Campus and community briefs
PSU luau to be held Saturday in Logan
The Utah State University Polynesian Student Union will be having its annual luau Saturday at Mt. Logan Middle School.
This year the PSU dancers have performed all over the state, participating in regional luaus and performing at different schools and organizations around the valley.
Directing the program is Sau Lee and Vi Cannon. Lee is an experienced dancer and a native born Samoan. She has taught dance and performed at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii. Cannon is a native of Fiji who has had extensive dance experience.
Tickets are $8 for the dinner and show for students, $11 for the dinner and show for adults, $4 for the show only for adults and $2 for the show for students. Tickets are on sale at the USU ticket offices. For more information call 881-5098 or 792-3965.
Tickets available for spring formal dance
The annual Utah State University spring formal is April 12 at 9 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center. This year’s theme is “Among the Stars.”
Tickets are available in the Associated Students of USU office on the third level of the TSC. They are $8 per couple and $10 at the door. A photographer will be available at the dance.
A variety of music will be played by live bands and disc jockeys throughout the building.
Top scholarships available for U.K.
Information is available for students interested in applying for graduate study in the United Kingdom through programs such as Rhodes, Marshall and Gates-Cambridge.
Students kind find information about these scholarships at www.usu.edu/honors. Norman Jones, head of the history department, has volunteered to meet with students interested in studying in England.
Campaign spurs diabetes awareness
Know the warning signs of diabetes. That’s the message of a new public awareness campaign the Utah Department of Health Diabetes Prevention and Control Program is launching this month.
The campaign aims to reduce the number of Utahns with undiagnosed diabetes by increasing knowledge of the risk factors and symptoms of the disease.
Television and radio advertisements will also encourage the public to get screened for diabetes at free clinics throughout Utah in March.
About 40,000 Utahns do not know they have diabetes and the disease is slowly affecting their bodies, according to the DPCP.
“Complications from uncontrolled or untreated diabetes affects thousands of Utahns every year,” said Nancy Neff, DPCP manager. “A simple increase in testing and a correlating decrease in undiagnosed diabetes could significantly reduce complications and improve many lives.”
Call the Utah Department of Health Resource line at 1-888-222-2542 or the American Diabetes Association at 1-888-DIABETES for a list of screening dates, times and locations.
Students filter USU e-mail accounts
Utah State University students can cut down the amount of spam delivered to their e-mails with a few steps by logging on to the WebMail home page and click on the Build A Simple E-mail Filter link.
USU uses a software product called SpamAssassin to locate what might be spam.
Students should keep a few things in mind before doing so. Contact the Help Desk at 797-4358 for more
information.