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Show M WHERE YOU'RE PLANTED: Some Spring Break options are close to home seepage 5 IG OF THE MWC: Luke Nevill named Player of the Year seepage 6 Wednesday, March 11,2009 Trustees approve increases Tuition rises 9% overall; differential hikes also pass Michael McFall ASST. NEWS EDITOR Tuition will most likely go -up 9 percent next year to offset the Utah Legislature's 17.5 -percent cut of the U's budget. : The U Board of Trustees : -approved the tuition increase ^during its monthly meeting ' -Tuesday morning. Resident ; -students will pay an average of $233 more per semester and non-residents will pay $777 more. The board also approved a higher tuition increase for the colleges of law, engineering, medicine, business, architecture and pharmacy, as well as the public administration and gerontology graduate and Master's programs. The differential tuition in- creases vary from college to college, but most raised their tuition for full-time students between $400 and $760 per academic year. The exceptions were the colleges of law and pharmacy, which increased their yearly tuitions between $2,600 and $4,500. Differential tuition is meant to ensure that the faculty and class si2es do not shrink as a result of state budget cuts. For the College of Engineering, every percent cut from the budget equates the pay for two faculty members, ac- cording to its proposal for differential tuition. "We're not going to grow, but this is to ensure that our enrollment and quality doesn't drop," said Maureen Keefe, dean of the College of Nursing. In order to make the tuition hikes easier on students, the board also approved an additional $700,000 for need-based financial aid. U President Michael Young said there will also be a greater push next year to inform students about federal See TUITION Page 8 Total Undergraduate Tuition and Fees for 2009-2010 School Year (based on 15 credits) TYLER COBB//hf Daily Utah Oircnldt ASUU President Patrick Reimherr presents the Board of Trustees with details about the support ASUU General Assembly and Senate gave for the Sustainability Fee. The Trustees passed the fee pending a final version of the initiative is passed in the Assembly and Senate. TYLER COBB/The Daly Utah (hrenide David Pershing, the senior vice president of academic affairs, explains to the Board of Trustees how the legislative budget cuts will affect the U and how much the proposed tuition increase would help make up. Publication fee passes on condition of boards approval of plan .Michael McFall approve by the next meeting in April. "It's not appropriate to give (the fee) to ASST. NEWS EDITOR who knows where," said Rachel Hanson, : The U Board of Trustees approved a managing editor of The Daily Utah Chronpublication fee increase of $1.34 per se- icle. The campus newspaper would not be mester, pending the board's approval of a the main recipient of funding garnered by the fee. plan for a new student media council. • ;-Hie fee is meant to merge the PublicaKUTE has the potential to become a -tioTis Council and the Student Broadcast- major success, a place where students can ing Council, which oversee the different grow their radio journalistic skills and be ;Student media on campus, into one body heard, said Patrick Reimherr, president of ;that would replace both councils. The the Associated Students of the Universi;new council would initially use the ma- ty,of Utah and a member of the Board of jority of the fee to make the student ra- Trustees. Since the radio station launched ;dio:station KUTE financially viable, said its Web site in December, it's had 16,000 ;Jalce Sorensen, business manager of the page hits, said Peter Rue, a graduate stu: Publications Council and the Daily Utah dent serving as the station's adviser. ; Chronicle. The station has struggled to seWith enough time and the right support, :etif& funding. KUTE could even find a slot on 90.1 digiX "However, we don't have a step-by-step tal radio, Reimherr said. process on how to spend (the fee)," SoApproving the fee before the plan is rensen said. passed would be writing the council a The proposal's ambiguity convinced the blank check, said Dustin Gardiner, editor board to increase funding to student media in chief of The Chronicle. Gardiner has pn the contingency that the drafters from previously expressed concern about the the councils could present a specific plan for the new council that the board could See PUBLICATION Page 8 Sustainability fee passes temporarily; ASUU must reconcile versions of bill Jeremy Thompson STAFF WRITER TYLER COBB/ftr Daitf Utah (hankie Dustin Gardiner, editor in chief of The Daily Utah Chronicle, spoke to the Board of Trustees on Tuesday and urged them not to raise the publication fee. The U BcJard of Trustees approved a $2.50 student fee increase per semester to fund sustainability projects on the condition that a final version of the initiative passes in.the ASUU Senate and Assembly. "When the university is