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Show SUSC needs money from the state , fast I Its an old story on this page, but the fact remains: Utahs state legislature must pump money into education soon or it will sink below the rescue point. asked for a 14 percent increase At SUSC, the administ-atio- n in its budget for basic, needed funding from the state legislature to cover salary equity, cost of living adjustments for faculty and staff and for new facilities management. It was turned down. SUSC was awarded $1 1,023,200 for a base operating budget. Vice President for College Relations Michael D. Richards said no progress has been made in salary increases, with only a. 3 . percent increase made for I its to Compared peer institutions, SUSC is 12.5 percent behind in salaries of all ranks. A professor here is making 14.8 percent less than at a comparable school; an associate professor, 13.9 percent; an assistant professor, 9.6 percent, and an instructor is making 1.6 percent less than at California State University, Hayward, Jersey City State College, Portland Stare University, and all but two colleges in the peer group. This may well put faculty quality in dire jeopardy. Instructors at other colleges may laugh at these figures and be glad that theyre not here, but this is no joke. If SUSC is to grow to its full potential, it may have to do so with either penniless professors or the worst students in the state. The Thunderbird sees no comedy in this. In staff salaries, everyone but our mailroom clerks could make more out in the market. The most apalling of these is the electrical apprentice. In the market, an electrical apprentice could make 108 percent more than here. The total salary differential for the representative positions was 19.3 percent, with a total salary compensation differential of 9.2 percent. The schools survey was made for positions south of Provo, Ut. It estimated that in the Salt Lake City market, staff could market their skills at an average of five percent more. The library staff here has 62,250 books less than the American Library Associations minimum standard for a school the size and potential size of SUSC. SUSCs last librarian was hired in 1969, but the schools enrollment has increased 50 percent since then. At the rate it is growing now, it would take 22 years to correct existing deficiencies, not including any deficiencies existing then. Another problem is SUSC has one counselor for every 1300 students. The report gets sadder and more appalling. If SUSC doesnt get some help soon, the only people who can take the blame are the smug 90 percent of the population who feel that their problems are the states. Wholl be left to tell them this is not true? 986-87- competent-but-overworke- d 4 CTe THE STUDENT NEWS Cfmndcrbird AND VIEWS OF SOUTHFRX UTAH STATE COLLEGE VOLUME 80, NUMBER 27 Editor Tyler Jensen Copy Editor Rebecca Southern Photo Editor Derek Miller Sports Editor Ken Cox Entertainment Editor Paige White Assistant to the Editors Annette Grooms Senior Staff Writer Kris Johnson Production Manager Kelli Foy Advertising Designer Gavin McNeil Advertising Representatives Kellie Jensen Faculty Adviser Larry Baker Eugene Brou n The Thunderbird is published each Monday of the academic year by and for the student body of Southern Utah State College and is not affiliated in any manner whatsoever with the Colleges department of communication. The views and opinions expressed in The Thuncierbird are the opinions of the publications individual writers and do not reflect the views and opinions of the institution, faculty, staff or student necessarily body in general. The unsigned editorial directly above is the opinion of The Thunderbird as a Single entity. Letters to the editor must be typed and include the name, student number (if from a student) and phone number. Only the name will be printed. Names will not be withheld und?r any circumstances and the editor reserves the right to edit letters for length and to preclude libel. Letters must be submitted by noon Friday for inclusion in the following weeks edition. The Thunderbird: editorial and advertising offices at 529 West 200 South, Cedar City, UT 84720. Mail at SUSC Box 9384, Cedar City, UT 84720 (801) 7758, No nukes means good nukes The utilities who operate nuclear power plants have spent millions on safety measures to reduce the risk f meltdown, and the Nuclear Regulatory Senior Gam LeBaron is on SUSCs debate team and Commission maintains that the plants are very safe. the club. Science Political of president I suppose that this is why the nuclear power industry carries a $560 million liability insurance policy and why officials fear that even this much liability is As the peace marchers walked through our quiet little town last weekend, a disaster of catastrophic time for OUT government tO review proportions was taking shape almost half a world away ftS policies in the area of nuclear at a nuclear reactor near Kiev in the Soviet Union.1 The events of the past week have once again served PweT and nuclear weapons. Drastic to focus the attention of the worlds media on that changes need tO be made. small power pack called the atom. As I have watched the events of the past week billions of dollars short of what actual damages could unfold, I have come to the conclusion that most be. Even with all of these safety measures, an anything that has the word nuclear attached to it independent study completed in 1982 (known as the is a prescription for disaster. Rasmussen study) concluded that with 500 reactors Just as nuclear weapons pose a catastrophic threat operating in the world, the risk of a catastrophic to the entire human race, nuclear power can also cause meltdown would be almost 100 over a percent consequences that are just as dangerous. The problem period. is that both of these things use radioactive materials It seems that the inevitable has happened Even if the risk of meltdown were not WwCuh,are hf:aJdous tc ,human health- present while medical science has proven that no amount nuclear power facilities also produce tremendous of radiation is safe for the human body, the developed amounts of high-levradioactive wastes Each year nations of the world insist on playing this bizarre form power plants in the U.S. discharge 1400 metric tons pf Russian roulette under the guise of energy of waste which is currently stored on plant sites in development and the maintenance of peace. Just as water filled pools. By 1990, 21,000 metric tons of this our government spent millions in the 1950s and 60s hazardous stuff will be sitting around While the to convince us that the atmospheric tests posed no debate on where to store this stuff continues (nobody threat to human health, the U.S. Department of wants it in their backyard), it keeps piling up where Energy has spent bi hons to convince the public that it can contaminate groundwater supplies or even is the safest ind cheapest form of worse. .nuclear power energy. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans continue Proponents of nuclear power cite facts that very few to buy government propaganda hook, line, and people have ever been harmed by nuclear power. As sinker, and the government continues to keep the the data continues to tnckle in from the Soviet Union, public at risk as it pollutes our environment obvious is this that no longer the case it is It's dme for our government to review its policies Thousands have already been reported dead by in the areas of nuclear power and nuclear weapons American sources inside the Soviet Union. One Drastic changes need to be made and alternative forms cannot even project the number who will be harmed of energy such as solar and geothermal power must by the contamination of food and water supplies, or be explored because something needs to be done to those who will succumb to cancer in 20 years. end the madness. BY GARN LE BARON Its 20-ve- |