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USU administration that improprieties might exist in the security department. USU officials then requested that the attorney general's office look into the matter. The suspects were believed to have taken money, tires, gasoline, food and other items from the university. The effectiveness of security at USU had been o much-discussed question for some time, ond the orrest of the former security personnel coused the controversy to reoch on obrupt climax. But not os abrupt os the denouement of STR8 in the Dork the evening of Friday. Feb. 20. 1981. The Student Activity Board function mas brought to o sudden holt ujhen o grease fire in the Hub filled the crowded Taggort Student Center with potentially dangerous fumes, cousing campus fire morsholl Dewitt Birch to order the evacuation of the building. The fire started in the Hub's deep fryer when o thermostot malfunctioned and allowed the oil in the fryer to reoch its combustion point. Logan City firemen quickly extinguished the blaze, but clouds of smoke were spread throughout the building by the ventilation system. Birch ordered the building cleared os a sofety measure. The Hub reopened the following Tuesday. serving a limited menu, but it wos weeks before the deep fryer was repaired and the Hub was operating normally. Having a lot in common with the Hub fire wos the Coca-Cola controversy on compus: it exploded, flared briefly ond was extinguished in short order. The controversy wos launched when USU awarded o distribution contract to the Pepsi Cola company. Virtually overnight. Coke and Dr Pepper disappeared from campus, precipitotmg yet onother letter writing campaign to The Utah Statesman in which outraged Coke lovers demanded justice, equal consideration and the real thing.
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The neujs events thot tronspire during the course of on ocodemic yeor creote o subtle chemistry thot determines the texture. the mood, and the personality of those months. Rnd that chemistry is a synthesis of the important and the trivial, the serious ond the lighthearted. Such is certainly the case of the 1980-81 school year at Utah State University. The news events that affected students on the hill were many and varied, ranging from the arrest of five former USU security guards charged with theft of university property, to the temporary absence of Coca Cola products from campus. Certainly the single news event having the greatest impact on students was the fmonciol woe reflected in a senes of university budget cuts ond a subsequent increase in the cost of education at Utah State. The fiscal problems of the institution began in 1979 when Utah Governor Scott Matheson ordered a four percent budget cut at all Utah colleges and universities. R committee was formed at USU to evaluate all university programs and determine where cuts could be made most judiciously. No sooner had this cut been met than additional cutbacks were ordered. The university took steps to acquire additional funds to maintain the quality of education. The most immediate measure took the form of a tuition surcharge that become effective spring quorter. 1981. The surcharge equaled $2 per credit hour, with a maximum charge of $20. R few weeks following the surcharge decision, the Board of Regents announced a tuition increase of 12.5 percent, effective fall quorter. 1981. 8ut all campus news is not as foreboding as financial problems. R letter to The Utah Statesman, condemning the blatant immodesty of USU coeds, sparked a flurry of responding epistles. Those reactionary letters disagreed with the condemnation of the coeds who shed many of their clothes in response to the premature spring weather. The letters to the editor'' section was filled with messages from irote students who made a number of suggestions obout the opinionated writer ranging from the suspicion that his modesty might be a cloak for perversion to a thinly veiled hint that he couldn't cope with reality and that he was in the dark about modern society. Rnd if he was in the dark, at leost on January 8. 1981. he wasn't alone. Some 1.5 million compomons were without light when a power failure struck Utah and parts of Idaho and UJyoming. Power failed on campus at 11:38 a.m., ond was not restored until 4:10 p.m. Most dosses were able to continue, but many USU offices and departments dependent on electricity closed down for the day. USU President Stanford Cozier said his prime concern during the outage was the safety of people and the security of buildings. Rlthough he did not issue on official statement closing the campus for the duration of the power failure, the library, offices ond rooms without windows were closed for the day. The cause of the failure was finally traced to a dump fire at the Utah State prison. The fire caused a 1.500 megawatt transmission line to break, which tripped a series of six safety systems throughout Utah. The security department at USU was under tremendous pressure during the blackout, charged with patrolling a darkened campus and maintaining order. But that challenge was fairly insignificant compared to the internal pressures caused by the arrest of five former members of thot force. They were charged with multiple counts of burglary ond theft of university property. The arrests were the culmination of a lengthy investigation that was initiated when an unidentified source informed the
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