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Lead singer Aaron Collins of Machine Gun Blues performed at a backyard house party July 25 at the 15th annual Underground Music Showcase. Photos by Alyson McClaran • [email protected]
mymetmedia.com The Student Voice of MSU Denver Volume 38, Issue 1 August 13, 2015
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Lead singer Aaron Collins of Machine Gun Blues performed at a backyard house party July 25 at the 15th annual
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Over four days, more than 400 local and national bands took
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Underground Music Showcase. Attendees purchased wristbands
which gave them access to see any band. The heat and sound
radiated through each bar and venue where hundreds of people
packed themselves in to see the show.
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“I got kids sitting on my desk in my room and they’re crying saying ‘Miss Varela, Miss Varela, he asked to see my ID and I reached into my pocket and I was looking down at a gun.’”
-Victoria Varela
Story and photo by Justin David Tate
A year ago, Kenny Wiley helped organize what would eventually become Black Lives Matter 5280, a chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement that organized to respond to a growing number of news stories about unarmed black people as well as other people of color killed by police.
On August 9—the one year anniversary of the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of white police officer Darren Wilson—27-year-old Wiley’s Black Lives Matter 5280
came together on the streets of downtown Denver marching and chanting from Lawson Park to Denver County Courthouse to mourn the loss of Brown as well as other people of color lost since Brown’s shooting, including 17-year-old Latin American Jessica Hernandez and 35-year-old Native American Paul Castaway—two of Denver’s own.
While holding a sign that read “Am I next?” as she sat on the steps of the capital, 15-year-old Raquel Muniz pondered the question as members of the protest took turns saying the name of those who died at the hands of police.
“I fear that if I am walking down the street one day at night, I feel like they may come to me and
something may happen,” Muniz said. “And it’s not just the way I feel, it’s the way multiple youth of color feel, brown and black.”
This feeling of distrust force was addressed at a recent Colorado Association for Chiefs of Police conference. The conference was held for three days on the third floor of the Tivoli Building from July 20-22.
Previous president of the CACP and Greenwood Chief of Police John Jackson said they tackled numerous issues throughout the conference, but one major issue being tackled was how to change how the community view policemen. Jackson said he would like people to see a police officer and see someone who is willing to
help and not someone who is out to do them harm.
His successor is Evans police chief Rick Brandt who said he is prepared for whatever it takes to rekindle that trust.
“I don’t think there’s a chief in this conference in this state that would tell you they don’t want to be accountable,” Brandt said. “We also want to be transparent. We thought we were doing that.”
Brandt said they realize they aren’t doing enough and so lawmakers and chiefs of police are working together to develop ways to win back trust.
One of the major ways in which they are doing that is with recent bills passed in Colorado.
Brandt and Jackson were
in favor of a bill that would not allow officers to lie about their records. Officers with a bad record of misconduct would have their records revealed and could face criminal charges for burying a previous of misconduct.
Still, firing a bad officer is not always as easy as Brandt and Jackson would like. Brandt talked about how he had serious complaints come in about an officer on June 20 and he was able to have him out by July 17. Jackson found this impressive. Six years ago, he dealt with an officer who excessively tased people and it took two months to get rid of him.
Black & Bluehow police chiefs, protesters are searching for
answers to a conflict between cops, people of color
Protesters from Black Lives Matter 5280 march down Broadway Street Aug. 9 a year after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Curriculum Advising and Pro-gram Planning reports, otherwise known as CAPP reports, are a current staple of college registra-tion and advising at MSU Denver and have been so since 1997, but according to the MSU Denver reg-istrar office, that will change.
“Degree Works is a degree au-dit system and the idea is to vastly improve the advising process from both ends, our perspective, the university perspective as well as
the student perspective,” said Ed-ward Zarate, a graduation evalua-tor for MSU Denver.
Degree Works shows changes made to the degree plan in real time and advice for college advi-sors can be notated and seen later by the student to reference later. This is one of several features De-gree Works has to help it improve over CAPP according to Zarate.
Ellucian, the company behind CAPP, came to MSU Denver and said they would no longer sup-port CAPP. MSU Denver was then introduced to Ellucian’s new
system they created called Degree Works, which will produce Degree Progress Reports to replace CAPP reports.
Degree Works has a web-based interface that is more intuitive and user friendly than its predecessor according to MSU Denver registrar Paula Martinez.
“We basically got some of the experts and some of the depart-ments to help us train the colleges in the school,” she said. “So far it seems to be going well. It’s easy. It’s not as complicated as CAPP.”
