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Show Page 4 The Thunderbird Monday April 8, 1985 Opinion Council action reveals positive side of college Several actions taken by the SUSC Institutional Council last week highlight some of the reasons students should be glad they are attending this college. At first glance, those actions may not seem like such great ideas. 2 percent tuition They include a tuition hike, a room and surcharge, and an increase in the college board rate. But, in fact, there is much good that can be said about these things. No one likes to pay increased tuition. Students traditionally havent much money, so any increase, even a 7 percent increase, can be hard on the pocketbook. Even so, an increase was expected and in these days of tight governmental budgets, we should be glad it was only 7 percent, and not higher. Moreover, students should realize that no college in Utah, and perhaps no college anywhere, will avoid increased tuition costs. Still, The Thunderbird hopes officials will remember the size, of this increase when considering tuition rates next time around. The positive side of this is the 2 percent tuition surcharge. All of the money from this surcharge is going to pay for new books for the college library. And for every $1 raised by students, the State Legislature has pledged to appropriate $2. That means SUSC could get as much as $96,000 for new books. Anyone who has anything to do with the library knows how badly new books are needed. Library patrons and administrators alike realize the facility hasnt enough volumes. This e 2 is small for a an to price pay improved library. percent surcharge In addition to that, the Institutional Council approved an administration request to put the construction of a new library on a list of capital development projects the college will ask the Legislature to fjand. No one knows how long it will take to get money for the new building in fact, one item on the current capital developments list has been there, seeking funding from the Legislature, since 1956 but it is reassuring that the administration is considering such needs as this. room and board rates. Finally, there is the increase in Even though the rates are going up, students should be pleased r that SUSC has the lowest rates of any college or university in Utah. In fact, the rates are even lower than those at the College of Eastern Utah and, for most of the year, at Dixie College. Only Snow College costs less for room and board 1 percent less. These low rates are probably a function of the age of the housing facilities on campus, and the fact that SUSC doesnt have extremely high bond payments to make for these facilities. But surely the low rates also reflect the quality of management at this institution. Yes, costs are going up. For everything not just college. But they could be much higher, and we should be glad they arent. We should also be glad the money is apparently going to good use. one-tim- e one-tim- four-yea- U.N. genocide treaty must be defeated Che ChunderbircC tait r and s soithkrn t tan nil cedar city, ih-a- VOLUME 79, NUMBER 26 Editor Doug Christensen Associate Editor Ralph Schriock Copy Editor Paul Husselbee Photo Editors James Howells Derek Miller Sports Editor Joe Cartwright Entertainment Editor Jim Knowlton Senior Staff Writer Stewart Smith Assistant to the Editors Annette Grooms Production Manager Kelli Fov Advertising Representatives John B. Greene Mariane Perry Faculty Adviser Larry Baker The Tuiruierbird is published each Monday of the academic r.a by and for the student body of Southern Utah State College. 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Mail at SUSC Box 384, Cedar City, UT 84720 (801) (including Ethiopia, Red China, and the Soviet Union) have deliberately inflicting on the group ratified this convention because conditions of life calculated to they know they are exempt of its bring about its physical provisions. destruction in whole or in part; d) Only in free countries may the imposing measures intended to Genocide Treaty have its impact. prevent births within the group; e) In fact, if passed, an individual forcibly transferring children of charged with genocide in this would have no the group to another group. country The one area that was removed constitutional rights. Your jury and judge? The from this treaty was political. What this means is that Ethiopia United Nations. Remember, the votes in the United Nations have is not breaking the convention because, even though theyre consistently been 80 percent breaking the third point by against American people. Do you starving their people, they are want to trust your life to the U.N.? Senator Hatch is undecided doing it for political reasons. Even though Red China is about the genocide convention. preventing births within its Cut this editorial and send it to country, its doing it for political him today. His address is: Senator reasons. And even though the Orrin Hatch, Senate Office Soviets are killing members of a Building, Washington, D.C., group and causing serious bodily 20510. Also enclose a postcard or or mental harm to a group THEY small piece of paper letting him ARE NOT GUILTY OF know your stand on this GENOCIDE under the terms of dangerous piece of legislation. the convention. All communist countries Anthony R. Ford members of the On April 23 the United States Senate is slated to vote on the Genocide Treaty. This treaty, for the preservation of our country as we know it, must not pass. Genocide is a horrible crime. Entire national, ethnical, racial and religious groups have been destroyed for various causes... all are genocide. Those starving people in Ethiopia are pawns in a political genocide game. Those freedom-hungr- y people in Afghanistan are fighting nth sti inr serious bodily or mental harm to To the editor: against their own genocide. If genocide is so bad, and so many people are dying today, then why should this convention be defeated? Genocide, as defined in the convention, is any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing group; c) Thunderbird letters policy explained Students and other members of the SUSC campus community are invited to submit letters to the editor for publication in The Thunderbird. The letters may be on any subject of interest. Letters should be typed and include the authors full name and a telephone number (which will not be printed). They should be dropped off at the newspapers editorial offices. The editor reserves the right to edit any letter. Letters which are obscene, libelous or in highly bad taste may not be printed. (Letters continued on page 5) |