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By tr{attheu'Quane mquane@mscd.edu While the nalional news during the FalI ^ semesterwas marked bv a ruckus of nahrral disasten and White House scandals, things on campus stayed relatively calm. Here is a recap of what new studenb and new readers may have missed out on last semester. . Jordan appointed as Metro president Stephen Jordan began his tenure as president of Metso this lall and brought the ' college visiors of partnerships with other organizafions in the Denver community, zuch as Denver Public Schools and local cornmunity colleges. ' He said his goal in coming to Meto "is to transform the college into a preâ‚Źminent, public, urban baccalaureate college." He also set in motion a plan to generate more tenure and tenure-liack faculW. which relied heavily on the passing of Referendums C i and O in the NovembEr election.

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. C passes, D fails While C's and D's are both passing grades, Referendum D failed in the minds of Colorado voters as it was rejected during the Nov. I election.

The passageof Referendum C allows the state to spend more tax money on educa, tion, health care and bansportafion. Speciffcally for Meho, C's passingmeans an avoidance of largescale hrition hikes and budget or faculty cus.

Referendum D would have allowed the state to bonow over $2 billion agairst the money genemted from C that would have also been put to use toward the same foundations. . Regency opens a^rnid setbacks, more student housing underway FaIl 2005 saw the beginnings of a bansition at Ar.rrariq from a commuter campus !o residential.

Though slated to open to studenb on Aug. 29, The Regency began allowing Auraria shrdentsmove in SepL 1. The opening of The Regency was the first in what is to be a series of housing opporhnities for *Auraria sbrdents. Campus Village Apartments, on the west end oI campus will provide on<ampus housing for over 400 shrdents and is scheduled to open in July 2006.

The Executive Tower lnn in downtown Denver is currently undergoing a $35 million renovation project and will also house over r 400 shrdents.The renovation is exDected to be complete by fall 2006.

UCD will be requiring certain students to live on-campus in the coming semesters.

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A posterof JohnBelushi fromthemovie"NolionolLompoon's AnimolHouse" AorynMinich'sroomot TheRegency, Sept.19. odornsthewoll of UCDstudent feelmoreot home.

Monysfudents decoroted theirroomsto mokethemselves Mebo Strdent Government Assembly was forced to hold a special elecfion during the Fall semester.

SGA Vice hesident Dennis Bergquist filled in as acting president during the interim.

The special election proceeded without a hitch and even feahred a fi:ll complement of candidates.The result of the election was not only a fi.rll student senate, but also an elected SGA presiden! which the SGA had been lacking for a large part of the fall. . Stephen IIay dies Former Meho surdent Stephen Hay died Oct 22, 20[.5 in his Nortlglenn home. Police said the death indicated suicide. Hay was 31.

FIay served as shrdent hustee in the Meho Student Govemment Assembly and

graduated with a bachelor's degree in environmental science in Spring 2005. He also helped create -tre Metro Surdent Leadenhip Foundation, which serves as an advocary group for representing student needs.

The nonprofft organization has been re named the Stephen FIay hadenhip Foturdation and is headed by his mother, Betsy Hay. He is suwived by his tvro children, Stevie, 7, and Taylor, 4. . Adjuncts demand pay raise' rernain d i ssatisfied Last semester,Metro's Board of Trustees approved a pay increasefor part-time, or adjunc! faculty salaries.

The raise earned adjuncts $960 for earh credit hour, up from the previous $788 per

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Former UCD student Breona Taylor was killed in a pedesEian accident at 4 p.m"Jan. 5 at Northbormd Speer Blvd. and Ianimer.

After waiting for the pedestrian walk signal. Tavlor crossedinto the crosswalkwhere she was struck by an RTD bus, which had just left Auraria carnpus on l;rrimer and himed north onto Speer.

Taylor was taken to Denver Health Medicil Center and died while uder care.

Taylor had eamed her chemistry degree with honors from UCD and had spent the day on campus preparing a lab for a chemisty class she was to help teach this semester, According to police, the driver of the bus, James Bauman, who otherwise has a clean driving record, may be charged with carelessdriving resulting in death.

"I will be working with Auraria Campus Police Chief Heather Coogan and the City and County of Denver on ways to improve oedesbian safeWon and near this campus," irid M"to hesident Stephm Jordan'in a camous-wide announcemenl Coogan has released a bulletin warning shrdents to protect themselves while crossing sheetson and neax campus. camAll maior intersectionssr.rrounding -which pus have iedestrian crossing sigrrals, indicate when it is safe to cross.

"To protect yourself, do not crossagainst the light, and observe all pedesbian sigrs," the bulletin says. "Onlv enter the crosswalk when the *atti tight .ig"A i" solid white and do not enter the crosswalk when the walk light is flashing. You must also exercise carr tion towards any vehicles entering the intersection."

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ln a campus-wideemail onJan.lO, he* ident StephenJordan annotmced that none of the four candidates inlerviewed so far for the position of provost/academic affain vice president will be taking the job and that the search will be restarted.

"I know that the entire college community is grateful to the search commitlee for its hard work and efforts this h[ in bringing forward four finalists of an exbemely high quality," Jordan said, going on to explain that when candidates are topnotch, they often have other opportrnities.

Ultimarelv. three of the four candidates who visiled iampus ln November werreunable to accept the position of provost be. cause of other such opportunities. Jordan added that fre fourth candidate was "not a match for Metro State and its needs."

Jordan has met with the search cornmittee and they will renew the search at the be ginning of the Spring semester.He said they will first go back to the pool and review the qualiffcations of existing candidates, as well ar applicationsthat may have come in since the four ffnalisn were announced.

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VisuolDeffnitions of the Top:Students of thephotoexhibit"SociolDocumenlory: ondpoironsottendtheopeningreception AmericonWesf."Boticm:"RonchGoteof Sunset " oneof lhephotoson disployot theBlueSpoceGolleryot 760 SonteFeDrive. students fromfie evenlgo directlyto thestudents.

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By Birgit l{oran moranb@mscd.edu Subde hues and colorfirl subjecb line the walls of the Blue Space Gallery on 760 Santa Fe Drive. The exhibig "Social Documenta{f, Visual Deftnitions of the American Wesl' is the culmination of 2 years of Social Docurnentary classesand many miles of bavel to difierent locations, including Taos, N.M., Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, Paciffca, Calif., and the San Luis valley in Colorado.

The majority of photos on display at the Blue Space were taken in Taos, the subject of the rnost recent Social Documentary class last September. Meto joumalism studenb took the classoom experience to the sbeets, gefiing an on{respot education. Armed with a few guiding principles of joumalism-both photography and writing--{hey got a taste of the nuances and nuisances of being on assigffnenL Joumalisrrr professors Kenn Bisio and Madyn Starret crealed the Taos Social Doorrnentary classto mirror what a real-life joumalism feature experience rnight be like.

"Illuminate the human condition. "Make your subjects large and yourselves sma[" Bisio told his studenb, Both professors emphasized finding the unusual in the ordinary. Students developed their own story ideas from the rich culhral-, religiou+ and artsbased tov"n.

For three days and nighb, the studenb chased stories and unique personalities including RC. Gorman, the famous artis[ Nalive Americans and their culure; teens at their homecoming; the wealthy and pooq the mainstream and off-thegrid society.

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This Fridan Jan. 13, four campus and Denver community members will be honored with Peace Awards at the l5th annual Dr. Madn Luther King, Jr. Peace BreakfasL The MIJ( Peace Breakfast, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. in the Tivoli Tumhalle, celebrates the life and philosophy of Dr. King.

Initiated in 1992 by KarenJ. Thorpe, thenassistantvice president of student afiairs, the event has grown each year.

This year's sold-out breakfast features a lineup that includes a musical performance

by Mariachi de las Artes, a musical group from the Denver School of the Arts, and a performance titled "Remembering Our Past trough Spiritrrals" by ArthurJones, founder of The Spidtual Projecl The Peace Awards are bestowed on individuals who demonsbaJe a cornmitnent to peace, community activism and justice.

