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March 9 to March 15, 2010 [Volume 34; Issue 21]
CULTURE
OPINION
PA� DOX
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NEWS
|Truth bombs| Sco� Brown makes a GOP FAIL-ibuster
Are student evaluations reliable?
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SPORTS
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Men’s 4x400 and High Jump: RMAC Champs
St. Patrick’s Day 101: Irish pubs and grubs in the Springs
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Student clash atop Mount Trashmore
Not your toddlers’ or grandparents’ puppet show
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Top 10: Connotations of March Madness
Averi [email protected]
SGA constitution revisions in the works
� e 19-page SGA Con-stitution is under revision once again. One reason be-ing that the current by-laws are in contradiction with the SGA constitution. � e other is to create less time-consuming, complicated processes and be� er serve UCCS students. � e 10-page proposed dra� , now in review, will mainly address issues of funding and SGA o� ce po-sitions. � e goal is to pass the new dra� by April 16. Ma� Seay, Chair of the Rules and Organizations Commi� ee and a student representative in the House of Representatives, com-mented on the overall pic-ture of the changes. “It’s good to be well-de� ned on some things, but if a process is de� ned by the constitu-tion, it can make things very time consuming and com-plicated.” Seay said that the Rules and Organizations Commit-tee has been working to clear up ambiguities and make processes more understand-able. “We also plan to enact a uniform set of by-laws to avoid con� icts in both de� -nitions and processes.” Another issue addressed in the revised constitution proposal is simplifying the funding process for school clubs. In the current system, students apply for funding through the ROAR O� ce. � e requests are forwarded to the Budget Advisory Commi� ee, which then makes recommendations to the House or Senate. � e student club representatives present their funding pro-posal to the House or Sen-ate, a� er which the chamber votes to approve or deny the request. � is presentation, and the sometimes intense ques-tioning that can sometimes
700 students � om across the state gathered at the Capitol in Denver to protest funding cuts. Ariel La� imore
WTF: Where’s the funding? Colorado students rally for higher education
Catherine [email protected]
An estimated 700 stu-dents marched from Auraria Campus to the Denver Cap-itol Building on Wednesday, March 3, demanding that Colorado lawmakers � nd alternatives to raising col-lege tuition. � ose gathered at the capitol worried that when federal stimulus mon-ey runs out next year, higher education will be hit hard, leading to tuition increases and restricted access to edu-cation. Students from all cor-ners of the state gathered at Tivoli Commons, and
Ba� le of the BandsRhiannon [email protected]
with signs and banners held high, marched to the capitol. � e rally’s theme, “Invest in us, we are the future. We are higher education,” was chanted along the way. Andrew Bateman, Presi-dent of the Associated Stu-dents of Colorado (ASC), student leaders from UCD, CSU, CU, PPCC and Metro State, and UCCS’s Student Body President Daniel Gar-cia spoke at the event. � e student representatives from across the state shared a similar message: Higher education must be a prior-ity for Colorado represen-tatives and long term, sus-tainable solutions to higher education funding issues are necessary. “� ere seems to be this
notion in this country that people have the ability to pick themselves up by their bootstraps,” said student Joe Howard from CSU. “But next year, the state of Colo-rado is cu� ing the boot-straps from the budget.” Colorado ranks poorly in several measures of higher education funding and with tuition rising nine percent every year, students feel higher education will soon become inaccessible for those of middle and lower income. Drew Johnson, President of PPCC, told � e Scribe, “We need to � nd a way to protect higher ed. K-12 is protected by the Constitution and it is only right that something is also in place to protect higher ed.
Community colleges like PPCC and non-traditional campuses like UCCS will lose too many students, and most will have nowhere else they can go.” State Representative Kar-en Middleton (D-Aurora) told � e Scribe she would like to see a P20 Ballot Ini-tiative. � is initiative would create an “education pipe-line” from K-12 through higher education and dedi-cates a portion of sales tax revenue to education. De-spite the urgent cries for im-mediate change, Middleton said the economy needs to recover before funding will be available and anticipates 18 months of planning.
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Six � nalists are le� a� er UCCS’s Ba� le of the Bands opening round last week. � ey will compete March 13 at the Blacksheep for a chance to open for the 3OH!3 concert this April. Six � nalists – three of which are UCCS acts – were chosen out of a pool of 22 UCCS and local musical acts. Shore White, J Carter and Splyt were the UCCS bands that made the cut. � e O� ce of Student Activities (OSA) President Michelle
Kissler told � e Scribe that Shore White is a combina-tion of UCCS student Sean Waldron and Undersummer Stars, a UCCS band who performed for the Phi Sig-ma Sigma bene� t concert last fall. J Carter, who is perform-ing at the Talent for Haiti bene� t concert coming up in April, is also a UCCS stu-dent. Splyt is comprised of Chris Vigil, a student sports announcer whose music en-tertained crowds at UCCS basketball games last sea-son. � e other three � nalists,
J. Carter raps to the � nals. James O’Shea IV
Finalists: UCCS Bands: Shore White, J. Carter and Splyt Local Bands: Year 7, Golden Ticket, Take it to Eighty-eight
Finals to be held on March 13 at � e Blacksheep, doors open at 7:30 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m.
