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Plan irks professors Tenured teachers take issue with post-tenure review policy Light at the end of a blizzard

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Students found a snow covered campus Oct. 27 after a weekend blizzard paralyzed Colorado. Metro postponed athletlc events scheduled for Oct. 25 and 26, a Metro bulldlng's roof collapsed and weekend classes were cancelled. The· blizzard, belleved to be the worst since the Christmas Eve blizzard of 1982 stirred up debate over whether El Nino, a weather pattern that originates off the west coast of South America was responsible. See story page 3.

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Smate calls for shorter fall term; long semester foils holiday plans Page 5

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Blizzard buries campus events

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The snow storm that dumped 25 inches of snow on Denver closed down the Auraria Campus for the entire weekend Oct. 25. But clean-up efforts were completed by the morning of Oct. 27.

All Saturday classes were canceled and the library and computer labs, which are usually open all weekend, were closed.

A Metro women's volleyball game and a men's soccer game were postponed and The International Denver Film Festival being held at the Tivoli closed down early.

Metro ACT tests scheduled for Saturday were also canceled.

Jim Kelley, director of Auraria Facilities Management, said it was fortunate that snowfall began in the evening when there are few cfasses and little traffic.

By the morning of Oct. 25, Gov. Roy Romer had declared a state of emergency, and Mayor Wellington Webb called a ban on all non-emergency driving, as heavy snowfall continued throughout the day.

That morning, Kelley called supervisors of all campus trades, including elec-

Review plan for tenured profs the focus of faculty fire

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Metro's faculty and administrators have spent months hammering out rough spots in the college's proposed policy for reviewing tenured professors.

But as time and patience become increasingly scarce, professors and administrators have yet to agree on key portions of the plan.

Metro's board of trustees ordered the college to develop a plan for evaluating the performance of tenured professors Sept. 12.

Monys Hagen But professors and administrators started working on the performance review plan spring 1997 in response to bill that would have required colleges receiving state funds to evaluate professors with tenure. Legislators approved the measure, but Gov. Roy Romer vetoed it, saying it lacked due process. The governor did not, however, reject the idea of reviewing tenured faculty. see TENURE on 7

trical, plumbing, heating and air conditioning, to schedule all available workers for Sunday.

He said he had gathered two dozen workers, to get the cleanup job done.

Kelley himself drove one of the trucks.

"Everybody just pitched in," he said.

Everything went smoothly, except for a few equipment breakdowns, which he said can be expected with such a massive job.

"We had a mechanic on duty to make repairs," he said.

With two days to tackle the clean-up, there was a minimum of disruption to classes, Kelley said. He estimated costs of personnel overtime at $4,000 to $5,000 Jenny Spark&'T/re Metropolitan and equipment rental at $2,000.

Auraria has a contract with Sabells BRING DOWN THE ROOF: An Aurarla warehouse collapsed under the weight Landscaping for regular snow removal of of heavy, wet snow during last weekend's blizzard. The building, which Is in parking lots and walks, Kelley said, but the foreground, houses floats for Denver's Parade of Lights. the company doesn' t own enough equip- was extr<::mely wet and heavy.

Crews worked all day keeping them And the work was still not finished as clear, and Kelley said they returned the ment to handle a mess this big, so Auraria rented additional equipment. Workers the new week began. A layer of black ice morning of Oct. 28 to check for ice as the used everything available to move the covered the streets the morning of Oct. 27, snow melts, flows over walkways, and snow: little Bobcats with front buckets, Kelley said, and sanding crews were out then refreezes. Kelley said he has seen pickups trucks with plows, sanders, dump early. Liquid deicers were used on streets only a half-dozen campus closures trucks, and cab-type mowers, which were and parking lots and pellet deicers were throughout his 15 years here. converted to plows. Kelley said the snow used on the walkways. see BLIZZARD on 5

Constitution construction Metro's student government to overhaul its governing document protect or safeguard."

The current constitution includes an affirmative action policy that says the stuMetro's Student Government dent government will not discriminate Assembly members describe their consti- against anyone. tution like it has all the clarity and eleGeist said the proposed constitugance of a VCR owner's manual.

It's perfectly serviceable to a techno- tion will go further crat who's curious as to how the parts fit than that to list stutogether, but not so friendly to students dent rights such as who wonder what it's for and why it's rel- the right to due evant to them. process and freedom The assembly decided in May to from discrimination.

The current John Gaskell revise its governing document for the first time in four years. A committee of stu- constitution only dents meets on Fridays to work on a new dictates the voting procedures for revidraft of the document. Becky Geist, sions to the document but includes no chairwoman of the committee and the procedure on how to make changes. So assembly's vice president of Academic when assembly members decided to Affairs, said the revised constitution will revise the document they had to improbe put to a vote of all Metro students by vise. They decided to make a constitution early spring semester. task force committee to revise the docuThe current constitution passed in ment and present it to the assembly near the spring 1994. It covers items such as a the end of the semester. If three-fourths mission statemen-t, compensation rules, of the assembly vote for the changes, the job descriptions and has rules for student document can be approved by a majority votes, the Student Court and the Election student vote, according to the current Commission. constitution.

"We wanted a more inclusive docu- The proposed constitution will estabment," Geist said. "We wanted a docu- lish an attorney general's position to take ment that didn't necessarily outline what care of some of the duties the chief juswe as a student government had the tice performs now, Geist said. Both the power to do, but what we were here to chief justice and the attorney general

By Perry Swanson The Metropolitan

would be paid $250 per month - half the rate of other assembly members.

Under the new plan, the chief justice would consider legal and constitutional matters, along with the Judicial Board, and oversee the Election Commission, which helps organize assembly elections each April. The attorney general would advise the student government on legal and constitutional matters.

Committee members also want to organize the constitution into articles and sections rather than its current outline format.

Six students make up the constitution task force committee, including Geist, assembly Chief Justice Krystal Bigley, Vice President of Student Services John Gaskell, Colorado Student Association representative and Judicial Board member Andy Nicholas, and students Cathy Campbell and Tim Martinez.

Assembly advisor and Metro employee Kari Tutwiler also sits in on the task force meetings, Geist said.

Metro's administration does not have to approve the new constitution, Bigley said, but the constitution task force will ask for acknowledgment of the document.

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Campus thieves snag unwatched bags, bicycles

By Meghan Hughes The Metropolitan

By Jill Burke The Metropolitan

Metro's Faculty Welfare Committee wants to shorten the fall semester by three days.

The committee, chaired by math Professor Shahar Bow.h, has written a resolution that would eliminate finals week effective for fall 1998. The resolution calls for the last day of classes to be on Tuesday of the 16th week of the semester.

The committee proposes a study day on Wednesday of that week with finals beginning Thursday and ending the following Wednesday.

The resolution, under review by the Faculty Senate, cites several justifications for a shorter term: • The fall semester is three days longer than the spring semester. Both semesters are longer than required by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.

