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u N I I T y DIGEST CAMPUS NEWS: Students will donate benefits from Saturday night dance for aid to stricken fac ulty member fan Harrison. PAGE 3. CAMPUS ARTS: The 1994-95 theatre season has something for everybody, with a stellar cast of directors. PAGE 19. CAMPUS SPORTS: The Thunderbirds host the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds in the Coliseum tomorrow at 7 p.m.PAGE 5. LOCAL NEWS: A partnership may be forged between SUU, the City and Iron schools for joint recreation facilities. PAGE 11. STATE NEWS: A plan to reorganize the higher education tuition structure will be voted on today. PAGE 12. NATIONAL NEWS: o.r. Simpson's lawyers ask judge to exclude items seized with serach warrant. PAGE 13. Crews from Carter Brothers Enterprises work extra hours on the new SUU library fa cility. WORLD NEWS: New Guineans are digging out from a series of volcanic eruptions that have Library work speeds along rocked the island. PAGE 15. After delays, facility is back on schedule for opening next year NATIONAL SPORTS: The National Hockey League, after Graff, 95 percent of library patrons will be able to use signing a TV deal with Fox, is facing this service, greatly reducing check-out time. By J. ARTHUR FIELDS a lock out of players. PAGE 23. SENIOR STAFF WRITER Additionally, the new library will be the first fully handicap-accessible building on campus. (Editor's Note: This is the second of four parts The new faculty is an outcome of the 1988 ACADEMIC examining tlie ongoing construction on campus.) statewide study of academic libraries commissioned by the Utah legislature. They study recommended FOCUS: Library Director Diana Graff likes to talk about the library expansions at several campuses and a new Continuing Education new library. library for SUV. After several years of study, means lifetime The facility, slated to be completed in about a year, planning and phased funding, and addressing other learning. will be 78,000 feet and house more than 200,000 priorities, the state has now fully funded the new volumes and reader stations for 1,200 students. structure. SUU's Division of Planning has included the latest in information "The prospect of this new building to meet the Continuing technology, data storage, and computing systems. expanding needs of a growing university is both Education serves a Forty-four electronic reference stations will be exciting and challenging," said Graff. "We've needed variety of publics in available for patron use. Compact shelving areas will the new library for a long time, and now we're a variety of ways. store serials and media materials. designing it for a future filled with technology and A new computer operated system Graff seems to change and hundreds of new students." THE BACK PAGE. be m ost proud of is the state of the art "patron self The present library was constructed in 1968 fo r an check-out." Through this procedure an individual enrollment of 1,600 students. will be able to check materials out of the library Dean of (continued on page 4) Continuing without the assistance of the staff. According to Education Philip C. Carter ,~ALMANAC THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1994 I • Acclamation Auditions, Entertainment Bureau IN THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE DINING: IFffiIIJTI) A Y Studio, 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m . Lunch (11-1:30): Baked filet of hoki, barbecued turkey September • Welcome Back Dance, LDS Institute, 9 p.m., $2. breast, Mexican bar, soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. Dinner (5-6:30): Turkey stir-fry over rice, Swiss steak, soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. WEATHER FORECAST: MOSTLY SUNNY HIGH: Mid 80s LOW: High 40's • Acclamation auditions, Entertainment Bureau IN THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE DINING: Studio, 9 a.m . to 6:30 p.m. Lunch {Noon-1:00): Chili dog with cheese, mini cod • T-Bird football vs. Eastern New Mexico, fillet soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. Coliseum of Southern Utah, 7 p.m., free with student ID. Dinner {5-6:45): Thunderbird Cookout at the Pavilion Top sirloin steak, grilled pork chop, soup &. salad bar, • SUUSA After-Game Dance, Pavilion, 9:30 p.m. grill, deli. to 12 a.m., $2 with student ID. WEATHER FORECAST: FAIR HIGH: Mid 80s LOW: Mid40s • Cedar City Church Schedules: Services, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Assembly of God - 2624 W. Hwy 56 (865-1550) Kingdom Hall (Jehovah's Witnesses) - 4521 N . Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.; Worship, 11 a.m. Hwy 91, Enoch (586-8740) Public Talk, 10 a.m. Christ the King Catholic - 60 N. 200 W. (586-8298) St. Jude's Episcopal - 354 S. 100 W. (586-3623) Mass, 9 and 11 :30 a.m. Services and Sunday School, 10 a.m. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - 650 Trinity Lutheran - 410 E. 1935 N. (586-7103) W. Center (586-9906) Student wards: 2nd, 5th, Worship Service, 9 a.m. 12th, 13th and 14th (9 a.m.-noon); 1st, 9th, 10th and 11th (11 a.m.-2 p.m.); 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th and Valley Bible Church - 4780 N. Hwy 91, Enoch 8th 11-4 p.m.J. (586-0253) Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Services, 11 a.m. Community Presbyterian Church - 64 E. 200 N. (586-8891 J Worship Services, 8:30 and 11 a.m. Zion Baptist Church - 1840 Harding Ave. (586- 3640) Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship Services First Baptist Church of Cedar City - 324 W. 200 N . 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. (586-6994) Sunday School, 10 a.m.; Worship • STAB meeting, Zion A &. B, 3 p.m. IN THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE DINING: • Clubs and Organizations meeting, Student Lunch {11-1:30): French dip sandwich, chicken noodle Center Zion A&.. B, 4 p.m. casserole, Italian bar, soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. • Inter-Greek Council meeting, Student Center, Dinner (5-6:30): Country style pork ribs, chicken Sp.m. turnover, cheese sticks, soup &. salad bar, grill, deli. • Greek Rush Week begins. Inter-Greek Council WEATHER FORECAST: barbecue, PE Lawn, 4-6 p.m. FAIR • Greek Rush Orientation, Student Center Living HIGH: Low 80s Room, 6p.m. LOW: Mid40s • Acclamation call-back audition, Entertainment Bureau Studio, 6 p.m. NOTICE: Those wishing to place an announcement of an on-campus event, a The fournal makes every effort to collect items for inclusion in this space University-sponsored off-campus event or an off-campus event of interest to the otherwise, but is not responsible for omissions. Deadline for receipt of information campus community in 'Almanac' should submit the information to the University for Monday issues is noon Fridays, for Wednesday issues is noon Tuesdays and for fournal by calling 586-7759 (24 hours per day) or by sending or bringing it to SUU Friday issues is noon Thursdays. The editor of ~manac' is Jennifer Morley. The Box 9384 or to TH 003 or to the Student A~tivities Office in the Student Center. weather is provided by the National Weather Service. THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH tJNIVERSITY • FRIDAY, SEPT.EMB.BJl 23, 1994 THE CAMPUS Trimble opens SUU students to help Harrison fall Convo series via benefit dance By JENNIFER MORLEY ASSISTANT EDITOR By CARMA NIEMANN ASSO CIATE EDITOR "True West is the Desert West," according to T hursday's Convocation speaker, freelance writer and SUV Music and English adjunct faculty photographer Stephen Trimble. Trimble opened the fa ll member Jan Harrison is battling inflamatory quarter lecture series with a discussion of "The Spirit of breast cancer. At present, her condition the Desert West." He presented a slide show comprised necessitates a procedure known as autologous of his own photographs as he spoke about "what makes stem cell rescue. The procedure is costly the West special, what gives it its spirit, what we need ($126,000) and it is not covered under to learn to live here as natives, where we will find Educator's Mutual Insurance Agency, the understanding that will make this place truly our university's underwriter. home." Harrison, who is married to SUU language For 20 years, Trimble, a lifelong resident of one of the and literature professor James Harrison, needs Four Corners states, has written about and help with raising the funds and timing is photographed the Desert West. "The Rocky Mountains, termed crucial. In order for this procedure to be the Great Plains, the Intermountain West, the Colorado effective it must be performed within four Plateau, the Desert Southwest-these are the regions weeks; however, before the procedure can be that make up what I call the Desert West," Trimble initiated, Harrison must have 80 percent of the said. "T his Desert West incorporates astonishing funds. diversity-dryness ties it together. " SUUSA officers have planned a dance fo r According to Trimble, the Desert West requires tomorrow night, immediately fo llowing the adaptation. "Its gifts are space, light, can yons, football game. The event will be in the mountains, mesas, prairies, oaises an d the Indian Physical Education Building with a $2 charge$2 peoples that retain their vitality. The edges of this land at the door. All the proceeds from the dance are bright with color and intriguing in their seductive will be donated to the Jan Harrison Fund. offer of freedom. Weather here is intense. The resources SUUSA Activities Vice President Heidi of this Desert West are vast, but always one bumps into Heywood, after being asked by students to try the limits and fragility of those resources." Trimble to help with Harrison's plight in some way, validated his theory with a series of photographs met with Student Association President Stacee depicting the extraodinary landscapes of the Desert Yardley and other West.