The recipienb of this year's awards are sttr dents Nick Delmonico and Erin Durban, turstructorAnthony Garcia and community member Rudr Yamauchi.

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quick deadlines widr a oneweek hrmaround for ffnal stories and photos.

Accompanying the gallery opening was a studenfproduced magazine, "Seen " to showcase the writings of the reporting sbrdenb who atended the class.

Th" S"il"fy, which saw more than 500 people on opening night, is displaying 65 fi:amed photos for $195 each, and 78 unfrarned photos for $95. AII framing was handled by Lana Phillips of RCF, Inc. The exhibit is flrlly student-funded and all pro ceeds, minus the cost of the frarning and malting, go to the students.

"Social Documentary: Visual Definitions of the American West'runs untilJan. 21.

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The Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCFIE) has been quoted in re cent news rnedia articles that ffnancial aid in Colorado is "broken." CCFIE officials blame it on what they call "front-loading,' or awarding Colorado Student Grants (CSG) to students in their freshman and sophomore years then denying the grant whm they are -iuniors and seniors.

Cindy Hejl, Metro's ffnancial aid director. savs Meho does not do this-which she terms ibait and switch"-nor was she aware of any instifirtion in Colorado that does.

Rather, Hejl agrees with CU oftcials who say that the problem is not enough frrnding rather than the manner in which CSGs are disbursed.

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By Birgit X{oran moranb@mscd.erlu Continued from 3 Kings, Queens,Baronsand Knights are credit hour. alive andwell at Mefo.

The effort was spearheadedby a group Theybattleit out asthey re-createlife in of insbuctors who created their own Webste, the middle agesin the club called"Students www.denveradjunc$.oqg, which hidtlidtb for CreativeAnachronisms. " their arguments.The group, which tagsitself Micheal Carlaw, presidentof the club, as "Advocacy for part+ime faculty," remains joined aboutfour yearsago, "right before I dissatisffedwith the raise and will likely conmovedto the Outlands,"he wrote in an etinue is ffght into this semester. mail.

Colorado is known as 'the Outlands" . AHEC pa.rhing cenrices bealong with, Wyoming, New Mexico and gins 'Denver boott program part of Texas.More specifically,the Metro Unbeknownst to most Auraria students, groupis the "Incipient CollegeofThe Three the Auraria Higher Education Center beSpires," part of Denver's club known as gan using car immobilizers, better known as "The Baronyof Caerthe."

"Denver boob," to target delinquent park"l was hooked,"Carlawsaidafterwiting offenders.

The new ucketing and booting policy gives drivers with three or more parking tickeb tbree days to pay the offenses.

If the violations remain unresolved be yond the three-day grace period, offender will be forced to pay a $50 booeremoval fee in addition to the total of the outstanding tickets.

. COF stipend system begins for Colorado students The College Opportunity Ftrnd stipend program began last semester.

The COF provides a stipend to shrdents paying in*tate tuition at any Colorado public college or university. This semester,$80 per credit hour will be given to any undergraduate shdent properly registered with the COF system.

New studenb or previowly urnegistered shrdentsmay apply for the stipend at hups:// cof.collegeaccess.net/cofapp/. . Turnitin. com plagiarismde tection systcm testedt iroplemented Selectdepartrnentsand coursesat Meho have adopted the plagiarisrndetection program offered by Turnitin, com.

The program compares papers submitted by teachers and sh:dents to documents within its database using pafrem-matching algorithms. The service then retums Originality Reports, which highlight text matches with "red flags" and links them to the original source of the material.

The program has received mixed re views from faculty and students, but instuctors who use the program have caught substantially more plagiarizers since the implementation of the prograrn. hofessors who use the service are legally required to inform students about Tumidn. com with a written stalement in the course syllabus. New Outdoor Adventure Center creates Adventure L€adership ProSram The Outdoor Adventure Center began its Adventure Leadership hogram last semester, allowing advenh.rous shrdents the chance to explore the physical challenges Colorado naurrally has to ofler.

The goal of the program was to offer a.ffordable outdoor events to strdents who may not have had similar opporh:nitjes in the past.

Highlighted by *re completion of a new climbing wall in the Auraria Events Center, the program offered mr-rltipleevents all year long, including hiking expeditions, indoor and outdoor mck climbing kayaking lessons and ski and snowboard kips.

nessingthe club engagein a mini-warwith or the studentactivitieswebsite at h@://stuabout 80 participants."Where else can you dentactivities.mscd.edu/moduleVore/ do that?That'scool."

The group is part of the national "So, OtherMetroclubs: ciety for Creative Anachronisms"(SCA).

The club recreatesthe middle ages"as they AmnestyInternolionol Aurorio shouldhavebeen" Carlawsaid. ,AurorioCollegeRepublicons The club produceseventsthat showcase art, caltigraphy, brewing, blacksmithing, Feminist Allionce military battles,and any other activities of Justice br All, ^4ehoSt'rte the era. in FreeEnbrprise Students "The biggestdraw for most people is MetroCyclingClub themartialarts,"wroteCarlaw.Accordingto AurorioRockCrowlers him, studentsinterestedin applyinghistory, Crusode for Christ Compus not just studyingil may want to consider Polifi col Science Orgonizotion looking into orjoining this club.

Societyof Professionol Joumolists For more inforrnationaboutthis club or CreoliveResislonce oneof themanyothers,visit Metro'swebsite undercampuslife: organizationsand clubs,

Attention! AII Potential Spring 2OOo Degree Gandidates All Degee All Students Whollrill HaveCompleted

Requirements bytheEndof SpringSemestet,2006z

Mustfile anApplicationfor Graduationin (CN105) by theOfficeof theRegistrar Fdday,January27, 2006.

TheApplication is available for Graduation (CN105) in theOfficeof theRegistrar and edulenrolllregistrar online: www.mscd.

Idocs/ index.btm (Maybefaxedto 303-556-3999.)

Reponrun Shouldhavea CI{PP Compliance NOWin theirmajordepartment or the Academic Advising Center(CN104).

(Not Mustclearall CAPPdiscrcpancies Met)with the Registrar'sOfficeby February24 in order to rernaina degrce candidatefor this sem€st€r.

MonitortheSpring2006Graduation/ ncement Website Comme on Metroconnect throughout thesemester.

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Wireless serviceis alsoavailable MSGD has labsthat are equippedwith PC or MAC systems.The computerlabsare not just for studentstakingcomputerclasses.Any MSCDstudentwho is currentlyenrolledmay use the equipment.Word processing,spread-sheet, databaseand programmingsoftwareis available.Laserprintersare availablein each o{ the fabsas well as accessto the World Wide Web. lf you are interestedin working in the computerlabs,pleasevisit our website www.mscd.edu/-infotech/ complabs

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protection heort need Credit, I was lounging around a Barnes and Noble last Sahuday when my friend Ivft.

SpeedRacertexted me.

One of his credit cards had been lost at a club a few Thursdays bac\ and he had been trying to cancel the card. Alas, he was too late. Someone had taken his card, his name, to a Wal-Mat, and he would never shop there{hat's how we know it wam't I\[r. SpeedRacer-and charged over $150.

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SpeedRacerhad to ffght the plas tic gods for forgivenessand mercy.

Forty minutes and tluee supervisors later, he got his card canceled and the company launched an "in-vestigation."

I remember when SpeedRacer and I ffrst hung oul It was mid-December and a bunch of us were geting together at The Denver Diner after a night of dancing. The bill came and my fiiend pulled a good dozeo--or morffiedit cards out o[ hjs Ferrari bathen iacket No wallet Not evqr a hair tie to hold them together. He shuflled through them like a stack of playing cards, selecting his best bet An occagionalreceipt fell out of his coat as he sifted through the plastic poison, Not knowing SpeedRacerthat we[ I asked if he was worried about his credit cards gefiing lost, or worse, bad credit? We went around the table, maybe seven or eight of us, sharing our honor stories.

