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Beth Nagoda of the Columbus Zoo shows a cheetah to the crowd gathered to see Jack Hanna’s various animals, Aug. 22 at the Tivoli Turnhalle. Photo by Melanie J. Rice • [email protected]
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It’s official — Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have received the Republican nomination for presidential office in 2012.
The Republican National Convention was supposed to kick off in Tampa, Fla., but was delayed until Aug. 28 due to Hurricane Isaac. The nomination was formally pre-sented by John Sununu, former governor of New Hampshire.
“He knows how to fix the unfixable, and to help people perform to their highest potential,” Sununu said. “Mitt Romney is the right man at the right time and will be a great leader for our country.”
Romney and Ryan will be running on a largely fiscal platform, with a focus on job creation and economic growth. This emphasis on monetary policy will be more important than the hot-button social issues, said Dr. Robert Hazan, chair of the political science department.
“I think the crisis within the Republican Party is about social issues. The social issues are going to be delicately addressed,” Hazan said. “Given that unemployment is the high-est it has ever been, [the economy] is a big issue. Jobs, jobs, jobs.”
On Aug. 11, Romney announced Ryan as his running mate, effectively solidifying a fiscally conservative platform.
“Paul Ryan definitely made a name for himself in national politics with his dis-course on the economy and his critique,” Hazan said. “I think he has come up with alternative plans to promote growth and provide tax relief to citizens and corpora-tions in ways that are really different than President Obama’s suggestions.”
After a primary season amass with dif-ferent candidates and clashing ideas, the
convention will serve as an important venue to unite a party that has spent most of the year arguing among themselves.
“I think that the party will unite behind Romney and Ryan,” Hazan said. “There is a definite change in the way in which things were when the Republican debates were going on, because there were so many, and the divisions were so sharp within their own context.”
On Aug. 28, former U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Rick Santorum spoke at the convention in support of the Romney campaign.
“A vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will put our country back in the hands of leaders who understand what America can and, for the sake of our children, must be to keep the dream alive,” Santorum said.
Key points of the 2012 Republican Party platform are to stimulate economic growth, create jobs, repeal and replace Obamacare, reform education and welfare, and affirm traditional marriage beliefs and anti-abor-tion sentiment.
The belief in “sanctity of life” has sparked a heated debate over women’s rights issues, after U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo, made inflammatory comments regarding “legiti-mate rape.”
Hazan called these comments “despi-cable, unfortunate, and un-American,” and added that he doesn’t think the Romney campaign has sufficiently dealt with the situation.
However, despite his female dissenters, Romney’s wife, Ann Romney, spoke at the convention to appeal to women voters. She began her speech by telling the audience she wanted to talk about love.
“It’s the moms of this nation — single, married, widowed — who really hold this country together. We’re the mothers, we’re the wives, we’re the grandmothers, we’re the big sisters, we’re the little sisters, we’re the daughters,” she said. “We’re too smart to know there aren’t easy answers. But we’re not dumb enough to accept that there aren’t better answers.”
Reince Priebus, Chairman for the RNC,
stressed the importance of the American Dream for the Republican party.
“This convention is an invitation to all Americans to join us as we fight for a better future,” Priebus said. “This is our genera-tion’s rendezvous with destiny. It’s our time for choosing.”
A Republican in Tampa: Romney on Nov. ballotNikki [email protected]
Due to a June audit by the Department of Education, MSU Denver’s financial aid de-partment changed its dispersal policy from a complete distribution before the semester starts to a policy of partial dispersals three weeks apart.
The change left some students unable to purchase textbooks in time for their first class of the semester. The second disburse-ment will be on Sept. 6.
Junior Merna Mongelli was able to buy her books, but she still feels that the new dispersal is a bad idea that has been hard on everyone.
“It made it more difficult for the financial aid department,” Mongelli said. “They had to do temporary loans. No one could buy their books. It wasn’t a very good deal.”
The audit was not a result of any wrong-doing but because the school had never faced
an audit before. Changes were recommended to help increase the department’s efficiency, according to Cynthia Hejl, director of finan-cial aid and scholarships.
“They told me that nothing prompted the audit as it has with other schools,” she said.
Traditionally, the university had dis-persed financial aid about 10 days before the beginning of the semester so students had the money to buy books and school supplies. The new policy is also kinder to first-time borrowers.
“It eliminated the single semester loans to be disbursed before the semester and then mid-way through the semester,” Hejl said. “So these students actually receive their funds earlier.”
Hejl said that complaints coming into the financial aid counter tended to be less about the students’ inability to purchase
books, and more about how late the email was sent out.
“Unfortunately, we had such little time to research solutions and implement the change on [MSU Denver] Banner that we did not install the new changes until the begin-ning of August,” she said.
As a first time borrower for the summer semester, freshman Brian Moore knew that he would be getting his financial aid halfway through the summer. He received it just a little over a week before his first fall disper-sal, making him one of the few financial aid students not adversely affected by the change in policy. He is confused by the change, though, saying that he felt that financial aid department seemed to be “shrouded in secrecy.”
“No one at the financial aid desk seems to be able to give me a straight answer,” he
said. “I’m still not entirely sure what’s going on with these changes.”
Hejl said that other options included waiting until after the census date for dis-persal like many other schools do, or even charging by the credit hour. She said that both of these ideas were scrapped because they would “hurt students more.” She also suggested that the new dispersal method might be a learning experience for students.
“It can help with financial literacy since many students receive large checks at the beginning of the school year and then the students are in our office two to three weeks later upset that they have spent the refund and need more money,” she said.
The new policy will be reviewed at the end of the spring semester to determine how well it has worked for everyone involved.
