Show The Utah Statesman USU's budget Friday January 29 lfS F— 1 cut by appropriations comsMt&G Reduction part of $157 million loss to state's higher education funds by Catherine Zalk "We didn’t do as bad as we Presidthought” said USU President reference in to Cazier Stanford ent the university’s recent budget cut by the Executive Appropriation Committee of the Utah Legislature not willing to make any more cuts” Harmer said He added that the committee had almost ordered the subcommittee to make a $3 million cut and to stand up to them now would be risky but a risk that needed to be taken Sen Richard J Carling Lake City and subcommittee said “The way it started out (a $3 million cut) I feel fortunate what we ended up with ($157 million) R-S- an And these were shared by Utah jame feelings ege students as the committee voted for an 8 percent tuition hike ceiling coll- “eight is enough” campfor since last Octstrived have aigners ober Utah State University’s 1982-8- 3 something the budget request of 145252950 was cut $313570 This reduction occurred Thursday when the committee approved a $157 million cut in the state’s higher education budget by The Committee’s action met with disapproval from members of the Higher Education Appropriation Subcommittee said ‘‘I D Leon Reese fed that the management committee harsh unfair to higher education to this committee” Rep Sherman D Harmer Jr Lake City moved that the subcommittee reject the SI 57 million cut delegated by the Executive Committee however this motion was not approved “I think at some point this committee has to stand up for what it believes and carry the flag foward “We need to send a message back to our Executive Committee that we are has been and unfair After the cuts were dictated Am Van Alstyne Utah higher odurarica commissioner met with the of the nine colleges and Utah They had “a general sense at dismay at the additional cuts that arc required” he said The subcommittee was also ml$ fa colleges would have to raise nihinw jf they wanted additional “You’d have to raise tuition dously to come up with any kind of a funding situation” Calling said When Cazier went before the subcommittee Jan 19 he pushed tar an increase in teachers’ salaries This request will remain intact at a 105 per cent hike However other budget priorities listed by Casier such aa msS benefits support staff new spnce improvement growth cnroBment the Tooele program and continuing education will receive funding cuts However even with the —— of ' money cut most of the pnigi aim ad remain in the black Cazier noted In addition to budget cots the Ex--' ecutive Committee also voted to approve an 8 percent tuition hike Van Alstyne told the i “This is not the increase tuition beyond 8 The committee also i tuition would be set at a level that is 320 percent of resident tvimn Nonresident students currently pay SCO percent more in tuition f i i residents Council acts on activity cards legal services by Pauls Smilanich Two pieces been in of legislation which had committee for several weeks passed in Wednesday’s Council meeting were finally Executive Senate Resolution 82-2- 0 and bill referral service which is offered submitted by Executive Vice President Brad Hess passed 5 They deal with departmental requirements for student activity cards “nnamously Both require that all dqartments services and other psuxauons which temporarily keep the titer’s student activity card in for their services shall not tccuilste the physical possession of the td unless check-otime is for three ge ut hours or less Otherwise a student’s identification number will be recorded in place of the card A bill that will create a legal referral service committee was also passed The purpose of the committee will be to supervise the operation of the legal through Helpline The executive vice president will chair the committee along with the campus affairs and athletics vice president the assistant vice presidents for student services and student activities and two students chosen by the chair A resolution pertaining to final examinations was the last piece to be proved It asks for final examinations to be scheduled such that a study day whether weekday or weekend exist between the last day of classes and the first day of finals According to Acedemic Vice President Dave Bagley sponsor of die resolution one day after the last day of classes does not allow students adequate time to prepare for final examinations which are comprehensive Two resolutions were tabled by die council until further investigation could be conducted The first deals with the possibility of putting student advisor’s names in the class bulletin The other k that the $10 late registration foe t be applied five school days after registration In the new business introduced Entertainment Vice President Brian Shearer presented a resolution that urges more student understanding for no longer i for their classes Shearer also introduced a leacidri wking for the current fkaisM ' grading system at USU to fcc Ge ” tained The idea of system arose from members of dasj senate': at the The quartet presently Virginia Polytechnic Institute is a vital exdting and highly acclaimed musical group that has achieved worldwide recognition They made their mark on the international music world when they won several artists-in-residen- ce Be Audubon String Quartet which was to per- USU in both a Fine Arts Series concert Feb Convocations Series on Feb 1 1 has oaodled both performances Vtr°rkn(5 to Twain Tippetts curator for the USU the members were enroute to udelphia from New York when they encountered onn which caused the van ‘f they were travel-ru- n into a highway bridge One of the unknown who) was thrown dear of ®icle and sustained severe lacerations All of member were taken to a Philadelphia hospital reported to be doing well i ncn that in addition to cancelling the USU jr'J'mnxS’ the accident has forced the quartet to entire US concert tour set for this y? year' J I An ice storm caused the musician's van to collide into r a highway bridge L worldwide competitions in the space of is year Then-awardhave induded first prize at the International Villa-LobString Quartet Competition at the Festival Portsmouth International and the String Competition in England The members of the os " ti f-- -- I installed C T- - C-- ear: OeveiraJ quartet are Sharon Smith Polifrone vkln Deris LtiTT ' ’ and Thomas Shaw ceSo In addition to Tippests Uay tljmm student activities MariSi Johnson ASUZU Cultural Vice President and Dean Lye tr-J- tf HASS college are wortirj '? t of the performances bnt Isie i! yeti Tippets says that Since Cief ' dose to the perform swers sc tr ‘ will be difTirult f"' ’ y : “We are trying to r±r ' to do both the Fiat AO but that is fuajUU accomplish thsn trying so da ox: U ’ : schedules for both of them finalised before the ing very hard raw ' f " r:’ t ‘ f'v s ve in the library for student osewaa final resolution submitted It stams C X there is often a tine of people wai' to use the only fm ofrharjr t: i feted and that ft wmdi be msa c: j Audubon String Quartet cancels Convocation By 8m Lass tLecq-ecuti- n ' r(" ' ' |