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Assembly to pay lobbyists Matthew J. Lilley The M ETROPOLITAN

After three months of uncertainty the Colorado Student Association, a pro-student lobbying organization, will be paid by the Metro Student Government Assembly.

Metro's affiliation with CSA was called into question July IO because some members of the SGA felt that CSA did not adequately represent the unique interests of Metro students. The payment, which was due the begining of September, has been withheld until the resolution of the issue.

Metro students approved CSA representation by a 92 percent margin in an election last spring, representation that costs about $12,000 per year.

"I'm glad that the student government chose to listen to the student body," said Robin Nolan executive director of CSA. She added that the student votes that some members of SGA were calling into question are the same votes which elected them .

Non-voting SGA member Rodney Lebsock said he is pleased that the issue is resolved. "We can move on to issues that are more important than 50-cents a semester," he said, referring to the cost of CSA per student.

The SGA does not have the power to end Metro's affiliation with CSA, only a popular student vote does. A petition with the required 111 valid full-time student signatures, as required by the Metro constitution to call for a special election, was presented at the Oct. 17 SGA meeting.

However, SGA voted 2-4 against calling for a special election. Because of the vote Metro now has continuing CSA membership by default, Metro student government president Stephanie Stevenson said.

"We are going to go through and pay them," said Yolanda Ericksen, dean of student life. She said that the payment process has been initiated but does not know when CSA will actually get paid.

"Most (student government) members would agree that they should be paid," Vice President of Student Services Tracey Monterio. "And I'm one of them."

Lebsock said that SGA questioned CSA because they were not actively involved with Metro and only appeared when it was time to pick up their dues.

"CSA's non-action in the legislative session ... is part-

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ly the reason for the tuition increases (Metro is) incurring presently," Stevenson said.

Nolan said that Metro's recent tuition increases were the result of the Metro administration requesting an additional 4 percent increase - on top of the state allotted 2 percent increase which accounts for inflation. A request that the SGA agreed to two years ago, Nolan said.

CSA membership was not a good decision two years ago, Stevenson said. "Time can only tell if this SGA made the right decision."

"We've listened to the concerns (of SGA) and made

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changes," Nolan said. She added that CSA's lobbying has benefited all Colorado students, including those at Metro.

Since July CSA has shown initiative, Lebsock said.

"I think most of us (SGA members) are satisfied with what they are doing now."

He said withholding payment to CSA was never the focus of the student government.

However he said, "CSA not being paid was the focus of a few members, who may or may not have had ulterior motives behind their actions."

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Angry about being charged $25 for setting up an information table on campus, the Colorado Public Interest Research Group vowed to ask other clubs to get space for them to avoid more fees.

Joey Lyons, the campus organizer for CoPIRG, an environmental and consumer activist group, said when on-campus booths are needed the club will now register•for space under the names of student organizations that get free table space.

Irene Oliver, the assistant. director of the Events Center, said she does not condone CoPIRG's plan to use other clubs' names to get a free table but she will not know if a club is registering for it's own use or CoPIRG's.

"If they wanted to do that then that's on them," she said. "There's no way we would know if they're going through legitimate channels to get a table."

Oliver charged CoPIRG a ~ble fee for 1 the first time Oct. 11 when the club set up a booth to pass out tickets to President

Clinton's speech at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. She charged the club $25, half the usual rate for a table since CoPIRG was sharing the space with another club.

From now on, however, CoPIRG will be charged the same rate as credit card companies and other off-campus organizations who set up tables at Auraria because the group is no longer recognized as an official campus club, Oliver said. CoPIRG lost its status as a recognized student club this year because, unlike other clubs, it is funded by a special student fee.

John McDonoughrrhe METROPOLITAN Lyons said CoPIRG cannot foot the bill for table space since the club is NOT GONNA TAKE IT: Joey Lyons, CoPIRG student organizer for Metro, operating on a tight budget that was stands in front of the flagpole on campus. The area is open for campus written last year under the assumption clubs to set up tables but off-campus group~ are charged a $25 fee. that on-campus space would be free. He said CoPIRG gets about $60,000 yearly in CoPIRG pay the table fee out of fairness to people who come on campus are charged." recognized clubs that do not get. extra stuTim Shoup, a CoPIRG member who student fees. dent fees and off-campus organizations paid the Oct. 11 fee out of his own pocket, "How can we pay $25 to $50 every who pay up to said $60 to set up at Auraria.

The he and other members are bitter about time we want to do something?" Lyons the table charges. said. "We set up .tables about two days per . recognized student clubs are allowed free table space on campus.

"It's definitely a sore spot with us," he week."

"CoPIRG is hitting up the facility said.

Oliver said she is insisting that twice," she said. "All other off-campus

Film fest a huge draw Mitsuru Shimuzu The METROPOLITAN An estimated 10,000 to 12,000 moviegoers visited the Tivoli for the 19th Denver International Film Festival

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NOT FOR PROFIT: Auraria's St. Francis Interfaith Center (left) and connected St. Elizabeth's would lose nonprofit status if Amendment 11 passes.

Proposed t~x on nonprofits could affect Auraria centers Trisha McCarty The METROPOLITAN

While passage of Amendment 11 could be no sweat off the.backs of some institutions on the Aurarilf campus, the taxation-for-nonprofits initiative could break the backs of others.

"It is a quite alarming, mean-spirited amendment, and it could affect a lot of nonprofits in Colorado/' said Mary Ferrell, executive director of the Auraria Foundation.

If passed Nov. 5, the amendment would require nonprofit groups, churches and charities to pay property taxes on land and buildings. Presently these organizations pay tax only on commercial use of property unrelated to their mission. The initiative would exempt property used for

Some of the more popular screenings were The Decalogue, composed of ten films, Breaking the Waves, Surviving Picasso and Caught, said Gloria Campbell, operations manager from the Denver Film Society.

"The Decalogue has been real, real ·popular," Campbell said.

nonprofit schools, community corrections facilities, orphanages and housing for low-income elderly, disabled, homeless or abused persons, exempting state or city-owned property as well.

Ferrell said the amendment would not affect the Auraria Foundation at all because its property - the St. Francis Center, Golda Meir House and the Dravao Building -are used for educational purposes by Metro, Community College of Denver and University of Colorado Denver. Anytime the property is used for other events or purposes, such as the rental space to Gourmet Alternative Catering, the foundation claims that portion as income on its tax return, Ferrell said. She added, "At this point, there isn't anything in the amendment that would

It took l 0 hours to watch the whole 10-movie series, she said. Krzysztof Kieslowski, a Polish movie director, made the film version of the Ten Commandments in 1988.

