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Show -- 2- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, DIXIESUNNEWS.COM 2014 Watch Jiselle Tejeras video about veterans speaking out against the tobacco ban at DixieSunNews.com pted onfiooira The Student Fee Allocation Committee declares 3 to 7 percent BY HAYLIE GREENHALGH Staff Writer said there is no way to avoid it. fee allocation recommendation Student Body President Carlos were that there will be a $5.35 Morgan, a senior communication increase for recreation needs, a $2.30 increase for computer major from Santa Clara, said the only way to avoid a larger upkeep, a $2 increase for the increase is to lay off faculty, Health and Wellness Center, a which is not an option because $1 increase for Testing CenDixie is growing. e ter renovations, a $1 The projected 3 to 7 percent a fund and fee, $2.50 expense increase will affect tuition rates decrease for the Road to Sucfor this upcoming year. The cess program. increase has been 3 percent for For me, it proved that the last few years, and students although some necesare having a hard time grasping sary changes are taking why there is a larger increase place, and we may this year. see a small increase I came to Dixie because of in tuition costs, our the low cost of tuition, said administration has Ami Phillips, a sophomore our best interests at health science major from Boise, heart, said Chris Idaho. If I wouldve known Gallagher, a about the increase, I may have sophomore chosen a different university to general education major go to. The changes in the student from Alpine. one-tim- Dixie State University students will likely see a tuition increase of 3 to 7 percent for the upcoming school year, estimated by the Student Fee Allocation Committee. Tuition and fee proposals for next year were presented at the Truth in Tuition meeting Feb. 11 in the Jennings Building. Student fees this upcoming year will be $331, compared to last years student fees, which were $321.50. Dean of Students Del Beatty said the increase is due to the Affordable Heathcare Act and a loss in state revenue. He The exact cost of tuition for the upcoming school year will not be released until all decisions are finalized. Veterans speak out Bill proposes National against tobacco ban One Love Day to help abusive relationships BY EMILY BILLS News Editor A group of veterans at Dixie State University are speaking out against the tobacco ban. The tobacco ban went into effect this semester. Although the ban isnt strict and campus police arent issuing citations yet, Dean of Students Del Beatty said the ban will be more severe next fall. Dave Gaspardo, a veteran and a junior integrated studies major from Springfield, 111., said the ban breaches civil liberties and constitutional rights for free expression. I see it as an infringement of rights, Gaspardo said. Yes, I am a smoker. Yes, I am hying to quit. But . . . the administration, I feel, is refusing to even compromise and have an area for smoking. -Beatty said there was a lot of discussion about having smoking areas on campus, and the box. He said veterans should be allowed to leave class and have a cigarette to calm down. We understand that people dont like to be around others smoking, Gaspardo said. We try to stay out of the way. An outright refusal is a slap in the face, especially since, to my knowledge, the majority of the smokers on campus are veterans. We wore the uniform for your right to say we cant smoke but also our right to smoke. Health Sciences Dean Carole Grady said the student senator responsible for the ban approached her years ago, and she encouraged him to advocate for the ban. If it is because of stress disorder, I certainly empathize with the veterans, Grady said. However, it doesnt take much of a walk off campus if they need to smoke. Gaspardo said for higher enrollment rates, administration needs to listen and work with minority groups on campus. We are a small mi- 1 BY JON MEOLI MCT U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger joined the family of slain University of Virginia lacrosse player and Cockeysville native Yeardley Love and Towson University officials Tuesday morning to announce a House of Representatives bill that would make May 3, the anniversary of Loves We wore death. National One Love Day for relationship violence awareness. to say we May 3 was the worst day of our lives, for both Lexie and me, Yeardleys smoke also Sharon Love, said Tuesday at mother, to smoke. a press conference Tuesday at Towson Dave Gaspardo, nority, Gaspardo said. Universitys Unitas Stadium. I lost my But if you arent going precious daughter, Yeardley, and Lexie to listen to us, why lost her sister and best friend to relationshould we stay here? ship violence. If May 3 is memorialized, idea of a tobacco-fre- e 111. Administration wants it Springfield, will help to spare other families and campus was thought of to reflect the needs and friends