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At the movies – Best of Winter Break: The Hobbit
Peter Jackson is making some big business with some little hobbits. In the first of a three-part movie series, Jackson has again returned to J.R.R. Tolkien’s world of Middle Earth to bring life to...
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State Rep. Claire Levy seeks on-campus concealed weapon ban
Claire LevyStudents may lose their right to carry a concealed weapon on campus. During this legislative session, State Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, plans to implement a bill that would ban guns on all...
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Jon Clarke breaks school record in 60-meter dash
Jon ClarkeDetermined to be an Olympian, inspired to be a psychologist and accomplished to be a Metro track record-breaker are all statements to describe Jon Clarke. Clarke, 20, is a Metro sprinter who...
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Teacher outed at Overland raises other questions
This week when Carly McKinney, 23, a math teacher from Overland High School was investigated by 9NEWS, then suspended by the Cherry Creek School District for her Twitter account, I was ready to defend...
View ArticleForty-four percent of student misconduct still goes unreported.
Only 56 percent of student misconduct cases at MSU Denver are being reported and addressed, according to Jake Kasper, coordinator for student conflict resolution services and academic integrity. A...
View ArticleAuraria Career Day focuses on the personal brand
Things got personal at the Second Annual Auraria Career Day Feb. 13. The event was about developing one’s individual brand in the age of social media. “Your personal brand isn’t just online, it’s...
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Mens RMAC Quarterfinals Slideshow
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“Sex Week” brings education and intrigue
The image on the screen showed a mass of nubile bodies all suggestively intertwined — and all carved from crumbling beige sandstone. “This particular picture is taken from the temples of Khajuraho, in...
View ArticleSGA vote results in
The votes have been tallied and the results are in. MSU Denver student voted to retain the incumbents Laura Noe and Anthony Sylvester for another school year. Fees for the Phoenix Center and an on...
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Mindless Self Indulgence brings old sound to new album
For more than 15 years, Mindless Self Indulgence has been bringing their out-of-the-ordinary, rock meets electronic meets crazy sound to anyone who wants something different. Though it has been five...
View ArticleAthletic Honor Roll
Athletic Director’s Honor Roll Baseball Erik Cammall 3.53 Forrest Carpenter 3.70 Mitch Gibbons 3.56 Nick Hammett 3.52 Reilly Mau 3.87 Alex...
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MSU Denver continues season with “Urinetown”
Theater department takes a potty break The MSU Denver theater program kicked off the second half of its performance season with a high-energy production full of rousing music, dancing and — pee....
View ArticleMetrosphere: Jamaica Kincaid speaks on criticism
By Jody Mier jmier2@msudenver.edu I remember reading Jamaica Kincaid’s short story, “Girl,” in an introductory literature class not long ago. I loved it for its vagueness and felt power in its brevity....
View ArticleMetrosphere: The Battle of Inner Voice
Greetings Earthlings, Like you, my homework is piling up. Trouble is, I don’t want to do it. The warm hint of spring draws me outside, and soon I’m realizing that the semester is almost over and that...
View ArticleMetrosphere: Entering a void through a used bookstore
In the suburbs of Arvada there exists a magical thing — a secondhand culture shop called Black & Read. The store focuses mainly on literature and music, but is also has board games, movies, video...
View ArticleMetrosphere: Did you happen to see my Spring Break?
Greetings Earthlings, The first few days after Spring Break are always the toughest. It never really seems long enough, does it? It isn’t a genuine break when you have papers to research and write....
View ArticleMetrosphere: “Deep Elleum”
David Foster Wallace once said in an interview that “fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being,” but frankly, the human experience doesn’t equate to a perfect three-act narrative structure...
View ArticleMetrosphere: Humanity in photorgraphy
The first time I saw a John Oliver Hodges’ photo, I was moved. That’s not a word I use often—“moved”—because it seems so seldom that a person actually feels it. But there was something about this photo...
View ArticleAccepted artists for Metrosphere 2013-2014 Edition — Volume 32
ART Jason Bade Spencer Korey Duncan Brian McGinn Darlene Thomas Francisco Castro Connie Mobley Johns Patrick Cosner Sara Lightning Trevor Davis Laramie Marshall POETRY Jean Egdorf Alison Craven-Lyons...
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Metrosphere: Love’s nothing like a Tarantino flick
Photo from www.nerdist.com The first time I saw the 1993 film, “True Romance,” written by Quentin Tarantino, I remember saying, “I want a love like Alabama Whitman and Clarence Worley.” A love that...
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Metrosphere: Campus event proposal
Greetings Earthlings, I would like to ask for your help in bringing attention to a serious affliction that affects many Americans. I am tired of heavy sighing that goes unnoticed and I’m tired of the...
View ArticleMetrosphere: Beauty first, promotion second
The American Western has always represented ideas of grandiose exploration of nature, wild animal life and gun-toting cowboys. The Denver Art Museum is currently exhibiting a show titled “Rebranded:...
View ArticleMetrosphere: Zombie Olympics could happen on Auraria
Greetings Earthlings, Last week I confessed my passive-aggressiveness — and I have discovered there are many out there just like me. I am here to say to you that we no longer have to sigh and resort to...
View ArticleMetrosphere: Auraria Library Comics
In honor of National Library Week last week, I bring you a list of the best comic books the Auraria Library has to offer. (Que fireworks, orchestra and menacingly excited laughter) Comics are an...
View ArticleMetrosphere: “On Such a Full Sea” by Chang-rae Lee
Reviewed by Sonia Christensen Tattered Cover Historic LoDo On Such a Full Sea, by Chang-rae Lee, takes place in the future, in a United States reshaped by environmental and social change. It tells...
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Metrosphere: The padded room solution
Photo from elizabethannedesigns.com Greetings Earthlings, Did you know you can’t do that? Well, it’s true. I found this out the other day. There I was, in the fetal position, twisting my hair,...
View ArticleMetrospere: Leo Tolstoy, meet my grown-up self
The older I’ve grown, the more a trip to the bookstore has become an all-encompassing excursion. I can spend hours wandering around Barnes and Noble (RIP Borders), browsing titles, sections and leafing...
View ArticleDenver police make rift in gallery Unit E
Unit E art gallery, voted Westword’s “best D.I.Y. music venue,” was raided by undercover Denver police officers during the First Friday Santa Fe art walk, according to the gallery’s music curator Gregg...
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