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Show -w.r y .... - i. , ., ( ( i '-r Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday, March 22. 1995 Page 3 V ' - i ... ; 'I" ; Utah Valley State College's Business Club, DEX (Delta Ep-silonChi) Ep-silonChi) UVSC business club sends 1 8 to national competition Eighteen students from the Utah Valley State College (UVSC) business club, DEX (Delta Epsilon Chi), finished in first, second, or third place at the state business competition qualifying them for national competition com-petition in May. Students competed in various business and marketing events ranging from advertising to fashion merchandising to hospitality, and DEX Chapter Advisor Ad-visor Doug Miller said the competitive competi-tive activities were designed to test conceptual and practical skills. "Competition in each category varied from designingimpromptu marketing strategies to taking standardized tests to determine conceptual mastery," Miller said. Mt. View students educate public on Shaken Baby Syndrome How many of you have ever heard of Shaken Baby Syndrome? Less than 50 of all Americans have ever heard of the syndrome, yet it kills infants daily. Mountain View High School students Kami Anderson, An-gelyn An-gelyn Schlappi, and Jenny , : . i . - - i)i .,tti'r-.v ft- rf t i- . ? -( i V- ;.l n T. A h ! -. '' A c Lakeridge Ledger by Michael Young Student reporter The Fine Arts Week poster contest winners were: 1st place, Kay Lynn James; 2nd place, Nicole Flores; 3rd place, Christina Chris-tina Alvear; 4th place, Keilani Kolopeaua; and 5th place, Chanel James. Great job on the posters, guys! Mrs. Slater's science classes are doing a fun little project. They are making ice cream to learn about the different phases that matter can be in. They get a small can and put in mile and the other ingredients. Next, they put it in a larger can and put ice around it. They put the lid on the can and shake it all during class and in the end they have ice cream. Doesn't that sound like a fun way to learn at school? A man's feet should be plant ed in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George Santayana Mtn. View High School announces registration Orem Junior High students stu-dents coming to Mountain View High School for 1995-96 and their parents are invited to come and meet with the high school counselors to review class selections. Interviews Inter-views will be held in the Mountain View lunchroom. Please enter the center east doors. Students will be interviewed inter-viewed according to their month of birth as follows: Monday, March 27, 6:00 p.m. January; 6:30 p.m. February; 7:00 p.m. March; and 7:30 p.m. April. Tues-day, Tues-day, March 23, 6:00 p.m. May; 6:30 p.m. June; 7:00 p.m. July; and 7:30 p.m. August. Wednesday, March 29, 6:00 p.m. Sept.; 6:30 p.m. Oct.; 7:00 p.m. Nov.; and 7:30 p.m. Dec. r "Some students came prepared with ad and promotional campaigns cam-paigns already designed while others came prepared to compete in events where various role-play scenarios are given to the students." stu-dents." Of the 18 nationally-qualifying students, seven placed first in the categories of advertising, fashion merchandising, apparel and accessories, full serve restaurant, res-taurant, general marketing, and hospitality. The 18 students who qualified for national competition will now prepare to meet 3,000 students from colleges from all 50 states. National competition will take place May 5-10 in St Louis, Missouri. Mitchell wanted to make the public more aware of this fatality. The three girls have gone out into the community to give five to ten-minute ten-minute presentations on the syndrome for 6th grade children (the babysitting age) and adults at child care centers. They did this project for an FHA star J event, hoping they could save. some babs life. Shaken Baby Syndrome does not only occur when the child has been shaken, but even as much as bouncing the child on a knee, tossing toss-ing in the air, swinging by the arms, and even jogging with an infant can cause Shaken Baby Syndrome. What happens in this syndrome is the brain inside oi the head bounces back and forth, pinching nerves and popping blood vessels. This can cause seizures, brain damage, spinal injuries, in-juries, blindness, and even death. These are only a few of the unlimited un-limited damages that go on in the infant's head. Shaken Baby Syndrome is deadly. Please, if you have an infant in-fant anywhere from birth to two years of age, take precautions, because be-cause the condition can kill. Work is what you do so that some time you won't have to do it anymore. Alfred Polgar A? i Sj&V APT annud percentage yield u accurate aa of 3795 and ii wbjoct to change at any time. Minimum Ulwce to obtain the APY U $5000. New depoait'i only. Perulty for ily withdrawal. A Family Fir FCU Shre Draft account ii required to obuin the APT. I1 175 E 200 Home and School: Vital Links 1 By LILY ESKELSEN j President, Utah Education Association There is a magic that happens when you do the right thing. There's an excitement and a rush of empowerment that becomes habit-forming. And it makes me feel sorry for kids who don't understand un-derstand the magic. They regress into infant behavior. They drag themselves out from under their blankets of cool apathy only if there's something in it for them. They