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METHO NOI/\IT1||S|Ittl(rThursday 4.17The department of Afiican andAfiican-American studies, alongwith the Aftican Student Union,will hold its annual AfiicanForum.Jhe two-day event willbe held April 17 from 1 p.m. to 4p.m. and April 19, 7:30 p.m. to 10p.m. and will feature speaken,live music and African cuisine. Allevents will be fiee and open tothe public. For a list ofscheduledevents visit www.mscd.edu/news/forum.

Friday 4.18Students will be able to applyfol an emergency short-termloan forthe summer semester atthe Scholarship Center locatedin CentnlClassroom Room 120.Students can also download anapplication at www.mscd.edu/financialaid/types/shortterm.shtml. tor more informationcontact Menie Haynes-Hanson at303-3524247.

Tl|I lt4ETROPOIITAl|25 YIARS AGO,April20, 1983NaderatAunria. Ralph Nader visited Aurariato lecture on the"Major lllsof American Society," such ascorporate power, the arms rare,pollution and the electoralcollege.

High nte of defauhexpected.An official at the AmericanCouncil on Education said the U.5.Department of Education shouldbe"realistic" by bracing itelfforan insease in the numberofstudents defaulting on thetheir fedenl loan payments thisyear.Ihis zumme/s job ma*et ispredicted to be the worst sinceWoddWarll.

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The cost of parking could be driv-en up by at least 50 cents next yearfor almost every lot at Auraria, withthe Tivoli Lot inoeasing to $6 a day.

Oltcials of Auraria said theincreases are necessary to securefunds to build a new parking struc-ture in the next three to lour years.A parking shortage is expected r.r'hilethe campus moves forr.r'ard with itsmaster plan, which is a vision devel-oped by the three schools to increaseacademic space and connect Aura-ria with downtown over the next 2Oyears.- "It's a shock," dtector of park-

ing for the Auraria Higher EducationCenter Mark Callagber said of the in-crease. "But it will be a bigger shockif people come down here and there'sno parking."

Seventy percent of students,faculty and staff drive to the cam-pus, according to Gallagher, andthe increases are expected to gener-ate more than $650.000 dollars infunds for the 2009 budget year. Thisis the second increase in tle last twoyears including a 25 cent hilce thatoccurred last year.

Chief financial officer of AHEC

Sandra Sales said she plans to intro-duce the plan to the Auraria boardof directors April 16 and a vote isexpected in May. As expected, somestudents oppose the increase.

"Students get charged enough,"said fosh Hamilton, a Metro studentand member of the Student AdvisoryCommittee to the Auraria Board."Student fees are increasing, andeducation is getting more expensi\€,and it's going to continue to get moreexpensive. Wedon't need our parkinggoing up when gas is 54 a gallon."

While she is sympathetic to thestudents, Sales said as the masterplan moves forward, more buildingswill be built and additional programswill be developed, increasing enroll-ment and shrinking the availabilityof Auraria's parking. She also saidright now the campus is able to park1OO percent of the people who driveto the campus, but already there areproblems for students who attendclasses in the modular classroomsbuilt to compensate for the lack ofspace.

"The modulars are not the qual-ity experience we want students tohave," she said. "I would rather beproactive, as unpopular as rat€ in-creases uue, than be reactive withan even worse situation," said Sales,

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adding the bond debt for a new park-ing structure would cost roughly$900,000 to be funded by the rateincrease. It is uncertain where thestructure would be built, however.

Other options were consideredfor the predicted parking issue, suchas shuttling over students who wouldpark at Invesco Field. Sales said shebelieves a parking fee increase is thebest solution and shuttling studentsfrom otler places raises questions ofsalety as well as further distancingstudents from the campus.

Still, Hamilton said SACAB wouldlook into other options to avoid an in-crease in parking fees, which facultyand staff members oppose as well.

Spanish instructor MichaelNoricks, who parks in the Tivoli lot,said he would quit &iving to thecampus iI rates increase.

"ff it goes up, I will go back to thetrain." he said.

More people riding the RID light

rail is expected if rates are increased,Sales said. The rate proposal factorsin a 10 percent reduction in peopleforegoing driving to campus for tak-ing public transportation.

In an effort to aid students withthe financial burden of parking, Gal-lagher said AHEC would continue tooffer a discount for individuals thatcarpool, which is current$ 50 centsin Lot E and 2 5 cents in lots R and D.

And even with increases, Salessaid people have to recognize park-ing at Auraria is still cheaper thanany'where else dovrntown. A surveyconducted by Colliers International,a commercial real estate firm, indi-cated the average Denver parkingspace is approximately $ 10 a day

That doesn't change the waymany students, such as Metroaviation technology maior fordanThompson, said they feel about theinoreases, howevei.

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Anti-abortion d isplay sparks debateByDREWJAYNESajayneslomscd.edu

A graphic anti-abortion exhibitinvaded the campus quad in an at-tempt by an aDli-abortion urgani-zation to elicit discussions with stu-dents walking past Aprii 14 and 1 5.

The display was promoted by'

Justice For All, a group invited tocampus by student organization ProLife Ambassadors. The display wasa three-sided portable billboard onwhich graphic pictures of abortedfetuses were depicted. drarvingmixed reactions from students andvisitors. JFHs message was split intothree sections: "Humanity of theUnborn Child." 'Abortion" and "Dono harm."

Volunteers for the event werebrought in by JFA to open dialogueswith passing and interested stu-dents. About 80 volunteers circledthe exhibit. engaging studenls inconversations and asking what theythought.

"I think it's really gruesome andgraphic, but it's reality, and that'swhy we're here," JFA volunteer Brit-ney Smith said.

In addition to opening discus-sions withstudents, IFA offered "FreeSpeech Walls." which were scatteredaround the park. Messages rangingfrom "Keep your hands off my body"to "I approve this message" n'erescrawied on them. A voting tableallowed people to vote on whetherabortion should be made illegal ornot.

A heated discussion lasting morethan an hour also commanded inrer-est at the errhibit. Waiter Vizcainu. aMetro student, and Trent Horn, aItA staITer, argued the importanceof including certain information,which was missing from the display.Vizcaino's argument was essentiallybased on the fact that |FA did not in-clude information regarding the un-derlying cairses of abortion.

"The causes of these abortionsare 90 percent socioeconomic," hesaid, "and that information is notrellected here." Horn countered that

JFAs purpose as an educational or-ganization was to inform people ofthe effects of abortion. not necessar-ily the causes.

At one point, Vizcaino suggestedthat fFAs message was "shock andawe" activism, and that IFA was at-tempting to misidorm, not inform.He did, however. concede that abor-tion was a problem in need of a solu-tion.

"The billboard is iust here tobring out a dialogue," Horn said.'Abortion is one of the most presshgmoral issues of all time."

There wai also some oppositionto the exhibit, mainly organizedaround a table set up next to thepark by Pro Choice Colorado, an or-ganization that believes women have

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Students at Meho werc oftrcdbuttons, literature and condomsfrom Prc Choice Colorado, whichopposd the exhibit at the flagpole on Apdl 'l4and 15. A votingtable was set up for people toYote on whether or not abortiondrould be illegal. Some studentsfelt the anti-abortion display was"shod and awe"activism andJustice tor All was not informingstudenB entirely on the possibleGuses fol abortion. Discussionsand debates lasted more than anhour between students.

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According to JFA spokespersonRebeccah Wagner, JFA is a nonprofitorganization, and the exhibit is fund-ed entirely by private donors. The ex-hibit is taken to campuses and eventsall over the country, usually whenTFA is invitcd by siudent clubs ororganizations. Local volunteers arepulled in from surrounding areas,she said, but matry are also broughtin from local leadership programs lo-cated in places like Colorado Springs.

IFA hosts training seminars for vol-unteers in order to educate them onhow to open dialogues $.ith anyonewhether for or against their cause.

Abortion in the U.5, rSome anti-abortion organizationsargue birth contr0l drugs such as thePill, Depo-Provera and emergency(ontraceptives are forms ofabortions.. There are approximately 1.37million abortions a year, with anestimated 3,700 abortions a day.. 1 percent ofall abortions occurbecause ofraoe or incest.. 6 percent are due to potentialhealth problems with either mother0r child.. 93 percent occur for personalreas0ns..52 oercent ofallabortions areperformed before the 9th week ofpregnan(y.. Worldwide 78 percent 0f aborti0nsare performed in developingcountries and 22 percent indeveloped countries.

