Show October 6 1975 Page 5 Editors Note: All letters must be trying to control parking but by included slapping the hand which is attempting to help them All I have to say is that the next time one of you at the parking department tickets a bicycle I will loose the fleas of a thousand camals to infest upon your arm- pits- no name signed and student numbers A short retort Although each of us is allowed his own taste in music I must take exception to your opinion that Page makes Beck look bad Mr Troy I realize that you have listened to a great deal of music — that is why I cannot understand your view Jeff Beck has infinitely more control over the fingerboard than Page is more versatile than Page and far more imaginative than Page In fact of the three Yardbird guitarists Page is obviously the third finest K T Dopp 529-68-75- 59 Bicycle trip Arriving in Logan a few weeks before the official start of school I heard many rumors about Utah State University One of the most horrendous horrors which echoed through the circle of gossip told of the lack of good parking places on campus There were no contradictions to this story so I made a special effort to drive home a distance of over 250 excruciating miles to d to Logan bring my I Everyday faithfully did my in helping to solve USU’s part parking problem The hills around Logan are steep and to d ride that up the in town incline at the steepest wee hours of the morning was no Sunday stroll The exercise would do me good so I continued with the use of my blundering and malfunctioning bicycle Reading Student Life three times weekly one quickly realizes that there are no real problems in Logan The biggest problem is what to do about parking and the ten-spee- ten-spee- infinite number of parking citations issued I was amused with the tales of horror I had heard about the issuing of parking citations This amusement quickly and unquestionably ceased to exist when upon exiting the HPER building I saw five bikes one of them being mine chained to a tree with the most horrendous lock This lock was not a simple lock it was the most immense enormous gigantic and of lockmanship piece Houdini himself would of had problems escaping the clench of that iron fist The iron fist was holding a charming but nevertheless a sickening statement of savagery In order to get my nonpolluting no parking space bicycle back I had to pay the goul fee of three dollars Three dollars isn’t much but the thought of giving away my money because I parked my bike against a tree is horrible The bike stall was full so in trying to inventable prevent possible thievery I ticketing bicycles they are Solar energy to be studied Petersen Craig assistant professor of economics at Utah and two University colleagues from Stanford will be looking at how a solar energy business will grow and what other industries it will affect “In tne past” says Petersen “industries which are regulated by the government have been successful in impeding the growth of new" competitive business by getting the government to regulate the new companies For example through their strength and lobbying efforts the railroads were able to restrict the trucking industry Networks and others have had a similar effect upon cable State television” Affect utilities Solar energy development will certainly affect public utilities and other industries Petersen wiU be looking at ways in which the regulatory process may affect the development of a solar energy industry He will divide the question into five parts “First” he says “solar energy units never supply all the needs in a home because of sunless days It is economical to use solar energy in combination with electricity or gas as a backup Utilities could charge more for this backup energy than they do for regular users We will try to determine how viable a weapon such high charges would be” Secondly he will compare marketing Do companies lease solar energy equipment to the consumer or does the consumer buy a unit for his home? Third is that phase which will look at industries affected both positively and adversely by the emergence of business solar energy identifying the nature of solar energy regulation we must look at the concentration ' of affected industries A small number of large solar energy equipment manufacturers may be better able to resist adverse regulation than a large number of “Fourth in What Elands munch for lunc topic for USU range study How do scientists find out what wild animals eat without shooting the animals? Yes you can watch them feed but where there are numerous different plants how do you tell which have been selected by the animals? John Ngethe a Kenya graduate student in range science at Utah problem in the largest of the African and with domestic goats in his home country of Africa an-tete- Ngethe wanted to study the diet and value of plants eaten by the two different animals The information - if it could be obtained - would help in management decisions affecting the futures of wild and