The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Three Friday. January 24, 1992 receiving the support of the initiative from page one Vicki Varela, spokeswoman for the State Board of Regents, said that the initial request for $535,000 had been pared down because of budget realities and guidelines received from the governor and Legislature. "We had to hone all requests," she said. The support Education of the Higher Appropriations Subcommittee will help the initiative when it goes to the full Legislature, Varela said. "We feel good about the initiative. Currently, the various subcommittee." Many of the problems faced by the U. engineering department would be reduced by the funds proposed in the initiative. One point was the need to departments have experienced enrollment increases of between eight to 21 percent. The electrical engineering department is operating at maximum capacity. The funds would be used to allow more admissions based on qualification, rather than quota. As evidence of the impact of engineering and related research on correct deficiencies that limited accreditation to three years. According to the report, state funds for operation, maintenance and equipment are too low, and more the community and the state, the report listed many of the high-tec- h companies operating in the state, including Novell, Word Perfect technician support is needed for instructional labs. Another aim of the initiative is to assist in the rebuilding of the civil engineering program at the U. Student access is also addressed by Corporation, Evans others. & Sutherland and World Briefs Associated Press 2 veterans' hospitals open for non-veas part of test ts The Bush administration will open two as part of a test program unveiled Thursday to improve rural Americans' access to health WASHINGTON (AP) Van Dam from page one the Primary Children's hospital," Moody said. "The U. gave us documents" at our request and "their medical staff people were calling us, but they did not respond to specific requests for documents that were critical to making a determination as to whether or not a conspiracy took place between the two institutes, whether a program was being eliminated and under what circumstances," Van Dam said. His office did not have access to critical witnesses unless immunity was given them, he added. "During the last three years, our Fair Business Enforcement Unit requested documents and other information to help determine if, indeed, physicians associated with both hospitals had fixed prices or boycotted insurance companies, both of which would be serious violations of antitrust statutes," Van Dam said. "Because the previous attorney general had structured what a new attorney general has questions about it, we are wondering why this couldn't have been handled Moody said. The decision to involve the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission "was not an abrupt and sudden response," Van Dam said. His office had been consulting the organizations for a long period of time, he said. "It's a big investigation and we need help with it," Van Dam said. His office was not equipped to handle an antitrust investigation when he took office, he said. "Antitrust violations may have been committed and we, the people, are entitled to know the facts," Van Dam said. Also, disturbing is the U. Medical Center dismantling its Pediatric Center, despite assurances to the contrary, SALT LAKE CITY-Du- ring the past school year, students involved in the Army ROTC program at the University of Utah and Westminster College received over $100,000 in scholarship and educational assistance. Participants in the Army ROTC scholarship program receive tuition, laboratory fees, an allowance for books and other required expenses, plus $1000 each academic year the scholarship is in effect. The Army ROTC scholarship program is designed to assist the student in the pursuit of a college degree, as well as earn a commission as an Army officer in the active or reserve Van Dam said. This contradicts the amended agreement between Intermountain Health Care hospitals and the U. Hospital. " The original agreement between IHC and the U. Hospital was illegal, according to former Attorney General David Wilkinson. "The proposed allocation of services contained in the proposed agreements between IHC's Primary Children's Medical Center and the University is per se illegal under Section 1 of the Sherman Act....The proposed allocation of services would be illegal under the Utah Antitrust Act as well," antitrust analysis. Wilkinson wrote in his The agreement was amended by Wilkinson in 1985 with the warning that "competition must not be eliminated and that a thin line existed between fair practice and monopoly." "Antitrust is the heart and soul of the free market system," Van Dam said. It is the "underpinning of the United States." When competition is eliminated, there is a conspiracy, he said. "We are obviously in a litigation. No matter what we do, the university is going to have to have funds to be able to have a defense," Moody said. "Whether or not we put in additional money into their budget to offset the costs that are going to incur, I honestly don't know." The decision will have to be made by the Higher Education Committee, he added. "The Higher Education Appropriation Committee at this point will not include an appropriation in its budget," committee member Sen. Fred Finlinson, Lake, said. "We're hoping that the state government will appropriate the money to the university, because it can't come from any place else," Finlinson said. "We have a big discussion going on now as to where that appropriation should come from and at this point there seems to be a feeling that it ought to come through executive appropriations as opposed to having the university use education money." 