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Degree program gives students controlBy BENAFSHEH ABUZARbabuzaremscd.edu

For alnost 30 years Meho has of-fered students the chance to choose,plan and direct their educational ca-reer thmugh the Individualized De-gree Program.

IDP run by the center for indi-vidualized learning, started in theearly l97os, and each year approxi-mately 2 50 students eruoll in it. Theprogram gives Metro students theopportunity to create their own ma-

.iors and minors if tley are not con-tent with the traditional majors andminors provided by Meho.

"By doing an IDP major or mi-nor, students are able to take a moreactive role in planning their ownstudies and often become more selfdirected in their education" said Fliz-abeth L. Parmelee, assistant direc-tor of the Center for IndividualizedIearning.

Some examples of concenfra-tions available througb the IDPare computer gaming, advertisin g,emergenq/ servi@s management,inequality and social justice, youthand family advocacy, social docu-mentary and international studies.

"I was able to take all my variedinterests and pull them into one co-hesive pm[ram," Metro student KyleCottengim said.

Although students are mostly leftalone to plan their own courses, IDPhas soqe requirements and policiesthat must be followed for students toexcel in their areas of study. To getan IDP major, students must com-plete at least 4O credit hours, includ-ing 2l hours of upperdivision creditand 15 hours approved by a depart-ment chair along with a minsl frsmthe Metro catalog. For an IDP mi-nor,at least 20 credit hours are required,including 6 hours of upper-divisioncredit, and 6 hours approved by a de-partment chair, along with a majorfrom the Metro catalog.

An IDP extended maior is alsoavailable that requires at least 60credit h6urs, including 27 hours ofupperdivision that credit must becompleted. Fur thermore. a seniorexperience is necessary for the IDPmajor and extended malor.

The senior experience has threecredit hours at the 4000 level andcan be fulfilled by taking a course,attending a seminar, independentstudy or internship.

Maria Luisa Banuelos, a cur-rent IDP student with an emphasison women and human services mnon profit organizations, is talcnga course called feminist theory andpractice as her senior experience.

"Through the IDP I will have

more job opportunities and experi-ences in different areas," Banuelossaid.

Students who are interested inenrolling in the IDP can attend aninformation session that is held reg-ularly thmugbout the year to beginthe process of enrollment.

Full-time advisers and facu-ltymentors who are experts in the stu-dents' field of study are availableto guide students in choosing theircourses.

Students are permitted to inyite acommunity consultant who is prac-

ticing in the field of the student's in-terest to provide additional help andguidance in planning a degree.

More importantly, students arerequired to r,rrite a rationale in n'hichthey thorouglrly describe their fieldof study, their goals and why theyhave chosen the specific courses.

"Students need to be able to pres-ent a coherent argument for howtheir program makes sense; it can-not iust be a random hodgepodgeof courses with no central focus ortheme ..." Parmelee said.

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Metro student Debra Green hasan IDP with an emphasis on Afri-can studies. She was able to pullout classes from eight different dis-ciplines including anthropology, po-litical science and early childhood.

"The center has helped me inmany ways because they know theins and outs on how to make a de-gree," Green said.

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Governor hits the books and signs textbook billByIGLLYHERRERAkherrerToinscd.edu

Gov. BilI Ritter signed Senate Bill73, the College Textbook Affordabil-ity Act, on April 8.

It prohibits college professorsfrom ordering textbooks until theyknow how much the publisher is go-ing to charge.

Labt October nearly 1,200 stu-dents signed a petition to lower thecost of textbooks.

"This is a consumer right-to-know bill for students and educa-tors alike," Ritter said in a pressrelease.

"It represents an important steptoward transparency and will helpstudents and their families plan theirbudgets. Textbooks cost studentshundreds of dollars a semester, and

with two students in college myself, Iknow that every dollar counts. "

The measure was co-sponsoredby Sen. Ron T\rpa and Rep. John Ke-falas. both Democrats.

Passage of the bill will ease col-lege students' struggle to pay fortheir textbooks every semester.

The bill requires publishers todisclose the price of textbooks andother course materials on websitesand in print, to sell texlbooks sepa-rately and "unbundled" from CDROMs, workbooks and other relatedmaterials, and last but not least, todisclose substantial content revi-sions between current and prior edi-uons.

The bill's main advocate was theAssociated Students of Colorado or-ganization,

"I was really surprised, I thought

it was going to be a brutal fight, " said

Jack Wylie, president of Metro's stu-dent government, who spoke at thebill signing.

According to Wylie, publishersfought the bill in 35 states. The billpassed in Colorado with 3l votesin the Senate and 61 votes in theHouse.

"It is very exciting. It is the stron-gest, most comprehensive bill in anystate." he said.

Wylie added that the next step isto inform the faculty about what todo with the new bill and how to useits resources.

"This is a great thing to hap-pen for students, we have enoughtrouble paying for other things,and books shouldn't be so diflicultto pay for. " Metro student KelseySullivan said.

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God's wrathGod ah,vays Punishes PeoPle who

adopt a sense of absolute right€ous-ness in their own actions. That is lvhyDick Cheney's heart is failing and thereason we may be lucky enough to seehimdieinthe near future.That is whatI believe this week, and why not?

God has always been a wonderfulexcuse for human eufferins andl am. .

without a better $elanation thanthe weight of His A.bnighty Wrathfor the miserably bad karma that hasbefallen the United States.

Of course, I could never go as faras some and claim to have found Je-sus someplace, or allege that I havedeveloped an irrevocable certaintyaboui iire existenr.x oi his iather.But it makes enough sense, {or nowto simply comment on the fact thatI. cannot deffnitively prove religiouspeople to be any less competent thanprehistoric barbarians or even quan-

tum physicists - though I do firmrybelieve that the religious are scum -

any mor.e,fian they can prow theirworth td our species. Which isn'tmuch, as far as I'm concerned, butI rbsolve to give due credence to thepeople's belief in Cod, if only just tomake myseU feel as though he is afterDick Cheney.

Humanity's errors never fail toccnfrm as their proge.mtors arro-gant people who feel so inclined bywhat they almost always rBfer to asthe Will of God as iustification to actout in a mmpletely irrational man-ner. Thke, for example, the Crusades,the annexation of Africa and eventhe cowardly war in haq. God is andalways has been the ultimate scape-

goat for humanity's inhumanity, andI'm quite sure that he must be veryangry about it.

That is why, with any luck, Mr.Cheney's heart will explode in hischest, and nobody wen remotely a.f.filiated with the hawk division of theBush administration wiJl errer again

. know nleasure in Me.God never wanted Hitler to

slaugbter all of the Jews. Indeed, asMark Twain put it, they are his "cho-

sen germs" within the great "bottle ofmicrobes" that is the human race. Sohe turned Hitler into a suicidal drugaddict and forced shame and deathupon those and the descendents ofihose who follolved anfihing he said.

King Leopold's missionaries wer€employed for no other purpose thanto convince people that God was be-hind the throne. Indeed, few nativesin Alrica during the seventeenth cen-tury were likely to forecast the veryreal tbreat of ligbtly coloed, raven-ous maniacs from beyond the sea.But the white devil arril'ed in {orce,raping the continent inside and outin the narne of God and Civilization.Many of the invaders died of thingslike.malaria and scarlet fever, butenough remained to completelyannex the entire continent. NowAfricans fight endlessly amongstthemselves, and when they are notwaging war over resources, they arehansmitting AIDS to one another.

That is no joke, There was littlereason for any one of the 1O,OO0pre-colonial states or polities in AI-rica to have assumed their futwe tobe filled with slavery, disease, rape,

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murder and starvation. But thosethings arrived with swiftness. Per-haps God really does torture the lesscivilized, but this type of misfortuneis far more lilcely to be the result of along history of white self-indulgenceand supremacy God has yet to deliverHis reftibution.

d truth be told, this is not a fate un-

like thatn'hich isprobably awaiting the God why you never really took your

Unit€d States. People like Dck Cheney vote seriously.and Donald Rumsfeld wiII live in shame It must be satisfying to waIE

until God int€rvenes and sfikes them around with a sanctimonious air

dead- Alberto Goruales will fall victrn about oneself, Until, of course, myto the international human smuggling theory becorcs a proven reality and

ring after a gang of Mexicanthugspoi- Almighry God smites the holierthan-

sorx one of his drinks with ketamine. thou ilk for perpetuating some of the

George Bush will ewntually choke most pompous and laugbable beliefs

on something and his dog won't be the world has ever known.

amund to save hirn The people of the Can you hear the dark and omi-norld will rejoice. nous whispering in the hees? That is

But the American people will God beckoning, and he is not happy.

not be any more fortunate than l tho will be oru ?The un-

the abovementioned criminals, nor derprivilegetlE'can cffiIwho uses

should they tr. After all, Americans his Bible as toilet paper and tinder, or

tends to vote for the criminal ticket, the fat American boob who knows

and then instead of fixing the mess no di.lference between violence and

the criminals make, they choose to entertainment ... the verdict is in'

watch "Wheel of Fortune" and wait Judgmenb have been made. Tonight

for somebody else to clean it up. Per- you sleep in the Kingdom of the

haps you will all be able to explain to Damned.

