Commission wiil monitor study of education costs th u rsd a y ^ J u ly 10, 1986 U CO By PATRICK J. KUCERA State Press Editor State legislators and members of the Arizona Board of Regents have formed a commission to monitor a study by a task force of the costs of education at the state’s three u n iv e rs ity the executive director for the regents said. Molly Broad said die idea to form a task force commission to study costs was necessary since no similar studies have been done since 1978. “I think primarily the motivation is that the three universities have changed so much in the past 10 years that we need to look at the changes,” Broad said. “We anticipate as part of our project that the Arizona universities will change drastically by the year 2000. more than any other u n iv e r s itie s in this country due to major population changes.” The commission was formed to oversee the workings of a task force created in March that was performing studies on the cost of education at NAU, UA and ASU. Specifically, the task force looked at how much it was costing each university to teach per credit hour. “One main purpose of the task force was to initiate a unit cost study,” Broad said. “We are embarked on an effort to develop guidelines that would ensure that each student was getting a high quality of education.” She said the commission and the task force will try to develop a “management tool” for the universities with the study and then look at other universities to see how Arizona higher education may be improved. “We are going to look outside of Arizona and identify similar institutions which Arizona universities can compare themselves to,” Broad said. Hie target date for completion of the task force study is December, 1987, but she said that date “is not cast in stone.” Broad said an additional purpose of the commission and task force is to look at the budgeting criteria for the three universities and make sure each is getting its fair share. “I think people are not fully accurate on how they believe the budgets are decided,” she said. “Those decisions are based on last year’s budgets and those budgets are based on the year before and so on.” She said the budgets are determined on a number of factors including population growth and special programs. Because the budgets have been based on prior year’s budgets, Broad said it is necessary to go back and make sure that is an acceptable way of determining the amount of funding each university receives. “ I think it is the appropriate thing to do,” she said. The commission will consist of three state senators, three state representatives and four members of the regents. Broad will serve as an ex-officio member. £ s t a le p re s s Vol. 11 No. 12 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona i Copyright, State Press, 1966 Staff photo by Kavin J. Larkin S h a d y re s t Chuck Martin, manager of Chemistry Stores, relaxes on his Cushman during his lunch break on Cady Mall, In front of the Danforth Chapel. Martin said he eats off campus then rests by the chapel because of the shade and the scenery. M cAllister Ave. resu rfacin g ‘headaches’ averted By BRAD HALVORSEN State Press Writer A lack of communication between the City of Tempe and ASU parking and transit nearly led to “headaches” Wednesday for 'ASU commuters who park south of campus. McAllister Avenue south of Apache Boulevard was scheduled to completely close Wednesday for resurfacing. However, parking and transit officials had believed that half of the street would remain open to traffic, which includes the ASU tram service and commuters. “One of my enforcement officers saw a sign (Tuesday afternoon) saying that it would be dosed, and said, ‘What is this?’ ” said Richard Landreth, assistant director of parking and transit. “That’s how I found out about i t “We didn't receive any schedule at all about the road being dosed.” In response to the closure, Landreth made plans to alter the tram route and ordered instructional signs to direct ASU commuters to alternate parking areas. However, the City of Tempe changed plans late Tuesday afternoon after learning 0 TS ■Hi (H -.Ms' h ■■ I 1 o d a y More streets to close this weekend Twenty local streets will temporarily close for resurfacing between Saturday and Tuesday in the continuation of a City of Tempe project which began last Monday. ASU commuters who normally park in these areas are advised to find alternate parking locations. Each street will be barricaded from approximately 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the designated construction day. Effected streets are: SATURDAY — Sixth Street between Mill Avenue and College Avenue; College Avenue between Fifth Street and University Drive; Myrtle Avenue between Fifth Street and its north end; of the tram conflict from the Summer State Press. Original plans called for barricading the entire street from 7 a.m. to5p.m. However, only the east side was resurfaced Wednesday, leaving the west half open for and 52nd Street between First Street and University Drive. SUNDAY — Fifth Street between Mill Avenue and College Avenue; Seventh Street between Mill Avenue and College Avenue; Farmer Avenue between First and Fifth Streets; and First Street between 48th and 52nd Streets. MONDAY — Forest Avenue between Fifth Street and Uniersity Drive; Forest Avenue between University Drive and Myrtle Avenue; Myrtle Avenue between University Drive and 10th Street; 10th Street between Mill and Myrtle Avenues; 13th Street between Farmer and Mill Avenues; and Farmer Avenue between University Drive and Fifth Street. one-lane traffic. The street will be completed next week, said Ray Best, general superintendent of Sahuaro Petroleum and Asphalt Co., the Phoenix firm performing the resurfacing. Best said ASU indeed had not been ....................................... . Thera’s big trouble with ‘Big Trouble in Little China.’ Review.Page 6. ASU weather— Partly cloudy with an expected high of 107. Expected low is 82. Weekend forecast: Sunny, hot and dry with temperatures up to 110. It’s about time for major league baseball to come the the Valley, but a few things have to be settled first. Column. Page 9. notified of the closure. “We had it scheduled to close the road down completely, until we understood that ASU has a bus service which takes kids back and forth to campus,” Best said. “So in view of that, we decided to change.” Street parking on the east side of McAllister Avenue was eliminated while the surface was drying Wednesday morning. Best said Sahuaro would leave driveways open by placing sand over the drying surface. According to Rod Whitt, City of Tempe engineering construction coordinator, the seal requires three to four hours to dry, but cars can drive on it aft«: 30 minutes without causing damage to the surface. “The best way of doing it is to shut the whole street down,” Whitt said. “That way, (workers) are only out there half a day, and you also get a more even seal.” Landreth said the tram would have been rerouted to Lot 39, east of McAllister Avenue, U the entire road had been resurfaced. 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Initial reports said the explosion apparently was caused by a gas leak, but Security Minister Robert Pandraud la ter «»iri it was caused by a bomb. Police reported no im m ediate claim of responsibility. F ire officials said division Inspector Marcel Badevant was killed in his fifth floor office. They said three of the injured were in serious condition. “I can express nothing but my emotion and pain in the face of such a serious attack,” Pandraud said. “F ot the moment, my only thoughts are for the victims and their families.” The building, in the crowded commercial Chatelet area, is adjacent to the City Hall offices of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, who also is Paris mayor. Chirac rushed to the scene of the bombing, and the National Assembly suspended its session so Interior Minister Charles Pasqua could leave to visit thè bombed building. Police blocked the area to the public. Plainclothes police officers rushed around gathering up documents scattered by the explosion. Firefighters said about 3,000 square feet of offices and the building’s elevator cage were damaged by the blast. The blast came three days after bombs went off at the offices of two French companies. Hie leftist terrorist group Direct Action claimed responsibility for those attacks, which caused no injuries. Direct Action has been the most active terrorist group in France in recent years. It has taken responsibility or been for about 90 bombings since 1979, including two bombs that exploded May 16 a t the suburban Paris headquarters of Interpol, which coordinates international police work. M e e se co m m issio n sëÿiT porn sh o u ld be sto p p e d WASHINGON (AP) — Attorney General Edwin Meese’s Commission on Pornography, issuing its final report after a yearlong study, said Wednesday that sex crim es can be linked to hard­ core pornography. The panel called for a law enforcement and citizen campaign of unprecedented scope against the $8 billion-a-year pom industry. 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