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Too many budgets

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FUnd· cuts may hurt athletes By Lou Chapman I

Question: How can toddlers and pre-school children cripple collegiate athletes?

Answer: Subsidize the children's parents for on-campus ·child care while the parents attend school, thus leaving the athletes without enough money, since both draw from the coffers of student

..., fees . Question: How can ,240 of

approximately 13,000 students receive 13 .80Jo of the student fees?

Answer: Effectively argue it is needed for intercollegiate

t.. athletics. Question: Who controls

student fees at Metropolitan State College?

Answer: Does not compute ... does not compute... ·

On May 22, the Student Af­fairs Board (SAB) of MSC voted on a final breakdown of student 'fees ($427 ,500) to be submitted to Dr . . Robert Thompson, Vice President of Student Affairs.

This budget, procedurally, should have gone from Thom­pson, with recommendations, to the school president, and then on

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to the Board of Trustees for final approval. In the past, according to current and past SAB members, there have been no major hassles or conflicts of interest that couldn't be settled at the con­ference table.

This time, a funny thing or two is happening on the way to the trustees.

When the SAB voted on May 22, the proposed budget passed by a six to three margin: All six student members of the SAB were present and voted in favor of the budget; three faculty members were present and all voted against the budget. ·

The proposed budget called for a $'13,000 cut in intercollegiate athletics and team travel. These allocations would go from $60,000 last year to $47 ,000 this year.

According to Larry Plume, SAB student member, the faculty members were vehement in their disdain of the proposed budget. One particular member, Harry Temmer, instructor of electronics and MSC soccer coach, was the most vocal fn arguing for inter­collegiate funds, Plume said.

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2 . The Metropolitan June 20, 1979

Walton gets 70,000 Auraria parking tickets I by Frank ~ullen 1 , hit with a $60, $70, ·or $100 bill for ....

, · parking fines all at once," he said. When Ben Walton came to his new "My job is to operate the parking

job at Auraria May 7, he received some office in an efficient, business-like man-campus parking tickets-70,000 of them, ner," Walton said, "and to optimise

Walton is not the nation's biggest revenue for the bondholders at the same parking scofflaw: He is Auraria's new time." • Director of Parking Operations and his -----------------responsibilities include collecting on some of those unpaid campus tickets-worth over $500,000 in uncollec­ted fines.

Walton said another of his respon­sibilities is the reorganization of campus parking and "turning this situation around."

''Of course there is no way of knowing for sure," he said, "but I think £ there are probably more people who do ii? -not pay to park then people who do iU' pay." ~

Those who do not pay to park on a; campus, or do not pay campus tickets, a; are undermining the bond system used 0: to build the parking lots, he said. State en law prescribes all expenses associated with the operation and maintainance of Auraria parking lots, including the repayment of $3.5 million in bonds issued for their original construction, must come from parking revenues.

These revenues have always fallen far short of projections, Walton said, and the refusal to pay for parking is an epidemic on campus. Walton said he spent the past montl) reorganizing the parking function on campus and plan­ning a campaign to "change the tone of parking enforcement.''

. The Auraria parking attendants, for instance, are now unqer the authority of the parking office. Previously, they were part of Auraria Public Safety.

"The parking attendants now have no law enforcement responsibility at all,'' Walton said. "Their job is to write tickets and assist the motorist in any way they can. If they witness a crime they are equipped with radios and can summon Public Safety.''

Ben Walton: will avoid an "authoritarian, dictatorial approach" . . Walton has "changed the tone" of Auraria Board's parking committee. The

the collection letters sent out by the changes, including placing attenQ.ants in parking office. Soon he will begin an four lots, should help make his job aggressive public relations campaign to easier, he said. try and get Aurarians to change their at- Another change involves the Auraria titude towards parking. institutions in parking enforcement. The

Once a day, Walton said, he travels three schools agreed to withhold the through the campus lots placing "cour- transcripts and records of parking scof-tesy tickets" under the windshield wipers flaws, although they refused to withhold of violator's cars. The orange warning grades or encumber viofator's tickets state the nature of the rule infrac- registrations. The "institutional san-tion, but do not carry the $3-10 fine of ctions" plan may begin in the fall, he their yellow counterparts. said, and will not be retroactive. ·

"Of course the warning tickets cut Walton, a logistics specialist once in down on our revenue," he said. "But charge of various aspects of transpor-they are worth it if they can help engen- tation and supply in the Panama Canal der a positive relationship between our Zone, said another parking problem is office and the users of the lots. the lag time between writing a ticket and

"I've got to appeal to people's sense the violator being notified by mail. He of reason and responsibility; their sense hopes to have the ticketing S¥Stem com-of honesty and fairness." puterized so violators can ·_ be notified

Walton will be implementing the soon after the date of violation. parking changes hammered out by the "It would be a lot better than being

ARE YOU .ON HIS LIST?