F inding re conciliation w ith family ghos fsIn my head there is a letter wait-

ing to be written. It's not very long,but full of questions. It's the best ofletters b€cause it offers reconciliation.It's the worst of letters because the re-cipient is dead.

My grandpa's wife gave hand-made giffs. She sewed, painted andfor not being her real granddaughter,

There is the me.:nory of my moth-er leaving the house lat€ at night tovisit him in his last hours, followed bythe memory of the arrival of a brownpaper bag that became the summaryof an entire life. It was the realDati.onthat what was within that bag was allthat was left. Dog tags, machine-shopmanuals, military orders, and photo-graphs.

I am in no position to iudge thecharacter of my grandpa. To me, hewas thin with heavily wined hands,

I should be able to find sonre fault in room for debate. CNN ilidn't cover and every movement elicited the smell

her other than her existenc€, the death of my grandfather in 200O. of cigarettes. My grandfather nas the

But I can't and I think the blame The drama that is still a blur in my oxygen tank, the mean black cat, the

must fall squarely on the shoulders of rnind wasn't on the cover of Time. picHed eggs, the beer-fried brats and

a complicated syst€m of family poli- Though it should have been. Even if the voice of a lifetime of smoking that

tics gone terribly awry only for me, to show two sides of the even quitting wouldn't repair.

I could at one moment believe rhat

she cared. r'- u sro*,, ** o;i, HRISTI nENHgand for all the time I've devoted !o kdenke@mSCd.edUresearch into the fanily dysfrrnction

taking sides, staking claims, an-nouncing loyalties. I did this. I stoodby my mother and watched as thesum of a life's disappoints imploded.

And then became silent.Death means the decisions of the

deceased no longer matter. There isa portion of this belief I lend to myChristianiry. But it doesn't mean thatthe decisions of the dead don't con-tinue to drag their fingers throughthe lives of the living.

lt's only recently that I realizedthe anger I felt toward the womanwho devoted the last 15 years of herlife to my grandpa r4as not my own,The lack of closure. the loss of evena pseudo grandparent, left an imprinton my life that no parent could wish,but I kept it close to rny heart in loy-

alty to the pain my mother endured.The letter was to my grandpa's

wife. It was first meant to be onlyan offering of some type o[ relation-ship, but there were things I wanted.I wanted to know where my grandpa

was buried. I wanted to know whyrelationships fall away after hauma.I wanted a chance to say goodbye toher in a way I was never a]loned tosay goodbye to grandpa.

God said no.Perhaps as recent as February,

she died in a nursing home in Au-rora. Whatever the answers I sought,I now must be content knowing thatwhatever ludgment I passed on herno longer matters.

The decisions of the living can nolonger hurt those who are dead.Family politics Cftenrba*,no'.miskrrt,FdCy.,tt.ttJ.r,t. 'rrFllloily politics often are about

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A dancertwids a glowinghula hoop to the musicduilng the Gypsie Nationcommunity dance ftualatthe Avalon Balkoomin Boulder.Ihe all-volun-teer Gypsie Nation offendance rituals in Boulderand Denver as a fom ofspiritual healing and anoppoftunity fot indi-viduals to enhance theirspirit of community. Theweekly prognm includesopen dancing to musicmixed byan outside discjockey, fteedom to medi-tate and an opportunigto pray at altars set up tothe natural elements,

Gypsie Nationfacilitator RebeccaFinnofirehearsesa move in prcpan-tion for a ceremoni-al candlelight danceto celebrate thebeginning ofspdngat the conclusionofthe weeHydante. Finnoffandothers dressed torepresent the fourelemens of nature:eardr, ah, waterand f re. Altars wereset up to honoreach elementandserved as ryecialplaces of pnya andmeditation duringthe dtual.

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Student finds harmony in musicBy SHOSTIANA TYLERsduse8omscd.edu

Playing a drum during the five-mile Pasadena Tournament of RosesParade is one of Allison Greenbaum'smany musical accomplishments.

Since she marched in the paradeas a senior in high school, she hascontinued to advance her career.

"Music allows you to expressyourself with what and how you play.It's fun," she said.

During the spring semester, atypical week for the 21-year-oldMetro sophomore consists of tak-ing college courses. teaching music,and playing with the Blue KnightsPercussion Ensemble as well as theDrum and Bugle Corps.

'I love what I do. I enjoy the timeand the people," she said.

Greenbaum, who commutes fromWestninster to Denver, is a music edu-cation maior taking 14 credit hours.

"I enioy the campus and the mu-sic program at Metro. I have greatinstructors and I've met great peoplewho I see all the time." she said.

Greenbaum considers makinggobd contacts and establishing areputation essential to building acareer. Networking and motivationhave resulted in teaching opportunities for her.

During marching band season,she teaches percussion two nights aweek in Colorado Springs at RampartHigh School. At one point, she taughtat two high schools.

"You have to love.music and loveteaching to be successful," she said.

Greenbaum enjoys sal4hing theability of her students progress butdescribed her favorite teaching mo-ment as the time a student expressedappreciation for her encouragement.

"She said, 'Thank you so much. ffit wasn't for you, I probably would'vequit,"' Greenbaum said. "It's all aboutthe difference you make."

Additionally, Greenbaum is busypracticing for a national perforrnancecompetition with the Blue KnightsPercussion Ensemble. She spendseach Friday, Satqday and Sundayplaying the marimba as section lead-er for tle percussion ensemble. Thegroup is preparing for the upcomingWinter Guard International WorldChampionships from April l7-I9 ,aDayton, Ohio, where her group willcompete against 20 otler groupsfrom around the country and onefrom Japan.

"I'm excited about the comp€ti-ti.on because it's the fust and onlytime I get to see the other groups fromaround the counfy" she said.

"I look forward to the weekends,"she said. "Music is my passion. Mostpeople don't understand it's not achore to have to practice. "

Greenbaum has no plans to slowdown, She will be touring thecountrywith the Blue Knights Drum Corpsthis zummer.

"I've been lucky, and music is all Ido," she said.

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Frivolous investing demands frivolous spendingl.n February of 2008, President

George \41 Bush and the U.S. Con-gress approved a $168 billion eco-nomic stimulus plan to help coun-ter tlre effects of the recession inAmerica. It includes tax rebates forAmerican citizens and families, sortof like a rescue mission for U.S. citi-zens, Imagine that.

The plan is supposed to give re-bates of up to $600 lor individualsand $l,2OO for couples, not to men-tion an exfa $3OO per child (if youhave any).

Bush's reason for giving citizens atax break is that the public will spendit as avid consumers, In his State ofthe Union address, he said, "these re-bates will begin reaching Americanfamilies in May, And when the moneyreaches the American people, we ex-pect they will use it to boost consum-er spending, and that will spur jobcreation, as well."

But if you find yourself receiv-ing your check from the man him-self via the U.S. mail, I've thought ofsome ways you can spend that smallarnount of dough. By the way, thechecks will go out separately from

your tax refunds, and, more thanlikely, you will not see them until Juneor July

Don't forget, if you are a studentyou can file for the Hope karningCredit (which guarantees $1,500) orthe Lifetime Irarning Credit (iumors,seniors and graduates), That extracash will go a long way.

So I've pondered the ways I wouldspend my money, And here is what Icame up with.

Vacation is alrmays number oneon my list, so this surnmer, do some-thing for yourself and see somethingnew It never hurts to try

A trip to Costa Rica! A flight willrun you less than $400 for a round-trip ticket from Denver, and you canrent a car for about $24 a day. Trekto Tarnarindo, where you can stay ata bed and breakfast for only $14 pernight and surf with some cool locals.Our dollar hasn't been very strongthese days, but in Costa Rica we getmore for our money.

Or you can go to the Caribbeanside and make out like a bandito withgorgeous ocean views and beaulifulblack sand. There is so muqh to see .

