Volume 16, Issue 5 - Sept. 17, 1993

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Auraria Board Considers Student Compensation for Current Student Union

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News Editor Stops Executive Session Victor Anthony THE METROPOLITAN

At its September meeting on Monday, the Auraria Board of Directors attempted to go into executive session but was stopped in its tracks due to a legal technicality raised by The Metropolitan's news editor. Antoinette Vecchio disputed with King Trimble, chairman of the Auraria Board, and other board members after Trimble requested a

vote to withdraw from the public portion of the meeting to discuss personnel matters regarding Emerson Holliday, and other issues. Holliday, the former division director of Student Services for Auraria Higher Education Center, was released from his contract in July. " If this is going to be an executive session closed to the public, then Mr. Holliday must request that it be closed to the public," Vecchio said. see SESSION page 8 administration.

Plans were developed by AHEC in cooperation with the three schools on campus to use the Student Union for classrooms after its current functions were moved to the Tivoli, said Dean Wolf, vice president of operations. At issue now is the way the current Student Union space has been and will be funded once the building is converted to academic space. "We have no problem with the Auraria Student Union being used for academic space," Keith said. She said she agrees that a need for more classrooms at Auraria should be addressed. "But we do have a problem with the fact that not all of the bonds that were taken out to build and support this building, the bond funds of the 1977 series, have been paid off yet," she said. The bonds Keith referred to were issued in connection with the Student Union building. There are currently $4,855,000 of Series 1977A Bonds outstanding according to AHEC reports. Because the Student Union is not academic space, student fees, not tuition, have been used to pay off this debt. The Colorado Commission of Higher Education (CCHE) strictly prohibits the use of student fees to construct academic facilities. "It's al ways subject to change, but that's our current policy," said Robert Moore, the acting executive director of CCHE. It is AHEC's contention that the debt load of the current Student Union was shifted to the Tivoli as part of the referendum approved by students in April of 1991, Wolf said. In a letter to CCHE, Soker see COMPENSATION page 6

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