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NEWS |
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Metro women get higher grades
than men In the 1998-99 school year female students at Metro had higher grade-point averages than male students, according to a survey by the Office of Institutional Research. The average GPA was higher for women than men in every age category. Women aged 56 or older make up 1 percent of Metro's total population but had the highest GPAs at 3.5 or higher. Women over age 35, who comprise 17 percent of Metro's population, had the next highest GPAs at 3.0 or higher. Men over age 35, who comprise 12 percent of male students at Metro, had higher GPAs compared with younger male students. "I am not surprised by these statistics. I know women do better than men," said Metro Director of Academic Advising Dr. Lisa Ransdale. "Women presently earn 74 cents for every dollar earned by a man, and although the gap is narrowing by about 1/2 cent per year, it will take over 40 years to disappear," Ransdale said. Older women are eager to return to school, because they often had to defer getting their degrees for so long, due to working and helping to support their family, she explained. "Don't be afraid to start college 20 years after high school," said Patty Madigan, 45, a Metro Computer Information Management major, with a 3.3 GPA. She plans to graduate in December. "I know going to school and maintaining a high GPA takes motivation, but without that degree, people don't get as far in the workplace or increase their earnings as fast," she said. "An older student knows that sometimes her social life has to go on the shelf while she spends her evenings and weekends studying," Madigan said. "Older students have been there, and they have done it. They know what they want when they decide to make the commitment to attend college." Madigan said that since some older females have grown children, they have more time to concentrate on their studies. "When college students are younger, sometimes they concentrate too much on their social lives, at the expense of their school work," she said. "A younger student is generally not as focused as an older student because it is hard to decide what to do at such an early age," said Eduardo Zarate, who worked with Metro Student Services for 15 years, and now is an academic advisor. "We at the MSCD Academic Advising Center are here to help students achieve their educational goals for the future," she said. Metro Assistant Director of Admissions Paul Cesare is developing programs to increase future enrollment of older students. "Older people are attracted to higher education. Things are not the way they were years ago, when people missed the boat if they didn't attend college at the traditional age," he.said. Metro knows about 98 percent of its students work, Cesare said. Also, 47 percent of Metro's population is over 25 years old. Because of the achievements of older students Metro is actively recruiting people over 25 to encourage them to continue their education. "Learning keeps people young, and learning is lifelong," Cesare said. |
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Emotions run high concerning bus pass fees Metro Students who regularly drive to campus are angry because they said they are charged twice since they pay both high parking fees and an Regional Transportation District fee. Most students interviewed about the RTD fee said they thought it is a good idea, but those who never use the bus or light rail felt they were being cheated out of $16.70 because they would never use the pass. Metro student Paul Gordon, an English and education major, said he disagreed with paying for the RTD fee. Gordon said a majority of students drive to Metro, so the college should be concerned with the majority, not the minority who ride RTD. "We are paying for a small percentage to ride the bus, but who's paying for me to park?" Gordon asked. Driving to campus is more convenient for Metro student Kevin Burger, a computer science major. Burger said he hates to pay the high cost of parking, but he does not see RTD as an alternative. He called the RTD fee a form of socialism, and said he resents he has to pay for something he never uses. "If you use it, you should pay for it, and if you don't, you shouldn't," he said. Metro student Nikki Sanchez, a science major, came up with a unique way to avoid both the high price of parking and the inconvenience of RTD. She uses inline skates to make her way to Metro from her home in Aurora. "$3.25 for parking is hard to swallow when you're a full time student and trying to eat," Sanchez said. Jason Edwards, a computer management systems major, said he uses RTD because he does not want to deal with traffic jams on Interstate 25. Edwards rides the bus from Thornton and uses his time on the bus to study. He said it is faster for him to ride the bus since RTD can use the HOV lane on the highway. "Every once in awhile, I try to drive down and it's frustrating because I watch the bus go by in the HOV lane," he said. Roxane Carmichael, a psychology major, said she rides the bus because it's free and she doesn't have a car. However, she said even if she did get a car, she would still ride the bus because it's cheaper and easier. "I'm not going to pay the parking