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there, and the place is barely touched.I have found some of the most beau-tiftrl private beaches (it's a hike) butonce you are there, nudity does comewith the experience. fust be careful,the sun hace mucho calor.

But, if you must stay in this land-locked state because of work or someother ungodly reason, then youmight as well heat yourself to a dayat the spa. After all, you deserve it:you worked for those rebates.

My recornmendation would bethe Mord Club at 1516 17h St., oneof my favorite spots downtown. [o-cated right next to the Odord Hotel,the epa offeqswaxes, massages, coif-

fures and pedicures. You name it, it'sthere, A Swedish massage will runyou about $50 for 25 minutes, andup to $105 for 85 minutes. Swedishmassage isn't the only thing on therubdown menu: sports, lymphatic,deep tissue, stone and couples mas-sages are all given there. The price isgreat, considering the environment isso luxurious and pleasing.

But if you're not the tpe to spoilyourself then why not just wait forthe rebate check and go to WaterWorld? General admission is $33.95and $17 after 2 p.m. Slide downthrotrgh River Country and tubeyour way around the lazy River.

This is a guaranteed fun time,Waiting in lines behind l2-year-oldsisn't so bad, is it? Personally, I alwayshave a blast. lust don't forget to se-cure your stuff in a locker, or elsesomeone might steal it.

That's it for now. Spend thatmoney wisely, and however youspend it, iust enjoy yourself, be trueto what you real\z want or need, beit fun or food. Because who knowswhen we will see a tax rebate likethisagaiE2 .

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Spelling makesforin unexpectedcomedyByNICGARCIAngarci20omscd.edu

Tori Spelling believes her charac-ter Alex in the upcoming movie "Kissthe Bride" is the one most similar toher she has ever played. Alex is naive,sometimes diey, but sfong and wisenevertheless, especially when con-fronted with a challenge.

"She's very honest with herself,but maybe she's a lot stronger than Iam," Spelling said.

In the movie, Alex is set to marryher boyfriend Ryan (played by famesO'Shea). Howevex Matt (PhillippKarner), Ryan's high school friendand lover, has other plans in mind.A magazine editor, he decides it is hisduty to rescue his former boy'friendfrom what he believes will be a shammarriage. But Alex takes a liking toMatt, and while he kies to rekindlethe flame he once shared with Ryan,all three must confront who they re-ally are and what they really want.

In typical romantic-comedy fash-ion, old feelings resurface, and secretsare revealed. However, in "Kiss theBride" the ending isn't so much neatas it is haphazardly revolutionary.

Written by T! Liberman anddirected by C. fay Cox (who also di-rected the critically acclaimed 'Lat-

ter Days,") the fiLn challenges theaudience's ideas of sexualit5r andmarriage, and also of self-acceptanceand coming to terms with the past.

One of the plot points that at-tracted Spelling most to the ffim wasthe portrayal of a question most, ifnot all, people ask: "What could havebeen with my first love?"

But what Spelling believes are thesfongest themes of the movie are thepolitically charged issue of gay mar-riage and the timeless struggle of sellacceptance.

"This movie dispels the beliefabout marriage, " she said. "The mov-ie teaches people all marriage is, is alegal document. (To Alex) A commit-ment means so much more to her."

Spelling, whose best fiend is gay,said she's sad about the curent stateof alfairs surrounding gay marriage.

Il one of the more poignantscenes, Alex, a teacher, discusseswith Matt the idea of being averageand the beauty in accepting normal-cy, somethtry Matt has yet to do.

"The *trole point of the film i5about putting people on the sarne lev-el and knowing you need 0o believe inyourself," she said. "Everyone needsto be who he or she is, not what otherpeople want them to be."

"Kiss the Bride" will open at TheStap FilmCenter-on-April I 8.

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The power of photographyStory bg Simona Kroupova' skraupov@mscd.. edu

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I n elderly woman ilraped in a black coat,

A her head covered by a scarf, is frame-froL -Lzen in front of a bombed-out buildingin Iebanon. Slighdy hunched over, she seems tocarry the world's burdens upon her shoulders.

This is one of many powerful photographsZoriah, who goes by only one name, o{Ters to theunsuspecting. The irnages captured by this warphotographer and photoiournalist give the sensethat he is 10O years old, given what he has seenand r,vhere he has been. But for this 32-par-oldDenverite, who looks like a lost high school stu-dent on a ffeld frip, it's not so much the Srears asit is the mileage.

He graduated tom Evergreen State College,Olpapia, Wash., with a double major in sociologyand audio engineering. He has no formal hainingin photojournalism and only a few semesters of

classes, online resources and prac-

tice in the field- Zoriah believes "there are so manyways of going about this work - no right way andno wrong way, just dilferent ways. I study everyda5z" His mentors include photographers Ami Vi-tale and Cbris Walton, who played important rolesin his ilevelopment.

His images are dark. Not in tonality but incontent, where the underworld of tragedy andthe myst€ry of the unknown become Me-sulfer-ing shapes before his lens. You do not want tosee these photograpbs he makes, regardless, youlook. And on a second look, you see that the livesof hid subiects are amazingly slnple.

'i{mericens and Westerners get caught upin their lives and forget that in comparison theyhave things very easy," he said.

Zoriah has taken it upon himself to docu-ment the lives of people around the Slobe; assign-mentj from within rather than assignments ftomeditors. He uses the camera as a tool to "grab theviewer by the heart and pull them into a worldthey may otherwise never see. "

His work takes more than toiling in extremeconditions. It takes mental preparation and moreimportantly, dedication to the subject and lettlnggo of himself. He spen<ls days, or even weeks, withhis subjects to capture the real essence of theirlives, He dreams to change the world through thephotographs he makes.

"I want people to rcaljzn. that their actionsand their choices allect people all over the world.We are all corurected. I would love to take a photo-graph that would end all wars, but all I can hopefor is taking photographs that remind people ofthe honors of war and help prevent future ones, "

he said.This young American has won many photog-

raply awards and yet most of his work is published

in Europe. He admits he has never published his$lar or conflict photographs in the U.S. and reliesmostly on his website to tell his stories.

Before becoming a professional photoiour-

nalist Zoriah worked in disaster management andhumanitarian aid in developing counkies for theRed Cross.

"Photography for me is a tool, one that allowsme to shed light on critical social iszues and hope-fully bring about change. I believe that I cottlduse the power and emotion of the still image toeducate people about suffering in the developingworld," he said.

Zoriah admits th?it it is not easy to photograph

war and he prefers to stay where he photographs

because "coming back to the U.S. is iust too hardof a hansition."

"I believe the point of my work is to helppeople and educate Western eyes to what goeson in the world, so having a purpose helps me get

through the difrculties. Yes, it is dangerous butignoring important issues due to fear ls not right,or at least not my style. People live out their livesin war zones; all I do is work in thern. It is the leasti can do."

Asked if his photographs are worth a thou-sand worils, he answers, "Sometimes more, some-times less - it depends on the photo. I think a moreinteresting question is 'does a photo ever lie?' Theanswer to that is yes. A photo is a moment in time- it is impossible to tell the whole story in a sixti-eth of a second."

He is brilliant at communicating worldwideissues within the common language of the photo-graphic frame. His tender photographs surround-ing AIDS speak to the mass audience who mightkeep their eyes closed and live with the perception

that these issues are just far enough alvay fromthem to ignore, until one day when the diseasepersonally alTects tlem.

"We will see more and more things affect us.If you ignore someone's problems long enough,there is a good chance those problems will be-come your own, " Zoriah said.

He has seen people in troubled regions wherethey have no money or power but are happy andview life as a privilege. He admits that childrenhave admirable strength especially in the war re

gions."You can ffnd children in the absolute worsf

possible situations, playing, laughing and hav-ing the best time. Their spirits are remarkablc yet

also lcry fragile - something I Fy to show in eywork," he said.

He hopes that his images evoke emotions fromviewers and inspire them to help others.

"I tbink this is the wonderful thing aboutphotography. People learn ftom images. Theymake people question lvhat is happening in theworld and show them things they may otherwisenev€r see."

Zoriah funds his work through donations andgranb from individuals and organDatiorx. Themost diftcult part of working with his subjects isthat they often do not cooperat€ w L him, $'hb\nrakes it harder to iliiument thtirlives.

"There are exceptions to ttlis rule, but I thinka lot of people believe journalists profit from oth-ers' pain and don't want to have much to do withthem." he said.