• Faculty are not compensated for the two weeks of teaching created several years ago by the addition of a finals week to each semester.

• Grades are usually due on the Monday after finals week, leaving faculty insufficient time to grade exams.

Instructors who give exams at the end of the week have almost no choice but to give multiple choice exams because they can be graded quickly. Some believe this compromises the college's academic standards.

• Finals week during the fall semester generally ends the Friday before Christmas, which interferes with legitimate plans of both faculty and students to go out of town for the holiday period.

This is not the first resolution from the Faculty Welfare Committee to propose additional time off during the fall semester. Last March, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution which called for a full week of vacation at Thanksgiving.

But the administration did not support the idea, and the matter was dropped, Boneh said, adding that the Faculty Welfare Committee did not revisit the idea of a week-long break at Thanksgiving because it is not efficient to have a one-week vacation and then break for the semester less than a month later.

Because the Faculty Senate is a recommending body only, it has no power to implement such changes. But if the resolution passes, the matter will be brought before the administration by the Senate Presidential Council, he said.

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Sean We;iver/The Metropolitan TICKET MASTER: Student Activities marketing assistant Daryl Jackson, left, hands out tickets to Metro student Gina Misner and Metro alumnus Todd Dempster for a taping of Wheel of Fortune on Oct. 26 at the Temple Buell Theatre.

Students are wheel winners

By Sean Weaver The Metropolitan

Blizzard conditions stopped the Post Office and shut down several businesses Saturday but did not prevent the filming of the Wheel of Fortune television show at the Temple Buell Theatre.

Julie Eaves, promotion assistant for the show, said a Metro student won a round during an earlier taping but did not know the student's name.

Eaves said more than 350 people braved the snow-packed roads Saturday to watch the filming of Wheel of Fortune's Denver week and more than 1,500 people lined up in the post-blizzard cold Sunday night to watch the filming of Wheel of Fortune's college week.

Eaves said that despite the weekend weather, "Denver is a great location."

She said producers of the show like to film in different cities as a way to "get in touch with the fans of the show."

Fred Cassel, an usher at the performing arts complex, said people started lining up at 4 p.m. the night Oct. 26 for the 7:30 filming of the show. Daryl Jackson, a Metro marketing major and marketing assistaht for the Office of Student Activities, handed out tickets and Metro T-shirts to people waiting in line Sunday.

"I'm missing some homework doing this," he said.

He was handing out 150 shirts to the audience during the filming, he said, to promote visibility for the college.

Seated in the auditorium with his family, Jackson said over the applause, "It's interesting to see how they tape the show ... it's cool they came to Colorado for the filming."

Theft - namely stolen bikes, purses and backpacks, etc. - accounts for more than half the campus crime at Auraria. And according to campus police, much of it is preventable.

As of September 1997, 268 thefts were reported since Jan. I .

"Theft is definitely the most dominant crime on campus" said Joe Ortiz, Auraria police chief.

Student leader Jessie Bullock, vice president of Student Fees, had her purse stolen Oct. 17 from the Student Government Assembly office in Tivoli Room 307. The tan bag, missing $5 was found in the library several days later. Campus police estimate the number of thefts to be larger than the 268 reported to date this year, • saying many students don't report losses. Metro senior Kristi Coleman recently Jost a blue jacket near the Speech department in the Arts Building.

"While I put up signs Jessie Bullock saying it was lost, it was stolen," most likely Coleman said. "I didn't report it because it didn't really occur to me and because I figured it was my stupidity for losing it."

Coleman also said that a number of students in the theater classes have experienced similar thefts, including $400 taken from a student's bag.

Auraria, however, has a much lower incident rate than other schools in the state. The Universit, of Colorado at Boulder reports almost twice as many thefts as Auraria, according to Brett Brough, Staff Services Sergeant for the University of Colorado.

"We've caught many offenders which admit that they will go to a college campus first because its so easy to take a bike or a bag." Brough said.

Auraria police say the best way to avoid theft is to not leave valuables unattended.

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If closure is being considered, Dean Wolf, Auraria executive vice president of Administrators, makes the recommendation, then calls the three school presidents who make the final decision.

Despite the magnitude of the storm, most streets, parking Jots and walks were cleared by Monday morning.

An Auraria warehouse roof, at 4th St. and Walnut, collapsed from the weight of the snow. The warehouse, which sits on land purchased for future parking expansion, is leased out and used to store floats for the annual winter Parade of Lights. No one was injured when the roof collapsed.

There appeared to be little damage to the floats, but Kelley said a crane will have to be brought in to lift the collapsed roof off of them.

No other damage from the storm was reported, he said, except for a few roof leaks.

Can we blame El Niiio for last week's storm?

Probably not. according to Anthony A. Rockwood, Professor of Meteorology at Metro, but the answer is complex. He explains: ' El Nino (which is Spanish for "little boy") is the name given to the weather pattern' that originates in the ocean off the west coast of South America as a result of weaker-than-normal tropical trade winds. Wann water, which is usually pushed westward, drifts back toward the coast. As the water heats up, it typically influences worldwide weather patterns in unpredictable ways.

Some weather-watchers have predicted that this year's El Niiio will bring a nasty wipter to Colorado. That's because the blizzard of 1982 coincided with the strongest El Niiio on record. And the El Niiio developing this year makes the earlier one look like a pussycat This one started earlier in the year and already covers a much larger area than the one in 1982 did. Rockwood said he keeps watch on the phenomenon day-by-day on a computer program that shows equatorial temperature fluctuations in colorful detail on amonitor. Current conditions displayed side-by-side with those of 1982, show massive warming.

But does it cause our blizzards? Not necessarily, Rockwood said. El Nifio can cause a variety of unusual weather, especially in areas c1oser to the equatqr. But snowfall records over the last fifty years, he said, show no correlation with the ~l Nii'io patterns.

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The ability to laugh Disability awareness shines in 4th year

By Alicia Beard The Metropolitan Professional massages, a Tae Kwon Do exhibition and comedy Chris Fonseca style were just some of the events to experience Oct. 28 at Disability Awareness Day at the Auraria Events Center.

This was Disability Awareness Day's fourth year of holding an event that promotes the resources that are available to students with disabilities on campus.

Julie Rummel, coordinator of the Physically Challenged Program at Campus Recreation at Auraria, said the day's events were lo "highlight the accomplishments of people with disabilities and to bring together able-bodied people as well as disabled people in order to educate them about disabled issues."

Rummel said that this year is significant because this is the first disability event that is campuswide and sponsored by all three of the schools and Auraria.

Instead of testing accessibility of the campus for students with disabilities, Rummel said this year's event focused on personal safety because of personal

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John Rundle, a 21-year-old engineer major at the University of Colorado at Denver, said Disability Awareness Day was "pretty cool."

"You see a lot more stuff," Rundle said, p Preferring to the improvements disabled awareness has made on campus.

