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Volume 7
Septem~ 12 1984
Issue 4
Governance _,Reorga1:Jization Reexamined
J.Q,000 Plus Clients
Student Center Breaks Everi by Michael Ocrant New8 Editor, The Metropolitan
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by Bob Davis
Despite brisk business the Student Center, with its guaranteed 30,000 plus clientele, i.Sn't making a profit for AHEC. . "We aren't here to make a profit; we' re here to serve the students," according to Roberta Miiller, assistant direc'tor of business serviceS for AHEC. In the 1982-83 fiscal year, Millier said, AHEC received $7,024,000 from vendors operating the center's game. room; restaurants, lounge and book store. However, she said, $7,715,000 was Spent running and maintaining the center . Figrires were not yet available for the 1983-84 fiscal year. The past deficit, Miiller said, was paid for with Student CentP.T ~nd f_ees,
Reportet', The Metropolitan
The legislative Committee on Higher Education heard from the state board governing colleges and universities Tuesday in the Student Center-and the disc~ion centered on how Auraria could be reorganized. . ..- The six boards seemed to agree that the state-wide system should be restructured, but no one oould agree on how to change it. An expert on state education . systems of the Education Commission of the States, asked introductory questions of the commit•tee: ..... has the state considered changes in its methods of financing higher education ... as an alternative to structural change, or at least in conjunction with that change? Have the full range of policy tools T other than reorganization been explored to resolve the state's problems or achieve its goals? "Have less costly ways to make the existing system more effective been thoroughly explored?" ~ The afternoon was spent focusing on · Auraria. After a tour of the c:ampus, 0
"Since January of 1977 (when Auraria became a shared cam1JU8) we have been studied, re-Btudied l.. and the studyB have been 8tudied••. Jt'8 -time to 8Wp Btudying and make a deciBion about reorganimeion." -Donald Bain Vice Chairman, AHEC ~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
the committee heard form Deputy State Auditor Bob Smith. His office reviewed Auraria in October of 1983. He said one of the major problems at Auraria was the lack of a body that esolves academic disputes. Presently e Auraria board only· makes noncademic decisions involving the hysical operation of the campus. Smith said there is no existing· mechanism to solve academic disputes ;.ion campus. ~ When a dispute arises it kicks around through the boards without resolution and it gets to the legislature for final resolution." Smith said. · The Auraria Higher Education Board, showing fatigue from the con..-:inual reviews of its system, recommended that academic and nonacademic issues be viewed a! inseparable. "Since January of 1977 (when Auraria became a shared campus) we have been studied, re-studied and the -'Studies have been studied... " said
"We aren't here to make a profit; we're here to Berne the Btudents. " -Roberta Miiller . AHEC Busin~ Services
Though the Student Center is often bustling with . -business, it does not turn a profit for AHEC. . -Photo by Beagle
part of which are set aside for such purposes. Bond fees totaling $1,000,000, along with interest ·gained on the money, also went for principal and interest on the bond, paying the Child Center's deficit, and in reserve totaling $804,000, Miiller said. The reserve funds, she explained, include a mandatory $454,000 bond · payment fund, $150,000 for repair and replacement of facilities, and a $200,000 contingency fund. According to Mark A. Barum, business manager for the Student·· Center, new furniture and remodelng in the game room, Barum said. Another $9,779, which came from
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Bits & Pieces page 8
Volleyball
Elfon John page 10
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