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Show Full tuition SU awards offered their interest in the program in a letter to the Thompsons and must include a copy of their SUSC transcript. Situated on Little Creek Mesa, some 10 miles southwest of Zion National Park, the program begins June 15 and ends Aug. 8. Students work on the site five days a week, spending evenings doing laboratory work and participating in academic lectures. Field school participants par-ticipants are housed in a tent compound located a few hundred yards from the site. Excavation is on an Early Pueblo II site of the Virgin Branch of the Kayenta Anasazi. The field school faculty includes Thompson; adjunct archeologist Gardiner F. Dalley from the Bureau of Land Management; and i graduate assistants from Rutgers University, Gustavus Adolphus University, Brigham Young University, Wesleyan University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A total of 15 hours credit in archeology field work and surveying are available for the experience. ex-perience. "The field school is offered primarily for the undergraduate student, but' other interested adults and graduate students are welcome to enroll," Dr. Thompson said. "The two scholarships, however, are strictly for SUSC students." Additional information about the scholarships and the summer field school is available by contacting Thompson at 586-4411, extension 344. Full-tuition scholarships scholar-ships for Southern Utah State College's seventh annual Field School in Southwestern Archeology are being made available to two SUSC students by Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Thompson. The scholarships will cover tuition costs for the eight-week archeology field school as well as board and room. Each is worth approximately $600. "All SUSC students are invited to apply for the scholarships," Dr. Thompson, field school director, said. "Applicants "Ap-plicants need not be archeology or anthropology an-thropology majors, and no experience in the field is necessary because awards will be made strictly on the basis of interest." The scholarship deadline is March 31. Applicants must explain |