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MSC student government attempted to plug a leak to The !Jetropolitan at a Senate mer ting April1l~ by forcing reporters to ler v{l the m~~ting. • When the Senatereache<l 'New Business' item E ...L The "Rat'~ amongst us - student Senator Brendan Kelly quickly called for an executive session.

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AGENDA ASMSC .

APRIL 15, 1987 Call to order - 3 : 15p.m.

I. Approval of minutes March 18, April 1 , April 8 , f 987.

I I. Old Business A. Committee Reports B. J-Board Report c.

Trustees Report II I. New Business A. CAC Budget B. Base Funding for Intercollegiate Athletics c.

SAB Budget D. Replacements for CAC chair & Pa rliamentarian E. The "Rat" amongst us F. Appointment of Spokesperson to Metropolitan from Executive Branch G. Special Thanks to Student Trustee (Brendan Kelly) H. Gr aduat i on Party I. Executive Branch Reports 1.

President's Report 2.

Vice-President ' s Report IV .

Adjourn

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-B~enda1' Kelly from a meemig that deals with personnel issues.

This -action was inappropriate, according to the y olorado Sunshine Law. "All meetings held by a public body . . . to consider the appointment or employment of a publitj official or employee or the dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of, the investigation of charges or complaints against a public official or employee shall be open to the public unless the applicant, official, or em-

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ployee requests an executive session."

The senator suspected of leaking information did not request executive session.

And a former student government Judicial Board Chief Justice said the

senate acted erroneously.

"They can't do that," said Gary Rodehorst. "They stepped beyond their bounds."

After a Metropolitan reporter refused to leave the room.- protesting that her

First Amendment rights were being violated - the senators decided to move to their executive chambers.

"We have a right to call executive session on personnel matters," Senator

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by Bob Haas They make jokes about the weather in Denver.

Snow in June, sunshine in January, the weather is unpredictable, always changing.

Last Monday, for example, threads of sunshine competed with woven snow flurries for center stage. And like the spring blizzard blitzing the city, Gary Hart blew into town and dumped national attention on Denver, and then went south with the wind.

A thick metaphor for a heavy afternoon.

It was a foot-stomper, it was a political rally, it was a campaign in celebration of change.

The sun came out, snow fell, the sun came out again, and then Hart made his way through the back of the crowd to the¡ podium filled with politicians.

While introducing Hart to the lunchtime crowd, U.S. Senator Tim Wirth joined Mayor Federico Pena and others in predicting that the afternoon would be "an historic event."

Amid congratulatory cheers, campaign bands and political flag waving, Colorado's presidential candidate thanked his political friends and family ("The best daughter anyone ever had", "The best wife any candidate ever had"), and then he welcomed out of town guests to the rally at Skyline Park. He laughed, told them that if

they didn't like the weather, to wait and with that old Colorado joke about change - Gary Hart announced his presidential candidacy based on choices meant for change.

Defining leadership as the central issue in the 1988 campaign, Hart told the crowd "there is a quality in the American character that i~ yet to be

unlocked - that's what a campaign is all about.

"Who is best qualified to govern this country?" Hart asked. Does America need "leadership that divides or unites? Leadership in the national interest or in the narrow interest?" Leadership to move America "forward or move it back?"

Moving back just a bit in the campaign metaphor, the political wind blowing about downtown was degrees cooler and more exclusive when Hart made a similar speech hours earlier at Red Rocks amphitheatre, where dozens of local and national media types had been bussed in for the "I am running for president" announcement.

The public was not welcome and no questions or interviews were allowed, so when Hart climbed into his Jeep Wagoneer he lead the media down the mountain and into the city.

Back at the second official announcement rally, Wirth reminded the crowd that "a generation ago John Kennedy became president. Since the passage of (Kennedy's) torch (to a new generation of Americans), a number of us have been tempered, have lived with the tragedy of the (Kennedy and Martin Luther King) assassinations, the Vietnam war. As we have changed as a country, aspirations grew, hopes grew.

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(Top/right) Hart makes his first presidential announcement exclusively to the media at Red Rocks.

(Above) Lee and Gary Hart leave Red Rocks, lead the press to Hart's second presidential announcement to the public at Skyline Park, (below)

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Hart/ from page 3 been met since the election in 1980.

Decen~y and opportunity have slowed down.

Wirth said these conditions "demand a leader of great courage, decency and 路 energy."

"Let us go forward from this day," Hart said, "committed to restore this land to its people."

"Do we want a defense policy that takes school lunches away from child-

Support was sagging like a wet kite among the paid to pe cynical press. the American people?

"One choice is in the national interest," Hart repeated "and that choice is clear."

"We must build the best educational system in the world," Hart said. "We must renew and vitalize the national economy, invent new technology, train our workers. We must make a moral commitment to our children to leave a nati?nal heritage better than we have."

ren, or do we want a defense policy that reforms our conventional weapons and drastically reduces nuclear weapons for our security?" Hart asked.

