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Meho's Pr€sident Sheila Kaptanannounced her rcsignation to the Boardof Trustees Friday, June 13, after serv-ing a lGyear term as the first femalepresident in the college's history.

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"I'm stepping down, leaving avibrant institution " Kaphn said.

K,rylan b'rought the college to anew level b'' serving as the longesttenured president since the collegeopeired in 1965-

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The clouds are heavy with rainwhile dusk setfles over the park in theOld Wadsworth section of Arvada. Achildren's swing-set creaks in thebackgromd as Metro alumni, NormanKidd heaves a sword above his head.

Holding the 3-foot blade parallelto the grolmd, Kidd demonstates afighting pose, which has been lost tothe Westem world for over five cen-turies.

The pose is taken directly from amanual depicting a German style ofamred and uarmed combat. Directlyimitated because of the lack of livinginsfructors to teach aspiring studentsthis forgotten art

Kidd sals that the pose is intend-ed to give the combatant an addedadvaffage in the initial forward thrustof the attacl giving the attacker theadded momentusr of moving forwardwhileJeaving the defender dre disad-vantage of moving backward Thisaggressive fighfing style is typical

Norm Kidd.l€ft, ild Jalnes hrnEs demddrate a $vod fisltirE tedrfiue at r,Elvoy Pa\rilfd| H( h Arvada Jrne t1. ]heyamong the techniques foud in the li6-mirOirs.fd1eREit,[A;rtaintti*oiiaiCom efrbiihidt$n*tdertinrAreEdni.lraGerman Liectenaue t'adition whichwas once used both as a form ofarmed unknown in the contemoorarv world.combat and a method of settling tegal ..As soon as moderr fpearmsdisputes and has remained relafiively (came about), we dropped the sword

except for cerernonial purposes," Kiddsaid. "Fortunately, there are a few p+ple across the United States who have

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Kaplan helped Metro form an independ-ent Board of Trustees a year ago by advocat-ing to the State Board and Gov. Bill Owensthat the college should have its own gover-nance.

The State Board approved her proposaland Metro has been independent ever since.

"She understands the college very clear-ly. She has worked for the well-being of theinstitution," said Eugene Saxe, faculty mem-ber who sits on the board.

He said the reason she resigned mighthave been because she felt she no longer hadthe support of the board.

With all her accomplishments, it isunclear as to why Kaplan suddenly resigned,making her last day July l.

Some on campus said that the board nolonger had confidence in Kaplan and she waspushed out of her position, but board chair-man Bruce Benson said that l0 years is along time for a president in higher educationand perhaps she decided it was time to go.

"People make up their minds andannounce things," he said. "We ltbe board)have supported her."

Kaplan plans on retuming to the class-room at Metro to teach history and for thenext year she will bct as an administrativeconsultant to the college.

The board granted Kaplan a $50,000sabbatical, along with her full presidentialsalary of about $163,000 for the comingyeaL

During Kaplan's tenure at Metro, theMetro State Foundation Board raised $17million for the colltlge's gift campaign, $1

million more than anticipated.Members of the foundation board

include Leo Keily, president and COO ofCoors Brewing Company; Robert Cohen,CEO of IMA Financial Group, Inc. andCharlie Gallagher, chairman and CEO ofGallagher Enterprises.

"She's been the most successful plesi-dent we've ever had," Saxe, who has been afull-time English faculty at Metrosince 1967, said.

Some of Kaplan's other accomplish-ments at Metro include the re-establishmentof the African-American and ChicanoStudies departments in 1995.

"She was a very effective administra-tor." said Luis Torres. chair of Chicano .Studies department who started at Metrowhen the department was re-established.

She did not, however, always have sup-port from Metro.

In 1997 she received a vote of no confi-dence from 16l faculty members after apolitical science professor was deniedtenure.

The vote of no-confidence was drawnfrom a l2-question ballot that Kaplan saidwas skewed to reflect no-confidence.

A year earlier Kaplan presented a pro-posal to the stat€ to get faculty raises whichtotaled nearly $l million by the year 2000.

Kaplan also implemented numerousonline courses that are utilized by nearly10,000 itudents.

