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Fired student president in hot water Illegal spending of state money on phone calls leads to controversy

A. Jeter The METROPOUTAN

Former president of Metro student government Stephanie Stevenson admit­ted to misusing nearly $200 in student fees in the form of personal long distance phone calls made from her office, Student Activities Director Zav Dadabhoy said.

A record of student government long distance telephone calls, dated Aug. 28, revealed a jump from last year's student government bill, totaling about $20, to a five-month spread of almost $198 for this year's government.

Initially, Stevenson told The Metropolitan there was no confirmation that the calls were hers. However, last week, Dadabhoy said he met with her to discuss the bills.

"She told me that the telephone bills were hers, that she would pay them in full ," he said. "I am fully expecting that she will pay back that money."

Stevenson will be setting up a pay­ment plan to reimburse the student body for the calls she made, Dadabhoy said, despite the fact that he and college attor­ney Scott Silzer said that they were not aware of a formal reimbursement policy.

Dadabhoy did say that there is a poli­cy governing the use of state property.

"The policy is that you're not sup­posed to use state property or state facili­ties for personal use." This policy falls under the State Fiscal Rules which include guidelines affecting the business side of the college.

As late as Wednesday, Stevenson denied meeting with Dadabhoy or having done anything with the phone bill. She also declined comment on whether the calls were indeed hers.

However, upon calling two of the most commonly used numbers called from the phone extension of then-Vice President of Academic Affairs John Saiz and Stevenson, The Metropolitan discov­ered that they belonged to people who said they know Stevenson. One number, which showed up in the bill 36 times and totaled

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$20.26 in charges, belongs to a personal mJury lawyer, Leon Gilbert of Canogapark, Calif. Gilbert said he is rep­resenting Stevenson in an automobile accident case. The other number, which racked up a bill of $60.49, out of Hawthorne, Calif., belonged to a dry­cleaning company headed by a man who said Stevenson is a friend of the family. He declined to give his name.

Dadabhoy said that the first step in

dealing with Stevenson's phone bill is to ensure that she does pay it in full. He said there is an ongoing investigation but he does not know if the Office of Student Activities will press charges against Stevenson for violating the state policy.

However, he said that he was attempt­ing to handle the matter administratively, but that a concerned student may make a formal complaint to the student govern­ment Judicial Board if Student Activities

does not wish to pursue legal action against Stevenson.

Stevenson is currently appealing her dismissal as student government presi­dent. She was fired two weeks ago when the Office of Student Activities found her to be ineligible because she had not met the six-credit minimum required to serve on the assembly during her tenure.

And they're off. • •

Hyoung Chang/The METROPOLITAN

The Metro women's swim team starts off the season Saturday with a 149-70 victory at home over the University of Colorado-Boulder. The men's team ca~tured a 157-73 win over the Buffs.

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IN THE GARAGE: Marketing Director Sandy Torres sits in the Tivoli "garage" that is being renovated and turned into a student lounge. The space was originally a wagon-loading dock for the Tivoli Brewery.

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Bad advice leads to check headache Jesse Stephenson The METROPOLITAN

A Metro student says she sent a $200 loan payment check to the wrong place because a financial aid counselor gave her misleading information.

Jesse Bullock, a senior majoring in political science, said Financial Aid Counselor Jeff Parks told her and others attending a mandatory student loan orien­tation to send payments directly to the banks that had issued the loans.

Student loan payments are not sup­

them instead of the bank?'" Bullock said. Parks, who instructs most of Lhe loan­

orientation sessions, said he does not recall giving Bullock and others the incor­rect information bul thinks a lack of com­munication could have caused Lhe mix-up.

"We tell them who their lender is and who their servicer is," Parks said. "They might have assumed that since Lhey're bor­rowing from say, Norwest Bank, they have to pay back Norwest Bank."

After she received the statement from CSL, Bullock said she called Wells Fargo and learned she was not credited for her

payment. posed to be sent to banks but to the loan servicers, such as UNIPAC or Colorado Student Loans, said Teena Cooper, assis­tant vice president for the Wells Fargo Student Loan Program.

Bullock said she attended a loan orienta­tion led by Parks in late August. At the meeting she said she asked Parks where she should send

"I didn't want to be vindictive but

I didn't want this to happen

to other

"They couldn't find it anywhere in the computer or anything," she said.

Bullock said the Wells Fargo representative told her other Metro students had called about payments they made to the bank.

Alarmed that others had sent their payments to the wrong place, Bullock said she put a stop pay­ment order on her check

students,"

early payments and he gave her a list of lenders and instructed her to send her payment to Wells Fargo.

-Jesse Bullock and called ~ financ.ial aid representative to mform

Metro Senior her of Parks' error. She got her canceled check back

"He never once mentioned that we would pay back CSL," Bullock said.

Three weeks after sending a $200 payment to Wells Fargo, Bullock said she received a repayment statement from CSL, her loan servicer.

Nov. 2. "I didn't want to be vindictive but I

didn't want this to happen to other stu­dents," Bullock said.

Cooper said she is not aware of any wrongly sent payments but will check with Metro's Financial Aid Office to make Ti VO Ii at capacity I sai~~;~~:! ~fg~~~~.i:,::m~nf~~ :~;:,:~~!~~ "'e getting acmate payment

Car thefts soar New restaurant, office and a lounge top off center Deborah Birr The METROPOLITAN

The Tivoli Student Union is about to undergo renovations and changes that will make student center nearly I 00 per­cent occupied, marketing manager Sandy Torres said Monday. A full service restaurant and student lounge will be the newest additions to the center, she said.

The new restaurant, Jr. Phat Boys, is owned by Darby Donohue, who also owns the The Mercantile restaurant on 9th Street Park and the Gourmet Alternative Catering Co. Donohue said his new restaurant is scheduled to open November 15, on the main floor of the Tivoli building, across from the AMC Tivoli 12 Theatres ticket booth. It will feature what he calls one of the newest trends in food, international wraps, a meal wrapped inside tortilla-like bread. The restaurant will also feature bagels and smoothies.

The new student lounge, The Garage, will be located on Lhe main floor

of the building next to Domino's Pizza. The space was used as a real garage and beer barrel loading dock when the Tivoli building was a brewery.

Office space will be added to the third floor near the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board (SACAB) offices. The space, currently a quiet study area, will be renovated to add institutional student services offices.

Changes to the Tivoli Student Union are a direct result of focus group research conducted last January by the Tivoli mar­keting department.

"We are all really excited, because this is the culmination of listening to the input of the students and seeing their needs implemented," Torres said.

"These changes are happening because the Tivoli staff, SACAB and the Student Union Advisory Board (a sub­committee of SACAB) are working together to benefit students," said Barb Weiske, director of the Tivoli Student Union.

Henri Brickey The METROPOLITAN

Unless the thought of having your vehicle stolen does not bother you, you may not want to park in Lot F, especially if you are driving a jeep.

In a two-day period in October, two vehicl,es were stolen from Lot F on Curtis Street. Both were sport utility vehicles; one a Jeep C::herokee and Lhe other an Oldsmobile Bravado. In September, another Jeep Cherokee was stolen from the same parking lot. All were found with­in five days after being stolen. The Bravado had graffiti on the sun visors and dashboard.

Matthew Allen, whose jeep was stolen on Oct. 23 from Lot F, said the fact that other vehicles are being stolen from the same lot should alert Auraria Public Safety to beef up their presence in that area.

. "Right off the bat that kind of ticked me off," Allen said. "Something needs to

be done about it... campus police need to make their presence known," he said.

APS Sgt. Kelly Casias said he was personally unaware of the current string of thefts, but insisted if Lhey continue some action will be taken. "We've not necessarily stepped up security. We nor­mally try to have somebody in the lots all the time," he said.

"We do pretty well in the stolen vehi­cle area, we don't lose a lot of cars," Casias added."

If it continues to happen or if we see a pattern start to develop then we'll kind of step up."

Jeeps are one of Lhe most frequently stolen vehicles on the road today, accord­ing to Casias. He added one possible rea­son for the thefts could be that Jeep puts nice stereos in their vehicles. He also said that since Lot F is located on the outskirts of campus and close to a major road, it makes it easier for thieves to target vehi­cles in Lhat area .

