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Show Your Business An ethical dilemma: Terri Schiavo's death. Page A4. Student interns at Kyrgyzstan Embassy. Page A6. Theater for the ADD generation. Page B l . Credit trouble? Time for fiscal first aid. Page A8. Saying goodbye to the senior class. Page B8. UTAH VALLEY STATE THE COLLEGE TIES VOLUME 33'ISSUE 30 ) MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2005 EL BUEN PANO EN EL ARCA VENpf started the club to raise awareness about the Wee Care Center, hoping it would lead to additional funding, or help in grant writing. "With less funding from the outside," Reed said, "it means we have to fund it more from the inside." Carol Verbecky, Director of Turning Point, the organization over the Wee Care Center is looking for new ways to get funding. "We used to share the space with Head Start. We Errin Julkunen don't do that anymore. We're hoping Editor-at-Large to use that space in a way that will really benefit us." Possible uses may his year is the final year of a be adding daycare for faculty and five-year grant for the Wee staff, at a rate comparable to other Care Center. The Child Care local day cares. Access Means Parents in School Students whose children attend the (CCAMPIS) grant has been the ma- Wee Care Center are able to pay on jor source of funding for UVSC's a sliding scale, according to the fiday care center, awarding funding nancial resources available to them. based on the amount of Pell Grant Reed said that when her children money in the school. first started at Wee Care, she paid 75 This reduction irufunding could cents an hour for childcare. mean higher cost ( \ daycare for The lack of funding has some upUVSC students. This worries stu- set with administration. "It seems dents like Krystal Reed, President they're not very supportive of nonof the Wee Care Kids Club. Reed traditional students," said Reed. The future T of low-cost child care at UVSC Steve Lundquist/NetXNews The Wee Care Center is a low-cost day care option for parents in the UVSC community. Funding from the school has been through use of the Wee Care building, maintenance and facilities, not direct money to the center. President Sederburg says they have been trying to help the Wee Care Center. "We tried to find them a home at the Alpine Life and Learning Center. The underlying issue they've been concerned about is space." Due to an agreement years ago, the Wee Care Center has been sharing the space with Head Start. "This year, "Wee Care" cont'd on page A2 Service expedition team helps out in Mexico Vegor Pedersen Editor-in-Chief Some students, faculty members, and administrators from UVSC spent their Spring Break in Mexico building an adobe home for a Tarahumara Indian woman. The service expedition, made up of 16 people, is an extension of Joel Bradford's Skills for Humanitarian Projects (ENVT 2600) class, where students learn how to implement projects to improve living conditions. The expedition traveled to Chihuahua City in the Mexican state of Chihuahua and then traveled by train and truck to a tiny village called Piroche, home to a handful of Tarahumara Indians. The Tarahumara are perhaps best known for their distance running, and in fact Courtesy Photo/David Jordan UVSC student Jaymi Tohara prepares adobe bricks. the license plates in Chihuahua feature Tarahumara runners. These people have lived through centuries of oppression at the hands of Spanish colonialists and the Mexican government. Bradford, who has participated in many humanitarian trips to Mexico, came to Piroche with tools and cash from donors to help the Tarhumara. His contact in the area is a local carpenter named Juan Daniel Villalobos. Villalobos studied to be a priest for 20 years but eventually forsook his final vows to work more closely with the Tarahumara. He and his wife and family spend their free time with different villages among the Tarahumara. For those who went, many agreed that they got more out of the experience than those who they came to help. When asked what she got would remember most freshman Katie Fitzpatrick said, "The little girls that followed us around. They were the sweetest things ever." "As we left our campsite on a rickety old flatbed I saw something I'll never forget. There was a boy who couldn't have been more than four. He ran along side the truck in the rocks and cacti with no shoes or socks," said Jared Neves a UVSC student. "Then he ran to a big boulder, climbed on top and just stared till I could see him no longer. I kept thinking that now we go to our nice hotels to shower and shave and he would still be back in his little world existing from day to day." By the end of the week in Piroche the adobe house was nearly complete and participants had learned a lot about the Tarahumara and gained hands-on experience in humanitarian aid. Bradford is already making plans for the next TarahumaByron Swogger/NetXNews ra expedition. He encourages Congressman Jim Matheson (D-UT) spoke at UVSC last those who might be interested week concerning the future of nuclear waste disposal. in trips like these to take his humanitarian projects class (ENVT 2600) in the fall. Matheson speaks Foreign students face tough new driver's license laws Utah's lone Democrat sounds Shawn Mansell Aoki sees this as a catch 22 and it has him disheartened. Your News Editor "I really don't like it. I'm here When BYU student Ko- legally and I have everything suke Aoki went into the that shows who I am." Orem DMV on March 24th, What the DMV offered he expected to get a driver's Aoki was the chance to get a license. He didn't. driving privilege card. "They told me in January Bill 223 allows foreign that all I needed was a tax citizens the chance to get the I.D. number to get one/' Aoki privilege card, which gives said. "But when I went in them the right to drive in there they said the rules had Utah. changed." Department of Public SafeThe "rules" would be House ty spokesman Doug McCleve Bills 227 and 223. said Bill 223 is a positive for House Bill 227 makes it Utah's foreign visitors. "It necessary to have a Social allows them to drive in the Security number in order to state," McCleve said. get a drivers license. If the privilege cardholdFor Aoki, a Japanese nation- ers want to drive outside of al who is in Utah on student Utah it may pose a problem. visa, getting a SSN, is a near "I would be absolutely sure it impossibility. "You have to was ok with the other states hawn Mansell/NetXNews have a job to get one [SSN], [before driving there]," McBYU student Kosuke Aoki poses with his paperwork. A new and you have to have one to Cleve said. state law is keeping Aoki from driving while living in Utah. get a job." "License" cont'd on page A3 off on storing nuclear waste this," Matheson said of the Governor's efforts to influence decision makers in Congressman Jim Mathe- Washington. "That is very son railed against all things helpful." nuclear on Monday. The Congressman said there Matheson expressed his dis- are three factors that could satisfaction with the proposal prevent the fuel from being to relocate nuclear waste from stored within Utah's boundthe eastern U.S. to the Gos- aries. hute Reservation in Tooele The federal Interior SecCounty. Placing the waste in retary Gale Norton could, acUtah "would have a chilling cording to Matheson, nix the effect on economic develop- planned storage. "The. Secment," he said. retary for the interior has to The lone Democrat in as trustee for the tribe has to Utah's delegation, Matheson sign off on the lease," he said. added that he would work in "With one administrative act a bipartisan fashion to resist she could stop it." making the Beehive State a He also said that the Bureau holding ground for spent nu- of Land Management has to clear fuel. approve "rail spurs" to be "[Huntsman] is trying to "Matheson1 cont'd on page A2 do everything he can to stop Shawn Mansell Your News Editor |