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Show ‘DOZEN’ TO START THIS WEEK: ’BIRDS WIN ON NATIONAL TV: The theatre arts and dance department SUU’s Dan Beus rebounded and scored his has teamed up with children from the community to present a ‘heartwarming’ way to a third-straight double-double as the ‘Birds cruised to a 61-53 victory over IUPUI | in front of a national television audience and nearly 4,300 wild fans on Saturday Dlay-‘Cheaper by the Dozen’- about a regimental father and his 12 kids. The Dlay will start on Thursday. SEE PAGE 7. night in the SUU Centrum Arena. SEE PAGE 8. E R TRl Olympic torch is coming to Cedar BY TASHA WILLIAMS JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Months of preparation by the Cedar City Local Organizing Committee and the SUU Olympic Torch Relay Committee will come to an end as the Olympic torch arrives in Cedar City tomorrow on its way to the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. “We feel it will be on¢ of the most sighificant events to ever happen in Cedar City,” Bryan Dangerfield, executive director of the Utah Summer Games and chairman of the CCLOC, said. A celebration will take place tomorrow morning at the Eccles Coliseum on the SUU campus and later in the day, SUU President Steven D. Bennion and an SUU student, Daniel Hodson, will carry the torch elsewhere in the state. Dangerfield said that although the torch will enter the state in Moab, Cedar City was chosen to host the ceremony because it has facilities used by the Utah Summer Games to support the event. “We'll have the attention of the world tuned to Cedar City,” Dangerfield said. “We plan to have a celebration in Eccles Coliseum that will rival anything we’ve ever done. We're thrilled. In our wildest dreams we never thought we'd have that privilege.” “This is the closest that most of us will get to the 2002 Olympics,” Alison Day, vice president of the Students Servicing Utah Network and Olympic Torch Relay Committee chair, said. “We not only want to feel a portion of the spirit that comes from an event like this, but we want to show the world that we are proud to support the Olympics in our home state.” U.S. Organizing Committee and the S International Olympic Committee. At the request of Olympic officials, the . flame will be extinguished as the torch carrying it leaves Cedar City on its way to Salt Lake City. The Utah Summer Games torch will be lit and passed around the ‘stadium, ‘however, and used to reignite the cauldron. Dangerfield said the flame will burn through the duration of the Olympics, and will be extinguished when the Olympic flame is extinguished in Salt Lake City during closing The Olympic Flame burns brightly against the sunset on Jan. 3 at Paul Harding High School in Fort Wayne, Ind. Mayor Gerald R. “Jerry” Sherratt will conduct the ceremonies and give a brief speech, Dangerfield said. Bennion and Utah Gov. Michael O. Leavitt, an SUU alumnus, also plan to participate in the ceremony. torch light procession and fireworks from approximately 8:18 a.m. The ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at about 9 a.m. Dangerfield said the ceremony will be brief 50 that it will be “vety inspirational” and because the weather will likely be cold. “All those students who stay in bed are going to regret ceremonies, 6 p.m, to 7 p.m. Dangerfield said that Cedar City’s celebration will likely be covered by anywhere from 100 to 200 media people. KSL-TV broadcast a preview of the ceremony three times on Jan 9., and O’Driscoll said that each time the segment aired more than 1,000 people saw it. "Just plain exposure is always good for us,” O’Driscoll said. “To get the word out, to have people hear our name more often, to have more high school students recognize that we are still in Utah.” Media exposure of the event will be widespread, Dangerfield said he is already counting on NBC Sports, the Today show and other media— including Japanese and German media— to cover the ceremony in Cedar City. “The eyes of the world will be on SUU,” Day said. “If students want to get on national TV, here’s [their] chance.” Dangerfield said this is as big for Cedar City as the men’s basketball team going to the NCAA championship last year was for SUU. The exposure could definitely help the city’s economy, he said. “Here’s our chance,” Dangerfield said. “You don’t get many chances like this in the history of a town that’s so far away from the media center. We're in between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City, and a lot of the time we get left in the dust. We have a chance to get international exposure for this and in future years have people come for vacations and think Cedar City.” CCLOC listed several photo and story opportunities in southern Utah in notes to the media. The Utah Shakespearean Festival 'was purposely listed first, followed by Cedar . Breaks, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park. Dangerfield said they hope to profit from the city’s reputation as the “Festlval City.” it later,” Day Day said that said. the Cedar City The program. celebration will be unique because the cauldron will stay lit throughout the games, and also because the celebration will