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will be back. A Siberian tiger found a com/ortable perch outside the Student Cel)ter last Thursday. He will be back Saturday, Feb. 16 as part of an exotic animal workshop by Rocky Mountain Studio Animals.
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Volume 2, Issue 17 Š MetroPress February 6, 1980
-Funds frozen, budget being revised __ by Joan Conrow
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The budget for the MSC student government was frozen Feb. 4 by Edward Schenck, dean of student services for MSC. The action by Schenck follows a -._. Jan. 23 request by him that Floyd Martinez, president of the Associated Students of MSC (ASMSC), provide a revised student government budget by Feb.
8. Schenck has charged Martinez
~ and his administration with deficit
spending and has requested a revised budget that will channel additional money into the student help portion of the ASMSC bud• get. The $12,919 student help budget pays the salaries of the student body president and vice president, administrative aides, secretaries, and members of the curriculum ,... and student affairs committees. By Dec. 31, 1979, 83 percent of that budget had been spent, according to Schenck. In comparison, only 64.1 percent of the total $24,000 ASMSC budget had 1 4' been spent by that date. "The rub, in my position," said Schenck, ''is the high salary within student government that just developed.'' But Martinez said there were a
number of reasons why the $12,919 allocated for student government salaries was insufficient. "If you want an efficient job done, you pay people,~' Martinez said. "Dan and Neil put in a lot of
time and effort. Of course, no one than was finally approved by the is going to work for free." Student Affairs Committee He was referring to Chief of (SAC). He said he had originally Staff Dan Mulqueen and ad- allocated close to $15,000 for the ministrative aide Neil Harlan. student help budget. Martinez said he had an entirely Martinez said he would go becoDtinued OD page 3 different budget drawn up in 1979
Seawell begins press offensive: Aurarians view proposed model by _Sal Ruibal
Donald R. Seawell has taken his battle for the relocation of Speer Boulevard onto the editorial pages of the Denver Post. Seawell is president and publisher of the Post, as well as chairman of the board for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA). His relocation plan calls for the creation of a park alongside the east bank of Cherry Creek from Larimer Street to Coifax Avenue. The northbound lanes of Speer would be moved to the west side, parallel to the southbound lanes. The DCP A is the most prominent tenant on the east bank and the Auraria Higher Education Center occupies the entire west side. Primary opposition to Seawell's plan has come from Auraria officials.
Seawell had earli.er played down - his role as publisher of the Post declaring ''we are not at all trying to propagandize." An editorial in the Feb. 4 issue of the Post urged the city to "consider all the possibilities before it brings in the bulldozers," an apparent reference to events that oc. cured at a meeting of the Denver City Council's Public Works Committee earlier that day. At that meeting, members of the City Council were told that the city intends to open bidding for construction on the Blake Street bridge project. That project would straighten the dog leg at the intersection of Speer and Blake. It is considered to be the first step in implementing the Chafee-Thomas . compromise development plan for
the Cherry Creek area. The compromise was reached in 1978 after extensive negotiations between the city, Auraria and downtown interests. The compromise plan would create park space, bikepaths, and pedestrian walkways between and beneath Speer Boulevard along its border with Auraria, but the traffic lanes would not be moved. Denver Mayor William McNichols Jr. has already spoken out against the relocation plan. In a Jan. 19 interview, the Mayor said, ''Unless there is something new (in the Seawell plan) that I haven't seen, I can't recommend it." Seawell has claimed the compromise was reached under duress: "Downtown Denver, Inc. tells me continued OD page 4