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Show Page 3 CampusNews Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 ISLAM: Saudi, Muslim student associations join forces ► From page 2 that Muslims don't care for their women, that they don't care for their mothers or their wives," he said. Arafat said the Prophet Muhammad told the people the best follower was the one who was the best to his wife. When he saw a man abusing his wife, the Prophet said, "Whoever does this is not from amongst us." Arafat said the abuse of women is more prevalent Western societies than in any Middle Eastern society. "Unfortunately when you go and watch a movie, all you see is a Muslim wife-beater or a Muslim terrorist who's shouting," he said. Arafat explained that in Islam, God is beyond image and form. He has no gender and no race — therefore, there can be no racism and prejudice in Islam. Muslim Student Association president Mayran Muhammad said the purpose of the panel was to show how the Prophet Muhammad not only influenced culture and religion within the Arabian Peninsula, but how he influenced society across the world. She said the purpose of the Muslim Student Association is not only to unite Muslims at Utah State, but to do charity work and promote Islam and its principles to other students around campus. "There's a lot of negative stigmas throughout the media and we just want to clear up the air and let everybody know that's not who we really are," Muhammad Campus & Community Muslims in the U.S. Kiger Hour will explore visual art Selected results of a recent survey of U.S. Muslims: Who they are How they feel 2.75 million Muslims currently live Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in this country today? U.S. General Muslims public in the U.S. 63% are immigrants 41% immigrated from the Middle East or North Africa 26% came from South Asian nations 45% have arrived since 1990 37% were born in the U.S. 81% are U.S. citizens Source: Pew Research Center survey of 1,033 Muslims, April 14-July 22, 2011; margin of error: +/-5 percentage points Graphic: Matt Moody, Los Angeles Times said. "We really are your classmates. We're friends." Nasser said the Saudi Student Association is focused more around the culture and people of Saudi Arabia while the Muslim Student Association focuses on the Islamic religion. However, both clubs share a common goal in promoting the truth about Islam and Muslims. Satisfied Dissatisfied 56% 38 23% 73 Are suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians justified to defend Islam from its enemies? Never Rarely Often/Sometimes Don't know 81% 8 6 5 @ 2011 MCT Ginger Udy, a non-Muslim student at USU, said being involved with Muslims on campus has been an uplifting and enlightening experience. "Being friends with them and learning about their culture and their religion has really helped enrich my life and I'm very grateful for their friendship," she said. MONEY: Federal government teaches students about costs ►From page 2 for the university. "We hope that the more they are aware of what they're borrowing, they'll think about how to pay it back later," she said. "But I don't know that telling them upfront is going to impact whether or not they default in the end." The form's "know before you owe" benefits are limited. It doesn't give a customized estimate. Instead, it shows median borrowing – how much a typical student at the school borrows for an undergraduate education and the approximate monthly payments over 10 years. Students generally don't pay back loans while they're in school, but start six months after graduating or after they cut back credits to less than half time. The size of repayments depends on the amount the student has borrowed and interest rates. The form has a link to a government website about repayment plans, where students can find a calculator to get an estimate of monthly payments. The form also shows tuition and all other college costs, and any scholarships a student receives. The remaining net cost is what a student must pay with savings, work or loans. The percentage of students at that particular school who graduate in six years and the percentage of loan borrowers there who default will be included. Schools can choose to use the shopping sheet or not, except in the cases of veterans and members of the armed services who are seeking admission. President Barack Obama signed an executive order last spring that included provisions requiring schools to make the form available to them. Lauren Asher, the president of The Institute for College Access and Success, a nonprofit group that advocates for more affordable college education, said the shopping sheet was an important step toward clearer information about the net price of college. "It's a way to allow for an apples-toapples comparison for financial aid offers, which can be difficult because schools are not currently required to provide all this Graduate Studies announces event speakers BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS strategies to better navigate the future. As CEO of Entegra Partners, he has continued to USU's Office of Research work with various organizaand Graduate Studies released tions on innovative environa schedule of speakers and mental and civic strategies. performers for its Nov. 7 Joining Wakefield and TEDxUSU conference. The Butcher are USU researchevent, designed to introduce ers Karl White and Ronda "ideas worth spreading," will Callister. feature impactful research and White is a psychology profesperformances. Presenters will sor at USU and the founding represent USU faculty, studirector of the National Center dents, alumni and friends. for Hearing Assessment and "TEDxUSU is a perfect fit Management. His team was for Utah State," said Mark instrumental in establishing McLellan, vice president universal newborn hearing for research and dean of the screening in the United States School of Graduate Studies at and has subsequently worked USU. with more than 30 countries Upon USU students' request, to establish early hearing world slam poetry champion detection and intervention Buddy Wakefield was invited programs. He will discuss how to campus to kick-off the consuch programs provide a sound ference with his presentation. Wakefield has been featured on foundation for children who are deaf or hard of hearing to NPR, BBC, HBO's Def Poetry excel. Jam and most recently signed In addition to publishing to Ani DiFranco's Righteous top academic journals on anger Babe Records. expressions in organizations In 2004, Wakefield won and teaching courses on third the Individual World Poetry party resolution, Callister Slam finals. He then successhas led a major campus fully defended that title at the change effort as the principal International Poetry Festival investigator on a $3 million in Rotterdam, Netherlands, NSF ADVANCE Institutional against the national champions Transformation grant. Her of seven European countries. presentation during the TEDx USU alum and Rhodes event will provide insights Scholar Jim Butcher will talk about gender issues and about the relationship among careers. the environment, economThe TEDxUSU conference ics and civic change. From will conclude with a presentahis early days growing up in tion by Douglas K. Lemon, Montana, to pursuing