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ETROPOLITAN Denver, Colorado The MSC student newspaper serving the Auraria Campus since 1979 Volume 12 Issue 3 September I, I 989

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According to Public Service Company of Colorado, Auraria will not be left glowing from contaminants found in nearby parking

<, lots. With most of it sealed in concrete, poly­

clorinated byphenyls (PCBs) found at Fifth and W aJnut streets, site of the newest addition to the Auraria parking system, pose no threat to the health of students and by the

_, en<;l of the month will be-virtually elimi­nated, according to Mark Stutz, director of media relations for PSC.

PCB s were originally used as an insulat­ing material in transformers. It was not until PCB 'S were found to be toxic that PSC started using a synthetic oil as an ~ulation.

..t__ The Environmental Protection Agency mts PCB ·s as posing a serious health threat to humans. PSC had been using the site. in question as a storage lot for outdated tru. formers.

"You are going to find sites like these are

going to be cominon,''. Stutz said "When we find them [contaminated areas] we take care ·of them." According to Stutz, PSC is resolv­ing the problem. and by the end of the month hopes to have the site in question down to zero parts-per-million in any given site. Stutz said he doubted if any part of the contamination presently exceeds that limit.

Stutz added that the site in question has always been "pretty contained [with the contamination extending] only 100 to 200 square feet."

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Concern on campus peaked when it was learned that the workers in charge of clean­ing up the waste were wearing protective suits. Yet, according to Stutz, PSC demands that all employees wear pro­tec ti v e clothing when entering

known areas of contamination, regardless of the level.

Jim Schoemer, interim executive vice president for Administration, said he hoped to have students parking on the lot by the end of September. According to Schoemer, budget shortfalls will leave the lot unpaved

As of now, Auraria holds a five-year lease on the property with the option for an extension.

"Ultimately, we would like to buy it," Schoemer said

According to PSC, contamination around the Auraria Campus is limited to land below Seventh Street due to the residential history of Eighth Street and streets above il

The PCB problem may not be over since Auraria has acquired additional properties below Seventh Street. Abo acquired by Auraria last year is tbe Evenand Building, wbicb, aaxxdiDI to Sdloemer, will be vacated and destroyed by January to make room for additional parking.

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New text vendor creates competition Brian A. Gallagher The Metropolitan

A wave of turquoise blue is flowing across the Auraria cam­pus, sporting King Kong as a mas­cot. The wave consists of fliers for The Student Resource, a company that owner Stephen Perry says will save students 5 to 20 percent on their books this semester.

Perry's corporate offices and warehouses are located in unin­corporated Denver County which Perry says saves the company higher Denver taxes. He said he has made contacts with more than 900 pub­lishing houses in the United States. The Student Resource does not deal in buy-backs or resales, and Perry said this enables him to deal directly with publishers. Perry says he expects to pay $200,000 to $300,000 on salaries.

Jolie and Lori Vigil, 15 and 18, and Shawnti Padilla, 18, work for Perry handing out fliers on campus for $4.50 an hour. Other teen-agers work for Perry in his corporate offireentering dataintoaoomplexsoft­ware system designed to match students with the textbooks they need.

But Perry says his endeavors have not gone completely unchal­lenged and the Auraria Book Cen­ter and The Student Resource have run into some difficulties dealing with each other. Under the open records law, Auraria Book Center is required to supply information to the public on request. Book Center Director Gretchen Minney

said, "We gave them [The Resource] 1

authorization from day one. We

gave them the same information that we get from the faculty."

"We gave them the information immediately at first, and then their requests became so numerous that we decided to give them the in­formation every Friday," Minney said. She cited the open records law provision allowing a state agency to provide information on a reasonable timetable if an "undue inconvenience is disrupting the operation of a state facility."

"Our commitment is to the facul­ty and · students of this campus, not to a private entrepreneur," she said.

Problems arose when faculty members began getting calls from

people identifying themselves as "from the book store," saying they had problems with an order. The faculty members provided the in­formation to the caller and then called Mary Martinez of the Aura­ria Book Center.

Martinez said she told profes­sors, "Not only do we have your books, but we are selling them to your students now."

Martinez said many of the callers did identify themselves as being from The Student Resource. Some departments, however, such as Metro mathematics and Metro philosophy, just got confused.

''We are an institutional college store. We have a full commitment

to each institution on this campus to purchase every book requested by every faculty member for all three institutions," Minney said.

A voiding the long lines at the Book Center at the beginning of each semester is one of the reasons for the Resource's inception.

"When you have 33,000 stu­dents trying to get their books all on the same day, yes, we are guilty of lines," Minney said.

Perry's Resource offers United Parcel Service delivery to students' doorstep for a fee."

In a random survey comparing the prices between the Auraria Book Center and The Student Resource, one third of the text, mostly smaller paperbacks, were found to have identical prices. Other books were less expensive through the Resource by about 10 percent. A general rule seems to be, the larger and more expensive the text the greater the discount In one case, however, the Resource charged 23 percent more for a text than the Book Center.

Regardinganorderoffourupper­division journalism textbooks for MSC and four beginning music textbooks for UCO, the Resource had three of eight textbooks in stock at the warehouse.

The Resource refund policy is fairly encompassing, provided the

· \~t I books have not been marked in. If · j the wrong book is ordered, through

• consumer or supplier error, they . "·~ will give a full refund. If a student

1!i orders books, receives them and -e iater drops the class within a rea­if sonable period of time, the resource

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Prof stresses worldly studies Chad Morris Assistant News Editor

"When a white child in America reads history, he hears the footfall of the Greek and Roman. When a black child reads history, he doesn't hear the footfall of the African."

