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Billy Miller lays down salt at a low-income housing unit outside of downtown Denver on March 26. Miller said that his job is to shovel snow for people who don't have theability or the time to do it themselves. The blizzard caused more than 300 flight cancellations at Denver International Airport and schools across the state closed includingAuraria - even though students were on spring break. Fhcto cv Leal '

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- Metro turns to students to fund building

42 .METRO.APRIL 2OO9 ' THE METROPOLITAN

Student Government Election and Referendum

April | 3- l7 ,2009

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METROTARA MOBERLY. NEWS EDITOR. tmoberlvemscd.edu

Ke eping tr adition s.Iiv e

Carlos Castaneda leads the dancers of GrupoTlaloc Aztec Dance Group and a marade ofstudenB March 3laround Auraria campus.The eventmarked the beginning of the Annual Latino leadership Summit.Photo by Nicholas Duckwonh - nduckwor@mscd.edu

Campus construction could costyouStudents to vote

tt tron new Iee Iorconstruction

By Caitlin Gibbons

cgibbon4@mscd.edu

A fee referendum asking studentsto foot the bill for the construction of anew building, and take the first step toshaping Mebo's future, will be on thisspriDg's Shrdent Government Assem-bly election ballot.

The proposed fee will raise moneyneeded to cover construction costs,esrimated at $52 million, for the ffrstbuilding of the college's neighborhoodplan.

The building will serve Metro stu-dents errclusively, the first on the cam-pus to do so.

"This begins the fust componentof developing a place on campus thatis exclusively Meho," Metro PresidentStephen Jordan said. "It begins to de-scribe a college and a sense of place for

students. "The new building, called the Stu-

dent Success Building, would be builtin the existing Tivoli parking lot and

provide I5O,OOO square feet of addi-tional space for the college.

"That space is equivalent to 150trailers," said Jack Wiley a studentoutreach consultant and former SGApresident. "If this doesn't happen thetrailers will multiply exponentially. "

Jordan said he worked with theSGA to determine t}le most equitableand proportional fee for students. Healso said the proposal eas€s studentsinto the fee and increases the amountover three years. The gradual increaseacknowledges that upperclassmenmay not be the beneficiaries of the newbuilding, and in effect will not pay asmuch. The fee also caps out at a maxi-mum of 12 credit hours. so studentswho take a fi,rll course load will notbe penaliqed with a higher fee, fordansaid.

Starting in FaIl 2010, studentswill pay $5.25 a credit hour. In Fall2011, the fee increases to $12,10 andin 2012 ta $19.80. The fee will notincrease after 2012 but wi.ll continueuntil the full debt has been paid.

This will be the only building thecollege asks students exclusively tofund Jordan said. The fee cannot be

changed or increased without the voteof the students.

The Board of Ttustees approvedthe neighborhood plan, which propos-es six new buildings over the net t 20years, in December.

All of the institutions at Aua-ria are faced with a lack of classroomspace due to increased enrollnent,Mebo alone saw a 49 percent incr€asein fust-time applications this year.

Mefro brought in modular class-hailers-asatemporary

solution."We have to break out of the cycle

of not having classroom and officespace and adequate space for studentsto gather." fordan Said.

Limited classroom space is becom-ing more than an annoyance for the

college, and adninistrators are look-ing at all possible solutions.

"If it doesn't pass, if we cannotcreate more sDace. we will have to con-

strain enrollnent." Jordan said. 'lAs

the states only statutory modiffed openadmissions institution, how do we be-gin to say we can no longer fulffll thatmission?"

A more irnmediate proposal, notrelated to the fee, to help with the spacecrunch is to rent office space in WritersSquare at lSth and Larimer streets.Sage Hospitalif is vacating 20,000square feet of spa.ce,

The college is looking into r€ntingthe space for approximately $20 per

square foot. The space would be usedfor adminisfative offices, and wouldfree up space in the Adminishativebuilding on 7th Sheet.

The space would imnediately berenovated to accommodate classroomsand faculty offices. The r€al 6tate inWriters Square would be paid for withone-time funding within the college'sbudget.

' The Success Building would con-solidate many of the college's admin-isfative olfices, freeing up space in the

Central Classroom and provide a one-stop shop for student's admission, r€g-ishation and financial aid processes.

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All supporting ollices lbr these services r,r'ill belocated in the building, and employees would becross-trained to better serve students.

The vacated space in the Central Classroom

and Adminishation buildings will be converted

into classrooms. The new fee r,r'ould also pay for

the renovations. In addition to administrative

services, the Student Success Building would also

house the program its name comes from. the First

Year Success Program. The program is aimed atgreater retention and graduation rates for the stu-dent body.

fordan said voting in favor for the fee wouldbe :rn invesbTrent in the value of a deeree from

Metro.

The first year program, coupled with other

state-of-the-art features such as a decision theater

used to model and soh'e policy-making decisions,

will increase the

surroundirg com- "If it doesn'tmunity s recogni-

tionof Merro. pass, if we can-SGA President

Andrew Batemn', not Create more

fa,nel insu'P,rr space, we willot the lee because

the space the build- haVe tO COn-

Iffiil:ili.i'" strain enroll-"If students are ment.tt

unwil l ing to eng€8e Metro president

ln tne nrocess- tnev

ha'e to accept the StePhen Jordanfact that decisions

will be made with-

out them," Bateman said.

If the fee is passed by student vote, th€ StateCapital Der,,elopment Cornmittee in the Legisla-

ture will then have to approve the expenditure.

The committee has already received the proposal

and is w'aiting on the result of the student vote.

If the student body and the conrmittee both

approl'e the proposal. construction would begin

Spring 2O10.

Seventy percent of the money from the lee

rvill fund the construction and debt seriice for the

building. T\ €nty percent will go to scholarshipslor Metro students and ten perccnt has been bud-geted for equipment and maintenance. The Office

of Financial Aid will appropriate the scholarship

money generated by the fee.

The fee referendum will be included in the

SCA ballot, n'hich r,r'ill be e-mailed directly to stu-

dents via l\{etroconnect. The e-mail will have a

link to the ballot and students can cast their vote

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How will you vote on the proposal for a new student fee to fund construction?

'It seems like a good thing toaxeat€ classrooms, but it's alsoraising tuition. In the begin-ning, the fee isn't too bad.'

"I would pay the $5.25 a credithour. Before I vote, I wouldwant to know the reason forsuch a big increase over threeyears."

-DARCY RHODESMetro junior

'Students are already hurtingfor money. That money shouldgo somewhere else."

-DJEFFERY DAPHINSMetro senior

'Yes. If it makes the coming-inprocess easier. I mean regisha-tion are you kidding me? I'm allfor it."

"It's weird that the school wantsto cut funding, then take itout on the studenl But overallsounds like it is worth it,"

-NATETAVESMetro junior

"No. I already pay enough fortuition and barely rnake endsmeet as is."

ByTara Moberlytmoberly@mscd.edu

When colleges and universitiesconstruct new classroom buildingsor stadiuns, students olben foot aportion of the bill.

It's a standard practice to enactnew student fees or increase exist-ing ones to help fuhd a portion ofconstructions costs - iust as Metrois hoping to do - though studentsdon't always agree with shelling outmone money.

MeEo students will have theirsay about increasing their tuition billwhen voting opens on April 13,

Students at Bowling Green IIni-versity in Bowling Green, Ohio, vot-ed in favor of a $60 per-semest€r feeMarch 27 to fund the Shoh C€nter,an arena that will be used for eventssuch as graduation and concerts.

Fifty dollars of the fee will goto consFuction while the remain-ing $10 will go toward new studentparking lots. Students will begin being charged the fee in 2Ol 1, after thearrena opens,

Initially, some students hadvoic€d shong opposidon to the newcost, saying th€y weren't given

enough advance notice and thatthey didn't want to add another stu-dent fee.

Of the 3,812 students that vot-ed, more than 68 percent voted infavor of students helping pay for thearena.

Students at California State Uni-versity-Iong Beach votid down aS95 per-semester fee March I I thatwould have frrnded three new play-

ing fields, a 5,000-seat campus sta-dium and 35 club sports and intra-mural programs.

Sixty percent of the 3,898 vot-ers -18 percent of the school's totalpopulation - were against the newfee.

In May the board of regents atthe University of Minnesota shotdown a fee to pay for constructon,saying they felt it sent the wrongmessage to ask students to pay a$l0O construction fee when theschool had received millions in statemoney for the projects.

At some schools, such as theUniversity of Montana, only certainstudents are allected by construc-tion-related fees. In 2007, journal-

ism and law students at t}te unil,er-sity had a $100 fee tacked onto theirbill for construction.

And while Metro's proposed bondfee may seem like a lot, consider thecase of CU Boulder students.

C\rrent$ all CU Boulder stu-dents pay a $30O capitol conaFuc-tion fee that is set to increase to $400next year.

This fee was passed by the CUBoard of Regents and was not pre-

sented to students for appmtal.

-KIRA GILBERTMetro sophomore

'I deftnitely will not vote for it,It's a lot of money per credithour and I will be graduatingsoon "

'I will vote in favor of it. I won'tbenefitfrom the building, butas long as someone fu, it isworth lt."

-PATRICK REARDONMetro junior

.MANSI SHAHMetro junior

.DEVI EROWNEMetro freshman

-ARIANA GERRELLSMetro sophomore

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SGA candidates set tosquare off in debate

Candidates for the upcoming SGA electionhave been invited to participate in a debatefrom ll a.m. to 1p.m. April6 in the RogerBraun room of the Tivoli.

Nic Garcia, managing editor of ?he Mef-ropolitan. will moderate the debate, which willfeature candidates running for the president,vice president and student trustee to the Aura-ria Board of Trustees positions.

