For those who missed out on the big stories
While the national news during the Fall semester was marked by a ruckus of natural disasters and White House scandals, things on campus stayed relatively calm. Here is a recap of what new students and new readers may have missed out on last semester. 
Metro, campus police caution pedestrians to remain safe while crossing intersections
Former UCD student Breona Taylor was killed in a pedestrian accident at 4 p.m., Jan. 5 at Northbound Speer Blvd. and Larimer.
After waiting for the pedestrian walk signal, Taylor crossed into the crosswalk where she was struck by an RTD bus, which had just left Auraria campus on Larimer and turned north onto Speer.
Subtle hues and colorful subjects line the walls of the Blue Space Gallery on 760 Santa Fe Drive. The exhibit, "Social Documentary: Visual Definitions of the American West," is the culmination of 2 years of Social Documentary classes and many miles of travel to different locations, including Taos, N.M., Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, Pacifica, Calif., and the San Luis valley in Colorado.
Kings, Queens, Barons and Knights are alive and well at Metro.
They battle it out as they re-create life in the middle ages in the club called "Students for Creative Anachronisms."
Micheal Carlaw, president of the club, joined about four years ago, "right before I moved to the Outlands," he wrote in an e-mail.
Colorado is known as "the Outlands" along with, Wyoming, New Mexico and part of Texas. More specifically, the Metro group is the "Incipient College of The Three Spires," part of Denver's club known as "The Barony of Caerthe."
I was lounging around a Barnes and Noble last Saturday when my friend Mr. SpeedRacer texted me.
One of his credit cards had been lost at a club a few Thursdays back, and he had been trying to cancel the card. Alas, he was too late. Someone had taken his card, his name, to a Wal-Mart, and he would never shop there-that's how we know it wasn't Mr. SpeedRacer-and charged over $150. The person also stopped at a gas station and rang up a good $40.
On Jan. 3, The Denver Post ran an article about a "cherubic-looking" woman named Joy Breuer from Greeley, who collected 500 signatures on a petition in her city. Breuer is known for her organization "Greeley for God" and for her fear that Greeley will become "a Mexican town within five years if we don't do anything." Her recent crusade is one to establish an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement office in Greeley because, according to Breuer, undocumented immigrants are going to take away jobs from citizens.
So, Winter break ends and we make our way back to early morning classes, and the first couple of weeks can be rough. We've become used to our freedom and alarm clocks seem a rigid thing of the past-and who likes to look back on the past? What's done is done.
American television culture is pretty much insane. Watching a few hours of reality TV-the future, apparently, of broadcast media-it becomes clear that we, as a society, have some serious problems. Whether it's sensitive stories from the Jersey shore, or Rocco hitting on women while his restaurant goes down in flames, it is plain that we are, and perhaps always have been, happy to be entertained by morons.
Q: How can I differentiate myself in a job search from the competition out there?
Terrorists declared war on the United States a long time ago. It just took the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001 and a president willing to stand up for his country to do anything about it.
During the Bill Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001 (or as I like to call it, the time when perjury and adultery were OK), Muslim extremists went on an offensive against America. Among other things, they bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and bombed the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen in 2000. Clinton's brilliant response to these attacks was to do nothing.
The joys of hand-held gore and fuzzy animals
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Price: $49.99
Platform: Playstation Portable
Animal Crossing
Publisher: Nintendo
Price: $34.99
Platform: Nintendo DS
A few of our favorite things
The Met staff looks back at 2005
Federal law stipulates that all music sections must print year-end favorites lists and far be it from us to get on the wrong side of the law. Therefore, in compliance with Section 5 of the Federal Music Publication Standards Act, we proudly present our yearly list of each writers top five albums. Enjoy!
While most Metro students probably spent the holiday break celebrating with family, traveling, partying or working overtime for some extra cash, the Roadrunner men and women's basketball teams spent time hitting the hardwood and lighting up the scoreboards.
By Ryan Parker
Special to The Metropolitan
Whispers of Metro not being a "real" college are not rare around campus. Not having a wildly known mascot, lack of tailgating for sporting events, and very little feeling of pageantry fuel this fire.
Roadrunners successful despite difficult odds
As night falls, and Metro students have hit the sack, hit the books or hit the bar, a group of students prepare to hit the ice.
These students make up the club hockey team at Metro; a small group of players in the background of the campus sports scene. With the recent success of the Roadrunners NCAA teams, the success and snags of the club teams are not as visible.
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