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Show FMfoE 'iKntiiw a wz, LEARNING SKILLS AND HAVING FUN. The students at the Beehive Activity Center learn how to work, how to survive in our society and how to cope with handicaps. They also learn how to have fun. SEE PAGE 7. 7 DO POLITICAL POLLS AFFECT ELECTIONS? ' PM. Respected pollster and political scientist Dan Jones told SUSC students last week that political surveys dont really have much effect on the outcome of elections. ' V- A SEE PAGE 3. vr THE STUDENT NEWS AND VIEWS OF SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE-CEDA- CITY, UTAH R SUSC saves energy Programs were prompted by 1973 crisis by Ralph Schriock A computerized energy management system, new summer hot water boilers, and spot bidding for the best oil prices helped SUSC save 19 percent on the cost of fuel in 1983-8over the previous year. And various other energy conservation programs prompted by the 1973 oil crisis are saving the college enough money to fund other things on campus, including starting up an administrative computer system. Despite the addition of some 80,000 extra square feet of building space since 1974, SUSCs oil consumption has dropped considerably in that time and electric power consumption has remained steady. In 1974-7when the campus, had 542,555 sq. ft. of building space, SUSC used 607,530 gallons of oil. Last year, 415,448 gallons of oil were used to fuel a campus of 624,200 sq. ft. Paul Southwick, for financial affairs, outlined recently to the Institutional Council the various energy programs being used and noted that they earned the college a certificate of achievement this summer from the Utah Energy Office. Because the college has often been under its proposed fuel and power budget since emphasizing the conservation programs, officials have been able to filter some of the surplus elsewhere. With some savings we were able to buy the computer for the energy control system and put in other energy control devices, Southwick said. This year, were paying for a new administrative computer so we can get it started, he added, noting surplus energy money has also gone in the past to cover $80,000 in governors costs, a $37,000 revenue shortfall, and $40,000 in vocational-educatioequipment. The oil embargo of 1973 had drastically affected the cost of oil to the college, Southwick noted. The average total cost of oil per year to the college for seven years before 1973 was school $35,732. In the 1974-7- 5 year, the cost of oil jumped to $190,703. The oil embargo hit in December of 1973, but for us we were under a contact until n 4 Scientists find reason to stay by Kon Kontogiannis Every day across the nation scientists leave their jobs on college campuses to go to work for industry, where they can often make three times the money. And every day other scientists leave their posts with industry to return to the campus, finding they like their academic jobs better. What keeps science professors at SUSC, when they could be working for an industry and earning more money? The reasons run the gamut, from job satisfaction to academic freedom, professors say. To Dr. Thomas Monahan, who teaches biology at SUSC, there is very little difference in the amount of pressure felt by scientists, regardless of the setting. Both industry and academia have it. As a scientist, the pressure you feel is the same pressure you feel in any research and development setting, where you would want to either enhance basic knowledge or develop a product, said Monahan. Thats the type of pressure that comes from within, and if you dont have this pressure from the beginning, then youre really not a scientist. Theres not much difference between industry and academic pressure because you have to produce a certain amount of research, he said. The only thing that I could tell you thats different in industry is generally concerned with the product, unless you work for one of the many liberal research organizations that allow the scientist to do research on the basic problems. Monahan said, however, that salary differences between small colleges and industry can be significant. The salaries between a small college like SUSC and industry are exactly tripled, whereas the salaries between a large university and industry are roughly comparable, he said. So why does Monahan work 'for SUSC when he could be working for industry, and making a lot more money? I enjoy it more because 1 enjoy researching (continued on page 2) The savings have allowed, the college to invest in an administrative computer system. I June of 1974, Southwick said. July 1 is when the contract hit from 9 cents to 31 cents a gallon. The cost of electric power also rose when the federal allocation of power provided through CP National was replaced with Utah Power and Light, he said. SUSC was among the public institutions that had to comply with President Carters executive order on energy conservation, famous for irs restrictions on building temperature control. Those guidelines set temperatures in hot weather not under 75 and in cold weather not over 68 degrees. (continued on page 8) |