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Show a: f g C)CI t&y ' D 3 wcr' a&mg TOP POP GROUP TO APPEAR HERE. SCHOOL COLORS ARE CHANGED. Air Supply has been scheduled to perform in SLJSCs War Memorial Fieldhouse on October 3. Tickets are on sale Out with the old, in with the and royal blue. white scarlet, The Institutional Council makes the change official. SEE PAGE 31. SEE PAGE 3. no-w- . THE STUDENT NEWS AND VIEWS OF SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE H witii., ,1 i' r ? " M 7 Q&A: President Gerald R. Sherratt Gerald R. Sherratt, an alumnus of the college, became its chief executive in January, 1982. He accepted a number of charges from the State Board of Regents and here he talks about some of those responsibilities along with other concerns of the institution. Q: It is our understanding that SUSC is expected to grow to an enrollment of 4,000 students in the future. How long do you think it will take to grow to that size ? A: It depends, of course, on whether or not the state provides the additional funding to add faculty and staff. If that funding is forthcoming, we could perhaps be at the 4,000 student threshold within four to five years. If the additional funding is not provided, SUSCs enrollment will remain at our current level. The college registered a 13 percent enrollment increase last year and another increase will be posted this year. But the state failed to provide for the funding increases to accompany the new students and the college cannot continue to sustain enrollment increases without a corresponding increase in appropriations . to be placed on the number of incoming students because of SUSCs rapid growth ? Q: Will limits have A: If the state does not increase the colleges funding appropriations, we will be forced to impose an enrollment limit next year. It should be noted that SUSCs added enrollments these last two years amount to more than half the size of the College of Eastern Utah. often mentioned benefit of SUSC is the smaller size of classes and the relationship available between the professor and student. Will this benefit be able to continue? Q: An A: I believe so. For one thing, SUSC has no classroom facilities that will accommodate more than 100 students, so this college will never have the extremely large classes that the other four-- (continued on page 12) Curry Ancar (40) runs through a hole provided by the SUSC offensive line. Ancar gained See page 37 for the story. 20 carries as the T Birds bested New Mexico Highlands, 25--- 9,7 yards on 3. Cutbacks threatening faculty by Stewart Smith Southern Utah State College once again faces a harsh future in the world of slashed budgets and rapid growth. The severity of the problem continues to plague the school and concerns SUSC President Gerald Sherratt. We face a certain cutback in our budget this year before we even start the academic year, Sherratt told the colleges Institutional Council. The budget cutbacks mean a number of things for faculty and staff, as well as the students themselves. This will be the fourth year out of the past five where we have experienced severe cuts. The states education can ill afford quality and that of our own institution such persistent cuts and still expect to sustain quality, Sherratt explained. The budget cuts mean that many future and current SUSC students may be denied the possibility of a higher quality education. Without a committment to fund education at a quality level the state faces a critical point where students are turned away. They wont have the opportunity to go to college; they wont get in because we wont have space for them. We wont have adequate books in the library. We wont have current equipment. Sherratt said. SUSC, however, is not the only school in the state with the problem, and yet, as presidential assistant Mike Richards explained, Ours is of a much greater magnitude. The most critical of all the problems is the one that the faculty and staff face. 42 Last year SUSC lost 10 percent of its personnel people. According to Richards the attrition is due largely to the inadequate salaries, the lowest of all state-ru- n schools. Unable to compete with the larger salaries being offered them, faculty and staff are being lured away by instituitions with more money. It is horrendous, Sarah Solberg said in describing che issue. Solberg is only one of the many teachers cn campus that feel the magnitude of the problem. Solberg (continued on page 28) |