Registration
In with the new, but not out with the old. Mesa's 1978 registration has brought both the old and the new to campus. In addition to the 1,100 students who pre-registered at the end of last year, 1,200 new and returning students regis tered for classes on Tuesday. Betsy Sneed, Mesa College registrar, says she expects that 90 per cent of the pre registered students will attend Mesa this fall. Included In that figure are 350 freshmen. Concerning total enrollment at Mesa, Sneed says, ''We're hopeful of 2,800 this term in day school students." THE· GRITERION .... Ve>I. 44 No. 33 Mesa College student newspaper Grand Junction, qo. Friday, September 1, 1978 12 Pages Tnis Week .. Club 20, Wilderness Society lock horns
by TAM MY FREEBURG be devoted to three minute of the environment-they only meet-ing may submit written ought to be setting the guide Criterion Editor testimonies by individuals. understand the extraction of testimony, and it will be added lines and rules" for the areas resources and how.much mon- . to Club 20's report. All corre under consideration with The debate on wilderness is 'Not interested' f!'1 can be raised" by extract- spondence· relating to RAREII RARE II, "Not making them warming up. Perry Moyle, the regional . ing those resources. must be received by the Forest black or white." He feels mul"!' As the Oct. 1 deadline nears Service by Oct. I. tiple use of land-such as for submitting all written test- representative of the Wilder Vanderhoof says that since , imony concerning the Road ness Society for Colorado and the Forest Service will accept only written testimony con less Area Review and Evalua Kansas, says his organ lzation "Club 20 does not understand the tion, phase two, [RARE II] to Is not making any efforts to cerning RAREII, there will be the U.S. Forest Service, the attend the meetings arranged oourt reporters present at the preservation of the environment. .. ,, controversy connected with by Club 20 to discuss RARE II. public hearing to record wilderness is growing as are Moyle adds, "I'm not inter speeches. The testimony will timber industry, mining, gra:z the contradictions rampant In ested in participating In a . then be printed and submitted Club 20's July newsletter Ing, water shed, etc. --can be public information. meeting that's biased and to the Forest Service. Vander states that the "removal of a maintained without destroying In an attempt to clarify stacked. Club 20 does not hoof adds that people who· substantial amount of forest public sentiment concerning understand the preservation can not be present at the lands from the multiple use wilderness areas. Moyle says wilderness de the designation of wilderness ooncept to the single use of sig nation is not absolutely a-eas, Club 20 [an organiza wilderness could cause serious black and white. He refers to tion representing numerous economic consequences in the Wilderness Act of 1964 [aU oommunities on the Western Slope communities.'' The publication did not state the wilderness areas are desig Slope] has slated four meet • '".:..:-.!.~- .• ·~. i ,_ ..., nated under the guidelines of ings to serve as forums. "serious economic conse the Wilderness Act] which Although the Club 20 News quences,'' but Vanderhoof states, under its Special Provi letter for July states the wlced his concerns regarding sions section, . that until 1983, organization's stand as being wilderness designation. wilderness areas showing resolved that serious ramifica Vanderhoof feels that set valuable mineral resources tions would result from desig ting up guidelines of land may be prospected, and, If the nating areas as wilderness as management is better than U.S. Secretary of Agriculture opposed to the multiple use of outright wilderoess designa tion, determ in Ing whether deems it beneficial to extract land, Club 20 President John \ those resources, it may Vanderhoof said in an Inter land is open to development be done with due consideration to view that the group cannot or not . . He says "absolute preserving the area's natural take a stand ''until we've tour black and white" is not as ed the area or listened to the workable as "grey areas" in environment. Also under Special Provi people.'' terms of land management sions of the Wilderness Act, Vanderhoof says, ''Our · practices. function is to get the viewpoint Vanderhoof says, ''We · continued on page 3 of those who use the national forests In Colorado." In order The schedule of public hearings sponsored by Club 20 to to do this, according to Van The controversial Kannah Creek area under considera.tion by ·discuss RARE 11 are as follows: Sept. 11 for Region 9 at the derhoof, the meetings have RA RE II is area 195, southeast of Grand Junction. Other Durango Savings and Loan hospitality room -in Durango; been structured so that the areas near Grand Junction being considered for wilderness Sept. 12 for Region 10 at the Colorado-Ute Electric major industries as .well as a designatio.n are 193, the Battlement Mesa area northeast of auditorium in Montrose; Sept. 13 for Region 11 at the forest service representative Grand Junction, and 245, the Uncompahgre region Meeker Fairfield Community Building in Meeker; and Sept.' will e·ach have ten minutes in southwest Some call for end to RARE II above of .RARE II lands. That's why there's been so much study, research, fieldwork, and more study. That's why The Roadless Area Review threatened to abort RARE II ble, and, in the final analysis, there's a 20-year grace period written Into the Wilderness and Evaluation (RARE II) under ·pressures from western the Congress must approve all Act to allow surveying of land that may one day be project of the U.S. Forest governors and economists who wilderness designations any- designated wilderness. If it can be shown to the Forest Service is a reexamination and . fear that timber sales delayed way. So why delay? The Service first, and Congress second, that serious problems study for possible wilderness by the RARE II process will Forest Service knows as much would arise from declaring an area wilderness, then that classification of all roadles_s · oo g__ to higher lumber prices now about these 65.7 million area most likely would be left open to development, or at areas of 5,000 acres or more and the alarming inflation oores as they will ever know, least to multiple-use management. But remember, those on the National Forests. It spiral. Scheduled for com pie- and the public has had every areas under RARE II were carefully chosen by the Forest oovers some 65. 