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Show u N I I T y Student Services staff is shuffled Among other changes here, Harman Bonniksen will become dean of students next quarter Organizational changes "designed to meet the challenges of maintaining a quality and Benson is assistant director of student activities. Dalley was a learning success specialist; she has added the assistant directorship to her duties. student life environment in a rapidly growing student body" are being made at In his new position, Bonniksen will report to Church who, along with Associate SUU, according to Sterling Church, vice president for student services. Vice President Georgia Thompson and Assistant Vice President Mark Barton, will "With the increase in enrollment and with the addition of the Sharwan Smith continue to direct the student services program at SUU. A director of student Center as a student services resource, the university is responding with activities position left vacant by the reorganization will be advertised shortly, said organizational changes to meet new challenges without adding additional positions," Church said. "We want our student services to be a strong enhancement Church. Church, who has led the student services arm of the university for some 25 years, to the university's learning environment." held the title of dean of students for 12 years. Changes-which will become effective with the start of the winter 1998 quarterBonniksen joined the SUU staff in 1992 after a varied career in public include naming Harman Bonniksen as dean of students, Craig Forman as assistant education administration. In addition to coordinating the activities of the Wellness dean of students and director of the university's Wellness Center, and Mindy Center, he has been the Benson as manager of the director of an alcohol and Sharwan Smith Center. drug education and Earlier this fall, in a related prevention program at SUU. change, Daphne Dalley He earned both bachelor's became assistant director of and m aster's degrees at the Multicultural Center and Humboldt State University learning success specialist to in Arcata, Calif. assist Lynne Brown, who is Forman joined the SUU director of student support staff in 1994 as director of services and of the student activities. He Multicultural Center. served in a similar position According to Church, at Salt Lake Community among the motivating factors College before coming to in the restructuring is t he SUU. His bachelor's and need to better serve the offmaster's degrees were campus student. Church awarded by Brigham Young noted that more than 5,500 University. of SUU's 6,000-plus students Benson graduated from live off-campus and that the SUU with a bachelor's Sharwan Smi th Center degree in 1994 and became should be a hub for learning, assistant director of st udent involvement and opportunity .· ~ activities in 1995. for them as well as for those · ~ Dalley earned a bachelor's who live in Juniper and , " 2degree at SUU and a Manzanita halls. The ~ ::i master's degree from Utah reorganization , he said, will , ~State \Jniversi~. She has allow administrators to ~ extensive experience as a better focus on those offgdirector/ trainer of SUU's campus while continuing to u Turning Point, a program to maintain strong support for ~ help single parents and those on-campus. ....,._ _ _ _ _ _ ___;_. Q. displaced homemakers Bonniksen is currently achieve economic selfserving as coordinator of the Harman Bonniksen visits with Chelsea Payne, a sophom ore from Riverton, Utah, ma;oring in business. Bonniksen, ·currently director of the Wellness Center, will assume the new post of dean of students here sufficiency. She joined the Wellness Center, Forman is SUU staff in 1979. director of student activities, next quarter. DIGEST CAMPUS SPORTS: suu·s men's cross country squad has moved into the national rankings for the first time ever. PAGE 12. CAMPUS NEWS: Date rape is the topic for discussion at tomorrow's Convocation at 11 a.m . in the Auditorium. PAGE 4. STATE NEWS: A lesbian CAMPUS ARTS: The spooky 'Wom an in Black' opens tomorrow night in the Randall Tones Theatre. PAGE 11. former coach at Spanish Fork High School has filed a lawsuit over her dism issal. PAGE 8. NATIONAL NEWS: The FBI crime lab has a new director, and he's a m an with no forensic experience. PAGE 9. I THE FALL CLASSIC: The Cleveland Indians, with the arm of Charles Nagy opening the game, fell to a 2-1 deficit in World Series play to the Florida Marlin s last night. The team s are at Cleveland again tonight for game four. PAGE 14. - ··~,.. ... '~. I / |