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Show Weber State College Comment, April 1985, page 5 Prof hunts bugs with camera This adult Damsel fly is eating another winged insect. The Damsel and Dragon fly are excellent predators of other flying insects. Commonly known as the Dog Day Cicada, this insect spends two to five years in the ground in larva form and usually emerges in May or June. It makes a buzzing sound similar to a rattle snake and is very common to the Wasatch Front area. Its cousin, the 17 year locust, spends 17 years burrowed in the ground in larva form before emerging for a one-year life span as an adult. Mi ook people don’t even want to at all the squiggly and crawly bugs in the world, but a WSC professor has photographing habitat. Dr. spent them David B. in years their Harvertz, natural an en- tomologist in the zoology department, has hunted insects with a camera in hand for 25 to 30 years photographing them in their natural surroundings. Some photographers capture insects and set up pictures in a studio, he said. Harvertz said, “I don’t nature fake, but I ruin a lot of film.” He said that insects are the largest jsroup of living organisms, far out- numbering plant and animals. “We can't get along with them and we can’t live without them. One kind of insect pollinates and another kind comes along and eats the fruit before we have a chance to eat it,” he said. He noted that while some insects are poisonous or otherwise harmful to man, most are beneficial. He said, “The Robber fly (which eats other insects) is really man’s best friend, but it’s so ugly that when you see them, you want The WSC to stomp on them.” insect photographer uses macro lens with billows telephoto lenses on the “I'm really serious.” I spend a lot of through the woods,” he extensions and billows when time crawling said. The Robber fly is another excellent predator of flying insects and has extremely strong legs for grabbing its prey. It will even feed upon a number of crawling in‘sects. WSC needs more students by G. Val Lofgreen WSCAA President Weber State as one of the nation’s finest undergraduate colleges. Hatch tells students: Business wants guaranteed I: getting to the point where more than businesses want freedom they want guaranteed security. That's what Utah Senator Orrin Hatch told WSC students and faculty when he spoke recently as a Business Week lecturer. “We want guaranteed profit. We want to be assured of a profit without the risks involved,” Hatch said. Hatch added, “I see a constant battle between those who would lead this country to social stagnation and those who strive to keep the system of free enterprise.” The Utah senator said that there is a tremendous bias in Washington towards having government control businesses that should be private ventures. He noted that current government practices such as trade cuts and subsidies to certain industries has resulted in what Hatch says is competition from the government. He said that an effort being pushed by some groups in Washington, D.C., called the National Industrial Policy, is lan attempt to take decision making from the individual entrepreneur and give it to the federal government. He said, “The idea is ‘Let’s have government do it. They can do it bet- ment W: security tell which products the public wants and which businesses will survive. Management tends to seek a market and then establish a product. Government tends to stultify creativity. The senator said that the government bailout of the Chrysler Corp., is an example of tax dollars used to help companies that “seem to have lost touch with reality.” He said, “Chrysler research, which expenditure, for In the short-run the long-run the look as good.” has reduced is a long-term capital the short-run profits. they look good, but in balance sheet does not He said that in order to enhance the business projects atmosphere special currently receiving interest federal funds will have to be drastically reduced while other projects will have to undergo critical review to see if they are accomplishing what they were designed ‘to do. That, Hatch said, would help lessen the national debt and give more economic stability. He said that the Federal Reserve Board must also establish a stable money policy so that business leaders can have principle rule of business to stay close well-intentioned, Hatch said, “How can the govern- help in_ Weber's advantages continue to be the || Hav rhave you ved?! moved: ”» , Please let us know as soon as possible by filling out this form and sen- l ding it to: l COMMENT | Weber State College | | | . i | Alumni Assn. 1011 3750 Harrison Blvd. { | l My new address is: Ogden, Utah 84408 | | | | Name i. | | | Address | ! City State Zip (Please attach old label) | fidence that the economy will not go through a series of depressions, reces- sions, and inflationary periods. He said, “People in Washington are biased toward spending. They’re all to the public. your | con- He said that the problem with that kind of thinking is that it violates a ter.’ ” need small classes, direct contact with recruiting of new _ students master teachers— not graduate for Weber State College. assistants, willingness of the master Fall and winter quarter enrollments are off slightly from a year ago. Na- | teachers to provide extra help if needed, a new well-planned campus, a tionwide, college enrollments are projected to decline sharply. The impact | dynamic student body and a broad on Utah is perhaps the least in the na- spectrum of campus activities to tion, partly due to the continuing high enhance the learning process. Talk up Weber State wherever you birth rate here. We need your help in competing for can. If you need specific information in a given area, contact the Alumni Office the smaller number of potential and we'll get it to you. students. 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