1' The Auraria Mercantile Company agreed March 18 to sell its interest in the Mercantile Restuarant to the Auraria Higher Education Center Board of Direc-jors.
According to AHEC Director of Special Programs Joanne Soker, the sale should be finalized by the second. week of April.
Professional Food Manage;nent, under its existing contract with AHEC, will operate the Mercantile on an interim basis until July 1, during which time the AHEC Board will solicit pronosals for new operators to take T over the restaurant after July l.
The Mercantile was closed during spring break for a general clean-up and refurbishing, and opened Monday under PFM a ·anagement.
Soker said there probably would not be a lot of changes, although PFM may introduce some new menu items.
"There won't be a significant change in format," she said.
Beer, however, will not be served at the Mercantile until its Ii-
quor license - which expired November 28 - is reinstated by the State Department of Excise and License.
"We're not sure exactly how long that will take," Soker said, "but we expect to hear soon."
The Auraria Mercantile Company submitted a reapplication for the liquor license, and had a hearing with the Excise and License department before the agreement to sell the restaurant was reached with AHEC.
"We had to go back and start from ground zero,•• said Robert F. Krump, stockholder in the Mercantile Company. The company, formed by Krump and his wife Anita and John D. and Mary Ann Crowell, operated the Mercantile under contract with AHEC prior to the sale.
Soker said the way she understood it, AHEC would have to reapply for the license but that another hearing with the state board would not be necessary. 2
According to Krump, his~ lawyer told him the proceedin~ a to reinstate the beer license were ';_ going well. ~
When businesses get in trouble, f
Krump said, people usually assume that they have money problems. That was not the case with the Mercantile.
"We were always solvent," Krump said.
Soker said she felt the decision to sell came about because the owners of the Mercantile Company basically were ready to let go and they thought it was the right time to do so.
There were also other factors that influenced the decision, Krump said. The loss of the beer license and AHEC' s reaction
played a role in the decision. "They weren't all that.
pleased," he said. Other factors included the fact
that selling to AHEC was a relatively low risk compared to the open market, negotiations had been going on for some time with AHEC and they were the most likely candidates, and the company's desire to sell to AHEC instead of someone else, Krump said.
"Everyone came out for the best," he added. O
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E M E T R 0 p 0 L I T
Enrollment in ethnic· studies declining by Trimble Russell
Enrollment in the MSC departments of Afro-American Studies and Chicano Studies has declined dramatically in re.._1mt years, causing concern for the survival of these programs.
Ethnic studies on college campuses began as a hard-won victory after a decade of social and political struggle in the 1960s civil rights movement.
Statistics compiled by the M~C Office of Institutional Research show that from the Fall 1977 semester to the Fall 1982 semester sections in Afro-American studies declined from 18 to 10. The total number of seats filled in those sections
~ dropped from 260 to 120. At the same time sections in Chicano studies declined from 15 to 7, while total number of seats filled went from 244 to 67.
"What is happening at Metro is happening at colleges across the country," said John Mukevetz, director of institu
>- tional research. "There is a turning away from the idealism of the 1960s and 1970s."
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"Students now are much more pragmatic, more ecomomically motivated. They are concerned about jobs and less interested in social problems. They can't see how education in ethnic studies could translate into a job - and so there has been a decline in those areas," he said.
Akbarali Thobhani, chairman of the Afro-American Studies department, is disturbed about declining enrollment, but sees his field as important for students who want to be well-educated.
"We teach about the experiences of ethnic minorities - their history, culture, politics, psychology and more," Thobhani said. "It is especially important for students in an urban setting to have some understanding of the black experience."
Thobhani suggests that requiring
some courses in Afro-American studies would benefit students majoring in departments like history, sociology, political science, psychology and education.
"It is possible to graduate with a major in history, for instance, without ever taking a course about black civilization. This is not a well-balanced education," Thobhani said.
While declining enrollment largely reflects declining social and political activism, Thobhani thinks a lack of publicity also has contributed to the problem.
"Ethnic studies courses used to be cross-listed in the MSC class schedule with courses offered by other departments," he said. "When they stopped cross-listing, our enrollment dropped."
Thobhani said that "from time to time' there is talk .of eliminating ethnic studies due to low enrollment.
"The administration must realize that our department has meaning not only to students, but to the whole black community in Denver," he said. "We fill a need other departments are not called upon to fill - like requests for information about the black experience, film festivals, lectures and seminars and hosting visitors from African countries."
Chicano Studies chairwoman Irene Blea mirrors Thobhani in being concerned that an education without some
MSC to host convention of American Geographers J._ MSC geographers and the Earth
Sciences Department will be the prime host of the annual Association of American Geographers convention at Denver's Hilton Hotel April 24 through 27.
Dr. Roberta Smilnak, associate vice ; president of Student Affairs at MSC, is
chairwoman of the local arrangements committee this year. Smilnak says the convention will draw around 2,500 people from all over the U.S. for a variety of seminars, workshops and field trips.
"Presentations will show the relation -r of ~graphy to many other subjects
and fields such as religion, philosophy, mathematics, history, biology, economics, computers and engineering,and will also help professional geographers and students keep
_. current with what is going on in the field," she said.
Short story contest anl1CU1Ced The Metropolitan is sponsoring a
short story contest. · There will be two categories: students
and faculty. Maximum length is 1,200 to 1,500 words. Entries will be judged by three-person panels of students and
The convention is open to the public and will cover a wide enough range of subjects to have something of interest for everyone.
Field trips in and around Denver and Colorado will feature a variety of scenic tours in British double-decker buses and planes. Some of these trips are definitely on the lighter side, as evidenced by "Social Geography of the East Colfax Strip."
To register for field trips call Dr. Smilnak's office at 629-3077. There is a separate fee for each. Brochures and programs are available at the Student Affairs Office, Room 316, Central Clasgooom.
Several paying and volunteer positions as convention workers are available to students. For more information call Dr. Dixon Smith at 629-3143. U11 Sliva
faculty members. Winners will be published in The
Metropolitan, and we're working on prizes of monetary value.
Submit entries by 5 p.m., April 15, to The Metropolitan, Room 156, Auraria Student Center.
study of ethnic and cultural diversity is not a well-balanced education.
"In a city like Denver, with a large Hispanic minority, students should be required to take some courses that include the history and culture of the Mexican-American," Blea said.
She feels that "body-counts" aren't the only indicator of the value of a department. Her department is also a community resource. Blea is producing the Ninth Street oral history project. The project is a chronicle of the Hispanic community that thrived here prior to construction of the Auraria campus.
Declining enrollment in ethnic studies has caused some financial problems, according to Stanley Sunderwirth, MSC vice president for academic affairs.
"There are long waiting lists for our computer courses, but ethnic studies has a problem getting courses filled. Any area with less enrollment places a greater burden on other areas to meet full-time-equivalent quotas," he said.
Sunderwirth said some AfroAmerican studies courses will be crosslisted with political science courses next semester. Cross-listing with other departments has been proposed but not yet approved.
"There are both budget and academic sensitivities that must be considered," Sunderwirth ~aid., '10ther departments are concerned that multi-listing could
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cause a decline in enrollment in their own courses. And academic content of courses may not be comparable from one department to another."
He added that be thinks ethnic studies benefits all students and there is no doubt that the courses will be continued.
David Conde, assistant vice president for student affairs and a teacher in the Chicano Studies program, expresses a strong conviction that it is the responsibility of the intellectual community to take the lead in discussion of ethnic studies.
