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Pressopolitan
Issue 16
MSC's Cap Sits Uneasily Atop Students' Head Robert Davis Editor
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As he inched towards the front of the line at station C of Metro's walk-in registration, Ken Utzinger began to worry. "I just sold my house and quit my job (a computer salesman) to go to school," Utzinger said. 'Tm getting a little nervous about this now." He had plenty to worry about. Around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, admissions officials halted the registration line and onlv allowed students to trickle in one-by-one. The enrollment cap-placed on MSC by state legislators for the first time in the school's history-was about to become a reality. A reality to be felt by people like Utzinger. Like many Metro students, Utzinger grew tired of his job and decided to go back to college. And not just any college. He chose Metropolitan State College for the variety of classes offered at convenient times. But Utzinger found himself in danger
A student vents her registration frustration at Al Rodriguez (left), assistant dean of Admission and Records, and Antonio Esquibel, vice-president of Student Affairs.
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Like Taking Cookies From a Baby
Mag~lli Crumbles Auraria Cable Studio Plan Rose Jackson News Editor
MSC President Paul Magelli slapped the hands of Auraria's toddling cable station at the beginning of this year as it was reaching for $75,000 in Coors' cookie jar. Magelli squelched anASTRO (Auraria Student Telecommunications and Radio Organization) proposal to trade off advertising for the money to furnish a TV station by refusing to sign a letter of endorsment sent by the Coors corporation. Letters were also sent to UCD and DACC. "I have no wholesale objection to this project," Magelli said in a meeting of ASTRO members and Auraria administrators on Jan. 3. "But it's (ASTRO} been (run) too willy-nilly , and it's not going to be willy-nilly any longer."
Magelli defined willy-nillyness as a lack of thrust, clarity and financial commitment. He said he wanted to see an itemized budget and projections for a year from now. He wanted the Colorado attorney general's office to look over ASTRO's bylaws and he wanted to know which institution on campus would be responsible if ASTRO were sued. During an interview after the Jan. 3 meeting, Magelli said, '1 put all the responsibility in terms of process on my own group. Members of the administration were neglectful in giving the group (ASTRO) the proper kind of guidance .. .I'm not going to name naIIles." This proposal began when ASTRO members Ben Boltz, Pat Kelly and Joe DeLeo approached Coors two weeks before Christmas with an idea for a trade off-$75,000 for six advertising
spots a day divided equally between radio and video for one year. Bob Cardenas, Coors special markets manager, said he was enthusiastic about their presentation. "It was a good proposal and I was happy to forward it with my recommendation-provided we had the blessing of the administration," Cardenas said. "I was under the impression that somebody in the administration had given approval of it. I was quite surprised when Pat Kelly (vice president of proposed radio station KRMF) called and said they were having trouble." The proposal troubled Magelli greatly. 'Tm offended that my name was on a proposal. with 3.5 misspellings and blatant rhetorical errors," Magelli said. Kelly told Magelli that his word
processor had broken down after he made Cardenas' (Coors') copy of the proposal so the copy given to Magelli was a rough draft. This reporter found 2.8 misspellings and several mistakes in punctuation and word usage in Magelli's copy. Cardenas' copy was the same as Magelli's. When asked about this discrepancy, Kelly said, "Well, the person I asked and paid (to proofread) obviously didn't do what I asked her to do .. .I didn't proof this before it was submitted." During the interview after the Jan. 3 meeting, Magelli said, "A ~ar ago I talked to Coors about a proposal and I don't want this to undermine it." He picked up a copy of his grant proposal, a neatly bound and printed half-inch thick volume, and said, "This is how I want Metro represented." o