There are now over 600 license plate ... numbers on the Auraria "boot" list, and Ben Walton, Auraria Director of Parking Operations, said the owners of cars on the list run the risk of having their cars booted or towed-if the plate num­bers are spotted on campus property.

He had some advice for those who may wish to clean up their record and ' eliminate the possibility of walking out to a parking lot and finding an empty space where their car had been.

"The best way to clear the air is to liquidate the debt,'' he said.

Walton said the debt must be paid before a car can be eligible for a campus parking permit. If a person has two cars, and only one of them is on the boot list, the other vehicle can be issued a permit.

If a vehicle appearing on the list is sold, but the license plate number is transferred to a new car' the new car is on the boot list. If new license plates were_ issued for the new vehicle, the car can be registered after the payment of all out­standing fines accumulated by the new vehicle under the new plate number.

The Auraria daily lots cost from 25-75 cents per day. Monthly parking per­mits for cars parking in lots H, L, and S , cost $10. Motorcycle permits cost $5 per month.

Students may call the Auraria Parking Office at 629-32547 for more in­formation, or come to the office at 1200 7th street.

Currently, attendants write an average of 250 parking tickets a day. Only around 30 percent of those fines are collected presently, he said, and Auraria has been booting and towing scofflaw's cars in an effort to collect unpaid fines.

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Walton said booting and towing will continue under his administration, but he j will avoid an "authoritarian, dictatorial approach" fo parking enforcement. .

"That kind of thing just gives people a negative attitude towards the parking system," he said. "lt just pisses people · off and gives them an excuse not to pay."

(Temmer and the two other f~culty members, Clement Brig! of the Physical Education Department, and Les Reed in Law Enforcement, were not available for comment this past week.)

The faculty members then prepared a minority report of their suggestion~ and have presenteg it to Thompson. It may or may not be presented to the ,Board. of Trustees.

Tlie minority report includes $63,000

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for intercollegiate athletics and team travel; a $3500 cut (from $24,000' to 20,500) for the Associated Students of Metropolitan State College (ASMSC); and c~opped in half (from $20,000 to $10,000) the amount given toJ MSC students for on-going child care subsidies.

In the meantime, Dean of Student Services Edward L. Schenck, as ch~rman of the SAB, proposed to Thompson his own changes in the SAB budget.: These include $59,000 for intercol~egiate sports and travel; only a $3000 cu~ in the ASMSC fund; and maintained lat the SAS-approved $20,000 the amoqnt for child care subisidies. . !

Finally, Thompson's original recommendations (wliich have been since amended) agreed with Schenck on inter­collegiate athletics ($5?,000); uppe4 from

. $3000 t.o $6000 the amount allotedifor the student handbook; raised the amount for the student health center from $166,500 (SAS-approved) to $171,000; and com­pletely axed from the budget subsiciies for child care.

On June 13, however, Tho.mpson provided SAB members with his revised recommendations. He has stated Ito The Metropolitan, however, that his final recommendations are not final, an'p must still be reviewed by Schenck, who was still out of town this past week.

Thompson's newest proposals main­tain at $59 ,000 the intercollrgiate

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athletics fund; cut the student health cen­ter to $168,000 (from his prior $171,000); and set aside $5000 for child care sub­sidies.

The Board of Trustees meets June r · 21-22 in Alamosa, and which budget will win their approval-or even which budgets will be presented-is uncertain.

What you have: the SAB voted on a budget, the minority dissented and wrote their own budget, the Dean . of Student Services presented his budget, and the r

Vic~ President of Student Affairs did the same.

The responsibility for making a final decision on which 'budget the president will present to the trustees has been given to · Dr. Richard Netzel-now Vice President of Academic Affairs, but ac- J ting MSC president last year. .

Regardless of what Netzel presents to the trustees, Sandy Danaan, Chair of the Student Affairs Committee (the six students of the SAB) said the original SAB budget will be presented to the trustees through Emerson Schwartzkopf, MSC member of the Student Trustee Ad­visory Comn_tittee.

Danaan also stated the minority report has a constitutional right to be p­resented to the trustees .

Schwartzkopf said he has the responsibility to represent the students ... and will present the initial SAB-approved budget to the trustees. He feels the

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The Met1opolitan June 2o, 1979 3

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Legislature mixes it up in '19· by Frank Mullen

The Colorado Legislature is like a giant cement mixer, State Senator Hugh Fowler (R-Littleton) once said; the bills are introtluced, amended, and reamen­ded-and if the finished product becomes law, it may bear little resemblance to the sponsor's original draft.

