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The Inn at Auraria on display

By Josie Klemaier
jklemaie@mscd.edu

The Inn at Auraria, one of two new student housing facilities opening to students in Fall 2006, is now giving tours by appointment. The tour offers a view of a completed unit on the 30th floor of the Executive Tower at 14th and Curtis Streets.

The Metropolitan toured the four bedroom, two bath unit with Leasing Manager Chris Nabours last week to discuss security concerns and check out The Inn’s startling, penthouse-quality views of Denver and the Front Range and the brand new amenities it has to offer.    more>>

‘Lucky’ Metro student wins car from The Regency

By Boyd Fletcher
fletchar@mscd.edu

Jenny Ramirez-Tobias has always been considered by her family to be lucky.

“ My mom used to call me Jenny Benny Lucky Penny,” said Ramirez-Tobias. “Which is kind of embarrassing.”

But that nickname faded out with time, and Ramirez-Tobias got used to her mother calling her by her real name. That is, until Dec. 30, 2005 when she won a 2005 Volkswagen Jetta in a raffle for students living at The Regency, Auraria’s student housing community.    more>>

 

Insight

EYESIGHT

Our primal sense is to dance

Photo by Emily Varisco • varisco@mscd.edu
Words by Boyd Fletcher • fletchar@mscd.edu

I went to go support my roommate Stuart Allen’s band last Thursday in Boulder. I wasn’t expecting too much, having seen them before, I figured I was just going to sit back and have a few drinks as they went through their two sets. After all, I thought, it’s only a local band on a Thursday night in Boulder. Sure enough, however, I found myself standing dead center of the room, dancing my ass off to music created by my friends. Sean Cohen’s electric guitar seemed to swirl around Allen’s heavy bass lines and soon I was lost in the dance-beat groove.   more>>