Kieslowski died in March, "so we are doing this, The Decalogue, as a tribute to him," Campbell said.

"It is a major focus of the program; it's taking up a lot of theaters," she said.

Campbell said there were no major problems carrying out the festival. "The staff at the AMC Theatres and the Tivoli Management were really cooperative, so we worked out parking," she said.

"If you 've got this many films and this many people, there are usually a few (problems)," she said. "But nothing major."

pertain to the Auraria Foundation, but there is a concern it could get bigger if a phase two passed and included nonprofit schools."

Others are uncertain of exactly what organizations could be affected.

Jim Thatten, executive director of Colorado Catholic Conference, said the true impact of the amendment cannot be assessed.

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OCTOBER 25, 1996

Pedestrian zones ignored by students Frank Bell The METROPOLITAN

For several years major pedestrian areas on the Auraria campus have been designated "dismount zones."

When entering a dismount zone, those riding bikes or using in-line skates or skateboards must dismount or take them off and walk. The zones are marked by signs.

But do bikers, skaters and skateboarders always comply with the rules of the dismount zone?

Auraria Public Safety spokesperson Lt. Gary Kasson said, "compliance is exceptional."

Although he did say APS officers are forced to warn those violating the zone from time to time, to his knowledge they have not given out any tickets. However, if an APS officer were to ticket someone for violation of the dismount zone, it would fall under a Denver city ordinance "relating to the safe operation of a bicycle," Kasson said. He added that there have been no accidents in the dismount zones that he can recall.

However, in one 30-minute observation done by The Metropolitan, nine violations were observe<J on the mall on the south side of the Plaza Building and North Classroom Building. Of those violating the dismount zones, two were on skateboards, two were skaters and five were bicyclists.

In one of the skateboard violations, an APS officer was no more than 30 feet away, heading directly toward the skateboarder in an AHEC electric cart.

When-asked about the incident, officer Sgt. Kelly Casias said, "You know, I didn't even notice it." When pressed further about the average number of violations in an hour and standard procedure when dealing with violators of the dismount zones Casias said, "I'm a little busy and I'm not really prepared to talk to you right now." He then asked that any further questions be directed to Lt. Kasson.

Metro student Marty Gannon, 20, an employee of B.C. Surf & Sport, said he believes the signs do not deter anyone from violating the dismount rule.

"I think it's [the dismount zone] a good idea because it is a crowded walkway, but do people obey it? No," Gannon said. He added, "I think mountain bikers and skaters cause more threat to people walking. I can jump off my skateboard and stop it a lot faster than a mountain biker can."

The zones cover roughly these main areas: the central walkway stretching fr~m Colfax Avenue to the Tivoli Student Union, the mall from St. Cajetan's to Speer Boulevard and many of the secondary pedestrian arteries jutting from these main thoroughfares. Kasson could not recall offhand how long the dismount zones have been in effect, but said the "signage has been up

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Eric Drummond!The METRoroUTAN ABOVE THE LAW: A bicyclist rides his bike through a "dismount zone" in front of St Cajetan's. The posted signs around campus are greeted with little compliance by students and a blind eye by police. for years."

If the violator refused to comply with just a warning, an APS officer could issue

them a citation for disobeying a police officer which would again be a Denver ordinance.

Pagan group forms to unite nontraditional beliefs Henri Brickey The METROPOLITAN

Former College Republican Nicholas Bull is now forming a new club for pagans at Auraria campus, which he hopes will provide a place for people with nontraditional beliefs to unite and talk.

Bull left the College Republicans over a year ago because of "ideological differences" between him and other members.

"I'm sick of trying to find common grounds on metaphysics while speaking with Baptists," Bull said at_the

first meeting for the organization of Auraria pagans.

The first meeting drew about 15 people who had a variety of beliefs, including .Celtic, Native American, Wiccan and Hindu. Many of the people there said they came from strict Christian backgrounds and now want nothing to do with organized religion. There were also some people who said they were just looking to see what students at Auraria thought of religion.

"We won' t honor certain beliefs here," Bull said.

"But at the same time I don't want to stomp on someone's beliefs."

Bull said his goal with the pagan club i~ to go triinstitutional. "Because then we'll be like a cockroach; hard to kill," he said.

Metro English Professor Theresa Crater volunteered to be the club's faculty advisor. Crater said she believes _"we need to get back to some ancient wisdom" in today's society.

The new pagan group is still unnamed and is still not yet a recognized club.

For more information contact Theresa Crater at 5564095.

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Computers all across campus are being infected by viruses and there is no telling which one may be next.

Auraria's Academic Computing and User Services issued a warning last week that computer viruses are becoming a serious problem and users need to be on the lookout.

John Reed, director of Academic Computing and User Services, said his office has dealt with hundreds of viruses in the past three weeks. Reed said most of the viruses come from floppy disks.

"I don't know where the disk gets it," he said.

Viruses take many forms, from harmless little messages, to bugs that can wipe out a whole computer network.

'There are thousands of them," said Joe Martinez, a Science Building computer lab assistant. "Each year there are new kinds."

Viruses are creatively crafted but destructive programs originating in such diverse places as Russia, Bulgaria, Holland and the United States.

"People (who construct viruses) are very creative on one hand," Reed said.

"On the other hand they have very criminal minds."

Viruses often enter through disks into

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PC's (IBM and IBM clones) are the computers being affected, Reed said.

Apple Macintoshes are not a problem, as his office has seen only one virus a year.

To avoid viruses, Reed recommended taking three precautions.

First, never use a disk from an unknown source. Reed said any disk other than your own should be viewed suspiciously.

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Second, do not ever download executable files from the Web. These are data files ending with the command .com and .exe.

Reed said that if someone does download such a program, make sure is properly scanned for a virus.

"We shouldn't overreact," he said.

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The Department of Academic Computing and User Services has temporarily moved from West Classroom 246 to Central Classroom 220.

The office in WC 246 is being remodeled for the User Services staff, commonly know as the computer help desk.

CN 220 will then be remodeled for the Academic Computer Center, which will house faculty and staff training facilities.

The help desk in WC 246 should be operational by Dec. I. Both offices should be up and running by Christmas, said John Reed, director of Academic Computing and User Services.

