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Springiest soars ... Springiest, Mesa College's annual festival of goo.d fun, provided a Jot of entertainment for students looking to escape from the realities of classes and impending final exams. Several "sporting" events were scheduled and there was good food, good ~eer, good sounds and a general good time for all involved. See story on page- 6. THE ,:CRITERION Volume 44 Number 59 Mesa College Stu.dent Newspaper . Graryd Junction, Colorado Friday May 4, 1979 • 16 Pages This Week Art Dept. 'save our school' by JOHN EBY Mesa College President April 25, nearly 300 . Mesa aware that we care about the department, said he was • 1 dis­ and HALLIE PARKS John Tomlinson said earlier students, faculty and com­ effect of the proposed cuts in appointed at first by the lack Criterion Staff Writers this week that the tetmiination munity members showed up faculty recommended by the of turnout, butthen I realized not ices were flit in order outside the library building to Joint Budget Committee." that we got 1O percent of the . Despite tast week's student to give staff me eo days 3xpress.their support for Mesa Prior to the march; Hahne student· population-just demonstration to protest pro- notice. omJlnsoti ttwt and to voice thefr concerns said, 11 we repeatedly and re­ about like CU.'' posed faculty cuts at . MesaJ admtnistration tatne up with about staff. Many students spectfully talked·with the ad­ Runner said he felt support the pink slips have already the nine cuts by taldng into addressed the crowd, but few ministration and appealed to was positive ''except from the. started to arrive in staff mail- consideration bOttr the House faculty and staff members did. the legisla1ors about losing faculty. They were almost boxes. and Senate staff cut pro- '' It was the first cohesive part of our art program. The more apathetic than the stu.- Nine termination noticef posals for Mesa. _ issue on campus since Viet­ march was a last resort-we . dents.'' have gone out to faculty and TomHnson declined to say nam,'' said · Barbara Long knew we had to do something Hahne concluded that only staff this week tn what is who the nine staff members Hahne, spokesperson for the . more.'' one incident marred the out­ expected to be the first of were, stating that it would be group responsible for the Dr. Jo Dorris, vice president look during the march. many cuts, although the .Long in violation of the Right to Awareness March. of student affairs, read a "We're not sure why the Bill is still in Conference Privacy Act. Hahne and - Pat Feinberg statement from President people in the cafeteria who Committee. The Long Bill, the - were coordinators of the Vis­ Tomlinson who could not be booed us and threw food at us state budget bill, ultimately Awareness March - ual Arts students' march to present. were not tolerant of us. Maybe will determine the total num­ "make our faculty, our admin­ '' Expressions of faith in they were just negative about ber of Mesa staff cuts. Last Wednesday- morning, istration, and· the comm.unity your ·college such as you are our approach.'' demonstratir)g today confirm my belief in the democratic Fowler Proposal system and· the people who make the system work. In other related legislative Thanks for your mature ac­ action, the concept of a separ­ tions, your acceptance of the ate governing board for Mesa responsibility to be heard and was killed in the Colorado the positive way in which you Senate this week. This propo­ are doing so,'' Tomlinson sal was part of Sen. Hugh offered. Fowler's (A-Littleton) 323- Dorris reiterated the admin­ page.bill. istration's - concerns and also This bill' also proposed the expressed her thanks to the m·erger of Metro State Col­ group for a well-organized and lege and the University of well-planned gathering. Colorado at Denver. However, Doug DeVinny, a part-time Senate action also eliminated art instructor who received a that possibiltty from the bill. termination notice this week, Sen. Tilman Bishop (R­ commented on the "incredible Grand Junction) said it ap­ sense of camaraderie'' pre­ peared as though the Fowler sent at the march, but said he bill would be killed during the feels the ''real purpose tell on preliminary debate Wednes­ deaf ears. No one wanted to day. However, should it not be listen. It's a Propositio.n 13 killed, he said the plans .to mania.'' introduce an amendment to Larry Runner, another fac­ put Mesa under the CU Board ulty member from the art of Regents. t&lnT.1'1'i= This will be the last issue of The Criterion for school year · 1978-79. The Crite will resume publication next August in time for registration. Happy Summer! Students from the 'art department and other concerned Mesa people march from Housron Hall 1'11V I IVI;;. towards the Student Center. Photo by Bruce Ryman