His advice to students or recent graduates whdare thinking about documenting war: "Put everSrbit of yoursell into it. Find out exactly what yourA'ant to do, what ]our goals are and what kind oflife you want to lead. Work hard and shoot tomthe heart - if you don't care about what you aredoing, no one else will. Be prepared to work hardand then when you think you have worked as hardas you possibly can, krow that there are at least I Opeople out there working twice as hard as that. Itis a hard job and a hard Mestyle. It pays you back

in Me €xperience, but it also takes a whole lot ofsacrifice,"

"I wouldlove to take a photograph that would end aII wnrs, but aIII canhope for is tal<It

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An eldedy woman pastes in fiont ofan apartment comder that was seyerely damaged during the 3&day-war betrrcen lsrael and lebanon.

Baghdad - An Inqi detainee is bound blindfolded and awair inter-togation on July 5, 2fi)7.

, LECTUREZoriah will hold a lecture and slideshow, Baghdadand Beyond, at 3 p.m. April24 in ScienceBuilding Room 119.

EXHIBITHis photography will be displayed at CameraObscura Gallery 1309 Bannock street from April25 tofune 5.A reception will be held at 5 p.m. April 25.

:g photographs that remind people of the horrors of war andhelp prevent future ones."

A soldier and membcofthe Afghan l{ationalArmy prays during a mission to track down laliban insurgents on the Pakistaniboder.

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Real men look better in black and white, Micah Lundy and Shawn Palmet areDenver's own Zebn Junction and they enjoy long walks in autumn, tall hats andftrnny, percussion noises. See them attheir (D release party April l9 atThe Falcon.

What's black and white and weird

all over? Why Denver's dynamic duo

Zebra function, of course.

And lvhile zebras normally sport

a coat of basic black and white. Z€bra

Junction - n'ith its addictir€ percus-

sion, high and low harmonies and

lvacky instrumental wanderings, as

well as onstage performance art and

carnival sideshow style - is any-

thing but black and white."In terms of our music. w'e defi-

nitely hale a vaudeville approach,"

said ZJ's singing and songwriting

co-ftontman, Micah Lundy, rvho's

proven to be a palatable plal'er of the

mandolin, scratch box and baritone

guitzr, as r,r'e11. "But we love all types

of instruments and incorporating

acoustic with electric. We like to in-

corporate a lot of different sounds."

For a simple duo. ZJ creates a

complex vaudevillian landscape

by incorporating a dozen or more

instruments (including such non-

instruments as garbage cans and

metal buckets, as n'ell as a number

oi modified noise-makers) into com-

plex compositions steeped in folk,

bluegrass and Americana. i4f's other

member, Shavrrn Palmer (baritone

guitar. foot percussion. drums and

ukulele) pads their tempered tempos

with precise percussion and ragtime

rhlthms, while lending deep vocals to

the lyrical light-heartedness of theirear-pleasing endeavors.

"Part of the reason r.r'e play theinstruments we play as a duo comesfrom the troubles of trying to keep to-gether a full band." explained Lundy."It started out with us thinking wewere going to be a trio, but we neverfound that third member. But \a€liked what we were coming up withas a two-piece and the direction thatwas taking us."

"!Ve both do rhythm really n'ell,and rve both play a lot of rveirdsounds and delays," Lundy said. "Wetry so many different sl-vles and bringso many sounds to the table. But in-stead of iust sounds, we try to createsoundscapes of life."

\{ith the release of their latestalbum, Pomme tle Terre, ZJ seems tobe headed to the top of Denver's ex-perimental stage. Ponrme is a pleasantblend of piecemeal folk and bawdybluegrass that Lundy describes as"going apple-picking in Tim Burton'sprivate orchard-"

On stage, the two are pontiffs ofperlormance art, with occasionalpainting pa-rties. as rfell as guestappearances from renown Denvercomedian Josh Blue and. of course.their very o\r/n go-go dancers, The

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The'Thrilf ison in theformDenver band Action Packed Thrill

Ride's moniker is a bit of a misnomer.While their brand of beat-down blue-grass and contrived country makesfor some serious foot-stomping ses-sions, their somber tone and c1'nicalveneer are more suggestively low-down, than hoe down.

"I nas playing drums with an-other band r,r'hen, for my own sake,I started writing these little countrysongs," said APTR founder and ftont-man, Lucas Johannes. "They rnareironic, sarcastic songs that made furlof the genre more than paying hom-age to it."

Ironically enough, they pay morehomage to the genre than most satu-rated and standad commercial countrvout there today without tdthering un-der the weight of pretentious patriotismand blatant, moonshine-soaked brarery(though ttrey cerrainJy succirmb lo sori'rebooze ballads. to be sure).

"Lyrically we're pretty much adowner. It's all about loneliness,"

Johannes said. "Maybe that's why I

start€d $'riting country music, eventhough I don't really elen like it."

Proclaiming to be l'ersed in clas-sic rock, Johannes' compositionsare, instead, on the cutting edge ofGothic-Americana, with harmoniesheralding back to the days of Crosby,Stills, Nash and Young.

What started as a one-man showhas begun to kick up dusl as big ts apick-up truck with the addition of fourother bandmembers, including friendsMark Cat'thray (guitar) and Ieni Sykes(r'iolin), APTR has most recently tight-ened their tempo with the addition of anew rlrythm section in Jon Evans (bass)

and Duncan Dotterrer (drums).

"When more bandmembersstarted being added on, that's $'hensome more of the songs started to de-velop," Johannes said.

And though many of APTR'ssongs were penne<l by Johannes asmuch as a year and a half ago, thedevelopment of APTR as a band hascontributed tothe completion of theirfirst full-length, self-produced album,

Madr Cawthray, Jeni Sykes, lucas Johannes, Duncan Dotterrer and Jon Evans areDenver band, Adion Packed Thrill Ride. They're enioying fine Austmlian wineright now, but April 18 the/ll be holding a (D release party at the Hi-Dive. Pleaserefiain fiom jumping on them, they are not real ddes.

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the equivalent of "z{merican Idof' here in the United States. Her debut album Sprit was released April 8 and has receivednuch recognition for its first single "Bleeding Love."

Although her album's mver is almost a direct repHca of Alicia Keys' 2007 album ds I Am, don't hold it against l€wis,as bfr talent more than makes up for the copJaat gesture.

"Bleeding love" has been featured on WIl's "Flesh" and has been on the Billboard Hot 10O firr eight consecutiveweeks. It r€abhed No. 1 March 28, a posiffon that hasn't been fflled by a female U.K. vocalist since Kim Wilde's "YouKeep Me Hangin' On" tn 198 7.

Compared to epic talents lite Mariah Carey, Whitiey Houston and Celine Dion, Iewis' detut albun will not disappoinL as it appeals to a vadety of age groups andlisteners. Iewis' album tncludes 11 songs, with t.$io U.K. bonus Facks,each having the possibility of becoming her next, potential No. I single And perhaps Srou will understand the concept ofbleeding love better after listening to lewis' first fuI-l€ngth effort, which will leave you longing for another.

oooozebn junction uIuDkettes fturlesque performers Miss Adri-enne and Fannie Spankings).

"We've always kind of incorporated liveart into our shows and that's kind of our vi-sual," Lundy said. "We end up meeting quitea few fans that are really inspired by that, andit's pushed us over tl-re years to keep going inthat direction."

And it's a directon that's worked well forthe daft duo that is Zebra junction, who haveplayed to sold-out crowds at Red Rocks Am-phitheater and the Paramount Theater, andhave been nominated as Denver's best bandthree years running.

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Smiefy and Colorado cello $and-ort Ian Coole.With such a stellar cornbination of mrrsicians inone eot, collaborations are sure to be fuund-

"I think collaboration is my favorite partof playing live shows," Lundy said. "Whenwe end up pufting on a big show and there'sa lot of people involved, you see things un-folding that you weren't sure how they weregoing to turn out. But maybe it's just p€rfectas it is,"

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Feel the thrill for yourself, as Action Packed Thrill Ride isslated to headline their very own CD release party April 18at the Hi-Dive on Broadway with locals Vitamins, Mothershipand Roger, Roll.

"(The CD has) been in the process for quite some time nowand we're happy to have finished it," Johannes said. "We'repretf proud of the work we put into it and, well, I guess we

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Chemistry (and plenty of PBR) iskey rr"hen it comes to Denrar alt-rockband the all capitals (though. insist-ing on the lowercase [tle. they'renot so hct on proper nouns). A fitfulblend of contemporary indie (thinkThe Hivest and SOs alternative (Sonic

Youth), the caps have man-aged to formulate a soundthattranscends existing trends.

