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Show MHHHH News ^SsSxi^&^^ibStiJ^rv Monday • November 17, 2 t ) 0 8 ^ A 3 •.Lv,i^:.. v>> j» £ C!iy^<i^v-;v'>j News Briefs HOOGE'S HEROES 9h jCampus ^ news ' i >[>.*-./v'.. ; - • «f§ STUDENT ART SHOW • UVU's Drawing 1 and 2 classes will be having a wire circus where wire circus performers and animals are set up in a three-ring-circus and will include students' drawing on the walls. The art show will be on display from Nov. 7 to Nov. 25 in Gallery 401 on the fourth floor of the GT (building and is free and open to the public. LOCAL FOOD BANK ASKS COMMUNITY TO HELP PROVIDE HOLIDAY MEALS * The Community Action Food Bank in Provo is asking for the community's help to provide holiday dinners to thousands of Utah families. As of today, they have no hams or turkeys in their warehouse and hundreds of people coming through their doors every day. They hope to collect at least 2,000 hams or turkeys - enough to provide a traditional holiday meal to every family they serve during November and December. People wanting to donate a ham or turkey can take the meat to the Community Action Food Bank located at 815 S. Freedom Blvd. in Provo or to any of their affiliated food pantries in American Fork, Payson, Heber City, Park City, Coalville or Kamas. They can also donate by buying turkey vouchers on-line at www.norbesl.com and sending them to the food bank. Jac Scott is the man behind the lens as he lead photographer of UVU's Marketing Department. ational k. news Courtesy of Steven Stone GMAIL ADDS VIDEO AND AUDIO CHAT * Google an- Jac Scott: Behind the lens HHANtiAHOOGEHOPKlNSOSI News writer Originally from Arcata, California, Jac (pronounced as Jake not Jack) Scott has spent his life in what he calls his own Bermuda Triangle, traveling from California to Utah to Idaho, and back again. Lucky for Utah Valley University, however, he made his most recent stop here. While * campus goers might not know him by name, or even face for that matter, they will xecognize his photographs that adorn the university' s walls and advertisements. He is our hero for the week. Here is what he had to say. When did you start working at UVU? A' After; I was fired from Nu Skin Enterprise. What is your title/ position? UVU Marketing Lead Photographer. What made you want to work here? A Simon Blundell. Tell me something about UVU that most people don't know? We^ have the"! _i, business school in the state. _.. What has been your greatest failure while working at UVU? I proposed that UVSC should change the school colors and. mascot with the upgrading to university. I wanted brown and orange and I thought the carp would be good. They said no. Failure. I have seen way more carp around here then wolverines. Name three things about you that none, or very few, of your associates know? hate static, like from 1rubbing a balloon. My A. fourth toe hides behind my third toe on both feet. And I used to dress up and perform the song "Big Spender" from the play "Sweet Charity." Tell me something, outside of photography, that you are passionate about? 4 Cartoon Network. What are your fears or phobias about life? nounced it will join Yahoo and Microsoft in the race to make Web communication more social by adding video and audio chat to its free e-mail service. Currently, Gmail is the third largest e-mail service, serving 113 million users worldwide. Just behind Gmail, Microsoft has 283 million users and Yahoo has 274 million. WOMAN SLAIN AT KKK INITIATION • Eight Ku Klux ,\ My fear is that one night ,.O0, during my night terrors ~~ I will end up outside in my underwear washing the car with the dog as my sponge, yelling, "This sound infected." What would you do if you were given a million dollars? A Spend it really fast so the A \ government wouldn't "c "" know I had it. NOV. 11 • MAN WITH GUN • UVU Police responded FLU OUTBREAKS TO BE TRACKED BY G00GLE.ORG 9 A new Web tool from Google.org may help people detect regional flu outbreaks more quickly than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new tool, Google Flu Trends, will monitor flu symptoms, analyze the data and create graphs and maps to show were the flu may be spreading. Public health experts claim that the information may help speed up the response of hospitals, doctors and public health officials, which could reduce the spread of the disease. Currently, the service is only available in the United Statesm but Google intends to use the same technique to help follow the disease worldwide. Is there anything else you feel inclined to add or tell UVU students, : faculty and staff? I have somehow sur,A'\ rounded myself with y '~ *'" the best and most talented ^people. I know with every .'fiber of my being this is where I am supposed to be. Seriously so blessed. NOV 2008 NOV. 10 • MENTAL SUBJECT • UVU Police responded to 800 W University Parkway in response to an unscheduled protest. A 46-year-old female and a 66-year-old male were trespassing on UVU property. The protesters have a history of mental illness and believe UVU is part of a cult. / f S \ Klan members were arrested for the death of an Okalahoma woman who was killed after she asked to be taken back to town during an initiation ritual. The woman's body was found by authorities under some brush near the campsite where she was slain, which is about 60 miles north of New Orleans. Sheriffs deputies also found KKK flags, six Klan robes, and weapons at the campsite. The woman was shot and killed after a fight broke out and she tried to leave. KKK members tried removed the 40-caIiber slug from her body and buried it with her belongings. to a report of a man with a gun in the Liberal Arts building. Officers located the suspect and determined that the suspect had a legally concealed weapons permit, / f j ) NOV. 11 * MEDICAL * A 26-year-old female suffered a seizure in the PE building. The woman was transported by ambulance to a local hospital for further evaluation. £5 World news NEPAL • Followers of a teenage boy believe him to be the reincarnation of the Buddha. Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18. has had people come to him since he was first spotted in the jungles of southern Nepal in 2005. Thousands of followers who have come to see him in the jungles believe he has been spent months without moving, sitting under a tree with his eyes closed. Bamjan came out of the jungles last week to see his devotees and bless them with a light tap on the head. He was dressed in a white robe arid his face was still and never said a word. Contrary to popular western belief, Buddha, meaning, "enlightened one!' is not a god. Dating back to before 400 B.C.. Buddhism is founded on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, has more than 3.25 mil. followers and teaches that every soul is reincarnated after death. HAITI ° In the past week, two schools have collapsed in Haiti. The first school. College La Promesse. killed more than 90 people from the collapse with the second school in Grace Divine, injured eight people. When the College La Promesse collapse, members from the U;S. search and rescue team from Fairfax County, Virgina, came to help the situation. U.N. peacekeepers were deployed to keep the crowds under control that were rushing to the school. Haitian President Rene Preval said poor construction and lack of steel reinforcement was the cause of the College La Promesse collapsing. The cause of the Grace Divine collapse is unknown, but a city building inspector Edouard Ernseau said that recent heavy rainfalls might have weakened the concrete building. MALDIVES ® With the recent elected new president of Maldives. Mohamed "Anni" Nasheed, the nation's problems are brought to attention. The main problem is the high possibility of Maldives sinking under water if rising sea levels continue at their current pace. Maldives is an archipelago of more than 1,200 coral islands located in the south-southwest of India. Many of the islands are only 5 feet above sea level. As a tourist destination, the country wants to set aside some of the $1 billion a year profit and spend the money on buying a new homeland. Climate change is only one of the challenges Nasheed is looking into. Other challenges include the rising unemployment, corruption and a drug epidemic. PARKING SCHOOL BUILDING Executive Sections Jack J. Waters • Editor-in-chief Jared Magiil • Managing editor Jennie Nicholls • Editor at large Robbin Anthony • Office manager Brent Sumner • Adviser Britnee Nguyen • News editor Amie Wells • Assistant News editor Spencer Shell • Opinions editor Mel Sundquist • Life editor Matthew A. 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