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Show UNIVERSITY lOURNAL PACE e 5 So, er The opinions expressed above are the collective perspective of the University Journal editorial board. The editorial board meets every Monday and Thursday at 2 p.m. in room 176C of the Sharwan Smith Center. Readers are also welcome to comment UNIVERSITY OURNAL outhermutah wmBiTmtomiTiywAmt 586-775- 0 Associate Editor Campus News Opinion Marc Dotson Associate Editor - City News Opinion Christian Ross - 586-775- 9 UIU- -, t lts AWcSCf.tS. tout K SfcftfciEe. CH IHWT 16 tCt&i Campus changes nurture growth If you take a minute and look around the campus there are some journalism major to be a part of the Journal writing group. Come to our offices and tell us what you want to do. Take pictures, write exciting changes on the horizon or copy edit, we want people to take advantage of the piacticum and look Old near be to If you happen Main, stop through One big change this year is our Web site We have the fence. more middle I the in options and some better ways to communicate When I looked saw a track hoe parked with our readers. Print media is limited, but the Internet of a gutted building. I thought that was pretty cool. Im WASH is limitless. We have the capability to do slide shows, going to watch the changes carefully over the next year sound and video. As the editor of the Journal I want to as the construction continues. emphasize our Web site and its uses. I will be talking a There are other changes. The University Journal staff lot about it this semester and I encourage everyone to use on Stauffer met with Interim President Greg Thursday. it to their full benefit At the press conference Stauffer made it clear that hes Some things about the Web site that have me excited not just keeping the chair warm in the presidents office. are the message boards and the capability to comment on of SUU. future the for and He talked about projects plans stones and issues. This will provide another avenue for As it stands right now, the new president will take over our readers to put their input in on an issue. that chair from Stauffer in January and will have projects I want to work with Power 91 and SUTV to have some that will need to be completed. well. convergence in the Communication Department. I will There are changes in the Journal this year as be we are and staff to our faces new reaching out to clubs, SUUSA, the Michael O. Leavitt We have added some VALE WHITE Center for Politics & Public Service and any organization excited to start the new semester. in our area to better our information needs. If there is something going on in your world, inform Change is good and we are looking forward to provide information us and well inform our readership After all, this is a student about our campus and community m traditional and new formats. newspaper. Run by students, for students. Come change and grow with us this semester and w e can make We want you to use it. We accept articles from the community, SUU a better informed campus. students, faculty, staff and anyone who wants to make their point the to editor or an wnter a staff be heard. You dont have to grace Vale White is the editor of the University Journal. He pages of the Journal. he reached can at be to have You write. dont vwhitesuujournal.com We welcome people who can U.N. vital for juvenile world family such an organization? As ill equipped as it might seem, without the United Nations, reformed or not, we as a world family would regress. In fact, more than we are willing to admit, the problems that conflict. with causal of sort plague the United Nations are a result of the childishness of its relationship Obviously there isnt any member states and the infancy of the current level of our family gathering and acts of violence. However, ' such global interdependence. juxtaposing my own familial challenges against Some people do not support the U.N. because of a g conflicts within our world family offers MUSINGS supposed conspiracy for the international organization some keen insight. to transform into a world government, snatching as served have In my family, my parents always all we all are Now that sovereignty from the nations of the earth. Not only are adults, siblings my peacemakers. such ideas unfounded, but they also reflect the rampant, the take responsibility in the same way to keep peace; ignorant belief there are major differences between all and we do, more or less, especially with the children. domestic and international concerns Weve become much more likeable and friendly to each We ought to pay attention to domestic problems, of wars serious cause We dont other and our parents. any course we should - any countrys main purpose is the with each other as we did as children and teenagers. fast become and protection and welfare of its citizens - but we ought not Im glad to say that we have grown up be so afraid and confused as to miss the point that many friends. of our domestic challenges have international elements In contrast, the world family is still in adolescence. Immigration is just one example of such interweaving of wealth, terrorist groups, disproportionate Warring states, MARC DOTSON domestic and international concerns. blind nationalism, corporate dominance, partisan childish Complex global challenges require us to grow up as all of facets play among factionalism, etc. are nation-state- s and their citizens. Fortunately, idealists have built countries, and moie importartly, os individual members of a and maintained a semblance of a family council where the adults global society. We ought to support the U.N. and be informed and involved in the efforts of a maturing world family to face our among us can work for peace: the United Nations. Former President Dwight D. Esenhower said it well: With all collective demons. its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, the This column was originally published in The Spectrum on Aug-22U.N. still represents mans hope to substitute the Marc Dotson is a Writers Group member and the University conference table