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Show MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS Legislators pass residency bill BY LIBERTY ‘CASE JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Legislators passed a bill late Wednesday that could hinder university growth and affect campus diversity at SUU because it increases the requirements outof-state students must complete to gain Utah residency. House Bill No. 331 requires that students eatn 60 semester credit hours before they can qualify for resident status. Under current standards, students are eligible for residency after 12 months of continuously living in-state. “I think it will impact the number of nonresident students we have come here to SUU negatively and I think we will have a “nothing like this.” Orton said he is “very disappointed” will the bill approval. “I do believe that it will discourage nonresident students from looking at coming to a Utah school,” Orton said, “[Right now] we've got about seven to 10 percent of our student body who come from out of state.” Orton said he thinks nonresident students are vital to SUU and create diversity. SUUSA President Ryan Richey also said that more rigid residency requirements will affect diversity on campus. “If we are going to enjoy the benefits of a diverse campus we don’t want to discourage individuals from coming to Southern Utah decrease in the number that will come,” Dale Orton, have on SUU remain unknown right now, but there will be meetings next month to discuss the new University,” he o director of admissions, said about the legislation that received said, “It will definitely change the | pale Orton Nicole composition overwhelming approval . of the campus for the ‘Fiscal analysts estimate that an additional $5 million will be made from nonresident students next Richey said he believes this will make reaching the current SUU growth goal of 9,000 students by 2011 more difficult to reach. Nicole Bingham, assistant director of school relations, said representatives from SUU do some recruiting of students from New Mexico, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada and Colorado. year because of the new requirement. The legislation came as a surprise to some Utah administrators, Orton said he expected changes in current policy regarding residency, but requirements at length, Orton said. “Things are very worse.” much up in the air,” he said. Orton also said he thmks it is unfortunate representatives from schools throughout the state were left in the dark about the bill. He said it is important for representatives from schools across the state to have a say in things that will have such a large impact. attack date is remembered that around $47 billion was lost in the form of BY ANDREW CASSEL scholarships to be awarded by faculty Annual BY TASHA WILLIAMS SENIOR STAFEF WRITER Faculty and staff associations on campus will fund two scholarships to junior or senior students sometime in the next month. The Emeriti Scholarship will be awarded to a full-time student with a GPA of 3.0 or better and the Faculty Staff Associated Women will award a tuition scholarship to a full-time female continuing education student. Jane Halladay, FSAW president-clcct, said the women’s scholarship is based almost entirely on need. The scholarship helps FSAW find women in rural dreas, FSAW needs more support, she said, because there would be more scholarship funds if more female faculty and staff would join the association. Dues are $20 per year. The Emeriti Scholarship is also awarded based on need to a junior or senior student at SUU, and covers tuition and student fees. Board member Ella Van Groningen said that although there is a 3.0 GPA requirement, the scholarship is usually awarded to someone who may not get scholastic scholarships. The deadline for the Emeriti Scholarship is April 12, Appllcauons may | be picked up 'in the ! single parents or other women in need and isn't as focused on GPA requirements, she said. “Applications are Jane Ha\\ada‘l | important because all | females have a chance,” Halladay said. “A lot of people who wouldn’t qualify for another scholarship would feel | very confident applymg for this one.” The deadline for the FSAW scholarship is Friday. Applications may be picked up in the Admissions Office or from Halladay in the Housing and Residence Life | Office in Juniper Hall.. Halladay said'the scholatship is funded by membership dues for the association and also by two luncheons the association bponsors each year. it.” Admissions Office. “This particular group is the emeriti of the college, and I think education is very important to them,” Van Groningen said. “They have seen a lot of students who have had difficulties to make Van Groningen, a former family and consumer science professor at SUU, said that the Emeriti foundation has approximately 120 ' mempbers who have supported SUU and the community over the past 15 to 20 years. Emeriti consist of retired faculty and staff who pay dues in addition to college endowments to raise - money for the annual scholarship. Van Groningen said the scholarship is one of the best offered on . campus because it pays for student fees in addition to tuition. packages that weren't shipped, trips that weren’t taken, advertising that was canceled and other business that didn’t go on as usual. That'’s not too far away from a second estimate-this one by the economic forecasting firm of DRI-Wefa- KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPER PHILADELPHIA-Can it be six months already since Sept. 11? And, can “it be only six months?” In some ways, it feels as if years have passed, and in other ways like only last week Americans were still in shock from the horrible sight of the World Trade Center and Pentagon in flames. A parallel paradox exists for that the attacks reduced the country’s gross domestic product for 2001 by about $40.8 billion. . But even if those numbers are dead-on accurate, they have a very limited usefulness. That's because much of the loss that occurred right after Sept. 11 represented economic activity that was postponed those trying to assess the economic consequences of the terrorist attacks. Some of the costs of that terrible day already are behind us; we've paid the bill, made or channeled in other adjustments and moved on. But in other ways, the real mlpact of the attacks is only begmq} to Dbe feEFa ? not b p; € Bingham from Utah legislators. WTC Because of a tight budget, however, efforts to reach out-ofstate students are limited. She said the new requirements could be a stumbling block for reaching the university goal to increase diversity on campus. “[Diversity] is vital to learning and growth,” Bingham said. Richey agreed and said this could shelter Utah in a way that could eventually prove detrimental to the state. “We will just have to have a new marketing approach to [recruiting