Show Coach Uia Stolk and assistant coach Laurie Gilbert lead the team in a last locker room cheer before they start their game against the Rebels from St George Lady Eagles drop games Senate and to both Snow and Dixie Haley Briggs drives 1C Since 1979 CEU has not had a winning season: by Stacee Pene staff writer College of Eastern Utah's women's basketball team dropped games against Snow College 65-5- 1 on January 29 and Dixie 9 on the 30 in the BDAC "In our game against Snow we really fouled too much and didn't rebound enough Our turnovers were the biggest factor When we average 30 turnovers per game there is no way we can expect to win" coach Lisa Stolk 84-6- said "Against Dixie we played well LcAnn Adams had an excellent rebounding game but we just got to far behind and couldn't catchup The turnovers killed us again” The Snow game's high saver for CEU was Tammy Taylor with 12 points Cindy Jones and Stephanie Chadwick both netted eight points Taylor also ended oRussia (continued from page 2) "Openness" is the idea of the people of Russia gaining greater amounts of freedom he said Browning explained this point by citing that more authors are being published Another example is multiple candidates running in elections In conclusion Browning expressed the idea that the Russians who were behind the United States in progressive thinking may now be gaining an edge past a Dixie opponent in drop football program (continued from page 6) mented to make football finan-ciall- y solvent Even maintenance with four steals and three assists Chadwick had three of each and Becky Barms totalled three assists Jones was top rcboundcr for the game with 10 During the Dixie game Chadwick earned 13 points while Haley Briggs scored 12 and Barms made 11 Adams finished out the game with 19 rebounds and four blocked shots while Michele blocked two shots The Lady Eagles next home game is Tuesday Feb 9 at 5:15 pm against Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC) CNCC is 0 and 10 in conference and6and 14 overall They are in ninth place with the Eagles in eiglh "We have already beaten Rangely CNCC and we are counting on a win but it all depends on the turnovers" coach Stolk added oForensics (continued from page 4) way tie for second place In addition to ha CA trophy Melissa Jewell also broke in two other events taking fourth in Poetry Interpretation and making it to the semi final rounds of Informative Speaking Three other CEU students missed the finals by one point: Walz in Dramatic Interpretation Bryncr in Impromptu and Billy Thomas in Prose Interpretation the BDAC The committee recommended that there are no financial resources in other programs of the college which could be reallocated to upgrade football to the extent necessary to produce a successful program for It is CEU to scale back the program even further to produce financial solvency to do so would make the program even less competitive than it now is ‘ ‘And finally the comimhee recommended that the CEO Inter-collegiate football program be eliminated immediately and that the savings be rcallocatccd to improve the remaining sports and to recruit new students to replace the lost enrollment from dropping football counter-producti- A consequence of these losing season has been disappointing attendance at home games This season average attendance at CEU's home games was 362 Of the 362 148 tickets were purchased and another 213 children students and staff attended the average game The impact of losing is clear in the attcndanc patterns At CEU's first game against Phoenix College CEU had its largest crowd 467 For CEU's last game against Scottsdale 220 were in attendance During the entire season a total of 742 tickets were sold which produced gate receipts of $1756 a shortfall of $2244 below the amount budgeted from that revenue source The committee felt that if football is continued at CEU a major goal would be rccruilin on Utah-base- d significant new fundinj milled an even more grant-in-ai- d of the status quo will require CEU to cither tolerate ongoing deficits or add about $40000 to the football budget Establishment of a successful winning program will require funding at a level at least 50 percent higher ($100000) than current budgets allow Even then because of the strength of the WSFL and the strong programs against which CEU will have to recruit it is realistic to assume that it will be three to five years before the Eagles would have a winning season Senate discussions After the senate decided to drop the football program much of the content of the member's discussion was centered on the of the football budget The members were told that if by some means an additonal $50000 were made available prior to the (continued on page 8) program: plan would have ve j o |