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Show uvureview.com • - . ' • ^ . . M \Y6to\zu 0^5lU ;i:r- -v:i:\v ' The Independent Student Voice of Utah Valley University Inside this issue Opinions What's with the Supreme Court? They can't even d anything. How can you cast the right vote this election? Read the "How To" and find out. Sports Women's soccer score big double overtime against University of Idaho. TJ 7 Murder! A sold-out Murder Mystery dinner certainly entertains. Alyssa Lewis/ UVU Review Dr. Susan Madsen. Women's role in politics IT SPENCER JOHNSON News Writer Mockingbird Fly is a production by UVU's Contemporary Dance Ensemble. All proceeds go to benefit the Ssejinja Children's Foundation. Dave iba/ uvu Review Alum organizes benefit concert EHJLORAINE GLUECK-GHOLDSTON News writer Uganda might seem like a distant and exotic place to most Americans, but for Da- vid Ssejinja, it is his native home and life's work. Ssejinja is currently supporting many Ugandan children and widows, most of them bereft of loved ones by and awareness, so they can AIDS and war. His mission remain healthy and spread the is to keep the children alive word throughout the country. and happy, and to educate them on AIDS prevention See MOCKINGBIRD • A2 Enrollment up Two choices: live or die over 12 percent L_KIRA TERRY News wnter Single largest growth in school history • JENNIE NICHOLLS Editor-at-iarge "The numbers tell us we are paying attention to our dynamics," said President Liz Hitch. "We are a very popular institution." Hitch also mentioned university status kept UVU in the news and propelled interest in the school. "This has become the place to be," said Val Hale, vice president of institutional advancement. Goals that have been sidetracked due to the extreme growth include bettering the student to advisor ratio and having more 55 percent of faculty on salary rather than employing a high number of adjuncts. Budget cuts from the state have also impacted the The Utah System of Higher Education released fall enrollment numbers of the nine state-funded colleges and universities in the state. State growth reached almost 12,000 new students in the higher education system. Utah Valley University is among the highest growth with nearly 3,000 more students enrolled than fall 2007. Weber State University had the highest headcount growth with 3,368 new students. UVU officials attribute the new university's growth to the retention of continuing students. Nearly 14,000 of the school's 26,696 population are continuing students. See ENROLLMENT • A5 c-;n Mark Zupan, a Paralympian who has recently won a gold medal in Beijing, has starred in "MurderbalT and has written a book titled "Gimp," spoke Thursday in honor of disability week. "Fifteen years ago when I first got hurt. I thought my life was over," Zupan said. When Zupan was 18 years old, he was asleep in the back of a friend's pickup truck when he was thrown from the truck, over a fence and into a canal, which resulted in his being paralyzed. After spending 14 hours in the water, he was found by a passerby who heard a faint repetitive voice then saw the top of his head. "The only thing above water was my eyes, my nose, my mouth and my arm," Zupan said. Even though Zupan has See CHOICES • A5 Trent Bates UVU Review Mark Zupan shattered stereotypes about people with disabiltties during his lecture to students on Thursday. In 1920, women in the United States took their first step into politics when the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment granted them the right to vote. Since this Amendment, women have developed the strength and expertise required to do much more than just vote - they are running for office and winning. With the release of her new book. Dr. Susan Madsen, an associate professor of management and assistant dean of faculty in the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University, dives into the details of women in politics. "For many years, I have dedicated a major portion of my time to the study of leadership development," said Madsen. "I have been fascinated with exploring and understanding how people, particularly women, became leaders/' Her curiosity in both leadership and women has been the driving force in her completing her new book, "Developing Leadership: Learning from the Experiences of Women Governors." The book contains information from interviews that Madsen has conducted with several women governors. "This book is about the lifetime development of leadership in ten strong, competent, and fascinating women governors in the United States," said Madsen. ' i t shares their leadership development journeys through experience, sto- See POLITICS • A5 - * - • |