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Vol. 116, Issue 23 November 3, 2009 www.duclarion.com University of Denver student newspaper since 1899 days left 19 WINTER BREAK STARTS UNTIL QUOTABLE Cheverie injured during hockey game SPORTS | Page 14 OPINIONS| Page 11 “...wear Uggs everywhere. ese ultra-trendy shoes are all the rage with college girls.” ROB THOMAS PERFORMS IN MAGNESS | Page 12 Student hit by vehicle LAURA HATHAWAY Managing editor A DU student has charged that a Campus Safety vehicle hit him while he was walking east on the 1900 block of South Columbine Street on Saturday at approximately 11:40 p.m. e block is next to new fraternity row. e Department of Campus Safety is currently investigating this incident, a spokesperson said. “According to reports sent to us, no one was hit,” said Tyrone Mills, associate director of Campus Safety. Junior Sean Chapin had recently leſt the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house because the fire alarm went off. He was heading home when a car flashed its brights a couple times at him and his roommate. “We kept walking. e car ran over my foot and hit my shoulder and sped off,” said Chapin. “Campus safety officers were certainly in that area because of the fire alarm at the ZBT fraternity house, right at the same time that this individual allegedly claims that his foot was ran over,” said Mills. His foot is bruised and hurts, but other- wise he is fine, he says. e vehicle was going at least 30 mph, according to Chapin. “He was going so fast. It was one of those Ford Explorer ones,” said Chapin about the type of vehicle that hit him. Shortly aſter getting home, Chapin called Campus Safety and two officers came to file a report. e crime report states that a university-owned vehicle struck his foot and that minor injuries were reported. Chapin declined medical assistance. “As of right now we are investigating this. According to our reports we don’t have any information saying this actually hap- pened,” said Mills. “ese individuals did not run over anyone as far as we know.” “is is ridiculous you guys [Campus Safety] are here to keep us safe,” said Chapin. JAMIE WARREN News editor ree men were leſt injured aſter gunfire erupted at Posh Ultra Nightclub and Lounge at 4040 E. Evans Ave. early Sunday morning aſter celebrating Halloween. e club is located 1.3 miles from campus near Colorado Boulevard. While police were investigating, gun- shots also were heard from the McDonald’s on South Colorado Boulevard and East Evans Avenue about 30 minutes later. Police responded to the report of gunfire at the club around 2:45 a.m. In the parking lot they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds. ey were trans- ferred to Denver Health for treatment. One was in critical condition. According to Sonny Jackson with the Denver Police Department, the shooting occurred aſter a conflict began in the parking lot. “A conflict arose between two groups in the parking lot and escalated,” said Jackson. When contacted, the nightclub’s phone was turned off and the message box full. When police arrived at the McDonald’s a car was speeding out of the parking lot. Officers captured the two men in the car and arrested them. “e two men are in custody for alluding the police but it is unknown if they are connected with the gunfire,” Jackson said. Police said it is still unknown whether the two shootings are connected. e two victims found at the scene remain in the hospital, one in critical and one in serious condition. e third victim later went to the emer- gency room at Rose Medical Center and was treated for gunshot wounds to the leg. Police identified all of the victims as black males in their 20s. eir names have not yet been released. Investigators are still unsure who fired the shots. e incident is still under investigation and there may be more arrests to come. Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP. Three shot near campus ARIANNA RANAHOSSEINI Editor-in-chief Alleged irregularities in the nominat- ing process for the Homecoming king and queen have raised question as to whether the selection process for homecoming roy- alty should be revised next year. “I think that if someone wants to be Homecoming king or queen that badly, it’s not a huge deal to this campus. It’s not causing any uproar or disappointment If it were, we would probably reevalu- ate it, but it hasn’t,” said senior Ally Veneris, co-chair of the Traditions Committee on the DU Programs Board. A student who is familiar with, and examined the nominations, told e Clarion that the number of nomination responses was not limited per computer. According to the source, a person could enter his or her own name 100 times in a row and it would have been logged. Nominations were solicited through SurveyMonkey.com and did not collect IP addresses or other unique identifiers. Unique identifies can be used to limit the number of responses per computer. e default setting on SurveyMonkey.com allows one response per computer. is was changed for the nomination voting, to allow voting from public com- puters, such as the library, Veneris said. “We knew you could vote more than once,” Veneris said. “We did that so that you could let it count more than once. If someone was voting from the library, Student Life computers or various other buildings, you wouldn’t be able to vote on that computer.” e process has been this way for three years, according to Veneris. Seniors Courtney Sparks and Antoine Perretta were named queen and king, but the final tallies were not made available to e Clarion. SEE NOMINATION, PAGE 5 Homecoming king, queen selection analyzed MICHAEL FURMAN | CLARION
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University of Denver student newspaper since 1899
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19WINTER BREAK STARTS
UNTIL
QUOT
ABLECheverie injured
during hockey game
SPORTS | Page 14 OPINIONS| Page 11
“...wear Uggs everywhere. Th ese ultra-trendy shoes are all the rage with college girls.”
ROB THOMAS PERFORMS IN MAGNESS | Page 12
Student hit by vehicle
LAURA HATHAWAY Managing editor
A DU student has charged that a Campus Safety vehicle hit him while he was walking east on the 1900 block of South Columbine Street on Saturday at approximately 11:40 p.m. Th e block is next to new fraternity row.
Th e Department of Campus Safety is currently investigating this incident, a spokesperson said.
“According to reports sent to us, no one was hit,” said Tyrone Mills, associate director of Campus Safety.
Junior Sean Chapin had recently left
the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house because the fi re alarm went off .
He was heading home when a car fl ashed its brights a couple times at him and his roommate.
“We kept walking. Th e car ran over my foot and hit my shoulder and sped off ,” said Chapin.
“Campus safety offi cers were certainly in that area because of the fi re alarm at the ZBT fraternity house, right at the same time that this individual allegedly claims that his foot was ran over,” said Mills.
His foot is bruised and hurts, but other-wise he is fi ne, he says. Th e vehicle was going at least 30 mph, according to Chapin.
“He was going so fast. It was one of those Ford Explorer ones,” said Chapin about the type of vehicle that hit him.
Shortly aft er getting home, Chapin called Campus Safety and two offi cers came to fi le a report. Th e crime report states that a university-owned vehicle struck his foot and that minor injuries were reported. Chapin declined medical assistance.
“As of right now we are investigating this. According to our reports we don’t have any information saying this actually hap-pened,” said Mills. “Th ese individuals did not run over anyone as far as we know.”
“Th is is ridiculous you guys [Campus Safety] are here to keep us safe,” said Chapin.
JAMIE WARRENNews editor
Th ree men were left injured aft er gunfi re erupted at Posh Ultra Nightclub and Lounge at 4040 E. Evans Ave. early Sunday morning aft er celebrating Halloween.
Th e club is located 1.3 miles from campus near Colorado Boulevard.
While police were investigating, gun-shots also were heard from the McDonald’s on South Colorado Boulevard and East Evans Avenue about 30 minutes later.
Police responded to the report of gunfi re at the club around 2:45 a.m. In the parking lot they found two men suff ering from gunshot wounds. Th ey were trans-ferred to Denver Health for treatment. One was in critical condition.
According to Sonny Jackson with the Denver Police Department, the shooting occurred aft er a confl ict began in the parking lot.
“A confl ict arose between two groups in the parking lot and escalated,” said Jackson.
When contacted, the nightclub’s phone was turned off and the message box full. When police arrived at the McDonald’s a car was speeding out of the parking lot.
Offi cers captured the two men in the car and arrested them.
“Th e two men are in custody for alluding the police but it is unknown if they are connected with the gunfi re,” Jackson said.
Police said it is still unknown whether the two shootings are connected.
Th e two victims found at the scene remain in the hospital, one in critical and one in serious condition.
Th e third victim later went to the emer-gency room at Rose Medical Center and was treated for gunshot wounds to the leg.
Police identifi ed all of the victims as black males in their 20s. Th eir names have not yet been released. Investigators are still unsure who fi red the shots. Th e incident is still under investigation and there may be more arrests to come.
Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP.
Three shot near campus
ARIANNA RANAHOSSEINIEditor-in-chief
Alleged irregularities in the nominat-ing process for the Homecoming king and queen have raised question as to whether the selection process for homecoming roy-alty should be revised next year.
“I think that if someone wants to be Homecoming king or queen that badly, it’s not a huge deal to this campus. It’s not causing any uproar or disappointment
If it were, we would probably reevalu-ate it, but it hasn’t,” said senior Ally Veneris, co-chair of the Traditions Committee on the DU Programs Board.
A student who is familiar with, and examined the nominations, told Th e Clarion that the number of nomination responses was not limited per computer.
According to the source, a person could enter his or her own name 100 times in a row and it would have been logged.
Nominations were solicited through
SurveyMonkey.com and did not collect IP addresses or other unique identifi ers. Unique identifi es can be used to limit the number of responses per computer. Th e default setting on SurveyMonkey.com allows one response per computer.
Th is was changed for the nomination voting, to allow voting from public com-puters, such as the library, Veneris said.
“We knew you could vote more than once,” Veneris said. “We did that so that you could let it count more than once. If
someone was voting from the library, Student Life computers or various other buildings, you wouldn’t be able to vote on that computer.”
Th e process has been this way for three years, according to Veneris.
Seniors Courtney Sparks and Antoine Perretta were named queen and king, but the fi nal tallies were not made available to Th e Clarion.
TODAYThe Use Your Sole TourThe DU Bookstore12:45 p.m.Join the band Hanson to fi ght poverty and AIDS in Africa by walking 1 mile around campus. Aft er the walk, Hanson will perform at the bookstore (at 2 p.m.).
Dia de Los MuertosCraig Hall Community Room6 to 8 p.m.Celebrate those who have gone before us during this closing for DU’s Latino Heritage Month. Th is event includes an explanation of the ancient observation and refreshments.
“Papers”Davis Auditorium, Sturm Hall6 p.m.Sigma Lambda Beta fraternity and DU Students for Comprehensive Immigration Reform present this screening about undocumented youth and the challenge faced as they turn 18 without legal status.
Discussion will follow the fi lm.
Jerusalem in Transition: an Ancient City at the Forefront of Contemporary IssuesGates Concert Hall6:30 p.m.Guest speaker Nir Barkat, the 9th mayor of Jerusalem, speaks about turning Israel’s poorest city, Jerusalem, into one imbued with culture and lasting economic development.
WEDNESDAY“Like Butterfl ies: Our Wings Have Been Torn Off”Cyber Cafe in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies5 to 6:30 p.m.Attend this screening of the documentary Adrienne Rosenberg fi lmed in the summer of 2008 in India. Th e fi lm promotes advocacy and education regarding Indian transgendered women.
THURSDAYMurder in the Stacks
6 p.m.Penrose Library LobbySolve this vampire mystery and win prizes, including pizza, Pioneer hockey tickets, vampire-themed books, DU sports gear and more. To sign up your team, contact the DU Involvement Team at [email protected].
FRIDAYRefugee Immersion Day The Colorado Refugee ESL Program Center and the African Community Center8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Immerse yourself in social justice with CCESL by providing food to refugees and teaching introductory English classes. Colorado Environmental Film Festival NightDavis Auditorium, Sturm Hall6:30 to 9 p.m.Join the DU Sustainability Committee and CEFF for a series of short environmental fi lms and a screening of Stephanie Soechtig’s “Tapped.”
