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Metrobusiness or

_Monkeybusines Hangin' out with Paul Magelli

by Robert Davis

When it comes to business, Metro president Paul Magelli goes ape. He has this thing about monkeys.

Each - and Every - meeting, correspondence and phone call means dealing with a monkey on someone's back. And Magelli's not likely to take someone's problem if he doesn't have to.

"They'll put their monkey on your back if you let them," Magelli says. "If tloey can leave the monkey with you, they've solved their problem."

And the first swap of the day comes early.

Magelli is dissatisfied with some of the work performed by his office staff. He calls on Charlotte Murphy, faculty assistant to the president, to take the first problem of the day.

Magelli keeps the specifics of the problems private but says the solu­tion is a 'reorganization.'

Whatever the problem, it's not a big monkey as far as campus catas­trophies, but to Murphy it's King Kong. She works closely with the office staff and knows they deal with a variety of frustrating jobs.

Today they're keeping track of out-of-towners. The Potenza Society,

can't seem to find any money for the boss anyway. A reporter (along for a look at 'A day in the life of Paul Magelli') promises to take care of the costs and the president asks to see Tim Greene, Metro's budget officer, at 10:20 a.m.

Then it's off to the races. Much of Magelli's monkeying

around includes off-campus meet­ings. He says he's determined to introduce the college to important people in Denver.

He climbs into his pearl white Cadillac Cimeron and nestles into the fire engine-red leather seats. From his parking spot just off Speer, in the Jot

"They'll put their monkey on your back if you let them. If they can leave the monkey with you, they've solved their problem.''

a delegation from Potenza, Italy and some local Paisans are starting a sister-city relationship, and Magelli -or at least his staff - is co-ordinating.

Says secretary Lupe Quintana, "Between this (college business) and the Italians, I may go crazy."

They're sure to be sensitive when Murphy confronts them with the president's dissatisfaction.

As he leaves the office he notices his pockets are empty.

"Anybody got any money?" he pleads of the staff. "I need money to park."

The secretaries don't know of the impending talk with Murphy, but

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monitored by Kiosk attendants, he shoots into downtown Denver.

The air-conditioner blasts warm air in a futile attempt to cool the car dur­ing the three minute ride.

A ride that puts New York cabbies to shame.

Taking three lanes at a time, the Illinois native darts around the city like an ambulance driver. The digital speedometer reads no less than 20 m .p.h. on each turn.

He works on a tight schedule and is bent on being perfectly punctual.

Once parked, Magelli is jaywalking across east 14th Avenue towards the mayor's office. The driver of a silver

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Today Magelli will introduce the mayor of Potenza - Gaetano Fierro - to Federico Pena and they'll iron out some details of the sister-city agreement.

Everyone's a bit nervous because the mayor of Potenza doesn't speak much English and Pena doesn't know Italian.

Fortunately, both speak fluent Spanish.

During the exchange the mayors agree to build relations between the cities - including direct trade Qf goods - and Magelli offers to take care of the details (he sits on Pena's foreign trade committee).

"That's a monkey," he says. 'Tm one-and-one. I'll take a monkey for the mayor."

Back in the Caddie and back towards school.

As he turns onto Speer from Colfa' he jams his chin into his left shoulder

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p.8 straining for better visibility. He floors it and cuts hard across three lanes and, then, signals for a left.

As he turns to south-bound Speer it's four minutes before his next meeting.

He flies past the Kiosk and waves at the blank-faced attendant. "They don't always recognize me."

He strides into his office on the third floor of the Central Classroom Building at 10:18.

Two minutes to spare before he meets with Tim Greene.

Greene has worked out the new budget and wants time with Magelli to make some final adjustments before they take it in for approval by the trustees.

Within the nearly $3.5 million budget are plans to increase faculty salaries (current salaries are estimated to be about 2.5-percent below the norm}, to add full-time faculty posi­tions and to work on becoming the first four-year college in the country to have a computer-enhanced curriculum.

But it all goes before the Trustees for final approval - and a blanket "Yes" is rare - so Magelli and Greene have to put it together in a way that will preserve imporfant parts of the budget in the event that the governing board cuts a lot.

Both Greene and Magelli agree that conthu1t•cl on pa1it< 6

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Ortega Meets Americana

Sincerity on Both Sides While Still the People Die

by Bob Haas

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrived July 31 at the Aurar~a Campus with heavy security and considerable controversy.

attacked and did battle with Sandi­nista supporters.

"Ortega Go Home" shouted the pro­testers.

Flanked and surrounded by stem and serious agents of the United States Secret Service, Ortega's speech at the St. Cajetan's Center provoked cheers and applause and occasional bursts of outrage and accusation from among the 400 inside.

"Ortega Is Home" responded some waiting in line.

The signs gathered on the grass behind the motorcycle cops were straight-forward: Communism Kills Ortega Is a Communist Ortega Is a Murderer Ortega Kiiis!

Outside, protesters gathered and waved signs; they were audibly

"Reagan Robs the Poor" chanted some waiting in line. Over and over. "Reagan Robs the Poor, Reagan Robs

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the Poor." Is this true? Is there in fact a reasonable comparison to be made between Presidents Reagan and Ortega?

The answer won't be found outside among those battling with semantics. How do the protesters defend their president, here accused of robbing the poor?

