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Show A4 NEWS rom Al •'.'- Cobb is planning to make ^videos and collect electronic data that will serve not just this University, but other uniVersities as well. The plan is ;to interview many around the U.S. and Vietnam. Students will be traveling to do these interviews and get credit by •either helping with the interviews, transcribing, editing or auditing. 'There's nothing like the •sense of the past coming alive ;by exposing students to actually doing something more than just sit in a classroom and take notes or an exam," Cobb said. There are still opportunities for internships or service hours, depending on how involved students want to get "Students will become part of history." with the project. Anyone who is interested can help, whether a history major or not. "This university has an extremely bright future ahead of it and a project like this can really help to fulfill that sense of engagement that we see plastered on billboards and the sides of the buses," Cobb said. "My message to the students is to be part of your education here. Be engaged. Even if it's not in this project, be part of something; do more of that engagement thing." For more information on this project, talk to Professor Cobb in LA 030, email him at William.Cobb@UVU.edu or go to www.UVU.edu/library/ archives/ vietnam.html Andrea Undgren/UVU Review When History Professor, William Cobb was 19 years old, he used to ride his bicycle to the base while serving in the Vietnam War. UNIVERSITY OBSTETRICS &GYNECOLOGY 1355 NORTH UNIVERSITY AVE. SUITE 110 PROVO, UT 84604 THOMAS E. JUDD M.D. NICKJ.WEIBELLD.O. WELCOMING NEW PATIENTS 801-374-5000 Shane Maryott/UVU Review Students can expect to see signs like these until the completion of the Science Building in Feb. 2012. ft*""- Detours for two years By Rachel Mills News Writer space, as is the rest of campus"1 Fairbanks said. When the new Science building is completed, it will be twice the size of the existing What is life without a few detours? That is building. The old building was constructed exactly what students will be learning to mawhen the university only had around 8,000 neuver through with the closure of the hallway registered students. Today, there are about between the LA and the Science buildings on 30,000 registered students. Around 20,000 of campus. them are taking classes in that building. "I expected the hall to be open now, [it was "I'll go around," Megan Whitaker said, a] bit of a shock," Amy Hart said when she and this is exactly what the new suggested realized she wouldn't be able to get from the route is designed to do. It will take students LA to the Science building. The closure will last until February 2012 out through the Student Center on the north while the new Science building is being built. end and around to the PE building and through This is a sacrifice that students will have to pay there to the LA building to reach classes. As students try to ignore the mess and now to enjoy the benefits when it is completed. the noise of the construction as they walk to According to Daniel Fairbanks, associate through the detour, the workers are serving dean for the College of Science and Health, the hall has been a bottleneck and the idea is to as traffic lights when trucks need to cross the pathway. Make sure to pay attention to those widen it and provide more windows. The Science building is "badly in need of signals when crossing to prevent any accidents. College survival By Andrea Lindgren knife, just to mention a few. All can come in handy in a time of need. * As residents of Happy For many students, this is Valley, most students are actheir first year attending colquainted with a basic survival lege, and for others they are kit and its contents. returning after being away for "; To help students get their a number of years. But stusurvival kit gathered togethdents of every stage of college er, the UV Mentors will be sponsoring a college survival workshop at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31 and Wednesday, Sept. 1 in the library lecture U Our whole purpose hall. This workshop will prois to help students vide students with some basic transition into college tools to put in their survival kit that will help them become successfully. JJ more adept college students. "Our whole purpose is to : help students transition into college successfully," said will be presented with new Randy Lasson, UV Mentor and unexpected experiences and speaker at the College that will leave them desperSurvival Workshop. ately searching through their \ Some survival kit essencollege survival kit for the tials may be a blanket, first right tool to solve a problem. aid supplies, matches and a News Editor UV mentors will be speaking at the workshop and discuss financial aid, buying used books, setting a study plan and help that is available on campus like the math lab, writing lab and tutoring. They will also cover an array of other topics that are of great importance to students. Like the ever-important first aid supplies found in a survival kit, the college survival workshop will also provide students with information on weliness and health that will help get through their college years without having to suffer as many scrapes and bumps along^he way. 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