News: MSC programs help foreign student with communication problems.
Feature: Federal inmates in Englewood have MSC courses brought to them.
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Feature: Joe Fuentes, an MSC graduate, returned to teach in the journalism department. Page 10
5enate committee kills H.B. 1510 government.
Such a requirement, Beer said, . • The Senate State Affairs Com- "unreasonably overlooks the exmittee voted 4-3 Monday to isting system of elective represenpostpone indefinitely House Bill · tation which adequately and fair-1510, an action that essentially ly disburses student fees."
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kills the proposed legislation ..jVhich would have prohibited the
·use of mandatory student fees-tor political purposes.
P.r:ior to its vote, the Committee heard testimony from about a dozen students, including student ~vernment leaders, who opposed the bill, and College Republicans, who supported the bill.
Larry Beer, treasurer of the Associated Students of MSC, urg~ the bill's defeat.
"Passage of this bill would seriously threaten the autonomy of our public colleges and univer: sities," Beer told the Committee. ~
The bill called for the im-plementation of a positive checkoff during registration whereby students could designate which organization they wanted to supi'Ort, instead of having their fees' use determined by student
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·Beer said that citizens do not have the opportunity to decide how their t-ax dollars will be spent, "but if we don't agree with our elected representatives' actions, we have the option of electing new ones."
John. Carson, a CU student, expressed his support of a posjtive check-off which, he said, would guarantee a 100 percent voter tun;t out, resulting in "a true gauge of _democracy."
Carson said there are many campus groups which 'exist without student-fee support, and that a check-off would ensure that a student has some say in how his fees are spent.
David Leeds, chairman of College Republicans at CU, was critical of student government spending student fees for obvious political ·causes, and urges
passage of the bill "to stop abQses that are constantly going on.
"The State Legislature does have a right to be involved in how student fees are collected,'' Leeds said. "We believe you have a great deal of responsibility in protecting your interests on campus."
Tad Miller, University of Colorado Student Union president, made a distinction between donations, which a check-off would mean, and taxes, which he considers student fees to be.
"This bill casts a dangerous shadow by co-opting the opportunity for democratic principles to be applied on campus," Miller told the Committee.
He said the bill would reduce the opportunity for financially disadvantages groups to participate in co-currictilar education.
"Education is not a one-sided affair," he said.
Brad Frye, president of CSU student government, called the bill "inappropriate," and told the Committee that student govern-
ments can best determine what the needs of students are.
"Student governments do a · good job and the fees are spent well," Frye said. "We help to provide an educational experience."
, Committee Chairman Cliff Dodge, R-Denver, who cast the vote which killed the bill, hinted previously how he was. to vote.
"Both sides of this argument have merit," Dodge said. "It seems to me, though, the remedy to this is through the political processes on campus."
Dodge acknowledged apathy - "it's a dirty word" - on campus, but said he believed that campuses· provided a viable forum to address the concerns of students.
Senators who voted to kill the bill were Democrats Tom Glass, C. Michael Callihan, James Rizzuto and Dodge; voting to pass it to the Senate were Republicans Jim Brandon, Ray Powers and Kathy Spelts Arnold. D
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__ S_tudents· faclilglanguage· ~rriers · by Sandy Walton J student's abilities and direct him into classes as easy, but accounting as dif- Havill agrees. The students leave
'----- . - courses best suited to his abilities and ficult "because of terminology. Tests school, "where they speak English and The 21-year-old Chinese man disliked needs. are multiple choice. All terms seem go home where they speak their first
the United States when he first came For instance, she said, a foreign stu- same. Hard for Americans, .but triple language," she said. here over three years ago. He couldn't dent may take economics just because hard for me." These students lack the basic skills understand or interact with others his friend is, and his friend may do fine, And although he finds English gram- necessary to survive in an academic en-
• because his minimal English skills but he flunks. mar easy, he "can't write essays because vironment, Pieh said. prevented him from doing so. The program should have at least two J, don't know how to organize." "The time has come," he said, "for · "I didn't like U.S. at first," said the classes which develop writing skills, two Because MSC is a non-residential Metro to accept that if they take money 21-year-old from Vietnam studying classes in reading, one in speech and one campus, Pieh said, it is more difficult for from these students, it must be necessary computer science at Metro. "I didn't in study skills, all directed specifically to foreign students to interact and thus to provide some form of developmental know how to deal with others around foreign students. pick up language skills. guidance." D
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have a mouth but look dumb because I riculum coordinator for MSC's couldn't speak English.'' Academic Improvement Center, sees the
As part-time MSC English teacher •need to develop a program to. address Patti Havill points out, a large percen- the problems of foreign students in tage of foreign students at Metro have regard to English as it relates to college problems with verbal abilities. work.
Patty Havlll teaches a writing class for foreign students;
Although . no English-as-a-Second The object of an ESL program, he Language program exists at MSC to said, would be "to help students develop ~eet the language needs of foreign the needed academic skills, such as
students, there is a growing need to im- reading, oral communication, both plement such a program into the cur- speaking and listening, and study and riculum, Havill said. research techniques. There are pro-
These students "have a problem talk- grams to teach these skills, but they are iug to someone in financial aid or to a not programs designed specifically for
~unselor, communicating with instruc- the ESL student." · tors, and understanding the lectures.'' Pieh stresses that there is not an "em-
For example, Hoa N,Phi, a third-y~r · phasis on remediation" in teaching electrical engineering student from Viet- foreign students and in developing a nam, said English complicates her program to meet their needs. studies. "When you have special classes, most
"Takes me a lot of time," she said. "I people think remediation," he said, "but whave to. write lessons over after class. it is a building of some form of skill." I have to read and read lessons in book.'' It's like taking French 101, he said.
The number of ESL courses now of- It's not thought of as a remedial cl~, fered is two, one in reading, the other in but one which builds skills. writing, Havill said. She teaches the "Even though they may be first in writing class. . their (major), they don't have English
, A program she would like,1:0 see survival skills," Pieh said. , developed is one which offers immediate Similarly, Havill said, "They may counseling to all foreign students, and have a problem in English and includes some kind of testing, such' as a humanities, but do well in electronics." writing sample. The counselor, based The 21-year-old computer science maon the writing sample, would assess the jor, for example, described his computer
'Referendum set May .3, 4 for a CoPIRG branch at MSC The Associated Students of MSC will
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The House Veterans Affairs Committee has already voted to do away with advance pay, and the issue is now under consideration by the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.
