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Show News Monday • March 3Q, 2009 MONSON Stephen R. Covey speaks to students UVU on several occasions, including a more recent visit to attend ceremonies commemorating university status in July 2008. Additionally, he was on-site for the institution's 1975 groundbreaking for the Orem campus. Monson was appoi nted the 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Feb. 2008, after having served more than 44 years as an LDS Apostle. Furthermore, Monson was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the President's Task Force for Private Sector Initiatives and is the recipient of the Silver Buffalo, the highest accolade given by the Boy Scouts of America. from* A1 Convocations will be held for the College of Humanities, School of Education and University College beginning at 8 a.m., prior to Commencement. Following the main ceremony and beginning at 12:30 p.m., afternoon convocations will be held for the College of Technology & Computing, College of Science & Health, School of the Arts and Woodbury School of Business. t Monson, who served as a former member of the state Board of Regents, has visited Offering effective advice leadership, complementary team culture, and the culture owns responsibility for Award-winning author results and self-manages. of "The Seven Habits of Covey spoke on culture Highly Effective People" and how it can overlay a Stephen R. Covey recently person's natural, true pospoke on campus as part of tential because it forces UVUSA's symposium "A them to base their selfNew U " worth on what others think Covey explained to the of them. student audience the world "People grow up with they will enter after college comparison-based identiand how to land any job. ties, meaning their sense of In entering the - world worth doesn't come from after college, Covey said, within, it comes from peostudents need to be ready ple's opinions of them and for a different set of ex- how they stack up," Covey pectations in the workforce said. "When man found the because the paradigm is mirror, he began to lose shifting from an industrial his soul. The point is, he age to a knowledge-worker became more concerned age. with his image than with The differences be- himself." tween the two ages are that He said that a person the industrial age is based must have a value system on control, position leader- to keep their true potential. ship, boss-centered. People In a visual presentation, are viewed as expenses, and he compared a compass to the boss owns responsibil- a person with a principle ity for the result whereas, based value system. A the knowledge worker age magnet was then placed by unleashes talent, choice H B R I T N E E NGUYEN News editor Live it. Read it. Positions available WRITERS,DESIGNERS. PHOTOGRAPHERS Distributor Apply in SC220 j Trent Bates/UVU Review Stephen R. Covey speaks in the UVUSA symposium. it and the direction arrow went in several directions, illustrating a person who has no moral system. When speaking on how to get a job, Covey recommended identifying a problem in the organization and then present yourself as the solution to it. It takes more time and research, but he guaranteed it would land, a person a job. "If you take the traditional approach, it's a toss up," Covey said. Covey also spoke of the new UVU president, Matthew Holland, saying he had talked him into applying for the position. "[Holland] is a very visionary , competent and caring person," Covey said. Other speakers in the two-day symposium included Jeanette Hales Beckham, chair of UVU Board of Trustees, Carole Haney of Utah Community Credit Union and Nora Denzel of Intuit. Professor invited to prestigious CERN [SPENCER .SHEU^! News writer UVU Physics professor Steve Wasserbaech will soon take a leave from the university for a yearlong appointment at the world-renowned CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is a French acronym for the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Wasserbaech will spend his sabbatical at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a gigantic scientific instrument spanning some 17 miles beneath the border between France and Switzerland. "This is an incredible opportunity, and for it to come about right when research at the Large Hadron Collider is starting is almost too good to be true," said Wasserbaech, whose appointment begins Aug. 1 and will continue through the 2009-2010 academic year. According to CERN's website, the LRC is an instrument in which two beams of subatomic particles "travel in opposite directions inside the circular, accelerator, gaining energy with every lap." Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Physicists like Wasserbaech will analyze the particles created in the collisions in an attempt to figure out more about the physical universe. "It is no exaggeration to •say that the LHC is currently the most important project in the field of particle physics," Wasserbaech said. "All of the world's particle physicists are eager to see what the LHC will reveal." Last September, the LRC was turned on for its first major experiment with many fearing that the end result would be a black hole that would engulf the planet. However, the LRC was shut down after a few days due to a magnet's failure;,such a black hole has yet to occur. "These appointments to CERN are very limited in number. While thousands work in some capacity with CERN, as few as 10 or 12 scientists from non-member nations were actually given appointments by the laboratory for this project," said Sam Rushforth, dean of UVU's College of Science & Health. "Dr. Steve Wasserbaech is one of the best scientists in the western United States and has unparalleled credentials." Wasserbaech's appointment will not only aid the scientific community, but it may be a boon to UVU stu- dents through independent research opportunities and exercises in connection with ongoing LHC experimentation. Wasserbaech hopes to maintain a relationship with CERN after his appointment is completed. Other achievements from CERN include the invention of the World Wide Web. Contrary to popular belief, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN - not Al Gore ~ invented the World Wide Web in 1990 in an effort to share information between scientists. UVU's Guest Author Reading Series Presents wieclwith* ami hi mind! Irvine CARRIAGE COVE 374-2700 April 1 at 12 noon in SC206b&c Judith Lewis of the l-os Angeles limes Book Review said, "Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire's literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a personal history more rraiispojting that this one." 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