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LIFESTYLES
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October 20, 2011
1929 school remodeled into “School of Screams” “We walked through the old building with Jeanette Marasco almost a year ago, and we all envisioned the potential of the school being made into a haunted mansion”
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lmost 15,000 square feet receptions and local events. shops and scouring the Internet room and haunted prom room in of haunted rooms in a We walked through the old looking for costumes and props the auditorium to name a few. The school house built in 1927 building with Jeanette Marasco to build the haunted school house. scary music and fog machines is the venue of Carbon County’s almost a year ago, and we all en- Cally Davis of Carbonville, used to add ambience to the experience. largest haunted house located in visioned the potential of the school create a haunted house where she We have used over 40 volunteers Spring Glen. Called the “School being made into a haunted mansion. lived and decided to donate all of including the USU Eastern cosof Screams,” it is located on 1950 “It was already really old with an her props to them so they could metology department who has West 4100 North done the makeup and is open the for the cast and weekend of 21-22, crew plus donated 28-29 and 31. time to help run “Because the the haunted school building was alhouse. ready old, making M i t c h e l l’s it creepy and scary Mortuary lent us was easy,” says Jon an old hearse they Black who with his had in storage. wife Jenny, came “We give 10-minup with the idea ute hearse rides to help raise funds around the buildfor a new roof, pay ing, with lots of for insurance and scary stories, for upkeep of the old $5 per person,” Jon school building in said. “The commuSpring Glen. He nity outpouring has says $20,000 was been incredible in needed to make helping us.” roof repairs so they We’ve b e e n photo by Jessa Love Adams/The Eagle op en for t wo came up with an For an additional $5, take a hearse ride around the school to hear spooky stories. idea of a haunted weekends a nd mansion that could received great generate a significant amount ancient boiler, nooks and crannies, make this huge endeavor work. reviews, he said. “Each weekend of money. The Spring Glen lots of brightly painted rooms and Jon said, the rooms all have we get better and better.” community owns the school and squeaky steps,” he said. themes including the White Lady Cost for the experience is $10 hope to keep it as an event center Jenny and Jon have spent the room, gypsy room, evil clowns’ per person. The Blacks hope to for birthday parties, wedding past year going to yard sales, thrift room, torture room, old cafeteria make this an annual event.
Narrow steps leading to basement.
The Gypsy room, where people listen to their future
One of the spooky decorations in the otorture room
The crystal ball will tell people their future
New face at the Disability Resource Center (DRC)
Moyneir has always wanted to work in social work, in a hospital — both of which she does
James Justice
staff writer j.justice@eagle.ceu.edu At USU Eastern, there is a new face, Dannette Moynier, who is located in the Disability Resource Center. She is a MSW intern as she works towards her master’s degree in social work. With this program, she has to have 600 hours of counseling experience, all volunteer. Moynier is directly under Jan Thorton, director of the Disability Resource Center, who helps supervise, answer questions and give support. “She’s [Jan] is awesome, and because I’m a student we have counseling once a week, which helps me.” Moynier, for the last 25 years
has been the hospital social worker. “It’s such a quick type of social work. You take care of the traumas and crisis issues, then you refer it on to other people. In this area it’s more of a long term issue… therapy here is totally voluntary. When the students come in, they already know what they need to do, we’re just here to help them do it.” While Moynier says she’ll never leave the hospital, she says the reason she’s interning here is, “because to get a degree in social work—or a license—you have to have different experiences.” Last year Moynier interned with DCFS (Division of Child and Family Services). There she worked with a therapist who would go out to family’s homes
and teach skills useful to family life; so that hopefully one day they can get their children back—and not lose them. “That was way interesting,” says Moynier, “way beyond
Dannette Moynier
anything I’ve ever done before.” T herapy is d i f ferent for Moynier. One of the reasons she likes social work over crisis work is because’ “in therapy we implement what’s called ‘the tool box.’” This tool box is always being upgraded with new skills, ideas and terms. “We use this tool box to help students with ideas, or situations. It’s different, but I really love the therapy…” She says that when there’s court ordered therapy, people aren’t very accepting, where as here people come in voluntary. They just want to get well. The majority of them just want someone to listen to them—tell them they’re not crazy.” “The hardest thing about working with college students is
that they all want to be good… they all want to get the ‘college education’…they see now—in today’s society—how important that education is… People are strong though, and I see changes in them week to week.” She has always wanted to work in social work, and work in a hospital—both of which she does. “Counseling is amazing though.” “I am amazed at what’s happened with this campus these last couple weeks since the death of Coach [Brad] Barton. Particularly with Jan and Tammie [Pantelakis] and this counseling office, and James Prettyman;the amount of caring shown by the people of this campus and what they’ve done is incredible. There
was a crisis; I don’t think people in the community really know what we have here at this college and I just think it’s amazing. I think the faculty, staff and everyone; even more than that, the students coming together to support those who have really been hurt by this. I just want to sing the praises to what I’ve seen the past couple of weeks. I don’t think the people outside of this college, even in this community, know the strengths that we have right here [at USU Eastern]. Moyneir is in the Disability Resource Center from 4 – 8 p.m. Monday – Thursday, on Friday 4 – 6 p.m. If you’d like to get a hold of Moynier or other counselors call 613-5326 for an appointment.