DOE Audit prompts Financial Aid changesKelli [email protected]
Mitt Romney appeared in the Tivoli Turnhalle on Feb. 7, during Colorado’s GOP Caucus. Photo by Brian T. McGinn • [email protected]
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Boulder’s University of Colorado’s latest effort to prevent the presence of concealed weapons on its campus was met with vary-ing views by both students and alumni. The university decided that students with concealed carry permits will only be allowed to live in certain dorms away from general student housing.
CU Boulder issued a statement on Aug. 15 that only students living in graduate and family dorms would be allowed to have their concealed weapons while living on campus.
Sophomore Divinity Ray was disappoint-ed with CU’s action.
“Personally, I don’t think any weapons should be allowed on campus,” she said. “I think that if you need something for self-defense it should be pepper spray. Guns kill people, they don’t disarm them. It doesn’t bother me that they live in their own dorms, but I think it’s scary that I go to school with people who carry guns.”
Junior Greg Goede felt that the new rulings was a non-issue since many of the students living in the dorms are under 21 and not legally eligible to carry concealed weapons.
“The new state law decreed that univer-sity campuses were required to recognize concealed carry permit,” he said. “CU’s new policy does nothing in my mind to go against that. You can still concealed carry on campus. All it stops is people from storing their C.C. weapon in the dorms.”
After the regency ruling on the segre-gated dorms for concealed carry holders, two professors announced that they would refuse to teach classes if a student with a concealed weapon was present in their classroom. This is an action that would require questioning
students about possible weapons before they entered the classroom, which is a violation of the students’ constitutional rights.
Attorney James Manley of the Mountain States Legal Foundation in Lakewood said that CU Boulder was quick to inform both professors that they would face disciplinary action if they canceled any classes or polled students.
“The scenario these professors are argu-ing is that classroom discussion is watered down because students are afraid a gunfight is going to break out,” Manley said. “CSU has had concealed carry on campus since 2003, and none of these nightmare scenarios have played out.”
MSU Denver’s administration isn’t butting heads with the Colorado Supreme Court’s March ruling that the state’s con-cealed carry laws included the right to carry weapons on college campuses. Seniors Karen Bays and Jennifer Dreher, have no issues with the possibility that students in any classroom might be carrying a weapon.
“I don’t think it’s more dangerous,” Dre-her said. “People are less likely to attack if they don’t know who might have a weapon.”
Manley refers to CU’s weapons policy as “a policy in search of a problem,” and said that the university has not been forthcoming in how they are going to write or imple-ment it. His organization represents the student organization that filed the original lawsuit against CU in 2008 and continues to monitor the school’s actions concerning the March ruling. He said that there is always the possibility of going back to court, but that all parties involved are trying to avoid that scenario.
CU Boulder regulates guns in dormsKelli [email protected]
ConnectU lost in translation
Got problems? Connect U does. As the fall semester kicks off, many
students and faculty encountered problems with the new ConnectU portal that replaced MetroConnect.
The most frequent problems are student’s old MetroConnect passwords not working, unexpected outages, email icons missing and the inability to get into ‘My Services’ without logging in separately, according to Rick Beck, the director of application services in administrative computing
According the Department of Marketing and Communications, as accounts were be-ing moved to ConnectU, student’s passwords were being defaulted to their PIN.
Beck said that configuration settings that needed to be changed were causing the pass-word problems as well and that performance problems were causing the system to lock up. To fix all the errors, ConnectU’s vendor, Ellucian, recommends multiple changes that require several re-starts of ConnectU each time. Beck said that things are already run-ning more smoothly and can be expected to get better.
“We will likely need a couple more out-age periods for re-starts of the system, but now they will be planned at more convenient times for students, and not just in reaction to system-crippling problems,” Beck said. “Because of a very short timeline to be ready by the beginning of fall term, there was not adequate time to double-check configura-tions, do exhaustive testing, and complete performance tuning on the system before going live.”
Another concern was the time limit before logging out.
“The current user timeout for inactiv-
ity is 30 minutes,” Beck said. “As soon as we have stabilized the system, we will be chang-ing that to one hour, the same as it was on MetroConnect.”
A consequence of the technical difficul-ties so far is that some students on waitlists were not able to get into classes because they didn’t receive the notifications on time. Beck said most students have been understanding.
“I got pretty stressed out [last week],” said Michael Maes, sophomore. “I didn’t know where my class was at and I was trying to look it up. I believe it’ll get better, they’ll work out the bugs and everything.”
Junior Andrew Romero had to have the IT helpdesk try his password three times before creating a new one, and then had to reset his new password again because it wouldn’t work.
“I just stayed on top of it,” said Romero. “If you start early, little problems like that won’t get you too far behind. People in [technical drawing] class couldn’t get onto their account. I think it maybe wasn’t visible enough what people have to do to enable their accounts.”
During the first week of classes the IT help desk had taken 3,017 calls — down 700 from the previous week, according to Will Kelley, Technology Support Manager.
Beck also warned students not to ac-cidentally login to MetroConnect, as it is for archive use only.
“We sincerely appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding throughout the last three weeks,” Beck said. “The last thing we want is to inconvenience students, faculty and staff as they kick off our first term as a University, and we will continue to work diligently to make ConnectU a success.”
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Former Colo. senator lost, Auraria legacy rememberedFormer Colorado state senator Joe Shoe-
maker died on Aug. 13, his 88th birthday. Richard Lamm honored Shoemaker at
a memorial service in Confluence Park by quoting the eulogy of London’s architectural master, Sir Christopher Wren.
“They said, ‘If you seek his monument, look around you,’” Lamm said. “The same can be said of Joe Shoemaker.”
Shoemaker sat as a senator in Colorado from 1962 to 1976, and was known to friends and opponents as a powerful force who got things done.
“One of the things I learned from Joe was to get it done. Even if it meant reach-ing out to the other party, he would do it,” said Morgan Smith, former Colorado state representative. “He had a dream that reached way out into the future.”
