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Show The Forum - 5 September 19, 2000 ft F By Zach Lowe Forum Staff Writer It is coming to that time of year when the wind blows cooler, the leaves are changing into fall, and winter hibernation set in. The fireplace seems a little more amicable and hot chocolate and coffee warm the bitter air. In the darkness of the winter night, it is best to stay inside and snuggle up with a book. When the television can no longer offer stimulation or culture, the best place' to find a new book is the Great Salt Lake Book Festival. The Great Salt Lake Book Festival is once again coming to Westminster College on September 22 and 23. This years festival includes a variety of diverse writers and poets. Derek Walcott, Noble Prize winning poet and playwright will be the keynote speaker and featured author of the festival and will open the festivities on the 22nd with a reading of his work in the Jewett Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Many national, regional, and local authors including Craig Childs, Mary Amato, Francisco Alarcon, Joan Bauer, and Westminsters own David Stanley will participate on panels, reading, and talking about their work on Saturday the 23rd. The festival runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There will be other literary activities for all ages including workshops on papermaking, letterpress printing, and bookbinding, and bookmaking workshops for children. Many new and used books will be for sale from the various local bookstores. There will be food and music also. The featured poet, Derek Walcott, was bom on the West Indies island of St. Lucia in 1930. His parents, especially his mother, helped encourage and influence him to further his education and in his zealous reading and writing. He published his first book of poems when he was merely 18 and has since then published over Tomorrows Leaders Give Way Together ftfival 40 other books of poetry, plays and other literary works. In his epic book Omeros, Walcott recasts West Indian villagers and laborers to the roles of Homers Odyssey. His newest book, Tiepolos Hound, is highly praised by many literary journals and magazines, including Publishers Weekly. Many of Walcotts poetry deals with cultural embodiment, racial issues, origins, identity, creation, time and place. His works reveal his maturing voice, continued education, his experience and wisdom. In addition to his abundant writing, Walcott is also a painter. Walcott now lives in New York and St. Lucia and teaches at Boston University. For more information on the Great Salt Lake Book Festival, contact the Utah Humanities Council. For further information on Derek Walcott or other poets coming to Westminster contact Natasha Saje, assistant English professor at Westminster College. O (cj v? By Gia Throndsen jugful Copy Editor Picture this: you are hiking down a scenic trail of red rock to the Green River, where your rafts await you at the boat ramp. The water freezes your feet numb as the seaweed floor tries to keep you from reaching your boat. You finally get to the raft, and climb in. You float gracefully down the river listening to the coxswain yell stroke! Its all so relaxing until you hear a cadet on another boat yell, attack! One hundred University of Utah Army ROTC students from Westminster to Weber State University heard this yell September. 16 and 17 on the annual ROTC river trip. One hundred students felt the chill of the icy water over their entire bodies after being thrown from their rafts and left to float wearing life jackets and grimaces. All the while, students tried desperately to defend themselves, their oars, their rafts and their body temperatures. Besides students from Westminster and Weber, ROTC classes from Salt Lake Community College attended as well. Westminster and SLCC ROTC classes are in the Us program because the programs are still too small to have their own classes. Changing small enrollment numbers is the aim of trips like these and it seems to work says Cadet Captain Job Freedman, a senior at Westminster. I think it the river trip will definitely increase enrollment in ROTC. According to Freedman, through all of the grimaces and teeth chattering, the kids just love it. Its the way we get most of our people to sign up, says Freedman. It helps bring the Ute Warrior Battalion together as a team. Cadets built teams as they battled each other for cross-enroll- See A ,y vL ...... ' , ij - J - ' ..i,,- - V .. r T- r -- 4. mm . In' - v . .L- -i ' J V j fir l ''V' .kN f 'lit yt. kub L 'f) r . COLLEGE SEASON PASS I $395 ed ROTC, page 8 10 OFF food and beverages at most underground parking at the Resort Center 10 OFF restaurants FREE skisnowboard rentals and demos at Park Gty Mountain Rentals and the Summit Demo Center New Super Pipe, MountainCross, and play parks OFFER EXPIRES FREE September 30th, 2000 ($550 before October 31st) Great season pass rates available as well 'Mferrf dScfOSTAitl) RESGRJT NON-STUDEN- TS Call us or visit us www.parkcitymountaln.com .5 |