Show ) lobbying team to enter political arena ijSU u I l ASl'Sl’ Wempo frmoinu G lobbying fPr"nt before state -- nemmental GJ Tf student w and biie -- to the ASl'SK Kxecutive iha Wednesday council Iftffe nrmbrr committee to be Iy GGniinit th Public Affairs Board nh the lobbying Unruof state Legislature intern U t'SU'a pollin' icu-nc-- Wont Mv opinions on state issues jtbf Public Affairs Vdudent at 1 Bard H tfcHtuiUoolfvels suu student hT funds anti the five h the Utah ixmt submitted I A) It coQefiatc Assemhtv 'I and f untied by toa( organued toASVSU president s offue will Tla chairperson of the inard tortd by the student Im1 mdent and will in turn choose members from sute milled applications which are available now in the AStSW tiff ice The 1979 MO board will be ratified shortly by the Kiecutive Senate in order to prepare its cases for the state legislative session January 14 The University of Utah has submitted the majority of top l' restitutions in past vears This predominance is Uriels the result of its Public Affairs Bmtrd efforts according to Jester Kssig ASl’SU president and author of Hill An annual workshop will ie held to train the board consisting of students maioring in a variety of fields in effective lobby ing skills A workshop in conjunction with the U of V lobbying team is already being scheduled “President Cazier is very much in favor of implementing this lxard stated Kssig He also explained the close ties to tie initiated between the student board and university lobbying teams directed by !ee H KO-1- Burke assistant to the vice president for university relations A committee designated to investigate the possibilities of stu dent involvement in I'M1 tenure dH isions was also created bv the senate Wednesday The dual possibilities of adding student voting memliers to current tenure committees and of in stigating a separate student input committee will be considered The investigation will le con duUd bv ASl’Sl? Academic Vice President Scott Smith President lister Kssig and two appointed academic senators Their report will 1m completed and presented to the Academic and Kxecutive Senate for further action bv January lfi 190 In addition the Kxecutive Senate resolvid that identifying nameplate should be placed on the Veterinary Science and Bacteriology Budding and all other classroom buddings A recommendation that USU revise the placement of number on classroom door preferably before winter quarter was also made bv the senate on Wednesday Many room number are currently inaccessible to new handicapped and blind students said Kssig The number kaalion are in violation of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH Kaye I Administration regulations Bergeson acrordinit to I SU space management utilization and scheduling coordinator The instigation of a USU committee to evaluate university program as they relate to the goals and mission of bSl! is currently feeing formulated bv an Administration Counc it aulx ommiltee The program evaluation committee will deal with "the resources of the university in administering Ihe four percent permanent budget c jt which the governor has requested " according to the tentative docu- - ment being prepared by the The evaluation committee consist tentatively of two department head dean four and vost They identifying should “be faculty member two it chaired by the pro- will tie reaponaible for those program which maintained at present statu reduced eliminated or augmented" the document There are no atudent representative included on the committee a of yet "Adding one student would by no mean diminih effectiveness hut rather it would lead to consideration a broader of pro- Senate gram" slates Kiecutive also submitted Resolution by Kssig The recommendation to the Council that at least one student be included on the program evaluation committee is currently being investigated by the ASUSU Kxecutive Senate THE UTAH UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY VOL 77 NO 4 v1 2i LOGAN UTAH FRIDAY ‘ It c NOVEMBER 16 1676 Education ’s funding poses biggest throat1 r i The greatest problem faring the United States public school ay stem is the inadequacy of educational funding said Convocation speaker Willard McGuire Thursday As the president of the National McGuire Kducation Association supported public school financing reform on local state and federal levels This action would shift finacing from property tax to a more stable system of fedetsl support for locally governed public school according U McGuire The school finance reform would also better support equal educational opportunities for the 90 percent of American student enrolled in public schools Mctuire said "If our present situation continues we risk destroy ing public education and eniering a system of class distinction" McGuire warned He then defended the NLA's support for the government s recent formation of the Ifepartment cf Kducation a the only viable method to provide adequate educational funding "The Department of Kducation is a means of increasing the quality of education not an end in itself” He- explained that tha mw department would raduce governmental bureaucracy instead of increasing it by rentrailring scattered programs into on agency "Five hundred bureaucratic fobs will be eliminated in the department as a result of a first year man- said McGuire date" the NKA president said The department is a result of 122 years of NKA support and the association a political endorsement of the Carter Mondale campaign of 1976 "The NKA i the first national organization to endorse Carter in the primary's of the upcoming presidential race" said McGuire "In order to produce positive change for education we had to get involved in the political arena" the According to McGuire NKA a political bargaining power has paid off He discussed education in the White House with Carter earlier this year "We cannot afford to loose sight of our goal for excellence in education" McGuire advised "If we fail at our task (preparing students to meet the future) we fail ourselves and generations unborn " Smaller tuition hike sought The Utah Intercollegiate Assembly sought a cut in tha Utah propojed college Legislature 'a tuition increase in one of five bills passed during its recent meeting in Salt Lake city Delegates from each school presented bills to the assembly and the top five selected last weekend will be lobbied before the slats Legislature in January Utah State delivered five bills to the UIA Legislature Four of them were eligible to be voted on for the UIA top five A Brigham Young University Police Powers bill wae defeated because UIA member said they felt it could be headied more effectively la the courts Among the top bills is one that asks that the four percent cut in the educational budget not become permanent Another bill opposes Utah Sen Orrin Hatch s bill which would allow employers to pay college students only 75 percent of full-tim- e minimum wage The eUM Legislature is also being ashed to redefine its stand on a Landlord-Tenan- t Act The fifth bill a aha that tha tea on textboohs be abolished A It bough none of USU’a bills qualified for lobbying by UIA the school's Public Affaire Board may take tha proposals before tha state legislature in January asperate from the UIA delegation |