Albert “Bert” G. Melcher, a retired engineer who has worked with RTD and the Sierra Club, remembers Shoemaker as a true bipartisan.
“People liked working with him be-cause they knew he would get things done,” Melcher said. “If he couldn’t win you with politics, he would win you with charm.”
One of Shoemaker’s dreams was to clean up the Platte River, which had become a waste dump for local factories. In 1969, envi-ronmental cleanup wasn’t a great concern for
Denver’s residents. “Unfortunately, it was a little too early
for the rest of Denverites to realize how important that was,” Smith said.
Shoemaker was not one to give up, though, and in 1974, then-Mayor Bill McNichols appointed him chairman of the Platte River Development Committee. From this experience, Shoemaker founded the Greenway Foundation, an organization that aims to “advance the South Platte River and the surrounding tributaries,” according to its website.
“I mean, the guys was a visionary, and he was action-oriented, and he was focused on getting things done and he did,” US Rep-resentative Ed Perlmutter said. “And we all benefit from it.”
Shoemaker’s other great accomplishment was the establishment of the Auraria Cam-pus, which houses CCD, UCD, MSU Denver and the largest student body in Colorado.
Former US Senator William Armstrong read from a statement by former US Senator Hank Brown who was not able to attend the memorial service: “Joe literally remodeled Denver. While many helped with Auraria, Joe made it happen.”
Brown went on to say that the Auraria project reshaped Denver and created one of the nation’s largest education centers.
“The idea of creating an educational complex in Denver was always on Joe’s mind,” Armstrong said. “He wanted to do something for Denver because it was a place barren of educational opportunities at the time, and today, it’s one of the greatest edu-cational venues in America.”
Denver city council member Chris Nev-
itt believes that Shoemaker would be proud of what he’s left behind.
“When somebody does something great like Joe and then someone comes along be-hind them and does something just as great, I think that’s a double testament to the value of someone’s legacy,” Nevitt said.
Additional reporting by Melanie J. Rice.
Kelli Heitstuman-Tomkoktomko@msudenver,edu
Jean S. Watson-Weidner, Joe Shoemaker’s daughter is consoled by a friend at the memorial for her father on Aug. 28. Photo by Melanie J. Rice • [email protected]
The continuous debate over gun control will not stop any time soon. Some people be-lieve that the excerpt from the 2nd Amend-ment that states that we should have a well-regulated militia means that they should be able to arm themselves with unlimited amounts of guns and ammunition.
The same people also tend to believe that their weapons will protect them from in-truders and the government alike. They like to play the emotional card and cite activities like hunting and family bonding when they defend what they say is their right to bear arms. What they have a hard time address-ing is how their rights are to be granted to them without the rest of ours being violated.
Others, including myself, believe that the excessive disparity between the United States and the rest of the world in rates of gun violence is the elephant in the room that we don’t try to ignore. Instead, we incor-
porate the elephant into the family like it’s a common house pet. I can’t think of any land mammal, bears included, that could withstand a well-placed shot from a 40-cali-ber handgun. Why would anyone need 60 rounds of rapid fire to go hunting?
The last two months saw the heavily armed attack by James Holmes in Aurora, a shooter at the empire state building, and a California middle school student threatened by a classmate with a handgun.
There are 90 guns for every 100 people in the United States. As of 2007, Yemen had the next highest rate of guns per capita.
The worst part about gun regulation in the U.S. is that the officials we elect to represent us equate fighting special interest groups like the National Rifle Association to jumping on a grenade — in other words, political suicide. The NRA spends whatever amount of money necessary to discredit any
politician who campaigns on tighter gun regulations, and carries considerable clout.
The most alarming aspect of loose gun control is that most of us have access to weapons that could put a whale at the bot-tom of the ocean, yet states lack the resourc-es to continuously monitor the individuals with that power.
States regulate our driving privileges. The thought behind this is simple: we don’t want some one operating a motor vehicle if they could potentially harm other people. If some one is granted the freedom to oper-ate a powerful weapon like an assault rifle, attempts should also be made to make sure that this human being — with human emo-tions and human capacities to regulate their emotions — won’t “flip out” and go on a mass shooting spree.
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ID laws block vote for AmericansCome this November, on the sixth day
of the month, the polls will be open for all Americans to cast their vote to elect a presi-dent for the next four years.
Unless, of course, you live in the fol-lowing states: Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.
These states have passed a law that pro-hibits registered voters to cast their ballots without a photo ID and each of them have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to do so.
Is this really necessary?Sure, a photo ID would provide an ad-
ditional security measure that the people casting the ballots are who they say they are.
But is voter fraud really widespread enough to justify imposing such a require-ment that would disenfranchise more than 5 million qualified voters? It’s more likely that this is an expensive ploy to sway the election.
Since 2000, there have been 10 cases of alleged in-person voter impersonation in the entire country, which leaves me to believe that this legislation is politically motivated,
especially in Pennsylvania. The man who designed Pennsylvania’s states law requir-ing photo IDs, State House Majority Leader, Mike Turzai, R-PA, was quoted at a Republi-can State Committee Aug. 16 saying, “[Voter ID law] is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania — done.”
This contradicts the usual Republican line that voter ID laws are for guarding against voter fraud to insure fair elections.
According to a study recently published by the Brennan Center For Justice at New York University School of Law, an estimated 800,000 voters lack a driver’s license or other IDs issued by the state. Defenders of the law point out that voters can satisfy the require-ment with other photo IDs, including those issued by the military, universities and work photo IDs. But that still leaves many voters without a photo ID or the proper documen-tation required to apply for one.
In the past two years, 11 states with Republican-lead legislature have passed voter ID laws that would disproportionately affects millions of eligible minority voters,
including the young, the old and the poor. In Ohio, Republican-lead legislature has
also restricted early voting hours in Demo-cratic counties while extending them in Republican counties.
