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MSC student's moving essay
Cost-free legal clinic considered ~ George White
Reporter
A proposed campus clinic that would provide free legal
assistance to MSC students took a big step forward Oct. 12 when the
MSC Student Affairs Board ~ :ipproved funding for the program.
The d evelopers of the Metropolitan State College Student Legal
Assistance Program are aiming to open the clinic in January, and if
the program works its way up the procedural ladder of approvals as
hoped,
- MSC students will have access to free legal services next
spring.
"We saw a need on the part of the students for a clinic on
campus where they could obtain competent legal assistance," said
Dr. Ron Taylor, an MSC associate pro-fessor of business law.
I. The clinic would have a licensed
Colorado attorney on hand 20 hours a week to assist MSC students
in areas such as divorce, landlord disputes, traffic citations,
bankruptcy and contractual obliii;ations, according to Taylor.
"We saw a need on the part of the students for a clinic on cam-
pus where they could obtain legal assistance."
Dr. Ron Taylor MSC Business Law professor
"I think that many problems students have in legal matters could
probably be worked out in a 15-minute session with an attorney,"
Taylor said.
'Too many times people neglect to seek out competent legal
assistance because services are not easily available to them," he
said.
The recommendation for funding by the { SAB means that MSC
students will pay for
the program through their student fees. Taylor and the SAB agree
the funding for the program will not require any increase in
student fees.
"The program would be funded by exist-ing SAB funds and no
increase in student
"' fees would result," said Dr. David Conde, assistant vice
president of Student Affairs and chairman of the SAB.
Taylor, who will serve as director of th~ clinic, said the
services would be available to both full -time and part-time Y!SC ~
students.
Freshman Shane Pitts, a national Taekwon-Do silver medalist,
leaps over Seung sihk Chang. See story p. 11. Photo by Lance
Murphey
The attorney would be available during daytime and nighttime
hours to consult with students, explain documents and laws, outline
legal choices and options, answer legal questions, and offer legal
advice.
He would not b e able to appear in court, prepare legal
documents or advise in felony cases, Taylor said.
Each student would have access to two hours of consultation each
semester, he . said.
"Obviously, with 17,000 MSC students, there would have to be
limits on the services we could provide and the amount of time we
could spend with each individual student," Taylor said.
The program must now be approved by the Office of Academic
Affairs, who will determine if the school will fund Taylor's
organizing costs. They will have the decision by Nov. 15, according
to Dr. Dorothy Snozek, associate vice president of Academic
Affairs.
The proposal would then go to MSC President William Fulkerson
for approval and, ultimately, to the MSC Board of Trustees.
Both Taylor and Conde are confident the program will secure the
necessary funding and approvals, and both are hopeful the clinic
will open next spring.
"We feel the clinic will be a benefit to both the students who
utilize the service and the college, who will be taking care of the
needs of its students," Taylor said.
Although MSC has had other proposals for legal clinics in the
past, the college has never had a legal service conducted through
the school and offered to the students, Conde said.
"MSC students used to have access to legal services through UCO,
but their program was dissolved some time ago," Conde said.
Taylor's proposed clinic would b e available only to MSC
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Trust me! Laurence C. Washington Reporter
Unless ifs for yourself, a close friend or someone you trust,
don't sell any books back to the Auraria Book Center.
"If the book is stolen, you will be investi-gated," said Lolly
Ferguson of the Auraria Public Safety Office.
Last week, several MSC students found that out the hard way.
When an MSC student sold a book hack to the book center, she was
contacted by the Public Safety office. Officials informed her the
book had been in a knapsack that was stolen from the book center.
The knapsack was recovered in Lot F.
The female student said she received the book from another
student, who had received it from yet another student.
"The story unfolded when the first stu-Clent told his friend
that he was withtlraw-
~ng from school and had a lot of stuff to do," Ferguson
said.
He asked his friend to sell the hook for him. The friend
realized he didn't have his ID, and while sitting in The Mission,
he was joined by the female studen t. He asked her to sell the
book, Ferguson said.
The student who stole the book never showed up, she said. The
backpack and book were returned to the owner, and the book center
got its money back. The two students received a lecture from Public
Safety officials, Ferguson said. D
Classes nauseating
Dave Perry Reporter
Suspicious noxious fumes filtering through the s
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Sobel anchors classes Marla Pearson Reporter
Scott Sobel - a reporter who covered the capture of mass
murderer Ted Bundy and the arrival of the Cuban exiles in Flor-ida
- is one of the newest additions to the Metropolitan State College
Journalism Deparbnent.
Sobel, a reporter and sub-anchor for KMGH Channel 7 in Denver,
is teaching only one class, an omnibus broadcast jour-nalism class,
"Perspectives in T.V. News," JRN 190. It is the only
broadcast-related class in the journalism department.
In the past Sobel has given lectures for Greg Pearson, the
department chairman, which enhanced his desire to share his
knowledge with students. He wants to give students the "real
picture" of what it's like to be in broadcast journalism.
Sobel said his motive for teaching is not the money. Guest
speakers for the class
Visiting instructor Scott Sobel include a local news
director/producer, an investigative reporter and a television
anchor. His students must do interviews, tour Channel 7 and
critique current news stories. Because he wants his students to
know what television journalism is all about, Sobel discusses the
negative as well as the positive sides of the business. D
Thunderstorm busters Jean Corbae Reporter
First, you feel a few drops and then look up. Before long, the
sky darkens, rain smashes to the earth, and flashes of light streak
across the sky. If you had listened to the weather report earlier
that morning, you probably brought your umbrella along, but if you
didn't, you're doing the old dodge and dart trick using your
backpack for cover.
If you belong to the meteorology department, however, you've
probably waited all day, instruments in hand, to observe and record
this common occurence of nature: the thunderstorm.
''Thunderstom1 chasing gives the students a sense of reality"
beyond what is taught in the classroom, explained Tom Corona,
meteorology professor at MSC. "Although there are a lot of weather
stations across the country, there is often a wide region between
them where storms can form."
Thanks to Corona, next year's spring thunderstorm chasers will
be receiving a "weather balloon," which will help them
accurately record such data as the tem-perature, moisture and
pressure to aid in predictions of forming thunderstorms.
