UVSC College Times, 2006-09-25

              THE STUDENT VOICE OF UTAH VALLEY STATE VOLUME XXXVI NO. 1 1 ( o ( I t MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25 2006 i-"" . ' ilfc ma-r- , - -y - - i i i I - M,-m I '" - " -" - " ' ' - - - - - - - - r -i n 3 SPORTS Real Salt Lake Every game is a must win for Real Salt Lake if they are going to make the postseason as the regular season winds down seeB7 Sports Clubs Extramurals are gone and the funding for sports clubs is making some students find there own cash in order to play see 68 NEWS Sleep and School UVSC students sleep an average of 6 hours a night. Are you getting enough sleep? see AS Honors Program Additional funding and recent expandsion finds the honors program a new home with more opportunities for its students A2. I V j OPINIONS General Education and diversity Newly proposed General Education requirement incorporating diversity meets opposition. One reader explains why. Turn to A7 v v LIFE Outkast CD review's teaser Outkast's IDLEWILD: not their best but still true to form onB2 Painting professor UVSC professor invited to paint for Mormon pioneer tribute SeeBI. Ethics awareness week has a conscience Keyra Kristoffersen News Writer From Sept. 1 7-22 a series of lectures, seminars and panels were open to students and the community interested in ethics as they pertain to today's society. Hosted by the Center for the Study of Ethics, which created the series more than 15 years ago, professionals from all over the community, as well as UVSC faculty from on campus, were brought in to speak. "The theme for the week is practical ethics as it applies to UVSC aims to get all students registered to vote ' . T u. X. Nun speaks John Ditzler Executive Editor When actress Susan Sarandon read the book Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean, she said she felt compelled to adapt the story into a movie in order to introduce more people to the Sister's story about death-row inmates in the United States. "A the movie came together years later, Susan had no other word to describe the climate inside the wing of prison where inmates are held on death-row, except to describe it as 'surreal,'" said Prejean. "It really is surreal, calmly preparing to kill someone."Prejean spoke to UVSC students and faculty in the Ragan Theater Tuesday Sept. 19, about her personal experiences serving as spiritual advisors to death-row inmates. The event was hosted by the Center for the Study of Ethics.Prejean's account of two education and public policy with the death penalty as one component of the week," said David R. Keller, director of the Center for the Study of Ethics. Ethics is the study of human behavior in determining right from wrong. "Ethics is a study within philosophy," said Don LaVange. He further defined ethics as looking at "models of how we come up with right and wrong. Should we do this; should we do that. The point of Awareness Week is to attempt to raise awareness in the community and in students, bring in different points of view." Representatives Ashley Robertson News Editor tah's Lieutenant Governor's Of fice is holding a competition between all higher education institutions in the state to see which school can get the most students to register to vote. UVSC's student government (ASUVSC) will be proceeding over the competition as Utah's 2006 fall general elections approach. "The state's college council is hoping this competition will motivate students to register and vote," said Mark Thomas, special assistant to the lieutenant gover- See VOTING A9 17 out against death penalty death-row inmates in her book Dead Man Walking was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. That book was later turned into a movie starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon as Sister Prejean. Prejan earned her MA from St. Paul's University in Religious Education and is the recipient of over 40 honorary degrees. Prejean says her faith in Jesus Christ helped her to find compassion for death-row inmates. "You can read the Bible many times and not really read it," Prejean said, then recounted the day she came across a verse in the 25th chapter in the book of Matthew which says, "I was in prison and you came to visit me. "Jesus was not on the side of the comfortable people who were doing all right," said Prejean. "He was eating supper with people who were considered scum-with the sinners, the people that oftentimes weren't temple wor from various religious institutions and professional fields were brought in to discuss their opinions and points of view on the topics. Keynote Speaker Russell C. Fericks, a local attorney, spoke on handgun violence-who should be liable for the violence and the consequences of the lack of responsibility taken for the sale, distribution and use of handguns. Fericks told the story of a woman who came to him shortly before her death caused by complications from a violent encounter; she had asked him, "What can r thy. Translate that to today-who would Jesus eat supper with in our age?" "For me, integrity means you have to act on your beliefs... We're a democracy, and if we're not standing up against something then were complicit," said Prejean; and so, she said she decided to move' so that she could live in the midst of her city's poorer neighborhoods. "When I did that I couldn't believe the hidden underside of the American dream," she said. The concealed nature of capital punishment in america "I believe that America supports the death penalty not because they are more bloodthirsty or callous than other nations that no longer use the death penalty, but because they don't get to see up close how SEE PREJEAN - A4 be done?" He showed how gun manufacturers sold their products on the credo that to own a gun would make you safe, yet the statistics taken by several government agencies say otherwise. He asked, "What is with this upside down world where facts are overrun by our notions?" Other seminars held were on sports and ethics in today's world. Former player for the Pittsburgh Pirates Vernon Law was brought in to speak on the changes that have taken place in the sports See ETHICS -A2 Life after CleanFlicks: the Daniel Thompson story Jason Pyles Assistant Life Editor The College Times ran an article on Aug. 21, about the closing of CleanFlicks and about its owner, Daniel Thompson. A reader responded with the following inquiry: Thank you for your article regarding the closing of Clean Flicks. I am so disgusted with the movie industry for closing CleanFlicks. I'm surprised that the judge ruled against them, or maybe, I shouldn't be surprised. In your article you said that Daniel Thompson suggested that people write to the Director's Guild of America, but you didn't tell us where we could write to him. Do you have an address or e-mail address for him? I would appreciate having that. Thank you. Daniel Thompson's email is printed at the end of this article. In addition, The College Times' readers will occasionally be curious about what has become of previous articles and their subjects. For this reason, the Times contacted Thompson again to find out how he's faring in the aftermath of his legal battle. On Aug. 5, Thompson held a petition-signing rally in an attempt to collect 1,000 signatures for a petition that would be demonstrative of the local market for edited movies, and to begin communications with the motion picture industry to persuade them to release their already-edited films for consumers. Thompson reported that he sent the petition to the Director's Guild of America having obtained nearly 2,000 signatures. Thompson said, "The DGA responded with the following statement: 'There is no apparent market for edited films; consumers will continue to watch movies regardless of the rating.'" Thompson admitted that he expected such a response, but he still felt good about his efforts. "I was taken back by all of the support from around the country. Who would have thought that little old me could generate such media waves?" See CLEANFLICKS A2