After high scrutiny, the Ohio secretary of state, Jon Husted, ordered all of the 88 counties in Ohio to abide by the same early voting laws.
Saying that fraud is minimal doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or that states shouldn’t endeavor to eradicate it. Proposed reforms, such as checking voter lists against other government databases, would increase both involvement and accuracy and photo ID requirement could be acceptable if states would supply IDs free of charge while also eliminating the red tape that makes IDs hard to obtain. State and federal courts should be ensuring that the right to vote isn’t sacrificed because of a concern about voting fraud just to tilt the outcome of an election.
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Tivoli goes wild with Jack HannaThe Tivoli Turnhalle was host to quite
the crowd of interesting creatures Aug 22, when Jack Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus, Ohio Zoo and Aquarium, came to Auraria.
The 65-year-old zookeeper began the show by urging students to follow in his footsteps, not necessarily as zookeepers or as animal advocates, but to pursue their dreams.
“I live the dream of a lifetime,” Hanna said.
Hanna showed a video of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. His crew traveled 8,000 miles to observe the gorillas, an hour a day for a couple of weeks.
After the video, his assistants brought out the animals, starting with a snow leop-ard.
“When it gets 50 to 60 below zero up there, this cat gets corner of a cave and will put that tail around their body like a coat,” Hanna said about the snow leopard.
The snow leopard was followed by a black-footed penguin. The black-footed penguin needs warm weather to survive and lives in southern Africa. If the temperature drops below 35 degrees, these penguins will die. When the curious seven-month-old pen-guin was presented to the crowd, its handler had to hold it back so it wouldn’t run around to explore the hall.
Next up was a Carico cat. This unique species is one of few cats that can catch birds in free flight.
A small alligator then took the stage. These reptiles, while now common in the Florida Everglades, were on the brink of ex-tinction at one time. Now there are millions in that area.
After the gator, a pair of 6-week-old Sibe-rian lynx was brought to the table. Just last year the Siberian lynx was declared extinct in the wild inside most of its usual habitat.
“Honey badger don’t care,” Hanna said, as the next animal entered the stage.
Hanna described how the honey badger can survive a bite from a king cobra. One drop of a cobra’s venom will take down an elephant, but honey badgers just go to sleep for a few minutes after being bitten.
Hanna then displayed a rare clouded leopard. The cat’s coat looked like a sky with clouds, except it was darker and wasn’t blue.
A handler came out with a two-toed sloth dangling between her arms. These animals roll up into balls in the trees and move so slowly that algae grows in their fur, causing them to take on a green hue when living in the wild.
Next, Hanna showed a clip of Roll-ing Dog Ranch, which caters to disabled animals. The shelter plays host to blind cats, horses and dogs with birth defects or dis-eases that make normal life difficult.
The last batch of animals began with a
white tiger. The tiger rolled around on the table playfully, nuzzling its handler and gen-tly swatting her hands with its paws.
A handler entered with a python, one of the largest constricting snakes in the world.
On the topic of snakes, Hanna talked about the Anaconda, which lives in the Amazon rainforest. Snakes like these have jaw muscles that freeze when they bite down, making it impossible for the snakes to let go of their prey for as long as half an hour. Hanna recounted a time when an Anaconda bit his right hand. He had to wait for the animal’s jaw muscles to loosen before he was able to see if his fingers could be saved.
The grand finale of the show was a fully-grown Cheetah, the fastest land animal in the world, which has been clocked at 70 miles an hour. While the cheetah was on stage, the audience had to remain perfectly still. If anyone moved, they might trigger the cheetah’s attention.
Seeing these majestic creatures outside their natural habitat is fairly rare, especially for some of the species that are endangered.
“It’s cool we could have a figure like him come to our school and to see all the unique animals we normally couldn’t see,” Kelsey Schippers, a biology major at UCD said.
Hanna repeated how important it is for the students in attendance to live their dreams like he has lived his dream for the past 49 years. Student activities was the MSU Denver event sponsor.
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Above: Jack Hanna brought a White Tiger, which is native to Malaysia, for his presentation at the Tivoli Turnhalle on Aug. 22.
Below: Jack Hanna holds Ingrid, an eleven month old Gray Kangaroo, after his presentation. Photos by Melanie J. Rice • [email protected]
Kizuna: takes bamboo to a whole new level
When it comes to bamboo, people might envision pandas enjoying an a� ernoon snack or think of a small plant arrangement sitting in rocks on the kitchen windowsill.
But bamboo can also be used as the material foundation for magni� cent art that curves and bends in such ways that it arouses your senses.
Since May 5, the Denver Botanic Gar-dens exhibit Kizuna: West Meets East has been featuring art from Tetsunori Kawana and Stephen Talasnik who have created several bamboo sculptures, which are stand-ing and � oating throughout the gardens’ outdoor exhibit.
“We knew we wanted to celebrate the art and culture of Japan this year,” said Lisa El-dred, director of exhibitions, art, and library collections at the gardens. “� e displays you see [in the gardens] are living. � ese are our Mona Lisas.”
� ere are two pieces created by Kawana, “� e Shape of Fundamental Energy II” and “Passages: Culture Current.” Both works use full pieces and strips of bamboo and a bit of wire. � e pieces were built using 400 bamboo shoots at the gardens prior to the exhibit opening.
“Passages” twists and turns, creating a roller coaster of bamboo that wraps around the path and continues, in waves, on the other side of a pool decorated with lilies.
“� e Shape of Fundamental Energy II” is a tall, vertical piece that the gardens will keep a� er the exhibit closes.
By taking such a hard and unbendable element like bamboo and creating � owing shapes and angles, Kawana’s pieces are truly enchanting.
“� e two artists work very di� erently in that Kawana did everything on site and we brought in the raw materials,” Eldred said. “Talasnik works di� erently and he and his team in New York worked in a studio setting for a number of months creating the frame-
works for some of the di� erent elements and we trucked them here.”