7 million of the tion and final recommenda- opportunity for input. Service itself. · total 187 million acres in the tions to the Congress by Decisions made for the Na So why the uproar, after all? Why can't the nature lovers National Forest System. Some January 1979, RARE II m·ay be tional Forests, including wll have even as much as a 1 V3 of the Fores Service land to 14.8 million acres already abruptly_terminated under or- derness recommendations, enjoy for eternity? A third of the Fores Service land Is still a have been designated by Con ders from President Carter. ~ould be management deci very small portion of this nation's entire acreage. And In gress as wilderness, and an We hope not! Although it sions, not public decisions. · Colorado--a state rich in natural beauty--only 1/10 of the ooditional 8.6 million acres probably should never have Public interests and needs land is being considered for wilderness. Surely we can set · have been proposed. If all of been initiated, RARE II should . should be evaluated before aside that much of Colorado's splendid terrain:..-especlally if the RARE 11 study areas were be completed. Much valuable recommendations are made, we are careful in our designations. to become wilderness, it data has been collected. Eval-. but not substituted for profes RARE II is a very meticulous study of roadless areas would constitute 48 percent of uations are just beginning to sional management decisions. throughout the U.S.; there is no reason ·to doubt the ability the entire National Forest be made. If the program were Only the Forest Service can of both the Forest Service and congress to take equal care In System. to be postponed or termin- make these initial determina- making the final decision on wilderness areas. ~ RARE II was ill.-conceived to People have a voice in this decision, too. Think of your begin with because it shOrt children and the world they will Inherit. Think of yourself ci rcu its the Forest Service and the world in which you ' live--would you like occasional land-use planning program re sanctuary from society and technology? quired under the Resources You have your voice; find It. Tammy Freeburg Planning Act and the National EUEST O"INION.. _.. Forest Management Act. It ,---- _ __ ------· duplicates the work done In ated, the controversy would tions, and they should get on RARE I. It focuses attention oontinue and delay other man with it! · on only one of many purposes agement programs. We urge Wilderness proponents, as I th~ GRITERIO. ,N. for which, by law, the National I the White House to see RARE well as some industry repre Forests are to be managed. It , II through to an orderly and sentatives, have demanded I Tammy Freeburg, Editor Reporters: represents a biased emphasis prompt conclusion. that road less areas not recom I John Eby, Managing Ed. .Rob Burkholder on noncommodity use of the The Forest Service must mended for wilderness classi Janet Chanay forests at the expense· of other make important decisions for fication be designated by con I., Gloria Fraser, Enter. Ed. 65.7 million acres. These r·, . Brad Revis, Sports Ed. Vincent Freeman needs and uses. Although gressional action for nonwil Cheryl Hardy designed to resolve the wilder lands must be recommended derness use. This is nonsense! fRob Burkholder, Circ. Mgr. for: 1) wilderness, 2) nonwil Tim Pace, photographer Todd Rutt ness controversy once and for The Multiple Use-Sustained I all, it has only created more derness uses, or 3) further Yield Act already declares Advertising: dissension and delayed the study and review. AFA how these lands are to be Typesetting: I John Eby balanced planning process. strongly recommends that the managed. If they are not to be Patti Baca I Cheryl ·Hardy Even though its proponents agency "bite the bullet" and wilderness, there is no need I Greg Kirchoff Todd Rutt claim it will free nonwilder make hard decisions for either for further congressional dir I The Criterion offices are located in the College Center on Elm Avenue. Pub ness lands for timber manage wilderness or nonwllderness ection : I lica~ion is on Fr(day mornings during academic terms, except for the _week ment and other purposes, the and keep an absolute mini So, let's get on with RARE I of fi nals. The. v1.ews expressed here are no·t· necessarily ~hose of t~e col- underlying goal is more wil- mum to those areas for further II. Let's finish the job, on lege. Subsc ri ption rates are $6 a year. Ma1l1ng address 1s The Criterion , derness. study. Delay and indecision time. And for heaven's sake, I Mesa Co ll ege , Grand Junction , Colorado, 81501 . To complicate matters even will only lead to future contro let's not have a RARE Ill! f!,J rthef, the White House has versy. Consensus is impossi- "• • A • l,1 ... • American- Forests Magazine ~------~------~ ~ Friday September 1, 1978 CRITER·ION Page 3 Use of wilderness is a clollded issue continued from page 1 bring In too nian~ people.'' He Regarding tourism in the industry, that des lg natlng ·1ng, water shed develo.pment exceptions are made for water adds that that situation wilderness areas, Moyle says, wilderness areas would make the_ extent of wh lch is deter resources, grazing, emergen "would be an lncon~enlence'' "The Forest Service could it Impossible to log any lum mined b_y the federal gov cy situations such as fire, and to local residents. develop a management plan- ber. He says, "You can't build ernment, wildlife habitat, and oommercial services for rec Forest Service summer em a permit system--to limit the 100,000 houses in Western recreation. He feels that a lot Colorado unless you have reational activities. ployee Jack Stephens, who number o.f persons" allowed of the confusion surrounding Moyle :says, '·'Pre-existing works as a trai I crew supervl in a wilderness area. timber." · RARE II "Is one of misinfor !l>r in the Kannah Creek area, . However, according to both mation.'' development ·is permitted tn agrees with Whiting. He says, Wori Fleetwood is the_ 'daddy of 'em all' 18 .o George Fleetwood terms his removed from this campus for summer semester. J . Involvement with the Job Corp reasons (such as fighting) for Fleetwood considers his in ALTHIIATMS members attending Mesa·Col which another student would volvement with the Job Corp lege ''the most rewardtrfg have-his hands slapped." students as being more than The 10 alternatives under consideration for the Roadless Just job .. '~We're like a fam thing 1've ever done In my Fleetwood says that In Coll a A tea