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Show mo vie reviews cei_eBncY SiGHCinGS on BI I The Independent Student Voice of Utah Valley University r Monday @ January 26, 2009 VOL XXXVII : NO 42 i Inside this issue Opinions Sport Clint Eastwood is racist? Or is it the audience? Julie McMurray of the women's basketball team wears the number three for a reason. u New year, new president. The inauguration of President Barack Obama. The theatre department takes on a pretty stiff challenge with the complicated production of Chess. :-y School spirit on the rise Upcoming student rally concerning budget cuts CNATEBAGLEY"! 12 News writer School spirit is on the increase with more students sporting UVU apparel since the recent university status. Trent Bates / UVU Review University status and higher enrollment sparks student involvement BSPENCER SHELL ~ j News writer The school has now been a university for over half a year, and with it has come an. increase in school spirit. Signs of an increase in school spirit are visible in many places. Student Body President Joseph Watkins says that he is seeing an increase of attendance in school and sporting events, as well as more contribution and participation in student committees and councils. Bookstore sales of UVU merchandise are up from last year; especially in t-shirts, hoodies and bumper stickers. More students are wearing UVU apparel around the campus and community, and more students are speaking highly of the school with those in which they come in contact. Jake Frahm, a communications major, said that school spirit for him has gone through the roof, and even though he has not bought any UVU merchandise yet, he fully intends to; partly because of the change in name, and partly because he is graduating this April. "I talk about the school more to people I know," said Frahm. 'it feels good to tell people that I go to a university." "I've become more proud of the school, and I do find myself talking it up more than before," said Matthew Bowe, a hospitality management major, who commutes everyday from Murray on UTA. "I've gone from zero to maybe two on a scale of l-lO." Carrie Ann Howlett, an art and visual communications major, with a photography empha- sis, says that her school spirit has not increased much, mainly due to the lack of changes in her department that she was expecting. "We still don't have the space or the equipment we need," said Howlett. k i like my teachers, and our program is good; that's why I stay. It's just the lack of space that bugs me." Some of the challenges that the school faces in increasing See SPIRIT • A2 Traffic school options years. Traffic school is offered once or twice a month on Wednesday Red and blue lights flash in evenings from 6 - 9 p.m. the rear view mirror. Frantic There are a few advantages fumbling through the glove box, to taking traffic school over just looking for license and registrapaying the ticket: no points on the tion. The incident ends with a little piece of paper that will end driving record, no effect on insurance, andfca reduced fine. up costing a lot of money. Only moving violations are Receiving a ticket, be it a eligible for traffic school. Howspeeding ticket or some other ever, there are some moving viomoving violation, is an unpleaslation and other tickets that traffic ant and costly experience for school will not take care of. Any most. speeding ticket issued for more. Luckily there are opportunithan 20 mph over the speed limit, ties to lessen a ticket's impact on tickets issued as a result of an a student's pocketbook, even if auto accident, fix-it tickets, DUI, the ticket is issued on or around campus. UVU has been offering trafSee TICKET • A2 Trent Bales / UVU Review fic school for the past five to six Instead of pulling out money to pay for a ticket, attend UVU's traffic school as DAVID HATCHETT News writer an alternative. Students from colleges around Utah are set to rally this Friday morning on Capitol Hill, regarding higher education funding. Imminent budget cuts are on the board for every statefunded college in Utah. These budget cuts will affect students immediately. This writer attended a meeting with the Higher Education Appropriation Committee (the officials in suits and ties at the State Capitol who decide how many millions of dollars will be cut from our budget) last week at the Capitol to better understand the situation. Tuition fees will go up without question. The goal of our legislators, however, is to attempt to use as little tuition as possible to subsidize budget cuts. Faculty and staff will be cut. To students, this means they will see the number of available classes decline, meaning students may need to spend more semesters in school trying to register for and pass all required classes. Class sizes will grow significantly in many cases. It is also possible that entire programs will be cut. This would necessitate students to find somewhere else to fulfill program requirements at schools such as Weber State University, the University of Utah or Salt Lake Community College. Students need to be prepared for imminent changes. There are two things that students can do that would be most beneficial to addressing the problems with the budget cuts: Write to the state legislature and tell them that higher education deserves to maintain its quality and request that education receives minimal budget cuts. Students can also attend a protest at the State Capitol Building on Friday, Jan. 30 at 10 a.m. Thousand; of students throughout the state will be representing their schools and making their voices and concerns heard. UVU students are urged to attend and make a stand for their education. Legislator's contact information can be found at www. Ie.state.ut.us/house/DistrictInfo/NewMaps/state.htm Where you go When: Friday, Jan. 30 at 10 a.m. W h e r e : State Capitol Building Cost: Free |