One Aberzombie-a ga.yguy who wears nothing but labels such as Abercrombie and American Ea$p and has nothing really to offer but his looks (if lhat)-had rung up over $6,000 in debt Nonetheless,SpeedRacerhas litle to worry abouL He is what we call an Elite Gay, meaning his parents take care of him and his expensive lifestyle.

At least he thought so. But no matter how elite SpeedRaceris, he, and his parenh, axe still zubject to fraud and the charges that go along with ir uThis is just what I needed," he told me via his SideKick cell phone.

I left Barnes and Noble and was crui+ ing arormd town when I received another text messagefrom my friend.

"OMG!!! U aren't going to believe this!!!!!"

It hrms out his ex-boytiend had changed his stahrson one of his online social netwod<sto "Married to a Man." He had suspectedhis ex had moved on for some time. SpeedRacereven had a good idea of whom he had been dating since they broke up six months ago. But he didn't know his ex had been cheating on him wlth the same guy for the last six modths of their two-anda- half year relationship, as it now seemed.

Red, w/tite, blue raciststake on Greelqr,U.S.

OnJan. 3, TIU Dcnau Pwt ralr.an article about a "cherubic-trooking" woman named Joy Breuer from Greelen who collected 500 signau[es on a petiuon in her cif. Breuer is known for her organization "Greeley for God" and for her fear that Greeley will become "a Mexican town within ffve years if we dont do anything.' Her recent crusade is one to establishan Immigra.tions and Cusloms Enforcement ofrce in Greeley because, according to Brduer, undocument€d immigranb are going !o take away jobs from citizens.

Meet the new wave of the white power movemenL They are church going, red, white and blue racist. Even bet!er, they are homegrown from our very own Colorado soil, which was stolen fiom Mexico so many years ago. Unitirig under piUfirl patriotic pleas like Breuer's cry of uI want us to stay one nation under God,n these folks are dangerous.

Why would a nation already rmited change if people bom in Mexico come to the'sta0esto live and work beside us? Will

hollow and "cherubic-looking" head, the answer is yes.

The fact of the mafier is this: People do want to leave Mexico and work here, and they do it for a darnn good reason. I believe a protest sign I saw at an irnrnigrant righb protest sums it up nicely for us: "We are here becauseyou are there!'

Photoillusnationbv KathleenJewbv In the nation of Mexico, there are 4,000 ma4uiladmas, or manufactrring planb, many employing workers for less than 50 Nothing frightened SpeedRacermore cenb an hour for lGhour dals and sixday tran thinking of his ex taking his ovvn life. work-weeks. According b Cory- Watch, a "When we broke up, I prayed, to God corporalion watchdog organizalion, the av... whatever ..." SpeedRacertold me. "And *age ma4uiladma eamiDgs for a family of all I asked was for him to be happl even if with one income pmvides enougb for two it wasn't me that made him smile." food, renl basic amenities and toiletries, laier I met some girlfriends (yes, rea.l leaving a mere $2.03 for clothing, shoes, NIC GARCIA women) at a coffee shop. medical and other expenses.

I ordered a late and used my credit ngarcA@mscd.eda Workers in towns like CiudadJuarez live card. I was given a receipt and promptly near their workplaces in shantiesswimming tore it up. I tucked my card away in my SpeedRaceris a lot like me. Besides with induseial wasle, and living expenses walle! making sure it was safe and secure being charrning a fantastic dancer and 30 percent higher than in Southem Mexico, where no vile hands-save my own-can deliciously good lo6king, we both have big according to the int€rnational organizaiion Global Exchange. Women working in these hearts and will do arrything for the ones we . abuse the power of my credil It got me thinking about SpeedRacer factories have been a.bducted,raped, mutilove. and all of our men problems. Even women uI feel like a fool" he told me. "How lated and murdered at the rare of hundreds problems. since the earlv 1990sin cdmes Amnestv Lr could I have not known he was doing this Why are we so willing to give ourselves H,r-"tt Rights Watch irave tema.tional .., It makesme sick" "tid we when to stangers?

Why are so tusting tied back to their employers refixing to proI did mv-Hls BFF duties and tried to calm it comes to our hearb but not our credit? tect them. him down. tone was a mix of humitaMost of us tear up ffnancial documenb, Worken in &te nuquiladmas are maktioq anger, depression. ing products for Flsher hice, Sony and wilh Security number anything our Social "I've been duped. Why would he do Ford, among other US. companies. That's on i! a bank statement,even old bills.' this to me?" righl our to),s are so cheap because people But we our hearts to be wom on allow SpeedRacertook his ex in. He bought in Mexico ars shsdding blood, sweal and and to our sleeves for anyone everyone him cars. He bought him firniurre. He tears. Those used to be jobs for Americans, them. steal and make fraudulent charges on boughi hir-l oh, so much more. 'mo People from Mexico aren't stealing our got a hold of SpeedRacSo, some And if his marerial wealth wa.sn't jobs; our multinational corporations ar€ exwreaked some havoc. er's credit and mougtr" SpeedRacerdid nothing but love porting them for low wages and commifring got a hold of his hearL And But another his ex. human rights violations. As long as we allow more damage can be done to the heart He was with him tlrough the good and for this exploitation to happen for our conthan to a credit statemenl the bad. During the suicide atlempb. venience, we shouldn't be chasing Mexicans out of our country, we should be welcoming them and apologizing to them.

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Don't turn hackon love,old or new So, Winter break ends and we make our way back to early moming classes,and the first couple of weeks can be rough. We've become used to our freedom and alarm clocks seem a rigid thing of the past-and who likes to look back on the bast? What's done is done.

But sometimes it's easier to cling !o the past than to face what is right in front of you.

The question that has plagued us all: start a new relalionship or cling to the old? Relish in the comfort or venhrre into the unknown?

It is hard to quit something that was once so good, but it is also obvious that when it's over its over. Every conversation ends in a fight What was once new and exciting seems routine. You know it's not meant to be, but it is hard to move on. But why is it so hard to move on? Because there is nothing scarier then liking somebody new and hop ing drey like you back

The initial fsel;ng of falling. So many emotions. So many questions. So many unexpecled moments and so lirle of the familiar. It all brings you so far from where you staded. It is a constant batde of questioning yourself. Do you really want to travel so far from where you've been? Are you afraid of what this new person will think of you, or axe you afi:aid of what you will discover about younelfl But there is nothing you can do to stop it. Being around this new person makes you weak in the knees. Butterflies inhabit what was once the varancv of vour stomach. Your heart seems lighter,' and you stand a little caller.

Then it begins to feel calm and comfortable. There's nothing you would rather do than wake up next to this person you are learning more about everyday. You wonder how long to wait before asking them if they feel the sarne. You question younelf every-

day for the ffrst fCw weeks, but never ask them. A few weeks hrms into a month, and then you begin to realizg...y/hy label some&ing that seeflrs so right? Jr:st let it take ib course. Give what you think could be your nnext true love" some distance and just be.

But every once in a while the past shows up unexpectedly. Backtracking into the past only takes you farther from the fuh:re, farther from where you're shiving to be. You start to wonder-can you really move on when the past is present? And if you don't move toward the fuu:re, will the present once againbe replacedby rhe past?

This is when you must look inside vour'decision. self and make a Cut that onl [ngering heartstring that holds you back and begin to restring and entangle your heart with somebody new. As you let yourself do this, you will l-earnwhat i spent my Winter break leaming. ff you ffnd someone who makes you feel this wan don't urm back.

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A nâ&#x201A;ŹQef-en4lng fLAe AJ lirious eircris in actiori'.han under the big top -of a national election--{he television/moron nexus of the 2lst cenhrry. That's right, it's 2006 and we axe again faced with choosing between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Durn.

