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Show Orientation • continues, as do summer workshops Summer at SUU is made up of a myriad of components, from regular summer coursework and self-support classes to the ULah Shakespearean Festival and other cultu ra l and artistic offerings, and from a bevy of conferences and workshops to a s late of orientation classes fo r students who will begin coursework here in the fall. Summer 1997 is the largest summer program in the university's hi sto ry, with enrollment up by nearl y 10 percent, and the student populace on ca mpus is augmented by others here for a va riety of purposes. Orientation sessions, which arc required for first time freshmen who will he attending Southern Utah University this fall, have begun amlare slated for severa l more dates this sum mer. "This one-day orientation is intcnde<l to help incoming st udents case the t ransitio n to un iversity life at SUV," Judy Bonniksen, directo r of t he universiLy's student deve lopment cente r, explains. " It is requi red before a new student will be allowe<l to register this fa ll. One hou r of college c redit w ill be awarded to stu dents who complete t he full day of activities." Orientation da tes began Ju ne L·6. Al 1 except the final sessionFriday, Sept. 19- are held on a Monday. Continui ng dates during .--- - -- - -- - - - -- - ---, the summ er arc today (Aug. 4), A ug 18, and 25; and Sept . 15 and 19. N o orientation classes wi ll be offered after fall quarter classes begin Sept. 23. An optiona l comp lementary orientation program for parents of first· time SUU freshmen is be ing offered during two of the dates: , Aug. 25, and Sept. 19. "T he parents' program is designed to acq uaint them with the university and it's academic program and to allow t he parents to meet SUU student serv ices professionals, 11 Bonni ksen said. Regist ration forms fo r the orientation session are being sent to prospective new student s upon th eir acceptan ce to SUU. T he requ ired registration fo rm is also available through th e SUU Student Developme nt Center, 35 1 West Cente r, Cedar C ity, UT 84720 (phone 801-586-54 19). T he completed form, together with a $3S fee must he mailed to the student development center to reserve a date for the orientat ion. Parents also need to complete a form and pay a $15 fee to participate. Students a nd parents may also call 80 1-586-5419 to register. "Prospective students will receive academic advisement, plan the ir course schedu le and actu ally register for fall quarter c lasses duri ng t he orientation," Bon niksen said. "St udents will a lso have a chance to learn about the uni versit y's resources an d services while experiencing a sam pling of the campus comm unity and en vironment ." Of course, the regular and secon d sessions of summer schoo l conin ue her, a long w ith SUU 's slate of summer conferences, which has been going strong since earl y June and continues th rough August, Camp Shakespeare is offe red Aug. 4-8. For informat ion about either camp, poten tial part icipan ts may call the Conference Services Office 586-7853 or the Division of Con tinuing Education 865-8275. This year marks the largest summer school program in the university's history. Bulloch named to post here Veteran SUUan is now administrative assistant to P!esiden t Southwest Corrective Training Institute and Steven D. Bennion, new president of Southern Ut ah U niversity, has annou nced t he as assistan t computer systems manager wi th the Leavitt Gro up. From appointment of 1993-96 s he served as Jacqueline Bull och as his executive secretary to administrative assistant the managing director of effective Aug. l. the translation Bulloch is filling this department fo r the position upon t he Chu rch of Jesus Christ retirement of Ruth of Latter-day Sa ints. C hallis who served in From 1989-92, and this capacity for more since April of 1996, than 20 years. Bulloch has served as "Jackie faces the admi nistrative assistant cha llengi ng task of to the vice president of replacing Mrs . Chal lis, university affairs at who served so well in SUU, Michael D. assisting the last fo ur Richards. presidents of SUU, 11 11 Jackic's experience Bennion noted, "but she with both SUU and is certainly well prepared Cedar City-and in both professionall y and other capacities-will be personally to meet this invaluable to me an d the cha llenge." university's Bulloch served 10 years administration as we as Cedar City recorder. plan to launch SUU's Follow ing that sh e ga ined second centu ry, 11 experience as office Bennion said. f acqueline Bulloch man ager for the Aton will depart for China SUU English faculty m ember to serve on Fulbright program ta k ing some courses on the Chinese language Augu st 14 w ill be the beginning of a dream t o he lp him outside of the classroom . "The come t rue fo r one of SUU's fa culty m em bers. sounds arc different from Engli sh, but the Ja mes Aton, associate professor of English, is structure is m uch simpler," he said. "One of leavi ng Utah for a short time to teach in C h ina the most diffic ult th ings in learning the as part of the Fulbrigh t Fellowshi p program. langu age has been the tones. A word could Aton said he wi ll spend the next 10 t o 11 mean fo ur or five different thin gs depending on months in C hina teaching American Studies at the tone tha t is used with th e word. It's been Sich ua n U nion University in C hengdu, C h ina, which is located in t he south central portion of fu n." the country. Whil e in C h ina, A ton said h e hopes to visit the Whi le there, Aton said neighboring country of he will be teaching a yearTibet, as we ll as long course in America n Li terature, as w ell as one experience day-to-day life in China. "I like to find course on American m y own way, not go along En vironmental H istory in fa ll semester and one with tour groups," h e said. According to Aton , this course on American is actua lly the second N atu re Writing in winter semester. t ime he has applied to go to China. He sa id h e had Aton said that he has applied with t he Ful brigh t taught these courses program in l 989, bu t th e befo re in t he U.S. and is T ian anmen Squ are looking forward to demon strations began at t each ing t he m in China. "This will be t he first t ime the ti me he was sch eduled to go and h is tri p to Ch ina since grad school that I was canceled. w ill be teaching courses in my s pecia lty," he said. Aton was then sent to Indonesia, w here he said According to Aton, the re t hat a lthough it wasn 't his shouldn 't be m uch of a fi rst c hoice, he learn ed a la nguage barrie r within Lot from teaching t here. t he cl.assroom , wh ere man y of his students a re at T he Fu lbright program the graduate le vel an d fam es A ton was created 50 yea rs ago teach at the college leve l _ __ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ b y Sen ator J. Wi lliam alread y. "I expect that Fulbright, as a pa rt of m ost of my students should be able to write fo reign aid, sendi ng US scholars t o teach overseas. s ince then, more than a dozen SUU and speak En glish at t he level of our gra duates." fa ult y m e m bvers ha ve been selected to However, Aton added t hat he has been partic ipate in the program . |