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Show UTAH—STATESMAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,2005 Business students dine with alumni BY M E G A N LISONBEE Staff Writer The College of Business treated students to a night of dining and discussion with Utah State University business alumni Thursday night. In conjunction with Business Week, "Dine With Business Leaders" was designed to help students connect with their major and identify future possibilities within it. The College of Business hosted nine USU alumni who are members of the College Advancement Board. These are people who support the university and feel it is important to mentor and assist students, said College of Business Dean Caryn BeckDudley. USU has a vast number of successful alumni who can be resources to students if given the opportunity, Dudley said. Dudley said she wants students to realize what incredible potential they each have, and hopes these kinds of events will help inspire students to see all that is possible for them. The majority of the night was spent having a question and answer session between the students and their assigned alumni. The groups were small, mak- "The host gave each of us so much personal attention, and got everyone excited for out future careers." McKenzde Anderson student ing it possible for conversation between to take place everyone at the table. Topics ranged from Asusu where the students were hoping to be in 10 years, to how they planned to achieve their goals and the things that would make them stand out from their competition were discussed. "Everyone who participated loved it," said McKenzie Anderson, a sophomore majoring in marketing and economics who helped organize the event. "The host gave each of us so much personal attention, and got everyone excited for our future careers. "Because of our success we are going to try to make this a NFTWORKINH See Page 4 SILENT WEEKEND From Page 7 f r o m Page 1 name because we are not audited in the same way," Humphreys said, "I spent $400 on ice cream this year and no one asked me a thing." Brett Thomas, Extension vice president, said he supports the bill because he was on the ad hoc committee that looked into the problem and he feels that there needs to be more "red tape" when receiving extra funds and that clubs and organizations need to be more accountable. Education senator Shelly Ryan also agreed there needs to be a way to check if funds are being spent properly, and added that any ASUSU council member seeking funds would go through the same process. Nic Gordon, organizations and traditions vice president,said he agrees, but suggested that the penalties be decided by the university's judicial council and riot an ASUSU-made committee. "Clubs will always need C&S money because CSCO only has $8,000 which is about $44 per club, but there is a better way of handling it," Gordon said. The bill failed during the first vote until the council realized that they needed a two-thirds majority vote to end debate and begin the voting process. The council later returned to discussion and voted again and the bill passed. The Executive Council also passed a bill allotting $1,700 to the National Society of Collegiate Scholars to finish the "Victims of Terror Monument" John Zsirayv'jzsiray@cc.usu.edu located on the north side of the HEIDI EVANS, ASUSU academic vice president, presents a framed copy George S. Eccles Business buildof the USU Academic Honor Code to other ASUSU members asking ing. The monument already them to sign it and show their support for the code. includes two trees to symbolize the twin towers, stones on the grass and a granite monument leaders are committed to making ic hold if they don't meet with The society will now finish the academics a priority" Evans said. their advisers as a way of monument with two granite encouraging students to meet A bill requiring students to benches with "ASUSU 2005" with advisers and avoid later meet with their advisers before engraved on the sides. graduation difficulties. However, their junior year to make sure Council members also signed many members of the council they are on the right track to a copy of the Honor Pledge at voiced their concerns that it was graduate was tabled indefinitely the request of Academic Vice too late in the year to make such and will be left up to next year's President Heidi Evans to be a change and that before such a council to follow up on. hung on the third floor of the bill is passed all college advisers Athletics Vice President Jimi Taggart Student Center. should be spoken to. Jorgenson proposed the idea "This will show that we as . that students be put on academ-hilaryi@cc.usu.edu deaf students and participate in games and workshops. Sign language students from USU, Salt Lake Community College and Weber State University attended. Everyone who attended took an oath of silence. Punishment for speaking consisted of pushups for first-time offenders and "community service" for repeat mistakes. DESA leaders threatened punishment as severe as cleaning the bathrooms. Oddly enough, the deaf students were among the first to "drop and give me 10." Ellen O'Hara, a deaf student at USU, was caught calling out to a student to get his attention. O'Hara said she has been trained to be bilingual - signing with her deaf friends and speaking with other people. She said it was hard for her to restrain herself to strictly signing with everyone, deaf or not. As part of a series of workshops, Jonathan Roberts, another USU deaf student presented important aspects of American Sign Language (ASL), which included facial expression, body language, classifiers and sign vocabulary. Roberts said he had the group practice expressing emotions through facial expressions and body language. Participants mimed walking on hot coals, a fistfight and falling in love with a mouse. Silent Weekend culminated with impromptu skits, among which included pirates, beach parties and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Jaci Croxford, a sophomore in USU's special education department, said she has been learning sign language since high school. She is the Residential Assistant for the ASL floor in Moen Hall. Croxford said she enjoyed Silent Weekend because even on the themed floor there are few opportunities to practice ASL when no one is talking. Croxford said she has attended Silent Weekend for the past two years. She said she enjoyed this year more because she knows more sign and was less worried about being corrected. "[Signing] just becomes more natural," Croxford said about the weekend. "It's about confidence just being used to it." ~acbeck@cc. usu. edu LEADER USU announces new name of library To honor the past and preserve tradition, Utah State University's Board of TYustees, on April 8, approved a recommendation by the university's Facilities Naming Committee to christen the institutions new library the Merrill-Cazier Library. The 200,000-square-foot addition, scheduled for completion