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Show liege lime/ (he The independent voice of students at Utah Valley State Jtnh Vallp.v State MONDAY^NOVEMBER 21 '2005 Ballroom Dance ^^^ WWW.NETXNEWS.NET VOLUME X X X I V NO. XIV Thoughts on Thanksgiving Wolverine Wisdom This weeks faculty corner features Thanksgiving thoughts See what Wolverine has to say about the Women's Basketball season and a from Assistant Professor of Chemistry Mathew Horn. Ronnie Price update on page A10. Turn to A4. The UVSC Ballroom Dance Company will showcase their competition pieces at their Winter Concert. To read more see page A7. Breaking the HAIN Former Miss America and incest survivor speaks on ways to stop sexual abuse ErrinJulkunen News Editor "I was 53 years old before I was able to utter the ugliest six-letter word there is: incest." Marilyn Van Derbur started her speech at UVSC with these powerful words. Van Derbur, Miss America of 1958, has been a motivational speaker for years, and has recently taken her career to helping stop the silence surrounding incest and sexual abuse. Van Derbur, like other survivors of childhood sexual trauma, dealt with her abuse, which lasted from age five to 18, by dissociating. She "split" so that she would be able to accommodate the traumatic experience. Much of her life was dedicated to excelling in the things that she did, to compensate for the pain she was dealing with. "Incest has colored every aspect of my life," Van Derbur said. It started to affect her most when she married. "For 13 years, 1 had tried not to feel anything. Now I had to learn to trust, to be able to give and accept." Van Derbur battled psychological and physical trauma in her late thirties as she tried to cope with the affects of incest. She shared stories of outside influences affecting her profoundly, including when her daughter turned fiVe, the age Van Derbur was when the abuse started. After starting therapy, Van Derbur confronted her father. Van Derbur said that he told her that had he known what it would do to her, he would not have done it. He brought a gun to the confrontation, keeping Van Derbur "not in fear, but in terror." Van Derbur said that he was very forcefully letting her know the potential consequences she would face if she exposed him. Van Derbur found out later that her father had sexu- ABUSE See ABUSE*A2 How the media distorts body image Emily Bitton Through electronically altering or airbrushing magaNews Writer zine photos, models look The media wants American perfect. Publishers of magawomen and men to feel inse- zines spend three to four cure about their bodies. Ni- months perfecting one phocole Hopkins, Ph.D., from the to. Electronically altering Center For Change in Orem, photos allow publishers to came to UVSC Wednesday take inches off the bodies of Nov. 16 to speak on body im- models, making them look thinner. age and the media. What is on the cover of Actresses have sued magbeauty magazines is a lie. azine publishers for using Hopkins told students to bodies other than their own question what the media por- as a replacement. These actrays as beautiful. The body tresses have lost because the images on magazine covers, publishers have claimed that movies and television shows See BODY IMAGE-A2 are often not real. Chad Clark/NetXNews LDS Filmmaker Richard Dutcher spoke ro students at UVSC last week. Dutcher speaks on the genre he created States of Grace was released this month to major theaters Assistant News Editor throughout Utah, receiving On Monday Nov. 14, Rich- mostly positive acclaim from ard Dutcher the "father of a variety of critics. However, Mormon cinema" offered a the sequel to God's Army, brief presentation and an- which has been somewhat swered questions relating to controversial for its violent his new film, God's Army 2: content, has had a much hardStates of Grace, in the Ragan er time finding an audience Theater. than its predecessor. Dutcher began the forum by Dutcher accredited this to a giving an account of his ex- low expectation for Mormon perience in Mormon cinema cinema that has developed over the past five years since with the consistent release of his film God's Army was re- mediocre films. leased, igniting the genre of "Right now I think Mormon Mormon cinema. cinema is in its death throes/' "My journey in Mormon Dutcher said. "The faith and cinema has been very, very trust the audience had is all interesting," Dutcher said. but gone." "In the past five years-and Dutcher also expressed some especially in the past one and frustration that the merit of a a half weeks-I have learned film is constantly judged by more about marketing and its commercial success. He audience than I ever thought criticized some filmmakers I would." and critics for being primar- Michael Palmer ily concerned with the potential revenue of a film, rather than its artistic merit. "I am nauseated that it has become so much about how much this film cost, and how much did this film gross," said Dutcher. "If all film is, is a way to make some money for a few people, to sell some popcorn, then I think we're truly wasting the greatest art form we have." When asked whether he would continue to make films as a part of Mormon cinema, or whether he would branch out and do something separate, Dutcher expressed some ambivalence. "I have always hoped that there would be enough of an audience here in my own community to make and appreciate my films, but I don't See DUTCHER. A2 '7f is important to start to question images in the media, and question why women should feel compelled to live up'to these unrealistic standards of beauty and thiness." Dr. Nicole Hopkins Center For Change State senator puts stipulations on UVSC's university status John Ditzler Executive Editor Two Utah State Senators who paid a visit to UVSC last week' expressed support for seeing the school through to university status but threatened to hinder that goal if the school hosts social or political events that are not consistent with conservative politics. Both Senators were Republican legislators. Utah State Senators John L. Valentine and Parley Hellewell visited campus Friday, Nov. 11 in a show of support for UVSC's efforts to garner more baccalaureate degrees. Senator Valentine, who is the President of the Utah State Senate, said, he "is working for UVSC's university status." "In my mind," Valentine said, "it's not if, it's when we John Ditzler/NetXNews State Senators John Valentine and Parley Hellewell visited UVSC to take questions about a new engineering degree. get these additional degrees. This college and this community are growing so fast, we will be a university." Senator Hellewell echoed Senator Valentine's commitment, "We will be a university; be diligent, keep up the v good work and it will happen." When asked what UVSC needed to do to be approved for additional degrees as well as future university status, See SENATORS-A3 |