"One choice is in the national interest, and that choice could not be clearer,"路 he said.

"Do we want a foreign policy of secret wars in South America, one that lets marines die in Beirut, or do we want a foreign policy that is open to

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The crowd cheered, waved flags, suffered the changing weather, and delighted in the changes promised by their ~andidate.

The speech over, a mile-high wind whipped a sky.-full of campaign balloons released at the end of Denver's "historic" rally. The red, white and blue balloons bounced off Denver's historic Daniels and Fisher Tower, lofted in the trees and disappeared. As symbols of campaign gaiety, their function was complete. They would float where the winds dictated, falling to earth elsewhere - in New Hampshire perhaps, or maybe Iowa.

The supporters dispersed as quickly, but were left to weatherproof their reactions in the wake of the political swell which had swept through their city.

Philip Grady, 27, said, "I think Gary represents a new direction - he will give our generation the chance to be part of a new Camelot."

Harold Stinton, 72, attended the rally with his wife, Shirley. "I won't tell you how old I am," she said, "but an older president (Reagan) hasn't helped us. We're going to support a younger one this time."

Support was sagging like a wet kite among the paid to be cynical press.

"I froze my butt off listening to this same speech this morning," said one out of town broadcast journalist. "How often is the guy going to announce (his candidacy)?"

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student government/from page 1 Richard Link said, struggling to pull the door closed. As he yanked the door knob out of the reporter's hand, Link began a closed senate meeting that would address what some senators have called a serious prob]em - press leaks.

Kelly later confirmed that the "Rat amongst us" was Senator Mark Gerhart, former student government president who resigned after admitting that he charged his textbooks to a student government account.

Gerhart, who has been criticized for providing information to The Metropolitan about the Senators' decision to pay themselves, did not call for the executive session, but suggested the student government office as an alternative meeting room.

Later, Kelly, who received unanimous approval for his motion to "not discuss anything about our executive session,'' exp]ained why the press was kicked out.

"If we would have had you in there, it would have b1own the whole thing all to hell," Kelly said. "It basically dealt with one of our members (Gerhart) or maybe a few of our members, trying to subvert the Senate process by going behind our backs (to the press)."

Senator John Bialik, the driving force behind the proposed name-change for Metro, described the session less eloquently.

"It was anus-~arts," Bialik said.

But when asked why the topic of a press ]eak - or warts - warranted a

closed meeting, Bia]ik said, "I don't know, I don't know. It's obviously over my head."

Bialik said the Senate must learn to better deal with the press to avoid further "backstabbing by accident and misquotes."

Kelly said he didn't think discussing a personnel matter in front of the press was appropriate.

"It's like pointing out an employee's problems at the Christmas party in front of everybody," Kelly said. "We just told them if you're going to go off and tell something, then put your name on it and put some authority to it. Don't be the non-quoted individual. Everybody has the right to talk to the newspaper but they shou1d put their name on it."

Before calling executive session, Kelly referred to three articles critical of studentgovemmentinlastweek'sMetropolitan.

The Senate, while deciding to pay one politician, decided to pay all senators, The Metropolitan reported in the April 10 issue.

An editorial in that issue suggested disposing of the senators rather than paying them.

Kelly said calling executive session is routine for student government, and there would have been no incident if the press had left when requested.

"If everyone would have ]eft, then it wou]d have been over in two minutes," Kelly said. "B~t everyone compounded D this, and now it's all blown up."

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by Greg Pearson

A sad commentary on Metro's success Metropolitan State College is in trouble again. Big trouble. So what's new?

The short history of this college is, the more it succeeds, the more it pays for that success. And it has been far too successful. So put this brash upstart back in its place - last in the minds of its very own trustees, last in the minds of the Colorado Commission of Higher Education, last with the State Legislature.

And always make it pay for its success. And for the concomitant jealousy it engenders in educational circles in Colorado.

Just look at a few of its recent headaches, for instance.

The presidents of Metropolitan State College, Western State, Adams State and Mesa College - the four member institutions of the Consortium of State Colleges - were recently informed in a memo from the consortium office that the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, in delving into those colleges' roles and missions, found there mre no "major issues" surrounding Adams, Mesa or Western but that there were three "major issues" facing Metro State.

What were they? Well, one dealt with the level of intercollegiate athletics at Metro and another with the school's need to serve a non-traditional, older population. The third drew attention to the CCHE's belief that no new facilities should be constructed at Auraria for Metropolitan State College. No new facilities for anything.

Now let's look briefly at this nonsense.

First, there are no "major issues" facing Adams, Western and Mesa? Are they kidding? The fact that one of these colleges is dying and another has been forced to make major cutbacks in its educational offerings is not 路 an issue? The question as to whether they should even remain open is not an issue?