Fowler's cement ~er analogy was borne out by the recent session of the Fif­

~ ty-second General Assembly. In March, The Metropolitan began

monitoring the progess of 36 bills under condiseration by the legislature. The bills either would have affected Auraria directly, ·or would have affected the cam­pus indirectly since they dealt with higher education or the state agency system.

Of these 36 bills. 18 were declared "l t" h bee os or ave n postponed in-definitely. The rest have either been signed into law by the governor, are still in a committee where they can advance under special orders, or have passed both

~ houses after several amendments. Once a bill is agreed upon by both

the House and Senate, it is sent to the governor. The bill can be signed into law, vetoed, or can become law without the governor's signature if. it is not signed or vetoed within 10 days.

The following is a summary of legislative action taken on some of the bills dealing with Auraria.

HIGHER EDUCATION

At the start of the session, five bills reorganizing the governance of state colleges and community colleges were in­troduced.

The most ambitious of these bills was Fowler's SB-523, which would have reorganized the higher education system while merging the University of Colorado-Denver (UCO) and Metropolitan State College (MSC) into the newly-created Metropolitan University of Colorado.

The bill passed the Senate Education Committee after a deluge of amendments and received support from the Colorado

Commission on Higher Education (CCHE). When the bill reached the floor of the Senate, however, almost all of the sweping changes were amended out and the Senate voted to kill the bill May 9.

Two of the other governance bills died in the Senate Education Committee. SB-455, introduced by Sen. Martin Hat­cher (D-Gunnison), would have placed all four year institutions of higher education under the governance of the Trustees of the State College Consortium-the board now governing MSC. SB-356, intr.oduced by Fowler, would have abolished the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education and created two separate boards to carry on the functions relating to vocational education and community colleges.

State Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Arvada) introduced two new governance bills into this session. HB-1498, now law, places Auraria under the state's "sunset provision." The law requires the CCHE to recommend "the termination, merger, continuation, or restructuring"of the Auraria center and its institutions to the general assembly by no later than January 15, 1980.

Tancredo's other governance proposal, HB-1519, is a perfect example of Fowler's "cement mixer" statement.

Originally, 1519 was to abolish the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education and establish individual appointed boards for each community college in the state.

"All the bill ended up to be," said Rep. Cliff Dodge (R-Denver}, "is a prohibition of collective bargaining at the community college level."

The bill is still under consideration by the Senate.

THE LONG BILL

In March the Joint Budget Commit­tee (JBC) made several recommedations which would have drastically affected UCO and MSC. The proposed "cap­ping" of UCD and MSC enrollments and the proposed elimination of UCO un­dergraduate programs drew fire from the in-

Solstice celebration tomorrow June 21, the longest day of the year,

will not only mark the official start of Summer, but the beginning of an alter­native energy exposition, Summer Solstice '79. The two day event, to be held on the Auraria campus, is being sponsored by CCD-Colorado Public In­terest Research Group (COPIRG).

According to the director of CCD­COPIRG, Jim Perin, the main purpose

"< pehind Summer Solstice '79 is to educate people about solar and other alternative energy sources, as well as conservation of natural resources. The exposition will also provide exposure for their group, which does research in that field.

In keeping with that objective, CCD­COPIRG has scheduled speakers and representatives from such organizations as Columbine Solar Institute, Colorado Office of Energy Conservation, Green-peace, Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth. Extra added attractions include free hot air balloon rides Friday morning, exhibits, music, a watermelon and pie eating contest, and a dunking tub.

Perin also hopes the two fund raising events associated with the exposition, a raffle that offers a champagne breakfast

for two in a hot air balloon as its prize, and a concert Friday evening, will enable COPIRG to establish a sustaining fund. Although the group is partially supported by Student Activities, it is dependent upon donations and fund raisers of this kind to continue its work.

The $4.00 admission to the concert, which features several bands and the raf­fle drawing, is reduced by 50% for those who present a receipt from one of the day's exhibits. Anyone who uses an energy-saving method of transportation to get to the concert, such as a bicycle or RT_D, will also enjoy the $2.00 savmgs.

All activities will be centered around Tivoli and the athletic field.· Raffle and concert tickets may be purchased at the CCD-COPIRG office (located in the Student Affairs Bldg.) or at the ex­position.

Anyone who might wish to par­ticipate or help in any way is encouraged to contact the CCD-COPIRG office, 629-3332/2597. All efforts to make Summer Solstice '79 a success will be rewarded with a beer bust after the concert.

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ping" of UCO enrollments and proposed elimination of UCO un­dergraduate programs drew fire from the stitutions as well as legislators. These changes were either abandoned or severely modified.