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In his veto message, Romer promised to Lee Halgren, vice president of issue guidelines for post-tenure review to Academic and Student Affairs for the the Colorado Commission on Higher State Colleges in Colorado, said the Education. He has yet to issue the order. trustees designed the policy in response to Cheryl Norton, Metro's interim a directive issued by the Joint ~udget provost and vice president for Academic Committee of the Colorado Legislature.

Affairs, said the college can't wait around · The JBC ordered Colorado's higher for Romer's directive. That's because education commission to make recomMetro needs to have the performance pol- mendations to the trustees on designing a icy complete by March when the trustees post tenure review policy. will decide whether to approve it.

Last year, JBC chairman Rep. Tony With that deadline on the horizon, Grampsas, R-Evergreen, said he wanted faculty leaders and Metro administrators to abolish tenure. Grampsas also sponare wondering if and when they will come sored the post-tenure review bill.

Metro President Sheila Kaplan said up with a version of the review policy that she understands the faculty's wariness on is palatable to everyone.

Monys Hagen, president of Metro's post-tenure review, but thinks it is Faculty Senate, said the current version of unfounded. Kaplan also said she favors the performance review plan is unaccept- review of tenured faculty. able. Hagen said one of the main things "There's nothing wrong with she's worried about is that the plan ren- accountability, particularly when you are ders Metro professors vulnerable to the being paid by the public," she said. whims of their superiors.

Cite Chavez, chairwoman of the Metro's departmental chairpersons, board of trustees, told the members of the deans and provost will all determine Faculty Senate Oct. 8 that she believes whether a professor's performance is sat- tenured professors are accountable isfactory, according to the most recent enough, but there's a public perception version of the plan. A peer committee that they are not. Chavez said the legislamade up of tenured professors' depart- ture and the trustees are responding to the mental colleagues and another committee public's sentiment. composed of faculty from other depart"I would like to say that I apologize if ments will also decide if performance is I came across as not thinking you're satisfactory. accountable enough because that is not Hagen said the current version of the what I think," she said. "I think that's what plan gives the provost the too much the outside world thinks."

Faculty already undergo yearly evaluauthority to decide whether a professor is performing up to par. She said she also ations, but those are primarily to deterfears the provost might issue an unsatis- mine whether professors should get merit factory rating for inappropriate reasons. raises, Kaplan said.

Those reasons include opposition to the subjects a professor chooses to teach or retaliation for a professor's activity on the The latest performance review polFaculty Senate. icy for tenured professor requires tenured professors to undergo compreNorton said that won't be the case since she and anyone else serving as hensive performance evaluations every five years. provost must prove why they deemed a For the evaluation, professors must professor's performance unsatisfactory.

"We are not re-evaluating tenure in document what they have ,done at the post-tenure review, the burden of proof is college in terms of service to the college on the institution to identify where profesand community, teaching, and professors need to improve," Norton said. "If sional development. Professors don't professors provide evidence of their perhave to complete their annual evaluaformance to me, the burden of proof is on tion the year they undergo post-tenure me to prove they aren't doing a good review, but they have the option of subenough job." mitting one based on the average of the Metro Attorney Lee Combs told the last four year's evaluations or complete Faculty Senate Oct. 22 that he recoma brand new one. Professors must then mended the provost make the final call on provide an outline of their goals at the professors' performance to avoid allegacollege for the nex.t five years, This can tions that the reviews are unfair because be revised yearly, the three deans have different perforDocumentation of the professors' mance standards. performance and the goal plan is "I think it is very important that reviewed by their department chairpersomeone with a collegewide perspective, son, a committee of their departmental to whom the courts would respond, could peers, their dean, a faculty committee ask the difficult questions about why made up of professors in several differsomeone in department A, who shows ent departments and the provost. If the provost finds a tenured professor's perperformance similar to someone in , department B is rated unsatisfactory, formance unsatisfactory, that person whereas the person in department B is must collaborate with his or her departnot," Combs said. ment chairperson and dean to develop a In addition to opposing the provost's three-year plan to improve their performance. At the end of the three year role in the policy, Hagen and other memperiod, the department dean decides bers of the Faculty Senate said they queswhether. the profes~or has complied tion the motives of those wanting to install a performance review policy for tenured with the improvement plan. If not, the college has the option of reviewing and faculty since Metro's faculty handbook already lists more than 15 reasons for f>?Ssibly ending the professor's tenure. which faculty can be fired. Those reasons

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With shows to promote, a zine to publish, a band to run and more, Metro student John Gross (above) makes the rest of us look like slackers

ver had your ass kicked for not being punk rock enough?

Metro student John Gross did.

Gross, a sophomore art major, runs Vapor Productions, a small company that promotes and runs concerts. He and partner Ryan Price, another Metro art student, have been involved in about four shows since they started Vapor earlier this year.

It was at a punk show he was running at Area 39 that Gross got the aforementioned assault. He was standing around, watching the show with some friends when "some punk rock girl came over and kicked me because, as she said, I 'wasn't punk enough.' She told me to get out of my own show," he said.

"I know plenty about punk rock," he said. "I just don't care about it."

Indeed, the 20-year-old Gross promotes any type of music. Vapor has put together shows involving a wide assortment of bands. Their most recent show, at the Rebis Gallery in September, was with two noise bands from Japan, Coa and Machine Gun TV. The show, Gross said, was packed. "Rebis is a really small place, and we had it full - standing room only.

It was amazing."

Vapor's newest project is a special Halloween show with three bands - San Francisco's Subarachnoid Space and local bands Terra Form and Fatal Erection.

Gross describes Subarachnoid Space's sound as spacey, psychedelic rock, combining "tribal drumming with layered guitars." The band has a new CD called Almost Invisible (Release) an9 features a lot of improvisation in its performances.

The band's founder/guitarist Mason Jones also runs a record label called Charnel House, which puts out records by Crash Worship - a band known for its notorious live shows, which feature lots of nudity, open fires and wine being thrown around - and some underground Japanese noise bands.

The show is Oct. 31, 8 p.m. at the Bug Theater, 36th and Navajo. Admission is $8.

Gross finds bands to promote in several ways. "I guess word-of-mouth is the most common,'' he said, "and through the Internet."

He is a member of an Internet mailing list called the Underground Railroad, and through it, he gets to know a lot of touring bands.

Once contact is "lade between a band and Vapor, Gross and Price go to work, finding venues, designing and distributing show fliers and doing technical work, such as setting up sound systems.

The two met in a drawing class last spring. Gross had already been promoting shows for a year, and Price had been interested in doing the same.

"I had already established myself as a promoter, and made lots of contacts. He (Price) had drive, motivation and lots of ideas. In a way, we clicked,'' he said.

Gross got involved in putting on shows through his zine, Lady in the Radiator. He 's been publishing this literary zine (a small, usually self-published periodical) for several years, and got to know lots of people in bands that way. Eventually these people started to ask him to find them places to play.