"Ithink it's pretty in-your-face rock. It's very original,"drummer Tony Corona said."We urite all of our own stufland $€ try to let that defineus instead of sticking withina genre. \4/e all have a lot ofdifferent influences and writ-ing styles."

Citing names like Jane'sAddiction and Dave Navarro,Frank Black and The Pixiesand Incubus, the caps mighthave stumbled across theright mix for rock success,even if they're not so sure ofthe ingredients .

"We're still trying to 6ndour niche as lar as how songsare written, " said guitarist andlead vocalist Paul Christus."I think that's a good thing,

though. because falling into a groove

isn't necessarily the best thing."

The caps finally seem comfortable

in thet three-piece skin, and with therec€nt addition of bassist Jim Beaslev(described by Corona and Christus as

the "red-necked stepchild" for his love

of NASCAR). the caps might not tre

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Attacking PR in the age-old man-

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lentlessly toured Denver and beyond

and have made quite a lower-cased

name for themselves."People have started seeing our

name all over the place," Corona said."Eler1'where we go, (Paul) slaps a

sticker up somen'here. "

The culminalion of their founda-

tion is e\ident in their pro.pensity lor playing live, andthe caps will share the stageas headliners with Dualis-tics April 19 at the BluebirdTheater, featuring (Die) Pi-lot arrd The Jimi Austin.

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presidential palac€, six people died,including a uN police ofrc€r, 200were report€d injured and himeMinistrr Jacques-Edouard Alexis wasforced to resign.

Of course, rioting h Haiti, I amsad to sa]1 is not particularly shock-ing, Haiti is not known as the pictureof political hanquility. The countryseems to be either allergic !o gov-ernment or excepfionally short onpatience for comrpt and inemcientpoliticians.

It was the realization that priceshere, too, had gone up and what Iread next that was the proverbialradio in the bathwater, sefting off achain reaction that alnost set myown house on ffre.

Thepmblem is not only Haiti'sPrices for all of the world's basic

foodstuffs have recently gpne thmughthe roof, according to scientists at aworld economic insdtute based iDHamburg, Ciermany Since October2OO7, the price of longgrain whiterice has quadrupled. C.orn has comedo$'n slightb since peaking in l\.Iarchat six times what it cost last year,Wheat, soybeans, soy oil, cocongf oil,palm oil and sunfloruer oil have allmote than doubled. On| sugar, ac-cording to the shrdy, has starcd stable

And the reaction has been ffervaround the world.

Senegal has seen large protests

recently, with the opposition partyleader, Abdoulaye Bathily calling thepric€s "a political time bomb." Morethan 100 pbople died in several daysof rioting over fd in Camemon.Bgypt, alter the price of bread wentup 40 percent and chicken went up140 percenL also saw large mobs inthe sheet, forcing President HusniMubarak to announc€ the suslfn-sion of much of the counhies riceerporb for 20O7.

the list of counhies that haveseen rnassir.€ unrest is long. Indonesia,the world's third largest rice producer,apparendy isn't producing enough.In Mexico, the cost of torti as has in_c€ased arund four fold and Peru hasseen rioting mobs and a r€cent tradeagr€eln€flt with the Unit€d Statesblamed for the iising prices.

In ft$nse, the World ltadeOrganization, the World Bank andnuirerous relief agenc'ies havewarned that the prices could endan-gpr growtl, stability, democracy andpeace around the lrrorld. Ttrey blame ashing of poor harvests, the increaseddemand of emerging economies suchas India Fnd China, and the new useof grains for alternative fuels.

Surely, the rioters will under*andwhen thery show up at the gates andthe politicians e,xplain that the foodwas used to power the Mercedes andSWs of rich western countries?

Alas, right before angry peasantsstormed tlre royal palaces and toppledthe government, French Que€n MarieAntoinett€, as the alecdote goes, rec-ommended the poor eat cala if theywere unable to ffnd bread.

I{istorians have since questlonedif the monarch actually said such anabzurdly out-of-touch thing, but noone questions that the queen fina$lost her head to the guillotine. Ttestarving masses, it soeins, were notdebating history at that time. Theywere hungry and pissed,

Indee4 nun:rous heads hawrolled into the old baslat of history be'cause the peopld couldn't allord to eatRevolutions ignite, enpircs rise andfall, wars are fought and governnenbcollapae- all because of food. @lana-tions, at that point, ar€ too late.

Anger and the price of grainToo much news is bad for the

health, and as a confessed news junkyI should know. It is not only rrrmmag-i4 g through such distastefr contentthat shortens the news junkie's life,but the true danger of news is a rarephenomenon called the apocalyptic

fuIrt bulb of doom- Even in the mostmundane story there lurks a mysteri-ous and powerful danger.

And so it was for me this lastweekend. Partaking in my Sundayritual of spending at least two goodhours with the week's heacllines, Iwas sitting at my comput€r, Iisteningto music and drinking sweet gulps ofmy tasty mffee beverage, when thelight appeared above rry head.

Choking on my coffee, I irnmedi-ately sat up in my chair. The burn-ing ember from my cigarette fell intomy lap, causing me to quickly spreadmy legs which then sent my right toeagainst the computer's start button.Bending forward to find the ash, Ithen knocked over my coffee,

The flickering screen and the mu-sic quickly shut down, and the roomwas silent but for the solnds of drip-ping and the shange man crawlingand cursing on the floor. And all be-cause of the price of grain in Haiti.

Prot€sts against an almost 50percent jump in lood prices since ayear ago had developed into viole[ceand looting Mobs hied to storm the.

Hemp rally gives room to a new flavorApril 20 is the anniversary of

the Columbine High School shoot-ing. It is also Hitler's birthday, thedate of the failed Bay of Pigs inva-sion and back in 1914, the LudlowMassacre happened on the twen-tieth of April. 1tt4""4, alusl likemany of the other mournful holi-days Amdrica has racked up overthe years, doom and gloom seem tohappen on April 20.

Perhaps no other day is in suchneed of emotional and political over-haul. And this i5 o(actly the reasonto come out and party this Sunday atCivic Crnter Park. If you can avoidthe buy-one€et-one-ft€e sales of-fers at every local pipe and gift store,there will be sweet skunky smoke inthe air.

Plenty of mystery srrrounds theorigins of the steet term 420, but itis a calling similar to the Jesus fish orBalman's spotlight. It means "heyman, arc you cool?" in that "Daz€dand Confused" kind of way It's onclothing lines, bumper stickers, craig-slist roommate ads and even padran-dlff signs. the point is, to quote Place-bo, 'A friend in need is a fiiend indeed,but a ftiend with rryeed is befrer." Andmctly nobody talk about it.

tho police will be.there,' just likc

last year, but they seem to respectthe local rules. Thel' only botheredpeople they knew personally and thekids who are too young to be at sucha place without parents. AlthoughDistrict 6 put on a hell of a show lastyearis middle-olthe-week rally wastame eDough to ke€p officers in theircars. The srroke n'as seen ftom officesoutside the park, but the outcomewas substandard, The show of forceseemed to keep the crowd from gmw-ing much.

The murder of local mariiuanakingpin Ken Gonnan, unspokenhost of past rallies, will give room toa new flavor this year. Instead of ahotheaded activist yelling at "thos€pussies in the Capitol," a whole newcrowd will come around when theheqqp rally shifts from Gorman'shigh-schoolers to Denver's MedicalMarijuana Comn_ unity.

the Hemp and Cannabis Foun-dation (TIICF), a Wheatridge-basedclinic, has moved to end the under-ground spirit of the rally and makeit something more educational, Dis-pensaries, doctor infonrration, hemphod, head shops, radio stations anda body painter are planned as guestsfor the rally. 2008 is the ffrst year thema5nr's ofrce has apprcved a hornp .

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rally in Denver's history,Medical mariiuana patient Holly

G. Conrad of THCF did the footworkfor this year's permit, expectingaround 2,000 people. Conrad helpsnearly 1OO patients get their medi-cal marijuana cards every month,but hopes everyone will attend thefestival this Sunday Facilities willbe provided by the city, the welcomeblue string of porta-poties displayedat many of the park's other yearlygatherings.

The hemp rally and its support-€rs are trying to shed the rebelliousrcputation most rcspectable peoplefeel about cannabis. The gay rightsmovement has shown Clvic C€nter

'Park some of the most'flamboyant

festivals it's ever had, and 35 yearsago it was iust a dream. THCF is t'y-urg to get control of the cannabismovement, and things tend to workbetter when they are organized.