Degree Works’ ability to allow
each department to make their own adjustments spreads out the workload and saves time.
The department where the student’s major is housed will make changes directly according to Zarate.
“Any adjustments will be made at that level in the college rather than the change come to us, which (results) in a delay,” Zarate said. “It takes a while to get through because of the number of CAPP adjustments.”
Degree Works will officially debut in October for incoming new
students and new transfer students that fall under the 2015-2016 cata-log year that plan to register for the spring 2016 semester.
A student’s catalog year is the year that they begin classes at MSU Denver. This often determines what classes a student will have to take to complete their major.
Martinez said they plan to add the remaining catalog years from the 2012-2013 catalog to the 2014-2015 catalog by fall of 2016.
That will result in Degree Works being used by every MSU Denver student.
RIP CAPPBy Justin David Tate
News Briefs
“It’s a tough process, people have rights,” Jackson said. “The federal law says you have an inherit job right in your employment. I can’t just look at him and go, ‘I don’t like those ties. You’re fired.’”
Jackson gave the officer a stern warning before ultimately initiating the process of letting him go. He told him he could lose his job and even though it hurt to let one of his own go, he would rather not allow his behavior continue to endanger others.
Wiley marched with many people of all walks of life singing, crying and chanting. One protestor in particular was a special education teacher named Veronica Varela.
“I just moved here from Los Angeles. My kiddos come from Compton, Watts, east LA and everyday I’m scared I’m going to get a phone call and it’s going to be one of my kids,” Varela cried.
“I got kids sitting on my desk in my room and they’re crying saying ‘Miss Varela, Miss Varela, he asked to see my ID, I reached into my pocket and I was looking down at a gun.’ That’s why I’m here for every single one of my babies.”
Varela noted that former Los Angeles citizen Ezell Ford was a 25-year-old black man who suffered from several mental disorders when he was shot and killed by LA police.
Jackson said he believes law enforcement can’t be the answer for everything. There are certain
things where law enforcement needs to simply “quell” a situation so it can be handle by other professionals rather than try to be the end-all, be-all solution.
“We go to the scene and make sure the immediate threat has subsided,” Jackson said. “We go, we quell the situation and make it quiet for the time and we take them to the hospital where they admit themselves. That’s a great example of how law enforcement can open the door somewhere, push them in and close it.”
Varela believes another part of the problem is that the police and community need to work together more. She said police need to be from a neighborhood to properly police it.
“When you walk into a
neighborhood that is not your own, you police it differently,” Varela said. “You do things differently. So I think that things really start to change when there’s more community involved in police hiring and police training and how those things are done. In order to feel like somebody is actually protecting you, you have to know them and they have to love you. At worst the community needs to be heard when those decisions are made so if a new cop’s going to roll up in your neighborhood, I want to know his name. I want to know who he is. I don’t want him walking the neighborhood policing our streets.”
Lynn Eagle Feather, whose son, Castaway, was shot by police, was present at a demonstration outside
the Tivoli when the Colorado police chiefs were present and at Black Lives Matter 5280. Jackson came out to comfort her at the protest near the Tivoli.
She said Denver police refuse to release the surveillance video that contradicts police reports of Castaway threatening police with a knife.
She said that even though she appreciated Jackson for coming out to meet her, she said he has nothing to do with Denver police killing her son. She offered one suggestion to Colorado chiefs looking to clean house.
“I just want justice,” she said. “I want that cop (who killed my son) to be put behind bars.”
It started as a joke, but gradu-ated MSU Denver English major Amanda Berg and communica-tions major Vinnie White got seri-ous about breaking a world record. In this case, the record they seek to break is for the Guinness World record for longest, uninterrupted live webcast.
To beat the record, the KMET Radio morning talk show, The Rabbit Hole, will broadcast from the newsroom studio on the third floor of the Tivoli for 56 hours.
Months of planning went into the attempt. The rules call for outside specialist with broadcast experience to be the eyes and ears on behalf of Guinness.
The team began the webcast
on August 11 at 8:00pm and will continue for 56 hours until Friday August 14, 4:00am. On-campus coffee shop Dazbog donated coffee. A friend offfered to do yoga with Berg and White the following morning. In all, Berg and White attracted 28 people from outside the news office to satisfy the rules of attempting a Guinness world record, which said that there must be a witness with a background in broadcast and technology. That witness cannot be used for more than four hours, thereby leading the radio show to switch off their cast of characters.