The final draft of the "long bill"

contains two footnotes which make direct changes at Auraria. Footnote 38 enables the CCHE to make transfers between the appropriations made to UCO and MSC. Footnote 38 will help implement plans to eliminate the duplication of academic programs between the institutions, Tan-

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Editorial No winners in student fee budget.battle by Lou Chapman

It appears three faculty members of the MSC Student Affairs Board (SAB) are displeased with the student fees allocations approved by the SAB; they want to take their ball and go home.

The major bone of contention is how much money should be spent on inter­collegiate athletics, but the squabble also involves funds for subsidies to MSC students who take their children to the Auraria Child Care Center, the health center, and other campus functions.

The three dissenting members (Harry Temmer, Clement Brigl, and Les Reed) wanted the SAB to approve $63,000 for intercollegiate athletics and team travel. The student-dominated board only approved $47 ,000.

Next, the trio attempted an end­around play, submitting their own budget to Dr. Robert Thompson, Vice President of Student Affairs. In the meantime, they (and other faculty mem­bers) have lobbied school administrators.

Letters Editor:

Other budgets have been proposed by Thompson himself and Edward Schenck, Dean of Student Services and

SAB chaitman. Finally, Dr. Richard Net­zel must come up with a proposal for the Board of Trustees.

These disputes and disruptions bring to focus -very definite questions concer­ning the system of representative democracy at MSC, and the roles, effec­tiveness, and sanctity of the SAB itself.

Under the present constitution, all of the maneuvers attempted are legal: the president of the school has ultimate responsibility for the budget and therefore has the right to submit his own proposals; the vice president of student affairs and dean of student services have "informal" input with. the president; the minority faction of any SAB vote has the right to present a minority report on any issue; and the SAB may submit their budget through the student trustee to the Board of Trustees.

Everyone asking for a slice of the student fee pie has rational reasons for their requests. All of them-and therefore all MSC students-are being

about the three smothered burritos you had for dinner.

cheated out of fair representation because of the present system.

The SAB should be made soley responsible for student fees. The SAB is an elected committee-and, regardless of the number of voters, they legally represent the students. Their final recommedations should not be realigned, perverted, or given _any but the highest consideration by the trustees.

It is unfair to expect the athletics department to run a program without having the foggiest idea of the amount of its budget. The same is true of the child care center and any other functiori receiving student fees. The answer to this is either a non-discretionary allotment, an amount each receipient could at least aim at for the next year, or at the very least, a secure knowledge that whatever the SAB approved would be submitted to the trustees with 100 percent backmg.

Finally, even if the SAB does not have the absolute voice it should and in current practice cannot fulfill its proper role, its operation should at least be

for the porta-pott1es. But until we hear Mr. Ruibal's suggestions for conducting

properly executed: the budget for the up­coming year should be planned and ap­proved by the outgoing board. It is un­fair to MSC students that their fees were manipulated by a committee half­comprised of newly-elected represen­tatives unfamiliar first-hand with the background, problems, and conflicts concerning the allotment of $427 ,000 in student fees.

Regardless of the reason this time for the abuse of the system (The· Metropolitan has received various responses as to why new members were saddled with the voting responsibility) it should not happen again. Advance plan­-riing is necessary for, and consequential to, proper spending of student fees.

The· SAB does not now actually represent the students because it does not have the power to do so. While it ap­proves a budget, faculty and ad­ministrators go their own way willy-nilly with the student fees. In the meantime, no one can count on anything, and the students receive bottom place on · the totem pole concerning their own fees.

Ho hum . .. another anti-nuke rally; this time at the Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant. And it's a fairly mediocre rally at that- no big name entertainment, no huge crowds-just fourteen hundred Colorado folks making clear where they stand on the issue of nuclear power.

Other reporters who had the poor taste to stick around at the rally learned, among other things, that the legal precedent set during the Karen Silkwood nuclear contamination trial in Oklahoma will be used here against the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. Those gourmets who stayed, enjoyed chocolate chip cookies baked in a crude home-made solar oven. At the conclusion of the rally a couple hundred die-hards joined hands in the sunshine and sang a few hopeful choruses of a folksong. It was so un­sophisticated.

our rallies in good taste, I'll remain -~--------------....

Now, suppose you are a sophisticated journalist such as Sal Ruibal and you plan to report on the rally for the Metropolitan. Where do you find a story, an angle, amid all this mediocrity'? You don't, you get bored, and you leave early. Instead of reporting what happened at the rally you sit down at your typewriter later and compose a "think piece"(June 13). You noticed t­shirts _and posters for sale at the rally and you lable the event commercial. You noticed the amateur nature of the rally and you label it amateur. You write

Mr. Ruibal acknowledges the anti­nuke issue to be important; apparently he feels it's just being mishandled locally. We would welcome his further input. I mean, we could be wrong . . . perhaps selling t-shirts is n~t the best way to pay

satisfied with rallies that taste good. Sincerely,

Mike Maxwell Student, Amateur Protestor

I am sorry that I missed the cookies, but I am also afraid that you missed the point. . A · sophisticated movement is needed to reach a sophisticated audience, i.e., the voters of Colorado. You can hold hands and sing 'ti/ the cows come home, but if the message of the anti­nukes movement is lost in a mish-mash of commercial and ideological hucksterism, you have failed. I would also be in­terested in seeing what percentage of t­shirt and novelty profits did indeed go towards porta-potties.

