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Show University Journal Monday, January 10, 2005 BOOK-BUYIN- G Page 3 FRENZY 1 , rj ? r i Si j i::? X y f i ! 5 2004 JANA TAYLOR UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Dawn Redding, an employee of the BUU Bookstore, helps Corey Woolf, a senior biology major from Olympia, Wash., find the book required for one of his classes. The bookstore will be buying books back every odd hour during the first week of classes. ! It's The Same Today... As It Was Back Then. Since 1955 Bulloch Drug has been faithfully serving Iron County residents for all their Drug Store C ".'1 needs. ,4 By STEPHANIE WARD swardsuujournal com Clubs & Student Involvement wants to help students get involved in a club to enhance students college experience. Micah Paul Keith, vice president of Clubs & Student Involvement, said there are several different ways to learn about clubs. It is faster to look on the Internet, on the SUUSA Web site, Keith said. There is a full You can list of clubs from A-also come to a delegate or me. The students can find out where the clubs meet. Support Seyed Mottaghi-Neja& Multicultural delegate, said students could meet new people by joining a club. The students will get to know more people with their same he said. They will interests, expand their horizons by seeing what they are interested in. The students can see what else there is that they havent thought about. Keith said students could also form new clubs. To start a club, students are required to have five members, Keith said. We can help you if you dont know that many people interested. To receive help, you can talk to a delegate in the specific category or me. The club also needs an advisor, which must be a staff member of SUU. Keith said a statement of purpose and a club roster are also requirements for starting a new club. d, Rachelle Brewer, Professional Development delegate, said there are several reasons to start a club. There are benefits to being a chartered SUUSA club, she said. They can get merit money for club fairs or parades. They can get rooms and publicity on campus for free. Keith said there are several available for clubs, resources including a new display board in the Sharwan Smith Center. To help the clubs there are training workshops, events to help recruit, club fairs, and apartment walks, Keith said. There will be a display board. We will put it up within the first two weeks of school. We will also be updating the Internet. & Athletics Erik Herrera, Recreation delegate and founder of the Snowboard & Ski Club, said CSI is there to help the students. The function of CSI is awareness, he said. They work behind the scenes. Keith said all clubs are part of SUUSA. (Clubs) are an organization attached to SUUSA, he said. CSI will match any funds the clubs raise. Herrera said organization is important for all clubs. The hardest part of a club is to get people organized, Herrera said. Although we had many interested people, we have had low turnout. We also need a set meeting time and more organization. Keith said students could develop leadership skills by joining a club, which could help throughout their lives. Students can take a leadership role and learn about prioritizing and running an oigamzation, he said. They will actually (be) something productive. doing They can make a difference. Its not just a school thing; this will pass on all through life. You then have provided someone else an opportunity to get involved. Herrera said its obvious why students should join a club. Students should join clubs because they meet people that have their same hobby or interest, he said. Odds are if someone joins a club, there will be other people that have that same interest. Keith said a club is beneficial both and professionally Whether it's a needy prescription, y thoughtful gift, or a craving for your sweet tooth, Bulloch a Drug will be there for you. That's the way it was back in 1955 and it holds true 49 years later. rr samisi Wmiii Bulloch Dnig 91 North Main 586-965- I Wood & Lace North Main 91 1 586-815- Township Pharmacy 108 W. 1325 N. 1 586-815- 1 socially. If the student decides to get involved it would look good on resumes, he said. They can be part of academic development and part of clubs that can help with their profession. Joining a club can help if you are bored and interested in having fun. They can enhance themselves and their Students can also experience. broaden social horizons. Brewer said although students are here for education, they can expand that concept. Students can get an education at any university, but SUU is known for their student involvement, she said. GWC settles into new home By STEPHANIE WARD Mother Teresa. Statesmen are people that had a huge impact on society for good. We are training these swardsuuournal com students to have this kind of impact. Mcllrath said when she was looking for a college, George Wythe College moved from Main Street to she liked that George Wythe listed the books that the Sage Drive to accommodate increasing enrollment and generate new interest from potential students. students would read instead of listing majors. Shanon Brooks, vice president and chief operating I like the whole philosophy of education they officer, said the move has been successful and has follow there, Mcllrath said. It requires you to increased interest in the college. motivate yourself. The professors are phenomenal. It is evident because of seriously increased the Brooks explained colleges classroom exposure, Brooks said. All through the construction environment. phase we had people coming in and asking what this 0 The classes are people and there is a basic building would be. mentor lecture for one hour, Brooks said. Then George Wythe College moved from 401 S. Main the class splits up into three groups of eight or 10 Street to 970 S. Sage Dr. The college was previously and the tutor who is training to be a mentor keeps located under a dentists office, which made the discussions going. growth of the college more difficult. hours a week Students are required to read 40-6- 0 Meghan Schulthies, a George Wythe senior from and Brooks said they are punished if they do not Alberta, said the move will allow a better location complete their reading. for the George Wythe structured environment. If students dont read the required book for class, It is a place to house the I kick them out, he said. They environment of George Wythe, wont know what they are talking she said. The structure can house about and will be just going on the ideology, atmosphere, and the their opinion. whole spirit. The potential students Although Brooks does punish will be mingling with students. students, they are allowed to change Sarah Mcllrath, a George Wythe g curriculum in Sarah Mcllrath the senior from Blairsville, Ga., said their classes to fit their interests the move makes the school more and needs legitimate. We have a pretty outlined curriculum, but it can (The college) is more legitimate because there be changed, Brooks said. The students have some is more space, she said. The move increases our flexibility if they want to change the books around. respectability. Brooks said students come to class every weekday George Wythe College was founded in 1992. and have different class requirements. According to www.gwc.edu, the college was They come to class three hours a day, he said. named after George Wythe, who was the first law They do a lot of writing and simulations. professor in America, a signer of the Declaration of According to the Web site, simulations are held Independence, and a delegate to the Constitutional regularly and consist of fictional and real scenarios. Convention. Wythe was also a mentor to Thomas Students can take on roles and work individually or Jefferson, John Marshall, and Henry Clay. in teams to identify and solve problems. Oliver DeMille, the founder of George Wythe The government uses simulations and so do College, is an alumnus of BYU. For his graduate companies, Brooks said It creates an environment work, he studied the foundation of education He that feels real but doesnt have real-lif- e consequences. based the college on the five pillars of statesmanship: The students are much better prepared for life. classics, mentors, simulations, field experience, In addition to simulations, the college also holds and God. seminars for students as well as other people. Brooks said he is proud of the college. Hailstone said DeMille teaches regularly We are the premier statesmanship college in seminars. the U.S., he said. Some examples of statesmen Last semester, one was For the Love of Learning, are Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and she said. 350 people attended the seminar. 25-3- "The move increases our respectability." book-readin- 99 WOO Pmgs,j0F Jea vs oh me WaLL..? Ta tee One down. 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