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Show The Tfiurulcrbirtf Monday February 10, 1386 Page 3 Candidacy statements due on Feb. 14 Candidacy statements for the general student body elections are due on Feb. 14 at p.m. m Vice President for Student Services Sterling Church's office. Mike Mauger, ASSUSC academic vice president, is in charge of organizing the bodys election committee. Scantron ballots will be used in this years general elections, speeding up ballot counting. The results of the elections should take only 15 minutes to process, according to Mauger. During last years elections, manv of the election rules were called unconstitutional. This years election committee has gone through and revised those rules. The bylaws that stretch the elections and give power to the elections committee and which also states the deadlines that need to be met such as the deadline when candidacy forms need to be in were preserved, said Mauger. If a candidate is ;iot in the primary elections he or she cannot campaign with posters on campus until after the primary elections, added Mauger. Nominations will be held on Feb. 19. This involves parties nominating their members for office. Those whet are running independently will also have to be 1 nominated, but by their supporters, after which the candidate accepts the nomination. Its basically one of the formalities we go through, where college officials will deliver various speeches and elections get under wav, said Mauger. If it becomes apparent that no primary elections will be required then the elections committee will move the nominations back a week to Feb. 26, lea mg only one week to campaign. Primary elections limit the candidates to two per ottice who can run during the elections and six for senate positions in each department. If there arent any more candidates running for these positions then the primaries will be dropped and we will move to general elections which will be held on March 5, said Mauger. The elections committee has the power to restrict campaigning, confiscate campaign materials and even take a candidates name off the ballot if it finds that a candidate is violating the campaigning rules. A meeting for candidates will be held on Feb. 14. s Candidates will be briefed about the and other related matters. head-to-hea- d James Mills will present a paper in April to the 14th annual Conference on French Literature. SUSC professor to present paper to French conference James Mills will travel to Columbia, S.C. in April to present a paper at the 14th annual French Literature Conference. Mills, an associate professor of French, will attend at the University of South Carolina meetings April where he will read his paper, Irony in the life and work 5 of Andre Chenier: The Iambic Period, Mills paper will later be published in the conference journal, French Literature Senes. The SUSC faculty 1793-179- member has presented papers about the French poet on numerous occasions, and his scholarly research has been published in several academic journals, including Encsclia, the official publication of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. The conference in South Carolina gives me an Convocation speaker Donald Hall said he writes about his own 'dream world' in his poems. opportunity to share my research on Chenier with other scholars from throughout the nation and perhaps formulate some new ideas for further research, said Mills. Mills was born and lived in Scotland until he was 15 and first started studying French at the age of 12. Flis family then moved to Australia where he lived for several years and where he continued to study French. Mills received a scholarship to attend the Teachers College in Melbourne hut turned it down ter come to the United States. Mills completed his bachelor's degree in French and English and entered the masters program. He taught education and French at Brigham Young University as a graduate student assistant and did some teaching at the Mission Training Center in Provo. He joined the army for several years and was stationed at Ft. Ord in California, Ft. Benning in Georgia, and at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Upon receiving his masters degree in 1972, Mills joined the SUSC faculty and has been here ever since. Mills received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1980. Mills has traveled around the world a few times and visited numerous countries. He is heavily involved in travel programs and has taken study groups from both BYU and SUSC to Paris and Great Britain. Mills also serves as a consultant on foreign travel to the division of continuing education on campus. Mills has presented papers on Archilochus; Auguste Barbier; Les Chatiments, a collection of Victor Hugos poems; and a paper on De Heredia, who was one of Cheniers disciples. In May, Mills will present a paper on The Metamorphosis of Chenier from Hero to Poet in Canada. Hall tells Convo of a dream place BY BRADFORD LEWIS What is it like to wake up one day and suddenly realize that you have lived longer than your parents ever did? What could you do when on an Arctic expedition and find yourself surrounded by hungry-lookinwolves? What kinds of experiences can be had by growling up on a New England farm? What arc the sounds of love? The answers to these and many other questions may be found in the poetry of Donald Hall, guest speaker at g Thursdays Convocation. Hall read several poems, starting with very simple ones and moving into the more complex. Befoie each reading, he set the poem up for the audience by explaining when it was written, what the inspiration w'as leading to the poems writing, what changes in his life came about as a result of writing the poem, and other details. He spoke of a sort of dream place w'hich all poets create through their poetry. Most of his poems deal with a light, airy, happy dream place, the kind one would expect to find in a New England countryside. Hall currently lives on the old family farm at Eagle Pond, New Hampshire, where he returned after resigning his English professorship at the University of Michigan in 1975. With one of his shorter poems, he decided to go back and reword it slightly, though the poem had been published almost 20 years previously and many people, especially other poets, would be able to spot the change immediately. The practice of making changes in his poetry is not uncommon, nor is taking a period of several years to complete a poem, he said. Often what started as a poem would become prose, and the reverse was also true. One of his better known poems, The Oxcart Man, was changed slightly and published as a childrens book in 1980. Hall, w'ho has edited several books and anthologies, written textbooks, and published many various works, and who now has a play currently playing modestly admitted that when he speaking, off- embarks upon a new project, I dont know what am doing. Hall starts every day around 8 a.m., not knowing from one minute to the next what Ill be doing, only that Ill be doing something. He always works on poetry first, usually for two hours or so, then splits the remainder of his day between other forms of writing, and two or three hours of reading (mostly works received on a complimentary basis from other poets publishers). Just as carpenters, plumbers, builders, and others have certain tools they use in their professions, Hall uses the tools of language, including syntax, sentence structure, words and punctuation. With the proper use of these tools, he said, anyone can convey or tell anything to anybody. You will be understood. Your experiences become the readers or the listeners experiences. 1 |