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Juror reflects on McVeigh trial Metro student one of 12 -to convict Oklahoma bomber By Michael BeDan and Jennifer Saull-Ru~ The Metropolitan

In the few seconds it took to tear open the envelope, his life changed.

In the five weeks it took to convict Timothy McVeigh of the worst terrorist crime com­mitted on American soil, David Gilger's whole world changed.

Gilger, a 33-year-old com­puter science major and sopho­more at Metro, was juror No. 6 in a trial that will be remem­bered for its emotion and surgi­cal precision. McVeigh, con­victed of the Oklahoma City bombing, was sentenced to death June 13.

"I think the sentence speaks for itself," Gilger said in a June 15 interview with The Metropolitan. "We as a collec­tive society have agreed that (it) you stab at the heartland of America and commit such a crime, (and) you ' re found guilty, the price you pay is death."

While the verdict and sen­tencing bring an end to the trial, Gilger said his life is changed forever.

"It will always be changed," he said. "It will always be altered. We as a soci­ety have set up our judicial sys­tem that we go out and we select members of our commu­nity that we feel can sit on a jury.

"Then, you are allowed to walk away. And I hope that is what will happen."

On April 19, 1995, Gilger was sitting at his desk at the

News Administration

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resignation

Denver Tech Center consumed with the day's work. When he and his co-workers learned of the disaster in Oklahoma, they dropped what they were doing and started compiling database information possibly needed for the victims and rescuers.

Nearly two ' years later, Gilger opened the envelope that informed him of his inclu­sion in the jury pool.

He figured he would quickly be eliminated from the pool.

"I'm in the military," Gilger said. "(McVeigh) is from the military. There is no way they will select me."

He was wrong. ~

Student/juror Gilger's jury duty.coincid­

ed with work and school com­mitments. He'd been promoted from an entry-level position and was finishing an evening computer science course at Metro.

"I came on board (at his company), you know, 'low man on the totem pole,' but I was in the PC support department at the time," he said. "I had just recently started a new position at work, and it was a promotion within. That is always a good feeling." ·

After learning that he'd been selected to be a juror, · Gilger made the necessary arrangements. The secrecy required to serve on a jury in a case of this magnitude forced him to be vague when inform­ing his employer and professor of his impending obligations.

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Kaplan gets mixed review By Perry Swamon Tiu! Metropolitan

Metro's governing board praised President Sheila Kaplan in a recent perfor­mance evaluation but also cautioned her on her brusque and exclusionary manage­ment style.

The review, the first com­prehensive evaluation of Kaplan's four years at Metro, offered a lengthy and wide­ranging list of her accom­plishments both within the college and in the Denver community.

The college's governing board hired two Florida edu­cators with the Penson­Strawbridge firm to conduct the evaluation and present an oral report. Board President William Fulkerson prepared a seven-page summary of the firm's oral presentation, 'which he released earlier this month.

Fulkerson's summary of the oral report called Kaplan "tough, committed, vision­ary," and said the evaluators were "enormously impressed" by Kaplan's accomplishments. "Dr. Kaplan tackled (the) expecta­tions with a verve and energy that has to be both respected and appreciated," his summa­ry states.

Among Kaplan's accom-

plishments listed in the sum­mary, the president was praised for her work with Metro's new Foundation Board and her involvement with the new marketing plan, which included dubbing the school "The Met."

Kaplan also "tackled" faculty salary issues, "elevat­ed standards" in the tenure and post-tenure review processes, improved comput­er access, and brought "integrity to the grievance process," the summary states.

Kaplan's job was never on- the line in this process, Fulkerson said in a phone interview.

"The purpose was for the development of the individ­ual," Fulkerson said.

According to Colorado law, college presidents do not work on a contractual basis.

Instead, administrators such as Kaplan can be fired at any time by their governing board.

"No administrator in the state of Colorado has any entitlement to their position," Fulkerson said.

Kaplan and Fulkerson mutually agreed to hire Penson-Strawbridge to con­duct the review for $15,800 plus expenses for the firm's three-day stay in Denver and then for a trip to Alamosa for

the May 16 oral report. The evaluation involved

face-to-face interviews with 142 people connected to Metro, said Ed Penson, a partner for Penson­Strawbridge. Penson and his associate, Helen Popivich, conducted the interviews, guaranteeing anonymity to the participants.

Fulkerson would not release the names of people interviewed for the evalua­tion, but was quick to note that 10 student government members were invited to par­ticipate in the evaluation.

· Only two members did. Karmin Trujillo, student

government president, con­firmed that SGA Vice President of Student Services John Gaskell and former president William Coker par­ticipated.

Trujillo said she couldn't attend because her classes created a time eonflict.

Kaplan said the evalua­tion is a strong endorsement of the direction she is taking Metro, despite recent attacks on her administration.

Those obstacles include: A group of 72 faculty is

suing Kaplan and Metro for pay increases retroactive to 1988.

The evaluation praise her for "tackling" the issue.

See Review on 5

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Resignation . ~

u-nder wraps Provost Siverts gives up post, cites 'conversations' with Kaplan By J~ Stephenson The Metropolita11

Metro administrators are keep­ing mum about the details surround_­ing Provost Sharon Siverts' resigna­tion.

Within three days of Siverts' resignation, Cheryl Norton, associ­ate dean for the school of Letters Arts and Sciences and a 20-year fac­ulty member at Metro, took over the position as interim provost.

Siverts, who has been unavail­able for comment, stated in her May 30 letter of resignation to Metro President Sheila Kaplan that "it is in the best interest of the college and professionally and personally, that I leave the position of Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs."

In the letter, Siverts writes her

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"I indicated (in the review) that wanted her to give this office

greater independence," Thobhani said. "Her style of management was wanting tQ control."

The former provost has also been assailed for a few high-profile · tenure denials.

This spring she submitted to Kaplan an unfavorable tenure rec­ommendation for political science Professor Robert Hazan. This move ultimately backfired when Hazan appealed and students and faculty rallied around him, prompting Kaplan to reverse her decision deny­ing him tenure.

Siverts also drew fire from Metro journalism Professor J.P. McLaughlin, who said Siverts had a hand in removing more than 100 pages from his dossier, which is the

compilation of documents mak­ing his case for being granted tenure.

decision to leave is the result of a series of "conversa­tions" she has had with Kaplan in the past few months.

