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Cecil L. Jerome He yelled at me, "Do something on apathy," the editor. "Wbat's .apathy?" I said. He said, "I don't know and I don't care just do it. I'm tired of seeing you lying there on the typesetter." So I went out to traipse around the campus putting dumb questions to people who don't want to be bothered by someone who doesn't want to be
there about something nobody cares about. Fat deal. I remember Mom said once she thought I had caught apathy. Right after the measles and the nine-day hiccups. I think it's like herpes. Once you get it, you got it, and if I got it, why worry. I'm still alive. Although, I did have an uncle who died of it. At first we thought it was terminal ill-will. But at the autopsy they said apathy. All through the body.
vanced guys had cooked up got loose and maybe mutated ... or something. They didn't know for sure. I don't think they really cared, either. Maybe it's infectious. Maybe not. But if it were from the lab, it would be some brand new bug. You know, like legionnaire's disease and everybody could be infect•ed only they wouldn't know it. They could be stumbling around listlessly, looking at the ground, going to classes,
There was no· saving him. Even had there been a transplant (which there wasn't) they said his body would have rejected it. Anyway he died right there in front of the ice cream truck that smacked him. Mom said he didn't even care about ice cream. His last words were, "So what?" I looked around and found some guys working over in the biology lab. They said maybe something the ad-
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Volume 8
Issue 23
March 12, 1986
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Students Told to Prepare for Campus Changes Robert Smith Reporter
Fratematies, sororities and residence halls at MSC? Masters classes taught by nationally known artists, part of a greatly expanded activities program at MSC? Does that sound far-fetched? How about MSC having a national reputation for qwilitv or R fieven-days·'aweek medical facility on campus? How about MSC and UCD meeting in a basketball game? None of it sounds farfetched to Paul
Magelli, MSC president. Last Wednesday he told the Student Affairs Board that they should be considering it too. The SAB is the-group responsible for deciding how student fee revenues will be spent. It doled out more than $600,000 this year. Magelli said MSC is changing, and the SAB needs to plan for those changes. "~·f etro has bt>en redefined by the Legislature in recent years. \\ IlU admission standards and the cap, we must appeal to far greater number of traditional students," he said.
- but they're not a basketball team," Metro student Owen Beaver told Magelli. Magelli replied that it is a common perception on campus that the basketball program is his idea - but it is a misperception. "I inherited basketball," he said. "It was started with not one damn word of student input. "We don't need any more divisions m thtslrutit~ ·u. "If we're going to do it, we1l do it well or not at all. If the stu-
Magelli said those traditional students will want a' traditional campus life~ something he said is sorely lacking now. 'Tm disappointed with the amount of student programming available," he said. He told f.be board MSC would raise up to $70,000 in private funds next year to match student fee money that goes to activities programs. His 1..1rglng of umrn L'Ult1mJ m.cl social activities drew a mixed reaction, but basketball drew only criticism. "We want those cultural things too
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Cagers Flee Auditorium for Campus Roost Bob Autobee Reporter
The Metro State Roadrunners basketball team has flown the Auditorium Arena in search of a new home, and it looks like it will permanently roost in an improved gym on campus. Last week, the president's office created a cost estimate board to study
the expense of expanding the gym for Metro State basketball and other athletic programs on campus. Richard Feuerborn, director of campus recreation, put the time frame of the possible renovation in perspective. "Everything is very much in the yellow pad stage at this point," he said. "A lot of people will have to be consulted: planners, architects, other departments
on campus, before any construction is started rm the gym." Charles Branch, dean of the Educational, Professional, and Technical Studies School, is part of the study group looking into the renovation of the gym. "This study's main goal is to make the expansion of the gym a 'win-win' situation for both students and ath-
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letes," Branch said. "The addition to the gym will be something that will benefit both the athletic department and recreation-minded students." Branch said the study board is looking at three areas where the gym needs improvement. "Three things need fixing in the
Last Thursday at approximately 2:20 p.m. the Auraria Campus plunged into a black hole. Students, faculty and staff were roaming in a state of darkness literally. And manhole No. 17 was to blame. Manhole No.17 is on Seventh Street between Lawrence and Larimer streets. Auraria's power feed (line) and Public Service's power feed, which join under manhole No. 17, had faulty connections. Apparently there was a short in one of Auraria's underground feeds that ~ caused the blackouts, said Dean Wolf, o director of the Auraria Physical Plant.
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The lights went out twice on the campus except for the East Classroom. The initial blackout, which occured about 1 p.m., lasted seven min.ites and resulted directly from the short, Wolf said. He said the second blackout, about rn hours after the first, occured while repairmen were switching buildings to other feeds. It lasted approximately 20 minutes . Wolf said the faulty feed was repaired by late Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, students studied by cigarette lighters or gathered around the nearest window. And one Computer Science class sat in the corridor of the West Classroom taking a test - it must have been a hall D . of a test.
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