May 10, Volume 75 2006 !Issue 28
Mesa State Co11ege • The voice of st1de1ts since 1931 Robinson, Chavez and Referendum A come out on top Jeremjah Cadman News Reporter
l\:lesa State College A<;sociated Student Government hosted their elections May 3-5. The presidential race and the student trustee was the only contested races this year. All other positions were unopposed and Ji lied by those who ran. The most contested race was on the presiden- tial ticket. Candidates Shannon Robinson and Juan Chavez (252 votes) won the race O\'er candidates Matt J[udson and Will Verano ( 132 votes) and Zach Bloese and MarkAdaoag (136 votes). Rohinson said that ======she was thrilled to he Students should use caution elected. Election "I don't think it's when traveling overseas really hit me yet," • Robinson said. 'Tm kin winners Holly Cook information on entry regulations, the crime and secrn da speechless.'' President and vice Reporter rity situation, drug penalties and the location of the Robinson said that president (252) U.S. Embassy, according to a pamphlet by the Office she has already begun votes: Nearly 160, 920 college students travel overseas of Overseas Citizens. to fill her new role as Shannon to study and vacation each year, according to the "If you are dri,ing in another country and you hawe president and is excited Robinson National Association of Foreign Student Advisers. had a few drinks, you might lose your common sense to tackle issues that she Each year, approximately 2. 500 U.S. citizens are ar and forget to drive on a different side of the road. campaigned for. rested overseas. It's just not wise to engage in any risk-y behavior,'' In the student trust One-third of the arrests are on drug-related charg Thompson said. ee race, incumbent es according to the Department of State Bureau of Thompson recommended to check \\ith a trusted Matt Soper beat write Consular Affairs. Although most trips abroad are trou person when venturing out in a foreign country. in candidate Ashley ble free, being prepared will go a long way to avoid "It is important to know where the safe parts of Daniels 458-25 votes. ing the possibility of serious tronble. According to the t0\H1 are. Ask a hotel concierge or manager where th1e . Soper said that he Juan Chavez Office of Overseas Citizens. it is important to research most safe and affordable areas are," Thompson said. felt he won by "cam and plan before traveling to any foreign country. According to Schoede. pickpockets are a huge prrnb paigning hard and hav "Normally, people aren't going to pick Sudan to lem for travelers. ing his name out there." vacation, but it is important to understand where "Always keep your personal belongings dose," This was the third it is you're traveling and how their system works," Schoede said. "Pickpockets are especially bad in year that Soper has run President of Horizon Travels t\'Licbael Schoede said. Europe." for student trustee. He Before departing, Schoede encourages travelers to Thompson said fannypacks or purses with zippers, lost to Charles Dukes take the time to research the people and their culture, make belongings less accessible for pidq>ockets. two years ago and tied Heferemdum A: and any problems that the country is experiencing that TraYelers should also be aware of drug trafficking.. \\ Send events to High 75 ° High 77 ° High 82 ° High 84 ° High 84 ° [email protected] · Low 44 ° Low45 ° Low48° Low 50° Low50° Source: National Weather Service .2 . Criterion • MAY 10, 2006 - - --. - laytor Stonehouse, editw News tstoneho@mesastate, edu Pinon· Palloozza rocks Mesa State College liloJJy Cook Rep.orter Spotlights Comedy C,entral comedian Kyle Cease The Mesa State Housing Department and Activities Council hosted their an Taylor Stonehouse and acts in commercials and movies. not perform for any of you," Cease nual Pinon Palloozza May 6 in the resi ~MS Eifitlr He played Bogey Lowenstein in "10 took his paycheck and left the sch,ool. dence quads from IO a.m. until midnight. Things I Hate About You" and acted Cease elaborates un this, and other, Palloozza brought in around 700 students Actor and comedian Kyle Cease in "Not Another Teen Movie" as "the e>..-periences on his \Veh site and om his and featured several street vendors, bands took center stage for Mesa State slow clapper." He made his first televi myspace.com page. and other entertainment. according to College's Pinon Palloozza on May 6. sion appearance on "The Martin Short "(Myspace) is a great way to ke4ep Program Coordinator Elizabeth Larsen. Cease's performance in Brownsen Show." He recently played Gerard track of friends and fam," Cease s.aid. The entertainment featured includ- Arena was one of nearly 100 college Pendeieton in the 2005 comedy ''The Cease said he is trying to become the ed Bt;\1X: stunt riding te.a:m Yellow Stunt visits around the country. Hand Job." next host of LoveLine, a radio show Team, Comedian Kyle Cease. bands Agent "I was (at Mesa State) about three "It's so cool to be with a basis of be that ofifers relationship advice frooo a Sparks and Waking Ashland and a mov- years ago. and I remember loving it," ing funny and quick,'' Cease said. "All therapist and comedian. ie in the quad, according to a Palloozza Cease said. He said it's difficult to re jt hoils down to is confidence." Cease "It's such·a big · M ·ff 10, 2006 • Criterion ,3 Editorial Quite a year for Mesa State debate College should do more next year to respond to student events and wishes Another academic year has gone students below their ranking on the on safety on campus, particularly af by, and while it seems August was admissions index. The board,, partic ter an uncharacteristic three assaults only a short while ago, this year has ularly Chair Lena Elliott, felt those took place on campus last semester. Editorial been nothing short of prolific for our practices were unfair to 1Vlesa State, Dean of Students Andrew Breckel,, editorial pages. and student in need of remediation in the January Academic Affairs Board Last semester we tackled several is belonged at Mesa State. NewsJetter:, said our safety cover- sues head on starting with Referenda When the administration an age should have been "downplayed." !Rachel A1e,xander, C and D. We recognized the two bal nounced they would build a $75,000 During the December board of trust copy edltor lot initiatives as a reprieve &om the fountain in the new quad, we provid ees meeting, Foster had to be asked David Goe,. constraints the Tax Payer's Bill of ed suggestions as to where the mon by a trustee to give a report on what sports ed1tmr Rights, or TABOR, has had on our ey would be better spent, such as: was being done about safety on cam Errjk Lincolm, state budget. While voters voted no tuition and fees for 2 5 in-state stu pus, and we felt his answer came up editor on Referendum D in November, the dents, if used to create an endow short. IElizabetlil M1artin, passage of Referendum C will provide ment at the foundation it would pro We had the opportunity to discuss opinions ed1tor more money for Mesa State College duce one fuU in-state scholarship the national issue of iurnnigration Taylor Stomehouse, to pay for faculty salary increases, a every year, two-and-a-half full-time when 3, 500 people raJJied for pro-im news edltorr new academic building, and several instructors, or to supplement four migration reform by marching down other capital projects. full-time instructors' salaries so they "Part of North Avenue. The march '"''as joined 1 Remedial education has been a could make the equivalent of an aver hv dozens of other demonstrations journa1ism"s continuing discussion at Mesa State. age high school teacher. throughout the country. In our April purpose is to Mesa State and Adams State