ETROPOLITAN
The Metropolitan State College of Denver student newspaper, serving the Auraria Campus since 1979
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CoPIRG releases toxic waste statistics for 1989 page3
March 15,1991
Volume 13, Issue 24
Denver, Colorado
Name of the game is humiliation at the Irish Debates pages
Just for the records Adrian Hutt has had a great year • page 15
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Poor marks lead to ticket refunds Sarah Jane Smith The Metropolitan
'Runners on road to NCAA II Tournament From left, Fred Brown, Adrian Hutt and Ralph Rivers, MSCD basketball players look over a scrapbook of this seasons' game coverage after the announcement of the NCAA Division II bid placing the 'Runners in the 32-team tournament. MSCD will play In the regional portion of the tournament in Grand Forks, N.D., March 15 and 16. See story page 17.
Two MSCD. students ;die in plane crash <
Deb Brown and Gail Spencer The Metropolitan
Victims of the fatal plane crash in Sterling Reservoir Sunday, March 10, were students at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Troy M. Ward, 20, was a junior and Michael Davis, 20, was a sophomore in aviation management. Each had been active in MSCD's professional aviation fraternity, Alpha Eta
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''They were good friends and well liked," fraternity president Kristy DeLine said. Ward had been working on the organization's upcoming April safety symposium on general aviation accidents and their main causes, she said. He
was an active member who liked to dabble in remote control aircraft. Davis had not been involved in the organization recently because he was serving in active duty in the Navy, she said. Ward and Davis were flying a Beechcraft Bonanza singleengine plane registered to Al Ward and sons. Al Ward is Troy's father. Logan County Sheriff Don Bollish said that to the best of his knowledge, Troy was piloting the plane. Bollish said that two fishermen on shore witnessed the accident. "They were flying real low and hit the water and skipped across like stones skip across the water," Bollish said. "They went up about 40 to 50 feet and then smacked down nose-first into the water."
Bollish said the men were thrown out of the plane while still strapped to their seats. A man and wife went out in a boat and picked them up. DeLine said, "Troy has been flying for a very long time and I also know his father is a very safe pilot." DeLine said she's upset by the reports of low-altitude flying, as causes are speculative until further investigations are made. "They can tell a lot by the propeller and by the wing tips," she said. "There are so many things that can go wrong in aviation. They could have hit a bird," she said. DeLine said the final report determined by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board could take up to eight
months. Ward and Davis were visiting Ward's family in Akron, about 30 miles south of Sterling. The crash in Sterling.Reservoir was about 12 miles northwest of Sterling and occurred between 10 and 11 a.m. March 10. Ward was a graduate of Akron High School and Davis of Evergreen High School, both in 1988. Each had an apartment in Denver. Services for Ward were March 13 at First Methodist Church in Akron. Many of Alpha Eta Rho's 103 members carpooled to the service. " A lot of people are pretty upset," DeLine said. " We' re giving each other a lot of support." Services for Davis were expected to take place March 14.0
Patrons of the new parking garage may be eligible for a full refund of parking fines because the managementhasn 't clearly marked restricted or prohibited parking spots. People who have already paid fines for parking in those areas can appeal their tickets in writing and appear before referees even after the I 0-day appeal deadline. "We will look at it on a caseby-case basis," said Mark Gallagher, assistant director of Parking and Transportation Services. "We would like to be fair. That is why we ti.tve a referee program. Mistakes are being made and we act to correct them." Auraria parking referees, who act like judges, have consistently received complaints about worn-off painted handicapped signs in the asphalt and about prohibited parking spaces without the required vertical lines. They have routinely dismissed those tickets, referee Bob Pearson said. Gallagher said, "We want the parking areas clearly defined and marked. We're not very happy with the painting job and we stopped writing citations and we're going to get it repainted." He said attendants were told a couple of weeks ago not to write tickets for certain violations. Pearson said he has sent numerous memos up the ranks of management requesting corrective action to clarify signs and paint cross-hatch lines on unmarked prohibited parking spaces. Twenty-five percent of all tickets at campus lots are appealed. Yet the remaining 75 percent get paid because people "maywellthinkit' salegitimate situation," said Gallr:gher. 0