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Number of older U.S. students triples Mitsuru Shimuzu The METROPOLITAN

The number of American college students over age 35 has more than tripled since 1972, while the number of students of all ages has increased by 1.7 times.

Nearly 783,000 students over. age 35 studied at American colleges in 1972, and by 1994 the number reached 2,725,000.

In 1972, the ratio of students over 35 to all students constituted 8.6 percent, and it had gone up to 18.l per­cent by 1994.

Contrary to the national trend, Metro's ratio had already reached 15.5 percent by 1981. However, in 1996 it remained 17.3 percent, 0.8 percent below the 1994 national level, according to Metro's Fact Book, pub­lished by the Office of Institutional Research.

Since 1990, when Metro's ratio reached the highest level, 19.6 percent, in its history, the ratio has been drop­ping and it has been falling below the national levels since 1993. Metro had maintained higher ratios by 1993 than national levels.

Paul Wilken, director of Metro's Institutional Research, said, "Last year the enrollment task force reported that they recommended concentrating on trans­fer students and high school graduates, so I think there is a switch on Metro's emphasis there, relatively less emphasis on the older students."

Today, there are institutions like the University of Phoenix that concentrate on older students, so students who used to attend Metro now have more options to attend other institutions, he said.

Wilken, however, suspected that the trend of older students coming back to school will continue, he said.

An increase in female student population had largely

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HARD DAY'S WORK: Metro student Kim Stone studies in the library Tuesday afternoon.

boosted the over-35 student population, the bureau's doc­uments show.

The number of female students over 35 made up 4.6 percent of the total student population in 1972; however, in 1994 it made up 11.8 percent.

In contrast, the number of male students in the over-35 age group made up 4 percent of all students in 1972, and it remained at 6.4 percent in 1994 .

By 1994 the number of female students over age 35 in the nation, nearly 1.77 million, had exceeded the num­ber of males by 808,000, the documents show.

Between 1970 and· August 1996 the total resident population of the over-35 age group increased by 54 per­cent to 131.2 million although the population of college students over age 35 increased by nearly 3.5 times between 1972 and 1994, the bureau estimated.

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Computer parts theft exposes new market Henri Brickey The METROPOLITAN .

A thief who has been targeting Metro computer labs and offices in the last few weeks is using a different method to steal a computer - piece by piece.

From the middle of October to the

computers. "You have got to know and understand

computers to do this," Wicker said. The thief also must have direct knowl­

edge of the offices being burglarized. Reed said that all locks are red-locked, which means only senior employees have access to the offices, and not even maintenance work­

ers have keys. beginning of November almost $600 worth of com­puter components have been stolen from Academic User Services Department offices and computer labs.

One of the theories of Network Analyst Randy Wicker is that the thief is trying to assemble an entire

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The first lead as to how the thief was operating was discovered several days ago by Reed, who noticed one of the office doors had its lock taped open. What is disturbing to Reed is that the door can only be opened from the inside.

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Wicker said he does not think any of the office or lab employees have any part in the theft and men-

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Nevertheless, Wicker and Reed are con­fident the thefts will stop soon due to securi­ty cameras being placed throughout the rooms and additional means of assistance from Auraria Public Safety.

Regardless of which theory is correct, one fact that is known is the person or per­sons involve<! are very knowledgeable about

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Election underwhelms students Travis Henry The METROPOLITAN

Students' reactions to last Tuesday's election, which allowed President Clinton to hold onto the nation's highest elected office and Republicans to retain control of Congress, were mixed.

"I was disappointed that the Republicans still control Congress," said Megan Livingston, Metro fresh­man and Democrat, "but in actuality it will be good for the balance of power."

Chad Hamilton, state chairman of the College Republicans, said that while Dole was not elected, the over­all result was a victory for conserva­tives across the nation.

Hamilton said that Clinton was only elected because he "spouted a conservative message. He fooled the American voter and did not run as the liberal democrat he is."

Locally, voters chose to save St. Elizabeth's Church and other nonprof­it organizations from paying property tax and decided that parents should not have the right to choose how to discipline and control the upbringing and education of their children.

"The parents' rights initiative vote

was disappointing," said Metro sopho­more Darin Turner. "I think parents need more rights over their children."

The defeat of the minimum wage increase in Denver pleased some stu­dents.

"I don' t see why the minimum wage should be increased. Most of the people making minimum wage are only flipping burgers or something," said Metro sophomore Becky Troncale. "People who are really mak­ing a difference, like doctors, ~ey should be making more money."

Lois Court of Balance Colorado said the defeat of Amendment 13, which would have made it easier to get an initiative on the ballot, said something about Colorado voters.

"The people of Colorado don 't want to pay to make it easier for every crackpot to put their pet peeve on the ballot," she said.

One main theme that students seemed to be concerned about in this election was the lack of choice.

"I didn' t want either of them to be president," said Metro freshman Kathy Hromada about the two main parties nominees. "I don' t like that there are only a few choices."

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Metro draws minority fund $1.9 million goes to desegregation Hildegard Chambers The METROPOLITAN

Denver's 21-year court-ordered desegre­gated busing. Brown said the DAC will help Denver Public Schools develop pro­grams to provide equal opportunity educa­tion for students in the absence of busing.

With the return to neighborhood schools DPS administrators do not appear

The U.S. Department of Education to share the fears expressed by some edu­awarded a three-year extension and a $1.9 cators and parents in Oklahoma City, million grant in July to Metro's where busing has been phased out over the

terms of resources - that's the issue," Morehouse said.

Other educators and parents in Oklahoma City said that neighborhood schools encourage participation and a sense of community ownership, Gottlieb writes.

Administrators in Denver Public Schools share this viewpoint. Thi;: return to neighborhood schools is "exciting because

large or grade levels that do not have a strong academic showing.

Regarding DAC's role, Frye said he has never heard of the group, adding, "Where are they?"

Desegregation Assistance Center (DAC), past decade. They feel one of IO DACs across the United States that old problems of created under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. socioeconomic segre­The DACs operate under a mandate to pro- gation, such as vide educational opportunity for all stu- resource inequalities dents, DAC head Gerald Brown said. of materials, equip-·

"The money will primarily deal with ment, facilities and issues of race, gender and national origin teachers, have resur­(i.e., bilingual education)," said Metro's faced, according to an Director of Equal Opportunity Percy -.... Aug. 26 Denver Post Morehouse, who wrote the grant proposal. article by Alan

The $1.9 million grant will be divided Gottlieb. into salaries for DAC personnel, supplies, Oklahoma City's equipment, rent and addressing problem- return to neighborhood atical issues in a six-state region: elementary schools has Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South brought back racial

"The money will primarily deal with issues of race, gen­der and national

origin (i.e., bilingual education)." -Percy Morehouse

it brings parents into the school, (which) makes a difference right away," said Richard Frye, DPS assistant director, adding that DPS school board presi­dent Aaron Gray felt that busing was not working or contribut­ing to the achieve­ment of minorities.

He seemed genuinely interested in knowing, as did Karen Millspaugh, princi­pal of Rishel Middle School, whose large Hispanic population will inc.rease next year with the end of busing. Issues they face include bilingual staff training, obtaining more bilingual texts, and hiring more Spanish-language teachers. Decreased diversity was the only concern Millspaugh expressed with regards to the end of busing.

When asked why Frye, Millspaugh and other school administrators had not heard of them, Brown said that the DAC, while known at the state educational agency level, is not intended to be a high­profile center and operates on a request­by-request basis, adding, "The law is very clear. We can only provide services when we're requested by the school board."

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said. About 35 percent of the funding will particular, segregation that isolates the go to Colorado, Brown said, of which poor, writes Gottlieb. about 85 percent will go to the Metro Community groups across the United Denver area. Twenty-five percent will go States are working to prevent this from to Utah and 10 percent each to the other happening, said Morehouse, adding, "If states, Brown said. segregation occurs, then the courts will

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DAC's low profile may ch'lmge since, according to Brown, "In the last funding cycle all of the states' federal funds for equity have been cut out and the states are repositioning themselves to ensure that they have equity at their state level." North Dakota, for instance, has asked the D.AC to provide training for their whole state's Department of Education staff on how to address equity issues.

