Volume 6, Issue 7 - Oct. 5, 1983

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Student F~ Reserve Fund: Rags to Riches

"Growing with a growing community.'-'

Sculpture Bites the Dust by KeVin Vaughan

by Michael Ocrant

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Controversy surrounding the "Shootout" sculpture and its placement on UCD property erupted again last Wednesday at a rally scheduled by Indian students protesting the statue. The day before the rally, the University of Colorado Board of Regents announced that the 12-foot tall aluminum sculpture would be moved from university property at Speer Boulevard and Lawrence ,street.

The MSC Student Affairs Board is uncertain how, and if, a $200,000 reserve fund of student fees should be spent. The SAB, which consists of seven MSC administrators and six students, allocates student fees, this year expected to total more than $600,000. Increased enrollment above original predictions, coupled with higher student fees, have helped make the reserve greater than had been expected, according to MSC's Budget Officer, Tim Green. In 1980, Green said, he suggested fees be raised from $38.50 to $So.OO to delay any further increases for at least two years. Green said the board now expects to exceed that goal by one year. A portion of the increase was for student health insurance, Green said. Student fees, said Green, which directly fund a majority of activities and services at MSC, increased from $21.75 to $28.25. continued on page 3

Campus Crime: Science Room Scales Stolen At least five scales belonging to the Earth Sciences department have disappeared in a series of thefts from a Science Building laboratory. The scales, valued at around $150 apiece, disappeared from the back room unnoticed, making it imp<>Mible to determine exactly when the scales were stolen. - "Every time we do an inventory we find some missing," said Earth Sciences professor James MacLachlan. Although measures were taken following the discovery of three missing scales in the third week of the semester, MacLachlan said keeping control over the inventory is difficult because of the nature of the lab work. "This is such a steady-use classroom," MacLachlan said. "It's difficult to keep track of the scales as they are being used on this table, on continued on page l +

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Frank Blackelk, spok~sperson for the Colorado American Indian Movement, was on hand Wednesday to voice his opinion on 'Shootout'. Photo by Jack Affleck

Survial of the Fittest Page 8

Who are They, and Why are They Here? -Page 11

Even with the announcement, the demonstration went on as planned, often pitting members of the art community against those who believe the lavishly colored statue makes fun of what happened to Indians in th~ 19th century. At the rally, speakers charged that the sculpture which depicts cartoon-like figures of a cowboy and Indian shooting at each other from behind rocks - finds humor in atrocities committed against Native Americans in the 1800s. American Indian groups, including the UCD Native American Student Association, (NASA), complained that they were not consulted before the sculpture was placed on the traffic island owned by UCD. "It just one day popped up out of nowhere," complained one rally participant. "Now it just seems like it's too late." "It is too sad that this thing has been erected here and has caused conflict," Native American Fraru Blackelk said. "They should have asked us how we felt about this picture before they put it up. People have just overlooked us for too long." The pop art sculpture, which was created by New Yor1c artist Red Grooms, was placed on UCO property last November by the New Height Group and was kept covered all winter and spring. Adjacent .to UCD's main building, New Height continued on page 5


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