1996 Highlander Vol 79 No 4 September 26, 1996
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Regis University ePublications at Regis University Highlander - Regis University's Student-Written Archives and Special Collections Newspaper 9-26-1996 1996 Highlander Vol 79 No 4 September 26, 1996 Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.regis.edu/highlander Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Education Commons Recommended Citation "1996 Highlander Vol 79 No 4 September 26, 1996" (1996). Highlander - Regis University's Student-Written Newspaper. 86. https://epublications.regis.edu/highlander/86 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at ePublications at Regis University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Highlander - Regis University's Student-Written Newspaper by an authorized administrator of ePublications at Regis University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE REGIS UNIVERSITY An Independent Weekly Student Publication Vol. 79 No. 4 Denver, Colorado September 26, 1996 Success' End ueried Reasons Behind the End of the Success Program Explored Page 6 Students practice Eastern martial arts traditions Regis sophomore Kurt Neurater (right, in all white) practices the martial art Kojasho Kampo with Regis graduates during a meeting of the Karate Club on Thursday evening. • "Joe Good • Study areas • Mass of the •women's • Have you Citizen" shocks designated while Holy Spirit is soccer ends home tried a Registrar's construction is celebrated with field losses with SLURPEEfor office with his completed on typical splendor, match against - your latest good deed. DML. guest homilist. Cal-Davis. ailment? PAGE2 PAGE 4 PAGE 7 PAGE 9 PAGE 11 REGIS UNIVERSITY HIGHLANDER • SEPTEMBER 26, 1996 -I • FEATURES Students O'er From Ireland T. J. McReynolds sity in Ireland. She wanted a chance to see the Highlander Staff states first hand, but did not want to travel alone, so the two decided to room together here at Regis. HOW'S THE CRACK? They now live on the first floor of O'Connell Paula Bourke and Helena Jones were not Hall in Room 125. looking for a street drug of any sort when they "Baseball is great. I was buzzing, I tell ya!" decided to become exchange students through a said Helena Jones after attending the Rockies program run by Regis and their native land Ire vs. Dodgers baseball game last week. land. "Ireland has the sea nearby, but here you "How's the crack?" is a typical slang phrase have the mountains. We don't get much of that used in Irish dialect which translates to "How's back home," laughs Bourke when asked to com the fun?" Like almost every college-bound stu ment on the most noticeable difference from here dent, they wanted to experience something new in the states as opposed to back home. and exciting. Bourke, studying English and Ge Both are very happy here, and plan on pos ography, heard from two of her good friends that sibly coming back to explore more of the states Regis University was a great place to experience when they have more time. Right now, they are the States. hitting the books like the rest of us just hoping Helena Jones, studying Philosophy and to make the grade. So far it looks like an A! Irish exchange students Paula Bourke and Helena Jones Media, met Paula Bourke at Limerick Univer- ''Joe Good Citizen'' Helps /'7/J_.. L ,C/J Harried Student By Darcy Fehringer Editor-in-Chief Last Tuesday, September 17, a man with a backpack walked into the Office of the Regis trar. That's not that unusual. But, this man was about 40 years old, and looked lost. Perhaps that's not that unusual either. But when Jan Gregory asked, "Can I help you?" this man responded "No. But I think I can help you." The man proceeded to dig through the back pack, searching for something and becoming dis traught. Finally, not being able to find what it was he was looking for, the man told Gregory he had driven from Monaco and Hampden in south ern Denver with this bookbag. He had found the backpack the(e, with the checkbook inside (which he couldn't find). However, the phone IRONICALLY; THE TIME TO START number listed on the checks was disconnected. Fortunately, there was a fonn in the bookbag from SAVING FOR RETIREMENT IS WHEN IT WOKS the Regis University Office of the Registrar which led the man here to Regis. LII<E YOU CAN LEAST AFFORD IT. However, having left the checkbook on his desk, the man was upset. Gregory told him she would try to reach the student, and in the mean an't