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Senators
chosen
in close race
Marianne Carroll, a junior geology major from Cedar City,
votes in Friday’s election.
DAVID PAYSTRUP / UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
By KIMBERLY PATTERSON
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
With a total of 22 percent of the students from the School
of Applied Science & Technology voting, three senators
were elected in a tight race.
Sarah Ware, a senior family and consumer sciences major,
took the first senator position with 43 votes. Stefanie
Beck, a sophomore psychology/criminal justice major from
Salem, Ore., and Chris Crawford, a junior criminal justice
major from Draper, both received 39 votes, giving them
the other two senate positions.
“I’m just happy,” Ware said when she
found out she received the most votes.
SUUSA President Matt Glazier said he is excited for the
new senators.
“I think they will do wonderful,” he said.
“It was a great race.”
Dan Andrews, a senior technology education major from
Cedar City, received 29 votes and David Belt, a senior
criminal justice major from Salt Lake City, received 24.
“All of the candidates were really qualified and
did a great job during the election,” Glazier said.
“The results were relatively close and I think that
is a tribute to all the people who ran.”
Crawford said he is excited to have everyone in his party
win.
“I thought that all three of us were really good
and dedicated, and I thought we would all make really
good senators together,” he said. “I was just
nervous that one of us would not make it.”
Jen Nessinger, a junior communication major from Las Vegas,
was the election director. She said there are roughly
800
The key emotional symptoms include sadness, anger, mood
swings, guilt, helplessness, hopelessness and social withdrawal.
The physical symptoms include a change in sleep patterns,
a change in appetite or a loss of sexual desire. Behavioral
symptoms include crying for no apparent reason, social
withdrawal, loss of interest in activities typically enjoyed
and turning to drugs and alcohol.
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The perceptions of depression cause feelings
of being a failure, pessimism or being overly self-critical.
“A lot of the symptoms are kind of the ways our bodies
tell us something is going on,” Hill said. “If
we know how to listen to those symptoms, then we can at
least get an idea of what we need to change.”
Students need to go to the center and talk with the front
desk to obtain counseling. There is a waiting list of two
months. Normal counseling sessions last from 45 to 50 minutes.
Hill said people see significant changes and relief after
five to 18 sessions.
“If you’re in crisis or suicidal, we’ll
try to get you in as soon as we can but for most people
there is a waiting list for counseling,” Hill said.
“Frankly, it’s real hard to get in.”
It’s normal for people to feel the feelings of depression,
especially when confronted with new situations, he said.
“You can have those symptoms and that doesn’t
mean you are depressed,” Hill said. “It doesn’t
mean you’re broken or crazy. It just means your struggling
and you need to learn how to adapt.”
He said depression begins when the symptoms stay with someone
for two weeks and the cause of the feelings is unknown.
“If you can’t identify why or if your reaction
doesn’t seem to match the cause – that’s
more clinical depression,” Hill said.
When people are confronted with change in life and haven’t
learned to adapt, the symptoms of depression develop, Hill
said. He said this is the current theory about the cause
of depression.
Sometimes when depression lasts long enough or there has
been a recent significant loss, people can experience suicidal
thoughts, he said.
“(Suicidal thoughts) come up gradually after symptoms
have been around for a long time and there’s a real
sense of hopelessness or helplessness,” Hill said.
Over the past few years, there have been successful suicides
on campus, he said, and “attempts are not that uncommon.”
“(Suicide) is increasingly common on college campuses
and schools are starting to pay attention to that and increase
the counseling services available to students,” Hill
said.
Suicide attempts are made when people reach the end of what
they think they can endure, he said.
“It’s not that people want to kill themselves;
it’s that they want an end to the painful situation
(they are in),” Hill said.students in the School of
Applied Science & Technology. Only 174 students voted.
“We could have had a better turn out,” Nessinger
said.
Crawford said he thinks it was more difficult to get one
school to vote than the whole university.
The three new senators agreed that running during the first
month of school was more stressful than if they could have
had the opportunity to run last spring.
“We only had like a week and a half to plan things,”
Beck said. “It was like,‘go, go, go!’”
Crawford ran for a senate position last spring and said
there is “a big difference running with a party of
18 than a party of three.”
Nessinger was pleased with the overall election.
“I feel like myself and my committee (were) well organized,”
she said.
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Against the Grain
Student spaces are used for
academics despite policy
By LIBERTY CASE
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
On-going academic classes continue to be scheduled in the Sharwan
Smith Center despite a policy that bans such use.
According to the policy and procedures of SUU, “The Sharwan
Smith Center is a general use area. As such, it cannot be scheduled
in an on-going basis for classroom use or instruction.”
The Sharwan Center is primarily financed through student fees
and because of that, there have been a few problems having classes
in the building, said Neal Cox, associate vice president for
student services.
“We’ve been slow to have on-going academic programs
(in the student center),” Cox said. “There have
been some problems.”
Classes currently meet in the Sharwan Center Theatre and the
Multi-Use areas of the student center. Maintenance and equipment
repair costs for classrooms across campus are paid using tuition
money or state tax dollars. Wear and tear to classrooms in the
student center are funded by student fees.
SUUSA President Matt Glazier said use of student fees for maintenance
of classrooms used in the building is “totally inappropriate.”
“We need to draw the line between academic space and student
space and not cross it,” he added.
Communication classes were originally scheduled in the Sharwan
Center Theatre because of classroom shortage.
In February of 2000 President Steven D. Bennion requested temporary
use of the building for academic purposes while additional classrooms
were under construction.
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Cox said classes were intended to be in the
Sharwan Center only until the new J.L. Sorenson Physical Education
Building was completed.
“Unfortunately, there has not been much of a reduction
in use,” Cox said.
Academic space across campus is largely unused, making use of
student space for academic purposes unnecessary, Glazier said.
“There is no reason to take student space (for classrooms),”
he added.
Although the theater space is equipped to handle lectures, Glazier
argues that the state of Utah does not recognize the building
as instructional space.
When making decisions about funding granted to SUU for additional
buildings, like the proposed education building, the state legislature
considers how efficiently classroom space is currently used
on campus.
According to the 2001 SUU Instructional Space Utilization Report,
classroom space is used well in the morning hours but plummets
during the afternoon.
Classes in the Sharwan Smith Center are not counted in the annual
space utilization study.
“We’re hurting ourselves by scheduling non-academic
spaces for academic means,” he said.
Using space not counted in the study weakens SUU’s approach
to the legislature, Cox said.
Glazier said he thinks more classes should be scheduled during
afternoon hours to avoid the problem.
In addition to violating the student space policy, other difficulties
emerge when using rooms in the Sharwan Center for classes.
“Having class in (the theatre and Multi-Use areas) is
not adequate,” Glazier said. “Things are chaotic...and
it is difficult to take tests.”
Glazier said he would like to work with faculty and staff to
phase out scheduling on-going academic classes in the Sharwan
Center.
“I would like to get the student center back to a student
center...where students can go and relax,” Glazier said.
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