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

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Judge Roughneck jams In the Tlvoll Turnhalle on April 15 as part of the SprlngFest festivities at Aurarla.

Nicholas new president SGA election nets few voters; SPI ticket sweeps races By Perry Swamon The Metropolllan

Student voters at Metro overwhelm­ingly picked Andy Nicholas and the Student Power Initiative ticket in Student Government Assembly elections April 6-8.

Of 522 students who voted, 336 chose Nicholas as president of the assembly and 68 voted for Dave Flomberg.

Erica Tapia, who protested the elec­tion, garnered I 06 write-in votes. The stu­dent Election Commission ruled that votes for Tapia weren't valid because she missed a March 4 deadline to enter the campaign.

All I 0 SPI candidates won based on pledges to increase the Thanksgiving break to a full week, represent student opinions about changes to Metro's grading system, advocate "more effective" campus parking, disseminate information on pro­fessor evaluations, improve retention and graduation rates and increase access to student services.

The only non-SPI candidate to win was Ruth Burns, who ran unopposed to be the representative to the Board of Trustees, Metro's governing board.

Tapia protested the election with stu­dents and employees from the Student Development Center and the club United Women of Color, but she said she won't pursue involvement in student govern­ment.

"I don't want to disappear, but I would rather make myself more appar­ent, probably not involved with SGA," Tapia said. Andy Nicholas

"I would rather students just be able to come and talk to me one-on-one or come and check out the United Women of Color or other groups on campus."

The nine other SPI 'candidates who won include

• David Fernandez-Yoos, vice presi­dent of Academic Affairs,

• Giovanni Stone, vice president of Student Services,

• Sarah EchoHawk-Vermillion, an incumbent, vice president of Administration and Finance,

•Alvis Montgomery, vice president of

Campus Communications, • Jim Hayen, an incumbent, vice pres­

ident of Student Organizations, • Jeremy Perkins, vice president of

Student Fees, • Janet Damon, an incumbent, vice

president of Diversity, • Jane Duncan, an incumbent, a repre­

sentative on the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board and

• Matt Johnson, an incumbent, also a representative to SACAB.

SGA adviser Kari Tutwiler said out­going student government members would begin training sessions April 13 with new members. An inauguration cere­mony is scheduled for April 30.

Students also approved a revised ver­sion of the assembly's constitution. The new document passed with 334 votes; 94 students voted against it.

Assembly members praised the new constitution because, they said, it address­es student rights.

The old constitution focused on the duties of assembly members.

Critics said the new constitution to_ok away accountability by relegating respon­sibilities to the assembly's policy manual.

Student raises money for cancer

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Commentary Student government budget is too much money for too little action

Metro jazz plays live on KVVO

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Features

Page 9 Jazz students

Metro baseball to battle USC in weekend

Sports

series _,_ Page 16 Jimmy Johnson

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Surgery fund-raiser pays off Metro student fighting leukemia raises enough money for marrow transplant By Tim Fields The Metropolitan

Thanks to a successful fund-raising campaign, an expensive bone marrow transplant is now possible for a Metro stu­dent with leukemia.

Responses to newspaper ads and a church yard sale raised enough money to cover the extra $100,000 Tina Nergaard needed for the procedure.

The total cost for the transplant is $200,000. Metro's health insurance policy wi II cover $100,000 of the cost.

Nergaard would not disclose the exact amount raised, but said she's overjoyed by the campaign's success.

"I'm feeling a little tired, but I'm happy we have raised the money," said Nergaard, a 34-year-old Metro senior.

Nergaard was diagnosed Jan. 28 with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

The surgery will be performed at the University of Colorado Health Services Center in Denver. No date has been set, but the procedure will likely begin in May.

Nergaard's brother, Kevin, will donate bone marrow to save her life. The treat-

Sttident's shoplifting charge thrown out By Reem Al-Omari The Metropolitan

A Denver city atlorney dropped a shoplifting charge April 7 against a Metro student arrested at the Auraria Book Center in January.

John Saiz, 30, was arrested and jailed for shoplifting, resisting arrest and interference on Jan. 29.

He was, however, found guilty of resisting arrest and interference.

He defended himself in the Denver County Court because he said he could­n't afford a lawyer.

The court ordered Saiz, a member of Metro's 1996-97 student government, to pay a fine as punishment.

A sentence hearing is scheduled for June 12 to determine the amount of the fine.

The shoplifting charge against Saiz was dismissed due Lo lack of evidence and because the key witness failed to show up.

The witness, who was a bookstore employee, called campus police and told

them he suspected Saiz and his friend were shoplifting.

Joe Ortiz, chief of police and securi­ty at Auraria, said the bookstore employ­ee, the only witness, failed Lo answer the subpoena.

Scott Mayfield, operations manager at Auraria Book Center, said that the employee is no longer working for the bookstore. Mayfield would not disclose the identity of the witness.

Saiz said he John Salz was sitting outside

the bookstore at approximately 2:30

p.m. on Jan. 29 when his friend David Barela, 21, came out of the bookstore and handed him a book. Police arrested Saiz and his friend. Barela was ticketed for shoplifting and released. Saiz, how­ever, was arrested after a struggle with police in which he shouted repeatedly, "What are my charges?"

Certificates' popularity on the rise By Emily Laughlin The Metropolilan

The increasing demand for updated skills in the professional arena is making certificate programs popular at Metro.

Metro has 25 certificate programs in subjects such as real estate and financial planning. Certificates show people have completed courses in specific fields. Most students seeking certificates want to learn more about their professions, or they need additional skills to get promo­tions.

"They are people who are trying to assemble a baseline knowledge of their fields," said Andy Breckel, Metro's assistant vice president for Academic Affairs and Extended Education.

"Across the country, certificate pro-

grams with people who have a degree or work full time is the most popular way of continuing education," he said. "People feel in order to remain current they need to acquire a second degree."

Breckel said the program, which started two years ago, has been a boon to hundreds of students.

"It 's an excellent opportunity to study in a specific area that relates to an awful lot of opportunities in Denver," he said.

He said c;ertificate programs are the second most popular education focus at U S West Communications, Colorado's largest employer. He said 42 percent "Of those involved in US West's continuing education program seek certificates.

Last semester, 353 U S West see CERTIFICATES on 7

ment's high cost is due to the lengthy hos­

Tina Nergaard

pital stay of four to six weeks.

Nergaard's immune system will first be rendered helpless by chemotherapy and possibly radiation treatments before her surgery.

''They have to destroy my immune system, so my body doesn't fight the transplant," she said.

Sakura song

Nergaard will then have to remain in the hospital in a sterile environment.

Many weeks need to pass before her immune system will be ready to fight off infections again.