Each candidate r,r'ill have an opportunityto present their platform. A series of questionsabout their platform will then be debated by allof. the participants.

Topics for the debate will focus on howeach cand'idate will address issues affectingMetro students and work with SGA to findsolutions.

The debate will give l,letro students achance,to meet the candidates and hear theirplans for the future of SGA prior to voting.Polls open April 13 and close on April 18.

The debate is open to the public and stu-dents are lvelcome to attend.

Auraria studentsparticipate in 26-milememorial march

A groirp of Auraria ROTC students par-ticipated in the 2Oth Annual Bataan MemorialDeath March, on March 21. trekking 26.2miles through the desert at the White SandMissile Range in New Mexico.

The team - led by Metro student SarahBrennan - completed the march while carry-ing 3 5-pound rucksacks on their backs.

Other Metro team members includedZachary Feterl, Emmaluel Barron and SeanBottlemy who chose to run, not walk theentire length of the course.

UCD was represented by Jamie Crownoverand Michael Burnet. Daniel Templeton repre-sented CCD.

This year's memorial march drew a recordnumber of participants -5,394 people signedup to participate this year, trumping the previ-ous high of 4,400 participants in 2008.

The march honors members of the armedservices who defended the Philippine Islandsduring World War II.

On April 9, 1942, 70,O00 American andFilipino troops surrendered to the fapanese.

The soldiers were then led on a 7O-milemarch, with an estimated 7,000 - 10,O00dying of starvation, dehydration, disease or atthe hands of the lapanese along the way,

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Forgoing fun in the' sun, some spend classhiatus volunteering

There was such high interest in the trip that

Instead of heading to the beach or bar-hop it resultcd in an additional prolect in Denver for

ping with friends, some Auraria students rolled those unable to go to Amarillo. On March 26'

up their sleeves and got to work participating students braved the heavy snow to work on a

in alternative spring break activities such as .Habitat project near Federal Boulevard'

Metro student Ahsun Babalmorad wheels a load of topsoilas he work to expandthe Bromwell Community Gardens March 25. Babalmorad volunteered some of hisspring break at the Denver Urban Gardens as part of Metro State Gets Unconven-tional, an event organized by the Office of Student Activities'Photo by Nicholas Duckworth . nduckwor@mscd.edu

Students spend break helping others

ByTara Moberlytmoberly@mscd.edu

painting, building and preparing emergencyfood packages.

Students from all three institutions chose toserve others during spring break; some headedto Amarillo, Texas, to help Habitat for Human-ity build houses, while others worked at sites inthe Metro area - all for a good cause.

Metro's Omce of Student Activities orga-nized volunteers to help at the Food Bank of theRockies and Denver Urban Gardens as part ofMetro State Gets Unconventional.

On March 24; Metro students helped sortfood at the food banl, which distributes anestimated 25 million pounds of food to nearly400,000 people in the meto area, northernC-olorado and Wyoming.

Students sorted food and prepared it for dis-hibution.

Volunteers helped the Denver Urban Gar-dens move nine tons of Larth as they prepared

to expand their garden at the Bromwell Com-munity Garden.

Kailei Hieginson, community based learn-ing coonlinator for the ffice of Student Activi-ties, organized the event, the second Unconven-tional activity the Metro has offered.

The first took place during the DemocraticNational Convention, with studerits also donat-ing their time to help at the food bank.

While the turnout at the spring break eventwas lower than at the DNC events, Higginsonpinned this on tirning. The spring break serviceevents were only annsunc€d a short time be-fore the break, leaving students with little timeto sign up.

Six students participated over spring breakwhile the previous event drew I O0 students.

This is the first time Student Activities hasworked with Denver Urban Gardens, a non-profit organization with morothan 80 gardens

around the metro alea, mainly in low-incomeaneas.

"We focus on community and communityempowerment as well as ensure that p€ople

have access to organic foods," said Lisa Blunt,volunteer and conshuction coordinator for thegardens.

Volunteers are vital to the gardens -

which is minimslly stalTed - which requireconstant attantion.

"If you're coming here and volunteeringyou're helping out the larger community,"Blunt said.

And more than 400 miles away, in Ama-rillo, 2 I students helped build houses alongsideother Habitat for Humardty volunteers,

Thomas Sheridan, assistant director of Stu-dent Life at UCD, helped organize the trip andaccompanied students to Amarillo.

"We feel that seMce learning is a very im-portant component of education," Sheridansaid.

While the trip was still in the planningstages, Amarillo was chosen because it was nottoo far away and had a need for volunteers. Thestudents left Denver on March 22 and returned

March 28.The volunteers spent the week working on

two houses in addition to sprucing up benchesand tables at a local park.

"We ended up gutting one of the houses,pulling up the carpets and tearing down dry-wall," Sheridan said.

While both proiects provided students achance to give back to their communities, italso provided them with a chance to work withand get to know other students.

"[t gives them a greater sense of commu-nity lt's really hard for students to make friendson this campus," Sheridan said.

Metro volunteer Bridget Braun, who got herhands dirty at the Urban Gardens.,enjoyed theopportunity to get to know students she mightnot have otherwise.

"Having that sense of community withother students while also serving the greater

Denver community - that was the best as-pect," Braun said.

This isn't the first time Braun has volun-teered her time with service projects, and witha break from both work and school, she jumped

at the chance to help again - something sheencouraged others to do.

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"I've always been a big advocate of com-munity service, so it was a good opportunity,"Braun said.

Future Auraria students $'ill have thechance to do the same as both Metro and UCDplan on organizing future service events.

Higginson said that after the success ofthe first two Metro State Gets Unconentionalevents, plans are already being formed for thefall semester.

"The college generation - X, Y and the Mil-lenniurn generation aren'tjust about 'hey, letkget drunk on spring break.'They don't have thehang-ups about service," Higgins said.

Prelirninary plans are in the works for aservice event the week before classes start nextfall.

And Sheridan plans to male the Amarillotrip an annual event as well.

"We might keep Amarillo as one of ouryear$ trips. We had such a huge interest in thisEip that we may add some others," Sheridansaid. "Just knowing that these are the type ofexperiences students are looking for is reallybeneficial. "

Just as spring break trips began gaining at-tention for excessive ilrinking and other riskybehaviors in the late '80s, the move to spendthe break on service projects began.' The alternative break moyement has

grown steadily since the early '90s. Collegesand national nonprofit groqx such as BreakAway are committed to encouraging students

' to spend tbeir school holidays giving back tothe community through service proiects.

They also provide training and educationto school groups and employees to help themefficiently organize and lead alternative break .mps.

An estimated 5,00O.OOO college studentswere on spring break over the past month.Break Away estimates that of those, 65,000participated in alternative spring break activi-ties this year alone - an 1 I percent increasesince last year and almost double the numberof participants in 200

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IN$SIGHT"ff#'ffirfEND OF DAYS: sy ANDREW HowERToN . ahowert2@mscd.edu

gonna sine yourpitty on the

THE POINT: "NEWSPAPER" HAS DUTYTOTRUTHFUL REPORTING

What' s black and white and r ead aII 0r/ er ?I would like to be perfectly honest,

I am not a journalism major. In fact,I am not even a iournalism minornor hale I taken any classes in thesubjecl Howeveq I do krow mostlyfrom old television shows, that jour-nalism should be concemed with ob-

iective facts. So r,rfien did journalismbecome childish name<alling?

I recently walked the halls of theWest Classroom - no I am not de-ranged, iust had some tirne to kill b+tween classes - and picked up someof the campus papers. Being inter-ested in objective facts I was nahr-rally drawn to a campus paper calledthe Constitutional Reportzr that pro-claimed 'Truth, Unabridged" as it'smunificent motto.

In the paper, I learned that"truth" is apparently {ormed from anideological dochine and not objectivefact. I would not have been insulted,or even cared - [ haw picked up thepaper before, laughed a bit, then putit down without any serious deti-ment to my own sense of dignity.However, as I paged through the pa-per, one of the articles sEuck me,

The article informed me that myfriends and people I know are appar-ently part of, "a violent seventh-cen-tury barbarism that means to subiu-gate the West." The reference is tothe prophet Moharnmad, who wasborn in the seventh century, and theimplication is that all Muslims areviolent.

Pondering the journalistic int€g-rity of the publication "by and for

COTIN SEGERcseger@mscd.edu

group of people barbaricor merely printing the

name of people who didnot ask to be identified

and calling themredundant, expendable

or superfluous.

the students of the Auraria Campus"I couldn't help but wonder how call-ing a set of people 'barbaric" quali-fies as lownalism, or everr truth forthat matter.

Certainly an opinion, no mat-ter how inaccurate or void of trut},is a defensible right that should beupheld by all in this nation. How-ever, passing oneself off as a jour-nalistic tool purporting t6 spreadinformation as a newspaper is not

a defensible right. Sure, I am awareof the ffrst amendment, fteedom oftle press and how important theserights are to a ftee and iust society,but presenting oneself under the flagof a iournelistic enteq)rise is dishon-est, plain and simple.

Newspapers are seen ar; an au-thority, a trust€d institution of inlior-mation gathering, though they area human enterprise and thereforeprone to rnistake or intentional mis-statement. fournalists are, to a cer-tain extent, storytellers of the sur-rounding nrorld. The subject matterand plotlines are not to be fabricated,but uncorrered from various sourc€sand pieced together to give the read-er a narrative of an event that theycould not witness, attend or partici-pate in.

fournalism is not to be amalgam-ated from the deffcient philosoptry ofAyn Rand or tie int€Uectual racismof Mark Steyn. Blanket statementsabout an entire population, whilereadily available in tle writings ofboth, should not be the base fromwhich a iournalistic enterprise isbuilt.

