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Show Page 16 0 R I M TIMES Thursday, February 7, 2008 1 rr mm iwrfi i nun. . mwiM ... . ' 4 u nmmum mump m ffwrfr. muau t upt mi nr itHf enneta rrvtirr an) GP0aa fYlost Insurcnc accepted. i UVSC hosts ballroom Winter Dance Sport Festival With 300-4W competitors from independent in-dependent studios and schools from around the western United States aid levels ranging rang-ing from elementary school students to college graduates, the UVSC Winter Dance Sport Test jvaJ promisqi to be very entertaining. The Festival will host its 17th Annual event in the Student Center Grande Ballroom Feb. 14 from 6 to 10 pin., Feb. 15 from 6 to 10 p.m. and Feb. 16 from 9 am to 10 pm "AD styles of ballroom from beg inning to advanced levels will be taking place including InternatkjnaTst) le Latin, Style Standard, American Rhythm and American Smooth," said Chris Witt, faculty member of dance. "This is a great event for families and is a great treat for all ages." The event is open to the public. pub-lic. Admission is f 10 a day per person. For all 3 days tickets are $28 per person. Tickets are available at Campus Connection Connec-tion at (801) 868797 or are available at the door. For more information visit www .uvsc .edu ballroom. Member of the Kytyyi opposition op-position party ristt UVSC The UVSC OJfice of International Affairs and the Department cf History and Political Science will host members of the Kyrgyz Kyr-gyz opposition party Feb. 1. UVSC students will have the opportunity to discuss (Complexities involved in the establishment of the separation of pow ers wSih the delegation. The event w5S take place Feb.. 11 at 9 am. in room 126 of the Woodbury Building on UVSCs Orein campus. Utah Senator Jfohti Valentine Valen-tine win co-host the group and "T -W I Omurbek 1 ekebaev, former speaker of the Kyrgyz parliament, parlia-ment, chairman of the Motherland Mother-land Party and outspoken critic of the Kyrgyz government, will head the delegation, Tekenbaev resigned as speaker of trie parliament in but despite the resignation resigna-tion is stUJ considered by many to be one of the most influential influ-ential parliamentarians in all Central Asia. He will be joined by two of his former deputies who are also members of the Motherland Party, "The U.S. has important strategic stra-tegic interests in Central Asia." explained Dr, Rusty Butler, associate as-sociate vice president for international inter-national affairs at UYSG "Kyr-gyzstan "Kyr-gyzstan is home to the United States air base that provides critical support to the war effort ef-fort in Afghanistan, and is also home to a growing Russian military base. A strong democracy democ-racy is crucial for the stability of Kyrgyzstan as well as the entire Central Asia region" "In a democracy we must look at bot h sides of a question," ques-tion," adds Dr. Alex Stecker. a lecturer in UYSCs Polit ica! Science Department, "We can not and must not accept a one-sided answer. This is what education is all about. The delegation del-egation will help student s and faculty understand the other side of the issue. The delegation delega-tion wiH look at such areas as human rights, democracy building, legislative process and religious tolerance. We .share this world with so many, we can and must share our ideas and hopes and they will do the fame with us." The Kyrgyz delegation ill also meet with UVSC faculty and explore ways in hkh the instit utiora's ecronuray can become be-come more involved with that nation to a number cf areas, including Central Asian fc-gisla-tive affairs. UVSC students and faculty partidpale in American Cdteje Fneater Festival .Several UVSC students have been selected se-lected to attend the Arjerican CoSege Theater Festival at California State Uw ersiy in Los Angeles Feb. 11-16. The students wiB compete in the Irene Ryan Garapetitioa along with more Ithao .900 competi-Itors competi-Itors in the hopes of moving on to the national cosnpetiioB in Washington DC. Each time the LTSC Theatre Department presents a (play during Ihe season, a representative repre-sentative from the Arnerican CoTiege Theater FeStihall Attends At-tends the performance. The II flVnuu Most Snsinmiit Ram fecajntdl ffVmertt QfflihBft niiJliftfe featl'ltOiiiaren SeiiitffKscourit mrBtimes Wlcome PfCTortnt tHeoimq Gosireriic tJutn'istry (Drwukifrifigi Dr. RtiwOiiiiite SeteiwIDettiKraty SnifltRtDeijgii fiwil.lCdlirBFiriing5 i a,itii lfiNO,iiGWXILllll ! 