Grand Junction, Colorado Number9 (oil ,~ Stl l Col Wednesday, October 13, 1999 The official voice of Mesa State College since 1934 Volume CXVI MSC Police Dept. to step down from duty Police prove too costly for state school Kami Walton responsibilities previously held by News Editor Grand Junction police, according to Pat Meyer, acting director of The progress that began public safety at the Mesa State about three )'ears ago, moving Police Department. Mesa State's police department According to vice president from public safety to a state certi­ of financial affairs, John fied agency, is soon coming to an Fitzgibbon, it was found by the end, according to school officials. Budget Advisory Task Force that In a press release ..en, out Mon­ the department's expenditure day, Oct. 11, thecollegestated that level hdd grown two to three times a "preliminary intergovernmental as much as was spent three years agreement to provide police and ago. ·- public safety-related services to "For a campus of this size the campus has been reached. Ac­ and nature," said Fitzgibbon, "we cording to the same release, this may have been spending more agreement includes the phasing than necessary. Our primary goal out of the current campus police is to provide a safe environment, department. but to do so as efficiently as pos­ In 1997, after psyche evalu­ sible." . ations and skills tests, the now gun The phasing out is sched- packing state certified police offic­ ers began to slowly take over the Please sec PHONES, page 5 Fonner professor slams Mesa Jon Mitchell 23, was about the differences and Editor-in-Chief parallels between Mesa State and Cnterio11 pltoto: Scott Majors UNA. Makowski, who was the A Mesa State cheerleader silhouettes her spirit against the bon­ After less than one year as main source of the article, was a fire Friday night in front of Saunders Fieldhouse. a professor at Mesa State College, history professor at Mesa State Prof. George Makowski moved last year and left with his wife, back to his original university in Stephanie Thurman, to go back Rosenbau1n leaves music quietly Alabama, the University of to UNA. Northern Alabama, at the end of In the article, Makowski MSC signs away accused prof. last spring semester. However, a stated that the general student ceived just prior to his investigation and ar­ recent newspaper article written attitudes were so problematic Kami Walton rest Jan. 8, 1999, according to Bruce Pech, di­ by the institution's campus that he reconsidered a possible News Editor rectoroflegal affairs from the Office of the State newspaper, the Flor-Ala, has cre­ long term stay al Mesa State. Colleges. He added that the ultimate cost of ated a stir among some of the fac­ Also according to the ar- A quiet solution to a controversial situ­ ulty he left behind. ation was reached earlier this semester when the agreement is no more than normal con­ The article, printed on Sept. Please see SLAM, page 5 Dr. George W. Rosenbaum, accused of four sidering the contract Rosenbaum had for the counts of class-3 felonies related to sexual as­ 1999-2000 school year. sault, signed an agreement with Mesa State The reasoning behind the deal, accord­ Registration College ending his contract. Despite several ing to Pech, was three fold. They (the col­ Inside legal blocks on this document, The Criterion lege and trustees) felt that it was in the best no longer to gained access through the Colorado Public interest of the community and school, it Opinwns - Information Act. would avoid further costs of investigations Elvis mania proves to The agreement calls for a lump sum being conducted for ."actions unbecoming" be alive use phones of $16,000 to be paid to Rosenbaum in ex­ 2 Page Leigh Ashman change for the extended contract he ha·d re- Please see DEAL, page 6 News- Asst. News Cditor Sexual assault of concern to state. From now on it is in line Pnge4 or ort-line for Mesa State pre­ registration. According to Jeff Ft?ntwe:i - Hammer, associate director of Somewhere over the rainbow highlights. Admissions and Records, the Page 7 phone-in method of pre-regis­ tra tion is a thing of the past. Taking into consider­ StJO h Mhvs send Tigers back ation several factors including to Kansas. funding, lack of time to deal page 11 with student problems during pre-registration and the major Bent ust> offal/ brt>ak, tlze investment by the school in Critl' lllill not p11bfo,lz on the on-line program, students Oct. 20. See 1/0ll all on can either