Campus News Briefs

Robins Award nominations on Nomination forms for Utah State University’s annual Robins Awards are currently available to submit. The Robins Awards are the most coveted of campus honors and represent a long-standing tradition of more than 40 years. The awards recognize a campus hero, William E. Robins, a former student body president and Sigma Nu member at USU. He was one of those rare student leaders who had the ability to make his vision the vision of this school. In 1954, Robins and his wife, Geraldine, were in a plane crash on a trip to Denver, Colo. They were both killed, leaving behind a 1-year-old son. This prompted the Sigma Nu fraternity to found the Bill Robins Memorial Fund to raise money to give to the boy as a scholarship when he grew old enough to attend the university. Two years later, though, more tragedy struck as the boy was taken with leukemiaCopy Ed 2/7/02 and died?. Since then, the fund has been used to provide scholarships for outstanding students. The Robins Awards, being held on April 20, 2002, has six student-nominated awards: Woman of the Year, Man of the Year, Bill E. Robins Memorial (graduating senior), Val R. Christensen Volunteer Service Award, Organization of the Year and Achievement of the Year. After nominations are received, a committee consisting of staff, administration and various organizations will review the nominations and gather more information for the selection process. Nomination forms are available on a table in the Basement of the Taggart Student Center, online at http:/www.usu.edu/asusu, in the TSC, Room 326 and in The Utah Statesman. Turn the forms into the TSC, Room 326 by Feb. 26, 2002. Nominate someone today who you feel is worthy for one of these honors. Olympic babies get special treatment In commemoration of two unique events, the birth of a child and the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Logan Regional Hospital along with IHC Hospitals will send all babies born during the Games home wrapped in a special Olympic baby blanket. The babies have the logo for the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, one for the 2002 Paralympic Winter Games, and an IHC logo. IHC is the medical services provider for the Games. Doug Fonsebeck, an IHC Olympic liaison, said, “While this is a huge event for Salt Lake City and Utah, our hospitals will still be operating as usual and part of that operation is delivering babies. We thought this would be an exciting thing for parents and a nice way to bring some of the Olympic spirit into our hospitals.” Logan businesses endorse protection Fifty Logan businesses have endorsed an environmentally-strong management plan for the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, in a petition to the Forest Service collected by volunteers for Utah State University’s Ecological Coalition of Students. Some of the specific recommendations included in the petition are not to allow commercial logging in the Wasatch-Cache, to protect all roadless areas from road building or resource extraction and to invest in trail and campground maintenance, and restore old, eroding roads to a natural condition. The petition will be passed to the Forest Service, as well as the Logan City Council. Jim Steitz, forest coordinator for ECOS, said, “This explodes the myth that forest protection, as some have claimed, is the narrow domain of young athletic extremists. Protecting our backyard is an issue that all citizens have a stake in, and that deeply involves the future of our community. The remaining question is whether the Forest Service follows through with a plan that sustains the health, vigor and awesome splendor of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest for future generations.”