"She has guided the college to recordenrollment, and helped it become the leaderin online distance eduction," Benson said.

Kaplan said after all is said and done by Sterr€Sbner- Ihe lvtfroditcn

Rav Kieft awaib announcement at the Bodd of Trusteg rneetinn June 24 tfnt he will be interim oresi-deiirt for tre trletro. Kiet will replace Sheila lGplan wto b *eppifu dou,n July I after 1 0 years c llifobpresident.

She hopes to be in^,-- ,;-_-,-:,- . --,, -" The board will be conducting a nation- Kaplan said she hopes Metro has an openIne c lasstoom Dv ta o IiiOi-

- wide search for a new permanent president and aggressive search for a new president.

she looks forward toreturning to teachinghistory.

At the June 24,Board of Trustees meet-ing, the board appoint-ed Raymond Kieft asinterim president.

Kieft has a doctor-ate frdm the Universityof Northern Colorado, amaster's degree fromColorado StateUniversity and a bache-lor's degree fromCalvin College.

He wi l l not be acandidate as the perma-nent president.

for Metro."We want a strong, dynamic [eader,"

Benson said.He added that Kaplan took the college

high, and now the college needs someone tokeep it there.

"I leave Metro as a much stronger insti-tution. The reputation of the college andcommunity has improved enormously,"Kaplan said. "[t was a nice, fun 10 years."

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. 1986 - Kaplan was appointed chencellor ofthe University of Wisconsin-Parkside whereshe doubled the number of Africsn-American and Hispanic students that attended rndgraduated. She also raised a significait amount of priyate dollars for minority studentscholarships,

. September 1993 - Kaplan was selected to be the lirst femde president of Metro andsucceeded Thomas Brewer who oerved a five yerr term at Metro ls president.

. August 1994 - Minority retention low et Metro and Kaplen recognized that Metro hadnot been successful in retaining students of color. She set a goel to hire more administratorsand instructors of color to set a model for retaining minority students.

. 1995 - Kaplan helped re-establish Metro's Chicano and Africrn American Studiesdepartment.

. October 1996 - Kaplan asks faculty for more aggressive minority recruiting.

. April 19!17 - Kaplan receives a vote of no-confidence from Metro frculty- Out of 336tenured faculty, 161 said they had no confidence in Kaplan. The vote wrs conducted after apolitical science professor was denied tenure. Keplan disputed the results.

. February 2003 - Kaplan makes a motion to the Board of Trustees to declare. a fiscalemergency, which would have allowed for additional layolfs. The board denied her motion.

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Auraria expandirg parkingbySanhSdrneider

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Due to the increasing enrollment , a newfour-story parking structure is slated forAuraria campus,

If funds for the structure are approved bythe Auraria board and the ColoradoCommission on Higher Education, the com-pletion date for the new garage scheduled fall2004.

"We decided we needed more parkingabout two months ago," said Mark Gallagher,director ofParking. *We decided this becauseof enrollment being higher and potentialgrowth."

The new srucnre will have a maximumof 900 parking spaces available, includinghandicapped spaces to ease the lack of spacesavailable and allow for the growth Auraria willexperience in the future.

The bid for the new garage is about $1.5million, Gallagher said. A 20-year bond willbe taken out to pay for part of the garage andthe other part will come from the parking feestlat students and faculty pay each day to park.

"Parking gets no tuition, no fees, no taxes;it is a user based system," Gallagher said.

The cost per day to park in the garage willbe $3.25 for students and faculty. The garagehas a 20-year bond to help pay it off,Gallagher said. This- is how the new garagewill be paid off as well.

The new garage will be located at 9th andAuraria Parkway, on the north side of Tivoli,where the tennis courts are now located.' "We will rebuild the tennis courts on theeast side of the Tivoli. on the southwest comer

. of the playing frelds,'l Gallagher said."Parking will rebuild the tennis courts,becaus€ we tore them down."

'I rhink that the tlrnlng is inappropriate tostart an expensive construction project almostimmediately after so many of the college'semployees lost theirjobs due to a financial cri-sis," said Leah Bluntschli, a student.

