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Show May 12, 1993 The Signpost 3 Hemingway award given to professors By CARLOS CORDERO Signpost editor in chief The Hemingway Faculty Development Trustawarded $44,241 to various Weber State University professors April 30. The awards are to increase faculty vitality and stimulatestudent learning, said Bob Smith, vice president of academic affairs. The .noney was received by interest gained from a $1 million grant donated to WSU by the Richard K. Hemingway family in 1988. The awards will fund three areas: to increase multicultural issues in the curriculum, to create cultural awareness and to sponsor a corrections system study trip to Tasmania. Nancy Haanstad, WSU political science professor, received about $3,000 to revise a women's studies course with information on Asia, Africa and Latin America. The purpose of revision, Haanstad said, is to deter the ten t" Backed by 36 Years in Business and 77 Combined Years of Experience Come down and we'll make you a great deal on any diamond and ring in stock, and we can probably get one you've seen some- J where else for a great price too. "You Can't Buy a Diamond for Less' 2419 Washington Blvd. 621-7666 V1 nmmmm- Wildcat dency of women's studies to look at the lifestyle of the western woman only. However, a great majority of women in the world are not living in this area, she said. "Dr. Wangari Waigwa-Stone and myself will internationalize the introduction of women's studies classes. The tendency in most women's studies programs is to look at the western middle class woman, but 80 percent of the women are not western or middle class. We will bring focus to women as a whole group," Haanstad said. The project will be introduced next fall and a workshop will be done later in the year. "The class will be taught in the fall, and a year from now we will hold a workshop in which the class will be evaluated. The workshop will be for all faculty. The idea is to put in front of the professors the material that we are using so the class internationalization is not a one-time thing," Haanstad said. .v' - -Til 1 7; I I Theater. The Hemingway award focuses on the internationalization of learning material at WSU, he said. "Third world people make up 40 percentofthepopulationoftheworld, and when you look at the curriculum of political science, they are invisible. This is because they don't possess powerand don't compete for power. But, they are organizing themselves and want to be heard. This is the world that we are going to be facing in the 21st century very much an interdependent world. So relations with other cultures cannot be underestimated," she said. Sociology is another department which will be involved in international studies, Haanstad said. "Kay Gillespie from the sociology department will do a historical study of the correction system in Tasmania. It is the same idea; we need to know with accuracy the material that we are presenting to our students. We need to know what is going on around the world," Haanstad said. Electricgas By TYSON HIATT Signpost staff writer A 1993 Ford Escort Wagon adapted to hybrid electric and gas power was on display at the College of Applied Technology Tuesday.The 18-month project will be among 30 other projects to be judged during the first week of June in Dearborn, Mich. Dave Erb, assistant professor for mechanical technical engineering, said that Ford and General Motors, along with the U.S. Department of Energy, sent out the call to colleges of applied technology for hybrid cars as early as June 1991. By September of 1991, 215 schools responded with their pro- Announcing An f w . I U f NOW OPEN AT: 36 & Harrison (Across from Kinko's) 392-6554 Open 7 Days a week No Appointment Necessary Time Out 1 3 is? , . ERIC JOHNSON THE SIGNPOST ROD DAVIS, STUDENT PRACTITIONER, gives Mike Williams a massage to relieve his end-of-quarter tension. car ready posals, and Weber State University's proposal was one of 30 accepted. "Our students did a top-notch, professional-quality job," Erb said. "I think their accomplishments on this project will impress recruiters from leading industries." Erb said the 1993 Escort wagon was dona ted by Ford, and the students developed an electrical-gas powered drive system using 12 deep-cycle batteries. "These batteries are the kind that are used on boats or recreational vehicles and can meet the demands on them," Erb said The batteries, according to Erb, are designed to be charged, completely drained of energy and recharged, something that an ordi Weber State That's Just Your Me for the road nary car battery cannot do. It is possible that someone will come up with an alternative power design that could be marketed in the future. "We signed an agreement with Ford that they retain first rights on anything innovative that is used in the contest," Erb said. He said that he likes to think of the contest as a year-long job interview with the students. "When they see the students in the contest, they will probably hire the best and the brightest," Erb said. A $75,000 prize will be distrib-u ted over 1 0 d i f ferent judging ca t-egories on two different categories of cars. No one team will receive the whole prize. At Great Clips, our stylists give you the look you want, every time. Every Great Clips stylist is specially trained to give you a salon-quality cut or perm, without the salon price. So come to Great Clips, and let our stylists give you your style. Great Clips for hairy I OUR STYLISTS P''VT.T 1T7T t May 13-15 |