Volume 13, Issue 32 - July 12, 1991

The Metropolitan State College of Denver student newspaper, serving the Auraria Campus since 1979

Denver, Colorado

July 12, 1991

MSCD student one of four guards killed during United Bank robbery

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Tuition and fees on the rise again see page 3 CoPIRG acts to strengthen position in Washington, D.C. see page 3

Professor locates his mother after 30-year search see page 10 Art by African Americans is featured in show see page 11

Volleyball tournament raises money for MSCDteam see page 12 How MSCD athletes spend the summer see page 13

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Barry Tobin The Metropolitan The United Bank tragedy of June 16 has hit even MSCD. One of the four guards killed that day was MSCD student Todd Allen Wilson.

Wilson, 21, was killed while working as a security guard at the United Bank of Denver. He was unaoned at the time. Scott McCarthy, Wilson's closest friend, and security guard at United Bank was also killed during the robbery.

Wilson attended classes at MSCD from 1989 through spring of 1991, according to sources in the Admissions and Records department. He wanted to become a certified drug and alcohol addictions counselor.

Concurrent funeral services were held for Wilson and McCarthy on June 21, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Littleton.

"We should not be here today," said pastor Franklyn Pekarek, the officiating minister. "Todd should still be with us enjoying his four-wheel .drive trips and going fishing with his friends." He spoke of the importance of forgiveness and asked that all would remember the families of the other slain guards.

John Trujillo ill, owner ofMission Trujillo restaurant in Littleton, Wilson's and McCarthy's former employer, delivered the eulogy.

"I'd like to spend my last moments with these two young men celebrating the lives they l~d," he said.

Trujillo spoke about the "legacy of good spirit" that touched family and friends in the days following the tragedy. "A major part of that strength was in remembering the bounty of times spent laughing together," he said.

Mission Trujillo is a family business where nearly every employee gets an "affectionate nickname," Trujillo said. "Todd was no exception." Wilson had vision in only one eye. He worked in the kitchen preparing food, using a large knife. "His expertise with a blade not only led him to be our number one consumer of first-aid supplies, but als~ earned him the nickname of 'Ojo', a Spanish word meaning 'Eye,"' Trujillo said.

Wilson's friend, Scott McCarthy was tagged with the nickname,'Gabby.' "When he first started working for us, be quietly went about his duties amidst the clamor of a busy kitchen.

You were hard pressed to get two words out of the guy," Trujiilo said.

"Ojo's (Wilson's) greatest desire was to become a drug and alcohol counselor," Trujillo said. "(Because of his vision constraints) Todd knew that although he could never become a

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Todd Wilson, an MSCD student, was one of the guards killed at United Bank on June 16. neurosurgeon or airline pilot, be possessed the skills needed to counsel others who had weaknesses of their own. Ojo 's gift to us was his ready smile and his gentle, caring nature."

Trujillo concluded the eulogy saying: "Gabby and Ojo, Adios.

Thank you for letting me be your friend."

Pastor Pekarek closed the service. "Maybe it is good that we are here," he said. "We see the love of family and friends and are reminded that when it co!Des to death, God has the final word."

Pallbearers carried the caskets of the two friends down the church steps. The caskets were placed in the hearses. Some wept. Many comforted others, preserving "the legacy of good spirit."

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MSCD programs to encourage minority hiring Chris Barker The Metropolitan MSCD is taking an active interest in equal opportunity with two programs designed to encourage minority faculty employment and achievement.

The Target of Opportunity Program and the Minority Faculty Recruitment Incentives Program are being implemented to better represent minorities on the MSCD campus, in accordance with Affirmative Action requirements.

These requirements state that an institution receiving federal funds must have minorities represented on its staff in accordance with Census Bureau statistics. These numbers profile the state workforce and candidates availability by ethnic background.

According to Percy Morehouse, director

of Equal Opportunity at MSCD and assistant to MSCD President Thomas Brewer, MSCD must correct underrepresentation in "an innovative and creative way." Minority Incentives and Target of Opportunity will be used, "as a temporary tool to meet Aff'rrmative Action requirements," Morehouse said.

Under Target of Opportunity, qualified minorities will be sought by MSCD when there is underrepresentation of a protected class or when "there is a special need for representation of a particular class," such as in a certain department. This hiring procedure will recruit candidates through professional networks as opposed to national advertising. This will, according to the letter of the program, "give departments the capacity to act quickly without a long screening process."

The Minority Recruitment Incentives Program, which will be implemented this fall, will provide incentives for MSCD departments to take a pro-active role in minority faculty recruitment. Incentives include a maximum of $5,000 to be awarded to a department for filling a tenure-track position with a qualified minority. Academic Development Awards will also be given whit:h will allow new minority faculty to continue their education while filling a position at MSCD. This award is designed for candidates who are, "otherwise qualified but have not as yet received terminal degrees in their fields," the program proposal said.

James Jones, president of the Black Student Alliance, said he feels that racism is institutionalized at MSCD. He said he feels see HIRING page 12

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NEWS Tuition increases aliother 9% Barbara La Freniere The Metropolitan Administrative raises and a new campus-wide computer system are the hidden factors between a 12 percent rate increase for the 1991-92 school year.

Tuition alone has increased by 9 percent over last year's cost.

In-state students taking 10 to 15 credit hours will pay $738.50 including fees - a $78 jump from last year. Full time, out-of-state students will pay $2,457.50 - a $240 increase over last year.