fees everyday," Carmichael said. Shellie Chambers uses RTD because she wants to avoid the hassles of traffic and parking. Chambers said since it's free to ride the Light Rail, she has no incentive to drive to Metro. Each semester Metro charges students $16.70 for an RTD bus pass, allowing students to ride the light rail and most bus routes for free. The RTD fee comes up for a vote by Auraria students every two years, and in previous elections it has always passed. However, student voter turnout at these elections has been low. According to statistics provided by the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board in the last election held in the spring of 1999, only 6 percent of Metro's student population voted. Of this 6 percent, 92 percent voted for the RTD fees, with 8 percent voting against it. |
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Commandments controversy sparks debate on campus The Ten Commandments could be posted in public school classrooms, according to a new bill going through the House of Representatives. The House created the Juvenile Crime Bill and added an amendment requiring all public schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Joe Sandoval, professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Metro, said the government could force the states to put the Ten Commandments in the classrooms by threatening to withhold federal money if they did not comply. However, he said this would be "difficult in a country that is moving toward diversity in religion." Sandoval said the bill has legal problems. First, people would file suits all over the country, charging that the Constitution guarantees separation of church and state and this bill violates that right, he said. Sandoval also questioned what states would do if a teacher refused to post the Commandments. He said it would be the Scopes Trial all over again. The Scopes Trial debated whether the states could restrict teaching evolution in public schools. If a teacher taught the Ten Commandments, Sandoval said, then it would open the door for schools to teach other religious doctrines. Metro student Holly Hirst, 38, who works on campus as an interpreter for the deaf, felt schools could post the Commandments but teachers should not refer to them in their instruction. "At that point, we are teaching religion," she said. "Religion does not belong in the public schools." If parents were "super involved with their kids" then events such as the Columbine shootings which occurred on April 20. Two students armed with guns shot 12 students and one teacher at a Littleton High School, would not occur, Hirst said. Metro student Karen Reed, 40, agreed with Hirst. Reed said public schools shouldn't push religion on anybody, but posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms might give students hope and belief. Both women said the amendment was an attempt by the government for a "cure all" and a "band-aid" for the problems of youth violence in the schools. In contrast, three younger Metro students felt the Ten Commandments should not be allowed in any public school classrooms. Dan Huling, 21, thought posting the Commandments in classrooms wouldn't do any good. He said stopping violent behavior in teens begins with recognizing the behavior and working with the student to change. He said instead of teaching the Ten Commandments, schools should teach stress management and conflict resolution. According to Huling, the bill was an attempt for government to look like it's doing something about teen violence. His brother, Mike Huling, 19, agreed violent teen-agers would not change their behavior just because the Ten Commandments were posted in classroom. If the Ten Commandments were put in each classroom Huling said violent students would probably vandalize them. Metro student, John Cleveringa, 19, of Littleton, thinks that the Commandments are like the pledge of allegiance in schools. "Put them up but don't teach them," he said. Cleveringa said that way teachers could allude to the Commandments but not specifically teach them. |
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Leaking oil tanks un earth ed under Auraria grounds Recent construction on campus unearthed three leaking oil tanks under what
used to be Lot G, and there are other Auraria sites with leaking storage
tanks. Auraria officials removed the tanks and the contaminated soil from under the new performing arts center. It used to be a filling station with old oil tanks still underground. There are 1,284 leaking underground storage tank sites in Denver, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Four of these are on campus; one is under the new Performing Arts Building. The others are located under the Auraria Higher Education Center Well House, the Auraria Child Care Center and the Auraria Higher Education Center. |
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Metro student recounts eye surgery experience Optical laser surgery? It's an eye-opener. The process began for me in October with a computer-enhanced photo of my eyes and ended July 7 with 12 seconds of exposure to a VISX Star laser and about 15 minutes in the waiting room. The laser assisted intrastromal keratomileusis, or LASIK technique, is
the ultra-modern result of evolution in the field of vision correction.
