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Spring enrollment down from last semester, last yearBy Doug Hrdlicka

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Recently released spring 2015 census numbers show a decline in student enrollment at MSU Denver. The student population dropped from almost 21,200 last fall to 19,798 this spring — a 6.5 percent decrease, and a 4.9 percent decrease from last spring.

Information from the Office of Institutional Research shows that enrollment has been dropping since the 2010-2011 academic year at an average of 4.1 percent each year. The largest single-year drop in that four-year period was 6.1 percent, from the spring of 2013 to that of 2014.

However, enrollment is typi-cally lower in the spring than in the fall, and this year’s mid-year drop falls short of last year’s 6.7 percent mid-year drop.

The numbers for full-time

equivalency showed a smaller decline, at 6.2 percent from fall semester and only 4 percent from last spring, although these are the largest mid-year and year-to-year drops in FTE the school has seen since enrollment began falling in 2011. FTE adjusts numbers of stu-dents to what they would be if all students were to carry a full-time course load but total number of credits remained the same.

The downward trend is not isolated to MSU Denver, as the U.S. Census Bureau reports that enroll-ment in higher education is on the decline nationally.

CCD reported an enrollment decrease since last spring, although it only amounted to 0.76 percent. The school’s student population also spiked during the 2009-2010 school year before dropping back to pre-recession levels. However, UCD reported an increase in its student population between this semester and the spring of 2014.

George Middlemist, the insti-tution’s controller and associate vice president for administration and finance, said that the declining enrollment was likely connected to recent economic growth. Job availability has risen since the end of the economic recession that

spurred many to enroll in school between 2008 and 2010.

Arthur Fleisher, the chair of the MSU Denver Department of Economics, agreed that the ongo-ing recovery from the recession was likely a major factor in the drop in enrollment, but added that other variables could be implicated as well, such as rising tuition rates and the recently shortened time-frame for which students may re-ceive Pell Grants. “Tuition is rising faster than incomes are growing,” Fleisher said.

The drop in enrollment has already started to affect MSU Den-ver’s budget. Middlemist said that about 90 percent of MSU Denver’s revenue is generated from tuition and estimated that for every 1 percent decrease in enrollment the school loses about $1 million. “We don’t want to see the enrollment continue to decrease, because that has a significant impact on us,” Middlemist said. “It’s obviously very concerning for everyone at the university.”

$1.2 million in budget cuts have been made so far this year, and Middlemist’s office is analyz-ing where further funding cuts will fall in light of the final numbers.

Middlemist — who is also the

chairman of the university’s Bud-get Task Force, which is in charge of determining and setting the budget — indicated that it’s not all bad news right away, however. The task force has already cut a number of faculty and staff positions that are currently unfilled, according to Middlemist.

The positions cut were all ones that were originally created to provide additional support for the growing student body around the time that its size peaked, but are now no longer needed. “We were able to find a lot of vacant positions that hadn’t been used for a long

time, so we cut those,” Middlemist said, “so it’s not actual people that are leaving. We had to cut the bud-get, for a balanced budget, but we didn’t have to let anyone go.”

Some programs were cut as well, but any personnel within those programs were transferred to other programs or departments, Middlemist said.

But he said that if the trend of declining enrollment doesn’t level off within the next few years, funding cuts could reach certain filled positions as well. “The next round of budget cuts will be a lot more painful for us — we won’t have those things that will be easily identified. We will really have to get in a look at programs,” Middle-mist said.

Instituted in 2014, the bud-get task force reviews itemized funding requests from university departments. While they don’t have the final say, members of the task force make recommendations about each request before passing them on to the vice president and president for approval.

The task force hasn’t made any decisions yet, but Middlemist said that an increased need for further

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Journalist Janet Mock tells stories about telling storiesBy Kate Rigot

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Notable journalist and author Janet Mock came to Auraria Feb. 26 to speak about transgender rights and intersectionality as the 2015 Rachel B. Noel Distinguished Visiting Professor.

Mock’s speech, titled “Weav-ing Our Stories: Trans Women & Our Legacy at the Intersections,” was also part of the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services’ annual Bridge Speaker series, which symbollically bridges Black History Month in February with Women’s History Month in March.

Mock is a cultural commenta-tor on women of color and trans-women, an outspoken advocate for trans rights, and the host of the MSNBC pop culture commentary program “So Popular!” In 2014, she authored a memoir called “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More.”

Audience members packed the Tivoli Turnhalle to hear Mock’s presentation about the issues transwomen and women of color face, but also about the ways that transwomen have fought back against exclusion and invisibility, and about the importance of tell-ing one’s own story.

“I truly believe that telling our stories — first to ourselves, then to one another and those we care about, and ultimately to the world — is a revolutionary act,” Mock said.

Mock, who officially transi-tioned at 18 but said that she knew she was a girl from a very young age, told the audience a bit of her own story — which, as she said,

was already well documented in her book.