Review, phase two, · Include wilderness designation life~" bran, corp persons helped to ily,"· he says. Fleetwood sees from one extreme to the other. Alternative A calls for no . As Coordinator of Special wilderness areas currently being studied to be designated. build a hospital, roads, damns their relationship as being Services, Fleetwood, a 34- and helped out with floods. , closer than counseling. He. Alternative J calls for all areas under consideration to be year-old graduate · of Mesa The wage they receive Is mln adds, '' I feel like a father to de~gnated. Alternatives B through I Include nearly every College, finds himself being lrrial - around $50 per'mon.tt't, them.'' gradient possible betw~n the two extremes. - counselor, friend, and dlscip the concentration being on linarlan to a group of young 'their training program. Corp corp persons seeking a college persons must have been · in a education. Job Corp facility for a mini He says, '' I hold their hands mum of 90 days In order to be at times, arid I kick 'em In the considered for the program ass at times-I feel like a here at Mesa. parent; I really do.·" Fleetwood Id.entitles the ma Fleetwood says · the corp jor problems students from . the Job Corp have as being a lack In "certain basic aca demic skills,'' .and adjusting to the responslbllltles of college life. Fleetwood adds·that corp persons have been on campus since January of this year, and that since that time, their outlook has improved consid erably - ''we've been more successful than Just academi- cally." · · Usually they are tlm Id about mentioning their Job Corp Involvement, Fleetwood says, but ''when they . (the corp On any bed in our store with a ~aveless stabilfzed mattress. Fleetwood persons) · see the way th Is campus haa accepted them, peraona have had to overcome there Is no hesitation." He a stigma gener$11y attached to adds, "I'd llke to take my hat members of the Job Corp. He off and shout It to the world In SAVE s5000 On any bed with our reg~lar mattress. says there -were some people thanks to the faculty and staff I on campus who were "con that have helped these -corp cerned with raping, pillaging, persons In their needs.'' He We know s~ething yo~ should know about sleep ! and prunderlng, and that has says that many Instructors not happened.'' He adds, went out of their way to help ''They're normal students - a them academ lcally. good bunch of kids." The program has an enroll Fleetwood says corp per ment of 12, and the total cost sons face many problems that of placing corp persons on the other students don't have to Mesa College campus Is worry about. ''They're under $5,000 per student each year. more pressure than other stu This figure Includes tt,ree Ask about-our $100,000·\~ tenants liablity insurance dents - academically, social semesters of c.ol lege, as corp ly, behaviorly - . they can. be persons are required te attend P::a ae 4 CRITERION Friday September 1, 1978 San Juan symposium a cram course by G[ORIA FRASER moose scat was so that when whatever happened· to get their usual standard of living while contemplating the road Criterion Staff Writer in hot pursuit of a wild moose, caught in the net. Included in by staying in one of the local _ahead, I tried to tell the driver,· we would know which way he the net were fish, rocks, establishments with swim "No thank, I' II just get out The San Juan Symposium is went. The vehicle information, crawdads and miscellaneous ming pool and sauna. and walk." However, upon a challenge to students. But I later came to realize, was other little squirmy things. Each vehicle [and the num opening the door and lookin~ for this student. it was like crucial to survival--mine. While engaged in river wad ber var ied depending on how out, I realized that the road David, minus his slingshot, W e were given rocks to ing, I also had to maintain my many were in running condi extend ing beyond the jeep being challenged by Goliath. I identify. I mean th e simple balance on slimy, moss-cov tion on a given day], had was nonexistent. Therefore, wasn't really ready for it. fact that a rock is a rock is a ered rocks in wet, slippery citizen band rad io. Over this being an average, intelligent The San Juan Symposium is rock would not suffice. We tenn is shoes . miracle invention we, the stu studen t, I decided to remain an interdisiplinary course of had to know how it came to be It 's also not overly easy to dents, were treat ed to a inside. fered each summer by Mesa a rock and what it would do take notes while standing ru nning · dialogue from the At one po int , we were Oll lege. It is composed of now that it was one. waist-deep in water as Bauerle instructors as to all the natural 'detained on ou r journey long history of the San Juan region , With the advent of our first demonstrates how to test scenic wonders we had just enoug~ for a road crew to geology and biology in equal field trip, It readily became water for pollutar.its. You have · passed or were in the process plant in the road ahead dyna parts. The course consists of apparent that it would be a to trust your memory and that of passing. mite which they promptly two weeks of classroom work matter of pride as well as can be dangerous. The instructors' vehicle was blasted after allowing us to and one week in the field. endurance to ach ieve a pass- Driving back to class after named Eagle Tall, and , as we pass through--forever cutting · off our road to civilization, I was con vi need . We made a point of going to the famous site of the Alferd Packer massacre. At this point, I discovered a rather discomfitlng fact about the driver of the vehicle I was riding In. His C.B. handle was "Cannibal AL'' After this trip, I became the less-than-proud reclpien-t of the nickname "Pokechop." Happily ever after Our adventures on this trip were numerous and exciting. But as with all good things, they must come to an end. And end it did. On Saturday morning, we found ourselves huddled In an old abandoned mine shack, amidst cobwebs and broken glass, taking a final examination on all three ing grade in this course. Th is summer's course was that trip, I recalled hearing were all behind it, our position sections of the course. taught by Dr: Bruce Bauerle, once t hat co l lege student s be came immediately cl ear. . Fran tic fresh air an tics Having not rece ived a grade associate professor of biology; would do anything for credits. While sandblasting might im yet, I am still proud of the fact Dr. Dell Foutz, associate pro The first trip involved