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..AHEC gets non-academic services / Auraria institutions - Community College of Denver-Auraria Veterans affairs and fman~1al (CCD-A), Metropolitan State aid are two of a n~ber. of services College (MSC), and the University slated 路 for consohdatlon under of Colorado-Denver (UCD) Auraria Higher Education Center will in most cases become em(AHEC) administration within ployees of AHEC ~nder the cenone year. tralization.

CCD-A will retain classified The Auraria Board of Directors approved, without oppositi~n, a personnel and financial aid, proposal M~nday to consoh~ate however, due to its own cennon-academ1c support services tralization within the CCD system. now offered individually by camH"andicapped student services pus institutions. under the proposal will be "closely The proposal, a result of coordinated" between MSC and Colorado Commission on Higher UCD said UCD Chancellor Education (CCHE) recommen- Haroid Haak. CCD-A handicapdations and footnote 44a of the ped servces are already centralized state'~ '.'long bilP' c;>f fiscal ap- through CCD-North's Center for propnatlon, sets a timetable f ~r the Physically Disadvantaged. centralization of ten non-academic Printing and administrative support services by July 1, 1980. graphics, according to the Under the proposal accepted at proposal will be transferred to the currently the Auraria Board's July meeting, Media 'Center eight support ~ervi~es --: ~pe~ial managed by CCD-A. Since printing and adevents scheduling, idenhf1cahon cards, job plac~ment, n?n- ministrative graphics fail to direcacademic ~ounsehng, fore~gn tly affect the student, MSC student services, veferans affairs, President Donald Macintyre said classified personnel, and finaJ?cial MSC could forfeit those services.

Eaid - will come under the direct MSC and UCD financial aid ~control of AHEC. will be centralized under AHEC ~ Jero!Ile .wartgow.' AHEC by July 1, 1980. Other services will ~ Executive DITector, said Monday be consolidated by the start of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~persons in identified consolidation classesinthespringof1980.

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The Metropolitan July 11, 197.9

Hews APS allowed to keep weapons I

By Frank Mullen

The Auraria Board of Directors July 9 passed a policy regulating the weapons carried by Auraria Public Safety (APS) Officers. The officers will continue to carry firearms while on duty as they have done since the department was created.

The eight-member board passed the policy with one dissenting vote - that of Cipriano Griego.

"What can we do to eliminate that kind of awesome responsibility (the carrying of weapons)?," Griego said. " ... I am opposed to individuals carrying weapons."

Auraria Executive Director Jerry Wartgow said if the APS was abolished

their function would have to be taken over by an unarmed security force backed up by the Denver Police. The Denver Police, he said, could not respond in time to a campus emergency and campus authorities would have less control over security than they now have.

Wartgow said APS always had the authority to bear arms given all state security officers by state statute. He said the board's new policy "restricts, clarifies and defines'' the weapons policy.

He said there have been no reports of APS officers abusing their authority to carry guns, but the board had no distinct weapons policy in the past and they felt clarification was needed.

Linda Jensen, the non-voting student member of the board and a member of the Auraria Student Advisory Council, introduced a resolution to make an effort "to change the image" of APS from a police force to a security force with a "cooperative and service-minded attitude'' toward students.

The resolution passed unanimously.

"The carrying of guns is not really the issue here," Jensen said. "It's where the officers' heads are at that really matters."

The new policy states the APS officers may only draw or discharge their firearms to defend themselves or another person from "death or serious injury."

The regulations further state an officer

may draw and fire when capturing or preventing the escape of a person ''whom the Gfficer has reasonable cause to believe has committed a violent felony" or when the officer is responding to "a violent felony in progress, or has reason to : believe the situation he is in places the officer's life in jeopardy."

"Officers," the regulations state, " shall not in any case fire 'warning shots'."

The weapons policy also states APS officers may not carry their weapons off- • duty ''under the authority of the Auraria Higher Education Center,'' outside of the~ampus.

Fenster denies financial wrongdoing

By Sal Ruibal Beleagured businessman Raynard Fenster broke his self-imposed silence this week to comment on the legal controversy surrounding his financial dealings.

