A [!.CJJCJJG! g~~a[l)Cf~ News: The recent elections have left higher education with more breathing room.
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Feature: What force is behind the rash of 'copycat' crimes?
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Sports: MSC's women's volleyball team nears the pin-Page nacle of its season.
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Issues addressed路in PFM talks I
to re-negotiate with PFM, with attention to be paid to points rais,. Improved service and freedom _ ed by an ad hoc food service comof choice will be two benefits mittee concerning specific areas Auraria Student Center food ser- of PFM's contract. Of particular concern was vice users stand to reap as a result o f a new contract being PFM's so-called "right of exs negotiated between the Auraria clusivjty," which stipulated that Higher Education Center and no foOd other than that provided Professional Food Management, by PFM could be served in the Inc. 路 Student Center, including during Earlier this year, with PFM's meetings of clubs and organizaone-year extension of its five-year tions. , contract with AHEC scheduled to According to Gary McManus, expire Dec. 31, AHEC solicited Student Center director and bids for the food路 service account. member of the ad hoc committee, When the Student Facilities the question of exclusivity in Policy Committee voted 5-4 Nov. PFM's new contract is now ,.12 to recommend Servomation be "basically moot." awarded the contract over PFM, The eontract, which has been it appeared PFM's days at sent to the state attorney general Auraria might be numbered. to be formalized, will make the But after a sudden exclamation distinction between revenueof sentiment in support of PFM generating, open meetings and .Lwas made by both students and closed meetings. PFM employees, the SFPC's In the case of the former, PFM recommendation was presented would retain the "right of first to the AHEC Board of Directors refusal," which would require with some qualification. organizations to offer PFM the ~ The Auraria Board then voted option to provide service for any by R.P. Bellizzi
particular function. In the case of closed meetings,. organizations would be free to _provide t!!eir own food. According to Joyce Parks, CCD-A director of student activities and also a member of the ad hoc committee, she and others planned to re-examine the contract proposals of Servomation and ARA, another of PFM's competitors, for ideas on how to improve PFM's service to its customers. "We're going to review other bid specifications for outstanding ideas we'd like to see with PFM," Parks said. Among the suggestions the committee was to have made to PFM was to hold regularly scheduled meetings with a student activities group, probably the SFPC's food committee. Also suggested was the availability of a "bar food menu" in the Student Center's Mission during the hours regular food service is not provided, as well as the possibility of keeping one_ "service point" -
either The Mission, the cafeteria, or perhaps a mobile unit operating during any time the Student Center is open; on Saturdays or during breaks, for example. "We need to figure out how to guarantee revenue but not hamper food service," Parks said. "What needs to be decided is, 'What exactly, is a service point?'" Another issue is the use of food preparation equipment by student groups during special functions. While PFM's insurance prohibited that possibility, Parks said, other proposals included some type of student access to food service equipment. Parks said she therefore intends to explore further such possibilities with PFM. Tom Roarick, PFM's unit manager at Auraria, said he's had "no objections" to any proposals he's been approached with thus far. "I'm sure we'll be able to work things out," Roarick said. 0