| Show Where is a 0 legislator when J you need one ARTING with summer quarter has instituted enrollment enroll- enroll Oi STARTING S ment caps limiting the number of students allowed entrance to The Board of Regents has advised President Frank W W. Budd that growth at starting with summer quarter should be Ii limited to 9 10 percent t. t Th This is is about half of the current demand The recommendation was adopted by the Regents in response to the Utah State Legislatures Legislature's failure to provide adequate ader ade ade- r quate funding for higher education Any coincidence that its it's an election year First there was the 1 l per hour credit-hour surcharge which shifted much of the burden for funding of new enrollees onto the rest of the students Now has been forced into instituting instituting instituting in- in enrollment caps to try to stay within the requested growth limitation This affects not only new applicants to but also continuing students If a continuing student waits too long to enroll he may rray find himself shut out from registration Surcharges and enrollment caps unfortunately are the only options available until the legislature provides badly needed funding These quick fixes may work temporarily but putting students off now will only lead to heavier demands in the fuI future future fu- fu I 1 ture placing an even greater burden on tt the educational i. i tern tem Certainly the Board of Regents has done what it could with the funds available in order to accommodate as many students as possible the responsibility of providing for Utah's J future u ur econ economical mi a we well being l-b l ing as usual now lies lie in the hands of pf L four dour state legislators 1 In an election ejection year when in incumbency is no longer a virtual guarantee for reelection no legislator wants want to attach his name to a bill that hints at a future tax increase This is unfortunate j especially at a time when our economy is experiencing an unprecedented unprecedented un- un need for trained educated people The Horizon applauds President Budds Budd's difficult decision to toI i I en enact ct an enrollment cap in an effort to preserve the quality of t. t education at |
