Volume 36 Issue 9 - Oct. 10, 2013

D.C. showdowns

Government shutdown, Capitol shooting, car chase • 3 October 10, 2013

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Nanki-Poo, played by Gustavo Adolfo Márquez, performs a song to his beloved Yum-Yum during MSU Denver Theatre’s performance of “The Mikado,” which ran Sept. 26-Oct. 6 at the King Center.

Photo by Trevor L. Davis • tdavis84@msudenver.edu

MSU Denver’s “The Mikado” entertains • 7

INSIDE: Blackboard Learn • 4

Poetry Slam • 8

“Runner, Runner” • 10

Men’s soccer • 12

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Capitol Hill Police arrive at the scene where a car driven by a woman was stopped by police. A shooting following a car chase left Miriam Carey dead at the scene in D.C. Oct. 3.

D.C. chase and shooting leads to death, lockdown Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu @kelli_themet

Capitol Hill Police tape off the area where Miriam Carey drove her car into a barricade at the White House Oct 3.

A chase ensued that ended at the 100 block of Maryland Street where she was shot and killed by a security officer

Despite the government shutdown that slowed D.C traffic, hurt local businesses and slammed doors on national parks around the country, the city still managed to command the nation’s attention.

According to Metropolitan Police, 34-year-old Miriam Carey, a dental hygienist from Stamford, Conn., rammed a White House perimeter gate with her black Infiniti.

She led Secret Service and local police on a chase through the city until she was shot by a security officer near the Hart Senate building where Colorado senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet have offices.

Carey’s one-year-old daughter

was in the car with her and was unharmed.

The child was taken into protective custody.

“This appears to be an isolated, singular matter with, at this point, no nexus to terrorism,” Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine, said.

Metropolitan Police Chief Kathy Lanier said that she wasn’t willing to rule out anything, but reassured the public that police and Secret Service agents were not mistaken about Carey’s intentions.

“All information we have right now is this does not appear to be in any way an accident,” Lanier said.

The incident prompted a lockdown of the Capitol.

Federal employees in the surrounding offices were told to leave their offices and get out of the area.

U.S. Aid employee Ira Stone was returning to work from lunch when he was passed by several black SUVs. “All I could think was that this wasn’t a motorcade,” Stone said.

A group of students visiting the Capitol with the League of United Latin American Citizens were having lunch in the Capitol building and were locked in.

“An aid came to the door and told us we needed to stay where we were,” Luis Torres, LULAC’s director of education policy, said.

“They closed the doors and locked them and told us they’d be back.

We were locked in for almost two hours.”

Lori Taitano of Phoenix, Ariz. was in Washington when she witnessed a police car chasing a black

vehicle.

“The police car flipped and just started spinning,” Taitano said. “I wondered what hit him and then I realized it was the barricade.”

The FBI said they found medications for depression and schizophrenia in her connecticut apartment.

Authorities also said they were informed by Carey’s boyfriend that she had paranoid delusions that President Barack Obama was spying on her.

Carey’s family has disputed her boyfriend’s claims.

The incident remains under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department with support from the FBI, the Secret Service and Capitol Police Department.

Effects of shutdown are felt by Capitol businesses, tourists Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko ktomko@msudenver.edu @kelli_themet Between network news and social media it’s difficult to tell just what’s happening with the government shutdown.

In D.C., the effects of the shutdown are obvious.

Alan James, a café barista at the Barnes & Noble on the corner of 12th and E Streets, said there was a marked difference in sales starting the morning of the shutdown.

“We normally have two or three good rushes during the work day,” James said. “Now we only have our bunch of lawyers who come in for lunch, but even that crowd is smaller.”

Federal employees deemed non-essential came to work Oct. 1 only to be told to go back home.

Bereft of lunching workers and shopping breaks, the local businesses in the Capitol are suffering.

While non-essential employees wait out the shutdown at home, essential employees were frustrated on the streets.

“It’s a little aggravating,” said a Secret Service agent who withheld his name due to agency policy. “If

we don’t show up for work, we get fired. So we come to work, but we don’t get paid.”

Tourists still came to the city to visit but found their itineraries in need of change. Federallyfunded sites like the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress were closed to visitors. Other locations that were supported by ticket sales saw an unusual influx of visitors.

Open sites like Arlington National Cemetery were crowded with visitors who had to alter their vacation plans.

David Kwame, one of hundreds of independent taxi drivers in D.C., said the city was disturbingly quiet.

“It’s like a small city on a Sunday,” he said. “Nothing is happening here.”

Ignoring barriers put up around war memorials, tourists — many of them veterans — walked around gates and under tape to visit the memorial. Despite reports on social media of protests and arrests, rangers on site at the memorials did nothing to stop the visitors.

It was not only memorials in the city that were affected by the shutdown. Firefighters who gathered at Oct. 3 Arlington’s Tomb

of the Unknowns to prepare for Firefighters Memorial Weekend by laying a wreath on the tomb learned that an important part of the ceremonies had to be skipped this year. Families of fallen firefighters were not able to visit the memorial because it sits on Federal Emergency Management Agency property that is closed during the shutdown.

Stephanie Anderson, former MSU Denver student and Washington, D.C. firefighter said the weekend was something departments looked forward to each year to honor those who died in the line of duty.

“I think it’s an important part of the healing process for both the families and the departments,” she said. “I’m glad we’re going through

with the ceremonies. I’m just sorry we can’t get to the [memorial].”

While Congress continues to bicker, the city sits in the balance and tries to look for the silver lining.

“The only good thing is that I can find a seat on the Metro [subway],” James said.

Closed to the public, veterans of WWII were granted access to the WWII Memorial during the government shutdown Oct. 3 in D.C. All photos by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

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Blackboard gets face-lift, replaced in 2014 Kristy Chaparro kchaparro@msudenver.edu

MSU Denver is working to introduce a new learning management system — Blackboard Learn — that will replace Blackboard Vista starting Spring 2014.

Over a year ago, an 18-member committee that included faculty, staff and students from MSU Denver formed to evaluate options.

The committee chose to migrate to the new platform.

