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Show PHILLIPS RECEIVES AWARD: | ’BIRDS LOSE DIFFICULT BATTLE: The SUU women's basketball team lost a R. Scott Phillips, managing director of the Utah Shakespearean Festival, received an havrd fought battle of streaks 75-70 on Monday night to Oakland in the Centrum Arena and will look to rebound as it heads out on its final road trip of the season, award for Outstanding Contribution to Utah’s Theatre Community from the Utah Theatre Association at its annual conference on jan. 26. SEE PAGE 7. which starts with Valparaiso Saturday. SEE PAGE 8. E R Ly THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2002 Torch stirs Cedar City spirits Nearly 17,000 gather in SUU’s Eccles Coliseum to witness Olympic history BY TASHA WILLIAMS JOURNAL STAFF WRITER The Olympic flame burned in the Eccles Coliseum cauldron after it was lit by Iron County Volunteer of the Year Richard Burchby, a Cedar City resident and volunteer for the Happy Factory, a service organization that makes wooden toys for needy children, in front of an audience of close to 17,000 people Tuesday morning. As the Olympic torch left the Coliseum, the flame was extinguished and then relit with the Utah Summer Games flame. It will burn in the cauldron until the closing ceremonies Feb. 24 in Salt Lake City. Bryan Dangerfield, executive director of the Utah Summer Games and chair of the Cedar City Local Organizing Comimnittee, said that the torch is on an automatic ignitor so that the cauldron will relight itself in extreme weather. Gov. Michael O. Leavitt dedicated the Summer Games cauldron and the Legacy Monument as an official legacy monument, and said that Cedar City has never had a finer ERIN MADSON/JOURNAL moment. Richard Burchby, Iron County Volunteer of the Year, carries the Olympic flame through Eccles Coliseum. Dangerfield said it was “a thrilling day” to see individuals _and organizations within the commumty come together on the SUU campus. "To have the governor come down and dedicate our monument as an Olympic legacy monument was an absolute thrill to me,” he added. In planning for the celebration, Dangerfield and Alison Day, Olympic Torch Relay Committee chair and vice president of Students Servicing Utah Network, said that organizers planned for the worst. Monday night the torch arrived about two hours late at the celebration in St. George, and organizers wanted to'be ready for anything. “When doing something like this you always plan for the wortst, but everything went very smoothly,” Day said. Day said that Leavitt was supposed to speak while the torch was still in the Coliseum, but because the flame was four or five minutes early, the program was slightly rearranged. She said there were even extra volunteers at the event, and that the organizing committee had to turn away _approximately 50 disappointed people Tuesday morning. Day said she thought that some of them still managed to help unravel the large Amcm_nn flag across the middle of the field, however. Monday night's practice helped prepare volunteers for Tuesday’s events, Day said. “We knew it would have to be a program that’s interchangeable,” Dangerfield said. He said that by 6:30 a.m. there were already 100-200 students at the Coliseum helping with flags. Day said that the biggest job was to “facilitate volunteers to facilitate volunteers” to get the flags organized Tuesday morning. "It proves to me that once the students at SUU catch the vision of something, it’s unbelievable what they can accomplish,” Dangerfield said, “I'm really impressed with students who have a lot going on in their lives. They showed (continued on page 3) SUU student letter BY KAMI SAVAGE JOURNAL EDITOR A University Journal “letter to the editor” regarding an incident Jan. 10 at Domino’s Pizza in Cedar City and involving.an SUU student sparked some controversy after its publication on Jan. Sl "The letter was reportetlly discussed | in SUU classrooms, and it motivated between five and 10 phone calls and letters to Domino’s, Joe Pietrzak, owner of Domino’s in Cedar City, said. - ' “The callers said that they would boycott Domino’s,” Pietrzak said. “That’s unfair because the callers made that judgment before they got our side of the story.” Turnbull Tuliapupu, a senior criminal ‘topic of discussion in his criminal - justice ethics class. “We talked about the ensuing overreaction,” he said. “Every time you get a complaint you have to look at the situation from a balanced perspective.” Walser said he recommended looking at the issue from all sides, finding out whether each party involved would change his or her actions if the situation were repeated, discussing the details-including body language and reactions-and addressing unknown factors. “We don't know everythmg from one perspective,” Walser said. “Before we g0 charging people with discrimination and racism, we need to look at the whole picture.” . Brent Skinner, a junior pre-forestry majot from Richfield, Utah, and the restaurant’s senior driver, said he answered the phone “during the what he believed was racial evening rush” on Jan. 10, and the discrimination at Domino’s. caller, Tuliapupu’s wife, Rosanna, In the letter, Tuliapupu wrote that asked to cancel an order. the incident was one in which he “felt “The order was 25 minutes old and offended, misperceived and already on its way,” Skinner said. “I told disrespected because her there was nothing of unfair 1 I could do about it.” stereotyping.” He ‘Before we go | Rosanna Tuliapupu wrote that he was said Skinner'was prejudged not only by charging people “really unprofessional . Domino’s employees, R e I Lo on the phone.” but also by Cedar City and racism, we “When I called, I _police officers. was greeted by an ' “There was no need to look al the unfriendly ‘hold on’ discrimination at all,” whole picture, said, as if to say, ‘I don’t Pietrzak said. | like my job and I “[Tuliapupu’s Jolhin Walser, a ‘don’t want to be interpretation of] the lecturer in criminal here,”” she said. “I situation is totally was trying to be untrue; we would justice. TEE never discriminate Skinner said he told against anyone.” Rosanna Tuliapupu that there was no Kenny Laundra, assistant professor of way to contact the driver to let her - sociology, said the incident is a know that the order had been perceived reality, canceled. “T'wo people may experience the “She was nice at first, but the ' same event and have two different conversation grew more heated, and I interpretations of it,” Laundra said. “It could hear a man yelling in the was good that the letter was printed, background,” Skinner said. “She told though. The dialogue itself is positive, me that she wasn't going to pay for the and it gets the community talking order and asked my name, She said she about [discrimination]. That's the most couldn’t believe I would talk to her like important thing here.” that without even being a manager, but Laundra said he saw Tuliapupu’s I was just trying to reason with her.” letter before it was sent to the Rosanna Tuliapupu accused Skinner University Journal. of being disrespectful and rude to her. “He showed it to me and I offered “He was calling me stupid for some suggestions, mostly of a ordering a pizza and calling back to grammatical nature,” Laundra said. cancel it,” she said. “T asked to speak to Laundra’s classes have discussed the the manager... who said that he stood issue, he said. by [Skinner].” “T am not surprised that Domino’s is Skinner said he gave the phone to Bxll t [disputing] Turnbull’s statements,” Weideman, the night manager, who is a Laundtra said. “Resistance’is a form of junior history major from Canyon white privilege. It's not surprising Country, Calif. white people don’t believe that racism “I tried to talk with her, but she was happens. You almost have to live it to angry,” Weideman said. “I told her we believe it.” John Walser, a lecturer in criminal (continued on page 2) justice, said the letter has been a short justice major from Anaheim, Calif., said he wrote the letter after experiencing ‘ Brandon Jensen, a sophomore nglnering major fr Ma, Utah, and Dlelle sen, a freshman elementary education ma]or from Sandy, engaged to be married May 8, practice for the big day. ‘All you BY MEG CADY JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Valentine’s Day is Feb. 14, and this year some SUU students will find themselves enamored with the girl down the hall, the guy across the street of evetl the friend he or she met in September. Several SUU students have discovered that love can happen to anyone at any time, and is often just around the corner, at the neighbor’s house, in an email or in English class. Amanda (Gauer) Sewell, a senior communication major from Kingston, Ontario, Canada, was introduced to her husband by a roommate. Her husband, Mike Sewell, said he “took her roommate out [when he lived] in Virginia,” and met Amanda when he moved to Utah and visited her roommate, While Amanda was home for Christmas, they decided they wanted to get married and were married the day she flew back for school. Mike said some of his family knew they were planning to elope, and even helped him get the wedding ring and find a place to live. After he picked Amanda up at the airport on Jan. 5, he took her to the Bellagio Hotel and proposed in front of the fountains. He said he gave her a ring and they watched the water show, The couple went to the justice need . ANNE MCCONNELL/JOURNAL sparks controversy is love’ of the peace and were married at the courthouse. They spent the night in Mesquite, Nev. “[We'll go on] our honeymoon after Amanda’s graduation in May,” Mike said. “We're very happy. We're glad we did it.” Erin Whitehead, a senior elementary education major from Las Vegas, met her fiance, Dave Sorensen, when “mutual friends invited [them] bowling” in March of 2000. ‘When Sorensen proposed in November, he took Whitehead “to a friend’s place where [he] had a fire going in the fireplace and rose petals on the floor.” “He gave me three dozen roses and told me a reason he loved me for every one,” Whitehead said. Sorenson and Whitehead like to take trips together, spend time with Whitehead’s roommates and watch DVDs at home. They will be married in May. Brandee Stone, a sophomore from Brigham City, Utah, met her boyfriend online. “First we met on the Internet, then we met in person,” Stone said. “He e-mailed me for about three months, we met and became friends, and then we dated.” Stone met Daryl Wenzl ina chat room and got to know him through e-mails. She took friends with her when she went to Salt Lake City, where WenzI lives, and met him in person. The couple decided to see more of each other and eventually ended up dating. They have been dating, off and on, for a year now. Stone said she has no plans for Valentine's Day, but she is trying to convince Wenzl to come for a visit. Spencer Myers, a freshman communication major from. Sandy, said he enjoys being single. “My mom says I should date a different gitl every month so I don’t get too serious,” Myers said. He said he meets gitls at dances, parties and at church. He also goes on dates about: every other weekend. “I don’t have the time or the funds, 50 it's good that I keep it to a minimum,” Myers said. He said dating in Cedar City is bad because it's hard to meet people and also because it seems like there are a lot more gitls than guys. - “Talways crush on girls who are older than me, and that kinda sucks for me,” Myers said. Myers said his plans for Valentine’s Day consist of driving for nine hours as part of an Acclamation tour, Archie Larsen, a senior sociology/physical education major from Price, Utah, doesn’t like to go on many dates. “Personal happiness [should come] before being happy with someone else,” Larsen said. “Some people put their happiness in someone else’s hands and they get crushed.” |