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Show Photo byTrent Bates/ UVU Review The trades have always been a fixture at this institution, but are they; : slowly going away? Read more on A 3 . Imagine an entire culture being completely unknown.' Know who the Lemoks are? You better find out on A 9 . We live in a society people, we need to fully understand consumerism. Read more on A 5 . • i Homecoming game plays out sourly for Wolverine basketball. Game wrap-up onA8. :j& Illustration by Jordy Kirkman Wolverines celebrate Homecoming Week HAMIEWEUS ;:>: VJ Assf. News editor Last week, the UVU community celebrated its first homecoming as a university. Some of the festivities included a T-shirt swap, a dodgeball tournament, a polar bear swim, the True Wolverine Bonfire and the main event: the UVU men's basketball team playing the University of California, Santa Barbara. "This year's homecoming week was spectacular and crazy," said Student Body President Joseph Watkins. "There were tons of activities each day." Homecoming week was so successful that nearly the entire Grande Ballroom filled on Wednesday afternoon with students and staff members sporting green attire and eating J-Dawgs for Wolverine Wednesday. "Another cool event was the polar bear swim," said Watkins. "There were 100 pennies on the bottom of a pool in the courtyard and there were about ten contestants that jumped into freezing cold water to get them." He added that they had dumped buckets of ice and freezing cold water into a pool and contestants had to dive down and retrieve the pennies. Whoever came up with the most won an iPod Touch. "Some contestants were prepared with swimmine suits, some were fully clothed, and some found out about it right before and decided to enter," said Watkins. "It was just fun to watch everybody dive in." The dodgeball tournament also was a success. Twenty teams entered this year's tournament. "Dodgeball was fun to watch," said Claudio Pacchiega. "There were surprisingly a lot of girl teams. However, the guy teams were not very nice to the girl teams, which made it really interesting to watch." Another new tradition was established during this year's homecoming week: the True Wolverine Bonfire. "About 250 students showed up to the True Wolverine Bonfire where there were four fire pits set up in a square in Parking Lot A," said Watkins. "Students would line up, and a couple would go between the fires and kiss, which would apparently make you a True Wolverine." "People were running in the middle of the fires and kissing. People who didn't even know each other were kissing. It was crazy," he said. "It became a competition to see who could kiss more people," added Jerry Stenquist. In addition to these activities, staff members around campus were encouraged to decorate their office Illustration by Jordy Kirkman UVU takes the full brunt . of budget cuts L i BEN GERALD " Staff writer See WOLVERINE • A2 Trent Bates/ UVU Review To become "True Wolverines" students kiss at the homecoming bonfire. New UTA electronic fare System starts in January n electronic chip and antenna inside that can be activated for $5 and give access to all * As the new year rolls UTA buses, Trax and Frontground, so will the Utah Runner for a year. •Jransit Authority's (UTA) Currently, showing a 'new electronic fare collec- UVU ID is valid fare when tion system (EFC). Start- shown to a UTA bus operator ing Jan. I, bus riders will or UTA police officer. Start%e required to tap their card ing in January, though, all • against an electronic reader UVU riders will be required •tyhen boarding and lap off to tap their UVU ID cards to -^hen exiting a bus or train a reader when boarding to platform. The electronic validate the fare. Riders will reader is located at each door also be required to tap off on all UTA buses and near when exiting. This is to help the entrances of all Trax and UTA use this full-trip data to FrontRunner platforms. better evaluate and improve ! With many UVU stu- services. dents, faculty and staff using Many buses already have ihe UTA bus system, they the new electronic readers Will need to make sure their installed and functional in UVU ID cards have been operational testing. UTA activated to work as a UTA encourages UVU riders to Ed Pass. When the UVU ID cards were issued this year, the new cards featured an See CHIP • A2 Students for animal rights SpNEE NGUYB* News editor A discussion was held concerning ways to improve the problem that In a recent meeting held continues to linger in local by UVU's Animal Allies neighborhoods, streets, Club (AAC), members homes and shelters for discussed plans to create transient pets. Statistics a movement to inhibit the have continually shown use of a gas chamber as an that having a shelter for alternative to euthanasia, animals is not only insuffor unwanted or sick ani- ficient but ineffective. mals. Creating a gas chamSuch a method of dis- ber only makes matters posal was abhorrent in the more discouraging when eyes of members as well as it comes to the welfare of those who are animal lov- a creature whose only moers. By now, it is widely tive is to love; however, known that there is a prev- there are given circumalent problem concern- stances when an animal ing the overpopulation of has to be put down due homeless, battered or sick to an incurable ailment or animals, which is the pri- something that may cause mary target of discussion others to become afflicted among AAC members. with the same issue; but L J ROBERT JONES News writer something else must be done to handle the situation. Such circumstances are necessary, but there is still one lingering question — what about healthy animals? Many animals that are perfectly capable of living long lives are killed every day because of homelessness. This is a problem that is currently being discussed with the AAC along with many other groups. The AAC is looking for activists who are willing to make a stand and fight for animal rights. Those interested may contact Karen Mizell at 863-8758 for more information. The university is taking the full brunt of the budget cuts, sparing the students with minimal discomfort. The Utah State Legislature called into a special session last September enacted a immediate four percent budget cut to all Utah System of Higher Education colleges. Utah Valley University has cut $2,737,700 from its taxfunded revenue this school year in order to implement this change. Linda Makin, Executive Director of Planning and Budget for UVU, said, tl Wc expected a cut coming, but not this soon." In the new plan, UVU made cuts that would not hurt the university's mission and therefore would have minimal impact on the students. There will be no increase of student tuition or fees with these cuts. The budget cuts will not affect the remodeling of the Student Success Center, which will be located in the old library. The only thing students will notice is less staff at One Stop and less maintenance staff. "With less staff they will have to work harder and services will be delayed," said Makin. All the departments have been affected by the budget cuts since there is a reduction in all of their departmental budgets. Makin said that it helped the school a lot that the legislature gave so much discretion or freedom to Interim President Elizabeth Hitch regarding how the budget should be cut. Hitch in turn gave that same freedom to the vice presidents and deans so they could figure out where to make cuts in their departments. See BUDGET • A3 |