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Show 4N. II it Women celebrate the beauty of their body and soul for International Women's Day Wolverines on campus continue to feel the effects of social anxiety 11 Wrestling history Utah Valley sent four grapplers to the NCAA Championships - • TI B2 - Celebration of women B6 Utah Valley University//uvureview.com UVU REVIEW MARCH 24, 2014 LV.XXIV Olt @BRITNIMILA THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE Legislature grants UVU more than $21 million UVU has been given $21 million in allocated funds along with nearly $2 million for employee compensation and university mission initiatives The • rowin • im • act of By KresLynn Knouse UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY Assistant News Editor @KresLynn 66 CO OMY $8 return on every dollar invested by the state For years, we have argued that UVU receives a substantially lower amount of tax funding. This [funding] is slightly more than the total of all new tax funds granted UVU in the last eight years combined. COMMUNITY ver 130,000 hours of service provided by students in 2012-2013 Nearly 9 out of 10 graduated students will remain in Utah lending expertise and earning power to the state #1 business development program in the state EDUCATION PRESIDENT HOLLAND Largest provider of undergraduate education in Utah 111°110 41% increase in degree completions since 2007-2008 07-08 12-13 As a result of the 2014 legislative session, UVU has been granted $21 million in outgoing funding due to new budget priorities from the Utah System of Higher Education. The university will receive an additional $1.7 million to go toward employee compensation and healthcare, along with nearly $1 million to enhance distinctive mission initiatives. This year, the USHE pushed to have state funding raised to bring all institutions to a $4,800 per student floor. This initiative was designed to bridge the gap between large student populations and state tax appropriations. UVU will receive the largest percentage of the $50 million allocated to the USHE in acute equity funding. "For years, we have argued that UVU receives a substantially lower amount of tax funding per student than other state and national institutions of similar size GRAPHIC BY TREVOR ROBERTSON MILLION A5 Taking back beauty Panel discussed the definition of beauty By Nicole Shepard News Editor @NicoleEShepard Groundbreaking research looks at spirituality's effect on the brain. GABI CAMPBELL/UVU REVIEW This is your brain on faith A group of religiously active returnedmissionaries will have their brain activity studied while they pray, read scriptures and view LDS churchreleased video clips By Tiffany Frandsen Staff Writer @Tiffany_mf with additional reporting Matt Gardner Staff Writer jamesmattgardner@gmail.com Researchers from the University of Utah are conducting a study called "The Religious Brain Project" to understand how the brain reacts during spiritual experiences. The study is led by Jeffrey Anderson, Associate Professor of Neuroradiology and Bioengineering at the University of Utah. He and fellow researchers Michael Ferguson and Jared Nielsen will evaluate study participants' brain activity while they experience spiritual stimuli. Specifically, the project will study the brain activity of returned missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. "These are people who have spent thousands of hours doing exactly what we're interested in for this study - being able to identify specific points of time when they can feel something spiritual," Anderson said. "We're excited to work with a group of people who have a degree of practice in identifying those feelings, which is a major part in the tradition of the LDS mission experience." The project involves a wide range of religious and scientific individuals from the University of Utah, Utah Valley University, Brigham Young University and Westminster College. Anderson hopes to see if regions in the 'social brain' are impacted in a way that might improve understanding of how spiritual practices influence social interactions. 25 volunteers ages 20-30 who are healthy, practicing members of the LDS faith will undergo an MRI scan while performing spiritual activ- FAITH A3 Four body image activists joined together Thursday to discuss strategies to cope with and change media culture surrounding women. Students in the Department of Public and Community Health's program planning class brought together the panel. For a Community Health program planning class project, students organized the event to create dialogue about the oftendismissed issue. "We saw that body image isn't something being addressed very often and we wanted to talk about it," Thomas Hall, one of the program organizers, said. The panel consisted of Beauty Redefined's co-founder Lexie Kite, popular blogger C. Jane Kendrick, community health expert and UVU alumna Jessica McLamb and childhood body image specialist Esther Okang. The panel discussion focused on the vast influence negative media stereotypes of women has, ranging from eat- ing disorders to the Photoshop culture now nearly ubiquitous. "Women from a young age are taught that we are our bodies and our bodies are merely parts to be looked at and used for gratification," Kite said. Kite explained that in films and commercials men are largely portrayed and intact, autonomous figures of power, fun and intellect whereas women are portrayed as something to be looked at. "When a woman first appears you'll see that the camera will pan up and down her body giving the viewer the chance to breakdown her attractiveness," Kite said. The damage this objectification has on women and girls is pervasive and starts young. "The belief that women should be on a diet starts in the third grade we've found," Okang said. "These girls are about nine years old and are convinced that they are fat and need to do 'something about it' so they decide to skip lunch at school." Ultra-thin representations of women in the media has been found to impact girls as young as three-years-old. "We've found that by the age of three, girls will no longer play with average-looking dolls, they prefer to play with Barbie who is a misleading image of a woman," Kite said. "They have already learned what is desirable and what is not." Kite explained that the little girls of today do not get the opportunity to see the reality of what girls got to see just 20 years ago. The images of womanhood are not just coming from dolls and television commercials. "With all the tanning and bronzing and fake eyelashes, fake hair, fake breasts and the perfect make up, these little girls are going to have a lot to fix when they grow up," Kite said, "unless we are willing to draw a line here and be willing to show a little more reality." Pervasive digitally altered images of women are teaching women and girls the standard for normal. Kite talked about how media illiterate Americans are saying that students learn to read and deconstruct literature, but not media images. "We are the only developed nation that doesn't have media literacy as a required course for teens," Kite said. "This is particularly dangerous considering we are the country that's BEAUTY A5 |