Joe Arcese, vice president of Administration and Finance at MSCD said the increases will pay for faculty and staff salaries, new computer technology and better communication technology.

In early July, a new phone system was implemented at the financial aid office facilitating the use of eight lines.

Instead of getting a busy signal, calls will be answered and directed by a computer, similar to the campus phone registration system.

More phone lines are in the works for accounts receivable and admissions and records as well.

A new information technology fee is part of a 30 percent increase in student fees. Its purpose is to help fund a fiveyear program that will improve the computer system at MSCD, including a new CAD-CAM lab for engineering

Tuition and Fee Increases

technology located in the School of Professional 9t-91 91路92 Studies. $571 $622 Jn State Also within five years, all of the college's ~;{)ut of State 2;128 2,341 hardware and software are scheduled to be updated for student use. Students will then be able m~ 路J!<, to access the college's computer system from '.Jiii ,w路 "* school labs or with a modem from a personal 41 45 Studeiit Activity computer at home. This will also give students 14 16 Athletic access to a bulletin board where they can leave 19 22 AHEC Bond Fee messages for professors.

16(10-ISbn) lnf~90 Technology Another new fee is the $20 graduation fee. (*New Fee) 20(16-lShrs) This one-time fee is for administrative purposes to be paid when students file their graduation FaCility Fee 13.50 13.50 agreement, though it will.not pay for caps and Total Fees WO llOJD gowns.

600.50 738.50 fl TuitiM and fees And, if all of this is making you sick~on ' t.

Health insurance is increasing from $147 per ' Statistics based on full-time status. semester for full time students, to $165-an $18 jump.

Geralyn Reinardy, assistant to the executive director of shows a 5.4 percent increase. The MSCD tuition increase is the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, said that 8.9 percent, less than the 10.8 percent allowed. the tuition increases are not mandated by the state, as some Arcese said that MSCD only received a 2 percent net students think. She said the CCHE acts to protect students by limiting tuition increases to two times the Higher Educa- increase from the state's general fund. This means that increased costs are not being covered by the state. tion Price Index, he said.

The 9 percent increase in tuition represents a slight jump This is a national education index showing the amount 0 of increase in the cost of higher education. The 1991 index over last year's tuition increase of 7 percent.

Free trade with Mexico discussed Todd Burgess Assistant Editor

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Ambassador John Negroponte speaks about the United States-Mexico free trade agreement at St. Cajetan's Center June 25.

A free trade agreement between Mexico and the United States would be a natural extension of improved relations,""said the U.S. ambassador to Mexico June 25 at St. Cajetan's Center.

Ambassador John Negroponte said President Bush and Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari both place a high value on the U.S. -Mexico relationship, and as a result have been able to resolve problems between the two countries.

The next issue Negroponte wants resolved is the free trade agreement, which be said could be in place within a year.

"This will be a win-win-win situation," he said, adding that Canada bas much to gain from a North American free trade agreement. "The final purpose of the agreement is to eliminate the tariff barriers between our three countries ultimately to zero."

Negroponte, speaking to a crowd of about 120, said a free trade agreement would encourage for-

eign investment in Mexico, thus providing more jobs for Mexico. As a result, undocumented Mexican workers would no longer need to seek jobs in the U.S., he said.

"I'm very upbeat about the whole situation as you all can undoubtedly tell," Negroponte said.

President Bush has put the free trade agreement on the fast track, meaning debate will be kept out of the public and Congress will have to either accept or reject the agreement without the ability to alter it.

Negroponte said that it is difficult to negotiate with other leaders when a decision could be altered

by Congress.

Someagricultureproducers-theCalifomiaavocado growers, for exampl~on 't want the trade barriers eliminated because it will mean increased competition and lower prices for their products, be said.

The speech and question-and-answer session originally scheduled for two hours lasted only one.

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CoPIRG gains Capitol lobbyist W. Bryon Caver The Metropolitan As a part of a "campaign against toxics" for the coming year, CoPIRG is enlisting the help of two federal legislators and an environmental lobbyist at the state Capitol.

Ajayi Harris, MSCD CoPIRG campus organizer, said the group will attempt to encourage federal lawmakers to support a series of amendinents that would strengthen the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. CoPIRG is joined in this by the 21 "PIRGs" in other states.

CoPIRG has reported that the amendments would serve three main purposes: toxic releases would be stopped by setting stricter standards for toxic discharges, with mandatory fines and criminal penalities for polluters; pollution would be prevented by banning the most hazardous chemicals and reducing the use of all other toxic chemicals; and citizens' s rights

would be expanded by increasing their "right-toknow" and strengthening their right to enforce laws.

Harris said CoPIRG will pe distributing petitions to be signed by Auraria students in favor of the amendments. The petitions will be presented to Sen. Hank Brown, R-Colo., later this fall. Sen. Tim Wirth, DColo., has already expressed approval for the amendments, Harris said.

To handle this issue, as as other legislative issues, Barb Ferrill said that CoPIRG has on its staff Chuck Malick, a full-time enviromental lobbyist at the state Capitol.

The cost for the campaign will come out of CoPIRG's $242,000 state-wide budget, Ferrill said.

MSCD student fees will provide CoPIRG with about $85,000 this year, Ferrill said.

While most students seem to think CoPIRG is strictly an enviromentalist group, Ferrill said that is only half of the picture, with consumer rights issues being just as important.

