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Show ,Arlii iv7 Wk in the Hold Em tournament games set played up throughout the main area. Arriving students received small plastic buckets filled vouchers with hundred-dolla- r for use at any of the tables. Chips clinking and dice rolling, students kept Shaw packed the entire evening. Joiner, director of Student Life, estimated that 300 people attended Casino Night. I was really excited about the turn out, she said. I think everyone was having sit-and-- go Students donning sunglasses and baseball caps last Wednesday fdled the Shaw Center for Casino Night. Ray Bradford and the ASWC brought in Alaynas Fun Club to host organized and legal versions of black jack, craps, roulette and poker, making Shaw resemble a Wendover casino, with uni- X $ ti- ll Gin-ny-Be- th formed dealers and free, nonalcoholic beverages. w a good tune. While Casino Night f Studentbody Vice Presproved to be entertaining, the event succeeded in raising ident Rav Bradford was also money for a serious cause as V , pleased with the turn out. When you plan an event, you well. Students donated $600 4 dont know how many people to Westminster's Hurricane " arc going to show up, he exKatrina Relief Fund by pur- plained. We were thrilled. chasing Westminster braceAt the end of the night, lets, buying second buckets of vouchers, and makplayers traded in their chips for raffle tickets, earning one donations. ing raffle ticket for every $100 in These donations will be sent chips. Lucky w inners took to the Red Cross. home prizes including an iPod An intense Texas Hold Shuffle, a $75 Gateway gift Em tournament kicked olf certificate, tickets to X96s the night, and oohs and feaahhs erupted from the Big Ass Show, and DVDs of The Chappelle Show and ture tables throughout the Rounders and others. evening. After several competStudents also purchased bets and many itive all-i- n Lagoon tickets at Casino Night surprises, lucky river-car- d for $5 a piece. The AS C three winners emerged from office still has some of these tournament. the tickets available for those who Jeff Vandersteed took missed Wednesday night. home first prize, a $125 GateWe felt Casino Night way gift certificate, Stafford was very successful, said BradHoare captured second place ford. He also noted that beand a $75 Gateway gift cercause of the events popularity, tificate, and Cody Bunderson Westminster students can most landed third and a $50 Gatelikely look forward to another way gift certificate. Casino Night in the spring. Patrons not participating i I f , X - " sit-and-- out-of-pock- $", et 50-play- er w4 , ttP Photo by Emma Ryder The Shaw Center turned into a mini Las Vegas last Wednesday for Casino Night. The activity was such a success ASWC is thinking about repeating it next semester. As late nights quickly and imperceptibly fade ifeimsmer -- into rushed mornings oceupk'd by last minute cycle reading or an appreciated become breakfast has precisely of snoozing, ud u.sI a break a its name what suggests: hurried run through Shaw, grabbing snacks that require no eating utensils or preparation, in fact. Leiong only to ibe few able It steal from their busy schedules the tiniest slit et cf time before early morning ckssse. Time slows to a crawl, consciousness drifts inn r mitten By and ravenous bribes beat a x ini' or. ytybtH painful tattoo alerting the brum to nine-minut- f y U? I e people living in the Salt Lake, Valley alone) who require emergency nutritional assistance. But even the vast shelves stacked with foods of all varieties .ire inadequate to feed Utah's working poor. Food supplies disappear far more quickly than they arc received, and an increasing number of residents depend on it for survival. Last year nea rty22 million pounds of food was donated to nmet over 1.3 million request for assistance. Acquired by the Uf B cither through government subsidies or community donations, ad food is sorted almost entirety by volunteers and is rough! But rv a worse would hunger, then distributed statewide among 230 pa u tries be waking up each morning and bflmg a deep feeding programs where qualieach evening fambhed, with no promise or guar- and fied individuals cart receive prepared meaU or a antee that nourishment w ill be avadame to v small supply of rations tote prolonged hunger. an-for In men, wohko That is the situation who children of all age and races, currently throughout the state, tlm Community Services 1. Established in Council has developed a number of ways to dilive below the poverty 1977, the Utah Fond Bank, in association with rectly assist Utahns in need. The Food Box program delivers a weeks the Community Services Council, has committed itself to sustaining the health and livelihood supply of produce, dairy products, and meat. of individuals and families, representing the nearU. ly 9 percent of the population (more than StHMHH) non-prof- it al-le- d Vwnt h-- v , - IF Jf.ot tty Fey Cmne $MW rtP flfVF |