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, remain certain: Colorado is a swing

, state. But how the state's nine elec-loral votes swing may not end upmattering. Obama is leading - bysome accounts with double digits

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COLORADO! COLORADO!; @LOnADO!

Ieading up to the economic cri-l sis, the electoral votes - the nation'sindirect way of electing a president- were being diwied up to respectivered and blue states. About nine statesremained in the undecided column.The most important state, accord-ing to bojh parties and independentsources. was Colorado.

A candidate must secure 270electoral votes to be elected. Manyspeculated that on Nov. 4, Obamawould garner 264 votes and McCainwould earn 26 5, making the remain-ing nine votes from Colorado the de-ciding factor.

Colorado's Democratic Partyspokesman Matt Farrauto said thatsince th€ beginning of the cam-paign, the Square State was "theline of scrimmage." And that hasn'tchanged.

"We're not going to stop fight-' ing in feffCo until _all the votes are

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The Swing StateBY NIC GARCIANGARCI2O@MSCD.EDU

he 2008 presidentiaielection will no doubtbe remembered as therace in which anythingthat could happen, did.

The Democrats nominated ablack man. The Republic-ans nbriri: - '

nated a man who would be the old-est presideni, i{ elected. Then there'sAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin. And along

. the way Sen. Hillary Clinton and

counted," he said. Jellerson Countyis a highly contested "swing county,"where there are large numbe,rs of in-dependent loters.

tt ustration by Daw0 Madura . dmadura@mscd.edu'

Colorado's largest bloc of voters tory Colorado's lndependents haveare Independents. Republicans have voted for Democrats. They electedthe second-largest bloc, followed by more Democrats to Congress; bothr€gistered Democrats. In recent his- houses of Colorado's legislature are

dominated by Democrats and thestate's governor, elected in 2006,belongs to tlre same party. This shift,noticed by tle Democratic NationalCorirmittee helped secure the party'sconvention in Derrver and gave Colo-rado the bittersweet title of "swingstate. "

. As many as one million new Colo-rado voters will head to the booths inNovember, an increase that has beenechoed throughout the country. This .nationwide boost in registered vot€rslargely contributed to Obama's cam-paign.

"If Tim Russert were here hiswhite board would say 'Colorado!

: ,. Colordol Coloradel::l..kani{er Dl. ffyof The Cook Political Report, an in-dependent newsletter that anallzesnational elections. said.

The crisig the pollsIt was the "October Surprise" that

came in September. With polls in lateAugust showing the two candidatestied, tIe economy suddenly becamethe big issue of the election,

Ichman Brothers, one of thenation's largest banks, filed for bank-ruptcy. The White House bailed outAIG, the nation's iargest insurarcecompany. Following the bankingturmoil, the stock market crashedin earh October, and a conftoversialbailout plan was created to save theeconomy.

Obama has since gained in thepolls. By a large margin, voters polledacross the country say they tl1tstObama more to handle the economiccrisis.

Voters in Florida polled as re-cently as Oct, ll are now undecidedon who should be the next president.What once was a secure red statefor McCain has now been labeled atoss-up, So has Ohio, so has West Vr-ginia.

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METROTARA MOBERLY. NEWS EDITOR. tmoberlyomscd.edu

.l{ew faces of Student Government

Hannah Kaufman, right, Jeannie Malm and Brandon De VITO place their hands on the Metro State Constitution and pledge during the Metro Student Government As-sembly Inauguration Oct. 10 in Tivoli 444. The three students are the newest members ofthe sGA. (Photo by cora Kemp, ckemp4@mscd.eou,

Metro tightens purse stringsHiring, purchases scaled back

BY TARA MOBERLYTHE METROPOLITAN

As fallout from the economic cri-sis continues, colleges and universitiesacross the country are beginning tofeel the pinch, facing reduced budgetsand trying to contain costs as resourc-es dwindle.

While Meho has thus far beenspared from budget cuts, PresidentStephen Jordan took a preemptive step,instituting temporary cost-containingmeasures in advance of possible bud-get shortfalls next year.

'We thopght given the current sit-uation and given the current econom-ic climate, that it would be prudent tomanage carefully in the interveningtime period until the next revenue pro-jection came out." Jordan said.

Several key areas will be revier+'edby Metro vice presidents and depart-ment heads in an effort to deteirninewhere money can be saved this semes-ter, including fflling open positlons,tral'el for professional developmentand purchasing new equipment.

$tudwfq wil peibp a$ect€d by a4y.

of the cost-containing measures.The measures come on the heels of

a hiring freeze Governor Bill Ritter putin place Sept. 2 5 for all state agenciesexcept highel sdu6ation institutions.

jWe know that there is an esti-mate that revenue projections for thestite are down about $100 millionright now. But $100 million is not asufficient decline yet that would causebudget reductions to have !o be madeto operating budgets, " fordan said.

Revenue projections are due inDecember, which is also when the costcontaining measures are scheduled toend. . '

"Our philosophy is we have dele-gated authority for budgets to our vicepresidents and deans," fordan said.

"They are in the best positionsto make judgments about what theythink are necessary and critical posi-tions to continue operations," he said.

While hiring of tenure and ten-ure -fack faculty is orempt from tlrerneasur€s, open administrative posi-'tions will be revieured to determine.i{ t}tp:t rryil be crpcialin.the nad ferd, -

months or if hiring can wait until thenew year.

Alternative hiring methods, suchas using temporary employees, willalso be used to keep costs down andmeet the needs of tle college.

The purchase of new equipment orbuilding renovations will also be scru- .tinized, though crucial projects such asclassroom expansion will continue.

"We know that right now it iscritical for us to create more classroomspace and olfice space for both classesand faculty" fordan said, noting thatthe college may invest in another mo-bile classroom to provide more class-mom space.

Equipment identified as necessaryin accreditation or program reviewswill be purchased, |ordan said.

Ttavel for professional development, such as trips to conferences orfor continuing education, will also beexamined, thougb ]ordan said it willnot end entirely,

Deans and vice presidents havealready begun examlning budgets, de-

^cjdrng what actiqns ,hey ̂ r4dtl tala a4d, .

have been providing Jordan with sug-gestions and feedback.

"We're not sure what ultimate ef-fect the economy will have on the stat€budget," said Sandra Haynes, dean ofthe School of Professional Stu&es.

In addition to rcviewing staffngoptions, Haynes said school officials.will look at ways to be cost effectiveacross the board, including makingsure they don't order more food thannecessary for elent and using copy pa-per wisely.

Vice President of Adminishationand Finance Natalie Lutes doesn't ex-p€ct any further measures put intoplace,

"Metro initiated these measures inrecognition of the governor's budgetcontingency plan. We will only con-sider further measures if mandated byfutue statewide budget forecast," shesaid.

Jordan agrees with Lutes, notingthat Colorado's economy is currentlyperformlng better than others andhasn't b.een hit as hard by tle econom-ic tailsfdn.. . . ^

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The Gospel according to Tom Short

Tom shoft ofTom Short Campus Ministries preaches his message to passing students and welcomes interjection Oct. t+ iriiront ofthe plaza Building. Shortattracted a crowd of more than 100 students, including one student who stood next to Short holding a sign with the words'This man is the Anti-Christ:Shorttravels the count.y, visiting college campuses and preaching to passing students. (Photo by Matt Marsh/mmarsht 7@mscd.edu)

BY BRANDON NELSONBNELSO''@MSCD.EDU

for some and works against others," demonshation will spark a wale of to sort out past racial events andUCD political science maior Mano change in American culture. hansform the history that rare have

On the lawn near the front of Cockrum said. Celeste Spink, a UCD psychology been taught," she said:the Plaza building, students tom The group behind the protest, a maior, spoke to the rally participants ..- Students vrare not the only onescolleges around the state rallied Oct. leaderless alliance going under the through a bullhorn, at the demonstration, Mark Sandefer,13, walking out of classes to protest name All Nations Alliance, released "If students and unil,ersities can a proiect estimator manager ftomColunbus Day and racism. a letter to the faculty of the colleges be the first to stop acknowledging Denvet took a day off from work to

About 75 studenb from UCBoul-. with studentb involved and encour- Colunbus Day, we could promott ;oin the protest.der' UCD' Metro, University of Denver aged the professors to bring the dis- change throughout the counhy," Sandefer also protested at theand the Iliff School of Thmlogr met cussion on mcism into their class- Spink said. Columbus Day parade last Oct. 1 l.at noon, marching under an inverted rooms. Spink, as well as others, hoped to ,,I'm here to assist in stopping 101Anerican flag to multiple locations This year was the 101st anniver- point out that more than one history years of celebrating racism ln Colo.throughout Denver that have signifi- sany of Columbus Day, which was is important and that the historical rado," Sandefer said. "I've seen greatcanc€ to opr nation's racial history, fust celebrated in l9O7 in Dener, perspectives of several dillerent peo- turnouts so far."including the Colu:nbus statue in the first city to hold a Columbus Day ples have gone unrecognized. The students and other DenverCivic C-enter Park. parade. .,Celebrating Columbus Day is commt:nit5r members hope the dem_

"Our purpos€ is to confront rac- Columbus Day parade pmtests tike snying snly eng history is irnpor- Grstration wouil remind people ofism in American culh:re. The Ameri- have become commonplace in Den- tant, " Spink said. -: thelr ability to promote change, bothcan system of golernment work vea though the sfirdents hope their "students neeal to work together lsaciatly and educationally

Scheduling conflict nixes COming-Out eventsBY GABRIELLE PORTERGPORTERS@MSCD.EDU

National Coming-Out Day co.incides this year with the 1O yeararniversary of Matthew Shepard'smurdex providing the gay, lesbian,bisexud, and hansgender (GLBT)community a chance to assess howfar gay rights have come as well as thethe climate on campus.

National Comingout Day events..for the Auraria GLET Student Ser-vices were cancelled after the space itwas to be held in was double booled,spokeswoman Sav-annah Powell said,though there was to be a room with

posters av'jilable for people to writedown and share their coming-outstories.

Official reports of harassment oncampus ar€ rare, Auraria Campus Po-lice Departnent Chief fohn Mackeysaid.

Though he feels it is a fairly se-cure campus, Mackey achowledgesthat a lack of rcports doesn't neces-sarily mean a lack of incidents.

i{ le1 sf things migbt not reachthe level of a police report," Mackeysaid,

Powell agrees that Auraria is a

fairly tolerant campus, though notwithout its harassment issues.

"I would almost say it happens ona daily basis," Powell said, referring todiscrimination or harassment againstGIBT students. 'i{nd it happens onvarying levels.". Resources for GLBT shrdents atAuaria are especia$ well developed,though, Powell said, "It says a lot thatwe have the GLBT ofrce available."

Despite the cancelled ComingOutDay events, there are other big GI,HIStudent Servlces evbnb on the calen-.dar, Powell said, lncludin! a concert

$ the TtanscendenccGospel Choir, atransgender musical group.

'It's hard to believe that it hasbeen l0 years since Matthew's death.So much has changed yet so muchi'emains thg same" Judy Shepard,Matthew Shepard's mother, said in arecent press release.

.While acknowledging that ad-vances have been made, Shepardsaidshe has found that many of the sfig-mas and intolerance towards homo-sexuals sflll r€main, so she encour-aged people to share their personal

to help foster tolerance,

Investigationclears English

trproressorBYTARA MOBERLYTMOBERLY@MSCD.EDU

An investigation into English pro-fessor Andrew Hallam detenninedthat he did not violate any collegepolicies when he assigned studentsto wdte a paper gbout Gov. SarahPalin, President Stephen Jordan an-nounced Oct. 15.

Media reports that Hallam as-signed students to write a negativeessay about Palin gained national at-tention earlier this month followingstudent complaints that led to theinvestigation.

Two students alleged that Hal-lam, in addition to assiening tbePalin paper, acted unprofessionallyin the classroom, used inappropriatelanguage and singled out Repulbicanstudents for ridicule.

The investigation recornmendedthat Hallam curb the use of vulgarlanguage in the classroom and un-dergo mentoring to address how per-sonal remark about politics, religionand_ other contror,rrsial subjects canadversely alfect student participa-Uon.

As a resr.rlt of tle event, orien-tation for all new tenure-track and

'alEliate faculty will now include awloo m t",n t" pgi@farprbptiaE n fficd Uataffictah-room disiisiciis.

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Metro professorfeatured speakerat annual lectureAnnjannette Aleiano-Steele, anationally recognized authority on

- hunan tranficking, will be the fea-tured speaker at the 8 Annual ShaneMarie Morrow lccture. Also a pm-fessor of psychologl and women'sstudies, Alejano-Steele will presenther speech, "Piip ry Colorado: ThePsychology of Human Ttaffckingand Pimp Control," at 8:45 p.m.Oct, 22 in Plaza Bnilding 205M. Thelecture is free and open to the public,

9NEWS wantsyour oprnronStudents will get a chance tovoice their opinions on polificsand the economy when 9NBWSon the GO $ops by Auraria tom12 to p.m.Oc1..21 at thefivoliFood Court Atrium. Metro msone of five college campuses drestation will visit dwing the elec-tion season to gather comm€ntsthat will be used as part of a livewebcast,; link to whichcan'befound at http://wrinnr.qnenn*,coml., - . , :

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Zrnn calls for stand against injusticeHISTORIAN ENCOURAGES CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

BY RYAN ARMSTRONGRARMSTl T@MSCD.EDU

Auraria students should seek to findmore than just a good job with a steadypaycheck when they graduate, hlstorianHoward Zinn advised.

"You're successful in the terms thatyou get a job. you make a good salary,but all you're doing if you keep quiet inthe face of iniustice is to perpetuate thatiniustice," Zinn said in an interview be-fore his speech Oct. 9 at the Tivoli Turn-halle.

"Students should see themselves aspeople who are going to go out into soci-ety and change whatever they don't like,not simply fit in," Zinn said, adding thatthe iob of a college student is to becomean actively engaged citizen and critic,ready to judge the actions of society

Zinn, an accomplished author, his-torian, educator and play'wright, is bestknown for his book "A People's Historyof the Unitzd States, " in which he coversthe nation's historical events he feels areoutside o[ the political and economic es-tablishment.

Prior to beginning his carer as ahistorian, Znn llew bombing mlssionsthroughout Europe during World WarII and protested during the Civil RightsMovement.

At his lecture, Znn focused on war,both from a historical standpoint andthe current situations in Iraq and Af-ghanistan, voicing his opinions on whatthe U.S. must do to overcome the trao ofwar.

"We have to get out of the habitof war," Zinn said, adding that onlythrough civil disobedience can citizensspark the social mo\€ment necessary toget the attention of those in power.

"These are wars that are totallv un-justiffed," he said.

Zinn believes the circumstances inIraq and Afghanistan are misguidedideas concerning when it is right to goto war and disagrees with the decisionto invade Afghanistan after Sept. 11, in-stead suggesting that itwould have beenmore appropriate to send teams to ap-prehend the culprits, Osama bin Ladenand Al Oaeda, behind the attacks.

"This was one of the most stupidthings that could be done. Of coursestupidity is not beyond this administra-tion," Zinn said.

