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Show Your News PAGE A3' MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 'Moral direction' of UVSC may have cost millions in state funds DLL. i.'.ni >l I'oni page A I Val Peterson, the college's Vice President for administration and external affairs, was made aware of some legislators' frustrations with UVSC. "I don't think it was one specific issue, as more it was an accumulation of several issues that have all been appearing in the paper within the same week," Peterson said, "It was more of the trend of issues that they have been seeing." He didn't attribute losing the DLC to disgruntled legislators though. "Basically the number one building on the list was the U. of U. library at 48 million," Peterson said. "When you combine that with the capital at 50 million, you've got 98 million dollars worth of projects." "[UVSC] is generally a wholesome, very positive environment," Sederburg said. "We kind of got beat up for a number of days in a row. But that set off legislators and a variety of donors. We need to reassure people." According to Snow, the legislature has voiced their concerns to Sederburg and are now waiting to see what he does with their recommendations. "I think the legislature, the ones that have talked to me, will just wait and see whether he's making [the recommended changes] or not, whether he's listening," Snow said. The Utah legislature is apparently not the only group exerting pressure on UVSC. Former ASUVSC Vice-President of Academic Affairs Joe Vogel said, UVSC administration "went to great lengths to appease donors and legislators." With a concerted effort by some state legislators and donors to curtail what they see as objectionable viewpoints on campus, a debate between "community values" and academic freedom has been a heated topic of conversation since the Moore visit. When Vogel told KSL and the Deseret Morning News he was writing a book about the Michael Moore/Sean Hannity controversy, he triggered serious criticism and eventually felt forced'to resign from his office as V.P. of Academic Affairs. Vogel posits that the pressure to resign from office came from powerful people who may not like what a book chronicling the controversy could say about them. "These donors and legislators are worried," he said. "They know that I saw and heard what they said and did, and they know it was wrong." Radio personality Sean Hannity's representative phoned the college and threatened legal action against Vogel if his book mentioned Hannity. The reaction to the book, Vogel feels, is part of a greater struggle for UVSC to define and protect academic freedom. "It all comes back to academic freedom and this idea of being controlled." According to Vogel, when that happens the university experience gets nullified. "I don't want [donors] controlling what kind of an education I get, or what kind of speakers come in, or what I say or write." "We have to be an open forum for the discussion of ideas and points of view. I'm a very strong believer in that. I'm trying to walk the tight rope, if you will, between a very conservative community and a state University." When asked how his role at UVSC compared to the same role he served as President of Ferris State University, Sederburg said, "Oh, much more difficult. And I think more difficult here than anywhere in the country." Sederburg sees the strong religious values of the overwhelmingly LDS population here in Utah County as something that benefits the community at large. He cites extremely low alcohol and substance abuse problems amongst the student body at UVSC; this is something that he says is drastically different at other college institutions across the nation. But Sederburg also expressed the notion that the separation of church and state is often a greyer area in Utah County than it was in ics, athletics, personality, talent, and man/woman of News Writer the year. Awards for faculty played this parental role. And his native Michigan. "There include Educator of the Year Every year the Academic was a strong belief in sepa- then in the 70s, 18-year-olds ration of church and state, were given legal rights and Senate of ASUVSC gives and Commitment to Exceland separation of church and made full adults. And so that out Wolverine Achievement lence. The awards committee is state schools, and here the concept no longer really ap- Awards. These annual awards LDS tradition is more one plies on college campuses. are given to show apprecia- interested in finding those of blending religious beliefs We are dealing with a com- tion for dedication toward students and faculty that have into actions on a day to day munity of adults and not kids. achievement and to UVSC. gone above and beyond the basis, where you go to school, But I ihink the community There are three categories of call of duty or overcome spewhere you go to work, and at large here still wants us to awards recognizing achieve- cial obstacles. "This is a great different things. There's kind play that role a little bit. And ments made by students, fac- opportunity for students to of a blending of church and I find that that's one of the is- ulty, and special awards for reward those they feel should departments, volunteers, and be recognized for the impact sues that we have here." state." they have had on them or In an effort "to reassure the wolverine spirit. In his State of the College Leland Page, vice-presi- UVSC," said Page. address, Sederburg pointed donors that we are a good If you feel you know of a out that this campus is made school," Sederburg titled his dent of academics for ASUup of 20,000 plus adults and State of the College address VSC said, "The Wolverine student, faculty member or that students and community "A Values Oriented Univer- achievement awards is an department that deserves recmembers should keep that in sity," and reassured the com- award ceremony that recog- ognition then take the time to mind when controversial ac- munity that UVSC would not nizes students, faculty and fill out a nomination form. A support a "let anything hap- organizations for their ac- more detailed description of tivities happen on campus. Sederburg further explained pen moral relativist philoso- complishments in various all the awards offered and nomination forms are availhis