Citing his "concern for Metropolitan State College (MSC)," Fenster granted an exclusive interview to THE METROPOLITAN after reading last week's ·front page story. ("Fenster Financial Kingdom Falls" July 5, 1979.)

The former MSC student body

president said he was concerned his legal problems might cast an unfavorable light on the school and offered his vers:on of the affair to "clear the air."

Fenster denied a fake contract was presented as security on a government loan. The contract was legitimate at the time it was presented to officials of the Verde Capital Corporation, and it was not until after the loan was approved the Ramada Inn deal fell through, Fenster said.

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loans, but the loans themselves were private. The program was created to provide low interest rates to entrepreneurs.

The loan was made to Marketing and Research Consultants, Inc., (MARC), and not to Trailerboards, Inc., as previously reported.

Fenster also said a court-ordered injunction did not affect the Vista-Sentry Ambulance Service, another Fenster interest. Because of confusion over the .court action, the telephone company mistakenly shut off phone service to Vista-Sentry. A call last week was met by endless ringing, but early this week the phone was being answered by Raynard Fenster himself.

Fenster was also accused of presenting an inflated equipment appraisal from a non-existent company to secure a $125,000 loan. Fenster says the appraisal appeared to be from Janis Associates, but that was only because Janis stationery was in the Xerox machine when the appraisal was run off. Besides, he said, the private firm loaning him the money asked the appraisal be inflated from $218,000 to $418,000 so they could receive greater tax breaks.

When asked if that practice was iJlegal, Fenster replied that he ''was only following orders" from Jerry Berlin,

head of Greber Investment Corporation.

Berlin also heads Verde Capital, the conduit for the previous Trailerboards loan.

Fenster disputes charges the equip- -' ment was not worth even a tenth of the original $218,000 figure. "What we are talking about here is really replacement cost. I couldn't get the full figure if I were forced to sell it off, but it would cost that much to replace it. It's an important difference," he said. . ~.

The equipment was to be purchased from World Crest Inc., but Fenster says the company is not legally related to MARC, although World Crest is controlled by Fenster, his partner Roger Youmans and their lawyer, Bill Foster.

Money from the Greber loan was _. used in part to buy gold for another Fenster firm, Expressions in Gold. Earlier repons said $34,000 was siphoned off, but Fenster claims the figure is close to $27 ,000. The rest came out of Roger Youman's personal account.

Fenster said his energies are now going towards keeping the businesses • alive and providing services to the elderly subscribers of Vista-Sentry Ambulance.

He again expressed the desire that people understand "Metropolitan State College turns out positive students who work hard."

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continued from page 1 In developing the proposal, the Auraria Executive Committee (AEC) Wartgow, CCD-A Vice President Thomas Gonzales, MacIntyre, and Haak - also advised physical consolidation of sirniliar institutional offices into a "onestop-shop" system.

MSC and UCO will also work closely on common registration as a result of the consolidation proposal.

"We (MSC) have the only online (computerized) system for registration.

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"He's (Macintyre) talking about our · personalized, humanistic approach," Haak retorted with mock indignation.

Student fee-funded programs are not affected by the proposal, as W artgow said individual institution's student fees are not under the Auraria Board's authority.

• Haak said the proposal could be likened to "some kind of marriage."

"This marriage is unusual," Haak said, "since most of the community property is held by a third party (Auraria).

"Hopefully, this situation will , change.''

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By Frank Mqllen

Some people may think policemen spend their off-duty hours studying gun catalogues and watching TV reruns of "Starsky and Hutch.''

Not so. said Auraria Public Safety Sergeant Ivol Hagar, who went out a few weeks ago with prehistoric flint tools and helped skin an elephant.

The elephant butchering was part of - a scientific experiment conducted by archaeologists from all over the nation. The elephant was supplied by a local rendering plant. The plant bought the dead animal from a circus in New Mexico after the elephant ate contaminated grain and died despite the efforts of veterinarians to '- save it.

"The purpose of the experiment was ( to determine the problems early man had when he butchered large game," Hagar said. "One of the things we determined is that the flint tools early man used are as efficient as steel. Surprisingly, flint im~ plements wear about the same as modern tools."

