Show The Eagle Thursday March Page 2 Sometimes spring fever seems to live in a state of limbo here in Price area by JD Conover staff writer As the days get warmer I feel a growing knot of disgust polluting the inner depths of my conscience It grows and multiplies like a cancer It's not physical but manifests itself u a mental cloud that shrouds the thoughts of homework responsibility and attending class Just like a sickness my bodily resistance breaks down and I end up falling prey once again to spring fever I know I should simply ignore it and pay my dues to life but there comes a time when I’ll be silting in a class listening to Professor always Nasal Echo and I'm overcome by a feeling of nothingness It usually hap pens like this You'll be tentatively listening to the answer for a question asked by a person with a double digit IQ I don't have anything against people who's intelligence quotient would equate out on the grading curve to be in the C range but it's when they ask a question that was asked ten minutes earlier that sends my thoughts off the edge into oblivion The most recognizable symptom is when you look at the teacher and notice that his or her mouth is moving but you can't hear any sound This is immediately followed by a yawn glassing over of the eyes and a tightening of the muHes in the neck that causes your head to crane towards the nearest window It is at the instant that your eyes make contact with the outside world that you can hear again You still can't hear the teacher What you hear is the nice weather outside I'm being totally serious tool You can hear the climbing temperature things thinking out loud about growing and radius who is having fun outside I don't know every person in a I did loo many drugs in the 60s but I'm not the only one afflicted with maybe this problem It's spring fever plain and simple It's nothing more than an uncontrollable feeling that we all have to deal with We don't feel like doing anything that has to do with school I can deal with that My major concern has lately become a large group of people who exhibit this lack of interest not only in the spring but ALL YEAR LONG! In vain I've tried to sort out the thoughts and ideas that would sinan area or problem to blame out gle For instance how did it come to pass that the boys on two local high school basketball teams suddenly adopt 2000 parents who show up to see their sons play a little ball? The locals here drive me nuts I can understand the motivation behind watching two rivals play ball Everyone who enjoys basketball likes to see a good game However the zealous packing of the BDAC to see the Carbon and Emery game posed some serious questions What is the deciding factor that will get people up and out of the house to go do something? Why do they go to the high school activities and never seem to think twice about attending a college activity? 125-mi- le 1990 1 I am writing this letter as a commale up of the kids plaint against the parking situation Cbllege basketball even on the JC level is level which arose last Thursday night I more a on the professional who are talented enough to pursue sport the feel that there should have been in the in one of toughest regions than high school CEU is competitive north smell parking consideration for the stuturkey dropping nation Our region is not just west 'till you whoozit's who were attending classes dents cousin till the air gels bad and south 'till you find the alkali by that basketball night Instead there was absohouse In fact our region contains the number one ranked JC lutely no consideration for anyone team in the nation or on that night due to the activity at That's why I can't figure out why CEU games get about one tenth the BDAC namely the basketball the attendance of high school games comhas local a times of number the game I can't even begin to count would I realize that this activity I wish for them they plained to me about the college not doing s t lot whole do a to brought people to Carbon County seem quit squawking long enough to realize that they don't and possibly some of these people for the college spent a few dollars in our county but It's not just basketball either I'm talking about the seminars poacuvi-tieas a paying student of College of s and the like All of CElTs etry readings plays dance performances Eastern Utah I expected to have wouldn't be killed by an increase in attendance available to myself and "Yeah no parking this thinking Should there be a student reading students other for news some I’ve attending classes that you got Price sucks Those locals are hating it" night too You're no better for crying out loud! I arrived earlier than usual for my When it comes to the students they can effectively be cut into two class (30 minutes earlier) because I students we have here distinct groups The huge group of expected some problems but I was and and under and the traditional students who are about miner or a totally unprepared for what my eyes Foe the most part it's disheartening to think of a laid-oveteran homemaker who has to go back to school for one reason or another saw The angle parking east of the lab wu taken by buses ' They always seem to be caught in a catch-2- 2 situation They couldn't find a computer parking parallel to the curb thus usbaby sitter no money have to paint the porch and on and on ing approximately six parking s that I see at anything are always the same The only ones With an optimistic estimate 111 give the group of old faithfuls a pop- places per bus The rest of the parkulation of about 50 people So where are the other few hundred? If that's the ing around the CEU parking lot was a nightmare and the entire area for at way those people are how can they expect the college to do things for them least four city blocks was just as when they