| Show Friday May 31 1974 Page 2 EDITORIAL PAGE Individualized Degrees seen as step forward Count your gonads On Tuesday the USU Institutional Council passed a resolution that would give students a choice as to the speed that they wished to get through college A committee of the Faculty Senate headed by Dr William Lye has been working two and a half years on this proposal The "Individualized Degree Program" would allow students to choose according to their ability whether they were to spend three four or five or more years working on a bachelor's degree By passing this proposal the Institutional Council has taken one step towards tailoring the college experience to the individual needs of individual students We believe that this program is needed and that the State Board of Regents should see to it that it is put into effect as soon as possible By giving the student more leeway in determing how a university experience would best suit his or her purposes the quality of education at USU can only go -- up We believe that Dr Lye and his committee should be commended for their long efforts in preparing this proposal agree with them that it is time to reexamine the structure of the undergraduate education programs at this university and we think that this new program will We Parking hassles Editor Student Life: Editor Student Life: I would like to meet and break the ugly head of the person or persons who shot and killed my purebred Alpine billie goat Tuesday night about 2 am I hope you go to hell Better yet identify yourself and let me shoot your left gonad off for a lifetime memory of your assinine in- stance I’m sure you felt pretty big after that malicious murder and you are probably telling your buddies what a groovy thing you did Question to the reader: What kind of person would kill a defenseless goat that is in his own big pasture? Jim Ferrell 526-70-51- We are' really looking forward to summer quarter Now at least we might be able to find a parking place and get a little use out of our most valuable parking stickers Owing enough money between the two of us for parking tickets to pay for a quarter’s tuition we are debating about fall showing up quarter However knowing that anyone who suckers for a parking sticker will probably sucker for another year of parking hassles will most likely behere next year really Here’s hoping for better parking next year Brad Larsen 17 528-86-60- 55 Rod Galloway Grant Lowell 518-68-77- 528-94-73- 96 73 help to make a university experience more challenging and more rewarding for the students that attend this institution Discourteous employes Editor Humiliated Editor Student Life: Student Life: I think that it’s time that Utah Displaced priorities seen with budgets case of displaced priorities has once again come forward with the preparation for the 1974-7ASUSU budget With the budget proposed for the coming year flagrant disregard has been shown for the number of students served through programs funded by ASUSU In an attempt to trim from all submitted budgets a disproportionate emphasis has been placed on areas which include only a small minority of University students All enrolled students pay activity fees and while some should be turned over to groups such as Forensics which directly involves about 15 students this amount should be minimal The suggested $2000 to be given Forensics is equal to the amount to be allotted Associated Women Students which serves the 3000 plus women of USU Forensics justifies it by saying their debate program acts as a recruitment program for the campus Couldn't this money be put to more practical use by serving the students who have to pay it in fees? An allocation of $2800 to the International Student association is also disproportionate According to a former ISA secretary a major part of the year's allocation ot $jjuu was spent on two parties that the association held while the $500 profit from the Internat iona! Student banquet was donated for a loan fund for foreign students Students do not willingly pay activity fees only to turn right around and repay for the events in which they are involved while their fees are given to others for trips in the name o'f high school recruitment or parties for satisfaction personal A 5 V I Hi H ( State University administrators start looking at some of the office workers which they employ The office workers should be a lot more courteous to the I am applying for summer work in Logan and today I got completely humiliated by an employer I got the card from the personnel office and then phoned the gentleman to see if I could make an appointment to see him students After all who’s paying their salaries and keeping them He just told me to drop in After employed? We are! I had “dropped” in he kept me I realize that there are instances where stqdents are waiting for over an hour while he discourteous to office employees was discussing “profits” with a but this is not the case most of the sales representative time I have been involved in and It was bad enough that he kept have seen instances in the me waiting so long but not one of office Controller’s where his employes bothered to tell him discourteous service has been or question me as to my time exercised I was thoughtful schedule I would like to cite one instance to call for an apthat happened to me: I ap- enough pointment and he made me feel proached the cashier-’-s window like dirt keeping me waiting for where there were three people in so long I left hurt unhappy and a line Both of the windows were humiliated open I stood at the vacant window I do want work I am willing to The woman helped the three learrf and I would work hard but people at the other window and I getting that kind of treatment though that I would be helped today I felt like an alien next She ignored me and helped too with another student who had come in I am a person after me feelings and emotions I don’t I informed her that I should have two hours to simply waste have been next and she smartly on something— not only just the replied “Get in the right line and two hours but waiting and then then maybe I’ll help you!” getting frustrated I finally left I asked her if one of the other then walked home women could help me and again there was no reply She just My time might not be worth looked straight ahead and two cents to most people but it is ignored me This is embarassing important to me I have things to and humiliating do in my extra time I felt I was Is this the kind of service we’re completely cheated out of my paying for? rights as a person Dave Johnson 529-76-83- 24 Linda Olsen 529-76-89- 01 |
