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Show TUESDAY. JUNE 1. 1982 THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VOL. 91, NO. 160 New building will cut down on shoe leather by Mark Saat Chronicle staff It's the same old story at the beginning of every quarter. Admissions in the Park Building. Up to the Annex Building for Financial Aid. Over to the Union Building for Academic Advising. Back to the Park Building for registration. Occasionally another trip to the Annex Building to the Placement Center. All of this may look long on paper, but it's even longer by foot. Many students think they have just competed in the Boston Marathon by the time they get registered for classes, and they're not far off. However, by the middle of 1984 the University Registration Race will be shortened from miles to meters. Completion of the new Student Services Building two years from now will consolidate student affairs and services into a single building, or at least two buildings, according to Franklin McKean, dean of student affairs. Instead of running to the Park Building, then to the Annex Building, then back to the Park Building, services will be located in a centralized area the Union and the new building, McKean said. Students will be admitted, pay fees and register in one location. According to Bill West, staff architect, the following services scattered around campus will be located in the new building: Admissions, Academic Advising, Counseling, Placement Center, Financial Aid, Student Loans, Income Accounting, Scheduling, Registrar's Office and a small copy center. When these services move into the new building, space in the Park, Annex and Union buildings will become available. But according to McKean, it is like removing your finger from a bucket of water the space does not remain empty for long. The task of reassigning the vacated areas falls upon the Office of Space Management. The office is now at the point of entertaining requests for the spaces, according to Gary Moore, director. It is still several years before the space will be vacated, so the office has not yet begun assigning these areas, Moore said. Space Management is waiting for requests to trickle in, Moore said. Several departments have submitted requests, mainly for space in the Annex Building, Moore said. The College of Health would like a Where will Park's 'contributions' go? the University's Research Park may soon have to pay regular property taxes if Salt Lake County has its way. Since 1969, when Research Park was established as tenants have paid an "in lieu of taxes" contributions to the city. That money was then used by the city to install and maintain improvements on the property. "In lieu" payments to the city for fiscal year 1 981 82 came to just over $370,000, basically the same amount as city property taxes would be for the area. However, the problem lies in where those "in lieu" contributions go, according to Mark Money, Research Park director. Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City School District want a share, he said. This issue "has been brewing for several years," but so far the city has prevailed, according to Money. Money stressed, though, that he as an administrator of Research Park is "completely neutral" on this "technical legal question." If the county is successful in taxing the area, it would stand to gain nearly $540,000. The county maintains that Research Park property is not covered in the legal exemption enjoyed by the University and is thus subject to taxation. The Salt Lake City School District is also investigating, with the use of an attorney, to determine the constitutionality of levying a tax on the nearly 30 tenants. Tenants of tax-exem- -- Council sets public hearing The Salt Lake City Council will continue its public hearing on the issue of the closing of city Fire Station 1 5 today at 6 p.m. Due to the large number of people wishing to address the matter, the council will continue discussion from last Tuesday's public hearing. Interested parties concerned about the proposed closing the station, which serves the University area, may wish to attend the hearing to be held in the City Council Building. chamber, third floor of the of City-Coun- ty Construction will begin in July on the $7.3 million Student Services Building, which will be located east of the Park Building. The building will consolidate in one location such offices as Admissions, Financial Aid and physical therapy area for sports medicine, he said. Also, the Division of Continuing Education has requested space for class laboratories and offices. Moore said space in the Park Building will probably go faster than others, and this will be used for administrative purposes. In designing the building, "a feeling of openness" was the major feature taken into consideration, McKean said. He personally does not like narrow corridors, they are restricting and often confusing to find one's way around. All of the agencies in the building can be viewed by standing on the east plaza, according to McKean. A large atrium will extend the length of the building from the bottom to the top, with all the departments abutting this atrium, McKean said. Different from many buildings, where instructions to get from one department to another can be confusing, a paper clip can be dropped over the edge and a student can be told to follow it down to find the next department, McKean said. Counseling. The design of the 88,580-square-fo- ot building will center on an open plaza on the which all the offices will face, east side, The building will be made out of fine, but not elaborate, materials, according to McKean. Materials such as marble will not be used, but the building will last as long as any other on campus, he said. In addition, no administrative offices will be located in the building. It is strictly for the service of students, McKean said. "If you're looking for plush offices, there won't be any," he said. The building will contain 88,580 gross square feet and has a contract price of $7.3 million, according to West. Astle-Ericso- n and Associates is the architect; and the construction contract has been awarded to Cannon-PapanikolConstruction Company. Construction is scheduled to begin sometime near the first of July. A possible addition to the Student Services Building would be an underground or partially underground building between the Park Building and the new building. This addition would house Data Processing and would be directly underneath the future west plaza. as That's what we do - - solve problems ' Ombudsmen aid in grade appeals by Mark Saal Chronicle staff Students who believe they have been unfairly graded by an instructor usually appeal to the instructor. But if the instructor denies the appeal, the students usually let it drop. However, according to Mark Nelson, students should not give up at that point. The ASUU ombudsman said students who think they have been wronged by an instructor should continue to pursue the appeal, if necessary all the way up to the vice president for academic affairs. Most of the time, when a student wants to contest a grade, talking to the professor clears it up immediately. Nelson said. If the instructor refuses to change the grade, most students give up. Students are not aware of the Ombudsman Board; they do not know there is help, Nelson said. More students would appeal past the instructor if they knew what to do, he said. "Ombudsman is a Swedish term meaning problem-solver,- " Nelson said. "That's what we do solve problems." The purpose of the ombudsman is to assist students who do not know what to do about their grade appeal. The ombudsmen do not actually fight for the students, but they serve an informational purpose in showing students howto proceed, according to Nelson. In addition, the ombudsmen have contacts which most students do not have, Nelson said. However, he was quick to point out that the ombudsmen are not advocates of one or the other, but of both the students and the faculty. Nelson said all students who think they have been graded unfairly should appeal, but he cautions students to think carefully about the consequences. "Many times you get on the bad side of your professor," he said. Before contesting an instructor's grade decision, students should consider whether the instructor is going to be an integral part of their education. Nelson said. Students should tink twice about a grade appeal, and consider if it would ruin future schooling. Nelson said. 'They have to weigh it for themselves," he said. If the professor is in the department of the student's major, the student should be careful, but if the professor teaches liberal education and the student will never see that instructor again, "go for it," Nelson said. According to Nelson, most grade appeals arise out of misunderstandings of mistakes. Only a very few are the result of actual malice on the part of the instructor. Usually the latter are the ones that go all the way up through the grade appeal system. Nelson said. As it stands in the University Student Code, after a student has talked to the instructor, the next step is to make an appeal to the Academic Evaluation Appeals Committee of the department or college. This must be made within 30 days after official notification of grade. If the committee fails to provide a channel for appeal, the next step is to Relations Committee. The appeal to the Student-Facult- y final appeal can be made to Cedric Davern, vice president for academic affairs. When appealing to the vice president, the burden of proof rests with the appealing party. Nelson is sponsoring a proposed amendment to the code which would require an appeal to be made within 30 days of a committee's decision, otherwise the decision of the committee becomes effective and binding. 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