Lots H and I are being refurbished and willbe frnished by fall, Gallagher said.

"In the summer, we do constructionbecause enrollnent is lbwer," Gallagher said."Last summer, we refurbished lots A. B, and F.We improve the asphalt and design of thelots."

Since the enrollment in the summer ismuch lower, it allows lots H and I to be underconstruction without taking parking spacesaway from students. Student enrollment forthe Auraria campus for summer, 2003 is16,452. The spring, 2003 enrollment was38,290, of which 19,193 are metro students.

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1.9 million cars, said Gallagher. This includesp4rking during the school year, special events,as well as faculty spaces. It is believed thatnearly 20 to 25 percent of the enrolled stu-dents choose to take alternate means of trans-portation, including busis, light rail, andbicycles.

The price of parking in the new lot willstay within the curr€nt system that we havenow, said Gallagher. "We don't plan to raisethe rates."

Right now the lowest a student or factual-ly member can pay for a whole day of parkingis $1.50. The highest is $5.00 a day.

Gallagher feels that the new garage willimprove the quality of Auraria.

"We are just responding to the growth ofthe campus; the parking is a crucial compo-nent of the schools being able to get studentsto come here," Gallagher said. "We have lotsof people who want to go to school."

Metroconnect portalfaunches tu$7

Metro will introduce a new web-basedportal system July 7. MenoConnect willenhance cornmunication with students.faculty and staIf. MehoConnect is wherestudents will go to get the latest campusnews, rcgister for classes, chat with teach-ers and other students and utilize email, Goto www.mscd.edu for more information..

Teaching requirementschanges for Colorado

The Colorado Commission for HigherEducation implemented a new requirementfor student teachers. They u/ill have to passthe state teacher certification exam beforethey are allowed to teach.

It used to be that students wereallowed to teach after completing programrequirements.

Board of Trustees grantsKaplan presidentemeritus status

The board granted Kaplan presidentemeritus status. Sbe will also receive aone-year sabbatical, during which timeshe will provide adminisfiative consultingand prepare for a retum io teaching histo-ry.

Metro announcesinterim president

Raymond Kieft has been appointed asMetro's n€w interim president, but will ndtbe a candidate for the permalent position.

Metro's Board 0f Trustees voted himin dt the June 24 board meeting. Kieft istemporarily replacing Sheila Kaplan whowill step down from her position as presi-dent on July l.

Three new trusteesannounceo

Maria Garcia Berry, president of pub-lic atrain firm; John Osborn, founder andchief executive officer of Village Homes;and Dean Tonner, former deputy chief ofstaff for the governor were appointed thethlee new trustees for Metro's board,

z{n article about the trustees will b€ inthe next issue of lle Met opolitan.

Yolanda Ortega-Ericksenretires

After 30 years at Metro, YolandaOrtega-Ericksen is retiring. She started atMetro as a secretary then worked as a tuto-rial coordinator, director of student activi-ties, associate dean and dean.

She retires as the vice president of stu-dent services.

Hands-on education forstudy abroad course

The Hospitality, Meeting and TravelAdministration completed its first studyabroad program.

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Foreign poli.y the hardwayoil pipelines.

What about those WMD -if they are sohard to hnd. then how could they have beensuch an imminent threat? This question raises a goodpoint, that being the issue ofAmerica's credibility. Ourexplanation for not going through the UN rvas that theUN had made itself irrelevant by refusing to act onlraq. ln hindsight, the UN not acting doesn't seem sobad if Iraq didnl have WMD after all. ln fact, it callsinto question our own relevancy.

I also recall the notion that the road to peace in theMiddle East ran tbrough Baghdad. Due to the recentsetbacks in the "Road Map'' it would appear that suchself-serving notions should have had their own map,preferably one spotted with signs reading "wrong way"and "no exit."

Black-and-White ideologies are dangerous. [n thereal world, it is never enough to simply do the rightthing; what matters even more how you go about doingthe right thing. The Bush administration was so cenainof its cause that it failed to realize the potential forthings to be worse than they were before. Are we safertoday because ofthe war in lraq? I don't leel safer.