afford to save for retirement? ~ven if you're not counting the years to time, he could simply mail the checkbook. When C The truth is, you can't afford not to. retirement, you can count on TIAA-CREF Gregory asked for this Good Samaritan's name, Not when you realize that your retirement to. help y~m build the future you deserve he wouldn't tell her. can last 20 to 30 years or more. You'll want with flexible retirement and tax-deferred The phone rang, and while Gregory was on to live at least as comfortably then as you annuity plans, a diverse portfolio of invest do now. And that takes planning. the phone, the man wrote his name on a peice of ment choices, and a record of personal By starting to save now, you can take paper and left. The name he had written was service that spans 75 years. advantage of tax deferral and give your "Joe Good Citizen." Over 1.8 million people in education and money time to compound and grow. An hour and a half later, Joe Good Citizen res~ar~h put TI.AA-CREF at the top of Consider this: Set aside just $100 each month returned to the Registrar's Office with the ~h.eir list for retirement planning. Why not student's checkbook in his hand. He had driven beginning at age 30 and you can accumulate Jom them? down to Monaco and Hampden and back to Regi~ over $1!2,109° by the time you reach age 65. <?all today and learn how simple it is to just to help a Regis student he didn't even know. But wait ten years and you'll have to budget build a secure tomorrow when you have time $219 each month to reach the same goal. After his second trip, Joe Good Citizen left and TIAA-CREF k' 'd a business card--Frederick Robinson, Jr., a wor mg on your s1 e. United Airlines pilot. Start planning your future. Call our Enrollment zr tl. 1 8(), .u.o tne at tJ 842-2888. The student who Jost his bookbag was a stu dent in the Physical Therapy school who had left Ensuring the future for Utah that morning for his clinicals. Leaving for those who shape it. sM in a hurry, he had probably set his bookbag on his car and driven off, leaving his bag behind to 0A.,mming an inler<JI role of 7% crrilileil lo TIM Relirrnunl AnnuiliLJ Th· . proiluce wry i/if/ertnl r<JuUJ. CREF r1:,· · lJ rale IJ u,,i/ Jo/r/y lo ,how lh, pou r ii .fl ,f . be saved by a "Good Citizen," Mr. Robinson. ce i,tcaluar<ilulru,uJ,i//,y TIM-CREF lnili -~ aln lJJ<elo, rompouniltng. Lou•erorbigherraltJ u•ou/J lllwua anJ I tLJttlulwnal &rvleed. 11--RE_G_I_S_U_N_IV_E_R_S1_TY_H_IG_H_L_A_N_D_ER_• _S_EP_T_EM_BE_R_2_6"""', _1 _99_6__________ _ FEATURES. Run/Walk Sets Pace for Parents Weekend Campus, Downtown Events By Alma Meeker After registration, there was a ing how little advertising we had, we Highlight Parents Weekend and Elizabeth Walsh short warm-up to help prepare the fac were pleased with the turnout." Highlander Staff ulty, parents, and students for the two Some of the participants wanted By Darcy Fehringer mile course around Rocky Mountain to spend quality time with their fami Editor-in-Chief Early the next morning, early ris In the wee hours of the morning Lake on Lowell Boulevard. Although lies, but most simply wanted to have ers participated in the Fun Run/Walk, on Saturday, September 21, 1996, 30 the weather was fairly crisp, the par fun. This group included Bob Will t the sports bar Slugger's in lower then enjoyed a continental breakfast members of the Regis community gath ticipants were enthusiastic. iams, a parent from Golden, Colorado. Adownton Denver on Thursday in the snack bar. Dianne Cooper fa ered in front of the Student Center in Jamie Shackley of the Summer Williams decided that the Fun Run/ evening, September 19, Parents Week cilitated parent workshops in the order to register for a Fun Run/Walk School Office said, "it wasn't as big as Walk would be a great way to get into end 1996 began with the crack of bats morning, while double-decker buses sponsored by the Regis Summer School. we hoped it would be, but consider- nature and spend time with his son, and the deep bass of dance music. Par took parents downtown to the freshman Kurt Williams. "It's just part ents and students could take a swing Oktoberfest festivities in Larimer of the whole Parents Weekend. It was in the batting cages, try ;for a free Square throughout the day. Both days, WIN A FREE TRIP TO LONDON! just a fun thing to do with our son," throw, and dance to a DJ all night, free the Commitment Program hosted an Stop lnJ our office ~ sign up for our FREE Dmu-ing to uin 1 FREE ticket! said Williams.