Show Watterson applies again Student Life Monday April 10 1978 Pag 3 Applications available for student regent Komg on Williams staff writer b? Kour available on Applications are floor of the UC for on students interested in being of Regents next year the Board According to Ken Carr USU the third president the Board the administoversees Regents affairs of rative ami curriculum schools of higher the nine state studenthody f edui ation The board controls the distribution of money to the state schools and therefore holds the higher education t arr said in Utah" Students interested in the posi-to- n should fill out an application including letters of recommendation and make an appointment Applications are to see ( arr accepted from students from any of the nine state sc hools Studenthod presidents from each institution meet and decide on three candidates to recomMatheson Almend to Uov though the governor is not obliregated to i hoose from those he is likely to commended stronglv consider the nominees of Presidents' the Studenthody to purse strings Coun il e must be are Utah residents ademic probation to Paul Watterson fust student mem ber on tin board everyone' from freshmen to dm toral candi but experience dates is elitjbh in student government us very Applicants students who and not on a According who was the helpful ' It full-tim- " take' awhile to learn what s It important understand the ?terminology used in budgetary processes academic concerns and policy setting Experience running our own business or working with real estate would also be helpful though not necessary" Watter-sosaid The student board member is appointed to serve for one year and may be appointed for an additional year if he is the most qualified candidate Watterson has for the position but his doc lsion to accept a possible to n is pending his acceptance at an medical school Other board members are apr pointed for terms by (mV Matheson Thev include bank presidents attorneys and church authorities who are paid minimally for their services on the board ' I ye learned a lot from these men" Watterson said ' They are men of honesty and integrity nd they 've been gracious to rue I've felt accepted " According to Watterson the student board member can weild a powerful mfluenc e I m Stirling now to feel effective and to know who to contact and the' right questions to ask Ihere are main matters that Iinif before the hoard that the student can s(eak to in a professional manner Bv being prepared and in attendam e at everv meeting a student i an be influential Watterson said Along with other tioard iiicm-ier- s the student representative receives a lengthv agenda ex plaining issues that will be covered in the next s meeting typically last two days and are held for the most part on a monthly basis The student board member is responsible for meeting with Inciden-meeting- presidents from the nine state schools understanding their concerns and then preparing pertinent questions and pro- posals for the board meeting A representative who did not keep in touch with studenthody presidents could become a real monster by recommending things to the board that do not the state student popurepresent lation” Watterson said Some of the assignments Watterson has been involved with are a tuition study to determine why students are leaving school and what financial difficulties they are having an examination of residency requirements state wide a survey of senior students regarding their university experience and the creation of a handbook to assist the next student representative in quickly learning the system and becoming a viable member of the board "Hie student representative is paid food and gas expenses and $25 for the two-da- y meetings Speaking engagements and work on special committees are also involved in the position Rolf the Robot still leornina W bJH Allred an object Information Services Ralf is “hard to his builders say He carries his own power supply (two kinds of batteries) and is self contained The "next generation" of Ralf will have an eye and he’ll be corner” Half the Robot is always behind the but that doesn’t diminish his makers affection for him nor his usefulness to them Students in Bill Fletcher’s electrical engineering 687 class designed and built Ralf over the past two quarters as a ' hands on experience in microprocessor usage ” Students did all the design work and most of the construction of the robot and they agree Ralf has been a good teaching aid They made him roomy so more sophisticated equipment can be added by students in sue c ceding c lasses He's behind the because made smarter "He’s at the kindergarten stage now” Fletcher said "He speaks a language” Fletcher boasted "He issues gibberish’’ one of the students corrected Using donated and scrounged materials and with help from the Space Science Lab’s machine shop the students took on the task of designing and building the robot "with minimum guidance” Fletcher noted They used a number of facets of his front wheel is borrowed from their engineering training Methe billiard table — an used chanical engineering training as a ball bearing-lik- e wheel to enabled them to make the design make Ralf capable of pivoting stable Every member of the withmg his own radius class wrote a program to make quipped with the pivoting Ralf perform varied tasks The capabilitv and a sonar beam to programs stored in tiny silicon tell him when he’s approaching chips tell the robot what to do 1 Working out the program was one of the major reasons for doing the project’ Microprocessor centered system design is the fastest moving thrust of the day in electronics and students need not only the theory but the practice of working with these devices Fletcher said Ron Thurgood head of the Electrical Engineering Department at USU argues that no other discipline is changing so rapidly as electrical engineering and that creates problems for teaching students "When I was in school in 1966 I think I studied from the first textbook that considered transistors Now you put 25000 transistors on a silicon chip an eighth of an inch square The basics stay at the same but the applications and the state of the art are moving rapidly We need more equipment to teach our students microprocessing but it is expensive and it gets out of date in a few years” he explains mmD urns uC© for the ASUSU Final Elections! 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