Nursing students experience being in a wheel chair for an hour This assignment helped students to look at life from a different perspective Tadd Mecham staff writer
t.mecham@eaglemail.ceu.edu Many of us take things for granted. We can go across campus in a few minutes to get to class. We go to the restroom with relative ease. We are able to overlook numerous problems, many that would never even come to mind. The Nursing 1030 class was given an assignment that would open their eyes to some of these obstacles. The assignment being to spend one hour in a wheelchair, during which they were required to go shopping, use an elevator, go over a curb, sit at a table, use the water fountain, go to the restroom, and spend 15 minutes wheeling themselves. Put into groups of two, each pair
took a turn spending one hour in the wheelchair, the other person helping them around campus. Student Jaime Auger found the restrooms to be a difficulty in themselves saying, “there is a handicapped stall, but getting to it is so narrow you have to go in one way because you can’t turn around in the stall. You have to back down the hallway to get into it.” There were also more subtle things that many people may not realize presents a problem. The inclined walkways around campus present a challenge. Jaime also commented that “while wheeling yourself up an incline, even a small one, your arms are mush in 10 minutes.” Other sidewalk problems are the curbs, particularly the ones by major cross walks on campus. The cement takes such a sharp dip that wheelchairs became easily stuck, blocking traffic and giving those in
the wheelchairs an even more trying time getting around campus. The students found the cafeteria staff to be very helpful and accommodating to their needs but once reaching tables to eat, more newfound problems were discovered. Tumu Asuao said, “I had to adjust my seated position several times to find a comfortable place. The tables were too low for the chair to tuck underneath so I had to lean forward to reach my food. If there were higher tables it would have made it easier to eat my meal.” Miranda Gold also commented on the cafeteria experience, “It was harder to reach everything. The space I sat in also had to be wide enough for the wheelchair to fit. If everything needed to eat was not all gathered first, it was tiring to have to wheel back to grab anything else.” One of the most noticeable things to
participating students turned out to be the looks and treatment given to them by fellow students. While student Daniel Quick found that students “weren’t that obvious about staring,” Miranda Gold found it funny how people would either stare or be extra friendly to her for no reason. Many people, according to Jaime Auger, would just avoid eye contact all together. This assignment helped students to look at life from a different perspective. Through one hour of being in someone else’s shoes (or seat) their entire perspective and respect for those with disabilities were changed Among all of these obstacles one thing was noticed: someone would always appear to offer a helping hand. There are many people that are willing to help those handicapped on campus. We are all the same; we just get around a little different.
photo courtesy of USU-Eastern nursing dept.
Andrew Martin, and Corey Roberts experience the feeling of being in a wheel chair
USU launches online degree finder for students
The degree finder provides a variety of ways for users to search USU’s for-credit offerings
Utah State University will release its fully functioning degree finder web tool Friday, Sept. 30. The new tool allows users to explore USU’s degrees and programs, including their emphases and specializations. After the launch, the tool is accessible from the university homepage. “I began seeing similar tools about three years ago,” said USU Webmaster Ben Renard-Wiart. “The University of Florida allowed students to browse degree offerings under a variety of interest areas, and later we saw that the University of Idaho had a more comprehensive tool that allowed students to search offerings by typing in keywords. Users could then click on the
results and learn about programs on similarly formatted pages. It was obvious USU needed something like this.” Planning for the project began in 2010 with meetings involving representatives from University Advising, Registrar’s Office, Public Relations and Marketing, School of Graduate Studies, Provost’s Office, Admissions and Regional Campuses and Distance Education. “We wanted to have a variety of perspectives and input before we finalized our template for how the information would be displayed on the site,” said Annalisa Purser, marketing coordinator in the Public Relations and Marketing Office.
The new tool is drastically different from the way USU used to display its degree offerings. Two years ago, USU had a long list of majors organized by colleges and departments. Each major linked to a different place; sometimes a department page, sometimes a PDF and sometimes it didn’t link anywhere. Because they went to so many places and were managed by different offices, the links often became broken. The degree finder provides a variety of ways for users to search USU’s for-credit offerings. In addition to an A-Z list, users can search by college, degree type, level (undergraduate, graduate, minor, etc.), and they can see which programs are available at
USU’s regional campuses or at USU Eastern. Starting Friday, users can begin searching by typing in a keyword. “The great thing about the keyword search is that it opens doors to all sorts of offerings students might not have known existed at USU,” Renard-Wiart said. “You can type in ‘biology,’ and you’ll see the biology major, but you’ll also see biological engineering, public health, bioveterinary science and more.” The degree finder creates a level playing field for all majors and emphases. Each major links to a page that is formatted in the same way, making it easy for users to compare and contrast programs. For these pages, links
exist that allow users to quickly navigate to the department and college websites and the USU General Catalog if they want more detailed information. “All the content was written specifically for the site,” Purser said. “The goal of the project was to provide concise, straightforward, useful information written for prospective students who are aware of their interests but not sure how they fit into an academic program.” Over the last year and half, Purser and recent English graduate Vienna Goates reviewed existing information and met with advisors, department heads and faculty to generate information about every undergraduate and
graduate program. “I’m really excited for the tool to be available,” said Marsha Bailey, a staff assistant in the Wildland Resources Department. “I get requests from prospective students for information all the time, and it will be nice to send them a link to these pages that provide them with the basic information.” The site will be reviewed and updated annually as part of the already existing process for updating the General Catalog at the beginning of each calendar year. But, updates can be made at any time by contacting Purser at annalisa.purser@usu.edu, or calling 435-797-1429.