The balloon will help students understand the conditions which
occur before severe thunderstorms develop. It will help students
.,,; warn those areas which will be affected by them. Thunderstorm
chasing involves mea-suring the temperature, winds and moisture and
photographing the storm with both still and video cameras. For
meteorology students, then , "hands-on" experience jvolves more
than just getting wet.
The balloon, which costs $15,000, will cost MSC only $7,500. The
other half will be paid through a grant from the National Science
Foundation (NSF). The award is granted to small undergraduate
schools with small budgets and eager professors who are willing to
tackle the numerous ) lengthy forms.
MSC's small meteorology department, consisting of three faculty
members and approximately 40 meteorology majors, competed with
other schools around the country for the grant. D
Harvest Festival blooms Mlryam Wiley Reporter
Business at Currigan Hall seemed to be booming Oct. 16-18 for
Denver's first-class crafters selected to participate in the
Harvest Festival, a 15-year-old national event.
More than 9,000 artisans from across the nation submitted their
handiwork, and only 1,000 were selected to be in one or more of the
fairs in the 19 cities toured.
You wouldn't expect to attend a science class in a crafts fair.
But you did.
At the festival, the largest touring fa ir of handmade crafts in
the United States, a butterfly specialist sold her crafts. She
displayed a sign using butterflies that read, "Please ask
questions."
The sign also read that all the butterflies she used to make the
colorful arrangements - tightly protected inside glass coffee
tables, lamp bases or small gift boxes - had died naturally.
Aspen moccasin expert Steve DeGouveia, a 15-year Harvest
veteran, was amazed at the results of Denver's first festival.
"This is the best first show we've ever done. It is probably up
there with San Diego, which has had it for 11 years," he said.
DeGouveia didn't sell his shoes and boots at the show. He was
only taking orders and measurements for each customer's mold.
Deliveries won't be made until next Aptjl for the footwear, all
priced above $175.
"They last an average of six to 10 years," DeGouveia said.
"This is a tremendous crowd," said puzzle maker Jim Reed. "It's
very family-oriented and very down-to-earth. Not like the crowds in
L.A. There they don't have the patience to try puzzles. They even
cheat."
Across from the custom-made moccasins were custom-made hats from
the Hatter-dashery.
Cathy Loeffler, a hat maker from Seattle, said she was ecstatic
with the business. She .,_ has nine years' experience in Harvest
Festivals and said it was not always so busy.
"The hours are long when you are alone," she said. D_
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This year your student government has insured that your voice be
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All students fron1 Metropolitan State College are encouraged to
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Life on the street
Students plunge into destitution Shelly Barr Reporter
In the chapel of the Samaritan House, Denver's Lawrence Street
shelter for the homeless, Jesus hangs from a cross by one hand. The
other hand reaches down to help up someone in need.
The unorthodox crucifix, sculpted es-pecially for the Samaritan,
located at 2301 Lawrence St., by local artist Larry Marcel, is
symbolic of a philosophy closely held by many of the homeless, a
philosophy often misconstrued by outsiders:
"We don't want a hand-out, we want a hand up."
On Oct. 9-10, students from the Auraria and CSU campuses got a
first-hand view of life on the streets - from sandwich lines to
overnight shelters - when they volun-teered to take "The Plunge"
into home-lessness. The event was coordinated by a group of Denver
clergymen to create a new consciousness among people about the
hardships of the homeless lifestyle through first-hand
experience.
Before hitting the streets, participants met on campus for an
orientation and debriefing session given by past Plunge
participants and group leaders from the homeless community.
"The profile of these homeless are not wrimer winos. In fact,
lots of our people are high school, and even college,
graduates."
Father Ben Samaritan staff priest
First-time participant and MSC sn;dent Beverly Goodman said she
decided to take the plunge to gain insight for a sociology paper
she is writing this semester on Denver's homeless. She said after
the two-day ordeal she walked away with a different attitude and a
full sense of the dehumanizing conditions that the homeless are
forced to endure on a daily basis.
"Time just stopped. There's no place to go, nothing to do and
you have the whole day to figure something out," she said.
Goodman said she and her small group walked approximately seven
miles around metro Denver looking for facilities that served food,
before going to the Samaritan House for the night. And from one
food line to the next, she said they were almost completely ignored
by the people who served them.
"The (food serving) facilities that we found were all outside
the churches," she said. "What you do is walk up, they slap a
sandwich in your hand and you walk off."
Goodman said she appreciated the churches's charity, but added
that they consistently treated the homeless like "animals."
'They don't talk to them," she said. "I thought it was very
condescending, kind of sickening, really."
Goodman said she once looked down on the homeless, but her night
at the Samaritan House changed her mind.
"I was kind of under the impression that those guys were winos
or bums," she said. "But most of them weren't that way at all.
"I talked to three families that had lost their farms and had
nowhere to go," she said. "The oil field families are in the same
situation. They got laid off and that's the only skills they have.
They're in a situation where they don't have any choice but to stay
in shelters."
Goodman said she now believes that just about anyone has the
potential to become homeless.
"You never know when you're going to be put in that situation,"
she said.
"The profile of these homeless are not Larimer winos," Samaritan
staff priest Father Ben said. "In fact, lots of our people are high
school, and even college, grad-uates."
While Goodman was at the Samaritan, she said she witnessed
people who were eager to work, not people looking for hand-outs.
"While we were at the shelter, they announced a job (for) Saturday
at $2 an hour for two hours moving someone who had called in," she
said. "And there were probably 20 men that jumped up from where
they were and went running down to the desk. Two dollars an hour,
that's way below minimum wage, but they were will-ing to go out for
two hours ... just to make some kind of money to have in their
pockets."
The Samaritan usually offers a 30-day stay to about 250 people.
And as an incentive, the shelter offers its people a 90-day
extension if they find work within 20 days, Father Ben said.
Every morning at 7:00, the Samaritan boots people out the door
in hopes that they will look for work. If they're serious, they are
given either gas money or bus tokens, he said.
"We're trying to break the cycle of homelessness in as many
people as we can by providing services," Father Ben said.
