Show Spring cleaning Maybe I'll think about it by Kirsten Christensen news editor Last week I was walking across campus when I saw what looked like a three-felong piece of bathroom tissue fly from the ground up into a tree I walked closer to the tree and saw a robin trying to pull the tissue through a tangle of Russian olive thorns to her nest The bird tidying her nest made me think that it was that time of year again for spring cleaning I really should do some spring cleaning this year Last month a search party was sent into my basement to verify rumors that Marcos the used-to-b-e president of the Philippines had stashed some of his questionably gained treasures somewhere within the murky depths of my "downstairs" They have never returned If I really thought that a hidden treasure could be found down there you can bet I'd be digging through my four-yecollection of TV Guides empty sour cream and cottage cheese containers dead batteries punctured toilet floats broken toasters and electric can openers all my returned homework from kindergarten through college and the bottles of fruit that my grandmother canned in 1923 (You never know when there is going to be a famine Everyone will come begging for a bottle of fruit And I will share them — if I can And them) But to And the life sustaining fruit I would have to search through all the warped records bumed-ou- t light bulbs paper and plastic bags egg cartons aluminium cans and rubber bands from 13 years of daily newspapers 1 really would tackle those things and even the piles of things that I have no idea what they were in their previous life But it is impossible to find anything down there I know I've tried Besides I'm not suicidal I'm not a pack-rby any means I think perhaps "pack-mulwould be more descriptive I guess I really should spring clean this year The last time my mother-in-lacame to visit she was dressed in full combat uniform she was even wearing camouflage fatigues But instead of splotches of brown and green she was disguised in white and strawberry-jasplotches of mustard yellow mashed-potat- o red I thought she was only joking until I saw the bayonet on her AK-4- 7 I've since tried making the kids restrict their food fights to the kitchen But when that didn't work I replaced the "Welcome to Our Home" sign on the front door with "Now Entering Combat Zone" I guess I really should spring clean this year I could start with a small project and work up I could begin with Last week I set down write a check at the to my purse my purse et honest-to-goodne- ss ar 70-year-- at Computer Center Construction underway e" w m grocery store checkout stand and a passerby dropped his trash into it Perhaps I could do this purse project while I'm watching that new daytime drama "Generations" It seems like the best one since my purse looks like it was a pony express saddlebag that has been handed down over the generations Actually I'd rather watch "As The World Turns" but I can't find the pliers to change the channel on the TV Next I could clean out a few kitchen drawers I might even bring myself to part with my collection of sock hangers you know the ones that new socks come on They are taking up three drawers and sharing a fourth drawer with my melted plastic spatulas and bent straight pins Many people have been amazed at all the sock hangers I have But when they see my collection of odd socks then they arc really impressed My husband suggested I give some of the things I haven't used for a few years to the Salvation Army A lot of stuff sitting around the house would certainly qualify to be given away But I'm afraid my mother's feelings would be hurt if I gave away the hydraulic napkin dispenser she gave me 1 1 years ago even if it has sat unused on my cluttered kitchen counter for the past 10 years and 1 1 months Besides I've heard rumors that the Salvation Army actually throws away things like Christmas tree lights that don't work and raps to lost fountain pens! Of course I never would Next in my attempt at spring cleaning I could straighten up around my husband's favorite chair I could pick up the assorted beer cans behind iL Maybe I could even vacuum up the crunched potato chips from under the scat cushion — naw who looks under a scat cushion? But I refuse to actually move the chair and clean under iL Like I said I'm not suicidal You know how some people have a junk drawer and some people have a junk closet? Well I have a junk room actually two if you count my son's bedroom though it isn't really a junk room You sec my son is not a very good bedroom keeper he learned that from his father of course I don't think I dare try anything in those rooms so perhaps I could begin next in the bathroom Docs anybody know where I can rent a jackhammer? Next week it is my turn to have the girls over for bridge I'll never have my spring cleaning done by then Maybe we can play in the dog's house it's the cleanest house in the neighborhood But perhaps since spring was a few weeks ago and it is winter again it is too late to spring clean this year So I guess 111 have to clean next spring After all I'm not suicidal you know full-fledg- ed ASCEU officers elected Newt editor HHIIMMIIHHIinHINMMNIMMIIIHINHIIMNH I Gina Howard Feature Travis Mann Editor Hickmon Richard Pene Stacee and Women's Sports Kristie Biason and Jake Shewmake Men's SportsCo-Editor- s West Garth Frandsen Jan Halliday Ragun Reporters laaiaiaiaaMaiiNiiiaiHimii Cordy Larkin Kathryn Painter G Scott Warren Edith Berdan TimiBisquera Photographers HiNdMNnaaiiHaammNiaaanHNiaaCi Hamaker and Kirsten Christensen Garth Frandsen Paul Pulli — CartoonisL atttlTftliaitrttft-T‘-- “ ““ Ray Graham “—" Editor-Entertainm- ent Co-Edito- rs — Advisor - TftTTTr-- t- — Susan A Polster The Eagle is tin official student publication of the College of Eastern Utah and is printed winter and spring quarters Opinions expressed in this publievery other Thursday fall cation My or may not reflect the official opionion of OEM's administration faculty students or staff The Eagle office it located in Room 111 of the Main Building tional and students in campus activities he successfully fended off challenges from two other candidates In addition to student government Gwythcr will remain active in the theatre dance and chccrlcading programs at the College He is also the delegate chairman of the Utah Intercollegiate Assembly Eliason is a native of Stans1988 a Gwythcr graduate of bury Park Utah and a 1988 Carbon High School is a d graduate of Tooele High School student at CEU Running a camShe is studying communications at CEU In addition to her repaign that promised to develop health and counseling services and sponsibilities as the of increasing involvement of tradi (continued on page 3) Students from Price Castle Dale and Stansbury Park will take the helm of the College of Eastern Utah's student government in 1989-9- 0 Brad Gwythcr will become the president of the Associated Students of CEU while Kristie Eliason was elected the vice president of activities and JD Conover won the race for vice president of academic non-lraditio- pre-me- Co-edit- or Construction is underway that will eventually transform the derelict Carbon Hospital into a state-of-the-- art ComputcrBusi-nes- s Center for the College of Eastern Utah Phase I of the S4 million project began in early April and is expected to be completed by the end of the year while Phase II will begin shortly thereafter Completion of the entire project is scheduled for January 1991 "We arc extremely excited to sec the construction finally get started" proclaimed Karen Bliss Miller CEU’s Dean of Administrative Services "When it's completed the building will have a completely new attractive facade and the grounds will be completely landscaped so they blend in with the atmosurrounding park-lik- e sphere I think residents will be very happy with the building's appearance" she added Cal Wadsworth Construction Inc of Salt Lake City was the low bidder for the first phase of the project The half million dollar contract is funded by a federal grant and state appropriations and will include renovation of the first floor of the building's south wing A child development center and the college's computer center will eventually occupy the space While the first phase is underway Kent Stilson Construction Co of Orangeville will install a new utility line from the campus Physical Plant to the new building Steam lines communication's cables and electrical wiring will be installed at a cost of over $100000 The work will necessitate minor traffic interruptions along 300 East in Price for about a month beginning around late May or early June The Utah Legislature appropriated $36 million for Phase II of the renovation when it passed the $50 million bond for construction projects during the closing minutes of the 1989 General Legislative Session The second phase will complete all other sections of the building providing classroom and office comspace a new administrative puting center a family development center storage and preparation rooms for the Prehistoric Museum and the Women's Resource Center |