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Show A4 News Monday • April 13, 2009 News Briefs Campus news UVU ENTREPRENUERIAL CONFERENCE, APRIL 17 My Word! Release party for Touchstones Journal at 7 p.m. in Centre Stage. Apr 12: Celebrate National Library Week from noon to 2 p.m. at the Library Patio. Entrepreneurship conference will be all day in the Student Center. For more information, visit www.uvu.edu/entrepr eneurs J Arthur Laffer, creater of Reaganomics, will speak at noon in the Shurian Activity Center. r UVU LIBRARY RECOGNIZED BY ALA Easter UVU Men's Soccer tryouts at 6-8 p.m. infield behind Education Building. Baseball vs. Dallas Baptist at 6 p.m. in Brent Brown Ballpark. V MILLIONAIRE from* A1 group of people, 45 are chosen to take a ten-minute timed test. Only eight people from my group passed the written test and two went on to get video taped." One month after her test, she received a post card in the mail and then a phone call asking her to be in New York to be on the game show. Young said the hardest part was that they had changed the rules of the game between the time she tried out and the time she taped the show to only allow the contestants to have fifteen seconds to answer each question. "If I would have known that I was going to be timed, I really don't know if I would have tried out," she said. Another difficult obstacle was the fact that she had won $16,000 and could • Jay Abraham, founder and CEO of Abraham Inc., will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Entrepreneurial Business Conference, "Profit in Bad Times" Friday, April 17 in the Sorensen Student Center. He has proven he can help companies make money in a time of recession. "Jay has been the most profound and popular speaker at many great business conferences and his ability to get to the heart of a problem and find a solution is quite uncanny," UVU entrepreneur in residence Mark Stoddard said. The conference begins with a networking breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, and will continue with Abraham's keynote address followed by four tracks featuring 14 entrepreneur and business experts that will speak on various business subjects before concluding at 5 p.m. This conference is for business leaders, new and expanding business owners, and key employees to get the latest information, skills and best practices that can help a business survive and prosper in a recession. Tuition for the event for pre-registered participants is $195 plus an additional $20 registration fee, while tuition for walk-ups is $195 plus an additional $40 registration fee. Included in the fees are breakfast, lunch, one-on-one with speakers, parking and a full program. Additional details and registration is available online at www. uvu.edu/entrepreneurs, not talk about it with her five children or ten grandchildren for the six-month period between the show taping and airing. However, she was able to discuss the episode with her husband who accompanied her to New York and was an audience member at the taping. Young is no stranger to game shows, prior to her appearance on "Millionaire," she was also a contestant on "Password" and "$25,000 Pyramid" during the late seventies and early eighties. • The American Library Association's magazine "American Ubraries"is featuring the Digital Learning Center, UVU's state-ofthe-art library, in its April edition. The UVU Library will be part of the ALA's Library Design Showcase, which will appear in the magazine, and also in the American Libraries Digital Supplement, which will be e-mailed to all ALA members nationwide this month. "The UVU Library is designed to foster the intellectual, technical and cultural growth of students," said Michael Freeman, UVU's library director. "That scholarship develops engaged and responsible students, who then translate their education into impacting their world and communities and turning them into better places to live and work." The Digital Learning Center, completed less than a year ago, was the first building in the state to be constructed under Utah's High Performance Building program, part of a goal set by Governor Jon Huntsman to improve the state's energy efficiency by 20 percent by 2015. Gov. Huntsman said UVU's library, as the first building completed under this rating system and the "greenest" state funded building in Utah, sets a template for other buildings to follow and will save nearly $100,000 per year in utility costs. The Digital Learning Center is highly energy efficient and utilizes the latest technology in soiar control glazing, high efficiency lighting and cooling, solar harvesting devices on the south and west sides {to control heat penetration while taking advantage of natural light), air-side economizers and heat rejection to the campus heating loop for computer room air conditioning units, ultra high efficiency ballasts and lamps with daylight switching and occupancy sensors, and light-colored roofing to reduce building heat load and urban heat island. The building also takes advantage of the geothermal wells the campus has already been using by transferring heat in and out of the building through aquifers under the campus. For more information on the UVU Digital Learning Center, visit the Library's web page at http://www.uvu.edu/library/newjibrary. html STUDENT ART AT UVU W00DBURY ART MUSEUM Benefit comedy night with Boys and Girls Club • P U B L I C SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Comedy Sportz is collaborating with the Boys and Girls Club of Utah • County for a one-night comedy benefit. The event will be at Comedy Sportz in Provo, April 22 beginning at 8 p.m. ; "The Comedy Sportz benefit night : .is a great opportunity for everyone to • support the Boys & Girls Clubs while enjoying great company and fabulous ; comedy," said David Bayles, executive director of the club. The Boys and Girls Club is a nonprofit organization that provides an after-school program for youth between ages 6-18 years old. Because the club is a non-profit organization, it relies heavily on donations and volunteers from the community. "Helping kids is really important and any way to help kids have a safe place to go is something we want to support," said Tonia Doussett, owner of Comedy Sportz. Comedy Sportz is an interactive improvisation comedy show where two teams of comedians compete in a series of games. The show is appropriate for all ages. The company has taken an active role in helping out the community in the tough economic times. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at www.comedysportzutah.com or at the door. Ail proceeds from the event will be donated to the Boys and Girls Club. To see UVTJ r Review staff info go. to uvureview.com Want more drama in your life? Join the newsroom! Skilled at hoops? Come play against the best players in the school at the newsroom! • The Woodbury Art Museum's annual Student Art Show opened on April 3 to the public. This competitive exhibition, open to all Utah Valley University students of any major or study emphasis, provides a professional level opportunity for showcasing student artwork. As a juried competition for both inclusion and awards, this exhibit show'cases not only the variety, but also the high quality of artwork being produced at UVU. Noted artist Gary Barton, associate professor of visual arts at BYU, served as the outside judge for this year's show. The exhibit dates are April 3 - May I and it runs concurrently with the "Selections of the Permanent Collection" exhibit. The museum is open Monday- Friday. 11 a.m.- 7p.m. weekdays and is free to the public. It is closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. For more information, contact the Woodbury Art Museum at (801) 863-6200 or visit http://www.uvu.edu/museum UVU CHEER WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP • Utah Valley University's Cheer Squad earned its first-ever national championship by winning the United Spirit Association collegiate cheerleading competition held March 29-30 in Anaheim, Calif. "UVU cheer is now a recognizable name on the national level," said Carly Condie, coordinator of the UVU Cheer Squad. "Other four-year Universities are aware of us, and I only hope that brings more students to UVU." Each team performed routines showcasing all of the cheer, skills fans typically see at games: stunting, pyramids, jumps, tumbling, dancing and encouraging the crowd. Each performance lasted 2 minutes and 15 seconds. "It goes to show that this program is heading in the right direction," Condie said. "I am very proud of their dedication to representing UVU so well." National Autonomous University of Mexico finished second behind UVU and New Mexico State University finished third at the event. Cal State Northridge, Loyola Marymount University, Boise State University, UC Santa Cruz, Northern Kentucky University, Long Beach State University and USC also competed in UVU's division. United Spirit Association is one of the three recognized entities to award a cheerleading national championship. The University of Kentucky won the Universal Cheerleading Association national championship help in January in Orlando, Fla., while the National Cheerleaders Association will crown its national champion in Daytona Beach, Fla., later this month. Scholarships available, only for quali- Meetings are on Mondays at 4 p.m. in SC105. Live it. Read it. Positions available WRITERS, DESIGNERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS Distributor Apply in SC220 |