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Show THEv DAILY UTAH , . i ' ' ' ..' ..... . ' - :. , . Moral wctosty foir gays After a two-yefight, gays and lesbians are recognized as viable organization ar .v by Patricia J. Pusey Chronicle staff The University's Lesbian and Gay Student Association won a moral victory when final approval was granted to a $ 100 appropriation of student fees to partially pay for the group's upcoming newsletter. u In a meeting earlier this summer, the University's Institutional Council approved ASUU's $500,000 budget, which includes funding for the gay student organization, along with hundreds of other student groups. i g WAR - The Lesbian and Gay Student Association, which originally requested $6,000 was denied funding by the ASUU Assembly two times in as many years. ASUU President Mark Nelson presented the student government budget to the Institutional Council and informed them of the funding for the gay student organization, but there was no discussion. ! Betty Bumpers and Mary Crisp discuss Peace Links, a women's organization. anti-nucle- ar Women speak against nukes by Maribeth Thueson Chronicle staff -.- Institutional Council Chairman John Dahlstrom said approval of the student government's budget was an indication of the council's support for the rights of students to decide how their $9 per quarter student fees should be spent. "The council recognizes, within limits, the right of students to decide how much their fees will be and how they will be spent. We can interpose into the budget process at a certain point, but $100 is not that point," Dahlstrom said. organizations, such as garden clubs, civic clubs and political groups, she said. ' A member of Peace Links who also is a Utah women concerned about the member of another group could organize a possibility of nuclear war need to express . meeting within the second group to discuss their yiews in whatever way they feel nuclear war and bring the issue to the comfortable, the founder of a national peace movement said Wednesday. Betty Bumpers, founder of Peace Links, said many women feel ill at ease with the ar groups. positions ofexisting Links a "provides .Peace way for them to get 'involved' because the group "does Hot encourage any particular policy, she said. Bumpers and another member of Peace Links, Mary Crisp, spoke at a press conference at the Alumni Building before addressing leaders of Utah women's groups. "The goal of Peace Links is to inform women about the nuclear issue and to give credibility and respectability to the peace movement, Bumpers said. The group encourages women to reach their own conclusions regarding what should be done to prevent nuclear annihilation, and to work toward peace through existing anti-nucle- attention of the other women in the group, X Bumpers said. J is an umbrella said Peace Links Bumpers for women's organization groups because it works through those organizations. Peace Links encourages women to become involved by writing letters to legislators and at the grass by becoming politically active, ' roots level, she said. . The nuclear issue is a issue, she said. Women of both political parties can get involved. Bumpers said she founded the group two years ago because she was intimidated by thinking she had to become an expert on nuclear weapons in order to speak out. However, she found she did not have to be an expert to know a nuclear war would destroy her family. 1 y,. participating with the an by Brian Aggeler Chronicle staff "Each period of humanity must have its end. Communism has lasted too long and it must be approaching its end; it has no future," Polish film director Stanislaw Kokesz said in a Chronicle interview. Kokesz, now living in Salt Lake City, is the director of numerous Polish films, some of which have won awards at Cannes and other international film festivals. In addition, he has continued on page three college and university publications. The Chronicle loses nearly $25,000 each year because . V endorsed entity of the Legislature, which contributes $2,800 annually to the group. ' students appointed from 1 1 Utah private 'and public colleges attend the annual convention to debate issues of student concern. Niriety-eve- n The top five bills are submitted to the said. He immigrated into Austria and hoped to go from there to New York. A friend in Austria dissuaded him and told Kokesz that even in New York, film work was extremely difficult to find. Catholic Relief Services, trying to find ed , ' served as a theatre stage manager, acted in films and written books on filmmaking. He was also a member of Solidarity. "I am here in Salt Lake by accident," Kokesz said. Indeed, the series of events which brought Kokesz here seems extremely haphazard. "Martial law was started in December 1981 and from that time on I had no job," Kokesz State, Liquor Commission to let alcohol advertisements be printed in state-fund- they passed their bills and resolutions and left. However, this year, the lobby effort to the Legislature will be improved." 