Kaplan refused to dis­cuss the content of those discus­sions or the results of a recent annual

Sharon Siverts received a $4,400 "merit" bonus for this year, bringing her total wages, including benefits, to $131,435.

Amid faculty grumblings about Siverts, there is also praise for the choice of Norton as the interim provost and vice president of acad­emic affairs.

review of Siverts by administrators who work under her.

Siverts' resignation comes dur­ing a time when Kaplan is under fire from Metro's governing board about her occasionally peevish man­ner of dealing with Metro's faculty.

Many Metro faculty and staff have had similar complaints about Siverts' administrative style with 81 percent of 214 faculty stating they have "no confidence" in Siverts abil­ity to lead as provost in a recent vote of no confidence on Kaplan.

Akbarali Thobhani, director of intercultural education and one of 18 administrators who formally cri­tiqued Siverts this year, said the for­mer provost was sometimes hesitant to let people working under her make decisions - especially deci­sions involving departmental funds.

Thobhani said that instead of having a discretionary fund that his department could use, he always had to go through Siverts to get money to go for intercultural programs.

J o h n Schmidt, director of the Industrial Technology department, hailed Norton as a great addition to Kaplan's cabinet.

"She is the biggest breath of fresh air (in the administrative offices) that I've seen in 20 years at this college," Schmidt said.

Norton said she takes her new responsibilities seriously and is busy getting a feel for the position.

She said she plans to keep in close contact with the college's con­stituency groups, many of which she has been a part of during her during her career at Metro.

"I've sat on most every form of committee you can have," Norton said. "I meet with a lot of people all the time."

Norton, who has served at Metro as a faculty member since 1976, is 48, married and has two children. She is a nationally-ranked marathon runner who placed fifth in the 1976 New York City Marathon. She also owns a team of sled dogs.

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Elway scores cash for scholarships Broncos' quarterback, Auraria colleges match funds in 'Drive for Education' By Kyle Ringo The Metropolitan

John Elway started The Drive, trailing in the game of his life on his own two-yard line, and delivered. One year ago, Elway started "The Drive for Education" from his car dealerships.

He delivered again. Elway appeared at the Auraria Events

Center on June 9 to dole out 72 scholar­ships to recent high school graduates whose education seemed just as imperiled as Elway and his teammates did that soggy day in Cleveland I 0 years ago.

Elway socked away $20 from each of the 13,700 cars sold by his dealerships in the last year. When he was finished, he had raised $274,000 for his project. The three Auraria schools matched that amount, bringing the total to $548,000.

Elway's campaign is sending 26 freshmen to the University of Colorado at Denver in the fall , 24 to Metro and 22 to the Community College of Denver.

''I'm proud of you," Elway told the recip_ients. "I look forward to seeing you up here getting that diploma, and I wish everybody the best of luck in the future."

Elway said he is happy with the pro­gram's success, and hopes it will grow in the future.

Hillary Hammondffhe Metropolitan

CELEBRITY SIGHTING: John Elway, his wife Janet and Gov. Roy Romer appear at the Auraia Events Center June 9 to pass out 72 scholarships.

Two of the recipients, wearing new Metro T-shirts and carrying their awards in tight fists, were all smiles afterwards.

Michelle Johnson, an 18-year-old graduate of Denver East High School,

never thought the man she watched on television for years would have such an effect on her life.

"This is like a great opportunity for me," Johnson said. "It is real hard to find

money for college and scholarships and everything like this.

"I was really surprised when they called my house and told me that I would be a recipient of this. I was really happy."

Johnson said she will pursue a degree in business administration or information systems.

Josh Schrimp, 18 and a graduate of Bear Creek High School, says he· might want to teach in South America.

He is considering a double major in teaching and Spanish. He also grew up watching Elway - although he says he is not a huge fan of the Denver Broncos' mega-star.

"I just think he is a good man for giv­ing money," Schrimp said. "It helps me out a lot. I was struggling (to get) loans and stuff."

The scholarships are administered by the Colorado Scholarship Coalition to stu­dents with at least a 2.5 high school GPA and a demonstrated need. Metro will make four yearly payments of $18,000 to the scholarship fund.

The money comes from a state pro­gram called Colorado Scholars, said Metro spokeswoman Debbie Thomas.

Thomas said. "What that is is money that the school gets from the state of Colorado to use for scholarships."

Enrollment Campus coffee cart gets the boot

creeps up By Jennifer Saull-Ruess Tire Metropolitan

Expect to see more people on campus next year, because Metro's student population should be getting larger. Enrollment is up and the number of applicants for fall semester has increased.

To date, Metro has received 3,846 applica­tions for fall semester. Compare this to 3,473 received by the same time last year - an increase of 373 applications - according to a report pre­pared by the Department of Institutional Research.

How many of the people applying at Metro will actually attend is yet unknown.

"Our conversion rate is right around 60 per­cent," said Mike Barnet!, interim associate vice­president of enrollment management. The conver­sion rate is the number of students admitted to Metro that actually enroll in classes. Metro's total student enrollment increased 3.7 percent from 1996.

According to Paul Wilkin, director of the office of institutional research, enrollment is up in Letters, Arts and Sciences and Professional Studies with an emphasi.s in Criminal Justice. Enrollment has declined in both the Department of Aerospace Science and the College of Business Undergraduate Programs.

Wilkin said during economically sound times, many people choose work over college. This theo­ry does not seem to apply at Metro. The economy has been healthy yet enrollment is going up. Both Barnett and Wilkin said the number of high school graduates has increased, contributing to the increase in applications and enrollment at Metro.

B J~ Ste henson The Metropolitan

Students wanting a quick jolt of caffeine or a sandwich near South Classroom might have one less option this fall.

Leah Johnson, 26, who operates Higher Grounds Espresso out of a vending cart she leases near the build­ing, has until Aug. 17 to take her oper­ation elsewhere.

Johnson said she was never informed of a reason for her ouster and intends to meet with Auraria Higher Education Center officials to ask that they reconsider.

"There's no record of any com­plaints," Johnson said. "Why change something that is working and every­one is perfectly happy?"

On May 19, David Caldwell, aux­.iliary/lease manager for Auraria, sent a letter to Johnson informing her that her contract to lease the cart was being terminated.

