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Show Few things thrive in smog, but when the creeping crud lifted Friday, this beautiful specimen of Ar- College presidents meet teniesia validafa was found growing In the parking lot south of the Merrill Engineering Huihling. Students should use influence Three studentbody presidents from Utah universities agreed Friday that the rapid explosion of knowledge in today's world makes a college education necessary. neces-sary. Frank Overfelt, studentbody president of the University of Utah; Neil Greuwell, studentbody president of Utah State University; Univer-sity; and Paul Neuenschwander, studentbody president of W e b e r State College; met with Neal Maxwell, Max-well, University executive vice president, to discuss the plight of higher education. Mr. Maxwell said the influence of students in Utah's legislature could result in the allocation of much more money to be used in higher education. He said, "The State Board of Higher Education always hears from the administration administra-tion of different universities and they always hear the same story. This year will be the first time that students, the consumers of higher education dollars, will come through with an opinion." Mr. Maxwell and the three presidents discussed ways to make the Utah legislature aware of the needs of college students. Suggestions Sug-gestions were: The airing of student stu-dent views over phone-in radio opinion polls, meetings of students stu-dents and civic action groups, and the submitting of articles to be published in the local newspapers. Problems arising from Utah's continually rising tuition fees are increasing the tendency of students stu-dents to go out of state for their education, a lowering of the tax base (failure of Utah to draw industrial development and re search), and a loss of cultural influences in-fluences such as art, music and theater. Mr. Maxwell advised students to get their grievances published before Dec. 14, when the governor's gover-nor's 1970 budget Is to be proposed. pro-posed. Utah's legislature doesn't go in session until January. He struck at the crux of t h e matter when he pointed out that although Utah is among the top five states in channeling tax dollars dol-lars to higher education, it Is In the bottom five in relation to the number of tax dollars allocated per student. State expenditures per student are 68 per cent below the national average. The reason for this is the high ratio of college-age people who actually are attending school. This, coupled with the low amount of money available in Utah, makes the situation sit-uation of higher education a poor one. "Out of it all comes this terrible paradox, and we (higher education) end up near the bottom," bot-tom," he said. Friday's discussions were part of the activities of Utah President's Presi-dent's Council, organized to coordinate co-ordinate and promote the development develop-ment cf Utah's colleges. |