It combines the surgical skills of trained physicians with the precision
of a half-a-million-dollar In October my optometrist, Dr. Rebecca J. Brock, 39, suggested that I wait a few months before we went ahead. As an ophthalmologist and doctor of internal medicine with the Cherry Creek Eye Center, she had to be certain that my eyes were stable and that I was familiar with the procedure. As a student at Metro, age 47 and majoring in English, wearing eyeglasses became increasingly uncomfortable and inconvenient. Those difficulties and the option of a monovision, prompted me to have surgery. In many cases a myopic, near-sighted, client faces the choice of wearing glasses to drive, before surgery, or wearing glasses to read, afterwards. Myopia is a corneal irregularity that makes it hard to see at a distance. When monovision is viable it allows the surgeon to correct one eye for distance, leaving the other eye good for reading. The brain then takes over, allowing both eyes to work together with minimal confusion. The procedure often eliminates the need for glasses. My introduction to this operation came through a friend at Clear Vision Laser Centers, a privately owned company at 215 Union Blvd., I was fortunate to participate in such a 'cutting edge' process as a gift from my family at the cost of $2,300 per eye. Mira Rubenstein is a patient education counselor for Clear Vision Centers and a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Denver. It is her job to determine if an individual is a good candidate for further evaluation. "Not everyone may be physically or psychologically suited for the
procedure," Not everyone is a suitable candidate financially, either. Because this procedure is considered elective, most health insurance companies decline coverage. It is, however, a tax-deductible medical expense and financing is available. LASIK is used to correct visual problems directly related to corneal irregularities, Rubenstein added. "Eye injuries, muscular problems or difficulties with other eye structures, such as the retina, cannot be helped with this system," she said. The cornea could be compared to a camera lens, and the retina is like the film that an image is focused on. "Some people may also be unrealistic, expecting perfect vision, but the best predictor of results is how well a person sees with their current eyeglasses or contacts. Chances are, LASIK will at least match that level of correction," she said. On my first visit to the eye center last year, an optical assistant printed a corneal topography, or computer-generated map of my cornea, and the doctor gave me a thorough eye examination. Brock has performed over 500 surgical procedures with this latest technology, and she said the success rate is phenomenal. "Of refractive surgery clients, according to FDA statistics," she said, "Eighty percent are corrected to 20-20 vision, and 98 percent achieve legal driving vision at 20-40." The worst surgery that happened, she said, was when the thin layer that covers the cornea came completely detached once, instead of hinging. "But it was reattached and the patient's vision was improved to 20-20," she said. I was nervous on the day of the operation, performed at Rose Medical Center, but I relaxed with the prescribed Valium. "Look at the red light," The doctor said. "Don't drift." The red dot was tiny. I could hear an intermittent clicking sound; the laser. It vaguely dawned on me that with my eye wide open a thin flap had been made of my corneal tissue and folded back. This was done with an instrument called a microkeratome, which gave the laser direct access to the corneal tissue. Within minutes, and after a few kind reminders to "...focus on the red light," Brock said, "That's it. Looks great." "That's it?" I echoed. I hadn't felt a thing. Was it the local anesthesia, the Valium, the precision? My chief sense was of relief compounded with unbridled astonishment. That's it, I could see, and it didn't hurt. A week later, the eye is fine. Despite a mild disorientation when reading, the improved vision is pleasant, and I can wear shades. |
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Police briefs Benefit for Metro shooting victim to be held Aug. 15 in Northglenn Friends of a Metro shooting victim are organizing a fundraising benefit to aid with medical bills. The student, Robert Adams, was shot while waiting to enter a party last Oct. 23. Adams and other people were outside a house at 9850 Wolff Court in Westminster when shots were fired from a car leaving the party. One of the shots hit Adams in the back of the head, Westminster Police said. Adams, a sophomore at Metro, was studying secondary education, according to the committee organizing a benefit for him. Friends said he wanted to become a high school English teacher. Seven months have passed since the shooting and Adams is alive. He has returned home from the hospital and friends said he is improving. He is, however, totally dependent. He is unable to move his limbs purposefully or communicate his needs in any way, according to a friend, Karen Parks. "He had such a wonderful way with kids and he was such creative guy," said Paula Brown, a friend of Adams who has known him since he was 3-years-old. "We're hoping he recovers." After the conviction of Timothy Nitz, in connection with Adams injury, on May 21, friends of his family organized a benefit to help offset the large cost of Adams' medical bills. The benefit is planned for Aug. 15, from 2 until 7 p.m. at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Northglenn, at 11385 Grant Drive. Tickets to the benefit are being sold for $10 and can be obtained by calling Karen Parks at (303)-457-0752. The committee organizing the benefit needs donations of food to be served,