Johnson's contract with Auraria states that either party can terminate the lease agreement on the vending cart with 90-days notice.

Auraria is also ending its contract with the South Side Cafe, which is located near the spot where Johnson sells her coffee. Barb Weiske, director of the Tivoli and campus auxiliaries, said Auraria had to terminate con­tracts with both the cafe and coffee cart in order to lure in a new vendor that will lease both the eatery space

and the vending cart. Weiske said Auraria administra­

tors decided to offer the two spaces as a package instead of separately in order lo give any new tenants the chance to be profitable enough to pro­long business hours.

The decision to seek vendors able to stay open during the evening is one Auraria will remain firm on, Weiske said.

The espresso cart is not staying open long enough to serve students who take evening classes but Weiske

noted that she is sorry to have to end Johnson's contract.

"This is painful for us to lose a great person like her," Weiske said. "It's not about her particular business, she's been a great tenant."

Many students, staff and faculty have rallied in support of keeping Higher Grounds on campus, Johnson said. Since she received notice of Auraria's intent to end the contract, Johnson said she's collected over 300 signatures on an informal petition urg­ing Auraria to keep the cart.

Jaime JarreU/The Metropolitan

CAFE CLOSEDOWN: The South Side Cafe is closed the evening of June 18. the eatery and a coffee cart that does business nearby have lost their leases with Auraria.

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Kaplan acknowledged that not everyone can be happy with the pay plan.

"The plan did not meet everyone's demands," Kaplan said. "Some people will say a million dollars is not enough. There's the faculty suit out there that says 20 million dollars is not enough."

Kaplan's recent tenure denials resulted in student protests and charges that she wants to turn Metro into a research institution. However, the evaluators lauded her for changes in the tenure and post-tenure review processes.

"I believe in Metro's teaching mission. There has been a real miscommunication on (that issue)," Kaplan said.

"That is the one thing that I regret," she added. "We should have been on top of it a lot faster. The tenure denials said to people, 'publish or perish,' but that was never the intention."

Kaplan denied Political Science Professor Robert Hazan tenure last semester, touching off a student protest. Some col­leagues charged that it was denied because Hazan failed to publish his research. Kaplan said that wasn' t the case, granting him tenure soon after an appeal.

Kaplan has granted almost 80 percent of tenure requests since she arrived as president in 1994.

"There is an expectation of faculty pro­fessional development," she said. "That could be said in different ways. If you're a painter, you're not going to publish a book. But if we tenure you and you're going to be here for 25 years, we expect that you're going lo remain current in your discipline, and the vast major­ity of faculty do."

Fulkerson reported that those inter­viewed for the evaluation criticized Kaplan on her communication and administrative style. Kaplan can be abrupt, defensive, and indifferent to opinions other than her own, the evaluation said.

"(The evaluators) indicated a sense that there is not the ability, or desire, to reach out . and make people - particularly adversaries · - feel that they are valued and respected.

There is a strong feeling on campus that advisors are few and may not be representa­tive of a wide enough circle of opinions, par­ticularly those opinions that may be at vari­ance with that small group," the summary · stated.

Fulkerson's summary gave suggestions . for Kaplan to improve this situation, includ- '. ing being more open and approachable, trust­ing others, valuing the human spirit, softening I her style, and collaborate more with people l who have differing opinions. Penson said one , thing about the evaluation process impressed . him.

"People who participated were very con- . structive," he said.

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Summer studies Tenure bill Qets nixed

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Colorado legislation that would have required scheduled reviews of tenured professors at Metro died at the hands of Gov. Roy Romer June 5.

The measure, HB 1341 , was attacked by some slate-employed professors and their constituency groups who said the bill lacked due process. Supporters and spon­sors of the measure hailed it for making tenured professors more accountable.

Romer states he was "supportive" of the concept of post tenure review but rejected the bill because it did not require a due-process procedure for faculty that faced it.

His veto of the bill did not, however, put the issue of post-tenure review to rest.

The governor vowed to send an exec­utive order requiring each state-funded colleges' governing board to put together a post-tenure review policy.

"While I am vetoing HB 1341, I feel strongly that we must have post-tenure review policies in place at all of Colorado's institutions of higher educa­tion," Romer states.

Pam Wagner, a lobbyist for the Board of Trustees for the State Colleges in Colorado said that group has yet to receive the governor's order.

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Juror seeks closure after·emotional trial JUROR from 1

Metro Professor Marc Falkenhan said Gilger handled the situation gracefully.

"He was a real good student in class," Falkenhan said.

Gilger managed to earn an A in the course and finish the semester with perfect attendance. His employer gave him Lime off with pay, allowing Gilger to concen­trate on the trial.

The trial - perspective His perspective comes through tear­

blurred eyes and the knowledge that no matter what happens now, it can never be right again .

The knowledge comes from being one of 12 Coloradans who decided anoth­er man's fate.

The tears, in part, are for Zachary, a 3-year-old victim whose favorite movie was The Lion King.

"This should have never happened to him," David Gilger said. "He was this innocent child. No matter what I did, or what this jury did, you can't bring him back. You can't bring him back.

John SwiM7te Metropolitan

REFLECTIVE MOMENT: McVelgh juror and Metro student David Gilger watches a tape of his June 15 Interview with Dateline NBC. Gilger, a computer science major, plans to return to school in the fall.

"Hopefully, this brings a sense of clo­sure. It will never truly be closure, but maybe a sense of closure that we did the best we could and we were there for each other."

He said the experience will last a life­time.

"That rippled effect started the day that Ryder truck parked in front of that building," he said. "It will always have an effect on everything I do from here for­ward in so many different ways, and to start discussing it is just the tip of the ice­berg."

Personal sacrifice Although the jury was not

sequestered, Gilger's life took a back seat to the trial.

He was not permitted to talk about it, and only his roommate knew he was on the jury. This was a precautionary mea­sure. In a high-profile case, safety is a con­cern. He told his roommate in case any­thing out of the ordinary happened to them or their home.

Additionally, Gilger was not allowed to look at newspapers, watch television

news programs or listen to radio news. These restrictions didn't leave Gilger

feeling Jost, however. "You would think you would feel like

you were in the dark," Gilger said. "I was sitting right there. I'm hearing it here first hand."

