Show Housing head cites goals met not met by Peggy Boss staff writer In anticipation of his first year as USU housing director Lee Obsorn wrote seven goals he wanted to accomplish by spring quarter 1978 Although several of the goals remain on paper only he said significant advances have been made toward their completion The seven goals concern a variety of topics and have had a variety of success Osborn described the goals and steps to attain them — Head residents should have better training A workshop was conducted for head residents fall quarter to give them insight on leadership skills — There should be a group orientation for student assistants In previous years the student assistants were given individual orientations which perpetueted lack of unity in procedure This year’s group orientation made the same information available to all student assistants — Housing should employ its own custodians Before this year the custodial staff was employed by physical plant If housing wanted something done or was unsatisifed with a custodian’s work it had to go through the office of physical plant Osborn said Now the custodians are employed directly by housing which makes custodial service more responsive to housing’s immediate needs he said — Housing should have its own painting staff This goal was only partially successful One painter is now employed by housing to handle “emergencies” but physical plant is still responsible for major painting duties — The maintence section in the married students housing should be upgraded Not much has been done to attain this goal” the director said — Housing staff should have a weekly meeting Until this year the housing staff did not meet on a regular basis — Housing staff should have a (Continued on page 6) STUDENT L0FEsuttAhe UNIVERSITY VOL 75 NO 59 LOGAN UTAH Wednesday March 29 1978 I I Paper garners top honorsin editorial writing Becky Cairns Student Life editor won two first place awards at the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association conference last week The newspaper received 9 awards at the Texas meeting 1 Student Life gets high awards in collegiate press competition Student Life won top honors including a second place general excellence award for university newspapers at the annual Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association (RMCPA) conference The newspaper and individual writers received a total of 19 awards from the RMCPA which held its 54th annual conference in San Marcos Tex on March Student Life received the general excellence award in competition with newspapers published three times a week or more The newspaper was the first place winner for typography layout and design First place honors for general excellence went to the University of Texas at Austin Other schools in the division included the University of Utah University of Wyoming and Texas Tech University In a breakdown of the awards Student Life received five first place awards nine second place awards and four third place awards In competition for journalist of the year Student Life Editor Becky Cairns received the first place award for live editorial writing Contestants were given one hour to write an editorial on a topic addressed by a speaker Cairns also was awarded first place in the editorial writing category for an editorial entitled “ISA: Biting the hand that feeds you" which ran in Student Life fall quarter Doug Robinson sports editor received five individual awards including second place for his sports column "Sidelines” and second place for 22-2- 1 sports feature writing Second place awards for newswriting and headline writing also went to Robinson An earned investigative story on women's athletics e him third place in investigative-intrepretiv- reporting Randy Stutman author of "Woods and Water’ which appears regularly in Student Life won second place in the general and specialized columns category Staff photographer Ron Hendricks received a first place award for a photo essay and third place award for a sports photo A1 Hartmann took third place in the news photo category In the critical review category Bob Irvin captured a second place award for his review of an Emerson Lake and Palmer album Ray Cornia the artist behind the newspaper’s "Highrisers” cartoon received second place recognition for a humorous cartoon The newspaper received three awards in advertising categories Advertising Director Rick Phillips won first place in the ad campaign category as well as a third place for single advertisements Joanna Johnson received second place for a single ad Presentation of awards was made during the conference's concluding banquet Friday Particonference attended cipants at the three-daseminars and lectures on newspapers magazines yearbooks and radio and television broadcasting Representing Student Life in Texes were Cairns Stutman and Laurie Snow news editor y Djibouti representative will meet with USU group The director of press relations for the Republic of Djibouti will be the first representative of that new nation to visit the United States Kamil All Mohamud a geolowho studied in France plans to see his first American gists university campus during his stay He will visit Utah State University Thursday and Friday according to Ben Norton assistant director of the USU International Biome Program “Mr Kamil asked to meet with USU staff members regarding our arid lands programs and the possibility for cooperative efforts” Norton said Monay The small country on the Gul of Aden has figured heavily in the recent Ethiopean-Somastrife Currently the government of Ethiopia which formerly used the post is claiming the United States is planning to exert leverage to put the Republic of Djibouti in the Somali camp US State Department officials denied any conspiracy toward that end according to a recent news report li Addis Ababa has reportedly warned that it will intervene with its Cuban-backe- d army if Somalia attempts a takeover of the small nation which received independence from France about a year ago They want blood The Red Cross Blood Mobile will be on the Utah State Campus today and tomorrow between 10 am and 4 pm to collect blood Students faculty and local citizens are all welcome to participate in the drawing which wil be in the Union Center Ballroom Donors must be 18 years of age may donate with parental permission) weight at least 110 lbs and be in general good health All blood types are needed and replacement donors tfill be welcome at this time Donors are encouraged to eat a good meal before donating to help avoid ss The Red Cross goal is 200 pints of useable blood for each day the Blood Mobile is here so campus and community support is needed For more information contact 5 or the Red Cross office Red Cross Blood Chairman Roberta Rothwell 752-112- 753-02- |