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Show liege lime/ Ihe The independent voice of students at Utah Valley State We take a look at the news of the day and the Jacko-Meter doesn't lie! We also look at the evils of NAFTA. Plenty of your pithy comments too. Opinions starts on A6. UVSC and the McKay Events Center welcomes a Chris Farley Film Tribute to campus. Life begins on Bl. 1*1 I i1 a t i ai I1 ? ^fsSiJSJ22»ll «s i. S Having a bad hair day The Good/ The Bad, and The Ugly Finally, a funny Parleyl Ii VOLUME XXXIV* NO. IX WWW.NETXNEWS.NET MONDAY •OCTOBER 3*2005 P 3 .*s i "| 1 §1 r Real Salt Lake's innaugral season hasn't gone exactly to plan. Sports comes your way on B4. S ! i 1 :> I if ' i Grant money makes camp radio station a possibility ByJohnDitzler VOLUME load streaming programming to their iPods to listen at their convenience. Executive Editor Phase two involves hiring an external he UVSC Radio Club Faculty research consultant to find and assess has secured a Perkins Grant to any available frequencies and possible further the club's goal of attain- locations for a radio tower. Wisland has already found a consulting firm he ing a radio frequency for the campus. thinks could serve the club's interests Radio Club advisor Mike Wisland wrote the grant proposal and said it best. "If you go up and down the FM dial will help cover the costs of a threephased plan he and the Radio Club there aren't really any gaps or blank have outlined for making a campus stations," Wisland said. "This area along the Wasatch front is one of the radio station a reality. "Phase one of the club's drive to most crowded FM spectrums in the gain on campus radio is purchasing a nation." streaming server computer so we can FM radio stations are always odd podcast," Wisland said. So although numbered. Each station that broadthis would not include a radio fre- casts also uses one frequency on eiquency broadcast which students and ther side as a buffer to guard against community members could listen to one frequency interfering with anon their radios, people could down- other broadcasting frequency. So for T instance if 103.5 is taken, as it is by KRSP, 103.3 and 103.7 are taken as well. These buffer frequencies are called guardbands. A prospective radio station can only use an already used frequency or guardband if their transmitter is far enough away from the transmitter in question as to not cause interference. Wisland hopes an outside research consultant can help UVSC understand better which frequencies are available and where. In addition they would be instrumental in walking UVSC through the licensing process. Phase three tackles the licensing process with the FCC once a suitable frequency and transmitter location is found. "That licensing process can be A student's return to civilian life Jon Long News Writer In February of 2004, a solider returns home from an 11-month stay in Iraq to find himself immersed back in the Utah Valley community that is, in part, Utah Valley State. After six years of service in the Utah National Guard, Specialist Conan Heimdal decided to head for Iraq right before his enlistment was up. Deployed on March 4, 20Q3, he and his unit didn't know where they were being sent. "It was not until about a week before that we knew we were heading for the Middle East," Conan said. Believing in the War on Terrorism from the start, his views changed even more once he reached Courtesy Photo/Conan Heimdal Iraq. "Once I saw what was go- UVSC student Conan Heimdal says he found this picture on Sadam Hussein's desk. ing on, politics were out the window. It became very When asked what the bigpersonal for me, and I knew gest shift in American senthat I needed to be here to "Once I saw what was going on [in Iraq], politics were timent was, he responded do whatever I could to help out the window. It became very personal for me, and plainly that it was our resolve, and that it was disapAdjustment has not been an I knew that I needed to be here to do whatever I could pointing to see the measure entirely easy thing; he talked to help" of that resolve so short lived. about "dodging a McDonThrough his experience as a ald's bag that rolled across military information specialthe highway," because for Specialist Conan Heimdal ist he saw what he perceived a second the thought that it as the potential role model could be a bomb ran through Utah National Gaurd/UVSC Student for democracy in the Middle his head. He still remembers East; that Iraq, if handled in how it scared his wife who the right way, could sway the was riding with him at the back a year and a half, his slowed and he has finished resolve for more democratime. new life is setting in-a new his service in the Utah Na- cies in the Middle East. But Such small facts of life life of being home with his tional Guard, Conan has been if left untended, he feels that, seem to have changed for him family and readjusting to life pursing a degree at Utah Val- the country could plunge into after he related what used to in Utah. ley State in History, with a civil war and be replaced be a daily threat on routine A large change after return- plans for pursuing a doctoral by another regime that could support or be run by United drives through RPG alley, or ing was the pace of home life degree in political science. the stretch of highway from compared to the fast lane life In his off time, Conan helped States'enemies. the green zone, area of Bagh- he had been living. While on set up a program called "OpAmong Heimdal's condad that was secured by the duty in Iraq, Conan had been eration Give," a program that cerns, he was disappointed military, to the international used to working 20-hour provides medical and school that U.S. citizens didn't get airport, where convoys were days, 7 days a week, not to supplies as well as toys for to see the positive efforts bebeing hit everyday by insur- mention living in the midst children. "It's the one thing cause "it doesn't sell papers gents. of war. that helped keep me sane as well as gloom and doom." Although Heimdal has been But now that the pace has while I was over there." News Desk (801) 863-8617 .. Visit us online at www.netxnews.net See RADIO - A 2 Student Soapbox Student Government hopes new program will give students a voice. Jon Long for out-of-state students, the controversy surrounding the math department, all the way The student government is to oral hygiene, health insurlooking for a voice-a voice ance for students, and the to take to the school admin- need for a story telling hour istration and state legisla- at UVSC. ture to speak of the concerns One of the biggest concerns and issues facing students at was the apathy that seems to UVSC today. plague the school. Some stuIn the spirit of democracy, dents felt that there is a genthe Student Government of eral discontent, almost a high UVSC has elected to bring school mentality that looms their ears to the voices of the in the halls. students. The second MonPatrick Kelly, a senior maday of each month will be joring in aviation, and the dedicated to what student school Senator for Technolgovernment calls the "Stu- ogy and Computing, mendent Soapbox," located in tioned that although a lot of the hallway by the bookstore signs have dropped the "C" at noon. in UVSC, making it UVS, The name might change students do not feel that the eventually, but the concept school is progressing toward and focus will remain the becoming a university. same. This will be an opporBut as Patrick put it, "when tunity for students to get up we get a whole lot of student and voice their opinions in an backing us, things usually get open forum. done pretty fast, and when The panel will be populated they give us their concerns with the six senators and the we address them." Vice President of AcademThe real concern stressed ics, Ashley Rutgers, who is by both Ashley and Patrick also in charge of the Soap- was student involvement. box and one of the founders Students are willing to voice of the idea. their concerns when they "I know most students are come face to face with somenot going to come and talk to one they think will listen, but us in the office, so the idea is are reluctant to come forward to get them involved by brin- to address them on their own. ing the students a platform It was felt that some of the from which they can speak." students don't necessarily The Soapbox hopefully will take the time to understand encourage students to stand the critical issues facing the up and let the student gov- school. ernment, as well as fellow Although the student govstudents, hear and learn about ernment is leaning toward a some of the issues facing the discussion of academic isschool and students. sues, they say all viewpoints Some of the topics covered are welcome to be heard, and in the first Soapbox discus- will have a place to be voiced sion ranged from concern for in front of the senators repcosts at the food court, cost resenting the school on the increase in parking, tuition behalf of the students. 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