Volume 15, Issue 1 - July 3, 1992

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The Metropolitan The Metropolitan State College of Denver student newspaper sei:vffig the Auraria Campus since 1979

Ju.ty 3' 1992

Denver-, Cotor-a.tio

Tivoli layout rocked with doubts

This Week.•. News~~~~~~­

Catalog out, only a year late Changes in staff and organization led to a year long delay in the publication of the new student catalog. Also, for the first time, students must pay for the catalog.

Discriminate and lose it The new SACAB antidiscri mination policy now has teeth. Clubs that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation will lose space for meetings. Page3

State rep. questions CoPIRG funding methods The negative check-off system is widely used, but critics say the system rips off students. Page4

Opinion

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Who is leading the fight against racism? Shawn Cox believes minority leaders fall short in the struggle to find compromise in dealing with racism. Page6

Features~~~~~­

"Lovers" a big bore Lackluster "Lovers" has plenty of sex but no sizzle. Patricia Straub reviews this Spanish movie at the Esquire. Page9

Sports-----Runners strike out at Rockies tryout Hope or Hype? Seven Metro players vied for a spot on the Rockies roster but their field of dreams turned sour when none of them were signed. Page 10

Planning committee finds problems with architect's four proposals Barry Tobin Managing Editor

Architects for the Tivoli renovation presented four possible layout plans June 30 for the new Student Union, but wave after wave of criticism washed away any definite plans for construction to begin soon. The epicenter of controversy centered between student services and the Auraria Book Center. All four of the plans assigned space to the Book Store in the center of the building, putting the emphasis on retail sales. "The students disagree that the Book Store should take prime space," said Chip Wiman, MSCD student trustee. "We want the students to have the best part of the building." The question is, do we want to make this another Tattered Cover bookstore? Wiman said. "We have to reiterate that this is to be a student union, first and foremost," said

Kelli Baldree, outgoing SACAB representative. "Students feel relatively gouged by the bookstore prices and to put it at the front of the Student Union would be an insult to the students who just need a place to hang-out." John 0. Camey, Jr. , of Urban Design Group, Inc., the contractor for lheTivoli renovation, safd the project is in the evolutionary stage. "I have said from day one that this need not be an either-or situation ," Carney said. ..This could be a win-win situation." Sources on the committee said AHEC representatives want to focus on the money-making aspects of the Tivoli while those representing the three schools want to focus on the needs of students. Karen Thorpe, assistant vice president for Student Affairs, said the three schools and AHEC have two separate missions. "AHEC is like a management company for the campus," Thorpe said. "They have to ensure that there are sufficient revenues to pay off the bonds." Thorpe also said that despite the difference in missions, AHEC and the institutions are working together to achieve satisfactory results for both at the Tivoli.

JoAnn Soker, AHEC executive vice president, said AHEC is only the vehicle to get the project done. Neither AHEC nor she have a personal investment or interest in the renovation. she said. Soker said AHEC is funded through revenues generated from each of the schools on campus, as well as parking and transportation, and the gym. "We are trying to coordinate this so that all the institutions are treated fairly," Soker said. Gordon Scott, AHEC director of Administration and Business Services, said the Tivoli is a shared-use facility. "We are looking for a balance of revenue to pay the expenses of occupying the building," he said. Gretchen Minney, director of the bookstore, said any of the plans that she saw would work. "I am not an architect," Minney said. "I will leave the final decision for the location of the bookstore up to the experts." Urban design Group Inc. will present alternative designs at the next meeting of the Tivoli Planning Committee set for 4 p.m., July 13 in Room 330A in the Auraria Student Union.

Panel agrees • w racism, sexism, and violence an American reality Rod Pfannenstiel Gwen Estridge The Metropolitan

Police brutality, urban violence, and the criminal justice system were the focal points at a June 24 forum entitled "The Dark Side of Justice or Institutionalized Racism?" Members of the panel included attorneys, news columnists, a Denver police sergeant, and a UCO professor. All agreed that justice was not served in the King case and that attitudes toward minorities must change. Spike Adams, director of TriInstitutional Legal Services, sponsored the forum. "The issue of the Rodney King verdict has a tremendous significance in terms of our criminal justice system, color and the fabric of our society," Adams said. "People have the expectation that justice is blind." The judicial system and the way it treats minorities came under attack from panel member Ken Hamblin, a Denver Post columnist. "Believe me," Hamblin said, "There is racism and sexism and no, there is no justice." Panelist Terri Blake, chief deputy public defender, said the system does one thing well: it keeps offenders off the street and in jail. Training programs for offenders and compensation programs for

Patricia StraubfThe Metropolitan

"Dark Side" panelists discussed racism June 24 on the Auraria Campus. From left: Ken Hamblin, Howard Raiten, Judy Lucero, Skeet Johnson, Joe Webb and Kenneth Padilla. victims are lacking, she said. yelled Hamblin. "I choose not to hide Blake also said people want to believe behind color." this isn't a sexist or racist country. But Webb blasted H1amblin saying, "This after the King verdict was announced, she is not a radio station," referring to was shocked, she said. Hamblin's reputation of being a minority Attorney Kenneth Padilla said the jury basher. system works, but the media has created Judy Lucero, attorney and columnist an "us against the police" attitude for The Denver Post, said diversity in the system is necessary and diversity will between minorities and police. "The role of police officers created a only occur when attitudes toward fear and a phobia that black men and minorities in the workplace change .. other minorities are to be feared in the Institutional racism, Lucero said, "tells dark," Padilla said. us that who we are isn't good enough and Sgt. Joe Webb, of the Denver mayor's that we have to look and a-et like the Executive Security Office, rebuked the people who hold the power.""Of the media and Hamblin for minority-bashing worst of criminals that there could after Hamblin verbally attacked the black possibly be," Joe Webb said, "no one prosecutor in the King case. deserved the beating that man (Rodney "Incompetence is incompetence," King) got."


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