Avoiding news was not the only sac­rifice he made. Gilger is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and was scheduled to take part in a two-week annu­al tour.

"It's a brand new team that rm with, and we had a couple of exercises that I wanted to play a significant role in, and I wasn't afforded that opportunity," Gilger said.

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He recalled an incident when a brief argument ensued and he told a juror, "you just fell off the Christmas card list." .

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He said all the jurors respected Denver U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch, who presided over the trial. Matsch's decision not to sequester the jury demonstrated his trust, Gilger said. ·

"I'm glad Judge Matsch didn't sequester us for the whole thing," he said. "He let me keep some semblance of my life and that is, I think, one of the primary reasons, his trust in me helped me stay true to my oath."

Gilger's advice to anybody who is picked for jury duty: "Stay true to your oath, listen to the defense and the prosecu­tion and especially the judge when he expresses the law, and then make your decision."

Moving on Gilger tried to escape in his free time

during the trial by watching the Colorado Avalanche pursue a Stanley Cup in the National Hockey League and watching the Chicago Bulls win their fifth National Basketball Association championship. He took long walks, listening to music on headphones.

His primary goal is to get back to the regular routine of life.

"I have no idea how long it will take, but I do know that it won't be by my hand alone," he said. "Just as through this whole thing, none of it has been by my hand alone. The support from work has been incredible, and they'll be there for me."

The biggest adjustment was handling the media horde.

"At first when everyone was out on my front door step on (June 13), it was overwhelming, and it scared me," he said. "It really scared me."

Gilger said he understands why there is so much attention and he granted inter­views to publications and news programs he respects.

"I did want to say something because it's compelling," he said. "It is interesting. People want to know something. I would want to know."

Gilger plans to take a little more time off work to readjust, then "back to school in the fall."

He said the historic nature of the trial hasn't quite sunk in yet, but he knows it was a monumental event.

"It is definitely a landmark trial, but it is also a landmark tragedy," he said.

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Kaplan: good, bad or confusing? 1Ebe :ffietropolitan

Editorial News: Metro President Sheila Kaplan receives favorable

evaluation Views: While the result of this evaluation conflicts with the

faculty vote of no confidence, both should be ~iewed with skep­ticism

This time, Sheila Kaplan made the grade. In April, 75 percent of 336 full-time tenured faculty said they

had no confidence in Kaplan. In June, the summary of Penson-Strawbridge's evaluation of

Kaplan's performance concluded that the firm was "enormously impressed."

Both the evaluation and the no-confidence vote are results of studies conducted by private firms. While they might be useful in gauging current sentiment on various issues, based on the conflict­ing results, neither can be considered 100 percent accurate.

Kaplan has been the center of attention since taking the helm four years ago. The past six months have been chaotic.

Kaplan has received the brunt of criticism for Metro's change to a new moniker, "The Met."

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Sharon Siverts resigned May 30, stating in her letter of resignation that she quit in light of recent conversations with Kaplan.

The president reversed her decision to deny Political Science Professor Robert Hazan tenure after Hazan appealed and received massive support from students and faculty.

Finally, Kaplan received a glowing performance review. The "high marks" Kaplan received in the review.are a stark con­

trast to the April 9 vote of no confidence. That some 142 people, faculty included, took part in the evaluation poses a huge question.

Why the disparity in results? Simply stated, it is a matter of subjectivity. Faculty with an ax to grind organized a vote of no confidence

and blasted Kaplan. William Fulkerson, the president of the Board of Trustees, hired

Penson-Strawbridge to evaluate Kaplan, interpreted the results and wrote the seven-page memorandum himself.

Kaplan says she gives more weight to the latter. What is she supposed to say? What we are left with is another question. Which do we

believe? The faculty vote of no confidence or the evaluation? To assume Kaplan is inept and should be fired because of the

vote of no confidence would be bowing to a group with an obvious agenda.

To believe that Kaplan deserves the heaping of praise bestowed in Fulkerson's report would be naive.

What we are left with is the fact that Kaplan's abilities and inad­equacies lie somewhere in the middle.

Students are left with the task of sifting through motive-driven opinions and must come to their own conclusions.

Are you getting the education you deserve? Is Metro providing the best teachers for your dollar?

It is obvious from the Haza·n fiasco that unified voices make a difference.

That Kaplan listened to the protest and the appeal committee, eventually reversing her decision, can be viewed as positive.

That she denied him tenure in the first place can be seen as negative.

Wading through the sludge to find answers in evaluations and votes of no confidence is too cumbersome a task for students bal­ancing their pursuit of an education with their jobs and families.

Each student must grade Kaplan and Metro based on their per­sonal experience.

Graduate in four years get real There has been

much talk the last few years about devising a plan to help college students graduate in four years.

Let's be realistic. Considering Metro's

Travis Henry unique niche in the higher education

arena, a more attainable timetable for col­lege completion seems to be needed.

Recognizing that most Metro students pay their own way, that there are many dis­tractions that make graduating in four years impossible, and that after graduation stu­dents often return to their same old dead­end jobs anyway, I have devised a plan spe­cially suited for the urban commuter college student.

Appropriately, ifs called "Seven Ways to Graduate in Seven Years at Metro."

One - Avoid professors whose tenure is in the process of being denied by the administration. This is usually a sure sign of a quality professor who gives students heavy workloads. There is nothing more

detrimental to a quick education than a pro- corners holding signs that say "Will Work fessor who actually makes you earn your for Food" once were promising college stu­grade. Try instead to take classes taught by dents who lost all their savings while gam­part-time professors who are concentrating bling with Metro's professional pool stu­more on their three other jobs than your dents. Do not let this happen to you. term paper. Five - Pick a major and stick with it

Two - Under no circumstances take a So what if you're not interested in your cho­class that begins before 1 O a.m. Besides sen field anymore? It's just a sign of your having to face the insurmountable challenge lack of determination and goals. Besides, if of staying awake, students who go this you change it once, you'll change it again, route must also deal with rush hour. If and then you will never get out of here. your're lucky .. you can stay awake, get to Six - Major in psychology. There's school on time and find a parking space. enough psychology majors at Metro that the You will then be forced to compete with professors will never know who you are, super over-achievers who have been awake why you are there or what you are doing. since 5 a.m. Avoid these students. They are - These classes are conducted like cattle dri­not human. ves, and you're sure to pass through with-

Three - Avoid classes that have the out any trouble. Finding a job later might be word "Advanced" in the title. There is no a different story. getting around this in your major, but when Seven - Cheat! taking electives and working through your So there you have it, seven foolproof minor, avoidance is essential. The key here ways to graduate in seven years from is to take classes that require the bare min- Metro. imum, not classes that challenge your intel- And remember, if you do graduate and lect. Get real. you don't like the outside world, there's

Four - Stay away from the pool room. always graduate school at UCO. Many of those people standing on street Travis Henry Is a Metro student

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By Rick Thompson The Metropolitan

Some came for the arts and crafts. Some came for the music. Some came for the food. "I just like all of it," said Claudia

Childres of Denver with a sweep of her hands.

