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Show the DAILY UTAH WEDNESDAY, JANUARY rn Fn VJ ( THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH 18, 1978 Polls show students think new minimum wage law ineffective by LIZ GARDNER Chronicle staff The new minimum wage law may not have a positive effect on the financial situation of students, according to two surveys taken recently. The surveys, by the Wasatch Opinion Research Corporation for the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU), were directed at the impact and effects of the new law on both the student and business communities. Under the direction of Greg Jahn, the surveys were conducted by telephone interviews with 400 student respondents. The respondents were selected using a random sample of students registered at the University during fall quarter, 1977. Following the collection of the data, responses for the open-ende- d questions were a computer for into into and categorized groups put tabulation and analysis. After recommending a 6.9 percent tuition increase in December of 1977, the Board of Regents argued that students who work would realize an increase in income due to the new minimum wage law. An important purpose of the survey, according to Jahn, was to "make students aware that they wouldn't be making more money with the new minimum wage." Jahn stressed that despite first impressions that the new wage law would increase incomes, they would prove to be fallacies when the added burden of increased tuition was realized. When asked whether their wages would be raised as a result of the new law, a majority of the respondents (about 73 percent) answered no. Approximately 53 percent of the respondents indicated that the new law would have no effect on them. Concerning the importance of finances in continuing their education, the majority of students said financial considerations were a major factor. Almost 75 percent of the surveyed students said they spend 16 percent to 45 percent of their money for education. Generally, a majority of the students surveyed felt that they would probably not be forced to reduce the amount of credit hours they were taking if they made less money. The second survey, directed at the business community, was conducted among 10 businesses which typically employ large numbers of students. The businesses were selected from a list supplied to Wasatch Opinion by the ASUU. When asked what the effect of the increased minimum wage would have on business, about 36 percent of the surveyed businesses felt it would cause inflation, and about 20 percent felt it would cause unemployment. A majority (90 percent) of the businesses said if anyone had to be laid off, it would be part-tim- e help, often students. 83 Approximately percent of the surveyed students are ' classified as part-tim- e help in their places of employment. About half of the students surveyed said that of their total income, 85 percent to 100 percent is a result of their job. Under the new wage law, this means that income is likely to drop. Further results of the survey indicated that about half of the students felt that they would have less buying power under the new wage law, and about 36 percent believed that inflation would be the major effect of the law on business. from the Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY Rep. Dan Marriott said office would Tuesday his investigate published reports alleging a military cover-u- p of what appeared to have been an inventory shortage of 24 nerve-ga- s shells at Tooele Army Depot. SALT LAKE CITY A (R-Uta- h) circular supporting the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women and labeling Rep. Georgia Peterson "right-win- g (R-Sa- lt Lake) a reactionary" stuffed in Utah lawmakers' mailboxes was Low library funding awaits amendment by LISA MICHELE HUNT Chronicle staff are being made to include the University law Attempts school library addition in Governor Matheson's bond issue by way of an amendment, according to Asst. Dean Jeff Olsen. The proposed addition would cost $4.3 million and was just below the $40 million cutoff line drawn by Matheson in his 1978 budget. "We definitely expect an amendment to be proposed next week," Olsen said. "From the response we have had from the legislators, we are hopeful. We were just under the cutoff, and it was actually a case of the priorities being rearranged. Wre are told the amendment is a difficult prospect but the legislators have been fairly responsive," Olsen added. Matheson said in a recent Chronicle interview that he had developed a list of the state's building needs which included the law library. However, when Matheson sent the list to the Utah State Building Board the library lost priority. Matheson said he would not oppose the funding if the legislature passed it but that to lend his support now would commit him to all projects which were eliminated. The need for the addition has been termed critical by several groups. The American Bar Association conducted a reaccredi tation visit in 1973, and wrote extensively about the library, which they rated in the same category as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Berkeley and Stanford. "The library is in urgent need of additional space for its book collection, its personnel and for its users. Many factors have combined to make the present building inadequate despite the building's being only 10 years old ... the pressure for carrels is immense . . stack space is now nearly exhausted. The only suitable solution is the building of a new annex to . Tuesday. BEIRUT, LEBANON Kinr Khaled and Crown the library. The University administration should immediately start planning for such an annex," the ABA report read. It is now five years later, and Olsen terms the situation "much worse." "We have experienced an explosion in legal literature recently and are receiving 8,000 to 9,000 volumes a year," Olsen said. "Already 10 percent of our volumes are stored in other buildings." Olsen emphasized that the need would not only serve law students but the entire state's legal needs. "The law library is one of only two law libraries in the state, and answers requests for legal research from prosecutors across the state," he said. "Up to 15 requests per month come in and in this manner attorneys and citizens both benefit from the library." University President David Gardner commented on the loss of funding with regret. "We are very much disappointed at this. The quality of the law school depends on the library and its facilities. It is essential that we find some way to keep the library on the bond issue. If there is a chance, we'll take it. We're following it very closely," Gardner said. The addition in its present concept would consist of an extension to the east of the existing structure. A major portion of the cost would go toward the utilities that must be connected, according to Olsen. Olsen said that the University is asking for an "all or nothing" funding and that the only other option might be to simply get the architect started and ask for the building funds next year. "The library at the College of Law is badly in need of the addition; in fact its national reputation is in danger," said ASUU cabinet member Lowell Brown. "It amazes us that something as important as the University's nationally ranked law school lacks importance in our governor's eyes." Former coach to speak Basketball's winningest coach will be in Salt Lake Wednesday to tell a University audience how he did it. John Wooden, retired of California University basketball coach, will deliver a Challenge Lecture at noon in the Union Ballroom. The lecture series is sponsored by the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU). "The Wizard of coached 40 years, West-woo- d" compiling 885 wins against 203 losses. Under Wooden, UCLA won an unprecedented 10 national collegiate championships in his last 12 Prince Fahd of h Saudi Arabia have offered to buy the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip from Israel to establish a Palestinian state, an Arab publication said Tuesday. oil-ric- News Briefs VOLUME 87, NO. 78 SEOUL, SOUTH KOActing Deputy U.S. Attorney General Benjamin REA R. Civiletti suggested Tuesday that the questioning of Tongsun Park in the influence-peddlin- g scandal in any may not result indictments of present U.S. seasons at the helm. An All American basketball player at Purdue from 1930 to 1932, Wooden was named College Basketball Player of the Year during his senior year. He is a member of the National Basketball Hall of Fame, the only individual ever to be doubly honored as a player (1960) and coach (1972). He received the College Coach of the Year Award six times, the Friar's Club Coach of the Century Award in 1971 and was named Sports Illustrated 's Sportsman of the Year in 1973. Wooden's speech is free and open to the public. iI v -- officials or Congress. members of WASHINGTON, D.C. The National Urban League, describing the state of black as grim, said broad tax cut the Tuesday proposal being readied by President Carter is unwise, and would not benefit Blacks or the nation's troubled America cities. Hustler ATLANTA magazine owner Larry Flynt is buying the Atlanta Gazette, an alternative fas 5 Jf 4n A w JK ' f t-'- - - - Retired coach John Wooden newspaper, and has hired state Sen. Julian Bond as a contributor, it was announced Tuesday. LAKE CITY SALT Comedian Paul Lynde, arrested January 1 1 in front of a downtown tavern on a charge of interfering with a police officer, changed his plea from innocent to guilty Tuesday, a clerk said. Weather cloudy with showers morning, showers and clouds decreasing afternoon, increasing clouds by evening; high 42, low 28 |
