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Show Education News and information from local schools and colleges Page 3 Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday, November 13, 1991 t UVCC reports Record enrollment for fall semester at Utah Valley Community Com-munity College (UVCC) has brought record requests by students stu-dents for short-term loans. Financial aid officers at UVCC attribute the rise in loans to students needing additional resources to pay tuition and fees. "Close to 1,600 students bor-rowedjustover bor-rowedjustover $817,000 in order to register for the term," said Mike Johnson, director of financial finan-cial aid. "Those loans come due November 20, and we encourage those students who haven't done so .already to take the necessary actions in paying the loans back." The college reports that almost al-most all student borrowers repay their short-term loans. "Because National association recognizes BYU academic advising as "outstanding" The American College Testing Program (ACT) and the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) have recognized advisement ad-visement at Brigham Young University as an Outstanding Institutional In-stitutional Advising Program for 1991. Also, NACADA has honored Dr. Gary L. Kramer of Orem, former Director of Academic Advisement Ad-visement and now associate Dean of Admissions and Records at BYU, with its Distinguished Service Ser-vice Award. A letter from the ACTNACADA selection committee commit-tee said the national award for outstanding programs is given in recognition of innovative and exemplary ex-emplary practices. Kramer said he will circulate the recognition plaque to the university's 11 Advisement Centers. "They share in it because be-cause of their good work," he said. I Ie also noted the contributions of Dr. Erlend D. (Pete) Peterson, Dean of Admissions and Records. "Pete Peterson is the founding father of academic advising at BYU," Kramer said. "This award Canyon View hosts rare local concert Brigham Young University's outstanding performing group "The Lamanite Generation" will present Living Legends, a celebration of Native American, Latin, and Polynesian song and dance Thursday and Friday, November 14 and 15, in the school auditorium of Canyon View Junior High in Orem. Tickets for the performances at $2 for students, $3 for adults, and $10 for families will be sold at the door the day of the performances. perfor-mances. The Friday show will begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Saturday Satur-day show will be matinee at 2 p.m. Community concerns help traffic at UVCC In response to community input, College Drive, the peripheral road at Utah Valley Community College (UVCC), will be completed within weeks. A public meeting was held at UVCC last month to discuss the future expansion plans of UVCC. A master plan was established prior to the construction of the Orem campus and all subsequent expansions have gone according- ' Residents from the neighborhoods neighbor-hoods around the College voiced concerns about thegrowinginflux .of vehicles in the area. In "response to the problem local legislators, Lee Ellertson, LeRay JSlcAllister and Norm Nielsen, pushed to complete the Now is time to Running out of things to do as a family? Establish a new family tradition this summer-volunteering! It's a great boredom buster, and families can learn to appreciate each other while helping help-ing their community. Community volunteer opportunities include: Adopt-A-Grandparent. One family at the Heritage Convalescent Convales-cent Center takes several residents resi-dents for a walk every week. Volunteers Vol-unteers are asked to visit their resident for one hour each week. Times and activities are flexible. Cut and edge the lawn in the Family Support and Treatment Center's backyard on a weekly basis. The center's Crisis Nurserv serves potentially abused children chil-dren from ages 0-11 years. - Make and send greeting cards to nursing home residents for an upcoming holiday. - Bake and decorate birthday cakes for the State Developmen record request for loans of that, the program can continue in operation each semester," said Johnson. "Still, the financial aid office and the collections office are anxious that students understand under-stand their obligations." Legal action and withheld grade transcripts are the result of unpaid loans. "The debt remains on record. Collection efforts are begun, and co-signers are contacted con-tacted and asked for payment," said Johnson. "Regrettably, college services are withheld when loans are not paid back on schedule. That is, the defaulter will not abe permitted per-mitted to register for any future term until the loan is paid. Finally, Final-ly, failure to pay warrants reporting report-ing the default to credit agencies." does not just recognize what was done in the past year." NACADA has a membership of about 3,500 professionals representing rep-resenting roughly 1,200 institutions. institu-tions. It presents awards annually annual-ly in six categories. BYU won in the private comprehensive universities category. Kramer was president of NACADA from 1987 to 1989 and he is serving a term on its board of directors until 1992. He was program chair for the association's 1986 national conference con-ference in Seattle and served as the group's vice president of programs in 1983-84 and again in 1984-85. He has been co-chair of the Computer-Assisted National Conference, held at BYU, in 1984, 1987, 1990 arid 1991. In 1985, NACADA recognized him as Researcher Re-searcher of the Year. As associate professor of educational psychology, Kramer joined BYU in 1980 after serving as dean of students at Trident Technical College in Charleston, S.C. He was a doctoral fellow at