Keep the chocolate bunnies for the Easter baskets

After a cold winter season, the grass starts to turn green, flowers and trees are sprouting with vibrant colors and the weather begins to warm. In the United States Easter is celebrated by a majority of Americans. Easter is the celebration of the Christian faith. In America it is represented by one major image that is not religious and that is the Easter Bunny. Around Easter families go out to pet stores and shelters to purchase a cute fluffy eared rabbit to fill their child's Easter baskets. But after the candy has been eaten, the "Ester Bunny" that was purchased is still hopping around the house but will soon be seeing a new home.

Unite for Japan

"Unite for Japan" a benefit concert featuring  Denver Taiko, local rock & hip hop groups, a dance crew and many more. Unite for Japan is a night of fun but with a great cause.

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Former Bronco Hopeful About New Coaching Opportunity

Photo by Denver Post

The Metropolitan State College of Denver is in the process of adding the sport of football to their athletic program. The new team has added a small coaching staff. One member of the coaching staff that is a well known Denver Bronco football legacy is Louis Wright.

Metro's Journey to the Gridiron

The Metropolitan State College of Denver, a small school that isn’t known for having school spirit or a football program.   That will all be changing very soon.  This spring MSCD will have a football program for the first time.  The community and student body are very supportive for a new football team but they are also hesitant on how the team will do in the near future.

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The Denver Post Gets A Revamp by Federick Cole

The Denver Post will soon be getting a makeover with some help by Frederick Cole, a retired editor who has worked around the nation with many big city newspapers from Chicago to San Francisco.  Cole will help The Denver Post revamp its coverage and look.  With new forms of media happening everyday Cole is going to give Denver Post’s website a makeover to keep them in the lead of new media.

Before Cole became editor of The Chicago Sun, Huston Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, at the age of 16 he worked as a copy boy at his local newspaper company.  Cole never graduated from high school nor did he attend college.  His classroom was the newsroom that formed him to becoming an editor.  Cole was lucky to have such a great oppurunity for his journalism career.  With times changing perspective journalist do not have a chance of a great opportunity like Cole did. 

Future perspective journalists who want to have a career in journalism needs to go to college and work hard to earn a degree.  

Here is a link of the top schools and colleges for journalism. 

For students that do go to college and earn a degree Cole still believes that is still not good enough for graduates to work in the journalism department. “I'm not sure that youngsters take to learning the way we did, and this is showing up in the young men and women who come into the newsroom as beginners. Editors and educators have a common objective: We want to strive for optimum quality in our work.” said Cole.

“The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last fall that undergrad enrollment in journalism and mass communications programs increased 35 percent over the last 10 years.  And enrollment actually went up 0.8 percent from 2007 to 2008, according to the 2008 Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communications Graduates (ASJMCG) by the University of Georgia. (2009 stats are not yet available.)”  Read more.

Cole believes that colleges should make journalism students more rounded on topics, be tough on the students by putting pressure on deadlines. “When they must write fast, they tie up.”   Sure, we expect a lot because we don't label our stories—written by a beginner, intermediate or advanced reporter. Our readers pay for a professionally done product."

Confetti and Fireworks for Metro State- the Dream of One Student

Photo by: Jeanine Putnam

"Metro State will never be a big sports university like CU, but it would be awesome if our generation could change the dynamic and make sports a big priority... I want to see some fireworks and confetti at these games!"-Jonathan Morse, Sophomore at MSCD

Reported by Aspen Schmidt and Jeanine Putnam

A Place to go for a Good Ole' Laugh

In Greenwood Village there is a place you can go with friends and family to have drinks, eat, and the best part laugh out loud. That place is the Comedy Works at the Landmark DTC.

The Comedy Works has shows going on almost every night seven days of the week with multiple shows a night.  The Comedy Works is know for having big named comedians perform on their stage such as: Rob Schneider, Dave Chappelle, Joan Rivers, George Lopez and many other.  The Comedy Works love to support local Denver comedians and even helping to jump start their career. 

 
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Curiosity does not kill the cat.

I am new to Auraria Campus and have never been to our Campus Recreation Center. With my curiosity I decided to go check out the recreation center. I came across Mario who works at the check-out center for locks, towels, and balls. Mario is a junior at Metro and is majoring in Human Performance and Exercise Science. When Mario graduates from Metro he wants to be a professional body builder and a celebrity personal trainer in California. Currently Mario isn’t certified to be a personal trainer yet. The recreation center offers the personal training certification that Mario will do in the near future. The recreation center works around Mario's class schedule and helps him learn about new workouts. Mario currently is in no sport activities but would like to play lacrosse; the cost to play is expensive for a college students budget. Since Mario wants to be a celebrity personal trainer I asked him to put together a workout plan for a high celebrity. He came up with a plan for a celebrity that is looking to gain more muscle mass. He would put them on a four day weight training regiment working with bigger body parts first. He would work on legs, back, chest then go to working on the smaller parts of the body like your gastronomies, your calves, biceps and triceps. He would also have his celebrity work on cardio for 30 to 40 minutes. Mario would also put together a meal regiment of crabs in the morning till 4 p.m. then go to protein. The whole workout plan would last about 6 to 12 weeks. Currently Mario is working super hard in the gym because in the August Mario will be competing for the very first time be competing in a body building contest.

I came across a student of UCD named Omar. Omar is currently a sophomore and is majoring in Accounting. When Omar graduates from college he would like to move to New York and work as an auditor. During his junior or senior year Omar would like to study abroad in Europe and would love to visit Germany. Omar works in the Tivoli center at the Commuter Resource Center where he makes IDs. Omar also works at the Club Hub on the third floor of the Tivoli. The Club Hub is where all the organizations of each club are at. Omar has another job and that is downstairs of the Tivoli Center in the Pool Hall. At the Pool Hall Omar helps with tournaments that are being hosted and “man the fort”. All of Omar’s jobs are very flexible with his work schedule and that it is okay for them to be late to work when coming from class. When Omar has free time he likes to go snowboarding, hang out with friends, go to movies and listen to all sorts of music.