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Show Board initiates lobby against tuition raise professional and sophisticated" approach than other student lobbying has been in the past Evans said. 'We want the lobbyist to be more educated on the issues than the legislators are." He said they are moving away from the former "irrational" approach. This will be accomplished according ac-cording to Campbell, by holding seminars with such University administrators as Financial Vice President Ted Davis who can give the lobbyists figures and explanations ex-planations to help them understand the financial situation at the University. Then lobbyists will work on a one-to-one basis with legislators. Each lobbyist will work with his own legislator. The lobbyist will point out that he is one of the legislator's constituents and may be even a supporter or campaign worker -of the legislator. by RON MITCHELL Chronicle Staff Public Affairs Board is looking forward to a large lobbying effort by University students during the next one and a half months. Legislative Relations has about 20 students involved in this lobbying effort so far and is asking for 80 more student volunteers. The committee, headed by Vern Della-Piana and Bruce Haglund, will be a non-partisan organization lobbying for a common issue, that issue being, according to Rick Evans of Public Affairs Board, "to get the financial needs of the University met so that a tuition increase will not be necessary." The lobbyists are all volunteers; however, input to the lobbying effort will be given' by Evans and Clark Campbell, chairman of Public Affairs Board, who are working as interns to Ray Hixson, executive director of economic and community com-munity development. Hixson is directing the lobbying effort of the University administration. The effort will take a more Campbell said this lobbying effort will be state-wide. "Legislators in southern Utah usually don't realize the number of students and alumni from the University in their districts." He said students should point this out before he puts all his support in other smaller schools just because they are closer. Campbell said any student that is not willing to get out and talk to his legislators has "no right to complain com-plain to the legislature, the administration, ad-ministration, ASUU or anyone else if the tuition is raised." |