Volume 8, Issue 29 - April 30, 1986

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April 30, 1986

Volume 8

Issue 29

c Pressopolitan

Terrorists, Capitalists, Contras and CommunistsSome views from campus/ coverage begins on page 9

A happy participant of the Tour of Champions last Friday.

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Metro negotiates sister-city agreement .with Chinese Bob Autobee Reporter

Metropolitan State College will go international for the rest of the week as a sister city agreement is negotiated between MSC and Shenyang Construction and Engineering College of Shenyang, China. The agreement will bring a one-year faculty exchange and other cultural programs to the two schools. For the week of April 28 to. May 2, three administrators, including Sheyan College President Qu Guoyi, will visit a TV

station, the Tabor Center; King Soopers on 13th and Speer and various Metro classrooms. Dr. Michael Tang, acting director of sponsored research and grants in MSC's office for Institutional Advancement, said this exchange between East and West is a sign of China's willingness to join the rest of the world. "It's a big deal for the Chinese," Tang said. "The sister college concept is part of Deng Xiao Peng's Four Modernization Program intended to bring China into the modern world."

Tang also said is a big deal for Metro State. 'Tm excited for Metro, because this shows that we can reach oul internationally like the UCLAs, the Berkeleys, and the Harvards of the academic world," Tang said.1 Denver and Sbeyang share a few similarities. They are both capitals Shenyan,e: of Liaoning provice in the north of China. Both cities have air :pollqtion P.roblems. According to Tang. the cities share something else: the need to learn more about each other.

"Metro wants to start a Chinese studies program which would lead to an eventual faculty and student exchange with Shenyang," he said "In return, the Chinese want to learn more about us, culturally and politically. We both have the bond that both schools are urban institutions with a serious student body. I think we both have a lot to work with as sister schools." MSC President Paul Magelli will negotiate the final terms of the sister college agreement on Friday, May 2 at 3 p .m. in Central Classroom 301: D


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