-James Baldwin Using this quote as a base, Eng­

lish Professor Ernest Cham­pion stressed the need for required multicultural studies at Metro and all colleges in the United States.

"The world demands American know-how and technology," he

said, but added "America needs to understand the world."

Champion, who teaches at Bowling Green State University and heads its committee on diver­sity, spoke to about 125 people at a symposium about the role of mul­ticultural studies in modern under­graduate education. The sympo­sium was held Aug. 23 in the North C~room.

The symposium was sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Minorities and featured speakers from the University of Colorado, U.S. West Communicatiom, the Colorado Commission on Higher

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Education and a panel from Met­ro's faculty and administration in addition to Champion.

Champion believes that multicultural-studies programs need to be set up to handle the rising number of minorities and women in public office and the work force. Educating people about other cultures will enable them to deal more effectively with one another.

He suggest the formation of a multicultural-studies depart­ment at Metro that would feature black, Hispanic, Native American

and Asian studies courses. "People writing about Shakes­

peare, Milton or Faulkner have the advantage of related course work," he said. That is, students can take courses on these people, but not specialized courses on minority authors like James Baldwin.

While Champion said he believed some of these changes will be painful, students must be ready to face the fact that by the year 2000, 80 percent of the world population will be Asian and Afri­can, while 20 percent will be white.

However, according to Nel­son Phelps, executive director of pluralism at U.S. West Com~ munications, the sue is broad­er than education.

"We must addr~ the sue of working with different cultures," he said. "It could mean ~ or failure to a busin~."

By way of a solution to this i problem, Phelps agreed that re­

''' :! quired multicultural-studies courses 9! would help, but also descnbed i what U.S. West is doing to handle ..., th . 1!i e JSSue. I Employees participate in if one- and three-day courses ~

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There are no records of any PCB contam­ination at any other spot on the Auraria Campus. The only hazardous waste un­earthed during the Lawrence Street contruc­tion was two fuel storage tanks that, according ing to Dean W olt: director of the physical plant, were properly disposed of.

Included in the contract with PSC is a stipulation that requires it to bring the lot back to finish grade and ready for operation.

With completion of the lot at Fifth and Walnut streets comes a parking system that now extends through Sixth Street which was recently renovated for Auraria parking. o

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signed to make them more culturally aware. Phelps said this was just the beginning of U.S. West's $1.S million investment in mul­ticultural studies in the work place.

What all of these efforts amount to, according to Evelyn Hu-DeHart, the direc­tor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, is a redefinition of American culture.

"There is no quick fix to what we're trying to do here," she said.

The key to further development of multi­cultural studies is the recruitment and reten­tion of minority faculty and students, she said. Using CU as an example, Hu-DeHart said Metro has the same opportunity for establishing a multicultural studies depart­ment

Citing MSC President Thomas Brewer's presence at the symposium, she said leader­ship at the top of the administration is key to the development of such a program.

At CU, multicultural courses were built up slowly and other projects were deve­loped. Currently, CU requires that students take a multicultural studies class for their degree.

Lynn Wickelgren, the chair of the general studies committee, suggested adding courses to the general studies requirement She said that arrangements should be taken to avoid adding more credit hours to the requirement and that students should be given a choice of multicultural courses they could take.

Metro Provost Tobin Barrozo said resist­ance to multicultural-studies programs usual­ly came from faculty and administration, but the good climate at Metro should make the process easy. o

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Speaker gives education insights Knute Nelson Sports Editor

"If you go and ask whether or not a parent is happy with the education their child is getting, they may not be - but there isn't a

.:t damn thing they can do about it, .. said Tom Tancredo of the U.S. Department of Educa­tion at Auraria on Aug. 30.

Tancredo, the regional representative of the department, also said he knows the answer to what he called the "education deficit" - and that answer is called Choice.

- • Choice is an approach to educational reform that would allow parents to choose which public school they want their child to attend, instead of sending them to whatever school they happen to live nearest. The the­ory is that schools that do a good job educat-

--> ing and have good reputations would flour­ish, while schools that are not would go out of business.

"Private schools go out of business all the time because they are not serving the needs of the community. Why should public schools be any different?"

~ Citing statistics that show there are 27 million functionally illiterate adults in the United States and a dropout rate of 28%, Tancredo said, "By any definition, we are failing in a, country that spends more on education than any other in the world I am

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Besides giving parents the power to select the schools their children will attend, Choice also includes alternatives for the certification of teachers and provisions to cut the red tape

that bog school districts down. He said that the new method of training

teachers would focus on life experiences rather than "paper credentials."

'Private schools go out of busl­naas all the time. why should publlc schools be any different?'

"I received my teaching certificate from the University of Northern Colorado," Tan­credo said, "and I can't tell you that anything I learned in college helped prepare me for teaching."

Tancredo used MSC as an example of "forgiveness in the system" that he would like to see more of.

"What you people have here is a situation where you are saying 'we have something different to offer students,' and you are giv­ing people a choice that otherwise they would not have bad," he said. "And if it's a good idea at the college level, then why can't we apply those same principles to [kinder­garten] through 12?"

States which are currently implementing Choice, such as Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, are already showing improve­ments, Tancredo said, although be stressed that "It won't happen overnight."

He also cited a school in East Harlem in New York that had problems with dropouts, drugs and truancy that were "far beyond those in Denver," when parents decided

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they would take their children's education into their own bands. Now the school sends 96% of its graduates to college.

"This is truly a miracle," Tancredo said "It is astronomical what they achieved there.

"Often the system ends up being the prob­lem," he said "What we have with Choice is competition. Without competition the sys­tem will not work. We need to instill a sense of ownership of schools in the childen, faculty and administrators that are there. Once we have that, we will be able to do the things we want to do."

