Show College of Eastern Utah CoSege Of Eastern Utah Library Price Utah Tho EagloTVolumo XVillT Number rThe Vole 12 Of The Student Price Ut 84$0lT Thundery May 1219941 Privacy exemption of salaries mandated bv legislature: Aftershock of ruling hits CEU employees Jaran Holder news editor On May 2 the Utah Legislature's passed a disclosures law staling that the salary records of university and college employees became public information Before the decision the Utah System of Higher Education had given some information of salaries on an annual basis but only for certain departments and names weren't matched with figures “If anything" said John McCullough anthropology professor and chairman of the Senate at the University of Utah as quoted from The Soli Lake Tribune "faculty are pleased salaries were revealed so the public can see that Utah professors make less than employed at comparable institutions in other states" The comparison to other states is just the beginning It's the comparison between faculty members that may lead to claims of discrimination and may as McCullough said "cost the stale some in lawyer fees" The University of Utah however is still keeping the salaries of many of their athletic coaches secretive The U claims that "Since athletics gets no salary money from funds it has been determined that we are not required to release coaches' salaries unless they want to And the coaches have determined that they don't want to release their salaries" said Ted Capcner vice president for university relations as quoted from the Deseret News Also only 3800 U employees out of 13000 revealed their salaries Since the new law is referred to as funds” which means tax dollars to most people many believe "state-appropriat- President 80000 $82000 Lowest paid Highest paid 60000 interested "I feel that salaries ought to stay private" said President Michael Petersen “But when the state changed the regulations I thought the college should oblige" Petersen went on to say that "There hasn't been much curiosity around campus with the exception of a few faculty members and Many lawmakers have vowed to change the law to require fuller discloscr after the U's refusal to list so many salaries "1 will do everything I can to make sure that docs happen because that was the intent of this year's bill" said Sen Howard Stephenson R- - reporters" j The following salaries have been rounded and in the case of a professor teaching more than one class hcshc has been placed under the subject in which they spend the majority of their time teaching Some employees are paid on nine ten eleven or twelve month salaries The base salaries reported reflect their yearly income not the length of their contract Admlnstration j $31300 $47350 Physical Plant director Geography Division Chair 40000 $40000 $21200 Truck driving 20000 President (14 years) $82000 former vice president (27) 567550 and current VP (17) $36 300 dean of student life (23) $53000 dean of finance (13) S52500 humanities division chair (3) 40000 science division chair (39) SSI 400 associate dean of instruction (18) 4600 snjoso Museum education 10000 coordinator 0 Faculty Staff Facu ty Administration An dept (32) $39400 (6) 28400 Business (3) 542150 (19) 533800 (3) $29230 (3) 529250 Building trades instructor (I) $35200 Chemistry: (6) 529250 (3) 534750 Draper as quoted from The Salt Lake Tribune But around the CEU campus administrators were willing to make copies of employee salaries with names and titles to anyone that those paid through private funds like coaches paid out of ticket sales and Crimson Gub donations should not be included in the public salary listings Computer office information systems: (23) $38950 (4)- 528350 Communications: (4) $28350 (I) 533350 (ton Disclosure on page 8) V'V v- : xsv j! r x s ¥ 4 ?s VvA v J V Prehistory Week receives media attention from Channel 5 news by Jartn Holder nows1: editor : v V : " ' & :v' 'V v ' v' ' V j The beginning of Utah’s Prehistory Week brought a Channel 5 new crew to CEU to interview Don Burge museum director and Peggy Peyton a volunteer at the CEU Bone Lab who completed the sculpture of the newly found Utah Raptor head Peyton along with husband Bob came to CEU from Florida three years ago to work as volunteers in both Held and lab work They began as hobbyist looking for dinosaur Dinosaur Quarry They remains when they found their way to the Geveland-Uoy- d their and decided Prehistoric Museum CEU made to stay in Price way to the ' Peyton began her working on the Raptor's daws in April and eventually began working on the skull She completed the project last week 6 Also inciudbd in the hews story was the unveiling of the "Duck Billed" Dinosaur o found by Ray and Carol lories in 1991 in Utah The Dino saur found in Carol Site may be determined as the oldest dinosaur ever found TTie special aired last Friday and featured the Peytons and Burge - : ELfAAxir LflvL mV Channal CEU Museum dkactor Don Bugs explains sems of tha fadiutinfl lads about Utah's pmhhtoryduring Lonnla anchor Ed Yates document ary that ha was nsisarcWnaTM program alrsd last Friday irighLPholo by Baburin 'Vf f Fa y I' ' i- t V' a f - - V ''a' " ' ' |