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Show HUNDERBIRD 84TH YEAR; NUMBER 26 CEDAR CITY, UTAH SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1990 Broadway star to visit here One of Americas great theatrical legends will share highlights of her illustrious career Thursday. Actress Carol Channing will address the Convocation audience and members of the 11 Rocky Mountain Theatre Association at a.m. in the Centrum. The combined Convocation program and Festivention 90 keynote address is open to the public. Channing leaped to stardom 40 years ago with her performance of Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend m the Broadway show, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Since then she made theatrical history with the roles of Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly1, which she performed over 3,000 times, and Lorelei Lee, which she played for more than 2,000 performances. Superlatives are Ms Channmgs trademark, said Festivention spokesman Fred Adams. With her breezy hair, wide eyes, broad smile and breathy voice, shes everyones favorite blonde, shes immortalized in Hirschfeld cartoons, and shes showered with reviews calling her everything from irrepressible, irreplaceable and irresistible to merely sensational. Festivention 90 which is expected to draw between 800 and 1,000 RMTA members is cohosting Channings SUSC appearance. The program is being held in the Centrum to accommodate the combined audience, Convocation Coordinator Lana Johnson said. Ms. Channing will share highlights of her career, liberally spiced with theatre anecdotes from her vast association of theatre personalities, Adams said. In essence, she will be giving us theatrical insights into the life of a Broadway star. Channing has received countless honors for her achievements in theatre, records, motion pictures, concert halls and television, including Tony Awards and Tony Award nominations for every Broadway show in which she has appeared. , 8 v v m 4 WWi fftiHfiHfr r is Ceci Williams, a senior broadcast major from West Valley, and Paul Speirs, a junior public relations major from Clearfield, send to the Legislature voicing joined students at the ASSUSC dance Friday night in writing letters and signing petitions to students concerns about the change to university Report lists SUSU pros and cons With much argument concerning SUSC and Weber States request to change to university status, the Office of the Commissioner for the Utah State Board of Regents has prepared an informational report stating the pros and cons of the issue. The report, along with some questions probing the that the nomenclature change would have on state policy, has been sent to student body presidents at d all higher education institutions in an effort to solicit statewide sentiment. The response from this poll will be taken into consideration by Commissioner Wm. Rolfe Kerr who is to report his formal stand on the issue Jan. 26 as a preface to the Regent vote According to the report, arguments concerning the change have focused on issues including state economics and academic drift. Regents have worried that the nomenclature change will lead to increased funding requests by SUSC and effect state-owne- WSC Carol Channing til Director of Higher Education in Virginia Gordon K. Davies said when the Virginia colleges changed to universities, Our funding guidelines did not advantage them as universities so the change hasnt cost us more money. They (the universities) havent added much sponsored research and continue to be primarily teaching institutions. Rodney H. Brady, president of Bonneville International Corporation, and former president of Weber State, added, The argument that the designation of an institution as a university rather than a college increases its costs and broadens its programs is simply not valid, particularly in context of the Utah Systems of Education. The Board of Regents, in cooperation with the Legislature, determines the budgets, appropriations and roles of the institutions, said Brady. Some institution presidents have argued otherwise. Comparisons will be claimed with universities rather than colleges, justifying higher salaries for faculty, said one president. The inevitable result will be that added funds will be devoted to these two institutions as opposed to others. Not having enough funding m the state for more universities is another issue. H. Dean Propst, chancellor for Georgias Board of Regents, said, What I fear most about the creation of new universities is the possible result of spreading funding resources so thinly across the state that we face the prospect of mediocrity at all levels. Also fearing a drop in educanon quality is former University of Utah President David P. Gardner. It has always been my view that Utahs higher education (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) |
