ETROPOLITAN
The Metropolitan State College of Denver student newspaper, serving the Auraria Campus since 1979
Volume 13, Issue 28
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April 19, 1991
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MSCD President Thomas B. Brewer and CU-Denver Chancellor John C. Buechner discuss artistic technique during an Executive Board coloring contest intended to promote Auraria Family Night April 26. Family Night will feature carnival games, a coffee house, music and entertainment in the Auraria Student Union from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Fee increase inevitable in Tivoli acquisition Deb Brown The Metropolitan
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When it comes to the Tivoli Union proposal, students are faced with the adage: "You can pay me now or you can pay me later." According to Auraria officials, if the students reject the $3 bond fee increase to move the Student Union to the Tivoli, everything will be put on bold but a future increase is inevitable to build more classroom space or expand the existing Student Union. The bond fee referendum will be voted on April 23 and 24 to raise the current bond fee from $19 to $2.2 per semester for each student "Three dollars is a lot better now than down the road," said Emerson Holliday, division director for the Auraria Student Union. "Some student body someday will have to fund it." Holliday said that the $3 bond fee increase is the minimum they
could ask of the students. He said that if the referendum passes, a pmgram planning committee will be set up to decide how the space will be allocated. The committee will include two student representatives from each school. The amount of the new bond is $10.3 million, said JoAnn Soker, executive vice president for Administration for Auraria Higher Education Center. Money raised by the bond fee will be used for the lease acquisition, construction, renovation, operation and maintenance of the facility, she said. Soker said that there is an increasing need for more classroom space as well as offices for faculty and administration. The move to the Tivoli would alleviate the space problem and create more space for student activities, she said. The current retail businesses will be encouraged to stay, Soker said adding that there will be new
retail outlets going in. The students have been asked in a survey what types of businesses they would want, she said. The bonds will be paid back with student fees and with revenue from the retail outlets, Soker said. In response to concerns that the retail businesses would not be profitable, Soker said the student fees would increase. That would be the worst case scenario, she said. "It's just not realistic, given the conservative estimates of revenue we've used. The AMC Theaters in the Tivoli are one of the biggest grossing theaters in the U.S.," Soker said. Holliday said there are 280,000 square feet of space in the Tivoli and that at least 67 percent of that will be used as student space. He added that 33 percent of the space is reserved for retail operations. Approximately $4 million will be needed for remodeling the
Tivoli, Holliday said. Soker said that the present lease holder, Trizec, has already spent $30 million on renovations. Soker declined to comment on how much Trizec, a Canadian company, wanted for the lease reaquistion. Soker said that the price to convert the existing Student Union to usable space would be fairly modest to put in dividers, carpet and to paint. Chip Wiman, MSCD Student Government president-elect, said it appears that the lepe acquisition would be approximately $6.3 million. He said he went into this proposal skeptically but can't find any hidden risks adding that the benefits outweigh the risks. He said the most the student fees would increase would be $ l 0 per semester if the retail businesses failed. "That's just not realistic because see TIVOLI page 5
The Metropolitan State College of Denver Student Activities Office will honor one or more of 15 MSCD clubs nominated for outstanding service in the firstMSCD Club Awards presentation April 25 at the Denver Firefighters Museum and Restaurant. Davidson Porter, associate director of MSCD Student Activities, said that many of the 87 MSCD-recognized lubs deserve more credit for the many services they provide. "We wanted to come up with annt!ler way to recognize clubs on campus for all the hard work they do," Porter said. "A lot of times their work goes unrecognized." A pawl hangs over event preparations following the sudden death ofeminent MSCD alumnus and community leader Richard Castro last weekend. The Metropolitan Leadership Steering Committee had asked Castro to be the guest speaker at the awards ceremony. Ed Quayle, coordinator of clubs and organizations, said that Student Activities made plans after news of Castro's hospitalization to ask John Graham of the Giraffe Project, a motivational group, ifhecould suggest someone to speak in place of Castro. The Giraffe project helps people to become effective leaders and recognizing talent in club leadership is what the awards ceremony was created for, Quayle said. A panel will judge club nominees first on what they stated about themselves in the applications each submitted. Secondly the panel will judge nominees on the effectiveness of a club-sponsored event, for example a public discussion of a vital issue or cultural presentation. Winners will receive commissioned art pieces created by MSCD student Rachael Malone. 0
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