Training galore
The Society of Professional Journalists, Radio Television Digital News Association and the Native American Journalists Association have breakout sessions and additional workshops designed to teach you the best practices in ethics, storytelling, data, technology and much more. You can view the entire schedule for the weekend here.
Tons of networking
Get to know other journalists at one of our receptions and spend time with industry organizations at the J-Expo and Career Fair. At EIJ16, you’ll build skills you’ll use and meet new people you’ll want to keep in touch with.
Fun memories
Party like a journalist at EIJ16! From the Opening Night Reception to the closing EIJ16 Dance and everything in between, you’ll have a lot of fun in the Big Easy with us. Learn about all of the activities at EIJ16 here.
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training and competing for our Fall Season which includes aquatics, basketball, bocce and golf.
Come volunteer or cheer as a Fan in the Stand at one of our upcoming events.
2016 South East Area Aquatics/Bocce Competition
September 10 - Moab Recreation & Aquatic Center in Provo
Email Matt Allen at allen@sout.org to volunteer
2016 Central Area Basketball/Bocce Competition
September 16 - Provo Recreation Center in Provo
Register Online
2016 Metro Area Aquatics/Bocce Competition
September 17 - Kearns Recreation Center in Kearns
Register Online
2016 North Basketball Competition
September 24 - Clearfield Recreation Center in Clearfield
Register Online
2016 Metro Area Basketball Competition
October 1 - West High School in Salt Lake City
Register Online
2016 North Area Aquatics Competition
October 1 - Utah State University in Logan
Register Online
2016 Fall Games
October 14 - 15
University of Utah & Rose Park Golf Course
Corporate group reservations happening now.
Contact Judy Hut at volunteer@sout.org to see what is available.
Public registration Coming Soon!
For more information visit www.sout.org
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New book is gut-wrenching memoir of physician who served during infamous war in Southeast Asia
CEDAR CITY, Utah – William Clayton Petty, MD has observed that wars continue to be a prevalent part of today’s world events. The United States is actively involved in many small conflicts that require the services of medical personal. In “Vietnam Doc” (published by LifeRich Publishing), the author shares his personal story as he served as chief of anesthesia at a busy military hospital during the Vietnam War.
“Vietnam Doc” is a book about an anesthesiologist’s experience in a major trauma hospital during the Vietnam War. It describes his personal reflections on many aspects of the war, especially personal confrontations in the professional life of an anesthesiologist; also shedding light on the inner feelings of a physician in the war zone.
More than a memoir, this book is a description of the events (i.e. casualties) and drama associated with operating on wounded soldiers during a very active war. The many challenges faced by care givers to those who were facing death everyday show how the people in the battlefield and behind attempt to “repair the wounds” so they could go home.
“To understand the work of nurses and doctors working every day, sometimes 24 hours or more at a stretch, on keeping wounded soldiers alive,” Petty on what he wants readers to take away from his writings. “Also to give the reader a different perspective of what the war in Vietnam was like from the viewpoint of a physician.”
“Vietnam Doc”
By William Clayton Petty, MD
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 156 pages | ISBN 9781489708571
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 156 pages | ISBN 9781489708564
E-Book | 156 pages | ISBN 9781489708557
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Donald Trump is ‘clueless about what works’ for students, public education
Trump double-downs on failed education policies at failing, for-profit charter school
CLEVELAND — With just weeks to go until Election Day, voters have been frustrated with Donald Trump’s failure to provide detailed plans on major issues such as education, the economy and foreign policy. Trump today visited a for-profit charter school in Cleveland to talk education.
“Donald Trump isn’t serious about doing what’s best for our students, and he’s clueless about what works. His silver bullet approach does nothing to help the most-vulnerable students and ignores glaring opportunity gaps while taking away money from public schools to fill private-sector coffers. No matter what you call it, vouchers take dollars away from our public schools to fund private schools at taxpayers’ expense with little to no regard for our students,” said NEA President Lily Eskelsen García.”
“Today we saw Donald Trump desperately throw a bunch of failed education policies against a wall to see if any of them would stick. In contrast, Hillary Clinton believes a child’s chance of success should not depend on living in the right ZIP code. And she is fully committed to supporting educators and to ensuring that they not only we have a partner in the White House but that we also have a seat at the table,” added Eskelsen García.
Decades of research have found that vouchers fail to improve student achievement in any impactful way, do not help the students most in need and ignore the real opportunity gaps that exist in public schools. And the backdrop of a failing for-profit charter school for today’s campaign stop shows just how clueless and out-of-touch Trump is from what kids need to succeed.
“Donald Trump’s campaign has been smoke-and-mirrors with no substance,” said Becky Higgins, a first-grade teacher serving as president of the Ohio Education Association. “Donald Trump has no understanding of what kids need to succeed in school or in life. He’s only concerned with his bottom line.”
A recent study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that charter schools fail at higher rates than they succeed. On the Ohio state report card, more charter schools received F grades than As, Bs and Cs combined. Last year, more than $500 million in state aid was sent to charter schools that performed the same or worse than the local school district from which students transferred, according to KnowYourCharter.com.
Trump’s lack of a real education plan isn’t the only thing that concerns educators in this highly unusual election. With his divisive campaign, Trump has taken hate mainstream.
“We teach our students to view the president as a role model, but when Donald Trump promotes a campaign built on racism, sexism and xenophobia, he’s no role model I would want for my students or my family,” said Dan Greenberg, a high school English teacher in Sylvania, Ohio. “It doesn’t matter who you are — Democrat, Republican, or Independent — we have to vote our conscious over political party. Donald Trump is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief.”
In the last days of Election 2016, Trump’s attempt to “soften” his tone can’t change how his campaign has been built on racist prejudice and paranoia.
“We’ve seen behavior from Donald Trump that we would never accept in a classroom,” added Eskelsen García who was the 1989 Utah Teacher of the Year before being elected president of the 3 million-member National Education Association. “We teach children to reject prejudice and stereotypes like the ones Donald Trump embraces every time he hurls racial slurs, insults immigrants and women, and talks about banning Muslims from entering our country. We need a president who stands up to bullies — not one who embraces their tactics.”
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