The people's right to know isnot an excuse for the dissemina-tion of swaggering reasoning builton false logic. Instead. newspapersshould act as a repository of currentknowledge independent of politi-cal slant. Admittedly, they often lallshort of that ideal, but to begin froman ideological standpoint dilutes theprospect that any fair and balanced

coverage will result.If freedom of the press is to be

defended as a fundamental right,as enshrined in the Bill of Rights, itmust be understood as separate andtlistinct from fteedom of spoech.

The irony that someone wouldconflate the two and qrgue that in-tolerance is the way to protect A€e-dom of speech, which in its very es:sence begs tolerance, is a deliberateatt€mpt to pass free speech off asthe exercise of a free press and it is areminder of how constant vigilanc€and the exercise of free speech areeternally bound. Freedom requiresunceasing vigilance as a bulwarkagainst those who would seek tbimpose their ideals onto an other-wise free society. Name-calling isnot journalism, period, rvhether it iscalling a group of people barbaric ormerely printtng the name of peoplewho did not ask to be identified andcalltng them redundant, expendableor superfluous.

The students, faculty and stalf.of Metro deserve to not have theirnames used in a political rouse dis-guised as journalism,' just llke theAuraria campus ileserves to have anewspaper that prints the truth, nomatter how inconvenient or influen-tial it is to the'students, faculty andstaff.

However, it does not need to bethis one. There is still room on thiscampus for another independentnewsgathering service, but it mustbe news that is actually gathered,

Name-calling is notjournalism, period,

whether it is calling a

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Palmer has learned it's important forartists to share ideas and interact witheach other on a more personal level.

Pahner ard his famib uuercsponsiblefor transforming the building into a mufti-dimensional space.

"My father-inJaw and I ... did allof the demolition. It took us six months- holding the contractors' feet to thefire. We really,wanted to make sure theqrality was herc." Palmer said.

Polished hardwood floors, snioothwhite walls and a warm, woodenceiling wasn't exactly the way thethree-story building was handed toPalmer. Before he and his father-in-iaw started laborious paperwork andremodeling, the building was a wreck.

lust how much work Palmer andhis family put into the co-op is hardto imagine. The main floor neededIarge, rusty pipes removed and thewindows caused more shadow thanit provided light. After the demolition,the second lloor's 12 studios werejust a large rooms with columns. Theboiler room below the gallery has beenturned into an open ceramic studio forall of the artists in residence to share.Almost 42 tons of steel were recycledafter the interior was renovated. Andthe renovated space doesn't stop

growing - Palmer also plans toinclude a coffee shop next door to thegallery.

MAKING II ABOUT COMMUNITY"There's something really

int€resting going on here. There areall of these co-ops, all of these people

making art. The art scene, althoughit's small, [we are] very supportive ofone another," Palmer said.

' Palner undeistood the business of

art before he put together River NorthArt District's largest art co-op.

"Galleries iust write you letterssaying, 'oh, we don't fild you

marketable. We don't need the artist'sstatement. Yodr art needs to sell itself.'And to me, that iust says so you wantthe object to sell," Palmer said.

The idea is the most importartpart of art, Palmer said. His goal is toget people to discuss art and learn ftomeach other no matter their educationalbackground.

"Denver seems to have a plethora

of artists out there. A lot of themare amateur. but some of them areso hungry to learn more about (the)art making process, strengthen theirwork. Even if they don't have a formalart background they're ready to

jump in these discussions and learnfrom them," Palmer said.

THE ARIISTS OF DIFFor the artists, the spawn of a new

spacg means new opportunities for afresh collective. M Van Damn, one ofthe artists renting a room in the Dry IceFactory said she feels more connectedto the art community.

"This is great trcause I feel like

more people have been at this longerand there's so much I can learn fromthem - as far as focusing on, or notfocusing, on art. It's interesting that,so far, the work I've seen is so varied inthis building," Van Damn said. "There'squite a diversity of age, too."

By using her background as apercussionist working for the UttletonSymphony Orchestra, she has plans forprojects with more movement. whichshe couldn't successfully practice in astnaller space.

"I come here and there's nothingelse to think about.Iiust shed it all off, "

Van Damn said.Palmer said he has the same

attitude and has comfortably settledinto the cc.op art scene.' "I feel lila I hare the freedom to dowhatever I want. I don't have to sell out,"

Palmer said.

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Two women look at Bob Stiohmeiert work March 27 at the opening of the Dry lce Factory gallery located at 3300Walnut St. in the RiNo art district. The new co-op will feature art studios as well as a shared ceramics studio for the

Renovationinthe nilme of firtByJulie Vitkovskayauvitkovs@mscd.edu

The passion io celebrate the artof Denver has led Matt Palrner to turna cnrmbling dry ice factory into apolished workshop for the city's artists.But that's iust the beginning: Palmerplans to change the way artists andprofessionals talk about art.

"I want to shay away from thetypical co-o. p forryt - do.sornet -hingthat is more conceptually driven,"Palmer said.

In a normal artist co-op, Palmer saidhe feels discussion often deviates towardthe business of art rather than helpfr:lcritiques and advice for the arGts. Fromhis previous projects,

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Findingspa,ce ofher orrrn

By Julie Maaspretko@mscd.edu

andi Calistro is not in the business oftattooing penises.

So please - don't ask,

She will, however, be happy to tattoo just

about any other location on your body. If youare wise, you will ask her to adorn you with herown personal fine art, and if you don't want iton your body, you better get something to hangin your house.

At 30, shehas aboutnineyears of tattooingand a lifetime of painting under her belt. Cal-istro says she started drawing at a very young

age: 'As early as I can remember. How old areyou when you can start?"

She has no formal art school training,which may surprise some people when theysee her work. "I still consider it at times. I feellike art school can help anyone. If I go, then Iwill go for something completely different that Icould learn like sculpture or somethfng,"

Using wood as her canvas is a way that Cal.istro stands out as a painter. What may haveseemed like an experiment inspired by a fewheroes turned into a career. "I think I had somescrap wood at my house, and I've seen someother people's work on wood that I love. It iustlooks so cool and I really like the texture of it.A lot of times I get compared to Audrey Kawa-saki, but she is way more accomplished and, inmy opinion, is way better than my stuff. I don'tfeel like it's very comparable though except thatit's on wood and paintinfs of girls. "

Although painting came fusL getting ahandle on tattooing helped pave the way to hersuccess as a painter. 'As soon as I could wrapmy head around tattooing and be comfortablewith it, I started painting again. I didn't actual-ly try to show in galleries on a regular basis un-til about four or five years ago when I startedworking at Twisted Sol. I pretty much started

painting more and met some gallery people,"Calistro said.

Working at Twisted Sol, a renolrmed localtattoo shop, gave her the creative fteedom sheneeded to grow as an artist, but it was a shopin Boulder that helped her to break in taftoo-ing.

"I've grown to absolutely love tattooing,but my original idea was iust to do somethingthat made money with art. About eight ornine years ago, I did a bunch of flash drawingsand sold them around town. I went to a shopin Boulder and they asked if I wanted to learn.That was deffnitely my intention but I was tooshy to ask. So I gave them a verbal agreementthat I would stay there for tn'o years. As anapprentice, you iust clean and go get food andyou're like the shop bitch for a little vvhile. It'stotally worth it though."

The transition from painting to tattooing

was a difficult one. "I shook a lotl I was ter-rified of it. My brother was my first 'victim.'

I had to go back and fix that tattoo - it wasso shaky! It's still super infimidating becauseeveryone wants the perfect tattoo. It's a crazyart, I'm still learning. Any tattoo artist will tellyou t}ley are constantly learning. There are somany factors in tattooing, " Calistro said.

Even a fine artist who makes the moveinto the tattoo world gets interesting requests.

"I've been asked once or twice to tattoo a pe-

nis and I said no. At the first shop I worked at,there were these guys who came in wantingswastikas and a fight almost broke out and wekicked them out. I don't really get asked to do

anything other than my own stuff norv."Although Twisted Sol was like working

with family, Calistro had to go in a differentdirection. A]icia Cardenas, one of the ownersof Tn'isted Sol, had a home waiting for Calis-

tro at Kaze Gallery. 'Alicia had this space andI kind of just wanted to transition into a spacethat was more like an art gallery. I wanted tobe somewhere that was more low brow artgeared. That is what most of my tattoos areabout now. I do pretty much what I paint.

There's no walk-in here, but I have a clientelebase. I think most of my clients appreciate artand art galleries. This environment is just per-

fect for what I do."Kaze Gallery greets you with a wall mural

painted by Calistro herself and it iust adds tothe dreamy comfort of the space. Behind themural is her tattooing area, both small andprivate. At 7 p.m. April 3, Calistro has a soloart show at Kaze, iust u'aiting for you to dis-

cover her art. But if you want a tattoo, you

better make an appointment, and make it now,because she's usually booked,

Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado taught at Metro andwas Denvert first Poet Laureate. Photo courtesyof latinamericanstudies.org

Sandi Calistro poses in front of a mural March 25 she painted at the Kaze Gallery, which doubles as her tattoo parlor' Photo byBritrney Hanze . bhanze@mscd.ed-

Poetry Festival honors Metro profBy Dominic Grazianodgrazia'1 @mscd.edu

Ch ica no stud ies professor Ch ri sti n aSigala spoke to lhe Metropolitan

about the second annualLolo Delgado Poetry Festival.