But she focused more heavily on amplifying the stories of others, from influential historical figures like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson to transpeople recently in the news, such as Monica Jones and CeCe McDonald.

Jones was arrested in 2013 on what turned out to be false charges of prostitution — according to Mock, as a result of police making this assumption because she was a black transwoman walking alone at night.

McDonald, another black transwoman, was convicted of second-degree murder after defending herself from a group of people who had attacked her and a group of friends, hurling racist and transphobic slurs at them.

Mock also played footage of Stonewall-era activist Sylvia Rivera speaking fiercely to a crowd of jeer-ing gay liberationists.

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“Telling our stories — first to ourselves, then to one another and those we care about, and ultimately to the world — is a revolutionary act.”

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“Choosing to tell my story emboldened me. It gave me the opportunity to be counted to be physical to use my voice.” —Janet Mock

“How can we pay for all of that? Our institution is pretty poorly funded. We have been historically pretty underfunded, so we have a lot of needs and not as much cash as we’d like to have.”—George Middlemist

“We had to cut the budget, but we didn’t have to let anyone go.”—George Middlemist

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<< ENROLLMENT from PAGE 3budget cuts could result in increas-ingly fewer of these � nancial requests being ful� lled.

� is comes down to priori-ties, like whether the school needs something like more advisors or more professors in the classrooms. “How can we pay for all of that?” Middlemist asked. “Our institu-tion is pretty poorly funded. We have been historically pretty underfunded, so we have a lot of needs and not as much cash as we’d like to have.”

“We look at where our revenue is this year and we look at where we think they are going to be next year — are they going to be greater or less than where we’re at?” Middlemist said, adding that he’d pass out if it were ever less.

� e task force does not control the entire budget though, and the mandatory allocation of certain funds must stay the same, even as revenue generated by tuition diminishes along with the size of the student body.

“We have a type of employee at Metro called ‘classi� ed sta� ’ — they’re managed and governed by the state,” Middlemist said. “If the state says that all classi� ed sta� gets a 2 percent increase this year, I don’t have a choice.”

He also said that the school

has a retention task force that is actively working to keep students enrolled. Members of this task force recently put out a survey to students who had dropped out in order to better understand how to foster retention. � e task force has received the results of the survey but has yet to analyze them.

Middlemist did say that while the immediate trend is worri-some, he doesn’t see it re� ecting any long-term trends. During his 19 years at the school, “by and large it’s been a slow and steady growth,” he said.

“We are serving students that may not otherwise get an educa-tion, and I don’t see how some-thing like that doesn’t continue to grow. I think Metro will be � ne,” Middlemist said.

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A group of about 100 adjunct and tenure-track faculty, students, and staff from all three Auraria schools gathered Feb. 25 on the Lawrence St. Mall to express frustrations about what they saw as inordinately low pay and a lack of bene� ts for the campus’s adjunct professors. Look for the full story next week on www.mymetmedia.com.Photo by Michael Ortiz • mortiz26@msudenver.edu

Correction:In the February 26, 2015 issue of � e Metropolitan, a quote attributed to Roosevelt Smith was misattributed. � e quote should have been attributed to Douglas Mpondi. Smith was also misidenti� ed as the emcee of the event, but was in fact one of the presenters of the African community panel. � e Metropolitan regrets the errors.

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<< MOCK from PAGE 3She cautioned that queer and

trans people still su� ered dispro-portionate rates of joblessness, homelessness and violence, and that they were “still constantly be-ing pro� led and criminalized and hunted down and locked away.” She said that she decided to tell her own story publicly a� er she real-ized that her success in life and her career was unusual for someone of her background.

“Choosing to tell my story emboldened me,” she said. “It gave me the opportunity to be counted, to be physical, to use my voice.”

She emphasized how impor-tant it was to center the stories of women who are o� en le� out of other movements, and said that she aimed to push the audience “to use the access… and the privileges that you have to push forward those spaces and those conversations.”

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Leonard Nimoy made nerds respectable, was a well-grounded man and brought an air of dignity to science � ction TV. But you could read that in any other remembrance piece. I have yet to see any mention of the most important lesson Nimoy taught through example.

Nimoy died Feb. 27 in his home of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. When I heard the news, I turned to “Where No Fan Has Gone Before,” an iconic episode

of “Futurama,” a parody and love letter to the series and the sci-� series which have followed. Nimoy, Shatner and Nichelle Nichols, along with other cast members, all made cameos, and not for the � rst time in “Futurama.”

Here was a cast—spearheaded by Nimoy—who knew they were part of a media-de� ning show and knew exactly how to mock it.

While it may seem odd to turn to a tongue-in-cheek tribute a� er learning of Nimoy’s passing, such scenarios highlight one of Nimoy’s best qualities. Nimoy thrived in the balance of recognizing his ubiquity and laughing about it.

