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Show News HOOGE'S Monday • August 11, 2008 A3 HEROES News Briefs Campus News Briefs MISS UVU • Christina Lowe, the current Miss UVU, recently competed in the Miss Utah pageant, winning third runner up. The competition included interview, swimsuit, talent and onstage question. ACADEMIC AFFAIRS • With the announcement of Liz Hitch, VP of academic affairs, moving into the position of interim president of UVU in a few weeks, it has caused a shifj of other positions within the academic affairs office. Karl Worthington will be interim vice president of academic affairs as Hitch fills her interim presidential duties. Also, there is a new hire for VP of academic administration, Dr. Mohammed A. El-Saidi. who comes to UVU from Tarelton State University - Central Texas. Courtesy of Heidi Gray Heidi Gray is a mother of four and the owner Gray Trucking, o multimillion business. She continues to further her education at UVU. Heidi Gray: Driven for Success Hanna Hooge Hopkinson £ News writer Heidi Gray is not only a UVU student and mother of four, but also a multimilliondollar business owner. She is our hero for the week. Here is what she had to say: 7-~v, How long have you g ^. been attending %. P UVU? .v Since 1995. $ What is your major? A /'-• Business ment. manage- *-*,.. When do you plan to '•: graduate? As soon as I can. My A-\ goal is to finish within the next three years. I know that seems like a long time, but I only have time for one or two classes a semester right now. •, What has kept you in school for so long? Owning my own business for the past nine years. I own a trucking company along with an excavation company. ';'. : How did you get into the trucking industry? business to be your greatest achievement? /-- No. But I am proud of it. My four kids are my greatest accomplishment. Working and being a mom can be tiresome and difficult, but very rewarding- Well, first, my mom had •$, lp Can you tell me a little S €L bit about your family? owned her own busi.' * ness for years, and 1 /-•*•••> I have four kids, ages learned a lot by working as eight to two. And then her assistant. That prepared me to get my own started. there is my husband Jared. My husband was a driver What other goals have and mechanic, and I felt like you set for your life? it would be financially better \ i for our family if I ran a truck /^ Besides finally getting with him driving rather than working for someone else at / - - ' ^ my bachelor degree? My other goals ina low wage with no benefits. 1 love the challenge of work- clude getting a master's deing through the problems gree, probably in secondary of owning a small business. education. I would love to I have doubled the size of retire and teach high school my company in the past five math. 1 need the business years. My company's gross skills for my business (and revenues average well over I enjoy business classes a lot) but I like the idea of $5 million a year. that secondary ed. degree as a back up plan. You never if] That's a lot of money. know. I would like to save ^ Do you consider your up $1 million in assets and have $500,000 in the bank for cash. I would like to raise my kids and see them succeed in life. I want to own a timeshare in Hawaii. I don't know what kind of goals you are looking for, but those are mine. Outside of work and school, what are your : vL- hobbies? / % I love to cook for JL~sL others, read a great book, go walking; I don't have a lot of time for anything else. \) If there is one thing :-• you could tell UVU ^ ' students, faculty and staff what would it be? A Don't give up on your 'jfck. educational aspirations. You are never too old to learn. 1 think a lot of people get married and feel like work and family takes over their life and they just can't ever finish school. Just take baby steps. National News HEALTH INSURANCE CONCERNS • According to a survey released by Reuters on Thursday, more than eighty percent of Americans think the U.S. health system needs either fundamental change or a complete overhaul. The Harris Interactive poll found that access to care, better coordination between different health providers and better flow of health information were among respondents' chief complaints. Another poll found that health insurance costs have doubled for Americans .since 1996. KIDNAPPING CHARGES • Five young Hurricane Katrina survivors who were taken from their mother by a woman they had been living with for nearly three years are being interviewed by Child Protective Services about allegations that their mother abused them. Rhonda Tavey, who met the children's mother while Tavey worked as a one-time American Red Cross volunteer during the Katrina aftermath, gave up the unharmed children voluntarily Thursday. Tavey has been charged with five counts of kidnapping. BROADBAND WI-FI ON DELTA AIRLINES • Delta Airlines announced they are meeting customer demand for in-flight wireless data access by putting Aircell's Gogo Wi-Fi service in over 330 of its passenger planes. Starting this fall. Aircell Gogo will be