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Show opinion/ MONDAY-SEPTEMBER I9^2OO5 A7 Evolution For better or worse From JOE-A7 Thoughts on One Stop, UV Link, and Lost Scholarships directing the process. Talk about a leap of faith. In Science Digest, Dr. Larry Hatfield wrote: "Scientists who utterly reject evolution may be one of our fastest growing controversial minorities. but the vast majority of our student popula- be the kind of school that students plan Laurissa Poll . .Many of the scientists supporting this position on attending and have to work to get into, tion doesn't even think twice about getting Opinions Writer hold impressive credentials in science." Indeed, it has to have more students stick around involved in what we have to offer. scientists and scholars are far from unanimous in True, apathy in general plays a part in the for bachelors degrees. Attracting fresh"College" removed from signs around men isn't inherently bad, but doing it at the accepting some of evolution's larger'claims and lack of student participation on our campus campus, non-credit comes before credit expense of continuing students will hurt implications. Some have gone as far as calling it something that other schools deal with in UV Link registration, and the Banner UVSC. There were plenty of freshmen on "outdated," "infinitely improbable," and "materias well but UVSC students are seriously system for viewing holds won't let stuscholarship last year, and the year before alistic philosophy masquerading as empirical scilacking in school spirit and a willingness to dents view holds. Old buildings have new that I know, I've met them, worked with ence." get involved. For the past two years I have names, and One Stop - a system identical them. The alternative, of course, is Intelligent Design, in both name and purpose to the original at worked in the trenches at UVSC, trying to Departments across campus that once had which many have been misrepresented as being BYU, where it was created for students on get students to join clubs, attend speaking a parochial and entirely religion-driven theory. In ....,,^ ,-v,™-?, the ability to decide how a campus more than twice . - .. ., the world of academia, it is often scoffed at and . ^ir '•'••':• ;,./••;A to use their scholarship the size of ours - does not \ funds now have no say considered the feeble hope of deluded minds. But save time waiting in line, it : in the matter. Everything many others, like me, William Blake and thoutakes more. goes through the scholarsands of other thinkers and scientists, see great UVSC students who ship office, and almost power and truth in it. As Dr. Jonathan Wells of the benefited from work study exclusively to freshmen. University of Berkeley put it: "I believe science for years have lost their Because of this, wellis pointing strongly toward design. To me, as a on-campus jobs because qualified students from scientist, the development of an embryo cries out, they weren't awarded this all departments who 'Design!' The Cambrian explosion-the sudden year; and those who did should have been awardappearance of complex life, with no evidence of get work study have been ed continuing student given far more money than ancestors-is more consistent with design than evoscholarships have been they could ever earn worklution. Homology, in my opinion, is more compatousted by freshmen. I'm ing a part-time campus ible with design. The origin of life certainly cries one of them. 1 could have job. Because of this illogiout for a designer. None of these things make as easily left on a transcal change, "Work Studies much sense from a Darwinian perspective as they fer scholarship to finish Needed" signs abound on do from a design perspective." my degree, but I chose office doors and departWith more space, the case could be laid out comUVSC because I could ment bulletins because plete from physics to cosmology to biochemistry Courtesy of UVSC there aren't enough stuset a departmental scholto biology, but the bottom line is this: ultimately, L , J T n dents with work study to UVSC is in a perpetual state of change, but are some of the most recent de- . • u both evolution and intelligent design require more arship here - and I like it velopments a change for the better? than mere science. Consider something like love. go around. Last, but not here. Obviously, not being something physical or tanevents, and really immerse themselves in least, what on earth does a sunset have to The odds that a worthwhile percentage gible, it cannot be measured or proven by science. the college experience provided them here do with chicken strips? of these freshmen will leave UVSC with Sure, you could point to all the things you've done Change is inevitable, and UVSC has, and - but to no avail. a four year degree are slim at best. The for your significant other-countless acts of kindAlbeit frustrating, the reasoning behind maximum percentage of college freshmen will continue to experience loads of it as ness and sacrifice, countless shared experiences it strives to achieve university status. Most their lack of enthusiasm makes sense: why in Utah who return to school their second and time. But what does that prove? According to should they go out of their way to network changes made within the past year are eiyear is 72.5. It's true that LDS missions acscience, probably just that you happen to be with and plant roots here? As soon as they comther helpful or insignificant, and won't count for many who leave after their first that person a lot and have a pattern of doing things have lasting negative effects. But some plete their general education requirements, year - but the majority of them fit into the for them. But is that all it is? of them, one in particular (aside from the they'll be off to another school with more category of students who come here to use And so it is for many who believe in an Intelwork study issue), deserves serious recon- established four-year programs, and names their concurrent enrollment credits, get a ligent Creator-beyond all the physical "proof that that look better on paper. sideration. two year degree, and leave. Nationally, the seems to point that way, there is something more, With the struggle to get students commit- most likely time students drop out of colFor years UVSC has served as a stepping something admittedly subjective, but no less realted to UVSC already alive and well, I can't stone for students headed for bigger, betlege is during their first year. This doesn't a premonition of purpose, meaning, and truth beunderstand why we're shooting ourselves ter things. We have incredible instructors mean we shouldn't give scholarships to yond the physical or measurable. "It's all a miand great opportunities for students to be in the foot by mainstreaming all our avail- freshmen - but not at the expense of conrage!" cries the skeptic. "An illusion!" But alas, involved in extracurricular activities such able scholarships to incoming freshmen. 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