The Met's City Editor Takes first place at Columbia
Discrimination charged in Complaint again路st Metro
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,. Referendum results in by Bob Haas The results from last week's referendum are out, and in a close vote, students said no to expanding the physical education building. The Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board (SACAB), which acted as the election commission, reported to the Auraria Executive Council on March 18 that the proposed expansion was defeated by 11 votes out of 1,959 votes cast.
But hours after making their report, Metro SA CAB members Gil Perea and Ben Boltz were removed from the advisory committee by Metro's student government. Charging impropriety and bias, Gina Houx:, ASMSC president, said Wednesday evening that a unanimous senate vote of dismissal resulted because Perea and Boltz "made it hard for the referendum to pass. "They decided that since no organized opposition to the expansion existed, it was the responsibility of
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SACAB to organize opposition," Houx said. "They encouraged election judges to solicit voters, and to tell voters that they were. casting their ballot merely for an increase in student fees," she said. "That sounds like bias to me." The Metropolitan was unable to reach campus officials Wednesday evening, but some were angry earlier in the day. It isn't the closeness of the vote, or the defeat which has sparked campus anger, but the behavior and attitude of
SACAB in running the election. "We would be angry even if we had won," said Dick Feuerborn, director of campus recreation. "These guys (SACAB) made decisions totally independent of advice from anyone who had ever run a referendum before," Feuerborn said. "Dealing with SACAB wore on me," he said. "They wer.e irrational. They didn't have good reasons for anything they did." The frustrations with SACAB are not limited to campus rec. Jim Schoeeontlnued on r>ll!'le 3
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