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Feature: Federal inmates in Englewood have MSC courses brought to them.
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Feature: Joe Fuentes, an MSC graduate, returned to teach in the journalism department.
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Volume 5, lssu·e 29 . ,,. © Metropress April 27, 1983 4-3 vote ~stpones bill 'lndennlfely'
5enate committee kills H.B. 1510 government. Such a requirement, Beer said, . "unreasonably overlooks the existing system of elective representation which adequately and fairly disburses student fees."
by Richard Bellizzi
• The Senate State Affairs Committee voted 4-3 Monday to postpone indefinitely House Bill · 1510, an action that essentially kills the proposed legislation ·Beer said that citizens do not ..jVhich would have prohibited the have the opportunity to decide ·use of mandatory student fees-tor how their t-ax dollars will be political purposes. spent, "but if we don't agree with P.r:ior to its vote, the Committee our elected representatives' acheard testimony from about a tions, we have the option of elecdozen students, including student ting new ones." ~vernment leaders, who opposed John. Carson, a CU student, exthe bill, and College Republicans, pressed his support of a posjtive who supported the bill. check-off which, he said, would Larry Beer, treasurer of the guarantee a 100 percent voter tun;t Associated Students of MSC, urg- out, resulting in "a true gauge of _democracy." ~ the bill's defeat. "Passage of this bill would seriously threaten the autonomy of our public colleges and univer: sities," Beer told the Committee. ~
The bill called for the implementation of a positive checkoff during registration whereby students could designate which organization they wanted to supi'Ort, instead of having their fees' use determined by student I
Carson said there are many campus groups which 'exist without student-fee support, and that a check-off would ensure that a student has some say in how his fees are spent. David Leeds, chairman of College Republicans at CU, was critical of student government spending student fees for obvious political ·causes, and urges
passage of the bill "to stop abQses that are constantly going on. "The State Legislature does have a right to be involved in how student fees are collected,'' Leeds said. "We believe you have a great deal of responsibility in protecting your interests on campus."
ments can best determine what the needs of students are. "Student governments do a · good job and the fees are spent well," Frye said. "We help to provide an educational experience."
Tad Miller, University of Col- , Committee Chairman Cliff orado Student Union president, Dodge, R-Denver, who cast the made a distinction between dona- vote which killed the bill, hinted tions, which a check-off would previously how he was. to vote. mean, and taxes, which he con"Both sides of this argument siders student fees to be. have merit," Dodge said. "It "This bill casts a dangerous seems to me, though, the remedy shadow by co-opting the oppor- to this is through the political protunity for democratic principles cesses on campus." to be applied on campus," Miller Dodge acknowledged apathy told the Committee. - "it's a dirty word" - on camHe said the bill would reduce pus, but said he believed that the opportunity for financially campuses· provided a viable disadvantages groups to par- forum to address the concerns of ticipate in co-currictilar educa- students. tion. Senators who voted to kill the "Education is not a one-sided bill were Democrats Tom Glass, C. Michael Callihan, James Rizaffair," he said. Brad Frye, president of CSU zuto and Dodge; voting to pass it student government, called the to the Senate were Republicans bill "inappropriate," and told the Jim Brandon, Ray Powers and D Committee that student govern- Kathy Spelts Arnold.