The Bush administration's tac-tics following the attacks on the World

Trade Center, invading another counFywithout any definite idea of the terror-ists' location, were essentially t€rroristactions themselves, Zinn said.

"The result is that you have becomea terrorist, the nation had become a ter-rorist nation," Zinn said, defining theword "terrorism" as the hlling of inno-cent people for some presumed goal.

Zinn compared the actions of theU.S. in A-fghanistan to a police chiefsearching for a criminal in a neighbor-hood. and after being unable to find thesuspect, bombing the entire neighbor-hood. an action that would have re-sulted in the chief being put on trial formurder.

"The leaders of this country shouldbe put up on trial for what they did whentley attacked, invaded and bombed Af-ghanistan," Zinn said.

The war in Afghanistan is un ust,against international law and has prob-ably created more terrorists than it elim-inated, Zinn argued.

"From a moral point of view theUnited States had absolutely no right tosend an army into haq or bomb kaq,"Zinn said, calling the war a moral mon-strosity

There are moral iustifications for vi-olence, such as selfdefense, he said, butthese iustifications do not extend to ouractions in Iraq, as he believes they werein no position to harm the U.S.

Zinn said the U.S. should pull troopsout of Iraq as swiftly and elficiently aspossible.

Turning his thoughts to the upcom-ing election, Zinn noted how little dif-ference there is between the two majorcandidates for president, Sen. BarackObama and Sen. John McCain.

"We know that half the populationdoesn't go to the polls to vote for thepresident and the most liJely reason is

that they don't see enough of a differ-ence." he said.

lVhen asked how college studentsshould view sociery Zinn encouragedthem to become actively engaged andlook to the examples set by previousgeneranons.

"Iook at the example of the youngblack students of the 1960s who wentout into the streets, sat in. went on free-dom rides or protested." Zinn said.

"They decided, like the youngpeople of \4etnam, not to sit quietly astheir world turned in a way they did notagree. "

Historian, playwright and social activist Howard Zinn speak5 to students Oct,9 at the TivoliTurnhalle. Zinn,who was fired from Spellman College in Atlanta in 1963 for insubordination, shared his view on the currentwars in lraq and Afghanistan, calling the invasion of lraq baseless and unjust. He also encouraged students toforce change through civil disobedience. (Photo by caitlin cibbons,/caibbon4@mscd.edu)

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JIMMIE BRALEYjbraley@mscd.edu

of obtaining people's personal infor-

mation. Why it is not illegal for her,

or anyone else rvith obvious political

incentive, to possess and dial my tele-

phone number at rvill is beyond my

understanding but well within the

realm of things I lind to be unaccept-

able and n'orthy of personal anger.

I was worried, and it wasn't the

first time that something like this has

happened. I suddenly began to won-

der n*ro else might decide to inter-

rupt me at rvhater€r time they sa!i'fit

for exclusively political reasons.

"How manY PeoPle are I'ou call-

ing about this?" I asked.

"Um, r,t'ell, rve are calling every

registered Democrat in Arapahoe

Countl'," she said."That's quite a lot ol pcople,' I

told her. "Tlris rnusi he ir pretty big

restaurant."' 'Oh

ies. sir. rltc saitl hallheart-

cdly "lt is ver-n- big."

llolv they r,rerc planning b fit

e.,'ery l)emocrat in Arapahoe County

inside onc rcstaurant, I had no idea.'l'he fire department lvould never

agrec to it. I3ut I thought it best that I

Ieave my personal curiosities at bay I

didn't want to prolong our conversa-

tion any more than needed.

By God, I lvas troubled. There rvas

certainly no chance that I rvould do

anything she asked, but hervoice had

an air of sweetness to it that made me

reluctanl to scream louclly into the

receiver and hang up, even though it

was clearly the right thing to do.

Elerything rvas falling apart be-

cause of this lvoman. I lyas just get-

ting to the nucleus of my column and

now she had stolen my concentration

away and forced me into some other

realm of thought."l 'm not sure about this," I told

her. "[ mean, I am a student. I am

busy', 1,ou knorru'? I can't be expected

to plan ahead all the way to Sunda]'.Besides, as of right non', my deci-

sion lvhether or not to vote lor l]dall

is resting heavily on the remarkable

growth of Bob St haffer's left canine

tool-h. Hale you seen it?"

She didn't ansner the queslion,

but I suspet ' l tha l i f I had g( )nc in

somc othcr dfection n'ith our con-

versation thal she might har' 'e gotten

llrc rvrong idea and signed mc up lbr

something I wanted n() part of.

ButJ w-as making a scrious Point.Bob Schaffer's lelt canine tooth seems

to be at lcast one eighth of an inch

longer than its counterpart on the

right. That is a fundamentally intoler-

able mallormation lbr a U.S. senator

to hare. And. religious and political

viervs notwithstanding. it is reason

enough for me to Vote against him.

"So, can w€ count on you, N{r.

Braley?" she asked."No," I told her. "But you could

make one hell of a political state-

menl wi lh that man s tooth . lmagine

it. You could make him out to be a

blood-sucking oil junkie."

trt'ith that, she u'ished me a good

evening and hung up, and by the time

I erased u,hatever I had writtenbefore

ourconversation, she was backon her

telephone bothering someone else.

These people ought to be made to

pay for being such public nuisances.

To ask that a person leave the com-

fort of their home on a Sunday, the

most despicable of all days, in order

to shor,r' up some place and serve as

a political dummy for a wannabe,

hippie senator pushes the limit of

human deccncy, and I could never

in good consciencc commit myself to

such an abhorrent ullair.

Besides. they l,"ould alnost cer-

tainll' have made mc rcmove my hat.

That is unacceptablc.

THE POINT: How do the polit icaltelemarketers get our numbers, anyway?

Taking time for cCImpaign calle,'sI lvas just getting around to mtrk-

ing sense of a column I was writing

about the euphemistic "Security

and Prosperitir Partnership of North

America" r,r'hen I was rudel-v inter-

rupted by a telephone call frotn a

n'oman \iith the lvlark Udall lbr tLS.

Senate campaign.''Am I spezrking nlth a Mr. Jimmie

Braley?" she asked $.ith a presumptu-

ous tone."Probably," I said.

Aiter a short pause she contin-

ued. "... My name is Brandy and I am

calling on behalf of Mark Udall."

Having recently sent gut anumber

of fraudulent e-mails to vadous politi-

cal campaigns around the state, I r.tas

at least a little concerned about rvhat

this person might be calling me [or.

"l know u'ho he is," I responded

sharply 'And I hate Boulder."

"Well, that's OK," she said. "The

reason I am calling you, st, is that

we have in our records that you are

a registered Democrat and recently

participated in the caucuses. lVe

would like to invite you to meet \{r.

Ldall on Sunday at 4 o'clock."

She proceeded to mention the

name of a restaurant rvhere tldall

n'as planning to hold a gathering, but

I wasn't thinking straight. nor was I

paying her cnough attention to [lraspthe name. I found mysell profounclly

curious about this w'oman's nteans

akomsed

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HosB l{ick Prueher (left) and Joe Pickett introduce a video clip at a recent tound Footage Festival in NewYork.

This is gour ffrst lislt to Denver; what iloAou hava in store for vlewer'r/Nlck Prueher: We've got an action-packedIineup of found VHS oddities planrtpd,' includ-ing training videos. home movies. exhpise vid-eos and one video featuring full-fronial malenuditylHow otten ib yau 1rut togedur a movie?

foe Pickett This is our fourth year of the shoru.It's kind of a needle in a haystack to find thesetapes, so once we've found enough we can put .together a new show.What furil of rcacliorc ib you eqcct

Iram a frrst aime 4iudien@'?NP: The main thing we want people to do islaugh. That's the aim of thefestival. But if you'releft feeling awestruck or disturbed or scared forhumanity, that's perfectly valid too.What's the mcssage Aur are trylng to senil?

IP: It's a comedy show nothing more. Peoplecan walk away with whatever they want. Wedon't force anlthing doram people's throats.Personally, I think how stupid these corporatetraining videos are, and it says a lot about cor-porations and about how detached they arefrom their actual employees, Everyone's smil-ing; everyone's enthusiastic; everlone's happy

. to clean a bathroom.ls it ililfrcrtlt tn iuggle the projet with gour

- ilay-to-ilay lives? I)o your real lobt suffer?NP: It's always great when something you lovedoing, a hobby, can become successful, so theFound Footage Festival is a great gig. Joe andI both have othbr part-time iobs. He works at

The Onion, I work at The Colbert P€port andwrite funny greeting cards for a company calledNoLtleWorks - and yes, the festival does tend toeat into those other gigs. As a matter of fact, Ishould be writing greeting cards right now.Wherc ilo the mwies come from? Do youwer harlc puple sabmlt viilcz.s?

JP: It's mostly stulT that wasn't intended for amass audience. It's funny because these videosare meant for people to watch by themselves ina break room or do an exercise by yourself in'your

living room. I think.that's the charm of thesttqw really. I think its cathartic too, !o watcha training video with a group where you canmake fun of it rather than iust by yourself in abreak room.People know what we're doing, they know whatkind of videos we like. So whenever we do ashow in a dilferent town, people bring videos tothe shows or theylll tell us about a video we haveto see. Whenever we go to new towns we alwaysvisit the Salvation Army or look for estate salesthat are going on. That's how the show is able toperpetuate itself.NP; We hope that some peopld who come to tleshow become inspired to look for footage at lo-cal thrift stores and send us the best.stulf, That'show we keep the show going.Ihyouworry about finiling enough cbn@nt?

fP: Actually when we first started the show wethought that we would be done after the firstvolume. We didn't know there were so manystupid. videotapes out there. There just seemslike there's an endless supply.

Imagine the worst corporatetraining video you've seen.

Or better vet. remember thathome movie vou made withvour cousins after vou sawStarWars for the first time?

You probably forgot allabout it, and the tape made itsway into the just right handsthanks to a grage sale ourvour local thrift store.-

Found Footage Festival cre-ators Joe Pickett and NickPrueher.sat down with TheMetropolitan to talk about theirnewest volume of embarasing,weird and alwavs hilariousvideo clips.

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How iliilthe project get startnil?NP: I found a McDonald's training video backin high school and showed it to Joe, and we be-came obsessed with it. We would invite friendsover and show them the video, along with ourrunning commentary This video was so enter-taining that we thought, I wonder what othervideos are right under our noses. That startedour quest to look in out of tle way places likethrift stores and garage sales and garbage binsfor otler discarded VHS tapes. Four years ago,we decided to take our collection out of the liv-ing room and into a theater and, to our-surprise,it really struck a chord with people.What is tln story belrinil the rloman trearr.-lng the taczmask!NP: We found this cosmetic device called theRejuvenique Facial Toning System at a Good-will in Queens N.Y It's basically a mask withmetal probes on the inside that send electricalimpulses to your face, and it's one of the mostterrifying things you'll ever see. Something llkethat catches your attention on the shelf of athrift store. Upon further inspection, we foundthat the crazy device came with an instruction-al video that showed how touse it.It is unbeliev-ably frightening.How long is the eiliting process?

fP: We do all the editing ourselves andthat's the most time consuming pa-rt.

We started making this show in February,and we finished it in late April. Most of thesevideos are like 60 minutes long. and we haleto whittle them down. There's a lot of wadine

through the bad stuff.Ifow ls t]re chow strucarreili

fP: It's hosted lile by us. We have 14 videos,and they are about four minutes long on aver-age. And we inftoduce it, ta]k about where wefound it and give some backstory. We just love tomale smartass comments.We also do some livecomedy based on some of the videos, They canbe tedious and hard to watch and we considerourselves tour guides to these stupid vidms.

Watd a trailer at foundfootagefestival.comCreepyfacemask ladywill make herDenver debutat the FoundtootageFestival;8:30 p.m.Filday atthe StanFilm Center.

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Cup fumbling, beer festival stumblingByRICKBROWNbrownric@mscd.edu

Once a year, tens of thousands of beer drinkersfrom all over the nation gather at the Great Ameri-can Beer Festival, held over tlrree days at the Colo-rado Convention Center.

What lollows are only pieces of the night, rec-ollected through snippets of tape-recorded conver-sation. As a warning: My memory of the night iseven less coherent than what made it onto the taperecorder., 4:16 p.m - Mars arrives at my place, making

our party complete. Nate, Shoshana, Mars and I sitdourn to have a pre-beer for the beer festival. Oneturns into three, and we decide to head out.

. 6:07 p.m. - A quick side note: Everyone at thebeer festival is given a small plastic cup to samplebeer with.

If hdrinkerweretoeverdroptheirplasticcup, theyurouH be ieered at by the onlooking crowd. I deddedto makp 2 gs66 9f this, to Fy and hrock rry friends'cups out of their hands, ;nuch to their diimay

There is one rule to tlds game though, if youshould ever choose to play it with your friends- there shall be no knocking of the cupth down ifspirits be contained within.

6:10 p.m. - We get to tle convention center. and I walk through the turnstile. I feel like s L16 ' ucandy store - there are 500 different breweries withmore than I,OOO dillerent beers. Pretzel necklaces,all kinds of different swag, men and women liter-ally wearing beer goggles.

Have my prayers been answered? Have I died

and gone to beer heaven? Within minutes of thegroup walking into the convention center, thegame is afoot.

Cups dropped:Rick-l Nate-0 Shoshana-1 Mars-l

6:53 p.m. -I quietly utter "Shoshana's alreadydrunk," to which she nofso-politely responds, "NoIamN0L"

Cups dropped:Rick-1 Nate-O Shoshana-3 Mars-3

7:O6 p,m. - Nate takes the time to register a '

formal complaint with my recorder. "There arenot nearly enough chewties at this event. Mostof these chicks are a five, five-and-half." I can beheard laughing the whole time. I should mentionthat I did find a beer I liked. Its the only beer I namethroughout the whole taping - Lazy Bee Lager,brewed by Rochester Mills Beer.

7:30 p.m. - "I arn only semidrunk. I need to getmore drunk."

7:36 p.m. - "It is only 7:36 and Shoshana is al-ready this drunk" To which she replies, "Fuck offRick." To rvtrich I reply "Thiiiiiiis drunk,"

Cups dropped:Rick-2 Na0e-O Shoshana-3 Mars-3

8:00 p.m. - "It is 8 o'clock and Shoshana is a

IERKI" Somewhere along the way I knocked Mars'cup out of her hand, and it broke. The cup couldstill hold beer, but now the plastic base has beenbroken oII to a sharp lagged piece.

I yell at Shoshana because she has knocked thesnaggle-tooth cup out of my hand and cracked itfurther. At this point, m14 plastic prison shank is

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leaking too. Its ability to hold precious beer hasbeen greally comprimised.

8:13 p.m. - I have "only gotten more drunk."Nate says he has "ncit gotten anymore drunk."

Cups droppedRick-2 Nate-O Shoshana-3 Mars-3

9:OO p.m. - I arn "completely trashed."9:?? p.m. - Nate grabs my voice recorder. "9

a.m., (sic) the zero hour. All right...tree flight...chophouse...alien nation..." Nate is omcially feeling theeffects of drinking since 4 p.m.

