UTC Press, 1986-03-24

              U -- I HmMIIHH W I I l t lU . . Tn .... , WlM T' Mil Ill Wl I II ' ' " MMI I, i , a Mil Volume 14 Number 24 Utah Technical College ProvoOrem Box 1609, Provo, Utah 84603 Monday, March 24, 1986 ?JQGiaecr Resigns As jeac CoacGn Vince Miner has resigned as the head coach of the men's basketball team at UTC. Miner will remain with the school, devoting his time to a full-time teaching responsibility in the General Education Department. Miner first came to Utah Tech as the director of In tramural Sports ten years ago. He served as an assistant coach for the men's basketball program for four years before taking over as the head coach in 1981. His five year won-loss record was 85-67. Michael Jacobsen, Activity i Head Coach Vince Miner resigned his coaching position but will remain with the college in the General Education Department. Cap & Gown Season Students planning to graduate at the end of Spring quarter, it is later than you think! Now is the time to place orders for cap and gowns with the Orem campus bookstore. The cost this year will be $10.50. These caps and gowns are ordered from the East; therefore, it is necessary to place the orders early to make Fees Up EdOaaGaDODiraaD esti by Tom Green With the hustle and headaches of spring quarter over, this year's edition of the spring class schedule will more than likely be discarded. But before all of the spring class schedules go into file 13, special attention should be focused on a certain column within the pages of this book. The column heading for this special attention column is entitled "fees". Upon examining this column, one finds these additional fees are attributed to everything from "Accounting for Secretaries," to "Welding". From "English Composition", to "Survey of Physical Sciences" classes. Indeed there are over 100 different classes at UTC that have an additional fee attributed to them. UTC is hot the only school that has these additional fees, according to Dr. Lucille Stoddard, VP of Academic Affairs. Many other state educational institutions have a fee charge on selected classes, much the same as UTC. So it's not a matter of UTC being the only school who adds these costs on top of tuition and regular student fees, but a matter of why they're added. Center Director, said that Miner has done an outstanding job in developing the basketball program here at the Tech. When asked if Miner was under pressure to resign, Jacobsen said that the resignation came as a surprise. This season Miner guided the team to a 21-11 record and a tie for the conference championship. Jacobsen said that the college will begin the search for a new coach immediately. There isn't a particular name that tops the list for the job opening as yet. sure students will have a proper fitting cap and gown to wear for graduation. Cathy Rakisits comments, "Students are being urged to plan ahead, as this year no additional caps and gowns are being ordered as has been the policy in the past." To order them, students need to come into the Orem campus bookstore. A full-time resident student, for example, (12 credit hours) pays $198 in tuition, and $72 in student fees. These fees go for a $10 activity fee, a $32 building fee, a $4 tuition surcharge, and $8 fee for athletics, a $15 fee for the student fee, and a $3 fee for insurance and library use. That doesn't include any additional fees that might be attributed to a class that the full-time student might take. Will these extra fees remain a part of the quarterly class schedules? Dr. Wayne Kearney, VP of student services certainly hopes not. He and a number of other faculty members plan on having more information concerning, and alternative plans pertaining to this problem. He feels the student should be alleviated of many, if not all of these additional fees. Kearney expects to have more information on this problem by the end of this school year. When and if anything, can or will be done to stop UTC students from paying these additional fees is still a mystery. But until then, every time a student takes an "introduction to business" class there will be a two dollar fee attached. And by next year it could be more. Administration Building Nears s jl Administrators are targeting April 21 as the grand opening for the new administration building. The building administrative personnel but will also include some health, science, and technology classes. by David Van Etten Hollow, lifeless, quiet. This is how the new edition to UTC campus stands at this moment. Hopefully, according to President Higbee, "a new life will move into this grand superstructure by the 21st of April. The new building which will house mostly administrative offices has been in the wings for a long time. Explanations for its delayed opening are questionable and about as slippery as a snake in jello. The contractor, however, puts the blame on the two past winters, which have been supposedly bad. As it stands now, even with the completion of the building, the basement will remain "un According to Stoddard, funds for the school are short, and the cost of rising prices on such things as paper for handouts, for syllabuses, and for worksheets are being paid for by the students in the form of these fees. With the legislature not coming to any conclusions, or making any alternatives on the funding of state educational institutions, these fees are likely to remain a burden that the student will have to bear. To get one of these fees added to the class is a very refined process, according to Stoddard. They are not haphazardly applied. These fees can only be assessed for current expense items. They cannot be used for the purchasing of machines, or the payment of faculty members. They can only be used for the purchasing of supplies that the student uses, and for maintenance costs. Within the registration process, one pays not only tuition, which, according to Stoddard, goes mainly to pay faculty members' salaries, but one must also pay student fees. The natural question is then, if student fees are paid, why are there all these extra fees? Apparently all the monies paid for student fees are spoken for. ir finished". With a dirt floor basement the remainder of the building will give the current crowding of classes a much needed "sigh" of relief. The first floor, which will in effect facilitate the offices of the Pro-" vo campus including financial aid. Registration and cashiers will finally end the "cross-campus" runaround. The new building will also house the faculty offices with the additional "promised" classrooms on the second floor. The administrative and staff offices will also be located here. One of the anticipated plus's that the new addition offers is the life science lab. To be used mostly by the nursing school, it also gives a much needed lift to the UTC Biology The Student Senate sponsored that the Senate hopes to continue as more students become familiar I 1 1 -A Science Department. The need of a new facility at UTC is self-evident. The General Education classes alone come close to being a fire hazard. It is not an uncommon sight to see students spill-out into the hallways. The financial end of building the addition came close to the cuts that the state legislature passed this year. Originally funded two years ago, the newest addition of UTC, like most building projects, cost more to build than was expected. This is the primary reason for the unfinished basement. Any basement, however, is better than none at all and it seems that the new building will finally open up anyway. With its completion drawing to a book swap for the end of Winter quarter. This is a first time ever event with student support. Senate members predict that swapping will increase with the procedure. Completion A- will not only house a close it will seem unusual to not have trucks and cranes and the delightful pitter-patter of hard working hammers drifting into a late summer afternoon class. Not to fear, is the cry for all you hard-hats romantics. UTC has just received $300,000 to start planning another new addition. This time predominately for some new life science labs. This newest edition will launch UTC into the brave new frontier in community colleges. With this high tech emphasis will UTC lose its roots? Hardly! According to president Higbee, "vocation education has always been very important to UTC.it (UTC) will always have a strong technical background. 3 4 K