Don’t mistake me: Nimoy took all of his work seriously, just never too seriously. He never sought to have the same pay as Shatner, instead boycotting for pay equality for Nichols. While most Trekkies weep at Captain Kirk’s eulogy in “Khan,” Nimoy laughed at his friend’s corny delivery. Few ComicCon attendees asked Nimoy about his poetry, directing or time on stage, yet his love of each

medium never faded since he knew that creativity took precedence over fame for it. Nimoy o� cially retired Spock to Zachary Quinto, the reboot Vulcan, recognizing the � lms as honest addition to the canon. Nimoy was committed to his ideals, gave dignity to a genre o� en classi� ed as child’s play and knew how to laugh at himself in the process.

I believe it is because of Nimoy’s capability to check his human ego at the door that “Star Trek” became a phenomenon that held in� uence over public opinion while providing ageless entertain-ment.

Channels like HBO seek to reach such a level of importance, trying their darndest to break tropes and innovate entertainment on TV. Meanwhile, channels like TBS seek to provide sheer fun as “Star Trek” consistently delivered.

However, rather than clever humor based on character-based, modern shows � gure sex and body jokes are enough to warrant the canned laughter.

All this to say Nimoy was the embodiment of the best of these goals. Instead of attempting to make his show important, Nimoy made his personal contribution important, trusting the show to move people without the writers telling viewers that it should, while showing that proper acting had a respectable place in a show featur-ing a dog in a wig playing an alien.

Instead of stretching and pleading for laughs, Nimoy per-fected his monotonous delivery and never performed a schtick un-less it enriched the plot. With all this work, creativity and commit-ment, he still regularly mocked his own tailored masterpiece.

� e most important lesson we can learn from Nimoy is the importance of laughing at your-self. Consequently, the best way to laugh at yourself is to commit yourself to a higher goal, to look out for your fellow homo sapiens or other, more alien, beings and to never stop doing what you love.

In short, to live long and prosper.

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“I would ask people to ask themselves why society hates sex workers so much and why their work continues to be criminalized.”

— “Megan”

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By Kate Rigot

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International Sex Worker Rights Day was March 3, so let’s take a few minutes to talk about the ways society stigmatizes this mar-ginalized group — and ways we can all end this stigmatization and treat them with dignity and respect.

I’ve had the opportunity to listen to many sex workers tell their stories and advocate for their rights, from conference panelists to bloggers to, yes, friends. Many of my opinions have been strongly in� uenced by their passionate, articulate messaging about what they see as needing to be changed in society and why.

“What is ‘sex work?’” I think I hear some of you asking. You might guess that this is another term for prostitution (or “full service sex worker,” as they prefer it to be called), but it also refers to anyone selling any kind of sexual experience.

I have many myths to bust about sex work, but the one on which I want to focus is this: When sex workers talk about the rights they want, most of them aren’t actually talking about legal sex work. Many organizations of sex workers, including the Sex Worker Outreach Project, advocate for the decriminalization — the removal of criminal penalties — not the le-galization, of all forms of sex work.

� is is because “the problem with legalization,” says my friend “Megan,” who is a sex worker, “is that it would force regulation that would likely be discriminatory and detrimental to us, like registries and rules about where and how sex work can and can’t be practiced.”

But if the U.S. were to adopt a decriminalization model, such as the legislation that recenty passed in Australia and New Zealand, that would allow sex workers the “freedom to run our businesses the

best ways we know how, and also create an opportunity for us to cre-ate our own labor rights movement and to have a say on what regula-tions would serve us rather than harm us.”

� ere are many ways that shames and dehumanizes sex workers, as well criminalizes them both o� cially and uno� cially.

� is is kind of a chicken-or-egg question: Many of our current laws around sex work are built around the unfounded ideas that many of the illegal types are societal evils that must be completely abolished. But many of our societal attitudes toward sex work in turn dehu-manize and shame sex workers precisely because, among other things, it’s criminalized.

As the Chicago chapter of the Sex Worker Outreach Project says in its mission statement/charter, “When the work we perform is criminalized and stigmatized, we are denied the dignity and safety that are the inher-ent rights of every human.”

� is is why, on International Sex Worker Rights Day, we should educate ourselves around what legal rights sex workers them-selves — not law enforcement, not

politicians, not support organiza-tions that aren’t actually run by sex workers — generally want to see, but we should also realize that it’s not ultimately up to the state to mediate those rights and apply them. We’re all implicated in how this actually plays out.

It might seem extreme, but ev-ery time you imply that sex workers are disposable when you tell a dead hooker joke, every time the media insists on telling sex workers’ stories for them and spinning them as vic-tims, every time you call someone a whore for being slutty, you contrib-ute to the mistaken assumptions and dehumanization required to make it acceptable to � re or evict a former sex worker, to make it for-givable to rape a stripper, to make it laughable to out a webcam model, to make the murder of a street worker in a back alley unnoticeable and forgettable.