.9:45 p.m. - We are "fucked up." At this point

Shoshana, Nate and I decide to count our losses,leave the beer festival and jump on the light railhome.

We lost Mars somewhere along the walk to theUght Rail. I attempt to call her on rny cell phone,but alas, I am iust too drunk at this time to reallyfunction.

Usually I would not end my night before 1Op.m. on a Saturday, but then I tbink that at thispoint any more beer will end in two ways:

A) lots of vomiting or81 spending the night in deto(.So I make the smart€st decision of the night

and jump on the light rail home.Final cup score:

Rick+ome Nate{' Shoshana-A lot Mars-A lotI rnde it home safely and passed out with ques-

tions swirling in my head, How many beers r,rrerehied? How many cups dropped? How many spilled?

What I can say for sur€ is that I accomplishedmy beer festival goal - drink sorne beer.

NEW APPLES,WINDOWS,PEE sTICKsByDREWJAYNESaiavnesL@mscd.edu

MacBookredesign

Apple unveiled its updated lineof MacBook notebooks this week inan apparent attempt to give holidayshoppers an early start for the season.

Standard upgrades apply, suchas lighter cases, increased hard drivespace, faster processors, improvedtouchpad technology and bettergraphics handling. There has beenmuch speculation in tech communi-ties over whether Apple would dropprices to reach a bigg;er audience- not so much on this one.

The new MacBook Pro notebookwill retail for $1999 with a2.4 GIIzprocessor and 2 GB of RAM. Its high-er-performance sibling boasts a totalof 4 GB of RAM and a slightly faster .2.53 GIIz processor, for $2499.

New MacBooks, retailing at$999, will have a lighter and morerobust casing made of aluminumand will be a smaller version of thenew MacBook Pro notebooks in stvl-ing, form and function.

Lightatthe end oftheVista tunnel?

Microsoft's newest operatingsystem, which was codenamed Win-dows 7, will now be officially called...Windows 7.

The software giant has long beenunder pressure to roll out a com-plet€ly rewritten operating systemas a viable altemative to WindowsVista, and many hope Windows 7will be the answer tbey are lookingfor. In recent years, Apple has begunto encroach on tle long-held marketshare Microsoft has enioyed,

USPee

Home pregnancy testing has of-ficially gone higb-tech. A companycalled PIbq unveiled a USB preg-nancy testing system earlier this yearthat tales home testing to completelynew levels,

It's a USB stick, with a slot for testsfips in one end. You still pee on atest strip then uncap the other end,plug it into your computer for an in-depth analysis of what's happeningdown under.

The device immediately starlsthe ionization process to determinewhether you are pregnant and willshow an image of a baby, no baby oreven multiples,

Based on your hormone levels,the device can also determine the es-timated delivery date if you're preg-nant. PTeq's USB Pregnancy testingsystem retails for just under $20 andcomes with 20 testing strips,

ASK KALI

. Kali Fajardo was raised in theshamanic nadition by the vast uni-verse with some help from her par-ents, grandparents and peyote.

She leads a crew of 3OO orpharsin her barrio and gives them daily ad-vice on how to use cmsswalks prop-erly and what shampoos will maket hem smell likeable.

Her ailvice may not be truthlul orsensible, but boy is it relevant to yourturbulent life as a student.

Kali, My bouftiendandl are going tndjllerent sdtools. Should I make it work,or would it be better to spend time withthe other flr,h in.the sea?

Dear Fisherwoman,Start fishing, girl. Remember

when you were a little kid and you'dget really scared of something, but

instead of actually hiding, you'd just

close your eyes, like you thought thewhole world would disappear andeverything would be back to normalif you couldn't see it? Men never get

over this. When you aren't around,you don't exist. So, he's probably al-ready moved on to some spicy newtuna, and you will be stuck as lastweek's leltover sushi.

There is akidinmy class u'ho lalkswag too much. How do I shut him upi

Dear Verbally-oppressed,To put an end to the vocal tyr-

anny bring your little'cousin andall their daycare-spreading germs tociass one dav

Dress the child like a leprechaunand airn them right in the loudmouth's face. Not only will the sigbtrender him speechless due to sheerconfusion, but the kid's gerrns willfloat through the air, inciting a badsore throat.

After getting really sick and evenmore perplexed. he'll think twiceabout relaying the details of hiscamping trip to Garden of the Godswhile tle rest of the class is discuss-ing the Civil War.

If youhave a questionfor Kali, sendit to metroadvice@gmail,com, and it willbe ansnered, with chritg anil anonymity

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Iom Martinet of las Vegas and his dog Annie t]ayeled to Denyer during the Democatic National.Conteniiin-iiiiiiii iil; ii;,il;;d;gbama merdrandise - ftom 0bama dog tags to magneti(.<ar pott€R. Martinet was found sellihg his goods during the entiremekof tlreomlrtion on the 16$1 Strcet Mall.

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lhough $erc arc manydifferent$pes of politiolmerchandisg fiepolitical button b stilla top-sellerduring the ompaigning months.

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Even thougli there is.dnough slarfrom each side of the par$ line, somecal fashion in an artistic t'ay,'

Computer graphics have allowedillustrations of Barack Obama's famiifaces in front of a waving American flz

The vendors selling political clotlStreet Mall sell Obama clothing bec.umany pieces of clothing'that advocate

Ali Nacoulma, an immigrant lioand a cart vendor on 16th and CObdma T-shirts ftom tle flea market aItourists and browsers.

His cart features hats, beanies anilgans such as "The Only Ttuth That StObama" that range from $ 10 to S I 5.

"I tried to get Mccain things last ti:tit. I went to the flea market many timehave it," Nacoulma said.

Tariq Hakeem, who recendy movalso sells strictly Obama clothing.

The type of clothing on his cart fo<ban attire. The most popular design vuing next to Martin Luther King lr. antI€gacy Continues" printed on the top.

For Hakeem, choosing to sell Obmore personal reasons thdn lor profft.

"I don't endorse McCain. And Nris black. I'm a black man. I'm exerc[votiirg," Hakeem said.

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By JLLIE VTTKOVSI(AYAuvitkovsomscd.edu

iRuthless, unpredictable and oftentimeyhilarious

are a few words that describe the frenzied pplitical fash-ion sense o[ tiis election. No matter how-tasteless thegirrunick, it can be found on T-shirts, .bumper stickersand even women's lingerie.

Showing support for a favorite poUtician is no lon-ger a picket sign with big, bold letters of the candidate'sname stuck in the liont yard. It rne-ans pulling out themost original way to advocate, or butcher, the image ofa political frontrunner.

The more cutthroat the slogan, the more clear themessage.

There are no lines that haven'tbeen crossed in slan-

derous l-ashion "advertising." The race for the White

House created a new contest itself: the pursuit to see

which side can be more clever or more damaging.

Buttons and pins have been the most stable way

to express one's fervor, even for the fashion impaired.

They're cheap and quick to dispose of in case of a sud-

den change of heart.

During the elections of the 196Os, bu$on slogans

were relatively tame in their rhetoric. Briel catchy

phrases such as "LBJ, AII the Way" and "I l,ike Ike" were

nothing compared to the brilliant rhjryning abilities of

today.With enough con@nbation, the public has come

up with shorts like 'A Vo0e for McCain is Wrong and in

Vain" and "No2O".

THE METROPOTITf,N*8 PAEES OF GOUERREE

ith the election quickly approaching, and Colorado's electoralvotes hanging in the balance, The Metropolitan brings you a guideto keep you informed on one of the most important elections in

historSr Beyond the presidential election, Colorado voters are facing a ballotpacked with 14 initiatives ranging in substance from defining when lifebegins to funding college education.

The Colorado senatorial race is also garnering national attention as theDemocrats have 60 Senate seats in their sights.

Whether you vote red, blue or green in this election, the nation and thestate will be irrevocably changed Nov. 4.

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2OO8 lmrrrrooN *. Senate RaceCOMPILED BY DAN WILLIAMSDWILLIAMS@MSCD.EDU

MARK UDALL (D)

Tagged as the "Boulder Liberal "

Rep. Mark Udall has representedColorado's District 2, which includesBroomfield, Clear Creek, Eagle, Gil-pin, Grand and Summit counties aswell as Boulder, sin ce 1999 .

Udall, w*to lives with his tl'ife,attorney Maggie Fox, and their twochildren near Eldorado Springs, en-tered politics in 1997 as a represen-tative in the Colorado State House.

Udall has served on various com-mittees during his tenure, includingthe House Armed Services Commit-tee and the House Natural ResourcesCommittee, that have given him aplatform to address many issues im-portant to Colorado.

Udall has tried to work acrossthe aisle to bring together politicians

from both parties to meet the needsof his constituents.

This style has allowed him towork in a bipartisan fashion to pass

legislation to turn Rocky Flats, theformer nuclear weapons facility, intoa wildlife refuge, protect many ofColorado's wildemess areas, estab-lish a math and science scholarshipprogram and secure transportationfunding for high-priority proiects inColorddo.

The Denver Post has endorsedUdall, pointing 6o his bipartisan ef-forts as well as his environmentalwork as the reason he should be the'next Senator.

BOB SCHAFFER (R)

Bob Schaffer was the youngestperson to serve in the Colorado StateHouse, when at the age of 25 he wasappointed to finish Sen. Jim Beatty'sterm in 198 7.

He then went on to representColorado's District 4 in the U.S. Con-gress, serving only three terms beforeleaving Congress despite pleas fromPresident Bush to run again.

As a C.olorado Senator, he waschairman of the Finance Committeeand t}le State Veterans and MilitaryAffairs Committee. He was awardedtle "National Republican tegislatorof theYear for 1995," by the NationalRepublican tegislators Association.

So he could campaign full time,Schaffer resigned in Dec. 20O7, asvice president for business development at Aspect Energy, a privately

held independent exploration andenergy investment company,

During his time in Congress representing Fort Collins, where he liveswith his wife Maureen and their fivechiklren, Schaffer earned a reputa-tion as a tax reforrner and an advo-cate lor improvements in public edu-cation.

Schafler continues to work to-ward better educaton opportunitiesin Colorado in his role as vice presi-

dent of the Colorado State Board ofEducation.

. Ballot Issues

AM E N DMENT 116: AFFI RMATIVEACTION

The Colorado Civil Rights Initia-tive would prohibit discrimination orpreferential treatment in education,public employment and public con-tracts. Colorado Civil Rights Initia-tive, a coalifion working to pass theamendment, sponsors the measure.

"We don't want people to look atus and say 'you're just here becauseof your race or gender."' CCRI Assis-tant Director and UCD student KateMelvin said.

This is the fourth attempt to getsuch a measure onto the Coloradoballot.

"The number of signatures wecollected is a reflection of the this be-ing the right time, " Melvin said. Morethan 120,000 signatures were col-lected, twice the number necessaryto get the measure on the ballot.

Mebo enrollment processeswould not be affected, though someprivate scholarships could be ifAmendment 46 passes.

Opponents of the amendment,which include the Colorado Coun-cil of Churches and Gov Bill Ritter,have unsuccessfully challenged themeasure in court several times, firstarguing it violated Colorado's singlesubject rule, then challenging the va-lidity of the sigrratures gathered.

The Metm State Board of Trusteesdeclared their opposition to Amend-ment 46 at its Sept. 3 meeting.

Exactly what Amendment 46rvould cost if passed cannot be de-termined at this time as there are amultitude of government agencies,including public colleges, that wouldbe affected, according to a fiscal im-pact statement by the Colorado I,eg-islative Coulcil.

AMENDMENT rt8: DEFINITION OFA PERSON

Colorado would become the firststate in the nation to legally definewhen life begins iI Amendment 48passes.

The measure would extend theterm "person" to any fertilized hu-man embryo, a move that is seen bymany as a fust step in overturningRoe v Wade and criminalizing abor-tion.

Kristi Burton, a member of thegrassroots anti-abortion group Colo-rado for Equal Rights, wrote the mea-sure. Establishing when life begins isan important issue for Colorado, Bur-ton said, and the measure is a goodway to start dialogue on the subiect.

"Our laws in Colorado aren'tclarffied," Burton said.

Opponents, such as PlannedParenthood, argue that the amend-ment would criminalize the routineprescription of some forms of birthcontrol, such as the pill, because theythin the lining of the uterus, prevent-

ing implantation of fertilized eggs."I think it's misleading and de-

ceptive. It has serious consequences,"Leslie Durgin, a senior vice president

of Planned Parenthood of the RockyMountains said.

Amendment 48 faced legal chal-lenges prior to being added to theballot. Opponents challenged themeasure in Nov. 20O7. in front of the

Colorado Supreme Court, arguingit violated the state's single-subiectrule.

While the measure would nothave any immediate costs, accordingto a fiscal impact statement by theColorado legislative Council, it couldin the future due to potential legalchallenges.

Durgin said the amendmentwould change 20,000 laws at thestate level,

"How much would it cost tochange 20,000 laws?" she said.

Gov Bill Rltter, who is opposedto the amendment, call€d it a legalnightmare at an Oct. 7 press confer-ence.

AMENDMENT 50: LIMITEDGAMBLING

Gambling in towns such as Cen-tral City could take place 24 hours aday, seven days a week with increasedmaximum bets if the amendmentpasses.

In addition to increasing tlemaximum from $5 to $lOO, casinosin Black Hawk, Cripple Creek andCentral City would have the option ofadding craps or roulette tables.

Community Colleges across Colo-rado would benefit from the increased .revenues, with 78 percent headedtheir way if t}le measure passes. Inthe first yeal following approval,Colorado's community college sys-tem, made up of 13 colleges acrosslhe srate, would receive an estimated

$29 million. with the amount in-creasing each year. according to a lis-cal impact statement by the ColoradoLegislative Council.

The measure is supported by theSay Yes on 50! campaign and has noregislered opposition committee.

"This amendment would helpmany fund the community collegeswho are a critical piece of the edu-cational pipeline in Colorado," MeboPresident Stephen ]ordan said.

Meho has a large percentage ofstudents who have transferred fromcommunity colleges,

"I am also in support of theamendment because it provides an-other avenue of funding to a highereducation institution," lordan said.

The Metm Board of Trustgeschose to support Amendment 50 ata Sept. 3 meeting.

AMENDMENT 58: PROMISESCHOLARSHIP

A severance tax on oil and gas

extracted in Colorado would end ifAmendment 58 passes, increasingsales tax by $32I.4 million annually,

a large portion of lvhich would fund

college scholarships.

The majority of the increase, 60

percent, would be used for the Colo-

rado Promise Scholarship fund, a

movement that was spearheaded by

Gov BilI Ritter. Scholarships would

be given to sludents attendinS, in-

state colleges and n'ould be based on

their famiiies' adjusted gross income

as virell as the number of students

that family has enrolled in college.

Of the remaining money Iiom

the severance tax, 15 percent would

go to areas impacted by the oil and

gas industry 15 percent would go

to wildlife habitats and 1O percent

would go to clean energy proiects.

The National Taxpayers Union

opposes the amendment and recent-

ly sent an open letter to the citizens of

Colorado, urging them to vote no on

5 8 that was signed by 90 economists,

including Mefro economics professor

Arthur Fleishcer.