Then, pray god, what is an issue?

While Adams writhes in its death pains and Western squirms in its shrinkage, an enrollment cap is placed on Metro - and that's not an issue? Talk about paying for success! Talk about contradictions!

But let's move on, looking now at the matter of the CCHE's involvement in intercollegiate athletics (which

Well, I don't see the CCHE getting involved in athletics at the Colorado School of Mines, where annual salaries for athletic coaches equal just a few dollars under $400,0001 At Mines the football coaching staff is paid $139,000. At Western the football staff is paid $44,000; at little Fort Lewis in Durango, football coaches are paid $52,000; at Mesa, $42,500; and at moribund Adams State, $32,385. . And Metro doesn't even have a football program nor does it want one!

And Metro gives no football scholarships, but the total football scholarships at the three other consortium schools undoubtedly surpass 100!

Further, if the CCHE really wants to get involved in intercollegiate athletics, perhaps it should turn its gaze toward the thuggery and the druggery rampant in recent years at the University of Colorado.

But the good Lord would quake at that. And so would the Colorado General Assembly.

Metro State simply hopes to play NCAA Division I basketball, a dream in keeping with its size and setting and quality and urbanity, a dream befitting a major institution. And its administration has stated emphatically that if the program doesn't become self-supporting within a reasonable period of time, it will reconsider and put aside that commitment.

So what is so wrong with Metro having a first-class basketball program? And why should that even bother the CCHE and our trustees? The CU basketball program has been in the cellar for years but there's been no move to suffocate it.

Believe me, there are double and triple staudards at work in the higher educations circles of this state.

I mean, look at this. The total salaries for the athletic director and his assistants, and for the basketball and baseball coaching staffs at Metropolitan State College lie at $84,000, a modest figure indeed.

But for the barely quivering Adams State those salaries, including football, reach $88,221. At another sister institution, Mesa College, they total $117,5561 And at little Fort Lewis College, administered by the State Board of Agriculture, they are a lofty $123,000. And we thought agriculture was in bad shape!

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While Adams writhes in its death pains and Western squirms in its shrinkage, an enrollment cap is placed on Metro - and that's not an issue? Talk about paying for success! Talk about contradictions! no one has ever been able to show me was in its mandate from the Legislature). So let's say that the CCHE should indeed be involved in intercollegiate athletics. I have nothing against that. But why should such interest. be limited only to Metro? The commission doesn't fool around with anyone else's athletic activities.

But it apparently wants to force Metro into the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Why? What business is. it of the CCHE's what conference Metro wants to participate in? If the commission wants to be sensible, it should force the University of Colorado out of the Big Eight! Now that would ignite some shrieks, wouldn't it?

Enough to put the CCHE right out of business. But it's okay to screw around with Metro, isn't it? I mean, that's the in thing in Colorado higher education.

Why am I even upset about this matter?

Again, why the staggering differences in standards?

Metro is the fourth largest institution of higher learning

in Colorado. Its student population outnumbers the other three consortium members combined. And yet, compare Metro's above $84,000 to the combined $275,577 of the other three! Or to the total athletic coaching salaries at the Colorado School of Mines - a much, much smaller institution than Metro, but apparently an intercollegiate athletic behemoth! - of $395,4751 Then tell me whose ox is being gored.

And try to tell me someone's not employing double standards and quadruple hypocricyl But enough for athletics, only a minor concern in the total scheme of things anyway. How about the matter of state general fund support for the 12 public four-year c o ntinued on page 7

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schools of higher education in Colorado? Surely, you say, Metro will come off a lot better there. It is the fourth largest. And it is undoubtedly the greatest surprise - and success! - in the history of higher education in this country in the past 25 years. Surely, the figures will reflect that.

Wrong.

Metro's LAST again.

Figures compiled by Ed Paris, an analyst for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (and published March 22 in the Denver Post), show that the elite and coddled School of Mines again tops the list -$4, 794 of general fund expenditures for each full-time equivalent student. But, oh my god, get this - second on the list is Adams State at $3,175. Western State in seventh, gets $2,650. Mesa College, at ninth, gets $2,212.

And lookey here, folks, bringing up the REAR as usual, in twelfth, and the only one with less that $2,000, is that vagabond Metro State - at $1,973.

Talk about getting the shaft for success!

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I don't care whether Magelli lives in a plush townhouse or a teepee, but I do care that he remain. And I'll be bitter if he's pushed out or if he departs. Because I am convinced the man has the ideas and the vision and the capability to advance the cause of this institution into the next century, and to nurture and embed Metro into the cultural, social and economic mainstream of downtown Denver - to make it a vital part of the community itself, and to make that community an integral part of Metro.

He has an agenda. That agenda should be encouraged.