Until then people wishing to contact the department should contact the temporary office at CN 220.

"It looks inaccessible," Reed said.

"That is not the case, it is just threatening."

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Amend.m ent aimed to curb abuses of nonpr~fit status

Nonprofit fair draws little faire Mitsuru Shimuzu The METROPOLITAN

Fifteen nonprofit organizations held a fair in Tivoli Room 320 Thursday for people on the Auraria Campus; few people showed up or even noticed the fair.

Hosted by the Auraria Higher Education Center, the Colorado Combined Campaign Fair started at 11 a.m. and ended at 1 p.m. without seeing many visitors.

The Campaign, a fund-raising organization, represents 600 nonprofit members, said spokesperson Stephanie Tarvin.

Auraria hosted the campaign so people on the campus could get a better idea about where donated money was going and what nonprofit organizations do, said Rosemary Fetter, Auraria communications director.

"We thought it was a good idea," Fetter said.

The purpose Qf having the campaign on campus was to have these agencies come down and be available to students, faculty, staff and anyone who wanted to talk to them about what the agency does, what the mission is and what their problems were, she said.

However, Tarvin said the purpose of the fair was to introduce each organization's employees to different nonprofit organizations representing the Colorado Combined Campaign.

The 15 organizations included Colorado Homeless Families, Community Shares of Colorado, Denver Rescue Mission, Gateway Battered Women's Shelter, Humane Society of Boulder, KBDI-Channel 12 and the MakeA-Wish Foundation of Colorado.

AMENDMENT From page 3 debate," he said.

One thing Thatten said he knows for certain is the devastating financial impact the amend~ ment would have on churches.

"These churches provide for people in need and the government can't afford to provide and won't provide these services," he said. Thatten said the needy will seek help from the government if churches, charities and nonprofits are unable to provide, adding that the government will ultimately ask tax payers to pay to provide services.

On the Auraria campus, St. Elizabeth's Church hands out 30 to 50 sandwiches a day, said Father Hank Grodecki, who also ministers at their sister church, Holy Ghost at 190 California St., where 250 people a day are fed.

If the amendment passes, Grodecki feared the churches could no longer afford to feed that many people.

"It would put a big hole in a lot of our programs mostly those for the poor and for education," he said. "It is real doubtful we will be able to provide. There is a myth out there that somehow this money is going to come back to the private citizen, but the people that would benefit the most would be businesses."

Grodecki said the property value of St. Elizabeth's was assessed about five years ago,

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and though he didn't have an exact amount he said, "It was a pretty good chunk." And considering appreciation of the property, he said taxes could mean an even bigger chunk. The Archdiocese Center estimates an approximate $86,940 in property taxes for Holy Ghost based on the current mill levy.

"We certainly don't make a profit, and people are just going to be taxed twice," he said.

Greg Kail, communications officer for the Archdiocese of Denver, said until the services of nonprofits are lost, "there is no way one can measure the incredible amount of good these organizations provide."

He said though government attempts to serve the poor, charities, churches and nonprofits are essential for meeting needs. "They do it efficiently, and they do it with volunteer help. They are invaluable partners,"Kail said.

In 1994, 92. 7 percent of the budget of Catholic Charities went to services, serving 416,000 people and using 381,000 hours of volunteer help, according to the 1994 Senate Joint Resolution.

"How much would that cost taxpayers?" asked Kail. "If you cut off the roots, then you can't expect the thing to flower."

The amendment is proposed to curb possible abuse of exemptions granted to nonprofits, charities and churches. It would affect I0,000 institutions and 7,000 properties in Colorado.

"If there is abuse within charities, churches and nonprofits, then by all means address it. But, if a neighbor creates a crime, don'tjail the whole block," said Kail.

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''Bugs" creatively destructive Computing and User Services, said that virus creators are usually "brilliant" and should be doing something more constructive. ''They need to go out and get a job," he said.

Reed said that some virus creators are "techies," people who have abandoned society and "sit around thinking these things up."

One virus that Reed thought was particularly creative slowly removed everything from RAM, a computer's temporary memory, while the screen image on the computer "melted."

"It was cute," Reed said, "but very destructive."

Travis Henry The METROPOLITAN "Russian Mutant," "Adolph Hitler," and "Dark Avenger" are a few of the names given to viruses by their creators.

One such virus, called "Holland Girl," was created by an ex-boyfriend and simply asks that you send a postcard to his estranged Jove. Once you try to alter the text message though, the virus turns ugly and fills the screen with a four-letter expletive.

Other viruses aren't so nice.

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Columnist's critic misses the point I have been considering whether to respond to my new critic, Gayle Johnson.

Well, should I? You know I will.

First, as a behavioral science major, Ms. Johnson places herself in an interesting position with her emotional tirade. She debases her purest emotions and good intentions with an array of cliches and petty insults. Everyone who knows me had an especially hearty laugh over statements like, "He sounds like a frat-boy wanna-be that is bummed because he is stuck in a class with a bunch of old people."

For a scientist Ms. Johnson makes quite a few uneducated assumptions. She must have a lot on her mind. I am well aware that most wouldn't spend one minute considering literature but, please, do not go around quoting cliches from million-selling selfhelp books which take poems such as Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" out of context. For your information and education, Gayle, Robert Frost was ridiculing a fell ow poet and friend in the mentioned poem. Frost and poet Edward Thomas used to accompany one another on long, afternoon strolls through the countryside. Thomas was in the habit of leading these walks and afterward would always, in a most romantic manner, worry over the direction he had chosen for their journey. Frost, who was very much the anti-romantic, wrote ''The Road Not Taken" as a response to what he referred to as Thomas' "sighing over what might have been."

Hence, the last two stanzas: And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet .knqwing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

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The poem is a sarcastic jab at a friend who always worried about the decisions he made in life.

Frost's last line is the most biting of all. There is no need to justify your decisions in life to me, Gayle, unless you feel that you have not done your best.

Frost feels the same way. Do you have any dignity? Have you done enough in life?

I have never said that students should learn from texts and merely strive for their degrees. In fact, I argue quite differently. If there is anyone on this campus who feels that their books and degrees will enhance their lives, then they are fools. I won't mince words anymore. Too many people meander arou.nd this campus as Gayle Johnson does wearing their lives like a badge in order to justify their existence. Stop! I have not once written about my personal life in this column. I won't. No one needs to know me in order to be affected by my words. I write in order to incite and, hopefully, learn. I make no apologies.

