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Show iMODAMpi FAMILY HOUSING OPTIONS SLIM. NEED SOME HELP WITH STUDYING? Married students with children Kmay find campus housing more difficult to come by due to new restrictions in effect. SEE Several options are available for students who wish assistance in improving their study habits... and their grades. SEE PAGE 2. PAGE 3. Activist, actor Farrell is Convo guest Mike Farrell, best known as B.J. Hunnicutt from the Emmy MASH, will discuss Citizen Activism Thursday, Jan. 12 at 11 a.m. in the SUSC Auditorium as the first speaker in the winter quarter Convocation Series. He will also be the guest speaker at the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce banquet the day before he speaks on campus. Earlier this school year Farrell spoke at Brigham Young University and was received with much enthusiasm. Winter quarter convocation programs started Jan. 5 with a screening of the film Citizen, a documentary of the political life of Allard K. Lowenstein, a political activist and former New York congressman who was assassinated in 1980. Farrell, the films executive producer, was working with Lowenstein on a film adaptation of the congressmans book Brutal Mandate when Lowenstein was killed. The purpose of the film is to demonstrate to what Farrell feels is a fairly apathetic generation, that one voice can be heard and can have an impact on our way of life. As a political activist Farrell has worked for rights and rehabilitation, the Equal Rights Amendment, the United Farm Workers Union and the award-winnin- g anti-nucle- movement. He has been named Father of the Year by the National Organization for Women and is the national spokesman for CONCERN, a refugee aid organization. Farrell has an intense commitment to progressive thought and political activism, states Lana Johnson, Convocations coordinator. Unlike many performers who merely give lip service to charitable functions, he is actively involved in the social and political process. The man America knows as Alan Aldas friend and sidekick in meatball surgery spent two years on the daytime serial Days of Our Lives" and has appeared on many television shows and movies. He and his wife Judy have also hosted the PBS parent-chil- d relationship series Footsteps. Born in South St. Paul, Minn., Farrell grew up in southern California where his father worked as a carpenter in the motion picture studios. He says he always wanted to be an actor but didnt have the courage to try until after a two-yestint in the Marine Corps. Farrell is currently producing a boardgame called Broadway, similar to Monopoly except that the game M ike Farrell, most involves buying shares in theatrical productions, and is film for future books and scripts projects. Hunnicutt, speaks developing various widely recognized as B.J. at SUSC Thursday. Cotts not at all anxious to leave land down under SUSC faculty member and family bring back stories and memories of Australian exchange with Ogle family by Fletcher Matson 2,500 for a technical institute of 8,000 situated in the a cosmopolitan city of millions. (Australia) seems just like a frontier, but its really quite civilized, he said, noting that Kenmore, the suburb in which his family lived, had neighbors of many diverse nationalities. The also extended on campus and into the classroom where Cotts would lecture for three hours once a week in every class with an additional hour for tutoring helping students with their work. He didnt enjoy preparing and giving marathon lectures, but he does feel that an extended class period at SUSC would be more beneficial to both heart of Brisbane, Youve heard of Men At Work? Well, Ive eaten my share of vegemite sandwiches, says James Cotts, an associate professor of mathematics who got to sample the Australian lunch spread when he traded jobs, homes and possessions with Ian Ogle, a lecturer from the Queensland Institute of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Cotts, his wife and four children returned last month from a year-lonstay in the land down under; the Ogles and their two children left cold and drizzly Cedar City for the subtropical country of kangaroos just five days after the Cottses arrived. .We were not at all anxious to leave, mentions Cotts, but we were glad to get home. Ogle and Cotts first contacted each other during September of 1980 through the Faculty Exchange worldwide organization Center, a private, for college and university educators who want to live and teach in cultures other than their own. Cotts wanted to see Australia for the adventure and Ogle wanted to experience the American Southwest. After gaining approval from SUSC and QIT, the two families made arrangements to swap everything except clothes. Cotts left a rather isolated liberal arts campus of g non-prof- it students and instructors than the current James Cotts wanted, to see Australia for the adventure, and he says he found plenty of it. Hes bach at SUSC after a year down under. 50 minute slot ic Both Cotts and Ogle prefer QIT's semester system to SUSCs quarter system. The Australian academic year is divided into two sessions with a vacation between them. Finals are spread over 18 days which Cotts admits is carrying ii to an extreme, but its almost necessary there because the final exams count as such a high percentage of your grades. Department policy required that finals comprise at least 70 percent of the students grades. Students final per dav, he adds. usually had only one three-hou- r k (continued on page 3) |