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Volume 6 Issue 21
Beer Survey:
Coors Ban Revisited
"Growing with a growing community."
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February 29, 1984
Demolition to Begin Within a Year
Larimer Closure Okayed
by Carson Reed Editor, The Metropolitan
A new "Student Beer Preference Survey" is being released by the Student Facilities Policy Council that could be instrumental in getting Coors beer baclc in the Student Center, despite recent controversial statements by Coors Chairman William Coors. Allegedly racist statements by Coors, which he has since denied, have already raised the ire of minority student groups on campus (see letter on page 6). The resurgence of opposition comes in the wake of ten years of declining interest in the national Coors boycott. According to College Press Service reports, school after school has been deserting the ban on Coors beer, at least partly as a result of an ambitious public relations program by Coors on colle~ campuses. Since 1979, Coors has been sending officials to boycotting campuses, flying student government leaders to the Golden brewery for tours, and paying to stage campus-wide events at schools that agree to drop their boycotts. Coors was banned from the Auraria Student Center in 1980, but that ban was technically lifted last April, when the SFPC voted to examine student attitudes and preferences on the subject. According to Ken Cole, SFPC Chairman, the survey is designed to show the top four preferences for beer among students on campus. Cole was not sure, however, whether the SFPC would regard those results as a mandate or whether they would simply be considered when making the decision. "So far as I know, the SFPC did not commit itself to following the results of the survey," Cole said. But Jeanne Finlon, manager at The Mission, said "I suppose if the SFP(; told us to put Coors beer down here we probably would," However, Finlon felt that the move might not be in the best interests of The Mission. "I know that a lot of our customers support the boycott," Finlon said. Coors beer is already served at The Mercantile, which, since it is not a student fee-funded area, is outside student jurisdiction. The survey is being done by marketing students of Delta Epsilon Chi, and is expected to be completed by March 14. According to SFPC vice-chairman Doug Shepard, they expect 3,000 responses to the survey. 0
The End Is Near: The mental and physical hazards of on-campus traffic are one step closer to being gone forever. - photo by Jack Affleck by Keith Levise Assi.rtont Editor. The Metropolitan
Replacement of the Larimer St. viaduct was given public approval last Wednesday--bringing us one step closer to a unified campus. More than 50 people gathered at St. Cajetan's auditorium to h~ar details of the project, which is one part of a multiphase plan to close Lawrence and Larimer Streets through Auraria.
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" ... it really is going to be wonderful. " - Jo Ann Soker AHEC Director The streets have hindered pedestrian circulation on campus, leading to what AHEC director Jerry W artgow calls "A hazardous, lifethreatening situation." They will be
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replaced, eventually, with the Auraria Parkway --a two-way, sixlane road along the northern edge of the campus. Jennifer Finch, project manager of the state highway department, said approval of the Larimer replacement indicates a "commitment" to the Auraria Parkway plan. "We have a lot of hope we can get funding for the project right away," she said. "When we first started, we thou~t it might take 10 years or more, but now it looks like it might be only 3 or 4 years off," she said. Resistance to the plan centers on where and how the parkway connections to downtown will be constructed. Members of the surrounding business community are worried the connections will conflict with the area's pedestrian and residential environment. "We're not too concerned where it goes beyond Speer," AHEC director Jo Ann Soker said, "The closing of Lawrence and Larimer is so significant .. .it really is going to be wonderful." Demolition of the Larimer viaduct will begin within a year. 0