The Met Wo was Lalo Delgado?Christina Sigala: Lalo Delgado [was]

Denver's first poet laureate, an honor be-stowed upon Lalo by Mayor lohn Hicken-looper [posthumously in 2004].

Lalo is knon n nationally as a Chicana/ocivil and human rights activist and had re-ceived a handwritten award from the civilrights scholar/elder Rosa Parks.

Tli/: Hou, did the poetrg Jestival start?CS: I started the event last year to hon-

or Lalo Delgado and his dedication as an

Chicana/o studies adiunct faculty memberfor I 7 years.

Lalo was one of my first professors ofcolor at MSCD when I was working on my

human service degree in the late '90s. It wasfrom Lalo that I took up courage andpursuedacademia for a career.

TJld: What is planned lor the JestivtJ.?CS: Fun and experiential learning expe-

riences. We will begin the poetry festival at8:30 a.m. with a traditional blessing ceremo-ny, followed by Azteca Danza Group.

Dr. Ramon Del Castillo, chair ofChicana/o studies and nationally recognizedpoet Bobby Lefebre har€ an outstanding castof poets to entertain students. faculty andcommrmity members.

We are rery happy to nelcome Denver'ssecond poet laureate, Chris Ransick to startoff the morning's festivities.

trVe r.r,ill have a free community lunchIrom 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and Dr. LuisTorres. MSCD interim provost, r,l'ill speakabout Lalo along with Denver City Council-man Paul Lopez, [artist] Stevon Lucero, co-founder of Chicano Human Arts Council ArtCampa, and Rudy Gonzales, the executivedirector for Servicios de la Raza.

We are also having a Lalo's Art Corner, aplace for up and coming poets, r,'r'here [they]will have opportunities to create crafts andtheir own poetry book.

\t'e will have the Bryant Webster Ele-mentary School \{ariachi Group perform at4 p.m. to help us close the festival.

TMt What rlo gou want people to take away

lrom the experience?CS: We r,l.ould like students, faculty and

staff as r.lell as community members to enioythemselves and learn from the poetry and

scholars lvho lvill be attending.TM: tr4,/hg should students attend?CS: I believe this e\,€nt promotes human

and global diversity. In academia, rve rarelyexperience qualatative research on indig-

enous poetry. Lalo Delgado poetry has, andis, being used in doctoral thesis nationally.

The second anrunl Lalo Delgado Poetry Festivalwill take place 8: jO a.m. to 5:30 p.m. April 7 atSt. C^jetan's Center

84tA9NL2,2C09 THB MBTROPOLITAN

Sun sues city forsnow removal fees

The Colorado House of R€presentatives metApril I to discuss what's to be done about a $3.4million bill delivered to House Speaker TerranceCarroll Monday morning. The bill is a statementof services rendered by The Sun (aka EI Sol) andad&essed to the state of Colorado.

"The Sun has always been good to Coloradoand my campaign eflorts, and so, apparently, wepork-barreled a deal, while passing some rans-portation legislation earlier this year, that gaveour snow removal contract to The Sun," Carrollsaid. "I don't really remember agreeing to that,but I just get so darn sleepy when the sun's shin-ing over me."

On Friday The Sun (a yellow dwarf starfrom the center of the solar system) removedmore than 18 inches of snow from the streets ofdowntown Denver and all along the front rangewith strong rays of powerful light generatedthmugh nuclear fusion, which fuses The Sun'shydrogen and helium to create the ball of gas'po!\,erfrrl energy,

"The Sun works twice as hard as those lazy,unionized CDOT employees and for half theprice," mid The Sun's spokesperson, a God-shaped cumulus cloud, 'And now he just wantswhat's coming to him,'

Watch out!Soutes are reporting that there's something

right there behind you. Seriously, witnesses say,you may want to consider running away or atleast turning around.

"What are you still doing reading the damnpaper?" one onlooker is asking.

As of press time, people on the scene cannotcomment whether it is a ghost or a poltergeist,but they are positive you should look over yourshoulder as soon as you finish reading.

fordan remains onstrike, hungry

In a move rcminiscent of the late MahatmaGhandi, Metro President Stephrin |ordan vowedlast week to go without food until the school getsmore funding.

Jordan announced his hunger strike March22 outside the state Capitol building, demand-ing more money for the college from the stateIegislature.

Critics of the strike called the move childishand uffealistic. "I must say it is a bold move, "said one state representative, "but I don't under-stand how skipping lunch for a couple weeks isgoing to raise the money the school needs. "

Meho spokesperson

Cathy Lucias said the

move is honorableand is in the b€st in-

terests of the students.

She added that after

11 days of subsisting

on only water and the

occassional cup ofcoffee, jordan hasbecome delirious.

"This won'tstop until the stu-

dents get themoney they

- no, I don'tknow where the

pandas hide theirsticks, captain!" hesaid.

School mourns loss of outl€t, gifl

Metro mascot Rowdy the Roadrunner weeps giant salty tears at the loss of the school's student-run newspaper March 31 in front rthe bottom of my cage with now?" Rowdy asked as he blew his nose comically. When informed that there were more than 14 oth€his tissue away and asked where the closest Adyo-cod news bin was. Photo by Daun Medura . dmadura@mscd.edu

Students: 'Wait,we had our ownnewspaper?'

By Andre Flora de SpenceSoecial to the Metrooolitan

After more than 3O years of publication, TheMetrowlitin, aka The Met, The 'Ropolitan or thefish-wrap factory east side of the Tivoli, will shut-ter its doors at the end of this week, citing risingcosts in newsprint, coffee and a lack of storiesabout student government and mediocre resfau-rants as reasons for the closure.

"Our backs are against the wall; the buckstops here," said Editor-in-Chief Jimmy Krug-man, who, like a good deal of the papers report-ing, could only find clich6s to describe the situa-tion. "We got our foot in the door, but like goodsoldiers, we have to think outside the box."

He later added, "rvhat's he been smoking?"and "knock one out of the park," for no readilyapparent reason.

Nick Garica, the secretary of nightlife for thepublication who clairns to design, write, pub-lish, typeset, take photographs, blog, tweet, selladvertisements, deliver ald actuallv edit for the

paper, was mone clear in detailing the The Met'sclosure.

"See, the issue of the real problem, funda-mentally speaking, for students tlat is, vltatreally is at odds here, is we've decided insteadto publish a yearbook twice a year to highlightfashion mistakes, celebrity news and students/strippers to better cater to the needs.and wantsof the people." Garica said amid a flug-v of handgestures. '-'

"We've got to give it 110 percent - a mill-stone around the neck," Krugman added.

Student reaction ranged from indifferent anddisinterested to Fetty much wholly apatheticand "wow that episode of 'Lost' last week kind ofblew my noodle a little bit."

"I just couldn't believe that Sawyer rvas tak-ing over the whole island," Metro finance, eco-nomics and lcelandic mythology triple majorMichael McKJively said.

The Met began publishing in 1979, altetstudents feared technological developments inlaserdiscs, Beta cassettes and the Atari 2400would put newslnpers out of business.

"We iust wanted to give students more op-tions of important things to ignore around cam-pus, " Ifte Met's founder Emerson Worgess said.

However, the paper and its success wouldprove hard to ignore as art students frequentlyused issues for papier-mAch6 projects and ?h.eMet single handedly boosted the local newsprint-recycling program by more than 32 percent.

Iournalism shrdents will be hit particulahard by the closing, which came as a shockan economy where newspapers are thriving Ithe most opulent era of the munificent RomEmpire.

"Where will we go to be shunned and hrour stories turned down?" Metro journalism njor Jeffra Wollerman said. "I mean, if I havewait until after college to get to the heart of p'rlems like squirrels.and science buildings, themight just switch my major to Icelandic mytbogy like everyone elsb. "

'And are Sawyer and Kate even going to lback together? I don't know what's going to hgpen anymore," she added.

"L'etat, c'est moi," Krugrnan said.The Met currently employs 163 unpaid st

members, with Garica the only contributor wcould be found in the ofEce at any g,iven nment.

With the nation's media indusfy flouriring similar to a young Mozart first lalng out .genius for the r.r'orld to bear witness to a heaalrnost Faustian, m elody, The Metropolitnn's wers, editors and people who carr5r cameras isullen but optimistic.

"We're sullen, but, you know, optimistiAssistant Camera Carrier Daun Medura sa"What more is there to say?" s

The staff at the paper's major on-camfcompetition, the Advo-cad, is thrilled with tprospect of the number of newspapers at Aul

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iAPRIL BOOLS DAY BDITION APRIL2,2009. 85

o THE POINT:VOTING lS FOR LOSERS

This is a call to action.

fournalists aren't supposed todo Sial we're supposed to inlormand bomment, but never, NEtr/ER,gile people a command to get off .

their asses and do something.Well here it is Metro, nay Aura-

ria students. - Don't Vote. Ever.Bspecially not on the RTD mea-

sure, voting fbr which closes 7 p.m.April2 for all students.

Dominic, t rmlts think that DON GRAZANANO

iwrappIng

Ithe Offi ce of Student M€dia. "What will I linestudent publications it Auraria, Rowdy threw

y ria dwindling to only 14 and one-third.n "This is absolutely fantastic," said an elated L.e Reily Ugginsmith, editor of the Advo-cad. "Now,

n we can dominate the market with out-of-focusphotos, bar reviews and sex issues."

e Even thoee outside.of the 'media', meaningr- those not involved in catering to campus admin-o istraton policies and leftist ideals, had a positiveI reaction to th elate of The MeLI "Uh, guns good. Fees bad," said pit fighter/l- publisher/copyeditor/president/Metatronof ?he

Federcalist Investigaford Jon Moriarty. "Um, yeah,lt truth and free speech and stulf.