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Under the present system,-;. veteran or dependent going back to' school for the first time, or after a break of at least one semester, can receive one month's advance payment to assist in paying tuition. But there are varying reports from the Veterans Administration of several million dollars in overpayments due to advanced pay.
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checks unless there is a verifiable emergency, and we can always send back the checks if the veteran decides not to go to school," he said. "The VA has lost nothing; in reality, we control advance payment."
Morris said the advance pay is a good opportunity to help the veteran get started in school. The initial payment helps to "take the load off' when paying tuition and buyi~g books.
Lynn Denzin, Veterans Services Coordinator at Auraria, is trying to get students to write the SV AC in order to
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"voice themselves and their opinions" on the issue. .
"The VA is trying to do this to keep veterans out of school," she said,-"' "therefore taking the money meant for school benefits and applying it to other uses, such as hospitalization for all the World War II veterans."
Another issue up for consideration is the enactment of term-by-term certification. Under the present system, a <i veteran or dependent can be certified for both fall and spring semesters at once, and for the summer semester
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T H E M E T R 0 P 0 L I T A N
Middle-income students ~hold edge· over minorities seeking federal aSsistance
,_Bad-·grad~ may ro~ . sttidents of financial-aid
(CPS)--Middle-income white students got more financial aid last year than
,...they did eight years ago, while lowincome minority students got less, according to a study just released by the National Commission on Student Financial ~istance.
Students whose parents earned more than $12,000 a year were more likely .to
"get a grant than they were in 1974 -when a similar study was done - and the amount of that award was larger, according to the study.
At the same time, low-income students had about the same chance of getting an award as they did eight years
-Ilgo, the study found, but the amount of that award kas shrunk since 1974.
Black students, while still more likely to get an award than white stud~nts, were also likely to receive a much smaller award amount than white stujlents.
Inflation, apparently, is the culprit. "The federal government just has not
increased the maximum award sizes to keep up with inflation," explained John Lee, director of the human resources division of the Applied Systems In.ititute, the Washington, D.C. consulting firm which prepared the study.
For example, he said, a 1974 award of $1,000 would have had to increase to $1,88 by 1981 in order to keep pace with
inflation. Middle class students have come out
ahead, he notes, because of a series of new programs introduced in 1978 to increase aid to.J:hose students.
Moreover, "middle class students are more likely to borrow their money, an cl to borrow mote of it than lower-class students."
And blacks and other minorities, he added, have seen the value of their financial aid erode the most "because those kids, due to the maldistribution of wealth by race, are more likely to be in the lower income category than white students."
"Also," Lee said, "low-income kids are more likely to go to a lower-cost public or community college. And sine~ most financial aid awards are based on a percentage of the student's tuition -Pell. Grants, for instance, pay one-half the cost of going to college - that kind of limits the size of the awards lowincome students receive."
To help correct the imbalance in aid, Lee recommends award amounts to be tied to the inflation rate.
" If equity is still a goal of the student aid program," he said, "it's only reasonable to allow the maximum aid amount to increase to keep up with the cost of college, which has gone up 80 percent in the last few years." D
-Veterans urged to write their representatives. Continued from previous page before it begins.
But if term-by-term certification starts, every veteran and dependent would have to wait and be certified one ~mester at a time, at the beginning of the semester.
"If we send in certifications on the first day of dass, it would take at least eight weeks for the veteran to get any
• money," Denzin said. "We are talking ..,OO,ut 1,100 students here. The VA
1regional office "1"ould be swamped under, causing huge money delays."
Morris looks at the whole certification issue from a national standpoint.
"Certifications would be done at the first of every semester for every veteran at every college in the entire United ~tates," he said. "Imagine·the expense and delays of doing it this way!"
Morris said he thought the strategy behind all this is that 90 percent of veterans will drop out because of these
certification changes, then the VA could "really save a lot of money."
Denzin and Morris both expressed a concern for the education of all veterans
. in general. "What is the real cost in getting rid of
education benefits?" Denzin asked. "I mean, these are earned benefits. That is the whole reason behind these benefits and the way they work now, to keep the veteran in school!"
"VA educational benefits should be a reward for serving and protecting your country," said Morris.
Denzin and Morris have stressed that it is very important for veterans and dependents to write various people in Washington, among those being Sen. Gary Hart, Sen. Alan Crantston and the entire SVAC.
Addresses for these people are posted on bulletin boards all over campus, and are also available through Veteran's Services and Upward Bound offices. 0 ..
MSC financial aid office \ -will not require draft registration
Financial aid applicants at MSC will require the proofs for this summer. not be required to provide Selective Ser- However, financial aid officers at vice registration information .in order to both UCO and MSC advise students to receive their summer aid packages. ·- 'provide the information voluntarily in
MSC announced that, pending the order to prevent a delay in disbursement outcome of a federal court case schedul- later. ed for this July, proof of registration will Because of disbursement scbedules, be accepted only on a volunteer basis. students at CCD would not be required <MSC follows the lead of UCD and to pro\.ide information until this fall.
CCD. which have both decided not to
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS)-- The government will soon force colleges to strip students With bad grades of their federal financial aid, at least if a con~essional advisory committee gets its way.
The National Commission on Student Financial ~istance, created three years ago to draw up student aid bills for Congress, last week recommended a series of new academic rules that colleges would have to impose on aid recipients.
Colleges, the commission said, often don't take aid away from students who· don't make "satisfactory academic progress" toward their degrees because of
·bad grades. . "Our records seem to point out that
the standards are not monitored very closely," said commission spokeswoman Susan Turner.
The proposed new rules are "an attempt to get (schools) to make it clear to students what the standards are," adds Tom Wolanin, an aide to commission member Rep. William Ford (0-Mi) .
In January, 1982, the Government
Accounting Office estimated that as many as 45 percent of the nation's college aid offices may not monitor aid recipients' grades at all.
Among the 5,800 transcripts the GAO surveyed in 1982, it found some studentS with grade point averages- as low as .11 still getting aid.
To assure that grade standards are observed, the commission wants Congress to require schools to publish minimum course, attendance and grade requirements for federal financial aid ..
Colleges would also have to identify students as part or full time, set up provisions to account for dropped courses in computing eligibility and to allow for grade appeals, and bar aid to students who don't get their degrees within a certain period of time, Wolanin explained.
The schools would then have to submit a report to the U.S. Department of Education on each aid recipient's academic progress, Turner says.
Wolanin expects Congress will "put more flesh on those bones" of the new grade rules over the next few years. D ,
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T H E M E T R 0 p 0 L I T A N
·Notes From the Underground . .