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"Jt s a very great honor for our st udents to be nominated for tlieir various skills and talent tal-ent s," says Christopher Clark, assistant professor of theatrical theatri-cal arts at UVSC Students who have been invited to attend the festival and participate in the acting competition are Julie Mortimer from Qrem; Joel Retrk from fJrem; Jeremy Minagro from Qrem; Akjx Ungerman from Provo; Jordan Cummings from American Fork; Jana Crass from Springville; Jadyn Hales from North Salt Lake; Mark Oram from Kaysville; Sara Preston from Kanab; Kyla Cur-tiss Cur-tiss from libby, Mont Katy Baxter from Bothell, Wash, and Wes Tolman from Grand Haven, Mich, The UVSC students partici-pating partici-pating in the design competition are Anna Marie Johnson from Provo: Diedre Hiatt from Spanish Span-ish For k and Mike James from Spanish Fork, Several more students were invited to participate par-ticipate in the competition, but are unable to attend Richard Newman from Qrem; Aurora Borjas from Orern; Kristi Summers Sum-mers from Orern; Mahonri Stew art f rom Provo; Anne Stewart from Springville; Lac-ey Lac-ey Gardner f rom .Spanish Fork; Mandy Lyons from Cedar Hills and laura Garner from Cedar Hills. Anna Marie Johnson, Mandy Lyons, Mahonri Stewart Stew-art and Ann St ew art have also submitted costume designs to be included in the festival's costume cos-tume parade, Ihe actors attending Ihe festival wSU compete with two scenes and one monologue. Student designers compete by showing their designs in a .display and giving a presentation presenta-tion on the steps of the creation and development processes Shat they went through in their designs. Several LTSC faculty members mem-bers w2S be involved in Ihe Festive as wel. Terry Petrie, assistant professor of Theatri-cal Theatri-cal Arts and depainteaerit chair, wa be directing a short play at she J'estiva!. John Ctraharai. im set aswstant professor of Theat-iricai Theat-iricai Arts, m 'm ifaerg of coaching coach-ing the acting oarnpetiiors. Stephen Pard', a Hecturer fca (the 1fafirical Arts progrant sr4 .floe Fox,, jeupesriscr cff LV'SC's soene shop, w J be 5n-rofved 5n-rofved in the technical portion -4, I iUxvtm 1L Eri&Jwsiifie & Feti' m D tixra wmiwrwc Mini tm i uitt,, tif,iHiu ni Vtiiii' um( ,iiuH,tfw ii ..ill 5f. V 1 ill W it n i of the competition, and Christopher Chris-topher dark is a regional acting act-ing respondent, A scene from Clark' production of Shakespeare's Shake-speare's King Lear will also be showcased at the festival Forensics program hosts third annual Wolverine Classic Invitational Invi-tational UVSCs Forensics Program, a debate and speech-based speech-based program, will tost the third Annual Wolverine Classic Invitational at UVSCs Orem Campus Feb, 15-16, The Invitational is open to high school students in all of Utah and is a preparatory tournament tour-nament for Region and State competitions. It will feature five preliminary and two to three elimination rounds to Pol-ky, Pol-ky, Lincoln Douglas and Public Forum, There will also be two preliminary rounds and one elimination round of Congress, Impromptu, Spar, Duo Interpretation, Inter-pretation, Dramatic Interpretation, Interpreta-tion, Humorous Merpretat'ion. Fjtferriporaneous Speaking, Oratory, Prose, Poetry and, if entries warrant, Valentine's Impromptu, It is the hope of Shiela Hein-deL Hein-deL adjunct professor with UVSCs Department of Communications, Com-munications, that students will come to partfcipate in the Invitational and will become interested in attending UVSC as well as