"Ortega is a Terrorist," they chant - defiant, self righteous and sure.

"Reagan is a Terrorist," the suppor­ters chant in copycat combat. "Reagan is a Terrorist" "Ortega is a Terrorist" back and forth, back and forth.

"Reagan is a Terrorist," they shout. "Ortega is a Terrorist," they respond.

And then a tactical development, a competition in the battle for best Span­ish accent:

"Ortega Si, Reagan No" "Bravo Contra Bravo" "Viva Nicaragua." And it becomes a battle of poetics,

and it flows, and is rythmic and rhymned, and it moves beyond itself, and suddenly the event, the entire evening echoes Metro President Paul Magelli's later observation, "Ortega encountered real Americana on his visit to Denver."

Did Denver, and Auraria, play the dupe for hosting and implicitly embracing Ortega the communist? Did he and his entourage use us more than we used him?

There were over twenty representa­tives of various media outlets inside St.

Cajetan's listening, taking notes and shooting videos of a man who has out­lawed the opposition newspaper (La Prensa) in his own country. Many in the local media think it despicable that such a dictator would so exploit the freedoms in this country.

Brian Pals organized a protest, then applied to AHEC for permission to stage it. .

"There are people who are upset with his presence on campus," said Pals, "and nauseated with his policies in Nicaragua.

"He is a criminal," Pals continued, "he traffics in drugs, he supports ter­rorism, and the only difference between him and a common criminal is that he is the leader of a country and he can make murder and terror right. Since Nicaraguans can't stand up to him, it is our responsibility to do so.''

Pals is serious about standing up to Ortega, as were those few inside who wouldn't let the Nicaraguan President speak, who suffered admonition from their fellow North Americans - to be polite, to let the man have his say, and who, apparently, simply could not remain silent while Ortega delivered his civics lecture filled with eloquent platitudes about justice and respect for the law.

Ortega had a good time with the judicial decision of the world court, as well as the U.N. resolution (vetoed by

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the United States) condemning U.S. involvement in the internal matters of Nicaragua.

"The verdict was clear," said Ortega. "The U.S. must get out (of Nicaragua).

"A U.S. invasion," warned Ortega, "would be no Sunday stroll, no picnic. Nicaragua is no Greneda."

Why invade a country whose leader claims he is overseeing the "most gen­erous revolution which ever existed in history"?

"We can claim," Ortega said, "to be building a democracy in Nicaragua."

It's the Marxism, the communism

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which irritates the sign carriers, which irritates President Reagan.

"If being in favor of hospitals, schools and housing means I'm a communist," said a schoolteacher recently returned from a visit in Nicaragua, "then I am a communist,"

Ortega and his supporters make much of the current literacy campaign. This revolution is for the people, he says.

For the people he kicks out bishops and shuts down newspapers. For the people he accepts help and weapons from the Soviet Union, who have an

impressive reputation of their own, for the people.

For the people he comes to North America, his tour and image orches­trated and polished by a P.R. firm in Washington D.C. who has Nicaragua as a client. All ·for the people.

He does good, dressed in nice clothes. He brings his case to the people. Many of them cheer wildly, and often before the translator has finished putting the words in English. Some outraged few shout him down, refuse him courtesy. For God's sake, they seem to say, he is a criminal. These are good, sincere

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people. Everyone is sincere and every­one has their story.

Controversy. Americana. Ortega didn't have anything new to

say. We saw him, though, got a feel for him as a person.

"I was reserved in my judgement (about his speech)," said Magelli. "I got the feel he was a sincere man."

Again, we are all sincere. We just have drastically different points of view. And, of course, people are dying because of these differences~ And that's the rub. Otherwise these evenings of Auraria Americana could be just that - eloquent debate of our differences, exercises of all those nice freedoms -assembly, dissent, the press.

What did we learn from Ortega? What did he learn from us?

MSC got a nice feather, as this cam­pus was the only one on which he has spoken.

Magelli says he will extend an invita­tion to exiled bishops and contra lead­ers, to continue the debate at Metro.

"Colleges should be sanctuaries for open dialogue," said Magelli

Ortega told Magelli that the recep­tion he got at Auraria was the best anywhere.

Good for us. Freedom of diversity. That's part of our Americana.

It was a fine thing to off er Daniel Ortega. D

MSC comes of age

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Students, faculty, staff, clubs, groups and organizations are encouraged to participate. Each group must sell a minimum of 50 tickets (student or non­student) to be eligible.

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Where's The Money Going?

Students Vote on Disposition of Fees ...

Robert Davis Editor

We're not too popular these days. Like many of the other student organizations, we've not received enough

money from the college administration to keep the same number of student workers we had last year.

Not that it's the administration's money. It's not. The money comes from student fees. Every college paper staff we've talked

with around the country claims to operate on a budget made of 60 - 80 percent student fees and 40 - 20 percent self-generated funds (i.e. ad revenue, freelance typesetting and pasteup, etc.).

The Metropolitan is run the other way. We are more than half self~supported. We generate 60 percent of our budget and ask for 40 percent of our annual expenses which total about $109,000.

