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Show NEWS Violence continued site estimates there are projects in 41 states and at least 5 countries. The project has been displayed on campus twice each year since 1998. On April 5-6, between 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the UVU Student Center Grand Ballroom, t-shirts made from former semesters will be displayed and supplies will be provided for people to make new shirts, which will be hung on a new line. The color of each shirt represents a different form of violence suffered — from death, survivors of incest, rape, childhood sexual abuse, emotional or verbal abuse and so forth. Timed sounds will play throughout the project as an auditory reminder of violence frequency in the U.S., according to statistics. The gong indicates a woman reporting being assaulted every 10 to 12 seconds, The whistle indicates someone being sexually assaulted every two minutes and the bell indicates the 3 to 4 women who are killed by their intimate partner each day. As a part of the Clothesline Project, Bikers Against Child Abuse, (B .A .0 .A.) , will give a presentation about who they are and what they're doing to help children feel safe after they have been violated. About 10 – 15 B.A.C.A. members will ride in and talk about their own personal reasons for riding with B .A.C.A. Near the end of their presentation, a ten minute movie will be played about these "keepers of the Children." The B.A.C.A. presentation will be held Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m. The Center for Women and Children in Crisis program specialist, Mina Uscharawadi is giving a presentation April 6 at Noon in the Ballroom on sexual assault awareness and healthy relationships. People will still be able to come and make shirts while presentations are taking place. Along with t-shirts, there will be three, 6-foot tables full of resources available for people to look at or freely take. Resources about what do to in violent relationship, red flags, what men can do to stop rape, elderly women's poetry of abuse, resource lists of related events having to do with sexual assault, rape and abuse will be available. "We try to have as much information as possible for people," Briggs said. If someone doesn't want to make a t-shirt but still voice his or her story, there will be a journal available to write in. "It's a sacred place for people to come and know that they're not alone." Briggs said. A3 Planting campus beauty Lyndi Boone/UVU Review Despite sporadic rain and snow, the campus grounds team is already making progress. The roundabout center ground will soon be blooming with flowers and other spring plants. By Danni Freeman News Writer There is a lot of work and planning that goes into making this campus beautiful. Sometimes it can be easy to overlook this fact, but as spring is coming back around it is hard not to appreciate the way it feels to walk past the blooming flowers and green trees. Talk of spring may still feel far off thanks to the continued snowstorms. However, the snowfall doesn't stop the grounds team. Under the direction of Jack Boswell this team is in full swing preparing the campus for the warming weather and graduation. They just laid fertilizer a couple weeks ago and finished replanting some of the dying flowers that didn't survive the weather. Campus didn't always have so many flowers. A couple years ago the plant life of choice was shrubs. These plants were very low maintenance, but did little to enhance the look of campus. The grounds team decided to replace these with flowers and draw more attention to the campus as cars were driving in. The kinds of flowers that are found around campus vary depending on the season. In the fall and winter months pansies take up the majority of the planting beds. However, after Mother's Day these will all be traded out for annual flowers in a process that takes the grounds team a week to accomplish. But well before this switch is made there is a lot of planning that must be done. Grounds specialists Vicki Marriott and Melissa BoltNorth are responsible for deciding which flowers will be planted and in which pattern. They are given a budget of $5,000 per year to be used over the course of the two seasons. The two main areas to be planted are the two roundabouts located around campus. Marriott and Bolt-North come up with a design and place out bids to local green- houses to grow these flowers. For Marriott this job brings a sense of satisfaction when it is noticed and appreciated by others. Many times she will be weeding the roundabout located at the top of campus and receive compliments from people as they drive by. Bolt-North said she feels as if the job has been a great experience that has taught her many things. She also likes the design element of the job as well. She gets to work with flowers in a way that comes together like art. Academic holds By Tom Larsen News Writer According to the school's academic standards, a student must achieve at least a 2.0 (C average) GPA in a semester in order to remain in good academic standings as well as be able to graduate. The Academic Standards Office is in charge of maintaining that standard and helping every student achieve it. When a student fails to meet the standard set by the school, the Academic Standards Office will put a hold on their record and the student is restricted from registering for classes. According to Amy Baird, a counselor for the Academic Standards Office, they are also dedicated to helping those who have fallen below the standard return to good records, and they will need to success probation workshop, academic standings with the complete a workshop online develop a plan of how they school. and meet with their academic will succeed in the future and "We view the holds not as advisor before the hold will meet with their academic advisor. a punitive thing that we are be removed. trying to punIf a student ish students is unable to get with," Baird their GPA above " We view [academic holds] said. "We 2.0, then they view it as an are put on conas an oppurtunity to help opportunity tinued academic [students] learn about the to help them probation and learn about the a hold is put on resources and meet with resources and their account. their adviser." meet with their A student adviser." in this situation - Amy Baird There are must meet with several differboth an academent holds that ic adviser and an a student might get depending If the problem persists and academic standards counselor on the severity of the situa- a student's cumulative and se- to make an academic success tion. If the student has a GPA mester GPA drop below a 2.0, plan before the hold can be below 2.0 in a semester but an academic probation hold removed. Also, since they are has a cumulative GPA above is placed on their account. To on continued academic proa 2.0, they are given a warn- remove this hold, the student bation, it is required to work ing. 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