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Show Jl'UE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Friday, January 18,2008 MOVIE LOOKS AT RELIGION s continued from Page I tian who most of the country thinks is a Muslim," Nicholson said. "A lot of questions have been raised about this." One pastor—a particularly outspoken opponent of presidential candidate Mitt Romncy. a member of the LDS faith—is featured in the film. Hall interviewed pastor Robert Jcffrcss from the First Baptist Church of Dallas. Jeffrcss said he thinks it would be better to have an atheist who will follow anti-homosexual values than a "supposed Christian" such as Romney who wouldn't. Hall and Nicholson, who is also of the LDS faith, wanted the film to look at all religions that have been attacked in politics. "When we sat down to craft this story, we wanted to make sure we were being as fair as possible by showing a lot of different religious issues in politics," Hall said. Samuel Baird, a Salt Lake City resident, said he thinks it's time for someone to talk about these issues. "No one has ever shown the equal points of view over the religious issues, and this did a good job," he said. Audience members praised the film's ending, which shows Hall reaching out to the antiLDS protesters. "I liked how the film ended on a hopeful note with the director talking to the protesters and realizing that they could be friends despite their different faith," said Desiree Freeman, a freshman in international relations at Brigham Young University who attended the screening. I.groves (2) chronicle.utah.edu OIL WASTE TO BE RECYCLED Changing the academy for good continued from Page 1 U student mentors troubled young women at Alpine bic digestion, bacteria can be used to break down the toxicity of the waste. High-value chemicals arc extracted and sold to chemical companies. "We can extract chemicals from the waste and sell it on the open market to the chemical industry," Mortenson said. "The benefit is three-fold. It saves their environment, creates jobs and is overall good for the local economy." Mortcnson and Nasser presented the proposal to judges in Mumbai, including the president of the World Federation of Engineering. Now students must take the project to the next phase— figuring out the most efficient way to extract the chemicals from the waste—a process that may take another year, Fox said. The cash award will get the project rolling, but more funding will be needed to continue. The students hope to "carry the project through" and that the plan sparks interest with private donors, Fox said. Although the United States and Palestine have political, religious and cultural differences, students from both siJos were able to work together for a common good, Morionson said. "1 made some lasting friendships," he said. "(The project) gave us an idea about the turmoil going on there." c.mayorga@ chronicle.utah.edu Jonathan Ng graduate from the program." The Alpine Academy, which opened in 2001, is a private-paid residential division of the Utah Youth Village, one of the largest private non-profit providers of residential treatment for children, providing treatment for more than 300 children a year in 10 group homes and <?o treatment foster homes throughout Utah. "Alpine was created to do fundraising and increase revenue to allow for other services in youth services," Mulitalo said. The academy is accredited as a Spe- STAFF WRITER cial Purpose School, allowing the girls the opportunity to receive a high school diploma while working on therapeutic issues during their stay at the academy, which is on average 10 to 12 months. All of the Youth Village Programs use the teaching-family model of treatment, a behavioral approach that emphasizes individualized treatment in a familystyle environment. "It is amazing to see daily how behavior modification works," Herget said. U students in the behavioral science department can apply their classroom knowledge by helping adolescent girls at the Alpine Academy deal with emotional, mental and academic issues. Kimberly Herget, a second-year graduate student in sociology, has worked at the academy for nearly two years as an associate family teacher, acting as a role model and supervising 10- to 17-yearold girls with day-to-day tasks. chronicle.utah.edu "One of the things I take away from the job is a better understanding of how people work and learn," Hcrgct said. "In my graduate study classes, we have talked about how class and privilege can change individuals, and then I go to work and sec it firsthand." The academy is a residential treatment center for adolescent girls with various personal and academic issues, said Janet Mulitalo, program director at the academy. Five houses, each housing 10 girls, can be found in a rural farming community in Erda, Utah, northwest of Tooele. Although Herget is the only student working at the academy, many U graduates have found work there in the past. "We have lots of young ladies that have psychology degrees," Mulitalo said. "It's a great place to sec some of the things they learn about in class in action." Herget said she enjoys helping young people. "I love the progress I see the youth making every day," she said. "It is amazing to sec the girls' pro- Kim Herget, who has worked at the academy for two years, helps the students at the treatment center work on gression from when theyfirstget typical after-school activities. The all-girl academy focuses on treatment in a family setting and focusing on a (to the academy) to when they positive and negative consequence system for good or bad behavior. NOTED SCHOLAR SPEAKS AT U CITY, UTAH continued from Page 1 like Albert Einstein. I am a businessman but I don't look like Bill Gates. There are too many people who are highly successful, but far from the criteria of greatness." West said America is refusing to acknowledge 241 years of what he calls "social death." He said blacks were forced to endure many trials while having no legal status, no public standing and a legacy of being used as a commodity for trade, which left them feeling terrified. During this time of "social death," blacks were invisible, voiceless and powerless—history has let them be forgotten, he said. "Can you come to terms with it?" West asked the audience. Jim Crow laws began what West calls a legacy of white terrorism and the "civic death" of blacks that left them feeling helpless because they were shot like dogs while the government remained blind to these injustices. He cited the bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. that killed four black girls, as an example of this terror. It was on Sept. 11 that white America got a sense of what it is like to be a black person in the United States, West said. After Sept. 11, everyone knew what it felt like to feel unsafe, hated and victimized because of who they axe. "Yet black parents have had to explain the same facts to their children for centuries before this," West said. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, America responded with force against al-Qaida. West asked the audience how blacks had dealt with the terrorism they'd experienced and responded with the names Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King's response to this kind of violence, according to West, would be, "I'm not getting in the gutter with the gangsters." Young people today, West observed, are lost in a culture of "gstrings and bling-bling," which is consumerism at its finest. He said that people axe too often locked away from the suffering of others and need to learn to keep their eyes on something bigger than themselves and make what difference they can, "We've made it fashionable to be indifferent to the suffering of the world," West said. 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