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Show new/ A2 TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 20 • 2007 Banff Festival visits Utah Valley Jared Magill Assistant News Editor Hundreds of UVSC students and local mountain culture devotees packed themselves into the sold-out Ragan Theater for the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 13-14 at 7 p.m. The Banff Mountain Film Festival is one of the most prolific independent climbing and adventure film events in the world. Each year a pre-screening committee selects about 55 submitted productions for inclusion in the festival. In 1986 The Banff Mountain Film Festival began an outreach program to bring the festival to other communities by selecting about 25 of the better entries to be taken along on the world tour. Banff's festival organizers wanted to share the efforts and talents of the world's finest mountain filmmakers with a larger audience. Like the first festival in Banff, the tour began small: three cities across Canada. This year the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brought mountain films to over thousands of people all across the globe from Katmandu to Antarctica. The 2006 festival marks the thirty-first year of Banff's continued success, the twenty-first year since the festival began taking its more notable entries on the road and the seventh year since UVSC began hosting the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour on campus. "How many of you have been here before?" asked Outdoor Recreation Coordinator Kim Reynolds to a salvo of hoots and howls from the enthusiastic crowd. "So, you know what's in store," she said. This year's festival received 324 film entries from 37 countries, according to Banff Centre representative and event presenter Dimitri Galaksija. "I came to Orem last year and I can't think of a more enthusiastic crowd to return to," he said. "This year we brought some films that are rowdy, intense and full of adrenaline, and some are more contemplative." Tuesday's screening session was an inventory of short, highlight reels from action/adventure films seasoned with a contemplative documentary made by a French-Canadian couple, Olivier Higgins and Me'lanie Carrier titled Asiemut. The film chronicled their 2005 trans-Asian cycling trip that spanned 8000 kilometers over a sixmonth period beginning in Mongolia and finishing at the Bay of Bengal in India. Over the course of their journey, Higgins and Carrier had their physical and mental strength pushed to their limits by pedaling their way through some of the most remote backcountry terrain and unforgiving climates in the world seeking existential equilibrium and the kind of character building experience few self-indulgent Westerners ever attempt. Wednesday's screening was another selection of 7-10 minute action sports highlight reels with a few of the longer, more "contemplative" documentaries added to the mix. Snowboarding, skiing, rock climbing, kayaking, mountain biking and mountaineering were all represented in the festival. the more Among notable climbing films was a production titled First Ascent: Didier Vs. the Cobra. In it, Didier Berthod, a young climber and crusader for trad climbing ethics spends several months repeatedly attempting to climb Cobra Crack. Rated at 5.14 and located in Squamish, British Columbia, Cobra Crack is renowned as the world's hardest trad route. After being hobbled by a knee injury before achieving his goal, Berthoud realizes he has been driven by his desire to acquire the glory of being the first to ascend the crack, which he considers to be rather less than noble. He articulates his epiphany through his thick French accent when he states, "If you are a guy full of shit with no gold medal, and you win a gold medal, you are still a guy full of shit." Prize drawings ' that included guided adventure trips and various types of outdoor gear, donated by sponsors, were held during intermission both nights. However, the prize drawing was no freebie. Galaksija required prizewinners to validate their claim by shouting "Yahoo!" if they held a winning ticket-stub. curtesey photo/sxc.hu Hundreds of UVSC students attented the Banff Film Festival this past Tues. and Weds. New program to help New Vice President Elizabeth Hith students build resumes FromVP. A1 Heather Brown News Writer Ever heard the phrase, "The first impression can very well be the last?" This statement holds true about many things, but is especially important in the case of a resume. To help build the perfect resume, Career Services & Student Employment is introducing the innovative OptimalResume program for all currently enrolled students. the college lime/ Editor-in-Chief Jessica Ellsworth Executive Editor John Ditzler News Editor Ashley Robertson Opinions Editor Justin Rittcr This new program can assist students in creating a professional resume that is sure to make a great impression. By using OptimalResume, students will be able to write a high impact resume using interactive examples, manage and store a resume online, and display it as a website or an online document. Students will be able to create up to five resumes for different purposes. The resume can be written us- ing Microsoft Word and can be saved to their personal hard drive. It can also be displayed on personal websites using Flash. The counselors in the CSSE office are available to help students put together a winning resume. Feel free to contact them at (801) 863-6364, to set up an appointment. To access this free and helpful tool, students should visit http:// uvsc.optimalresume.com strated by the many initiatives implemented at the institution under her. leadership in the areas of civic engagement, technology and faculty development. UW-L has an enrollment of more than 10,000 students with a student to faculty ratio of 24 to one. As provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, Hitch oversaw 343 fulltime faculty and 85 undergraduate degrees and 20 graduate programs. U.S. News &World Report ranks UW-L third among Midwest comprehensive master's institutions. The institution also ranks 33rd in Kiplinger's "100 Best Buys." In addition, Hitch has been highly engaged in retention and graduation rates at UW-L and she has extensive experience building graduate programs. "I am very pleased that Dr. Hitch has accepted the position of academic vice president," said Ian Wilson, co-chair of the hiring vommittee and faculty member in the UVSC School of Business. 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