The Democrats and Republicans duked it out for most of the 20th centurv. back-lashing violently against each othei in a never.

I t -. ending ride of bumper car inanity and, rmelectrcnsIDromse to flonal fortunately-if I know my political pundits of late--dris yeat's congressional elections Dromise to be no different.

Democrats have been whining laiely about Republicans using the Christian vote to firrther their narrow, often anti{hristian agenda (as if this sort of practice is a mind- ered balsawood: privatized schools, healthblowing new political maneuver). Republi care, and energyl free trade zones and develcans then rely on the same tired deflections: opment incentives; plastic trinkets, flickering Ink! Look han the liberal elite ha comman- screens, and the never-ending promise of dzeredtfu nzd.ia! Look nno as they lush their more. more. more. radical agendason otn frogile, ilise-m;nded Bu! what could be more important than children! Run aznl! the Republican powergrab now at hand?

Yes, please do run away.

What about our children's fuhre? WilI they Each of these dueling assertionscan be be forced to digest dogrna spewed by proproven in an activist court of law. but thev fessors bent on progressive agendas?What ?re entirely beside the point Can't we ail will come? stop bickering about which puppet is more Hush, now. Listen. A larger menace stirs to our liking and, to paraphrase comedian under the bed. Listen to the labo"i4g_breath Bill Hicks, ask who's priling the stsings? of the colporate behemoths, whose ffre fuels Yes, I am speaking of the capitalisb. Can the capitalisb' bellies. Listen to the lumberyou smell what the free market's cookin'? It ing, gianx play games with the American glearns---cheapand flashy-like chromecov- system.Listen well. and beware,

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And the hardest question of all: *Who am I?" Whew, if you cin answer these questions, you can be certain you will differentiate yourself from the competition in a very positive way!

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, Pre-emptivitykeyto winnirgWar onTerror Terrorists declared war on the United Statesa long time ago. It just took the tragic events of SepL 11, 2001 and a president willing to stand up for his counhy to do anything about it.

During the Bill Clinton administation from 1993 to 2001 (or as I like to call it, the time when pe{ury and adultery were OK), Muslim exhemists went on an ofiensive against America. Among other things, they bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, bombed U.S. embassiesin Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and bombed the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen in 2000. Clinton's brilliant response to these attacks was to do nothing.

One Muslim extremist in particular, the exdictator of haq, Saddam Hussein, gassed the Kurds in 1996, refused United Nations weapons inspectors access to their jobs a year later and threatened to shoot down an American spy plane. Clinton's response to this aggressivebehavior was the most aggressive retaliation yet--to let the United Nations decide whether we should take action. ln the surprise of the cenh:ry, they opposed military intervention. I guessthey weren't ready to end their businessvenhres with Saddam.

Then came 9ll l. the worst terrorist attack in U.S. hisiory, kilting nearly 3,000 Americans. Luckily, George W. Bush was in office at the time instead of Al "Count 'em Ull I win" Gore. Bush, realizirngthat appeas-

ing and ignoring Muslim fanatics was proving inefiective, declared war on them.

Phase One of the War on Terror was the ousting of the al-Qaeda-firnding, binLaden-harboring, oppressiveTaliban fascisb in Afghanistan. Most Democrats in Congress supported this action and it has proved to be successfirl.

Phase Two of the War on Terror was the ousting of the law-breaking, dZarqawiharboring, oppressive fascist Hussein in Iraq, who allowed rape rooms for his sons, utilized tortr:re chambers and human grinders, and rebuilt his weapons program during the 1990s.In the months preceding the war, four intelligence agenciesin the U.S. and Europe concluded separatelythat Hussein possessedweaoons of mass desbuction. Most Democrats in Congress supported giving Bush oower to deal with Husseinas needed.

Whatis more, we rnanaged to ffnd our Ace in the Hole, who is now on tria.l for his vicious crimes.

Yet somewhere in between the day our poldiers began the move toward Baghdad and the day haqis ratiffed their constihrtion, the American leftists who weren't already in the Michael Moore camp of pacifism at any cost decided it was time to cut and run.

Despite the fact that, among other things, schools have been built by the hundreds, a working health care program has been establishedand free electionshave been held

utopian Viebmm we know loday. kstead of rying to attack the problem of terrorisrn head on, the left hies to sidestepit completeln and in the meantime they have a knack for making ridiculous arguments that always seem to counter America's best interesl I guess their plan is something to the effect of this: We must admit defeat in Iraq and pull out immediately. We should go back to socializing America and barming prayer in public schools, all the while ignorNIIKE DANELEK ing the fact that lraq would become a ternularrclek@msul.edu rorist<ontrolled state after being just months in baq, the Democrats and their supporters away from being able to defend itself against the extremists. We should open up the borhave already thrown in the towel.

Liberals also like to throw in compari- ders so that anyone from anywhere can ensons of the Metrram War whenever they get ter. Meanwhile, let's just hope the terorists the chance. To them, the Mebram War was leave us alone so we can work on our "Hila critical lesson that when America goes to ary in '6" campaigns.

Unforhrnatelv. the terrorists will never war in this day and age, they will face resistance too difficult to fend off. Over the oast leave us alone. ihev are madmen with the few decades,they have compared rhe-Af- intentions of bringing down the free world. ghan War, the Persian Gulf War, and even Terrorism is the ultimate threat to our way of life, and thaCswhat this lethargic country the liberation of Grenada (all successfirlmis sions) to Metram. Desperate for a chance must realize. ff the terrorists ever got their to aitually be right about something they hands on WMDs and decided to enter this are determined !o prove the Iraq war is an- country (which shouldn't b" too rlifrcult). other Meham, although I don't remember the eniuing disasterthey would causecould democratic elections being held after we dwarf 9/1I. To prevent this, I suggest we continue to take care of business preâ&#x201A;Źmp overtirew the Communists there. Oh wai!

I don't think we overthrew the Communisb tively against the jihadisb instead of waiting either. In fact, South Mehram was evenhr- for them to commit more mass murder on allv overtaken bv Norlh Vietram to form the our soil.

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B;- tleather \lh.hl What gallery can you visit and then leave haunted by the great cat spirit? Gallery Xzanthia brings art to a whole new aesthetic and spiritual level.

Xzanthia means great cat spirit ln Arapaho. The galtery owner, who is of French and Nafive American descent,received her name from her hibe.

She altered the spelling to make the narne even more unique. The distinctive moniker suits both the woman and her gallery.

The story of Xzanthia's life is just as interesting and unique. Her decision to move to Denver and launch her gallery was made by chance. "I literally picked Denver out of a ha!" she said.

With the names of other cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles written on pieces of paper and mixed in a ha! Xzanthia picked out Denver from the bunch. One week later, with a truck packed frrll of her belongings, she set off from her hometown Tampa, FIa. for the Mile High city.

Xzanthia wanted to gei out of the Tampa area becauseshe said, "I was the girl everyone watched grow up." Although she visits her hometown regularln she does not regret her move to Denver.

Xzanttria made her break in the Denver a-rtscene by showing her-art at Faktue gallery and soon became one of their four featured artists.After making a name for herself in the local scene and making her own connections, she struck out on her own and looked for locations for her own gal-

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After working with Fakture gallery, she decided to establish her gallery in the Santa Fe area becauseof its loca.tionnear downtown. The area also gets a high amount of visitors during the monthly Fint Friday Art Walk. While browring for spacesfor renl she was randomly approached by the landlord of her current gallery and asked what she was doing.

The space she ended up renting from this curious landlord was never advertised. Xzanthia said, "Sometimes I feel like Forrest Gump-things just fall into my lap."

Gallery Xzanthia features altemative art focusing on material that isn't usually displayed by conventional galleries. Themes vary from the fetishistic and surreal to the dark and abskact and consist of difierent mediums.

Although the gallery's owners daim to have high standards for the art dtey choose to display, they also pride themselvesin grtiog upand-coming artisb a chance to express themselvesand galn exposure by showcasingtheir work in a gallery that seesa high turnout for maly events.

