Show The Utah Statesman V Mw6y :undl approves spectrometer and TV camara ft )lnro center and to honor t USU Institutional Council met in Roosevelt Saturday and approved a budget transfer to the chemistry depart je aaspectrometer forfortwo color TV cameras wd requisition The budget transfer for the chemistry department's spectrometer amounted to approximately 115000 The spectrometer which measures the positions of spectral lines will be used for research which was previously done at Colorado State University The requisition for two color TV cameras also amounted to f 15000 The cameras will improve the quality of programs broadcast on campus and give students better equipment to work with from it Friday pi (council meeting was held at the Uintah Basin jaing Education Center in Roosevelt in order ra presentation on the center’s by Varnell A Bench director of the 28 students who graduated r-- ' Also approved by the coundl land near Tintic Utah for President Stanford Cazier were approved by the State Board April 21 which will go into effect include th five year policy to fees and the increased com meals The restructured foes policy will with less than 16 credits to be Watch the cutting edge ' Joe Millar competes in the College of Natural Resources’ log sawing contest held Friday The college's ' activities which included many other forestry skills ended with a banquet and symposium AUmf- florist laureate is observer of world 3 folklore gives self-understand- ladiard is William A Wilson but him Bert which is the first seemed to fit into place as I chatted h USU’s folklorist laureate the ing him into ckicumenting tales about the three Nrphites a major category in Mormon folklore My training was in folklore in general of course and since that start with Finnish and Mormon subjects I’ve diversified in several William Wilson studies folklore for more than fun areas 7- - thing that clicked was my expan--®e- s of how widespread was the in Jfafclore in society The next lime aitiMly avoid stepping on a crack or hear a slew of surefire a curing a hiccup you have crossed Bering the mystique of the I world dies folklore not just because it’s thecause it has intrinsic value by —fore can give us more understan--Sdve- s 3'k a human being than any b h crosses the disciplinary boun--foopdo- history literature and even engineering” he explain 7 one of an observer ot the - I - outlined the folklore program tit-- ! he got started in the businets I degrees in English literature Wilton got his first taste of LDS missionary in Finland t were ruled by the Swedes for so fough their literary achievements shout only in the last century rtn deep and rich” When it jr his doctorate he pursued a -- - j hh folklore and anthropology folklore degree at the Universi- die only such program in the that Wilson’s major 7 his religious affiliation 'C’"5'" - He taught at BYU from 1960 to 1978 then came to Utah State ”1 was committed to the ofprofession rather than the school and USU fered more opportunities to let me do the things I wanted to do” One of the things he wants to do is develop the folklore program at USU into a center one that could be a repository for folklore and support ongoing research Goals of the program now are threefold The first is teaching Wilson supervises a curriculum of about ten courses from introduction to folklore to a colloquium on oral history It is a certificate program through which graduate candidates in American Studies can add a folklore emphasis into their degree work The courses give credit in either history or English and he mentions that dual listing its gives the program much of from each as strength instructors some of in areas these of help the classes Eventually he’d like to see development of a master’s program Mrictly in folklore Secondly comes research It is a major task ta document and index items of fcZfore ta the i pro£rt ’ - jrr etr r -- - |