feeling to the College phy" prompting concerns by areas." able in the ASUVSC office some that that amounted to Fellow students and faculty Times, "If somebody says painting liberals in this comname nominees. Some of the in SC 105. Nominations must were gonna have the * Vagina awards given to students are be received by Friday March Monologues' here, you don't munity as amoral. have to attend. You don't Sederburg has made it his for achievements in academ- 4, 2005. have to attend, we're not personal mission of late to forcing you to go; if some- constantly reassure conhow that offends you, that's cerned Utahans that UVSC up to you." will always remain attentive With the exception of to the needs and concerns of Moore's visit, the controver- the community in which it redying each year, the need for sial activities aren't unique to sides. His efforts in this vein Rebecca Hammond seem to be mending fences the Foundation's service is UVSC. News Writer with disaffected donors and certainly extensive. UVSC wasn't alone in allowMackay said the Foundation H. Carl Mackay, General ing the Vagina Monologues legislators. State Representato be performed, Weber State tive Margaret Dayton, said, "I Manager of A Child's Hope continues to press forward, hosted "V-day" activities on am very impressed with the Foundation, urged students making a difference one by Feb. 5. Utah State and the direction that the school is to make a difference in the one, and doing "whatever it University of Utah will also taking, that there is guidance world during his speech at takes." hold performances later this and leadership [by] President the Executive Lecture Series A rare treat among the usual Sederburg, especially as out- on Thursday. "Each individu- business presentations at the month. Southern Utah University's lined in his State of the Col- al has the capability, no mat- Executive Lecture Series, ter what the cause, to make a Mackay touched his audience Students Association held a lege address." with his heartfelt sincerity mock gambling activity five Controversy aside, Snow difference," he stated. days after UVSC's activity. said he loves UVSC and A Child's Hope Foundation and true belief in his cause. Mackay shared shocking At least two other Utah in- will fight for it. "Over at the is a non-profit organization stitutions of higher education Board of Regents we'd like to that takes orphaned children statistics about Haiti's poverhave sexuality themed Eng- see student tuition at UVSC from third world countries ty, such as the average $1.70lish courses. USU's English drop, we'd like to see it come and places them in adoption $2.00 a day wage, and told 5300 course is entitled "Lit- down, and the Utah County orphanages, and eventually stories about individual children who were rescued from erature and Gender," and the delegates in the legislature families. University of Utah's English are fighting for that too." Currently working mostly poverty by the Foundation. 5940 is called "Theories of At one point he told about Senator Valentine also in Haiti, the Foundation has Gender and Sexuality." 37 children in their newly an abandoned baby whose spoke of his fondness for the Elaborating on perceived no- college. "I have a very strong, dedicated adoption orphan- mother had died in a hospitions by some in the commu- special place in my heart for age, eleven of which have al- tal. They brought the child nity that UVSC is in charge UVSC," he said. "This is my ready been placed with fami- back to health and were able of rearing children rather than school. This is one I fought lies that will soon bring them to find adoptive parents in the; home. United States. ; cultivating adults, Sederburg for." said, "There used to be an old For more information on,1 Administrators are harborWith twenty-five percent of concept called Locus Paren- ing hope for the DLC next Haitian children having lost A Child's Hope Foundation^ tus, which is Latin for 'in year. "Almost to a "T" the one or both of their parents visit their website at www! place of parents.' That was delegation has told me we are and fifteen million children achf.org. the prevailing philosophy of numbe one next year, [on the colleges, that is that colleges list of projects to be funded]," THIS VALENTINE'S DAY- GET ENGAGED were your parent while [you Val Peterson said. were away]. So [colleges] (In improving your health} Union has been around for a long time, and it "hasn't done so bad at all," there are certain things about the Union that need to be changed if it is going to succeed. For example, the Union speaks of "European Values" and Grazin responded with "What's that? Europe has invented genocide, concentration camps, and the fact that the longest period of peace in Europe was only 37 years, doesn't say much for European Values." Grazin also voiced his belief of the certainty that the European Union will disappear, almost 100 percent for certain, in the next five years. Grazin provided evidence for this belief through the fact that just over the last two and a half years the European economy has gone from 79 percent down to 77 percent in comparison to the United States. Though this may seem like a small number, it is the direct effect of "the one principle that is the difference between the United States and Europe. The countries that spend responsibly pay for the countries that don't spend responsibly." As for the changes needed to take place in the Union, Grazin fell back on an old plumbers saying, "Don't touch the pipe that doesn't leak." Grazin believe the Union has done exactly that with the new constitution. The lecture had plenty of empty seats, but the students that did attend had nothing but good to say about the lecture. Lexi Giauque said, "The presentation was very beneficial... He is such an educated man, and I will walk away filled with new knowledge and a more open mind about the world." Cami Litchford, also a student, said, "the presentation was very interesting, I am surprised that more people didn't show up to the event." 1774 N. University 1'kwy. In Provo (Hrigham's Landing) An HRA will give you: * An overall weilness rating • Your current fitness level • An evaluation of your eating habits * A personal heart health evaluation • Plus much more! 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