"Ethnic issues just are not what the country wants to talk about anymore," he said. "Now people are talking about the depression, taxes, the price of oil and high interest rates. But the problems caused by racism and poverty are still there. They are worse."
Conde described how ethnic issues used to get losts of media attention. Community centers, protest marches and demonstrations were other vehicles for airing the issues.
"Now that these issues no longer get media attention, and middle-America is no longer involved," he said, "it must be the ethical responsibility of institutions of higher learning to commit themselves to continue the discussion of issues raised by racial and cultural distinctiveness."
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H E M E T R 0 p 0 L I T A N
·MSC alumnus Richard Castro -
State rep. ·stays close to campus by James Tabor
For nearly two decades, MSC graduates have pursued their career goals and dreams. Many of them have become a part of Colorado's business and political structure, making decisions which affect the state's future.
One such person is 1970 graduate Rep. Richard Castro, who has been a member of the state Legislature the last nine years. He also works at MSC as a part-time counselor in the Special Service Department.
"I find I can identify with the students who come through this program," Castro said. "I was not really academically inclined after graduating from high school. Some of these students just need a little assistance, so they can graduate and hopefully move on to other things."
been a good thing to me and my family, but it has helped many of my friends who shared the same background I did," Castro said. "My wife, whom I met at MSC, earned her G.E.D. here. She also earned a bachelor's in social work at MSC, then a master's of social work at Denver University.''
After graduation, Castro's community involvement required that he continue to remain in contact with MSC and AHEC, either directly or indirectly. He has been involved with Curtis Park Youth Center as a group leader, the West Coalition as a street worker and~ executive director, and the Denver ~ Youth Center, where he was one of the~ founding members of the United Mex- ~ ican Amencan Students at MSC. ~
In 1974, his first year in the l>" Legislature, Castro worked as a part- ~ time instructor at MSC, teaching ff.
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pointed him to the Job Training Coordinating Council. Castro considers these important priorities for this session· and the next, because of his constituency and his job at MSC.
"I believe I could best help the educational process in Colorado by serving on -'#
.this committee," Castro said. "One of ·the biggest problems Colorado faces is unemployment, and I believe any contribution in this area is vitally important. We need more jobs and jobs development, and more colleges should institute job training programs." ~
With all the cutbacks in government spending, Castro says minorities especially feel the pinch. Cutbacks in social programs and unemployment, plus lack of education, are taking their toll on his constituency.
Castro earned a bachelor's degree in social work while at MSC, during which time he worked various jobs, and was awarded a scholarship by the North Denver Action Council. He earned his master's degree in social work from Denver University in 1972.
Economic History of the Southwest and State Rep. Richard Castro Introduction to Chicano Studies.
"I see a trend on campuses a.cross the.._ state that is essentially regressive towards minorities," Castro said. "I don't see the trend on the Auraria campus, because we have open enrollment, and low-income minority students do have the opportunity to gain a~ to the Auraria institutions just as well as t majority students."
"Even since I've been in the Legislature," Castro said, "I have never broken my ties with AHEC. My district has always been adjacent to the Auraria
Castro attributes his educational opportunities to MSC's 'open door policy.'
"The open door policy not only has
campus." One of the first bills Castro sponsored
in the Legislature benefited Auraria students.
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Week of the Young Child
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April 4-9, 1983
Two Concerts with the World Renowned
Ella Jenkins Joining Children and Cultures Through Music
Saturday. Aprtl 9th
10-11:30 am and i-2:30 pm
at The Aurarla Student Center (lower level)
Sponsored by the Aurarla Child C.re Center and
the Colorado Association for the Edue11tlon of Young Children
Tickets will be $7 for Adults, Sil for Students w ith ID. ond $2 for Children under 12
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"I was the prime sponsor for a bill which created a day care center on campus," Castro said. "I also worked on the committee for the preservation of St. Cajetan's Church. I helped to allocate the federal funds necessary to preserve it. I've also worked in various other areas that benefited the campus and the ~urrounding community."
Castro was the Assistant Minority Leader of the Democratic party for four years, and was selected as the outstanding house Democratic Representative by the Colorado Social Legislation Committee in 1979. The selection was based on his support for human services legislation.
Castro has also served on Health, Environment, Welfare and Institutions Committees during his political career.
Castro was appointed to the professional staff for the Commission on Youth Program Analysis and Legislative Liaison. Gov. Lamm appointed Castro to Ad/hoc Denver Core City Task Force to study and recommend solutions to problems facing Denver's inner city.
For this and next year's legislative session, he will serve on the Education Committee. and Gov. Lamm has ap-
Castro belongs to the minority party this year, and has decided to concentrate his efforts on bills which have a chance to pass. The bills he is sponsoring basically deal with Human Services. "
He considers the Voter Rights Act a major priority and intends to give it his total support this session.
"Right now we see a great deal of apathy," Castro said. "We hope to be able, with this bill, to help people become more active in exercising their• right to vote, by making it easier for everyone to register and become involved."
He anticipates a great deal of resistance, and should the bill fail , he plans to place it on the ballot next elec- ~ tion so the people can make the final decision.
"I find it ironic that in this country we send young men over to fight in Vietnam," Castro said, "and as advisors to El Salvador, as well as other hot spots in
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The Association of Minority Business Students
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This event is free and open to all students and alumni of the Auraria Campus. Also, throughout the day in room 254 of th_e S~udent Center, A~BS will be offering the following workshops: Interv1ewmg for Corporations, Careers in Financial Institutions and Cable Company Infonnation. Times will be posted at St. Cajetans. So, come and get information that will help you pursue your career in business.
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Bi~I introduced to restrict use of student activity fees A bill that would set broad restrictions
on the use of student activity fees in .. public universities and colleges has been
introduced in the Colorado State Legislature and is scheduled for the floor of the House on Wednesday, March 30.
HB 1510 prohibits state agencies and .... local governments from expending
public funds to influence the public on election issues or any other controversial issues. Introduced by Frank DeFillipo (R-Lakewood), the bill was amended to include student fees which are collected by student governments throughout the
~ state to fund various organizations and activities of "a political nature."
In a joint student government memo, student body presidents from 12 Colorado universities and colleges have opposed the bill on the grounds that "it is a direct attempt to subvert the rights of
~ students to associate in a democratic forum."
The memo goes on to state that "the purpose of universities and colleges is to be a forum for a diversity of ideas" and
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the world, promoting democratic forms of government. Yet we do not make it as easy as possible for them to vote in our country. This is a real disadvantage in
~ our government." Another bill Castro will sponsor this
session is one re-establishing a boxing commission in Colorado.
"Because of rising deaths and a number of problems we see in the whole area of boxing, de-regulation has lead to
" massive abuse," Castro said. "This is dangerous and the consumers are getting ripped off. Colorado is never picked for big name fighters to come here because they can't get sanctioned; we have no boxing commission." ·
_, Castro agrees that people are concern-ed with abuse and the overall effects of social programs. But he disagrees that these prograns are responsible for the major part of the national budget deficit.
"The question of our national deficit ~ is the posture of this administration to
pump unduly large sums of money into the military," Castro said. "This does not create jobs, nor does it mean we're on more solid ground militarily. This is not only for military hardware, but money is being spent supporting other
- regimes militarily." He is against the military buildup in
El Salvador and doesn't believe the military regime in power now is for the people. He does not want any more military buildup or involvement in Et Salvador.
-' "I don't believe the elections held in El Salvador were fair elections," Castro said. "If we're going to support countries I am more in favor of supporting the people by building up their economy."
