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Volume LXXXI • Number 3
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October 4, 2018
Advocate strives to hear more student voices effectiveness and productivity. Eastern’s Student Advocate, Laura Eisert, is creating a new response form to take to administration in hopes it will decrease the repetition of feedback. Eisert hopes to provide a timeline for actions taken on individual issues. She explains these comment
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SU Eastern’s newest student advocate is changing how students’ voices are heard to increase
forms, “… will provide a more detailed record of what is happing so people will be able look back at these forms, both during the process of creating change and also once it is complete.” She is the liaison between students and the community. Part of Eisert’s job as student
advocate is distributing petitions when students ask for them. Most of the petitions come from student government when they change their constitution. She explains, “Any student can start a petition for pretty much anything.” The example of a petition she used, other than constitution
Creating a partnership with Price Emma Campbell co-editor
photo by Buruke Mekasha/The Eagle
USUE, Carbon and Emery high school students gather in front of the Desert Wave Pool for live music, food trucks and dancing.
Rules of safe spaces on college campuses co-editor
EUSA Executive Vice President Sydney Ho mediated the semester’s first Eagle Hour about a topic on most college campus. She explained the rules of a safe space and gave the definition of “rape culture.” According to the Oxford Dictionary, it is “a society or environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse.” The questions started with, “Are we apathetic to the reality of sexual assault in our community?” Most everyone agreed that many people do not understand rape
culture, it is not that they do not care. One student said, “There is a fine line between what is okay. Lots of people will be stared at during True Eagle [kissing over Gibby the rock] and they will feel pressured.” It was debated whether or not sitting on the rock means you give consent. The majority of the group agreed that it is an open invitation that can be revoked. Ho then asked the question, “Where do we find examples of sexual objectification?” “Rape is made into a joke, it is not taken seriously, whether it is intentional or not,” one student answered. The question of whether USU Eastern’s events promote sexual assault was also
brought up. One student said that the events do not promote it, but they do create an environment where that seems to happen often. Other students argued that the events do promote sexual assault. True Eagle was not the only event talked about that might promote sexual assault. The “Hello My Name Is Dance” is another event that may promote sexual assault on campuses. During the dance, students should ask each other if they can sign each other’s shirts and if where they are signing is okay. One student brought up that some people do not have the confidence to say, “please stop.” Another student came Rape Culture P3
Great Clips rewards students with scholarships Kalli Prendergast co-editor
When Great Clips opened in Price in 2015, Associate Professor of Cosmetology Debbie Prichard and local owners formed a connection. They believed this partnership would benefit the local Great Clips and the program at Utah State University Eastern. “They needed us and we needed them,” Prichard said. Great Clips donates equipment, training supplies and stylebooks every year to USU Eastern’s program. Last year Great Clips worked hard to create a mentorship program in its salon to give students hands-on experience. Once the mentorship
program was put in place, USU Eastern students would spend two days at Great Clips working
alongside professionals, learning the tools of the trade in the real world.
Scholarship recipients include Tia Mondragon, Tommy Pacheco, Megan Campbell, Shannon Theobald.
in the business. This allowed the cosmetology students to see life post-school. They would cut hair
This also allowed for potential job opportunities, Prichard said. Great Clips will hire
students to work throughout the year, and when they move home for summer, Great Clips transfers them to a location near their home. “They’re not just going to beauty school, they’re going to college as well,” she said. These students maintain school-credit hours, along with spending five days a week, seven hours a day in the cosmetology classroom learning, practicing and working hard to graduate with the necessary hours to complete the program. These students also maintain extracurricular activates such as student athletes, student ambassadors and student tutors. Great Clips managers noticed Great Clips P3
ROTC offers opportunity for students to gain skills to serve Vanessa Manual staff writer
Reserve Officer Training Corps( ROTC) offers many opportunities for students who are interested in serving in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps or Air Force after graduating from college. Students in the ROTC gain leadership skills necessary to lead other soldiers and people in society. “The goal is to train college students for future service in branches of the U.S military” said U.S Army Recruiting command Jeffrey D. Horn.
ROTC cadets receive generous scholarships and are guaranteed a job in the military after graduation. “It helps student pay for college without getting in debt and what we teach student more about the military and what its like to be a soldier,” Horn said. According to Goarmy.com, ROTC is available at over 1,100 colleges and universities nationwide. Courses take place both in the classroom and in the field are mixed with normal academic studies. Students who join the ROTC have a drive to succeed no matter what obstacles they face. In joining the ROTC students with have
to follow suit. Eisert wants to, “…increase awareness of the position and involvement from students.” As student advocate she wants to increase the voice of the students both on and off camps. Her desk is located in the student government office in the JLSC second floor.
