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ETROPOLITAN
The MSC student newspaper serving the Aurarla Campm since 1979
Volume 12
Issue 1
July 7, 1989
North Classroom flasher leaves security question Gary Salvuccl News Editor
A woman who was recently accosted by a flasher in the North Classroom Building is starting a campaign to improve security on the Auraria Campus. Laura Obert, an MSC Physics instructor, reported to Auraria and Denver officers that a man had followed her into a restroom in the North Classroom on Wednesday, June 21. Obert said she arrived early at her thirdflooroffice to prepare for her 7:15 a:m. class. As she walked to the restroom at about 6:40 she passed a man in the corridor. Obert said the m~may have been a transient. "I remember thlnking, as·I walked from my office, 'this guy doesn't belong here,' " she said While Obert was in the restroom, the man entered and exposed his genitals. Obert said she screamed at the man, he fled, and she chased him down the hall. The flasher was not caught. Obert has posted notices around campus describing the incident and requesting that people contact her. She says she wants to form a group to lobby for improved campus security. She said North Clamoom is not safe for teachers and students who work at odd hours. All of North Classroom's doors are open from 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through
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Thursday. One door is kept open 24 hours a day. "It is not a very safe place for a woman to be that early in the morning or that late at night - or for a man either," Obert said Sergeant Elmer Daugherty of Public Safety said campus police are aware that the North Classroom is not a secure building. Public Safety plans to install key-code pad security ga~ this fall. The gates would require a code number to enter the upper floors of the building. Daugherty said the pas.gbility ofinstituting a school identification card check has also been mentioned Many institutions require students show ID when entering campus buildings. However, a major obstacle at Auraria is the large number of students who do not carry a college ID card Commenting on Obert's wish to mount a campus security campaign, Daugherty said: "The exposure that she experienced is disturbing ... her concern is a legitimate one, but until the situation is resolv.ed I suggest practicing good safety." Daugherty recommended the. building's users keep work hours limited to times when 'the building is busy or they notify Public Safety when working in the building at odd hoqrs. Daugherty said all five floors of the building are checked on a routine basis, but knowing people are in the building and where they are helps officers protect them. o
Student uprising-forces MSC professor to flee China Carrie A. Vogel The Metropolitan
When he arrived in Shanghai last February, his first unpression was of a country
becoming an awesome economic power. Robert Lucas, chairman ofMSC's.department of management, and his wife, Paula, were sent to Shanghai on a professorial exchange program between MSC and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. They were scheduled to return in July. "The first moments I was in Shanghai I ""- was overwhelmed with the progress that was being made because every place looked like Denver during the oil-boom days," Lucas said Four months in Shanghai changed his impressions of China completely, as well as his plans. Lucas said there were no real indicators
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