Show College of Eastern Utah e 90' Th© Eagl©“ Volume XVlIlT Number 9 rTh Vole Of Th PricT Ut 6450 1 T Thursday March 1 0 994 1 Students' 1 CEU voter turnout reaches all-ti- students did agree on and those were the winners of this yean elections Renee PkessettwonoverBlaine Hawks for the position of president While Mark Hall was elected academic vice president over Ryan Walker In the race for activities vice presi by Elisha Ray editor The College of Eastern Utah not only found it's walls covered with campaign posters its sidewalks embossed with chalk and its doors covered with fliers but it also found more of it's students votOut of 1900 Mark HaN Academic VP Resident i i"“4-vyrs- - 's-’-- ' student's 406 was" chose to vote in the 1994-9- S executive council elections “We had areally good turn out In fact wehadoveralOO The new council members will begin their position training at the beginning of spring quarter and will slowly start taking on the respons- more students vote this year than last year" ibilities of their elected office Although the new Academic Vice council will be President DmyKourkiw TTxxras Bertantan Activities VP Curtis Icard named as division chair By Anna Adair nawaadRor Curtis Icard has recently been appointed as chairman of the division of humanities social sciences business and arts The seat was vacated by Brent Haddock when he wu appointed academic vice president Icard completed graduate work at the University of Rochester in New York and Perm Stale and received his masters degree in English literature He has taught five years at various New York Slate and Ohio schools before arriving at CEU For five years he has taught English composition developmental English English as a second language and introduction to literature classes at CEU As division chair his most important task is to help the faculty members in his division to successfully do their jobs He has no big (see Icard page 8) LCG Chair Kourianos slid into the position with one vote to spare by obtaining 163 votes over Baxter's 162 votes When Kourianos was asked how he felt about winning by me vote he replied " I hope that they don’t have another recount because first I had won by three then I won by one-nething you know I will have lost by two I still can't get over how close it xt ing RonooPrussett high me Samantha Dou-gl- u said This year 21 percent of the student body voted a 13 percent increase from last year Douglas contributed the increase to more serious campaigning by this years candidates The reason for voting may be different for each individual However there were a few things the majority of EU dent the student body chose Danny Kourianos over Pepper Baxter and Seth Palmer Thomas “the Greek" BertanianwonoutintheraceforlCC chair winning over Matt Gwyther and StaciGuymon The race for activities vice president was the closest of the four quiring responsibility throughout the will not be the members new quarter sworn in until the awards assembly which will take place in May The results for outstanding sophomore (male and female) outstanding freshman (male and female) as well as out standing staff and faculty will also be announced at the awards assembly Environmental study program by Jaron Holder staff writer The environmental study program is a class built around a comprehensive holistic view at the environment by students in and out of the classroom Students involved in the program will investigate our environment from every imaginable direction from subjects such as literature and art to politics economics and science The class will be headed by Eric and Sarah Ewert with other faculty and approach community members helping out in a hour elective which means that it won't count toward The class is a general education credit but it will count toward an associate degree work win include guest speakers debates films tours reading of environmental literature such as Henry David Thoreau and discussions about legislative and economic concerns about the environment The portion will consist of five trips: car camping backpacking and river rafting The destinations of the trips will include Arches Canyonlands and Capital Reef National Parks The trips last from two to five al In-cla- ss out-of-cla- ss days “CEU is enclosed by some of the most spectacular country" said course professor Eric Ewert “I'm excited to lead the course" The environmental studies program has been at CEU for nearly 20 years and has become so popular that only 20 students are allowed to register and most of the openings sre for graduating sophomores Due 10 its extreme popularity the class is full Eric said not to worry if you couldn't make the class this year because it win be around again next year ac- i:‘¥ ‘ |