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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 17, 1990
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Coors contribution brews Colorado dispute
ome Buffs are in a huff.
Student leaders at the University of Colorado in Boulder say the university's fundraising organization had no business taking a $5 million gift from the Coors Foundation.
The Coors gift, the largest ever received by the university, is being used to replace an old workout machine.
The new building will retain the name of the old workout center. So the Colorado Events Center, where spectators watch basketball and concerts, will have name three weeks ago — the Coors Events Center.
Student government responded with legislation asking Colorado's Board of Regents to reconsider its decision to allow the name change. In addition, student groups with various agendas formed the Colorado Student Government.
In telephone interviews last week, the angry students, university and Coors Foundation officials couldn't seem to agree about anything — that Coors is easier to spell than, say, Anschutz.
Eric Kessler told me that he and others organized the coalition because of past Coors conduct that ranged from environmental irresponsibility to biotory.
"We don't want our public university to have anything to do with such an evil corporation as you."
The coalition's members include leaders from an environmental club, a women's group, two Hispanic organizations, a gay, lesbian and bisexual group and a human rights coalition.
Kessler faxed me the coalition's propaganda, which lists numerous accusations of past, shameful assaults on the environment at the Coors family's brewery. In addition, family members are said to have expressed prejudice against the company. For example, Joe Coors, a former company president and Colorado Board of Regents member, is accused of distributing neo-nazi materials while serving as a Regent
Rich Cornell
Associate Editorial Editor
and of testifying in a court of law that he gave Oliver North $65,000 to buy a plane for the Contras.
Becky Winning is a Coors representative paid to disagree with activists such as Kessler. She did so with the help of her own fax assault, disputing Mr. Winning's information and dismissing the real as history.
"A lot of their concerns are based on things that happened to 10 to 15 years ago," she said. "Our sins are not forgiven."
'What could be wrong with the No-Doz School of Engineering? Or the Fischer-Price School of Education?'
The fax war, incidentally, was won by Winning,
11 pages to 3.
Coors is striving to shape a new image, Winning coars. Translated from public relations speak, she apparently referred to the company's recent contributions to groups with ideologies somewhat unfamiliar.
Publications have taken notice of Coors' efforts include Black Enterprise Magazine and two leading gay advancement magazines. The Advocate Times, according to the coma's literature.
All of which means two things. Activists similar to Coalition Against Coors have proven with boycots and revelation that they don't force corporate change. But Coalition Against Coors may be joining the
The university initiated the entire arrangement by asking Coors for money and offering 'free advertising in return. No matter what one thinks of Coors' past politics the contribution is significant because it underscores an emerging educational financing force.
battle too late.
Betsy Jay, who represents the university's fundraising group, said $30.2 million was collected last year from 23,000 donors. That's similar to the amount of money University of Kansas officials expect from each year's Campaign Kansas commitments. It is also nearly twice what University of Iowa hope legislators and taxpayers will tolerate next year to finance the Margin of Excellence.
"You do not go out and take a popularity vote when you get a gift," Jay said.
And she's right.
It's becoming more and more clear that corporations, more so than taxpayers, have more ability and more to gain by financing public education.
Fashion designers, for example, could benefit both themselves and the University by sponsoring the wardrobes of professors and graduate teachers. The instructors could wear the new duds — no brown, please — along with large tags featuring the sponsor's logo.
On a larger scale, schools and departments could carry corporate banners in exchange for a considerable fee. What could be wrong with the system of knowledge structure? Or the Fischer-Price School of Education?
The result? An indirect fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants, tringe benefits for professors and other students.
How about the Lockheed School of Engineering?
The Jesse Helms department of art history?
Coors to you, CU. We'll take Adams, White,
Strong. Hashinger — even Dole — any day.
> Rich Cornell is an Olathe senior majoring in journalism.
Quake theory valid
I am writing in response to the Kansas State Collegian article "Quake theory baseballs" that was in the Oct. 8 issue of the Kansan.
The person who wrote that article seemed to think that Iben Browning's prediction of an earthquake on or about Dec. 3 along the New Madrid Fault is an "off-the-wall statement" and that "scientists should keep these grandiose predictions to themselves."
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Browning has a good track record. He predicted the earthquake in San Francisco that occurred almost a year ago, the Mexico quake of 86 and several volcanic eruptions.
The New Mgridid Fault produced the worst earthquake in U.S. history, which occurred in 1811 and measured 8.7 on the Richter scale. The worst reported earthquake in the past made the Mississippi River run backward for three days, created a large lake in Tennessee.
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I don't think Browning is making this prediction to draw attention to himself or to scare people. What I do think is that he is trying to prepare people in that area for the worst. It is true that people are afraid, but those are the ones who are going to be the best prepared. Look at the facts, and you be the judge.
I see seismologists as a great benefit to the sciences considering the unpredictable nature of the earthquakes. These scientists are oriented to the study of plate tectonics, which deals with the movement of the plates folding and faulting of Earth plates. Seismologists use this knowledge to predict the shifting of the plates on either side of the fault line — which is better known as an earthquake. The last quake on the New Madrid Fault was one of the worst on the Richter scale. The fault has a 40- to 90-year cycle, which would not it fifteen years overdue.
and rang church bills in Ohio.
Given these facts, I wouldn't exactly say that Browning's prediction is an "off-wall state."
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