Modern flintnappers (flintI craftsmen) duplicated the ancient stone tools by chipping them from the raw nodules with stone cobbles and antler tips - the same way Clovis man did over 20,000 years ago. Hagar said the duplications were "almost identical" to the originals. The scientific study of the worn tools and the butchering process may answer many of the archaeologists' questions about the long-dead men who roamed the American plains in company with mammoths, ancient horses and ex). tinct bison.

Hagar has little formal classroom training in archaeology, but his knowledge and devotion to the past has won him plaudits from the professionals, honor from his colleagues, and an executive appointment - as an archaeologist - from Governor Dick Lamm.

"All my life I've been curious," he said. "I've always been interested in what .:.: happened in the past.'' § Hagar began by reading books and ':: archaeological site reports. In 1968, when ~ < there were only 19 professional ar- 0 - ' _ _ _ _,_ _ _,.·._- - - - - - - - - - chaeologists working in the state, he APS Officer /vol Hagar: extinct bison instead of "Starsky and Hutch. " helped organize a committee to lobby for a non-renewable resource."

Colorado Archaeological Society.

Through the efforts of Hagar's Hagar served as the society's the creation of an Office of the State Archaeologist. group and the Colorado Historical president in 1978 when he helped "There was a lot of construction and Society, a state archaeologist was appoin- organize the Plains Conference - an inhighway development going on," he said. ted to oversee the preservation of ternational gathering of archaeologists "Irreplaceable archaeological sites were Colorado's non-renewable legacy. and anthropologists. · being destroyed every day. Those sites are Hagar's committee later became the "I guess you could say the Plains

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MSC offers wine and wheels classes Two summer Learning for Living programs will be offered by Metropolitan State College. The Colorado Four Wheel Drive Association, in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service will offer "Off the Beaten Track," on Wednesday evening, July 18 from 7-10 p.m. with a ~ field trip on Saturday, July 21.

U.S. Forest Service Recreation Specialist Chuck McConnell and Mary Ann Flodin, known as the "Jeepin' Gramma," will conduct the class. Mc, Connell, who has twenty years in forest service experience in the Rocky Mountain , region, says that "the biggest force to preserve the back country lies with the user and how he treats and respects the land.'' He will gear the program for beginning four-wheel drive people as well

as experienced drivers.

In the orientation meeting, the group will view slides and films of safe equipment and safe driving and follow the Colorado Association of Four Wheel Drive Clubs manual. On the Saturday trip, the group will go north of Boulder to the Jamestown Loop and proceed through Jamestown to Barking Dog and return to Lyons and Boulder via the St. Vrain.

Tuition for the class is $25 and is limited to twenty four-wheel drive vehicles. The group will have its orientation at the Jewish Community Center, 4800 E. Alameda Avenue.

The other program features Robert Wilson, proprietor of the Vineyard in Cherry Creek, and Carol Steele,

Conference has been the highlight of my archaeological career," he said. "·We had the largest attendance in the history of the conference and I was glad to be a part of it."

Hagar said some people might find his two main interests _,archaeology and law enforcement - incongruous, but the two professions are actually closely related. ''Archaeology is a lot like police work," he said. "Everything you do involves investigation and documentation."

Hagar is a big man, with the barrelchest and massive arms of a blacksmith.

He seems to be able to swing a pickaxe with the strength of a bear, but he does his best work armed with a wisk broom, sweeping away the dust from an artifact which has lain undisturbed for rnilleniums; searching for evidence of a people who wandered Colorado long before the ancestors of the modern Native Americans crossed the Bering Strait.

Each "dig" has brought him closer to these ancient men; each newly unearthed artifact has added to his reverence of them.

"These (prehistoric) people were not ignorant savages," he said. "They were a lot more sophisticated than you might think. For example, we are now finding evidence of paved roads among the more recent cultures in southwestern Colorado. There is evidence trade routes continued on page 8

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The Metropolitan July 11, 1979

Editorial Susan B. Anthony is a lightweight!By Frank Mullen If you tried to throw a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin across Cherry Creek on a windy day it might not make it to the other bank. The coin seems so light it just might sail away in the wind.