And there was plenty to like. A visit to the 26th Annual Capitol Hill People's Fair began with the smoky scent of barbecue wafting down the usually car-chocked down­town streets that were blocked off and filled up with food booths.

Tthe June 7-8 celebrations spilled o·ver into Civic Center Park, where small white tents were filled with arts, crafts and non­profit groups trying to stoke interest in their organizations. Added to this were six stages penneating the city with non-stop music. The entire event was flooded with people. Lots of people.

"It's a rite of spring," said jewelry maker Gene Millard. "It's the first real weekend of summer."

Despite the crowd-thinning rainstonns and tornado scares, 175,000 people made the trip downtown that weekend, according to Torn Knorr, executive director of the fair.

When it first rained on Saturday, people headed for cover, said People's Fair volunteer Steve Duran.

"They stuck around, till it stopped," Duran said. "But when it started raining again around 6 p.rn., everyone cleared out."

On Sunday, the cloudy-since-morning sky started leaking around noon, and every­one scurried for the trees or into the booths that hadn't shut their rain flaps.

"We're going to wait it out," Nancy Carter, an Aurora resident, said from beneath her huge blue umbrella that was keeping her and her two children dry. "I haven't done any shopping yet," she said, pointing to her kids. "The first thing on the list was the kiddy

rides."

ARTWORK FOR SALE: This plate was created by Jim Mindy of Scottsdale, Ariz. Hundreds of artists dis­played. their wares at the 26th Annual Capitol Hill People's Fair.

The light rain let up after about 30 min­utes, and although the sun was only an occa­sional visitor for the rest of the day, everyone came out from their ephemeral shelter and stuck around for a while.

Dave Myers of Denver said he's been coming to the fair for years.

"The music's good," Myers said. "And there's plenty to eat."

There was plenty to eat: fist-filling smoked turkey legs, fat gyros oozing tzatziki sauce, spicy cooked-on-the-spot tamales, · funnel cakes frosted with powdered sugar, steamy Indian food, cold fresh-squeezed strawberry lemonade and plastic cups filled with foamy beer.

As for the music, 120 local bands played over two days. And although one fairgoer was heard lamenting the preponderance of "reverberating rock," the six stages seemed to play more of a complimentary role, provid­ing a schizophrenic backdrop for the wander­ing adults and the cherry-popsicled faces of the kids.

For those who didn't come for the food and music, the 380 artisans and 90 non-prof­it organizations offered art, crafts and infor­mation for an eclectic assortment of tastes.

Right next to the Gender Identity Center was a tent selling hats for dogs. And if the hats were too small or not the right color, just down the muddy, trampled-down grass aisle was another vendor supplying hand-crafted hemp pet stuff (and people stuff, too).

While the rain did affect business for the vendors, price more than anything impacts sales. Jim Mindy, a potter from Scottsdale, Ariz., said the fair was packed with shoppers looking for inexpensive jewelry and clothing.

Dona Calles, a sculptor from La Puebla, N.M., said everyone was experiencing slow sales, but sales weren't the reason for the event.

"It's the People's Fair," she said. "That's the theme."

RAINY DAY WEATHER: The watery sidewalks didn't kt from the fair. Stormy skies and tornado warnings cou day's events.

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his umbrella to escape the rain. The skies spit mois­ture at the crowd, but not many were dis­couraged enough to leave.

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interest in how art

A,rtwork helps heal the mind, · body and spirit

can be used in healing, Perisho said. The exhibit is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente , Lutheran Medical Center Foundation and the Colorado Council on the Arts and Epicurean

By Ryan Bachman The Metropolitan

In the realm of modem medicine, doc~ tors are not the only people concerned with ailments of the body and spirit.

Art That Heals is an exhibit that explores the role of art in maintaining health, featuring work specifically addressing the issues of illness, disease and aging, said Sally L. Perisho, curator of Metro's Center for the Visual Arts. The works, borrowed from the collection of Kaiser Permanente, show the increasing

Catering. Perisho said

art has played a role in curing disease throughout history.

''The role of art in Western healing is not based on hard science or statistics. As we learn more about the human body and healing, there is acknowledgment that many unquantifiable factors affect why, with the same therapies in place, one per­son recovers and another declines," she said. "Today, the role that art may play in healing is more frequently discussed."

Chicago artist Riva Lehrer uses her own health difficulties as inspiration for

her work. It confronts her lifelong battle with spina bifida and over 200 hospitaliza­tions. She appears in her painting Diagnosis II reflected in a mirror on her bedtray as Mary, resembling Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation, awaiting the word of her doctor.

Also in the exhibit is Michael Aschenbrenner's glass installation titled DanuJged Bone Series. Aschenbrenner based this work on his own injuries during the Vietnam War. It depicts several life like glass sculptures of bone fragments tied and bound together by rough burlap and rope, joined at the joint and sometimes joined where the bones were shattered. The bones are detailed, with ridges on the sides and fine splinters on the broken ends.

Hollis Segler's paintings reflect her experience as a breast cancer survivor. Her pieces I'd Make a Deal with the Devil, The /Jeginning of the End and A Longed for Dream of Fulfillment are all set outside a pair of French doors, looking out over a garden where a young woman stands in sorrow, laying in the grass and dancing with a skeleton under the night sky. There

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is a definite surreal, lonely feeling to her work and an anger in the words she writes in the pictin-es and around the frames of her pieces. She speaks out against miscon­ceptions of the disease, finding it incon­ceivable that breast cancer is still an epi­demic.

