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Show ' ... THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1000 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS PAGE3 Soccer Club-to.~be gains Senate funding BY RHIANNON BENT SENIOR STAFF WRITER A large crowd and-a convincing cause helped the men's soccer club acquire $800 from the SUUSA Senate Tuesday night. • Bill #005-00 requested the funds to help the club participate in the 2000-01 lntercollegfate Soccer Association. Students and community members spoke in the open forum, supporting the club and the hard wofl< the members put into the team. Valeena Woodland, a member of the women's soccer team, said this is th~ strongest, most organized men's team she's seen in five years. Aaron Jenson, clubs and organizations representative, said the meA's soccer club is awaiting charter into clubs and organizations and it wouldn't be fair to say they are eligible for funding. Before the meeting was called to order, Steve Nelson, academic vice president, presented a message from Sterling Church, vice president for student services. Nelson said the SUUSA Senate is here "to enhance student life, not just academics.· . · All three members of the investigative committee gave the bifl a positive recommendation. "All I could see was positive in this bill," Sen. Darren . Mower, Business and Technology, said. He added the soccer club aides SUU in recruitment and retention. "If people respect our school, tl:ley will come here. I can see no better way to represent students than vote positively,· Mower said. Sen. Stephen Lisonbee, BT, said it was a great way to give back to a school from which students have received a lot. The bill was called to question without any debate and passed unanimously 15-0-0. Nelson made another comment to the students and senate. "\/\/hen students want Sarah Dennis, a freshman theatre major from Moab, Utah, addresses the SUUSA something, w~ can make it Senate about acquiring funding for the yet-unchartered men's soccer club. The bill happen. We have the was passed unanimously and the club was provided with $800 from the senate. avenues,· he ~aid. In other current business, In new business, Bill #006-00 requests the allocation of Resolution #001-00, which is an explanation of the $1 ,200 for activities held during the College df philosophy behind the investigation procedure for all Humanities and Sociat Sciences days, Oct. 24-26. legislation, also passed 15-0-b. "Last year's was overwhelmingly successful. The "It does not tell you how to vote. It's just a look at what communication department adds one-third more we need to investigate," Sen. Jennifer Powell, students to the college. The dean wants this·to be one of Performing and Visual Arts, said. the best (focus days] ever,· Sen. Josh Jones, HSS, said. Bill #003-00 requested $500 to be evenly distributed Bill #007-00 requests $1 ,156.50 to be allocated to between colleges for administrative accounts. The BIOL 4900-biology teaching methods-for students to money will be used for various expenses that arise in the colleges. The bill also passed 15-0-0. (continued on page 4) SUTV broadcast up and running for another year BY SHELLY BROWN SENIOR STAFF WRITER background for broadcasting. I want them to learn to be You will get to learn the ins and outs of broadcasting and journalists first and anchors second. Everyone can the television world,· he said.. · audition for spots, and most people will get on the air Smith said that because SUTV is small and students School has been in session for three weeks and some way or another," he said. learn all aspects of the business. he feels they have an · SUTV, the student-run school television channel, has Shane Anderson, a senior communication major with advantage over students who learn broadcasting·at a begun another season of broadcasting. an emphasis in broadcasting from Salem, Ore., has larger school. Jon Smith, associate professor of communication and been with SUTV for about two and a half years and is a "One thing that we pride ourselves on is that our SUTV adviser, said the TV station is actually a practicum · producer for the station's news program. students are generalists. They can run most of the lab for broadcast students, COMM 3504. It can be taken Anderson said that over the summer he interned at a equipment in here and we rotate through the positions. If for more than one semester, for one to three credits. TV station in Portland, Ore. they are on air, then they are required to do one of the Smith said there are approximately 30 students in the "I got to help produce some of the news and I wrote other technical jobs f9r one rotation,· Smith cqmmented. class and, since it is a class, those students do all of the some stories for them. It was a really great experience," · Sarah Anderson , a sophomore communication m.ajor work on the station from choosing what goes into the he said. , with a broadcasting emphasis from Mesa, Ariz ., and in news programs to going out and getting the stories. Anderson also said he feels that SUU has a great her first semester with SUTV, said that she likes it so·far. "It's a student-run operation. I, as adviser, have a say broadcasting program. "I really don't know what I'm doing yet, but it's fun in what goes on, and I establish some policy as to what "Everyone I talked to at the TV station in Portland was learning,· Anderson said. works for this community and how we do the best very impressed at all of the abilities that we have and the SUTV is broadcast on cable channel 9 in the Cedar community servi.ce, but it's basically put together by the things that we teach here at SUU ," he said. City area with 24-hour programming, even though students," Smith said. "They go out and find.the stories, Anderson said he would recommend the class to student programming only takes up part of that time . then write and produce them." anyone whc;i is looking at going into broadcasting. period. Smith said the students produce several different "If you are interested in broadcasting, it's a great class. Smith said the station has a deal with a Californiatypes of programming on SUTV. based company that allows the station to play a "Right now we produce a news program called Classical Arts during the time program nve days a week, 30 minutes SUTV is not putting its own progra.ms on the air. on Tuesday and Thursday, and a Smith compared the. Classical Arts program to newsbreak at 4 p.m. every weekday. MTV for classical music. We also do a sports sti.ow that serves "In the evenings between five and eight and in as sort of a coach's show and we also the mornings between eight and noon,·usually, do Conversations, which is an interview we put in our own broadcasts,· Smith said. with the Convo~tions.speaker each Smith -said there are many students who repeat· week," he said. the class. "We'll occasionally do specials, such "The class is repeatable and people who are as a political debate or a student very serious about broadcasting will take the government event. We are also ~ class as many semesters as possible. I have planning on doing several tape-delay ~ some students who have been here for a while · sports events this year," Smith added. Qand they provid,e some continuity and help to Smith said students learn all aspects ~ teach the other ~udents how to put a show of the broadcasting business, from together,· he said. . running cameras to working as news ~ Smith also said it is mostly communication anchors. · ~ majors who work with SUTV. "They audition for positions, and ill "We have mostly communication majors in the preference is given to those students ------------'----l~ class. We do have other minors, such as theatre, who have worked with SUTV at least Sh£!ne Johnson (left), a senior communication major from Salem, Ore., and Todd but mostly it's just communication students," one lSemester before that, so that they Comer, a senior communication major from Lehi, Utah, work on a student Smith said. produced show for SUTV, 'Sports Focus.' have learned some of the technical 5 I' |