Look, I've seen the representatives of the consortium, of our trustees, try to defend Metro in hearings in the General Assembly, particularly in the heated matter of H.B. 1187, which eventually put caps on Metro's enrollment and altered its mission. And those representatives were pathetic. A disgrace.

No wonder Metro gets the short end.

But now, the ultimate travesty has unfurled. The

The trustees last summer brought in a new chief administrator for the consortium, a gunslinger billing himself as Houston "Tex" (Tex?) Elam. And from everything I've been able to ascertain, ol' Tex and his posse are indeed riding herd over Magelli and his counterparts at the other three schools . ... Let's get the hell out of the consortium.

We don't belong there anyway, any more than a porpoise belongs in the desert.

But who bleats and bleeds about that? Hah! Moreover, Metro doesn't have half the facilities of any of the other schools in the state, in or out of the consortium, but now the CCHE says it can't have any new facilities whatsoever.

When you got 'em down, keep 'em down!

And where have our beloved trustees been all this time? Have you heard 'em defending Metro, shouting to high heaven about these gross injustices? Hell no.

Fact is, quite the opposite.

Oh sure, we've had some caring and concerned and effective trustees, people like Betty Naugle, John Vigil, Sandy Arnold, the fantastic Gladys Foster and a few others. But for the most, the trustees spend their time protecting their own little institutions in their own little bailiwicks, and milking Metro for everything it's got -like the $160,000 they took from Metro last fall to keep one of its sister institutions from dying.

But finally, and what this comes down to, is: Who's doing battle for Metropolitan State College?

A little over two years ago we got a new president. I served on the committee that selected him. We faculty, staff, students - were determined to find the best person available. So we selected, with high hopes, Paul Magelli.

But I am of the opinion that his plans for this thriving institution in this exciting urbanscape have been stifled at almost every tum. And apparently he is on the verge of departing.

Now, I'm no apologist for Paul Magelli. Frankly, he can infuriate me at times. And I, him, I'm sure. But I signed a petition a year ago asking him to remain at the helm. And I made that request of him again just a week ago after seeing remarks attributed to the trustees' mouthpiece in the local papers expressing chagrin at Magelli.

trustees last summer brought in a new chief administrator for the consortium, a gunslinger billing himself as Houston "Tex" (Tex?) Elam. And from everything I've been able to ascertain, ol' Tex and his posse are indeed riding herd over Magelli and his counterparts at the other three schools. The critters have even forced one of the presidents out of office.

And I'm certain they've placed severe restrictions on Magelli (and I get absolutely none of this from Magelli himself). In essence, he is to be a mute paper shuffler serving Tex and his posse. He is not to talk to legislators, downtown business leaders, community leaders, etc.

Just do what he's told to do - or Metro will pay the price even further. And for godsake, forget that high falutin agenda of his! Keep us barefoot and in coveralls.

So what are the alternatives?

Let Magelli run the school. Let Tex set aside his six-guns and shuffle the papers.

And get ALL the trustees behind Metropolitan State College.

And if not? 路 Let's get the hell out of the consortium. We don't belong there anyway, any more than a porpoise belongs in the desert. We have no common interests with those three rural schools. Sure, keep 'em alive. They serve a function. 路 But divorce us from them.

And place this thriving, exciting, successful, urban and urbane institution under a board of metropolitanarea trustees who will fight for its legitimate rights in the higher education scheme of this great state.

Goodbye Adams State, Western State, Mesa College.

Hello, Denver Metropolis and the路 21st Century! D

Greg Pearson is a professor of journalism at Metropoli~an State College.

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Editor, Real colleges don't change their names. I fail to be excited by Mr. John Bialik's misguided effort to change the name of Metropolitan State College. In fact, I bate the idea. Metropolitan State College is now rounding up its first 21 years of excellence, excellence without pretension. Bialik now tells us that we need a new name, one with more prestige as if prestige was something to be bought with a change of the college stationery. The college is strong and growing, thriving despite adversity. Metro is a vital community of scholars with a growing national reputation, a sizeable group of alumni, and a bright future ahead. These are the qualities that comprise an institution's prestige. .

The quality of our programs and the talents and achievements of our graduates establish the only kind prestige worth having. I can think of any number of prestigious names we could staple to our college; Harvard, Princeton, or maybe Stanford State College would sound vaguely prestigious. Clearly I'm being silly, such a change would only signal that the college remains insecure, unsure of its identity, captured by an institutional inferiority complex.

Bialik proposes that "Denver State College" would be a more unique name, that we are too easily confuse with the other "Metros" in the world. "Denver State" would not solve the problem. Off the top of my head I can think of Denver University, Denver Technical College, Denver Automotive & Diesel College, Denver Christian College, and Denver Institute of Taxidermy Training. All fine institutions I'm sure, but do we want to be confused with them?

