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Show Page Four rHE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1971 Utah Colleges Face Problem of Checking Rising Costs in 4 Years September Sight Saving Month This newspaper strongly endorses the efforts of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness and its state affiliates to detect and fight causes of needless vision loss. The Societys literature proclaims again and again: Our one purpose: saving sight We think it a worthy purpose indeed. Drowning in Committees Many, people can remember an anecdote that went the rounds at the time of Lindbergs epic solo flight across the Atlantic. An office employee rushed into his bosss office to report the Paris landing and to remark that Lindberg did it all alone. His boss, wise in the ways of old style corporation management where one man often took responsibility for making decisions, replied, How did you expect him to do it, with a committee? As this story implies, committees are seldom noted for great achievements although they have become indispensable in the conduct of business and government especially government. A brief release reports that federal agencies believe so strongly in committees and commissions that there are now more than 3,200 such groups set up to counsel with governmental units in Washington. The release added that the new Congress should be encouraged to weed out all advisory bodies that do not actually contribute to more effective operation of the federal government. To put it mildly, this sounds like good advice. Three thousand plus committees are enough to paralyze even the strongest of governments. Crowding Women Like It, Men Don't Much lias been written on overcrowding and its adverse effect on people, but a Columbia University psychologist has discovered that many women seem to like crowding while men dislike it. Dr. Jonathan Freedman reported that women tend to become friendlier and less aggressive under crowded conditions while men react just the opposite, becoming suspicious and combative. Much more research needs to be done on crowding, but two major discoveries from Dr. Freedmans studies thus far: Crowding has little effect on human performance on a wide variety of tasks. It does not affect the ability to do tasks ranging from tediously simple and routine to rather interesting and complex, from totally nonintellectual to highly creative. behavior is affected by crowding. The fascinating aspect of this work is that men and women seem to respond in opposite ways. The point is that crowding per se may not be bad psychologically speaking. The present findings suggest that perhaps we should not be surprised to find our great cities continuing to function despite the tremendous crowding. --oOo The world s most deadly animal may be the sea a five inch jellyfish which drifts with the waters off wasp Australia. Swimmers brushed by its trailing tentacles usually die within five minutes from cobra-lik- e venom. There is no known antidote. (Continued from page 1) These increases in nonresident tuitions have scaled down but by no means eliminated the subsidy that Utah taxpayers make toward the education of out-of- ? state students, Utah Foundation analysts point out. At the various Utah public institutions the charges to nonresident students range between 54 and 86 percent of actual cost. The efforts made to require that nonresident students at the Utah public colleges pay a higher proportion of actual costs appear to have reduced the percentage of such out of state enrollments. The proportion of non resident enrollment at the Utah public colleges has declined from 22.9 per cent in 1966-6- 7 to 15 per cent in 1970-7The Foundation report cites a federal study which shows that Utahns tend to stay within the state for their college training, while Utah institutions attract relatively large numbers of out of state students. Of the 47,051 Utah residents attending college in 1968, approximately 93.4 per cent were enrolled at Utah institutions and only 6.6 percent were attending college in some 1. Expensive Deer the other state. On the other hand, there were 64,962 students enrolled at all Utah colleges and universities, of which 67.6 per cent were Utah residents, and 21,036 of 32.4 per cent were non residents of the state. A substantial part of the to Utah colleges results from the attraction of BYU. Unlike the experience of many other states, the private institutions in Utah (particularly BYU) have grown faster than public institutions during the past decade. Between 1960 and 1970 enrollment growth at the private institutions amounted to 139 per cent, compared with a total enrollment increase of 112 at the public colleges. Enrollments are expected to continue to increase during the first part of the 1970s but may level off after the mid 1970s, according to the Foundation. Although demographers see a new growth in birth rates in the making, it would take 18 years be-fany such increase would have much effect on higher education. Thus, no new surge in college enrollments is anticipated much before the latter part or 1 1 A SID GRAPEVINE Salt Lake City Commission has agreed to pay $3,000 in storage fees for 45 cars left in a private impoundment lot after the city opened its own impoundment lot The cars were being moved from from Utah Recovery and Impound lot, and will be sold at public auction and the proceeds are expected to cover in part the storage fees. Payment of $11,420.00 by the Utah State Department of Finance to Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. for a traffic for Salt Lake City is to bestudy approved by the city commission The check has been sent to the city recorders office. The federal government will reimburse the city for the study, involving traffic operations programs to increase the capacity and safety on city streets. Utah has been selected as one of six states to receive monies and contracts from the U.S. Department of Transportation to equipment used to' take a deer. fight the problem of the drinking of the 1980-199- 0 decade. The maximum fine for viola- driver. Governor Calvin L. tion of a Utah wildlife law is Rampton said the state will rePoaching Count Deer poaching recently cost a $299 and-o- r six months in jail. ceive up to $2 million allocation Division of Wildlife Resource for the development of an AlcoUtah man $897 in fines and a officers noted a trend of more hol Safety Action Project. six month jail sentence for three counts of unlawful possession serious public concern for the Monies will be spent in five wildlife of the state. Instead of counties of Utah, Box Elder, Daof game animals. Public assistance helped the merely complaining about illegal vis, Weber, Salt Lake and Utah. Wildlife Resources officers in a acts they see, people are taking The study programs will follow investigation which action to expose those who steal the drinking driver through his led to the arrest of a Salt Lake wildlife from the public. Such problems with the law and atman found in possession of parts informatoinal assistance is kept tempt to involve him with reof three recently killed deer. in strict confidence by wildlife habilitation agencies within the Deer hunting is illegal until the officers. counties. season 28. Increased back country patrols opens Aug. archery A Salt Lake county court fined have been necessary the last few Commissioner Conrad Harrison the violator $299 and sentenced years, according to a Division has been directed him to 60 days in jail on each spokesman. Limited funds have Commission to set by the City up a joint city of the three counts. Confiscated hampered this phase of law ento county discuss the meeting were parts of two fawns, part of forcement essential for the pro- Salt Lake jail opan adult deer and the archery tection of Utahs wildlife. erations problem. County Commissioners in a memo to the city commission have declined to acf? He jJE-RT- lcr BIRD I cept full control and operations of Salt Lake Citys portion of peppom OPP the jail until they have discussed PNCE5 the matter and the possible conr tractual agreement by the two parties. The city has contended that it cannot continue to operate personnel in the jail with the present budget allotment. The city contended they will save over $65,000 a year by withdrawing the 11 employees presently working in the jail. mid-Augu- st City-Coun- v$ ty J F -- V dial 860 Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! Everyone cries over the rising drug problem but when agencies are established to combat the problem the same people complain that the agency is bad. This is the dilemma that faces the Community Drug Crisis Center. Residents of the neighborhood where the center is located are complaining that the center is undersupervised and that there is criminal action taking place. 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