.... The Metropolitan State College of Denver student newspaper, serving the Auraria Campus since 1979
Volume 14, Issue 5
Denver, Colorado
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Plan may alter tuition rates MSCD president wants tuition based on number of credit hours taken Riki Doherty The Metropolitan Full-time students at MSCD may be in for a surprise next fall if a proposal to change tuition rates is approved. A plan to begin charging students more for each credit hour is currently being proposed by MSCD President Thomas Brewer. MSCD is on a system now where taking l 0 credit hours is the same charge as taking up to 15 credit hours. "The system the way it is now is nice for someone like me, talcing a full,class load. I don't know if I will be' able to afford to keep doing that if this new plan starts," said Dominic Perino III, a full-time MSCD student. The rates for part-time students are higher because the cost per hour is more. A student talcing six credits this semester is paying an instate tuition of$468.50, while a student taking 12 credits is paying $738.50. lftheproposedchanges are approved by the MSCD Board of Trustees a student ta.king 12 credit hours will be paying twice as much as one taking six hours. "A fulltime student will probably be paying more, while someone taking say, six credits a semester, will be paying less than they are now," Brewer said. The proposal is targeted to help the non-
• Sports Men's and women's soccer teams tie Cal Poly-Pomona in weekend doubleheader Page 16
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Basketball season ticket buyers take refuge from the rain to get a tour of the renovated Events Center from William Helman, director of intercollegiate athletics.
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America must aid Soviet Union, says Hart Promoting new book about Soviet Union brings former Colorado senator to Auraria the responsibility to redefine its international policies and role as a world leader in a post-communist world by helping the Soviet Union, said former Sen. Gary Hart. Following recent dramatic Hart spoke at the Auraria Book events in the Soviet Union, Center Tuesday to promote his new America bas the opportunity and book, "Russia Shakes the World." "There is a tidal wave rushing out from the Soviet Union today - a tidal wave of change; and when it gets to shore, it will be very, very large and have a huge impact,'' Hart said. Interviews with Soviet leaders during numerous visits to the Soviet Union in 1985 and 1986, combined with recent events, Slwon Dum I The MetlllJOljlan have convinced Hart Hart at the Book Center.
Barbara La Freniere The Metropolitan
that the United States should support and aid the Soviet Union. Economic aid, however, should not be a long-term policy where the United States hands out cash gifts, Hart said. "The Soviet people don't want cash," he said. Currently, the government of the Soviet Union resembles more of a confederation than a federation, Hart said. The revolution is deeply rooted in the people, including governmental and military leaders, and Hart said he believes this "broad-based" support was a restraining force during the revolution, resulting in one of the least bloody revolutions in history. Hart said that international economic reality will force the remaining eight or l 0 independent republics of the Soviet Union to draw closer together as an economic and
trading block, whatever the political trends and alliances of the 1990s. The net result of all this is that the world has changed in ways that no one could predict, Hart said. The world has changed and nt1w challenges face both the Soviet Union and the United States as major world powers, he said. While America has applauded the democratic trend in the Soviet Union, quick fixes could bring short-term economic disaster where thousands of people are unemployed overnight, Hart said. "We have a stake in this," he said, "so assistance of this kind is not merely humanitarian, it's in ow self-interest as well. In fact, it's one of the few times when we can do what's right and do what's ¡ best for us as well." 0