of this devastating loss we have years ago by previous values of the commuhad to endure. Dixie State University nity; however, there are Yeardley Love was weeks from graduStudent Association certain sections of the at the University of Virginia when ation members. He said surveys were administered that they are her community to students and the response was an overGeorge Huguely, attotally ignoring. tacked and killed in her her whelming amount of students who said they Beatty advised the veterans to contact tire was convicted of apartment. Huguely wanted a tobacco-fre- e campus. Beatty said board of trustees to amend the policy. second-degre- e murder and sentenced to administration has just recently been aware of If they want that, they need to work to 23 years in prison. the veterans concerns. change the policy, he said. But right now, Since Yeardley Loves death, her moth, People may not like it, and thats you have to live by the policy. er and older sister have worked tirelessly and thats fine, but they had 3 and a half Beatty said there are almost 1,700 campuses with the One Love Foundation, which years to express that, Beatty said. nationwide that are tobacco-freHe said DSU in created they said Yeardleys honor and Gaspardo compromise is key. is the only institution other than Brigham which to aims end This whole country is built on relationship violence. comproYoung University in the state of Utah that has In September 2012, Loves alma mise, Gaspardo said. You have to settle on taken on the tobacco ban. mater, Notre Dame Prepratory School compromise somewhere. Not everybody can This is not driven by any kind of religious in Towson, unveiled a new turf field get everything they want. view or making money or anything like that, at the school that was funded by donaHe said with todays technology, students said. It is driven because it is not Beatty tions to both the school and the foundado a lot of research before they go to a school. healthy. tion. Through its Be One For Change Regardless of the popular mentality, a lot Gaspardo said he has several friends who of students arent going to come here if campaign, which began in fall 2012, the have attended DSU who have left and will they see a pattern of intolerance and foundation has also created a smartphone elitism, never come back because they didnt feel that high school and college students app Gaspardo said. comfortable here. can use to assess relationship violence as said Gaspardo smoking has calming effects, Tire way we see it is for them to outright and talking about war and battles in a historiwell as filmed public service announcedeny us a smoking area does nothing but cal context in class ments. brings up powerful memoreinforce administrations reputation for being ries for veterans who have been in the sand Ruppersberger said during Tuesdays elitist and intolerant, said. post-traumat- ic the uniform for your cant right but our right a junior integrated studies major from off-camp- us then-right- e. Gaspardo event that Sharon Love visited him in Washington just under a year ago and asked for his support for National One Love Day. I was floored to learn just how pervasive this challenge is, Ruppersberger said, citing statistics that say two million people are assaulted by an intimate partner each year and that one in three female homicide victims is killed by a husband, or boyfriend. When Sharon asked me, as her congressman, to introduce National One Love Day each May 3 to raise awareness of this topic, I didnt hesitate to get involved, Ruppersberger said. Ruppersberger said he introduced the bill, which he called common sense legislation and is by U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes, on Friday. Valentines Day, we felt, was a perfect opportunity to bring up a subject that too often gets swept under the rug, and that is the issue of relationship violence, he said. Speaking on behalf of the university, Deb Moriarty, Towson Universitys Vice President of Student Affairs, said the school takes this work very seriously. She touted the myriad of peer and professional counseling services made available to students and the importance of getting students involved in education about is- sues like relationship violence. Whether its a victim or victimizer, I think there s education that we can share with lots and lots of people, and we can make a difference, Moriarty said. So I think that this bill ... and having a day that focuses on this, will give us in the university world a real platform for mak- ing a difference. Moriarty also commended the Love family on their strength to make such a positive difference in the lives of others. As a mother of a college student, I just cant imagine the strength that Sharon Love possesses, her and her daughter, Lexie, to come forward and make some- thing good of the terrible tragedy that befell their daughter and their family. ; (c)2014 Mclatchy Tribune Information Services. |