at I became a believer. prove the appearance of old that I survived, whether or not fessor of geology; and Dan tempting to take a quiz while. During those two weeks in buildings, it did nothing for I passed. It feels good to know Roberts, professor of history. sitting on a hot rock In the class, tests were an everyday the complexion of old stu what a person can be subject The course began wfth 14 Colorado National" Monu occurrence--two a day and dents--wind, sand and dust ed to and still hang in there. students--myself, one other ment. After such fun and sometimes even three. Even were all a part of Eagle Tail's tually, though, the two weeks Would I do it over again if I female, and 12 males of such games were over, we were to legacy. I found our vehicle had the chance and would I widely dispersed characters as take a ''short stroll to look passed, as fhey say all things going up roads which were recommend It to anyone else? to make the course a truly things over," as our instructor shall pass. But I began to. never intended for any means, You bet, it was one of the memorable one. put it. doubt if my grades in this of transportation other than greatest courses I have ever Th is short stroll meant oourse were covered by that mountain goat. Several times, taken. We faithfully reported each rocks, more rocks, dust, sand, saying. day at 8:30 a.m. and were sun , insects--and we were Four Whee/in ' fi nally released somewhere actually supposed to learn around 5 p.m. We were given something. Well, I did learn Finally the big day came. periodic breaks to preserve something . I 'learned that We, the students, were all the instructors' sanity. . while moccasins may have assigned to vehicles--aU four Hightower to head During the time in class, we been all right for the Indians wheel drive, of course. The were deluged with facts, running around that area, they Instructors, with prudent fore myths, important and irrele lacked a lot as far as I was sight and caution, declined to disabled veterans vant topics ranging from vol ooncerned. ~company any of the students canoes and glaciers to Identifi Our next little field trip was· In their vehicles. It was ar Billy Hightower, Mesa as cation of moose scat [feces], even better. Not only did I find ranged that al I of us would sistant professor of psycho and learned that an uphill myself walking thru the Na meet at an assigned place at logy, has been elected Nation vehicle always has the right of tional Monument and turning 9:30 a.m. Monday. Having al Commander of the Dis way on mountain roads. over rocks and deliberately been warned that tardiness abled American Veterans -or The information about gla looking for scorpions, but, the would not be tolerated, we all gan lzatlon. cers and volcanoes was, I next thing I knew, I was up to assembled nearly on time. _· He has been granted leave suppose, to enable us to tell my waist in dirty river water, The students had elected to of absence from his teaching them apart when and If we pulling a large fish net and camp out for the week while position for .the one-year term. ever encountered one. The ·scooping_ with my bare hands the Instructors maintained His background in the fleld of psychology g Ives added mean- . ing to hi~ appointment. He Is taking office at a time when Interest In the psychological effects of the Vietnam War on Its veterans Is just beginning to mount. A DAV-funded 15o/o DISCOUNT. study on the subject Is nearing Hightower oompletlon. Sto·p in, look around and introduce yourself to Among other duties, he the Marmot Mountain Works idea of quality gear witl represent the organization DAV since his .discharge. and earn a 15% discount* off any DAY PACK across the United States, In Among other achievements, of your choice. duding appearances· at con he established a Department gressional hearing In support Service Program with service *with Student ID of disabled veterans' legisla officers and a van to help tion-. bring DAV services to veter Hightower ts an Air Force ans throughout the state. He veteran of the Korean War, also Initiated the purchase of a during which he lost an arm. Department Hea~quarters He was a staff sergeant and a Building Jn · Colorado. High jet mechanic at the time of his tower was chosen as Colora 646 Main St., 243-2339 discharge. do's Outstanding Disabled He ha~ been active In the yeteran of the Year in 1977. \ . Friday September 1, 1978 CRITERION Page 5 Prices are upped Library conversion underway Based on a recommendation of the faculty, Mesa CoJlege's · library will be converting it's filing system from the old Dewey Decimal method to the more modern Library of Con gress system. According to Martin Wenger, head librarian at Mesa, the change was enacted because "as time went on, we has such a growth of know ledge that the Dewey Decimal .system doesn't work.'' , _ Under the Library of Con gress system, there is a great er number of classifications for I iterary works than the Dewey m~thod. It costs more to eat this down so we can pass the year. The price of meal tickets savings on to the students,'' The change will also allow in the cafeteria has risen from Hurd said. "We try for quan Mesa's library to make use of automated computer bank $608 to $630 for the year - a tity as well as quality." six percent hike. Some of the Hurd also said that "out of book systems, most of which prices in the snack bar have over 150 ·items in the snack utilize the Library of Congress also gone up, but snack bar bar, we raised prices on only method. prices were .raised on an Item 12 items. We really bent over The changeover will mean per item basis. backwards to keep the prlc~s an Inconvenience for students . ''The price hikes were Justi- .on our high volume items the wishing to use the library, as fiable when you look at a same." there are now two systems recent governmental survey Some of the Snack Bar Items being used until the change Is that projects an 18 percent to be raised in price were complete. food cost hike for this year,'' popsicles - up five cents, Kathleen Tower, catalog librarian in charge of converting said Greg Hurd, Director of burritos - up ten cents. "And Wenger suggested that if Mesa's Dewey Decimal System to the Library of Congress Food Services at Mesa. we raised the prices on some anyone has problems finding system, says, "/ like It [ the· new system) better - I think ''We spend a lot of our time of our breakfast Items because materials they can ask for students wlll find It easier to find books. " Tower adds that shopping