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Show loo;:i::g to nouno: mi CATTLE li;:es ACE DBA AS TWO KEVJ COLUnniSTS CLASH Cynthia Kirkham, a SOU FOOT CALL PREVIEW After last years ugly season, the Thunderbircls are focused on returning to the form that won . them national Division rushing titles in 1999 and 2000. -S- PORTS, PAGE 13 self-describe- 2-- 9 d discusses matters of shopping, while her rival and nemesis, Jeremiah Allen, tries to tame his opinionated counterpart. femi-Nazi- , back-to-scho- OPINION, PAGE 13 A Y p Um.r.m ' 4 6 , ' In-sta- te tuition? Not now By KELSEY BLACKWEt-- ff UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Students who paid nonresident tuition last year but planned for in state status this fall are returning to campus, only to learn mat new residency requirements imposed by the Utah Legislature will require rates diem to pay again diis year. Its screwing me over, said Krisd Sykes, a junior biology major from Winlock, Wash. I had not planned on paying tuidon. By TYLER JOHNSON another blow to its budget in the second cut in a year, which eliminated six additional staff members, adjusted health care benefits for all remaining employees and converted three other money. positions from state to SUU suffered July, Cuts came because of a difficult financial year for Utah. In a years time the state has been forced to shave $400 million from its budget. The state cut higher e Like other non-resided education funding during its planned session in Because of January. unexpected turns in the economy, the legislature non-reside- e we wish we had (to help students financially). The policy is affecting more than just individual students; university officials anticipate decreased enrollment this fall. t students who cannot get financial aid are Non-residen- applying elsewhere or simply not applying at all. See TUITION, Page 3 SUU ELIZABETH MILLER UNIVERSITY JOURNAL UDOT workers dig trenches for drainage pipes at the new interchange under construction at 300 West and is and 200 Scuth streets. The project, which will cost nearly $400,000, began in scheduled to conclude Oct. 11. It involved demolition of the former SUU Hosting Center. mid-Augu- st innup Hosting Center gives way to safer intersection By DAVID PAYSTRUP u UNIVERSITY JOURNAL The construction equipment, barricades and rubble at the corner of 300 West and 200 South may prove a temporary inconvenience for SUU students, but that dose of aggravation will provide access to a safer roadway by Oct. 1 1 The universitys Hosting Center a former institutional residence that sat on the southwest comer of the intersection for some 55 years has been demolished and the land signed over to Cedar City as a right of way that will make possible the realignment of 200 South with a rn DAVID PAYSTRUP UNIVERSITY JOURNAL . gradual curve between 300 West and Dewey Avenue. The realignment allows for the addition of a traffic signal at the intersection similar to the signal of Center Street and 300 West. Dean ODriscoll, assistant to the president for university relations, said die loss of the facility was the universitys donation to help improve the dangerous intersection. Previously, the manner in which traffic crossed 300 West forced both eastbound and westbound vehicles to make a right turn and then a left turn across oncoming traffic. It is an improvement that Cedar City has considered for decades. O Driscoll recalls people asking for a realignment of the street when he attended SUU in the early 1980s. SUU loses the ground where the center stood, but campus property will gain area on the northwest corner of the corrected roadway. See HOSTING, Page 3 comes to citys aid The university shut down its irrigation system last week after a culinary water well malfunctioned when the bearings failed By DEBORAH PERRY and ELIZABETH MILLER UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Cedar City asked SUU to cease watering the grounds Aug. 14 because the bearings for the city well No. 6 burned and failed on Aug. 12, said Terry Smith, Cedar City water superintendent. The watering of SUU grounds was shut down so residems oTlri UNIVERSITY JOURNAL e students, Sykes was blind-sideby the new policy, which extends the amount of time a must spend in Utah from a year to the time it takes to complete 60 credit hours. For most students, that essentially doubles the period tuition diat diey pay It sucks that you have to have 60 credit hours, said Sykes, who transferred to SUU from Washington State. By that time, I'll have more then enough credits to graduate. Some students who reapplied for Fall 2002 semester last spring hoped to fall under a grandfather clause that would have exempted them from the new policy. We were hoping (the would slowly Legislature) phase it in," President Steven D. Bennion said. They were receptive until they found out about the second wave of budget cuts, and unfortunately we don't have the wiggle room 0 would have drinking and bathing water for the morning of Aug. 15. SUU did not water until Monday, Smith said. Volunteer water restrictions for Cedar City residents were scheduled to be lifted Tuesday. Kit Wareham, city engineer, said SUUs annual water use is approximately 102 million gallons; that is about 5 percent of the citys total use. This is not the first time well No. 6 has been shut down. Lightning hit the well on July 25, Smith said. We took the motor off and motor on the put the stand-bwell on July 26," Smith said y He said the motors used for the water wells have a food-grad- Countdown u a SUU by the LI numbers U until Labor Day Weekend Student Association w w national research that the opportunity to work oil See WELL, Page 6 w Rim eduhiuisa 2 W tL OH LiJO nq ODriscoll We know from said. Page 6 e DAYS education, invests S200X in plan to save money, water. SUU drip to lubricate the motors. Smith said it drips at sLx drops per minute. He said a city worker noticed on July 25 that the oil was out. It was refilled and when the city employee left, everything was fine. Weve been monitoring it and haven't had any problems, he said However, problems started on Aug. 12. A worker refilled the oil drip and Smith said they thought it would be fine. The city waited a day, but Smith said they felt it wouldn t be wise to continue to was forced to meet in five additional special sessions. Lligher education was cut again during one of the five sessions. In the special session, each state university lost slightly more than half of 1 percent of its budget in the second round of cuts. That amounts to $148,000 taken out of SUUs budget for a total loss of $ 1 .7 million this fiscal year. It was tough; it really was, said Rep. Bud 72. It hurt everybody. We Bowman, held education more harmless. There were less cuts to education than a lot of things. Dean O'Driscoll, assistant to the president for university relations, said the original plan was to cut 9 percent from the budget of every university in tire state. Gov. Mike Leavitt refused to let that happen. We would have been talking about dozens of positions eliminated, O'Driscoll said. It would have been bloody. We feel fortunate that it was only $148,000. We were expecting much worse. Bowman said the reason for the financial crunch came largely as a result of the Sept. 1 1 attacks, the current economic status of the nation, and the drought in southern Utah. To help offset the pinch for students, the university allocated $250,000 to add 100 student jobs on campus. The money was divided among the academic and student services departments based on their needs. The interest rates endowments are way down and one way to combat the loss of scholarship dollars is to offer students a chance to work for their ELIZABETH MILLER UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Subcontractors Craig and Chet Perkins work to repair the No. 6 well that shut down SUUs irrigation system last week. is a key factor in retaining students and that Is something we are concentrating on as one of the universitys strategic goals. O'Driscoll said there will be some reductions in the number of scholarships offered, but the administration is hoping the new job positions will offset the reduction. Six staff members, whose names were not released, also lost their jobs in the budget readjustment. The cuts were spread around the university. This is a very hard route to take, O'Driscoll said. We lost jobs in the first round of cuts, but they were vacant at the time we eliminated the positions. We now have to look people in the eye and tell them they are going to be without a job and that is never easy. Twenty-onpositions have been removed e See BUDGET, Page 3 LJ The amount of money cut from the SUU budget for the 2002-0- 3 academic year. u-J Gallons of water SUU used to irrigate campus aWns and athletic fields last year. The approximate number of hens consumed by guests each evening at the USFs Royal Feaste. r Index Accent Classified Movie Review News Opinion Sports Back Page 21 22 3-- 11 13 17 |