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|The Lucid Line| Hip-pies, meet the Natural Gas Industry
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Mountain Lions come up short against Metro State in playo� loss
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On March 3 around 700 students marched to the Denver Capitol Building to rally against higher educa-tion budget cuts. A sign held by a student (featured on the front page) that day read, “I’m ditching class so my children have classes to ditch.” � e students that marched to the Capitol were a� er more than just an excuse to ditch class; they were a� er hope for a bright-er future. But where were the other 218,000 students of public-ly-funded higher education institutions? Right now Colorado ranks low among several measures of higher education funding, and the li� le funding that we receive is likely going to be cut signi� cantly over the next few years. � e only way universities can really make up for the cut is by raising
tuition and inevitably, in-stitutional � nancial aid will drop as well. Students across Colorado already pay more than their fair share for their educa-tion, and the increase means that many will be forced to go without a higher educa-tion degree. For those who can a� ord to stay, this does not mean much except that class sizes will decrease. For those who cannot a� ord to stay, this means a lost op-portunity for a be� er future. With a lessening amount of educated people in Colo-rado, not only will the disad-vantaged students lose, but the economy of Colorado will as well. � ere will be signi� cantly fewer people to work in higher paying jobs, which in turn means lower productivity. If you do not educate the people in your state, how do you expect to reap the rewards of their higher productivity, higher wages and, therefore, higher tax revenues? Lawmakers should be asking themselves this very question when they put higher education on the chopping block. Yet, in all of the news reports from the day, only one lawmaker was quoted — State Rep. Karen Middleton. All the rest were either watching from the balcony
or busying themselves with other tasks. Each Colorado lawmaker was personally sent a le� er inviting them to the rally, but only one re-sponded. � e lack of legislator-in-terest may seem like a shock. Yet, how do we expect the lawmakers to respond when only 700 out of an estimated 218,000 two-and four-year public institution students decide to speak out? We need to make a stron-ger statement if we expect state legislators to resist the temptation to make up for their budget shortfalls by making the easy grab at the big pot of higher education funding. While some of us may not have heard about the march, and others a� ended class that day, we need to remember that the need for our voices to be heard on the issue did not stop on March 3. We need to con-tinue with our e� orts by holding events at all 27 of our campuses, and, ideally, by sending 218,000 le� ers to our lawmakers. We need to get these law-makers to the breaking point where they realize just how important higher education in Colorado is, and not just to the point where they put on a good show now and cut our funding later. ◆
“It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money.”
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Are student evaluations reliable?
SGA revises Constitution(cont.)
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A common belief among students is that Faculty Course Questionnaires (FCQs) hold li� le power. Consequently, many stu-dents feel that the evalua-tions are a waste of time and e� ort. Communication Pro-fessor Don Morley, who teaches a communication research class based on sta-tistical methods, has done an exceptional amount of research on FCQs, includ-ing his own results over time. Once just an inexperi-enced, 30-year-old teacher at UCCS, Morley believed that students related to him and liked him, and at the end of his � rst several semesters, his ratings were high. Since then, his evaluations have su� ered. Some of Morley’s re-search, he believes, have be-gun to explain his and oth-ers’ changing results. One study compared a� ractive-ness and ease of a profes-sor’s class with the ending
evaluations, and found that age is an important factor in overall results. Morley has also studied the shi� in student evalua-tion validity. Interestingly, evaluations in the ‘70s were valued more than studies more recently conducted. As Morley explained, “All kinds of noted people will defend them as valid,” how-ever, many times, student re-liability is overlooked. Much of the current research, said Morley, � nds students as both unpredictable and an occasionally useless source of information. Striving to overcome this issue, Morley takes a math-ematical perspective on re-liability. Found on his web page is a computer program that statistically determines the reliability of any FCQ on campus. � e ICC-AK formula is able to derive a number between 0 and 1, from the course evaluations, which determines the reli-ability of that particular set of FCQs based on consis-tency of results. � e closer the ICC-AK is to 1, the more agreement found on the class’s evaluations and the more accurate, he said,
are the results. For example, if Art His-tory scored a 0.87, then the majority of the class felt a similar way about the course and the FCQ is relatively re-liable. � e courses scoring close to 1 are considered the most important to analyze because they are the most valid, according to Morley. When asked about how serious FCQs are taken by the administration and the possible repercussions of negative reviews, Dean’s Re-view Commi� ee Member and Psychology Professor Hasker Davis refused to be interviewed. Morley said that FCQs are of top prior-ity to the commi� ee in mak-ing faculty-related decisions. Still, Morley could not con-� rm that FCQs have ever led directly to a tenured pro-fessor’s dismissal. “It is not to my knowledge that a ten-ured professor has ever been let go,” Morley answered. Nonetheless, poor results on FCQs, according to Mor-ley, can in� uence profes-sors’ annual compensation increases, and if evaluations do not improve, a professor improvement plan can be implemented. ◆
follow, can last several hours and exert a toll on clubs ask-ing for funding. In the proposed dra� , this process would be cut in half. � e Budget Advisory Board would process the club funding requests, meet with the club to discuss the pro-posal and then make a deci-sion. Additionally, the Stu-dent Body President would no longer have the power to veto a club funding propos-al. � e Student Director of Finance would also become a member of the Executive Council. “Under the current sys-
tem, many clubs seem to be confused and intimidated by our funding process,” commented Seay. “By add-ing this revision, club mem-bers can have personal in-teraction with members of Student Government, gain familiarity with the funding process, and do not have to worry about presenting to the Senate or House.” With the constitutional funding changes, Seay be-lieves SGA would have more time available to focus on other roles like legislation and ballot initiatives. � e second signi� cant
change to the SGA Consti-tution would be the terms of eligibility for o� ce. In the current constitution, Seay says, “Requirements for eligibility to hold o� ce in SGA are relatively low and di� cult to enforce.” � e impeachment pro-cess is also vague. � e new version would have be more stringent: Members who aren’t serving students ac-cording to the SGA Consti-tution can be removed from o� ce. � e new dra� clearly lays out the terms of eligi-bility and an impeachment process. ◆
who are not UCCS acts, were Year 7, Golden Ticket and Take it to Eighty-eight. Each band was given ten minutes to perform, with eleven bands performing on each night. OSA sponsored the event and was also in charge of the judging. “We had two judges, one from OSA and one outside community member,” said Kissler. “� ey each followed a set of judging criteria com-piled from other campuses that have held Ba� le of the Bands, adjusted to � t an opener for 3OH!3.” Kissler said that turnout for the two opening round nights was decent. “First night was pre� y average, and the next night we had a pret-ty steady � ow of students,” she said. Kissler estimated that 50 students showed up the � rst night, with about double that watching the performance the second night. Kissler said that because 3OH!3 is practically of its own music genre, � nding a band to open is di� cult.
