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Show Thanksgiving.. Utah Valley University//uvureview.com UVU REVIEW NOVEMBER 25, 2013 LV.XIII THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE Trojan ranks UVU's sex health 11th worst in US Who are you making money for? By Isaac Gustafson Columnist @IsaacGustafson PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY LAURA FOX//UVU REVIEW Trojan's annual study ranks the sexual health information provided by Utah Valley institutions in the bottom 11 compared to other universities By KresLynn Knouse Assistant News Editor @KresLynn Trojan's annual sexual health study ranked UVU at 130 out of 140 with BYU taking the bottom slot. Universities across the nation were just delivered their annual sexual health report card for the eighth year in a row - and once again, UVU has some room for improvement. The Trojan Sexual Health Report Card is a study conducted by Sperling's BestPlaces that ranks universities based on the sexual health resources and information offered on campus. Researchers interviewed 140 university student health centers and ranked them based on their own criteria. Although the study does not measure the sexual health of the students, it does provide a comparative analysis of the information being offered at student health centers across America. UVU ranked 130 out of 140 universities, moving ahead only one spot from the previous year. "Our research showed that all participating schools have a good basic level of care offered by their student health centers," Bert Sperling, founder of Sperling's BestPlaces said. "However, the top universities do a better job of giving information to students and making that information available. For example, UVU does not provide Plan B, but other universities offer it for free to their students." The top three ranking universities were Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Arizona. These universities had unique sexual health programs such as "Sex Week at Yale," a sex column in the college newspaper, and websites that offered facts about contraceptives and STIs. Coming in last place is yet another Utah Valley institution: BYU. The Trojan Report Card clearly illustrates the disparity in sexual health information offered by different universities. Trojan Sexual Health Ranking National rankings of University sexual health with 1 being the best: #1 #54 #104 Princeton University University of Utah Utah State University #130 Utah Valley University #140 Brigham Young University For more information visit www.TrojanCondoms.com HEALTH A4 Prominent Evangelical leader reaches out to Mormons at UVU Christianity's theological similarities and differences are discussed in an open forum By Sean Stoker Reporter @SeanStoker7 On Friday November 15, Dr. Richard J. Mouw, President Emeritus of Fuller Theological Seminary visited the Orem Institute of Religion to discuss the need for interfaith dialogue. The theologian enjoyed a warm reception from some of the community's most prominent religious and scholarly leaders. President Matthew S. Holland was in attendance as well as Elder L. Whitney Clayton and Elder Steven J. Lund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Pastor Greg Johnson of Standing Together Ministries, Blair Van Dyke, advisor of the institute's PHOTO COUTESY OF URBANCHRISTIANNEWS.COM interfaith committee and hundreds of students Dr. Richard J. Mouw reaches out to Mormons. and spectators. The event was organized by the Orem Institute hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to popular to do so. 'Stand up for what you believe! of Religion to give Mouw an opportunity to speak every man that asketh you a reason of the hope Don't be afraid!' Seldom though, did we go on to on the subject of cooperation and unity between that is in you with meekness and fear." quote the next part, 'But do so with gentleness and Evangelical Christians and Mormons. "I was brought up on that verse," Mouw said. reverence.' Dr. Mouw opened his remarks by reading from "We Evangelicals are brought up being told that This was a prominent theme throughout Dr. first Peter, chapter eight, emphasizing verse 15, anytime, anywhere, we had to be willing to witwhich reads, "But sanctify the Lord God in your ness to the power of the Gospel, even if it was un- EVANGELICAL A5 It's easy to feel trapped in a job when you have bills to pay. From cell service to tuition, medical bills to a mortgage, we all have something we have to pay for. So how do you make your money? For most of us we work 20-40 hours for someone else and then wait for a paycheck every other week. Your paycheck may suck or maybe it's great, but either way you are probably making money for somebody else. For about six years I have worked as an IT consultant. This means that I fix the computers for small companies that don't need or cannot afford a full-time employee to do that job. I have a lot of freedom in my work, and the pay has allowed my family to do a lot of great things. Yet I still know for every dollar I take home my boss is making two or three. So do I rush out and demand a raise? No. The only way I can change the situation is by building my own business where my work translates into my profit. If any of us walked away from our jobs tomorrow, we likely wouldn't be able to put food on the table very far beyond our last paycheck. So don't walk away from your job tomorrow. We can all tell stories about how Uncle Rick quit his job to start his dream business and after two years of putting his family through all sorts of misery and depleting his 401k, finally declared bankruptcy. How about your cousin Stacy who makes the best pies. She had a really cute shop and the pie was delicious, but no one came. Stories of entrepreneurs failing are so common that we often view anyone who is starting a new business as a little bit crazy. What if instead you built a thriving business long before you ever left behind a steady paycheck? Let's say you make a decent living making $20 an hour working as a midlevel manager somewhere. How much do you have to make in your new business to be able to leave your job. The answer is probably not $20 an hour. If you really scrimp and start watching lots of Extreme Couponing, maybe you can survive on $10 or $15. Great you just learned how to live on a tighter budget. But let's back up a step. The reason we need to know this is to find out at what point you can cut the cord and leave your job. If you needed another $200 this month and you couldn't get it from your current job what would you do? Do you have a skill, a talent, a product? Who would you call? Who would you sell it to? If you don't think you could, you are lying to yourself. You do have what is needed to make a little bit of extra cash on the side. Whether its baking bread, selling stuff on eBay or teaching piano lessons, almost everyone has some way to make extra cash. These activities allow you to really start changing your focus to make money for yourself. Maybe you have an idea for a business and that's great. If not, start with those talents and abilities that can make you a few extra dollars per month. As you discover what you really want to do you can leverage the connections you have already made. You invite your piano students to the opening of your restaurant, for example. Those people who love your bread might enjoy your new clothing line. At the same time you don't have to get rid of those side projects. The money you make there gives you a runway to build up speed. You don't have to go bankrupt in your new business because you have money coming in from everything you built before. As you build a business you are not just creating a new way to get a paycheck. The hours you put into your business make you money. The hours your employees will put in make you money. You are building the freedom that comes when you control where that money is going to come from, not just today but tomorrow, next month and even next year. |