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Show S Palace, SEC at throats once more By PAUL RAWLINS Chronicle Staff Round two began Wednesday in the contmumg battle between the Salt Palace and the University Special Events Center I Before turning over his duties as manager of the Salt Palace, Earl L. Duryea gave some parting suggestions to the Salt Palace board of directors. One of his suggestions was aimed at the SEC. sswuons "Because of the conflicts with entertainment en-tertainment events at the University of Utah, he said, "the university should be limited to one event a month for its own students and no events in the summer." The whole controversy started last year when Duryea decided that the SEC should not be permitted to compete with the Salt Palace. This led to a series of verbal bouts between he and James R. (Bud) jack director of athletics. Neither side gave way to any of the demands and eventually the whole affair faded out of the news. No new attack has been made until Duryea's parting shot to the board of directors of the Salt Palace. Reacting to Duryea's comment, Bud Jack was definitely not too pleased. He felt that there was no real reason for such feelings. "I don't believe anybody has the right to say how many events we can have," says Jack. "The SEC is student built and student supervised. The events that take place in the SEC are suggested and approved by a student board for the entertainment of the students. In fact, there is about a 70 percent student participation in the events that take place there." "We can and will hold events in the SEC as often as the students want something held there. Because it was built by student funds, I personally have no right to prevent something from taking place there if the students want it. So, I can't limit and won't say that there is a limit on the number of events that can take place at the SEC in any month. I neither have the right or the place to do so." The new manager of the Salt Palace, Douglas S. Bory, said he has no comment at this time about the SEC controversy. He' said he would have to wait until he had been in the position a while before he could legitimately make comments. "Unlike the Salt Palace, the SEC is not set up as a commerciaj money making operation. The money it makes goes into a maintainance budget. Therefore, we cannot be said to be really competing with the Salt Palace, anymore than the Utah Symphony competes with them. I resent them saying we compete." "As far as holding events in the summer, I think we have a right to. After all, we have a summer quarter with attendance of around 5500 students. We ought to be able to hold events for their entertainment as well as the students during the other quarters." |