The fair is part of the U.'s Wellness Week, today through Saturday, on the U. campus, and is open to the public as well as the U. community.
The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Olpin Union Ballroom. Among groups expected to attend are Salt Lake Valley Health Department, Rape Recovery Center, Planned Parenthood, First Unitarian Church, LDSSA, Campus Recreation Center, Center for Disability Services, University Counseling Center, the Women's Resource Center and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center.
A 5K "Run Like Health" is Nov. 1 at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Rice-Eccles stadium. Registration is $10 in advance and $20 that day. T-shirts and water bottles will be provided to each participant. Proceeds go to the Alternative Spring Break program to fund service-oriented spring break trips and the Student Health Advisory Committee.
For more information on the fair, call 801-581-8638 or 801-585-1274. For race registration, visit www.studenthealth.utah.edu/wellness5k.
Westminster offers Latino scholarship
Westminster College has joined with the Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to create a full-tuition scholarship for first-generation college students of Latino descent. The annual Westminster College Somos Scholar Award will be given by the chamber's Hispanic Business Leadership Foundation to one incoming student every year.
"Westminster College has definitely stepped up to the plate," said Robert Rendon, president of the Hispanic Business Leadership Foundation. "Together we are going to make some young person extremely happy and impact their life in a very positive way."
A first-generation student is defined as a person whose parents have not graduated from college. Qualified applicants need a minimum 3.5 high school GPA and must maintain good standing while a student at Westminster, a small, private liberal arts college in Salt Lake City. They must also file a Free Application for Federal Student Aid annually.
- Brian Maffly
Kohl's subsidizes 'Body Worlds' visits
A gift from Kohl's Department Stores will subsidize science field trips to The Leonardo for students to see "Body Worlds 3," the cadaver exhibit being staged at Salt Lake City's former library.
The $286,700 donation will lower the already reduced cost of admission to just $2 (regularly $19.50) and provide transportation stipends. About 30,000 Utah students are expected to benefit from the gift, which was funneled through Body Worlds sponsor University Health Care. Thousands of schoolchildren have already seen the exhibit, which runs until Jan. 11.
"In a time of budget cuts and high transportation costs, we hope this funding will enable schools that might not otherwise be able to attend the exhibition the opportunity to experience this once-in-a-lifetime educational event," said Alexandra Hesse, The Leonardo's exhibits and programs manager.
- Brian Maffly
Authors to discuss Mountain Meadows
The authors of a new book on the Mountain Meadows Massacre will convene at Utah State University for an open discussion today about one of the darkest events in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Logan university's Religious Studies Program will host Ronald Walker, Richard Turley and Glen Leonard from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Eccles Business Building. The event is free and open to the public.
"One doesn't need to be LDS to recognize the importance of the infamous massacre that occurred at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah in 1857," said USU professor Philip Barlow, the Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture. "More than 120 unarmed men, women and children emigrating from Arkansas and Missouri were slaughtered at point-blank range by Mormon militiamen, aided by southern Paiutes. . . . The event has ever since haunted many Latter-day Saints as the darkest blot on Mormonism's complex history."
The LDS Church approved and funded the research by the three authors, who are among Mormonism's most accomplished historians, Barlow said.
- Brian Maffly