I am fed up with the misinformation given to students - the false consciousness and obvious sim-

ulation with which the campus deals with its students - the teachers who are overloaded with work and not paid enough - the self-serving administration - the fact that the Business Department is the only school on campus catered to ...

I have slowly come to the sickening realization that if I keep my mouth shut and do what I am told everything will be fine. I am as important as anyone else, yet my life is meaningless. What do I own that is really mine but my name and thoughts? The psychologists will fix me maybe, huh? Ms. Johnson can spend her days studying my behavior and tell me what to change so I can fit in my proper place within the confines of society. I can go home after a hard day's work and write my thoughts in a dark closet where the seeds of my imagination can fester in the mold with my dirty laundry.

Am I to walk the paths of Metro thus? A student who keeps careful notes and undertines all the key words to spit upon the exam; I will act property and say proper things about the proper works and not consider others. Do you know I was actually told once by a professor of English not to write a paper about a specific playwright because she didn't like him.

I have been humiliated because of my thoughts by certain teachers in my department (not all, mind you) who would prefer that I didn't have a mind because they are only teaching as a way to feel good about themselves. There are many professors at Metro who don't like to be shown up by their students. And then there are the students who have never thought for themselves whom I intimidate. I don't even want to waste time with them.

Call me unsympathetic, call me an elitist, call me ... no, I won't go for the humor. But I am going to stain you with my thoughts in a brutal fashion because you refuse to listen otherwise.

Gary Norris is a Metro senior

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Dear Editor, Rarely, if ever, do I sit down to write a letter regarding a columnist at a newspaper that I wish would disappear, as I have been on the other side of the coin as the columnist, and absolutely adored such mail (it meant I had struck a nerve).

Today, however, I find myself writing just such a letter. Gary Norris' columns have become a blemish on an otherwise respectable paper. His long, stream of consciousness whining columns are much more than just annoying to read, they represent a failure in this paper's quest to truly reach out to their readers. His constant games of semantics within his own columns seems to show more of a tired boredom than any true eloquent ideas. Thank god (uncapitalized on purpose) that Gary is now a senior, and only a small portion of this semester, and hopefully next, remain to have Gary forced upon us as the best we can do here at Metro.

If there truly is a lack of people out there willing to write for this paper in a way that will inspire debate, cause our students to think beyond classes, and perhaps even present a few good ideas, please let me know. I am more than willing to take up the slack. I honestly believe, however, that this is not the case. Most of the time, the letters to the editor from our students are more literate and interesting than Gary Norris' self-serving diatribes.

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~xperts The Deriver Film Festival's New Media eXpo ended with a pointless demonstration of what democracy and the Internet are not. It is not three public policy doctorates speaking only of their experiences and not to the ideas they were charged with presenting.

The presentation's title, Democracy and the Internet, contained two appropriate buzzwords since the election is next week but merely glazed over the need to address the issues of haves and have nots.

Like the low percentage of people who vote in America this hollow event's turnout was even poorer. A large screen projecting a World Wide Web browser from a slow laptop computer was the backdrop to three ill focused speakers.

Each speaker shared their use of the Web and how they have been able to stumble upon things they never would have without the use of such technology. But there were no stories of people who had become more political or even more aware of issues via the Internet or surfing the Web. Bruce H. Kirschner, a UCO professor, excited about how different people can discuss political topics online, shared his experiences of talking online about social issues.

Margaret Cary, _regional director of Health and Human Services, a self proclaimed "recovering physician" and Hillary Clinton appointee, touted the remarkable things that she has found online. Bernard Karshmer, of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, referred to her as a real activist. She actively pitched

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Wired magazine, saying even though it is hard to read, it has ·1ots of neat stuff."

The audience of ten confessed that they had showed up to the presentation because they had been given free tickets. Kirschner found the audience to be a mixed bag of experiences yet did not attempt to bring the presentation to a higher level and introduce real issues of democracy.

The trio continued to surf activist organizations' Web pages while pointing out that words that are blue and underlined are often hyperlinks.

Thanks for the tip.

But the real meat of democracy - a government by the people - and the Internet - a vast network of computers - was never fleshed out. How to get online for free, where to find newsgroups or chat groups that focus on political issues were never discussed with such an intimate group that was assumed to be unknowledgeable. This small group could have been the perfect opportunity to get a one-on-one feel for how people realize their place in a democracy using the Internet.

Thank goodness the event was

free to ticket holders because it surely would have been a sore disappointment to a paying public who wanted to get involved in stirring a discourse of ideas of politics and representation.

The three public policy doctorates failed to discuss the problem of haves and have nots.

The people who strive to be informed are those who already use the Internet or www. But that the Internet has brought more young people to politics has yet to be seen. The fact is that those who vote are those who have something to protect or conserve. Many do not see their interest or part in America and stick to the fringe on the Internet.

That the issue of voting was not discussed in a presentation called Democracy and the Internet misses the point of going to the trouble to bring the idea at all.

Consider a bulletin board in a public library that provides a place for anyone, perhaps a homeless person to e-mail someone to ask for help, yet does not provide that person with the capability of checking their e-mail. If there was a way to print out a reply from a public official or assistance center and tack such a notice on a real bulletin board with real pin and paper something of a marriage of stone age technology and 90s technology could take place.

That the film committee wasted time, money and energy to have public policy folk - probably the real source of problems in this nation talk down to people interested in democracy and the Internet shows the arrogance of policy makers.

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'The biggest goal is to educate' Disability Awareness Day seeks to teach students about challenges Chris Petersen

programs. Denver Parks and Recreation was there to outline their Special Needs he third annual Disability Program, as was the Breckenridge Awareness Day was held Outdoor Education Center, who were Wednesday at the Auraria Events looking for volunteers.

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The event was campus-wide, with all The event is held each y~ar to expose . three schools providing funding . There able-bodied students to the difficulties were around 30 volunteers for the event. faced by people with a disability, while The whole day was organized by the also giving students with disabilities a Disabilities Awareness Day committee, chance to get together and meet other stu- made up of both students and staff, said dents and see what opportunities are avail- Julie Rummel, chair of the committee. able for them on campus and statewide.

