Tivoli awarded funds, filled to capacity
The Tivoli has been awarded $26,250 from the Colorado Historical Fund for an assessment that will detail preservation work for the building.
The student union has been a vital part of Denverâs history since 1866 when Moritz Sigi, a German immigrant, opened a brewery in the Tivoli, according to Auraria officials.
The roof, brick parapets, windows and the buildingâs foundation where flooding has occurred are some of the areas that will be assessed.
Business space in the Tivoli is also 100 percent leased for the first time since Auraria opened the building in 1994.
Sandy Romero, marketing manager for the student union, said students helped make decisions that made the Tivoli what it is today.
Fieldwork Denver Inc., a marketing research firm, held a series of meetings with students in 1996 to find out what kinds of businesses they wanted for the Tivoli.
÷ By Tim Fields
Student fees leader reappointed
The Metro Student Government Assembly voted unanimously Feb. 5 at itâs weekly meeting that Jessie Bullock stay on as vice president of Student Fees.
Bullock, who quit her job with the student government Jan. 29, resigned because she believed the assembly might have violated its constitution when members reappointed Jane Duncan, one of Metroâs two representatives for the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board, who resigned Jan. 22.
÷ By Claudia Hibbert-BeDan
Former VP explains resignation
A former member of Metroâs Student Government Assembly said Feb. 10 he resigned because of frustration with the slow-moving bureaucratic process. Sean Brailey, former vice president of Administration and Finance, resigned Jan. 29. He is one of four members who left their jobs this semester. The student government set a tentative date of Feb. 19 for interviewing candidates for the job, President Karmin Trujillo said.
Sean Jenson, a Metro senior, has already submitted an application. Jenson said if he gets the job, which pays $500 per month, he would like to talk with Metroâs governing board about why Metro receives less state funding per student than other state colleges.
÷ By Perry Swanson
Chicago native relates life in the ghetto
Residents of inner-city projects need to be shown more options than the decrepit, 14-story concrete jungle that is their reality, a Florida State University student told an audience in the Tivoliâs multicultural lounge Feb. 5.
ãI come from the ghetto, an urban inner-city dwelling, where most donât make it and most all fail,ä said 18-year-old LeAlan Jones, who recently published a book, ãOur America,ä co-authored with Lloyd Newman. The book tells their story of life and death in Chicagoâs south side.
Jones said he has lectured at campuses around the nation to expose what is wrong in his community as well and others like his. He said education showed him a way out of the mental barriers of the ghetto.
ãWhat type of people are we to spend more money on people that have done wrong?ä Jones asked. ãWe put up new penitentiaries everyday. These institutions do not educate. They do not help. They do not motivate. They only dampen the human spirit.ä
By Alicia Beard