take advantage of 1 the internet process or stand in tlze 2 tlz of Octobt r line at the office of Admissions Check us out on the web: www.mesustate.edu/crite theme "There's no place like Homecoming" against Ft. Hays, Kan. Please see PHONES, page 5 e Criterion IDIODS Page2 Grand Junction, Colorado Wednesd_ay, October· 13, 1999 Elvis still proving to the world he is alive The King of Rock and Roll may strength, money, healing, intelli­ Ilolmes. more standing in long liines in de­ be dead, but some of his stuff is liv­ gence, or even relief from PMS. The When it comes to on-line shop­ partment stores or malls;. ing the high life. Elvis Presley's most bracelets are made of semi-precious ping, some of us could use Sherlock Instead, we will sp<.end hours rudimentary posses- stones and are supposed Holmes. The uncertainty about waiting for websites witm too many sions fetched a pretty to have different powers whether or hiits at one penny at an auction in depending on their color. not on-line tinne to be­ Las Vegas over the Wonder if they have one shopping is cmme avail­ weekend. The items for improving a person's reliable has The uncertainty about alble. Then Presley actually used writing skills? discouraged whether or not on-line th1ere is the were very popular. A If there are, people many of us nEEw featur~ battery-operated watch who are writing myster­ from trying shopping is reliable has L:ands' End Presley wore sold for ies certainly do not need it. But if you discouraged n1any of us hcopes to $36,875, while a rocking one. With 1,500 mystery have been fro1n trying it. acdd. lt chair sold for $19,550. books sold in 1998, this thinking w·ould al- But the most unusual 'KJlren Sh.aw genre of books are the about it, 1 tis lo)w two item was the King's most popular (and the the season. pceople to Christmas tree-shaped TV antenna most lucrative) books being sold. It is estimated that between five talk to each other while~ shopping that sold for $1,725. It is so refresh­ Mystery books have been arotmd and eight billion dollars will be on-line. This feature, cmnpled with ing to know that people are still will­ for a long time (remember Nancy spent on-line this Christmas sea­ the intemet's 2-1 hour, s;even days ing to pay good money for the Drew and the Hardy Boys?), but son. If these estimates prove to be a week availability, comld lead to things that really matter. now there are Native American true, and many more people do some very long shoppin1g sprees. Speaking of things that really mysteries, Christian mysteries, and their Christmas shopping on-line, So let's face it. ShopJping is go­ matter, it might be possible to gain even mystery books for animal lov­ it could usher in a whole new way ing to be a long, frustrrating, un­ some of them by simply wearing a ers. So now there is something for to shop. pleasant experience no rma tter how bracelet. The newest trend in the everyone. Even the most non­ No more dealing with slow, we do it. But at least with1 these new New Age movement are called sleuth-like one of us can find a rude or incompetent salespeople. improvements for on~lline shop~ powerbead bracelets, and they are book about a topic we know and Now we will have to deal with slow ping, we can be inconvemienced in supposed to bring their wearer enjoy pretending to be Sherlock or incompetent computers. No our pajamas. Modem day criminals not serving proper time In our modem day of security the year long wait for the trial, cer­ cent victim is not accounted for. someone's careless act1o,ns.' and safety, it seems as if we are-pro­ tain things are allowed to happen. Sanctions and punishments These plmishments isound like tected from anything. Criminals, The suspects are ,1llowed to they willl be giving murders, and violence change and pre­ the 1criminals are all nonexistent and pare to brainwash -proper tiime, but in our children are safe the jury into believ­ These institutions 'lVe place thent reality, with· the from all of this too, right? ing that the things into are the right ones and they can .· lawyer~ and the How can we sit here they did were okay, . b · b . h . I money that is and say that we are safe or that they were d O t h e JO , Ut tt 15 t e actions t tat thrown around from the criminals and not in the right take place 'lvhen they are tried that are . theseda)'ys, the time the wrongdoers of soci­ mind when the allowing these criminals to be set free · is not " actuall~ ety, when everyday an­ cnmes were com­ . served.