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Denver, ColOrado
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he MSC student newspaper ~rvi g the Auraria Campus since J 979
Volume 12
Issue 25
March 16. 1990
Oh my! Don O'Sulllvan (right) stuns Lawrence Pryor (left) with a witty retort at the 11th Irish Debates, March 14 at the MSC Student Union. See story page 15.
-~ROTC charged with funding fraud Sharon Dunn The Metropolitan
The ROTC Mile High Rangers will face a year of "fiscal malnutrition" from MSC if • the_Club Funding Committee decides to cut their funding. The Rangers may have falsified student identification information on their last request form to the CFC, in order to receive $1019 for a brigade competition in Arizona. The ., money went toward food and new sweatsuits for nine members, for five days. As a result, CFC Chair Mike Green said he will deny the Rangers any funding for the next fiscal year, and said he will recommend that they not be recognized as a standing club during that time.
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In the request, ROTC Commander David Hasenbalg, a CU-Denver student, listed the nine members who were to attend the competition as being Metro students (the CFC's funds can only be used for Metro students). But after doing some checking with the registration computer, Green said at the March 13 CFC meeting, that he found that half of the students listed were, in fact, not Metro students, but University of Colorado at Denver and University of Denver students. ROTC Cadet Capt. Tamura Grant said she recently spoke to Hasenbalg and said that he confirmed the idea of the CFC funding for MSC students only.
Hasenbalg could not be reached for comment. "I'm quite sure that Dave was not paying attention," Capt. Dale Cremisio said, referring to the funding request from Hasenbalg. "There was absolutely no intent of any kind of fraud on our part." But Grant said ROTC's motives were not so pure. "I talked to a former Ranger commander, who is now my husband, and he told me that the only way to get funding (from CFC) is to lie, and they did it all the time," Grant said. ROTC Master Sgt. Robert Medina said some of the students involved in the Rangers are not Metro students because ROTC operates on a cross~nrollment agreement
made among Metro, CU-D and DU. As a club, Medina said ROTC is open to all students on the campus because Metro has the only ROTC program in Denver. Medina said that the Rangers were not aware of the stipulation that all members funded were required to be Metro students. The ROTC Rangers will have one week to supply a letter from the Dean of Prof~ sional Studies, and one from Admissions and Records, both stating that all nine students are enrolled at MSC, before action is taken. H not, the Rangers will face the charges brought up by Green, and have to pay the CFC $509 - half of the original sum they were funded. o