The new coin is made of a cupro-nickel alloy "sandwiched" around a pure copper core. It is smaller than a half-dollar but slightly larger than a quarter. The doUar has a likeness of suffragette Anthony on one side and the Apollo 11 moon landing on the other. It looks and feels like the play money manufactured for children or the "medals of the presidents" the gas companies used to give away to stimulate business.

I would not accept the new coin in change any more

than I would accept wooden nickles, plastic quarters, or styrofoam dimes. It's not that I have anything against Susan B. Anthony, or the space program. It's just that I like what little money I have to look and feel like it is worth something. I know the dollar has taken an international beating in the last few years, but I don't want to be reminded the American dollar is almost worthless everytime I spend one.

I understand everything that can be bought with the dollar has gone down in quality and it is only natural the currency itself should reflect this direction. I understand inflation is making it necessary to reduce the dollar to a coin so the dollar bill slots in the cash registers can be taken over by the $2 bill - which will be the new standard of currency.

Class action suit planned

Police shun battered women

By Karen Breslin Denver attorney Patricia Price charged this week that Denver area police are "doing nothing to protect battered women.'' Price announced her intention to file a class action suit against metro area police departments for their inaction. She specifically attacked the ignoring of many domestic violence calls, failure to arrest and remove assailants as well as neglecting to inform the battered women of their legal rights and options.

Price hopes the lawsuit will draw attention to the women's plight and help end police indifference to domestic violence. She claims the police and the courts fail to enforce the laws. As a start, she suggests of the assailant, usually a husband or boyfriend, be arrested and the case be treated ho differently than assault between total strangers. "When victims know the assaulter, no action is taken, ihey are therefore being denied equal protection of the laws," Price ~aid.

As the situation stands now, when the pohce do respond to a domestic violence call, they tell the wife to secure a temporary restraining order. According to Price the temporary restraining order prohibits the husb~nd from coming near the wife and family.

Without arresting the man, this is the only way to keep the husband away.

The temporary restraining order requires the services of an attorney and may well be ignored by the husband. Police discourage battered women from pressing charges, and in the rare cases when they are filed, the charges are often reduced to a misdem~anor. T_he man is given a nominal fine and sent home With the wife and children.

In felony violations, _the man still might be freed on

bail, returning to his family. Violating a temporary restraining order brings only a contempt of court .::itation, which does little to protect the abused woman.

No matter what action the abused woman takes, she is not protected. Her relief is found in shelter houses, not in the law enforcement departments or in a court system that protects others.

A similar class action suit in New York brought about a pledge from police to respond to all domestic violence calls, arrests in all felony violations, removal of the assailant from the home, and medical care for the battered women. Price is hoping her suit will be effective in ending Denver police indifference.

The phenomenon of abuse is hardly new, though more attention has been focused on it recently. It spans all racial and economic classes. As Ms. Price put it; "Violence against women is accepted in our society; we've been trained to accept the attitude."

Further evidence of this attitude can be found in our inability, or unwillingness to separate the abused from the abuser, and to effectively discourage such behavior. Misconceptions also play a part in our indifference.

One common stereotype depicts the battered woman caught in a love-hate relationship, forever bailing out the violent husband or lover, only to be beaten again, and start the cycle over. Such behavior is not commonplace, according to Price, who has spent time with battered women through Women in Crisis, the York Street Center, and other shelter houses for women. "However," Price added, "society has a duty to protect (the battered woman) even if she decides she doesn't wish protection."

l know there are logical reasons for its Lilliputian size and weight. The old Eisenhower dollars were so heavy they ripped pockets, dragged men's pants down to half mast and made women's purses deadly weapons.

Cash registers had no place to store Ike, and the coin was relegated to the limbo of gifts, slot machines, and coin collections.

The size of the new coin seemed logical, but people are already running into trouble with them. They mistake Anthonys for quarters and wind up taking a 75 cents loss. .

The mint is pressing out 2 million of the new coins ... each day and as of July 3 over 200 million Anthony dollars have been produced. It is my sincere wish that the public will do to the coin what it did to the $2 bill ignore it after the intitial curiosity wears off.

