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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 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 March 23, 2005 Criterion 3 ·.. ":.. ; ~ ~ \ \,.t, ~~ . . . .. ~ ~ .. .' t. 10 ...... • Master of your domain CAB provides support to start your own club Jessica Kaper The forms require basic information, like the name of threatening forum for students to ask questionis about For the Criterion the club. names of its officers and its adviser and the club's God. She said she would like to coordinate the cllub with bylaws or constitution. The adviser must be an Mesa State the rest of the Christian clubs on campus. not he :in com Want to start a club on campus, but don't know how to employee, preferably a faculty member from a depart petition with them. go about it? Maybe you already have a club, but would like ment related to the club because such an adviser will be If you are like Thompson and already have a dub, but lo receive the perks of registering it with Mesa Stale Col able to offer the club guidance. do not have many members, are having a hard tilme get lege. Then you need to talk to Club Advisory Board. Once the forms have been filled out by the dub, then ting people to show up to your events or want trn get the The mission of Mesa State's Club Advisory Board is to received and signed off by CAB 's directors, a college ac word out. registering your club with CAB can help.. By reg make it easy for students to start and register a club with count with a "one-time, $50 jump start" is set up, Michler istering your club, your c.lub's events can be adde1d to the the college, CAB even gives new clubs $50 to help gel said. Mesa State Web site on the campus' main calendair. them going. Beth Thompson wants to start a club at Mesa State, but If you would like to join a club, there are many ,clubs at CAB Director Katy Michler said all it takes to get a club said it is "up in the air right now" because she has strug Mesa State, from political to religious. But if you1 cannot started is filling out the necessary paperwork. Interest gled to find enough people to join her club. find one that fits your needs, then you can always start ed students can stop by CAB's offices in the ASG Suite in Thompson said her club was the brainchild of Paul your own. For a list of clubs at Mesa State, go to:: http:// the College Center, where they will find the paperwork is Watson, a pastor at Canyon View Vineyard Church. She www.mesastate.edu/ sl/ du bsorgs/ index.hem. posted next to the door. and Watson want to form a club that would offer a non- Budget fix could mean good things for Colorado (U-WIREJ BOULDER-Gov. BilJ Ow legislaLors must agree to allocate available the agreement would allow the state to re- fearing major problems. ens and a bipartisan group of lawmakers revenue to higher education. bound from years of revenue shortfalls agreed tentatively Thursday on a plan to Thursday's budget agreement would that have forced morn than $2 billion in fix Colorado's budget crisis, a move some allow the state government to contin spending cuts and left some state st>rvices legislators said could mean better times ue funding essential services -- including ahead for Lhe University of Colorado's higher education -- for the next 10 years, budget. Romanoff said. The plan calls for a five-year suspen Sen. Ron Tupa (D-Colo.) agreed CU The Pregnancy Center sion of taxpayer refunds when there is sur could benefit from the plan. plus cash in state coffers. "Passage of this is essential to at least House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, D curb the double-digit increases in tuition, Denver, said more revenue could mean a because if not, the students will be expect Facing an unplanned bigger budget for higher education in Col ed to pay more and more to go to college orado. because the state will have no money," "I think it's great news for college stu Tu.pa said. dents across the state," Romanoff said. "I At CU, tuition has increased the past regnancy? Lhink Lhe alternative was pretty grim --we few years. while the state has contin were staring at even deeper cuts in higher ued to keep higher-ed funding at a mini ed, including the possibility that Colorado mum. Double-digit tuition increases hit would hecome the first state in the nation the pocketbooks of students last year and to lose a public system of higher education more double-digit hikes are expected in by the end of the decade." 