It's at Federal Pointe, on the hillside near the block U overlooking the campus. The answer from both Smiths, immediate and harmonious, is yes. Oh my, yes. There's good reason. Art Smith has had to look at the challenges and find reasonable answers to them, and I think he's done that.
Gale is a past president of the U of U Alumni Association.
Certainly Smith's services appear to be valued by the State Board of Regents. A telling measurement of an university president's success is the effort made to woo him elsewhere. Art Smith has been approached numerous times. Within the past several months he's declined invitations to interview or removed himself from candidate lists at several major institutions. Generally, University presidents are known by the company they keep- community leaders, state legislators, members of Congress, alumni, and their own faculty, staff, and students.