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Show ITHE CAMP~S. I SUUSA Senate allocations total $1,988 in 20 minutes Members hear requests for an addition al $3,110 By JENNIFER MO RLEY ASSISTANT EDITOR :;! ~ ::> ~ ~ ~ 0 National fraternal representative Cynthia Courtney from Zeta Tau Alpha sorority visited SU campus Wednesday to meet with Greek sorority members of Phi Alpha Beta and Chi Sigma Upsilon. The purpose of the visit was to present introductory presentations in efforts to establish local chapters on the campus of Southern Utah University. Zeta Tau Alpha will be followed by three other organizations next week. SUUSA Senators allocated $1,988 and heard four fundi ng requests totaling $3,110 at Tuesday's record-setting 20minute meeting. Senators appropriated $1 ,988 to the SUU Literary Guild to help fund a reading series, a student literary journal and a creative writing workshop. According to Literary G uild adviser Danielle Dubrowsky, the new magazine is not intended to replace Tailwind, SUU's current literary magazine. The editor of the new, strictly studen t magazine, Dubrowsky said, will be Carrie Pipkin and the magazine will come out every quarter if the funds are available. Speaking for the investigating committee, Arts, Letters and Humanities Sen. Darren Marshall gave the bill a positive recommendation and said, "This bill is totally academic. A lot of students will benefit from it." The bill passed unanimously. The SUU Cheerleading Squad requested $500 to fulfill the agreement made with the senate last Spring. According to the bill's sponsor, Arts, Letters and Humanities Sen. Karnie Brown, the senate agreed to match the cheerleaders' fundraiser monies of $500 for the 1994-95 academic year. "The cheerleaders contribute greatly to SUV by promoting school spirit and are actively involved in school activities," Brown said. Also during the meeting, Sen. Marshall asked that $1,750 be allocated to the SUU Basketball Band in rem uneration for services rendered to the university and the athletic department, and also to make up for lost opportunity for potential outside income. According to Marshall, band members attend basketball games and sacrifice the time otherwise used for study, personal practice and outside part-time employment. "This compensation would allow a larger number of student musicians the t ime to participate in the basketball band, yielding a positive impact on the quality of spirit and sound of the band, " said Marshall. One hundred percen t attendance at all scheduled basketball band performances would be required of every band member to receive a stipend; according to Marshall. Also, Science Sen. Jarid Gray requested that $360 be allocated to the Learning Center to fund tutoring and upgrading of the facility for fall quarter. According to Gray, all students can benefit from the access to tutors in their academic pursuits. "We are an academic senate and should strive to help all students fulfill their academic goals and tutors are major tools for the students to use," said Gray. Finally, Business, Communication and Technology Sen. Boyd Adair requested that $500 be allocated to the SUV Women's Soccer Club for the purpose of funding tournament fees, uniforms and a service project. Adair said the club has already done several projects and five fundraisers to accumulate the majority of their funds. Etulain tames myth about the old West By RYAN HATCH SENIOR STAFF WRITER Attendance may have been low but interest was high at Thursday's Convocation. The "Wild West" theme shed a lot of light on those attending. History professor Richard Etulain of the University of New Mexico shared the myths of the old West and the sources the myths came from . " Most of us that have grown up around the West, have looked at it so much that we never really think about it. All we have to do is think about the ideas that we have grown accustomed to, and think about where those ideas have come from. " The beginning of the wild West has left us only images. "It was a truly wild, new world with unseen faces. The frontier man was seen as crude individual that you wouldn' t want for dinner. The early West is mostly viewed by famous events such as the death of Billy T he Kid, and the shoot out at the O.K. Corral. " The professor maintained that America started hearing only one side of the story. "They found a fascination with such stories as 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'," he said. "In fact, they were still robbing banks when novels were being published. I But what greatly contributed to this fascination was Buffalo Bill's 'Wild West Show.' The show was seen across the country and across the seas in Europe and even got the blessing of the Pope." The Wild West was misrepresented in the characterization of its people in the "politically correct" sense. "I would say half of the people in the old West were farmers and the diverse culture is almost never seen in the history of the old West. Even the important roles that the Native American Indian were left out and was not popularized until just recently with movies like Squanto and Geronimo." Etulain says the myths in today's society mainly derive from fiction and the movies. "Many of the pulp fiction writers like Max Brand, who wrote hundreds of novels on the old West almost never visited the West, and when he did, he did not like the green paint that was left on his shoes. The movies liked t o popularize the West as good guy, bad guy place with no credit to the American Indian s or the women of the old West." Etulain captivated the audience with his contemplative message that revealed true historical events . He concluded by saying, " It was a tradition of the Old West that if you saw the West for the first time, you would say to yourself and those around you 'I can see the outcome'." University of New Mexico history professor Richard Etulain spoke on the old West at Thursday's Convo. |