2005. e can give you Romanoff said tbe tentative budget The plan is written now as House Bill agreement doesn't necessarily guarantee 1194. It would be called Referendum C information so more money for CU: voters must pass the when it goes to voters in November. plan in November, and if that happens, Sen. Steve Johnson. R-Fort Collins. said YOU can make L..ur own decision 241•7474 242•HOPE 930 Main Street 704 Elm Avenue oon Monday and Wednesday Tuesday and Thursday Tonight 9:30 • 5:00 9:30 • S:00 Friday 9:30 • 1 :00 Wednesday March 23rd Party starts 1'.,. , , 'f r.; • Free Pregnancy Testing at 5 P·~· ~~ . . \a\S ..?coarsLightOraff r 4 Criterion BASICS: differences in how colleges deliver the basic-skills s,ign up 'far cCO!F11 courses may complicate the state's funding of those courses pay Ires~ tuition Education Committee referred the bill to the Senate Appro State," Rexroad said. "So the prohlem is, if that student comes priations Committee on March 10. into Mesa State. and they don't have the skill level in mathemat Come fall, students who "I fully expect this bill to pass." Wind els said. ics, then they have to start some place, and the place that we Wind els. a teacher, is the chair of the Senate Education Com start is in 090." don't will pay more mittee. Therefore, Rexroad said, he structures his 090 and 091 cours Rep. Angela Paccione, D-Larimer. is sponsoring the hill in the es in a way that prepares his students to move on to courses like Kristin Ro-c-co Colorado House. Rep. Paccione declined to comment until the Math 110 and 113. Reporter bill reaches that chamber of the Legislature. "I try to teach the class in such a way that just the general Funding crunch aptitude of any student (is) coupled with the desire that they Colorado:._ college students must take The state has given each of its colleges specific missions, and should be able to come in -and get that foundation so that they an extra step if they want to be eligible for only colleges with missions that include remedial education can then move on to 091, and then go onto 113, if that's the math the full benefits of in-state tuition lhis fall. have received _state funding for hasic-skills courses. In recent course they need to complete their degree," he said. The staTc recently created the Col years. the amount of that funding 71.'he kind of students he lege Opportunity Fund to help pay for in and whether that funding should s.ee,<; in his basic-skills cours state students' tuition, but not all students be provided has bt•en part of the es depends on when he know they muse sign up for COP in o_rder state's intense debate over fund NWJeare im 11te•tS1in,<1: teaches those cours-es. to receive the program's benefits. ing higher education. "If I teach an evening Curt Martin, director of financial aid Mesa State President Tim Fos mrimrritv i1111 fte'nm sfstate--.s class, then I get a lot more at Mesa State College, said most in-slate ter said "theoretically" tbe state's thiiAh.wea ltoglh~J non-traditional students," students do not know the state subsidiz general fund provided the col Rexroad said. "If it's a day es their tuition. Currently. the state pays a lege with funding for basic-skills gr:acktatioe lleCplirement class, usually there's more subsidy directly to the students' colleges. courses, but the college has not traditional students." which then -apply the s.uhsidy to the stu really-setm that funding for over stateuide, arid ii flhinktdls 1n other words, all kinds dents' tuition.~ut bl!"ginning thisJaU. all in a decade. With the state plan of students are in those state students must sign up for COF in or 1 ning to .fund all college course.s i 0-Jllilassb'teshavea mrd al course~. he said. der to receive the_subsidy, which will c.ome through COF next school year. Before working at Mesa in the form of a stipend tha1 will be sent to Mesa State and other state col nq:lliremeot:' State. Rexmad was a math their colleges. A credit for the amount of leges given the mission of pro -Mesa State College President Tim Foster teacher at Grand Junction the stipend will appear on those students' viding remedial education will High School and a learning 1uition bills JiO the students will be able no longer receive state funding facilitator in Mesa Coun to see how much the-' Mardi 23, 2005 Criterion 5 t... " . . .. Opinions letters to the Professor Murray, please stand up Editor Letters to the editor are encouraged. The editorial quired to take this class as part of their ieffer ran write a medioue book and require some ,;taff n::serves the right Bill Laurenti al education. It is a modular course, meaning thing like 6,00Jl students every four or five years to