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Show Campus Briefs Ice Sheet offers free skating to students The new Ice Sheet now has free open skating for the Weber State University community. Open skating begins May 1 through September 4. The hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Admittance only to those with current WSU ID card and a one dollar skate rental fee. , Annual awards given at Honors banquet The Honors Program gave out its annual award to superior faculty and students for the year 1994 Thursday. The Cortez Banquet was held at the Timbermine Steak House and Scott Trundle, publisher of the Standard-Examiner was the keynote speaker. The following is a list of faculty who received distinguished awards: Distinguished Professor of Directed ReadingsSenior Projects-Kathryn MacKay Distinguished Professor for Departmental Honors - Richard Atkinson Honors Program Service Award - Eugene Bozniak, William McVaugh, Craig Oberg and Sally Bishop Shigley. Most Innovative Class Award - John Sohl "Perspectives in the Physical Sciences: Science, Technology and Society" Distinguished Department Award - Department of Philosophy Don Quixote Award - Craig Gundy New Professor Award - Sally Bishop Shigley Homers Cortez Professor - John Sohl The following are students who received distinguished awards: Honors Cortez Student - Danielle Killian Honors Scholar Award - Barry Toone True Grit Award - Teresa Ingram-Whittlesey Bachelor of Integrated Studies Student Award - Roberta Blain Child abuse conference offers course credit A provocative and informative conference on child abuse will be held again this year at Weber State University. This seventh annual conference, "Preserving the Innocence of Children," will be held August 4 and 5. WSU students can receive credit in the social work, criminal justice, psychology, child and family studies or sociology departments for attending the conference. "This will be a regional conference designed to provide training of value and importance to all disciplines working with children," said Marilyn Sandberg, executive director of the Child Abuse Prevention Council. The keynote speakers at the conference include Richard Krugman, M.D., Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, Naomi H. Griffith, M.A., M.S.W., Executive Director of the North Alabama Chapter for the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse and Jon Conte, Ph.D, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. Conte is a noted researcher and respected author on many child abuse issues. The cost is $60 for the two-day conference or $30 for one day. Lunch and breaks are included both day. For information call 399-8430. '.,1 Did You Know... When You Donate Plasma You Save Lives While Earning Money! Plasma is an essential fluid of life and there is an on-going need for good quality plasma. Plasma-based medicines save thousands of lives, some right here in our community. Just a few hours of your time each month can help make the difference in someone's life. Miles compensates you each time you donate. Depending on how often you donate, you can receive up to $125 a month! Miles is seeking STUDENTS and others to help share their good health with people in need. If you're at least 18 years old and meet our health requirements you can start saving lives while you earn! Donor Information Nights are Thursdays 6 - 7 p.m. For more Information call: 393-8606 I Ogden Plasma Center, 2262 Washington Blvd. MILES 2k Notice: Pldjmj donon am sublet to medical K'etomq and fg prior to acewtanct. tnd Ml all ui'es during participation n lh donor programl KWCR's Spanish program works its way to national recognition By Sharon Guerrero Signpost senior reporter Weber Sta te University's radio station KWCR received national recognition recently for a Spanish language cultural program that was created by WSU senior Alexis Salvo, who is the Spanish program manager for KWCR, and WSU history professor Henry Ibarguen. Encuentros con Nuestros Raices, which means Encounter with our Past, is a historicalcultural program that examines Latin-American history in in a discussion format between Ibarguen and Salvo. The program, which airs each Sunday morning from 10 to 10:15, won second place in a national competition sponsored by Cadena Bilingue, a public network for Spanish-language radio stations and programs. Cadena Bilingue is a nonprofit organization that provides news and cultural programming to public radio affiliates in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States. Because of limited air time, KWCR only utilizes news broadcasts from the network. Salvo said the second-place award was a great honor since 66 People talk a lot about minority communities in the U.S. doing something to solve their problems, and this is basically what we are trying to do.... Henry Ibarguen 9? more thanl20 public radio stations competed in the cultural category of the competition. A station in Puerto Rico won the first-place award. "We are very proud of this," he said. "We competed against stations that are not only much larger, but that have many more resources because they are located in large Hispanic communities." The award also means the program may soon be broadcast nationally to Cadena Bilingue affiliates, Salvo said. The goal of the program, which began more than three years ago, is to educate listeners about the history of La tin-Americans, Salvo said. "A lot of people know they are Hispanic, but they might not even know what that means," Salvo said. Ibarguen supplies topics for each program, which he discusses with Salvo, the host of the program, in a question-and-answer format. Although the program generally follows a chronological format, beginning with the Indian period in the Americas, it also examines some current events in the context of their historical meaning. Ibarguen said the program was created as a service to the Hispanic community in Ogden, who have reacted with a lot of positive feedback. "People talk a lot about minority communities in the U.S. doing something to solve their problems, and this is basically what we are trying to do," he said. "People who came here to the U.S. from Latin America, be it Mexico or some other country they have been removed from their own history. With this program, we're trying to give them back their history, their roots." off mote Sites! "ft? 0qM I w y v rTlMljili 6680 ,x 11 Vm MmL$. Tt A to - BOOKSTOISB More than just textbooks |