College After an investigation of ad 12 editorial, we suggested the key to encourage tlivie are the only four-year state colleges ministrative personnel records in fixing our immigration problems was partlcipatiO,I\ that are allowed by state law to pro December, several connections be creating a more economically viable improve public vide remedial courses. According to a tween Mesa State President Tim Mexico where people could stay in debate, an,ii legislative report, 30 percent of high Foster and high-level administrative their own country and work. enlhance publi_c school graduates who went to a pub hires were found. The Criterion had Whatever the topic. we djd not shy life, without, lic college or university in Colorado much difficulty in getting a definite away &om giving &ank and forward 1of course, had to take a remedial math or head-count of administrative staff, answers. While much of what we sacrificing the English course in 2004. One of the and several different personnel ros wrote criticized Mesa State, the col independenc_e issues with remediation the board of ters were provided to the Criterion. lege's problems are not insurmount that a free rpress trustees discussed during its October At the time, somewhere between l O able, and simply amount to a myo demands amii meeting dealt with the index that and 2 5 percent of the administration pic view of potentJial solutions. The deserves." colleges use to rank incoming stu were working on a temporary basis, a Letters to the Editor The editorlal staff reseives the right The Criterion is a member of the Mesa Miiiing Address to reject submissions based on libel, Criterion policies Contact Information The editorial staff of the Oriterion The Criterion is a student-run publication. State College Media Board and abides by 1100 North Ave. obscenity and ethical criteria. 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PRES~ Opinions Edit« Copy Editors Design Editor Repoiters Ulysses Simmons Mat Ryan Ad Designer Staff Elizabeth Martin Rach el A1exander Production Adviser Editor Kaylan Krizman Jeremiah Cadman Ashley Thorsen ffllotographers Nathan Carson Manager Bill Haggerty Erik Lin wln Features Editor Heather Dunphey Page Designer flolly Cook Brittan,YWarden \.auri:n Burke Ad Sales Noelle Gertenecker !News Editor Josh Kleine Deters Photo Editor Taysha Byrd Emily Gorman Colu11riists Keith Ki tc'hen L1;a lwagosh'1 Taylor Stonehouse Sports Editor Danielle Stomt>erg Graphic Designer Au Bree Mariz Nate Nichols Business Manager .lvlia Marin David Goe Ramana Konantz Isaac Rakiecki Colleen Roach CuTIJ t;iow.a rd Trav'ts MuUenix 4 Criterion • MA1r J0,,2006 • • rHizaheth Marfin, 'edt.O' 0 1n1ons [email protected] So long, and thanks for all the fish Student a.mvo/vement needs more support at Mesa State Oo1.1ege Despite the tremendous reporting ex involvement in camp1L<; organizations also rarely passed along to outside me perience l've gained (which landed me a provides students with safe environ dia. gig at une of the world's largest news or ments to learn new skills. such as lead The point is, students don't check Erik Lincoln ganizations thrs summer, USA TODAY), ership. their Mesa State e-mail se,·eral times Editor what I will value the most i~ the leader At the heginning of the academic a day. With student media, such as the ship experiem:r and the friendships I've year, I \\Tote about the idea of "commu Criterion and KMSA. being the only made -:.ilong the way. nity spirit," or "the \villingness of peo outlets for information on campus, Which hrings me to the point of this ple to care about where they live and to those responsible for publicity at Mesa column, I "ouldn't have gained the ex wade in to help solve problems." State needs to work more with us to Before I crash the going away par perience and the memories if I hadn't Admittedly. the Criterion, an .i\-1Ar 1Q, -2006 • Criterion Letter to the Editor Simple, secure existence is short-lived Thank you for Enjoy being a student, the "real world" awaits all we take for dents exist separately from the "real world." the government offer loans to cover living granted Among ourselves, we would ask rhetorical expenses. It is up to the individual to make questions like, "What? Are we living in the a living for himself or herself, which re Deadlines sneak up ------pretend world?" quires getting a job. Once one manages to fast and smack us in the Nate Nichols Had these questions not been rhetorical, secure a job, they now have the added re back of the head. We be Right On! the answer would have been "yes." sponsibility of not losing it. come angry at ourselves, As hard as it may he to believe, school The worst thing that can happen in the not wanting to admit to life is easy. All real world is much more our poor planning and that is asked serious than flunking out instead take our frustra of a student is of school. Bad credit, re- tion out on those very to show up for As hard as possession, and foreclo people who would help 1lardly a day passes me by without over class a couple sure can all resnlt from us meet our deadlines hearing a fellow student say something re hours a day, it may be to losing one's job. Unless in spite of our own poor sembling, "I can't wait to graduate and get and every now you don't mind flipping planning. I've been guilty, out of here. Getting a job, making money, and then, take believe, school burgers or answering I've seen others do the and being completely independent will be a test or per phones, these potential same and I've heard sto great!" As the adage goes, the grass is al haps write a life is easy. consequences are why ries of still others. This ways greener. paper. it is vitally important for is both an apology and a What they may as well be saying is, "I In school, students to research the gigantic THANK YOU to can't wait to graduate and suddenly be the worst thing marketahility of their cho- all the saints behind the come entirely dependent upon no less than that can happen to a student is flunking sen majors. All too often, college graduates desks and counters. My 16 years of schooling - most of which I out. This requires flunking several courses. end up in an entirely different field than first stop of the day takes can't even remember - and hope it will be From my experience, it takes a consider the one in which they majored, due to a me to the Bookcliff Cafe enough to allow me to survive in the real able amount of negligence to receive a D. lack of marketability. where the staff has mem world, with which I have little experience." The amount of effort it would take to flunk So, for those of us returning next semes ori1ed my specific morn These poor saps will soon come to find that out entirely is comparable to the effort it ter, let us learn to appreciate our simple, ing mocha recipe, cooks the "real world" sucks. takes to achieve a 3.0 average. secure existences as students, and choose up the perfect eggs and Throughout middle and high school, The "real world," on the other hand, a major that is marketable in the "real is so kind to me while I adults would often make references to the is an entirely different animal; it is much world." wake up. Then I stum- "real world," contrasting it with students' more demanding, and carries much greater To those graduating, good luck. You'll ble into the library where sheltered lives that barelv exist outside of consequences. certainly need it. the staff tirelessly repeats school. I recall engaging,in conversations In the real world, things cost money. But themselves realizing that with my classmates, making jokes of this in the real world, Mom and Dad don't pro my brain is no longer seemingly ridiculous assertion that stu- vide monthly allowances, nor do banks or