With the old system still in place, the university launched a pilot study to test Blackboard Learn during the Summer 2013 and Fall 2013 semesters. “The goal of a pilot is to test the system, eb, broadcast and job fair recruitment solutions obtain feedback and then make changes to nect with the best local improve the candidates experiencefor forless. everyone,� Ben ur Door to Better Candidates.

Zastrocky, director of MSU Denver’s Educational Technology Center, said. “Feedback such as this can improve the interface, navigation and training for everyone.�

Starting January 2014, Blackboard Vista will go away completely and Blackboard Learn will soon be the new default learning management system. “The previous version of Blackboard is being phased out and support is going away,�

Zastrocky said.

The system has a built-in browser check that students can run on their own.

For additional assistance the ETC offers

both online and on-campus training for Blackboard and has done so since the previous system was implemented.

On average the office offers face-to-face training for about 300 students a semester.

Trainings usually last two hours, but the online version is self-paced.

In addition to teaching students to use Blackboard Learn, the ETC is also creating short video tutorials designed to familiarize users with the new system.

Zastrocky said the goal of the ETC and migration team is to make the Blackboard Learn transition as smooth as possible. “Anything we can do to make the transition easier for faculty and students, we will try to do,� he said.

He also said that the information offered through training is valuable because it helps students not only feel comfortable with participating in class but with the delivery system, which allows the student to focus on learning. “Our students seem very comfortable with technology, so learning a new system is not a big deal to them according to the feedback we’ve received,� Zastrocky said. “Ideally, if we are training students effectively and as the use of instructional technologies such as Blackboard become common in all courses, the need for training, particularly face-to-face, should diminish.�

Angela Gray, a junior at MSU Denver, said after being exposed to the new system

for only about three weeks she couldn’t really tell about the differences in the two systems.

She is not happy that the icons are not accompanied by words so she knows what they mean. “I have to keep clicking back just to get to the original one,� Gray said. “So I don’t like icons.�

Gray was unaware that the ETC offered Blackboard training.

She said she figured the system out on her own, which she thinks is the case with most students.

On MSU Denver’s website, the newer system is described as a more contemporary interface that mimics popular features of social media platforms. But Zastrocky said student tracking in the new system is DENVER limited.

The university is evaluating Blackboard Analytics, which will eventually allow tracking of student data in great detail.

He also described the new system as more dynamic and flexible.

A few of the main changes include integration with students’ email addresses, improved mobile access, the incorporation of inline grading of assignments, which no longer calls for the need to download documents and stronger support for popular browsers.

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InSight The government shutdown

Federal doors closed, national minds closed Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu @nikki_themet Once upon a time, 435 people, plus another 100 across the hall, used meaningful words and powerful voices for progress, change and reason.

And then there was now.

These 535 people replaced progress with argument, change with inaction and reason with anger.

The government shutdown is so much more than the closing of national parks, the suspension of pay or the pause of federal programming. It represents the disintegration of a system. It’s the downward slope of everything our government was supposed to be — and everything we’ve let it become.

When the founding fathers drafted the Constitution and created the basis for our country, it is safe to say that none of them foresaw a nation so fractured by party lines that communication, cooperation and cohabitation would be

impossible. George Washington had a marked disdain for political parties. Now, party affiliation is a distinction held as dear as occupation or citizenship.

I don’t know when we all lost sight of the fact that we are all of one nation and one larger goal — the preservation and excellence of our home. It’s enough that we have conflict outside of our borders.

We need to be doing what we can to minimize that which we can within our coasts.

Our polarization as citizens has paved the way for our representatives to divide and disagree so widely that massive-scale mishaps like a government shutdown have been allowed to happen. Those who we elect would not behave the way they do if we didn’t first show them that we would put up with it.

It isn’t just the suits, ties and egos in Washington D.C. that are to blame for 800,000 workers without pay and postponed treatment studies at the National Institute for Health. The Salmonella outbreak due to furloughed health inspec-

tors and the closed down national parks are not simply something we can pass off on our leaders. We did this to ourselves. We participated in our representative democracy, we elected officials and we haven’t stopped the asininity that is partisan politics. We the people did this to we, the people.

Whether or not the candidate you voted for won the election, whether or not your party is in power, if you participated in our election and in our governmental system, you agreed to uphold the systems and the traditions that exist.

And that’s not a bad thing. I’m not suggesting boycotting ballots.

I’m not suggesting refusing to cast a vote for anyone who subscribes to a specific ideology. My only point here is that our government wouldn’t be the way it is if we hadn’t let it get that way. The more we argue with one another about whether the right or left is crazier, or whether red or blue is true, the more we enable inaction and intolerance.

Where are my pandas?

Alyssa Davis adavis89@msudenver.edu Pandamonium struck the government as some of its programs closed.

The government shutdown affects federal workers, U.S. military, food programs like WIC, public health, the Smithsonian National Zoo’s panda cam, national parks, federal courts, veterans appealing the denial of their disability and much more. Most important of this is the panda cam. This makes my procrastination very difficult to accomplish now.

There is a new panda cub addition to the National Zoo. Her mother, Mei Xiang, gave birth Sept. 18 and at this time, the cub doesn’t have a name.

Thanks to the Congress Republicans and their dislike of the Patient Protection and Affordable

Care Act, also known as Obamacare, we are without these pandas.

Guess what, Congress? President Barack Obama was voted in knowing that this act was going to be signed into law.

As of Aug. 2, House Republicans have voted 40 times to repeal Obamacare and 40 times it was rejected by the Democraticcontrolled Senate, according to the Huffington Post. Democrats and Obama have said repeatedly that they will reject anything that has to do with delaying or repealing the Affordable Care Act. The White House has suggested that they are open to working with Republicans to address potential glitches and setbacks within Obamacare but refuse to budge on defunding it. Seventy-two percent of Americans oppose shutting the government down because of the Affordable Care Act from a CBS

It is our responsibility to take responsibility for our government and for the choices we as a people have made to get it where it is. It is up to us to make a change if we want it. Stop bickering, start working together and start setting an example for our representatives to follow.

Get involved. Write letters.