paper products with which to serve it and goods and services donated for
a silent auction to be held at the benefit. The committee also said they
are in need of cash donations made payable to: The Trustee for the Robert
A. Adams Disability Trust. Several students locking up their bicycles at the racks on the east side of the Tivoli and the racks near Speer Blvd. returned from class to find their locks cut and their bicycles gone. Aside from the locations, another common factor in the crimes was the use of cable-type locks by the students. The locks are easy to cut with bolt cutters, which can be concealed in a back pack, according to Auraria Police. Most of the bicycles stolen were not extremely fancy or expensive bikes, rather they were more of the commuter type bicycle, worth between $50 and $450. Police attribute this mainly to the type of lock used. Joe Ortiz, director of campus security, suggested the use of a Kryptonite like U-lock, which potential thieves avoid because they are difficult to break. "Although the price of a U-lock is more expensive," Ortiz said, "it is the best way of protecting your initial investment, even if the bike is not the most expensive thing on the market." Ortiz said the occurrences of bicycle thefts increase with the summer months because more people ride their bikes and more juveniles are out of school. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Y2K preparedness; build a
bomb shelter in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, just in case I'm loosing sleep here. We now have about five months before the dreaded year 2000 bug strikes, destroying computer systems everywhere, making politicians believe posting the Ten Commandments in schools will cure the world, inciting Rover to relieve himself on the kitchen floor and forcing PMS on some people. According to a recent survey, one third of Americans are stocking up on food and other necessities in preparation for this computer related apocalypse. What do these people know that the rest of us don't? After all, we Americans are an astute group of folks who eat at McDonald's, run ourselves into debt and drive miles to see the world's only two-headed hamster somewhere in the Midwest. The danger is real, people.
Just the other day, my computer, instead of starting up with the "happy
Mac" screen, gave me the bird. Deep down I know the microwave and toaster
will soon follow suit. When that happens, bachelor life as we know
it will be over. The streets will be overflowing with hungry men incapable
of cooking Along with several other forward thinking Americans, I too have been preparing. My bomb shelter, outside of the obvious difficulty of installing it in a one-bedroom apartment, is coming along nicely. I have been stocking up with plenty of Captain Crunch Peanut Butter cereal, and plan to remove the $2.36 from my checking account Dec. 27. I will be the first to buy a hand-crank radio when it comes out with a CD player. Despite all the preparation, I still wish someone would come out to prevent this problem. Sure, there have been scores of computer programmers spending countless hours meticulously examining code, but what the world really needs is for a bunch of musicians to band together and put out a Y2K relief album. We haven't heard Michael Jackson sing with Bob Dylan for a while. There are, however, some things I am looking forward to when the clock hits 12. The O.J. Simpson trial, the fourth trial of the century in three years, and Monica Lewinski's dress were just warm ups for round-the-clock media coverage. Imagine what Fox-TV can do with the apocalypse. Perhaps a made-for-television movie starring Pee Wee Herman as Bill Gates is in the works as well. A power outage knocking out all television programming and preventing this ghastly scenario would be the best thing to hit the country since the Salad Shooter. I am also hoping whoever manufactured my alarm clock was Y2K negligent. That way I could finally get some rest. Sean Weaver is a reporter at The Metropolitan, e-mail him at weavers@mscd.edu. |
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Survey compiles complaints against Kaplan, provost News: For the second year, Metro President Sheila Kaplan failed to gain strong approval from Metro faculty, according to a survey of faculty senate members. The survey, conducted by the Office of Institutional Research, released April 28, recorded results of faculty senate members' attitudes regarding Kaplan and Provost Cheryl Norton. "Norton's results improved slightly this year," faculty senate president Monys Hagen said. Twenty six percent of 103 surveyed senate members strongly approved of Norton's overall performance, while 9.7 percent approved of Kaplan's. Survey comments were confidential. Comments about Norton varied. Survey comments included the following: "Appointing Doctor Norton Provost is the best thing to happen to The Met in a long time - she's a '10' in my book!" "She is the top vice president I have seen here in 32 years." Negative comments about Norton included, "Doctor Norton is a micro manager," and, "The Provost's position should not be one of on-the-job training of an inexperienced and incapable individual." Positive comments about Kaplan included, "Doctor Kaplan is much improved over prior years, but she still does not reward excellence," and, "Much improved." Negative comments outnumbered positive ones - 18 of the 21 written comments from the survey about Kaplan were negative. Last year