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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, March 15, 2000 Page 9 it yk : i j i j hi ip i j y i n f f j g BYU fcosfc free fine Arts Ball March 17 PROVO, Utah - The annual Fine Arts Ball will feature the Ray Smith Big Band, a big band jazz ensemble, and refreshments in the B E Larsen Gallery of the Harris Fine Arts Center Friday (March 17) from 9.30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. There is no charge to attend the ball, and best dress is recommended recom-mended ' "This annual event is an opportunity oppor-tunity for people to come and enjoy en-joy the performances in the center that evening and then to have a great time at the ball," said Bruce Christensen, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications. "We're inviting all the people from BYU and the surrounding communities commu-nities as a way of saving thank you to all our patrons." Sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and Communications, the ball will follow the production "Love Affair with Electrons" and performances perfor-mances by the BYU Concert Choir and by oboe soloist Geralyn Giovannetti. Local schools vandalized Lakeridge Jr. High was forcibly entered sometime after 11:00 p.m. on Sunday night and burglars bur-glars broke into vending machines ma-chines located inside the school. The thieves stole money from the machines and did about $1500 damage in the process. The building build-ing was entered by breaking out a glass door on the north side of the school. There was no other reported damage. The amount of money stolen is not available at this time, but is nowhere near the dollar-amount of damage done to the machines. Four windows on an exterior trailer located at Bonneville Elementary El-ementary were broken sometime over the weekend. Entry was not made. Congratulations National Merit Scholarship Finalists Megan Gooch Correspondent Imagine a test that could determine your college career and beyond... If you do well on it Could such a test actually exist? The answer is yes. The test is the PSATNMSQT, and Mountain View students do well on it every year. The PSAT is a test distributed to over 20,000 high schools nationwide. Sophomores and juniors have the option of taking this test Choosing to take the test is a good idea because it steers the student in the direction of many good things. The PSAT (pre SAT) is also known as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test Students who perform well on the test become semifinalists in hv-f I f" ' 7 -- ; u: - v : ' Y Jo ' tf j I I f ! ' ; I f l W - .Lr-' - .W ouJL. i I: f i o t ' : - - --in i in niinj-nnr-1 ' " " "l"t1 ' 11 l'--aillff" mtmmmmMmrr mi inr Mr. Delanex Joseph Peterson, Sean Georgi, Amanda Stephens, Tristyn Satterfield, Mr. Young all happily pose with their National Ierit Scholarship Finalist certificates. BYU Heritage Week features Fiesta March 17 1 PROVO, Utah - Food dance and music will showcase Latin American Ameri-can culture at a Fiesta sponsored by Brigham Young University Multicultural Student Services and the Salsa Club as part of Heritage Heri-tage Week on Friday (March 17). The festivities begin at 6 p.m. with free cultural and educational booths in the Wilkinson Student Center Garden Court. The booths, showcasing the countries of Latin America, will be open until 8 p.m. A dinner featuring featur-ing cuisine from Latin American cultures and mariachi music begins be-gins at 6 p.m. in the Wilkinson Student Stu-dent Center Terrace. The evening continues with "Espectaculo Latino" at 8 p.m., which includes a cultural fashion show and performances per-formances highlighting various Latin American cultures in the Wilkinson Student Center Ballroom. Ball-room. A Latin dance begins at 9:30 p.m. in the same location. Tickets may be purchased before the event in3326WSC Pre-purchased tickets for the dinner, show and dance are $1 1, for the show and dance, $7, and for the dance only, $5. Tickets purchased at the door will be $14, $8 and $5 respectively. Those with BYU ID will receive $1 off the pre-event ticket price. Call the ticket office at (801) 378-3121 for more information. infor-mation. "We invite everyone to come and experience the beauty and variety of the Latin culture represented at BYU and in the community," said Jim Slaughter, programming coordinator coor-dinator of Multicultural Student Services. "This is a time to experience experi-ence good food, great entertainment entertain-ment and have an opportunity to focus on the positive influence of Latin American culture," said Slaughter. the National Merit Scholarship competition. Around 16,000 students across the country will qualify to become semifinalists. Semifinalists are also chosen on a state representational