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Show VOLXLIX Couriesy of NATALIE MILLER Natalie Miller helps build an orphange in Peru. The mud will set you free KEYRAKRISTOFFERSEN recalls. on '< TRENT BATES/UVU Review 'Dining services makes their first step toward healthy.food on campus BY MEGGIE WOODFIED/NEWS EDITOR D ining Services, Student Health Services-Wellness Programs and Human Resources are sponsoring a healthy eating campaign beginning fall semester. As the first step toward healthy eating, nutritional information has been posted at all eating establishments around campus, including , the main upstairs and downstairs cafeteria in the student center, all scattered food kiosks and Scoops. A list of healthy options has been compiled after taking into account nutritional recommendations from the American Dietetics Association and the American Heart Association in hopes that students and employees will make healthy food choices. Healthy options will not include any items that have high fructose syrup, refined grains or high fat and/or sodium. Unfortunately, though dining services is in the beginning stages of its campaign, it seems that not all students want to make the healthier choice. "Dining Services can only do so much since they have to purchase what sells," said Amy Grubbs, specialist in wellness education at See HEALTH • A4 Natalie Miller, a 16 year-old nursing sophomore, took the opportunity to turn part of her summer vacation into a "genuinely humbling1' experience when she embarked on a two-week humanitarian service project helping to expand a Peruvian orphanage through the St. George Utah-based Alliance for Youth Service (AYS) organization. "I can't even express how beautiful everything is," quotes Miller's personal journal, "These kids have nothing, yet they have everything. They were so grateful to have us there. When our bus arrived, the children threw out flower petals and danced to greet us." Miller's assignment included working to build an addition onto the El Girasol (Sunflower) Orphanage of The Sacred Valley of Peru. According to AYS Director Kit Neppl, "Our goal is to send these young people out to work and to really make a difference in the two weeks we are there." "We were working to mix mud to create the cement we needed to build walls," Miller recounts. A local water dispute made running water impossible, "So, we put our heads together and decided to^ make a human assembly line to the river and we gathered the water ourselves. "It was amazing to see villagers bring whatever they could find and join us. We were using everything from two-liter bottles to plastic containers to old buckets," she "We had about 10 participants," says Glenn Bingham, AYS founder, speaking of the first expedition to Brazil in 1999. Now, after celebrating 10 years, AYS trips fill within a few months of registration opening in September. From all over the US and Canada, volunteers aged 16-19 are organized into groups of approximately 20, including group leaders (college & university students) and parent leaders. Alongside Miller, nearly 200 youth volunteers were assigned to one of nine two-week trips (having raised their own funding) to countries including Tonga, Fiji and Peru. Since its establishment in 1999, AYS has conducted 25 humanitarian aid trips to Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, New . Zealand, Nicaragua, Peru, Tonga and the United States in Appalachia. AYS began when a group of socially conscious LDS parents wanted to offer their teenage sons and daughters the experience of reaching out to poverty-stricken areas around the world. Projects are selected in the categories of enhancing overall community education and health conditions, improving personal hygiene and living conditions, and teaching recreation and life-sustaining skills. The students agree to abide by the AYS code of conduct, which requires the exhibition of honor, integrity and morality, including graciousness and consideration toward individuals of different cultures,' backgrounds and ethnic See PERU • A4 index Fiscal future of America conference caters to conservatives culture-^ JOHN-ROiSS'bDYCE' News" writer" sports world news opinions Senator Orrin Hatch recently felt the need to organize and host a forum titled "The Fiscal Future of America," wherein voters could ask questions and voice their concerns with regard to the country's current economic state. "My office has received literally thousands of letters, phone calls and e-mails from Utahns who are extremely concerned about America's fiscal future," stated Hatch in a press release. "I envision this forum as a way for our citizens to have an opportunity to not^ only listen to some speakers who have been at the forefront of our economy, but to ask questions of the experts and provide feedback to me that I can arm myself with for this fight in Washington." Co-sponsored by the Office of the President, The Woodbury School of Business and The Center for the Study of Ethics, the Aug. "My office has received literally thousands of letters, phone calls and e-mails from Utahns who are extremely concerned about America's fiscal future," Orrin Hatch 28 forum featured two-time presidential candidate and Forbes Magazine Editor-inChief, Steve Forbes. Douglas Holtz Eakin, Formej director of the Congressional Budget Office, was also present. Although Hatch himself expected to attend, the senator was not present, having been called to eulogize at Ted Kennedy's funeral. Hatch arranged for Gary Herbert to stand in for him. However, the newlyappointed governor did not stay for the entirety of the forum. According to press releases, topics to be discussed included "Is Capitalism Dead?" "Are Entitlement Programs a Cancer on Our Future?" and "The Basics of the Federal Budget: Where It Comes From and Where It Goes." However, due to conservative concern over healthcare reform, the, discussion hovered mainly around subjects such as theinsurance market, death . See FISCAL • A4 |