The world record attempt will raise money for the Food Bank of the Rockies.
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MSU Denver sophomore Vinnie White, also know as DJ Vinnie the Pooh, and Jesse Thomas, an official witness for the Guinness World Record, participate in KMET Radio’s The Rabbit Hole podcast on Aug. 11 in the Student Media Office. The podcast is meant to break the record for the longest podcast show at 56 hours. Photo by Abreham Gebreegziabher • [email protected]
MSU DENVER’S KMET RADIO ATTEMPTS GUINNESS WORLD RECORD AS LONGEST RUNNING UNINTERRUPTED WEBCAST
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Photobombers: please stay out of my shot
Photo bombing is a silent killer ruining photojournalists’ days everywhere.
I myself was recently bombed. It hit me after I spent the entire day waiting for one shot of one biker out of thousands on their way up Lookout Mountain, for the Denver Century bike race.
To get into position I had to rise before the sun, drive for two hours from Boulder to east Aurora for a quick shot of the starting line, and then on to the mountains outside Denver to capture the beautiful Rocky Mountains as a
background.Right as the cyclist I’d been
waiting for came into sight, I lied on my belly with the hot gravel burning my chest at 80° and brought the camera to my right eye. That’s when Gabriel, the biker I’d been waiting for all this time, came into position. Unfortunately that’s also when the photobomber struck.
It would have knocked me off my feet if I wasn’t already on the ground. It was a kick in the pants. My whole day was ruined.
I’d usually sit down and edit my photos as soon as possible, but I put off editing this assignment as long as possible.
The most awful thing a photobomber can do is get in the way of a photojournalist.
I got over it eventually, but it
really grinds my gears. I’ve been photobombed before but this episode was so much worse. Not only was the photograph an entire day in the making, but he lingered in the pose for way longer than a standard bomb should last.
If you must photo bomb someone, timing is crucial. Get in and get out. Don’t be anymore of a jerk then you already are.
“There’s a time and a place for it,”said Jake Holgerson, photographer and MSU Denver alumni. “If it’s at a bar and the people seem cool, then yeah, go for it. If it’s a couple or family trying to capture a moment then it’s disrespectful. If it’s a professional photog on the job, it’s just rude.”
It happens to all of us photographers. Instead of getting the shot you need then moving on, you spend twice as long waiting for camera aware people to finish posing for you.
You post up in lens position and wait for the perfect moment and then the bomb drops. Most of the time, it’s a solvable problem.There’s almost always another moment to capture. Also, because humans tend to repeat themselves, it’s entirely possible to capture the
same frame again, with different people.
Other times moments are completely ruined.
Of course it’s not always a dire situation. There are fun photobombings when you’re out for a night out on the town, and one of your friends gets nostalgic, requesting a picture. It all seems to go well, but when you look back on the picture later you see a villain lurking in the background—ometimes making a lewd gesture, sometimes just looking like a jackass.
Either way, be courteous when you decide to photobomb. Don’t ruin a professional photographer’s day, and at least think twice before jumping in on a snapshot between friends.
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There’s something special about being back at school, especially in the fall.
It’s a shared experience that everyone, from new students to seasoned scholars alike, must all feel at least a little bit. That little kid inside of me, with my He-Man lunchbox and Velcro shoes, always comes to life when I’m back on campus for the first day of
semester. The night before I inevitably
fret over the little things. How long will my commute take? Am I sure about where my classes are? Do I have enough pens? Is my alarm set? I better check just one more time.
It all works out but I still can’t help myself. I’ll lie in bed and get sentimental about all the first days
I’ve had and the sweet memories from semesters gone by.
Those first day jitters never go away. Entering the classroom and meeting your fellow students
for the first time is always a thrill, knowing full well you’ll become good friends with a few of your classmates by the end of the semester.
I still remember being 20 minutes late on my very first day at MSU Denver. There was a last-minute email sent out the night before about a classroom change, but I didn’t get it. About four other colleagues of mine didn’t either, and we all tip-toed into class late together. It was silly enough to laugh at and there’s nothing like showing up late on the first day to lighten the mood. I was a half hour early the next time we met.
A freshmen student’s first day is filled with nothing but firsts, and if you’re huddled up under a chair in the Tivoli reading this, thinking that this college thing is all too much to handle, don’t worry about it. We’ve all been there and there is nothing like that first day of college. You’ll remember it forever, so enjoy the ride.
