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Show Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 StatesmanCampus News Page 3 Scoot on over to donate blood THE BLOOD DROPLET DISPLAYS THE RAFFLE PRIZE students who donated blood have a possibility of winning. David Knighton, ASUSU service VP, said the scooter is a donation from the American Red Cross. Students can donate blood, and thus become eligible for the scooter, until 3:30 p.m. Aug. 28. Prizes for the blood drive were also donated by several USU auxiliary groups. Knighton said this year students were given the option of signing up to donate online. RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN photo Briefs Campus & Community USU hosts Celebrate America Show 2009 marks 10 years of entertainment by the Celebrate America Show. The evening includes a dinner by USU Catering, the Broadway-style show patterned after the USO shows of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, featuring singers with the Larry Smith Orchestra, and Rockettesstyle dancers with grand-scale entertainment. After dinner and the show, the audience can dance or listen to the Larry Smith Orchestra and singers performing hit tunes. Tickets can be purchased at the USU Caine School of the Arts Box Office, 797-8022, or online at www.celebrateamericashow.com. Utah art competition calls for submissions * [Tanner Program brings artists to USU By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor To create unity and diversity, the USU department of art and the Caine School of the Arts have created a year-long visiting artist series with the Tanner Project called "Crossing Borders," said Scott Foster, exhibition coordinator. "We want to look at individual people that make up a society and highlight their unique qualities but use that not as something to divide but to build up relationships and build up stronger communities," he said. Foster said the Tanner Project has been funded by donations from the Obert C. and Grace Tanner Foundation, the Utah Arts Council and the Utah Humanities Council. In the past, the money went toward a short symposium. This year, Foster said they are stretching it out to last during the year. The 2009-2010 Tanner Project will highlight several visiting artists including a printmaker, painter, sculptor, dancer and three performing artists. As part of the series, Foster said USU is including performance artists in order to broaden the communites horizons. The program will also bring in a few scholars. In order for artists to be invited, they must be considered as a well-known, contemporary artist in their field, Foster said. The program coordinators ask for recommendations from the art faculty for whom they would like to see visit campus as well as who would benefit the students. Foster said the artists chosen will enhance curriculum and benefit the students' university experience. "It's about the students," he said. Sally Okelberry, marketing director and box office manager for the Caine School of the Arts, has been involved with the program's public relations. The Tanner Project is hosted every other year, she said, and was created as an interdisciplinary project. Proposals of candidates are sent out and reviewed by the dean of the College of HASS, who decides which artists come to USU. She said visiting artists get paid; however, some will visit campus without pay because of previous ties to the university. The cost for visiting artists is built into the proposal that goes to the dean, she said. The university looks for skilled artists and lecturers in their respective fields in order to enhance student education, Okelberry said. Visiting artists are asked to do as much as they can while at the university, such as giving a master class, attending receptions, displaying their work and visiting related classes on campus. Foster said a Facebook group called Crossing Boundaries was created to get the program's name out. Members of the group will receive e-mails and information about upcoming series events. Any student, whether involved in the art department, can benefit from the program, Foster said, encouraging students to participate. The events, themes and guests build on each other, so students should go to as many events as possible so they can get the full impact. -rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu — WHAT'S GOING ONM Upcoming Tanner Project events to look out for: • Noon Lectures - These lectures will be hosted every Wednesday in the Fine Arts Building, Room 220. • Round Table Discussions - The first discussion will be hosted Sept. 11 and will focus on the experience of captivity. Four round table discussions will take place this year. The discussions will have five or six participants who will share their stories to the audience. The facilitator and audience members will then be given the opportunity to ask questions. ,• "Contemporary Voices in Visual Narrative" Exhibit - The exhibit runs Aug. 31-Sept. 26 in the Fine Arts Visual Building, Room 102. The exhibit will include work by performance artist Jose Torres-Tama and several other artists. • Study Abroad Student Art Exhibit -This exhibit opens Sept. 4 in the Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall. • Coming soon, the department of art Web site as well as www.caineschool.usu.edu will include links to information on upcoming events. US-Colombia deal could fuel arms purchases BARILOCHE, Argentina (AP) - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has raised the stakes for Friday's meeting of South American presidents by threatening to break relations with Colombia over plans to give U.S. troops a 10-year lease on its bases. Chavez says the U.S. has loosed "winds of war" on the continent — a position few diplomats