reject any submission. Guest Colum you take it for half a liemester, and in fact we to buy it to get their degree. The question is, Letters may be edited nist attend two days a week to earn a single credit should he? for grnrnrnar, space and Recently hour. The book weighs almost nothing, and its Now, it could be that I'm wrong and that this content, including but bought the com content is arguably weak for the level at which text is necessarily both expensive and basic, and not limited to rernov;:il plete works of it is to be taught, a~ its lessons are on par with that the apparently wasteful nature of its design of any libelous or ob.. Shakespeare, the "teen-living" type classe-s required of frc-shmen is really not a ploy to make a lot of dough off of sc~~ne materiaL Letters Riverside edi in high schools. Additionally, the design of the people who, in many cases, don't have much. must be e-mailed to tion, on campus. book is such that all the assignments are in the Dear readers, these are the things I am doing to [email protected], It cost $li8 and hack and perforated. ,~o students have to (or are reduce expo.sure to over-priced books and Jen signed and accompanied must weigha few intended to) tear them out, so they may tum courage you to do the same: by an address and tele pounds. It's big. them in and so that they are runden·d useless 1) l am not putting an ink spot in the book. I phone number. Anony This was nearly for future students, who will have to buy anoth will sell it cheap or maybe give it away, after the mous letter, wH! not be my most expen er copy for $70 (the price was just raL~ed this se MDd is over, on the condition that the recipient accepted. Letters must be sive book. Near mester as this was the first bound edition). does the s.une and encourages others to. submitted by 2 p.m. on ly. I also pur America is a country of opportunity, and col 2) I will either photffcopy or reconstruct the Fridav to be considered chased a copy lege is, for many who were raised with little, an worksheets from the book to tum in the assign for publication in the next of the required opportunity to _realize the dream of making a ments. issue. Short letters gener text for Human Performance and Wellness 100. good living doing something they truly enjoy. 3) I will encourage others to do the same. ally have a better chance Shakespeare did not write this book. Our own Besides that sentiment, which I see reads a little Or, you could just go on the instinct that says for publication. No letter head of Human Performance and Wellness, Ste corny, colleges are a place where mostly young if you have to pay an arm and a leg; the next should e)(ceed 200 words. ven Murray, in fact, wrote it It cost $70. adults fresh out ofhi-gh school form their ideas schmo should have to- if you like to pay peo There arc snme things worth noting about about how to think about the world they are en ple to take advantage of you. If you don't feel Criter.ion this book, and the class for which it is intend tering and their responsibilities to it and their good about needlessly over-lining other's pock ed in particular. Most, if not all, students are re- fellow human beings. Of c.ouL~e a professor ets, refer to the three steps above, please. Policies The Criterion is c1 stu dent-run publication. The Criterion is funded by advertising revenue Letters to tl1e Edit.or: and Mesa S1:ate College student fees. The opin ions expressed in the CRA misrepresented in newspaper public forum are tho'.>e of the writers and not necessarily those of the To the Editor In Chief: Board membersreturn to their hall~ and get an resent djfferent groups of students and for CRA Criterion and/or Mesa I'm writing on behalf of the Campus Resi opinion to vote with at the next meeting. Our that is on campus students. We have yet to give State College and/or the dents Association in regards to Kalani Pe'a's Voting Board did not put the issue to a vote uor an opinion on this subject because we have not college's 3ciministration. arLicle "Parking changes to affect campus res did our Executive Board. In addition, nD Dne been in touch with our VD.ting board membern The Criterion is published idents". The article dearly states that "The park from the paper's sraff approached CRA about and our residents about the subject. Saying that every Wednesday during ing committee, Campus Residents Association our opinion on the changes. Wherever Mr. Pe'a we support this proposal is putting words into the regular school year. and parking services support the changes." got his information, which was certainly not