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NEWS: 'Tricky' Dick is making news again.
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FEATURE: Two weeks ago she was broke. Now she has more than she started with.
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METROSTYLE: Their name may put you off but their act might make you laagh. And they're still in town.
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SPORTS: It's been a slow sports season for most MSC athletes b14t the women volleyball team is busy.
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Volume 4, Issue 3 ~ © Metrepress September 16, 1981
MSC loses facility
AHEC to control Book Center by Brian Coffey-Weber
The Auraria Board of Directors, at their Sept. 14 meeting, ... decided to take control of the last MSC-managed facility on campus - the BoolC Center. AHEC will not renew its management contract with MSC on June 30, 1982 and from then ..on will assume financial and managerial responsibility for the book store. The move was made despite protests by ASMSC president Loring Crepeau. Crepeau con' tended his group did not have adequate notice of the decision so they could determine what - if any - effect it would have on students. Crepeau also questioned the timing of the move and asked the . <board to postpone its decision for 30 days. "I don't think a review by the MSC student body will have any effect OIY the decision," Jerry . Wartgow, executive director of -<.AHEC s~id in response to Crepeau's request. 'Tm kind of indffferent about it. I would again (after 30 days) advise the board to vote for it." John Turk, general manjlge.r of
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the book center, also attended the meeting but voiced no opposition about the change to his- future employers . "It's my understanding that they (AHEC) always intended, from the time they had the legislative authority to do so, to run all the student services on campus," Turk said, "And the store is certainly a student service." Crepeau also wondered if MSC would lose any income from this
the work is absorbed by his staff with all its other duties. Johnson said there are two people - one in the MSC Business Office and one at the book store - who work specifically on book store affairs. He thought those emplo}'ees would be transferred to AHEC's business office. W artgow said he'd like to have those two people to keep some continuity in the operati<?n. Student government leaders are mainly concerned about AHEC
Student government leaders are mainly concerned about AHEC controlling another student service. They believe that control should be with the schools. Whether AHEC should have that control or not is a moot point. '
move. It will and it won't. MSC is paid 2 percent of the book store's gross profit to handle the store's accounting chores. That money, according to J. Johnson,. MSC controller, goes to pay expenses incurred in performing those chores. Johnson said it was hard to determine where and to whom that . mcmey exaotly goes because
controlling another student service. They believe that control should be with the schools. Whether . AHEC should have that control or not is a moot point now. AHEC was authorized by the state legislature in 1971 to ultimately become the Au!aria landlord; to manage the physical and in particular the revenue areas of the campus.
Ideally, the plan calls for the three schools to occupy the campus and educate while AHEC takes care of the rest._ Whether or not the ideal has been achieved depends on which administrator from which organization explains it. That aside, the question still remains: Why should AHEC take control now if, as both parties agree, the book store is running smoothly? "There is no good time (to make the change),". W artgow said. "There is no specific catalyst that caused it to happen at this time." W artgow explained that the management contract - now in its third year - between AHEC and MSC is for five years: during the first .two years the contr-act was non-negotiable and the last three are option years when either party may withdraw. He said AHEC is · exercising its option because it is now able to handle the ·accounting operation that MSC is performing. Curt Wright, acting presjdent of MSC offered this explanation of AHEC's action: "As I understand it they're trying to consolidate various item-.; continued on page 4