The Samaritan shelter works to get people back on their feet,
but it does not coddle its inhabitants, he said.
There are some hard and fast rules enforced at the shelter.
which, if broken, could mean a cold night outside, he said.
"If a person is drinking, that person's not welcome to come in,"
he said.
Father Ben said there is a breathalyzer machine in the shelter,
and tests are given to anyone who acts suspicious or smells of
alcohol. Persons found to have been drinking are either sent to a
detox center or, if they argue, onto the streets.
"If anyone is caught stealing, they're history," he continued.
"Everyone is required to take one shower each day. They can take 50
a day if they want to, but they have to take at least one."
Father Ben also said that people who come to the shelter are
required to spend their first day inside volunteering their
services.
"This isn't just a flop house," he said. "People must make a
contribution." D
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The St. Francis Center, home of the Auraria Interfaith Ministry
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Metro takes A.l.M. for better I ifestyles Renee Allen
Reporter
Everyone has to believe in something, whether it's Cod, Bob or
the doorknob.
But if you haven't found your Cod, Bob or doorknob, maybe the
Auraria Interfaith Ministry (A.I.M.) is the place for you.
The ministry, located in the St: Francis Center, just east of
the Central Classroom, is an interdenominational religious
organi-zation serving the Auraria campus.
A.I.M.'s goal is to reach the students and the faculty on the
Auraria campus through ministry, according to Virginia Broderius,
the A.l.M. Lutheran minister.
"This campus is unique because so many different people come
here from different parts of the world, but it can be a very cold
place. We want to try to make it friendly and more unified,"
Broderius said.
A.l.M. consists of ministers from differ-ent religious
denominations. Currently Broderius, Dan Fletcher, a Catholic
minis-ter, and Nelson Bock, minister of United Ministry of Higher
Education, serve in A.l.M.
They are trying to recruit an Episcopal-ian minister and a
Jewish rabbi.
Part of A.l.M.'s efforts to reach students include the World
Friendship Festival, which took place Oct. 13 and 14, and SHARE, an
event organized to raise money for Denver's hungry, which will be
held Nov. 18 and 19 on the campus.
"We do things like the Friendship Festi-val to try to bring
unity to the campus," Broderius said.
This year A.l.M.'s theme is "Let's be friends" and was started
with a clown min-istry at the beginning of the fall semester.
"Clowns stood on campus and handed out about 400 balloons,
hoping to get stu-dents to make new friends by passing the balloons
on to someone else," Broderius said.
A.l.M. sponsors a variety of programs, speeches and workshops -
such as stress management- throughout the school year.
The organization also offers a nurses' support group every
Tuesday, and the min-isters head the Listening Post, located in the
student center, where anyone can share peanuts and conversation
during the lunch hour.
For more information about A.I.M., stop by its office in the St.
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New campus minister warms to students; cools to climate
Renee Allen Reporter
Dan Fletcher is no Bible-thumping, fire and brimstone, praise
the Lord kind of man, but he's more than happy to share his
enthusiasm for Cod and campus ministry with anyone who11
listen.
Fletcher, who has replaced Sister Joan Hartlaub as the Catholic
campus minister at the Auraria Interfaith Ministry, arrived at
Auraria seven weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he worked in adult
minis-try for three years.
He said he is very excited to be here in Denver in a full-time
campus ministry posi-tion. His only concern appears to be the
change of climate. He has never lived in a state with snow before.
Get ready, Dan -snow is just around the comer.
"I love the job and the people; the people
have been so nice. But I'm not sure about the cold. I love the
outdoors, camping and biking, but I'm nof sure I'm ready for the
cold," he said.
Fletcher, 30, has two master's degrees in theology from the
University of California at Berkley.
"I have the same degree a Catholic priest would have. I just
don't take the vows, and I am allowed to get married," he
explained.
It is difficult getting to know everyone on such a large campus
with so many dif-ferent schools, he said.
"I feel like the new kid on the block, but that's what ministry
is all about, getting to know people," he added.
"My main goal is to let the Catholic community know that we are
here at Aura-ria and that they are supported by the church. And I
want all students to know that we are here for them," he said.
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You're also invited to attend our free Monday night lecture
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Professor teaches world union Debra Schluter Reporter
Floating above the earth outside of Apollo 9, sunlight pouring
past, dissolving into darkness, astronaut Russell Schweickart said
he became painfully aware of how small and blue and beautiful the
earth is, feeling for the first time, in his gut, "the precious
unity of the earth and all the living things it supports.
"Circling this planet, passing from sun-light into darkness and
back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware of
how artificial are the thousands of boundaries we've created," he
said.
But closer to home, lines drawn between nations don't seem so
unbelievable. The cultural and ideological differences that tend to
follow them are real.
Eye to eye with armed border guards, hands against the Berlin
Wall, the broader perspective, earth's greater beauty - that so
many different people can live on this singularly small and
beautiful planet -blurs .
And if armed guards and tangles of barbed wire succeed in
isolating people, language and cultural barriers often seem just as
strong, just as high, and equally persistent.
Can education be the gentle giant that lifts us over?
Akbarali H. Thobhani, an t\ISC political science professor, who
this fall was appointed director of the Institute of Intercultural
Studies and Services, said he thinks it can.
"I believe very strongly in a multi-cultural world," he said.
"But we need to offer studies that will generate a greater
under-standing and awareness of the world we live in."
It is a difficult task, Thobhani said, because "people have
their prejudices."
But it is important to keep struggling, he said.
"\Ve owe it to the students, and to the community as a whole. It
behooves us as a nation that we convey the importance of other
cultures," he said.
The Institute of lntercultural Studies and Services offers
classes and hosts lectures, conferences and exhibits to heighten
aware-ness and understanding of world cultures.
Thobhani was named director of the institute after two years and
two nationwide searches. He had served as interim director of the
program since its inception in the fall of 198.5.
The reasons for the delay in selecting a permanent director were
not completely disclosed, Thobhani said.
C.J. White, an MSC sociology professor and head of the selection
committee, said the two separate searches, one in the spring of
1986 and the other in the spring of 1987, assured the selection of
the best possible candidate to the position.
