•M- New cultural twist on old classic UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Page 4 Logan, Utah • Campus Voice Since 1902 www.utahstatesman.com Friday, March 23,2007 Business students should expect $735 increase in tuition "There are more than 1,000 unfilled faculty positions in Staff Writer colleges of business nationBusiness students searchwide," Anderson said. "You ing for summer jobs may want don't have to be a whiz at ecoto consider something with nomics to know price is going a little more income to cover to rise." next year's tuition - $735 to be This trend means that busimore precise. ness educators are able to College of Business Dean demand higher salaries. That Douglas Anderson explained demand, if left unmet, can to various student groups this drive professors to find more week why upper-classmen are generously paying positions. going to pay a little more next Chandler said he has lost his year. Starting in the Fall of last five assistant professors 2007, students will be charged just before they were given $35 for every 3000 level and tenure. Now the department above business credit. That's must fill those new openings $105 for a three credit class. at market prices. USU busiAn estimated $735 more for ness professors are currently the average junior or senior paid 25 percent below the studying business at USU. In national average. the Fall of 2008, the differenChandler says the USU tial tuition fee will increase to College of Business has always $50 per credit for an average been a little behind the marof $1050 more for the academ- ket but not as far as they are ic year. now. Since 2001, the college Mark Niebergall, a of business has had two years senior majoring in Business of zero percent increase in pay Information Systems, said and one year with a one perhe was "pretty upset" when cent increase. This has caused he heard about the increase what Anderson calls a "merrywhile working in the financial go-round" effect with a high aid office. I ^ H H ^ - ^ — • ^ attrition rate. Although the If the cycle fee increase of profeswill not sor rotation affect his continues, Comments to remember undergraduthe college ate studies, of business 'There are more than 1,000 he plans on will continue unfilled faculty positions in the to eat a hole beginning a master's College of Business nationwide. in its buddegree get just to You don't have to be a whiz at here in the keep up with summer. economics to know price is going market rate Graduate prices for level courses to rise/' new hires. will cost $75 "You can Douglas Anderson, College of never more per build Business Dean a program credit and increase in because cost $50 annually over the you're spending too much next two years. After hearing money on developing junior Anderson explain the increase, faculty for other universities to he said it makes more sense. use," Chandler says. Anderson and Gaylen Niebergall agrees teachChandler, the management ers needs to be paid well but and human resources departstill feels the raise is a little ment head, explain the dilemexcessive. With close to 1,300 ma the college of business juniors and seniors, the tuition is in. There is a nationwide increase is expected to bring in demand for doctorate degree business educators and a short • TUITION supply. see page 3 BY JACOB FULLMER Davis AKhibald/doKhilbaldida.usu.edu PROTESTORS of the Iraq War gathered March 17 in front of the courthouse. They marched around town and then returned to the courthouse to discuss the war. New York Times writer speaks at USU it got out of hand. And slowly, until the late 90s, we dismantled job secuEditor in Chief rity step by step by step, until we The dismantling of job security is acquiesced as a people." one of the most important issues facThis is in contrast to the century ing the American economy, accordpreceding the decline, during which ing to New York Times economic Uchitelle said job security was a part reporter, Louis Uchitelle, who spoke of the culture. Starting in the late Wednesday in the Sunburst Lounge. 1800s and really taking off after the "[Layoffs are] a very convenient 1930s and the war years, job security system for executives who don't have was "an integral part of our success to inhibit themselves [in conductas an industrial nation," he said. ing] layoffs, and for politicians who "It was the result .of managers of don't have to come up with public major corporations, all of them realpolicy, except maybe safety nets izing they had thousands of employto pay unemployment insurance, ees operating all across the country. wage insurance, health insurance They realized that if they were to after you're laid off, and even labor have skilled, energetic, enterprisunions, who, at times, participate ing workers, they had to give them quite a bit in retraining programs," a sense of advancement, a sense of said Uchitelle, who authored a book, income rising," he said. "The Disposable American," about From this realization grew the the phenomenon of layoffs in the system in the 5Os and 60s in which workforce. management, unions and the govThe step-by-step weakening of job ernment were equal in power and security in American culture began shared the same interests, Uchitelle in the mid-1970s, with the advent said. The 70s saw the beginning of globalization and the rise of the of the decline in this aspect of