But we should have known better than to play fair. Last year at bu,dget time all the student organizations were asked to cut corners

and be team players because, They told us, MSC was facing a crisis. Seems there was not enough money to maintain student programs at the

existing level and They were lookin'g to ask the students for more moi-iey. If we get more money, They told us, we'll c~mtinue at existing levels. But we

don't know if that will happen, They told us, so let's pull ourselves up by the ol' boot straps and wait for the students to decide.

·Fair enough. We love it when the administration asks the students what to do - especially when it's the student's money.

And didn't those administrators just blow us away when they tuok it a step ~ur~er and asked the students to show support and lack of same by voting 'yes' or no for each student group. I guess we were all wrong about those nice Pee-H­Dees that run the school.

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Lisa Arndt Campus Editor

Last spring, hundreds of Metro students voted in the·student elections. More than ever before, and that's something for Metro to be proud of. The students showed that they care about their school and schooling and who is governing it. · One of the referendum questions dealt with student activity fees and student

activities. The administration wanted to know how the student body felt about raising activity fees $12.50, then asked the students to respond yes or no to the activities they would like supported with their funds or not supported.

When counting_ the yes and no votes, the intercollegiate athletics program finished second last, one step above the flight team.

It is clear, from the referendum results that the majority of students would rather have their money spent on activities that benefit all the students, like the student health clinic, (which received the most yes votes), student government, the emergency loan program, and The Metropolitan, than those that benefit a select few, like athletics, the flight team and the speech team. ·

Did the administration take this into consideration? It doesn't appear so. The Student Affairs Board recommended that intercollegiate athletics be granted 18oi of the previous budget.

David Conde, vice president of student affairs said President Magelli was very concerned about getting the students' opinions about the fee increase and its allocation.

This leaves students bewildered, asking the question that seems to echo through the halls of Metro: "Why?" Maybe to purposely go against the students' wishes. Maybe to discourage students from voting. After all, apathetic students are easier to fool. ·

Conde said Division II athletics is part of the institution's long-range goals, and naturally that it takes a lot of dollars to achieve - the dollars of the current students, a lot of whom will never attend an MSC athletic event.

Sure it's awfully polite of them to ask the students how they want their money spent, but what incentive is left for them to ever answer a referendum question from the administration again?

In fact, this kind of cheapens the entire election process here at Metro. And that's a shame, since things were finally looking up. _ D

Impressed with the democratic process of leaving the decisions up to the students, the directors of these programs (see story page 8) submitted 'we're all in this together' budget requests and waited out the referendum.

And the students voted. A dismal turnout for such a big school, but many more than have ever voted before on this commuter campus.

'fhey agreed to increase fees and ranked their c.hoice of programs with yes and no votes. ·

OK. Everything's running on course now, right? ACK! Directors are now going to the guy in charge of this money stuff - David

Conde, assistant vice president of student affairs - and asking about this promise:

"If you're very good, and you clean your room, 111 give you your dinner (pizza)."

But Koppel is wrapping up and Letterman is coming on and all we're hearing is "soon." .

Maybe they know that "soon"' we'll get tired of being stood up for meetings and the hunger pangs will subside and we'll fall asleep during stupid pet tricks.

Eventually we'll get that supplemental-distribution-meeting pizza-fest we're' hungry for.

And eventually we'll get the big yes or no from those with the purse strings (no, not the students, silly) and we'll settle down and forget about it. But for now all we can do is stare at our spoiled sister who pigs out on round-ball chocolate sundaes.

She didn't clean her room. She asked for three times her allowence. She's so popular.

But nobody cares if she's naughty and doesn't win her games. Just as long as she doesn't cling like a monkey and ask silly questions like 'Why?' and 'How much?' and 'Could you explain that to me?.'

Yep. We're not too popular anymore .

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dealing with the trustees (who also govern Western State, Mesa and Adams State colleges) is often diffi· cult because they don't always see Metro as a top priority.

"They can really chip away at your goodwill," Greene says. "It can be real frustrating."

To make it trustee-proof Magelli leafs through the budget moving and trimming thousands and Greene jots notes.

Soon Greene is up and heading back to his office with the budget monkey on his back. As he leaves he passes Dave McDermott, the school controller, waiting for his turn.

. August 22, 1986

McDermott is concerned with some of the talk in Washington about protecting banks' involvement in guaranteed student loans.

He's been very involved in the plight of student loans. Magelli said the controller has testified on the sub­ject twice in Washington and recently attended a conference in Dallas that raised some new questions. He's visit­ing Magelli to discuss the new developments.

"He's so intelligent it's scary," Magelli says later of McDermott. "He's very active in this and he always keeps me informed with the latest information."

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Magelli dominates the conversation keeping McDermott's ideas and comments brief. When the time is up the controller a<;lopts a monkey by agreeing to draft a letter that suc­cinctly expresses the school's position on the new student loan debate and send a copy back to him.

Then it's time for lunch at the Denver Athletic Club with the Rotary brothers. As he leaves the office he announces that he'll be back at 1:30 p.m. and - stops.

"I need some money. Anybody got any money?"

At the DAC he trots briskly up three flights of stairs. With every

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. . flight he gains speed until he hits the top at a run.

He flings the door to the ballroom open to find a sweaty Dean Bonham, president of the DAC, in light blue athletic shorts and a matching Adidas body shirt.

Bonham is a member of Metro's revived foundation.

Magelli has encouraged many of his elite business associates to join the group charged with raising money for the school.