I Yet despit€ the unbalanced mix of apathy andelation, The lvlet's absence will no doubt leave thecampus without its paper of record. Feelings of

lf remorse are understandable.o "I don't know what the hell a MetropolitanF is, but you better tie your shoes and get ready

for what's coming up for the season finale whent- you see what's really behind Ben's bookcase,"is said Matthew Fox, who plays fack Shepard ony, ABC's hit series "I-ost," which is in the middle ofl- its ffih season and airs at 9 p.m, / 8 p.m. central'e on Wednesdays.

" A candlehght vigil tn be held in memory oJ Thel. Mefropolitan wasgoing ttbeheMApril 8 at9 p.nL,but

t sinu that's whei "Ist" is'on, stay tmeit tn /f"imfia'srs 74 and,one-third other stuilentpubbcdions fur further.e informatimregariling r*nembering the pryr

Your ballot willnot miltter

waFfs change?l'If these first couple months of

s. st& onder Cortade Obamahavtishown us any'thing it's tbat

unfulfilld promises and hurt.feel-ings.

I posit again that no one votes.If no ballots are cast they cant doanything to us, that's a fact. It'swritten down somewhere, look itup if you don't believe me.

One vot€ for allowing the feeincrease will mean the continua-

tion of the year after year attack onour wallets.

On the other hand, a single"nay" could lead us spiraling into abus-less existence where walking isthe only free mode of travel.

NOOOOOO, Perhaps you areright ohwisest of wiv'.

Now you're on the right track,and wtrile we're at it, we catr applythis mode of thinking to all areasof our lives.

Instead of acting on this stageof life, let's all just sit back and letit happen. Even if it means lettingnothing good happen to us, at leastnothitrg bad will happen.

Yeah. It wo*ed for BritneySryars, ifiibr'tit?

Lasth if you must vote, at leastvote yes. Who the hell is dumbenough to want to pay extra for thestinky 0 or the sketchy I 5.

ERTO THE EDITOR: BY DEXTER COCHEESE

t's happened toThe 'Ro?

!YY'' :!:':'!l'ff dstazia 1 @mscd.edunwcn we wa Jor our 'us

you are a whiny lot, andproblem. Bven if only the

of students vote. some-'is

bou-nd to change, and who

pmintsed change. only leads to

Recently I picked up a copy nr

The Federeatist rnvestisttore, u,ri Oe-ng Cao5heese is neither

was shocked at how little I actually a student nor a r€al pel-son'

knew about my ex-favorite paper' He can be contacted by

Readers, did you know that smok€ signals rcleased

the stalr or the 'Ropolitan is paid il from the Plaza Building'

I used to pick up my complimentary copy of the received a grant from a Libertarian think tank, who''Rqpalifan on my way to the batfuoom on the fifth floor can we frust?of the fivoli.urcry week, and l.used to enjoy it, And I happen to like how The Invutigatnre looks like

it was laid out by a 6-year-old on a,time crunch.

Maybe if the 'Ropolitan staffspent a little less time on fancythings like layout and balancedreporting, they wouldn't be

sacks of sa-lfron, which is worth more than its weight walking out of the student center with large canvasin gold? And did you know that for every copy of the sacks 6lled with fine spices and adorned with noveltypaper picked up, higher-ups at the Office of Student money symbols.Mediakill23 ladybugs. Student's not€lty money symbols to be exact.

It's true, I read it in a newspaper. I realize the irony in sending this scathing letter toGranted the paper I read it in was riddled with the very publication I intend to scathe, but as it turns

spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors. and ovt,Thelnvestigatore only prints letters written by its pit

yes, the reporting seemed a little one-sided at times. fighter/publisher/copy editor/president/Metatron.But iI wecan'ttrusta student-run publication that That's the sign of a truly great newspaper.

BLITIST-IN-CIIIBFJimny KrugmanjlougerL@mscd.du

SBCRSTARYOFNIGlITf,IFBNick Garica

ngarci2Oomsul.edu

SNOOZB EDTTORT. Mobil+ Garciapan

dnoberryt@msd.eu

ASSISTI.I{T SNOOZBBDITOR

Caitlia Gibblercgibbon4omsul.eilu

SiIT'T BI}ITONDon Grazanano

dgrazialemsd.edu

ASSISTANTSI,II'T BDITOf,Julkov Smirnovwitkovs@mscd.eilu

BnINGBT OF TEB NOISEJeremy Johnsoniiohn30Somsul.eilu

SFORTSNINJACayte Ferrari- Ferraro

kfenaro@mscd.edu

EBA.D CIMBNA OAXXIERKora Cemp

ckempt!@mscd.edu

ASSISTAIrT CAIIERAo[RuB*s

Daun Meduradmailura@mscd.eilu

Drewseph GainesajrynesTomscd.edu

coPrEBROIITESDayton Mallard

ctnoullaromscd,edu

Bob Phishion .rfisheTSomscd.etlu

Sammy Blacknerblackmaromscd.edu

E. Lonsengelansingemscil.edu

DIRBCTOR OD STI'I'BNTMEDIA

Dianne Harrlson Millerharrison@mscd.eilu

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OTSTUDENTMEDIA

Donnita Wongwongd@mstd.edu

ADVTSOnJane 'Ihe Pain" HobacJ<

MISSION STATBMBNT:The 'Ropolitan is produced

purely by and for theentertainment of the paper's

staff and serves no one.The 'Ropolitan is supportedby your lunch money and ispublished whenever we getaround to it, but never more. than thrice a month.

The 'Ropolitan is distributedto all campus buildings

worth oui time,No person may take more

than one copy of eachedition of The 'Ropolitan

without prior writtenpermission.

Please direct any questions,comments, complaints or

compliments to your nearesttrash receptacle,

Opinions expressed withindo not necessarily reflect

those of sane mind or body.

Irdi Stud$tUnin.tofln 113.PO. 8d 173362, &mp!s 8or t,

Denver. (0 80217-3362.

EYESORE: ft 'e man behind the teamT t takes a lot to be the manager

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I for a Division II men'sI basketball leam, but theMetro State Roadrunners are inluck - they've got Joe Potts.

Potts spent the enthebasketball season in the shadows,never wanting to be the focus ofattention.

- When he isn't cheering on theteam or making sure everyone haswater, Potts spends his time in theOlfice of Student Media, sharinghis expertise.

"We owe a lot to Joe Potts."said Head Carnera Carrier KoraCemp. "He taught me how toshoot and also how to love."

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fl: How long have you lived in New York City ?PY: Actually, I grown up in New York, and I movedhere like 15 years ago. I wanted to do a more funnyshow that's why I changed where I lived.

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fl: Who iloesn't?PY Also I like fohnny Thunders and the Heart-breakers. He's crazy that guy.

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for Peelaniler-Z?PY: trt'e have many plans: we $.ant to get Mexicanguy and a pretty girl to toin us, and a white tiger,and a soccer team and $'e want to make a big tourvi/ith them. It would be a great show and it would goall over the U.S.A,

ll: I'd pay to see thfrt, What about a movie? Havegou thought of a Peelander-Z operaiPY: Yeah, that's great idea. I nant to make a ma-jor movie nfiere we travel all over the world and r.r'ego to Spain and fight somebody like maybe Godzillaand then rve make sushi with Godzilla. It's a crazymovie. but somedav we will make it.

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PHOTO FTASHBACKZEBRA JUNCTION AND JOSH BIUE

Photos by Cora Kemp . ckemp4@mscd.eduABOVET Micah Lundy of Zebra Junction accompanies drums,a harmonica and other"found" sounds with his banjo-ukuleleMarch 27 during their performance at The Toad Tavem. Theband's instruments also include a hyper-modified Playskooltape declc a toy piano and baritone guitars.

BELOW: Carnie Gal raises her jug to the audience as FannieSpankings, center, and comedian Josh Blue follow suit March27 at The Toad Tavern in Littleton. The Junkettes performedalong side Zebra Junction after the packed house watched thedebut of Josh Blue's special on Comedy Central.

THE DDCEMBBRISTS . HAZARDS OF LOVEThe term mck opera is a scary one because of

the visions of cheesiness it coniures, but there isno better term for The Decemberists' new albumThe Hazards of Love. It is a monster of an albtnn sori'ell crafted and intricate that it can't be describedas anything but a rock opera ... and there's only ahint of cheese. On its 17 tracks, the album tells thestory of Margaret (foiced by Lavender Diamohd's

. Becky Stark) who, after discovering she is pr€gnantby a shape-shifting forest creature named William, sets off to find him, only tohave their love tJreatened by the Forest Queen (My Brigbtest Diamond's SharaWorden). The plot sounds a bit pr€tenfious and can be hard to follow. Even ifyou'rc not in it for the story, The Decemberists make it work with a impressi!€range of musical styles from ambient, to walE, to metal-like guitar clashing. Thecharaeters have their own distinct accompaniments to help decipher the narra-tors and their saga. Worden's two For€st Queen hacks are the hiehlight of the al-b"m, as her seny, powerfrrl Voice fiowing wer thunderous guitar licks and pound-ing organ lend toThe Decemberisb' tansformation into a wonderfrrlly heavy andbluesy indie outflt. While it is probably not for everyone and the shifts in stylecan get a litde dizzying, The Hazards of love is a solid and shiking exanple of TheDecemberists' grandlose style, and a style that fans will surely appreciate, If anyband could bring the rock opera into the 21st century, it's this oire, and they've

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the Blrd and the Bee oller an ecloctic array ofpleasant indie pop with thelr seconil frrll-length elease Ray Guns z{re Notlux flu Future. the Btd andthe Bee are Greg Kurstin and Inara George, trvo sea-soned musicians from dirrerse backgrounds. Ifurstirohas lent his songwriting, production and multi-in-

' strumentaltalents locommerclallysucc€ssfrrlartistssuch as Beck, The Flaming Lips, Peaches and Uly Al-

. len. (Kurstin wrote and produced Allen's second aI-bum, Itt Not Me, Itb You.) Kurstin brings a light synth-pop texture that blends wellwith the melodic voice of Inara C'eorge. George is a Shalespearian achess u'hocomes fmm a musical family: her father is Iowell George, guitarist and songrdriterof the highly successful band Little Feat, George came into her own with a post-grunge band called lode. Ray Gun's radto single "Iove Ietter liom Japan" blendselectronic melodies with dep backbeats that crcates a beckoning dance track."What's in the Middle?" continues the band's pattern of instrumentally hybrid,dreamy compositions. Overall, The Bird and The Bee present a unique serving ofmusical artishy with '50s influences and progressive pop sensibilities.

