Volume 1, Issue 17 - July 18, 1979

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Aurarfa Board ''really stupid''

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UCD snatkbar 路closure raises ire

By Frank Mullen

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"Terrible," "unfair," and "stupid" were some of the words used by University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) students when they learned of the planned closing of the UCD East Classroom (Tower Building) snackbar.

On July 3 the Auraria Board of Directors decided to close the snackbar as of August 17. The snack bar, a popular eatery and gathering place for UCD students and faculty~ incurred a $15,000 deficit last year.

The snackbar had been subsidized by revenue from the Mercantile restaurant and vending machine sales, but new Auraria policies prevent such subsidies in the future.

The snackbar will be closed in the fall semester and the Auraia staff will try to develop some sort of facility for UCD students.

"It's (the closing) just terrible," said UCD student Cindy Muller. ''The food was decent and the people were so nice ... I think the (Auraria) Board is really stupid for closing it. All they care about is numbers on paper and to hell with the students.''

Dan, a UCD student who uses the snackbar frequently, agreed.

"Let me guess," he said. "They are going to put in (vending) machines that are overpriced and never work. It's really unfair."

Three state employees who work in the snack bar said the food service had been in debt for several years. The service is managed by a local firm with Auraria as "landlord."

The employees said the state will relocate them off-campus when the snackbar closes. 路 The employees said the snackbar does a very good business during the regular semester with "lines of customers reaching out the door'' and the seating area so crowded ''its ahnost impossible ro sit down during the day."

Even with the large volume of business, snackbar employees said the facility still had trouble reaching its overhead costs.

"It's just that when you have to pay three state employees and pay so much per square foot for Janitor fees its really hard to make ends nieet," Sherry Morales, food service supervisor said. " We have to pay the maintenance costs to Auraria even when we are not in operation."

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By Frank Mullen

The wide-spread publicity surrounding child abuse cases like the Gaynell Mann killing might .serve to harm rather than help public awareness of child abuse, a Metropolitan State College (MSC) professor said last week.

Dr . .Janis Bohan, director of th~ Center for Parenting Eduction-and organizer of the MSC Conference .on Child Abuse scheduled for July 2627-said the Mann case is one of a number of "highly-publicized, isolated incidents.

"There are thousands of cases of abuse," Bohan said, "which are not as shocking (as the Mann case) but just as tragic. It is unfortunate the media picks up on the extremes. It leads people to believe they are not abusing their children unless the child winds up in the hospital."

Bohan said in 1977 there were 507 ,494 reported cases of child abuse nationally, according to the American Humane Society (AHS). In Colorado last year, the AHS figures show 4,542 reported cases. Bohan said the authorities estimate the actual number of child abuse cases to be from two to ten times the number of reported cases.

"Abused children grow up to be abusing parents," she said. "And the cycle just keeps going.'• These parents, Bohan said, equate discipline with physical punishment and the line between punishment and abuse is

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difficult to draw. Legally, causing tissue damage to a child or causing "swelling or bruising" constitutes child abuse.

"The problem is people respond with physical punishment when they are upset with their children," Bohan said.

"They don't know any alternatives .. alternatives are what the Center for Parenting Education and the Child Abuse Conference are all about."

Bohan said the Center provides services to parents, social workers, teachers and others who work with families. She said one of the center's goals is to train people to become parent educators.

Soon, she said a minor in parent education will be offered at MSC. Some people, Bohan said, might argue a parent education program may be unnecesarry since the ''last generation did not need it.

"The last generation was one of an extended family and relatively stable geographic lifestyles," she said. "There were models arouttd."

We are now in the age of the "isolated nuclear family," she said, and the family is left to its own resources at precisely the time when bringing up children is harder.

"The last generation didn't need it (parenting education)," Bohan said, "but now change in our society is so rapid. It used to be that you knew what kind of world your kids would grow up in. It's not like that anymore."

Bohan said the Center is working to promote the idea of parent education through its classes and the sponsoring of conferences like the child abuse sessions.

It may seem child abuse is increasing when you read the ne~spapers, she said, but she said the problem has always been there.

"It's the reporting of abuse that has increased," she said. .

The Child Abuse Conference, slated for July 26-27, features family workshops on "Child Abuse in the Context of ·Family Violence," "Child Abuse and the Courts," "Sexual Exploitation of Children" and others.

Registration for the two-day conference is $60. The fee includes f!l~terials, l~ches and refreshments. Individual sessions, Bohan said, may be attended for $10 each.

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"There are going to have to be some changes in the helping professions,'' she said. "The focus should shift from cure (of problems such as child abuse) to their · prevention."

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held Sunday, July 10, at Wounded Knee' on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Adams died of a heart attack July 4th at Wounded Knee.

Adams, an Oglala Sioux, was a junior accounting major at the University of Colorado-Denver (UCO). H.e was a liaison between UCO and the Native ~ American Student Organization (NASO).

Adams, a graduate from Oglala Community High School and former employee of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), attended Portland State College for two years.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara; " four sons; his father, Russell Adams, Sr.; his grandfather, Joe Adams; and a brother, Leon Adams.