14-pa- ge R-S- Fan 'Pare, components. Although the Army is interested especially in After the game, fast break to Friday's for late night. Or lunch, awarded to students in all dinner and brunch. engineering, nursing and "hard" science majors, scholarships are Amt!v iho Armv ROTf! is accepting department three-yeafor applications ROTC scholarships Army beginning in the next fall r, quarter. Applicants must be U.S. e students with citizens, three years remaining to degree completion and have a 2 grade full-tim- J age, point average. Certain medical, personal and academic Serving Food Until Midnight Monday-Thursda- y and Until 1 a.m. Friday & Saturday restrictions also apply. Current college sophomores can compete for two-ye- ar scholarship upon completion of, a paid basic summer camp- - There is also a special two-yeReserve Forces Duty scholarship. The deadline for completed scholarship applications is Feb. six-we- T.GJ. ek ar FRIDAYS An Army ROTC scholarship is an excellent way to finance a America as an officer in the U.S. Army or Army Reserves. For more information and an application form, contact the department of military science, Bldg. 23, University of Utah 6 or Campus, or call 581-671- 581-671- 7. non-vetera- ns care.. The project will also allow veterans to use government-funde- d community health clinics in two areas of Alabama and Virginia. Veterans hospitals in Tuskegee, Ala., and Salem, Va., will continue to provide health care on a priority basis to veterans with service-relate- d disabilities and to vets, but the facilities will also begin offering medical services to "We are conscious of our special obligation to veterans," Veterans affairs secretary Edward Derwinski said. "All of this will be done without diminishing services to eligible veterans. No eligible veteran will be delayed or denied medical care." "They don't have the staff to adequately serve the veterans who go to these hospitals as it is," said John Hanson, director of Veterans' Affairs and rehabilitation for the American Legion, the nation's largest veterans' organization with 3.3 million members. John Bollinger, of the Paralyzed Veterans of America, said the system, the largest in the larger issue is how the VAS health-car- e United States, with 172 hospitals, will fit into a national health care plan. "Until Congress and the administration come to grips with that issue, it's premature to get involved," he said. Health and Human Services secretary Louis Sullivan said the alike. partnership could help veterans and low-inco- non-veteran- non-vetera- Cottonwood Mall and Now Open at Foothill Village s. ns Broadcast sport journalist retires from ABC network Howard Cosell, who changed broadcast journalism with his promise to, "tell it like it is," will retire from ABC Radio Network at the end of January, 40 years after his caustic, high-brostyle first cut through the air waves. "Don't you think it's about time I retired? I sure do," Cosell said Thursday. "Walter! Cronkite is retired, so I guess I can retire too." Cosell, 73, left television in 1935 and had been doing a daily half-hou- r interview sportscast, "Speaking of Sports," and a weekly ABC for Radio. program, "Speaking of Everything," "We here at ABC Radio are proud to have worked with him," said ABC Radio sports director and executive producer Shelby the book "What's Wrong With Whitfield who in 1991 his "We that Cosell. know with personal imprint on sports Sports" of an is broadcasting history." important part journalism Cosell underwent surgery last June to remove a cancerous tumor in his chest, but he said he is in good health now. "I'm a man who has been battling cancer and I apparently have defeated it," Cosell said in a telephone interview from his Manhattan apartment. Cosell quit ABC's "Monday Night Football" before the 1984 season with the words, "Pro football has become a stagnant bore." In 1985, after he published an autobiography in which he blasted such as Frank Gifford and Don many of his former ABC his cancelled "Sportsbeat" Meredith, Emmy Award-winnin- g NEW YORK (AP) w show. Cosell has written four books, the first three largely autobiographical, the last a treatise on various aspects of sports. In the last book, he called many college athletes "illiterates parading as college students" and blamed Pete Rose for the death of baseball commissioner Bartlett Giamatti. Cosell's wife of 46 years, Emmy, died in November 1990, and that loss, along with his battle against cancer, contributed to his decision to retire from broadcasting. "For God's sake, I'm 73 years old," Cosell said. "I. lost the treasure of my life a year ago. I lost my wife. I've got two daughters, whom I adore. I've had a very difficult year." However, Cosell said he intends to remain active. "I'll be doing a million things," he said. "I'm shortly to deliver a series of lectures at Princeton and address the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs. I've also just been called by George Schlatter who wants a reunion." Schlatter is an independent television producer and was one of several entertainment executive producer of "Laugh-In,- " shows on which Cosell has made appearances. Muslim clergyman fined for blaring calls to prayer JERUSALEM (AP) A Jerusalem court fined a Muslim n and afternoon clergyman $108 Thursday for blaring his calls to prayer too loudly, a city police spokeswoman said. The unprecedented ruling was prompted by complaints from Orthodox Jews living near the Sheik Jarrah Mosque in Shmuel predominately Arab east Jerusalem, police spokesman y said. It also showed how religious tensions have grown in this mixed Palestinian Jewish-Ara- b city since the start of of the Israeli rule. the uprising against to Jerusalem, holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians, is home 360,000 Israelis and 140,00 Arabs. The fine was assessed against Walid Disi, 51, the mosque's muezzin, who is responsible for calling Muslims to prayer five times daily. to Municipal judge Yaacov Tzaban also made yDisi pledge not said. violate the noise ordinance for three years, pre-daw- Ben-Rub- 10. college education and serve veterans' hospitals to Ben-Rub-