U P C O M I N G E V E N T S
Homecoming successful despite record snowfall
Health center receives fi rst H1N1 vaccines
JAMIE WARRENNews editor
Th is weekend the Health and Counseling Center received 150 H1N1 vaccines.
Th is fi rst small batch of vaccines was almost completely distributed at a two-hour clinic held for people in the fi rst priority group.
Th is group is defi ned by the state of Colorado as pregnant women, people who are in regular contact with children under six months old and children ages 5 to 18 with underlying-risk condi-tions.
According to Sam Alexander, director of the Health and Coun-seling Center, there were about 25 vaccines left aft er the clinic.
Th e vaccines are now avail-able to anyone in the fi rst and second priority groups. Th e
second priority group includes anyone six months to 24 years of age, which includes most DU students.
Th e remaining vaccines will be given at the Health Center on a fi rst come, fi rst serve basis.
According to Alexander, 12,000 vaccines were ordered, but it is unknown when the next shipment will arrive.
Anyone who believes they may have already contracted H1N1 should still get the vac-cine.
Alexander said, “A blood test is rarely done, so it is not 100 per-cent sure that they actually had H1N1. It does not hurt to get the vaccine.”
Th e symptoms of this fl u are similar to those of the regular seasonal fl u, and include fatigue, fever, sore throat, muscle aches, coughing, chills and sneezing.
STEPHANIE FRANQUEMONTContributor
Despite record snowfall, the majority of homecoming events still took place to celebrate the occasion.
Homecoming weekend went off with only a few minor set-backs and alterations due to record snowfall and cold weather.
Th ough a few events were cancelled or postponed, the majority of the events still took place to celebrate the occasion.
Denver hockey won 4-3 against Minnesota State on Friday and tied 4-4 on Saturday.
Th e Pioneer Pregame was sponsored by University of Denver Programming Board (DUPB) on Friday night was moved into the Driscoll Underground. Th ey had a Beer Garden for those old enough to participate, as well as a photo booth with various DU spirit accessories and a best DU related costume contest.
Th e Club Sports at DU sponsored a pie eating contest at the Pioneer Pregame. Sophomore Sean McNiff and freshman Tyler Prentiss tied in eating their pie tins full of whipped cream the fastest.
Th e DU Grilling Society (D.U.G.S.) was present at both the Pioneer Pregame on Friday night and the Tailgate on Satur-day Night.
Friday night they served steak, chicken, summer squash, spiced apples and hot apple cider outside of Driscoll to people who attended the Pioneer Pregame.
Saturday night they contin-ued the tailgate tradition outside of the Ritchie Center, serving bratwurst, Italian sausage and
vegetable skewers to fans as they entered the game.
Heather Smith, 1985 gradu-ate of DU, said, “DUGS is great. We just had to starve back in the day. Th ere was no one giving out free food back then.”
DUGS plans to tailgate before every Saturday home hockey game when students are in school.
Th e Homecoming parade did take place on Saturday.
Tim Healy, HTRM senator, said, “We were saddened by the recent snowfall that inhibited the parade eff ort but for the condi-tions, we had a good turn out and we had a lot of community involvement.”
Th e parade was sponsored and judged by DUPB. Th ere were almost 15 fl oats in the parade this year created by organizations on campus.
Th e Homecoming royalty was announced during the second period break at the hockey game on Saturday night.
Th e Undergraduate Student Government President, Antoine Perretta, was voted homecoming king. Senior Courtney Sparks was voted homecoming queen.
Very few students were aware of how to vote for the homecom-ing royalty through myWeb.
Both hockey games this weekend had a sold out student section.
At the game on Halloween, sophomore Jeff Berger said, “Th is is the fi rst game that I’ve been to this year.
“It’s really exciting though and everyone seems really enthu-siastic and into the game.”
Students attended the game on Saturday night in many dif-
ferent costumes including pirates, starving artists, nerds, Elmo, Tigger, the Ninja Turtles and Gumby.
Because of the record snow-fall, the Career Center Fall Career and Internship Fair that was sup-posed to be last Wednesday was canceled because of the weather.
Th e recent graduate recep-tion at the School for Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Man-agement was supposed to be on Th ursday was also canceled due to the weather.
Th e DU Club Cycling Fun Ride and Barbeque also was sup-posed to be open to the public and happen on Saturday morning.
Both of the soccer games that were scheduled were postponed due to the heavy snowfall.
Th e men’s game was post-poned until Th ursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.
STEPHANIE FRANQUEMONT | CLARIONSean McNiff tied with Tyler Prentiss in the pie eating contest at the Pioneer Pregame.
DAVID LORISH |CLARIONTh is weekend’s snowfall did not interfere with the annual Homecoming parade. Th is year the parade included around 15 diff erent fl oats created by organizations on campus. Th e winning fl oat was the Asian Student Alliance’s fl oat.
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THEFT
On Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 12:51 p.m., Campus Safety met with a staff member at the La-mont School of Music regard-ing a stolen computer monitor.
On Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 4:44 p.m., Campus Safety met with a DU staff member who re-ported a portable projector last used at Margery Reed Hall was missing. Th e staff was still try-ing to contact the last person to use the projector regarding its whereabouts.
DRUGS & ALCOHOL
On Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 10:13 p.m., two underage stu-dents in possession of alcohol containers admitted to drink-ing alcohol in their residence hall room. Campus Safety confi scated the contraband. One student was determined to be severely intoxicated and was transported to a detox facility.
On Friday, Oct. 30 at 12:22 a.m., Campus Safety and the Denver Fire Department responded to an ill party near Centennial Halls in parking lot C. Th e severely intoxicated DU student had lain down on the hood of a parked vehicle. Th e student later rolled off the hood and struck his head on the pavement. Paramed-ics transported the student to Swedish Hospital for treat-ment.
On Saturday, Oct. 31 at 12:16 a.m., the odor of mari-juana was reported coming from a Centennial Halls resi-dence room. Th e room was not occupied. but Campus Safety entered the room and confi s-cated the contraband.
On Saturday, Oct. 31 at 2:45 a.m., an underage in-toxicated DU student fell and struck her head while walk-ing to her Centennial Halls residence hall room from an an off -campus location. Paramed-ics transported the student to Porter Hospital for treatment.
On Saturday, Oct. 31 at 11:59 p.m., a DU student re-ported another student to be in possession of a weapon at the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house. Th e student in possession was severely intoxicated, and the gun was only a toy. Th e Denver Police Department transported the student to detox.
TRESSPASSING
On Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 8:41 a.m., a DU staff member observed a suspicious man near the women’s locker room. He fl ed the area before Campus Safety’s arrival. Th e white male is believed to be involved in a series of theft s within the past two weeks involving women’s clothing from several locker rooms.
On Monday, Oct. 26 at 3:19 p.m., Penrose Library staff reported a suspicious party who is regularly seen at the library. Th e person had already been asked to leave once that day. Th e staff said the person is not a DU student as has been asked to leave in the past.
On Friday, Oct. 30 at
P O L I C E R E P O R T
9:18 p.m., a group of male DU students were videotaping ski tricks on the rails of the south-west stairway of Boettcher Au-ditorium. Th ey were reported to be making a fi lm. Th e students did not have authorization to fi lm on campus.
ACCIDENTS
On Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 10 a.m., Campus Safety responded to a hit-and-run traffi c accident near the Driscoll Center in parking lot 302. An unidentifi ed female was driv-ing a dark-colored vehicle that struck a parked vehicle of an unaffi liated party. Th e female driver then left the area.
On Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 10:23 a.m., a hit-and-run traffi c accident occurred in the 2300 block S. York Street. A DU student struck a parked vehicle belonging to a DU staff member then left the area. Th e Denver Police Department responded and took the student into cus-tody.
On Friday, Oct. 30 at 3:15 a.m., a traffi c accident oc-curred in parking lot E near the Campus Safety Center. A DU staff member backed into a fi re extinguisher box in University-owned vehicle. No injuries were reported, but minor damage was incurred.
On Saturday, Oct. 31 at 11:40 p.m., a University-owned vehicle struck a DU student while they were crossing the intersection of S. Columbine Street and E. Asbury Avenue. Minor foot injuries were re-ported, but medical assistance was declined.
On Sunday, Nov. 1 at 2:49 p.m., Campus Safety responded to a traffi c accident in parking lot L near Sturm College of Law. An unaffi liated party driving a personal vehicle struck a DU student in another vehicle. Moderate damage occurred. FIRE
On Saturday, Oct. 31 at 11:17 p.m., a stereo speaker caught fi re at the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house. Residents put out the fi re prior to the Denver Fire Department’s arrival, but the fi re’s cause was undeter-mined. Minor damage was reported.
ILLNESS
On Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 2:49 a.m., a student in Nelson Hall had a seizure. Upon the arrival of Campus Safety of-fi cers, the Denver Fire Depart-ment and Denver Paramedics, the unresponsive student was breathing. Th e paramedics then transported the student to Por-ter Hospital.
On Sunday, Nov. 1 at 10:42 a.m., a DU student experienced a seizure. Paramedics trans-ported the student to Porter Hospital for treatment.
On Sunday, Nov. 1 at 7:05 p.m., an unaffi liated party in-jured his ankle during a hockey game at Magness Arena. Paramedics transported the party to Swedish Hospital for treatment.
ELIZABETH BORNEMANContributor
Th e DU Sustainability Com-mittee will sponsor the docu-mentary ‘Tapped’ as a part of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF) Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in Davis Auditorium of Sturm Hall.
In conjunction with this fi lm about the harm that bottled water causes, the committee will be petitioning to decrease the usage of bottled water on campus.
Th is fi lm is free to all DU students as well as the surround-ing community. It is the only free movie being shown during the three-day festival.
According to the DU Sustain-ability Committee web-site, the fi lm is a “behind-the-scenes look at the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never become a commodity: our water.”
Th e documentary begins in the bottling plant and goes through the selling process and shows how the bottles waste away in landfi lls.
Director Stephanie Soechtig hopes that this documentary raises questions about the public’s right to water and how they are using the water they have, both bottled and tapped.
DU Sustainability Com-mittee President Dillon Doyle was approached by Joe Brown,
co-chair of the Colorado Envi-ronmental Film Festival, about working with them to sponsor this event.
Doyle said, “It would be much more salient and have much more impact for DU students and the greater Denver community to bring a showing [of “Tapped”] to campus.”
Doyle added that he hopes that many students will attend this event because he feels it directly aff ects young people and how they live their lives while it confronts important sustainabil-ity issues.
Brown said, “Th e pollu-tion caused by the bottled water industry negatively aff ects human health because of the plastics used in the bottles and the environment.”
He added that he hopes that students and others who attend the fi lm will be motivated to change how they use bottled water and how they think about changing this problem.
A few short envi-ronmental fi lms will be shown before the showing of “Tapped.”
Th e fi lm’s produc-ers will be in attendance and will participate in a question-and-answer ses-sion aft er the fi lm.
Th e petition that will be passed around prior to the event will ask the administration to
reduce the amount of bottled water that DU uses by not giving out bottled water to the commu-nity as a marketing device, not selling bottled water on campus except at sporting events, increas-ing the number of drinking foun-tains on campus and increasing education about the harms of bottled water.
Doyle said, “We give [bottled water] out for free to market our university, which seemingly goes against our principles and goals of a sustainable future.”
At the presentation of the fi lm, the Sustainability Commit-tee will have a surprise event in conjunction with the petition.
