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Show Your Life Are we still UVCC? A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Page B I . ...And executions for all, especially those pesky minors. Your Opinion starts on Page A4. Your Sports Spotlight on hardball firstbaseman Trent Perry. Page B8. UTAH VALLEY STATE THE COLLEGE TIMES EL BUEN PANQ EN EL ARCA VOLUME 33'ISSUE 2 7 ) MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2005 exclusive Up for debate Three teams square off in pre-election showdown said. She added that she would like want students to feel like it's [tuto up the college's visibility by en- toring] bad." Your News Editor couraging local businesses to place "In addition to needing more ould-be student govern- UVSC flags in their windows. "We money for these services, they need volunteers and people," Pement executives battled need more of them." it out during a debate last "It's a good idea," said Paul terson said. "That would diminish some of the costs and Wednesday. Tippets, Team Effect's provide more service The three teams made their pitches choice for student body You can vote opportunities." for better student government and president, "but you have starting today at Team Focus, capvolleyed back and forth ideas in to look at the root at what any OnAccess tained by Jared Sumfront of a near capacity crowd in develops pride in stuterminal on sion, want to jump the center stage area of the student dents. I don't think that campus. start the process of simply buying a shirt decenter. Elections close bringing a football The debate was moderated by the velops pride." Wed. at 7 p.m. team to campus. Improvement in tutorCollege Times' own Vegor Peder"There are ways to ing is on Team Effect's sen. do this; this is something students Platform ideas and differences platform. "Our academics need to were highlighted in the hour-long mature so that we can accomplish want," Sumsion said. university status," Tippets said. His opponents didn't share his event. "With academic tutoring we want vision, however. "I love football," Team One, led by Presidential to expand their services." Peterson said, "but we have a hard candidate Happy Peterson would Jared Sumsion, the Team Focus enough time bringing people to like to see UVSC logo-bearing gear go down in price. "We don't see candidate for student body presi- basketball games." Paul Tippets enough UVSC [clothes],1' Peterson dent, took issue with the way Team said he didn't think the school was Effect wrote out that plank of their ready to start a football program. platform. "It's a good platform "A football program is vital for Paul Tippets of Team Effect item. I just think it is worded inspeaks out during last week's "Debates" cont d on page A3 correctly," Sumsion said. "I don't Student Government debate. Shawn Mansell W Panel debates merits of pageants What does the future hold for the Miss UVSC Pageant? Senator Hatch holds Q & A with students Moroni Maldonado Errin Julkunen News Writer Editor at Large Utah senator Orrin Hatch spoke in front of local leaders and UVSC students this past Wednesday at UVSC's Centre Stage. Senator Hatch opened the time for questions about any issue that the audience had. The senator did not want to make a formal speech, and opened the meeting for questions from the audience. The question of how the Iraqi people are embracing a political structure that resembles the United States' was presented. The senator replied that the Iraqi people have gone out and risked their lives to vote. He feels that this shows they are taking a step toward hav- In conjunction with Homecoming Week festivities, the Center for the Study of Ethics and the Homecoming Committee sponsored a panel discussion on the merit of the Miss UVSC pageant. Presenting were Phil Clegg, Director of Student Leadership and Activities, Carly Tooke, Miss UVSC 2004, Marlene Neptune, President of UVSC's Black Student Union, and Laura Hamblin, Assistant Professor in the English Department. The discussion was moderated by William Cobb, Dean, School ofHASS. The panel was split in Steve Lundquist/NetXNews their support for the pag- Phil Clegg explains why he thinks the Miss UVSC Pageant is a good tradition. His fellow eant. Clegg offered that the panelists (left to right) were Carly Tooke, Marlene Neptune and Professor Laura Hamblin. Miss UVSC pageant offered The pageant has been a fixture on campus since 1980. a "unique opportunity" for the young women involved, Competitors are required to Neptune also offered that it plying and contorting themespecially since there is a maintain a 3.0 grade point av- was important to be more in- selves to fit the male ideal of "lack of programming for erage, and Clegg offered that clusive, which is why the in- beauty. young women." UVSC is one the 2005 competitors had an ternational pageant includes The audience had numerof three state schools in Utah average GPA of 3.39. males, is named Ms. UVSC ous questions for the panelthat still participates in the Tooke says she started enter- International, and invites ists. Many audience members Miss America pageant pro- ing pageants when she was 18 participation from non-tradi- were concerned with UVSC's gram, among Southern Utah because she saw a "need for tional students as well. alliance with the Miss AmeriUniversity and Dixie State community service." Tooke's Hamblin presented what ca pageant. College. platform has been teaching she referred to as the "femi"We're not overcoming this The Miss UVSC pageant children about mental illness. nist" perspective on beauty general trend we see in sofollows the guidelines of the The National Alliance for the pageants. She stated that ciety, which is objectifying Miss America pageant. The Mentally 111 (NAMI) has in- pageants show that the ideal women," said Ryan Grover, a scoring system places 40 per- corporated some of her work woman comes from "ideal senior in the Philosophy procent of the score on interview, into their national training conformity," requiring com- gram. 30 percent on talent, while program. petitors to be "something Lisa Lambert, Assistant swimsuit (physical fitness), Neptune, organizer of the other than herself." Dean in the School of Genevening wear and onstage in- recent Mr. and Ms. UVSC InHamblin agreed with Nep- eral Academics said, "UVSC terview each make up 10 per- ternational pageant, criticizes tune, saying that the pageant ought to get out of the busicent of the total score. the Miss UVSC pageant for was too exclusive. She was ness of pageants. There are Winners are presented with being exclusive, offering that also concerned with who the other opportunities for people scholarships, and act as a li- many international students judges were, continuing to to join pageants. That's not aison for the school, working do not fit the traditional mold offer that the "gaze was the our purpose. Our purpose is very closely with the Student of what pageants consider male gaze." She also noted teaching and learning." Government organization. beautiful. the history of women com- Steve Lundquist/NetXNews Sen. Orrin Hatch ing a representative government such as our own. Iraq has become an example for neighboring countries which are under different styles of governments. Demonstrating "Hatch' com d on page A2 Mormon Studies Conference explores the LDS experience ligious Studies program put on the conference. "But MorEditor-in-Chief monism tells us that this diviStudents, scholars, and those sion of society into separate interested in the concept of classes is wrong. This conferan evolving LDS Church ence explores the themes of converged on UVSC campus how Mormon theology deals last week during the Mormon with this injustice." Studies Conference. Lecturers of the conference The two-day event, now in spoke on a variety of topics its fifth year, featured speak- from gender inequities and ers from a diverse spectrum racial issues to the environof Mormon thought. This ment. The general attitude year's theme was "All Are from most speakers was that Alike Unto God: Mormonism the church as a whole is a and Social Justice." noble institution, but some "The current political system important issues are in need is one in which some have a of being addressed. lot of wealth and power and Despite the goodwill that others do not," said Dennis many participants felt, there Potter, who along with Brian "Mormon cont d on page A2 Birch and the school's Re- Vegor Pedersen |