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Show THE THUNDERBlRD • SO UTHERN UTAH UNIVERS!n' • TH URSDAY, MAY 27, 1993 • ·PAGE 3 New lights on campus replace 50 yr. old ones $44,000 more worth of lights still planned BY JEFF MARTIN ThundeTbird Sr.aff Writer On Sunday May 2nd, the most recent in a string of assault cases occurring on the upper campus was reported. Apparently, a female student was able to break free from her atraclcer with out any erious injury, and run to afety. Seeing that this was an all too frequent ocrurrence here on campus, the university has now taken steps to help prevent such cases-with more powerful lights. Since January, maintenance has installed several new light poles around the Llhrary and Music building and between the Braithwaite and Old Main buildings. Also the dimly lit 100 W att bulbs were replaced with tronger, more efficient 175 W att bulbs, according to Lucky Feldstead, mai ntenance upervisor. According to Jim T umer, chief of Security at SUU, the rate of reported cases of harassment have gone down noticeably ince the new lights have been installed. "I have really been pushing for new lighting for quite a while. The old lights have been up there for fifty years and really needed to be upgraded," said Turner. Feldstead said each new pole came with an $800 price tag and the new light bulbs ran around $320 a piece. When asked where the money to upgrade the lighting came from, Feldstead said there was a Special Force Account set aside specifically for this purpose. He addecl that the project has been expensive, but well worth the money. "Bill Bcat:ty, Quinn Mathews, Matt Vanderburg and Dallas Jones are the main men on the job. They really worked hard to make the whole think ha.ppen," said Feldstead . It was also reported that another $44,000 in new lighting is planned to be installecl before school next fall. Mandy Gillespie, a Sophomore from Farmington , was quite pleased with the lighting changes that have taken place on campus. "My friends and I feel a lot better walking home from the Ubrary at night. The old lights were so dim that I just didn't feel safe afrer darlc," said Gillespie. l ·1 I I Rick Robats, a senior from SL Gemge, has been named as SUU's 1993 valedictorian. As Oil£ o/ che unit.oersicy's outsranding scholars, Roberts will deliver the wledictory addre.u al the June 5 commencement exercises in t~ Centnun. Delta Sigtna Chi goes. international Evaluations upgraded BY JENNIFER MORLEY Tlumdrn,ird Editm On May 22, 53 members of SUU's local fraternity, Delta Sigma Chi, were initiated into Sigma Chi international fraternity to become the Kappa IOOl chap!cr, Sigma Clu's 229th chaptl!r. The brothers of Kappa Iota were doubly honored as Grand Cons\Jl Joel L Cunningham. president of Susquehanna University i.n Sellingigrovc, Pennsylvania, atn:nded the initiation ceremonies and instlllled the chapter. Cunningham is the international president over all Sigma Chi chap«ers in both the United States and Canada. At a banquet that evening, SUU Pteiident Gctald R. Sherratt spoke and praised SUU's Gtttlc system and the newly initi2m:l members of s~ Chi. "There will be a time that this chapter will be the best in your whole fraternity," Sherratt said to Cunningham. Members of Sigma Chi's Beta EpsUon chapter, from the University of Ulllh; Zeta Chi, UNl:V; and Gamma Kappa, Utah State University, assisted with the initiation cettrnonics along with Cunningham, former Grand • C.Onsul 'Keith B. Soren5Cll, Utah-Nevada Province Grand Preator Jerry Nelson, Dimctor of Chapter Development Vi~ccnt J. Fernald and Assistant Executive Secrewics David C . Beny and Rodney A . Miller. Delta Sigma Chi was founded on September 28, 1989 by 26 individuals of wtying and diverse backgrounds. ln January 1990, the group filed I Deduation of Intent with Sigma Chi Fra~mity and wett granted peritioni.n g local Statu1 in April. In the chapter's second year, the group doubled in size and was awarded the SUU Orpnilation of che Year award in recognition of their oonaibutions ID the campus and oommunity. BY SHERRI DODGSON TiuindeT-bi,-d Correspondent According to SUUSA Arts and l...ctters Senator Matt Lopez, a proposal requiring rurrent teacher evaluations to add three new quesuons-:--r.aising the total to 20-is being put forth to the fao.ilty seria~ by swdent government. Lopez says.the evaluation will resemble the existing one utilning scantrons :md.ranking teachers on a percentage basis. A separate 5et ( . of questions proposed by fonm:r Am and letters Senator Sasha Volkov has already been approved by the faculty and will most likely used at the end of fall quarte.r. Lopez wants the results of the evaluations posted in the campus . library for student review saying, "This will allow students to make an educated choice (of professor) for themselves." If the senate's proposed questions .are not passed by the &culty, a separate survey wi11 be handed out along with the faculty's. - Cost of living in southern Utah rising 'moderately' The oost of living in southern Utah continued to rise relative to other cities and towns across the nation during the fourth quarter o f 1992, said Alan Hamlin, professor of bu iness at SUU. The cost ofliving index in St George rose from 99.6 percent of the national average in the third quarter of last year to 101.3 percent by the end of the fourth quarter. Ukewise the oost of living in Cedar C ity rose between the third and fourth quarters, from 89.5 percent to 91.2 percent of the national average, said Hamlin, who oonducts a quarterly analysis which is published by the American Chamber of C.Ommercc Researchers Association-ACCRA. "This is to be cxpectM," Hamlin said. "Usually during strong growth periods, costs escalatt faster than national avenges. Howe11et, our overall price levels remain quite attl3Ctive-apecially when compattd to areas from which we draw business and family relocations. For example, Las Vegas ame in at 106.7 percent and Los Angeles was 134.7 percent That should be an attractive inducement to businesses to locate to our area.~ As a percentage of the national average, cost breakdowns in Cedar City were: food, 103.3; housing, 104.7; utilities, 81.9; transportation, 108.2; health care, 106.2; and miscellaneous, 100.1 percent. ·one reason why composite scores rose was an incrc.asc in housing figures," said Hamlin. ·Quarter three figures indicated tha.t a new 1,800 square-foot home in St. George cost $117,175, while the cost rose in the fourth quarter to $120,000. Housing in Cedar rose by the same type of house from $91,000 to $92,000. The increase brought the price of an average single funily home in Cedar C ity to above those in Provo and Salt Lake. An increase in rents accompanied the rise in housing purchase costs, he-noted. The average monthly rent for a two bedroom one bath apanrnent in St. George rose by $5 from $463 to $468 between the. third and fourth quarters, while rent for a similar apartment.in Cedar went up from $342 to $356 on average. have a siruation where land values and building assessments are rising, which benefits land and home owners. Rents in both cities have risen substantially over the past two years, which is resulting in more construction of both oommercial and residential dcvdopments," Hamlin said. • Although more needs to be done to increase wages, it is good to know that average inoomes can buy more in southern Utah than elsewhere." • Not only is our relative oost of living l~r than in many other areas, ow costs uc rising at a moderate pace," he said. ·we I i I :r ! |