Chronic myelogenous leukemia accounts for 20 percent of all leukemia. And more than 5,000 new cases of CML are diagnosed each year in the United States alone, according to a report from the University of Pennsylvania's Cancer Center. The cancer causes organs in the body to enlarge and malfunction due to excessive amounts of white blood cells.

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A member of the Japanese musical group Junko Shigeta plays a Koto, a tra­ditional Japanese string Instrument. The group played April 9 In the Tivoli as part of the Gig Serles. Junko Shigeta performed various pieces, Including one honoring the sprlng's cherry blossoms, which are called sakura. ·

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29 years to think, and this is what I've come up with?

Some 29 years and nine months ago, two teen-agers were doing something teen-agers always have and always will do. I'm the result.

The 29th anniversary of my first breath is approaching (I don't give Lhe dale, but it's between now and April 30), and since I'll graduate soon after, I figure now is a good

Michael BeDan time to figure out what I've learned/conclud-Perspective ed after 29 years. So, in no particular order:

• Math is hard. • Michael Jordan is the best athlete on the planet. • His decision to avoid the Nike issue is cowardly at best. • Athletes are not role models. • Sports are not life and death; our culture just makes it seem

that way, which is why I' II have a job.

ple. •Journalists are critical, dysfunctional and often cynical peo-

• Based on that, I should be fine. • Level of education does not equal intelligence. •Older is not always wiser. • Grandmas are cool. • Mothers are cool. • Stepfathers (at least one I know) suck. •Fathers (al least one I know) suck. • Racism is as alive in 1998 as it was in 1898. • Only its expression has changed. • It is impossible lo be colorblind unless you are blind. • And why would you want to be? • Life is not like a box of chocolates (al least not if you can

read what's on the box). •Americans are sheep - the Macarena, Titanic, Milli Vanilli,

national anthem/flag worship, TV evangelists, OJ. on TV, Tickle Me Elmo and on and on and on.

• If God created man/woman in his/her own image, he/she is imperfect, too.

• If life is a comedy or a tragedy, I see tragic comedy. •College is expensive kindergarten. • Fuck is just a word. • People are too damn sensitive. •If you can't laugh at yourself, I will laugh at you. • Whoever said, "The more you learn, the stupider (sic) you

feel," was right. •Maybe? I don't know. • Memories are better than pictures or video tape. •Video tape is better than a cop's memory. •Cops don't like longhairs ... or a lot of other people for that

matter. •Cops don't make enough money to risk their lives daily. •Which might explain some cops' attitudes. • People are not generally good. • Which might further explain it. • The Onion is the best newspaper in the country. • It's OK to be in love with someone, so long as it's not a fam-

ily member. • Lots of people think otherwise. • Life will never be fair, just consistently unpredictable. • Dogs have more fun . • Cows don't. • But they taste better. • Everything can kill you. • Beauty is in the mirror of the beautiful. • Anyone who drinks should drink Wild Turkey. • I shouldn't drink. • You cannot have JUST as much fun. • At least I can't. • And yes, that sucks. • I'll probably disagree with a lot of this in a year. • But I still have a lot to learn.

Bill ntight ntean job security for collegiate coaches, leaders By Perry Swamon Tire Metropolitan

Job insecurity could be a thing of the past for a select few Metro administrators if a bill making its way through Colorado's legislature passes.

The bill allows up to six administrators at any college or university to sign five-year con­tracts. Now, by law, all college admin­istrators in Colorado can be fired "at will" and that makes it tough for col-leges in the state to recruit administra- '· tors for top-level jobs, the bill's sup­porters say.

"No one wants to relocate only to find out they're an at-will employee," said Anne McKelvey, chairwoman of the council of administrators at Metro. McKelvey is also director of Auraria's Campus Recreation program.

"I thin~ there are certain areas within the college that require that kind of commitment both from the employee and from the institution, but that doesn't necessarily translate straight

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across the board," McKelvey said. However, McKelvey said she suspects top

college administrators would quickly soak up the six available contract positions.

Officials at Colorado State University pushed to change the law this year when employ­ees there were enticed by other schools offering more money and greater job security, said John

Bliss, vice chancellor at CSU. McKelvey said she would jump at

S:::: the chance if she was offered a secure o employment deal with the college.

Darryl Smith, women's basketball coach for Metro, and Metro volleyball coach Joan McDermott agreed.

Smith said job security would benefit both coaches and students.

"The coaches I have the most respect for are the ones that have been

there for 20 years and win on a consistent basis," he said. The bill says a college governing board can offer a contract only if it is necessary "in light of prevailing market conditions and com­petitive employment practices in other slates."

Metro adininistrator bo-ws out Jeremy Tanguma The Metropolitan

Manuel Escamilla, former assistant vice president of Student Services at Metro, said he will not return to Metro next year.

Escamilla was the focus of a student protest last November after he resigned his position and was given the position of senior equity specialist in Metro's Educational Equity Center. Escamilla said the college forced him to resign.

Student protesters who knew Escamilla said the college erred by not giving him a reason for the transfer. The students demanded, among other things, that he be appointed to a teaching position.

The college made no such offer. Metro President Sheila Kaplan and Vice

President of Student Services Vernon Haley, who supervised Escamilla, also refused to give infor­mation about the transfer.

Escamilla said he is now helping out as a director of a Head Start elementary school, that deals with kids from poor and troubled families. Escamilla said he will continue to work miscella­neous jobs until he finds something he can do long term. He said he has nothing lined up other Lhan his position at Head Start.

In a letter sent to students shortly after the protest, Kaplan said Escamilla was welcome to apply for any job at the college.

"Contrary to your belief, I do not require that departments create academic positions for untenured administrators who resign their posi­tions," Kaplan said.

Escamilla said he won't reapply at the col­lege. His contract expires in June.

"At this point, Metro does not want me as one of their employees," he said.

Rafael Rodriguez, a 24-year-old senior mar­keting major at Metro, knew Escamilla and

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Perry Swanson/The Metmpolitw1 ENDS MEET: Kennet Wangsanata, 20, a Metro management student from Indonesia, started a business importing computer parts from his home coun­try. Members of Wangsanata's family, who are Chinese but live in Indonesia, have been harassed because some Indonesians view Chinese people as cor· rupt and believe they caused the Asian economic crisis.

Asian students cope with econolllic aftershocks By Perry Swanson The Metmpolucu1

Some Asian college students living in America fell the impact last year when their home economies were sent reeling.

Metro tuition is already expensive for international students, running $3,487 for 12 credits this semester. But for many who receive support from their families at home, paying tuition is also about curren­cy exchange rates,· some of which have declined by as much as 75 percent since July, according to the National Association of

lions to the INS based on the student's financial need, and some needs are more urgent than others.