World destiny maY be up· in the air , Sometimes, secret dreams that once seemed realistic
turn out to be nothing more than elusive fantasies. If it were not so, the world would be overpopulated with firemen and doctors and cowqoys and Presidents of the United States. ,
The dreams we nurture for ciur own future, and the dreams our parents nurture on our behalf, turn out to be unreasonable, beyond our grasp. Part of the natural process of growing up is to realize that the "h~lp wanted" columns carry very few ads for "reckless adventurers."
Unfortunately, it can be.very difficult to let go of a dream which once seemed not only realistic, but inevitable.
For instance, ever since I can remember;! always wanted to be a spaceman. Back when I was about the same size and weight as an adult chimpanzee, I used to dream about getting shoved into a Titan nosecone and blasted off into the nether.-yonder.
I was on the mailing list of NASA and its top dozen contractors, all of which sent me piles and piles of full. color brochures on the space program.'
Only now do I realize how shamelessly those brochures lied to me - me, a gullible little kid.
They enconraged me, through extravagant and realistic. "artist's conceptions" to picture myself strolling
. happily through the Sea of Tranquility, a full-earth rising over distant mountains.
Clever writers transported me to a world where I would be faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a :single bound. . Soon, these ersatz "travel brochures" insisted, a man who saved his pennies diligently and had good credit could be whisked away to a space station hu~ling
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soundlessly above the world. Even now, a wave of pure emotion runs through me as I ponder the majesty of such a view.
I always knew deep down_ inside that even though I would be "old" at the turn of the century, my sense of mission would be no less diminished, and I would throw the Buick into hock and head out for the stars. I could bring back moon rocks and perfect crystals and T.shirts that said "My grandpa went to the moon, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
In the seventies, my desires were no less diminished, but the space program had been gutted and television newsmen were saying that it would be a long, long time before anybody but a couple of military careerists trespasSed OJl our mysterious moon. I unhappily resigned myself to life on old terra firma.
That is, up until last week, when President Reagan started waxing poetic about a military-industrial com-plex in space. ·
I listened to all of the press hoo-de-do - a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. The press, generally speaking, have concluded that Reagan's mind has gone into hyperspace with all of this "space wars" claptrap .
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That remains to be seen. But such an enormously ambitious project will require manpower, and that could be me. All I'd have to do is pass .a civil service exam and then put in my chit for a job - any old job - on the new • frontier of space.
I can scrub space-barnacles from the hull of the station. Or set traps for the inevitable space-roaches. Or serve it "your way" at the space-station burger emporium. I'll even do windows.
In point of fact, I'd do just about anything except man ,.,... that great big~. I couldn'~ handle the responsibility of turning a million Muscovites into french fries, or of knowing that my actions led to the Russian space gun turning New York into a giant can of Ster'no. -
But I will go, nonetheless, and not so much to fulfill my childhocxl dream of being "up there." I am grown-up "" now I and I have learned to live without fulfilling my childhood fantasies.
But when the Reagan war machine is put into place, I'll want to be up there, mostly because I'll be so damn scared to be down here, where all of the dreams we've nurtured for ,gur future seem to be threatened.
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Messy cha11ges 'come to a· child-wary ogre
Once upon a time, in a grocery store, a children's fable unfolded. I saw a kid bouncing through the aisles, wreakingnavoc among patrons, generally being a kid. But then the little person assailed my big person: "Hey mister, can I take a ride in your grocery cart? Can I, can I, can I, pah-llllleeeeasel" Covert W.C. Fields tendencies began to surface in the form of malicious thoughts about charging the kid a quarter, then providing a wild cart ride through the aisles, ending with a slam-dunk into the freezer section. Suppressing these, I settled for an unsavory comment: "Here, kid, why don't you gnaw on this can of peas."
The kid took it hard, and started to bawl. At the height of the tirade, the kid's mother swept around the corner aisle. With lightening-quick maternal instinct, she snatched her child from danger (the kid was never in jeopardy, honest), and hurled a variety of insults at me, the mildest, but most penetrating of which, was: "Ogre!" I immediately went on the defensive: ''I'm no ogre, you witch!" What followed was a fruitless flurry of argument, resolving nothing, and resulting in the surrounding customers reeling their children in next to their sides. ·I exited, stage out.
Upon reviewing the hapless incident, I realized that with my indulgence in education over the years, I had neglected some of the ongoing phenomerfa in life, namely children. They're everywhere! And yet I knew nothing about them, except that I was a kid once, but I can't accurately recall those times. I wasn't exactly sure how to act around children. Indeed, I felt uncomfortable around theqi. And with the news full of the grisly reality of child abuse and perversion that seems to be running rampant in this country, I can't say I blame the lady for reacting the way she did. I regretted my own reaction, and became aware that my knowledge of . little people needed to be enhanced in an endeavor to purge my ogre status. A change was in order.
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I called up a friend of mine who had lately had an addition to her home, a baby boy. I told her my tale,
and through stifled laughter, she said she'd be happ) to drop by with her little guy. When she arrived, she put the kid on the floor, face-up. I offered what I imagined to be an appropriate gesture to any newcomer to this wacky world: I made a face. The kid instantaneously began to bawL I looked to his mother in desperation.
"Now what?" "You have to determine his needs." "Can't he talk yet?" "He's not even six-months old!" "Slow learner, eh?" But in the area of crying the kid was precocious,
gifted even, and the volume was increasing to a glassshattering pitch. I had to shout above the din.
"Do you suppose he's hungry, ravenous perhaps?" "Could be." She handed me a bottle, and I offered it as a token
for peace. I didn't think it possible, but the tantrum increased in intensity. I felt helpless.
"I don't think he wants it . Should I force-feed him?"
"Nol Pick him up." "Eh?" "Pick him upl" "Okay, okay." I bent down and grabbed the kid by the armpits. "He's not a bag of cement; ta'ke it easy." "Okay, okay."
The screaming that had taken place on the floor was now transferred and clearing out the static in my right ear.
"Help! It's not working." I turned to his mother, who was now laughing to
beat all, artd I had a funny feeling she know what the problem was. Then I had another funny feeling.
"Hey, what's this running down my arm? .. . ! Oh, yuck!"
That wasn't the type of change I had in mind . Bill Kindelberger
Editor, I must share my reaction to the front page article
which appeared in the April 13, Metropolitan. The large growth of ROTC at Metro and other
.:college campuses refl~ts President .Reagan's explicit policy to cut other forms of financial aid for students. The President wants to force students into the military as a method to complete school, a potential full-time career, and to force student exposure to a pro-war mentality.