-anicle bv Justin Breuer

Nerves of steel neededfor peacekeeping in lraq

While liberals and conservatives exhale,secure in the knowledge that the United States will$rite the history of the recent engagement in thePenian Gulf, skeptics from both parties raise avalid concern. The military campaign completed,

have rve only begun tofight?

Whether or not itcomes as a surprise thatthe United States quicklyand ellectilely subduedand occupied lraq, theease of such an operationbelies the difficulty of thepolitical tinkering thatinevitably follou,s such amaneuver.

Thc irony of thesituation calls to mind the signs frequently seen inshops dealing in antiques or collectibles - "Youbreak it, 1.ou buy it," they read. The United Statesintentionally broke lraq to necessitate its purchase.With the broken prize in hand and a feu' dollarsworsc for wear. our nation emergcs from the shopgrinning.

But how shall Iraq's govcmment function?Will the United States conflont the risk of askingthe lraqi pmple to votc on the style of govemmentthey wish to enact? By its vcry nature democracymust be mandated by the people it shall serve.

The United States govemment worken, pre-sumably not the same ones rvho oversarv the mul-tiple Florida re-counts, tabulate and release theresults. And the loser is... the United States.

Each of the candidates for the executiveoffice might very well oue allegiance to a higherauthority. making him a political puppet. Beyond

It would appear that the Bush Adminishation is aboutto leam the hardway what happens lvhen simplisticblack-and-white ideolog,v runs headfint into realiq'. Thewar in Iraq was toted as bcrng a battlc ofgood versus evil.But unlike the fantastic conclusion of a child's fairy tale,we are left to face the gritty truth that America's sons anddaughters are still dying in a foreign land for a thrcat thathas yet fil materialize.

I remember watching TV the day the UN unani-mously passed resolution 1441. I remember our IINambassador proclaiming that this rcsolution held no hid-den mechanism or trigger for war. It is this same resolu-tion that the administration later claimed justified ourinvasion of haq, a resolution based on the beliefthat lmqhad WMD. Months later, the WMD have yet to material-ize.

The war in Iraq was marketed as liberation, and notan invasion. There is no argument that removing SaddamHussein fiom power was a good thing. There is, howev-er, something to say about the almost a death-a-day of ourtroops since the declaration ofcessation ofmajor militaryoperations. There are also the protests of major religiousleaders, the inability to effectuate an Iraqi govemment,yet alone a democracy and terorist attacks on major lraqi

that, religion plays an integml role in the probablefailure of each leader.

Christians comprise roughly three percent ofIraq's population. lf a Westem U.S. oflicial wereto try to lead haq with as much political, moral,and social objectivity as possible, his work mightstand to substantially benefit only three percent ofthe population.

We cannot afford to underestimate the fric-tion between Suni and Shi-ite groups, lest *'eencourage even more violence. A substantial por-tion of the Iraqi people would welcome a Sunileader, but he would have to deal with the aggres-sion of the Shi-ites or other violent dissenters,prompting the same bloodbath, as would the pres-ence ofa Shi-ite leader

Were there someone who could properly fillthe nerv Iraqi leadership role, one problem wouldremain: who could represent the l'iews of theKurds, a nomadic people who desire peace. Whocould weave their wishes into the labric of Irao'snew "democracl"?

lf the nerv leader keeps peace and promotesprosperit_v in Iraq, critics will say the United Statesbenefits more than Imq, and will decry American"colonialism."

If the leader allows circumstanccs to dictatehis actions or if he cannot ease lraq's social andeconomic q,'oes. critics will accuse him of incom-petence and will associate his supposed incompe-tence with the United States.

No new leader can win.How will the United States put Iraq back

together and ensure we did not spend our lives,time, energy, and dollars in vain?

Let us hope we find our healing handsequipped with nenes of steel.

une 26,2003

Singer's vision of future crystal clearSJonatnnlfuenm

Thelvletroplitan' He can't tell you what color shirt you arewearing - but he can tell you which direction thestudent body of Meto is going. He can't see themocha he drinks - but he can see the intrinsicvalue ofthe students he talks to.

