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Budget cutback hurts library REPORTING:
Miles Jensen 'Life Writer
Volume 68, Number 16
Utah State University, November 2, 1970
12 Pages
Nixon comes to Utah SALT LAKE CITY AP - Irish Quaker Richard Nixon stepped to the pulpit of the Mormon Tabernacle Saturday, hoping to make enough . Republican converts to propel his handpicked candidate to victory in the tightest, most bitter Senate battle in Utah history. Backers of four-term Republican Congressman Laurence J. Burton, 44, view the President's scheduled appearance with such importance that they have bought out virtually all commercial television in the state to carry the speech live.
Utah Pro-Nixon Consider that Utah is pro-Nixon country anyway, it is tempting to suppose this is the President's best chance in his two-week campaign blitz to swing a race otherwise in doubt. But it isn't that simple. For one thing, many observers believe they detect a backlash from Bur ton's late campaign tactics, including one television commercial apparently aimed at convincing the viewer that Moss favors student rioting. Gutter Politics ''Extreme,
SLC speech may influence senate battle politics," says Moss, whose organization has cited the commercial and other Burton claims in a protest to the national Fair Campaign Practices Committee. . Also detracting from Nixon's possible impact is the fact that Burton's ties with the ad• ministration have been ham• mered so hard since Nixon
personally put him into the race that there likely isn't much transference left to be made. President Supports A year ago, Burton was still agonizing over whether to give up his safe House seat to challenge Moss when the President said publicly he was urging full support to Burton's Senate campaign. Burton hadn't an• nounced, but that settled that. Utah's campuses are serene and it's crime is low, but Burton has based his campaign almost entirely on the administration's law and order theme, assailing the liberal Moss as permissive and soft on what ails America.
Shootout ki Ils student at Alabama university MONTGOMERY, Ala.AP - A 20-year-old Alabama State University student was shot fatally Friday during an exchange of gunfire between campus guards and a group of persons police say were not students.
$tudents vote
The dead student was identified as Michael Casher of Mobile. Officers said they are holding a 16-year-old youth in the case .
in pre-election
Police Capt. Raymond Moody said about 30 shots were fired in what he called "a regular shootout."
A "mock election" to deter • mine student opinion on the candidates will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the UC basement . The purpose of this preelection is to find the political attitude of the students at USU. Results of the election will be posted tomorrow, the real election day.
Officers said the shootout was the result of a fight between students and the nonstudents that began prior to a scheduled dance. They said the nonstudents left the campus and then returned shortly before the gunfire started. Five campus guards returned thte fire with .38-caliber guns, and Casher was hit by a .22-caliber bullet, officers said.
A two percent budget cutback ordered of state universities last summer by Gov. Calvin L. Rampton , has resulted in most USU colleges with fewer personnel and sometimes fewer class offerings. Outside of the college areas , the library has closed on Friday and Saturday evenings due to the budget cut. Cutting about 13 hours from last year's time open was the decision made, according to Max Peterson, associate director of material distribution , as the only alternative to cutting the number of new materials coming into the library. Athletic Budget Cut
The athletic budget according to athletic director, Frank Williams, was cut proportionately from each sport in relation to the total budget. He indicated that since football received approximately 65 percent of the funds,its reduction was about three times the cut that basketball received, which has around 22 percent of the athletic budget. Dean M. Judd Harmon of the college of humanities and arts and social sciences, indicated that with the cuts his colleges "just didn't fill some unfilled positions." The Dean said secretarial help was reduced and some courses which would have been taught were not taught. He added that some teachers were carrying heavier loads as a result. Less Student Help
Dean Phyllis Snow of family life, commented that in her college some of the cuts were taken in salary and some were taken in the operating budget . In the school of graduate studies, Dean Eldon J. Gardner said the budget cut resulted mostly in less student help. He indicated this was "about the only place to cut" at such a late date. He also said some of the budget for supplies had been reduced. Associate dean of the college of agriculture, Doyle Matthews reported the college had been unable to do some of the programs that had been planned . He said the college had hoped to hire people and "couldn't do it." He added that when some people left they were unable to replace them with new people. No Classes Cut
In the college of business Professor William Tezac cited cuts in the capital budget and some cuts in salaries. He said no planned classes had been cut but that some positions were not filled, mentioning one graduate assist.ant. Vice President of Student Affairs Claude Burtenshaw said the budget cuts in his area were taken out of salaries and that one person was not hired who could have been otherwise.