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Tancredo answered questions about bow transportation across district lines would be handled by saying the schools would be allocated additional money to bring in child­ren if their enrollment showed the need He said this system would also prevent those who could not afford to transport their children themselves from being discrimi­nated against.

"Frankly," be said, "to the extent that the government tells people what to do, we are doing them a disservire. The government can only do so much before people need to start being accountable.:' a

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New Board seeks improvements

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The Auraria Board of Directors approved the 1991-1992 campus capital construction budget request of more than $27 million over a four-year period at its Aug. 29 meeting.

James Schoemer, interim executive vice president for Administration, requested

tions and academic program requirements. "This facility would satisfy the general

classroom and aswciated faculty office space needs. It excludes space for sciences which would ultimately be planned for a Science Building addition; it excludes theater and performance space," according to the request

• the money to construct and equip a class­room building by 1994 to avoid a potential space deficit based on enrollment projec-

"We need to make an effort to tackle some of the money that's being saved through the refinancing [of the loan on the North Classroom]," he said. The savings would be around $1.3 million, he added.

The budget request will go to the Colo­rado Commission on Higher Education for

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Projects include an addition to the library, a ha7.ardous waste storage facility, an addi­tion to the Science Building and a design and planning facility for the UCD College of Architecture and Planning, which is cur­rently located off campus.

The total cost for all five projects is more than $50 million over the next l 0 years.

The Board also discussed the ~ibility of

placing the names of MSC, UCD and CCD on the Science Building, North and South Classrooms to promote each institution and convey that Auraria contains all three.

Dean Wolf, director of the Auraria physi­cal plant, said that each sign would be visible from Speer Boulevard The cost for the signs, including installation, but without lighting, would be about $48,000.

Also proposed were institutional flags or pennants for the new visitor loop at Ninth and Lawrence streets.

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of his free parking. Taylor, who buys a prepaid lot permit,

thinks the permits are getting too expensive. "I paid $135 for a prepaid lot and I think

it's a rip. But I don't have any problem

finding a space." Shelly Maschinot, a junior at Metro who

also works as a parking lot attendant, said parking is going smoother than she antici­pated.

"It's still really hectic, but it calms down

after the first week." Ready said there are roughly 5,500 park­

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Parking head gives tips for drivers Jacque Wiiiiams The Metropolitan

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Parking problems are just a part of life when you attend school at a tri-institutional metropolitan campus. But there are ways to • keep it from becoming a daily headache.

Randy L. Ready, parking system man­ager for Auraria campus, has some tips on how to survive those "parking lot blues."

Ready said parking problems on the first few days of the semester are due to a variety of problems.

''Students are unfamiliar with where they are going; so they tend to stack in lots they are familiar with, instead oflooking for alter- • native locations. They're not familiar with the shuttle yet."

Ready also said that students stay on campus longer during the first few days while they pay tuition, buy books and get parking decals.

"That causes a lot of clogging in the park­ing lots. They tend to get fuller and stay fuller longer during those first two or three days."

To prevent the problem of waiting in long -. lines to buy a parking decal, the Parking and Transportation Office has begun a telephone registration system, whereby you can renew your decal by telephone and receive your decal in the mail. Ready said about 5,000 permit holders took advantage of the new system this semester before the Aug. 18 deadline.

He said that there was also walk-in regis­tration at two on-campus sites. Parking lot attendants were instructed to spend the week reminding drivers to purchase their decals before the Tues., Sept. 5 deadline.

"The best bet parking is in the northwest corner of campus, lots D, C-North, C-South, F-N orth, B and the two W lots. These are the last to fill. If you're coming in during prime hours ... basically meaning from 8-10 in the morning and from 4-6 in the afternoon, that's going to be your best bet," Ready said

He also suggested parking at Mile High Stadium and taking the shuttle.

"It's working great. They've got three buses running during the peak times."

Another tip from Ready: Try to avoid stacking up in Lot H, Lot F and Lot K during the peak hours.

"A couple of blocks is not worth sitting in your car, being late for your class and every­thing else."

The other lot to avoid is Lot. R, Ready said .

"Lot R is the first to fill during the morn­ing rush and the evening rush."

So be street smart. Know your parking lots and don't let the parking blues get you down. o

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London semester education in itself Michael Shannon

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One MSC history prof~rs idea of a college education is a walk in the park.

Hyde Park, that is.

Brooks Van Everen is coordinator of ..: Semester in London, a study-abroad pro­

gram open to all Metro students with the pocketbook [it oosts about SS,000] to afford it He feels there is no substitute for the experience of learning in a foreign country.

"It gives students a chance to sample a • smorgasbord of the rich cultural life of Lon­

don," he said. "It gives them a sense of historical events there that they would never have in a cla&Voom, really bringing them to life."

Spomored by the American Institute for _,.: Foreign Study, a Greenwich, Coonecticut­

based organi7Ation that serves both high

schools and colleges, Semester in London has been in operation at MSC since 1986, and has sent more than 40 students to study in London.

"We would love to have more, but the cost is a problem," Van Evcren said.

Participants are sent to study at the Uni­versity of London in clamoom space ar­ranged for by the AIFS. Metro is one of a comortium of colleges, which includes the University of New Mexico, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Each college sends prof~rs to London every semester to teach courses and coordinate the curricu­lum.

"This tends to eliminate inconsistencies that might otherwise exist [in keeping the clmes in line with MSC standards]," Van Everen said "We just use the courses as they. exist in our catalog."

Cedric Tarr of the political science depart­ment will be teaching in the program this semester.

Semester in London was originally in­tended primarily for political science and history majors. But its popularity quickly

spread to other departments.

