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Resents boost college tuition Insido i ST GEORGE (AP) — All Utah public college students will be hit with a 38 percent tuition hike next year i I The state Board of Regents holding its monthly meeting Thursday at Dixie College voted 9-- 3 for the hike following an often-heatone-hodebate Board member Pamela Atkinson who voted against the plan said the increase would place an unfair burden on lower-incom- e students “Some of these students will have to drop out of school or not have the opportunity to attend” Atkinson said “I’m really outraged Many will be ousted from our system” “We will lose some students regretfully” Chairman Kenneth Anderton said after the vote at the board’s monthly meeting at Dixie College in St George “But we’re at a point where if we fail to come up with this basic finance package we’d begin to lose some quality faculty and staff that we can’t afford to lose” The Legislature provided only enough money to pay for three-fourtof a 3 percent faculty ed ur Riding Southern Utah’s White Rim Page 15 TnaH i hs BYU exhibit takes visitors back to Cache Holy Land hike leaving it to the regents to come up with thereat Acting University of Utah President Jerilyn McIntyre said that despite the tuition hike it is unlikely her school will be able to give more than a 25 percent raise to employees Salt Lake Community College President Frank Budd reluctantly supported the hike saying “Even though I don’t like it and I find it offensive given the circumstances we’re placed in I’d encourage the board to accept this recom- mendation” Annual tuition increases at state schools have become the norm Patricia Crane spokeswoman for the Utah System of Higher Education said tuition had been raised 20 straight years until last year when the regents decided class costs had been rising too quickly and gave students a one-ye- ar reprieve Tuition has increased more than 200 percent since 1980 Meanwhile higher education’s share of the state budget has shrunk — from 18 percent in 1990 to 157 percent next fiscal year USU fees going up By Phil Jenson staff writer It’s official students at Utah Stale University will pay higher fees when they sign up for summer quarter The Utah Board of Regents gave its routine approval Thursday to fee increases that will average $7 a quarter or 54 percent overall for full-tim- e students The higher fees will be on top of an average 38 percent tuition hike Regents approved the higher tuition for all nine 1 Scientists identify killer flu of 1918 ' since” Although the disease that caused the worldwide epidemic was called “Spanish flu” the virus apparently is a mutation that evolved in American pigs and Was spread around the globe by US troops mobilized for World War I said ThUbenberger The Army private whose tissue was analyzed contracted the flu at Fort Jackson S C For that reason Thuben-bergeran-d his colleagues suggest in the journal Science that the virus be known as Influenza ASouth Carolina Science is publishing the study today Army doctors in 1918 conducted autopsies on some of the 43000 servicemen killed by the flu and preserved some spedmens in formaldehyde and wax Thubenberger said his team sorted through 30 specimens before finding enough virus in the private's lung tissue to partially sequence the genes for haipsggluHnin and neuraminidase two key proteins in flu virus “The hemagglutinin gene matches closest to swine influenza viruses showing that this virus came into humans from'pigs” said Ihubenbergec Cache tonight if A Genealogy Workshop is From 630--9 (un today at the Oneida County meeting room 10 Court St MafitCEiry Idaho Arlene H Eakle PhD an)Lfld E Brinkarhoff will present the topiesi ‘New Migration Patterns and Sources--' and ‘American Court Records Tht cast’s $10 Olhuswnts Paged Weather - Pago 14 i i plan in late January that divides the state into two area codes Under the plan Utah Salt Lake Davis Weber and Morgan counties would retain the 801 area code The rest of the state — including Cache County — would receive a new code which is likely to be 435 Former Logan City School District Superintendent Gary Cariston has been appointed as the governor’s education deputy ‘We couldn’t ask for a better Mend’ Local educators pleased with Carlston’s appointment as Leavitt aide By JoLynne staff writer J Lyon On April 1 a Logan educator will take a step away from home to assume the post of education deputy for Utah Gov Mike Leavitt But Gary Cariston says he’s not leaving town Instead he will commute to Salt Lake City staying part of the week there with family Still he will leave his post of associate dean of the College of Education at Utah State University His new job will include advising the governor on matters concerning the public schools and higher education serving on the governor’s staff and being Leavitt’s representative in educational task forces USU administrators are attending conferences during the spring break and were unavailable to comment on his leaving But Eldon Drake a retired Utah State University administrator said he was surprised and cheered by the change “I hate to see him go because he fit into our program at Utah State” he said “I expected a great many years” Before he retired Drake worked with placing USU’s student teachers in Logan and Cache County schools He and Cari- for the Golden Apple Award an honor given to educators by KUED and the PTA Cariston received the award in 1993 To Geary it’s like saying goodbye a second time When Cariston left the district she was serving as the Logan PTA Council president She was sorry to see him go she said but she was glad to know he would be influencing the university’s education students some of whom would eventually teach in the Logan dis- served as Logan’s school superintendent Back then Drake said he noticed that Cariston was willing to accept changes which would benefit the district and he worked well with people Now a member of the Logan school board Geary is both sad and pleased to hear he is changing jobs again Other educators will lose the