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Show ,J 8 : . - - -f" tt? .... . - .. i i 1 v. M - i f . . - - ' 5. i ' LJXJ. ljl!LZjJ 'U -i I) To Serve Legislature 30 interns to serve state By Suzanne Dean Staff Writer Thirty University students will ) view politics from the "inside" as legislative interns during the coming quarter. Six of the 30 will work on paid jobs in state politics. Their assignments will range from studying a new cost-benefit budgeting system to assisting a state-wide education lobby. The other 24 will serve as assistants on a volunteer basis to committees of the state legislature. All students may receive credit for their work. Russell Osmond, senior in political science, will work for six months as an assistant in the governor's office. Osmond is ' chairman of Challenge, and participates in Owl and Key, Beta ! Theta Phi, and the honors ' program. , t Working with the state senate s appropriations committee will be political science PhD candidate, ; Donald Cavalli. A graduate of Utah State University, Cavelli worked for Sen. Frank E. Moss and served a Hinckley internship under recent congressional candidate Richard Maughn. Curtis Canning, masters degree candidate in educational psychology, will work for the State School Boards Association (SSBA). He will be responsible for keeping track of all bills dealing with education and will help edit a weekly legislative bulletin sent to members of the SSBA. Chuck Loveridge, senior in political science, will serve as an assistant to house minority leader Larry Reguess (D-Carbon County). Loveridge worked with a voter registration drive during the recent campaign and is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, political science fraternity. Susan Norton, graduate political science student, will study the new budgeting system, Planned Production Budgeting System (PPBS) as an assistant in the state budget office. Her internship will last for one year. Finally, serving as assistant to state senate majority leader Warren Pugh, will be law student Lee Rudd. Rudd has done volunteer work in various campaigns and was active in a campaign to repeal inventory tax. Cavalli's and Miss Norton s interships are being financed through a grant given the political science department by the American Political Science Association. The other students are paid by Hinckley Institute of Practical Politics. However, the state shares half the cost of all students' salaries. The 24 unpaid interns are Craig Childers, Karen Christensen, Lro Clayton, Suzanne Dean, Randy Dryer, Loretta Eason, Glen Greener and Laury Hammel. Others are E. Bart Hapkin, David Jorgensen, Billie Keller, Auke Kollman, Janet Kominek, Wolfgang Kuhn, Ed Leary, Ray Moore, Bryan Nutting, Suzanne Peck, Paul Peterson, Leonary Rustad, John Sillito, Bill Van Ry, and Dick Van Tassell. |