It’s this stigmatization, to which we all contribute, that actually makes sex workers’ lives dangerous — not the work itself.

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Most Morbidly Fun: Aquarium Restaurant

There’s nothing like sitting in front of a gigantic fish tank while waving the pan fried corpse of their brethren in their mouth-breathing faces. The cruelty of the situation peaks at the entrance of two gorgeous mermaids, swimming around to “Under the Sea” before an audience with plates full of salmon and mahi-mahi. Even more insult is added when you realize that you could find the same quality seafood at Panda Express. That said, it is a gorgeous venue to dawdle in over a nice salad.

Best Out-of-City Experience in the City: Bistro Vendôme

Tucked away just off of Larimer Square, Bistro Vendôme feels like a Parisian hole in the wall. The plate is a bouquet with each element sepa-rated so you might customize each bite. Trying all of the elements combined is highly recom-mended. If you saw the survival guide last week, you’ll remember the tip to trust the restaurant’s special. This restaurant is responsible for that rule. French cuisine relies on rich detail, each ingredient precisely measured and calculated to leave just enough room in your stomach for some foodgasm-worthy creme brulee.

Most Likely to be Featured in a Classy Romantic Movie: Corridor 44

You walk in, mouth agape, as you are guided to your reclusive booth, then quickly close your mouth realizing this is too proper a place for your piehole to be hanging wide open. Even the bar area feels deeply intimate, ideal for the serious dating crowd, reuniting with a close friend or my single foodie homies. As a restaurant reviewer, naturally caviar was a thing, on crunchy kettle chips with silky salmon spread no less, delicious for those that enjoy sea food. Moving on land for lamb lollipops garnished with cherry balsamic sauce and finishing with a deliciously light lime cheesecake, this restaurant is right out of a Nicholas Sparks novel, but better.

Best 21st Birthday Venue: Euclid Hall

The malchance of my reviewing this particular venue becomes quite clear when it is revealed that this reviewer is 13 days away from legal-ity. But even sober, this place has loads of great energy. According to Josh Prater, chef de cuisine, Euclid Hall aims to represent the menus in any pub on any continent where you can enjoy a nice, cold beer, resulting in a global menu, spanning from pad thai to schnitzel to chicken and waffles. The gimmick pays off with excellent food even without a lager, each dish tailored with accoutrements undoubtedly meant to match a well-brewed ale. Filling, festive and loadwd with variety, Euclid Hall is one hip spot.

Most Hipster Hub: The Squeaky Bean

If a mustache and a beard ever walked into a bar in town, it would be at The Squeaky Bean. Outfitted with vintage furnishings and cocktails prepaired in beakers, and an ever-updated menu, The Squeaky Bean is the perfect hideout for those clad in flannel and merchandise from that band you’ve probably never heard of. The hipest seat in the house is at executive chef Theo Adley’s table. Customers eat, drink and laugh as Adley swing dances around the patrons, offering cuisine and life advice. Located within a stone’s throw of Union Station’s light rail stop, The Squeaky Bean is both walkable and bikeable, but if you are going to drive, understand that this spot charges $10 for valet.

Best Comfort Food: Jezebel’s

Jezebel’s is where southern soul meets the Highlands. The sign hung above the building looks like it has been there for generations. Upon entering, guests are greeted by old-school hospitality and dapper wait staff. The whiskey-inspired bar is perfect for escaping the winter cold while enjoying the finest gumbo and fried okra this side of the Platte River. Live music takes diners to Bourbon Street. The Southern heat is palpable through the beat of the swing, the fire of whiskey and the warm feeling of a full belly.

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After taking measurments, Jon Mikkelson cuts a suspension fork steerer to the correct length at Elevation Cycles March 3.

With wind in their hair and two rotat-ing wheels beneath their feet, cyclists are off to school.

Spring semester is in the air. Then poof. A bike hits a patch of prickles and the rider trudges to campus on a flat tire, making them late to class. Thank the biking heavens that Elevation Cycles is on the corner of 15th and Wynkoop.

When bikers drag their battered bikes through the doors of Elevation Cycles, they’re entering a refuge of service and knowledge. Conveniently located at 1500 Wynkoop Street, Elevation Cycles is the closest bike shop to campus. The shop serves every kind of rider from serious racers to beach cruisers.

According to Carl Meese, the Auraria Higher Education Center campus plan-ner, about 800 students ride their bikes to campus every day. That’s a great deal of wheels on the road, battling the minefield of potholes in downtown Denver. A friendly, well-informed bike shop is imperative to keeping student cyclists on the streets, and Elevations Cycles aims to accomodate.

When Boulder-based Elevation Cycles considered opening a bike shop in Denver, it was crucial to be located in the heart of the city. And, since March 2014, Elevation Cycles has opened its arms to the Denver biking community. During Bike to Work Day last year, Elevation Cycles offered free tune-ups for participating cyclers.

