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Show News Monday • September 15, 2008 HOOGE'S HEROES News Briefs Campus news Touchstones Calls for Submissions • Touchstones Literary Journal wants to publish UVU students' work. They are looking for fresh, innovative poetry, prose, one-act plays, art and photography from students of all disciplines. Submit and make history by becoming a part of their first publication as a university. Submissions are due by October 3 at 5 p.m. in the English Department. Entry forms are available in LA 114 and online at http:// research.uvsc.edu/touchstones/entryform.html. Interim president wants to hear concerns • As interim president, Liz Hitch wants to hear about your successes and address your concerns. To do so, she will hold an open office hour once a week on alternating days and times. You may schedule an appointment to meet during these hours by contacting Karen Olsen at 863-8133, or you may simply come in. However, since Interim President Hitch would like to see as many people as possible, appointments will be kept to 10 minutes. Her open office hours are as follows: The first Tuesday of the month, 10-11 a.m.; the second Wednesday of the month, 3-4 p.m.; the third Monday of the month, 10-11 a.m.; and the fourth Thursday of the month, 4-5 p.m. Register tO VOte • The UVU Justice Committee is asking all UVU students to register to vote for the upcoming elections. Register at www.studentvote.org. Courtesy of College Marketing Hitch has been at UVU for more than a year. She was the vice president of Academic Affairs and is now the interim president of UVU. Liz Hitch: Serving UVU •HANNAHOOGEHOPKINSON Considering that President Sederberg recently left UVU and that a replacement has not been selected, who is running this university? The answer can be found in two words, Elizabeth Hitch, our hero of the week. Here is what she had to say. Can you explain your current position at UVU? A am currently interim president of UVU. This means that I serve as president until a permanent president is selected by the Board of Regents. Q Who is your guess for UVU's next president? / \ I expect there will be many candidates interested in the presidency at UVU. Since the search for a new leader is a national one, there is no way to guess who the next president might be. Q How did you feel when you first learned that you would be given your current position and that President Sederberg would be leaving? A It was great to learn that /-A\ theexcellentleadership "" that Bill Sederburg provides would continue to influence higher education in the state through" the Utah System of Higher Education. I'm happy to be able to continue to work with him as he serves as Commissioner. /ft \.!- How long have you been working at UVU? I began at UVSC on July 1, 2007, as vice presi*~ ""*" dent for Academic Affairs and served in that position until I began the role as interim president on August 18,2008. ;; ft What made you want \ £ to work here? fy When I learned of the / 4 \ quality of UVU that ~^ was going to earn it university status in the Utah System of Higher Educa- FINALIST,™. A1 his strength after his accident and essays, will be posted on made him decide to become a Wells Fargo's website, where physical therapist and help oth- visitors can vote for their faers in the situation vorite. The story he was. ^^^mmm ^ ^ ^ ^ ™ ^ ™ with the most A few months "The only thing votes will win after submitting the grand prize. standing behis contest entry, Gibbons tween me and he received a call hopes his classfrom a contest repmates at UVU this once in a resentative with will help him in lifetime oppornews that his essay his dream of betunity is gaining coming a physihad been chosen as one of the five fienough votes to cal therapist by nalists to compete voting for him. win. If UVU can for the grand prize "I need help of $100,000 and support me, then from my classthat, as a finalist, I have a great mates at UVU, he had already won chance to make a because winning $10,000. "Finding this contest will out I am a finalist dream a reality!" help me realize in the contest was at least one my such an exciting UVU student life's ambitions: surprise," said GibDanny Gibbson to make a difbons. ___ ference in the Gibbons and his world through wife, Tiffani, were my service as a grateful for the money, consid- physical therapist," said Gibering their financial situation. bons. "The only thing standing "When my wife and I got the between me and this once in a $10,000 check, we put most of lifetime opportunity is gaining it toward our auto loan, which enough votes to win. If UVU gave us a significant amount of can support me. then I have a financial freedom," said Gib- great chance to make a dream a bons. "We are expecting our reality!" baby girl ~ our first child - in mid-October, so the money will definitely help us a lot with the added financial pressure." As one of the five finalists for the $ 100,000 prize, Gibbons W h e n : Sept. 17 and goes had his story videotaped by a to Nov. 10. film crew from San Francisco. ™ . ., ... . Where:www.wellsfargo. 