the mouths of the student living on campus. It except during some CRA's apparent support in this statement is fah from the source, they were incorrect. At this is more than fair for us to ask that the $latement college vacations. The ricated. time CRA has no opinion to giveun the issue as be retracted. Criterion is a member of CRA never saw an official proposal for the it has yet to be voted on. Thank you very much for your time and help the Mesa State College changes in parking. Erin Black brought the sug It would be greatly appreciated if a retrac with thL~ matter. Medid Board and abides gestion to our attention several meetings ago tion of this statement could be printed in your Sincerely, by that board's policies, but we had not heard anything more about it next issue. The members of CRA feel that we Lianne Arnold CRA Public Relations Chair procedures and code of up until now. Generally in this process the CRA have been grossly misrepresented and that the ethics. Taking more than senator will come to our Voting Board meeting reporter did not fully re-search the information five copies of the Criteri· affd tell us about an issue and then the Voting before pulling it into print ASG and CRA rep- on is prohibited. For more than four copies of the Criterion. please come to Defic;t serves the status quo th~ Criterion office, which is located in Suite 113 in the College Center. Dear Editor: Printing the money takes no creativity, thinking is printed by it; if the government does take in All rights ,md copyrights Suppose a government wishes to increase up productive purposes to spend it on does not money ffii taxes or charges, th~ effects of defi reserved. Not to be the country's Gross Domestic Product by twen take muoh either. The money can be spent di cits on interest rates occur only if th-e govern reproduced in whole m in ty, thirty or forty percent in a given year nver rectly by the government, through private par ment bmrnws the additional money, not if it part without the written and above, say, a seven percent incr-t>asc that ties m both ways though. of course, by spend prints it, as I said in a letter several years ago) is expected. All it has to do is print and spend ing the money direcrtly. the government does and "overheating" of the economy are worth consent of the ecHtoria! staff. an additional amount, equal to twenty, thirty not have to wait for pnivate parties to come up Jess concepts which on1y serve to maintain the or forty percent of the GDP, in that year on pro with proposals. The impmtnnt thing is that how status quo in which various people have a vest i ~ Copyright 2004~2005 ductive purposes. By definition, the GDP would much the GDP grows next year--:i-.~ven percent ed interest. As I wrnte four years ago, "people have increased l!Y an additional twenty, thir or twentyseven percent or more- is strictly in get pleasure from the pain and deprivation of ty or forty percent that year (not counting the the government's own hands. others and [reference to a head of government], multiplier effect, referred to in the letters below, Terms such as "deficits" (there are nu defi who is no exception, will not want [a change]". which will depend on how the money is spent). cits when all the money a government spends Satish Chandra 6 ertteiion Maroll'23, 2005 Staff E:dito1· in Chief INo Child Left Behind' (]Ot responsible for decline in schools Becky Raney Managing Editor hik linrnln Dear Editor: students with that big old test in Many teach-er.'-, albeit not all. refuse will (hopefully} build families of New5 Editor Cy Martz and I have something mind. Rather than teach their pu to teach their students anything re Lheir own. Without proper knowl Tom K,~l!,c1 in common. Both ofus are not ter pils how to read and write, or add sembling usable knowledge. Rath edge of the difference between Opinions Editor ribly fond of the policies of Presi and subtract so that they will be er, than objective facts like Ger "up" and "down" or "right" or "left", Rilchel Alexander dent Bush. Beyond that, there is ahle to survive in the world, they many was an enemy of the United this is not achievable. Until Ameri features Editor little else. teach them how to get the best Stall's during both World Wars, for cans and American educators ap Arny Jablkowsk: There are indeed problems with score possible. That simply is not instance, most teachers empha preciaLe this fact, our schools - and "No Child Left Behind" Act; the Sports Editor what education is supposed to he size their pupils' "proper psycho our children -will continue to fail, L,,rn:e