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Show A4 9}y-; Monday •November 17, 2008 Hunger Banquet raises money and awareness vided were split up in to three sections," said Erin Fleming, UVU Service Council In an effort to provide member. "The low-income awareness about hunger in meal consisted of rice and Utah and around the world, beans and 50 percent of the students and community attendees received this meal members gathered together because that is the equivafor the recent sixth annual lent to what 50 percent of the Hunger Banquet held in the world eats." Sorensen Student Center Fleming added that the Grande Ballroom. middle-income meal con"In past years, we have sisted of two slices of pizza focused on world hunger," and a can of soda. Thirtysaid Service Council Presi- five percent of the attendees dent Richard Portwood. were fed this meal which'is "This year we are focusing also equivalent to what 35 on hunger more locally." percent of the world eats. According to a quiz givThe high-income meal en out at the banquet, one in was a three-course roast beef four children deal with food dinner that was only served insecurities, and the largto 15 percent of the attendest group who are helped by ees. the local Community Action The keynote speaker of Food Bank are poor families the evening, Bill Hulterwith two working parents. strom, president and CEO of To make the epidemic a the United Way challenged realization, banquet attend- the audience to not focus on ees were randomly fed one the deficiencies of other peoof three meals, each belong- ple when we serve them. ing to a different income "If we serve with the right bracket. principles, we really can "The meals that were pro- Get involved Asst. News editor Contact: the Service and Learning Center at (801) 863-8786, or visit SC 101 change the world," he said. Hulterstrom's three suggestions for service included focusing on other people's strengths, letting people shine in their own light and the belief that the best service starts in your own neighborhood. All proceeds for the event went to an organization in need. "Every year we pick an organization to give the money to," said Fleming. "This year all of the money was donated to Community Actions Services Food Bank in Provo." She also said attendance at the banquet has increased each year. "Last year the event sold out," she said. "This year we didn't sell out, but had sixty- six more seats than last year. Considering the amount of people who attended, I think we outsold last year." In addition to this project, the Service and Learning Center currently is sponsoring a food drive which goes until Dec. 5. A dating auction was also held to raise money for food. "Last week, couples were auctioned off and the money went to cans for the food bank as part of the food drive," said Trevor Tooke, UVUSA Executive Vice President. To read more about the dating auction, go to BJ. The Hunger Banquet had more than 200 people come to help raise money for the Utah County Food Bank last Thursday. It was the largest turnout UVU has had for the event. Those in attendance received dinner that either represented low-class, middle-class or high-class types of dinners. Trent Bates/ UVU Review SECURITY from-A1 •Exit the building immediately. •Notify anyone else to exit •Leave the campus in a safe and orderly manner. If a student is not able to leave the building they should take these steps: •Go to the nearest room or office. • Close and lock the door if possible. •Cover the door windows. •Keep quiet and act as if no one is in the room. •Do not answer the door. •Waitfor law enforcement personnel to assist. In any of these situations, students should call 911 or UVU Police at (801) 863-5555 if possible. Being alerted to a dangerous situation can save lives just as much as knowing what to do. Last year's shooting at Virginia Tech served as a wake-up call to many schools across the country. UVU, like many other schools, reviewed what security measures were in place and have started to change and add new systems to help alert students of dangerous events. As of now, none of the systems are in place since some of the systems are waiting for funding while others are almost finished with testing. The closest project to completion is a text message system. This system will be available through UVLink. Students will have the choice to participate in the system or not. An e-mail system is part of the emergency plan right now but is not connected to the text message system. Also, voice messages can be sent to campus phones as an alert. Other systems that are possibilities are external air-raid sirens, information appearing on TV monitors around campus, e-mail, voice mail, digital signs and computer notification. ir • Guest Speaker: H.E. Nicolae Chirtoaca, Ambassador of Moldova to the U.S. at 9 a.m. in LA 219. * International student cook off: Sample food from around the world at Centre Stage from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. • Wolverine Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m' at Centr e Stage. Wear green and get J DAWGS. Discounts and extras for wearing green. it • Executive Lecture Series: Guest speaker Gary Neeleman, president and owner of Neeleman International Consulting, Inc. in the Ragan Theater at noon. • Free automotive car care clinic from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. by parking lots D & E.. For more information contact the Automotive Office at 863-8349. | | ] I ! • Legacy Polynesian dance ! company presents "Dance of the j Islands" at 6:30 p.m. for the first j show, 8 p.m. for the second show 1 i I ! t the Ragan Theater. Tickets are at | Campus Connection. • UV Unplugged at 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 20-21 at the Student Center Art Wall. All talents welcomed. Sign up in SC105. • Have a parking fine? UVU Parking Services is holding its annual Food for Fines drive from now to Dec. 23. Bring in cans of food to donate to the Utah Food Bank and Si for each can will be taken off your original late fee amount of any of unpaid parking citations. In memory of Amanda Marie Clifford On Nov. 11, UVU student Amanda Marie Clifford, 20, of Lindon passed away at Utah Valley Hospital from injuries sustained in a car accident. According to reports Clifford was cut-off in traffic by another driver at around 8 a.m. Clifford swerved right to avoid the collision, then swerved left into a semitruck. She was flown to the hos- pital in critical condition and was taken off life-support at around 2:15 p.m. the same day. Clifford was a junior at UVU where she excelled in music as a fellowship recipient. She played the flute in the Symphonic Band and the Symphonic Orchestra. She was an avid reader, had a deep love of music and aspired to become a music teacher and conductor. She was preparing to serve a fulltime mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in June of next year. Clifford was a strong advocate of the organ donor program and convinced others to participate. In her death, six other individuals will result in having a chance at life due to her willingness to be part of the program. TrewTungsten™ by Trent West Deadline approaches for stimulus checks Your economic stimulus money may go unclaimed the IRS may have had the wrong location to send your check to. Did you get your eco"People across the counnomic stimulus check this try are missing tax refunds year? If you did not, but you and stimulus checks. We thought you were entitled want to get this money into to one, it may have been re- the hands of taxpayers where turned to the Internal Rev- it belongs," said IRS Comenue Service because of an missioner Doug Shulman incorrect address. on the IRS Web site. "We There have been 279,000 are committed to making the checks, totaling $163 mil- process as easy as possible lion, that were "returned to for taxpayers to update their sender" due to bad address- addresses with the IRS and es. If you moved recently, get their checks." News v.nter All is not lost, but you must move quickly. You have only until Nov. 28 to contact the IRS and alert them of your new address to get your check back in the mail. By law, the checks must be sent out by Dec. 31. If you need to update your address, you can go to www. irs.gov or call 1-866-2342942. You can find out if you met the requirements to receive the economic stimulus rebate check on the IRS website as well. 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