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The Metropolitan July 18, 1979

Directors vote to silence 'Voice'

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By Sal Ruibal The Auraria Voice has been silenced.

The board of directors of the .

Colorado Daily, Inc. voted last week to cease publication of the weekly newspaper effective immediately.

Board Chairperson Lindy Green said the Voice was "basically not providing the services that Auraria students both needed and deserved."

Voice Managing Editor Rick A. Rice said last week the decision was "not an editorial matter ... it was strictly business." Since the board of directors meetings are closed, Rice was not allowed to attend. He was informed of the closure by telephone after the meeting.

The Colorado Daily, Inc. began its first foray into Auraria journalism in the spring of 1978. At that time the current .campus paper, The Auraria Times, was dying a protracted death.

The Daily's initial proposal said ' 'we are a sound corporation that intends to. let its readers and advertisers determine its fate, a future we're confident will include a long existence in Denver and a long relationship with Auraria."

Despite the proposal's declaration of Auraria's uniqueness, the Denver Daily was immediately accused by readers of being a Boulder clone. The usual format included an Auraria front page, followed by what one former staff member referred to as the "Boulder left-overs."

The Denver staff submitted many ' Auraria stories, only to have the.Boulder production crew bump them in favor of re-hashed news service copy. Former staffers described the Boulder attitude as

''imperial arrogance.''

Green said the former Daily leadership believed in increasing advertising revenue with as little editorial cost as possible. The Daily continued to decline, cutting back the thrice-weekly publication to a single weekly issue in January 1979. Several staff members were fired and other employees were asked to take a cut in pay.

At that time the question of discontinuing the Denver Daily began to come up at board meetings. The paper limped along until this summer, when the new Daily management decided to start over at Auraria with a fresh approach.

The result was the Auraria Voice, a paper that could "speak for them (students) and to them about cam.pus issues."

Utilizing the suggestions· of former Denver Daily staff members, the Voice was dedicated solely to Auraria news and events. It was a case of too little too late, however, as advertisers ~tayed away in droves. Without student fee support, the paper died an early financial death.

The Auraria Voice and THE METROPOLITAN were involved in a battle of sorts this summer for official recognition from the University of Colorado-Denver (UCD). Both papers were maneuvering towards what many consider to be the eventual consolidation , of student newspapers on the Auraria campus. THE METROPOLITAN is already recognized and supported by Metropolitan State College.

UCD student government officials were not prepared to comment on any future developments at pres~ time .

, Student Activities: The Big Three

By Lou Chapman When the United States went off silver and on to the gold standard in 1893, Denver fared better than most eastern cities.

When the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, Denver was stymied and shocked, but again it pulled out in comparatively good shape.

And now, with a recession staring the country straight in the face, by God, we'll lick this one, tool During each of these hard times, Denver-like any other city that has overcome a crisis-bas had its charismatic leaders, its beacons of hope who not only knew how to work behind the scenes to keep the structure strong and functioning, but also provided tangible pillars of support for the masses, symbols for the people to look toward.

Likewise, MSC bas its own parting Red Sea during the current hard times: No matter what may happen around us, no matter the cost of tuition, the price of textbooks, or the fear of merger, MSC students can take solace that Student Activities will continue providing us with our annual Trivia Bowl, Spring Mayfest, and film program. And that's about it.

"Our function is to enrich the classroom experience with out-of-classroom activities," said Gina Johnson, Student Activities director.

Despite the fact Student Activities will not have money for student clubs (although Student Activities has the final say in formal recognition on campus), and they will not co-sponsor any leadership conferences (which will be funded by student government), they will, however, spend at least a portion of their 1979-80 budget of film rentals, Mayfest and the

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continued from page 1 costs was the result of "the expensive upkeep of a run-down place." She said the students who arrive in the fall are " really going to be upset" about the closing.

"We get people in here before 6 a.m.," Morales said. " We serve hot entrees and deli sandwiches, not just quick snacks. This is not only a restaurant; it's a place where people meet· to talk .. . I think (the closing) is really unfair to the students."

Trujillo said the snackbar serves many handicapped students who may not

be able to travel to the main campus cafeteria when they want food.

"We don't just help them get a Coke," she said. "We help them in any way we can. The snackbar is really a very personal place - it's more than just a business."

The employees said the Board considered other options to closing the snackbar - including cutting back on employees and raising the cost of food by 27 percent - but these measures were rejected.

Trivia Bowl: The Big Three. " We asked for $104,000 last. spring," Johnson said. "(But) Students Affairs put the hurt on us."

Student Activities receives all of its money, including salaries, from MSC student fees, so its final budget request must go through the maze of student fee allocation procedures, which includes censure by the Student Affairs Committee.

Student Activities will receive $80,000 for the upcoming school year.

Less than 30% will fund the Big Three.