"I'm very happy with the day so far; "This day is a great opportunity for we have had a steady flow of visitors all the student population to learn about the day," Rummel said. challenges faced by others," Metro student The event has grown larger each year and Disability Awareness Day volunteer in response to the number of students with Robert Gromley said. disabilities. There are about 500 students A large crowd of students, with and on campus with a designated disability.

Hyoung ChangtThe METROPOLITAN without disabilities, mingled and checked However, that number may be even RAISING AWARENESS: (left to right) Pamera Cyr, Artie Guerrero and Kathy out the many booths set up. A booth for higher because not everyone with a disenjoy a meeting during Disabilities Awareness Day on Wednesday.

Burrows RTD was set up to explain their Access-A- ability registers, Rummel said. The numRide program. RTD is the only public ber of students with disabilities on campus Andy Holland, a junior at Metro, spent the blind person must depend on," Holland transport system with 98 percent of their has doubled in the last two years as the day on campus as a blind person, navigat- said. ing his way through campus with the aid "The biggest goal is education for buses equipped for the disabled, an RTD campus has become more accessible. spokesperson said. Several other booths As part of the event, several people of a walking cane and the help of a friend. both the students on campus and the comprovided infonnation on their disabilities spent the day with a "mock" disability.

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Just before the start of the race, as Jim was putting on his prosthetic swimming leg, he looked at his girl friend, smiled and told her, "I feel like something amazing is going to happen to me today."

He was right.

In a speech on the Auraria campus for Disabilities Awareness Day, MacLaren recounted the horrific tale of his two near-fatal accidents and his challenging recovery from each to a large group of students in the auditorium of the Events Center.

Jim was well into the biking portion of the grueling triathlon when he heard the spectators screaming.

Looking up from the aerodynamic handlebars of his race bike the last thing he saw was the grill of a van headed straight for him.

The van, which had illegally entered the race's closed course, hit Jim's bike, throwing him headlong into a lamppost, breaking his fifth and sixth vertebrae.

The doctors diagnosed him as a quadriplegic.

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This store has its own personality. The "Other Side of the Mirror'' showroom is a tribute to Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. It contains collectibles dating back to the 1800s and from famous celebrities, including some from Nicks herself.

Owner Robert Lecher is a character to fit his surroundings. He says many of his Nicks memorabilia was obtained through his friendship with Nicks' mother. He has authentic outfits from Nicks' prime years in Fleetwood Mac, plus many other types of celebrity collectibles, such as posters and stand-up life-size cardboard cutouts.

But Lecher's store is more than just a~ shrine to a bygone rock goddess. It sells and rents vintage period fashions and accessories, fancy old world antiques like fainting couches and chaise lounges, superstar collectibles, celebrity memorabilia, year-round costume rentals, and props for theater productions. The cos-

Jenny SparksfThe METROPOLITAN IT'S A SCREAM: Dan Fougner of Denver looks for a Halloween costume among the hats and masks at Celebrity Vmtage Clothing. tumes themselves range from the 1800s to the present, from poor to rich.

Lecher says as far as Halloween goes, there are trends in what people want.

"I would have to say the most popular would have to be celebrity look-alikes

from the 50s and 60s, like Janis Joplin and the Beatles," he says. "Vintage period costumes are also extremely popular, like from the 20s and 30s. We have plenty of stuff for both those tastes and a whole lot more."

This is Lecher's eighth Halloween and he is excited. He says the store is doing quite well, and the time of the year is always helpful. Even year round, he has enough business to put him at the top.

Bands from other cities come to visit, like Las Vegas band Double Vision. They loved the store and all it had to offer, Lecher says.

"We are very theme-oriented, and it is pretty obvious when you walk in the door," Lecher explains. "People of all kinds love to see the things I have here."

For year-round events, Lecher has it all covered. Props for theater productions are abundant, and all the costumes are available anytime. The place is crawling with dresses, jewelry, military jackets, specialized costumes and even not-so-specialized things, like rubber pigs, plastic novelty glasses and masks.

Lecher and his entourage of things and fans can be found at 1866 S. Broadway. For Halloween or anytime of the year, rentals range from $25 to $100.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Lecher advises to call first. Celebrity Vintage Clothing and Costume is in the process of moving from East Colfax Avenue to their present location and may not be available all the time.

Man diagnosed quadriplegic defies doctors QUADRIPLEGIC from page 11 As he lay there again in his hospital bed, staring at the ceiling, one thought was pounding in his head: "What am I supposed to learn this time?"

Jim had had it all. He was larger than life, standing 6-foot-5-inches tall, weighing nearly 300 pounds. He was a star linebacker on the Yale football team with hopes of an NFL career and a promising actor studying theater. His life was all planned out.

So with his storybook life already laid out, if someone had asked him if he could imagine his life without a limb or confined to a wheelchair he would have laughed.

He now knows now how to respond.

"I know now that you shouldn't look

at people in a wheelchair strangely," he said. "We all talce our legs off at night in one way or another."

Jim's first accident happened in 1985 when he was only 22, while he was riding his motorcycle in Manhattan, a bus ran a red light and broadsided him. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Bellvue Hospital. He woke in the hospital after being in a coma for eight days to find his left leg had been amputated at the knee.

"It was then I learned my first lesson in the word I didn't have much use for before - patience," he said.

Jim astounded everyone when after only eleven days, he was transferred to a rehab clinic, even though doctors had predicted it would take him many months to

recover. Gradually he began to recover and found out he could still swim. With the help of a prosthetic leg he began to bike and run. After training for a while he began to compete in triathlons, setting records along the way.

He became an inspiration to everyone, not only those with a disability, gaining national attention and being named fastest man on one leg.

"We all face challenges in our life with whatever issue we're struggling with, be it obesity, a disability or whatever," MacLaren said. "The fact that we are all alive, that equalizes all of us."

A SURVIVOR: Jim Maclaren tells his amazing tale during Disability Awareness Day on Wednesday.

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Paint the town on ·First Fridays art tour their shows to intriguing artwork.

One of the international galleries was a little shop on Wazee Street called The Baobab Tree. The store/gallery is filled with African art. Miles Forsyth, the owner, hand picks his merchandise himself.

"You can find rubbish any day," Forsyth says. "I won't settle for that. I go and get it myself. I don't buy rubbish."

His plans for the tour in the future include a home video shot in Africa showing how beautiful the country is.

Diastar is another popular gallery on the tour.