‘Tapped’ fi lm free to students
Snow blankets campus, classes cancelled
ANDREW FIELDING | CLARION
Th e biggest snowstorm in October in 12 years hit Denver last week. DU closed campus and cancelled classes at 2 p.m. Wednesday and did not re-open until Friday morning. Denver received between 15 and 18 inches of snowfall total during the two days. Th e snow aff ected some homecoming events throughout the weekend. However, students celebrated their break from school in many ways, including building snowmen and skiing on campus. Th e DU Snow Plan calls for the closure of campus based on the ability to keep parking lots assessable, the timing of the snow, the depth of the snow, resources available for the removal of snow and the condition of city and state road systems.
November 3, 20094
Fraternity collects food for less fortunate
Health center is accredited
JACKELYN NGUYENContributor
DU’s Health and Counseling Center is one of four colleges in Colorado to achieve accredita-tion by the Accreditation Asso-ciation for Ambulatory Health Care, an organization which recognizes quality health care. On Oct.21, DU joined the list with Colorado College, CU-Boulder and Colorado State Col-lege with accreditation.
AAAHC accreditation shows that DU’s Health and Counseling Center provides a safe work environ-ment and quality care to its patients. “We’re doing a good job and meeting appropriate standards,” said Sam Alexander, executive director of the Health and Coun-seling Center.
Th e process for accreditation took four years and the involve-ment of everyone in the HCC. In the fi rst year, all staff members helped write the policy and pro-
cedures to be followed to work towards accreditation.
Th e next step was to docu-ment every patient visit, consent form paper work and medical records to prove that a policy was in place and being followed. Accreditation is not required by any student health center, DU chose to take that extra step to better the health center for the students and staff .
“From the standpoint of a patient it assures them we give high quality service,” said Alexander. Th ere are three levels of accredi-tation, including six-month, one year and three year.
Th ough one year is the most common, DU received the three-year accreditation.
“I’ll tell you I didn’t expect it,” said Alexander. “It was a sign that they liked what they saw.”
Th e AAAHC has accredited more than 4,500 ambulatory health care organizations nationwide.
Being accredited requires a
lengthy process and not all organi-zations are granted accreditation even aft er completing the process.
“I think it’s a great develop-ment. I think it makes me feel more confi dent going there now, not that I wasn’t before,” said sophomore Christian Springer.
He added that his last visit to the health center last quarter he felt comfortable and received good care.
To keep the Health and Coun-seling Center accredited, DU will need to continue following their set guidelines for quality care.
Th ese guidelines are outlined in a manuel and outline gover-nance and administration, quality of care, clinical services provided, behavioral health services and health education.
Th e AAAHC was founded in 1979 and is recognized for promoting quality health care through the development of nationally recognized standards and surveying programs.
SHUYI LAIO| CLARION
LAURA HATHAWAYManaging editor
As Th anksgiving approaches, DU fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha is making sure to do their part to feed those who are less fortunate.
Lambda Chi Alpha’s fall phi-lanthropy is a food drive to col-lect canned food and donations from the DU community, which they donate to Food Bank of the Rockies.
“Th is year, we have received approximately $1,000 in dona-tions and we anticipate making about a 100,000-pound donation to the Food Bank of the Rockies,” said Antoine Perretta, external vice president of philanthropy for Lambda Chi Alpha.
This philanthropy is part of the North American Food Drive, sponsored by Lambda Chi Alpha chapters across the nation. In 2006, 104 chapters nationwide participated and raised 2.3 million pounds of food. The North American Food Drive began in 1993.
More than 90 fraternity members participated in the food drive, which took place in the end of October.
“It’s great that we can help do our part to make this upcoming holiday season a little happier for others,” said Perretta.
Members prepare letters to the community stating who they are and ask for donations
of nonperishable food. Monetary donations also are accepted.
Th e letter was stapled to brown paper bags and distrib-uted to the front doorsteps of surrounding neighborhood homes. Th e main neighborhoods they visited are near Washington Park, Observatory Park and around DU.
Th e letter reminded people that they will be back a week later to pick up the donations and to please leave them on the door-step. However, some people mail in checks. Th e cash contributions made to Food Bank of the Rock-ies are translated into a number of pounds so that the fraternity can measure how much they raised.
“It’s something incredible to see a group of college guys, who people wouldn’t usually think people have philanthropy on their mind, come together and raise 100,000 pounds of food for less fortunate people,” said Brett Parmelee, president of Lambda Chi Alpha.
Aft er collecting all the goods, the Food Bank of the Rockies comes and picks it up.
But the success of the food drive hinges on the support of community members. Th is year they came through.
“I got actually a couple houses who had boxes of stuff . We had a full SUV of stuff and we only did one route from Buchtel and Milwaukee, which is less than
10 blocks. So it’s pretty cool and everyone donates,” said Brendan O’Connor, senior accoutning major.
Since Lambda Chi Alpha has been doing this philanthropy for more than a decade, the commu-nity seems to expect it each fall.
“Over the last few years, people who have lived there have come to respect it,” said Par-melee.
“Its pretty neat the commu-nity has caught up with it, and they are excited and happy to donate.”
Th e food drive is one of Lambda Chi Alpha’s three phi-lanthropies. Mustache Bash, each winter, and Watermelon Bash, in the spring, raise money for the National Sports Center for the Disabled.
In conjunction with the food
MICHAEL FURMAN | THE CLARIONLambda Chi Alpha received $1,000 in donations and anticipates collecting 100,000 pounds of food for the Food Bank of the Rockies.
drive, Illegal Pete’s will donate 20 percent of proceeds during Sat-urday’s offi cial grand opening, to the Food Bank of the Rockies in the name of Lambda Chi Alpha. Th e opening will take place Nov. 7 from 8:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. and will feature drink specials, a prize raffl e and live music.
For more information about Lambda Chi Alpha’s food drive, visit denverlambdachi.org.
November 3, 2009 5
DU sponsors real estate expo
KATIE MCLEANContributor
Th e Executive MBA program in the Daniels College of Business ranks No. 85 in the world by Th e Financial Times, a world-class business newspaper based out of London.
Th e school moved up fi ve spots from No. 90 in 2008.
Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial survey and alternative ranking of business schools, also named the Daniels College of Business MBA program No. 20 out of 100 top business schools in the world.
Th is survey is particularly special because it goes beyond reputation and test scores and looks at the heart of the school and its teachings. It measures how well schools are “integrating issues of social and environmen-tal stewardship into curricula and research.”
York University and its Schu-lich School of Business, Univer-sity of Michigan and its Stephen M. Ross School of Business and
Yale University and its School of Management were the top three programs globally.
DCB underwent serious evaluation in the past year based on career progress, school diver-sity and idea generation.
Th e EMBA program is a rigorous program of 18 months that requires students to have at least 10 years of professional experience in any sort of business ranging from small to large and entrepreneurial start-ups to non-profi ts organizations.
A student three years aft er graduation will make $138,144 and increase their salary by 51 percent aft er completing the program.
“Th e working professionals in our EMBA program learn how to innovate even in the midst of uncertainty and change, fi nding solutions for the 21st century,” said Christine Riordan, Dean of DCB, in an interview with Th e Denver Business Journal. “At the core of our executive MBA program are relevant academics, experiential education, and cor-porate partnerships.”
EMBA program No. 85 in world ELIZABETH BORNEMAN
Contributor
On Nov. 10 the DU School of Real Estate and Construction Management is co-sponsoring the Rocky Mountain Real Estate Expo with the Denver Metro Commercial Board of Realtors in the Colorado Convention Center from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Th is event is being held to create networking opportunities for individuals in the real estate world as well as to give a certain amount of credit hours towards continuing education or continu-ing legal education courses.
Speakers include Mitchell Joachim, an eco-architect from Brooklyn, N.Y.; Bruce Alexander, CEO of Vectra Bank in Denver; David Boyles, director of the Col-umbine Capitol Corps; and John Ikard, CEO of FirstBank Holding Company in Lakewood, Colo.
Th ey will be speaking on various topics including “over-views of the offi ce, industrial, retail, apartment, land and real estate investment markets,” according to the Denver Business Journal. Th e creator of this event and director of the Burns school of real estate at DU, Mark Levine, stated that the Rocky Mountain
Real Estate Expo contains a “huge array of anything and everything having to do with real estate, both commercial and residential.”
A panel discussion also will be held featuring Tom Gougeon, Phil Washington, James Hare and Gary Dragul called Buildings of the Future. Th ey rep-resent Continuum Partners LLC, the Regional Trans-portation District (RTD), Colorado Preservation Inc. and GDA Real Estate Services LLC, respectively, and should bring very dynamic viewpoints to the discussion.
Joachim asks, “Is it possible to run Manhattan only on solar power?” His answer is yes. Joachim will be discussing the future of sustainable cities as well as modeling smaller scale projects, like putting solar panels on the unused rooft ops of New York’s apartments and skyscrap-ers. Another focus of this event will be getting average people on
board with sustainability issues and resolutions.
“As it is, people don’t realize how easy it is to practice small-scale sustainability,” Joachim said.
“All people have to do is change a light bulb and weatherproof their houses. In the end, they’ll save money. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist.”
Th e Rocky Mountain Real Estate Expo is one of the most heavily attended events of this nature in the Denver metro area. Th is year’s theme is Future City Beautiful, inspired by the 1860s revival and urban planning of Paris. Th e 1893 Chicago World Fair created
a city planning and real estate revival in America.
Roughly 1,100 people will be attending the Rocky Mountain Real Estate Expo, said Levine.
Th is event is open to anyone interested in real estate or urban planning as well as students, alumni, staff , faculty and any industry professionals.
“People don’t realize how easy it is to practice small-scale sustainability. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist.”
Mitchell Joachm, expo speaker and eco-architect
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Student Life staff was asked for the fi nal tally.
Final voting was solicited through WebCentral, which allowed for only one vote per student ID number.
Th e Clarion analysis is based solely on the nominating sheets that were given to Th e Clarion by a student who had access to them.
In the nominating process, Sparks received 109 nominations, 30 of which were in a row, cast at the same time. Th ere were 187 nominations before Sparks was nominated again. Another 261 names were nominated before Sparks received a group of 22 nominations.
Perretta, undergraduate stu-dent body president, was nomi-nated 39 times. Of these, 17 votes were in a row and these were mis-spelled ‘Antoine Peretta.’
Of the votes for Perretta, 32 were misspelled. Twenty-eights of these misspellings were paired with nominations for Sparks.
Th e runner-up for Home-coming queen nominations was senior Lynsey Simon, with 38 votes, none of which were in large blocks.
Th e runner up for Home-coming king nominations was senior Bryan Bassman, with 60 votes, 21 more than Perretta, who was named king.
Bassman received 20 nomi-
nations in one block and his name was listed 12 in another.
A total of 863 nominations was submitted.
In the nomination process, anyone in or outside of the DU community could have nominated students in the online process, however, only undergraduates could cast a fi nal vote to select the
king and queen.More than 4,000 under-
graduates were eligible to cast a fi nal vote.
Anyone interested in exam-ining the nominating sheets should contact Th e Clarion at [email protected].
Leslie Gehring and Rachel Conkey contributed to this report.
Homecoming nominations results show block voting, as the online survey did not limit the number of responses per computer. Th e above screen shot shows the raw SurveyMoneky.com results. Senior Courtney Sparks was nominated 20 times and senior Antoine Perrett a 17 times, all with the same misspelling ‘Antoine Perett a.’