"There is a misconception that every­body who comes here to study is rich," she said. "But I have known women who have never worn shoes before their gov­ernment gave them a scholarship to come here and study."

At least one student, though, used the crisis to his advantage.

Kennet Wangsanata, a Metro man­agement major, said he started a company

importing computer parts from Indonesia to profit

Foreign Student Advisors.

That means paying for college is a lot more expensive now than it was a year ago for fami­lies who convert their currency to American dollars.

"Either you just be a sitting

duck, or you do something about it."

from the low cost of pro­ducing the parts in his country. Wangsanata said his family started a com­pany that manufactures computer parts and he imports the parts to America.

Three Metro stu­dents returned to their

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"Either you just be a sitting duck, or you do something about it," he said. home Asian countries

this semester because of the economic cri­sis there, said Mary Anne Krohn, Metro's international student adviser.

Krohn said about 180 international students are enrolled at Metro this semes­ter, and about a third of those are Asian. Metro enrollment statistics show that 642 students classify themselves as Asian, but many of them were born in America.

When the economic meltdown hit Asia last July, Krohn said more Asian stu­dents asked her for help getting permis­sion to work in the United States.

With a recommendation from Krohn, international students are likely to get per­mission to work from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. But the INS can take as long as four months to process an application, Krohn said.

"And if you don't have money, that's a long time to wait," she said.

Krohn said she makes recommenda-

Wangsanata, 20, said a vacation led him to the United States in 1992. It only took a few weeks for him to decide to stay for good, but Wangsanata said he visits Indonesia about twice a year.

Wangsanata said he is .one of the 4-percent ethnic Chinese minority in Indonesia. When the economy there fell apart, he said many Indonesians blamed the traditionally upper-class Chinese minority for financial mismanagement that led to the crisis.

"Just this 1 percent of all Chinese, the ones who actually did all this corruption and everything, got caught," he said. "And then the whole Chinese community got blamed."

Angry Indonesians burned tires in front of Wangsanata's house, he said.

"The cops were there and they didn't do anything. They only do something if they want to kill us."

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Transfer still under wraps ESCAMILLA from 4

protested when the job change occurred. "He was released was in the most unre­

spectable way," Rodriguez said. Derek Dye, a 25-year-old senior

English major at Metro, also protested. "He is a genuinely good human

being." Dye said. "He is a great role model, who always has an open-door policy. Dr. Escamilla isn't someone who just punched a time clock. He has dose personal rcla-

tionships with people." Escamilla was assistant vice president

in the Student Services office fo r six years. He said he always thought he had a good relationship with his co-workers. But he said the administration did not give enough attent ion to the needs of the students.

'There arc so many students. but not enough professionals that arc willing to work with the students on a personal level," Escamilla said.

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Corrections From theApril 10 issue of The Metropolitan:

• A story beginning on page 3 about the selection of a new chairperson for the journalism department contained several errors. 'The story incorrectly stated the number of candidates still vying for the position. There are four. The two not mentioned in the story are Kenn Bisio, a Metro photojournalism professor, and Ania Savage, a Metro journalism professor. Metro's interim journalism department chairwoman, Deb Hurley, was the permanent chairwoman from fall 1994 to summer 1997. She will remain in the department as a tenured professor. Also, Doug Bell is a temporary full-time journalism professor and Marilyn Starrett te~ches public relations at Metro.

•A story on page 5 about Metro's request for a federal grant contained some incorrect statistical information about Metro students. Three percent of Metro students graduate after four years at the college, and 11 percent graduate after five years. Fifty­six percent of Metro students stay at the college after their first year.

•A story on page l 6 incorrectly stated Metro tennis coach Dan LeFevre's age. He is 34.

The Metropolitan regrets the errors. If you spot an error, please call Michael BeDan, editor, at 556-8353.

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Metro gallery deal in works By Sean Weaver The Metropolitan

Metro's Center for the Visual Arts might move lo a larger location that would provide beuer climate control for paint­ings and other works of art.

The center houses and displays art created by Metro art students. It is located at 170 I Wazee St. in Denver.

Metro's Art department is negotiating a lease for some of the space in the build­ing Robischon Gallery owners are plan­ning to buy.

Jim Robischon is poised to purchase the ground level of the building next door to his gallery at 1740 Wazee St.

Robischon would not comment on the negotiations with the college.

Sally Perisho, director and curator of Metro's arts center, said the new space would provide more room for exhibitions and workshops. Currently the center has 3,200 square feet of exhibition and work­shop space.

The Robischon space would supply an additional 3,600 square feet.

Metro's art center organizes about six exhibitions each year and several student exhibitions.

Perisho said one-third of the new space would be used to expand workshops for children, which the center has con­ducted since it opened in 1991. Perisho said workshops are difficult in the current location because the building lacks an adequate heating system and proper light­ing. Perisho said the new location would

Sean Weaverffhe Metropolitan CURATOR'S COVE: Sally Perisho, director and curator of Metro's LoDo art gallery, said she hopes the col­lege .leases more gallery space.

also provide a better climate for traveling museum exhibitions and students' art.

She said the current space has too many windows that allow ultraviolet light into the gallery. Ultraviolet light damage paintings.

The Robischon space has fewer win­dows than Metro 's gallery. Jane Fudge, assistant curator for modern and contem­porary art at the Denver Art Museum, said museums look at several factors when lending artwork for traveling exhibitions.

"The great enemies of (art) are light and rapid fluctuation of humidity," Fudge said.

Certificates earned after 15-29 credits CERTIF1CATE from 3

employees participated in the company's tuition assistance program, according to Barbara Shull, co-director of the "Pathways to the Future" program.

J.O. Yunker, a Metro technical com­munications professor, is teaching a new class this semester on "Communications Law for Technological Media."

The class applies toward an interna­tional technical writing certificate and deals with the legalities of transmitting proprietary information.

People using high-technology devices, such as cellular phones or the

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Internet, sometimes don't realize the risks they're taking, Yunker said.

"Every tech writer I know has a cell phone," she said. "They go to different sites and they call from their cars and they 're talking proprietary information.

I'm talking about technical informa­tion that you're working for a company and how much of it can just be lifted."

Certificates are awarded after stu­dents complete between 15 and 29 credit hours. The class schedule booklet lists Metro's certificates.

- Perry Swamon contributed to this story

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Photojournalists ousted from lab By Marisa &cobedo The Metropolitan

Photojournalism students at Metro will have to find another place to process their film, said Susan Josepher, chair­woman of Metro's Fine Arts department.

Photojournalism and fine art photog­raphy majors formerly used the same cam­pus darkroom in Arts Building 175, putting the room in high demand .

Josepher said there is not enough space for photojournalism students to work in the lab.

As many as 300 students from the three Auraria schools use the lab each semester, said Debbie Miller, photo lab coordinator at Community College of Denver.

Metro has 50 to 60 fine art photogra­phy students and about 24 photojournalism students.

"It has nothing to do with the pro­gram," Josepher said. "It's just the space available and because (the photojournal­ism class) is the newer kid on the block and has fewer students."

Josepher added that the lab might be remodeled to have more room for all the students who need to use it, including pho­tojournalism students.

Miller said the lab will probably be remodeled by fall semester.

That will add 20 more stations to the lab's 50 existing ones. Ken Bisio, a Metro

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DIGITAL DIGS: Photojournalism students use the black wires coming from this computer In the basement of the Rectory Bulldlng to transfer Images from their digital cameras. Because photojournalism students have been kicked out of the campus darkroom, many will use the six digital cameras provided by the Journalism department.

photojournalism professor, said that with­out ·the lab he will have to meet with his students individually at small labs off cam­pus.

with three colleges wouldn't be as territor-ial."

No sure date is set for the lab remod­eling. Interim Journalism Chairwoman Deb Hurley said there probably won't be any problems with photojournalism stu­dents using space when it has been remod­eled.

"Not having a lab makes teaching photojournalism harder, because now I have 24 students to meet with individual­ly," Bisio said. "You would think a campus

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t's still Metro's best kept secret. Metro Jazz is alive and

well. And possibly thriving.

The 16-piece big band that makes up Metro's 12:00 band appeared live on KUYO­

FM 89.3 April 14 at 8:30 p.m. Directed by Fred Hess, the group played for a

live audience of about 30. The music styles ranged across decades and influences, and the crowd present loved it.

"It was absolutely wonderful," said Diane Richman, a 76-year-old music Jover from New York. "These people are all so talented. I can't believe they're all just students."

Which is a tribute to the staff here. Hess also performs and conducts regularly with the Creative Music Works Orchestra.

"We played well, for the most part tonight,'' Hess said. "We've got some stuff lo work on, but it's coming along." The polishing, Hess said, the band needed was to gear up to perform al the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival

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April 24-25 in Greeley. Metro's jazz combos under the tutelage of Ron Miles will perfonn that Friday and the big band will play on Saturday.

The music for the program will include the pieces the group played at KUVO.

"We have a solid program that no other schools should have," Hess said.

The UNC Jazz Festival is a nationwide event. Every year, high schools and colleges from Alaska to Aorida travel to Greeley to perfonn. Their playing is adjudicated by some of the top players and educators in the industry, and each school is rated according to performance.

Metro has always put in a good showing. "I've been doing this for the last five years," said

18-year-old Metro student Lorenzo Trujillo. He alter­nates lead trumpet with Steve Ilych.

"Everybody who is anybody will be up there. I just want to go up there and play my best." Trujillo also plays for local swing band Money Plays 8.

Most of the performances in Greeley are open to the public. For more information about Metro Jazz, contact the music office at 556-3180.

Russian reporters read school's texts Foreign journalists seek to save ex-Soviet home-grown papers By Jason Dilg The Metropolttan

A t a time when Russia's traditional news presses are struggling to stay alive in a free market, nine Russian newspaper executives are looking for clues for survival in

American media textbooks they got from Metro journal­ism professors.

The executives visited campus April 13 on a two­week tour of the United States, which was organized and financed by the U.S. government, according to their trans­lator who said he was working under contract as an escort for the group.

The group's tour, from April 4-22, also includes stops at the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post and newsrooms in Kansas City, Mo; Nashville, Tenn.; New York and Washington D.C., the translator said.

The Russians' day at Metro began in a cramped, win­dowless room in the South Classroom. They thumbed through copies of the Weekly World News and the National f:ru/uirer; covered with lively headlines like "School teacher's amazing Jove story: Why I married a death-row killer." Journalism professors Jay Brodell and Ania Savage lectured about drawing readers' attention with design, photography and catchy headlines.

Savage said studies conducted by Gannett Co., Inc., a newspaper chain, indicate newspapers have three sec­onds draw a reader into a story.

Savage said Gannett made USA Today more readable by priniting color pictures, refining its layout and printing easy-to-read, sensational stories.

There is nothing wrong with sensationalism, as long as the stories have three items: accuracy, fairness and bal­ance, she said.

But what excited the Russian journalists most was

books on newspaper layout and advertising. Getting read­ers' attention is only one of myriad problems facing Russian news publishers.

Few have solutions. Newspapers in Russia's biggest cities are losing read­

ers as nearby, smaller cities become financially stable to support hometown papers, said Ruslan Vakulik, editor in chief of Novosti, in the Pacific-coast city of Vladivostok.

Izvestia Pravda, Russia's best-known newspaper dur­ing the Cold War, had as many as 22 million subscribers, more than any other paper in the world, said Vladimir Dmitriev, the head of Novgordskiye Vedomosti. His news­paper has a circulation of more than 25,000 in Nizhniy Novgorod.

Every member of the Communist Party got Pravda, Dmitriev said.

It wasn 't a formal requirement of membership to the party, "but it was 'highly recommended,"' he said.

Sergey Baluev, editor of Smena in St. Petersburg, said he is losing advertisers to free papers with one reporter and terrible stories. But more people are reading those newspapers for the week's television schedule, Baluev said, so advertisers spend their money to appear on those pages.

Smaller papers in towns with few business - thus no advertising base - are getting their daily bread from the city or state government they also are trying to report on, Dmitriev said.

"Everything depends on how the governor feels and what the relationship between the editor and the governor is,'' Dmitriev said. Those papers are facing "very dire cir­cumstances."

But in spite of the Darwinian realities of a free mar­ket, the visiting Russians are optimistic they will go back with useful new tools to deal with the competition. Several said Gannett's attention-getting techniques could help them in Russia.

"It is good for us to understand how you treat news­papers as a business, to understand that newspapers can be a successful form of business in the United States,'' said Irina Kondrashova, the head of professional develop­ment for the Moscow-based parent company of the Komsomol.skaya Pravda newspaper.

The U.S. Information Agency is paying for a signifi­cant part of the trip, the translator said. Most of the rest is covered by a federal program authorized by the U.S. Congress under the Freedom Support Act of 1992, he said.

The program began in 1993 to bring citizens of the former Soviet Union stateside to study business, educa­tion, law and journalism, among other subjects.