1983 marks the assembly's tenth year as an fir written screenplays, worked in television, "Student leaders will also suggest the delegation should submit an application to the ASUU office by Sept. 30. Key legislation this year should involve ' tuition increases, admissions standards, state appropriations to higher education and merit ; pay for teachers. "There, has been room for improvement in the assembly, but this year will be better because the students are taking it seriously," said Mark Kelson, ASUU president and jjjhairman of the Utah Council of Studentbody (Presidents. "In the past, students have met for a party; Legislature for approval. The legislative decisions made this year will be critical for higher education, particularly the University, said Craig Hall, governor of the assembly and ASUU chief justice. "Our main concern is for the quality of education," Hall said in support of selective , admissions. "The University is twice the size of any public school in Utah, so we should be the of the State Liquor Commission's ruling. In 1981 j the assembly passed a controversial rebuttal to state Sen. Bob Sykes' abortion law. Sykes suggested women considering abortion should be made to view photographs of aborted fetuses. Assembly delegates suggested women considering conception should be made to view photographs of Bob Sykes to consider the consequences of their act. . Hall and Nelson hope to restructure the present student government system in Utah. The Utah Councijof Studentbody Presidents and Utah Intercollegiate Assembly are both governed by the loose jurisdiction of the Utah Student Association, yet they are not efficiently correlated. A proposal to install the Utah homes for Poland's refugees, then connected him to Jack and Taffy Hale, a Salt Lake couple who had volunteered to accept a refugee. While in Poland, Kokesz had heard of Salt Lake as "the capital of the Mormon Church." Though he knows six languages, Kokesz admitted that speaking English all the time is difficult for him. He now works for KUTV's documentary film studio, but the work is scarce, and he is still looking for full-tiemployment. Kokesz spends the rest of his time working on a screenplay about Solidarity, a project he hopes to sell once it is translated into English. He is receiving assistance in the endeavor from two University English professors and a representative from the Sundance Film Institute. v Kokesz said he finds media work here a refreshing change from his career is Poland. "A communist state is a very difficult place to II ft HUM ys group." "They are promoting an atmosphere of acceptance. They are students and they pay student fees, so I believe they have a right to be heard," she said. Gays are represented by student organiza- tions at 10 Intercollegiate Assembly governor of the assembly as the chairman of the Utah Council of Studentbody Presidents would form an efficient executive and legislative structure Nelson said. "We would also like the UIA to meet four times this year, instead of only one. There is a 100 percent turnover in delegates each year, so we need to use the members' experience more efficiently," he said. THjf lt till tf fmf Mill MM M lit! MM MM It ft MM II western colleges, according to continued on page three work," he said. "Sometimes censorship was not so strong and then it would be stronger. It went back and forth. In order to work, we had to say we liked Gen. Jaruzelski, and we didn't like Solidarity." Kokesz has a high opinion of America, an attitude he said is commonly held by most Poles. "Poles have always felt a kinship with Americans. Back during the American Revolution, Polish generals helped the colonists. Since then, many Poles have come to the United States and still help their relatives in the old country. It meant very much to us when we heard that Americans were burning candles after Solidarity's demise." Kokesz still hopes to return to Poland some day. "I said to my friends before I left, 'When (Lech) Walesa is president of a free Poland, I will be back,' " he said. "A lot of people in free countries believe in the Communist Party. Maybe it's a good idea, but the practice is horrible," Kokesz said. f 1 J J me Stanislaw Kokesz . Non-Pro- fit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT I Jji p ft Art UN fllllMHMtlUtlIIMIIlltlNIMtHMlMlJtl Students. "It is certainly not an endorsement, but it is symbolic. I think the ASUU Assembly funded us because last year when they turned us down, there were some outrageous comments that gave many of them a blackeye," Hunt said. According to Hunt, the group meets weekly during the school year to listen to speakers or discuss pertinent social and political issues. One of the founders of the group, English Professor Phil Sullivan, said the group is "a pretty casual kind of thing." "It does not seem to be a highly political or activist group; it meets once weekly at the attend," University. Both gays and non-gaSullivan said. ASUU Vice President Elizabeth Larsen said the group is basically an "educational support Pole finds new home . non-partis- Legislature raise taxes to fund higher education. This will be necessary if we are to maintain high quality," he said . Last year, the assembly lost its bid against the 3-- the group represents the interests of a portion of the University's studentbody," said Eldon Hunt, vice president of Gay and Lesbian Mombor of Solidarity - academic elite. No one should be denied access to higher education in the state, but they should be denied their choice of school according to their academic ability." The quality of higher education will be the focus of the Utah Intercollegiate Assembly meeting Nov. 5. Students interested in ASUU's budget is an indication of our support of the hundreds ofstudent experiences available at the University," Dalstrom said. "The $100 appropriation is recognition that . Student leaders to meet by Debbie Eldredge Chronicle staff "The Institutional Council's approval of J it |