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Show Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005 $ t U!; I IUL1 ,JL ii; it S n., i 1 n i I 1840 S. 1300 E. Salt Lake City, UT 84105 f4 'rM ' a ! j iT; I -I M u.I c Volume XXXVIII Issue 17 FORUM t m nil-- iUui -- !'' i if c WESTMINSTER COLLEGE iqti t.i J 1,1 ,! f $tate Students Sell Themselves for A Good Cause I the Union Tara L. Hair Staff Writer April Mackay Staff Writer Love was in the air last Wednesday night as Westminster students whipped out their wallets to buy themselves a date. In order to ensure that no Westminster student will go stag this Valentines Day, the Associated Residents of Westminster College (ARWQ hosted an annual date auction in Syme Lounge to raise money for the Rape and Awareness Foundation. The auction is an annual event hosted by ARWC in effort to raise money for various charities. This year, the event brought in $884. A few additional donations, including a $100 donation from ARWC, brought the total up to approximately $1,000. The fact that we raised $1,000 for a charity in one night thats awesome, said Alison Lewis, ARWC president Dressed in her best evening attire, Lewis the evening along with ARWC Vice President Chris Wharton. Students volunteered to participate in the auction prior to the show, filling out questionnaires about themselves and what they like in a date and (including their turn-of- He made it through the inauguration and the State of the Union address. Reforming Social Security is next on President George W. Bushs political agenda. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, Bush delivered his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. As he laid down his second-teragenda, he praised the successful Iraqi elections. He promised doubtful lawmakers that he would consider any good idea to revamp Social m Security. - Bush received strong applause when he defined his goals for improving co-host- ed fs turn-ons- ). Lewis and Wharton read their answers aloud as they introduced the participants before opening the bidding. health care: tax credits, Freshman Henry Contreras participated in the date auction on Feb. 2. ARWC donated the money from the auction to the Rape and Awareness Foundation. Students donated $884 during the auction and ARWC donated an additional $100 to the charity. The bidders got into heated battles in their determination for a date until the highest bidder finally prevailed. The volunteer who earned the most money for donation was freshman Alissa Christensen. At what she says is her first date auction, Christensen was sold for $160 to a fellow Westminster student. I almost did not even go up there, said Christensen. You always wonder if anyone is going to bid on you. . improved information technology, community health centers, health plans for small businesses and medical liability reform. Bush also addressed the current economy, energy, security, oudaw regimes and Iraq. The main focus seemed to be Social Security. As Social Security is headed to bankruptcy, Bush said, Last years highest bid was $200 and the happy couple is now married, said Wharton. He continued, Only in Utah. Christensen also thought See Auction pg. 6 Cofers Poetry Melds Languages into Music Kayla Smith Staff Writer Judith Ortiz Cofer held the audience captive last Thursday evening in the Lee Courage Theatre with her poetry spoken with a Puerto Rican accent and a mixture of English and Spanish. This weeks installment of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series highlighted cultural diversity and feminism through poetry and prose. Writing is writing to me, said Cofer, so I write in multiple genres. Cofer, a writer, poet and professor, was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. Soon after, her family moved to Paterson, N.J., when her father joined the U.S. Navy. Growing up in a bilingual household in America, Cofer needed to find a way to break the language barrier, Because, part of my life I felt no one was listening to me, Cofer tells the audience. Most of the works read that evening were written almost entirely in English interspersed with Spanish words to create a melodic feeling. Cofer said the multiple languages allow her, to make music. While reading her pieces the to audience, Cofer seems to dance along with the rhythms of her words. Leaning toward the audience, her body engaged in the intensity while reading her art. Then, relaxing into a playful tone and posture as she narrates, with humor, she told her story of living in two cultures. Cofer entertained with colorful stories of living in America as a member of a minority and a feminist in a Puerto Rican family. I frame it so I can smile about it, she said; now I write to please me, to transcend the anger. Many of her poems are about her mother and the Puerto Rican culture. Cofers mother moved back to Puerto Rico and finished her education after Cofers fathers death. She did what she needed to do in order to live in the . program of voluntary personal retirement accounts that would government-ru- n eg Page 4 Theater professors Nina and Michael Idaho State University music professors will perform at the Westminster Concert Vought take teaching outside of the class and into the kitchen. Series on Feb. 12. t members of Congress to find the most effective combination of reforms. We must make Social Security permanently sound, not leave that task for another day, said Bush. He said that the best way to obtain that goal is to have a See Bush pg. 8 See Poet pg. 8 eg Page 2 "r Fixing Social Security permanently will require an open, candid review of the options. I will work with i f - t -:- - F |