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The Metropolitan July 18, 1919

Editorial Alzado exhibitionist, not boxer Ii

By Frank Mullen

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I Denver Bronco superstar Lyle Alzado said he might be interested in pursuing a boxing career after his good showing in the July 14 fight with Muhammad Ali. A good showing it was; a prizefight it wasn't.

The champ came to town to pick up a quick $250,000 and rough up a football player. Perhaps Ali thought he would be facing a slow blimp with the mind of an egg in Mile-High Stadium. What the champ got was a strong opponent with stamina, courage and determination.

Alzado is what's known as a "game" fighter. Each time Ali hit him he would bounce back and charge like a wounded bull. So what if Alzado seemed to lead with his face? So what if he bad his hands down in front of his shorts a good deal of the time?

It was, after all, an "exhibition."

Alzado can take a punch. He proved it in the first round of the contest when Ali came at him like an enraged tiger. He proved it in the later rounds when, every now and then, the champ would send his left glove across Alzado's jaw. Ali held back most of the time, both from clowning and really fighting. The latter was as it should be. The promoters wanted an exhibition, not a Mafia hit.

The champ was content to make do with an occasional Ali-shuffle, some taunts at the challenger and a few shouts to the crowd of 20,000, sonie of whom paid $55 to warm around 4,000 ringside seats.

Alzado stood his ground against the champ for all eight rounds, even if most of his punches missed the

mark or were shrugged off by Ali. At one point, near the end of the fight Ali stood against the ropes and held his hands up over his head, taunting.Alzado to hit him.

Ali vs. Alzado: "not a prizefight"

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Alzado rained blows on Ali's midsection, but the champ didn't seem to mind.

This is not to say Alzado is a pushover, however.

"If you don't think what he (Alzado) did was superhuman,'' Ali told reporters after the match, ''try to get in the ring with him and go one round."

Tl:)e crowd seemed somewhat bored with the whole thing and they booed the boxers frequently during the bout. As the clock ran down and Ali still seemed to take the whole thing half-heartedly, the booing reached a crescendo. But at the finish there was the inevitable wave of human bodies flowing towards Ali and the chants of Al-li!, Al-Ii! afterwards at the door of the locker room.

Perhaps the crowd's feelings were best summed up by the woman who stood outside the door of the stadium locker room and waved a photo of Ali in a gilded frame. The woman and about 150 others stood for an hour in the 90 degree heat just to catch a glimpse of Ali as be walked ten feet from the locker room door to his waiting limousine.

"The champ, he's really the greatest," the woman said as the police shoved a pathway through the waiting fans. "I want to see him. I've got to see him. You all don't think I paid $55 to see old Alfredo Alzado, do you?"

Alzado gained from bis performance Saturday.

He was determined, in control and he stood up to Ali without fear. But it is a bit premature to talk about a boxing career for the Bronco defensive end.

Before switching careers Alzado should have at least one fight. The exhibition Saturday between a tough football player and the ghost of a heavyweight champ simply does not qualify.

What made Corbett stop?

By Sal Ruibal I see where the police have finally tracked down Joe - "Leisuresuit" Corbett Jr., the middle-aged mad dog murderer. Corbett is noted in the annals of Colorado history for coining the phrase "Coors, make it yours."

Corbett played the role of the quiet x-ray technician for eighteen long years in the Colorado State Penitentiary. After three futile trips to the parole board, Corbett was finally released July 10.

He was supposed to start a new life with his cousin, Gordon Meyers, in Redwood City, California. Instead, he spent one night with the Meyers and promptly caught a flight back to Denver.

Why risk life in jail just to see Denver one last time? Corbett once blamed his plight on "sheer bizarre circumstances." In my book, that sounds like a woman.

Corbett spent six thousand lonely prison nights thinking about the woman who put him up to the crime.

"It'll be easy, Joe Ba._by," she cooed in his ear.

"We'll pick up on some rich dude, ransom him off and from then on its just you, me and Acapulco."

Joe couldn't help himself... he was in love.

"Let's see... who shall we pick? " she trilled as her perfume filled his hungry senses. She glanced around the room for inspiration. When her gaze fell on the six-

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What went wrong will never be known. Adolph Coors III was found in a dump south of Denver. The ransom was never paid. . Joe had to get out of town, but not without a farewell kiss. He ran to her Capitol Hill apartment and rang the bell again and again. There was no answer. Joe would wait more than nineteen years before he would ring that bell again.

Maybe this explains why Corbett couldn't find it in his heart to live with a motor scooter dealer. Not after two murders, not after her kisses.

It was a different Joe Corbett who walked those same dingy stairs last week. Nineteen years of holding back, nineteen years of anxiety about this moment. His trembling finger pushed the tarnished button.

At that point the door flew open and a transvestite in full evening regalia screamed "Baby, you're early!"

Corbett absorbed eighteen years of reality in that single moment. He slowly turned and walked away.

"Who was that?" asked a voice from within the · apartment.

The transvestite glanced in the mirror, and replied as he adjusted his feather boa, "Just some weirdo in a leisure suit.''

