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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 5-19-1971 Student Life, May 19, 1971, Vol. 68, No. 86 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "Student Life, May 19, 1971, Vol. 68, No. 86" (1971). The Utah Statesman. 1445. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/1445 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Students at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Utah Statesman by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ; Ill &. N MARCH TO LIBERTY PARK - Veterans--long-hair and short , was held in Liberty Park. The crowd was estim ated by some young and old--and anti -war demonstrators wound down as ranging from 2-3000. from Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City Saturday to a ral ly which Local participant reports Peace march, rally non-violent Dayne Goodwin from Fort Dugway near Tooele in had been sitting-in at the Utah students were a large part of the Guest Writer western Utah and the Geyser Draft Board headquarters, Utah march. Missile Sit e near Green River in Veterans, Utah Counc il of About half the marchers Over 6000 (other es timates Eastern Utah. The demon Churches, Workers and Trade initially stayed for a rally where range from 2-3000) people from stration wa s organi zed by the Unionists, La Raza, Gay they heard telegrams of support Utah and Southern Idaho mar Wasat ch Peace Action Coalition. Liberation, Mothers for Peace, from Governor Rampton and ched against the war on Armed The marc hers assembled at the Radical Womens' Co ll ective, Senator Moss read. Gov. Ra mp Forces Day , May 15, in Salt Lak e State Capitol and marched two Welfare Rights Organization, ton declared May 15 Uta h Peace City. miles to Pioneer P ar k where a University st ud ents, high sc hool Day and Senator Moss declared Salt Lake City's largest anti rally was held. stude nt s. his resolve to end the war. war demonstration, and first The march was well organized There were continge nts from Speakers inc lud ed an 80-year ever to use the streets, was led by and mark ed by contingents in Ogden and Logan, Uta h , and old World War I vetera n; John a contingent of 25 active duty GI's cluding high school st ud ent s who Pocatello, Id aho. High schoo l Singleterry, active duty GI, Denise Paul of Wasatch PAC, Tony Carrera a Chicano leader from Ogden, Finn Wilcox from the high school sit-in, Jill Jones of Council approves S~enson, the Radical Womens' Collective, two representatives of Gay Liberation, Ster ne McMullen of the Young Socialist Alliance and accepts budget for 1971-72 Robert Scheer, ed itor of Ram~ par ts magazine. A budget providing ministr ation at the University of Exper im ent Station and Several musicians shared their for expenditure of $43,034,200 in Southern California in California $1,913,391 for the Extension talents including an impromptu the 1971-72 fis cal year gained in 1965-66. Services. These funds come appearance by Country Joe approval of th e Utah Stat e Other a ppointm ent s approv ed mainly from state ap propri ati on, McDonald. Speakers stressed University Institutional Council includ ed Dr . Val R. Christensen, fede r a l appropriat ion and that this was ju st the beginning here Saturday. director of the University Center, stud ent fees. and it was announced that the Of the total , $14,893,167 of the to be assoc iate dean of students Wasatch PAC would be holding a budget , or 34 percent , comes and coordinator of st udent ac Officials noted that in conference on Jun e 5 to decide from state appropriations , tivities ; Dr. Ronald G. P etri e, preparing the budg et , they laid futur e actions. another $3,925,000, or nine per now at Oregon Stat e University stress on bolster ing operati ng cent, from student tees, and the Center, to be associate dean of budgets of the divisions of the The day was marred by only remaind er, or 57 percent, from students and coordinator of university, s tr engt h ening th e grants, contracts, auxiliary and student activities; Dr. Ronald G. one incident of viole nce . A lib rary, improving cam pu s policeman allege dly drov e his serv ice enterpris es and other Petrie, now at Oregon State pl a nnin g and providing for sources . University, to be hea d of the cycle wildly alo ng the crow d maintenance of the growi ng kicking demonstrators as they The council a lso approved Departm ent of E lem ent ary phy sical plant. Modest salary appointment of a new vice Education, and assignment of Dr . turned from State Street onto increases in some cases for