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REGIS UNIVERSITY e a biweekly publication 1 Serving the Regis community since 1888 Volume 92, Issue 7 Tuesday February 2, 2010 NEWCAMPUS PUB "WALKER'S" SET TO OPEN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY5 BY AUDREY KEENAN The new booths are just the begin­ ning of the changes being made in the Ranger Grille. Friday, February 5 will mark the opening of Walker's, the new pub on campus. The Ranger Grille will feature a shuffleboard table, new art­ work and different lighting during the pub hours. Michael Delliveneri, director of communications for RUSGA, and Marcus Trucco, Regis alumnus and 2008-2009 RUSGA president, created the idea of the pub two years ago after being inspired by other universities who have pubs. DelliVeneri has received positive feedback from students about the opening of the pub. "Everybody's real­ PHOTO BY: Brett Stakelin ly excited," he said. Members of the Regis community participating in the Martin Luther King Day Marade (march and parade) on January 18. Page 2. With the help of Dave Law, direc­ tor of Student Activities, Delliveneri CHANGES TO HOUSING Seniors make final and Trucco have been getting the approval of faculty and administrative preparations for members of Regis University over the SIGN-UP FOR UPPERCLASSMEN past year, including Father Michael graduation Sheeran, president of Regis University, BY COREY HOLTON The communities available in BY KATIE KING and Diane Cooper, dean of students. West Hall next fall include: The pub will be named Walker's The Office of Residence Life, Leadership, Arts/Popular Culture, As the saying goes, "All's well that after John Brisben Walker, who donat­ Housing and Event Services at Regis Healthcare Professionals and ends well," and for our Regis seniors, ed 40 acres of land to start Regis University have implemented changes International/Language. Students the reality of the end of their stay at University in 1887. Regis University to the housing sign-up process that interested in one of these communities Regis is less than 100 days away. housed a pub several years ago, but affect upperclassmen living on campus should fill out an application during Spring Commencement 2010 is upon this pub was removed when the liquor next fall. These changes include the the online housing sign-up process. us and as another chapter in the lives laws changed, moving the drinking age addition of new Living Learning Students not applying for one of of these seniors comes to a close, they from 18 to 21. Communities, a Super Bowl-themed the Living Learning Communities will find themselves taking time to reflect event to replace online room selection attend Big Game Friday on Friday, on the last four years and to contem­ and no guarantee that juniors and sen­ February 5 from 3-7 p.m. in the plate the future as they set out into the iors will receive singles. Student Center. Housing sign-up world with their Regis degrees. Upperclassmen familiar with the began on January 22 and the deadline For Rachel Broome, a Colorado housing sign-up process last year will is Friday, February 5. Springs native and psychology major, be surprised to find that instead of The new housing sign-up process her post-Regis plans include graduate choosing a room and roommate online is designed to create a sense of com­ school for speech pathology. But during the housing application this munity for students living on campus before that, she's looking forward to year, they will be required to attend next semester, and give students who one last Ranger Week, one of Regis' one of two events in person. wish to live in a double room the abili­ biggest on-campus events that Students accepted into one of the ty to find a roommate if they have not includes various student-involved Living Learning Communities will already done so. activities taking place every day in the attend an event on Wednesday, week before finals. Additionally, she's February 3 from 5-6 p.m. in the looking to end her intramural volley­ Student Center. The Living Learning ball career on a high note by taking the Communities in West Hall are Charppionship. PHOTO BY: Corey Holton designed to foster a sense of communi­ New seating for Walker's Pub. ty through common interest. Continued on Page 3 Continued on Page 3 NEWS PERSPECTIVES ARTS AND CULTURE SPORTS Ranger Men's Basketball Student Giving Program Study Abroad Experiences Movie Review A new program that replaces the Senior Junior Angela Shugarts shares her expe­ Luke Curtis gives a review of the The men's basketball team broke their losing streak with a victory against Gift allows students more ways to give riences of studying abroad in Ireland. movies he watched over the break. back. Page 3 Page 4 Page6 Colorado Christian. Page 7 Can't Keep Up With Metro Honors Thesis Defense Book Review: Anansi Boys Seniors in the Regis University Honors A review of Neil Gaiman's lighthearted Ranger men's basketball lost to Metro State. Page 7 Program are making preparations to family comedy with dark and supernatu- defend their theses. Page 3 ral twists . Page 6 --- 2-TUESDAY FEBRUARY 2, 2010 FEATURE Professor Emeritus Dennis Gallagher The reflects on Martin Luther King Day Highlander BY DENNlS GALIAGHER slaves that if there was anything dan­ from whence I spring. My gradfather gerous to be done, "just let the 'pad­ may have caught Irish Alzheimer's: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philoso­ dies' do it." One plantation owner when you forget everyone except your phy and writings continues to teach us wrote in his journal when his slave enemies. much today. In his "Letter from the prayed that the master not treat him as Italians also suffered lots of preju­ Birmingham Jail," King taught us that if he were Irish. dice under the Klan rule in Colorado we are all inextricably tied together in Many Americans did not think of and Denver. In 1925 Colorado elected America on the issue of race. Here are the Irish as white. Clearly on the plan­ a Klan Governor and later a Klan some things the Regis Community can tations, the Irish workers were at the Mayor. The Klan infiltrated the think about as we remember Dr. King. bottom of the heap on the pecking Denver Police Department and initiat­ Despite Obama's election last year, order. Unfortunately, the Irish soon ed what they called "Good Friday race still ranks high on the list of issues realized that if they showed prejudice Raids." confronting America. toward African Americans, they On Friday afternoons, in the midst Let me share a few recollections of jumped up on the first rung of the of prohibition, the police would bust my growing up in North Denver that American ladder. This incident puts into Italian households in North put this issue in perspective for us race issues into perspective for us and Denver to sec if they were making wine today. King's belief in Satyagraha, it nudges us to recall how we were all in their basements. The Klan members Sanskrit for "he seizes truth," working tied together on the issue of race. Are swore an oath against foreign rulers, non-violently for justice, certainly was you with me? Are we in this together? i.e. the Pope. The Klan disliked like Editor-In-Chief alien to my tribe and the culture in I recollect my grandfather Jews, Blacks, Italians, Mexicans, which I grew up in North Denver. Fists Gallagher from Sligo in Ireland. He Catholic Irish and Germans, and Corey Holton solved problems, not talk and speech. lived a few blocks from Regis and Native Americans because they were Thankfully, the good Sisters of repeatedly lectured me about when he not "white." In the 2o's were we all of Loretto at Holy Family High School, applied to be an engineer on Denver's us in this together against the Klan? where Arrupe Jesuit High now is, Moffat Railroad. He took the test for Growing up in North Denver and pushed us into debate and forensics engineer and got 100%. The test givers attending a parochial school, I soon Associate Editor and taught us that talk and words can at the Railroad said, "That Irishman learned to run fast. I remember public Jimmy Sengenberger help solve differences. Our great must have cheated. We'll make him school kids chasing us to school. "Get speech coach, Sister Marie Catherine, take the test again and this time we will those damned mackerel-snappers!" could have been Denzel Washington's watch him." they would shout. Mackerel-snappers role in the movie The Great Debaters. So my granddad told of his taking meant Friday fish-eaters. Catholics Debate became our right of passage a different test again and receiving a used to abstain from meat on Fridays.