Backing the Basics Children Ages 2 Tlirough 12 Date: Friday, 6 P.M
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Mesa• State College• March 23, 2005 T h e v o i c e o s tu d e n ts s i n c e 1 9 3 1 Volume 74 • Issue 22 Oamr,,us armd commun1ity calendar Event: "Wow, Looky There!" Sixth Annual Student Graphic Design Exhibit Date: Today through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Place: Johnson Art Gallery, College Center Cost: Free °MJ>Te info: Call 248-1833 Event: Flutist Diane Boyd Schultz, Music at Mesa Guest Artist Series Date· Today, 7:30 p.m. Place: Recital Hall, Moss Performing Arts Center Cost: $5 for students, $10 for seniors, $12 for adults 'More info: Call 248-1822 Event: Physics seminar Laurin Burke/Criterion From left to right: Katie K:leinschnitz, junior, business major, Wes Crouch Jr., sophomore, business major,and Amos Date· Tomorrow, 12 to 1 p.m. Murray, freshman, undeclared, preparing for a test in Math 091. All three shared Crouch's sentiment thatthe class Place: Wubben 277 helped them "get the fundamentals down:' Cost: Free More info: Call 248-1584 Event: Eggstravaganza for Backing the basics children ages 2 tlirough 12 Date: Friday, 6 p.m. Senate Bill 732 would restore state funding for 090 courses Place: Softball complex, Erik Lincoln One of the hill's sponsors, Sen. Canyon View Park Managing Editor Sue Windds, D-Jefferson, says she MeSll Stctte College basic~skills enrollment Cost: $1 hopes lhe bill passes because she 6500 4"l.iS Fall 1:ctJf+ More info: Call 254-FUNN A bill in the Colorado Senate believes it would show students ''the would fund college courses that state of Colorado is there to help ev are no longer scheduled to receive ery person who wants a college ed 5200 Event: Associated Student funding from the state. ucation." Government intent forms Basic-skills courses like English Sen. Windcls said non-tradition available 090 and Math 090 and 091 will not al students would likely b-enefit the 3900 Octte. Friday be eligible for state funding after most from the hill hecaw,e lheir this school year. when the state is "skills have gotten rusty over lhe Place: ASG Suite, College years." 2600 Center set to begin funding college cmus es through the -College Opportu "Many students who need ba 1,161 nity Fund. But if Senate Bill 132 is sic-skills courses are not coming di 18.6% 1300 467 Event: Banff Film Festival films passed and signed into law, basic rectly from high school," Windels 394 300 said. "They've tried to make it in the 40.2% .B.9% Date: Tuesday, 7 p.m. skills courSl:!s at Mesa State College, 25.8% Adams State College, and the state's world on a high 1,chool education 0 Place: Recital Hall, Moss community colleges would be eli for several years. found that difficult 1otal Total !14GL MAlf1 -MAUI Performing Arts Center gible for funding through C01i If and now believe a college-education student basic·tkills 090 090 091 Cost: $12 (proceeds benefit SB-132 fails, students at those col is necessary to achieve their goal." enrollment enrollment Percents of basic-skills enrollment Despite strong opposition from Mesa State College Outdoor leges who take basic-skills courses Source: Mesa State College Institutional Research Program) will be responsible for the full cost Gov. Bill Owens, SB-132 is mak Mor_e info: Call 254-8970 or of those courses, unless those col ing its way lhrough the Legislature. 248-1670 leges choose to make up the dif With a unanimous vote, the Senate ference resulting from the Lack of state funding. See 81\SlCS, Page S : National Geographic comes to town Pihotograp!her is /keynote speaker at Media Day fKeith 'Kitchem how lo become better photographers er photographers could not because Rhoto:Editor and journalists. Soon thereafter, he they were not as familiar with nature started Network Aspen to serve as the and its demands. Mesa State College's 15th Annual base of operations [or his freelance Now, after many years in freelance Media Day, an event for high school and stock photography. photography, Hiser has changed his and college journalists, featured a In 1969, Hiser made it onto the na focus from taking photographs to world-renowned photographer as its tional and international scene when teaching others how to take them. He keynote speaker. he sold s-everal pictures to National works out of Anderson Ranch in As- David Hiser, a free pen, where he often holds lance photographer with photography seminars. picture credits from Na- Before he arrived at Media tional Geographic, News Day, he had just returned week, Smithsonian and from teaching a photogra Geo, kicked off the pho i, 1erAjoy fl:ea<flili ng phy semin ar in New York. tography-themed Media "I enjoy teaching oth .Day with a speech on his ers and being able to show career in