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Show UNIVE RSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS PAGEJ Sports rental funds passed BY LEAH HARTMANN JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Much of Tuesday night's Senate meeting was about funding for outdoors equipment. Last week's introduction of Bill #010-00, Funds in the Sun, will finance the purchasing of a credit card machine, carbon copies and equipment sucn as snowshoes and sleeping bags for students to rent. Before. the meeting formally started, Heather Latteier, assistant to the SUUSA activities vice president, spoke in favor of passing the bill. Mike Wankier, who wrote the original bill allocating funds for the equipment last spring, also spoke in the Open Forum. "We need to get this going," he said. "It is a service of the students and that is why we are here:·to help students enjoy the beautiful country we live in.• Also speaking in favor of the bill was Justin Pitcher, a junior English major from Riverton, Utah, w ho told the Senate he came to SUU for the mountain biking opportunities in Cedar City, and that education was secondary to him. He asked the Senate to pass the bill for sporting enthusiasts like himself. Karen Latham , assistant professor of education, spoke to the Senate in favor of the Pestalozzi Pennies Bill. College of Humanities and Social Sciences Sen. Marilyn Hodson was part of the investigative committee assigned to Bill #009-00, Pestalozzi Pennies. She gave the bill a positive recommendation_ "The prices are reasonable and the award is a great recruitment tool,· she said. There were no negative comments on the bill and it passed unanimously. The discussion of the Funds in the Sun Bill started off with College of Performing and Visual Arts Sen. Kyle Vincent of the investigative committee, giving the bill a positive recommendation. He said Vice President of Student Services Sterling Church and Dean of Students Neal Cox . are "all for it." He mentioned that the last program similar to this one failed "because it was student-run and not an SUU [funded] program.• Some of the other senators were not as entl'lusiastic as Vincent ~nd the other bill sponsors. College of Education Sen. Marcy Gubler asked what would be done to make sure equipment did not disappear from the equipment room while student volunteers were manning the booth. Sen. Danna Esplin, Education, asked if the bill's sponsors and supporters had asked local businesses if they would donate equipment. "Brian Head sells used skis for $20 a piece, has anyone asked them if they would donate those skis to the school,· she asked. "If every piece of equipment in there was rented out two to three times a week, it would only bring in about $200 a week/ she added. "Is that enough to maintain the equipment and buy new equipment when it is old?" Sen. Josh Jones, HSS, said he was in favor of the bill but he thought Ken Nelson, campus recreations coordinator, needed to be involved in ttte program and he wanted to see policies and procedures written out for the rental program. · College of Science Sen. Ryan Bell thought more time was needed to look into corporate donations and writing a set of policies and procedures. Bill sponsors Sen. Timette McKenna, Sci. , and College of Business and Technology Sen. Darren Mower pas·sionately pleaded with the Senate to pass the bill. They both said nothing can be done with the program until the money is approved so it can start. Funds in the Sun was passed by the Senate Chantel Thackeray (right), a junior sociology major from Salt Lake City, talks to Shannon Odenweller. Lake Powell human resource generalist, Wednesday at the career fair about getting a summer job at the popular summer vacation spot. 10-3-2. Hatch '1alted, misses SUU A filibuster in the U.S. Senate kept Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) from making a campaign stop at SUU on Tuesday. Heather Barney, Hatch's campaign spokeswoman. said they had hoped the senate would have adjour.ned early so Hatch could attend scheduled events across Utah, and the camp is struggling to make as many campaign visits as possible in the remaining 19 days to the election. John Bunkall, student director of the non-partisan SUU Center for Politics and Public Service, said he found out .Monday morning that Hatch would not be visiting and hurried to remove signs advertising the event. The cancellation also came too late to change an article in · the University Journal Orrin Hatch annoucing Hatch's visit. Barney said Hatch was able to make a debate against his democratic opponent, State Senate Minority Leader Scott Howell , held at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, on Monday night, but had to fly to Washington, D.C., that night. She also said she is unsure if Hatch will be able to visit SUU before the election. -Thomas Burr Deans: yes to students .'Hiri.ng' The deans also approved a policy for credit hour workloads, which allows undergraduate students only 20 credit hours each semester in faff and spring terms and 18 credit hours during summer terms, without approval In a room fl,JII of tenured deans, Monday afternoon, a from their department chair or associate dean. lone student sto9d his ground and said that SUU students have a right to be part of committees which hire Nelson also argued for the council to adopt a new plan faculty. to insure that catalogs for summer terms are available Stephen Nelson, SUUSA academic vice president, told during spring registration. Some students, he said, want to plan which the group that students are the "customers· of the school and they should have a right to voice dasses they could take during the summer their opinion and vote for new faculty. months so they could take others during the spring semester. The discussion came up while the The council said it would not be possible to council continued their debate on the Appointments to Faculty Por:cy 6.24, do that this year, but would push to have the John Groesbeck, the chair of the School catalog available during the beginning of of Business, said that students were not the spring semester so students can add the only customers of the university, and and drop to make their schedules work. that the community is also served in a large Provost Ray Ruetzel said he will also take it under advisement for the Mure. way by the school. The council also approved a list of He also asked the council to make it mandatory that candidates for a teaching one-time monies to prioritize where position have to teach a dass during the funds will go if the legislature approves SUU's request for more money. The interview process. Six deans voted for the motion to grant list totaled just over $2 million. Nelson Academic support, including students a place on hiring committees, with 0 Bruce Barker, dean of the College of Education, 5teptl9 software upgrades and lab growth, and campus the only dissenting vote. infrastructure, with requests for more Internet bandwidth and security, were placed at the top of the list by the Groesbeck's motion to mandate teaching a class failed deans. by a four to two vote, and the council left the language in the policy to say the candidate should teach a class Musical instruments, library acquisitions and science equipment were next on the list. Technology, in the way during the interview process. A motion passed the council unanimously for both of computers and instructional equipment, were placed · third. genders to be reflected in the committee. The policy·was later passed unanimously and sent to Rounding out the list was a request for copiers in the Faculty Senate for its approval. departments across campus. BY THOMAS BURR SENIOR STAFF WRITER I, |