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Show I v $ V M f: k v .. . - - -s L r f v-. - I .k 1 toward Nielsen (standing), Utah House Majority leader; Neal Maxwell, University executive vice-resident; vice-resident; Rep. Richard Carling, R-Salt Lake and Sen. Hughes Broekbank discussed "You, Utah and the GOP" at the opening of Republican week. OP discuss tuition, voting age, education BY SUZANNE DEAN Assistant Managing Editor Tuition might go up, the voting age might go ,. H education should be coordinated from kind-1 kind-1 Men through college, and students and young wU1 if they use the opportunity, be "the -ergetic pre-planners" of political change and in- ,vation. tee were points emphasized by a panel of Utah Weans Monday as Republican Week opened on 'arapus. J panel, consisting of Utah House Majority Bm ueP' Howard Nielson, R-Provo; Sen. Hughes rockbank of Salt Lake, chairman of the Higher 1" Appropriations Subcommittee; Rep. Ric-V: Ric-V: pUnS. R"Salt Lake; and University Executive ' resident Neal Maxwell, discussed, "You, ""and the GOP." Wednesday's Event "ajelnfsiay's Republican Week topic, "How You m to the GOP" will be explored by two nevT' Conservative Kent Sherrer, a local at-1 at-1 ,Zan1 former organizer during the Goldwater toh and liberal D- James Cannon, a local or ?! haS been a candidate for governor and dan Uke City- The discussion will be At Tu P Hinckley Caucus Room, OSH 255. I y4theSlviy'S meeting. ReP- Nielson, who spon-Sye spon-Sye e blU whit raised tuition at Utah colleges f Nation Ut3h students Pay 30 Per cent of their 3percentStS tuition' national average et m'T6 with the evernor when ne Sys 4al cot 3SSUme a greater share of their edu-j edu-j are already assuming a very high share, and in my opinion this has reached the optimum," he said. But, said Rep. Nielson, as educational costs go up, students invariably will see the dollar amounts cf their tuition rising even if their portion of the total cost does not increase. "I expect that if there is a 50 per cent increase in educational costs in the next ten years tuition will go up, but hopefully the state will keep pace," he said. Rep. Nielson said the University fared worse than any other college, in the governor's budget last January, and that without a tuition increase we might have been forced to curtail academic programs pro-grams or cut the number of students admitted. Will Take Lobbying Rep. Carling said that with effective student lobbying, lobby-ing, a bill to place the question of an 18 or 19-year-old' vote in Utah on the ballot will have a very good chance in the 1971 legislature. He noted that such a bill passed the state House by the necessary two-thirds majority last sesiosn, but failed in the Senate. "The Democratic Party has favored a lower voting vot-ing age officially in its national platform," he noted, "but when the bill came before the state Senate last session, every Democratic senator left the flor-" , un He added that the original impetus for the bill came from House Republicans and that it was the Republicans who supported the bill on the Senate fIRep Carling, who sponsored the bill, feels that "young people are idealistic-perhaps too idealistic but the old are growing too cynical. (Continued on Page 6) 'You, Utah and GOP' goes on taken, we're going to have a graduate1 grad-uate1 program at Weber State," he raid, "and we can't afford it." Sen. Brockbank said education could be improved it if it were geared to training students for available jobs in the state. "It's high time we coordinated town and gown." he said, "so students can get the skills needed for jobs." U'onlinuod from Page 1) "If we don't have young people in Ihe political system, where do we get Ihe balance?" he asked. Rep. Curling urged to students to gel to know the legislators in their home districts. "Take a group of student to meet your legislator. And wrile letters she: I original loiters. Form letters let-ters are worthless but a cne-pago letter with your own thoughts is helpful." Start lo ( nonlinale Sen. Brockbank said the slate must now stal l to coordinate education edu-cation not only among colleges but also am.aig all elementary and secondary schools. "We've never yet sat down and tried realistically realisti-cally to coordinate lower education with higher education," he said. We have no organized plans for i lucation in this state." Sen. Brockbank said that although al-though the stale has taken steps towai.l coordination in higher education, edu-cation, action has not been firm enough. "Despite the new slate board, and unless some firm action is |