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Metro signs on for brain bowl

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Trisha McCarty The METROPOUTAN

Wanted: Some of the fastest minds on campus. So, haul out the "Trivial Pursuit" game and tune into "Jeopardy"; Metro is hosting its first College Bowl Varsity Tournament on Nov. 20 in the Tivoli Atrium.

Yes, all that time invested in playing games and watching television will not go wasted. Knowledge about history, science, culture, geography, current events, arts, social sciences and sports could win one a

I Metro College Bowl Trophy and a chance to compete in the Regional and National Championship Tournaments.

Zav Dadabhoy, Metro Student Activities director.

He suggested partici­pants read a wide-range of materials and have a thor­ough understanding of the game rules.

The following are sam­ple questions:

"Of the Hawaiian Islands - for l 0 points - on which one is the city of Honolulu located?"

"The author is Kipling. The hero is Mowgli.· For a quick JO points, what's the title?"

About 400 institutions nationwide will play the fast-paced question and answer game known as ''The Varsity Sport of the Mind," run by the Los Angeles­based College Bowl Inc.

All that is required to apply is a team of four, representing a department or an organization, but there are a limited num­ber of team spots. The application dead­line is extended to Tuesday, Nov. 12. Informational packets are available in Tivoli Room 305, where applications should be turned in also.

The Metro varsity team will compete in the Regional, Championship Tournament also hosted by Metro, on Feb. 14-16, 1997. The regional teams will represent colleges and universities in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah,

Executive Vice President for Administration Dean .Wolf swears in four new Auraria police officers at a ceremony on Ninth Street Park Monday. 11\e new officers, hom left to right, are Andrew Liska, Randy Hinrkhe.r, Richard Vigil and Mark Bradley.

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"It is an opportunity for students to participate in team competition that uses intellect and quickness of mind," said Dadabhoy.

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Constitutional chaos: fire ·'em Metro student government acting president

John Saiz called for the impeachment of the entire assembly last Thursday, calling it a bold move toward student government's compliance with its own constitution and policies.

In the following letter he addresses what he says are numerous violations of federal, state and Metro laws.

This letter is to notify the entire student body of MSCD and the Student Court that student govern­ment members for Metropolitan State College are in violation of federal, state and MSCD laws and shall be grounds for impeachment of all members. According to Article VIII Section C Line 1. As it is stated in the MSCD Student Government Constitution Section I, article D, "A policy manual will exist that includes: a, b, c. d, e, f, g, and h." The question is, how has the SGA functioned thus far if the policy manual doesn't even exist? The policy manual essentially should exist to clarify the con­stitution with more details. Also, what is the mission & goals for the year? What are the election codes and where is the policy manual?

My second complaint is, how come the agen­da is never given 48 hours prior to the upcoming meetings? The secretary has been in violation of the constitution for almost every meeting and, to be more precise, the entire SGA as well, for they do not submit their agenda items to the secretary before 3 p.m. on the Friday prior to the next SGA meeting. How come the constitution has been vio­lated by the entire SGA and the Student Court has not yet taken action?

My third and major complaint is about the MSCD Student Government Constitution. After reading it several times, I must say that it was real­ly vague and there could be some improvement in its clarity. I will use Article 7, Section F, Lines 1.a and bas an example for lack of clarity and vague­ness. Line 1 reads: "In the event of a vacancy of the office of the President of the assembly other than the end of her/his term, the entire remainder of the assembly shall at their next regularly sched­uled meeting, elect from among themselves a new President by majority decision."

I call for clarification. Does the phrase "entire remainder of the assembly'' mean SACAB and BOT or does it mean, only the entire remainder of the assembly that has voting rights? This should be clarified in-the policy manual. Does the phrase "majority decision" mean that the entire remainder of the assembly agrees unanimously, just like a jury. Or does it mean SACAB and BOT have the right to vote now, and if yes, where is it stated in the constitution or policy manual, that SACAB and BOT representatives now have the right to vote? I must say, there is room for improvement in the SGA Constitution! If line 1 states that vacancies will be filled at the next regularly scheduled meeting, then what is the use of having lines 1.a and 1.b under Article 7, Section F, Line 1? Furthermore, what is the use of having Article 7, Section A, Line

B E E F John

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In addition, line 1.a states that the senior vice­president shall serve as acting president until such time a new president has been elected and sworn in. From my understanding, officers can only be sworn in by the Chief Justice, who at this time is Pete Rutt IV. But it is common knowledge that Pete Rutt IV has never been officially sworn in for the term in which he is serving right now. So you tell me how a swearing-in of a new president is going to take place if the Chief Justice has not been offi­cially sworn into his office? Why hasn't this taken place yet and who on the Student Court has let this happen?

I am mak_ing an official motion to the Student Court to have the entire remainder of the SGA impeached. That includes the Administrative Assistant (secretary), along with the Chief Justice. I recommend the following members be impeached immediately on the grounds that they have violated the MSCD Constitution, state and federal laws several times over and over again. As I have already stated the sections in which are being violated. The following names are recom­mended for impeachment:

William Coker Pete Rutt IV, Tracy Montero, Karmin Trujillo, Jaime Alverez, Rodney Lebsock, Troy Grice, John Saiz, Brett Berringer, John Olivett, Stephanie Stevenson, Maria Rodriguez and Sandra Howard.

The violations of the constitution are as fol­lows:

The policy manual lacks clarity and not one member of the SGA has one or knows its -contents or were about. Violation of constitution Article II, Section C, Line 1.b and Section C, Line 4, along with policy manual paragraph number 7. Violation of federal and state laws according to Blacks Law Dictionary - The Chief Justice has not yet been sworn in and has already acted and dispersed the duties of a Chief Justice. This is not the correct pro­cedure for any Chief Justice of a judicial board. Violation of compiled code and unwritten state and federal laws concerning litigation disputes over credibility, reputation or job performance. The new situation with the president has made the SGA act irrational and inappropriately, in regards to the dis-

position of the president and two vice presidents. All of the constitutional, federal and state laws

that have been mentioned are what makes any form of authority or government and established group function properly and operate in an orderly manner. The current SGA at MSCD for the 1996-97 year has been violating the constitution ever since the day they were sworn in and recited the oath to uphold all laws, by the Chief Justice who was never sworn in for his 1996-97 term. Maybe this is the reason for all of the continual problems and in-fighting amongst the student government members. I hope they can learn how to get their business straight and gain knowledge of the laws, if they want to continue representing the 17 ,000 students at Metropolitan State College of Denver. For I have already made a motion to impeach the entire Assembly which includes the Chief Justice and the Administrative Assistant (Secretary). · A special reminder - the agenda for the

MSCD SGA meeting on Oct. 31 was set forth by John Saiz, on Tuesday, Oct. 29. The administrative assistant was absent on 10-29-96. The agenda from John Saiz, mentioned under the action items and discussion, the constitution, the revision and approval of the policy manual and judicial manual and constitution. along with the fiscal budget for the 1996-97 SGA. Now we have a problem because on Oct. 30, 1996, the secretary. Karmin Trujillo, wrote a memo stating: Everyone knows the agenda for the meeting is always handed out on the day of the meeting. So the agenda made by the acting President John Saiz was incorrect, declaring it invalid.

This proves that the entire SGA has been vio­lating their constitution all along. The agenda that was set forth by the secretary had action items of electing a new president along with keys and pos­session. How important are keys compared to revising policies and binding laws and how can they elect a new president when there has been no final official ruling from the proper authorities regarding litigation matters with the three SGA members. What kind of authority does the secre­tary have over the president or vice presidents or acting president, and where does it state this authority? How can Carmin Trujillo justify her actions if she is obviously violating the constitution and policy manual. Miss Trujillo claims the agenda set forth by John Saiz, the acting president of SGA, which was set forth 48 hours prior to the SGA meeting (as required by law) was invalid and replaced with her own. If you read the constitution and policy manual you will read how she is incor­rect and does not have a clue about what she is saying. The notified authorities have 48 hours upon receiving this official complaint to respond. You will respond in writing, stating the beginning and final outcome. of all proceedings.

