UVSC College Times, 2005-04-18

              rain? CSnneciD UTAH VALLEY STATE ,1 JJiiJJj vl Al 1711 Jll Jil JvliJlU Q "Operating at the will of the state legislature since 1941' VOLUME 33 -ISSUE 32) nn i i i n n J r i i ! I in ( pnr i UTAH mill'Y.S'im t H j li II 7V-: 4. I'1 Mi,.,' i i :, Bite SU I: Landon Smith Assistant Sports Editor n Uctober or luui, rarKway Crossing apartments pledged 1.7 .million dollars to help lure the Provo Angels to Orem and secure the naming rights of the new baseball facility at UVSC. A year and a half later, the ballpark is complete and the Provo Angels are now known as the Orem Owlz, but the name of the stadium is still up in the air. The money that was pledged in the initial agreement between UVSC and Parkway Crossing has not been paid and both the Orem Owlz and Utah Valley State College have put the brakes on any visible use of the name "Parkway Crossing Stadium." "The owners of Parkway Crossing have asked for an extension and they want to pay all the money at one time" said UVSC President William Sederburg, "they're not getting the occupancy that they expected and they have asked for more time. But they are honorable people and I have no question that the money will be forthcoming." But even though President Sederburg and the UVSC administration expect the payment from Parkway Crossing, if the money is not put forth the school has other options. "We do have some other potential people that might want to step in and fill in the void," Sederburg said. The Orem Owlz have removed Parkway' Crossing from all of their literature and they are promoting the ballpark as the "New Stadium." Sarah Hansen, the Assistant General Manager for the Orem Owlz, released this statement. "While we haye not been involved with the naming of the stadium, we are excited to fee here and ; wm ' v 1 1 in iinii i ill ii t n ir i - i I t .iii L . m . 3 j Steve LundquistNetXNews iii!S rosuolloo pi'ogs'aiii noods 0 orii in uin nvnn Errin Julkunen Editor-at-Large According to Kathy French, a professor in Behavioral Sciences, UVSC "only recycles about eight percent of its waste." Other campuses in tne state recycle between 24 to 35 percent, with BYU recycling almost 75 percent of its waste with its on-campus facility. French, advisor of the newly formed Green 'UVSC only recycles about 8 of its waste. Kathy French Green Club Advisor Club, as well as the chair of the faculty committee on recycling, and others on campus hope to one day have an on campus recycling facility. Due to financial , restraints, especially the estimated $400,000 capital investment, a complete overhaul of UVSC's recycling program is in the earliest stages of development.Financial restrictions aren't deterring French, given the capacity an on campus facility would have to sustain itself after the initial investments. "Right now, the bottom line is prohibitive, and yet, BYU and USU have made these capital investments and paid for them through their recy-cling programs." Brad Mertz, Development Officer for Institutional Advancement, says there are other options for UVSC and recycling. Another option, beyond the on campus facility, would be to contract our recycling to a local vendor. "There are a lot of misconceptions about recycling," said Mertz, "one is that recycling ought to pay me. Though it does cost to recycle, the cost can actually be less than if we throw things away." Students on campus agree with Mertz and French. Nicole Nelson, president of the UVSC Green Club, organized a waste audit along with other students. "We want to show the campus how much of the Mm in (iio malting Scholar in Residence shares stories from his amazing life Richie Wilcox Your Campus Editor "He was an enigma people don't understand him," said UVSC Scholar in Residence J. Bonner Ritchie about Yasser Arafat. "To be really honest, I liked him. He was bright, he was articulate, he was funny. He defined himself as a freedom fighter, not as a terrorist." Bright, funny and articulate in his own right, Bonner Ritchie has lived a life that could easily be made into a Hollywood movie. From serving as an army officer in Berlin when the wall went up, to being shot at during the 1960s civil rights movement and having several encounters with Martin Luther King Jr., to being an integral part of the formation of the Organizational Behavior (OB) academic discipline, to working with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and its past and future leaders, Ritchie has lived an Courtesy PhotoSunstone Dr. J. Bonner Ritchie extraordinary life. Born in Heber, Utah and later moving to San Francisco, Ritchie completed his PhD in Labor Economics at UC-Berkeley. His dissertation was part of the beginning stages of OB. At the time the phrase 'organizational behavior' didn't even exist in the acad emic lexicon. Today, a google search of OB will yield nearly 10 million results. v