Campus and community briefs
Meeting to be held for downtown alliance
The Logan Downtown Alliance will be holding a meeting for all downtown Logan retailers, property owners, service companies and professionals on Thursday at 7:30 a.m. in the Bullen Center.
The meeting will be held to inform everyone involved with the changes coming to downtown Logan including informing about the future re-design of the area, addressing current parking issues and speaking about the diverse retail and business development the city currently involved with. Breakfast will be served.
Winners announced for writing contest
Winners of the 2003 Utah State University Creative Writing Contest (CWC) have been announced.
The CWC is a universitywide competition supported by the English department, the Associated Students of USU and the Honors Program.
“We had a record number of entries this year. Students from every college within Utah State University participated,” Marina Hall, contest director, said.
The following individuals received first place in their selected categories:
Val Bradley, undergraduate fiction; Steve Davidson, undergraduate essay; Susan Anderson, graduate essay and Alison Scoville, graduate poetry.
The judges also selected Scoville’s graduate poetry entry as the best in the contest.
A reception and reading of the first-place entries will be held April 3 at 7 p.m. in the Haight Alumni Center. Refreshments will be served, and the public is invited.
For more information, contact Hall at 797-3858 or mhall@english.usu.edu.
Spike Lee to speak Tuesday on campus
Director and producer Spike Lee will speak to Utah State University students March 25 at noon in the Kent Concert Hall.
“We are really excited to have Spike come,” said Julie Dethrow, Associated Students of USU Arts and Lectures vice president. “He’s extremely diverse, and I think he will really help open some minds, which is what Utah State is all about.”
Lee is an independent filmmaker who has focused on the effects of racism. For more information, contact Julie Dethrow at 797-1722.
Book awards to be presented next week
Two book awards, the Evans Biography Award and the Evans Handcart Award, will be presented at Utah State University March 27.
The ceremony and reception will begin at 3 p.m. in the Tanner Room of the Merrill Library. The awards are presented for books published in 2002. The public is invited to attend.
Ronald O. Barney is the recipient of the $10,000 Evans Biography Award. Mary Clearman Blew is the recipient of the $1,000 Handcart Award.
According to a news release, the awards are designed to encourage writing about the people who have shaped the growth and character of western America. The Evans Biography Award was established in 1983 to recognize outstanding scholarship and writing in this field. The Handcart Award was established in 1996 to recognize a biography of merit.
Barney is senior archivist and supervisor of research and publications at the archives of the Family and Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She earned degrees from the University of Montana and University of Missouri.
Blew is a professor of creative writing in the English department at the University of Idaho in Moscow.
All books submitted for the Evans award are screemed by local judges who determine the top submissions, which are then forwarded to the national judges for final selection. The local judges determine the Handcart Winner.