November 3, 20096
LESLIE GEHRINGCopy editor
Students interested in learn-ing about the impact of tourism can now complete a new inter-disciplinary minor in Tourism Studies.
“Th e idea behind it is to try and broaden the HRTM school and expand the off erings here at DU and get more i n t e r d i s c i p l i n -ary degrees,” said senior Tim Healy, Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Man-agement senator for Undergraduate Student Govern-ment.
Th e minor, which was approved over the summer, includes classes in anthro-pology, biology, English, geography, international stud-ies and HRTM, according to Healy. Students can peti-tion to have a class taken while studying abroad substitute for one of the required classes for the minor.
Th e minor requires a mini-mum of 20 hours of study, which equates to about fi ve classes. Students from several diff erent degree programs are eligible to
Tourism studies minor added within HRTM
study the minor.While there are no prereq-
uisites for the minor in general, some specifi c classes, such as upper-division biology and anthropology classes, do have prerequisites.
Currently, no students have declared the minor, but 10 stu-dents are now enrolled in the Anthropology of Tourism class
being taught this quarter, according to Robert Mill, HRTM professor.
Th e class is one of the courses that counts toward the minor.
“Th ey’re antici-pating this year, the fi rst year, to have about 10 students [in the minor] and grow to about 30 students,” Healy said.
While there are several diff er-ent departments involved with the minor, HRTM will
be administering the minor and recruiting students. Professors from the other involved depart-ments also will be recruiting students for the minor, according to Healy.
Interested students should contact Mill at [email protected] for more information.
“Th e idea behind it is to try and broaden the HRTM school and expand the off erings here at DU...”
Tim Healy, Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management Senator
North Korea threatens to expand nuclear arsenal, demands peace talks
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea issued a veiled threat to increase its nuclear arsenal if U.S. offi cials do not quickly agree to the one-on-one talks that the communist regime is demand-ing.
Th e regime’s impatience came days aft er its No. 2 nuclear negotiator Ri Gun came away from meetings with Washington envoy Sung Kim without an agreement to hold bilateral talks.
“If the U.S. is not ready to sit at a negotiating table with the (North), it will go its own way,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said Monday in a statement carried by Pyongyang’s offi cial Korean Central News Agency.
Th e statement did not elaborate, but it was widely seen as a warning that the North will bolster its nuclear stockpile – a brinksmanship tactic that the communist nation has oft en employed.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly did not comment on the North’s statement, though he told report-ers Monday that Kim “had very useful discussions” with Ri.
He also said the U.S. is “still considering” North Korea’s invitation for Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special envoy on North Korea, to visit Pyongyang for talks.
In September, the North said it was “weaponizing” plutonium, a key ingredient for nuclear bombs, and that it had succeeded in uranium enrichment, which would give the regime a second way to make atomic bombs. Th at was also seen as a pressure tactic aimed at getting Washington to agree to one-on-one negotia-tions.
North Korea has mixed such threats with a series of concilia-tory moves, such as releasing two detained American journalists, aft er months of raising tensions with nuclear and missile tests. Th e North has also quit the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks – which involve China, Japan, Russia, the U.S. and the two Koreas.
North Korea and the U.S. fought on opposite sides of the Korean War of the 1950s and do not have diplomatic relations. Both nations have tanks and troops on guard at the heavily fortifi ed border dividing the two Koreas.
Pyongyang claims it must develop atomic weapons to defend itself against nuclear threats from the U.S. Th e regime has long sought direct negotiations with Washington saying it was because of U.S. nuclear threats that the country develop nuclear bombs.
Washington has denied it has any intention of attacking the North. But Defense Secre-
tary Robert Gates assured Seoul last month that Washington was prepared to unleash all military capabilities – including its nuclear might – to defend the longtime ally.
Pyongyang’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper blasted Gates’ remarks, saying the U.S. is trying to provoke a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.
Th e paper said in a com-mentary carried by KCNA that the North’s “nuclear deterrent will be bolstered” if the U.S. refuses to switch its “policy of aggression” toward the North.
On Monday, the North’s ministry also said that “meaning-ful progress” on a nuclear-free Korean peninsula is possible – “if the hostile relations between the (North) and the U.S. are settled and confi dence is built between them.”
Washington has maintained that it is willing to engage North Korea in bilateral talks – if they lead to the resumption of the stalled six-nation disarmament talks.
North Korea’s Ri, who was in the U.S. at the invitation of private organizations, said dis-cussions with the U.S. envoy were “useful,” South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. Still, both KCNA and State Department offi cials in Washington said no decision had been made on hold-ing bilateral talks.
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Law school increases bar exam passing rateRACHEL CONKEY
Copy editor
Aft er July’s preliminary results, 89 percent of the Sturm College of Law graduates who took the bar examination for the fi rst time this year passed.
Th is is a six percent increase from the 83 percent whose scores were considered as passing at this time last year.
Scott Johns, Director of DU’s Bar Success Pro-gram said that students on the cusp of passing are allowed to request that the scoring for the essay portion of their exam be reexamined and reconsidered.
Because of this, ultimately the percent of passing students was raised from 83 to 84 percent last year.
Th e fi nal results for this year have yet to be tabulated.
DU’s success rate can be attributed to the community engagement and outside help encouraged by the Sturm College of Law.
“We have seen the rates go up periodically and there are many things that can account for that, but the most important is probably our community think-
ing positively that this is some-thing they can do,” said Johns. “What we do is come along and give people the tools and oppor-tunities to ensure success.”
Preparing for this exam involves over 600 hours of study-ing, practicing and critiquing.
Th e Sturm College of Law off ers a class, Legal Analysis
Studies, taken in the fi nal semester of law school, which is designed to help stu-dents practice solv-ing legal problems through precision in writing.
In the summer aft er graduation, students can take advantage of the Bar Success Program that provides weekly workshops proc-tored by nine Sturm College of Law fac-ulty members.
“Th e Bar Suc-cess Program is our replacement for those run by commercial companies,” said Johns. “We pro-vide them with the missing links for success.”
He also explained that this is a very signifi cant passing rate in comparison to other law schools across the country.
According to the National Conference of National Bar Examiners, Colorado’s bar exam is more diffi cult than 41 states.
In understanding why this year’s graduates performed sub-stantially better than those in years past, professors fi nd that credit should go directly to the students.
“Th ese are people that I would be just thrilled to have working on my behalf if I had a legal problem” said Johns. “Th ey just hit a homerun.”
Scores such as these encour-
age DU’s current undergraduate population to put some thought into staying on campus for law school.
“I do not plan on leaving DU aft er I graduate because I want to be a part of all of this law school’s successes,” said Grace Shorr, second year-student and law school hopeful. “Seeing this school on my resume will put me above a lot of my occupational
competition one day.”Members of DU’s commu-
nity see this rise in passing rates to be one that speaks well for the university now and for years to come.
“We believe (and the empiri-cal data we have collected and analyzed suggests) that the best is yet to come,” said Marty Katz, Interim Dean of the Sturm Col-lege of Law.
MICHAEL FURMAN | THE CLARIONKatherine Blair (left ) and Juliet Cornett (right) prepare for the bar exam in the Sturm College of Law library.
“Th ese are (students) that I would be just thrilled to have working on my behalf if I had a legal problem.”
Scott Johns, director of the DU’s Bar Success Program
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New Mexico police link suspect held in Colorado to 11 rapes in 15 years
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A man arrested in Colorado is suspected of raping 11 women in New Mexico and Texas over a 15-year span and, more recently, trying to kill a Colorado police offi cer, authorities said.
Authorities in Albuquerque and Pueblo, Colo., are checking to see if Robert Howard Bruce, 47, of Pueblo, might have been involved in other unsolved crimes.
“It would not surprise me if there were other victims, but there is nothing that has come forth yet,” Albuquerque police spokes-man John Walsh said Monday.
Dubbed “Ether Man” in Albuquerque, Bruce was tied to the rapes in New Mexico’s larg-est city dating to 1991 aft er his DNA matched one case. Walsh said police think Bruce may have committed crimes from 1991 to 2000 in Albuquerque and a 2006 rape in Austin, Texas. Bruce lived in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and Raton from 1988 to 2003, Walsh said.
Bruce also is accused of attempting to blow up the home of a Pueblo police offi cer who was scheduled to testify against him in a peeping Tom case. Bruce appeared in a Pueblo courtroom Monday to be advised of the charges in that case – two counts
of criminal attempt to commit fi rst-degree murder and one count of possession of an explo-sive devise.
District Attorney Bill Th ie-baut said Bruce’s next court date will be Nov. 16, when a prelimi-nary hearing will likely be sched-uled. Pueblo’s case against Bruce will have to be resolved before he can be extradited to face charges in New Mexico.
A public defender who is representing Bruce did not imme-diately return calls for comment.
In most of the cases, Bruce is accused of breaking into victims’ homes and placing a rag soaked in a chemical compound over their mouths to render them uncon-scious before raping them, Walsh said. Despite the assailant’s “Ether Man” moninker, Walsh said the chemical was not ether.
Many victims worked in health care or medical offi ces and were young and physically fi t, he said.
Bruce is wanted on a warrant for 44 counts of violent felonies in Albuquerque, including fi rst- and second-degree rape, kidnapping, aggravated battery and aggra-vated burglary.
Th iebaut said he believes there are more victims who have not come forward. He pointed to at least two unsolved rape cases in Pueblo that involved attacks
similar to those linked to “Ether Man.”
Th e Pueblo County Sheriff ’s Offi ce arrested Bruce on Oct. 6 aft er police offi cer Nathan Pruce found a 30-pound propane tank rigged to pump the explosive gas into Pruce’s home, said depart-ment spokeswoman Deputy Laurie Kilpatrick.
Pruce had been scheduled to testify against Bruce that day.
Bruce was arrested for failing to appear in court and attempted murder of a police offi cer and his family, Kilpatrick said. He is being held in a Pueblo, Colo., jail.
Kilpatrick said Pueblo detec-tives were working their inves-tigation and contacted the FBI in Albuquerque about any past criminal activity. Bruce’s wife and mother live in Albuquerque, she said.
Th e FBI referred the detec-tives to the Albuquerque Police Department’s cold case investiga-tors.
Walsh said detectives matched the DNA sample to the Albuquerque rapes. It was the fi rst time Albuquerque police had a DNA sample from Bruce, Walsh said.
Walsh called the case “grati-fying and exciting for the cold case detectives.”
A $3 million bond has been attached to the warrant, he said.
Danish wind company slows hiring in Colorado
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GREELEY, Colo. – Th e eco-nomic slowdown has prompted Danish wind-turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems to slow its U.S. hiring and building, including in Colorado.
Vestas planned to employ a total of 2,500 people in Colorado by the end of next year, but says that likely will be pushed back to 2011.
About 500 people work at its blade manufactur-ing plant in Wind-sor, 60 miles north of Denver.
A plant that makes towers for the turbines employs roughly 100 people in Pueblo in south-ern Colorado.
But Vestas Americas spokes-man Roby Roberts said hiring has stopped at two plants being built in Brighton.
Th e plants 20 miles north of Denver will produce blades and nacelles – housings that include the turbine’s generator, trans-former and gearbox.
Company offi cials said Monday that the Brighton nacelle factory will be ready for occu-pancy in February.
Th e peak work force is expected to be 700 at the nacelle plant and 650 at the Brighton blade factory.
“Th ings have slowed down like everywhere,” Roberts told Th e Tribune in Greeley last week.
