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Show R, THE THUNDERBIRD • I ... . I I .' . I . t I I, SUU collecting stamps to aid child care center BY NAO MI BAHR Thun.dnhird. Sraff Wri1er President Gerald R. Sherratt wa.s one of four campus ad.ministraton participating in ,cs~rda1's · Bridge tht Gap" foru.rn. SUU's student gcwemrnent sponsored the forum ff1'f campus officials to amwer stut:knt:s' que.stiom regarding graduation proced1ues, hikes in tuiticm and {us , and new campus facilities. fu {Of'Um uw held in the ncd.ent Cen1er ,cs1trda,, feacuring John Ange.LI, director of swdent accivitie.s, Sherratt; Sterling R. Church, I/ice president of studrnt scnricu; and D. Mark &non, cz.ssisrant vice president of SlWUnt sewica. Rummage through the shoe box, find th l ng lot Letters and envclopea-th,eir accompanying tamp will be a he:lpful contribution for a unique fund-mscr. In order ro aa:ommod.at-e SUV students' growing need for child care seTVi , SUUSA is king students to save and do nate stamps to raise fu nds for establishing a child care center in the old Un's grocery re building. The project i bring oonductr.d in coopcTation with Jan Park.e o the Iron Park Corporation. Parke. explained, · w e arc setti ng up a y collect canceled stamps, wh.ere w will then sort and prepare them in o er for a dealer in Salt Lalce to buy them and II them ro mrnp collectors. All money raised will go ro providing a child care program r UU Students." While a chi] care p ram i already ser up, with rud nt employees, a separare building and m re p is needed. Parlle pointed out that the m1er Lln' grocery re building will fucilicu.e the children' ' need . This available building ffers en ugh room r re for children, as it is one-level. As far as what kind o tamp they re 1 kin r Parke said cha m r all lcind are hdpful to the u . Sh urges sruden to impl donate and let them rt and prepare the stamps fur th ealer. ·AU that i needed i to tear ff the comer f the env l pe with the tamp, not harming or caring the tamp, an we will then sort OU which we need and wa h off and separate the stamp fr m the P3pcr,R Parke said. ln particular, any fi .reign mail, th mm n envd pes, arc valuable and in emand for th fund-raiser. Donation boxes may be found t the Campus Post ffi in the rudent Center and od,er locari n around mpus . The program will rve a help srud n completin their practiaun program as well as o ring chll care for SUU rudents. Th mrget dare or availability of the child care program I full qu ner, 1993. SUU Senators allocate $800 to send Sandy Lord to Russia BY JEN IFER MORLEY Thunderbird Editor • As the old M ngolian aying l'Cachcs, 'lf you want to I ve a ~ on earth after you re gone-plant a r:rec'," SUUSA Senaror Sasha Volkcv said. Volkov requested $110 at Tuesday's senate meeting r the purchase of ur Austrian pines to be planted by the out-going rudent ~mment offic:cn. "The community of Cedar City h.elpcd to found this university by donating lumber, timber and logs. To pay aibute to tb.c s.acrifice of Cedar City volunteers, the SUUSA Senate has decided to retu rn the favor in a symbolic way by planting ttees every year," Volkov aid. Also during rhe meeting, senators passed two hills, allocating 1,300, and heard several funding requests and a recommendation concerning fu Thunderbird. Sigma Nu frate rnity requ ted $200 for the purpose of atttnding its CoUcgc of Chapters in Golden, Colo. AccordJng to Vollcov, tlle ill's span r, Sigma Nu is a ry active gr up at SUU and the College f Chapters which th men will be attending is a leadership workshop. • Many members of Sigm Nu arc leaders in student government and other SUU organizations as well. They will return (from cl, oonk:rcnceJ and hare their kn ledge with SUU tudenm,• Vollmv said. Sen. Don Brinkerhoff recommended that th incoming senate support and grant fu Thunderbird new paper th full amount of its current line item, which is $4 per srudent per quan:z:r. ·Tu Thunderbird serves a La~ porti n of the ruden t body through itll bi-weekly printing and it serves tlle m mbcrs of