"There were a number of candidates, and without a shadow of a
doubt, Thobhani was the most qualified to do the job," he said.
Larry S. Johnson, dean of the School of Letters, Arts and
Sciences, said he was
Dr. Akbarali Thobani
pleased Thobhani had accepted the posi-tion.
"He has an international reputation and is a very capable
administrator. I'm de-lighted with his selection," Johnson
said.
Of Indian descent, Thobhani was born in Uganda, east Africa, in
a small town about 100 miles from the capital city of Kampala. He
came to the United States when he was 20 and studied at the
University of Maine, graduating with a degree in international
studies - an interest he said he developed in high school.
Thobhani speaks six languages: English, French, Gujarati (West
Indian), Hindi, Spanish and Swahili, and he is currently studying
Arabic.
A faculty member since 1972, Thobhani holds doctorate and
master's degrees in international studies from the University of
Denver.
He has received two Fulbright-Hays awards, one this past summer
to take a group of Adams County teachers to Egypt on a
curriculum-development seminar, and one in 198.5 to lead a group of
Colorado educators to Kenya.
The highlight of this past summer's trip to Egypt was a two-hour
visit in the home of Egypt's first lady, Thobhani said.
"Mrs. Mubarak's message was that Americans need to try and
understand modern Egypt, not just the past," he said.
In 1984, MSC honored Thobhani with the Distinguished Service A
ward, and in 1979 he was awarded the United Nation's Peace
Medal.
As director of the Institute of Intercultural Studies and
Services, Thobhani hopes to expand the existing curriculum into
cultures not yet represented in the institute - "To give it a truly
intercultural base," he said.
But money is needed to develop and deliver programs.
"We live in a world of limited resources," Thobhani said, none
too philosophically.
But he seems undaunted. "My office is always open to discuss
ways to draw the campus and community in," Thobhani said. "The
institute belongs to everyone - it is here to enhance the education
of everyone."
That goal in mind, it would seem that through Thobhani's eyes
one might see a small, beautiful blue planet floating silently
through space, its nations and borders intact, its people at peace
with their differences. o
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OP-ED Programming parked in controversy In the next few weeks,
members of the Metro State
student government will be stopping students, ask-ing them to
sign a petition asking that the Auraria Student Center and AHEC use
all funds deemed "excess" to build a multi-level parking
structure.
Such a structure is a fine idea, but at this point one might ask
what exactly an excess fund is and why these funds have to be set
off in quotation marks.
According to members of the student senate, excess funds are
generated from sources like Coke and video machines and food
services.
The petition states that the Student Center use funds from the
bond fee (every MSC student pays $21 a semester) to pay off the
remainder of the bond money used to construct the building. This
money also can be used for the operation and maintenance costs of
the building. But, it states, that any funds deemed "excess" not be
used to provide pro-gramming for students but to help AHEC
construct a multi-level parking garage.
There's been some controversy over whether the programming (a
lecture and a music series) put on by the Student Center is being
funded by student fees and if the programming is a duplication of
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three institutions.
There's also some question as to whether the Stu-dent Center
directors are p laying favorites when it comes to scheduling rooms
for programs that are in direct competition.
Each side has some very legitimate concerns and issues. Student
representatives say the Student Center should not be a
pseudo-promoter of student activities. Those in charge at the the
Student Center say the more programming for the students, the
better.
But now the squabbling over the controversy is getting
petty.
There has been accusation by some institutional representatives
that the scheduling of rooms in the Student Center for programming
may be tilted in favor of AHEC programming.
The people in charge of scheduling say that rooms are reserved
on a first come first serve basis and for now there is really no
reason not to believe them.
The controversy over funding for the Student Cen-ter programming
also keeps popping up. Don Bain, the first speaker in the Center's
lecture series pro-
Editorial called inadequate Dear Editor:
Robert Ritter's appeal (Op-Ed, Oct.9) for all of us to make a
small sacrifice to reduce the brown cloud was a thoughtful but
inadequate response to our pollution problems.
The brown cloud is a small indication of how the quality of life
is being eroded in Colorado. It's no secret that our air is the
worst in the nation, but what about the other aspects of our
standard of living?
Yes, there is money to be made in Colorado, espe-cially after we
earn those hard won degrees. How-ever, overcrowding, crime, and
government bureau-cracy can only increase as our numbers swell due
to uncontrolled expansion.
The brown cloud will become more deadly as the metro area
sprawls. Water is becoming scarce, depleting irreplaceable aquifers
and forcing the Two Forks "damming" of magnificent canyons. The
mountains of waste generated daily will cont inue to haunt us as
our toxic landfills reach capacity. And, no matter how thorough the
burn, plutonium will
Tivoli has no obligation Dear Editor:
Concerns have recently been raised about poli-cies having to do
with the use of Tivoli lots by students.
It might be helpful for your readers to know that Tivoli has no
obligation to serve campus parking needs. While good business
practice may cause them to accommodate student needs, Tivoli was
granted a 63-year lease on the property and the two adjacent
lots.
James R. Schoemer AHEC Deputy Executive Director
threaten not only our health but world peace as well. Yet
overdevelopment continues to be sanctioned
by local governments in search of an expanding tax base and
fueled by the easy profits of developers and speculators. Under the
guise of new jobs we witness the scarring of untouched prairies for
unne-cessary beltways and airports. It's now painfully evi-dent
that we, as well as the wilderness and wildli fe, suffer under the
attack of unchecked economic exploitation of the land.
As college students there is a lot we can do to protect our
future . Yes, car pool and ride the bus to class, but also persist
in voicing your opinion. Let your councilperson, representative,
and senator know that Colorado has room for no more dams, airports,
super highways or Rocky Flats.
It's time to just say "No" to developers, we simply don't need
another Los Angeles.
Roger J. Wendell MSC Junior
Club praises Al DS reports Dear Editor:
We at the Auraria Lesbian And Gay Alliance would like to offer
our congratulations on a job well done! The AIDS reports were
informative and (gasp!) entertaining.
If we can be of any help please feel free to call on us.