share following tours by U.S. and Colombian officials seeking to calm fears of neighboring nations. Even so, the bases deal has created uncertainty about regional stability and provided yet another justification for nations to spend big on their militaries. ; Venezuela has poured about $4 billion into Russian weapons to counter the threat Chavez sees from the billions in U.S. military aid to Colombia. Ecuador is buying 24 Brazilian warplanes and six Israeli drones to keep a closer watch on its borders. Bolivia has opened a $100 million line of credit With Russia to buy weapons. ; These purchases were in the works even before details of the bases deal were revealed last month By The Associated Press - and defense spending around the region is up sharply, mostly in the' name of routine modernization. ; The 12 South American nations spent about $51 billion last year on their militaries - up 30 per- PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE AGAINST COLUMBIA'S PLAN to give U.S. troops greater access to its military bases during a protest in San Carlos de Bariloche, some 1,500 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, dent from 2007, according to the Center for a New Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. San Carlos de Bariloche will host a summit of the Union of South American Nations, Majority a Buenos Aires research group. UNASUR, Friday. AP photo - That's low compared to the rest of the world - U.S. spending alone is well into the hundreds of Ecuador tops South American nations in relative other countries about their own deals and arms billions - but a steep burden for democracies in defense spending, with 10.7 percent of its national buildups. a; relatively peaceful area that is struggling with budget. President Alvaro Uribe is expected to make growing poverty and economic crisis. some reassurances to his fellow presidents at the That's even more than the 9.3 percent spent by I- "None of this is good. The last thing the region Argentine winter resort of Bariloche. U.S. and Colombia, which has been battling a leftist rebel needs is an arms race," said Markus Schultze-Kraft, movement for decades. Venezuela spent 5.2 percent Colombian officials have said the troops are there a] Bogota-based analyst with the International to fight drug traffickers and leftist rebels, and that of its much larger, oil-fueled budget on defense last Crisis Group, a conflict-resolution organization. the troops won't cross boundaries without permisyear. ; He said the leaders should avoid telling one sion. Colombia won't budge on the bases deal, another: "You are arming yourself, that is why we Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez says. "The But Latin American leaders and U.S. lawmakers must continue arming ourselves." negotiations have closed and only await the official who were not consulted about the pending deal " The Latin American Security and Defense signature." He said Colombia may even question want more explanations. Network, a Buenos Aires research group, says that The Utah Division of Arts and Museums announced a call for entries open to all Utah artists interested in entering the 2009 Statewide Annual Competition and Exhibition. The 2009 theme is Fine Crafts and Photography. Entries will be accepted Wednesday, Sept.23, and Thursday, Sep. 24, at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City. The Statewide Annual Competition and Exhibition is a juried show highlighting some of the best contemporary visual art and artists in Utah. Competitions, such as the Statewide Annual, are also used by the Fine Art Acquisition Committee to make recommendations for additions to the Utah State Fine Art Collection. "Each time a staff member returns from a trip somewhere in the state, I learn of a new artist or performer who has emerged on that area's local scene," said Margaret Hunt, director of the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. "This competition provides an opportunity for artists throughout all of Utah to be on exhibition in one place. I hope to see artists enter from Box Elder to San Juan, Daggett to Washington, and every county in between, so that the full breadth of the talent in our state can be better known." Each year the competition is judged by two jurors from outside of Utah with established professional visual arts careers. These jurors curate the exhibition with the artwork they consider to be the best from that year's pool of submissions. Additionally, six jurors' awards are distributed to highlight works of particularly high quality already included in the competition. Juror's awards are presented at the artists' reception on the opening night of the exhibition. The Statewide Annual Competition and Exhibition: Utah '09: Fine Crafts and Photography is open to Utah residents, age 18 and older. For applications, instructions, and complete competition guidelines, please visit the competition Web site at wwwstatewideannual.org Questions or requests for further information can be directed to Lila Abersold at labersold@utah.gov or 801-833-3581. Science Unwrapped explores rockets Inquiring minds of all ages are invited to the Science Unwrapped presentation "Rockets and Energetic Materials: Spaceflights from Goddard to Ares" Friday, Aug. 28, at USU. : Alumnus Robert Wardle of • Utah's ATK Launch Systems is the *; featured speaker for the presenta- l\ tion, which is hosted by USU's ' College of Science. His talk begins at 7 p.m. in the Emert Auditorium,' Room 130, of the Eccles Science Learning Center. Admission is free and open to all. For more information, anyone can call 797-3517, visit www.usu. edu/science/unwrapped or view the Science Unwrapped at USU group on Facebook. i [MCompiled from staff. and media reports * |