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Show THE UNIVER ITY JOURNAI; · SOUTHERN UTAH-U IVER ITV • HUR DAY, MARCH 25, 1999 ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~~~~~~~-=~~~1TIHIJE(CAJ.¥ITP)fil§ o~ Native American Weeks celebrate with powwow Assistant Director of the Multicultural Center Daphne Dalley aid that March J 8 through April 10 i celebrated as Native American Week . This year's theme is "Remembering Our Past to trcngthen Our Future.~ Two Convocations, three peakers, a panel discu ion and everal film precede the powwow held in the Ballroom of the harwan mith Center. ative American Weck credit is availahle if students sign up before April 1. A si tant Profe or Timothy Braatz is the in tructor of the classes, History 2920 and Hi cory 4920. Requirement include attending one of the two Convocation lectures, two of the three speaker and eeing one of the five movies. Winona LaDuke spoke at the Convocation on Thursday, March 18. Wedne day, March 24 at 5 p .m ., a panel discu sion with the Nati e American Student oc1at1on club members will he held in the Zion Room of the harwan mith Center. A fry hrc.id competition will he held Friday, March 26, in the lower quad by the Gerald R. ' hcrratt'Lihrary between the hours of 11 a. m. and 1 p.m . fter paying the 50..ccnL entry fee, tuc.lcnt will re eiv a pie e of fry hrcad dough, provided by N.A.S.A., and he showed how to prepare il. Winner · will he announced lacer in the d y. Tuesday, March 30, the film In Whose llonor? will he shown at 7 p .m. in the Great Ba in Ro m of the ."harwan ' mith enter. Wednesday, March 31 at 7 p .in., the Paiute tribal chair, Gcneal Anderson, will speak in tbe Great Basin Room. Thur day, April 1, John Trudell will b the Convocation peaker in the SUU Auditorium. Two films , The Hopi and The Navajo. will be hown in Room 205T of the harwan rnith Center beginning at p .m . Monday. April 5, there will he another showing of The Hopi and 1he avqjo at p.m. in Ro m 205T and the Mis Indian U Pageant begin at 6:30 p .m. in the harwan Smith Center Ballroom. Tuesday, Aprll 6, at p.m., the film Whose Child Is This? will be hown in room 205T of the harwan mith enter. · Roger William will speak in the Zion Room of the mith Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 7 , the film Whose Child ls This? and In Whose Honor? will he replayed at noon and p .m . respectively, both in Room 205T of the Sharwan Smith Center. At 7 p.m. a feature length film Smoke Signals will play in the tarlight Room of the ·mith Center. Thursday, April 8 , at 4 p.m. replays the film In Whose Honor? in Room 205T of 1hc mith enter. 'peakcr LeR y T innlginnic will he in the Zion Room of the ·mith Center at 7 p .m . Friday, April 9, rom 6 p .m . to 11 p .m . A powwow will he in the 13allroom of the Smith Center, Saturday, April l 0, from l p.m. co 11 p .m. lt will continue in the .Ballroom with a dinner break between 5 p .m . and 6 p.m. The public is welcome to all of the event of Native American Weck. For more information contact the Multicultural Center ai. 586-7772. The unlucky owner ofthis car caught an Air Force home-run ball Tuesday-but not the way he had hoped. SUU Security said that the university is not liable for the damage. For details about SUU's two-game series with the Falcons, see sports on page 13. Tennis classes face low enrollment 13yJ Y OYRD JO RN . L ~TAFF WRITER J. hristophc::r "Topher" Mason is an adjunct instructor who teaches three ccond-s ·sion physical education classes, PE 1280 (racqucchaJI), PE 1670-1 and 1670-2 (tcnnj ·). The e classes each carry a half unit of credit. Racquetball , offered in the fin;c session, began on Jan. 11 and went until March 18. The second sc ion starts on March 22 and goes to April 27. Mas n said he usually had 20-24 tudents sign up for the tenni classes and that this year's registration has been very low. Only four tudents igned up for sc ·ion ne and sc ion two wasn 't mu h better. "I've had studenL<; rop me on campus anll ~ k how Lo get into my (Lennis and r.icqucthall) cla scs," he said. Finding these and other half ·c sion classes in th ca1.alog L difficult. Many cl es remain unfilled hecau·e udcnts ju l don't know where lO look. They currently reside at the hack of th cla semester schedule, Ii. ted under first or second sc ion . Katherine Nelson, Assistant Registrar, said that it's a omputer glitch that is taking time to remedy. he said the pr hlem will he resolved in the 1999 fall semester schedule. Faculty meeting covers computer policy, new P.E. Building By VERO LCA GARNER ENIOR TAFF WRITER Legi lativc decisions, Dixie College, a new p .e. huilding, and the AC C policy were the topic of discu ion of the March 6 faculty/ taff meeting held in the Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center. "We have a few things to complain about and a few thing to cheer about," ajd President ceven D. Bennion, as he welcomed hi colleague to the meeting. After a few announ ement , the topics of , di cu ion moved into a report of the late t legi lalive e sion , which resulced in very little funding f9r higher education in Utah. Vice President for Planning and Technology Michael D. Richard reported that UU ·aw a few hright pot . The bigge t highlight of the legi lative e ion wa , after a nine-year effon to fund a new phy ical education building, the univer ·ity received nearly $20 million to do so. "The building will be constructed on the football field/track area of the middle chool property we obtained last year," said Bennion. The new huilding will contain an Olympic ize pool, three gymna ium , an indoor track , a tate-ofthe-art weight room, five racquetball courts, a large lecture hall, three large classrooms, a computer lab, and regular cla srooms. Richards al o di cus ed other deci ion that were made in the legi lative ession: 1.5 million wa appropriated to all HSE campuse co com pen ·ate for general inflation; enrollment growth was funded for and three other state in titutions; compensation S wa increased by 2.5 percent; and tuition was increa ed hy 3 percent. The discu sion then turned to the Dixie College issue. Bennion explained that Dixie wants co offer fouryear program and change the name to Dixie tate College. The bill went directly to the legislature, and was pa sed hy a 44/29 vote. However, the legi lature put the board of regents back into control of governing higher education, thus protecting UU's faculty at the t. George center. Fund for the administratjon of the Univcr ity Center will he transferred to Dixie College, as authorized only hy the Regent and the Legislature. "We have strong programs and could help trengthen and he complimentary with Dixi ' pr gram ,n said Bennion. "The e contract will enable co offer the e program so funding will he ccure." Question were raised ahout the administration · actions to remedy the AC C controversy, Bennion ·aid they were currenfly working to remedy the problem. , The remaining time wa de oted to budgetary maner , which arc very tight this year hecau. e of the state's higher priorities on transportation, c rime and corrccti ns. · The operating hudg t allowed a one-time funding of $31,000 for library acquisition , $18,000 in O&M for cu todial ·upport; a one-time fund of $60,000 to develop an environmental c urriculum in puhlic chools; anq $1 million for capital improvements for I I • |