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Show President Holland converses with fire and rescue officials Holland's newly appointed assistant MEGGIEWOODFIELp; AsstV News editor" Kyle Reyes, UVU staff and community service volunteer is said to be 'the glue of campus' in July when he ' accepted the position as Director of Student Success and Retention. Reyes set the focus of the deans presence on campus toward informing, listening to, supporting and engaging of students in order to help them achieve their goals. In March, he was one of three individuals named recipient of the Civically Engaged Staff Member Award. He received the award for engaging, modeling and influencing students to become involved in community service and service learning. Reyes established and implemented the campus-wide UVU Latino Initiative including the Latinos Unidos Mentoring Program, Latino Educators of Tomorrow, Latino Youth Leadership in Action Conference, Celebracion Latinoamericana and Latino Parent Open House. This reputation along with his apparent good judgment, people skills and energetic devotion to UVU is what earned him the post of Assistant to the President as ap- [ "This position allows me to reach across campus to support and grow studentcentered initiatives" Kyle Reyes pointed by Dr. Matthew S. Holland. Given the ceremonial key to the university on June 17 of this year. President Holland began his tenure as president, June 1, becoming the sixth president of UVU. "My interviews and Kyle's portfolio seemed See REYES • A3 Action is greater than apathy will have to be made to insure success. Student awareness and collaboMaking a new alumi- ration is central to this num can from an old one movement. One of the saves 95 percent of the driving forces behind total energy required to this movement is our make one from scratch. new student governIn short, recycling one ment, who is not only aluminum can saves as behind it but is taking much energy as you use action. by leaving a 100W light "Trevor Tooke has bulb on for 8 hours. put a lot of effort into Facts such as this this movement. He are the fundamental comes to all thereconcern of The Sustaincycling meetings and ability Committee, who •they've been announcis teaming up with many ing it as part of the new campus organizations in student orientation," order to create a more said Kathryn French, the environmentally friendly former co-chair of the establishment. sustainability committee. New initiatives are One of the new being developed and a campus-wide effort See RECYCLE • A4 JESSICA BURNHAM News editor irefightmg There is a fully involved residential fire in your city, the bite is, the fire team is on their way, and you are the fire captain in charge of managing the entire crew and saving civilian lives. Professional firefighters across Utah will have more preparation for scenarios such as this because of the new mobile training facility recently presented by the Utah Fire & Rescue Academy (UFRA). UFRA unveiled their new Mobile Command Training Center (MCTC) at a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 13 at their UVU affiliated facility. "This is the place that we want mistakes to be made rather than out in the field where people will get hurt," said Hugh Connor, the Director of TRENT BATES/ UVU Review UFRA. The technology available in the MCTC mirrors that of the fixed Command Training Center (CTC). By taking photographs of selected buildings, a realistic computer simulation can be made based on specific learning objectives which allows the incident commanders to practice making ur- See FIRE • A3 Recycling Businesses become technologically savvy culture sports opinions rtor Community and Continuing Education is planning to offer new training programs this fall in response to community needs. Their goal is to enrich the lives of participants, keep them at the fore- front of technological and educational advances and strengthen the regional community and economy. "We offer two types of classes for the community. Professional development and training courses and enrichment classes," said Diana Hunter, Senior Director of the program. "We have several hundred new classes a year according to the community demand. We watch which classes are having high enrollment and meet with businesses and citizens to find out what kind of classes they need." The staff also meet with businesses and community members before See SAVVY • A5 FODD NOTftASH , NO PLASTICS |