And for the love of all that is good, start caring about each other more than you care about which box you check on your voter registration card.

The government shutdown isn’t a republican problem. It isn’t a democratic problem. It is an American problem, and that’s a bipartisan affiliation we should value higher than where we fall on the spectrum of opinion.

No one is content with the way things are right now, but if all we do is sit around and wallow in our unhappiness, we might as well be one of our scapegoats on the Hill, clicking our expensive shoes on marble floors. We are capable of more.

The fury over the furry side of the shutdown

News poll released Oct. 1.

The 27th Amendment allows for these people to continue getting paid. If the average American worker decided to not do his job and let his employer’s business shut down, that person would lose his job. While the president can be impeached, Congress cannot be.

A member of Congress or Senate can only be expelled by two-thirds of the representing body of which they are a part. We are essentially stuck with these imcompetent leaders.

Unfortunately for us panda lovers, our wonderful Congress and Senate have their own agenda to look after. Babies grow up so quickly and I am left in the dark about what the nameless cub is up to.

At least 12 House Republicans have said that they would vote for a “clean” spending bill, keeping

the government open for two more months and will not address any delay or defunding of the healthcare act.

This means two months later Americans will be going through this nonsense again and potentially will miss more of a baby panda cub growing up.

I think this time the Republicans need to compromise as Democrats did during the debt ceiling crisis in 2011. Relationships are give-and-take, not just give-ortake.

There are some other options to fill the void such as the panda cam at the San Diego Zoo and Zoo Atlanta. But when Newt Gingrich has said that he will pay the cost of electricity for the Smithsonian National Zoo to have the panda cam up and running again, this shutdown has gone too far.

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“The Mikado” brings laughs through dark themes

The cast of “The Mikado.” Photo by Trevor Davis •tdavis84@msudenver.edu

Chelsee Stevens csteve43@msudenver.edu MSU Denver Theatre performers enthralled the crowd with “The Mikado,” a comedic opera about death and cruelty.

“I’m not in the habit of saying ‘how do ye do little girls, how do ye do’ to anybody under the rank of stockbroker,” Pooh-Bah, a character from “The Mikado” said in one of his lines.

The opera was written by W. S. Gilbert and has music written by Arthur Sullivan and is set in the fictional town of Titipu, Japan.

The production cracked jokes about the Kardashians, Obama and other pop and political culture icons to add a contemporary feel to the production. The show ran from Sept. 26-Oct. 6.

A year before the action begins, Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado (or emperor) of Japan, flees his father’s imperial court to escape marriage to the elderly Katisha.

Disguised as a traveling musician, he meets and falls in love with Yum-Yum, the young ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor in the town of Titipu.

Yum-Yum, however, was already betrothed to her guardian, and Nanki-Poo leaves Titipu in despair.

Nanki-Poo spends the rest of the performance trying to get the love of his life back. “[The opera] was very hypnotic with the bright colors and incredible costumes. And the music was very entertaining as well,” said Mary Bareis-Golumb, whose son, Lucas Bareis-Golumb, played a lord.

Mary Bareis-Golumb knew

four of the MSU Denver performers previously from East High School, where they starred in productions such as “The Producers,” “Taming Of the Shrew” and “Pirates of Penzance.”

MSU Denver students Mel Gasquet and Savannah Lish came to see their roommate Tatum Russo perform as one of the ladies in the ensemble.

“My favorite character in the opera was Pooh-Bah because he was so funny and mischievous,” Gasquet said.

Overall, Gasquet and Lish liked the show because it was “very humorous and lively.”

Pooh-Bah, played by Kalond Irlanda, talked about some of his struggles and triumphs when getting into his character.

“The hardest thing for me to do was to get out of my head and allow myself to have the freedom to make big choices, and making big choices while having to demonstrate that I can be numerous people at once was a challenge,” Irlanda said. “Once I became more comfortable I finally was able to just have fun with Pooh-Bah and let the character do his thing.”

Yum-Yum, played by student Jordan Silber, ends up marrying her love, Nanki-Poo at one point in the play, even though she knows he is to be killed.

Scott and Crista Silber, Jordan’s parents said that their daughter did her first play when she was four years old. She played baby Nala in “The Lion King.”

MSU Denver Theatre’s next production is “You Can’t Take It With You,” playing in the King Center’s Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theatre starting Nov. 13.

MSU Denver theatre student Eli Stewart plays Ko-Ko in “The Mikado” which ran Sept. 26-Oct. 6 at the King Center.

Photo by Trevor L. Davis • tdavis84@msudenver.edu

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The winning poem from MSU Denver’s Sigma Tau Delta’s Poetry and Prose Night

“Desolate Drunk”

By Daniel Morgan Roberts I sit alone like a desolate lighthouse erecting and spawning above an empty sea of despair Sweat smothers my forehead and I wipe it away just as I try to these memories I grab the icy bottle with my left hand and with my right I twist off the cap releasing demons from their carbonated tombs The popping sound is a bittersweet melody of comfort and sorrow I tip my head back to look upon the heavens while simultaneously being invited to dinner in hell Tonight and once again I meet my maker Soul taker Bubbles glub up inside the bottle and with slight hesitation the opening is inserted in my mouth and my boyish rosy cheeks suction in around it Daniel Morgan Roberts, an MSU Denver student, was one of the last to present during Metrosphere’s Poetry Slam Oct. 4 at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver. Photo by Kayla Whitney • kwhitne2@msudenver.edu

Metrosphere presents poetry Kayla Whitney kwhitne2@msudenver.edu @kayla_themet A poetic beat dropped as creativity filled a musty room on a glacial Friday night downtown.

On the second floor of the old Denver building, through a labyrinth of shelves occupied by books, the Tattered Cover’s special events room featured cookies, lemonade and a podium for creative poets and writers from MSU Denver and Auraria to bear their hearts Oct. 4 at Metrosphere’s Poetry Slam.

Around 30 people sat sporadically in the rows of chairs and put their focus on whomever’s voice spoke into the mic and filled the room with audible art.

The event was put on by MSU Denver’s art and literary magazine, Metrosphere, with assistance from members of the Office of Student Media.