Some artists featured at Gallery Xzanthia for the month ofJanuary include: Mental Switch, Neal Rue and Michael Johnson. Mental Switch's digital photo selectionsare from this summer's Dark Arts Festival, He photogaphs a scaxynurse who is bright and vivid with an expression that is

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NeaI Rue's pieces are portraitdriven, focusing particularly on the models instead of their alternative altire or appeaftmce. She produces stunning photographs that capture her subjects' startling beauty and haunting hu4anity.

Michael Johnson plap the dual role of Gallery &anthia's art curator and feahred artisL Two of his mixed-media pieces were on display the day of the opening. One of the pieces sold immediately. Johnson usesan interesting technique of backlighting models and bacing over the silhouette cast by the shadow. This can be a timeconsuming process, .rs sometimes there are several shadowscast by the lighting. After the ffgurate is made,Johnson uses oil paint and various found objects to create work that reflects a dark and hidden presence.

Xzanthia isnt only a gallery owner. She is also a singer, photographer, model, artist, musician, ffre walker, actressand stilt walker. Becauseof her divene interests, she decided to establish a venue that is much more than just a gallery.

Gallery Xzanttria hosts a vaxiety of events that extend beyond the traditional art openings and viewings. The space is hmed into a nightclub for Goth nighb, MySpace parties and Vampire Freals Parties. Resident DJs Acid Burn and DJ Sin keep the music spinning. The Goth Night is all ages and typically geared toward a younger crowd that cannot get intro most bars and clubs. The MySpace parties give people who have met through drr online community the chance to meet in person, Xzanthia's MySpace music page has over 7,000 friends, while the galleries page has nearly 1,000 friends. Vampire Freals is another online community similar to LiveJoumal and specializesin proffles of people who have dark lifestyles or hobbies.

Blweekly photo events are held for a minimal cosl These events include inqpiring models who would like to learn new techniques for pholo shoots and also build their podolios. This event also helps photographers by g"i"S them a selection of subjece to photograph and a location that oSen a variety of backdrops, props and inshuction. In addition to photo events, Gallery Xzanthia also hosb technology dasses to help photographers, models, and irspiring artisb. The classesprovide instuction in vaxious computer applications including Adobe Photoshop.

Xzanthia is located at 868 Sante Fe. Drive.

Gallery More information about events and af,t can be found at comorbycalling (303) 89&0063.

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Any devotee of the GTA series will hold The sefiing of "Liberty City Stories" recre ates the sprawling environment of GTA Itr in the portable version to its earlier and more all of its metropolitan splendor. The story fol- detailed antecedents, a comparison that will lows Tony Cipriani a lowlevel mobster with inevitably leld some disappointnent For all arnbition, as he shoob and carjacls his way up its familiar elemenb, "Liberty City Stories" suffers in certain ways from its portable fortre maffa ladder of success.As the game pro gresses,Cipriani endears himself to the boss mat As in its larger console incamations, the Salvatore kone and gains more sta.h.lsas a game's targeting rystem is automatic. Changing one's targeb can be awkward on the PSFs goodfella directional pad and can prove frustrating for In addition to ib familiar sefting, 'Liberty City Stories" follows all of the most familiar even the most dexterous of players. What's conventions of the series. Players are given more, the absenceof a second'analog stick free reign to follow missions, cruise the sbeeb makes genera.laiming a chore.

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-Adatn Goldstein flicks. Although some missions are stale and simple, the majority of the main story tasks are Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories Publisher: Rockstar Games kice: $49.99 Pladorm: Playstation Portable

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l. Cornrnon - Ba Long time Common fans shared mixed reviews of Ba, due in part to the production skills of hiphop star Kanye West. While West's samplehappy mcl$ are annoyingly repetitive, Common's llrical content is enough to qualifr Be as a classic in his discography.Common comes acrossmuch more intentional with his position on social ills than on previous releases,ultimately exposing a mahred side of his creafivity. Overali. .Behas Droven to be a smooth transition back into the industry for Common since the releaseof Electrir Circusin 2002.

A fewof ourfuvoritethings The Met staff looks back at2005 Federal law stipulates that all music sections must print year+nd favorites lisb and far be it from us to get on the wrong side of the law. Therefore, in compliance with Secfion 5 of the Federal Music Publication Standards Acg we proudly present our yearly list of each writers top ffve albums. Enjoy!

1. The Horrorpops - Bring It On A sophomore album that is actually on par with the first album. The Horrolpops combine even more sultry female vocals with surf style rifis.

2. The Adicts - 27 Any new release bv The Adicb is an automitic top five. I'trii tana has been recording and releasing albums for almost 30 years and has yet to release a bad one.

3. Deadline - Getting Serious Exceptional femaleled punk bands are an unfortunate raxi$, but this band is the exception with intense female voca.lsand a slightly old school sound.

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5. The Unseen - State of Discontent Their ffrst attempt on their new label, Hellcat Records. This album may have been slighdy overproduced, but it's still a great album.

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l. Wilco - Kiclcittg Teleai:ion: Liue in Chicago More than the tight sound of the band or the well-mixed recording, the main ap peal of this album rests in the band's ability to expertly combine so mrmy dispa"rate sounds in a iive and immediate setting.

2. John Coltrane - One Up, One Dou:n: I:iae at the Half Note With its epic solos and bold modal explorations, this unearthed gem spotlights Coltrane's ouartet at its most ferocious.

Although thi recording qualig, may fall short of perfection, Coltrane's meditatively minded sax solos on such standards as "My Favorite Things," complements Zlze al Birdland, as a sonic wihress to the late master's genius in a live sefiing3. Frank Zappa -Joe's Xrnasage The tlird in a seriesofreissues, Xmasage delves into an early era in the late composer's career. These early studio forays into rotgut R&B and avant-garde sound experimenb, provide a raw preview of the mad musical genius that wor:ld follow.

4. Sonny Rollins - Without a Song: The 9l1I Concert Another live testamentto a ia-z master's prowess. l4tithmt A Sozgmusicallyconununicates the senseof malaise that affected the nation in the wake of 9/1. Rollins infuses his soios with an earnestnessand honesty that transcend his hard-bop origirs.

5. Sam Cooke - One Night Stand.: L;ioe at the Harlern Square CIub 1963 I-ong a classic of the soul genre, this intimate and energetic performance captures Cooke at his most stirring and sulty. However, the reissueplays like a different album, as the plaintive shadesof C.ooke'svoice find a new and prominent ptace in the mix.

Adam Goldstein galdstea@mscd.edu

3. MaryJ. BEge - The Brealethrough The Queen of HipHop eamed her name and consistentlyreminds her fans why she was dubbed such a prominent ffgure in entertainment in the '90s. The Breakthrowh has the mixhue of uplifting trarks and hoibled love sonss her fans have come ro expecl but her s=oundcontinues to grow with the times while remaining signature to her sor:lfirl style. The production on Thz Breakthroughis equally impressive and incredibly complimentary to Blige's grand voice.

4. Tlre Roots - Ilotnc Groun!

After the release o[ Phrenolog n 2ffi{ fans of The Roob were wondering if this jazz-influenced hiphop group was looking for a label in the rock music category. l. Daphne Loves Derby On the While it was a nice change of pace to hear Strength of ell C<mvinced.

Daphne I-oves Derby's firll-trength de- the group breakaway from the norm, a sigh of relief comes with their 2005 releaseHomp but album, On the Strength of all Canuinced pulls the listener through upbeat love songs Groun! A tribute to some of their greatest lits, Home Groum! offers head-nodding reto slow songs about heartbreak and death. mixes and previously unreleasedrecordings The band shows off a difierent talent with that take listenen back to the roots, and each song. more imporiantJy, back to The Roots.

