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Show i 8 8 i I1 a 1 U TA H .Y 1 8 11 HI Mj. " nu "k. r : .at a Legisiature Wraps Up, Higher Education inficials Appeased MELISSA GALBRATTH said. ' ing either. will fund The programs "may not be able to Legislators of the cost of salary increases and grow as hugely as we'd hoped, but Slava benefit packages. The remaining well persevere," V said associate of the Utah dean funded be must by , Lubomudrov, quarter studies. the of , Education; undergraduate System Higher Board of Regents will decide later . He said the bck of new funding whether the money will come from will 'not penalize students or force tuition increase revenues or individ-- 'program directorsto turn students " ual institutions., 1 1 . away. The U.- will face a budget cut Early in the session, legislative fiscal analysts recommended that the because of decreased enrollment. said, however, that "the fact - Higher . Education Appropriation Stephens ' that we've agreed to help oflsct losses Subcommittee cut $4.25 million the U has had because of declining .from the base budget' But last week, enrollment" was an important aspect Executive Appropriations gave high' ' - er education an additional $7 million. of the budget t receive U. Ray Haecklc, U. director of govMany programs did not all of the funding that school officials ernment and community relations, said legislators have said the addi- had hoped for. tional allocation was due to the letfor Peoplcsoft computer Funding software needed to upgrade the U.'s ters, calls and efforts made by U. stusystems and guide them through the r dents and faculty members. . USHE and U. officials are pleased not given. year 2000 problem-w- as The U.'s Liberal Education that their large, projects Accelerated Program and Horizons received funding. ' of Possibilities did not receive fund- Foxky said she is pleased with the three-quarte- rs Chronicle News Writer . - The 1997 session of the Utah Legislature ended on a positive note Wednesday for most legislators and " higher education officials. be happy with "Students-shoul- the budget We leel we vc done a good job for higher education, said - Rep. Martin Stephens West), chair of the Executive Appropriations Committee.' Higher education received $468.4 million of the state's $3.8 billion worth of 1998 fiscal year appropriations. State' and federal funds and rev enue from projected tuition comprise the funding. The University of Utah will receive $231.6 million. "The biggest disappointment is . (R-Far- r - .. : -- Higher Education " . . , - m 5f Si . , a 7 if - . ? "hot-spot- " r t ; " r Cecelia Foxley-- -- see "Legislature" oil page 4 ' History, Kace, Morality (Influence Current Welfare (Reform Debate maintained in the homes of their 'regarding female sexuality and women's roles, and myths about parents she said. . As she result their a of efforts, government funding, Gordon said. Chronicle News Staff "I don't think welfare reform is said, Mothers Aid Laws were subsequently passed in 48 states, but an attack on women as much as it Last year's welfare reform bill within a ' decade most were is an attack on race," Gordon said. " has essentially cut the repealed due to lack of state funds. "What's at issue isn't women, of many women across America,' Conditions continued to suffer what is at issue is feminism, family Dr. Linda Gordon, a history proand sexual morality fessor at the University of Gordon quoted from the popu- Wisconsin-Madison- , said. "welfare reform" bill: . Gordon, a Women's Week is the foundation of a "Marriage guest successful society." She argued that lecturer, spoke Wednesday about ' "how welfare became' a dirty "society has used support for chilword." She explained how the Aid dren as a way to change sexual behavior of their mothers." to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) policy was . Additionally, Gordon warned founded and developed into what the audience to beware of fiscal m typically referred to today as myths concerning AFDC' Only ' 1.2 percent of the total federal bud."welfare." Gordon said the history of wel-- . get goes to welfare. fare began around the turn of the "The nation is in deep denial for Conditions about single' budgeting, about taxes and century. about real options for women and "women with "children were so children." harsh that many children were We need to remember it is placed in orphanages, in which Linda Gordon around 50 death rates averaged extremely difficult for single mothunder for children ers or fathers to raise and care for percent l.year ' i ; children while trying to make a livshe D. Franklin until President said.; old, Even before suffrage, numerous Roosevelt took office and develing, she said." Additionally, a very women's organizations began to oped the Social Security Act of high number of welfare recipients advocate help for these women 1935. The women's organizations , arc victims of domestic violence, and children; after receiving voting were given places on the Social In order to work toward a solu- tion of truly reformed and effective rights, the groups began to cam- - , Security .drafting committee with the assignment to design a prowelfare, we must "promote dispaign for Mother Aid (Pension) take of would care that course about what wc want from Laws, Gordon said. single gram result the government" and "remember "They argued that it was more women with childrcn-t- he to include in that discourse those expensive to maintain children in became AFDC, she said. . these orphanages than it would Today, welfare is stigmatized due who are at the economic bottom," ; . have been to pay to have them to racism, cultural expectations Gordon said. :. . . STUART GRAY and KRISTEN RIEDELBACH for 50 years. Some of Dorothy Beanuon has been teaching ceramics at is mis Architecture week in Arts the and her work on display Building. die U. After 50 Years of Work, Artist Keeps Her Shoulder to the Wheel "life-lines- - . STUART GRAY Chronicle News Writer lariy-dubbe- d . hi ftm Cmmnku Dorothy Bcamson admits throwing pottery can be vigorous work, but after 50 years of teaching ceramics at die University of Utah, the professor is not about to slow down. "One of my mentors said that to be a potter you should be able to lift a bag of day over your shoulder ld 50-pou- and then jump a three-foo- t fence," Bcamson said. "I can lift the day; but my legs have always been too short to jump the fence." In celebration of her career, a selected portion of her work is on display this week in the AJvin Gittins GaDcry at the Arts and Architecture Building. AddkionaDY, a reception will be hdd in her honor tiinight from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the gallery. , ; Bcamson said pottery has been in her - sec "BcamMMi" on page 4 . fcv TV v N - I . ll'l - . , I. ! Th Daily Utah Chronicle 240 Union Buikfins ' University of Utah Salt Lak. 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