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Show Your Life Who will win Miss Gay Penguins? ty pagaents over? Page A6. part of Your Opinion on A4. Your Sports Coach Hunsaker leads the Wolverines to another victory. Page A l I. UTAH VALLEY STATE THE COLLEGE TIES ( EL BUEN PANO EN EL ARCA VENDE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2005 VOLUME 33"ISSUE 25 ) Sederburg lays out his plans for your money Second tier tuition to raise five to eight percent next year During his presentation, Sederburg pointed out that UVSC is still well below national and Your News Editor regional averages for public four-year colleges and universities. President Sederburg announced the college's This increase is smaller than previous years. recommendations for increasing tuition at a The new revenue would tally between approxsparsely attended public meeting on Wednesimately two and three and half million dollars. day. Even free nachos didn't Sederburg said the new money is a must if UVSC is to continue pack the center stage area of the to grow. To keep the full-time student center. instructors they need, as well Students will be looking at a as add needed student advisors, five to eight percent increase in "We don't want to Sederburg feels additional funds tuition. In dollars, that translates will be required. He wants to get into 59 to 95 dollars more for in- be known as the faculty salary averages within 90 state students and a 208 to 332 Wal-Mart of higher percent of the national average. dollar increase for out of state . . „ "Second tier tuition is the only students. education. tool we have to get these things," UVSC only sets a portion of he said. their tuition. "Utah has an inter. , "We don't want to be known esting system," Sederburg said. -William Sederburg as the Wal-Mart of higher educaTTie tuition formula is broken p resident tion," Sederburg said, explaining down in to two tiers. The first that doing everything as cheaply tier is set by the state and reguas possible isn't his favored philated by the board of regents. The school is in charge of second tier levels. losophy. The first tier increases usually happen to acLeland Page, ASUVSC Vice President of Accommodate raises in state employee salaries. A ademics, has previously disagreed with tuition three to four percent increase infirsttier tuition increases, but he sees a need this year. "I'm for is anticipated. these increases," he said. Shawn Mansell UVSC President William Sederburg held his annual Truth in Tuition hearing last Wednesday. He told students that the 2nd tier tuition may be raised anywhere from five to eight percent next year. Byron Swogger/NetXNews UVSC celebrates Black History Month Community Relations Committee formed Not as many events this year with Black Student Union in transition a major role in the celebration of Black History Month Assistant News Editor at UVSC, but this year things Black History Month has, have been a little different. in the past, been quite the Due to a change in the presicelebration at UVSC and dency, this month's celebraacross the nation. The month tions and events have been of February has been labeled missing compared to past as Black History Month since years. Past events included its original name of "Negro a Black History Conference, classroom presentations on History Week" in 1926. Black History Month, along Everywhere, people are celebrating a month that was with other evening events. designated as Black HisThis year, Quiana Arnold tory Month due to Harvard is replacing former President Scholar Harvard G. Wood- Marleen Neptune. BSU Adson, who initiated "Negro visor, Nancy Campbell spoke History Week" because of the of how the transition and birthdays of two very influ- emergence of a new president ential men in Black History, has changed things for Black namely President Abraham History Month in comparison Lincoln and American aboli- to last year. "The students tionist Frederick Douglas. aren't driving it as much as Many other important they could be," she said, and events also took place in Feb- she attributes this to organiruary that makes February a zation that is lost in a presihistoric month, including the dential transition. birthday of W.E.B Dubois, the The BSU assert their mispassing of the 15th amend- sion as being to "create unity ment, the foundation of the among black students, help oldest union in the United each other discover our roots States, the NAACP, and the and culture; in turn sharing birth of MalcomX. our culture and serving the In the past, the Black Stu"BSU" cone'd on page A2 dent Union (BSU) has played Melissa McAllister Life Writer Autumn Nielson Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln and Malcom X were all influential players in Black history, and they all share February birthdays. Courtesy Photos/ Library of Congress The inaugural meeting of the newly created UVSC Community Relations Committee will be held on Feb. 22, 2005. President Sederburg initiated the committee last fall, whose membership includes UVSC faculty members and students, as well as 47 representatives throughout the community. According to Vale Hale, UVSC consultant for community relations, the objective of the committee is to, "Provide an on-going forum for feedback and an interchange of ideas between UVSC and the community in order to proactively address challenges and issues affecting the college, its neighbors, and its stakeholders." Following the events surrounding filmmaker Michael Moore's 2004 visit to UV?C, President Sederburg formed an executive committee that is co-chaired by Jack Zenger, Chair of UVSC's Board of Trustees, and Reverend Dean Jackson, Pastor of the Rock Canyon Church. Other members of the executive committee include Jeanette Bechkam, Trustee; Jack Christianson, Director of the Orem LDS Institute of Religion; Ian Wilson, UVSC Vice President for Institutional Advancement; Brad Cook, UVSC Provost and Academic Vice President, as well as Val Hale, UVSC consultant for community relations. The executive committee met together and determined that it would be in the best interest of the committee to, "Put together a task force [about 25 people], to try and get the best thinkers in the valley together," said Hale. The result of that task force meeting is a committee that boasts representation from many diverse organizations and people throughout Utah Valley, including school districts, businesses, and city and federal government and law enforcement agencies. The task force meeting also identified three areas that the Community Relations Committee will focus on, and then created three subcommittees within the main committee. The Town-Gown Subcommittee handles the ongoing issues that deal with the "Community" cont d on page A2 |