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Letten Editor: Regarding the bicycle thefts on campus something has to be done! Those who use the bicycle as an alternative method of transportation have as much right as car owners to a safe place to park.

With this in mind, I offer this suggestion - one area with bicycle racks (preferably indoors) WITH AN ATIENDANT. The rider would supply their own lock and chain, and would also receive some sort of ticket or 'check.' In order to get the bike out, the owner would have to produce a key and the 'check.' The attendant would be paid by our student fees, which seem to be spent on everything but useful services for us. (THE METROPOLITAN excluded, of course.) Also, the parking should be free or at a very minimal charge.

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I realize this idea needs work, but it is a start, and obviously what we do have isn't working.

I've seen some beautiful bikes parked here, and wonder how the owners can deal with the situation as it stands. There is nothing more sickening than to go get your bike and find a chewed-up chain next to an empty space. . . . .

Instead of corning up with a viable idea of their own, Security tells us to buy $30 locks. So it seems like it's up to us to provide them with a workable situation.

Thanks for the great section on cycling last week. It sure is a relief to see something positive in a newspaper.

Linda Sitowitz MSC Student

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feature Beat inflation through investment

By Gaetan Lion and Sal Ruibal Unless you've ~been living in a cave for the last ten years, you know that inflation is ripping _the guts out of America's pocketbook. What you might not know is that you can benefit from inflation through wise investment.

It's not unpatriotic to profit from inflation. Our society provides us with an infinite variety of investment from chinchillas to blue chip stocks.' The opportunity is there for the taking.

Before you pull all the cash out of your mattress, keep in mind these two basic rules of the investment game; One, the higher the risk, the greater the potential return; Two, the less money you have to invest, the fewer risks you can afford to take. If you don't have the bucks, you'll have to be content with safer investments with lower returns.

For the investor who wants to play it safe, there are savings accounts with annual interest rates of 5 Yi O/o, bonds at 60Jo, certificates of deposit at up to 80Jo. The highest return of a 'safe' investment can be found in the money market certificates. These monsters pay 9 Y-1 OJo annually. All this sounds great, but with inflation running at 100/o a year, these nice, safe investments will provide you with negative returns.

Once you leave the 'safe' stuff behind, there is an opinion to support every postion. Peter Poletti, vice-· president of Dean Witter Reynolds, an investment company, believes the stock market and real estate always move 1n opposite directions. He currently sees real estate at the peak and the stock market way down in the investment valley. Consequently, he anticipates that the stock market will rise for the next decade while real estate will see a strong slowdown.

Poletti concludes that now is the best time to buy stocks, as more than half the companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange are selling below their book value. He adds that with proper timing, the average gain in the market can easily exceed a 500fo return on in-

commodity futures showed the highest rate of return compared to stocks, bonds, passbook savings and certificates of money deposit since 1967. Although commarket certimodities futures move slower than ficates certI· stocks, they can provide higher returns flcates 91/• °l<i of because of 'leverage.' A leverage of ten to deposit one means that you have to pay only one dollar to own ten dollars of a certain commodity. Let us assume that the value savings bonds of this commodity increases by 400Jo. accounts Your ten dollar investment is now worth fourteen. You have made a profit of four dollars on a one dollar investment, or 4000Jo. That's what they mean by leverage!

Sounds great, but you must also consider that commodity futures are considered the Russian Roulette of investments, since the leverage works both ways, on profits as well as losses. Morgan ' says the futures market definitely takes your mind off inflation because when you are dealing with wins and losses of 3000Jo, a measly lOOJo inflation rate is of little concern. This market is for people with strong hearts, nerves of steel and lots of money .

After Inflation If you don't bave the nerves to play the commodities game and that old .demon inflation is pushing you towards unwanted risky investments, there is still an interesting option.

There is only one way to make a safe investment and at the same time do away with inflation: open a Swiss bank account. Change all your dollars into Swiss vestment, dealing inflation a serious associated with economic growth. Denver francs, fly to Geneva and open an acreal estate investors are not just count at one the many banks there. blow. . Emeric Holderith, a real estate agent Americans, he said, but Germans, Don't be disappointed when you see for Gruff and Ellis, agrees with Poletti British, Canadian and Arab speculators that your Swiss savings account has a that the short term home market will slow are all aware of the mile-high boom. modest interest rate of only 20/o. SwitFrank Morgan, manager of the Den- zerland has experienced zero inflation for down. This is partly due to high interest rates and strict lending requirements ver branch of Conti Commodity, believes the past four years, giving you a 20Jo real from financial institutions. However, if the best way to beat inflation is to predict profit while your 5Y20Jo U.S. account is you are a large investor interested in the future. This seemingly impossible losing 50fo after inflation's lOOJo bite. Add shopping plazas, office buildings or apar- task is Morgan's full time job as a com- to this the fact that the Swiss franc has tment complexes, Holderith says the modity futures broker. His customers · appreciated by 1320Jo against the dollar buy soybeans, wheat, gold, cotton, sugar since 1970 and there is no end in sight. boom is far from over.

