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Show THE COLLEGE TIMES THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF UTAH VALLEY STATE MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008 VOLUME XXXVII • NO. 27 UVCOLLEGETMES.COM es.com Access the most recent UVSC news online 24/7. Fill up on a budget Stop pumping money into buying gas. Learn these cash saving tips. \J5ikbUjU£r£-& Juan Hernandez Between amnesty and deportation: a former advisor to Vincente Fox endorses amnesty. ithering Eleanor Cleverly-Takahashi Editor In ch^f Photos by Ken Hoglurid / College Times Festival of Color An explosion of color to fight off demons. Rarely do the residents of Utah Valley experience how severe the repercussions of living in a desert environment can be. Even amid the threat of water shortages each summer, and arid conditions yearround, most students never think twice about using water at what we deem the most basic level: the ability to have enough to drink and cook with each day, or the convenience of showering and laundering when we find a few spare moments. This is not the case in Tamaula, Mexico, an isolated village forty-five minutes north of Mexico City. With a population of five to six hundred people, originating primarily from six different mestizo families, Tamaula sits on top of an extinct volcano that experiences a short rainy season each year. The rain gathered in Local group search out new water sources across the border reservoirs and catchment systems during these months is responsible for providing the majority of the drinking water residents must rely on. What happens when the reservoirs and other water collection systems run dry in the community has more recently become the chief concern of a group of Utah Valley citizens, all of whom have joined together to seek remedies to water shortages in the region. Combining the knowledge and technologies of a nonprofit organization, the local municipality, UV academic institutions, and corporate sponsors, the residents of Tamaula will see the development of permanent, year-round water sources starting this spring. At the forefront of the development project is CHOICE Humanitarian, a nonprofit started by local dentist Tim Evans in 1982. Based out of See MEXICO' A3 Study Flames ignite at College Terrace improves Utah County A fire that recently College Terrace transporta- ravaged Apartments — a housing complex near UVSC — has temporarily tion routes campus displaced a number of stuRobert Jones Britnee Nguyen PubliC LfJ ITCK The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is teaming up with other transit organizations to make improvements to east-west transportation in northern Utah County. The potential improvements include alternative routes to UVSC, existing and planned housing, retail malls, employment centers, and downtown Provo. A study is being conducted to identify solutions to different transportation issues. The study hopes to accomplish connecting communities, satisfy travel demand and alleviate congestion through the year 2040, The project team will have a comment booth at UVSC in the Student Center on Monday, April 14, 2008 from 11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students, faculty and staff can learn more about the project and comment on project alternatives during those times. Feedback will help the project team identify transit needs. Mountainland Associations of Governments See TRANSIT* A3 dents. The incident marred what would otherwise have been a quiet Sunday afternoon, March 30. According to an Orem City Police report, a resident of the complex lit a candle and left the room unattended for a short time. While away from the apartment, the tenant claimed to hear the alarm sounding, and, upon returning, found the room on fire. The fire had quickly spread to the side of the apartment, and then to the third and fourth floors of the building. Rooms rapidly filled with smoke, trapping some Robert Jones / College Times students inside of their Charred remains of an apartment unfortonate enough to land in the apartments. Firefighters line of fire after an unattended candle causes damage to the Colquickly assisted to safety lege Terrace student housing complex. a student who was trapped on the balcony, and had to 'The firefighters had my more candles," said Piper, remove two other trapped door open in my apartment a manager who was salvagpeople by truck ladder so that they could have ac- ing furniture. The burning from a fourth floor window cess to it. And by doing this of candles is prohibited by on the northwest side of the had allowed it to fill full of College Terrace Apartment complex. smoke, which caused a lot rules. Police officers also as- of property damage," said Despite the bleak situsisted in the effort to bring one student who had been ation, some students exstudents to safety by lower- in the same complex just a pressed a more positive ing people down from the few doors down. experience regarding the fourth floor. No noted inFacilities Management rescue efforts. "Managejuries were sustained other was cleaning up the charred ment did a good job at than those of two students remains of one of the apart- making sure everyone had who were treated for smoke ments on Monday morning, a place to stay and makinhalation. No tenants were but did not have much to hospitalized. say about the incident. "No SeeFIRE* A3 Touchstones The cover of the latest edition of the Touchstones literary journal designed by Touchstones contribute^ graphic design student Jamie Bigney. Upbeat trend in newest edition of Touchstones Drew Howells UVSC released a volume full of red wagons, teen angst and accidental feces. The eleventh edition of UVSC's Touchstones is a literary journal comprising compositions from around campus. Published by the English Department, Touchstones has become a creative zenith for many of UVSC's English majors. In the past, Touchstones has tended towards the in- clusion of the gloomy and melancholy. This year, however, the journal has taken a different tone, according to Amber Watson, editor in chief for the publication. 'This year has really light themes; a lot of past issues have contained dark themes like suicide, depression and dark humor. This year we have generally taken an up-1,/., beat feeling," said Watson/-?/• Clint Edwards, an "Erigr?"' lish major and contributor/ to the project, eagerly an-, See STONES* A3 |