gain competition experience, UVSC Helps raise awareness about violence against women In an effort to raise awareness aware-ness about violence against women and girls, UVSC will perform "The Vagina Monologues" Mono-logues" in conjunction with V-Day, Feb. 25 at 7 pm in the Ragan Theater, V-Day is a worldwide (campaign promfAing events to increase awareness, raise money and re itaSze the spirit of existing ant v iolence organizations orga-nizations m more than 0 different dif-ferent countries. The "Vagina Monologues" at LTSC is part of V -Day's national ccflk-ge campaign. The play wtE be performed per-formed at ecfieges and untver-sftiet untver-sftiet throvghojit Ihe country, "The purpose of this event is Ito increase a areness to step the violence and fcnprov-e our conrmanjiies by ssapporting women,," said Cannel lloopes-Oark, lloopes-Oark, president of Ihe LTSC Gender Studies Cfcfe and orga-irTtoer orga-irTtoer of the event. The Monologues focus on real Ke experiences and 5s-aes 5s-aes crasoerning wctnea from s Afferent cuSwanet and backgrouraeSs. Proceeds frond this year's LTSC ev eat wil be donad to the Center for 'oaaeo & CMdrea 5ei Crisis, to Provo, a sanctisary since tSW for w craea and dhfi&eo desB-kyg desB-kyg with doraestic viicteaof as wel m those wft have been raped or sexsasSy mrni.ei. Al oen'Soes provided ?(t the Center ' ' heraldejctra.com ON THE WEB nortneounty Growflk Ii m& mt$v nt cf year 0n f&nrtnniiL Vwaflnr. rnmM. Nuitt few fwii i I Clam blri rcl'.mary 5th. 2t;.iS I ' tad ttrv rMur satlf. are free. For more information, visit httpyewcicorg, Tjfiets for the Vagina Monologues can le purchased at (pus Connection, (8J1) Tickets are $ 10 for general admission and $7 with UV1D. UVSC Celebrates Career and Technical Education Month High schools, colleges and universities across the United States will join together during February to celebrate National Career and Technical Education Educa-tion (CTE) Month, promoting and informing students about the benefits of CTE programs, UVSCs CTE Department is joining in by setting up an information booth in the So-rensen So-rensen Student Center from 11 am. to 2 pm, Feb, 15, 19, 21, 22 and 25 and by holding an institution-wide scavenger hunt the final week of February, The department will also hold a CTE Faculty Thank You luncheon and reception Feb, 25 fraa 1 130 a stt to 1 30 pm, w ith a presentatkm on the future fu-ture goals and strategic plan of Career and Technical Education at LTSC rxginning at 12 p m, CTE hopes to give students the opportunity io explore a variety of career areas and to introduce them to CTE programs at LTSC, including culinary arts, accounting, automotive au-tomotive technology, business management, cabinetry and architectural woodwork, air conditi'jojng and refrigeration technology, dental h giene, art and visual cornmunkatkm, education, child and family studies, k-gal studies and nursing, nurs-ing, to name only a few, 'Career and technical educat ion is about providing st udents the opportunity to iearn marketable skills that are tr hgh demand in the marketplace," said Greg Loe-bel Loe-bel recruit rg and retention specfe&t t h LTSCs CTE Depart ment. "Armed ifh high demand skEls 'm a discipline that fits their patwjsns, u-def5.s u-def5.s can earn hher wages and swie strongh- fori ard 'm tairirg Lhear fefe gosk. Eam-irg Eam-irg t oca if. rial certificates or AAS AS degrees in career and tectrakal edrjeataon prograrns essssatSaCy bsooaaei a shorter path to a rfg.her paySrg frfa and (CicCege swooes. .Student can then 5ise their OT, training as a foundation to leverage fsature rjccesf to their career and aca-decsfc aca-decsfc goals," StwSems can step by she Mmsaf.'am hvxh tSss w till be to the Soreaseo St wfctt Certter for tnore tof'xvssem sborjtt CTE progrs.-ns and to sig3 wp to partacspste in the scavenger hurt, Eacft partiiciperti 5a the .cavenger hart till receh e tw feee irp5 sfiwrtfrjds.. Ajj iiFted Taadi iS be gn em to the 1st pCsce vxmr, T rmsfaers-wp rmsfaers-wp H receh e art iilPrxJ JtruffTie. f |