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SEPTEMBER
18, 1992
DENVER,COLORADO
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Musical classrooms Because of space. shortages, students are now taking classes in the Tramway Building.
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FEATLRES
Cult flick ~
"Blade Runner" returns to the big screen more popular than ever.
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Dominic Ch•vezl The Metroporrtan
About 400 Denver Public School students Wednesday marched from the Auraria Campus to the district's offices at 900 Grant St. in protest of the administrators' treatment of Hispanic students. Auraria's MEChA club organized the protest and joined In the march.
Textbook shortages blamed on Auraria bookstore· management ii MSCD professors say Auraria Book Center cut the
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number of textbook orders without their approval
Top kickers MSCD's men's soccer team preserved its undefeated record Tuesday beating Denver University 3-1.
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Katarina Ahlfort Staff Writer
Textbook·s for several classes at MSCD this semester were not available until the second week of school, and according to teachers , Auraria Book Center has cut textbook orders without telling the instructors. John Cochran, chairman of the Economics Department at MSCD , criticized the book store for its handling of textbooks. "The bookstore management seems to be arbitrarily cutting down the textbook orders they get from teachers," Cochran said. "I've spoken to professors who have had their book orders cut up to 60 percent, without being notified by the book store," Cochran said. As a result, several stu dents were
unable to get textbooks before the second week of classes. According to Cochran, the order cuts were done across the board on campus this semester. "I've heard complaints from several different departments," Cochran said. This past summer, Arthur Fleisher, p"rofessor in the MSCD Economics Department, ordered 80 textbooks for fall classes from the book store. Before classes started, he found out that the store had only ordered 50 books from the publisher. "I was never told that my book order had been cut down," Fleisher said. "From the amount of students who have raised their hands in class to say they don't have a book, I can tell that the problem this semester is worse than ever," Fleisher said. Renee Wilson, assistant manager of the bookstore's textbook department, said
Arthur Fleisher department employees check the past history of the classes on the computer before ordering the books and base new orders on those checks. see BOOKSTORE page-4