Volume 11, Issue 7 - Sept. 30, 1988

The Metropolitan Denver, Colo rad o

The MSC student newspaper serving the Auraria Ca'?pus since 1979

September 30, 1988

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Agreement hammered out despite Order of silence Cherlf Wehbe & Dave Beech Reporters

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An agreement was reached Sept. 28 by a committee designed to determine how to make students aware of the $3 CoPIRG fee that is automatically assesed to them during registration.

The decision was reached even though a gag order was issued Sept. 21 to all members of the CoPIRG Arbitration Committee to halt lobbying efforts by some committee members to the full MSC Senate.

The agreement bas three points: • Class schedules will notify students that the CoPIRG fee is optional and can be waived by following instructions; • Telephone registration instructions will now contain an additional step that will explain that the $3 CoPIRG fee is optional and will instruct students to check the registration; • Telephone registration will have a computerized voice instructing about the optional fee.

The agreement must be approved by the Student Senate and the state CoPIRG office.

CoPIRG is the Colorado Public Interest Group, a student-directed organization that does research and lobbying on issues such as the environment, consumer protection and tenant rights.

The group uses a negative checkoff to

obtain funds from MSC students. This means that students automatically pay a $3 fee to CoPIRG at registration unless they, on their own initiative, waive the fee.

The CoPIRG Arbitration Committee was formed to discuss the options of informing students about the fee. The fee has come under fire by some student senators who said the negative check-off system was a mandatory fee.

The gag order came in the form of a temporary restraining order issued by Amy Braddy from the Judicial Board of the Associated Students of MSC. The order stopped committee members from talking with student senator.

Braddy acted after a student approached her with concerns that the lobbying may influence the senate in its decision about the agreement. The student asked to remain anonymous.

This student told the board in a letter that members of the committee had been lobbying senate members and that these individuals were not receiving the complete picture of the situation.

A gag order was issued Sept. 21, to all members of the CoPIRG Arbitration Committee, to halt lobbying efforts by some committee members to full senate.

Braddy issued the gag order to the Senate and received mixed reactions.

"Am I correct to say you are squelching our free speech?" asked Bruce DeWitt, president of ASMSC and a committee member.

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"I severely object. I think you're way out of line."

But Braddv stood her ground.

"This TRO (temporary restraining order) does not stop free speech. The balance that exists in this TRO is the same balance that exists between free speech and the ri ht of

protection against slander," Braddy said in a subsequent letter to The Metropolitan.

The Judicial Board gets its authority from the ASMSC Constitution which in tum derives its power from state laws. Under the laws, a judge has the right to grant restraining orders in some circumstances. o

Student saves woman from gunman Ann Rennob Reporter

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Patrick Carver had to get outside. As he ran down the stairs, he held bis hand over the gun inside bis suit coat pocket.

Running through the parking lot, he could see a crowd of people ahead of him.

His stride slowed, but his thoughts raced on.

If he had to use bis gun, he would do so as a last resort.

In front of the crowd, Carver, an off-duty Denver SWAT technician and MSC criminal justice student, stood face to face with one man.

Andrew James Christy had a gun too, but it was pressed against the forehead of bis ex-wife, Katherine Mele, 25.

Everything Carver had learned during his 14-year career on the Denver Police Department was tested Sept. 26.

About one hour after the incident began, Carver disarmed Christy and rescued Mele

without anyone getting injured.

In bis part-time role as a criminal justice instructor at the Community College of Aurora, Carver had been in his classroom when two students rushed in.

"They told me that there was a guy with a gun in the parking lot and he had.a woman down between the cars," Carver said.

Carver grabbed bis gun out of his briefcase, shoved it into his ooat pocket and hung his badge over bis breast pocket.

In the parking lot, he found Mele sitting on a curb, holding a red backpack between herself and Christy.

- "I didn't take my gun out," Carver said. "I was afraid that if I did he would kill her. But I had weighed every possibility and was prepared to react. I had picked my spot to cancel him out without hurting her."

Carver edged closer to the ignited human fuse, shielding himself behind only bis badge and bis power of persuasion.

"He was so an he was trembling,"

Carver said. "I just kept him talking to get him to move the muzzle from her forehead. I was trying to direct his anger from her and his attention to me.

"It was like walking through a mine field," he said. "Anything you said could have made him explode."

During the incident, Christy turned the gun and jammed it underneath his chin. . "He had started to pull the trigger, but I don't know what happened. The gun didn't go off."

Carver then wrestled the gun out of Christy's hand.

The Aurora SWAT team, which had arrived but allowed Carver to negotiate with Christy, moved in and made the arrest.

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THE PEOPLE UPSTAIRS--Student ·lives' an open book, if you ask

Chad Morris

Government Editor

Did you know that Metro can release your phone number, address and even the last school you attended to someone without your permission? Neither did I. Unless a student signs a waiver within 10 days of registration each semester, the above information plus your major and minor, your date and place of birth, dates of attendance, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, and any degrees or awards received are automatically made part of the student directory.

Can you say negative check-off?

Yes, the newest buzz word on campus pops up again.

MSC Student Senator Andrew Patterson has been assigned by student government to look into the situation. What he would like

to see is a change in the waiver policy.

He'd like it changed to, yes, that's right, a positive check-off system. The student would state when registering whether he or she wants the information released. In other words, it would not automatically become directory information.

But all kidding aside, this is a potentially spooky issue. Even though I was told that people are carefully screened, it's surprisingly easy to get this information.

Last week I called Admissions and Records and, without identifying myself except as a reporter, was given Patterson's home phone number.

In other words, the information is available to anyone seeking it.

The basic obstacle here is, according to Dr. Ken Curtis, dean of Admissions and Records, federal law states that this information must be available and he believes the present system is the most effective.

Patterson, however, doesn't have a problem with the law, but sees no reason why it must b,e available to anyone - instead of only to government agencies.

"Nobody has a right to this information, period," he said.

Because of the law, though, Patterson and the rest of student government will have to settle for changing the way students decide to let (or not to let) this information out.

But even if this happens, students who elect not to allow their directory information out, it may still be hard to keep it secret.

Because of the large number of terminals tied into the school's computer main frame and the number of people who have access them, Curtis said it will become harder to keep such information confidential.

"It depends on who you get a hold of," he said.

Still another concern of Patterson's is the ~ibility that the school is selling the direc-

tory information to outside groups.

Mailing lists have been requested by various federal agencies and the military said Karen Thorpe, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean of student life.

Those lists were provided for free, but other groups were charged $100 for each list.

While it may be shocking to find that this is going on; Thorpe said that credit card companies have access to even more personal information like the ~ames of family members or your salary.

"It's amazing what they can track down on credit cards," she said. "It's a lot more than directory information."

However, the powers that be are taking a look at Patterson's ideas. They have contacted the Attorney General's office and asked for a correct interpretation of the law.

An answer is expected sometime next o week.

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September 30, 1988

NEWS-----------------Jaywalkers challenge commuter traffie .

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Students negotiate the patenllally d1ngerou1 Lawrence Street crosswalk In rront or the Student Center.

Jaywalking is a victimless crime. Or is it?

Is a human any match against a 2,500 pound automobile?

Last February, two teen-age cousins were struck and killed by a pickup truck while crossing Colfax Avenue at Glencoe Street.

On Sept. 19, a 4-year-old boy was hit by a car at West · Florida Avenue and South Osage Drive.

These children didn't do anything wrong.

They just followed in the footsteps of adults.

On any given day at Tenth and Lawrence streets, students dash across Lawrence Street, stopping traffic and breaking the law. They don't pay attention to the flashing "don't walk" sign.

The only student/ automobile accident on campus in the past year wasn't serious. The pedestrian's hand was brushed by a car according to Lolly Ferguson of Auraria Public Safety.

"People don't take the time to think about [jaywalking]," Ferguson said. "The car is so much bigger than you."

Although there hasn't been a serious student/automobile accident, the potential is there, especially with the extra traffic flow

caused by the Auraria Parkway construetion. And icy streets are just around the comer.

Lawrence Street will be closed at the end of October, according to Jake Kienig, the parkway project's engineer, But then the problem will shift to Larimer Street. Because of the lack of parking, students are parking north of Wazee Street.

It's difficult for Auraria Public Safety to enforce any kind of jaywalking policy because the streets involved are under the jurisdiction of the Denver Police Department.

"It's not high priority for [them]," Ferguson said. The last time the Denver police attempted to enforce some kind of jaywalking policy, the result was negative. They now pour their resources into what they consider real traffic problems, she said.

Should the two authorities deem it necessary for enforcement, they would have to coordinate their efforts.

