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Show Keep education fees low, says Durham I - , Jk-V. BY NICK SNOW Speciiil to the Chronicle Slate universities must continue to make quality higher education available to as many students as possible "since social, as well as individual, benefits are direct results," according to Dr. G. Homer Durham, chairman of the Utah State Commision on Higher Education. During taping of KUED "Query," Durham told Univoi-sity journalism journal-ism seniors that "while I don't think you are paying any more in 19C9 for your education, in proportion to finances obtained from other sources that is, than the student in 1939 did, I do realize that we must keep fees as low as possible to help the disadvantaged the black student, the brown student, the red student into the mainstream of college life." Citing changes in the state's higher education administrative structure during the past year, Durham indicated the Importance of including Utah's technical colleges in the structure. "I think this is significant in that we are living in a highly specialized society. The time has long since been here that the person going to Utah Technical College at Provo or Salt Lake is as important as the Philosophy major at the University of Utah or at Harvard." Asked whether a university student would ultimately join the commission he heads, Durham said that such a move would have to come from the Utah Stale Legislature. "My own personal feeling is that, in the long run, student interests are best served by representation repre-sentation from the academic areas. However, my fooling is that the informal approach, by way of consultation, would be the best way to tap current student opinion." Appraising the position of the University of Utah, he said that the school "is in a better position in 1969 than it was in 1959, in 1949, or in 1939. It is better equipped with the buildings, the faculty and the facilities than it has ever been in the twenty years that I have observed it." Dr. G. Homer Durham, Commissioner of Higher High-er Education, said state universities must continue to make quality higher education available to as many students as possible, as society, as well as the individual, benefit. |