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Show $208/year TUITION increase for Utah residents A "Our tuition increase is very reasonable and the bottom line is students will benefit. from it," Linda Makin, UVU Executive Director of Planning and Budget success initiatives.'' Though the increase may seem like a stroke of bad luck, it could have been much worse. - Commissioner of Higher Education Bill Sederburg noted that tuition increase would have been much -*higher if the legislature and the Governor had not agreed to restore millions of dollars in higher education budgets. "Our tuition increase is very reasonable and the bottom line is students will benefit from it," said Makin. "Your services will be better, and hopefully more class sections will be-' open with salaried faculty members teaching the subjects." Makin noted that the administration was pleased that they could bring the tuition rates in at six percent despite constant cuts to higher education. Bikers Against Child Abuse give presentation False alarm at library caused by preschooler y News writer When Thomas Dilworth volunteered to watch 4-year-old McKenna and her 2-year-old sister Chloe, he thought it would be easy and uneventful. But with McKenna's curiosity, it turned into an evacuation. Around 5 p.m. on April 6, the emergency system in the UVU library was activated after McKenna pulled a fire alarm on the second floor. Patrons were alerted that an emergency had been reported by flashing lights, loud sounds and a repeated warning to leave the building. "It's called bad babysitting," Dilsworth said. He had taken the girls with him to the library, where he was with friends working on creating a team for the Public Relations Student Society of America elections. The girls were running up and down a set of stairs when the fire alarm caught McKenna's attention. Dilsworth tried to notify library personnel that there was no emergency, but there was nothing that could be done by them. After campus police determined that the building was safe, the alerts were turned off and patrons were allowed back in. An officer spoke to McKenna, who was upset at the loud noises. He explained that pulling the alarm is the right thing to do if there is a fire, but that there were consequences when it was pulled unnecessarily. He then offered her a high five. McKenna declined to comment on the situation. I tuition increase of six percent was approved for the 2010-2011 school year by the Board of Regents at a meeting held at Snow College on April 1. The prospect of tuition increase has seemed inevitable, especially in the midst of major budget cuts and other roadblocks in the path of quality higher education. This month each school in the state of Utah was forced to raise tuition to compensate for lack of funding. "Every institution has a variety of pressures on its expenditures, and tuition increase is based on the institution's needs," said Executive Director of Planning and Budget Linda Makin. "We thought it was going to have to be somewhere between six and 10 percent." The first tier increase for the school year will be 1.5 percent, which translates into a 52 dollar increase. The second tier will raise tuition an additional 4.5 percent. Together the first and second tier increases mean an additional $208 a year for resident students. "The nice thing about the tuition increase is that all those dollars stay at UVU," said Makin. "Those dollars will be deployed as part of our budget allocations for the coming year and will be used to support student •3f. Bikers Against Child Abuse gave a presentation in the Student Center Grande Ballroom, as part of the Clothesline Project.' BACA spoke about the important work they are doing to protect children and end violence against them. BACA was founded in 1995 by John Paul "Chief Lilly, a licensed clinical social worker, registered play therapist/supervisor, and part-time faculty member at BYU, because he felt there was a need in the community to protect abused children and help with the cost of therapy. The goal of BACA is to have their presence known in an abused child's neighborhood. This presence is to help the child feel safer and to let the perpetrators know the child has been adopted by the bikers and has become one of their own. "I ride with BACA so I can help the children," said Roger Wise, a professor in the School of Education. "It's something that I have committed to do to help people who have been hurt, especially little kids." BACA brings the children stuffed animals and toys as well as a vest to let them know they are one of them. The bikers are there if the child needs them to feel safe - even if it means the bikers spend the night sleeping on the child's porch or going to court to be with the child while they testify against the perpetrator. "Our whole gig is to really empower children," said Joe Piche, the vice president of the Central Utah Chapter of BACA and a Behavior Science student. "If you ever have to work with a child and go to court with them and listen to them testify, and what it takes for them to TRENT BATES/ UVU Review BACA members attend the first day of The Clothesline Project on campus and explain their mission to students get strong enough to testify, so that you can watch them go back and be a kid again is one of the best feelings." The Clothesline Project is a violence awareness and prevention program sponsored by the Equity in Education, Turning Point, and Women's Resource centers at UVU. The pre- sentation was from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Clothesline Project is a display of t-shirts hung on a clothesline with messages from survivors of violence or from family members of victims of violent crime. It has been displayed twice a year since 1998. All the shirts were made by UVU students or community members. Between 80-100 new shirts are added each year, and there are more than 1000 shirts on display now. For more information on BACA visit www. bacausa.com. For more information on The Clothesline Project contact Jennie Briggs at 801-863-8498. Native Suns Club hosts Buffalo Dinner Scholarship Fund Raiser KJASONUDY News writer J The Native Suns Club held a Buffalo dinner scholarship fund raiser in the Presidential South Room of the Events Center the night of April 7. The money raised by the dinner will support the Native Suns Club Scholarship Fund. The fund is to assist Native American students who may not qualify for tribal scholarships or who may have emergency needs. "Basically what we try to do is keep all the Native students in school, that's our main goal; so they can get educated," said Billie Atsitty, vice president of the Native Suns Club. "I don't want them to say 'We don't have the money. We can't go "' The Native Suns Club Scholarship Fund has been able to assist at least 12 students over the past four years. "We use some of the money from the pow-wow and some of the money from this dinner to put into the emergency scholarship fund," said Ken Sekaquaptevva, academic advisor from the multicultural department for the Native Suns'Club. "We try to put in between $2000 and $2500 a year." "One of our students before; he was part of the automotive program and t somebody stole all of his tools," said Atsitty. "He was about to go home but he came to us and asked for our help." Dinner was prepared by the Culinary Arts Institute and consisted of traditional Native American food including Navajo blue corn tamales and fry bread as appetizers; creek peanut soup; Anishnaabeeg, or Ojibwe;wild rice dressing with cranberries; Siouxstyle ember-roasted buffalo dinner; and Navajo peach crisp with pinons for dessert. After dinner entertainment included dancing by the Native American Cultural Envoys, a hoop dance by Rachel Dickson and an Indian Flute performance by Bernard Atene among other performances. All of the performers were UVU students. See CLUB • A\ \ |