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Rolling contracts lead to slaughter Rolling, rolling, rolling - keep

those contracts rolling ... Howdy, partners! Let's rustle us

up some contracts and wrangle them darned varmit teachers out there. Yeeee Haaw!

Can't you just picture the deter­mined Sheila Kaplan on an Arabian stud, lasso in hand, wrangling the teaching staff. At night, after a hardy helping of pork and beans, she gath­ers her students about the campfire and tells scary stories about those fanatical teachers who wanted such unspeakable things as job security and good pay. "Them teachers weren't prepared for what I had up my sleeve, I tell ya," she says as she wipes a mess of beans from her curled lip.

Who came up with the idea of "rolling contracts?" I am sure it was not a teacher.

Metro is made possible by two parties: the teachers and the stu­dents. The administration exists because of our desires to learn and educate. We are not here because of the administration, and we should not let it be run as such - "it" being the proper word, for the administration is a machine that needs to be main­tained and well tuned in order to func­tion properly for us. Rolling contracts are intentionally designed to perform the action of rolling teachers in and out of positions as they are deemed necessary. These handy legal docu­ments turn humans into numbers. Metro, through its policies of hiring, attempts to treat its staff as if they were numbers. Rolling contracts will merely complete the process.

Numbers fit well into equations and allow us the ability to perform a

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few functions - add, subtract, multi­ply, divide. As numbers, we will be able to fit into clean subsets or groups. How many men; how many women; how many caucasians; how many African Americans; how many Native Americans; etc. The quantities of each subset are not fixed and, therefore, should be able to vary with whatever current political and eco­nomical climate exists. Teachers can now exist as a sort of "live" stock for subsidies and other monies that the market will bear. Kaplan can use the teachers as trade when she is at mar­ket.

There is another gruesome side to these contracts. As with all live­stock, most eventually are led to slaughter. The reasons for slaughter will inevitably vary: personal and reli­gious beliefs, favor, race, gender, etc. The rolling contract will also· be useful as a tool for thinning out unwanted departments. As far as education on this campus is concerned, Kaplan and her posse should be viewed as toxic and deadly. Her methods are self-serving and center around a sort of anti-thought. If she was concerned with Metro, there would be a more

intent search for ways to improve stu­dent and teacher life without cutting us off at the source of our power. Our machine is out of control and destroy­ing that which it was built to support.

The future of a Metro with rolling contracts is part-time faculty with no job stability. And if you think the stu­dent will be unaffected, attempt to envision a five-year stay at a school where your teachers and mentors might not be around for the next school year. How will there be any consistency to our education? It is time that we stand up to an adminis­tration that is all but invisible to the people on campus that actually mat­ter.

Kaplan, you are here to serve us, not yourself. We refuse to be the sub­jects of a budget that cannot possibly take into account the concerns of education. I hope that you will consid­er actually speaking to the student body through this paper in the form of an informative article (note: students should not be confronted with mean­ingless and ineffective political speech) in which you can suggest how it is that you "care" for the stu­dent body and the teachers of this school. I hope that I am wrong in feel­ing that you don't have any concern for us. Maybe a little communication, a step outside of your spacious office, a walk about the campus, a conver­sation with an unknown student ... maybe these are things that you should be concerned with rather than the inhuman business of figures and finance.

Gary No"is is a Metro Senior

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S o, the cupboard's a Httle bare? Can 't make it to the grocery store? _ Visit the backyard or garden and see what can be found. There's

no telling what one might dig up. It could be dinner.

Fried grasshopper or chocolate chirpie chip cookie anyone?

Some of the world's most popular foods are made out of the pests found outside.

While the United States and Europe have steadfastly refused to accept insects as a cuisine, cultures around the globe have used bugs as a part of their diet for centuries.

Dr. Richard Peigler, curator of entomology at the Denver Museum of Natural History, says that eating insects will become a trend in the future as the exploding human population stresses our planet's ecosystem.

Certain types of worms and ter­mite queens are considered a deli­cacy in Japan. Native Americans in northern California and southern Oregon eat caterpillars on their reservations just as their ancestors did. Insects are a very common food in Africa.

But average Americans just won't stom­ach it.

Peigler says that Americans (including himself) refuse to accept insects as part of their diet because of "social conditioning."

But he says that Americans are already eating foods very similar to insects.

"Insects are very closely related to crus­taceans, which include lobster, crab and shrimp," he said.

Insects are highly nutritious, containing

a high amount of usable protein. Peigler says that 10 witchery grub lar­

vae, which Aborigines eat in Australia, pro­vide an adult's full daily nutritional require­ment including fat, calories and protein.

Prepared insect foods are very rare in Colorado with the small exception of a few Korean markets.

Peigler says that people interested in using insects as food should dig for their own or purchase mealworms or crickets at a pet store.

"You can fry mealworms with butter and garlic or bake them in cookies," he says.

Grasshoppers and caterpillars are the most common insects cooked up around the

world, primarily because of their abundance.

Peigler said that each insect has an individual

taste and it is difficult to group them all into one cat­egory.

"That would be like try­ing to say how meat tastes, there are so many different

kinds," he says. 'They mostly take on the flavor of the seasoning

added." Insects are a safe food too, not bothered

by diseases and germs related to cattle. "Insects don't have those kind of germs

and they are fairly clean," he says. "I would­n't recommend eating them raw, although many people do."

For more information on using insects as food, try:

Entertaining with Insects by Ronald L. Taylor and Barbara J. Carter, $14.95, Salutek Publishing.

Food Insects Newsletter - 3 issues per year - $5 - Department of Entomology, 1630 Linden Dr. , University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.

BUG BITES

Before you cook

Insects for cooking can be purchased at pet stores, bait shops and distributors. Some gourmet shops may also carried them along with prepared insect foods.

Insects purchased live should be thoroughly cleaned. Mealworms should be placed in bran meal or com meal or starved for 24 hours so their systems will be clean. Wash them in cold water and pat dry with paper towel. Il washing crickets, place in refrigerator to slow them down ••

To dry roast crickets, place them on a paper-towel covered cookie sheet and bake at 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 1-2 hours or until the insects can be crushed easily with a spoon.

After freeze-drying, remove legs, wings or any other unwant­ed body parts.

Chocolate Chirpie Chip Cookies

112 cup dry roasted crickets 2-114 cups flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. salt 1 cup butter, softened 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar ....._ 1 tsp. vanilla 2 eggs 1 12-ounce bag chocolate chips 1 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 375. In a small bowl, combine Dour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually add flour mixture and crickets; mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded measuring teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes.

Banana Worm Bread

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Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, mix together all ingre­dients. Bake in a greased loaf pan for one hour.

Recipes courtesy of

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BROKEN WING: Metro rugby player Bill Strong, left, and trainer Dave Lee help teammate Cosmo I.arrison, wing, off the field after he sustained a knee injwy Saturday in the W~ State match.

MINING FOR A WIN: John Bogdanoff lunges to pass the ball off ti ing a tournament that Metro hosted. Metro ended the tournament schools.

he long faces stretched out after the match along the sidelines of the field and amongst the · cold metal bleachers.· It was a disappointing cap to an otherwise unblemished season for the Metro rugby club. It was a fourth place finish in a tourna­

ment that they had hosted. The players sat together, a comfort­

able togetherness that comes from working with a group of people week after week, trying to get all the movements right. The players had achieved a. kind of fluidity with one another, Like that of a well-oiled -engine. They knew what they had to do to win and where to move the ball to achieve that win. The Metro team had gotten all of its movements right, but they had not gelled at just the right times last weekend.

The Metro tournament began with the ferocious, aggressive play of the Metro club, but it ended with a disappointing loss for the fourth place spot among the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference-affiliated schools the club had invited for a weekend of fun-loving gritty rugby.

Truly, the tournament ended for the boys in blue even before their last match. It was over when they lost by three points Saturday to Western State College in a bout that Metro led until the team's players began dropping like flies. Coach Howard Kent "substituted" players into the back row until no one was left to augment the depleted squad. Then came the crippling knee injury to winger Cosmo Larrison that left him in a leg brace the next day.

Larrison sustained a second-degree sprain, Kent said, and should be all right in two to three months.

