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Show PAGE 60THE THUNDERBIRDCSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITYGTUESDAY OCTOBER 22, 1991 OH CAMPUS WINS SPUR RODEO TEAM: Freshman rodeo team member Kade Ballard won the award at the Pocatello college rodeo held Oct. 12. Ballard placed first in saddle bronc riding and third in team roping with his Dixie College partner Dorian Bundy. Team member Troy Christensen, also competing with Bundy, tied for second in the team roping competition and won fourth place in the average. SUs Lisa Chamberlain placed in the barrel racing competition and also won third place in goat tying. The Pocatello rodeo wrapped up the fall rodeo season; winter rodeos begin in February. PROFESSOR HONORED: Richard Kennedy, physical science department head, received the Outstanding Higher Education Science Teacher Award Oct. 1 1 . The Utah Science Teachers Association presented the award at the annual UEA convention in Salt Lake City. I think hes one of the real reasons educators at Southern Utah come out of there as excellent teachers, said Thelma Whittaker, USTA member and a teacher at Piute High School. Hes an exceptional educator and hes very warm to the students who take his classes. Kennedy joined SUUs faculty in 1977, and was named the schools outstanding educator for 1983-8In addition to his teaching duties here, Kennedy often travels to rural schools to conduct SUU outreach programs. He is also known for his popular geology trips which have taken students and interested community members to local sites as well as to Hawaii and Alaska. GEOLOGY TRIP SET: will focus on landslides in A Nov. 2 SUU geology field trip Utah, including their causes and, sometimes, serious economic effects. The trip will examine sites in Piute, Sevier and Sanpete counties and focus on the famous Thistle slide in Spanish Fork Canyon. A credit in GEOL 400 is available, and the cost of the trip is $30. More information may be obtained from Frederick Lohrengel at 586-794- 1. Graduates grade SUs offering June graduates of SUU gave the institution high marks in a recent survey asking them to evaluate their experience at the school. The annual survey was sent to all 1991 graduates during the summer and about 20 percent of those receiving the survey responded. The quality of SUs faculty members, small classes and teaching methods received the highest praise from former students. While good marks were given to the entire school, some areas received especially high student evaluations, including accounting, business administration, business information management, art, agriculture, biology and chemistry. Although SUU officials were pleased with the praise from students, areas that students criticized were just as important. The most common concerns dealt with the need for improved science facilities and a new library. one-on-o- AIDS support group to educate BY CLYDE DAVIES Thunderbird Staff Writer In an effort to better inform students about AIDS and to provide support for those suffering from the disease, SU is working to get its AIDS support group started up again this quarter. The program was originally started last spring to increase AIDS awareness. Program founder Ana Ditmar, assistant professor of behavorial and social sciences, said last spring the group brought speakers to campus, invited state health department officials here to train students to be speakers about the subject and also helped put on the play The Normal Heart. The play portrayed the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in New T0: & York Citys gay community. Another purpose of the AIDS support group, she said, is to personalize AIDS. Ditmar said the program attempts to get people to realize that it could happen to them or someone they know. Ditmar also said education is important because most of those who contract the AIDS virus are college age and that while sickness may not show up for years, the virus may be waiting to become active. Although no fixed meeting schedule has been set for the programs this quarter, Ditmar said this falls schedule will probably be similar to last springs, with meetings Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Anyone interested in participating in the support group may contact Ditmar at 586-786- Ml S, Faculty Others expressed concern that, with the growth of enrollment, SUU could lose its personal touch in teaching. The new science center, now under construction, will also come complete with the said Vice President for latest equipment, University Affairs Michael D. Richards, noting that several of the students concerns are currently being addressed. We have been seeking funding for a new library for some time, and will make our request again at the 1992 Legislature. We are currently expanding our faculty, and at the same time seeking to bring their salaries up to the level that they should be for an institution of this size. While the student survey is just one of several methods used to evaluate our Richards concluded, the survey performance, indicates that were on the right track in making this best institution possible. Professional Staff Addnil nf , Mrtor Foudatl rrHie If you believe that Bay Higher Education needs a stronger voice. participate in Sis A- the fund raising experiment for aPer; -'I back iforr If t ""e V T "t. (UFHE) . it the Utah Foundation for Higher Education - mmi loUa dan 'ra tb Aid Oiif 'Pt it! a6ou Ht iact bsjiE rfe,-t- o. p. "fid. 2. |