"You are being silly," an economics major told me recently. "Of course the new dollar is worthless but so are those federal reserve notes you c·a rry around. The .: dollar bill is nothing more than the unsecured promise of the federal government to make good ... The Anthony dollar is a good idea and you are just being radical."

I am not a radical. I know the government cannot start minting $1 versions of the solid gold Kreugerrand .

But the Susan B. Anthony dollar goes to the other extreme. When I spend money l like to think I am spen- 4 ding something in fair exchange for goods or services.

Spending coins which look like large versions of RTD bus tokens just doesn't make it.

If the Dutch tried to trade Anthony dollars to the Indians instead of beads, the people on Manhattan Island would still be living in wigwams.

The Indians might have been poor real estate dealers. They weren't fools.

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The Metropolitan July 11, 1979

feature Disco academic at Bibliotheque one, is standing alone or looking conspicuously without some sort of conserSoutheast Denver : ·the Lift , vation partner.

The conversation centers on stocks, Bogart' s, Lyle Alzado's, and now . .. the Bibliotheque. selling property, the food at Wednesday, June 27: a private Wellington's, current television fare, the gathering at the new spot in town. Lyle-Ali bout, and comparing notes on Opened to the public the following night, other discos or relaxation hangouts. this · is still promotion, response The ad: "Stimulating discussion . . ."

The dance floor is sunken a foot or gathering, data collection, testing the cocktail girls, proving the bus boys, put- so at the far end of the room. Above, and ting the curly-haired disco jockey in a semi-circle around it, almost pretentiously out of the way, are projection through his paces. .

The ad: "A sophisticated dis - screens showing a continuous array of cotheque with the atmosphere of a Denver and Colorado scences; other cities; women out of Playboy, library . . . " The Galleria on South Colorado Cosmopolitan or Vogue; men from the Boulevard: a giant cube of sunset-reflec- pages of Gentlemen's Quarterly and ting gold, blinds drivers and passersby Esquire; and couples in settings out of during the late afternoon, is owned by liquor or cigarette commercials.

Chase-Manhattan, who offered the The cocktail waitresses move Bibliotheque chain ("Our sophisticated steathily in uncomplicated but dense scene is also enjoyed in New York, Pitts- coverage of their respective target areas, burgh, Atlanta and Syracuse'') a very silky burgundy dresses like the recepreasonable deal on the ground floor space tionist at the front desk, trays of hors used for the Bibliotheque. Chase- d'oeurves ("These things are beginning Manhattan originally suggested to the to smell," says one to another as she disco firm that they might be interested in passes by with a dissipated layout of skewered pineapple and bacon - it is the Denver market.

The foyer of the Bibliotheque: about about eight o'clock and the party ends in 15 by 15 feet of shiny feet of reflecting 30 minutes.) They stride up with bright silver-like walls, glass bookcases with the eyes to the empty-handed, the Top Ten New York Times best sellers unreplenished, the pausing specta tor: available at wholesale prices. It looks a "Would you like a drink .. . would you lot like the sleek entrance to Lyle's joint, like another drink.?" (beer is $1.50 to but smaller and sans stairway, but 1.75, well drinks are $2.00, call drinks certainly no cozier or intellectually and who is settling for anything but their stimulating. favorites? - run $2.50), and off they go, The hostess/ chief librarian: tall , efficient, sleek, and not one blonde sculptured, swept hair down to lean among the entire force - not one emshoulders, huggingly loose, almost- ployed female in llhis . room of softness, Danskin type of floor- earthy hues of brown and red and tan, is length dress. She is aided by a thick- blonde.

Cocktail waitress Linda quit her job necked doorman in his late twenties, black tuxedo and painfully bronze, burnt at Alzado's to come work here. in tan.

