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Show t - Volume 38, Number 23 i X if) MCE PRESIDENT Walter Mondale (center defends water rights for Utah's private landowners at a press conference held last Tuesday at Hill Air Force Base. Those looking on (left to right) are Cecil An-drus Sec. of the Interior, Governor Scott Malheson, Presidential Advisor Jack Watson, Rep. Gunn Mekay, and Ogden Mayor A. Stephen Method of inpui: told. Seven students were on hand to discuss student action against the proposed tuition increase, Tuesday, in the Executive Council room. The seven in attendance were informed of the State Board of Regents proposed tuition increase in tuition and methods of being heard by legislators. According to recent news sources, the subcommittee assigned to review the increase feels that a ceiling should be placed on the 6.4 percent increase rather than approve the 10 percent increase recommended by the Governor. ASWSC President Mike Hunsaker requested that students contact both members of the Appropriations Executive Committee and the Board of Higher Education. He suggested students make phone calls and write letters to the Representatives.Hunsaker explained to the seven present that he did not invite the Representatives to the campus because of "lack of interest in the past." The three principal people that interested students are requested to contact are: Rep. Ronald T. Halverson (Weber) 1540 Burton Court, Ogden. 399-4310. Rep. Roger F. Rawson (Weber) 5151 Dirks. W. 4000 S., Hooper, 731-3034. Rep. Edison J. Stephens (Morgan, Rich, Summitt, Weber, Davis) 878-2370. A list of ten suggested questions was given to the students. They are: 1. Should tuition increases be determined on a formula basis, or should it be on percentage of appropriations? 2. Is there a proper basis for maintaining and perpetuatinga intro-system differentials? 3. How should tuition increases be considered? In terms of students' ability to pay? 4. Do state per capita income increase figures reflect students' increased income? 5. Are rising educational costs accompanied by correspondent increase in student incomes? 6. What is the relationship of tuition increases in enrollments? 7. Is an investment in higher education an investment in the future of the State of Utah? 8. Is it worth it to spend more tax dollars now in order to meet the future needs of our state's burgeoning economy? 9. How can the responsibility for tuition be given to specific institution's administrations? 10. How can education costs be more available to citizenry? There has been no discussion Weber State College Ogden, Utah - ' -VI Photo by Clyde Mt-ull.-r. on it (the increase) yet," according to the Information Service at the House of Representatives. Hunsaker said, "I can promise you an increase if something doesn't happen on part of the student body." r J: VICE PRESIDENT Walt.-r Mondal.' ERA opponents speak out by Beverly Taggart Signpost Writer Georgia B. Peterson, Dorothy Littrell, and Dixie Nelson, opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, spoke Tuesday night at the U.B. Theatre. Georgia Peterson, a Republican state representative, told the audience she was for equal rights, but an amendment to the Constitution would take away state's rights. She said women were already protected by law. She said she was shocked at the IWY Convention in Houston when the abortion and sexual preference resolutions passed. She noted sexual preference was for lesbian's rights. Dorothy " Littrell, CPA was the fiscal officer for the Utah IWY committee. She said she was against the ERA because IWY is a political program being financed through your tax dollars. Littrell warned the audience that feminists are out to change " .V was in Ltah Tuesday. Photo hv Clvd.- M.-ull.-r. ' o if ' 'J- 7 . January 13, 1978 the world. She said men should be more concerned than women because feminists are out to take away man's role in society. Lavander, a pro-lesbian film, was shown at the state IWY. Littrell told the crowd that their tax dollars paid for the film. Dixie Nelson, IWY delegate in Houston, said there were 11 or 12 lesbian exhibits at the convention. She remarked that Utah's Pro-Family exhibit was supposed to be next to a lesbian booth, but they refused. Their booth was then set up in a storage area. Nelson noted that when the sexual preference resolution passed, lesbians marched up and down the aisles. She said, "You couldn't tell the boys from the girls." She remarked the only time God was ever mentioned at the convention, He was referred to as She. All three ladies urged the audience to become involved, to write their legislators, and to stop ERA. Anti-ERA literature was handed out at the door. Pro-family's stand, "the right of parents to insist that the schools permit voluntary prayer; use textbooks that honor the family, monogamous marriage, woman's role as wife and mother, and man's role as provider and protector; and teach right and wrong in the schools according o the precepts of Holy Scriptures." The lecture was sponsored by the student Current Events Committee. Inside j today Ombudsman 3 Editorials P. 4 rVaturc 1. (. 7 Artiiti.-s 1. K. 9 Sports l 1(1-12 |