UVSC College Times, 1995-09-13

              TIME Lab access fees repealed Rich Asay News Editor As many business students attended their first day of class, instructors handed out a green slip of paper requesting students to pay a $30 computer lab usage fee. The fee was jointly agreed upon by the chairs of the Business, Legal Assistant, and Computer Science departments said Dennis Fairclough, chair of the Computer Science department, who felt that the fee would be approved by the administration in time for it to be applicable for this semester. At a meeting with Brent Bullock, chair of the Legal Assistant department, and Wesley Bitters, chair of the Business Management department, Fairclough and the other two agreed upon the fee which would be assessed only to students who would be using the computer labs. Students who could work on the assignments at home or at some other location did not need to pay the fee. After opposition from both Student Government and the waning approval by Administrators, the fee was decidedly dropped and students who paid the fee were refunded. "So that's my problem, that's why we tried to charge lab fees so we could give the students the best service possible, and that's why we backed away because we didn't get administrative approval, so we just can't do it without administrative approval, we thought that we could get approval before school started, but it drug on and on and we still don't even have it," said Fairclough. Bitters admitted that he did not realize that there was a need for consent from the administrative, and also said that they should have done their homework on the matter. According to Terry Ann Harward, student body president, students were told by the teachers that the fee was sponsored by members of student government. Harward was shocked by the announcement in her own class, and disputed the claim in her own class. Bitters said that he does not know where the teachers received the information, because they never considered the idea of asking student government for support of the fpp. Harward and other members of the student government took the matter before President Kerry Romesberg at his weekly council meeting. It was there decided that the fee was never correctly channeled and approved for imposition, forcing the CSIS department to drop the fee. On the reverse side of the green slip of paper it clearly stated that there would be no refund to the students who paid the fee. The cashier's desk has been notified that they are not to accept moneys for this fee. The CSIS department will be handling the refunds for those students who have already paid the fee. Without the funds that could be raised from the access fee, Fairclough foresees that the CSIS funds for maintaining the computers will be depleted sometime in November. Although it is too early to say how long the funds will last, Fairclough was skeptical that the budget will be sufficient for the Fees, Page 6 Spider-man j 0 Nate Call tries to do everything that a spider can while scaling the climbing wall at Sun-fest last week in the quad. Many students participated in this and other activities including, mechanical bull riding and enjoying the BBQ put together by food services. Sun-fest was sponsored by Student Government, to commemorate the end of the summer and to let the students know more about the organization. The week ended with theBull-O-Rama at the Pleasant Grove Fairgrounds. See related story on page 4. ROSS PUS VUTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE Conferences and workshops are now open for Fall '95 semester. Register now and beat the early-registration deadlines! For more information on these and other great programs call (801) 222-UVSC. VUTAH COUNTY CRISIS LINE IS IN need of volunteers. Contact Stacee McCotter at 222-4433 or 227-4857. VPHIOSOPHY CLUB MEETING WILL be held on Sept. 13 in SC 213B at 3 p.m. All are welcomed. For more information call Dr. Grcic at ext. 8717. VUTAH VALLEY ART GUILD EXHIBIT will be displaying an exhibit of paintings by members of the Utah Valley Art Guild on the fourth floor of the Losee LRC The display will run from September 18 through October 6. Across, Page 5 UVSC goes electric Robert Johnson Staff miter The future of driving may soon be altered due to the use of high power, high efficiency electric powered vehicles and the UVSC automotive department hopes to be on the leading edge of this new technology by building their own. Electric cars aren't just golf carts and go-carts anymore; newly designed electric cars are capable of producing 200-plus horse power and a speed of 183 mph. UVSC's car, a soon to be modified 1978 Porsche 924 will hopefully achieve a speed of 230 mph. "We think it will be a good thing for the school to bring attention to UVSC and also be good for the automotive department to keep us on the leading edge," said Chase Mitchell, Automotive Instructor and instigator of the concept. "We also want to show that UVSC is concerned about the environment and we feel this is a step toward helping further progress in the area of environmental impact the automotive industry brings," said Mitchell. The car is scheduled to be completed by August of 1996. "Even if we don't make it our first time we're not going to quit; this is the first phase of a three phase project, the second being to take what we've learned from this car and develop a hybrid and the final phase is to have a program here teaching about electric cars," The concept car is being sponsored by a company called American motion systems, who is donating a $65,000 electric motor and has promised to help to find additional sponsorship for the project. Mitchell estimates that on the street the conversion car would cost between $120,000 and $150,000. The final design, after dropping the chassis and reshaping the body is planned to take on a shape like unto a tear drop. This modification will help cut down the drag co-efficient and make the car glide through the air with almost zero resistance. The 12th Annual Electric Vehicle Symposium, held at Disneyland and sponsored by General Motors and Ford, was visited by Mitchell and was his inspiration to build the car. "The electric car industry is bigger than I had any idea," exclaimed Mitchell. "America is way behind what the rest of the world is doing," Mitchell said. "The electric car is not perfect but it does have some major benefits over what were doing now," said Mitchell. "The most obvious drawback is not power but the distance the car can go," He explained. "Not a problem, the average electric cars distance will satisfy the needs of the average driver." 85 percent of all driving is in distances of less than 35 miles a day. A task electric vehicles are more than adequate for and with the use of hybrid cars achieving longer distances will no longer be a problem. Aviation day-camp to be held at Utah Valley Shawn Ram News Editor Would you like to fly an airplane? Discover the thrill of piloting an aircraft. Participants of Aviation Day Camp held at Utah Valley State College(UVSC) will have an opportunity to fly one of the newest training aircrafts available. The camp is for anyone between the ages of 10-99 and will be held on September 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. "The camp will stimulate interest and get people to understand how they can use their science and math courses in the real world," said Dr. Ron Smart, aviation director at UVSC. Participants will go through various training seminars by Federal Aviation Administration certified flight instructors. Such seminars, titled "ground school", which are taken before actual flight include: basic aerodynamics; aircraft operations, taxi, takeoff, how airplanes fly, elements of flying, history of avia- Camp, Page 5