Fleischer did not respond to re-

peated requeits for cornment.

The Meho Board of Trustees sup-

ports Amendment 58.

OTHER BALLOT ITEMS:

Referendum I- Candi-

date Requirements

Would lolr'er the miiimum age

of a candidate for the Colorado House

and Senate from 2 5 to 21.

Referendum M: Obsolete Con-

stitutional Provisions

Would amend the Colorado Con-

striction to eliminate obsolete con-

stitutional provisions regarding land

value increases.

Referendum N: Obsolete Con-

stitutional Provisions

Eliminate language concerning

the outdated ban on importing, man-

ufacturing and selling tainted alco-

hol, which dates back to the original

Colorado Constitution of 1876. and

the era of tainted moonshine. This

provision is no longer in use,

Referendum O: Initiative Proc€ss

The measure, i{ apprwed, wou-ld

all€r t}le requf€ments for initiatives in

Colorado. The measure would make it

harder for citizens to place constitu-

tional arirendments on the Colorado

ballot for voter approval but easier to

call a vote on state statutes.

It would increase the signatrtre re-

quirement for constitutional amend-

ments by more than 15,000. reduce

lhe signature requirement for placing

a new state law on the ballot, add a

distributiori requirement requiring at

least 8 percent of petition signaturcs

to be gathered in each congressional

district and establish an earlier dead-

line for fiIing initiatives.

Amendment 47: Right-to-Work Initiative

Prohibit unions and employersfrom negotiating "union shop" con-tracts under which employees wouldbe required to pay union member-ship or "agency" fees as a conditionof continued employment.

Amendment 49: Limitafion onPublic Payroll Deductions Initiative

Would bar automatic union duesdeductions from public employeepayrolls.

Amendment 5l: Sales Tax forDevelopmentally Disabled Initiative

Would increase sales tax to fundservices for the developmentally dis-abled. The tax would be implementedin two parts. in ]uly 2009 and againin fuly 2010.

Amendment 52: Severance Taxand Transportation Initiative

Under current state law, halfof all severance-td( revenue gener-

ated by energy producers goes tothe Department of tocal Affairs fordistribution to municipalities, withthe other half going to the state'sDepartment of Natural Resources,where it is again divided in half, withone half going to the Colorado WaterConservation Board for loans for wa-lf,r projects, and the other half going

to programs related to mineral ex-traction. clean energy development,low-income energy assistance andspecies conservation.

This proposal would freeze thecurrent dollar amount going to theDNR to what it receives today, or $ 78million for fiscal year 2008-09 ac-cording to the Colorado LegislativeCouncil Ballot Analysis Draft, allow-ing for yearly increases only in linewith inflation. Any revenue gener-

ated by the tax over and above thisamount r,l'ould go directly into trans-portation fundigg.

Amendment 5i1.: Clean Gov-ernment lnitiative

Would close a remaining loop-hole in Colorado election law by ban-ning the practice of "pay to play." Inpolitics, pay to play refers 0o a system,akin to payola in the music industry,by which one pays (or must pay)money in order to become a player.

The common denominator of allforms of pay to play is that one mustpay to "get in the game," with thesports analogy frequently arising.

Amendment 59: Savings At-count for Education Initiative

Would create a savings accountwithin the State Education Fund,to be funded from l0 percent of themonies deposited into the State Fdu-cation Fund, including revenue thatwould othenrr'ise be rebated underthe TABOR (Taxpayer's Bill of Rights)rules, ll'trich the measure calls for di-

. verting to the State Education Fund.

Ecfor pe$egc of ttc 12tl /lnsodueot ln 1t0l, vicc prerid:ntr rcre thc cedlldrtce rho rccdvcd the r

frre ELECroNl2OOSDenver has threeways to vote

.Vote by mailVoters who want a mail-inballot must apply beforehandMail in balloti niust be returned:1. by maiJ (ieturnpostage $ 1.17), or2, in person at the ElectionsDivision by 7 p.m. onElection Day, or3. in person between thehours of 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.at any early voting site, or4. in person on BlectionDay at any of the city's 18 5polling places by 7 p.m.

. Vote early1. Appear in person at anyone of the early voting sites:Monday, Oct.20, 2008 toSaturday, Oct. 2 5, 2008Monday, Oct. 27 ,2OO8 toFriday. Oct. 31,2008Early voting hours:11 a .m. -7p .m.2. Or, appear in person atthe Denver Elections DMsionolfice, 3888 E. Mexico Ave.:Monday, Oct. 20,2008 toSaturday, Oct. 25,2008Monday, Oct. 27,2OO8toFriday, Oct.31,2008Early voting hours:8 a . m . - 7 p . m .3. Be prepared to showthe registration judgeyour identification.4. Vote on a paper ballot (or onan electronic touch screen votingmachine, provided primarilyfor voters with disabilities).

.Vote on Election Day1. Appear at your assignedpolling place between thehours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.2, Be prepared to show anacceptable form of idenffication.3. Sign the paper poll book,and receive a paper bal-lot from the ballot judge.4. Vote on a paper ballot (or onan electronic touch screen vot-ing machine, provided primarilyfor voters with disabilities).

FOR MORE INFORMATIONON DENVER:www.denvervotes.comor call 3l l

lf vou live outside ofth-e County of Denver

www.co.adams.co.usor call 303-920-7850

www.ara pa hoevotes.comor call 303-795-4511

www.cojefferson.co.usor call 303-271-8186

www.douglasvotes.comor caf l 303-560-7441

www.bouldercounty.org/clerkor calf 303-413-7740

FOR MORE INFORMATIONREGARDINGTHESTATE IN GENERAL:www.elections.coloradq.ggy.

James Boswell, the last person in line, awaits his opportunity to vote at'9:4€, p.m. Nov. 7, 2006, at the voting center in theTivoli3 Multicultural Lounge, whichopened at 7 a.m. A reported 1,176 voters cast their ballots at Auraria. Despite long waits, those who were in line by 7 p.m. were allowed to vote. lt was thefirst time a voting center was set up on the campus. (Metfopolitan File Photo)

New offico, process8Y ANDREW FLOHR.SPENCESPENCAN D@MSCD.EDU

WihJT#T*'-"Tnthe process, or at least a new addresson the envelope.

Denver's election olfice is undernew leadership, has a new name,a new structure and even a new lo-cation, and they have made majorchanges to the way Denver voterswill cast ballots.

The redesign is an attempt toredeem the city's election officethat two years ago made nationalheadlines lor long voter wait-timesand taking weeks to turn in results.However, the new system makes itsdebut under the added strain of re-cord numbers registered to vote andcity olficials predicting perhaps thehighest voter turnout ever. And thestakes are high. If the city messes upthis time, the state has warned it willcome in and tale charge.

Not OK Computer

Last time Denver u'ent to the pollsfor a maior election - the mid-termelection of 2006 - things didn'tgo so well. An estimated 18,000 to20,000 people missed the chanceto vote because of long lines thatformed when a new computerizedvoting and voter registration system

crashed several times and there wereno backup systems in place.

The last votes were cast as late as10 p.m., with wdb of more than threehours reported at some polling centers.The press called it a debacle. ElectionCornrnissioner Susan Rogers said thewhole thing was embarrassing.

And that night was not the endof it; counting the votes took weekto finish.

As a resu.lt of the scandal. twocommissioners resigned, the cityconducted several investigations, andeventually, the entire election com-mission was nullified. Denrer voted toreplace the mayor-appointed, three-person election comrnission with asingle elected clerk and recorder.

Stephanie O'Malley lr.as electedto the new position in 2007 and sheappointed Michael Scarpello as elec-tions director. The pair had one yearto put together a new system.

Change Denver believes in

"It's really been a top-to-bot-tom reorganization," said Alton Dil-lard. the clerk and recorder's mediaand public relations specialist whowas also with the old commissionin 2006. "There is a lot more clarityaround the chain of responsibilitiesand duties due to the new structure,"he said.

The entire election cornmissionstaff had to reapply for their posi-

tions. They moved in May from theirlocation downtown to a larger officespace in southeast Denver.

They changed voting systems,from all-electronic voting centerswhere anyone can go to paper ballotsback under the neighborhood pre-cincts, a decision, like many of the

changes, made on recommendationsfrom the public by an advisory panelof 26 people formed by O'Malley todesign the new system.

Dillard wams that the electionswon't be perfect and the proiectedhigh number of voters this lear willput the new system to the test. Thereare near$ 100,000 rnore registercdvoters this lear than in 2004. Butmore than 166.0(X) r'oters have aI-ready rcquested mail-in ballots, alrnosthalf of Denver's total registered voters,and another 10 percent are expectedto use early-loting sites, so the pollingplaces shouldn't see long lines, he said.The wait may come with runningthe ballots thmugh the counting ma-chines.

"Paper ballots obviously takemore time to count than the comput-ers do," Dillard said. Counting couldtake until the next morning. "Thedays of the media expecting to knowthe results by 1O p.m. that night areover, but for that the paper is fail-safe," he said.

Dillard said he remembered thefeeling well on Nov. 4, 2006, when

he pulled up to the polling centerat Manual Higb School, respond-ing to a call that the center had suf-fered a "power failure" and saw aline shetching out the building anddown the block around the corner,"It really hit me at that moment thatwe had a big problem on our hands.It has nothing to do witb what we'redoing now" he said.

system verification

"We're going to have a hiccup ortwo. There's going to be some grow-ing pains. But we're positive thatwe're on the right track." Scarpelbtold reporters this surnmer.

And Colorado Secretary o[State Mike Coffman will be mak-ing sure he's right. Another resulto[ the 2OO6 election problems ltasthat Denv€r, along with four otherColorado counties, will be understate oversight for this election.If things go badly this year, the statehas warned it will take control of thenext election.

Vot€rs are also invited to comeand verify the process with their owneyes. The new headquarters for tlecity's election olfice includes. a roomwith windows on tlree sides wherethe public can watch the votes beingcounted. And to top it off, the count-ing will be filmed by closed circuitcamera to review in case anythinggoes wrong.

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OBAMAON ISSUES

F€onomy - Obama has said'he would provide irn immediate$1,000 energy rebate Paid for bYa tax on oil company pmfits.

Obama's plan also includes.a tax credit of $5OO per workingperson .and $1,000 per workingfamily and eliminating incometaxes for seniors making less than

$5O,0OO per year.Eliminating tax breaks for

companies that outsource theirjobs overseas and investing $150billion in l0 years to advancegreen technologies are key ele-ments to cr€ating jobs in the U.S.,

Obama has said.Obama said he would estab-

lish a "credit card bill of rights"that would prohibit creditors fromcharging interest on fees and re-quire them to apply interest rat€

. increases only toward future debt.

Irnmigration - Barack Obamasaid he supports using additiona.lpersonnel and technology to en-

sure the U.S, borders are secure,Arguing that immigration

raids are ineffective and lead !obroken farnilies, Obama said hewould focus on improving the im-migration system to increase thenumber of legal immigrants en-tering the counhy, and he wouldpunish companies who hire illegalimmigrants.

Obama supports allowing ille-gal irnmigrants living in the U.S. topay a fine, learn English and beginthe citizenship process, and supports working with the Mexicangovernment to improve conditionsthere to dirourage immig:ation.

Health Care - Obama wants toallow individuals to slay with theircurrent health insurance provider

or opt into a government healthinsurance plan,

Either way, Obama has said hewill require insurance companiesto cover pre€xisting conditionsand preventthem lrom overcharg-ing doctors for medical insurance.

Employers, except certainsmall businesses. who do not of-fer i:overage to their employeeswill be required to pay a percent-

age of their payroll to pay for thenational plan, which Obama hassaid will be funded by rolling backBush's tax cuts.

Iraq - Obama supports a phased

withrlrawal.

Gay Marriage - Obama supportscivil unions between gay couplesbut is against gay marriage.

Abodion - Obama supports awoman's right to choose and theRoe v Wade decision.

He has also expressed supportior stem-cell research on embryosdonated by fertility clinics provid-

ed the embryos were created origi-nally for fertility treatment.

Afonrrer 1Republican 1congressmanfor the state ofGeorgia,Bob ,Barrhas been !ia proponent

Law School, $'here he became thefirst black president of the HarvardLaw Review. However, he continuedto spend his summers in Chicago andworked at the Sidley & Austin LawFirm where his future wife, Michellealso worked.

After teaching constitutional law atthe University of Chicago Law School,he served on various educational andphilanthropic boards and practiced Iawas an associate attorney conc€ntratingon cases dealing with civil rights and

neighborhood economic development.Changing the course of his life

once again, Obama entered the racefor Illinois state legislature in 1996.which he won and worked to increasesubsidies for health care and tax creditsfor working families. He also led bipar-tisan efforts to track racial profiling.

In 2004. Obama ran for a U.S.Senate seat, a campaign that he said

brought him closer to people regardlessof race. creed or class.

"What struck me was how much

of what they believed seemed to hold

of the War on Drugs and has saidthe invai;ion of Iraq was a mistake.

fonathan AllenHeartquake'O8 Party

Billed as the"people'spresident,"

JonathanAllen hasworkedprimarily in

the business and said that thereneeds to be a cultural reawakeningin America's heartland. Allenis opposed to offering amnestyto illegal immigrants and saidthat he believes the "unhealthy

hy'persexualization" of America'syouth must be addressed.

Charles fayBoston Tea PartyThe Boston Tea Party sums uptheir platform in the sentence:The Boston Tea Party supportsreducing the size, scope andpower of government at alllevels and on all issues, andopposes increasing the size,scope and power of government

at any level, for any purpose.

fanes IlarrisSocialist WorkersAdvocating for a communistpolitical system, Harris has beena vocal opponent of the deathpenalty and a supporter of theCuban revolution, a movementwhich he participated in.

AIan KeyesArnerica's Indepbndent PartyA former diplomat under theReagan and Republican opponentagainst Barack Obama in theIllinois 2004 Senate race, AlanKeyes is running for president ona pro-life, pro-family, conservativeplatform opposing. The party aldKeyes contends that the two-partysystem has failed America.

Gloria La RivaSocialiem and LiberationSaying that Capitalism is the

BarackObamaBY JAMES KRUGERJ KRUG ER 1 @MSCD.EDU

arack Obama's campaign hasat once been overtaken and be-come synonymous with a single

prominent theme. But for the man whowas to become the first black candidateon a major party ticket, his ambitionsto try and mal<e a difference began appropriately: He simply felt he needed tomake a change.

"There wasn't much detail to theidea...When college classmates in col-

lege asked me just what it was that a

community organizer did, I couldn'tanswer them directly Instead, I'dpronounce on the need for change,"Obama wrote in his book Dreams y'om

My Father.At the time, a young Obama had

graduated from college and landed agood-paying iob at a business firm inNew York City. He had a secretary andwas amassing a good number of suits,

but his airns drew him elsewhere.The son of a Kenyan imrnigmnt

and a white woman ftom Kansas,Obama struggled early to come to0erms with who he was. With a fatherabsent most of his life, his mother andhis working-class maternal grandpar-

ents raised him in Hawaii, althoughthe mother and son did move to Indo-nesia lor a time.

