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Show 2 Signpost-Wednesday, February 24, 1988 Legislators expected to follow through JaNae Barlow Special Projects Editor Today is the final day of the 1988 Utah legislative session. By midnight tonight, all new laws concerning the state of Utah must be passed. Educators are not expecting any last minute surprise changes this year, according to Dee Vest, WSC director of Business Affairs. He said he expects both houses to accept the education budget as proposed by the Executive Budget Committee. This budget asks for a $2.2 million increase in the general fund for education. Of that amount, $4 million is requested for line items in the budget above the $1.8 million budget incre; uocepted by the executive committee. Legislators are indicating that the final budget Faculty meeting set A meeting for all WSC faculty and staff to review the recent Utah legislative session will be held Thursday, February 25 at 4 p.m. in the Austad Auditorium of the drowning Center. In a memo released this week, WSC President Stephen Nadauld invited all faculty and staff to the meeting to "review the legislative session and report on actions that will have a direct impact on Weber State." v The Signpost Staff Editorial-Advertising-Production Winter Quarter 1988 Editor-ln-Chlef Chris J. Miller Managing Editor Reva Smith News Editor Ethan Yorgason Sports Editor Blaine Bringhwst Entertainment Editor Yuri HulPak Weekend Editor David R. Allison Special Projects Editor JaNae Barlow Assistant Editors Mike Butler Katy Frandsen Coral Lou Glenn Jill Titensor Staff Reporters Tony Butler Cheryl Estoque Donna Green Mark Hadley Charles Harrington Brian Hill Debra Luby Lynn Martineau Lisa Peach Kathy Roman Scott Summerill Pete Tesch Contributing Writers Dwight L. Adams Mickey Beck Donna Brown Sheila Christenson uoe Francis Kathryn Ward Copy Editors Stephanie Carbine Susan Walker Photo Editor Larry Jensen Chief Photographer Judd Bundy Photographers Matt Butler Cheryl Gessler Craig Knight Hal Moore Graphic Artists Michael Christensen Russ Katich Advertising Manager Jolet Olsen Sales Representatives David Burns David Townley BryanWilley Production Manager MakPhmlaj Ads Production Manager Doug Clawson Production Staff Andrea Berg Keith Quimby Distribution S. Leroy Sturgeon JejJBybee Advisor P. Larry Stahle Assistant Advisor Franceen Jones Secretary Leisel Wayment Publisher Randolph Scott The Weber State College Signpost is published every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during fall, winter and spring quarters, and once a week during the summer quarter by the WSC Department of Communication. Editorial content appearing in this publication is that of the staff or guest contributors and does not necessarily reflect the view of Weber State College in general. The Signpost is distributed free of charge and is available by subscription fcr $9 per quarter. The Signpost offices are located in the Union Building in U.B. 267. Mail correspondence should be sent to: WSC SIGNPOST Weber State College Ogden, Utah 84408-2110 Editor-in-Chief Advertising Department News Department Entertainment Department Sports Department 626-7121 626-6358 626-7105 626-7105 626-7983 allocation will range somewhere between the $1.8 and $2.2 million figures. For WSC, this means somewhere between. $160,000 and $188,000. "An operating budget based on only a $2.2 million general fund increase for 1988-89 will cover only a small fraction of (higher education's) urgent needs, which adds to the urgency of some difficult decisions for each institution and the system as a whole," said Wm. Rolfe Kerr, the Utah commissioner of higher education in a memorandum to the Utah Board of Regents. Tomorrow at 4 p.m., WSC President Stephen D. Nadauld will explain the effects of this new education budget at a general faculty and staff meeting in the Austad Auditorium. Even though the legislative session is not yet over, educators have already begun to address the problem of limited funding for next year. "Strategic planning is becoming ever more important," said Vest. "The legislature is doing what they can. There just isn't that much money to go around." Two bills expected to be passed that also concern students are an 8 percent increase in tuition for four-year institutions and taxation on food purchased at Utah's institutions unless it is not available to the general public. National TRIO day; February 28 Coral Lou Glenn Asst. News Editor Most people recognize special dates like July 4th as being Independence Day, July 24th as Pioneer Day, and the third Monday in January as Martin Luther King Day. Few people, however, realize February 28th has been declared National TRIO Day a day established in 1986 by the 99th Congress to recognize government-sponsored educational programs. The original TRIO programs were initiated through the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson in an all-out effort to declare war on Poverty through education. Under the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Office of Education established several programs to offer low-income, first-generation and handicapped students a realistic opportunity to escape poverty, dependency, and to achieve the upward mobility afforded by higher education. "TRIO programs are the only programs that target the disadvantaged and promote continued education through graduate school," said David C. Trujillo, director of Upward Bound. Upward Bound, one of three TRIO programs currently at Weber State College, is a pre-college program designated to help students (grades 9-12), who have the interest and potential to succeed in a post-secondary institution, but need academic skill improvement and enrichment in order to obtain a college education. "I always thought college was something that was way off in the future," said Jamie Day, currently a freshman at WSC and former Upward Bound student. "I imagined myself graduating from high school by the skin of my teeth, finding a job probably at minimum wage - and just working or maybe getting married. But now I am excited about college and I even have a definite dream or goal in mind; I want my high school drama teacher's job! I want to teach performing arts on a secondary level." More than 450,000 students, like Jamie, are currently being assisted through such federally funded programs nationwide. Among TRIO students 41 percent are black, 35 percent are white, 17 percent are Hispanic, 4 percent are American Indians, and 3 percent are Asians. Over 14,000 are physically handicapped. Two-thirds of TRIO students are from families where the income is less than 150 percent of poverty and where neither parent has graduated from college. Two other TRIO programs that are currently administered at WSC are Student Support Services, directed by Maryonne Wilson, and Veterans Upward Bound under the direction of James Kopecky. The Student Support Services program is designed to work with entering freshmen by providing advisement and counseling, financial aid planning, as well as the academic support necessary to function in a college atmosphere. Veterans Upward Bound is specifically designed for veterans to gain a college education. "I never would have made it into Weber State without the aid of Student Support Services," said a40-year-old non-traditional student "I'd been out of school 27 years and I was scared. School was not easy for me the first time around, and I really didn't believe I could make it in college, but I was working a no talent deadend job and I was miserable. No matter how scared I was, college had to be better than my job." Now a senior at WSC she said, "They were so good to me at Support Services. Even after all the preliminary steps necessary to get me in, they continued to help me and offer all the support needed until I gained enough confidence to make it on my own." Through twenty years of continued effort by Dr. Don Jensen, director of the TRIO programs at Weber State College, these programs have provided numerous opportunities to students who might not have had the opportunity for growth and development in such a positive manner. In the state of Utah, TRIO programs are also administered on other higher education campuses, such as the University of Utah, Southern Utah State College, Dixie College, Snow College, and the College of Eastern Utah at Blanding. Martin Luther King once had a dream of equality for all Americans The TRIO programs are providing many low-income, disenfranchised, and disabled Americans the opportunity to have their dreams, as well as King's, boi le a reality through continued education. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR VOURUFE American Heart Association 0 W1W v American Heart Association WE'RE FIGHTING FOR VOURUFE |