,_ His convictions about defense spen-ding also overlap the worldwide question of nuclear free-ze, which is ~ibly affecting our economic situation today.
that "it is a basic student service to fund programs that encourage diverse viewpoints and even encourage disagreement and debate."
Fees collected for student activities currently fund cultural, ethnical, racial, ecological, consumer, artistic and professional organizations, as well as student government itself. If HB 1510 were to pass, student fees could no longer fund most of these groups nor could fees be used to bring guest lecturers, debates, print newspapers, or lobby on behalf of issues important to students.
"We could not support legislation favorable to our constituents nor could we sponsor speakers, debates br conferences, if these programs are seen as controversial," state the student body presidents. •
Student leaders are also charging that HB 1510 will directly infringe upon the autonomy of their governing boards. Currently, student fee expenditures are approved by the governing boards of each institution. 0
"At some point countries around the world will have to recognize that we have far surpassed our survival capabilities," Castro said. "We must and should address our domestic needs first."
Our economy is producing a great deal of misery for many people. Many people who were middle class in the past are facing bankruptcy now.
"There are predictions the economy will turn around; I don't see it," Castro said. ''I'm not totally encouraged by what I see. Unemployment is running at its highest point in 40 years. I don't see a lot of new hires going on. Unemployment is creating what I call the 'new poor.' Many people want to work but can't find employment, and its a misnomer to think its because they're lazy."
Castro accepts that we are moving into a high technology period which requires retraining people for jobs. The retraining of people will be for jobs available today and tomorrow, not n~arily what was available in the past.
"I favor more appropriations for higher education," Castro said. "But we have to realize this is a very difficult period of belt-tightening. Part of the funding problem is we have other social service programs in the system which also require attention. One must be fair to all interests involved when considering who gets what part of the budget pie."
Castro plans to work on maintaining a progressive Education and Jobs Retraining program throughout the State of Colorado.
"A positive aspect of working at the legislature and with AHEC in Denver are my political and corporational contacts," Castro said. "I'm hoping they will be beneficial to the students on the Auraria campus." 0
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Children's week activities planned The Seventh Annual Week of the Young Child, April 4 to 9, will explore children's needs and talents through activities, lectures and workshops.
The Auraria Child Care Center will sponsor the week of celebration when events for parents, teachers and children will commemorate the uniqueness and creativity of small children.
A parade will initiate the week on April 4 at 9:45 a.m. Tots and toddlers from the Auraria Child Care Center and the Auraria Child Development Center, as well as from area child care and
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preschools, will participate. Music provided by Bill Clark and UCD music students will inspire the entourage.
Keep the beat with well-known folk singer and children's music authority Ella Jenkins, who will perform at the Student Center Saturday, April 9, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Jenkins, an internationally known authority on children's music, has recorded over 20 albums, filmed a TV series, written songbooks and recently appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Her performances are called "adventures in rhythm" and adults and children alike join in singing, handclapping and keeping time with instruments ranging from Latin American cowbells to shaking baskets from Kenya. The music and style are simple; the appeal is magnetic.
Reservations for the concerts must be made in advance. Tickets are $7 for adults, $6 for students with I.D. and $2 for children.
Other events include a lecture on redirected children's misbehavior by Kathy and Bill Kvols-Riedler,. directors of the Rudolph Dreikurs Institute, on April 6 from 1:30 to 3 p.m., and from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Also, the Jelly Roll Stompers will entertain with Dixieland Music at the 9th St. Park Amphitheater from 10 to 10:45 April 5. Jake's Petting Zoo will pay a visit to 9th St. Park April 8 at 9:30 a.m.
For further information or reservations, call the Auraria Child Care Center at 629-3189. 0
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Cynics just 'ghosts in the machine' It wasn't so long ago that all of the people I counted
on as friends were living like disattached spirits, floating like dandelion fluff across the country. We were a pack of charming fools.
We kept a kind of floating network alive via three and four-times-forwarded letters, and even through rumors and late-night phone calls to some far-away directory assistance operator.
As a group, we had cultivated a sophisticated, cynical stance as persons incognito. We were no longer brightly-colored hippies involved in an idealogical tiff with society. Instead, we became welldressed and fully (or at least frequently) employed persons who were excruciatingly careful not to take anything seriously.
In some ways, it was a lot of fun to live like that. We were somehow beyond the reach of the world, poking fun at all the people nursing migraines and ulcers because they thought their lives were important. In other ways, it was like sitting in some posh back alley waiting to die.
During that part of my life I went out and bought some fashionably tight slacks, and a blow dryer, and I went to work as a bartender. It was comforting to always be near so much booze. And I made huge amounts of money.
Money was Number One among the things that we didn't take seriously, and I went through it like shit through a tin horn. Part of the idea was to push decadence to its farthest limits, just to see what was out there. But mostly, we all felt a panic fed by claustrophobia, a feeling that the whole fabric of reali-
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We were whistling in the dark, scared out of our wits by our own insincerity. The best thing to do was stay busy. The best place to be was somewhere where you never had to look inward, where you never had to be alone. The ultimate place would be somewhere with no clocks; a 24 hour circus. "To sleep, perchance to dream," and dreaming was absolutely out of the
· question. The best place would never, ever get dark. One-by-one, we all moved to Reno, an all-night
party..t:own that fit the bill to a "T'. And much to our own surprise, we were instantly
successful. One of the ironic things about this world is that absolute indifference is virtually indistinguishable from overwhelming self-confidence. Since none of us really cared about the niceties of materialism, we were all immediately given good )obs and instant credit. We lied to people until our noses turned blue, and never got caught. We lied so well, that we began to believe all the b.s. we were giving people. The joke became a habit, and the habit became reality.
We found ourselves in the ultimate horror that threatens people with secret dreams: If all the things that are really real are so easily suppressed for six months or a year, then what about forever?
It's true that none of us ever got ulcers and migraines from caring too much about the world, but the ulcers came, nevertheless. They came, because we cared too little. The cynic's trap - You can't stop just because the victim is your own sacred cow. '
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at everything until there was nothing held back in reserve. There was no dream, no hero, no flower, no love that was beyond being grist for a good joke. We all laughed like that, right up until the day that each of us woke up horrified at what we'd done to our worlds, and ran screaming like banshees from Reno.
I nursed my bruised soul for a year and a half in the tightest, warmest hutch I could find to hide in before I ... felt ready to test the waters of the world again. The rest of my wounded troupe did the same. Some of the dreams, being the tenacious things they are, grew up between the concrete cracks of our numb hearts and even flourished in a stingy, stringent kind of way.
But the most delicate visions died, and what we lost ~
was not so much our ability to be earnest as it was our ability to be subtle and mystical. It was as though some bit of beauty had been sacrificed for greater utility. It taught me not to play games with my heart.
Two thousand years ago this Friday, men who did not believe in the subtle vision of Christ strung him up ~ and played craps for his worldly possessions. He did not die so much out of ill-will as indifference, a ghost that slipped away from us when we weren't looking.
I am not a Christian, but when Friday comes, I will shudder with sympathy as Christians everywhere feel the loss, wandering to church to reattach themselves to something too often ignored or forgotten. Secret dreams left unattended finally disappear, never to return again. Remember to feed your heart, and remember that Good Friday is also April Fool's Day.
Carson Reed
'Abstractions' are too easy to drown in; Raptures of the deep (end} are, less deadly
-The first article of this column returned a variety of
inquiries from my friends (both of them) over my intent and purpose for writing it. I had initially entitled the column - "Abstractions." My first friend read it, and responded, "Serious thinking, hmmm?" I was taken aback. I have never been accused of that before. (I think all this college stuff is beginning to affect me. Time to graduate and/or drop out.) My other friend, with a suspiciously amiable smile, mused, "Going off the deep end, eh?"
