad

- FRI. MAY I -Audition: Try-outs for Metro Cheerleading Squad

Film: "Twilight of the Golds." 1-4 p.m. Plaza room 204 sponsored by Psi Chi. 750-122.6.

Kayaking: Kayak Roll Refresher. Brush up on technique and get pointers from the experts. $5. 1-3 p.m. Au,raria Events Center. 556-8363

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