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Show new/ A4 MONDAY • APRIL 2 • 2007 Deaf Tennessee high school seniors visit UVSC on national tour NEWS ANALYSIS, EDITORIAL Courtesy Photo/sxc.hu Laptop purchases on campus raise questions Jason Adkins News Writer Given a choice, most people would choose a Ferrari over a Honda. Should the students at UVSC or the state of Utah pay for that choice? Here at UVSC, students and the State of Utah do not have to pay for luxury cars, but we do have to pay for expensive laptops for faculty and staff on campus. Considering that tuition and fees rise on a yearly basis, students should know what their money is being spent on. Purchasing records obtained by THE COLLEGE TIMES under the Government Records and Management Act (GRAMA), showed that several laptops cost more than $3500, with the priciest model coming injustshyof$4600. The administration's defense of these more expensive laptop purchases include claims that increased memory capability and power under the "hood" is needed to run Powerpoint presentations, viewing and editing photos, and showing video. The need for such a capability is not under dispute, since in the digital age the capability to present information in different formats is increasingly important. In the administration's defense, several laptops are being used for video editing and various research work. Such computing-intensive tasks need a decent computer, but even most of those laptops came in under $3000. The administration needs to consider the minimum price they need to Community Job Fair Ml April 11,2007 10:00 am McKay Events Center pm Local jobs - local workers coming together. spend for a computer that can do the tasks they need to accomplish. The laptop 1 own cost about $1200 and 1 can run all of the tasks listed above without any issue. The laptop is not a generic off-the-shelf brand where getting technical support or warranty service would be hard to find. For a few hundred more, the amount of memory can be bumped up and can run even better. The amount of money a student can receive from financial aid to purchase a computer should be taken into consideration by the administration. Students right now can get a onetime $2000 bump in their cost of attendance in order to purchase a personal computer for their stint in college. This benefit is' available only one semester in the student's college career at UVSC (ask your financial aid advisor for more information). And $2000 can get you a nice laptop with plenty of speed, memory and hard drive storage capability. In this day and age where UVSC has to continually ask for more funding at the state legislature, UVSC needs to Twelve deaf Tennessee high school seniors visited Utah Valley State College as part of a tour to four U.S. institutions of higher learning known for having excellent programs for deaf students. The tour is part of a program to increase the number of deaf students who attend colleges and universities and is partly subsidized by the Accessibility Services Department and the UVSCsponsored Deaf Studies Today! conference. "While here, the students will see the services and facilities UVSC provides for deaf students, meet with UVSC deaf students and interpreters and attend an ASL grammar class taught by a deaf professor," said Bryan K. Eldredge, associate professor of foreign languages and program coordinator for ASL and deaf studies. "They will see that UVSC is a deaf-friendly place and a place they can feel welcome." Eldredge said there are 60 deaf students currently attending UVSC, an uncommonly high number for a four-year college. He also estimates there are 350 students on campus taking ASL or deaf studies classes. UVSC recently approved bachelor's degree programs in American Sign Language and deaf education and deaf studies, and will continue to offer a degree in integrated studies with an ASL emphasis and a minor in deaf studies. On the tour, the high school students will also visit Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., a university for deaf and hard- , of-hearing students, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology and California State University at Northridge. "UVSC's attention to deaf students and studies has really put us on the map nationally," said Eldredge. "Deaf students bring diversity and a unique perspective to campus. We want to help these students succeed, so we have gone the extra mile to make UVSC attractive to them. 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