Money raised by the foundation is free of Trustee-manipulation and can be used by the administration at will.

Bonham greets Magelli with a big smile, a firm handshake and a slap on the shoulder.

Inside is a group of several hundred Rotarites, "movers and shakers", as Magelli calls them, laugh-' ing it up.

"There's such a nice fellowship in the Rotary," Magelli says. He fum­bles through a box filled with name badges and pins his on - it's blue .

The Rotarites greet each other with eyes fix~d on name badges and hands outstretched.

"A red badge means you're new," he explains. "You have to do so many good things before you earn a blue one.".

Seated b eside Magelli is a former Denver University professor who is thinking of teaching at Metro.

"The educational experience at Metro is so much better," he says. "The students are more mature and most of them work. It makes for a two-way educational experience instead of what I used'to do at DU. I hate to just stand up there and lecture to blank faces. Those kids are there because Daddy says they have to be there."

Magelli says his acquaintance hasn't committed to teaching at Metro -yet.

After singing C od Bless America and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance the Rotarites - who call themselves Rotarians - eat chicken and listen to a speech on crowded courtrooms.

Magelli bids farewell to his friends as they toss their badges back in the box and he is soon trotting back down the stairs.

Back at the office a Coors Vice President, Marvin 'Swede' Johnson, is expected at 1:30 to discuss a large grant for Metro. Before he arrives Len Meyer, a former project devel­oper at DU and currently working for Metro's long-range planning, returns from lunch with a fortune from his cookie: "You will be well known for your generous contribu­tions to charity."

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Magelli tapes it to the confei:ence table in front of what is now declared "Swede's chair."

When Johnson arrives he gets a chuckle out of ~e gag and suggests the college make their own fortune

· cookies. Johnson had been at the Rotary

lunch and they chat about courts and lawyers.

Then it's down to business. They spend over an hour loQking

for a "match" in what Coors wants to sponsor and what Metro wants to spend money on. At the end of the session everyone is optimistic and Magelli takes a monkey.

Johnson wants Magelli to expand on two aspects - recruiting and ret­ention o_f students - of a proposal

August 22, 1986

· ing old campus life, Magelli and Bor­razo dart for the faculty club where the new foundation members are gathering to adopf by-laws and set some goals. Magelli greets them with a champagne toast and some thoughts on the upcoming year.

"We can't expect you to function until we've developed a sound admi­nistrative team," he tells them. In pri­vate he says when he arrived at MSC, people told him he had to get his "administrative shit together. Well, we've got our shit together and we're going to take off."

Magelli says the school has broken from the pack in the last 12 months and warns people to "look out".

After five he's back in the office checking messages and packing up.

"This year I'm going to ~nd lots more time with the.students and the faculty. I've spent alot of time telling people that we're here and now I'm going to invite them over."

that had been submitted to .Coors. The Coors exec seems legitimately

enthused about Metro's plan to work more closely with high school stu­dents that, Magelli says, are being overlooked by high school counselors.

Johnson says it's close to a "match" but they all want to talk more later.

Back in the car, Magelli is heading for Mississippi A venue and Holly Street for the· dedication of Potenza Park. The city has donated about two-and-a-half acres at the corner for a sister city park.

Along for the ride is Tobin Bar­rozo, Metro's new vice president for academic affairs. The newcomer gets some driving tips.

"Let me tell you something about . this town,'' Magelli says, racing through the Cherry Creek Shopping district. "Even the little compact cars will cross the yellow line at you."

At 2nd A venue and Milwaukee Street he goes out of turn at a four­way stop and meets a Honda Accord head-on.

"See what I mean?" he says point­ing at the agitated woman behind the wheel. "No Way, Baby!"

He's rushed. He keeps his schedule packed with on- and off-campus meetings and doesn't have time for the afternoon shopper enjoying a sunny day.

At the park site Magelli scampers around working out last minute details.

Pena was expected to unveil the spray-painted sign that reads: "Potenza City Park for your enjoy­ment." Instead, he. sent a representa-tive to speak for him. . •

On the way back to the office · Magelli continues his course -Denver Driving: The Fast Lane.

"See how they cross the yellow?" he says, pointing at a Datsun truck in front of him with its left tires on the white line. "They're all over the damn place."

Once back to the safeness of bor-

- Paul Magelli

His last stop is the reception for the Potenza group at the St. Francis Cen­ter next to his office.

Before he leaves for the reception he gets a monkey report from the . first zoo-keeper of the day, Charlotte Murphy, who updates him on the progress of her assignment.

The conversation is private but Murphy is all smiles at the reception.

Magelli's office staff, however, is noticeably absent.

One of the more senior staffers told Magelli she wouldn't be going.

"That's because she's mad," he says. "But she11 be all right. This (reorga.nization) is for the best. I'll call her tonight. ' ' ·

Magelli moves about the reception shaking hands and introducing peo­ple he doesn't really know.

"You know Gina," he says, only seeing half of Regina Langton's name tag.

"That's Reh-Geena," Langton says. "She works for our PR office," he

continues, reading her title on the bottom of the tag.

Magelli has spent most of his time in Denver running against the grain and moving faster than most of his higher education administrative peers.

Most of this time and effort has been spent off-campus.

He's sure to recognize a VP from Coors or the president of the Denver Athletic Club or the mayor. He's less sure of the people who work on campus and says he's going to fix . that.

