Volume 3, Issue 9 - Oct. 29, 1980

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DANGER: Auraria's disabled students are in trouble - there is no plan for their evacuation in case of disaster. According to an Auraria official, "It's everybody for hirtiself."

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WEATHER: Although it may not seem like it now, Denver's weather wizards are predicting a mild winter. Discover how they came to that not-so-chilling conclusion.

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DRUGS: The Palmer Drug Abuse Program provides an environmeAt for the development of a chemicalfree life. SPORTS: Shihan Frank Goody believes humility, patience and respect are· just as much a part of judo as throwing bodies around.

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Board accepts HOwe's resignation by Emerson Schwartzkopf

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The Metropolitan State College career of Michael Howe ended quietly last Friday. By unanimous vote, the Trustees of the Consortium of State Colleges October 24 accepted Howe's resignation as MSC's vice president of academic affairs during their regular board meeting in Grand Junction. The resignation, taken with no public discussion by the board, ended a. week of controversy over Howe's misrepresentation of a doctoral degree when applying for the MSC post. "I was really sorry we lost a person of that caliber,'' said board member John Vigil, "and it had to be the way it was.'' Howe decided to resign after the discovery October 16 of his lack of a Ph.D. - a requirement for the college vice presidency in the job description issued last year by MSC President Donald Macintyre. Brooks Van Everen, president of MSC's Faculty Senate, said · theatre instructor Jon Walter presented information on October 16 indicating Howe's lack of a doctorate. •

According to a memo from Van Everen to the MSC faculty; a subsequent conversation with the registrar of the University of California-Davis - where Howe claimed to earn his doctorate confirmed "the non-completion of the dissertation" needed for the degree. The next day, Van Everen along with MSC professors Gary Holbrook and Edward Karnes met with Howe. "At that meeting,'' the memo states, "Michael Howe admitted that he had not completed the dissertation and that he did not have the Ph.D. in sociology.'' ''He (Howe) may have been shocked," said Karnes of the meeting. "When we met with Mike Howe, he was despondent, I think." The memo also quotes Howe as saying his doctoral dissertation "had been accepted and defended," but he failed to complete ''minor editorial revisions'' requested by his Ph.D. committee. The three instructors, Karnes said, recommended that Howe . resign. After consulting with Macintyre, Howe agreed to leave the position he originally took at

MSC in December 1979. In accepting Howe's resignation, the Trustees - MSC's governing body -.,... also approved the appointments of Stanley Sunderwirth as acting vice president for academic affairs, and Kenneth Rager as the acting dean of the School of Science and Mathematics. Rager, chairman of mathematics, replaces Sunderwirth as the school dean. Karnes said Macintyre was "culpable" in knowledge of Howe's lack of a degree. "He (Macintyre) was responsible," Karnes stated, ''whether he knew it or not.'" Macintyre has repeatedly denied prior knowledge of Howe's academic misrepresentation. "There's a world of difference in academics," Karnes said, "between having it and not having it.'' Karnes added the Howe affair will have little effect on the faculty's current evaluation of Macintyre for renewal of the president's contract. "Much of the formal evaluation was completed prior to the news getting out, " Karnes said. "The

report (from the faculty) won't be updated much." . Vigil hoped the Howe resignation would have no effect on the evaluation "because Macintyre indicated he did not know Howe had not completed the doctorate." "I just hope people don't blame him (Macintyre) for something he didn't know about,'' Vigil added. Van Everen said a subcommittee of the Trustees would receive information on the evaluation by the faculty, school deans, and Macintyre himself, in early November, with the later possibility of on-campus hearings if conflicts at MSC are apparent. The faculty evaluation of Macintyre, Van Everen said, is "expected" to be negative. While acknowledging the misrepresentation was ''wrong,'' Howe's resignation brought sympathy from Karnes. "He was trying and learning in the job," said Karnes. "Of all the high administration, he was the most agreeable of the bunch. "I don't want to see any more harm done to Mike Howe.''


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