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Show I PAGE4 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS Mathematics at the center of senate bill BY LEAH HARTMANN JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Tuesday night's student senate meeting again focused on Bill #011-00, titled "y=mx+b, • discussing the purchase of Tl-83 calculators. In the Open Forum, four people including Vik Brown, associate professor of instructional media in the library, spoke in favor of the bill. Brown fielded questions from the senators about security and maintenance of the calculators. Investigative committee member, College of Business and Technology Sen. Jennifer Powell, opened discussion of the bill with some new revelations. · During this past week, Sen. Powell contacted Texas Instruments and learned about a special academic discount on calculators. The discount could bring a drastic reduction in the price of the calculators and the requested amount in the bill. Powell said she had another meeting scheduled with Texas Instruments Wednesday morning and added mysteriously that "there may be something more (to this)." Powell asked that the bill be tabled for a week pending further ~I A N W A S information. College of Education Sen. Brianna Baumgartner, also on the investigative committee, revealed new information as well. Baumgartner found other colleges who offer a calculator buy-back program similar to a book buy-back program. She said the SUU Bookstore is willing to implement a similar program. She also recommended the bill be tabled until next week. The author of the bill; Science Sen. Timette McKenna, said she wanted fo introduce an amendment to the bill in light of the new information. In addition to changing the dollar amount of the bill, McKenna suggested raising the amount of calculators back to 20 and designating 10 to be used for library check-out and 10 to be rented out for $20 per semester. Baumgartner and Sen. Jessi Allen, BTC, objected to amending the bill without knowing all the new information. The senators voted 12-2-1 to bring the amount of calculators back up to 20. After some discussion concerning the debates of other parts of the amendment. the senators voted to table the bill. l\l E A :\ T TO II A V E THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 , 2000 I Republicans -dominate elections (Continued from page 4) I Republican Rep. DeMar "Bud" Bowman was reelected in an commanding landslide against Independent American candidate Victor R. Schafer, who conceded the race before the voting actual began. More than 88 percent of voters cast their ballots for Bowman compared to 11 percent for Schafer. County Commissioner Dennis E. Stowell and County Recorder Patsy T. Cutler, both Republicans, reclaimed their offices for another term. Statewide Initiative A, which would make English the official language of Utah, passed by 67 percent compared to 32 percent against the measure. Initiative B, which dealt with property seizure, also passed by 68 percent for and 31 percent against. Proposition 1, which repealed archaic language in the Utah code and modified state government's role in managing local governments, also passed. And Proposition 2, the measure to create a state trust fund with monies received from the tobacco settlement funds, also passed. State Auditor Austin Johnson, a Republican who was running unopposed, was not-surprisingly reelected by 100 percent of the vote. State Treasurer Edward T. Alter, a Republican, was also overwhelmingly reelected. Student charged ,Nith rape claims he is ',Nrongly accused' BY THOMAS BURR SENIOR STAFF WRITER The attorney for a 47-year-old SUU student charged with first-degree rape of a female student is contending that the accusation of the sexual assault, which allegedly occurred Oct. 19 off campus, is a complete lie and said his client will be vindicated. Douglas Chappell, a freshman criminal justice major from Lyman, Utah, was charged last week with the first-degree felony by the Iron County Attorney. Chappell was arrested on campus exiting a class in the Centrum and later freed on bail of $20,000. Willard Bishop, a Cedar City defense attorney told the University Journal Tuesday, following an initial appearance for Chappell, that his client was being wrongly accused and that Chappell had consensual sex with the female student. The victim, an SUU student in her early 20s, previously told the Journal that she had no relationship with Chappell and he had been stalking her since the beginning of the school year. According to documents filed in 5th District Court, the victim and Chappell were purportedly watching a movie and consuming alcohol in the victim's apartment the night of Oct. 18. At 1:25 a.m., the victim made a call to emergency services and said she had "passed out or blacked our and had been raped. 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