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student Jason Dowe’s car: Totaled after a Light Rail train smashed
into it Tuesday, Feb. 17.
(Photos by Sarah Schneider - The Metropolitan)
News
by Clayton Woullard and Noelle Leavitt
The Metropolitan
An RTD Light Rail train struck a Metro student’s car Feb. 17 after
the student inadvertently pulled in front of the moving train while trying
to leave campus. more>>
by Noelle Leavitt
The Metropolitan
More than 100 Metro faculty have formed a union since last summer after
the college’s board of trustees changed a Reduction in Force policy
that protected professors’ tenured contracts, and now the issue could
end up in court. more>>
by Daniel Sadowski
The Metropolitan
Faculty and administrators of Metro petitioned the board of trustees Feb.
4 to make interim President Ray Kieft the long-term choice for the position.
more>>
by Clayton Woullard
The Metropolitan
Metro Interim President Ray Kieft addressed higher education funding and
faculty workload, among other issues last Wednesday in his Spring Semester
Convocation in the Tivoli Turnhalle. more>>
Winning group to choose charity to receive all proceeds
by Jessi Close
The Metropolitan
Metro COOL began a charity fund-raiser for Homecoming called the Penny
Drive, which is a competition between school organizations in which all
the proceeds go to a charity chosen by the winning organization or department.
more>>
by Korene Gallegos
The Metropolitan
Five years ago, Helen Demouy found herself without a home, with no money,
and a nine-year-old daughter. more>>
by Paul Trevor
The Metropolitan
There is a pejorative connotation attached to the word “tourist.”
We have all seen the stereotype: camera, Bermuda shorts, people roving about
in packs, disembarking from buses en masse. more>>
by Clayton Woullard
The Metropolitan
Metro-Meritus student Dorothy Hicks added another mark to her list of achievements
earlier this month when she received the Denver Broncos Community Quarterback
Award, specifically for her 16 years of volunteer work with the Colorado
AIDS Project. more>>
Opinion
by Melissa K. McGuire
Guest Columnist
Mel’s Diner
“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom;
and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.”
Benjamin Franklin letter from “Silence Dogood,” no. 8, printed
in The New-England Courant, Boston, Massachusetts, July 9, 1722. more>>
by Amber R. Christian
Guest Columnist
Let’s talk about values. We subconsciously live them out, whether
or not we are aware we are doing so. We all have our ideologies which dictate
to us how to behave, how to plan our lives, and what jobs to go after. more>>
Joel Tagert
Columnist
Over the past year, I’ve felt the tension build. I’ve watched
in dismay as the Auraria College Republicans attacked first our student
body president and then our professors. I’ve seen innuendo and apocryphal
stories used to squelch dissent and support discrimination. more>>
by Mikel Stone
Guest Columnist
The debate surrounding the Academic Bill of Rights has become a familiar
one on the Auraria campus. A group of organized right-wing students, along
with some help from the gang at the Independence Institute, are using
particularly underhanded political intimidation to silence our professors.
more>>
Features
Western culture thrives in the Mile High City
The cowboy image always causes a ruckus. It kicks up U.S. dust with cowboy
boots, strides along in leather chaps, keeps itself together with a mighty
belt buckle, and tips its wide-brimmed Stetson to everyone who walks by.
more>>
Story by Armando Manzanares
The Metropolitan
It’s the end of December 1963. You live in Tokyo, Japan. You and
a few friends are meeting up downtown at the new hot spot for some cocktails
and Jazz. I suppose you would be part of the Japanese version of the Rat
Pack. more>>
by Robert Lindgren
The Metropolitan
livered a rare treat to Denver in its two current shows. “No Joke:
The Spirit of American Comic Books” is a multi-faceted project that
included a Jan. 15 lecture by comic icon Will Eisner, a panel discussion
on Feb. 8 on the topic of American comic books and a film series to take
place Feb. 22. more>>
One of the ‘little rock nine’ recalled time of courage and
pain
by Teressa Redding
The Metropolitan
For Carlotta, the anticipation to start school was the kind any other student
experiences. But unlike most regular students, Carlotta’s first day
of school involved an angry mob and the Arkansas National Guard. Carlotta
Walls LaNier and eight other black students captured worldwide attention
and made history when they attempted to attend an all-white school in the
South. Walls LaNier and the other eight students are often referred to as,
“The Little Rock Nine.” more>>
by Jonathan Kuenne
The Metropolitan
Among the many fad diets, exercise routines and supplements, it seems the
low carbohydrate craze is getting all the attention—and all the money.
more>>
Soldier
Story - all past stories indexed here.
Music
by Dan Madden
Guest Reporter
riday, Feb. 6 was supposed to mark the release of the new CD by the New
Age Dropouts, a power punk band from Colorado Springs. Unfortunately, the
CD was unavailable due to production complications, but in true punk rock
fashion, the band played the release party anyway. more>>
by cory casciato
Board up your windows, load up your shotgun, and watch for roving bands
of brain-hungry undead. Cannibal Corpse is coming to town. more>>
Sports
by Eric Scott
The Metropolitan
Metro men’s team (21-2, 15-0 RMAC) continued its basketball education
tour of the RMAC last week with victories over the Chadron State Eagles
and the Regis University Rangers. more>>
Donald Smith
Sports Columnist
As far as sports go, this is the best time of the year. The basketball
teams are preparing for the playoffs, baseball season kicks off and tennis
prepares to defend… another RMAC Championship. more>>
Baseball expects to go far this season
Usually Valentine’s Day and a snow-covered field do not indicate
the beginning of baseball season. But things are different in Colorado.
more>>
By Mark Held
Metro’s baseball team opened up their season by taking three of four
games this weekend from conference rival Nebraska-Kearney (1-3 overall,
1-3 RMAC) on the strength of solid pitching and timely hitting. more>>
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