2.OkGo-OhNo Oh No, the sophomore album from Ok Go, should have been the soundhack at midnight on Ne\ r' Year's Eve. The songs about miserv. desFucfion and heartbreak are presented in such a happy way that anyone listening to the album for the ball drop would have been dancing. The album's focus is on moving on and dealing with pain, perfect for welcoming in a new year3. Death Cab for Cutie - Plarls Death Cab for Cutie hasalwaysprovided a dreamy musical escape.Their i00'5 release oI Plans provided that dreamy escape and also showed how much the members of the band had matured. The songsmoved into a folk sound instead ofjust a rock sound. The album's themes focused, like most Death Cab for Cutie songs,on love.

4. Dressy Bessy - Electrified This one *ill pull everyone out of their seats, making them all dance. The dance beats make it hard for the listener to sit still, and the album orovides firn for hours. Each song, though different, remains fi.rn and up beat.

5. Eisley - Rootn Noises 2005 was a big year for Eisley. They went on munerous tours, made some videos and changed their lineup. In the midst of all this the band released Rmm Noises,' a dreamy folktock album wiih fresh sound ttrat nw6r gets old.

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2. Illoerl.y - Flo'Ologt Ambassadors of the NeoSoul scene,the vibrant duo known as Floetry came back in 2005 to bring us F/o'Olog. A distinctive mixture of spoken word, R&B and hiphop has tal<enthis group from the United Kingdom to the shelves of record stores worldwide.

Flo'Ology offers kacks that form a unity of life, love and reality. Light a candle, sit back and talce a breather with this splendidly soothing album.

- Cassie Hood hoodd@msc.d.edu

5. AntJrony Harnilton - Ain't Nobodj Wor4tin' Jermaine Dupri introduced Anthony Hamilton to the R&B scene on So So Def Records in 2003, and ever since Hamilton has rewrifren the R&B standard. Although there is a powerfi.rl inlluence from the voices of Motown presen\ Ain't NobodyWorryin' ino:oduces Hamilton's own distinct exoression of soul music. With *ris release,Iiamilton has joined forces with a seemingly small fleet of socially conscious artists in tle sbuggle to insight change in the quality of urban life.

- Celia I lerrera cherrel2@mscd.edu

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THE METROPOLITAN. JANUARY12. 20O6 l. The Decernberists - Piaaresquc I bow down to the members of this band because of their ability to bedazzle and invigorate tlnough their music. They make me feel as if I have slipped into a warm bubbly bath and released a sigh of utrnost relaxation. They combine counby, fo\ polka, Victorian sormds, Native American sounds and so many others perfectly. Like their alburn and title imply, they are able to act through music all of life's follies and dramas.

l. Cornrnon - .8e Since the day of it release, these songs have not left mv iPod's mini hard drive or grown old on my u"r=. From the oldschool griuy 'The Corner," to Common's endearing testimony to the divine on "Faithfi4" these songs ar€ pure poebry reflecting on innercity living, love and deceptioq and the toubled state of hiphop. For this album Common rehrmed home to Chicago and connected with fellow Windv Citv native Kanye West-whose production heie shows his true talenb. The result is the magical, endearing and raw B? ftat ri!€!s Cornmon's 1995 masterpiece Restnection as his best yel and stands as the best highop album of 2005.

Ma2. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary chine Finally! For a long- overdue albunl Apple has outdone herself. Her whimsical arlldjazy sry4eenforces a drea:nlike abno sphere that engulfs the imaginarion. Her deep, saury voice and rebellious, yet ftmocent persona allow for endlessvariations of naughty and nice. From beginning to end, the album sounds the wav it feels to live as a princess in a fairytde.

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Ma2. Fiona Appl" chittc Odginaly crdfted with p.roduction mastermind Jon Brion, the fuu:re of Apple's ttrird album seemed dim when alleg'ationsof her label Sony holding back the release-be cause of gloomy profit predictions-{oated around the Intemet Apple, who explained it away as a big miscommunication, called on Eminem writerfuroducer Mke Elizondo to rebuild all but the tide track and the finale of het Mafiiw, with the added 'Parting Gift."

After an excrucialing six years since her tonr de force llfun Tlu Pzzrm,this brilliant goddessblessedus with son$ that combine inuiguing melodies and rhltluns with endlessly captivating and cavemous brics.

3. GoriIlaz - Denron Days This was a zurprise hit for me that also hardly ever left my iPod, mosdy because I had only illegally dowrloaded it (cool it, RIAAr I have since purchased it). Having only mildly enpyed this concept group's selftided 2001 debut, I was blown away when I experienced the exceptional eccentricity of forrrer Blur frontrran Darnon Albarn's other-worldly lyrics and DJ Danger Mouseh gifted producuon on this release. Wbile the meandering musical landscapeson Dals rcquire receptive ears, after enough listens the ridmess in dre album's layers will seep into the intellect of any tsue music hn.

4. Litde Brother - Tfu Minstrel Sllclut The tide of *ris North Carolina tio's ofrcial second release refers to minstrelsv. the racist tradiUon of blackface entertaiil ment in which white actors---andevenhraly blacks--+overed their skin with black paiit and commenced with debiliwing parodies of black people. At one poing this was the most popular fonn of entrertairunentin America., much like rap md hiphop are to day. Through Big Pooh and Phonte's clever rhymes (most notably on tracla like "Say It Again" and "Watch Me"), zubversively humorous skif flike "Cheafin'," a satire of thug R&B) and lhe old+chool, a.hroqpheric production of 9d Wonder, they make their point well while sounding damn good. Perhaps not as sonicalV anazing as their 2002 debut Tlu Listening, but any connoisseur of ffne rhyme will genuinely enjoy this disc from hiphop's best upand+oming act 5. Cotdplay -X&f Yea\ yeab, I know It's almost become dich6 to like Coldplay. But ever since I fell in love with their 2000 debtg Parachutcs, Pve been addicted. Flafe drem if vou wanl but they have become tsuly one of th" best bands in the world by plaF"S sweeping melodies widr simple yet heartrelt and positive \rics that Chris Martin sings with such conviction. X€I' shows that thev continue trying to save the world and top thernselves, or at least trying to stay on top.

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l. Aqueduct - / SoId GoId Mix references ranging from the Beach Boys to the Geto Boyl stir well and let cook in the mind of a pop savanL The result is this album of fiwy, buzy and insanely caichy pop.

2. High on Fire - Blcssed Black Wings My mom used to sav I had a liule bit of the devil in me. She was right, and this album makes him very very happy. If this isn't the fuure of metal I think it should trm back and by again.

3. Spoon - Ginnnc Fic'tiott Rock's last great hope produces another perfect album. Thanks, Spoonl 4. Konono No. | - Congotronics This is world music, but from what wor{d? Blending taditional music of the Congo with a mess of hacked together arnpliffcation, this album kicks up a mesrnerizing blend of hypnotic percussion" insane distortion and frenzied chanting that sounds like nothing else on Earth.

5. Anirnal Collective - Feals The musical equivalent of accidentally eating 15 grams of magic mushrooms. Equal paxb pop, foft psychedelia and pure insanity, this album pulls the mind in a million directions at once and they're all good.

3.Beck - Guero His experimental and multiculnral music displays Beck's great genius when it comes to combining a wide range of beats to complement h tigtt| monotone voice.

He has changed his style from somewhat d+ pressing (when he put out larar) to a more positive sound by means of funky, eclectic beats and noises that keep the spirits up.

Somehow he can combine a harmonica and huntable in the same song and still make it sound cool. He shows that being weird can really pay off.

4. The Blue Van - TIE Art ol RoUing These '70+rock inspired gendemen may know the art of rolling but they also know the art ofrocking out These gu;zsknow how to make a killgl rc6en4 with incendiary energy that can be felt tluough the CD player.

They pLay as if they were the main act at Woodstoch with a screamingguitar, deafening keyboard, and raging drums. This band wilt brnrg back all that we admired of '7ft rock.

