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Show uvureview.com Inside this issue If you don't vote and you mock voters, you are an internal terrorist. Really. Afghan student Najib Niazi recounts the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, which just had its seventh anniversary. Sports Women's soccer set a record of 10 wins in a single season, read about the regular season wrap-up. / News Soccer referee/EMT helps at the scene of a car accident minutes after refereeing a game, w o Photo by Dave Iba/ UVU Review Sen. Clinton addressed a Utahan crowd as she brought her political clout to the reddest of red states. Hillary Clin ton stumps in Utah Project team looks for water on tribal land in Mexico m HANNA HOOGE HOPKINSON News Writer f : JACK WATERS Editor-in-chiet Utah took steps past fly-over state status and welcomed political heavyweight Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) to the consistently red state in the midst of this healed election season. The former presidential candidate used the opportunity to lend her support to the Utah Democratic Party in the elections on both the local and national levels. Hordes of fans packed the Utah Cultural Celebra- tion Center in West Valley City for the rally held on Saturday Oct. 25. The city, excited over the momentous visit, planted trees on behalf of Sen. Clinton's appearance. Local Democratic leaders and candidates preceded Sen. Clinton with short speeches, including words from Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, County Councilman Randy Horiuchi and Lt. Gov. candidate Josie Valdez. Clinton arrived from her motorcade, stepped up Photo by Dave Iba/ UVU Review Integrated Studies gets three new emphasis programs approved B MERINDA PEARCE News writer American Studies, Cinema Studies, and Classical Studies are the three newest degree emphases approved for the Integrated Studies program. "Recent additions of emphases that themselves arc interdisciplinary, like Classical Studies and American Studies, continue our push for interdisciplinary study on campus," said Dr. Scott Abbott, director of the Integrated Studies Program. Available on campus since 1998, Integrated Studies allows students to earn a bachelor's degree by taking core classes along with at least two emphases. Although students' chosen emphases may vary greatly, they will have to show how they relate to each other. "A student with emphases in Cinema Studies and Gender Studies, for instance, would have the tools to write a fascinating thesis on gender roles in 1930s American Films, for instance. Or a student with emphases in Classical Studies and American Studies might write a thesis on American architecture with classical roots," said Abbott. to the podium in front of a ping a beat, she then prostanding ovation, and im- jected that Obama will win mediately said, "I'm here the White House this year, with a very simple message. and carry the state when Democrats are coming back he seeks his second term as in Utah and we're going to president in 2012. elect Barack." The crowd, Sen. Clinton explained filled with Democrat donors the differences between and supporters, erupted in the two parties, saying that applause over the Senator's Democrats "have reached suggestion. beyond our own interests. The attendees ranged We've stood up for the midfrom longtime Clinton sup- dleclassjoined together, and porters, the elderly and ^ ^ ^ M M M H ^ ^ helped young children. An elderly "Democrats ° . u u r man walked the aisles diseigh " tributing stickers of the inUtahspent " , b o r s . American flag while sporta couple ing historical Clinton camWe m years on the t h e par_ paign gear. Many wielded campaign signs, including endangered xy that 4-year-old Mary Amelia species list." reaches Minkevitch from Plain City sits on our front porches inout, and Utah. As she held an Obama/ stead of our back. We are Biden sign, her father Matt there for each other. And said that Mary is "excited that is the resounding differfor the change this country ence." is about to go through." Emotions peaked anyClinton ushered in a cho- time a reference was made rus of boos from the crowd in support of Barack Obama, when she admitted that Sen. Clinton's former rival in John McCain would likely the Democratic primaries. win Utah's electoral votes in Clinton contrasted the Bush the election. Without skip- administration with the one that Obama will assemble if he wins, stressing that Obama will be able to shift focus away from the problems she sees in the current administration. "There is a pattern here. It took a Democratic president to clean up after the first President Bush," Clinton said, "and it will take a Democratic president to clean up after the second President Bush." She finished up her remarks by applauding Utah Democrats, "You are a hearty brand. Democrats in Utah spent a couple years on the endangered species list. You don't give up, which is why I don't give up." The overall theme of the rally was change, reform and new outlooks in Utah, a historically dominant Republican state. The eager crowd who showed up hours before Sen. Clinton's arrival remained after, thronging for autographs, pictures and handshakes. Pre-law students better prepared for the beyond I S TER1SA HUMISQN j News writer The Pre-Law Club just had their biannual Dean's Night on Oct. 21. Nearly a hundred pre-law students attended the two-hour event. They were able to interact with law school deans who were there to answer their various questions and help them decide on what law American Studies schools would benefit them "American Studies is most. the interdisciplinary study Almost 20 deans or dean of how Americans create representatives attended meaning'in their lives. This and were willing to particiincludes to examination of pate in a mock law schoolvarious literary and cultural application review. This texts that were generated mock process helped the in America: religious texts, students better understand poetry, art, music,film,and what law school deans are more are all cultural arti- looking for. facts worthy of study within "The big thing that was this program," said Mark really helpful was the mock Olson, coordinator for Inte- applications. They were regrated and Interdisciplinary ally interesting and inforStudies. mative for us to have (the deans) go through that," See DEGREES • A3 said Zachary Davis, vice Photo courtesy of Zachary Davis Around 100 pre-law students attended Dean's Night to meet with law school deans and learn from them. president of the Pre-Law Club's public relations. "You just can't get that information anywhere else. These are the people who are actually looking at the admissions and making the decisions." The pre-law students who went to this beneficial night had everything to gain for their attendance. Davis further explained, 'To be able to actually get your questions answered was irreplaceable, so it was i a really good opportunity for us." The Pre-Law Club is now in its second year of function and has already come a long way. With the recent addition of pre-law advisor Eileen Crane, a former pre-law advisor at BYU, the club has doubled in size, and Dean's Night has been created. Last spring, Crane was able to obtain around 10 See PRE-LAW • A3 A recent article in National Geographic discusses an Indian tribe called the Tarahumara who are located in the Sierra Tarahumara Mountains, near Copper Canyon in northern Mexico, and a plan that some private investors have to build a resort over a section of the tribal land. The main concern is that this resort would soak up more water in one day than the Tarahumara people would use in a year. While the Tarahumara fight for their land against big businesses, UVU recently visited the area to fight the elements to look for large amounts of clean water for the tribe. The university's Department of Earth Science took a team of eight people, three faculty members andfivestudents, to the area to conduct an analysis of water resources in the Sierra Tarahumara Mountains. "We were trying to find where the water is at," said Joel Bradford, team member and assistant professor of earth science. "If we do, then it increases chances of them finding water, so they can drill." The Tarahumara are famous for living very traditional lifestyles with little influence from the outside world. Nearly all the water for the villages comes from wells. Many of the wells that are drilled, however, fail to yield adequate water, forcing the Tarahumara to devote more of their limited resources to drilling additional wells. The team studied the geology, hydrology and water chemistry of the area. Their work included studying the types of rock in the area, which includes the locations and characteristics of fractures in the rock, since most of the groundwater flow is likely to take place within fracture zones. They also analyzed the performance of existing wells in order to identify any correlations between well performance and geologic conditions and groundwater chemistry to see if chemical trends yielded clues to flow paths and to ensure that the water is safe to drink. Then they mapped the water table to determine groundwater flow paths. See TRIBAL • A3 |