On the first day back of
this, my final semester, I’ll walk through campus looking for familiar sights, almost paternally checking in to make sure my special friends are still ok.
It brings me comfort knowing that the quiet, mousy librarian is still scurrying around the library even though we’ve never spoken or that the crew at the Saffron Grill food truck are still smiling while cranking out some killer falafel sandwiches.
I find the most moving part of returning to school is seeing the others students on campus, noticing the excitement and determination on their faces. It’s a swirl of emotions on the first day, but regardless of what brought you here or what your major is, whether it’s your first day or your last semester on campus, we’re all here for the same reason — to improve ourselves by taking chances and making sacrifices while we pursue our academic dreams. Don’t forget to have a ton of fun while you’re at it too.
By Tony White
The first day of school: we’re all in this together
“You post up in lens position and wait for the perfect moment and then the bomb drops.”
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“That little kid inside of me, with my He-Man lunchbox and Velcro shoes, always comes to life when I’m back on campus.”
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By Cassie Reid
Disney Channel asked what would have been a shocking question 20 years ago in its latest flick “Descendants:” Are people destined to be evil?
By now, however, villain revamps seem more like the norm than charming princess stories.
Fortunately “Descendants” has a unique enough edge, following the adventures of the children of Cruella DeVille, Jafar, the Evil Queen and, worst of all, Maleficent (played by Kristen Chenoweth which should be reason enough to watch) as they are freed of their banishment and allowed to attend school with the royal children.
Which is why, while I did enjoy the film, I was somewhat befuddled by their selection of villains to reference, since
Disney themselves have given sympathetic backstories to half of the group, with a popular theatre troupe providing a persona for another (each is reviewed and detailed below). The only entirely cruel character, it would seem, is the one literally named “devil.”
As for the made-for-TV film itself, the young actors all do well in their roles and offer several interesting twists on the standard redemption story (like how Jafar’s son is a very Aladdin-like thief and Cruella’s boy fears puppies).
It is a musical and, if you are in High School Musical Fan is Anonymous, I’m sure the jerks from “Inside Out” are bound to get songs stuck in your head for days to come, particularly Chenoweth’s “Evil Like Me.”
My biggest complaint about this movie is the utter mutilation performed
on Belle and Beast’s characters. Without spoiling the ever surprising Disney Channel Original Movie, there is a scene where something goes wrong and, instead of Beast throwing a tantrum and Belle de-escalating, Beast is a cold, passive-aggressive turd face and Belle a compliant, snobby bimbo. In other words, the exact opposite of any lesson from their movie.
Other than that, the movie does
not resort to modern lingo to attract viewers as the characters’ journeys will suffice. All of the aged villains are clearly having a blast, most notably Chenoweth and Kathy Najimy as the Evil Queen. Most of the actors, while on the Disney circuit, are new to most audiences (if Jafar’s kid looks familar, imagine him without a shirt in Washington state) and are all triple-threat goodness. While
the issues discussed are not earth shattering, it is a fun, cheesy, energetic 90 minutes.
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Not-so rotten apples fall from empathetic trees
Movies Opening This Week:
The Metropolitan review staff rates works on a standard “A to F” scale, similar to
that used in MSU Denver classes.
Straight Outta Compton
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mistress America
Exeter
Return to Sender
Air
Fort Tilden
Meru
Tom At The Farm
People Places Things
R, 2 hr. 27 min. Aug 14
PG-13, 1 hr. 56 min. Aug 14
R, 1 hr. 26 min. Aug 14
R, 1 hr. 25 min. Aug 14
Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min. Aug 14
R, 1 hr. 27 min. Aug 14
R, 1 hr. 35 min. Aug 14
PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min. Aug 14
R, 1 hr. 32 min. Aug 14
Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min. Aug 14
B
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Mind/Body
Group FitFall 2015 Schedule
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAYStrength, Stability
& Stretch 11–11:50 a.m.
East Court • Sierra
Chakra Yoga11–11:55 a.m.
PE 103 • Lakshmi
Strength, Stability & Stretch
11–11:50 a.m.East Court • Rebekah
Gentle Yoga11–11:55 a.m.
PE 103 • Catherine
MeditationNoon–12:20 p.m.PE 103 • Lakshimi
MeditationNoon–12:20 p.m.
PE 103 • Catherine
Indoor CyclingNoon–12:50 p.m.
PE 201 • Jody
Indoor CyclingNoon–12:50 p.m.PE 201 • Rowan
Indoor CyclingNoon–12:50 p.m.
