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Show Business, Educators Join Forces to Clean Up ' Profit by M .M G aber If profit is a dirty word, . its business peoples fault. But BICEP may be the golden opportunity for us to right the wrongs of the past. That was the message delivered recently to about 300 businesspeople attending a hangnails along the projects kickoff meeting for BICEP--an edge. acronym for Community-Partnershi- Will Business-Industr- y young career-oriente- d students suddenly glut the p. labor market? But intriguing questions, Does the lost in the patriotic fury of the thrust of the program reflect a central message, dangle like thinly veiled job-center- anti-intellectu- ed al About Town -- movement? High spirited rabble rousers Dr. W.D. Talbot, superinat the Daily Utah Chronicle tendent of the State Board of have really done it this time. Education, raised a few such Poking his nose into William questions at the kick-of- f meet- Bruhn's business, columnist. ing. quickly forgotten by many Andrew Welch succeeded in including Richard S. Prows, a out of shape member of the board of trust- bending Bruhns to ihc tune of a $26 million ees of the program. libel suit. 1 don't see how such quesWelch insists he has tions could apply, Prows said. What matters is how impor- documentation to support accusations of Bruhns involvetant this program is now. ... Admittedly Dr. Talbots ment in the fraudulent promoquestions wont apply until tion for the sale of securities Proposed Building Codes Threaten Soaring Costs Ramps, wide doors and low water fountains may soon become commonplace items in all buildings open to the public. The governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped is currently drafting a bill for submission to the 1977 Utah legislature. The bill would require all buildings open to the public to comply with handicapped accessibility standards currently applicable only to government-owned buildings. The proposed legislation would force building designers to make doors, aisles, building accessories and toilet areas accessible to a person confined to a wheelchair. Many architects claim the legislation would force the cost of building restaurants, theatres, stores to increase unnecessarily. Mixed Emotions Many items in the current code are unrealistic and illogical, claims Eldon Talbot, of Montmorency, Hayes & Talbot Architects, Inc. I have mixed emotions about the standards,' he added. Talbot named standards for restrooms, doorknobs and elevators as evidence the code goes too far. If you have designed restrooms to accomodate more than one person, every single restroom must be able to accomodate a handicapped person, Talbot explains. Why cant they just require one restroom to meet the standard, or a certain number of facilities, within a reasonable distance ? he asks. Talbot estimates handi- BICEP is practically a house- and other misdeeds. hold word. But, do we want it To make matters worse (for to become a household word? Bruhn), Assistant Attorney General Henry Nygaard says A Glut on the Labor Market hes comfortable with the In this age of high unem- documents the Chronicle has ployment, maybe we want to produced in evidence. Havencourage students to stay in ing documentation and pubschool, out of the labor mar- lishing documentation are two ket, Talbot said. Perhaps we different things, however. are placing an unrealistic demand on employers and will face a glut of the labor market, he added. We need to answer questions that will be raised when students begin actually working as part of their education. How could such activity relate to existing minimum wage laws? Should students be paid e as much as regular, employees? How will such apprenticeship programs relate to existing union regulations and union training programs? How will we relate such activity to the current compulsory attendance rules for students in school? Dr. Talbot raised these questions as a devils advocate because he forsees them coming in the future. Questions like these need to be answered by BICEP beard members, he stated. Bob Henson, program director of the Human Resources Institute at the University of Utah, raised further questions about the impact of career education on the labor market. If career education is successful, and students begin to select careers for which they s Governor the consideration codes under by are most suited personally, we Proposed building be icill the the Handicapped Committee for will need to let laws of supply Employment of 1977 the to continued on page 7b legislature. presented full-tim- i to an $11 million school his firm recently designed. Everything in the design had to conform to blind student accessibility. Yet wont even blind students attend the school. They go to a special school, designed just for them. Its stupid! Talbot exclaimed. Einar Johnson, architect specializing in handicapped accessibility for the State Building Board explained some of the standards the current code requires. Mostly d capped code compliance the building must be on page 8b added an additional $100,000 access-continue- In other media gossip, Utah journalists recently presented an award for excellence in journalism to the Associated Press for a story concerning Utah that Utahns never saw. For a three part series on the Mormon Church and its financing, Sigma Delta Chi, the society of professional journalists, awarded the AP laudatory honors. The joke is on the Utah press, though -- not one medium in Utah picked up the story. The Ogden Standard Examiner was expected to, we know why the Deseret News didn't, and inquirers at the Salt Lake Tribune wpre told, there is nothing new in the story. Voters may see a new candidate on the ballot for the four year county commission post. Rumor says Rep. Sam Taylor is concerned that Republicans are out to get him in his own legislative district, so hes looking for greener pastures at the County Commission. Early choice of the Airport Authority for a new chief is Bobby Walker, State Director of Auernautics. Right now his chances are excellent. The Airport Authority wants him. Holiday Inn Nerve Center 1.9 Calls Million Projects s We have reservations down to a science,' claims Richard Hovermale, regional manager of the Holiday Inns reservation center. If science is the ability to measure activity, Hovermale is undoubtedly right. Walking into his office on the second floor of the Prudential Federal ness and order. Rows of video terminals, agents typing into terminals, red and green lights flashing and the hum of busy machinery, are the catalysts of this empirical reaction. Hovermale watches over about 95 reservation agents taking calls from the 17 westSavings Building in downtown ern United States. The reserSalt Lake City, one is immed- vation. department is segreiately impressed with cleanli- - gated by the type of call. If the customer is a regular traveler, the call is automatically routed to the major department. A traveler using an airline package plan is referred to another department. Travel agents and other major movers' use still another department, having a private, unlisted telephone number. Our agents will answer continued on page 4b |