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, Volume 2, Issue 4 © MetroPress September 26, 1979
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Netzel .resigns MSC to WOrk . with Trustees .
by Sal Ruibal
Former MSC acting president Richard Netzel. I
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The former acting president of Metropolitan State College resigned last week from his pqsition as Vice-Presicfent for Academic Affairs. Dr. Richard Netzel, who served as Acting President from August 1978 to June 1979, said his resignation would have "a positive effect" on MSC. "It will give President Macintyre the opportunity to begin fresh with a new line organization ... new faces without the biases and historical baggage a continuing vice-president would have,'' Net.:. zel said. l'{etzel's resignation will be effective Oct. 1. After that time he will ''be on loan'' to the Trustees of the Consortium of State Colleges in Colorado. MSC and three other state colleges are members of the Consortium. Netzel's tenure as Acting President was mar_ked by a growing movement towards merger with the University of Colorado-Denver, a move Netzel vehemently opposed. Net'Zel's successor, Dr. Donald J. Macintyre, has been accused of
compromising on the merger issue, but in an interview last week, Netzel said those criticisms are unfair. "Dr. Macintyre is in -a difficult position," Netzel said. "One has the choice of 'stonewalling' or cooperating with those who have the power. I don't know what policy I would have followed. A year ago I made a talk before the Interim Committee on Higher Education of the state legislature. At that I said Auraria was not a mess. The extent to which we were required to cooperate was not great. "I think Auraria is now in a complete mess," he said. "We have been required to do considerably more than is appropriate under the Auraria concept. If the recommendations of the staff of the CCHE (Colorado Commission · on Higher Education) are adopted and implemented in resp~ct to academic affairs and support, it will be hard to justify the existence of two separate institutions," he said. Netzel charged that "despite the demographics, the two institutions (MSC and UCD) are different. If the CCHE recommendations are followed, they will be more and continued on page 11