Jlnlcltol@me•sastate .eflu functioning on its O\\ 6 Criterion • MAY 10, 2006 Going way too far leads back home again lent way to give myself more freedom with high pro with extreme differences from my mrn - amplifiied ductivity. But going too far only seems to work against what we have in common; I found the commonallity of me. humankind. I've gone too far, writing my opinion, and I've gone This is what I want to explore in my writing - what Ellzabelh MaJ'ltln beyond ''too far." I found out that when I exceeded my I have tried to do in this column, especially since it is Up ifiront good boundaries for too long, I came full circle. J came rarely done under the opinions heading. back to what I know well and do naturally. I am going to step down from the podium, onc.ce What I know well, after all my travels and explora again, off the path I have beaten, and try to explmre the tion, and what J do naturally - which was unrefined comple:\ity of humanity in a different way. Most (of my before my travels - is not writing opinion, up front. life has revolved around computers, data and bw1,ine:ss The Campus Personalities project reminded me what administration. Writing opinion was a long way firom Adventure is a great thing. Exploring new places I love to do. I love exploring personalities. Getting to that, and I have thoroughly enjoyed this adventmre, but _ and experiences will broaden your perspective, as well know a person, in his or her distinctive characteristics, I still haven't reached my goal of becoming more hu as strengthen your character, through the trials of ad is very much like visiting a different culture. man than when J was a computer appendage. justment. It's a great w<1y to define who you are, and I lived in Thailand for a year, ten years ago. Being in I'm saying "see you around" to the readers of 1l.Jp who you arc not. a foreign country for 13 months - in one as far from Front. I'm not leaving, just morphing. I'll see yom in Because l have been an explorer, I frequently ar the west as is east Asia - I went too far. I went so far the falL rive at a place where I have gone too far. I don't mind away from my American culture that 1 found myself in that; it's the only way to find my boundaries. Finding familiar territory again; I found I knew these people as [email protected]• boundaries - knowing my limitations - is an excel- well as I know myself. Going too far - into a culture MAY 10, 2006 • Criterion ampus Who is Mesra I don't claim to be It is important to Fear can be a paralyzing a natural leader. me to try and relate emotion. As a student Leadership is with the other side who is about to leave always relative to of any situation. the relatively carefree your situation. If Although I may not days of school behind , you find yourself ln be ab le to walk in I refuse to be crippled a social situation another persons by fear: fear of failure, that you do not feel shoes, I can learn rejection, criticism, etc. is right, chances from their journey. To get anywhere in life are someone else feels that same way. If you Holly Teal risks must be taken. In Associate Registrar aren't afraid to stand up for your beliefs, you other words, sometimes might just give someone else the courage to you just have to put on your big girl panties and stand up for theirs. deal with it! Justin \Valton Samantha K. McGuire Major: Muss CQmmunications, Broadcast Double Major: Fine Arts concentrations in Studio Art and Graphic Art Winner, Best in Show, Student Art Show 2D06 My mother wasn't supposed to be able to have children, so · The Confluence at 15th when I was born she and Elm Streets: "Several called me her miracle .. publications and groups Because she considers meet in the house me a miracle, 1 try my including Rocky Mountain hardest to do well in Resister, Voice of Reason, school and llfe so I Alternative Media, don't disappoint her indyrmemia.org, The Green too much. Party, The Grand Junction Jamie Bradley Free Trade Alliance, Major: Biufogy and the Earth Day Minor: Anthropology organization:· - Criterion, March 22 I have learned that life is comprised of situations and experiences that result My grandfathers' tales about in emotion. I arm fortunate Poland, Russia, and the United to have found a vehicle to States in the early i900s make my days enl ightening captivated me, opening up whole and rewarding; I work with worlds different and strange, and children that have disabili~ies became the foundation of my and I converse with others own storytelling. In al l of the tales, thoughtfully and with my heart. mine and others, I have seen the I don't allow the experiences continuity of the human drama and situations that don't go my - we are all interconnected, and way to bring me down; you can't connected as well to the entire have a rainbow without the rain. universe. Erin Lasduy John Nizalowshi Erin with Casev, a child iVIajor: English Instructor of English with Down Syndrome .8 Criterion • MAY 10, 2 006 ersonalities Statce, Spring 2006? I just think that l find myself continually The narrator in T. S. people should being excited by the world tliot's 'The Waste Land" try and make - or, perhaps, surprised. asks, "What are the themselves better, The hBllmark of my life is · roots that clutch, what you know. I'm learning. No doubt about branches grow out of motivated for my it; just learning. It could be this stony rubbish?" I owm reasons. A lot of about music or art - any respond, community: people do the same field of endeavor. If I have the desire to sha re and thing, they don't a pencil and paper, I c-an receive, the obligation have new ideas. get very oontented by going to lrsten and speak, the duty to witness and Lauro Kerr off in some weird, nerdy testify, the need to care and nurrture. Major: Nursing connection. Dr. Ba1"1)' Laga Gordon Gilbert Associute Professor of English Professor of Physics l've ·never been in a situation I love listening to people's sto ries. where I have had to say, Perhaps my'love affair with na rratives why me or why has this stems from being an English major, happened? There is always a but that's the expected answer. When reason somewhere, somehow; a person spins me a yarn, he or she deep down there is always places a fingerprint on my soul. Their a reason. If I don't have that stories become my stories, which is logic to fall back on, then I unsettling and strangely exhilarating. am lost. Rebecca Rune\' J\1arv 1Woos Major: 'Hn_gli:sh Writing Booficliff Cafe cashier Acting Pu.hliri1y Coordinator I guess I am driven mostly by curiosity. I've always been The simple fact that no day onl:arth curious about other people isithe same keeps me determined and other places, which is why to advance my knowledge, my I enjoy travelling and studying relationships, and my potential beyond history. Curiosity may have killed the illusionary walls that have been built the cat, but the world is a pretty by negative thinkers and the ones Who interesting place; I can't imagine have lost the ability to dream. The other not wanting to investigate it. side of those walls is where you ca n Douglas O'Roarh always find me. \ Professor of History Dustin Coren Major: Mass Communication Autographs are a personal, lasting impression, revealing I see smart studemts who so much about a person. One don't know they're smart. of my most treasured pieces I enjoy giving them what is a frarneo photo of my five they want. I just lrsten to great-aunts, who are between people; it's easy to give the ages of 81 and 100, people what they want. matted with each of their Lou Buchmaster autographs. S odexho saute chef l\lutthew C. Sorer Major: Politico Science Student Trustee MAY 10,·2-006 • Criterion .9 ELECTION~. Rel A gives Mesa State student robbed in Ridges access students to Gar, credit cards, books stolen f;nom campus funds, new pres~ says Continuned from page 1 Taylor Stonehouse "My eyes still hurt from crying so much," Ord said. The money that 1hl' bill will pull from is a fund l'(e.w:s :Eili1:or Ord acknowledged the monetary items like the that was originally started by Xcel ener_gy hut was credit cards and car can be replaced, hut said ~here newr msed. The money will nm\ be folded into the Mindy Ord, a lVle-sa State College student, awoke we..re _<;everal priceless items that were taken, as well. Mu~ment fur Environmental and Social Actinn fund early May "8 to find her purse, wallet and car keys miss ''My key chain has a picture of me when I ,ms .