. By Roberto Dominguez. domlnrob@mscd.edu

YEAH YBAH YEAHS . N'SBLIfr^!In the follow-up to their 2006 release, ShowYour

Bones, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs surprise thetr fans by tak-ing it down a notch. It's Blitz, is not as riot grrrly asprevious elforts, but they play with such fnesse andenergy, that though it seems dilTerent, it sfill feelsright Inspired by more of an '80s new-wave sounil,rather than their usual punk rock, the whole albumbridges bot\genres liom start to ffnish. "Heails WiIlRoll" delivers an amadng dance track that tran-

scends to another time, while hacls like "Hysteric" and "Little Shadon'" act as adelicate ending to an otherwise rockin' album. Karen O holds back on her vocals,but with such sweetness and perfection, you don't miss the usual riotous growls

she normally delivers. This is another level for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and they just

keep getting better as their layers unfold . ShowYour Bones is 3 lsvsnling r€Eord thatis sur€ to pick up new fans, while satiSing the old ones,

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UNRAYEIINGARCAJTIEDYilAMICSHailing from the barbaric deserts of Santa Fe,

N.M., Fields of Elysium are a fresh act putting an in-novative spin on the all-too+tale death-metal scene.Unmveling Arcane Dynamics is definitely not your typi-cal brutal death-metal album. Dqnnmics has all theblast beats. gutturals and pig squeals, heavy bassand technical guitar work that is mandatory for Eue,brutal death metal, but the song structures this bandpulls off are atypical, Ther,e are plenty of slams and

gmoves, but it is an unpredictable listen that will keep you guessing until the end.One great example of FOE's technical prowess is the song "Feed Me a Stray Cat,"which features melodic, soft elements in between the gruff guitar blasting. FOE'slpicism is in the style of social cornmentaries on topics including overpopulation,religion, greed and a bleak future. But unlike most death metal, FOB also offersupbeat anthems like the song "Millipus," an ode to positive thinking: "Live your

lives with the best intentions and enioy the karmic aftermath." In true classic rnetalfashion, Dynamics' eight n-acks are iust more than 20 minutes long total, becauseany longer and it would more than likely overstay its welcome,

. By Geoff Page . gpage2@mscd.edu

DOVES . KINGDOMOFRUSTManchester's Doves could've easily resorted to

becoming a Coldplay copycat act, but instead havemanhged to stay mostly original, though peppered

enough by their influenccs to be teriable. On KnS-ilom OI Rust,lead singer and bassist Jirni Goodwinand brothers guitarist Jez and drummer Andy Wil-liams pwh the limits of their creativity while stillstaying Fue to the somber sound that has not yet

found a mainsfream audience. The album pulses

right away with the opener, "Ietstream," which smacks of New Order influ:c andestablishes Doves' use of spacey synchs and dublike reverb that set it apart fromtheir previous three albums. Doves have ahrvays shirrcd to make anthem rock, but

it's more apparcnt here with songs lllre "Winter Hill," a cookie-cutter, iet endear-ing love song; and the albnm'sbest track, " l O:O 3," which starts with rising choraltones, a snappy Eass, and comes to a Coldplay-esque crescendo with a shower ofdrurns. 'Spellbound" is mor€ baditional Doves, but with slightly more optinismand a gorgBous melody soMiffed withGoodwin's passionate vocals. And thoughKingdom leaves something to be desired conpared to Dores' previous two albums,vocals such as the ones in the closer, 'Lifelines," soar above the clouds, where theDoves want the listener to end up: free of the somber muc.k.

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.BLACKHEANTBLAE"Well it's 2-ooh-ooh a.m./ I should be sleepin

41d flpamin' of you/ But it's two.ooh-ooh a.m./And Im still cryin' over losin' you." The Hollyfeld'sare wide awake once again. In fact, on the heels oftheir second EP in as many years (BldHcnrt BIue),it seens lknver's rockabilly-chic quintst neversleeps, instead burning the midnight oil (or drinkingthe midnight bourbon, as the case may be) and pen-

ning four new foot-stomping tracl$, steeped in bothclassic and neo<ounEy sensibilities. the Hollyfelds continue to do what they dobest, compose reliable, effectively upbeat songs (with impeccable harmonies byfrontwomen Eryn Hoerig and Kate Girgsby) about drunken moments and down-hodden realities. Songs such as "2 a.m.," "Bad Ttming" and one-nigbt-stand an-them, '14.in't It Sbmething" deliver sentirnental narratives that are satirical step

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THE POINT: METRO NEEDSTO DITCH"COMMUTER CAMPUS"

Ruildrng s ar en' t the finsw er to scho oI' s pr oblemsWhen t was learning howto ilrive,

rry father told me I should always belooking two stoplights in hont of mewhile beping focus on what cars areimnediately amund me.

Honest hour: more than once,I've run a r€d light because I wasfocusing too much on the ligbts twoblocks ahead of me (that tur:raedgreen ffrst) and not enough on thelight I was currently in front ol

Cathy Lucas, the spokeswomanfor Mefro, and I had a concrsation afew weeks ago about a wide range oftopics. Toward the end of tle conver-sation, she asked me what I thoughtthe mood of the campus was.

'l{re students enioying the.ser-vices olTered to them by the school?"she asked,

I told her I didn't know.Besides MetroConnect and the

turnitin.com - a website used in theclassroom to crack down on plagia-rism - I really don't use any servicethe school olfers. There was a timewhen I took advantage of the thera-pists on the sixth floor of the Tivoli,but that's a diflerent column.

"To be honest," I continued, "I

NICGARCIAngarci2o@mscd.edudon't know all the services the schooldoes olfer."

I think there's tutoring available.But I have no idea where to ask forhelp. And I'm farnitar with our com-puter labs - and the fact we have topay to print. I get a dollar off at themovies with my school ID, too.

Beyond that, I haven't a clue.Being managing editor of lhe

MetropolitmlI'm hearing a lot aboutthe grand plans our administra0orsare cooking up. If, and that's a capitolI-E all goes according to plan, Metrowill start offering master's degrees, afully-operational hotel and we'll havea brand new building aptly namedthe "Student Success Center." A tall

order,I also hear a lot about retention

and graduation rates. Being a preem-inent institution. A Hispanic ServingInstitute. The list goes on ...

Moreover. our student leaderscontinue fuhting amongst them-selves and try to figure out how to"govern.

But it will be all for naught ifMeho doesn't do more to help ib cur-rent studenb and incoming fresh-men immediately.

I earnestly trelieve Meho Presi-dent Stephen fordan has this institu-tion's best interest at heart. But I fearthe powers that be are running thered light in front them.

At rhis point, our administratorsshould be more concerned aboutbuilding a community rather thanerecting brick and mortar.

The fact of the matt€r is: it r€allydoes take a village to raise a child.Don t gtet me wrong, one building, abuilding with werything a shdentneeds in one place, can certainlyhelp. But it alone is not the ansurer.Mostly because it doesn't sohe theproblem: students are blind to the vil-

lage around them-Another round of honest hour: I

don't remem.ber a darnn thing bommy orientation orcept my leaderre-peatedly reminding me how luclry weall wer€ to get everlthing r,r'e neededto know about Metro out of the wayin five hours and not spend an entireweehnd familiarizlngourselves withthe carnpus like a lot of schools re-quir€.

I think he was wrong. The feelingat my orientation session was rushed.From day one, I've been told Metrowas a "cornmuter school." Come andgo. C'tr and come. That's the way oflife for a Roailrunner. That's the wayof life hr a chicken with its head cutoff, too.

Our school adminishators andstudent leaders must stop lookingtwo stoplights ahead and come backto the moment in front of them. In amatter of weeks, new students willbegin orientation. While it's too lateto complaely restucture the first im-pression students have of the institu-tion (although a serious look at theorientation progam couliln't hurt),it is not too late to rethink some of the

Ianguage used to greet those ftesh-men. [t's not too lat€ to rework a fewthings to back up the ffrst impressionyou want to gftre studenb, either.

Drive it home folks: Metro is firstclass. Professors from around theworld are here to provide you withhrowledge. The latest technologz isat your disposal, too. A support stalfis just amund the corner to ensure ifyou lose your way, they'll be there tohelp. Come, stay, grow. Tell the nextgeneration of Metro students to leanon the college, to lean on each other.

Tell us.Show us.Again and again until it's well

krown: the path of success startswith us, but help and support isalong the way.

The fact of the matter is, Metrois a good school. Hopefully before theclass of 2013 graduates, Meho willbe a great school. A school that iswelcoming, a school with a commu-nity of teachers and students whowork together - not tust a schoolwith a fancy building to help stu-dents succeed,

THE POINT: HYPOCRISY A BAD SALE

Republicans for deluded econlmicsMinnesota's 6th Congressional

Dstrict elected someone int€rest€d inboarding a ship and sailing to landswith more free economic rules.