Holderith says Denver will be and other commodities in contracts due Bes!des, Geneva is beautiful this time of booming for a long time to come and thirty or sixty days in the future. year.

Morgan said he discovered that everyone wants a part of the great returns

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The f ollowinl{ is from the 'Associated Students of UCD (ASUCD) newsletter.

The University of Colorado at Denver (UCO) Programs Council met and set a tentaive schedule for Fall 1979. The program is to include films, bands, craft booths, a costume party, a "family night" and a raffle. The Executive Council approved of the proposed activities and a detailed schedule will be published later. in the area of safety, Student Adisory Council (SAC) members have expressed great concern over the proposed increase in the calibre· of firearms being carried by Auraria Public Safety, while there are still questions about carrying them at all. Linda Jensen reported that at this point no increase is being permitted.

Gene Over has completed a 2 year long study on safety at Auraria which is available upon request. Pedestrian safety is a major concern because of heavy traffic. Campus lighting, handicapped access, and parking lots are still problems.

Legal services has received a verbal agreement for support of $3000 from Metropolitan State College. This, with the $9000 allocated by the· Executive.

Council, should make them operational with a part-time attorney. At this point it is the hope of Legal Services to offer their services free to all MSC and UCO students.

Meetings have been held with both the Auraria Voice and THE METROPOLITAN. Both newspapers are eager to receive recognition as UCD's official paper. No decision has been made at this time, and all news items. will be sent to both papers. It is hoped both papers will be responsive to UCO news.

The Executive Council voted to go from salary to hourly pay with a maximum of $80 per week. This move was made to avoid paying persons when they are not working a full 20 hours per week.

The Board of Regents have shown strong support of the Denver Campus and its Student Government by allowing the Student Government appeal rights. The Regents have asked the support of ASUCD on the CU awareness campaign.

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Quality not alien to ''Duellists''

By S._Peter Duray-Bito THE DUELLISTS. Starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel. Directed by Ridley Scott. From Paramount at The Flick.

It is bar~ to understand how someone could 'direct The Duellists and be sucked through the Hollywood meatgrinder to come out with Alien two years later. Even more incredible is that director Ridley Scott will acquire fame through the mindless mess of Alien and be forgotten for a true masterpiece of American cinema.

Not if I can help it. Go see The Duellists.

The Duellists is one of those kinds of American· films that balances fine photography with tight editing, good performances and a lean storyline. It stars Harvey Keitel as Feraud - a Hussar officer in Napoleon's early war machine.

Obsessed by duelling, he battles with D'Hubert (Keith Carradine) and the two continue to fight four duels over a fifteen year period.

Feraud is the antagonist and D'Hubert must fight to keep his honor.

Feraud sees littte else in life besides duelling - and we see little else of him.

The plot follows D'Hubert's life as Feruad reappears for duels. Conveniently, both officers are promoted together so D'Hubert can never pull rank.

The story is based on Joseph Conrad novel and moves along effortlessly. The focus of duelling may seem to prevent any depth to the film but Scott built depth through underlying obsessions and fears. At one point, Feraud sees

film's success. The Duellists compounds those successes with some of the finest period photography siilce Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Careful, meticulous sets ,_ and costumes, along with Kubrick's near patented natural light style of lighting.

Scott seems to go one step further, by judiciously using artificial light to augment a scene's natural light. He knows _ the qualities of film stock so well that he can heighten the sense of naturalness.

The set of Napoleon's army in Russia was paricularily memorable.

Flawless attention to the details of The Grand Army's death march - grey faces of frozen men, grey coldness and frost and suffering. In the middle of all this misery, Feraud spies D'Hubert again.

They grab their pistols and stand on a j vast, barren plain next to a rotting wagon full of rotting soldiers. They prepare to D'Hubert at a restaurant after five years. duel as a Russian wrapped in fur inThe wave of obsession and vengeance terrupts them. For the moment, a larger, sweeps over Feraud's face and he visibly societal obsession intrudes on their perstiffens with anxiousness. A cut to sonal, private-one.

D'Hubert reveals a similiar stiffening It is painful to see this film - its one of anxiety, cold, numbing fear and scratches and splices and think of an internally revealing stare 6f "damn it, Paramount's unserving selfishness at he found me." withholding this film. Even more painful Excellent direction and fine perfor- are the lines for Alien. mances are usually enough to ensure a

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By Emerson Schwartzkopf SAINT JACK. Starring Ben Gazzara and Denholm Elliot. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. From New World Pictures.

The combination sounds ludricrous: Ben Gazzara playing an American expatriate running a Singapore brothel in a movie directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

Silly. Laughable. Embarrassing to think about. What kind of movie is .Saint Jack, anyway?

Saint Jack is simply the best movie so far in 1979.

Throughout its near two hours of running time, Saint Jack shows three important things: 1) Ben Gazzara is probably the most abused actor in cinema; 2) Bogdanovich is the master student of fi~; and 3) the theme of Vietnam films may not be Vietman, after all.