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This Euphoria/ David Garza

I'm pro­b ab I y a lone I n

this, but David Garza's latest release is really good. Right from the first beat of the first track, it's obvious there is a heavy Beatles influence, without sounding like anoth-er mimic. "FloiJt away" is probably the best example of this. Garza has a way of turn­ing a phrase to give it an edge that most other vocalists just d,Pf}'t quite grab. My only criticism is he needs to stay away from ballads. On "I Know," Garza sounds insincere enough to be a columnist for this newspaper.

-Dave Flomberg

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Legacy: 4 Tribute Ta Fleatwoad

Mac's Buma111'S/

Various Artists

You gotta love Fleetwood Mac, and this album will either really piss you· off ar leave you clawing for extra copies. Tonic opens up with a rather unique take on "Second Hand News" that Ooats just a little too freely. Elton John's take of "Don't Stop" has a definite '80s edge to it - he probably couldn't help it. The Cranberries waste no time making "Go Your Own Way" every bit their song. Jewel's take on "You Make Loving Fun" is better than the original. The Goo Goo Dolls version of "I Don't Want to Know" is· as in-your-face-guitar-rock as anything they have turned out in the past. This disc rocks.

Don't let the cover fool you. 12 Bar Blues, Scott Weiland 's fi rst solo

effort is not a rough, acoustic blues jam. It 's a slick, well-pro-

duced collection of angst-rid­den colors. While some

hints of talent slip through the cracks, this disc

sounds little more than a cross between

Stone Temple Pilots and Nine

Inch Nails. Granted, there is some diversity here "Divider" sounds like

Portisehead one moment and Sting the

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next. The intro is a well-textured blues exer­cise, which segues into a smooth Latin beat. The rest of the disc has a tendency to become for­getable.

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Fastball is gelling thrown a curvc­ball via radio. This poppy group, whose single "The Way" is gelling serious rotation on radio, will soon fade away as just another one-hit wonder. But it 's not their fault; they arc genuinely trying. Their sec­ond alhum, All The Pain Money Can Buy, is out­selling their first in a big way.

is first, self-titled album has long been .icipated - maybe almost to the point of bg anticlimatic. This album does swing, -d and fast, but I guess I was just hoping mQre. This octet has good material to pull

m, considering the way it has aped Royal Crown Revue, but there's just not

enough texture here to get me really excited. Two of Lhe

tracks feature music they first released on the Swingers soundtrack, "You and Me and the

Fresh off a tour with Mallhew Sweet, they recorded and "The Way" immediately got picked up by radio. Since then, it's hccn nothing but a success story for Lhe Georgia-based group. Anyone who listens to the radio can hum their addic­tive song, complete with the catchy chorus. This keeps sounding more and more like The Proclaimers and 'Tm Gonna Be (500 Miles)." But, besides "The Way," very few of their songs arc worthy of being listened to. "Fire Escape" sounds like a cheap rip off of that "I'm-going-to-Disn·eyland" song, and "G.O.D. (Good Old Days)" lacks any creativity that might have been there before. Copied chord progressions and lame har­monies taint the album and blatantly mark it with a scarlet "U" for unoriginality. An unusual surprise, the sul­

.. Bottle Makes Three," and "Go

· Daddy-0." The rest of the album isn't quite as good. It moves, it hops, and it skips, but after the debut of those first two tunes, you

expect more. "Mr. Pinstripe Suit" is about

Lhe only other tune on the album that approaches the

... arrangments of the aforemen-

try voiced Poe lends her bluesy talents to Fastball in "Which Way To The Top?" The intense sound created by her and frontman Miles Zuniga marks the best song on the album. The mid-song, acoustic jam session between the two is profoundly powerful and completely out of place on this mediocre album. It seems like they are following in the footsteps of fellow Georgian, Sweet. His songs are mostly empty with much-to be-desired guitar chords, but Lhe occa­sional great song or two on each album keeps him afloat in the industry.

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tioned two. The group's strongest >Dint is its trumpeter, Glen "The Kid" rhevka. His chops are strong and his solos : across Lhe changes like an angry chariot. : it'bum is worth having, but not worth ing too much for.

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The music from this Tibetan artist is unlike most you'll find floating around the disc play­ers on campus. It's an ecclecLic blending of western and eastern styles. Dadawa's vocal styling are reflective of the eastern 18-tone scale, while the majority of her background music is western progressions. The end result is a blues edge that I'm sure is entirely unin­tended. While this is a soothing album, the effort at using hip-hop beats was only half­hearted and you can hear the difference. For meditating or praying, this is a decent album.

-Dave Flomberg

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12 The Metropolitan April 17, 1998 ·ommentary Degree decision long overdue 'Cl{Jt :fletropolba

Editorial

News: Metro still hasn't made a decision about Peter Durbin's posthumous degree.

Views: The college should award the degree at spring graduation.

Peter Durbin died doing what he loved to do June 4 in a kayaking acci­dent in Clear Creek.

Metro cannot seem to decide whether to award him a posthumous degree.

Durbin, 23, needed three courses to earn his bachelor's degree in Environmental Science.

The college has been considering the degree since shortly after his death.

Originally, Metro told the Durbin family a deci­sion might be made in fall 1997.

With the anniversary of his death approaching, it's time for the college to make the right decision -right now.

Award Durbin the degree. He likely would have earned it in a semester.

If anything, the degree would provide closure for Durbin's family. And Metro, which has left the family hanging for nearly a year, could close the chapter and do something good for a good student and his family.

So far, nothing. "It would be nice if could get the degree," Peter's

mother, Madeline Durbin, said. "He worked so hard." Metro has awarded six posthumous degrees in 25

years, proving it's no easy task to receive one. There is · no compelling reason not to award Peter Durbin a degree.

"I think it's one of those things that falls through the cracks," Peter's father, Charles Durbin, said.

Durbin, in his short life, gave plenty to those who knew him.

With spring graduation May 17, Metro can give something back to a student and his family.

"If someone were to make a difference in this world, it would have been Pete," said Phillip Skaff, one of Durbin 's close friends.

Metro should make a difference and do the right thing.

SGA equals money poorly spent

Claudia Hlbbert-BeDan

Soapbox

$90,385 goes to the Student Government Assembly, a group elected by the students to repre­sent their voice.

$90,385. And only 522 people (3 per­

cent of Metro's 17,000 students) voted April 6-8 during the elec­tions: Six of the 11 races were uncontested, even after the Election Commission extended its deadline an additional week to get

more people into the race. Shameful. Why should students give up $90,385 of their stu­

dent fees for this? The money would be better spent somewhere else.

OK, half of the members did stick it out for the entire year. Some even made it to most of the meet­ings. But showing up mostly helped student govern­ment members, not the students they represent.

They were paid $500 per month to attend weekly meetings, travel to workshops and talk about ideas to better represent the students.

