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Show !THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1001 PAGE3 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS SUU a.war~ness of AIDS heightened this week and AID exist in Cedar City, ~ilcock aid. They believe a small town i afe from di eases such as AID , but he MePJbers of ' PrIDE Club have aid there are currently five known teamed up with the tab AlDS case of mv in Cedar City. Foundation to promote awarene "[Thi is a] good way to remind during World AID people that a lot of Day and World AID people lost their life Week. [from AID ), " he Evan Wilcock, PrIDE aid. "[People think] , \ ~ lob pr sident, ajd 'this is a small town · r nAtDS~ UU u ually c I brate so I can 't get AIDS World AIDS Week and it's safe,' but it' befor World AID not true.~ Day, which i Dec. 1. He aid the Activitie during SUU' celebration purpose of World AID Day i to rai e &f World AIDS Week include a free awareness about HIV and AID and HJV te t and free condom wstribution remember tho e who wed of A IQ . at the .W ellness Center and also a gue t ome people are not awar that HIV peaker lecture on HJV, AIDS and BY CATHERINE CHAN JO Al STAFF WRITER -~-- test after that , but must pay $15 . spirituality. Thi lecture took place School policy perrits condom Wedne day at 5 p .m . distribution only in the Wellne Wilcock aid there will also be a Center. Advertising table set up in the condoms or Sharwan mith 'People think that distributing them on Center from 10 a.m . since this is a small cam pus is aJso to 2 p .m . where banned. tudents can get more town, they can't get Wilcock said the in.formation about A ID~ that it's safe, ' PrIDE Club would like HlVand AID . to change that There will be said Jivan Wilcock, policy-· club pamphlets and book president of the members plan to pa about HIV and AIDS at the table. Thirty Prl_DE Club. 'But, it's out petitio in upport of lifting the HlV te ts will be ban. given free to students not true.' All students are in the Wellnes welcome to attend World AIDS Week Center until Friday. tudents are welcome to have an HJ V a tivities. Bills tabled after debate, bylaws prohibition • SUUSA ~SSEMBLY AND SENATE: Both groups table bills pertaining to funding groups to support SUU basketball teams at the Mid- Continent conference tournament in March. BY MARY HAMMON JO Al STAFF WRITER The Clubs and Organizations , embly tabl d a bill requ sting fund for the Cheer quad to travd to the Mid- ontinent Conference ba k tball tournament in it meeting Tue da aftern on. As embly bylaw prohibit discu ion of any bill until two month b fore the vent. The con~ rence take place in March. Delegate Audrey Niel on made the motion to table the bill for one week. "I feel it is nece ary to table it one week in concurrence with th bylaws,• she aid. The Assembly will debate the bill next Tue day. The A mbly placed the recently-chartered Delea City Fan Club into the ervke and multicultural category. The club' goal · fu best in that categor , ervice and mutticultural repre entative France ca Van Buren aid. "The club plan to do ervi e activities and i a fan club of Delta ity, which has its own di. tinct ulture ," she aid. The As embly also allocated 19 .50 to the Elite A hievers lub for its fund-rais r which i today. Club member will tea h ·tudent to make crafts and ell handmade Chri t.ma bame-they don't get any upport from departments on campus, but we would really like to ee ome more fund raising for the total am unt." The band a ked the enate to fund 61 percent of the money needed.A bilJ for ,500· for a black box theatre was .al o propo ed . The bill said that th mone would all viate Um.itation of "student opportunltie on all Level of performance de ·ign and production." The Senate will debate the bill at next T u ·day' · 6 p .m. Francesca Van Buren meeting. card and ornaments. The event is cosponsored by the Asian Club. The SOU A enate, in it meeting Tuesday night, tabled a bill reque ting $5,416.10-for funds that would allow the pep band to follow the basketball team to the MidContinent Conference tournament. Funds would have covered airJin ticket • car rental and accommodation for 19 band member and an adviser. Marilyn Hod ·on, A academic vice president, said th en ate upport sending the band even though the bill was struck down . " enat still want to suppon the band," he aid . "We think it's a Course approved to 111ove • DEANS' COUNCIL: UNIV 1310, a student: success course, is approved to be 1novea from student services to academics as a way to increase freshman retention. The Deans' ouncil approVi d in titutionalizing UNIV 1310, a tud nt success course, at its meeting Monday afternoon. tud nt uccess in ludes m ntors and orientation to help fre hmen navigate coUege life. Designed co increase retention, the c urse wi.U be expanded to allow more student to enroll. . The program has a retention rate of 72 percent. Th retention rate for univ .rsity students who did ·not participate · 63 percent. Previously a pilot study the course will now be moved from student services to academic and have more opportunity for rgrowth. "We want to enhance it, " Mark Barton, assistant vice president of student services said. · Deans will also k math faculty and staff to analyze placement tting issues. Only 19 percent of freshmen taking the math ment re t at fr hman orientation qualify for s general edu ation algebra course. Interim provost Carl R. Templin aid mor information is requir d before a · trategy is reated. "We need an i.n-<ieptb . analysi of the _ _.,...-,----;:r_.,......., problem," b srud. " [We must find out] what courses d nts have taken in b..igh cbool, [if they are) compatible and compare students who had courses to .those who have not." . -Mary Hammon The view from the Gerald R. Sherratt library shows a snow-blanketed SUU. The region recei~ed the season's first snow~orm saturday evening, which continued Into Tuesday. · j |