Show Utah State University Vol 73 No 94 New Housing plans include quiet floors A choice of meal plans a quiet floor for junior senior and graduate women brighter furnishings in some rooms new carpet in others and upgraded services at the trailer courts are all part of the fall look in housing at USU According to William Skidmore housing director the meal changes will allow students living in the dormitories to sign up for or either a weekly of The addition the plan is designed espeplan cially for students who go home on weekends he explained The housing director said keeping the facilities filled is not too much of a challenge with the exception of the West High Rise Residence Hall for women It’s in this building on the seventh floor that the speical floor for the upperclass students is being readied “The double rooms are being changed into private rooms with the second bed being removed and a comfortable chair lamp and lamp table being added The floor is to be strictly a quiet floor and will cost $60 more than a double room” Skidmore stated “The floor will accommodate 28 residents The sixth floor is also being designated as a quiet floor but for students who still want a roommate” he added The housing director feels it is a woman’s nesting instinct to do her own cooking which makes the high rise housing less desired by the students Currently the apartment complexes for the women have all been reserved for the fall with about 100 students on the waiting 20-me- al 15-me- al al list “Reservations for both men and women for housing on campus is about normal to date There is more demand for single rooms each year as students seem to want more privacy” Skidmore stated Monday July 26 1976 Logan Utah Education needs protection He said Richards Hall which was originally designed with four bedroom suites for eight students was being converted in some instances for six or even four students “The units are all filled with four-me- n on the waiting list while there are still vacancies in the six and eight-me- n units” Skidmore reported The East High Rise for men is much the same--th- e single rooms are all filled and the doubles still 32 have vacancies The Triads and Van Noy for married students always have almost 100 percent occupancy Skidmore said there were about 150 families on the waiting list for these facilities And the trailer court spaces have all been reserved for this coming fall with seven on a waiting list “Last year we added 11 new spaces which now makes a total of 153 places We’re slowly upgrading the facilities to service 200 amp fuses rather than just 30 amp fuses And our new trailer spaces are bigger to accommodate the larger trailers they’re building today” Skidmore said During the summer housing officials find themselves faced with different problems than during the school year “We have to operate more like a hotel and that means maid service” Skidmore noted The university provides hous- ing to many different groups each Boy’s State workshop participants and youth groups The summer occupancy is necessary to meet bond payments on the campus housing facilities “By the time summer ends our staff is thrilled to see the fall students return But then by the end of the regular school year the summer change also looks good” he concluded summer-cheerlead- ers Federal Legislation impact stressed by BYU': “Our tax dollar is buying too much government and we ought to hold out for less” the president of Brigham Young University told a nationwide gathering of graduate school deans last week Speaking at the closing session of the 9th Annual Summer Workshop of the Council of Graduate Schools of the United States held at USU President Dallin H Oaks of BYU charged that higher education is well on its way to becoming a regulated industry because “along with federal financing we have accepted federal controls” No educational defense “Today there are no national commissions or national educational organizations speaking out for the freedom of higher education and relatively few making the case for diversity” Oaks said “On more and more important questions the policy-makin- g authority is being claimed and exercised by remote government rule-maker- s” Dean Eastman Hatch of the School of Graduate Studies at USU chairman of the program committee for the workshop responded to Oaks’ claim that elected representatives have given up control to the “fourth branch” of “we need to worry about issues where we don’t have academic freedom because of the things discussed today” And Dean SD Shirley Spragg of the University of Rochester noted that many schools don’t resist the another panelist control because of the importance of the federal funding they receive Enough is enough as they are about interferences with newspapers television radio or any other delivery mechanism” he said universities More sensitivity “Government walks on eggs when it makes any kind of regulation controlling newspapers radio or television I contend that the government should be at least as sensitive about any rules that affect the internal “It’s a little hard to shoot Santa Claus” he suggested but added that “more of us are going to have to throw up our hands and say ‘That’s enough!’” Referring to constitutional guarantees of freedoms Oaks argued that “the most important kinds of communications protected by the freedoms of speech and press are communications that assume or assert a particu- lar value” “One of the most important operations of schools colleges and universities because those institutions-alo- ng the with the family and the church-a- re institutions in our society that develop and communicate the values that give force and meaning to all of the communications otherwise protected by the First Amendment” he concluded Learning and truth priorities reasons for guaranteeing free speech and press is to protect the right to advocate particular values” he said and added that the sources of values--th- e family as essten-ia- l church and school-a- re for protection as the delivery systems used to communicate them-su- ch as the news media Oaks also asked that higher education should have no priority ahead of the search for truth and the perfection of learnirfg-anurged that individual universities join hands to protect their own position and to represent the educational interests of higher education Institutions protected Legislation impact Thus the First Amendment must protect the family church and school from government interference or the protection of freedom of speech and press will be superficial and insufficient Tie contended “Government authorities need to be just as careful about regu- The discussion of the impact of federal legislation on graduate education concluded a week-lon- g meeting of deans of graduate schools from public and private schools across the country under auspices of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States headquartered in Washington d government-bureaucra- tic officials-b- y pointing out that Congess can’t supervise every research project so it must turn some things over to competent regulators Issue awareness But Hatch responding in a discussion period agreed that lating schools colleges and DC Fourth year for Festival starts Friday The Festival of the American West is about to open it s fourth consecutive with more unlimited promises for the future than ever before according to Gerald Sherratt Festival of the American West director This year more than four hundred people are invovled in the multifacet program with the majority of the cast in the “Odyssey being from the Cache Valley area Also for the first time the frontier street will be completed and most of the capital costs for the festival f1 such as concession stands projection screens and fairs entrance will be taken care of by contributions Peter Breck star of Big Valley and several other westerns will appear in the program and Robert Redford will attend the pageant While here Redford is expected to speak on the heritage and natuil beauty of the West 11 ? Another unique feature of the Festival will be the display ot rare L I string instruments and workshop conducted by the members of the J Deseret String Band July 1 and August 7 The group specializes i i I: F Ireland from in settlers st West : the to by n h early American music brought “ h i' I South and j f fi I ' ' Scotland and England as well as Appalachia the Northeast and fh- - ? give Members of the group will be on hand to answer questions n 7 instructions during the fair Even the Air Force Band will get into the act as they lead “eoia West Parade at 10 am July 31 on Main street of Logan The 40 piece band will be traveling from Luke Air Force Base Arizona The parade will also include a “museum on wheels” featuring antique amma drawn vehicles such as stagecoaches freight wagons water wagons and many more r T wi The USU Alumni will also sponsor a Family Camp August 5 coninclude recreational activities during the day and cultural presentaFrontier Street is just one of the 1976 features for the Festival of the American West It tions at night The symposia side of the camp will include topics or sists of 13 shops decorated like the 1890 period and is located by the Spectrum folklore of the west its settlement and people ml ’ H 30-3- If jqHt fW 2-- wcr1 £ vy & "fo AY rrTTt m au4 |