� ose who visited the gardens in April were able to see the construction for the exhibit that lasted several weeks and took many volunteers to complete. Kawana’s pieces took three weeks to put together, on site, with around 100 volunteers working in shi� s.
Talasnik’s works took several months to plan and construct, as well as two to three weeks to install at the gardens with the help of three to � ve volunteers.
Talasnik’s work, “Floating World”, fea-tures geometric shapes that � oat through a few of the pools and use the re� ection of the water to create an illusion of depth within the di� erent pieces. Unlike Kawana’s pieces, “Floating World” was created using skinnier rods of bamboo precisely held together with wire and obtrusive, black zip ties.
“For us it’s a great opportunity, and re-ally a once in a lifetime one, because there is no way this will travel anywhere else and
it’s completely site-speci� c,” Eldred said. “Kawana’s work will be completely disman-tled. � ere could be parts of Talasnik’s work that, because it’s so modular, � nd homes, but it will never be exhibited like this.”
� e pieces were featured to complement the garden’s Japanese garden, as well as its Bonsai Pavilion. Visitors can also admire Koi � sh in the Japanese garden, a Haiku tree and Tea Garden.
Indoors, there are also a series of paint-ings from Margaret Kasahara entitled “Someone Like You.” � ey re� ect identity and stereotypes using pop culture references in her exquisite paintings.
Until the exhibit comes to a close, visi-tors can enjoy these moving and extraordi-nary works of art.
All those who have never been captivated by bamboo before. Make sure to visit Kizuna before it closes Nov. 4.
Story and photos by Kayla [email protected]
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Artists’ WebsitesTetsunori Kawana:
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Stephen Talasnik:
www.stephentalasnik.com
Margaret Kasahara:
www.margaretkasahara.com
Left: Stephen Talasnik’s “Floating World” deco-rated the pools at the Botanic Gardens.
Right: A small bonsai tree, purposely manipulated to create its shape, is one of many featured in the Hosokawa Bonsai Pavilion.
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Above: Tetsunori Kawana’s piece “The Shape of Fundamental Energy II” reaches towards the sky near the entrance to the Botanic Gardens.
1. Apply clear topcoat three days after the manicure to keep it from chipping.
2. Rub cuticle oil into your cuticles to keep them from getting dry. You can use olive oil if you can’t afford cuticle oil.
3. Olive oil can also be rubbed into the heels of your feet to keep them from getting dry and cracked.
Cazorla’s tips to keep your manicure looking fresh
When Katie Cazorla � rst moved to Los Angeles from her small hometown in upstate New York, she was a struggling, stand up comedian, living out of her car. Now she owns her own nail salon, and is the star of “Nail Files,” her own reality series on the TV Guide network.
“I’m a former comic who owns a nail salon,” Cazorla said. “I kind of feel like it’s made for TV.”
For 10 years, Cazorla was just scraping by. She booked occasional gigs on Jimmy Kimmel, and the E! Network but she never made a good living. She ate a lot of ramen noodles, pre-cooked beef stew, and swears she can eat on $5 at any restaurant. When she turned 30, she realized that things needed to change.
Cazorla borrowed $5,000 from her father to open her nail salon. But the bulk of her start-up money came from her own sav-ings. She had a vision for a di� erent kind of nail salon, and was determined to make her dream happen.
Her salon attracts many celebrity clients because it’s di� erent than most nail salons. Guests at the Painted Nail get free cocktails and sit in oversized, comfy chairs. Cazorla said she wanted the inside of the spa to feel like “Alice in Wonderland.”
A TV producer just happened to attend the salon’s grand opening, and o� ered Ca-
zorla a reality show. � e perfectly manicured, bleached
blonde Cazorla thinks her show, which fol-lows the ups and downs of running her nail business, is more interesting than others because she is more down to earth than most reality stars.
“I think people actually wanna see some-body who does something, who struggles every day and its real,” Cazorla said.
Although 34-year-old Cazorla read many books on business before deciding to open her nail salon, she thinks you need that little extra oomph if you want to succeed.
“You have to love what you do,” Cazorla said. “You have to have a passion for it. If you don’t, you won’t make money.”
“Nail Files” is now in its second season and Cazorla is traveling the U.S. with her mobile nail spa to promote the show. Guests to the mobile spa get free nail paintings inside the roadside truck. � e mobile spa stopped in downtown Denver on Aug. 24-26 a� er visiting cities on the west coast. Future stops include Minneapolis and Detroit.
Former comic nails reality showCaitlin [email protected]
stops include Minneapolis and Detroit.
Star of TV Guide network’s “Nail Files,” Katie Cazorla came to Denver with her mobile nail spa.Photo by Dan Fairbairn • [email protected]
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The Center for Visual Art was alive and full of vibrancy Aug. 24 for the opening of Metrosphere, the artists of CVA and Impres-sions.
The CVA, MSU Denver’s off-campus gallery, kicked off its two-week exhibi-tion featuring the works of the school’s art students and alumni. The show, running from Aug. 24 to Sept. 8, features works from Metrosphere, the campus literary arts maga-zine; Impressions — a painting workshop held in northern New Mexico — and artists of the CVA.
Many of the artists were at the opening to display their pieces. Some were running around putting on the final touches and making sure their works were hung correctly as the doors opened and people started to trickle in.
Almost immediately, the gallery was full of patrons — relatives of artists, fellow MSU Denver students and art junkies were all milling around to take a look at what the artists had to offer.
“The really exciting thing about this exhibition is that it’s a way to bring students from Metro in and make them realize that this space is for them,” Cecily Cullen, assis-tant director and curator of CVA said. “We have never done a student show outside of
the bachelor of fine arts thesis exhibitions.” The show wasn’t limited to wall paint-
ings, either. There were three-dimensional pieces, rooms dedicated to video and even a piece spanning the floor by the entrance.