Shudder. That harmless(?) remark brought back to mind an incident from my past of a summer spent learning how to swim at the YMCA. I had no earthshattering desire to learn how to swim. I had just gotten walking down straight.
The first week of class the instructor illustrated the techniques of eye-opening underwater, ("Just open 'em.), floating, and paddling back and forth across the pool while holding a styrofoam board that prior students had taken bites from. I excelled in eyeopening, ("Four fingers!"), but was mediocre at floating and paddling. No big deal. Whenever I started to sink, I just stood up. The water level came to my chin. To survive I merely had to keep my mouth shut. I got by.
The second week, however, the instructor greeted us at the shower room door. He pointed ominously toward the other end of the pool, announcing, jovially, that the class had graduated, summa cum laude, to . . . The Deep End/ Serious business. With the confidence of a condemned man waiting for the gov's reprieve, I knew, without question, that I was going to. drown.
My tum came, eventually .. .inevitably. I walked to the edge of the diving board and looked down. Gulp! I stalled for time by bouncing up and down on the • board - plunk, plunk, plunk, plunk. The instructor became impatient and, with a long pole used to skim scum (scum-skimmer?) off the water, he issued a prod of encouragement - "Jump, you idiot!" So, with nothing akin to the grace of a swan, I took the plunge.
I sank like a brick. A straight shot to the bottom, where I immediately initiated the drowning ritual. The ritual includes the only technique I had mastered in class --:- eye-opening; the rest is improvised. I had heard once that the process of drowning is a pleasant, euphoric experience. Well, that's a lot of bull.
The rescue was anti-climactic. I saw them coming, their eyes as bugged-out as my own. I wanted to laugh, maybe I did. On deck, after my lungs were pumped water-free, I know I did.
The event was a turning point. I knew I had taken swimming too seriously. I had been preoccupied with drowning, and pretty near learned how to on the onelesson plan. I relaxed, and learned how to swim instead.
With that incident in mind, this column changed ti- * tle, and direction. Serious? No-ho, not I. Going off the deep end? Perhaps, but with little intent, and less purpose. Tlie title is, rather, a symbol, a reminder that accompanying the dread of matters, the hesitating and wondering - plunk, plunk, plunk, plunk - there awaits a surprising discovery .
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But we need your support! CoPIRG is run by students like yourself and would not exist if students didn't care about their state and their environment.
By getting involved, you can have a direct impact on those issues that are important to you. Currently, students from around the state are doing practical research in everything from biochemistry to jour-
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Bill threatens students' control ·over fees Student
Government Report
Greetings and welcome back to the books. I sincerely hope your spring break arrived in time to
rescue you from the wrenching grind of your studies. While you were away sunning in Florida, our State Legislature was up on the hill devising additional ways to further curtail our rights as students.
State Representative Frank DeFilippo, Chairman of State Affairs, member of Rules Committee, introduced H.B. 1510. The intent of the bill is to limit the power
of students attending any public state institution (e.g. MSC, UCO and CCD) to decide when, where, and how student fees should or should not be spent, in support of any activities of a political nature. This would extend to clubs, public speakers, lectures and student government elections.
This bill should be of major concern to all of us as students. If this bill should pass, it will have a long lasting effect on our educational pursuits. As students seeking higher educational enlightenment, we chose to subjugate ourselves to the diverse knowledge that our shared campus has to offer.
We owe it to ourselves to speak out in response to such irresponsible legislation.
As your elected pr.esident, I represented your in-
terests last week, as I lobbied against the bill over spring break.
I will inform you of the progress of the bill in this column next week. I would like to inform you of an up-coming event. On April 15, MSC student government will be sponsoring citizen's advocate Ralph Nader in the Student Center. Stay tuned for further details and co-sponsors.
On a final note, I would like to congratulate Richard Bellizzi, editor of The Metropolitan, on winning third place in the "Journalist of the Year" live writing competition in Santa Fe over spring break.
Fellow students, have a good week. Respectfully yours,
Michael Johnson President A.S.M.S.C.
'-21 'majority rules' on life, love and liberty
Twenty-one Tenets For a Twenty-First Birthday
LIFE 1. Don't allow yourself to be overwhelmed by in
securities, or overcome by possibilities.
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2. Do all that you can; enjoy all that you may. 3. Seek good, and encourage all you find. 4. Combat depression and invalidate despair. 5. Develop your unique appreciation for impalpable
aspects of living as well as the corporal. 6. Remember the soulful sacrifices you make to live
in this world; integrate the memory into what you may gain.
7. Swim across the ocean of life in your own stroke.
LOVE 1. Never take for granted that what you know is the
truth. 2. Experience masochism only as necessary to main
tain your respect for brutal honesty. 3. Seek intimacy in all your relationships; play what
games you must with goodness as your referee. 4. Take joy in having love to give; share joyously in
all the love given you. 5. Have faith in the eternal value of loving and trust
in its enduring strength. 6. Remember that sympathy and empathy are not
necessarily aspects of loving; words and actions are not the whole.
7. Seek the deepest reservoir of love within yourself and water every living thing with what you find there.
LIBERTY 1. Do your best; don't regret having tried and failed. 2. Seek the qualities you love and remember where
you find them. 3. Never keep yourself from showing tha~ you care,
or prevent yourself from doing good. 4. Prove your freedom and integrity. 5. Remember how much you enjoy understanding,
and how little it hurts to discover you've been wrong. 6. Always continue forgiving yourself and others. 7. Remember the value of a free spirit.
Valerie Haas
8 March a
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~ and the resultant grief is perhaps the most universal experience we can identify. This is one area where we come together, where we find our com-
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munity. Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of the
national bestseller, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, was in Denver recently to speak on sudden death and help for survivors. The seminar was
co-sponsored by St. Joseph Hospital Health Reach and the Grief Education Institute.
Kushner authored this very personal book because of his son's death at age 14 of the disease progeria (rapid aging) . He wanted to write a book that was not concerned with defending God's honor, replete with proof that bad is really good. He said about the books he read following his son's death: "They had answers to all of their own questions, but no answers for mine,
"The misfortunes of good people are not only a problem to the people who suffer and to their families," Kushner said. "They are a problem to everyone who wants to believe in a just and fair and livable world."
He said people make sense of the world's suffering by assuming that we deserve what we get.
"When I was on the receiving end I discovered how unhelpful the conventional answers seemed to be," he said.
Well-meant consolation doesn't console but flatters and defends God. Common statements include: "At least you have other children," "It will be for the best~" or "You will be a better person."
Thus the right to be hurt and angry is . taken away; friends think the best way to help is to push the survivor through the grieving p~ quickly.
When someone asks, "Why me?" or "Why would God do this?", it is not a question, according to Kushner, but a cry of pain. The person wants consolation, not explanation. · "We are all touched by stories of people suffering tragedy and when we try to answer the question none of the usual responses seem to work," he said.
"Why did this happen?" is unanswerable; it focuses on the past and produces feelinw; of helplesmess and guilt.
MSC psychology profestor Mary Ann Watson concurs.
"There are no answers to the 'Why me?' question. A lot of situations seem unfair," Watson said. "Death is not rational, predictable, and it doesn't follow. I don't think people expect to have that answered."
And the well-known author on death and dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, in her book, Death: The Final Stage of Growth, affirms that:
" ... death strikes indiscriminately - it cares not at all for the status or position of the ones it chooses; everyone must die, whether rich or poor, famous or unknown.
