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Show 4 MONDAY, MARCH THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 20, 2000 Student Honored For Her Hard Work U Behrens came to the U after being a commercial insurance agent for five years. She wanted a change and decided that to get a degree in risk management would help advance her career. Among other responsibilities, risk managers purchase insurance for large companies, deal issues with insurance-relate- d and also try to minimize risk at Kristina Behrens Won Writing Contest and $2,500 in Prize Money MATTHEW STEPHENS Chronicle News Writer Kristina Behrens, a recent graduate of the U, was honored with two prestigious awards in the last year. On Oct. 5, 1999, she took third contest place in a of the Institute by sponsored paper-writin- Hazardous g Material Manage- ment. The paper, titled, "Underground Storage Tanks Contribute to Brownfields," earned Behrens an trip to Kansas City, Mo., and $1,500. More recently, Behrens won the 2000 Risk and Insurance Management Society's Edith F. Lichota Award in the category. The award comes with $1,000 and a plaque contingent upon her attendance at the society's May convention in San Francisco, Calif. which she plans to attend. Behrens graduated from the U with a degree in environmental risk management in Fall 1999. Behrens designed this degree with the help cf Kathryn Lindquist and Ed Barbanell in the University Studies Program. Student-Undergradua- te ' the least cost to the company. However, Behrens ran into a problem: the U does not offer a degree in risk management. She went to the undergraduate studies program searching for help. She talked to Lindquist and began devising her own degree. "I had an idea of what I wanted to get out of the program,' said Behrens. It allowed her to get a jump start on other people who want to be risk managers but don't have the specialized degree. "It was neat having this experience," said Behrens. An intern position at the Utah Transit Authority was the direct result of her studies toward her specialized degree. The job gave d her the experience that the paper was based on. Ed Barbanell, director of the U studies program, summed up Behrens' achievements when he said, "I'm just really proud of her, and she's really proud of herself." real-worl- S)GflKS&SW J3) EVANS continued from page 1 over her classes, but the loss will create "a huge hole in the department." Degn, a close friend of Evans, has known her for so long that she does not remember when they met. "It seems like I have always known her," she said. Degn sits on the teaching committee and has access to Evans' teacher evaluation forms. "You could feel the warmth come through," she said. "DeAnn was one of the most beloved teachers in the department." Evans' classroom is next to Degn's, and at times the printers won't work Before the break, Evans came over to ask if it would be okay if her stu- - REGENTS continued from page 1 ally votes against tuition and fee increases, voted for the increase this time because students "can't have quaiity education without quality faculty." She said there are too many positions left open because faculty aren't but she said she would have voted against a increase. higher President Also, Utah State University Student-bod- y Nate Anderson said there was no reason for the Regents to allow students to give input to the tuition and fee increases if they were simply going to disregard that input when they made their final decision. "Please don't preclude students in this process. Let's please keep students involved," Anderson said. He also increase "very whimcalled anything beyond a sical." tuition also. Rogers proposed increasing He said the Legislature has sent the message that Utah doesn't charge enough tuition, and that is now another source of income for USHE. residents Utah times the tuition that 12 3 pay. pay Regents were faced with the leftovers from the Legislature after what some have called a disappointing year for higher education. Regents Chairman Charles Johnson said higher education could learn a few lessons from public education and its lobbying efforts this year. Higher education has the benefits of a voting student out-of-sta- te non-residen- managing editor of any daily paper in Utah on June 15, io8l She also headed the Utah Hesdlin-er- s Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and was on the board of directors of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Last Thursday, Deseret News City Editor Angelyn Hutchinson received a call from Evans to ask if a reporter would allow one of her students to shadow him. "She always looked out for her students, and tried to find them experiences to get involved with," said Hutchinson, who was first hired by Evans when she was managing editor. "She is the only professor I had that was interested in what I did outside of the classroom," said Brandon Winn, sports editor for The Daily Utah Chronicle. dents used their printer. She came in right as Degn began a news quiz. Degn asked die fust question and then told Evans not to give it away. When she turned around, Evans mouthed the answer to the students. Professor Jerilyn Mclntyre sat on the committee that oversaw Evans' doctoral work, and in the process taught a couple of classes that Evans participated in. "She was always very humble about what she knew, but she was the best student in the class," Mclntyre said. "She really was the best combination of professionalism and scholar ship." Before coming to the University of Utah in 1988, Evans reported for the Deseret News. She started her career in journalism as a general assignment reporter in 1967. Quickly climbing the ranks, Evans became the first female ts Non-residen- ts body through which it can make its message clear. On the other hand, Johnson noted that public education has the benefit of a political organization that can champion its cause at the Capitol. "We the Regents are not a political body," he said. But he mentioned that with students, faculty, staff and administrators, higher education is "probably the largest single voting block in the state of Utah." d With all of the House of Representatives and this year, Johnson of the Senate up for stressed that higher education needs to use its clout as a lobbying effort. Sen. David Steele, Point, suggested a different course of action for higher education. He said it needs to enlist the help of local business leaders who benefit from an educated workforce. "The engine chat drives economic development is higher education," Steele said. "The benefactors of higher education need to be on this cheerleading team." Despite the Regents' inability to be a political organization, Steele said they can show the Legislature how local business leaders benefit from higher education. Aiso, he said that the Regents need to be vocal about the impacts of long-terneglect. Steele said higher education was a victim of its willingness to respond to legislators who vary from year to year. "You can't cater to 104 different philosophies," he said. "Realign yourself with your strong issuesyour bread ' and butter," he said one-thir- m university BOOKSTORE I a Utah's predominant language, IrUtaicJ, is a confusing subdialect Fortunately, most residents along the Wasatch Front understand and speak standard Engiish as well. "Oh BJ bid," a common Utahnics expression, is actually acceptable in business settings. Example: "Oh my heck, you are perfectly qualified for this position." 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