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Show THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 150 YEARS w jsmB wm m Hi if C3 ' 71138 Lk ss5 mages of what college life must have been like in the 1960s are etched indelibly on our minds: enraged students with placards and stones in hand; painted faces of longhaired hippies; the lines of freshmen and sophomores getting onto the buses that would ultimately take them that much closer to Vietnam. These are the images that are constantly shown in nostalgic films and documentaries, the photographs and celluloidthat are employed to paint a stereotypical ideal. But the image of the University of Utah during the 1960s is one that is generally much less dramatic and much more It is an image of as business usual, albeit with some student-protedistractions. pesky As new buildings were being constructed at a seemingly dizzying pace and university administration shuffled like a deck of cards, students were desperate to flex a little muscle just like their colleagues at Berkeley, Madison and Ithaca. I ike most college campuses, the U was rife with conflicts during the EBttlB BetMBBU 8 the Student Protest Movement el tiie 1960s mdtiie Mminlstratlon Mmtens te Tea ho-hu- st Br n-ute- mi The main conflict during the '60s existed not between the student body and the National Guard, but MCCAMMON V&: t JLjl. -- Chronicle Feature Editor know this may come as a sur prise to some of you, but the .University of Utah is out for your spare change. As wc speak, U administrators arc drawing up plans to rummage through your underwear drawer and dig in between your crummy couch cushions in search of every last dirty penny you've ever had. The U (and just sbout every other university on the face of the planet) is really creative when it What the & comes to getting money from you. Sure, the U won't gei you a job when you graduate but the administration will be damned if you get away unscathed by one processing fee. A friend of mine recently applied for graduation. He had to go to the Student Services Building end fill out some paperwork and then pay U$ for the very same DARS report viduals working behind the myriad counters of Student Services aren't getting commissicn from the processing fees. I'm sure the processing fees don't pay their clucks our student fees and our tuition does that. And how hard is it to process an really, application for graduation? Twenty-fdollars hard? I don't think ive ever-increasi- so. Processing fees and document charges abound at the U, At Stu- Excuse me, but what the f is a fee? processing d I'm sure the indi dent Services (which, next to Parking and Transportation Service s, is the most expensive building on campus not expensive in terms of CHRONICLE highly-traine- FEATURE EDITOR rather between students and university administrators. The issues being debated often didn't have the political powder-ke- g quality of the peace cr civil rights movements, unless you consider food prices and parking practices to be such issues. All in all, it seemed U students and administrators were playing a dress-uversion of campus conflict something that was most evident during the most tumultuous years the country ever experiencedthe late 1960s. p The Galvanizing of the Student Body Perhaps the biggest debate of the 1960s had nothing to do with the Vietnam War. As students across the country battled police and burned buildings to protest bombing in Southeast Asia, the hot topic at the U was whether or not the Students for a Democratic Society a group many accused for the violent campus protests across the U.S. could open a chapter at the U. see 1960S, page 9 Is a Processing; Fee? any idiot can get off the U's Web site. The $25 goes to "processing fees." STOP In 1968, the SDS, led by Michigan 1960s. SHANE X building costs, but in terms of hav much you money you'll have to shell out as soon as you step inside), you'll have to pay $5 for each transcript printed out, Thai's some pretty damn expensive paper and boy, judging from the hard work of pressing a few buttons on a keyboard, I can see why I need to pay the $.5 for each copy. Also inside the SSB, you csa the Salt La'c City Library, but you will have to pay a "processing fee of anywhere between $10 to $25 for each book, even if it is only a few weeks late and some oi those weeks were during the Winter Break. And don't even think about losing a book. Tha? paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald novel you checked out could cost you $75 if you lose it, most of that money going to "processing fees." Then there is Psrking Services, Everything that has ever been said expect to fork out. some of your student loan money for processing. The J. Willurd Marriott Library is almost as bad. Don't tver keep a book too long you von't get charged laie fees tike you would z.t SHANE McCAMMON SH AN EC HRONICLE.UTAH.EDU 581-704- - see FEZ, page 9 1 |