"I came for the interview and really The manager comes through the two liked the people," says the lithesome shiny doors leading into the action cen- youngster with big brown eyes above high ter. cheekbones. "I found an organization "Hi, I'm Jim Killeen," and he ex- here that was lacking at Alzado's." tends from the arm of his dark brown Later, manager Killeen admonishes velvet jacket and tailored shirt a friendly Linda and a bus boy to be very careful in tan hand to shake. arranging the glass ashtrays on the coffee Killeen: · with the operation five and end tables, and to be sure to wipe all years, managed the Atlanta branch water marks left by glasses. (he labels them "rooms") before coming Bernadette recently graduated from out here to open the Rocky Mountain college with a specialty of piano perforlink, every hair perfectly in place with mance, wants to become a professional styled nonchalance and tacking ''you pianist, but working as a cocktail waitress know" on to every other sentence he at the Bibliotheque isn't bad in the meanspeaks. He looks like a Beach Blanket time.

Bingo hipster who made it in other cir"I like to dance, so the music's cles. · okay," she says, reconnoiterring her "We cater to the more affluent," station: the standees and a few corner the practiced Killeen says, "a more tables. "I don't hear it after awhile sophisticated clientele who have been anyway." neglected in the entertainment world."

The ad: "With music that won't He offers further explanation: break your thoughts. " "There are sophisticated restaurants, but The music: disco plus disco that is no really sophisticated lounges.'' loud but obnoxious, balanced like the The ad: "Where fashionable attire is calculated colors of the room, and compreferred." mandeered by David Sherrill, a Jerry .

Through the doors, out of the foyer Reed look-alike transplanted from and into the disco (out of the card Orion's Belt, a small time disco in Ft. catalogue, into the stacks): all four walls Collins. lined with a variety of hard-packed books Sherrill plays the dancers, works the that can be checked out with a Denver crowd, knows his business.

Public Libraries card; a room of dark "You come on with a grabber, brown and smooth lighting, red carpeting something to grab them." His hand with a repeating four-inch sextagon pat- reaches out and sharply clutches disco tern; the narrow bar like a sand bar splits air. the room diagonallly about one-third of The process from there is cyclic, the way in, sofas - plush, comfortable steady on the controls, smooth with the and inviting - all around the room, transitions, pick them up, wind them up, tables for two or four people. ease them down, and all so they feel On this night, no one holds a book in carried along. Help them but don't prod bis or her hand although a few glance at them, that's the ticket. the collection,'.!U\~ no. ~l!e ...~qso,._l\t\eLL:y LI\~.•.-....... , ::.!ll!t. \ qe_r. ~.~rft..Ltt.-£1le . ~lk .here,::,..

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Sherrill complains. "I have to work really hard to entertain with the music because they won't let me talk to the people.''

When it opens to the public, the Bibliotheque will have a cocktail hour beginning at 4:30 p.m. with hors d'oeurves and music.

"Our room, unlike others, is conducive to cocktail hours," boasts Killeen.

"During the cocktail hours, we'll feature anything from jazz to pop ... basically easy listening, you know."

Then gradually, the beat will pick up until eight, when Sherrill comes on duty to handle the auditory entertainment until the 2 a.m. closing time.

And then, the fans of the room that cost $500,000 to furnish and can hold 300 "comfortably", must find the way to their sophisticated cars parked in the belly of the Galleria and drive home, or maybe to a White Spot for some more stimulating conversation and Muzak.

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Eastwood's silence is golden !

By ~merson Schwartzkopf For the first 15 minutes of Escape from Alcatraz, Clin! Eastwood says nothing. l He dobsn't need to, either.

For, i~ Escape from Alcatraz, director Don Siegel captures brilliantly the claustroph'o bic mind-killing feeling of the prison and its occupants. Halls stretch into gray infinity. Doors lock on numbered inmates. Shoes of flat-footed guards slap the co~crete floors, with echoes forming a unif?rm beat.

By the ,time Eastwood says his first line, Escape., is already moving toward its inevitable meeting, to make the impossible possible - the 1962 breakout from The Stalinesque federal prison at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. EscapeJrom Alcatraz succeeds by

maintaining the sparseness of the beginning. As inmate Frank Morris, Eastwood is the man of action - speaking little as in his earlier films. His one thought is of escape, and Alcatraz reflects this.

Eastwood is the star as he is the escape and the escape is the film totally.

