Reading Time: 2 minutes The following letter was sent as an e-mail to UVU employees on March 29 regarding budget cuts: Dear UVU employee, At long last, the 45-day legislative session has concluded. On the positive side, UVU received $2.8 million for planning money for the Science building addition (hurray!) and some one-time federal stimulus targeted funding.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Jake Davenport, president of UVU Sigma Alpha Lambda and Taylor Hullinger, former president of the club are hosting a Pass It On film screening in recognition of the second anniversary of Pass It On Day, April 25, 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Pass It On is a motivational movie which presents how action behind the attraction can make dreams come true.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Spencer Dahl was named the winner of the Pirate themed Mr. UVU pageant last week. Dahl fought off eleven other contestants for the title, showing off their talents, swimsuits and evening-wear. Dahl, 24, is an undeclared major at UVU. His hobbies include football, baseball, snowboarding, cheer/stunting, reading and learning.

Reading Time: 2 minutes The 2009 J. Bonner Richie Dialogue on Peace and Justice, held this year at the new library March 23- 24, focused on genocide. Lecturers spoke on the atrocities of the Holocaust, the genocides that have occurred and are occurring in African nations, and how to prevent them from happening again.

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Food & Care Coalition, a non-profit organization that is an innovator in seeking and finding permanent solutions to poverty issues in Provo, will be hosting the first Faces of Poverty “Soup” Posium. The event will take place Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 in the Utah Valley University Grande Ballroom and will start at 6 p.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Members from the Utah Pagan Alliance came to UVU Thursday March 26, 2009 to clear up misconceptions about Paganism, Wicca, witches and magic to students and others wishing to learn and understand more about the oft-misunderstood practices and religion of these groups.

Reading Time: 2 minutes LDS Pres. Thomas S. Monson is set to address the 2009 class during the 68th graduation ceremony to be held May 1 in the McKay Center. Pres. Monson, along with his wife Frances and long-time friend of UVU Phyllis Christensen, will be presented with honorary degrees at the main commencement ceremony.

Reading Time: 3 minutes CAMPUS NEWS ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS ENERGY ALTERNATIVES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY- In its 22nd year, the annual symposium on environmental ethics will take place April 1-2 in LI 120. This event is free and open to the public. April 1 will feature the topic “The Future of Non-conventional (wind, solar and geothermal) Energy Sources” organized by Phil Matheson, Chair of the UVU Physics Department.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Utah’s Rocky Anderson is known far and wide, as an advocate for human rights, a political ally, and as an unapologetic liberal. On March 25th, he lectured at UVU on the High Road for Human Rights advocacy project. The goal of the project is to empower individuals through this grassroots community effort to mobilize the political will to fulfill the promise of “Never Again,” as seen on the monument in Dachau, Germany.

Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU Physics professor Steve Wasserbaech will soon take a leave from the university for a yearlong appointment at the world-renowned CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is a French acronym for the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Wasserbaech will spend his sabbatical at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a gigantic scientific instrument spanning some 17 miles beneath the border between France and Switzerland.