Show Wrworrlf 4Afy!)w UTAH VOL 76 NO LOGAN 25 7 JQ7 PIQ6 9 Utah State University MONDAY NOVEMBER 27 1978 Review contracts housing rep warns by Jim Olsen pra lit e Bureau Thia la the last of a three part senes on landlord tenant relational Although they re slow in tommg tenant rights are being established throughout the countr) but few in l'tah Student tenants do have alternatives to turn to for help The off campus housing representative Todd Mi Kean is first the step in getting problems solved McKean aavs that lefore U he listen to a student s com plaint he asks d thev ve read the Acruttoroop said that he uses the small claims court as the last straw "If the landlord is in the wrong ' then I will suggest going to (Kd‘s note t rA mwiftW-tswm- -- K i r 5ir !-Vj I tW r - V i t'ontrac I Most of the students who call up and ask for help haven t read their contract ! tell them to read it and call me back” McKean said Most of them don t call Imk k Although McKean said there is lit I le he ran do in contra t disputes Me can get the two parlies together to sear if there is possible com If it appears that tha promise landlord is habitually at fault be will remove the apartments from the housing bat that his of bee keeps Jf he can't help he suggests that the student conlatl ASLnU Vies President Armond Acruttoroop He served as off campus housing representative for the past three years He now serves as the ombudsman as well as Kxecutive Vice & a 'H v i ft President Accuttoruop said that he will Ul Monday The threat proved to be a hoax but review the case and offer suggestions lu the students Among the suggestions are the and Bureau Better Business small claims court Tha Better Business Bureau is generally effective In following through with complaints filed with them The students would want to file complaints that are concerned detail of the threat Sergeant bomb in the Natural Resources with facilities parking acRichard Wright of the Logan City Building comodations poor business and the Police said "We haven t heard a cancelled were Classes was immediately thing about it” building For about an hour the police evacuated for most of the afternoon searched the building twice and found two or three suspicious A different operator received the second threat making it difficult to things but all of them checked out vue ascertain if the caller was the same Burtenshaw said Claude president of student affairs person who called in the bomb At the time the bomb was supthreat to the business budding posed to go off the police left the The last bomb threat was called However There ia nothing auspicious in building and waited in five years ago and that proved 12 00 came and went and nothing the granting of residency at USU to be a hoax too said Burtenshaw happened according to Evan Sorensen At around noon Tuesday a Both bomb threats cancelled assistant director of admissions and recorda second bomb threat was received in manv tests which were scheduled “Thera la no animosity toward which the caller said there was a before the Thanksgiving holiday UwwmH the buKinne building after a bomb threat MSRiddisraptioa of classes and teating for aeveral hour hidings evacuated threats cancel classes Bomb ®° Higgins A ptr of prank bomb threat ttfved by the central sw itchboard aued the evacuation of E the cries Business Building on Monday and Natural Resources Building on TuMdiv TV first call came at 10 Monday He had a young t'HfTP Ob a m deep voice and si a bomb in ousnesa building set to go off now and then hung Utah up” Sml said ity operator rotii incident describing Carolyn the 10 Smith of the was called after the business “ncenung bwlrin lT 00 Monday and he called tknet‘0 of all department Jchard called the chairmen they md'vldaully torraed' j1" derenf classes that lWLd 10 Jve Then after we to the football team streets of Logan asked if he could give any assistant employ Gappa While at NCllEMS developed an equity program for ryone was jCcorduig to the Campus °gan City Police were immediately after the call received However it wasn’t wju 0 minuLes later that the tnved on the scene Ap-the- y were occupied with a ojj pir 1 2 tWdiilfk n Affirmative Action director returns (NCHEMSI in Boulder Colo Dr Archie Savage who served Gappa s as acting director m absence will remain with the office staff as will Mardi Becker c£irryjust to make out” Smith e Hiiol escorted court he said Muring the protest of getting solved tenants are problems required to live up to their con trait They cant tie evicted without a five day notxe during whu h most of the problems ran tie solved taken to court or the student should move out IanliorU can t c hange the Us ks and keep the orr upanl out Likewise the landlord isn t free from counter suits made by the cm rupant to collet I for damages Since the laws regulating rights for tenants are few there is more advice than actual help Reviewing contracts tan help students from assuming loo tout h their about rights Also queatiomng the manager or Ian iliord atMMJt certain clauses might that might any problem develop ur miUjm lor spew J clause in the contra t When looking for a plate to live mall complexes and basement apartments are in the highest The contracts are demand generally Verbal and renters have little problem finding oneon to take over t he place When checking into an apart t it with the merit he sure to in manager if possible and report damages holes in the wall and other problems as soon as thev are found after mov ing m When chet king out there when the manager goes through it This ts one area that students ran protect their deposit If students as renters are on their toes then there will b few hassles with landlords during the year tU-a- r Residency vague Sorenson says the center's mission and project and studied faculty work productivity and development personnel particularly era management in a steady-statwhere the budget ”ln a situation is stable or dropping how do you ut programs manage employees-cfreeze salaries etc" was the question studied she explained She appreciated the exposure she received to federal agencies national higher educational institutions and the people they °ut-w- with the Better Business Dr Judith Gappa has returned to her post aa director of USU a Affirmative Action-Equa- l Op- portunity Office after an leave of absence Gappa has served the past year and a half as senior staff associate at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems broadened national “The experience mv understanding information of resource capabilities and the problems and positive aolutiona bring discussed across the nation The AAO director pointed out the four major areas her office would lie focusing on: Title equity for women: meeting the educational needs of the handicapped the switchover of enforcement of affirmative action regulations to the Department of I A (sir that may require some rewriting of goals and timetables and complaints Savage pointed out that period he wee during the directing the office 4VK) grievant were conducted interviews any student for any reason they would like to use” Sorensen said "The (1m isiona I make are moral and equitable to all those who are applying ” Sorensen said the statist it a used In the executive ooum il resolution calling for investigation of tha residency system sra mar curate and the recorda appear to supjiort his claim Tha unanimously passed resolution slates that only 14 percent of all applicant a last m bool year were granted residency But the record of appluanta for that time period shows that 72 percent ol all residency rpptu surma were granted Ai cording to those records 720 students applied for residency during the 1077 78 school year About 65 percent or 4bft were granted residency initially an 1 2Mi were denied Of I hose rejetted ktf appealed their case to the rrd-oc- y apeels committee P lout hd or ('ws(1mos4 ee ) |