Volume 6 Isme 23
"Growing with a growing community."
Absent Leader: Fontera Rests After Surgery
The Old and the New
Reporter, The Metropolitan
by Michael Ocrant
MSC President Richard Fontera continues to recover from major abdominal survery, which he underwent March 1, his office said Monday. Dr. Wilton Flemon, assistant to the president, said last Friday that the campus is being run as normal, with the three vice presidents of the institution overseeing their respective areas. Flemon said tha:t he and Consortium President Richard Laughlin "coordinate the three vice-presidents' functions. We are operating as if President Fontera were on vacation." The vice-presidents are: Dr. Antonio Esquibel, of the Office of
Reporter, The Metropolitan
The costs of constructing and operating an automated transportation system from Mile High Stadium to the Auraria campus, as well as the source of financial support, remain highly uncertain. Finance was one of three subjects discussed in workshops on automated guideway transit systems held Saturday at the Saint Francis Interfaith Center. The workshops were sponsored by AHEC and RTD. Initial construction of an AGT have been estimated to range from $7 million to $40 million a mile, according to JoAnn Soker, AHEC special projects director. Operating costs could be from $500,000 to $2 million per year, Soker said. Therefore, downtown businesses might help pay for it, Soker said. But AHEC has not asked business owners if they would be willing to invest in the system. "Ridership probably wouldn't reach a maximum until the end of the first or second year," Soker said, "So the system would need to be subsidized either through higher oncampus parking rates, or by opening some lots to downtown commuters during off-peak periods."
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AHEC-RTD Study Parking:
AGT's Cost Exaillined
by Lisa Jean Silva
MSC
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Fontera
Student Affai~St~n Sunderwirth, of the Office of Academic Affairs; and Curt Wright, of the Office of Business and Finance. . Rumors indicating that Fontera is seriously ill continue, although a memo sent out by his office indicates the rumors are unsubstantiated. The memo from the president's office was sent to the various MSC departments Friday. It reads: "President Fontera continues to recover from major surgery. However, he has experienced some difficulties, and additional tests are necessary for a thorough diagnosis. To ensure "complete rest, the family has requested that personal visits and telephone calls be referred to the presid~?t's office for the next few weeks. "We do miss him (Dr. Fontera)," Flemon said. "If you've met him, you know his dynamic and overwhelming personality. We miss his presence." 0
The newly-refurbished Tivoli smokestack keeps watch over the nearly hundred-year-old brewery. Completion of the project is expected this August. For more see pages 8 and 路Y. -
Ethical Questions page 3
photos by Jack Affleck
Christina page I I
"... the system would need to be subsidized... " -JoAnn Soker AHEC Special Projects Director The Tivoli shopping-.:omplex, which would probably benefit from an AGT, has remained uncommitted to giving financial assistance, Soker said. Those figures agree with those submitted by 17 companies that responded to a request for unbinding proposals, which were briefly outlined before the start of the workshops. The AHEC Board of Directors is expected to vote March 12 on whether to continue with plans for building an AGT or to build parking garages to solve the problem of limited campus parking. But a vote favoring an AGT would only guarantee that the preparational work of getting precise cost figures and financial backing would go forward, Soker said. RTD has been the most likely backer and has shown a great amount of interest in constructing an AGT, rontinued
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