Action was something else. Half of the members quit, frustrated because of

their Jack of power and the students' apathy. Others found other jobs that better served their long-term plans.

Some just left.

dents aren't paying attention anyway. Eighty percent of them work. They come to campus for class, then they leave.

Last year's election had three tickets fighting for the privilege to be the students' voice.

Assembly President Karmin Trujillo showed up at every debate when she vied for the post last year. Now she's leaving. She opted out of a second term and bid adieu by saying, 'Tm not a drug addict. I just love marijuana."

Good for her. But she's only given more ammuni­tion to Metro's administration, which already thinks the student government is a joke.

Next year's group has its work cut out. One tick­et dominated the election. The only excitement came from a protest by Metro student Erica Tapia who tried to get on the ballot at the last minute.

So what can students expect from next year's assembly? Probably more of the same. People will start the year with grand ideas, then they will get jaded half way through the year.

Some members will plug ahead because of all the benefits they will gain. But the student government only serves the people who are in it.

The members have little power when it comes to big decisions on the college level, and they lament that fact every year.

The sad fact is that most people don't care. And $90,385 is too much mo.ney for a group that few peo­ple care about.

All for $90,385. Students at Metro don't need the Claudia Hibbert-BeDan is a UCD student and a student government to fight for their rights. Most stu- columnist/copy editor for The Metropolitan

Parking increase: AHEC is pilfering your pocketbooks

First they rape us, then they tell us to like it.

I'm speaking of my old foil, Auraria parking.

Last week, The Metropolitan reported Auraria is going to raise parking fees by an average of 50 cents per space. This increase

Dave Flomberg could happen as early as summer Jive session, we were told.

According to Dean Wolf, Auraria's executive vice president

for Administration, students here are getting one hell of a deal. ·

"We've avoided two rate increases in the past," Wolf said. "Inflation hits everybody."

Director of Parking and Transportation Services Mark Gallagher colored an even prettier picture.

"Due to frugal .operations, we've avoided raising fees three times," he said.

I say, let's avoid it a fourth (or third) time. In fact, let's not raise parking costs at all. We don't have to.

Auraria parking generates .about $4.5 million annually, Gallagher said.

Part of that money goes to operating his office, part of it goes into reserves, and part of it goes into paying off the bond Auraria acquired in 1991. That bond was for $22 million. The biggest piece of the pie? . You guessed it. Mark's office.

His people get $2 million a year to operate. The bond gets $1.3 million, and the balance goes to reserves.

If Auraria had poured every cent of the parking revenue into paying back the bond, it would have been paid off by now, leaving a $9.5 million surplus.

I'm no accountant, but I'm pretty confident I could run the parking services here with an annual budget of $1.4 million. I run my household budget off what I make writing for this rag and my weekly plas­ma donations.

Hell, I'll do it for tuition. The point is, there is absolutely no reason on this

planet we should be paying more for parking. We already pay more for parking than some of the tenants in the condos south of the school pay in rent.

This increase has professors wanting to break win­dows, support staff breaking piggy banks, and it's breaking students' backs.

We already get nickeled and dimed to death here, and 50 cents a extra a day is simply unacceptable. You can bet we won't be receiving 50 cents extra in ser­vices.

The charge to the self-supporting and prosperous parking office: Trim your fat. It's time to lay off your parking gestapo, drop your management and open your gates. If students have to start paying another 50 cents a day to park, then it's time for a revolution.

The charge to students is this: Refuse to pay it. Park in hourly lots and drive over embankments if you have to.

Bribe parking attendants. Steal parking permits. Do whatever you have to, but don't pay this fee.

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

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Part-time faculty enrich students' experience Editor, This letter arises from the commen­

tary in the April IO issue of The Metropolitan "Full effort, part-time pay­check" by Jesse Stephenson. Ms. Stephenson probably says it all in a single sentence; "There are many fine professors at Metro who teach part-time." However, I want to comment and expand on her state­ment.

From 1994 to 1997, I had the privi­lege of serving as the Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice - during which time the number of declared majors in the department approached I ,000. One in 17 Metro students was a criminal justice major! In order to provide first-rate instruction to each class, it was necessary to identify and recruit adjunct faculty to teach as many as 20 class sections each semester. One of the highlights of that time was the opportunity to interview a number of highly qualified applicants -one of the constant difficulties was to decide between a universe of competent, dedicated and eager applicants.

When I made the teaching schedule each semester, I was absolutely dependent on the many fine adjunct instructors who

gladly gave of their expertise and dedica­tion to ensure that students received the best possible information regarding the subjects taught. In some cases they assumed responsibilities for courses after the semester had started and willingly spent countless hours to ensure that stu­dents were current in the material listed in the course schedule. They all brought to the classroom a dedication to teaching that was gratifying to observe, ensuring com­plete coverage of the course material in a manner that generated new inspiration and commitment.

There is an on-going discussion regarding the use of adjunct faculty in higher education. The discussion often addresses two issues: competence and pay. Careful screening and an applicant pool that is overflowing ensures that compe­tence is seldom an issue - at least for the Department of Criminal Justice. Because of their willingness to work for signifi­cantly Jess than even Metro tenured facul­ty receive, they help to ensure that stu­dents are afforded a variety of classes at a variety of times within the budget con­straints present. But the financial benefit to using adjunct faculty is far outweighed

by the opportunity for students to receive instruction from teachers who can easily relate how the theory being studied applies to the world outside academia. The philo­sophic and cultural basis for "probable cause" as it relates to criminal justice activities is particularly well learned when related by a teacher who recounts the prin­ciple by reference to decisions taken in an incident that is less than 24 hours old! Engineers, accountant and systems ana­lysts also bring fresh application to their classrooms, providing a particularly valu­able dimension to the education provided by the college.

In an ideal world, these committed adjunct faculty members would be paid better than they are. But maybe the world is even more ideal when we are able to attract dedicated, knowledgeable and capable adjunct faculty by giving them an opportunity to contribute their unique tal­ent and viewpoint. I salute them and hope they continue to enrich the opportunities we wish for our students.

Professor W.H. Copley, Ph.D. Metro Department of

Criminal Justice

Standards at _The Metropolitan have fallen Editor, My name is Doug Bell, and I'm a full­

time assis~nt professor in the Journalism department. The article on the search for a new journalism chair incorrectly identified me as a part-time professor.

Other errors in the story: Deb Hurley has been the permanent,

not interim, chair for the past five years

(this mistake was compounded by the use of the wrong information in your "It's a fact" box). It isn't a fact; it's dead wrong.

The search has been narrowed to FOUR candidates, not two. The two not mentioned in the story are Kenn Bisio, a full-timer in the department, and Ania Savage, a part-timer who also teaches at the University of Denver.