PE 201 • Jody
Indoor CyclingNoon–12:50 p.m.PE 201 • Rowan
Yoga Sculpt12:30–1:20 p.m.
Green Room • Jorge
Pilates12:30–1:20 p.m.PE 103 • Beth
Yoga Sculpt12:30–1:20 p.m.
Green Room • Jorge
Pilates12:30–1:20 p.m.PE 103 • Beth
Total Fit12:30–1:20 p.m.
West Court • Sierra
Total Fit12:30–1:20 p.m.
West Court • Sierra
Ripped in 3011:30 a.m.–Noon
West Court • Rebekah
Ripped in 301:30–2 p.m.
Green Room • Jorge
Ripped in 301:30–2 p.m.
West Court • Brett
Ripped in 301:30–2 p.m.
Green Room • Jorge
Ripped in 301:30–p.m.
West Court • Brett
Flow Yoga3:30–4:20 p.m.PE 103 • Derik
Vinyasa Yoga3:30–4:30 p.m.PE 103 • Daria
Flow Yoga3:30–4:20 p.m.PE 103 • Derik
Aligned Yoga3:30–4:30 p.m.
PE 103 • Caroline
Belly Dancing4:30–5:20 p.m.
PE 103 • Lia
Belly Dancing4:30–5:20 p.m.
PE 103 • Lia
Hatha Yoga5–6:00 p.m.
Tivoli 640 • Derik
Zumba®5:15–6:15 p.m.PE 103 • Cathy
Zumba®5:30–6:30 p.m.PE 103 • Becka
Zumba®5:15–6:15 p.m.PE 103 • Cathy
Zumba®6:45–7:45 p.m.PE 215 • Liat
Check in with Room 108 in the PE Building for gymnasium closures each week.
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Saturday 9 a.m.– 3:50 p.m.
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Underground Music Showcase hits high notes
Machine Gun Blues performed a high energy show at a backyard house party July 25.
From top right to bottom:
Itchy-O performed in a cloud of smoke at a free show July 25.
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club jumps into the crowd to sing a song on the main stage July 26 at the Underground Music Showcase.
The Royal performed at Hi-Dive July 26.
Photos by Alyson McClaran • [email protected]
Tennis performed the last outdoor show of the night on the main stage July 26.
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Disney World post-puberty: keeping the magicPhotos and Story by Cassie Reid
It is now a legal option for me to ride “It’s a Small World” whilst completely hammered.
I am older than the Disney princesses, but am without giddy kiddies to pull me to and fro across the megalith that is the Walt Disney World Resorts.
I am part of the in the 0.1 percent of Disney World patron who has visited the park six times. This is primarily due to family reunions at the parks every five years since its inception in 1971.
While I may argue that has given me insight into the changes of the park, I fully acknowledge that I was a sugar-filled, ride-obsessed, swooning youngling up until this last visit.
But now, corrupted by higher education and being at legal drinking age, I stepped into the Magic Kingdom and felt out of place.
There is no doubt that my exposure to Disney as a corporation is partially responsible for my unease. A mark of this change is the Starbucks that replaced a quirky bakery on the Magic Kingdom’s Main Street.
Darker elements in rides have been replaced with silly cartoons or erased, presumably after years of exhausted parents shouting at fresh-faced Cast Members.
Bizarrely enough, another contributor to my now critical eye seems to be the way Cast Members and the parks themselves accommodate their guests. In place of a park pass, room key and credit card (though the great Mouse will still accept Visa) is a plastic bag containing a
microchip-like technology with a radio frequency 40 feet in any direction.
Its perfection is paranoia inducing, with illusions to Orwell’s “Big Brother.”
The resorts live up to their reputation, creating a world that simultaneously seeks the core of humanity and the unimaginable possibility of tomorrow. Yet as much as the details alter
and what each building contains continues to evolve, a year by year shot down Main Street would reveal little signs of change.
Cinderella’s Castle, the giant golf ball in Epcot, the Tower of Terror, even the turkey leg stand in Tommorowland are solid fixtures and landforms molded by thousands of footsteps and hours of labor. Conversely, I personally have no notion of where I will be or how I will change in three months, much less decades down the road.
This may sound like existential whining, and it probably is. But the wonder of Disney World is in its capacity to surprise you.
It prevents any sort of nostalgic implosion in sobs of “I’ll never experience that again!” by creating new experiences.
