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Show Club helps students learn English By DEVEN LEIGH ELLIS Asst. Life Editor GILBERT CISNEROS / UVU REVIEW English Conversation Club Assistant Jake Phakphoom matches ESL students with volunteers for conversation practice each semester. Got the gift of gab? You may be a good fit for the English Conversation Club Venturing onto the second floor of the Liberal Arts building or even removing one's almighty earbuds while meandering between classes reveals populations more than just those hailing from Utah. Native Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Russian and, of course, Spanish speakers populate UVU with rapidly increasing numbers. The English as a Second Language program currently boasts over 195 students with an operating budget of approximately 1.2 million dollars for the 2010-2011 school year. Although the program teaches international students how to speak, read, write and listen to English, any person who has embarked upon the classrooms of English, teachtrying task of acquiring a for- ing and Social Work majors, eign language knows that the as well as those who sign up best way to do it is to practice during UVU's biannual Club using the target language, as Rush. in speaking it, preferably with Phakphoom, Jake a other people. 2 6 -year-old As intimidatsenior majoring as that sounds ing in English - and it is - the Literature, has English Converspearheaded sation Club aims the 10-year-old to lessen the presECC for the sure on foreign past two years. language students Phakphoom by pairing them works in the Inup in a conversaternational Of-JAKE PHAKPHO OM tional setting with fice, located in English speakers. the Woodbury While the one Business Buildhour-per-week sessions are ing, matching students with mandatory for participating volunteers and keeping tabs students in the ESL program, on their progress. the ECC relies on student volunteers recruited from the ENGLISH B7 It's not really about teaching—just talking. V, Creepy crawlers on the menu at UVU Fear Factor event By DEVEN LEIGH ELLIS Asst. Life Editor GILBERT CISNEROS/UVUREVIEW Twenty students were whittled down to the final three. An icy ropes course, bison testes, grasshoppers and more for students vying for UVU Bookstore money Josh Petersen ate his way through Bison testicles, cow tongue and live cockroaches and grasshoppers to secure the coveted $300 UVU Bookstore scholarship from UVUSA's reproduction of NBC's "Fear Factor." The internet and local butcher shops were the sources for the edible portions of the competition. The annual event drew approximately 50 spectators who came to witness 20 competitors contend for textbook money. The first three rounds eliminated 17 people, leaving three to compete in what is simultaneously considered the most repulsive, yet alluring round in "Fear Factor:" consumption of live insects and livestock reproductive parts. 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