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Show Culture Warped tour lineup includes local bands. Insight into Obama/Biden healthcare plan. Students confidently attend controversial protests in Salt Lake City A4 A3 uvu revie [Monday • August 3,2009 The Independent Student Voice of Utah Valley University VOLXLIX • „. NO 5 | ,,,^_. __. J New professor Fulbright Scholarship The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sponsors 800 U .S. acaUVU Professor of marketing, Paul Dishman, has demics and professionals been awarded a Fulbright to travel abroad yearly to Scholar grant to lecture lecture and conduct reand research at the Uni- search. "My objective is to versity of Donja Gorica (UDG) in Montenegro identify opportunities for private enterprise in order during Spring 2010. "The purpose of the to expand Montenegro's Fulbright Program is to economy," Dishman said. bring American cultural "They have a need for unexchange down to a very derstanding current market personal level, for both opportunity analysis techthe scholars and those they niques in order to expand touch in the host country," their business base and the country's economic strucDishman said. ture." The program is an Having only recently educational exchange declared it's independence sponsored by the U.S. Deon June 3, 2006, Montepartment of State which negro has a considerable has given nearly 300,000 ' students, teachers, pro- amount of work to do fessionals and scholars when it comes to economthe opportunity to travel ic development. Dishman throughout more than 155 claimed that Montenegrin countries since its estab- students need supplementary preparation in order to lishment in 1946. "The Fulbright experi- function in a global econence provides a multitude omy, saying that the conof opportunities for both cepts commonly learned professional and personal by UVU business students growth," Dishman said. are completely new to the "You get to submerse entire economic thinking yourself in a culture, dif- of Montenegro. "I think that seeing my ferent from your own, American life and point of for an extended period of view through the lens of time." • I JESSICA BURNHAM3 News editor Trent Bates/ UVU Review UVU gains entrepreneurial independence IQIJCA BDRMHfliaster r of Seflfft«Sb A*dministration Program was unanimously approved by the Utah State Board of Regents July 17, 2009 and is scheduled to launch in fall 2010. "There has been an incredible demand for this program," said Scott Hammond, an associate professor of business management and assistant academic vice president in the Office of Academic Affairs. "Our faculty is ready to go and we are going to do a really good job." UVU has offered an executive MBA program through Utah State University for the past 15 years. Having lent their curriculum, graduation requirements, entrance tests and veteran advice throughout that period of time, USU has enabled this new independence. "They've set a tem- plate for us and created the market. They have really incubated this program," Hammond said. USU will be accepting its last cohort of MBA students on the UVU campus this fall. The new UVU run program is expected to be quite competitive, with estimates topping 200 applicants for 40 slots. The two offered tracks See MBA • A2 people with vastly different background and culture will be an education in itself," Dishman said. By working among both students and business leaders, Dishman will not only gain an increased understanding of the needs characteristic to the Montenegrin community, but will discover fresh approaches to teaching which will benefit his students at UVU. "From my experience I hope to return as a better professor and teacher," Dishman said. As an opportunity for students, the Fulbright U.S. Student Grant sponsors students in areas such as the sciences, professional fields, and the creative and performing arts. Students interested in researching it further should visit their website at www. fulbrightonline.org "For those UVU students that want an international academic experience, I strongly urge them to contact the Fulbright program and apply," Dishman said. Distance Education provides convenient alternatives |fJESSICA BURHHAM News editor It has become essential for many students to incorporate Distance Education into their schedule whether their time is consumed with activities, work or a family. Distance Education (DE) is UVU's way of catering to students without sufficient time available to take courses on campus. "I work a full time position, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. If it wasn't for online courses, I would not be able to complete my degree," said UVU student Shaylene Nistler. Through offering online, television broadcast, DVD/VHS and live interactive classes, the DE staff aims to accommodate the various learning styles of their students. The online classes are always accessible, with the rare exception of online construction preventing full use. Although the majority of these classes are completed online, they do sometimes require proctored tests. They allow you to interact through email and discussion boards. The television courses allow you to view a professor teaching regular lessons, but they are prerecorded and there is mini- See DISTANCE • A3 Israeli settlements in the West Bank AARON VlfOODJ News writer j More than 300,000 Israeli settlers are living in illegal settlements built on Palestinian land, which has been occupied since the War of 1967 when Israel captured the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. International law states that an occupying power cannot transfer its own civilian population to the territory it occupies. The occupying power also cannot forcibly remove those people inhabiting the occupied territory, regardless of the motive. These laws have not prevented successive Israeli governments from confiscating Palestinian land, building settlements on that land and transferring Israeli citizens to the settlements. The policies, which enable such practices to occur, are quite revealing. The Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) issues demolition orders on Palestinian homes at which point Palestinians are told that their homes will be demolished at any given time in the near fu- ture. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and others will move in with bulldozers and demolish the homes forcing Palestinians to relocate. The land is then expropriated and used to build settlements, bypass highways that only settlers can travel on, or other such purposes to be decided by the Israeli government or the IDF. Over time these policies have effectively fragmented See ISRAEL • A3 An Israel) settlement on Palestinian land on the West Bank. Aaron Wood/ UVU Review |