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Show Monday, October 9,2006 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Big Brother takes over campus 1984 \9M-themed week starts today Oct. 13 & 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall Dustin Gardiner Chronicle Asst. News Editor Events: Monday, Oct. 9 at 1t a.m. A live Radio West Broadcast with Doug Fabrizio and Michael Gene Sullivan, author of "1984" stage adaptation. Tuesday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 a.m. Book Klub Kaffe Klatsch: An Informal evening celebrating our freedom to read and discuss literature. Featuring Gene Sullivan at Kingsbury Hall. Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. News and Propaganda: When Ooes Spin Go Too Far? A forum with local journalists at Kingsbury Hall. Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 7:45 p.m. News and Propaganda: Is Objective Journalism Extinct? A forum with local journalists at Kingsbury Hall. Thursday, Oct. 12 at Noon Sicilliano Forum: Considerations of the Status of American Society. With Laughlin Me Donald at the Dumke Auditorium at the Fine Arts Museum. Big Brother is casting his dark shadow over campus this week. From the caucus room at the Hinckley Institute of Politics to Kingsbury Hall, the totalitarian government, known as Big Brother, described in George Orwell's classic novel /9S4, will be the topic of discussion. An array of forums are being hosted this week to examine the relevance of 1984 to modern-day America and how Orwell's chilling tale can be applied to politics today. A stage-adapted version of the novel will be performed at Kingsbury Hall on Friday and Saturday night. Tickets to the play range from about $25 to $30, depending on seating. The rest of the week's events are free to the public. In his apocalyptic novel, Orwell describes a government so powerful that it controls every aspect of its citizens' lives, from their interpretation of history to personal thoughts. Tim Robbins, the play's Oscarwinning director, is a fierce critic of President George W. Bush and has recently been quoted in the Houston Chronicle comparing actions of the federal government to that of Big Brother. "If you want a quick way to understand the book's relevance, just read the 'war is peace' section, with its notion of society waging perpetual war," Robbins told the Houston Chronicle "There's also the loss of privacy, which we just seem to have accepted today." While Robbins has tied specific political issues to 1984, organizers of the week's events said students can relate to the week's discussion regardless of their political preferences. "People will take their own thing out of it," said Kirk Jowers, director of the Hinckley Institute. "I think everyone can look at it with an open mind." Jowers said there is "nothing (overtly)" political in the play. John Caywood, an administrator at Kingsbury Hall, said the week's events are politically balanced. "We wanted to (spark) as much interest as possible in the questions raised in the novel without taking a side," Caywood said. Jeremiah Chin, a sophomore social justice major, said he thinks many of the book's predictions are becoming reality. "Technologically we have the ability to do a lot of the things in (the novel)," he said. "Technologically it is coming true, and politically it is starting to come true." d.gardiner@chronicle.utah.edu RYAN PERKINS/ Vw Oaih Utah Chronicle NEW FUNDING CHANGES FACE OF CAMPUS DIVERSITY "I think that this is a great scholarships and providing resources to minority stu- step that the U is taking, bedents. Additionally, it will ing a first-generation college be responsible for hiring di- student myself," said Danirectors and advisers for the elle Elwood, a junior in socivarious student diversity ology and psychology. programs as well as securOne of the main reasons ing additional funding and people drop out of college planning to expand the de- is because they find it too partment continued from Page 1 hard to navigate and are un"These changes confirm prepared coming out of high there was a lot of confusion what people have believed school, Elwood said. when the changes were still about the U: that it has a "So it is helpful to have unclear, Pershing said, and commitment to diversity; programs to provide assisthe perception that the U but now we can see more tance tofirst-generationstulacks diversity makes any tangible ways of this com- dents because they so often changes made in the depart- mitment," Dace said. "(The don't have anywhere else to ment more scrutinized. Ulti- U) isn't just talking, it's actu- turn to," she said. mately, however, the goal of ally doing the walking now." s.glaittli@chronicle.utah.edu building up these studentcentered programs is to give new resources into building support for first-generation • !-..-"- .i ;""v. '•'.;students and students of color, Pershing said. Currently, the diversity department, under the direction of Dace, will still be responsible for hiring faculty, dispensing diversity The Exmormon Foundation continued from Page 1 The Cross Culture Club is open to all students and has a variety of activities for international students and local ones who want to work with them. For more information, visit the Web site at: http:// Annual Conference www.utah.edu/crosscultureclub/ or go to the office, located at 232 S. University Street to sign up. n.hale@chronicle.utah.edu continued from Page I through communicating industrial needs and academics' ability to provide research and development, as well as to prepare students for the work force appropriately, he said. The U, Brigham Young University and Utah State University utilized the con- ference to highlight the diversity of nanotechnologybased research occurring on their campuses. Todd Kaneshiro, graduate student in pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical chemistry at the U, presented a brief talk on developing nanoglobes for the delivery of therapeutic drugs to cells. He said the conference offered "an interesting look into Utah's plans to integrate industry and academia." Technology developed at the academic level can be transferred to industry in the form of licensing agreements or starting up companies, bringing more jobs and money into Utah. j.jay@chronicle.utah.edu Clean Out. 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