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Show PAGES THE ZEPHYRJUNE 1993 For just a small part of that cash, we could hire dozens of high school seniors during the spring and summer as combination clean-u- p crews public relations representatives, working to patrol the camping areas, undoing some of the damage, pointing out to the visitors that signs saying no motorized vehicles mean no motorized vehicles, helping educate people to the need to stay off that black stuff called microbiotic soil (or whatever the powers-that-b- e in microbiology are calling the cryptogamic soil this week) because it takes decades to repair the damage of a tire tread, or even a footprint The county would gain in that we take concrete steps to protect what we love. The students will gain in that they get some money for a e job that's mostly hiking around the area love. And the future of the town would gain, because we could take some of that money they and use it as additional partial college scholarship funds for the students who stick with the job throughout the season, helping pay for foe education of kids who might otherwise have trouble coming up with tuition. How that money is spent is an issue not just for tourist businesses, but for all of us, because it our money, not foe motels'. part-tim- FACT The Moab City Council voted to approve a request from the Bar M Chuckwagon for a beer license, and gave local consent to foe restaurant in their effort to obtain a state liquor license, two weeks after they had voted down foe same request OPINION The City Council made a good decision in changing their vote. The Bar M was thought to be outside the city limits, and therefore operated in the past under looser county zoning. But the city is getting mare precise in its mapping, and discovered that the establishment is indeed inside Moab. The council could have turned down the liquor requests, and for a few weeks it lode like they would do just that; council members were under no legal obligation to approve them. But the Bar M has been running a summer show for about 5 years, catering heavily to European tourists, that combines a barbecue meal with Cowboy entertainment. It's been a marginal operation at times, and foe new operators hope to strengthen their grip on a market segment by offering a glass of wine or beer with dinner. The granting of the license and the local consent gives them a chance to do that. The council derision allows the Bar M to continue doing what it has dime, and done well, for years. And it's good to have city political leaders who can change their votes when the situation calls for it FACT According to Utah State University in Logan, foe College of Eastern Utah CEUL with a main campus in Price and a second campus in Key, has asked the Board of Regents (the group responsible for overseeing public higher education in Utah) to prohibit USU's Southeast Utah Center for Continuing Education SUCCE from offering lower division (that is, freshman and sophomore college level) classes in Moab. The Board of Regents has agreed to that and it appears that USU is leaning in the direction of going along with that request as welL up for the same classes, and have college credit transferred to USU or CEU, or even to Southern Utah University, Weber State, and the University of Utah. But right now, that is just talk. Until those plans become real, USU is the early way people in Moab can get four-yecollege degrees while living here. local officials say they have been promised that, if the proposal goes through, the state's Some higher education leaders will replace it with a better, more efficient system, that advanced and graduate dasses will still be offered, that high school students will still be able to obtain college credit, that the number of elective and personal enrichment classes will expand, not contract. But as we learned with the University of Utah Fine Arts Center, premises don't mean spit. The Grand County Board of Education has taken a lead in offering its own facilities as a proposal. But without a rock-solcollege extension "campus, a wonderful, money-savin- g commitment from state education officials, the governor, and foe legislature, that idea could easily hang in the planning stage for years. And in the meantime, Moab would be the loser. A better run higher educational system in Moab would be a step forward. But let's be sure we are building one before we start tearing down what we have. ar id Hogan Trading Company 5 N. Main St. in the Grand Emporium Alabaster sculptures Hopi, Navajo, Zuni jewelry Navajo, Ute, Paiute, Papago baskets Navajo rugs Hopi & Navajo Kachinas Pueblo Pottery OPINION USU, through the SUCCE facility, has issued about 120 bachelor degrees in the last 5 years to people living in Moab. It has provided, over the same time period, dozens of residents with graduate level credentials, in education, accounting, and other fields. And it helps as many as 50 local high school students each quarter obtain college credit while still attending high school. These are valuable programs for county residents, as are the many USU classes in geology, biology, and other subjects taken for personal educational enrichment Right now, both USU and CEU offer lower division classes, and there are good arguments that the programs could be more efficiently run if joined together. There are also good arguments that what Moab needs is not two different higher education institutions competing for the same student-pai- d tuition dollars. and There is even talk of a sort of "University Center," where Grand County residents could sign state-allocat- ed Daily Canoe Rentals 691 NORTH 500 WEST 259-510- Calm Water Floats Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull. Its poor are limp and leaden eyed. 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