Combine these fact errors with a vari­ety of grammar and punctuation problems, and you have a pretty sorry effort.

As a former adviser to The Metropolitan, I find it is distressing to see the standards there fall to this level.

Doug Bell Metro professor

End conformity and reform school system Editor, I was quite surprised when I recently

got a job as a counselor at an extended day care in an elementary school. 1 went in with the idea that all I would have to do is play games with the kids for a few hours, then they'd go home.

I'd get paid and everyone would be happy. However, when I got there, things were quite different. [ watched as a coun­selor ordered kids around and barked at their every move. He would make them conform to just about every rule and did­n't just let them be kids.

"Don't talk so loud! Sit down! Don't breathe so loud!" (OK, so he didn't go that far). When we went into the hall to walk the kids to the playground, they had to be in a perfectly straight line and not utter a word. Anyone who did got singled out and scolded.

This got me thinking about my youth and high school years.

People who were 16, 17, and even 18 years old were treated like kids at a ele­mentary school. No wonder so many peo­ple ended up rebelling.

People's perception of school is that you are worthless unless you get an edu­cation. Few sections of society are looked

down upon as much as high school dropouts. So as a teen-ager you basically have two choices.

One is to be looked upon as the shit of society. The other is to go to high school, conform to every rule imaginable and give up your individualism.

It is mandatory to go to school five days a week and spend seven hours a day there with very little choice of what class­es you can take. You must ask permission to leave the class, to go to the bathroom or get water, and sometimes you are denied even this.

You even get detention (i.e. more jail time) for being late to class, and after a certain amount of absences, you get a lower grade or dropped from the class. Teachers, who for the most part are under­quali fied, care more about discipline than about education.

Imagine my relief when I came to col­lege and found that I didn 't have to ask to go to the bathroom.

The main problem with our education system is that we still have a form of Plessy vs. Ferguson. It's just not written into our laws. The only equal things about public education at the high school and junior high level is that it is equally bad.

Only rich white kids in private school get a decent education. Unless this is changed, poverty and ignorance will continue.

Make high school like college. Give the students a choice over what ·classes they can take. This happens in many pri­vate schools. Studies have shown that public school teachers would rather send their kids to private school than public ones.

Do away with taking attendance. Sometimes students have other things they need to attend to. If they don't show up enough times, then their grades will reflect it.

Raise teachers' annual salary to a minimum of $60,000 a year. This will attract more intelligent people to the teaching profession who prefer to go into another profession to make more money.

End tenure for teachers. This would weed out the bad, old teachers and replace them with good enthusiastic ones.

Kick out the really bad trouble mak­ers in high school. This is very easy to do and would enhance the learning capabili­ties of students who actually come to school to learn.

Daniel Weintraub CCD student

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The Road to Black Self-Determination in the 21st Century

A conference to provide information, ideas, and perspective FEATURING-

Dr. Robert Brock Ms. Dorothy Lewis Ms. Cynthia Martin Dr. Imari Obadele

-President Self-determination Committee -Author of Black Reparations Now! -Congressional aide to the Honorable John Conyers, author of H.R. 40 -Chair, Department of Political Science, Prairie View A&M University, Author of America the Nation-State, Reparations Yes!

Wednesday, April 22, 1998- 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Golda Meir Center The Metropolitan State College of Denver

For information- (303)556-3119 or 556-3103

Sponsored by- MSCD Association of African American Scholars, MSCD African American Studies, MSCD African American Leadership Institute, MSCD Diversity Initiatives & Programming Committee, MSCD Institute for International and lntercultural Education, MSCD Student Activities, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. - Theta Zeta Sigma Chapter, The Political Science Association, MSCD & UCO Turkish Student Association, Arab Americans at Auraria, MSCD United Women of Color, MSCD BWorld, Jewish Students of Auraria, and Brother Jeffs Cultural Center and Cafe.

Community Session at Brother Jeffs Cultural Center and Cafe (2836 Welton Street) on April 22, 1998 from 7-10 p.m.

The GAME Is On! Round VII, April 17, 1998!

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SIX GUN: Metro junior Nathan Green turns on a forehand (LEFT) April 14 in his No. 6 singles match against a University of Denver player. Green won two titles at the Colorado Collegiate Championship April 11-12 after struggling with his game early In the season.

Psyched up Green grabs t\Vo titles By Kyle Ringo The Metropolitan

His baseline gro.und­strokes are like bullets fired by the executioner - oppo­nents might as well be stand­ing with their arms-tied behind their backs and shrouds cover­ing their heads.

But sometimes - espe­cially this season - Metro junior Nathan Green steps on the tennis court with what amounts to a shrouded psy­che. His head isn't always in the game.

A double dose of victory April 11-12 at the Colorado Collegiate Championships and a doubles match with University of Denver players who, Green says, threatened him on the court April 14, might have finally brought his focus back.

Green rip~d through the competition at the Championships never losing a set. He won the championship match in No. 6 singles in two sets (6-2, 6-2) over Matt Korsgaard from Colorado

Metro junior turns focus on tennis fallowing early struggles with concentration

College. Manuel Ponce and Greg

Davenport also won titles for Metro at No. I and No. 5 sin­gles, respectively.

Green teamed with dou­bles partner David Marquina to earn a second title. The pair sailed through three duos in No. 3 doubles, and afterward, Green's mind was back on the game.

"I wasn't playing the type of tennis I should be," Green said. "I just decided if I just focus 011 being a good tennis player, and as soon as I step on the court put everything else out of my mind, I'd start winning."

No traumatic events kept Green from doing his best in early season matches. He is just a busy, fun loving person who sometimes struggles to keep his mind on the task at

hand, he said. Instead of concentrating

on tennis during his first three matches this season, Green said he often found himself thinking about what he was doing after the match. Or other topics like school, women, his family, and on and on.

Consequently, he lost three straight singles matches and struggled with Marquina in doubles play as well. The -two hadn't played together before.

"We were a little frustrat­ed with each other," Green said. "I feel comfortable play­ing with him now."

His epiphany came on the bus ride to and from matches at Nebraska-Kearney and Fort, Hays State before the Collegiate Championships, he 1

said.

But his new philosophy of all-tennis-all-the-time when he's on the court received a challenge against DU.

During the changeover between sets in a doubles match, Green said his Pioneer opponents were talking trash.

One mentioned some­thing about "kicking my ass," Green said.

"I just started walking over to him, and he started getting really nervous," Green said. "People don't get in my dish too easy.

"No one bothers me until they make a direct threat on me."

Nothing more came of the incident outside of a few insults, but it served to strengthen Green's determina­tion.