Meet Harris Singer.Singer, currently Meto's student trustee, is

blind but not hindered. Singer's future is crystalclear.

Singer left his home in Maryland and cameto Colorado five years ago to attend The ColoradoCenter For The Blind. There, Singer would leramhow to use a cane aad read Braille. TVo and ahalf yean ago, Singer came to Meho where hedecided to eam his degree.

Along the way, Singer has experienced morethan rnost of us who have our eyesight. WhenSinger came to Colorado, he met up with a multi-cultural organization that would travel around theworld for a year. Singer joined widr 163 peoplefor eleven-and-a-half months and toured sevendiferent cormtries. Singer was the only blind per-son in his group. After the tour, Singer came toDenver and remained idle for eight months.

"My choice to go back to school was reallyquick " he said Singer was accepted to Mebo in2001 on January 16, regist€r€d on the 17, andclasses began on the 18. "I've really enjoyed ithere - it's been a geat school - great faculty."

' Singer did note the excellence and unique-ness of Meto State. 'At my old school, I waspayine 2290 a year in tuition Here I pay 2,500.But the faculty here is far superior to my school inMaryland. It's a fine institution"

As the student trustee for Meto State.Singer takes on several responsibilities.

The position was created by the state about ayear ago making Singer Meto's first stude-nttustee. As a student Sing€r rcp€s€nts Metro's

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success of the college -to ensure fte college is .treating shrdents welL

"I want to helpfacilitate beneficialchange," Singer said. "Iwant to help students,faculty, and adminisba-tors succeed in. thi$game of higher educa-tion."

Singer has been atthe job for eight monthsand will continue in hisposition for one moreyear.

The studentTrustee position isdemanding - even with

task every month.His work does not

go unrecopized. JoanFoster, Faculty Senatepresident, describes

thoroughly rcseach tbe questions."His fuure? Crysal Clear."My main goal iri life is to help people. I

want to help people to rmdersand themselves,'lSinger says. "Because it's when people under-stand more about who they are, and who they arein relationship to all human consciousness, canwe then heal the consciousness which continuallyprevents us from growing and evolving as a peo-ple and unifoing." Sing6 says he wants to use apolitical system to tuly help people.

"Itk going to be a trernendous effort " hesays.

But, Singer, a poster<bild for confidenceand determination, has already proved himself inthe challenges he faces.

"I Favel as I want to. I have steng0r. I dothings I want to do. Blindness has nwer phasedme. If I wasn't strong, I wouldn't step outside my

11 tr35 shanged me in the way I relate toexperiences as when I was sighted. Has it hin-dered me? Not in the least " Singer said.

Singer's goal as student trustee is to give str-dents more.of a part in the policy decision making

eyesight. Every month, front door," Singer said.the frustees set a Board And- he has the hearrBoo( which is almost "l care about people. I want to see peoplerwo inches thick - dou- happy. I want to see people succeed in their lives."ble sided. The board's One rmique thing about Singer is that hejob is to rcview and ana- doesn't view his blindness as a life sentence.lyze the book. Hanis, 'My blindness has allowed me to do ftings Ibeing blind, accom- would have never done. Blindness ha< only beenplishes this demanding a good experience

Singer's commitrnent: process at Mebo. He says that if he can accom-'Hanis has an incredi- plish thiq he can accomplish almost urything.bly snong work ethic. So, for someone who can hold aHe puts coundess hours demanding position, for someone who cannot see

Harris Simer. ,iSC) Stu(hft TnEtee. hc b helD Deob thrddr Dhtics. into his position as sf.r- but can adjust to a technological world, for some-tle is do1.s|emajairg h politkd sciL{tcb ana antfidpdqf dent tustee. We are one who has the compassion and willingness - I

20,185 students. As a trustee, Singer has theresponsibility of looking at the overall health and

fortunate to have a stu- say why not?dent trustee who takes Rock on, Harris Singer.

the sh.ldent issues to heart and has the fortitude to

peftion across the table.Second, I miss the ice inthe drinks and I miss thefree refills. Especiallyfree drinks, because the&inks are $3 each.

