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College Mesa• State • April 13, 2005 Th e v o i c e o f st u d e n t s s in c e 1 9 3 1 Volume 74 • Issue 25 Campus and Flower power community calendar Event: "Representing the Holocaust: Tensions, Problems and Solutions:' Holocaust Awareness Weeks lecture Date: Today, 7 p.m. Place: Room 130, Houston Hall Cost: Free More info: 248-1490 Event: Physics seminar Date: Tomorrow, noon Place: Room 277, Wubben Hall Cost: Free More info: none Event: "Arafat: Memories of Genocide;' Holocaust Awareness Weeks lecture Date: Tomorrow, 7 p.m. Place: Room 130, Houston Hall Cost: Free More info: 248-1490 Event: "As You Like It:' Theater performance Keith Kitchen/Criterion Date: Tomorrow through A plumeless thistle flower is pollinated by a honey bee on the Colorado National Monument. According to the Colorado Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Department of Agriculture, J>lumeless thistle is part of the Colorado Noxious Weed List. To the disappointment of the plu Place: Robinson Theatre, meless thistle eradication effort, the National Weather Service is predicting temperatures will reach the 80s today, then Moss Performing Arts become partly cloudy tomorrow, dropping temperatures below 70 degrees. Center Cost: $13 for adults, $11 for seniors, $5 for students Taking care of business More info: 248-1604 Max Ryan were all things that were gained until about 2000." the college as a whole. It would Event: "Public Lands Reporter and learned at the competition. Ghiloni said that PBL went be tremendous exposure to help at Risk,'' Sierra Club We were really confident going dormant for four years until they others in the state to realize the National Wildlands Two business clubs at Mesa in." gained 25 members. potential of Mesa State. Most still Campaign Committee State College, Phi Beta Lamb Another member was more "This has helped us establish think we are a junior college, but da and the Society for Human blunt: "We cleaned house," Jor a lot of partnerships in the com this is the right step in dispelliug lecture Resource Management, went dan Pilcher said. munity, to help us get our names people's perception." Date: Tuesday, 7 p.m. to state early this month and PBL hopes the team's success out there and bolster Mesa State's PBL could add more awards to Place: Weldon Lecture came back with a portfolio full of es will raise Mesa State's profile. reputation!," Ghiloni said. its collection when the team com Room, Wubben Hall awards. "It has given Mesa State Col After this year's successes, PBL petes at nationals in Orlando. Cost: Free Fifteen PBL members placed lege a lot of exposure," Gilbert hopes for even bigger gains in the "The national competition is in individual and team events. son said. "Because of the placing, near future. June 29th," Gilbertson said. More info: 248-1704 All 15 members placed in at least it really reflects on the students, "Next year, we hope to in Even if the team does not come one event. There were 12 first teachers and curriculum. It also crease membership by 50 per home with any national awards, Event: Women's choir place finishes among the team. reflects on the community be cent," Ghiloni said. "We also hope it has left its adviser smiling. concert PBL was pleased with the ex cause of all the hard work we pnt to repeat as state champs by tak "I'm so proud of the group," Date: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. perience. into it." ing even more to next year's com said Deb Parman, PBL facul Place: Recital Hall, Moss "The great thing about it is This year, the club enjoyed a petition. We're planning tons of ty adviser and a lecturer of busi Performing Arts Center that it really exposed us to real resurgence. community services for next year ness administration. "It was just Cost: $8 for adults, $5 for world business opportunity," said "Phi Beta Lambda has been to reach financial goals. Even far unprecedented with all the state Adam Gilbertson, a PBL member. around since 1975," PBL Presi ther down the road, we would like placings. It has been a tremen seniors, $3 for students "Things like networking, work dent Matt Ghiloni said. "It has to bring the state competition dons pleasure to work with them More info: 248-1822 shops and resume experience been real big and successful up here next spring to really benefit all." r' ---- -- -- - • States Abstinence Awareness