1. The Decerrrberists - Piceresqte Colin Meloy's songwriting oubhinei any of his and his bandmates' prwious efiorb, not to mention anything else that was put out in 2005. Ib well-crafted melodies and heardelt lyrics reinforce the infallible sense thai surrounds the album. After listening to one song, it simply feels impossible for the next to disappoint 2. Sereaa Maneesh - Serena Maneesh Had this writer gotten laid h 2005, dris album would have provided the sexy soundtack. Combining My Bloody Valentineesqe synth with Explosions in the Sky post-rock createsa noisepop album worthy of any maralhon makeout session.

3. Broken Social Scene - bokcn Social Scene If the Justice lnague were a cohort of Canadian indie rockers rather than superheroes. they would be Broken Social Scene. lJnlike Pitdresquz,this album doesn't surpass the band's earlier efforls, but the virtuosiW of the members makes for a great album every goround.

4. Sufan Stevelcrs- Illinais If any random p€rson weneto approach me and ask me to recornmend one album from 2005, I would have to pick lllircis. By far the most accessible album of the year.

Stevenshas crafted an atbum with soft melodies and eamest lyrics that nearly anyone can enjoy.

5. Pelican - TIe fr.re In Our Tboats Will Beckon Ilu Thaut From beginning to end, this album grabs ib listenen bv the droat and rakes drem back and forth acrossbuming coals. If that sormds like a good thing, check it oul but if postoetal is frightening, dris alburn might be best Ieft to the professionals.

- Matthew Qrane mqtmne@mscd.edu

5. The Retnrn - Doga Danger Sileat Stranga This new and upcoming band helps add anolhen dimension to the flourishing ska sound. Their debut album firses the quick and lammin' beats of regae wift dre sliding guitan of roc\ leaving a ffnished product of delectable dance material, perfect for hip swaying and head bobbing.

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By Jeremy Johnson ljohn?08@nscd.edu While most Meho shrdents probablv spent the holiday break celebrating with family, traveling, partying or working overtime for some exha cash, the Roadrunner men and women's basketball teams sDent time hitring the hardwood and lighting up the scoreboards.

The men's team goes into the upcoming weekend 94 overall and 2-2 n the Rocky Mountain Atlrletic Conference.

After narrow lossesto Adams State and Fort kwis on Dec. 9 and 10, the Roadrunnen blew past New Mexico Highlands and CU-Colorado Springs to even up their RMAC record.

Head coach Mke Dunlap\ team is led on offense by senior guard Drew Williamson. Williamson-an Ausb:alia native-leads the team with 16.8 points per game offensively and also tops the team with 54 steals.

Williamson has led Metro in scoring seven times this season.

Junior forward and Broomffeld High School graduate Michael Bahl is dominating the defensive end for the 'Rtrnnen, pulling down 5.4 rebor.rndsper game. Balrl has led the team in rebounds nine of 13 games this seasonand has also put up 12.6 ppg in RMAC action.

Rounding out the 'Runners' scoring is senior guard Dustin Ballard (11.5 ppg) and senior guard Greg Muth (9.8 ppg). Muth eamed RMAC Player-of{heWeek honors last week and helfed Mebo win its last game, a defeat oyer CSU-PuebloJan. 5.

Muth had a career-high 24point performance and Meho set a school record, going 22-for-22from the free throw line.

It's doordie time for the men's team, as thev have 14 RMAC match-uos in the next six'weels.

The Metro women have found success on the floor lately as well. Head coach Dave Murphy's tearn is &4 on dre season,but has not lost at home (2{) or in divNon play (5 0). The 'Runners have won ffve of their last eight games.

Sophomore guard Paige Powers picked up where she left ofl last year, leading the team with 14.3 ppg and 87 percent shooting from the free throw line.

Junior Rianna Harris, Meho's six-foot forward,/center, follows Powers witl 12.1 ppg. Mbre impressively, Harris is also leading the team with a massive 8.1 ppg and is averaging nearly l0 boards in RMAC contests.Harris is a threat in every aspect of the game, leading the team with 24 steals and tied for the tearn-leadin blocked shoe (13).

Along with Powers,sophomore Danielle Ellerington is the only other player to start all 12 games this season. She rounds out Meho's topt-hree in scoring with 10.2 ppg.

Freshman guard Stacey Cox (9.5) and sophomore guard Megan Johnson (6.7) round out the topffve in Meto scoring showing real prornise in conference games, scoring 12.4and 11.8ppg respectively.

Similar to the men's team, the women can extend their RMAC lead with 14 conferenie games over the next six weeks, Both Meho teamshave a chance to climb the division ladder when they host Colorado School of Mines and Western State (Crlo.) on Friday and San:rdan respecEvely. The women's games start at 5 p.m. with the men following aI7 p.rn.

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B;'R-lan Parker Special to The .0[etropolitan Whispers of Meto not being a "real" college are not rare around campus. Not having a wildly known masco! lack of tailgaling for sporting evenb, and very litde feeling of pageanty fuel this fire. *If you look around, you don't see the kind offollowing and pridb that you seeand hear about at other universifies. I mearL everywhere you look there are kids wearing hats and shirts of other colleges like Texas or USC. I hardly ever see anyone wearing Metro sh-rff,'senior Elaine Morse said.

One reason there is such lack of pride is that Metro does not have a football pro gram.

"That kind of stuff really rnalten," said Blair Bonham, a transfer student from OkIahoma University. "You have no idea how the games, and the sound of the marching band, and seeing your school on ESPN makes vou feel. the excitement it creates,' However, StephenJordan, president of Meto, having worked at the Univenity of Colorado. Arizona State.and Eastem Washington University, all with football programs, does not share in the same theory ihat football equals pageantry.

"Athletics are the front porch of the (college's)house, not always the biggest, but the most viewable,"Jordan said. 'Metro is a different university."

Jordan said that the amormt of coverage other colleges receive because of their wellknown sports teams can bacldre.

"A bansfer shrdent-athletemust be eligible to play for two years," Jordan said.

According to Jordan, a rival football team of Eastem Washington Univenity acquired their quarterback fiom Florida University for a single season,just bo be atop the Big Skv Conference. of which EWU is a membei. the team then hansferred him back to Florida once they were champions.

The NCAA made the twcyear hansfer rule shortly afur that seasonended.

But, it can't be denied that football does bring a feeling to a college campus that may not be found any other way.

"Even ifyou don't know the person next to you, when something great happens out there on the ffeld you either high-ffve or hug or just go crazy together," saidJon Humbert of 9 NEWS, and former CU SportsMag executive producer. "Come gameday you are all a oart of that school. all there for one purpoie."

However, it is not as easy asjust staxting up a football team.

Title D( of the NCAA is one of the larger factors involved. Once a school reaches a certain division level-lA, IAA-+trucores change.

"Once you move tro that level Tide )fl saysyou have to have equal opportunity for both men and women."Jordan said.

Meaning if Metro were to add a football progra{n it worlld have to add additional sPortslor women.

'You have to have multiple sporb for womenl it becomes an expensive proposition," Jordan said.

Although changesare in the works, such as the addition of residence halls, talk of converting the Auraria Fields to Astroturf and adding stadium lighting, not to mention the lact thatJordan said he really does miss going to the games, the pmspect of Metso having a football team anytime soon is not likely. dAt this point, I just don't see it in the cards,'Jordan said.

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worsl in The 2005 sporls, Bv CandacePacheco ipachelT@mscd.edu 5. Everyone wonders whether baseball players use steroids. Why else would they be able to throw a ball so fast or hit a ball out of the park, right? Well at Ieast all of the critics wanted everyone to believe that especiallywhen they accusedBarry Bonds of using. They (the critics and whoever else accused him) helped mal<e Bonds' 2005 seasonnot so glorious. I-et alone his previous successfi:lseasonsof hiffing quite a few home runs. Bu! Thanlnily Bonds was acquitted of these accusationsand can now go back to hittng as hard as he wants without a scomfrrl eye.