Left ear: In a matter of minutes into a rainstorm, performers and the Mouse himself lines Main Street for a parado in the rain, July 28.
Below: Expedition Everest in Animal Kingdom entertains pre-and-post-pubescent children at heart, July 29.
Right ear: Cinderella’s Castle, despite interior renovations, re-mains its strength as a reminder that anyone can get anywhere, July 28.
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By Logan O’Brien
One of Auraria Library’s best-kept secrets is the Special Collections department, which features rare books and documents as well as digital multimedia.
“It’s a very interesting and useful place” said Emma Berg, a linguistics student at MSU Denver. “I would gladly while away my youth here.”
Kara O’Brien says that she has spent a good fraction of her life in the library since she enrolled at UCD four years ago, but has never heard of Auraria Campus’s Special collections.
“I didn’t know that was a thing,” She said. “I spend hours in here almost every day, and I’ve
never even heard of it.”Auraria’s Special Collections
department is housed in a glass enclosed room. Furnished with a few chairs and reading tables, the small area is lined with wooden display cases that hold some of the collection’s rarest pieces. It is quieter than the rest of the library, due to the glass walls that surround it that cut off what little noise, if any, would distract the readers.
Surreal silence, plusand the old documents give the area a shrine-like feeling, as if breaking the quiet might be some sort of heresy.
“The new room, with it’s walls and place, makes for a better space for perusing our collection,” said Matthew Mariner, head of Special Collections and Digital Initiatives department. “It creates
its own environment suited to the task and the sources.
The collection was established to “protect, describe and preserve” documents of historic importance to Colorado and Denver according to the department’s homepage.
Many of the manuscripts in the collection Collection deal with local and regional history, such as the Eugene L. Copeland Railroad Collection which details 200 years of the history of steel tracks and blowing horns, and the Chicano and feminist movements of Denver in the ’s 1960s, including a collection from Colorado chapters of the American Association of University Women.
The collection contains books, maps, letters, photographs and assorted other pieces.
Michelle Hernandez, a recent graduate from MSU Denver’s history department, said that in the four years she was at school she had never heard of the special collections.
“I found out about them the day I graduated, by complete accident,” She said. “It would have been good to know about a little earlier.”
Auraria Library also has a digital collection that contains an archive of photographs as well as academic works by students and faculty from the three schools that share the library.
The Auraria Digital Library Program provides free access to its archives, both for students and the general public. A large part of the collection’s resources go to digitizing documents so that they can be made available to scholars
and students around the world. “Once a document is digital,
it has a much broader appeal than it could physically on campus,” Mariner said. “Digitizing our documents only makes their history and our collection stronger.”
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Library gives global access to history
Wild Bricks
Giraffes at the Denver Zoo get a fed by leafy greens by visitors of all ages.
A 400-pound bumblebee constructed from legos hangs above folliage at the Denver Zoo for Nature Connects, Art with Lego Bricks an exibit created by Sean Kenney
A full-scale, African lion greets visitors at the main gate of the Denver Zoo’s Nature Connects, Art exhibit.
The Denver Zoo opened its new traveling exhibit Nature Connects, Art with LEGO bricks to the public on Aug 7. Scattered throughout the zoo, the exhibit displayed over 35 different scuptures of animals from around the globe. The Goddard School, a denver preschool, worked in conjunction with the zoo to create the exhibit to get kids excited about nature. The exhibit will be available for viewing during business hours until Nov 1.
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The job of a referee is no easy task. Typically overshadowed and unappreciated, yet in high need, they are the ones who provide a voice of reason for each and every game. They are the ones who are required to make quick accurate decisions while being the final judge of sportsmanship.
If you factor in the often unfavorable hours, poor salary and verbal abuse, the decline of officials in youth sports is not surprising.
The shortage of officials, particularly in basketball in the Denver-area has spurred the part-nership of Metro State and Gold Crown Foundation—a local non-profit organization. The pairing has resulted in the University’s first basketball officiating course available for the fall 2015 academic semester.
“Our goal is to increase the number of referees while also im-proving the quality of officiating and adding some diversity to the ranks,” said Bill Hanzlik, founder and CEO of the organization.
Hanzlik, who spearheaded the partnership also happens to be a former player and coach for the Denver Nuggets and current member of the Metro Board of Trustees.
The Department of Human Performance and Sport will host the two-credit course, HPS 290T
- Intro Basketball Officiating. Stu-dents enrolled will be introduced to the principles of officiating and learn basic referee mechanics and court positioning.
