Auraria is in the parking business for a very good reason. Lynn Welch examines the ins and outs of Auraria's second favorite pastime.,
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That ol' brown cloud has got you coughing again. If you exercise in the downtown area, it could have you dying.
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Hey! Get your red hots! Yankee Stadium? Nope, just Auraria's sidewalk purveyors of those plump pups commonly known as hot dogs.
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Whether we like it or not, oil shafe will play a major role in the future of Colorado. UCO has been picked to examine an important area of this new industry.
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Center council termed inefficient by Joan Conrow
A new proposal intended to increase the efficiency of the student center policy council is now being _,nsidered by a number of )\uraria officials. The student center - builf, operated and maintained with student monies - is under the ~-•iur.isdiction of the Auraria Higher .Bducation Center board of directors. The Student Services Policy Council is responsible for advising the board on issues concerning the center, and also sets policies regu~ting building use. The SSPC is staffed by student and administrative representatives from UCD, MSC, and CCD. "The SSPC is functioning, from my perspective, very ineffeciively," said Jerry Wartgow, executive director. ''Over the last two. years the SSPC has not been helpful to me." Wartgow met with the Student Advisory Council to the ..<uraria Board (SACAB) and the student executive officers from UCD and MSC (CCD failed to send a representative), and asked them to ''look at the structure of iheSSPC.''
The SACAB - created by state statute in 1975 - is comprised of two representatives from UCD, CCD, and MSC, acting as direct student advocates to the Auraria Board. At the meeting, it was agreed the SSPC was "loosely organized, not a very smooth operation, and student input was not that great," said Sonny Wasinger, president of the Associated Students of MSC. Wasinger said he was initially "concerned" AHEC was trying to take power away from the SSPC. He said he wants students to have ''a say in every damn thing that happens." But, after hearing Wartgow's suggestion for restructuring the SSPC, Wasinger said he thinks the proposed changes would make the body a "smoother running operation with more student input, that AHEC will be responsive to." Wartgow suggests making the SSPC one of several advisory boards reporting to the SACAB, which would then report to the AHEC board of directors. The Parent Advisory Board, to the Child Care Center would no longer be under the jurisdiction of
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the SSPC, but would also report to the SACAB. Don Gaeddert, chairman of the SACAB, said Wartgow's suggestion is ''part of a process of negotiation, not a formal proposal.'' He said it is ''terribly important to come up with a compromise in restructuring the SSPC,'' and the SACAB would meet with the SSPC ''to come up with a formal proposal.'' ·
Gaeddert said there is "a lot of controversy'' associated with Wartgow's suggestion because "it is feared students would lose voice and influence." He said the restructuring would not make the SSPC merely an advisory board, and they would still set policy for the Student Center. "Their voice, their influence, their power, whiit h~ve you. contiaaed on page 4