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Show Message from UVUSA UVUSA is going green, will you? ing to air dryers could save money in the long run. UVUSA Executive Vice President To clarify slightly on some of the statistics givUVUSA is enthusiastic en: UVUSA, despite our about the progress that has unwavering commitment,, been made thus far with recycling at UVU. Our efforts did not invest $15,000 into the recycling program. to make the campus more The investment came from environmentally friendly student tuition, which have been widely supported. We shows the appreciate "^"—^— • " ^ ^ • " importance the constant that our ad"UVUSA invites support that ministration you to share your we receive puts on the recycling from the ideas, comments, initiative. administraor suggestions to tion and most make our campus We did, on the importantly greener" other hand, our fellow use apstudents. proximately However, $1,500 we are also keenly aware that there to purchase 250 large is more that can be done white recycling stickers to in order to have a greener ' label and help distinguish campus. Erica LeMaster, a the new recycling bins' writer for the UVU Review, throughput campus. With also understands that we regard to UVUSA's efforts have more to do and wrote to provide recycling opan exceptional article in the tions, LeMaster states that Sep. 7 edition filled "Blue "It has come this far but it bins not green enough." She cannot stop here." UVUSA gave an informative and would like to echo the auwell thought out alternathor's comment: it cannot tive to the wasted paper stop here. towels in our bathrooms and These are truly the demonstrated how switchbeginning movements of a RICHARD T.P0R7W00D Trevor Tooke and Richard Portwood show off one the new bins. your ideas, comments, or suggestions to make our campus greener. Working together we can make a difference. laFge effort to have a more environmentally friendly campus. UVUSA calls on all students to share with us TRENT BATES/UVU Review Visit UVUSA in SC 105 or email the student body president at TrevorT@uvu.edu. Choose the right Why I am a Wolverine I ' £ 11*1 I * _L I I Life and liberty require the law life-threatening, and would want to have certain rights recognized to prevent from happening, in society. It's not just humanitarian - it's being realistic. Gov. Gary Herbert and I might both be The fact is that we do live in a state Orem High graduates and from the same where structural violence occurs to marhometown, but he apparently has quite ginalized groups, and especially the huge a different experience of being a Utahn LGBTQ community. Candice Metzler, than I do. I don't know what kind of Utah known as a male to her co-workers, was Herbert lives in, but I'd sure like to raise fired three months ago when she began her kids there. transition to female by wearing makeup to I mean, what could be better for fuher company barbecue. Earlier this year, a ture prosperity than a state where, as he man in Pleasant Grove was fired from his recently put it, "We don't have to have a credit union when he came out as gay to rule for everybody to do the righwt thing" his boss. Last year, UTA fired a transgenbecause it's "The right thing to do and we • der bus driver who was concerned about don't have a law that punishes us if we using the men's restroom. don't." 1 don't know what laws would be The grand irony of rejecting things like for in a state where everyone just does "the anti-discrimination ordinances is how it'd right thing." Who needs a governor when benefit all Utahns. An ordinance would we have a philosopher? protect everyone, not just gays, lesbians This rhetoric of having faith in people and the transgendered. If, nypothetically, to simply know what and when "the right we lived in a state riddled with predomithing" is romanticizes reality. When we're talking about uniting over two million peo- nantly gay businesses that started firing ple in one common code of moral conduct, straight employees, and it lead to putting a we start talking about fascism or a theocra- large number of Utah straight men out of cy as options; not surprisingly, most people a job, Herbert might be singing a different who feel wary of protecting certain Utahns tune. If Herbert believed in "local governhave little to no qualms about protecting ment" and "from the grourid up," you'd the "right" to worship and be a member of imagine he'd be pretty enthusiastic about the predominant religion in Utah. giving each of the various (and yes, Herbert may want everyone to play "special") groups of Utahns due time and nice in the Beehive state, but if all he says attention, whether they be members of the is, "Don't poke each other's eyes out with Temple of Isis, the growing number of a stick; feel free to do and say just about South Korean college students, or gays and anything else," he's