“We just spent $1 billion in capital projects in the U.S. We believe the fundamentals are intact. It’s just going to be slower.”
Vestas said this year’s orders weren’t as high as anticipated. Still, the company reported that its third-quarter profi t margins rose to $2.67 billion, up 3
percent from the same period last year.
Th e American Wind Energy Association, a trade group, said earlier this month that excess supply has slowed production of turbines.
“We just spent $1 billion in capital projects in the U.S. We believe the fundamentals are intact. (Th e order for wind-turbines is) going to be slower.”
Roby Roberts, spokesman of Vestas Americas, told Greeley newspaper Th e Tribune.
www.duclarion.comNovember 3, 20098
Filmmaking for social changeROSIE WILMOT
Assistant lifestyles editor
Seattle fi lmmaker Sandy Cioffi went to Nigeria to fi lm the building of a library in the poor community of Niger Delta, but what she found would change her life for years and compel her to create the documentary chronicling the crisis, “Sweet Crude.”
A fi lm that exposes the humanitarian and oil crisis in Nigeria will be shown at Th e Rocky Mountain Womens Film Festival Saturday, Nov. 7. Th e fi lm has won the hearts of many around the country in its endeavor to shed light on the developing events untold by mass media.
“Sweet Crude” is a part of the longest continuously running women’s fi lm festival in the world and will be one of over 250 fi lms showcased at the weekend long event. Rising early will be necessary to catch the documentary’s 10:35 a.m. show time at the Cornerstone Arts Center located on 825 N. Cascade Ave. at Colorado College Colorado Springs, Colo. Director Sandy Cioffi will attend.
Th e fi lm tells the story of Niger Delta in 2008 when militants from the Move-ment for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) declared an oil war. It tells stories of the regions’ people who are plagued by environmental destruction due to the pumping of crude oil for sale on the inter-national market. Aft er 50 years of extreme
poverty and non-violent protest, MEND began capturing oil workers in an eff ort to draw international attention to the brewing crisis.
Cioffi was shocked that a situation so explosive and immediately pertinent to a nation’s stability could be glazed over by the media’s portrayal and emphasis on the situation. She gathered a team and headed
back to make a fi lm that she hoped would shed light on and gain support for the hurting com-munity.
“If we threw a high-beam spotlight on this moment and froze it for the world to see- what then? Could the people in a position to make a diff erence be moved to act?” Coiffi said.
Th e spread of information is extremely impor-tant to the members of the production team. All the members played multiple roles in
order to make the documentary a reality. Leslye Wood, a writer and producer of the fi lm also accumulated statistical research and fl ew to Nigeria twice during fi lming. She now focuses on public relations. She believes fi lm is an important genre for the younger generation to consider, especially when it addresses pressing current issues like environmental and human rights.
“Students hold a lot of the hope for changing our world - I want them to get to know the people of the Niger Delta, to understand beyond the statistics the impact
Get some art in your life, for free
ROSIE WILMOTAssistant lifestyles editor
As a new month and moon dawn, so does the chance to visit Denver’s art attrac-tions for free on the fi rst Friday of Novem-ber. Th is month’s First Friday will kick off the Denver Arts Week and bear the theme know your arts. Th e week aims to bring attention to the artistic explosion centered in Denver’s seven art districts.
Th e most trodden path this Friday will be the one to the Santa Fe Art walk between 4th and 12th Avenues. Th ough the technical hours of the Santa Fe street-long celebration of art are 6 to 9 p.m., the galler-
ies oft en stay open hours later to supply the wandering artist community with plenty of beverages and sights to behold.
Denverites swarm to walk the streets and graze the walls of galleries without the restraints of entry fees or daylight formalities. Th e doors of the galleries oft en open from seemingly small spaces into a series of rooms and staircases waiting to be explored. Th e streets are littered with musicians, street artists and occasional party buses.
At the gallery CHAC, the back door opens up to a large yard where strung lights and projected fi lm serve to whisk the observer from the city life of Denver to a
mysterious Spanish courtyard. Attendees may also stick their heads through a large wooden cut out to become Frida and Diego on their wedding day. Th e Chicano Humanities and Arts Council is currently featuring pieces celebrating El Dia De Los Muertos. Th e gallery is located at 772 Santa Fe Drive.
Crowds on First Friday can be large. Th ough the sights are circus-like and amus-ing initially, they can become overwhelm-ing when trying to view the exhibits. Th e Events Gallery at 910 has large rooms that oft en supply enough space to make viewing pleasurable. Th e gallery is currently host-ing the 14th annual Artists of Colorado
Juried Exhibition, which features 90 mixed media pieces picked from submissions by local artists to the Colorado Arts Guild.
Th e celebration of arts will continue on Saturday night, with a tour of the city’s museums. Shuttles leaving from the Cherry Creek Shopping Center at 5 p.m. will transport patrons among the city’s museums open for public view. Th e shuttle runs until 10 p.m. and off ers multiple routes with destinations among the 11 participat-ing museums including the Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Colorado History Museum.
Sunday’s events will focus on the Denver stage and will present people with discounts to the city’s theatrical and musical attractions. Th e Performing Arts Complex will host an open house that off ers attend-ees backstage tours and discounts on future performances.
Denver Arts Week also will also fea-ture events at the River North Art District, Golden Triangle District, Cherry Creek North, Downtown Denver, Belmar Block 7, East Ends District and Tennyson Street Cultural District.
For more information about the week of arts visit www.denverartsweek.com.
of oil,” said Wood.Th e “Sweet Crude” Web site accepts
donations and also sells T-shirts in an eff ort to alleviate trauma in the Niger Delta. Additionally, those involved desire to infl uence audiences’ perceptions of con-sumption.
“We’ve come to realize, like many people working on environmental and energy issues, that it’s time to re-examine everything, to change everything - our whole relationship to consumption. What we really need to be thinking about is how to transition to energy production that’s cleaner and saner. And particularly to clean up those places like the Niger Delta that have been decimated,” Wood said.
COURTESY OF SARAH B. FLETCHERDenver Arts week is an opportunity for patrons around the city to explore the city’s galleries, museums and theaters. Events begin Nov. 6 with the First Friday Art Walk.
WWW.SWEETCRUDEMOVIE.COMRight: Director Sandy Cioffi . Below: Cioffi took four trips to Nigeria to produce the revealing documentary on oil and human rights in Niger Delta, “Sweet Crude.”
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November 3, 2009 9
ELIZABETH BORNEMANContributor
Greg Roedel cleans up beaches. He also pays his way through school, works full time and attends night classes at DU’s school of real estate and construc-tion management.
Roedel, a graduate student, Bill Valaika, a DU alumnus and undergrads Lindsey Schaef-fer and Sam Sokel work with Habitat Healers. Habitat Healers is an organization dedicated to cleaning up ecosystems around the globe. Valaika founded the organization and enlisted real
estate and construction manage-ment majors Roedel, Schaefer and Sokel to volunteer with the organization. Habitat Healer vol-unteers clean up areas and build community stations to continue recycling process in places that do not have reliable waste manage-ment services.
“I wanted to contribute and see new parts of the world,” said Roedel. “You see the need and opportunity to eff ect posi-tive change in diff erent places [through Habitat Healers].”
His goal is to go on one eco-logical mission a year, a commit-ment which he admits has been both challenging and fulfi lling.
Roedel, Schaeff er and Valaika will be travelling to Costa Rica Nov. 8 through Nov. 15 to facilitate beach cleanup by groups of volunteers.
Th ey will be travelling through diff erent jungle and beach locations picking up trash and building sustainable waste
receptacles from materials, like bamboo, found on the beach. Global Vision Initiative, a partner corporation, works with Habitat Healers to send volunteers around the world, concentrating mainly in Latin America.
Th e three-mile-long stretch of beach where the Habitat Healer volunteers will be work-ing is the location of the second most populous gathering of sea turtles in the world. Th e trash on the beach, ranging anywhere from ankle- to knee-deep, has negatively aff ected the lives of many animals who interact with the beach ecosystem.
“People have no idea how bad these beaches look,” Roedel said. “You can’t see the sand.”
Th e amount of trash threat-ens the wildlife and surrounding ecosystem. Many endangered spe-cies, like the marine turtles, need a clean beach in order to survive. Beach debris comes mostly from cruise liners, fi shing boats and the
local population. Th e locals con-tribute to the problem because there is a lack of adequate places to dump their trash and recycle materials.
“Th is stretch of beach has never been cleaned in the twenty years of its status as a Costa Rican national park,” Valaika said.
Th e eff ort by Habitat Healers will be the fi rst to clean this beach, as well as others in more than 120 diff erent locations around the world.
Valaika, Roedel and Schaef-fer will decide what their next project and location will be aft er the Costa Rica trip.
“We will wait and see what goes well and what doesn’t during Costa Rica, and then plan from there,” said Valaika.
Th ey will continue to use the resources of the Global Vision Initiative, www.gvi.co.uk, as well as any donations or volunteers who want to become involved with Habitat Healers.
Sustainability group advocates students adopt green livingDEVIN PITTS-ROGERS
Contributor
InvVEST, a nonprofi t organi-zation, is looking to create change in the present by looking to the future through the promotion of sustainable energy practices. Endorsed by Dr. Bruce Hutton, dean emeritus at the Daniels School of Business and board advisor of the organization, inv-VEST now seeks student leaders at DU.
InvVEST also promotes sus-tainability in high schools as well as the general community.
InvVEST stands for invest in energy that is sustainable through virtual collaborative teams, said Probir Ghosh, president and former DU student, and Tanya Lehman, invVEST education ambassador to DU.
InvVEST aims to aff ect the public’s consciousness about sus-tainable behaviors and to advo-cate sustainable living.
Th e emphasis is placed on
ways to fuel economic growth, aid the environment, and establish a safe future for the next genera-tion.
“One of our key initiatives is to work with education institu-tions collaboratively to increase awareness around the urgency of energy transition,” said Ghosh. “We believe that the education community, especially universi-ties that are turning out our next generation of leaders, can be the game changer our nation needs to enable a timely energy transi-tion.”
In Ghosh’s mind, DU is a logical choice to be one of the universities invVEST works with because of other existing sustain-ability campaigns on campus.
By working with the DU Sustainability Council, invVEST seeks to create a network of resources. Th is network creates the easiest means for commu-nication among like-minded individuals looking to make the concept of sustainability a reality,
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committed to bringing about change.
Juniors Abhi Ramaswami and Ramnath Selagamsetti and
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senior Anandi Ramaswami all joined invVEST to bring aware-ness to campus and to put aware-ness into action.
When he announced DU’s sustainability initiative a few
months ago, Chancellor Coombe stated that universities are agents of change and can show the way for others to follow, signaling an approval of sorts for sustainability initiatives on campus.
Gather up your long under-wear, snow jacket, ski poles or snowboard, with ski season just around the corner it is time to make plans for opening day.
Here are the opening dates for popular ski resorts in Summit County, hope for more snow.
-Joey Mark, contributor
A-Basin - Open
Loveland - Open
Keystone - Nov. 5
Copper – Nov. 6
Vail – Nov. 20
Breckenridge – Nov. 20
Winter Park – Nov. 18
Beaver Creek – Nov. 25
Steamboat – Nov. 25
Snowmass/Aspen – Nov. 26
HANSON to host barefoot walk, perform, raise money At 1 p.m. today, HANSON
will be at the bookstore to begin Take the Walk, a mile walk around campus which will begin and end at the bookstore.