Manganello most prominent being the stan about. logical and emotional growth" - a standardized tesLs or no standard dardized tests. A friend of mine of However, with that said, Mr. nebulous and inherently relative ized tests. Copy Editor ten says, "We are not learning for Taylor Stonehouse Martz fail<; to appreciate that there concept. This too is not what edu Sincerely, the test. We are learning for life." are deeper reasons, predating "No cation is supposed to he about. Chad D. Frazier Photo Editor The fundamental problem with Child Left Behind'', that are re The purpose of formal educa Grand Junction Keith Kitchen the administration's emphasis of sponsible for the decline of Ameri tion should be to prepare students Page Designers standardized tests is that teachers ca's schools. The failure to teach is, for life after childhood where they Tav~h" Bvrd inevitably begin instructing their perhaps, the most noticeable of all. Ka,thle,:n Dreskr will work for their own support and Caitlin Flynn Kay!an Krizman NataLP fv\r.Don,1!d Mesa Verde excellent representation of Colorado Reporters Pcjt Bohr Josh Kleine DetErs Dear Editor: State Quarter program was to help will celebrate 100 years as the first walls. t·forah Fbher I witnessed the unveiling of the educate the rest of the nation about national park set aside to preserve Lastly, it would be a unique David Goe final quarter designs at our State your home stale. Keeping this in the works of humankind. The ar honor to place Mesa Verde on our Cdi!een Roach Capitol. I believe the Mesa Verde mind I would like to share which cheological sites found in Mesa state's quarter to help celebrate the Kristin Rocco design should he selected, be quarter would receive my vote if I Verde are some of the must nota centennial of the designation of Max Ryan cause it represents Colorado's old were governor. ble and best preserved in the Unit Colorado's first National Park. Photographers est inhabitants, th-e first "Colora The Mesa Verde design depicts ed States. In 1978 the United Na Sincerely, Ln,r,n Buike doans." In this day and age many !?.abe!!e Fernandet not only some ancient Anasazi ru tions declared Mesa Verde a World Matthew C. Soper M,ltr Wrr,dsor school children and adults can tell ins known as Cliff Palace, but also Cultural Heritage Site. The cul· Former ASG Montrose Senator you about Colorado being famous som1> of Colorado's famous moun ture represented at Mesa Verde re Former Vice President of the Coiumnist.s for snow, mountains, skiing, Pikes Elizabeth Martin tains in the background. The de flects more than 700 years of his MSC Republican Ciaudia Scritchfield Pike, and columbines, but few sign features Colorado's State tree, tory. From approximately A.D. 600 Currently a Junior at Mesa State £3Em Sullivan mention Mesa Verde. Why? Colo the blue spruce in the left hand through A.D. 1300 people lived College Business Manager radoans forget Mesa Verde is even comer. This design to me encom and flourished in communities Mike D'incecco part of our state and vital to onr passes Colorado's people, places, throughout the area, eventually history and spirit. building elaborate stone villages in Production Manager 1'he original intent of the 50 On June 29, 2006 Mesa Verde Megan Frornrn the sheltered alcoves of the canyon Distribution Ryan Robmson Media day worthwhile program Adviser Laurena Mayne Dav,s Dear "Editor that I wasn't impressed with was the lack of not a student, & probabally don't have much sa I'd like to take this oppertunity to thank you parking available for those like me, who stayed yin it, hut Ms. Scritchfield has some good points Contact for initing the TMCC to partipale in the annu the whole day. resulting in a $10 parking ticket. in her coloumn in the March 2 piece. Information al Media day. I, for one was impressed with the I know I could've appealed it ( som~ would say Once again, thanks & great job! Mainlim; job the whole staff did in putting it on. I was es I should've), but I didn't. I would hope that this David Mitchell 1970) ]48· 1255 picaly impressed with Laurena Mayne Davis issue would be look at by the students/ facuali Thunder Mountain Camera Club did during the day. I don't think I saw her take ty &have some kind of free parking availibail for Newsroom a break until the kids were gone. The only thing (970i 248-1212 those attending something like this. I know I'm Advertising (970) 248-1171 Fax Scientific evidence supports ev.olution (970,1 248- l 508 Address Dear "Editor, we have hai:i civilized societies. As far as evolution as just a theory, there WW Campbdi