"This year I'm going to spend lots more time with the students and the faculty," he says. "I've spent a lot of time telling people that we're here and now I'm going to invite them over."

But wherever you catch up with Paul Magelli, don't even think of giv-

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Referendum update:

Athletic ·funds score Legal services sacked

by Lisa Arndt

Last spring, MSC student voted to increase student activity fees $12.50 and ranked the health clinic as the pro­gram they would most like to support and the flight team as the least, though the ranking had little affect on the budget recommendations for the pro­grams.

According to a memo from MSC President Magelli to the faculty and staff, the fee increase was supported by the students with a vote of 519 to 363.

The memo also stated that though the legal services program fared well in the referendum, the Student Affairs Board (SAB) voted not to recommend funding for the program this year, and though intercollegiate athletics fared poorly, their recommended funding was almost doubled from last year's.

David Conde, assistant vice presi­dent of student affairs, said that the referendum was intended to let stu­dents have input regarding allocation of the funds, though the results were not the only criteria for the SAB 1986~ 87 allocation recommendations.

"The purpose of the referendum was basically to get a feeling on the part of the general student population in terms of the need to increase the student fee pool for these programs," Conde said.

"President Magelli felt very strongly that we could not, should not, go into a new format of fee increase without get~ing a feeling from students as to how they felt about the programs and

the fee increase itself," he said. When the SAB made the allocation

recommendations in May, however, "Everything was taken into considera­tion," Conde said, "not just the refer­endum."

Conde said the large increase in the athletic program was to help the pro­gram and the institution meet long range goals.

"Division I (athletics) is part of the institution's long-range plan," he said.

Conde said the SAB recommended canceling the contract with Legal Ser~ vices .:... which is a UCO program -even though it is a benefit to Metro students, to begin a program of its own.

"The board in voting not to recom­mend continued funding or continuing the contract with UCO, felt none the less that legal services was a necessity on our campus," he said.

"The Board voted to hold in reserve $10,000 for the possible future recom­mendation of a new legal services · more oriented for Metropolitan State College students specifically," he said.

The SAB also recommended no• funding for the ASTRO program, Auraria Student Telecommunications and Radio Organization.

"The board voted not to fund them­for this year basically because there was a feeling that the program itself . .. was duplicating what AHEC is about to do," he said.

The memo from Magelli said, "the board defunded the program because of the feeling that it was no longer an MSC initiative." o

"Ludicrous" tenure policy causes prof's dismissal

A Computer and Management Science instructor lost a final appeal for tenure last May in a review process which one faculty member referred to as "craziness" and "ludicrous," and will no longer be teaching at MSC.

According to Joe Megeath, former CMS chair, Dr. Vaughn Huckfeldt was informed late last May that the final review committee did not grant him what the Contract Personnel office refers to as "regular status." Since then, three faculty members have been hired by CMS.

Megeath said part of the reason for Huckfeldt's dismissal is a faulty tenure review process that is "dumped on us by the legislature," in which faculty members are either granted regular status or dismissed after only three years.

"It's ludicrous. It's craziness," Megeath said. "Three years is not enough time."

Megeath said that Huckfeldt's dis-

missal is a "bad situation," and that the committee that reviewed Huckfeldt's appeal "reached a decision based on opinions of people not close to the situation."

Joe Morrell, CMS chair, said, "The decision was made and everybody is adjusting to that decision."

Morrell -'>aid the administration did not support the decision with reasons and weren't required to.

"It's important for the administra­tion to be able to do that," he said. "Any business has the same policy."

Another faculty member was also dismissed last year, but Sandra Jones, director of contract personnel, refused to release his name or department.

'Tm not sure that's public informa­tion," she said. "I don't want to be in the position of embarrassing some one. It could hurt his career later on."

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ing tryouts for interested Metro stu­dents until the end of August.

Those interested in joining the team should report to the soccer field across from the Tivoli between 3 and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The first game is Sat., Aug. 23, against the Metro Alumni at the home ficld. 0

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New V .P. stresses ''liberal education''

The newly appointed MSC vice president of academic affairs said his goals for improving Metro include emphasizing liberal learning in the curriculum and increasing faculty members' professional development.

Dr. Tobin G. Barrozo, who has been . in office since July 1, said his goals for the college will help graduating stu­dents find jobs and be better prepared for changing career environments and a changing world economy . .

"I'd like to bring about an alignment, with emphasis on liberal learning, between the academic degree program and the economy and opportunity for employment that exist in the region and state," he said.

Barraza said faculty development is important because "the opportunity for faculty to participate in faculty development brings about a better fit between the program personnel and the program."

The liberal education emphasis will affect the courses students are required to take, Barraza said.

"This generation of students seems to prefer a little more structure in their curriculum," he said. "They want to know, 'How can I be successful?'"

Barrozo said he is also concerned with the quality of service Metro pro­vides students in helping them per­sereve till graduation .

"There are a variety of things that need to be done here," he said, includ­ing exit interviews before students drop out and promoting academic progress and actual graduation.

"We do students and taxpayers a dis­service if (students) don't succeed in getting a degree,'' he said.

Barraza said he is highly impressed with two aspects of MSC: the interest that faculty members express and the . potential of the college.