Obama moved !o CaMornia to at- .tend Occidental College, wherelp'be-came friends with blacks involved withthe black power movement, whoserage toward whites was something hedidn't share. Drinking more and dab-bling with drugs, Obama moved on toNew York to attend Columbia Univer-sity, where he found his focus and dis-cipline renewed.

. Following the death of a Kenyan' half-brother whom he never knew

Obama quit his job in New York anddevoted his time to civic causes tryingto find a purpose and quickly findinghimself broke and hungry

Frustrated. he took a iob in Chica-go for $ 10,000 a year as a communityorganDer working on Chicago's impov-erished south side. There, Obama har-vested the results he had been seekingin his attempts to make a difference.improving conditions for those livingin the dilapidated Altgeld Gardens and

setting up prqgrams for job trainingand college preparation.

Obama then traveled to Kenya tomeet many of his African relatives

for the fust time and, shortly afterhis return in 1988, entered Harvard

Iohn McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin have

called in question Barack Obama's associations with llll-

liam Ayers, a former member of the terrorist group the

Weather U nderground Organization.While he was never convicted of any crime, Ayers ex-

pressed no remorse in 2001 for the dozen building bomb-

ings the group organized from I97O to 1974, according to

a story published by The NewYorkTimes in n*rich he said, "

I feel we didn'tdo enough."'.

Obama has,publicly condemned the group's actions and

contends that he and Ayers relationship was strictly a pro-

fessional one limited to interactions in board meetings andwhen the two would see each other in the Chicago neigh-

borhood n'here they both lived."(Obama) was an 8-year-old child when Ayers and

lhe Weathermen wete aflive. and any altempt to connect

Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous,"reads a statement released by the Obama campaign'

constant across race, region, religion,and class. I told them that govern-

ment couldn't solve all their problems.

But with a slight change in priorities

we could make sure every child had a

decent shot at life and meet tbe chal-

lenges we faced as a nation," he u'rote

in his book The Ar dacity of HoPe.In the Senate, Obama supported

legislation to promote transparency forgovernment spending, energy reform

and a blll for guest workers introducedby Ted Kennedy and John McCain.

Riding the lvave from his sPeechat the 2004 Democratic National Con-lention. Obama announced his run forpresident in Springfleld. lll. Appropri-ately, it was n'here Abraham Lincolnmade his "Nation Divided" speech.

While Obama might reach thehighest level of offrce to effect change,he now needs to prove to voters wheth-er or not that change is more than

rhetoric and that his high ambitionscan actually take form.

THIRDCAND

Chuck BaldwinConstitution PartyEndorsed by former Republican-candidate nominee Ron Paul,pastor Chuck Baldwin has openlylabeled Abraham Lincoln as theworst president in history andhas called for disbanding the

U.S. Department of Fducation.

Bob BarrLibertarian Party

Connections'cloud' campaign

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PARTYDATESpimary source for problemsfacing the world today, Socialismand Liberation Party has calledSocialism the only answer. Theparty's 2008 candidate, GloriaIa Riva. contends that America'scapitalist system creates war,poverty and racism.

Cynthia McKinneyGreen PartyThe first African-American woman

to representGeorgia,CynthiaMcKinneybmke tieswith theDemocratic

Party and ioined the Green Party.McKinney's platform focuses onremoving special interests fromgovernment, paying reparationsto blacks, ending the war on drugsand protecting tbe envinDnmen t.

kadford LytdeU.S. PacifistUsing an equation that the U.S.Pacifist Party argues can prediathe likelihood for nuclear weaponsto be launched, Bradford Lytrle

r has said that civilization is dmmedand counEies should deactivateall nuclear arms to develqnonviolent solutions to conflict.

, hank Edward McEnultyUnafrliatedDisgusted by party politics,Mchulty is running as anadvocate of state's rights anda simplified tax system.

Gcne Amondsonhohibition PartyPublicly admitting that he has nochance of winning the election,

Church of Godminister GeneAdmondsonnonethelesssaid he feelsrulning forpresident

is important in order to get outhis anti-alcohol message.

rBrian MooreSocialist USA PartyEndorsed by the Swedish teft Party,Brian Moore said the economyshould focus on human needand not profit, with cornmunitiescontrolling all industry andfinancial insfltutions.

Ralph NaderUnaffitatedImpeaching President George Bush,cutting military spending andrepealing anti-union laws are just

a few of the goals of Ralph Nader,bho has run for president five times.

tion. The main allegation of the scan-dal n'as that Keating gave contribu-tions of about $ ] I million to variousU.S. Senators, and had called on theSenators to help him resist regulators.

A Senate committee absolved Mc-Cain of any wrongdoing or actingimproperly, but did admonish him forusing "poor iudgment" by acceptingcontributions from Keating.

McCain apologized for his involve-ment and called his actions a mistake.The incident ignited his transforma-tion to a maverick and reformer.

The Obama camp has stepped

up Lheir altacks on McCain's lapse in

iudgment in 1989, and credit it as a

"direct response" to the attempts by

the McCain campaign to paint Obama

as having associations with terrorists.

Obama's camp released a l3-min-

ute Internet documentary, started a

website and sent e-mails to thousands

of supporters that said the Keating

scandal poses serious questions about

Mccain's ability to manage the current

economic crisis and calls into quesfion

his iudgment.

McCAIN ON ISSUES

Economy - In an ellort to easehigh gas prices, Mccain supportsa gas tax holiday m zuspend the18.4 perrent federal gas tax fromMemorial Day to tabor Day.

While McCain supported theBush Adninistraflon's $7OO bil-lion bailout plan, he supports us-ing some of that money to allowhomeowners to trude their mort-gage for a loan reflective of theirhome's actual market value.

Reforming Social Securitywith the addition of personal ac-counts, and reviewing Medicareend Medicaid in order to balancethe budget is also crucial l,o hiseconomic plan.

McCain would also impose aone-year freeze for non-defenseand non-veteran spending pro-grams to reduce the deficit andreview all programs to determinetheir necessity and how they canbe improved.

Immigntion - McCain wouldput a system in place requiringgovemors of border states to cer-ti$ that their state border. is se-cure Mc{ain has said he woulddedicate funding to border statesto aid in this cause and implementunmanned aerial vehicles to pa-

trol the border.McCain also said he would

establish an electronic system toscreen indivftluals for work eligi-bility and identif employers whohte ilegal immigrants.

He also supports temporary-worker programs and has said hewi|l r.q"it" all undocun<intedworkers to enroll in a pmgram toresolve their status by paying backtaxes and leaming English.

H€alth Carc - Mccajit wants toallow individuals and families topurchase health insurance na-tionwide, across state lines, to in-crease competition among healthinsurers, allow people to choosea plan that better suits them andlower'prices.

McCainwill provide a tax cred-it to individuas- for $2,500 and tofanrilies for $5,00O that would besent directly to the insurance pro-vider of their choice to ollset themsi of purchasing a plan.

Iraq - McCain has stated that wemust stay in Iraq until the countryno longer needs our assistance.

Gay Marriage - Mc{aiD isagainst both marriages and civilunions for homosexual couples.However, he has stated that gay

couples should be allowed to enterinto conhacts.

Abortion - McCain has calledRoe v. Wade a "flawed decision"and has called for

-an end to abor-

tion.I{e also is against stem-cell re-

search using hrman embryos.

John McGainBY JAMES KRUGERJKRUGERl @I\,4SCD.EDU

f I f hile the country experi-I / I / enced social upheaval andY Y opposition to the Vietnam

War, fohn Mccain went looking for afigh1.. Following in the shadow of his

grandfather and father, both four-staradmirals. McCain volunteered for thewar and entered it as a piiot after grad-

uating from the U.S. Naval Academy inthe bottom of his class.

Both his attitude and flying weredescribed as reckless, and he quicklybecame notorious for his hard-party-ing lifestyle and crashing two planesbefore seeing combat.

But on Oct. 16. 1967. he foundthe fight that would change his life ir-revocably.

During his 23rd mission as a pilot,

a missile shot down the plane of thethen-30-year-old McCain. Parachut-ing into a lake with both his arms and aleg broken, he was taken by the NorthVietnamese to a prison camp, wherehe was interrogated and beaten.

For five and a half years. he re-mained there, attempting suicide, un-dergoing intense torture and refusinghis captors offer of release because hewas the son of an admiral.

"I would be disloyal to the r€st ofyou. I lcrow why they're doing this- to make every guy here whose fatherisn't an admiral think the [Army's Codeof Conductl is shit...And I don't wantto go home and see my father, arid hewouldn't want to see me under thoseconditions. I've got to say no," he wrotein his book Faith of My Fathers on ex-plaining to his fellow prisoners of raanwhy he would not accept the offer.

Following his release in. I 9 7l, Mc-Cain continued his naval service andbecame the Naly's liaison to the Sen-at€ in '7 7, a position his father held andone he said placed him directly into thepolitical vvorld for the first time.

Saying his years in Vietnam hadchanged his perceptions of duty, honorand glory, a more focused McCain waseager to engage in something more.

"I have hied to rnake what use Ican of Vietnam and not let the memo-ries of war encumber the rest of mvMe's progress..

"Neither have I been content to

Recent attack by the McCain cam-

paign linking Barack Obama to William

Ayers, former member of radical activist

group Weather Underground, has the

Obama carnp going on the offensive.

For the firsl time in his campaign.

Obama has lashed out against McCain

for his involvement in the Keating Five

scandal 20 years ago.

In 1989 five U.S. Senators u'ere ac-cused of corruption for improperly in-tervening on behalf of CharlesKeating

lr., chairman o[ a loan company thatwas the target of a federal investiga-

accept that my time in Vietrram wouldstand as the ultimate experience of mylife. Sr.rely tt was a formative experience.but I knew that lile promised other ad-ventures. and I hurried toward them,"he wrote in Faith of My Fathers.

In l98O he divorced his first wife,Carol Shepp, and, with Gary Hart as agroomsman, muuried Cindy lou Hens-ley, a teacher and daughter of a largebeer distributor in Arizona.

Setting him up with political andbusiness connections, the union wouldprove crucial in his foray to win thevote as congressman of Arizona, af-ter Mccain left the Navy in 1981. Hiscampaign was successful and McCainla0er became a senator in I98 7, a posi-

tion he holds todayBecoming a 'maverick' by crossing

the aisle of party politics, McCain op-posed Republicans and fought for cam-

paign finance reform, restricfons onpork barrel spending, direct paymentprograms to farmers, taxing tobaccocompanies, and immigration amnesty(a stance he has since changed).

After a campaign n'here he wasfalsely accused of fathering a blackchild out of werllock, McCain failed towin the Republican presidential candi-dacy in 20O0 and continued to serve inthe Senate, where he opposed George W.Bush on tax culs and climate change.

Championing his experienceand record as a.politician unafraid ofbreaking party ties, McCain now lindshimself in a new fight far from the pris-on camps of Vietnam and the sabotagetactics of his own party.

Mccain must 'prove

himself con-servative enough for the right, yet bi-partisan enough to r4'in the indepen-dent vote.

I(eating 5 stays alive for McCain

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Politics away of lifefor youngRepublicanBY RYAN ARMSTRONGRARMSTl /@IVSCD.EDU

or Metro junior Kailei Higgin-son, politics har,e been a life-long passion.

Since grade school, Higginson r,r'as

involved in community organizing ac-

tivities in his hometorm of Anchorage,

Alaska. where he lr.orked lyith disad-

vzurtaged youth and ser',,ed on the ltxal

youth adr,'isory commission.

Higginson is chairman of the Au-

rada chapter of College Republicans

and actir,'ely invoh'ed in Sen . fohn N{c-

Cain's presidential campaign, saying

the candida0e puts country first and is

the best person to lead it."There is a tremendous amount

oI belief that social issues are rm-

portant among Republicans, and

Sen. McCain doesn't place empha-

sis there," he said, adding \{cCain

pays more attention to important is-

sues such as the lvar in haq and the

economy and places less emphasis on

social issues such as abortion or gay

rights,

"Sen. McCain has had mistakes;

he understands he's not the best and

brightest, but he recognDes his flaws,

and he still wants to be president for

the American people," Higginson

said.

I{igginson can alsb relate to

McCain's military service, himself

having served in the U.S. Army from

1999 to 2006.

A-fter leaving the Army. Higgin-

son enrolled at lvletro. where he got

involved with the student govern-

ment assembly. Higginson also ran

for election to the Colorado State

House from Dislrict 2I prior to tak-

ing his current position with College

Republicans.

Representing conservatives on

campus and ensuring that their

voices are heard lr.ere major reasons

why Higginson joined College Repub-

licans."I look for where there is a need

and flll it." Higginson said.

McCain is only one of a diverse

mL\ of politicians that have influ-

enced Higginson, with President

fohn Adams, Malcolm X. President

Abraham Liricoln and former first

lady Eleanor Rooseveh rounding out

the list.

McCain's choice of running

mate, fellow Alaskan Sarah Palin,

impressed Higginson.' 'Gov Palin is a fanlastic choice

who lends energy to the ticket vl'here

it was needed and a certain amount

of executive feel," Higginson said.

If McCain is elected president,

Higginson expects that there will be

reform in Whshington.

Student'snilssron:ResolutionObama8Y RYAN ARMSTRONGRARI\4ST1 7@MSCD.EDU

etro student Chris Rorkmade a NewYear's resolu-tion to help someone else.

Rork's resolution u,as to do ev-

erlthing he could to help Sen. Barack

Obama get elected president.

The resolution came when

Obama n'as still battling to secur€

his spot as the Democratic Party's

candidate lor president. before Super

Thesday

So Rork headed to the senator's

Colorado headquarters and made

1.500 phone calls.

Speaking to people n'ho knew

little about Obama and informing

lhem on his posilions was gratilying

for Rork irnd lead him to takeon nrorc

roles within the campaign.

Next Rork joined the Obama

Organizing Fellows, a program that

teaches the fundamentals of com-

munity organizing - how Obama

got his start.

Soon he was working seven days

a week, canvassing neighborhoods,

collecting data for the campaign.

making calls ftom phone banks and

participating in meetings.

As the beginning of the fall se-

mester nea-red, Rork turned his at-

tention to Auraria, deciding to work

on campus as the president of the

local.chapter of Students for Obama,

involving fellow students and pass-

ing on the fundamentals of organiz-

ing he learned in the program.

"What I like the most about

Obama is he has brought more every-

da_v people togerher for his campaign

since lvlccovern or Bobby Kennedl',"

Rork said.

Rork supports Obama for many

reasons, including his plans to

change to health care options, find

alternative energy sources, end the

war in Iraq and because he believes

Obama will improve relationships

with foreign leaders."In our age of cynicism, he's giv-

en our generation faith that if rve get

up and do something, we can accom-

plish a great deal," Rork said.

Other politicians ra-ho have influ-

enced Rork include Bobby Kennedy.

r,r'ho he finds inspirational because

of his fight to end corruption, racial

injustice and porerty.

"No matter your political inclina-

tion or lack thereof. if you see inius-

tice and resolve to end it, you can and

will make a difference," Rork said.

Additionally. Rork has been h-

fluenced by his mother. a teacher for

more than 30 years, who raised him

and his twin brorher on her own.

