Volume 14, Issue 29 - April 17, 1992

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

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MSCD students gathered near the flagpole on the Auraria Campus to protest a recent proposal to charge tuition by the credit hour on April 9. The proposal still hasn't been approved by the MSCD Board of Regents.

Frustration and anger filled the air as students gathered April l l to protest the tuition-by-the-credit-hour proposal. 'Tm here to get an education," said junior music major Flora Young to the concerned and cheering crowd. "I'm paying to get an education - not just with money, but with effort and energy ... stop tuition increases!" Over 500 students protested President Brewer' s proposal, one of the largest protests in MSCD's history. Students carrying signs and wearing blue ribbons surrounded the flagpole at noon. Many took turns at the microphone voicing their concerns and opinions about tuition by the credit hour and tuition increases. "The concept of a four-year college," MSCD Student Govemmetn President Chip Wiman said, "what happened to the concept of a four-year college? A five-year college?" Voices stressed resentment ranging from the increasing financial burden of tuition increases to the reluctance offulltime students who would have to graduate a year or more later because of the additional expense tuition by the credit hour would impose upon them. "Do we want an elite institution where only the wealthy can come?" saio Joe Navarro, spokesman for MEChA. "This used to be a poor neighborhood, and this college was built promising education. What's the purpose of having a community college if no one can afford to come here?" see Protest page 7

Quilt shares joys, sorrows of AIDS victims' families Kenneth Schwartz The Metropolitan Mark Jacobson's brother, Joel, died of AIDS last year. When Mark heard about the Auraria quilting bees on a Denver TV news broadcast, he called his parents in Colorado Springs. He wanted them all to get together to make a quilt panel for Joel. Mark and his wife then joined Bob and Muriel Jacobson at the St. Francis Center Tuesday to sew a panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The family felt good about the effort, that read: Joel Robert Jacobson August 30, 1957 - June 11, 1991 ...and the spirit soars as a bird set free ... "As we looked at the other quilts, we

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realized how many other people were affected by AIDS," Muriel said as she looked around the room at others sewing on their quilts. Fighting back tears, she explained the quote on the quilt. "Itjustfithirn. He was a free spirit." Not everyone at the quilting bee had a direct link to someone who had I.lure GregitTome I The Metropolitan died of AIDS. Jeff Milich (left) and Billi Mavromatis Jan Laland, president of Golden Key, the National Honor three days of sewing. Society chapter at MSCD, helped plan the Laland said she didn't know anyone who

had died of AIDS before this event. "But I do now," she said, "I got to know him by working on his panel." The man's wife had brought photos to the bee, which Lalond then sewed onto his panel. "It's been fun," Laland said. " I can't wait to see it next week," when the panels from the Auraria quilting bees will be displayed with the national version of the quilt at the DU Fieldhouse. Billi Mavromatis, the organizer of the quilting bees at Auraria, looked back on three days of hard work with satisfaction. "People had this look of wonderment on their faces," she said, and happily reported that nine new panels had been created from the effort.

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Trustees urged to kill Brewer's tuition plan Page3

Paula Poundstone comes to Auraria for night of comedy Page9

Home run king returns to MSCD after '91 surgery Page 21

see Quilt page 7


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