The teachers "see themselves as teachers as opposed to scholars,'' he said, and "It's satisfying to believe that there is a wall of yet untapped energy and enthusiasm to do even a better job in what we do well ."

- Lisa Arndt

Bad chemistry ignites A UCD student received minor

injuries when chemicals he was mixing ingnited and exploded in room 302 of the Science Building July 30.

According to an Auraria Public Safety report, William P. Fischbach, 28, a chemistry major, suffered bums on his face and forearms when a spark from an unknown source ingnited two highly flamable chemicals he was using to conduct an experiment for an inde­pendent research course.

Fischbach said he was using ethyl ether and methanol to do an experi­ment called an essential oil analysis on a plant with the common name Mexi­can cliff rose when the ether ignited.

"It was just a flash,'' he said. "Ether

bums quickly." Fischbach said his injuries were not

serious enough for him to go to the hospital, but paramedics responding to the scene insisted.

"I didn't need to go (to DGH)," he said. "A few hairs were singed, that's · all."

The damage to the room was also minimal, Fischbach said. Only a few cabinet drawers were singed.

Fischbach said he was lucky. "I was wearing all the safety gear,"

he said. "I essentially came away unharmed."

-Lisa Arndt

Lost $1 is found, not claimed People whose money burns holes in

their pockets may be interested in an item in the Auraria Lost and Found.

According to an Auraria Public Safety report, "One U.S. one dollar bill, value $1.00, #E57753081D" was found on campus and turned in to Public Safety.

All the rightful owner must do to claim the stray bill is correctly identify the date the dollar was lost and the exact location before the 90-day claim period expires.

The conscientious finder of the money Gloria Bernal, a Public Safety secretary, said she never thought of keeping the money for herself.

"I believe in being a good samaritan.

What comes around goes around," she said . .'Tm sure the person who lost it probably needs it."

If the person who lost the dollar doesn't claim it, the dollar's future is uncertain.

Lolly Ferguson, Public Safety tech­nical services manager, said normally a lost item not claimed within 90 days of the date found becomes the property of the finder.

Ferguson said because Bernal is a Public Safety employee, she may not be eligible to keep the dollar, and it may be transferred to the department's general fund.

- Lisa Arndt

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Red Rocks Jimmy the party prop.hat

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friends get together

by Robert Davis

Every year I get sloppy drunk with a good friend. Even though we talk 'to each other constantly during the interim 12 months, it's that one day that we really party hardy.

We became great friends when he was there for me during some rough times and some good times and I returned the favor by buying his albums.

What a relationship. The give without the take, as he

says. He's a prophet and a poet who

offers me non-threatening advice. It's the gospel from the coast.

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by Bob Haas

Remember beacbballs, balloons and frisbees flying in colorful regalia at concerts in Red Rocks? That is,-

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remember the pre-concert windrift­ing and sunshine summer fun? Remem­ber the partying? Remember Blood on the Tracks? Remember the primal t ache of Idiot Wind?

Well, times are changing. The day was Red Rocks perfect.

Hot. Blue. A long anticipating wait for a legend. And then there was this beachball. A beach ball, a pristine image of bouncing fan camaraderie, of play- .. ful concert fun. Apparently, it was also an image from the past. Remember the past?

. Why can't sun soaking fans bop an air filled plastic ball of color about an amphitheatre without invoking the • determined intervention of the F eyline Fellows? (They didn't crash into the stands, crushing heartbreakers in pur­suit of the off ending toy, rather they stationed themselves strategically about the river of fans, waiting, like fishing grizzlies, for an errant bop or beach- if. ball drift.

And the fans played a fair game, as it would have been a simple matter to keep the lightweight toy floating high and far from the patient grizzlies. So the ball moved tantalizingly in and out ~ of the currents and eddies, teasing the bears, forcing their claws open and shut in near misses.)

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Babies & Buffett When times are tough he's there to

remind me to stay crazy so I don't go insane. When times are good he's there to lead the party with a cult­song about land-sharks or lava.

Even though I'm only one of mil­lions of close friends, I never feel dis­tant on that one day or whenever I'm

--{ cranking some song about a plane with a broken landing gear. We're real pals.

So once a year we meet on the rocks and reflect on the old times -good and bad - when he's been there at the right moment.

We all go out for the party. Thou­sands of us rally to greet the local hero. And through him we know one another.

People I don't otherwise know are dancing with me. They sing and shout all the words to all the songs.

One of the partiers came down from Bozeman Montana for the festival.

A geophysics student at Montana State University, he became intimate with Jimmy during an encounter with an occupational hazzard in Bozeman last winter.

"We were jumping all the bars that had Buffett on the jukebox," Matt says. "We kept listening to 'The Great Filling Station Holdup' at every bar over and over and over. We must have heard it 300 hundred times and spent $100 dollars in the jukeboxes."

They drank rum, being with chums, and partied all night. At l~ast

"We had to drive home," Matt sternly recalls. "We had to listen to Buffett on the tape deck in the car."

That's when they cuffed him and they roughed him and they took him off to jail. You know. No picture on a poster. No reward and no bail.

As he sat in the back of the patrol car the line that had permeated his brain kept running on:

"I wish I were somewhere other than here. Down in some honky tonk, sippin' on a beer."

A sobering reality, Matt says. He took a Buffett break for a while •

and he doesn't drink much rum any­more. He never ever drinks and drives.

