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goes back into the community surrounding campus, benefitting from the large amount of tourism given by the thousands of people that purchase gas, food, and general shopping around the area.

The summer camps always have been operating profitably and efficiently, and they have supplied both the community and the college with significant benefits. This will continue to increase, as it has for the last several years.

Some of the participants in this summer’s camps were the 5A state football champions from Bingham High School, who brought 200 visitors to the campus. There were other football camps that included Timpanogos, East, Lone Peak, Westlake, and Mt. View high schools. The other sports programs included both girls and boys basketball and cross-country, in which a number of high schools were represented.

Gear Up and Upward Bound programs were hosted on campus as well. These programs purposes are to expose prospective students to the college experience. The summer programs have been an excellent recruiting tool year in and out. Scott Madsen stated, “ KC (Smurthwaite), did an excel-lent job on helping the camps run

smoothly, but also made sure most students left with information about the school. These kids don’t even know about this school when they get here. That’s huge.”

Eastern also hosted several family reunions and youth confer-ences. In all there were 18 groups hosted in the 10 weeks of summer available.

During the regular school year, the nine months of fall and spring semester, the camps are no longer active. During this time period, the time is spent planning, organizing and pricing for the next summer’s schedule.

The planning for the schedule of summer 2012 has already begun. Many camps are already marked on the calendar. Marketing activities, which include web promotion, e-mail, telephone calls, and personal visits will begin as early as No-vember and will continue through spring. The summer staff includes housing (Blaney Hanvey), dining services ( Becky Archibald,

Maintenance ( James Prettyman and Kyle Willis ), coaches (KC Smurthwaite and Dave Paur), and student, community workers. The entire staff always does their best to make the visitors feel welcome. Year after year many groups come, even when being frequently solic-

ited to go elsewhere. The summer programs will

continue to grow and are always on the lookout for new opportuni-ties. Daniel Allen was hired in February of 1999 to replace Steve Bringhurst, the former Director of Special Programs. Upon leaving, Bringhurst left the program empty of scheduled events for summers to come, files and records were missing, and many major camps transferred permanently to Dixie College.

They managed to piece the program back together and restore it to be greater than its former potential. Daniel Allen also took on the responsibility of Associate Vice President a few years later, while still managing the special programs.

In December 2008, he accepted a teaching position at Utah State University. He does this nine months out of the year, during which time the planning for summer programs happens through baseball coaches Scott Madsen and KC Smurthwaite. Allen says “ it’s a minor conflict with my full time teaching responsibilities.”

The summer programs continue to flourish thanks to the hard work and organization of the entire staff involved in making it possible.

notes that attendees should look forward to some of their favorites like chicken noodle and cream of potato on the menu again this year.

Last year, USU Eastern’s Bread ‘n’ Soup Night donated a record high $5,000 to the Carbon County Food Bank, making a grand total over its 12 years of existence to more than $28,000.

Menus for Bread ‘n’ Soup Night:

Nov. 7—cream of potato (veg-etarian), chicken noodle, tomato basil (gluten free/vegan); Nov. 14—cheesy broccoli (vegetarian), chicken noodle, beef stew (gluten free); and Nov. 21—tomato veg-etable rice (vegetarian/gluten free), chicken noodle, clam chowder and chili.

All are welcome to attend between 5-6:30 p.m. in the Multi-

Purpose Room of the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center. Prices are $6 for adults, $6 for students 15 and over, and $4 for students 5 -14. Children under five are admitted free. For the price of admission, each person will receive two tick-ets, each good toward one bowl of soup. Additional tickets may be purchased for $2 per bowl.

can detect fire. The first is the heat sensor. This one detects heat in the room, whether it is from an actual fire or any device that produces heat. If heat gets too close to the sensor, the alarm will be triggered.

The second sensor is the smoke sensor. This sensor is what will detect the smoke that fills the room, but this sensor is so sensitive it could possibly mistake perfume, cologne, or even hairspray for smoke. This is exactly what happened in AJ and Sessions residential halls. An in-dividual was using hair spray and it got too close to the sensor and caused the alarm to be triggered.

Prettyman said these recent alarms were not pranks, they were

accidents. Accidents are expected and will be taken care of without any problems, but pranks will not. If an individual decides to pull a prank it will result in fines and possibly jail time. Pulling the fire alarm is a Class B misdemeanor. “Pulling the fire alarm is not a prank, it is a criminal act,” says Prettyman. “By pulling the fire alarm, you are interrupting people’s lives. Whether they are studying, doing homework, cook-ing, cleaning, etc., their lives are being interrupted.”

