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Show AQUi YAHORA UNICEF muy pronto en UVU LIDIA ABANTO/UVU REVIEW BY LIDIA ABANTO Staff Writer El Club UNICEF es un gran proyecto que se va desarrollar en UVU. Como sabemos, UNICEF es una de las organizaciones mas reconocidas a nivel internacional que presta ayuda a los ninos del mundo. Por esta razon, un grupo de estudiantes de UVU estan dispuestos a trabajar por los ninos. "La idea de crear el club surgi6 porque queria hacer voluntariado, ya que estoy haciendo un minor en Community Health. Entonces, despues de una ardua busqueda por internet, en- contre los proyectos de UNICEF, una organizacion que me parece muy confiable," expres6 Maria Jose Velasco, estudiante de pre-medicina. Gracias al gran entusiasmo y gestiones que esta realizando Velasco, muy pronto estard funcionando el Club UNICEF en UVU. Igualmente, una vez que esta establecido el club, se llevaran a cabo diversos proyectos relacionados con la prevencion de la salud infantil. "Hay mucho que hacer mediante UNICEF. Hay un proyecto muy importante llamado Zona Cero, este proyecto representa un gran reto para UNICEF, porque la meta es lograr que mueran cero ninos por problemas de salud," dijo Velasco. El profesor Mathew Flint es el consejero del club, el esta encargado del departamento de Community Health en UVU. Igualmente, la comision organizadora se esta preparando para empezar a trabajar en varios proyectos relacionados con UNICEF. "Rapidamente, he teni- Student loans surpass credit card debt 1141141.• Lir do respuestas y apoyo de muchos estudiantes de UVU. Muchos estan entusiasmados y quieren ser parte del club y trabajar en tan loable causa, para ayudar a los ninos del mundo," agreg6 Velasco. Maria Jose quiere ser pediatra y poder servir a los ninos. Pronto ira a Ecuador, su tierra natal, para hacer servicio en un hospital de ninos. El pr6ximo afio en Abril, ella se graduard como biologa y luego dard el siguiente paso para it a la escuela de medicina, y hacer realidad su gran suefio. "Esto lo hago de coraz6n, ya que mi mayor deseo es comenzar a servir a los ninos. El Club UNICEF es un proyecto que me llena, lo hago con mucha pasion, sin deseo de figurar, sino de hacer algo por los ninos a quien tanto amo y servir en la sociedad," enfatizo Velasco. Si quieres ser parte del club UNICEF en UVU, contactate con Velasco enviando un email a machevelasco@ gmail.com . Lo tinico que necesitas es tener ganas de servir a los ninos del mundo. CAMPUS JUNGLE The school has a dwindling population of live plants throughout the halls and concourses BY JOHN CARLSEN Staff Writer Lt.OL-1:;!-\N • .. ." \•.) COURTESY OF STOCKICHANG With hikes in tuition, parents and students alike search for different ways to pay for their education. BY SARA NYUGEN High School Intern Young adults owe more on student loans, roughly $870 billion, than Americans owe on credit card debt, which is about $693 billion. reported the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. With rising tuition costs, adults have become concerned with the rising generation. President Barack Obama has recently asked colleges to find a way to stop tuition hikes. Earlier this month, a Student Loan Forgiveness Act was introduced to the House. The act introduced a 10-10 standard where if a person pays 10 percent of their discretionary income for 10 years, then their remaining student loan debt will be forgiven. However, this is capped at $45,520. Currently, 22 percent of a student's tuition is paid from loans. Students pay 26 percent of their tuition either from borrowing money or through savings, according to a Sallie Mae 2011 survey. Students' parents are the most relied upon source for funding college. Parents pay 37 percent of their child's college education. However, this is a decrease from the 47 percent reported in 2010. Parents have become increasingly aware of rising tuition prices, according to Sallie Mae. Together, parents and students have been finding ways to pay less for college. Over the past four years, students have started their higher education by first going to less expensive twoyear public schools and then transferring to four-year public schools. The survey also discovered that middle-income families who received grants rose 19 percent in the past year. It would appear that parents want to make sure that their children graduate college with little to no debt. However, some parents don't believe that financial independence for their children starts with graduating from college. Three out of ten parents claim that children shouldn't have to depend on themselves for money until age 25 or later, according to the Pew Research Center. In times past, the halls around campus teemed with life, plant life. There was a movement in the 1990s to get more live plants in the halls to help improve the atmosphere of the school. Atmosphere is a term that is associated with both mood and air quality. Live plants help improve both, and studies have shown that plants cheer people up. This is why gardening and hiking are often suggested as stress-relieving activities. Plants also improve air quality and remove contaminants from the air, creating a healthier environment for the people around them. Peggy Pasin of the Women's Success Center said Carrol Reid, the Dean of Learning Resources and Services in the early 1990s, spearheaded the movement on campus to get more live plants. Reid was influential in the design of the Losee Center's fourth floor atrium and had planned to fill it with many plants to create a unique place for students to study. Reid would not survive to see her dream come to fruition. She died as the result of a car accident in November 1992. The school held a memorial in the atrium she helped choose and dedicated it in her honor. The school's halls were filled with plants for many years, and the decline in recent years has led to very few plants throughout the hallways. Live plants can be very expensive and time consuming with plants on a 2.5 million square foot campus. Increasingly, the school resorts to the use of artificial plants to help create maintain the mood of the campus. This is especially prevalent in the Losee Center, where artificial plants abound. CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted UVU has room for improvement when it comes to helping pregnant and NICOLA PRITCHETT/UVU REVIEW nursing students. WITH CHILD FROM Al more accommodations provided for nursing mothers on campus." The lack of nursing accommodations has been an increasing problem with women, students and faculty alike, on campus. "I personally have served 25 years and had at least two children during this time. I was treated completely fairly as an employee, including benefits," said Julie Bagley at student support services. "But a couple months ago, the lactation room availability came to my attention." Along with nursing space need, Morgan Alvari, a student at UVU, feels that there could be more diaper changing decks because there are "diaper changing decks in some bathrooms, but not all." Even if an expecting mother is not going to school at that moment, there are ways the school can help make her situation a little easier by helping a spouse or family member be accessible to their needs. "I dropped out earlier on because I was too nauseated from the early stage of pregnancy," said Mckaye Johnson, who would have been a sophomore. "But I know for my husband, he isn't allowed to have his phone out or on in class ... but they let him because I could call any day now saying I'm in labor." So open a door or help out the next expecting mother you see in the halls. Stress isn't good for the baby or the mother, and a helping hand is just what people need at times to help relieve excess stress. 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