“But the talent was pre� y impressive. I was surprised,” she said. “Anytime you have a competition like that, you’re going to have some bands that are not what you’re looking for, but you always get some really good ones too.”
� e opportunity to open for a major label band is like-ly a welcome opportunity for up-and-coming artists, including those from UCCS. “It’s kind of surreal, actually, just because 3OH!3 is huge,” said Waldron, who is per-
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forming with Shore White. “� e chance to open up for 6,000 people is something that a week ago I wouldn’t have thought possible. But somehow it’s happening and it’s happening next week. We’re ge� ing a chance.” OSA selected 3OH!3 on Jan. 22 to headline its � rst annual spring concert this April 22. 3OH!3 is comprised of CU-Boulder alumnus Nathaniel Mo� e and Sean Foreman, and is known for its unique blend of electronic and hip hop music. � e Ba� le of the Bands Fi-nals will be held at the Black Sheep (2106 East Pla� e Ave) on March 13 at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7:30). � e event is free for students with a UCCS ID card. Check out OSA’s website for more information about � e Ba� le of the Bands, as well as the 3OH!3 con-cert at h� p://www.uccs.edu/~osa/index.html. ◆
Tim Canon contributed to this article.
Shore White was formed with Sean Waldron and Undersummer Stars speci� cally for this compe-tition. James O’Shea IV
“� e chance to open up for 6,000 people is something that a week ago I wouldn’t have thought pos-sible. But somehow it’s happening and it’s happening next week. We’re ge� ing a chance.”
- Sean Waldron
McCabe’s520 South Tejon St
McCabe’s has the best food of the Irish establishments reviewed here. It will be insanely busy on St. Pa� y’s Day, but luckily it opens at 7 a.m.. Start the day with the Irish Fry, con-sisting of Irish bacon (ham), blood sausages (don‘t ask, just eat), grilled tomatoes, taters, eggs and soda bread ($9.50). � e restaurant has Strongbow Cider on tap, which is a tart, hard cider that is all too easy to drink. � e Tim Finnegan Band starts at noon, and the Riverdance girls will be spin-ning through all day long.
The Dublin House1850 Dominion Way
Back in the ‘90s I had the pleasure to cook here for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration, and it sucked. Considering the improvements to the building and today’s younger clientele, this year’s cooks will be “in the weeds” too. Located next door to the Saint Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, � e Dublin House may be the theologically correct holiday location. When I asked what was happening on St. Patrick’s Day, the bartender said, “Just get here early!” � e Dublin House has decent bar food, lots of things to watch and play, and a friendly and e� cient sta� to o� set the crowds.
Murphy’s Tavern2729 North Nevada Ave
Murphy’s is everybody’s favorite dive bar. It is a drunken landmark to generations of college students in Colorado Springs. Only at Murphy’s can a pervert from the sex store next door, a couple of CC Hockey players and a retired Air Force Colonel sit next to each other, drink goblets of cheap beer and jam out to “Pour Some Sugar On Me.” Be careful, because the Irish-tongued barkeep, Ron, will try to get you to drink his signature shot, “Sex at Ron’s House.” St. Pa� y’s Day will be packed, but muscle up and grab a sub from Triv-elli’s next door to “keep ya goin’.”
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St. Patrick’s Day 101: Irish pubs and grubs in the Springs
� ere are rock inscriptions in southeastern Colorado that some scientists believe to be evidence of a Celtic presence here in C.E. 450. � e idea has been debunked by most, but what is certain is that St. Patrick’s Day brings out the Irish in all of us. � e original St. Patrick’s Day was a day of exemption from the temperance of Catholic Lent, hence the emphasis on eating and drinking. Regardless of religious orientation, UCCS students may indulge in Irish culture in more ways than just with a huge party. For those who are of age for St. Pa� y’s Day, here are some pointers.
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Go early – All of the Irish-themed establishments reviewed here will be absolutely packed, so ge� ing there early ensures the best food, fast-est service and hopefully a place to sit.
Eat lots – � ere is more to St. Pa� y’s Day than drinking. � e hearty fare will help soak up the Irish Car Bombs and make the next morn-ing more pleasant.
Don’t drink whiskey – OK, I am of Irish descent, have spent more than a li� le time on a bar stool and about as mel-low as they come. Jameson makes me act like Tarzan; be careful.