But he does do Buffett. "It's not like it's hi.s fault," Matt

says of his buddy Jim. "It's stupid to drink and drive."

But they'll come back one day and still can manage a smile - it just takes a while.

They come from everywhere with one thing in mind: remember all the times throughout the years when they've been together through tough times.

It makes for a family feeling. Eve­ryone out for the party and everyone out for fun.

Buffett endures. From reefer to the tequila-gold and from DUI's to babies he's tliere with quick wit and a tum of a phrase to make us love the craziness of our lives. D

Jimmy Buffett's songs are mostly about fun. So are his concerts, good fun in the sun. Buffet's timing was perfect. He was Sunday afternoon at Red Rocks, but She went into labor that Saturday morning. It lasted throughout the day, into the night. It wasn't any fun for her. Not a bit. No fun for him, either.

The husband, the Dad. In the old days, new fathers were a

caricature - waiting rooms, cigarettes, nerves.

Now the Dads get in on all of the no fun.

Sitting for hours and watching his love-mate suffer bravely with real pain. The anguish comes from this thought:

"There is nothing I can do. It's all her pain. Give me some of it. You can't. Let me help. I can't."

Helplessness. It's not a bit of fun. Neither the pain.

It got worse for her. After fourteen hours of this no fun, they gave her some medical technology to help the labor along. It didn't work right. It sent her contractions into some kind of spasms. One of them lasted an hour. She gritted, bore down. "Oh my gosh," she breathed through the pain. This broke his heart, made him testy. "C'mon, Doc," he hissed. "Let's make like a pineapple and section

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was proceeding by the book. By now, Dad had enough of

watching his wife's pain. The doctor didn't like it either, but

it didn't hurt him any, and he had to play by the book.

"We have to wait," he said, "and play out all our options."

So she had two more hours of this really intense, spastic contractions no fun.

They cut her open anyway, about four o'clock Sunday morning.

She was a Buffett fan, had tickets to go. It didn't look good.

"You shouldn't go either," they told him. "You should go home and get some sleep."

'Tm all right," he said. "Who cares," they said. "You

should get some sleep so you can be here for your wife when she wakes up."

He didn't sleep for his wife. He went and partied with Buffett.

He and Jimmy sang together, got hoarse with celebrating this new thing.

"There is a new life," he sang. "We have our baby," he

celebrated. He had waited all night to explode

like this with his good reason for fun.

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of debunking summer fun? Unlikely, ,L as their business is selling summer fun.

The grizzlies were good naturedly booed when they succeeded in spear­ing the off ending toy, and one of the bigger and bearded bears taunted the crowd with mock gestures of aggres­sion toward the ball. The toy taken, the

-.( fans returned to partying, and waiting for a legend to grace the ·stage.

Hold it. You say Tom Petty has not been around long enough to be a legend? Perhaps, because he doesn't follow the apparent rules governing

a colorful if embellished past for him­self. An orphan? Indian blood? A flop house piano man?

So, fair enough. Zimmerman created Dylan, and Dylan created the art.

Sure Mr. Zimmerman has the right, commercial and artistic, to do any damn thing he pleases with Dylan's songs, and if you don't want to shell out twenty bucks for a concert surprise then go listen to the albums containing the 'old stuff.'

Again, fair enough. The past is his­tory, like hippies and beachballs.

Do any of us . .. really believe anyone can overdose and hurt themselves on a beachball?

the behavior of a legend. He talked " with the crowd, he said hello, he even

offered several sincere thanks for the clap. Petty sealed himself forever out of the fraternity of legends by allowing some of his old stuff to sound exactly like it did way back when he first made

t- it sound so nice. Back in the past. Apparently, a real legend doesn't

embrace his artistic past. Nor his personal.

Enough petty wandering. How was Dylan?

Let's first dissipate the media blitz I .._ effect of pre-concert reviews. Local

wags reminded us that the youug mid­dle class Bob Zimmerman created quite

And what about this beachball busi­ness anyway? Among consenting adults, who gets hurt by a beachball, floating high enough to color the after­noon sun? Why take their toy away?

. Who knows, because Barry Fey isn't talking. When asked about liability problems involving a beachball, Fey's secretary responded that "Barry is pretty burned out on talking about the whole liability and insurance thing." That liability concerns have hurt the concert industry is no secret, and maybe the directive about snatching errant beachballs has nothing to do with lia­bility. But Fey's business is making fun, so why hurt the market?

But, come on, liability concerns over a beachball?

The times have changed, remember? Do any of us, Barry Fey and his

secretary included, really believe any­one can overdose and hurt themselves on a beachball? No sharp edges here, fans, just color, and laughter, and sun­shine.

Remember, this isn't the past. For example, witness this conversa­

tion between summer sun enjoying Red Rocks fans: ·

"Hey, allright, the Feyline bouncers are coming after the ball. ha ha. Big and bad. Watch out, man, you could put your eye out with that thing. ha ha. Oooh, tough guys."

These fans , on first glance, right out of the past. Shirtless and halters. Picnic blankets, cold chicken, and gallons of

pie - bottles, knives, cans. Alchohol is not allowed, but lighten up. This is ·a . summer fun conc.ert, the booze gets in. We're all responsible adults, and) this is a Dylan concert, like the old days.

