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Show THUNDERBIRDS GET BIG WIN: The SUU men’s basketball team improved its record to 3-2 in the Mid-Con by defeating the SHAKESPEARE KICKS OFF ANNUAL ‘SCHOOLS’ TOUR: W Chicago State Cougars 69-49 Saturday night in The Utah Shakespearean Festival Dpremiered its annual ‘Shakespeare-inthe-Schools’ tour. An adapted version of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ will be taken on tour as part of its educational front of nearly 4,000 Thunderbird fans at the Centrum Arena. The ’Birds finished the game strong on a 13-0 run and held Chicago State scoreless the last six minutes. SEE PAGE 8. outreach program. SEE PAGE 7. R Additional S cuts to budget AL may be needed While money may be cut from this and next year’s budgets, a bond for a new building may still be approved BY CYNTHIA KIRKHAM SENIOR STAFF WRITER The SUU administration will soon learn if the state legislature plans to require additional budget cuts of 1.5 percent for the current year as well as enforce enrollment caps for the 2002-2003 year and mandate a proposed tuition hike of about 10 percent. Interim Provost Carl R. Templin said the administration can expect additional cuts in the current year’s budget, which President Steven D. Bennion said has already been cut 2.5 percent. Templin and Bennion said an additional 1.5 percent cut is likely, but that the number is not definite because the legislature has not yet made its decision. Administration, faculty and staff have met throughout the week to discuss the budget and the course of action the university must take if further budget cuts are necessary. “We haven’t gotten our marching orders 3 education in Utah. impacts of the cuts could be,” Templin said. “I said that building quality and losing it is He added that the administration could have not a symmetrical time process,” Bennion “numbers to shoot for” by the end of this said. “It takes longer to build than to lose, week. and we’re concerned.” Kenneth Bennion said Laundra, We haven 't gotie n that because the assistant students. He said the administration would “try not to impact courses or students” when it begins to examine where to cut the budget. university has if the legislature asks for them. yet, but we’re looking at what the initial our marching ovders already made a 2.5 percent cut in this year’s budget, additional cuts “won’t be painless.” He said the administration did not believe the vel, but we re laakmg al impacis of the cuts could be, Carl R, Templin, interim unlver31ty was over-funded to begin with. SUU is not the only public university in Utah to be affected by budget cuts. Bennion said that he and other college and university presidents spoke to the legislature about the impact budget cuts will have on higher sociology, said the legislature will most likely ask each institution to what the initial ;prmzmt, smd professor of cut the same amount from its budget and raise tuition to guard agamst unfan' shifts in enrollment “The reality is that [students] are going to have to pay more for the same services,” Laundra said. Templin said the administration will do everything possible to take the burden of budget cuts away from Bennion agreed with Templin and said that every avenue would be explored. However, he said, budget cuts must be made "We have to tighten our belt,” Bennion said. “We hope we can do it in the least painful way possible.” Some ways Bennion said the university might save money include a continued decrease in travel budgets, delays in hiring for open positions, delays in upgrading technology and curtailing some maintenance operations. Templin said the administration may also look at summer offerings. Bennion said none of the proposed cuts will be carried out until the 1.5 percent cut (continued on page 3) Conference to ‘empower’ SUU women BY KAMI SAVAGE JOURNAL EDITOR SUU’s 2002 Women’s Conference, which starts today; is the first of its kind in 15 years. “The last one was headed by two faculty members, one of which was Bonnie Mitchell-Green, [assistant professor of sociology,] and which lasted two days and was faculty un,” Cassandra Taylor, a senior sociology major from Las Vegas and chair of the conference, said. “This year we have 17 students involved, and it is almost primarily student-run,” she added. Mitchell-Green is also involved again. “She was more than happy to help and to tell us how to get started,” Taylor said. The event is sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta, the sociology honors society. “For a while, the club had virtually fallen apart,” Taylor said. “Leadership kept changing and there was no one to tell us what was going on. It was a mess.” Now, with the advent of the conference, the group is solid again. “[Mitchell-Green] decided she would be its faculty ERIN MADSON/JOURNAL adviser and the conference really brought the group back together.” The conference was started again as