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Show I A4' News Monday • August 25, 2008 Intramurals: the antidote to boredom • Alex Nyagah News writer • Amie Wells FOR MORE INFORMATION Asst. News editor Being a university student is an opportunity and About intramurals at UVU, challenge. It entails more you can visit the UVU Intrathan achieving your credit murals Office, situated ophours; it's a prerequisite to posite of the UVU bookstore, engage in activities outside or visit their Web site at of the class to complete www.uvsc.edu/lntramurals the university experience, UVU Intramurals provides Intramurals is not only students with a way to get about sports, but also about involved with activities outparticipating actively in side the classroom. your hobbies. The advanIntramurals provide tages of engaging yourself sports and events for stuin intramurals include learndents to have an excellent ing more about opportunity to get s p o r t s m a n s hip, involved with fun "It's no sin being physically and interesting acfit, competition, tivities on and off to attempt teamwork, meetand fail, campus. Currently ing new people about 2,500 stuthe only and improving dents participate sin is not to your lifestyle. In in these activities, make the addition, there are with numbers inattempt." numerous prizes creasing annually. that are given You get to SuEllen Fried out. choose something ^ • • • As SuEllen that suits your con- • " • ™ Fried stated, "It's venience, status and no sin to attempt and fail. comfort from more than 50 The only sin is to not make different sports and events the attempt." Do not just from soccer to tennis, golf to wish for a fantastic life at dodge ball, scavenger hunt campus: Get involved. to camp challenges, walks In a nutshell, intramuand marathons, rock-paperscissors to extreme eating. rals provide a variety of fun The list is endless, and new activities, stimulating challenges and adventures. ideas are welcome. INTERNSHIP from UVU in' 2008 with honors in political science and interned for Utah Sen. Robert Bennett's office do-' ing legislative research. Rod King, an accounting major, was an auditing intern at the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General, in which capacity he traveled to Colorado, Delaware and New Jersey for field research. King also spent time working in the Pentagon and was offered a job upon graduation. Karilyn Henshaw, who graduated from UVU in 2007 in accounting, had applied for an internship in Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch's office, and was invited afterwards to apply for an open staff position in his Washington, D.C. office. Henshaw was hired for the permanent position and now assists the senator in responding to his constituents. Other students who were in Washington, D.C. during the summer include Trent Bennion, a business major who was interning at the Republican National Committee, and Sabrina Benally, an accounting major who Outdtoor Adventure Center: What will your next adventure be? from* A1 FOR MORE INFORMATION About this Internship opportunity along with others that are available, contact UVU career services & student employment at (801) 863-6004 or csse® uvu.edu. was completing her second internship at the Department of the Treasury. UVU Internship Services is dedicated to helping students find internships available on campus or at local, national and even international levels. An internship opportunity that is currently available only to UVU students is an internship with the Czech Republic. The intern will work with Martin Palous", Czech Ambassador to the U.N., and his staff along with other EU missions at the U.N. during the sixmonth 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 N.Y. "Where is the world's fastest glacier?" If you've seen this question written on a whiteboard lately, you've probably walked past the Outdoor Adventure Center. The Outdoor Adventure Center (OAC) is located on the first level of the Sorensen Student Center and provides outdoor equipment rentals and maintenance, adventure trips, and a variety of outdoor clinics and activities for the UVU community. Rentals include snowboards, snowshoes, rafts, kayaks, camping equipment and tandem bikes. "We offer outdoor equipment at an affordable rate," said Kim Reynolds, OAC Director. "Our equipment is very up to date and we keep it in very good condition." One of-the most popular services that the OAC has to offer are the "adventure trips" which are available through every season and range from day trips to multiday trips to places like Catalina Island, Baja, Havasupai and local destinations as well. "We don't make money off our trips," said Reynolds. "If you decided to go through a commercial outfitterfcyou would end up paying . between $600 and $800 for a trip that would cost around '$200 through us." The OAC is not limited to adventure trips. Their list of available expeditions aJsa includes academic trips, called natural history excurFOR MORE sions, where students can INFORMATION earn UVU academic credit. Natural history excur- Visit the Outdoor Adventure sions are offered each se- Center's website at mester, and students can www.uvsc.edu/oac earn up to three credit hours depending on the length of the trip. Also, on the first Tuesday Reynolds also said that of every month, the OAC UVU has acquired a site in sponsors an adventure demo Capitol Reef National Park, day in the courtyard on camwhich is the first ever field pus, where students can try study area that is held at a out some of the rentals that national park. they have to offer. The first In addition to the many demo day will be on Sept. 18, services and rentals that they where they will have their have to offer, each February water equipment on display the OAC sponsors the wide- for students to test out. ly popular Banff Mountain During the fall and spring Film Festival to come to the semesters, the OAC is open UVU Campus as it travels Monday through Friday throughout the U.S. on its from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. annual world tour. What student programs? host events to win free food, T-shirts and money - all of which are funded by general fees. The Outdoor Adventure from $130 to $263. Seven On the one hand, students credits and above will al- Center, for example. Every complain that student fees are semester, the Outdoor Ad- too much, and on the other ways pay exactly $282. According to the chart, venture Center has many rec- hand students complain that these fees go to several dif- reational activities it holds there are no clubs to join. ferent areas. About $7 goes for students from canoeing There are actually hundreds to pay UTA and about $2 to rock climbing. Another of clubs all over campus, but goes to the OneCard ID. example is UVU Intramu- lack of awareness causes a But you may not be aware rals, or the many clubs all lot of club funding to pile of what a few of the fees are over campus. up in extra amounts, and as But each semester, much a result the school frequently for. For instance, roughly $10 to $11.50 goes to pay- of the funding goes need- reduces funding - until evening for the Wellness Cen- lessly unused. Last year, In- tually some clubs have to ter, which is our on-campus tramurals had up to $4,000 disband. medical facility where you just in gift cards and textThis all means that you can be assisted by a nurse book money, but not many as a student, might be paying for stomach pain, nausea students showed up to In- money to see a doctor when or even a simple headache. tramurals' activities and the you could just visit the WellAbout $70 pays off the Stu- money was wasted. Some ness Center and might be dent Center as required by money pays for things like missing class just for a mia contract UVU has with a gathering on campus to graine when there is a nurse construction company. And watch a baseball game on on campus who can give you nearly $60 goes towards a TV with free pizza, and yet Tylenol, Halls, and any other funding pool for all campus only a low number of stu- medical aide - for free. It dents show up. Some clubs student programs. means that you might spend FEES from* A1 money on a cliched dinnerand-a-movie date when you could go rock climbing or play on a golf/frisbee course - for free. It means you spend hundreds of dollars in gas a month when a bus pass will get you nearly anywhere in Utah County - for free. It means you spend most of your own hard-earned money on school supplies when you could use a gift certificate for the bookstore. For free. Beginning this semester, the UVU Review will spotlight a club or two each issue, detailing what the club does, how it uses student general fees, and how to join. In addition, the UVU Review will "challenge" some clubs to competitions to spread awareness. In the meantime, keep in mind that although your student fees are high, they allow you many great, free on-campus opportunities. UVU Students! 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