The Daily 'Utah Chrdnicle, Friday, February 21, Page Two Degree might take longer for nurses from page one quo for licensing nurses. feels Utah, by ignoring the national trend, will be taking a The bill is now before the Senate Labor and Business if bill backward the giant step passes. Committee, but it is not on the agenda. It will die if it does She said passage of the bill would create a shortage of not make it out of chambers before today. If the bill should nurses in the state. About 50 percent of Utah's nursing make it out of committee, however, Yardley said he is positions are filled with people from outside the state. confident it will pass on the Senate floor with the same Yardley said H.B. 180 will have no affect on the health care systems in Utah other than maintaining the status amount of support it received in the House. EVENTS Today 8:43 a.m. and seven minutes before each class Ncwsbreak's Friday Interview Show appears on all and Marriott Library monitors and the Union MTV screen. in-cla- ss 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Educational Psychology Workshop, "Understanding the Adult Years: Docs Mid-Life Columbia University, MEB Room 2038. 3:30 p.m. Engineering Week King and Queen of the Nerds Contest, Union Theatre. 4:30 p.m. Graduate School of Architecture Lecture, "The Education of an Architect," Jacques Brownson, director of buildings for the state of Colorado, Fine Arts Auditorium. Have a Corner on the Crisis Market?", Nancy Schlossbcrg, University of Maryland, Union Alumni Lounge, Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. 2 p.m. Chemistry Seminar, "New Organic Radical Catios: Homoaromaticity and Unusual Energy Surfaces," Heinz Roth, Bell Laboratories, HEB Room 20. 2 p.m. Computer Science Colloquium, "Recent Results of Average Case Analysis," G.W. 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Holbrook, who sits on the task force and was partly responsible for its creation, said the group will issue a report in the next few months on its findings and conclusions. The former legislator said the problem of the homeless is made worse here by the aggressive efforts of state officials to sell Utah to the national business community. "We sell Utah as the crossroads of the West. Well, it should be no surprise that the poor come here besides the nice, big corporations," he said. Many of Utah's homeless are "dropouts" from the dying smokestack industries, such as copper and steel. Unemployed, they wander the country, heading west to where they have heard there arc jobs. Many end up in Utah after having run out of money, sword to being a Holbrook said. "There's a double-edge- d crossroads." The problem of the homeless also has its roots in a concept known as "deinstitutionalization." Starting in the late 1 960s, mental health professionals around the country began releasing institutionalized persons into their local communities, in the belief they would recover faster in low-inco- and command of the English language required. Must be d and willing to take well-organize- from page and redevelopment, he said. Low-incohousing units such as old hotels and apartment buildings, which have traditionally housed such people have been buildings. replaced by downtown malls and high-ris- e factors in the loss arc and renewal big "Redevelopment said. he of these units," The problem of the country's homeless, Holbrook said, is totally unlike anything in the American experience, except perhaps for the Great Depression. But then, the destitute had family connections which helped them survive. Now, however, "the homeless today don't have the resources of family and friends" to fall back Chintu Irolktiltl Description: Telephone solicitation of Qualifications: Interpersonal m me mum two nights a week. Work begins Feb. 18 and continues through May 29. university alumni Utah's homeless in need of a long-terplan one such an environment. At the Utah State Hospital in Provo, for instance, the resident population went from 1500 in 1954 to the current total of 350, Holbrook said. Surprisingly, another factor in the rising number of homeless is the nationwide trend toward urban renewal UTAH BALLET Pay: $4.25 plus weekly bonuses. 5:30-9:3- 0 ", great, (steep and deep)!! On Campus Hours: 12-20- 19S6 1 "More people are living in poverty now than in 1970," Watkiss said. "These are not your classic hobos. There is the old myth of the safety net. Well, these people have fallen right through that safety net. This is a real societal problem. These people arc just a sympton of that," he said. 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