civil president of the USU Research engineering during his underFoundation. Lemon will take grad studies at USU and now viewers through some of the working across corporate, govmysteries of the universe ernment and NGO sectors, he uncovered by WISE, a highly has been passionate about how sensitive astronomical teleto integrate environmental scope designed and built by issues into today's organizaUSURF's Space Dynamics tions. Laboratory for NASA, that Butcher has led projects surveyed the entire sky while with companies and governorbiting the Earth. ment such as Intel, Kodak, With over 31 years of experiMorgan Stanley and the ence, Lemon has led the develClinton Administration White opment of next-generation, House, among many others. high technology solutions for His work has helped them reclients in space, aerospace, perceive the future and develop USU = independently organized TED event intelligence, national defense and homeland security. His technical and programmatic work has focused on advanced methods and applications of satellite and aerial image processing, ultrasonic measurements, and other advanced electronic systems. "Our researchers have a wealth of experience that they are excited to share with the community," said McLellan. "They have established themselves in their respective fields, which is evidenced by the transformative impact of their top-notch research that they have conducted over the years." Scott Bates, associate vice president for graduate and undergraduate research at USU, chairs the TEDxUSU organizing committee. "All our USU researchers have their eye on the future as they conduct their current work," Bates said. "These presentations will differ from what we've seen from their academic presentations in the past, because they have been encouraged to take a few intuitive leaps down the road in speculating about the future of their fields." USU undergraduate Taylor Halversen will represent the student community in speaking on how students contribute to the conversations, activities and accomplishments at university campuses. Majoring in communications studies, Halversen recently started her third year at USU and has worked with history professor Norm Jones on the Lumina Foundation/Business Briefs Innovation Factory project. There will be two performances as part of the conference, both coming from the Caine College of the Arts: the Fry Street Quartet and photographer Christopher Gauthier. Members of the Fry Street Quartet will perform work by Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, while Gauthier will present Evidence and Artifacts: Facing Autism, a portrait project addressing the rising prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the United States. Since TEDxUSU has a limited license from the TED organization, only 100 seats are allowed at the live event, with an additional estimated 250 seats at simulcast overflow MOMS. Thirty seats will be reserved for special attendees, and the remaining seats will be released by lottery. Seats at the live event will be split equally between randomly selected USU faculty and students, and seats in the overflow rooms will be randomly drawn from the entire lottery pool. People wishing to be considered for the ticket lottery must visit the TEDxUSU website to fill out the online form, which will go live Monday, Oct. 15, at 8 a.m. and remain up until that Friday, Oct. 19. Duplicate entries will be deleted, and ticket holders will be selected and notified via email on Oct. 24. More information about the speakers, registration and event can be found on the website, Facebook page and Twitter hashtag (#tedxusu). David Wall, assistant professor of visual and media studies at Utah State University, will discuss a new approach to viewing images in art at the next Kiger Hour Oct. 18. His talk, "How Art Means," explores representation through the lens of asking how it means, rather than what it means. Wall studies representation across the fields of art, film and visual culture and has published widely on subjects including 19th century art, stereotypes in advertising, antebellum architecture and contemporary African American art. His current research examines post-imperial tensions and anxieties as expressed through art, film and television comedy of the 1950s in post-World War II Britain. Learn more about professor Wall's work at Kiger Hour, an intellectual program presented by Utah State University and sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Caine College of the Arts. The event is Thursday, Oct. 18, from 5:15 to 7 p.m. at Montez Brothers (previously Hamilton's), 2427 N. Main St., Logan. A buffet with appetizers, desserts and soft drinks, iced tea or coffee is available. Cost is $6.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and billed on an individual basis. Guests will also be able to order off the regular menu if desired. A cash bar is available. For planning purposes, please RSVP to Natalie Archibald Smoot in the college office, 435-797-2796, or email, natalie.archibald@usu.edu Orchestra will pair with Cache choir USU's Symphony Orchestra joins with the Cache Children's Choir and Deborah Baker Monday to present "Capriccio Espagliol" at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 at the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. "The orchestra and I are excited to perform with several guest artists and meet new audiences at the beautiful St. Thomas Aquinas Church," said Sergio Bernal, director of the USU Symphony Orchestra. "Capriccio" will also feature Bradley Ottesen, violist in the Fry Street Quartet, performing the solo in the Vaughan Williams "Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra." Ottesen spent four seasons with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra as assistant principal violist and is currently a string and chamber music faculty member at USU. The Cache Children's Cantate and Concert Choirs will perform two movements from "Gloria" by Antonio Vivaldi. Cantate is the auditioned choir for children ages 10-15 and the Concert choir is non-auditioned for ages 10-12. The children's choir, directed by Sylvia Munsen, is a non-profit community music program for singers ages 3 to 16 and focuses on fostering selfesteem through artistic excellence. Joining the USU Symphony Orchestra and Cache Children's Choir is Deborah Baker Monday, a nationally recognized teacher, composer and publisher of music for young string orchestras. Monday works with fourth through eighth graders in several schools in the Logan School District, teaching orchestra. The USU Symphony Orchestra will play a piece by Monday entitled "Synergy." The St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church is located at 725 South 250 East in Hyde Park, Utah. The event is free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, early arrival is recommended. For more information visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office located in room 139-B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call (435) 797-8022 or find information online at the college website. ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find in error, please contact the editor at 797-1742, statesman@aggiemail. usu.edu or come in to TSC 105. ►Compiled from staff and media reports |