The student council of Canyon View is proud to sponsor these public performances. All funds raised will be used to beautify the interior of the school as a student council project. Students are excited ex-cited to purchase a large visual of the school mascot, the Falcon, for display in the school hall. Previous student councils have sponsored performances by the Young Ambassadors. Funds raised were used upgrade the entrance of the school, providing new lawn, benches, and concrete trash receptacles. The public is encouraged to come early for best seating. peripheral road and add another access to the campus and direct traffic flow away from the nearby elementary school. Neal Savage, president of Savage Industries and chairman of the UVCC Foundation, arranged ar-ranged and sponsored equipment with Wheeler Equipment, while Orem City and UVCC combined manpower and additional equipment. equip-ment. The project will be completed com-pleted before Thanksgiving. . "This small section of road is a simple example of the power community input can have," said Kerry D. Romesburg, UVCC president. "With this type of situation, it is nice to see the combined com-bined efforts of industry and government working together." build traditions tal Center to freeze until they have a birthday. Families can also volunteer to participate in - the birthday party! Make flannel boards, figures, fig-ures, and stories for children staying with their mothers in the battered women's shelter or for the handicapped children at thek early intervention pre-school.; You must supply your own materials. mate-rials. Help wheelchair bound residents resi-dents at the Training School get to a movie, dance, or group activity activ-ity on campus-then stay and help with the activity. All of these activities are also great for groups and individuals. For more information on these and other volunteer opportunities, opportuni-ties, call the United Way Volunteer Volun-teer Center at 374-8108. Borrowers must remember that in all circumstances their loan must be paid in full. Failure to receive financial aid does not cancel the loan. Ceasing to attend school does not eliminate the debt. Students who do leave school, whether by withdrawing officially or leaving unofficially, will not be withdrawn from clas- , ses. "The best advice for students whomaybefacingdifficultiesget- ting the funds to repay their loan by November 20 is to stay in school," said Johnson. "Dropping out only adds to the problem because be-cause credits are lost, but the debt remains. Then everything possible pos-sible should be done to meet the obligation." Oregon State University, where he earned his doctorate in 1977, and was director of student services ser-vices at Northern Nevada Community Com-munity College in Elko, Nev. Kramer has published extensively exten-sively on various aspects of academic support services, including in-cluding computer-assisted advisement. ad-visement. Lakeridge Ledger By Lindsay Arnett News Reporter We'd like to thank the students stu-dents from Mrs. Shepard's class who painted the cans for the recycling recy-cling of the empty pop cans: Tony Passey, Jeff Sharp, Dan Hodson, Dan Rowe, Shannon Shelton.Tim Collings. Thanks alot. The 7th grad primary elections elec-tions were held this week. The winners are: Secretary, Elizabeth Harris, Steven Wooley and Becky Peterson; Vice Pres: Trisha Eichejberger, . Shawn Ford and, Heeni Takahash and President: Mandy Barlow, Reagan Morriss, Bobby Wallace. Way to go guys, good luck. There is a Critical Issues Conference Con-ference to be held at Lakeridge Jr. High this Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. It is open to all parents and students. TIPS We want the scoop on what's happening in Orem. Call in news tips. Orem-Geneva Times 225-1340 Scholarships offered students The John Gyles Education Educa-tion Fund offers scholarships scholar-ships to Americans, Canadians The Utah State Board of Regents recently announced that scholarships have been made available through the John Gyles Education Fund to assist American and Canadian students. stu-dents. To receive a grant the following criteria must be met; students must have citizenship in either ' Canada or the United States, acceptance ac-ceptance to or enrollment in an approved post-secondary institution, institu-tion, career plans that reflect the benefit of post-secondary studies and acceptable past academic performance per-formance (minimum GPA of 2.0). Those accepted will receive up to $5,000. To receive an application form, write the John Gyles Education Fund, P.O. Box 4808, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5G4. For more information, contact Paula Jones in the Utah Valley Community College (UVCC) Financial Aid Office or call 222-8000, 222-8000, extension 8442. Illinois Institute of Technology offers transfer trans-fer scholarships The Illinois Institute of Technology Tech-nology is offering transfer scholarships to community and junior college students for the 1992-93 year. Scholarships will be awarded to transferable and applicable course work of at least 15 Taking parts in Mountain View's production of 'Into The Woods" are, left to right: Lisa Weight as Witch; Baron Rohbock as Baker; Diane McKendrick as Little Red Riding Hood; Matthew Clyde as Jack; and Ginger Jensen as Cinderella. 