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Show tjourcompu/ A4 Bi6-Medics PLASMA DONATION CENTER Saving Lives + Relaxing = $2OO a Month!! 235-9800 349 E. University Pkwy (Across from University Mall) Mon-Fri: 9am - 7pm • Sat: 9am - 4pm Other locutions at BYU-1DAHO and USU Student Alumni 2005 MONDAY-OCTOBER 10*2005 Help for the technologically impaired Richard Smith advisor in the International Office. "They're always very helpful, very courteous and In a corner of the basement always stay until the job is of the Browning Administra- done. They never give up. tion Building is a small office Joanne does a great job." with several crowded desks, Innes says that many comlots of computers and tele- puter problems that students phones. Nearly everyone is call with have to do with busy on the phone, but the making the adjustment to the atmosphere is quiet and re- new UVLink portal. These laxed. This is the home of the problems frequently have to UVSC help desk. do with Internet security and The help desk has devel- pop-up blocking software, oped a well-deserved, cam- which can be addressed by pus-wide reputation of being the users themselves with the friendly, efficient and profes- instructions on the help desk sional. They solve most prob- web page or the first page of lems within the first hour, and the UVLink portal. nearly 90% of them within 24 The help desk web site is hours. Most help desk tech- a wealth of technical support nicians are UVSC computer information with self-maintescience students. nance instructions and many Though all of the techni- FAQ pages that have answers cians are knowledgeable and to questions about browsers, capable, help desk director Corel 2000, GroupWise, MiJoAnn Innes hires technicians crosoft Office 2000, Novell on friendliness and interper- Netware, printing, UVLINK sonal skills first and technical Mail, UVSCNet, and Winability second. Technicians dows, as well as information receive on-the-job training on policies and procedures as well as professional-level and links to other technical training in their classes here resources. The web site will also have any information on campus. about any computer service "I've never been disappointoutages on campus. ed," says Lorraine Gunn, an Special Sections Writer Some of the most frequently is because past grades have asked questions relate to us- not been entered into the new ing UVLink and FTP. Most system. UVLink problems can be In order to see past grades prevented by adding uvsc.edu you will need to click "Acato the exceptions list in your demic Transcript" instead. pop-up blocker or Internet se- Then select "Unofficial" next curity software. See the help to "Transcript type" and click desk web page, the UVLink Submit. This will show you home page or your software your unofficial transcript with documentation for details on all your classes and grades how to do that. from previous semesters at For FTP information and UVSC. instructions on how to access The help desk is available to your UVSC network H drive all faculty, staff and students from your home computer to help solve their computerdo this: On the UVSC home related problems. They can't page click the Search button help you with general comin the upper right-hand cor- puter problems at home, but ner. Then click "Keyword they can help you with UVSearch." Then, in the search Link, WebCT, Linkmail, and box type "ftp h drive" and UVSCNet wireless access click Submit. The first sever- problems. They are availal items on the search list will able 7 am to 9 pm Monday tell you how to access your through Friday, and 8 am to 5 UVSC network H drive from pm Saturday. your home computer. Another frequent problem You can get help by phone is students trying to see their at 863-8888, via email at past course grades on the helpdesk@uvsc.edu or on the UVLink system. When stu- Internet at www.uvsc.edu/ dents log in to UVLink and helpdesk. Be sure to include click on "Student Records" or have ready your UVID, and then "Grades" it current- name, the details of the probly says "No grades on your lem. record axe available." This Campus prof produces proposition 1984 Michael Palmer The film chronicles the 1984+20 Project, a campaign On Tuesday October 11, started by Rhetoricians at 2:30 in room LA 101, for Peace that encouraged UVSC will be showcasing professors and teachers Proposition 1984 a short nationwide to teach Orwell's documentary made famous novel and open up independently by Associate related discourse. Professor of English Bonnie "The 1984+20 project Kyburz. wanted to surface insights regarding ways in which Orwellian doublespeak has become, for the current administration, a dominant discursive mode of 'informing' the American public," Kyburz said. Proposition 1984 compiles various documentary artifacts in order to recount the story of that project. Kyburz is an Associate Professor of English and Composition Studies at UVSC who specializes in rhetoric. She has been with UVSC since 1999. She came up with the idea for proposition J984 Assistant News Editor Saturday, October 15th 2005 McKay Events Center 8am-2pm ollege or High School Students May Apply at the Intramural Office at UVSC. Entry is only $10 per person on team. Includes ree Tee-shirt. Prizes to top teams in all divisions. Register now! Neniforjiiaddcdjiooo call 863-6163 for more info. 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English Professor while attending a business with permission from their meeting at the Conference classes," Kyburz said. for College Composition and Kyburz had two student Communication in March interns. Josh Ligiari and Matt 2003. Linton, who significantly That event coincided with helped with the editing the launching of the military process. She had support and campaign in Iraq. A group help from elsewhere too. of concerned college writing For the most part, however, and rhetoric instructors proposition} 984 is a radically present at the conference had independent film with all of been discussing such issues the filming, interviewing, as the possible manipulation and most of the editing being of public discourse, and what done by Kyburz herself. they saw as the mainstream While the project has media's uncritical disposition consumed a "lot of time and toward this manipulation. energy, Kyburz is glad to This academic group, have undergone it. which has come to be known "It's important, because as Rhetoricians for Peace sometimes, living here, I (RFP), gathered in Newfeel like I don't have any York to consider options political agency; I feel like for analyzing, critiquing my vote doesn't matter, like and resisting the discursive I'm not heard. To have this practices so apparently little project feels like my dominant in mainstream project—my way of having a media. voice and saying something," Many of the teachers in RFP, Kyburz said. including Doctor Kyburz, felt The film, which runs at inclined to act in this cultural about thirty-three minutes, moment. It was here that the has already been sent to conceptualization for TheSundance and the South by 1984+20 Project began. Southwest film festivals. "I got really wrapped up Kyburz has also toyed in it—it was passionafe. I with the idea of making got teary," Kyburz said. "I proposition 1984 a full-length thought, this is a moment; this documentary. is the start of something." "That would depend on a Kyburz submitted the lot of things," Kyburz said. idea of a documentary film "It is all-encompassing, very chronicling the 1984+20 draining work. But, with the Project to the Council right interest and funding, I President, who approved. eventually could." The filming began in March Kyburz hopes there will be 2004. a good showing for the film's Kyburz obtained academic debut on Tuesday. footage from interviewing "I am glad that people will be professionals, and spending seeing it in academic context, time in the classrooms on because it's an academic campus that were teaching film," Kyburz said. Orwell. For more information on "Some faculty members proposition 1984, contact taught the novel, and I Doctor Kyburz at 863-8997. was able to obtain footage ' 1 J fv.tf": rx-rio'rn.i'J b> i l u t i t n ' ^ . n j r - r \r,r. ,•) ,,-.-_• ;.jr,-,vr,-.-. - -i -.•! -jn .•v.!r,..- ir.r Health Desk (801) 863-7009,ffl Visit us online at www.netxnews.net Send story ideas to taoren@gmail.com |