Once again, Congrats! Zak Zoah
President, ALAGA Gypsl Dlguardl
Vice-President, ALAGA
gram, said he wasn't paid to speak. But the Student Center
directors haven't made it clear if any of the other speakers or
performers in the music series are being paid to appear.
But maybe that's because no one has really asked them.
It seems that instead of all the fighting and bicker-i n~ that's
been going on lately, the three schools and AHEC could get
together, and, yes, th is word is in the Auraria dictionary,
cooperate.
What's wrong with the Student Center and the program directors
getting together and featuring lectures and musicians in a
concerted effort? There needs to be more positive collaboration
between MSC, UCD, CCD and the so-called fourth institution,
AHEC.
Which brings us back to the petition. A parking garage is an
excellent idea and a feasible solution to the parking problem that
is plaguing Auraria.
So sign the petition. Then urge your student representatives to
move on to bigger and better things like less fighting and more
peaceful co-existence.
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Elena Fridland Special to The Metropolitan
I wished the beds were still in the bed-room but they had been
taken out early that morning. The wooden floor in my grandparents'
apartment was hard and uncomfortable. I tossed and turned a little
more in a makeshift bed of a couple of sheets on top of a thick
blanket, then settled down to listen to my parents and
grand-parents in the adjoining room.
The door wasn't closed all the way, and the light from the room
shyly crept into the dark. The voices were hushed. But once in a
while a question could be heard: "What about this? Do you really
need that? Can we take two of those? Should I throw it away?" Soon
everything started to blur, darkness and light, voices and
silence.
I had worked hard that day, putting m>' clothes, shoes and
books either in the garbage can or in the large, brown suitcase.
The hardest for me was to throw away all my toys. A select few such
as an old, worn-out yellow teddy bear and an orange plastic toy gun
that shot out ping-pong balls I gave to my best friend.
Before we left our place for my grand-parents' apartment, the
three rooms and the hallway were so empty that my breath-ing seemed
very loud.
But now I lay on the wooden floor and finally did manage to
sleep.
The family was ready at 6:30 the next morning. Papa and
Grandfather took all the suitcases down. Mama led Grandpa slowly
down two flights on the dark stairs, because he was blind and could
not use his hands for guidance as he had so many times before. As
we stood outside waiting for the taxi, one of my friends came out
to go to school. He looked at our suitcases, then looked at the
ground and kept on walking. I was surprised.
"Goodbye, Victor," I said loudly. "Good-bye," he said, without
looking up or stopping.
He knew I was leaving, but I guess the reality did not sink in
until he actually saw us with all our belongings. I felt such
horrible loneliness around him that I wanted to say something,
anything, but no words came out. I just stood there in silence,
look-ing at a frail, lonely boy walking away. Didn't he know, as I
did, that I was coming back, that this was my home, too? At that
moment I was so sure I would be coming back, I would have bet the
world on it.
The taxi ride seemed the long tone I've ever been on, and
although i eality it must have been only 45 minut , my 11-year-old
mind imagined that ours had passed. We went through part Minsk I
knew and then I was lookin ields on the outskirts of the ci ry
quiet. Nobody e o holding some of th ha and uncomfortab
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On leaving
At the Minsk Train Station we were told to go to the room for
people who were leaving the Soviet Union. It was large and dark
gray, with no windows and only one wide door that was open and let
sunshine in to mix with the gray dust. Everything in that room was
gray, except for a family of six gypsies. Mama said they were not
gypsies, they were Armenian, and the bright
red-yellow-orange-blue-colored clothes and bands they wore were the
national costumes.
I turned my attention to the man who was "inspecting" our
suitcases. What he was actually doing was tossing the carefully
folded things around, prodding and poking the inside of the cases
themselves. The room must have been affecting him, be-cause besides
the gray uniform, he had sandy-gray hair and gray eyes. He
tried
d not to look at me as I folded my arms stared at him. "All
clear, everything as
should be," he said, looking somewhere ve my father's right ear.
As we were g the room, I figured out why I was
ring him. It was my red coat. Some-, I felt, it offended
him.
My Uncle Rafa, Aunt Sofia and their son, Alick, came to the
station to say goodbyt!. Alick had bought a ticket to ride with us
as far as the Polish border.
Our compartment on the train was small, with four bunks that
folded into a wall, a tiny table by the window and two chairs.
Alick, then 24 years old, went out and soap came back with a bottle
of vodka, a couple of glasses and a cup. As the train began to
move, my father, Alick and Grandfather began to drink, and Mama and
Grandma started to repack the mess the gray guard had left. As
Grandma started to complain about it, Mama softly said that we were
lucky that he took nothing. Grandma be-came silent.
My parents were in their 30s, my grand-parents in their late
60s. To leave a country of their birth, leave for something as
elusive and abstract as "freedom" and "oppor-tunity," is something
I even now have trouble understanding. I don't know if I would have
had the courage to do as they did.
In about an hour the bottle of vodka was empty. Alick started to
cry, tears spilling from his eyes to his moustache and onto his
shirt. He took me by the shoulders and said, "Don't you ever forget
your grandmother (from my father's side of the family, who died
four years earlier)!" I promised I wouldn't and he hugged me. I
looked at Papa and saw his eyes starting to fill with tears. I
swallowed something large an~ clumpy and for the first time felt a
shade of doubt about whether I would return to Russia. I tried hard
to shake it off, but looking at the two grown men cry made me feel
very sick and very, very sad. I started to cry, too.
In another hour Alick hugged us all for the last time and left
the train at the border of Poland, in a little city called Brest.
So many years ago, and I still remember his eyes when he turned
around and waved to us for the last time. That's when the men in
uniforms started to come. -,
They came into our little compartment by twos or threes, most of
the time just the soldiers in different color uniforms. The first
ones were the Poles.
The officer did not look like he was older 19, and the soldiers
were relaxed, g around the room. I stared at the
officer. He took a long time looking at our papers. Too long. I
didn't like him. But he returned everything, even saluted (for my
benefit, I think) and walked out. I slowly let out the breath I was
holding.
When we stopped in Warsaw, Papa gif. off the train and said he'd
be back shortly.