won't even bother to show up? bad a on a stand have traditional students you guys don't As for leg to (continued on page 8) pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of This goes especially for the dorm students I've never understood the person I find sitting in the TV room of Dear editor Sessions after I return from a basketball game who shows their interest in A month ago I became the CEU sports by asking how we did but was so damn lazy that they couldn't student represenative walk a hundred yards and get into the game for free rather than sit home beThe first issue that I decided to tackle was the fact that the College of Easting a couch potato flipping through the channels and finding interest in oriental cooking shows On top of that the couches they choose to park ern Utah doesn't have a day care fatheir kiesters on are not only ugly but extremely uncomfortable cility You might ask why this is People complain that Price is boring and there is never anything even an issue Well in reality to do Ill promise you that the majority of people who say that they don't students need a place to like CEU activities have never been Does anyone remember Mikey from deposit their children before going the Life Cereal commercial He wasn't stupid for a little kid In essence he to class Those who opt to lake their children to classes are a disrupprofessed try it you might like it tion and hamper the learning process for those of us who are trying to gam a higher education Also CEU child development department is the patrons was passed by one vote firm resolution not to back down lacking a facility to give "hands on" This bill also provided no referenthe death penalty Life without paexperience and credit to child develdum provision to challenge the role will not be a possible death senopment majors for participating in a board's decision tence alternative child's development Although Phil The second bill passed allowed the Utah Attorney General Paul Van Brown department director is willDam was given $25 million to hire Legislature to alter the previous ing he doesn't have the space or commitment of the $1000 salary extra attorneys to sue delinquent taxfunds for a low cost day care center increase per teacher The UEA was payers Through the efforts of the My initial idea for this was to unhappy with the original decision attorneys $10 million could be adallow students on limited funding and with the UEA's consent lawditionally received Also to have to a free program or a makers changed it to $900 for new groups who influence public low cost relatively teachers and $1100 for the veteran day care facility referendum s are now being required on or near teachers campus An inter departmental to file a e stateThe governor also proposed a ment declaring the funding used in day care facility would be ideal I believe that the faculty and their efforts package that would raise teachers' staff would be able to benefit from salaries to various levels depending school students should be High this program as well Along with on what kind of a degree the teacher aware of some legislative actions held and how long they have been that will affect them Driver educabenefiting the students with young children all students would benefit tion teachers will soon become liteaching with On February 25 teachers voted on censed driver's examiners and have quieter classes An care whether or not to accept or reject the the authority to issue driver licenses day facility could also increase stuthe prospective govenor's proposed plan and remain to students This will decrease the dents' enrollment once this facility work load of state licensing bureaus in the classroom The general feelis in 5 place by one was enabling them to enroll of ing portrayed percent unhappiand continue their higher education Some especially good news for the ness as they voted after the legislaIt would also provide a community ture disemUed However the major- poor economies of the state In a service case lower of taxes equals higher tax ity of the votes accepted the plan Bob Torgcrson CEU academic revenues a bill was approved to and a strike will most likely not provice president wu originally for vide tax incentives to oil companhappen ies Those willing to overhaul oils the idea until outside daycare Other bills passed included the (continued on page i) on page 8) kid-din- gi non-traditio- ff non-trad- al non-traditio- State legislature ends a tough session the final hours allowing the teachers to have some of their demands met news editor SesThe teachers' rally on the capitol roNow that the 1990 Legislative tunda was perhaps the deciding facsion has come to a close Utahns detor as lawmakers narrowly passed need to be made aware of the final two bills in the teachers' favor cisions and how it might effect A bin which allows the local them the and school boards to levy an additional UEA the between battle The standa to property tax for educational use Legislature finally came by Cordy West special-intere- MM Editor r- - ireu -- financial-disclosur- C Jake Shewmake Nears Editor HMMNINHiHIHHIIIMMUHIIIIHMMIMHINNIHININM IHMtMMl' Cordy West Feature Editor MHININHIMHHINMIlllHIIHHaHHHININHimillNIM Gina Howard Kristie Biason Arts and Entertainment Editor NMINMItaHMHIIININHINNINI Richard Hickmon Sports EditorBusiness Manager IHHHIIMHMIM IMMfllM Mann Daren Fairbanks Travis writers Conover ) Staff J) Stephanie Bogdin Dusty Neman Jeff Jordan Ragun Larkin and Gina Barbiero Lonnie Behunin Stephanie Marra - — Photographers Stephanie Marvidakis and Gary Allen Rix Adviso- st - Susan A Polster Tha Eagle it the official student publication of At College of Eastern Utah and is printed ovary other Thtrsdayfall winter and tyring quarters Opinion! expressed in 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