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SAB Slices Budget Pie by Alicia Mac Arthur Special to The Metrcpolitan-
Members of various MSC organizations seeking student fee support are on the edge of their seats this week while the Student Affairs Board deliberates on who will receive aid. Decisions have not. been announced and a possible vote is set for Friday. In the past, the board- rnade up of faculty and students-relied on budget
hearings and oral presentations to
'deiermine how. to distribute the funds. However this year a new method has been implemented and decisions are being made based on an intricate re quest document-many of which are l0 pages or more in length.
According to board member Faye Rison, associate professor of Human
"l prefer our culrent Wstem fffi allocation." ' Ryson -Faye
SAB Board Member Services at MSC, more efficient.
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Marlyn Goranson has a . learning
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dlsability. He graduated from Linculn High School in 1980, determined to further his education at a four-year college. His dream could have treen shattered without MSC's Learning Disabili .ty's program. Instead, he will be one of the last to go through it. Marlyn is studying to be an auto mechanic, but is also taHng business coursâ‚Źs.
"I
want to be more than an auto I could be something like
mechanic,
head of General Motors," he ssid. Because of budget cuts, the learning
disabilities program Marlyn went thto,rgh is being discontinued at MSC. Students needlng belp are being referred tg tbe Specid Learnings Support
program at the Denver Auraria Community College. MSC President Paul Magelli said he feels the move had to be made to partidly bdance the school's S500,000 deficit. "We are under-funded," Magelli said. "People tell me we haven't lob-
bied enough (for funds)...Had
(DACC's) program not been available, I don't know what we would've done. " Both Magelli and Ken Rager,
(one of Magelli's assistants), feel the DACC program is an adequate alternative.
"I
think our LD program pro{ides a service to our students, and Eva Dyer (head of MSC's LD program) provides excellent teaching," Rager said, "but are you going to sâ‚Źrve one student out of 100, knowing there is an alternative to one of them? The alternative is the
LD program at DACC." Betsy Cabell, coordinator
of
the Special Learnings Support program at DACC, said the main difference bet-
ween the - two progrsms is that the DACC program offen support tutoring on both a regular and irregular basis. "The main differerrce as far as students are concerned is our program is set up for individualized help,". Cabell said. She also said LD students
l0l at Metro after completing DACCs program. "We've had students do that...Our philosophy is you overcome what you can and you live with the rest," Cabelt said. "It varies from individual to individual:" The DACC program offers remedial help in math, reading, and language mechanics, with support tutoring sup-
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"I prefer our cutrent system for' allocation. I feel there are certain areas that bave been adequately funded in the past-like the Womeds Center," Rison said. "When allocating these fees c.,ertain fsctors must be considered. For -example, ttre idea ttrat the maiority of
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our student body is made uP of women."
"Of course," she went on, "there are other areas we are still going over lite
care proposal with a request - thehealth substantially large amannt of for a -money and the campus recreatiou
request."
For a representative requesting student fee funding, lile Dick Feuerborn, director oif Campus Recreation, there are
otler elements to eonsider, such as
the size of an organization, "Our program is so vast-we emPloY
over 40 people-we neâ‚Źded to ritise our l0 page request document to 50 pages. Included in those are suggestions
on how to later evaluate how the are being used," Feuerborn said,
Feuerborn
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