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Show VOLUME 51. ISSUE 8 TUESDAY, AUGUST 7. 1990 TH IGNPOST : WEBER STATE COLLEGE rr New dining services fo be operational by fall quarter Shepherd Union Building to house Pizza Hut and other businesses in planned fast-food court By Chrctine Rasmussen News editor of The Signpost Due to projections for increased demand, WSC's administration has elected to contract the Marriott Corporation to manage the on-campus dining services operation. "This decision is not a reflection on how our employees have performed, it's a reflection on the future. The dining business is getting more difficult to manage, and we cannot continue to provide the support food KWCR involved in effort to "book" Czech schools services need," said Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Marie Kotter. The Marriott Corporation is planning to create a food court in the Shepherd Union Building by bringing in several national food chains . Pizza Hut has already committed to participate in the food court, which is expected to be completed within two years. Former Dean of Student Life Richard Sline said discussion over renovations to the on-campus dining services began last year. "Part of the process included re-examining what the program was doing now, and project for the future," Sline said . " We had to decide if we wanted the college to keep running the service, or contract an outside corporation. The main issue that was discussed was the fact that the facilities needed to be renovated," said Sline. He said both the eating area and kitchens need to be remodeled, which would include updated appliances. The college announced July 16 that Marriott Corporation was the selected contractor. The contract began Aug. 1. "They plan to be fully operational by the beginning of fall quarter, and ultimately operational in a year." Sline said. The Washington, D.C., based company is the second largest food contractor in the nation, and manages over 400 dining services on college campuses nationally. Sline said that Weber State will be the first of the larger schools to have the contracted dining service. The Marriott Corporation also serves the Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and four of the universities in the Big Sky Conference. By Necia Palmer Editor -in-chief of The Signpost Weber State College's radio station is heading up a nation-wide project to collect and send text books to Czechoslovakian schools. Since Czechoslavakia's recent revolt, Russia's discontinued rule over the country has given the students more educational' freedom. The country has decided it wants English, not Russian, to be its second language, said Gary Toyn, station manager of KWCR. Janet Savin, a teacher at Charles University, Prague, wrote Toyn asking for help in obtaining texts written in English on any subject that could be taught at the university. The single largest need is materials for teaching English as a second language, said Savin in a letter faxed to Toyn. She said the English texts currently being used in the country were written by Czechs and Slovaks, most of whom have not spent time in English-speaking countries. The books contain many mistakes, she said. Books on psychology, psychiatry and sociology are in great demand as well as anything on training teachers to work with people with learning and physical disabilities, Savin said. "Although texts in these two categories learning and physical disabilities would be used by a more limited group of people, they would be a tremendous help, because they virtually do not exist in this country. They all cover areas which were not recognized as valid by Communist ideology," Savin said. The letter was sent about four months ago after Savin was referred to Toyn by Dr. Patricia Henry, a WSC math teacher who was touring France when she met Savin. Savin told Henry of the great need of English texts in Czechoslovakia. Henry then visited Czechoslovakia and Savin gave her a tour of Charles University. ' When-Henry -returned to Weber State, the math club began a drive to gather money and texts to send the school. Toyn saw the math club flyers announcing the drive and presented the idea of making it a national project to the board of directors of the National Association of College Broadcasters (NACB), of which Toyn is a member. The board endorsed the idea and is helping to fund and promote it. "We're excited because it gives Weber recognition as the instigators of the project," Toyn said. NACB's board of directors include Walter Kronkite and Ted Turner. Toyn said they hope to have Kronkite, Turner and others to help publicize the project with public service announcements. Arrangements were made with the National Association of College Bookstores to act as repositories across the nation, Toyn said. The books will then be sent to the International Book Bank in Baltimore, Md., who receives federal funding to send books overseas. Toyn and his advisor, Roger Gunn, will travel to Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia on Aug. (See CZECH page 2) 0 'V !--. a --) ! f - ! ... Ride 'em. cowbov : QUINN JACOBSONTHE SIGNPOST STETSON TALBOT, 3, gets ready to ride ttoutlntha stick horse competition at the Little Buckaroo RocJoo held over the weekend In West Warren. For more photos of 9ie evwit, see page 3. Photocop" plans to make arrival on Highway 89 in near future By Joe Fisher Staff wrifer of The Signpost The next letter a Weber State student with the "need for speed" may open could contain a picture of himself flying down Highway 89, late for school, and a speeding ticket. Layton city is planning on using a form of photo radar, called Photocop, along the busy highway to help control the speeding problem. Photocop, a highly sophisticated photo radar system, will be mounted in the back of a police car and run by an officer with a laptop computer. By utilizing this new technology, a police officer can park the car on the side of the road and take pictures of speeding vehicles as they pass. According to a report issued by Traffic Safety Technologies (TST), the Salt Lake City manufacturer of the machine, Photocop can issue up to 50 tickets an hour. Tom Tutor, a Layton police officer, stated that normally an officer can issue from four to six tickets an hour. The new photo radar uses a different -- ' I, and, or frequency, known as the Ka band, as opposed to the X and K bands now being used. Present police radar sends out a straight beam which widens as it travels away from the radar gun, forming a cone much like a dunce cap. A speeding car equipped with a radar detector can pick up this radar beam before the police can get a good reading. According to the TST report, the new radar forms a narrower radar cone which makes the radar more selective of the vehicles that pass through the beam. The beam will then be angled only 20 degrees off the center of the road instead of the traditional 40 degrees. This will trigger the radar detector to take a picture the moment a speeding car enters the beam. This principle, along with low power usage, makes the radar undetectable to speeders until the last second. The report by TST said that the new radar has an error margin of only 4 percent. Chief Doyle Talbot of the Layton City (See PHOTOCOP page 2) |