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Show L "aAsir,v-jifii- i wirint6 T ii,"iii GraduationSummer 2013 c '15 nhoodsuunews com Budget cuts at SUU ate affecting many departments and organizations, among them are the New York Tunes Readership program and the Convocations Lecture Series. Brad said Cook Provost because of the loss of tuition the prom missionary age change, some changes are being made in the universitys budget, but he said he hopes these changes will not affect the way the university functions. The budget for Convocations has been cut as little as restructure possible and a of the speaker series has been conducted, Cook said SUU has had problems with scheduling recently conflicts and different lecture series overlapping each other or being at the same time as staff meetings. As a budget-savin- g measure, we are trying to consolidate some of our efforts, as far as our speaker series, he said We are trying to create a committee that will choose speakers and resolve scheduling conflicts so everyone can attend if they choose. academic Grant, Ray program officer and director of Convocations, said he believes the restructuring of the budget is a blessing in disguise, as it will enable teachers, students and faculty members to be on this committee and help choose the speakers The notion of this committee is to figure out a way in which the speakers are more directly in the hands of individual faculty members, he said. They will then be more involved in the curriculum, and the students will be more likely to attend. Grant will also be taking a more active role in fundraising for the program, bringing outside funding to Convocations to compensate for the budget reductions. However, not all the budget in disguise cuts' g X University Journal V By NISHA HOOD t ' W' Todd Halvorsen, education manager for the New York Times Readership piogram at SUU, said SUUSA indicated to him in an email that they may be looking at canceling their partnership with the Times. I got an email from the outgoing president of SUUSA saying that a decision was made in response to student feedback that SUUSA did not wish to renew its subscription with the Times" Halvorsen Said This concerns me, because (through this program,) students have to be able to converse intelligently on global policy in an academic, setting Jeff Hertig, upcoming SUUSA president, said no final decision has been made, but research is being conducted to deteimine the best way to spend student fees, and cutting funding to the New York Tunes Readership program is one of many items on the table 1 he reason we are looking at canceling our membership is not because of any malice toward the Tunes, but became we need to take a look at our budget and find the best ways to spend student dollars, Hertig said One of the biggest concerns SUUSA has in lelation to the Times, Hertig said, is that many of the newspapers provided to students are being taken from Sorenson the J L Physical Education Building, which accommodates community members as well as students and faculty. said Halvorsen However, approximately 170 newspapers are taken from SUU every day and another 170 online subscriptions are used daily; only seen of that number are taken from the PE Building Eric Kirby, executive director of the Michael O Leavitt Center for Politics & Public Seivice, said it might be better to change SUUs arrangement with the Tunes, possibly using only the online subscription rather than getting both newspapers and online copies -- See Page 3 GraifeaSo Continued from Page 1 Jamie Wysong, a fieshman psychology major from South Jordan, said Hardy was telling her about an event where they were giving out free shirts. Wysong said she never knew what to do with free after the event, but Hardy showed her what she had been doing with her shirts She pulled out her phone, and she was showing me how she was laying out all the squares for her quilt, she said It was the best idea ever Wysong said she wants to make a quilt of all her college after every school year. Tawny Caldwell, a junior graphic design major from St. George, is another student who got the idea to create a quilt fiom Hardy. from old said she first Caldwell found out about Hardys quilt thiough Pinteiest. She also wants to make a quilt from her old college Haidys quilt holds a lot of memories for her She said this quilt repiesents her enlne undergraduate expenence Instead of writing in journal, I quilt, she said As Hardy gets ready a to and move on, she said she has loved her experience at SUU. If I could sum it up into one sentence, SUU honestly gave me a silver platter she said. Everybody on the faculty has something to offer ... you can take a part of this, maybe taste this, and if you try everything on the silver platter they give you, you will have the best experience. will take Commencment place at noon in the Centrum formal a after Arena procession of graduates at 1 1 30 am. There will be a number of speakers, including Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and graduate CUTS, Page 16 37 1 r iilisflMifeiHilil I I i i 4 EVEni DETAILS : i d a. the Umveisity Valedictorian, Choryn Sundin Glad. The colleges respective graduation ceremonies will take place at different times in the Centrum Arena. A full schedule can be found at www. 3 suu edunews201304114th-commencement-to-celebrate-class-of-201- html. Out of the 1,756 students for the 2013 graduating school year, there are 744 men and 1009 w'omen with 1033 bachelors degrees, 259 masters degrees, 456 associate degrees and 8 certificates of completion. t |