“I think it went well. I was one of the first people here and to see an empty room you get a little discouraged, but a lot of people came out,” said David B. Clark, the first MSU Denver student to present at the slam. “It was good, it was great.

It was a lot more than I thought originally.”

Although the event’s location

was a few blocks away from campus, it provided a judgment free, creative space for presenters to read their work and share their stories.

“I think it was fantastic that Tattered Cover went ahead and gave us the space and let Metro do this,” Clark said. “A lot of the time, poetry especially, it’s one of the art mediums that kind of gets rushed by a lot of people that don’t typically understand it or take a liking to it, but I think that this way more people are interested in what we’re interested in.”

While many came just to listen as audience members, a handful of students took the stage and put their hearts on the table. Topics of suicide, fitting in, rape and dreams captivated the audience who clapped and snapped after each piece.

“You just got to get comfortable with being that candid with your own realities,” said MSU Denver student Daniel Morgan Roberts.

Roberts presented a moving piece he wrote while in recovery after a failed suicide attempt.

Roberts expressed that the attempt was actually successful because he was here now. The piece was the winning poem at Sigma Tau Delta’s Poetry and Prose Nigth (see right).

After the event, people mingled around the cookies and lemonade—sharing stories and giving compliments until minutes before the bookstore closed.

Sal Christ, senior editor of Metrosphere, was very happy with the success of the night and hopes to plan another poetry event in the near future.

Metrosphere is currently accepting submissions for their annual magazine that is released in the later part of the spring semester. Photos, sculptures, short stories and any form of art are accepted.

The magazine’s theme this year, according to their website, “is cross-pollination—anything that falls in the arena ‘in-between,’ two-ness, cross-fertilization, and/ or liminal space.”

Want to submit your art and work to MSU Denver’s art and literary magazine Metrosphere? Visit metrosphere.org for details.

Deadline for submission is Nov. 30

Goosebumps form on my skin and rise one at a time like opinionated people too afraid to speak The liquid crashes down inside of me like a tidal wave weighing my down like an anchor

moisture presented on my nervous palms Bottle after bottle and drink after drink like water versus fire these words slowly begin to win the battle going on inside of me A feeling of euphoria consumes my skin and thoughts making me numb to reality A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts and I’m about to let letters touch the air like an exploding can of alphabet soup My eyelids droop and words vacate my lips like a skipping CD in the background This is visual weakness visualized I barely have the strength to lift myself up and out of bed the coordination of such a task seems as difficult as patting my head and rubbing my belly My body is now as weak as my mind and my mind as weak as my body My thoughts are calmed if just for a moment like a frightened dog during a thunderstorm

I am once again drowning and struggling to cling to these jagged rocks

All worries and burdens are cleared away and a fresh conscious reveals itself

Lacking the strength to pull myself up against the current I am unable to make it to shore

This has become a daily liquid habit like a morning espresso and I don’t know it now but this liquid courage is soon going to become liquid regret

My senses are heightened for a limited time and survivalist instincts take over I can feel the words and courage to say what I’ve failed to say so many times grow inside of my belly

I toss back more and more of the amber sea making it difficult to rationalize common sense Right from wrong and up from down

Slowly but surely the words overcome the waves being poured atop them

It is now the imposter takes over and from this point on he is free to do what he pleases

They climb my esophageal walls like trapped tourist searching for escape

So he unleashes an attack of words and thoughts so vicious it causes a tsunami of tyranny wiping out everything in its path

I toss the first bottle aside with remnants of my DNA residing on the bottom and grab another It fits in my hand like a wellmade tennis racket and the ice crystals on the outside tame the

Ironically, night after night I find myself in this familiar spot Yet I don’t ever remember being here

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Jim Mickle breeds a new kind of horror Amanda Sutherland asuther6@msudenver.edu

Director of “We Are What We Are” Jim Mickle makes a stop to chat with the MetReport Oct. 3, in the Tivoli.

Photo by Amanda Sutherland • asuther6@msudenver.edu

Horror, a genre of fi lm long dedicated to colossal amounts of blood spatter and terrifying villains, is about to learn a new type of fright.

Director and writer Jim Mickle premiered “We Are What We Are” at the Sundance and Cannes fi lm festivals, and made a stop at Colorado’s own Mile High Horror Film Festival at the Alamo Draft house this year. Mickle was in attendance for the screening in Littleton and stopped by the Tivoli for an interview with the MetReport on Oct. 3.

In the dark, haunted basement of the Tivoli, at the creepy abandoned bar, Mickle met with MetReport’s Hassan Shah. The two chatted excitedly about the fi lm’s release, advice for future fi lmmakers and what kind of horror Mickle really enjoys.

“I think it’s a very flexible genre. You get to do a lot of different stories in the horror genre, there’s a lot of fi lms that I think of that most people don’t categorize as horror that I’d categorize as horror. I think that’s great. I think it’s

a genre that’s constantly evolving,” Mickle said. “It’s evolving more than any other genre out there and its got a passionate audience that seeks something fresh and something new.”

Reviews have been nothing but enthusiastic for the newly released horror fi lm. Mickle has been praised for lack of bloodbath and having more gripping storylines.

“I love fi lms that have an affect on me. I don’t like to walk away from a movie and feel like that just entertained me for two hours and now I’m gonna go get something to eat and forget about it and forget a month later that I even saw the movie,” Mickle said. “I want a fi lm to affect me and hit me and make me think about it and make me want to rewatch it, make me want to go home and inspire me to do something else. I think those are rare fi lms and I think the horror genre has the greatest potential to do that.”

A remake of a 2010 Mexican cannibal allegory, the story of the fi lm follows a family who, in the midst of losing their mother, must carry on a peculiar family tradition passed down for centuries.

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Mickle had no interest in an obvious copy of the 2010 fi lm, but instead, developed it into his own.

It’s not immeasurable amounts of blood, knife-wielding psychos or the peek-a-boo scare tactic that will get your heart racing — it’s the violent, religious atrocities and weird family tension that will genuinely creep you out.

Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, Mickle has spent his time working in every aspect of fi lmmaking.

Before his directing debut with “Mulberry Street,” he worked on visual effects, audio, writing, editing and as a storyboard artist on several fi lms since 2000.

A graduate of New York University, Mickle is no stranger of the hard work it takes to make a good fi lm in this day and age.

With three successful fi lms under his belt already, Mickle is bound to be a director that will change people’s perspective on what horror really is.

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Distant Correspondant ready to hit the road behind new album Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu @tobias_themet Distant Correspondent is the indie-pop brainchild of David Obuchowski that Magnet Magazine compared to “Joy Division if Ian Curtis had been on antidepressants.” When the multiinstrumentalist got together with Michael Lengel and started messing around making music, the end result was a cinematic alternative blend of new-age pop music.

Distant Correspondent is set to release their self-titled debut album on Hot Congress/Old Flame Records on Oct. 22. The band kicks off a nationwide tour the following night at Denver’s Walnut Room.

The Metropolitan caught up with David Obuchowski.

The Metropolitan: What’s it like to be compared to “Joy Division if Ian Curtis had been on antidepressants?”

David Obuchowski: That was pretty amusing. Also interesting.

I’m not the kind of musician who gets offended by the notion that the music I make bears a resemblance

to someone else’s music. It says just as much about the listener than the band. Sometimes we get compared to bands from the late ‘70s, early ‘80s, and then sometimes it’s new bands. In fact, didn’t your paper compare us to Real Estate and some other bands? I hadn’t heard any of them — I had only heard of Real Estate. But our bass player was like “oh they’re really good; you should check them out.” Sure enough, I spent the next week really enjoying that Real Estate record, Days, and I was like, “oh yeah, I can see the comparison.”

The Met: How did Distant Correspondent come together?

DO: The name Distant Correspondent predates this band. At first I used that name for any music I made that wasn’t Goes Cube, my metal band. In fact, I recorded four full-length albums’ worth of music under the name Distant Correspondent, where I was the only musician. But now Distant Correspondent is an actual band, and that happened after I moved to Colorado and met Michael Lengel.

In late 2011 we met in person, and

in early 2012, we started collaborating via email. I would send the guitars for a song without any notes about what kind of beat or feel I had in mind, and he’d interpret the song in his own way, and put bass and drums to them, turning them into entirely different creatures.

As soon as we had a few songs, I reached out to Emily Gray — whose band, Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia, I’d been a fan of for about 15 years — and asked her to collaborate. To my delight she agreed. Tyler Wilcox joined earlier this year as a dedicated bassist, and though Edith Frost was a featured guest on the record, Margaret Darling is coming on tour with us. I’m a huge fan of Margaret’s solo work, and her old band the Seedy Seeds.

The Met: Sorry to be the cliché reporter, but how would you describe your sound to all the noobs?

DO: I guess I would say it’s lush and pretty and dark and tense and a little cinematic in parts.

Catchy, hopefully. I think whenever a musician is asked that, they

tend to answer it as if you asked “how would you like people to hear your music?” Hopefully in our case, it’s one and the same.

The Met: Making the jump across the country from New York to Colorado — what are some differences in music scene/culture/ fans etc. that you have encountered?

DO: Good question. But for me, the striking thing is being a part of something that is not a part of the metal scene. The metal scene tends to not be limited to a particular city or even country.

Goes Cube never went on tour and thought, “wow, the metal scene is so different out here.” It’s just a single scene, and there’s a real “we’re in this together” attitude.

But Distant Correspondent is not remotely metal, and the metal scene is a fairly purist place. So this is the first time I’m really seeing what it means to be a part of a city’s “scene,” rather than a genre.

I mean, “indie” doesn’t mean anything specific, like metal does. So I guess the common denominator isn’t the kind of music you play, but

From left: David Obuchowski, Emily Gray, Tyler Wilcox, Margaret Darling and Michael Lengel. Photo courtesy of Distant Correspondent

a general ethos, and the geography.

Ultimately, I view Denver as one of the best cities in the country when it comes to music. The first time Goes Cube came to Denver in 2007, we were just floored by how great it was. And now that I am an active part of the Denver music community, I’ve really been inspired by how everyone — bands, bookers, artists, labels, etc., work together. It reminds me of Brooklyn, actually.

The Met: The first full-length album is set to be released Oct. 22 on Hot Congress/Old Flame Records — how has that process been working with both labels?

DO: Oh man, it’s been incredible. Hot Congress is so supportive and they really get involved on a local level. From the first meeting, they wanted to know how we envisioned our release so they could make it happen. Old Flame Records is one of those labels who I’ve just loved for years upon years.

Like Hot Congress, they are super supportive, and very honest. We feel really lucky that we get to be affi liated with such great labels.

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Mad failure with new Panic!

Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu @nikki_themet

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Panic! at the Disco should’ve stayed in my seventh grade speakers.

Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die was unfortunately, devastatingly bad. It’s a perfect example of trying for a concept and instead floundering in a puddle of hipsterian bullshit.

The record’s first two tracks, both previously released singles, are the only two things worth listening to — and even those are just “eh.”

As soon as track three enters with some weird children’s laughter, I exit with some anguished adult tears.

Lead singer Brendon Urie still has a beautiful voice. It’s a shame he chose to waste it on attempts at cosmic musical construction, with songs sounding as if Elton John and Ke$ha had a child that refused the necessary therapy.

In songs like “Girls/Girls/ Boys” and “Casual Affair,” I half

expected some stoned teddy bears and twerking to pop out of nowhere. That’s how convoluted it all is. It’s barely listenable.

I can’t remember the last time I counted down the seconds for an album to end while simultaneously lamenting my pubescent music choices.

There are few instances in the world that could make Hunter S. Thompson’s choices look good, but this album is one of them.

Poor Thompson is probably turning around in his grave over this piece of shit being named after one of the greatest lines he ever penned — “There he goes.

One of God’s own prototypes…

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die is so disappointing because it didn’t have to be this way. I loved Panic’s first album. The second, though not as wonderful, I tolerated. The third I adored. This, the fourth, I will probably never listen to again. And thus, a legacy ends.