Of the three MSC students who will be going abitJed this semester, one will be study­ing British writers, another is planning an internship in TV broadcastin& and the third is studying aiminology.

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"This [various majors in the program] sometimes creates a problem in setting up a amiculumbthem, "VanEWJ'Cllsaid. WJ1oJgb there is a lot of latitude in the topics and courses available, it sometimes becomes an independent study situation."

Uncooperative agencies can also be a hindrance.

"One of the students wanted an internship with the BBC, and even wrote them a letter. They sent her back an application to be a stenographer."

Besides courses tailored to their own areas of interest, the participating students enroll in courses of a more regional flavor taught by the University of London staff. Each course is worth three credit hours, the aver­age load being about 12 hours a semester.

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week break. During this time the students can participate in activities such as trips to

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bility of the program to the average student, Van Everen said

"I worry about the pricyness of this," be said, suggesting that the program should change its location in Great Britain. "I wonder f if you could] cut the costliness and broaden the opportunities by moving it, say, to York, which is a lovely place. London is such an expensive city."

Van Everen considers it a shame that so many mm out

"What comes out [from the participating students) is what an important part of their education it was to go to this foreign college and live in these foreign p~," he said.

"It gives them an opportunity to grow up and make some decisions." o

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Fit To Be Tied By John C. Roper

With all of the recent hoopla over the 20th anniver­sary of Woodstock, the 60s generation has, once again, proclaimed itself to be the omniscient messenger of all of the good things in today's society.

The truth is, the era of free love and cheap dope has left us with a cultural hangover that has given us the AIDS epidemic, the use of abortion for birth control, the "War oh Drugs," a cataclysmic divorce rate, and an educational system so frighteningly littered with drop­outs that the country could tailspin into a haven for illiterates whose only ambition in life is to ask you if you would like some fries with that Big Mac and Coke.

During the past 20 years, we' ve come to realize that the idea of tripping on recreational drugs is nothing but suicide. The flower children of the 60s told us that dropping out of school and living in a drug-induced state was the road to peace and freedom and the escape from a capitalistic society. We now see that th is form of peace could catapult us into oblivion.

Let's not forget the thousands of I ives that wi II be lost due to drug abuse or the billions of dollars the United States will spend to combat what the 60s started as a "groovy" thing to do. Perhaps if this trend had never begun, this money could have been used for the things that hippies spent so much time protesting for: peace, social programs or a safe and efficient alternative for nuclear power. Who knows, maybe we could have used this money to find a cure for AIDS?

Last year, Denver Public Schools had a dropout rate of 45 percent. This leaves thousands of untrained peo­ple roaming the streets. Many experts think, and I have to agree, that a leading cause for this is increased drug use - a 60s aftershock.

Perhaps the most insulting slap in the face thus far is the fact that the same generation of people who named themselves things like Chastity, Passion or Lunarwarp, have exchanged their Volkswagen vans and tie-dyed T-shirts for BMWs and Gucci wardrobes and now go by names like Biff, Buffy and Skipper. You guessed it: they are now the yuppies. One idea of yuppiedom isn't so bad. It's the hypocritical turncoats that make my stom­ach turn like a Hoola Hoop. Everything they sup­posedly worked for and espoused to be is right down the ol' toity on this one.

There also seems to be a certain arrogance from people who grew up in the 60s. Nearly every time I talk to someone from the 60s about this era, they say, "There's never been better music than the 60s and there never will be!"

I guess this makes Mozart's work nothing more than fly droppings on a musical score.

And when they say that contemporary music is trash, well, that's simply unjust. People should be able to listen to whatever type of music they want to - without the hypocritical criticism that the beatnik generation dishes out so well.

I'll have to admit that some good things were born in the 60s, such as: the Beatles, Civil Rights, a "Big Brother" awareness of the government, the space pro­gram, and, of course, myself.

Yet the notion that the 60s was the end-all generation of people who did nothing but good for our society is a myth. The cultural hangover is finally kicking in and it's going to take more than a Tylenol and a bong hit for it to go away.

A motto of the t ime was, "Turn on, tune in and drop­out." All I've got to say is, "Shut up, sober up and move on."

Drug War? Can one country go about forcing another country to

cease producing its number-one cash crop? Can one tell a government proven to be corrupt to

work to improve the quality of life of somebody some­place else and actually expect results?

Can one tell a 12-year-old inner-city kid making more than $1,000 a week selling crack to "just say no" to drugs?

And who can begin to comprehend the desire that drives a woman to prostitute her own child in order to maintain her crack habit?

And does not one have to understand a problem before a solution can be found?

If not, can it be believed that George Bush or William Bennett, of all people, even have a clue as to an answer?

Yet, on September 5, Bush will unveil his plan to combat the drug problem. Although not stated, it has been implied that military and economic aid to Colombia will be part of that plan.

The administration wants to go after the source. Let it be known that this is not our first war on drugs

or even our second. It happens to be one of a series dating back to before the civil war.

Our country wants to force countries like Bolivia, which nets one third of its gross national product from the sale of coca leaves, to stop growing them.

Our administration wants to attempt to negotiate with governments that have been proven corrupt. After

September 1, 1989 all , poor countries that have bill ion-dollar illegal economies do tend to be corrupt.

If we are going to go into South America with these intentions, we will have to be prepared to pump millions of dollars into their legal economies.

In fact, it would take billions of dollars, several years of close scrutiny and careful reshaping of those systems to begin to see a change. This would involve policing their election processes, police forces and military. However, the ironic thing about this is that is precisely what we tried in Vietnam.

