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Show THE 87TH YEAR; NUMBER 35 SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY, CEUAR CITY, UTAH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1993 Primary elections set for Thursday -See page 3. Beta Week focuses on service and fun BY JENNIFER MORLEY Thunderbird Editor Phi Alpha Beta sorority's annual "Bera Week" begin.s today and runs through Saturday. The theme of the week is "Rasta Ekra-You can talk the talk, but can you walk our walk?" Today's activity is a community service project in which sorority members will be hosting a dinner and providing entenairunent for the Iron Park Corporation. Tuesday's activity is also a communjty service project. The project entails taking the hds from Southwest Menral Health rollerskating. According to Angie Cook, Phi Alpha Beta social chair, die focus of this year's Beta Week is ervice. uBeta Week is a great opportunity to serve the school and the community," Cook said. Wednesday's activity, the Barde of the Bands lip sync contest, is the highli ht of Bera Week. "Battle of the Bands has alway been the mo t succes ful activity of Bera Week. It involves the entire campus," said Cook. "We'd like everyone to participate and be as creative as they can. In the past, the variety of music has ranged from heavy metal co the Laverne and Shirley theme song," she added. Battle of the Bands is at 8 p.m. in the SUU Pavilion. The cost is $2 with srudenc I.D. and $3 without. Students who are interested in parti ipating in the contest need to sign up in the Student Government Offices at the Senate Desk or contact Rachel Bowthorpe or Cook at the Phi Alpha Beta house, 865-1275. Cash prizes will be awarded to contest winners. "Battle of the Band is a really big activity. It competes with a lot ofSUUSA activities," Cook said. On Thursday, the Betas are ushering at SUUSA's Off the Wall performance. Mind reader and psychic magician Craig Karges will be performing in the Pavilion at 8 p.m. The cost is 3 a person or $5 a couple. Karges was voted Entertainer of the Year and Variety Entertainer of the Year by the National Association for Campus Activities. He was also named Entertainer of the Year by the International Psychic Entertainers Association. "Ushering for Off the Wall is a chance for us (members of Phi Alpha Beta] to volunteer our service to the school The two main goals of Phi Alpha Bera are to serve our community and to serve our school," said Cook. Friday's activity is a ~Rasta" dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Student Center T-Bird Circle. The cost is $2 with l.D. and $3 without. Following the dance there will be a Midnight Movie at Fiddlers Theatre. The~ concludes on Saru.rday with Phi Alpha Beta's traditional Red Rose Formal. Ac.cording to Cook, the purpose of Beta Week is "to show SUU and the community who we [Phi Alpha Beta) are and what we do. ·1 think this will be a ful.nlling week for the members of the sorority, the campus and the community as well. It invo~ evet)'One," Cook said. After the nominations asmnbl:, held Feb. 16, three political parties began campaigning /OT student gooemment offices. Jason Kimmel, a junior and computer science majOT from Layton, UT, hangs a campaign poster in the tudent Center. 'Gestapo' watches parties until election In preparation for SUUSA's primary dection Feb. 25, the seven-member election committee is enforcing the bylaws that regulate campaign activity and fining those parties that break the bylaws. Stacy Nix, chair of the election committee, said, she sometimes feels like a member of the "Nazi Gestapo" when looking for parties' violations. "But, I'm really soft. That's why it's good the other committee members can be strict," she said. Most of the fines that have been gi~ are for minor infractions, such as not including not litter" on posters and flyem. Nix said she prefers to notify parties of their fines through a privare let11:r. "I don't like having members of ·no different parties coming to me and asking 'Why did so-andso get fined? What did they do?' No one really needs to know. I just want each party to worry about itself," she said. Feb. 24 Nix and the election committee will review each party's expenses and sources of donations to make sure no one exceeded the $1,700 limit and to serde any unpaid fines. The primary election will be held Feb. 25 in rooms Zion A and B of the Srudent Center from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Students are eligible to vote by showing their cunent activity card. The general election will be hdd March 3. "It'll be just like you're going to the real elections," Nix said, because the Iron County clerk will allow SUUSA to use the county's official red-white-and-blue voting booths. |