However, Western State took advan-

tage of Metro's fallen supply of players and closed the gap to even the score at 15-15 in the last 10 minutes of the match. Then came the conversion and Metro could not battle back, taking the 15-18 loss.

That loss trampled the team's week­end, as it bumped them out of contention for the first/second place match. That chance would be earned by New Mexico Highlands and Western State. Instead, Metro was handed a rematch with the Colorado School of Mines who they had shut out 30-0 earlier that day.

The boys in blue knew they would be competing for the third place spot against a team they already had proved they could beat. The heart just was not there.

The injured lock John Tewinkle, who was not able

~~~!:!n ~ tzu::~n .. ' ... • . . · rugby injury to his " · .. · eye, said the lack /. of emotional disci- · pline hurt the team most, but on some occa­sions, it would win matches for the team.

"That's the problem with an emotional team. Sometimes emotions can help you crush teams, but it also makes it real hard to come back after a close loss," he said.

They ambled out onto the pitch the next day, a broken, depleted army with few bright eyes twin­kling at the prospect of punishing Mines once again. However, Mines looked the part of a proud

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~back line Sunday in Metro's loss to the Colorado School of Mines dur­in fourth place among six Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference-affiliated

r, shining and hungry to take the la~e prize from the stronger, harder team. And they did just that, leaving 1tto club to wa1low in mining dust. >b Herrell, who played most of the ~d out of reserves, called the loss a m.ening end to the season." mt told his team that they ended a 'ufseason on a bad note, attributing listakes to being tired and not into ne. >oker Joey Beaton said he did not ris team played well in any of last ~d:s matches. "We're very disap-1 oecause this is a tournament that ould've easily played in the final We just didn't come through."

1e injured Larrison said that Metro have been in the finals because it is

: skilled, stronger and faster team, ha{ they were just worn down. "We played really scrappy. We did­play half as good as we should

iave," he said. Colorado State University

had been the only team to beat Metro during its sea­

son, and did a good jQb with a 36-3

romp. But that was back in September, when. the team was playing like 15 individuals rather than a real broth­erhood.

Still, at the end of it all, the Metro boys played the role of

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teams play for spots they had wanted. They supported the other players until the finale, when the top teams were determined. The Metro team gave awards to teams who had played at the top of their abilities and looked forward to another successful sea­son and another chance to show what they can do. ,

. Larrison attributed their successes to team unity. "Our team was falling apart last year. We were always fighting, but this season, it's just the opposite. Everyone comes together and loves each other."

Flyhalf Leif Gibson, who suffered some hamstring problems during the Western State match, said that despite the discouraging tournament play, his team surprised him this season. Gibson came to Metro from Australia as a freshman this year.

"Coming into the season, I expected nothing more than a motley bunch of stu­dents having furi with a new sport. After the first two months, I realized that this was a motley bunch ~f boys playing a tough sport competitively. I was very impressed, and I'm looking forward to next season."

The core 15 who led Metro to a Division II championship will return in the spring, pushing their tournament days behind them and hoping to dominate their conference again as only they know how.

Still, to do that, they need about 15-20 more players, Kent said, so they will be busy recruiting for the spring season. They will be back at practice in the last week in January and will play their first match at the beginning of February.

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RUGGER BLUES: Tom Landauer, right, and Jake Stagner reflect on their team's loss Sunday to the Colorado School of Mines whom they had shut out only a day earlier.

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Movie tries to melt conflicts on slopes Travis Henry The METROPOLITAN

S ki season is fast approaching and nothing can get a person more in the mood to hit the slopes than a new Warren Miller flick.

Snowriders is the latest addition to Miller's annual feature length celebration of going down a mountain and includes all the humor, different locations and incredi­ble camera footage expected by the Miller faithful.

The main theme of the new film is the title itself.

"People are finally beginning to real­ize that we all play on the same mountain, so why not abandon the centuries-old

word 'skiers' and the twenty-year-old word 'snowboarders,"' Miller narrates, "and instead call all of us snowriders."

The movie features not only familiar alpine skiing, but also cross-country ski­ing, monoskiing, snowboarding and even traveling down a mountain in a garbage bag.

While footage was shot in various places such as France, Scotland and Alaska, this reviewer was partial to the downhill displays shot right here in our back yard.

Tree bashing scenes from Steamboat Springs and the Nissan Mogul Exhibition in Breckenridge provide the most spectac­ular shots of the film.

Close behind was Miller's entourage's visit to Valdez, Alaska, where "ski resort accommodations are just like they were in the lower forty-eight back in 1946."

Alaska's untouched powder makes a Colorado skier envious and a shot of a skier having a close call with an avalanche sends shivers down the spine.

Local resorts Copper Mountain and Breckenridge are also included in the film.

While China is not the first place that comes to mind when you think of snow­boarding, or skiing for that matter, Miller's crew did an excellent job in introducing a new sport to an ancient country.

TEST DRIVE: John Tremann tries out his new ski gear on a mountain in Chamonix, France, in Snowriders, the latest snowfest from Warren Miller.

"The sport is so new in China that whole families still rent only one pair of skis," Miller jibes.

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'Bulletproof Diva' takes aim Author, columnist challenges audience to 'take on America' Tanya Richardson The METROPOUTAN ,..- T he first thing one notices about Lisa Jones is

her height, or lack of it. · After perusing a bio which reads like

Once again Jones calmly confronted the nemesis she undoubtedly encounters at every such function. With a knowing smile and a steady aim she explained her vision of a table where every American can eat, a table where blacks have served as waiters since America 's inception.

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every writer's Christmas list, not to mention hearing her introduced as "one of the most politically active people in America," one expects a IO-foot-tall warrior to thunder into the room.

Instead a five-foot-two-inch strikingly beautiful woman creeps past from the comer of one's eye, step­ping shyly up to the podium. It is only at the end of her sermon that the audience turns to witness a giant making her triumphant exit.

Deserved kudos go to Jones on her weekly col­umn for The Village Voice as well as the co-authorship of several books with Spike Lee. Now paramount on that list is her new book Bulletproof Diva - a politi­cal, pop-cultural, feminist and decidedly African American look at the United States.

During her talk at the Auraria campus Monday, Jones described her style of journalism as first-person story telling, dubbing herself a "personal journalist with a capital P." Her iconoclastic efforts in the jour­nalism field are only one more way she seems hell­bent on undermining the traditional model.

Showing dismay at one critic's description of her as "a spokesperson for the race," Jones explained the loaded complement "means I am black and have any­thing to say in public."

Jones was raised by an African American father and a Jewish mother during the 60s and 70s in New York City. Cha11enged by an audience member for her right to define herself as black, Jones diplomatically explains the decision is "an aesthetic choice and a political choice to support black people."

After living in England for several years, Jones Jenny Sparksffhe MElROPOUTAN

As if clairvoyant, Jones anticipated her opponent's apparent disagreement and verbally sends him and other white males a gold embossed invitation to dinner. Shockingly, the young man fails to comprehend the rebuttal, leaving the hall muttering that Jones does not understand the concept of pluralism.

In an informed crowd, he was the exception, far from the only white male in the room.

Equally noteworthy to the campus are Jones ' views on multiculturalism, advising us to "not debate the semantics of the word, just accept it, multiculturalism is here and has done been here."

Jones slips in and out of Black English, which she . asserts "is not a dialect, but a language just like English."

While preaching her advocacy of affirmative action, Jones challenged companies like MTV who advertise themselves as non-discriminatory.

"Does that mean they hire a few Julie Browns and show a few Mariah Carey videos?" she asked.