New Justin Timberlake: Exceptional Experience Jospeh Rios jrios11@msudenver.edu

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Justin Timberlake was already enjoying the success off of his album The 20/20 Experience, which dropped in March.

It’s widely regarded as one of the best albums to come out this year, with hit singles such as “Mirrors” and “Suit and Tie.” So what does he do? JT releases the second part to The 20/20 Experience, The 20/20 Experience — 2 of 2.

The second part of The 20/20 Experience provides the same vibe as the first.

The album is fi lled with plenty of radio friendly songs such as “Take Back The Night,” the first single released from part two. Another stand out song on the album is “TKO,” the second single for the album.

Just as in the first part of The 20/20 Experience, Timberlake has another Jay Z feature, this one on the track “Murder.”

JT also called on assistance from Drake with the song “Cabaret,” a classic, smooth Justin Timberlake song. However, you get the sense that Drake is a little out of place on the song.

Aside from all of the singles, the biggest standout on the album is “Drink You Away.”

The song is just as the title says. Timberlake tells a tale about being heartbroken and trying to drink away the pain. “I’ve tried Jack, I’ve tried Jim, I’ve tried all of their friends, but I can’t drink you away.”

If you are expecting anything new from Justin Timberlake, you won’t get it here. However, the album is just as enjoyable as the first one, if not better.

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Sophomore follow-up a hit Tobias Krause tkrause3@msudenver.edu @tobias_themet

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Fresh off a star spangled performance prior to the start of game three of the MLB playoff game between the Detroit Tigers and the Oakland Athletics, indie pop sensation Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. have released their sophomore album, The Speed of Things.

The Detroit natives Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein’s follow-up to the 2011 critically acclaimed It’s A Corporate World is another solid musical effort from the synthy-pop wizards.

The Speed of Things perfectly blends catchy new-age pop riffs with modern day electronic instruments like synthesizers and drum machines.

The dynamic vocals from Zott and Epstein compiled each track in a brilliantly produced and well-

executed fashion.

The often repeated beats, rhythms and sounds that caught everyone’s attention with the first full-length album is just as prevalent on The Speed of Things.

However, this go-around features a bigger, better, more determined approach to making a record come together.

It seems as if Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. fell into their adult shoes, so to speak, with the opening track, “Beautiful Dream.” It’s an upbeat track full of multi-level harmonies that effortlessly flow on top of an overdubbed synth line that seamlessly segues into the album’s second track, “Run.” The album’s fourth track, “If You Didn’t See Me (Then You Weren’t On The Dancefloor),” is a peaceful Beach Boys-esque track that opens slowly, but quickly picks up steam with a heavy-hitting bass line and looping guitar riffs that bob and weave around an incred-

Photo from Warner Bros

ible rhythm section.

The Speed of Things is full of ‘80s dance floor synth-pop tracks, and if the band is anything like the race car driver they took their name from — the boys are heading in the right direction.

JT’s movie fails, sadly Nikki Work nwork@msudenver.edu @nikki_themet

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It had Justin Timberlake. It had Ben Affleck. It had potential.

Yet, “Runner, Runner” fizzled out with less chemistry than a trigonometry test and worse timing than a government shutdown.

The movie is about gambling genius Richie (Timberlake), a Princeton Master’s student who gets caught up in the highflash, high-crime online gambling industry under the influence of big, bad maven Ivan (Affleck).

“Runner, Runner” was an attempt at a high-action corruption takedown.

Instead, it just turned into a picture of the Costa Rican gambling scene and how Hollywood might have done the impossible — made Latin America look even more corrupt than it is.

With obscure poker references with no context and weird, fast-talking equations, “Runner, Runner” tried too hard to be

smart, and just felt patronizing.

On the acting side, I’ll start by saying that Affleck can’t play a bad guy. Even as he speaks menacing Spanish and coddles crocodiles, you can’t help but still like him.

Though the script felt stale, Affleck was charismatic, dynamic — but just not bad enough to be believable.

Timberlake was a whole other story. He played his part well, but the part was basically JT playing JT. He started off as a Princeton prep boy in a high collar cardigan — see *NSYNC days.

He ended up in a white suit dancing with an unreasonably hot girl with little to no personality — see Britney.

And the entire plot of the movie was laid out in the first 10 minutes by a minor character who disappeared after three scenes.

Dammit, Justin, you should’ve listened to the extra.

The movie just felt bland and disconnected. From start to end, it was an uncomfortable alliance of individually solid performances — but it shouldn’t have been.

Overall, I left the theater highly disappointed with a fi lm that had too many missed opportunities to be good and actors with too much talent to have fallen so flat.

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Roadrunner Wrap-up Golf Metro women’s golf completed their first fall season in Amarillo, Texas at the Lady Buffs Stampede Oct. 8, where they shot 733, finishing 16th overall.

Junior Jazmine Roland led the Roadrunner’s with a score of 172 (86 – 86) and Valerie Cruz finished close behind with a 174 (85 – 89). The team will continue its first full season in the spring.

Cross Country Metro men’s and women’s cross country teams both won the Metro State Invitational Oct. 5 at Washington Park. It was the second consecutive meet that both teams have won after both captured the Colorado College Invitational on Oct. 21.

Roadrunners soccer in good Hands Marios Sanelli msanelli@msudenver.edu @mario_themet Sometimes players slip through the cracks, and other times, they fall into the hands of teams, as was the case with Metro men’s soccer junior goalkeeper Keegan Hand.

The team headed into the 2013 preseason with two goalkeepers before one was lost to a knee injury and the other to a last-minute withdrawal decision.

Enter Hand.

Head coach Ken Parsons discovered Hand through senior

midfielder Brenden Hughes and said that he is a great addition to the team.

“He gives us everything we’re looking for in a Metro State soccer player, as far as being a quality kid, quality student and quality player,” Parsons said.

Metro landed a double-threat in Hand as a player and as an experienced coach. He is the director of coaching goalkeepers for the North Area Rush soccer club – a club he was team captain of for four years as a player – and also the staff coach for the Colorado Rush soccer club. Hand is involved with these programs six to seven days

Men’s Basketball Metro men’s basketball team will open the 2013-14 season ranked No. 1 in the Division II Bulletin preseason top-25 poll.

