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Show Page Two THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1973 very beneficial in building the Senator Moss Contends Federal Innovative Examinations Test Government Owes Utah Land Complete Student Competence The lead-of- f witness before the plications by some environmensubcommittee on Minerals, Ma- talists that the state of Utah is terials and Fuels next week will somehow insensitive to protecbe Utah Senator Frank E. Moss, tion of its own environment. The who is scheduled to "set the rec- underlying charge by some peoord straight on Utahs oil shale ple seems to be that if the land is turned over to the state it will rights. The Senator is expected to put be immediately given to industry Utahs case in strong terms for and destroyed. That is poppy-cco- k and an insult to Utah. It 157,000 acres of federal land for which applications have been seems obvious that Utahns will at least as concerned about their filed since 1965 and 1967. "There appears to be much own state as federal officials in misunderstanding over the par- Washington. cels of land owed the state by the federal government. Some It has been computed that of people. have the mistaken idea every 100,000 persons examined that Utah is suddenly trying to for their intelligence, about put something over on the rest 6,750 would be rated very suof the nation because oil. shale perior, 13,000 better than averhas become a hot topic. ' 13,000 be"We were trying to get the age, 66,500 average, and 750 morons. federal government to honor its low average commitment to the state under an 1894 law years before the current complainers even knew IT there was such a thing as oil shale, he said. The law Moss referred to requires the federal government to tansfer to Utah four sections out of every township within the state border "for support of the public schools. In cases where military reservation, Indian reservations and other restricted lands prevented the government from transfer the state was to select alternate land. "Utah has been in compliance with all the requirements for the applications for years. The problem has been constant foot dragging by the federal government in meetings its obligations. Moss said he also resents im- , Many students accustomed to cramming all night before finals and capsulizing what the professor wanted to hear were in for a surprise at the University of ter designing and constructing a model film center. For his final exam he defended the project before a 12 man jury con- sisting of the entire architecture faculty. "It was much more difficult than any final Ive ever had before, he said, adding that it could have been an impossible project without a thorough understanding of structure and de- Utah fall quarter. Several classes are moving away from the traditional essay multiple choice or short answer final exam to achieve what one professor calls "a more accurate assessment of what a student sign. has learned during the quarter. Sociology Professor Glenn Heres a sampling of what some students encountered: Sophomore theatre major Jo Ann Kelso transformer herself into a wrinkled old women for a final exam in her stage makeup class. Fifth year architecture student Bob Dance spent the entire quar closed ship. student-teach- er Junior Jeanine Anderson, an art major, worked on a quarter long project to develop an advertising camapign for a local food chain for her introduction to advertising class. "Ive never done so much work for a class, but Ive never learned so much, either, she said after completing her project. 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