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UN I T Y NAT'L 'NEWS: Republicans ACADEMIC are predicting that Speaker of the FOCUS DIGEST House Newt Gingrich will retain that post. PAGE 11. Career Services: CAMPUS NEWS: SUUSA WORLD NEWS: In bas scheduled a wide variety of Yugoslavia yesterday, pro Susan Linder and her office student activities for winter democracy protesters clogged have scbedul.ed a summer quarter. PAGE 3. Bel.grade's streets. PAGE 11. employment and internship CAMPUS SPORTS: The NATIONAL SPORTS: The job fair for Thursday. weekend was not hnd to either AFCandNFCchampionshw the Thunderbird men or women games are set after weekend NFL PAGE 8. cagers. PAGE 13. action. PAGE 14. ALMANAC TBE UNMB.SlT-Y JOURN~ • JOU'l'J;JDN U'J'AH tJNJVERSITY • MONDAY, JANUAR¥ 6, 991 • Gender Awareness Week - information table, IN THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE DINING: Student Center, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Lunch (11-1:30): Navajo taco, stuffed bell pepper, fanuary baked potato bar, soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. Dinner (5-6:30): Hot hamburger sandwich, chicken breast with rice pilaf, soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. WEATHER FORECAST: SNOW HIGH: Mid 20s LOW: Low !Os • Gender Differences Awareness Day- information IN THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE DINING: table, Student Center, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Lunch (11-1:30): Reuben sandwich, chicken chow • Gender Differences Open Forum, Student Center mein on rice, Mexican bar, soup &. salad bar., grill, Reading Room, 12-1 p.m., drawings for free pizza deli. · and drinks every five minutes. Dinner: (5-6:30): Macaroni &. cheese, h ot chicken wings, soup&. salad bar, grill, deli. WEATHER FORECAST: PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH: Mid 20s LOW: Mid !Os • SUU Unplugged, Ryan Shupe, Student Center IN THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE DINING: Living Room, 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m., free. Lunch (11-1:30): Meatball sandwich, mini cod HJ.et, • PrIDE (formerly the G.L.B.S.U.) meeting, 5-6 p.m., pasta bar, soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. General Classrooms Building, room 309. Dinner: (5-6:30): Chicken fajita, taco salad, soup &. • AIDS Awareness Day - information table, Student salad bar, grill, deli. Center, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. WEATHER FORECAST: PARTLY CLOU DY HIGH: Mid 30s LOW: Mid lOs • Convocation speaker: Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, IN THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE DINING: "National Politics: The Next Four Years," SUU Audito.rium, 11 a.m., free .• Lunch (11-1:30): Burrito supreme, chicken noodle casserole, hot dog &. Polish sausage bar, soup &. salad • College Democrats meeting, 4:30 p.m., Student Center Living Room. bar, grill, deli. Dinner: (5-6:30): 1/4 cut baked chicken, BBQ baked meatloaf, soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. WEATHER FORECAST: PARTLY C LOUD Y HIGH: Low 40s LOW: Low20s NOTICE: Those wishing to place an announcement of an on-campus event, a The /ournal makes every effort to collect items for inclusion in this space Uni ·ersity-sponsored off-campus event or an off-campus event of interest to the otherwise, but is not responsible for omissions. Deadline for receipt of 1n formation campus community in 'Almanac' shoulJ submit the mformation to the Univemty for Monday issues is noon Fridays, for Wednesday issues is noon Tuesdays and for Journal_ by calling 586-7759 (24 h ours per day) or by sending or bringing it to SUU Friday issues is noon Thursdays. The editor of the ~anac' is Joshua S. Morrill. Box 9384 or to TH 003 or to the Student Activities Office in the Student Center. The weather is provided by the National Weather Service. THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL • SOU'l'llERN UTAH tJNIVEllSITY • MO~Y, JANUARY 6, l997 THE CAMPUS 3) I Winter activities are many, varied BY JOSHUA S. MORRILL OF THE JOURNAL STAFF "Just because it's winter quarter doesn't mean that the number of activities fo r students here at SUU is going to slow down, 11 said Keri Mecham, SUUSA activities vice president. ln fa ct, winter quarter has over the years been a particularly event-filled period because students are often somewhat campus-bound due to inclement weather. ''Maintaining the tradition, SUU Unplugged will continue through winter 4uarter,'1 said Mecham. SUU Unplugged is the weekly performance series which features various music nrtists native to Utah, with several quarterly performances from uut-of state musictans. "We arc tloini something a Little different this quarter with Unplugged,'' sa1J Mecham. "Every other week wiJl alternate between a local artist and a pcrformt.:r that we bring in Erom out of the area. Hopefully, this