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The Voice of the Students

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF EASTERN UTAH - 451 E 400 N - PRICE, UT 84501

VOICE OF THE STUDENTS September 22, 2011Volume XXXVI•Number 2

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VIEWPOINTS- EUSA activities- Letters to the editor-School event calendar

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What’s Inside . . . LIFESTYLES-Testing Center adds hours -New museum art exhibit -Elder Holland comes to LDS Institute -”You Can’t Take it With You” opens Sept. 29 •pages 6-7

SPORTS- BYU football nightmare- Athlete retirements-Baseball: A new chapter begins-Volleyball goes 1 & 1 on weekend •pages 4-5

The Utah State Board of Regents approved an administra-tive restructuring that creates the School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education within the College of Agriculture at Utah State University which runs paral-lel with USU Eastern’s Professional Careers Technology and Educa-tion and Workforce Education programs recently.

When College of Eastern Utah merged with USU last year, most

of the academic programs meshed with those already offered at the Logan school. After restructuring, the remaining programs in the PCTE division will now merge into the School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education within the College of Agriculture at USU.

Effective July 1, the School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education replaces the current USU Agricultural Systems Technology and Education Department and

encompasses two units at Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah. Those include the divisions of Professional and Technical Education Division and the Workforce Education Division. The new school’s acronym, ASTE, remains the same.

Bruce Miller, ASTE department head and career and technical education director for USU, was named assistant dean of the School

Board of Regents approves USU School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

SINGLE ANd REAdy TO MINGLE

photo by Jessa Adams/The Eagle

Stoplight DanceA group of students stop to pose for the camera and show their latest dance moves. If you wore red you were taken, green you were single. Yellow meant you were not looking. The dance was sponsored by the Eagle Dancers as a fund raiser to help purchase costumes for this year’s routines.

Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah’s 74 th annual Founder’s Day on Sat-

urday, Oct. 15, will honor several individuals and families who have contributed to the success and noteworthiness of the institution at some point during the college’s long and distinguished history.

The Gold Circle donors, people who have contributed at least $5,000 to the college’s scholarship fund, include alumni Dennis and Susan Deaton, Mesa, Ari.; alumni Michael and Clyda Harrison, Provo, Utah; alumni LaVell and Mayzell King family; and Grady and Jeanne McEvoy, Price. Utah.

The Athletic Hall of Fame re-cipient includes Jared Fernandez. He graduated from Kearns High

School and played for then base-ball coach Dave Paur in 1991-92 where he was named MVP his sophomore year. “He was a great athlete and represented CEU well,” Paur remembers.

After CEU he played at Fresno State where he was named to the All-Western-Division Team for the WAC Conference his senior year. Drafted by the Boston Red Sox organization, played seven years in minor leagues. Next, he played two years for the Cincinnati Reds, two for the Houston Astros and one for the Milwaukee Brew-ers. His last year he played in Japan for the Hiroshima Carp. He was known throughout his career for his durability, leading his respective leagues in innings pitch.

74th Founder’s Day set to honor many

Three members of the USU-Eastern welding team again brought home a gold metal from the SkillsUSA competition last summer in Kansas City, MO. The fabrication team, composed of Austin Welch (Price), Mike Montoya (Helper), and Joseph Fournier (Moab), managed to win the gold medal. Before qualifying for nationals, the welders placed first at the state level.

The fabrication contest requires hundreds of hours of preparation and practice. Each year the orga-nizing committee will announce a new theme and provide a list of materials that the competitors can use to design and construct their concept of that theme, said Lon Youngberg, welding instructor.

This year’s theme was “Weld-ing Demonstration Table” and USU Eastern’s team spent over 100

hours conceptualizing the project and preparing CAD drawings for the entry that ultimately won the contest. Much of the design work happens during May when most students are enjoying their sum-mer break, Mike Tryon, welding instructor added.

Then, in the month of June, the fabrication team built three prototypes that were incrementally refined. Each change or enhance-

ment requires changes to the draw-ings where the students learned the true meaning of “back to the drawing board.”

