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Show Letters to the Edits I0 Editor: Please excuse my ignorance, but I am having difficulty understanding the inconsistent residency requirements require-ments present here in Utah. The Salt Lake County Clerk's Office states that a Utah driver's license, property tax receipt, document from an employer, or, in some cases, a rent receipt, constitute proof of residency. Any proof that you came here with the intent of making Salt Lake County your home also suffices. suf-fices. Furthermore, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles here states that you are considered a resident of Utah after having lived here six weeks and makes you purchase Utah plates and pay the corresponding property tax on your auto to prove it. However, when one applies to the University for residency, he is told that he must work here a year to be considered a resident. Thus, many students are forced to drop out of school for financial reasons and delay graduation for one year. A person could live in Utah for seven years while attending undergraduate under-graduate and graduate school and yet never become a resident of the state as the University defines it. He would be forced to pay an additional ad-ditional $675 for every year he attended at-tended school full-time. If a student from another state oti comes here to attend sets I the same sales and prope-, th as residents do, votes lie';3 sidents do, files income ise! Utah, pays rent in Utah, te ' c registered in Utah and t 0 plates, I fail to underst"at after some reasonable ?W time, a student cannot ; B sidered a resident by fe 3ql sity, except that the Un;art using this as a tool tost-;'fn last remaining pennies ot':"ttl unfortunate students' povavl "Everybody loves i nc what's the matter with U." ,ol ist Patrick J. Haw l,V8 lis I i |