for the battlefield. Journal I hear anyone praise the efforts of the U.N. It has do campus news editor. He can be contacted at mactson Very rarely its problems, of course it does, but where would we be without suujournal.com. It seems that a war begins right before, during or soon after my family goes on vacation. Such instances include the Persian Gulf h War, the Sept. 11 attacks, the London Bombings and the Israeli-Hezbolla- earth-shakin- 586-548- 8 Staff Writer Jusline Pruitt, LI CJ ii L a t .JCLiiSteL A What was your most outrageous summer experience? Share your response at the Talk Back Forum, online at suujournal.com. 7 Operations Manager 1 John S. Gholdston, Advertising Chad Carter, 586-775- 8 Journal is published every Monday and Thursday of the academic year by and for is advised by professional faculty and staff in the the Journal are university's Communication Department. The views and opinions expressed in thsse of individual wntrrs and do not necessarily reflect the views of the institution, faculty, staff or the of the University Journal student body in general. The unsigned editorial direedy above is opinion editorial board. The University Journal is designated a public forum and is free from external censorship or advance the approval of content The Journal is free to develop editorial policies and news coverage with understanding that students and student organizations speak only for themselves. Administrators, decisions faulty, staff or other agents shall not consider the student medias content when making regarding the medias funding.. Grievances: Any individual withagrievance against the Journal should direct such problem first to the editor. If unresolved, that grievance should then be directed to the operations manager. Anygnevance not resolved at that level is referred to the Journal Advisoiy Council. The yiirr 586-775- 9 8 Copy Chief Ashley Langston, 8 Assc. Copy Chief Scott Monroe, Graphics E titer Jennifer Fernandez, 8658443 8 Ad Designer James Nelson, 8 Office Manager Rachel Dotson,, Staff Writer: Micah Iverson, 586-548- 8 . DIRECTING STAFF AND DESK PHONE NUMBERS: Editor Vale White SAY WHAT YOU 7UUJS In 2005, the administration added a controversial student fee and collected nearly $250,000 to pay for fuel and power costs expected to be unfunded by the State Legislature. the legislature stepped up and Fortunately, appropriated the needed money to the university. The students funds are no longer needed for that purpose, but returning the money to students will be expensive and logistically challenging. Student officers and the Journal vehemently objected to the previous administration tampering with student fees when the dun was levied. However, we are glad that the university has righted some of the wrong by allowing students to help decide how the funds will be used. The university now has an opportunity to route this money back to students where it belongs. committee is examining several A options for using the money. The members of the committee are: Paul Morris, SUU budget director; Mindy Benson, director of student life & leadership and Sharwan Smith Center manager; Dale Orton, SUU assistant vice president for student services; Steve Kiisel, SUUSA president; and Jessica Burr, SUUSA activities vice president. Among the committees options are funding future construction in the utility costs and student-centere- d Sharwan Smith Center. Construction projects in the Sharwan Center being considered include completion of the auditorium between the Sharwan Center Rotunda and SUU Bookstore either as a theatre, or, as Kiisel has suggested, turning the space into a club center. We congratulate this administration and the Board of Trustees for allowing students to help decide how their money will be used. We also applaud SUUSA officials for spending time researching this issue. We encourage the Board of Trustees and administration officials to reflect on the advantages of using the money to further develop the Sharwan Smith Center for students. Ideas such as the creation of a club center are of particular merit and deserve careful consideration. A club center could be a place for clubs to meet, plan, and use resources like computers that would be dedicated specifically to helping them and their members build and grow. Clubs are an important part of student life at SUU and also play a central role in recruitment and retention of students. With enrollment growth projected to slow or fall in coming years, now is the time for SUU to step forward and use this money to make a permanent investment for students and for the future of the university. This money has been collected through student fees and ought to be used for general student benefit. 8 to r$ Cur SHAKES on a must support 2 Accent Editor Hollle Smith, McKenzie Ecitor Romero, Sports 3 Photo Editor Ben Draper, Web Editor Jared Rose, 586-775- 8 i Marc Dotson, Christian Ross, Monday, August 28, 2006 five-memb- p University tte student body of Southern Utah University. It The Journal is distributed purchased free of chaige to individuals for the first copy. Additional copies may be for 25 cents each. 351 W University Journal SUU Sharwan Smith Center. Room 176C Mail address University Journal, address oumalsuu edu University Blvd CedarCity Utah 84720 FAX (435)586-548PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER PLEASE RECYCLE THIS COPY 2006 SUU University Journal Marianne Palmer Freshman Undeclared Murray Driving home from my friends house, my friends car ran out of gas so I decided to jump out of a moving car to help push it. I fell flat on my butt. Las Vegas Marlayna Recksiek Freshman Undeclared Salt Lake City Breaking my leg basketball playing and a cruise. Going to the World Cup in Germany to see the winning team, Casey Chippoletti Freshman Marketing Italy. Climbing Dunns River Jamaica. Violet Freshman Nall-Korr- Tiffany Young Freshman Business Salt Lake City ' Communication Los Angeles up Falls in I went to Yellowstone Natinoal Park and was stuck on a rock for two hours because two bears were sleeping on the middle of the rock! |