He's well-known enough for Lady i11 the Radiator that he's moderating a panel of local zine publishers Nov. 2 at the annual Rocky Mountain Book Festival, at Currigan Hall.

The panel, besides Gross, consists of people such as John Porcellino (who draws King Cat Comix and runs the Spit and a Half comic/music distribution company); Arthur Biggs (Joy and Spider comics), Zach Towjee (Agai11st the Grai11 zinc) and others. The panel will discuss the current state of the Colorado zinc scene.

Gross has been putting out publications since he was in junior high school, he said. He was instrumental in the founding of the Colorado Zine Pool, which was a support group for underground publishers. The group, which existed until about mid-1996, met in local coffeeshops and people's living rooms, trying to create 路 a sense of community among local writers and artists.

In some ways, Gross believes, Vapor is the next logical step from the group. He was involved in running Colorado Zine Pool booths at local concerts, which sold publications and other merchandise. Vapor, he said, "grew out of that."

He is raising money to put out the next issue of Lady in the Radiator, which will feature contributions from, among others, G.X. Jupiter Larson from The Haters and Jarboe from the legendary New York group The Swans.

In addition to Vapor and his zine, Gross is also busy with his band, Page 27. Its music can only be described as noisy and experimental.

"I like weird music," he said. "I have seen the future ,and it is noise."

One Page 27 song was recorded inside an abandoned watertank at the foot of Lookout Mountain. Gross and some friends went there with some drums and taped themselves beating on them inside the tank.

'Tm really into experimentation," he said.

The band's music has previously only been available on hometade tapes Gross distributed to friends. But Page 27 just recorded a seven-inch with two songs, which is being put out by California-based NGWIT Records.

NGWTT, he explains, is an "open-ended" acronyn which can mean many things, one being "Nothing Gets Worse see GROSS on 10

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'Six Things' a winner for Metro theater

By Kendra Nachtrieb The Metropolitan

''T' was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."

The Metropolitan State College Theater program launched the run of ,.,..,,,...,.. the off-the-wall play Lewis Carroll: Six Impossible Things To Do Before Breakfast Oct. 23.

Written by Marilyn Hetzel and M. Lee Potts, with a little songwriting help from cast members Larry Mitchell and Joaquin Liebert, the play is a compilation of Carroll's two books, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

The set in the small, black box theater was colorful and simple.

The cast used only a few brightly painted boxes, a black- and-white checked board, and a few giant cards for the set and background.

The I 6-member cast also made up a 16-member set crew, changing scenes professionally and quickly throughout the play.

The cast wore only painter's overalls :inri hint>. !"'in1<:, and yellow T-shirts and handkerchiefs. They used these simple costumes to provoke the audience into

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~Ricardo Baca Metropolitan Although the Denver Center Theater Company's execution is genuine in form, their new production of George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance is verbose at best.

A theater professor of mine said it best: "Shaw doesn't write plays, he dramatizes lectures."

He couldn't have hit the bull's eye more accurately. 'lbe play is set in 1909 England. John Tarleton (Richard Risso) is a sucessful underwear magnate, and rarely has time for his children, Hypatia (Stephanie Cozart) and Johnny (Andrew Philpot). The family is the textbook definition of "dysfunctional," and the play shows beautifully the yoid between parents and children.

John has problems controlling his thoughts and appendages. Both often wander about - he thinks adultery is all right as long as his wife doesn't find out. Hypatia has adopted that belief herself as she is bored with her fiance, Bentley (Douglas Harmsen).

The characters soon find pleasure just dropping out of mid-air. A plane crashes in their backyard greenhouse, and the pilot and unprecedented female copilot are invited to stay the night. That's where things finally speed up in this long-winded venture.

One of the hardest things to get past is the girlish looks of

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actually using its imagination to see just Joaquin Liebert, who played the Cheshire exactly what the cast member would be Cat, was well-suited for the part.

From his huge toothy grin, down to wearing if they were, in fact, the characters his whiny meow, Liebert played his part themselves.

Each cast member represented one perfectly.

Guisinger played the little 7-year-old character to as many as three characters, so the versatile costumes were indeed a stroke girl Alice and could not have fit the part better. One could just picture her in a pretof genius.

The cast also created the bodies of ty dress scampering across the nonsensewhat could be considered to the costume ridden land called Wonderland. Her long crew, a theatrical nightmare. The flowing hair and childlike innocence were unique and wonCaterpillar, spoderfully portrayed. ken by Marc Johnson, was The play is a what? definite must-see actually made up •Lewis Carroll: Six Impossible Things because it is a play of the entire cast, Before Breakfast, that obviously with the exception takes hard work, of Alice, played where? dedication and a lot by Melissa •Arts Building Room 271 of time.

Guisinger.

One can see The lack of when? this by how well stunning cos•Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m. the chaotic movetumes only ments of the crew heightened the how much? are placed, sense of chaos •Free for Metro students, $4 other thoughtfully conthat swarmed students, $8 general public. structed and timed across the stage perfectly to move with each fluid the scenes and movement of the props to their proper locations on the set. cast members. lewis Carroll: Six Impossible Things The play itself was a little hard to get used to because, if one knows anything To Do Before Breakfast will run Oct. 31 about Lewis Carroll's most beloved chil- and Nov. I at 7:30 p.m. in the Arts dren's books, nonsense and chaos abound- Building in Room 271 . ed across the stage with every leap, twist Tickets are free for Metro students, $4 for other students, and $8 for non-students. and -fall.

The actors that were chosen to play For more information, contact Marilyn their parts were chosen well. For instance, Hetzel at 556-3154.

Cozart. She played an intellectual youth beautifully in last year's Arcadia and looking that way helped her immensely.

Although she performed very well, seeing her as a 20-something in Misalliance is difficult and sometimes disturbing.

Balancing the pair out is Harmsen, who played giddy and childish as if it was second nature. He was a pleasure to watch and invitingly toyed with the audience in his character's blissful ignorance.

Lina Szcawpanowska (Carol Halstead), the female copilot, was also entertaining and eccentric as she tickled all of the male characters' fancies and brought a foreign aspect of humor to the show. Her Richard Simmons-esque method of dealing with stress (working out until you plummet to the ground in desperation) was inflicted upon two of the males.

Full of literary and Biblical references, the text is too much to handle at times. A resounding downfall of the script is Shaw's wordiness.

His elegant writing and wit can be found scattered scarcely throughout the play. In the second act, a visitor says to Mrs. Tarleton, "I regard you with affect and respection."

But it's not enough to save the script. His imposing language drags this show down - no matter who's performing it.

This show abused rule number one on how to evoke audience empathy: bring forth a live animal. John's little dog extracted the most "ooooohs" from the audience and was smashing in his two minutes of fame.

Publisher, promoter not driven by money GROSS

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Than This." He plans to sell the record at shows he promotes.

He is also putting out a record with the Tokyo-based noise band MSBR, who he got in touch with over the Internet.