Many of you may remember Re-publican Rep. Michele Bachmann.Iast October, she wanted to hrowwho was "anti-American" in Con-gress and wanted the media to rootthem out.

On March 25, in a radio inter-view with Sean Hannity, Bachmanncalled for people "to rise up and sayno more" to President Obama's eco-nomic antics.

The audacious part is the freemarket econorny seemed to fail mis-

erably, and Bachmann is either blind1o 16a1 q rrnahle to admit it. Which-ever option, she boldly continues herantics.

"We have to take this courrtryback soon." she said. because shethinks the country is going to becomeso reshicted it will force Republicansinto v€ss€ls to scour the earth for anew counky to rebuild the UnitedStates.

Is the hypocrisy too resounding?Bachmann, the crusader against"anti-Americans, " thinks Obamais going to plunge the country intoirreparability. It sounds to me likeBachmann is going to movp to anoth-er counhy, and, I'm not a prcponentof using the term "anfl-American"because the phrase is ridiorlous, butshould she consider hersef "anti-American?" If I were forced to labelanyone " anti-American, " Bachmann

AUSTIN COREttacorell@mscd.eduwould top the list.

"This is our very freedom, andwe have 230 years - a continuouslink of freedom - that every gen-eration has ceded to the next gen-eration," she said. Bachmann thinksthis "Unk" is going to be severed byObama's policies. Of course, the Bushadministration already broke the linkin that chain when he began order-ing wire-taps on Americans' phonesillegally. Where have you been, Rep.Bachmann?

She must be concerned with onlyeconomic freedom though, becauseI don't remember hearing her rally-ing cries when Bush tried to strip thecounty of-its habeas corpus rights,the right against unlawful imprison-ment. Didn't Bush's actions throwBachmann into an unconhollable fitof lury? Wasn't she concerned withthe freedoms lost by those detainedby our governmenP

"But where tyranny is enforcedupon the people, as Barack Obama isdoing, the people suffer and mourn,"

she said in the same interview. Ba-rack Obama has been in office for alittle more than two months, andsuddenly he shoulders the blane forthe financial meltdown that garneredmost o{ its momentum under Bush.These sullering people Bachmannrefers to must be the American Inter-national Gmup's CEOs, even thoughmillions of people are losing theirhouses and their iobs.

In tle same interview Bach-mann also deluded herseU - in thehopes of deluding others - that theUnited States is trytng to cr€ate aninternational currency and scrapping the dollar. But Tteasury Secre-tary Timothy Geithner is at odds withBachmann and thinks the dollar willcontinue as the biggest internationalcurrenry for awhile.

Bachmann is a melodramaticpropagandist. She is trying to scarepeople into thinking Obama willmake the United States uninhabit-able because of all the lost freedoms,because of the "t]'ranny" of the gov-ernment. She envisions sailing toa new America perhaps. I thoughttle Democrats were the cut-and-runners, but Bachmann has now seta precedent for Republicans, whenshe is willing to live in another coun-hy because she doesn't like Obama'smoderate politics.

Bachmann, like the rest of the '

Republican machine, iust wanls torile you up about Obama. Don't be-lieve her,

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.l4frican Student Union u,ith Dr. Hadidja NliratueAuye and tbe MetroPolitan State Calkge af Denaer Departmenl ofAfrican and Africanl4merican Studies Present

/'\ n April 6, 1994, the tiny country of Rwanda in Central Eastern Africa was plunged into

\,fa tragedy of apocalyptic proportions. At the end of 100 days, 800,000 people &ed at thehands of their own countr;'rnen, while more than 2 million were sent into exile.

The tragedy was named the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. For the past 14

1cars, the Rwandan people observe a week long "mouming period" tohonor their dead. They hwe orgzniznd ceremonial burials for peoplewhose bodies were scattered all over the country as relatives and friendshave gathered the remains for a proper burial. Rwandans have also spenttime reflecting on the events of 1994, sharing ideas on how to make surethis never happens again.

This year,Dr. Hadidja Nyiransehrye is partneringwiththe Africsn StudentUnion and the Department of A-&ican and African Amedcan Studies

Together urith the students on the Auraria campus, we will

wherever they would be from and the consequencis on individuals and commuaities

the A&ican Studcnt Union, the Department of A-&ican and African American Studies and Dr.Hadidja Nyiransekuye invite Jrou to come and be a part of this memorable event.

REMEMBERTNG R]MANDADisrnantling the Mytlt of tlte Otlter

A commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide

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SPORTS

METRO 4-FLC O, METRO 1 - REGIS ], METRO 1 - MINES 1

Offense outscores MinesRoadrunnersscore 13 runsagainst Mines

By Josiah KaanjkaanPmscd.edu

Metro softball split two gamesMarch 29 at Auraria Field againstColorado School of Mines.

The Roadrunners came outready to play in the first game of theday scoring early and winning I 3-2 ,ending the game early due to themercy rule.

'Iumping out to an early leadlike that helpa on defense a lot," Met-ro shortstop Amber Roundtree said."It really takes the pressure off of thepitcher."

Metro started the game strong'by jumping out to a 5-1 lead afterthe fust inning on a three-run homerun by right fielder Danni Hedstrom.

"It felt great to hit my first three-run home run of the season." Hed-strorn said. "The first three battersstarted it olT, and I just continued therally"

The Roadrunners didn't taketheir foot oll the gas pedal for thesecond inning, as center fielder Kel-

KATE FERRARO . SPORTS EDITOR. kferraro@mscd.edu

First baseman Jessica Haab lays down a hit across the third base line during the first game of a doubleheader against Colorado Schoolof Mines March 29 at Auraria Field.The Roadrunners won the game 13-2. Photo by Ryan Martin . martirya@mscd.edu

Softball shortstopAmber Roundtree

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Tennis9:30 a.m.

vs. Kearney@ Auraria Courts

Softball1 p.m. and 3 p.m.vs. CSU-Pueblo@ Auraria Field

Baseball6 p.m.

vs. CSU-Pueblo@ Pueblo

4.4TennisWomen 10 a.m,

vs. South Oregon@ Auraria Courts

BaseballNoon and 3 p.m.

vs. CSU-Pueblo@ Pueblo

Softball1 p.m. and 3 p.m.vs. Adams State@ Auraria Field

TrackAl lday

ThunderwolvesInvite @ Pueblo

^ , -+.)BaseballNoonvs. CSU-Pueblo@ Pueblo

4.8Tennis1p .m.vs. CCU@ Auraria Courts

"I can't wait forthe many more to

come.You canltwin them all, but

you can alwaystry your hardest

and improve yourgame."

Tennis freshmanYerica Pessoa.

Corrcqtion

In the March 19 issue, thecaption to the tennis photosaid the photo is of seniorMitra Hirad. The photo is ofjunior April Hirad.

"I was terrified of it. My brother was my first'victim.' I had to goback and fix that tattoo it was so shakv."'-SANDI CALISTRO, ARTIST, METROSPECTIVE, 83

SIDETINE

lie Nishikida blasted a two-run homeiun to center field, capping off an-other 6.ve-run inning.

'At times, we can shing a lot ofruns together," Metro head coach

|en Fisher said. "Danni Hedstromand lennessa Tesone had a great dayat the plate."

Pitcher Christie Robinsonpitched all five innings, earning her16th win of the season. allowingsingle runs in both the first and fifthirulings.

"Run support always helps,"Fisher said. "CMstie (Robinson) isgood regardless, but it allowed her topitch more aggressive. "

Metro fell in the second matchof the day in a tight defensive gamethat was won on a fifth-inning homerun by Mines shortstop fack-ve La-gen. The Orediggers edged Meho bya score of 3-2.

"l!'e capitalized on their mistakesin the firsl tsame.

' Fisher said. "Minesplayed really well. They didn't makemistakes in the second game, andn'e couldn't string hits together. Itlt'asn't a lack of focus or effort."

Pitcher Brittany Moss pitchedthe entire game and struck out l0batters in 29 at bats.

"Brittany Moss pitched reallywell and I feel bad we coulcln't getthe win for her," Fisher said.

Metro was scheduled to play fourgames with Mines,.but snow can-celed two of those games.

Prior to their series with theOrediggers, the 'Runners had swepttheir third consecutive conferenceseries March 21 and 22 against FortIewis College in Durango, and thensplit the second two-game series ofthe season against Regis UniversityMarch 2 5 at Auraria Field.

Meho is currently in first placein the Rocky Mountain Athletic Con-ference East Division and widenedthe gap between fust and second,improving to 19-3 in conferenceplay and 26-6 ol'erall.

The postponed games fromMarch 28 were rescheduled forMarch 30, but r€re canceled be-cause of the snow.

"I don't think that the postponedgames affected us really," outfielderHedstrom said. "We can't controlthe rveather, and we knevr' that otherteams had to cancel too."

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'Jumping out to anearlv lead like thathelps on defense a

lot. It reallv takes thepressure off of the

pitcher."

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METRO 3 - MINES 1, METRO 1 _ REGIS O

Baseball comes backwith victoryMetro captureswin after beingdown bv one

By Robert Dranrdran@mscd.edu

Metro's baseball team ralliedagainst Regis Unil'ersity March 29,winning rhe game 14- l3 at AurariaField.

Regis grabbed three runs in thetop of the ninth inning to take a one-run lead over Metro. But the Road-runneis took back the game in thebottom of the ninth to win the hieh-scoring ballgame.

The wind was a primary factoras it blew baseballs out of the park.Metro and Regis had a combined l0home runs in the game.