Prospective employers, Bialik says, think Metro is a junior college. An employer had the gall to ask him if Metro State was a two-year program. What a great opportunity, rarely in a job interview does one get such a chance to sum up his college experience and demonstrate his ·ability to sell his educational background. Should the college, through a name change, squander the opportunity for its students to demonstrate those all important communications skills?

For Metro State, a name change would be a dreadful error. It would alienate the alumni, confuse the public, set our growing nationwide name recognition back many years, cost a lot of money, and be clear evidence of the inability of the college to establish and support its own traditions and identity. Finally, a name change would demonstrate to the community that the college has more interest in appearances and cosmetic changes than with substantive growth and integrity.

Christopher Dahle

Metro needs Magelli, not consortium Editor, We, (as Metro students), were abruptly sobered from an unabashed reverie about Metropolitan State College by last week's newspaper articles. As late as Tuesday night we were basking in the belief that Metro State had finally weathered the stormy pains of adolescence and sprung into an exuberant · adulthood.

President Paul Magelli has overseen an exciting time for our college. During his tenure the college has made great strides toward the establishment of its own identity. In its 21st year, our college has received unconditional 10 year accreditation (the highest possible) from the North Central Association Accreditation Team. It has begun to establish a wide ranging national reputation and it has assumed a position of leadership & responsibility within the community as exemplified by its recent charitable effort on behalf of the Denver Symphony Orchestra. The college has reached these accomplishments through the leadership of a dynamic, aggressive president who has given the college some desperatelv needed direction.

We are deeply saddened by the possible loss of Dr. Magelli. In its 21 years under the aegis of the Board of Trustees of the Consortium of State Colleges in Colorado, the college has burned out many presidents. It has been said that .Metro State is an ungovernable institution, but this is no longer an adequate explanation. Much of the blame for the college's administrative instability must fall squarely on the President of the Consortium and the Board of Trustees. In spite of its high level of accreditation, the North Central Team specifically expressed the concern that the governing board should provide greater security for the CEO and less intrusion. The Board has failed to give any of the state college presidents the support, security and autonomy they need. The Board has sent Western State President, Gilbert Hause packing. Metro President Magelli labors under the guillotine of a one-year contract that the board may neglect to renew at its whim. Further, the presidents of both Adams State College and Mesa College continue to be the subject of rumored firings.

Consortium President Houston Elam and the Board of Trustees continue to demonstrate that they are more concerned with their own administrative superiority than with the health, growth and integrity of the consortium colleges.

Metropolitan State College must have the firm gutsy leadership of a Paul Magelli if it is to survive in the face of an aquisitive (CU) Board of Regents, and the bureaucratic nightmare of AHEC. The Board of Trustees has got to do whatever it has to do to retain a skilled administrator who has succeeded in tickling the imagination of both the community of scholars and the larger Denver Community.

Weare proud of the strides Metropolitan State College has made, and hopeful that the rapport Dr. Magelli has begun to develop among the college community, the legislature, and the residents of the greater Metro Area will not be snuffed out by ther malignant neglect of the Consortium.

Respectfully Yours, Gina Houx, President; Christopher Dahle, Former President; and John Martin, Senator - Associated Students of Metropolitan State College

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Quest for better pay, benefits a full-time job for part-timers

by Karen Reid · #'

Part-time teachers are in demand at Metro - demand of better pay and benefits, that is.

"This has been brewing for some time now," Greg McAllister, a parttime English teacher, said. "It's time . that parMuners are brought out of the poverty level. There are situations where, teachers have worked at the institution for over 10 years - without a pay increase."

McAllister said Metro's 430 parttime , ~~tructors recently .formed an id alliante, using the English department

as a home base.

This organization compiled a list of proposals, including prorated salary increases, options to buy health insurance and clearance for immediate eligibility .for full-time or adjunct teaching positions.

McAllister said that part-time teachers are limited to teaching only nine hours per week at any one college.

This limit was placed on part-timers, he said, because with more hours, they would have a better argument for higher salaries and benefits. ,The situ~tio~. though, ~~· npt1~xclu­ sive to Metro part-time instructors,

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"Magelli is open to addressing the issue. He believes it is a tragic situation that must be dealt with," McAllister "~d, "We're no~nasking for anything , outrageous. ThiS ' is just an issue that <1t.nnot be ignored any longer." [] ffi

Women forced to learn man~s views

by Karen B. Algeo Male-dominated thinking has guided the way we live for hundreds of years, and Trisha Flynn, Rocky Mountain News columnist, said it is time for a change.

"The male way. of thinking is wonderful. There's nothing wrong with it.

But, it's only half the picture," Flynn said during a luncheon sponsored by MSC's Women's Network. "There are two ways to look at anything. Two ways. One isn't better, superior simply different."

Describing herself as a non-professional, Flynn said she pushes feminist thought because too few women do it for themselves.