One exhibit that was getting quite a bit of attention was a collection of failed free-energy gadgets from one of CVA’s artists, Scott Holland.
Free-energy contraptions are little machines theorized to be able to produce an endless source of energy via magnetism or perpetual motion. Apparently, even electri-cal engineering can be artistic. Holland’s interest in free-energy engineering began on the internet, where plans and testimonials for this faux-science run rampant, he said.
“Of course this all violates the second law of thermodynamics, so it’s absolutely impossible, which is what’s fun. It’s un-achievable,” Holland said.
Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of Holland’s art is the fact that all of his pieces come from salvaged and scrapped electronics. They are created from pieces of old VCRs, front porch motion detectors, old DVD players and other recycled materials.
While some of the creations came from items kept out of the trash, there was one piece that was ultimately destined for the dump.
Michael Frazier’s intricate and detailed floor covering, which was created with pa-
per, saw quite a bit of foot-traffic — literally. It had been walked upon and trampled, and was torn apart by the end of the show.
“If you’re going to cut some paper and throw it around on the floor of a gallery, I don’t know that you should expect people to walk around it,” Frazier said.
It took Frazier more than 8 months to create the piece.
“It’s like offering yourself to the audi-ence, your time and your creative energy as a consumable,” he said.
For Frazier, art is about the people. He realizes that his piece isn’t something that will necessarily sell.
“Art is most powerful when it becomes a talking point, a point of community,” Frazier said.
Nate [email protected]
Artists come together for CVA showExhibition features work from three different groups
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The CVA’s volunteers gather at the opening for an exhibit featuring work from Metrosphere —MSU Denver’s literary magazine, the artists of the CVA and Impressions — a painting workshop held in New Mexico.Photo by Mike Fabricius • [email protected]
Onlookers check out the art at the opening of Metrosphere and the CVA on Aug. 24. The art featured includes paintings, videos and free-energy contraptions.Photo by Mike Fabricius • [email protected]
Deyanira Haro and Brittany Leddy stand in front of the first Metrosphere exhibit at the CVAPhoto by Mike Fabricius • [email protected]
Tony Ramirez of Denver studies a painting during the opening night of the Metrosphere exhibit. Photo by Mike Fabricius • [email protected]
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‘New Super Mario Bros. 2’ not worth your coins
Back in May 2006, Nintendo released New Super Mario Bros. for the DS handheld system.
On paper it was a great idea: going back to a side-scrolling Mario experience with new items, enemies, and levels for the � rst time since Super Mario World in 1990, or Yoshi’s Island in 1995, if you count that as a Mario game.
And, the new Mario game actually lived up to the hype and is still one of the best handheld Mario titles to date. � e new items were clever, the levels had great design, and
the mechanics all � t nicely into the package.
Fast forward to August of 2012. Nin-tendo has since made a Wii-based adaptation of the New Super Mario Bros. formula, dubbed New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which turned out to be kind of a party game.
It was more focused on messing around with friends than serious platforming like the � rst game. Now, however, they’re releas-ing the � rst numbered sequel in the series with New Super Mario Bros.
2 for 3DS.Again, the idea on paper didn’t seem so
bad. Take the New Super Mario Bros. style of play and add a secondary goal on top of res-cuing the princess: collect 1 million coins.
At this point, the idea didn’t seem too outlandish, if done well. It gives the player a reason to keep playing a� er � nishing the linear path of the game. Still, the idea doesn’t feel so great in practice. � e game does nothing to encourage the player to reach the million-coin goal. � e game gives a pop-up update when a milestone is reached, but nothing new is unlocked. It’s just a number to build up over time. � at’s it.
� e game has a coin counter that’s on-screen for the majority of the game. � e game’s mechanics also throw more coins at the player than a usual Mario game, but the “lives” mechanic that has been around since the � rst Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo is still in e� ect.
When a player grabs 100 coins, they’re awarded with an extra life. � e upshot is the player never really has to worry about getting a game over, since they have more lives than they know what to do with. � e other side of that coin is that lives and 1-Up mushrooms don’t feel nearly as important anymore.
When the player stumbles across a secret block with a 1-Up ‘shroom in it, grabbing it doesn’t feel good. It feels tedious, like it’s just one more thing to collect. Additionally, if the player fails a level a given number of times in a row, an additional block appears when they re-enter the level.
� is block has a white leaf power-up on it. � e white leaf makes the player White Raccoon Mario, who is invulnerable to enemies and hazards (except for bottomless pits and lava) and has the same glide and � y powers that normal Raccoon Mario has.
� e insulting nature of the gesture aside, it makes lives even more worthless because now the player is almost guaranteed to get through the level just � ne.
Another change from the last handheld New Super Mario Bros. game is the lack of any of Mario’s new abilities from his adven-tures since Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES.
� e Blue Koopa Shell from New Su-
per Mario Bros. doesn’t return, the giant mushroom shows up rarely, and none of Mario’s new toys from the Galaxy series are anywhere in sight.
Whilst the original New Super Mario Bros. had a sparse multiplayer mode devoted to a few pre-set levels, New Super Mario Bros. 2 has a more developed co-op mode where two players can tackle all of the single player levels as a team.
Yet, like most of the game, there’s one huge glaring issue with multiplayer mode — the second player’s screen follows the � rst player. Let’s take a look at how ridiculous this is.
Two players each have their own 3DS system, each with its own pair of screens. Four screens and the second player’s main play screen follows Mario, not Luigi.
It makes playing with friends infuriat-ing to say the least. Nintendo could have even had a picture-in-picture style view of the other player’s screen in a part of the less-used bottom screen. Having both screens follow Mario renders the Co-Op mode pretty much useless.
