Volume 17, Issue 9 - Oct. 14, 1994

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New twist on an old ride New landmark rises on the banks of the Platte River. Elltch's new Twister is 60 percent complete and should be ready for passengers early June 1995.

Photo by Andy Cross

Kaplan cans Geis·l er Kent Lister

The Metropolitan Dr. Jerry Geisler, fired as dean of MSCD's School of Business on Sept. 28, said in a recent interview that he's not satisfied with the explanation and that there may be "an agenda here that I don't understand." · President Sheila Kaplan announced Sept. 30 that Dr. Michael Brown, associate dean of the School of Business, had accepted her appointment as two-year interim dean of the School of Business and that Geisler was to assume his tenured position in the Department of

Management effective immediately. Kaplan's e-mail message offered little explanation for Geisler's dismissal other than it was of the utmost importance that she have people on her senior administrative team who believe totally in the unique urban mission of the college. "What's the terminology behind an urban mission?" Geisler said. '.'It may mean that I ·have a gender problem and a color proble~, I don't know. I can't do anything about it either." Kaplan said that she had no comment about Geisler' s statement pertaining to the urban mission .

Geisler said that faculty met with Kaplan on Oct. 7 and questioned her about the firing. "They received no answers, and quite frankly there are no answers other than, by law, she can fire me at will," Geisler said. After the meeting, the School of Business faculty and chairs passed a petition supporting Geisler. The petition stated that the restructuring maneuver was viewed as counterproductive to continuity within the School of Business and asked for an explanation for the action. The petition was signed by a majority of the School

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Spike Adams finds a new home in the Tivoli Student Union

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