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Show I Harrising With Vincent I Not quite so childish was the error of the University. It too, however, was very naive. The Purchasing Pur-chasing Department of the University Univer-sity put out the bid specifications for the Sports and Special Events Center just 29 days before they called for the completed bids to be returned. Nobody can get a good competitive competi-tive bid for over 8 mililon dollars together in less than a month. As many expected the bids came in extremely high, because the nonthinking non-thinking Purchasing Department was in such an all-fired hurry to get the building started. Sure we need the building as soon as possible, pos-sible, but why pay an extra million dollars because we are impatient?! It is lucky for the student body, whose money is involved, that the regents found extra money instead of lopping off a gym or swimming pool or something. Not that they didn't think of that, but they would have lost money from other sources Fortunately they did not completf the comedy of errors of the legislature legisla-ture and the Purchasing Department Depart-ment They acted in the better interest in-terest of the University, by not leaving the complex half built. It would have been better to bid the same specifications again ova a longer period and get a lower bid But that would have taken more time and the complex is sorelj I needed now. So if they have the extra mil f lion, good show. One wonders, how ever, if it could not have beer spent somewhere else more profit ably. GRIPE OF THE WEEK It is too bad that Bud Cross can1 let the grass grow on the parkin lots so that we could all convei our Toro power snow shovels, ai essential for parking on campu in the winter, to Toro power law mowers. by Harris Vincent It is interesting how our new package-deal regents coughed up the money to build the sports complex. com-plex. It was a noble thing, a bit unnecessary but noble. Just like the Republican legislature legisla-ture is plagued with faux pas, so also is the University. The legislature legisla-ture is guilty of cutting off the interest of state for the interest of the state, or something like that. They refused the Governor's excellent ex-cellent nominations for the terms open on the Board of Regents because be-cause the Governor refused to nominate the boy they wanted for a USU regent's post. The Governor is smart because his nomination will insure that the northern Utah school will have a man of letters for their next president instead of some mabie-pambie-Mormon-know-nothing. A good move. The legislature was not so smart and played naughty little boys, saying, say-ing, "If you won't play our way, we won't play yours." The only problem is the Governor was right. His nominations for the University's Univer-sity's regents were solid. How can anyone claim that Rosenblatt would not have been a good regent? But the blind conservatives of the Senate (I've called them that before) could not see the "right" for their childish antics. |