Jordan meets with students

New president visits to hear, address issues

by Clayton Woullard
The Metropolitan

On April 14, during his first visit to campus as Metro´s new president, Stephen Jordan met with student government members to discuss his vision for student involvement and to find out what issues Metro students face.

"I really hope we can forge a war to provide meaningful student input into the decisions of this college," said Jordan during his meeting with Student Government Assembly members.

The meeting was one of several held April 14 and 15 with members of the college community, including department heads and faculty – in the presidentŠs office, which he will move into July 1 when he officially starts as president of Metro.  more  >>>

SGA election fraught with conflict

by Clayton Woullard
The Metropolitan

Voting in the Student Government Assembly election has already begun, but recent turmoil surrounding the process has altered the way students can vote, as well as creating conflicts between supporters of the presidential candidates.

Former SGA Election Commission chair Alan Franklin, commissioner Lindsey Trout and SGA Attorney General Will Safford signed a letter April 16 in which they said they would be removing themselves from the election process this spring. This resulted in the cancellation of paper balloting, which would have supplemented online voting.

"We, the undersigned, having grown exhausted by the constant and crooked offensive on behalf of a morally bankrupt president and her equally corrupt allies, will no longer participate in the farcical perpetuation of a political myth," the letter reads, in reference to SGA President Candace Gill who is running for re-election.  more  >>>

Candidates duke it out in debate

by Boyd Fletcher
The Metropolitan

State funding for higher education and improving campus communication were the two leading issues debated April 19 between Student Government Assembly presidential candidates Zoë Williams and current president Candace Gill.

The 90-minute debate was sponsored by The Metropolitan and hosted by Met Report anchor Noelle Leavitt.

Both candidates agreed that the Colorado Taxpayers Bill of Rights, or TABOR, needs to be reformed, as it contributed to a loss of more than 20 percent in higher education funding from the state.

The two did not see eye-to-eye on the 7.2 percent tuition increase starting this fall. Gill validated the tuition increase by the board of trustees, saying that the SGA fought to keep the increase at 7.2 percent instead of the proposed 11 percent.  more  >>>

Auraria, Denver faithful celebrate election of Pope Benedict XVI

by Matt Quane
The Metropolitan

The Vatican conclave elected Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Joseph Ratzinger, to be the 265th pontiff April 19.

It took the conclave only two days and three votes, one April 18 and two the following day, to choose the successor to John Paul II, who died April 2.

Following a vigil late April 18 at St. Elizabeth’s on campus, the church’s bells rang in celebration of the cardinals’ final vote. The commemoration will continue with special Masses at the church at noon every day this week. A rosary dedicated to the new pope will be said today, 15 minutes before noon Mass.  more  >>>

Partisan politics broil among supporters of SGA candidates

by Clayton Woullard
The Metropolitan

Flyers and campaign material posted around campus have contributed to a partisan fight in the election for Student Government Assembly, a group whose goal is to remain non-partisan.

A flyer posted last week on behalf of the Auraria College Republicans featured a quote from Williams from The Metropolitan concerning the validity of voting. Another, posted by Alan Franklin this week reads "COS = GOP," accusing Gill of being ineffective.  more  >>>

oncampus & corrections

RTD referendum passes

Metro finance team wins regionals, heads to national competition

CU circus has new ringmaster

by Bryan Goodland
Columnist

Finally, the University of Colorado has found a new president, even if he is only temporary. I don´t envy him the job, although it comes with a $350,000 dollar salary. Okay, forget that. I do envy him the job, but let´s face it, there´s a lot of work to be done.