respond to self-interest in the same way a baby will. And they miss the magic. A Scoutmaster told me of a trip to Yellowstone with 50 teenagers. They hiked. They took pictures of exotic animals. They swam in hot springs. They pushed a family's car back onto the road after it had swerved over an embankment. They camped. They were frightened by a bear. They ate. Ate everything. And after the incredible adventure, ad-venture, the talk on the bus ride back home was of the one thing they hadn't planned: helping the family whose car had run off the road. They felt the exhilaration of being important. Being doers. Being more than sightseers. They had been someone's good luck and being the giver gave back to each boy a hundred-fold. A teacher told me of a class of so-called underprivileged students. stu-dents. Her children were poor in a material sense, but with her Public hearings to gather input on new high school boundaries The Alpine School District is sponsoring two public hearings on March 22 and March 30 to receive public input on attendance atten-dance boundaries for the new high school now under construction construc-tion north of American Fork. The new facility is located at 10350 ' North 4800 West, Highland, and will open its doors for the starting of school in the fall of 1997. ;i Jonight's hearing will begin at 7 p.m. in the media center at Pleasant Grove High School (700 East 200 South). The Thursday, March 30 session will begin at 7 p.m. in the media center at American Fork High School (510 North 600 East). Other hearings will be planned if needed. The meetings will be under the direc Jewish lecture series to be held at UVSC The Center for Jewish Studies at Utah Valley State College Col-lege (UVSC) will host two series of lectures this spring. The first series, "What Is a Jew?", will explore Jewish beliefs. It will be directed by Dr. Harris Lenowitz, a Hebrew language lan-guage scholar at the University of Utah. Guest speakers will include in-clude local rabbis, Jewish scholars, and Jewish businessmen. Participants will have the opportunity to examine 6-MONTH TERM DEPOSIT IRA OR SHARE CERTIFICATE GoC3. Annual Percentage Yield Based on 6.7 Rate Annual Percentage Yield Based on 7.00 Rate Lir:STCD TI712 OFFER" , South 99 N. Geneva Road Orem Phone (801) guidance, they knew how to make magic. They were worried about a terrible smell coming from a swampy area in their neighborhood. neighbor-hood. The class took on a project to investigate what turned out to be illegally dumped toxic waste. They took their cause through the bureaucracy all the way to the legislature with a bill to provide funding for a thorough clean up. It passed. These same kids played soccer at recess and went on a field trip to the zoo and watched the teachers get beaten by the 6th. graders at the Annual Spring Softball Humiliation, but what they talk about when they think of that year is that they got a law passed that made their neighborhood neighbor-hood safer. And lobbying the legislature isn't in the core curriculum. cur-riculum. But magic is. Even if you can't find it written in some guideline, rule, or policy. It's an essential in education. How lucky are the children who have a chance to know the joy of helping someone. Of understanding their importance impor-tance in the world and using their gifts, whether great or small, to make that world better because of a simple kindness. It's the magic inside each of us just waiting to perform. Magic that doesn't come from a rabbit in a hat. You pull this magic from the very soul. tion of Dr. Vera Henshaw, principal prin-cipal of American Fork High School and chairman of the boundary committee. ; The new high school will take students from both American Fork High and Pleasant Grove High, according ac-cording to Gary Keetch, administrator ad-ministrator over the secondary schools of the district. "We want to alleviate congestion now and in the immediate future for all three schools," he said. "The boundary committee will utilize patron input, demographic projections, and school enrollments to formulate formu-late possible boundaries for the new high school. Their recommendation recommen-dation will then be presented to the Board of Education for further discussion dis-cussion and a final decision." ' the perceptions of Jewish people, and the diversity within Judaism. "Zionism and the State of Israel" Is-rael" will explore the emergence of Zionism in Eastern Europe and examine ex-amine the event as it pertains to the birth of the State of Israel. International scholar Victor Ludlow Lud-low will be the key instructor of the second series.. For more information, contact con-tact UVSC Conferences and Workshops at 222-8002. 225 - 6080 James Westvvood selected as finalist in Geography Bee James Westwood, a 6th grade student at Suncrest Elementary in Orem, has been selected as one of the 100 state finalists in the Utah State Geography Bee, which will be held April 7, 1995, in Ogden, Utah. The Geography Bee in an annual an-nual national contest sponsored by National Geographic Society for 4th-8th grade students. The winner of each school Geography j COUPON Most Cars) 'HQ' WHh Coiawn Only COUPON j Ensffoctatjcsa Bi?aCie I Pickups, 4x4s and Most Cars With Coupon Only SMI Met Extra -COUPON Free Eshsixt i ! 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