Siegel sidesteps the past and present cliches of the prison film by eschewing sloppy love triangles, insane escape partners, homosexuality, and racial prejudice. Instead, the movie concentrates on inmate Morris' discovery of how to beat Alcatraz - ''the Rock.''

Early on, Morris learns the secret of Alcatraz - the prison, long famous for being escape-proof, is decaying ... and ripe for an escape attempt.

The attitude at the prison is decayed as well, due to the iron rule of the warden (Patrick McGoohan). "We don't make

good citizens," the warden said. "We make good prisoners.'' Inmates and guards alike move i~ patterns of submission.

Using stolen materials (including nail clippers from the warden's office), Morris works on his escape in an almost casual manner. Yet, the movie's suspense is taut and intense, due to Siegel's direction.

Bizarre, bended camera angles - a Siegel favorite - blend with the neutral backdrop of Alcatraz to give the film a sinister, unnatural air.

With cinematographer Bruce Surtees, Siegel uses mirrors, glass, and low light to surface a secondary level of terror below Alcatraz's action - much as in his earlier masterpiece Dirty Harry.

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Eastwood and Siegel began the decade with the controversial Dirty Harry, using gun-and-guts to enforce a personal interpretation of law - a law diluted to possible ineffectiveness. 1n Escape fro_m Alcatraz, the two team again to battle' an authority now dehumanizing the would-be corrupters.

And, as with Dirty Harry, audiences may find themselves cheering in Alcatraz for the man of few words struggling against the forces of supposed good ... and not feeling guilty about doing it at all.

Sports Gym program gives city kids a break

By Joan Conrow The usually calm Auraria Physical Education and Recreation (PER) building undergoes a transformation four 1

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This extremely active group of teens and adolescents are participants in the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP), a federally funded program for economically disadvantaged inner-city kids. They use Auraria P.E. facilities for six weeks each summer.

Participation is entirely voluntary, and costs the youth nothing. Eligibility is determined by age ( 10-18) and economic guidelines. Dr. Gene Lee, director of the program' and PER instructor at Metropolitan State College (MSC), says it's popular with both kids and their parents. Usually 50 to 100 names are on the waiting list.

The objective of NYSP is "to give the youths sporting and activity enrichment, as well as expose them to a college ~ campus, so perhaps they can better them- if selves," explains Dr. Lee. "We're not only providing recreation, but also ex- £ posure to an academic environment so 0.._......_______________~~---------------__.: National Youth Sports Program at Auraria 's indoor pool. these kids can view college as a possibility in their future." up the largest part of the afternoon, they evident when he discusses the National This objective is met because the are considered no more important than Youth Sports Program. program is two-fold, stressing both the intellectual stimulation the program "This program really helps a lot of physical and mental activity. The spor- attempts to provide. people. It helps the kids, work-study ting enrichment is provided by the youth The kids, in small groups, may hear students and MSC itself. MSC gets taking part in four activities each after- a speaker discussing a specific career, or national recognition because our noon. what it's like to go to MSC. They may program is constantly being evaluated Everyone is required to participate in watch a film, hear a talk on nutrition or and rated in comparison to others around swimming, where diving and life-saving, drugs, or participate in a talking group the country and coming out in the top as well as the basics, are taught. Three - where kids can ask questions of the half. The program shows MSC is doing ·' other activities of their choice round out student or instructor who is supervising. something that meets the needs of the their schedule. Softball, tennis, golf, "We hope that by giving these kids community and the kids," explains Lee. gymnastics and modern dance are but a some exposure to college and careers, and Although he terms it "a full time few of the 13 varied activities offered. encouraging them to talk to people they job," Dr. Lee sincerely believes the They are divided into groups, according can identify with who are students or program works, giving him the incentive to age, and supervised by qualified in- teachers, they will get a feeling that they to stick with it. structors. can better themselves," states Dr. Lee. "I've seen changes in kids' attitudes "Before the program even begins we "We try to keep the ratio of kids to and behavior through this program . give each of the kids a physical supervisors 15-1, so the group can be They're here because they want to be, examination. TheY. are all insured and we comfortable and allow for individual in- and we just try to stimulate an interest in have a nurse practitioner on duty at all teraction. We are able to hire MSC work- something that will be self-improving," times," says Lee. "We give them a hot study students to help supervise and in- declares Lee. nutritious meal every day, and provide all struct. Some of them are PER majors "Everybody has to remember they the needed equipment except a few larger and it provides good experience for were a kid one time, somebody helped '?' pieces that MSC furnishes. We even give them.'' them grow up, and maybe they didn't the kids tennis shoes, shirts and shorts if Lee donated many hours of volunteer turn out so bad. So, maybe these kids they need them." labor to the program in its 11 years of won't turn out so bad either.''

