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Show . THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL • SOUTHERN lITAH.UNIYERSITY • . .... iiJESDAY. AUGUST 25, -1998 Getting involved key to week By RHIANNON BENT JOURNAL STAFF WRITER ~Get Off the Couch" to jo in the festivities of Welcome Week. The SUUSA officers have chosen tl,is theme in hopes that students will get involved and learn about all the ir options on campus. Welcome Week (August 23-29) is a chance to show students what SUU is all :ibout and to welcome them back fro m the summer break, according to Spencer Lmh, activities vice president. Th e theme encourages a foundaLion for school invo lvement. "Your college experience is a lot richer when you get outside your comfort zone and just get involved," Luth said. He wants students to get excited about the new school year and meet new people. \Vhile Welcome Week is an annual activity, some things will be d ifferent this year. Members of SUUSA will be sitting at several tables around campus with pamphlets about things to do in Cedar City and a list of advisers of each college. Sign-up sheets will also be there for anyone interested in SUUSA involvement. Plus, a member of student government will be at the information desk in the Sharwan Smith Center to answer any questions students might have. Luth, a Garland, Texas, native, is letting students know that they are a part of the school and is trying to make student life easy for them. He also said he wants students to know their fees are being used wisely. The activities started on Sunday with the President's Open House. The Welcome Assembly was h eld this morning in the Centrum Arena fo r new students. A college open house is being held from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Later, at 6 p .m .. freshmen SU Groups will meet o n the P.E. lawn for free food and to ask questions, play games. and learn about smdent activities. All students arc encouraged to come and bring blankcts and pillows. At 9 p.m. U.S.Marsllals will be shown o n the PE lawn. Classes begin on today and a dance will be held tonight at 9 p.m. in the Sharwan Smith Ballroom. The price is S2, or S 1 with a can of non-perishable food . A "Meet Your Religion" activity will be held at the Institute of Religion Building at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. There will be free food and a variety of denominaLions represented. On Thursday, a Convocation will be from 11 a.m. to noon in the Auditorium. SUU Unplugged presents "Colors" at noon tol:30 p .m. behind the Business Building o n the Lower Quad. For the socially brave, Karaoke will begin at 7 p.m . in the Starlight Room of the Sharwan Smith Center. To fmd out about the various clubs and organizations on campus, students are invited to come to the Club Fair on Friday. lt begins at 6 p.m. on the P.E. lawn. At the same time, there will be live music and a barbecue. The featured bands are Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band and Peter Brienholt and the Big Parade. There w ill also be a midnight movie with $3 tickets available in the Student Center. A 10:30 a.m. volleyball tournament with be held on the PE lawn on Saturday. Sign up in the SUUSA offices during the week. At 10 p.m., Joseph and the Amaziug Technicolor Dreamcoat can be seen for $10 if the ticket is purchased at the student government tables. Tickets can be purchased for S12.SO at the Box Office. The Student Activity Board (STAB) plans these Welcome Week activities. The board meets once a week with student government. "They're the muscle behind the machine. They make it happen," said Luth. STAB's theme is "I:eed the fire ," the purpose being to create a school spirit continu ally fed by student e nthusiasm. Every year Welcome Weck gets bigger and bigger. Lutp said that he expects about 1,200 studc.:nts to aucncl both the barbecue and the Welcome 13:tck Dance, which is the biggest dance o f the y1..-ar. Throughout the year, a variety o f activities will take place. Info rmation about activities throughout the year can be auaincd in the SUUSA offices at the Sharwan Smith Center. Parking 'not a problem' at SU to us in the security office that it has been paid for, he or she will receive a decal Once the decal is purchased, it should go on the lower left hand side of tlle windshield." "If a student should receive a ticket, it can be paid Call it "road rage" w ithout motion. The frustration through the cashier's office," Jolley added. "If a felt wh en one receives a parking ticket can often be student doesn't pay the ticket, it w ill show up on intense, but when one is familiar with tl1e mies of tJ1eir [student] account, parking on campus, tlle preventing tllat student experience can be less from registration rights nerve-frazzling. · until tllc fee is paid.• "There are three Tickets are S l O for the parking lots available on basic parking Jo t campus for students to violatio n. Othe r charges park: one just o utside the may include $25 for a Sharwan Smith Center handicapped parking beside the Administration slot violation and $20 Building, another ne..xt to ~ for a red zone violation, the P.E. Building, and a according to Roseanne third near the Sillitoe, a men!ber of Technology Building," ::i campus security. said Eric Jolley of Campus g ;,we ticket students Security. ~ for parking in faculty Students may only park i3 parking lots,· said in these areas, however, ~ SiUitoe, "But we also if they have purchased a ____..r.._~..3111,-.._...311_ __;:!1..._....e:..__J::;.ticket faculty for parking parking decal. Otherwise, according to Parking without a decal can get you Into a sticky mess. in student parking lots." Faculty parking loLS Jolley, the lot near the currently outnumber student parking lots that arc baseball diamond is the only place students may park close in proximity, but the ratio of parking spaces arc without a decal. about the same. "There's no reason a faculty member "lt would be wise to get a decal," said Jolley. "The should park in a student parking lot," she said. price is onlr $12, and they can be paid for through "What's fair is fair." the Cashier's Office. When the student brings proof By KAMI EGAN OF THE JOURNAL STAFF l SUV Presiden t Steven D. Be1111io11 meets with Liz Olson, a freshman economics major from Minneapolis, M/1111. at tile /Jresident's mmual open house for new anti ret11mi11g students S1111tlay. Today's Journal CAMPUS NEWS: SU's new provost takes over the university's top academic post. PAGE 4. Convocation will fea ture former U{a/1 Jazz coach Frank Layden this 171ttrdsday. PAGE 5. New security /)hones dot tile ca111p11s to make SUV a safer place to walk after dark. PAGE 9. CAMPUS ARTS: 77ze newest college 011 ca111pus. 771e College of Perfor111i11g mu/ Vis11a/ Arts, 111akes its deb11/ t/Jis semester. PAGE 20. Stage /1 Is set to giue oppor/1111ities f or st11rle11ts participating in all tile productions thro11ghout tlle year. PAGE 20. CAMPUS SPORTS: 77ze SU f ootball team retun1s /6 starters and has high hopes /11 what will be a tough sclzedulefor the 1998 season. PAGE 23. 77ze SU softball team has a new head coach for the first time In two decades. PAGE 25. ALMANAC: A list of daily events on campus can can be fo1111d on the Almanac page. 171(s year the Almanac will be on the inside back cover of each edition. PAGE 27. Journal editions: Today's issue of the . ~.['·· Joumal will be the only ~ r ,~~~'ii) one this week. The ~ <' ~ Joumal produc~ion · '~I',!;) schedule will begin again ~~~ ... -..ii;:>.........,. on Monday, a?d the _. ~~ '(~¥...- I newspaper will be ~ "fil3~ -~ \. distributed every Monday ~:~~f,}"1"f~ \ and Thursday through out ~~~~ the semester. When Mondays are t1olidays. the paper will be djstributed on Tuesdays. ~\1Bw ·- ·- .... |