The deep need that drives addicts to extremes is difficult to understand. The truth is, dependencies like theirs know no boundaries. Any U.S. attempts to elimi­nate drug sources is naive.

Would you go chop down your neighbor's crabapple tree simply because you couldn't control your child from going over there, picking apples and throwing them at traffic? Yet, isn't that what is being entertained?

Maybe the time has come for us to abandon our mainstream middle-class solutions and conjure up a new strategy.

Maybe it is time we realized that drugs are always going to be with us. Therefore, use and abuse couid ana snould only be controlled.

This might be done by pumping those same dollars into affordable treatment facilities and education.

Cutting off the source will not eliminate the availabil­ity of drugs; it will lessen it. Simple supply and demand theories suggest that the price will only increase and, in turn, the competition will get even harsher.

And what possibly could be harsher than a mother prostituting her own child?

- Richard Sclbelll Jr. -New1Edltor

Editor's Note: Due to an editorial error, a letter from Student President Kelly Martin that was to appear in this space will not appear until next week. The letter urged students to become involved in student govern­ment, and we encourage you to notice student government's ad on pg. 7. The Met regrets the error.

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Faculty, students afraid of cheaters When Metropolitan State College starts up this fall,

some great instructors and some great students will be going back to class along with some liars and cheaters. The cheaters are the students who hand in work that is not their own, and the liars are the Metro administrators who claim that there is no cheating problem at their school.

I've attended Metro since 1983 and have seen numer­ous incidents of cheating, as well as very suspicious

~ activity during tests. How bad is the cheating at Metro? Let's look:

Last semester during the first exam in a certain class. a student asked' me, "Hey, what did you get for 23?" He then proceeded to lean over his desk to get a better view of my paper. I looked up only to find that the instructor had left the room. My first thought was to tell this guy to jump in the lake. However, since a big portion of my final grade would be decided by feedback from fellow students, I replied, "I don't know."

The next day I blew up at the the instructor, and after that the test arrangements Improved. Other exper­

r,. iences have had less than happy endings. In a !>usiness class, we were required to write papers

and then present them to the class. As one young man presented his paper, I was overcome by a feeling of deja vu. I had heard or read these same ideas somewhere. Then I remembered; this young man was reading, word for word, a story that had appeared only weeks earlier

-< on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. After class I reported this to the instructor, who replied, "I'll check into it." Nothing was done and to my disbelief the young man completed the class.

In a math class, the instructor could not attend on a test day and sent a student to proctor the exam. As the

proctor read a magazine, two young women opened their notebooks and reviewed formulas. By this time in my Metro career, I w~n't surprised, but I was angry. I stood up, in the middle of the exam, and shouted at the proctor, "Those students are cheating. What are you going to do about it?" She looked up and said, "Eyes on your own papers." She also told me to "Keep quiet, other students are working." The next time the class met, the instructor gave us the option of keep­ing the grades from that exam, or taking the test over. The decision made by a qlass vote was to let the test scores stand.

Even I wouldn't volunteer to repeat a math test. I passed; the women who cheated just surfed through and continued their "education" Qt Met<o.

For the first year I believed that the instructors just didn't care; later I learned they looked the other way to protect themselves. One instructor, who was tough on monitoring exams, explained the situation with the fol­lowing scenario:

Charlie Cheater cheats on an exam in Professor Plum's class. First, Professor Plum must catch Charlie Cheater in the act and also get two witnesses (other students in the class). Second, the school would hold a hearing and, based on the evidence, would expel Char­lie Cheater. Charlie's records could never be trans­ferred to another school without that expulsion show­ing. Charlie doesn't believe he's been treated fairly, so he takes his case to civil court. He will plead that his path to a college degree has been hindered, and, as a result, he has lost out on promotions and advance­ments at work.

Since he will plead before a jury, a wife and children would be helpful courtroom props. With jury sym­pathy it is likely that Charlie would win and the state [via

the school] would pay. However, there would be other defendants that

would pay. Professor Plum would be just as liable as the school, but he would be personally liable. The pro­fessor would not only lose his job, but house and sav­ings as well. The students who "witnessed" the event would also !>&financially vulnerable.

With a potentiial nightmare like that, what instructors would want to remove their blinders?

My suggested solution is to change the way cheating and plagiarism are dealt with at Metro. First of all, instructors should get militant about cheating. Let's see some respectable test proctoring. Don't leave the class­room during an exam. Stay and walk around the room. In tests where calculators are used, pick some up, look at them and look at the papers stuffed in the calculator

cases. Last semester I had an excellent instructor who was a model test proctor. Even five months pregnant she tiptoed up and down the aisles to make sure that all eyes were on their own papers.

Finally, let's get rid of rules that aren't enforced. Since cheating students aren't prosecuted, due to a fearful administration, lower the penalty.Simply award an "F" for the course in which the student cheated. This lesser penalty would result in fewer "they ruined my life" lawsuits and hopefully more prosecutions of cheaters.

Yes the world isn't always fair, but Metropolitan State College needs to keep its promise for a prejudice­free education. Until they solve the cheating problem, honest students are getting less than they deserve.

-Kate Betts MSC Accounting MaJor

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Littleton queen likes cha-llenges M. Tammy Mulllgan The Metropolitan

The reigning "Miss Littleton" does not fit any of the stereotypes of a pageant contest­ant, and that doesn't bother her at all.

''The last thing I want to be looked at as is a snob," Michelle Lang who won the 1990 crown on August 12, said.

The MSC business student said the Miss America Scholarship Pageant is looking for a wholesome, girl-next-door type, not a gor­geous tall model. At 5'3* Lang is the same height as the re~g "Miss America."