“The biggest things that we do is having a high level of knowledge, but I think it is all pretty acceptable,” said store manager Chris Aguirre. “There is not the traditional machismo that you get in bike shops. I think we are all bike snobs but in a very nice, ap-proachable, educational way.”

Elevation Cycles covers everything from tune-ups, new handlebars and seats to du-rable bike locks. From now until March 31, students who mention this article and pres-ent their school ID will receive 50 percent off of tune-ups and labor.

“We do sales and service, but it’s all under the umbrella of approachability,” Aguirre said. “Sharing knowledge and do-ing it with a more accessible and friendly attitude.”

Stop by the shop and chat with their experienced cycle specialists about your biking needs. Ride away to class with style and confidence.

Students who mention this article and present their school ID will receive 50 percent off of tune-ups and labor.

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Met TrendsDenver broke its 103-year-old February

snowfall record last month and the men of Auraria survived it in style.

Dress shoes and boots carried their outfits while neutral and earth tones colored campus. Hiking shoes may not be the pinnacle of fashion but their functionality in our snowy state is unquestionable.

Motivation to be more fashionable than the stereotypical college uniform of hoodies and sweats differs among the men of Auraria. Some students commute from outside the city, while some are headed to work after class.

Whatever their motivations, students of Auraria are frequently more stylish than traditional campuses.

Colorado Springs ranked as the second-worst-dressed city in America according to Movoto Blog, while Boulder scored 40th in GQ magazine’s “The 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America.”

Denver doesn’t appear on many best-dressed lists, but who’s to say it won’t?

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I am going to destroy this year’s Best Picture winner. If not, the Birdman will be right.

No one was shocked when “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” claimed the title. We seem to have come full circle from “Titanic” winning Best Picture with its big budget and simple plot to “Birdman” claiming the title with deceivingly simple cinematography and layered story.

However, layers sans purpose only create clutter. Style for its own sake is self congratulatory and, despite the pleasant presence of some distinctly Latino story-telling devices, this is inevitably a story about a middle-class white male having a midlife crisis, and how Twitter is hot and theater is not.

Michael Keaton is a former

super hero of the big screen. Oh, and so is Riggan Thomson (Mi-chael Keaton), the lead character of “Birdman,” who is attempting to give his career more depth by adapting Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” for the Broad-way stage.

Seemingly in only a few takes we follow Keaton (face it, it’s Keaton playing Keaton, charac-ter name irrelevant) in the days before the show’s opening as he deals with his family, co-stars and mask and wing-bearing, deep-speaking alter ego, Birdman. (nanananananana)

For the justice portion of the evening, the amount that “Bird-man” teases the Bechdel test, three rules which identify the presence of women in a given film, 1. There are two named women, 2. They talk and 3. Not about men.

While there is much debate on the matter, I stand firm that it not only fails, but seems to do so intentionally. The inexplicable lesbian kiss seems more like an attempt of art or controversy than a character-driven action.

Sam Thomson (Emma Stone), does protest against the manic

pixie dream girl trope, but only until Mike Shiner (Edward Nor-ton), as Thomson’s co star, shows an interest in her crotch.

Talking about Keaton’s char-acter is almost not worth the ink because they picked an ex-super hero with a lot of his own baggage infiltrating the audience’s ability to differentiate the actor from the character who is an actor from the character played by the actor who is in turn a character played by old Batman.

For the cinematic side, the editing is quite convincing as a single shot and creates the con-stant feeling of needing to catch up or simply catch a breath. Given the intense commentary on mod-ern theatre this choice proves the beauty of the continuous rather than the fragmented.

The film is also dripping with magical realism, a genre promi-nent in Latino literature, which incorporates mystical qualities into daily dilemmas. It is far more a reflection on my so-white-I’m-pink-ness than on the movie’s quality that the segments of magical realism overwhelm me. With that said, I can’t imagine seeing the film without any prior

knowledge of the genre, or with-out having read Carver’s stories or without a decent understanding of the process of producing a play.

This movie will not explain to you the significance of method acting nor provide a summary of Carver’s writings nor lay out the ins and outs of a genre deeply rooted in a culture outside the USA.

“Birdman” may pull no punches, but it also may throw too many. It may also be that expect-ing any singular concrete take-away from a film that opens with a man in boxers floating mid-air with legs crossed is not advisable.

Perhaps the less you know about the film going in and the less you think during it, the more the film becomes an expression of manic love celebrating the trials of humanity.

I guess ignorance is bliss.

The Dodos are back with complex guitar riffs, hypnotizing syncopations and dampened vocals on their new album “Individ.” This album marks the tenth anniversary of the duo and their sixth full-length album.

