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Show LIGHTS HAY COUTHIUZ TO FUCKED l!J CEOAD CITY UDOT LEiHTS PARKING Representatives from Utah Power and Mountain West Office Supply give advice to help combat damages that may result Officials widened lanes and reduced parking on roads surrounding the university during o:j streets arouhd suu the summer. -H- from a power outage. UEYSS, PAGE N U r I V R E S I T Y t v A. By MELISSA NIELSEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL SUU students have been surviving in a struggling economy with the rest of the state, but there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a new manufacturing plant. The Lozier plant is taking the spot of the old OSullivan Industries building on 5080 W. Highway 56, said Clark Krause, Iron County and Cedar City economic development director. Finally, Cedar City has a higher salary job, celebration 1 I of 2004, Cranford said. Krause said. This is a big for the and success It is expecting to begin this surge of hiring more around February, March and April, Cranford said. At first, it will only be hiring about 20 to 30 people, he said. He said as production goes up, Lozier will increase hiring to about 100 people in the first year. Everyone should be patient with the situation, Cranford said. They have to order the stuff to be built, he said. There is a whole lot more to it than they are going to show community. Lozier intends to hire at least 100 employees during the first year, and three next the years during employment will expand to as many as 300 employees, Krause said. Thats not going to be instantly, Iron County said Bob Cranford, Department of Workforce Services business consultant. It will not be doing the bulk of its hiring until the end of the first quarter i ? Y r ; rai t wffi r ( See LOZIER, Page 4 By TASHA WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY JOURNAL By AMY OLIVER 7 The bad news is that criminal activity was still reported during Labor Day weekend. The good news is SUU students were not a part of it. Labor Day weekend activity was slower than usual, said Sergeant David Holm of the Cedar City Police Department and Lt. Michael Crouch of the Iron County Sheriffs Office. No SUU students were cited or arrested during the weekend. The weekend has potential for more criminal incidents because more people are traveling, more people (are) out doing more activity, Holm said. this Labor Day However, nine less criminal weekend, incidents were reported than the same weekend last year, Holm said. Among the 30 total incidents, a 1997 Toyota Tacoma was stolen, wrecked and vandalized. It was found at the base of the C Trail. Cedar City police officers are still investigating the theft. Also, someone cut through the soft top of a convertible car at 6 7 S. St. James Place, stealing about $8 worth of coins and $130 worth of CDs, Holm said. A wallet, valued at $20, was stolen from a vehicle at 840 S. Main Street. Flolm said both cases are still under investigation. Cedar City police also reported two criminal mischief incidents one involving the vandahzation of cement barricades on Sage Drive, and a rock that hit a car on 1100 South. Sergeant David Excell of the Utah Department of Public Safety d said there were three major arrests, as well as myriad DUls, during the holiday weekend. a said Excell special enforcement team of seven or eight officers from the Utah Highway Patrol helped Cedar City officers patrol the area. The extra enforcement is scattered around the state and happened to pick Labor Day weekend to spend in Cedar City. On Saturday, 10 pounds of 100 and methamphetamine pounds of marijuana were found during routine traffic stops on Excell said. On Sunday, officers arrested two in from men cocaine with connection 1 ANNIE BROWN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL VerLee Hunt, a registered nurse at Valley View Medical Center, checks on her patient, Claudia Smith, of Cedar City. drug-relate- SUU contends for money to create new nursing program By KATIE ANDERSON moratorium. All of the data weve got shows theres a nursing shortage, Jardine said. SUU Provost Abe Harraf agreed, saying theres an increased demand in the health care industry for nurses who carry a bachelors degree, something SUUs proposed four-yeprogram would provide. Webers program is a program, in which associates degree in nursing and students receive a two-yecan choose to either continue in the bachelors program for another two years or go straight to the working world. Donna Lister, assistant professor of nursing, said the problem with Webers program is that it generally takes three associates degree because a years years to obtain a two-yeare necessary before a student can worth of apply for the nursing program. After receiving the two-yedegree in three years, the student would have to continue for at least