being irresponsible. He lesbians. seems to have a very narrow understanding Trying to lump everyone into a box like of violence, especially structural violence we're all one big happy (Mormon, white like misogyny, ethnocentrism, nationaland straight) family all consistently doing ism, racism and heterosexism. I'd be hard "the right thing" is more than prejudice pressed to find someone who wouldn't it's plain lazy. see those things as discriminatory and MATTHEW A. JONASSAINT Asst. Opinions editor Off campus food can be allowed with approval According to an article recently published in the UVU Review, campus food services does not allow any exceptions to their rule barring food from outside sources being brought onto campus, but this is simply not true. AH that needs to be done to arrange for offcampus is a signature from Director of Food Services, Val Brown, who has an open door policy. "I approve around two requests for outside food a week," Brown said. "As long as the request is justifiable through a club, I have no problem allowing that food be brought on campus." Although food services will happily allow food on campus for special reasons, it is crucial to remember the importance of supporting on campus food and catering services. Using-dining services extends past eating lunch and into helping to improve campus. Between the Food Court, Valley View Room and the satellite cafe's, Dining Services strives to offer almost anything a student would want. However, if a club wants showcase several different foods, then obtain a signature from Val Brown and start planning your event. Elizabeth Sadler ' this professor. Reasonable, right? The professor's response was absolutely Opinions writer abhorrent and went so far as to call Kfir a "hyperbolic and fantastically arrogant This is my final semester at Utah Valley condescending brat" just for bringing up his University. I have been here for three years. concerns. I have fallen in love with this school for the same reasons many of us choose this school: Believe me when I tell you that if you smaller class sizes, enhanced engagement had seen the original e-mail sent by Kfir, opportunities, and practical experiences. you would be stunned at this response. I think my head almost exploded. There is My original intention in coming back to absolutely nothing that would Utah was to attend BYU. Nevertheless I stayed here ^ ™ " ^ ^ ^ — •—^——•- warrant this type of response from a faculty member. Even and while I have been in if the initial e-mail had an the valley I have been able Those of you extremely aggressive tone, to examine the differences that are debating this response, coming from between these two schools between BYU and a professional BYU faculty and am entirely satisfied UVU, please take it member, is disgusting. with my decision to stay. from a future alum: Stay here, get inMy purpose in writing this One of the biggest volved, speak your is not to debate Middle-East reasons for my satisfaction mind. politics, or whether or not is in watching the suppreseither party had a legitimate sion of student voice at concern. Likewise, it is not BYU. Students are not in a my intent to typecast all BYU position to express themfaculty members because I selves in the same way. that know that some are terrific. we are. Whether it pertains^o faculty or administration, students there are definitely But, I want to show how fortunate we all limited in expressing their views. are to attend a university where our faculty is both accessible and approachable, and our Something came across my inbox the administration is extremely receptive to us. other day that completely sustains this. I This administration listens to the feedback know a student at BYU who is involved with a Middle East peace organization. This of the students through the UVU Review, UVUSA, the classroom, and other student individual had some concerns about a Heorganizations. brew Club advisor who (from the student's perspective} seemed to be politicizing the Further, I would never expect to see a club. response like this from any member of our faculty. In short, I feel that UVU is set apart This student, named fcfir, wrote an from the rest of the collegiate pack because e-mail expressing his concern and cited we are much more student-centric. several cases of perceived bias. I read the e-mail repeatedly and found Kfir to be exSo, for those of you that are debating betremely professional, though certainly firm tween BYU and UVU, please take it from a in expressing his concerns. The essential future alum: Stay here, get involved, speak message calls for a return to the tenets on your mind, and enjoy every single second of which the club was founded, and departure it. You might not get that chance at another from the divergent views being put forth by school. 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