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Show UNIVERSITY - rV News iHQDQ Center By VALE WHITE vwhitesuujournal.com The first wave of the Utah National Guards 2nd Battalion 222nd Field Artillery boarded a chartered 737 bound for Camp Shelby, Miss., on Thursday. before the In a good-by- e Guardsman left, Sgt. 1st Class Kyle Smith stood in the middle of the gymnasium mjj mmimm son in his arms holding his while visiting with friends. We get on the plane here in about an hour and then we are gone for 18 months, Smith said. The departure on Thursday was just the beginning of the 222nds mobilization. A representative at the Utah National Guard said 52 members of the staff left to start training at Camp Shelby, and the rest of the 422 soldiers will join them in Mississippi on Jan. 24. After three months of training at camp Shelby, the guard will then head to Fort Irwin, Calif., to validate their training and have desert training. From there the 222nd will come home for 20 days before deploying to the Middle East, most likely in Iraq, early this summer. Smith said he was a bit nervous about i Some homemade hair care products passed the tests, while others left hair worse. The products tested included eggs, honey, avocados, bananas and oil. t By RACHEL GLIDDEN ' Tsunami sinks S. Asia i After a 9.0 earthquake, giant waves crashed into southern Asia, killing more than 150,000 people on AmeriDec. 26. Thirty-fiv- e cans are presumed dead, although there is no final count yet. Journal Web site JANA TAYLOR UNIVERSITY JOURNAL and firefighters lift an injured person into an Iron County ambulance. This accident on Highway 91 near was closed between Kanarraville was one of many accidents resulting from a snowstorm Friday afternoon. mile markers 23 and 42 because of several accidents. It has to be fairly severe weather for the state to shut down Snow, fog, mist and the highway, Det. Murray Settlemyre said as he blocked traffic from entering southbound delay Friday afternoon. freezing temperatures accounted for the 2 12- - to EMTs SUU gymnastics team readies for competition The SUU gymnastics team will open its 2005 season against BYU Saturday night at the Marriott Center in Provo. The meet is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. leather ITJatch Expect mostly snow and some rain with highs in the high 30s and lows in the low teens. Page 9 Countdown DAYS Index News Opinion Sports Travelers encounter delays, road closures, fatal accidents By ABBY PALMER and DANA BARTHOLOMEW apalmersuujoumal.com and dbartholomewsuujournal.com Students returning to Cedar City on Friday were met with delays and road closures after a severe snowstorm bombarded the entire stretch of within Utah. Severe weather caused certain sections of Utah roads to be closed Friday, said Detective Murray Suttlemyre of the Cedar City Police Department. It has to be fairly severe weather for the state to shut down the freeway, Suttlemyre said. to www.dot.state.ut.us, According travelers on Friday were met with freeway between Washington closures on County to Anderson Junction and on S.R. 143 from Brian Head to Panguitch. The Web site reported snow tires, chains drive advisory warnings and throughout the entire state of Utah. A map of Utah found on www.wrh.noaa. warning govslc showed a winter-storalong the entire stretch of Until Tuesday night, the New Year weather was suitable, providing students with decent traveling conditions. This was important for students who traveled to and from their homes to other destinations on the holiday. Camry Passey, a junior psychology major four-whe- el m 8, 9 9 3, 4, 5, 6 7 10, Back Page from Salt Lake City, traveled to California for her New Years Celebration. The roads were fine, Passey said. I had no problems traveling back from California. Stephanie Smith, a freshman undeclared major from Springville, arrived at SUU a week before school started. The traffic was good coming down on (Jan. 3), Smith said. Unfortunately, not everyone experienced good weather while traveling. The Utah Highway Patrol responded to two fatal accidents in southern Utah during the first week of January. UHP officers from Washington County See TRAVEL, Page 6 With the help of SUU students and the community, the Disability Support Center raised more than $109,000 in an effort to lend a hand to fellow student Peter Jensen. Jensen has been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, and is a candidate for a new experimental surgery to help control the effects of the syndrome. The money will be used to help Jensen and his family with medical expenses. student Carmen Alldredge, disabilities services coordinator, said the community, SUU students, faculty and staff members raised $101,000. Alldredge said Rhea Tuft, chief accountant for the controllers office, was in charge of another account under the Southern Utah Foundation an that raised additional $8,000. I am sure, by now, the numbers have