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Show JJ'mTU - 11 IM8iiailBUBEai DIXIE COLLEGE r Tl Support D91! Be in front of the radio station Friday X A m, .A fcn iW at noon. iK Mr ii- win for Rebel Football against the Gila Monsters from Eastern Arizona. ST. GEORGE, Sun News Services Freshman students began voting today for a new freshman representative chosen from three candidates Amanda Brady, Justin Cherry and Roslyn Palmer. Studentbody Vice President Steve Hunt said a voting booth was set up today at the bottom of the stairs, west of the Browning Building. The booth is open from 7:30 a.m. To -- ' Dont miss the Hawaiian social and dance this Friday at the Institute. PAGE 5 All the way from Alaska, new finance and statistics professor Jan Carpenter shares her love for teaching. 1:15 p.m. Voting results will be available by 2 p.m., with the name of the winner posted outside the Student Government offices in the Gardner Center, Hunt said. The freshman representative will represent the voice of freshman students on the Student Executive Council. The Freshman representative, a voting member on the council, will also fulfill other duties delegated by the council, Hunt said. The newly elected freshman representative, along with the student-bod- y president and vice president will chose two additional freshman class representatives to assist with freshman activities. A freshman council will also be organized. Brady has served as freshman class president and sophomore class president at Lafayette High School in Williamsburg, Va. She also served as studentbody president her senior year By L After some technical difficulties, the online edition is back! http:sun.dixie.edu XXIV, NO. and blankets for children who live in orphans, and for children in hospitals. She also oversaw a school beautification project and participated in a charitable program called, Angel Trees, which helped to raise $2,000 for needy families. 1 like having a lot of spirit and getting involved with anything that is like gettaking place, Palmer said. done in advance everything way ting of time and actually getting it done." Cherry, a graduate of West Jordan High School in West Joidun, Utah, where he was a member of the National Honor Society and was on the honor roll every quarter. He was awarded an academic letterman, athletic lettcrman for playing on the tennis team, and received the Most Improved Student Award from the West Jordan City of Commerce. He was a member of his high school concert choir and has continued that tradition by participating in Dixie College Chorus. I am elected Freshman Rep., I am confident that I would do an excellent job, Cherry said. I am ready for any challenge and amount of work that will come along with the position. More than anything, I want to be involved and get to know as many new people while completing my years at Dixie College. 1 at Jamestown High School, also in Williamsburg, Va. She was active in many different clubs, including the Key Club, a community service club and trained as a Peer Justin Cherry Partner, where she helped other students and make a difference to the deal with pressures student body. I would like to and stresses of high get more students involved in school. clubs and activities. She was also active in Palmer is a graduate of Pine socsports including Amanda Brady View High School in St. cer, volleyball, and George, where she served as a field hockey where varsity cheerleader for two years. She she was captain. was also a member of the Future 1 know how much work is Farmers of America, Spanish Club involved and I am willing to put forth and 4H Club. the effort needed to make this year She helped organize a Habits for asn exciting and memorable one, Humanitarian project which included Brady said. I feel that I can conmaking hospital gowns, toys, clothes tribute a lot to the executive council rd r Court Decision Shocks Student Publications Kincaid PAGE 4 VOLUME Freshmen Vy for Representative Title Big PAGE 6 UTAH v. Gibson seriously threatens First Amendment rights of college student journalists Jennifer Peltz Editor-in-Cki- jerinpelrzi hotinnil com Local reaction was negative towards a recent federal appeals court decision regarding censorship and confiscation of a university yearbook. Citing poor quality and a purple cover, a federal appeals court in Cinncinnati upheld the censorhip and confiscation of 2,000 yearbooks at Kentucky State University on Sept. 8, according to the Student Press Law Center. This decision is the first time a federal court of appeals has used a 1988 Supreme Court decision that upheld a high school principals censorship of a student newspaper to justify censorship of a student newspaper to justify censorship of the college press. This decision could possibly bleed into campus publications everywhere, said Kamilynn Egan, Southern Utah University newspaper edi It can apply to high school, but not and learning. Some argue that school publications, such as newspaper or yearbook, are laboratories whose sole purpose is to provide as much real world college - were mature experience as possible. What happens in the real world is that peocanned and prevented from getting are ple future jobs," said Don Hinton, fine arts chair. Any media source that attacks its sponsorjudgeing entity is making a a ment, said Joe Peterson, dean of Arts, Letters and Sciences. I think the university has to be very careful about it censorship, said Peterson. When a student publication violates laws regarding or laws regarding libel, I think the unior college should help the publication be versity responsible. Because the yearbook was not considered to be a public forum, the court concluded that it is no doubt reasonable that KSU should seek to maintain its image to potential students, and general public. In light of the indisputedly poor quality of the yearbook, it is also reasonable that KSU might cut its losses by refusing to distribute a university publication that might tarnish, rather than enhance, that image. The case began in 1994 after administrators at Kentucky State University in Lexington confiscated approximately 2,000 copies of the 1993-94 yearbook, The Thorobted, which have remained locked in a university storeroom for almost five years. At the same time, school officials transferred the student newspapers faculty adviser to a secretarial position after she refused to censor material from the paper student-produce- d critical of the university. jirrA.. |