Another thing Imiss is when the serverasks me if I want my

'Being over in the United States has made ffi#**Lffffime strongeL but not atways in a good,ffit".

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were the coolest chicks ever. I was just shaking for a short time and I don't want to spend thatmy head in despair. time talking about mq and certainly not about

After having been home for a couple of Americans. I'm on vacation from all that.hours I always rcalize. that coming horne for I want o talk about Sweden, gbout my fam-vacation is not always pure fim. Everybody ily, my friends. What have they leen through?wants to see you; they want a part ofyou. What's going through their minds righi now? I

It's flattering, but at the same time it's - want to spend quality time with my family, I wantexhausting. People want you to corne see them; !o go see a soccer garne, I want to have coffeethey want you to make time for them. with my friends, I want to have lunch in the parlc

I really want to see everybody, but it doesn't and I want to become Elin again.have -o be during the first couple of days. I'in I have about six weeks to do all this and Itired as it is anyway. The.time difference between think I can do it.Denver and Stockholm is eisht hours and.

leffovers to go. That's not even in a waiter'svocabulary here. IfI would ask for my leftoverspeople would stare at me, thinking that I'm acheap idiot.

What I do like here, though, is that youdon't have o tip as much. In fact, you don't have

. to tip at all. The tip is included in the price. Notthat the waiter gets a percentage or anything, it'sjust that fteir hourly pay is higher here than in theUnited States.

I also like how the salad comes with the din-ner. lt's not exba.

Another thing that is weird when I go home

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I was sure I wasn't going to miss arything atall when I went home to Stockholrq Sweden, thistime. Well, with the exception of my friends andthe guy I've been seeing lately. Other than that -nothing.

I came to realize that I needed to go homeduring dinner with a good friend who he told meI sounded "American," meaning that I wasextre,mely shallow. All I did was say that with allthe money Michael Jordan has, he should be ableto buy a tie that go€s with the rest ofhis outfit.

Affer that dinner, I knew it was time for meto go back home and find my roots again, findmyself Being in the United States makes meshonger, but not always in a good way.

When we flew inio Stockholm, I was happy.I had tears in my eyes. Finally, I was home. I wasabout to meet my family and friends; I hadn'tseen them in five months.

I have been studying in Denver for twoyears now, and I go home every summer andwinter. Apparently, this means that picking me upfrom the afuport isn't such a priority anymore...The only people who showed up wer€ my momand my brother Simon.

What can be more irnportant than seeingme? I guess road racing, a soccer toumametrt, amusic festival, and your own bachelorette party.At least according to my family.

However, I was excited !o be home againback where the air actually contains oxygen,among things I missed like the envimnment, thequality ofthe roads, and the food.

We went to a restaurant and the food wasgreat, but I felt something I. never thought Iwould. I was missing Denver; I was missing theUnited States.

FiNt, I miss the non-smoking sections inrestaurants. It's nice to have a clear view of the

is that you are allowed to drink alcohol when youare l8 years old. It's easy to forget when youdon't see that in the United States. It doesn't mat-ter that I was 18 when I started. No matter whatpeople say, there is a major differ€nce betweenl8 and 21.

At the table next to us were four girls whodidl't look a day older than 19. They were drink-ing beer, smoking cigarettes and talking aboutsex. They were very loud and they thought they

believe me, you feel it,. ,The first time you meet all tlese people they

ask you the same questions. How did you feelabout the war with haq? How did the Americansfeel about it? Isn't Bush a little bit crazy? Howbig is Peter Fonberg? "Did you know he waschorn the best player in the world?"

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He has agreed to relate his story for lhereaders ofthe Metropolitan as it unfolds in frontof him. He has found himself in the middle of awar that few will understand and even fewerwill admit is still waged. Ai times I have knownhim to be wildly patriotic - he has been in twobranches ofthe arrned service - but because ofthe nanre ofhis predicament, he wishes for thetime to remain nameless.

