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Show Your Opinion Your Campus Your Life Your Business Your Sports State Sen. John Valentine puts in his two cents on the D.L.C, Page A5. Sociology class studies dating violence at UVSC. Page A6. High culture at the mall: UVSC Woodbury Gallery. Page BI. What goes into your credit score, and how you can make it better. Page B4. A chat with B-Ball big man Benjamin Devoe In The Huddle. Page B8. UTAH VALLEY STATE LLEGE TIES VOLUME 33 * ISSUE 2B 3 MONDAY. MARCH 14,2005 ( H. BUEN PANO EN EL ARCA VENDE In Jared Sumsion and Team Focus sweep student body elections, campus approves new constitution Shawn Mansell Your News Editor W ith over 17 percent of the student body turning out to vote, this year's election set a new record. "It was just competitive and it showed with how many voters turned out," said student-body president elect Jared Sumsion. "We had three quality teams." The crew Sumsion spearheaded, Team Focus, swept to a complete victory securing all four executive student government positions. Ashley Rutgers won for vice president for academics, Karlie Coles won for vice president for student activities, and Mike Taylor will be the next vice president for clubs. Candidates for Team One placed second in every category. Happy Peterson, despite losing her bid to be student body president, was pleased that voter turnout was high. "I'm glad we got so many of the students out to vote," Peterson said. Team Effect finished third. Their presidential candidate Paul Tippets has confidence that their former foes will do well. "I think Team Focus will do a good job next year," Tippets said, "I wish them the best of luck." Some planks on the Focus platform were controversial. Chief among them was one that called for starting the push to field a Division I football team. Focus is also seeking to abolish the testing center late fees and support it instead with additional student fees. Student government's elevated profile, which came as a result of controversial and widely publicized events, may have played a "We ran a great campaign and worked really hard. -Jared Sumsion Team Focus role in the turnout spike, but Phil Clegg, director of student life and leadership, leaves most of the credit with the teams. "The discussions and events [controversial ones] played into it," Clegg said, "Election" cont'd on page A2 Andy Hunt/NetXNev/5 Team Focus, made up of Jared Sumsion (ABOVE), Ashley Rutgers, Karlie Coles and Mike Taylor, won last week's student body elections. They will take office at the end of this semester. Workshops to shed light on domestic violence domestic violence-related Domestic Violence in Utah Valley deaths, one dating-relationEditor-at-Large ship homicide, and one famiAccording to a study of single UVSC Utah County residents are ly violence-related homicide. students conducted by Ron Haminvited to attend the First An"Normally, activities like mond's Applied Sociology class last nual Utah County Communi- this take place in October, ty Domestic Violence Work- which is Domestic Violence fall, I 9 % of females and 1 7 % shops on Satuday, March 19 Awareness Month," said of males have been physically hurt at the Utah County Health Sonja Tollefson, one of the and Justice Building. Partici- event organizers, "but we by their dating partners. For more on their study go to page A6. pants have the opportunity to thought we should implement hear keynote speaker Thelma events like this throughout Soares, mother of Lori Soares the year." Hacking, and attend numer"There is a need in the Violence," and "Domestic this panel," said Carter. ous workshops involving is- community," said Lesa Cart- Violence Perpetrator Panel," Additionally, there will be sues of domestic violence. a "Domestic Violence Victim er, another organizer of the among others. The "Domestic Violence Resource Panel" highlighting According to information workshops. "This is an opcollected from public sources portunity for us to give train- Perpetrator Panel" includes the programs and resources a board of domestic violence available for victims of doby the. Utah Domestic Vio- ing on these issues." lence Council, there were Workshops include "Cler- perpetrators. "We have some- mestic violence, such as the 23 domestic violence related gy Working With Victims of one on our coalition who is housing department and the deaths in Utah in 2004. Of Domestic Violence," "Police a treatment provider. As part rape crisis center. these fatalities, there were Response to Domestic Vio- of their treatment they [doKeynote speaker, Soares, thirteencohabitanthomicides, lence," "The Effects on Chil- mestic violence perpetrators] "Violence" cont'd on pace A2 six perpetrator suicides, two dren Who Witness Domestic have agreed to participate on Errin Julkunen Steve LundqursVNetXNews UVSC's Ronnie Price is the focus of a new documentary. Ethical questions surround cloning issue Priceless film Bioethics a hot topic as therapeuStudent documentary looks at Ronnie Price's time at UVSC tic cloning becomes a reality lights be compiled. It starts out with Price's time Your News Editor at Friendswood high school The storied career of Wol- in Texas and chronicles the verine basketball player Ron- point guard's three sensationnie Price is the stuff movies al years in Orem. are made of. Now thanks to The film debuted after the a couple of UVSC students team's final home game on such a film exists. the jumbo screen in the McKMorgan Vance (host of UV ay Events Center. But Price SportZone, a NetXNews pro- didn't get a chance to see the duction) and Rich Lewis co- film until recently. "He's so produced a 12 minute-long humble. At first he was a little hesitant [to see it]," Vance piece titled "Priceless." "It seemed like a perfect said. fit," Vance said of the title. Local cable stations and onThe college's athletic de- campus plasma screens will partment approached Vance showcase the film for the next and asked that a project cap- few weeks, Vance said. turing some of Price's high- Shawn Mansell Robin Boatman News Writer On Tuesday March 8, Louisa A. Stark, Co-Director of the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center, spoke in CS 404 at 11:30 a.m. Stark's lecture, titled "Bioethics in the Digital Age," discussed the issues surrounding today's therapeutic cloning and bio ethical decision making. First she posed many ethical questions surrounding the idea of genetic testing such as, "What ethical issues are raised? "Who are the stake holders?" and "What are some possible solutions and their consequences?" Stark then presented a hypothetical case study involving a woman who was at risk for Parkinsons disease, a movement disease due to selective loss of dopamine neurons in the brain. In the case study, the woman had a twin sister and a son. Stark posed a series of questions such as, "Should Ruth's son be tested? If Ruth's sister, who has the same genetic make up, was tested and it came back positive should she have the duty to tell Ruth? When testing positive, what role should insurance compa- Steve Lundquist/NetXNews Louisa Stark, the Co-Director of the U's Genetic Science Learning Center, spoke on bioethics last week. nies play?" Stark let the audience discuss with each other in pairs and groups and answer these questions. She then had an open discussion, and students and teachers were free to express their answers and opin- ions to these questions to the rest of the audience. Atendee Amanda Peterson thought it was very useful that Stark "engaged the students in dialogue this way." Stark then introduced Ther"Bioethics cont d on page A2 |