Within the first track, their ex-ploratory rhythm soaks through to the listener. The aptly-named song,

“Precipitation,” evokes the beat of a storm passing overhead. An airy and atmospheric verse narrates the light rain at first, then as the storm picks up, the strumming of the guitar shouts like thunder, pledging the dynamic sound found throughout the album.

There’s a force behind the album. Critics call it “sonic,” but perhaps it’s due to the virtuosity of the duo. For example, on the single, “Competition,” an exciting drum verse is matched with the guitarist’s strum pattern weaving a unique sound produced between the two musicians. The music

video for this track is equally as entertaining.

While I enjoyed their blues sound in their previous works, “Individ” is the shape of the duo’s sound to come. This album marks a “new chapter” in the duo’s career. It feels like an overwhelming dream in the tune of indie. It’s heavy; there’s weight to it.

The guitarist plays chords that melt into the drums. Soaked vocal tracks seep through the cacophony of dissonance.

The lyrics are somewhat mini-mal, but still play into the mass of the album. The track “The Tide,”

for example: “Are we on the brink of disaster / When the tide comes what will come after?” Lyrics like these are found throughout the album, and it adds to the dynamic sound.

If there is any issue with this, it’s that there needs to be more. The Dodos have found a golden sound on “Individ.” It needs an encore.

“Individ” is out now on Polyvinyl Records. The Dodos are coming to the Bluebird Theater on March 16th.

By Timothy Ulrich

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“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue

of Ignorance)”

THE DODOS“Individ”

“Individ”Album art from Polyvinyl Records

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When the selkie sings her song, all of the fairies can go back home. But what happens when the selkie doesn’t know she is a selkie at all?

That’s the premise for the 2014 Academy Award Nominated feature film “Song of the Sea.” Rooted in Irish mythology, the movie follows Ben, a young boy whose mother mysteriously dies after giving birth to a baby girl, Saoirse, whom Ben grows to

resent. To top it all off, at age five Saoirse has never uttered a word. When she finds a magic coat and begins to transform into a mythi-cal selkie, Ben must find a way to help his sister find her voice and finally sing her song to send the fairies home.

Directed by Tomm Moore (“The Secret of Kellis”) “Song of the Sea” is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. The stories may come from Irish folklore, but the feelings of loss, abandon-ment, wonder and dread felt by the children are as universal as breathing.

The movie unfolds itself upon the screen in twirling tendrils of

color, bringing the viewer in with the ever moving backgrounds. What could be very busy acts as a conduit by which the rest of the story flows, weaving in an out of the scenes as fluidly as the water in which the selkie swims.

David Rawle, who voices Ben, acts as the primary voice in the film. He carries the movie with a vocal maturity that betrays his 14 years. The music created for the film is as beautiful as the animation and adds another layer of whimsy to this mythical tale. The story does have a few minor pitfalls, none of which can be discussed without spoiling a few things, but what it lacks in

continuity it more than makes up for in creativity and beauty.

Easily one of, if not the best, animated feature of last year, “Song of the Sea” will leave you with a longing for a home you’ve never had and wondering how long it will take you to save enough pennies to make it to Ireland.

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Mitch McCarron records first career triple-double as Metro advances in tournamentDomination at home continues against Cougars

It’s become a struggle for any visiting team to come into the Auraria Event Center and leave with a win.

With a 16-0 record on their home court, the No. 12 Roadrun-ners advanced to the second round of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ournament following a 70-57 clash with the Colorado Christian Cougars March 3.

Metro’s offensive and defensive tempo threw the Cougars off and they attacked early and often, yet CCU stayed with the Roadrunners, trailing by only five, six or seven points at a time.

The Runners defense found its stride, double-teaming a Colorado Christian team that looked flus-tered and forced shots that weren’t there and allowed the boys in red and blue to capitalize easily.

“We said that we can’t let them play their tempo,” senior guard Mitch McCarron said. “We tried to slow them down with ball screens, blitz them and thankfully they missed some shots early and we got running.”

Outside shooting was a go-to option for Colorado Christian, going 11-for-27 (47 percent) from behind the arc as Metro gave them no room to manuever inside the

paint. “One through five, they can shoot the three,” McCarron said.

As the fullcourt press and double-teaming threw off CCU, the Cougars adopted the scheme themselves, using the corners to try and stop the Roadrunners, who constantly had options to add to their lead. “We had nice, indi-vidual performances from guys tonight,” head coach Derrick Clark said. “DeShawn Phenix gives us a nice stretch. Obi Kyei had a nice job had a couple of layups. It was a great team game.”

Coming off a game-winning shot against UCCS, junior guard Eric Rayer connected twice on Metro’s only three point shots made. Rayer ultimately finished with nine points, three rebounds and two assists.

“Eric’s found a niche and he’s seized the moment and that’s what its about,” Clark said. “It’s been hard to get him out of the starting lineup cause he does his job. I can trust him, he defends and does all the gritty stuff. He understands his role, that’s what it means to be a great teammate —understanding your role.”