"I've never seen so many pop fliesgo out in my life,' Metro head coach

Jerry Schemmel said. "When you gotthis altitude and metal bats, plus thewind, you'll see a lot of home runs. Irhink our pitchers pitched a lot betterthan the score,"

Meho catcher Terry Abshirecame through in the clutch, drivingin the winning run in the bottom ofthe ninth inning.

Pitchers Joel Iockhart and SeanWalter had five strikeouts and onlyone walk between thdm. but in the

Metro shortstop Maft McGonnell slides into second base during the Roadrunne/s extra-innings lossMarch 15 at the Auraria Fields Photo by Andrew Bisset . abissetl @mscd.edu

bottom of the ninth, pitcher Kyle Or-gill ran into trouble with singles.

'Just to calm the pitcher down,"Abshire said on what to do in thatsituatiotr. "We were trying to get aground ball to end the inning but Re-gis kept hitting the gabs to keep it go-ing. They're combative and scrappy."

Metro's defense was also won in

Shortstop Matt McConnell hada big day at the plate with four hitsin six at bats. Third baseman DakotaNahm and designated hitter BrettBowman provided home runs.

Stouller did hit a home run in thegame, but struck out right before Ab-shire hit the game-winning single.

"I tried to get something in the

air, but I didn't get it," Stouffer add-ed. "That really shows the characterof this team when someone else stepsup,"

The teams originally planned afour-game series but had to settle fora single game due to the blizard'seflect on the field conditions. Thegames will be made up, though thishas not been confirmed.

hior to the series with the Rang-ers, Meho went 3-l in a four-gameset against Colorddo School of MinesMarch 2O-22. Metro did improve to18-12 overall and 9-8 in the RockyMountain Athletic Conference. The'Runners have won ffve of their lastsrx games.

Meho will face Colorado StateUniversity at Pueblo April 3-5 in afour-game series in Pueblo.

"I've never seen somany pop flies inmy

life. When you got thisaltitude andmetal

bats, plus the wind,you'll see a lot of home

runs.Ithinkourpitchers pitched a lot

better than the score.Baseball head coach

Jerry Schemmel

the battle of errors, which has been

an occasional weak point for theteam this season, Meho cornmittedonly one error while Regis finishedwithth€e.

"I am pleased with the pitching,"6rst baseman Jordan Stouffer said."(We had) no lapees €xcept one er-ror. "

METRO MEN 2-1 , METRO WOMEN 1-2

Tennis splits matches on road in tourneyBy Enrico Dominguezedoming24@mscd.edu

Metro men's tennis team went2-1 at the Abilene Invitational tour-nament March 27 and, 28 in Texas.The women's tean finished 1-2 atthe tournament.

The men's team came out hot,beating New Mexico Military Insti-tute, a team who is ranl<ed No. 7,7-2. Senior Sasha Ruckelshausenand junior Scott Braclley won 8-3in No. 1 doubles. Sophomore An-gelo Faustino was on top of his gamewith junior Georgie Perez, beatingtheir opponent in No. 2 doubles 8-4,showing no fatigue, eren with thelong haul to Texas.

"It was hard to get any sleep inthe vans," Faustino said, "It ma<ie usreally tired when getting there andhad some effect in our matches slow-ing us down a little bit."

The Roadrunners swept Collegeof the Southwest 9-0, Perez was thebighligbt of the match in singles,showing that the long ilrive and lackof sleep wasn't going to slow trimdown, as he swept his opponent 6-0and again'5-0.

The men were swept by the host

Metro No. 1 doubles player Miriam Evangelista returns a low voFley Mar. 2 at the Auraria Courts. Evangelista and senior Mitra Hiraddefeated Winona State sophomore Heather Pierce and junior -Mary Hesterman, &6, Photo by Linh Ngo - Ingoqmscd.edu

of the tournament, Abilene Cbris-tian University, 9-0. Ruckelshausenwas leading in his singles matchagainst ACU fuan Nunez, before hegot hurt and had to retire the rest ofhis match.

The women start€d the touma-ment with a 9-0 loss against No. 13thranlad Tarleton State. They wereswept in No. I and No, 3 doubles,winning only two of the 10 games

played. Freshman Yerica Pessoa losther singles match 6-l, 6-1.

"We knew what we were gettinginto," Pessoa said. "Knowing that theother teams n'ere a lot better than us,we still put up a good fuht and didnot let anything infrmidate us."

Later ttrat day, the womenstrapped up for their next matchagainst CSW winning 9-0. Pessoacame back to win 6-l in her first set

and sweeping 64 in her second."I can't wait for the many more

to come," Pessoa said. "You can'l winthem all, but you can always try yourhardest and improve your game."

The women also lost to the No. 7ranked ACU 9-0.

Junior April Hirad said she be-lieves the trip was very long, but can'twait to start tournament play,

"The weather was bad in Texas."Hirad said. "We had to play all of ourmatches indoors on tbree courts.First RMAC match on Friday. I'mvery excited for that."

Both tearns start their confer-ence play April 3 against Nebraska-Kearney at the Auraria Courts. Thewomen will also play April 4 againstSouthern Oregon at Auraria Courts.

"It was hard to getany sleep in the vans.It made us reallv tiredwhen getting there."

Sophomore tennis playerAngelo Faustino

The firct Rugby World Cup took place itr 198?. . THE METROPOLITAN . APRIL 2, 2009 . SPORTS . A13

Former student coaches Palestinian rugbyLewis becomesfirst coach ofLions rugby team

ByWill Howardhowarwil@mscd.edu

In a land rife lr'ith conflict, a for-

mer Metro student is helping to bring

a little sunshine to an otherwise gray

existence in Palestine.

Stephen lewis is the current

coach of the Beit Jala Lions Rugby

Club, believed to be the first Palestin-

ian rugby team in history

Situated in the turbulent West

Bank, Beit jala is a predominantly

Christian Arab town in the middle

of the conflict zone where Israelis

and Palestinians have been fighting

for decades. fust l5 minutes from fe-rusalem and next to Bethlehem, the

conflict has taken its toll on the small

town."The economy has been deci-

mated by the occupation, which re-

stricts movement and commerce."

Lewis said. "Young men have few

recreational opportunities such as

organized sports."

Afier reading about the team in a

local Palestinian paper, Lewis decided

to volunteer his services as coach."l wanted to spend some time in

the West Bank and get to knorrr' some

Palestinians," he said. "These Lions

are the same mix of university stu-

dent, engineer, accountant, laborer.

nutcase and goolball that their Den-

ver counterparts are."

Before Lenis arrived, the team

did not have a coach. They rvere led

by team captain Nicola Stefan, who

said he hopes to altend a coaching

clinic in one of the major rugby-

Pla1ring nations.

Lewis started playing rugby at

the age of 5 in his native land of

Scotland and has played for \{iest of

Scotland and Clasgow at a provin-

cial level. He came to the states as

a player and coach for Vail in 1991.

In his fourth year of coaching for

the Denver Highlanders. he has also

coached at Metro, Adams State and

for Western USA IIen and lVestern

l.lSA Collegiate NIen.

Lelvis studied international poli-

tics at N{etro rl'here he said a class on

Middle-East politics sparked his in-

terest in the field. Lewis is currently

a graduate student in international

studies at University of Denver. He

arrived in Jerusalem in early Januaryfor a quarter abroad and will be stay-

ing until March 21.

Now he brings his experience

and knowledge to a group of young

men on the West Bank, where the Li-

ons continue to defy the odds."Their problems are a lack of

competition, lask of funds to travel

and lack of knowledge," Lewis said.

"The Lions have played a grand total

of four games, three of them on a

tour to C]?rus."

Former Metro student Stephen Lewis directs his players during a practice in Palestine. Photos provided by Stephen Lewis

"I wanted to spendsome time in the WestBank and get to know

some Palestinians.These Lions are the

same mix of universitystudent, engineer,

accountant, Idborer,nutcase, and goofball

than their Denvercounterparts are."

Stephen Lewis, coach ofthe Beit Jala Lions Rugby

Club team.

Stefan has been trying to set up

matches against Israeli teams, in

hopes that playing rugby might con-

tribute to the peace process, but the

political climate makes that dillicult.

For now the team practices twice

a week, one evening on a basketball

court and Sundays at the municipal

stadium. They learn r,r,'hat they can

from their visiting coach. and they

keep their spirits up.

In an area r,r'here conflict is the

norm, the Lions lind solace in rugby.

Stephen Lewis Bio

. Started playing rugby at the age of 5. -

.He has played rugby for West of Scotland and Glasgow atprovincial level.

. lewis is in his fburth year ol coaching the Denver Highlanders.

. Has coached at Metro, Adams State and Western USA Men and WesternUSA Collegiate Men.

. Decided to coach the Lions after readtng about them in the newspagrr.

. Studied int€rnational politics at Meho. Said a class on Middle-Bast politicssparked his interest in the field.

. Iewis is currently a graduate student at University of Denver.

BeitJala Lions Rugby

. Believed to be the fust rugtryteam in Palestine history.

. Beit fala is a Christian Arabtown.

. Before lewis arrived, they werecoached by l.eam captain NicolaStefan.

. The team has played a total offour g,arnes, three of them ontour to Cyprus.

. The tram practices twice a week,one wening on a basketballcodLrt and Sundays at themunicipal

Stephen Lewis and his Palestanian rugby team. Photos provided by Stephen Lewis

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1I5-2I5 p.m. Whether you are recovering froman operation or physical injury or lack the abilityt0 pncti(e a normal exercise program, Hansa'syoga teaching can adapt classical poses topeople who have physical challenges.

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