Go home early – Alongside New Year’s, St. Patrick’s Day is in the category of “Amateur Night.” Ge� ing Shelalied by the cops sucks, so walk, have a DD or take a cab. Driving under the in� uence is not a sound decision.
Stay close to home – St. Patrick’s Day calls for a visit to an O’bar of some kind. � e establish-ments reviewed here are all of the Irish persuasion and spread out all over town, so you don‘t have far to get home. ◆
O’Furry’s900 East Fillmore St
Located close to UCCS, O’Furry’s might be the place to go when Murphy’s gets too crowded. � ey have had the best chicken wings in Colorado Springs for generations, so give them a try (25 cents on Saturdays). � e bar shares space with � e Omele� e Parlor, which is a great breakfast or lunch spot. � e building was turned into a supper club around the turn of the century by retired movie stars, and o� ers “Monster” glasses of Bass Ale for $4.75, or the ultra cheap $2 Monster of Busch.
Kelly O’Brian’s239 North Academy Blvd
� e slogan on Kelly O’Brian’s menu reads “I Love � is Bar,“ and so do I. Happy hour includes two for one George Killian’s Irish Red pints and the delicious, but destructive, Kelly’s Crush shot. � is is a locals’ bar with a strong happy hour working-class crowd that transforms into a hopping party on St. Pa� y’s Day, so be patient with the overly stressed bar sta� and possibly resentful regulars. Be polite, respectful and tip well unless things are out of control. O’Brian’s o� ers Rocky Mountain Oysters for $7 (don‘t ask, just eat), Fish and Chips for $7.25, and NFL team sandwiches for $6.50, including � e Raider (a Reuben). By far the best deal is the “� e MVP” Steak and Fries with a 10 oz. NY Strip, “Basket O’Fries,” and a salad for $9.
Jack Quinn’s21 South Tejon Ave
Photo by Carrie Woodru� � e food and drink at Jack Quinn’s are both pre� y good. � e problem, like the rest of the Tejon Street corporate cra-pholes, is that spending time there later in the evening is like participating in a hockey match. I grew up on the football � eld and in mosh pits, where aggressiveness belongs. What is fun about going to a place full of people who just got back from Iraq, are trained to � ght and are looking for one? During the day, without the threat of being shot, the beer cheese soup is fantastic. St. Patrick’s Day will be out of con-trol, so my advice is stay away.
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� e rally focused heavily on Colorado Springs Senator John Morse’s recent dra� ing of the High-er Education Flexibility Bill. � ough students gathered at the capitol were generally in favor of tuition � exibility, there was some concern over Section 4 of the bill, which would shi� respon-sibility for tuition changes from the Department of Higher Education to the universities. “� e bill removes the requirement that an institution that is an enterprise dedicate[s] a percentage of its rev-enues to need-based � nancial aid, if the institution increases tuition,” the bill states. Bateman responded, “We support the concept of � exibility but do not support the legislature de-ferring tuition authority to the institutions. A� ord-able education is the responsibility of our elected representatives and control of tuition cannot be given away.” Garcia, who a� ended meetings with senators prior to and during a portion of the rally, told � e Scribe that proposed solutions included a four-year plan in which each campus would create individu-al estimates of how much was needed to support a sustainable and a� ordable campus and have it ap-proved. If, a� er four years, a campus administra-tion felt they needed to raise tuition, they would need to � rst ask the legislature. � is plan, Garcia said, would not only allow each campus a measure of � exibility that meets its needs, but would allevi-ate the legislative pressure of making changes for all campuses at once. A high tuition, high aid model has also been suggested. Currently the state of Colorado oper-ates on a low tuition, low aid model. � e lower the tuition, the less money is available to provide in aid. If tuition is high, those who can a� ord to pay for schooling will, and those from lower income homes will receive more in aid. � e overall goal, according to Garcia, is to ensure that students don’t graduate with excessive debt. Next steps discussed included, organizing a Government Relations Day for students in the CU system during which students would participate in a forum with their representatives and making sure to reach out to voters and inform the com-munity, said Garcia. ◆
WTF: Where’s the funding? Colorado students rally for higher edCatherine [email protected]
Representative Karen Middleton, next to ASC President Andrew Bateman, speaks to the crowd. Photo by Carrie Woodru�
UCCS Student Body President Daniel Garcia rallies the crowd. Photo by Ariel La� imore
a� ord on “Avenue Q,” he meets other people just like him searching for a good-paying job and stable rela-tionships at the threshold of adulthood. “Avenue Q” has been on Broadway for six years now, and covers real-life issues in a fun, no-holds-barred kind of way. Creators Robert Lopez and Je� Marx based the story on their own real life experiences a� er col-lege. � e heavily audience-oriented musical is geared towards people like teens and adults (but de� nitely not children) who can enjoy the real-life approach to the puppet musical. ◆
culture8March 9 to March 15, 2010 paradox
Lauren [email protected]
Not your toddlers’ or your grandparents’ puppet show