My major fear with the Colonel's statement is the I-linkage of military service to patriotism. It is· too often
assumed that patriotism is only demonstrated by a willingness to fight and die for America. We must ac-
cept patriotism in the broader and prouder sense of being willing to wage peace and create such an economically productive, affluence sharing, and personally satisfying lifestyle for all Americans that we demonstrate to the world America's greatness. We must lead the world by example of quality lives, not by example of destructive power.
It will be an unfortunate incident in history to look back after the next war and realize that we had again fallen victim to the inter-generational attitude cycle of accepting war as a natural means of avoiding our domestic frustrations by focusing on the behavior of other nations rather than investing in efforts to fix our problems here in America.
Even more scary is the potential that the next war will be world destruction, ·and all because our domestic frustrations caused us to become so "patriotic" that we failed to promote America by example, and tried instead to force America by military strength.
America should seek world acceptance and leadership through its example of being the most economically rewarding, and personally satisfying place for all people to live and model, not by America seeking acceptance by being the most feared bully in the world.
Ed Lyell Associate professor,
Business, MSC
.. MSC student saw opportUnity ·in failed bill Editor, I have read much about H.B. 1510 in The Metropolitan. Michael Johnson refers to it in your April 20th· edition as "The bill that-- would strip the right of students deci<#ng how their student fees
~should be spent." . However, neither Michael nor the staff of this paper
have ever printed the exact wording of the bill. It reads, "No student attending a public institution
of higher education in this state shall be required to donate any portion of his student tuition fee, man-
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It's getting close to the end of yet another semester. It is my hope that all your hard work paid off, and your good grades reflect it. There are three main areas I would like to cover in this letter: a summer party, House Bill 1510 and CoPIRG, and our student affairs depart: rnent.
.r We are planning with UCD and CCD-A a party to be held on Ninth Street Park. Plans call for a live band, as well as free beer. We will let you know more, but plan to join us for an afternoon in the park on Friday the 13th.
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datory student fee, or any other required student fee imposed by the governing board of such institution to a student organization engaged in activities of a political nature without prior approval of student."
It appears to me that the bill will give us, the students, the right to decide where our mr;mey will be spent. By giving prior approval, using a check-list at registration, we would be able to have speakers, for example, from both the "right" and the "left", thereby bringing both sides of any issue of a political nature to our campus.
Goo<fNews. We saw the defeat of the bill that was intended to put a limitation on just how much say we as students have in the way our school is run. CoPIRG is a group that helps students get a say in the world outside of our campus. That provides us as students a way to change the system. May 3 an_d 4, we will be having a referendum to decide if we want CoPIRG (Colorado Public Interest Research Group) on our campus. Corne out and vote your thoughts. Student Affairs. I hate to tpget any area in our administration as all bad, and I am not~ I have found that this one area is very helpful when they want us to help them. When we question if they work for us or try to get the students their rights and some due process, here is when we see their bad side.
I wonder if they can tell me why they do not fight ~th us to change administrative policies that harm us,
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Fellow students, let's get this right for ourselves! By the time you read this, the Senate State Affairs Committee hopefully will ha·;e passed the bill, and it will be up to Gov. Lamm to sign it into law or veto it. Contact the Governor; a short postcard will do. Let him know that we, the students of MSC, want some voice in where our money from student fes will go.
Mary Ann O'Neill MSC Student
the students they work for. They tend to demonstrate a narrow, almost automatic way of thinking. Ideas are of no value to people that just pay_ lip service to you. Our administration makes its own rules as it Stle§ fit, and student affairs condones this action. .
When you have the right to disenroll, dismiss, or otherwise harass students, then. you take away any possibility of the students being guaranteed due process within that system. I feel our Student Affairs Committee needs to look at the true needs of the people they are charged to serve.
You all have a good one, and I just hope the people you come in contact with understand that without us the students, they would not be needed.
Think about it. Brendan M. Kelly.
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MSC program makes house by Richard Bellizzi
Every Thursday evening, Chuck Leinart gathers his pencils, papers and algebra books, and gets in his car. Then he goes to prison.
Leinart teaches a combined class in Algebra 101, llO and lll, one of three MSC courses offered this semester at the Federal Correctional - Institution in Englewood.
Once he's arrived and his books are ins~ed for contraband, lie's escorted through an elaborate syst~m of locked . gates and doors to the prison's mai11 compound. On this particular day, it's warm and still light, and the various inmates, once they reco~ize him as a regular, don't even give him a second look.
Arriving at the classroom, he's greeted by his students - men in their late teens and twenties serving indeterminate sentences of up to six years under the Youth Corrections Act.
There are only eight or so of his 16 students present when class begins. The rest are either receiving visitors or are off somewhere in the school building. A couple of guys in sweat clothes drop by and tell Leinart they'll be back later, they've got a big basketball game to play first.
"This course is designed for a selfinstructional mode," Leinart said.
"Otherwise, it's the same syllabus used at MSC."
With so few students in the three-hour class, Leinart has lots of time for individual instruction. Even so, his students are faced with some disadvantages.
"It's really hard to learn this when they only see me one night a week," Leinart said. "Plus, I can't ask them to sit in this room for three hours - they go buggy."
The college program at the institution began last summer after the Bureau of Prisons requested bids from area colleges in order to comply with the provisions of the youth act, which specifies that special programs be made awlable to youth offenders. '
MSC was just the college to provide such programs, according to Andy Breckel, MSC vice president in charge of off-campus activities.
"MSC is a significant member of the community, and we have a responsibility to the community," Breckel said. "This is a way we can fulfill that responsibility."
"We don't have to be there, but we feel we should be there."
Since the summer semester, MSC has offered courses in business law, computer progr!lmming, economics, English, mathematics and psychology.
"Some of the finest faculty that ever worked at MSC have taught at
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Englewood," Breckel said. "They've all shared the philosophy that a commitment to education can make a difference. We can open doors and create opportunities there for those people."
MSC English teacher Pat Havill has been teaching English as a Second Language at the FCI since 1978. Over the years, she's seen the prison population change, from an average age in the upper 20s to a much younger one.
Still, she has no trouble establishing a good rapport with her students.
"In class, we talk about families and problems and life experiences," she said. "When you do that, you really get to know your students."