In the end, New Super Mario Bros. 2 doesn’t really add much to the entire New Super Mario Bros. formula.
It’s not worth the full price of $40, really, but it is a good 2D Mario platformer at $30. So wait for a price drop on this one and if waiting is too hard, go � nd a copy of the � rst New Super Mario Bros. to bridge the gap.
Brent [email protected]
Photo courtesy of www.nintendo.com
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Roadrunner #8 sophomore Karisa Price scores against Red Raiders Ariel Watts in the MSU Denver 6-0 win over Northwestern College (Iowa) in exhibition game Aug. 25.
Story and photo by Angelita [email protected]
MSU Denver women’s soccer kicked a shutout over Northwestern College of Iowa 6-0 in exhibition play Aug. 25 at Auraria Field.
� e return of MSU Denver mid� elder Camilla Rodrigues made the game; she scored two goals for the Roadrunners. � e redshirt freshman tore her ACL in exhibi-tion play last season. A� er being on the side-lines for seven months, Rodrigues is back to playing status.
“It’s good to score, because you can see the work you have been doing the whole week,” Rodrigues said. “You can apply on the � eld and help the team to have a win.”
Although Rodrigues is happy about being back on the pitch, she says that she is still working on � tness and getting in shape so she can continue to be an asset to the Roadrunners.
MSU Denver head coach Adrianne Almaraz was pleased with Rodrigues’ performance, and agreed that � tness may be an issue, but not one that Rodrigues can’t handle.
“It’s taking her a bit of time, but ulti-mately she wants to play. She wants to be on the � eld, and she can do special things with the ball,” Almaraz said. “I think it is more of getting her � tness back to be able to play, but that’s going to come and she is just going to get better and better over time.”
Aside from Rodrigues’s play, Almaraz evaluated where her team is and what areas need improvement.
“I am pleased with the play today,” Almaraz said. “We had tons of chances and I think we just need to � nalize getting crisper in the � nal third of our decision making. At least we are creating the chances.”
� e Roadrunners had plenty of opportu-nities to score against the Red Raiders with 20 shots on goal and 35 total, but it may be wishful thinking that the same chances will be there in upcoming games.
“I wish that was normal but I don’t think we are going to get quite as many opportu-nities as we did today,” Almaraz said. “� e RMAC is a tough conference and every team shows up to play, so I think 20 shots today against an NAIA school is fair but I assume we won’t be getting that many opportunities
in our conference.”Almaraz said that she felt the Roadrun-
ners defense played very solid, but the team will need to work on combining and � nish-ing up on scoring opportunities. Almaraz has not made a decision on � elding a start-ing goalkeeper yet but she does know what she is looking for.
“I am really looking for someone who has a presence, someone who can make the saves and has the ability to keep us in the game,” Almaraz said.
� e Roadrunners begin their regular season against Rollins College, 1 p.m. Sept. 1 at Auraria Field.
Women’s soccer win exhibition
Volleyball: little competition for 2012 RMAC win
Nick [email protected]
MSU Denver’s volleyball team doesn’t rebuild, it just reloads. It seems unfair to the competition, but this 2012 squad should continue the great tradition.
� e Roadrunners have gone to the postseason every year since 1999, and they have always been a threat when it come to winning the Rocky Mountain Athletic Con-ference. Yet, they haven’t been favored in the preseason coaches’ poll to win the RMAC since 2003.
� at has changed. For the � rst time since
2003, the Roadrunners are � nally favorites to win the RMAC. � e big question is can they do it? � ey have hist ory on their side.
� e Roadrunners won the RMAC tournament in 2003, 2006, and 2009. I am not good at math, but I see a trend. � e only potential problem I see with this team is its younger members. � is season, the Road-runners should start 8 freshman or sopho-mores. What they lack in experience they make up for in size. Audri Marrs and Ka-leigh Carroll are both 6 feet tall and should be a force at the net. � e Roadrunners also have two preseason all-RMAC players, Lauren Quijano and Aylsa Heath. Last year, Heath averaged 1.71 kills and hit .260 while averaging .58 blocks. And Quijano had 2.14 kills per set and averaged .86 digs and .57 blocks.
As I look at the preseason polls, MSU Denver will be playing in the tougher divi-sion. � e east division is home to Colorado School of Mines and Regis University, and both of them have been a pain in the Roadrunners side over the last few years. If
the ‘Runners are going to lose a couple of games in the RMAC, I expect them to be at the hands of the CSM Orediggers and RU Raiders. � e other teams in the east do not frighten me at all. � e Roadrunners have not lost to Colorado Christian University since 1999 or University of Colorado at Colorado Springs since 2007. I don’t think CCU can compete, and although the Mountain Lions have played tough the last couple of years, four out of the last six games have gone � ve sets. � e Roadrunners should contain these cats.
� en, there is Chadron State — the school that hasn’t beaten MSU Denver since 2004. A� er the 2004 defeat, the Roadrunners have dominated the Eagles, sweeping them in 12 out of the last 15 matches. And by the way, Chadron State went winless in RMAC play last year. Finally, there is a new addition to the east division, Black Hills State, who went 11-21 last season in Division III. For the record, they were picked last in the RMAC preseason polls.
Meanwhile, the west division isn’t any-
thing special. Fort Lewis and Western State won a combined � ve games in the RMAC, while Adams State and Western New Mexico are the favorites in the division, and are expected to � nish four and � ve in the preseason polls. � en, there are New Mexico Highlands, Colorado State University Pueblo and Fort Lewis, none of which I think can compete with the Roadrunners.
‘Runners fans know we should be able to win the RMAC. � e biggest concern I have is the playo� s, where MSU Denver is 10-19 in the NCAA tournament. � e last time MSU Denver was a No. 1 seed was in 2003 when they were predicted to win the RMAC. � at year, the Roadrunners were 18-1 in RMAC play, yet, in the tournament was eliminated by Rockhurst in the regional semi� nals. A good season should have the Roadrunners as the No. 1 seed in the RMAC tournament and winning it. Getting deep into the NCAA tournament.
