| Show I Eyre wants more community colleges I Dean Cruff Managing Editor IM I'M a business man and a writer and not nota a professional professional professional politician is the message message message mes mes- sage the Republican Gt Guber- Guber ber- ber norial candidate Richard Eyre is telling the Utah h pe people during g his his' bid the for the governors governor's s seat We vVe have an excellent t chance of winning the Republican nomination because because because be be- cause we e are better organized than Mike ke Leavitts Leavitt's campaign campaign campaign cam cam- said Eyre He b believes l eves 70 perc percent n t of gf his supporters will turn out and only 50 percent percent percent per per- cent of Leavitts Leavitt's supporters supporters' Eyre decided to run run- run for for the seat after spending three years trav traveling ling around the state writing writing writing writ writ- ing a book called Utah in the Year 2000 In the book Eyre tells some of his ideas on solving solving solving ing problems in Utah I feel writing the book has has' given me methe methe methe the knowledge of what the people need in the state and what I can do as governor to give the state back to the people said Eyre With funding in higher education a big issue Eyre said the state needs to build more community colleges and raise the standards for students students students stu- stu stu stu- dents to get into the It lilt takes three times themo the mo money ey to educate a student at ata f a university as it does es at lt a tw year college 62 percent of all kids who start at a university drop out before they get a degree degree de de degree gree Eyre said He thinks we should have a community college col college college col- col lege in W Weber b r and Davis counti coun coun- ti ties s. s The liThe thing about community community community com com- colleges is you dont don't have to build building Youcan You Youcan Youcan can put classes in small buildings buildings buildings build build- ings that are already built added Eyre When asked about wanting wan ting to become a four year institution he said They should have some four year programs because they are the only four year college in the area BYU is there but they dont don't count because th they y are are a private school besides its it's hard to get into UV C should hould also keep some of their two- two year yea programs Eyre said When asked whether we should spend the money to build the Olympic facilities before we get the bid Eyre stated We can have the cake and eat it too We need to get the big vendors involved and have them build the facilities have facilities have Coke build the luge run Its It's a drop in the bucket for them to build it and then they can build a sign to go on the side of the run He believes if 95 percent of the Olympic bid is funded by bythe bythe bythe the private sector and nd not tax money the pe people in Utah will get behind it if and nd w welcome wel welcome wel- wel l- l come the Olympics to Utah |
