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Show April 24, 2001 The Forum - 2 The Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault Plans Vigil to Honor Survivors of Sexual Violence April 24: Last day of classes April 25: Dead day April 25: Midnight breakfast Shaw Center Cecily Ellis Forum Writer 10:30 p.m. in the Every eleven hours someone in Utah is raped. Utah is ranked fourteenth highest in the nation for the number of rapes that occur here annually. In fact, one in four women and one in seven men will be raped in their life- April 26: Finals week begins April 26: Stress free zone begins in Shaw May 2: Finals week ends May 7: May Term classes begin May 10: Final grades available for Spring time. Semester Concert Series: Joe Muscolino Band 7:30 p.m. in Jewett Auditoruim May 12: Last day to register, add, drop or change to audit for May Term and Graduate Term May 10: May 12: Last day to drop without a grade of W May 18: Last day to elect creditno credit for May Term classes Concert Series: Marjorie Janove, Piano, 7:30 p.m. in Jewett Auditorium May 19: Last day of May Term classes 2: Commencement at 9:00 a.m. Dane Hansen Memorial Stadium 1: June 12: Undergraduate summer classes begin BENNETT from page 1 that Thurmond, "always reminds us that he is fourth in line for the presidency," during Senate meetings. The tone of the segment was a little bizarre. Bennett seemed to be a bit defensive at times. When one student asked why there was so much apathy among the youth of this country towards politics, Bennett responded, "The only thing I can tell you is to get over it." Although later Bennett did say that there is so much competition for people's attention, most people just are not interested in politics. When ASWC Senator R. J. Hoggan asked about campaign finance reform, Bennett became upset, saying, "The net result of campaign finance reform will be that every incumbent will become vulnerable." This question also gave Bennett another opportunity to discuss his disgust with the press. Calling them "special interest groups" and saying, "The number one institution that can always get to a senator is the press." Hoggan's other question also seemed to agitate Bennett as well. Hoggan asked the senator if he Coalition Against Sexual Assault, a priit Utah agency dedicated vate, to the elimination of sexual violence in Utah announces the first statewide effort to promote sexual assault awareness. According to Monica Owen, non-prof- GANDHI, from May 28: Memorial Day Holiday June June In an attempt to promote awareness about sexual assault, April has been designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Utah. The Utah thought the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints had any influence over politics in Utah, to which Bennett responded, "Of course not! The Mormon church has no more influence over politics here than the Catholic Church has over politics in Rome." Bennett also went on to say that America was the only country significantly hurt by the Kyoto agreement and when Al Gore was vice president, he went against Congress's orders when he signed the Kyoto agreement. Bennett was bom September 18, 1933 in Salt Lake City and is the son of Senator former F. Wallace Bennett and Francis Grant Bennett. He is a 1957 graduate of the University of Utah. Bennett serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, Joint Economic Committee, and the Senate Small Business Committee. Utahns elected Bennett to his second term in the U. S. Senate in 1998, where he gained an overwhelming majority of the votes, winning by a 64 percent margin. page survivors of sexual violence. Members of Gearl Jam, a local band, will perform a musical piece with a number of guest speakers to follow. Candles will be lit and a moment of silence will follow to honor survivors of sexual assault. "Survivors often feel as if they are all alone," said Owen. "This month is about supporting survivors and letting them know they are not alone. We want survivors to have the opportunity to be empowered to take back their Executive Director of the agency, "Sexual Assault Awareness Month is crucial to educate people about sexual violence. As a community we need to start talking about sexual violence and actively involve ourselves in efforts to end it." Many activities are planned to bring attention to these important issues, including a tree planting, a rally at the State Capitol, a workshop, a 5K race in Ogden and a clothesline project display. The main event for the month will be a statewide candlelight vigil held on Monday, April 30 at 7 p.m. on the steps of the Capitol building. The vigil will be held simultaneously with the eleven rape crisis centers in Utah from Logan to St. George and Moab to Cedar City and will honor 1 seen as supervisors now, not like Moms and Dads." Gandhi's grandfather operated on this principle of teaching rather than punishment. "I learned this lesson pencil," Gandhi through a three-inc- h He explained that, while walklaughed. ing home from school one day, he began looking at his short, stubby pencil. He thought to himself, "I deserve a better pencil. After all, I am Mahatma Gandhi's grandson." With that thought he threw die tiny pencil into the bushes and proceeded home, sure that his grandfather would give him a new and better one. Once home, he explained to his grandfather that he needed a new pencil. "He asked me many questions from there on," Gandhi said. "Finally, he asked me if I remembered where I threw it. When I said 'yes' he replied, 'good, then you will be able to find it again.'" "I spent about two hours with a flashlight looking for that three-inc- h pencil," said Gandhi. When he returned home with it his grandfather explained the ways in which his actions affected the world. "Even in the making of a pen- cil we use a lot of the world's resources. Throwing it away is violence against nature," said his grandfather. He also explained that, "because we live in an affluent society that can afford to throw self-defen- se lives." For additional information con- cerning the event, contact Teinamarrie Nelson at Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault, 220 East 3900 South, Suite 1. which, Currently there are over 700 machines things away, we and the project has expanded immensein turn, deprives people who are then forced to live in poorer societies. This is ly. "All we did was share our talent," Gandhi said. violence against humanity," said throw we time Gandhi. "Every away This is the way that we can use our an are we useful committing skills to help the world, according to something violence." act of Gandhi. "There is a fine line between Such lessons enabled Gandhi to pity and compassion," he said. He our has on he that make the impact spoke of a hungry person on the street. world. He spoke humbly about how he "Many people's immediate response is has used his grandfather's teachings of to give this person money so the homeless person will get out of trusteeship and construc" in the Even difmaking their face," he said. tive action to make a ference. "Everyone has a of a pencil we use a "However, if we operate out talent," he explained, "we lot of the world's of compassion then we start resources. Throwing wondering why this person is often think that we own it away is violence incapable of taking care of that talent. We don't, we him or herself and what we are just trustees of it. We against nature." can do to help. We need to -- Arun Gandhi's need to use it for others as much as for ourselves." Grandfather focus on helping people realize and capitalize on their Gandhi related how his comof a chain action of spawned strengths and possibilities." plan of his and seven He India. in passion Part of making the world better friends gathered 500 disadvantaged also lies in accepting the fact that there people in India and instructed them to is great injustice in this world, especialsave one coin everyday. Eventually the ly economically. "Just to get a loaf of he and had saved and $11,000 people bread someone in a third world counhis friends used the money to buy 10 try will work for 20 hours, whereas secondhand textile machines and estab- someone in the United States will work lished a factory run by the people. As only six minutes," said Gandhi. "There the people became trained, Gandhi and is so much strife between the have and his friends handed off their responsibil- the have-not- s. This is a tremendous ities to the people. 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