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It appeared that the station was sur-rounded by a chain-link
fence. Behind it was a large building, and I noticed some kids
playing soccer on the field by it. I assumed it was a school. I
would have been in school then, in my fifth-grade homeroom.
Several minutes passed since Papa had left the train. I got very
nervous. In 15 minutes I was crying, ready to go after him, but he
came back at that moment. He was holding a funny-shaped dark brown
bottle. The white letters on it read "Coca-Col.a". He opened the
bottle, and I heard fizzing and bubbling. "Try it," he said,
smiling. I hesitantly took my first sip. Magic! Never in my whole
life had I tasted anything so original and spectacular. Papa let me
finish that bottle, but we all shared the second one. That was our
family's first meeting with "Americanization."
After that we traveled into the night and in and out of
Czechoslovakia. More soldiers came to look at our passports and
docu-ments, but I rememberthem vaguely. I did like their bluish
uniforms.
I slept with my mother on the top bunk. Only once was I awakened
during the night. The voice that disturbed my sleep was cold and
precise. It demanded to see "die Kinde (the child)." I raised my
head and through the fog of sleep looked into the cold, blue eyes
of the Austrian officer. He wore a neat, crisp, green uniform and a
cap with a black, shiny bill. Just his look poured a bucket of
ice-water over me. I felt small,
- - unimportant, very scared. "Gut (good)," he said, bowed his
head slightly and left, followed by two soldiers, whom I remem-ber
only as shadows. I dreamt of the Austrian officer for the rest of
that night.
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The next morning, around 9:00, about an hour after we got up, I
saw a white gleaming church between the trees, and Papa said that
we were very close to Vienna.
When we arrived at the train station we were pushed along in a
crowd to a little dark room full of benches. But we didn't have to
wait long. A short balding man in a striped suit came and talked to
each family . There must have been five Russian families besides
ours. I knew what he was asking; I had been cued on the train. Mama
had taken me aside and said that I must say nothing, no matter what
I heard or whom-ever asked me. I had looked up at her and asked,
"Why, Mama, why?" She had patiently explained that a lot of people
get to go to Israel and that we didn't want to live in Israel.
"There is war over there, and your grandfather is blind. For him
to run to a bomb shelter, you yourself understand, would not be
very easy. And also you are a girl. I don't want you to go into the
army, I don't want to lose you in a war. Do you understand?"
I knew well about war, for in Minsk some of the buildings that
were bombed by the Germans were left in ruins, as constant reminder
of war. I imagined Israel to be full of bombed-out buildings and I
nodded.
We were the last family the little man came to. He asked my
father and grand-father our final destination. Papa said,
"America," then he coughed and said it again. Grandpa
confirmed.
Grandpa was a very large man, well over 6'4", with large hands
and feet. Actually, everything about him was large, and his face
shone with serenity and strength. He was a quiet man and he didn't
speak often, just when he had something to say. He towered over the
little man, just a little more than he towered over everyone else.
The little man looked at me in thought. Then he nodded.
We were led to the bus, which took us to the hotel.
The suite was great. It was large, with pretty pictures of
flowers on the walls and two beautiful bedrooms.
Mama and Papa started to unpack, but only a little because we
didn't know when we would be leaving. I remembered I had nothing to
eat all day.
I told everyone in the room that I was hungry. Nobody had
thought to bring any food. But at that time the little man came
back and gave us Austrian money. We decided to go shopping. It was
a fine, sunny Sunday afternoon. We walked out of the hotel and
headed down the street. Seeing a little food store, I rushed to the
door. It was locked. Thinking that someone must have locked the
door by mistake (who can close this early?) I looked in the window.
What I saw shocked me out of my mind!
I saw bananas, lots and lots of bananas on the walls, and apples
of all kinds, huge oranges, and other fruit in stands under-neath
them! I had never seen so much fruit in one place before! In the
U.S.S.R., in order to buy three black bananas, my grandmother would
stay in line for hours, because she knew they were my favorite
fruit. And here, so much, but all behind glass and key!
We walked on and tried other stores, but they were also closed.
Looking in the windows was so overwhelming and frus-trating, I
started to cry. I was hungry and tired, and such a teasing was
wearing me down.
We returned to the hotel. The Russian families who came with us
had already assembled in the lohby. Mama asked a man nearby if he
had any food for me. In a matter of minutes the whole crowd buzzed
with, "Does anybody have some food for the hungry child?" Soon I
was eating a cold, hard-boiled egg with a piece of white bread.
They were so good I can still taste them!
The closed shops were explained to us by Madam Betina, the owner
of our hotel. She said in her broken Russian that every-body in
Vienna was very religious and diJ not work on Sundays. That was my
first exposure to religion.
I slept late the next morning and woke up with a start, not
remembering where I was. It came to me slowly and the fright I felt
went away. I looked out the window on a bright Monday morning and
smiled. The stores would be open today!
The rest of the family were already awake. I got ready as fast
as I could and we went shopping for breakfast.
Vienna was breathtaking. Many little kids were running to and
fro. Old ladies in black furs, heads held high, went slowly about
their way, with black or white pood-les in their hands. Oh, those
poor poodles seemed so many in number; there appeared to be more of
them than people.
The streets were cobblestone, the build-ings massive, solid and
mostly marble. The Vienna of Mozart stood around me, as unchanged
as all of Europe.
Once inside the stores I felt my mouth drop open. There actually
was food in the stores, and so much of it! And the store-keepers
were all so very nice. In a meat shop they gave me a free piece of
salami, in the candy store I got a free chocolate bunny and a
balloon! It was a lot like heaven for an 11-year-old.
lhe streets got lighter and airier as we moved closer to
downtown. And for the first time in my life I ran into (literally
ran into) an advertisement. I was looking to the right and to the
left and over my shoulders, and everywhere but where I was going,
when I bumped into a column. It was about one hand's length in
diameter and of ivory color. Puzzled, I looked up, then
auto-matically stepped back. A huge, 7-foot face gleamed a perfect
smile at me.
