 A new Tivoli welcomes students back
(Photo by Danny Holland - The Metropolitan)
As part of the extensive Tivoli restoration project that has been in progress for more than a year, Scott Fulvin of Colorado Signworks mounts the new Tivoli sign above the west entrance Aug. 20, 2004.
by Lindsay Sandham
The Metropolitan
Metro students returning to campus this fall will most likely find an abundance of e-mails titled "user quarantine" in their campus e-mail inbox. more>>
New Voters Project aims to register young people before Oct. 4 deadline
by Noelle Leavitt
The Metropolitan
A national voters campaign is working to register 3,150 Auraria students before Colorado's voter registration deadline of Oct. 4.
The New Voters Project is a youth voter mobilization campaign that was formed to influence young people to vote. more>>
by Maggie McMahon
The Metropolitan
The Auraria AIDS Walk team fielded more than 60 participants who raised more than $5,000 for HIV/AIDS prevention and care services in the 17th Annual AIDS Walk Colorado at Cheesman Park, Sunday Aug. 22. more>>
by Lindsay Sandham
The Metropolitan
All 13 members of Metro's Student Government Assembly retreated to the mountains outside Nederland Aug. 6-8 to discuss and work on issues such as the best way to represent a diverse student body, and the relationship between student government and the administration. more>>
by Clayton Woullard
The Metropolitan
A new policy banning camping on campus has upset members of a Metro student activist group that held a “peace camp” protest in opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq last year. more>>
Metro hits enrollment record; fees remain same
by Armando Manzanares
The Metropolitan
While student fees have not increased since last school year, the services which receive those funds can expect more money due to higher enrollment. more>>
OPINION
Approximately 65 million votes were cast for 2004’s “American Idol” which aired on Fox Television. The season finale attracted more viewers of any entertainment show all season. more>>
Lately I have been noticing the dozen or more organizations focusing on registering 18 to 24-year-olds to vote. more>>
FEATURES
by Travis Combs
The Metropolitan
I read somewhere many years ago that the average citizen in any industrialized society spends, on average, eight years of their lifetime standing in line. more>>
by Armando Manzanares
The Metropolitan
Since the beginning of the year, Metro's Alumni Association and Michael Wray, professor of Hospitality, Meeting & Travel Administration, have partnered to host wine tasting classes available specifically to alumni and some of the college community. more>>
Part 1: Out of Africa
by Svetlana Guineva
The Metropolitan
There is a land in the heart of Africa where the blazing sun in a clear blue sky dries up the earth with merciless persistence, forming cracks wide enough to swallow the last hopes of a harsh existence; a land where the Nile overflows, unfriendly, leaving swamps behind, and mud; a land where lions and crocodiles with no regard to human life rule. more>>
MUSIC
a note from the editors and staff of the music section
Introductions can be hell. Certainly writing this one has left us a little weary. We're not usually so self-indulgent as to compose a letter from the editor(s), but it seems appropriate just this once. more>>
by cory casciato
The Metropolitan
America is a country of diversity and multicultural wealth, where people of all races and cultures live, work and play. But, you'd never know it from listening to the radio. more>>
SPORTS
Welcome back everyone! I hope all of you had a wonderful summer.
I would like to say how my summer went, but I've got much to say and not much space in which to say it ... so with that let's start with the fall preview. more>>
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