approached with a new fee proposal, we usually say no," said Paul Brinkman, vice president for budget and planning. "But if it comes from the students, we make an exception." While presenting the proposal to the board, Patrick Reimherr, president of the Associated Students of the University of Utah, said that the fee increase represents the voice of the students. "Although we have not received final approval from both houses on the final version of the bill, we feel like we have justification to bring this proposal to you," Reimherr told the Trustees. "We have petitions and surveys that show students support this initiative." "I don't need student input to propose a fee increase," Reimherr later told The Daily Utah Chronicle. "I have the power to do it without." See SUSTAINABILITY Page 8 Friedman urges Honorary degree recipients announced green revolution Katie Valentine STAFF WRITER Rochelle McConkie The renowned New York Times columnist and bestselling author urged a packed audience According to Thomas Fried- at Abravanel Hall on Tuesday man, green is the new red, white night to start a "green revoluand blue. tion" using energy technology. Friedman said during his lecture, the keynote address of "The Nature of Things" series presented by the Utah Museum of Natural History and the Hinckley Institute of Politics, that Americans should lead the revolution, which will bring security and economic and national power. "We are at a really critical moment," Friedman said. "The hour is late, the project is hard, but the payoff couldn't be greater and we have exactly enough time, starting now." Friedman spoke about his new .book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which addresses the impacts of global warming, the rise of the middle class and population growth. These three separate flames converge to create a large fire that involves the problems of energy and natural resources supply and demand, "petrodicTH1EN SOK/fht Dally Utah Chronicle tatorship" and gas consumption, New York Times columnist Thomas climate change, energy poverty NEWS EDITOR Friedman gave a lecture at Abravanel Hall on Tuesday night. See FRIEDMAN Page 8 The U Board of Trustees announced the names of this year's honorary degree receipients at their meeting Tuesday morning. Carol Fay and James Macfarlane will each be awarded a Doctor of Business degree at commencement ceremonies in May. Peter Meldrum will receive a Doctor of Engineering degree and Marva Warnock will receive a Doctor of Fine Arts degree. Traditionally, the commencement speaker also receives an honorary degree and this year's speaker, author David McCullough, will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. The official "hooding" ceremony and giving of the honorary doctorates will take place at commencement May 8 in the Huntsman Center. Fay, who has been' a supporter of women's issues in her work with the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration, was informed several months ago that she was nominated for the award by U President Michael Young in a meeting with the president and her husband. She has received many awards for her leadership abilities, including the U Alumni Association's Honorary Alumna Award. "It's an overwhelming honor," she said. Fay and other nominees were asked Honorary Doctorate Degree Recipients • Carol M. Fay • . " . / * for Doctor of Business • James L Macfarlane for Doctor of Business • Peter D. Meldrum • r. forDoctorofEngineering • Marva M. Warnock **'< for Doctor of Fine Arts • ^, • Commencement 2009 speaker: David McCullough forDoctorof Humane Letters ' >V • -- The recipients will receive the doctorates on May 8 at commencement ceremonies in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. See DOCTORATE Page 3 Synergy comes apart, endorses former rivals Jeremy Thompson STAFF WRITER The Synergy Party has dissolved after losing the primary elections and its candidates have split to support the two remaining parties. Clint Hugie, the former presidential candidate for the Synergy Party, has joined the Revolution Party as a cocampaign manager. "I just felt a deep obligation to my fellow candidates from the Synergy Party," Hugie said. "The Synergy Party has fallen apart. It is like a dead lamb 7 ASUU elections VOTING ENDSTODAY AV Voting is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Students can vote by accessing a link on their Campus Information System homepage. >•_•'• "; V being ripped apart by wolves. I believe strongly in the integrity of the Revolution Party candidates. I just feel that the Revolution Party has the strongest platform, and that is why I joined them." Katie Kormanik, the former vice presidential candidate for Synergy, has joined the GO party as a table manag- er. She is featured in a new video on the party's Facebook page. "I am supporting the GO Party because I feel that they have the best platform," Kormanik said. "Many of the ideas on their platform are very similar to what we wanted to do with See SYNERGY Page 3 |