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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Wednesday, June 29, 1983 Page Three Chosen firomm distinguished field ,.V by Richard Adams Chronicle staff The selection of Chase N. Peterson as president of the University brought to an end a n, nationwide search in which 285 . candidates were identified and investigated as possible successors to David P. Gardner. The search began last March when Gardner announced he would leave the University Aug. 1 to head the University of California system. Shortly after Gardner's announcement, two committees were formed to search for the new president. Chairman of the Board of Regents, Kern Gardner, appointed a faculty advisory committee to search out and evaluate qualified candidates. At the same time, Gardner chaired a search committee. The faculty committee was given little more man two months to narrow its list ot candidates to 10. On May 25, the faculty committee submitted its list to the search committee. On that list were five present university presidents, one head of a state university system, a vice president from a large institution, one woman and "one tremendously erudite scholar who had no university administrative experience," said tnree-mont- nine-memb- er James Clayton, chairman of the faculty committee. The search committee added two names to bring the list to 12, then eliminated five of the candidates they believed to be unavailable. At a second meeting on May 31, the search committee voted to recommend three finalists to the Board of Regents: Chase N. Peterson, vice president of health sciences; John W. Ryan, president of Indiana University; and Frank Newman, president of the University of Rhode 1 Island. The three candidates met with top University officials and were interviewed by search committee members the week of June 6. Six regents, two for each candidate, were assigned to make background checks on the candidates before the vote naming the new president was taken on June 13. Elizabeth Larsen, ASUU vice president and search committee member, interviewed the three finalists and said she was impressed by each candidate.. She said Ryan and Newman were both open to student concerns and seemed to have had more contact with students in their positions as university presidents than had Peterson as a vice president for health sciences. However, Larsen said, in recent meetings with Peterson, he has said he feels strongly about meeting with student leaders to discuss student problems. Larsen said Peterson is especially concerned about improving student life on campus. She said he would like to make the University more than just a place where continued on page 4 U Village mismanaged? from page one at Washington State University beginning July 15, Rei said his will be leaving for a job leaving has nothing to do with the recent events and that he has been "looking around" for more than a year. Rei will serve as assistant director of housing and food service at WSU, an operating budget five times as large as the one he now directs. The Terrace Dining Plan lets you eat like royalty on a student's budget. All quarter. With the Dining Plan, you'll save a king's ransom on princely food that's already priced for the peasantry. The Dining Plan will thrust you into a world of great cuisine that puts the banquet tables of King Louis' to shame. No longer will you have to endure the surprises, wasted time, or results from cooking and eating your own food substitutes. Day or night, the chefs of the five new restaurants at the Union Terrace will prepare hundreds of seductive menu items for you, in the elegant C "It's a move up the ladder for me," Rei said. Student Family Housing is in much better shape than it was four years ago, according to Rei. He said about $1 million has been saved over the last four years in the program. Despite resident claims to the contrary, Rei said, "I think I've shown a long history of positive response to student needs." fxd lose mentor Utah's nuclear freeze movement lost an articulate spokesman with the appointment of Dr. Chase Peterson as University president. Although Peterson remains strongly committed to the cause of nuclear weapons containment, he said he is no longer in a position to be vocal. As official spokesman for the University he cannot take public stands on social issues, he said. Peterson was a principal force in the planning of the Health Effects of Nuclear War conference held on campus in Nov. 1981. The University's Department of Health Sciences, the Utah State Medical Association and the Utah State Department of Health were primary sponsors of the g event, which drew more than 2,500 participants. Peterson said he was compelled to organize the conference because he felt health care providers have an obligation to educate the public on this issue. Recently, Peterson served on the board of directors of Utahns United Against the citizen's Nuclear Arms Race, a day-lon- non-partis- information about the arms race. . food (a 20 savings), while $90, $46, or $23.50 buys $100, $50, or $25 worth of food, respectively. Funds deposited must be used during the academic quarter and are good at all food service locations. To participate in the Union Terrace Plan, 7 call or drop by the University Food Services offices in the Union Terrace. 581-725- for ihouirht an organization dedicated to providing atmosphere of oak, brass, and shimmering trees. You can eat three meals a day all quarter and never sit at the same table or eat the same meal twice. Even Louis XIV couldn't do that. A deposit of $240 purchases $300 worth of UNION(QTERRACE) Great Anti-nuke- rs |