OCR Text |
Show i Two Vestminster Soccer Players Named Academic All-Ameri- can Westminsters student athletes who are maintaining a high standard for academic and athletic excellence. Westminster soccer players Mike Including Polich and Varoz, Westminhad nine Academic has ster named Varoz been have Brock Polich and soccer program began in 1984. since the Academic by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Polich, a junior from Denver, Colo., said that being recognized for both scholasbe to student a In order selected, (NAIA). academic ability was an honor. He and tic two of with or be senior must a junior years said he hopes future employers will feel the varsity soccer experience and have a grade same way about the award. Polich plans to point average of 3.4 or higher. is graduate in 1992 with a degree in both Sporting Academic business and social science. In the meanfor Westminsters be to tradition a getting soccer soccer team, said Coach Chris Dorich. It time, he will be busy with shows that there is national recognition for practice. by Laurie Weed Forum staff writer ns ns year-roun- d Prank Phone Caller Threatens Bombing of Campus Buildings by Christopher E. Madding The team is doing really well, said Polich, a soccer enthusiast since age 7. We placed second in the district and plan to play even better next season." Varoz is a senior majoring in finance Forum staff writer On Thursday, Jan. 17, Westminster College received a bomb threat. The teleand will graduate in June 1991. Although phone call was taken by Lisa Osborne he will leave his midfield position, he would around 3:40 p.m. at the Bamberger Hall like to stay involved with the soccer team main desk. Following the investigation, it and possibly help coach next year. His was dismissed as a hoax by the Salt Lake plans are not definite, but City Police Department and campus securthe Salt Lake native has a positive outlook. ity, according to Westminster College, My four years at Westminster were president, Charles H. Dick. Osborne said the caller did not give his well spent. I learned a lot both academiThe is field. future soccer and on the name, or specify any affiliation to any group cally said. he looking great, claiming responsibility for the threat. She said he had a husky Arabic voice. The bomb was said to be placed in either Bamberger Hall, Converse Hall or the Nightingale Library on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Dick said the search was conducted within half an hour of the call and the campus wouldbe closely watchedby campus security over the weekend. Last week, Utah State University in of two-inc- h pipe is frozen and split. The not has and helped Logan was closed for one day resulting warming cycle thawing the frozen pipe situation. When the ground from a bomb threat. Mark Burton, head of thaws, things become worse because the security at Westminster, said he heard frost actually goes lower, creating more rumors that other institutions in the state freezing problems, said Brockmyer. had received bomb threats as well. There are no records of the old water We Westminster officials considered pipe routes between buildings on campus. the call to be a prank but we took it seriThis has added to the frustration of said Burton. The buildings werent to make ously, post-graduati- December Weather Wreaks Havoc With Westminster Construction by Connie Diehl ' Forum staff writer Record cold December temperatures pipe breaks throughout the Salt Lake City area. On Jan. 10, the work was completed on the 1300 E. valve. The driveway located at the south entrance of Westminster parking was closed for about two weeks, subsequent breaking of water pipes at inconveniencing some students and faculty. Eccles Art Center, Malouf Hall and the The driveway will be patched by the city. There are many old pipes running Science Building. Richard A. Brockmyer, director of plant . underground on Westminster campus. The and facilities operations, said on Dec. 31, frozen pipe at the Eccles Art Center is only s of an inch in diameter and. water was seen leaking out of a manhole on runs a length of 450 feet from 1300 E. The 1300 E. When the leaks were first discovered, there was a question of whether the Eccles water pipe is still frozen and the pipes were frozen or if there was just a lack building is temporarily receiving its water of sufficient water pressure due to a break supply from Nunemaker. Malouf and the Science Building water in a large city water valve on 1300 E. to also were interrupted by a distribution four time was The citys response five days because of the large number of broken water pipe. At least a 100 ft. length are responsible for the recent freezing and three-fourth- Faculty Emeriti Honored by Nancy Bennett Forum staff writer Twelve retired Westminster faculty members awarded the rank professor emeritus were honored with a picture hanging ceremony Jan. 11. Pictures were painted ofseveral faculty members who were honored. Those who were deceased had their names on a plaque. Awarded the rank professor emeritus were: James D. Boyack, philosophy; Janet Booth Palmer, English; Jay Lees, theater arts; Martha Monroe Tiller, education; Robert G. Warnock, biology; Viola Chapman, English; Marcus Parr, modem languages; Elizabeth Hays Simpson, music; Myra Lois Yancy, Spanish; May Mable Marie Shwender, German; John S.Telecky, education; and John R. Ewebank, sociology. We thought that this was an excellent to way express to our emeriti faculty how much we appreciate their dedication and their self presence for the college, said President Charles H. Dick. The master of ceremonies was Steven Baar, vice president of academic affairs and dean of the faculty, who spoke about each of the faculty who were honored. - - maintenance crews trying in the future. Brockmyer said he hopes to have Westminsters water system back to normal by Jan. 18. These are old pipes and they need to be changed, he said. According to Dick, Professor emeritus is awarded to a faculty member who has given a specified amount of time as dictated in the faculty manual as an instructor or professor at Westminster College. Once they have completed and retired, they can be voted by the faculty as a faculty professor emeritus. Retired faculty present at the ceremony were Jay Lees and James Boyack. Boyack, professor of philosophy, started teaching at Westminster in 1959 and retired in 1981. He was born in Ft. Collins, Colo., and raised in Montana. He attended the University of Montana, then later went to the University of Chicago to get his Ph.d. He taught for a while in Arkansas before he came to Salt Lake to teach at Westminster. He later became acting vice president of philosophy. Jay Lees started teaching at Westminster College in 1946 and retired in 1986. He grew up in Salt Lake and attended the University of Utah, University of France and Boston University. At Westminster, Lees was active in theater arts. He was speech administrator, theater director and forensics coach. evacuated because nothing had happened out of the ordinary that day, such as packages arriving or suspicious persons being sighted on campus, he said. There is a set procedure, with President Dick making the final decision, he said. Burton said Thursdays prank call could be part of the protest to the military action being taken by the United States in the necessary repairs. Brockmyer said hi s goal i s to get Malouf onto Shaws water system and Eccles onto Nunemakers system by this spring. This system will be used as an alternate main water feed to avoid pipe freezing problems I i J:f; 0' frlfif tftf Persian Gulf on Wednesday, Jan. I 16. V ; I i .c i P 1 demonstrators met on the State Capitol steps at Hundreds of anti-w- ar noon on Jan. 14 for the Pray-I- n for Peace rally to protest a war with Iraq. |