In addition to her work teaching _.,,, English to students from a variety of ~ countries, Havill often interprets for in- 4: mates at parole hearings. ~
When she began working there, an ..., evening's work left her drained. ~
"Every night when I left I felt_ like I 2 just finished finals," she recalled. "I just ll.
wanted to scream. They took all my energy, I had nothing left.
"Now, I leave with a little more of me, though it's still hard to leave. It's like leaving a brother."
Prior to getting this job, }lavill had a variety of volunteer jobs, all of which · involved teaching English at some level. Still, she wasn't quite sure what the new job would hold in store. She described her feelings at the time:
"You know how you never know what you're getting into, but you take the job anyway?"
Ray, a student in Chuck's algebra class, is fairly new on the scene in Englewood, but he's seen his share of the
A man from the UCO International Student Services called APS when he was infor;ned by an alleged proKhomeini group that there would be trouble at the "World Friendship Festival" if the anti-Khomeini group participated between 3:15 and 3:35 p.m. on Monday, April 18.
A man reported he saw a juvenile leave the Auraria Bookstore without paying for some articles at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 18. The juvenile was caught, then released to his grandmother.
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During his time in the South, he was required to put in long, back-bre~king days picking cotton at a furious pace under an indiscriminately hot sun.
"They worked your ass off down there," he recalled, not too fondly.
Despite the demands of such a schedule, he took the few college courses offered at the prison and did well. He's decided he'd now like to pursue writing.
After his Texas workday, he'd lay in .,. his tent on the prison grounds - overcrowding prevented him from living indoors - _. and strain to see by the light of an unreliable bulb.
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"At first, I'd write with a little pencil stub and green, unlined paper," he recalled. "It wa5 something to do, it was writing."
Now, he's got the gut feeling that his ? writing will be the key to the future.
"I feel something when I write, I feel like I could be good," he said. "That place gave me something that a lot of people don't have, it was so horrible, it gave me a drive."
Guillermo, w~o's learning English from Havill while he anxiously awaits ·his return to his family in Durango, Mexico, explained why he's decided to become bilingual . .
"You need to know English to take care of busin~," he said. "To help yourself, to speak with the staff ... you have to speak their language."
Guillermo works in one of the prison's industries. His wages of $1.05 an hour make him one of the higher paid inmates.
"Maybe I'll work for 20 years and buy a car," he am~ounced. 1
"You mean a door to a car?" a friend s'uggested. . Teaching and talking to these men three evenings a week, Havill often wonders about the prison system and how well ~t really works.
"Here, it's not what you do, it's what you do wrong," she S;:iid. "Most people in prison shouldn't be there. There must be other ways to make amends to society."
Pat's cl~ are the highlights of her students' week, ·a time when they can ·relax and learn while enjoying her company and a cup· of her critically acclaimed coffee, which she- brews each evening. · "A lot of my students spend a lot of time worrying about life at home, about how -their families are," Havill said. "But they're basically helpless to do anything about it.
· "These people are basically refugees," she said. "I don't know if people realize that they get no physical or verbal affec-tion. -
"There's no escape, really."
l- - If being in prison is disadvantageous for some, being in an American prison without being able to speak English qualifies as an even less enviable position. She is always being reminded by
A woman was approached by an ~ unknown male who wanted her to come
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The man was described as white, sixfoot, two-inches tall, with light brown hair and blue eyes, heavily built, and wearing a beige tweed sport coat .
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prison officials that she should be careful, she's dealing "with a bunch of men."
Still, her warmth and caring personality make it hard for her to adopt the role officials would like her to.
"It's hard to be loose in class and still follow rules," she said. "Plus, we are always having our room changed .• The environment is anti-intellectuaf, on every level and in every ,way."
The mood in Leinart's class has lightened coRSiderably as the end of
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"Grades are really irrelevant," suggests Larry, not too convincingly. "We strive for perfection.
"Actually, Chuck, I've got this problem worked out, but I need you to explain it to me."
"OK," Leinart replies, happy to squeeze one more opportunity to teach into an evening full of them. "I told you guys I get paid for this, so make me work for it." D
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Teaching enlivens his work, by Kathleen L. Humphreys
Theory anci practice meet in the per· son of Joseph Fuentes.
Joseph J. Fuentes came full circle when he .returned in January, 1983 to teach journalism at MSC - he brings a personal overview of the two.decade span, 1965·1983.
He is art experienced journalist teaching journalism, and that carries on the MSC tradition of utilizing professors who are professionals·in their field.
A working journalist when he entered MSC in 1965, he said:
"I really didn't want a degree in jour· nalism because as a working journalist I thought I should do something else."
Fuentes, 37, enrolled as a student in October, 1965 when MSC first opened. He had a double ~ajor in speech and English, but he took all the journalism courses available where were then of· fered under the auspices of the English department.
Fuentes, a Denver native, attended Sacred Heart and Cathedral High School. After he finished high school, he worked for the city as an engineer's aide until he went to work for the Rocky Mountain News as a library clerk in 1965. His journalism and college career began concurrently.
In January 1966, Fuentes helped launch the first MSC paper, The
. Metropolitan, which folded and later
came back. It is now the strongest MSC paper to date.
He preferred editorial writing where he could express his views. Newswriting requires impartiality.
. "Informing students what was going on and focusing on issues that affected them - it's a lasting thing," Fuentes said. "I can remember I felt good about it."
Two short.run publications followed the demise of the first Metropolitan: The Gadfly and The Neoteric Puff.
The first publication- was financed with student funds, the latter was in· dependently funded through advertis· ing. Fuentes worked on The Neoteric Puff, which he said, ."only lasted one or two issues."
"Editorials - that's where I would express myself freely without coming in· to conflict," he said. "I think the con· cept was valid then, I think it's valid now."
· Fuentes also served as vice president J' of the Student Body in 1968. On Sept.
In 1967, Fuentes was promoted to City desk Clerk for the News. He also became editor for a new MSC publica· tion called The Paper from 1967 to 1969. The Paper was the longest runn· ing student newspaper next to The Metropolitan.
30, 1968, Fuentes wrote an editorial ex· plaining his resignation:
"I have resigned because I could not maintain two loyalties. I could not make decisions that would have a negative effect on The Paper, while at the same time proving to be beneficial for the majority of students .. ,"
Fuentes said The Paper provided in· formation. He and his staff presented through editorials, "our opinions on where the college should go."
· He wrote in 1968: "Will MSC be able to combine some of its physical area, and possibly administration, with CU and Denver Community College and survive as a separate college? One can· not but feel that CU might have been behind the megacampus plan in order to gain some control over MSC and keep us from expanding to the point of being stronger and better than the Boulder campus." Sound familiar?
