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Show The Thutulcrbird NeSPW'S' Monday December 2, 1985 Page 3 Sos-S? Monumental achievement Nearly 100 years ago, Iron County residents braved winter storms to bring lumber needed to build a college down from the mountains. That marked the beginning of Southern Utah State College. A monument outside the new Centrum was recently installed to commemorate the event. The statue is the work of Utah sculptor Jerry Anderson. Raising money for the statue was a project of several groups, including the Iron County Historical Society, as well as the local chapters of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers and the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. At a later date a plaque with the names of the original seven families ivho contributed to the college wil be affixed to the statues base. Intrepreneur to visit SUSC William Weimer, one of the first intrepreneurs of a major international company, will address the SUSC Convocations audience Thursday at 1 1 a.m. in the Auditorium. Weimer, director of technical education at IBM, created the operation he now heads in the company. His staff functions as a separate business within the IBM corporation. An intrepreneur is the same as an entrepreneur, except the former uses innovative business approaches within an established company, rather than creating a new one. In his current position, Weimer is responsible for providing technical education and expertise to manufacturing and product development personnel at seven domestic and five non-U- . S. IBM plantlaboratory facilities. Weimer joined IBM in 1956 after receiving a degree in physics from Purdue University. Before creating his present position within IBM, Weimer held other positions with the company in systems engineering, marketing management, programming management as well as product development management. His Convocation, presentation is free to the public. During his visit on the SUSC campus, Weimer will also speak with students at a PBL club meeting Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in Business Building room 101. After his Thursday lecture, he will speak to Cedar City Chamber of Commerce members at their noon luncheon. He is also scheduled to hold a press conference Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Juniper Hall lounge. SUSC almost totally accessible BY MATT STOCKS The buildings on the SUSC campus are almost all accessible to handicapped students, officials say. The music building is the only one left on campus that isnt completely handicapped accessible, says Gordon Slack, physical plant director. Twelve years ago, a study was made of the accessibilty of the buildings on campus to the handicapped. Since then we have been asking for money from the state to make changes, said Slack. We spent a lot of money to make the college handicapped accessible. Over the past 10 years, $400,000 to $500,000 have been used to make alterations for handicapped students, said Slack. We have added elevators, weve done cement projects to make sidewalks more accessible and weve done all we can to make parking lots accessible, with special parking zones and ramps. Bathrooms have also been altered for the handicapped. There are those who might contend that housing is not completely accessible. Slack responds, "Housing is a separate entity from us. They make their own decisions and we back them up on alterations and repairs upon their request. We are one of the most handicapped-accessibl- e institutions in the state. Part of the reason is because were small. When weve got problems, theyre on a much smaller scale than, say the U of U. When we add on to the mus'c building, all the buddings on campus will be completely accessible. Even the Centrum will have complete facilities to accommodate the handicapped, Slack says. Festival building is still go (continued from page 1) Adams said, Perhaps. Sherratt, however, denied that any such conflict exists. Adams was also concerned that the committee has so far not talked to any member of the festival staff, but committee chairman Eugene Woolf said the committee is waiting until near the end of its evaluation process sometime in March to interview festival staff members. Sherratt responded to Adams concerns by saying the college has, in the past few years, created committees to evaluate most college departments and other entities. Every year, for example, we study one of our (academic schools,) Sherratt said. Well be having similar committees going this year on (the Division of) Continuing Education and the Library... Thats how you do the decision-makin- g process at colleges and universities. You get as broad an input as you possibly can. Sherratt said even the intercollegiate athletic program was studied before the college decided to move to the Western Football Conference and begin a transition to NCAA Division I status in all other major sports. The committee is strictly advisory, Sherratt said. He will review its recommendations when they are finalized, and if changes are to be made they will come from the presidents council. Adams and Woolf both call the festiva an entity of the college: not as stricti tied to the college as a department or school, for instance, but at the same time an integral part of the institution. seven-memb- For instance, the festival pays a small fee to the college in exchange for the use of the colleges accounting system. Moreover, several members of the college theatre department have their salaries paid in whole or in part by the festival. Even though he is upset the committee was created in the first place, Adams said he has faith in the committee members and does not doubt they will decide the festival is a major benefit to the college. I trust this committee implicitly, Adams said. Because I feel the festival does answer a need and provide a service to this campus. And I think theyll find that out. Every committee member knows the strengths and achievements of the festival, Woolf said! He added the committee is an objective group and has no ax to grind against the festival: Were not out to get the festival. Moreover, he said, while it may not be possible to completely eliminate all problems between the festival and the college such as the noise abatement policy during the summer which makes it difficult to hold other events on campus while plays are being produced in the outdoor theatre many problems can be minimized. The committee is far from making any decisions, Woolf said. Woolf said the committee was created in part because the functioning of the festival and its relationship to the college has become more complicated now that Cedar City has received money to build a new indoor theatre east of where the current festival theatre stands a theatre that will be used to expand the festivals run. |