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Show CULTURE B3 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Bowls for Humanity From B1 nate bowls. This year's goal is to help the Food & Care Coalition finish the second floor of their facility. This floor will be reserved for "transitional housing" for the homeless, a place for them to stay while they get their lives together. The Coalition is adamant that it will not be a free ride. Residents will be required to work around the facility, attend specific treatments (if applicable) and participate in work training. The fifth annual Bowls for Humanity fundraiser will take place on Friday, March 4 from 6-9 p.m. at the Food & Care Coalition (299 East 900 South, Provo). Admission is free and handmade soup bowls, filled with soup and a roll, range from $520. Those not interested in purchasing pottery can still get soup for $3 per bowl, catered by the Food & Care Coalition, as well as Marvellous Catering. student? Do you have a job or any unusual or interesting hobbies? I've been a pottery artist for 16 or 17 years and selling my work for 12-13 years. I also teach pottery at the Red Kiln Pottery Studio in Salt Lake. Are you part of any UVU clubs? Which ones? Yes, I am the president of the Ceramic Artist Association. We're having a Mother's Day fundraiser in April, so stay tuned for that. Why do you get up in the morning, or what motivates you to do the things you do? [What inspired me to organize Bowls for Humanity was] a nagging feeling that something needed to happen, that someone needed to help and participate. What's the best movie you've seen in the past year? RED Where are you from? Provo, UT What are your post-UVU plans? Ideally, teaching ceramics on a community level. What has been your favorite UVU class? What is your guilty pleasure? Watching BONES on Netflix. In your opinion, what is the most beautiful place on earth and why? Anywhere outdoors. It's peaceful, spiritual and beautiful. Probably oil painting. Zombies or vampires? How about your favorite UVU professor? Vampires. Art professors Catherine Downing and Brian Jensen, plus Art History lecturer Courtney Davis. If you could share one piece of advice withyour fellow UVU students, what would it be? What do you do when you're not a Stay focused — it will come to an end! Name: Tammy Rodeback Year: Senior Major: BFA with an emphasis in Fine Arts Photo courtesy of Tammy Rodeback Scoops in the Sorensen Center is just one place students congregate in between classes. Gilbert Cisneros/ UVU REVIEW Oh, the places you'll hang out By Todd Parkinson Staff Writer On this campus, there doesn't seem to be a designated spot for students to hang out. This holds true for nearly all types of students. Jace Patrick, a Public Relations major, expressed that BYU has more of a defined set of hangout spots due to their strong Latter-Day Saint culture and University of Utah students find places to hang out that match their area of individual diversity. Yet at UVU, there are not really such places. "There is [just] no place to hang out here," said Patrick. One place on campus that does have a consistent turnout is the Institute building, where Latter-Day Saint students gather. A constant flow of students go there to enjoy a swear-free and non-controversial setting due to the LDS atmosphere inside the building. There are also ping-pong and pool tables for their enjoyment. The sad thing is that a lot of students just come to their classes and leave without having extracurricular experiences on campus. It seems that most students lack the ambition to care about what is happening around campus. A problem that may be the cause of a lot of this is the "on the fence" atmosphere between a pop culture society and a LatterDay Saint society. This type of tear leaves students in Utah in a state of identity crisis, walking around campus without socializing with any type of group. The library seems to be a place where quite a few of the athletes congregate to study or perhaps, more likely, check out members of the opposite sex. The noise level of a library has to be kept to a minimum, so there is only so much a student can do at the library. For people in the music or acoustic scene, the winter does not really have much to offer to them for places to hang out. In warmer times, the steps by the fountains serve as a great place for acoustic entertainment, but that is only just a few months out of the year. This campus's atmosphere has not really been known for people getting together due to the lack of finding cultural wants for each diversity. People remain passive due to the lack of interest of the majority. In a wilderness environment, animals congregate to a place where they feel like they are in a natural habitat. Many students feel as if they have not found their natural habitat at this campus, so they fail to congregate at all. It all winds down to the lack of awareness of what each second party has to offer, or possibly boils down to people not caring. |