One of the exhibit's larger pieces is Melanie Walker's From My Mother's Window, where a row of suspended screens form a three-dimensional house. When the viewer looks into the house, the various layers form a spine-like visual that changes when viewed from different angles. Walker created it for her mother, who died last year after suffering from a debilitating illness.

"The exhibition makes it evident that many artists are exploring their own responsibilities to illness and disease, aging and change," Perisho said. "A wider public discussion about health issues made work like Segler's Breast Cancer Series possible."

Art That Heals is at the Center for the Visual Arts at 1701 Wazee St. and will continue through July 12.

Disc's loud sound overcomes its ''dippy'' lyrics By B. Erin Cole The Metropolitan

Guided By Voices has never been an easy band to enjoy. Over the span of 11 years and a disturbingly large number of albums, EPs and seven-inches, Robert Pollard and his ever-changing band of slackers have made a career out of the hair-thin idea that absolutely anything they record is worth releasing to the public, without any regard to its quality. The prac­tical result of the band's inability to edit themselves is that listening to an entire GBV album is more frustrating than enjoyable.

It's not that Pollard can't write songs:

Guided By Voices Mag Earwhig! Matador

there are at least one or two truly great ones on each album (such as "Tractor Rape Chain" off 1994's Bee Thousand).

It's what the listener has to plow through to get to those one or two great songs: lots of good ideas that go sadly undeveloped, several strange ones and often, one mind-numbing song about elves. This inconsistency probably doesn't matter to the most drooling GBV fans and other indie-rock purists, but it keeps every­one else waiti11g for an inevitable best-of.

With these drawbacks, it almost comes as a surprise that Mag Earwhig! is actually both good and consistent. Here, GBV seem to have learned from their past mistakes and are now embracing a con.cc:pt

many other bands grasped long ago: there's nothing wrong with having more than one good song in a row. A radical change in the GBV lineup might explain this. Half of the songs on the album are by the usual GBV members, but the other half are done by Pollard and his new backing band (who come from notoriously loud band-you've-never-heard-of Cobra Verde).

These new members give Mag its best moments - their beefed-up guitars and drums flesh out Pollard's songs, giving tracks like "Portable Men's Society" drive and intensity. This new sound peaks on "I Am A Tree," which is large-sounding enough to come perilously close to being sheer fist-pumping, arm-waving ROCK.

More startling, the songs performed by the old group of suspects are almost as good as those of the new: "Jane Of The Waking Universe" is one of their finest moments, and "Can't Hear The Revolution" sounds impressive for some­thing recorded in a.basement. But this still is a GBV album, so there is at least one horrible song: "The Old Grunt,'' offensive mainly for its dippy lyrics.

Overall, Mag Earwhig! shows that Pollard has taken to heart an unwritten rule of music: if you can't make it good, at least make it big and loud. Embracing this, he has created GBV's most enjoyable album to date, with a record 13 good songs out of 21.

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Stories of hope raise money for AIDS quilt By Kendra Nachtrieb The Metropolitan

Laughter, grief, anger, joy and sorrow filled the governor's mansion on June 13, where NAMES Project Colorado held a party to introduce its goal to bring the NAMES Quilt to the Auraria campus in November.

The NAMES quilt is the largest piece of folk art in the United States. Each quilt panel represents one person who has died of AIDS. The panels are created by the lovers, partners, friends and family mem­bers of the dead, containing items such as condoms, love letters, hand prints, afghans, T-shirts and other possessions of the people that once held them, wore them, or cared about them. The quilt, spanning the length of 16 football fields, represents 12 percent of the AIDS deaths in the United States.

The party was more than a way for the project to promote the quilt. It was a cele­bration of life and memories, and it was also a way for many people to share their experiences with AIDS.

Reverend Judith Hom, who founded the Christ Chapel of the Rockies in 1992, told her story to the attendees. She said an old Western custom called for widows to spend a year sewing a quilt while they mourn their husbands. After that year, they put the quilt away in a chest, a symbol of "putting away the memories" of their spouse.

"We're not going to put the quilt in the

trunk, but display it to the world," Horn said. "The quilt is not about cloth, it's about lives."

Hom and her partner Jost two close friends to the AIDS virus. One of them was Bobby Holiday, whose poetry Horn read to the audience. Her eyes were tear­filled and her voice choked while she recit­ed each poem.

Thompssm also shared a story about one of the quilt panels. Thompson met a pastor at one quilt showing who knew a man with AIDS. This man wanted the pas­tor to help him find his mother, who had disowned him after finding out he was gay.

The minister found the mother and took her to see her bedridden, 90-pound son. When he saw his mother, the son said, "Hi mom. I have AIDS." She spat on him and walked out.

After his death, the minister created a panel for the son who had no friends or family to comfort him on his death bed.

Orie Thompson, the project chairman, said that requests to show the quilt fell 30 percent in the last year because of news of new AIDS treatments. He said that while the news brings fresh hope to those with the AIDS virus, people must understand that it is only a temporary solution.

This year, the quilt will travel to an African-American church for the first time in Colorado. Thompson said two-thirds of all women and about one-third of men with the AIDS virus are black.

A disprotionate number of children also suffer from the AIDS virus,

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NAMES QUILT BENEFIT: The Reverend Judith Horn, pastor of Christ Chapel of the Rockies, with her partner Darletta Horn. The women helped raise funds for the NAMES Project at a gathering at the Governor's Mansion.

Thompson said. He estimated there were around 400,000 children in the United States with AIDS. Jesus qonzalez, a repre­sentative from Children's Hospital, added, "Children are one of the most overlooked groups that have the AIDS virus, and they are one of the largest."

The quilt will be displayed from Nov.

30 to Dec. 2 in the Tivoli Turnhalle in con­jucntion with World AIDS Day. For more information, donations and volunteering, mail your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address to The Organizing Committee of the NAMES Project Colorado, P.O. Box IOI 107, Denver, CO 80250-1 l 07.

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MSCD has approved "Appropriate Use of Computing And Network Facilities" policy which has been approved by the College's Information Technology Advisory Committee. Please take time to read this policy. Those of you requesting access to the Internet (Information

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APPROPRIATE USE OF MSCD COMPUTING FACILITIES Metropolitan State College of Denver's mission statement espouses a "commitment to academic freedom as the key to intellectual inquiry and development of ideas." For us to successfully realize this mission, it is incumbent upon every user of MSCD's computing resources to use those resources appropriately and responsibly, i.e., to use computing and networking in a way that does not infringe on any other individual 's academic freedom, that does not interfere with any other individual's intellectual inquiry and that does not interfere with any other individual's use of computing to develop ideas.

