April 29, 2003 Utah State
in the News
PROFESSORS
WIN $3.2 MILLION TO HELP CHILDREN IN PUERTO RICO
Three Utah State University professors and a local grant-writing
company have won $3.2 million to help prepare poverty-stricken
preschoolers in Puerto Rico to enter kindergarten and succeed
in school. The grant is among the first group of awards from
the Bush administration’s new Early Reading First program.
(Herald Journal, 04/26/03)
REHEARSAL SET FOR 2003 COMMENCEMENT AT USU
A mandatory ceremony rehearsal for all those graduating with
a bachelor’s degree is scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday,
May 1, on the HPER field near the Smith Spectrum at Utah State
University. (Herald Journal, 04/28/03)
GRADUATION ACTIVITIES
ANNOUNCED
The 2,957 graduating students at Utah State University should
expect a number of changes at this year’s commencement
ceremony that are designed to make the event more student-centered.
Utah State’s 110th annual commencement ceremony is scheduled
to begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Dee Glenn Smith Spectrum.
(Herald Journal, 04/28/03)
USU COLLEGE HONORS
TOP STUDENTS, FACULTY
Utah State University’s College of Science honored its
top students and faculty at a reception in April at the Eccles
Science Learning Center Auditorium on the Utah State campus.
Undergraduate students receiving honors at the event were physics
major Lara B. Anderson, valedictorian of the college, and mathematics
and statistics senior Jeffery T. Leek, Scholar of the Year.
(Herald Journal, 04/28/03)
UTAH COUNTY DATELINE
BRIEFS: ELK RIDGE
Water conservation will be discussed Thursday at a joint meeting
of the City Council and Planning Commission beginning at 7 p.m.
Envision Utah, a land planning think tank, will discuss ways
to conserve water, Mayor Vernon Fritz said. "We want to
know how to conserve and what our risk is," he said. Later
this spring the city will bring in conservation experts from
the Utah State University extension service to show residents
how to create xeriscaping, he said. (Deseret News, 04/28/03)
Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,485033439,00.html
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
ISSUE OVERBLOWN?: USU’S HALL INSISTS GRIPE WITH COLUMN
WAS MADE AS A CITIZEN, NOT A BOSS
Utah State University President Kermit Hall adamantly denies
taking any steps to control the student newspaper on campus
and, on Friday, accused The Herald Journal of giving readers
this false impression of his intentions. This past week has
brought a flurry of debate and administrative activity in the
aftermath of an editorial that was published over a month ago
in The Utah Statesman. (Herald Journal, 04/27/03)
UP, UP AND AWAY:
VALLEY RESIDENTS GET TO SEE USU WRIGHT FLYER REPLICA FLY
If Orville and Wilbur Wright could be here to see it, they
would be smiling ear to ear. That’s the way Dave Widauf
sees it anyway. Widauf, a Utah State University engineering
professor, can’t stop smiling either every time he gets
near the futuristic state-of-the-art replica of the Wright Flyer
by USU engineering faculty and students. (Herald Journal, 04/27/03)
GOT MILK (FOR
YOUR CATTLE)? HERE’S THE SCOOP
Early in the week I took a call from my good friend, Lane Parker.
He wanted to know what I could tell him about the distribution
of non-fat dry milk (NDM) to livestock producers in the state.
... Almost immediately I began receiving e-mails and phone calls
from USU Extension Specialists and representatives of Utah Department
of Agriculture and Food (UDAF). (Herald Journal, 04/27/03)
PLEASANT VIEW POET COLLECTS TOP HONOR: USU POET
OF THE YEAR ANNOUNCED AT FESTIVAL
Judy Johns of Pleasant View has been selected as the Utah State
Poetry Society's 2003 Poet of the Year for her collection of
poems "If I Could Speak in Silk." The announcement
was made Saturday during the USPS awards festival at the Layton
Courtyard Marriott. Johns has been a business communication
teacher at the Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College since
1985 and an adjunct English instructor for Utah State University
for the past 12 years. (Standard Examiner, 04/27/03)
STUDENTS DRENCHED
WITH WATER FACTS: FOURTH-GRADERS LEARN ABOUT CONSERVATION
At Weber County's first Water Fair, held Thursday and Friday
at the Weber County Fairgrounds, 1,500 local fourth-graders
had fun touring the 13 stations that taught them about water
conservation. ... At one station, sponsored by Utah State University's
Water Quality Extension Service, kids gathered around plastic
tubs of water inhabited by bugs and larvae. The students eagerly
used straws to suck bugs out of the water into petri dishes
for closer examination. (Standard Examiner, 04/27/03)
UTAH POET OF YEAR IS NAMED
The Utah State Poetry Society announced Saturday that JUDY
JOHNS, author of a collection of poems titled "If I Could
Speak in Silk," is the winner of the Pearle M. Olsen Award
and has been named Utah Poet of the Year for 2003. Johns, of
Pleasant View, is a teacher at Ogden-Weber Applied Technology
College and adjunct English instructor at Utah State University.
(Deseret News, 04/27/03) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,485032858,00.html
FRINGE BENEFITS:
PERKS MAKE GRADE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Kristi Grange is almost one year into her college education
at Utah State University and still not certain what her major
will be. "Something in business," she thinks. More
certain is the financial help she will get as a USU student
because her father, Vance Grange, is a member of the USU faculty
(in the School of Business, incidentally, where he teaches accountancy).
