UVSC College Times, 1997-01-08

              n Women's Basketball Wins I four strait games in Holiday L-xotr ; .Jhe best of 1996 films p. 7 January 8, 1 997 Vol. 26 No. 20 The following is a list of events that will occur on UVSC campus or in the surrounding communities. Send any Across Campus information to The College Times, at UVSC, SC 214. Please limit your entries to 50 words or less. The Women's na Resource Center is hosting an Open House January 15 from noon until 2 p.m. in the Ballroom. Former Franklin Quest co-partner, Kevin Hall, will speak on time management. Call Bonnie Kofford at 222-8080 for further information. Hi. Freedom Rings, ijjf UVSC's Gay and Lesbian iiud, are pleased to announce that representatives from the University of Utah's club will join them during their meeting on Tuesday, January 14 at 7 p.m. in FA 722. Anyone interested may attend. .jji. Associate Professor Benjamin Bean received the Teacher of the Year Award for UVSC. Student evaluations were one of the determining factors in the decision to present the award to Bean. "I feel for students," Bean said. "I want them to feel good about themselves and I want them to perform well." UVSC Placement Specialist Anne Lolotai won the state Polynesian Recognition and Scholarship Student Mentor Award. Lolotai won the award mostly for her work as a mentor for Polynesian students at UVSC. The mentor award was received thankfully by Lolotai who said that she had rather receive a mentor award than any other The award was sponsored by the University of Utah. The Utah Regional Ballet will be performing LaCoquette at the UVSC Regan Bullock Theater on March 1, 7, and 8. Night Shows start at 7:30 p.m. and two matinees on March 1 and 8 at 2 p.m. UVSC has been awarded a grant of $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will be used in the of teaching ethics and areas ethics curriculum development. This is the third such grant to be awarded to UVSC for it's work in ethics in ten years. Dr. Elaine Englehardt, director of the Center for the Study of Ethics, said, "Our Faculty have a strong commitment to ethics education. We are pleased that we can now share our resources vith a select number of public school teachers." Cahforni sss -if? - HkGH IP ROTC Rangers meet the challenge Contributed by Major Earl McNeil Four UVSC Army ROTC cadets joined their BYU counterparts on November 8 and 9, 1996, to compete against 19 other teams from California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah in the ROTC Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition. This competition is composed of eight military events; a physical fitness test, patrolling exam, rope bridging, marksmanship, orienteering, hand grenade assault course, weapons assembly and 10 kilometer combat equipment run. Each nine member team competes all events during the course of the two day competition and most teams are made up entirely of men. But no one ever said that UVSC or BYU were "normal" schools. Leave it to the Cougar Battalion and its Wolverine Company to come up with a different way of doing things. Last year a group of female cadets decided that they wanted to enter the competition and formed a team. Calling them- Angels, continued on page 4 Cassandra Suite, of UVSC and Olivia McNeil, of BYU, prepare for the Orienteering Course. Photo courtesy ol Major Earl McNeil. The populations of states like California and Arizona dramati- students flooded back home for the holidays. Many of UVSC students are from the San Francisco Bay area. The last of the three sons, New Year's babies The Associated Press Alice and Daniel Olson made headlines 50 years ago when their son Richard became the third Olson to be born on New Year's Day. Richard was born in IN THE 1947. His brother, Duane, was born on New Year's Day 1945, and another brother, Gerald, was born on New Year's 1943. The Olson's triple-play was heralded with headlines like "Hooray, Another Olson," "Every Other New Year's Day," and "Three of a Kind or Is it a Full House?" The publicity didn't reach its peak until one year later, however. Then news of the births went around the world when Ripley's Believe It or Not, an immensely popular column syndicated in hundreds of newspapers at the time, described the coincidence of the births complete with an illustration of Alice Olson in its Jan. 1, 1948, column. "We're still the world's New Year trio, and it has yet to be repeated anywhere," said oldest son Gerald Olson, who's now 54. "I've kept my ears open. Nothing has ever come anywhere close to this." The Olsons raised the boys and two daughters on their farm northeast of Greenwood. Today, Gerald lives in Minneapolis, where he works at the Veterans Administration Hospital. The second New Year's boy, Duane, 52, followed his father into farming. He milks 50 cows on his farm northeast of Greenwood. He and his wife Donna have five children.Dick, the youngest son, lives in Holmen near LaCrosse, where he has managed his own sporting equipment business for 20 years. He and his wife Margie have four children. Of the three brothers, Gerald is most introspective about the births. "My parents were very humble people. They turned down many offers to capitalize on the births over the years," he said. In December, 1995, Gerald gathered his family in the Twin Cities to celebrate New Year's Day, the first time the sons were together as adults for their New Year's Day birthdays. That New Year's Eve, the family attended a show of "The Prairie Home Companion" in St. Paul. During the show's intermission, when host Garrison Keillor welcomed the Olsons and told the audience about the coincidence of their births, "everybody gasped," Gerald said. To commemorate the event during the 1995 gathering, Jerry gave his brothers and mother each sweatshirts bearing the Ripley's cartoon announcing the Olson's feat. More than her sons, Alice Last, continued on page 14 NATION