UVSC College Times, 2006-10-09

              MONDAY OCTOBER 9 2006 THE STUDENT VOICE OF UTAH VALLEY STATE VOLUME XXXVI NO. 12 i . .. v .y i u I t ! ; . SPORTS Wolverine Volleyball The women's volleyball team faced off against cross-town rival and 1 9 BYU. See how they played on page B7. Real attitude Real Salt Lake has one game left. What's the teams attitude over the last week? Find out on B8. LIFE The Departed Is Scorsese's The Departed actually worth the "Oscar buzz," or is it going to go down like The Aviator! See page 62. The Killers- Sams Town Want to go on a little retreat? The Killers take us away to SAM'S TOWN with their new album. See pageBI. OPINIONS Of birds and bees Abstinence or contraceptives in Utah Schools. Our own Justin Rit-ter discusses the pros and cons of sex education. For his opinion turn to AS. NEWS BACA accepts award Why is the Center for the Study of Ethics presenting the founder of a motorcycle gang with an award? Find out on page A2. Nutrition Study Doctor claims milk is a leading contender in causing cancer. Read more about doctors research on page A3. striate Ashely Robertson News Editor "People in Washington go into their offices and they know that no one is watching them," said Pete Ashdown, Utah democratic candidate for United States Senate, during a discussion held at UVSC on October 5 on Open Government: Transparency and Ethics. Ashdown is one of six Utah candidates, including Republican and current Utah U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, running for the c I ! Ml N , .t v. i- T .'' 1 Accessibility services aid students in learning Jeff Hilton News Writer Laurie Watts is the manager of the deaf services for the accessibility services department, and she explained that things have changed since she began working at UVSC in 2002. "Our goal is to provide the best services in Utah for deaf and hard of hearing students," Watts said. During the 2001-2002 school year, Phil Mecham attended UVSC as a deaf student. He worried he would lose his scholarship because he couldn't understand the lectures his professors gave. Now, UVSC offers a variety of lhpe'fyl wosofts campy U.S. Senate in the upcoming November 7 elections. Ashworth, who is also the founder of XMis-sion Internet, discussed chiefly the lack of accountability and responsibility within the United States government. "How do we ensure government rolls?" Ashdown asked. "I don't think we've known how to. Government employees have no accountability and the constitutions doesn't offer that transparency." Ashdown, who pledges to "publish his calendar of meet TT fl iff TO" HjlTP. ;U John Oitzler Executive Editor had a good solid hour of crying. I didn't think it would affect me this way." Tiffany Roberts, a senior in the behavioral science program, is referring to the display of t-shirts hung from clotheslines strung throughout Centre Stage October 5-6. Each t-shirt has a felt marker message or a story scrawled across it describing first hand experiences of abuse. Other elements of The Clothesline Project included prepared remarks by representatives of Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) Thursday night, followed by a candlelight vigil. The Clothesline Project began in 1990, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts as a way for women to express their emotions after experiencing various forms of abuse when they happened upon the fact that during the Vietnam War, in the same time that over 50,000 US' soldiers were killed by enemy combatants abroad, domestically over 50,000 women were killed by men in their lives with whom they had shared See CLOTHESLINE A4 T ' aid to deaf students. Students are given a choice of what aid they would prefer. Interpreters and other individuals hired to assist the deaf under go confidential evaluations conducted by those they assist. Evaluations help to find the most qualified assistance. If students have a concern, Carol MacNicholl is an official whose job it is to find a solution. MacNicholl is the academic advisor for the deaf and hard of hearing at UVSC, and is deaf herself. There are many ways the accessibility services department helps its deaf students. A hearing member of one of their classes ings and events in relation to his' public life" as a part of his campaign has challenged government offices to make public such information as their work schedules and phone logs. Citing the recent Mark Foley case as an example of the lack of government responsibility, Ashdown feels scandals such as these could be caught early on, if not avoided all together, if accountability were taken by government employees for their work and responsibilities as well as the pub T r V . V - , i r r i H 1 4i can volunteer to take notes for a deaf student. A stenographer can be provided to record a lecture. A student can choose to have a transcriber type an abbreviated version of a lecture and send it to the student's computer screen during class. This method also allows the deaf individuals to send messages to the transcriber from a computer during class as well. Other aid includes using a sign language interpreter. The is also the F.M. system, which is a speech amplification device. These are some but not all servic- See SERVICES - A4 lic sharing of this information. "This problem doesn't change because the government doesn't want it to change," Ashdown said, "Technology offers the opportunity for accountability through publishing government employees schedules on the Internet." The topic of accountability regarding government funding was also discussed. "There should be as many eyes as possible on the government funding process," See ASHDOWN A5 Students visit UVSC for conference John Ditzler Executive Editor UVSC's Center for the Advancement of Leadership hosted its annual leadership conference in the McKay Events Center, Tuesday, Oct. 3. Three thousand three hundred high school and junior high students from across the state registered for the event. Organizers estimate the number of attendees to have been around 4,000, including UVSC college students. This year's theme was "The Power to Influence," with keynote addresses by motivational speakers Steven R. Covey and Meg Wheatley. Several students from Pay-son High, Sarah Harold, Cassie Falnbella and Chad Parks, are all thinking about attending college at UVSC, and were in attendance Tuesday. "The day was pretty fun," Harold said. Harold wants to pursue a career as a loan officer. Falnbella, who wants to study accounting, said she learned how to be a better leader through the conference. Her favorite breakout session was one held by army recruiters, and included an obstacle course of sorts. When he finishes high school, Parks plans on serving an LDS mission and then studying accounting when he returns. He said the conference was better than being in school all day. CAL Director Dr. Bruce Jackson said, "Our goal is to give the high school and junior high school students throughout Utah a world-class experience in leadership. We have a comprehensive leadership certification process for all degrees on campus. We hope that what we do within the community (especially through the Annual Leadership Conference) will prompt students to choose UVSC as the best place for them to continue on their journey through personal and professional excellence." Jackson recapped Wheat-ley's speech when he said, "She showed us that you don't have to be executives, senators or military officers to be leaders. Leaders show up in every sphere of life. I very much enjoyed the concepts about the 'walk out's'-those individuals who have left the perceived ladder of success to find causes that they felt passionate about." Jackson said Covey's speech emphasized "leadership as a process that taps into all parts of self: physical, emotional, psychological, philosophical and spiritual dimensions." Event organizers hoped to See LEADERSHIP A4