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Issue 30
May
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1987
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Magelli quits, goes home by Robert Davis Metro President Paul Magelli has had enough of Metro and is going home. 'Tm drained," Magelli said in a telephone interview last night. ''I've _., worked 100 hours a week at this job for • 2.9 months." Magelli said he's leaving next ~eek for his new job in Champaign, Ill. He said he has not decided, but MTiH probably skip Metro's graduation ceremony May 16. "Graduation should be a happy time," Magelli said. "I don't want to create an emotional time for the students and faculty." Greg Pearson, chair of the Journalism Department and a strong suppor-
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"I'm burned up. J'm burned up at the guy who's made such a commitment to us and has been waffling for over a year. If that's the way he is, that's fine with me. I hope he leaves tomon-ow." Greg Pearson
·\ ter of the president, said Magelli should leave quickly. . 'Tm burned up. I'm burned up at the guy who's made such a commitment to us and has been waffling for over a year," Pearson said. "If that's the way he is, that's fine with me. I hope he ~leaves tomorrow." Magelli - Metro's fifth president in eight years - leaves the college after starting many controversial programs that his critics say have changed the direction of the college. ~ His leaving won't affect the policies he implimented, Magelli said, because his staff has clear instructions and direction. "We had a nine hour President's Council meetjng today, and we went over the programs we've started," "l'Magelli said. "I've kept a transition book in case I left. We talked about
"Look, I wanted to be president, and Metro gave me that chance. It built my confidence. Success is not a destination, it's
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Paul Magelli where we are and what needs to be done." Magelli has been publicalJy looking for job· ~ince he hit rough waters last · year:'' 1111 the Board of Trustees of the Colorado Consortium of State CollJeges. "I think the trustees are probably impossible to work with," said Pearson, who served on the search commit-
tee that selected Magelli. "But next time, we need to look for a chief executive officer of a college, or a business or whatever. We need to find a person with a proven record of successful management of people." One of Magelli's key staff members, Harry Gianneschi, vice president of Institutional Advancement, said the pressures on Magelli come not only
from the trustees. "I saw it as a culmination of a lot of variables," Gianneschi said. "I think the pull back to Champaign is very strong." Magelli said the pressure comes from every angle at Metro. "There's no easy way to get anything done with all the cocoons around this conelnued on page 3