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Show Thursday, February 2, 2006 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 13 SHS DECA Club members excel at regional competition The Springville High School DECA Club competed in the UVSC Regional DECA Competition last week. The competition competi-tion gives students a chance to use their problem-solving and creativity skills and the SHS DECA members did just that. Other schools competing in the regional event were Payson, Provo, Uintah, Pineview, Timpanogos, Timpview, Mt. View, Orem and Spanish Fork. Students who placed in individual events at the competition competi-tion were Nikki Payne (1st Place) - Apparel and Accessories Marketing; Dallin Allred (1st place) - Marketing Management; and Courtney Court-ney Booke (2nd Place) -Accounting. Students who placed in team events were Landon Slater and Sean Smith (3rd Place) - Sports and Entertainment Enter-tainment Marketing; and Jessica Johnson and Jace Hoover (3rd Place) - Busi ness Law. The Springville High School DECA club membership has more than doubled over the last few years, this year having 50 plus members. Upcoming DECA club events are a new Fashion Show, "It's a Material World. . . with a Heart," at Springville High School on Thursday, Mar. 16. at 7:30 p.m., and their state competition. The fashion show will contain gorgeous models, awesome music and plenty of information on spring and summer fashions. fash-ions. Please come support the charity they're helping with this event a women and children's crisis center. DECA students will be competing in the state competition on March 7 and 8h in Layton. SHS students who place 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the state competition will be headed to Dallas, Texas, for the national competition a competition with over 14,000 plus students from across the U.S.A. Lori Jacobson, DECA club advisor, is proud of her DECA students and hopes to see many qualify for nationals! Philharmonic Orchestra delights audience Jordan Jacobsen SHS STAFF WRITER The Springville High School Philharmonic Orchestra, Orches-tra, directed by Samuel Tsugawa, had a concert this past Wednesday, Jan. 25. The orchestra played "Symphony "Sym-phony No.l." "The Divine Comedy," "the Inferno," selections se-lections from "Miss Saigon," "Trumpeter's Lullaby," "Buglers' "Bu-glers' Holiday," and "Overture "Over-ture to Rienzi." The concert was concluded with an encore, en-core, "Lord of the Dance." "Trumpeter's Lullaby" featured fea-tured guest soloist Seretta Hart. Miss Hart is the new director of bands at Springville High School this. She also was featured in a trumpet trio along with orchestra or-chestra members Andy George and Ethan Mackey. The trio played the extremely extreme-ly difficult melody to "Buglers' "Bu-glers' Holiday." The concert was excellent and the students should be congratulated. They put in a lot of hard work and dedication dedica-tion and have proved it pays off by the way they performed. per-formed. The orchestra thanks the school, city, parents, par-ents, and all those who attended at-tended for their continual support of the high school music program New Bachelor of Political Science Degree at UVSC Utah Valley State College now offers a four-year Bachelor Bach-elor of Science Degree in Political Po-litical Science, recently approved ap-proved by the Board of Regents Re-gents on January 20. Three possible emphases are available avail-able which include political philosophy and public law, international relations and American government. The new degree will include in-clude an expansion of upper division political science classes regarding local, state and federal government as well as study of the American Ameri-can constitution, public administration ad-ministration and an introduction introduc-tion into law and politics. The new degree will also increase in-crease the political science internship opportunities for students. Students interested in public service or those planning to attend law school are specifically targeted for the degree. Upper division classes begin fall semester, but students can declare the major immediately. "There have been many students just waiting for this degree to get approved," said Keith Snedegar, chair of the history and political science sci-ence department at UVSC. "It won't be just an In class or theoretical degree, they'll be out in the field seeing how it works in real life." For more information, contact con-tact the UVSC History and Political Science department at (801) 863-7296. Mapleton graduate Boise State University, the largest university in Idaho, granted degrees or certificates certifi-cates to 1,306 students during dur-ing its 76th commencement ceremonies Dec. 16. Susan Langford of Mapleton was awarded a Bachelor of Science Sci-ence in Mathematics, Secondary Sec-ondary Education. He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself him-self is wise. - Lao-Tzu Mouniaitiiand Applied Technology College Looking for a hair salon? Look no further, contact MOUNTAIN COSMETOLOGY for your next salon appointment matc 763-0324 matc V i - fifi f , --'Tr-Mi liMiMi Stricter rules announced at NCAA meeting On January 18, there was a meeting held at the Springville City Library about the requirements that high school athletes need to meet in order to be NCAA eligible. el-igible. It addressed updated qualification rules in ACTSAT scores, grade point average, and courses that need to be taken by a prospective high school athlete. ath-lete. To be an eligible NCAA player from the entering years of 2005-2007, the new rule requires that the athlete take three years of additional addition-al courses beyond those that are the required minimum to graduate. If you are planning to enter en-ter college in the year 2008 or after and be a Division I athlete, the following amount of courses are required: 4 years of English, 3 years of mathematics (Algebra I or higher), 2 years of naturalphysical science (1 year of lab if offered by high school), 1 year of additional English, mathematics or naturalphysical nat-uralphysical science, 4 years of additional courses (from any area previously stated, foreign language or nondoc-trinal nondoc-trinal religionphilosophy.) If you plan to enroll in college col-lege in the year of 2005 or after, af-ter, the following courses are required with at least a 2.0 grade average and a sum score of the Verbal and Math sections of a 68 on the ACT or an 820 on the SAT: 3 years of English, 2 years of mathematics (Algebra I or higher), 2 years of naturalphysical science (1 year of lab if offered by high school), 2 years of additional English, mathematics or naturalphysical nat-uralphysical science, 2 years of social science, 3 years of additional courses (from any area previously stated, foreign for-eign language or nondoctri-nal nondoctri-nal religionphilosophy.) For more information please visit the NCAA official offi-cial website at www.ncaa.org. , (33 Brennen Foster drives for the basket last week in a Red Devil basketball basket-ball game. Dean's List at U of I The University of Idaho least a 3.0 GPA on a mini-announces mini-announces the 2,287 students mum of 10 graded credits, that made the Dean's List for College of Law student fall semester 2005. David Wendell Gadd of To achieve this honor, un- Springville made the list, dergraduate students achieved a grade point aver- ' age of 3.5 or better" on 12 or Everyone is the age of more graded credits. their heart. Law students earned at -Guatemalan proverb Register Now!! A Achievement -j- - .-I if. - star is wnn Begtnmng. Springville Exit 260 off 1-15 806-9500 Signature service on most vehicles, see dealer for details Hockey Programs y 7 Skating Lessons 44itH4 Evening iHoHage . m E'-iia s&t p a s- a ti t s UWH.II!,-',- II- iftit wfflrfs? iitswil I STATE FARM 1 INSURANCE I ! |