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Show THE CAMPUS - f -- .I.... wm TOE UM vIRSITY JOURNAL SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1996 Winter Convos are diverse Topics range from acting to paramilitary terrorism By JIM ROBINSON CAMPUS EDITOR Topics will range all the way from acting on television's popular "The Brady Bunch" to paramilitary terrorism during winter quarter Convocation presentations which began yesterday at SUU. Yesterdays's appearance by former "Brady Bunch" cast mwember Barry Williams began the year (see page 3). Other subjects for the quarter deal with nuclear waste disposal, discovery of comets, what the 2002 Winter Olympics might mean to southern Utah, and the role of women pioneers to the West. "We have a range of topics this quarter which is just about as broad as is possible," Lana Johnson, director of lecturesspecial projects, at SUU, points out. "Certainly there should be at least one topic that would interest almost anyone. The nearest thing we have to similar subject presenters are two educators, but one is an authority on education for 'at risk' populations and the other is concerned with visual arts and economic realities." "We are still working with a couple of potentially very popular speakers for Feb. 29, but final arrangements have not yet been completed," said Johnson Winter quarter convocations scheduled at Southern Utah University: 1 1 Mike Korologos, "2002 Winter Olympics: Impact and Implications to Southern Utah" Korologos is public information director for the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee. The impact and realities to be felt by the residents of the entire state of Utah will be addressed. Those impacts are estimated by the Governor's office of Planning Budget to generate an additional output in Utah's economy of $1,724 billion. Jan. W.B. "Bill" Andrews, "Yucca Mountain: High-levNuclear Waste Repository" Andrews is currently deputy director of the Harry Reid Research Center at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He has also served as a consultant with the Science Applications International Corporation and helped develop the transportation system for the Carl Boyd nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain, Nev. Andrews was also a consultant to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for reactor safety regulations. Diversity as Cultural Commonality" Boyd is president and founder of "The Art of Positive TEACHING," an educational consulting firm headquartered in Kansas City, Mo. Boyd travels extensively to help teachers and administrators solve problems they incur while teaching "at-risk- " students. with students as they deal with many uncertain aspects of their lives. Boyd also works Feb. 1 Tony Harris, "Unlearning Racism" Harris is an activist and founder of "American Pictures Foundation," which he formed with Danish activist Jacob Holdt. American Pictures Foundation developed a multimedia, multicultural production which challenges viewers with stark images of racism and injustice prevalent within the world family. An optional workshop after the presentation addresses racist attitudes brought to the surface by the presentation. Terre Laree Burton, "The Lady on the Trail: Disposable Baggage?" Burton, who is chair of the humanities and social science Tony Harris, activist, founder, American Pictures departments at Dixie College, is a Utah Centennial speaker. Burton has Feb. 29 Speaker and Topic to be announced. always been interested in the role women played in She West. women that settlers the maintains settling March 7 Rick Ross "Paramilitary Terrorism" were adventurous, intelligent, courageous, and Ross is considered a leading expert and an endured grueling hard work. They, as well as men, outspoken critic of radical cults and fanatical possessed the pioneering spirit. groups. He is actively involved in consulting on Feb. 15 David H. Levy, "Jupiter: The Collision of specific cases regarding Feb. 8 the Century" Levy, author, astronomer, and Shoemaker-Lev- y of 9 Comet, presents an educational retrospective on his discovery and the history-makin- g collision of 21 fragments of that comet into Jupiter at 135,000 miles per hour. With 21 discoveries to his credit, Levy is one of the most successful comet discoverers ever. He is an amateur astronomer with a master's degree in English literature. Jan. 18 Jan. 25 Carl Boyd, "Positive Teaching: Cultural Feb. 22 Joseph A. Gatto, "The Visual Arts and Economic Realities" Gatto, who specializes in jewelry design, painting, and photography, is nationally known as a leading arts educator. Gatto is the 1995 recipient of the Distinguished Teacher in the Arts Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. In 1988 and 1989, he was honored as a "Distinguished Teacher" by President Ronald Reagan. He is dean of the visual arts department and a founding member of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. the destructive tendencies of extremist organizations, and he has deprogrammed hundreds of former cult members. Ross acts as an expert consultant to both the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI. March 8 (4 p.m., Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery) Carolyn Forche, "Poetry Reading" Poet Carolyn Forche, a professor in the creative writing program at George Washington University, is n recognized as one of the country's poets of conscience. Her first collection, "Gathering the Tribes," won the Yale Younger Poets Award; and her second, "The Country Between Us," received both the Lamont Poetry Award and an award from the Poetry Society of America. With one exception, the series of free lectures will be held on Thursdays at 1 1 a.m. in the SUU Auditorium. The lone exception will be a Friday, March 4, poetry reading at 4 p.m. in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. The public is encouraged to attend . best-know- |