(MESA Fund) for all student organizations to use. ing from the v\lalnut Ridge apartment rnom where she five, as well a~ a gift from my JaJ when he went to Rnhinsun said tnat the passing of this bill will great .had stayed the night. Germany," Ord said . ly impact students. "It was almost a call for oppmtunity," Ord said. The -Sutton s·aid around finals week, it is important for "It allows lL~ as stud~nts tu access the money that door to the apartment ,rns unlocked, the Blinds oyen students u1 keep track of their belongings. excel has been sitting on through fee allocation,'' and the lights on, with the purse in dear view, accord "There will be a temptation to move (students') Robinson said. "(We can now) put this money towards ing to Ord. things into their cars, but that's setting up an easy tar _,,;tuJents." 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Criterion • MAY 10,;2 ()06 Immigration reform unlikely to happen Senator blasts this year, House and Senate too far apart GOP for not . Ron Harr'1s around Washington since January 2004, when Bush an St. Louis Post·Dispatch nounced ~hat he wanted Congress to consider immigration renewing reform that included a guest worker program. \V:i\SHINGTON - Despite the million legal and illegal But in recent months, the subject has really taken hold immigrants who poured into the nation's streets last week "'ith the public. tuition tax and the country's heightened focus on immigration policy. "It's been bubbling up since about 2001, but it's in full members of Congress say it is highly unlikely that there will flames now," Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., said. be immigration reform coming out of Washington this year. Emerson said she has received more letters on the sub- deductions The House of ject from her constitu Representatives and the ents than on any sub Kenneth R. Ba21irre't Senate are so far apart ject in her 10 years in New York Dally News in their views on what is Washington. needed to halt the flow of Newspapers around WASHINGTO:-,J - Sen. Chucl illegal immigration, some the country reported Schumer ripped into Republicans on members say, that they a huge surge in letters May 4 for abandoning tai.: deductions may not be able to find from readers on immi for college tuition - while backin:g enough common ground gration after Monday's more than $5 billion in ta'" breaks for for a compromise bill. marches and protests. Big Oil. "I could see that hap The majority of them "It's like Robin pening," said Rep. Jo Ann were from readers who Hood gone mad," Emerson, R-Mo. took a dim view of Schumer, D-N.Y., The House passed a bill Monday's march. told a Capi1tol in December that calls for Dodie Hofstetter, l lill news confer- increased border agents Voice of the People ence. and rnst fences along the editor at the Chicago Schume'r Mexican border. Under Tribune, said she re slammed tbe legislation, the nation ceived more tban J 00 Repnbbc.an.,; for would spend more than Michael Penez/Philadelphia lnquirer/KRT letters after the demon· .stripping frrom a A border marher on the US·Mexico border. $2.2 billion to build five strations. ~The btJttom pending billJ $4.5 border fences in California "On one issue, that's billion in ta.x and Arizona, a length of 698 miles at a cost of $3.2 million a quite a bit," she said. line is it'bis deductions for mile. Julie Green, letters editor at the Los Angeles Times, said provision mostly mid,dle The bill also would force employers to verify workers' le she received more than twice that many. helps $t.m!. class Americans gal status by checking their Social Security numbers through Jamie Riley. letters editor for the Post-Dispatch, said she kids to paying to send a national database or face fines of as much as $25,000 for has received more than 200 letters on immigration in the their kids to col each violation. past four weeks. college, lege . Additionally. it would increase penalties for "coyotes," ''That's counting only the people who have written locally .u lbut the Some 6. 4 mil bandits '\vho smuggle immigrants across the border for pay. and not the ones from out of state,'' Riley said. ''That's a lot Repul>licans lion American often leaving them to die in the desert. It also would make of letters on a specific topic over the course of one month." families took being an illegal immigrant a crime instead of a civil matter, "There are concerns.'' said Carroll Doherty, an associate seem to ttink advantage of and introduce legislation that would make anyone who helps · director of the Pew Research Center who has been polling that keeping the deduction or houses an illegal immigrant - including family members Americans about their attitudes toward immigration issues. t ties,e big oU in 2004, toltal - a criminal as well. "There are concerns about jobs, concerns about traditional companies ing about $4.5 Some senators have called the bi]J "draconian" and "puni values, concerns about the impact on government services. billion in tax tive." They say the biggest failing is that doesn't address the "The people at the lower end of the education and income happy iis breaks, Schumer issue of what to do with tb1e estimated 11 million illegal im spectrum are more opposed to immigration than those who far more said. migrants now in the United States. have more education and have higher income. The foterest jmportanl'' Schume·r said In its latest stab at immigration overhaul, the Senate jng thing is that the same divisions e.xist among Democrats the tuition ta'!: considered versions of a bill co-sponsored by Sens. Mel as among Republicans." -Sen. Chuch break, which ex Martinez, R-Fla._, and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. Nick Charles, editor of AOL \.VWw.BlackVoices.com, a Schumer, pired last year, It includes the guest worker program that President \Veb site with 3 million visitors a month that targets African D-N.Y. has been stripped George W. Bush ,.,·ants and a plan that many Democrats Americans, said much of the talk in ~he Web site's chat from a ta'!: irec want for granting citizenship oYer time to some of the illegal rooms was negative as well. onciliation hill. immigrants already here. ''People were saying things like, '1'11 tell you what they are However, $5.1 billion in ta'!: breaks for But that compromise fell apart last month, and senators trying to, do, make the United States Mexico with benefits,'" the energy industry remains in the hill, have struggled to come up with a plan that they feel could Charles said. which is now being finalized by House get through the House without having tbe guest workers pro· Many Republicans and some Democrats on Capitol Hill and Senate negotiators. visions and legalization removed during a conference com are having a difficult time embracing any proposals regarding "The bottom line is this provision mittee of both houses. guest workers or legalization for illegal immigrants. helps send kids to college, plain and Still,. some politicians, like Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, R·Ill., a simple, but ~he Republicans seem to ''The problem is you've almost got a split right dO\,m the member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, remain up think that keeping these big oil compa middle in the Republican Party," Sen. Barack Obama, D-lll., beat about rhe chances of passing a hill that could be signed nies happy is far more important. lit's said. "There is a wing that is adamant about not providing a into law. just unbelievable,'' he said. pathway to citizenship. If that is their position and they don't 'Tm cautiously optimistic about where we're going." Republicans believe the tuition tax budge from that, it's hard to see getting anything done before Gutierrez said. "There are going to be many hurdles, many break will be restored either in this hill November.'' obstacles. It's really going to depend on how strong the mea or one that will be enacted in time to The subject of immigration reform has been floating sure is that come:s out of the Senate." ensure Americans get the deduction this year without interruption. , MAY IO, 2006 • Cri~erion "···~ The best of backpacking close to home Josh Kleine Deters Features Editor Looking to get out this summer? Sick of being stuck in the seemingly endless rut of retail slave hours? Break out of monotony and shove off for a few days. If you're feeling uncertain as to where to go or are just looking for something new, these are a few destinations that you will kick yourself for missing: Canyonlands: L- -- Consider yourself more of a desert rat than a mountaineer? Prefer sand in your boots to rocks? Try Utah's Canyonlands National Park. With plenty of space to get yourself lost. the Canyonlands tout the ability for both strenuous and flatland excursions. Sandy uphills and windswept floodplains surround the winding paths of several rivers and creeks. Keep in mind, this is massive, so plan your route. If you're going south, make a point to traverse Monument Valley or catch the worthwhile view of the Upheaval Dome located in the Island in the Sky district. The dome is over 1500 feet and its origins are left to speculation, be it a collapsed salt dome or crater, this thing is monolithic and the general uncertainty surrounding should be enough motivation to visit. Crash on the valley floor or creep higher and camp out for a stunning view of the valley at sunset. Both the Needles and Maze districts are worth visiting and contain vast slabs of slickrock to romp around on as well as aged tales of Native American folklore meticulously etched and painted on canyon walls. Wemlnuche Wilderness: Colorado's largest expanse.of open wilderness, the Weminuche area basically takes up the space between Durango, Pagosa Springs, Creede and Silverton. With over 500 miles of Photos of Canyon/ands, . trails, the toughest part of your trip Weminuche and Capitol will bee deciding where to go next. Peak courtesy of Bill Hag Natural hot springs and established gerty. Photo of Sun Luis campsites are available but if you're Va lley special to the Crite looking for something a little more rion. Design and layout by primitive, try starting at the Vallecito Romana Koonanlz Creek pass and working up through Humpback Pass at nearly 12,500 feet From there, scale up through Columbine pass and through the Chicago Basin. Although fairly well visited, if somewhere becomes overcrowded, simply go the other direction (and bring a GPS). :12 Criterion • MAY 10, 2006 Maroon Bells Wilderness: Anywhere in this vast basin will leave you speechless. With so many options from day hikes to overnighters or even multiday excursions, Aspen/Snowmass' Maroon Bells Wilderness is a surefire destination for instant relaxation. Start off your trek in the Aspen Brewpub and push on from there. Follow the Maroon Creek or cut up to some well-defined trailheads and pack through the lush Fravert Pass and basin. Need that extra push to get there? The Conundrum natural hot springs are a nice perk only a few miles in and the wildflower views are simply epic. Hasley Pass: Take a day trip to Crested Butte or Marble, relax, catch lunch and head out towards Schofield Park. From there the possibilities are endless. Make your trip:Qe worth recounting and hit up the natural bea\ltY of Hasley Pass, a not so well-known area ove$iQldng the Maroon Bells of Aspen. Hasley Pass uni.. the east and north forks of the chilly Crystal Riv~ith each fork independently offering loop after loop of packing trails. The summit promises a lush basin with plenty of easy and expansive ridge walks. Access to several fourteeners give the option of controlling the length of your trip from hours to days, this flexible and relatively untrafficked pass offers all of Colorado's beauty a short way from home. San Luis Valley: The glacial remnants and ice-carved peaks of the San Luis Valley are among the most interesting in Colorado. Leave for a day and end up staying for a week, this killer wilderness offers highland treks, rim walks, melting snow pockets and spectacular meadowy basins to help you forget about that stack of papers sitting on your desk or that pesky thing called responsibility that keeps buzzing around your head. Bring your multiday pack and stay for awhile, it won't get old. Don't know where to start? Hit up the Great Sand Dunes just west of the Sangre de Cristo Range and go up from there or simply follow the Rio Grande and head east. Any of this 150-by-45 mile stretch is worthy of visitation and the supernatural aura surrounding its history makes for an interesting sidenote. Keep your eyes peeled for green fireballs and unexplainable animal mutilations that bear testament to the unknown visitors to the San Luis Valley. MAY 10, 2006 • Criterion 13 --~------The sick sounds of summer It's almost painful to imagine the long miles of pop in Yonder Mountain's latest seli'-titled effort and a road trip in mid-July, top down, gear loaded and just let the road take care of you. Breathe in the scent friends a-plenty without the perfect sonic accompa of warmed grass fields and the breeze just off of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, niment. Dave and I are here to make sure that you river you were floating all day. This is smart bluegrass,. "Stadium Arcadium:" maximize your chill-out potential. Whether it's a drive folks, and it is as much a foot-tapper as it is a sing to the perfect site to pitch your camp, a plane ride to along. Down tempo, vocal driven and laid back melo The official release hasn't hit the other side of the world or just a midnight run to a dics of mandolin and fiddle fit like a glove hctween stores yet but the leaked tracks tov.·n that actually has a 7-11, these tunes are officially tracks of two-stepping traditional straight up rock. Think RHCP sanctioned by us to be tripping-worthy. bluegrass. Don't think ho-down, jams from their "Blood Sugar · think slow down and just enjoy. Sex J\,lagik" album and that's what Josh's Picks you wi.11 get here. Still not sure? Check out th,eir first Gnarls Barkley, "St. Pama lnternat1onal, "Float single ''Dani California" to case your douhts. Seriously Like a Buttelfly:" though, it is the Chili Peppers, Elsewhere:" could there be any wrong? This genre-bending. slick What kind of summer would it rhyming, smooth talking col be without reggae? I realize these Matt Pond P.A., "Several laboration between legendary guys were featured in an article Arrows Later:,· Danger Mouse and the ever of mine last year, but the album is so good that it just heavy Cee-Lo is guaranteed deserves repeating. Pama International has taken the This album has more of a to be a repeat on your playlist. verv best of two-tone ska, blended it with the attitude summer feel to it than their win Gnarls Barkley will have you groovin' and movin' to of Marley's "Natural Mystic" and gave it the pace of ter oriented EPs. The lyrics are some of the cleanest hip hop around, complete with the 21st century to create some the real treat here as this band shows off theilr vo discoesque falsettos and seriously catchy funk melo extremely rela.