S.R.

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/114J77tri',!o/&fr~ EDITOR

Sal Rulbal

BOSl"ESS Mfl"flGER Steve Wergvs

PRODOCTIO" Mfl"flGER S.Peter Duray-Blto

REPORTERS frank Mullen. Lou Chapman

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Due to action by the Colorado State Legislature, MSC Fall semester tuition and fees must be paid at the time of registration. Deadline for mail-in registration is August 13.

Emerson Schwartzkopf ..

Veter~ns receiving educational assistance and financial aid students should contact their respective offices for specific information .

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feature -Strong ·heart key to conditioning

Above: a preliminary _measurement of extra assets. Below: Marc Rabinoff puts his morning conditioning class through the paces.

by Joan Conrow

MSC, like many other schools, of­fers a wide variety of physical education classes to its students each semester. However, the conditioning classes are unique. Rather than teach a particular sport or skill, they concentrate solely on increasing the student's carclio-vascular endurance.

Cardio-vascular endurance deter­mines how efficiently one's heart works, which, according to instructor Dr. Marc Rabinoff, is the prime parameter of physical fitness.

At the beginning of the course, each student's level of fitness is determined through a series of tests. Sit-ups, a grip and flexibility test and a twelve minute run assess their condition quite ac­curately. A pinch test measures the amount of body fat the student has, which tells them if they are overweight.

A work-out stressing swimming or jogging, is then designed for each in­dividual, based on the results of the test. The work-out allows them to exercise their heart themselves . The amount of exertion is monitored by the pulse, which is checked several times during exer­cising.

Rabinoff feels the class is important because it allows students to participate and improve at their own levels. Also, it

prevents the danger of heart damage, because each person knows exactly how much they· should exercise. The course enables students to improve their overall condition so they will be physically prepared to enjoy their favorite sports.

"These are popular classes and they're always full," states Dr. Rabinoff. "However, there's about a 300/o drop-out rate, usually by the students who are most out of shape. Those who do stick with it have a high rate of success.''

Rabinoff determines grades not by a student's fitness level, but by their atten­dance record and perseverance in following their work-out. Those who come regularly generally feel good about the results and keep it up. -

All classes are co-ed, but Dr. Rabinoff doesn't see much competition between the sexes, perhaps because most compete mainly with themselves.

"Americans seem to become more interested in physical fitness every year,'' says Rabinoff, who is quite active him­self. "People want to feel good about their bodies and parti~ipate in sports.''

The large number of students enrolled in MSC P .E. classes seem to in­dicate they are following the trend. In light of the high incidence of heart disease and overweight in this country, it seems to be a pretty healthy trend.

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Educators lead photography show -by S. Peter Duray-Bito

Back in the SO's and 60's, most aspiring photographers dreamed of Life magazine, National Geographic and, in general, a wildly glamorous, often mythical lifestyle. Photography then was a tool of specialized men-magazine

illustrators who brought the sights of the world close to home through their vision.

Perhaps through the disillusion­ment of our own· imperialism, the elite of photography have shunned the globetrot­ters and have aroused the fine art world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the strength and power photo educators

Emmanuel Gallery: frontiers of fine art photography in Colorado today.

wield over the contemporary photo scene.

Throughout the country, dozens of photography majors have sprung out of fine art schools in the last decade. These departments are headed by photographic educators who tie together the form and content of photography with conceptual, <:motional and · · intellectual rationaliiZations.

The disctinction between the new, introspective aspect of photography and the traditional mode is important. The result is that photographs are perhaps less satisfying visually, yet, in many cases, more expressive of the artist's original in­tentions. The fact that the intentions have become more self-centered, more cruel to the viewer, is perhaps but a sign of the times.

Between now and July 15, an impor­tant showing of Colorado photographers is being held at the Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria Campus. Included in the showing are Charles Roitz, head of the University of Colorado's Photography Department in Boulder, Jim Milmoe, the University of Colorado's photography professor, Barbara Houghton and Sandy Hume, of Metropolitan State College, and a number of other educators from around the state.