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Bill feels although people are beginning to have a more accepting attitude towards alcoholics, stereotypes still exist.

"People often think of alcoholics as skid-row drunks, sleeping on sidewalks.

Fundamentally, there is no difference in personality or intellect between those who are alcoholics and those who are not. Many highly respected members of the community are battling this problem."

"It's also important to realize that because a person is an alcoholic, it doesn't mean they are weak internally," Bill points out. "What's important is that they're trying to overcome the disease."

Bill encourages anyone who's really interested to attend a meeting. Places and times are posted on the bulletin board in the Auraria Student Center. ''There are a lot of people out there we could probably help that don't even know we exist. Perhaps this exposure will make them aware they aren't alone and that help is available.

By Joan Conrow

Alcohol.

Most of us have used it, or perhaps even imbibe regularly. For a large number of people, however, consumption for pleasure turns into addiction. College campuses are not exempt from the nationwide problem of alcoholism which is why a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meets every Thursday in the Auraria Student Center.

AA is an extremely popular organization with over 10,000 groups across the country. In Denver alone, approximately 300 groups meet each week.

The reason behind such a large following is simple: AA really does work.

Bill Oast names are not used in the AA), chairman of Auraria AA, says there is no magic formula for success.

"Basically, a person has to decide they really want to solve their problem. They can come to the meetings and get the support and understanding they need from others who have been there too.

There are no dues, no roll calls, no particular pattern to the meetings. It's just a caring and supportive environment.''

"AA believes alcoholism is an incurable disease and the addiction will always be there. The main purpose of the group meeting is to try and provide the support needed to avoid alcohol in any amount,'' says Bill. "It involves maintaining a position of being happy with where you're at, without alcohol."

How does one even know they've got a drinking problem? '"'When you need to drink, when it's a physical and emotional compulsion, then it's out of your control," explains Bill. "Certain areas of your life may become unmanageable due to alcohol.

Archaeologist continued from page 3 were in operation between North America and old Mexico."

Hagar's off-duty hobby has become "almost a frenzy" and every chance he gets he goes off to assist on a dig. Last week he helped an archaeologist from the Smithsonian Institute investigate a site near Littleton where mammoth bones and flint chips have been found. The place may be connected with a Clovis Man site nearby.

Historically, professional archaeologists have looked down upon amateurs in the field as nothing more than "arrowhead hunters," but Hagar and the Colorado Archaeological Society have won the respect of the Ph.D's since they observe a similar professional code of ethics and are devoted to research and preservation. "lvol is an example of the very highest ideals of citizens involvement in archaeology,'' State Archaeologist Bruce Estes Rippeteau said. "I've got nothing but respect for him and his work.''

Governor Richard Lamm seems to agree. In 1976 he appointed Hagar to the State Historic Preservation Committee the citizen organization which oversees historic preservation in Colorado.

Hagar, who has been a ·state officer for 15 years, said he may pursue his interest in archaeology even more after he retires. Until then he will be spending his weekends helping to search for clues about the Americans who lived hundreds or even thousands of years before Christ.

"You know," he said, "I don't think there are really enough people into this stuff ... I think there is a place for all this in our society even though we are a changing society.''

"If we preserve the past," Hagar said, "it may give us a direction for the future."

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Alanon and Alteen are groups designed specifically for relatives and children of alcoholics, where they too can have contact with others in similar circumstances.

"It's important to know that others out there have the same problem," states

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