Volume 27, Issue 30, April 28, 2005
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Complaint alleging illegal polling station by candidate causes commission
to halt voting before election´s end
by Nic Garcia
The Metropolitan
Metro´s spring Student Government Assembly election has been
halted by the election commission, citing a complaint filed by a Metro
student.
The commission will hold a hearing at 1 p.m. today in Tivoli Room
320C to hear and discuss the complaint, which was filed by Metro senior
Anna Davis the morning of April 22, soon after which voting was suspended.
Davis, a psychology major, claims that presidential candidate Zoë
Williams and SGA Attorney General Will Safford were illegally operating
a private polling station outside of the Arts Classroom urging Metro
students to vote for "their candidates." more
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by Matt Quane
The Metropolitan
Following the cancellation of the Metro Student Government Assembly
election, presidential candidate Zoë Williams and some of her supporters
held a rally April 26 at the flagpole, in protest of what they called
³aggressive attempts to railroad the election process in favor of
their own re-election² by several incumbent candidates.
³Our positions and demands are non-negotiable because you don¹t negotiate
democracy,² Williams said at the rally. ³You either participate in
it, or you subvert it.²
Other speakers at the rally, Donna Graybill and current SGA Vice
President for Communications Beth Ott, backed Williams. more
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by Svetlana Guineva
The Metropolitan
A new climbing wall will be built for campus recreation this year
to inspire students at Auraria to conquer new heights.
Students and the Outdoor Adventure program initiated the project
as part of the campus recreation program. A climbing group was created
before final touches on the wall were made so that they could gain
student input.
The wall is scheduled to be completed the week of June 1.
The wall, which will be 22 feet tall, will occupy 1,300 square feet
of the Fitness Center.
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Student board will open meetings with SGA VP at helm
by Matt Quane
The Metropolitan
The Student Affairs Board approved changes to its by-laws April 26,
implementing open meetings and attempting to provide more power to
the student voice.
The SAB, which is comprised of SGA members, faculty representatives
and administrators, makes recommendations on how the student affairs
fee, a combined $2 million, should be spent. The recommendations are
then sent to Vice President of Student Services Karen Raforth, the
president´s cabinet and finally the board of trustees.
Beginning this summer and leading into next year, the SAB will hold
discussions in open session. Before this change, the by-laws said
budget deliberations were to be closed. more
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Faculty senate issues statement on academic freedom
Students can meet with Board of Trustees
Toy drive donations sought by Auraria Library
Justin Breuer
Editor-in-Chief
They say it causes cancer, and I tend to believe them. There are
many negative associations with smoking: it smells bad, it yellows
your teeth, it stains your fingertips, it drains your money, it kills
your health and gives you bad breath. Still, it upsets me to think
that on a campus that sells alcohol, you can´t buy a pack of
cigarettes.
At least a third of the people on campus smoke. That´s a reasonable
minority in my mind. You´d think that some business, or the
colleges themselves, would allow the sale of cigarettes on campus.
We all know the negatives of smoking. We´re bombarded everyday
with commercials, magazine ads, newspaper ads, billboards and annoying
people who approach you and say &"that´s bad for your health,
in case you didn´t know." more
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Joel Taggart
Columnist
Last Friday afternoon, the newly appointed election commission of
Metro´s SGA made the extraordinary announcement that, having
received a formal complaint regarding the SGA elections then in progress,
the commission was halting the elections "in order to set up
a formal hearing to hear all charges and make a formal ruling."
And, with this brief message, Metro´s SGA has entered new and
exciting realms of tragedy and farce.
I´m not going to address here the nature of the formal complaint,
as the commission hasn´t yet seen fit to release it. Nor will
I delve into the many gripes of various election candidates. I will,
instead, restrict this letter to the incredible folly at hand: the
commission´s halting of the election. more
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Travis Combs
Opinions Editor
Calling all writers. I realize most lovers of the written word are
content with the short stories, writing tragic poetry, and the screenplay,
which will probably never see the stage or screen. Most writers write
for themselves and their equally artistically fearful clique. This
is mere masturbation my friends, mere masturbation.
The Metropolitan wants you, and not necessarily in the kinky, bedroom
kind of way. more >>>
Tim Dunbar
Columnist
Author´s note: I really wanted to lambaste SGA again this
week; it´s become somewhat of an obsession of mine. But in keeping
with the journalistic integrity of this newspaper, my editors suggested
(read: demanded) that I "write something else." So, here
goes nothin´.
I finally got a laptop, excuse me, notebook computer. I got it through
the computer loan program here at Metro, something I highly recommend,
and it has, in ways that are not all good, changed my life. more
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New art show opens of "Photo-based work" using innovative,
pioneering method of ink jet printing
by Armando Manzanares
The Metropolitan
Pictures are said to be worth a thousand words. What if the photographic
image is made of a thousand parts?
