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Show i fKW&Yf At. r ixMwnn'ijB" "WP Si mu I a mil n. i -- ?y- i.iiwi MIIIU " j inM; MMr j, COTTS SEES A NEW SIDE OF THE USSR. WINTERS TRYOUTS SET FOR TONIGHT. In a recent visit to the Soviet Union, Professor James Cotts brought back some insights of Russia that you wont often see on the evening news and found out that Russians arc really human. Auditions will be held tonight and tomorrow evening in the theatre building for the two drama productions for winter quarter: Crimes of the Heart and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeares SEE PAGE 6. SEE PAGE 2. undeffo UTAH THE STUDENT NEWS AND VIEWS OF SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE CEDAR CITY, College urges quarter system BY KRIS JOHNSON SUSC has recommended that the school remain on the quarter-base- d system, says Paul Burgoyne, the colleges semesterquartcr committee chairman. Burgoyne and his committee submitted a final repot t of the semester and quarter academic calendar systems to the Utah State Board of Regents. It was submitted Dec. 15 for thorough examination after receiving the unanimous approval of the Deans Council, Faculty Senate, and the Institutional Council. The scmesterquarter committee, under the direction of Provost Terry D. Alger, has been studying the issue since June 1985, when the regents instructed the presidents of all nine of the states institutions of high education to study the consequences of changing from the quarter system to the semester system. The Board of Regents will consider SUSCs final report along with the other reports submitted by Utahs remaining eight institutions of high education still on the quarter system. The regents will then decide if Utahs system will be changed from a quarter-basesystem to a trimester system with two regular semesters and a summer semester. d The SUSC faculty is evenly divided on the question and the student body in favor of remaining with the present quarter system. Burgoyne said the is committee has studied this topic carefully and the evidence in favor of both systems seems to be based more on opinions and feelings than on provable facts. According to the final report, rhiee of the five committee members voted that the overall recommendation should be to stay on the present system since there was no overwhelming support for a change, and a change merely for the sake of change was not in order. The report also noted that the minority of the committee members in favor of the semester system felt that a recommendation to switch over to the semester system was as valid as remaining with the quarter system. Due to the facultys vote being split and being that the evidence gathered on both systems was not convincing on either side, thus making the decision the more difficult to conclude. Moreover, the report indicated that the greatest expense of change would be incurred by the faculty since every course would require modification. Three-quarte- r classes would have to be classes. into merged General Education requirements, which were recently revised, would have to be looked at again. It will be quite some time before the regents makes their final decision, says Alger. If the decision to change were made soon, SUSC would possibly be .school year on ready to start the the semester system. 88-8- 9 Student Center bond sales signal April groundbreaking Site work on the new student center could begin as soon as late April, according to SUSCs Vice President for College Relations Michael D. Richards. $2.5 million in industrial bonds were sold by Dec. 31, 1985. The sale was handled by the Boyer Company of Salt Lake City. In November, the Cedar City Council status for gave the project the bond sale. The inducement period would have elapsed if enough bonds werent sold in 1985, according to Richards. The building will take place on the present site of the War Memorial Fieldhouse. It will house the student government offices, SUSC Food Service kicthen and dining areas, lounges, and bookstore. The company which designed the Centrum, FFK&.R, will also design the new student center. Richards said that the design and development phase would take about 120 days and then the school will Bid out the construction phase. Rene Ramsey scores two on Chico State in the Color Country Tourney held at SUSC over the holidays. The SUSC women trounced the in the opener, then took the championship California visitors game as well. See story on page 7. 69-5- 5 McKibben resigns housing post BY TYLER JENSEN The director of SUSCs Resident Living has resigned. Steve McKibben cited personal reasons for leaving the post but refused further comment. McKibben was formerly with the financial aid office and holds a Ph. D. in education. He will now be pursuing personal interests, possibly in real estate. McKibben, however, declined further specification. Associate Vice President for Student Services Betty Kingsford, McKibbens immediate supervisor, was able to confirm McKibbens resignation but declined further comment. It had been reported that among many other problems, SUSCs office of resident living has been in financial trouble due to declining occupancy and that McKibben was under increasing pressure from the administration to bring costs into line with revenues. McKibben would not confirm that this pressure led to his resignation, however. |
