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Volume 8
Issue 21
February 26, 1986
When it Comes to Parking, ~parthetd
Students Lack Common Sense, Money and Time
Speaker
Elizabeth Sibeko (right), a member
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of the Pan Africaniat Congresa of Azania (South Africa), diacuaed the past, present & future of her country at the St. Francis Interfaith Center, Friday, Feb. 21. A member of the Tanzania-baaed congren since its inception in 1959, -.he repreaent& it in various intematioraQI foruma, including the United Nations. Currently ahe workB OB the women and labor coordinator, for the Pan Africana'
Bob Autobee Reporter
Denver police," Ferguson said. Ferguson offered some advice as to where not to park. "The places that we have heard about having the most break-ins are two areas," Ferguson said. "One is right underneath the viaduct and along the railroad tracks where Curtis turns into Colfax."
Common sense, money, and time. These are three things that Auraria students who park off-campus don't have a lot of. In the rush that hits most driving students when it's five minutes to class and there isn't a parking space to be found, some of these unfortunates will Ferguson said most of the break-ins try to slip past the bounds of the law are labeled under the law as criminal and park in an off-campus area close to mischief and mostly occur during the their class. ~ytime. And that's when the trouble begins. "A typical off-campus break-in isn't In the last couple of months, most a planned thing," Ferguson said. "It off-campus lots have been havens for happens when somebody leaves their thieves breaking into cars. It's a prob- doors unlocked or leaves something lem that Auraria police can't handle, that appears to be of value in the front according to the administration officer or back seat of their cars." for Auraria Public Service, Lolly According to Sgt. Bill Widerspan of Ferguson. the auto theft bureau of the Denver "The areas where there have been a · Police department, off-campus parkers number of off-campus break-ins into should avoid the Wazee area. cars is out of the jurisdiction of Auraria continued on page 5 Public Safety and is a matter for the
Congren. Sibeko deacribed South Africa OB a place of great Bocial in;uatice, fruatration and impending revolution among her people. Following a brief aummary of how South Africa utabliahed Apartheid, ahe nplained how ~uion of the people haa been going on for many years, from executionB by the Britiih in 1908, to the Sharpville maasacrea 2S yeara ago. South Africa haa been reaching a "boiling point and tenaionB have reached a peak with recent trouble• in black Townahipa auch cu Soweto. A •fate of emergency wOB declared July 21, 1985.
Yester:day's.Eacts beave AIDS Victims.in the Dark Robert Davis Editor
As researchers discover new clues about AIDS at alarming rates, they're leaving many .of those who deal with ·victims in the dark. They're leaving them with yesterday's facts. When Metro student Gwen Loren couldn't reach a friend of hers who had tested positive for AIDS, she called the (
suicide hotline in her friend's county. She was told the phone counselors receive many calls from suicidal AIDS victims everyday. She also found that the people who
are trying to convince· AIDS victims not to kill themselves often have old facts about the disease. Loren first discovered her ignorence about AIDS one night when she met a
The MSC Student Health Clinic is sponsoring "A Talk on AlDS", T1iursday, February27 inthe Student Center. Members of the Colorado AlDS Project will present some of the latest
information available on the disease and hold,a question and answer session afterwards. The program is from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Room 254 of the Student Center.
woman in a help-group meeting. "She was very upset," Loren said, "I saw her shaking and crying in the comer." After the meeting she walked with the woman - who Loren calls Wendy - to her car and asked Wendy if she could help. Wendy told her she'd been raped by a man who later tested positive for the continued on page 3
Few Students, Two Legislators,... A Sympo.sium it Wa.s Not Robert Smith Reporter
"It is a wretched waste to be satisfied with mediocrity, when excellence lies before us." Benjamin Disraeli It was a wretched waste, indeed. The MSC chapters of Kappa Delta Pi- a national education honor society - and the Student National Education Association sponsored a day-long meeting held at the Auraria Student Center last Wednesday. It was billed as a legislative symposium - but only two legislators showed up. It was billed as a legislative symposium - but the audience ignored the most influential legislator there. It was billed as a legislative sympo-
sium - but it turned into a self-defense session for faculty and students of MSC's education program. In bis opening remarks during the afternoon panel discussion, Sen. Jim Lee, R-Lakewooo, a member of the Senate Education Committee, sounded the America-is-becoming-a-secondrate-nation, the Japanese-are-coming theme that would be repeated later in the day by Gov. Lamm. Lee said education is the best way to stop the decline, and tossed in the quotation by Disraeli. Then, he returned to his seat at the end of the panel For the rest of the discussion he could have been someone who wandered in off of the street; not one question was directed to him. One after another, members of
Fourteen people listened to Sen. Martha Ezzard, R-Englewood, on Wednesday. MSC's education program rose from the audience to direct their questions to J oho Pepper and to Blenda Wilson. One after another, the questioners challenged the changes the Colorado Commission on Higher Education is proposing for education programs. Wilson, executive director of the CCHE, and Pepper, superintendent of schools for Jefferson County and a member of the committee that developed the changes, responded by cas-
tigating current education programs · and faculty. "We're not going to win any respect for this profession if we keep dummying down,.. Pepper said. "Students don't need a class in the methods of teaching math, they need a real math class." Wilson supported him. "Some schools require students to take as much as 47 percent of their classes in education," she said. "Most of these classes are just continued on page 4
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