Show o Football axed by CEU Senate of a 2 part series) Fall quarter weekends at the College of Eastern (Part Tuio fc t all t ary goal posts uilii bo tbo only rsmslns of CK's football program oftor tbls goar Asbestos removal begins By Denise Kabonic Eagle Editor aEmonmnSs footballiplayem voIntmvIewT W XvX Xfr S tDeansUst n jopsingiesam jalbumslnii vy—VX-- ‘Drug andAlcohol Awareness Week 'jwrtsi $Bemfncogm laxservfa A full-sca- le asbestos removal is currently underway at the old hospital in Price by personnel of the State Division of Facilities Construction Management and the Utah Department of Correctionsfttah Correctional Industries for later use of the building by the College of Eastern Utah Preliminary work on the asbestos removal began several months ago by carefully selected low risk minimum security inmates from the Utah State Prison The job will give them on the job training and teach them a marketable skill The hospital was donated to CEU three years ago by Price City and Carbon County when asbestos which causes hmg cancer if habitually inhaled was discovered President Michael Petersen said when the building is completed it will be used for the computer science center business center and the family life child development program Forty percent of CEU’s students will use the building on any given day Quantities of asbestos was found in the building far in excess of CEU’s ability to economically remove iL President Petersen said without the cooperation of a number of government agencies including county government and the people of the correctional facilities the building would not have been utilized “Had it not been for this program we would have been forced to close the building down and leave it unused" President Petersen said “It would have been a tragedy for the college and the community" Asbestos removal is expected to be completed by this spring and classes in part of the building may begin in about a year J 1 Utah will once again remain silent as intercollegiate football was dropped for the second time in the school's history by the CEU Senate January 11 It is expected that the Institutional Council will follow in its next meeting tentatively scheduled this week In a motion to the senate made by Mary Helen Powell to officially drop football and seconded by Nancy Taniguchi the senate voted to drop the program after some discussion on the football ad hoc committee recommendations Ad hoc committee Prior to the senate meeting an ad hoc committee was formed to evaluate and review the CEU football program This decision to fonn a committee was made after the resignation of CElTs third head football conch in as many years The committee consisted of college and community representatives to review the program and prepare a recommendation for consideration by the CEU Senate and Institutional Council In the committee's report they unanimously agreed that the football program should be dropped unless significant new resources (their estimate was approximately $50000) could be added to the current budgets to improve the program The committee also recommended that if football were dropped that the savings should be used to improve the remaining intercollegiate sports and to recruit students to offset the enrollment losses from dropping football Most CCs do not have football Some of the findings the commitnee found was that the vast majority of community colleges in the United States do not participate in intercollegiate football Only 168 of the over 1200 community colleges in the nation have football programs Even those numbers exaggerate the situation however Seventy one of the 168 football programs are in California community colleges which prohibit recruiting awarding athletic travel and distances certain scholarhsips beyond The California community college football limitations make their programs more similar to advanced high school activities than to the National Junor College Athletic Associations (NJCAA) standard that CEU followes The football programs in only 92 colleges less thatn 8 percent of the commuity colleges in the country are approved by the NJCAA Six of the nine Mountain West states prohibit intercollegiate football programs in pubic community colleges Only in Utah do a majority of the two-yecolleges (60 percent) maintain football programs However now that CEU has dropped its program 3 of the 3 community eoleges would not have football With the exception of Snow College the colleges in the Mountain West with foootball are much larger than CEU and conscqucnyly have greater budgets student fees and booster contribution bases on which to draw to fund their programs As an illustration of the disadvantage that creates for CEU last year 900 FTE students at CEU paid an average of $3 1 each in student fees which were allocated to football Thai produced out-of-distr- ict ar (continued on page 2) |