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Raising HOPE
Service center begins food drive;
tries to raise 3 tons for Cedar City
Becky Gardiner, a sophomore nursing major from Vernal,
stocks shelves in the HOPE Pantry.
ERIN MADSON / UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
By TASHA WILLIAMS
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
The Service & Learning Center will attempt to raise
3 tons of non-perishable food this month to compete with
other Utah universities and colleges, whom will collectively
attempt to accumulate 50 tons of donated food for the
Students Serving Utah Network 4th Annual Statewide Food
Drive.
The food drive is sponsored by the SSUN, which manages
two major service projects each year at Utah colleges
and universities, said Staci Bailey, a junior history
major from Bountiful and the university’s SSUN Representative.
Pam Branin, coordinator of Service Learning, encouraged
students to help other students who may be going hungry
to participate in the food drive and said she thinks SUU
can easily surpass its goal if students get involved.
“They’re helping themselves,” Branin
said. “Being involved in service is a great way
to lose yourself in something that is good. It’s
a great outlet to relieve some stress in something positive.”
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Branin also said that getting involved in
service is a great way togain learning experience that is
not always available in a classroom.
Each college or university attempts to accumulate a set
goal and then the collective numbers are gathered together
for a statewide total. Bailey said the food that is collected
in each community stays there, and the food gathered by
SUU will be donated either to the Iron County Care &
Share or the HOPE Pantry.
“What students donate help other students,”
Branin said. “Students really have a great capacity
to help each other and the HOPE Pantry does that. It’s
a good way for students to reach out to the community.”
By bringing a can of food to The Howl on Friday or to the
Polynesian Club’s dance on Saturday, students can
receive $1 offthe admission prices. Students interested
in getting involved can help the center trick or treat for
food on Halloween. Students will be meeting at 7:30 in the
Living Room of the Sharwan Smith Center and will be out
for approximately an hour and a half to two hours.
Branin said the Utah schools have a tendency to get a little
competitive, and by donating to the food drive, it shows
Utah that SUU can do great things even though its student
population is less than others.
“It reflects on the good students we have here,”
Branin said.
Bailey urged students to get involved to try to minimize
hunger in the area and for students of SUU.
“Being involved brings unity to a school and makes
your education fuller,” Bailey said. “Plus it
gives you something to do besides visiting Hollywood (Video)
and then your couch.”
Branin said she encourages students to get involved, if
not in the food drive then something else they’re
passionate about, and said the Service & Learning Center
is there to help students with these goals.
Any person, club, or organization interested in helping
with the food drive can contact Bailey at bail5739@student.suu.edu.
Depending on the amount of help they donate to the project,
clubs may be able to contribute to the food drive for their
fall service project requirement, Bailey said.
The Service & Learning Center is open from 9 a.m. until
3 p.m. weekdays, but for those who need access to the HOPE
pantry there is an emergency number on the door. Branin
said students can also donate directly to the pantry.
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Swallow and Matheson
debate questions today
By TYLER JOHNSON
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL
John Swallow and Jim Matheson, candidates for Utah’s
2nd Congressional District, are scheduled to debate in SUU’s
Ballroom today at 6 p.m.
The debate, sponsored by the Center for Politics & Public
Services, will focus on five issues, chosen by SUU students,
that are pertinent to the 2nd district, said Jake Johnson, programming
chairman for the Center of Politics & Public Services.
Johnson refused to release the issues that will be discussed
at the debate to ensure higher attendance, but Emily Christensen,
press secretary for John Swallow, said the issues will be fairly
basic, such as the controversy with Iraq, Social Security reform,
the Yucca Mountain debate and Initiative 1.
A luncheon in Provo at the beginning of October showed how heated
the debate between Matheson and Swallow can get.
According to the Provo Daily Herald, at the luncheon, Swallow
said if Matheson is re-elected, and Democrats win control of
the House, it would be bad for Utah.
“The issue isn’t control of the House,” Matheson
said, “but who you want to represent you.”
Swallow also said Matheson described himself as a conservative
but falls in line with the other Democrats on Capital Hill and
forgets about his Utah constituents.
He cited the Bush tax cut as an example of Matheson falling
in line with the rest of the Democrats. Swallow said when the
package was first presented, Matheson voted against it, but
later fell to pressure and changed his vote.
“I won’t cave into political pressure to vote the
right way,” Swallow said in the Herald.
Matheson said he changed his vote because there was no budget
when it was first presented as a $1.6 trillion tax cut. When
it was shaped into a $1.3 trillion tax cut, it was more reasonable.
“Believe me, it wasn’t caving into pressure,”
Matheson said, according to the Herald. “I have a letter
from the president commending me for my courage.”
Christensen said the debate at SUU will be important for the
candidates because of the locality of SUU. This will be one
of the only debates in southern Utah.
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