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Tommy Cox of Lyons waits for his meal at the St. Elizabeth church. Cox “flies a sign” in hopes of getting $15 a day and relies on various shelters and soup kitchens to eat. He doesn’t like to stay at shelters because many residents have the flu and other illnesses
Photo by Christopher Stark.
Welcome to the MetOnline for the week of January 22, 2004.
Top Stories
by Noelle Leavitt
The Metropolitan
A debate has surfaced across the nation over whether campuses are allowing diverse political views to be expressed in the classroom at public funded colleges and universities, and the concern has moved to Colorado in recent months. more »
By Frank Catalina
The Metropolitan
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry won the Iowa caucus Monday with North Carolina Sen. John Edwards close behind and ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, the one time front runner, placing a distant third. Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri bowed out of the race after a disappointing fourth-place finish. more »
News
by Frank Catalina
The Metropolitan
Colorado is one of six states being targeted by a national campaign to register and mobilize young voters.
The New Voters Project will try to register 265,000 18 to 24-year-old voters in Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon and Wisconsin, according to the group’s website. more »
by Lindsay Sandham
The Metropolitan
Metro’s Board of Trustees met Jan. 7 to discuss several items, such as the status of the college’s presidential search, the annual academic planning report and annual savings incurred from the college’s web-based communications system. more »
by Elena Brown
The Metropolitan
“We try and work with the homeless. The department realizes they’re people in unfortunate situations.”
—Sonny Jackson, Denver Public Information
The streets of Denver are home to nearly 10,000 homeless people. more »
by Armando Manzanares
The Metropolitan
A number of the college’s top administrative positions have been filled since last summer, with interim appointments made by Interim President Ray Kieft. more »
Picasso on display
Deadline to drop courses quickly approaching
Stay healthy through winter Tips for traveling and
80s sitcom star to speak
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Preliminary numbers show slight increase over this time last year
by Korene Gallegos
The Metropolitan
Metro’s Institutional Research Department reports that the school is right on track for enrollment projections for the Spring semester. more »
Opinion
by Joel Tagert, Columnist
The Metropolitan
School may have been out these past weeks, but the rightís academic crusade marched on. Over the break I had the distinct un-privilege of witnessing an informal state senate hearing called by Senate President John Andrews. Its purpose: to hear student testimony regarding ideological discrimination on college campuses. more »
by Erik Wiesner
The Metropolitan
I think that the trustees should be accessible to the student populous and I give Mr. Cranberg credit for coming, speaking, and taking questions. It is unfortunate and unjust, however, that this is so rare; and after the grilling he received at the hands of some of Metroís best and brightest, I donít think Cranberg will make a return appearance anytime soon. more »
by Justin Breuer. Opinion Editor
The Metropolitan
Hello, and welcome to a new semester at Metropolitan State College. more »
Features
A News Retrospective of the Fall Semester. more »
by Tabitha Dial
The Metropolitan
The Denver area ambulance crew wanted to know if their fellow paramedic had been having an eventful day on the job.
They soon writhed in empathy as they heard his tale. The call he received concerned abdominal pain, but the paramedic on duty quickly discovered that the source of the patient’s discomfort proved to, in fact, come from “farther south”. more »
by Paul Trevor
The Metropolitan
What do you get when you mix 35 Metro State baseball players and coaches with a few dozen patients at Children’s Hospital?
The answer is a good time and a bunch of gratitude from all those involved. more »
by Brooke Meyer
Copyboy Wire
(U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah - Television and radio have expanded their vocabulary to include a famous four-letter word.
The word isn’t flip, but the mother of all the curse words in the English language. more »
by Tabitha Dial
The Metropolitan
Rape is not personal, it is social.
Although sexual assault can happen anywhere, anytime, and to anyone, there’s only one non-profit organization in Denver that has aided victims of rape since 1983. more »
by Will Shanley
Copyboy Wire
(U-WIRE) BOULDER, Colo. - Normally when Brian Jacobs hits the ski slopes and his face is a foot from the snow, it’s a sure sign of impending doom.
But when he rides the Airboard, Keystone Resort’s newest snow toy, such a precarious facial position is a sure sign of something else: Impending zoom. more »
by Jonathan Kuenne
The Metropolitan
“I eat a lot of fast food – that’s all there is here on campus”
- Robin Meyer, Metro Student
Turn on MTV. Visit the CU Boulder campus on a weekend night. Talk to the majority of modern-day college students and you might think that the average college diet consists of beer, greasy food, Starbucks, and more beer. more »
Music
There’s not much to say about music from the past year.
No notable trends to define it; no ground-breaking artists; no great revelations made at all. more »
Sports
by Eric Scott
The Metropolitan
After a 2-2 start to its season, men’s basketball has rolled off 11 straight wins, the most recent coming against the CSU-Pueblo Thunderwolves. more »
by Mark Held
The Metropolitan
Although the Metro men’s and women’s swimming teams are outnumbered, they stick together to push each other toward individual success. more »
by Eric Scott
The Metropolitan
After a season of highs and lows, Metro women’s basketball is trying to get a winning streak going.
“I think, for us to go on a streak, we need to get more consistent,” said Stephenie Davis, junior forward. “We play hard one game, but the next game we are inconsistent.” more »
Donald Smith
Sports Columnist
Welcome back everyone, I hope all of you had a wonderful break and are prepared to spend all of the money you had worked so hard to earn over that time just to give it all to the campus bookstore for overpriced books! more>>
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