The crosswalks at Lawrence and Larimer streets aren't isolated. Intersections on Speer Boulevard from Larimer Street to Colfax Avenue are like obstacle courses for the automobile.

"It's a dangerous situation. College students don't believe they will be hit," Ferguson said. o

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Gabrielle Johnston News Editor

Libraries across the nation are dumping books from their shelves because some public interest groups have deemed more than 100 books inappropriate for young readers.

"It's really scary," said Susan Steus&e, trade book manager for the Auraria Book Center.

Steussie said although banning books may not seem like a serious problem, she is fearful that the problem may get out of hand.

"You have to be very, very careful about letting these things go too far," Steussie said.

Books are banned for various reasons, from being too sexually explicit to simply not meeting the standards of the community.

One book, "Le Morte D'Arthur", written by Sir Thomas Malory, was banned because it

was ''.junk."

Included in this year's list ofbooks is "Joy of Sex'', most of Stephen King's books and several books written by Judy Blume.

According to Steussie, books are banned when enough parents or residents of a community complain to either the school board or parent teachers organiz.ations.

She added that students need to be aware of the seriousness of the problem and understand that their constitutional rights are being violated.

"The students need to know there are people out there trying to limit their First Amendment rights," Steussie said.

The American Booksellers Association, a national organization which oversees the book industry, encourages book sellers to display banned books, Steussie said.

Steusme bas put up a display of several

books banned in 1987 and 1988. The display can be,seen through the week of Oct. l at the Auraiia Book Center.

Steussie said children who read books which contain sexually explicit passages or graphic language are not negatively influ-

enced, but rather are being exposed to realities.

"The more education you get, the better you make decisions," Steussie said.

A list of banned books for 1987 and 1988 is available at the bookstore.

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Study probes management

Auraria needs overhaul Gabrielle Johnston News Editor

Having Auraria governed by MSC is one proposal from a recent study which calls Auraria's present governing policies ineffective.

The study prepared by· the Colorado Commission on Higher Education states that poor management of the campus has led to, among other things, endless competition between schools for space and students.

Other "dysfunctions" include a high turnover in executives, a poorly managed pooled course program, and an unn~ry duplication of remedial courses.

Frank Armijo, senior academic affairs officer at CCHE, said he felt the report accurately defined the problem. ''They [Franklin Patterson & Associates] have captured the essence of the problem,"

Armijo said.

Brewer said be was aware that problems existed, but said he was unsure of how to solve the problem.

"Everyone knows there are major problems, but that is due in part to the nature of the campus," Brewer said.

Possible solutions to the problem include merging the three institutions, appointing Metro as the main governing board of the campus or merging two of the three - institutions.

Brewer said he did not want to make any predictions as to which solution should be implemented.

"It's far too early in the discussions to say what will be best," Brewer said.

There will be a public'hearing concerning the matter Oct. 17, at the Denver Public Library in the Wyer Auditorium. Final decisions will be made Dec. 15.

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Brewer gata 1cqu1lnted with faculty 1t lh1 Hrat "Rip with Tom" 1111lon.

Faculty raps with Tom Staff Metro faculty members had a chance to express their views with MSC President Thomas Brewer during the first "Rap with Tom" session Tuesday, Sept. 27.

The session, in Room 230 in the Student Center, was developed by Brewer to give the faculty an opportunity _to discuss pressing issues with him in an informal setting.

"It's for me to get to know them better and for them to get to know me better," Brewer said.

While enjoying a continental breakfast, faculty members 'rapped' to Brewer on such

issues as remedial courses, recruiting more minorities and women to the faculty and the role of chairpersons.

Finding solutions to these issues is not the goal of these sessions, however. Rather, they are intended to inform Brewer of issues that are of concern to the faculty.

Brewer said he was pleased with the outci:>me of this session.

Brewer plans to have two "Rap with Tom" sessions each semester to keep in contact with the faculty in this manner.

While Brewer's intention was to get further acquainted with the faculty and faculty issues, some teachers said they came simply for the free food.

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September 30, 1988

Professor touts natural highs Mary Beth McGuire Reporter

Television addicts and binge eaters might be the same passive withdrawal types of people who become addicted to heroin.

Gamblers and sky divers may be like cocaine addicts who seek arousal to compensate for feelings of helplessness.

According to Dr. Harvey Milkman, MSC professor of psychology and organizer of the Natural Highs Conference last weekend, "The drug is not the addiction, the experiences are the addiction."

Potential addicts are seeking "arousal, fantasy or satisfaction," according to "Craving for &stacy," a book Milkman co-wrote with Dr. Stanley Sunderwirth, an expert on brain chemistry.

The drug of choice would be cocaine or amphetamines for individuals whose preferred coping style is arousal. The stimulating effects of the drug they choose helps them deal with underlying feelings of fear 路 or helplessness. Risk-taking, like criminal activity or gambling, is common to the active confrontation personality type.

"That really fits the pattern of my life," said a former cocaine addict who asked that his name be withheld. "I was in and out of trouble with the law from the time I was a teen-ager. One thing just led to another."

The depressants, like heroin and alcohol, are the drug of choice for the person who normally deals with stress by withdrawing from problems. When the potential addict realizes that the drug or behavior provides the satisfaction needed to quiet aggressive or hostile drives, they continue to take the drug

or engage in the satiating behavior, like watching television or eating.

LSD and hallucinogenic drugs become the drug of choice for the person who is preoccupied with fantasy. These are the people who always talk about their dreams or "being as one with the cosmos." The spirituality and fantasy experiences described by people who have taken LSD seem to reinforce the idea that this personality type is at high risk for becoming addicted to hallucinogens.

For almost 200 years, the experts have argued about the "disease model" of addictive behavior. This mcidel says drug 路

"People need to get high. The desire to alter consciousness Is as universal and normal as the hunger or sex drive." addicts are medically sick and have or develop a biological predisposition to becoming addicted. Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and all other "12-step" programs operate on the disease model. The first step toward recovery in these programs is admitting one is powerless.

Milkman disagrees. He said that the drug is chosen by the potential addict and picked because its effects deal with stress in a way characteristic of the individual's personality.

Milkman's theory is controversial because it places some of the responsibility for addiction on the addict. In the disease model, addicts are slaves to their addiction and

powerless over their biological predisposition. Milkman agrees that chemical processes take place in the addict's brain, but defines addiction as "self-induced changes in neurotransmission that result in problem behaviors."

"People need to get high," Milkman said.

"The desire to alter consciousness is as universal and normal as the hunger or sex drive." Alcoholics Anonymous has membership in 90 countries, and it has been estimated that there are as many as 13 million alcoholics in the United States. Cocaine addicts in this country may number 2 million, and compulsive marijuana smokers are estimated at 1.5 million.

Milkman advocates natural highs. He said that the brain produces natural chemicals that alter thinking and feeling pr~. offering an alternative to drug addiction.

That's why he organized the Natural Highs Conference last weekend, which focused on techniques to achieve natural highs.

Sponsored by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division of the Colorado Department of Health, the three-day conference was described as a place where participants could learn to improve the vital interplay between nutrition, exercise, creativity, relaxation and caring human relationships. Storytelling techniques, dance, music, and visual imagery were among the presentations and participatory workshops available .

Presenters ran the gamut from artists and . educators to health and fitness leaders and included Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter and Denver dance troupe founder Cleo Parker Robinson. o

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Libel and Slander

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Dave Plank Reporter

Well, here we are. We've made our way 41 through the first five weeks of the semester, and it's time for an Auraria status report.

Metro's student government almost made it through a whole month before they managed to get themselves into trouble with Student President Bruce DeWitt's quest to _ ban cigarette sales from the Convenience Store. Now he's found himself at war with a good portion of the senate, and it remains to be seen if his wishes will be enforced. It is, however, refreshing to see that even on a campus as blase as this one, people can get pissed off about something.

Actually, students seem to be getting more pissed off than ever these days. CoPIRG had to face a scathing editorial in The Metropolitan that basically said it was benefiting from students' ignorance of CoPIRG's money-making activities. later, -.J as outlined in its MSC contract, CoPIRG gave out refund checks in the Student Center for a few days. The turnout seemed to be pretty big. And although anyone wanting his or her money back first had to sit through a 路sennonette from one of CoPIRG's troops, it ~ didn't seem to discourage many people.

And what can we say about the parking situation that hasn't been said before? Not much, so we won't. Except that it stands as a monument to the bureaucratic mentality, which has entirely too many monuments these days.

The faculty seems to be convulsing along through another semester, despite the war that rages on between part-timers and the administration. Maybe they should give the poor administration a break. These people have enough to worry about what with cleaning up the mess they made with remedial clwes.

