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Volume 6 Is.rue 22
March 7, 1984
"Growing with a growing community."
Coretta King: Non-Violent .Change Sought
Funding to be Frozen at Present Levels
Study_Bill Clears House by Kevin Vaughan
.,_ by Julie Zuffoletto
News Editor, The Metropolitan
Reporter, Tlie Metropolitan
The House Tuesday approved on final reading legislation which virtually freezes funding for higher education at present levels for one year and which creates a ninemember panel- to study ways to improve the system. During second reading Monday, opponents of the freeze provision were thwarted in their efforts to remove it from House Bill 1360. The bill's chief sponsor, Rep. Paul Schauer, R-Littleton, contends that the freeze threat is needed to insure that all governing boards cooperate with the study. In addition to holding funding at 102 percent of present levels for fiscal year 1985, the bill would-beginning July I-throttle all new programs for higher education in Colorado.
. The late Martin Luth.er King Jr., had a dream that one day this nation would rise up and live out the true me'!ning of its creed: "We hold these ~ truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. " Coretta Scott King, widow, of Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a lecture on nonviolent social change W ednesday, February 29, at St. Cajetan's Center. Over 400 people attended, ~ while another 200 watched on closedcircuit television. Besides discussing her late husband's legacy and the importance of non-violence in society, she stressed the need for public involvement. Mrs. King told the audience "). that she needs support from Colorado, and other states as well, to obtain a state and/or national Martin Luther King holiday, which will be c:t"lebrated the third Monday in ja'nuary, starting in 1986.
'... we need to look at the system and see where we are now and where we ought to be in 15 or 20 years.' -Rep. Paw 'Schauer
'We've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.' - Coretta Scott King Mrs. King said the enactment of a national Martin Luther King holiday will be a testament to civil rights, and went on to suggest some other impor~ tant aspects of the holiday. ~ She said: "The holiday will have organized a coalition between parties, persons, or states for a joint action, marked the twentieth anniversary of Martin's death, and been a bipartisan piece of legislation." She ~ mentioned that the holiday is unique in that it is the only holiday honoring a black man, but that black history is not only for black people. "Let us not make the holiday a day of rest; but instead, reflect on Martin Luther King and sow the seeds of ~justice, peace, and equality," she said. "We've come a long way, but still have a long way to go." Mrs. King then asked the audience to "remember that ra:cial equality is the cornerstone of democracy, and that Martin Luther King believed in the ..... American system of Democracy." Mrs. King's visit in Denver was also aimed at promoting the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for NonViolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia. She listed five alternatives to using violence when facing a cma"'-cl on -page 3
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With bill. in hand, Rep. Paul Schauer reflects on H.B. 1306 just moments after it was approved by the Colorado House Tuesday. -Photo by Jack Affleck
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Even before Tuesday's vote, Schauer predicted the bill would clear the House and be sent on to the Senate. " A good majority of the legislators," Schauer said, "recognize that with limited resources and changes in demogi:aphics that we need to look at the system and see where we are now and where we ought to be in 15 or 20 years." The study inlated to begin July l and last approximate9' a year. While it was argued that atiother study is not what is needed to Anprove education, Schauer disagrees: "The last study was done before the peak in college enrollment," Schauer -路 said, "and I'm sure thae.the attitude of legislators was different then than it is now." In its original form, H.B. 1360 would have totally reorganized the governance of higher education in the state. It would have placed all of Colorado's schools, except for the School of Mines in Golden, under the domain of either the University of Colorado Board of Regents or the State Board of Agriculture. But when the bill was sent to the House Education Committee for consideration, the amendment to substitute the study and funding 0 freeze was added.
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