Regardless of the mood ef rhings,

smoking mariiuana in public is stillillegal. Chances are good that it willhappen, but TTICF and Safer Alterna-tive For Enjoyable Recreation wanteveryone to know you are corrmit-ting a crime if you partake in public,The penalty for ;nssession of pot inDenver is $ 100. but the real danger isin paraphernalia.

College-aged people are pushingthe marijuana movement, as theyhave been since the 1960s, but forsome reason college students aren'tdoing much. Despite the signatureturnout at Metro for legalizinggania, most students didn't botherto vote. A rally is almost as good asa vote, and you don't have to standin line. The rewards are the won-derful smell of nature's oldest nar-cotic, plus frozen treats from HempI Scream and a possible visit fromthe cheesecake lady. Only when thepark is full of Mefo students will wehave done our civic duty. Join me atthe park at 4:20, and we'll see what

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Hitting is no sbanger to Meho'sbaseball team. but sometimes theirpitching flies under the radar.

This tine. however. their armsoutperformed their bab, as l\dehopitching held the Colorado School ofMines to six runs in three wins April12-13 at Auraria Field.

"Our bats didn't come alive todaybut our pitching really held shongand kept us in errery game," Mefrocatcher Reece Gorman said-

The Roadrunners lead the RockyMountain AtHetic Conference inruns scored. but never scored morethan nipe in any gane. That may stillbe an impressive stat, but they usu-ally rely on double ffgures in the rundepartnent scoring 10 ormore in 19games.

Gorman, who caught in two ofthe four games, l6s seen the improve-ment made by the pitching stall thisseason and was happy to see the hurl-ers take c€nter stage.

"Our pitching has really come

along," Gorman said. "I'm glad to seethem hitting their locations and keeping the batl low in the sfiike zone."

In the series opener, Mefo pitcherShawn Green had his best outing ofthe season pitching seven strong in-nings to earn his ninth win of theyear.Green, who came into rhe contestwth a 7.99 ERA, lowe.red it to 7.14after allowing only one run. His ninth

win ties hirq with three others for themost wins by a pitcher in one season.

Metro right fielder BrennanBrown led the way on ttre oflensiveend, batting a perfect 4for4 drivingin two runs and scoring twice.

The Roatlrunners' only loss of theseries came in game two where pitch-ing once again sams out blazing, butthe bullpen gave up tlre game in theffnal two innings.

Meho pitcher Armando Casasgave up only two runs in five inningsof work but was relieved by MattBackes, who came out to pitch in thesftffi inning instead of Casas. Wlth a+zlcad" Backes hit two batters andgave up two runs in allowing theOrediggers to tie the game.

"Casas had a couple of guys onbase in the inning before," Gormansaid. "He wanted to stay in the game,but hedidleave with alead, andRackesis a good pitche.r. But that's baseball,

and you can't win them all. "Mines scored another run in the

top of tlre final inning off relief pitch-er Joah Eckert, who alloled farredWallace to double and later score onan error by second basemau ltoySpaln.

But on the final day of the week-end sedes, l[eho pitching returned totheir game one form by striking outI 5 'Diggers in the 9-l and 5-2 wins.

I\deho pitcher lbd lamison scat-tercd six hits and three runs whileshiking out nine in game three whilefellow pitcher Joel lockhart earnedhis seventh win in holdingthe Oredig-gers to two runs on three hits.

' You c€n't have great pitchingwithout great defense, and Meho'sdefense played spectacularly b€hindtheir pitchers, committing zem errorsin the three wins.

Gorman said the team is solid atevery position with above averageamrs in the ouffield and great defend-ers in the infield.

The wins impmvetl Metro's r€-cord to a 33-7 overall record, wbileimprwing their conference record to2 5-3. The Roadrunners look to tie orbreak the school's record of 34 winsh a season in a four-game set withthe Cougars of C.olorado ChristianApril 18-19 in rskeurcod-

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Risk of iniuryiust part of gameSports can take their tollon athletet many waysto decrease the risksBy JTLL FITZPATRICKjfitzpa6omscd.edu

When athletes tale the field orwalk onto the court, millions ofthoughts run through their minds:theb oppon€nt, what plays need tobe run, the importance of the game.One idea the can not ignore is in-

Jury,The one word that can scare even-

t}le toughest of athletes. Iniudes canruin a career, end a dream ind alcersomeone's life forever.

From sprained ankles to torn an-terior cruciate ligarnents to dislocatedshoulders, at any second atbletes canbe injured. And while iniuries arehard on atl etes physically, they areeven harder psychologically.

Linda Lappe, head coach ofMetro $'omen's basketball team, saidiniudes are tough psychologically be-cause it's hard for the athlete to feellilce pan of the team, it's hard lo getconfidence back, and it takes time to -

forget about the iniuryBecause injuries can sometimes

prevent athletes from practking atfull strenglh or keep them from play-

ing in games, they can take a toll onthe player's psyche.

Erin Keller, an outside hitter forthe Roatlrunner volleyball team,said, "There are days I get reallyfrustrated and want to give up. Thenthere are days when I am very mo-tivaieri anri know I want to be backout on that court no matter what ittakes. "

Keller had knee surgery last I'earto help release tension and help track-ing. Keller said both ol her knee capsare tilted and are slightly higher tharthey are supposed oo be. And whilesurgery helped her problem. it did notcure it as she lrdl al$'ays have pain inher knee.

"Iniuries keep standing in herrvay," said Debbie Hendricks, headcoach of Metro's volleyball team."She can't get healthy enough tu playas well as she can."

While athletes have to battle theiriniuries, they are not alone. A ma-jor conbibution io tireir mental andphysical healing comes from the ath-letic faining sta-fi

Lappe said her players gain confi-

dence in training, and it supports themind-set that they are not going toget hurt again.

Assistant att etic trainer DaylenePartain said she must be positive withthe iniured athletes. She tells themthey can't control the past, and shewill try to get them back on the courtsafe as fast as possible.

"They are in control of lhef in-jury and rehab," said Partain, lvhohas been inl'olved in athletic trainingsince 1986.

Partain said she makes sure theathletes a.re part of the team at alltimes, so they don't feel left out. Shealso does pool workouts and hopes tocontinually increase the use of thismethod.

''Some iniuries can't be prevent-ed, they just happen," Pirtain said,but that doesn't keep her ftom stress-ing the imporlance of prevention.

There are several methods of pre-venting injuries, and every coach hastheir own programs to do so. Lappesaid she does ankle "prehab," andHendricks does a shoulder complexprogram.

One of the most impressive pro-grams, proven by the iack of iniuryon the baseball team, is nrn by assis-tant coach Bill Brady.

Brady leads a weight programlocused on the belief that everything,iniury and strenglh, stems from thecore.

Baseball head coach Bobbv Pierce

credits his team's health to Brady andthe athletic haining staIf.

'All coaches should focus onbuilding the core," Pierce said.

Eric Mansfield, a iunior on thebaseball team, pro!€s Partain'stheory that not a.ll injuries can beprerenied. Mansfield has a chronicoveruse back iniurl', meaning hisback constantly hurts because of re-petiti\,€ shain.

\A/henever he runs. quick stops,and thron's, \Iansfield feels pain inhis back, but he must push throughthat pain.

"Coach says to siay with it, anddo your best with the pain," tu'lans-field said.

He has physical therapy fourtimes a rveek and sometimes on thera'eekend after games. if his backdoesn'l hurt too badly. Consideringhe has been injured nearly two years,

Mansfield has spent plenty of timetrying to heal his back. Unfortunate-ly, the only way his back can be lullyhealecl is through rest.

While athletes hope that they willnever fali into injury's lap, chancesare they will. And even though therisk exists, they keep playing.

"Er€ry sifuation is different whenit comes to iniuries, but doing some-thing you love will have its downfalls,and it's lust something an atllete hasto be prepared to deal with," Kellersaid.

The athletic mind-set and com-petitive drire keeps players like Keller

an<i Mansfreld going. Through pain

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Metro tniner Greg Holm examines 'Runners (enter Lawlence Billings atthe Auraria fyents Center Jan.25 duilng a game.

Basketball tean+s t+--host low-income clinic

Metro men's and women's bas-ketball teams are mrlulteering to runclinics for low-income youth fromBoulder on April 12 at the AngevineMiddle School in Lafayette.

The school's I Have a Dream pro-gram will allow 54 "Dreamers" toparticpate ln basketball rlrills and atournament led by Meho's basketballplayers.

I Have a Drearn is a school tlrop-out prevention program for low-income youth -l at uses academicprograms and mentoring relation-ships to help children achieve theirdreams.

