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Show ONLINE: www. heraldC7itra.com Saturday March 22. 200s a. i i. 1 w ii i 1 ii hi 11 1 Utah County's Lxadir in r"t.i 1 NhWS LiXT-A- 50 CENTS YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS YOUR NEWSPAPER IN LIFE & STYLE Joseph Smith? , c IDS Church responds to circulating about early photo ils TRANSITION TO UVU UVSCfi ets OK for Brittani Lusk The degree was approved unanimously at the regents meeting in St. George, giving e the university the HERALD' DAILY The state board of regents approved the first master's degree at Utah Valley State College, soon to be Utah Valley University, Friday morning. soon-to-b- start taking appli- cations for a master's degree in education. "It's really a very big step f for the school in that it moves us into kind of a different league, to use the NCAA metaphor," said UVSC President William Sederburg. This is the last approval the school was seeking in its transition to university status. ; 1 r y - MYCHELE the ground. Even applications have been handed out. Until Friday, school officials said the program was pending, and there have been at least 100 inquiries. Briant Farnsworth; dean of UVSC's School of Education, Y ;SVVf Ail vr : 11- "1 think it's just time to celebrate," said Cameron Martin, who has headed the school's transition task force. Thcrof-ficia- l celebration starts on June 30 and will go all night. Everything is in place for the new master's degree to get off said he expects the first 20 or 30 students to begin this fall. "We are excited about the program. We are hoping to be able to build it as time goes on," Farnsworth said. See Good Friday '.'V: 'T' fat master's if' - UVSC, A6 AW ft - DANIAUAP ";'Ws,iv French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech on Friday in Cherbourg, France, in which he announced a modest cut in France's nuclear arsenal. ''sf.jay-- France tocut O nukes ft - -- d-- "".yT- ft 'i - . v 1 - I A v. i :--- 7v,. f , John Leicester THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Nicolas SarPARIS kozy said Friday that he will cut 7 f J 1 ? France's nuclear arsenal to fewer than 300 warheads, seeking to balance the defense of the nation he mentioned the threat from Iran against budgetary and strategic considerations. In his first major speech as president on the French deterrent, Sarkozy also urged the United States and China to commit fully to a treaty banning tests of nuclear weapons. See FRANCE, A6 MARK Debbie Maughan right waits for visitors to gather before a procession during the American Fork Presbyterian Church's "Journey to the Cross" event on Friday. Those attending were guided six performances acted out by members of the church depicting the final journey of Jesus Christ before his crucifixion, with each performance enacting a specific event or scene, like the Last Supper. Narrator FOR SALE See a photo you would like to have in your home or office? Daily Herald photos now are available online at heraldextra.comgallery. candidates' passport THE Anne Flaherty and Desmond Butler THE BRIEFING A4 EDITORIALS A5 :'v fpm our towns bi Mostly OBITUARIES B3 SUtiny BUSINESS 64 sports ci WEATHER C6 IIFE & STYLE COMICS HIGH 53 L0W 25 D1 D4 6 IIIB61055 " VOLUME85 ISSUE 235 00050' Catholic bishop forgives LDS files missionaries Somebody snooped into PIXOTOS INSIDE JOHNSTONDaily Herald ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Maybe it was just curiosity. But whatever led State Department workers to pry into the passport files of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, it wasn't an accident. Each time agency workers go into someone's electronic personal files, the system reminds them that such information is restricted under privacy laws and may be reviewed only on a basis. It also reminds them that penalties will be imposed if the information is being improperly checked. I he warning wasn t enough for at least four need-to-kno- department workers who were caught prying into the presidential candidates'iles, an embarrassing episode that led Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to telephone the candidates with her personal apology Friday and to promise a full inves tigation. The snooping incidents raised questions as See PASSPORTS, A2 ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN LUIS, Colo. An investigation into whether three Mormon missionaries defaced a Catholic shrine has been dropped after Roman Catholic Bishop Arthur Tafoya urged forgive- ness. Costilla County sheriff's investigator Cpl. Scott Powell said Friday that the investigation had just gotten under way when Tafoya asked that charges not be pursued. Photos posted on the Internet showed the young men at the Shrine of the Mexican Martyrs at the Chapel of All Saints, which stands on a butte overlooking San Luis. The photos taken in 2006 show young men holding the broken head of a statue, preaching from the Book of Mormon at an altar and pretending to sacrifice one another. Mormon church officials earlier issued an apology. In a letter sent to The Pueblo Chieftain, Tafoya, bishop of the Pueblo diocese, said Mormon officials had apologized to him personally. ; "I ask that we as Catholics, who believe in See SHRINE, A2 |