Sa~nt Jack is three years-197173-in the life of Jack Flowers (Gazzara), an American expatriate, running Singapore brothels as _an agent for a British-based vice firm. The film glimpses Flowers on the yearly visits of William Leigh (Denholm Elliot), a very proper accountant sent from Hong Kong to audit Flowers' books.

A close friendship develops betwen Flowers and Leigh-Flowers, the toughtalking, cynical hardnose and Leigh, a sophisticated, soft-spoken gentleman. In between the beginning and sudden end of the friendship Flowers encounters savage Chinese competitors and Eddie Schuman (Bogdanovich), an agent for some of the U.S. Army's sleazier activities.

Flowers' character is the movie, and Gazzara moves through Saint Jack like Bogart reincarnated. His surface-tough, soft-hearted character is reminiscent of

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Bogart's Rick in Casablanca. Gazzara, however, adds a cynical, jaded touch to bring the Bogart prototype in line with the 1970s. Gazzara's keen timing and delivery, mouthing smart-ass wisecracks whlle still keeping a friendly, liekable manner, shows his talent stretches beyond time-killers like Fireball Forward and Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline. .

The likening of Gazzara to Bogart results as much from Bogdanovich's direction as from Gazzara's portrayal.

Bogdanovich, probably the most ardent student of Hollywood (he has seen some 45,000 of Hollywood's 60,000 pictures), incorporates some of the best of Hollywood cinema into Saint Jack. The Bogart personification and exotic setting of Curtiz' Casablanca; the use of Singapore as background and omnipotent character, like John Ford's Monument Valley; the sinister low lighting and use of shadows as with film noir; all contribute to the total effect of Saint Jack.

Bogdanovich also uses the camera frame to hold suspense throughout Saint Jack. Characters unbalance the frame-weighting the action on the screen to the left or right of center.

Bogdanovich creates suspense with the

empty half of the screen, making the viewer anticipate action-and keeping the viewer enthralled with the.Jllm.

Bogdanovich also portrays what might be the current cinematic theme of Vietnam without using Vietnam itself.

Gazzara's Flowers makes his decision to forsake "going home" -exemplifying the existential hero-because of the decadence of the world outside Singapore. Saint Jack's climax is the confrontation between the old world of the Orient and the .quasi-Victorian, devolving society of the West-where the Western decadence is mirrored in the nonsensical brutality of events such as Vietnam and corruption in the American government.

Barring any major film set for release later this year (such as Steven Spielberg's 1941) Saint Jack stands as the best film of · 1979. Snoremongers Hke Gene Shalit will destroy this film for its simple plot and widely-spaced action.

Yet, this simplicity-gives Saint Jack a dimension of reality, of drawing the viewer into the film. Saint Jack is personal and endearing as it appeals not to titillating interests, but to the inner feelings of the viewer.

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Junior and Senior Art Exhibit through Sunday, Denver Art Museum.

Laserium '79, Wednesday through Sunday, 8:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., Gates Planetarium, information call 388-2031.

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wll Your Father's Moustache, Jazz, First of Denver Plaza.

Summer Winds ensembles, 8 p.m., Lamont School of Music, free.

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Big Broadcast, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth, 8 p.m., $3.

Richard Peterson, Cafe Nepenthes, 9p.m.

Chinook Chamber Ensemble, cafe Nepenthes, 9 p.m.

Will Jaeger, Monastery.

Oregon, sponsored by Naropa Institute, Corkin Theatre, Colorado Women's College (CWC), 8 p.m., $4.

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Nick Stoner, songwriter, Swallow Hill Music Hall, 604 E. 17th Ave.

Joan Armatrading, Rainbow Music Hall, tickets 778-0700.

Kansas and LeRoux, McNichols, tickets 778-0700.

Dracula, Colfax Drive-In.

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Yard Sale sponsored by The Colorado Dance/Movement therapy Association, 1373 Humboldt St., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

George Benson, Red Rocks, tickets 778-0700.

Rachel Faro and Friends and The Boulder Bassoon, Chautauqua, 8 · p.m., information 442-3282.

Red Zinger Bicycle Washington Park.

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Summerfest, International Year of the Child, Larimer Square.

Firefall, Harry Chapin, Rocks, tickets 778-0700.

Grass Roots, Bogarts.

Suzi Quatro, Rainbow Music Hall, tickets 778-0700.

WANTED ATTENTION : NEED SKIERS. Apply M.S.C. Ski Club In S.A.C. - Mail Box Contact Dave Woodward, 922-3978.

WORK/STUDY STUDENTS for AHEC Ad ministrative support positions in Public relations, community relations and related areas. Desired skills - writing, graphic design, photography, organization. Typing required.

Call 629·3291. ..-... ROOMMATE WANTED TO SHARE APAR· TMENT: must be a theater major. I am enrolling in theater school in Fall. Call 7567291 or 238-4321 after 6 p.m. for information.