Fuentes commented on issues of The Paper produced by his staff:
While devoting his energy to The Paper, Fuentes left his job as City Desk clerlcin 1968 and became a police reporter, a job he held for almost five years.
"I did the police beat and general ,. assignment," he said. "Then I went to
"They weren't real slick, but they told · . a story," he said. "I think we tried to
In an editorial dated Nov. 25, 1968, cover the major things, but we also had Fuentes urged students to give this new fun." college an identity when he said: The climate was a little different, he
" ... an important part of a college said, the average age was older and the education is showing an interest in what attrition rate was higher. It was hard to goes on on the campus." keep a staff because the staff didn't have
The Paper staff was also engaged in the resources of a full.fledged jour· legislative action through a lobbying nalism department. But, by Fuentes campaign. definition, the staff proved successful.
"We lobbied for more money, expan· "In working with the paper, we sion of MSC to four years, so the staff would start fresh and work a whole would hopefully push students to some year," he said. "I could see how I had sort of action," Fuentes said. grown, how my staff had grown.
the copy desk and started on the rim -headline and editing work."
Promoted to Assistant News Editor, Fuentes worked on the copy desk until 1978 at wbich time he left the Rocky Mountain News and worked for the telephone company for two years.
"The phone company made me a pret· ty good offer and I wanted to try something different to see if I could do it," he said.
As Public Relations Staff Manager, his responsibility was to maintain contact with all the media in the Denver metro area.
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· editing brings life to teachi._g "I enjoyed that, but the News made
me a better offer to come back," he recalled. "When I went back I was made ~istant News Editor, and I'm still there."
r-• Fuentes hand.Jes the business section, headlines and layout. :
"In my job as copy editor I'm a technician; I use technical skills rather than creative skills," he explained. "But in my spare time I write feature, entertainment and special sections."
"' He works full time at the News and teaches Beginning Journalism Monday, Wednesday and Itriday at MSC. -" Fuentes warms to his subject of the early~ days at MSC. <
"The thing I've enjoye9 in coming ~ back is to see that some of the basic con- ~
A good journalist, according to Fuentes, is aggressive, observant, hon~t, and "probably a little bit daring."
"I think those attributes will help because when you deal with society you have to be aggressive to chase down stories and sources," he stressed. "You have to be daring because you have to take risks."
He emphasizes skill acquisition - . understanding the language and mastering the grammar - and knowing the audience you are writing for.
~ts haven't changed," he said. "Open~ enrollment, drawing community Ji . resource people - students get a taste of a..
Fuentes is also treasurer of the Denver Press Club. Married twice, he -tied the knot the second: time in 1977, "the year the Broncos went to the Superbowl." He has (our children which don't allow much time for ·his hobbies of reading, .golf and tennis.
reality and it's good for the professional After a dlstlngulshed career with various MSC publications, Joe Fuentes resource person to see how students now works for a Denver daily as a news editor . • He's also one of the many perceive him/her." professionals at MSC teaching ~ourses In their field.
The J oumalism department, he said, ~tries to get professionals to teach and that's good. Most of the professors in the department are working in their field or maintain close contact through free lance work. 'It helps s udents get something other than textbook learning,
,,,and he added: "The concept of the college is one
where you can get community experts to act as resource people." Fuentes now
c~ies on this traditior:i. "Since I'm teaching an overview of
media I can see what it's doing," he said. ·~1 find it's refreshing for me and it forces me to look at media and see how it's changed.
"I think the information I'm gather·ing by teaching makes me a better newspaper person," Fuentes said. "Students help too because they react to
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the media. They will be the primary consumers down the road and it will help me to keep in touch with what they're saying and demanding."
Fuentes tries to mold students into what he defines as good journalists.
Future goals ~nclude the desire to be in a management position at the Rocky Mountain News. He says his management training from the phone company, coupled with his journalism background, .makes him a prime candidate.
"If somebody has the talent and slcills plus the proper psychological profile, he/ she can be a successful journalist." he said.
"I understand new~apers," he said. "I understand people in the business."
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The halls are alive with the sounds {)f music. The trumpets blare, the clarinets
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Tonight, April 27, at 8 p.rn., the four-
Andy Cady, production manager for the DSO, said under the in-residence program, students are able to develop a better understanding of how a musical performance works.
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"It's an opportunity to get in and share with aeedemic programs in the schools of this state," Cady said. "It enables us to see what kinds of students are being prepared for jobs in the field of music."
Musical selections for the concert will include compositions by Beethoven, Phillips, Koussevitzky, Saint-Saens, Ravel, Wagner and Bach.
The first part of the program will include the DSO's instrumental of the "()verture to Coriolan" by Beethoven.
The second part will feature three MSC student soloists. Julie Beougher, a bassoonist, will perform Phillips' "Concert piece for Bassoon !ind Strings"; William Clay, a bass player, will play the "Concert for Ba:;s and Orchestra" by Koussevitsky; and mezzo-soprano Lorna Rasmussen will sing an aria from "Sam- . son and Dahlila" by Saint-Saens.
·Following these soloists, the MSC orchestra and the DSO will perfor_m two compositions together. The first composition will be Ravel's "Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte" (Pavan for a dead infant) and the second will be "Overture to the Opera Rienzi" by Wagner· Continued on next page
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The MSC women's varsity tennis team lost by a 9-0 score to Colorado State University, April 20.
, This squad's next three competitions Atwill be hosted by MSC, they will be
against Colorado College at 2 p.m. April 28, Regis at 2 p.m. April 29 and against the University of So1.tthern Colorado at 8:30 a.m., April 30.
~ MSC's varsity outdoor track team will
compete in the Black Hills Invitational track meet Friday in Black Hills, S.D.
The MSC varsity men's tennis team will play Colorado College Wednesday at 2 p.m. at CC; Thursday, it will host
•the University of Denver at 2 p.m.; Friday and Saturday will compete in the Mesa College Invitational at Mesa and May 3 it will host the University of Southern Colorado at 2 p.m.
MSC's women's varsity softball team will host the University of Southern Colorado at 1 and 3 p.m. April 27, before it travels to the University of Colorado May 4 to compete at 1and3 p.m.
The MSC Rugby Club team will compete against the University of Colorado for the third place ._spot in the Eastern Rocky's Rugby Football Union, Collegiate Division, April 28 at 4 p.m. on the CU football practice field.