She has already made several appearances at events in Littleton, like pancake break­fasts and golf tournaments. But before long she will begin preparations for next year's Miss Colorado Pageant

"I have to mentally, physically and emo­ti on a 11 y be ready to challenge myself:" she said

Lang prepared for months prior to the contest for the interview portion, which counts as 30 percent of the contest. She was asked questions on savings and loans, abor­tion, and the joint chiefs of staff.

During the talent section, 40 percent of the contest, Lang relied on her music and theater background. She san& "Think of Me" from "The Phantom of the Opera."

As winner of the pageant she will receive a $3,000 scholarship to be used over a four. year period.

"The feeling of accomplishment is great," Lang said

"It helped me to believe in me," she said. "They are scholarship pageants, not beauty pageants, and because of Miss America Scholarship Pageants I've been able to pursue my academic goals."

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Sculptor uses clay to open minds Monique Maldonado The Metropolitan

"People and trees are a lot alike - think about it," says the artist, eyes straining upward toward the late afternoon light filter­ing through the Tivoli atrium. Burly fin­gers pinch rool clay into delicate leaf forms as Howard Neville assesses his latest crea­tion, "Eagles in the Family Setting."

At its present stage of evolution, "Eagles" is a skeleton of clay-an eight-foot-tall tree whose branches envelop a nesting eagle with an eaglet nestled under her wing.

The finished product, in brome, will include a fountain at the foot of the tree, representing a lake, where the male eagle will catch trout for his family.

Neville chose to portray the family unit because it is so rarely represented in the artistic world.

"Eagles have been so prostituted," said Neville. "Harley Davidson uses them to promote their bikes, and other companies use them as well People are used to seeing them on postage stamps. But not too many people are able to see them in nature as they really are."

Helping others see nature is the reason Neville brought his project to the Tivoli. With the support of Concerned Parents for Education, Denver, Neville hopes to expose Denver children to something other than television and video games this summer. He hopes to teach children about the crea­tive p~.

"No one ever gets to see the steps you have to go through to get a finished piece," he said. "Exposing people to art is real important to me."

Neville has been exposing people to art for many years, first as a middle-school teacher, then an art therapist in an institu­tion, and now as a jewelry teacher at North­east College in Sterling, Colorado. Work­ing on a sculpture is his own form of therapy, Neville said.

"People get so excited when they see an adult play with clay," he said. "And given the chance, most adults can become children again - and see things the way children do."

According to Neville, the children who see his work tend to bring their parents out of their shells.

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said. "People are always running around in a hurry. But when a child stops and asks me if he can play with the clay, something usually happens. I have parents who stand back very shyly, who then end up talking and sharing with me what they're working on."

Neville has been working on "Eagles" for four months. He said he got his ins!'liration from Barr Lake, where he lived for several years. He began by observing the eagles in their natural habitat, then sketching and painting watercolors before the impression cemented itself in his memory. He doesn't use photos though, because of what he calls the spiritual aspect of his art.

"It's all up here," he said, pointing to his head. "It's very personal and kind of over­whelming to see nature in all its glory."

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Recently Neville shared a piece of his sight with a blind World War II veteran visiting the Tivoli.

He said the man was walking around and bumped right into the sculpture.

"We talked about it a little, and he asked,

'By the way, could I take a second touch of that?' I took him up and he really expe­rienced it. It was kind of nice."

So, for the next several months, Neville will be completing the molding process of his sculpture, then pouring the brome to get the final image. He hopes the brome will be

registered in the files of the Colorado Coun­cil of Arts in Boulder, which should give him some much-needed exposure as an artist.

He's not interested in showing his work at galleries, though. It seems he's reaching people he wants to reach through his display at the Tivoli.

"It's excited a lot of people," he said. "I ~ if that's all fve done, then fve

succeeded. The best thing is when someone comes up to me and says 'Can I touch that?'. Children are taught not to touch, which is a shame. When you give them a piece of clay to play with, you're opening them up for a lot of creative growth."

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Koehler is able to help only with crimes that are misdemeanors. Crimes that are felo­.Ues require more assistance than a part-time counselor can provide.

-If the long arm of the law reaches out and

touches you this semester, Barbara Koehler can help.

"The ramifications of not having an ,.

Koehler is director of Tri-Institutional Student Legal Services, a student fee-funded service designed to give students free legal advice and assistance. She's also a lawyer with a private practice in Lakewood.

Koehler dispenses advice from her spar­tan office, decorated only with shelves of law books, located on the second floor of the south win~ of the Student Union in Room 255B.

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"It's a bit of a change from a strictly business environment," Koehler said. "The longer I'm here, the more impressed I am."

Because of her part-time status at Auraria, she can't, for example, accompany a student to a court hearing, but she can and does offer advice. If she feels the case warrants more, she will offer a referral.

"That's probably the most difficult thing for me to make an adjustment to," she said, "the limits that in private practice you don't have."

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attorney [that can] appear [in court with you] are more severe [in felony crimes]," Koehler said.

She also felt that the campus might not want to expose the program to crimes that could range all the way to murder.

"I also haven't gotten any indication from the students I've seen that any kind of heavy-duty crime is going on," she said.

Koehler advises students on a variety of legal problems: traffic citations, disputes with a landlord, immigration, bankruptcy, collections, workman'~compensation, takes and dissolution of marriage. She also pro­vides referrals to Metropolitan Lawyer Ref­erral Services or to Thursday Night Bar, an organiz.ation that provides free legal aid to low-income people.

Because Koehler's staff assistant didn't return this year, she has her hands full just keeping the office running.