"Sen. McCain has.hadmistakes ... but he

recognizes his flaws and hestill wants to be president

more everyday peopletogether for his campaign ..."

CHRIS RORKSTUDENTS FOR OBAMA

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Voting for brighter daysBY NIC GARCIANGARCI20@MSCD.EDU

T f Metro student Sibel Baltaci

I has her wal. she'll be running

I for a seat in the House o[ Repre-I sentatives in 2015. But beforeshe launches her'campaign, she hasto cast her first vote as an American.

Baltaci, originally from T\-ukey,was nationalized on March 19. 2008.She registered to vote the same day.

"I'm excited to vote because I likethis country now," she said. "I sharethe culture, and I have this opportu-nity to have my voice heard. That'sthe most stirring thing. "

Baltaci said her excitement wasabout voting in. geueral, not nec-essarily that she gets to vote as anAmerican for the first time.

"I'd be this excited if I was votingin Tlrrkey," she said.

' It's evident her passion for poli-

tics is as strong as her accent after a3 O-minute conversation.

"I'm excited to see what happensafter Nov. 4," she said. "I hope brightdays are ahead, not dark days."

Baltaci said she was going to votefor Sen. Barack Obama, but she hasbecome "disgusted" by how Obamahas allowed his campaign to be aspetty as past Fesidential races. "It'sall about 'you hit me. I hit you. Youstarted it first' attacks, " she explained."I expecled change (from him). "

Baltaci said she is also concernedabout Obama's worldwide dona-tions.

"[ don't know if he's being supported by termrists or not," she said.

Baltaci aiknowledged the greataccomplishments of Obama's cam-paign, including exciting a largenumber of minorities and registeringpeople to lrote.

Sen. fohn McCain would notmake a good president, she said.

She is worried about both candi-dates' foreign policies and she thinksneither candidate can deliver on the"3,000" promises they've made onthe trail.

"It's like a Utopia," she said aboutthe candidates' policies. "I wantsomebody to say something that willactually be done."'

She said the two biggest issuesneed to be health care and education.She said the problems are linked.

Baltaci is now looking at thirdparty candidates like Cynthia McK-inney of the Green Party. She saidin Tirrkey, they have as many as adozen parties. She thinks both coun-hies could benefft from each other'ssyst€ms.

"I dream of a balance," she said."With too many voices (in T\:r-

key) there.can be too much conflict,"she said. "But I dream, in my Ameri-can life, where a third party is as loudas our two parties."

When the time comes for her torun for olfice, Baltaci believes a third

party will have evolved. And if onehasn't, she'll consider helping it.

Baltaci said she took severalmonths to decirle whether or not shewanted to be a citizen after she waseligible to apply But she decided the2008 election was tod importantnot to vote, And after dealing withthe plights of being a single mother,Baltaci decided she wanted to run forofrce to help others.

You have to be a U.S. citDen for atleast seven years before you can mnfor C,ongress.

"I see so many difrculties,? shesaid. "Welfare isn't really fair. Oureducation system.,.I would like torepresent actual ghanges, and I thinktr y people" who haue. oeeriencd..

(these problems can fix them)."Baltaci believes Americans don't

pay enough attention to politics, andthis is mosdy due to a struggling edu-cation system and because voting isvoluntary In Turkey she said, vot-ing is mandatory and people becomelnowledgeable about the issu€6.

One benefit, she said, of votingin Colorado is the "Blue Book" or theState Ballot Information BooHet pro-

duced by the state that outlines allof the ballot issues and the pros andcons of each.

"I love the Blue Book," shesmiled. "I know not many people re-ally sit down and read lt, but I am. Ihale to.'

Sibel Baltaci outside of the livoli. (Photo by Matt Marsh . mmarshl 7@mscd.edu)

t'I see so manydifficulties. Welfareisn't reallv fair. Our

education system...Iwould like to represent

actual changes, andI think only people

who have experienced(these problems can fix

them)."

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Cain in places where heshouldn't be," Dufb said."He's in Virginia reafrrminghis base. I'm a bit amazed.Republicans know it's alnostimpossible for them to winthe White House withoutFlorida."

Some predict this is the begirming of theend for McCain,

"It's gonna be an Obarnasweep," said Electoral Collegeexpert Walter Burns,

The Natbnal fournal onOct. I I proiectedObamacouldwin the election with morethan 300 electoral votes.

DOESCOLORADOSTILL MATTER?

With statps-such as Flor-ida and Ohio now in play, thecandidates - who gp€nt quitea. bit of time in Colorado inmid-September and October- have been nodceably ab-sent from the Rocky Mountainreglon.

"The candidates go wherethe votes are," Burns said. IfColorado only had five elec-toral votes, it wouldn't be asignificant state at this point.But, becaus€ the state has al-mrst double that, it's possiblefor Colorado to play a role inwinning the elecdon for eitherObama or McCain," he said.

Meho history professor

Dolph .Grun&iran said Colorado has a lot of attention yet

to come.Grundman said racism

could still be a factor acrossthe nation and Obanta, spocif-ically, needs every'stat€ he canr;vin. Grundman is supportingObama.

In bis opinion, Coloradoisn't much dillerent than therest of the nation, and he'dguess about 2 percent - anumber often used nationally- of voters wlll not vote forObama because he's black.

"If you look at places likeNew Hampshire, the Midwest,I think the effect will be thesame," he said.

Grunihan said he opectsboth candi<htes to be back inCdorado and Ne\M Msico.'That's 14 electoral rntes," hesdid. "lhat's a good backup plan(as oppooeil to one large state)."

The democratic spokes-man echoed Grundman. Hesaid there are still various sce-narios where Colorado could

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"(We're not) letting up," hesaid. "Worst cae sceoario? FIor-ida and Ohio vote for Obamaand it's all finished before thepolls cloc in Colorado."

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ryokesrnan painted a diffaentpicture" He said the race is farft,om orcr and Obama unulil not

win b5' a lanalsli& - if at aI."We're going to remind

Colorado voters that BarackObarna has associatBd withtermrists," Tom Kise said, re-ferring to Obama's acquain-tance William Ayers, founderof the Weatherman Under-ground group suspected ofacts of domestic terrorism inthe tubulent '60s. "We're

going to remind them thathe hasn't answered for that.We're going to remind thevoters that Barack Obama isgoing to raise their taxes andhe's promoting the worst eco-nomic pladorm since HerbertHoover."

Independent fact check-ers have agreed: Obama's taxreform will help more people

than McCain's.Kise said Florida is a bat-

tleground stat€ and alwayshas been, despite the nadonalmedia and polls moving itselectorafvot€s lnto the toss-upcolumn iust last week.

"The national media issaying this race is over," Kisesaid. "They've forgotten it'sthe people of C,olorado who

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Apart from T-shirts, there are other odd options inpolitical fashion.

McCain and Obama thongs and dog attire can be_ found on various websites. Independent online compa-

nies allow customers to print thef own persoiral slo-gans on T-shirts and purchase clothes for toddlers.

Computers allow designers to manipulate andchange images to creatively express their srlpport.

Although he doesn't own any political attire, UCDjunior Thomas Abebe supports Obama and respects.students who choose to voice their political opinionthrough fashion. no matter who they vote [or.

"I feel like whoever is wearing it, it doesn't matterif it's an Obama or McCain shirt...I admire people who

. wear these T-shirts. I think it's cool," Abebe said.Amanda Thompson, a fi:eshman UCD student, sup-

ports McCain and is slighdy bothered by overzealousObama supporters who wear political clothing withoutconcrete support.

"Some of them are kind of stupid. I think thatwhatever I think about McCain is my own opinion. It'sone thing having a conversation with someone...ff it'ssomebody just putting it out there on their car or wear-ing a shirt with a big Obama face on it, then it doesn'tbother me so much. [t's like, Wow, you must rea\ragree with him,' Thompson said.

Time can only tell which side's attire will be left inthe back of the closet or will be, proudly wom again inthe future.

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Acoustic jou rneyma n swaggers inupcoming shows l

bob schneider r hluebird theaterDcspitc a rock n roll resurnd that itt-

cludes such il l-natured, indocile and alicnirt-

ed rnonikers as foe Rockhead,'l he Scabs.'l hc

LTgll, Americirns and I.onell ' larrtl (the tramc

ol his first sokr act), Bob Schneidcr is actually

quite allirblc. good-nrrtLtred and light-heart-

ccl: all qualitics hearcl in his rnckrdic balltrds

anil universirl lyricism.

i\nd r'rfiilc the -Austin, Texas-native has

ltcn likcncd lo et'ervonc l 'ronr lirck lohnsorr.to l)ai'c Mal.thevvs, to James l'a]'lor i td

elen former Pixies lrontmarn trrank l]lack

Schncider manages a decidedll' difler-

ent st1'le of songu'riting that eirses from the

morose to the amusing. \ /ith dark s$'agger

and dangerous charm, Schneider channels a

handsome Frankenstein monster composed

o[ pieces of everyone from Paul Simon to

Lconard Cohen."(N{y music's) real eclectic," Schneider

said. "There's nothing that I r','on't do, no

musical genrc that I don t util izc. You'd really

have tc.r liste r.r to a lot 0i my songs to get irn

idea of n'hat it is { do. '

But in the rneantinte, talie nr1'u,ord lbr it

when I tell you this guy cem pcn a damncd

likeable tunc, complete rvith self-effacing

marvkishness and cunning satire. In the

single "The llffect.' Schneider adds an ab-

surd atmosphere to love's atypical storyline:'And there s a planet in outer space/ And

on this planet, there lir"es an alien race/ I

know a girl there, she's got a bone through

her nose/ .{nd she dances like she's drorvn-

ing when she takes off all her clothes." But

to label Schneider a sentimental, folk wan-

nabe would be foolish, as tracks like "Flavors

Too Strong' broach hip-hop farce r,r'ith lierce

tongue-in-cheek delivery: "I'm the rhyme-

sayer, the fat player/ So r,t'hat 1'ou gonna do

later?/ Nothing slayer/ I'm a clothes-shopper,

name-dropper/ Shorv up in the club, genuine

show-stopper."

Ilccause Schneider's careliee style reveals

so much of himself through his songnrriting,

his live pcrlbrmances are a warm change

l r f l r ) lhe r ' r l r r ( | ] I $ar i ' o f i t t r l i , . ' -p , rp n ; t l t i s -

-sisn) that ten(ls to hide behind big hrxrlis attcj

hctrvy-hlttin g chords."llasicalll i I l ike ro ir.rst crcatc a partJ'en-

vironrnent. Schneitler said. ' l l you creirtc

an crlvironnrcnt nhere there's prcttv girls

and everl'bocll"s haring a fun tinte, people

are going to shon'up. ' l 'hen it becomes more

of a scenc,"

Schneidcr's scene is as lvarm as a blazir.tg

firc. r-rtfering up home style, trcoustic corth-

ing. complete with distinct, Soulhern flavor

W'hile the sphere o[ singer/songnriters is

increasingly saturated by sentinientality and

gimrnicks. Schneider elevates hirnself abor,e

the field ivith a healthy'dose ol demure and

congeniality."When I play live, especially ['ll do songs

diffcrently night to night and set to set." Sch-

neider said. "lt makes them more interesting,

and gives them more energy and I think the

audience picks up on that."

Asidefrom being a recognized staple ol the

overwhelming Austin music scene. Schneider

has toured nith a handful of forrner bands

and is coming off a recent Canadian tour with

contemporary cormtry trio. The Dixie Chicks.

Schneider's current tour is coming Oct. 23

and 24 to the Bluebird Theater in Denr,,er and

the Fox Theatre in Boulder, respectively Sch-

neider praised Colorado, a place lvhere he's

had plenty of success in the past."l love playing (in Colorado). and I think

it s a great place for live music," Schneider

said. "It's a beautiful space, for sure."

For more information on Bob Schneider,

visit his website at bobschneidermuslc.com

or visit his MySpace page at myspace.com/

bobschneider.-By /ERE'|{Y/O}trVSON, jjohni 0 8@nscil.edu

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brcttdennenr hopeforthe hopeless OO@On the heels of being named a

RollingStone 2008'l{rtistto Watch, "tle commercial success of his newsingle "Make You Crazy" (featuringAfrobeat exb:aordinaire, NigerianFemi Kuti) and ewn an upcomingmusic vidm staning Hollywoodstarlet, Mandy Moor€, Brctt Den-nen remains as lixused as errr. Histhird fullJength album,Ilope for the .Hopeless (due for release Oct. 21), isa dedicated study of taditional folkrhytkns, backed by modest, lightlyricism and steely, African-influ-enoed percussion.

"I think the songwriting is alittle more focused." Dennen said."I think it's more direct than someof the songs I wrote in the past. I

put a lot of my life experiences anda lot of the things I've seen into thesongs. "

A former camp counselor fromnorthem Califomia, Dennen'ssongwriting is smooth and sooth-ing, if not borderline lovelom, deliv-ering a mmanticism akin to a quicksummer camp fling, like in the hack"Clmer to Youj' "tike a ham dog ina junkyard. howling at the moon/Iike 2 pipls at a pawn shop witha pocketful of jewels/ I'm closer toyou. " Dennen's rnelodic world spinswith bliss and optimism at somemomenb ("Hearren" and "FoliowYour Heart"), before bending to bit-ters$€et cynicisrn and hner-cityrealism ("You're Wrong About Me"

and "Who Do You Think You Are)that douse the acor:sflc campfire oflore and lust

"It's not really lila a pop aI-bum." Dennen said. "I wantedto make a record with a bit of aheavier groove and a little bit moreof a clean sound, just to give it amore broad appeal. "

Recognition from RoilingStone, NPR, USA Today and TheWashington Post, as well as appearances on fay kno and JimmyKimmel, has helped Dennen'scommercial appeal grow. Andopening stints with heavy-hiftingcontemporary artists such as fohnMayer and Mexican duo Rodrigo yGabriela have further catapulted

Dennen's touring value. The newmusic video, which features thetypically bare-footed Dennen sell-ing shoes to the demure Moore, isscheduled for release around thetime of the new album.

"I feel like with the recogni-tion I've gotten in the past coupleof years, I think it's iust catchingup to the work that I've been doingfor so long," Dennen said. "So I'mjust going to keep doing what I'vebeen doing because that's whatI've gotten the recognition for."

Dennen will headline anacoustic set Nov I O at the WalnutRoom in Denvor.-By /EREll{V /OI{r,ISON,ijohn308@nsul,eilu

sleeping in the aviary D errpensirle rronrit in a rheap hotel

Think folk rock with thevolume turned up to 1 1, a punkrock Bob Dylan, or Neutral MilkHotel for the 21st century. All ac-curately describe Sleeping InThe

Aviary's debut album Exrytsivevlmit in a Cheap HotelThe quartet from Madison, Wisc. plays an interesting

blend of upbeat. folk rock with some oflbeat instrumen-tation. such as the accordion and the saw. Their catchylo-fi pop sound is completely offset by the dark lyrics ofsinger/guitarist Elliot Kozell.