Never raising a question without proposing an answer, she demanded that such corporations get involved in the community. Jones suggested schools and other grass roots commitments that will reap wide-scale, Jong-term benefits. While urging the audience not to be fooled by token concessions to blacks by society, she expounded, "People think that because black athletes get paid lots of money and because you see blacks in Church's [Fried Chicken] commercials, that black folks got it made."

returned to the United States to realize her American TALKING TALL: Author Lisa Jones signs autographs dream, even though the decision meant returning to a after her lecture on race and sex at the Tivoli on Monday.

Jones' proves an obvious catalyst for change, as her physical presence alone demands a discussion on the rights of women and blacks along with such seemingly taboo subjects as interracial couples and children. However one cannot forget this woman's voice, one that will continue in its intelligent and poetic tone to "paint a country where "blacks are second-class citizens."

Jones stressed her wish that all Americans fight for their own unique, personally forged American dream, prodding the audience to "take on America, challenge this country to live up to its lofty mandates of freedom and equality."

Even after explaining her advocacy of pluralism, one young white male in the audience asked, "How can you support pluralism if you talk about African American lit­erature and African American culture?" ·

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'Swingers' explores familiar territory Low-budget movie manages to make the trip funnier, more exciting than others

Kevin Juhasz The METROPOLITAN

S wingers is being pushed as a movie about the "cocktail nation," twentysomethings roaming the swing clubs, dressed in 50s clothes and always putting down martinis.

Scratch beneath the surface and one will find one of the latest Hollywood trends - low-budget romantic comedies full of 90s angst. Swingers, fortunately, has more excitement and is funnier than its cousins The Brothers McMullen and Ed's Next Move.

The movie is about native New Yorker Mike (John Favreau) and his struggle to let a lost love go and find his niche in sunny California.

Mike left New York for L.A. in the hopes of forget­ting his girlfriend, who dumped him for a horse-carriage driver and achieving his dream of becoming a stand-up comic.

He is failing miserably at both. In one of the movie's opening scenes, Mike travels to Vegas with his friend Trent (Vince Vaughn). They meet a cocktail waitress and a showgirl. Trent and his date decide to have a little fun, while Mike unloads his woes on his.

There is also a moment when Mike seems to be mov­ing on. He talks to a girl, gets her number and then blows any chance he has by leaving six very neurotic messages on her answering machine less than an hour after meeting her.

Writer and co-producer Favreau, who had a very minor part in Rudy and a very bad part in P.C.U., does a wonderful job as the hapless Mike. He makes it easy to

feel a little sorry for Mike's struggle and inability to get over this minor bump in his life.

Vaughn and Patrick Van Hom, who plays Mike's other close friend, Sue, are hilarious as two "anti­Mikes." They have no problems as far as jobs and women. Their ability to flow through life so easy is a constant source of frustration for Mike.

Swingers does touch on the "cocktail nation," although it serves only as a background to the movie, and it seems to make fun of the culture more than it embraces it. Trent and Sue are good examples of the scene getting out of hand. They've subscribed to a weird set of rules, such as when it is OK to call a girl after you get her number.

They spend a considerate amount of time trying to convince Mike that he should not call this girl until two days later. This then grows into a debate about phone rules in California in general, such as when to return a call about a job in Hollywood depending on who you are, etc.

When all is said and done, Mike friends reveal that they never call the girls they meet until six days later, plunging Mike further into confusion.

Moments like these are amusing additions, but not the focus.

This is director Doug Liman's first big-screen film. His only other movie was a straight-to-video movie called Getting In. The direction and the edit­ing are sometimes sketchy, but this may have to do with the fact that the movie had only a $250,000 bud­get. It is not enough to take away from the perfor­mances of the actors, though.

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E verything from virtual reality exer­cise bikes to indoor rock climbing walls drew crowds to the first Rocky Mountain Health & Fitness

Expo at Currigan Hall last weekend. The fit and healthy, and those trying

to get that way, sampled products and ser­vices from 140 different vendors, includ­ing pure water, natural herbs and massage therapy. There were also health screenings for skin, spines and eyes, as well as climb­ing walls, inline skating and the latest exercise equipment.

The event was the brain child of Creative Marketing Services representa­tive and Metro alumna Charmaine Weis, who graduated with a degree in Technical Communications in 1993.

Thrillseekers, an indoor rock climb­ing gym, brought out a 24-foot wall for people to climb. Graham Duncan of Boulder compared the wall to outdoor climbs.

"It takes a lot more thinking since the holds are only in certain places. You can't scramble around for whatever is there. You have to follow a certain route."

Sacha Jensen, a first­time climber, said she loved it. "I definitely want to go try it out again."

The Children's Museum brought out their mobile

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KidSlope, an artificial ski slope where kids can get the feel of the sport without a pricey lift ticket. Josh McFerson, 11, of Denver said the KidSlope was a lot of fun but a bit more treacherous than real slopes.

"It was rougher than a regular slope and levels off quickly at the end," he said.

The Bladium Sports Club, which has two indoor inline hockey rinks, gave everyone a chance to test their goal-scor­ing abilities, measuring the speed of each shot. Sean Warren, 14, of Wheatridge tried his hand at a hockey shot for the first time. "I just wanted to see how good my aim is," he said.

International Inline Skating Association instructors helped people learn the sport at an indoor skating area. Mary Russell completed the second-ever certification class for instruc-

tors and has been teaching inline skating for four years.

"Balance and stance are the keys to getting going in skating," she said, adding that inline skating is great way for skiers to keep in condition in the off-season.

A nutrition section presented by Centura Health displayed jars of fat that showed how much fat is in the foods peo­ple eat everyday. The amount of fat in a double cheeseburger filled two baby food jars. "It's enough to make you sick," said Linda McGowan of Denver, after seeing the fat content of her favorite foods.

The expo also featured everything from aerobics demonstrations to a harp

player on the main stage. The Denver Nuggets' dance team and team mascot

Rocky even got in on the act. The expo coordinators wanted a few

more spectators to join in. About 10,000 was the goal, Weis said, but about 3,500 actually took part. Weis

attributed the lower attendance to the nice weekend weather and the fact that it was a first­year show. Still, she said, those who did come out seemed to enjoy themselves.

''The overall energy of the show was great. We had people coming up to us and thanking us for bringing a show like this to Denver," she said.

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Dear "Living Large," The Student Finance Resource Center provides assistance to Metro students in the following ways. We conduct individual Financial Planning and Budgeting sessions, counsel students in the area of Federal Financial Aid, including Federal Student Loans, and provide services for the Credit Union of Denver, which all Metro students are eligible enroll in. If you would like to set up a budgeting session or get more information on any of the services we provide, please call the main office number listed below.

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Altered States: Contemporary American Ceramics is showing through Dec. 18 at Metro's Center for the Visual Arts, 17th and Wazee streets. The exhib­it, featuring 17 clay arts from around the country, explores the expression of diversity through ceramics.

The artists looked to the past for techniques and inspiration. The works include ceremonial and religious art along with domestic ware.

Call 294-5207 for information.

The Lark

MSCD Theatre is presenting Jean Anouilh's The Lark in the Arts Building, room 271. The show runs Nov. 7-9 and Nov. 14-16 at 7:30 p.m. There will also be a matinee on Nov. 17 at 2:30 p.m.

The play is free to all Metro stu­dents with an ID, $8 for adults and $4 for other students with an ID.

The play, adapted by Lillian Hellman, is the story of the French and English during the 100 Years War.

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Metro captures playoff spot Matthew J. Lilley The METROPOLITAN

The men's soccer squad will play a part in the conference tournament this weekend at Regis University, though not the way it was scripted.