another two years to complete a bachelors degree, she said. With a four-yeprogram at SLU, nursing students could a receive bachelors degree in the traditional four ideally years and graduate to meet the industrys demand for higher UNIVERSITY JOURNAL As colleges and universities continue to fight through the hassle of the states higher education budget crisis, SUU administrators are struggling to receive approval to establish a nursing program independent of Weber State University. The Utah Board of Regents is currently reviewing the nursing program. universitys proposal to create a four-yeHowever, to combat state monetary restraints, the Regents established a moratorium on new programs meaning the Regents wont approve new programs. Fortunately for SUU, the Regents also created four exceptions to the moratorium, under which the College of Science may be able to establish its own nursing program. Regent Jim Jardine, chairman of the New Program Review Committee, said SUUs proposal falls under one of the exceptions. Under Category III of the Compelling Need of the Exceptions to the Moratorium on New Programs document, it states that an institution must show an urgent need expressed by business, community andor industry. which Jardine said makes SUU eligible for an express Countdown )Co) DAYS K 7 AND MEG CADY UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ; ' Labor Day crime low; still existent State officials proclaim ASL official speech 1 ' up next week. For now, Lozier has not contacted SUU Career Services to recruit students, but that does not mean that it wont, said Lisa Laird, assistant director of Career Services. Workforce will be helping them hire, but not until the first of the year, said Liz Lobato, Iron. County and Cedar City Department of Workforce Services manager. Cranford said people are excited about the new jobs. Andrew Groft, American Sign Language Level 1 instructor, signs the word happy for his students. Utah has recognized ASL as a legitimate and inclusive foreign language, which allows the university to make it part of the Foreign Languages & Humanities Department and for students to obtain the credits necessary for graduation. It made more sense that way, said James W. Harrison, Foreign Languages & Humanities Department chair. In previous years, ASL courses have been offered through the Department of Continuing Education as Level 1 and Level 2 classes, and as a result, there were not enough credits to cover the foreign language requirement for graduation. With the help of Andew Groft, ASL instructor, SUU students will be able to continue their ASL studies through Level 4. Harrison said ASL classes in Levels 1 and 3 are available to students during fall semester and began on Sept. 2. Levels 2 and 4 will be available Spring Semester 2004. Harrison said tnis will allow inexperienced students to start fall semester in the first level on move and then immediately in following semesters. At the same time, this will allow more experienced students to work on the upper levels, he said. Currently, the number of students participating in ASL classes is unknown. Harrison said ASL has continuously proven to be a popular program at SUU, and it will increase in popularity with the addition of these two courses. We will be accepting students for the next couple of weeks, Harrison said. He said he urges those interested to sign up quickly. Once word gets out, classes will fill up quickly. Students have said they are excited about the new class offering. Im very interested in deaf culture and American Sign Language, said Jessica Burton, a freshman English major from Layton. I think its important to be aware of the deaf culture, and a class like this makes people aware. Groft said, As more deaf (individuals) seek degrees and go into the business world, sign language interpretation is becoming crucial. Deaf people cant leam how to hear and there are a lot of deaf people in the United States, he said. Groft said he will focus on teaching his students deaf culture, receptivity and executive skills that are needed for interpretation and certification. Its helped me leam better, Groft said. It helps you to think differently. Students interested in the ASL program should register for the class as soon as possible in the PAGE 3 4 . r EWS, until Harvest Day Recess See NURSING, Page 4 w SUU by the numbers ar ) i p pn The number of incidents reported to Cedar City law enforcement agencies during the weekend. The percentage of a tuition increase needed to raise faculty salary by one percent. The number of people who are currently signed up on the Do Not Call Registry. te distribution, a second-degre- e felony. The drugs also were found during a routine traffic stop. Excell said during the traffic stops, officeis noticed signs of possible drug activity and were assisted by a dog in finding the substances. |