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Show "' . THE THUNDERBIRDOSOU ERSITYOMONDAY JANUARY 27, 19920PAGE 3 Fees fund activities (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) go to buy student computer equipment," he said. The equipment supplies a personal computer network containing valuable word processing, database and spreadsheet software programs. After dedicating $12 per full-time student to this network , summing $99,384 for the 1990-91 academic year, another $10-15 lab fee is assessed for almost every computer science or management information systems class. Randquist explained the difference. "What the $12 covers is hardware for the different computer labs on campus. We took this year's fees and put 20 new computers in the Centrum, room 209, and 15 new computers, Macintosh, in the Centrum." According to Randquist, the $12 services fee purchases and maintains the various labs and tutors for general use, while the $10-15 course fees for specific classes fund the respective departments. "The course fees go to the department ... you're paying for lab assistants, consumables such as paper, ribbons, and things like that." Several related fees are the student body fee, $8.25; the Student Center activity fee, $5; and the student body scholarship fee, $1. These fees aid a variety of programs and activities, dances and concerts. The student body scholarship fee provides a stipend for some students working in student government. The open recreation and intramurals fee amounts to $2 per full-time student. In addition to this student body fee, there is generally an additional registration fee required of each team. Intramural basketball, for example, costs an extra $20 per team, generally with 10 members each. John Angell, director of student activities, said, "When you look at the cost of officials and equipment and everything, it won't cover everything, and that's why there is an additional fee," he said. Open recreation, he added, requires life guards at the swimming pool, a cage attendant, and its accompanying sports equipment. SUUSA President Kimber Heaton said, "It works out to be a pretty good deal in the long run. " With an $8.25 student body fee funding activities like the Starlight Club, students may ask themselves why an additional admission fee is charged. SUUSA dances also typically cost $2 per person at the door, even after paying student services fees . According to Heaton, paying a small amount separate from the services fee encourages activity. Most activities in the past were offered at no additional cost, but this resulted in low participation. Heaton said students seem more willing to attend activities that charge admission. He said, "Most of the activities that we charged for were better attended than those we didn't charge for. We get more students out to the place. I don't know why that is." A small profit is made on the dances, be explained, but it is returned to the budget. " It gives us a chance to provide more entertainment," he said. Non-traditional students and others who don't participate in these activities, or attend open recreation and intramurals have complained in the past, be said, about having to contribute to these fee categories, but not requiring all to pay, said Heaton, would result in cutbacks in activity offerings. Debaters fare well What do Robert Bork, tobacco smoking, feminism, billboards, anorxia and guns have in common? All relate to advertising and SUU's afftrmative debate cases. · The SU debate squad competed against 85 schools from across the nation last week at the Great Salt Lake Invitational Tournament, the largest U.S. invitational debate tournament, and brought home 16 different awards. Brian Hall and Jeff Bradley advanced to the elimination rounds but lost to UCLA. Gary Mullennax and Shanna Morgan had a 5-1 record in p reliminary rounds and was seeded fifth into elimination rounds of the junior division. Mullennax also received an individual debate award. Winning individual competitors included Kim Lewis, who won communication analysis and placed second in impromptu speaking; Sandy Shiner, who took third place in impromptu speaking, ftrst in junior duo interpretation with Mullennax and was a finalist in after-dinner speaking. Also, Erin Waldman won programmed oral interpretation. In the junior division Sasha Volkov won after-dinner speaking and placed second in poetry interpretation. Alecia Thompson placed third in both informative speaking and communication analysis. Ronald Coleman, an expert on African-American history, discussed the culture through song dun·ng his Convo presentation. Coleman's lecture was a prelude to Black H istory Month which begins in February. Coleman sings to vivify lecture BY SANDY LORD Thunderbird Co"espondmt Using both song and the spoken word, Ron Coleman, an associate professor of history at the University of Utah and a specialist on African-American history, offered bis insight on the evolution of African-American Christianity. Coleman's Convocation presentation Thursday was a prelude to a series of Black History Month activities set for February. Focusing on the movement, growth, and musi~ of the African-American tradition, Coleman said, "African-Americans didn't totally accept the evangelic religion, they shaped and developed and gave meaning to their own lives. They transformed Christianity into a religion of resistance, resistance to sustain against all odds." According to Coleman, the AfricanAmericans developed strategies to survive and endure, and two historical figures in the Christian religion, Jesus and Moses, helped the slaves gain peace and freedom. " By assimilating Moses to Jesus and Jesus to Moses they found spiritual freedom. Merging these two figures, the slaves were able to create a union to deliverience as a people." According to Coleman, religion and religious music were the basis of all survival for the African-Americans. He said, "In our tradition there is a great deal of emphasis placed on music. Song is important." He asked, ''What is it that gives an individual help to sustain themselves against all odds? " For himself, he said the answer is music. Coleman added that be often looks to the old slave songs for spiritual comfort. "African-American religious music will always be a bucket which brings forth refreshment." To emphasize his point, Coleman began singing a rendition of "Precious Glory," an old slave folk song. Coleman concluded bis address by singing a poem by James W. J ohnson, the creator of the Black National Anthem. Bishop replaces veep Smith BY CHERIS TUCKER of The Thunderbird Staff When Sharwan Smith, elected SUUSA vice president of activities, left on an LDS mission before her term expired this quarter, junior psychology major Brad Bishop landed her job without any problems. Although Smith's position is an elected one, under the SUUSA Constitution, the SUUSA president can appoint a replacement who is then approved by the senate to fill the post. President Kimber Heaton recently appointed Bishop to assume the position. Bishop said, ''Sharwan basically took care of all that before she left. She had already asked me to take over. " It was really hard coming in two quarters into the year," be said. "Especially since everyone was used to bow Sharwan ran thingswhich was kind of casual. However, I was raised by a military man and am more of a hands-on type person." One thing that Bishop did immediately upon obtaining the job was start a student activities hotline. " It bas been a campaign promise for so long it almost made me want to vomit," he said. He noted that it was fairly easy to accomplishall he bad to do was get a machine and record a message detailing all of the student activities. Students may reach the hotline by calling 586-7760. After the message is over, students may leave a message for student government. "We really want to get input from the students-especially from the summer .school students," he said. "We want to know what. kind of activities the traditional students want to have during the summer-most of the events last year were aimed at the non-traditi~nal students." Bishop also has three other activities lined up, including an event April 1, which will pit the forensic squad and students from the theatre department in a battle of wits. Bishop also plans an activity resembling Jeopardy that will test contestants on Star Trek trivia. His last activity planned will be a performance showcase of the main performing groups on campus, including Orchesis and OPUS, set for mid-April. ·. |
