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I ' f ak, tialt 1 -- r Attg 1 1 . c . , , I 1 ' t 1 0 , k i 1 4, i I f I t t t Tweet us your avvesome , BY JONNY WEAKLEY jonnyjunge 1 ( 4 1 i 4 . ; 1 I SPECIAL you know that August 24 is Vesuvius Day? marks the day that Mount Vesuvius erupted It and destroyed the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stablae. Keep I 1 .... i , ' It . 1 .), ) I , - - ', 1 on 79 A.D. , ,. .......,--,--------- ----. 6 Did - , ). President Biff The bison statue outside the Jeffrey R. Holland Centennial Commons building looks over incoming freshmen during the new freshmen orientation. lliams said it is the largest incoming group of students Dixie State University has ever seen. dixiesunnews! HOLIDAY -- , Poke-catch- es i t , o cz z - i -, Fil , k 7) rri cn , ..., t 0 m, Pokernon Go? . - , Do you play k -- w c) , t, 't f Freshman Trailblazers are breaking records as the highest enrolled freshman class Dixie State University has seen yet. In the freshman orientation on August 19, President Buff Williams announced that the number of freshmen students this fall semester exceeded projected enrollment counts. Andrea Brown, director of Program Assessment and Institutional Research, said approximately 2,300 freshman have enrolled at this point in the semester, trampling past records by 400 students. Staff and administration ate excited for this new herd of Trailblazers. However, concerns have risen up as DSU prepares itself for this amount of students. The library is ready to hold this amount of students, but there is still worry that there will not be enough resources available for all students. A lack in database equipment such as text books and informational material will appear as the year continues. The database is already being cut down due to other campus costs, but the library hopes that DSU will see these material needs are met and future funds are provided, Education Librarian Linda. To accommodate for the increased amount of students, Testing Director Tamron Lee said, "The testing center has purchased new tablets to help the flow of students on computer-base- d testing." A planned exam scheduling program for the teachers will also be going into play. This will help the testing center fit the max capacity of tests taken in one day, which will maximize the number of tests given in a week, Lee said. As DSU grows as a school, we will need more space in buildings, more classes and more professors, dean of students Del Beatty said. "Space is one concern," Beatty said. With this influx of students, teachers will need to add more classes to their schedule, and DSU will need to hire more teachers, giving the students the chance they need to take their appropriate classes, Beatty said. DSU's plan for hiring more teachers and adding more classes could lead to a waste of money spent on teachers, equipment, and time, which would be caused by fewer students actually attending DSU than expected, Beatty said. With numbers continuously fluctating for the attending freshman this year, faculty must watch the influx carefully. This is done through enrollment management, where staff work together to watch the influx of students enrolled and to plan for the exact number of students with the number of classes and teachers needed without undershoot or overflow. Like faculty and staff, many freshmen students are also anxious and excited for the new semester. Tristan Barrett, a freshman finance major from Draper, said he is excited for his new opportunities at DSU. "I'm ready to meet lots of new people and get the hang of the college life," Barrett said. Grace Kroll, a freshman general education major from South Jordan, is also very excited to get to know new people. Kroll was accepted to the DSU swim team and said she loved the swim coach, students and administration. Wi- "When DSU would come to my high school, I loved the ambassadors," Kroll said. "They have really made me feel welcomed and safe. I knew I wanted to be somewhere where I felt comfortable." Other attractions to St. George are its weather and many outdoor activities. Chey Davis, a freshman integrated studies major from Montpelier, Idaho, and Danielle Dayton, a freshman biology major from Boise, Idaho, said they are excited to soak up the sun and live in a climate wherq snow does not really exist. "This class is going to g be going g in, as well as going out," Williams said at orientation addressing the new freshmen. "You are at the right place...Welcome to Dixie State University!" record-breakin- record-breakin- FM" Ift"811 I an eye out for volcanoes today! Check out holidayinsights.com for more wacky holdlay info. UPCOMING MOVIE RELEASES lubo and the Two Sirings' chord in - :ASHLEY HARRISON , ' ashharrisonnews August 26 'Mechanic: Resurrection' 'Don't Breathe' amazed to meet a single soul wanting to miss a second of this stunningly animated film. With vocal work, Dario on-poi- nt - With the opening frames "Kubo and the Two Strings," our title character warns us, "If you must blink, do it now." And indeed, I would be n, adventure n stop-mo- il Marianelli's sweeping score and beautiful messages of family, love, loss, and forgiveness, "Kubo and the Two Strings" hits a high-not- e as an instant classic. In a summer that has been utterly lackluster on the movie frontand for students such as ourselves, strikes perfect caught up the stresses of a semestera film that brings magic into our lives, new like Kubo does so effortlessly, is most welcome. This is a film that is com- fortable taking dark paths in its storyline, and it treats its younger viewers with the belief that they will be able to handle such mature ct themes, a gesture of respect that is often missing Kubo puts on a brave face for his mother. Features Editor Ashley Harrison finds KUBO see page 9 'Kubo and the Two Strings' as bewitching as Kubo's magic shamisen--- a traditional Japanese lute. il o II |