--.:ed head-bobbing cabulary in aesthetically pleasing ways, much1like the dies. Keep your eyes and ears open for Gnarls, we be tunes. Shins. The group also injects much needed ennotion lieve these gentlemen will be the talk of the tov.11. into their instrumental e:-.1>lorations. It's strai~tfor Dave's Picks ward, but not in a bad way. This is one of thoise CDs Yonder Mountain Strlng that can be rocked with or without company ,and will Band, "Yonder Mountain My Morning Jacket, "Z:" hit you differently depending on your mood. Strlng Band:" 10 tracks of some of the best Compiled by: Dave Goe and Josh Klelme Dusk is slowly creeping oYer rock this side of Radiohead. Effortless guitar riffs and 1oeters the heat-stroked landscape and flanged out vocals makes this a summer chill-out re you've just filled your tank. Before cord for sure. These pop-tinged songs make you feel you put your pedal to the floor, good in a bass ackwards sort of way. __ Hip hop's 1,0 best of 05-06 lke Raklecki 'Keepln' It ,on the d-lo Quasimoto, "The Further Adventures of Lord Quas" (Stones Th1row) To be honest, my ''best of' list stretches from November 2004 to now, not just The alter ego of producer Madlib strikes again with his high-pitched nasall delivery the last year. With such unbelievahlc releases and given my usual indecisiveness, l and nothing short of brilliant production. If finding loops from antique allhums and was hard-pressed to narrow it down. But here is my top 10 of hip hop for the last making it sound this good is a crime, then they need to make Quasimoto .and hrs year and a half. The rating scale is 5 Ikes for the absolute best and 1 Ike for some tank of helium serve a lifelong term. thing that just stinks. Blueprint, "1988" (Rhymesayers) The ultra-talented MC/producer does it all here, dedicating an album to the hip hop golden year of 1988. The beats are straight vintage, and in the midst of quite a Stick Figures, "Stick Figures" (Galapagos4) bit of humor, he still lets you know what's truly in his head on "Liberated... I said it when I reviewed this album and I will say it again., these two absrnlutely can rap in a way that just shames most anyone else. Galapagos4 might be my favorite label now for all the quality stuff they release. This is the definition of gomd hip hop. Sole, "Uve From Rome" (Anticon) Many critics have bashed this release but it is pretty hard to compare it to past classics like "Selling Live Water" and "Bottle of Humans." Sole's raps sounds like -something that might come out of a guy talking to his psychologist about the MF Doom, "MM ... Food?" (Rhymesayers) current politics in America and everything in his life. While 1 cannot say that this is on par with Doom's indelible ''Operation D>oomsday," - it is very nice to hear some tasty tidbits from the man behind the mysterious metal mask. This guy must have some serious munchies, why else would he hawe songs entitled "Kon Queso" and ''Beef Rapp." I want to see MF Doom get a sholw after 000~ "Emcril Live." Vordul Mega, "Revolution of Yung Havoks" (Nature Sounds) After the fa.bled duo Cannibal (h broke up, everyone thought Vast Aire's solo album would be the much better than Vordul's but the underrated member delivers more heartfelt tales of the lows of living in NYC's ghettos while keeping his Ox fans happy by being himself. Rumors of a reunion album abound. ~'! Sea HIP HOP'l&D 16 14 Criterior • MAiY 1 O,' 20V6 The best way to get poked Colleen Roa-ch Cdlumntst tus frDm ''student'' to " ... pending." This also applies to a chan_ge in major, relation About this time last year, a friend of mine ship status, political views, gender and sexual orientation. was pressuring me to join something called "The Question #3: Are your photos out~ated or otherwise incriminating? I have re Facebook. .. After hearing a short description of cently been matle 11warc of some sort of scandal concerning our very O\Ul student what it is and what it entails, my1?xact words government and a certain picture _1111 an online profile. (Viva el Solo cup!) Does your were "yeah, I will never do that." I resisted as profile display incriminating photos of you doing somethin_g you're either legally not long as I could; but a few months later a profile a.lluwcd (or never will be allowed) to do, or you have otherwise signed a c:ontract was created for me using pictures which, at the rendering you functionally underage fon,ll n.:asonable purpuses? You may want to time of their taking, ,were never intended for the untag your name from those photos. Unless the Kool-Aid mustache is clearly asso internet. This profile was e-mailed to me, but I ciated ,vith the red Solo cup. didn't have the password. Question #4: Are you in th-i: _group; ''Colleen Roach is Myldol?'' 1 should first So, I called this "friend" and demanded the password because, seriously, who ask: have you heard of the group "CJ11leen Roach is My ldul?" Well, it's only the hot wants to be known as "Chesty Laro6'' online? I was forced to update it for accura test student group online since the "Coalition of Students for Naps" was created. cy. And, after the first click on my established account, I was hnoked and the rest is If you're nut yet in this _group, your immediate attention is required in Facehook, history, which has been neatly documented in it's entirety on my wall. NOW! GO!DO IT! In this instance, where facts were incorrect and pictures inappropriate, it was ob Questi.on #5: Have you done something really cool and you want everyone to see "ious that an update was needed. \\!hen my using became more frequent and my a picture of you doing this really cool thing? Cre·ate .in album! In a related topic, r acebook lrahits were heavier, I bad to question, when is it necessary to update my haYe you taken self-timed or self-shot pictures of yourself with your most revealing profile? \Veil, because I'm familiar with online addictions through personal experi clothing, or <'Ven you shirt completely 11ff? Time to post them! ence, I think 1 can help. To clo sn,J've created this easy-to-follow guide to help you Question #6: Have you recently been burned on your mm wall? It's definitely decide if it is time to update your profile. timt· to either completely erase any trace or at least defend your positi.on. Question # I :1 )id s.11me_11ne els-e cre·ate this profile for you? Chances are you 'l] be If you follow these guidelines and go with your instinct, you should be able to making some changes. maintain a fetching, original profile. Then you're bound to get poked _~onne.r or later. Question #2: Are you graduating? I'll soon b-e having to changc my Mesa State stdtus from "senior" to "alumni." Furthermore, I'll be chan_ging my current job sta- [email protected]• :GRADUATION REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION -. QmditJ· .. Ser,·ice • Integrity Congratulations, Kudos, .ADMINISIRATIV E and Good Luck to the Grads of2006! Busy production home builder/ real estate office is in need of a part-time assistant real est_at.. MAY lQ,'2006 • Criterion 15 Hip hop's 10 best continued Hebrew class hopes to clarify text Illogic, "Celestial Clockwork" (Raptlvism) Prohahly the most talented MC that 90% of people have ne,·er heard of. Each song Brittany Warden rifice to God. According to Leibowitz, tells a story and each story re.fleets the saying that change is the only constant. Reporter in the King James Version of tlhe Bible, Illogic had better not change one thing about his music. A highlight