CU has been rife with scandal for what seems like forever. You can´t turn around without seeing something about CU in the news. First, there were the sex scandals and the head coach who would have been better off keeping his mouth shut. When that began to die down, Ward Churchill entered the scene and a new controversy began. It seemed like Betsy Hoffman, the college´s president, had more to deal with than she could handle. She apparently thought the same thing and resigned effective in June. So now the Regents have decided that they need some help. Enter, Hank Brown.  more  >>>

Election debacle makes choice easy

by Tim Dunbar
Columnist

In case you¹ve been in a coma or trapped under a rock somewhere, the big news on campus, other than the appointment of our new president, is that Metro Student Government elections are underway and, taking their cue from last year¹s presidential election, both candidates have taken to slamming each other in an effort to gain votes.

Candace Gill, the current SGA president, is once again running on the Constructing Opportunities for Students platform. Unless she means constructing opportunities for students by adding seven more useless positions to an organization that already does a whole lot of nothing, or opportunities to waste even more of my hard-earned money, I¹m a little vague on what opportunities she¹s referring to.  more  >>>

The Met´s promise

Justin Breuer
Editor–in–Chief

The Metropolitan has come under fire recently by Brian Glotzbach, the current SGA member in charge of overseeing student fees. He published an opinion piece about The Metropolitan in UCD´s newspaper, the Advocate. Glotzbach claims that my staff was upset over a tagline on the other paper´s cover claiming to be the only student-run newspaper on campus. What he left out was that the Advocate had recently removed "Auraria´s only editorially independent student-run newspaper" from their cover, because it was a lie.

Challenging our credibility is a serious matter, a sacred matter, because we are journalists. Let me speak plainly–we choose what we cover and we choose how we cover it. There is no influence whatsoever from the administration. Every story, every photo, every graphic–including the ads–is done by students. Students produce the layout, the design, and the substance of every page.  more  >>>

Letter to the Editor

Perspectives of space

by Heather Wahle
The Metropolitan

Flash Gallery's current exhibition, "Space: Physical/Psychological," explores several photographers' conceptions of space in the physical and psychological sense.  more  >>>

Struggles of immigrant life met "Head-On"

Film Review by Svetlana Guineva
The Metropolitan

"Head-On," seems, at first, like an amateur's guide to self-destruction.

The film starts out with a dark and tense scene where it is not clear what's on the make, but we see the angry and wrinkled-from alcohol and drug abuse-face of Cahit (Birol šnel), a Turkish immigrant.  more  >>>

Celebrating Jazz:

4th Annual Jazz Celebration Inspires, Educates

Text by Adam Goldstein
Photos by Hans Hallgren, Matthew Jonas

On April 14, 15, and 16, students, performers and jazz enthusiasts alike gathered at the King Center at Auraria to celebrate America's classical music: Jazz.  more  >>>

8ighth Wonder of the World

The rough and tumble of independent hip-hop is the discovery of a lifetime

by Justin Rennolds
The Metropolitan

Many people dream of becoming professional musicians. Many who try end up failing. Most of the fallen are musicians who refused to sign with, or couldn't get signed by, a major label. Instead, they took the independent route.  more   >>>

This Week in Music History

What is the nature of man? What makes up the human spirit? What is our ultimate destination and what does eternity hold? These questions cut to the very essence of human existence. These questions have challenged even the most astute philosophers and the most fervent religious followers.  more  >>>

Frolicking in a Dead Meadow

by Tuyet Nguyen
The Metropolitan

Enough with the Black Sabbath plugs. And the Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream references. And the whole 1970s' psychedelic rock rebirth name-dropping game. This is the modern age and D.C.'s Dead Meadow deserves better.  more  >>>

music on campus

by Cory Casciato
The Metropolitan

Pacifist. Anarchist. Folk singer. Wobbly. Legend.

Utah Phillips is all of these things. Renowned as both an activist and musician, his history in both arenas stretches back for decades. Playing music since the 1940s, Phillips didn't record until the early 1960s. His affiliation with the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies, goes back more than 40 years. Now, for the 100th anniversary of the IWW, campus group Creative Resistance and IWW member Lowell May are bringing Phillips to the Auraria campus to share his music and history.   more >>>

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