West Liberty (W.Va.) is No. 2.

The Roadrunners begin their season Nov. 15 against Texas A&M Kingsville in Pueblo, Colo.

Tennis Roadrunners earn wins at Colorado Mesa University Duals Oct. 5. The men’s team won 5-4 over CMS, while the women won 6-3 over Dixie State (Utah) after falling 6-3 to Colorado StatePueblo.

Senior Adrien Delvaux, junior Nick Baker, and senior Jonathan Evangelista won in singles and Josh Graetz and Delvaux won No. 1 doubles for the men.

Freshman Naomi Holopainen won both her singles and doubles matches.

Women’s Soccer The Roadrunners were ranked No. 18 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America NCAA Division II top-25 poll.

Metro goalie Keegan Hand poses at Auraria Field before a match against Colorado Mesa University Oct. 4.

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Men’s soccer split two Scott Corbridge kcorbrid@msudenver.edu Metro men’s soccer split two over the weekend, with a 1-0 home win over Colorado Mesa University and a hard-fought 2-1 loss at Colorado School of Mines.

The No. 24 Roadrunners are now 5-2-3 overall and 3-1-2 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

The Runners bested Colorado Mesa Oct. 4 at Auraria Field, on the lone goal by freshman forward Jack Mayfield who scored off of a rebound from Mavericks goalkeeper Brandyn Bumpas at the 31 minute mark.

The game was physical, as both teams were given yellow cards in the second half less than a minute apart.

The Roadrunners won the shooting matchup, as they outshot the Mavericks 12-9, but both teams had four shots on goal and six corner kicks.

per week, and is the head coach of the under-17 girls team this season after being the head coach of the boy’s squad in 2012.

“He’s been doing some coaching, which is great because I’ve said once people get into coaching, they will be much more knowledgeable in the game because they’ve been trying to impart that knowledge to players,” Parsons said.

Hand discloses his coaching knowledge upon himself, as well.

“Ultimately, [coaching] has helped me the most in analyzing my own technique,” Hand said.

“I feel like I read the game better from an in-game standpoint and I have a better understanding of how to better myself as a player.”

Hand’s 3.8 grade point average speaks to his classroom intelligence. The sports industry operations major has translated that intelligence to the field.

“The cerebral side is where he excels,” Parsons said. “[He has] a lot of working knowledge and intelligence, a good soccer IQ.” Think of Hand as the Peyton Manning of Metro soccer. His inquisitiveness and coaching mentality fuels him to dissect opponents and their style of play before the game even starts. From requesting scouting reports as early as possible, to analyzing how opponents’

offenses attack the net, this is his working knowledge in motion.

“I’ve always loved the mental side of things,” Hand said. “I’m a numbers guy and I like tactics.”

Being one of the older players on the team has benefitted him in the maturity department as well.

“He has an element of maturity that you don’t see from younger goalkeepers,” Parsons said. “He’s a good positional goalkeeper.”

Hand’s technique and positional awareness has translated to some impressive accomplishments on the young season.

Metro tops the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in the critical statistical categories of shutouts, goals against average and save percentage. Hand has registered five shutouts in seven games.

He is ranked first in the RMAC in shutout percentage, sixth in the nation in goals against average and was named RMAC defensive player of the week Sept. 17.

“Statistics can often be kind of flawed. I’ve played my part, but I can’t say enough about the 11 guys in front of me, or the 15 guys that are getting minutes. Those stats are a reflection of the full team,” Hand said. “It takes 11 guys to score a goal and it takes 11 guys to get scored on. I couldn’t do it without everybody else.”

Metro junior goalkeeper Keegan Hand was credited with the win, improving his record to 3-0-2 overall, and four saves on the day.

“That’s 90 minutes of good team soccer,” Hand said. “What we did was outplay them in every position above anything else.”

The game seemed to settle down in the final three minutes, when both teams were given multiple fouls — the Runners had 13 and the Mavericks seven.

“I love shutouts. A lot of credit goes to the back four in front of me

and even the front four in front of them. You win as a team and you lose as a team,” Hand said after the game.

CSM 2 - Metro 1 Metro men’s soccer lost 2-1 in a hard-fought game at Colorado School of Mines Oct. 6.

Despite leading early, with sophomore forward Danny Arrubla scoring in the second minute, the Orediggers played a controlled, patient game, scoring in the 48th, then in the 84th minute when Jared Herselman scored on a free kick.

Volleyball The Runners snapped a twomatch losing streak with a 25-22, 22-25, 25-23, 25-22 win at UCColorado Springs Oct. 4. The win improved the team to 8-6 overall and 4-2 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

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Metro sophomore forward Danny Arrubla is upended by Colorado Mesa University sophomore defensive player Blake Carlson during a 1-0 over the Mavericks Oct. 4 at Auraria Field Photo by Timothy Hurst • thurst3@musdenver.edu

Metro junior goalie Keegan Hand stops a Colorado School of Mines shot on goal in the Runners 2-1 loss Oct. 6 at Orediggers Field.

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Runners declaw Cougars Matthew Wyatt mwyatt8@msudenver.edu Metro women’s soccer scored at will in a 4-0 blowout over Colorado Christian University Oct. 6 at Trailblazer Stadium.

“We talked about playing a full 90 and we did it well today,” senior midfielder Nicole Pollack said. “If we can consistently do that in the future I think we will be really unstoppable.”

The scoring started with junior forward Brandi Farley who made an easy looking goal creeping around the Metro freshman defender Alexie Marr, 12, heads the ball toward Cologoaltender at the 17:29 minute mark. rado State University-Pueblo senior goalkeeper Savannah Thompson, 1, “We are trying to put it away in during a 3-0 win over the ThunderWolves Oct. 4 at Auraria Field. Read the first half, [by scoring] at least 2 how the Runners went on to defeat Colorado Christian University 4-0 goals,” Farley said.

Oct. 6.