around comparing they were underprlced last assistance In finding the re the system Is also better for the Institution - "It's better for prices, to keep the prices year," said Hurd. located books. academic libraries. " Photo by Tim Pace ------~-CLASS/REDS------WANT ADS M·r. Showalter - To digress Berte - Whenever you play 18 T. O'C - Ask me, as~ me! - C.E. - Good Luck! - Your for a moment, WE LOVE huanted jukebox think of me. · The 8 year plan. staffers. Car Pool! Unaweep Drive area YOU! - Your students. - The Judge · · to Mesa. Every day for 10 R.V. -,,/Oh Rade, oh Rade, oh Elaine Zelda - When I told G.W. - Sluff, sluff, sluff. - Personals a~e 50 cents for o'.clock classes. Interested Rad6!' - Welcome wagon. twenty five words, and must persons call Mike at 245-0441. the guys about our date, I was Adversary. from the past. talking about the Initials of D.W~ - Sorry, but I left my be submitted to the Criterion Let's do it! John oome home. Don't worry your name only. I'm sorry· - heart in Stinson Beach - Big one week prior to publication about my parents. I've chop Jack Browns date. Turn your spare time into ped them up and burled them money! Work your own hours Mr. P. - Are ya' still saving in the cellar - Marge. selling art ·and c.raft supplies. yourself for me?! - You know 245-3067 who. G.F. - "Thank you for being a friend.'' - R.J.B. House to share with mature Vinnie - Thanx for every- P.K. _ Forgive me. When I male. Close to college. Con thing. - Tammy Sue. laughed at that old lady on her . RlITUfiIIL tact: Fred Mumby (owner), 2600 N. 12th St. (Box 1929, Tess - Have a happy! - skateboard, I didn't know it PllODUC!T~ Grand Junction) 242-9262 Us'ns fro)n the Mav. was your mother. - B.T. J.P. Hang In there - a**holes fOll Design T-shirts and clothes. Kimmie and Charlene - Miss you In Acapulco. Wish you never die, they just get big Make wooden planters - ger. - D.J. 'ette. l1ltlfi ~ OODY velvet paintings. Paint on were here. Love, Mr. Charlie wood, metal, leather & glass. WI 11 whoever borrowed my NEED EXTRA MONEY? PERFUME OILS Make your Christmas gifts· mother cat either bring her Looking for an easy, wel I-pay this yearl Tri-Chem liquid back or come back and get her.· ing part time Job that won't {&-SHAMPops . embroidery paint In a ball six kittens. - H.P. interfere with studies? Who :F~COTIONS : point tube. Washable and dry Isn't? - I cleanable. 245-3067 Mr. C. - The department that 1 plays' together, stays togeth- · Zany - Look out for Dober er - An Interested observer. . mans and good luck! ~ Mr. PERSONALS Commission H.Y. - Thank you for stealing C.H. - Please come back. My my sneakers . . . I have ath Linda - Welcome aboard! - pet Rlno is horney now that . letes foot. - B.K. Yearbook staff. 530 Mair.tin .the ·u mall you've gone. - S.J. Wise ·Pierre - Break a leg I - Miss you at Mesa. ·R.E. - Jess, jess, jess. - TSF . Connola - Hope the sapsuck ers have left your birdseed alone. J. Thurber Si Iver Fox - The name of the game is plastics - Music 2T5 S. Main lover. Palisade Roger - come home, 1. miss you. Please come back and bring my checkbook, televi 464-9902/ sion and new Trans Am that you drove off in. Impatiently - Sue. Mesa ·College comes to -life Out of the frying· pan .. : of new v. p . John Ricci/lo. . Welcome to the diploma factory - Ready for rumination Talking of Michelangelo Some waited three hours in line for IDs .. Photos by Tim Pace Chef John Tomlinson (who moonlights as Mesa prexyJ r Page 8 CRITERION Friday September 1, 1978 Working towards a Rock 'n Roll heaven God Is the message and You better believe there's a music Is the medium. That Is need for it [their music]." the formula for two new Grand Eternity will be playing in Junction musical groups. churches in Grand Junction Carlos Martinez, 20, form and elsewhere and hopes to erly from Casa Grande, Ari work out something with Mesa zona, Scott Carr, 19, Montrose Campus Crusade. and · Jamie Willis, 19, of Denver make up a group Another recently-formed tentatively called Eternity. group that offers the same Martinez and Carr play message has· a Greek alphabet accoustic guitars and Willis is name which translates to "His on flute. All three perform Own". Members are Leech vocally., Haven, 25, g u ltar, Warren Michale, banjo, Greg All three members of the 20, Adams, 19, guitar and Jay group are currently enrolled at Ford, 18, bass. All members lntermountain Bible College, perform vocally as well . across the street from Mesa The members are all cur College, and have · been to- rently enrolled at Inter . gether about three and one mountain Bible College and half months. '. also work at the Mesa College The group originally met iii cafete-ria. The group recently Montrose and then got to competed in an audition at gether later in Grand Junc I.B.C. and as winners are tion. entitled to represent I.B.C. on According to Martinez, the their travels. group "plays Christian music ''His Own'• perform what wherever It's needed. Christ they term Contemporary "Eternity" members Carlos Martinez, Joyce Jones, and Scott Carr. Photo by Tim -Pace · ian music,•• explains Martinez Christian which includes ev •' Is not gospel music, It is erything from bluegrass to more modern. jazz. They play their own According to Martinez, the original songs as well as some group plays mostly their .qwn old "rearranged" standards. songs, "We might start off They plan to tour over most with one most people know, of the West, appearing at like 'You ll-ght Up My Life', churches and elsewhere as ENTE~l NM ENT .... Al but then we just play our own I.B.C. arranges for them. songs.'' Two of the members · are Martinez says he feels his Is married but their wives are "a mlnlstcy_...of music." The not involved In the band, group's purpose is to reach except, as Haven put it "My people with their message of wife gets to carry my equip- 'The. Eyes' don't have it God, not to entertain. If . rhent around.