basis, which mean the test scores of the semifinalists will be varied. The scores of the semifinalists must be extremely high. The rank of semifinal ist is not the end of the road. There is still a rigorous elimination process one must go through to become a finalist 90 of the semifinalists will go on to be finalists. Finalists need more than just a good PSAT score to move on. To become a finalist one must have an outstanding academic record in college preparatory courses. They must submit SAT scores, as well as- a full Smith Institute hosts conference on 20th century IDS Church PROVO, Utah - The early twen-tieth-century history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints will be the subject of a Brigham Young University conference confer-ence on Saturday (March 18) beginning be-ginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Joseph Smith Building Auditorium. "Times of Transition, 1890-1920: 1890-1920: The Church Meets the Twentieth Twen-tieth Century" is the fourth annual LDS history conference sponsored by the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute In-stitute for Latter-day Saint History. His-tory. "The purpose of the conference confer-ence is to draw scholar together to discuss the history of the Church at the beginning of the century," cen-tury," said Ron Walker, professor of history and director of research at the Smith Institute. "We invite all those interested in early 20th century history to attend the conference," con-ference," said Walker. In the past, the Smith Institute conferences have attracted 500-600 people. The conference is free and open to the public For more information, contact the Smith Institute at (801) 378-4023. 378-4023. Elder Alexander B. Morrison, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy will present the keynote address, "The Twenty-first Twenty-first Century: Challenge and Opportunity," Op-portunity," at 8:30 a.m. After the keynote address, concurrent sessions ses-sions will meet in the Joseph Smith . Building and Ezra Taft Benson Building from 9:40 a m. to 3:45 p.m. with a no-host lunch break from 12:10 to 1:15 p.m. The 25 speakers to present at the conference include in-clude Jan Shipps, Kathleen Flake, Paul H. Peterson, Brian Q. Cannon, Can-non, Dale F. Beecher, Richard E. Bennett, Bruce A. Van Ordcn, William Wil-liam G. Hartley, Richard I. Kimball and others. Session titles -reflect the changes and challenges of the times of transition of the early twentieth century. "Extending Zion: Settlement and Missions in the Early Twentieth Twenti-eth Century," "Mormonism and National Politics" and "The Spiritual Spiri-tual and the Secular: The Church and the Media" are examples of topics to be presented at the conference. con-ference. Other topics include doctrinal doc-trinal development, the Word of Wisdom, Mormonism' national image, Joseph F. Smith, politics, science, humanitarianism and more. endorsement from the high school principal. It is also important that the semifmalist submit an essay about their high school activities and their plans for the future. The finalists are chosen based on a combination of test scores and extra-curricular activities. There were four well-qualified finalists from Mountain View: Sean Georgi, Tristyn Satterfield, Amanda Stephens, and Joseph Peterson. These students are extremely intelligent, and work very hard. They were all able to meet the rigid requirements to become a National Merit Scholarship finalist The four finalists are a great tribute to our schools academic programs. Mountain View had more finalists than any of the other schools in the area. This Oah Canyon By Patricia Knoell Times Reporter March is National Music in the Schools Month and Oak Canyon Jr. High School band teacher Connie Ugaki decided the school ought to do something special to celebrate. So, with a lot of hard work and the help of the rest of the fine arts department at Oak Canyon, she put together the inaugural "Oak Canyon Celebration of the Arts" On March 8, 2000. The evening of performances, displays and awards culminated a weeks worth of promotion of the arts in the school with an extravaganza extrava-ganza that featured concerts from the band orchestra and choir, displays dis-plays of artwork and a dance demonstration. dem-onstration. "It took a lot of planning, trying try-ing to pull together five different departments," A tired, but obviously obvi-ously happy Ugaki said. "Dance isn't technically part of the fine arts department, but we're trying try-ing to adopt them," she added with a smile. Her smile grew even wider when she looked around at the end of the successful evening to see the faces of happy students and happy patron who had come to partake in the arts. . "I just wanted to do something that focused