Volume 4, Issue 13 - Dec. 2, 1981

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NEWS: Colfax Avenue may be one of the longest roads in the world but it also has othe·r distinguishing features: Open prostitution and numerous 'adult' bookstores. Read about one adventurous reporter's trip onto that street and the people that inhabit' it.

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NEWS: The MSC student government had a financial fiasco this fall. Its CU-Boulder counterpart wishes it had only money problems.

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FEATURE: Most geologists only examine rocks. An MSC geology professor goes further and climbs some of the largest and challenging ones in the world. Soon he'll attempt to scale one most climbers only dream about.

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.Volume 4, Issue 13 ,-. © Metropress December 2, .1981 Changed hands but not problems

Media Center improving-slowly UOD control would be a ·logical which meant they always bought solution. the cheapest and as a result each UCD took over the Media "The Library has been manag- piece is different and none of the Centerlast July I and combined it ed well, and educationally it- parts are interchangeable." ~with their library hoping to makes sense to put all types of inThe shortage and poor quality transform the Center into a formation together whether _it .of equipment hasn't effected helpful facility quickly but in- comes from a tape, film or book," Breivik alone; it's been passed on · stead they . found themselves Patricia Breivik, director of the through a policy requiring all insliding into a large pit of pro- . Library and now the Media structors to make prior ar~blems where the solutions are tak- Center, said. rangements approximately a ing a long time to dig up. Many of the problems, . however, were created during the Aside from being $74,000 short for equipment, the years CCD governed the Center. Media Center still has the old problems that have The problems came to a peak last haunted students for years. Students interested in radio f October when a consulting firm and television ·production still don't have access to the audited the Center and:revealed a Center's educational equipment. lack of service to students, mismanagement, and treatment of the Center as the lowest priority. But Breivik has been spending week in advance to use equipl Shortly afterwards, the Col- more time with the Media Center ment in their classes. orado Commission on Higher trying to straighten it out than the This new policy has created Education (CCHE) recommend- Library. Her biggest problem is a more ill-feelings toward the ed transferring the Center from shortage of classroom equipment. Center from those who were CCD to UCD because of budget . "We didn't know the extent of already bitter. Pat Lehman, a problems. Auraria executives the problems when we took it CCD art instructor, has had pro...(from all three schools and over," Breivik said. "For instance blems with the Media Center for Auraria Higher Education Center 40 percent of the equipmeht listed seven years now. (AHEC) rejected the recommen- on the inventory can't be found. "The latest trouble I've had dation at first but after the situa- Also they (CCD) had no with them was about three weekS tion got worse, all agreed maintenap.ce program and didn't ago," Lehman said. "I had to go .w-"Tansferring the Media Center to know how to purchase equipment to Davis Audio/Visual on my own by Randy Golkin

time and money and rent a projector for $37 for classroom use. All because I didn't know about this new eight-day-in-advance policy." Lehman isn't alone with her gripes about the Media Center. Gudran Clay, an MSC modern ·language professor, did a survey and questioned 150 MSC faculty members about their opinions on the Media Center's service this fall. When Clay reported the results to the MSC Faculty Senate, 85-90 percent expressed dissatisfaction, Brooks Van Everen, head of the Senate said. He also said the week in advance policy was one of the questions on ·the survey. Breivik isn't oblivious to this situation and realizes getting equipment to classes is the most important function of the Media Center. But at the same time, she said since they don't have enough equipment they need to know in advance who wants to borrow which items so they can plan a schedule. Breivik said this new policy of ordering equipment a continued on page 16


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