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Show Legislation by Cooperation Colkse of Southern Utah is on the threshold of a new era of growth and development. Never before has an institution insti-tution of higher learning won more solid support for a program pro-gram of advancement than did College of Southern Utah in the 36th Utah State Legislature that has Just been concluded. con-cluded. Residents of this area are well aware that CSU was granted the right, first to move into a full four-year pro-' gram of liberal arts, and then Just prior to the t-nd of the session a bill was passed which created an independent governing board for College of Southern Utah allowing administration of the institution solely without influence ox other affliated institutions. These two important steps in the future of CSU should not be implemented without giving some praise to those who worked so diligently in the legislature to bring them about Iron County Senator Dixie Leavitt, a co-sponsor of both bills which originated in the Senate, should be com mended for his efforts and the manner in which he projected pro-jected the bill to the legislature to the extent that there was never a dissenting vote on the action in either the senate, house or executive branch. Although the bills originated in the Senate, groundwork ground-work oy necessity had to be laid for a favorable reception when the bills reached the House of Representatives. That groundwork uas ably laid by Iron County Representative Harold Mitchell, who guided the bills equally efficiently through the house and worked tirelessly in their behalf throughout the session. Even though our Iron County legislators had the CSU as a primary concern in their legislative undertaking the "support of others in both the Senate and House should not be overlooked. If CSU came out of the session with nothing else it found a true friend and wholehearted supporter in Thorpe Waddingham, influential Senator from Millard County. Senator Waddingham was a co-sponsor on both of the .CSU bills and was an instrumental factor in promoting rthe action to bring out the legislation creating an inde-' inde-' pendent governing board. The full support of the legislature is apparently be-" be-" hind these moves at CSU and it behooves us as citizens of TXhis area to now show our full support Some questions as to technicalities in the bills, partic-larly partic-larly SB 209 creating the new board of trustees, has ari-.sn. ari-.sn. Some minor amendments to the original bill as published pub-lished last week in the Iron County Record, were approved . during passage. They do not, however, change the intent of the bill. : Studied by lawyers, the bill provided for and will include . the transfer of all properties previously held in the name . of the College of Southern Utah to the newly created I board of trustees. The trustees will be named by Governor Calvin Ramp-ton Ramp-ton who has been in full support of the action of the legislature legis-lature concerning CSU from the outset, to serve on an interim basis until approval can be made by the Senate in the special session of 'he legislature to be called in January Janu-ary of next year jL The board will have full power to act, as if it had been appointed and approved by the Senate during the session Just concluded. The intent of the bills are self-explanatory. The direc--tion that the College must now move is unwaveringly to a full liberal arts college with a board of trustees solely .responsible for CSU. We, as citizens, must move with it support it. promote pro-mote it, and grow with it. |