increased, said. Alldredge We did it with the help of everyone. said Alldredge an auction and a July 24 luncheon took place last year to raise the money. Coca-Col- a donated drinks. Rainbow Sign & Banner donated the signs, and the media helped to get the message out, she added. As you see, I.did not do it, Alldredge a mass said. It was community effort. According to the Tourette Syndrome Association Inc. Web site, the disorder is a chronic, physical disease of the brain that begins before the age of 18. The disorder causes involuntary movements or vocalizations known as tics. No cure to the disease has been discovered, but as many as a third of the patients experience a remission from the tics in adulthood, and most people experience improvements from the disease in their late teens or early twenties, the Web site reported. Alldredge said the disease makes it difficult for those diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome to control their muscle movements, making them tired, causing them to lose weight quickly and making it difficult to swallow. Jensen was diagnosed with Tourette See SYNDROME, Page 6 Students blindfolded CSI aims to get students Roberds fired, students respond with protest By TIFFANY DE MASTERS The firing of the Professor of the Year for 2003-200- 4 left the circle of statues outside the Centrum blindfolded. Stephen Roberds, former associate political science professor, was fired Dec. 15 and told to vacate his office by Dec. 31. Roberds was terminated by Rodney Decker, dean of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, aftei a colorful career at SUU. In response to his termination, students showing support for Roberds blindfolded the statues in the Centui ium. Cassandra Cook, a senior art major from Salt Lake City, was one of the students involved. She said the students blindfolded the statues as a metaphor for what the administration is doing to the students. Cook said she thinks the administration is trying to hide what decisions it made from the students so they do not know what is going on. The decision to end Roberds teaching career at SUU was announced during is more involved, connected We feel so strongly that dubs are a benefit for studems, she said. There are swardsuujournal.com 97 different types of clubs the students can SUUs Clubs & Student Involvement choose from. They will become involved branch is trying to increase student in the university. Erik Herrera, Athletics & Recreation involvement, beginning with a club fair this week. delegate, said although it is a big goal, CSI The club fair w ill take place on Thursday wants to shoot higher. It is a big number," he said. But the more from 9 to 11 p.m. in the Sharwan Smith the merrier. I would like to have all of the Center Ballroom. students at SUU involved. Paul Micah Keith, CSI vice president, said Clubs born: The Clubs & That is what I like to see us the goal is to get 3,000 Student Involvement branch shooting for. Keith said the goal may students involved in a club an opportunity for be difficult, but CSI is to better connect them to provides students to join or even start doing everything it can to campus activities. make that goal. Keith said there are 97 their own club. It will be hard a goal clubs, but too few members Page 3 to reach and probably a are involved in each club. stretch, he said. We want We ended last spring to aim as high as we can and reach for it. he said. We now have 97 with 100 club Brewer said the primary clubs. Last year, we had 1,000 students as tool is the club fair, but CSI intends to part of a club. That makes only 10 members expand its efforts. per club. We want to make it 30 members In the past, our biggest recruiting focuses per club. were the two club fairs, she said. After Professional Rachelle Brewer, that, it is just personally helping clubs. Now, Development delegate, said there are See CLUBS, Page 6 several clubs for students to join. By STEPHANIE WARD tdemasterssuujournal.com six-ye- until Martin Luther King Jr. Day Classified 222, Page 5 rgliddensuujournal.com Page 8 Accent e. Students raise cash for cause Avacado substance softens tangled locks leaving, but he had expected it for quite some time. There have been rumors floating around for months, and now, here we are, Smith said. Friends and family of the Triple Deuce met at the armory Thursday morning. A breakfast of doughnuts and juice was available while everyone said good-by1st Lt. Dustin Ray was holding his MELISSA NIELSEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Students blindfolded the statues in the Centurium to demonstrate discontent for administrators actions. The protest took place Dec. 14, before Roberds was officially notified of his dismissal. finals week, when few students were paying enough attention to react to the situation, although his future at SUU has been roiling among committees for the past semester. Roberds was up for tenure in the fall See PROTEST, Page 5 |