HANSON will donate $1 for every student who signs up to walk.
HANSON also will perform in the bookstore and will be sell-ing their book and signing books at 2 p.m.
All proceeds from the walk and book sales will go to AIDS
prevention and poverty relief in Africa.
Th e initial launch of the Take the Walk campaign began with one mile barefoot walks staged across the U.S. and Canada to inspire people to make an impact through simple actions. It will be optional to walk barefoot due to recent weather.
Visit www.takethewalk.net for more information about the national campaign or to contrib-ute in other ways.
DEVIN PITTS-ROGERS|CLARIONStudent ambassadors for invVEST work to promote sustainability eff orts on campus, in surrounding schools and the community.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your heart is in the right place and the signals you are sending will arouse someone who is just right for you. Plan a fun-fi lled week socializing or take that trip that is geared toward meeti ng people who are looking for love and romance.TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t be fooled by someone you know through work or a group you belong to who appears to have an interest in you. An embarrassing situati on will develop if you respond with similar acti ons. Professionalism must be maintained.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll att ract att enti on no matt er where you go or what you do if you contribute intellectually. Your sophisti cated insight will enti ce someone who knows the ropes and is anxious to play your game mentally, physically and emoti onally.CANCER (June 21-July 22): You may be paying too much att enti on to someone who isn’t worth your ti me, eff ort and aff ecti on. A change of heart will lead you in a much bett er directi on. Don’t base your personal choices on looks alone. Connect mentally.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your
entertaining personality won’t let you down. Someone you fi nd engaging will fi t into your lifestyle as if you have known one another forever. You can make plans for the future without fear. It’s love-at-fi rst-sight and commitment to follow.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your emoti ons will trick you into thinking you’ve found someone special. Beware of a chameleon mirroring your every move. Things are not as they appear and you must refrain from moving too quickly or making promises too soon.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If someone interests you, be the one to initi ati ve the fi rst move. It will be easy for you to intrigue and manipulate the person you choose to be with. Let your intuiti on guide you, your charm capti vate and your playful acti ons enti ce.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Keep your feelings a secret unti l you know where you stand. You will att ract an individual batt ling a bad relati onship. Don’t fall into someone else’s melodrama. It’s best not to be the one picking up the pieces. Avoid damaged goods.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Someone who is off limits will interest you. Don’t risk your positi on, status or reputati on for a short fl ing that will end in disaster. The potenti al to be enti ced by the thrill of the moment will not be worth the repercussions.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Someone you meet will have ulterior moti ves. Protect your assets and don’t give out too much informati on about who you are or what you have. If you have to use money to impress someone, you are chasing the wrong partner.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll att ract some interesti ng and worthy candidates for love. Follow your heart and you will end up with the perfect person who can off er you a relati onship that proves to be equal on all levels. Together you can build a good life.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your uncertainty will cloud any relati onship you try to get into. Don’t be surprised if someone tries to persuade you to make a commitment that you aren’t ready to make. You may have to lay down some ground rules or take a pass.
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AnswersDot the I’s and cross the T’s, Long John Silver, Easy way out, A girl in every port, Lean cuisine, Th ink it over
ACROSS 1 Brig pair 6 ___ Vaishnavism (Hindu
sect) 9 Org. that trademarked
“Pony Express” in 200613 Like some leaves15 Mad17 They appeared on “The Ed
to Ambrose Bierce, part 120 De, across the Rhine21 Sources of some leather22 Grade school comeback23 Holdup accessory?24 Hosp. units25 Reaction
dreaded by a performer26 Minstrel percussionist28 Pursue, in a way30 Wear that’s worn31 Review, part 234 Some batteries35 Big productions36 They’re often stuffed39 16th letter of the Spanish
alphabet40 Old TV ministry inits.43 Agcy. concerned with
ergonomics44 Prayer start46 Last thing47 Onetime foe of the Navajo48 Review, part 350 “Hot” political topic52 Where sledders start53 Strikingly
original54 Cause for a kid getting
grounded55 Sweet ending?56 Half a leaf
DOWN 1 Summon 2 It’s often played before the
first play 3 Hucksters’ deliveries 4 Baby showers? 5 Titan’s home 6 Whiplike? 7 Free, but not for free 8 Like much plumbing 9 OPEC member: Abbr.10 Be a garbage collector11 Releases from a spring
board?12 They’re not on the level
14 Not on the level16 Global lending org.18 Break down and assimilate23 Sources of some leather25 Snake feeder27 Pair28 Grammy winner Khan29 46-Across part31 Cape Fear natives32 They’re seen
at Venice’s La Fenice
33 Like-minded34 Wienerwald’s whereabouts
36 Ruffians37 “Hello-o-o!”38 Cousins of cutters40 Occurring in stages41 Letter’s sign42 Chooses to
46-Down45 Valuable46 Show clemency48 Cause of a major downfall?49 Bacteriologist’s base51 Lines up?
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Chris,So you want to win over a DU girl,
eh? Listen closely: I’m about to let you in
on a secret about girls at this school. Nothing impresses a DU girl more
than…herself. Th at’s right, Chris. Th ere’s nothing girls at DU love more than them-selves, which means you’ve got to act just like one. Before you know it, they’ll be saying: “Have you met that Chris…he’s AMAZING. He gets me.”
So how does one go about becoming a DU girl?
One: wear Uggs everywhere. Th ese ultra-trendy shoes are all the rage with college girls. What’s not to love? Th ey’re comfortable and stylish. And if you wear them with sweatpants covering the boot part it makes your feet look like giant hot pockets.
Step two: Run around spending your father’s hard-earned money. Dad didn’t
Dear Chris,In order to really understand the
girls at DU, Chris, it helps to remember a few things about the university they go to, because in reality both are pretty much the same.
For starters, let’s take a look around; well manicured lawns with peaky towers popping out everywhere, and a copper bronze coating covering it all.
Yup, that fi ts the description of the typical sorority girl here at DU. Plus, with over 400 people employed as custodial and repair-work staff , “high maintenance” is quite the understate-ment. (Let’s be honest, all the new “renovations” around campus aren’t helping anything.)
And of course, what do both the university and DU girls love more than anything else?
Your money.
Taking a hint from the DU book-store, DU’s girls really know how to take your money, and in the end, give you nothing back for it.
On top of DU’s new price gouging on hockey tickets, tuition spikes and activity fees; now your DU girlfriend is making you pay for her “extras.”
So how are you going to fi nd the serious love of your life as you are moving on, getting older and graduat-ing college? Duh! Start acting like a prospective high school student and these DU girls will be desperate to impress you. Pop on your Springsville High School chess club letterman jacket and your name tag, and who knows, maybe you’ll end up with a pampered “campus tour” of her bedroom (let’s hope she’s good at walking backwards).
Insincerely,Sven
spend his 20s, 30s and 40s working until 8 p.m. to make partner at a major law fi rm so you could wear store-bought jeans. Banana Republic? What are you, homeless? I know it’s unfair to say that DU girls run around spending their fathers’ money. Th ey spend their moth-ers’ money, too. Mom’s a much easier sell than Dad.
Step three: Hook up with the ath-letes. Th e hockey team might be a little surprised when they see you waiting outside their locker room wearing Uggs, size one True Religion jeans and a tight Juicy Couture top.
In fact, they’ll probably beat the sh*t out of you. But it will be worth it. Soon the DU girls will start thinking you’re one of them. And that’s when they’ll fall in love with you.
Sincerely,Rob
In addition to padding my resume with a master’s degree, I was hoping to In addition to padding my resume with a master’s degree, I was hoping to fi nd a future wife from the DU community. Any advice before I graduate fi nd a future wife from the DU community. Any advice before I graduate this spring?this spring?
-Chris, running out of time-Chris, running out of time
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NATE KNIFEContributor
If you read Th e Clarion regularly, you’ve probably noticed that our Opinions section has started to incorporate a large number of columns to make up for the fact that we only ever receive letters to the editor when we write something off ensive and/or borderline racist.
Th anks to the content of these col-umns, it’s become one of our most-read sections behind the crime report and the front page (which we count as having been read if you happen to pass by one of our newsstands).
You’re probably wondering how you can get in on that sweet action. Well, I’m going to tell you.
Th e trick to being a great columnist is to make carefully measured, intelligent arguments with clever but tasteful jokes interspersed throughout.
Here’s where we run into our fi rst problem, because you are a product of the University of Denver’s curriculum and are
therefore quite incapable of doing any such thing. You’ll have to resort to other means of craft ing a column.
First, you must choose a target for your ridicule. Now, you might be saying that not every column needs to target someone necessarily, that it can be about an issue or an idea. But if you were to say that, I’d say you must be one of those brainless business majors. Am I right, non-business majors?
See? I’ve chosen an entire subset of DU as my target. Th at makes it topical AND ensures that I’ll be getting a big fat pile of the attention I’ve craved since Mom stepped out for cigarettes 16 years ago.
Sure, it may be in the form of angry business students who don’t like that I’ve categorically derided all the hard work they’ve been doing for a few cheap shock laughs, but that’s just the cost of great satire.
Next comes the part where you make jokes. Reading the columns in Th e Clarion, you could be forgiven for thinking this step is optional. Th at’s because we here at Th e Clarion believe in a high-brow style of comedy. If you don’t get it, that means
you’re probably illiterate. You see what I did there? I chose a new
target for my column, though this one is a signifi cantly smaller subset of the DU com-munity: Clarion readers.
You can oft en get around the need for humor by simply leaping back and forth between jibes at people you don’t like or think would make an easy target.
Okay, now you’ve got enough mate-rial. You can probably string together a few sentences, and as our opinions editor Katie pointed out a few issues ago, we will quite literally run anything that’s handed in for us to print. Anything.
But Th e Clarion isn’t your only outlet. Does your column go on for a thousand words and cite no fewer than three French philosophers while trying to justify grow-ing marijuana in the community garden? Th en the [dis]claimer should be right up your alley. And if instead of writing words you slammed your face repeatedly against the keyboard until the page was full, then you should look into the Press Club.
Now we come to our fi nal section:
how to deal with criticism. With all the personal attacks you’ll be squeezing into your column, you’re bound to attract some negative attention.
Everyone from whatever the student senate is calling itself these days to rival columnists who are upset that your idiotic ranting is taking attention away from their idiotic ranting is going to want a piece of you. You can rest easy though.
Th e worst Senate can do is give way too much money to Alpine Club and your fellow columnists will congratulate you on a great piece to your face while anony-mously deriding you on the Internet.
For everyone in between…well, odds are good that if you’ve resorted to writing for Th e Clarion, your social life has already hit rock bottom, so no real loss there.
Now you’ve got the basics down. It’s time to get out there and start attacking people.
May your future in punditry be a happy one! Unless you’re one of those idiot engineering students, in which case you can go directly to hell.
How to write a great column
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CORY LAMZ Assistant news editor
Some singers sound pitch-perfect on record but fall fl at in concert. Luckily for fans, Rob Th omas is not one of them.
Th e solo artist and Matchbox Twenty frontman packed the seats of Magness Arena last Tuesday, Oct. 27, with his Cradlesong Tour ’09, which brimmed with arena-ready rock anthems and a vocal performance that sounded just as good as on record.
As the snow began to blanket the DU campus, Th omas appropriately started his two-hour set with “Fire on the Mountain,” a cut from his 2009 sophomore album Cradlesong.
Th e pounding drum-beat and spot-on vocal within the fi ve-minute per-formance got the audience’s energy going – more so than openers Carolina Liar or OneRepublic.
