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ETROPOLITAN
Metropolitan -- State College of Denver student newspaper serving the Auraria Campm since 1979 VOLUME
15,
ISSUE
20
FEBRUARY
5, 1993
DENVER, COLORADO
Students binge on booze
To the hoop MSCD men's basketball guard Lenin Perkins, right, drives for the basket uesday night against NebraskaKearney's forward Mike Schoer. A second half 26-9 run by the Runners wasn't enough as they fell to the Lopers, 95-93, in the nonconference game.
Addictions: Part路3 Katerina Ahlfort Staff Writer
Bars on campus and the surrounding downtown area are frequently announcing " happy hours," inviting students to visit between classes. This is unfortunate because problems . with alcohol are a reality at Auraria, according to Don Sugar, Ph.D, the program coordinator for the Substance Abuse Prevention Program at MSCD. Currently , there is an ongoing controversy surrounding the bars located in the Tivoli, Sugar said, because the building is in the process of being transformed into a student center. . ~In an MSCD survey conducted by the prevention program at the end of last semester, 71 percent of MSCD students under the age of 2 f reported that they drink alcohol on a regular basis. Thirty-eight percent of the students surveyed said they "binge," which means they had five or more drinks in one sitting in the past two weeks. And 81 percent of the students reported that they had used alcohol in the past month. Sugar said his main concern with having Dominic Chavez!The Metropolltan
see BOOZE, page 19
Physical problems plague parking garage Jenny Duke The Metropolitan
Maintenance to repair drainage problems in the Auraria parking garage could take more than a month to complete, and structural settling is expected to continue, said Mark Gallagher, Auraria's parking director. Chunks of concrete scatter the parking garage floor around and underneath parked cars. Sunlight from tl).e fourth level can be seen through an opening in the ceiling that runs the entire length of row D on the third level. Caution ropes block off most of row D on the fourth level. "The expansion joints are being cleaned and reset to try and help drainage problems," Gallagher said. Expansion joints are essential to any
building the size of the parking garage. "Every physical substance expands and comracts. To control that, you fill the joints with a rubber material," said John Lovshin, .d irector of design and capital construction for Auraria' s facilities management. Lovshin said without these joints the building could actually stretch. "The building is 600 feet long, and over the course of time it could stretch four, five or six inches," he said. The rubber material in the joints was not 's et correctly the first time and now 'bas to be reset. The debris on the floor of the garage is left from workers cleaning the joints over the weekend, Gallagher said. "It will take a month and a half to complete. We will work about 30 spaces at a time," Gallagher said.
Problems with falling concrete in the $9 million two-year-old, building has pestered parkers in the garage. MSCD student Dorthea Adams returned to her car Nov. 11 to find three small pieces of concrete on the hood of her car. The falling debris resulted in two small scratches and one small dent , according to an Auraria Public Safety incident report. "A small chunk of concrete about the size of see GARAGE, page 12
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