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Show titflflh GWft&riiCk News Center yr National representative helps SUU By TIFFANY DE MASTERS tdemasterssuujournal com In preparation for this years election, SUUs College Republicans sent for a national field representative, while the College Democrats are handing out trinkets and the College Libertarians are running to stay noticed. Gina Hall, president of the College Republicans, said Michelle Kee, national committee field representative for the College Republicans, was sent to help the club with the campaign. Not many people have a field rep, Hall said. Most states wouldnt have anybody with them. Hall the campaign, said. Michelles first priority is to help the College Republicans, but they also help out the Swallow campaign in the community, so she ends up helping Swallow John is both the college and talked to the national the community. Republican Party and Kee also helps the told them how much Michelle Kee students stay alert on we were, doing and the clubs goals for the sent (Kee;) out here, campaign. Hall said.j Shes really good is to help students on Kees fijrst priority at keeping us focused, and were able to accomplish more because shes here, campus get involved with the campaign. e Its their job to help with Hall said. a John Swallow, republican running for congress, recognized what the students and were doing decided to help them in their endeavors. came as an ambassador from the national Republican I Party. Our primary focus to strengthen the college chapters." - Kee said a field representatives job or establish republican chapters and get the chapters involved in the political process. Michelle was hired to help the university Hall said. Kee said she started a College Republicans chapter at her university as a ffeshman in college. When she transferred to Marist College, she attempted, with the help of others, to start another chapter, but her efforts went unrecognized. Kee graduated in 2004 and was hired by the National Republican Party in Washington, D.C., to be a field representative. I came as an ambassador from the national Republican Party, Kee said. is to strengthen full-tim- e, See REP, Page 3 full-tim- Home football game against Dogs Saturday The game on Saturday against the Montana Western Bulldogs starts at 6 p.m. The Division II Bulldogs record is 5-- 2. Page 7 City fire extinguished A fire in a dumpster by Cedar Cycle, a bicycle shop on 38 E. 200 South, was reported at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. The fire was started by rags soaked in linseed oil, a wood treatment product, which spontaneously combusted. There was no structural By VALE WHITE vwhitesuujournal.com Racial graffiti and drawings were found on a wall of the Music Building Tuesday afternoon. Ittalia Godfrey, president of the Black Student Alliance club, reported the incident to campus authorities at about 1 p.m. The weekjust started, and I'm going to class, and then theres this big mural up on the wall, Godfrey said. Seeing it was upsetting. According to reports of those who saw it, r damage. John Pielmeier started as an actor and has written g plays and television movies such as Choices of the Heart and Sins of the Father. He will speak at 11:30 today in the Auditorium during the Convocation. award-winnin- run The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 starts at 7:30 By JENNIFER BOOTH on the porch to welcome Cedar City residents place for Halloween. SUU will celebrate Halloween with the Howl on Friday starting at 8:30 until 1 trick-or-treate- rs s, Weather Watch a.m. Celebrations marks modern Hallows Eve Chance of snow today with rain through the weekend. Highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s. Page 9 Countdown DAYS until Thanksgiving Break Safety and Forensics team places in meet Stage II production p.m. and runs through Saturday. The play is sponsored by the Theatre Arts & Dance Department. Public Department launched has an to find investigation the person or people who did it. He said there are some leads. My impression from the contacts that I have had (is that) it Cox the may have been done in w'as drawing broad daylight, which done in white chalk. disturbs me, Cox said. It contained racial slurs and Godfrey said if it did happen depictions and was quite large. her during the day, she is upset that Godfrey expressed no orte reported it. frustration about not knowing If it was done in the daylight, who did it. Theres not much we can do See GRAFFITI, Page 3 Convocation features Broadway playwright debuts three-da- y about it but tell people and look for who did it, Godfrey said. Neal Cox, dean of students, received word of the graffiti around 1 p.m. and took action by sending workers to remove it. First thing we did