is" Time God commands Abraham, "Taike your Capsule" with Aesop Rock and Vast Aire. History is like playing a game of tele one and only son (to be sacrifiiced)." phone. With each telling. stories be Lebowitz explained that in 1the come more or less detailed, especially Hebrew translation God asks ;Abraham, when these stories are translated into "Please, please take your son."' Edan, "Beauty and the Beat" (Lewis Entertainment) other languages. Such is the focus of an Lebovdt1 said these small .muances upcoming seminar entitled "Secrets of can change peoples' impression of God, The music on this album is just as colorful and unique as the CD cover. It is one the Hebrew Language" and the stories which is one of the things she· hopes hypnotic blend of hip hop with enough originality to choke a donkey. Check out being retold are none other than those people will get from the semirnar. ''Fumbling Over Words that Rhyme, " for Edan's dedication to past masters of the of the Bible. According to the \.Veb site, the mis art. Sunday, May 21 from 9 a .m. to c; sion of the Center of Biblical !Hebrew is p.m. Israeli speaker Uri Harcl from to teach the text of the Bible iin its origi the Center of Biblical Hebrew, will be nal Hebrew form in an objectiive manner conducting this seminar at the Tikvat as well as provide a "non-denomination Sean Price, "Monkey Barz" (Duck Down) Yisrael, or Hope of Israel. The Bible, ac al, unbiased and informative environ cording to Web site for the Center of ment" in which to do it. Hare! will ap This man was one-half of the awesome duo Heltah Skeltah back in the mid-90s. Biblical Hebrew, has lost a lot of the nu proach the topic from a linguistic view His rough delivery and sense of humor mark a return to past s-uccess for this Boot ances of the language, and thus some of rather than religious. This crnrriculum Campion. All that's missing is some soundscapes from The Beatminen. the meaning. in translation. According was designed for people who me not fa to the Web site, the Bible was translat miliar with Hebrew. ed into English from the Tanach, or the People who attend the sen:uinar'l'an Hebrew Bible, and from the five books expect to discuss the following topics: Qwel and Jackson Jones, "Dark Day" (Galapagos4) · of Moses also known as the Torah. The history and backgrournd of the "One Hebrew word may be trans divine signature in the text. Qwel is unmatched in his intensity and in his uncontested title of Chicago's best lated five different ways," said Cynthia Encryptions and codes hid,d-e n in the MC. He does not give up his quest of showing mankind where it ~ill end up Lebowitz, one of the key organizers of layers of the text. without heavenly assistance on this intense and dark release. the seminar. Lebowitz attended one of Hebrew a\ a language. its warin us the center's seminars earlier last year. qualities and why it is unique .. She said it changed her percepti~n of To learn more ahout the seminar ~or the Bible and its stories. to register, go to www.c-bh.co,m or call Lebowitz gave the example of the sto Cynthia Lebowitz at 257-0311. ry of Isaac and Abraham in which God asks Abraham to kill his only son in sac- 'btfanleo@m~Jlim• ei/JJJ Newni.an Club/Catholic Campus Ministry You Matter to Us! Mass, Sundays at 7~·00 p.m. in the College Center Activity Nights-Thursday 7:30 p.m. at 875 Bunting 16 Criterion • M,AY 10, 2006 A Summer Opportunity That Can Make a Difference! Summer break is a great opportunity for a change of pace. Supplement your current studies by taking courses this summer from Colorado Christiao University that will offer you a Christian perspective. Learn more about how you can take the Worldviews course or obtain a Biblical Studies Certificate at CCU's Grand Junction Center or online. New classes b~gin soon! For more information or to ~P.Plf., call an enrollment counselor at 970-242· ~8 ~1 or visit www.ccu.ectuiags toiay. Colorado Christian lJNIVERSITY Adult and Graduate Studies 743 Horizon Court, Suite 220 • Grand ~unction 800.44.FAITH • www.ccu.edu AG039 ©CCU Marketing 2006 M,\Y 10,'2006 • Criterion .1J Summer Sub-lease needed for June and July. Will pay up to $350 per WANTED: PART TIME RECEPTIONIST TENNIS CENTER AT GRAND For Sale month. Call Chris@ 303·520-8664. JUNCTION. Duties include front desk, light court maintenance and Blue and grey speckled Chevy Corsica. Runs good. Good tires. Dangly light cleaning. Must have great customer service skills with at least Female roommates wanted! 1 block from campus. $250 plus 1/4 3 years experience. Computer skills helpful. Weekends and some air freshener Is included! Great for college commuting. For sale near utilities and Bresnan. Call 303-947-1413 (Jennie) or 847·274-8210 (Erin) college campus. Asking $500 OBO. Call (202) 448-5032. evenings. Starting salary $6.50 per hour. References required. Please apply in person to: Tennis Center at Grand Junction, 535 251/2 Road, Quiet and neat roommate wanted: Private bedroom; 3 blocks from Grand Junction, CO 81505. Contact Karra Sheridan (970) 241-2280. Saxophone for sale!!! Soprano Saxophone (Evette Buffet Crampon campus, $300 per month includes utilities. Call 314·3084 338078 R.O.C.) 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Call 970/778·1539 GENE TAYLOR'S 1/2 PRICE Margs, Wells & Drafts SPORTING GOODS • $5 Snacker Basket • FREE Chips CAMPING SALE GOING ON Now! 5 TVS and Ask about our Club Agave! •COLEMAN • IGLOO so Tequilas • Tequila Samples • Happy Hour Pricing • Earn Cool Clothing •NORTHFACE•SLUMBERJACK SAVE 20% WITH THIS AD! FINE MEXICAN FOOD & COCKTAILS (ibf)}mrfuo@) ill:mllfmo~ 445 W GUNNISON AVE. · is Criterion • M,n 10, 2006 ' The Qulgmans by Buddy Hickerson Filler The middle of the paper is just more fun CAL.L PeTe M':J {)REA/"1 Ma1" ... ) Paul by Billy O'Keefe A TERMITE WAU:'S INTO A 6AR, ANI> fff SAl(S, "WfffRf IS Tf1f 6AR ' TfNl>fR?" --- .. 'c.Ause I J,c~eP HoP;N' He'LL r>iSAPPeA~ \Alf..leN r W.,}Ke uP.' End of the Year by Ramana Konanu Postcards from Boulder: www.joshshalek.com Mesa State by Nate Nichols CHf:!:12 UP, GUYS. !:121CIC WOt.a..PN'T WANT US TO G"'el/e UICI: THIS. IN fACT, I 1.:NOW vUST WHAT He'O WANT US TO 00. Andwhat gave you the?¥ hint?The extra home work load? The bleating abo"' fi"''':.l Crossword ACROSS S4 Upped cash 30 Yellow-fever mos- 47 Satellite of Uranus 1 Leadactor 59 SSS designation quito 48 Con MAY I 0, 2006 • Criterion 19 · Mesa State Cele&e s t David Goe, editor CRITERION por S ·~-esasrara.ed, On Attendance night, Mesa State gets a victory over lepes Mavs win RMAC regular season title, host post season tournament Ulysses Simnons walks. Reporter In the bottom of the fifth inning, both team-s would clear the dugouts and Despite the threat of lmd weather, meet on the field in a brief skirmL~h. af 2,014 fans made their way to Suplizio ter Mav shortstop ;\latt Bodenchuk slid Field on Record Attendance Night. in at home plate and had some unkind Those who managed to find a park words for Grand Canyon pitcher Brett ing -space and make the short hike to the VanHooser. No punches m ejections ballpark, ,vere treated to a night of thrill were handed out, but the run scnred by ing baseball. Mesa State College heat Bn It is time to reward yourself after a busy school year with a retreat to a quiet Arches National Park sanctuary for s·ume relaxation time. It is time to get out from behind the com puter screl'.!1 and out into nature. It is time to visit a national monument or Moab, Utah park. Visitor Information {435 ~ 719-22!