a “proactive” event to supplement an internship. It will last four days— today through Friday— and include professionals and experts from SUU, the community and abroad, Taylor said. “We have business women, politicians, an obstetrician, a nutritionist, psychologists, social workers and women that are just super,” she said. “The response has been wonderful.” Elizabeth Mimms, community project coordinator for the Utah Progressive Network, will be the keynote speaker. “She will speak on bridging the gaps among academia, social change and putting things into action in the community,” Taylor said. A “Take Back the Night” vigil will be the final activity during the conference. “It will be an empowering evening,” Taylor said “Men and women may come and talk about the experiences of women.” She said that the event may help men understand women more deeply than they ever have before. Students may receive one lower division credit for attending the conference by signing up for SOC 2920 (women’s issues). To receive credit, students must attend six events over four days and write a three-page paper, which is due Feb. 4 to Mitchell-Green. Students may sign up through SUU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, located in the R. Haze Hunter Conference Center or call 586-7850. They may also sign up by visiting the women’s conference table in the Sharwan Smith Center Mall Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There is a $15 fee to receive credit, but non-credit participants may attend free of charge. “I hope that through the conference, there’s a broadening of horizons, a breaking down of barriers,” Taylor said. “I hope that women walk away with a new sense of empowerment and men with more of an understanding.” Taylor said that she would also like to see the conferénce spur the umvcrs1ty into women’s studies. courses, degrees or a women’s study center. The calendar of events is as follows: B Mimms, “Empowering Women through Community (continued on page 2) Susan Linder, director of career services, shows Lorine Dockstader, a senior English major from Bigwater, Utah, the career library, which contains books explaining different kinds of careers. ‘You can just read these books and get an idea of what you want to do in your career,’ said Linder during the Graduate Open House Wednesday afternoon. Career services helps students make career choices, construct resumes and work on mterwewmg with special workshops throughout the semester. Changes near for better elections BY KELSEY BLACKWELL JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Primary elections take place March 13 and general elections are March 20. Students will elect a president, academic vice president, clubs and organizations vice Preparation has already begun for student body elections, president, activities vice president and three student senators and several changes are in the works that will make elections from each respective college. According to SUUSA election bylaws, candidates must have for the 2002-2003 school year much different from past elections. SUUSA Senate appointed Bridget Reynolds as elections director at its meeting Jan. 15 and also added an elections committee to assist her. The purpose of the committee is to help the director and create more communication and harmony among parties. The elections committee is appointed by the elections i director, academic vice president, clubs and organizations vice president and activities vice president. The committee’s duties are outlined in SUUSA election bylaws. Some of those duties include forming ballots for primary and general elections, conducting meetings of information for candidates, accurate ballot counting and reporting election results. “The sole power given to'the elections director has led to - bias and favoritism in past cases,” Reynolds said. “I think [the elections committee] will be better because of the synergy and objectiveness it will provide.” Reynolds said she would like this year’s campaign to focus more on platforms and information and less on distributing campaign-related items and/or bribery. Candidates will be allowed to spend $2,000 on campaigns rather than the $3,000 allowed last year. a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher and cannot be on social or academic probation. Senators must also major in a subject . within the college they represent to be eligible. Parties will be announced when notice of candidacy forms are turned in to the director of student activities on Feb. 25. “Inactive campaigning,” which includes discussing platforms and letting students know who is running, will also begin at this time. “Active campaigning”— any preplanned activity that includes posting materials or passing out campaignrelated items— will begin Bridget Reynolqs March 11. Students interested in running for office may pick up a notice of candidacy form in the SUUSA offices in the Sharwan Smith Center. |