Lillian Kaufman, the owner and jeweler of Diastar, says, "I feel it is my duty as an owner and operator to represent Colorado." She does a nice job of this, by mixing Colorado art and wine. She only shows work by native Coloradans and wine from the finest makers the state has to offer.

Many people enjoyed the tour, and it showed on their faces. Justin Boltz, a 23-year-old sales associate from Englewood, says, "The merchandise is expensive, but it's still enjoyable to walk around and look at what everyone has to offer."

18-year-old Christine Parisi, a freshman at Colorado State University, says, "I like the variety of the galleries and the art. It's fun to see so many things in such a small area."

On the next first Friday of the mont~, give the art tour a try. Maps can be picked up at.any location.

Good walking shoes are a necessity. Dress comfortably and bring a jacket. Plan the tour according to personal interests, because it is hard see everything.

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here is a new activity available for Friday nights. It only happens on the first Friday of every month, but it is an excellent addition to a Denver night on the town.

First Fridays is a free, self-guided walking tour of Lower Downtown art. It takes place on the first Friday of every month from 6 to 9 p.m. Thirty-five galleries and stores stay open late, and several restaurants are open for business along the tour. It is the perfect way to see everything from architecture to intercontinental art, fashion to freestyle.

The tour covers the area bordered by Wynkoop Street, Lawrence Street, Speer Boulevard and 22nd Street. The majority of the galleries are located on Wazee Street, one block east of Wynkoop Street. Be prepared to leave the tour unfinished, but don't rush - there is plenty of talent to see in two visits.

The American Institute of Architects is first on the tour, according to the map. They display models designed by members of their association plus drawings and blueprints. Like many others, they offer snacks and drinks. Have some fruit, crackers, cheeses or fine spreads while you sip on a glass of wine or another beverage.

Core New Art Space is another gallery on the tour which is owned and operated by 30 artists. They take turns displaying their work, and occasionally have open invitationals allowing other artists to exhibit as well. The drawings and sculptures are interesting and creative, utilizing several different mediums. This kind of freestyle atmosphere opens

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GIG series play-ing your tune Rebecca Ciletti The METROPOLITAN ossing his long strawberry hair over his shoulder and arming himself with his acoustic guitar, John Sirkis, a mus1c1an from Boulder, faces the students and • crowd in the Tivoli atrium. · Many seem to wonder why he is there and why he is singing.

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He intersperses commentary about culture and existentialism between songs while students stop and peer down from the floors above. He also laments apathy.

"Everyone is talking about apathy.

Apathy this, apathy that," he says, adding, "Who cares?"

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A DJ or live musical act performs each Thursday from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Tivoli atrium. This semester, the first one for the GIG Series, features hip-hop, classical, jazz and modern rock music.

The focus is on education as well as entertainment.

"It's taught a lot of things to a lot of people," Jamil says.

Before performing, some of the bands talk about their genre of music and the lifestyle behind it.

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'Sleepers' compelling tale of abuse, revenge Henri Brickey

that it could serve as an entjre movie itself.

All of the young actors do an exceptional job of their portrayals. The most compelling scenes are of those when the boys are in the leepers, written and directed by Barry Levinson, is a gripping film that detention home. There the characters are explores four boys' loss of innocence faced with atrocities that could ravage them to the point of death, yet they hold on and while growing up in New York City and stand up in unity.· ,.:: how they deal with that loss once they become men.

The movie then jumps forward about 15 years, showing Brad Pitt and Jason Patric as The film is broken up into two segments. two of the boys after they have grown up.

The first half of the movie follows the events that mold the friendship of the four boys who grow This segment keeps up with the momentum set at the start of the movie, only now an up in a neighborhood called Hell's Kitchen in almost entirely new cast is set. Patric plays New York City in the 1960s. In Hell's Kitchen, injustices by outsiders to the community and to the adult role of Lorenzo, who is now a newsfriends call for revenge. paper reporter. Pitt plays Michael, an assistant district attorney, who is still struggling One of the boys, Lorenzo (Joe Perrino), with his past and willing to do anything to starts out in the film as an alter boy, serving "just make it all go away." Although time has under Father Bobby (Robert De Niro). Father ...._ Bobby smokes, drinks and talks more like a LOST MAN: Jason Patric and Minnie Diver star in Sleepers, a thriller spread the friends apart, their past at the boys' Mafia hit man than a priest. about two men who seek retribution for abuse they received in a home still lingers in their minds.

Revenge on Nokes is what eventually Nevertheless, he makes it a priority to keep reform school. brings the four friends back together. When Lorenzo and his buddies away from the sinister influences that the streets of Hell's Kitchen can spawn. De Michael (Brad Renfro), face a world more corrupt than Tommy (Billy Crudup) and John (Ron Eldard) strike first at Nokes, Michael and Lorenzo become involved to help Niro is the perfect actor for this role and gives an amazing any New York neighborhood. performance.

While at Wilkinson, cell guard Nokes (Kevin Bacon) their court case.

Every element of this film achieves what great films Lorenzo remains close to Father Bobby, but a prank makes the four of them endure torture and sexual abuse. he and his friends pull that involves stealing a hot dog The memories of the abuse end up haunting the boys well try to do; compelling performances from the actors, an amazing storyline that is believable and good directing, vendor's stand lands the four boys in the Wilkinson Home into manhood. for Boys Detention Center. .

Somewhat reminiscent of the classic S. E. Hinton that carries the film from each sequence to the next with It is at Wilkinson that Lorenzo and his three friends, story The Outsiders, this entire scene of the friends grow- creative use of vivid flashbacks. ing up together and facing what they did is done so well -~ Tommy (Jonathan Tucker), John (Geoff Wigdor) and The METROPOLITAN

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Jamil says that many people hear of hip-hop but do not really know what it is or understand the subcultures within the culture itself.

"We're letting people know this does exist," he says. "It's another way for them to get information about what's happening in the world."

While most of the performers are from Denver and Boulder some come from out of town, and musicians of all types are encouraged to submit demo tapes. They are paid about $50 for the gig.

"We look at anybody we can," says Stephan Gallegos, the co-chairman of the 1997 series.

While the response from students has been pretty positive, Gallegos says he hopes to drum up more interest in the future by advertising more.

Back in the atrium, Siikis, who has played at different venues on campus several times, knows his audience, saying, "they're there, but they're not there."

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and didn't put the ball away," Crookham said.

The loss against Christian frustrated Metro. The loss against Southern Colorado stunned them.