Each band will get one side of the record, although Gross isn't sure when it's going to come out.

Facetiously referring to himself as an "international superstar," Gross is also remixing some songs for a musician in Leeds, England. Page 27 will also be featured soon in a music zine published in Finland. Gross made all these contacts over the.Internet.

He isn't involved in any of these activities for the money. "I do this because I love it," he said. For someone also attending Metro full-time, it all adds up to a pretty full plate.

Gross in involved in many things, but he doesn't like to associate himself with any one scene or subculture. "I' m not ska, I'm not punk. I'm just a nerd."

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Number One Cup Wrecked By Lions Flydaddy

Barry Black Barry Black Allas

At some as-yet-undocumented point in the 1980s, American rock reached Full Jangle Capacity. REM's 1983 album Murmur launched a thousand college bands, and by mid-decade, they were all out replicating the group's trademark Byrds-esque guitar sounds, each trying to out-Stipe the other with mumbled lyrics and a general air of Southern strangeness.

History has a convenient way of repeating itself, even in music. Now it seems as half the damn bands out there sound like Pavement. The band's mix of sneaky melodies, detuned guitars and Steve Malkmus' worldweary, smart-ass lyrics has proved alarmingly fertile. An intense, alcohol-fueled study of their 1991 noise-pop masterpiece Slanted and Enchanted seems to be required for every slacker out there in danger of forming a band.

Some of the progeny of Pavement have tried to distinguish themselves from the mother band by trying to rock harder (Archers of Loaf) or stupider (Butterglory). But most replicate the formula so exactly that they aren't so much imitators as little Pavement franchises.

Number One Cup is one of the newer and better franchises. While the music on Wrecked By lions isn't anything you haven't heard before, this Chicago band at least borrows from the best.

The four-member band plows through 15 tracks of demented pop, from the anthemic "Ease Back Down" to the self-deprecating "Three Miles From Talent." Echoes to other bands abound, from the Fall-like vocals on "Paris" to the "ba ba badda ba" chorus in "So Inclined" which sounds eerily like the one in Pavement's "Debris Slide."

While not break_ing anything resembling new ground, Wrecked By lions is an enjoyable, familiar listen. But sometimes -like a favorite old sweater or mom's macaroni and cheese familiar can be a good thing.

-by B. Erin Cok

Random entry: Barry Black, keeping music alive and interesting. To anybody familiar with the unique genius of the Archers of Loaf, the following words on Barry Black will come as no surprise.

For the rest, Archers of Loaf are a band out of Chapel Hill, N.C. The band is well known for a purely unreplicable sound and immense energy. Their lead singer, Eric Bachmann, has taken up with Ben Folds of the Ben Folds Five, and Bill Hicks of the Clay Ramblers, and a few more, to produce the self-titled record Barry Black.

There is no praise high enough for this record. It never ceases to keep the listener intrigued. In a world of shitty music piled on top of shittier music, (shit source withheld but easily contacted through MTV), those who would venture out for music worth hearing can call Barry Black.

Is there nothing Eric Bachmann cannot do? On Archers of Loaf's latest release, All the Nation's Airports, he displays strokes of versatility with piano led ballads like "Chumming the Ocean," filling spaces between the powerful guitar that makes up the rest of the record.

On Barry Black, he proves that good music knows no boundaries. With the bulk of the 14 tracks on "the album sticking to instrumentals, the listener is invited to sit back and uncurl while the record wanders from experimental songs with goofy childlike playfulness, to some surf music, over to top-notch jazz, and then back to some experimentation, and hell, even some Archerish rock.

Not to discount the other band members to any degree, but Bachmann 's influence here is out front.

It is hard to say who to recommend this record to, but to any' one smart enough to buy it, the shoe will fit.

-by Josh Haberberger

'Switchback' easily ignored who is trying to find himself pass-clearer. after losing a patient in his first In fact, even going into the The Melropolitan year as an internist. movie knowing he is the murAs a Dennis Quaid vehiGlover plays a really nice derer, I still couldn't buy him cle, it's a failure. As a Danny guy named Bob, who everyone as the scoundrel.

It's not a slam against Glover vehicle, it's insulting. in every small town in the rockSwitchback is riddled with ies loves and adores. He heals Glover's acting- which does plot inconsistencies that com- the sick. Helps the troubled. keep the movie afloat - it's the awful pletely undermine the work of Saves the what should be a powerhouse damned. writing.

And he Character cast.

The story is simple and happens to developThe plot contrived: An FBI agent gets be a nonm e n t Inconsistencies across the too close to a serial murderer discrimiin his investigations.1'he mur- nate serial board 1s undermine the entirely derer kidnaps the fed's son and killer with a work of what lacking, starts playing catch-me-if-you- penchant for slicing and you'll can with him into the Colorado should be a leave the major arterRockies. powerhouse cast. ies. movie sayAdd a loveable hometown sherrif and a young doctor What? ing, "When searching for his soul to round Exactly. does the out the cliches, and you've got The entire problem with this next Lethal Weapon come what promises to be a black . movie is that there is absolute- out?"

Quaid demonstrates his spot on Glover's career. ly no rhyme or reason given as Quaid ~lays the FBI agent, to why Bob thought that travel- desperation to be Harrison a rogue who has gone AWOL ling across the country dicing- Ford, as all of his gestures and in search of the killer. Jared up random people was more expressions look like a lessLito plays the wayward doctor rewarding than being a railroad than-reasonable facsimilie of

By Dave Flomberg

the latter. He is great as lighthearted cop with a creole accent- here, he bites.

On the plus side, the movie is set in our backyard, and a cameo from Deal in' Doug provides for some levity.

At the climax of the movie, Glover and Lito are snowed in as a blizzard rages across the front range.

An unnamed radio personality reports hundreds of stranded cars on Interstate 25.

That got the biggest laugh in he theater.

Lito's is the most believable of all the characters.

However, his character is simply too contrived to be acceptable. Yet, with a better writer ...

Switchback is an excerise in poor scripting, all the way around. The cinematography was suprisingly lacking, it being shot on some of the most incredible land in the world.

Leave this one off your Halloween activity list.

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OTIS GI Forum Bar near 18th and Federal

Otis has contacts in big cities like Gunnison who want to attend this weekend's key NFL matchup between Denver and Seattle.

It won't be quite as good as the last game at Mile High with Denver beating a previously undefeated New England team on a Monday night (although at the game, the field got sort of blurry early in the first minute - but I was told a good match came to pass).

So, here's a guide to attending a game in the South Stands - one of the easiest sections of Mile High Stadium for which tickets are available on sale on Federal Boulevard - because Goober can't hook you up - near the GI Forum bar, which I'll get to momentarily.

1. Approximately I 0 a.m. - Find a friendly tailgate party near the ballpark that has several people (say 25 or so) huddled around in a very tight circle, laughing and talking about football. If there is a keg in the middle of the group, go to step 2.