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MSCDsummerad campaign t_ a rgets younger students Pete Lewis The Metropolitan While the average age of MSCD students this summer was about two years older than the regular year, MSCD is still trying to attract a younger population.

The average age of a student attending MSCD this summer is 29.7, according to Tom Gray, assistant dean of admissions.

During fall and spring semesters this average was 27.

Gray said that age is the only difference between the summer and the regular-year student body that he was aware of. The ethnic makeup, male-female ratio and the percentage of in-state to out-of-state students is identical to the fall and spring semesters.

Josie Black, a statistical analyst at MSCD's Office of Institutional Research, said the percentage of summer semester new transfers and transfer re-admits is not

significantly different from that of last fall and spring semesters.

In the last week of March and early April, MSCD spent $14,000 for an advertising -""I. campaign designed to attract younger students.

Ann Dickerson, director of promotions and advertising at MSCD, said the college ran advertisements in the entertainment sections of both daily newspapers and on five radio stations with young and/or minority audiences. Dickerson said the school wanted to attract students enrolled in other colleges who were in the area for the summer as well as first-time students.

Dickerson also placed advertisements in The Metropolitan to target existing MSCD students for summer classes.

Gray speculated that older students are more likely to attend MSCD year-round while younger students are more likely to rely on the income from summer jobs to pay for school.

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Student governm.e nt retreat sets agenda for year ahead Todd Burgess Assistant Editor This year's student government faces the challenge of representing the entire student body, not just its own interests, Provost David Williams said to the MSCD student government in Estes Park June 22.

Williams, who is also senior vice president for academic affairs and student affairs, said that the new government has already begun to meet the challenge. The survey of student interests collected last Spring indicates that the MSCD student government and its president, Chip Wiman, have a commitment to serving the students' needs, he said.

Williams' address was part of a student government retreat held at the YMCA of the Rockies June 21-23.

Fifty-seven people-including 10 administrators and 19 members of student government-attended the weekend, which cost $2,300.

Meeting the needs of a non-traditional student body and promoting multicultural appreciation were two of the themes of the retreat.

Data provided by Carol Futhey, the director of planning at MSCD, showed that

the median age of students at MSCD last fall was 27 .8 years and indicated that 16 percent of the students were minorities. Activities and concerns of student government must reflect the needs of this diverse student body, Futhey said.

'Leadership isn't something you are born with. It's something that is learned.'

Wiman said that a non-traditional student body calls for a non-traditional student government.

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Lesbian student writes, directs her own play

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The MSCD Theatre came out ofthe closet with the debut of "A Night of Surprises," a lesbian one-act play, June 21 and 22.

"Surprises" was written and directed by Mary Traynor, a junior English major at MSCD. "I originally wanted to write something radically lesbian, something powerful," Traynor said. "It's my baby, and, like a child, has grown in directions that I didn't expect."

Formerly titled "Surprise," the play was written during an advanced playwriting class last year. This was Traynor' s first completed play and first directing experience.

The plot is about two women who are lesbian lovers and roommates. One woman, Maggie, who has never told her family about her lesbianism, finds out that two conservative relatives are coming to spend a couple of days with her. Maggie tries every method she can think of to keep the relatives from discovering her secret, but eventually they find out. This leads to the surprises of the play' s title.

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of the play is more about family secrets in general. Everybody has some secret that they've kept from their parents or family, Traynor said, adding that most people who saw the play, not just lesbians, could sympathize with the main characters.

Two cast members, Laura Leonard, who played "Sally," and Gail Spencer, who played "Aunt Lydia," are MSCD students.

Traynor said that she, as well as most of the cast members, is a lesbian. This did not cause any resistance from any MSCD faculty members nor from any other students during production of"A Night of Surprises," Traynor said.

"I've received nothing but support for all this," she said.

While she admits that she has known other students who have encountered problems because of their homosexuality, Traynor said that she has never had any problems on campus from students knowing that she is a lesbian.

"A Night of Surprises" is just the start for Traynor. Currently self-employed as a carpenter, she said she wants to be a professional playwright after she graduates.

Traynor said she would like to work with feminist theater and, maybe, if things turn out right, open a lesbian theater in Denver.

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Power rests with the many, not the few· sit by and only complain when they see the misuse of power by those in authorEditor ity. Thus they are equally guilty.

Who is this group that has the ability Power. to block the feeding frenzy of powerThe word alone is attractive. The hungry sharks? It is not a secret society. thing itself is intoxicating, exhilarating, It is simply...We, the people. · and sometimes dangerous.

Those three words contain a power Everyone has power. From the man all their own. A power apparently forgotwhose actions can launch the world into ten by most. It is not a power for the war, to the individual who can make a special interest groups, political action child smile- all possess power. Unfor- committees, lobbyists, or lawyers. Those tunately, few realize the power they have three words grant a power to all the and fewer still understand the responsi- people. It is an awesome power that can bilities that must go hand-in-hand with change the world for us and out descenthat power. dants. We all have this power, and the Power can be a very blatant and obligation to use it when others misuse obvious thing. theirs by swallowing up the freedoms of A man can have the power to take the others. lives of others, simply by pulling a trigOur society and nation are entering a ger. An individual can have the power to new era. The cycle is coming full circle. create life by planting a seed, splicing a Fear of difference and conservative mogene, or making love to a mate. A rality is once again rising to the fore and person can have the power to make freedoms are the victims. people laugh, cry, rejoice, or despair. · A new age of McCarthyism and a new These powers rest not in the few and Great Scare lie over the horizon. It is up mighty, but rather exist within all of us. to we, the people, to stop it before it The power is obvious-the responsibili- swamps our society. ties are subtle shades of gray in a scene Already the morality of the few is too many see as black and white. And beginning to feed on the rights and freeall too often, these subtle shades are doms of the many. The proof is already completely ignored. there.