3 That video and his essay, along . . . . with the other finalists'videos c o m / s o m e d a y s t o n e s . Vote lion, my interest was piqued. What a great time to be associated with an institution as it moves from college to university status! I've wanted to be involved in education since I was in grade school. I have always enjoyed learning, and to be involved in teaching and learning as a profession has been a great What was your first act as interim president? A A steady leadership during C$fe the interim period that JlV advances the institution consistent with our mission and strategic directions. What do you feel are your personal strengths and weaknesses? I have been involved in higher education for a long time and have a solid base of experience, including one other time when I served as an interim chancellor. I really love UVU and the faculty, staff and students that are part of it. I don't know UVU as well as many who have been a part of the institution as it evolved, but I'm learning more every day! I'm not sure I can rei&. member a "first act," but £ I have spent the first several weeks of my time as interim president going to all of the various constituents of the university to assure them that our mission and strategic directions, identified last year, continue to guide our If there was one meswork during this interim pe- f 1 \ sage you could get riod. We have a clear direc\ £ out to students, tion to create the premiere w faculty and staff, what community-engaged instituwould it be? tion in the nation, and we are well on our way! A UVU is your university. /~lk Thanks for making it all What do you hope to jt can be as a commuaccomplish for the nity-engaged institution of university? higher learning! POLICE ' BLOTTER September 2008 Sept. 6 • MEDICAL * A adult patron at the Orem Owlz baseball game suffered a seizure while sitting on the front row near the home team dugout. The game was stopped while emergency personnel removed the patient for treatment. Sept. 6 • MEDICAL • UVU Police along with Orem Paramedics responded to the Institute Building on a report of an adult male having a heart attack. The adult male was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. National news High Unemployment rates • U.S. unemployment rates are at a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August. Employers cut 84,000 jobs, with the economy affecting workers and businesses. The recent Labor Department report shows an increase in housing, credit and financial crises. In this economic situation, speculators worry that consumers will recoil, throwing the economy into a tailspin later this year or early next year. New 9/11 museum design • The latest design for the Sept. 11 memorial entrance has a steel facade based on the World Trade Center's twin towers. Builders hope the memorial will be ready for its opening by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The memorial will be a three-story, asymmetrical glass and steel building on the eight-acre ground zero plaza. The building will change appearance throughout the day as sunlight hits different materials in the building. Fewer medical students choose primary care • A recent report states that only two percent of graduating medical students plan to work in primary care internal medicine. This raises concern about ihe shortage of the first-stop doctors. Some medical students are choosing a different medical field because of their large debts, opting for a higher-paid specially. Others do so because they want to avoid paperwork, the demands of the chronically sick and bringing work home. The report by American Medical Association surveyed approximately 1,200 fourth-year medical students — only two percent of whom have chosen primary care as their career, whereas in 1990 nine percent chose it. World news SWITZERLAND • In a tunnel deep beneath the French-Swiss border, scientists launched an experiment intended to discover evidence of extra-dimensions, invisible "dark matter," and the "Higgs boson" particle. The experiment will include using a powerful atom-smashing machine to produce proton collisions. Although leading physicists consider the experiment safe, some skeptics think the proton collisions could cause microscopic black holes. Scientists hope that this $10 billion project will reveal more about creation in the universe. The project was organized by 20 member nations of the European Organization for Nuclear Research. JERUSALEM • Security officers at an Israeli airport allegedly forced Abdur-Rahim Jackson, a member of the New York-based Alvin Ailey traveling dance troupe, to perform dance steps to prove his identity before allowing him into the country. Jackson's Muslim first name apparently provoked suspicion. Jackson called his experience embarrassing and said that one of the officers suggested changing his name. Israel, famous for its effective airport security, practices ethnic profiling in its security checks. Such profiling is illegal in the U.S. Israel has a strict entry policy because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the extremist-Islamic rejection of the Jewish state's existence. POLAND • A 21-year-old woman in Grodisk, Poland, has accused her father of keeping her prisoner for six years, since 2002, and raping her. She also claims having two sons by her father and being forced to give them up for adoption. Investigators are seeking DNA samples from the two children to determine whether the accused man is their father. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the situation a "tragedy" and said he would push a law providing for the chemical castration of pedophiles. The case resembles that of Austrian Josef Fritzl, who recently confessed to confining his daughter for 24 years in a cellar and fathering seven children with her. join the Sept. 8 • MEDICAL • An adult male chasing a foul ball during the Orem Owlz baseball game fell and struck his head. The adult male was evaluated on scene by Orem paramedics and released to his wife. U VUreview. com Sept. 9 • MEDICAL • A 21-year-old female fainted during a class in the Gunther Trades building. The female was evaluated by Orem paramedics and released. Sept. 10 • MEDICAL • UVU police took a report of a 37-yearold male that fell in the Digital Learning Center. The victim's wife drove him to a local hospital for treatment of an obvious fracture to his left arm. writersphotographers designers apply in SC22$ |