The event allows the youth tomeet and ask questions of collegeathletes, who offer their input andknowlegde about making it to col-lege. The kids get a chance to improveon their basketball skills in a fun andpositive environment.

"It's wonderfrrl to see our Dream-

ers participate in events like this."said chief executive officer Iori Cano-va. "Not only does it give them some-thing constructive and active to do,the coaching and role modeling fromtle players encourages the childrento do their best in order to reach theirfull potential.'

A few of Mefto's finest are tied toBoulder. Women's head coach LindaLappe played for CU in Boulder, whileguard Chelsea Williamson played forBoulder High. Both women will be of-fering their services to organize andrun the clinics and tournaments,

Mentors, tutors and guests areinvited to watch tbe tournaments,which will begin at 1 p.m.

The 3-on-3 tournament will fea-ture teams of dreamers with a shr-dent-athlete coach.

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If you ask coaches about a poten-tially big game fiutherdown the sched-ule, moet will tell you they haven'tthought twice about it and will boreyou with tleir usual clich€s that theyaren't thinking that far ahead.

But Me&o head tennis coachDave Alden has thoughts of revengeon his mind.

Alden is not forgetting about theseason finale, or the first muple ofiounds in the Rocky Mouirtain Ath-letic Conference Tournament, but hehas visions of a potential rematchagainst Nebraska-Kearney in thetournament championship.

"Coaches say you should take onegame at a time," Alden said. "But wewant another shot at Kearney"

Meho men's tennis team lost itsonly conference match of the sea-son against the Lopers and that oneloss may keep the Roailrunners lromearning aNo, 1 seed inthe conferencetournament. But the loss to Kearneyon April 4 has pushed Metro to playtheir best tennis of the season.

"Since we lost to Kearney we hadto come out and win all three, " men'sNo. 3 singles player Riley Meyer said.1And we did."

The Roadrunaers' tlree weekendwins were a]l con-ference victories.

while the Lopers took 2 of 3 to remainon top of the RMAC Standings. Bothteams are tied with a 4-l conferencemark, but with Kearney holding thetiebreaker. Meho needs to win whilehoping the Iopers trip up in theirconference finale.

Not only does Alden hope for a re.match against I(eamey but the play-ers are eager to meet their foes in thechampionship, and they hrow it won tbe an easy task 0o take them down.

"We always struggle againstthem," Meyer said. "It'd be great tocome out as winners. "

To defeat Kearney the men willhave to win at doubles, which hasbeen their'weakness this season.

"We've got to get at least onepoint in doubles, " Meyer said.

The three matches the Roadrun-ners pla@ last weekend hint at animprovernent. In nine doubles match-es, Meho lost only two. Neither of thelosses carne against the Roadrunnerstop doubles team, comlnsed of seniorMeyer and iunior No. 1 Sascha Ruck-elshausen. Since the tough loss to Ke-arney the duo has gone tLO together.

"We know what we need to do,and we come out and do it," Meyersaid. 'lAnd we usually come up withtheW"

Witb a possible sbot at playingKearney in the finals, the Roadrun-ner men har,'e no thoughts of missingout on the championship.

"The wins gives us the motiva-tion, as we head into the tournament,to beat Kearney " Alden said.

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also has more motilation, afterthe pastweekend, to finish the season strong.Despite a 1-2 weekend record. a lvinagainst Western New Mexico has the'Runners in a position to finish as a No.5 seed in the conference tournamentif they can defeat Colorado Christianin their final conference makh.

Despite the good news, both AI-den and the players felt they couldhave done better over the weekend.

"We started out strong and thenwe probably played our worst match, "Alden said about being shut out byCSU-Pueblo, 9{, in the 6nal game.

The bad finish on Sunday has thewomen eager to prove that they arebetter than their recent performance.

'We definitely have the potentialto beat anyone in the conference,"Meho women's co-captain Miha Hi-rad said.

The win against the Mustargsdisplapd the potential that tle Mehowomen could ride into the conferencetournament.

'iWe want it so bad," Hirad said."We're so hungry for it,"

Both the Roadrunners men'sand women's squads play the cellar-dwelling Cougars April 18, less thana week before the RMAC Tourna-ment. The women are ready to provethey can play with all opponents inthe conference.

The men want to prove they canbeat Kearney, and they're not aboutto dance around polite words to provetheir determination.

"We want to kick their ass, " Mey-er said.

Metro menl tennis star Sascha Rudelshausen serves to Mesa State3 hey (ole-man in theil singles matdr Apdl 13 at Aunda CourB. Ruckelshausen won thematch 64and 6-2 to help the Roadrunnerto a 7-2 win over$e Maverick.

Softball falls out of first place aft er z-zweekend series ,Metro drops to second,Mines takes top spot in(onference standingsByIGTEFERMROIderraro@mscd.edu

The Roadrunner's softball teamsplit two doubleheader games againstFort Lewis College and Mesa StateCollege April 1l-12 in Durango.

The first game of the double-header against Fort l€wis College

' was a quiet one for the 'Runners. Theonly hit Metro could pull off againstSkyhawks' Rocky. Mountain AthleticConference's Pitcher of the WeekCary Moone was by center fielderMolly Clark in the fifth inning.

Clark hit a double, but her team-Eates weren't able to bring her home,losing the game 24. Fort lewis scoredboth of their runs in the fourth andfifth innings. Moone sEuck out 11Roadrunners to win her eighth gameon the year.

"Cary Moone is really having agreat year," Metro head mach lenni-fer Fisher said- "She was able to hold

us down for quite a while. "Metro pitcher Libby Balogh pitched

six innings, gving up only two runsfor Meho, but the lack of run supportdropped her record to 7-6.

Meho's offense came to lile in thesecond game of the doubleheader.The garne remained scoreless untilthe top of the fourth inning whenright fielder Ashley Jobnson hit her14b homer of the season, grving herteam a l-0 lead.

Designated hitter Danni Hedshomsingled, fo[owed by a two-run shot byClark, increasing Metro's lead to three.Throughout the rest of the game, the'Runners scored four more runi, giv-ing them a 7-2 victory.

"She's lust a really great athlete,and she's real focused and intense,"coach Fisher said on Clark's perfor-mance. "She's a really tough compet-itor, and if you watch her, she does aIot on athleticism. She's a good, solidall-around player."

Metro pitcher Jessica Fisherpitched a complete game allowingonly two runs and striking out nineSkyhawks, improving her record to8-7.

"The defense has really steppedup behind her," coach Fisher said on

Jessica Fisher's performance. "Shehappened to get somewhat ur uckythose first five to ten games out be-cause the defense wasn't really mak-ing those plays that we could have.She's relaxed a liftle bit and is doinewhat she knows she can do. "

Balogh began the first game ofthe doubleheader against Mesa State,second in the conference behind theRoadrunners. Mesa State planted tworuns on the board in the first and thirdinnings, taking an early 4-0 lead.

Balogh was replaced by JessicaFisher in the fourth inning, who gaveup only one hit and one nrn the re-mainder of tle game. Clark hit atwo-run shot in the fourth inning.However it wasn't enough to win thegame. The Mavericks added anotherrun in the fifth inning to seal their 5-2 victory.

The second game of the double-header was once again on Metro'sside, as the Roadrunners threw upearly nrrmbers on the scoreboard.Three doubles to center field fromcatcher Nicole Lyles, third baseman

Jennessa Tesone and shortstop Am-ber Roundtree sparked a early runthat guided their team to a 4-0 leadby the end of the third inning. Withthe help of three errors from theMavericks, the Roadrunners stackedsix more runs in the fourth inning.

Pitcher Casey thompson hadan outstanding performance on themound. The senior pitched a com-plete five-inning gane allowing onlyone hil and two runs. Thompson im-proved her record to 8-2 .

"I think that's a testament tohow tough this team is," coachFisher said on why the team con-tinuously loses the first game, butwins the second. "They understandwhat some of the things are that weneed to do a little bit better. They arepretty quick at adjusting, they arenot getting down."

Clark ffnished the weekend 4-for-14 with two home runs and four RBI.

Metro moves to 18-11 in theRocky Mountain Athletic Conferenceand, 22-15 overall. The Roadrunnerswill come back home to play Nebras-ka-Kearney, April 19-20, at AuariaField.

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Hatha Yoga - Tuesdays, Noon - 1 p.m. forall. levels. learn how to r$uvenate your bodyand mind with simple yoga postures whilediscovering how yoga connects the body, mindand spirit.

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