The rights of women to control their When responsibilities are ignored, own lives, their own bodies, their own power grows too large. Those who destinies, and their own decisions is possess this power become bloated from being threatened by the Supreme Court. feeding heavily on the one thing that lets Eight men and one woman are prepower grow: the freedoms of others. suming to have the power to make a When these freedoms begin to disap- moral decision for the majority of the pear, the hideous beasts of over-fed people in our country. A choice of such power brokers emerge as the culprits. consequence and impact is not for an It is amazing, however, how these outsider to make, no matter what their obese monsters are ignored by the only views, opinions, or religious beliefs. It is people who possess the power to stop the right and freedom of that individual them. Those who are the caretakers of to make the choice herself. our society, the guardians of our safety, Women, a great majority in our soci, and the watchdogs of our government ety, are not the only people whose rights

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are threatened. Anothergroup of ordinary people, whose differences many of us cannot understand and so fear, have been singled out for persecution and harassm e n t . ~

rights are b e i n g threatened, and why?

Because of the fear of a disease that is not even theirs. Because of their making a different sexual choice than others. Because there is fear, difference, and misunderstanding.

These things also caused thousands to be labeled witches and burned alive.

Now we are much more civilized. Now we shall simply sit back and watch while their freedoms are eaten away by those with power; self-assured in our own safety. After all, these things always happen to those who are different, immoral, communist, fascist, blasphemous, or most importantly "someone else."

How long shall we, the people, sit back and watch the erosion of our rights?

Who shall be the next group singled out as different, and therefore vulnerable?

Who shall be the next approved as second-class citizens who don't deserve their rights as granted by the constitution? The aged? The blacks, Hispanics, or Asians? The retarded? The handi-

capped? The blond and blue-eyed?

The point is, it could be any one of we, the people.

Therefore, it is up to each and every one of us to remember our own power to protect our rights. For how can those few bloated beasts of power resist the many armed with freedoms and rights?

The answer is thatthey cannot resist the united voice of we, the people.

Don't allow this country and ourselves to sink into complacency. Rise up and let our chorus be heard to remind those in power of their responsibilities. We must shake off our blinders and look around us. If we do not like what we see, then we must do something about it!

This power is ours. This responsibility, and obligation, is ours. Use it. Use it for yourself. Use it for your children's future. Use it for we, the people.

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Mikey, I can't get you out of my life Todd Burgess Assistant Editor An inevitable part of growing up is longing for the past, wishing for the return of those days when everything was simpler and more beautiful. Most people think of their childhood and remember a sense of joy. Maybe I'm weird, but what I miss most about my youth is the greattelevision commercials. In fact, • there's one in particular: the Mikey-Life cereal commercial.

1 Perhaps your memory needs refreshing, but you can probably recite the lines of the commercial as an actor recites , lines of a Shakespearean play. There may be a sense of longing, maybe even a sentimental tear or two, brought on by the timeless words:

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"He won't eat it. He hates everything."

"He likes it. Hey, Mikey."

What made that commercial my favorite and Mikey my hero was the fact that Mikey was a little kid unafraid of taking on the big, scary world. At that time Big Kids scared me and in this commercial there were two Big Kids shaking in their boots at the thought of eating this good-for-you goop. Along comes Big Balls Mikey, not afraid one bit, and he shows up the Big Whiners.

And at the end he doesn't even break stride to tell the Big Kids that the goop won't kill them. He just keeps stuffing his

face!

Another commercial I miss is "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" It was a lowbudget production, but it struck right in the heart of what was considered profound to me at the time. "How many licks does it take?" That ranked right up there with "What is life?" and "Can God make a rock so heavy that even He cannot lift it?"

I mean here I was, a kid who on a good day, could almost count up to eight and I was supposed to figure out how many licks it would take to get to the center of this thing. Oh the hours I spent in ponder. "Five...Six...Seven ... Ninetyseventeen..Thirty-twelve...Two-forty..."

The commercials of yesteryear: It's enough to make a guy misty-eyed!

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The free trade agreement proposed by the Bush Administration will be detrimental to the interests of both U.S: and Mexican workers and will open the doors for free unbridled exploitation of Mexico's resources and economy. The relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, ever since the U.S.-Mexican war of 1848, has been unbalanced, usually giving U.S. owned businesses an unfair advantage to increase their profitability while contributing to economic instability for Mexico.

The free trade agreement is being heavily lobbied for by major U.S. corporations who believe that they can increase their rate of profit because of three major factors. First, the rate of exchange of the Mexican peso to the U.S. dollar fluctuates, rising as high as 3,000 Mexican pesos to one U.S. dollar. Secondly, the rate of pay of Mexican workers is far below the U.S. worker.

For example, the Mexican auto worker earns nearly one third the pay of the U.S. auto worker, but usually Mexican workers work for much less, earning only a few dollars a day. Third, Mexico's laws covering environmental issues are much weaker than the U.S., thus allowing polluters to establish unsafe and toxic industries in Mexico without the fear of legal penalties.

