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Show News Monday • February 9, 2009 Get Involved! Events Cak A New Presidency: A Turning Point In History - A panel discussion will be held in the Library Auditorium (LI. 120) at 11:15a.m. Sunday ftHUH Tuesday Monday 4 , 3 2 1 5 Saturday Friday Thursday Wednesday Vp O LJ O 7 6 A5 News Briefs Campus news INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED DR. TEMPLE GRANDIN TO SPEAK ON AUTISM • Dr. Temple Grandin, 8 10 , 9 IT 19 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour - The Outdoor Adventure Center will be showing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour at 7 p.m. in the Ragan Theatre. Tickets are S9 for one night or S16 for both and canbe purchased at the Outdoor Adventure Center. 14 13 . ie-si; • • 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Career Options Events - Students will be able to meet professionals who have translated the skills they have acquired while pursuing degrees in programs like English or Dance into more traditional areas. The event will be held in various locations in the Library starting at 10:00 a.m. a leading animal behaviorist, designer of livestock handling facilities and leading advocate for autistic people, will be speaking on autism and animal behavior in a two-part symposium series Thursday, Feb. 12 at the UVU Sorensen Student Center.The first of the two lectures, titled "Autism, Animal Behavior and Design," will take place from noon to 12:50 p.m. on Center Stage in the Sorensen Student Center. The second, titled "Living with Autism," will be held later that evening from 7-8 p.m. at the same location. Both events are free and open to the public. •'UVU is very pleased to welcome Dr. Temple Grandin," said Dr. Daniel Fairbanks, UVU professor and associate dean of the College of Science & Health. "As someone who has personally struggled with the limitations of autism to become a professor at a prestigious university, she is a tremendous inspiration to the community of people with autism." Dr. Grandin is currently a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She is also autistic, and has published two books on the subject including "Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior." Dr. Grandin's professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have made her perhaps the single most influential person in her field in terms of how animals are treated in the North American livestockindustry. BANNER AND UVLINK UNAVAILABILITY • BanSpeaker Sam Cardon - Emmy Award-winning composer Sam Cardon will be speaking to students from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Library Lecture Hallas part of the Career Options Event. Banner and UV Link Downtime. German Club Free Movie - The German Club will present DER HIMMEL LIBER BERLIN, a film by Wim Wenders with English subtitles from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in SC 206 G. Free popcorn will be provided. Culinary Arts Institute Sweetheart Dinner--The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by a fivecourse fine dining experience at 7 p.m. This Is a student-run fundraising event in conjunction with the Food and Care Coalition of Prove For reservations contact Connie Bullock at 863-6810. UVU Wrestiling v. Wyoming Cowboys -The event will take place in the Shurian Family Activity Center at A p.m. Free with MAWL membership and $2 without. International Dance -The dance will be held in SC 213A from 8:30 to 11 p.m. UVU STUDENT TO SPEAK ABOUT RECEIVING UTAH'S PR STUDENT OF THE YEAR AWARD • The i For more information about campus events visit www.uvu.edu/calendar J a n . 27 • MEDICAL • A 59-year-old female tripped over a large chunk of ice in parking lot "V" and struck her head on the asphalt. The woman was transported by ambulance to a local hospital for further treatment. ner, UVLink and related services will be unavailable from 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11 to 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17. This downtime is needed to perform a major upgrade to these systems. During this upgrade the following systems and services will down: Banner and UVLink which includes admissions, registration and student records, financial aid and scholarships, employee and financial records, personal information changes such as passwords and PINs, reports and processes and UVLink email. Other systems which rely on Banner data or UVLink for authentication may also be affected. Blackboard will be available during this time through direct links from the UVlink login page. Questions or concerns about this upgrade should be directed to it@uvu.edu. UVU Public Relations Association (PRA) has invited UVU's own Britnee Nguyen to speak Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m. in CS 401. Nguyen is the winner of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) - Greater Salt Lake Chapter's Public Relations Student of the Year. She was chosen out of more than 40 applicants. She will be discussing her experience from the preparation to the live day-long competition in front of Salt Lake City's PR firm directors. Nguyen is a UVU student majoring in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations. To learn more about UVU PRA and to sign up for updates go to www.uvupra.wordpress.com J a n . 28 • MEDICAL e A 29-year-old transient male fell ill with flu-like symptoms at the Digital Learning Center. He was transported by ambulance at his request and taken to a local hospital. Photo courtesy of Mark Johnston ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION PARKING SCHOOL BUILDING • In celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday celebration, Provo city is holding a special event on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Provo City Library's Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public. The keynote speaker will be Matt Holland, assistant professor of political science at BYU. Readings will also be given by Utah County public officials and musical numbers by Gesilson and the Mapleton Chorale. Displays of rare Lincoln documents will be shown as well as a local Lincoln look-alike. National news myspace a place for friends Flickr.com MYSPACE GETS RID OF SEX OFFENDERS • The social networking site has deleted the MySpace accounts of nearly 90,000 registered sex offenders in response to a subpoena. Last year, the parent company of MySpace, News Corporation, agreed to set stricter security standards after the site was criticized by two state attorneys for not doing a good enough job in protecting minors from child sexual predators. However, according to MSNBC, the figure is 40,000 more than the list of registered sex offenders submitted by MySpace to authorities last year, To see UVU Review staff info go to uvureview.com Get invited to Jennie's wedding, join the newsroom! Want friends on Friday night? Join the news crew! Are you fast on a scooter? Break the record at the newsroom! Scholarships available, only for qualified applicants. We do discriminate. Meetings are on Mondays at 4 p.m. in SC105. Be there or be square. 1 V RINGLING BROS. FACE CRUELTY ALLEGATIONS • Animal rights activists have charged Ringling Brothers allegations of the trainers chaining elephants together for nearly seventy hours at a time and abuse them with long, hooked pole. The circus giant has denied the allegations saying that it has never been cited for animal cruelty. Michelle Pardo, a lawyer for Ringling Brothers also noted that the elephants are healthy and alert and that the circus regularly passes their federal, state, and local inspections. |