Campus and Community Briefs
Speaker to address Internet porn
Mark Kastleman, the author of Drug of the New Millenium, will be speaking Thursday at noon in the Taggart Student Center Auditorium.
He will be addressing how Internet pornography radically alters the human brain and body.
SAA wins awards
The Utah State University Student Alumni Association received two national awards at the nationwide conference in St. Louis, Mo. in August.
The Outstanding Newsletter Award was given to the SAA for its monthly newsletter, put together by public relations officers Ben Davis and Shari Phippen. The newsletter includes events calendars, highlights of SAA members, member birthdays and local promotions or benefits that members can take advantage of each month.
The Outstanding Adviser Award for SAA was given to Patty Halaufia, assistant director of the alumni association and SAA adviser since the program’s inception eight years ago.
The USU chapter sent 15 people from its advisery board and executive council to attend workshops on leadership and recruitment, listen to speakers and exchange ideas with more than 400 other universities participating in student alumni associations
nationwide.
Service Week offers opportunities
The Val R. Christensen Service Center is sponsoring its annual service week, which continues through Friday.
Various organizations will be present, giving students opportunities to become involved.
Storytellers and College Bound programs are sponsoring a Spread the Word book drive in honor of four-year-old Juliana McCourt, who died Sept. 11, 2001 on Flight 175. Students and community members can drop books off at Smith’s, Macey’s, Lee’s and Alberston’s grocery stores. Books will also be collected on the first floor of the Taggart Student Center, west of the bookstore.
Coloring tables will be set up for students to color and organize folders containing pictures and activities to aid children in reading, math, etc. This activitiy will run until Friday in the atrium of the education building from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Students can participate in the Friends of the Elderly at the Cache Valley Senior Center. They will meet Thursday at 2:45 p.m. in the service center.
A Quilt on the Quad activity will be held on Friday from 4 p.m. until dark. The quilts will be donated to humanitarian aid centers.
Other activities include joining Special Olympics and participating in the Logan Canyon cleanup Saturday.
Growth chamber to launch Sept. 25
Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory’s Lada, a growth chamber, will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia to the International Space Station Wednesday aboard the Russian Soyuz, Progress 9 freighter.
Several USU students worked on the project through internships at SDL.
Lada is scheduled to start its experiments and begin growing Mizuna, a Russian plant similar to lettuce, Oct. 3. Within a few weeks, astronauts and cosmonauts will be able to harvest and enjoy fresh vegetables.
Lada will become a permanent fixture on the ISS, with new root systems and supplies sent up as needed. SDL and Russia will have joint ownership of the hardware.
Experiments using the hardware will be flown as part of the Russian scientific program, with USU investigators as partners.
The launch can be viewed at 10:58 MST on www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html.