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Yes, that's right. MSC may be owing the state of Colorado upward of $1 million if it turns out that the school was not eligible for remedial cl~ funding it received. Where can the college get the money if it needs to? I don't know. I don't think they do, either.

Maybe they could borrow it from the bookstore. It should have some extra cash on its hands.

Not much else is going on that could be considered noteworthy. It seems that MSC, and in fact the whole campus, is just oozing along in the manner to which it (and the rest of us, good or bad) have become accustomed. Maybe it's better this way. What if something really exciting .happened and nobody knew how to act in front of the TV ,._ cameras? That's definitely not the kind of public relations nightmare AHEC needs. I mean, it would be a real shame if their reputation was tarnished in more eyes than just those nearby.

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Golda Meir house finds home at Auraria John Gegner Reporter

The Denver girlhood home of the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir finally found a resting plac.e on Ailraria's Ninth .,- Street Park Sunday, Sept. 25.

Wrapped in a red, white and blue ribbon for an afternoon dedication c.elebration, the historic one-story duplex was moved to the Auraria campus next to St. Cajetan's from Sanderson Gulch Park under darkness early Sunday morning. '" · A survivor of two prior relocations and two stays of execution from court-ordered demolition, the duplex sat in limbo upon steel girders for the past six-and-a-half years awaiting funding for a proper home. Meir lived in the house at 1606-1608 Julian St. • from February 1913 to June 1914.

Last October, in an out-of-court agreement between the Golda Meir Memorial Association and the city of Denver, city officials pledged to spare the house from demolition until June 1. A week prior to the :... agreement, directors of the Auraria Higher · Education Center voted to proceed with feasibility and planning studies to let the association move the house to the Auraria campus.

The Auraria Foundation, AHEC's fundraising group, set a goal of $80,000 to convinc.e the board to commit to moving the house to Ninth Stret Park. The goal represented half the estimated $160,000 needed to move and restore the house. With a last minute push, the goal was met and the house

spared.

Meir, born Goldie Mabowehz, ran away from her parents' home in Milwaukee in Feruary 1913, and came to Denver to live with her sister and her sister's husband in the duplex. She attended North High School until 1914.

The Julian Street duplex served as a c.entral meeting plac.e• for many of the city's Jewish intelligentsia. Politics, philosophy and the need for a Jewish homeland were often debated.

"In Denver, life really opened up for me," Meir said in her memoirs. "I was fascinated by the people who used to drop into their (my sister's) home and sit around talking until late at night."

Meir said it was during.these discussions that she began to formulate and shape her political convictions. She also met her future husband, Morris Meyerson, at her sister's home.

Meir returned to Milwaukee where she completed school and became a teacher. In 1921, she and her husband settled in what was then Palestine, and she served as prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She died in 1978.

Sunday afternoon, about 200 people gathered on Ninth Street Park aero~ from the excavation site to c.elebrate the culmination of many years of hard and agonizing work to preserve Meir's legacy.

"Today we dedicate the Golda Meir house where she showed that you could do something in this community that translated globally," keynote speaker U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder said.

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Scholarship born of tragedy Cyndi Haines got an honorary degree posthumously. She had anticipated graduating with a degree in accounting in May of 1985. Three years of working 20 to 30 hours a week while carrying a full-time class load at MSC was about to pay off.

And then, on March 23, 1985, a drunken driver took it all away. He was charged with vehicular homicide.

As news of the accident spread, people became angry. Members of the local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) shared the community's anger.

"They had more calls from people when this happened than they'd had with any other victim," Cyndi's mother Valerie said.

"People were just completely outraged that the type of person that Cyndi was could be slaughtered like that."

But the anger was tempered with For the first time, the local chapter set up a memorial fund. Donations in Cyndi's honor began to come in, from members and non-members alike. Former classmates from Cherry Creek High School's class of '77, at their ten-year reunion, contributed $600 to the memorial fund.

Valerie Haines channeled insuranc.e money from the accident into the account as well.

"I wanted that dirty money to come clean and to do something worthwhile," she said.

And the Cynthia Louise Haines memorial scholarship was born. Junior and senior female accounting students who have financial need and have maintained at least a 3.0 average are eligible. Last semester Eve o Coppel received the $300 stipend. com~on.

Evaluations spark rifts Dave Plank Reporter

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Over 50 comp1nf11 e1m1 to Auml1 Sept 28 for the 1988 C1r1er Explorltlon D1y.

The Faculty Senate voted Wednesday to change the forms used for teacher evaluations, but left the question of published ratings still unresolved.

Professors have argued over the forms because of questions pertaining to instructor popularity and possible implied sexism and racism from the wording.

And at Wednesday's meeting, the arguments were far from over.

"We're talking about resentment, anger and fear," said Charles Albee, chair of the English department.

One cause of friction between faculty members was a question about a teacher's instructional quality, when compared to that of other teachers students have had.

Some teachers felt the question reduc.es evaluations to a popularity contest.

"If my career is on the line, I want to be sure that the students know exactly what the question is asking," one faculty member said.

So as a result of teacher protests, the eva-

luation forms were changed in committee and must be given final approval by the entire senate.

The final version should be ready for approval within two weeks, said Senate President Elizabeth Friot.

The new form is careful to avoid any "demographic" questions that could possibly include references to sex, age or ethnic origin. The instructors voted 15-23 to strike all references of this nature from the answer sheet of the questionnaire.

However, by making these changes, MSC now finds itself stuck with 100,000 old evaluation forms, ordered last year but now rendered useless.

Metro paid approximately $2,000 for the forms, according to Alan Freeman, director of MSC's Offic.e of Institutional Research But the question of whether teacher evaluations will be published for students is still unanswered. However, when the issue was raised Wednesday, it was greeted with little enthusiasm.

The Faculty Senate will meet again Oct. 12.

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Golly!Metro Plain or Fancy attire: the decision is yours Student Activities ......._eeds iny Dave Plank Reporte ~

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Saturday Oct. 8 will bring MSC students, faculty and Denver society together as the Plain and Fancy Ball takes place to raise money for student scholarships.

Donations totalling over $17,000 already have been received for the silent auction that

will precede the ball, said Ann Dickerson of MSC Media Relations.

Dickerson said that some of the gifts to be auctioned off include a .mini race car from Coors, a silver fox fur jacket and an all Colorado ski pass for next season.

So far the response to the event has been good, with positive reservations pouring in.

Dickerson added, however, that there are still plenty of tickets available.

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G ee, if I volu nteer even just a few hours a week - se tting up for an event, clearing bulletin board s, h anding out flye rs - I can meet new people, ha ve fun a nd e ve n g e t advance notice of upcoming events?

Gosh, I'll volunteer today!

Metro Student Activities Student Center 153 556-2595

An individual ticket costs $40, with patron tickets (also receiving an invitation to a special party before the auction) priced at $100. Corporate tables seating 10 can be reserved for $1,000.

Among the Denver notables slated to be in attendance are Rich Karlis of the Denver Broncos, Colorado First Lady Bea Romer and the Denver Nuggets.

Nuggets owner Sidney Shlenker will receive MSC's "Plain and Fancy Person of the Year" award, as the person who's actions "best reflect the ideals of Metropolitan State College, and commitment to the greater Denver community."

Proceeds from the ball will benefit student scholarships, with particular emphasis on money awarded to women and minorities.

Some funds also will be distnbuted to faculty enrichment programs.

Dickerson said that although the cost of attendance is high, the price included dinner, drinks and a full evening's entertainment.

Some students already have R.S.V.P.'d and it is hoped by the ball's organirers that more will reserve their places between now and the night of the event. "We want it to be for everyone," Dickerson said.

Media exposure for the Plain and Fancy Ball has been sporadic thus far. Organirers want to maximize the amount of money they will be able to turn over to the students and therefore have not advertised the event What makes this event different from the average black-tie affair is that, while a black tie is required (and supplied with the invitation), the restofthepatron'sdressmaybeas formal or casual as he or she pleases.

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WEEKLY MUSING~~~~~~

The vote doesn't stop here stalked them. Then, when they least expected it, like a flash oflightning, I incinerated every single one of them.

I guess at this point, I should tell you that I wasn't physically present when these atrocities occurred. Still, there was a piece of me that, against my will, was there when the blood was shed. I searched my soul to find some clue to what was happening to me.

Slowly, I came to realize that I was being punished for a very bad decision I had made a couple of years earlier.

Yes, I was one of those millions of people who made the mistake of v~ting for Ronald

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I have a confession to make, I am a murderer. I held the machine gun that fired the

bullets ripping the life out of another human being.