The men were supposed to beat Mines in the season finale Tuesday, cli,nch second place in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and a high seed in the conference tourney.

Instead, Mines settled a year-old vendetta, beating Metro 3-5 and advanc­ing into the tourney. Last year, doormat Metro surprised Mines in the last game of the season 3-2 , spoiling a Mines attempt for post-season play.

The loss pushed the 'Runners to fourth place, their only hope of tourney play rested with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs winning Wednesday over Colorado Christian, they did and opened a backdoor to the tourna­ment for Metro.

Metro actually ends the season in fifth place, but UCCS is not eligible for post-season play, thus paving Metro's path to the conference tourney.

Metro will face top-seeded Regis on Friday at l :30 p.m. If Metro beats Regis they will play for the RMAC Championship Saturday, against the win­ner of the Fort Lewis-Mines match. Regis has beat Metro twice this season.

"I don't think it's reaching too far to say we will compete very well against them," head coach Brian Crookham said, soon after learning that Metro would advance.

Metro lost its last two games of the season, which Crookham attributed to

impatience and poor composure. The focus when playing against

Regis will be "playing with intensity, but not playing out of control," Crookham said.

The Colorado School of Mines stole the season finale from the Metro men's soccer team Tuesday after Metro rallied from a 0-3 deficit to tie the match, only to lose it in the last 15 minutes of the game.

Metro fell behind early against Mines, managing only two shots into the wind on Mines. But the bombarded Metro defense allowed no more goals in the first half, despite 13 Mines shots.

However, an attacking Mines defender, surprising the Metro forwards, quickly scored two goals on Metro - not even two minutes into the half.

Metro, nevertheless, battled back with a score from forward Adam Young off a Mazen Kayali pass. Defender Chris Johnson assisted forward Cory Brown to cut the lead to one. Young tied the game and scored his second goal of the contest minutes later on a breakaway.

Teammates buried Young under their bodies in celebration of the tying goal, but their celebration was short-lived.

With 15 minutes of play remaining, a Mines attack barely missed hitting the back of the net and bounced of the goal­post instead.

"We kind of froze," head coach Brian Crookham said, "instead of us clearing the rebound, (Mines was) able to put the ball away."

A minute later the ref blew his whis­tle against Mines, resulting in a Metro free kick on Metro's side of the midfield. Free kicks are kicked from the site of the

See KICKERS page 21

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TAKE lHAT: Forward David Brallier feeds a Regis player a mouthful of his hand as he jostles for the ball during Metro's loss Tuesday to the first-place Regis.

Women end No. 2 in RMAC Matthew J. Lilley The METROPOLITAN

To advance to NCAA post-season compe­tition, the Metro women's soccer team needed to win both of their remaining games over the weekend, and conference/regional rivals Regis University and the University of Northern Colorado needed to lose.

Neither of these happened. Metro beat Mesa State Friday 3-0 and tied

Fort Lewis Sunday 1-1, while both Regis and UNCwon.

So, Metro stays home. The 11-7-1 (8-3-1) second-place Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference finish was nonetheless a sweet fin­ish in light of numerous injuries and in contrast to last year's 2-13-2 disaster .

"I'm real proud of the girls for hanging in and fighting through a lot of adversity we had to deal with this year," head coach F.d Montojo said.

Friday, against Mesa, Metro played tenta­tive early and was shut out in the first half. After the intennission, however, Julie Ray, assisted by defender F.mma Thompson, kicked in the deciding goal.

Forward Shannon Wise scored the. remaining two goals midway through the half. Wise's perfonnance Friday helped her to earn

RMAC offensive player of the week honors. ''We played to win in the second half,"

Montojo said. The three goals were the result of being aggressive, winning balls and pressur­ing Mesa into making mistakes, he added.

The 'Runners' offense outshot Mesa 24-14, and Metro goalkeeper Chellie McCourt stopped 10 Mesa attacks on the way to her sev­enth shutout of the season - her third in a row.

McCourt and teammates Jami Morgan and Kathy Moen, both rnidfielders, are seniors and ended their collegiate soccer careers Sunday for Metro in the 1-1 tie against Fort Lewis.

Before that match, Montojo expressed concern over the condition of the field the Fort Lewis soccer teams share with the Fort Lewis football team because it had been chewed up by the football players' cleats. In addition to the field conditions the 'Runners also had to deal with the weather.

Despite UM; freezing wind, rain, sleet and hail, Metro managed to tie the game early in the second half by means of midfielder Dawn Mitchel's sixth goal of the season.

Metro, unable to take a lead for the remainder of regulation time and 30 minutes of overtime, fell victim to a tie.

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Vo.lleyball advances to conference play

John Swift!The ME'IROPOLITAN

REGAL ROMPING: Outside hitter Stacey Hoyt hammers the ball over the head of Regis outside hitter Sarah Sharpe during Metro's 3-1 victory over the No. 20 U.S.-ranked Regis.

Chris A. Petersen The METROPOUTAN

With a late season surge the Metro women's vol­leyball team captured a wild card spot in the confer­ence tournament with four straight wins over the last two weeks.

The 'Runners solidified their spot in the tourna­ment and moved to fourth in the conference when they beat Colorado Christian 3-1 Tuesday followed by a 3-1 win Wednesday over Mines.

Metro added two W's to its record last Thursday and Friday when it decisively stomped Chadron State and pulled out a hard-fought victory over Regis University.

The 'Runners showed confidence facing Chadron, after coming off a disappointing loss last weekend to conference leader Nebraska-Kearney. Metro dominat­ed in game one, establishing an early lead with a strong attack and defense and easily dismantled the Eagles 15-8.

Capitalizing on the Eagles' faltering play, the 'Runners posted a quick 5-point lead in game two. Chadron watched, dejected, as Metro exploited their many errors to stretch their lead. The Eagles barely touched the ball offensively, earning a measly five kills out of 26 attacks. Metro easily rolled over them 15-4.

The only real challenge for the 'Runners was their struggling serving, which cost them only a few points in this match, but could present a real problem for them against a stronger opponent.

'We are still missing a lot of serves, which is a problem, but I think it's mostly because the team is try­

ing to serve aggressively," head coach Joan McDermott said. Despite their serving errors, Metro

continued to take advantage of Chadron's disorganized play, taking game three 15-4.

The win boosted the team's confidence going into Friday's match against Regis University, a team which swept a then-struggling Metro squad in October.

"We know what to expect this time. We've been preparing hard for them, and I think we should do very good against them this time," a smiling Judy Glassman said after Thursday's win.

Outside hitter Stacey Hoyt showed a similar con­fidence about the match. "It feels like it's coming together finally, we've got the confidence to play good and we are definitely more prepared."

So, it was a fired-up Metro team who walked onto the court to challenge the Rangers on Friday. The 'Runners started game one aggressively, welcoming the Rangers with a powerful attack and a staunch defense, racking up point after point without let-up. It was not until a late-game Ranger timeout, which sti­fled Metro's rumbling momentum, that the 'Runners allowed Regis to make a game of it.

The Rangers, coming from a 13-6 deficit, added six straight points to their score, coming to within one point before Metro finally closed the door on them 15-12. Regis came out charged in game two determined to put Metro in their place. The Rangers gained a quick three points and looked to add more, but the 'Runners stingy defensive play earned them a sideout, and the team easily matched the Rangers' score to tie the game at 3-3. The teams continued to challenge each other and it seemed like Metro was faltering as they fell behind 5-11.

McDermott called a timeout and an inspired team came off the bench, closing the Rangers' lead and

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"We played hard, but we just couldn't beat the elements that day," Montojo said.

He said the conditions hindered the 'Runners' style of pass-orientated soccer.

Despite the tie Metro returned to Denver optimistic about their post-season chances, but the ball did not roll their way.

"It wasn't until Monday morning when we saw the results of all the games from Sunday that we realized that number ,one, Regis is going to win the championship out­right," Montojo said. "Number two, Northern Colorado had tied their last game, and we

knew that that was going to be the stickler." Though lacking a NCAA playoff berth,

Montojo said he is pleased with the 1996 sea­son and being back on the winning side of the RMAC.

There was not one player on the roster who Montojo had not singled out for praise this season.