“Avenue Q,” the hit Broadway musical per-formed with puppets, has stirred controversy in Colo-rado Springs as its creators prepare for the show’s debut March 16. Hailed by � e New York Times and Entertainment Weekly, the triple Tony Award winner of 2004 cap-tures real adult situations with puppets in a smart and risque fashion that Springs advertisers believe to be too raunchy for residents’ eyes. “Avenue Q” covers adult is-sues like sex and sur� ng the web for porn. Lamar Advertising, which manages Colorado Springs’ billboards, thought pro-posed posters for “Avenue Q” were too vulgar for the notoriously conservative city’s taste. Lamar refused to hang bus stop posters
featuring a close-up of fuzzy pink puppet cleavage. Lamar refuses only two or three proposals annually due to moral reasons, and Avenue Q � t the bill this year. “It’s our billboard and we’re particular about what we display on our billboards, and we like to display what is acceptable to the commu-nity,” Hal Ward, Vice-Presi-dent and General Manager of Lamar Advertising, told a local television station. “It is not within the moral stan-dards of the community.” “Avenue Q” tells the story of a young college grad who moves to New York City with big dreams of ge� ing a decent job and a stable be-ginning at life. With many UCCS stu-dents about to graduate, the story of a recent Princeton grad captures that awkward moment a� er graduation when everyone is looking for a “purpose” in life. When the main character moves to the only apartment he can
One of the spine-tingling central conceits of zombie/ pandemic-themed horror movies is the powerlessness of their victims. � rough no fault of their own, a charac-ter can contract a debilitat-ing virus, either through a zombie bite or unwilling exchange of DNA with the infected, thereby becom-ing a threat to his or her loved ones. In the terrify-ing moments before disease overwhelms their bodies, a icted characters face a grim conundrum: Do they su� er silently and endanger their companions, or com-mit suicide before they can contaminate the others? Almost every movie in this genre, from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” to “28 Days Later,” hinges on this primal fear of submission to pestilence, and it’s one of the many reasons these � lms are so perennially resonant. Most recently, Overture Studios’ new horror remake “� e Crazies” proved the enduring nightmare power of the grotesque disease sub-genre by scaring up $16.1
million in box o� ce receipts on opening weekend. Draw-ing both its name and prem-ise from the 1973 George Romero cult classic, both � lms closely mimic the tone and spookiness of the be� er entries in Romero’s “...of the Dead” series, which began in 1968 with “Night of the Living Dead,” only replacing zombies with the diseased.While the original “� e Crazies” excels as a zeitgeist of ‘70s anxiety, wild overact-ing and lack of an interesting protagonist distances view-ers from the emotional ur-gency of the story, and will likely only sustain the inter-est of Romero completists. � e 2010 remix, happily, is engaging from its very � rst frame.
Breck Eisner, son of for-mer Disney CEO Michael Eisner, streamlines central elements from Romero’s template and manages the rare remake that honors the promise of its source ma-terial. Timothy Olyphant and Rhada Mitchell anchor the story with their solid star performances as David and Judy Du� on, a young couple who reside in Ogden Marsh, Iowa, an idyllic set-
ting for the craziness about to ensue. David, the local sheri� , discovers a crashed military cargo plane down-river from the town’s drink-ing supply. Townspeople seem like they’re losing their minds and erupt into senseless violence against their neighbors, uncomfort-ably mirroring the recent explosion of fatal domestic con� icts across the country. Something leaking from that plane into the water is mak-ing everyone, well, crazy. � en, in moves the military. Eisner, whose only ma-jor prior release was the 2005 bomb “Sahara,” proves quite capable here. Many sequences in “� e Cra-zies” are masterfully staged, wringing white-knuckled suspense out of creative set pieces. � e scene where our heroes get trapped in a car wash with kill-crazy infected Iowans is a � ne example. Eisner also coaxes believ-ability, which is an essential and overlooked component of successful horror mov-ies, out of the performances from the movie’s � ne cast. � e closer a fright � ick hews to universal fears and social ills, the scarier it will seem. “� e Crazies” is well worth your movie-going dollar. Despite an over-reliance on gimmicky “gotcha” scares, the � lm is an immersive and disturbing experience. � ough “� e Crazies” is unmistakably a Holly-wood cash-in, it’s conducted skillfully enough to engross even the most jaded horror fan. ◆
‘If your � iends think you’re gay, but you have a girl� iend who lives in Canada,’ Avenue Q can help.Courtesy of Avenue Q
‘� e Crazies’: Spine-tingling, powerless, kill-crazy Iowans
MOVIE REVIEW: 3 OUT OF 5 STARS
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10Your excuse to pull out the Xbox bas-ketball, the online basketball, and the TV basketball every day for a month.
Now is your excuse to get all emotional and blame it on your poor Irish luck.
Print off the sched-ule, carefully follow each game. Insist on attending each game with your sig-nificant other. Now is the time to see if he or she really loves you.
Relive your dream; wear your favorite team’s jersey to “play” basketball with the guys.
Use as an excuse to upgrade your TV package.
If you are a geek, now is the time to use algebra to make your predictions.
Sit back and enjoy, thankful that you are not a baseball fan.
Watch real basket-ball, so much better than the pros.
Great reason to gamble, even if you don’t care about the games.
