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Show CHINESE ARTIST COMES TO STAY, ENJOY THE SIGHTS OF CEDAR, BEYOND. a background of Chinas culture , and a love for Leonardo DaVincis work with Rather than read the same Yu Ji brings magazine again, consider the adventures in Cedar City. The area offers a host of outdoor and indoor recreation. SEE PAGE 15. him in hopes of enriching SUSCs art students. SEE PAGE 17. 84TH YEAR; NUMBER 2 SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE CEDAR CITY, UTAH THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1989 SUSC students wont join U of U walkoutLower Friday 2 to 4 p.m. on Rally in support of increases in faculty salaries is scheduled for Friday froim BY RACHEL TALBOT Despite University of Utah student plans to stage a walkout from classes Friday in protest of low teacher salaries, SUSC student officers have rejected the idea. Molonai Hola, president of the Associated Students of the University of Utah, has called upon U students to boycott classes Friday in order to support their professors need for better salaries. Hola also called upon student body presidents at the states other eight institutions to join in the walkout. However, ASSUSC President Jan Shelton said, I wanted to walk. But, I wasnt fully aware of all the repercussions. We are not walking with the University of Utah this weekend. However, on Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. SUSC students can participate in a rally on the Lower Quad which will include petition signing and speakers in behalf of Utahs faculty. The first reason Shelton declined to support the walk, she said, is that she believes SUSC students can better support the faculty by being in class Friday. The problem, she said, is the faculty is not walking on Friday. If the faculty go, we go, too, she said. Shelton names the second reason as really lousy timing. School has just started. We really do not have time to get our student body together, she said. Im not wimping out, Im just saying that there is a better time, said Shelton. Shelton supports the Utah Student Association w'hich represents all of Utahs higher education students through their student body presidents having a statewide walkout in January. I strongly believe that walking out draws attention, has the capacity to prove she said. A statewide students are concerned ed that Utahs 125,000 higher about funding. Teacher salaries and morale are first priority, said Quad I want the faculty to know that were behind and them not in front of them, pulling, she said. I would hope that in January that that money be spent wisely and not sent back to the taxpayers, she Shelton. said. In the meantime, Shelton advises SUSCs student body to voice its collective opinion on the walkout by channeling their input through the ASSUSC Executive Council and ASSUSC Senate to the colleges administration. Shelton promises to support student concensus. "If they dont care, she said, then I dont care, either. In addition to Fridays rally, Jan. 22-2- 6 has been named Statewide Letter Week by the Utah Student Association. All students are invited to write to the Legislature and voice their concern in behalf of higher educations faculty. Shelton encourages all students to (CONTINUED ON PAGE 11) |