Show Utah State University Logan Utah Monday May 17 1976 Vol 73 No 83 Democratic trail Maryland primary decisive The California coming up June by Dave Klngham 8 is and Brown primary Editor’s note: This is the second should do well there Smith said disturbing incipart of a series on this year’s sec-- 1 In this dences elections involving Carter’s statepresidential ments have been surfacing tion Malcomb Smith Merril professor of politic&l science and recently A former speech writer expert on the presidency dis- of Carter’s has accused him of cusses the ""atic candi- lying about his stand on legislation protecting the health of dates miners he said An aritcle by Peter Brill entitlWhether any other Democratic ed “The Pathetic Lies of Jimmy can catch candidates Jimmy has appeared in Harpers of Carter” results on the Carter depends this the Maryland primary magazine “I have no way of judging the month Malcom Smith said Frivalidity of these charges perday At this point it looks like Carter haps he can answer them” Smith will be difficult to catch but it’s said “But all presidents lie at not impossible Smith said con- one time or another” tinuing his anaylsis of the ‘76 Church and Brown elections is Brown show “The polls Jerry “My favorite candidate is Sendoing well in Maryland and a Frank Church and a ticket of ator combined victory for him there in and Brown would be Church narrow with Church’s victory down excellent” Carter could slow Nebraska Church has a great deal of and lead to an upset in Oregon” he said experience in the Senate and has Photo by McCune Castleton Utah Senator Jake Garn says the radical environmental types get all the attention while peoplesuch as Governor Rampton receive little when discussing Kaiparowits served on several important committees and special committees he said “Church represents a well balanced approach to government on economic and foreign policy and advocates both a strong president and a strong Congress” he said Brown is young a vigorous and tied to no specific interest or politics Smith said “He’s the most independent and innovative governor we’ve had in California in years” is Smith said he felt Chruch and Brown entered the race late because they saw so many other candiates eliminated they wanted to try to counter Carter “I do see some unfairness in the face that they haven’t had the long campaign trail and been subjected to as much scrutiny as the other candidates have” he said (Continued on page 3) Garn blasts environmentalists' interference by Kent Lauer Managing Editor There should be some priorities for the people who live there instead of someone in New York Garn said Bryce Canyon i Senator Jake Garn refering to the Kaiparowits power project said Friday he is telling tired of outside the people of Utah what to do Garn speaking at the annual Intermountain Consumer Power Associatin Conference said the environmental radical types get all tfye attention Garn blasted CBS’s television program 60 Minutes and the attention it gave to actor Robert Redford “60 Mintues was distorted andi d in their presentation of Kaiparowits” Garn said “Whyi should Robert Redford get most of the time and the Governor of the state only a few minutes?” R-Ut- ah do-good- one-side- Garn accused the program of making it look like the project was being built in the middle of Bryce Canyon Robert Redford does not have to face the people in the next election Garn said “I have to represent the people that elected me” “If they do not like the job I’m doing they can answer me in the next election” The freshman senator said there is evidence of power plants which are clean “The majority of the people who have voiced their opposition to the project haven’t even visited the site” he said “About 85 percent of the people who live there want the project They shouldn’t be told what to do” Not a dirty Polluter Garn said he was not a dirty polluter but there needs to be some common sense and balance “I do not believe in absolutes” he said “It’s not just black and white” Society has gone from not caring about its damage to the environment to the other extreme of trying to preserve a fairyland he said standards Environmental but the relaxed should not be standthe timetable for applying but be relaxed ards should not “What does the finance committee have to do with energy?” he asked Garn called for a total revision of the committee system Senor-it- y is preventing the change he said When asked is the change will come about Garn said he is ever ship optimistic “After the 76 elections hopeCritical of Committee System fully the senators elected in 1968 “I am a critical opponent of the will not be too used to the system committee structure” he said to change” he said Garn said the energy shortage “It’s 30 years old and there have been a lot of changes in 30 years will reach crisis proportions A tremendous amount of time unless Congress has the courage and effort has been lost with the to face the questions committee system” Garn said energy bills are a Congress compounded Crisis bill The energy good example 8 was sent to a between Congress has compounded the said he committees standing (Continued on page 15) the timetable for applying the standards shoud be he said The time tables Congress have set up are' unrealistic the senator said Garn also sharply criticized the committee system in Congress when asked by Student Life about Congress’s lack of leader- 15-1- Parking fees may rise by Tim Gurrister Students and faculty might have to shell out more money for their parking decals next fall The State Board of Regents has called for all university and college parking in the state to be Chairman of the Parking Policy Committee and Vice President for Student Affairs Claude Burtenshaw said USU has until July 1 of this year to comply Whether or not parking fees will go up depends on how the regents react to an appeal from and the implementing of a self-supporti- USU President Glen Taggart He asked that the university be exempted from the state policy At this time the regents have a letter several pages long from President Taggart listing reasons why USU deserves a waiver from the state policy “There is no way to get around it” Hyrum Hall university financial analyst said “Personally I would not like to see a rate increase” Hall has completed a study of the costs of running USU parking ’ self-support- ed system “There have been at least three studies of parking in the last five years one by an outside agency” Hall said The cost of maintaining the USU lots is projected at $147000 for the coming fiscal year Hall said the university did not have a definite plan for immediate use if the waiver is denied by the regents “What we have are alternative plans and objectives” he s'aid “We want a rate structure that is as inexpensive as possible a plan that would reflect fair rates for service received” Hall said he had several alternative plans to make the lots but did not wish to Iphoto by Robert Welkie speculate on which one would be Hyrum Hall university financial analyst says there is no way used to get around a parking fee increase m (Continued on page 2) self-supporti- |