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Show DAILY HERALD Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Women's Services and Resources will be giving away bracelets that urge participants to "Be Comfortable in Your Genes." The bracelets will be given out at a booth in the student center. There will also be a discussion panel of eating disorder survivors at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday as well as an "Intuitive Eating" workshop on Thursday at 11 :00 a.m. Campus Notes BYU was one of toughest A Brigham Young University geographer studying timbers from the Salt Lake Tabernacle found the trees' tale of hardships. Analysis of the width of the rings in the wood shows that a severe drought began in the years before the first Mormon wagon trains rolled into the Salt Lake Valley the summer of 1847. Nursing professor named to leadership post The American Holistic Nurses Association elected Glenda Christiaens its new education coordinator, starting in June 2008. She is an associate professor of nursing at BYU. TODAY FORUM: Distinguished Faculty Lecturer to speak. Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer and professor of mathematics. Kening hi, will give a forum titled "Can Calculus Carry Nerve Signals?" at 11 :05 a.m. in the Marriott Center. BYU professor Matthew Bekker's findings are published in the current issue of , Honors Eight With Emeriti Awards BYU Brigham Young University's Emeriti Alumni Association has honored some of its distinguished alumni and educators. The honors reflect professional, personal and community contributions of teachers from the class of 1968 or earlier. Honorees include: Rulon G. Craven, of Centerville; Roger DeMordaunt, of Idaho Falls, Idaho ; B. Keith Duffin, of Salt Lake City; Marilyn Winterton Edmunds, of Beijing, PRC; D. Wilson Hales, of Ogden; Phyllis Smart Olsen, of Provo; Blaine R. Porter, of Provo; and Karl N. Snow, Jr., of Provo. Emeriti alumni are those graduates from 40 years ago or earlier. The class of 1968 was inducted this year into the BYU Emeriti Alumni Association. New research shows that summer of 1847 the academic journal Tree-rin- g Research. During the recent renovation of the Tabernacle, Bekker sampled timbers on the building's west end, underneath the stage that supports seating for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the widely recognized organ. Tree rings that grew in 1846 were much narrower than would be expected with a normal year's rainfall ranking as the sixth narrowest of the 162 years studied. The pioneers' first two years of settlement saw little relief with -- 1847 and 1848 ranked as the 10th and 16th driest seasons in the period. Coming up ... THROUGH FRIDAY EATING TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY Bookstore and the BYU Alumni Association are sponsoring a graduation fair on the upper level of the BYU Bookstore where students can take care of everything from cap and gown orders to buying BYU memorabilia. TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY INTERNATIONAL CINEMA; The International Cinema in 250 Spencer W. Kimball Tower will feature "Head Wynn," "The God of Cookery," "II Mare" and "The Lake House." All shows are free. For showtimes, see ic.byu.edu or call 422-575Foreign language films are shown with subtitles. WEDNESDAY DISORDERS AWARENESS: honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, in the Varsity Theatre at 7 p.m. Slots fill up fast so those who are interested in performing should contact the Student Activities Board at 422-312- The European Culture Lecture Series will feature "The Cultural Construction of National Identities in Europe" Thiesse of the by Anne-Mari- e Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Paris, at noon in 238 Herald R. Clark Building. LECTURE: THURSDAY : As part of Black History Month at BYU, a multicultural panel of BYU students will discuss ways to foster unity, understanding and cultural appreciation on campus under the theme "Unified by Our Diversity" at 1 1 a.m. in 3380WSC. PANEL COLLOQUIUM; The Women's Studies Colloquium will host Niwako GRADUATION FAIR: The BYU " B3 Yamawaki, assistant professor of psychology, who will present her research on "The Effects of Ambivalent Sexism on College Students' Teacher Evaluations" in 41 86 Joseph F. Smith Building at noon. The lecture is open to everyone. LECTURE: At 2 p.m. in the Harold B. Lee Library auditorium, social work professor Gordon Limb will present "A Bright Future: Strengthening American Indians' Fragile Families." MOVIE SHOWING: In the Wilkinson Student Center's Varsity Theater, the movie "Amazing Grace," a true story of a man's long crusade to end the slave trade in England, will be shown at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. as part of Black History Month. Tickets can be purchased for $1.50 at the WSC Info Desk. TODAY UVSC st Julian Cardona, a from Juarez, Mexico, will speak in the Ragan Theater at 1 p.m. He has spent more than a decade documenting the social upheaval on Mexico's border, photographing scenes of violence and poverty. He's also documented the wide-sprea- d immigration of Mexicans to the United States and provided photographs for the book "Exodus," a project for which he worked closely with award-winninauthor and journalist Charles Bowden. Cardona will show some of the photos used in "Exodus" and discuss them before giving the audience a chance to ask him questions regarding his work and the situation in his home country. LECTURE: ACUUSCEO appointed as pres. of board ACUL1S CEO James Stone will preside over Utah Valley State College's Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board. As President of the Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board, Stone will be assisting with the ongoing development of the computer science program and software engineering program at UVSC, with duties