~9 \Vithin a long day's drive are eight parks and mnnumi:nts to help you forget everything you learned this year, an Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon, Ariz. Visitor Information (928) 638-7888 The Grand Canyon is much more than a large crack in the earth. There are thousands of hiking trails, white-water rafting down the Colorado River, and the spectacular views, all perfect for a nice, quiet visit. Rocky Mountain National Park Yellowstone National Park Estes Park, Colo. Yellowstone, Wy. Visitor Information Visitor Information (970) 586-1206 (307) 344-7381 Rocky Mountain National Park elevations Yellowstone National Park is a hot-bed range from 8,000 feet to just over 14,000, tourist trap. About every two miles so staying occupied here is no problem. there is a road pullout overlooking Elk, bears, big horn sheep and predatory geothermal geysers or one of the birds make up the diverse wildlife park's many famous animals. Unless population and the wildflowers here are you go way off the beaten path, plan spectacular during summer months. on being with thousands of tourists. Zion National Park Mesa Verde National Springdale, Utah Park Visitor Information Mesa Verde, Colo. ( 435) 772-3256 Main (970) 529-4465 This is another spectacular park in Utah. For those unaware of Mesa Verde, Soaring cliff faces are perfect for rock come out from under that rock climbing and the many canyons are a you've been living on and check it refuge from the hot sun. The landscape, out. The old stone Pueblo Indian plant, and wildlife diversity makes this a cliff dwellings are some of the park that literally everyone can enjoy. best-preserved sites in North America. Compiled by David Goe 2 Criterion Sports • MAY 10, 2006 Laying judgement on the varsity coaches: its report card time l The end of the semester is here, and the report card for winter and spring sports is out. This sea ::======son two new sports started up - swimming and di,· ing, and track and field - plus other teams contin Women's basketball Coach Timi Brown: C- ued to have success in the Rock-y Mountain Athletic 1mprovement is the name of the game here, and since the women's basketball Conference. After logging many hours covering nu team failed to do so since last season, the grading comes down hard. The ornly merous varsity sporting events, the Criterion Sports signs of life from the team came from Brittany Fowler and Brittany Rowley. Staff is ready to lay judgement on this past season. Check out how they did. Golf Coac:h Butch Miller: A The women's golf team is the unsung sports program at Mesa State. The only Tennis Coach thing they know how to do is compete hard and win. Whatever Miller is doing Dan MacDonald: B- with the team, some other coaches should take note because they are good. We would love to see tennis thrive at Mesa State and MacDonald is on his Baseball Coach Chris Hanks: A- way. In his first full season The basebaJJ team are the stars of the spring season and Hanks is a big as head coach, MacDonald part of their success. Over the last couple of years lhe team has remained has developed a good competitive and Hanks gets credit for strong recruiting. Overcoming early relationship with the team season stumbles also earns him high marks. and has improved them since last season. Next season will be a real test of his talents as key seniors will be graduated. Men's ba!;ketball coach Jim Heaps: B The men's basketball team came Into the season wi~h so much hype it was impossible to live up to. And guess what, they didn't. Though injuries plagued the season, Heaps did do a good job keeping the team competitive, but failing to advance anywhere in the tournament was a deiinite detractor. Softball Coach Kris Mort: C+ Along the same lines as Track and field Coach Gig Leadbetter: I the women's basketball Since indoor and outdoor women's track and field was a new sport and team, we want to see Leadbetter had to scramble to put a team together, we grade him an improvement. The team is incomplete. Next season will be the real test as there will be time to recruit a1nd consistently winning about prepare. half the1r games, and that transla~es to just an average grade. They are not horrible, nor are Swimming and diving Coach Merlin Schreiner: I they great. They are just kind of there. lo be honest, the women's swimming and diving season went by so fast, your guess is probably as good as ours as to how it went. Though he may have the best name on the varsity coaching staff, Schrelner gets an ? 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Box 4174 Grand Junction, CO 81502 4 Criterion Sports • MAY I 0), '2006 ------'-~ ------Living the American dream one pitch at a time ing ice-cream and apple pie on the porch of your aunt This vicarious human nature is another way for us to and uncle's farm at sunset. take the field. It's a way for us to live out our dreams. The realization that I would never play second base When sports is done right, there is an innocence for the Dodgers came when I woke to crippling muscle about it that gives us a sense of satisfaction. With the aches after a sunny day of Frisbee tossing and wine crack of a non-steroid-juiced wood bat under stadium drinking in Sherwood Park. There was a plausible lighting, a hot dog in one hand and a domestic beer in David Goe the other, we feel good about where we are. When our Sports Editor chance that I could play in the major leagues, but sore hamstrings after limited running told me for certain, favorite players are found out to be frauds and crim that fantasy is dead. inals, our stomach acid churns up our throats and Just playing baseball wasn't the dream though. I leaves a bad taste in our mouths because that's not wanted to be a part of the history and the mystique of how our American dream played out. the game. Baseball is as big a part of the foundation of I am content with never taking the field at Chavez America as the Civil War battlefields of the south and Ravine because sitting in the stands at any baseball There comes a time in every young sports fan's the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Baseball is game is enough. Sore hamstrings will never take away life when the dream of making it as a working ath an American icon. the American dream that sports fulfills in my life. They lete fizzles away into an unfathomable ideal. Though For countless casual sports viewers, sporting com are actually a blessing. Now I can watch a game and playing professional sports may not be a destination petitions are just oversized brutes bashing each other take it for what it is, a game of blissful splendor. I no any more, the childhood dream we all shared of win to win a silly game. For many though, that game mat longer wish to be a boy of summer, I just want to be a ning the World Series continues to live on, for it is the ters. It matters more than who got voted off "American fan and keep on living the dream. American dream. Idol" or who won the presidential election. These • Playing professional baschall for me was synony hardcore sports junkies are living out their childhood dt,[email protected] mous with living in America. Words fail my description dreams, their American dream, through these games. of the feeling that dream brought, but it is something These junkies believe in the power of sports: the like Bruce Springsteen playing at a county fair on power to inspire, uplift and the power to transcend Independence Day under booming fireworks. It's eat- boundaries and ultimately push on cultural ideals. Mesa Count Family Planning Office Hours CRITERIO BAM to 4PM Monday - Friday Extended Evening Hours ,,,, BAM to 7:30PM ,, ,..,..> .... < Counselin~ l Wednesday -.... ->-.;:;: Birth Contro -;,,i,.lf· ' • ,-- .. , Apply online at: Pregnancy Test http://criterion.mesastat& 248-6906 Emer9ency Controceptiot 510 29 1/'J. Rood Male a d F le T c,,! Apply at the Grounds Maintenance Office 1175 Texas Ave. in the NORTH end of the Maintenance Shop Building. , MAY 10, 2006 • Criterion 5