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Show A4 Monday • March 16, 2009 *•".; V ' , - News % • Get Involved! Events Calendar: •V-B':" . 1 Sunday 1 ] Monday 2 Tuesday Wednesday 7 6 5 4 3 " Saturday Friday Thursday News Briefs Campus news RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS TO LECTURE AT UVU 9 10 11 15 16 17 18 ;:,,! 14 13 12 8 20 ( . - • • ' • - - " . • _ - ( 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 25 26 27 ZO 29 30 31 -.3 it/ Spring Break "New U," Personal Development, Career Prep -The event is sponsored by UVUSA and CAL with guest Stephen Covey speaking March 17 at noon in the Grande Ballroom. For more information, contact the Center for Advancement of Leadership at (801) 863-6466. Softball vs. University of Northern Colorado - The game will start at noon. Tickets are $2 with a UV ID or free with a MAWL pass. Softball vs. University of Northern Colorado-The game will start at 2 p.m. Tickets are $2 with a UV ID or free with a MAWL pass Russian Ambassador to the U.N.- Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the U.N., Vitaly Churkin, will speak In the Timpanogas Room at the Library from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The lecture is open to the public. • Vitaly Churkin, the Russian Federation Ambassador to the United Nations, will lecture at Utah Valley University's Timpanogos Room located in the Library on Monday, March 16, from 10-11 a.m. "We and other universities [in the state] have been trying to get a Russian Ambassador here for over a decade," said Dr. Rusty Butler, associate vice president for international affairs at UVU. "We are very fortunate to have him coming to UVU." Churkin replaced Andrey I. Denisov in May of 2006 as the current Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the U.N. Prior to his most recent assignment he was a Russian Federation Ambassador-at-Large to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2003-06) as well as Russian Federation's Ambassador to Belgium (1994-1998) and Canada (1998-2003). "To have a man of this stature is, our course, a huge opportunity for us at the university and for our students, faculty and others to dialogue with him directly," Butler said. Churkin, who is fluent in Russian, French and English, is also the chairman of the Senior Officials of the Arctic Council. Churkin is a 1974 graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 1981 he earned a doctorate in history from the USSR Diplomatic Academy. The event is open to UVU students, faculty members and the public. KICK-OFF FOR SUMMER SEMESTER • Registration for summer classes begins March 25. In celebration, a summer kick-off is scheduled the same day, March 25, in the Courtyard from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for students to have fun and learn more about what UVU has to offer in the summer. J-Dawgs will be served at a discounted price along with snow cones. Also, shirts will be given out and representatives from the Office of Extended Studies will be available to answer any questions regarding summer classes. Summer at UVU offers several benefits for those who choose to enroll. Some benefits include free summer parking, smaller classes and shorter semesters. Also, non-resident and international students are given in-state tuition prices. Infinite Beauty Art Exhibit - an art exhibit inspired by mathematics will be at the Fifth Floor Gallery in the Library. UVU NURSING STUDENTS MAKE NAME CARDS FOR INFANTS IN INTENSIVE CARE UVUSA Suggestion Box Suggestion: An extremely common suggestion for the Education Building is to bring in some kind of food cart that provides healthier food options for students to purchase. Trent Bates/UVU Review are from this arts-centered area. Response: We took this request to UCCU and they have agreed to place one in the GT building. We are in the process of taking it to the space comResponse: mittee. Once approved, a It has been recognized location will be picked and by the administration and it will be available to the food services that there is a public - Lindy Hager, Arts need for better food options Senator in the Education Building. The main concern for bringSuggestion: There needs to ing in a food cart is the cost and foreseeable inability to be more parking break even with revenue. We have petitioned food ser- Response: There are a lot more stuvices to facilitate a trial run of the food cart. They are in dents coming to UVU, and the decision making process yes, the space is limited. now. - Stephanie Hintze, Parking garages cost millions of dollars and are being Education Senator discussed by the administration. Not only do we need to Suggestion: Is it possible find the space, but we will to get an ATM machine also need to find the fundclose to the Black Box ing, which at the present Theater in the GT building? time is more difficult due to the cutbacks. It is on the adThis would be helpful beministration's radar though. cause of how far the other - Corrin Krogh, Technology ATM machines on campus & Computing Senator Suggestion boxes are located around campus. To see UVU Review staff info go to uvureview-com Want to meet THE Jack Waters? Join the newsroom! Need a place to park your scooter? We have parking for you! Challenge resident push-up champ John Dit2ler in the newsroom! Scholarships available, only for qualified applicants. We do discriminate. Meetings are on Mondays at 4 p.m. in SC105. Be there or be square. • When UVU's Susan Rasmussen assigned each member of her nursing class to complete a five-hour service project as part of the course she didn't quite know what their reaction would be. While watching her class band together to make name cards for infants in Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICU) she saw it proved to be more than just an assignment. "I thought maybe they were fulfilling a requirement, but when they were through everyone thought it was a lot of fun and we learned from each other," Rasmussen said. "I told them stories about children in NICU and the difference they could make [in the children's lives]. The whole purpose was for them to reach out." Under Rasmussen's direction, nursing student Kimberly Northcott, a second-semester nursing student, organized the service activity as her honors project. Fellow students in her class collected paper and supplies from family, friends and faculty and even received donations from several local scrapbooking stores. Twelve class members and seven volunteers gathered together Feb. 28 and in three hours made close to 200 hand-made cards to be place on an ill baby's Isolette with his or her name in a effort to help ease the stress of the parents. "Walking into the NICU and seeing all the tubes and all the machines and seeing their baby hooked up to all these things is overwhelming for the parents," Northcutt said. "If they see something that shows a little bit of care for the emotional side, I think it is really appreciated." Jenna Fankhauser, who graduates from the nursing program in May, has witnessed first-hand how name cards can make a difference in the lives the families who have children in NICU. "Pve been in NICU a couple of times and the parents and families do appreciate it," she said. "It's nice to know you can help out - not physically take care of them, but emotionally take care of them." The students are putting the final touches on the cards, which have boy, girl, twin, holiday and other themes, before delivering them to area hospitals in Utah and Salt Lake County in the next couple of weeks. National news IRAQI SHOE THROWER SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON • Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi received three years in prison for his incident of throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush during a December news conference in Baghdad. He was sentenced for his assault on a foreign leader. When he was sentenced he yelled, "long live Iraq." Many in the Middle East consider him a hero for displaying his anger about the U.S.'s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. SPACE STATION EVACUATION • The international space station crew had a close call with space junk last Thursday. The three crew members had to take refuge for 11 minutes in an Soyuz escape capsule because of a threat of a collision with a piece of space debris that was about one-third of an inch in width. The crew safely was able to go back into the space station after being in the escape capsule. |