His goals are standard. He wants to win the confer­ence title. But that almost comes as an afterthought.

"My goal i's to make every day count," Green said. "I just want to be happy that I'm still here."

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RMACtitle

By Kyle Ringo The Metropolitan

Pennant races are to the Metro base­ball team what wins are to the Denver Nuggets.

But after splitting a four-game series with No. i 8 Fort Hays Slate in Kansas on April 11-12, the Roadrunners have found themselves in the midst of neck-and-neck battle for a regular season title with the Tigers.

Eight games separate Metro and a share of a regular season Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship. But the fact that those eight games could just as easily be wins as losses for Metro has the Roadrunners digging in.

Unlike the Nuggets, there are no sure things. .

"I think everyone is handling it very well," Metro coach Vince Porreco said. "Both feet are still on the ground."

Sine~ joining the RMAC, the Roadrunners have never made a serious challenge for the conference crown. Porreco said splitting a series in Fort Hays has given his team any confidence it might have been lacking.

"After the first day, we took it as not fighting for the championship but as a regular game," Porreca said. "When we did that, we relaxed."

A first-place finish would give the Vince Porreco

Roadrunners brag-ging, rights and a top-seed in the RMAC tournament at Skysox Stadium in Colorado Springs May 1-3.

Junior pitcher Kevin Watson, who transferred to Metro before this season, threw a complete game shutout against the Tigers and was named RMAC pitcher of the week.

Watson said the Roadrunners are focused on finishing strong.

"Nothing is going to change," Watson said. "If anything changes, we're going to be working harder."

Metro needs to win two games to clinch a spot in the tournament, and likely needs to win the remainder of its games to hold on lo at least a tie with Fort Hays.

Metro begins a four-game series with third-place University of Southern Colorado April 18 at. Auraria Fields at noon.

USC needs a sweep to keep its chances; of a regular season title and top­seed alive.

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Kyle Ringo I' II save you the cliche.

The Metro baseball team (26-16, 16-4) squares off with the University of Southern Colorado (26-25, 12-8) April 18-19 at Auraria Fields.

I've been looking forward to it since the last time these two played here one year ago.

Jn that series (split 2-2) emotions erupted. Batters got beaned. Players were ejected. Metro lost three of its starters to injuries unrelated to the pitcher's •target practice.

The memory of Metro coach Vince Porreco standing midway down the third baseline pointing and shouting at the USC coach in his dugout has stuck with me.

Turns out, I'm not the only one. 'They are a bunch of trash talkers in

my opinion," Metro catcher Pat Maxwell said. "There is no place for that in base­ball.

"We hate them." These things happen in baseball.

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pitchers must hit batters. It sends a mes­sage to the other team. Sometimes a key batter gets plunked at a bad time and an honest mistake gets blown out of propor­tion. Players are put in harm's way in the name of retaliation.

Thal is basically what happened last year, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen again.

This time the roles arc reversed. Metro is the team in first place in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference while USC is giving chase.

The Thunderwolves - what exactly

is a Thunderwolf anyhow - arc in third place with a shot at taking the lead should they manage to sweep the Roadrunners in the four-game series.

Porreco and his troops are mindful of that fact. They are talking about playing fundamentaly sound and blah blah blah. But they get a little excited when talk turns to last year.

"I don't like the style of ball that they play," Porreco said. He calls it "excessive aggressiveness."

So there you have it. Metro against team Metallica (pre-haircut Metallica of course). The doubleheaders start at noon both days. Be there.

USC coach Stan Sanchez doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. He was surprised lo hear that the memory of last season hadn't faded away.

"I think it was an isolated thing,"

Sanchez said. "It's too bad they are saying things like that."

Sanchez refused to comment further about last season or what he expects this season.

This isn't a rivalry by any stretch. Until this season, Metro has been a pit stop for the conference elite, and USC tra­ditionally has been a top team.

Until the split series last year, Metro had beaten USC one time in 12 games. So you can understand how that Roadrunner team might have felt like the puny kid get­ting picked on.

Despite the last time around, there appears to be some deference.

' 'You have lo respect them because they go out and win," Maxwell said.

"l know they are having a great year," Sanchez said.

I doubt the same things will be said in the dugouts al game time. But then again, maybe saner heads will prevail.

"You never know what to expect," Porreco said. "I think the players and coaches who have played against them in the past will be ecstatic going in and beat­ing USC."

If nothing else, Porreco and friends are confident for a change.

"It's going to be a do-or-die situa­tion," Metro pitcher Kevin Watson said. "We are not going to give up a champi­onship.

"We are preparing for a war."

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Metro men's basketball coach Mike Dunlap announced the signing of junior Jody Hollins April 8. '

Hollins, a 6-foot- 10-in~h 230-pound center will transfer from Columbia Junior College in Columbia, Calif.

The men have four available scholar­ships and could still sign additional play­ers.

Metro men's soccer coach Brian Crookham has signed freshman Bubba Davis.

Davis is transferring to Metro from the University of New Mexico after start­ing eight games Lobos.

Davis, a forward , scored three goals in his first season in college. New Mexico was ranked as high as No. 15 nationally in Division [ soccer.

Metro women's soccer coach Ed Montojo signed Jennifer Kitano.

Kitano, who will graduate from Arvada West, joins a long list of Arvada West graduates to play at Metro.

Jennifer, Katie and Kari Pierce and Sarah Deigert, current Metro players, also played· for Arvada West.

Kitano plays defender and midfield-er.

Awards

Metro volleyball player Laurie Anderson was named National Strength and Conditioning Association All­American.

The NSCA award recognizes out­standing male and female athletes who have excelled in their strength training and conditioning.

Anderson, a senior, finished her career fourth all-time in setting for the Roadrunners and had two of the top- I 0 most productive seasons in Metro history as a setter.

Quotable OK, it's been a slow sports week. But

things never slow down in the athletics office.

Metro women's basketball coach Darryl Smith, always good for a laugh, gave outgoing swimming coach Rob Nasser a hard time April 15 when Nasser offered Smith the swimming job ..

"Tell Nasser to get out of my face before [knock him out," Smith said while Nasser was no where near Smith's face. "I used to steal lunch money from swimmers in high school."

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The Human Experience: 20th Century Photography: A show of works featuring the human figure from the turn of the century to the present. At the Center for the Visual Arts, 1701 Wazee St., through April 22. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and noon-4 p.m. Saturday. 294-5207.

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Meeting: T'1e Metro Pacific Asian-American Coalition will meet at noon, Tivoli 317. 510-3244.

Seminar: "Journey of the Hero," 2-3:30 p.m., Tivoli 65 I. Sponsored by the Metro Counseling Center. 556-3132.

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