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American Fork teens arrested for making napalm AMERICANFORK, Utah (AP)- Two teen-agers have been arrested and charged with making napalm from a recipe from the Internet. American Fork Police Department spokesman Darren Falslev said 14-and15-year-old boys were arrested after it was discovered they were testing and storing the explosive under a bridge. They are now in their parents· custody. They had burned a plastic figure and rocks. Falslev said. They boasted of their experiment to friends who tipped off an officer stationed at American Fork High School. Officers were then dispatched to the youths' homes. and the boys led the police to the bridge. The Utah County bomb squad removed the napalm, which had been stored in a plastic container. Napalm is a jellylike incendiary explosive that bursts into flames on impact. It was used in bombs and flamethrowers during the Vietnam War. It's considered extremely dangerous and volatile.Falslev said two boys probably didn 't understand what they were dealing with. "I don't think they have a clue," he said. One of the two teenagers was involved in blowing up a rest room toilet last year at American Fork Junior High School with a homemade device also made from information found on the Internet. Police have confiscated the computer the boys used to gather the bombmaking information .
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Fee Board votes to increase student fees by $6.50 LAURA BELLAMY
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Students can expect to see a $6.50 increase in student fees next year after the Fee Board approved five different fee increases at its Monday meeting. The fee increase is up 3 percent from last year's fees and was meant to mirror the 3 percent increase in tuition, said Student Body President Nate Anderson. The increases, meant to improve Utah State University as well as student life, ranged from money needed to maintain computer labs to funds needed to improve Aggie Shuttle operators' pay equity. Several different options were put forth to the Fee Board, which had to reduce the $18.50 requested to $6.50 in approved fees. "It's my feeling that we should look at these and prioritize," said Academics Vice President Emily Croshaw. ·we should look at how many students each of these fees affect.· I think to prioritize we need to go with the library," Croshaw said. "Right now I don't think (the computer fee) is a necessity. We have other fees that I feel are more important." According to the proposal from USU libraries. the proposed library fee would place the computers in the libraries on a replacement schedule. According to Croshaw, all other computer labs are currently on a schedule to have their computer equipment replaced every four years. This fee will allow the libraries to
update their equipment on a regular basis. The current library fee is $6 for all students and, after debate, was approved to be increased to $8. The proposed computer fee, which received no funding increase, would have helped to provide additional capacity for student use of computers. It would also provide three additional labs with 84 work stations open at night-time hours, the Computer Services proposal said. The current computer fee for students taking eight or more credits is $45. Board members said they felt libraries are in greater need of funding and reach a greater percent-
age of students. ·1 feel that this fee is a top priority in that it is something that would benefit the majority of students," Croshaw said. "Most every student uses the library whether they come in or just access the databases online ." The library fee, however, would not help the university in updating or obtaining new academic materials. Tm not really against it, but I don't really know how it helps students," said Graduate Vice President
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Petitions made to Fee Board for student fee increases: Area
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Computer Library Activity Bus Music/Theater Technology Western Surgery Center
$0 $2 $1.25
$4.50 $2 $2 $1 $1 $4 $4
Total Request: $18.50
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$TotalGranted: 6.50
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SeniorNews Writer a home schoolstudent from Fruit Heights, and Ben Sa/bury,a Skyview High senior,participatedin the Monster Concert Tuesday.The concertis an annual piano recital. In addition to regularperformances,a musical is written from the music that is performedin duets and skits that areput on betweenmusical numbers. This year's theme is basedon the movie 'Star Wars EpisodeOne: The Phantom Menace,'and will have performersfrom ages 4 to 60. Jonathon Coombs,
Nine students were chosen from random e-mails last week to act as supervisors to those running for Associated Students of Utah State University offices in March . Christina Domichel, ASUSU public relations vice president., said ·students chosen for the election committee are distant from ASUSU.They were selected from e-mails that were received after (a November)Statesman advertisement.· The committee will consist of: Joilynne Banner, Kelly Cook, Rebecca Duncan, Jennifer Fuller, Mark Hullinger. Cannon Parry, Betsy Roundy, Natalie Shane and Erica Thomas. The proctors, or supervisors, will assist the candidates with questions. advertising, forums and debates. The committee will also help with the open house, which will be held Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center. Domichel said. "The open house is a chance for candidates to be introduced to current officers," she said. Elections for the 2000-2001 ASUSU officers will be held March 20 through ·31. • According to the ASUSU Election Packet, primaries will be held March 20 through 23. The final elections will be held March 27 through 30. During the two weeks of elections, there will be three sponsored forums and two receptions. "The receptions give students the opportunity to meet all the candidates," Domichel said. Students inte rested in running for anASUSU Executive Council office can pick up an election packet in the Taggart Student Center Room 326. The filing deadline for candidates is Feb. 28 at 1 p.m. A mandatory meeting will be held that night at 5 p.m. for all candidates. At the meeting, candidates will be assigned a proctor who will answer candidates' questions and remind them ·of calender events and deadlines, Domichel said. ·students interested in running for office should talk to existing officers or read the charter to find out about the ASUSU offices," Domichel said.
