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THE METROPOUTAN Before the Board of Trustees for the State Colleges in Colorado approved Karen Krupar's tenure application March 11, the·validity of several statements in her dossier were questioned by some of her colleagues in the Speech Communications department. Krupar, an associate speech communications professor, began her process for tenure six months ago when she submitted a dossier for review. Llke aJl tenure applicants, Krupar's dossier included a resume and a summary of individual achievements, but "irregularities" in the dossier led to doubts about her achievements. Krupar The first to review her application was a faculty committee, made up of speech communications professors: Thomas Cook, James Craig and Marilyn Hetzel. They voted unanimously against Krupar's tenure application last fall. "There were irregularities," Cook said about Krupar's dossier. "Irregularities that we could not buy into with a clear and good conscience." The department committee found that Krupar's dossier contained elements they felt were untrue, Cook said. "We did some additional checking on our own ... so we could gain independent information and not have to rely strictly on the document." Krupar, however, defended her dossier, pointing out that the committee may have gotten caught up on "semantics" and "verb selections." .She said the committee contacted her only once with questions, and she gave them documentation to verify those claims. The application continued through the process, despite allegations, reaching David Williams, vice president of Academic Affairs, and MSCD President Sheila Kaplan in the spring. This prompted Cook to send two memos on the committee's behalf to Kaplan, alerting her of their concerns. The memo was also forwarded to Carl Johnson, the department chairman, Joan Foster, the dean of Letters, Arts and Scienc;es, and Williams. "(There) were things we just felt needed to be brought into sharper focus," Cook said. "My primary
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Joey Tucci, 5, dangles from a tree Monday at Ninth Street Park. Wann temperatures this week brought out students from classrooms and children from the Child Care Center.