the faculty senate conducted its own survey about Kaplan and the results were not positive. The president's office insisted another survey be conducted. The new survey results were worse than those of the first survey. Kaplan's performance with faculty members has been less than positive, with a no confidence vote and two years of faculty angst on record the president's office needs to delegate a mediator between faculty and administration. Kaplan's strengths lie in cutting the budget, not creating a positive work environment for the faculty. If her office cannot create a solution to the faculty unrest, there needs to be an appointed go-between to settle problems faculty have voiced for years. Kaplan's office would benefit greatly by listening to the faculty's needs. The hostility continues to grow and until the administration attends to the needs of faculty unrest will continue between the two entities. |
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Auraria campus police don't' lead by example The other day I confronted a campus bicycle cop who was riding in a dismount zone. When I asked him why he hadn't dismounted he told me, "This is how I enforce the law." So if I understand correctly, campus cops "enforce the law" by breaking it. I suggest that we all start "enforcing the law" on campus. All bicycle riders should follow this officer's example. "Enforcing
the law" must also include trespassing — the campus cop I saw
taking a shortcut under the Colfax overpass, where I was once warned not
to go by another campus cop because it's private property - and illegal
parking (the campus cop who parked his personal A question for Joe Ortiz: why do we have two sets of rules on this campus? - Steve Pordon |
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FEATURES |
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Cheap and easy!! With the end of summer approaching at the speed of light, it will soon
be time to start thinking about getting prepared for the fall semester.
Unfortunately, since most of us are members of the real world now, getting
ready for the new school year no longer means going shopping for the latest
back to school fashions with mom, or searching Then there are those of us who hate going to the bookstore period. You
spend the day wandering around, looking for the right book for the right
class, and when you finally find it, there are no more used copies, or worse,
no copies at all. When your trek comes to an end at the cashier stations,
you face a check-out line that... well, we've all been there. Options, options
are what you need. So in keeping with the increasingly popular online shopping
trend, it is now possible to buy textbooks without ever leaving the house.
Follow me through a not-so-tangled web of textbook sites that will make
your shopping experience much more pleasant, as well as save you some much
needed cash.
Not only does this site offer textbooks, it also offers computers, rugs, picture frames, clothes, student loans and student credit. It might be a site to check out just for the fun of it. As far as textbooks , the search method of this site is rather tedious. The name Morris netted 4,213 results, and no way of narrowing my search. Thanks but no thanks — I have better things to do than go through that many titles. Don't discount this site altogether — it looks like a lot of fun to browse through, but my advice would be to make your search as specific as possible.
This site went live in August of 1998, and though it is fairly new, it seems to have everything under control and then some. Varsitybooks.com offers new books only at 15 percent to 40 percent less than bookstore prices, and the shipping cost is a flat rate of $4.95, no matter the size of the order. Each order is supposed to arrive in one to three business days from the date of order, and they send e-mail updates when they ship out the books. Using a general search under the author's name, I was shown 200 titles by someone named Morris. The book I sought was on the list, and the price was $66.09. From there, you may place your selected book in your virtual shopping cart, and find more books or go to checkout. Enter in your shipping information and credit card number, and in one to three days you are on your way to a better education.
This site proclaims 17,570 books to choose from, so chances are good that the book you want will be there. Out of all of the sites I checked where they ask for the name of the college attended, this was the only one with Metro in its database. True to its name, bookswap.com offers used books and even textbook rentals. The search was quick, and the book I wanted was priced at $43.35 or best offer. There is no description of the condition of the book, but that's a risk you take using this method. Shipping is a flat $5, but there is no information on how long the order takes to arrive.
This site offers both new and used books, and even a section for hard-to-find books. The search here is so quick and easy — you can input the author's name, title of the book, title keyword or general keyword, thereby making the search much narrower. I entered the author's name and the title keyword "psychology." The search showed copies of the book available in both new and used versions — new copies are $65.70, and used copies are $54.75. Travel to another secure site to enter in your vital information, and you're done. Shipping costs vary from $4.50 to $27, depending on how super speedily you would like them to arrive. The remaining five websites I checked were not as impressive, but again, it depends on how specific you make your search.