Coll~ge In response to Ben Sullivan's article on evolution, I would like to sug is so much scientific evidence to support it, that Mr. Sullivan obviously Center, Suit€ 11 3 gest that he actually take a class on evolution or even talk to a knowledge has not done his homework. Before writing m1 article on a subject, Offe 1100 North Ave. able professor, such a-; Dr. Aparna Palmer. It is obvious of his complete should probably be knowledgeable about the subject. Grand Junction, (0 ignorance of the subject. Of course we have not observed one species Christine A Frick 81501 changing into another, as this is a process that takes much longer than E-mail [email protected] Subscriptions Column offers weekly comic relief $30 per year Make ched, s payabie to, To the Editor- her demonic plan to murder all _of Grand Junc ural right to take her writings as they will. but Mesa State College Criterion I've been thinking about writing a letter to tions homeless felines (Please! Someone get my advice is to ... oh, I dont know... LAIJGH! ! 1 l 00 North Ave. you for a while, but only really felt I should voice PETA on the line to stop this madwoman!), and C,.olleen: you have a fan and loyal reader in me! Grand Jun(t,on. CO my own opinion after reading Jared, Dom, Nik not to verbally harass Dru Katana (who, by the 81501--3122 Now, ifyoull excuse me, I'm looking forward to ki, and Hollys letter in the March 9, 2005 issue. way, despite him being cool. is now indefinite· her latest witty take on travel. Let it be known that no offense to your other ly removed from the campus). She is, however, Sincerely, talented reporters I adore Colleen Roach's col there to exercise her wait, let me quote Jared, Megan Cunningham umn. ln fact, its the first thing I turn to Tues Dom, Nikki, and Holly on this one - "freedom of day nights, and I've even taken to cutting them speech!" And by telling her to keep [her opin out to display on my wall. I think that the letter ion] to herself, you four are no better than you writers above have not realized the entire point think she is. I'd like to remind everyone that un of lloachs articles: to entertain! Not to push der her byline, it is clearly stated that Roach is her opinion down others throats, not to voice a "Humor Columnist." Everyone has their nat- ~,e~~7 ...... · ...... ,.,. YOUR FAVORITE QUICK-CASUAL Car locked? Not BAKERY CAFE. • Made-to·Order, Hand-Crafted Sandwi .+ We're hiring Colleen Roach was on a long run, someone made the for Fall 2005 Humor Columnist effort to actually open the unlocked door, unhook my speaker (singular: There are a lot of people in Grand speaker) and steal it, along with a case Junction; you could safely call it a city. of about 52 CDs of the bad music I Listen I grew up in a town of 500 people where to (example: the Kelley family, which Positions available: animals outnumber people, and my was bought by my dad off an infomer parents' house was five miles further cial) and the remaining quarter pound Editor in Chief into the country. I never remember of the original one pound bag of nibs I locking the door Lo our house full of had been swilling on for the past week. valuables. Nor did I lock my room, nor To be honest. the nibs are what I missed my car in my entire life because cows the most (because nib's rock). To apply pick up an application in the simply don't have the dexterity to oper· What hun second most was the ate a door handle. trash that was strewn about the vehi Criterion office, W.W. Campbell College So when I houghl the wrangler I cle. Although I am pretty sure il was all Center, drive, I really didn't think twice about my own trash, these heartless criminals ~ the fact that although the locking mech made the effort lo dig through it (my Suite 113. anisms on the doors do work. making a best guess is to either find the faceplate point to use them is moot because the of my also cheap CD player or morn Applications are due March 23 windows are made of plastic. (Plus, on candy). I don't think they found any mine they don't quite zip shut, mean thing to their liking becam,e I haven't ing they're safety pinned shut which, I noticed anything else missing. If they hear, is really good for resale value.) But did take something else, well, they Questions? twice now, the scats ofmy unadulterat probably need it more than I do. It must ed jeep have been violated (prohably at have been the months of old smooth E-mail: [email protected] gunpoint) by burglars. ie cups that smell like they should af Phone: (970) 248-1255 The first time, it was my fault. Com ter sitting in the sun day after