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Show life B6 MONDAY • NOVEMBER 6 • 2006 Apartheid film is a slow burner The film begins in 1980, apartheid-era in South Africa. Apartheid was, in essence, similar to what we called segregation. While Patrick is away coaching a soccer Jason Pyles game, terrorists from the ANC (African National Assistant Life Editor Congress) blow up part of the oil refinery where There's a quiet scene in Catch a Fire that he works. As a result, he is accused of being a tells us everything we need to know about a freedom fighter. Patrick and his wife are tortured by Nic Vos South African freedom fighter's conversion to (Tim Robbins), an interrogator from the anti-terviolence. A young boy sits alone in a jail cell. Earlier rorist police squad. And even though Vos releasthat day he and his father were arrested. The es them, these events ignite a fire within Patrick boy was brought to watch the policemen beat and he becomes a freedom fighter. Catch a Fire is slow but real; it's not overly his father (who is not a freedom fighter) in an entertaining, but it's honest. It's sad but proattempt to extract information that his father did vocative. not know. Most movies that are based on a person's life While reflecting on the day's events, the tend to be glamorized in some way. Patrick's young boy hears the song of the freedom singers story is rather unremarkable; he sacrificed so off in the distance. He begins to sing along and much and seems to have accomplished so little. we know that, at that moment, another freedom . I get the sense that the filmmakers knew this and fighter is born. to compensate, they threw in a Nelson Mandela This small scene is a microcosm of the whole movie. Catch a Fire is based on a real person, montage. Movies just aren't typically made about peoPatrick Chamusso (Derek Luke), who was comple like Patrick, or about people like you and pelled to become a freedom fighter-or a terrorist, me. Films like this make me feel grateful for my Courtesy photo/www.rottentomatoes.com depending on your perspective. Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke) embraces his daughter in Catch a Fire. uneventful life. movie review Faculty spotlight: BillEvenson JCOUNTRY DANCING I W/CURRENT STUDENT ID i I EVERY SATURDAY BEFORE 9 3 0 P.M. I I | 100 E. 200 S. - PLEASANT GROVE REC. VALID THRU DECEMBER 30th, 2006 I westemdance.org * call or text 801-226-3040 GEICO Your "Local" Insurance Office Student Discount • Motorcycle Insurance Confronting creati Eleanor Takahashi Life Writer A passion for teaching and change provoked Associate Dean of Science and Health and professor of Physics Bill Evenson to come out of retirement and work for Utah Valley State College. The College Times recently sat down with Evenson to talk about his position at UVSC, which also includes chairing The College General Education Committee, and questioning the paradox between science and religion. Q: What made you come out of retirement? A: Over the years, it has become clear to me that UVSC is really important to our valley. So when they recruited me to apply for the Associate Dean position here in Science, that sounded to me like something that would be worth doing in retirement. GEICO. A 15 minute call could save you 15% on car insurance FREE No obligation Rate Quotes • Money Saving Discounts • Monthly Payment Plan Contact our "Local" Office 801-226-2404 1513 North Hill Field Road, Suite #3 ing to be a long process, three years or more. We have been working, the last two and a half years, quite intensively on the proposed Global/Intercultural -Requirement. You might have read about that in the newspaper (laughs). Q: Yeah, what's all the controversy about? A: In fact, very little controversy surrounds it, to tell the truth. Everybody agrees that in today's world we need to pay more attention to how we interact with other cultures. This is a proposed requirement at the bachelor's degree level and the expectation is that almost every student would take a course that is also on the GE list. They wouldn't have to take an extra course; it's just they need to take something that dealt with global or intercultural issues. Bill Evenson "I am convinced that there's no problem for LDS students to accept the science and take it seriously." Q: Could you tell us a little bit about the book you recently co-authored, titled Mormon- Q: Has anyone conQ: What do you do as ism and Evolution: The Au- fronted the book? an Associate Dean? thoritative LDS Statements? A: There's been one guy on the A: Really, the job of the Associ- A: I, for several years, have en- internet who has tried to, kind ate Deans is to try to strengthen countered questions from LDS of, go after it. It's been really rethe academic environment and students about evolution, and I ceived positively, even by people opportunities of the institution. (am) convinced that there's re- who have a completely differThat involves bringing in very ally no problem for LDS stu- ent point of view about evolugood faculty (and) giving those dents to simply accept the sci- tion and the church than we do. good faculty the opportunity ence and take it seriously. In to do the best they can. In our the early nineties," (co-author) Q: Has evolution ever school, it's really important that Duane Jeffery, who teaches questioned your faith? they be involved in research in a Evolution at BYU, compiled A: I would say that, when 1 was way that they can involve their a set of information about the a student, before I knew anystudents. 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