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Show The Thunderbird Monday April 8, 1985 Pcuje 7 Council approves room, board hike (continued from page offices and academic support space; adding a 1) to pay at other institutions, Sherratt said. Our goal is to keep it as low as we can. Our students who come here (to SUSC) are great kids, but theyre not affluent by any means. The SUSC rate is roughly 56 percent lower than the University of Utahs, about 18 percent lower than Utah State Universitys and almost 37 percent lower than at the College of Eastern Utah. Snow Colleges meal plan is about 1 percent less expensive than SUSCs, and Dixie College has a plan that varies from being 4 percent more expensive to 2 percent less expensive during spring quarter. The council also commended Garth Jones, director of Food Services, for bringing his department out of the financial depths it has recently been in, and for increasing student satisfaction with the program. Two years ago Food Services lost nearly $80,000. Last year the first year under Jones the loss was $31,130. This year the estimated loss is $10,000. Southwick said one reason the cafeteria is having trouble making money is that cafeteria volume is continually decreasing, and thats compounding the problem. In other action, the council unanimously approved a statement reaffirming its policy regarding the granting of tenure to faculty members. Institutional Council Chairman Dale Zabriskie suggested that someone make a motion declaring it the intent of the council that tenure be earned and not granted automatically at certain times. Furthermore, the council went on record expecting department heads to consider faculty members actual performances on the job before recommending tenure. A letter to this effect will be delivered to the SUSC faculty senate and the deans council. Sherratt also presented the council with a list of capital development and improvement requests the college will next January ask the Legislature to fund. Topping the development list is a $907,000 land purchase the college wants to make. Following that are requests to complete the basement of the Industrial Education building, build a storage and restroom facility near the stadium and relocating the physical plant building farther from the heart of campus. Other requests, in order and farther down the priority list, include a new library building, to be constructed west of the Music Building; renovation of the existing library to provide second phase to the Physical Education Building; adding a second phase to the Music Building; and adding a second phase to the Dixie Leavitt Business Building. Among the capital improvement requests are a plan to demolish and remove the Museum and Art Building, and the installation of a cooling unit in the Science Center. The council later accepted a report showing that SUSCs Auxiliary Enterprises which includes food services, the bookstore, the student center and housing will make a $218,000 profit this year, even with the cafeteria deficit. The bookstore, according to the report, should make a profit of $47,000. About $60,000 in bookstore revenue will be transferred to other programs in the college, resulting in a $13,000 deficit for the year. Flowever, the bookstore has $155,000 held over from previous years profits, making the ending balance for the operation $142,000. The student center is expected to clear $38,000 in profit this year, not including transfers to other funds. Housing will see a $143,000 profit, but that money and more will be transferred elsewhere, resulting in a $63,000 deficit. Housing has $85,453 held over from previous years, so he ending balance is expected to be $22,453, according to the report. In other business, the council approved the following advancements in rank for faculty members: John C. DeBross, from an instructor in Communications to the rank of assistant professor; Sarah A. Solberg, from assistant professor in English to the rank of associate professor; James M. Aton, from assistant professor in English to the rank of associate professor; Charlene C. Swanson, from assistant professor of Teacher Education to the rank of associate professor; Randall O. Christensen, from assistant professor of Instructional Media to the rank of associate professor. Also approved were Leslie N. Jones, from associate professor of Behavioral and Social Science to the rank of professor; Richard N. Kimball, from associate professor in Engineering and Physical Science to the rank of professor. Two additional advancement recommendations were delayed for one month. Tenure was granted to G. Boyd Adams, Victor Kenneth Isbell, Joy Peterson, Diana T. Graff and Rhead S. Bowman. Leave was granted to Mark E. Webster, David Lee, Conrad Hatch and Robert G. Young. CoIor pmnt film developing Special S.U.S.C. BookstoRe ASSUSC sponsors dance for Africa Proceeds dance will from Friday go for relief of famine victims overseas Taking advantage of the recent success of the. album USA for Africa, the Executive Council will sponsor a danceathon this week to also raise money for the hungry of Africa. Council members decided to hold the dance April 12 from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. the next morning and donate all profits to USA for Africa, a charity formed by leading American recording artists to raise money for Ethiopia. USA for Africa, which features a collaboration by a virtual Whos Who of Pop Music, was an American response to a similar fundraising project by British recording artists. ASSUSC officers Stuart Jones and Alan Bailey got the idea for the dance at a recent convention for student unions, and theyve already received support from such sponsors as Burger King, McDonalds and Coca-ColSimilar dances are now being held throughout the country, said Student Activities Director Brad Bennett. According to dance organizer Darnea Mason, a. will also be sold to raise money. In the meantime, the Executive Council is also hoping to bring the rock group Toto to SUSC for a concert in May during its Rocky Mountain tour but finding an appropriate location may be a stickler. Bennett said the Cedar High School gym would be perhaps the best place except that the high school has a policy banning rock concerts there. The other possibility would be the Thunderbird Stadium, Bennett said. Of course, thats outdoors, and so if it rained ot something, wed iiped an alternative place, like the high school gym. The council ruled cut War Memorial Fieldhouse as a potential concert site because it wouldnt hold enough people for tre concert to be a financial success. Council members had also hoped to the concert with Dixie College to save money, but Btnnett said Dixie student leaders balked at the idea. 7 -- . LouononuCANsteieiiiouse ROAD CEDAR VON STEilltS a SEAFOOD FiiniLY STYLE FABULOUS DINING JUST MINUTES UP CEDAR CANYON ROAD."' |