It is great to say that there have not been any fire alarms pulled this year. Last year there were three that were pulled as a prank. This year Prettyman is hoping

that there will be no pranks, but if there are the culprits will get the consequences.

This year there have been upgrades being done to AJ. The fire system is one of those changes. There has been $250,000 invested into upgrading the fire systems in AJ alone. Do not abuse the fire systems because a lot of money and time are going into making the system better.

Prettyman advises the stu-dents living in the residence halls to stay away from the sensors when using heat or any form of spray. Also do not hang your clothes from the sensors, it may be convenient but can cause damage.

brighter future for Eastern Utah and the college.

“This has been a very produc-tive process and opportunity for USU Eastern as we continue to work closely with our various stakeholders,” Peterson said. “We are very grateful to everyone for stepping up and allowing us to move forward into a new era.”

Herbert praised Price City

visionaries and Mayor Joe Pic-colo for their forward thinking in teaming up with USU to create an unprecedented partnership.

“We must always look for ways to work together, to use our resources wisely and to leverage those resources to create new op-portunities for growth and prosper-ity,” Herbert said.

Price City has committed to,

and has already begun, a road proj-ect around the newly donated land.

“There is still much work to be done,” Albrecht said. “We will work with the various stakeholders in the community to determine the scope of our efforts as they relate to education and research. We are enthusiastic about taking these initial steps to create the oppor-tunity to do more in the future.”

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Student Association (EUSA) President Thomas Garvin began his term with the intent of making changes here at USU Eastern. He wanted to see students get more involved in campus events and assorted extracurricular activi-ties, see the construction of a new arts and education building on the Reeves lawn, improve the student association, and cut costs of student fees.

Strides are being made to-wards these goals. The ground is closer to being broken for the building and positions are being eliminated in EUSA to make it more efficient. In addition, the

student issue forum on October 10 helped the association see what else needed to be on the agenda and where they stood with certain of the original goals.

Such issues as the sanita-tion of the drinking fountain in the Student Activities Center (SAC) and a growing distaste for the visitation policy in the dorms were at the forefront of the agenda.

Changes are already being made in these areas. New filtered water fountains were installed in the SAC, BDAC and Jennifer Leavitt Buldilng. A petition is being taken around to get the signatures required to repeal the residential life visitation policy.

There seemed to be an air of disappointment in EUSA over the

low turnout to the forum. The low numbers reflected negatively on the goal to get students involved in campus activities. Even the attendance at the, previously well-attended Lite-Bright Dance was down this year.

Students are strongly advised to take part in campus events and activities whenever possible and to voice concerns as they arise to EUSA. The next Student Issue Forum is scheduled for Monday, November 14 at 11:30 a.m. and a plethora of upcoming events can be found on the schedule on the college website.

According to Garvin, “There’s no issue too big or no issue too small, we’ll take anything and bring it to the plate and see if we can get it fixed.”

EUSA wants students to get more involved

this program,” Edelstein said. “I look for-ward to the opportunity and the challenge.” Coach Edelstein came to USU Eastern from the University of South Carolina where he was the video coordinator for the Gamecocks. Edelstein holds a bachelors degree in communications from Cal Poly, and a master’s degree in sports and recreation man-agement from Kent State University. Edelstein was appointed offensive coordinator by Coach Paur for this year’s team.

Paur has coached the USU Eastern women’s basketball team since 1989. Prior, he was head men’s basketball coach at California’s King’s River Junior College and athletic director and football and basketball coach at Chowchilla High School. Paur will continue with his duties as athletic director, and

women’s basketball coach as he leads the men’s team. Paur brings more than 35 years of coaching experience to the men’s basketball team. Dave Paur received his bachelor’s degree from Southern Utah University, and received his Masters in Physical Education from the University of Utah.

Hammer came to USU Eastern from Westminster College where he was an assistant for the women’s basketball program. Hammer also helps run one of the states largest basketball recruiting services. Coach Paur named Hammer as the defensive coordinator for this year’s team.

These positions are all on an interim basis until March 1, 2012 when the job will open again to find a permanent replacement. USU Eastern administration plans to do a national search for the position.

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