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Volume 6 Issue 24
"Growing with a growing community."
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'Much Better'
Fontera's Spirits High
March 28, 1984
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I Would Do It Again
by Lisa Jean Silva
Hold Your Hats
The Money Is Conli~g
Reporter, The Metropolitan
by Kevin Vaughan
MSC President Richard Fontera was transferred from St. Anthony's Central to University Hospital March 19, where he is listed in fair condition. Fontera was apparently moved for further testing. He underwent abdominal surgery on March 1, and is reported to be recovering well. In a statement issued March 16, the Trustees announced that Dr. Richard Laughlin, president of the Consortium, will "assume responsibility where needed and work closely with" MSC vice presidents "to ensure that the activities of the College are conducted in an order} y manner." Last week Laughlin said that Fontera was on medical leave from the College "for an indefinite period." Only if Dr. Fontera's illness becomes extended, will an interim president be elected, Laughlin said. Tuesday, The Metropolitan reached Fontera in his hospital room. "I am feeling quite well," he said, "and I am getting much, much better." Mrs. Iris Fontera told The Metropolitan, "We hope to bring him home in the next eight or ten days. Of course the doctors will have to make that final decision .. . We are very hopeful and happy about that prospect," she said. 0
News Editor, The Metropolitan
Deadline Set For ACT Pact The AHEC board has set a May 14 deadline for reaching a financial agreement with RTD to build a I-mile people mover connecting the campus with Mile High Stadium's parking lots. At its March 12 meeting, the board also vowed to contribute between $7 million and $8 million to the automated guideway system. Additional funding from RTD, or another outside source, would be needed to construct the ACT-which is estimated to cost between $7 million and $40 million to build. The board did not address the question of extending the people mover another mile to connect downtown as · well. The ACT is seen as one solution to Auraria's growing parking headache, which will get worse next fall when approximately 600 spaces are lost to the Tivoli Brewery. 0
The Colorado House last week approved $1. 7 million for the architectural and engineering portions of the AHEC-UCD replacement building as part of the state's fiscal year 1985 budget. With the exception that the funding will be approved by the Senate as well, AHEC Executive Director Jerry Wartgow auth~rized the formation of a Programming/Planning Committee to represent the interests of those who will be using the new facility. . W artgow appointed AHEC Director of Facilities Planning Bob Kronewitter to chair the committee, which will include one representative each from MSC and DACC and as many as three from UCD. ln a memo from Wartgow to UCO Chancellor Gene Ncrdby, Wartgow said the committee should be formed by April 6 and approved by May 1. The architectural firms who will bid on the design should be chosen by June 1, the memo said. Wartgow set the committee's objectives as follows: •Determine who gets additional space in the new facility. •Account for the needs and interests of all concerned parties.
G. Gordon Liddy speaks his own brand of political Darwinism at the Paramount in a UCO sponsored event, last Monday night. . photobyJackAllleck.
Some Big Winners
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Looking North
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• Keep the project on schedule and make sure requests qo not exceed available funding. • Make sure that the program plan for the new structure is compatible with existing policies, plans and • guideslines.
'This bill gives us increasingflexibiUty. • - Jerry Wartgow AHEC Executive Director In additiotl to the $1,698,850 set aside for planning the new building, the legislature also appropriated $215,840 to air condition th~ South, Central and West Classrooms and the Technology building. In related legislation, the Senate approved and sent to Gov. Lamm Senate Bill 176, which authorizes AHEC to raise the funds necessary for the actual construction of the East Classroom replacement building. The bill gives AHEC the go-ahead to explore creative financing alternatives as long as they don't create a debt for the state. contiteued on page 3
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