•' people are entertained, tha! is There Is a possibility that the wives may be doing some A Criterion Review Dunaway as the leading lady. covers that her photographs just a bonus, says Martinez. by VINCENT FREEMAN The theme song Is belted out are ·almost exact duplicates of The group plans to travel public relations work for I.B.C Special to the Criterion by superstar Barbra Steisand. actual police photos of murder and witness through their and will be able to travel with music, to reach people. Kind the band. The movie is In the Hitchcock .. cases. ' of the missionary theory, says While the members are Movie producer Jon Peters manner and features beautiful Martinez. "But," he stresses, .planning on becoming "music seems to have all the key models, music and sets. Yes, "our music is not Just for ministers,•' they are giving elements for a dynamite movie "The Eyes of Laura Mars" Christians, but for non some thought to recording in • 'The Eyes of Laura Mars.'' has everything : Ev·erythlng Christians who want to listen. some of their songs. He has Oscar winner Faye but an intelligent script. One by one, Laura has her psychic spells, and she Is John Carpenter and David mentally tortured by the fact Goodman are credited for '.the that she can't help the victims. screenplay, but In actuality Finally, with. a lens-like per seven d lfferent writers worked spective, Laura Mars "sees" on ••Laura Mars." That fact that she Is going to be slain In . doesn't surprise me, but I'd the same tortured way as all of · be shocked If at least three of the previous victims. the writers were literate. ·The movie could have been dyna Faye Dunaway uses all of mite, but at this point It has her nervous twitches and .been badly defused. quivers that worked for her In Dreams start to come true ''Network,'' but unfortunately when you slip them on. Leotards Although the film lacks a this time she doesn't have and tights by the body people.· .. good screenplay, It has plenty lines by Paddy Chayefsky to not just for dancing. of gloss to help you forget that save her, and her· acting style fact. The basic shell of the comes off more Irritating than Complete selection of story Is good. Chic fashion lntgrlgulng. She does have her sizes, styles and colors. . photographer Laura Mars has moments, and for that matter, so does the movie. The scenes Also see our full line of lingerie mesmerized New York City with her controversial photo of Dunaway taking pictures of by such famous makers as graphs, that are laced with sex the str•king models, with the Formfit Rogers, Olga and Lily of France. and violence. The opening backgrounds of burning cars, night of Laura's photo display corpses and .pulsating music, has been marred by the fact capture all the "divine deca that one of her associates has dence'' of ''Cabaret.'• With been brutally murdered. The their pouting lips and exotic extra ingredient to the plot Is eyes, the models are · exqui that Laura envisioned this sitely captured on film by brutal death before it took photographers Rebecca Blake place. Laura Mars Is psychic, and Helmut Newton. and is having visions of mur ders that will take place. ''The Eyes of Laura Mars'' The shell of the story looks has a spine-tingling opening appeal Ing, but the problem · but slowly goes downhill in quality, due to the cllche-filled is that there's no meat to t'1e script and the trite ending. As story and by the end the a new producer, Jon Peters viewer feels cheated. has to learn that one of the most vital aspects of a good The plot develops as Laura movie is a good script. Just Mars. is confronted by detect Upper Story Mall • 530 Main • Grand Junction . .}.., ....•.,.,w .. ·.·•·•• ask the producers of "The ive John Neville, played by Above Vick's Pastry Shop Exorcist, Part II" or "The Tommy Lee Jones. Mars dis- Swarm.'' Friday September 1, 1978 CRITERION Page 9 Cox has designs on Mesa byTODDRUTI in theatre, every aspect is so feel that I have a better Criterion Reporter -specialized. Every union puts understanding of the depart you down ." The costuming, ment. One thing that I particu Dave Cox, the new drama lighting and set design unions larly liked was that Mesa teacher at Mesa College, pan are all tough to get into, said incorporates so many forms of Ciox, but "'i'd like to go for all art, music and theatre.'' take you off guard. At first he three.'' appears to be a typical Mesa "I would hope to improve student, an impression which While at Mesa, Cox hopes my own skills,'' adds Cox, isn't unusual, because he to improve his students' tech "hopefully widen my know graduated from Mesa only two nical outlook on theatre. '' I ledge of modern techniques years ago. Slight in stature feel Mesa is following the and materials. I would like to and somewhat quiet, he does traditional element of theatre. do some sets with plastic, n't fu If i II the stereotype of I would like to see more foam bases or maybe some eitt)er an actor or a drama emphasis on developing the welded sets." He wlll be teacher. Only when he de talents of students, mostly In teaching all scene design livers a perfectly timed I lne, or the drafting and, _ r.endering classes, as wel I as light and gives a proper facial expres techniques." He . ;feels that oound and · set construction. sion for the moment, or when . Mesa's approach to set con He was offered the chance to he talks about drama, does It struction has been too casual. direct productions, but de become apparent that this Is a "It's better for them to have It cl·ined because "to be a de man who has given his life to rougher." signer and do It effectively Is ''There's something mystic going to take up all my time.'' about theatre. Once you' re He was selected for:-the post hooked, it's impossible to get primarily through a. recom.:. Finally, Cox would like to It out of you," he says. mendation from Wiiiiam leave his students with "a lbbinson, Mesa's drama de better analytical view of the . partment chairman. Cox play, to delve into the psycho notes, "I already knew the logical .aspects before they Dave Cox, who will replace Perry Carmichael this year at department and facilities. begin working up their initial Mesa. Carmichael is on sabbatiacal at Colorado University. Since I had attended here, I Impressions. ~~~~ ..•..••••.•.••.•.