Mexico will also offer U.S. corporations more incentives by giving them major tax breaks and easy access to land. In short, Mexico, an underdeveloped nation, will provide a "profit paradise" for corporations to set up their businesses in Mexico.

President Bush has accused U.S. labor unions and environmental groups as being "racist" for opposing the free trade agreement and has defended his plan by saying that it will help Mexico's economy. However, Mexico's current economic and political situation is extremely complicated and very unstable. Mexico's president Salinas actually lost during the recent presidential election to democratic challenger Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, but in spite of documented evidence of fraud and illegal activities he managed to be installed as president.

The Bush Administration is seeking to bolster the

Salinas government's credibility by stimulating Mexico's economy. However, Mexico's economy won't be stabilized by allowing U.S. corporations to have a free hand at exploiting Mexico's people and resources. It will only cause the situation to worsen. Paying workers the same low wages won't increase their consumer power or stimulate the economy. Further destruction of Mexico's environment won't improve the lives of Mexican people.

Furthermore, it's extremely confusing to understand why, in the face of a major recession, where unemployment is higll., where businesses are closing, while there is a crisis in education, and cities are on the verge of bankruptcy, U.S. corporations would go to another country. During all the over-inflated hype about patriotism and being "American," U.S. corporations turn their backs on the working people of this country in search of higher profits.

Moral responsibility for the betterment of society as a whole is not on the corporate agenda. Environmental groups and corporations have been locking horns in the legislative arena for many years over defining what is "clean and environmentally safe industry." Environmentalists have successfully won some legislative mandates forcing the businesses to "clean up their act." However, it hasn't been easy. The fight still continues. Low income neighborhoods, mostly minority neighborhoods and Indian reservations, are still targets of toxic waste sites and polluting industries. As environmental groups pose a challenge to these industries some choose to head south, to Latin America, hoping to exploit those resources without limitations.

A "fair" trade agreement can be worked out but it must be reciprocal, with no hidden agendas and both sides (U.S. and Mexico) must benefit. The U.S. shouldn't use economic pressure to bolster up an unpopular government for its own benefit. Mexico's problems are indigenous to that country and can be resolved only by the Mexican people. U.S. corporations should pay attention to the cities in trouble, the .unemployed, uneducated and homeless in this country before running off somewhere else.

Joe Navarro is an MSCD senator.

Viewpoint

Seventy-ish and going strong Rhoda Gersten

Baring butts, that used to be called "mooning" a long eight or ten years ago, was a real nonconforming-type thing to do, to say the least. The very least. And it was only males who did it. They did it for shock value in public places such as concerts and political conventions. Nothing like a bare ass to disconcert a ·candidate. Now nearly every youngish person owns at least one garment that is designed to show a pair of gluteal muscles-gluteus maximus, that is-otherwise called buttocks, two of which make one ass, and its not nonconforming behavior at all to go about showing them off.

So what's good for the goose, or so they say, those who say stuff like that, is good for the gander, so take a gander at the seventyish citizens around and let us all do our stuff, whatever the dickens our stuff is, without the accompaniment of looks that say "weirdo."

Hitting 60, I accepted being middle-aged, though I knew it was supposed to start well before fifty. Now at 70, accepting old age and all that is supposed to go with it, or rather, all it's supposed to go without, is a little tough.

Old age starts at 60 or thereabouts they say, though who they are has always perplexed me. The "they" who determines how I should look and think or be is not someone or any bunch of someones to be listened to by me. At the Big Seven I'm still wearing flowery dresses as I used to in the old days of happy middleage-flowery flowing dresses I can move in, taking big fast walking steps as I pass the college students in the hallways.

Conforming to expectations, other people's expecRhoda Gersten taught dance at UCO for 27 years. tations, of how I should comport myself, is not for me.

My expectations of myself are all that count, and as the The Metropolitan welcomes students, faculty years add up I expect to get better and faster, or at least stay this way as long as possible. Worse and slower at and administrators' viewpoints for this column. this point is not for me. And if that disappoints any or Bring submissions to Student Union, Room 156 by noon on Fridays. all youngsters under fifty, well tough luck kids.

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FEATURES MSCD professor finds Mom after 30 year search TIVOLI BREWERY 9th off Auraria Parkway

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Jodi Brooks The Metropolitan For 30 years, Paul J. Donadio, an MSCD accounting professor, didn't know where his mother was, whether she was dead or alive, or if she missed him.

Donadio lived in the town ofBethpage in Long Island, N. Y ., and he remembers the separation with his mother at age 10. His father, Joe, left home taking his boys with him. Paul still vividly remembers driving away in the car sitting in the front seat between his older brother, Jim, and his father.

Paul clearly remembers what his father said that day in 1958: "From this day forward, your mother is dead."

Although Paul and Jim were only 35 miles away from Margaret, their mother, no contact was made. Paul was forbidden to keep in touch, and Margaret feared Joe. Paul eventually graduated from high school, earned a college degree and moved to Greeley where he now lives.

His search for his mother began in 1976.

He visited his old neighborhood, searched old telephone books and checked with old family friends.

Paul had only one photograph ofhimself.

He was 7 years old, standing in front of the family car in 1955. No photographs of his mother were available.

Joe Donadio, a strong-willed man, helped at times provide information about Margaret.

