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Show Answers To Today’s Crossword Puzzle! Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 Logan Art Cinema shuts down GET LOST! (Bring a date, but no nibbling on the ears) • • • • CampusNews Page 4 The largest corn maze in cache valley The best deal around unique maze design located next to eccles ice arena OPEN NOW Mon-Thurs 5-11, Fri 5-12, Sat 2-12 Adults $6 Children $4 Call 435-755-5755 $1 off every Monday! Group Discounts Available www.greencanyonfarms.com 2850 N 100 E 435-770-7547 Next to Eccles Ice Arena off Main Street Turn by Nate’s & Andy’s $1 OFF with this coupon not valid with any other offer Buy 1 Get 1 FREE Monday-Thursday only not valid with any other offer expires September 30 Westates Theatres begins looking for a new venue for independent films By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor Though Logan Art Cinema has officially closed down, independent-film junkies will not be left deprived. Richard Davidson, city manager of Westates Theatres, said he is fighting for independent films and sooner or later the films will be available to watch in one of the open theaters. Davidson said he and other Westates staff have discussed devoting a screen in Logan Movies 5 to films that would usually play in Logan Art Cinema. He said the vice president of Westates Theatres, T.J. Rudman, did all he could to keep the cinema open. For years Logan Art Cinema has not been profiting from its ticket sales but has been keeping the one-screen theater open to let devoted indie-film goers indulge. With each month, the cinema created a plex. Movie theater crowds have changed,” deeper dent in its finances and was never she said. able to break even, Davidson said. The A year ago, Westates staff wanted crowd Logan Art Cinema attracted were to shut down Logan Art Cinema but those who apprecidecided to give the ated and were knowlbuilding another six edgeable of film, months after there “Movie Davidson said. Each was a great response theater crowds independent film ran from the public to have changed.” for a few weeks, based keep it open. After the on its popularity, he months passed nothing said. and plans to – Stacy Nettles, changed The Logan Art shut down the cinema assistant city manager of began. Davidson said Cinema’s lease is up in 30 days and Westates Westates Theatres there was talk of lowerTheatres will lose all ing ticket prices at one control of the buildpoint to make the cining at that time. ema more appealing. The assistant city manager of Westates However, film companies would not allow Theatres, Stacy Nettles, said Logan Art the adjustment. Cinema had a different feel to it. She said Only a few movies really helped out it was more laid back than Century 6, the cinema, but their success could not fill which always felt like “controlled chaos.” the hole the unsuccessful films dug. Some Davidson said though profits were of the successful movies were “Passion nonexistent at Logan Art Cinema, the of the Christ,” “March of the Penguins” institution had its strengths. The managand “Slumdog Millionaire.” Other movies ers and other staff were knowledgeable like “Paper Heart” left the cinema nearly and the cinema “brought movies that empty. weren’t the same old blockbusters,” “Sometimes I swear I was the only one Davidson said. in the valley who watched some of the It is now an era where one-screen themovies,” Nettles said. aters are rarely successful, if ever, Nettles – catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu said. “We are living in the age of the multi- A SIGN READS ‘CLOSED’ on the front of the Logan Art Cinema theater. The theater, which showed indie movies, was closed despite efforts to keep it running. TYLER LARSON photo Ph.D. student receives grant BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS A Utah State University doctoral student recently received a two-year $50,000 dissertation grant that will help researchers and families better understand the impact fathers play in the lives of their growing children. Sheila Anderson’s project is titled “Dads’ Parenting Interactions with Children – Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes.” Anderson is a doctoral student in the Department of Family, Consumer and Human Development in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services. Called PICCOLO-D, the project will be funded by a Head Start Graduate Student Research Grant from the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Anderson said the research project itself will entail developing a valid, reliable, easy-to-use observational measure of father-child interaction that predicts positive child outcomes. “Most of what programs encourage parents to do is based on research about how mothers influence outcomes,” Anderson said. “We are trying to better understand the unique strength fathers bring to parenting in order to help practitioners support positive father-child interactions and capitalize on fathers’ strengths.” The grant is intended to support the development of doctoral student research skills in studying Head Start/Early Head Start populations. The money will provide the means to employ other students to assist with the project, fund travel expenses, provide materials and supplies needed for observational coding and compensate consultants. Anderson said the project will be completed over two years and would not be possible without the funding. Anderson is working with the Head Start/Early Head Start Fatherhood program serving Davis, Morgan and Summit counties. FCHD professor Lori Roggman is Anderson’s mentor and dissertation committee chairperson for the project. Roggman said Anderson began a doctoral program in FCHD after several years of working in the field of early childhood, so she came with a strong background of experience. “She has been a highly engaged student,” said Roggman. “It was delightful working with her. This is the fifth doctoral student I have had who has received one of these grants (Vonda Jump, Lisa Boyce, Gina Cook and DeAnn Jones are also all former recipients of these grants).” Roggman said she and Anderson collaborated on the research idea long before the opportunity to submit a grant became possible. “We had already been having rich discussions about parenting behaviors specific to fathers, and she had been reviewing research articles on fathers and fathering for several months,” Roggman said. “We then collaborated on this grant proposal like colleagues often do, exchanging emails and having quick conversations at all hours while we reviewed and revised the grant proposal, section by section.” The grant funding will provide support for Anderson to allow her to spend time on this project and also pay for some consulting time from another doctoral student, Gina Cook, who worked on the original PICCOLO project. Other students, both graduate and undergraduate, will be involved in data collection that will provide them with hands-on experience in the research process. Undergraduate and graduate students will be recruited to help conduct observations using various versions of the measure as it is being developed. Anderson said students will benefit from the grant by being able to acquire good observation skills and learn more about the behavioral observation process and reliability analyses. “Although the grant is small, having graduate students successfully applying for grants and receiving funding for their dissertation research reflects well on the college,” Anderson said. “PICCOLO-D is expected to have wide distribution to programs such as Head Start nationwide, similarly to the original PICCOLO measure, and thereby will enhance the reputation of the college.” |