The Cougars (14-15, 11-11 RMAC) never could get a foothold for the game. They were led by Tyler Shields who had a team high 18 points.

The Roadrunners (25-4, 19-3

RMAC) played the game in very familiar Runners style. Running. Spacing. Active defense.

Senior forward Nicholas Kay led all scorers with 24 points on 9-of-15 shooting (60 percent) and added 14 rebounds for a double-double.

The contributions came from every player on Metro’s bench—es-pecially McCarron, who recorded the first triple-double of his career.

McCarron finished with 11 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists. Going into halftime with a 31-23 lead, the Australian product al-ready had seven assists as the only lead the Cougars could gain was early at 6-2 with over 17 minutes still left in the first half.

“You can’t put him in a box and say he’s not a scorer, he’s a passer. He’s a combination of a lot of things,” Clark said. “Those kind of guys are hard to stop. He’s multidimensional and he can dominate the game with rebound-ing with passing. He was getting guys layups. It’s invaluable.”

When the stats show from the final tally, there was no question that the Runners dominated the entire game. Holding a lead for 85 percent of the game with only two ties and one lead change for each team, the Roadrunners have to feel confident moving forward in the RMAC Shootout.

They won the turnover battle, forcing nine from the Cougars, while giving up eight. They domi-nated on the glass, outrebound-ing CCU 45-21 to eliminate any opportunities at second chance points.

Spreading the floor and run-ning down the shot clock hurt CCU in the long run. The aver-age scoring possesion length for each team saw Metro taking half the time to score than Colorado Christian. Metro took 13 seconds and CCU took 25 seconds.

Metro stabbed the UCCS Mountain Lions Feb. 28 with a last-second jumper by Rayer and this time that dagger was free throw shooting. The Roadrunners where calm and collected as they hit 72 percent (16-for-22) of their free throws, while containing the Cougars to just seven shots from

the charity stripe the entire game. “We had a good mindset from

the start,” McCarron said. “We knew this was a team that had a lot of shooters, and a lot of guys that can make tough shots. They play team basketball. We had a tough time the last two times we played. We knew we had to come out and be ready.”

The Roadrunners pulled away late in the second half—up by as much as 13—which would be the final point difference in the game.

Metro will continue to play on its home court as their second round matchup in the tournament is the CSU-Pueblo Thunderwolves who are coming off a win against Fort Lewis, 72-63, in a first round matchup.

The Roadrunners vs. Thun-derwolves will be March 6 at the Auraria Event Center.

Left: Metro senior guard Sam Porter (22) defends to stop CCU guard Michael Brown from driving through the paint March 3 at the Auraria Event Center. The Runners won 70-57 to advance to the second round of the RMAC tournament March 6.Photo by Alyson McClaran • amcclara@msudenver.edu

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Roadrunners senior guard Mitch McCarron drives the lane against Colorado Christian March 3 at the Auraria Event Center during the first round of the RMAC Shootout. Photo by Michael Ortiz • mortiz26@msudenver.edu

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Metro women’s basketball fell short of CSU-Pueblo’s aggressive presence in a testy battle after a strenuous performance by the home squad with a final of 69-59.

The Thunderwolves pulled out the win and diminished any aspi-rations Metro had for a postseason berth at the Auraria Event Center Feb. 27.

The Roadrunners matched CSU-Pueblo’s field goal percent-age in the first half with 46 percent shooting from the field.

Led by sophomore forward/center Britany Curl with 10 points, 12 total, Curl assisted with keeping her team afloat in the midst of CSU-Pueblo’s forceful play.

“We played really hard,” said head coach Tanya Haave. “It came down to us not making enough plays, offensively or defensively.”

One consistency Metro could rely on was their team play and passing. The Lady Runners fin-ished with 15 assists, 10 of which came in the first half.

“We did a lot of good things,” Haave said. “We had 15 assists, so

we were sharing the basketball but we can do it even more.”

Going into halftime, the score was tied at 34, after a back-and-forth game up until that point.

The Thunderwolves forced Metro to foul almost every time they got in the paint.

Although the Runners shot 81 percent at the free throw line, the Thunderwolves got there often, go-ing 18-for-23 at the line.

CSU-Pueblo’s attacking de-fense brought the game’s only five fast break points and caused Metro to drop its field goal shooting to 23 percent in the second half.

First Team All-RMAC player senior center Deni Jacobs, scored a game high 13 points along with two assists and a steal.

In one of Jacobs final games as a Roadrunner, conference teams are familiar with her dynamic play.

Forcing a double-team, and sometimes even a triple, on Jacobs enabled the Thunderwolves to maintain their lead throughout the half.

“A player like that you want to give her a little leeway,” Haave said. “They do a lot of double-teaming anyway.”

Once CSU-Pueblo ultimately shutdown Jacobs, the Lady Run-ners struggled to find a quality shot.

