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Show mem The Daily Utah We've got a long way to go, baby FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1989 See page 4 VOL. 98, NO. 67 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH House bill calls for additional faculty, staff on U. Council By Ken Southwick AX Chronicle administration reporter A vote is expected today in the Utah House of Vp ) Representatives regarding a bill that would drastically alter the makeup of the Institutional Council, despite protests from administrators and council members. The bill, House Bill 27 sponsored by Rep. Hugh Lake, would provide that "the director of Rush, a higher education institution's largest staff association and president of the institution's Faculty Senate serve on tne Institutional Council." Currently, the U.'s Institutional Council consists of 10 individuals, eight of whom were appointed by the governor and not affiliated with the U. but are D-S- alt busi-nesspeop- le from downtown. The other two, the ASUU president and the president of the Alumni Association, are ex officio members, meaning they are members by virtue of their office or position. HB 27 would appoint an additional two individuals, the Academic Senate president and the director of the U.'s "largest staff organization" as ex officio members of the council. An amendment that would make g the two new additions members of the council was added in committee Wednesday. Proponents of the bill cite a need for greater faculty and staff representation on the governing bodies at Utah's nine universities and colleges. "The issue is one of inclusion in the process, not exclusion," Rush explained. "We want to bring people into the process and let them know their voice counts," he. said. - A proponent of the bill, Joanne Milner, Lake, the behind the rationale bill, explained saying "stuthe staff most are and dents, faculty (by the impacted Institutional Council), yet they have almost no input." However, Institutional Council Chairman Robert Wright said, "the concept of the council is not supposed to be a representative body It is not the right concept." Wright explained the council did not even have representatives from either the student body or alumni organizations when it was originally formed several years ago. Wright also said the council has always had an open-doo- r policy where anyone could come in and see "bill" on page two non-votin- ' . . Chronicle photo by Andrew Hollowav ; ASUU Supreme Court justices confer as Tracey Heinhold questions a witness. Heinhold claims that ASUU President Mike Kaly violated the ASUU constitution as well as Redbook bylaws when he dismissed her. Supreme Cou rt hears Hein ho Id case By ' Scott Stone "; Chronicle ASUU reporter 7 The ASUU Supreme Court listened to the case of Tracey Heinhold in a hearing Wednesday evening after she was fired for not signing a purchase order for ASUU President Mike Kaly last Friday. Heinhold is asking the court to reinstate her to the position of vice chairwoman of the Finance Board. She was released from her position as vice chairwoman when she refused to sign a campus order that Kaly deemed a rush. The order requested $75 for the use of a motor D-S- pool van to transport 24 telephone poles from West: Valley City to the University of Utah campus. The poles are to be placed in the student garden with the names of U. students inscribed on them. She explained she did not sign the order because she was told that Finance Board Chairman Nathan Wilcox had questions about the expenditure and would not sign it before leaving the office Friday afternoon. Wilcox told the Supreme Court that he questioned the legality of the purchase order because he had not seen any other tvpes of purchase orders in association with buying the telephone poles. see "court" on page two alt Surgeon General report says smoking kills 1,000 daily By Michael Allsop Chronicle staff writer The strongest evidence ever published about the detrimental effects of smoking was released by the Surgeon General Wednesday. The report said smoking is the nation's deadliest addiction, and is responsible for more than 1,000 deaths everyday. Dr. John Holbrook, University of Utah professor of internal medicine and the senior consultative editor for the report,, explained the study at a press conference at the U. Hospital Wednesday. Due to advances in scientific data used in cigarette smoke research, the report concludes cigarette smoking is a cause of stroke, the third most common cause of death in the country, Holbrook said. It's estimated that smoking is now . responsible for more than 390,000 deaths in the nation, Holbrook said. "This accounts for 22 percent of the deaths of men and 11 percent of the deaths in women," he said. "Remember these are preventable deaths," he said. The report notes that smoking remains the nation's greatest preventable cause of death. ;' "V to the report, smoking is According -. related to the following deaths per year: Heart diseases: 115,000. Lung cancer: 106,000. Chronic lung disease: 57,000. Other cancers including esophagus, ', bladder, stomach, cervix, pancreas and kidney cancers: 31,600. I- N v.v,r..5x...v,..v, Stroke: 26,500. who are Deaths of babies bom to smoking moth-erlung cancer victims of secondhand smoke and people killed in fires caused by cigarettes: 53,900. Although the number of women smokers has declined during the past five years, the report predicts there will be a "catastrophic epidemic of lung cancer" in women that will occur in the years ahead, he said. This reflects the fact that women took up smoking in large numbers about three decades after men did, he says. 'This report documents in detail that cigarette smoke contains 43 known substances," he said. there is some good news with However, said. More than Holbrook the bad news, 90 million Americans would be smoking today instead of more than 50 million if the government research on smoking would not have been conducted and non-smoke- rs ryl low-weig- ht s, . ? - 7Y:" V v jv Jit . cancer-pr- oducing - Chronicle photo by Andrew Holloway John Holbrook, U. professor of internal medicine, explains the Surgeon General's report on smoking. Holbrook served as consultative editor for the report. . Non-prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |
