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Show News "»" October 6, 2008 A 3 .-8 News Briefs HOOGE'S HEROES Campus news New UVU ski instructor course offered • uvu Community Education has formed a partnership with Deer Valley in offering a non-credit ski instructor training. Students will learn how to teach others to ski and how to improve their own skiing. This class will be hands on and taught on the snow at Deer Valley Ski Resort for 12 hours an<? only nine hours in a classroom. With the ski season coming soon, students will have a high probability for employment within the ski industry upon completing this course. Ski instructors receive competitive pay, ski privileges and a fun work environment. The course will be held at the UVU Wasatch Campus Building, located at 3111 North College Way, in Heber, UT, each Thursday beginning Oct. 15 to Nov. 19 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Course cost is S349, which includes instruction, textbook and snow lime at Deer Valley. For more information or to register for this class, visitce.uvsc.edu/ski or call (801) 863-8012. Paralympics gold medalist to speak at UVU • in Greg Williams is the head coach of UVU's wrestling team and has more than 20 years of experience. Courtesy of UVU Athletic Department Greg Williams: coaching Wolverines •HANNA HOOGE HOPKINSON Wrestling since age five and now a devoted family man, Greg Williams is conditioning himself as a coach and his team as a success. He is our hero for the week. Here is what he had to say: What is your position at UVU? have had success at each level. Wrestling is very demanding, so I always felt that I was being challenged. I wrestled at Utah State in the early '80s and developed an even deeper passion for the sport and decided I wanted to coach. Since then, I have coached at all ages, levels and styles. f\ \ ^ t My position is head wrestling coach, and I am beginning my third year in this position. What made you want to coach wrestling? I have wrestled since I was five-years-old and w viduals. Having a team that I respect and can motivate is a great accomplishment. Besides wrestling, what do you like to do in your spare time? I love spending time with my wife, Kristin, and my two girls, Alexis and What do you feel has Taylor. Any hobby I share been your greatest with them is fun. success while at UVU? Bringing in some of the best Utah talent has been a great accomplishment here. We have a very closeknit team, and I am proud of them as a team and as indi- BLOTTER Sept 2008 Sept. 24 • CRIMINAL MISCHIEF • UVU police took a report of someone shooting at the windows of the Digital Learning Center with a painlbafl gun. Sept. 24 • THEFT • A windshield was stolen from a motorcycle that had been parked in lot M. Sept. 26 • MEDICAL • A 24-year-old male UVU student Can you tell me a little bit about your family? A My wife was a middle school principal until I took this job and we moved from Kaysville. Alexis is in seventh grade and is an A student and loves dance. Taylor is in third grade and is also an A student and loves dance. They both dance at a great studio. The Dance Club, and they both play the piano. If there was one message you could get out to UVU students, faculty and staff, what would it be? Get involved! This is a great school going through the best growth of its everchanging history. This is absolutely the best time to go to school here. Get involved and enjoy the experience. crashed his longboard near lot D on College Drive. The student hit his head as a result of the crash and stopped breathing. Several bystanders initiated CPR and were able to maintain critical life support until emergency personnel arrived on the scene. The student was transported by ambulance to a local hospital where he remains in critical condition. * Sept. 26 • THEFT the P.E. building. celebration of Disability Awareness Month, Mark Zupan, a paralympian who recently won a gold medal in Beijing, will speak on "Smashing Stereotypes One Hit at a Time," Oct. 9 at I p.m. at the Ragan Theatre in the Sorensen Center. The speech is free and open to the public. Zupan will discuss shattering disability stereotypes and explain how everyone is capable of accomplishing amazing feats. Zupan was in'a car accident in college: he flew out of the back of a pick-up truck, resulting in his becoming paralyzed. The accident did not stop him from leading an active life; he started playing wheelchair rugby in college. He was on the bronze-winning U.S. team in Athens 2004 and recently won the gold in Beijing. Zupan has been named Most Valuable Player four times and has been named U.S. Quad Rugby Association's Athlete of the Year. In addition to being an avid wheelchair rugby player, Zupan was also featured in the award-winning film "Murderball," which won the 2005 Sundance Film Festival's documentary audience award. He has written a book, "Gimp," in which he shares his story and struggles in life. He graduated from Georgia Tech in civil engineering. National news Johns Hopkins recommends that new labels appear On Caffeinated energy drinks • The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has called for new regulations that,require energy-drink manufacturers to list the caffeine content on their labels to warn of the potential for caffeine intoxication. A warning from one of the authors of a research study by Johns Hopkins claims that teenagers who use the caffeine-filled drinks are more prone to use prescription drugs like Ritalin later on. Millions of Facebook users boycott new design * A Facebook group named "1,000,000 against the new Facebook layout" is calling for a two-day boycott of Facebook, asking users to stay logged-off from the social networking site on Oct. 18 and Oct. 19. Currently, the group consists of nearly 2.7 million supporters. Other groups have also appeared. The group titled "I hate the "new Facebook" has 1.5 million supporters, and the group "Petition against the new Facebook" has nearly 1.6 million members. Facebook is attempting to be receptive to the comments and the groups' complaints have been tracked. ~ • Food labeling law began Sept. 30 • A new UW, which took effect Sept. 30, requires that food labels and retailers disclose the origin of produce, meat and other food items. ~Experts say that confusion is likely to arise over The new law because some processed food items are exempt from the law; examples include roasted peanuts, breaded chicken and certajn"foods that are not mixed together, such as bagged frozen peas antl-carrots. World news An unattended backpack was stolen from $ * = • LONDON •The historic 19th century Cutty Sark srfip.that lined Sept. 29 • MEDICAL • A 64-year-old adjunct faculty member suffered a fatal heart attack while playing radquetball in the PE building. CPR was administered by his opponent and bystanders until Orem Paramedics arrived on scene. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he passed away. Sept. 30 • MEDICAL • UVU police and Orem Paramedics responded to the Brent Brown Ballpark on a report of a J7-year-o!d male that had suffered a seizure after running into another ball player. The male was transported by ambulance to a local hospital for further treatment. the Thames River has gone up in flames. It is said lh|t'a vacuum cleaner that was left on over the weekend caused tho'b'laze. The ship was the only surviving extreme clipper. Because ttfc'masts and deckhouses had been removed for conservation work, they escaped the blaze. :|' j INDIA • A bomb threat caused mass hysteria that left 168 dead after a panic-induced stampede. The disorder began as 12,000 people were walking into a Hindu temple for worship on Sept. 30. Coconut milk that had been poured on the temple floors as part of a ceremony caused many evacuees to'slip. A substantial power outage further exacerbated the mayhem. This is the third tragedy this year to mar a religious event in India. Schabas: national progress vs. the death penalty •LORAJNE GlEUCK-GHOLDSTON ; N(ftVS Virilv UVU hosted the 4th Annual Symposium on Restorative Justice, Punishment, — « ^ H I and the Death Penalty on Thursd a y. T h e final speakProfessor er in William A. t h e Schabas sympo~~ : sium, Prof. William A. Schabas, spoke on the impact of the death penalty and its abolition on the international community. Schabas said that around the world abolishing the death penalty is seen as a sign of progress. As the director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Schabas "I don't know if China will beat you to it, or Iran, but it's a pattern. is concerned not only with human rights and the cessation of violence against human beings, but with the international effort to bring criminals of the most heinous crimes to justice. He added that the United States' support of the death penalty hinders this effort. Many countries are very hesitant to turn offenders over to a government that would likely put the offenders on death row. Compliance on an international level is more easily achieved when the death penalty is not supported, as most countries, including European and African countries, are hesitant to cooperate in such instances. Schabas also said that the abolition of the death penalty is perceived, on an international level, as a sign of a modern, sophisticated government and people. Since the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, many Loralne Gleuck-Gholdston/ UVU Review Professor William A. Schabas speaks about how abolishing the death penalty would be a sign of progress. countries, including most of Europe, South Africa in 1993 and Russia in 1996, have abolished the death penalty. According to Schabas, Rwanda took this action last year. "For them, this was a way of saying, 'We're trying to be a modern state." For South Africa, it was also a way of changing policy from the apartheid regime, which had largely abused the death penalty. Despite the high crime rates, which held some nations back for many years, the death penalty is beginning to be seen as a relic of the past, one that causes more harm than good. a pattern. Invite me back in According to Prof. Scha- twenty years, and we'll see bas, we have come quite what's happened." close to abolishing the death William A. Schabas aJso penalty in America, with holds the chair on Human Fuhrman in the '70s, when Rights Law at the National support for the death penalty University of Ireland, holds was not particularly high, several degrees and has writand executions just stopped ten several books and over for a while. More recently, 170 articles in academic a supreme court ruled 5-4 in journals. He has traveled to support of the death penalty, many countries around the with one of the judges later world to speak on these issaying it was the worst mis- sues. This year's symposium take he had ever made. included several other speakIt is the general feeling ers, including Sangmin Bae, among death penalty aboli- author of When the State tionists that our nation is be- No Longer Kills: Internaing held back by its support tional Human Rights Norms of the death penalty, both in and the Abolition of Capital the progress of the domestic Punishment; Early Teaching justice system and in inter- Award winner Daniel Mednational communication and wed, who spoke on prosecujustice. However, Schabas tors and their roles — actual said the pattern in countries and possible - in the justice abolishing the death pen- system; and our own Sandy alty, if seen on a graph, in- McGunigall- Smith, whose dicates that the end of the research efforts include redeath penalty in the United vealing the effects of imprisStates is all but inevitable. onment on women. "I don't know if China will beat you to it, or Iran, but it's |