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Richmond
creates procedure for deposits, awaits audit
01/31/01
Bookkeeping
issues are a serious matter, the Richmond City Council learned Tuesday
as it prepared for an audit. A city judge says the city is expecting
auditors sometime next week, and all court money is not accounted
for because the treasurer has failed to give the court receipts for
all deposits. / By Jennifer Pinnock
Providence
urged to support Cache quality-of-life plan
01/31/01
Rick
Lungman, Cache Chamber of Commerce member, asked Providence for its
endorsement for the Cache Valley Initiative during last week's council
meeting. / By Tyra Leonard
HASS
dean to become provost Feb. 1
01/27/01
USU
President Kermit L. Hall announced Friday the appointment of the university
provost. Stan L. Albrecht, dean of Utah State's College of Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences, accepted the offer to serve as chief academician
and second in command as executive vice president. / By USU media
relations
Faculty
candidates interview with JCOM department
01/26/01
Two
new faculty candidates recently gave lectures to journalism and communication
students in Professor Nancy Williams' Media Smarts classes. See what
these two women had to say. / By Kevin King
River
Heights says no to tax on cell phones
01/26/01
Reasoning
that the town is not in the cell phone business, River Heights rejected
a tax on the phone service at the Tuesday night council meeting. /
By Matthew Flitton
Efforts
to censor Hollywood nothing new, professor says
01/24/01
A
USU journalism professor examines the collision between free expression
and pop culture as part of a new book on the American entertainment
industry. Ted Pease, head of the journalism and communication department
at Utah State University, says free expression has often been more
threatened in entertainment -- movies, radio and television -- than
in newspapers and TV news. / By the USU Journalism & Communication
Department
Journalism
professor's book examines censorship of World War II's biggest secrets
01/24/01
USU
journalism professor Mike Sweeney has published what some historians
are calling the most comprehensive and compelling work to date on
censorship of the American press during wartime. Among the revelations
in Secrets of Victory: journalists who knew about the atomic
bomb project kept it secret for two years, and the director of censorship
refused to nationalize the commercial radio industry. / By the
USU Journalism & Communication Department

President
Hall, more than 100 attend King vigil
01/18/01
The
annual Candlelight Vigil celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day was
powerful and prophetic. In attendance was USU's newly appointed president,
Kermit L. Hall, who could instead have attended the State of the State
address given by Gov. Mike Leavitt at the Legislature or even a basketball
game at the Smith Spectrum. "I am not here tonight because other presidents
were not, I'm here because it's important to me," said Hall. /
By Kevin King
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