Th omas continued with “Give Me the Meltdown,” abound with funky guitar licks that would make even the Purple One green with envy.
Th ough his music is funkier than ever, Th omas has not forgotten the 90s rock past from his Matchbox days. Th e emotive tempo and questioning lyrics of a crum-bling relationship in “Mockingbird” had fans on their feet.
A stripped-down rendition of Match-box Twenty’s “Bent” backed by only Th om-as’s acoustic guitar made fans remember why the singer was successful in the fi rst place.
A “Real World ‘09” – perhaps an homage to a Matchbox hit of the same name – had fans shaking their hips and, especially for one woman in upper-level seating, go-go danc-ing to their hearts’ content.
Th e most interesting moments of the night, came from Th omas’ interaction with the audience.
He explained the origina-tion of certain songs, like “Little Wonders,” which he wrote for his dog, and “Getting Late,” a happy little ditty about
death and doing something right with the time you have.
Th e night also saw Th omas pay tribute to his musical infl uences. He performed
Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” and his own mega-hit “Smooth,” in which he col-laborated with Carlos Santana, as if they came from his own catalogue.
But his most recent hit single, “Her Diamonds,” which draws parallels to the drumbeat
of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes,” established Th omas as the solo rock star that he is.
Rob Th omas storms Magness
Bemused breaking out in local music sceneDEVIN PITTS-ROGERS
Contributor
Th e local band Bemused has been regularly featured on the local music scene. Aft er competing in last spring’s DU Battle of the Bands, they have played in both the spring and fall showcases here on campus.
Th e band, which is composed of students from the Lamont School of Music frequently has performances. Earlier this month, the band played at Herman’s Hideaway, and Casselman’s.
Aft er spending time in the recording studio, Bemused has released an LP entitled Departed Ones.
Th e acoustic guitar is present much in the style of Dave Mat-thews. Th e melodic element is slightly similar to DeVotchKa. From that base, the
band seems to go into more of its own style, not seeking to impersonate or replicate a lot of other music.
Th e album includes the sounds of vibraphone, as well as an enjoyable inter-polation of “Purple Haze.” Th e vocals
run deeper than one would expect. Variety is present throughout the fi ve tracks on their album.
Length would appear to be the only real discrepancy. Th ere is a good variety of music, but not enough songs. Since it is a freshman album, this can easily be dismissed. Th e next album should have more songs.
Ultimately, Departed Ones is an album deserving of an audience. While there are diff erent sounds, the transition from song to song
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Bassnectar, ghoulish delight on Halloween night
HUNTER STEVENSContributor
Another Halloween, another night of bumping techno and crazy costumes. Bassnectar, brainchild of DJ Lorin Ashton, played a sold-out show at the Fillmore to the legions of loyal bass-heads and rave children that fl ooded the streets last Saturday.
Bassnectar, Ashton’s open-sour music project, has gained a large following across the country in the past few years. More and more music fans are lining up to
buy tickets to hear the thumping bass lines and intense mash-ups of genres that Ashton has become known for. Ashton is constantly touring night aft er night, as well as churning out new beats and networking with big names in the industry.
Tickets for the Halloween show sold-out two weeks aft er being released and it was clear Ashton felt the pressure to deliver a show-stopping performance. Boy did he deliver. Armed with his turntables, a few laptops and his signature waist-length hair,
‘Paranormal Activity,’ blockbuster hit NATE KNIFE
contributor
Most high-grossing movies these days are tremendous, eff ects driven blockbusters with A-list stars and budgets larger than the GDP of most developed countries. For the past few weeks, one movie has dominated the box offi ce, slipping to the number two slot only as a result of Michael Jack-son’s last on-screen appearance. And it only cost about $15,000 to make.
“Paranormal Activity” is immersive from the very beginning. Th ere are no opening credits, no title sequence, really nothing to indicate this is anything more than video foot-age from a handheld camera. Th e story follows Micah (Micah Sloat) and Katie (Katie Featherston), a couple plagued by unexplainable nightly disturbances. In order to get to the bottom of things, Micah purchases a camera and sets it up in their bedroom. Th is leads the unfortunate pair to one unfortu-nate conclusion: there’s a demonic presence in their home, and it doesn’t like being videotaped.
Everything about the fi lm is minimalist, and as such it plays very capably into the subtle fears that crop up when you’re alone in the dark. Th e handheld camera is something we’ve all seen before, but thankfully it spends much of its time on a tripod. Moments when the actors run back and
forth with the camera are extremely rare, so you won’t leave the theatre with motion sickness.
It’s the audio that really creates the creepi-ness and intensity of “Paranormal Activity.” A low budget and special-ized premise limited the
visual eff ects that could be used. Instead, bumps, knocks and creaks that you so desperately want to believe is the house settling, are employed to create the eff ect of an otherworldly intruder.
“Paranormal Activity” features no serial killers with elaborate death traps and no undead monsters stalking sexu-ally charged teenagers.
Instead, writer and director Oren Peli shot the entire fi lm in his own home, on a minimal budget, and has successfully made one of the best suspense fi lms of the year.
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Ashton gave the crowd exactly what it was looking for; fl oor-shaking bass beats mixed with genre-blending dance tracks.
Playing a mix of both old material and beats off his newest album, Cozza Frenzy, Ashton kept the crowd moving until the very end.
For those who couldn’t get tickets, Casselman’s bar and venue located in downtown Denver played host to the aft er party where a group of lesser-known DJs as well as supporting act RJD2 played sets. Ashton arrived
around 1 a.m. and continued the party well into the night.
Dressed in costumes that ranged from the scary to the blindingly neon, fans waited in lines that stretched down the block to get into the show.
Filling the packed dance fl oor, fans crowd-surfed, threw glow sticks and screamed for more.
In between songs, Ashton interacted with the crowd, took pictures with fans and even voiced how nervous he was. He closed the show saying, “You guys
are the best crowd. Th ank you so much. I’ll defi nitely be coming back soon, this was one of the best sets!”
Despite being released into the cold, concert-goers ran through the packed streets caus-ing general Halloween madness. Although the concert ended around midnight, it is a safe bet the crowd took advantage of day-light savings time and made the most of the extended Halloween evening.
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BASSNECTAR.NETDJ Lorin Ashton performming at an outdoor concert event. Ashton spun the night away last Saturday to a sold out Halloween crowd at the Fillmore Auditoriium. Fans waited in lines down the block to get into the show.
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MEGAN WESTERVELT | CLARIONJunior goaltender Marc Cheverie, set the all-time DU shutout-streak record in the fi rst period of Friday’s game against Minnesota State, but was taken to the hospital aft er being cut with a skate by a Minnesota State player.
EDDIE FISCHERMANNSports editor
On a night that saw the Pioneers win and junior goaltender Marc Cheverie break the all-time shutout-streak record for the University of Denver, there should have been no cause for worry. However, early in the third period there was a very scary moment for Cheverie and Pioneer fans.
On a seemingly innocent play, Minne-sota State forward Justin Jokinen slid into the Denver goaltender skates fi rst. Joki-nen’s right skate clipped the exposed calf of Cheverie causing him to be face down immediately.
Th e crowd silenced immediately as the No. 1-ranked goaltender in the nation lay with blood dripping from his leg and onto the ice.
Captain Rhett Rakhshani was on the bench when this happened.
“I was not really worried at fi rst, because most of the times when goalies get hit, they are able to get up and shake it off ,” said Rakhshani.
“Th en the referee came over and said he was cut pretty bad and it was near his Achilles [tendon].”
Aft er the game, head coach George Gwozdecky came in and told Rakhshani and the team that Cheverie had been cut pretty bad, but he would fully recover.
Th e day aft er the injury Cheverie said that his leg felt sore, but he is very optimis-tic about the injury.
“It is supposed to only be a couple weeks, so hopefully I have a speedy recov-ery and can be back on the ice,” Cheverie said.
According to Th e Denver Post, Chev-erie is expected to miss two to four weeks with the injury.
Cheverie was immediately taken
Porter Adventist Hospital where he received multiple stitches.
Th e shutout record was more of a relief for Cheverie than anything.
“I wasn’t really thinking about it,” Cheverie said with a laugh, “it was just nice to know that once I got past fi ve minutes I didn’t have to talk about it anymore.”
He had been talking to the previous
STEVE COULTERAssistant sports editor
Travel and success are two things that DU alpine skier and team captain Leif Haugen has grown accustomed to in his already prolifi c skiing career.
In his freshman year, the Norwegian-born Haugen led DU to the national championship last year, while also earning personal accolades such as First Team All-American and Pioneer Sportsman of the Year.
Haugen enters his sophomore year at DU looking to build off his past suc-cess. Last year, he was named team MVP and freshman of the year aft er he fi nished second in the giant slalom in the NCAA championships.
Haugen’s success is not limited to America. A road warrior, Haugen placed No. 26 in his FIS World Cup debut last month in Soelden, Austria.
“Th e greatest moment so far in my career would be placing in the top 30 in the World Cup last month,” Haugen said.
Haugen skied for his native country of Norway at the event, competing in the men’s giant slalom. Haugen fi nished his fi rst run in 1:12:97 and improved on his second run, fi nishing in 1:12:75. With those times he earned a total of 26.56 FIS points, plac-ing him No. 26 amongst all skiers.
“It went really good,” Haugen said. “[I] took advantage of my debut and got some points to qualify to be in the top 30.”
Despite his early success with the Denver ski team and individually on an international stage, Haugen believes there are still areas to improve upon.
“I have to keep on working hard on my technique and get better physically if I want to make the Olympics [in February],” Haugen said. “If I can make it to the Olym-pics I don’t just want to sit there, I want to make results. Being in the top 10 is a goal I have for myself.”
While Haugen is open about his Olympic aspirations, he acknowledges his responsibility as a team captain for DU.
“Right now I am playing in two fi elds, one for myself and one for my team,” Haugen admits. “I want to win more NCAA championships here as well as become a top international skier for myself.”
Th e constant traveling could cause some athletes to deteriorate, or break down, but Haugen has adapted to being in constant motion.
“I competed a lot before I came to DU,” Haugen said, “so I am adjusted [to] the back and forth travel between America and Europe.”
Haugen has found more than skiing success at DU.
“I want to challenge myself mentally
rather than just at sports” Haugen said. “Th e school system is totally diff erent
here. In Norway, you have a fi nal, which is basically 100 percent of your grade. Here the classes require more discipline and as an athlete you will miss some classes, and you have to learn to keep up.”
As he continues his triumph as a skier, Haugen is aware how important success in
Skiier competes overseas in World Cupthe classroom is to his future.
“For the future, I want to graduate with a degree from here and then look to develop myself as a skier,” Haugen said.
As for the immidiate future, the upcoming ski season, Haugen has only one plan.
“Th is year I want to establish myself as a top-national skier.”
Cheverie breaks record, at a cost
DU MEDIA RELATIONS Lief Haugen, helped lead Denver to their 20th National Championship last season.
record holder and former teammate Peter Mannino over the past couple of days about it.
“Peter was really happy for me, he just gave me some words of encouragement,” said Cheverie.
Th e record now stands at 223 minutes and 41 seconds. Cheverie eclipsed Man-nino’s mark by just under 15 minutes.
Junior goaltender broke the all-time DU shutout-streak record fi ve minutes into the game
Freshman Adam Murray will now start in net.
Th e Pioneers travel to Murray’s home state of Alaska this weekend to play against WCHA conference rival, University of Alaska-Anchorage.
