UVCC College Times, 1992-03-04

              Buy a warmer coat or stop smolcing Smoker's rights debated See page 3 Women win third title in three years : Earn top seed fn tournament See page 9 Parties announce campaign plans for 1992 election Student candidates present platforms See page 5 (Tol fP0?7P im.es volume 20 issue 23 4 march 1992 utah valley community college Parking in boondocks fakes on new meaning Larry T. Menlove Staff Writer UVCC's newly planned student parking lot may give a whole new meaning to the term: 'Tm parked wayoutin the boondocks." The board of regents approved on Fri. Feb., 21,the purchase of 25.3 acres of land, located just west of I-15, for student parking. According to study plans, buses running on a ten minute time-table will be provided to shuttle students back and forth between the lot and campus. "In the future there may be the possibility of an underpass or overpass crossing 1-15 to provide direct access to the campus," said Dick Chappel, vice president of administration and institutional advancement. Feasibility studies have shown that the land will provide an additional 1,000 parking spaces, for which the yearly student fee will be$l. See PARK, page 1 1 Star projector to complete planetarium Lorilei Simpson Staff Writer After a two year wait, the science department is finally getting a star projector for the planetarium room. Ordered in early January, the projector should be here anytime, said Dr. Paul Tayler, physical science professor. The star projector can predict all 88 constellations, longitude and latitude of sky coordinate systems, the sun, moon, and planets visible to the naked eye, globular clusters, three different galaxies, and the Great Nebula Orion, which is a big cloud of dust and gas where new stars are born. It also projects three to four thousand stars, in the exact same place and brightness that they are found in the sky. "The star projector will greatly enhance our abilities to teach and develop interest in the physical sciences," said Tayler. The planetarium was built two years ago. It included a dome ceiling for a star projector, but fund s to purchase the projector were not available when the room was finished. The room was equipped with a primitive overhead projector instead. A new star projector would cost $250,000. The one purchased by Tayler costs under $100,000 because See STARS, page 1 1 YOU PARKED IN EGYPT TOO? Just over 25 acres west of 1-15 was purchased recently by UVCC administrators to fulfill the increasing need for campus parking. The map shows a planned freeway overpass that would allow a shuttle to bus students to and from campus. Permits would cost $ 1 a year for parking in one of the 1 ,000 planned spaces. U i in south : IL WAN I New V0 '-- ( U COHIQI IMTMAWCI " " " I Patey calls for own impeachment hearings Thomas Epting Editor in Chief Student Body President Kenneth C. Patey has called for his own impeachment hearings, hoping that they will clear his name. "I welcome a hearing," Patey said, "An innocent man is not afraid of a hearing. When slanderous rumors are spread about me, I welcome the forum that will clear my name." Another campus group may welcome that hearing as well. UVCC's Law Society has been working to collect 900 signatures 10 percent of the studentbody to force the 10 voting members of student council to decide whether Patey should remain as president. Heidi Noriega, Law Society member and petition organizer, said the needed signatures have been collected. Patey pointed out that they have yet to verify each signature. Each petition-signer must be a registered student who only signed once. Patey has called for the hearings to take place on Thu., March 5 at 2 p.m. in SC117 during the regularly scheduled student council meeting. Law Society members will be asked to presentevidence to Ethan Clark, whom the council will appoint as chief justice over the hearings, and the other voting members. A three-fourths majority vote is required to remove Patey, who said he retains his vote and will use it in his own behalf. BothPateyand theLawSociety believe that the council will vote to retain him as president. Noriega said the Law Society simply wanted to Patey to account for his actions in office. They cited many shortcomings and possible wrongdoings as impetus for the petition, including: a stipend raise that Patey and three other elected vice presidents gave themselves earlier in the year, failure to register for spring semester classes, lack of attendance at school functions, failure to attend the January State Board of Regents meeting where the board-voted on UVCCs four-year hopes, and a GPA improvement that came through a grade change and class addition, both after the deadlines had passed. Bill Crook, society treasurer, told the Provo Daily Herald, "The actions make us look bad as a school. Thaf s one of the reasons we want him out." Council votes to raise student fees Thomas Epting Editor in Chief Next year's student fees will increase if UVCC's student council votes Thursday to send their fee recommendations to higher authorities.Each year, Utah's State Board of Regents, thepolicy making body for higher education, allows the student governments of the nine-state colleges and universities to raise student fees a set amount. This year, UVCC's limit is $4.90 per student per semester. In council meetings held on the subject, the 10 voting members have approved increases of $3.50 (all fee amounts are per student per semester). They have until Thursday to consider other increases and submit their recommendations to UVCC President Kerry D. Romesburg. After listening to reports from needy groups, student leaders - voted $1.75 increase $48,300 on the year if 9,200 student pay both semesters and half that number pay again for summer semester to meet the bond payments for the student center expansion. Another $1.75 increase was approved for UVCC's library. Both the administration, for the bond payment, and the library, for newbooksand periodicals, sought a $2.50 increase approximately $70,000 on the year. Dave Madden, student council parliamentarian and ombudsman, said that UVCC must tighten its belt because everyone is hurting in education with the lack of funding from state legislators. See FEES, page 4 Patey calls these accusations half-truths and said the Thursday meeting will show the "comedy of errors" and the validity of his actions.Patey said his ace in the hole will be revealed when he explains the fallacies of the constitutional interpretations that student council members used to call the stipend raises unconstitutional. Although Patey claims the meeting could be closed to the public under the state open meetings law, which allows the competency of individuals to be discussed without the public or press present, Clark said the hearings will be open to all. Air quality project brings ABC's 2020 UVCC's involvement in a project to improve Utah Valley's air quality has attracted national attention,includingthatof the ABC television program "2020." The show's attention was caught by a program to repair automobiles with chronic emissions problems. UVCC's automotive department has been instrumental in this project, diagnosing and repairing the cars that are brought in. According to Program Coordinator Orrin Nelson, the project See AIR, page 1 1