Show College of Eastern Utah start page 6 Helper City hosts Christmas Celebration Men's basketball off to 9-- 0 page 4 Student radio for CEU? page2 The EagleLV olume XLVTNumberi by Leona New fees committee gives students a voice in student fee allocation iThe'olce Of The Students’ J Christensen staff writer The Price? Ut 84501 "Thursday? December 1 J 1994 Associated Students of the of Lantern Utah Renee Presset has been instrumental in forming the student fee recommendation committee who determine how each student's $9050 in fees are spent each quarter "This is the first time (’Ll ' has ever had a student fees committee Other colleges and universities in the stale have student fee recommendit ion committees So it is really exciting that the administration is supportive ol the com- mittee” Presset said The committee's purpose is to provide students with a source for direct input as to how their student fees are being used The committee is also responsible for managing and reviewing how the income is spent The membership of (he student fee recommendations committee consists of: the ASCI-president vice president of academics and activities two students and other members of the ASCI I advisoiy council who are ap1 : pointed by the two people members include: the dean of student life ASCI ill secretary and Non-votin- co-cha- ir g The college will present "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" as the second offfering of the 5 theater season Dec 13 at 7:30 pm in Geary Theatre The Tennessee Williams drama is a reworking of and earlier play "Summer and Smoke" which had been made into a movie 94-9- Page and Laurence Harvey The play focuses on the characher of Alma Winemiller daughter of an Episcopal minister her dysfunctional family and her thwarted love for the boy next door lized and how the organization functions In addition members will review promised increases and decreases in fees allocation Any reduction more Ilian 30 percent requires a 23 majority vote in two separate meetings The committee has formulated checks and balances to protect itscll Irom sellserving motives A coullicl ol interest may ai iseil a membci ol the committee liasa special interest in other than a typical student or the potential to be self serving If the member does not volunteer to refrain from voting the committee may require the member to abstain from voting with a 23 vote All student lees recommendation committee records and meetings are open to the public Meetings aie to be announced advance Documents created by the committee can tv requested by making a lormil request to Jay Andius and the ASCI I' oft ice alter nolilymg the organization anoiganization out of nine schools regarding diversity CEU ranks ninth "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" feature Gearaldine financial vice president The committee will visit each department who receives student fees to become familiar with how funds are uti- The play recommended for mature audiences explores many of the themes and characters that Williams developed in his later works The cast includes Rosemary by Dani Weigand staff writer I would choose the Ivsi man for (lie job without looking at gender or ethnic background" said College of Pastern t '(ah President Michael A Petersen when asked about diver- sity at (lie college Currently there are 75 faculty members the college Out of these only 15 are female Ten of the female faculty members teach “traditionally female" courses If the cosmetology nursing and dance programs were not offered only 66 percent of CPU's faculty foicnsics instructors uc male A math teacher was the only new Icmlic Ime Petersen did not discuss his goals ' concerning CPI recruiting minorities He slated that the applications tilled out by candidates lor new positions have boxes where people declare their ethnicity According to iVlersen people do not like to indicate their ethnicity I low ever a CPU faculty member w ho w as on luring committee this year stated that all of tlw applications for tliat particular job indicated the candidates ethnicity Recruiting a diverse faculty is female Including all female teachers only 20 percent of the College of Pastern Utah faculty members at the Price An accreditation report printed on Oct 25 1991 by Jerry M Brockey president of South Seattle Community Fernandes Matthew Markakis Shonie Christensen Other featured Percent of female faculty inJJtah colleges players are Sarah Dutton Travis Rawlings Rachel Luna Adam Daley Kelly Stevens Tim Davis and Cecily Young Direction and costumes are by Don Adams Grady McEvoy is handeling design and technical direction Children under six are not admitted AIDS affects the world December 1 by Kelly Carlson staff writer of the biggest health of our day is One About one million Americans are infected with HIV and over 2IX)(XX) have died from AIDS AIDS first hit the headlines in 10X1 when the first cases were reported By 1993 more than I70(XX) people had fallen to AIDS It is said that almost every person has been directly affected by or knows someone who has been affected by HIV It iA impossible to watch television today without seeing someone wearing a red ribbon Due to the rising number of cases and overwhelming public concern Thursday Dec I has been named World AIDS Awareness Day We arc now in the second decade of this epidemic and although homosexual males still account for the majority of reported AIDS cases it is no longer a “gay disease" AIDS is becoming more common in young heterosexual men and women Approximately one in 100 men are infected while one in XIX) women have contracted the disease In 1992 nine percent of total AIDS cases and 39 percent of reported cases in women were due to heterosexual contact This is an increase of nearly 42 percent from 1990 to 1992 AIDS has become one of the three main causes of death among individuals 23 to 44 years old in the US It is also among the top 0 causes of death in I to 4 year old children It is often believed that people who are infected with the HIV virus live in big cities However the number of 1 ivopleilcvelopingtliediscascinsmallcr cities towns and rural areas is increasing Before 19X3 more than half of the children infected with HIV were from New Yotk City Newark and Miami Currently the majority of people w ith AIDS come from many other places including small Utah communities According to the Utah Department of Health 7X2 Utahn’s are HIV positive 976other Utah residents have full blown AIDS Twenty of these AIDS patients are under the age of 3 Approximately 37(X) children arc infected with the HIV virus and the numbers are expected to increase One in four children will contract HIV from their infected mother Some children with HIV have been infected in other ways such as blood transfusions that were adminis-se- e AIDS page 10 1 UofU USU WSU SUU SNOW campus would be female According to a study by the Utah System of Higher liducalion CPU ranks ninth out ol nine ith this low percentage of women faculty members 'Hie USIIP report stales "Over the past four years the USI IP has increased schools in Utah w by 236 administrative positions Of the 236 positions X4 were filled by women and 152 by men” President Petersen has a goal for the future CPU staff I Ic wants one half of the new hires to be female lie said This would reson in 40 percent of CPU's staff being female" However out of eight new faculty positions this year only one was female The new physics history graphics economics COIS chemistry and DIXIE CEU UVSC SLCC College expresses concern with diversity at (Till “Ol some concern relative to standard VII is the obv ious failure ol the college's alfirmalive action policy with respect to the recruitment and employment of minority faculty Of e the current faculty ol 61 mine are minority and less than rcmale"Currenily there arc no minority teachers at tlte college and there are only 15 female faculty members at CPU When asked if Clill made an effort to full-tim- one-thir- d recruit female faculty members Petersen explained that the word quota is not appropriate to explain how Clill recruits females "CPU tries to increase the number of women and minorities in see "Diversity page 10 |