offered throughout Delta's fleet and will be in all aircrafts by Summer 2009. Customers can expect unlimited data a^ess on flights of three hours or less for S9.99, while for flights exceeding three hours, the service will cost SI2.99. NASA ON MARS • Since May 25, 2008, the Phoenix Mars Lander has been analyzing soil samples from Mars. NASA's mission is to find evidence of whether Mars has or ever could support life. Some samples have shown evidence of water, ice and nutrients that could support life. During a news conference on July 31. NASA employees said that they are in the early stages of examining several findings (including the possible discovery of perchlorate) and all of the information must be tested and verified. World News AUSTRALIA • TOMBSTONES DESTROYED IN AUSTRALIA Tombstones dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries in Mel• Ancient cultural artifacts in surrounding areas of the Angkor Wat • temple site in north central Cambodia are being stolen. The demand for bourne, Australia have been destroyed. In the Alma Road cemetery, artifacts has risen dramatically over the last few years as technological 50 gravestones were damaged by a 24-year-old man who was spotted advances in the study of ancient civilizations have grown. Cambodia's by cemetery employees on the morning of Aug. 8, and who was later culture and fine arts ministry has made the protection of the Angkor arrested. The man used flowerpots, urns, and other gravestone adornWat artifacts a major priority. Digging has been a main source of find- ments to wreak havoc on the cemetery. Once a few of the gravestones ing valuable artifacts while less valuable, monetarily speaking, bowls were in pieces, those pieces were used to desecrate other stones. The and vases are being tossed aside as looters find expensive things to take historically relevant gravestones, some several hundred years old, will away. In villages approximately 40 miies away from the temple, deso- be difficult to replace due to their age. lation of protectors has left the area a prime digging spot for thieves. MEXICO • MEXICO AIDS ACTIVISTS RALLY • Aug. 7 CAMBODIA • ANCIENT CAMBODIAN ARTIFACTS STOLEN . PAKISTAN • FLOODING IN PAKISTAN • Heavy rains effected a fatal landslide in Peshawar. Pakistan, on the night of Aug. 5. Seven people were found dead and over 12,000 houses were either damaged or completely destroyed. Pakistani soldiers were sent into the rubble to look for eight villagers that were missing after the landslide subsided. The villagers were found under the wreckage of their homes. Hooding in the greater part of the North West provinces was brought on by the torrential rainfall. An additional 27 people died as a result of the flooding. was met with a protest in Mexico City for AIDS activists to rally for human rights. Activists presented Mexican government officials with a declaration calling for laws to be made for information, treatment and prevention for AIDS patients. Current policies criminalize and punish those needing treatment, a policy that causes a majority of AIDS patients to leave their disease untreated or to flee the country for treatment purposes. The declaration, titled, "Now, More than Ever," hopes to change those policies. "Now, More than Ever" has been approved by over 600 organizations in 105 countries. A global response to HIV has been recognized, and protesters along with activists, wanted to bring up the issue of the need for laws promoting fundamental human rights. August 4 • AGENCY ASSIST • UVU police assisted Orem police with locating an assault suspect that had left WalMart, The suspect was located at 200 W. University Parkway by UVU police. The suspect was issued a citation by Orem police for disorderly conduct. UVU police then issued the suspect a citation for revoked registration and impounded the suspect's vehicle. Czech Republic Requests a UVU Intern Britnee Nguyen • on the UVU campus, he was extremely impressed News editor 1 UVU has been asked to provide an intern for the Czech Republic as the country assumes the rotating European Union (EU) presidency in January 2009. Martin Palous, Czech Ambassador to the United Nations, requested the intern through the UVU Office of International Affairs and Diplomacy, which hosted him on campus last March. 'This request speaks well of the university and our students," said Rusty Butler, associate vice president for international affairs and diplomacy. "When Mr. PalouS lectured by our students maturity and international savvy." The intern will work with Palous and his staff along with other EU missions at the United Natipns during the six-month term of the Czech Republic's EU presidency. The internship will be from January to June 2009 and will be stationed at the Czech Republic Mission in NY. The internship is being operated through UVU's internship services. Interested students can contact Marsha Haynes, director of internship services, at (801) 863-6004 or haynesma@uvu.edu. The application deadline is early October. wrjters photographers designers vUVUreview. com apply in SC220 |