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Show VOLUME XXXIV • NO. XVIII WWW.NETXNEWS.NET MONDAY • FEBRUARY 6 • 2006 The Steel City versus The Coffee City in The Motor City A12 One student at a time Sederburg delivers State of the College address Tyson Peterson News Writer L Heaven for DVD p e give you the scoop on all the DVDs coming to stores this month. A9 Hats off to The Matador Putting Bond behind him, Pierce Brosnan plays an assassian on the skids in this deliciously dark comedy. AS ast Tuesday in the Ragan Theater, President William Sederburg presented his State of the College address. "The State is looking to UVSC for leadership," Sederburg said. "Since B YU has focused more nationally, UVSC has had to step up and meet the local demand for higher education." The State of the College address usually coincides with the State of the Union address. This prompted Sederburg to show an article saying that President Bush is expected to aim low, to which he said, "Here at UVSC we don't aim low we aim high." Sederburg focused on the status of UVSC, including accomplishments made while being under budget. He also addressed future goals for the college. According to Sederburg, UVSC is increasing student graduate participation in Utah. Seventy-six percent of UVSC graduates with a bachelor's degree stay in Utah and help in their communities. Additionally, thirty-five percent of UVSC graduates with a bachelor's earn more than forty thousand dollars a year. To continue this graduation rate, a Chad Clark/NetXNews UVSC president Bill Sederburg drives a point home last Tuesday during his annual State of the College address. Sederburg's speech focused on helping students succeed. He also announced a new e-mail for student questions, myuvsc@uvsc.edu. new library is in order. "We need a good quality library designed for the students of the future," Sederburg said. President Sederburg has four goals in his agenda for 2006. Which include, first of all, increasing the participation rate in higher education. Utah is fourth in the nation on its percentage of graduates from High School, but thirty-first on its graduates from college. UVSC needs to mobilize and improve retention one student at a time. "We can do better than thirty-first place," said Sederburg. Second, UVSC needs to increase public SeeSEDERBURG-A3 scare at LDS Institute Study abroad and study this broad .See the world and get f "college credit at the «;same time. Anything :1s possible with a credit card. : A4 Debate of the Union Right vs. Left squares off in a battle royale over George Bush's State of fhe Union address. Both sides agree it was better than that iame Ice Cube movie XXX: State of •!.-, the Union. A7 Veqor Pedersen/NetXNews UvSC police officers and members of Provo City's bomb squad prepare a bomb-disarming robot outside the LDS Orem Institute last Wednesday morning. A janitor in the building had found two devices that authorities say were made to look like bombs. The bomb squad determined that the device contained no explosive material and classes resumed. Examining the physics behind 9/11 BYU prof presents Controlled-Demolition Hypothesis r " ' - ' - • I-. ^ I*. / A U y j • Steven Covey, 4:00 pm, Ragan Theater • Turning Poinrs in History Lecture Series, 7:00pm, LA 101 I • Ambassador Pashayev, 10:00 am, LA 110 7 / • Vagina Monologues, 7:00 pm. Centre Stage • Echoes of American Slavery, 7:30 pm, Ragan Theater, thru Feb. 11 • Lunchtime Ethics Open Discussion, 11:30 am, LC243 • Chocolate Dreams concert, 7:30 pm Grande Ballroom Rep, Jim Matheson, 3:00 pm, LA101 I... Michael Palmer Assistant News Editor On Wednesday, February 1, the UVSC Ethics Center hosted BYU physics professor Stephen E. Jones, who delivered a presentation based on physics that challenges the official story the public has been given about 9/11. "The collapse of the World Trade Center buildings illustrate a strange convergence of physics, engineering, ethics and politics," said Ethics Center coordinator David Keller, noting the unlikelihood of inviting a physicist to an Ethics Center event. Jones' presentation outlined five major points: first, checking the physics of the World Trade Center collapse; second, challenging the EPA's judgment that the dust that encapsulated the area during and after the collapse was non-toxic and safe; third, questioning Osama bin Laden's involvement; fourth, whether or not some U.S. officials had foreknowledge of the event; and fifth, what Jones called "supporting the U.S. constitution now." Jones spoke to a full and attentive audience, with room CS 404 entirely filled, people standing in the aisles, as well as multiple overflow rooms that were watching the presentation through electronic transmission. He compared absorbing all of the information to "trying to get a drink of water from a fire hydrant." Jones, who has received emails from engineers and physicists across the country responding to his paper titled, "Why Indeed did the WTC Buildings Collapse?" is slowly gaining national notoriety for his views. He has recently had an editorial published in The Deseret News and news about the "9/11 truth seekers" has carried as far as The Miami Herald. "I'm not alone in complaining about this report," Jones said. "There are many engineers and scientists waking up to the facts." According to Jones, the purpose of his paper was to "present evidence for the controlled-demolition hypothesis, which is suggested by the available data, testable and falsifiable, and yet has not been analyzed in any of the reports funded by the U.S. government." A large portion of Jones' presentation See 9-11-A3 |