"It's like I'm doing double duty, and it means I can't concentrate solely on the stu­dents," she said. "Although we're. getting everybody in that we have calling."

c: ii Koehler is in the process of setting up her .e fall schedule. Last year she found that work-1 ing one full day during the week and two .:" half days worked well and allowed her to see I all students. £

She would like input from students on areas of interest to help her schedule clinics for students. Divorce and tax clinics are two of the po.smbilities for this year.

Koehler finds other attorneys envious of her position on campus.

"Hey, that sounds like a pretty good deal; I wouldn't mind doing that," are responses she gets from lawyers when they find out what she does at Auraria.

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ARTS 'Lease' new twist on old

:r ·formula C.D. Turner Features Editor

For those of you who haven't seen a really good fantasy western lately, it's recom­mended that you mosey on over to Jacks' Theatre and see the play "Lease on Life."

Author and Metro alumnus Sonny Wa­singer is going to scramble your brains and cross your eyes if you try to figure out "the message" in this pseudo-philosophical com­edy romp back and forth through time.

The play opens with Doc Holliday (Michael Parker) dying of consump).ion in a Glenwood Sprin~ hotel room in 1887. Besides dying, his only other problem is a sassy, preachy hotel maid, Miss Hathaway (Suzanne Fountain), who insists on deliver­ing sermons with each bottle of whiskey.

Let it be known that Parker is the best cougher and wheezer west of New York City and east of Los Angeles. And Fountain has the most astonishing Irish brogue of any character who's supposed to be from the Great Plains.

Holliday is visited by an old enemy he thought he'd shot and killed at the O.K. Corral, Drew ~ore (Patrick Adamson).

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Miss Hathaway is distressed that Doc took the lease and starts with her hurt-your­back-teeth-fillings-again yammering. Holli­day points the unloaded gun at her and pulls the trigger, a little habit he's picked up to soothe his nerves while in her company. But, unfortunately, some mysterious entity has caused a bullet to be in the chamber and she dies. Whose moral responsibility this is will be yours to figure out.

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However, Holliday is astonished; Las.Y more is smug; and the audience is grateful.

As the two men gaz.e down at the body on the floor, Holliday says, "Gosh, I liked her a lot."

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Lease -------- from pg. 15 _______ _ free will vs. determinism, the definition of a

• traditional God and the problem of evil, exist~ntialist meaning produced in the last moments of life, the duty to die, what consti­tutes redemption, what is reality, who really cares, who is it that's asking, can you prove it, and so on and so forth.

:I But no one's goi.Jg to get to first base in the interpretation game with a comedian like Wasinger - no hits, no runs. A few people got a walk, but they couldn't find first base. I, for one, think Wasinger hid it.

After 199 six-month leases and a sensa-'f tional visit from M~ Hathaway's ghost,

Doc decides he isn't having a very good time and wants to meet the boss for a showdown. ~more insists the boss doesn't do meet­ings. But Doc gets his way when be reminds ~more that this is America and everyone bas the right to meet his boss.

The Devil (Andrew Smyer) appears and is well worth the wait. He makes the mistake of calling Doc his servant. Doc's mortality

and morality aside, up with this he will not ?' put. The deal is off ... or rather, if it ever

happened in the first place, the deal is off ... if there was a deal ... you'd have to be there. So try to be there.

You'll be pleasantly surprised to find that the play bas a real second act - something you can't always count on in this town, so it's kind of worth noting when you run into it. As for M~ Hathaway's lack of charm, after she dies, you find yoiirself actually lik­ing her.

In addition, the set makes sense; the light­- ing is wonderful, particularly during the

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''Lease on Life" will be playing at Jacks' Theatre, 1553 Platte SL, Thursdays and Sundays at 7:30 p.m. andFridaysandSatur­days at 8. Call 722-6721 for reservations.

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PARENTHOOD

LETHAL WEAPON II

CHEETAH

RELENTLESS

UNCLE BUCK

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

TURNER AND HOOCH

FIELD OF DREAMS

CASUALTIES OF WAR

BATMAN

THE ABYSS

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

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THURSDAY, August 31 MONDAY, September4 TIIURSDAY, September 7

MSC ACCOUNTING HONOR SOCIETY: AA MEETING: 1 p.m.; Auraria Library, INTER-CLUB COUNCIL: Orientation for .. General meeting at 3:30 p.m. in Student Room206. those who ~ on 9/6. 11:30 a.m.; Stu-Union Room 238. MSC MEN'S SOCCER: vs. Rockhurst Col- dent Union Room 330B.

lege. Noon at Auraria Field.

SATURDAY, September 2 WEDNESDAY, September 6 FRIDAY, September 15 -:'

MSC WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL: All day AA MEETING: 1 p.m.; Auraria Library, FREEDOM BANNER INC. POW /MIA at Regis. Roomi206. RECOGNITION DAY: Freedom Banner

INTER-CLUB COUNCIL: Orientation, Inc. presents at the State Capito] a Tribute to

MSC MEN'S SOCCER: vs. Colorado School 11:30 a.m.; Student Union Room 330C. Colorado POW /MIA WorJdWarll,Korea, of Mines. 2 p.m. at Auraria Field. DOTSERO: At the Mission. 11 :30 a.m. - and Vietnam. The presentation begins at

1:30 p.m. 11 :30 a.m. and will feature guest s~ers, SC WOMEN'S SOCCER: vs. Regis. THE METRO ACCOUNTING HONOR Lowry Drum and Bugle Co~ and "Missing

Noon at Auraria Field. SOCIETY: Deadline for resumes to be in Man" flybys. Lt Col. James "Bo" Gritz and sign up for the mock interviews spon- one of the most decorated Vietnam Green sored by the MSC Accounting Honor So- Berets and leader of Operation Grand Eagle, ciety, MSC Alumni, and the Office of an effort to rescue POW's, will speak at 7 SUNDAY, September 3 Career Services. Interviews will be held on p.m. at Eagle Crest High School Theatre at September 13 and 14. Sign up begins Aua .