But the butchery didn't end jhere. I had a part in using the bomb that blasted through a little girl's house - the one that snuffed the life out of her and 15 of her neighbors.

And that still wasn't enough. I got addicted _ to that feeling, the feeling that I pos.sessed the _.. · power to terminate the life of any person I saw fit. Not only that, but I could get away with it. I became obsessed with having the moral obligation to police mankind and eliminating any living thing that didn't want to play by my rules. :: Once there was a group of innocent people. They were just doing what they were supposed to be doing, not bothering anybody. They represented something I could not tolerate. Their beliefs were on a collision course with my own. So like a bird of prey, I ..

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My awakening came with the death of Khadafy's daughter. A three-year-old child whose vocabulary probably didn't include such words as democracy, terrorism, capitalist or any other separating word, was senselessly killed. I just suddenly realized the insanity of it all.

Dr. Samuel Johnson pointed out over a century-and-a-half ago that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Oliver North being hailed as a hero is a perfect example of just how correct Johnson was.

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George Bush is starting to tax the stupidity of the American public once again. Whether or not school-children should be forced to say the pledge ofallegiance has actually become a major campaign issue. Maybe Bush could station a heavily armed soldier in each class to guarantee that this lj\w would be enforced, if and when he is elected president.

I made the mistake of voting Republican once before, but thank God we are given the opportullity to see our mistakes, and the intelligence to correct them in the future.

That's why this year I plan to vote Libertarian.

Now I'm sure there are at least a few Democrats reading this and saying to themselves, "What about Dukakis?" I mean sure, Bush makes Dukakis look like Abraham Lincoln, but under close scrutiny Dukakis just doesn't cut it. He doesn't have the guts to say what he believes because his feelings get hurt if somebody calls him a liberal.

I have one friend who says she's going to vote for Dukakis because she detests Bush (as any rational person should). She won't vote Libertarian because she thinks her vote will count more if it's cast for Dukakis against Bush, than if it were for Libertarian candidate Ron Paul against Bush. Doesn't it make sense that a person should vote for something they believe in their hearts to be true, rather than vote for the lesser of two evils?

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Remedial classes crucial to Metro's mission What does this guy think he's doing? After being here a measly two months, our president has decided that we no longer need the very things that attract people to Metro.

Most students expect the president of their college to look out fortheir best interests and accommodate their needs. Apparently, however, this is above and beyond what Metro students should ask of their new president, Dr. Thomas Brewer.

Brewer has decided to cancel all classes considered remedial, including beginning algebra, English courses below the level of 101, and reading classes below the level of 104.

This decision capped a series of studies concerning "remedial" classes at Metro. In 1983, the state auditor's office recommended that Metro not be permitted to give student credit hours or receive state funding for courses considered remedial. The report also stated that remedial instructrion should be reserved for community colleges.

Well, apparently Metro never stopped giving students credit or receiving state funding for these courses, because the state auditor's office recently released a report stating that Metro may owe the state $1 million in compensation for funds received for remedial courses.

Rather than look into these courses to see if they really are remedial, Brewer decided the easiest solution would be to cancel them.

This was a move of complete ignorance because the Colorado Commission on Higher Education has not yet supplied Metro with a precise definition of "remedial."

Even now, however, no one has suggested that Metro not teach remedial courses, only that it not receive funding for them.

Brewer said one reason he cancelled the "remedial" classes was bec'ause, without state funding, the courses would be a "strain" on Metro's resources.

Granted, it would be more difficult to finance these classes without state support, but it certainly wouldn't be impossible.

One faculty member suggested using student fees. A great idea! I would much rather support a worthwhile academic cause than organizations like the Auraria Gamers, who spend their time playing board games.

Better yet, perhaps Brewer could put the $35,000 he used to redecorate his office toward supporting the classes.

Another rationalization Brewer used to defend his position was that these courses are not in Metro's role and mission, and that theydon't accomplish what he'd

CoPIRG committee- cut the crap Good God. Will there ever come a day when at least 20 things on my desk don't make a reference to CoPIRG? • It's obvious there are problems. Students need to be better informed that they are paying the fee. They have that right.

But I thought we set up committees who cheerfully sit down and handle such dilemmas in the most efficient way possible. I didn't realize we pay committees to come up with new problems.

ASMSC President Bruce DeWitt was forced into a non-voting position on the CoPIRG Arbitration Committee when he began telling senators his opinion about a new plan to inform students about the fee.

Then, Associate Justice Amy Braddy forced the entire committee into silence when ari anonymous student told her he thought other members were talking, giving the senate a twisted view of the situation.

What in the hell is this? I give the CAC and the Judicial Board an A for bureaucratic maneuvering. I know a lot of executives, out playing golf while their secretaries take messages, who would applaud such a manufactured delay.

Really, my point is this. If our friends upstairs lost a little bit of their paranoia, what would it really matter if committee members were talking to other senators?

Nearly every time I walk upstairs, there's an argument going on about who is talking about who this week.

Sometimes I don't even have to leave my desk. On

particularly bad days, it's easy to tell exactly what is happening up there between classes. There are complaints, counter-complaints and press releases to keep me up'dated on the domestic spats.

I have respect for the intentions of our elected representatives. I'd also like to be able to grant them some inner-strength and intelligence in the face of "advanced persuasion techniques." Hypothetically, if a senator has an opinion - or even if he hasn't the information as yet to form one - he should not be completely suaded by another's'bias toward an issue.

Thank God the committee was able to put its personal problems aside long enough to agree on 10 words, informing students about the CoPIRG fee, for the computerized telephone voice to say upon registration. One hurdle overcome, in the face of a lot of hard feelings based on the gag order.

Now, it's just got to go through the senate. Well, that shouldn't take long, now should it?

I often get the impression some members of student government think everyone else up there - excluding, of course, himself and the person he was most recently talking to - is this hideous, spiteful, conniving power vampire just waiting to knife all his peers and run for president of the Bahamas.

Really, guys, my applause for the decision. Now, can everyone play nicely together so we can get past Go?

- Kristin Hager, Editor

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Perhaps Brewer doesn't understand that this college's mission is to educate those who might not otherwise receive a college education. This is precisely what Metro has done throughout its existence.

Thus, Brewer has abolished the very quality that attracts students to Metro.

An issue that has yet to be addressed is whether these classes can be considered remed ial.

Several faculty members said they didn't feel the classes in question were remedial, and that they served a definite purpose and needed to remain at Metro.

Metro typically has catered to the "non-traditional" student, which includes people who have been out of school for several years. Many of these people need classes like beginning algebra, not because t'hey don't have those skills, but because they simply need to refresh them .

Brewer said nearly 70 percent of MSC graduates have taken at least one remedial course. Isn't this sufficient proof that these courses serve a purpose and are worth a little extra money?

Come on Brewer, quit looking in your pocketbook and start lookin~ out for your students!

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LETTERS-Armchair voters choose wisely Editor, Football season is upon us, baseball season is reaching its zenith, professional basketball and hockey seasons are just around the corner and the presidential campaigns are heating up.

One might ask, how do the presidential campaigns fit in the above paragraph? Sadly, because of our American culture, the fit is a natural one. We live in a sporting culture, Americans thrive in it and relate to it.

Because we live in such a culture, our news media have developed a campaign reporting style couched in sporting terms. It is sad indeed that the American public would pay almost no attention to the election cycles if we were not presented with the "contest" aspect of g.overnance. With an almost daily barrage of polls, it's almost as if we are tracking thoroughbreds as they round the turn. Debates are often times referred to as " bouts." We simply cannot escape the sports terms.

As college students we have the resources to analyze the " race" in a different light. We would be remiss if we fail to do so. When we cast our votes on Nov. 8, we should all make a rational, intelliQ_ent choice.

We should study the issues, not the polls. Each vote should be cast because of common ground between the candidate and the vote, not because of common ground between the candidate and the voter, not because of the position of the "horses" when they round the last corner. One must determine who will be the best leader after the election, not who leads the pack prior to it.

Casting a vote based upon ideology, if that ideology is well grounded, would be better than voting for a candidate because of catchy phrases.

We need to be a positive example in our community.

First of all we need to vote; secondly, the vote we cast must be a well thought out one.

Remember to cast an intelligent vote on the 8th of November!

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Editor, I'm really ticked off about your story on Tom Cook.

Talk about one-sided!!! The Metropolitan has done it again by attacking one person or group on campus with information based on heresay and rumor from only one or two sources; and of course, one of the sources remains anonymous. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

It sounds like your student source is a real whiner.

Obviously she thinks that in this world, people should go out of their way to accomodate her an her disability. Well, I've got news for you lady. Nobody gets a free ride. If you couldn't deal with Mr. Cook's lecture style in class, how do you expect to deal with a "live" situation reporting the news? Do you think that every person you interview is goJng to make sure you can read their lips?