SUUSA by advertising and covering various activities tlley spon50r; Brinkerhoff 'd. Senators allocated $500 to the Academic Awards Committee to put toward tlle printing and engraving of plaques. The ill was giwn a positive m:ommendation from the investigating committee and passed unanimously with no debate. ~This is as academic as it gem," Sen. Bonnie Henncfer said. USU Dean speaks on ecology "Global Change: Facts, Fiction and Utah's Furure" will be disruased by James MacMahon at today's Convocation. MacM.ahon i.s dean of the ~ of Science and prokssor of biology at Utah State University. He earned a bach.dor's degree in zoology at Michigan Scu:e University and a docmra~ in biology t the University of Notre Dame. Mac.Mahon developed a strong interest in zoology and biology at an early age. At 14 he bectmc cumtor of rcpdles a: the Dayton, Oruo Museum of Natural H.iatory. AB an undergraduate srudcnt, he was also thc wrator of reptiles at the Michigan State UnNerSity Museum. MacMahon taught at Dayton University for eight years bcfurc joining the USU faculty in 1971. A prollfic ·author, Mac.Mabon h.u published two boob and over 100 artidea In aciendfic joumala. One of his boob, Deserts, is a field gu de to North American deserts and i5 part of the Audubon Society Nanuc Guides series. He i.s a.umuiy pTCparing two more boob for puboouioru Biology of Deserts and Organilnru and Envi:rorunents: The Seim« of Erology. Ha curtmt researm includes the u.se of ecological theory as a basis rot management strategies to be used in disturbed areas. He is also studying the role of animala in the tt:gulation of swxiession on Mt. St. Helens and alpine si.tra at Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Finally, sena rs alt $800 ~d Sandy lord, th ing UU A Pre ident, to th intern ti nal con ercncc wYouth and Education," which wiU be ho red by Min k Llnguistic Univ rsity in Belaru , C IS. rding to Vollwv, SUU is the only sch I from th Unir.ai Sta , and is one of C\lfO ls from all of N rth Am rica (tlle ocher i from Canadn), tllar will be attending the confe.rcnce. Schools uch as Cambridge and Oxford from England, as wdl as sch I from Germany and CIS will also be attending the conference. O nce Lord i in Belarus, Mi nsk Ll nguisti University wiJI be ying all o her expenses, Vollwv said. The only expense lord has m pay is her airfare, which i approxirnatdy $1,20(). our $1 ,500. According to Sen. Cheri Stevenson, of the investigating committee, SUU P~ident Gerald R. Sherratt scleard Lord to attend the conference because of her experience in n.a ent govern ment nd her lcnowledge of rhe education system in the United States. SUU to offer MBA degree Utah State Univcnity ls offering oourscworlt in busin dministrarion at the masttrs level at SUU beginning fail quarter, 1993. It i anticipa~ th.at a master of bu incss admiru.stration degree will be approved by the Utah St:att Board of Regents at iai March meeting, aa:ording to Dr. Michael Parent, of the USU College of Business faculty. Applications for the new program, the first MBA dqrees to be offered in south.cm Utah, arc now being aco:ptcd, according to Robert 0 . Salmon, dean of the coUcge of businesl, ' u:cbnology and communk:adon at SUU. Those intttem:d in aa::epcancie to the program must rqistu to take the Gradu.an: ManagementAdmwion Test(GMA'T) by Feb. 19. TheGMATwill b e ~ March 20 by the SUU Student Development Center. Beginning f.dl quarrrt, classes will be held Friday afternoons and Sa.rurdays in the Dixie Leavitt Business Building. Salmon called the Friday-Saturday class schedule a •classic CDOJtivc format,• noring that it is designed 1D fit the needs of chose already in business Gelds as well as chose of mdcnt:1. Applianm must already have earned a bachelor's degree from an accredi:ted business program. or be about to graduatr: from one. Grade point~ and GMAT t'CSWtl!I will alao be used ID detmninc eligibility fo r the program. For further infurmation on the MBA ~ including tuition and 6nanci.a1 aid information, contact the SUU business department at 586-S40l. |