nonresident students],” Bingham said. “We definitely [won’t] stop recruiting in those areas.” The effects the . legislation could PAGE 3 directions later. “To a ldrge extent, we v ly :ippr"ecmte s ending to other -Wefa-econonmist = tta said:“Alot-of 5Certzunly some of the losses [l Yorlk at first Cafter Sept. 11); ‘can be quantified- four ‘worth a total of $385 million; seveml high-rent Manhattan ‘office buildings valued at “Most people who had plans to spend money doing something did spend money doing something; they just spent it differently,” Latta between $3 billion and $4.5 ibillion; cleanup costs and linfrastructure replacement of ‘some $3.3 billion. + Peter Navarro, an ‘economist at the University ‘'of California, estimated these k] ‘ : b [ / lof between $10 billion and billion. More tentatively, | 13 Lo delicately, he cites i ‘and actuarial and life-insurance ‘guidelines that suggest the figure the real impact of the 2 attacks as time goes on; the | jand other costs and came up mth a property-damage bill said. ‘5 That ; makes it tougher to " ) | ' . economy absorbs and adapts, E even to traumatic events such as this one. ! A rescue worker climbs on wreckage as workers search through the remains of the Neverthele@s, DRI-Wefa World Trade Center towers. the U.S. economy this year and estimates there will be a net loss of about $318 billion to another $280 billion in 2003. 13,000 or so deaths translate into an economic loss of some $20 billion. {| In the days after the attacks, Navarro also estimated WHAT TO DO - JAMIELEE PARRISH/JOURNAL now they may be coming to see the site.” i commercm passenger jets Annalee Johnson, a senior communication major from Vernal, Utah, takes notes on presidential candidates for the DEX state officer team at a voting delegate meeting held Friday night in the Sharwan Smith Conference Center. DEX is holding its annual State CDC competition this year on the SUU campus. (continued on page 6) it BY KIMBERLY PATTERSON JOURNAL STAFF WRITER I t started as a fun, satirical project by an SUU lecturer and two of his friends, but www.thesugarbeet.com has grown into a bi-monthly newsletter that satirizes Mormon culture and receives at least 1,500 hits per week. “We had no idea that it would be like this,” ' Todd Petersen, lecturer of English composition and editor of the Sugar Beet, said. “We were just getting together to have some fun— kind of like a garage band, but all of a sudden people started asking us ‘Hey, what are you doing?"” The Sugar Beet comes out the first and third Eriday of every month. “Our first two [issues] were Olympics- centered because it is really absurd that,, people were making all these spiritual 4 connections to skiing and ice skating,” | Petersen said. “So we decided to go that way, and as the thing develops we will look at new e o - Todd Peterson and friends use uwebszte to find - a comic relief vin Mormon culture. avenues that we think could use a ltttie poking-fun of.” The third issue was launched last rlday and included satirical news stories that Petcrsen s,ud he and his friends “concocted qn our " Future issues will have pseudo, i edm)rmls criticizing or praising the' publication, reviews of movies and books that because people, I think, have been afraid that they will do damage, won't do the right thing or they’ll do something mean or make somebody feel bad or upset,” he said. Petersen said he doesn’t think that is what the Sugar Beet is doing. The entire editorial staff and writers of the Sugar Beet are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “I think that we are looking at it the way Garrison Keillor makes fun of the Lutherans in northern Minnesota,” Petersen said. “Really he’s not making fun of Lutheranism, but [of] the way people who are Lutheran have adopted these habits.” The editors are developing rules as they progress with the publication. Petersen said the people, why in the world would you want to run the risk of confusing someone else?’ His answer is that it is pretty obvious that the stories are made up. “Our very first issue had an image of the Provo Temple launching like a rocket ship,” Petersen said. “I want to be generous to people, but if you think that was real you should probably check your reality somewhuc else.” Most of the e-mails he has received gave positive feedback, however. Petersen said, “We've gotten other e-mails that say, “The Sugar Beet is great. There are so many things about Mormon culture that just set themselves up for laughs. I'm glad to see creative minds capture it.’” Sugar Beet does not poke fun at LDS doctrine, for example, “because that’s not getting what we are trying to comment on.” Instead, he said, they are trying to comment on “the way that... people take their social habits and turn them into doctrine.” “We are just going to look at | something honestly and say, d‘ ‘We see humor in this,"” T Petersen said. “It has nothing A 600-person mailing list also shows that there is a lot of support i ' 299 Petersgp, to do with theology or leadership. It has everything to do with the said the church has no official position on the way a whole bunch of people who are just hanging together have decided that they now have these kinds of habits, and it's only sort of an accident that it happens to be LDS, IfI were Catholic or one of a million other things, Sugar Beet. He said the church “doesn’t get into censoring free speech.” L-;n Petersen sees the Sugar Beet as a Way to find relief from a culture that doesn’t laugh at itself often. “There hasn’t been a large-scale humor offensive mounted in Mormon culture of absurd things and hold them up. We really try to be satirical rather than sarcastic or cynical.” Petersen knows that somepeople will take offense. He said he received a letter that accused him of wasting his time. do not exist, continuing news stoties md a breaking news list. Don Jesse, public relations spokesmanfor the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Another letter said, “There’s so much bad information in the world about Mormon I think it is equally valid to look at these kinds £ for the satirical newsletter. The idea for the Sugar Beet came from another satirical publication. Petersen said that Chris Bigelow, one of two associate editors who lives in Orem, loves reading the Onion. “Every time they poked fun at Mormons, Chris Bigelow would say, ‘We can do better than that,’” Petersen said. Now the Sugar Beet is trying to break ties from the Ondon and gain its own reputation with original ideas like fake letters to the editor and breaking news stories. Petersen said the editorial staff has tossed around the idea of turning its project into a moneymaking business, but he worries that the Sugar Beet will lose its fun and innocence if they try to turn a profit. “It gives me a chance to laugh, and if we can all laugh then we’ll cool out and maybe be a little more decent,” he said. |