was take it down, Cox said. He said he has contacted the SUU By TIFFANY DE MASTERS tdemasterssuujournal com SUU and Cedar City community members celebrate Halloween with parties, corn mazes and haunted houses. Ghoulish, creepy and bloodcurdling decorations and activities mark the coming of the holiday. SUU will celebrate Halloween with a giant party. SUUSA will play host to the Howl on Friday at 9 p m. Admission will be $5 and will get students in to the Utah Shakespeaiean Festival's Tent of Terror for free from p.m. to Midnight. There will be games and fun and said Ashlee parties everywhere, Nelson, activities vice president The Nelsons Com Maze in Enoch will be haunted and will be open j from 5 to 10 p m. today and Friday and from to 10 pm. on Saturday, I. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for cambric white children 1 years old and younger. Bree Pena, a sophomore criminal justice major from Cedar City, said she likes Halloween much more than Christmas. She said some of the traditions she has carried on since childhood are pumpkin carving and Halloween 1 1 1 parlies. I like stuff that is just so far away from reality, like dressing up and having fun, Pena said. Other students shared their favorite parts of Halloween. Rick Wilding, a senior physical education major from Taylorsville, said he likes the candy and costumes. Jason Jones, a junior physical education major from Beaver, said his favonte thing about Halloween is going to parties. The excitement of Halloween also brew's among parents and children Leah Brown, a Cedar City mother, said Halloween is a fun time to be able to pietend. I really dont get into decorating other holidays, Brown said. Halloween is my holiday. Brown said she loves to dress up and have nobody recognize her. My husband says Im a kid at heart, she said. UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Mitchell Brown, 9, said his favorite part of Halloween is scaring people. Leah Brown said she does not believe Halloween is a satanic holiday. I never associated evil or yucky stuff with See HOLIDAY, Page 3 jboothsuujournal.com The SUU forensics team traveled to the Southern California Forensics Swing this weekend and earned third place in the overall individual events sweepstakes and fourth in debate parliamentary sweepstakes. California State University-Lon- g Beach played host to the swing tournament, which included two individual events tournaments sandwiched tournament. During the first tournament, he placed second in Persuasion and sixth in After Dinner Speaking. Jake Neilson was third in Informative and Communication the at second Analysis tournament, and he earned seventh place in Extemporaneous Speaking at the first. Britany Smith placed fourth in Dramatic Interpretation and third in Program Oral Interpretation. Jessica Burton placed fourth in Persuasion. Lynley Peterson, first-yea was student, ranked Top Novice in both ar "Last weekend parliamentary was a remarkable tournament, on the Biola accomplishment campus Friday through for our students." Sunday. Terry West Nineteen and around one colleges from universities California and Arizona joined SUU in the competition. Every student on the SUU squad took home trophy honors from the tournament. Team captain Sherry Nay earned finishes in both halves of the Informative Speaking competition and won the second e tournament with straight ranks all through finals. She was the first team member this season to qualify for the Amencan Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament. Nay placed secondin Communication Analysis, fourth in Extemporaneous Speaking and fifth in Persuasion. Phil Martin was also a double tournament champion for SUU. He won the Persuasion category in the second tournament with ranks, and he straight also won Impromptu Speaking. Martin also placed fourth in After Dinner Speaking at that first-pla- first-plac- first-pla- and Poetry in Persuasion the first half and placed third in division open at the Poetry second hall. Jeff Spears earned the Top Novice honors in Extemporaneous Speaking. In the parliamentary debate competition, Spears teamed with Jonathan Jones to win four of six preliminary debate rounds, finishing 10th among 27 teams in open division debate. Smith and Martin teamed for two more wins to round out SUUs sweepstakes effort, and Smith was 12th among the 54 individual debaters in the best speaker competition. Last a was weekend remarkable accomplishment by our students, said Terry West, forensics director. To place in between four programs who are top-2- 0 AFA-NIE- T programs (Arizona State University, CSU-Land Long Beach) and to have our scoring pace equal to another top-2- 0 school, Mt. San Antonio College, which entered only the first half of the swing, was outstanding. A O |