Basketball, food, beer, Basketball, beer, food, Basket-ball, beer…
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The mountain of trash in the El Pomar Plaza became a point of con-tention among UCCS students last Friday when the passions of two distinct student groups clashed. The UCCS Rocking Climbing Society was attempting to ascend the rancid peak’s northern face when they encountered a group of rogue VAPA students who were busy carving the larger-than-life likeness of Chancellor Anne Shmokley into Mount Trashmore. Concerned for the safety of their project and the precarious stabil-ity of their medium, the VAPA students immediately began to fend the climbers away with their chisels, hammers and plans. Equally frantic to complete their climb before the inclement winter winds increased, making the summit of Mount Trashmore impassable, the climbers tried to fight their way through the artisans’ project, chip-ping away with their gear from Schmokley’s face as they went. The weather worsened as the battle waged on, neither force gain-ing ground, until a climber landed a lucky blow with his belaying line, snagging an artist who then lost his footing and careened down the side of the mountain. The felled artist, Elliot Scourx, narrowly avoided death by landing in a patch of food that had rotted to the perfect degree of acrid softness necessary to break his fall. “But,” said Scourx, “my work was destroyed, and I smell like ass. Was it worth it?” The other sculptors retreated at the fall of their comrade, and the climbers, triumphant, raced to the summit. There, they planted the flag of their society, which looked suspiciously like a 3OH!3 concert ban-ner. At the base of Mount Trashmore, untouched by the climbers’ blissful celebrations above, was a student troupe of actors. “We didn’t even have a chance to reenact the climax of ‘North by Northwest’ before those rock jocks took over Mount Trashmore,” said the captain of the troupe, Abraham Westfall. Pouting, he added, “I was gonna be Cary Grant.” Mount Trashmore was removed shortly after the Climbing Society retired to the Pub to continue its celebration with a round of 3.2 beer. The artists and actors alike mourned the loss of their medium; the lin-gering scents of garbage, water and rotted foods remain a bitter re-minder of their artistic losses. ✪
Students clash atop Mount Trashmore
Avalon Manly [[email protected]]
On Monday, Feb. 22, UCCS students were accidentally locked inside Col-umbine Hall after a snow day was called. At around 9:50 in the morning, the doors had been locked by campus staff who, by mistake, had forgotten about ongoing classes on that morn-ing. When The Scribe interviewed student Tim Sheffield, he gave the following account: “Class ended at 10:40 as usual, I had started towards Dwire Hall for my next class when I realized the doors were locked. Next thing I knew, there were about 100 to 200 other students stacked up be-hind me trying to figure out what the heck was going on.” According to other accounts, elec-tricity had also been shut off, causing the heat to turn off. As hours and frustration accumu-lated, students had gathered paper towels and toilet paper from nearby restrooms and built small fires in the first floor atrium of the building. Ac-cording to Sheffield, “This was done to keep warm; some students even started roasting food items, as staff had completely left the building and cell phones could not reach any of-fice to speak of.” After nine hours of being locked inside the building from all entranc-es, a campus security officer passing by noticed a large flame through the windows of the building with some students dancing around it. According to one professor locked in with students, who wished to re-main unnamed, “One of my students even managed to grow a beard in the process, like a full beard, I mean maybe it was there before but it sure did seem like we were in there for a while.” This hairy event, of course, was quickly swept under the rug by stunned campus officials after hav-ing found out about it, until now. With the newest accounts of stu-dents and some faculty involved in this incident, we are proud to break this story as seen and told by those who lived through. ✪
Stephen Farrell [[email protected]]
When keeping it real turns to a snow day
opinion10 opinionMarch 9 to March 15, 2010
| Truth Bombs |Sco� Brown makes a GOP FAIL-ibusterDuelingOpinions
Last Monday, a fantasy scenario for all the biparti-san-curious politicos of this � ne land played out in the Senate. � is steamy, pansexual Republican-on-Democrat action swirled around a tar-geted jobs-creation bill; a dra� so seductive that no less than � ve Republicans found its comely measures irresistible enough to break
away from their party and indulge in their primal leg-islative urges. Sco� Brown (R-Mass.), Susan Col-lins and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Christopher Bond (R-Mo.), and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) were so overcome with passion on the Senate � oor that they shamelessly � outed their bipartisan experimentation, breaking a threatened GOP � libuster in a sexy proposal that would extend Cobra health insurance for the un-employed, continue federal funding for highways and create a payroll tax credit for companies that hire the un-employed while renewing several stimulus provisions that were due to expire in the coming months. Wow, not even spicing up this senatorial summary with prurient innuendo makes it seem exciting. De-
tailed examination of the in-ner-workings of our nation’s legislative gauntlet is a dead-ening prospect; witnessing beso� ed, pasty dullards with personas just amorphous enough to get elected stage � owcharted squabbles over ine� ectual and ultimately compromised legislation is frustrating enough without the mind-numbing torpor of the lawmaking process. So, even when something remarkable happens in the Senate, like cloture achieved by Republican senators voting across party lines, it amounts to li� le more than making C-Span slightly less boring for a few days. � e idea of Republican � libuster has weighed heav-ily over the American legal process since Obama took o� ce with the full throated support of a 60-seat Demo-cratic supermajority in the