the Japanese economy, Uchitelle said. American workforce. "We responded to the globaliza"A company existed for a comtion and the arrival of the Japanese munity as well as for its workers, for with layoffs to cut costs," he said. its suppliers and its shareholders. "That was a legitimate response, but Well, most of that is gone except the BY LIZ LAWYER shareholders," he said. The American worker came to believe it is a normal thing to get laid off, Uchitelle said. Often those who are laid off blame themselves instead of the system for the conditions which led to layoffs in the first place. "We have a certain type of individualism in this country - we believe in it and we worship it and every so often it goes haywire. In this country we have acquiesced to layoffs by learning to blame the victim of the layoff and not the community around us as responsible. "Being laid off is a trauma. In a society where work is part of a person's identity, being told you have no value at work is damaging to one's self-esteem," he said. One of the effects of layoffs is the toll they take on people's confidence. Only one in three people who get laid offend up earning the same or higher salary than they did before the layoffs, Uchitelle said. One third of all people laid offend up quitting the industry and one third take jobs • UCHITELLE see page 3 Speak Up Students win in the Grand Junction Symphony's Young Artist Competition recording in December, as did the other contestants. The top five were chosen to compete in this Two USU piano performance majors took year's competition. home cash prizes after competing against "It's a good experience to go there," three other pianists, one also a USU student, Hancock said. in the Grand Junction Symphony's Young The other performers, Jessica Roderer, Artist Competition last weekend. USU, and Trevor Hale, University of Colorado Emilee Bradley, a sophomore in piano at Boulder, had the chance to perform their performance, took home the grand prize of pieces for an audience. $1,500 and the opportunity to play her piece, Roderer said her piece, Prokofiev's third "Saint-Saens Concerto No. concerto, is very popular 5," next spring with the and fun to play. Grand Junction Symphony. "I love to perform • •• "It's a really fun piece and with my career as much I love to play it," Bradley as possible," Roderer • Grand Prize said. said. "It's easier to per$1,500 form the more you perBradley, who has played Emilee Bradley the piano for 15 years, has form." used the piece in other com- • Runners up She has performed in petitions in the past. many state and nationLuke Hancock She has received $500 $500 al competitions over the now and the rest will be Sharon Wu $500 years. given to her next spring. "The more competiFive students from tions you play in, the around the five-state region competed in the better chance you have of playing with a procompetition, which is held every other year. fessional performance group," Roderer said. Two of the performers, USU's Luke Each of the USU performers, along with Hancock and Sharon Wu of Littleton High competing, accompany for others and teach School, tied for runner up, and each received private lessons. $500. Hancock not only teaches privately, but he This was the third year Hancock perteaches two courses in the music department: formed in the competition and the second aural skills and keyboard harmony. Hancock time he received a runner-up award. is graduating this spring but plans on conHe performed "Rachmaninoff Concerto tinuing his education through the graduate No. 1" program that is being set up. "It's a great concerto with a beautiful lyri"I like working with the little kids, teachcal section," he said. "Audiences love it just ing them to play the piano. It's really rewardbecause it is so singable." ing," Bradley said. He worked on his piece off and on through -ra.naeba.ng@cc.usu.edu the summer and the fall, and then sent in a BY RANAE BANCJERTER Senior Writer And the winners are AP Photo VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney was invited to speak at the Brigham Young University commencement by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Cheney will speak at Brigham Young University commencement PROVO, Utah (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney will give the commencement speech at Brigham Young University on April 26. It will be one of only two graduation addresses by Cheney this spring, said spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride, who declined to identity the other school. "It turns out that in 2006, President Bush was invited and unable to attend," McBride said from Washington. "We reached out this year to the BYU board of trustees. They were excited at the suggestion and sent a formal letter of invitation." BYU is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is in Utah County, very friendly territory for conservative politicians, 4-0 miles south of Salt Lake City. Cheney will find a "very receptive and very hospitable" audience, predicted Kelly Patterson, director of BYU's Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy. BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said the invitation came from the three-member First Presidency of the LDS church, which includes President* Gordon B. Hinckley. Cheney's appearance was reported in The Salt Lake Tribune.