"The women who are making it big are making it according to male criteria, totally approved by the male establishment," she said. "(Men) are putting the women in power because the women think like the men. And again, it's not a bad way to think. But it's not the only way to think, and it isn't enough."

Flynn said women have already taken the initiative by demanding an education, but unless they demand an education based on both female and male thought, the world won't change much.

"Students receive an education, and for young men, that's just fine because primarily everything that's being taught has come from the male tradition," she said.

"If females continue to receive an education and not claim an education that includes female experience and female thought, then there won't be too many changes in the world," she said, "because male or female, what we have been taught is essentially the same, which is the male experience."

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by James Wiiiiams A petition drive to change the name of Metropolitan State College to Denver State College got off to a slower start than expected last week when only a handful of students showed up for a rally despite publicity from The Metropolitan, The Denver Post ·and Rocky Mountain News.

Eight to ten students showed up expecting a rally, and most of the other students who stopped to sign the petition or express a viewpoint just happened to be passing by.

John Bialik, an MSC Computer and Management Science major, helped organize the rally. He said he should have made more noise. .

"Yeah, it's pretty bad," he said of the turnout. "We should have had a P.A. system. That would have attracted more attention. Students are just now hearing about the idea."

The petition asks that the name change proposal be placed on the Stu-

dent Government elections ballot so that MSC students can vote on the , change. If the referendum were to pass, the state Legislature would still have to approve the change before it would become official, Bialik said.

He said he hopes to have the referendum on the 1987 Fall ballot so that.the idea can be sent to the legislature in January, 1988.

"We're throwing this idea up a flag pole, then we11 see if (the students) salute," he said.

Edward Sanchez, another organizer of the campaign, said the current goal • is 2,000 signatures on the petition, and he expects to reach that easily. As of Wednesday morning, Sanchez said he and Bialik had gathered a total of about 315 signatures.

As for the new school song, The Fire of MSC, Bialik said he told Marvin ~ Hamlisch about the proposed change, · and Hamlisch told him it would be no problem to change to The Fire of DSC. o

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Mariners outweasel Weasels in Trivia Bowl

by Jiii Ranaudo Do you know Bob Lilly's nickname or which player died during a 1968 · '\NHL game?

These and other tough trivia questions perplexed the five teams competing in Metro's Fourth Annual Sports Trivia Bowl in the Mission April 10.

The Denver Mariners, the bowl's 1986 champs, outweaselled the wea~ sels in the last round by a 225-125 score.

Metro students Mike Chmill, the only returning member of the Mariners, Steve Nickell and Robert Ritter, ,took turns answering questions in the final round to defend the title. ,...., The Weasels, Pat Sanner, Mike Fehr and Martin Richardson, answered their share of questions and were tied with the Mariners, 150 to 150, with about three minutes left.

The Mariners answered two questions in a row and kept the lead until -?- the clock ran out.

And until the clock ran out, emcee Pat Tait continued to throw out teasers, one category at a time, every five seconds.

"Those were some tough questions," said Wayne Rollins, a member of the ~ Mental Faculty team.

Rollins, an MSC English professor, and his teammates, Adolph Grundman.

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They took first in the 198.5 bowl.

Some questions stumped the teams, but a few members of the mostly male

audience anxiously shouted out their trivia wisdom.

Between rounds, Tait, dressed in a tan suit coat, long Hawaiian shorts and sandals, gave the audience chances to show their knowledge and win pos-

-ters, visors and golf balls.

But knowing that "Purple Cloud" was Bob Lilly's nickname and that Bill Masterson died in a 1968 NHL game might have been your ticket to unseating last year's champs.

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The Metro State College version of the typical summer basketball camp this summer won't be so typical campers will be expected to concentrate as much on reading and writing as on hook shots and pivot moves.

Vince Orlando, chairman of the MSC Reading department, and Bob Hull, head coach of the men's basketball squad, teamed up to devise a method of combining academics and athletics in a positive way.

The camp, which will run from June 7 to 12, was originally the idea of Hull and his assistant coach, Joe Strain.

Hull said the camp is unique to Colorado, but there are others like it in Wisconsin and Princeton, N.J. Its uniqueness prompted Hull to establish the camp.

"To tell the truth, we wanted to offer something different. There are so many camps offered in Colorado. Metro State has a lot to offer, and we wanted to show what we have here," he said.

Youths from ages 9 to 17 will be put through academic programs from 9 a.m. to noon such as ACT preparatory sessions, reading and writing enrichment and computer terminal sessions.

They will then concentrate on the fundamentals of shooting, rebounding and passing from 1 to 4 p.m. And every night, they will be divided into teams to sharpen their fundamentals in game situations.

Hull said they want to help the youths in two ways.

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Orlando said the combination of academics and athletics could attract youths in a different way.

"It might be a way to reach those kids who aren't turned on by academics. I think it's important we present that image," he said. "We1l give them a realistic idea of what their expecta-

lions will be when they reach college."