MSC WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL: All day 30 at the office of Career Services Art Build- 5100 South Picadilly in Aurora. For more at Regis . ing Room 177. information call 699-0408.

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HELP WANTED PERSONAL

EARN MONEY reading books! $30,000/yr. ADOPTION Loving couple wants to income potential. Details 1-805-687- adopt infant girl to add to our family. 6000, ext. Y-n16. 11/10 Husband is an electronic engineer,

wife is a homemaker. Medical/legal NEED A JOB? FIRST INTERSTATE BANK handled by local adoption agency. Call OF DENVER has several openings for Mike and Angel at 363-6237. 9/1 students of all schedules. For more

SERVICES information, please call our job line at 293-Sm. 9/1

SOS TYPING SERVICE. I would like to PROOFREADER: Part-time, experienced, help you with your typing needs high standards, court testimony. Send Sincerely, Sandi 234-1095. 12/1 resume to 1719 Emerson Street, Denver, CALL KAREN WITH SECRETARIAL EXPRESS, co 80218. 9/15 INC. Editing, correction of spelling, FEMALE ROOMMATE. $160/mo. + 1 /3 grammar and proofing included. $1.50 utilities. Washer/dryer. Can watch 10- per page. Word processing/typing, year-old occasional evenings instead theses, dissertations, manuals, books, of rent. Dana, 693-6890 please leave transcription, mailing lists, data base, message. 9/1 bookkeeping and RESUMES. Same day

service/pick-up & delivery/rush jobs SHARE AN EXCELLENT ENVIRONMENT near available. Central location: 3200 Cherry 32nd and Sheridan. Large, sunny Creek South Drive, Suite #650, rooms. Extra room for office or studio. 722-0530. 9/1 Storage space. $300/month plus 1/3 LETTER QUALITY FOR LESS THAN A BUCK utilities. Non-smoker only. 458-6027 A PAGEi Word processing/typing by after 6 p.m. 9/1 professional writer. Labels, letters,

term papers, manuscripts, theses and FOR SALE more. 733-3053. 9/1

1987 YAMAHA VIRAGO 535. 1800 miles, ' TYPIU $200 double-spaced page. Mary's Secretarial Service, 333-9616.

excellent condition. $1600. comes with 10/20 two helmets. Call 331-9653. 9/15

LEGAL SERVICES - DUI, traffic, divorce GOVERNMENT SEIZED VEHICLES from and other services available. Student $100. Fords, Mercedes, Corvettes, rate. Joseph Block, attorney 355-0928. Chevys, surplus. Buyer's Guide: 1-805- 10/27 687-6000, ext. S-7716. 3/9 RESUMES/TYPING, editing, proofing,

13" SAMSUNG COLOR CABLE-READY TV. writing. Mistake-free. Diane 789-3535. 1984, excellent condition. $100 or best 9/15 offer. 331-2249-leave message. 9/15 SECRETARIAL EXPRESS - word process-

ing, typing, laser printing, editing, cor-CAN YOU BUY JEEPS. CARS, 4 X 41 seized rection of spelling, tutoring, transcrip-in drug raids for under $100? Call for tion, $1.50 per page, rough plus original. facts today. 602-837-3401, ext. 567. SAME DAY SERVICE -753-6989-central

9/15 south, 426-6338 - north. 10/27

FASWONGAL PART-TIME ASSISTANT MANAGERS

Fashion Gal is in need of part-time mistant managers in the Denver area. These positiom offer an excellent opportunity to be a member of a management team while working on a part-time basis. If you are a student studying Management/Fashion Merchandising or a

., . related area who wants to gain bands on experience, we may have the job for you!

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Part-time mistant manager positions offer an outstanding merchandise discount, excel­lent pay and flexible hours to meet your schedule. Prior retail experience is helpful, but not nc:cessary. Please apply at one of the following store locations nearest you:

DENVER - 8555 W. Belleview 890-1 OA S. Monaco

AURORA - 2495 S. Havana 15241 E. Missmippi Ave.

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"ational Marketing firm seeks mature student to manage on-campus promotions for top companies this school year. flexible hours with earnings potential to $2,500 per semester. Must be organized, hardworking and noney motivated. Call Corine or Myra at (800) 592-2121.

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12 bedrooms, wall to wall carpet, full I bath and half bath, living room, dining

1 room, furnished, first floor of a Victorian _ home. Recommended for 4 students

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JOB - Special Committee's Secre­tary. Secretary for all tri-institutional AHEC student advisory committees. ~ This is a part-time, student hourly position; 25-30 hours per week. Flex- ~ ible schedule, with a $5.85 · $6.50 salary range, depending on experi­ence. Must type 40 wpm, and pos· sess writing skills. Please apply in Room 210 of the Student Union by

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As a campus representative you,I be rnponslble for placing advertltlng materials on bulleHn bolllds and wor11lng on mllll<etlng programs f« cltents such a American Express, Boston UnMlrslty, EuraH, and various movie co~nles, among others. Part-tlm. work. chooH your own hours. No s.ies. Many of our reps stay with us long after gra<llatlon. II you - seH-motlvated, hard-

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42". 48". 60" TRANSPARENT Reg. $27.48 - $60.60 Reg. $6.72 - $18.80

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HA'PENNY SKETCH BOND 100 SHEET PAD. 1 B"x24" Reg. $7.19 !;: SALE $5.76

ROTRING

CHART PAK AD MARKER WIDE NIB -MANY COLORS Reg. 87¢

SALE 70~

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