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Show uvu r e v i e w . c o m Visit our new website at wvm.uvureview.com Inside this issue ews Intramurals cure the back to school blues TLA • • * « Alumnus Jeanne Madsen tours Europe and sings to her heart's content ^ Read more on ^ A SECTION Freshmen and new students get insider info about campus services. Returning students- refresh your UVU knowledge. Pull-out section. UVU Review staff weighs in on their favorite part about the Olympic games A6 review Increased enrollment may prove to be a challenge with an estimated yearly increase of 11.8 percent. composite Trent Bates/ UVU Review 2,000+ more students grace UVU this fall than last •Jennie Nicholts It can be intimidating coming to a new school whether you're fresh out of high school, transferring from another college or coming back as an untraditional student. UVU Review has put resources together for our special orientation issue to help ease your transition. Students who have been attending UVU for a while might learn things from this issue they never knew before. In this issue, learn about alternative ways to buy textbooks, places to go to make use of your student fees and how to get your new UV OneCard. Returning students will notice the new 190,000 square foot digital learning center located on the north side of campus. Included in this special issue is how the new library is energy-efficient and what to expect to find in the building. No need to get lost on campus, a pull out map of the entire campus is also included. UVU Review wishes you the best of luck in your endeavors at Utah Valley University. photo Editor at large The arrival of another school year is beckoning newly named Utah Valley University with rising enrollment. Unprecedented numbers of new students will grace the halls, parking lots and classrooms during fall semester. Fall 2007 boasted a headcount of 23,840 students enrolled in classes at then UVSC. Fall 2008 is on track to have at least 2,000 more than last year's number. At the lime of this article's deadline, 20,357 students have enrolled for classes this fall, whereas last fall, the number at this date was a mere 17,855. The number of enrolled students for this coming fall is growing at a tremendous rate. The campus' institutional research center has been cracking numbers for enrollment with comparative figures from years past to show the dramatic variation of the enrollment rate. On average, 2,052 I pay for textbooks, classes, and...free pizza • MathewA. Jonassaint Asst. Life editor What if I told you that you pay sixty bucks a semester for T-shirts, hot dogs and Advil? You already know that you pay somewhere upwards of $200 in student fees. But have you ever wondered where all that money goes? First, let's explain what "student fees" are. There are two kinds: course fees and general fees. Course students are registering for classes each day, adding their names to the total 2008 headcount. The current count reports that out of the 20,357 students enrolled, 15,008 of those are considered full time. That number accounts for 93 percent of 2007's full time student population, which topped off at 16,135. Institutional Research estimates that full-time enrollment will have a yearly See ENROLLMENT • A2 W3J4 $56.87 union building electricity, utilities, water $1152 student programs wellness centw \ fees are when you register for a class and get charged anywhere between one dollar and $35 for that specific class. Genera] fees are essentially everything else that's not tuition. On the graph, you can read where each of your student general fees are dispersed. The way it breaks down, general fees increase with more credit hours. If you take between three and six credits, your fees range Insurance $6.88 trans(UTA) computer one card A breakdown of the $282 a full time student has to pay in student fees. $7112 student center building See FEES • A4 Designed by Jordy Kirkman/UVU Review Sederburg leaves as UVU gets "Hitched • Britnee Nguyen News editor The Lakeview Room at the library was barely enough room to fit the number of people who came to say goodbye and shake hands with the former UVU president Sederburg and welcome Liz Hitch as the new interim president. The reception was held last week for those who wanted to come personally send Sederburg off onto his new job as Utah's Commissioner of Higher Education. A farewell video was 1 shown that thanked the former president for his hard work into getting a new library and university status. Many in attendance expressed they will miss Sederburg's unique qualities. "How and kind and friendly he was to the students is what I'll miss the most," said Joseph Watkins, UVU student body president. "I enjoyed his witty, well-placed sarcasm. I shall miss it," said Kris Coles, former UVU student body president. See RECEPTION « A2 Internship Services provides students with opportunities • Britnee Nguyen also gives students a chance to network and meet people A college education can in their field," said Marsha get a person ahead in life, Haynes; director of internbut internships are what give ship services. "Internships a person experience. UVU are good for the employers Internship Services.is avail- also because they find excelable to students to help them lent employees. The reports find internships that will give we get back from employers them experience in their de- indicate they are very pleased sired field. Many opportu- with our UVU students." This past summer, there nities are available where were five UVU students that students can have once-in-awere working in government lifetime experiences. internships in Washington, "It's a great experience D.C. This includes Nathan for students to learn about a Gambill, who graduated career to see if that's what they really want to do. It News editor t a final * farewell reception, former UVU president Sederburg hands off the key to UVU to Liz Hitch, the new interim president. Trent Bates/ UVU Review See INTERNSHIP • A4 |