News stories just don't happen that way, so WAKE UP! As for the allegations of discrimination and sexist attitudes in class, 'I'd say you're way off. I'm a woman who grew up learning feminist attitudes and idealogy, and I never took offense at any of Mr. Cook's opinions. I have never heard him say that women should not go in.to a particular area of communications. Mr. Cook's not dumb. Anyone who has lived through the 60s, 70s and 80s has seen the changes the women's movement has made. Women are now (and have been for at least

the past decade) involved in all areas of broadcasting from engineering (which is typically male-dominated) to camera-work, directing, producing, on-air talent and management. Mr. Cook knows these women and men, locally and throughout the state. Thomas Cook is a pillar in the broadcasting business in Colorado and Denver. The communication department and in particular, the broadcasting department wouldn't be where it is today without his hard work and dedication. He cares about his students. Granted, if you're late to class he'll give you a hard time sometimes. If you interrupt a class by being late, it's the professor's right to say something.

Mr. Cook gives everybody a hard time just as matter of course - it has to do with his sense of humor. It's simply his way - gruff as it may be - of showing he does care.

On another point, the books he uses are dated, but they provide students with an overview of the many aspects of the television/radio industry. A lot of teachers use somewhat outdated text because the basics in the book provide a solid background of the information needed in class. Anyone who has gone through the TV/riidio intro class knows how bloody boring the FCC regulations are, but once you've learned the basics, you can apply for a board operator license without having

to study on your own. Mr. Cook constantly uses current periodicals, journals and professional literature in his lectures.

Your source really has a bad case of sour grapes. I know that Mr. Cook 's health is not as good as it used to be. Occassionally he gets stressed out and growls at students. But I know for a fact, that if it were not for him and his diligence in developing contacts in the city and in helping students to get jobs and learn their craft in a professional manner, many graduates of the communication department wouldn't be working today.

That kind of caring and effort is not from a man who is sexist and discriminatory in his actions toward students. Diplomatically, Dean Larry Johnson is being kind in saying that Mr. Cook's time as chair needed to end. But I don't believe that his tenure was ended because of a handful of student complaints. There has to be more to it. Mr. Cook has done too much for this college to be handed a bad " rap" like your article did. I'd like to see Mr. Cook reinstated. If it doesn't happen, fine. But let's be fair about the reasons he was ousted.

And let's not forget what a truly talented , caring person Mr. Cook is and has been for the past 18-plus years.

- Carole M. Rowland

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Attorney alleges editorial .bias Editor, The Rocky Mountain News, in its editorial of September 24, 1988 directed at a demonstration protesting a so-called conference organized by ultra rightwing fanatics at the University of Colorado at Denver, tries to proclaim itself even handed.

However, as the editorial demonstrates, the News is not just friendly with the giant corporations of this society who adopt the policies pushed by the political right. More, The Rocky Mountain News is Corporate America.

It is quick to come to the defense of that political right when that sector exposes its anti-human rights agenda.

However, the News remains silent when the victims of

that agenda bear the brunt of policies directed at them internally (English Only) and externally (agression in Latin America) .

Additionally, the role of the News is not confined to mere silence when the right-wing is on the move. It acts as hatchet against those with the courage to take a stand against right-wing oppression. Its editorial mention of a UCO Professor in this context without any supporting facts exemplifies its bias, unfairness and, yes, collaboration with those who would and do suppress the right to know of all of us.

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Editor, When I read that the council migtit approve the publishing of the ratings given the professors by students, I decided to launch a new business. How can any professor teaching an eleven or twelve o'clock class possibly receive a satisfactory rating from hungry, distracted students? Why not arrange to deliver to the class, paid for by the professor, cups of frozen yogurt and granola bars? That way the prof would get good ratings, the students would get fed and I would make some money.

When you read reports on university development or analysis of business schools, you always read about the faculty asa whole. Or you read how "deep" a faculty is, or how certain members of a faculty are considered outstanding in their field.

When grades are posted on office doors immediately after exams, they are always coded so that privacy is

insured. I think this same courtesy should be extended to the faculty. The possible connection between grades and ratings was brought up at another school I attended.

This school is research oriented, and so the influence of a professor's sense of humor and showmanship was questioned. Probably the hardest thing a teacher has to do is stand up in front of a class on a day that is bad for them. They can 't cancel because of the market or a chipped tooth.

Since most students at Metro are career oriented, the rating that really counts is how many companies come to the campus to recruit. For instance, the University of Chicago business school might have 400 companies, and another school 85. I think Metro is doing really well by this standard.

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Gretchen Minney, Auraria Book Center director, recently brought to the ASMSC Senate her recommendation to halt the sale of cigarettes in the Convenience Store.

Ms. Minney's recommendation was based on her personal, moral objection to smoking.

As an elected student representative who carries a finely-honed sense of morality, I have a strong interest in saving MSC students from the insidious moral decay occuring on this campus.

I have a strong personal, moral objection to beer.

Therefore, the sale of beer at the Mission should be halted. The Mission's mission should be re-directed to programs that better serve student needs and produce more revenue than the sale of beer.

There are three bodies of students on this campus who have pressing needs for space.

The first are our students who are also parents. Daycare facilities at Auraria are woefully inadequate. I believe the Mission should be converted to a daytime childcare facility, offering free childcare to stuqent parents.

The revenue to provide this service could be provided through filling the needs of another body of students with a pressing desire: sex.

My theory of morality tells me that all sexual activity is emotionally and physically healthy, therefore I believe the Mission should be used, in the p.m. as an Equal Opportunity Brothel.

Many Auraria students encounter great difficulties earning the money they need for educational expenses.

Entrepreneurial men and women would have the opportunity to rent booths and sell services. We would be helping them provide, for themselves, the money they need to continue their education.

In order to protect students from sexually transmitted diseases we would, of course, require the use of condoms. Monies generated through condom sales would be reserved for the Health Issues Committee.

It is indeed wonderful to be a student on a campus so interested in enforcing healthy moral principles, and to be able to make my own, small contribution to this cause.

- Lois Ann Kaness

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Jets ripped and parachutes drifted through the clear air east of Denver, Sept 24, during Airshow Colorado while members ofMSC's flight team spent the day trying to earn cash to lift themselves into aerial competition.

A quarter-mile away, the larger planes sprang from the rolling prairie 20 minutes east of Aurora like a strange metallic crop. Up close, they looked like heavy equipment from a Star Wars film. Spectators next to the aircraft focused on gas stains, quarter-inch rivets, greasy hinges, dings and dents.

The growing crowd milled about the collection of military and civilian aircraft until about 11 a.m. Some paid $2 to $3 to tour the larger military planes that dotted the paved area between Front Range Airport's runway and terminal buildings. Teen-age boys, with one-and-a-half-inch buzz cuts, gazed with Top-Gun intensity at the military warbirds roosting on the pavement.

North of the display area, two MSC students patiently waited for more spectators to file in. Trine Jorgensen and

Dena Schaben, aerospace science majors, sat next to 530 brown fold-up chairs that faced the airstrip. They arrived at the airfield just north of Watkins at 7:30 a.m. to rent the chairs to spectators.

Jorgensen and Schaben are members of the Metropolitan State Precision Flight Team. The team competes with such schools as Ohio State University and the Air Force Academy in flight competitions that emphasize navagation, preparation and landing skills.

"We're like the NCAA in basketball," 22-year-old Jorgensen, the team captain, said. "We're in that same class, only we're flying."

Unlike the Navy's Blue Angel pilots, who perform in the Sept. 24 airshow, MSC's flight team emphasized safe-flying techniques, not formation flying.

However, the two aren't renting seats for the show only out of the goodn~ of their hearts. The team has to generate $2,787 to compete in national competition. Other fundraising efforts include plane washes and bumper sticker sales. Although the airshow pays only a small percentage of the rental revenues for their work, they benefit from aviation contacts.

Twenty-one-year-old Schaben, the team's regional repre-

sentative, is also vice president of Alpha Eta Rho, an international aviation fraternity. MSC has the country's largest chapter, with 75 active members.

Schaben knew she wanted to fly since she was three feet tall. Jorgensen earned her flying license at 18, Schaben at 20.

Thirty feet from the entrance to the seating area whereâ&#x20AC;˘ Schaben and Jorgensen stood guard, a vendor hawked ice cream. Other vendors, from stands dotting the blacktop, sold beer, ice cream, bratwurst, hot dogs, posters, soda and 2-foot inflatable F-18 Hornets, tiny replicas of the Blue Angel planes. Better than a baseball game.