2. Approach directly and ask if you can participate in a drinking activity (offer money as a gesture of respect), if that's indeed what they are doing.

3. After attending the parking lot soiree, with a good buzz in tote, look for the Burger King restaurant on Federal, directly west of the stadium. Here, on the street, you will find tickets, as well as burritps, for the South Stands - and across from the fast food joint is a military club and bar called the GI Forum. It doesn't look like bar from the front unless you notice the beer signs and neon lights.

4. Enter bar through east entrance.

This is a very good place to get completely and unquestionably prepared for attending an NFL game - especially your first. Go inside and you will find about 200 other football fans drinking.

5. Follow their example, and doublefist at least two of the following three drinks at once: a. beer, b. shots, or c. shots.

6. Repeat step five.

7. Now you are prepared to negotiate for your tickets. Remember, the later you wait, the less you should have to pay, and the drunker you get waiting for the game to start.

8. Go back to Federal Boulevard and bid on some tickets. Don't pay more than two 12-packs and a chicken for a seat in the South Stands, and you should be all right.

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Say 'yes' to Guide the Ride Cl)t

Guide the Ride and its pertinence to . students at ~litmt Auraria transcends the Editorial arguments for and against News: the proposal. With that in Referendum 4A mind, a yes vote Nov. 4 (Guide the Ride) makes all the sense in the promises to world. expand public The exhaustive battle transportation. being waged between proponents and opponents in Views: For stuthe political arena should dents, expanded have next to no relevance public for students at the polls. transportation makes sense.

Granted, students have some of the same concerns that non-students might have when voting for or against this proposal, but from a strictly student perspective, there's only one choice.

The con side of the coin is clear. · If you are a motorist with no intention of using public transportation - and have no qualms about COLLEGE LIFE

dealing with increasing gridlock on highways and major roads - why waste money by voting for a proposal that hasn't been thoroughly researched? Of the seven proposed new routes, three have yet to be studied and don't have a specified mode of transit. And for $16 billion, that is frightening. And, other cities with similar transportation expansion have ended up paying much more than original estimates and voters have been asked for even more tax money down the road.

However, as students who already pay a student fee that allows unlimited use of public transportation, the choice boils down to money.

If you already use the light rail or bus system, why not pay the tax to use an improved light rail and bus system?

Students on an urban campus, though small in numbers, are among the most frequent users of public transportation. Added light rail lines and increased bus routes will make students' Jives easier.

The issue is being made far too complicated by those for and against Referendum 4A. Let your lifestyle and individual needs be your guide and vote yes Nov. 4.

By Chris Farrar

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To: LowdownReroer.;@mscd.edJ From: reniyt@mscdedu Subject: Decline of American Society So there [ was.

Just thought I would jump on the Internet for a few seconds and check out the Denver Broncos' homepage before heading off to

The Lowdown work.

It would only take a few minutes, I thought. Thousands of stats and 10 hyperlinks later I glanced at the clock. It had been 2 hours.

And I was late.

So goes the Internet. While you are surfing the Web, time seems to stand still.

News Flash: The world is going on around you and might just pass you by.

Recently a woman back east lost custody of her children w~en her ex-husband and his lawyer convinced a court that she was addicted to the Internet.

This semester a student at the University of Colorado at Denver, who was taking an Internet course, was forced to withdraw after writing lewd statements in a cyber-essay and calling his professor a "bitch" via e-mail.

Would he have done that if it was a traditional classroom?

Lord only knows, but the other students in the class would have found more enjoyment in it. .

Ernest Ackennann, author of "Leaming to Use the World Wide Web," warns in his text against the

intoxicating effect the Internet has.

He says users should take walks, interact with real live people and "get your work done, and live your life outside the Internet."

Good advice.

The Internet might be a good tool with an abundance of information, but people need to make sure they don't take things too far.

How do you really know that the 5-foot-11 inch blonde California model you are talking to in a chat room isn' t some pervert in Cleveland?

You don't.

And maybe it is better that way.

Americans seem to like the idea of being locked away in their homes, not having to deal with the outside world.

Televisions, VCRs, voice-mail, and the Internet make that very possible.

But do those people know who their neighbors are?

Who their kids are playing with?

Do they care?

Not having to deal with other people in the outside world on a personable manner might be one reason Americans have a hard time dealing with people they are forced to see everyday.

Like their spouse. Or their children.

Or their parents.

So put down the mouse for a while and get some fresh air.

That thing you call "cybering" might be fun, but I guarantee the real thing is much, much better.

Travis Henry is a Metro student and a columnist for The Metropolitan _

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Stupid? Yes!

Dave Romberg

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Webster's defines stupidity as: "In a state of stupor," or, "lacking normal intelligence or understanding."

According to a recent survey conducted by me, more than half the American population is afflicted by this disease.

As midterm season ends, college students around the nation take to throwing a few back. Then, some throw a few more back. Then, some of those decide to stick their faces under a tap and drink their dumbasses into a

grave.

Sure, a death, even by such stupid means, is tragic.

Families are torn apart and insurance companies are the only winners. Yet, I can't help but wonder if a greater good has been served. At least that person will not be able to perpetuate his stupidity into another generation.

As a bit of an intellectualist (as opposed to racist or some other -ist), it occurred to me that we should have some measure of gauging the stupidity level of a given person. Then, based on that person's score, we could either sign them up for sterilization or retroactive abortion.

•Stupid - This is the guy that leaves his headlights on his car on all the time, consistently forgets to adjust for daylight savings, and puts forks in the microwave. These people are usually good for entertainment purposes and not harmful to others around them. Dan Quale and Natalie Pujo fall into this category.

•Catastrophically stupid - This guy is a slightly more dangerous stupid. He's the one that gets ~o turned around driving in Capitol Hill that he ends up heading west on 14th.

This is the guy that forgets to turn off the stove, then fills up his Zippo and leaves the can on its side a few inches from the range. Although these people tend to be stupid by omission of thought, they do end up maiming a few people every year. They are good candidates for extensive re-education programs, maybe even a little electroshock therapy. Auraria Parking employees and Stephanie. Riggs fall into this category.

•Cataclysmically stupid - This guy is a real winner.

He's the one who gets the bright idea of attaching a .357 slug to a sparkler to "see how high it would go" on July 4th.

This is the guy that takes the wrong exit on a highway, and instead of getting on at the next ramp, stops, throws the car into reverse, and backs onto the thoroughfare. These people are contributorily stupid, and the only answer is sterilization. Under no circumstances should they be allowed to procreate. Cubs fans and anyone who thinks Kenny G is good jazz fall into this category.

•Apocalyptically stupid - This is the mother of all stupid. These are the people who join cults and keep Jerry Springer in business. This is the 46-year-old man who marries his 15-year-old cousin, "Cause we 's in love, and love ain't got no age requirement," and wonders why he's in jail.

