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Show Speech competition review Team Elevate wins student elections JMEGGIEWOODFIELD News editor Student body officers for the 2010-2011 school year were announced March 3 after three days of hard campaigning. Team Elevate, consisting of Richard Portwood, Clint Pulver, Chris Loumeau and Sarah Standing won by nearly double the votes of team UVUnited. Members of team UVUnited included Michael Spurrier, Nathan Lambson, Daniel Diaz and Tess Seymour. Of the 21,944 eligible voters, 9.72 percent voted at a total of 2,134 votes. Linzee Bonner was elected as Vice President for Clubs over Joe Jurisic with 18/30 of the eligible 134 club votes. For video footage of the announcing of the election results by Trevor Tooke and for interviews with Portwood and Spurrier visit www.uvureview.com Photos by TRENT BATES/ UVU Review green essay contest HUNT :£jj$g t iJJ lifestyle. Since that time members of the committee and student association have Asst. News editor " " " worked with student council members and In an effort to raise»awareness about the administration to better inform students "Go Green" campaign, UVUSA will be about the green initiative. hosting a campuswide essay contest. "Under the direction of the president In September 2008 the Sustainability we have been doing a lot of stuff to Committee was created in an effort to promote environmental awareness See GREEN • A4 and the benefits of living a sustainable H DW do WINNING ESSAY TO BE PRINTED IN ESSAY CONTEST WRITE A DNE-PAGE F5SAV0U THF IMPORTANCE OF GOING GREEN AND LIVING A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE c reen? Several eager spectators filled the library auditorium on March 2 to await the third annual Marie Clegg-Jones Speech Competition. The competition included a host of talented young speakers addressing a variety of different issues relevant to both the local community and nation as a whole. While all participants were impressive in their own way, Tyler Fenn stole the spotlight and the $500 grand prize, His speech centered around fire and smoke alarm safety, specifically in the home. The purpose was to educate the general population on the dangers of low quality smoke alarms and the benefit of upgrading to a higher quality system. Fenn took second place in the competition two years ago but was motivated to compete once again. "When I saw the banners this semester I thought you know what I'm gonna do it again, I'm gonna go for the gold," said Fenn. "So 1 feel pretty good that I set out to accomplish something and was able to do it." Fenn stressed the importance of his message saying that it is crucial to know what you can do to avoid a potentially tragic situation. "Just educate yourself on fire safety in the home," said Fenn. "Make sure that you're not living a life of ignorant bliss because it can take your life." Paul Starita placed second in the contest taking home $250 while Dustin Phelps placed third winning $125. The judges included University President Matthew Holland, Dr. David Yells, Lori Stevens, Michael Mclean and Kevin Jones. Tom Zeller Jr. speaks on climate change: "I still remain an optimist" said Zeller. He passed that education on to a crowd of News writer nearly 200 UVU students arid faculty. On Feb. 25 "New York One of the issues disTimes" editor and writer cussed was balancing the imTom Zeller Jr. visited the portance of our environment Ragan Theater to speak with our need for things like about the impact businesses heat and light. Zeller illusare having on the global trated the value we place on climate. nature at the start by having Zeller has spent the last 12 years covering everything the audience close their eyes from technology to politics, and imagine a perfect place. The global climate but the last year and a half change debate has always Zeller has been writing on been passionate, but very the issue of climate change. He admitted to knowing very slow going. Zeller believes little about the issue and not this has a lot to do with having a great passion for . businesses' reluctance to take personal responsibilthe environment before this ity and action. One willing recent undertaking. individual is Ray Anderson "The last year and a half of Interface Global who has has been an education," pledged to not only stop polluting, but to "erase their carbon footprint completely by the year 2020. Although progress is small, Zeller's glass remains half full. He expressed that the subject of global warming's validity is less important than the subject of pollution itself. Zeller showed his optimism when he said, "As a species we have solved big problems before." "Asa species we have solved big problems before," said Tom Zeller. |