Songs about heartbreak, death, and loss are alnostdisguised by the rocking rhythms and melodies, butthd emotion of Kozell's voice shines throueh with shill

shrieks and yelps scattered throughout the album.Highlights include "Gas Mask Blues," which uses

classic twelve-bar blues form to deliver a sinister taleof lost love, before exploding inlo a total, freak-out cre-scendo, And "Girl In The Ground" is a big, group sing-a-long about topics that probably shouldn't be addressed insuch harmonious, social format.

fust when you think you've got Sleeping In The Avi-ary figured out, they throw something new into the mixthat will keep you interesd and eager for more. This isa band that knows bow to craft memorable pop songsqftil6 palaining fresh and neq and their grotesquely-named debut is oddly beaufifirl and massively promising.With such an encouraging debut, Sleeping In The Aviaryis definitely a band to listen for.

-By MATI PU S AT ORY mpus ator@msc il.e du

thefred hessbandrsingle lnolnent OOOSingle Mo-

ment, whilean obviousexplorat ionof talent andflow is at thesame time a

failed effort to find cohesion in an in-cohesive medium. And, unfortunate-ly, the first fifth of Single Moment isan dxercise in futility. Once you workyour way through "Norman's Gold"you begin to realize the frultless mas-querade is over. "While My tadySleeps" forces a ftesh breeze throughthe steaming pot that's been stewlngup to this point. Hess' smooth tone

and ellordess transitions here makeyou wonder if these songs even be-long on the same album. In "Out ofthe Past," a very pleasant humpetsamba breaks out in the middle andgives hope for an interesting finish..Single Moment doesn't offer a wholelot of other surprises other than trackeight, a masterfirl, but messy, blob ofnotes. Overall, Hess puts forth a de-cent eflort, but unfortunately, the re-cord lacks even flow.

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dressy bessyr hollerand stomp OOOO

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Dressy Bessy is one of the mostconsistently sugary-sweet indie popcombos around, and certainly theheir to that particular throne here inDenver. l0 years together, the MileHigh natives' fifth album, Holler andStomp, is a practice of youthful exu-berance and cunning, but catchy,rhythmic hooks and pop persuasion.

. Whilst the band ages, their energynever fails to wane, even as artisticdirections mature.

The first hack, 'Automatic," setsthe tone for DB's frivolity, mixingpunk influx with wily, raucous rtqrmeschemes. Meanwhile, the fifth fack,

"In Your Headphones," offers insatia-ble commercial appeal, and the follow-ing "teft to the Right, " aptly describesa warehouse dance soiree flush withawkward sentimentality and ambitious love, or possibly lust. Oveiall,frontwoman Tammy Ealon's $ricalconnotations are even inore poignantthan ever before, driven home by hersomewhat flat and cynical, but delib-erately coy delivery And her band-nates (Apples In Stereo's fohn Hill onguitar, Rob Greene on bass, and CraigGilbert on drums) highlight her sug-ary sarcasm with sleady perfectedrhfihms and clear-cut guitar trdmp

ing and chording.Some critics have denounced DB's

latest e{Iort as "stale", but the fact re-mains that DB is sweeter than ever,mast€ring their mutated '6Os psyche-delic sounds and piecing them togeth-er in a more contemporary setting.Holler and Stomp is like sitting downwith a bag of candy after Halloween:you iust can't stop consuming.

Catch the candy-coated pop rock-ers Oct. 18 at the Bluebird Theaterfor their CD release party, Dodrs openat 8 p,m. .

-Bu IIPhot (ourtesy of www.myspa(e.c0m/dressybessy

soundtrackD ni*& noraht infinite playlist OOOOThe new movie "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playl-

ist" is the story of two teenagers who bond over tleirlove for music. Together, Nick and Norah (and a fewof their friends), search New York City for Where'sFlulTy?, a local, publicity-shy band, creating a personalsoundtrack of their own as the iove story unfolds.

The film's soundtrack bolsters the film's scenario,turning the movie's characters into the sideshow, andthe "infinite playlist" into the main attraction.

The soundtrack consists mostly of indie rock per-formers (Vampire Weekend, Shout Out Iouds, BandOf Horses and Bishop Allen), leaving only a few songsto fall into otler categories: ska-punk (TheDead'6Os),

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THE POINT: MCCAIN'08 lS NOTTHE SAME AS MCCAIN 2000

A shadow of his former MaverickMcCnin' s camp aagn has b ecomea strange, two-sided coin with one leg inthe past andthe other in schizophrenia,

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a lot of things, but we can't ignorethe last eight years of what has beenarguably the worst Republican presi-dency in history. And we can't ignorethat our favorite maverick didn't fightfor rvhat was right forAmerica, diih'tfight to get corruption out of lVash-ington; endorsed teaching intelligentdesign in school, endorsed banninggay marriage, met with Jerry Fahvelland stood up for George Whllace. In

short, we can't ignore that he became

one of them.

Knorving this, Mccain's cam-paign has become a strange trvo-sided

coin nith one leg in the past and the

other in schizophrenia. He gave us

the biggest joke of a veep choice everHe "runs" back to Washington to

lead bailout negotiations but instead

distracts lawmakers into a partisan

catfight that ultimately birthed a bill

with plenty of the pork beLrrel spend-ing he's famous for railing against. To

date none of those ploys seem to have

worked. Patheticalll', L{cCain 2OO8

has pulled a frayed and tired cardfrom the deck: the'60s.

As a young 47-year-old, Obama

may have thought he could make it

through as the only Democratic can-

didate in the last live elections who

hasn't been bludgeoned for '60s radi

calism. bul it appears that associa-

tions with former radical revolution-

aries will do in a Republican pinch.

But what NlcCain lails to realize is

that no one cares about the never-

ending light of the '60s anymore.

Bombing governmenl buildings inprotest of the Vietnam War is re-

ally - yesterday's news. We accept

that the '60s were tumultuous. We

know some crazy shit went down.

And, surprise, r.r'e know that Obama

r /as 8. We want to move forward. We

rvant to know how r.r'e are going tohandle a new global economic real-

ity. pandemics. climate change and

the evolving face of war. We want apresident who reflects our progress-

ing values. One who believes that our

mothers should have a natural-born

right to that mastectomy. Of anothergeneration's hangover. we say: go to

the closest greasy spoon, eat a patty

melt and drink a pot of coffee because

this generation is ready to do the work

for the next.

McCain's campaign has less thanmonlh lo convince those srving voters

and undecideds that he's the guy who

can lead us forward - not backw{rd.

Adding a line or trvo about change arid

moving America forwud in his stump

speech is not enough to overcome his

26 years in Washington, the last eightyears of devolution and pandering, the

tactical mistake of Sarah Paiin and the

appearance of a frenzied and scattered

campaign. The real tragedy of this

election is the complete degradationof a true American hero - largely of

his own doine.

Per,haps some of you don't know

but fohn McCain used to be all those

lhings he claims he is in his campaign

slogans: a straight talker, a scrapper, a

maverick. He was the guy who told re-ligious conservatives that he r,r'oukln't

stand for their intolerant brand of pul- .pit government. He was the rich guy

who knew that he didn't need a taxcul He r,ras the guy who knen' 5'ouhave to make the money to pay the bills- even in the grand halls of Wash-

ington. He was the guy who wouldn'thave rushed our brave soldiers into aquagmire of a war - because he'd been

there and done that. He was tough

but measured. He was moderate but

conservative where it counts. He wassomeone I could vote for.

In 2008, he's a badly packaged

caricature of his 2000 self. After eightyears of selling his soul to Dubya andmegachurches, McCain has realized

that he cannot repeat McCain 2000

and win. Americans can swallor,,,

AUSTIN CORELLacorell@mscd.edu

' are the ex:temistsl" Hardly The coun-try has slart€d to displa-v ounagb atgay people's oristence. They can't un-

derstand it, so they must protest it in

hopes of getting rid of it. It's acceptedto be against gay people. And u*ry not?

These savages are having gay sex - inmy country!

The perceived diJlerence between

straight and gay pmple has led to lawsbarring gay people from marrying.

Instead, gay people are provided "civil

unions" and denied many rights. Gays

are upset, and so am I - our Consutu-tion is being violated.

Thirty-five stabes have passed the

same-sex marriage ban, and Coloradois among them. Many of the 35 statesban not only marriage, but also any

other same-sex unions, which provide

gay people some rights.What happened to the phrase

"separate can never be equal?" Andit's not even equal! When did being a

deliberale bigot ba:ome so popular in

this country?

Califomia struck the same-sex

marriage ban citing unconstifutionerl-

ity and more states should follow suit.

Why can't a gay couple be married

in Tbxas when a straight couple can be?These same-sex marriage bans are theequivalent of the |irn Crow laws, and

we musl bust t}emBefore people can open up to gays

and reject the laws. though, they must

fust banish the influence against them:

Religion.

Religiondominated states do not

u'ant gay people marrying beCausethey're aliaid gay people might corrupt

societlz luaybe it's the sodomy I'm not

sure,Because parents ingrain religion

into chil&en, nobody h psychiatry in-sists on the crazl' peoples' hospital ad-

mittance. Religion is dangerous.

What could be more frightening

than a zuicide bomber rvho doesn't

care about his death but only 1'ours?That's religion.

Get rid of itl It once sought to ex-plain the inexplicable, but science re-

vealed explanations, so religion wasleft with little else and encouraged itsfollowers to violate people's civil rights.We must uphold laws that provide

gay rights and shike those that revoke

them, but unfortunately, the separa-

tion b€tween state and religion means

little to the pious.

So abolish religion yourself. Peopleare entitled to act cra4r Just remember

to challenge them.

The U.S. rejected the slavery of A-[-ricans. Will we need another 2O0 learsor a civi-l war to grant gays their duerights?

The counrry* was founded by secu-

larists and theists, people who cherished

the rights the Constitution provided.

Now religion is snatching thoserir:hts from Americans.

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THE POINT: KEEP CHURCH AND STATE SEPARATE

The agitator 0f the masses rHE MErRsPorITrNSo-called Christians hare directed

unadulterated viciouvress at black peo-ple for more than 2 50 pars. Christiansh.rned Aiiicans into slaves in ColonialAmerica. Even after the abolition o[their erslavement, inequality and un-punished murder are wtrat the U.S. of-

fered black people. They were harassedfor being black they were hanged for

being black.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in-spired this country Following the pas-

sage of the Civit Rights Act in 1964,

black people were emlnwered to exceland claim a sliver of what the U.S. pie

had to oller.

Civil rights have mme a long way

from the early '60s, especially if a blackman is about to be elected the counhv'spresident.

The pre-'6os nastin€ss that wasdirected at black people has today beentransferred to gay p@ple, and not just

in the U.S. Acmss the world, gay people

are being antagonized and persecuted

and killed by religious nuts - killed fortheir gay behavior.

Is it any surprise t}le bigotry stemsfrom religion? The top three religions

oppose homosenuality Christiars are

openly against homosexuals in the U.S.

TheTorah's Ieviticus calls for the deathpenalSz for gay men. Several Islam-dominated nafons execute homoniexu-

als who have intercourse.

One Christian sect - the WestboroBaptist Church in Kansas - protests

with signs reading "God hates fags."Christian lunatic Jerry Falwell - his

death was a victory for gays - claimed

AIDS is God's punishment for homo-

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SIIELINH Metro in fightfor No. 1 spotT||ls ltfttl(l Roadrunners winThursday 10.16VOtLEYBAtt .

against C5U-Pueblo,battle for top seed

7 p.m. vs. New Mexico Highlands@ lasVegat N.M.

Friday'10;rlSOCCTRWomen 1 p.m. vs. Mines@ Aumfia FieldMen 3:30 p.m. vs. Mines@ Auraria Field

Saturday 10.18VOLLEYBALT7 p.m. vs. Wstem New Mexico@ Silver fity, N.M

SOCCERWomen Noon vs. (olo. Chdstian@ Auraria FieldMen 2i30p.m. v*(olo. Christian@ Aurada Field

SAYt{llATl r"lt was veryfrustrating. We havea very good teamwith a lot of depthCSU-Pueblo is usually ateam we can handle. Ifeelsolelyfor not being able tohelp out myteamwiththat vittory. "- Metm men3 soccer defenderRyan Brook. Brooks had to sitout the game against CSU-Pueblodue to a red card he receivedagainst fort Lewis the weekbefore. Bmok has classes onFridays and wasn't able tohakethe trip to Pueblo to support the

: team. ...... r .'i,

' week AnyWatanabe made 0ct.9 and 11. $/atanabe leads thevolleyballteam with 203 digs ontheseason. :

By I(ATE FERRAROlderraro@mscd.edu

The Metro women's soccer team

r,t'on their 12th ccinsecutil€ contest 4{

against CSU-Pueblo Oct. 10 in Pueblo.

The Roadrunners haven't lost agame in over a month and are stillundefeated in the Rockly Mountain

Athletic Conference.

"It's actually really exciting, " mid-

fielder Jaimie Stephenson said. "I think

we're playing really lrall, and every-

thing looks to be going really good."

Stephenson was responsible for

half of the goals scored this weekend,

as she tallied her sixth and seventhgoals of the season. Both goals were

only two minutes apart off assistsfrom midfielder Ashley Munchiandoand defender Gabby Klipp.

"She's doing fantastic," head

coach Adrianne Almaraz said onStephenson. "I'm \€ry, very pleased

with her efforts, and it's all credit toher and her hard work. Somethinganother player had said is that shehas one of the biggest hearts on theteam, and you can definitely see it inthe way she's playing this season."

Midiielder Madison Nf cQuilliams

and fonn'ard fen Thomas connected

with each other in the first I0 min-utes of play asMcQuilliams scored off

Thomas' assist. Stephenson's back-to-back goals came 15 minutes later,giving the Roadrunners a 3-0 lead athalftime. Thomas finished the game

off with her seventh goal of the sea-son with ffve minutes left in the game,giving Metro the 4-0 shutout.

"I try to locus on what I need to

!o individually to help my team out,"

Stephenson said. "I try to do what-

ever I can to help my teammates. SoI need to make sure I do n'hat I cando to the best of my ability so that I'm

helping everybody else out."

In the Roadrunners last 12

matches, they have outscored theiropponents 38-4 with eight shutouts.Goalkeeper Becca Maloney had onlybeen scored on three other times be-fore New Mexico Highlands scored on

her Oct. 5. Maloney didn't let that stickin her head lor too long, as she posted

another shutout against CSU-Pueblo."I was pretty disappointed, but it's

in the past," Maloney said. "I can't let

it get to me. I just keep playing. "

Alrnaraz and Co. have tleen train-ing hard-they have a big weekendahead of them as they prepare to play

Ffle Phoro by LINH NGo/ lngo@msd.eduMidfielder Madison McQuilliams watches as Adams State goalkeeper Jasmine Burt punches the ballaway after a comer-kick 0ct. 3 at Aurada Field. McQuilliams had an assist against the Grizzlies, helping the Roadrunnen win 8-0.

against Colorado School of Mines Oct.

17. The Roadrunners are tied for firstplace with Mines, and tied each other

in their last encounter O-0. Almaraz

feels this game is an important one as

it can establish who will be the first-

place contender in thoconference."It's huge. They're a tough team.

and obviously. it could mean hosting

RMAC." Alnaraz said. 'At the end

of the day that's what we want to

do. We want to host the conference

tournament, win out the rest of the

season. This game is huge because it

could be the determining factor."

