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Show Monday, August 28, 2000 THE SIGNPOST Page 9 Read continued from front the campaign is still in the quiet phase, as it has been since 1998. The university is using the quiet phase, purposefully void of any major public announcements, to assess donor support. But development office officials promise some big coming-out parties on and off campus in April 2001 to launch the campaign's public phase. They also have a rough idea of how the $75 million will be spent, and it breaks down like this: Program priorities, including colleges, library and student affairs, will receive S25 million. "Students will receive $20 million for new scholarships tripling the total available to 1,800 and fellowships. Another $20 million will go toward facilities. Part of the money will be used to pay for the Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center, currently being built. The rest may serve as seed money for expanded and remodeled student housing. Faculty and staff will receive $10 million for research and professional development. "The great thing about every one of those goals is that students are the recipients of every one of those," said Melisa Holmes, director of development communications. 2: Brace yourself Meet Kerry Romesburg, Utah Valley State College president. He is a member of the Utah Board of Regents' tuition and financial aid task force. He does not think the state Legislature gives Utah's public colleges and universities enough cash to hire sufficient full-time faculty, counselors and financial aid specialists. To make up for this and perhaps inspire the Legislature to give more you might want to sit down for this he is proposing that Utah's colleges and universities raise tuition 25 percent for fall semester 2001. That means full-time WSU students would cough up an extra $4 17.50 for the 200 1 -02 academic year. And this is a sure sign that student fees will go up as well. "It's a dumb idea," WSU President Paul Thompson said. Still, Utah media have reported that a double-digit tuition increase is possible, if not probable. In fact, a 10 percent or higher increase has its supporters among higher education officials. "There are some who are trying to accomplish that, but I'm a strong opponent of that," Thompson said. "And I will work against it." A 3- to 4-percent increase will likely be necessary, he added. 3: Pardon our dust See those sand dunes where the A-10 parking lot used to be? Well, since a groundbreaking ceremony in early June, the university has started to build the 70,000-square-foot visual arts center, just one of many projects that makes this the busiest year for campus construction since the early 1970s. The center will not be operational until at least spring 2002. said Craige Hall, vice president of administrative services. So if you used to park in A-10, kiss that space goodbye. However, the pay lot should be in use soon. Hall said. Additional parking would be lost at Wildcat Stadium if the university goes ahead with plans to build a press box and donor- suite complex on the west side. "We're about a month away from knowing whether or not we can afford it." Hall said. Construction on the stadium additions could begin as early as mid-November after the last football game. The Signpost will update you. Parking spaces in W-5 also will be lost temporarily, so workers can install pipes from cooling towers being built near the stadium to a new chiller being installed in the basement of the science lab. This project will start in October or November, Hall said. Additionally, the second floor of the Miller Administration Building is being remodeled to provide more office space. Several campus discussions in September will focus on the need and plausibility of building new student housing. The administration is trying to determine how to add 800 to 1,200 beds, including dorms that would replace buildings that would be demolished, over the next five to six years because existing residence halls are more than 30 years old and need repairs, Thompson said. The first phase of the student housing project could addapartment-style dorms to accommodate 400 students. Wasatch, Stansbury and LaSal halls might be demolished after the 2002 Winter Games and replaced with new student housing. 'The big question is: Can it be done at a price that the students can afford?" Thompson said. 4: Without Harold and Eddie, can the team win, place t)r 'Show'? WSU's star basketball players, forward Harold "The Show" Arceneaux and guard Eddie Gill finished their college careers last year, to the chagrin of Wildcat fans. The All-Star duo combined for 39 points per game last season and helped WSU post a 18-10 record. In the 1998-99 season, Arceneaux and Gill led the Wildcats to a Big Sky Conference Tournament championship and an upset victory over thealways-fun-to-beat national powerhouse North Carolina Tarheels in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Arceneaux was Big Sky Player of the Year both seasons. Gill was first team All-Big Sky both years. The loss of the two superstars will force coach Joe Cravens to use a more-balanced approach to scoring this season. "Some people who played supportive roles last season have to step up and carry the load," Cravens said. Look for Stephan Bachmann. Ivan Gatto and