Equally important is the individual's right-to-privacy. Every member of the MSCD community must protect every other individual's right-to-privacy (see the Family Educational Rights and Privacy of 1974). This responsibility spans every form of information: on-line systems, reports, verbal and electronic communications and electronic data files. The Metropolitan State College of Denver wholeheartedly endorses EDUCOM's published statement of principle concerning software and intellectual rights (see The EDUCOM Code).

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MSCD's computing resources are available to MSCD students, faculty and staff. For any other individual or organization to u~ MSCD's computing resources requires special written approval from the Associate Vice President of Information Technology.

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It is beginning to sound like a broken record. The sound of lumber meeting cowhide, signaling yet another ball leaving the yard.

Ken Griffey Jr., the wall-walking center field­er for the Seattle Mariners and baseball's best player, has hit a major-league-leading 27 home runs through one-third of the season, setting off a serious watch on the all-time, single-season home run record.

He will get it. This is the year. The owner of the record is a widely argued

issue, but it belongs to a New York Yankee no mat­ter what side of the debate you are on. In 1927, the legendary Babe Ruth hit 60 roundtrippers in a 154-game season. It took 34 years before another man, lefthanded outfielder Roger Maris, broke the record with number 61 on the final day of the 1961 season. Since then, no other player has come close.

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The debate has always been, which is the real record? Which one is more impressive?

That argument is about to have a winner. The thing is, no one who has taken a side in the 36-year-old tussle will be left standing.

Griffey will. If Griffey, or anyone else for that matter, is

able to hit 60, 61 or 62, it will be the most impres­sive achievement in baseball this side of a perfect game, hitting .400 for a season or nabbing the triple crown.

That's it, and that's that. "Not so!" shouts a protester. "Preposterous," a

second voice chimes in. "Gobbledygook,'' yet a third adds.

Sure, there are some records that, if broken, would register seismically in the hearts

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likely to fall than a Weeble. If Griffey can stay healthy - his last com­

plete season was 1993, thanks to injuries and the strike - then the home run record is his.

In a time of bigger, stronger and faster ath­letes trying to prevent him from reaching 62, Griffey, once there, could lay down his bat and walk away knowing he has done the undoable, won the unwinable - settled the argument.

His one word-nickname, Junior, will have reached heights only Michael can look down upon.

"Ludicrous!" snaps an objector. Well, let's see. Griffey is playing at a time

when teams are squabbling over 15-year-old prospects in the Dominican Republic and begging Asian pitchers to come west.

In 1927, major league baseball looked like the contents of a sugar bowl. Ruth's race was two generations removed from owning slaves and not ready to share a clubhouse, dugout or ballfield with anyone who didn't look like they did. .

By 1961 , a dash of color had been added to that bowl, but Maris still faced mostly white Americans. The two legends never faced the world's best players, just white America's.

This also blows a hole in the theory that says the talent is diluted because there are now almost twice as many teams as there were when Ruth played. A vastly expanded talent pool makes up for the disparity.

Expansion actually worked against Maris. 1961 marked the inaugural seasons for two teams. The Los Angeles Angels (later the California Angels, now the Anaheim Angels) and the second Washington Senators team ( now the Texas Rangers) began play that year.

Maris did yardwork 13 times against those two teams. He hit as much as 21 percent of his home runs against pitchers who probably would not have been in the league the year before. He hit another 13 against the Chicago White Sox, includ­ing four in one day.

Another factor in Maris' case is the short purd1 in Yankee Stadium. The stadium was recon­figured in 1971, but until then, the ball only had to

travel a feeble 296 feet down the right field line to reach the hands of a happy new owner. Maris hit half of his home runs in home games.

By comparison, Griffey's rockets must fly an additional 16 feet to be gob­bled up by the swarming masses, and he regularly deposits them in the third deck of the Seattle Kingdome.

Who came in to face Ruth in the later innings when the starting pitcher tired out? That's right. The starter did. ~

Relief pitchers were used when the starting pitcher was dead or dying in Ruth's day. Using a closer and the advent

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•George Ktnneth Qtlffey, Jr. was l9lected by Seattle with the first pick of the June 1917 free­egent draft.

• tit a home run In his first ~ fenlonel et-bet.

• Flrat Merlnel' to leed American League In home run a.

• Tied the Major 1-gue record by hitting at leaatonehome run In eight straight games In 1993.

• Won the All-Ster Geme'aMVP -•rd In 1993.

.The second youngest player -to alert WI All-Ster gem. (Al KaJlne 1955)

• Is the fourth youngelt player ever to haw thrM atrelght 100-ftBIHl­aona

•Huwonahc Gold Glove ewetde

• In 1989, KSI Jr. and Ken Sr. became the first father-son com· blnatlon to play In the Major Leagues et the .. mellme.

• On 8131/'llO they became the first fether-lon com­blnetlon to appear In the umellneup.

• On W14190 they becMllt the first faltMHon com­bination to hit beck to beck homeruna. (Off Kirk McCaekll)

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~xperience Geology and These geology field trips offer I to 3 hours of lower division credit (GEL 150) to students with or without geologic knowledge. Further, these field trips may be taken for upper division credit (GEL 390) by students with the proper prerequisites. Lower and upper division course requirements differ. Each course has one or more preliminary class lectures (refer to footnotes in Summer Schedule) giving students the necessary geologic background. Strenuous hiking is involved in several of these courses.

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Geology of Red Rocks Park and Vicinity (GEL 150/390) I-credit July 19th and 20th. This 2-day weekend field lecture meets at Red Rocks Park and examines the geology of the Park and vicinity, returning to Denver each evening.

Geology of the Wheeler Geologic Area (GEL 150/390) 2-credits July 25th, 26th and 27th. This 3-day camping field trip investigates the volcanics of the Wheeler geologic area near Creede, Colorado. This is a backpacking trip and strenuous hiking above 11 ,000 feet is involved.