“On our shot selections, we got a little impatient,” Haave said. “You’re not going to win many ball games unless you’re playing outstanding defense shooting like that.”

Outstanding defense is some-thing the Roadrunners lacked the remainder of the game as Pueblo scored 18 second half points in the paint to Metro’s mere six.

The Runners tried to take advantage of nine Thunderwolves turnovers, scoring 10 points off, but still wasn’t enough to get the much needed win.

CSU-Pueblo eventually pulled away from the Runners for good, dropping Metro’s record to 13-12, 10-11 conference.

With hopes to win its last regu-lar season game against UCCS, the Roadrunners had a similar out-come losing 75-70 at the Auraria Event Center Feb. 28.

Senior center Deni Jacobs pulls up for a jump shot against UCCS Feb. 28 at The Auraria Event Center. Metro lost to the Mountaion Lions 75-70. Photo by Abreham Gebreegziabher • agebreeg@msudenver.edu

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When UCCS star Derrick White caught � re, Eric Rayer an-swered with a cold-blooded jump shot that gave Metro a 73-72 vic-tory in the regular season � nale.

White was held in check for a majority of the game until his team needed him most. A� er managing only two points in the � rst half on 1-6 shooting Feb. 28 at the Auraria Event Center, the junior guard from Parker, Colorado, tied the score at 70-70 on a 3-pointer with just under a minute le� . Senior guard Mitch McCarron put Metro ahead on the ensuing possession a� er converting one of two free throws.

Trailing 71-70, White again commanded the ball, dribbling methodically between his legs be-fore nailing a jumper as the game clock dwindled to 17 seconds.

“� ose are the kind of shots All-Americans make,” said Metro head coach Derrick Clark.

A� er a Metro timeout, senior forward Nicholas Kay found Rayer in the le� corner for a presumable catch-and-shoot 3-point attempt. Rayer faked the shot, sending

White � ying past him. He then calmly took one dribble toward the basket and splashed the go-ahead shot as the clock hit 1.2 seconds and the Event Center, a fever pitch.

UCCS junior forward Alex Welsh heaved an inbounds pass nearly the length of the court to senior guard Darius Pardner, who � nished with a team-high 21 points. An emphatic McCarron block denied Pardner’s potential game-winner as the � nal horn sounded and McCarron went running past the Mountain Lions bench with ball in hand.

“� ey beat us back in Decem-ber and we didn’t forget about that,” Rayer said. “We knew we had to come out with a good start and it was going to be a grind all game.”

A� er UCCS defeated Metro 69-66 Dec. 12, 2014 in Colorado Springs, the Roadrunners (24-4, 19-3 RMAC) and the Mountain Lions (23-5, 17-5 RMAC) com-bined for 18 lead changes and 10 ties during the � nal regular season game for both teams, including a 34-34 score at hal� ime.

“� ey have a lot of Colorado kids,” he said. “But we have our own Colorado kid who hit the

game-winner.”Rayer, a junior classman who

grew up in Colorado Springs and attended Coronado High School, made one start in the � rst 18 games this season. Over the past eight consecutive games, he hasn’t le� the starting lineup.

“Eric’s worked his way into the starting � ve and he showed tonight that he can make big shots,” Mc-Carron said.

A� er su� ering a setback to Fort Lewis Feb. 20 in Durango, Metro won its three remaining games, two of which were at home, and posted a second-consecutive undefeated regular season at the Auraria Event Center.

“We’re a family. We win to-gether, we lose together,” Sinclair said. “� is is our � oor, and we don’t lose on our � oor. � e big thing coming out of this (win) is that hard work pays o� .”

Eric Rayer, Mitch McCarron finish off UCCS

Right: Senior center Will Sinclair posterizes UCCS junior forward Shane Jensen (15) with a monstrous dunk in the � rst half of Metro’s 73-72 victory over the Mountain Lions Feb. 28 at the Auraria Event Center. Photo by Abreham Gebreegziabher • agebreeg@msudenver.edu

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� ere’s a hole in the bottom of the sea, and you put it there. For shame. Pisces. For shame.

How about that local sports team?

I see a lot of snow in your future. Obviously. Consider buying those As Seen On TV cleats to attach to your fashionable-yet-useless Uggs.

Love your double. Hug your double. Kill your double. Wait.

Difficulty: Medium

Answers:

Kim Possible, “Kim Possible”— Mario Sanelli

Gamora, “Guardians of the Galaxy.”— Cassie Reid

Death of the Endless, “Sandman”— Steve Musal

Wyldstyle, “The Lego Movie”— Kate Rigot

Raven, “Teen Titans”—Christina Serieno

Catwoman, “Batman”— Tobias M. Krause

Lady Sif, “Thor”—Elizabeth Norberg

Storm, “X-Men”— Michael Ortiz

Taylor Swift, “1989”— Tim Ulrich

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