Metro is now 7-2-2 and 5-O-l

in the RMAC. They will play againstMines Oct. 17 and Colorado Christian

Oct. 19 at Auraria Field."It's a huge game," Maloney said.

"They're (Mines) going to come outstrong, and they want this, so we justhave to want itmore."

Womenb Soccer Standingc

l)Fortlewis 7'O (8-f-r overall) .

2) Meho 6-G1 (8-O-2 overall)

3) Mines 6-Gl (7-2-1 overall)

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Uolleyball sweeps way to No. 2ByERIC LANSINGlansingomscd.edu

Meho's volleyball team outlastedthree conlerence foes in three nightsOct. 9-11 at the Auraria Events Cen-ter.

The Roadrunners (7I-7, 9-2 rnthe Rocky Mountain Athletic Confer-ence) came into the weekend havinglost two of their past three matches,with both losses coming againstRMAC powerhouses Nebraska-Kear-ney and Fort Lewis.

They first looked to get back ontrack with a match against AdamsState on Oct. 9. It took the hometeam five games to bring home thewin. Metro to6k game one easily by a25-11 score but allowed the Grizliesto grab games two and three. Afterpulling off the win in game four, the'Runners jumped out to a 6-3 lead tocruise to the game five win and thematch victory,

Metro outside hitter AmandaCook led all players with 18 kills andadded 1O digs. Adams State middleblocker Darcy Jennings led the wayfor the Gri.zlies with 11 kills and fiveblocks,

Their . match the followingagainst Western State wasn't mucheasier for the Roadrunners, And iustlike the night before, they were with-out starting middle blocker AnnaMapes and starting outside hitter BriMorley.

The first game belonged to Metro,who darted out to a lG6 lead. West-ern State did cut the lead to two at13-11, but the Roadrunners suc-cessfully attackeil the middle, findingholes throughout the match. Metro

middle blockers Julie Causseaux andLisa Jones combined for nine kills inthe game one win.

But the strong start may haveallorved the young 'Runners to relaxa little, as the Mountaineers foughtback to grab games two and three.

Just like the previous night, Metrocame out strong, but seemed to layoff the pedal to allow the oppositionto get back into the match.

"I think this is beginning to be-come a little bit of a pattern for us,"Metro heacl coach Debbie Henilrickssaid. "I want us to break that pattern

soon. We come out strong and finishstrong, but we fall asleep in the mid-dle of the match. Hopefully, we're be-ginning to realize that's not the mostemcienl way to win a match."

Game four saw the two confer-ence combatants go blow-for-blowand point-for-point. The game saweight ties and five lead changes.With the game Ued at I 2 . Cook camethrough with a kill that sparked a 6-1run,

Metro hail gamei point at 24-17, but the Mountaineers valiantlyfought back within two points onkills by Erin Osleson and AmandaPassebl along with two Metro at-tack errors. With lhe score at 24-22 ,

Jones pounded out a kill that causedthe Auraria Events Center crowd toerupt in cheers and also swung themomentum back in the Roadrun-ners' favor.

In the fnal game, the home teamused i}ree kills from Causseaux totake al 8-5 lead. But the relentlessWestern State team didn't want togive up quite yet. A Metro service er-

Ihe Metrc volleyballteam and spedatoB erupt into dleers after Metro narrcwly won gamefive in a tolleroaster matchagainst Westem State oct. 10 at the Aunria Eventt Center The Roadrunne6 beat Western State 3-2.

a Roadrunner. The red shirt sopho-more tallied 24 kills in.tbe two winsand just kept the offense going vi'ith-'out a hitch.

"I think you have to be ready,"Keller said. "I think anyone on ourbench can come in at any time andthey trust me on the floor, which isnice. I can just come in and iust gowith the flow."

Hendricks said that Keller doesn'tget too much playing time startingbehind Morley, but she values play-ers like Keller, who can come off thebertch and be productive.

"That's when you really appre-

ciate a player who isn't playing ona regular basis, but when we needthem, they are ready to go. It's kindof a reward lor her ellort, and she hasdefinitely showed up this week."

For the finale, Metro defeatedCSU-Pueblo in four ga:nes to finishthe weekend sweep Morley returnedto the lineup and contributed 12kills.

The three wins improved the'Runners' record to 9-2 in the RMACand will take their win streak onthe road to face off O€t. 16 againstNew Mexico Highlands and Oct. 18against Western New Mexico.

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ror and two kills by Passehl put thegame within one for the Mountain-eers.

But the Roadrunners camethrough in the end to take the l5-13game five victory and also t}te match.

"I'm proud of them," Hendrickss€iid. l{nytime you go to game five,anything can happen, and in theeight days, we've won tlree of themthat wdy, so it shows a lot of courageand character to pull it off in five."

Metro midtlle bloclrer Erin Kellercame off the bench for her iniuredcounterparts through the first twogames and played her best games as

Roadrunners unable to capitalize shots against RangersByVANESSAMAISvmais@mscd.edu

Meiro's No. 15-ranked men's soc-cer teagr was upset by Colorado StateUnivdisity - Pueblo 3-2 oct. 10 andtied crcsstown rival Regis Universityl-1 two days later.

CSU-Pueblo scored three goals

before Metro could find the back ofthe net in the 87th minute: Metrodefender Joey Duran found forwardOla Sandquist who headed it pastthe Pueblo keeper for his eighth goalof the season. Iess than a minutelater, Duran scored his first goal ofthe season, an unassisted shot, toput the game to 3-2. With only a fewminutes remaining, Metro kept thepressure on but time ran out, giving

the 'Runners their third loss of theseason.

Metro defender Ryan Brooks hadto sit the out the Pueblo game due to ared card against Fort lcwis the week-end prior. Brooks has class on Fridaysand did not make the trip to Pueblo.

"It was very frushating. We havea very good rcam with a lot of depth.

CSU - Pueblo is usually a team we canhandle. I feel solely responsible for notbeing able to help out my team withthat victory" Brooks said.

Head coach Ken Parsons did notfeel the team came out to competeas a whole. "It's a game of 1l play-ers, and, unfortunately, none of ourplayers showed up for the game onFriday, " he said.

The 'Runners played two dayslater in a cold artd wet match againstconference rival Regis.

After sitfurg out Oct. l0 foryellowcards, Metro foni'ard Kellen Iohnsonreturned to the field to find Duran inthe 3oth minute for Duran's secondgoal of the weekend. Duran slid to putthe ball in the back of the net after theball skipped tbrougb the penalty bol'Runners goalkeeper Ryan Vickerymade four saves to keep the score l-Oat ha]ftime.

The Rangers came back to tie thegame on a penalty kick by forwardNathan Kafer, Metro dominated therest of the half, outshooting Regis 1 4-5 but were plagued once again by an

inability to finish scoring chances. SoMetro went into their fourth overtimegame of the season locked at 1 - 1 .

Despite controlling overtime withlO shots to Regis'three, the'Runnerscould not find the net. The game end-ed in a l-l tie to give Metro their thirdtie of the season.

"We had plenty of opporhrnitiesto finish off the game. We are all just

trying to kill the ball, get the fancygoals. When all we need to do is makesure the ball goes in the back of thenet," Brooks said.

Metro moves to 7-l-3 ajrd 4-I-2in the RMAC. The teiim needs to re-main focused for the next few weeksof regular season play.

"We hale to take one game at atime. We can't alford to drop anothergame from here on out," Brooks said.

Roailrunners head coach KenParsons thinks the team needs tocome out and play every game thesame way, no natter who their opponent is.

"We don't tate anyone for grant-ed. oMously, we played good games

Regis goalkeeperWally Fink dives fotthe ballagainst Metru Oct l0 at RegisUniversity. The Roadrunners tied with Regis 1-1, aftershooting 14 shot.

behind Fort lerris and ColoradoSchool of Mines. They ilropped to No.18 in the country and remain No. 2in the cental region. They continueconference play this weekend playingOct. 17 against Colorado School ofMines and Oct. 19 against ColoradoCMstian, both at Awaria Field.

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last week against Mesa Stat€ and FortIewis, and then we play Gams thatarcnt in the top 2 5, and we get a lossand a tie. I think sometimes we don'tput the same level of concenhationand focus into othet'opponents," Par-sons said,

Mefo is now third in the RMAC

New nnetStudent ftom South Africatransfened from 0teroJunior College in La JuntaByzACTAYLORztaylor2omscd.edu

Metro student fay fay Bothais thinking big - first locally, thenglobal$ And he isn't wasting anytime while he works at pursuing hisdreams.

First up, Botha has begun twonew clubs on campus: Inline skatingand golf The former is purely so thatpeople on campus can have some-fhing fun to do when not at class; thelatter, however, is very important tothe junior from South Africa.

Because for Botha, golf is morethan just a hobby; he hopes to prowlthe links as his full-time job. Botha al-ready has a plan for his future, one inwhich he would like to b€ recognizedworldwide.

T want to leave rny legacy atMeho for golf, so that I carr create anew one as a professional golfer," Bo-tha said.

The plan: Create a golf club atMetro. Grow the club into a legiti-mate contender in the region. if nota full-fledged varsity t€am. I€aveDenver after tle spring semester,and a season of competative golf,to pursue a career as a professionalgolfer based either in South Africa orEurope,

"I will go and just see how muchmoney I can make on the tour. I will!s fahng online classes from Metro,and I won't have to rely on my par-

Metlo StatejuniorJay Jay Botha ofSonth Afiica bdngs his passion furgolftoMetru. Bothat nerv golfdub on campus may help him in his questto b€come a

season will be hls warm-up before heembarls for the pros, as well as prac-tice for his backup plan in case bis protime is shorl To be a golf pro backhome at a local course.

In the spring, he will be the teamleader of the Metro golf team and hehopes to help develop the skills of theplayers during the season. His hopeis that the team will be impressiveenough to be considered for varsity inyears to come.

'II Metro ever a@epts this clubteam to varsity, I will be so grateful toMetro that I was able to start a varsitvsport, " Botha said.

Hebelieves it's apossibilitybecausethe Meto varsity swimming team was.disbanded, and he added, "if one sportis lost we put a new team in."

Botha's enthusiasm and driveis evident as he plots out the coursehe will take as president of the Mehogolf club. He hopes to put a team to-gether in the olTseason; he needs atleastfve members and muld have asmany as nine.

If he is succesful, he will hlavea fundraiser for travel exlrnses totournaments and matchups withregional tearns like CSU-Pueblo andMesa Stabe.

As of yet he has not recruitedany members lor either club, buttley were accelted by Metro morethan a week ago after a two-monthprocess of applying to add the clubsto the school.

Botha has also spoken to Colum-bine Golf Course to get discountedrates for his team practice time andhas plans to use the local golf acad-emy to improve his players. Botha

will be.as much of a manager ascoach and president, since he willhave to make sure the golf playersmaintain full-time status during theseason.

The iunior has done this all in hisfirst semester of school at Metro.

"If you snooze you lose," he likesto say.

Botha has a.lways been driven.Ten years ago he beg,an playing gollat local courses in fohannesburg andbefore long he was thinking big.

"In South Africa they take yourea.l seriously for what you are Fyingto do," he said.

Alber living in the country bisffrst 18 years, Botha left Africa asthe political turmoil and the violenceworsened. He wound up in Ia firnta,Colo., with his mother and her newhusband, a U.S. citizen,

"At that time, things werE not go-ing very well," Botha said of SouthAfrica. "The violence was very bad. "

The violence in his native Johan-nesburg has only worsened since heleft and politics remain rocky with anelection coming up, So he is think-ing about basing himself in Portugalwhen he becomes a professional golf-er, a country he has visited alreadyand that has a climate as humid asSout} A.frica, very d.illerent from thedry, high desert of Colorado.

"I will buy a horne in ariothercounfy, maybe Portugal, but I willgo back to South Africa depending onn'hat the'conditions are back there,"he said,

But first, Botha would just like toleave a legacy, even a small one, hereat Metro.

professional player.

ents anlmore," Botha said.

This isn't blind ambition either,as he already shoots a game in the

low 7O's and believes that he will beshooting in the high 60's by the timethe spring golf season starts. The club

Metro hockey skates to first win on road trip in Utah'Runners suffer penalties,10 taken in final gametranslate to nine goalsByROBERTDRANrd-ran@mscd.edu

Metro hockey grabbed their firstwin of the season against Utah Uni-versity 1 l-5 during a tlree game roadtrip in Utah. But they fell to BrighamYoung University 8-6 and Utah StateUniversity l6-4.

There were some bright spotsduring the hip, though. In additionto their.first win, forward Dan Goldengot a hat Fick and an assist againstUtah University Sept. 9. ForwardTroy Oakes added assists and fonrardSteve Call had two goals. Forwardlouedagin Montana had three pointsoff a goal in two assists. In total, 1lMetro players ended with points onthe board; 10 of those players had atleast two points.

In. the Sept. 10 loss to BrighamYoung, Oakes had a hat trick of hisown. Golden had two goals. Andrew

Carlson also made 42 saves on 50shots.

"Troy and (forward) Kyle (Obu-hanick) played really well in spite oftheir iniudes," said head coach Cur-tis Duffus. 'We're playing a lot better.Our system is working well."

Oakes has a shoulder injury thatwill require surgery at the end of theseason and Obuhanick is currenthsuffering from an anlle injury.

"llle're plennga lot better. Our

system is workingweui'

METRO HOCK[Y (OACHCURTIs DUFFUS

Oakes and Golden combined forI 3 points in the first two games.

In the last game of the trip, UtahSlalf, r 'as able to repeat their earlierrout o[ Metro. Down 7-1, Meko wasable to grab three quick goals but the

momentum was dorre in by penalties.Ten straight penalties resulted in ninemore goals for Utah State, which putttre game out of reach.

"We just need to work on gettingto loose pucks, but hopefully, we cando well against some lt'eaker teams,Kansas and New Mexico, next week-

end, " Duffus explained.This weekend Metro will try to

continue their high scoring againstthe University of New Mexico at9:10 p.m. Sept. t7 at The Edge inLittleton and the University of Kan-sas at 6:25 p.m. Sept. 18 at the IceRanch in Littleton.

tile photo by LltlH NGo/ In90@{nsd.edu

liietrc midfi elder Jamh StephensonSept 28 vs. l{ewman atAuraria Field.

Player of the weekMetro womeh's soccer midfielder

Jaimie Stepheson received RMAC Of-fensive Player of .the Week Oct. 14.Stephenson Ieads the team with a.318 shot percentage, anil has sevengoals and one assist on the season.Ai a senior, she has played in everygame so fer fhis season. Stephensonconhibuted back-to-back goals Oct.l0 against CSU-Pueblo; helping herteam to a 4-0 victorv.

The Metro club hockeyteam gathersfora peptalk during pradic 0d. 2 atthe APEX ice dnk inWheatildge.Ihe team bloke into fte win column overtheweekend in Utah with a l1-5 win over Utah University.

Ala ,' 0(T0BER 16, 2008 " IHE METR0P0IITAN

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