senate. � e 60 Democratic Senators, media pundits breathlessly reported, cre-ated a � libuster-proof leg-islative powerhouse, which they could theoretically wield to in� uence an on-slaught of progressive law-making, regardless of the minority party’s feelings on the ma� er. � e supermajority was going to leap tall buildings in a single bound; the Dem-ocrats, however, have failed to capitalize on this oppor-tunity in any meaningful way, as intra-party dissent and illogical fear of Repub-lican umbrage stymied tent pole Democratic policies like healthcare and � nance reform. � en, Sco� “I drive a truck” Brown was elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, and the supermajority ended before it had time to learn that with great power
comes great responsibility. Predictably, the rogue Grand Old Partiers who voted for the bill have drawn the ire of the Republican establishment and conser-vative media voices alike. Glenn Beck took to the air-waves following the vote, commiserating that the “...tea party members woke up this morning and prob-ably threw up a just li� le bit in their mouths when they read the news,” before criticizing the newly elected Brown and the media hype that ensued following his victory. Brown had revital-ized a wounded Republican party and sparked specula-tions about a 2012 presiden-tial run, only to vote against his own party on the � rst major piece of legislation before him. Nevertheless, this bill amounts to a muted victory
weighted with quali� ca-tions. You see, readers, this bill is almost more notable for what it won’t accom-plish than what it will. A House version of the same bill would have shi� ed $27 billion in funds from the bank bailout to retain pub-lic employees like teachers and � re� ghters as well as redirect $35 billion of the same TARP monies toward infrastructure projects that would have potentially saved American jobs while generating much-needed new ones. Democratic voters are probably expected to rejoice at last Monday’s dubious victory, but encouragement is of short supply in these economic times, and the ineptitude of our elected o� cials to resolve the mat-ter at hand confounds our dread. ◆
Byron [email protected]
Economist Bruce Yandle proposed in 1983 that most economic regulation can be explained with a simple an-ecdote called “Bootleggers and Baptists.” Many laugh his story o� for its striking simplicity, but recent actions in Colorado’s legislature sug-gest that Mr. Yandle’s simple theory may have been quite accurate. � e Bootleggers and Baptists story uses a simple explanation of alcohol pro-hibition to provide a model (or way of viewing certain events) for dissecting and analyzing the causes of eco-nomic regulation in general. � e story goes like this: Two sets of people had an incen-tive to limit or restrict legal alcohol transactions, one for � nancial reasons and the other for moral reasons. � e bootleggers knew that if alcohol sales were banned, they could monopolize the sales of alcohol by illegally
| � e Lucid Line | Hippies, meet the Natural Gas Industry
smuggling the stu� . � e Baptists believed alcohol consumption was morally wrong, so they wanted to ban it entirely. � e groups ended up, then, on the same page, both striving toward the same goal for very di� erent reasons. Yandle’s insight was that this basic model of mor-al and � nancial incentives aligning towards the same policy goals could explain a great deal of economic legislation, from Marijuana restrictions to labor-union backed women’s and child labor laws. It may even explain the recent squabbles over en-ergy law in Colorado. State Senator Bruce Whitehead has been ramming through the General Assembly HB 1001, which would force the state’s biggest energy producers – Xcel Energy and Black Hills Energy – to obtain nearly a third of their power from “renewable” sources by 2020. � at’s a 200% increase from 2007 and will drastically alter the way these companies do business and the pro� ts they make. � e purported reason for this legislation is to “cre-ate jobs.” What it will actu-ally do is destroy jobs in one sector – mainly coal – and merely replace them in less e� cient and more waste-ful “green” sectors, which
means it will likely result in a net loss of jobs. As Diana Orf of the Colorado Mining Associa-tion said of mandates like this to use solar and wind power, “Why is it necessary to guarantee them a piece of the market? No one else is guaranteed a market share.” You see, coal has the mar-ket right now because coal is, well, a good source of energy. Green sectors need government force to create a spot in the competitive market for energy because they deliver less bang for the buck. Arti� cially transferring pro� ts from one sector to another does not “cre-ate” anything: It forcefully moves money from one place to the other. But for some reason, any legislation with “jobs” in the title tugs at our heart strings. Add to this the largely moralistic, “green” feel of Whitehead’s law, and it’s easy to see who the Baptists are: People ob-sessed with jobs and envi-ronmental hippies. So who are the bootleg-gers? In other words, who would bene� t � nancially from this legislation? In this case, we need no great amount of digging to � nd the answer: Natural gas. Interestingly enough, the oil and gas industry, who we would expect to be lining up against green industry
advances, has stayed quite neutral on HB 1001, and natural gas has allied with renewable energy advocates against coal. Two natural gas trade associations, in fact, showed up the day of the bill’s recent commi� ee vote to actually call for the shut-down of coal plants. � e industry’s position is focus on clean energy seems inex-tricably tied with sti� ing the competition of coal. � e natural gas industry would love to get a bigger share of the electricity-pro-duction market at coal’s ex-pense, and has no problem pu� ing that sentiment out in the open. Its proponents
would love to see coal pro-duction arti� cially sti� ed – even in favor of the green sector – and made more ex-pensive so that natural gas’ main competitor is made more weak. Such incentives are not hard to see, even for the average student. What is hard to under-stand is how the public can hear such things and react passively. For industries to stealthily use government force to help themselves at the expense of their com-petitors is one thing. For them to do it so openly and not a� ract public outrage is another entirely. A� er all, green energy is