day in my pletely my fault. Not only was I parked greenhouse of a car. in a bad part of town (well, it was 15th What I don't understand, and just to Street), but I didn't have the top or win clarify-this is not a complaint-was dows on the car either, and I left my why these genius criminals didn't steal purse sitting conspicuously on the front either of the two snowboards I never seat. My neighbors' deaf poodle could take out of the back of my car, the oth· have successfully pulled off this heist. er case of CDs {the good case with Da I had so many \ital things to my life vid Bowie in it) my thousands of dollars stowed in that purse: cash. my phone, worth of snowboarding gear (two pairs rolling papers: the list goes on. I had of hoots. snow pants. mittens-heck. two to cancel every credit card I own (OK, pairs of everything). so I don't have any credit cards, hut I'd Maybe they just didn't see it all .. imagine canceling them is a real has crammed in and piled in the back. Or sle). When I went to the Sprint store to maybe they didn'L see it because I at get my phone service shut off for the lt'mpted to hide it under a couple T· time being. 1.173 one-minute phone shirts and a briefcase run of $100 bills. calls had been made in the twelve hours I guess I'll never know. But I do know since I had seen it last. Thank God for that in the future, I'll be more care free long distance. I swore to never lose lul. I'll take the chance not locking my the new model I got, the new Samsung doors around the cows, but these hu· CITH-423-which stands for "Cheap mans (with their opposable thumbs est Thing You Havc-423." and alll are not to be trusted. The second time my car was buglar ,... ized was much worse. While my jeep ster was parked at the river trail and I March 23,2005 ( \ I',. . ,•.'~ ·t~ ') .. \ Dethroned, not discarded lndie rockers can Josh KleJne Deters Reporter God Dethroned: Lair of the reminisce the 80s White Worm (2004, Metal Blade) Sounds Like: Vehemence, Amon BOs reflection in "Growing Up With GNJR" Amarth, Agathodaimon, (Old) Josh Kleine Deters two track later (complete with referemcc In Flames, Deicide, Morbid An Reporter to Ax] Rose). 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No donbt about it, proving to 20-8 overall the team falling 20-13 to junior first baseman Kev against the Grand Canyon the An1elopes. Grand Can in Mackey was the hero University Antelopes. yon had a six-run first in in this one. The team held The squad won three of ning and a five-run seventh an 8-5 lead until the Ante four against the Antelopes inning to put the game out lopes rallied to srm:;e five behind the solid pitching of reach. The Mavericks runs in the top of the sev- of junior college enth inning to transfer Sergio regain the lead. Romo and the hot The Mavericks bats of the Maver trailed 12-9 go ick order. "I like tofilnlls'm ing into the bot The scheduled tom of the ninth starter for Friday what I .starnt, if inning. The team night's game was was able to score the 5-0 Romo. I feel like J'm une run to bring Romo has yet to the score to 12- lose this .season 10. With Olli' and had a major hurtingfbe out and runners test against the at the corners, powerful bats of team I'll &eave Mackey stepped Grand Canyon. to the plate. He Homo has pitched fell quick in the complete games frlle game;" count 0-2 and in five out of his was able to bat six starts and has -Sergio Romo, pitcher tle it back to a 2- scouts beginning 2 count before to look at him. he hit a bomb to Romo start- right cen~er to ed fast, not allowing a run tallied up eight runs in lhe conclude the come-from until the fourth inning and bottom of the ninth, but it behind victory over the An continued the momentum wouldn't be enough. telopes. As Mackey crossed to finish out the game. He The large score could the plate, the rain aud the added another complete fool a lot of fans. Most high hail started pouring down game victory to his resume scoring games mean a lot to complete the weekend. and added eight strike-outs of-erron; and bad pitching; The team won 13-12, and as he improved to 6-0. that was not the problem senior pitcher Joe Safken ''They had strong hit- in this game. picked up the win in the ters, but I didn't change "Besides a couple of last inning victory. my approach," Romo said. walks from Louis Lovela Hanks was ejected in Above, shortstop Willie Hino)osa pr_epares to tag out a Grand ca-nyon base "They are one of the tough dy, I didn't think we stunk the seventh inning and runner as he receives 11 throw from first baseman Kevin Mackey. Below, est teams I