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Neighbors of Metropolitan State University are frustrated. Parking in front of their homes has been difficult, if not impossible because Metropolitan State University students and staff have been parking on the street. Recently, a community meeting was held with Metropolitan State University neighbors to discuss the parking situation... |
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Since the early nineties, the student organization, Lavender Bridge, has striven to create an accepting and encouraging environment for GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) students at Metropolitan State University. “There has been a big change since Lavender Bridge started,” says GLBT Student Services Director Anne Phibbs... |
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The Hmong New Year was celebrated at the Excel Energy Center Nov. 25–27, 2005, where approximately 20,000 Hmong family and friends attended the 30th annual Hmong celebration. Among the attendees were students from Metropolitan State University. “The purpose of the New Year is to celebrate the year’s end in terms of community and gathering among friends and family,” said Sam Vang, advisor for the Asian Student Organization (ASO)... |
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Olusola Dada received an award for his first published poem that can be found in an anthology at the International Library of Poetry. He has a book of poetry that will be available in 2006, is working on a children’s book and a fiction novel and wants to start an online business. Olusola, or "Shola", as he likes to be called, has been writing since he was four or five years old. However, his love of writing poetry sparked when he took a required English class at Century College in 2004. Since then he’s been hooked... |
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Joe Henry is one of the few students not dreading finals. A human services major, Henry, 27, is enjoying being back at school after a seven-month deployment in February 2003 at the Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq. Of his recent deployments, he says it made him appreciate his life here even more and caused him to look at things differently.... |