Quynn Tebbs to score more this season. Cravens will. 5: 'A' in WSUSA for apathy Dee Hansen, two-time WSU Student Association president, did not campaign much when he ran for re-election last year. He did not need to; he ran unopposed, as did his academic vice president, Trent Cragun. The lack of interest in running for student office was indicative of a general feeling of student apathy about campus politics. Hansen said he and his fellow student leaders plan to bring legislators to campus, work with the Young Democrats and Young Republicans and advertise the elections months in advance this year to try to spark student interest. The Signpost will keep you irir7?NSrii PFaa PI WW updated on what Hansen and his band of merry student leaders are doing and whether their work has the desired effect. 6: Scholarship roulette During spring semester, WSU's Matthew Shepard Memorial Scholarship Fund, created in memory of a Wyoming college student who was beaten to death because he was gay, drew criticism from people who called the scholarship immoral. Later, WSU's Board of Trustees voted to have the university look into the possibility of having a private foundation administer its approximately 40 donor -directed scholarships. The switch could distance the public university from privately funded scholarships "that may become a polarizing and divisive political issue in the community," trustees said. This summer, a group of people announced the Traditional Family Values Scholarship, in response but not opposition to the Shepard scholarship. So there are two issues to watch for, really. What scholarship will someone dream up next to celebrate or recognize some specific group of people, and will the scholarship become a divisive political issue? And what will administrators decide about using a private foundation? Thompson said administrators are waiting on information from the State Auditor and the Attorney General's Office before they can make a decision about the private foundation. A decision The Signpost tip! m Students $20 Faculty and Facilities $20 Program Priorities $25 million Here is the official logo for WSU's capital campaign, which will go public this spring, and a breakdown of how the $75 million expected to be raised will be spent. will probably be made this spring, he said. 7: This could be the year If 10 more students are in WSU classes by Sept. 13, when official enrollement figures are available, than were enrolled last fall, this will be a record year. So far, the record year was 1992 with 14,993 students. And the record looks breakable, considering Thompson is expecting a 3 percent increase in enrollment from a year ago. 8: Beam it up again, Scottie A Russian rocket will carry into space satellite-pointing technology, designed using research from WSU's College of Applied Science and Technology, this spring because scientists lost contact with the Joint Air Force Academy WSU Satellite, or JAWSAT, earlier this year. Scientists theorize that JAWSATs solar panel was damaged early in the mission, which began Jan. 26, causing the loss of communication with the satellite, said Jay Smith, CAST director. Also, One Stop Satellite Solutions, the technology transfer company associated with the JAWSAT project, will make a major public announcement at a press conference in the second week of September, Smith said. The Signpost will be there. 9: New money for same, old students? ii & 116 lave of HI -TANG I JA I j INTERNA TIONA L STUDENTS WANTED Do you speak a Foreign Language? Are you interested in the Internet? Do you need a job or extra Money? Would you like Free Internet access and ;i 35 meg website of your own? Then SKYBIZ 2000 mints you! SKVHI 2(oy ;i iletK-!ice ctmjTj!i c:i'.iifii: 1:1 iifirsc hKitnn. eitMlc liewinjxnefi'. jm-1 nosiin: Who ocf i .OfX'.tX'O wct-sucs ciufttUt-f-ii in Hit Use 20 mimihs jii-J An cMitfiitnJ 5 iifin noo io be nublithrd in ih iwm ii nnnisln. Catch the Internet wave Today!!! W SKYBIZ 2000 For .(nre Information call K'nm :d $t-t-t)"56 million Staff $10 million million The Board of Regents is considering proposing a new state funding formula for Utah's nine public universities and colleges that would give institutions additional dollars that are not tied to enrollment growth. The Legislature uses a formula that gives more money to institutions that add more students. But this puts institutions like WSU, which is not experiencing major growth , in a bad position because it forces administrators to watch student services go underfunded because of inflationary costs that do not get offset by new revenue, Thompson said. Watch for the regents to recommend a formula that allows legislators to give new money to schools with stagnant enrollment numbers. Also watch for legislators to struggle with the issue of how to re-work the formula fairly. 10: Show us the money Last year, student senators expressed concern that some organizations were not accounting for student fee money as well as they should. The Student Fee Recommendation Committee is responsible for making sure student fees full-time students pay $222.50 per semester are allocated and used fairly. This year. The Signpost will attempt to follow the student fee money and figure out if anything has changed, or if some organizations' books still are not as accountable as they should be. the M M J |