Two weeks prior to finding his mother, Paul returned to the old neighborhood and talked with neighbors. In a home across the street, a woman gave him a postcard she had found in the attic from his mother. This was the first possession Paul had that connected him to his mother. "It was the first time I'd seen her handwriting," he said.

Mary O'Connor helped Paul locate his mother through the program Adoptees In Search.

"I'd found out she lived in Washington, D.C., in 1962," Paul said. "I talked to AIS, and they called on March 20 (1988) to tell me a woman with my mother's name.lived in D.C." His mother's telephone number was unlisted. O'Connor had a friend who worked for the phone company who could get the number but was unable to be reached until Monday.

Paul couldn't wait.Jan, his wife, posed as a nurse. She told the operator there was a medical emergency. Since the number was unlisted the operator contacted Margaret and gave her Donadio' s number.

"I was outside washing the car when Jan came out and said my mother was on the telephone ... my mother! I was so excited," Donadio said, "I couldn't even figure out how to shut off the water at the nozzle.

Finally I left the water running and ran inside to get the call."

During their conversation Donadio told his mother that he would like to see her. She said, "I guess it would be all right."

Paul flew to Washington, D.C., rented a car, and drove outside of Baltimore. In the car he began to have second thoughts. "I was thinking ' What if she rejects me? What if she is too ill to remember or even know she has a son?'" Donadio said.

When he arrived at her door, he raised his hand to knock. He hesitated and almost turned away. Instead, he knocked.

A petite woman answered the door. She said, "Hello." There were no hugs or kisses.

"There was a cold reception - as if I were selling magazines," Donadio said.

AIS had warned him that the encounter with his mother would be anti-climatic: the search was an end in itself.

His mother was a stranger to him. "A half dozen memories was a lot," he said.

The day of the reunion, Donadio and his mother attended a session for Margaret's chemical imbalance that had developed from alcoholism. This imbalancehospitalizedher for paranoia which would result in psychotic episodes.

At the psychiatrist's office, it was revealed that Donadio's mother thought the phone call was a result of her illness. This explained her reclusive attitude. see MOM page 12

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ENTERTAINMENT & THE ARTS African American art exhibit opens at MSCD gallery Gall Spencer .

The Metropolitan A rainstorm may have hindered the street festivities, but it dido 't keep scores of people, including Mayor Wellington Webb and wife, Rep. Wilma Webb, from coming out for the July 9 opening of the African American Art exhibit at MSCD's Center for the Visual Arts.

Co-presented by the Fifth Annual Denver Black Arts Festival, the exhibit succeeds ·in creating the community feel it represents through its predominant display of portrait art showcased by some of the area's finest Black artists.

"This is the first time that the Black Arts Festival will have a professional venue for art," said MSCD art Chair Susan Josepher during a previous interview about the show.

"Metro's delighted to be a first."

Included among the exhibits of 15 artist's on display through August 10 are striking sculptures by the world-renowned Ed Dwight; mind-twisting dolls and collages

by Gladys Drew; beautiful wood carvings byOyeOginga; and expressive, mixed media drawings by Jon Howe, a seasoned artist who's been an instructor at MSCD and the University of Colorado in Boulder and who's currently planning a European tour.

Among other highlights are Darrell Anderson 's haunting charcoal, " Bass Player," and his pastels of musicians; and works by the accomplished sculptor and painter Bob Raglund, soon to be an instructor at Denver's new School of the Arts and whose collectors include Correta Scott King and Bill Cosby. His untitled sculpture complete with tire, wheels, springs and coils, - is not to be missed.

Jack Price's charcoal pastel, "Key~a," and Eddie Brown's pen and ink, "Family Business," show that self-taught art provides great cultural appeal, while the work of Joel "Dragonfly" Cook, who said he's participated in very few exhibits, is certain to stir attention with his renderings in acrylic, watercolor and oil. From his sensitive "God's Peace" to his quixotic "Vamp" and powerful "Warrior," this soft-spoken former Denver county Sheriff's deputy said he's decided to pursue his art, the likes of which seem juxtaposed with the nickname "Dragonfly" which he said he acquired from his boxing days.

In a brief presentation, MSCD President Thomas Brewer welcomed the partnership of MSCD and the Black Arts Festival, and announced that seven recent additions to the MSCDfaculty will make a total of27 African Americans. Brewer also welcomed newly

African American artists bring their work to the MSCD Center for Visual Arts This untitled work of Darrell Anderson is appe.~ring at the African Art exhibit at the MSCD Center for the Visual Arts located at 17th Avenue and Wazee. appointed center for the Visual Arts director Sally Perisho, who did a wonderful job in mounting the show amid her first week with the college.

As Brewer introduced the Mayor, he kidded that the Webbs were late because they walked from City Hall, a call back to Webb's recent victory due, many believe, to his walking campaign tour of the city.

"He is a credit to the American dream that anything is possible," Brewer said of

WebbwhoisanhonorarygraduateofMSCD. Webb said we must place an emphasis and higher importance on art and culture.

"It is reflective of our history (and) history reflects tradition," Webb said. "Only through the understanding of tradition can we appreciate (that culture.)"

Webb further praised MSCD for its commitment to urban education and urged the support of local artists in the community.

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SPORTS Volleyball tournament raises funds for team Will Hinton Sports Editor The nets were up and the shirts were off at the Summer Sizzler Doubles Volleyball Tournament at MSCD June 15 and 16.

