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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Monday, April 4, 2011 The UtahCampus Voice tatesman SUtah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com since 1902 Differential tuition asks students to pay more in three career fields By MEGAN BAINUM out and try different classes is something assistant news editor USU’s Executive Vice President Raymond Coward said doesn’t apply to “the vast Differential tuition is a “solution of last Take aPoll majority of courses that charge differential resort when all of the other arguments fail,” Thumbs up or tuition.” said Barmak Nassirian, associate execu- He said very few lower-division courses tive director of the American Association Thumbs down on charge even a $2 per-credit fee. Business of Collegiate Registrars & Admissions senator Skyler Jenks said students who Officers. DIFFERENTIAL want to try business classes won’t usually be This cost-per-credit expense is applied taking the 3000-level courses that have dif- TUITION? ferential tuition attached. to certain classes above standard tuition for @utahstatesman.com a university. Introducing differential tuition on A raise in the business school’s differen- undergraduate courses results in a change tial tuition was approved in February, and Nassirian said charging differential tuition in student behavior, Nassian said. students in this school will pay an addition- is much more common at the graduate “The point is you really want to give as al $15 per credit hour beginning in fall of level, but charging undergraduates differen- broad as choice of major as possible and let 2011 for upper division courses, which will tial tuition can be problematic. He said by their interests define where they end up,” he reach a total of $97 per credit hour in 2014. charging more for certain classes, students said. Graduate students in the business school may skip out on their dreams of becoming Coward said since USU began charg- will see a $50 increase per credit hour to an engineer or businessman simply because ing differential tuition, there has been no the current $199 they pay in differential it costs more. He said it is important that decrease in enrollment and students see the tuition. It will increase another $50 each undergraduate classes be priced evenly so increase in fees as a need to improve their year for the next two years. students can pursue their dreams without quality of education. The additional student costs are needed having to worry about monetary differ- “Many students understand that the for faculty and staff salaries, operating ences. differential tuition is an investment in the expenses, student services and programs “For some people the added costs might quality of their education and their future,” and expenditures such as marketing, said not be manageable, so it makes students Coward said. Ken Snyder, dean of the business school. pick majors not on the basis of interest, but Jenks said he has seen the difference dif- More than a decade ago, USU imple- on what it might cost them,” Nassirian said. ferential tuition has brought to the teaching mented differential tuition in the under- Nassirian did credit those making the staff at the business school. He said he has graduate and graduate courses in the busi- decision to implement differential tuition, been here since 2006 and over that time the ness school and the college of engineering, saying tuition pricing is a very agonizing improvement of teachers has been drastic. THE HUNTSMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS is one academic decision and it is not anyone’s first thought “Hands down I agree with differential college on campus that requires its students to pay differential tuition. as well as graduate programs in the depart- ment of communicative disorders and deaf to “jack up tuition.” Students impacted by differential tuition pay an extra fee per class on top Concerns about not being able to branch of the general tuition amount. CARL R. WILSON photo education. -See COST, page 3 CAPS offers help to students affected by impulsive behavior By KATE MARSHALL staff writer More than 2 million people were brought into emergency rooms in the U.S. in 2010 because of drug abuse. Binge eating affected more than 5 million people. Americans spend more than $13 billion a year on various forms of pornography. These are just a few statistics from the USU Health and Wellness Center that demonstrate the impact human impulses have on individuals. Chris Chapman, a psychology resident at Utah State, is conducting a seminar through Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) on April 4 in TSC Room 310B from REBEL FIGHTERS STAND near the front line east of Brega, Libya, Sunday. Cache Valley Peace Works gathered outside the Logan 9:30-11 a.m. on behaving consciously and controlling impulses. Tabernacle, Friday, in hopes of creating awareness about the violence in Libya. The Libyan rebel movement controls the country’s eastern half “When people get into addictive cycles or behaviors, they stop and wants to topple the regime of longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi. AP photo becoming conscious, they just do them automatically,” he said. “We want to help students get things under control, whether it’s drugs or alcohol, eating disorders, pornography or anything they feel is unhealthy.” Locals react to violence in Libya Chapman describes the impulses as “necessary,” and said with- out them, people wouldn’t feel the need to procreate, eat, exercise and destress their lives. However, dependence often takes the By LIS STEWART on March 28 in an address from Washington, D.C., and made an impulse too far, and an addiction may form. staff writer assurance that the U.S. role will be limited. He called Gadhafi a Jesse Crosby, a doctoral student in clinical psychology, has tyrant and said in Libya’s past Gadhafi hanged people in the streets spent his years at Utah State researching these psychologi- Members of the Cache Valley Peace Works gathered with signs, a and killed more than 1,000 people in a single day. cal problems, as well as treatments for them, with psychology flag, and staunch opinions in front of the Logan Tabernacle, Friday “We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly professor Michael Twohig. He said when following an impulse, evening, to advocate for peaceful solutions to the conflict in Libya. the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have rever- it’s something done without thinking of the consequences. The Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi came under renewed interna- berated across the region and stained the conscience of the world,” immediate rewards are positive, but the long term consequences tional pressure in February when he reacted with violence against Obama said. are negative. There is a difference between an impulse and a rebels in his country. On March 18 the United Nations Security While Powelson said he does not support Gadhafi lashing out behavior. Council authorized a no-fly zone and military action over Libya. Air against the rebels, he said the rebels also went too far. Violent actions “People try and stop the impulses, but that is impossible – all and sea strikes from American and European forces began the next escalate into lasting feuds. you can do is control the way you react to them. Just because you day. “Ultimately, warfare causes reaction,” he said. “Although some- have an impulse it doesn’t mean you have to respond to it,” he Dave Powelson, a long-time member of Cache Valley Peace Works, times violence can have a desirable effect in the short term, in the said. said in the beginning, the U.S. was like a policeman breaking up a long term, and it is always the wrong way to go.” The seminar will cover a variety of topics such as alcohol/drug fight. Now, it has taken sides, and that will only create more prob- The Peace Works has been consistent since forming in 2005. Every abuse, pornography, overeating and overexercising, sex and pro- lems, he said. Friday at 5:30 p.m. they assemble outside the Logan Tabernacle. They crastination. “Obama was correct in getting the UN to endorse this, and then stand with their signs advocating peaceful solutions to world prob- “People start excessively drinking or using drugs, sometimes acting as an agent of the UN to separate the sides I think was fine,” lems. Powelson said, “and now, I think the United States has gone way During these 30 minutes, as the group stood in the fading sunlight, -See ADDICTION, page 4 beyond that.” President Barack Obama defended the military action with Libya -See PEACE, page 4 Inside This Issue 4/04/11 Softball’s www.utahstatesman.com losing streak USU’s Herbarium hous- continues at Take our readership survey es 255,000 plant speci- home with a online (www.utahstatesman. mens in the basement trio of week- com, look for the button at of the Junction. end losses to the top) and get a free slice Page 5 New Mexico of Hazel’s Bread! State. 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