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Show 4 - The Daily Utah Thursday, February 25, 1999 Chronicle DEBATE College becoming Utah's fifth four-yeinstitution of higher education. McAdams pointed out that this is something he has been working against at the Legislature for some time and said his major concern was the possibility of a U funding decrease if the change were to be effected. Stuart agreed the change would have a detrimental effect on U students, but praised the efforts of Dixie students who lobbied the Legislature on behalf of the change. "They live six hours away and more than 60 people from their school showed up," she said. "We could learn something from them." ar continued from page i undergraduate student, a male and a female, we have different religious perspectives," she said. Stuart pointed out that she considers the Assembly and Senate to already be quite diverse, but said more diversity is needed in the executive branch, where it would be more noticed. She also emphasized that she is the only female running on any of the three tickets. The three presidential candidates also addressed the possibility of Dixie students involved in homecoming by offering a variety of different events. "This is a diverse campus," she said, "and different students have different needs." Jackson Rose, an independent candidate for senior class president, was moved to tears and said environmental issues like recycling would be especially important to him. He also held himself up as an example for U students to follow at Homecoming, saying he has gone to every sporting event he could possibly make and that Homecoming was of particular importance to him. Soelberg agreed with the other two candidates, saying that Dixie was not status. The yet ready for four-yechallenge for ASUU, he said, is impressing upon students the importance of the proposal and making them concerned about it. The senior class presidential candidates addressed potential issues they will have to deal with were they to win. "Homecoming can certainly get bigger and better," said United Party candidate Zak Lowe. "The key is to get more student groups and more students involved." Convergence candidate Holly Nelson said her chief goal would be to get all ar Platform of Parties United Convergence President Cameron Soelberg Dan Anderson Vice-Preside- nt want to implement represent new projects and continue old ones, like starting a campus watch program Ryan Oakes Vice-Preside- nt The Convergence Party is dedicated to bringing the students at the U together to build a strong campus community. We feel that the Associated Students of the University of Utah can make real progress by ensuring that every student has a productive and enjoyable college experience. Whether your concern is parking, the semester conversion, or increased funding for Fine Arts, the Convergence Party will and improving radio. Diversity is an important aspect of the U and an important aspect of our political party as well. All voices on campus should be heard and represented within ASUU. We are ready to serve the campus community and bring experience and leadership to student government. Your supporting vote can make this vision a reality. www.convergence99.net values and concerns are being addressed? The truth is, the majority We of students are Reconstructionists their popularity andor size. The concerns and suggestions of the student body will have greater importance in decision making. Local government seems to be more receptive to students than student government has been. We want increased awareness of and participation in the Associated Students of the Uni versity of Utah. ASUU's primary focus will be serving the students, not pursuing personal ends. This includes remembering that without the students, the members of the administration would not have their positions. We will best represent the entire studentbody due to our party's diversity. Our party includes Joyce Stuart Clint Druk Vice-Preside- President nt Money will be spent more responsibly. The goal will be fair distribution of funds based on needs for all organizations, regardless of dents. We are committed to increasing funding for those organizations and clubs that create community and a sense of pride in our university. We will not stop working on parking until it is fixed. We have been and will continue to lobby the State Legislature in an effort to minimize tuition increases and upgrade technology. We will ded- President Ben McAdams you. We Every year, .your student government spends almost $i million in student fees. Are you getting your money's worth? Do you feel that your icate 100 percent of our time and effort to make student government effective. Now is the time, United is the Party. commute, we take day and night classes, and we all have jobs. Are we being represented? 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Qualifications 1 ) Fulkime Junior or Senior women student at the 1 999-200University of Utah for academic year 2) Cumulative GPA of 3.5 3) Any academic discipline 0 AidScholarship Women's Resource Center Disabled Student Services Lowell Bennion Center SSB 105 OUB 293 OUB 160 OUB 101 Louine Holt Rita 466-429- 532-212- 0 7 YORK-Fre- nch Jean-Franco- is philosophy. "You had fake gurus every- where," says the philosopher and political commentator. "You had ashrams where old bores were taking money from English ladies...When I went to Berkeley in 1979, there was a group of Zen Marxists, a stupid half-dement- ed cocktail." His son, a molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur, had looked forward to a brilliant future. Revel feared he would throw it away to "become the victim of a spiritual crook." Ricard, who at 53 now lives in Nepal and travels as an interpreter for the Dalai Lama, laughs as he stretches his bare arms. The two are seated in Revel's room at the Waldorf-Astori- a Hotel in New York, Fordham For more information, visit our Web Page at: http:www.utah.eduwc with parents who entertained such artists as writer Andre Breton and choreographer Maurice Bejart, Ricard was an unlikely candidate for the monastery. In 1966, captivated by a film about Tibetan lamas, Ricard bought a the cheap ticket to India, where he met a Tibetan spiritual master, Kangyur Rinpoche. Ricard returned home and began meditating, but he longed to return to his teachers in India, who struck him as wiser than the geniuses he had met. Although he stayed in France to finish his doctorate, he says, molecular biology "wasn't enough to give meaning to my life." He chose contemplative science instead. Revel's first visit to Darjeel-inIndia, in 1973 convinced him that his son was engaged in serious study. "My impression was one of serenity," he says. "But of course there was a shadow: The fact that all these people were refugees and Tibet was undergoing a terrible ordeal." Deadline: March 12, 1999 For further information call: NEW philosopher Revel recalls the day his son, Matthieu Ricard, told him that he wanted to study Buddhism in India. If he'd said a Catholic monastery, even an agnostic like Revel would have understood. But Buddhism? Back then, Revel says, Western interest in Eastern thought was more fashion than g, Application forms available at Financial Julia Lieblich AP Religion Writer losophy. Brought up in a secular home BV Of LAN6UA6ES AND LITERATURE US JAPAN CENTER INTERNATIONAL Son Write Book 10-d- ay ENTERTAINMENT DEPARTMENT Buddist Monk Ricard's loose red robes contrasting with his father's tailored suit and manners. Revel's effort to understand the beliefs of his son, who became a practitioner and scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, is the subject of a book, "The Monk and the Philosopher" (Schocken). The philosopher, also born Ricard, goes by his pen name, Revel. A best seller in France, translated into 14 languages and just published in the United States, the book chronicles a conversation on the meaning of life as expressed in both Eastern religion and Western phi- PM 0 Agnostic Father Belva Emery a. The philosopher returned to France and wrote about the Chinese attempt to stamp out Tibetan Buddhism by torturing and killing monks and destroying some 6,000 monasteries. |