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changes, is one started by Alex Anderson. This petition is to get gender-inclusive bathrooms back at Eastern. Eisert explains there were gender-inclusive bathrooms, but administers in Logan had an issue with the number of stalls. Gender bathrooms at other institutions are single stall and Logan wants
a structured career after college and may be offered military officer positions after graduation. “ The overall goal is to produce officers of character that are agile and adaptive leaders’ said Horn In the ROTC program, students learn to replicate real-world battle scenarios and learn how to lead a squad and platoon. In Utah, the ROTC program is offered through Brigham Young University which offers it from Dixie State, Southern Utah and Utah Valley University. University of Utah offers it for Westminster and Weber for Utah State.
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Price City’s Mike Kourianous wears many different hats for the community and Utah State University. Not only is he the mayor, he also drives the bus for the athletic teams. His fulltime job is an operation supervisor for Pacific Corp. at the Huntington Power Plant. He has been the mayor of Price nine months and loves that is he helping come up with solutions for the community’s problems such as turning the community around to embrace the university. He has worked with both interim Chancellor Gary Straquadine and Vice Chancellor Greg Dart on the partnership between the community and USU Eastern’s Campus. “I have always said in my campaign that this university is going to be the horse that pulls the carriage, Price,” he said when talking about the partnership between the two. Kourianous used to raise money for the athletics department because he noticed how small the budget was for all the sport teams. “I could see that the department’s funds were minuscule compared to the colleges we were playing.” The community knows he believes in this institution because of his past involvement. Dart said about Kourianous, “ This is seriously our biggest advocate. He is constantly looking for ways to help this institution.” There are few different ways Kourianous plans on having the
community work with the university and vice versa. One being that 300 East will become either Eagle or Aggie Avenue. “I took the J.V. soccer team to Cedar City and the kid behind me asked about getting an In‘n’Out to Price, so I said sure, I’ll call them. The biggest issue is things have to be sustainable,” he said. Another possibility is that Newhouse Hotel could become married housing for college students. Kourianous wants to work with families in the community on being host families to out-of-state and international students who do not have somewhere to go for holidays or need a little extra help. Price City Police has a lot of bicycles no one has claimed so Kourianous talked to the university about restoring them and letting students who need transportation use them. By getting the community involved, solutions for student problems can be found. “What I want the community and our visitors to know, as soon as they come into Price, is that we are all a part of this institution,” he explains. That is the biggest takeaway he wants from all these plans to help the university. Another way Kourianous is helping the university is by reaching out to local companies and seeing what scholarships they provide. “I’m holding other entity’s feet to the fire to make sure they know this institution is important to the community.” “Eventually we will need the input of the students and the community on how the two can work together.” He Mayor P3
Appearing one night only:
Ryan Shupe & the Rubber Band
Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band is making a one-night appearance at Utah State University’s Geary Events Center on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the university’s “Year of the Arts” celebration. Being in the music industry for 20 years, Shupe became a Utah staple. He and members of his Rubberband found initial fame in the country music scene when they signed to Capitol Records in 2005. The band has since dropped the label, and still going strong. The popular Provo band recently released its eighth album titled “We Rode On” marking a striking career transition and a meaningful evolution in Shupe’s songwriting, his life and the band’s sound. It strongly and deftly combines the rock side of their musical arsenal with the acoustic instruments and jamming the band has become known for in their live shows. Like a mad musical scientist (and father/husband), Shupe recorded, arranged and tweaked the band’s newest creation in his studio. “I wanted to create a new sound and an evolution for the band’s music. It’s the best album we’ve done and definitely the most rocking!” The album focuses on themes like family, love and maturity. The epic title track, “We Rode On” triumphantly belts out the phrase “singing
songs at the top of our lungs” while the anthemic “Sun Will Shine Again” is a mantra to Shupe’s children. The catchy, rocking “If I Stay” and “Just Say Yes” deal with love interest dilemmas. “Dream Big”, a revamped version of their Billboard charting Capitol Records release, is triumphant, inspirational and powerful. As a fifth-generation fiddler, an accomplished electric and acoustic guitar and mandolin player, Shupe toured extensively across the United States since he was 10. He is no stranger to the national stage and his band appeared on Good Morning America, E! TV, Mountain Stage, Woodsongs, GAC a n d CMT. In an i nt er view in the Salt La ke Tr ibune, Shupe said, “I’ve always had a goal to make music that had a good vibe and message but that was also well-crafted. I’ve always strived to have it be positive. I hope people will be able to come to the show and forget their worries. All of my CDs have that message in general. [Past albums have] almost been like five CDs in one: a gospel CD, rock, a little bit of humor; but this time I thought I should focus in and not have it be so ADD. This [album] I wanted to pick my favorites of the vibes. I feel like what we do best is combine traditional instrumentation Ryan Shupe P3