Th e games are on Friday night at 7:05 p.m. and Saturday night at 7:05 p.m. Both games are Alaska time.
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MICHAEL FURMAN | CLARIONJunior Anthony Maiani and Sophomore Joe Colborne celebrate a goal that was scored in a game last season against the University of Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves. Th e Pioneers travel to Alaska this weekend to play the Seawolves on Friday and Saturday night. Th e Pioneers swept Anchorage out of the fi rst round of the WCHA playoff s last season. Th ey look to continue their success against Alaska, as they have won 11 of the last 12 meetings. Denver goes into the series without a conference loss.
Pioneers look to drown SeawolvesEDDIE FISCHERMANN
Clarion
Coming into the third week-end of conference action, the Pioneers fi nd themselves tied for fi rst place in the conference.
Still without a loss in WCHA play, their record is identical to in-state rival Colorado College at 3-0-1.
Th is weekend the Pioneers (5-2-1, 3-0-1) travel to Alaska to play unranked Alaska-Anchorage. Last weekend, the Seawolves (1-3-0, 3-5-0) traveled to Minnesota to play the University of Minnesota.
In the fi rst game, Anchorage jumped out to a great start, scor-ing the fi rst goal of the game, but Minnesota answered with fi ve goals of their own to dominate the Seawolves 5-1.
In the second game, Minne-sota jumped out to a fi rst period lead and never looked back.
Th ey scored two goals in the fi rst period and Alaska-Anchor-age could not make up this diff er-ence. Minnesota coasted to a 4-1 win, and Anchorage was swept out of Minnesota.
Even though they Alaska Anchorage is are 3-5 overall and 1-3 in the WCHA, this series cannot be looked at as an easy weekend.
It is never easy on the road, and that one conference win for the Seawolves was against the third-ranked team in the nation, North Dakota.
Th e Pioneers had an emo-tional weekend fi lled with highs and lows. In the fi rst fi ve minutes of the fi rst game, junior goalten-der Marc Cheverie eclipsed Peter Mannino’s all-time shutout streak record at DU. Th is is a feat that will not soon be forgotten.
However, disaster struck in the third period of a 2-2 game, when a skate clipped Cheverie in the leg, cutting him deeply. Th e blade missed any vital arteries, but he will be out for a few weeks.
Th e Pioneers’ freshman Adam Murray came in to relieve Cheverie in the third period and was able to help lead the Pioneers to a 4-3 victory.
In game two, it was Murray’s
time to take the reigns completely. He got off to a shaky start, allow-ing two goals on the fi rst three shots of the game.
However the off ense was able to bail him out and come back to tie it 4-4.
In overtime, Minnesota State forward Justin Jokinen steam-rolled Adam Murray with just over a minute left .
Th ere were a few tense
moments in Magness Arena until Murray got up and remained in the game. Th e game ended in a 4-4 tie.
Th e Pioneers have had suc-cess against the Seawolves in the past. Coming into this weekend, the team has won 11 of the last 12 games against their WCHA rival, including seven straight games in Alaska.
Th is weekend the Pioneers
will have to make the long trip to Alaska to play the Seawolves on Friday and Saturday night.
Th e Pioneers will look to overtake Colorado College and stand alone as No. 1 in the WCHA. Also, with the No. 2 ranking in the nation, they hope to pass Miami-Ohio to reclaim the fi rst spot in the nation, where they were ranked coming into the season.
STEVE COULTERClarion
Th e senior class of the wom-en’s soccer team has experience when it comes to winning the Sun Belt Conference tournament.
Aft er winning the previous three tournaments, the Pioneers’ quest for their unprecedented fourth-straight conference champi-onship was abated this past week-end when DU won a tiebreaker over conference foe Western Ken-tucky to become the No. 2 seed in this week’s SBC tournament.
DU will play No.7 seed Troy in the tournament’s third match on Wednesday in Boca Raton, Fla.
Earlier in the regular season, the Pioneers beat Troy 1-0 at the University of Denver Soccer Sta-dium.
In the victory over the Tro-jans, goalkeeper Lara Campbell needed a single save to get the victory because DU dominated ball control.
Since the playoff s creation in 2000, Denver has won six of the nine Sun Belt Conference tourna-ments.
Denver is one of three teams, including North Texas and Florida International, to have won a SBC conference tournament.
DU’s senior class consists of midfi elders Lizzy Carlson
Senior class has a chance for 4th straight title and Kelli Breidenbach, forward Mariah Johnston and defender Emily Stewart.
Johnston is the second high-est-scoring player on the team with 18 points and was awarded conference player of the week in the last week of October.
Stewart has started every game as a defender, helping her freshman, Campbell, throughout the season.
During the past four years, the senior class has gone 65-19-9, which, according to College Soccer 360, makes them tied for eighth in nation in wins amongst any senior class.
If the Pioneers win on Wednesday, they will play the winner of Western Kentucky and Arkansas State on Th ursday night in Boca Raton.
Despite fi nishing with a worse regular-season record than Western Kentucky, the Pioneers claimed the No. 2 seed thanks to a 2-0 win against the Hilltoppers on Oct. 23.
Denver fi nished the season with a 9-2 conference record aft er defeating North Texas on Satur-day aft ernoon.
Before the game all the seniors were honored and were joined on the fi eld by their par-ents.
In the 20th minute of the contest Johnston dribbled down
ANDREW FIELDING| CLARIONSenior midfi elder Lizzy Carlson winds up to kick the ball during a game against North Texas on Saturday aft ernoon. Carlson and her fellow seniors played their fi nal game at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium. Th e seniors were honored before the game.
the right side of the fi eld and dished it to Breidenbach inside the box.
From eight yards out Bre-idenbach drilled the ball into the net for the game’s only goal.
Both Denver and Western Kentucky defeated their fi rst-round opponents in the regular season, which suggests that a rematch in the conference semi-fi nals is plausible.
Th e winner of that semifi nal will most likely take on No. 1 seed Florida International in the tour-nament’s championship game.
Florida International clinched the tournament’s No. 1 seed by fi nishing with a conference record of 9-1-1.
Th ey will play No. 8 seed Arkansas Little-Rock in their fi rst round contest, which is the tournaments fi rst game on Wednesday.
Both teams are responsible for the Pioneers two conference loses earlier in the season.
DU enters the tournament as one of the Sun Belt’s hottest team, winning seven of its last eight games.
If the Pioneers can continue their streak in the conference championship, then it will be the fourth time in four years that the senior class will make an auto-matic appearance in the NCAA tournament.
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FAST BREAK
hockey (5-2-1)DU 4, Minnesota State 3DU 4, Minnesota State 4 (OT)
what went rightDU’s Jesse Martin scored two goals and added an assist on Friday night to lead the Pioneers. Kyle Ostrow’s third period goal on Saturday helped the Pioneers get to overtime and stay unbeaten in conference play.
what went wrongAft er breaking a DU record, Marc Cheverie left Friday’s game because of being cut by a skate. Freshman Adam Murray got his fi rst collegiate victory as a goalie on Friday, but he surrendered four goals on Saturday including two within the fi rst ten minutes of play. Two of the fi rst three shots on goal went in.
up aheadDespite the tie, DU remains unbeaten in conference play. Th e Pioneers travel north to play Alaska-Anchorage on Friday at 7:05 p.m. and Saturday at 7:05 p.m. Alaska time.
volleyball (13-14)DU 3, Arkansas State 1DU 1, Arkansas Little-Rock 3
what went rightClare Maxwell became the all-time assists leader in Pioneer history on Friday night against Arkansas State. Maxwell fi nished with 37 assists. Emmy Davidsmeyer led DU with a total of 33 kills over the weekend.
what went wrongAlthough they beat one of the best teams in their conference on Friday, DU lost to mediocre Arkansas Little-Rock on Sunday. Th e loss ended a four-game win streak.
up ahead Th e Pioneers have three home games this weekend. Th ey play New Orleans on Th ursday at 7 p.m., Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Louisiana-Monroe on Sunday at 1 p.m. Th e games will take place in Hamilton Gymnasium.
men’s soccer (3-9-3)DU 0, Cal State-Bakersfi eld 3
what went rightTh e Pioneers put fi ve of their eight shots on goal, all of which were stopped by Roadrunners goalie Eric Shannon.
what went wrongGoalie Joe Willis and the Pioneer defense allowed three goals to be scored within a span of fi ve minutes. DU trailed 3-0 for last two-thirds of the contest. Th e team still has not won a conference game this season.
up aheadTh e Pioneers host the University of Seattle on Th ursday at 7 p.m. Th is is to make up for the game that was cancelled on Oct. 30 due to heavy snow fall. It will be the team’s fi nal home game. Th e seniors will be acknowledged before the contest. On Saturday, DU travels to play Air Force in their regular season fi nale at 7 p.m.
Others receiving votes: Quinnipiac 53, Minnesota 36, Harvard 22, St. Cloud State 21, Providence 18, Northeastern 10, New Hampshire 7, Merrimack 6, Minnesota State 6, Ohio State 1
SIDEBYBYSIDEGoals per game
31
11.7523
23.7536.38
2
2.633.63
3.13
Goals allowed per game
Shut outs
Penalty minutes per game
Shots on goal
STEVE COULTERAssistant sports editor
One of the largest snow-storms in October history left a group of DU students with a lot of free time and a lot of fresh powder to play with.
Th e entire campus woke up Th ursday morning to discover that all classes were cancelled because of the snow.
Th is was aft er the university cancelled classes aft er 2 p.m. Wednesday due to an impending blizzard.
Sophomore Jonathan Fein-mann and a group of friends took advantage of the snow day, decid-ing to set up a ski slope and trick rail on the Carnegie Green near Penrose Library.
“Th e best part was being out there with your friends and having a good time,” Feinmann said.
Th e group constructed a mammoth pile of snow, which formed the slope. At the bottom of the slope the group placed the rail in its path to do tricks off of.
Feinmann borrowed the rail from one of his friends, Jared Larkin, who had built the rail over
the summer aft er buying materi-als from a local Home Depot.
“[Jared] built it over the summer and we used it all the time,” Feinmann said.
Although he constructed the rail and let his buddy borrow
it, Larkin was not in attendance either day the group went out to enjoy the snow.
On Th ursday, Feinmann and com-pany went out to build to the snow cluster and spent about four
hours in the falling snow. “We just wanted to have
some fun and enjoy the new snow,” Feinmann said. “We felt like taking advantage of the snow day.”
On Friday, the group ven-tured back out to ski some more.Th is time around they were met by bright sunshine and a video camera, instead of gray clouds and snow showers.
While Feinmann and Steven-son Smith continued skiing down the slope and doing tricks on the rail, a member of the group caught their actions on camera. Th e rail that was once used by Larkin in the summer was put to use by Feinmann in the snowy fall.
Snow day skiingANDREW FIELDING | CLARION
Freshman Adam Murray will be in net for the Pioneers until starting goalie Marc Cheverie is able to return from his injury.
Clarion wins 5th place, national award
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At the National College Media conference last weekend in Austin, Texas, the Clarion was awarded 5th place, Best of Show for general excellence in the category for four-year universities with weekly, tabloid size student newspapers.
Th anks to all the staff and reporters who contribute to Th e Clarion each week. Without you, this award wouldn’t have been possible.
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Breakdown of DU and Alaska-Anchorage stats since the beginning of the 2009-10 season.
Listed with season record, points and previous week’s ranking.
