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Show VoL 32 No. 6 Nov. 33, 1934 Christmas Activities Combined as Winterfest Christmas activities at Westminster will be combined this year into one week long event known as Winterfest. Winterfest activities will begin on Nov. 30 with a hay ride and barn dance and continue through Dec. 10, when the faculty and staff will prepares midnight breakfast for students. The Nov. 30 hay ride and barn dance will be held at The Barn in Herriman. 1089 West Main Street The even begins at 6:30 p.m. and lasts until 11 p.m., Brubaker said. The cost of the tickets is $6 and transportation will be provided from Westminster for those who desire it According to Julie Brubaker, chairperson of the Shaw Center Board, several organizations Christmas events werq combined as Winterfest to minimize scheduling problems and to try to increase student participation in the Christmas activities. On Dec. 4, there will be a pottery sale, pinata, and a bake sale in Syme Lounge, Shaw Center. The pottery for sale is made by the students and faculty involved in the Westminster pottery program. Santa Claus will make a special appearance for pictures at 11 a.m. The money raised from the bake sale and the Santa pictures will be used for the Student Life Commit- - tees fund. The International Students will perform music during the day. The activities begin at 11 a.m. and will last until 3 p.m. Sub-For-San- ta A Christmas dance will be held on Dec. 8 at Memorial House in Memory Grove, 485 Canyon Road. The dance will begin at 9 p.m. and last until 1 a.m. According to Brubaker, the cost of the dance is $5 for a single ticket and $9 per s and hors doeuvres will be procouple. vided. The band will be Light Year. Brubaker encouraged all members of the WestSet-up- minster community . and their friends students, faculty, staff to attend. On Dec. 9, the Shaw Center Board and the Student Life Committee will sponsor a Christmas party for underprivileged children in the Sugarhouse area, according to Brenda Carlisle, chairperson of the Student Life Committee. Campus organizations are encouraged to participate in the event by donating items for the party or helping with the activities. So far Ilogle Hall is donating Christmas stockings made out of sweat socks and filled with candy, the business club is donating a pinata and the Westminster Flayers are performing a thrist- mas skit, Brubaker said. Continued on page 3 Campus Day Care is Real Need 4 Jenkins added that, while Coombs study wasnt done on a large enough scale to be conclusive, it showed a trend representing a definite student need. Over 50 percent of the students now attending Westminster College are Joy Woolf, Spanish instructor at the college, students (25 years-of-ag- e or older) according to has two children. She feels that having the registrars office. day care would provide several benefFrom its. a childs point of view, it would make These students often have different needs feel involved with their parent or more them than those of younger, traditional students. Woolf said. I think it would be parents, One is the need to find safe, affordable, high She thinks it would give her for them. healthy quality day care for their children while they more time to be available to her students attend classes. because she wouldnt have to leave to pick the Ive had a lot of trouble finding somewhere children up from day care located further to leave my son, said Shauna Mann, a nursing, away from the college. student. No place wants to take kids part-timHelen Wheeler Smith, president of the thats what I need. Its worse if theyre Womens Board at Westminster and author of under two and a half. Ive ended up missing Survival Handbook for Preschool Mothers, feels classes a few times. She added that two or if the that were to have a day care college three other students in her nursing classes be used could as a place to train peoit facility have had similar problems. and day care facilities. ple to work in Dean of Students Debbie Jenkins sees areal It would be a niche that Westminster could need for this type of facility at the college. In a into. If they could provide trained, fit marketing study, done by Ruth A. Coombs in with one or two years of schoolJanuary of 1982, 200 students, chosen on a ran- ing, then perhaps day care standards in the dom sample basis, were surveyed. They were could be raised. Eventually there asked: first if they had children; second if community be wouldnt anyone working in a . so, did they use some type of day care; third who hadnt had at least some training. This would they use a day care facility provided by may be a while off, but it seems to be almost the college. inevitable, Smith ?aid. Its so important to have trained professionals working with our surIt was found that, of those students children. Continued on page 3 veyed, 40 percent had children. Of that 40 percent, 27 percent were using some type of day care and that 31 percent agreed that they would use an infantchild care service provided by Westminster College. This would be a minimum student use rate of 12 percent. This figure shows student use only and doesnt reflect use by the faculty or staff, Jenkins said. If 12 percent of the students used a day care facility," she said, it would have a higher student use rate than any other service on campus, other than the food service. However, students wouldnt be the only ones to benefit from this type of a facility, Jenkins believes. It could be available to the faculty and staff as well. by Tammy As winter arrives, students plan for Winterfest activities. non-traditio- UIA Delegates Lobby For Students by Marie M. Weiss Podiums, gavels, and parliamentary procedure were only some of the political officialdoms that Westminsters 1984 UIA delegation observed at the 12th session of the Utah Intercollegiate Assembly (UIA) held Nov. 14 through 17 at the Utah State Capitol Building. Westminsters delegates, Allison Haegen, delegation chair and UIA administrative assistant; Howard Carter, chief of staff; Tim Rodriguez, senator; John Fabrega, senator, Karyn Krause, representative; Mike Pieper, representative, and Anne LaPorte, staff, joined with delegations from other colleges and universi- ties to propose, debate, amend and pass legislation that reflects the interests and needs of Utah college students. According to JIaegen, UIA is a special interest group focusing on the needs of students in Utah. The legislation passed by UIA is then lobbied to the Utah State Legislation for passage. Haegen added that she feels that through UIA, students are able to get a greater understanding of the legislative process. Students find that politics is not a dirty word, said Haegen, It has its uses as well as its abuses. There are places where politics are very necessary. A student involved in UIA learns through practice how to play the political game. This gameplaying is handled by the UIA Arrnantrout delegates with serious authenticity from the casual Smokers where delegates get together in a social setting and try to woo one another into supporting bills to the House of Representatives and the Senate Chambers at the Capitol where bills are presented and debated with professional aplomb. According to UIA Governor, Scott Wyatt, the purpose of UIA is more than the playacting of government, it is an important part of the political system. In his opening speech, Wyatt said that each UIA delegate was representing the interests of thousands of Utah students, and that it is through groups like UIA that students can really be heard. The UIA is run 100 percent by students," Wyatt said, and we are doing a great job. Wyatt added that it is important that students interests are lobbied to the Utah State Legislation. If we dont represent our interests, said Wyatt, our opposition will. According to Wyatt, the main components of success for UIA are unity and action, qualities that he feels the current UIA members possess. Bruce Robinson, executive director of UIA, said that in UIA individual party politics and interests that are too limiting are avoid ed. We deal with a very diverse group of individuals in UIA, Robinson said, so we try to concentrate on issues that affect all of them, such as financial aid and tuition costs. We stay away from anything too exclusive. Our unity is in our common interest as students. 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