Volume 5, Issue 14 - Dec. 1, 1982

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A (l.CJJCJJ~ a~tl~[l)i~ 796 MSC students go to the polls and make their voices heard.

News:

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Feature: Many people

experience It, but it isn't necessary.

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Sports: · MSC's vo.lley-

ball team caps its first year In the NAIA.

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Volume 5, Issue 14 © Metropress December 1, 1982 Council l!JlP.•rdlzed

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·Msc administratOrs queStion SFPC · by Randy Golkin <'£

MSC administrators are beginning to question the Student Facilities Policy Council's political structure after two controversial decisions were made by fie multi-institutional group. The SFPC, comprised of four representatives from each school and three ex-officio members, has the / power to allocate student f,pnded space - primarily in the Student Center - and make decisions concerning that space. However, SFPC decisions sometimes transform into recommendations to the Auraria Board. ~The responsibilities of the Student Center and space allocations to student clubs "is too great to be left to a committee of 12," said MSC President Richard Fontera. > The president's concern about the SFPC's powei: structure stems from a few current issues that put the Council's legitimacy, authority and power in question. The mue that set off this series t:l disputes was the SFPC's decision to give the Auraria Book Center 480 square feet of the

MSC Student Health Clinic for a major e!fect on the Board's deci- make too great a decision," said new computer. The vote angered sion. Most t\lought Servomation Fontera. Fontera believes the issues in MSC officials who were appeal- would eliminate many services ing the Council's original decision presently available because PFM limbo and future problems can be to give ABC the space. employees spread rumors to keep solved easier if the SFPC's power Chaotic controversy was this food service, thus their jobs. structure is reorganized. The SFPC h~ existed in one form created over the SFPC's Health The SACAB represented the CliniQ decision because according · pro-PFM students, who insisted or another since MSC was to MSC officials, the Council the SFPC didn't represent their started. It wasn't included in the didn't have the authority to views, at the meeting, and since Auraria structure until 1981, allocate space already designated the 5-4 council's vote was so close, when the SACAB rewrote the to MSC in the original Auraria the Auraria Board decided to bylaws and included all of the in, Program Plan. resume contract negotiations with stitutions. The function of the SFPC Consequently, as the clinic con- PFM. troversy continued, a second issue When Auraria pulled the wasn't changed. Its purpose is to arose complicating questions sur- power plug out from the SFPC, oversee the Student Center, rounding the SFPC's power. many began to ~onder how which is funded by student fees. The only moderation was to After time-consuming research, much political influen~ this the SFPC voted to recommend a council really has, underlining Jiave 'the SFPC report to the new food service - Servomation the main question of, how much SACAB, who wouldn't have the power to veto or support SFPC - for the Student Center, when pqwer shotild they have? the current food management's Especially since UCD graduate decisions, but would just relay the contract expired in December. Julie Stark was the SFPC chair- votes, as recommendations, to the However, since the SFPC only · woman which was improper Auraria Board. uWhen I was on the board, makes recommendations to the because she wasn't a full-time stuAuraria Board via the Student dent. Stark has since been remov- Jerry's (Wartgow, AHEC exAdvisory Committee to the ed and the vice-chair took over, ecutive director) only concern Auraria Board, the idea of chang- but this incident orily cluttered was that the SFPC didn't report to anybody," said MSC Aluminus ing food service companies was the SFPC controversy. overturned. "Even assumming everyone Ruth Pelton-Ruby, who was on Of course, the storm of students was in the right place (on the the SACAB in 1981. Continued on pap 3 who went to the SACAB had a SFPC), this committee had to


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