A new art show of "photo-based work" from Denver artist
Susan Goldstein opens Friday, April 29 at the Edge Gallery. This show
is a amalgam of original photography layered with various types of
mixed media-taken back to one photographic print. more
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Master Muralist
Gallery Review by Adam H. Goldstein
The Metropolitan
 Paul
Benz, 12, listens to a guide and gazes at paintings in the Siquieros:
Spirit of a Revolutionary art exhibit at the Museo De Las Americas
April 19, 2005. Benz´s 7th grade Spanish I class from Summit
Middle School was touring the exhibit. David Alfaro Siqueiros devoted his life to revolution.
As a sergeant in the Mexican Civil War, a colonel in the Spanish
Civil War, and an active organizer of Mexico's labor movement, the
Mexico City native made every physical effort to effect social change.
However, for all his activism and military service, Siqueiros' most
lasting and profound contribution to the struggle against the oppressive
status quo was made not with a gun, but with a paintbrush.
"Siqueiros: Spirit of a Revolutionary," the current exhibit
at the Museo de las Americas, features some of the artist's most socially
stirring and pertinent work. more >>>
Film combines plot twists, deception to challenge the traditional
love story
by Heather Wahle
The Metropolitan
There is no "I" in love and there is no love in this movie.
"Dot the I" challenges the traditional romantic story theme.
At first glance, the film is merely yet another attempt at a love-triangle
story. As the plot develops and topics are explored fully, the film
becomes more than the cliché, but not much more.
"Dot the I" begins with Carmen enjoying a bachelorette
dinner with her girlfriends. The maitre´d´ tells the ladies
that there is an ancient french tradition where the bride-to-be must
kiss a stranger the night before her wedding. more
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UCD students make the grade by learning to produce and promote local
music artists
by Dave Watkins
The Metropolitan
A student-run record label is buried deep within the College of Arts
and Media office in the Arts building. The label is CAM Records and
its sole purpose is to promote local music.
"It's our way to make the community take a second look at the
local music scene," CAM Records label manager Matt Hix said.
The CAM Records class began in 1999 with a grant from UCD.
"They gave CAM Records to us in a box," UCD Professor
Stan Soocher said. "The first semester was really hectic."
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by Clayton Woullard
The Metropolitan
Charles Mingus Jr. was born April 22, 1922 in Los Angeles. It was
then that the jazz genius the world later came to know entered this
world.
Mingus is best known as one of the great virtuosos on the bass and
as a musician who drew from a wide range of musical styles to incorporate
into his own.
Being a light-skinned black man, Mingus felt like an outcast, not
black enough for blacks, not white enough for whites. So he immersed
himself in the multitude of cultures that made up the Watts section
of Los Angeles. His absorption of these cultures, and playing with
jazz musicians from the New Orleans to the bebop era, contributed
to his eclectic sound. more >>>
Thirty years ago, hip-hop spawned from Bronx youth lashing out against
their elders and the oppression of mainstream America. more
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by Boyd Fletcher
The Metropolitan
The Roadrunner baseball team pulled a decisive four-win sweep against
Colorado School of Mines this past weekend, pushing them to fourth
in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and back into battle for
a bid to the conference tournament, which starts May 12.
³We understand that when we relax and play ball the way were taught
to play it, we play our best,² said head coach Vince Porreco. more
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by Nick Tacinas
The Metropolitan
In the closest of the quarterfinal matches in Friday´s Rocky
Mountain Athletic Conference tournament, the Metro men´s tennis
team lost to CU-Colorado Springs 3-6, prompting an early exit to the
conference tournament and the season.
Coming in to the match, the ´Runners had some confidence. In
their last meet, April 3, the Roadrunners (8-12, 2-4 RMAC) beat the
Mountain Lions 6-3. But old records aside, Metro could not measure
up to the Lions.
"I expected and would like to still be playing right now but
we don´t have all the pieces necessary to excel as a team this
year," said junior James Schumacher.
Metro was off to a quick start as they were ahead 2-1 going into
singles competition. more >>>
by Nick Tacinas
The Metropolitan
The Metro women´s tennis team faced a rough road to the Rocky
Mountain Athletic Conference tournament as they faced third ranked
Nebraska-Kearney, losing all but one match 1-8.
The sixth ranked Roadrunners (1-18, 1-5 RMAC) lost to the Lopers^´
for the second time this season.
The last time these two teams faced each other the Lopers swept the
Roadrunners for a 9-0 victory. In that match, the ´Runners took
three matches into tiebreakers. Sophomore Akiko Kinoshita´s
match was one of the tiebreakers. This time, Kinoshita ended up on
top in the match.
Kinoshita´s victory was in the No. 3 singles spot as she beat
the Lopers´ Jenna Eichman 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (11-9).
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Donald Smith
Sports Columnist
Okay, I have good news and bad news. First, the bad news: our men
and women´s tennis teams lost in the first round of the Rocky
Mountain Athletic Conference Tournament in Pueblo. The good news is:
the baseball squad discovered that the little round ball that´s
been hurled at them all season is supposed to be hit with the metallic
object they each get to hold when they´re in the batter´s
box. They held and swung the metallic object for 41 runs against Colorado
Mines. Metro this weekend swept the Orediggers to place itself in
the No. 4 seed and now controls its own playoff destiny. more
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