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Show u N I V E R s I y Week honors diversity VP funds to be found BY MELISSA BILLINGS JOURNAL STAFF WRITER SUU's Human Rights Week begins today with a concert celebrating America's diverse cultural history and continues through Friday. The Multicultural Center and SUUSA have teamed up to host the Tyrone Bowers Quartet of Las Vegas tonight in the Sharwan Smith Center Ballroom. The free performance starts at 7 p.m. The group will perform a variety of music, including gospel, jazz, blues, swing and ragtime . Lynne Brown, director of student support, said these types of music "all have their roots in the African tradition ." A display honoring the life and works of Martin Luther King Jr. will be in the East Mall of the Sharwan Smith Center through Friday. It is on loan from the Utah Humanities Council. The display features photographs and excerpts from King's speeches, including his stirring address titled "I Have a Dream,• which he delivered on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 to culminate the historic civi l rights March on Washington . Thursday's Convocation will feature the Rev. France Davis of Calvary Baptist Church in Salt Lake City. Davis received the 1999 Governor's Award in Humanities and lectures· in ethnic studies at the University of Utah . Two films will be shown in the Sharwan Smith Center theatre as part of Human Rights Week. .,. Ghosts of Mississippi is scheduled for Thursday night, and Schindlers Ust for Friday night. Both movies will start at France Davis 7 p.m. BY KAMI SAVAGE JOURNAL EDITOR funds to other campus organizations or raise student fees to compensate the nl!w vice president, but from wherever they Passage of proposals to the SUUSA might come , the price would be nominal. ·1 can't imagine something so small making Constitution (see page 6 of the Jan. 11 issue of the Journal for a complete listing) a big dent in the ...budget," she said. ·we won't know for certain , though ," she may increase administrative costs and said, "until we receive the budget from thereby result in the redistibution or increase of SUUSA funds. administration. It's up to them.• Some of the major proposed changes That is, of course, contingent upon include the additions of an entity called whether the changes are approved by Assembly to the legislative branch ·and a students after tomorrow's general election. · Clubs and Organizations vice president to Neal Cox. SUU dean of students, -said the executive branch of student government. there are 18 scholarships made available "The main cost from the changes would for student government and there would be tuition compensation for be most likely a reshuffling of the new [C&O vice president) . student government funds. in the form of scholarship or He also said it was unlikely stipend ," said College of that any new stipends would Performing and Visual Arts be authorized and given to Sen. Jennifer Powell. And 'Student government. that money, she said, comes · someone [in SUUSAJ from an administrative budget would just split their allocated for student scholarship or not have government compensation. one," said Cox. But, he said, She said she wasn't sure speculation now would be whether the administration premature and the changes would reallocate existing have not been authorized by Jennifer Powell funds to SUUSA, skim off students. ' I• |