Show gives their side of the com Five SCAR representatives (Student of Coalition Against Racism) and BSU (Black Student Union) expressed their concern about the article which appeared in Student Life October 15 which contained the criticisms of Nolan Johnsajid Bill Gentry on how funds TOcated to BSU were used to send one representative to the Student Coalition Against Racism Convention They said the statement given by Johnson did not represent all the executive council “In the Executive Council meeting there were a lot of points brought up that were not presented in the article” said Joseph Smith BSU president “Some officers were in favor of using the fund for the convention and some were against” Another representative said he knew of only two student-bod- y officers who were negative on the convention idea and two who were for it The rest were uncertain Thomas Bailey said he was process of setting up lectures forums and reports about the convention to inform the studentbody There will be a briefing meeting Wednesday in the at 2:30 in room 335 He said that the studentbody ought to be the judge of how well the funds were used All of the representatives suggested that next time Student Life be more thorough and get a complete story “Student Life was wrong in printing the story before they asked BSU’s opinion” said Thomas Bailey SCAR Convention representative They said the article was biased because it did not give a complete picture They said it gave the view that ASUSU knew more about how to use the money allocated to bring in cultural programs for black students than black students did Bailey will give a presentation today explaining what happened at the convention in Boston at 2:30 in UC 335 Exec Council urges reduction of ten dollar lost card fee The Executive council passed two resolutions and two bills including a resolution which recommends that the fee for the replacement of lost stolen or mutilated studentbody cards be instead of the present $10 fee at last week’s meeting Executive Vice President Doug Brady said the resolution is a solution to the problem at hand The university won’t be losing any funds but personally there are some fears he said The $3 fee has been eliminated but there is still the question of the $1 fee for receiving a receipt from the cashier’s office ASUSU President Nolan Johnson said “This is an area we can work on” Bill Gentry activities vice president said “There can be an administration solution to the problem but we have to be more $3 aggressive” At the present time the executive council is researching the problem attempting to come up with a more adequate solution than the dollar fee formed by federal James Lynn collaborator A bill forming a student health center advisory board consisting of the ASUSU president four 73 No 16 Bid non-votin- 16 Pages resolution encouraging the Publications Board to revise its bylaws to have the incoming Publications Board be nominated and approved before the selection A the editor and business manager was passed The newly of elected Publications Board will be advised by the outgoing board in its selection of the editor and business manager Vice Relations Student said Sanders Darrell President is of bill the the intent good but he doesn’t know how it’ll be in- corporated The feedback has been favorable on the resolution he said Bottle bill not the answer accordinq to Richardson by Jay Wamsley A bottling executive said not “Black hat” image on his business but emphasized that he felt the Oregon bottle bill was “not the answer” to environmental control Vice Richardson Lynn President of the regional PepsiCola Bottlers franchise quoted statistics that showed Oregon’s litter increased following implementation of the bottle bill Richardson was participating in a forum along with Senator Reed Bullen Utah State University Logan Utah October 29 1975 Vol them being Dean of the Assistant married President the Vice Students and for Students Affairs was passed The health center doctor will be g member of seated as a the board The board is responsible for making all policy and decisions managerial guidelines concerning the health center Members of the board are appointed by the executive vice president and approved by the council Currently three members of the board have been selected — Jody Reese Patty Bollinger and Fred Fox Brady is looking for a fourth member of one students and Paul McNutt the Environmental Chairman of Action Committee McNutt quoted study results that stated Oregon’s litter on highway surveys decreased following passing troversial bill “Facts depend the of on who con- takes have facts that the survey counterdict what Mr" McNutt says” Richardson said “The bill is trying to limit an industry that isn’t the main cause of the problem” Richardson said “Less than 20 percent of litter is cans and bottles The balance is paper and I what-have-yo- McNutt said he agreed only 20 percent of all litter is beverage containers but “that is a piece (Continued on page 3) held up Proposed parking lot postponed until further study by Susan Hodgson (ed note: This is the first in a series on the controversy over the need for an additional parking lot) two-pa- rt Action has been stopped on the proposed parking lot which would be built by the Spectrum directly south of the cemetary In last week’s Student Life article on the lot Campus Ar- chitect Wendell Morse said “Unless something happens to change our minds construction will start in three weeks” Something did happen to change at least one mind in the Campus Planning Office The contract for the lot was to have gone out for bid in Sunday s to a newspapers But in response Paul lot the letter protesting Salisbury director of campus the anplanning held up not be out will nouncement so it addressed forbid The letter was to President Glenn Taggart and a copy was sent to Salisbury It was signed by Dale Nelson HPER department head Dean of the College of Education Oral Ballam Marvin Fifield director of the Exceptional Child center and Edith Bowen Principal Jay ' Monson The letter protests the loss of a wide playground space 130 feet the and states that it would be in Best interest of the university students and the 250 plus children in the Edith Bowen School and the ECC to retain all availabe play space at our “They keep slicing away have playfield but we don’t in a enough as it is” said Nelson Tm Student Life interview we ye all to on to hang fighting do it I got It’s my job If don’t who will?” re-registrat- ion “doesn’t make sense” to take this area for He said it parking “I’ve never seen the ECC lot full and the lot northeast of the High Rise is never full either” he said “They say they want periphery parking why don’t they use what there is?” Nelson said that there is an expansion in activity programs with the addition of many women’s and club sports Yet the lot plan proposes to take away play space used by such programs and the PE classes “I object to the taking of play space from anywhere” said Nelson He pointed out that there are In the original plan there were to be seats and restrooms on the patron side of the Spectrum but no restrooms and only benches on the student side Student Protest Due to student protest the was floated to second “mini-bon- d the all seats way around provide and additional restrooms for the Spectrum A $17 “building fee’ is assesed in each students’ activity fee to pay for the UC Spectrum and stadium $250 of the total fee was pay off the mini-bon- d By the end of last year this short term bond was paid off But the $250 is still charged to the students Evan Stevenson assistant for business said that now the fee is going into the fund to pay off the original Spectrum-stadiubond He said this application of the money was agreed upon at the time the issue came up in 1971 The excess income generated by these monies is applied to to vice-preside- nt m I continued improvement of the two buildings The proposed parking lot is considered such an imprvements The 160 stall lot will probably be for faculty since 120 faculty stalls will be lost from central campus: 50 will be lost to the pedestrian plaza planned south of the UC (where western half of staff lot currently is) and 70 from the Institute where an addition be added for the one LDS is to J several multiple living units nearby and “these great num- bers of students need to have large space close by for different forms of play” Several administrators indicated that the real pressure for £ 4 the parking lot is coming from the athletic department which wants to provide convenient £ parking for patrons The proposed lot would give easy access to Spectrum patronsto who don’t like the uphill climb the building from the existing I parking lot below “Catering to athletics is okayexsaid Nelson “but not at the pense of all the students” The funds for building the lot are to come from income fees generated by “building of the which are assessed as part i full time $40 activity fee paid by f' to students This fee is collected built the pay off the bond which stadium and Spectrum Wendall Morse (L) campus architect said that "unless something changes our minds" conTwo bonds were sold in 1967 struction on a new parking lot proposed south of the cemetery would begin in three weeks and 1971 to pay for the buildings will be held up on the the first was sold for four million Campus Planner Paul Salisbury (R) however said thursday that bids dollars The second was bought job until further study after receiving a letter from four administrators photo by Allan Swainston for $500000 Fri and Thurs available packets |