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Show WOP SlnMP The Daily Utah Ute women, men NMSU, AFA down i See page 6 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1989 VOL. 98, NO. 95 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Mai, lund win; comraplanmit stalls .Assembly ireswlts ' By Scott Stone Chronicle ASUU reporter After a rough election in which several of their ideas for student unity were ridiculed, Molonai Hola and John Lund had the last word as they emerged from the ASUU final election Thursday night as the new president-elec- t and vice president-elec- t of the University of Utah. The Involving U. Party garnered a total of 1,322 votes to easily out distance the 805 votes cast for Bill Samson and Fabio Volpe of the Action 89 Party. The "Just Say NO" write-i- n campaign settled for 279 votes. In contrast to trie excitement surrounding Hola and Lund, 24 Assembly candidates were struggling with the thought of being disqualified from the election for failure to file financial disclosure forms. All but two of the 24 candidates being disqualified from the election were representatives of the Action '89 Party. Election Registrar Dawn Atkin decided to disqualify the tardy candidates because the information concerning the filing deadline was specifically addressed in an Election Grievance Committee meeting last week. In the "meeting last Thursday it was decided that the candidates who filed late would have to pay a $10 late fee and have the form filed by noon the following day. Atkin said she could not believe candidates were still having problems understanding rules and the need to file financial disclosure forms. "These people, if they see "winners" on page two ' i at aaM' b a - -r "vii ii nrt 1" in mm iiMrtiM mm mrMLiiiiMmmiiin mmiim ii - Chronicle photo by Andrew Holloway and vice president-elec- t Involving U.'s Molonai Hola, center, and John Lund were named ASUU president-elec- t The Action U. well as the '89 as Involving Party, Party, protested the election registrar's early Friday morning. decision to disqualify Assembly candidates who failed to file financial disclosure forms. Action '89, No parties floored if A V -- By Christian Aggeler Chronicle ASUU election reporter - - xV a1 Chronicle photo by Andrew Holloway Action '89's Fabio Volpe, left, and Bill Samson lost their final election bid. . Although they were able to double the, number of votes their party received in the ASUU primary election, Action '89's Bill Samson and Fabio Volpe still came up short in the presidential finals early Friday morning. Action '89 was still far ahead of the opposition No Party, however. Aftergaining 279 votes, Jo presidential candidate Tim Stonic thanked U. students for their "dissenting opinion." Samson said his party "worked hard to go out and meet people" after the primary results. Apparently these efforts were effective, as the number of votes garnered by Action '89 jumped from 420 in the pri- mary to 805 in the finals. Unfortunately for Samson and Volpe, their improved showing still left them behind Molonai Hola's Involving U. Party. results, but added he thought "Molonai did a better job (of campaigning)." The result of the presidential race was , Samson said he was "pleased" with the not Samson's only concern of the " evening, however. The former candidate found himself caught in the middle of a controversy regarding the delinquent fil- ing of financial disclosures by 22 of his party's Assembly candidates. Both Action '89 and Involving U. filed formal grievances with the ASUU elec- tions committee against that body's deci- sion to disqualify these candidates. After the grievances were refused by the com- mittee, however, Samson was forced to stand alone and appeal" to the ASUU . Supreme Court. The move was extremely unpopular crowd gathered at the with the Union Building, because the announce- ment of Assembly winners will now be delayed until a judgment is reached by the court Samson, however," braved the see "losers" on page two late-nig- I Jit II 1 - " H - i; i- - ht Jr v n , Chronicle photo by Aaron Ashcraft ASUU vice president-elec- t John Lund, right, welcomes the election results. The battle's over: U. faculty receive only a 3 percent boost lot, Varela said. During the last two years, By Ken Southwick institu- - tions had to rely on. internal reallocations for any salary increases because no state funds were pro Utah lawmakers concluded 45 days of work at vided by the Legislature, she explained. Commissioner of Higher Education Wm. Rolfe midnight Wednesday by putting the final touches on a $2.9 billion state budget which includes a 3 Kerr said overall he was also pleased with the 1989 percent salary increase for faculty and staff at session. "The Legislature's decisions related to Utah's nine colleges and universities. higher education were very supportive," Kerr said. However, education officials-whi- le saying the 3 But, he added, "our only disappointment is we say that it may were not funded for larger faculty and staff salary, percent increase is appreciated-al- so not be enough. The State Board of Regents asked increases." Of particular concern to education officials and for funds sufficient to provide a 4.5 percent salary administrators is a predicted jump in the cost of increase for faculty and staff. "A lot of schools will try to find money anywhere medical and dental benefits for faculty and staff, they can to reallocate to salaries," said Vicki Varelat Lawmakers had three options available to them:spokeswoman for the regents. But, she added, noth- - passing the higher costs on to individual employees; asking institutions to absorb the added ing concrete has been decided. There is no consenwhere" and J WJitit;j pi (provide state? funds sufficient tb: coyei sus among institutional presidents about s f il ! ' tbe increases. what'WcutVVarel4Wxplained;v.-In the end, legislators chose the final option and After three straight years of "nothing or almost bud- nothing" increases, a 3 percent raise seems like a. built enough money into the higher education Chronicle administration reporter 1 get to cover 100 percent of the benefit cost increas- es. Systemwide, that totals more than $3 million. Because lawmakers funded 100 percent of the increase in cost of benefits, Varela said it's being claimed by some that the salary increase is actually more than 3 percent. But that is not the case, she said. ' :''- - - "It's all smoke and mirrors. We appreciate the fact that they are covering those increased (benefit) costs, but it's still just" a 3 percent salary increase, she explained. n Also in action, legislators passed a bill that will tighten regulations governing the use of impounded dogs and cats as research animals. House Bill 109, sponsored by Rep. Melvin Brown, Lake, was passed by the House Feb. 16 and by the Seriate, lat? Tuesday night. , , , j ?J , , , , rlBtl09 fives' municipal and local governments the final say in whether animal shelters can release impounded dogs and cats to research institutions ..for use in tests and experimentation. late-sessio- R-S- alt ? , 1 1 1 ... , Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT Non-prof- it . 5 |