Photo by Timothy Hurst • thurst3@msudenver.edu The Roadrunners executed their

plan, dominating on both sides of the field, scoring two goals in the first half, taking 11 shots, while holding the Cougars to two shots. The second goal of the period came at 22:27, a header by junior forward Karisa Price, who had two goals and an assist for the game.

The Roadrunners came out strong following the half time break.

“It was just making sure we came out with the same intensity in the second half, and look to get more chances, and I thought they did that in the second half,” head coach Adrianne Pietz said. “They played a good full game today.”

Playing a full game or playing the full 90 was a theme expressed by the coach and her players.

“We have been letting people come in, start tying, and going to overtime, so playing a full 90 was

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Mind/Body

5:30–6:20 p.m.

5:15–6:05 p.m.

5:30–6:20 p.m.

5:15–6:05 p.m.

Hatha Yoga

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Group Fit

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Fall 2013 Drop-in Schedule Fitness Center – PE 110

Monday–Thursday 6:30 a.m.–8:50 p.m.

Friday 6:30 a.m.–5:50 p.m.

Saturday 9 a.m.–3:50 p.m.

East Court – 104 E

Monday/Wednesday 9:15–10:45 a.m.

Tuesday/Thursday (drop-in soccer) 12:30–1:45 p.m.

West Court – 104 W

Monday/Wednesday 9:15–10:45 a.m., 1:30–6 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday 12:15– 3:45 p.m.

Friday 1– 5:50 p.m.

Fitness Loft – PE 201

Monday– Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Pool – PE 102

Monday/Wednesday 6:30–8 a.m., 12:15–2 p.m., 5–7 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday 7–9 a.m., 12:15–2 p.m., 5–7 p.m.

Friday 7–9 a.m., 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Saturday 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Racquetball/Squash – PE 111 Dance Studio – PE 215

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definitely the expectation,” Farley said.

Pollack added to the sentiment.

“We’re just trying to closeout every game by two or three goals,’” Pollack said. “I think that is important for us in the upcoming games because we were going to overtime with everyone, and I mean we should really put teams like Christian away.”

The Runners added two more goals – a 25-yard kick by Pollack at 48:28, and Price’s second of the game, at 50:17.

“Every player that stepped on the field just did a phenomenal job,” Pollack said.

Coach Pietz was happy with her team’s performance as well.

“I don’t know if there was anything that I didn’t like. For once, I don’t think I can say I didn’t not like anything,” Pietz said.

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StudyBreak This Week

Metro Events 10.10 National Coming Out Day: Dan Savage Tivoli Turnhalle @ 11 a.m.

FREE 10.10 Breaking Silence: Stories of Survival @ 10 a.m.

Tivoli 320’s 10.14 Movie Monday: Power Paths Tivoli Multicultural Lounge @ 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. FREE 10.15 The Core Ensemble presents Los Valientes Tivoli Turnhalle @ 11 a.m.

10.15-10.16 Employer Visit Days @ 10 a.m. FREE 10.16 TEDx MSU Denver Tivoli Turnhalle @ 12:30 Tickets are free, but you must have a ticket to enter 10.16-10.17 Love, Sex, Lies Tivoli Multicultural Lounge @ 10 a.m. FREE 10.18 Student Professional Awareness Conference Plaza M204 @ 1 p.m. FREE

Sudoku

General methods for fighting off a cold this semester Holistic Medicine: a.k.a. Vitamin Sunshine

Over-the-Counter: a.k.a. Almost Med-Student

Secret: Mostly a placebo from bee pollen smoothies.

Secret: “Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.”

Secret: Phobias and pet peeves just might save your life.

Horoscopes Capricorn

The Great American Beer Festival is this weekend. Try not to end up in a gutter or behind bars— unless those bars serve beer.

Leo

July 23 -August 22 Still feeling empty inside now that “Breaking Bad” is over? Yeah, us too.

Pisces

Virgo

February 19 -March 20

August 23 -September 22 The saying “it’s raining cats and dogs” has never been more relevant since you will be mauled by cats and dogs this evening.

Aries

Libra

March 21 -April 19 Remember that in order to travel through time you only need two black holes, or the help of Michael J. Fox.

September 23 -October 22 Don’t be afraid to be honest to your significant other. Finding a significant other on the other hand, might be an issue.

Scorpio

Taurus

October 23 -November 21

April 20 -May 20 Two words: David Bowie.

Overheard on campus

The government shutdown has given you tons of free time to fi nally take that basket weaving class you’ve been talking about for so long.

Aquarius

It’s that time of the year again for the MLB playoffs — the only time anyone pays any attention to baseball.

Apparently Kris and Bruce Jenner split up — there is no better time than now to join the Kardashian family and have a television show based around your life.

Sagittarius

Gemini

November 22 -December 21

May 21 -June 20 Th ree words: Bill fucking Murray.

Brain Teasers

Secret: Sabotages door handles and keyboards for viral Overlords.

June 21 -July 22

January 20 -February 18 Feeling overwhelmed about midterms? Just remember that somewhere over the rainbow is a leprechaun waiting to kill you.

Rhinopharyngitis Turncoat a.k.a. Patient Zero

Cancer

December 22 -January 19

Last issue’s answers (reading from right): Identical twins, count the ways, no one to blame, Right between the eyes, jack in the box, quarterback, coffee break

Difficulty: HARD

Contact Avoidance Specialist a.k.a. Howard Hughes

Comic created by Robert Shea • rshea5@msudenver.edu

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Justin Timberlake farts in falsetto. There, we said

“Nickelback is the Twilight for 13-year-old girls and Canadians.”

“Bath salts. That’s where it’s at Bro.” “That one guy got up there and was quoting ‘Duck Dynasty.’”

“IUDs are far more pleasant than IEDs.” “You will feel the wrath of the wrap, you thief.”

“I just really want to hurry up and get married so my husband can support me and I can drop out of school already.”

“Bro...call me Bro one more time.”

Hear something that makes you laugh? Shake your head? Roll your eyes? Tweet it to @nikki_ themet with the hashtag #overheardoncampus and you may see it in next week’s paper.

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