Show T Thursday November 16 The Eagle 1989 Page 3 Burae sets two world records Primitive methods hold true for CEU faculty member Burge has now left his mark as a competitor He is a member of the NaWhen College of Eastern Utah fac- tional Archery Association and the ulty member Don Burge shoots for Rocky Mountain Men success he really hits the spot Along with the personal satisfacdecade a of tournament tion Throughout archery brings Burge sees it as a has earned than more from reality "It's not only diversion archery Burge 100 trophies and titles along with a great challenge but it's fun” Burge said "I like to dress up in buckskin capturing over a dozen gold silver and bronze medals and feel the whole experience For Archery a sport that goes back years my children were raised thinkthousands of years is popular ing that everyone lived in a teepee throughout the world Divisions such during the summer and hunted for as modem primitive flight and tradi- food” tional add to the challenge of shootBurge plans to participate in this ing with bows and arrows sport until "people start beating me During the summer Burge set two too bad” Although his target shootworld and national records in flight ing is not what it used to be Burge sees his biggest strength to be bow championships held in Utah and Nevada The flight division is known building and hardly anyone builds as distance shooting Burge used a 50-l- b their own bows today Archery is a primitive bow for each record Traditional archery with its use of big money business and brings fierce devices is a favorite competition As for now Burge would like to "It of Burge leu me shoot like Robin build a competitive college archery Hood or the Indians you see in movies” he explained For program under the National Field Archery Association Kenny Leo antraditional archery competition other skilled archery competitor will Burge makes his own equipment out assist Burge in this process Curof wood bone and deer sinew The rently there are several areas desigFirst deer he killed was shot with a for archery on CElTs campus nated handmade wood bow and arrow An By spring 28 targets with shooting avid big game hunter Burge has distances from 80 yards to 10 yards killed more than 100 animals with will be ready for use primitive weapons “Overcome your own emotion and As a child living in Los Angeles focus attention on what you're doBurge's interest in archery began to stated of overcoming obBurge ing” grow The family’s garage was used stacles "It's scary sometimes but for target practice By the age of 12 make it through” Good advice Burge had tasted his first and sweetest you'll not only for archery but for all asvictory in actual competition Countpects of life less victories have followed and wt'fi Stephanie Bogdin staff writer by ed Enrollment at record high More high school seniors saying "yes" to CEU Larkin staff writer by Ragun Seniors in high school are bombarded with the traumatic decision of determining which college to attend next faO Spread across their desks are applications flyers and pamphlets from places some have never heard of all explaining how wonderful a particular college is and what programs it has to offer Lately more and more of these high school students are making the College of Eastern Utah their choice for their first two years of college More high school seniors are enrolling at CEU so it has steadily increased in size quality and is making itself known throughout the state In 1979 there were 851 students on the Price campus and 99 at the San Juan Center in Blinding More qualified instructors and more scholarship offers hqvp helped to boost the enrollment Jan Young director of admissions and records said that 343 new freshmen scholarships were awarded for 1989 which b a dramatic increase from last year In 1984 CEU had a headcount of 1113 and the San Juan Center 299 Young credits the increase to better recruiting more scholarships and a better selection of courses In 1988 the enrollment for CEU was 1848 and the San Juan Center had 362 Hus year's enrollment has 1997 students regbtered at CEU with an additional 344 at the CEU San Juan Center Young added that the San Juan Center has just built a new dormitory to house more students which help account for their growth Another reason fall's enrollment b up Young said was the early fall session running from uguft lJvNgh ftptf lltimMMIMlilitttiiiuiilliMIlii Don Burge could be an excellent modern day example of a resourceful primitive archer if Photo by C Hamaker he would Just give up the sweater and the Levi's for some buckskin Librarian's selective "weeding" project will benefit the college students and local community most of what they buy A two-yecollege working library cannot keep feature editor all that they buy he said Spring won't be here for months but already Robert Myers The U of U serves as an archive PhDM has started weeding Myers library That b not our function" director of the College of Eastern Myers said except in the case of a Utah library b in the process of special collection in which selecweeding through the library’s collec- tive materials are kept According tion of books in order to dear out to Myers CElTs special collection the outdated material and make room b developing nicely "We have for newer better materials signed copies by (LDS) General AuUtah the that said Myers thorities like Heber J Grant and Statewide Library Study done by the Richards" The library b state of Utah "called upon CEU to also trying to collect books signed go through its collection" The by local authors Myers b interested in enhancing the special collecstudy states that The collection tion's ability to preserve the history badly needs weeding and discardvolumes the of fourth a ing maybe of the Price area "We want to serve which are outdated” the community as well as the colAt times certain libraries have lege" he said to discard materials Myers said "We are not a research library” he With regard to the discarding old books Myers stressed "We're said "We are a working library” not trying to gut the collection but Myers explained that research libraries are used is archives keeping we do need space for books that are by Gina Howard ar de -- newer and of a more diverse nature Myers hopes to make room for more academic-orientemagazines new books and special materials for school programs but could not disclose any specifics at ihb time Myers has been inviting faculty memd bers to inspect the booksT to make sure they agree that valuable books are not being thrown away New books are on display new the reference books Books that are being discarded are available to the public They are stored on the "Bargain Bookshelf” opposite (he front counter in the library Currently fiction books are on shelf for sale Discarded library bodes have an average bargain bookshelf-lif- e of two months and they cost 25 The book sale will continue throughout the year or until the project b completed Myers said |