on the arts," she said. "I wanted to give the arts student ? something to reward them fo- their efforts and give people a chance to appreciate their talents." With so many visual and musical musi-cal delights to sample from in a short, 45-minute, period visitors were kept busy going from venue to venue. But those who took the time had the chance to see and hear some fine examples of what dedicated youth and teachers can do when they work together. The symphonic and jazz bands presented numbers ranging from Star Wars to Tequila, The various vari-ous choirs vocalized many types of music as well, including opera, modem pop and religious music. is just another reason Mountain View is a great school. Only about 50 of the finalists will move on to become National Merit Scholarship winners. The winners will be announced in April. An experienced committee of high school counselors and college admissions officers chooses the winners. The winners will be chosen based on a state percentage. The students who win will be the students with the most outstanding combination of leadership experience and academic achievement. All of the Mountain View finalists have a great chance at winning a National Merit Scholarship. With an award like this, these students will have unlimited opportunities available to them in die future. Jr. High celebrates arfs Several individuals and small groups also presented highlights from the recent soloensemble 'estival. The orchestra also had in eclectic selection, as did the dancers. Awards were given by the teachers in each department for various achievements. In art, teachers Amanda Elton and Amy Wheeler gave first- and second-place second-place and honorable mention awards for ei.ch grade along with a "Best in Show." Orchestra teacher Britton Davis gave certificates certifi-cates to those who earned superior supe-rior and one-plus ratings at the recent competition. Choir director direc-tor Rosemary Matthews awarded those who had participated in the soloensemble festival. Ugaki recognized rec-ognized the soloists in the band with certificates and awards. Dance teacher Julie Davidson and Drama teacher Jessica Higgenbotham also gave out recognition rec-ognition awards. Y - t 1 1 1 t t v ' f Ninth grader Kris Cooper stands in front of his artwork, which won Best in Show honors at the Oak Canyon Celebration Cel-ebration of the Arts week. m.-mrmm w mwjt --4-U4bb "Tj I Oak Canyon art teachers Amanda Elton and Amy Wheeler stand in front of one of the art displays at the Oak Canyon Celebration of the Arts. McDonald's introduces new bagel sandwiches McDonald's restaurants in Utah; Elko, Ely, and Windovcr, Nevada; and Rock Springs, Evanston, and Green River, WY introduced a new line of breakfast break-fast sandwiches to its menu. The new Steak Egg & Cheese Bagel Sandwich, Ham Egg & Cheese Bagel Sandwich and Spanish Omelet Sandwich are currently being offered at these area McDonald's. "We created the sandwiches in response to the increasing popularity popu-larity of bagels among our breakfast break-fast customers, said Chris Beck-McKay, Beck-McKay, an OwnerOperator of stores in Salt Lake City. Now there are three more reasons to visit McDonald's in the morning." " The Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel Ba-gel Sandwich is prepared on a toasted buttered bagel topped with a juicy piece ov steak, two slices of American Cheese, sau-teed sau-teed onions, an egg and a breakfast break-fast sauce. The Ham, Egg & Cheese Bagel features ham, two slices of American cheese, an egg and McDonald's breaSast sauce. ' The Spanish Omelet is served on 0 K ilBI I TUM " llllB'TI " Brian Owen, who performed "Phantom of the Opera" in full regalia, in the solo, ensemble en-semble festival, was recognized recog-nized at the Oak Canyon Celebration of the Arts last week. a toasted, buttered biigel topped with a sausage patty, one slice of pepper jack cheese, one slice of American cheese, an egg with diced green peppers and onions topped off with breakfast sauce. Bagels can be purchased by the dozen and in some locations are also available with regular cream cheese. "Breakfast sandwiches like the Egg McMuffin have been long time favorites and we are confident confi-dent our customers wiil enjoy our Bagel sandwiches as much," said Beck-McKay. "The bagel sandwiches sand-wiches are part of our ongoing effort to provide the best experience experi-ence we can to our customers every ev-ery time they visit our restaurants." restau-rants." McDonald's is the largest global glo-bal foodservke retailer, with more than 25,000 restaurants serving more than 43 million customers a da? in 118 couTi tries. Approximately Approxi-mately 85 percent of McDonald's US. restaurants are owned and operated by indcptiJcnt franchisees. COPY |