lleek Former ASG 5£flla'tOT bumcll guilty of brr.nging sex 1!0~tJato.rrst0campm imprisoning, ,menacing students tants, Kurt Haugland and Kell'en Keis "I have already commit financially." ,0-avi~ Goe ling, entered Wheeler's room. Dispatch Norab Fisher ted in my heart to marrying The couple supports ab Reporter ers heard Wheeler activate his stun gun 'Reporter you, and I will not go back stinence-onlypractices. Bar and talk about "zapping" the students. on that commitment," Rick bara says using a condom Former Mesa State College student Dispatchers said th ey could hear Wheel Hope, love and conse told her. does not make sex safe. and ASG senator Kenneth Wheeler has enell the 1wo students wha110 do. quences will be discussed Rick says he did not ex Those beliefs led the cou been found guilty of charges stemming When police arrived at the dorm Tuesday by the RA.C.T. pect a perfect life. He knows ple to create their organiza from an incident in his dorm room last room, they found Wheeler holding the Foundation when the group Barbara's disease is a "termi tion, called WiseChoices. to spring. foot-long stun gun in his lap, the .records brings its Wise Choices pre nal illness." enable them to go .speak to Wheeler was arrest state. They ordered him to sentation to campus as part When she was first diag young adults in ·an -effort to ed and charged with drop the stun gun several of the state's Abstinence nosed with HIV, doctors told persuade them to practice two counts of menac times. When he did, police Awareness Week. Barbara she would live from abstinence. ing with a deadly weap placed him in handcuffs. Since 2002, "'Barbara and two weeks to three months. According to the Colora on, two counts of use According to police affi Rick Wise have traveled the Badlara says she and Rick do AIDS Project, 14,666 peo of a stun gun and two davits, when he was placed wodd telling young adults were planning their wed ple were diagnosed with RIV counts of false impris in handcuffs, "Wheeler why they should wail till ding and her funeral at the or AIDS in Colorado as of onment late last April af appeared to be intoxicat marriage for sex. same time. September 30, 2004. By that ter he and several other ed with a strong odor of an According to the founda Now, after surviving the time, 4,498 had died of AIDS students reported a dis~ alcoholic beverage on his tion's Jennifer Watson, the disease for 12 years, Barba and 310 had died of HIV. turbance in Monument person and bloodshot wa Wises will share their com ra wants to prevent others The Colorado Department Hall. Wheeler pleaded tery eyes." pelling story about choic from facing her fate. of Public Health and Envi not guilty to the charg- Kenneth Wheeler A Mesa State student es, commitment and conse "My lack of education ronment says nearly 10,000 es, but was fo und guilty sat on the jury that convict quences in an effort to help on the consequences of sex people in Colorado know last week, although the menacing with a ed Wheeler. students understand why outside of marriage led me they are living with RIV or deadly weapon counts were reduced to Colin Cummings was one of 12 ju waiting is the best choice down a bad path," "Barbara AIDS and about 5,000 more simple menacing. rors who sat in judgement of Wheeler. they can make. said. "Sex is more than rec have not been diagnosed. According to Mesa County District Cummings said the jury deliberated for Barbara was diagnosed reation. It is diffe.ren t than The Wise Choices pre Court reuords. Wheeler had called 911 nine hours hetore it reached a decision. with HIV in 1993, when she riding a jet ski at the beach. sentation will be given in from his dorm room in Monument Rall According to Cummings, the jury was was engaged to Rick. He was Our sexual choices impact Liff Auditorium from 8:30 to and said he had been assaulted by 30 stymied 11-1. The jury had to reach a practicing abstinence at us internally and externally, 9:45 a.m. guys and raped by 15. all of whom he unanimous decision . the time. He chose to mar affecting us physically, in said lived in the hall. While on the phone Wheeler's sentencing has been sched ry Barhara even though she tellectually, emotionally, so with dispatchers, two resident assis- uled for June 9. was HN positive. cially, spiritually and ·even I ACCOMMODATE fllDt'l!E ON IA lilJlBlM. ~ . 0 1CAN YOU CAW 'TOO . 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