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ETROPOLITAN Denver, Colorado
1be MSC student newspaper serving the Auraria Campus since 1979
Volume 12
Issue 16
December 8, 1989
~ Kleg
calls it quits
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Mary Anderson The Metropolitan
Metro's Student Senate lost its most infamous member. The day before Senate President Kelly Martin was to go through with her threat of asking the Senate to impeach Sen. Joel Kleg, he resigned. Calling Kleg an "annoying menace which has altered ASMSC's ability to run smoothly" in a letter she read inner report Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1. Martin said, "I would like the judicial board to recognize Sen. Kleg's irresp_onsible troublemaking, and to consider (his action) to be malfeasance by using his office to impede. ASMSC's credibility and efficiency." Malfeasance is misuse of office. "She better have specific reasons for asking the Senate for impeach" ment," Kleg had said. "It's my constitutional right to express myself, and - if she doesn't like it she can go to Communist Russia." Martin also stated in her letter that Kleg should be impeached for threatening Sen. Gerri Madrid, when he said, "I'm going to get you ..."at the Nov. 8 Senate meeting. "The man is dumb enough to threaten me," Madrid said. "I don't want him on my committee ... the other committees don't want him either. The minute he's gone we can get back to other matters and not spend 90 percent of our time and energy on the aggravation he gives everybody." r ¡ Martin's request for impeachment came after Kleg filed three charges with the judicial board concerning a resolution he wrote about the removal of Coca-Cola from campus. Kleg filed a charge against Martin saying that she altered the Coca~ Cola resolution. "The bill was not 'altered,' " Martin wrote in her letter. "If anyone thinks the resolution was altered they should check the computer record of the resolution. Only questions of legality were written on the face of the resolution so it could be sent to the judicial board." Kleg said he also filed a charge against the Rules Committee for not • writing a letter within 14 days to the Auraria Board to remove Coca-Cola from campus, and against Vice President Bill Jermance for not signing the resolution. The Rules Committee decided Nov. 15 not to write the letter until the judicial board ruled that removal of Coca-Cola would not be a restriction of free trade. "Bill (Jermance) sent (the resolution) to the judicial board to get ~ himself off the hook for failing to sign it in the hopes it would be ruled unconstitutional," Kleg said. Jermance said that his signature is needed on bills, not resolutions. Kleg said his resignation from the Senate is due to a time conflict. Many Senators said they are glad to see him go. "Praise the Lord," said Sen. Jeremy Stuhl. "He's been creating havoc ~ all semester, and he's not doing things in sync with Student Government. Whether he goes out by impeachment or resignation doesn't matter." "There is a God," said Sen. Michael Green, who said even though Kleg resigned, some student government members would still like a ruling from the judicial board barring Kleg from rejoining the Senate. "Sometimes Kleg says stuff out of turn, but the Senate misses some of 1' the good stuff he says because they have personal vendettas and they don't know how to separate personal grudges from the Student Senate objectives," said Sen. Anthony Vander Horst. "They pushed him so much that he resigned. If that's what they are out for and not to represent the student body, maybe they should re-evaluate why they are in their
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Donny Mey must stand on a stool in order lo reach lhetop of his painting on a billboard canvas. Ari MSC student, Mey does "art for the sake of . art." Slory and more photos, page 15. Photo by Jodie Skinner