Without question, the show represents the frontiers of ffoe art photography in Colorado today. The

The ln,;.Laws: Certified Crazies by S. Peter Duray-Bito

Peter Falk and Alan Arkin have just landed at an airstrip somewhere in the middle of Central America. They are . being fired on by guerrillas (one presumes) and have to run to a red Mer­cedes to escape. Peter Falk is the old pro- he yells for Arkin J.o run the serpen­tine. In Switzerland, long wfodfog roads on a mountain side are called seq:>entines.

Falk makes it to the Mercedes by zig­zagging back and forth to avoid the bullets. Arkin begins to run straight to the car, but Falk reminds him: "Serpen­tine, serpentine!" Arkin ambles back to where he started and begins anew-wob­bling to and fro like a sputtering old gen­tleman.

Such zaniness characterizes The In­Laws. Vince Ricardo (Falk) and Sheldon Kornpett. (Arkin) meet through the pen-

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Things first go awry when Vince asks Sheldon to break into his safe. After two thugs chase Sheldon, guns blazing, Vince sadly informs Sheldon · that he has just been an unwitting participant in a major Treasury heist.

Throughout all this, Vince calls Sheldon "Shelly" (having just met the night before) and affectionately acts as · though they have been long time friends . At Sheldon's incredulous disbelief over what is happening, Vince calmly winks and convincingly assures him the whole situation will be resolved within the hour ..

· Needless to say, the two jump from the frying pan into the fire. They end up in a banana republic of the kind seen in

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gallery is somewhat markedly divided between black and white and color. The black and white section is- characterized by large format, environmental lan­dscapes. Prior to the opening of the show• last Saturday, Charles Roitz lectured on "The Landsc;ape Divided" in the first of a series of lectures co-sponsored by UCD and MSC (see sidebar).

Roitz's · approach is to find subtle punctuations in the landscape to rivet the viewers attention. Occasionally, these ~ marks are natural, such as a clump of grass or trees, but more often they are man-made alterations to the landscape, such as culverts or power poles and lines.

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SUMMER LECTURE

SERIES

The University of Colorado-Den­ver and Metropolitan State College are co-sponsoring a series of photo lectures every Tuesday and Thursday night this summer. All lectures are free and open to the public and are being held at either Room 214 of the East Classroom or the Mountain Bell auditorium at 17th· and Arapahoe.

According to Barbara Houghton of Metropolitan State College, the lectures are being funded by matching grants from the Colorado Humanities Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. The selection of visiting artists from around the country is coordinated with the Summer Photography Program at Breckenridge.

''Students and photographers can become familiar with the artist's work here and later attend a workshop in Br~ckenridge,'' says Houghton.

Alex Sweetman, Barbara Jo revelle, and Candida Finkel, all of the Chicago Art Institute, will be looking at historical aspects of photography. Doug Munson, who printed the magnificent albumen· prints by Jackson now showing at the Colorado Historical Society, will discuss the historical and contemporary use of elegant albumens.

"Many lecturers will coordinate with a class we are holding concerning the ac­cepted histories of photography," Houghton explains. "These accepted histories omit certain important people and we're trying to re-evaluate towards a new history.''

Other lecturers include Joann Ver­berg of the Poloroid Corporation, who will show the firm's newest film system. Rochester, New York will be represented by Roger Bruce of the George Eastman House and Roger Mertin of the Univer­sity of Rochester.

For more information concerning the lectures and the program at Breckenridge, including the schedule of lectures, contact Barbara Houghton at 629-3090, or Sandy Hume at 629-2730.

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"The Toy". Vogue Theatre, 1465 S. Pearl. 777-2544.

"Wifemistress". Esquire Theatre, 590 S. Downing. 733-5757.

Children's Museum. Rep. Pat Schroeder bunny suit exhibit. 931 Bannock. 571-5198.

sZJ Concert: Saturday Nite. the Paramount Theatre. 10:30 p.m.

Nick Stoner. Monastery Restaurant, 11th & Speer. Call 893-WINE.

"The Boy and the North Wind". Children's Museum, 931 Bannock. 2p.m.

Dedication of Japanese Gardens. Denver Botanic Gardens, 909 York. 575-2547.

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The Beach Boys. Red Rocks. 7:30 p.m. For more information call 770-9733.

Dizzy Gillespie. Turn of the Cen­tury, 7300 E. Hampden Ave. Tickets: 778-0700.

First of Denver Concerts. Rexall Rangers. 17th & California. 11 :45 a.m.

Chinook Chamber Ensemble. Cafe Nepenthes, 1416 Market. 9 p.m.

uZ4 . Harmony_ Wheel. Josephina's. 623-0166. .

"The Boy and the North Wind". Children's Museum. 2 p.m.

"The Donkey Prince". Children's Museum. 1 and 3 p.m.

KRMA Channel 6. Cleveland Or­chestra - 60th Anniversary Celebration. 7 p.m.

