Show a 107 A Friday Nov 8 Pag® 4 1 974 Utah State students pushing Pc for U-PI- organization RG by Helen Dovey staff reporter Utah Public Relations The will have funds allocated Finances will come from a two dollar hike in student activity fees Students will have the option of having their money Group is planning a major campaign to win the acceptance of students at USU Barb Abrams refunded If the Board of Regents accept this type of funding it will enable students to hire their own professional staff of lawyers scientists and researchers when necessary said Mark Pessin publicity chairman campus said the chairman of to start group hopes speaking and week At the next petitioning by meeting on Nov 5 members also discussed contacting radio stations and newspapers If a majority of registered students sign the petitions the petitions will be taken to the Board of Regents The USU will then become part of the statewide organization and G G Abrams Ms said: “This organization when it gets going will be funded directly by students Those who want to will those that don’t won’t” Later she added that “On campuses where PIRG has been passed G less than 5 per cent of the students have gone to get their money back” The Utah Public Group is a “non-prof- Relations it non- partisan corporation dedicated to serving the community by pursuing consumer interests and your interests” according to the perspectus Some aims of the group as written in this paper are to serve as a community resource for the legislature’ t’o lobby for legislation and to research such areas as consumer protection G environmental preservation racial and sexual discrimination health care delivery and tax reform "You do hove a good hold on that skane don't you?" Mary Jeanne Perlmutter asked before moving in for a closeup The rattler is being held by Dr James MacMahon Utah studenfbody presidents She works with snakes hike tuition proposed oppose legislature has assigned for by Ken Sink higher education The Utah Studentbody President’s Council is drafting a request to the board qgainst the proposed tuition increase Craig Cummings USU studentbody president says the president’s case council “has an extra-stron- g against tuition increases” Cummings says the council is preparing data “displaying in dollars and cents the students’ view” The council believes a tuition increase in Cummings’ words “would be poor staff reporter The Utah Board of Regents is considering a tuition increase for resident college students The increase would be $3000 per quarter L The extra fees are designed to measure by the be a stop-ga- p Board of Regents to cover the difference between the requests of Utah colleges and the fund the Utah Legislature has allocated for the schools The Board has a total budget request of $38 million above what the state SPECIAL USU GROUP FLIGHTS Salt Lake to Chicago 15648 Only Salt Lake to Hew York Salt Lake to Washington 21389 Only Plus Tax and Security Check Subject to Fare Increase FAA CALL NOW FOR RESERVATIONS 752-345- 4 I or I I I I 5 753-25- 44 1 6a5mi8S ov 12 - I Bowling Billiards Sign up at by Nov st Ping Pong Air Hockey Foosball the AGGIE 1 1 campus by Dr James A MacMahon for research purposes She figured such an unusual topic would surely win her an A for the slide-tap- e project — and it did “The only hard part was taking the color slides for the presentation I had to get within about two or three inches of the snakes she noted for the close-ups- ” I “Personally hope I never see another snake in my life” she concluded The ten-minu- te slide-tap- e presentation may be used by persons wanting to know how to milk rattlesnakes for their venom for snake antidote Dr MacMahon uses the venom as a means of identifying different subspecies of the rattlesnakes As to the value of the teaching tool he said it was a skill that really had to be almost “That’s how I learned” self-taug- ht he related Bond issue passes by close margin 22870 Only Mary Jeanne Perlmutter can’t economical policy for Utah in the snakes In fact she is stand long run Education is Utah’s afraid of them number one business” Why then would she put herself According to information within just inches of deadly gathered by the council Utah has rattlesnakes? second-lowethe per capita The Utah State University income in the inter mountain did it all for a graduate student in west Utah ranks 41st per in instructional media capita income in the United project The project? A slide tape States Those facts and an increase in tuition would mean presentation on “How To Milk according to Cummings that Rattlesnakes” Ms Perlmutter of Menands “income simply would not be will complete her master’s NY there for a father to send his kids degree at USU this quarter She to school” e with In comparison with other state has been working part-timthe at Biome Desert the program institutions of the intermountain west Utah tuition is on a median university “I took the job when I couldn’t level If $9000 a year was added find employment teaching the University of Utah would have the third highest tuition of Russian which is what I did in-in noted the any university in the west Utah New York” student media structional State would have the fourth with the while was It working highest tuition in the west Desert Biome that she program barring California of the rattlesnake aware became The junior colleges would be milking being done on the 2nd and 3rd highest respectively in the west including California The extra $9000 would put tuition at the two junior colleges “out of the realm of reality” reported Cummings A survey of Univerity of Utah students revealed 63 percent of the undergrads worked part-tim- e and 70 percent of the graduate The students also work part-tim- e Council President’s Studentbody is asking how many extra hours will the student have to work to cover the tuition increase? by Allan Walker Cummings thinks the working Sports Editor student won’t have any free time if he tries to earn an extra $9000 It couldn’t have been much “The conomic future of Utah is recreation closer but the bright” said Cummings He bond emerged Logan from Tuesday’s believes the state legislature election a winner should change its priorities Unofficial tabulations have the bond passing by a slim 94 votes 3801 to 3707 Voter turnout was excellent in Logan City partly to due the controversy surrounding the recreation bond The voter’s majority garnered by the bond proposal now allows the city government to go ahead with their plans for Logan’s recreation future BOWL by 12 noon Cost 25 per event Bowling $1 Extra Open to Women & Men (STAB) “I’m happy that the voting turned out the way it did” Logan Mayor Desmond Anderson a strong proponent said Wednesday “Now that we have the resident’s approval we can go ahead with our plans Our work is just beginning” Plans at this moment call for the first bond a one million dollar I sum to be allocated to the community center to be built with aid from Logan High School I at a more future date will be I I I I I j Opponents of the bond who flooded the media with antibond materials in the last week before the vote fell just short in their attempts to sway public opinion against the bond They have promised to keep a close eye on how the bond is implimented Recreation bond proponants needless to say were both elated and relieved with the bonds passage They had not expected the vote' to be so close CACTUS CLUB LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY & SATURDAY with SWEET EARTH “a A second bone to be taken out directed towards the softball complex and land acquisition an area which Anderson feels will be the most sensitive “Land acquisition is a highly difficult and emotional process It will be our policy to negotiate rather than dictate with the present land owners” Anderson said “Sensitivity will be our philosophy in dealing with the individual and with the community as a whole” Groundbreaking on the community center is scheduled for April with work on the softball complex set to begin late in the summer Both would hopefully be ready for use by the following summer I |