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Show MONDAY • MARCH 6 • 2006 VOLUME XXXIV • NO. XXI THE STUDENT VOICE OF UTAH VALLEY STATE Student government elections this week Polls open Monday at 7 am, close Wednesday at 5 pm. Log into UVLink to vote. Goodbye Olympics, hello television! ff / • • - / • VOTE volution State Senator wants religion taught in public schools. Two professors author Mormonism and Evolution: The Authoritative LDS Statements. / John Ditzler Executive Editor Outdoor Sports Issue Time to hit the links best golf courses in Utah Valley. All mid controversy over the teaching of evolution and Intelligent Design in Utah :,schools, UVSC Associate Dean of Science and Health, William Evenson and BYU Professor Duane Jeffery spoke at UVSC February 28, about their new book Mormonism and Evolution: the Authoritative LDS Statement. . State Senator Chris Buttars has introduced his "Divine Design" Senate Bill 96 during this years legislative session which originally stipulated* "that instruction to students on any theory regarding the origins of life, or the origins or present state of the human race, shall stress that not all scientists agree on which theory is correct." See EVOLUTION-A3 Stock Photo/www.sxc.hu The great outdoors goes indoors in Lehi Cabela's is an outdoormen's paradise, and it is right here in Utah Valley. A10 Proposed ASUVSC constitution change During elections this week, the UVSC student body government will be making a change to the ASUVSC constitution. This change will combine a senatorial position for the School of Computer Science and Engineering with the School of Trades, Technology, and Industry. .••;;^f 1 :^: l ,:K V v. During elections this week students will have the opportunity to voice their opinion and cast their vote on the new senate change. ^ ^ v Think Link wants to know why you don't read your e-mail "I am not going to be able to give it out to other people," said Vanesa BuckNews Writer ley a sophomore majoring in business Is confusion or lack of awareness the management. "The school still mails reasoning behind the low student use of me everything," adds Vanesa answerUV Link e-mail accounts? This is a ques- ing why the system does not appeal to tion the administration is asking itself her. Although the accounts use is not deabout these accounts and why a commit- signed for a more personal use, it's lack of a personal touch have led to many tee named Think Link was formed. Student e-mail accounts were designed students not utilizing it as a tool here at to allow faculty and staff to mass com- the school. municate with students, and to allow Designed to give access to students students to communicate back, yet its about their information in regards to isuse is low and many students are not sues like financial aid and student aid. even checking their accounts. One of the advantages it was hoped to Students typically don't use their ac- usher in is the way the school commucounts, most citing a lack of personal- nicates with the students as it makes the transition away from paper trails and ized accessibility. Jon Long (b •Student Grant Writing Workshop, BA 207, 2pm AVC Faculty Art Show^Woodbury Gallery /O • Short Attention Span Theater, Centre Stage, SU 7:30 pm • Short Attention Span Theater, Centre Stage, 7:30 pm See E-MAIL-A3 The future of nuclear waste in Utah USU professor to speak on the challenges facing Goshutes Ashley Ashley Robertson Robertson ing with with nuclear nuclearwaste, waste,but butabout aboutasking asking » 7M :)V\'$ , )/. difficult questions." d i f n c u t Questions. * i fc V. ; V ' . V & A - J 1 \ •>*. The state government has taken exSkull Valley, in Utah, is home to 120 of treme measures in the past to ensure this the less then 500 Goshute Native Ameri- facility would not be built in Utah, such cans left in the United States. Due to as seizing the roads going in to the reseconomic restraints, this Goshute Band ervation in order to prevent the traffickhas contracted with Private Fuel Storage ing and storage of Nuclear Waste on the Corporation (PFS) to build a Nuclear reservation. Former Governor Leavitt Waste Storage Facility on their reserva- imposed a toll that would "be placed tion, 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake so high that it would be economically City. impossible to transport wastes to the On March 6th, Dr. David Rich Lewis, reservation." Along with a high toll for professor at Utah State University, will the shipment of nuclear waste, Leavitt be visiting UVSC campus and discuss- planed on denying the Goshutes a transing the debate on why or why not the portation permit to transport the waste facility should be built. On one hand, into Utah. Utahans do not want Nuclear Waste to Worries surrounding this issue include be stored in the state, and on the other potential contamination and exposure of Vegor Pedersen/NetXNews hand the Goshute Indians have the right hazardous materials to Utahans. There Skull Valley is located just south of The to do what they please on their land. are also military weapons testing sites Great Salt Lake. "This presentation will explore issues nearby, and other hazardous materials experienced great economic suppresof American Indian sovereignty as they facilities. Some are concerned that the sion. This contract with PFS will bring are unfolding today in Utah," Lewis Goshute Band is putting themselves at millions of dollars to the band, open up said, "My presentation isn't about offer- risk unnecessarily. approximately 60 local job opportunities ing easy answers to the problem of dealThe Skull Valley Goshute Band has See GOSHUTES-A3 ..' .... News Writer • Turning Points in History Lecture Series, LAlOl, 7pm into electronic interaction. Yet a common problem with the system among students is not enough information is being passed through the accounts to make them worth checking daily, many of the faculty don't use it, instead giving students other places to stay in contact with teachers, like web c't or personal e-mail accounts. Increasing the number of places students can be expected to go to find information pertaining to a class or to contact their professor. "I know a lot of students that don't get answers back," says Brent Gray, a freshmen majoring in business. Lack of use ~TL3E?^£^^ |