On the far side of the display area, a dutiful father waited -~ behind his young son in the hot dog line in bright midmorning sunlight. As the tyke slathered ice cream across his mouth, dad let a tiny flight jacket, complete with patches and wool collar, dangle from his limp right arm. It had gotten too hot for junior to wear his full flight gear.

Cameras toted by spectators outnumbered wire-rimmed,, tear-drop lensed Ray Ban aviator sunglasses, but not by,.. much.

Twenty people stood in line for Wisconsin bratwurst 80 feet from the black-tipped nose of an A-4 Sky Hawk light attack plane. The slick kerosene smell of jet fuel mingled

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with thick blue cbarcol smoke drifting off the vendors' 2-by-2 grills.

From the front, the compact hunched-over Sky Hawk looked like a one-eyed Mickey Mouse with no mouth.

Half-circle air intakes poked out from the plane's narrow nose "'tike oversize pale cartoon ears.

An air show groupie strolled past the A-4. She wore blue polyester slacks with IO-inch bell-bottoms that ended just inches above her black cowboy boots. A black T-shirt with a schematic of an airplane called "Orion" printed in white across a blue grid !Jung from her shoulders. A low-rerowned black riverboat gambler's hat complete with three pounds of rodeo and air show pins crowned her outfit. She gave each aircraft a critical gaze as she ambled by in a rolling John Wayne gait.

Marine Capt. Charles Moseley stood at ease next to the nose of his F-18 Hornet Unlike the flashy Hornets of the Blue ....._~ngels, this one was coated in drab gray - 路high altitude camouflage. Twenty-three men formed a semicircle around the Marine aviator (don't call these guys pilots). They stood with arms crossed or hands jammed in pockets, listening intently as Moseley talked about his aircraft.

"That's what's so sweet about this plane," he said as he

curled his hand palm-up around the plane's nose like he was cradlin.g the muzzle of his favorite dog. "Once your bombs come off, you've got a fighter out there."

His "piss-cutter," a khaki cloth hat that folds into an oblong rectangle when it's not being worn, sliced the air one inch in front of his forehead like the prow of a ship. This man, with slash eyes and stable stance, made Richard Gere and Tom Cruise look like ... actors. He rocked back and forth on high-top shiny black boots as he patiently answered questions.

A C-130 Hercules transport plane lumbered overhead.

From the side it looked like a big green train engine with wings and tail glued on as an afterthought. From behind it resembled a sperm whale swimming backward with its lower jaw wide open. This is the same cavernous drop-belly plane that gobbled up columns of troops in the movie "Hair." Twenty-two pale olive chutes popped open in single file behind the plane as it passed.

Just before noon, the Red Baron Squadron, with its four open-cockpit Stearman biplanes, sped down the runway and into the air behind the smooth loud burble of 480 horsepower Pratt and Whitney radial engines. They twisted, dropped and slid through a series of maneuvers, always

trailing white smoke. Before they touched down, they traced a huge heart in the sky.

The announcer's tin voice was trapped and died amid the hodgepodge of fat-bodied transport planes scattered across the asphalt.

"It don't get any better than this, folks," he said.

At 2 p.m. the announcement stopped. No one could've heard them anyway over the building hiss as the Blue Angels' six F-18s sucked up volumes of air. Across 70 yards of pavement, the Red Baron's quaint biplanes mutely witnessed the animation of the sleek high-tech Hornets.

Children wrapped their hands around the chins of adults as they rode their shoulders. Row after row of seated spectators, beginning at the front, rose to watch the jets take off. A thousand invisible hammers beat the tarmac and the audiences' eardrums as the first pair raced by. Two minutes later the other four jets peeled by in a tight diamond formation, rolling in unison through the air.

"They look so graceful," a woman wearing Bermuda shorts said as she stared skyward "How far apart are they?" the man on her left asked.

"Thirty-six inches," answered his gangly four-foot son through a retainer tarnished by a half-mouthful of hot dog.

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Bygone era lives again through tour of city their attention. He was the guide the group had waited for to lead them on a lunch-hour safari through the backstreets, alleys and trainyard of lower downtown Denver.

If Gallagher's name sounds familiar, remember back to the 1987 mayoral election - he was one of the less publicized candidates.

Gallagher didn't waste any time. For a man of large girth, he walked briskly and purposely as he led the group, mainly tourists and local business people, outside to look at the facade of Union Station.

He feels a genuine affection for this part of town. After all, the railroad gave his grandfather a job and allowed him to settle in Denver. And, added Gallagher wistfully:

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A portly, gray-haired man pushed quickly through the group of about 35 waiting in the century-old station. He stopped to shake a hand or two, then groped in the pocket of his corduroy jacket and pulled out j\Silver whistle. Its shrill cry echoed across the ballroomsized central waiting room of Denver's Union Station.

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"Someday the trains are going to come back."

As we meandered through the station and accompanying trainyards, Gallagher brought to life, with colorful stories and jokes, an era when this was the hub of all the action.

For instance, Denver's viaduct system was-built so that homesick easterners could walk under it and feel as if they were back in Chicago walking under the elevated train, the "L." Gallagher also told the group the idea of building a convention center near Union Station wasn't a new one. He described Walker's Castle, built not far from the station, which was a convention center. Easterners could ride Walker's paddle boat up the Platte, where 'ferocious' Indians (real Indians hired by Walker) would ride up and shoot arrows at them.

As he made the group laugh, Gallagher also touched on a few "atrocities" committed to some of the area's historic buildings.

For example, two·20-story office/apartment blocks are scheduled for construction on either side of Union Station. Two wings of the station were demolished to make way for them. However, as a coal train chugged through the yard only 500 feet from where the buildings will be, he noted that no one would be getting in any afternoon naps.

"That train takes 45 minutes to go through here," he said with a gleam in his eye, no doubt imagining the complaints it will eventually arouse.

Gallagher's enthusiasm and knowledge of Denver and Colorado history made the hour go fast. As the group struggled to keep up

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"Doesn't it [the area] have a great feeling?" he said, his smile widening. ''This is ambiance."

He pointed out that the people who built~ these places weren't afraid to put their names on the finished product, unlike those who put up the modern skyscrapers he called tin

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As he stood over the "short subway" (also known as the RTD Market Street Station) , Gallagher described the tunnel system that supposedly ran under the streets of Denver.

One ran from Union Station to the Oxford Hotel, while another went from the Capitol to the Brown Palace. Still another

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ran from the Brown Palace to the Navarre Hotel, which Gallagher hinted may have been a house of ill repute.

However, he said no one had been able to ... track down the mysterious tunnels or their origins.

The tour ended all too soon between the Barth and Oxford hotels across from the old Terminal Bar (now renamed, but still with the original square bar). Here Gallagher . summed .._. up what he wanted to show dunng the tour: "Don't these buildings have something to relate to?" he asked.

For him, they mean a sadly bygone era that should never be erased or destroyed to make way for the "tin cans" steady advance.

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MSC prof brings Cuba to Denver Susan Morgan ,_,;_ Reporter Arriving eight hours early, she walked down the long, deserted concourse of the Miami airport to catch Eastern Airline's redeye express to Havana.

Jan Delasara, an MSC English professor, ·< found few people around and no one who could tell her if she was in the right place, not even the security guards.

"The gate was hidden," Delasara said. "It looked like a loading dock, like some clandestine operation." ,?; She didn't even have a ticket, just a letter telling her when and where the Oight would be.

As time pas.5ed, more passengers arrived, confirming that Delasara was in the right place after all. At 3 a.m., a pack;ed plane left 1 to bring moviegoers to the Eighth Annual • International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Cuba.

The trip to Cuba in December 1986 marked the beginning of a long journey that led to Delasara becoming a chief organizer of the Cuban Film Festival. The films will be ~ · presented at the Tivoli as·part of the Denver Film Festival, and on the Auraria Campus in October. The festival comes on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Cuban film industry, which began just after the revolution in 1959. r Delasara's educational background concentrates on drama, speech and film; she has taught several classes on film history and women in film.

After moving to Colorado in 1978, she became interested in hispanic culture, herit•- age and magical realism, a genre of litera~~ ture. She learned Spanish to read the literature in its original language.

So when Delasara learned about the 17day film festival in Havana, which included the seminar "Women in the Audio-Visual World," it was only natural that she attend. ...Arrangements were made through the Center for Cuban Studies in New York, an organization that offers speciallied tours for educators, artists and journalists.

"Havana Is a center for Third World and Eastern European interests," Delasara said.

"They have a big convention center there that provides instant translations."

Delasara also said Cuba has few traditions or handicrafts remaining from before the revolution and few imported goods because of the trade embargo.

