University of Alaska Fairbanks - Denali Yearbook (Fairbanks, AK)

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The MOD ' s (often referred to as the train wreck) were opened to groups of single students this year. Diana Rock (Bruce Anders) goes visiting fans in Skarland Hall. Where are the rest of the Supremes? Although these checks were a welcome sight to most students, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Program is presently under fire by critics as being wasteful and extravagant. As to whether or not we will get the checks this year... we will have to wait and see... Introduction 15

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New Housing: to be or not to be? The need for additional housing is well known by all at the university. Stories of students living in lounges for weeks, or in the backs of pickup trucks, are commonplace. On April 7, a bill which included $11 million for a new University of Alaska — Fairbanks dormitory was passed by the Senate and sent to the House for consideration. In the House, the bill could be changed before being passed. Fairbanks Rep. Bob Bettisworth, vice-chairman of the finance committee, said, I ' m going to fight to keep the dorms in there, and if they fall out, we ' ll put them in the capital budget anyway. Once passed by the House, the bill could still be vetoed by the governor, who did not include university housing in his capital spending plan. Allen Blume, special assistant to the governor, said the Volume III Number 16 University of Alaska-Fairbanks September 1982 - April 1983 governor would prefer to approach the funding in other ways, such as bonding. My guess is that he won ' t look on it too favorably, but that ' s only a guess, Blume said. The idea of rolling $40 million out for three campuses is an additional burden the state can ' t handle. At the end of May SB 19 was in the House Finance Committee ' s hands and had been there since May 3. Funds for university housing had also been included in the capital budget, which moved into Senate Finance from the House May 27. Originally, occupancy for the new housing was scheduled for January 1984. After being delayed in the Senate while appropriations for other campuses were added to the bill, the date of construction was slated for late April or early May 1983, with a completion date of Fall 1984, Continued on page 19 Student loan changes proposed In mid-January students were shocked by the announcement of proposed changes to the Alaska Student Loan Program. Allegations that the loan money was not being spent for the purpose intended and that the cost of the program had gotten out of control prompted the Postsecondary Education Commission, administrator of the program, to recommend to Gov. Bill Sheffield that the Continued on page 18 Paul Chamberlin, Bruce Anders, and Paul Ferriz light the candles left in the snow bank after the candle-light vigil. The vigil, held in February to protest proposed changes to the student loan, attracted an estimated 300 students. (photo by Ron Kuczek Jr.) KSUA: the open-air project in review The management of KSUA was in the final stages of applying for an open-air FM license in September 1982. In 1979, KSUA had petitioned the FCC to assign an FM license to College. Delays occurred when Interior Broadcasting Corp., licensee of KAYY(FM), and Prime Time Alaska Inc., licensee of KIAK(AM), filed against the petition. The crucial point was whether College is a separate community from Fairbanks, as ASUA contended. KAYY disagreed but the FCC decided that ASUA ' s arguments were valid. Two years after the initial petition was filed, the FCC assigned College an FM channel. The idea of an open-air FM station had been discussed in ASUA for several years but was not approved until Fall 1978, according to Donn Erisman, who was appointed general manager of the station in January 1979. He was appointed because of his previous radio experience and his familiarity with the forms and process of applying for broad- cast licenses, he said. The big news from KSUA came in mid-October when Erisman, production manager Tom Tilson and eight other salaried staff members turned in their resignations at the October 10 ASUA Senate meeting. Erisman and Tilson said that one of the last straws leading to their resignations came when they heard that ASUA president John DiBene was apparently actively working on a proposal for a student membership corporation for the FM open-air project. Continued on page 18 Headlines 17