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Show Wednesday, February 15, 2012 BILLS continued from Page 1 be left to those with the expertise and knowledge to make a meaningful contribution." Jason Perry, vice president of government relations from the U, said the main provisions in SB39 aren't new but formalize a process that has already been happening. He said the governor is already involved in higher education, despite the bill. DAILY The governor currently nominates and the Senate confirms the 15 Regents who guide Utah's eight public colleges and universities. Critics fear that the bill will bog down the selection process and increase political pressure on the commissioner. HB284 would go much further to restructure the current board. It would remove the board's current governing responsibilities and give them back to the individual institutions. The board would consist LOVE LETTERS OLYMPICS continued from Page 1 continued from Page 1 ownership and safeguard for future installations. "Putting my name on the project is a kind of persuasion, and the project must exist for free or else it fails," she said in an email. "When things are anonymous — they seem to belong to everyone. Something about the anonymity means the project can be a confession of delight. Everyone who witnesses it is included." The posters were installed day by day in the week leading up to Valentine's Day. The installments were distributed and hung by more than iso voluntary "curators." Greg Steele, the owner of Beehive Bicycles, said he saw one of the posters outside his shop a few days ago. When it disappeared, he emailed the artist and offered to post another in his store window to keep it safe for others to see. She said yes. "It made me smile," Steele said. "It's a piece of art ... and I think [the artist] just wanted to make people happy." The student said the project is a part of her master's thesis but emerged mainly out of curiosity and for fun. "The whole project was an experiment," she said. "Will people follow the QR codes? Will people take down the posters and take them home? Throw them away? How long could a poster survive on a wall without being stolen? Lots were taken down." The broadside posters were printed over nine days with the help of eight people, using wood type, metal type and photopolymer plates, according to the blog. Unlike digital printing, the process included standing and physically rolling the press, which the student said was a part of the art. All Pearl, a master's student in English literature, said she first saw the posters from her classroom in OSH. "I've been pursuing my interests in the relationship between digital and physical texts," Pearl said. "I'm concerned with the ways in which we can use electronic texts and digital technology to create new narratives that we cannot create on paper alone. The exciting thing about [the artist's] project is that it utilizes both media [the digital and the physical]." After looking into the posters and website, Pearl discovered the student was actually one of her friends. "There was something really essential to the whole project about making something so time intensive with such physical labor," she said. "And then giving it away for free [and] being OK with posters getting taken down, thrown away, rained on, snowed on, blown away. The whole thing exists as someone saying: Look, I made this for you," she said. The student said the project was in part inspired by Amos Kennedy, a famous letterpress artist who visited campus in the fall. "I watched a documentary about his work with broadsides, and I couldn't get the idea of a story told on posters out of my head," she said in an email. "I kept wanting to do something with this essay I'd written about writing crazy love letters ... I finally figured out that the essay needed to be written on gigantic posters and then posted all over the city." The student said she hoped to instruct as many people as possible in the art of writing crazy love letters. "It feels good to finish something ... I really feel it's a community project because so many people helped," she said. The student said she hopes to have the posters installed in an art gallery in the near future but could give no specifics. and hang for display. They never put original photographs on display because the delicacy of the history needs to be preserved, she said. "We have to digitize the original photographs and print them out with a special type of printer, so it looks m.gessel@chronicle.utah.edu MAJORS continued from Page 1 dean of undergraduate studies. "In all the cases I can think of when we have initially gotten rid of a major is because nobody has graduated with that degree in five years," Barbanell said. American Sign Language Teaching UTAH CHRONICLE of nine members instead of 15, and each institution would name one trustee to serve. Under this bill, the governor would have sole discretion in appointing the commissioner. Holly Braithwaite, spokeswoman for the board, won't comment on the developments just yet. She said that "it's too early to speculate" on whether HB284 will have the support it needs to move forward. The proposal is slated to appear on Friday's legislative agenda. Romero said the Board of Trust- 3 ees already provides leadership for their institutions. The Board of Regnets understands what is best for higher education, he said. If the board was made up of individual affiliations, they would only be responsible and accountable to their institution and it would lack the diversity of ideas it has now, he said. "I think they are trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist," Romero said. He mentioned that his service on the Higher Education Appropria- tions Committee gives him a unique opportunity to hear from higher education presidents about initiatives and attitudes. He mentioned that Rep. John Dougall, R-American Fork, and sponsor of HB284 is not on that committee. The Utah System of Higher Education is against the bills. Perry said, "The U supports the system of higher education and the role that the board plays in it." just like the original photograph," Giacoletto said. All of the artifacts and sources for the exhibition came from the Utah Ski Archives, which was created in 1989 to preserve a collective past of the ski industry in Utah, and to chronicle the sport as it continues to evolve. The archives became the designated storage place for the history of the Salt Lake Bid Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics Games records and photo collections as well. Artifacts that are not on display include correspondence, competition rosters, organizational minutes, site plans, news clippings and oral histories. "I hope the exhibit inspires people to donate and keep adding to the collection," said Roy Webb, a curator of the exhibition. degree has just started the process of being dropped since no students have declared the major in years. "We are not in the business to disappear," Marvel said. "We are still teaching the four languages and trying to get knowledgeable professors to come and be a part of the Middle Eastern Studies Department." Students sometimes choose these low-enrollment subjects as an elec- tive or minor, as many of the language classes fulfill general education requirements. 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