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GEORGE, UTAH VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 6 lie differ. roducts is for the lie offers : and ? on DSC partner up KCSG, Broadcast communication majors working now the with KCSG ojjicials to produce nightly newscasts ptical? s just fre if, works fir in in port h y - bags site, om I., lists green le loth I- - as ideas ton ton iper ey, and kle, jair or what- n your isy nmends ps for :ep fror :h power city grid sing eners, lants that k- lity. buy-- i ite, other thrift and KCSG officials watch WeekNight as it is broadcast live from the Jennings Communication Building. The new partnership gives DSC students the opportunity to learn more about broadcast Students production. sales is. se ANDERSON & WHITNEY PHILLIPS Dixie Sun Staff BY AMANDA these best irgains s- iend, ilk to KCSG my that els rofessot' she hen ts differ I'm ass, ny prohem as e said. eI Students in the broadcast journalism program jumped in to produce a live news broadcast when DSC merged with won- would last week. Communication Department Chair Randal Chase said, '(KCSG Owner) Stephen Wade "anted the change made more quickly, so everyone worked long hours to get it up and running." WeekNight was on air at on Sept. 21. The newscast "as complete with KCSG pro DSC USHE ' WHITNEY rsonal Dixie PHILLIPS D'de te vould her State College stu-faculty and staff Pitied some possible 'tys to further the k thats 'gress of their institu-0- 0 from a member of ,aid. the Ws board of as regents g propnaI Jring a Sept. 22 event. part of DSCs 'Difference s perso' Week, nks stu 'll'am Sederburg, too can Make Com air. Melissa Holnbach, a senior communication major from Upland, Calif., was a student anchor at first, but with the changes she will no longer be anchoring. She said the KCSG sports anchor called her and told her she would still be help s, missioner for the Utah System of Higher Education and member of the board of regents, spoke to students regarding DSCs future in higher education. Student Body President Dewey Denning invited Sederburg to address DSC constituents, and Sederburg said he decided it would be a worthwhile endeavor to see KCSG page 2 The DSCSA academic senate is a new council at Dixie State College made up of student senators who represent the rest of the student body and their respective degrees. The new senate replaced the Student Advisory Council of last year. Nate Jensen, student body vice president and a senior communication major from Willard, said there were a lot of reasons student government decided to change from the SAC to the academic senate. "First of all, Dewey (Denning) and I saw the damage of last year and not having proper student representation when big issues came along, like the mascot issue," he said. "We felt like these issues come up every year and there hasn't been proper representation. There was no real way to voice the concerns of students or validate them." Jensen said they looked at a lot of other models at other universities. He said SAC was the same kind of committee that is at BYU, but they felt that it wasn't set up in a democratic fashion like the other universities' committees and councils. "We decided that we would have a student senate where every program on campus was represented by a student senator," he said. The senators' roles fall under the academic programs at DSC. Jensen said their job and responsibility is to be a representative of their student constituents. There are eight different senators on the academic senate. They are over business, communication, edu cation and FCS, fine and performing arts, humanities and social sciences, biology and math, CIT, and health sciences. Spencer Potter, the fine and performing arts senator and a junior integrated studies major from Ogden, said the majority of the senators were recommended by the deans of each department last spring. After the recommendations, the students filled out applications. Student government then reviewed the applications and based the appointments off them, Potter said. Two other members of the academic senate, who aren't actual senators, are the ambassador liaison and the Student Alumni Association liaison. Jensen said these two members help to make decisions and are the main sources of information for those two student groups. The student senators are essentially liaisons between the academic programs and the students. Jensen said the senators help to open communication between departments by maintaining positive relationships with department heads. "Department heads don't have as much contact with all their students, so the senators act as a bridge between them," Jensen said. Jensen said the senators are also like program ambassadors. He said they are being trained on how to approach students who are interested in their respective programs. That way, they can talk to them about classes and advisers and mentor those looking into the degree programs they are over. Jensen said some of the past responsibilities of SAC representatives included see SENATE page 3 convey information from Utahs board of regents. I enjoy this sort of thing, he said. Its really important to regenerate some of the board of regents thoughts with campuses. Nate Jensen, a senior communication major from Willard and student body vice president, said the purpose in having Sederburg speak was to fill students in on what they can do to help make progress with DSC as an institution. It seems like everyone wants Dixie State to become a university but no one knows how to get it," he said. Sederburg addressed a crowd of more than 100 people. Overall, Sederburg said the most important thing stu dents can do to ensure the progress of DSC is to be vocal with state administrators. Students need to have conversations with legislators, he said. While President Stephen Nadauld is the highest representative of the school, students can be just as effective in getting things done, Sederburg said. He added: The president is hired to say nice things about Dixie. Students really need to be the spokesmen for the college. Sederburg also presented four challenges that USHE is currently facing: the need to put more programs into place, the need to compete with other states, see FUTURE page 2 ha ,hip- (l rtant A Visit us online gy- bing "l ; more us- how to reach us inside && we hve 5uld ing out with reporting and getting video footage, just not anchoring. "Everything is still up in the air," she said. "I'm not really sure how long I'll be doing that. KCSG officials have been vague with all of us." Chase also said KCSG was happier with what they had, because they felt it would cater better to their viewers. "Its their station, so that's their call," he said. "It is fine with us because our students are still involved." From the KCSG perspective, the rush to get students on the BY RACHEL TANNER Dixie Sun Editor-m-Chi- Commissioner discusses future of college Sun News Editor leaning fessionals, student anchors and Eric Young, assistant professor of communication, as the main anchor. However, after a week of the nightly broadcasts, officials at KCSG decided to go back to their original anchors. Young said, They didn't want student anchors on the Academic senate new on campus for breaking news, photo galleries, commentary, interactive fea- tures, and more News Sports Arts & Entertainment Opinion Lifestyles 2 4 6 2 9 Dixie State College Jennings Bldg. 225 S 700 E St. George, UT 84770 dixiesundixie.edu fht fin k oune GOuDU Center for Merita innovation Phone: (435) Fax: (435) 652-781- 8 656-401- 9 |