Volume 28, Issue 03, September 15, 2005
News
Millions could be cut if ballot measures fail
Metro’s board o f trustees discussed the possible ramifications
of the failure of Referendums C and D passing in November and gave
adjunct faculty a 21 percent pay raise Wednesday at the Tivoli. more
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Metro’s Student Government Assembly is sponsoring the Auraria
Cares fund-raiser, which will raise money to provide relief to victims
of Hurricane Katrina. more >>
Metro President Stephen Jordan assured students and faculty that
the recruitment process for hiring 60 new tenure-track faculty was
beginning, one of several key points during his first public speech
as president.
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Metro requires
students to have health insurance by policy, not law
Metro is not required by law to mandate health insurance, but school policy requires students to be insured.
Metro students enrolled in 10 credits or more a semester-eight during the summer-are automatically enrolled in Metro's health insurance for $680 per semester. Those already insured through another provider can waive Metro's policy and premium. Waivers must be completed by Sept. 16. more >>>
By Birgit Moran
When comparing insurance, variables can include prescriptions by type and frequency, out-of-pocket maximum costs, medical providers offered by the company and typical costs for emergency room visits.
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Only 70 out of the 20,000 students that attend Metro request to keep all their personal information private, according to recent data from the Registrar's office. more >>>
insight
The telephone belonged to the Sheriff of Bent County.
He was my great-grandfather, and the phone was passed down to my mom, and now the phone is mine. My father is much older than I am, and while I expected a decline in his health brought on by his decades of smoking, I never expected to lose my mother at the age of 66. more >>>
Patriotism lies in the heart of the beholder. Over time, President Bush has proven that he is not for the American people as he acts and establishes policies that carry out only his self-serving interests. more >>>
Higher education purports to improve students' critical-thinking abilities. Sadly, higher education administrators seem to have a hard time employing such abilities when they try to solicit voters' support for a $4 billion tax increase this fall. more >>>
I'm sitting here getting ready to watch some college football. The weather outside may be warm and sunny, but the call of college football and the game on TV tells me fall is here with a vengeance. more >>>
JOHN KUEBLER jkuebler@mscd.edu
Fernando Meirelles' eagerly awaited second film, "The Constant Gardener" was released last week. I have not seen the film, so this is not a review. Rather, I would like to address one of the film's underlying bits of social commentary: the scourge of the world's giant pharmaceutical companies. more >>>
Dear readers, I have a favor to ask you. Take the catastrophe that you saw these last few weeks with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Never forget it. Let this tragedy be yet another spark of passion and an example of what can happen when we forget about governments and money and instead focus on each other.
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is how Kailonney James' friends would describer her. She is shy, but funny. Her friends seek honest advice from the criminal justice major. She said one of the best things she did while at Metro was failing and later succeeding in her classes. She learned discipline and maturity. more >>>
By Dennis Berguist
SGA works with administration to provide student voice
This year's Student Government Assembly (SGA) has already rolled up its collective sleeves, dug right in and gotten to work. more >>>
So there's all this crazy stuff you heard about last year's elections: Cloaks and daggers, poison lipstick and shit. And above all, those freaky radicals trying to thieve your apple pie, pretend Student Democracy.
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MetroSpective
Motoman event features mechanical blood and guts
The show was billed as "More robot gore than you can handle," and while the crowd was left wanting more, The Motoman Project didn't leave them disappointed. more >>>
The upcoming exhibit "Metro Effect" combines a wide range of talent from previous Metro art students.
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The streets surrounding 14th and Curtis rang with celebratory music Sunday as a new forum for opera in Denver opened its doors at the Denver Performing Arts Center. more >>>
Audio-files
Across Tundras aim for perfect sound
Crouching over a mess of guitar pedals, Tanner Olson has his guitar strapped on his back as he fumbles with the cords. The rest of the band is killing time-Heath Rave is methodically pounding the drums while Kyler Sturtz noisily strums the bass. A glaring red spotlight fills the stage like some bad omen. There's no guitar sound and Olson is visibly frustrated. Friends in the audience wince in sympathy. Broken strings, out-of-tune guitars and equipment mishaps; it's an off night for Across Tundras, to say the least. more >>>
The soulful ballads and entrancing melodies of The Fray create an appealing pop/rock style that keeps teenage girls (and maybe some guys, too) asking for more. more >>>
Live (die) PILOT loses their sound, audience
Imagine going out to see a hot new band. Their buzz is great and the album promising. The band starts to play, but it's nothing like the album. In fact, it isn't even good and the band barely acknowledges the existence of the audience. The show ends up being nothing but a letdown. more >>>
Remember when hip-hop music was just music and there were no 'fake' rappers, no 'industry beef' and emcees could just rhyme without being categorized as underground, East Coast, or gangsta? Those days are long over, but Low Budget Soul: Colorado Hip- Hop Movement Vol. 1 is proof that the original emcee still lives-you just have to know where to dig. more >>>
Sports
Men's soccer is 1-1 after rough conference play
Following its 5-2 win on Wednesday, Sept. 7 over the Regis University Rangers, the Metro men's soccer team found itself in a game that featured more yellow cards than goals. The Roadrunners suffered their first defeat of the season Friday to No. 14 ranked Fort Lewis by a 0-3 score. more >>>
Roadrunners club softball cancels its 2005 Fall season
In softball, sometimes there are strikeouts; sometimes there are missed catches and sometimes the ball is simply overthrown. more >>>
Rugby club repeats win in Jackalope tourney
Metro's Glorious Bastards rugby club took its second consecutive championship in the Wyoming Jackalope Tournament's collegiate division. more >>>
The No. 25 ranked Metro women’s volleyball
team went on the road last weekend
against two of the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference’s top teams and came out 0-2
against the tough competition more >>>
Women's soccer carries shutout streak into RMAC
The Metro women's soccer team had another strong weekend on the field, sweeping Adams State College and New Mexico Highlands University to go 2-0 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play. more >>>
Roadrunners lose 0-3 to nation's No. 14 ranked team
The wet grass made passes difficult and many cross-field balls skipped harmlessly out-of-bounds. The field conditions favored Fort Lewis and their star forward John Cunliffe of Edgworth, England. He made pinpoint passes in contributing one goal and two assists. more >>>
Walking into Metro as a freshman, I had fresh thoughts of our varsity teams in high school-all 17 of them. I have to admit there was a feeling of disappointment when I heard the words, "No football at Metro." But for those of you who know Metro sports, it's needless to say, what used to be disappointment has come a long way because so have Metro sports. more >>>
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