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4. Who says basketball playen arent tough? Ron Artest would surely disagree, since he showed he can assault fans in the stands when he is disrespected. His heavy ffst cost him more than just a large fine; Artest ruined his teammates' chances of winning the NBA Finals by being suspended for the whole season.BOO! Bad Decision!

So who's tough now, Artest?

3. Terrell Owens is simply one of the worst because he has a bad atrihrde. By bad mouthing his teammates,he ruined his team chemishy, cost them the season, and now wants to be haded-or. rather. is forced to be traded-because of his bad a.uitude.Which is quite sad becausehe has the potential to be great and had the potential to lead a team to a ring but instead pufring himself ffnr Oh well, maybe the Texans will have a better chance at making the playoffs now.

0n,office fuces chollenge Hockey club Roadrunners successfuldespite difficult odds Barf By\lhyne bart@rnscd.edu A" falls, and Meho students have hit the "ight saclq hit the books or hit the bar, a group of students prepare to hit the ice.

These shrdentsmake up the club hockey team at Meho; a small group of players in the background of the campus sports scene.

With the recent successof the Roadrunners NCAA teams, the successand snags of the club leams are not as visible.

Hockey breeds a family of sorts, which is especially hue among the Roadrunners.

Most Auraria shrdents haven't heard of the team, but nearly everyone in town who plays hockey knows iCs there. Despite this, it has been hard to put together a quality team in the past few years.

There are numerous reasons, the obvious being Meho's unique position as a commuter college. Even though Metro is centrally located, that does not mean the players are. Even if they were near the school, they don't always have access !o the Edge Ice Arena in Litlleton to practice and play.

Instead they take what playen they have and meet around town. In most instances, the only time they skate twice on the same ice is during a weekend doubleheader. They Dracfce twice a week-in the middle of the night-at two different suburban ice rinl<s.

The team never practices or plays within l0 miles of campus.

The week starts on Mondav. when the Roadrunnersmeet between l0 and I I p.m. to practice at Apex Ice Arena in Arvada.

They do it again on Wednesdays at the same time, except at the Sou& Suburban Ice Arena in Lirleton.

That takes the team into the weekend, where they play a doubleheader at a third (and sometimes fourth) ice rink. They play tearns thai are sometimes better equipped, have had a coach for more than a year and Dractices twice as much on their own campus rink. But Meho is still able to win.

Not only have they been able to win, they are now ranked sixth in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II West Region. The team's character shows through; Meho is still able to compete at the same level as other, more privileged beams.

And the team is funded almost entirely out of its own nockeL ' Now as spring the semesterbegins, the team begins the second half of the season.

Metro has a pair of games against the Univenity of Colorado, Boulder Jan. 20 and 21, and one game against the University of Wyoming onJan. 28.

In February the Roadrunners play a doubleheader at Brigham Young University and come back to ffnish their seasonwith a homeand-away series against the Univenity

of Denver.

The Roadrunnem' goal at the beginning of the seasonwas to make the National Toumamen! which is between March 8 and I I in Rochester,N.Y. With their Nb. 6 ranking in the West Region-two above iheir seasonopening No. 8 regional ranking-they are still in consideration.

The 'Rr:nners will imorove their chances with a good showing in ihe Regional Todrnament Feb. 17-19in SanJose,Calif. They have not yet qualified for i! but if the Roadrunners can improve on their 1G9{ record, their chancesare good.

The team has come a long way in the six years since its inception. The goal back then was to break even with a .500 season,now it's *Nationals or BusL"

2. The CU football scandal is costing the team a one-way ticket to l,oserville. By making a bad reputation for itself by offering sex and drugs as a ploy to recruit new members to the tearn, no respectable college kid wanb to play for them and risk their credibility. They had a chance of having ten top players come to Colorado and only got one.

This boils down to lousy negotiating skills and having a bad reputation. So, now that their coach has been fired, maybe they can have a fresh stad for next season. l. Having no hockey for a whole season was a serious bummer. With no news about some guy being sent to the hospital for a concussion or a broken ligament or a missing tootb qports just didn't feel the sarne.

The hockev strike left sDorts in a bit of a gloomy state-the sports world never feels complete when one of its oceans has a drought. But sometimesplayers have to take matten into their own hands, and they felt i}rey weren't being paid enough, which is a jusfiffed concem considering how dangerous the sport can really be. Thankfirlly, all is back a^floatand both playen and manage ment are happy.

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YogaPrograms- Mats & props are provided. The theme of this year's breakfast is Please wear comfortable clothing for the Remembering Our Past: Strengthening sessions listed below. The full Healthy Our Communities. Tickets are on sale Moves schedule will resume on January from MSCD Office of StudentPublications 30. For more information, please e-mail in the Tivoli Student Union, Suite 313. wilkinli@mscd.eduor call (303)556-6954. General admissionis $12 and $6 for N{etro students. For more information, call (303) Hatha Yoga - Tuesdaysand l4'ednesdays, 556, 5537. from noon to I p.m.

Free Blood Pressure Sneenings - Every Friday at the Health Center, Plaza 150 from 2-4pm.

Free HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) Testing - Ongoing at the Health Center at Auraria.

Call (303) 556-2525.

Eatingfor Health and Energl -Please call Susan Krems at (303) 770-8433or (303) 556-6818for information.

Jonuory 23,2006 Mondays at Metro State - The first of this semester'sstudent concertslvill feature the Metro State Wind Ensemble. David Kish will conduct. The event is free and will begin at 2 p.m. in the King Center Concert Hall. For more information, call (303)5563180.

SelfDe.fensefor Women - In this selfdefense course designed for women from 13 years and older, participants will learn Tobacco Cessation Suplort The Health protection techniquesto fend off an attack.

Center offers many types of help to stop.

The classu'ill be held on January 23,25, Call (303) 556-2525.

30 and February 1 frorn 6 to 9 p.m at the Montview Boulevard PresbyterianChurch, Alcoholia Anonymous Meetings - On the 1980 Dahlia St. For more information, Auraria campus, Tuesdays l1:45am,1pm contact Crystal Middlestadt at (303) 329, gth 1020 St. Park, #8. Call (303)556-2525 9922. for more information.

- Jose Canseco, one of the most wellknown professional baseball players, will be speaking about his personal experience using and abusing sieroids and racism within professionalsports. This eveni will be held in the Tivoli Turnhalle at I p.m.

For more information, contact Student Activities at (303) 556 - 2595 or visit http:// studentactivities.mscd.edu.

Jonuory 30, 2006 Metro State Faculty Recital - This concert will feature faculty members of the Metro music department. The er,-entis free to the public and will begin at2 p.rn. in the King CenterRecitalHall.

Februory3,2006 METALisms: Works in Jeuelry and Metakmithing - The Center for Msual Art hasjoined together the sgnatureworks of over 60 establishedartists for their first exhibition of the new ,vear.The exhibit will open on February 3rd and run until March 16.The CVA is open on Tuesdayto Friday, 1l a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. The exibit is free and open to the public. For more information, call (303) 294-5207

Februory3,2006 promotes healing and health. This course is designed to teach Reiki's fundamentals.

Participants will receive a Level I Reiki certification. The classu'ili be held in the St. Francis Atrium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Spaceis limiied. To register,contact Linda at wilkinli@mscd.edu.

Februory9,2006 The Science of Affirmatiae Action - Dr. Roland Frver *'ill be speaking about the racial discrepancies in the American eduction svstem.Dr. Fryer is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University. Dr. Fryer will speak in the Tivoli Tirrnhaile at I p.m. For more information, contaci Student Activities at {303)556-2595.

Februory t O, 2006 Thhd Annual Piano Celebratioz - This event will feature a variety of piano performances and clinics ov-ertwo days.

The concerts will take place in the Kenneth King Center on February 10 and 1l from 8 a.m. to l0 p.m. For specific eventsand classes,contactthe Meho music department at (303) 556-5715.

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