"Even good deeds will not excuse their doers from the sentence of death," Kubler-Ross wrote. "The good die as often as the bad."
Kushner credits Kubler-Ross with introducing grief as a universal issue to be examined.
"She took grieving out of the closet," Kushner said. "She started it and gets that credit."
Kushner thought the good were spared. He relates that he and his wife
thought God would bless them with pro- ' sperity because they kept their side of the bargain, living a good and religious life.
And now, Kushner says that the key to his whole understanding is that God could not possibly want tragedies to _ ·happen.
"I don't believe it is His will," he said. There are forces other than God that allow good people to suffer; you can see God as on your side."
People make sense of tragedy as God's will and hate themselves for having ~ deserved it, or God for having caused it.
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But Kushner points to the randomness of the universe and explains that the laws of nature are morally blind.
"A falling rock has no idea who it's falling on," he said. "And there is the human freedom to be cruel to each other."
We try to make sense of the world and #ft8 justify it - you did something and it is right this happened to you. For instance, when a woman is attacked she's often blamed while the rapist is not.
"The least helpful,' Kushner pointed out, "is to tell the person what they did to deserve this tragedy. Just be there and care. Hug someone, hold his hand, and say, 'I'm sorry'. If something you would say is not better than that, don't say it."
Watson explains that part of the bereavement period, up to a year, will require the person to eKperience grief ":.: again and again and again, especially in sudden loss.
"'What if?', 'If only'; they don't necessarily want to hear or to have the other person fix it, but to listen to them, to cry with them, to be there," she said .
Watson str~ that the most difficult deaths are those that are sudden and illtimed. Grieving cannot be worked on prior to the death, particularly if the anger is directed at the surviving loved one, as with an angry suicide.
Kushner agrees that there is a great __, deal of anger people don't know what to do with and it focuses on people who are nearest. And friends don't want us to hurt so they try and alleviate the anger and hurt by minimizing the loss, but a grieving person .has the right to feel the world has fallen on him or her.
Kubler-R~ relates a mother's feelin~ for the dying daughter in her book, To Live Until We Say Goodbye:
"I experienced many moments of intense anger and bitterness. Despite the depth of my love for -----, there were times when I was so angry at her for putting me through this, for making me
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' • face the possibility of losing someone so precious to me, for depriving me of the chance to continue to love her and guide her and share in her growing up loved and loving."
This mother grieved before her child _ died. Watson says the longer one has to
grieve in advance, the harder it is; grieving after the fact is much less intense, not so debilitating.
Our lack of comfort with grief. and showing a negative emotion is societally dictated, according to Watson. People
~ feel guilty for having normal, healthy responses.
"""1. his hand, and flay, "I'm sorry. lter than that, don't flCIY it."
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
And. Kushner says we don't give people permission to feel because we are uncomfortable in the pre5ence of honest feeling; we are supposed to keep a stiff upper lip.
"Our society does a lousy job of helping men to deal with pain," he said. "Women have permWion to grieve,. to cry and feel, but men are supposed to be
'"" a combination of Gary Cooper and John Wayne.
"Nothing hurt my wife so much \\'.hen our son died as people saying, 'It's been eight months, why aren't you over it?"', Kushner related.
r Another way to deal with grief is to find a support group, people who are or who have gone through the same l~.
"We attended the Compassionate Friends support group," he said. "We could speak to each other in shorthand and intuitively understand each other;
?_we would start a sentence and they would finish it." (Denver Chapter: ·Children's Hospital, 777-9234)
"We can't change tragedy, only· our response to it," he concluded. 0
Job Shadow Prosnm •tches --...UCD students with alumni ·
Because being able to see how a particular major translates into a job is an invaluable insight for any student, the UCD Alumni Association, in conjunc~ tion with the UCO Cooperative Educa-
~tion Department, has instituted a Job Shadow Program which I,llatches UCD students with UCD alumni for a one-day on-the-job experience.
The idea behind the program is to let students see how their studies apply to a particular career. A one-day experience
£On a job with a UCD alumnus could also create a bond of friendship between alumni and students.
A pilot program between 20 students and 20 generous alumni has been established for the spring 1983 semester. Most days will be scheduled toward the end of the semester. If you would like to participate, call the Alumni Office at 623-6423.
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The recovery process from grief is uneven. Anniversary dates ahd familiar
. places trigger grief responses; it's an up and down pr~. But when does grief become pathological?
When people are questioning why they still feel dep~ and are unable to go back to work, they are recognizing their grief as being impervious to help.
"I suggest professional therapy," Kushner said. "One couple I knew discussed their child's death with as much passion as when it happened - it had been 10 years. It became important to advertise, almost with a lapel button,
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'boy, do I hurt.'" Watson identifies three categories of
unhealthy grief reaction: Delayed grief: What we typically
think is appropriate is to grieve immediately after the death, but some people become immersed in activity right away. It appears that they haven't gone through the grieving process at all, but some later insignificant loss may trigger the grief from that previous loss.
Inhibited grief reaction: The person who's bereaved never faces the grief but it emerges in psychomatic ways like asthma, ulcers, back pain or headaches.
Oironic grief: Grieving occurs far beyond what is acceptable or healthy in the grieving p~ and redefinition can't happen. The struggle goes on year after year and the person receives a great deal of attention for being a sufferer. Th~ negative reinforcement locks the person into a sick or dependent role.i
"I would look at the underlying mues of guilt, despair and anger," Watson said. "If the person felt a great deal of guilt over the anger I would suggest a third party who can ~ the feelings and redefine the guilt and give permission for expression of anger.'' D
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Tooley confident he,s right~· by Audrey Kolpan
Former Denver District Attorney Dale Tooley thinks he is one mayoral candidate Denver needs to listen to with open ears. His understanding of Denver past and present, he feels, is incomparable, as is his experience of accomplishing well thought-out goals.
At the base of this native Denverites' network are a list of people which reads like something from a boy scout oath.
Tooley likes "yes" people. He searches for reality and optimism, for those who can understand government, and more importantly, what can be done with government.
Asked what his best attributes are in this, his third attempt at the city's top job, he answered humbly, "My background and experience in dealing with people; recruiting the best possible people; living with a budget; making more out of l~; being able to enthuse
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people and maintain morale; understand ing that this city has the unique opportunity to be the best anywhere."
Many issues are involved in making this city "the best anywhere." Tooley views Denver's citizenry to be of the highest caliber and is confident that their support will be evident in the May election.
He sees Denver's current position as one that could teeter one way or the other. .
"There are situations right now that could be risky if not handled correctly," he cautioned.
The situations involved range from the airport and light rail to suburb rela- , tionships and downtown housing.
Speaking on light rail, he said we should begin building a light rail system in increments and keep adding on. This solution would prevent booming taxes while beginning to answer some serious ecological problems concerning carbon monoxide. He would like to see RTD become more useful and accessible within the city of Denver, and also a more synchronized method in traffic planning, which raised the issue of the Colfax viaduct restoration project.
What puzzles him most is the timing, but he is realistic about the danger on the viaduct and the necessity of the restoration.
Tooley bas said, concerning downtown housing, that he'd like to accomplish "a mosaic conducive to the highest level of urban living." He explained that in order to stimulate more
· productive urban living, it is necessary to mix levels economically. Stressing heavily that "negotiation" with builders and contractors to initiate housing that is not confined to only the very rich would be the only route to affect this change.
