UVCC College Times, 1988-11-16

              y OLLEGE TIME Volume Seventeen : fi J George Bush L Orrin Hatch ....... j Phone System Provides Better Communication Sunny George Staff Writer One of the newest systems at Utah Valley Community College is the Automated Attendant (the direct dialing system for the college). When the numbers 226-5000 (UVCC) are dialed, a recorded voice will immediately answer and instruct you on how to ring the extension number of the person or department you need to reach. If you have a touch tone phone, all you need to do is punch in the extension needed, and the Automated Attendant will transfer the call to that number. The system also provides voice mail. Voice mail works like an answering machine. When the person that needs to be reached isn't in, a message can be left on a machine. If an emergency comes up at midnight, and you need to get through to an extension immediately, the Automated Attendant will be there to answer your call. However, if you do not know the extension number, or you are not on a touch tone phone, you will have to Wait until an operator is there to assist you. If you call between the hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, you will have the option to either stay on the line or dial 0 and you will be connected with one of the service's knowledgeable operators. Knowing the extension number will help you to contact the appropriate Utah Valley Community College Weekly Student Newspaper Number Eight f ' 1 I ! "; r l A j : ' 21 Cook 1 1 38 Wilson j . . -A J1 ' Bangeter Bangerter Tax c 69 ZA Howard Nielsen pholo by Jeff Dower Brian Boyd, Telephone Services Operator, demonstrates the new Automated Attendant system at UVCC. party quickly and without the hassel of going from one person to another. If questions need to be answered about general information concering the school, a simple touch of the numbers 300 will patch you to a recorded message that answers commonly asked questions. Many of the extensions provide this specific service. The new phone system, Automated Attendant, is a valubale service that can be used by everyone. Its helpful services will put the caller in control of the call. All you have to do is let your fingers do the walking. Wednesday,November 16, 1988 Tax In. B Tax In. A Van Dam Nielsen Bush g.,imwiMff,itf.ftm -Tram Clip-Out Directory Page 3 I ,'11 I 1988 Election 63 62 52 P 54 20 40 60 80 Percentage of Popular Vote Received Deejay Illustrates Life Skylar Shumway Layout Editor Adrian Cronauer charged down the aisle row of the student center ballroom on Friday, November 11 to greet the students with a resounding "Good morning Orem". In 1964, Vietnam looked "pretty nice" to Cronauer who was leaving his post in Greece. Once in Siagon, nice converted to HOT. "My first recollection of Vietnam," said Cronauer, "was when they opened the door to the plane and the heat came at us like something out of a blast furnace." Much of his audience had never been outside their home states, "Not surprisingly, culture shock had set in with a vengeance and it was our mission to provide a moral factor for those people by giving them something familiar to listen to. I interpreted that as meaning 'to make it sound as much as possible like a state side radio station,'" Cronauer reported. Cronauer colored in the shapes of his experiences in Siagon and outlined the details of his reality compared to the reality Robin Williams created in the movie Good Morning Vietnam . He also compared the reality of his war and the infantry man's war. And stressed how nothing was the black and white good or evil of the movie . Tax Inititiatives Fail; Propositions Approved Kena Mathews Editor-in-Chief The proposed tax initialivcs were )verwhelming defeated by Utah oters last Tuesday in the 1988 elections. Tax initiative A that would have cut property taxes by about $180 million, was rejected 62 percent to 38 percent by the voters. Initiative B was defeated by a 63 percent to 37 percent margin. This initiative would have rolled back state sales, cigarette, fuel, and income taxes to before 1987 levels, by $141 million. Tax initiative C was defeated by a arger margin than the other two. Regents Hear Tuition Proposals '-' ' - t Kena Mathews Editor-in-Chief On November 10 and 11, the Utah State Board of Regents Budget Hearings were held at the Triad Center in Salt Lake City .Utah. During the meetings, Commissioner of Higher Education Rolfe Kerr proposed a tuition increase for Utah State Colleges and Universities. In his proposal to the Board, Kerr recommended a tuition increase of nine percent for Universities, nine percent increase for four year schools, and eight percent increase for iwo year schools. Jim Woods, Utah Valley Community College Student Body President, and Chairman for the Utah Two Year College Association, believed the proposed Adrian Cronauer, Good Morning Vietnam experience The heat was on Cronauer and fellow veterans when they returned from the war. Cronauer described the new demons he and his peers had to fight and the tragedy that developed This initiative was struck down by voters 69 percent to 31 percent. Tax initiative C would have cut about $3.4 million in state revenue by giving a tax credit to parents that have children in private schools. However, a pair of propositions, that were virtually ignored due to the headlines of the initiatives, received approval from the voters. Proposition 1 extends the conditions under which judges can deny bail to those accused of crime. Proposition 2 makes a variety of changes in the Utah's Constitution. The tally for Proposition 1 was 77 percent to 23 percent. Proposition was approved by 62 percent to 38 percent margin. photo by Jeff Dower increase was too steep. He, in return, initiated another proposal, and presented it to the Board. Woods proposal would have increased universities tuition by only eight percent, four year colleges by seven percent, and two year colleges by six percent. He, however, said that he would have settled with nine, eight, seven percent increase. After much debate, and a second proposal by Woods, and a proposal by Darin Bird, Student Body President at Southern Utah Slate College, the Board agreed on a nine, nine, seven percent increase. The Board also made a decision to a form a task force to set guidelines for future tuition increases, in order to prevent further heated debates. See a related story in the November 22, 1988 issue. in Vietnam Vietnam, spoke to students about his when these battles were lost. His lecture tributed the veterans honored often only by the closing of banks. It gave h i m occasion to remember and students a chance t o understand.