fall 2005, melds more than 1.5 million volumes from the 74-year-old Merrill library, scheduled for demolition in 2006, with the existing Cazier Science and Technology Library, to create a 304,000-square-foot facility. Linda Wolcott, vice provost for libraries and instructional support, said retaining the names of two educators who dedicated their lives to enriching students' academic experiences is especially fitting. University archives indicate that the Merrill Library was named in 1968 in honor of the former vice president of academic affairs. Merrill joined Utah State's history and political science faculty in 1927 and subsequently served in various administrative positions, including department head and director of Extension, during his long career with the university. He died in 1971Built in 1995, the 116,000-squarefoot Cazier Science and Technology Library was named in honor of Utah State's 12th president by the Board of Trustees on March 6,1998. Cazier retired as university president in 1992, after which he continued to serve on the history faculty and was named an emeritus professor in 1996. The university plans ceremonies recognizing the contributions of the new library's namesakes later this year near the time of the formal opening of the new library. PR students to showcase talent Utah State University public relations students will present PR strategy pitches to local and regional business clients in Utah State's first Aggie Public Relations Organization (PRO) event at 10 a.m. on April 27 on the . university campus. Seniors and graduate students from Utah State's public relations agency class will provide each client with a comprehensive plan, media kit and a high-level presentation exhibiting the students' creativeness and overall strategyEach group of students will be critiqued by a panel of judges, which includes client representatives, members of the Greater Salt Lake Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and Utah State facultyThe winning group will be recognized formally with a departmental award for permanent display. For more information about the event contact Brandon Taylor at (435) 792-3147 or brantaylor@cc.usu.edu. For information concerning the public relations agency class convact Oldham at (435) 764-2979 or Oldhamtroy_@hotmail.com or Roka at (801) 596-7087 or lroka @ ecus u. edu. From Page 7 schools symposium this year. Legislation has been passed that will eventually allow graduate students to separate themselves and form their own student council. Rounds said attendance at GSS meetings by senators is up from 25 percent last year to 90 percent this year, allowing the group to effectively pass legislation with representation from each college. Next year, changes will continue as each college will have its own graduate student council, an important move because the graduate student experience varies so greatly from college to college, he said. "It will make us more closeknit; help us collaborate research across the university," he said. "The future looks very bright." ASUSUEC recently allocated $15,000 to the GSS for travel funds, thanks to a bill Rounds sponsored. The funds are essential to the success of graduate students as many of them are required to travel, sometimes to other parts of the world, he said. Rounds also helped to create a separate fund that will provide money for graduate students wanting to further their research, not just to present it. "That kind of opportunity did not exist before this year," Smith said. "He's very creative." Rounds said obtaining support for academic needs from student government can be difficult. "Student government is seen as effective when students are having fun," he said, so a lot of emphasis is put on programming. "But graduate students are an integral part of growing revenues." And the needs of graduate students are different than those of undergraduates. With international students making up the majority of graduate students, and with many graduate students supporting families, health insurance is a top priority, and key in recruiting students. "At the current time, we don't have a health plan specific to graduate students," Rounds said. "This kind of change won't happen over night." Smith said Rounds' work on the issue has been critical. "A. J. honestly struck me as indomitable; he was just never hesitant to propose an idea," he said. The work Rounds has done extends beyond his duties with GSS. Evans said Rounds has been a "calming influence" on ASUSUEC. "Every proposal that he has had come before the table is very well thought out. He has done an excellent job at evaluat• w 9B^^^H9BBHHUEEI9S9BHBI^H "He can see the big picture as well as a paying attention to detail." Lany Smith Graduate Studies Interim Dean ing every side of a situation before commenting," she said. "He is excellent at accepting constructive criticism and feedback to improve a proposal." Rounds said he feels the restructure of ASUSUEC was done in the best interest of stu- dents and will provide more opportunities for USU students to become involved in student government, "I feel the restructuring went very, very well," he said. "We looked at every possible aspect." Rounds will graduate this semester with a masters degree in business. Outside of school, Rounds said loves to travel with his wife, Emily, go hiking and camping and play the guitar. But hobbies have taken a back seat as school and his leadership positions have taken up most of his time, even preventing him from holding an outside job. "I love it. I would fight for graduate students to the death" he said. "They might not be very visible, but they are very crucial. They take the university to all nations and all parts of the country." Smith said Rounds hard work has not gone unnoticed. "He's just an absolute joy to work with - always thinking. He can see the big picture as well as paying attention to detail," he said. "He's just a very, very perceptive, compassionate leader who has cared very deeply about graduate students " Fraternity and student awarded for serving others The Center for the School of the Future at Utah State University recently recognized Sigma Nu Fraternity and USU psychology student Jill Stewart as recipients of the President's Volunteer Service Award. This award is distributed on behalf of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. These recipients received Bronze Awards for their service and mentoring in the Cache County School District. The Sigma Nu Fraternity accumulated over 234 hours of service, and USU student Jill Stewart accumulated more than 190 hours. In January 2002, President George Bush called on all Americans to dedicate at least 4,000 hours over the course of their lives to serving others at home or abroad. The Center for the School of the Future would like to thank these volunteers and the many (,others like them for their service efforts and encourage others to follow their example. -bnelson @cc. usu.edu COMPILED BY STATESMAN STAFF |