It is a little unfair. MSU Denver is play-ing these young players, yet we are favored to win the RMAC and hopefully beyond.
Women’s Soccer
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* RMAC gameHome matches are in BOLD
Roadrunners get schooled by alumniMetro State wins over MSU Denver in soccer, volleyballAngelita [email protected]
Alumni weekend is a time when former athletes come home to visit old teammates and have some fun. Or is it? This year, Metro State alumni showed MSU Denver teams they were here to compete — old school versus new school.
The former athletes schooled the young-sters.
In men’s soccer, the alum team defeated the Roadrunners 3-2 and in volleyball, lady alum won 3 sets to 2.
Although MSU Denver midfielder Carlos Mendez easily walked the ball into the net at the 6:27 mark, the rest of the game wasn’t as easy for the Roadrunners. Mendez woke up a sleeping bear in former Metro goalkeeper Ryan Vickery, who had 14 saves for the alumni team.
“I thought it was just going to roll into the box and I would pick it up but he came in and snuck past me,” Vickery said.
Vickery, who played for Metro from 2007 to 2009, said he doesn’t have time to play soccer and that the alumni game is the only time he does get to play.
“It’s always good to be able to come out and play with the alumni men, it’s always a good game and we have a lot of fun,” Vickery said.
The Roadrunners went into the second half of the game leading the alumni team 1-0, but Philip Owen tied things up, getting the ball past redshirt freshman Thomas Obering at the 52:39 mark.
Roadrunner midfielder Brenden Hughes responded promptly and put MSU Denver back on top (2-1), off a penalty kick.
Alumni player Josh Elbaum tied things up again, setting the stage for the alum win.
Scott Crawford, who played for Metro 2008-2011, scored the winning goal for the
alumni team with 12.5 seconds left. “That last goal, we just wanted to play for
a win. Last year they won, and that was my senior year, so I wanted to be a part of a win-ning alumni team,” Crawford said. “There was one more chance in the game and that is what we were looking for and we just got that opportunity.”
Mendez had mixed feelings about his one-time teammate, Crawford, scoring the winning goal of the game.
“It’s bittersweet that Scott got that last goal against us because he is a good buddy of
mine,” Mendez said.Mendez said that he isn’t worried about
this season, but he knows that there is some work to be done.
“Freshman are still trying to find their own and it is just how quickly you can adjust to the games,” Mendez said. “Right now, guys play great in practice and they get in a game and think it is a different game but it’s not.”
Head coach Ken Parsons thought the alumni team had a good game and said that his Roadrunners still have some work to do.
“I think the alumni did a good job to cre-ate four or five opportunities going forward and scoring three of them and we probably left four or five goals unfinished on the field,” Parsons said. “I thought we lost a lot of goals on the field and not in the back of the net and that was the bottom line.”
The ‘Runners will play the first two regu-lar season nonconference games in Fayette, Iowa, Aug. 31 and Sept. 2 against Upper Iowa and University of Mary.
Alumni Chad Pearson slide tackles Dustin Berg during the Alumni vs. MSU Denver exhibition. The Alumni scored in the 89th minute winning 3-2. Photo by Mike Fabricius • [email protected]
Club sports tryoutsMSU Denver has three club
teams holding tryouts — inline hockey, baseball and football.
All the teams will compete against other universities, and are looking for the best athletes to represent MSU Denver.
Inline hockey is holding try-outs Aug. 30, at Rocky Mountain Roller from 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. They are looking for players for every position and there is no fee. Visit www.metroinline.org for more information.
Baseball tryouts will be Sept. 1, at 10 a.m. at Brent Mayne Field.
There will be a $20 fee. Wear appropriate attire and submit completed insurance waiver and player information forms, which can be found at www.metrostate-clubbaseball.com.
Football tryouts are Sept. 9, from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. at Bear Creek High School. There is a $45 fee. Bring shorts and cleats to the tryouts. If you are eligible to play you can email [email protected] player #5 Darcy Schwartzman stretches out at the net to win a point against the MSU Denver in the
alumni game Aug. 25 at the Auraria Event Center. On the right, sophomore Betty Van Lith, sets the ball for a return. The alumni defeated the Roadrunners three sets to two. Photo by Cosme Lindstrom-Furutani • [email protected]
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Today in History 8.30
30 b.c.e. Cleopatra commits sui-cide.
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Texts From Last Night
On a toatally unrelated note, I see music in my hair
Indeed. Apparently I called my sisters and told them I wouldn’t get arrested because it’s not a real sword.
I’m going to empty my bank account and roll around in the cash. Want to join?
I just passed a truck with its bed lined with a tarp and � lled with water with six dudes chilling in the back driving through campus. That looks fun.
All I know is that I’m not gonna send out SOS messages via twitter for your rescue this time.
Today, when my mom got mad at my brother, she yelled Benjamin John! (his � rst name and middle name). To this he replied, “Who the heck is John???” For 12 years, my brother thought that his � rst name was Ben and his middle name was “jamin.” HLIA
The other day, I got my class sched-ule. My new English teacher’s name is Mrs. Spain and my new Spanish teacher’s name is Mr. England. MLIA
My Life is Average
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of the zodiac 46- Dra� classi� cation 47- Ba� ed 48- Ladies of Sp. 50- How to harvest a carrot 54- Fragrant compound 58- Water-bottles 61- Su� er from a loss 62- Skunk’s defense 63- Knot again 65- Ship’s company 66- ___ avis 67- Shed ___ 68- Italian bread? 69- Sea east of the Caspian 70- Peter of Herman’s Hermits 71- Cornerstone abbr. Down1- Roman goddess of the
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