The tournament, sponsored by the Roadrunner volleyball team, drew 129 teams in three classifications to the Auraria Campus Fields for two days of sun and spikes.

Assistant Volleyball Coaches Alice . Nickelson and Verna Julaton were the tournament directors for the Summer Sizzler, a · tournament used to raise money for the volleyball team.

According to Nickelson, the event raised about $1000 for the program, but initially she was hoping for more. "We raised $2500 but some sponsors didn't come through so we ended up paying out more than we had planned to," she said.

Aside from the problems with the sponsors, Nickelson said the tournament was a success.

The prizes were the same for all the classes, with the winners walking away with $50 in prize money, second place finishers receiving $30, and $20 going to those who placed third. The first place finishers were also given a bonus prize, the men winning volleyball shorts and the women receiving tights.

The class A brackets pitted the highest

caliber players against each other.

In the men's A final Eric Mercer and Mitch Stapelton defeated Phillip Pea and Jeff Clark to take first place honors.

On the women's side it was Erica Ruegg and Lianne Munekata over the sister team of Theresa and Jeannie Chaloupka in the final match.

The men's BB classification produced the most entries of any class, with the team of Sherman and Harris walking away with the prize money and the shorts.

The team of White and Ellis proved to be the best in the men's B class.

The women's BB bracket belonged to the duo of Cirbo and Collins, while the twosome of Vieselmeyer and Hutchinson were too

Bittersweet reunion After three and a half years, Paul has visited his mother three times and calls religiously on Sundays.

Margaret, now 79, has Alzheimers and lives in .a nursing home. Each week Donadio can tell she is going downhill. " It' s a win and a loss at the same time," he said.

When asked why he searched for his mother, Donadio said, "There is a bond between a mother and child that almost nothing can break ...something was pulling me towards my mother.

"The ending is bittersweet. I found my

much for the rest of the competition in women's B. Any players who missed out on the Summer Sizzler need not despair. The MSCD Fall Challenge Doubles Volleyball Tournament is coming up August 10- l l. The same classifications will be offered in what Nickelson said is the bigger of the two tournaments.

For volleyball players in grades 7-12, the 1991 MSCD Volleyball Camp will be held August 5-9 at the Auraria Campus Gymnasium.

For more information on the Fall Challenge or the camp, call Head Volleyball Coach Rhonda McMullen at 556-2875. 0

from MOM page 1O mother, but not the mother I was looking for." He had an impression ofJune Cleaver on "Leave It to Beaver," he said.

After the reunion, Donadio called his father, not knowing how he would react.

Joe said, "You did the right thing."

Donadio, very different from his father said, "He did the right thing, but the wrong way."

Five months after Paul found his mother, Joe died.

"It was a cruel twist of fate," Donadio said.

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"In the past, BSA has been accused of being racist," Jones said. "We are problack, our first priority is towards AfroAmerican students; just as Anglo students help themselves. How can 700 out of 18,000 students be a threat?"

Thomas K. Saville, a psychology professor at MSCD, said that the Minority Incentives .Program is an obstacle to excellence in teaching at MSCD. The plan is "putting a $5,000 bounty on hiring a minority," he said. The new hiring programs will be "modeling professional victim status," be said. ''Our business is to stimulate critical thinking, not jumping on band wagons."

There are 366 full time faculty members at MSCD. Two-hundred and sixtyone are men and 105 are women. Of the 261 men, 39 are people of color, and 222 are white. Of the 105 women, 13 are women of color, and 92 are white. Last semester 76 percent of the MSCD student body was white, and 15.9 percent a were people of color.

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SPORTS MSCD athletes spend summer 'break' spiking, shooting, hitting, running Wiii Hinton

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It is the middle of July and MSCD's summer break is nearly two months old.

While the traditional students get breaks like summer vacation in their school routine, being an athlete is a year round proposition.

Take 'Runners hoopers T.J. Milan and Ralph Rivers for example.

Both men are taking summer classes and working for the NCAA sponsored National Youth Sports Program. They have also worked as scorekeepers at a MSCD sponsored high school basketball tournament, helped at the Roadrunner Summer Basketball Camp, and contributed to a five-week camp for the area's underprivileged kids.

They are tuning their already substantial basketball skills, too, playing pick-up games or in the Joint Effort Basketball League.

They also spend time in the weight room where Alabaman Rivers tones what is already the most chiselled body in the conference.

Sounds like a full Load, right? Not for Illinois native Milan.

"I'm gonna be going back to Chicago in August to play in the pro-am there," said Milan, who will be squaring off against some tough competition. "MichaeLJordan 's gonna be there," he said.

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working out regularly with her boyfriend, ex-Roadrunner hooper Tim Moser, a situation that sl)e jokingly said made skeptics out of some.

Working out with Moser has not been a distraction, but rather it bas helped maintain her focus more than ever. "He makes me work bard," she said, punctuating the la,<>t word to convince any doubters.

Volleyball becomes workout regimen Senior Darcie lnglee's summer regimen is similar to Braunscbweiger's, sans boyfriend, which is a smart move on her part since she bas been married for two years.

Inglee, whose volleyball honors last year included second-team All-CAC and team MVP, has teamed up with former high school rival Jenna Torrez for their second summer.

While they are not playing poorly, Inglee would like to see them play a little better.

