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"Growing with a growing community."
No More Mess No More Fuss
Parking Lost to 'Mini-Bank' Contract
Move It Or Lose It!
Cure-All No. 1360 Brings Us MSCU
by David Colson Reporter, The Metropolitan
by Carson Reed Editor, The Metropolitan
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A bill that proponents say would streamline the higher education system in Colorado by placine: all state schools under the control of only three boards, has been introduced in the legislature. The promised bill from Rep. Paul Schauer would place MSC under the control of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, dissolving the Consortium of State Colleges, and would place DACC under the control of the State Board of Agriculture, dissolving the State Board of Community Colleges. Hearings have not yet been scheduled for the bill, number 1360, which will be considered first by the House Education Committee before moving on to a vote by the House of Representatives. It could be debated as early as Monday, February 13. As the bill currently reads, the Consortium would be dissolved and "Effective July 1, 1985," MSC and Western State College would be under the direct control of the regents. Penciled into the draft is the stipulation that "Any reorganization of the higher education system shall not affect the role and mission of Metro State College." In addition, the regents would assume control over the Auraria Campus and "Effective July 1, 1985, the board of directors of the Auraria Higer Education Center is abolished ... " Students who are interested in attending the hearings or getting more information on the progress of 1360 can call the Bill Information Room at the Capitol at 866-3056. O
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February 8, 1984
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A new set of yellow stripes spells trouble for students who park on the southwest side of the Student Center. Since the new paint went on last Thursday, Public Safety officers have been handing out $15 parking tickets like fliers advertising a grand opening. AHEC, in cooperation with the city of Denver, changed the 30-minute parking outside the southwest doors of the Student Center to five-minute parking and has restricted half the area to AHEC service vehicles only. According to Public Safety spokesman Dave Rivera, the change became official last Monday. By Thursday the diagonal lines of yellow paint were dry, the signs were up and Public Safety Officers were ticketing, ticketing, ticketing. "The city made the change upon our recommendation of how we saw the use of the space," Rivera said. "The 30-minute parking was commonly abused and vehicles would be parked there all day long," Rivera said. Rivera said there was often no space avl!ilable for handicap loading and unloading, that service vehicles could not get access to the building, and that student use of the area had caused general traffic congestion. "Over the past few weeks it became a general parking place," said Jim Schoemer, deputy executive of AHEC. "The reason we changed it from 30 to five minute parking is because when the SFPC (Student Facility Policy Counsel) approved the contract to install the (TransAction) minibank we agreed to provide fiveminute parking. We just never got around to it," Schoemer said. "What we are doing at present is a clean-up of the bank installation because we let it get away from us," Schoemer said. "The space was never intended for long-term parking. It's a general entrance and it was being abused." Ken Cole, UCO student body president, agrees that the area had become "a mess." Cole agreed that there should be space set aside for handicap ,loading and unloading and for mini bank use. However, Cole added, ''I'd like to know why half the space is for AHEC service vehicles only. They (AHEC) seem to have gotten along fine parking in the loading dock." "It seems that we accommodate everyone else before we do the students. I think students should get to use that area," Cole said. O