The only way to deal with these people is to let them kill themselves off, which they invariably do. Getting too close puts the onlooker in extreme danger. Heaven's Gate worshippers, Branch Davidians, and rioting CU students fall into this category.

Chances are, you're reading this right now and trying to fit all of the people you know into one of these categories. It should be readily apparent which category those people fit into. If not, wait a few days and see what stupid things they do. Then, plan your response accordingly. When you become adept at dealing with these people, you're ready for a career in higher education or broadcast journalism.

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

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Idle comments influence SGA's ability Editor, I am writing in regards to your recent editorial in the October 23rd edition of the Metropolitan. I, as a Student Government Assembly member, feel that your editorial is highly inaccurate and a defamation of the overall character of SGA's members.

Contrary to the expert testimony of the inner workings of SGA by Dr. Kaplan, Student Government has been very responsible in our attendance of meetings.

In fact, Dr. Kaplan's Vice Presidents have made more last minute cancellations of meeting than we have. Even ifthe opposite were true, does that not justify the students of Metropolitan State College of Denver's rights to have a say in the workings of the school that we pay to attend? Does that justify the Administration's monopoly on

power over the students as well as the faculty on this campus? I think not!

In your editorial, you also made the statement that we spend all our time on the MET campaign. Nothing could be further from the truth! Teresa Harper has been diligently working to preserve and further the rights of our disabled students. Jessie Bullock is working on the Student Fee Plan night and day and putting together a Student Fee brochure and co-chairing the Student Affairs Board that allocates over $1 .2 million in student fees. Sean Brailey is currently working on student representation on the numerous Administration & Finance committees. I could go 0n and on about all the different things that we have on our individual plates in addition to our daily responsibilities of advocating for stu-

dents in their plights against a system that does not yalue them as a customer or their opinion as a shareholder in the stake and reputation of the college.

I ask that you as an editor, and your staff as a whole, please consider the articles you write for accuracy, fairness and integrity for the number of opinions you influence are more than you may care to take responsibility for. What you say in your idle comments influences our ability to do our job- watchdog, advocate and represent the needs of the student body.

Sincerely,

John R. Gaskell vice president of Student Service

You don't have to buy into 'The Met' Editor, Everyone seems to want to get rid of 'The Met." So I thought I'd offer some solutions. First of all, Metro's administrations are probably not going to listen to petitions since most political institutions of any kind are really run by money. So fight back with money is what I say. So here are a few small things SGA can do to rally against "The Met." I. Boycott any products with "The Met" logo on it. This would mean notebooks, pens, folders, t-shirts, sweat shirts, etc. In the long run, per semester, it will affect the campus.

2. Boycott any sports event that has athletes wearing a jersey that says "The MET' on it. I'm not sure what the turn out to sporting events are, but I bet having completely emply seats will get someone's attentions. And since this would put the athletes' scholarships at stake, perhaps they'll join in on the boycott.

3. Start in on the freshmen. The student body right now probably already hates "The Met" title, so focus on the freshmen. They'll be inundated with "The Met" the most.

4. Now, I'm not one to endorse ridicule or shunning people in society, but, I bet that if other schools like CU or CSU were to criticize the name, or if students who used the term were shunned, I bet people would stop using it. Not that I'm endorsing such an idea, of course.

5. If any professor uses the term, "The Met," drop their course and move onto another professor. Of course, this only works at the beginning of the semester.

But there are always professor reviews at the end of the semester which the students can control.

This isn'l enough lo make Melro go broke, but I bet it would get its attention.

And it would give the SGA's petition a little more bite.

The reason why I do not like this new title is because of how it came about. Sure, the image change was done pro bono, but it started with money. Apparently, the technical and engineering departments are getting a huge chunk of money from a private business that wants Metro to be more of a technical school. Although this would help me when I graduate (Tech Comm major), I am against it in principle because the money isn't being shared with other important departments like the arts, music, and philosophy. I wish I could believe in the Reaganomic theory of trickle down, but we all know that it's not going to happen.

So I support the SGA's petition to get rid of "The Met."

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1997 Student Government Assembly's Election Commission is looking for YOU!!!

SGA has unpaid positions available and there are limited time requirements. As a student at MSCD this is your opportunity to get involved.

The SGA Chief Justice is looking for three students to supplement MSCD's Election Commission. The requirements to apply are simple: a minimum 2.0 GPA, currently enrolled in six or more credits, can donate one hour a month to the Election Commission during the Fall 1997 and Spring 1998 Semester, will be graduating any time after Fall 1998 semester, and are able to work two hours a week during the months of March and April prior to SGA elections.

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• Women attendints this seminar who schedule their annual gynecologic examination with Lmda will receive a free cholesterol profile.

Linda Valente, RN.C., M.S. is a Nurse Practitioner at the Student Health Center who specializes in Women's Health. She is a sensitive and caring provider who understands women's neeas and cone.ems. Linda is available for consultation at 556-2525. Please call for an appointment.

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Dr. Prasad is one of America's foremost researchers in the field of nutrition and cancer. He is the Director of the Center for vitamins and Cancer Research of the University of Colorado Health Science Center.

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When: Monday, November 3, 1997 Noon - 1:00 P.M. Where: Golda Meir Center 11'e ~ium examines a variety of non-\Akstern healing traditions, e.g., "redmedios ~ lagentc," "senteria," and "curanderismo"whose origins derive from the ethnocultural contributions of Native American, Mexican, and Vkst African societies.

Nothing reveals age and lifestyle more than our skin, but wrinkles don't have to be an inevitable part of aging. This workshop will present the latest research on the prevention and treatment of aging skin. Also learn how to recognize various skin cancers and treatment options.

Dr. Salaz has vast experience in the areas of Sociology and Multicultural Studies, and has been researching and teaching in the areas of natural and holistic healing for the past 15 years. Please join m for what promises to be a fascinating presentation and discus5ion.

free mole consultation and evaluation will be given to anyone attending this seminar. Dr. Verlyn M . Peterson is Medical Director of the Student Health Center and Associate Professor at Unfversity Health Science (:enter Department of Surgery and Medicine. An expert on the treatment of burn victims, he has been awarded 19 grants and has published over 45 papers. He is available for consultation at 556-1525. Please c.all for an appointment.

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These symposia are free and open to all in the Auraria and neighboring communl.ties.

Gasses are welcomed. Refreshments will be served. Future sessions will be armounced presently. Look for annoW'ICeIIlenls on bulletin boards, campus newspaper ads, and on ~mail.

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From bullied to bully, Metro wins again Roadrunners beat Nebraska-Kearney for first time since 1989 for 7th straight win

By Kyle Ringo The Metropolitan

baffiing blunders, like a ball dropping between three Kearney players, helped stake the Roadrunners to a huge 11-3 lead and game-2 win.

Kearney kept piling up the errors in game-3, before pulling itself together and winning the fourth.

Game-5 was memorable. The Roadrunners fell behind 1-3 at the start of the fifth, when a point is scored on every serve.