MARKETING AND FINANCE MAJORS: Founders team for concept restaurant, nightclub and discotheque in totmatioh- We need qualified senior students in both marketing and finance to help formulate business plan , W and research marketing concepts. Compensation negoti~ble. Please submit your resume to: Founder's Team, 1256 Oneida St., Denver, C080220.

TYPING: Correct spelling, hyphenation, punctuation, grammar. Proofreading , accurate.

Elise Hakes, 1535 Franklin St., No. 9M, Denver, co 80218, 832-4400.

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Skydiving, Eugene Field Library, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

A Chorus Line, Denver Center For The Performing Arts (DCPA), 573- 7151, 8 p.m.

Roger Bruce, photography lecture, Mountain Bell Auditorium, 1005 17th St., 8 p.m.-10 p.m.

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NON-TOBACCO USER needed to share 2 bdrm. apt. in Glendale (S.E. Denver). 2 pools, tennis courts, plus. $115.00 plus Vi utils. Call Dave at 758-6794 or 779-3700 evenings and Saturdays.

HOUSEMATE NEEDED Aug. 1. Walking distance to Auraria, on bus llne. Share house with 3 others, large carpeted bedroom avail.

Vegetable garden, nice house. Non-smoker only. $87.50 month plus dep., utlls. Call 573-

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APARTMENT TO-SHARE in SE De9ver. Pools, tennis courts, volleyball, small lake and more. $115 plus Y2 utils. Call Dave at 758-6794 or 7793950 eves. ·

OPPORTUNITIES THE MSC FLYING TEAM needs a few good men and women. If you are interested in improving your flying skills and competing, Call Val Hiller at 798-3169 or 629-3316.

ADVERTISING SALES PEOPLE NEEDED. Ex· cellent opportunity to establish sales accounts for progressive community newspaper. Cali Steve Werges at 629-8361 .

Wan ted: Housemate for summer-June, July, Aug· us t·to share a comfortab le house with friendly fo lks in Northeast Denver. Rent $50 per month plus utilities. Phone 825-3319.

JAPANESE EXCHANGE STUDENTS need American host families. Japanese high school students would like to spend 1 school year in the United States living with an American family. For more information call Mary Ann Kelly Denver Coordinator-Japan International Cultural Exchange. Call 355·3652 after 6:00 pm please.

IMMEDIATE OPENING for A.S. UCO Director of Business Affairs. Experience in accounting and bureaucracy preferred. Hourly pay. 5·20 hrs/week. Call 629-2510 or stop by 340 SAC.

ENGLISH TUTOR for foreign students. Individual or small group, experienced, accredited. Have worked with children, adults, Hispanics, Iranians, and Orientals. I speak Spanish and some French. 744-7763

COMPANION NEEDED FOR ELDERLY LADY. Free room & board · live-in · plus salary. Make our home your home! Washington Park area.

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TYPING: 60¢ double spaces page. Accurate, prompt, spelling corrections. Pam, 433-4608.

FREE F.A.A. Mountain Check Seminar and complete mountain course. 5 sessions plus flight. Survival and piloting techniques workshops. Next one starts July 24. $293.50 full course, pro-rated for workshop only. Call

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f .OR SALE FOR SALE: 1971 Jeep CJ-5. Excellent condition. Metal hardtop, new brakes, new hubs.

Call 986-5014.

ACOUSTIC GUITAR, Goya (Swedish-made).

Beautiful tone, about 20 years old, excellent condition, new case included. Asking $120.00.

Call 744-7763 FOR SALE - 5 Piece Pearl Color British·made Drum Set · Edgecraft - Excellent Condition · Original cost $300 - 1st owner - Asking $160 Call Grance 770·0848.

4 TRACK RECORDING STUDIO - $5/hr. plus tape. Ask for Harry - 892-9245/days - 4245296/eves.

LISTEN! I've got a 1965 Chevy Malibu. The body and Interior are in very good shape. The car runs but burns oil. The car is yours for $200, but you will have to put some work Into it. Call Frank, 629-2507.

FOR SALE. Motobecane Woman's 10 speed.

Lavender. Excellent conditon. Seldom used. $150. Dorothy· 373-5492 SOFA SLEEPER - queen size $250. Dining table, folding butcher block $175. Misc. furniture, ladies' 3 speed bike cheap. 986-6639, except Mon., Tues. eves.

TYPING DONE IN MY HOME . Tenn papers perso11al, or WHATEVER 1 85'cents per page. Call 427-5014 .

CLASSIFIED ORDER FORM FREE TO AURARIA STUDENTS FACULTY, AND STAFF NAME: PHONE NUMBER: _..,...._ _ _--t l.D. NUMBER: ) SEND TO 100611TH STREET, BOX 57, DENVER,:po 80204 OR DELIVER TO THE STUDENT CENTER RM.156 ..

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·The Big Three ···ti••ed ,,.m can do what she'd like to do for the students, and do it on the budget she has been allotted.

"A good bunch ($51,000) is nondiscretionary," she explained. "Things like salaries and fees that have already been set."

Her salary will be $19,700 this year; the salar.y for her assistant , Scott Woodland, will be $15,000. These are approved by the Dean and Vice President of Student Affairs (non-discretionary?).

