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StUdents rip service requirement Brewer's plan would mandate 200 hours of work in community
Enjoying the November sunshine --~.....---------------~-
Suzanne Hardy The Metropolitan
Aurarla students relax In the unseasonable Nov. 13 weather In front of the Student Union.
S. Elloll r.y I The IAelropoilan
MSCD students apparently will have no voice in a proposal to force incoming freshmen and transfer students to perform 200 hours of community service as a graduation requirement. But angry voices are being heard nevertheless. "I don't think it's fair," said Rhonda Brown, an MSCD freshman. "It's kind of like a punishment. It's usually required for people who are in trouble with the law." MSCD President Thomas Brewer announced in September a proposal to require incoming freshmen and transfer students to perform a set number of community service hours without receiving credit. Two months later, the proposal is not well-received. Nick Kidwell, also a freshman, said although the service would be good for the community, he would probably have been "hacked off' at having no choice but to perform the service. "Usually, people who work in the community see Service page 4
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Breslin brings brazen book to Auraria Barry Tobin Staff Writer
The brazen, ~wo-fisted Jimmy Breslin visited the Aur~a Book Center Nov. 7 to promote his la~est book, the biography Damon Runyon, A Life. "I wrote this 1book for money," Breslin said to the crowd of about 70 who had come to see a folk hero of American newspaper and print. "I worked fofj Hearst newspapers and so did Runyon. He l:lrank a lot and met a Lot of characters." Breslin could have been talking about himself. The book jacket calls Damon Runyon, A Life, "a perfect union of author and subject." Two characters from Breslin's own past
- much like many of the characters in DamonRunyon -wereFatThomas,a450pound bookmaker, and Marvin the Torch, an arsonist who "built vacant lots for a living." Runyon was one of a kind, Breslin told the crowd- he hated legitimate people and Loved thieves. Runyon started his journalism career in Colorado at age I L. He wrote about gunfights and lynchings at the Pueblo Chieftain and later at The Denver Post. He was fired from thePostfordrinking and then migrated to New York. Breslin told the story of a favorite character of Runyon, Harry "Champ" Segal, a New York gangster: Two men were shot to death outside Segal's bar one day. The police found a smoking gun inside the barroom with the
initials "H.S." inscribed on the handles. With the dead bodies and the smoking gun inscribed with Segal's initials, the police figured they had Segal for murder. Segal was arrested and brought to trial. "Don't worry, Mr. Runyon. I'll get outta this," Segal told the newsman. During the trial, Segal told the judge, "I don't even own a gun." When the court asked Segal about why his initials were on the gun, Segal said, "I don't own the alphabet either. You think I'm the only H.S. in the world?" Segal beat the rap. On the courthouse steps, Segal, a free man, said to Runyon, "If I go back in there and ask the judge, do you think he'll gimme my gun back?" Breslin said Runyon coined the terms "Broadway" and the "Roaring Twenties," see Breslin page 4
Dominic CluPlez I The Metlopoilan
Jimmy Breslin discusses his new book, Damon Runyon: A Life, at the book store.
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