photojournal my work," Hiser said. ism. oth,eYS and being He said he tells his stu The Aspen native told dents "journalism is a very the crowd he started tak credible career. bein g able ing photographs profes to show mankind, man." sionally in 1964 when he able to show my One of the things he tries sold a picture to Aspen Ski to instill in his students Country. It put the picture is the desire to shoot pic on the cover of its year wotrfk:' tures differently than any ly publication. After that -David Hiser, freelance photographer one else has shot them. He success, he spent the next says m.:ting on that desire several years working at has helped him becnrne Aspen Illustrated News, a sought-after, highly re where he was a photogra- gardctl photographer. pher and reporter. Geographic. One of his pictures of the Hiser left the students with four "Start working somewhere with Maroon.Bells ended up on the cover pieces of advice: "I found fear and deadlines," Hiser advised the jour of the magazine. anxiety are great motivators. Have nalism students. "This will make you Hrs-er said he excels at nature pho the need to prolince. (Ask) why do produce." tography because he is a "boondock you want to take the picture. Keep Hiser has been producing for more er." He is an experienced outdoor your equipment lean and mean." than four decades. In 1967, he went . .sman and mountaineer, and thuse to work for Colorado Outward Bound "boondocking" -skills have helped Ke ith KitchentCrlte ri on School. where he taught his students him land many assignments oth- David.firser gives aipresen,tatiom to students at Mesa State's MediatDay. ~Spt .warm we· ther' i,zod iTreatment Plan Now• Discounts Galsxy™Acne Treatments the latest technology utilizing B!ue Light and Radio Frequency l..:.aser Hair Removal wrth UghtSheernr for 0111.im lines. underarms, tace bade & !egs FotoFaciaf'M for Rosacea Broken Elood Vessels Sun Damage. and Freckles Cellulite & Body Shaping 7mu·..tl!Trt?'tf.t: j with VelaSmooth"' and ~, s.'.) 1arnJ1y j ·'S actuaff}· GOOD for you' sfn' .!Blttlrm~, ~!TJ • (970) 242.9127 t • -Suitt: 2U3 • www.wJn1cruLcun1 wwJumenLMOm • ,invw.jueiredak.com 2 Criterion March 23, 2005 SERFS up: Campllls 910\.IIP ,offers Jifts to ME!sa State College .students who meed sober rrkles and energy to the program because they cohol-related car acciden t<;. That means $10,000. While some counties in the: state Niki Corley want to help others. an average of one alcohol-related car ac are more lenient than others, Mesa County For the Criterion While SERPS wa,; created by an active, cident happened every 32 minutes, ac takes DUis and U1VAis very seriously, an<l on-campus ChrL,;tian group. making sure cording to the National Highway Traffic offenders rarely receive reduced or de College and drinking go together like .students arrive at their destinations safe Safety Administration. The Colorado De ferred sentences. bread and butter. salt and pepper or crime ly is the only focus of SERFS. The program partment of Transportation reported the SERFS offer its services every Friday and punishment. But students who drink and its volunteers do not judge students Colorado DU1 Enforcement Campaign re and Saturday night from 8 p.m. to 2 a.rn., and drive could find themselves in line for who use the service or preach to them. sulted in 4,172 arrests for DUI last year. and it'> always free. Operating one block some crime and punishment-or worse. Some riders are regulars, but others use Drunken driving is not only danger from campus, SEffFS offers rides t[) and Thanks to SafE Rides For Students, the service infrequently. ous, but expensive, SERFS says. After court from anywhere in the valley. They don't Mesa State College students who have had SERFS recognizes the dangers present costs, fines, akobo1 cla<;ses and increased even mind stopping for a steak, i:gig and too much to drink can avoid getting a DUI ed hy drunkm driving. In 2000, [6,653 car-insurance rates, a DUI or DWAI can cheese burrito at the drive-thru. Pizza and or DWAI and spending time in jail or the deaths in the United States were tied to al- cost several thousand dollars to almost tips are gladly accepted. hospital by calling 257-9797 for a sober ride. --~~~ Two years ago. Christian Mesa Sta.te receives hinds 'for building impTovements Cballenge and Grand Val ley Baptist Church started Davjd Goe Other buildings on the campu!i will the SERFS program. It is run .RepoTter also receive upgrades. Some of the mon by student<; who volunteer ey will he used to make rL'pairs to the roof their time, vehicles, insrn Thanks to the Legislature, some build on Tomlinson Library and upgrade the air ance and gas to make sure ings at Mesa State College will he getting canditioning,<;,.VBtem in Lowell Heiny Hall.