Her secretary, a civil service employee, will receive $12,918. Two work-study ·students help out also.

And of course, even in constricting, hard times, vital functions must continue to be fed : duplicating, repairs and maintenance, telephones and office supplies (all coming to about $4,638), not to mention red tape problems like employee insurance, Public Employee Retirement Association payments, µnion fees ... the list, as we all know, goes on.

Some things, it seems, just keep going uip when everything else seems to be going down. So, while the cost of everything skyrockets, even Student Activities must pull in its belt another notch or two, and with a five-person staff and an $80,000 budget, it is doing what it can to be there for the MSC student population: the film series ("A lot of these students don't get that opportunity elsewhere," Johnson said); the Mayfest ("We're trying to make it half-fun and half-educational''); and the Trivia Bowl ("Budweiser sponsors that with us, so we'll be able to do it again"), along with advice for clubs.

And, like times past, the depression of 1893, the torture of the ~30s, it is an upip.ll battle. Student Activities is doing what they feel they can. · "We spend a lot of money and time on advertising," Johnson said.

"We catch a lot of people off the street," she continued. "Clubs continue to grow ... I've been asking for a halftime staff student to deal with clubs only."

But no money from Student Activities coffers will actually go to any MSC club. They will, however, continue to provide organizational help and advice, and handle club recognitjon at MSC. "Well," said Johnson, "at least they all get a fair shake; a fair shake at nothing."

"As our office grows, we have more and more to do,'' she explained.

But this year, at least Student Activities will not have to hassle with arranging for guest speakers; they cut that from their own budget, too.

And, of course, when the going gets tough, the detractors get down to business and Student Activities is not exempt from attack.

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"Last year's student government," Johnson said, "thought I was insensitive to clubs ... but I get that every year, so I don't let it bother me."

However, she is- bothered by the "irresponsiblity" of student government.

"What if they have a ten o'clock cMiss and have to run out? You can't leave a club just standing there."

Johnson admits there are times when both she and her assistant are out of the office.

"The movies take up a lot of his time,'' she . said, explaining that Woodland is directly responsible for the MSC film series.

Also, she is uncomfortable with turning over all student activities funds to student government, a current MSC issue, unless student government can be made liable for the expenditure of the money.

"I believe they're responsible, just not liable," Johnson said. "(I'm) not going to get fired . because of something they've done .... " "T.bey're not here long enough to deal witn it," she continued, referring to the temporary nature of an elected official's job.

Well, things go on. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, a share of the skim off the top, a chance to cut the deck their own way, especially when there is so little to slice, to skim, to deal out.

But when it's all over, we can all look back upon these times trying our pocketbooks and say with bravado and certain self-respect to our grandchiklren: "We were there when $80,000 of our student fees paid for the Trivia bowl, the Mayfest, those films and advice for clubs . .. so don't go telling me about hard times!"

FOR SALE: 1968 Datsun 1600 Roadster SPL 311 only 68,000 miles, new top, interior, paint, mechanically perfect - near new Michelin radials, gets 22 mpg on regular. $2495 or best offer. 421-9379, RIDE WANTED to Aspen July 27, return July 29-30. Aug . 24, return Aug. 26·27. Wi ll share gas. expenses. Call Victoria Loht, 831-8209.

1967DODGE DART FOR SALE. Car is in good shape, runs good , 6 eye. engine, $200.00 Call 573·1737.

MEN 'S 10 SPEED Flying Dutchman · Simplex Derailer. 26" Bike (made in France). Call 344-1914. Incl. Lock & chain, $75.

FOR SALE: Dodge Polara, 1969, Olive green with black vinyl top. Make offer. Call: 757-1966 (keep trying) or 237-0846 (evenings).

T ER M P A P ERS , RES UM ES, Comµ os 111ons, Q ocl <il oo n s, Tyµonq , Tran scroµ1 1on R easona bl e Ra t es . O n r. d ;o v D1:l1very . E.M .C. Execu tive Su11 cs , Inc .. 1 385 S . Co lo ra do Bl vd .. Suol e 508.

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FOR SALE: STEREO AM/FM RADIO and record player $70.00. Console Coffee Table, alf wood, 60" long, $20.00. Call 371 -9343.

MUST SELL! 20 Vol. Encyclopedia set, 4 Medical·Hea lth Encycloped ias, 2 Vol. Dictionary and World Atlas. Call Marianne or Loren at 341·8776. ' TYPING on IBM SELECTRIC II. $1.10 per page.

Proofreading. Call Tsivya 571-7891 .

MOVING & HAULING with van. Careful and . dependable at reasonable rates. For free estimate, please call 831·8501.

CALL S.0.S. FOR TYPING NEEDS. Discounts to students, 8000 East Girard, Suite #119A. 7594650 .

JERRY BROWN FOR ANTI-NUKE BAN· DWAGONEER OF THE YEAR SOCIETY meeting July 20, 1 p.m. Meltdown In the Mission.

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