UVSC Prof collects Iraqi refugee stories in Jordan

UVSC English professor Laura Hamblin is currently in Jordan documenting the stories of Iraqi women refugees, and now you can catch up on her research at her blog:

womeninthedesert.blogspot.com

Hamblin, who received the first Ethics Faculty Fellowship, plans to produce a documentary about her research, and will give a presentation on her work next September.

October's Ethics Forum could provide fireworks

Right now in Utah there is hardly an issue bigger than school vouchers. Sure, polygamy is getting all the national attention, but now that Warren Jeffs is headed for the pokey vouchers will be front and center once again. And UVSC's Ethics Center is going to capitalize on all hubbub with a public forum next month.

So if you are on campus the night of October 3, say around seven-ish, swing on by the Faculty Seminar room (LC243) and check out the action. Guests include State Board of Education Chair Kim Burningham, Chairman of the Board & CEO of Overstock.com Patrick Byrne, Former Utah State PTA Education Commissioner Marilyn Kofford, and Paul T. Mero President of the Sutherland Institute.



If Mero's name seems familiar it might be that you caught his recent essay that he paid to put in local papers. Here it is if you missed it:

Vouchers, Vows, and Vexations: The Historic Dilemma over Utah’s Education Identity. (PDF, www.sutherlandinstitute.org)

That's right, it is part 4 of 6. Paul Mero is like the R. Kelly of conservatives and this is his "Trapped in the Closet". Put this guy in a room with a bunch of radical god-less liberal professors and watch the feathers fly! It is going to be fun.

Today On Campus: Friday • 9/21/07

WOMEN'S SOCCER VS. NORTHERN ARIZONA
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Wolverine Field
Wolverine Green

UTAH REGIONAL BALLET: "SOUNDS IN MOTION"
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Ragan Theater
$12 (tickets available at door)
UVSC ballet company sets 'Sounds in Motion'
(Deseret Morning News, September 20 2007)

D.A. POWELL POETRY READING
12:00pm - 2:00 pm
Student Center 206b
Press Release

WOODBURY ART MUSEUM: "WOODBURY INVITATIONAL 2007"
11:00am - 7:00pm
University Mall
Free
www.uvsc.edu/museum/exhibits/

ETHICS AWARENESS WEEK DOCUMENTARY FILM AND DISCUSSION: "STANDING SILENT NATION"
10:00am - 11:00am
Faculty Seminar Room (SC 243)
See the Trailer
PANEL DISCUSSION
Forest Cuch, Utah Department of Indian Affairs (Ute tribe)
Dustin ("Dusty") Jansen, Adjunct Instructor, Political Science, UVSC
11:00am - 12:00pm

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Hellraising Y. professor receives ethics award from UVSC

David Dominguez is not your typical Brigham Young University professor. Let's face it, the Lord's University doesn't hire too many Berkeley-educated self-described hell-raisers. So it makes perfect sense for UVSC to recognize Dominguez's special place in the community by giving him an award.

UVSC gives ethics award to Y. professor
(Deseret Morning News, September 20 2007)

Dominguez was recognized for his grass-roots community work, particularly within the poorer sections of Utah Valley. I do not let powerful institutions steam-roll the innocent, the poor, the defenseless," he said. "I do not let that happen."

Dominguez hopes that some day all BYU and UVU students will be required to take a course in community justice. Bill Sederburg praised Dominguez's work, and said he wants UVSC's Community of Engaged Learners program to emulate his efforts.

PHOTO BY DON LAVANGE

Even when you don't have a football team, you can still argue about football

If you are feeling a little more socially responsible lately it is probably because it is Ethics Week at UVSC. And with all the contentious ethical issues out there nothing gets people riled up faster than football.

2 UVSC profs deem BCS unethical
(Deseret Morning News, September 20 2007)

Maybe its just UVSC's way of extending an olive branch to all the Cougars and Utes out there, but professors Dennis Farnsworth and Jon Moore say that the schools in the Mountain West Conference should join other disgruntled athletic conferences and file an antitrust lawsuit against the Bowl Championship Series.

PHOTOS BY DON LAVANGE