The negotiations with builders and contractors is only one of many matters in which this strategy will be used. Be-
. ing able to select his own cabinet and appoint a charter of 50 officers on a bipartisan basis (as his past record proves), Tooley feels assured that progress in all ranges can occur.
Along with the staff he chooses,
Tooley intends to negotiate with the suburbs concerning water. He wants to see the litigation settled, and soon. Understanding to what extent the ,. suburbs use Denver water, he believes they should pay their fair share.
The airport poses another important issue in this election. Tooley wants to expand Stapleton onto the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and not have it moved to Adams County.
.Tooley's views on city contracts are firm.
"Denver is losing severe amounts of money for a multitude of reasons," he said. Some examples he cited are: erroneous payments to concessions like ~ the golf course and zoo, special favors to builders and contractors, and city money being in non-productive accounts.
According to Tooley, changes need to be made. City contracts must be bid competitively and then enforced, he said. The city should follow a straightforward plan, and city money should be placed in non-interest bearing accounts and be free to be used properly.
Tooley would also like to see less use of automobiles, vigorous emission law enforcement, and more enforcement of city laws. Another major change he considers a high priority is the develop-
-ment of the South Platte River Valley.
·"This area is n~ry to economic vitality," he said.
Necessary development for Denver doesn't end with the South Platte River Valley. Tooley is anxious to expand · Denver's job base, and he wants a more aggressive attitude in recruiting and retai ni ng high technological advancements.
Realizing that high tech is the way of the future and an efficient answer to a .. high unemployment problem, Tooley sees the Auraria Higher Educational Center to be of importance in "developing the quality, content, and extent of high tech fields." He believes that the better facilities Denver has to train and educate students in a particular field, the more productive expansion we'll see in the city and its job base.
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le /or the job Tooley is very supportive of education
and has many students working for him in his campaign, as he did when he was District Attorney. Lisa Hogan, a law student at the University of Denver, used to work in the former D.A.'s office.
"He is the most efficient and effective administrator," she said. "Projects get completed under his direction and everyone shares equally in the accomplishments."
Tooley's recruits work for him and stay with him. At his campaign headquarters, you'll find an aura of comraderie, determination and support. • Everyone is eager for issues to be raised and answers to be given. One has the feeling that no one is a stranger and all should be heard.
"Politics are like any other relationship in society," Tooley said, "and to be completely truthful is not only ob- ' tainable, but highly advisable." 0
MSC speech team talks its way into national contest If someone told you there wiis an ac
tive Speech Team at MSC, what thoughts would cross your mind?
· Perhaps visions of .official-looking debaters carrying briefcases that appear to contain answers to the problems of the world; perhaps polished public speakers motivating their audience to action in a persuasive frenzy; perhaps someone reading a piece of dramatic literature in such a way that the listeners were moved to tears; or perhaps you'd remember sweating it out in a speech class, trying to appear in control, while inside you were a jelly-like, quivering mass. You might wonder if there really 1!fe people who would choose to do this for jun. Yes, Virginia, there is an active speech team at MSC. In fact, it's one of the quietest success stories on the campus.
Last year the team made an impressive showing at the district tournall}ent, qualifying three people in individual events for the national tournament. This year, through hard work, the team has been able to improve on last year's performance in the preliminary meets, and equaled our qualifying record. If you measure sue~ by the number of people competing from MSC, or the number of. competitors representing MSC in semi-final or final rounds, or the number of trophies brought home, this year has already far-surpassed last year's record. All of the team's successes reflect hard wbrk, dedication, and the talents of the team members.
The speech team has experienced an interesting problem this year - a membership increase of 600 percent over last year. This has posed some inte~ting budgetary challenges, but the intra-squad competition for excellence has motivated the new team members, and everyone competes.
One of the reasons for the success of the team is the dedication of the Director of Forensics, Emily J. Blair. Her coaching experience at both the high school and college levels seems to give her the ability to predict with remarkable accuracy which events are best for each individual and which competitors will do well at each tourna-ment. '
Because speech competition encompasses 12 different events, her theories of coaching include matching the individual with events they are best suited for, then encouraging lots of practice. Also, no student is required to do any particular event, but is required to be competition-ready in several events. This, of course, depends on the individuals's level of experience. In addition, all team members are encouraged to become active in the administrative aspects of the team - no dictatorship here.
The rapport shared by team members, their senses of humor, as well as the necessity of maintaining a perspective to be able to learn from disappointments or successes, makes this a team in the best sense.
The next tournament is the National Individual Events Tournament, our most important tournament of the year. We will be represented by Betsy Gadeken, Ann Doolittle, and Bennett Buenconsejo. We hope that you would give them all the good wishes you can spare.
If you would be interested in finding out more about the team and its activities, contact Mrs. Blair through the Speech Office. You might want to join us in the fall. Our motto is "Take it for credit - Do it for fun - And LEARN."
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Trenchcoat has potential, but fails .f
by David Emrich
What has happened here? Something has definitely gone wrong with this movie. We are seeing a lot of people acting up there. We are hearing people speak dialogue. There is beautiful scenery. In short, there is a good story going on up there. What's wrong, then?
There's a lot wrong with it. As Margot Kidder says in the movie, "If you looked in the dictionary under 'stupid', you'd find its picture."
The biggest problem with this movie is the attitude that is taken by the actors when speaking their "funny' dialogue. Simply put, both Margot Kidder and Robert Hays seem to be saying their lines with the attitude, "Look, I'm funny!" In reality, all they are doing is acting funny.
The script fails in most of its one-liner humor. Weak sexual innuendo is followed by weak insults to everyone's
intelligence. How can anyone laugh at a line which starts with, "Well, here is the private dick ... er ... eye, on the way ... " This is not to say that I did not laugh at some of the comic lines, but the ~ack of variety of comedy in this film leaves much to be desired.
The sight gags, moreover, lack originality. One observation will sufficiently show this. How many movies have you seen whiCh show crazy foreign taxi drivers? If this is Friday, it must be Malta.
Ah, Malta, what a wonderful place to have a murder/mystery/comedy take place. Any time a film takes place in a location which is. exotic in nature, it can't help but be more interesting. Unfortunately, the setting director Michael Tuchner uses in this piece of fluff is not used effectively. There is little difference in the way that this background is used than in films of the 1930s. There is . nothing aesthetically pleasing or
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Trenchcoat's failures are really too bad. Even its strengths are not exploited. David Suchet's performance is~ wonderful as the inspector. Unfortunately (again} he is not used extensively. The basic story line really deserves more than the treatment it was given here. In short, although this movie fails in many ways, you could also find its • picture next to the definition of "potential" in at least most dictionaries. 0
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MSC's Mickey ·o'Donnell honored with YWCA award
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Marie "Mickey" O'Donnell, a senior member of the MSC women's varsity volleyball team, was named the YWCA Intercollegiate Sportswoman of Col-
~ orado for 1983 in the volleyball division. It was probably no big surprise that·
O'Donnell, a 5-foot, 6-inch woman with a vertical jump of 24 inches, received this award, considering the number of previous honors that she had recently earned.
"This year she achieved more individual honors than any player I have had in my 14 years of coaching here," wrote Pat Johnson, MSC volleyball coach, in nominating O'Donnell.
Honors that O'Donnell has received -.-this season include being selected to the
All-Tournament teams at the Regis, MSC and Colorado College Invitational tournaments, as well as being recognized nationally at the NAIA national tournament, where she was selected to the All-Tournament first team, and later, awarded the title of All-America.
"You can't do it without a coach," O'Donnell said, "and you can't do it without a team. I think that Pat and I got along real well and that contributed to my success."
