Volume20
January 30, 1998
Issue 17
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News Former SGA member arrested in Tivoli \...
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Features Jenny Sparks/The Metropolitan SALUTING DENVER: Broncos linebacker John Mobley leans out of a bus Jan. 27 to acknowledge the crowd gathered along Colfax Avenue and Broadway for the Super Bowl victory parade. The Broncos defeated the Green Bay Packers 31-24 Jan. 25 to win their first-ever world championship, and 650,000 fans gathered to celebrate with the team.
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Auraria hit hard on Super Sunday, during Broncos parade By Jesse Stephenson 1he Metropoluan
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While the Broncos Super Bowl victory left smiles on the faces of orange-and-blue clad students, it took an ugly toll on Auraria. Hundreds of post-Bowl partiers descended on campus Jan. 25, leaving behind a trail of smashed glass, graffiti and other damaged property. Two days later, hundreds more flocked to Auraria, leaving nary a parking space as they trekked across campus to the Broncos' victory parade. Auraria Police Chief Joe Ortiz said up to 300 people congregated on the Auraria Fields and elsewhere on campus after Denver police forced crowds down the 16th Street Mall to Larimer Square and, eventually, across Speer. Denver officers used tear gas and pep-
per spray to move thousands of people out of LoDo after the Super Bowl. "It was kind of scary seeing three or four hundred people who had been tear ga~sed and drinking and didn't want to go home," Ortiz said . . In anticipation of a wild Super Bowl Sunday, Auraria police beefed up the number of officers patrolling campus, but there were few police among the hundreds of other pedestrians on campus. That's because the Denver Police Department asked Auraria police to help direct traffic snarling streets near campus. Other campus police were directing cars out of Auraria parking lots, Ortiz said. While campus police concentrated on cars, people toppled concrete garbage containers, bent umbrellas on tables near the
Tivoli, busted several student union and parking garage windows and etched their initials on the surface of others. In addition lo more than I 0 broken windows, at least 20 panes ended up scratched or cracked. "It was a mess, a zoo," Ortiz said. "We were just trying to control the traffic." Auraria police made few arrests, reports from that evening show. Barb Weiske, director of the student union and campus auxiliaries, said damage to the campus shouldn 't exceed $2,000 since most of the repair work, such as straightening out the umbrellas and turning over the trash containers, can be done by campus employees. In addition to the Sunday night shenani-
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