••...... Cox will be teaching ·drama ··························~····· . and stagecraft for the Aext RECORD REVIEWS · strong recording with creative Interest sparked by Imagina year, until Perry carmlchael by RIC MITILEMAN tion truly classic jazz at Its best. Best cuts: Take your pick. returns from the University of KMSA Music Director Q>lorado where he Is earning The Essential Jimi Hendrix - On Reprise his doctorate. Then, Cox plans Savoy Brown-Savage Return-On London Various Producers · on heading East, with his Produced by John Lange wife, Marian, to seek his It's pretty hard to believe that Savoy Brown Is still recording If not the best rock musician In his short reign at the fop, fortune on the Broadway stage witb Kim Simmonds being the only original member left Jlmi Hendrix will ·always remain one of rock's premier as & set designer, the area he from the band formed 13 years ago. Simmonds Is .taking a guitarists. Essential Jlml Hendrix should not be regarded as . studied chiefly while at Me~a more active role now, writing a lot more of his own material just another greatest hits package but a tru~, up-to-date two years ago and at the and handling a lot more of the vocals, where Lonesome Dave Hendrix anthology. · University of Utah. Peverett (now with Foghat) used to take control. The sound This double album is truly representatiave of Hendrix's "I'd like to go back East,." leans to the harder rock side, but it's tasty none the less. Best entire career. The precedent was set back in the late 60's by a said Cox. "Ultimately you cuts: "Rock n' Roll Man, " "The First Night, " "My Own guitarist who truly knew the relationship, between his have to go back there. It's still Man," and "Play It Right." emotions and his guitar. Essential Jimi .Hendrix Is just that where you're going to get Four Decades of Jazz - On Xanadu - ignoring his big hits and getting down to the bare recognized .'' Produced by Don Schlitten essentials - It's a true documentation of his career - from He explained the difficulty T-his album is four sides of pure ecstasy on twenty-one tracks tha real feelings splashed with poetry as in "Castles Made of Sand, " to his feelings of near death found In " Burning of the in cracking the tough New with highly regarded names like Gillespie, Crlss, Pepper, Midnight Lamp" and "Lomlness Is Such A Drag." York theatre system. "Today Parker, Powell, Farlow and even Billie Holiday. It's a very For rock devotees of the 60's, this album is essential. . .( Where it's at! § Aug. 26 - Sept. 4 - Colorado State Fair at Pueblo. I§ Sept. 1 - S.B.A. !_(~gger Contemporary Art Exhlbltr-Glassworks, 706 Rood. 1 'Amerlcan Graffiti" 6 p.m. on Q Station Sept. 1-17 - Denver Art Museum Contemporary Collection. Brin~s You Sept. 2 - Western Colo. Center for the Arts Show. I "Jesus Christ Superstar" 1 :30 p.m. on Q Station I Sept. 2, 3, 4 - Indian Arts Festival ~ Ranch Grounds at Snow Mass_ Sept. 5, ;6 - S.B.A. Elections (Class Reps1, _College center ~ t Sept. 8-10 - 11th Annual Denver Gem St. ·Mineral Show, Merchandlze Mart · DANCING Foosball Sept. 9 - Maverick Football (away) vs. Kearney State Pool Sept. 9 - 11 Two Mules for Sister Sara", CHng Eastwood, 8 · Across From Nlesa p.m.Q Station Pinball · College Theater On Sept. 9-10 - Parl-Mutual Quarter Horse ~acing at Uranium· Video Games Downs · 12th Avenue . Sept. 10 - S.B.A. Movie - Walter Walker Th~~er . Sept. 10 - 11Smokey and the Bandit," 6 p.m. Q Station. Sept. 12 - General (Public) Election - P.E. Building Sept. 14 - Open audition for the lnt~rnatlonaT company ·ot Seven Big Nights A Week 11 • A Chorus Line'' - Denver Center _for the Performing Arts Auditorium Theatre. Sept. 15 - Latin Anglo Alliance Fiesta - Grand -Junction 3:30-1:00 Sun.-Thur. Open till 12:00 Fri.-Sat. Sept. 15, 16 - Grand Junction Art Festival on Main Street. Page· 10 CRITERION Friday September f, -1978 Art department sculpted ·over summer : The Mesa College Art De says he felt the new Integrated· partment will survive even ooun-Je would- make It 11 more with two Instructors on leave, Interesting, as well as fun to aid an overhaul of their two · take," and that It wo.uld more and three dimensional draw clearly show the relationships . ing classes. between the two different Assoc. prof. Dennis Sanders studies. · has taken full time leave to According to Meyers, the pursue his painUng career. oourses' first project will be And Instructor Pat Veerkamp made of ropes that some c,f the has taken leave to attend students will assemble and the classes at Colorado State Uni other students will use them versity. ~ a drawing study. The Art Department will Runner said that he will be offer a new course this fall teaching a number of co.urses ca l led Art Fo.undatlon , Don this semester, Including a · Meyers, department head , sa id . Th-rs- course will be oou rse where the students make their own Jewelry. " It . team-taught by Meyers and D:> ug DeVlnny the first semes gives them a better: Idea of ter, and by De Vinny and Larry how jewelry Is made, and Ru.nner, Assistant Professor, teaches them to look at the jewelry they buy with a -more the second semester. altlcal eye," he says. The restructuring was ne cessary, says Meyers, "be Runner will also teach a cause we felt there was some aaft survey which·,s a general overlapping In the drawing overview o'f crafts, fr~m Jewel - Art department displays wares for local viewing. and design classes." Meyers ry to leather, wood and fiber. COUPON · • · COUP,BN COUPON - Recording prize for local talent , : ,-· Trade This'c'oupo" In For Valuablii · • ··. _ . i Festival '.78 · and a $1,000 and entry forms are available He adds there are many·artists record Ing package comes to through Jade Attractions ac In th ls part of the. state who Grand J unct'ion September 17, cording to Velarde. have professional' capabllltles, · :1u1e1T IUCIS:= announced John Velarde,· Local artisans will be invited but have not performed. ''This i Any $5.89 LP only ...... ~ ...... $4.77- 1 promoter of the event. to set up booths to sell their could turn things around for - The $1,000 recording pack wares. There will also be food · some of them," he said. I ... Any $5.99 Tape only...... $5.49 531 f\1P,IN age will be awarded to the and beverage concessions a- The recording package of · t:ilf.'RRY .QN DOWN· . winner of a talent contest at vailable. · fered as first prize will entitle · 245-4405 HOURS: OFFE~-E_>(P~~~ Cactus Park Speedway Sept: According · to Velarde, the winner to a demonstration Sept. 151. 1.978 -. 