“This course will benefit the student in many ways,” Gold Crown director and course in-structor Micah Pauldino said in an interview.
“Better understanding of the game, knowledge of the rules, and
how to apply effective communi-cation with coaches, players, and partners.”
Pauldino, a Westminster native, has officiated both high school and collegiate games since 2006, respectively. He has experi-ence with the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, Region IX Conference and NAIA Indepen-dent. Also having majored in Communications studies from the University of Northern Colorado, Pauldino is no stranger to know-ing how much of an impact the
course could have on the indi-vidual student.
“Upon successful comple-tion of the Colorado High School Activities Association rule exam, students will then be certified by the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials and will be able to officiate high school level games around the state, as well as work for Gold Crown,” he said. “What student wouldn’t want
a chance to make over $20/hour and have the flexibility to set their own schedule?”
Students who become IAABO certified can not only officiate in Colorado but 45 other states as well. They will have the opportu-nity to create their own schedule around classes and make either $20/hour or up to $60 per game.
Students may not need to go elsewhere for work with CHSAA having its lowest number of officials in two years. CHSAA ad-ministrator Monica Tillman said,
at 1,380, the number of basketball referees in Colorado is dwindling and in need of at least 200 ad-ditional officials for the upcoming year.
Gold Crown is looking for new hires for January and February as well as year round so students wanting to make the direct leap from classroom to court will be able to do just that once the course completes in December.
If that’s the route one chooses to make, of course, this opportu-nity is not without its challenges.
Whether it’s a parent, fan, player or coach, a referee can never satisfy all in a field that has a definitive winner and loser. And it’s not their job to.
“We teach proper techniques in ways to diffuse the situations, and sometimes as an official this is the hardest part of the job,” Pauldino said. “The best thing is to listen, communicate effectively, give short/concise answers, don’t have elephant ears and have tough skin.”
Having a tough skin is not the only thing future refs have to be weary of during games.
The duty of making sound consistent calls is also something that has plagued not only youth sports but the pros as well.
We’ve all been frustrated when referees make calls that are more lenient to the opposing team and don’t seem to give a steady
The final week of July consisted of the Metro men’s basketball team being nationally recognized for their efforts academically during the 2014-15 school year.
The National Association of Basketball Coaches awarded both the team and four individual players with the Team Academic Excellence Award and Honors Court.
The Team Academic Excel-lence Award is given to teams that have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the school year. The Roadrunners had a team GPA of
3.36 last year.Both Mitch McCarron and
Nick Kay became the second pair of teammates in Division II history to be named Capital One first team Academic All-American. McCar-ron graduated in May with a 3.87 GPA in Sporty Industry Opera-tions and Kay graduated with a GPA of 3.83 in Biology.
Metro finished the season 26-6 overall, including 19-3 in the divi-sion to win their third consecutive RMAC regular season champi-onship. Although the Runners advanced to the NCAA tourna-ment for the 17th time in the past 18 seasons—the most of any DII school during that period—it was
short lived after a bitter loss in the first round.
The stipulations for the Honors Court award is a bit more thor-ough. To qualify, student-athletes must have a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher, be a junior or senior academically and be at their cur-rent institution for one year or longer. McCarron, Kay and guards Eric Rayer and Zoran Arsenovic all earned the honorable award together and were recognized for the talents off the court and in the classroom.
Rayer had a 3.42 GPA majoring in business marketing. He started 14 games at point guard, includ-ing the final 12 of the season, and
averaged 4.9 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists.
As for Arsenovic, he had a 3.39 GPA while majoring in sport industry operations. He scored 19 points for the Roadrunners in this past season in the 18 games he appeared in.
These four student-athletes along with the rest of the team have represented Metro well both in the classroom and on the bas-ketball court.
Men's basketball are looking forward to the upcoming season that begins in December and working hard for continued suc-cess down the road.
Summer ends with NABC awards for Roadrunners
Men’s Tennis »
Volleyball Premier Challenge »
Softball adds 5 »
Head Tennis coach Daniel Hangstefer won a gold medal at the World Deaf Tennis Championships in late July. He and his sister Emily competed in the mixed doubles competi-tion held at the Nottingham Tennis Centre in Europe. Hangstefer is entering his third season as head man with the Runners.
McCarron signs first pro contract »
Former Metro point guard Mitch McCarron signed his first professional contract on August 10 to play for Palencia in Spain. Palencia competes in LEB Gold, the second-league in Spain.
