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Show i News Life Sports Summer fires have blazed into Utah Warped Tour rocks State Fair Park Owlz season in full swing rfe . I Story on B4 Story on B1 Story on A2 times The Independent Student Voice of Utah Valley State Ron Paul puts the Love in Revolution Kevin Whitaker Staff writer Who is Ron Paul? Why are random signs hanging around Utah County advertising a "Ron Paul Revolution"? These are a few questions that usually come to mind when confronted by the unique, curiosity-provoking signs where the letters E-VO-L are spelled backward in a different color than the rest of the word "revolution." (I realized, when looking in my rear view mirror at it, that it spelled "love" if read from right to left). I asked a few of my friends if they recognized the name "Ron Paul" to see if I could discover the source of the seemingly spontaneous evolution of the "Ron Paul Revolution." "Wasn't he the last pope or something?" No, that was John Paul. "Sounds like that rapper." Hmm ... I think that might be Sean Paul. Finally I asked a friend of mine in southern Utah, apparently notorious as a haven for extreme politics, who informed me Ron Paul is a congressman from Texas competing for the Republican presidential nomination. A little embarrassed at my ignorance being exposed in an arena I usually keep up on, I buckled down See RON PAUL'S-A3 Luncheon held in support of new scholarship Christine Shell News writer Local humanitarians and UVSC supporters Monroe and Shirley Paxman will be honored at a benefit lunch hosted by the UVSC School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The luncheon will be held at the Orem Outback Steakhouse on Wednesday, July 18, at 11 a.m. All food and service for the event are being provided by Outback proprietor Jeff Weissgerber and his staff. The benefit lunch will raise money for a student scholarship to be awarded in the Paxmans' honor, the Shirley and Monroe Paxman Scholarship for Humanitarian Service. It will be awarded to a UVSC student who exemplifies the Paxmans' example of humanitarian service. The Paxmans, life-long residents of Provo, are known on campus as two of UVSC's greatest supporters, and have attended nearly every fundraiser sponsored by UVSC. They currently serve on the advisory board of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, assisting with scholarships, internships and helping to raise funds for a planned See NEW SCHOLARSHIP -A2 Johnston/College Times UVSC student, and now flight instructor, Jamie Swenson prepares for her approach to Provo Airport during a routine flight with UVSC Aviation. Upgrade calls for Diamond Airplanes UVSC Aviation Dept recently purchased a total of 6 new Diamond Airplanes Robert Hayden News writer With a price tag of about $500,000 each, UVSC's newest planes are Diamonds indeed. The twin-engine Diamond DA42 Twin Star purchased late last year sits alongside five other recently purchased Diamond planes, outside the Global Aviation Science department's headquarters at Provo Municipal Airport. The department purchased the five planes (four single-engine Diamond DA40s and another Diamond DA42) to replace the planes damaged last year when a severe thunderstorm hit the Provo Airport with extreme winds, measured at more than 105 mph, the morning of August 1, 2006. The seemingly trivial 10-minute storm caused an unexpected amount of damage to the fleet; Associate Chair of Academics Rick Vincent estimated the cost to be more than $500,000. A total of 17 aircraft were adversely affected, and several were severely damaged. Of those, only three planes were completely beyond repair. The Diamond planes replaced those damaged by the August 1 storm but were also part of an upgrade plan that was in effect even before the storm. "We (had) already planned on replacing part of the fleet anyway; the storm sped up our fleet replacement plan by about two years. [The planes we replaced were] starting to get old; everything in aviation is moving towards new technology," explained Vincent. New technology is exactly what the Diamonds have. Equipped with glass cockpits, these planes come significantly closer to the technology being used today on commercial airliners. Compared to the older-style cockpits that utilize gauges to display critical information, these cockpits feature two digital displays capable of presenting an array of data to the pilot. Weather, terrain, road and airway conditions are all provided via satellite link, and, of course, the engine information is also readily available. In keeping with their efforts to make use of new technologies, the Aviation Science department also recently purchased three flight simulators. These simulators give students the ability to prepare for various, realistic flight conditions, allowing Out with the old - seven new wonders of the world Jennie Nicholls News writer The Great Wall- China Petra-Jordan Christ Redeemer - Brazil MachuPicehu -Peru Chlchen Itza - Mexico The Taj Mahal -India The Roman Colosseum - Italy Forget the Pyramids. Seven new wonders of the world were announced in Lisbon, Portugal, fittingly, on Saturday July 7,2007 (7/7/07). For more than two years, and with more than 100 million votes from Internet polls and text messages, just about anyone with an Internet connection could vote on the new seven wonders. Founder of the organization New7Wonders, Bernard Weber, came up with the idea of naming seven new wonders in an effort to raise money to reconstruct the giant statues of Buddha in Afghanistan, which were destroy ed by the Taliban. See 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD-A3 the trainers to enhance their instruction. With the simulator, a student is able to train for an emerge ncy situation without the risks of experiencing one in real time. "The simulators really help, especially with multiengine (training). You can't just (kill) the engines and practice (an emergency) landing (with a real plane)," said Jamie Swenson, a UVSC alumna and now a trainer ;U the facility. "But with this you can. You can pull circuit breakers, get iceonthe wings, or start a fire, and (the student has) to troubleslioot and be a b l e to fly the airplane." Altogether, the cost of the pi a lies a n d simulators exceeded $3 million, according to Vincent. Aviation <**** See New Planes* A3 Experts put CSI under the microscope TV Show is more fact than fiction "CS/ is really more fact than fiction," Raab said, adding that CSI Justin Ritter and shows like it are primarily for News writer entertainment, so sometimes important facts and details are left out. Though not entirely accurate, the For instance, the crime scene inTV series CSI is a fairly good por- vestigators in CSI work as a team trayal of what crime scene investi- and solve crimes in a matter of days. gations are really like, said two law According to Raab, Orern City's enforcement experts with UVSC eight detectives work individually ties last on about Tu e s d a y . 400 cases a "Overall, I'm pretty impressed with 'CSI'' Curtis year. They Fillmore, a - Detective Wade Raab are forced V former Drug to prioritize Enforcement Administration agent, their cases,, which they sometimes and Detective Wade Raab, both spend several months solving. "Casmembers of UVSC's Criminal Jus- es are taxing," Raab said. "They tice department, said that the show is take a lot of work and a lot of time." lifelike, but some facts are missing. Fillmore said that when detecFillmore and Raab spoke tives examine a crime scene, they on crime scene investigation approach it differently than the into some 40 people at the Provo City Library on July 10 at 7 p.m. See HOW ACCURATE -A2 " "• ;_ j _ j |