The MSC Roadrunner baseball team lost the first game of-its double-header April 20 against the University of Southern Colorado by a 5-4 score, but prevailed in the second game by a 8-6 score.
Even though the Roadrunners entered the last innings of both games trailing by scores of 5-2 and 5-2, the s~ad managed to rally both times. In the first game, MSC fell short by one, but in the second game, it exploded for six runs, capturing
the win. • Doug Schroeder, a junior rightfielder
for MSC, singled in the tying run of the second game. This gave the Roadrunner team all of the confidence that it needed to win.
It was John Quarton, the sophomore and third baseman for the Roadrunners, who delivered the big hit which resulted in a three-run homer and win for MSC.
Greg Isenhart and Brad Acre were singled out by Coach Bill Helman for. their outstanding hitting abilities.
The MSC team returned to the field Sunday, when it defeated Western State
College in two consecutive ga~es, by scores of 8-5 and 7 -Q.
Isenhart, Schroeder, Acre, Pat Smaldone, Shawn Hoben and Tom
. Fobes were recognized by Coach Helman as outstanding runners.
The MSC squad will compete in tw6 double-headei:s April 29 and 30 against the' Universiw of Denver. Friday's games will be held at MSC at 1 and 3 p.m., while Saturday's games will be hosted at DU at noon and 2 p.m. The Roadrunners will also compete against the University of Colorado May 4 at 1 ~nd 3 P·~· in Boulder. D
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Auraria Campus Recreation will sponsor a softball tournament on Saturday, April 30, at 10 a.m.
The tournament is a slow-pitch -t:: recreational activity aimed at Auraria's
"weekend warriors". Awards will be given to the winning
team, and, according to Assistant Coordinator of Campus Recreation, Anne Clark, "Hopefully we can have a brewery donate beer." '
.... Clark is anticipating six to ten teams to enter, including one team comprised entirely of faculty members.
Clark, extremely pleased with the response that she has been receiving, said "this is the first year with any real success ...
,. Clark received her masters degree from Michigan State in Intramural Recreation and has been at Auraria since October 1982. She is working in conjunction with Dick Feuerborn, the
Coordinator of Campus Recreation. "He is really helping to push this"
(softball tournament), she said. "Next year you'll see an improvement
in intramurals," said Clark. "We've submitted a budget of 30 percent greater than last year's that includes built-in fund raising. We're looking to do some fund raising after June."
<;lark and Feuerborn are working hard to fill the void left by varsity athletics.
"Dick and I are striving to find programs that are popular and meet the students needs." Clark said.
Today is the last day to register your team for the tournament. A mandatory team managers meeting is scheduled for five o'clock today in Room 211. 1For more information, contact Anne Clark in Room 108 in the Physical Education Building, or call 629-3210. D
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AURARIA BOOK CENTER ~MSC orchestra perfonning with DSO
Continued from previous page · April 27th performance are $3. Tickets
955 Lawrence St. 629-3230 1\1-Th 8-7:30, Fri 8-5, Sat 10-2
The final part of the program will may be purchased at the Denver Symcombine the voices of The Metropolitan phony box office, 1245 Champa St., the Singers with the music of the DSO. The Auraria Book Center, Ninth and two grqups will perform "Magnificat in Lawrence Streets, or the MSC D Major" by Bach. president's office in Ninth Street Park.
:. Jim Setapen, a conductor with the DSO, will lead the ·two orchestras through the program.
Earlier, MSC Orchefua members have been rehearsing with Bill Morris, orchestra conductor at MSC's Department
... of Music. . Morris, who's conducting the orchestra
for the first time, said he's had a lot of "fun" preparin~ for the concert and said members of the orchestra are very excited.
"I think they're very much looking Jiforward to it," he said.
Morris also agreed that the working with the DSO is an invatuable experience for MSC Orchestra members.
"It certainly provides the experience they're (MSC Orchestra members) talking about - to be able to associate and
...rperform with a professional orchestra," he said.
General admission tickets for the
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MSC Players • "When You Comln' Back. Red Ryder?" A melodrama by Mark Medoff will play Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays Aprll 14 to 30 at 8 p .m. at the Ninth Street Theatre, Art Bulldlng 271. For more Information call 629-3033.
METROPOLITAN STATE COUEQE will hotd a "Sprlngfest" celebration on campus through Saturday, Aprll 30. For more Information coll 892-0963.
Chlld COi'• Center Clothing Drive will be held through April 29. For more lnforma· tlon call 629-3188.
Wednesday, Aprll 27 Simple SUpper will be held today at St. Francis Interfaith Center from 4:30 to 6 p.m. • An Informal discussion will be led by Noreen and Larry Woodward. Cost Is $2. For more Information call 623-2340.
Derwer Inner City Parish, a vttal multi-use community center will hold an open-house and dedication ceremony for the Parish today from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
MSC, CCD · Fiim Serlel presents "Body Hear' In the Student Center, Room 330. Show times are 12:15, 2:15. 4:15 and 7:15.
Denver Center Cl"9fn0 presents ''Woodle King, Jr. In Person" at 7:30 p.m. For ticket Information call 892-0963. ·
Thursday, Aprll 28 MSC, CCD Fiim Serlel presents "Body Hear' In the Student Center. Room 330. Show times are 12:15, "2:15, 4 :15 and 7:15.
Denver Center Cinema presents "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" at 6:45 p.m. and "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" at 9 p.m. For ticket Information call 892-0963.
Friday, Aprll 29 Slmple Breakfast at Interfaith Center from 9 to 11 a.m.
Job Search Strategy - AHEC Job Plac• ment today In CN 108 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. For more Information call 629-3474.
Denver Center Cinema presents "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" at 6:45 p.m. and "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" at 9 p.m:... For ticket Information call 892-0963.
Famlly Night • Bring the whole famlly for "Under the Big Top" dinner, all you can eat spaghetti supper from 6 to 8 p .m.
5aturday, Aprll 30 Denver Center Cinema presents "How Green Was My Valley" at 1 :30 p.m .• "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" at 5:30 p .m .• "They Won't Forget" at 7 p .m . . and "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" at 8:45 p.m. For ticket Information call 892-0963.
Sunday, May 1 1lW Rocky Mountain Sacred Dance GuUd presents Its Annual Spring Festival. "Cantlcles, Psalms and Bells" held today from 4 to 6 p.m. at St. Francis Interfaith Center. The festival Is free and open to the public. For more Information call 377-9114.