17. The contest is open to "Festival '78 will be the first tape, master cut, two recorded entertainers In all fields and of its kind In Western Colo songs and 250 copies of the Includes comics,· instrument rado. There will be talent from pressed record from Real to als, vocalists or groups. all over the state ... hard rock, Reel Studios, 3064 'Road d1h. An entry fee of $10 ls country-western, comedians Second and third prizes-are required for all contestants and folk rock entertainmenf." $100 and $50. ' - . i Friday September 1, 1978 CRITERION Page 11 With just a lingering taste of RMAC championship in. their mouths, the Mavericks football team will be a hard-hitting bunch. Mavericks hOpe to corral RMAC crown by BRAD REVIS after the University of South the season ·opener against calls ' 'a young and inexperi pass will be a rare site at a Criterion Sports Editor ern Colorado last year played Kearney State College, out of enced backfield.'' Maverick football game. With ineligible players, and USC Nebraska. According to Coach The real problem, though, pass plays a thing of .the past "Western! Western!" This had to forfeit a game against Perrin, "Kearney is ranked lies with the tailbacks, Perrin the new tailbacks should show could be the battle cry of the Western State, thus changing sixth in the , nation, while we says. However, the Mavericks promise after the third or Mesa Mavericks football team the league standing and are ranked abo1Jt sixteenth." are a ball-control oriented fourth ·game and help the for the 1978 season . knocking the Mavs out of ·first Kearney also has the home team · and the passing game Mavs to the RMAC football But if this should be the place. ' town advantage. But Perrin including the tailback flare crown, Perrin says. case, then the Mavericks will • 'tt will be a physical as well notes the Mavs special quality have a tough time beating as a mental ballgame." com of having an offensive line that Western State College for the m~nts Maverick Head Coach averages around 225 lbs. and the defense . which averages 235 pounds, plus, adds the coach, ••both offense and de f en e are quick." The defense should be the Maverick's pride and joy this year, with 10 out of 11 regular \ . .... players from last year back, 1 the Maverick defense will be (, BACKPACKERS league championship this year Jack Perrin. "But if the kids out to win. As of now there is in the RMAC (Rocky Moun get psyched out and lose their no one who can be rated as tain Athletic Conference) foot heads, they will fail to execute outstanding. Coach Perrin re \ Beaver Creek Sports ball crown race. properly and make mistakes, marked ''The Mavericks are a The upcoming game with which would change the game team, not a bunch of individ~ welcomes Mesa College Western State on Sept. 30 will in favor of Western," Perrin uals, so we would like to be Students! be a revenge-orientated game continued. known as a together team.'' Right now the Mavs will In the offensive department for the Mavs who will be Only 2 blocks south seeking a rematch with the have to forget' about Western the Mavs may have a few. 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College cannot provide a regu to carry out and complete a time to adequately play the Such highly popular sports· lation soccer field and the only successful program. game, McNeil said If you happen to be one of as football, basketball and field available is at lincoln those people who are stumbl- softball will need managers Park. The newly formed Soccer too has been attack "It will be -at least a few . ling around the Mesa College for the individual teams in Grand Junction Soccer league ed by apathy, as McNeil more years before soccer re campus looking for a way to each sport. Any interested keeps it ~usy for most of the recalled that. there was only appears,'' said McNeil. have a lot' of fun, then you parties should contact McNeil should check out what's hap at the physical ed office. This pening in the lntramurals opportunity . cou Id be very Sports Dept. · valuable to anyone who is lntramurals Director Rick interested in a coaching ca Women .sign coach McNeil has the answer. reer, he notes. Officials of McNeil has the answer. these sports will be students "I feel 'there is no personal Ellen O'Hara. Sue Moyer, a "On September twenty ''What we are trying to do is themselves participating or pressure on me at all." smiles ·- Grand Junction High School third we will go into a round place em phases on the idea of otherwise involved. Conner Shepard, the new local, has "got potential" says robin with St. Regis College having a good time with your The switch from the quart Women's Tennis Coach. Shepard. "And she should and Western State College in friends, and getting enjoy erly system to the semester Many people, particularly improve rapidly enough to _be an elimination play-off" notes ment out of playing sports,'' system will lengthen the sea tennis fans, may feel that a valuable asset to the team. Shepard. says McNeil. son of each sport, which in the Q>ach Shepard has a tremen case of footbal I will change the dous amount of pressure to · However the participant number of playoff games from bear because of the runaround must be aware that the rules five to seven and possible the women's team has gotten that follow intramurals are a eight games. The longer per in the past. · l'lt different than what they iod will a.lso give roorn tor a' "Sure the women's team were taught in high school. pre-ho I iday basketbal I tour had a disappointing season "Intramural sports are not nament. Besides the tourna last year, but that was because highly competitive," com ment, a three-on-three bask they didn't have a qualified ments McNeil, "and the rules etball program is also avail- · full time coach." counters in intramural football will be a able with a tournament at the Shepard. little differe·nt than the rules end of the season. This year things will be played in high school foot Lack of interest is one different for the women's ball." reason some sports are not team. As an enthusiastic available, lack of funds is ooach, Shepard plans on put McNeil has scheduled 12 another. Boxing, for instance, ing "more emphasis on devel · individual sports activities wou Id cost th"e college a to n of opment rather than perform that will be in competition and money to provide such facil ance.' ' will distribute awards at the ities as a training gym, boxing Shepard counts on having end of the season . Some of the ring, and gloves. eight players of which six of premier sports are football , Apathy could be booked as them will be regular starters tennis, and handball for the the reason that water sports and at least two more people first semester and basketbal I, aren't offered, but McNei I on standby in case of injury. softball , and tennis- again in says "water sports just (don't) Lisa Raff and Janet Bilbas will the second semester. even do well around here." probably ramrod this young . A schedule of all 12 activi- Soccer is another sport that team, with possible help from Women 's tennis at Mesa College is back. sans soann Today's FA C 2 to 6",pm at Suds 'n Sounds with disco & live entertainment Sunday- No cover charge Thursday- "Ladies' Night" Ladies admitted free and Monday- "Teen Night"--all pitchers only $1.00 7-8 P. M. ages admitted. No beer is served--cover $2.50. 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