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see 99 mph fastballs in later innings. Ruth hit 60 homers off 36 different

pitchers. Griffey has hit 27 off of 24 dif-· ferent pitchers, including two off David Cone, two off Roger Clemens and one each off of Mike Mussina and Pat Hcntgen. Those are four of the top I 0 pitchers in all of baseball. They also have an advanced arsenal of pitches to choose from.

Ruth rarely saw the action of a slider and neither player dealt with the split-

and Maris each handled record-watches and questions about the likelihood of them reaching this milestone, but there was no 24-hour-a-day sports network then. As Griffey gets closer lo the record, every move he makes will be closely monitored and scrutinized by a locust­like media.

Baseball, willing to try anything (interleague play?) to win back fans, would welcome this. An assault on the home run record could rival Cal Ripken's

immortal achieve­ment in terms of attention grabbing. finger fastball. Those

pitches had yet to be invented. The only pitch that measured up was the illegal spitter.

It seems there must be another heavy hitter in the lineup if a player has any hope of reaching 60. Ruth had the iron Lou Gehrig. Maris had No. 7 , Mickey Mantle . Griffey has one of the best hitters in base-

Junior has been to the circus. He knows the feeling of staring out at 100 faces and 75

Other record chasers could relieve some of the pressure on Griffey. At press time, Larry Walker of the Colorado Rockies has his eye on hitting .400. He is batting .417 and Tony Gwynn, the seven-time batting champ of the San Diego Padres, is

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ball, Edgar Martinez. He also has Alex Rodriguez and Jay Buhner. It is no won­der Seattle has been the highest-scoring team in the majors the past two seasons.

Griffey also has the unenviable task of facing pitchers he has not seen before. This year is the first season of interleague play, and Griffey should get between 50 and 100 at-bats against pitchers from the National League. It might be sacrilege to many, but it is yet another reason why hit­ting 62 home runs this year is more diffi­cult.

The game has changed in many ways and for some that is reason enough to deem any argument over a true single­season king irrational.

The fact remains, Ruth did not play a game beginning at 7 p.m. Seattle time, only to then board a jet, fly to Baltimore, and arrive at 6 a.m. EST to play a game later that day.

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putting pressure on him at .396.

Mark McGwire of the Oakland Athletics is chasing the same record as Griffey. He has hit 26 homers and is perennially atop the Jeaderboard.

But Junior has been to the circus. He knows the feeling of staring out at 100 faces and 75 cameras recording his every utterance. He has mastered it.

"Hit it here, Junior." So goes the line in Griffey's new commercial. A fan stands in the third deck of the Kingdom holding a bullseye, shouting his plea towards Griffey in the batter's box.

Next comes the most perfect swing in baseball, rocketing the ball through the target as if Junior is a marksman and his bat is his gun.

The commercial suggests that Griffey can launch them as far as he wants on cue. After watching him this season, it's becoming difficult not to believe it.

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Before he could truly savor the latest chapter in his storied career, Michael Jordan was thinking about No. 6.

Playing to the raucous crowd, cele­brating the Chicago Bulls' fifth NBA Championship in seven years, Jordan made it clear with one gesture why he is the most -dominant athlete on the planet.

Holding up five fingers to represent the feat accomplished moments before on the hardwood of the United Center (five titles, five Finals Most Valuable Player awards), Jordan poignantly displayed a sixth, seventh and eighth finger accompa­nied by an inquisitive raise of his eyebrow.

"It is great to be champions," Jordan said. "When we get six, it's going to be bigger_

"Hopefully, come 1998, you guys can go out and say we won number 6. Hopefully, number 7, number 8, and num­ber 9 - number 1 O."

Jordan summed it up with that state­ment. It is his unquenchable thirst for competition and the insatiable need for conquest that drives him to reach and sur­pass the standard by which all basketball players are measured - his own.

Jordan cried after winning his first title in 1991. In 1992 and 1993 he cele-

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"One for the thumb," as this year's title was dubbed, alluding to a fifth c_ham­pionship ring, painted a telling portrait of the man often referred to as "the

Pippen takes the sentiment a step fur­ther.

"We want the opportunity to show that we are the greatest of all time," he said.

Jordan displayed greatness, outshin­ing the regular season MVP, Karl Malone, in

greatest basketball player in history." He wants to start adorning his other fingers with rings, lest they feel left out. And he will likely get the opportunity.

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a battle Malone had little chance of win­ning. For the aging Utah Jazz star, the finals were likely his last chance at etching his name in the Finals annals.

For Jordan, the Finals merely repre­sent an annual build­ing block in the con­struction of his Hall of

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coach Phil Jackson will return, whether forward Scottie Pippen will be traded and whether forward and renowned cross-dresser Dennis Rodman will bring his circus act back, Jordan thinks about championships.

Those thoughts include the decisions facing Bulls' owner Jei:ry Reinsdorf, and Jordan makes an accurate assessment of the situation.

"I think this team is entitled to an opportunity to continue to be successful," Jordan said.

Fame legend. "He's the greatest player I've ever

seen," Utah coach Jerry Sloan said. Whether Jordan reiterates his domi­

nance next year and thereafter depends solely on his owner. And for all the specu­lation, don't expect Reinsdorf to blow the opportunity. The prospect of letting the Bulls run until age or a superior team ends the dynasty, which will require a ridicu­lous amount of money, is far less daunting than beginning the rebuilding process

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Jordan was quick to point out that the rebuilding process is less than an exact sci­ence.

"The Cubs have been rebuilding for 42 years," Jordan said of the beleaguered National League baseball franchise.

The bottom line is this: When Jordan hangs up the $140 sneakers for good, attendance will drop faster than Malone's MVP stock. The Bulls will be relegated to the ranks of the mediocre again and the likelihood of the Jordan's "Air" apparent manifesting in the next half-century is about as good as Timothy McVeigh win­ning a Nobel Peace Prize.

Reinsdorf said after game six, Chicago's 90-86 series-clinching victory over the Utah Jazz, that the exhilarating feeling of winning never gets old. He'll get the opportunity to put his money where his mouth is in the coming weeks.

What is left for fans and the rest of the NBA is the realization that until someone breaks up this dynasty, everyone can look forward to more of the same from Jordan and the Bulls.

If Jordan gets his way, which seems almost imminent, look for the Bulls to win No. 6. And a seven-finger salute from Jordan this time next year.

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