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Walk of students attendjng SUU. into Godfather's Pizza and find Student discounts are coupons; walk into Domino's available at a plethora of Pizza and find a buy one, get stores, and coupons are one free deal. frequently printed in Fast food is probably the newspapers (primarily the only place to find discounts. Journal). Students simply Most sit-down restaurants need to keep their eyes open don 't offer many special deals. for opportunities to save If some spills occurred after money. that tasty meal, local Everybody needs a haircut laundromats and cleaners will once in a while and at least come to the rescue. five hair and nail salons offer Laundraclean will take discounts to students in the 50 cents off each load on Cedar City area. Kuning Edge Tuesdays and Thursdays. Beauty Shop has a dollar off Jackson Dry Cleaners takes off card for each use. $8 haircuts 10 percent every day. for men and women are For music lovers, Tom Tom available at Nu-lmage Beauty CDs, Tapes & Exchange offers Salon. Cutting Loose Hair and 10 percent off and Graywhale Nail Salon provides special CD has a dollar off markdown . deals on several items. There Several auto shops also give arc free make-overs by students a hrcak. Adams appointment, and the fifth Automotive Tire & Service haircut is free (regular cuts Center will take off 15 cost $12 for women and $10 percent. Allied Discount Tire for men). Nail Biz has trainers that charge $15 for a full set of will give a contractor's discount, ahout IO percent, sculptured nails. Roland's and Big O Tires is willing to Second Glance Hair Designs work o ut a deal on tires. charges $20 for nails. By RHIANNON BENT JOURNAL STAFF WRITER facilities without restrictions. "Other students w ith different majors can go ho me, open their books and do their homework. Art students need a studio," he said. Students who use the Centrum faciHties will Hardin said that he fell the time be required to have a pass in order to be in the that art was heing vandalized was buHding after 11 p .m. sajd Art Department not after I I p .m., hue after the Chair Perry Stewart. haskcthall and football games. The decision to require passes was "I've had stuff vandalized, hut proposed in an effort to stop when it was vandalized ii was increasing incidents of during haskethall games, theft and vandalism, before I 1 p .m .," he said . Stewart said. Hardin cited several According to, Jim incidents in which his, or Turner, chief of campus his colleagues' work had security, h e was called to been vandalized, including respond to incidents of such acts as a swastika vandalism and reports of carved into the forehea d unauthorized people using the of a sculpture , and an washing machine located in the entire pencil dr.iwing Centrum. Stewart said the passes blackened in with will be issued from the charcoal. Hardin said departments. "Although this might that he knows that he an inconvenience for students, these instances it will prevent much of the occurred after vandalism and other problems we events held at the have had," h e said. Stewart added that Centrum . "If the major issue there have been instances of people 'fttrfler here is the was hing machine, I can e ntering the art studio and painting on Jirri guarantee the person using it is not a art students' canvasses and projects. criminal," added Hardin . Jason Maxwell , a "The facilities have to he available for senior art major from Prescott, Ariz. and Art student use," said Stewart. "If all that is Guild president, said that he agrees with required to have the facilities available to Hardin . "This solution seems really juvenile to students is a pass, then that's good," he added. me . I understand something has lO he done, Junior Tom Trythall , an art major from hut I just don't think that this is the hest way." Ephraim , Utah, said that he thought the idea "It's dumh to kick a student out that's was "fine, as long as I have a pass." working late on a project just because he Other students are noc as quick to embrace the idea. Senior art major Chad Hardin from Las doesn't have a pass," Hardin added. "I just think there is a helter solution to this Vegas, Nev., said that he feels that if students problem ," he said. pay tuition they s hould have access to the By LISA DAWN PERRY JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Jewelry class .to Grants decreasing in value change 'pursuit' By VERONICA GARNER SENIOR STAFF WRITER pieces of jewelry. Taylor said that in the past students have even cast wedding rings. Next semester, the class . Although this class may fill a formerly known as Jewelry requirement for technology Fabrication will he called education majors, Taylor said Lifetime Pursuits . Professor of that many students take it for Technology Steve Taylor said personal ince·rest. "Many take that because the class always the class four or five times," he fills , the department w ill he offering Tech 3240 more often sajd, "even without receiving credit for it." He said that due than in previous years. The to the high demand of the class will be taught Spring class and personal prejudiced semester during the day by feelings, he and McGarvey Taylor and in the evening by think it is the best class on Assistant Professor of campus. Technology Mike McGarvey. McGarvey said that the lab in Taylor said the name was which the class works is very changed because the adequate for their needs. professors felt it is the kind of Taylor added that the lab is class that teaches skills used throughout life. McGarvey said one of the finest in the state. He said that students have the name was just changed to the capacity to do stone protect the innocent. Taylor cutting and setting, silver or also said that they wiU gold smithing, and much probably change the name more. back after trus year to limit McGarvey said that although confusion. he has been doing jewelry In the class, Taylor said that work for two and-a-half years, students learn to make rings, this is his first time teaching pendants, bracelets and other By MYLYNN WATSON JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Political rhetoric may he giving low-income students false h opes about attending universities, large and small, as federal grants continue to fall herund the rising cost of anending college in the United States. "This is how politics work," said Rex Michie, SUU director of financial aid. "They'll tell you they're increasing aid hy une amount, but by the lime everything's said and done , the increase is a lot smaller." Michie is referring to the federal P~II Grant program created to help tow-income students attend college. The latest version of the Higher Education Act authorized an increase in the maxjmum grant from $3,000 to $4 ,500 next year. However, when education funding was determined hy the House Appropriations committee last month, the grants were increased by only $ 125 per student making the total maximum jttst $3,125. Michie said he wasn't surprised that the original increase didn't make it through the process. "The likelihood of that happening is about as likely as snow in July," Michie said. "The money really just isn' t there for the Appropriations Committee to use. It is refreshing, though, to sec that they're (congress) trying to play both sides and make this bill work." A new study, released Wednesday by the Education Resources Institute and the Institute for Higher Education Policy based in . Wasrungton , paints a grim picture for lowincome students who want to attend college as a result of the committee's ruling. According to the study, when adjusted for inflation, the average Pell Grant amount has fallen 23 percent over two decades. Meanwhile, college costs have increased 49 percent. In the 1996-97 school year, the average Pell Grant covered only 9 percent of the cost of a private four-year school. During the 1976-77 academic year, the grant covered 19 percent. At public institutions, the average grant now covers just 22 percent of the cost, compared to 39 percent 20 years ago. "Overall, enrollments are up, the public is supportive and funding has modestly increased," said IHEP President James Merisotis in a written statement. "But these trends mask the fact that there is a gap of almost 30 percentage points in enrollment between low-income and highincome students." Merisoits said increasing Pell Grant funding would close the gaps. As a result of the 1998 Higher Education Act, the maximum Pell Grant award was raised to $3,125, but the st\Jdy reported that the figure would have to be $6,000 to cover the same proportion of tuition che grants did 20 years ago. "It's a very serious problem ," said Utah Rep . Beverly Evans, R:AJtamonl. "We're moving in the right direction, but I think we still haven't done enough." (conti1iued 011 page 4) . I. I |