I called my parents over and showed them the happy picture. They
laughed and said it was an advertisement for a tooth-paste. Now I
understood! So then as I walked I looked to the left and to the
right, over my shoulders, ahead and up! We really had fun with the
advertisements, trying to translate them from German. The toughest
time we had was with the toilet
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\.\'hen we were going back we got lost. So Papa, in his high
school German, asked a passer-by, a little old man, how to get back
.ffi the hotel. The old man carefully and slowly explained. We went
on for two blocks when we heard running and shout-ing behind us.
Turning around, we saw the old man. Can you imagine? The little old
man had run two blocks because he had told us a wrong turn. My
parents could not believe it! Even now, when someone mentions
Vienna, Papa and Mama always bring up that incident and smile.
The next day was my 12th birthday. My parents promised that they
would get me a present later. But I didn't quite understand, for
the \Vhole trip seemed to he one huge birthday present.
We spent only eight days in Vienna and left one evening, amidst
the beautiful bright lights, for Rome. I felt sad leaving such a
magnificent city, but my parents only laughed.
"Someday, you just might come back to Vienna," Papa told me.
"Vienna is just around the comer from America, you know. The whole
world is just around the corner from America."
I didn't feel sad for long. D Elena Fridland is a junior
follrnalism
major at MSC. She was 11 years old when she and her family left
the Soviet Union in 1976. She wrote the above piece for a feature
writing cl.ass.
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words ( brand names) underneath.
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I got scared when Julian died - the happy little heart-faced
kid, a dancer with twinkling eyes and a dazzling smile -whom I will
never meet in these halls again.
I call it the Julian Story and it goes like this:
If we are open books upon which our lives are writ, then
learning is the breeze that turns the pages. Sometimes quickly,
sometimes not at all, and often are the times when we know not who
holds the pen.
Some lifetimes endure volumes, others only chapters - and years
spent living have little to do with length.
And like so many others, Julian died, appropriately enough, at
the end of a chapter - wind fluttering, playing at the pages - just
getting ready to turn some over when an unseen hand closed his
book, shut the cover.
And we are left alone to wonder, too small to understand how a
story, so short, could possibly have been told.
But not all lives are epics - some are sonnets - still others
but short fiction , and once written, never are reprinted.
\\le wish now we would have shared them: the words he dared to
write upon his pages.
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The new renaissance of man has lost another member, and mourn we
should for we did not stop to look, or even to ask questions - no
longer can we dwell where once we had the chance.
So we take a few of his words, ones we can remember, and write
them in our minds, to carry around with hope someday their meaning
we'll discover - and offer them in time as thoughts unto another.
And therein lies the greater lesson - for Julian never truly dies
as long as he lives in the words of so many others.
Author's note: Julian Brito, 20, was a psychology mator/ dance
minor at MSC. He died Aug. 16 after a car accident on his way to
visit friends in Wyoming. D
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Shane Pitts, right, spars with classmate Matt Adams.
Kerry Manion Reporter
Two men circle each other on a mat in the Auraria gym. They
bounce and shuffle. Twist and kick.
"Ssssahh!" yells Shane Pitts, slamming a bare foot against his
opponent's chest. "Ssssahhl"
Pitts, an 18-year-old Community College of Denver freshman, is
in the middle of an upper division Taekwon-Do class, but he's
different from the other students. He placed second in the National
Collegiate Taekwon-Do Championships held in Florida Oct. 3,
r competing against 40 others in the welter-weight division.
He almost won the gold medal, but lost the final match by half a
point and ended up with the silver instead.
"I put my all into it and I had my mind on , the tournament
completely," says Pitts,
sitting on a rolled-up mat placed against the gym wall.
He talks about the awards ceremony. "I was thinking three
things," he says. "I
was happy, I was in pain and I was wondering what it would feel
like to come back here.
"I was proud to come back," Pitts says, smiling.
National titles don't come easy. Pitts trains six days a week,
two to three times a day. He may spend four to six hours a day
working out.
"The last two weeks before a tournament I run and do tremendous
amounts of push-ups and sit-ups,'' he says. "My diet has to be
right on the button. I want to be at my minimum weight (160
pounds), where I'm not weak, but fast.
"But it doesn't matter how good of shape I'm in; I feel I'm
never in the best shape I could be."
Before a competition, Pitts also steps up his free-sparring
(practice fighting) .
"It's very serious, quality sparring, to work on timing," says
Larry MCGill, Auraria
Taekwon-Do teacher and fifth-degree black belt.
Pitts must fine tune his timing since a competition consists of
two two-minute matches in the preliminary rounds and three
three-minute matches in the finals.
That can lead to a lot of bumps and bruises. Taekwon-Do is a
full-contact sport, with a light foam head-piece and a foam chest
protector as the only padding. And drawing an opponent's blood or
knocking him out are legal.
Pitts, a black belt, says he has never been knocked unconscious
in a tournament, but while competing in Florida he pulled some
tendons in his thigh that still bother him.
Even though this injury may slow him down temporarily, McGill
said he believes Pitts' talents shine when he operates at 100
percent.
"When he's healthy, he can hit the net with a kick," McGill
says, pointing up to the basketball net.
Pitts says he started to get serious about the sport when he was
about 15 years old, but he learned the fundamentals long before
that. His father began teaching him self-defense maneuvers almost
as soon as he could walk.
This early training may have given Pitts the edge.
"Shane has the potential to be a national champion," McGill
says.
But Pitts doesn't want to stop at the national level - his goal
is to try out for the 1992 Olympics. And he knows he has plenty of
work ahead to make this a reality.
Pitts says he needs to get more experience by competing in as
many national tour-naments as possible.
Taekwon-Do is a combative sport which camouflages Pitts' gentler
side. But he says it has qualities that attract him.
"I like the concepts in the martial arts. You learn humility,
patience and concen-tration," he says, rubbing his injured thigh.
"Taekwon-Do is a way of life. I take those qualities and mix them
into my life." D
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Birthday gift a goal Karl Braun Reporter
Junior forward D.J. Ruder celebrated his 23rd birthday in style
Oct. 16, when the MSC men's soccer team beat the Colorado School of
Mines 5-0.
Ruder, leading scorer for Metro, scored the Roadrunners' second
goal of the shutout 12 minutes into the game.