Denver Center Cinema presents "How Green Was My Valley" at 1 :30 p .m .. "The Graduate" at 3:45 p .m., "Who Is Harry Kellerman?" at 5:45 p.m. and "Little Big Man" at 8 p.m. For ticket Information call 892-0963.
Bike-to-Work Day May 11 Join thousands of Denverites on
Wednesday, May 11, in a national BikeTo-Work Day sponsored by Southland Corporation's 7-Eleven Stores and the Bicycle Federation. The day's festivities will begin at 7 :30 a.m. with organized bike rides led by volunteers from the Denver Bicycle Touring Club. The rides will depart from four centrally located 7 -Eleven stores in the city and end up in Downtown Denver and the Denver Tech Center. Registration forms for the organized ride will be available from 7-Eleven Stores throughout Denver two weeks prior to this event. The forms must be dropped off at one of the four designated 7-Eleven Ride Centers (from where the rides Start) the day of the ride or at the May ~F Plaza on the 16th Street Mall the morning of the event (if you choose not to ride in the organized groups.)
Those who do participate in the ride will be eligible to win prizes; these include: five Murray bicycles, · three Kryptonite locks and three Ballen helmets.
Later on in the day, a Grand Bicycle Exposition will be held at the May ™cF Plaza from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Representatives from many organizations, including the Denver Planning Office, Mountain Bicyclists As.rociation, the State Highway Department and many others, will be available to provide information and answer questions on bicycle equip~ent, bicycle safety, bike routes, etc. At noon the lucky participants' names will be drawn for the various prizes! Although everyone is urged to join in the festivities, attendance at the Expo is not necessary for a participant to win a prize.
For more information on this special event, contact the AHEC Vanpool/Carpool Coordinator at 629-8493, or come to the Student Center's Main Corridor (across from the cafeteria) on Wednesday, May 4, betWeen 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to pick up a registration form and have any questions answered at that time. D
World Friendship _Festival set for May 3, 4 at Auraria Exotic foods, crafts and curios frQm faraway places, intriguing art and a world of entertainment will be featured at the World Friendship Festival, May 3 and 4 on the Auraria campus. The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the St. Francis Intedaith Center, between Colfax and Curtis on Speer. Proceeds from booth rental fees will be used to develop an emergency loan fund for foreign students.
The festival will feature enthic cuisine including Middle eastern delicacies,
Polish sausage, French pastries and Greek balclava. Entertainment will include traditional Aztec dances by the Grupo Tlaloc de Coloraztlan, Indian danced by the Denver Americans United, an instrumental performance by the Rainbow skins and jazz groups -the Metro Singers, and the New Singers from UCD.
For further information on the festival, call the Auraria Student Assistance Center/Office of International Student Services at 629-3474.
Monday, May 2 Denver center Cinema presents "The Tree of Knowledge" at 7 p.m. and "Witch Hunf' at 9:30 p .m. For ticket Information call 892-0963.
Tuesday, May 3 MSC presen11 ''Take a. Study Break at the CotfM HOUM" In the Student Center, Room 330 from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission Is free. Entertainment provided by Biiiie Prescott (female vOODllSt) and Joanne Conner (Comedy Works Comedl~n).
Denver Center Cinema presents "The Graduate" at 8 p.m. For ticket Information call 892-0963.
Wednesday, May· 4 Denver Center. Cinema presents "Chae" -at 6 p.m. and 'Who Is Harry Kellerman" at 8 p .m. For ticket Information call 892-0963.
CLUB CALENDAR
WESTIANK ARTISTS GUILD (MSC ART CLUB) . will hold a meeting In the Student Center Cafeteria on Wednesday, April 27 at 8 a.m.
STUDENTS FOR HART will hold an organizational meeting In the Student Center Lobby on Saturday, April 30 at 11 a .m. For more Information call 629-3331 or 773-6736.
ACCESS will hold an Internship Seminar In SO 143 on Tuesday, May 3 from 11 :30 a.m. to 1 p .m. For more Information call 629-2441 .
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LESBIAN/GAY RESOURCE CENTER will hold a general meeting In the Student Center, Room 351 on Wednesday, Aprll 27. For more Information call 629-3317. °"'
ACCESS- Computer and Electronics Seminar at Currlgan Hall on Saturday, April 30 at 11 a.m. For more Information call 329-8255.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION will hold a Col· orado Scholars Awards Reception at St. Cojetan's on Friday, Aprll 29 from noon to 1 p.m.
MSC AMATEUR RADIO CLUB will hold a meeting every Thursday at 4 p.m. In SO 205. All students welcome.
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HELP WANTED: Person for full-time employment as laboratory technician. Prefer someone WJlh science background. Hours somewhat flexible. $3.75/hr.· Phone: 789-2095 and ask for Mary or Jerry.
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MALE SINGERS: John Gilbert lie Sullivan production at Bonfils Theatre in June. Contact Greta at 979-6204. 5-4
"Off Course
THE LAW OFFICE OF SUSAN L. WOUNSKY is now open offering quality legal services at reasonable prices. Convenient downtown mall location within walking distance of Auraria Campus. Evening and weekend appointments can be arranged. Symes Building, 820 16th St., Suite 335, 623-5668. I
PROFESSIONAL TYPING . $1.50 per page includes paper, correct spelling and punctuation. Near 1st and Broadway. Leo's Letters 777-2070. 4-27 .
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RESEARCH PAPERS, toll-free hotline, 800-621-5745 in lllinois call 312-922-0300. Authors' Research, Room 600, 407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 00605. 5-4
OVERSEAS JOBS - Summer/year round. Europe, S. Amer., Australia, ASia. All fields. $500 to $.1200 monthly. Sightseeing. Free info. Write IJC Box 52 - C.O. 2 Corona Del Mar, CA 9262.5. '
A PROFESSIONAL TYPING SERVICE at student prices. ".Pro-Word Processing." Thesis, resumes,
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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
TYPING, $1.50 per double spaced page. Elise Hakes, 1535 Franklin St., i9M, Denver, op 80218. 832-4400.
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FEMALE TO SHARE 2-BEDROOM CJider townhome w / same. Respect for home environment preferred . Pleasant •neighborhood, convenient, 14th and
NEEDED: cheering section Saturday, April 30 for The ":fetropolitan. softball team playing on the Aurana baseball field. Enthusiasm a must.
Krameria location. , $152/month, 377-8716 any hour.
The MSC Board of Publications is now accepting app~ications fo~ 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. Submit cover letter, resume and samples
of work to the MSC Board of Publications, CN 316. Deadline for the applications is May 12 at 5 p.m.