KRMA Channel 6. The Japanese. "Farm Song". 8 p.m.

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Teddy Pendergrass. Red RocJ<is. 7:30 p.m. For more information call 770-9733.

First of Denver Concerts. The Denver Public Schools Festival. 17th & California. 11 :45 a.m.

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Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, and Kennith Koch poetry reading. Colorado Women's College. 8 p.m.

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budget shouldn't be tampered with. "It's a majority vote and because

they (the SAB) wouldn't have been fairly dealt with by the administration (if the budget is changed)," Schwartzkopf said.

Newly-elected MSC student body president Floyd Martinez said: "I sup­port the final SAB budget . . .. but the whole system has to be reorganized. The students aren't being represented as it is now . It doesn't represent the schools properly."

Martinez referred specifically to the fact that of the five faculty members, two are directly related with athletics.

Plume, SAB member, says as it now stands, the college president deserves the right to change the budget for proposal to the trustees, because he is the one legally and directly responsible for. the expen­diture of student funds.

Plume, however, would like to see SAB be the final voice to the trustees; be made directly responsible for student fees. Plume said: "I feel a major question is what is the function of intercollegiate athletics?"

Marc Rabinoff, Director of Men's Athletics at MSC, said: "To cut our budget by that much is not only ludicrous, it' s outrageous.".

"It's a slap in the. face," Rabinoff said. "To have the whims of five or six students re-elected every year decide the funding of a program that goes two years

in advance is ludicrous." Rabinoff also expressed concern of

improprieties in the way the SAB handled the whole procedure of deciding and voting on the budget. He said recently­elected SAB members should not have the responsibility and power to vote on such an issue, an issue that has been debated and discussed for months. He feels the members of the outgoing SAB should settle the problem because they are familiar with it, iust as Netzel must settle his budget before the new president assumes responsibility.

"Those new people never even heard my presentations on behalf of the depar­tment. I made it to the outgoing board."

Rabinoff said students should not be soley responsible for delving into funds meant for intercollegiate athletics, something they cannot understand, and which involves professors, outside schools, and advance commitments.

If the budget were cut the way the SAB voted, Rabinoff said he would -off the top of his head - immediately drop year-round track, swimming, and tennis as intercollegiate sports at MSC.

"We have commitments two years in advance," he said. "The child care center has no commitment to anybody. If it folded tomorrow, all it would mean is parents would have no place to put their kids on campus."

l\'.fary Jane Steiner, director of the

Auraria Child Care Center, said a cut in subsidies to MSC students for child care could definitely hinder the education or some parents.

First of all. she said, fees at the cen­ter are planned to go from 80 cents an hour to 95 cents an hour. Currently MSC pays its students 20 cents an hour toward child care, paid directly to the center which gives MSC students a 20 cent an hour discount, then bills the school.

To cut this subsidy, Steiner said, would mean an immediate jump of 35 cents an hour for MSC students (the new increase plus the loss of the 20-cent-an­hour subsidy).

<'Thirty cents an hour over 15 weeks can add up," Steiner said, "And there is no allowance for phasing out, they'd just be hit with it.''

She said the average usage time of the center by MSC students is 20 hours a week.

Steiner estimated of the 300-400 children cared for monthly at the center, about 650Jo are from MSC students.

"A lot of people call me six or nine months in advance to get information and set up their schedules and school costs," she said.

"We are more than competitive with other centers," Stiener continued.

She said the center also provides student practicums for the School of

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Education and has a child care develop-ment center, all of which may be affected by the subsidy cuts.

Other items prone to contention on the $427 ,500 budget - which according to SAB chairman Dannon is losing money annually - include funds for student activities, which the faculty._ minority report would like to trim from $81,000 to $80,000 and student support allocations, which Thompson lowered from the SAB - approved $4,500 to $3,000.

Dannon said that Thompson has agreed to take the administrative costs f°' the student support program out of the hands of the SAB and into the hands of financial aid, balancing the proposed cut.

Ways to avoid all of this in the future include changing the school con­situation through referendum (allegedly there was a referendum in 1970 dealing -with support of intercollegiate athletics at MSC, but the results, according to SAB members are either lost or for sale); or set a non-discretionary amount that each service could be assured of at least one year in advance.

"I'd settle for the $55,CXX> we had ~ ­last year, if I just knew I'd be getting it," Rabinoff said. "I can't even sign any contracts for the baseball season - I don't know if we have a team!"

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"In 1964, I built a house," Roitz explains. "I made some changes in the landscape and this provided the key for what this part of the country means to me emotionally. I went out and began to photograph what people had done to the landscape.' '

Roitz, a Colorado native, began photography in the military but nearly gave it up until he met Minor White. "Minor opened up the possibility of per­sonal expression," Roitz says. "I began to understand that photography could help me understand the emotional forces within me.''

