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Volume 8
Metro Helps Bring Leaders Together Forum Focuses on Community Problems Robert Davis Editor
Community leaders debated ways to fight "a tragedy in the making," Monday, at the first -Agenda 1986· forum - a meeting of local leaders that focuses on current problems sponsored by Metropolitan State College and The Denver Post. About 150 of Denver community leaders discussed ways to handle rapid growth through better civic leadership. All the participants seemed to agree that Denver's rapid growth is a potential danger that should be viewed as a crisis to spark immediate action. "No one is in charge," Gov. Dick Lamm said. "Cities can no longer continue to function as an island with no regard for the sea around it." Lamm said municipalities must work together for the sake of the whole community, but warned that cooperation goes ~ainst the nQrmal political attitude. • ' Politicians, he said, are elected to serve their constituents' best interests and it will take progressive attitudes to survive the coming years. 'Tm not saying you elect from my party," Lamm said. "You need to look through both parties and elect people with broader vision." But the weight doesn't just fall on the politicians , Lamm said, businesses must take action towards controlling growth. "We need business leaders that look to the welfare of the whole and not just one area," Lamm said. There are many models of efficient city mangement to look at, Lamm said, naming Minneapolis/St. Paul and Portland, among others. But, while the discussions ranged from model programs to encouraging
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developers where to build shopping malls, the focus returned to a common topic throughout the day - education. Syndicated columnist Neal Pierce said no matter how much work today's leaders accomplish, it's up to the future leaders - today's students - to see it through. "Where local and state and national government is today," Pierce said,
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"No one is in charge." -Dick Lamm "we're in a position where we must invest in the future." Chuck Green, editorial page editor of The Denver Post, said Agenda 1986 is designed to address issues critical to the future of the city. The forums will allow leaders to explore individual problems, attempt to raise the level of awareness and suggest proper courses of action, Green said. D
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A future colleg~ student listens to speeches about the importance of education programs for minorities and the poor during a demonstration marking National Trio Day in Denver. Nearly 200 people attended the rally on the west steps of the Capital Feb. 24 to support the contribution of the five programs that make up Trio - High School Upward-Bound, Veteran's Upward-Bound, Talent Search, Education Opportunity Center and the Special Services Program - that face funding cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman balanced budget legislation. Trio programs at Metro brought $500,000 in federal funds and provided educational support to approximately 470 students in 1985. Supporters say the Gramm-Rudman legislation will eliminate 38,500 students nationwide from the programs in fiscal 1986 and over 300 colleges and universities will lose Trio programs if Congress doesn't talce action. D
What's in the mail
Clarification Caus·es Confusion Jim Manuel Reporter
In typical bureaucratic fashion, a system designed to eliminate confusion ended up causing confusion. About 1500 Metro students received letters last week from the school verifying their schedules. The letters showed a printout of the student's schedule and instructed the student to notify the admission's office if there was an error. One problem-make that 1500 problems- the printouts showed only half the classes the students had registered for. The letters were mailed because of a
there was more than just one confused student. After more phone calls-Reed doesn't know the exact number-and a steady stream of students at the admissions window, he and his staff realized there was a flaw in the computer program. The person who programmed the computer made an error resulting in every other class from a student's
"If anybody got the right schedule, let me know." ' D
Functional Foul-up
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Joseph Ro11 "The staff has been in a state of Reporter disbelief. It's the bi.ggest mistake The Auraria Library typewriters took of '86." -John Reed high rate of third-party registrations, John Reed, associate dean of Admissions and Records, said. "There was a lot of unusual stuff happening with registration this spring," Reed said. "We just wanted to confirm our records." Reed said he became aware of the problem at 8:30 a.m. Thursday when he received the first of many calls. "I thought the student was confused," Reed said. It wasn't long before Reed knew
schedule being deleted. "The staff bas been in a state of disbelief," Reed said. "It's the biggest mistake of '86.." He said if a student receives one of the letters, he should throw it away. But, he added:
a long weekend and refused to work last Mon<l;ay morning. The typewriters, located on the second floor of the library, are rented by the Auraria Book Center and cost 2.5 cents per 15 minutes of use. Reference librarian Eileen Guleff said, "You won't believe this, but all of the typewriters are broken . . . and nobody in the library knows what to do. . "The person in charge (Shirley Marecak) is out of town so they locked up the room ... Isn't that bizarre?"
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By noon, four of the six machines had my.steriously been repaired. "That's even more bizarre," Guleff said. Marecak bas been on vacation for one week and no one could figure out which company repairs the typewriters, said administrative clerk, Barbara Nun. "We called one place ... but they wanted $315 a machine and we knew that couldn't be right because those things break down all the time," Nun said. But the mystery was finally solved. Carol Chapman, assistant to the director, said Copy Vend, Inc. was cootracted to repair the typewriters Monday morning. D
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