will give us a little more variety, and Students en;oyed themselves at last week's Welcome Back dance. Among them were (from left) Colleen wi U give the students a greater chance to see the Nielson. a sophomore communication ma;or from Salt Lake City; Mandy Gillespie, a senior elementary ed talent that is around the community and even major from Farmington, Utah; Anna Adamson, a junior and an elemntary ed ma7or from Las Vegas, Nev., within the school," she sa id. and Terri Hemick son, a sophom ore ma;oring in nutrition, also from Las Vegas. The dance is just one of tl1e SUU Unplugged will begin Jan. 8 and will fea ture activities SU USA has planned for winter quarter. Rya n Shupe and The Rubber Bands. "Ryan played at 'First Night' up in Salt Lake on New Year's Eve," quarter is Thunderweek, scheduled for Jan. 2 7-3 l . evenings to perform in a night club atmosphere," said Mecham. "This perfonnancc should be a lot of "Thunderweek is sort of the basketball season's saJd Mecham. "There will more on this announced fun." equivalent to Homecoming," said Mecham. This later." SUU Unplugged will be held every Wednesday year, the theme of Thunderweek is "Shaken not "Perhaps one of the biggest activities going on this from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the Student Center Stirred," in accordance with the James Bond craze. quarter is the dedication of the new Sharwan Smith Living Room and is free to the public. Mecham said During the week, Mecham said that a James Bond Center on March 11," sajd Mecham. "We wiJL be that students should Look forward to new treats, movie will be shown as a free activity, and there dedicating the center, as well as having a reunion for such as a gospel choir and a jazz band that will be will also be a 007-oriented theme dance. former SUUSA officers. There will be a number of performing during February for Btack Awareness The opening event for the week will be the Miss other activities that will be announced later," she Month. SUU pageant, to be held Monday, Jan. 27. Mecham sa id. In addition to the SUU Unplugged events, said the annual event will get the week rolling, a "In addition to alJ of the activities that SUUSA is Mecham said that there will many dances that traditionally sold-out event that has Thunderweek sponsoring, Human Rights Week will be held.in students will be able to attend this quarter. "One of chairperson Nicole Pehison hoping for a repeat of January, as will activity weeks focusing on the the biggest dances of the year is the 80's dance, past years' successes. individual colleges on campus. There will also be tentatively scheduled for Jan. 17," Mecham said. The Student Activities Board (STAB) is also several activities put on by various clubs and "The 80's dance is always fun for everyone. We working on bringing Starlight Club performances organizations. expect to have a lot of people come dressed in 80's back to the forefront of campus entertainment. "Just because this is winter quarter doesn't mean attire." "Starlight Clubs feature stand-up comedians and that it won't be fun. We are here to entertain the One of the larger events that is planned for winter other off-the-wall performers come in during the students, 11 Mecham said. Alpha Chi offers scholars a chance to unite Each spring, Alpha Chi sends out which members receive. discovery of the rock from Mars and the By JODI BEVAN letters to prospective members (those One of the benefits of being in Alpha possibility of life on other planets, said SENIOR STAFF WRITER students in the top 10 percent of the Chi is lifetime membership in a Heybome. The lectures are open to all junior and senior classes) offering them national honor society, "which looks students. For junior and senior class students at an invitation to join their prestigious really good on a resume when job The faculty lecture series is only one SUU, there is a little-known honors group. searching," Heybome said. of Alpha Chi's undertakings. The group society on campus called Alpha Chi. It According to Alpha Chi is run also sponsors a "Freshman Scholar of is unlike other on-campus honor Heybome, a senior by student the Year." Freshman students are societies because it is interdisciplinary zoology major from representatives and chosen for the honor based on their rather than departmental. Kanab, candidates the organization's G.P.A. and caliber of classes. The Alpha Alpha Chi is open to the top 10 are given two or faculty adviser is Chi presidency interviews each student percent of junior and senior students. three weeks to reply Christina and the top four are chosen to be Alpha Chi is a national organization and those who Frederick, assistant recognized in the academic that was founded at Southwestern choose to be professor of Convocation held spring quarter. The University in Georgetown, Texas, in installed as psychology. freshman deemed most scholarly is February of 1922.