Regis University ePublications at Regis University Brown and Gold Archives and Special Collections 11-16-1973 1973 Brown and Gold Vol 56 No 6 November 16, 1973 Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.regis.edu/brownandgold Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Education Commons Recommended Citation "1973 Brown and Gold Vol 56 No 6 November 16, 1973" (1973). Brown and Gold. 420. https://epublications.regis.edu/brownandgold/420 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at ePublications at Regis University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Brown and Gold by an authorized administrator of ePublications at Regis University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thoughts of the Thanksgiving season Sincere gratitude owed to those behind scenes By Mary Pat Gauthier service. Stop and look around you. You must know all, could you live with someone like yourself? Student Body Vice-President Think of someone well known or popular. someone who fits this perspective at least There must at so be a nameless number of At some time he too is the man behind the sometime in his life . If you can't think of people in our past that we never took time to Often we take for granted the people around scene, the underdog. It wasn't until someone anyone, here are a few. How about the people thank. Take that time now. Perhaps our us and the services they provide. Usually they else recognized him and his potential that he in the food service. It's true that they're parents should be the first on our list . pass us by unappreciated and unnoticed. became well known. one can say the same for getting paid for their jobs. But most people This article isn't written to tear down Diligetn, hard workers, they find fulfillment in a long line of important people. They owe with an occupation are paid; this doesn't people who have achieved their goals and what ·they do and hence look for no their start to someone else. mean that they don't deserve thanks. gained recognition . It is meant to show how recognition. It is enough for them to believe in What if the people around us never do get We have any number of secretaries whose hard the rest of us continue to work at our themselves and in what they are doing. discovered? Their work will not cease. They services we would be lost without. Where do goals. They have names, but no one ever hears will keep going and never really think of our teachers fit in? They're definitely not in With Thanksgiving around the corner, let's them. They have a face but no one ever really missing something. It's true that you never the field for money. How about our janitorial develop the spirit involved . Let's open our sees it . They have a voice but seldom do we misshwat you've never had . However, these service and grounds crew? It isn't that hard to eyes and give notice to those we usually take take time to hear it. More often than not, the people ought to be thanked once in awhile. It pick out someone. for granted. Take time to give a special thanks actions of these people speak louder than does help to keep their drive and incentive Take your roommate. You never could fully to God . Thanks isn't a big word to say. It just their words. All that they do is done in humble going. thank someone for putting up with you. After takes a big person to say it. IB8WI 1811 H.egi~ ~tudent Rew~paper Volume 56, Number 6 Denver Friday, November 16, 1973 Denver taps resources of water bond proposal By LYLE CHEENEY correct population imbalance, and the smog B&G STAFF WRITER and traffic congestion in Denver. They felt the best way to avoid or relieve these One of the most heated arguments in the problems would be to support a no vote. election which took place on November' 6 was But no matter how benevolent the that of the Water Bond. The Denver voters, opponents' efforts may. have seemed, the aiter rejecting a previous plan 18 months voters of Denver bypass•·d their endeavors, ago, approved the bond by 39,274 to 30,836. and the proponents of the water bond have The revenues needed to implement the finally won the struggle. plan will come from future users of Denver's water, paid out of tap and use fees, which are comparably higher in the suburbs to lower rates for Denver users. The bonds do not tuition create increased taxes. The newly approved bond will use the funds it generates for diverting water from the Eagle and Piney Rivers to the Dillon area. From Dillon it will go on to the Upper inc rease for Region of the South Platte River. Here the water will be processed and transferred into the Denver area for use. The water will then become an important semester asset in maintaining the beauty and quality which Denver presently enjoys, according to Mr. Don Frazier, a member of the Junior By ANNE VILLOTTI Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Frazier and his B&G STAFF WRITER associates maintain that restricting the supply of water will not solve the growth problem but that legislative means should be There seems to be some nasty rumors activated to comply with the growth circulating around campus that tuition will be situation. raised next semester. The happy news is that _,.._,..,. ..,..-:.'Wk-~~~ The proponents of the bond also argued this is false. '.I( . ,.- that if the bond were rejected, more ' '' , "' "' environmental destruction would occur. They However, for the academic year 1974-1975, ' ~ ' *·' ) based their fe eling on the fact that people will cost per credit hour will be raised to $60. get water whether by forming individual Father Clarke, President of the College, districts or mining ground water. They also stated that Regis is plagued by America's l maintain that the cost factor would be most common problem--inflation. Regis must greater and less thought would be given meet the rising costs, and the most practical · towards environmental decay . method of accomplishing this is raising the ••••-. ........ On the other side of the issue we find tuition. people such as Mr. Gordon Weller, District Captain of the Sensible Water Use Coalition. So next year, students, prepare to dig into These people maintain. that the City of your pockets (or your parents') a little Denver should no.t have to pay for water used deeper. by suburban areas. The major point is that if .-------------------. the people of Denver do not want 160 million dollars of city of Denver bond credit to be photo by Bill Hanagan used for supplying water to separate Bugged by municipalities whose rapid growth is causing the "Denver Sprawl," then are bonds are ineffective and should be rejected. Home of Regis school .spirit It was also maintained that a no vote would have indicated a control of growth and assure ? the present population a better break in the Watergate energy crisis which has affected the Denver On Halloween night 1973 something strange happ'ened on the third floor of this building. area greatly. A no vote would then tell See survey results 7he entire Language House was transformed into a scientist's study. At first thought ta be leaders that growth must be curtailed and the prank of Carroll residents, a new theory concerning the revenge of the Ghost of Carroll that this could not be done if the same tax Hall, the building's resident spirity, has been offered. What manner of unholy forces roams fees and use fees were retained. and cartoon behind this dark portal? See Page 4 tor a truly unique Letter to the Editor. The opponents were concerned citizens considering such problems as the drying up of nearby mountain streams, the need to on Page 5 ... Page 2 BBOWil&OLB Frida~ November 16, 1973 Carroll experiments with part-time RA By JO SCHLICHT Hall. Not only for the sake of B&G STAFF WRITER convenience, but also for the sake of an experiment, did the sugges­ Through the combined efforts of tion come up to institute an Fr. Bill Williams and Miss Patty innovative method for dorm su­ Clark, head · resident of Carroll pervision. Hall, a new system of reducing the Having heard about the new number of full-time RA's in each system to be tried in Carroll Hall, dorm has been initiated. a number of students inquired as to helping out with the project, This system has been operated and the above four part-time RA's on an experimental basis for the were chosen. past two months in Carroll Hall Duties of the four new RA's and has proven successful. Cur­ include basic duties as assigned rently, Carroll Hall has only one RA's on campus and involves RA full time resident advisor, Liz duty on week nights from 8 p.m. til Jedlicka, and four part-time RA's, midnight and on weekends with ·Rosie McCormick, Steve Moore, the duty extending until 1 a.m. Jim Knackstedt, and John Mar­ This duty is done on a revolving cucci. basis, with these students attend­ photo by Tom Tully Original plans had Carroll Hall ing the business needs of the dorm The 301 Directors of Regis College are coordinated by the Board of Governors which includes about 50.