During the lecture, Roitz showed some of bis earlier work-images that could be termed flashier, and more con­ventional, than his present efforts. "I was more into the relationship between object and background then," Roitz con­tinues. "Now I feel I am using the frame more evenly-it's a different vision all together." ·

Roitz's vision is an obvious influence

in the show, especially over photographers who were his students. Immediately adjacent to his group of five photographs are works by other artists that are conceptually quite similiar-large expanses of landscape that seem visually bland at first. Like the plains themselves, though, the subtler features of these photographs can be ap­preciated through further, more careful viewing.

The color half of the show contains some radically different photographs. A series of bathroom interiors, harshly defined by a pinpoint light source, is the work of Tom Breeden of Breckenridge. Ron McClure of Commerce City shows us hands and human mid-sections at what may be a party. Again, the use of flash to evoke brilliant, harsh colors. Charles Everett and Jim and Barbara Houghton display color landscapes and cityscapes that are characterized by an expansive view and dynamic placement of colored objects.

Perhaps the most unusual displays are those of Sue Robinson. She has photgraphed the fronts and backs ()f some snapshots tacked on a bulletin board. The backs contain quotes from Proust and the prints showing the snap­shots face up are smeared with developer and hypo stains. All of the prints are mQunted on yet another, real-life bulletin boards.

Sue Robinson teaches filmmaking at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "I suppose I have a rebellion towards photography. The fine art photographer is becoming just another commodity, especially in light of the recent sales in New York." Prints by Weston, Wee Gee and others were auctioned for thousands of dollars in New York this past spring.

"I love literature and just wanted the quotes to be as accessible as the images in this series," explains Robinson. "I guess I just like the way words look."

On the second floor are a number , hand-colored photographs. Unfor-

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Woody Allen's Bananas. A ridiculous, hintingly gay general runs a standard Central American palace filled with "great" works of art-sleazy paint-by­numbers renditions of tigers and such.

When faced with a firing squad, Vince and Sheldon desperately stall for time. Vince is talking matter-of-factly about the basic blindfold and cigarette requirements while Sheldon is tumbling around in a daze, lamenting his life's meager accomplishments, never quite sure what is really going on.

The In-Laws is most memorable in the curiously affectionate/antagonistic relationship between Falk and Arkin.

Falk is always very deeply concerned about everything except his profession and its dangers. His mind is on the Mets, barbeques, and Ar.kin-the deeper Falk drags Arkin into the midst of danger, the more apoligetic he becomes.

Arkin is dazed by all this-and, at ,one point, dumbly staggers about during a gunfight. He wants Falk to get out of his life, yet is dragged on-partly by Falk, but mostly through his own inability to figure out what is going on.

And the marriage? They get to that, too, but not before the customary car chases and shootouts. Arkin, while escaping Treasury men, drives his BMW

into an instant car painting shop and calls Falk, screaming about having flames on his car.

The minor incongruencies are comical in their own right. The same guerillas who are firing on them at the airstrip spend rounds of shots never hit­ting them. Yet, just as they got off the plane, a government official they were about to meet is shot cleanly through the heart in one shot.

Certainly The In-Laws is a refreshing, welcome alternative to this summer's crash of horrifying monster movies and just plain bad films.

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credo said. Footnote 44a of the bill allows the

Auraria Board, under the "overview" of the CCHE, to make transfers of instruc­tional support funds between UCO and MSC to further the consolidation of academic support services.

"We have already ·pledged ourselves to work towards the elimination of duplication at Auraria," said John Mar­vel, President of Consortium of State Colleges. "HB-1498 and the long bill

footnotes will help us achieve those ends. We don't see it {the increased authority of the Auraria Board) as a threat.''

PARKING ON CAMPUS

Two bills which have become law may help Auraria's control of parking enforcement.

One bill guarantees standardization of all state-owned handicapped parking areas. Ben Walton, recently appointed

Auraria Parking Director, said the Physical Plant will begin to modify the existing handicapped parking spaces on campus to bring them in line with the state statute. The modifications include wfdenini the spaces to allow for wheelchair access.

Walton said he is unsure how SB-422, the other new parking law concer­ning liability for parking violators, will affect campus parking since he has not seen a final version of the law.

lunately, the names of the artists escaped this viewer (no show catalogue was available). A series of sleazy black and white billboards contain certain areas that have been hand-colored by the artist. The effect is, to selectively emphasize these areas as being more intimate to the artist and to the viewer.

For anyone taking photography at Auraria, and for photographers in general, the show at the Emmanuel is a must to see. It represents a fine selection of art photography in Colorado today • and may even offer students some suggestions on how to get through photo courses. Perhaps, eventually students may show their own work at the Em­manuel Gallery.

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