merit Third South. provost of the university, suc Kenneth W. Hill to be he ad of the and other considerat ions are A GI picn ic on the following day ceeding Dr. Stanford Cazier, who Plant Sci ence Depa rtm ent , ef supp lemented by a substantia l honored active duty GI's and has resign ed effect ive July I , fectiv e July 1. increase in staff benefits for all 1971, to become pre sident of Dr . Hill came to USU as ce lebrated the success of the employees. march and rally. Chico State College, California. associate director of the The new admini strator, who is Agricultural Exper im ent Station the chief admini strative officer of in 1963 and was named director in the univ ersi ty in the absence of 1966. In recommending the new the pr es ident and provost, is Dr . assignment, President Glen L. Richard M. Swenson , a nativ e of Taggart sai d Dr. Hill is we ll Service League charts Pleasant Grove , who is now vice known for his work on weed presid ent for admi ni strative control, crop production and a ffair s at California Pol ytechni c irrigation, an d has chosen to University at Pomona. return to work in his aca demic Millville clean-up plans The new vice provost has bee n field . He extended the univer a teaching fellow at the sity's appreciation to Dr . Hill for USU students are planning a shrubs and do general cleanup University of Massac husetts, his se rvic e to the Experiement cleanup-fixup day in Millville, a work. The USU student chapte r where he obtained his ma ste rs Station. community ju st south of Logan, of the American Welding Society ,0 degree in soil chemistry, and Dr . Petrie ha s been director of Saturday. will build bleachers for the town 00 assistant prof esso r in teaching the Teacher Corps program at Th e activity is being planned ball diamond, and the Forestry j and research at Iowa State Oregon State sinc e 1969. He was by the Service League, an Club will trim and remove trees University , where he received his formerly an edu cat ion analyst for amalgamation of campus service as needed in the cleanup effort. E :, doctorate in soil fertility in 1951. the U.S. Offic e of Economic groups, in coo rdination with the All students interested in z He ha s also been assistant de an, Opportunity . He directed the Millville Town Council. helping with the effort are inv ited director of resident instruction Upward Bound and Tea cher Ray Pollard, president of the to do so, Pollard said. and profes sor of agriculture at Dixi e Club at USU, is chai r man of ,0 Corps programs at Oregon Sta te "It is really refresh ing to have "° Michigan State University. while working for the doctorate the event and has plann ed it with some people really interested in GI E 1947 graduate of Brigham which he completed last June . Mayor John Clark of Mill ville. helping and not asking anything :, Young University , he had an In the budget $14,619,016 was Townspeople plan to provide a in return," Mayor Clark told 0 American Council on Education approved for general university lunch for the workers, who will P ollard as they discussed the > internship in academic ad- expe nditur e, $2,755,032 for the paint, make minor repairs, plant student service activity. ,_ Page 2 May 19, 1971 Editorial J 1L Paying the Piper ...------------Spectrum When the Spectrum was instituted for student use in early December, the most oft asked question was "Who Readers' Forum gets to use it ... and when?" Students need no longer concern themselves with that issue. It has already been decided. If you plan on using the Spectrum , your wallet had better be stocked with green stuff. · The problem develops in that the Spectrum Policy Board has already approved rental charges for use of the facility. The basketball team ... for which the domed UPIRG arena was specifically built. .. must pay 10percent of its gross receipts to use the building. And the wrestling project team , plagued by financial stress long ago, is required to foot a $250bill each time it uses the palace. Bikerace defended Pop concerts pay $500 or six percent of the gross receipts for each concert . This though, not bemg a escapes Dear Editor: student activity , is called for. With all the recent attacks upon m1unes UPIRG and its organization, I Intra murals Slighted thought it was about time someone came out in defense of a Editcr: project which has great The intramural department, planning to spread its possibilities both for the functions to the Spectrum to alieviate a bunched-up I am aware that Utah State has university student and the a well deserved reputation for community at large.