He also said the briefness of the camp places some lirnitatim:is on its effectiveness, but the idea is still a positive one for the campus and the participants.

"I think it's a good idea. It promotes the right image for the campus," Orlando said. "We don't have dreams of making significant gains, but it can do something for the (older) kids' scores on the ACTs. It shows the positive side of academics."

At the end of the week, awards will

be presented for academic as well as athletic excellence.

Hull said he hopes the camp will stress to ~-oung athletes the increasing_ importance of the relationship between academics and eligibility.

"You constantly hear of athletes who come up short in academics. It's another way to stress to young basketball players they have to work on test scores if they want to go on and play ball," he • said. "It (the camp) makes a lot of sense. You can't play when you can't make the .grades."

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Metro State baseball • • wins again The Metro State baseball team won • three of four games last weekend at the Denver Metro Baseball tournament.

After an opening round loss to Western New Mexico by a 7-4 score, the Roadrunners defeated Colorado College 11-1.

They then posted a 2-1 win over _, Regis College and beat the Colorado School of Mines 20-14.

Rusty Miller continues to lead the team in hitting with a .477 average and a perfect fielding record with no errors --in 42 attempts.

Metro, 22-9, will play a doubleheader at Wyoming this Sunday.

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Safety, professionalism priority for flight team

by Karen B. Algeo Out along the edges Always where I bum to be The further on the edge The hotter the intensity Highway to the Danger Zone Gonna take you Right into the Danger Zone "Danger Zone" Kenny Loggins

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MSC's Flight Team members are not hot shot pilots out to prove who's the best of the best by flying on the edge.

Instead, the team is composed of 12 aerospace students who are dedicated to promoting aviational safety.

"We're professionals. We're striving for more than just that basic knowledge," Allen Floyd, the team captain, said.

To Floyd and the other members, professionalism means dedication. That dedication is what drives them toward their goal of promoting safety in aviation.

"They're given boundaries to work within, and if they don't stay within those boundaries, they're not on the flight team anymore," George McCrillis, faculty advisor to the team, said.

McCrillis believes that the added efforts of team members now will ensure that the safety factor involved in flying will remain with them in the future.

"The more you explore into the insides of the activity your pursuing, the more you become aware of (safety)," he said.

Promoting safety isn't the only reason team members do what they do.

"Most pilots just love the freedom you get up there," Trine Jorgensen, one of only two females on the team, said.

To achieve that freedom, team members must commit themselves to long hours of practice along with added expenses.

Practice sessions are held at the Front Range Airport on Saturday and Sunday from 6 a.m. to 3 p .m. In addition, team members must log at least three hours a week on a flight simulator.

Add to that a full load of courses, extra hours of flight time toward their degrees, outside jobs and costs for such things as renting planes and purchasing uniforms, and it's obvious that the major requirement for the team is dedication.

In the long run, that dedication does pay off.

Two collegiate flight competitions are held each year.

Last November, MSC's flight team hosted the regional meet, in which they also placed first.

Next week, the team will compete in seven events, such as message drop, preflight preparation and aircraft identification, agaihst 26 of the best teams in the nation at the national competition in lliinois.

At last year's national meet, the team didn't fare too well.

"Let's just say we participated," McCrillis said.

This year, the team is planning to do more than just participate. They plan on making a name for Metro and its aerospace program.

"Just wish us luck," Haitham Kassab, co-captain of the team, said. .

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Chemistry, not politics, saves Amazing Grace

by Sean-Mlchael Giimore Even if you're not a die-hard basketball fan , the name Alex English should be familiar. The 6'7" all-star forward leads the Denver Nuggets as well as being third in the NBA in scoring. Besides that, English is a hell of a nice guy. His teammates love him. The fans love him and now movie-goers across the country are going to fall in love with him.

English is perfectly cast in Tri-Star's new release Amazing Grace and Chuck.

He plays a star basketball player, albeit for the Boston Celtics. But it is not his considerable talent on the court that brings a presence to his character. It is the nature of the man himself.

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He is following the lead of a 12-yearold little league pitcher from Montana, Chuck Murdock (Joshua Zuehlke).

After touring a nuclear missle site, and realizing its destructive capability, Chuck vows never to play baseball again because "there are nuclear wea~ pons in the world."

Together they quietly but stubbornly begin a movement among world athletes to ban nuclear weapons. This eventually involves the leaders of the two major superpowers. The plot is saved from simplicity by the chemistry and the contrast between these two first-time actors. Together they elevate this film above the average "just imagine" movie.

Gregory Peck is convincing but not persuasive as the President of the United States.

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An impish quality to English's smiling fluid expressions bring out the boy inside the man. It is an indirect, but workable contrast to Chuck's set and stubborn look of a young boy trying desperately to b e a man, to do the right thing. Zuehlke can say more with his forehead than some veteran actors impart in IO scenes.

