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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH; FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1986 VOL- - 95 NO. 70 Legislator to debate funding celebration off ECing's birthday by Dec Naquin Staff writer r II ? ft i U. student Mansour Nejatifar shows Michael Osho how to use one of the 32 Macintosh computers and four printers tht arc now available for general use in Rm. 116 of the Olpin Student Union Building. Union Building opens center. 32 Macs for U. students ' The walls were freshly painted, the computers plugged in and the doors opened wide, but few students showed up Thursday to christen the new Macintosh computers in the Union Building. Since her arrival early in the afternoon, computer consultant Pyper Garff said not many students had visited the new Union Computer Center, located on the ground level in Rm. 116. "I am sure most people are not yet aware the center is here," she said. " But once it gets a little publicity, I think it will be more crowded." With the Union Computer Center's 32 additional Macintosh computers are now available for general student use. Four Imagewriter printers have been opening Thursday, added to the U.'s expanding computer network, which now includes work stations in both the Marriott and Eccles Health Sciences Libraries. Sixty computers are also available for general student use in the Merrill Engineering Building Computer Center. Others will soon be located in the Sill Living Center. Garff said those wishing to use the new computers must simply display their university I.D. Software is also available and can be checked out, or students are free to use their own Macintosh software. In addition, trained consultants are available at the center to answer any questions students might have. "We won't work students' programs but we can show them the mechanics of how the computers work, " she said. The Union Computer Center is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-- 8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.- - 6 p.m. 1986 is the first year the Rev. Martin Luther King's birthday is a legal federal holiday, but some localities and three states, including Utah, arc not observing it. The University of Utah, acting as all other state agencies, will not observe the federal holiday because the Legislature has not appropriated funds to pay for a day off. State law provides for state holidays and Martin Luther King Day has not been so designated, said Richard Strong, director of the Utah Legislative Research Council. At least two bills will introduce proposals to honor King's birthday with a legal holiday, said Strong. Senate Bill 17 will be introduced first and then a committee will hold hearings on it. The bill will then go to the Legislature and if it is approved, to the governor. Critics of the proposals say observance of King's birthday as a state holiday might cost too much money. One Utah representative said he was opposed to any additional holidays. President Reagan made King's birthday a legal public holiday in 1983. King was the man whose words and deeds in the Civil Rights Movement, "stirred our nation to the very depths of its soul," said Reagan. King followed the tradition of his grandparents, parents and mentors as a social activist. Sooner or later, he said, all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace. After beginning college at age 1 5, King was strongly influenced by Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance for social change. He applied this philosophy during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Era. King, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, had great influence on passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. As a Nobel prize winner, King advocated the cause of international peace. In 1968 he said, "If somebody doesn't bring an end to this suicidal thrust that w e sec in the world today, none of us will be around," because someone will make a mistake and drop somewhere. nuclear bomb a . Utah's observance of King's birthday will take place mainly on the federal level. Brigham Young University has scheduled a rally at noon on Monday. Although not observing Martin Luther King Day with a holiday, the U. has scheduled several activities to commemorate the leader. Randall Robinson, a graduate of Harvard Law School and director of TransAfrica, the American organization, will speak at noon in the Union Ballroom on Monday. The Life Membership Committee of the. Salt Lake Branch of the NAACP will hold its second Annual Martin Luther King Jr. memorial luncheon in the Saltair Room anti-aparthe- id following Robinson's address. A panel discussion is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Edwin B. Firmage, professor of law, will moderate the discussion of social justice, the arms race and peace. Justice and peace are related to King because without social justice, national and international war results, said Firmage. Panelists will include Robinson and Sister Mary Luke Tobin of the Thomas Merton Center in Denver. Bishop Wcigand of the Catholic Diocese and the Rev. France Davis of the Calvary Baptist Church of Salt Lake City will also attend. Other activities will follow during the week. The department of psychology will sponsor a noon symposium on Tuesday on "Psychological Aspects of Social Justice," in the Social and Behavioral Science Building. John Blasingame, professor of history and Afro-Americ- studies at Yale an University will be on campus three days as He will speak on "Black Creative Writers and Slavery," Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Art Barn. a scholar-in-residenc- e. Reagan provides just right amount of leadership Speaker says good at political strategy Carter smart but by Donn Walker Staff writer President Reagan is great leader he because provides only as much a leadership as the American people are willing to support. At least that's the view of Aaron Wildavsky, a political science professor in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. "Some of these egalitarian groups want and demand equality, but they're very distrustful of the authority and the government which will carry it out," he said Thursday, addressing an audience at the Hinckley Institute's Coffee and 1 ' Politics. "A lot of presidents are asked to do more (to further equality), but they get their feet kicked out from under them." Much of Reagan's success also lies in the fact he is a superb political strategist, Wildavsky said. And there is a difference between being fact smart and strategy smart. For instance, Jimmy dumb, he said. was fact strategy Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, is clearly not schooled in the facts "Reagan's disinterest in and false statements about public policy lead some to call him quite dumb" but is nevertheless very strategy smart, Wildavsky said. This superb political strategy has brought Reagan and his team success on several fronts, he said. First, and most obvious, has been their ability to couch the political debate in conservative terms. He said they have brought the public to think of the government as "an intervener of last "V X ' ) ' ' - w S .lr resort," instead of "an intervener of first resort." "Ronald Reagan has succeeded in coordinating domestic policy," Wildavsky said. "Everyone in Washington knows what the president wants less." But contrary to popular opinion, on the whole, Reagan has not cut taxes by any significant amount since taking office. Wildavsky said that before 1981, the continued on page two r Chronicle photo by Steve GrifTin President Reagan has been making decisions without a "guided" document when it comes to foreign policy, says Berkeley political science professor Aaron Politics Wildavsky. Wildavsky was speaking to a Hinckley Institute Coffee and ' audience Thursday. ; ' Non-Prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |
