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Show Activity Center Conflict Opens University Regents, athletic officials, administrators, and the " ASUU president answered questions Wednesday afternoon, asked them by downtown persons representing the Salt Lake County Civic Auditorium, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Planning Commission. THE MEEUNG, summoned by Salt Lake County Commissioner Commis-sioner John Preston Creer, was called to quell doubts and misun-! misun-! derstandings which have arisen since the University announced " it would build a $4.6 million Special Events Center on campus. ? Fears have arisen that it will conflict with the planned down- town civic auditorium-sports arena complex, j UNIVERSITY PRES. James C. Fletcher told the downtowners .i that "basketball is the only duplication" between the two struc- tures. Head basketball coach Jack Gardner added that the Univer- sity "has said repeatedly" that it would continue to hold University ; withal! eames on campus. ! He said he "didn't know j where" the idea arose that the University had committed itself to holding basketball games ! , downtown. J I "IT WOULD be foolish to expect ex-pect students to leave campus '! and come downtown for games," Mr. Gardner added. ASUU President Gifford Price outlined the non-sports uses of the University events center. He said that with an anticipated enrollment en-rollment of 20,000 by 1975, the W University must provide a new Ij facility for commencement, intramural in-tramural sports, basketball games and special speakers. E. H. "BIFF" Azbill, assistant secretary of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, said that the University structure would "dilute the effect of the downtown down-town arena." He added that downtown business interests were "very much against" the University events center. Pres. Fletcher asked Mr. Az-ij Az-ij bill for specific areas and events u which he thought might "dilute" (See CONFLICT on Page 4); Conflict . . . (Continued from Page 1) financing of the $17 million downtown arena. "I CAN'T go into details now," replied Mr. Azbill. "Maybe you've been counting too much on something that wasn't there," Pres. Fletcher commented. REGENT-ELECT Don Hol-brook Hol-brook stated that he thought the final decision of the Board of Regents to build the Special Events Center should not have been made until public hearings had been held, and that the incoming in-coming Board of Regents, due to take over on July 1, should have had a part in the decision to build. He added, however, his acceptance ac-ceptance of and "confidence" in the decision of the Regents. ROYDEN G. Derrick, chairman of the Board of Regents, said that the student-faculty board administering the Special Events Center would still be under the decision of the Board of Regents. Commissioner Creer asked each group to select a representative represen-tative to meet in about two weeks to draft "guidelines" on the use of the two facilities to avoid competition and conflicts. |