"I got a birthday goal," Ruder said. Dave Biondi scored the
first goal five
minutes into the game on a pass from Scott ~ Van Beek.
"We jumped on them quick," coach Bill Chambers said. "Our goal
was to beat them 5-0; we did that." - Mike Wachter scored 15
minutes later
for the Roadrunners. Fifteen minutes into the second half,
.. Rudy Kim passed the ball to Chris Kalman, who shot past
Mines' goalie Doug Weisner.
MSC' s Mike Wachter, right, runs by Mines' Mike Zimmerman in the
Roadrunners' 5-0 win Oct. 16.
Kalman was injured in the play when he hit his back on the goal
post. He was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital by ambulance, and
later released. He injured the muscles ~ adjacent to his spine and
was suffering mus-
cle spasms, said Joyce Holte, MSC athletic trainer.
"When you play a team like this, you want to put them away quick
and get it over with,'' Chambers said.
Chambers has been using a new lineup since the New Mexico game
Oct. 10.
"We move the ball better now, " Chambers said. "We have more
intensity and work in the middle better."
After a 20 minute injury delay, Mis' Mrak scored the final goal
of the game on a hard outside shot.
Mine's Kelly Ruder, D.J.'s younger 1 brother, missed the
Orediggers' final scor-
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pulled a Mines player down on a shot inside the penalty box in the
final seconds of the game.
The Roadrunners will play Westminster College Oct. 23 and
Brigham Young Uni-versity Oct. 24 in Utah. Their next home game
will be Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. against Air Force. The regular season
finale will be at home against Colorado College Nov. 7 at 2 p .m.
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The Metropolitan and give
reporting a try. Office of
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C I d Calendar items are free. : a en ar Deadline for calendar
items is ; Monday at noon. "?'
OCTOBER FRIDAY, 23
"Storytellers On Tour," a group of professional storytellers,
musicians and teachers, brings its variety show to UCO theatre at
7:30 p.m.
Reception for the " Ten Year Reunion" exhibit at Auraria Library
Gallety, 6-9 p.m .
"Theatre Under Glass" presents a Fall '87 dance at The Mission,
7-11:30 p.m.Ticketsare $2and available at the ticket booth in the
Student Center or at the door. A D.J. is featured and beer is
provided
SATURDAY, 24 A convention to re-write the constitution of the
Associated Students of Metropolitan State College will be
;at the Viscount Hotel (1-25 and 1-70), 8 a.m.-noon. All
interested students are urged to attend. Information: 556-3253
.
"Men and Women in the Work Place" is offered through the MSC
Women' s Studies, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in CN 212 SUNDAY, 25
UCO professor Zoe Erisman introduces Beethoven Piano Sonata
Cycle, Part 1 at 8 p.m. at St. Cajetan' s. Tickets ue $8 for
adults, $5 for students and seniors. Information: 556-2727.
TUESDAY, 27
Pulitzer-prize winning poet John Ashbery will read selections at
the St. Francis Center at 2 p.m. Reception follows. Information:
556-8304.
The Student Health Center will have a health education t;able in
the West Classroom, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. It will provide information
about the clinic and offers a free blood pressure screening.
Information: 556-2525.
WEDNESDAY, 28 The UCO Women's Calendar will sponsor "Time Is Not
Just a Magazine," a time m;an;agement workshop
open to all students, 6-7:30 p.m. at the St. Francis Center.
Learn to cram for exams, set priorities and goals, ;and increase
efficiency. Cost is $2. Information: 556-2815.
ANNOUNCEMENTS .. The Auraria Lesbian and Gay Alliance is open to
_. students Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10-11:45 _. a.m. and
1-2 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m.-2
_. ~m. _. .. . The MSC Players Theatre Company presents ''The ii
Chalk Garden," a play by Enid Bagnold, Oct. 22-25. Curtain is 8
p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday at A~m. The Auraria Library
Gallery presents " Ten Year Reunion" featuring works by former art
students of Craig M . Smith, Oct. 19-Nov.12 .. .
ii Understanding Child Abuse, a 3-credit course for ii teachers
to identify abused children, as well as related ii legal, social
and moral issues, will be at George ii ii Washington High School,
Oct. 26-Nov. 14. lnforma- ii tion: 556-2735. ii Dr. Jerrald D.
McCollum, a MSC music professor, ii will teach two courses in
London next semester. Stu- ii dents interested in studying in
London through the ii ii American Institute of Foreign Study Jan.
4-April 8, ii 1988 should call Andrew Breckel at 556-3107. Deadline
is Nov. 1. ii Applications for club office space in the Student ii
Center are being accepted for recognized Student Organizations.
Deadline is Oct. 30, 5 p.m., rooms 153 ii and 210 of the Student
Center.
THURSDAY, 29 ii MSC Democratic Club meets at 5 p.m., SC 254.
Rep. Phil Hernandez will discuss the Colorado legislature ii
Charles Hayes, painter and MSC art instructor, and ii and higher
education. Information: Mary Muir, 722-9285. ii David Middlebrook,
sculptor, open an exhibition at -tr ii the Kyle Belding Gallery
(1110 17th St.) Oct. 23 from -tr -tr "Why Is There a Pink Rhino in
the Bankl" is the topic at the Metro on the Mall lecture series. It
will be at the ii 7-9 p.m. Both artists create t1bstrut ;artworks
which ii Kyle Belding G;allery, Westin Hotel (17th and Arapahoe
streets), noon-12:50 p.m. tant;alize the imagination. This
exhibition will con- -tr tinue through Nov. 13. ii
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TRAVEL FIELD OPPORTUNITY. Gain valuable marketing experience
while earning money. Campus representatives needed imme-diately for
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11120
HOME HEALTH AIDE, female, wanted part-ti me evenings for
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MUST SELL - DEAGAN VIBES - Like New -$950 Altec P.A. Speakers
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IS IT TRUE YOU CAN BUY JEEPS for $44 through the U.S.
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CAN YOU BUY JEEPS, CARS, 4x4's seized in drug raids for under
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TERMINAL AND MODEM. Work in the comfort of your own home. It has
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SERVICES WORD PROCESSING - Experienced secre-tary and English
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