'Into The Woods" is playing Nov. 14, 15, 16 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. Mt. View Drama Dept. to present "Into The Woods" Mountain View High School will be presenting the recently released Broadway musical "Into The Woods," November 14, 15, 16 and 18, jl991, at 7:30 p.m. in the MVHS Auditorium. Ticket prices , are $4.00 adults, $3.50 students and children, with a family ticket available, and Senior Citizen admitted ad-mitted free of charge. Ticket information in-formation may be obtained by telephoning 227-8759 during office of-fice hours. "Into The Woods" with music by Stephen Sondheim and lyrics and book by James Lapine, won three 1988 Tony Awards including includ-ing Best Book and Score. This enchanting musical intertwines the Grimm Fairy Tale's of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Baker and his Wife, whose family tree' is cursed by a Witch. 'Cinderella sings "I wish..." which all characters charac-ters advent until they discover; "Sometimes the things you most wish for are not to be touched." The witch spirals the action of the plot by sending the Baker into the woods to lift a childless curse by obtaining the cow as white as milk, the slipper as pure as gold, the hair as yellow as corn, and the cape as red as blood. Lapine has cleverly blended a riveting plot under Sondheim's masterful score. The central characters revolve around the talents of Ginger Jensen, playing the wishing wish-ing Cinderella, Baron Rohbock as the Baker and Heidi Perry as his wife, with Lisa Wright as the cursing Witch; Matthew Clyde portraying Jack, Jennifer Pope as Jack's Mother; and Little Red Riding Hood played by Diane McKendrick. Mc-Kendrick. Supporting characters are Lara Preston playing the beautiful Rapunzel, Chris Adams as her enchanting Prince; Cinderella's Prince is played by Cam Cahoon with her wicked semester (23 quarter) hours with the following cumulative grade point averages: recipients with a GPA of 3.75 or better may receive $4,000, those with a GPA of 3.5 to 3.74 may receive $3,000 and those with a GPA of 3.25 to 3.49 may receive $2,000. The following requirements must abe met no later than June 1, 1992 for the fall semester or November 1, 1992 for the spring semester: students must be admitted ad-mitted to IIT as a full-time student, stu-dent, submit financial aid forms to the College Scholarship Service, Ser-vice, IIT financial aid application and financial aid transcripts from all previous colleges attended. For more information write Illinois Il-linois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL 60616 or call 1-800-448-2329. National Federation of the Blind offers Scholarship Scholar-ship The National Federation of the Blind is offering several scholarship to recognize achievement achieve-ment by blind scholars. Applicants must be legally blind and pursuingor planning to pursue a full-time, post-secondary course of study. Scholarships Scholar-ships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence, service to the community and financial need. Some scholarships have been further restricted by the donor. For information contact Paula Jones at the Utah Valley Community Com-munity College Financial Aid Office Of-fice or call 222-8000, extension 8442. Stepsisters portrayed by Tiffany Faderich, Traci Brewster, and Malissa Morrell as her evil Stepmother; Step-mother; with the entire tale told under the narration of Roger Stokes. Other supporting characters charac-ters include: Jesse Todd, as the Wolf; Michael Mason, as the Prince's Steward; Kelly Whited as Granny; Bryan Dixon as Cinderella's Father; Sheli Silito as Snow White and Becca Jane Lewis as Sleeping Beauty. The production is under the direction of Mr. Charles Lynn Frost, in his tenth year as Artistic Director at Mtn. View High School; Ms. Judy Porray and Brian Peterson as Vocal Music Directors, and Robert Bird as Orchestra Director, Direc-tor, and Pam Musil as Choreographer. Choreog-rapher. Student-Assistant Directors Direc-tors include: John Bernhard and Becky Perkins. World's Fair at The entire ninth grade class at Orem Junior High, all 470 of them, are participating in a World's Fair. These students have been working on this project for the last two months. The first assignment assign-ment they were given was to complete com-plete a written report about their assigned country. There are 184 countries which were divided among the 470 students. The written report covers such topics as; (1) government, (2) culture, (3) history, and (4) geography. Usually the groups contained three students who share equally the responsibility of putting together the country report. Also in this report was a drawingof the country, a recipe of a favorite foods, and a replica of its flag. Each of the three teachers spend time in the library having their students use a variety of reference materials. Two of the most popular references are Culture Cul-ture Grams and National Geographic. As the time draws near for the fair and all reports have been handed in, graded, and returned; students begin sewing flags, cooking ethnic foods and scavengering for items which represent rep-resent their chosen country. Thanks to the citizens of Orem for your overwhelming Support Paid "Into The Woods" is considered con-sidered to be one of the most illuminating il-luminating and difficult musicals to emerge from Broadway and one of Steven Sondheim's stellar achievements. It promises to be an entertaining evening for musical musi-cal theater lovers of all ages. IhjBODS mm Orem Jr. High At 1:15, all tables in the school are transported to the two gyms. Students then begin setting up their displays in their assigned area. Confusion is extensive as students put up backdrops, flags, wall hangings, and etc. At 4;00, a sweet calm covers the gym as the students are finished putting up their displays and have gone home to put the finishing touches on their 150 samples of ethnic food and also to adorn themselves in their Sunday best. At 6:00, the doors open for the public. There are about 700 people who attend this annual World's Fair. TIPS We want the scoop on what's happening in Orem. Call in news tips. 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