Even though O'Donnell has com-7
Co-op Education workshop to discuss problems, solutions
A regional workshop on "Cooperative Education in the Liberal Arts" will be
. offered April 7-8 at the Auraria Student Center to provide a forum for Cooperative Education faculty and staff who work with liberal arts students to discuss solutions to the most common probleflls faced.
Sponsored by UCD, MSC and the .~ocky Mountain Center for Cooperative Education, the workshop will address a broad range of issues including the kinds of cooperative jobs that can be developed, how grades should be assigned, how to gain institutional commitment and student recruitment.
For more information on the workshop call Jan Michalski, director of Cooperative Education at UCD, at 629-2892.
Persian new year Celebration ends Sunday
Sunday, April 3, marks the end of the 13-day celebration of the Zoroastrian new year of 1362, which began this year at the vernal equinox.
"No Rooz," which means "new day," has been celebrated by Persians for over 2,500 years. The observation of the holiday begins with the setting of a "haft seen" table; that is, a table holding seven things that start with sabzy, the persian letter "s".
Among the seven items is a bundle of ·grass, which, on the thirteenth day, is thrown away, symbolizing the rejection of things that are bad.
pleted her four years of eligibility in competitive volleyball, she continues to compete, but for a different division -the United States Volleyball Association - a competitive member of the MSC women's varsity softball team, and she received an All-District selection as an · outfielderlast season. D Mickey O'Donnell, left, in action for MSC volleyball team.
Good friends will help you study angles when all you can think about is curves.
It didn't take a genius to te ll your mind wasn't on your s tudies. But it did take a couple of smart roomies to do somefhing about it. ~:: So out came the calculators. And the
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MSC Rugby Club will hold practice every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Winners of the Raffle: T-shirts - R.J. Kock. Jeff Halderman. S. Brewer and Jean Corl. Mirrors - Dr. Raab and Beneta Casado. Light - Mary Michaels. $50 Gift Certificate - Dan Bucher. Walkman -Renee Gould.
Qallery Showa: UCO Student Art Show at Emmanuel Gallery April 4 to 22. Reception Aprll 4 at 7:30 p.m.; Photo exhibit "Where In the World Are You?". Ron DIRlto, Gary Emrich and Barbara }loughton. In the library through April 8; MSC Student Art Show In Emmanuel through April 1.
Wednesday, March 30 MSC, CCD Fiim Serles presents "Ordinary People" In the Student Center. Room 330. Show times are 12:15. 2:15. 4:15 and 7:15.
Eat• Talk - Informal discussion on Gandhi and non-violent resistance led by Dr. Biii Rhodes today from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at st. Francis Interfaith Center. Simple supper of soup. bread and yogurt will be served for $2. For more Information call 623-2340.
The Llltenlng Poet from 10 a .m. to 4 p.m. In the Student Center.
Thursday, March 31 MSC, CCD Fiim 5erl .. ~esents "Ordinary People" In the Student Center. Room 330. Show times are 12:15. 2:15. 4:15 and 7:15.
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UCO Drug Alcohol/Stop SmOklng Cllnlc In the Student Center Room 151 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Aprll 1 Denver Center Cinema: Lon Chaney Fiim Festival - "The Blackbird.'' "The Phantom of the Opera:· and "He Who Gets Slapped."
Saturday, Aprll 2 Denver Center Cinema "Meet Me In st. Louis" 1 :30 p.m.: "Mother Wore Tights" 4:45 p .m.; "Witness for the Prosecution:· 6:45 p .m.
Sunday, Aprll 3 Denver C,enter Cinema "Meet Me In St. Louis" 1 :30 p .m.; "Witness for the Prosecution" 4 p.m.: "Talk of the Town" 6:15 p.m.; "Mother Wore Tights" 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Aprll 4 "Education for v .. terday or for Tomor· row" ts the topic of the Issues Forum at St. Francis Interfaith Center today from noon to 1 p.m. Dr. Wiiiiam Rhodes, Professor of Philosophy at MSC will give the presentation. The program Is free and open to the public. People are welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch. For more Information call 623-2340.
Transitions, a workshop for people Interested In making a career change. Monday, April 4th 3 to 5 p.m. $5 fee Includes materials. Call 86~·7332 for reservations.
Field counselors and Interns needed for summer pro~m If you are looking to gain field ex
perience working with children, test your outdoor and educational skills and accept a stimulating challenge, then the Wilderness Experience Program may provide a great opportunity for you. This summer, the Wilderness Experience Program is recruiting field counselors and interns to work with young people through a series of summer backpacking trips and interactions with the family in the home environment.
WEP is a private, non-profit organization that offers opportunities for youth to take on responsibilities, build self-confidence, work cooperatively and make positive changes in their lives.
Qualified counselors are expected to have experience and background in working with children, backpacking experience, campcraft and mountain safety slcills and the motivation to work with children and other adults in a challenging setting. Current First Aid Certifica-
tion is necessary, however, technical mountain skills such as ·rock climbing are not required.
Internship opportunities are available to those seeking an extensive outdoor experience and academic credit. Interns participate in two sessions (or four six day trips) and also assist in logistics and/ or administrative tasks in the Denver office.
All field counselors participate in a comprehensive training program which
...covers WEP philosophy, group process and procedures, backcountry ethnic and safety, initiative activities and envirorunental awareness.
WEP is looking for people who are dependable, energetic and interested in helping young people help themselves. Many lasting friendships and unforgetable memories result from the WEP experience. If you wish to get more information and would like an application please contact the WEP office at 477-2765.
MSC symposium futilres speaker, panel discussion The MSC Adult Learning and ~
ment Center, Off Campus Programs, is sponsoring a symposium entitled "A Community of Learners" from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., April 7, at St. Cajetan's · Center.
The symposium will feature keynote speaker Vivian A. Rogers of the University of Kansas, Division of Continuing Education. Also, a panel of MSC faculty and administrators will discuss the implications of personal and institutional change in higher education.
Rogers is active nationally in applying . adult developmental and life cycle research to the needs of persons, families
and organ.izations in transition. She has completed post-doctoral studies at the Menninger Foundation, the University of Michigan School of Business, the Andrus Center for Gerontology and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.
The Assessment Center at MSC is designed to help adults meet their lifelong learning needs. It can enable adults to receive academic credit for work and life experience.
The symposium is open to faculty, students and the general public, free of charge.
For more information, call Eleanor Green or Maureen Lancaster, 629-8342.
Wednesday, Aprll 6 MSC Academic Improvement Center will hold an Open House and Celebration today from 1 to 3 p .m. In the Central Classroom. 211 for the publlcatlon of David Moore's and Mary Popplno's book "Successful Tutoring: A Practical Gulde to Adult Learning Processes."
Club Calendar MSC AMATEUR RADIO CLUB will hold meetings every Thursday at 4 p .m. In SO 205. All UCO. CCD and MSC students welcome.
PSl.cHI (THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY IN PSYCHOLOGY) will hold a meeting In the student Center. Room 257 on Thursday, March 31 at· 7 p.m. Ken Furlong. B.A. Psychology - Metro Graduate wll speak on Hypnosis and Sexuality.
ASSOCIATION OF MINORITY BUSINESS STU DENTS will hold a Job Fair on Wednesday, April 6 from 11 a .m. to 5 p.m. at St. Ca· jetan's. For more Information call ext. 3326.
LESBIAN/GAY RESOURCE CENTER will hold a lesbian support group every Tuesday at 1 p .m. In the Student Center. Room 351.