As a result, the Cubans have concentrated on their arts, particularly film. There are more than 500 theaters in Cuba, an isiand less than half the size of Colorado.

"Cubans love film," Delasara said. "They are visually sophisticated." .

Despite limited equipment and supplies, the Cuban film industry has produced over 110 full-length films, 900 documentaries, which include educational, scientific, fictional and animated films, and 1,300 weekly newsreels. Cuban theaters show newsreels at each performance.

Cubans especially like American movies, which are shown in theaters and on television. They see everything except "Rambo -type" movies, and there is some censorship.

reaching out and learning from one another.

The grassroots could be better served by the larger audience."

The films will examine the problems of machismo in Cuban society.

"Race is not really a problem in Cuba: sexual inequality is," Delasara said.

That is the theme of "Up To A Certain Point," a film by Thomas Gutierez Alea, which will be shown at the Tivoli. "Memories of Underdevelopment," a post-revolutionary film from the early 1960s by Alea also will be presented.

"Lucia," directed by Humberto Solas, focuses on women from different eras of Cuban history.

Events on the Auraria campus will include discus&ons of Cuban culture, history and film industry by Cuban directors and various speakers including Dr. Juan &teve, chilirman of the MSC Modem Languages department. There also will be a mixture of Cuban films and documentaries.

The Denver Film Festival's Cuban films will run Oct. 15-19, and activities on the o Auraria campus will run Oct. 17-19.

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Charles Hayes' paintings are not of this world.

The 55-year-old MSC art professor doesn't paint flowers, sunsets, nudes, puppies or even distinct geometrical shapes.

Instead, his works expose a streaky universe of colors that seems to stretch from the "front" of the canvas to "back" rather than from side to side or top to bottom.

Nine of his most recent paintings are on display in an exhibit titled "New Paintings/New Boundaries" in the Close Range Gallery of the Denver Art Museum.

Each of the nine, bearing such whimsical names as "Hot Lunch," "Ruby Earbobs" and "Out of Order," create an intriguing illusion of depth. In "Hot Lunch," for example, bright patches of reds and yellows seem to hover in the foreground while layers of oranges, blues, greens and every conceivable combination thereof lurk in the background and almost seem to move as the viewer's eyes travel into the painting.

"They're just about color," Hayes said, explaining why his works are non-objective rather than abstract. "They don't refer to anything in the real world at all."

As the 6-foot-6-inch artist walked around his studio near downtown Denver, talking about his painting techniques, he revealed that he is as difficult to place in the real world as his paintings.

His rugged appearance contrasts with his polite, deliberate nature, making one believe he might be equally at home swinging a pickax in a gravel quarry or balancing a

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Most of his time, however, is spent at neither cocktail parties nor gravel quarries, but in his studio, exploring the world of. color.

He carefully shifted a freshly-lit cigar in his ashtray as he spoke.

"window," and a darker region that surround it on three or four sides. This duality, he said, opened up space within the painting -.,; and created tension.

Hayes non-objective forays into the world. of color have earned him financial success.

His paintings are sold through two local

"I make really monumental discoveries and inventions, but they're subtle and nobody _really notices," be said.

One of Hayes' discoveries was using a squeegee to manipulate the translucent acrylics on the canvas. He spreads color layer upon layer, blending shapes and colors, putting as many as 80 levels of paint on a single canvas.

"It's a back-and·.forth evolutionary kind of process," he explained, "if a painting gets too bright, I darken it. If it gets too dark, I lighten it."

Each of his paintings has two distinct areas: a larger, lighter portion he calls a

galleries as well as other cities across the country.

However, he balances his life as an artist with his teaching career. :.

"I've always considered myself a professional artist ... I think it's important to my students that I am," he said Although it's obvious that painting is his first love, be said that he has enough extraordinary students to make his job as a teacher exciting.

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September 30, 1988

Film shows starkness, reality of Vietnam War Eric Hobart Features Editor

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A massive man with a blond crewcut and sleevel~ sweatshirt drew the back of bis left

band across freckled cheeks and red-rimmed eyes as he brushed the tears away. A woman walked straight to the theater's exit, her jaw _ muscles constantly working. An Air Force ·' major general, in full uniform, walked out in a slow, measured stride. These and other guests and members of Vietnam Veterans of America's Chapter 107 attended a Sept. 16 screening of "Dear America: Le~rs Home From Vietnam." "?'. Richard Campos was among the veterans that filed silently past the velvet rope separating them from patrons waiting for the next show.

"Well...tbis is it. This is all real. It's what happened. There's no way you could get away from it," Campos said. · He knows. He served in Vietnam with the • 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines from May 1966 through March 1%8. He was infantry - a grunt.

This film escorts the viewer year by year _ through the United State's longest war, ... chaperoned by men who fought on the ground. The narrative is a reading of letters they wrote home.

The power and eloquence of the soldier's thoughts, coupled with actual in-country footage, slaps the viewer with an impact that { cannot be matched by a script and actors.

These are the thoughts and actions of men who endured Vietnam combat, as they waited, fought, survived and died The late 1960s and early '70s pop/rock sound track fixes the time and reinforces ~-- -each scene. This period's music also accom-

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panied the flood of "baby boomer" films, and it is a chilling irony to realize soldiers diedwhile budding yuppies endured college and civilian life.

Television news broadcasts punctuate the combat footage. David Brinkley, in black and white, tells of the attack on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. Grim statistics roll over the footage - yearly totals of troops in Vietnam, followed by the number of killed and wounded. Scenes of National Guardsmen firing on Kent State students through clouds of tear gas are interwoven with shots of G I s falling under North Vietnamese army fire.

The subjects are raw and not photogenic.

There are no polished movie stars with dirtied faces.

This isn't fiction.

A frail young soldier with loops of machine gun rounds slung over his shoulders and crisscrossing bis chest gnaws his lower lip while he soaks in drizzling rain.

It takes a measure of courage to watch what soldiers suffer. A wounded man lies on an operating table, bis face pale in artificial light, and tells doctors he knows how bad his leg is.

"I was carrying that damn thing in my hands all the way back," he said. He was afraid it would fall off.

The viewer is given a primer fu grunt jargon, each phrase illustrated by harrowing footage. The subtitle "Peppering the L.Z." (landing wne) appears on the screen as a machine gun bucks and spits from a Huey helicopter's side door. A "zippo raid" is the torching of Vietnamese huts with flip-top lighters.

The footage is graphic and unrelenting, but avoids dwelling on bloody scenes. If you enjoyed the second Rambo film and left the theater feeling like Sylvester Stallone had set things right, you'd better prepare yourself for a stiff shot of reality. "Full Metal Jacket" and "Platoon" may have provided a glimpse of the war in Vietnam. But only a glimpse.

This film is a long hard look.

Christmas night is the film's eeriest scene.

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SPORTS Lady spikers breeze through home opener, fall short on road Jay Hauptman Reporter

The MSC women's volleyball team finished a month of road games with a tough loss to 12th ranked West Texas State, Saturday, Sept. 24 at Regis College.

But they bounced back to win their first home game of the season Tuesday, Sept. 27, against conference rival University of Alaska-Fairbanks. In the loss to West Texas State, MSC led in games 2-1, but dropped the final two games to lose the three-hour match 15-13, 5-15, 15-7, 10-15, 12-15. MSC hitters Becky Kofoed and Nancy Kogle had 20 and 15 kills respectively, and setter Verna Julaton dished out 59 assists.

"I thought we were going to win that one," coach Joan Tamblin said. Talentwise I think we were better."

West Texas State was mentally tougher than we were, Tamblin said. MSC was up 7-0 in the fourth game, but gave the game and match away, she added.

"Once you lose the fourth game, it really gets tough," Tamblin said. "They were more experienced than we were. Next year those should be matches that we win."

MSC turned the tables against Alaska-

Fairbanks though, and breezed to a threegame-match win 15-12, 15-11 , 15-6.

We were nervous at first because it was our first conference game," Tamblin said.

Although Alaska-Eairbanks had an 0-4 record going into the MSC match, Tamblin was pleased with the win.

"Alaska was a strong serving team and it took us a while to get used to that," she said.

"But after we adjusted, we got really strong in the last game."

Kofoed and Kogle were strong again accumulating 12 kills each, and Heather Hotchkiss chipped in ten. Julaton contributed 41 assists in the win. J ulaton is the only senior on the team and Tamblin is working with ten new players.

"She is really good," Tamblin said of Julaton. _ MSC's next four games are against other Colorado teams. They play a doubleheader against Adams State and the Colorado School of Mines at Mines Friday night.