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ASUSU shoots down Housing's_speakingprivilege petition allowing visitors to give input, said ASUSU President Nate Anderson. Many council members expressed For fear of ·opening a can of worms," concern that if RHSArepresentatives were allowed to speak, other campus the Associated Students of Utah State organizations may seek similar priviUniversity Executive Council unani leges. mously agreed not to extend speaking ·1 see this kind of opening a can of privileges to nonmember visitors at worms," said College of I Iumanities, meetings. Arts and Social Sciences Senator Residence Hall Student Association Bethany Mills. ·1 have a hard time givPresident Robin Wignall proposed that ing preference, and I don't want to feel the council give her and future RHSA like I am giving preference." presidents the right to speak on nonWignall said RHSArepresents 2,200 legislative items in the council's weekly students who live on campus and has meetings. · national and international affiliations, Currently, discussion of non-legisladuties she said could lend themselves tive issues - including committee tt, discussion. reports and other input as well as all Former RHSA President April legislative issues - is limited to memStevenson often had pertinent informabers of the council. In most cases, the council can decide to suspend the rules, tion and experience to add to discusDouGSMEATH
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sions, but was unable to, Wignall said. Council members said there are opportunities for this input to be shared. ·council's been more than willing to suspend the rules," said ASUSU Athletics Vice President Sam Winward. He said all student voices are important, and he didn't want to give special privilege to what he called a "lobbyist group." In addition, Winward said Wignall and others can share information with council members outside of meetings. "There's a week in between meetings; there's five minutes before meetings," he said. Other ASUSU officers said taking time to suspend the rules to allow a nonmember to speak is not a big deal and has been done often in the past.
·1 guess I don't understand when having to suspend the rules is such a bad thing," said ASUSUGraduate Vice President Dan Ward. Wignall said it can hamper discussion. especially heated discussion. to have to stop and officially suspend the rules . Another issue that concerned members of the council is over-representation of students . ASUSUActivities Vice President Mandy Saunders said on-campus students are represented in various ways by other council members, such as the senators for the colleges of their majors. The council unanimously passed a motion to continue granting speaking privileges to nonmembers on a case-bycase basis by suspension of the rules.
Committee kills bill that would make large families pay more for schools SALTLAKECITY (AP)- A bill that would shift the burden of paying for education to large families was resound ingly defeated in a House committee Tuesday. Under current law, 75 percent of the federal deduction, or $2,063, can be deducted from state income taxes. Rep. Kory Holdaway's bill would have increased the deduction to 80 percent for the first two dependents - generally a husband and wife - and reduced it to 70 percent for each additional dependent. That would have meant a tax cut of
about $9.60 for the first two dependents, and a tax increase of that same amount for each child. Thus families with no children or one child would still see a tax cut, those with two children would see no change, and couples with three or more children would see a tax hike. Because state income taxes pay for education, the revision would have meant $5.3 million more for the Uniform School Fund. Holdayvay,R-West Valley City, called the bill a fairness issue. "If I have students that are participat ing in education, whether higher or pub -
lie. then I feel I have a greater responsibility to pay for that education," said Holdaway. Utah has a higher percentage of school-aged children than any other state and the smallest percentage of working-age adults, due to the state's huge families. It's a byproduct of the Mormon church's family emphasis. The result is that. while Utah taxpayers put the highest percentage of their income toward education , the state spends the least per-pupil in the nation. The bill had the backing of the Utah School Board Association, Utah School
Superintendent Association. The Utah Education Association and Davis Education Association teachers unions both supported the bill as well. Karen Derrick, a Salt Lake City Board of Education member and mother of seven, said it seems only fair that she pay more. But the committee worried the small tax hike would push large families, already forced to pay to feed and clothe their children, to the breaking point. 'To increase the burden right when
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