After being down two goals early, Metro tied The Metro men's soccer team's chances for the conference playoffs became slimmer last week as the game in the second half and looked to enter overthe team buckled in two contests, losing 0-1 on time with the momentum. When time expired, howhome turf to Colorado Christian University ever, the game was over.

Southern Colorado scored the winning goal off Thursday and 2-3 at the University of Southern a header, hitting the net the moment time expired.

Colorado Sunday.

The Roadrunners failed to convert on several The goal was officially scored at the 00:00 mark.

"Maybe we took a deep breath a second too scoring opportunities against Christian, including a early," Crookham said. "I guess three-on-one break with 15 that proves you've got to play minutes remaining - the lone every second of 90 minutes."

Christian player present was Crookham said the team their goalkeeper. really picked it up in the second "We had probably four quality scoring opportunities," half on both the defensive and offensive ends. Scoring for head coach Brian Crookham Metro was midfielder Mazen said.

Kayali and Young. Metro "It's critical when we have -Brian Crookham totaled 16 shots, Southern our chances we put them away," defender Dave Brallier. coach Colorado 22.

"They had one quality Forward Adam Young said opportunity in the second half the team needs to pick up its playing intensity. "If we don't, we might not be play- to score a goal," Crookham said. "It was with one ing in the post season," he said. second left and the ball went in. It was unbelievDefensively, Crookham said, they gave able."

Overall, he said, the team played well, but a Christian opportunities that they did not necessarily deserve. Nonetheless, the poor defense ended up couple of bad decisions cost them the game.

The focus is still on making the Rocky costing the team, he said.

"The goal they ended up scoring was a soft goal, Mountain Athletic Conference tournament at the end a rebound and a lucky bounce for them," Crookham of the season, which would require winning the three said. "The only other dangerous chance they had remaining RMAC games. "It's certainly not unrealcame when we were pulling people forward trying to istic to think we can do that," he said, maintaining tie the ballgame." that the team is better than its 5-9-1 record.

"I'm getting tired of saying it's because we're "We knew what to expect out of them. We knew we weren't going to get a tremendous amount of young," Crookham said. "At some point we have to opportunities, and we were going to have to finish grow up, and it's got to be in the next two weeks." with what we got. We created those opportunities

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The Metro women's soccer team split two games on the road last weekend, as the Roadrunners decimated New Mexico Highlands on Friday, 5-0, and the University of Southern Colorado shut the 'Runners down on Sunday, 0-2.

Forwards Ariana O'Neill and Shannon Wise, and mid.fielders Tracie Mayes and Kathy Moen, with two goals, accounted for the Roadrunners' scoring against Highlands.

The 'Runners outshot New Mexico 21 to nine, and goalkeeper Chellie McCourt recorded her forth shutout of the year.

Head coach Ed Montojo said he was able to play everybody off the bench, which bought four of the goals, and rest starters who have played more than usual due to the injuries plaguing the team over the last few weeks.

Mayes returned from a knee injury, and defender A. J. Macintosh recovered from a twisted ankle. Both had been out since Sept.

15.

The somewhat healthier squad used the returning strength to their ad~antage.

"We won all the 50-50 balls and dominated the ballgame," Montojo said.

Against Southern Colorado the 'Runners came out flat, Montojo said. He

said the team may have been a bit tentative Hyoung Chang because of the four injuries suffered by Metro The METROPOLITAN the last time these two teams met, Sept. 15. "(Southern Colorado was) able to take Twelve international student athadvantage of a couple of miscues and a lack letes enrolled in the Metro athletic of communication on our team and score two goals," Montojo said. department this semester and added to the growing diversity on campus.

He said this game was physical, though There are students from as close not nearly as physical as the first one.

'The center ref was aware of what went as Canada and as far away as New on up here, so he took better control," Zealand, said Marianne Leibt, adminMontojo said. istrative assistant with Intercollegiate Only two players were injured this time. .,.. Athletics. Three soccer players are Mayes re-injured the knee she originally from New Zealand, one is from hurt in the last USC face-off, and Tarena Canada and one is from Norway. The O'Neill hurt her ankle. Both players are quesmen's basketball team has a tionable for the next game Thursday at home Panamanian. There is a Canadian on against the top Rocky Mountain Athletic the baseball squad, and six internaCon~nce team, Regis University, at I p.m. tional students are on the tennis team.

Mary Ann Krohn, international Even if they beat Regis, they will remain studen t adviser, said, "I think it is a game behind. ''That's where the loss against Southern Colorado hurts," Montojo good. International students give said.

American students a different per'The way it works on the women's spective." side," he said, "is they don't have a conferKrohn said about 50 international students came to Metro in the fall ence-ending tournament like the men."

Whoever ends up number one in the semester; usually Metro receives 30 RMAC will probably face the University of to 40 new international students each Northern Colorado in the NCAA regional semester. Metro currently has about playoffs. If the season ends in a three-way tie 200 international students from across for the top RMAC spot, the NCAA will the globe, including Tibet. select who goes and who stays home.

Metro gives the international student athletes financial aid that covers the tuition for 12 to 16 credit hours, Leibt said. The players must maintain at least a 2 .0 grade point average, and Metro has no limits on how many international student athletes each team could have. ' "I think it's just wonderful that we are able to add another depth to our student base, and a lot more international students can be on campus," Leibt said.

Joan McDermott, volleyball coach, said a Brazilian player on the team, Janaina Peruzzo, moved with her from Iowa, where Peruzzo was a foreign exchange student in high school. She said Peruzzo wanted to play college volleyball in the United States, and then both of them looked for a college and found Metro to be the right one.

McDermott said coaches from other colleges are trying to get top players from other countries. She said last year's national championship volleyball team was Varry University, a nd five of Varry's six starters were See INTERNATIONAL page 21

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Volleyball roughs losing weekend Matthew J. Lilley A. Jeter The METROPOLITAN

The month of October has seen the Metro volleyball team endure a wicked rollercoaster ride, rising and falling along its tracks.

The Roadrunners continued the wild ride through the dark tunnels of their 8-19 record Oct. 16 when they lost in three straight games ( 15-8, 17-15, 15-5) to the Colorado School of Mines.

The match was marred by hitting errors, especially in the first and third games. Metro finished with 26 errors, Mines with 16.

"We definitely beat ,ourselves," head coach Joan McDermott said.

"I think we've beat ourselves for more than half the season," blocker Judy Glassman said.

