Volume 4, Issue 2 - Sept. 9, 1981

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NEWS: Parking is a grating problem with no immediate solution.

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NEWS: Wondering about the new rules governing the guaranteed student loan program? Hear the facts from someone who should

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FEATURE: She came back to school last year after a 25-year absence. A thief may end her brief return.

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METROSTYLE: Miles Davis is back and his latest offering, plus three others from the Jazz world are reviewed this week.

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Volume 4, Issue 2 ©Metropress September 9, 1981

Seating limits In; students out

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Enrollments up; sPace a problem by Brian Coffey-Weber

been a fire problem for a few years, this summer the fire department would take no excuses. To appease fire department officials, Schoemer and some of his staff went through every classroom to determine each rooms' capacity. In three rooms another door was added to allow for more seating. In all, 138 class rooms were inspected. Acording to Schoemer, 10-12 were severely affected by the capacity restrictions. While the fire marshall may be pleased, Curtis said, the capacity rule "kills us over here (in admissions)." _ Curtis said his department quit taking applications a week before Colorado's population growth - and - A~~aria school~. . . . _ classes began and that he is proDenver·~ in particular - may play a · U~b~n uruversities will probably part in the increased enrollment at benefit m a bac~ ~oor .so~t of way (hr, ~ing registrations day by day. He. added that the waiting lists for Auraria but other urban universities in the Reagan admirustration s cutbacks), classes normally-do not run past l~ 'booming' areas are experiencing Curtis Whalen, directo~ of financial aid 100:_They have exceeded that this at UNC at Charlotte said. similar success. year. After checking with two urban and One ,way is alread>: e~dent ..~c at "We're telling students (on one extension school _ the University of Charlotte,. Whalen said, lS r~ivmg an North Carolina at Charlotte· the undetermmed number of transfer waiting lists) they don't stand a University of Michigan at D~born; students . inc!udin~ many from good chance of getting in class," and the University of Texas, El Paso; Chapel Hill, UNC s main camp~. Curtis said. "We'll probably The Metropolitan found stable or growUNC at Charl?tte has appronm~t~ly disappoint more students than ing enrollment figures. A cautious but 9,400 students ~th 4? per~nt recer~·mg ever before." relatively optimistic feeling about the _some sort of .financial aid. B~t smce In spite of th~ constraints, financial aid future was also predomi- most of that aid comes fr.om the student

than exceed last year's count and facilities; not an enrollment cap/' Burnham thought UCD would he said. have a six to eig!it percent in- . One reason for the spape problem is the enforcement of new crease over last fall. · classroom seating capacities. What appears·- on the surface The city fire marsliall inspected - to be a unique and encouragthe campus this summer and in~ situation bas a murky bottom. "read us the riot act" about room 'There are more students capacity, acording to James registered," Curtis said, "and we Schoemer, , deputy executive have less space." Burnham echoed that senti- director of AHEC. Though room capacity has ment. "We're limited by .----------------------------.

If nothing else Auraria schools are consistent: consistently growing. ,. For the third straight year MSC and UCD will have increased enrollments according to a preliminary check with admission's officials. As of Sept. 3 Kenneth C. ':'Curtis, dean of admissions and records for MSC, said he had registered 300 more full-time equivalent (FTE) students than last fall. MSC had 9,200 FTE _students in the fall of 1980. ~ Over on the east bank, George Burnham, UCD's director of admissions and records said that it is a little hard to tell what the final count might be, but he did say, "We're running about 10.2 per._ cent ahead ·of the same time lastyear." Last fall UCD ended l!J> with 5,266 FTE students and CCD had 2,361. The Auraria campus - as a whole - had 16,827 FTEs -~and 27 ,069 total students last fall. - Both administrators will not know exact enrollment figl_lres until after the final census day, the 12th day of the semester. ·But, Curtis felt sure MSC would more nant; matching an early &Mesmlent _of

Other urban scho()fs optimistic about tutUre

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