Page 2 CRITERION Friday May 4, 1979 The case of the missing typewriter has been solved. Last June, a then-new IBM Selectric belon-ging to the SBA SBA wins some, was stolen out of the unlocked SBA office. Efforts to locate. the typewriter turned up nothing conclusive until last "We expect to double our office space next year," said semester, according to Dr. Alan Workman, director of Matt Smith, president of the Student Body Association. student activities. Starting June 1, the SBA will officially take over the office "A classmate of Tom Gold's, a former senior at Mesa, now occupied by the Veterans Administration. The two reported to me that the typewriter was in his (Gold's) officers are separated by a single door, and the expansion is posession," said Workman, who then informed the planned to give the SBA ''more room to better serve the authorities. students and more office space for the present SBA cabinet Gold, however, did not steal the typewriter, according to . members to work in," Smith said. "All it's going to take is Workman. Former SBA President Kevin Burke did, and Gold unlocking the door," he said. was reluctant to .involve him, Workman said. With the combined offices, Smith felt the SBA would Gold appeared before the campus Discipline Committee "have adequate facilities" to operate. However, without the last semester and was suspended from school for his part in extra space, he said severe problems would arise. ''There's the incident. At that time he was refusing to indict Burke, but no way at the present time that we can get all 26 SBA cabinet since has cooperated with the authorities, according to members into this office," he said. Workman. l Smith said the SBA plans to "hold the costs to a Gold entered a,plea of guilty to receiving stolen goods and minimum," furnishing the new office with used furniture. Burke entered a plea of guilty to the theft charge . ''Contingent on the fee allocations, the SBA expects to be Both were sen'tenced to a two-year probationary period. putting .in new carpeUng, which will be our only capital Former SBA President Greg Watcher said, "It's· not an outlay for next year." Besides the carpeting, the only other SBA matter, but if it was a civil suit we probably would not expense would be telephone hook-up. "I don't think the press charges since we got our typewriter back." students should have to pay for (the remodeling of the SBA The theft is considered a felony because the value of the office)," said Smith. typewriter exceeded $200, according to Achziger. The designing of the new ••office complex,·" Smith said, Neither of the former students was available for comment. would be up to the vice president of administrative affairs, Stephen Menge. Smith said the plans included locating the different vice presidents "around the office to better facilitate their committee work and their closeness to the students.'' loses .some _ 1 Protesters, celebrities unite at Rocky Flats By TAMMY FREEBURG Ellsberg has been instrumental thing as a First Amendment," and anti-nuclear movement due to nowhere." Criterion staff writer in gathering support for the clos­ the demonstration was held. their protest songs. Some well­ Ware took the podium to an­ ing ·and c;:onversion of the Rocky known entertainers who also ap- To the more than 12,500 Ellsberg's latest tactics in deal­ nounce the release of helium bal­ .peared at the rally were Bonnie people who gathered outside qf Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. He ing with the nuclear industry has loons. The practice of releasing Raitt, Jackson Browne and the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weap­ and a small group of people were been to buy stock in Rockwell ln­ the balloons, according to Ware, ons Plant last Saturday to protest the first to sit on the railroad temaional, so, he says, "we can .Danny O'Keefe. The music was began at Rocky Flats and has the use of nuclear power, Daniel tracks on which supplies are attend their stockholders' interspersed with the speeches spread throughout the world, meetings." E 11 s berg s aid , " I t' s i n­ transported to the weapons plant. and several times the audience where people protest nuclear fa- subordination time." One year ago, Ellsberg and nu­ joined the performers in singing . cilities. The release of the bal­ Ellsberg, who worked for the merous others were arrested for Terming the dividend check protest songs. loons illustrates, according to Pentagon until he released secret blocking the tracks. Af­ he'd received from Rockwell Inter­ Rep. Schroeder spoke on the Ware, that radioactive material is documents to the press, urged ter their trial in Boulder, Ellsberg national, "some sort of capitalistic possibility of converting Rocky carried far and wide by the Wind.

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