After serving eight years as dean of Student Services for Metropolitan State College, Ed Schenck is going back to teaching. The position of dean of Student Services will be terminated as part of administrative reorganization at MSC.
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Now that State Senator Hugh Fowler is stepping off the legislative merrygo-round, he offers hindsight to his track record. Still adamantly behind restructuring Auraria, Fowler also tackles the deeper problems of men and politics..
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The Denver Art Museum's allColorado show makes a valiant attempt at representing the state's artists and Paul McCartney surprises pop fans with a contemporary new sound with roots back to the '60s.
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Volume 2, Issue 29 © MetroPress June 11, 1980
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The new ASMSC president and vice preside'nt have ambitious plans for running student government. ., Sonny Wasinger and Fred Hopkins plan to unite the student body through social events; increase participation in student government, open-up communications between student ':J' governme·nt and the administration, promote Metro's institutional image in the community, and be responsive to student needs. · ''We feel we'll be able to accom4 plish more than any other student · government.'' And this confident optimistic pair said they've made a good start. "We've organized student_gov• ernment from a state of relative disarray so that we can make the changes we have promised." That reorganization included cleaning out the file system, .hiring work study students to man the '{ student government office and planning appointments to executive committees. In carefully measured and well-
thought out terms, Wasinger and Hopkins detailed their plans for Metro. Student unity is an oftused expression in these plans. A committee to plan social ·events, with representatives from all campus organizations or groups, is "the first major step toward unity,'' Wasinger . said. Festivals, jog-a-thons, and parties are all under consideration. ,. Financing of the events will be shared by all participating organizations, with any profit being returned in proportion to the in- -E vestment. These events, they say, ~ will draw community attention to 0~ Metro and upgrade its image. . · (R) d v· p ·d t F d H · k' · . Wasmger and H op k'ms hope t o ASMSC President Sonny Wasinger . an ice res1 en re op ms. interest a diversity of students to registration, interest groups or administrative, taking care of serve on student government organizations can campaign for ·paper work and freeing Wasinger to "keep in touch with the student · committees. Wasinger plans to the student fees. ''Students should have control, body and administration.'' advertise vacant positions and inHopkins, ·along with student terview prospective appointments if not complete control, over government activities, holds down rather than drawing strictly from · student fees," Hopkins said. Plans also include a 24-hour two jobs. His day, he says, begins the small clique of student governstudent government hotline for at six in the morning. ment activists. · "I've been damned busy," he or comments. The diversity, they believe, will complaints said. "I've already put in a lot of increase student government effec- Wasinger and Hopkins avow they my time to find out what the job will take action on the complaints. tiveness. is." "If w-e can't help, we'll find Wasinger and Hopkins are His activities, "demand thaL I seeking a referendum vote, as part someone who can," Wasinger my life." organize of the registration process, on · said. Hopkins said his role will be - continued on page 3 student fee alloc~tions. Prior to
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