At first glance, this site looks very promising. It is easy to navigate, because it lets you search by subject, and it offers both new and used books. The problem I ran into is that when I searched under "Morris," it listed the titles alphabetically, but wouldn't let me access titles past the letter E.
This site offers new and used titles, as well as buyback. Its inventory of books is not as big as the other sites, because my search under "Morris" only turned up 13 titles, none of which was the one that I wanted.
This site offers a limited selection, simply because it only offers books published by Jones and Bartlett. In addition, only nine discipline choices are offered, narrowing the selection even further.
This is another site that only represents books by a specific publisher. In this case, Harcourt Brace is the company, and it also links you with Saunders College Publishing, The Dryden Press, and Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Again, if you know that your book is published by any of these, you're in business.
After two tries at different times, I still could not get past the glitches in this site to find what I was looking for. This does not constitute easy for me, so I wouldn't recommend it. |
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Lifeabstract Art Seen When Denver artist Michael Gadlin approaches a canvas, the sum of his life rests on his brush. "My painting is simply an illustration of the simplicity of experience," Gadlin said. "I want viewers to feel a relationship with my work where they are asking questions about their own life or about me. It just breaks down to evoking an emotional response." Gadlin, a 27-year-old former Metro student, won best of show at this year's Cherry Creek Arts Festival. He is the first Denver artist to win the award since 1991, the year he entered Metro as a freshman. Gadlin left Metro for New York City, where he studied art and design at the Pratt Institute. "I went to Metro because it was convenient, cheap and accessible," Gadlin said. "I went to Pratt because it was inconvenient, expensive and had a name for itself in the art world." During his sophomore year at Pratt, Gadlin's life dramatically changed. Gadlin moved back to Denver when he learned his mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer. "My priority became my mother and not my next semester at school,"
he said. "When I came home to stay for a while, I was kind of
expecting to go back (to Pratt), but it turned out my mom got sicker and
I stayed to "During that time a local artist, Darrell Anderson, took me in just to keep my mind fresh and to teach me about being a professional artist," Gadlin continued. "I felt like I was still challenged here. That was something an artist who wants to succeed has to find. If you come back and you find everything you left is still the same, you fall into a comfort zone." Gadlin's mother died in 1994. "That's when I became a man," Gadlin said. "I really felt then I was ready to take on the world. I expected my mother to be around for a long time - to see my marriage, my kids and my successes. "I used that as a positive drive as a discipline in my art," he said. "You have to chase a dream. I wanted to act, being that life was so fragile around me at the time. I said, 'I'm going to jump out there with all I've got and see if I float or sink.' I've been able to tread water ever since. Treading water for Gadlin began when he shared a studio with Darrell Anderson and fellow student Jay Apodaca. "We had our first group show together in a little storefront beneath our studio," Gadlin said. "It was a lot of hard work putting it together. We had to clean the storefront, install lights and paint the walls. That experience gave me a feeling of the success I could have making something work. I felt at home." Two years later, in 1996, Gadlin began working for another established artist in Denver, Roland Bernier. "He's a talented young painter with marvelous technique and wonderful imagery," Bernier said. I'm looking forward to seeing his work progress. The next few years will be crucial to his work to see how he interprets life around whim and what new things he can bring to the art world." Gadlin credits Bernier for teaching him how to use imagery in his work. "There is so much in and around his work that really taught me to
go beyond the surface. I would paint imagery before I knew Roland because
it was neat, and I didn't know much about working in a series or with a
theme. Roland would work an idea and cover every angle. He would push
an idea until it couldn't be pushed anymore. After that I started
working thematically and in series of works. That became an important part
in having meaning in my work." Applying themes to a several paintings
paid off for Gadlin with what every young artist craves, a solo exhibition. West