Metro came back and tied the score at 3-3. Like the kid who just couldn't bear having to tell the parents the same sad story again, Metro threw caution to the wind. It paid off when the ball sailed harmlessly out of bounds off a Kearney player for the final point.

Metro senior Laurie Anderson raised her hands in the air as she jumped into her teammates arms. In four years Anderson had lost six matches to the L<>pers.

'They've beaten us so bad in the past few years," Anderson said. "It felt good to knock them off."

For McDermott it might have been the biggest win of the season, but it wasn't really anything new.

McDermott led Metro in 1989 to its only other win over Kearney during her first term as the top Roadrunner. While at Morningside College in Iowa, she used to beat them all the time, McDermott said.

Junior Audra Littou set a new school record with 40 digs in the match. McDermott said Littou's effort was huge. Littou credited her team.

"We played awesome," Littou said. "We were consistent, and we never let down our intensity."

Four Metro players reached double figures in kills. Littou led the group with 24, followed by Michelle Edwards (22), Shannon Orte! ( 16) and Holly Rice (I 0). Anderson added 65 assists to her single-season best total of 1,067.

Results of the Oct. 30 game with Regis were not available at press time. The Roadrunners went into the Regis game having beaten the Rangers earlier in the season. At the time, the Rangers were ranked No. 4 ... , nationally, but fell to No. 7 after losing to the / Roadrunners.

It marked the second time this season Metro had defeated the No. 4 team.

At press time Regis had regained its No. 4 ranking. , r.i.. ._ Metro ends the regular "" • ~ season with six games in 12 days beginning Oct. 31 at Chadron State in Nebraska.

The season finale is Nov. 11 at the University of Denver.

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The little kid who has spent years getting beat up by the big bully up the block finally got a few good licks in and walked away a winner.

The bully is the Nebraska-Kearney volleyball program, and the kid has always been Kearney's counterpart from Metro - until now it seems.

Like all good fights, this one took everything out of everyone involved. Both were still standing.

One's pride was wounded and the other felt an unfamiliar feeling of winning that could be a watershed moment or just a simple upset.

The Roadrunners 5-game victory over the Lopers (13-15, 15-7, 15-7, 10-15, 15-11) has to be viewed as an upset, even though the former was ranked ahead of the latter. Metro, ranked No. 11, had beaten Kearney, No. 14, only once before, eight years ago, and had lost earlier this season in Kearney.

"It was the biggest win for us this season," Metro coach Joan McDermott said. "We beat a very good team, and they made very few mistakes."

Metro got off to a quick start and couldn't be blamed if it felt like it let the first game slip away.

The Roadrunners led 13-12 before giving up three points and the game.

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It's no accident, McDermott is a winner It happened somewhere on the road between St. Rose Academy High School in 1972 and the Metropolitan State College of Denver this season .

Joan McDermott became a sensational volleyball coach.

McDermott has her Metro Kyle Ringo team perched at No. 11 nationally · and second in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, but that is not what is impressive.

Instead, it's how quickly she has pushed the Roadrunners up to such a lofty position. And how, in one year, she has taken a program on the verge of a fall into the conference's cellar and made it one of the RMAC's most stellar.

The coach played volleyball at St. Rose and moved ori to the University of San Francisco. She later got her masters degree from Stanford University. Maybe all the formal training is what has brought her to this point. Or maybe it's because she is a volleyball junkie.

No matter, McDermott has brought a winning attitude and a winning program to Metro that is rivaled only

by Darryl Smith's women's basketball team. She should be lauded for it.

McDermott returned to Metro in 1996 after a 4-year

stint in Iowa where she coached at two other schools. She was the Metro coach for two years in 1988-89, which were two of the most successful seasons the school has experienced.

The San Francisco native recently added victory number I00 as coach of the Roadrunners - Oct. I 6 at Colorado Christian - to her long list of impressive achievements.

McDermott has been to the top, albeit at a lower level. She led St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif. to a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national title in 1985, and she gets results no matter where she is blowing whistles. She is closing in on 400 career victories with half as many losses.

It is scary to think what could happen if McDermott decided to stay in one place for more than a few years.

Her current team is evidence of that. Last season she took over a team with no time to recruit. She had four walk-ons filling her bench. The stars, Kerry Beidleman and Stacey Hoyt, were seniors and have played out their eligibility.

With a full offseason, McDermott landed some incredible talent for this season. Freshman Michelle Edwards and junior transfer Audra Littou are probable allconference selections. But she still has those walk-ons and some holdovers from the previous regime.

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McDermott hasn't betrayed the contract made with these young women in favor of building a stronger team.

No, she has molded them into winners and better players instead.

Laurie Anderson has replaced Beidleman, and is enjoying one of the best seasons ever by a Metro setter.

Credit McDermott for pulling Anderson away from the rest of the team during practice and spending hours working with the senior on the art of setting.

Littou and Edwards at outside hitter have done more than replace Hoyt. They have doubled the trouble for opponents.

Once again, credit the coach for recognizing talent.

Maybe the coach's most remarkable accomplishment is that she graduates players.

She is a self-proclaimed perfectionist on and off the court. Some of her former players went on to become doctors, veterinarians and teachers. She almost sounds disappointed when she states that she hasn' t produced a lawyer yet.

"In order to be successful, you have to do things right," McDermott said. "Right down to every little detail."

Metro might never win a Division II national volleyball title, but with McDermott at the helm it will always be a possibility.

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The Roadrunners did well overall, coach Rob Nasser said.

The men's team finished third in a 5team field, while the women turned in a fourth place performance in a 7-team race.

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The Spirit of West Africa: Art show at Metro's Center for the Visual Arts showcases West African textiles and sculptures. Through Dec. 17. 1701 Wazee St. Open Tuesdays· Thursdays 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturdays noon-4 p.m. 294-5207.

Musicians Needed: Metro is seeking flute, double reeds, trumpet, French horn, low brass and percussion musicians to play in the Metro Community Concert Band. All ages welcome.

Rehearsals 7-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays in Arts Building 295. 556-3180.

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Workshop: Motivation and Personal Effectiveness, Central Classroom 203, 11 :30 a.m.- 1 p.m. 556-3132. Meets through Nov. 3.

Student Government Meeting: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Senate Chambers, Tivoli 329. Contact Gabriel Hermelin, vice president of Communications, for more info. 556-2797.

Towering Issues Of Today: " Humans To Mars," lecture by Steve Edberg of NASA. I p.m., Tivoli 640. 556-2595.

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Gig Series: Merry Madness. 11 :30 a.m.-1 :30 p.m., Tivoli Atrium.

Nooners: "Divorce: What Are Your Rights?" lecture by Spike Adams, director of Trilnstitutional Legal Services. Noon- I p.m., Tivoli 329.

Forum: "My Experiences as a Peacewalker in Vietnam and Russia,'' by Dale Malleck.

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