(Deseret News, 04/27/03) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,485033131,00.html
MORE THAN 2,200 WALK TO RAISE FUNDS
More than 2,200 people participated in Salt Lake City's Walk
America on Saturday, the largest group the event has drawn in
Utah. ... At the same time, a smaller, colder group of 150 in
Logan walked through a snowstorm on the Utah State University
campus, according to Amy Reitch, state director for the March
of Dimes. (Deseret News, 04/27/03) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,485033144,00.html
WATER-WISE LEARNING:
KIDS URGED TO ‘BUG’ PARENTS TO SAVE H2O
So, here's the problem: You have a state in the midst of a
severe drought, but you just can't get the residents to conserve.
... Various entities — Weber Basin Water Conservancy District,
Weber County Storm Water Management, Weber County Soil Conservation
District and Utah State University extension — have come
up with the idea of a gathering where they educate children
on all aspects of water: clouds, sedimentation, the water cycle,
water treatment, wildlife and — especially — conservation.
(Deseret News, 04/26/03) Click on: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,485033035,00.html
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR: ANTI-ISRAELI EDITORIAL SKEWED THE FACTS
I would like to compliment Arrin Brunson and The Herald Journal
for a basically fair and serious attempt to portray a recent
controversy over hate speech being published in the Utah Statesman.
There was only one factual error – the reported meeting
between the Jewish community and the Statesman officials did
not take place. (Herald Journal, 04/26/03)
LEADERS FOCUS CONVERSATION ON WATER CONSERVATION
Educating residents about conservation practices and setting
an example is the best way to save water in Salt Lake County,
according to a group of city and county leaders, water company
officials and conservation experts who met Thursday for the
first-ever Salt Lake Valley Water Summit. ... Several suggestions
were offered during the summit, most of which hinged on getting
residents and governments to stop watering so much. After all,
some residents use more than five times the amount of water
they need, said Earl Jackson, a water expert with the Utah State
University Extension Service. (Salt Lake Tribune, 04/25/03)
Click on: http://www.sltrib.com/2003/apr/04252003/utah/51091.asp
ANIMAL ACTIVISTS
PLAN TO DISRUPT DIMES MARCH
Animal-rights activists say they intend to disrupt Saturday's
March of Dimes fund-raising walk in Salt Lake City, claiming
the birth-defects research charity pours millions of dollars
into cruel experimentation involving laboratory animals. ...
March of Dimes walks are scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Saturday
at Provo's Seven Peaks Water Park, 1330 E. 300 North; at Utah
State University's Romney Stadium, 1000 N. 800 East in Logan.
(Salt Lake Tribune, 04/25/03) Click on:http://www.sltrib.com/2003/apr/04252003/utah/51058.asp
GYPSY FUSION:
USU’S MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE CLUB
In Turkey it’s called goblek dans. In France, it’s
danse du ventre. Most Americans know it as belly dancing –
an exotic hip-swinging, belly-wagging, shimmying, veiled dance
from the Middle East. To the members of the Utah State University
Middle Eastern Dance Club, it’s just plain fun. (Herald
Journal, 04/25/03)
TWO PROFESSORS
EXHIBIT CONTINUES
The careers of two Utah State University faculty members and
artists are highlighted in a current exhibition at the university’s
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. The shows feature artwork
by longtime faculty members. (Herald Journal, 04/25/03)
FINAL WEEKEND FOR ‘MISS
FIRECRACKER’, USU SEASON
“The Miss Firecracker Contest”, a comedy by Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley, is presented by Utah State
Theatre on April 23-26. The production, staged in the Morgan
Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center on the Utah State University
campus, begins nightly at 7:30 p.m. (Herald Journal, 04/25/03)
YEARS OF WORK, ONE SHOW
It’s that time of year again when Utah State University
art students host the annual Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
on campus April 21 through May 3. Located in the Twain Tippetts
Exhibition Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center, this year’s
exhibition, “Through Our Eyes,” includes examples
of illustration, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking,
drawing and ceramics. (Herald Journal, 04/25/03)
CLOSING FOR THE
SEASON
In its last concert of the season, the Cache Chamber Orchestra
will feature three talented high school soloists, announced
conductor and director Robert Frost. The orchestra’s spring
concert is Sunday, April 27, and begins at 7:30 p.m. in the
Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center on the campus
of Utah State University. (Herald Journal, 04/25/03)
SPRING WIND
Utah State University Wind Orchestra presents its spring concert
Friday evening April 25 in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase
Fine Arts Center on the Utah State campus. Special guest for
the evening is tuba soloist and conductor Gary Viebranz, who
visits Utah State as part of a generous grant from the Marie
Eccles Caine Foundation, said Director of Band Thomas P. Rohrer.
(Herald Journal, 04/25/03)
DUKE OF ASUSU
SWORN IN TO LEAD STUDENT ACTIVITIES
A recent change of leadership in the studentbody presidency
at Utah State University will bring some continuity and some
changes, said the newly elected leader, who was sworn in last
Friday. (Herald Journal, 04/25/03)
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