fac-ed thts .sea it up on the mound, it was commented on what he .Second baseman Sean McKmney dives back to first ba-se on a pr<* off play. son, hut 1 wanted to fin a pretty clean game," Head saw from the press box as ish." Coach Chris Hanks said. he watched the team rally. °Romo was backed by the Lovelady took the loss in "I felt we were going to power hitting of outfielder the first game and pitched win that game, we had to Ben Thompson and short only two thirds of the first win right then, or we would stop Willie Hinojosa. Hino inning. have had to revert to the josa went two for four with The fire was burning eighth inning, and the hall a solo shot to left-center Lo for Grand Canyon, and game would have been help seal the 6-4 victory in the Mavs extinguished it over," Hanks said. the fust game. in the second game of the The team is hack in ac Most pitchers usually day. Mike King had a.strong tion this weekend against don't pitch all nine innings evening on the mound and the Regis University Rang of a game in efforts to save pitched well enough to im ers. Friday's game is sched their arm, but in Roma's prove to 2-2 in a 6-4 Mav uled to start at 6:30 p.m. case, he wants to. erick victory. Hinojosa with Saturday's festivities "I like to finish what 1 went two for three with two kicking off at 1:30 p.ru. and start; if l feel like I'm hurt homeruns and four RBI to Sunday's game beginning ing the team, I'll leave the lead the team to victory; at noon. game, but I like to go all his second homer proved March 23,~2005 Criterion 13 Mavericks pounce Mountain Lions Team takes three of four in weekend RMAC action behind strong pitching the game for the Mavericks 5-3. The team tied the game at Lance Manganello three in the bottom of the fifth to carry it to the finish line. Sports Editor Ventimiglia pitched in relief of Stacy Dennis and picked up her second win of the day improving to 4-2. The Mesa State College softball team improved its Sunday afternoon brought the Mavs their first loss of RMAC record to 7-5 after tal The Mac mini is only 6.5-in x 6.5-in x 2-in-but don't let the size fool you. 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When you The HMAC is a great conference plizio Field, I saw some inconsistten play a sport, you play it to the best of to play, and it showca"es many great cy with one umpire. The bome-pllate your ability, and you.play to win. This athletes. Don't our athletes deserve umpire ejected three people from the is what makes sports so great They the chance of the offic:ial'i calling a game all by himself: Mavt•rick Hlead arc fun to watch and fun lo compete game to the best of their abilities? Coach Chris Hanks, the head co ach in, except for those lousy officials. I do believe, however, that there of Grand Valley University and its This weekend at the Mesa State are bad officials all over the sport shortstop. baseball games I saw what could have ing world. I mean, it's obvious there My problem with all of the ejer been the worst officiating of any sort are. In the football team's playoff run tions was that all three people tbat got in my entire life. in 2003, the officials allowed UCO to tossed were arguing the same toJpic; I have seen some bad referees change out tht'ir cleats that were lon the umpire's incredibly horrible «ind and umpires. In every game you may ger than the specified regulation. inconsistent strike-zone. It was horri watch, you will see at least one, call Something has got to be done ble throughout the entire game. lthis you don't agree with, but this week about the experience of officials of particular umpire would call a stiike end I saw about 100 horrible calls that ficiating at the collegiate level. I on a pitch that was two inches fu:om can make a person sit and ask, 'where have seen a lot of the same official.:; hitting the batter's chin. do they get these guys?' I didn't ask at RMAC games that officiated my It was horrible, and I think the that-1 asked, 'have these guys ever games in high school. It's a different RMAC along with the NCAA need:l to watched a baseball game?' And I got world at this level, and the officials take a look at this catastrophe. my answer: no. .c;hould be well-equipped to handle It all comes down to one thiing: I don't know why, but I have seen the higher level of athleticism. please make the right call. horrible referees at the football Now don't get me wrong, there Best Cheeseburger in town Happy Hour 3-7 everyday • ''Grand :Junction's Best Burger:l!" OPEN FOR LUNCH • Open Easter at 3:00 Mar.ch 23, 2005 Criterlcon 15 l 16 Criterion March 23, 2005