"We placed once last year (in the top three), but we haven't placed yet this summer," said lnglee. lnglee and Torrez did make the semifinals in the Summer Sizzler Doubles Volleyball Tournament at MSCD a few weeks ago.

Inglee also works out regularly and attends summer classes.

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Monda,v through frjda,v Sunda,v through Thursda,v 4:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Sunrise 9:00 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. - Preload 4:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Twilight Starting pay $7.00/HR Educational assistance program avaMable to eligible individuals after 30 days. Additional non-taxable $1.00/HR. For More lnformatlon:Job descriptions and a schedule of oncampus interviews may be obtained.from Bill Basile in the student employment office of the Auraria Student Assistance Center. suite 177 in the Arts Building. Phone: 556-34 77. or apply in person at 645 W. 53rd Place.

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Baseball players keep on swinging through summer

The MSCD baseball players have continued where they left off.

Junior hooper Holly Roberts, coming off Some are playing in Colorado's semi-pro a first-team All-Colorado Athletic Confer- league, like senior Rob Barringer, who is ence season, was invited to this year's Olym- taking his hack-s for the Englewood Redpic Festival tryouts in Omaha, Neb. earlier birds. this summer.

The Aurora semi-pro team has six 'Run-路 Though she was released after the second ners on its roster. round of cuts, the fact that she was even For senior catcher Andy Dewett the Auinvited shows she is among the nation's rora team is a family affair, as he and younger elite. brother Martin, who will be a freshman at Roberts said that competing against the Creighton, give the squad a potent sibling best players in the country was a humbling, power combination. but educational experience.

As of July 4, Tom Triska, a senior, was Roberts' work schedule conflicted with leading the team in hitting with a .513 averplaying ball in a league so she tries to work age, while senior Aaron Bennett was hitting out every other day to stay in playing shape. at a torrid .488 clip with four ho~ers and 17 RBis after 19 games.

Sisters team up for doubles The pitching staff is heavily weighted volleyball tournaments with Metro talent, lead by senior Sean Teammate Noel Braunschweiger is work- Patterson who has a 2-1 record and a 3.66 ing doubly hard to improve her performance ERA. on the courts.

Senior Paul Yarborough has come off a Not only is Braunschweiger a junior disappointing spring in which his entire starter for the women's basketball team, she pitching motion was changed to post a l-0 is also a sophomore on the volleyball team. record.

This summer Braunschweiger is concenGregg "Dog" Browne has found a mix of trating more on volleyball as she has teamed starting and relieving to his liking, as his 2up with her sister Erin, and is playing in 1 record and two saves will attest to. doubles tournaments.

Browne said he is using the summer to Team Braunschweiger is not faring too work on his mechanics and speed. well on the doubles circuit, but that is OK. "I haven't been using my legs enough, so "This is our first summer together and right I'm trying to drive off the mound harder," now we're just trying to learn each other's Browne said, adding that the legs, not the games," she said. arm, are the key to a good As for conditioning, Braunschweiger is fastball 0

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EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Career/Life Planning Seminar

Business Center for Women

"Spirit of Home" opens at Emmanuel Gallery

Comedy Sports of Denver continues at Govn'rs Park

The MSCD Counseling Center is offering one more session this summer semester.

The seminar includes self assessment of individual skills, interests and values as well as guidelines on researching a career, decision making and goal setting.

Mondays, July 22, 29, and Aug. 5.

5: 15 to 7: 15 in CN 203 Call 556-3132 for more information.

Seminars are being held to assist you in your business decisions.

"Considering a Business?" will give you the opportunity to assess your skills for business ownership, evaluate your potential success, etc ..

Contact Elsa I. Holguin for more information at 573-1302.

The show runs July 5 thru Aug. 2.

The artists express personal mythology, history and culture. The work involves the exorcism of emotional traumas, the celebration of positive experiences and the reliving of the artists' memories of "home."

Featured artists are Bill Myers, Patty Ortiz, and Dania Pettus.

Gallery hours: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Ensemble comedy is presented as a team sport Fridays and Saturdays at Govnr's Park Resteraunt, 7:30 & 9:00 p.m.. Located at 672 Logan Street.

Student discounts are available.

Call 860-9782 for reservations.

Liebhardt Scholarship now offered for 1991-92 The Liebhardt Scholarship is for students who are African American or Hispanic, Colorado residents,and degree seeking, and have at least 24 credit hours at MSCD with at least a 3.0 GPA. The deadline for applications is July 15. Applications are available at MSCD Office of Financial Aid.

Future of The Grey Wolf presented The Denver Musuem of Natural History will present a lecture and panel discussion on the history and future of the grey wolf, one of our nation's most endangered species, on July 15, at 7:00 p.m. in the IMAX Theater.

Tickets are $6 for members and $8 for non-members. For more information call 322-7009.

On-Campus Al-Anon Family Group Weekly meetings are held every Wednesday in Library room 205 Times: 11 :30 - 12:30

Closed A.A. Meetings Meetings are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in room 206 of the Library. Call Tom at 741-0099.

Auraria Tai Chi Club Meetings on Mondays, 7 - 7:50 p.m ..

All students and faculty are encouraged to join.

Meetings are in PE 215. For more information call Laina Gorgdan at 321-3240.

Big Brothers Needs Volunteers The Big Brothers organization in Denver needs volunteers to help staff its food concession at various events throughout the summer.

Lend a helping hand to the nearly six hundred children who are waiting for a special adult friend.

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