including developing program objectives, program outcomes, curriculum review and development. Senior project to illustrate the dangers of drug use UVSC art and visual communications student Josh Men: denhall, of Saratoga Springs, will present his senior project March The project will take place at Olympus High School in Salt Lake City and will focus on the dangers of drug use. Mendenhall will construct five portraits of teenagers 8 feet tall and 8 feet wide by pushing colored plastic cups through the openings in a chain-linfence. At the end of the five-da- y week, two of the portraits will change into skulls to illustrate that there are two drug related deaths every hour. 3-- SHOW: Eve Ensler's "The Vagina ' Monologues" will be preformed at 7 p.m. in the Ragan Theater. Tickets are $10, $7 with UV ID. All proceeds will be donated to the Center for Women and Children in Crisis of Provo. DATING HELP: David Coleman, known as "America's Real Life be in the UVSC Ballroom at 7 p.m. Tickets are $3 and available at Campus Hitch" will Connection or at the door. There also will be free speed dating at 6:00 p.m. in SC 206c to get the night started. To reserve a seat please RSVP to getalifeuvsc.edu. FRIDAY k Coming up In BYU uvsc CONFERENCE: Undergraduate students from across Utah will go to UVSC for the second annual Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Sorensen Student Center from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ... IDOL: BYU Idol begins again New Mormon church press to publish historical projects Jennifer Dobner , THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In SALT LAKE CITY a letter to his wife from a Missouri jail cell in 1839, the founder of the Mormon church wrote that he sympathized with her toils and promised to care for and comfort her if God spared his life. ink on the The brown-re- d creamy white paper is fading in spots, but the signature is clear: "your husband, Joseph S. Smith, Jr." The press will focus on publishing works from the early history of the church, beginning with the papers of its founder. "When I hold this ... it makes me think of Joseph in Liberty Jail and all that happened there. It makes me think of his relationship with Emma and all those two went through," church elder Marlin K. Jensen said Monday, gently fingering the letter creased with fold marks. "It's a spiritual thing." Smith wrote the letter from a Missouri jail, where he was being held after a dash between Mormons and It's among the documents, letters, journals, some canonized revelations included as church scripture in the Joseph Smith Papers that the press will publish as a documentary series. In the works since 2001, the first two volumes are expected later this year, Jensen said. The press may produce as many as 30 volumes, the most complete collection of Smith's writings. Jensen said the collection will provide a look at the evolution of Smith from charismatic young preacher to church prophet and the development of the doctrine that shapes a church that now claims 13 million members worldwide. "In his own words, unvar nished," he said. "That's what's great about the papers. Nobody interprets them. They're just out there." For each volume, church historians have sifted through church archives to find every verifiable document that originated from Smith. In addition, the church has been working with private collectors of Mormon memorabilia and institutions like Yale University and the Community of Christ, formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, to access additional documents. The papers promise to the be most complete collection of Smith's work ever published. Church officials shopped the project to several university presses, including Oxford, Yale and the University of Virginia, but in the end decided to take charge of their own history, Jensen said. 'w Fast Phone Quotes 1 No salesman will visit you. Fast quotes from your rough showroom! CALL (801 (Have your measurements ready!) FREE ESTIMATES! m&mmmmwmmmmm... iSul2no3 at d University of Utah assistant history professor W. Paul Reeve views the establishment of the press as a positive sign for the church, which hasn't always allowed historians and others access to its voluminous archives. ' "It says the church is committed to the Smith papers project and publishing the raw, primary sources of information on which the church was built," said Reeve, who sits on the board of the independent Mormon History Association. "That openness has really been changing over time." Jensen insists the press is no signal of a changing church philosophy. COMING SOON! A new NAMI support group in Lehi for those with mental health issues and their loved The Lehi support group SHOWROOM 35 East 400 South Springville Hours: Mon-S8a. m to 6p.m. Commission, an offshoot of the National Archives, that reviews and evaluates the way historical works are edited and published. The endorsement helps quash any questions about the church's credibility in publishing what is essentially work that supports the Mormon narrative, Jensen said, An advisory board that reputation for certain types of publishing and though it's inc(yaes three good, I think it's more diverse, is alscTTJverseeing the project, Jensen said. probably, eclectic than we would want," he said. "We'll be "They help us see our biases, much more limited and selecour idiosyncrasies, our lit t lc tive in what we do." things that are Mormonisms The project has been enthat we don't catch, so that dorsed by the National Hishelps with our objectivity," torical Public and Records Jensen said. ones. These support groups teach understanding, awareness, and helpful hints to make the journey through recovery easier. Our focus is to provide an arena for people to discuss, learn, and find support. measurements. Final measurement done at time of order. 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