not cheap, and neither will natural gas be if we allow the state to cut out its main competitor for electricity production. We may not care now, but when this and sim-ilar policies start a� ecting our way of life – increasing the cost of everything from the clothes we wear, to the food we eat, to the goods we buy, to the trucks on which these goods are delivered, the the tires on the trucks, to our basic utility bills – we might start thinking di� er-ently. We might start under-standing that political fads like the green movement have a cost; a very real, very expensive cost. ◆
sports 11March 9 to March 15, 2010
Mountain Lions come up short against Metro State in playo� lossMa� [email protected]
� e Mountain Lions headed into mid February with one goal in mind: Ad-vance to postseason play. By winning four of their last six games, the men earned the No. 3 spot in the RMAC’s East Division with hopes of playing Colorado Mines. Unfortunately, UCCS was matched against power-house Metro State. Despite accomplishing the goal of a playo� berth, UCCS lost 62-85 to the Roadrunners of Metro State on March 2. Senior Cole Smith put on an impressive performance with a team high 21 points and nine rebounds in his � nal game as a Mountain Lion. Juniors Ben Feilmeier and Rob Howe followed with seven points and six points, respectively. UCCS shot 47.1 percent from the � eld while main-taining the defensive pres-
sure from Metro State rea-sonably well. � e Achilles’ heel for the Mountain Lions was the 20 turnovers and shooting only 8-21 from the foul line. Metro State managed to shoot 55 percent from � eld-goal range, their highest since Jan. 19, and hit a sea-son-high nine 3-point � eld goals. UCCS did manage to outrebound Metro State 34-
Women’s basketball: Season ends with a hopeful glimpse
� e men’s 4x400-meter relay team took the RMAC title Feb. 27 in Golden, CO, earning UCCS Track and Field’s � rst conference title for a relay team, while high jumper Steven Gomez’s con-ference-best jump earned him a trip to the National Championships Mar. 12-13. Se� ing a new UCCS school record, and winning a conference title in the pro-cess, Steven Gomez high jumped 2.14 meters. “It was really cool, everyone in the building was cheering for him,” Senior Alicia DelPar-do recounted. Another highlight of the meet for the Mountain Lions came in the � nal event of the day, the Men’s 4x400m relay. Going into the race seeded second, every member of the team had run disappoint-
Men’s 4x400 and High Jump: RMAC champs
ing races earlier in the day. “We wanted to avenge our poor performances,” junior Jason Shaver said. Leading o� , senior Alex Vasquez put UCCS in the lead, passing o� to freshman Jon Chris-tian. “A� er that there was no turning back. All of us ran up to our potentials,” explained Christian. Crossing the tape at 3:25.8, junior Chris Reynolds � n-ished the last leg of the race for the victory. “Winning the 4x400 is huge for our school, it’s never happened, so it’s great to be a part of that record,” Reynolds ex-plained. “It was again espe-cially important because of the loss of our teammate David [Mueller].” � e victory was signi� cant to the relay runners not just for the win. “� is victory was extremely emotional for us, there were a lot of tears shed and a lot of excitement that came from this. It was especially important to Ja-son, Alex and I because we
32 but the game fell out of reach midway through the second half. Head Coach Russ Caton commented a� er the game to www.gomountainlions.com with mixed feelings, saying, “I think we’ve proven ourselves to be a playo� -cal-iber program. Now it’s time to set the standards a li� le bit higher and not se� le for ge� ing there.” ◆
were so close with David,” recalled Reynolds. Shaver explained how Mueller helped them pre-pare. “He would have loved to have been in that race and in a way he was, he was in it with us. He has helped us over the past few weeks � nding our identity, and I really believe in that.” Freshman Lauren Gra-ham also made � rst team all conference by tying for the title in the pole vault; she placed second a� er a tie-breaker, but was still pleased with the result. “Pradal real-ly motivated me to jump my best, though, because she was good competition,” she said, in reference to Anne-lise Pradal of Adams State, who won the women’s Pole Vault competition. UCCS placed 6th and 9th, respectively, for the men’s and women’s overall team competitions, and will now begin preparing for the out-door track season’s � rst meet at CU-Boulder March 20. ◆
Despite � nishing 2-17 in the Rocky Mountain Ath-letic Conference, the lady Mountain Lion’s basketball season ended Feb. 26 with glimpses of hope and pos-sibility for the future. � e highlight of the year may have been the team’s ex-citing, high scoring victory against Nebraska-Kearney 101-93 on Feb. 12, in which the women came within one point of breaking the school’s scoring record of 102 set in 1994. “� e win over Nebraska-Kearney was great for the players and showed what some of them are capable of. We have shown glimpses this season of a positive fu-ture,” said Athletic Director and Head Coach Stephen Kirkham. � e constant factor that plagued the women throughout the majority of the season was consistency. UCCS rarely managed to
play a competitive 40 min-ute game and, unfortunately, success came sporadically. � us was the case Feb. 26 when UCCS took on the Roadrunners of Metro State at the Gallogly Events Center in their � nal game of the season. � e lady Moun-tain Lions surged back and fourth throughout, bring-ing the game to 41-40 with just nine minutes le� to play. � e game fell out of reach a� er the women missed eight straight � eld-goals, re-sulting in a season-low 27.3 � eld-goal percentage and a 47-59 loss. “With some more size and speed, we will compete at a much higher level [next year]. � e players in the pro-gram that will return also
need to commit to being be� er players next season,” added Kirkham. “Some old sayings always ring true: Players are made from March to October, [while] teams are made from Octo-ber to March.” Once the � nal buzzer sounded on the 2009-10 season, two players from UCCS not only completed their collegiate careers but will always remain a part of basketball history for UCCS. Senior Janean Jubic will leave UCCS as No. 3 on the all-time list in assists and No. 4 in 3-pointers made. Following her will be senior Lauren Holm, who ranks No. 3 all-time in free-throw percentage. ◆
Steven Gomez clears the high bar. Courtesy of UCCS Sports Information
Cole Smith lines up for a � ee throw in his � nal game. Courtesy of UCCS Sports Information
Janean Jubic Lauren Holm Courtesy of UCCS Sports Information