domestic animals Techniques which have been used to study food habits of wild include ungulates (plant-eating- ) shooting animals and removing samples of the stomach contents or collecting the animals droppings and analyzing their content Stomach samples could also be taken from tranquilized animals by inserting a tube into the stomach or remen or by using a container called an esophageal cannulae Neither the rumen nor fecal material analysis can be related to the amount of food immediately available since the animal’s feeding area wouldn’t necessarily be known Using the tube or “trochar” doesn’t work as well as it has on mule deer in Utah for several reasons Ngethe found animal’s esophagus ENJOY LUNCH AT GOOD FOOD Nice Clean Atmosphere Friendly III TKIE HAPPY VALLEY ARCADE no cover charge SEC and ground were prepared 1351 East 7th North as was Reservation tour slated by class Bite counts kept The researcher also kept bite counts as the animals fed and recorded each animal’s activity during its feeding period After observing the animals from through July mid-Decemb- LIFE is th oditad by students STUDENT The American Indian History class will be visiting the Navajo Reservation Veteran’s during er Ngethe learned that the two animals obtain the bulk of their diet from the leaves of relatively few plants - six of 41 species available to the goats and elands The animals had similar grazing preferences in the study area though the goats used more acacia tree leaves and the eland used a higher proportion of grass leaves Ngethe reported that the eland are adapted to feeding on broadleafed plants rather than the tiny leaves of the acacia Both species fed over half the time during their sessions in the paddocks and the amount of time feeding was dependent on the quality and availability of the Day weekend The trip will be to Chaco Canyon Acoma Pueblo and the Navajo Reservation The group will leave late Thurs Oct 23 and arrive back in Logan late Tues Oct 28 - All former students of the class are welcome The cost of the trip is $25 The deadline for making reservations and turning in money is Oct 15 Those interested should call Diana Vari (752-446- 2) evenings official student publication of Utah Stata Univarsity and is written and EDITORIAL POLICY is solely the responsibility of the editorial staff The editor can reserve the right to refuse any publication on his discretion EDITORIAL OPINIONS are solely those of the editorial board and those writers with signed articles LETTER POLICY The editor reserves the right to edit refuse or print any letter All letters must be typed on a line and signed with name and student number Names may be withheld by the Editor however at the student's request Published during the school year except during finals week by the Associated Students of USU Editorial offices University Center 315 business office University Center 317 Printed by the Box Eider News and journal Brigham City Entered as second class postage paid at Logan Utah 84321 Subscription rates S6 per year $2 per quarter Correspondence should be addressed to P O Box 1249 GOING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS? Avoid frustration and disappointment and protruding from the neck At the Kiboko Range Research Station south of Nairobi in Kenya Ngethe began working with five young captured and tamed eland and fifteen goats Two paddocks were used by the goats two by eland and two paddocks by both species Samples of the food consumed by the animals were1 obtained by simply unscrewing Mon nite Ladies nite — dried forage which also influenced the conposition of the animals diets Having completed his master’s program Ngethe will return to Kenya this week where he will continue research microscope slides And a portion determined CACTUS CLUB where good friends meet — Tues nite sample that the inbe obtained formation could through a combination of observation and the use of a small container attached to the He and through a mesh Portions of each Container attached The bumbling bureaucracy is GO GO GIRL washed pe Plant valve studied ment with Randy and Kelly caps replacing them with collection bags on the study animals before they began to feed The samples collected were had information generated by the four areas and try to analyze ways in which the regulatory process may be used or abused in development of a solar energy industry We expect to make policy recommendations based on these findings” LIVE MUSIC esophageal of the ground sample this chemically analyzed working with eland State University smaller fragmented firms” Petersen explains “Finally we will look at the locked my bike to an adjacent tree By avoiding one possible unarmed bandit I stepped into the trap of a score of' treacherous thief s the USU parking depart- the by making your reservations 11017 Many out of state students will want to leave and return about the same time u flOE Main Street Call us IE1OTEL or come in 1 16 N There is no charge for our service 753-444- 4 |