But hang on, check out those same fans, different subject and more liquid summer fun later:

"Hey, watch out, man. You're stum­bling all over the place. Watch out! You're spilling your drink I You're gonna fall and break your leg, man. Sit down!"

"Don't worry about me, man. It wouldn't bother me to slip on these steps and break a leg. I could sue Barry Fey's ass off. ha ha."

The times are real different, remember? This is not the past. Hells Angels policing the Rolling Stones? We have it beat. Beachbal'8. Get it? Nobody's suing Barry Fey's anything

Alcohol is not allowed, but lighten up. This is a summer fun concert, the booze gets in .

iced down sweet and sour colored tasty tingly liquid.(Which, by the way, passed through Barry Fey's searchers at the gate. They're looking for things the presence of which might hurt peo-

off because they dove juiced and miss­ed a piece of summer fun. It's Fey's show, and th~ gentle summer of love past can go to hell because it's also his dime.

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L It's not Fey's fault that some drink­ing partier (taking advantage of Fey's looking the other way about plastic gallon jugs) smashes his face in an ill­timed amphitheatre dive. But this technicality about legal liability shifts

( responsibility, see. - And the times have certainly

changed. Same with Mr. Zimmerman. He has

an impressive track record for distort­ing his past, and if wants to trash the

ing the artist in himself for the sake of change - a 1980's singer in a rock and roll band.

Dylan washed up? Hardly. Over the Hill? Come on. But check out the meddling interference of this Zim­merman guy.

It's chicken shit for a clumsy and obnoxious partyer to hold Barry Fey responsible for their own irresponsible behavior. But they have the legal right. No more be~chballs, kids, a thing of

Dylan Wll8hed up? Hardly. Over the hill? Come on. But check out the meddling interference of the Zimmerman guy.

few Dylan classics which found their way into bis like sounding, up tempo show, it's his dime (or twenty bucks a pop). He owns the rights. Another legal technicality here.

Sure updating has a place. but if anyone else had done to Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind what the little Zimmerman did to it at Red Rocks, that cocky updater would have caught serious critical hell.

Why this radical cut with his past? Orphaned? Blowin' in the Wind sounding like a Pepsi commercial?

Zimmerman was disappointing, an immature and insecure little man bury-

concerts past. It's pompous crap for little middle

class Bobby Zimmerman to flatly refuse to honor the art of Bob Dylan. He couldn't leave even one song just as it was, leave it alone, let it be just as it once was when Dylan wrote it? But it's his music, he owns the rights.

And the past is all over now, Baby Blue.

It was a nice day for a concert. Wait -ing for a legend. And there was this summer fun beachball, among sun tanned thousands, drifting, floating and in colorful breeze blowing in the wind.

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Calendar items have, in the past, been published as

i a courtesy depending on space availability. There was no guarantee that any item would appear in the calendar. This year we have made some changes in our

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In order to better serve the campus we have decid· ed to guarantee space in the calendar. For this to

,.,, work we must charge $1.00 and you must have the item or items in by 5 p.m. the Friday before the paper comes out.

~ To place a calendar item you must type(double spaced) what you want to appear in 25 words or less, then bring to our office (Student Center Room 156) and pay the receptionist

"< $LOO. Calendar items must be prepaid.

Classified ads are a service provided by The Metropolitan to the Auraria Campus.

The charge for this ser· vice is 15¢ per word (MSC

HELP WANTED

NATIONAL COLLEGE MARKETING CO. seeks aggressive self-starter to work 1-2 days/wk. on campus. Excellent income potential. Call 1-800-932-0528. 8/22

TRANSPORTING CHILDREN : dependable, responsible person with car to transport 2 pre­teen daughters from U-Hills home: afternoons: $4/hr., plus mileage: pleasant working con­ditions. Call evenings: 753-0495. 8/22

FOR SALE

CAN YOU BUY JEEPS, Cars, 4 X 4's seized in drug raids for under S1CXlOO? Call for facts today. 602-837-3401. Ext. 51073. 9/12

students pay 5¢ per word). Ads must be 25 words or less and must be prepaid. The deadline for classified ads is 5 p.m. Friday prior to publication.

HOUSING

DELUXE BUFFET $260, 2 bedroom basement. fireplace, off-street parking $340, utilities included. Small pet. child O.K Deposit. 777-4411, 322-3159. 8/'29

2 BEDROOM DUPLEX, garage, yard, washer, H/V. 25 minutes from campus. $390 + deposit. 777-4411. 322-3159. 8?29

SERVICES

LETTER PERFECT WORD PROCESSOR - ka­demlc, business, personal documents. Proof­reading/ edltlng/wrltl ng assistance. Pro­·fessional quality. $15./hr.-student discounts. Legible drafts, please. COMPLETE RESUME SERVICE. 777-1964. 12/S

-Acting for the Stage--From Improv to Performance-Luis Oropeza, award winning veteran

of San Francisco and the Denver Center Theater is NOW offering three classes: lmprov for the beginning actor, Scene Studv for the intermediate actor and a Perf;,rmance Project for the advanced actors. Classes are 8110. for five four

hour sessions starting Sept. 3rd. -Call 832-7932-

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Private tutodng, course review, full instruction.

For information, call 892-MATII

ALGEBRA & BEYOND PROFESSIONAL TUTORS

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