Standout player Stacey Hoyt, outside hitter, had only nine kills, and Shannon Ortell, blocker, had eight.

The only time the squad had it going on offense was late in the second game. Down 6-12 the 'Runners came back to within a few points of winning, 14-15, but Mines scored three straight to secure the win.

"When the pressure was on, we didn't pull through," Hoyt said.

McDermott said the failed comeback "knocked everything out of the girls," paving the way for the 15-5 demolition in the third game.

Defensively, the Roadrunners fought other demons. "We couldn't stop their outside hitters, they were .. . going off our block all day," McDermott said.

Glassman agreed. "(Mines) had a really

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slow approach, so we were up and down before they even hit the ball."

Hoyt said the team may be caught up in the past. "It seems like, right now, we're trying to live off our reputation of being a good program," she said. "When we step out on the court we've got to play like we are and back it up. Right now we're not doing that."

"We're very up and down," outside hitter Cory Hostetler said. "Tonight we were just extremely down."

A road trip did nothing to improve the Roadrunners' stride as they only won one match in a four-school tournament in western Texas.

The 'Runners overlook the only learn with a worse record than their own - Missouri Western State College, who have only won four of 27 matches this season, compared to Metro's 8-19 record.

Metro outplayed Missouri Western, statistically, in all aspects of the game, playing significantly better in kills, blocks and serves. Metro rounded out the tourney with a 3-0 win over Missouri, 15-10, 15-11, 15-5.

However, most of the weekend was not so sunny in Texas as the 'Runners were defeated by all three of the other schools. They opened competition against Eastern New Mexico University Friday by losing three close ones, 12-15, 13-15, 10-15.

Metro started out slowly with West Texas A & M University in an 8-15 game, but they started to pull it together in the second and third spars of the match, only to be defeated by two points in each, 14-16, 1517.

The University of North Alabama, with a remarkable 30-3 record, dealt the 'Runners their final loss, 14-16, 13-15, 9-15.

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In an effort to help student athletes achieve their best in the classroom, Metro has conformed with the rest of the state's schools and implemented an academic monitoring system to check up on the 100 student athletes this season, Sports Information Director Dan Smith said.

For the first time in Metro's history, the college has hired a person designated solely for this purpose - and he is farniliar with ..

Metro sports, too.

Second-year men's soccer coach Brian Crookham was a part-time employee until the opportunity to coordinate the academic side of Metro sports arose within the Intercollegiate Athletics Department. Now Crookham, the newly appointed academic coordinator, is a full-time faculty member. ''It's something that's been kicked around the department for awhile," Crookham said. "I think they knew that I used to teach and that I might be interested in something like this."

Crookham, who taught biology in Oklahoma before coming to Metro, said that the program is not based only on a letter grade.

Progress reports are distributed.to the athletes' professors, and they are asked to rate the students on their attendance, progress in class,

their current letter grade and an open response section where the professor can give advice on the areas in which the athlete needs improvement ''We're trying to stress what the professors want and where they think the improvements are needed," Crookham said. "So far, it's been very successful, and we've received a

"We're trying to stress what the professors want and where they think the improvements are needed."

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Academic Coordfiator and men's soccer coach lot of cooperation from the students and professors."

Crookham said that approximately 25 percent of the athletes this season have had a tutoring session.

Smith noted that the program is developing better relationships between the faculty and students. ''This program allows better communication between the three distinct groups: the stu-

dents, coaches and professors," he said. "(Crookham) acts as the middleman and arranges everything from tutoring sessions to sending the progress reports out" Smith said t:J:iat it is almost a tribute to the athletes who spend much of their time practicing to go out there and win one for Metro.

"Student athletes are not like any other students," he said. 'They not only have to go to school, but they also have to practice 20 hours a week. Plus they have to set aside more time to travel and compete."

The department preaches academics "first and foremost," and Smith mentioned the other lessons the athletes will learn through this program. ''Tune management is a very big part of what we are doing," he said. 'The students will hopefully gain a lot of responsibility from it also." ''We're hearing very encouraging things about it from the academic side of campus," Smith said. "It's a very positive aspect of what we're doing."

Both Smith and Crookham do not expect funding problems for the program in the future because the program has already shown to be successful thus far. After all most universities and colleges in Colorado - and throughout the country - already have similar, well-established academic cooperation programs.

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Manuel Ponce, a Metro junior she cannot find work, she will have to you could have the satisfaction of helping from Mexico City, is playing tennis. for return home to Sao Paulo, she said. someone in a very special way.

The majority of the tennis team is the school, a sport he began when he w'as 7 years old. He wrote letters to 30 made up of foreign students, head , schools for a scholarship, and Metro coach Hailey McLeod said. She said was a taker. Ponce said he likes she is able to relate ·to them because Metro's semester system, which is she was a student in England and her unlike the yearlong schedule in father was a world-traveling sailor.

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GENERAL The Metro Student Government Assembly meets at 3:30 p.m. every Thursday in Tivoli Room 329. Info:

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Towering Issues of Toqay hosts "Sames-Sex Marriage," at 1 p.m., Truth Bible Study meets every Tivoli room 640. Info: 556-2595.

Wed. and Thur., .3-5 p.m., Tivoli room 542. Info: Rick Dredenstedt Getting To Know You presents "A at 722-0944.

Series of Symposia on Appreciating Human Differences," The MSCD Public Relations from 12 .to 1 p.m., Tivoli room 329.

Organization of Students (PROS) Info: 556-3132. meets every second Thursday in The Denver Press Club, located at 1330 Glenarm Place at 6 p .m. Info: TUE. OCT Daryl Jackson at 329-3211, or Jay Video: All God's Children, 3:30-5 Brodell at 556-3485. p.m., Tivoli room 640, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual History Month.

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Toads In The Garden presents Sandra Doe and Stephen Shugart, admission price is $2/$1 with student ID, at 8 p .m., with Open Poetry Reading at 7:30. p.m., The Daily Grind Coffee House. Info:

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Mock Interview Workshop; pracniques, from 5-7:30 p.m. in Central tice and develop your interview Classroom 104. Info: Ron Lujan at Women's volleyball vs. Regis at 7 techniques, from 1:30-4 p.m., 556-3664. p.m., Auraria Events Center.

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Nooners presents "Mind Aerobics" with Paul Cesare, from the Metro admissions office, at 12 p.m., Tivoli room 329. Info: 556-2596.

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