MSC EARTH SCIENCE CLUB will hold a general meeting Tuesday. Aprll 5 from noon to 1 p .m. In SI 118. For more lnforma· tlon call 629-2867.
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HISTORY CLUB AND PHI PSI will sponsor a Chinese dinner on Saturday, April 2 at 7 p .m. Cost Is $8 per person. For more Information call 629-3114.
THE DEEZINE CLUB announces the publtcatlon of Laminations. Coples are avallable In the Bromley Bulldlng. second floor.
ACC's Women's Center to hold Divorce Adjustment Workshop
The Women's Resource Center at Arapahoe Community College is sponsoring a Divorce Adjustment Workshop for displaced homemakers, those who are divorced, widowed, or separted or who are living with a disabled spouse.
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The workshop will meet on Wednes- )day evenin~, April 6 through May 4, from 7 to 8 p.m., room to be announced, at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 South Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. There is no charge for displaced homemakers. The facilitator for the group is Barb!lra Mcintire, Social; Worker and Counselor in Private Practice.
This workshop will cover the grieving process, dealing with children and exspouse, loneliness, sexuality and establishing one's life as a single person
Contact the Women's Resource Center at 797-5809 for registration information for this no charge workshop .
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SERVI CFS MOI'OBCYCLE RIDE.ll COURSE/ Maintenance coune. Information call Kirk at 985-2450 or Bob 986-Sl23. Cla&teS starting April 5th. 4-6
TYPING. $1.50 per double spaced page. Elise . .- Hakes, 1535 Franklin St., f9M, Denver, CO
80218. 832-4400. 4-20
A PBO~ONAL TYPING SERVICE at student prices. "Pro-Word Proces.11ng." Thesis, resumes, manuscripts, book reports and term papers. 790-0455/open weekends. Free pick-up and delivery In the Metro area.
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' SPRING CLEANING - Need help but thought you couldn't afford it? Well, with me you can. Responsible, beautiful work done. I even do windows, ovens - just one time or on a regular basis. 329-0883. 4-6
• CONVEBsE COUNTY GROUP HOME In Wyoming Is offering a paid Internship. We are interested in students in Human Service related fields. Our intermhip program is live-In, offers a monthly salary, board and room provided. Please contact Candy Driver-Ratigan, Converse County Group Home, P.O. Box 13!8, Douglas, WY 82633, 307/358-4352. 4-13
f.. ~ON EYEG~ MADE: present a valid student I.D. for 30 percent off on complete prescription eyeware. ROTC cadets receive 40 percent off with proof of cadet status. Call Visual Effects at 744-3335. 4-20 ALASKAN SUMMER JOBS: Free information. Canneries to oilfield. Send SASE to A.J .S., Box
NEED ADVICE? But afraid to ask Mom. TryRent-a-Moml Totally confidential (no names) motherly advice regarding your problems. Reasonable and relatively painless. Call 321-8732 for appointment. 3-23 TYPING - $1.50 to $2.00 per double-spaced page. Twenty-five years experience. Capitol Hill location. If you've been up all night and it's due today call 377-3888. 5-4 EXPERT TYPING done at reasonable prices. All material carefully proof read for accuracy and grammar. Call Judy days at 373-7555, or evenings at 850-7698.
r TYPING/WORD PROCESSING • Ten years experience, fair prices, accurate. Washington Park location. Call 698-2531 after 4:00 p .m . 3-30
INFORMATION, RESEARCH, INDEXING, list compilation. Barbara Nicovich, M.L.S. 10 years profes&onal experience. 690-5736. ·
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1ERM PAPERS, theses, and resumes typed with a professional touch. Reasonable rates. Holly's Secretarial 4.26-0060. 5-4
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CAREERS, mass market yours thru Operations Research Int'l job strategy. Details toll free 1-800-421-3217. 4-13
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IMPROVE YOUR GBADDI R~ catalog -306 pages - 10,278 topics - Rush $1 to Box 25097C, Los Angeles, CA 9002.5. (213) 477-8226. 5-4
FOR SALE MINOLTA 35MM camera w/ 45mm lens. Case included. Never been used. $225. Call Lynn at 986-2097. 4-6
NEW ARTIST'S PORTFOLIO carrying case. Black Herculon. New $75, will sell for $35. Call 320-0329. 3-30 LEAVING SOON FROM U.S.A., 79 Trans Am excelllent condition, 47,000 ml., t-top, alarm system. C/P - fully loaded and more, only $6900 or best offer. Call 477-9608. 3-30
HELP WANTED PART-TIME BARTENDER NEEDED, must be quick, efficient and professional. Apply at Marlowes, 16th and Glenarm, Monday thru Thursday 2 to 4 p .m. 3-30
W ~ WANTED: Flexible, experienced, full-time only, need to apply in person Monday thru Thursday between2 and4 p.m., Govnr's Park Restaurant, 672 Logan. 4-20
LOOKING TO FORM PRO~ONAL MUSIC GROUP ala Gary Puckett to do various easylistening styles. Need pianist, bass player, drummer/percwsionfst, lead guitarist who want to really work at top-name places in Denver-Boulder area. Drug usen need not apply. Call 443-8207, ask for Chris. 3-30
NEED MEN AND WOMEN FOB SHORT-TERM PBOJFCI'. Afternoon and evening shifts. Good hourly wages. No solicitation. Good working conditions. Call Pat at893-1755from9to11 a .m. or 2 to 4p.m. 3-30
PATIENTS WANTED for investigational gas permeable (breathing) contact lenses designed to reduce light sensitivity, burning, stinging and spectacle blur. Modest fee conforming to CFR 21 812.78. Call 825-2500. 3-30
HOUSING WANTED: PRO~IONAL WOMAN to share two bedroom loft condo at Appletree East II. All you need is your BR furniture. $300/mo. plus 1/1 utilities. Available around 5-1-83. Call Sandy Hill at 693-4922 or 293-2211 x2805. 3-30
PERSONAI.S CYPHER: The fat lip was worth it. If it doesn't hurt, it's not right. There's only one question. Francis.
A MAN IS BE'ITER OFF having no relations with a woman ... Given my preference, I should like you to be as I am. Still, each one has his own gift from God, one this and another that.
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HOMOSEXUALS - Do you want to be accepted for what you are? We don' t want to change you just make you happier with your diversity. catl Lesbian/Gay Resource Center at 629-3317. 3-30
HOMOSEXUALS • Do you want understanding and support? Call the Lesbian and Gay Resource Center at 629-3317.
Anniversary Celebration Great Meal Deals
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April 1st - 30th Idaho Springs (Miner St.), Denver (2024 E . Colfax) ,
HOMOSEXUALS - Do you want to changll? Call Family Life Center at 388-4411, ext. 193.
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The MSC Board of Publications is now accepting applications for the position of
Editor of
· The Metropolitan. Interested persons should contact the Board through
the MSC Office of Student Affairs, Central Classroom 316, Campus Box 23, 629-3077.
The position will be filled by the summer 1983 semester. Newspaper experience, particulary at The Metropolitan, will be a major factor in the
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If you have at least two years of college left, you can spend six weeks at our Army ROTC Basic Camp this summer and earn approximately $600.
And if you q_l!_alify, you can enter the Rare 2· Year Program this fall and receive up to $1,000 a year.
But the big payoff happens on graduation day. That's when you receive an officer's commission.
So iet your body in shape (not to mention your bank account).
Enroll in Army ROTC. For more information, contact your Professor of Military Science.
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In fact, every month you'll find something interesting, something useful about our products, services and procedures. So be sure to give our newsletters your complete attention. There·s good reading for you in every issue.
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