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Show Marty Harris is SUSCs 1985 Truman nominee Marty Harris is the SUSC nominee for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship. The scholarship was established by Congress as a living memorial to the 33rd President of the United States. SUSC has done exceedingly well since the program was established in 1977, said Rodney D. Decker, dean of the SUSC School of Arts and Letters. Chris Kerecman, of Orem, was Utahs Truman Scholar in 1981; Jessica Barton, of Las Vegas, was Nevadas Truman Scholar in 1983; and last year, Sonya Smith, of Cedar City, and Karen Gutwald, of Las Vegas, were first alternates, again representing Utah and Nevada. One scholarship is awarded each year to a resident nominee from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and considered as a single entity Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Another 50 or so scholars at large are selected on a geographic basis. Harris is competing for the Truman Scholarship from his home state, Oregon, according to Decker. Harris transferred to SUSC from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He represented SUSC at the I.E. nationals last spring, taking seventh place in dramatic interpretation, and has already qualified for the nationals this year in poetry and The SUSC sophomore has a double major in psychology and languages, French emphasis, and plans to enter politics. He would like to serve as an ambassador some day, a goal he finalized this summer as a participant in an SUSC study abroad program to Paris, London and Scotland. Just receiving the nomination is a real honor, Harris says. Since I hope to someday have an ambassordorship to a foreign country, the Truman Scholarship would really help. Truman Scholars are awarded stipends of $7,000 per year for up to four years, Decker said. They are judged on their applications, which include records of academic and extracurricular achievements, letters from college advisors and d essays on governmental problems or 500-wor- policies. Semifinalists will be notified by the end of January and then will appear before regional review panels in The scholarship winners will be announced in April. The Tfumherbirii Monday January 13, 1986 Page 7 Lawsuit is filed against coaches Kim Gardner has filed a $2.8 million civil rights lawsuit against SUSC football coach Donald Conrad, head trainer Ben Davidson, baseball coach William Groves, and athletic director Steven Lunt. The charges were filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 9. The lawsuit accuses that Gardner was involuntarily terminated as an employee of the athletic department and her schooling disrupted due to the .defendants telling students and .other professors that she was having indiscriminate sex with many different men, some under 18 years of age. The suit also claims that the statements by the coaches were made Maliciously with an intent to injure and damage. She was Held up to public contempt and ridicule. A copy of the charges were referred to SUSC Assistant Attorney General Robert L. Gardner, said Vice President for College Relations Michael Pdchards. According to the lawsuit, Ms. Gardner is seeking $1.8 in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages plus court and attorney fees. THE SUSC TELELPHONE DIRECTORY KNOWN AS THE BLUE PAGES si isto? you f,fponT t, It just 3K Tn ;-- ..a R ZBOKSLt! , frvDpo njfe 8:30 !sTfToEtVroe q. 3--o- rMn t i3tr.ifirt - AfnrT i o vH |