Gallery in Denver showcased Gadlin's group of work The Disciples, "When he came to me asking for a black and white show, it was kind of shocking," said West Gallery owner Frank Lavin." After a couple months of seeing his progress, I liked the whole sense of the spiritualism he was creating. It wasn't all just male disciples, but female as well and different races, not the traditional biblical interpretations. Out of no color, he created a lot of color using shape shadow texture and the variety of grays." Gadlin said he was trying to avoid typical religious symbolism in the body of work. "My paintings are plainly about discovery," Gadlin said. "If I'm on a spiritual journey, for instance, and I'm discovering things, I document it on the canvas. I can't feel I am doing my work unless I feel like I'm evoking a emotional experience be it spiritual or sexual." The true measure of success Gadlin seeks in his work, is to make his wife Rebecca and his two-year-old daughter Myah proud. "We continue to inspire and teach each other," he said. |
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SPORTS |
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Roadrunners have high hopes for fall season With the fall sports season approaching, some members of the Metro men's soccer team are getting a jump start halfway around the world. A select group of Roadrunners will be starting their soccer season in Germany and Holland, said head coach Brian Crookham. They will train and play four games there from Aug. 2 to 11. The competition Metro will face includes lower level professional teams and top amateur teams from around Europe, Crookham said. Two days after returning from Europe, Crookham will bring the entire team together to begin practicing for the regular season, which begins Aug. 27. "It's huge for us, if we have tournament hopes, to get off to a good start the first weekend when we have our tournament," Crookham said. "We play Northeastern State out of Oklahoma, which had a good year last year. It would be a good win in the region if we could beat them." The following week the Roadrunners open conference play against University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and then travel to West Texas A&M, one of the top teams in the region. Starting out the season with one pivotal game after another should keep the team focused on the importance of each individual game, a goal set by the Roadrunners, Crookham said. "Every game we play is the most important to us," Crookham
said. That maturity passes on from players who take on leadership roles, he said. This season Crookham sees three of his players accepting those roles. "It's kind of a funny mix of players," Crookham said. "We've got a lot of hard working guys. Richard Paylor is kind of a quiet leader for us, a big competitor. Jared Zanon leads by example. He scores a goal, picks us up, and says, 'Let's go.' Chico Hooper is one of the biggest competitors I think I have ever known. Having that in the mix is brilliant for us." The combination of competitors and hard workers will hopefully earn the Roadrunners a spot in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship game and a victory, Crookham said. The Metro women's soccer team has set its sites on the same goal, said head coach Ed Montojo. "Winning the RMAC, returning to the NCAA tourney, and making a Final Four appearance are all goals for us this season," he said. To get there, the Roadrunners must capitalize on home field advantage. Fourteen of the team's 20 regular season games will be played on the Auraria Fields. "We have a tough regional schedule," Montojo said, "but
14 home games is to our advantage. We want to win every one of them. If
we do that and split the road games that should put us in the hunt."
"Getting the midfield back intact is key," Montojo said. "Finding players who will mix well with Tarena O'Neill, who has strength and leadership, is important." Three other seniors will take on leadership roles too, he said. Goalkeeper Kelly Johannes, forward Kari Pierce, and defender Kathryn Cziuzas each bring a different strength to the Roadrunners. Johannes is a mature, quiet leader coming off a good year; Pierce's work ethic is so strong, she puts 100 percent into every practice and game; and Cziuzas brings "fire to the defense," Montojo said. While the women's soccer team has veterans to guide the younger players, more than half of the women's volleyball team is made up of newcomers. Six players are returning from last year's team, but only one of them, senior Chris Brink, was a starter, said head coach Jenelle Duvall. There are seven new faces on the Roadrunner volleyball team this season which will create some challenges, she said. "It's a young group that will take time to gel," Duvall said. "Stability will be something that we will have to work for." Duvall herself is a new addition to the Metro team that must learn to work well together. After spending the past two years as an assistant coach at Northern Arizona University, she became head coach of the Roadrunners in March. Duvall replaced Joan McDermott, who resigned in December 1998 to become Metro's athletic director. Under McDermott, Metro advanced to the championship game of the 1998 NCAA Division II Southwest Regional Tournament, but fell one win short of a berth in the Elite Eight National Tournament. Duvall hopes her team will be one of the top four teams in the RMAC and
make an appearance in the Elite Eight, "We must win the games we are quote unquote supposed to win," she said. "Then with a few upsets we'll put ourselves in the position to reach our goals." |
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