UVSC College Times, 2005-10-10

              o The independent voice of students at Utah Valley State MONDAY OCTOBER 102005 WWW.NETXNEWS.NET VOLUME XXXIV NO. ',, r'Put Hale in your Halloween Fixing The Big Easy...not so easy Bryan Horn of The College Republicans weighs in on the Bush Administration's handling of the hurricanes. Your lovely letters on evil iPods, the ganja, and the woes of parking. Opinions starts on A6. The Evil Empire Once again The New York Yankees are in the post-season, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. Sports starts on B4. - I Want something a little different for r your costume this year? The Hale Theater might be able to help. Life starts on B 1 . fit L j . .. . - - - .i,n,-. . .. Tinrir i in i ma mii ",m"Vt Talcing the college out of college: Campus leaders look toward university status Errin Julkunen News Editor The word "college" is disappearing from Utah Valley State. From the West entrance sign to the scoreboard at the baseball stadium to items in the bookstore, "college" is missing. Some have insinuated that this may be one of UVSC's strides toward becoming a university. Whether or not dropping "college" 'from the name of the school is a step in that direction, UVSC is getting closer to becoming a university. "In my opinion, we already operate at a university level," said Student Body President. Jared Sumsion. "I feel like we have teachers teaching masters degree level work right now." "There's not a timeline, and we're working with the Regents," said Derek Hall, Spokesperson "for UVSC, "But we do have the consultants coming in early November." The consultants will help UVSC come closer to reaching its goal of attaining university status. Ken Mortimer will chair the group. Mortimer works for the National Center of Higher Education Management Systems, and has been President of University of Western Washington University and University of Hawaii. Jack Newell and Paul Reichardt are also on the committee. Newell is a professor emeritus at the University of Utah and former President of Deep Springs College in California. Reichardt is provost at the University of Alaska. Fairbanks, and served on the accreditation board that reviewed UVSC last year. "He knows us quite well," Hall said. Hall expects the consultants won't report back until March, but says we know the things we need to be working on, lessons learned from accreditation. "We've learned what our weaknesses "We're on the right track and if we continue in this way, I think we could be a university in the next few years." Jared Sumsion UVSC Student Body President are, and we're going to fix them. No matter what." Addressing problems the accreditation board saw will bring UVSC closer to becoming a university, and many of the suggestions the accreditors made are similar to those of Utah Higher Education Commissioner Richard Ken-dell, who put forth eight suggestions See UNIVERSITY -A3 domestic DoDeimce Clothesline Proj AC A and The i.1 sis ma Soares Emily Bitton News Writer Local news stations and newspapers came to UVSC Thursday, October 6, to hear Thelma Soares, mother of Lori Hacking, and Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) speak to UVSC at the candle light vigil put on by the Clothesline Project in honor of Lori Hacking. UVSC awarded Soares with a small glass world that rests on a box which reads, "Thelma Soares, you make the world a better place." Peggy Pasin, the coordinator of the Women's Resource Center on UVSC campus, introduced Thelma Soares and presented her with the award. Before Soares' speech, BACA rode in on their Harleys. Each member of the Utah County Chapter spoke about why they ride with BACA, and how the organization helps children who have been abused. UVSC student Heidi Hagen said, "This experience was very moving and touching. I got the chills! You could tell that each member of BACA was truly sincere and really cared about the children who are in such horrible conditions. It was very emotional." Darwin Demming, an Earth Science Educa- Vegor PedersenNetXNews tion major at UVSC, said, "I didn't intend to listen to Ms. Soares' speech, but after listening to BACA speak I got all choked up and emotional and had to listen to what she had to say." Soares said in her speech, "I never saw any sign of violence or abuse in Lori's marriage to Mark. It took me by surprise. He did not fit the normal profile for violence. Mark said and did all the right things." Then Soares asked the audience, "Is there a profile?" She did not have an answer. Angela Swallow, a Physical Education major at UVSC, said about Soares' remarks, "I thought it was Very touching and emotional. My heart goes out to Lori's family and friends. I followed Lori's story from the beginning. Abuse is so sad and so hard to understand." Through Soares' faith and the prayers of people all over the world she has been able to endure. She has said, "People around the world have contacted me. I have messages from every state across the union including 63 different countries." She has also said, "If you have been abused, know that people do care." SeeCLOTHESLINE A3 ! f "I never saw any sign of violence or abuse in Lori's marriage to Mark...He did not fit the normal profile for violence.Js there a profile?" Thelma Soares Mother of Lori Hacking ... V - v hi " -S3 i-i Chad ClarkNetXNews ABOVE: A student reads the messages wrtten on t-shirts displayed as part of The Clothesline Project. RIGHT: Members of Bikers Against Child Abuse listen to Thelma Soares, mother of murder victim Lori Hacking, at Thursday night's event. n v: c - ... .... b iw