feature 6,000 elementary school children singing songs composed by Kurt Bestor. Day said that _isona one song, university “Light the campus. Dream,” Cedar City inspired SUU’s an appropriate Olympics. speak, the here in said. The cauldron, which was a $65,000 donation added to the coliseum last June, is one of three located along the torch relay. It will be lit by a zip line after the torch’s lap around the track at approximately 8:45 a.m., “The neat thing is the long-lasting effect, “We think the Globe Theatre would be a great place for somebody from NBC Sports to be standing in the middle of doing a report from Cedar City and then break to someone in the Coliseum,” Dangerfield said. He said CCLOC needs help from students to act as ambassadors for Cedar City and Tomorrow, the Olympic Flame, riglnating from Olympia, Greece, will burn in the Utah Summer Games official olympic cauldron as part of the Cedar City celebration of the Salt Lake City Winter Games 2002 Torch Relay. Tight budget may mean B FACULTY SENATE: the dollar for a long time, but it will be up to SUU President Steven D, Bennion says SUU has been trying to stretch the dollar for a long time, but it will be up to individual colleges and departments to determine BY RHIANNON BENT SENIOR STAFF WRITER SUU President Steven D. Bennion told the Faculty Senate Thursday that because of budget cutbacks across the state, there would most likely not be any salary increases next year. " Inaddition to the 2.5 percent cutback the legislature asked of each state institution of «higher education in August, there will be a .73 percent cutback this semester, which requals some $200,000. Next year an estimated $879,000 will be cut from the budget. Bennion said SUU has been trying to stretch EVENTS determine where cuts will be made. He also said a significant portion of this semester’s cut may be covered by surplus tuition. “[The budget cuts] happened on the heels where cuts will be made. EEK'S individual colleges and departments to of the best year we've had in a long time,” Bennion said. “There’s not a lot of room for cuts,” Interim Provost Carl Templin said. “It’s hard to cut classes now. That’s not an option.” He said there is a chance some summer courses may be cut. Bennion said there is a “pocket” of money for engineering and technology, so that area will likely see some funds, and most of the labs have already been funded. SUU’s proposed new teacher education building is on the legislature’s list and Bennion said there is talk of a bond, which is a loan ‘with payment that is not usually due for atleast seven years. He said thete is a “pretty good chance” the bond will happen because interest rates are the lowest they have been in 30-40 years. The AND WEATHER ARE ROBJOHNSTON/JOURNAL the legacy it will have,” Dean O’Driscoll, director of marketing at SUU, said. “To say that we've had the Olympic flame burning in our stadium is really something to brag about. It always will be, no one can take that away from us. The Olympics stand for some great things and great people, and to be associated with that cannot do us any harm; we'll brag about it whenever we get the chance.” The cauldron tops the Olympic Legacy Monument, which is complete with the official Olympic logo on both sides. Dangerfield said use of the logo was approved by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Day said there will also be a The torch will enter Cedar City at With its Grecian theme and stainless steel cauldron, Eccles Coliseum is reminder of the origin of the “We've kind of been, so to keeper of the Olympic flame southern Utah,” Dangerfield theme for the event. Brian Head Ski Resort will also participate in the celebration. Skiers may purchase all-day passes for $20.02, and . there will be an Apres ski party from make others feel welcome. CCLOC is looking for those who speak other languages, particularly German and Japanese, to help translate for anticipated visitors. “We're very fortunate in the state of Utah to have so many people who know more than one language,” Dangerfield said. (continued on page 3) no salary increases amount of the bond could be as much as $150 million to $200 million. “We’re halfoptimistic about being included,” Bennion said. In other business, the Faculty Senate discussed the revised Computing, Internet Use and Network 7 AR Scohitity em Policy. authorized without coordination from the information technology staff. Robert Eves, associate professor of chemistry and geology, asked if that meant students couldn’t download music from the Internet. Pryor clarified by saying that he is not trying to receives ]7(’7” day Glen S0P shareware, but anything Pryor, assistant provost of with a copyright. “It destroys information the technology, said SUU’s system receives 100,000 hits per day from ' people trying to get into the network. “We can set ourselves up for providing illegal activities,” he said. Because of this, the statement was inserted POSTED that no downloading of software is IN THE consistencies in labs,” he said. “We have to take each circumstance [of downloading] individually: Without a policy, there’s nothing to fall back on.” The policy was modified to read copyrighted software. |