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,Ladies take consolation championship John Gegner Sports Editor

The MSC women's soccer team returned - from the Budweiser National Women's Invitational Tourney in St. Louis, Sept. 2325 as comolation champion after posting a 1-1-1 record.

Metro lost to George Washington University 2-1 in the opener Friday in its first ..-setback this season. The game was played on astroturf because rain had soaked the grass field Both teams had some problems adjusting to the artificial turf which is a faster but less forgiving surface than grass.

Leslie Zimmerman scored Metro's first goal toward the end of the opening period -. assisted by Cindi Weishapl to knot the score at halftime. George Washington iced the victory, scoring with 15:30 remaining.

"It was a fairly evenly matched game," MSC coach Ed Montojo said Metro outshot George Wasbington 16_, 12. Jan Holland had eight saves in the goal for the Roadrunners while George Washington goalie Laura Mo:zer stopped 10 shots. Mozer, a Cherry Creek High School grad, was named defensive MVP of the tournament. r On Saturday, Metro tied Xavier University 3-3 in double overtime, but advanced to the consolation finals by virtue of a 3-0 edge in penalty kicks. In tournament play a tie is resolved by allowing each team five penalty

kicks.

Metro tallied first against Xavier when Jami Cobb scored a goal assisted by Tonja Ridgeway. Xavier answered by scoring on an indirect kick. Bridgette Leisure put the Roadrunners up 2-1 at the half when, assisted by Lynette Graul, she scored with 5:30 remaining.

ing when she was hit in the jaw by a Dayton player. Backup goalie Michelle Carroll came in to preserve the shutout.

Dayton was whistled for 21 fouls to Met-

ro's seven in the rugged contest. In addition to Holland's injury, Zimmerman went out with a knee strain midway through the second half. o

Xavier tied the game on another indirect kick after a breakdown in Metro's defensive wall. Zimmerman put MSC up again when she scored about four minutes later assisted

by Weishapl. But Xavier knotted the score with about nine minutes left on a direct free kick.

Following two scoreless 15-minute overtime periods, the Roadrunners advanced when Miscbi Jackson, Monica Wenston and Zimmerman nailed their penalty kicks.

Holland blocked the first two Xavier shots and the third was wide, negating the need for a fourth or fifth kick.

In the comolation finals on Sunday, MSC edged the University of Dayton 1-0 in an extremely physical game. Linda Thompson scored 2:54 into the second half for the game's only goal. Weishapl picked up her third assist of the weekend on the tally.

"The final score was not indicative of the play," Montojo said. "We had most of the play in control pretty much the entire game."

Metro outshot Dayton 13-7 and had seven goalie saves to 12 for Dayton. Holland left the game with about 11 minutes remain-

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SACAB: Meeting; Student Center Room 252; 12:30 p.m.; for more information call 556-2510.

Sheila, mother of 5-year-old AIDS victim Jonathan, will speak on her and Jonathan's t!xperiences with AIDS; 7:30 p.m.; 6165 E. Iliff Ave.; Lake & Racquet Apartment Clubhouse; for more information, call 757-3623.

AURARIA STUDENT ASSISTANCE CENTER: 2nd annual Handicap Awareness Days; comedy night, art exhibit, working dogs and a review by the Broadway Players; for more information, call 556-8387.

AURARIA STUDENT ASSISTANCE CENTER: Interests And Your Career Path; I 0 a.m.; Mock Interview; 2 p.m.; Arts Building Room 177; for more information, call 556-3477 TUESDAY, Oct. 4 LIBERTARIAN PARTY: Mary Lind; Student Center Room 330; 12:15 p.m.; for more information, call 556-2595.

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MSC MEN'S SOCCER: Colorado Baptist University; Auraria Field; 4 p.m.; for more information, call 556-8300

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 5 MSC VOLLEYBALL: University of Denver; Auraria Gym; 7:30 p.m.; for more information, call 556-8300.

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MSC WOMEN'S SOCCER: Colorado Baptist University; Auraria Field; 4 p.m.; for more information, call 556-8300.

MSC STUDENT SENATE: Meeting; Student Center Room 330 p.m.; for more information, call 556-3253. mURSDAY, Oct. 6 MSCMEN'SCOLLEGE: RegisCollege;at Regis; 4 p.m.; for more information, call 556-8300.

AURARIA STUDENT ASSISTANCE CENTER: Values And Your Work Environment; 10 a.m.; Arts Building Room 177; for more information, call 556-3477.

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CARS/TRUCKS, new/used we shop-saving you time, money and hassel. Autofinders 329-6001. .

12/9

CHILD CARE JOBS AVAILABLE in home/ center, all hours, all location, FT/ PT. Call Diane at 293-8213.

12/9

ONE BEDROOM-PARKING-PET OK from 200.00 1252 Corona St. Call Pat or Lesley 830-1322 12/9

..(" WORD PROCESSING- fast, accurate, close to campus. Call Wordplay 733-4481 12/9

PARTTIME. NORTH DENVER. We need a sharp individual to do 2 to 3 hours of transcription and light reception, Monday thru Friday early evenings. Must type 40 wpm , transcription experience not necessary. Call Mrs. Bowdish, 377-1819.

9/30

OUTSTANDING RESEARCH DATABASE available.

Temporary lease terminal to access databases.

Other equipment available. Check public bulletin boards on campus or call for detai ls .

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(602) 838-8885, ext. 5683.

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CALL KAREN OR JERRY WITH SECRETARIAL EXPRESS for rush jobs including word processing/typing, theses, dissertations, manuals, books, mailing lists, data base, bookkeeping and RESUMES. Central location - 501 Cedar Ave. 722-0530.

South location - 4841 Harvard ·Ave. 753-9100.

Pick up and delivery I same day service available.

2/10

WANTED-TOUR REPRESENTATIVE Established tour operator seeks local rep to help promote and sell spring break trips to Cancun, Acapulco and Bahamas. Must be aggressive, personable and work 7-10 hours per week. Earn $3,000+ on average plus fre trip! Call (800) 225-3058.

9/30

CLASSES GOT YOU DOWN? French, Spanish, English, certified, experienced tutor. Reasonable private/group rates. literature, conversation, even (gasp!) grammar. 279-4432 10/28

PART-TIME SALES POSITION. U.S. Tobacco Co. (Copenhagen, Skoal) $5.00/hr.; 10 to 20 hrs/wk.

If interested, telephone 979-2062.

9/30

~TYPING BY CHRIS -15 years experience. Spell-

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2/9 TYPING SERVICES/LETIER QUALITY WORD PRO· CESSING for business, student or personal needs.

Reasonable rates, central location. Call Kathy at 751-1788.

12/9

Answering Service Operators PART TIME S4/HDUR Part time on these shifts: 7a-3p, 1p-6p, 3p-11p. We train you to answer phones and type messages into a computer.

Start at $3.75/hr. for 2 weeks training, then raise to $4. MUST WORK AT LEAST ONE DAY EACH WEEKEND. Paid vacation, health insurance, free parking, Colfax busline. Non-smokers pref. East Denver.

331-2298 for 24-hr. recorded info.

PROOFREADING- Experienced proofreader/writer will proofread your typewritten thesis, term paper or report for spelling, punctuation and ~ grammar. Reasonable rates. Call Ginny, 756~7. after 1:00 pm 10/28 WORDPRO-WORD PROCESSING.Reports, term papers, theses, resumes. Quick turnaround, pick-up and delivery available. Everything proofed, letter qulity. Emergencies gladly accomodated.

680-1680 ' 10/21

'r SOS TYPING SERVICE Accurate, Reasonable, Call Sandi 234-1095

RESUMES, WORD PROCESSING. typesetting, printing done by professionals in high qualty. Downtown, 1 block from UCO and Metro State. The Typehouse, 1240 14th St., 623-7414 5/5 SPECIAL XEROXES. oversized Xerox 2' X 3', color ( copies, continuous enlargement and reduction.

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TYPING SERVICE by former typing teacher; reasgrammar, punctuation, spelling; near Southglenn Shopping Center. 794-9427 11/18

FOR SALE CANON TYPEWRITER 1 year old, automatic erase, underlining, bold print, calculator function, 15, 12, or 10 letters per inch. Cost $229, sell for$125.

Call Gina 220-1353 ans. machine.

9/30

CARPET-DENVER'S LARGEST SELECTION! Near new I remnants/ area rugs. TLC's The Carpet Barn ~ 922-2876 "Our values will floor you!"

10/7 MOUNTAIN PROPERTY and Victorian house for sale -i n Victor, Colorado. 7 miles from Cripple Creek. 3-bedroom, full bath, deck, woodburning stove. Needs finish work, $27,300. Gold County .,, Realty, 1-689-2956.

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