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The Mind Field Part 2

After a handful of feverish days drivingunder the Iraqi sun, he had found himself zippedalong tbrough the desert in his humvee, fueledonly by a the effects of sleep depravation andthe oasis of disturbing disassociation to theworld around him. He watched from behind asteering wheel as his convoy left Baghdad andraced across the desed rmtil they were due-South of Tikit, the last hold-qut of Saddam'sloyalirtaot,.tho tim,, and hme*owo to the bigman himself. At around three-thirty in the morn-ing, on a twoJane road with working street-lights, his convoy had come to a sudden halt.Surnmoned by his captiin, he deftly jumped out .of the vehicle, grabbed. his weapon, nearlytripped over an lraqigrenade laying inwait at his feet,and made hisway to the topof a hill wherehis captaincalmly awaitedhis arrival.Concemed at thereason for the con-voy's hal! he looked around, fully taking in thedangerous area that had been used recently toambush other Anericans.

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only one reason we'd stop in .the worst possible place. Our convoy com-mander, and his immediate subordinates incharge, had absolutely no idea what they weredoing. They stopped beqause they didnt knowwhat else to do.

It was a perfect place to hold an ambush.Which, according to the unofficial infantry-man's dictionary, is nothing more than 30 sec-onds ofpre-meditatbd murder. Better still, I hadjust leaped over an unexploded, though fired,rocket propelled grenade !

None of our vehicles are armored by theway. This is because I'm in a headquarters*-.tT-y",".i9! i Tpl"l com-pany. Most of thes€

soldiers are clerts and mechanics, the kind ofpeople who died and were captured with the507th.

propelled grenades, plus unarmored convoyconsisting of non-combat soldiers sitting in themiddle of a road, equals a free Iraqi lunch."

To make their situation a tad.more interest-ing, an engineer sergeant came along and yelledup to where he and his captain stood. He toldthem that they should probably be extra carefulon their way back down to the convoy becauseit was likely the area they had just run throughwas mined.

"This is a commonIraqi practice when theywant to kill or maim anAmerican curiousenough to try andmove an unexplodedRPG round.

Once back on thehardball. viapath, which we cleared bywalking across it hoping we didn't get killedwe leamed of severalother expendedRPG's, whichseerned to litter thisarca. It was right thenthe cabtain. who is also

Infantry, decided thatthere should be somesort of securiw onthe other side ofthe hill so no

cine could comeupon us-

unawares."He agreed with

them that this wasprobably for the best,

and since he'd beenthere once already they

thought he was the perfect

candidate to send back up.

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all killed, ryanted us to lay on top ofthe hill so- we could be silhouetted against the lights. behind us. Giving the lraqi's, who are notori-ously poor shooters andneed. all the adval-tages we can afrordthem, a betterchance not only tosee, but also kill,us.

In route to theridge, I dropped offmy 203 and grabbed up aSAW a belt-fed machine guncapable of delivering up to 800 rounds a minuteto a target.

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I have never resented humanify more than atthat moment. I knew then that in 20(X I wouldleave the military forcver, never to retum to theland of the lost.

For three hows and some chafge; I lie there,a perfect target for any lraqfl chimpanzeethoughtful enough to make my dife 250,000.00richer. That's it, that's what my life is worth, Aquarter ofa million dollars.

I wonder how many of those George Bushhas, or how many he throws away each yearwithout even a second thought?

Not this one. Not anymore. Never again.I am not here for his amusement.It was ther€ that I lost my wallet. It slipped

out of my pants as I tactically withdrew frommy position on the hill; the convoy already safe-lv on its wav.

Later as we rolled into the city of Tikrit,lraq, I glimpsed several Bradley Fighting .Vehicles manning positions outside thepalace compound that would becomemy home for the dumtion of my tour sthus far. I would say something moredefinite, like, 'for the next 6 months,'

exceDt I have no idea when I'll beleaving this place. I :rm com-

forted only in the knowledgethat I am not alone in my

ignorance; nobody seemsto know when we're goinghome, and ifthe higher ups

even care. thev haven't deemedit necessary to enlighten us.

So safety crept slowly into the horizon ofmy addled, slep deprived brain m I pulled theHumvee to a stop near what would become theTikrit palace airfield."

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