25 % Increase Proposed
Some Students Will Be Seeing'Red'
Parking May GoUpAgain
Coors Cracks Campus by Kevin Vaughan News Editor, The Metropolitan
by Scott Mohr The Food Committee of the Student Facilities Policy Council has given tentative approval for a product of the Coors Brewing Company to once again be served in the Student Center The sale of Coors products was banned from the Student Center in 1980 by the SFPC, but that was formally rescinded last April when the SFPC voted 5-3 to commission a study on student beer preferences. The Student Preference Beer Survey, which was promised before last Christmas when commissioned by the SFPC a year ~go, was conducted by the DACC Marketing Club. Results showed that Coors products were very popular among Auraria students George Killian's Red,a Goors product, will be served in bottles at the Mission next fall if approved by the full SFPC. "We tried to look at the stuaent preference of premium, regular, and light beer," Food Committee Member Brendan Kelly said. "The survey played into the decision in that Killian's was chosen. Because Budweiser, Michelob and Lowenbrau were already available on tap, we had to decide between George Killian's, Olympia and Stroh's in bottles." cont. on page 3
Reporter, The Metropolitan
Despite over $7 million in real and , projected parking revenues already !iet aside to alleviate parking pro- , blems, AHEC administrative services Director Raul Gomez told-the sparse audience at last week's open forum that an additional 25 percent increase in parking fees would be needed to help pay for solutions. This fall. According to Gomez, the increase is needed because the $7 million isn't enough to cover additional "planning costs" for either a mass transit system from Mile High Stadium or a parking garage. In addition, Gomez said the parking rate increase was needed to subsidize a "free park-and-ride shuttle" bus from Mile High to Auraria. With the impending loss of 616 currentlyavailable spaces to Tivoli this fall, Gomez said he felt the subsidized shuttle was the best temporary solution to parking problems. . "Since the students parking in the lots would, in effect, be paying for those riding free, the higher rates should encourage more students to take advantage of the system," Gomez said.
"We can't depend on RTD to solve our problems. ,, -Raul Gomez
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Gomez also announced that the future of the proposed AGT system was in serious doubt. RTD has apparently backed out of the joint project, and according to Gomez, refused to even pay its share of cost overruns on the AHEC/RTD feasibility study for the "people mover." "We can't depend on RTD to solve our problems," Gomez said. But AHEC Executive Director Jerry W artgow said they are still negotiating with developers who might be willing to pay the entire cost of building an AGT system. "We expect to know more after (the contractors) proposals are presented to the Auraria Board for review on ~ June 4," Wartgow said. Although W artgow admitted that a parking garage is the "easiest" way to provide more parking, he stood behind plans to build an AGT as "the best long-term solution." But George Walker, of the parking advisory committee, said that he believes most students favor a parking garage. Moreover, he said that .increased parking revenues for planning costs were ~nnecessary, since the designs for a parking garage were already drafted in 1981. O
lSFPC Beer Although Coors itself wtll not be served at The Mission, George Killian's Red-a product of Coors-was tentatively approved for sale in the Student Center next fall.
Survey:
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Top Five Draft Beers: Michelob Budweiser Miller Coors Lowenbrau (lili!;ht)
416 324 281 275 234
Top FiveCanned Beers: Budweiser Michelob Coors Light Coors Miller
383
305 270 223 203
Top F~ve Bottled Beers: Budweiser Heineken Michelob Lowenbrau George Killian's Red
344 332 321 233 226
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DACC Students MSC Students UCD Students Total
808 825 602 2,230
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