"In the past we've always had one or two players that have been standouts," he said. But this season's team did not have just one go-to player, Montojo said.

He is already looking forward to the 1997. "Good things are ahead for Metro State soccer," he s~d.

Hot streak pushes V-ball to No. 4 STREAK from page 20

eventually tying the game at 14. They fought hard, but the 'Runners finally surren­dered 14-16. Metro fell behind in game three 1-4 and had to claw their way to with­in two.

Once again, it was defense that kept them in the game, with fiery performances by setter Kerry Beidleman, who had 26 digs; outside hitter Stacey Hoyt with 24 digs; and setter Holly Rice who also had 24 digs. The defense helped put the 'Runners ahead 7-6, and they dominated the Rangers for the rest of the game to a 15-8 win.

"We played with a lot of fire in the first game, but lost it a bit in game two,"

McDermott said. ''Luckily, we came back with the same fire."

Game four had more exciting, hard­nosed play, but the 'Runners, with gritty determination, proved to be more than the Rangers could handle, taking the game and match 15-10. Hoyt led the team's attack, hammering Regis with 26 kills and proved once again she is a qualified team leader.

"We're really psyched about the way we're playing," Shannon Ortell said. ''We're finally gelling as a team and playing strong."

Metro will travel to Nebraska-Kearney along with Colorado Christian, Regis and the School of Mines in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament Nov. 15.

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Kickers could clinch conference championship with weekend win KICKERS from page 20

·penalty and the ball was yards away after the whistle. Thus, while most of the Metro team trotted upfield the ball was lightly booted by a Metro player near the spot of the penalty.

The ball was then placed at precisely the spot of the penalty by a Metro player using his hands. Another whistle. This was a handball, the ref said, since the ball was already kicked into play. With most of the Metro team still going the opposite direction, Mines used this opportunity to

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score goal number five against a dumb­founded Metro defense.

Last Friday the Roadrunners dropped a non-conference game to National College 2-3. The game did not matter. This fact obviously not absent in the mind of the 'Runners, playing without their two leading scorers, Johnson and Mazen Kayali, both serving one-game suspen­sions for drawing their fifth yellow card of the season last weekend against Fort Lewis. Scoring for Metro against National was midfielder Maher Kayali and Young.

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Truth Bible Study meets every Wed. and Thur., 3-5 p.m., Tivoli room 542. Info: Rick Dredenstedt at 722-0944.

The MSCD Public Relations Organization of Students (PROS) meets every second Thursday in The Denver Press Club, located at 1330 Glenarrn Place at 6 p.m. Info: Daryl Jackson at 329-3211, or Jay Brodell at 556-3485.

FRI. Nov 8 "Learning Disabilities - What is it all about?" from 12-1 p.m., in Tivoli room 317. Info: Dorothy

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SAT. Nov 9 Book presentation: "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," by the Rabbi Harold Kushner, at 7:30 p .m., Metro Denver Baha'i Center, 225 E. Bayaud Ave. Info: Seymour Weinberg at 322-8997.

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SAT. Nov 16 "The Challenge of China's Future," a slide show and lecture by Douglas Allen, University of Denver professor, at 7:30 p.m., Metro Denver Baha'i Center, 225 E. Bayaud Ave. Info: Seymour Weinberg at 322-8997.

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Job Search Strategies Workshop, 1-3 p.m., in Central classroom 104. Info: Ron Lujan at 556-3664.

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SEASONAL SALES AND STOCK FAST FUNDRAISER - RAISE shifts are available at The Gap, $500 in 5 days - Greeks, Groups, Cherry Creek. Shifts vary 24 Clubs, motivated individuals. Fast, hours, 7 days a week. Come in for easy - No financial obligation (800) an application and speak with a 862-1982 ext. 33. 11/22 manager. 11 /15

LOSE WEIGHT FAST. NEW EARN $500-$600 MONTHLY METABOLISM breakthrough! Lose delivering The Denver Post in the 5-29 lbs/month! (and keep it off) Capitol Hill, D.U. or Southeast Increase your energy/decrease Denver areas. 3 a.m. - 6 a.m. appetite. Tea or tablets $39.95 Dr. Mon.-Sun. Reliable vehicle recommended. To order call (303) required. Call 935-9919 7 a.m. - 11 480-5818 11/15 a.m. 1216

INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT - EARN UP TO $25-$45/HOUR teaching basic conversational English in Japan, Taiwan, and S. Korea. No teaching background or Asian languages required. For more information call: (206) 971-3570 ext. J58794 12/6

RADIO SHACK IS NOW HIRING for full and part time seasonal sales! Lucrative earnings poten­tial. Flexible schedule. Training available. Employee discounts!!! See your local Radio Shack store manager or call: 303-804-0649. eoe/aa 11 /15

ALASKA JOBS FISHING INDUSTRY. Earn to $3,000-$6,000+ benefits. Male/Female. No experience necessary. (206)971-3510 ext. A58795 1216

WORK AT HOME. $500-$800 part-time 10-15 hrs/week (303) 480-5789 11 /15

NATIONAL PARKS HIRING -POSITION ARE NOW AVAILABLE at National Parks, Forests & Wildlife Preserves. Excellent ben­efits + bonuses! Call: 1-206-971-3620 ext. N58797 1212

CRUISE SHIPS HIRING - EARN UP TO $2000+/MONTH. world travel Seasonal & full-time posi­tions. No exp necessary. For info. call 1-206-971-3550 ext. C58794

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NEED A DIVERSION? TOUR BIG 12 on Metropolis BBS. Live chat! Games galore MajorMUD, Farwest Trivia, etc.! Free demo accounts! Internet Access! Call 1-(303) 786-8990 via modem. 12/6

~WRIGHT HAN> SPEaAl...IZN; in computer generated term papers, essays, reports, transcrip­tion, flyers and other misc. docu­ments. Student discounts, prompt service. Call 303-388-6631 11/29

PRIVATE LANGUAGE TUTOR Qualified, experienced & reliable. 4.0 GPA. Beginning Spanish, beginning & intermediate French, all levels of German. On Auraria campus Mon-Thurs 9:00 - 4:30. Reasonable rates. Leonore Dvorkin, 985-2327 1216

WANT TO GET IN SHAPE? Award-winning instructor offers small classes combining weight training, calisthenics and stretch­es. $4/hr. All equipment provided. Evenings and Saturdays in SW Denver. Leonore Dvorkin, 985-2327 1216

FOR SALE

UNBELIEVABLE BARGAINS!! New clothes & accessories from around the world. Tons of interest­ing jewelry and antiques. Come, look. No obligations. 623-9166

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PORTABLE HOT-TUB 5 PERSON DEPENDABLE CLEANERS IS soft-sided Comfort Spa. $1995 looking for friendly, outgoing cus- delivered. Call 657-9420. tomer service people for several locations. PT/on call/flexible hours. Call Renee/Job Hotline 7n-2673 ext. 80 3/14

5'20 CASH REGISTRATION HONUS 5300 COMPLETION BONUS

1 OOO's POSSIBLE READING BOOKS. PART TIME. at home.

'(' Toll free (1) 800-218-9000 Ext. R-

COLLECTOR/CREDIT REPS 59-SIO/HOUR

Pro Staff Accoundac bas part-dme and full-t:hne opportunldes wttb

Rnanclal Orms la tbe DTC, Denver, and Lake"Wood areas. Customer

,.crvlce experience ls helpful. but not necessary- trala.lna: -W be provided.

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$1750WEEKLY POSSIBLE MAILING our circulars. For info Call 301-306-1207 1/24

Please contact Joline at 793-3888. Evenlna r.ppolntments are now

a>'allable wttb Pro Stall'. Call us today. ... ______ _

HOUSING UNIVERSITY PARK FAMILY (father/mother/college age son), 3 blocks from DU, will share private home with 1 or 2 female students or interning adults. Private room, bath, laundry facilities, most meals and off-street parking. Academic, supportive family environment. No smokers, please._ Details/inter­view: call Jessie (Se habla espanol). Office: (303) 761-5454, Home: (303) 798-1520. 11/1

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REPS NEEDED One of America's fastest growing telecommunications co. needs Reps In this area. Otters personal freedom and chance to motivate others. Flexible hours and great pay. Call now. ;;;;;;;-;;;:n,;;;. ~ 650-4567 : • .ii:.~=.:.~

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Le Petit Gourmet Catering Denver's Premier Caterei:: /

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A New Age/Metaphysical Store

We are a non-profit bookstore. We offer Classes, Workshops & Seminars,

Building a meditation retreat. Hours:

Mon . . Sat. I I am · 6 pm Sun. 12 pm · 5 pm

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''A Bookstore With A Heart"

6731 W.Colfax • JCRS Shopping Center • 239-8n3

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ecember 2, 1996 Prose and poetry must~ submitted on 3.5" disks, preferably Macintosh format, with the category written on the label.

Color or black and white artwork preferred on mounted 35 mm slide.

Please include name, address, daytime telephone number and student ID number with all submissions.

All Metro students and alumni are eligible.

Bring submissions to: MSCD Office of Student Publications

Tivoli Student Union Suite 313. Or mail to: Metrosphere

Campus Box 57, P.O. Box 173362,

Denver, CO 80217-3362 Telephone: 556-3940

http://www.mscd.edu/-m_sphere

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