This long process and hard work culminated in Kansas City where the students were provided with the same raw materials as all the other teams and given about 8 hours to transform those raw materials into the product that they designed,

Seth Richardsstaff writer

s.richards@eagle.ceu.edu

We all like to whine and com-plain about the conditions of the dorms. It keeps some from becom-ing too complacent with our living conditions. Whining can also help give a false hope that, someday, we could be living in as luxurious estates as we grew accustomed to in our infancy. Others might find the whining recreational, a way to keep limber. Whatever the reason, it is often hard to believe that some big wig with a long title and big, empty desk in Logan isn’t pocketing our housing and student fees.

Upon closer examination, it

would seem that this money is actually working for us. In recent months, strides have been taken to create a cleaner, more professional, and more inviting campus than the school has had in a while.

That littered parking lot and un-tidy lounge you may have seen when you came for an Eagle Experience is a thing of the past, barring such in-cidences with cooking mishaps and small combustibles as may occur.

Previous tenants of CEU will remember shag carpet in the wash-room of Tucker Hall, shoddy blinds in the dorms, fire boxes built under showers with wiring on top, cracks in the walls that may have predated the extinction of the dinosaurs, flooding in the back of Burtenshaw

Hall, and erratic temperatures in the dormitories. These are all things of the past, or will hopefully be gone within the foreseeable future.

Officer James Prettyman, cam-pus police and residential life, football field and Durrant field maintenance director, hopes to have the campus sharp and pretty with only regular maintenance work necessary within the next five years.

Working in conjunction with residential life, this could very well be possible. But for all of the rewiring, painting, installation of new boilers, plaques on the doors, changing light fixtures, getting various components up to code, and the seemingly endless list of fixes, repairs, and replacements necessary

to make this campus the epitome of beautiful, it’s no walk in the park.

Lighting and safety seem to be a major part of the upgrading of the campus. New fireboxes, exit signs, emergency backup lights, and parking lot lights have either been installed or are on their way to the dormitories. Excess lights and digital temperature control panels are on hand and work orders are being closed in record time, with a few exceptions for those delivered late at night.

A small army of contractors, seasonal grounds people, and students, a group from which the residential life maintenance staff seems anxious to draw more people, provides the labor for all

these changes. Prettyman; Dr. Alex Herzog,

associate vice chancellor of stu-dent services; and Sharon Jones, administrative assistant for student services, have worked long hours to organize this undertaking.

Prettyman said, “Students are paying for this they need the best we can provide.”

So next time you want to gripe about the housing, just remember that your fees are working for you, not always in the most glamorous and visible ways, but you will get your money’s worth one way or another. If you have any suggestions on improving residential life, please call Prettyman. He is always open to suggestions.

Three welders place first at SkillsUSA

Dinner, reception Oct. 15

Renovating the residential life areasStudents are paying for this service, they need the best we can provide

Students and friends,I’m so happy that you’ve

chosen to study at USU Eastern, where you’ll discover that your goals are the same as the col-lege’s goals.

You are striving for a success-ful college education. The college is striving for advances in stu-dents’ skills, academic achieve-ments, and graduation rates. You want to develop workforce skills that will provide you a fulfilling job with a good wage. The college wants to fulfill employers’ needs for a talented and hardworking

workforce. Your aim is to make an important contribution to the future. The college’s aim is to prepare the people who create and sustain our region.

At USU Eastern, we give our very best effort to achieving our goals, but we can’t do it without you. In fact, you are the essential ingredient. The very best faculty, the most committed and creative staff, the greatest coaches and advisers, the most talented tu-tors and lab assistants — none of these college employees can achieve the college’s goals with-

out great students. That’s where you come in. We simply can’t do it without you.

Isn’t it great to discover other people who want the same things we want! That’s how partner-ships are formed. So let’s join together in our common quest! I devote myself to the things you want. And by working hard for the things you want, you’ll help the college with its goals. Many thanks for being that essential ingredient.

Sincerely, Joe Peterson

see Skills page 3

see Regents page 3

see Founder’s Day page 3

Chancellor welcomes students

photo by Sammie Fugate/The Eagle

Mike Montoya Austin Welch

Residential life buildings are being remodeled. More photos on page 3