Besides; they're not acting these parts, they 're living them.

Zuehlke really is a star pitcher for the Robbinsdale Yankees from Minnesota. His movie debut interrupted his seventh grade season. Last year English put together an All-Star game to benefit famine relief in Ethiopia.

Zuehlke was picked for the part from a field of 3,000, and English was picked up at the last minute after Director Mike Newell and Casting Director · Lyn Stalmaster had seen more than 400 try-outs.

Here are two athletes making a major contribution to a movie about athletes forcing a major change in world politics.

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There are other casting coups as well. William Petersen (To Live and Die in L.A. ) brings his usual intensity to the part of Chuck's father, and makes a simple character interesting. And which actor could play the President of the United States better than Gregory Peck? Certainly not the actor playing the current president.

The political premise of this film is not its strength. Some viewers will say things are not so simple that one little boy can start a world-wide movement of non-violence that could just possibly ban nuclear weapons. Others will say yes, it is just that simple.

Ghandi did it, King did it.

This is not an impossible plot.

This is also not a great movie, but it is a better-than-average movie because of what English and Zuehlke bring to their parts.

There is also the comment of Red Auerbach, famous coach of the Celtics (who plays himself in the film), about English being seen in a Boston uniform.

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Community College of Denver faculty artwork will be displayed April 20 through May 8 at Emmanuel Gallery.

An opening reception will be held April 20, 5 to 7 p.m. at the gallery.

The gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday noon to 4 p.m.

Images of Women

Week of the Young Child The week of April 20 to 25 has been designated Week of the Young Child by the Auraria Child Care Center.

Festivities include a parade April 20 at 11:":30 a.m . on the 16th Street Mall; parent-teacher-child workshops April 21and23 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Child Care Center; a mayoral debate April 23 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at St. Cajetan's Center; the Ninth Annual Auraria Family Night April 24, 5 to 10 p.m. in the Student Center; and a parenting fair from 9 a.m. to noon April 25 in the Science building For more information, call 556-3188

The Auraria Library Gallery will exhibit Women by Women, images of women by women artists, April 20 through May 14.

An artists' reception will be held April 24 from 5 to 8 p.m. in the gallery.

For more information, call 556-2741.

Contemporary Eat.ing Contemporary Nutrition Part II: Eating for the 20th Century will be held April 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Raffles Hotel Denver Southeast.

The seminar, for nurses, students and others involved in health care professions, will clarify food facts versus fads and will give participants methods of evaluating the nutritional status of their clients.

The cost of the seminar is $52, including lunch, or $25 for students and senior citizens. An additional $5 will be charged for walk-in registration.

For more information, call 556-3115.

Early American Concert

Free Computer Forums

Early American Religious Communal Music, a concert performed by CU-Denver's Greenwood A Cappella Singers will be held April 24 at 2:45 p .m. in room 295 of the Arts building.

The event will feature the simple, rhythmic dance-like music of the Shakers and the sophisticated, classical music of the Moravians.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 556-2727.

Two free forums on advanced computing for the layperson and the expert will be held April 23 and 24 at the Denver Center Cinema, 14th and Curtis streets.

The April 23 session, from 1 to 5 p .m., will introduce the historical perspectives and future trends in the computer industry.

The April 24 session, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., will update researchers and industry representatives on technical advances in the computer field.

For more information, call 556-4807

Freshman Year Lecture

Contra Presentation Who are the Contras, a presentation

by Olga Talamante of Global Options, will be held April 24 at 10 a .m. in room 186 of the Arts building.

For more information, call 556-3325.

John Gardner, the director of the nationally acclaimed 101 Freshman Seminar Program at the University of South Carolina, will speak on strategies for improving the freshman year in Student Center room 330, Friday, April 17 from 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Admission is open to the first hundred students who pick up tickets in the president's office, CN 315.

Pizza and beverages will be provided. For more information call 556-3022.

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SlUDENT SPECIAL Walk to Campus. 1170 Logan. Clean CO'Z)f efficiencies just $170.00 with heat on 6 month lease. Intercom system. Call Cliff at 860-8406.

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TYPING -Professional typists. Dependable and accurate. Quick turnaround. Double spaced. Pica/$1 .50 page. Call Sondra 377-4862.

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LETTER PERFECT WORD PROCESSOR. Professional quality. Proofreading/editing. Student discounts. Legible drafts. please. 777-1964.

MOVING? 1 Bdrm. apts. ($290, $225) in CO-r{ rehabilitated bldg. at Colfax & Lafayette Street. Deposit 1/2 rent. Call Alex 832-5992 or Bonnie 832-4507.

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CAPITOL HILL: Second Floor Buffet Apt. w/ shared bath $145 mo. plus utilities. quiet. together non-smoker preferred. nice building. 399-2015. May 1st. .

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