advantage of having him at the university she said but on Geary agrees She nominated Cariston See CARLSTON on Page 14 ston worked together when Cariston Logan School Board Member Ann trict Suicide bomber kills three in Tel Aviv TEL AVIV Israel (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up today in a street cafe crowded lined boulevard just yards away from City Hall Smoke rose from the charred wood and cloth umbrellas and napkins n and plates of food with people dressed in costumes celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim Police said two Israeli women were also half-eate- were strewn about Israel and the Palestinians killed and 47 people wounded blamed each other for the attack Hamas claimed responsibility for restored by negotiations but only with holy war whatever tie “Jerusalem will not be The Muslim militant group bomb the Arafat’s Palestinian Authority condemned the explosion the first after a yearlong lull in suinail-studd- ed Yi-ise-r AP photo he might suspend peace talks Israel reNgioua worker examine debrie for human remains aftar an xpioaion by a suicide bomber at the Apropos cafe in Tei Aviv claimed at least three other Hvet today entering IsraeL Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested saying “we are not prepared to go on this way” Among the injured was a girl in a down costume Her head was matted with blood as she was carried away screaming by Crossword Opinion Sports 17 8 10 a police woman “There was a powerful However dividing the stale fails to meet new requirements that new and existing area codes must reach capacity within 15 years of each other Under the Utah plan the 801 area code would reach capacity by 2004 while the new aide would not be exhausted before 2025 At least one additional county would need to be included in the new area code to meet the timing requirement “Customers should not make any changes relative to the new area code including business cards stationery advertising and equipment programming until advised by the industry to do so” said Duane Cooke US WEST spokesman US Russia to begin arms talks HELSINKI Finland (AP) — Still bitterly divided over NATO President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ended their wintry summit today with a blueprint to pursue a new round of arms negotiations to reduce nuclear stockpiles Sitting in a wheelchair with a stone-face- d Yeltsin stiffly beside him Ginton said Yeltsin agreed to try to secure passage of the START II treaty in the Russian Duma “But we will not stop there" the president declared in a joint news conference The leadsacrifices’’ a Hamas leadei ers agreed to begin talks on a Ibrahim Maqadmch told a START III treaty too and laid out ambitious goals for it cheering crowd of 50000 today Still Clinton was leaving in Khan Yunis on the Gaza Strip Helsinki without agreement on furiPalestinians have been ous with Netanyahy for his the most ticklish US Russia issue: expansion of NATO to derision to break ground Tuesinclude former Soviet states A a new Jewish far neighbor day Yeltsin said he hood in east Jerusalem where Palestinians want to set up a feared “a potentially threatening future capital “The terror of build up” of Western combat bulldozers led to the terror of forces near his nation's borders “We agreed to disagree” said explosives” said Ahmed Tibi Clinton who looked tired and an adviser to Arafat Netanyahu blamed Arafat uncomfortable exactly one week saying the Palestinian leader after painful knee surgery had done nothing to correct an The talks took place in the new ly hf -- Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip from red-and-bl- ue Incfox About Cache 4 20 Classifieds 17 Comics Commission The Utah Public Service Commission has tentatively delayed the phase-i- n of the new code until Sept 21 Utah regulators approved a Israel responded by barring last See FEES on Page 14 Bellcore or the North American Numbering Council The matter now is in the hands of the Federal Communications cide bomb attacks It's not only spring it feels like spring — at year that any fee hikes must be backed by students The average $7 fee hikes failing to gain approval from AP science writer WASHINGTON— TIk 1918 influenza virus that killed more than 20 million people worldwide originated roar American pigs and is unlike any other known flu bug say researchers They warn that it could strike again Using lung tissue taken at autopsy 79 years ago trap an Army private killed by thciWacwaitistsat the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology made a genetic analysis of the virus and concluded it is unique though closely related to the “swine” flu “This is the first time that anyone has gotten a look at this virus which killed millions of people in one year making it the worst infectious disease episode ever” said Or Jeffery K Ikubenberger leader of the Armed Forces Institute team “It does not match any virus that has been found ciple the board adopted last SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Plans to add a “435” area code to the 801 already in use for Utah have hit a regulatory snag after PaulRecer By The regents holding their regular meeting Thursday and today in St George said approval of the USU fee increases conformed to a prin- Area code switch hits snag Update P!JM stale colleges and universities to help pay for a 3 percent faculty pay raise Resident students at USU will pay $66 more a year in tuition for hours partially covered by a boom glass flying everywhere and there was a lot of blood” blanket Israel TV said the said the cafe’s shift manager bomber’s ID card listed him as who gave his name as RoL He sobbed hysterically sitting on the sidewalk holding his head The blackened body of the assailant lay on the cafe patio resident of the a West Bank village of Zttrif near Hebron The blast scattered chairs tables and umbrellas on a tree- - blunt-speaki- assumption by Islamic militants that they had a “green light” to carry out attacks ng built residence with towering glass 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