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Show rtaw.r lir.T ;' nime&i rrnwn-ft n U i N I V E R $ mriintiwi. I nT & ii T Y V mdm r ! l. r l si v Cedar City, Utah LLEy-- : Southern Utah University Monday, March 25, 2013 )Xn.nE Ya J ' New center for the arts takes beneficiaries name By GINNY ROMNEY gromneysuunews com President Michael T. Benson announced a $6 million donation from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation to the Southern Utah Museum of Art and Utah Festival Shakespeare joint building at Thursdays Founders Celebration dinner. The building, now named the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts because of the donation, will house a new Shakespeare theatre, the USF Artistic and Production Center and a regional art museum. The building is projected to be completed in 2016, which coincides with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares death, said USF Founder Fred Adams. The $30 million project is the biggest of its kind in Iron County and will be the crown jewel of Cedar City, Benson said. Construction fencing for the project will be up in1 December and ground will be broken in January. The idea of combining the USF and SUMA buildings was conceived when it became that neither the apparent SUMA nor the USF building would be built because the projected budgets were too costly, Benson said. However, with some give and take from both organizations, it would be possible to build a combined building. (the combined Ironically, building) we came up with (was) what Fred had envisioned 20 years ago on a smaller scale with elements that included an artistic production facility and a playwright's theatre, but SUMA was that new component, he said. It added a new flair. Benson said the center would be part of a k epicenter that would pull people to Cedar City year-rounDonations from outreach programs, such as a $5 million donation from the Ralph and Betty Engelstad Family Foundation, and a $3 million donation from the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, along with a $2 million obtained from the 2013 Utah Legislative session have made it so only $1 million remains to be raised, Adams said. Doug Foxley, senior principal of the Foxley and Pignanelli lobbying firm, said his firm had spent the last couple of years explaining to legislators why a Shakespeare complex would be advantageous to Cedar City and ultimately the entire state. The $2 million dollars will make the art complex a reality, Foxley said. See CENTER, Page 11 two-bloc- d. STEVEN WRIGHTFORTHEJOURNAL Kimberly Thornley and Lance Lowry gaze at each other Bridge and Hadley Gasser practice a lift (bottom right). for their dance routine for Dancing with the Stars (left). For Dancing with the Stars, a member of the ballroom Bryan Werber and Emily Robinson waltz (top right). Mo team teaches an SUU star one dance. Participants anxiously await SUUs Dancing with the Stars By ERIC LIEBHARDT Canyon View High School. Stars were paired up with members of the eliebhardtsuunews com Ballroom Dance Company and have been On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Centrum rehearsing together for at least two months. Arena, SUUs Ballroom Dance Company Andrea Ballroom Dance Johnson, will present their annual fundraising event, Company director, said participating in Dancing with the Stars. DWTS is a big commitment. The stars this year are Jeffrey Hertig. (The stars) put in a minimum of 20 hours SUUSA president-elec- t; Lance Lowry, working on their dances, she said. Most SUUSA vice president-elec- t of activities; of these people have spent 50 or 60 hours to Eva Chau, a senior graphic design major put this all together. from Hong Kong; Johnny Oh, director for Johnson said it is the dedication from the the Betty McDonald Institute dancers and stars that will make DWTS a and Asian Integration; Morgan Bridge, a fantastic show. senior communication major from Sandy The participants will showcase a wide and a member of SUU women's soccer variety of dances including rumba, tango, team; Dez Curtis, radio DJ and hustle, quickstep, salsa, cha cha, Viennese on the Rob & Dez show on B92.1 FM; waltz and swing. Sasha Bainson, current Miss Iron County; Members of the BDC picked the style and Bryan Werber, a science teacher from of dance and choreographed the routine al WHITNEY BAUM UNIVERSITY JOURNAL President Benson announces the new name for the project: the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts at Thursday nights Founders Dinner. SUMA co-ho- st months ago even before the stars are selected, Johnson said. She said depending on stars dancing ability and skill level, the routines have been changed. Some of the dancers have come up with really interesting tricks that you will be able to see, she said. Chau and partner Chase Ellett, a sophomore undeclared major from Loa, will be performing the hustle. Ellet said the most difficult thing about the hustle is the emotion of the dance and reaching out and and making the audience feel involved. Chau said si e hopes the audience will be able to have fun and enjoy themselves at the show. Sec STARS, Page 11 te ; Hertig prepares for presidential position By VICTORIA JORGENSEN vjorgensensuunews com During SUUSA elections, Jeff Hertig campaigned with the REAL party in hopes of being elected SUUSA president and won the general election with 821 votes. Hertig may have w'on the majority vote, but what is the story of the junior accounting major from Bountiful who will soon be the face of SUUs student body? Hertig said he decided to attend SUU after he found a little scrap of paper on the side of the road that had an SUU logo on it. It was as if SUU found me. he said. SUU feels personal, like home. Love, Siva Utah j reaps $033,522 ; Love Utah. Give Utah, an online donation site where people can all over give money to the state, received over S600.000 in donations Friday, $2,000 of w'hich went to SUU and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. SUU ranked 10th out of 38 in the amount of donations for the schools, colleges and universities category. non-profi- ts News, Page 3 Hertig said he decided to run for SUUSA of the Academic Senate to seem more president because he wants to give back. approachable. He said he is grateful to have been given so I want to restructure the Senate, so we many opportunities for growth, such as being aren't just telling the senators to work harder the Controller for SUUSA, or an accountant and get out there, but we will structure it so w'ho manages $350,000 in addition to over that naturally takes place, he said. 140 club accounts, this year. He said he will make it a priority to He said next year, he plans to keep up collaborate with groups such as LDSSA. all the great things SUUSA has done this Greek organizations and the Michael O. year, but put a greater focus on athletics Leavitt Center for Politics & Public Service in order to change how athletics are seen because all groups will be stronger if they at the school. One way he said he wants woik together. to achieve this is to split the athletics Lance Lowry. SUUSA vice president coordinator position into tw'o positions, so of activities-elec- t, is already woiking on the job wont be as overwhelming. scheduling with these groups, Hertig said. Hertig said he also w'ants members See HERTIG, Page 10 Flippin Birds score 194.925 pair of falls on the balance beam spelled doom for the Flippin Birds. Saturday night at the VvAC Championships. SUU was unable to recover from the falls and finished in fifth place with a 194.925 team score just behind Utah State's 195 100. Boise State took home the team title with a 196.225 edging out Denver by a tenth of a point A Cports, Page 14 i ! j GINA FOSSILE Jeff Hertig, SUUSA president-elecgets a piggy-bac- k ride from Lance Lowry, vice president of activities-elec- t, in the SUUSA offices Friday. British television shows becoming more popular British television programs are invading U.S airwaves and s screens J computer Popular shows such as '? Dowrton Abbey, Cull lU the Midwife, Sherlock and Doctor Who are among those making their mark on American Many SUU students are enjoying these shows. Weather Update It will be partly cloudy this week, wfith a slight chance of precipitation. Expect highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s. Almanac, Page . i i pop-cultur- i i 'IVERSITY JOURNAL U, t, e. Accent, Page 9 1 1 Index News 3,6,7,10,11,12 Opinion 5 Accent 9 Sports BackPage, 13 |