The NCAA announced that two matches from the Colorado Premier Challenge volleyball tournament will be distributed live on ESPN3 on Saturday, Sept. 12. This will be the first time Metro has hosted a nationally-broadcast volleyball match and the first nationally-broadcast regular-season event in the Aura-ria Event Center since 2009.
Upon completion of the CHSAA rule exam, students will be able to officiate high school level games
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By Nick Reilly
Gold Crown Foundation is a Denver-based nonprofit organization that supports local children through academics and athletics. Gold Crown director Micah Pauldino will teach the two-credit intro to basketball officiating course.
Photo courtesy of Micah Pauldino
Softball head coach Annie Van Wetzinga announced the sign-ings of five student-athletes for the 2015-16 school year. Van Wetzinga returns five starters from a team that finished the 2015 season 44-16, the second-best record in school history.
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In the bottom of the ninth inning—in what would be Troy Tulowitzki’s last game as a Rockie—he was pulled off the field by manager Walt Weiss.
“I knew something was up,” Tulowitzki later told The Denver Post. “I don’t get replaced for de-fense, so that felt really weird.”
When the game was over, Tulo was called into Weiss’s office in the visitors’ clubhouse of Wrigley Field. That’s when a stunned Weiss
told the shortstop he had been traded.
Since then, the Blue Jays have won 11 of 12 and are right behind the Yankees with a record of 61-52. Tulo has a batting average of .244 and three homers so far. As for the Rockies, they continue to struggle at 47-63, last in the NL West.
Tulo commented the next day. “I felt like I got blindsided a bit,” he said. “I thought I was in the loop, in the conversation. It defi-nitely caught me by surprise. I was shocked. Maybe I was a little naive to think I would be so connected
to the process.”During his time with the
Rockies, Tulo won the Gold Glove Award twice, the Silver Slugger Award twice and the Fielding Bible Award three times—not to mention five All-Star selections.
His accolades are numerous and the statistics suggest that he has matured as a player, but many fans remember him for the spark he provided the Rockies in 2007.
Rockies and Tulo split waysruling.“Inconsistency is always a
hard part since you have three people working one game and people call/see things differ-ently,” Pauldino said. “That is why officials spend so much time pre-gamming, and communicating on the court. Consistency is taught in the class by making sure we put ourselves in the best possible position as a crew, and to call the game by rule.”
There are currently nine stu-dents enrolled in the course.
Be prepared to deal with tough personalities and not receiving much of any fanfare or admiration
if one does decide to become an official. If you don’t have a genuine love for the game of basketball, taking this course may not be the best of options. But if you’re sincere about keeping the dignity in the sport along with a passion for your community, why not help pay your way through school do-ing something that’s so rewarding.
“Officiating is a tough job,” Pauldino said. “People just don’t know how to become an official, or where to get started. That is why this class at Metro will be a great learning tool.”
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Across1. Cattail’s locale6. Belfry critters10. Warmed the bench13. Oil-yielding rock14. Netman Arthur15. Cher’s ex Sonny16. Middle Ages invader17. Caboose’s place18. Black, to bards19. Carpentry joint scandal?21. Right-hand person22. Tip of a wing tip23. Caught in a trap25. Railway car problem29. Thresher’s tool30. Two-time Indy champ Luyendyk31. Prefix with lateral33. Strung along37. Turf occupier38. Catches a wave40. In __ (within a living organism)41. Villain’s look43. Genesis victim44. Times to call, in ads45. Grid great Bradshaw47. Main highway49. Model T, e.g.52. __-Cat (winter vehicle)53. Poor, as excuses go54. Borscht-making tool?59. Humorist Bombeck60. Jessica of “Dark Angel”61. Cheech of Cheech and
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It’s going to be a good school year.
You won’t get hit by a bus while crossing the street. This week at least.
Angering an entire ethnic group will leave you with one option, it’s time to run for president.
Be prepared to get you’re dream job in Rutherford, Oh. It’ll be tops.
Your gypsy friend will resurface after a months long absence. He’ll look well traveled and dusty.
When you wake up for work next week, it will dawn on you that you completely missed shark week.
This week you will take being a good American to a whole new level. Get ready for the ticker tape parade.
Family dinner will get interesting this Sunday. Your youngest son will announce he’s becoming a professional bowler.
An experiment in baking pigs in a blanket will go horribly awry in a comedic way.
While stuck working all summer, you forgot to buy that concert ticket to see your favorite band. Do it!
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