GREEK
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"It's not something that my
chapter stresses to do," he said.
Day and Harding are both
members of Pi Kappa Alpha,
which isn't officially affiliated
with the University.
Sen. Alicia Lindquist, a
member of the Alpha Phi
sorority, echoed that her deci
sion to run for senate was an
individual one.
"I thought it would be a
good way to learn," Lindquist
said. "I like to push myself to
do different things."
George said that the skills he
learned in his fraternity helped
him seek a leadership position
in student government.
"Personally, I just thought it
was an extension of the skills 1
learned in my fraternity,"
George said. "Working with the
University as much as we do,
we see the areas that we could
help or work well with."
While senate seats are open to
any student who wishes to run,
greek students said they hold
certain advantages over non
greek students in any senate race:
the extensive social network and
leadership involvement inherent
in greek life.
George said his fraternity
brothers were instrumental to
his election, and Day also re
ceived a helping hand in his
campaign.
"(My fraternity) just helped
me get the word out that 1 was
running and that I'd be a good
candidate for the position,"
Day said.
Lindquist said that while her
sorority sisters encouraged her,
they didn't actively help her
gain election.
"They supported me but I
wouldn't say we really cam
paigned," she said.
Scott thought the bottom
line was that if non-greek stu
dents want better representa
tion on the senate, they should
stop complaining and run for
office.
"If students don't think that's
fair, they should work up the
gumption to become a senator
themselves," she said.
Contact the campus/federal
politics reporter at
chuckslothowert&clailyemerald.com.
Danielle Hickey Senior Photographer
ASUO Student Senators Alicia Lindquist of Alpha Phi (left) and Bethany Larson of Kappa Kappa Gamma (right) attend an ASUO meeting Wednesday
evening in the EMU Boardroom. Sorority and fraternity members occupy seven of the senate’s 18 seats.
LIFETIME
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She received an e-mail from a
woman with the network requesting
an interview.
At first she thought someone was
playing an April Fools' Day trick on her.
"1 thought it was a joke" she said. "I
thought it was somebody from the trip
trying to be funny two years later, but I
called the woman back and it was real."
The segment will be called "Hiking
to Safety" and will involve reenact
ments of the ordeal, complete with ac
tors hired to portray Sowers and the
woman she helped rescue, Lani Rovzar.
The show will start at 11 p.m.
Sowers thinks the event and the
show are comical.
"Although it was really serious at the
time, when everybody from the trip
gets together, we all joke about it," she
said. "I thought it was hilarious, I mean
I still think it's really funny. Of course
I've told all of my friends and my fami
ly about it, but I think I'm more inter
ested in watching to get a good laugh."
Rovzar, who was sent a preview
copy of the program, thought the seg
ment was kind of "cheesy."
"It's not intentionally funny," she
said. "It's funny for Lauren and I be
cause they did a re-enactment and
there's an actress that's being me. If
you were there, it's like, 'no, it wasn't
like that.'"
For instancy in one scene the actor
playing Rovzar is trapped between two
rocks pleading for help, but when the
actor yells "Lani" she mispronounces
it Rovzar said.
The show segment is based on an
accident that happened more than two
years ago during spring break of2001.
Sowers, Rovzar and eight others were
on a University Outdoor Program
backpacking trip through Paria
Canyon, a 40-mile slot canyon that
runs from southern Utah into north
ern Arizona, Rovzar said. They were
planning on taking five days to navi
gate the entire canyon, averaging eight
miles per day.
During the first two days of the trip
the group fell behind schedule, Sowers
said. On die third day they tried to
make up for it by going at a faster pace
Sowers recalled hiking with Rovzar,
who she had first met on the trip, on
the third day. The two women were
singing "cheesy 80s songs" as they
trekked on.
After lunch the group started to sep
arate Rovzar said. She wanted to go at
a slower pace so she fell back and
hiked alone. Behind her, Sowers and
Sarah Feinstein hiked.
The women approached a section of
the canyon that was dangerously nar
row. The river roared with pressure and
could not be crossed, Sowers said.
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"Sarah and I were walking on the
big rocks and we heard Lani ahead of
us screaming," Sowers said. "As we
got closer we could hear her scream
ing 'help,' and we saw her backpack.
Sarah and I threw our backpacks off
and left them on the rocks and we
went running to see what was going
on with Lani. We went up to Lani and
we saw her — she was kind of stuck
between two rocks."
Rovzar had stepped over a crevasse
between two rocks when she slipped,
careened forward and smashed her
face on a rock, she recalled. Then, she
fell between the rocks and her 40
pound backpack pinned her down.
Rovzar had broken her arm in five
places and her nose in two, she said.
She wasn't sure how long she would
have to wait before help arrived, so she
tried to cut her backpack off with a
pocket knife She also tried blowing a
whisde to get somebody's attention,
but the noise was drowned out by the
river. She waited for about 30 minutes
before Sowers and Feinstein found her.
"I think I kind of stopped in my
tracks at first," Sowers recalled. "It was
obvious that she was really hurt there
was some blood on the rock in front of
her. She was like, 'Don't touch my arm.
I have to get out of this rock right here.
Don't touch my arm!'" Sowers said.
"Sarah and I took the backpack off of
her and lifted her out slowly."
The two women then propped her
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"We sat there for a while," Sowers
said. "Both Sarah and I were really
nervous."
Feinstein left the two women to go
get another hiker who knew first aid.
"Pretty much all I did was sit there
with her and calm her down," Sowers
said. "I gave her some water and tried
to relax her as much as possible I think
I realized it was going to be difficult be
cause she was so panic stricken and it's
pretty serious to hike two days with a
broken arm."
Sowers stayed with Rovzar for about
30 minutes before Feinstein returned
with John Mann, who devised a
makeshift splint for Rovzar using a hik
ing pole and bits and pieces of clothes.
She wore it for the next two days while
the group hiked out of the canyon.
When they got out of the canyon
they drove her to the nearest town,
where she saw a doctor. Then, they
drove her to Las Vegas, where she said
goodbye to Sowers and the group and
caught a flight back to Portland.
Sowers and Rovzar lost touch for a
little over two years until Lifetime con
tacted both women.
"Then we talked on the phone and
pretty much laughed about how fun
ny it was that we were on the show,"
Sowers recalled.
In the aftermath of the accident, the
group looks at it lightly. But that didn't
necessarily mesh well with Lifetime,
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Sowers said.
"I was sort of joking about it for the
interview and the director, he didn't
like that at all," she said. "He told me
that I was smiling too much and that
(the accident) was potentially fatal. It
felt like he moved my words around
and wanted me to be as dramatic and
cheesy as possible. I think that if I
would have started crying he would
have loved it."
Brad Schallert, a friend of Lauren's
who was also on the trip, thought that
because the show wasn't very timely
they would have to stretch to make it
entertaining.
"It's a feature piece and jazzed up a
bit," he said. "I think the way they'll
portray it will not be what it was like.
Because it's Lifetime television for
women, they'll have to have a different
slant than my experience was."
As much as Sowers thought it funny
that lifetime chose to put the story on
television, she conceded it's worth
telling.
"I think it's an interesting story be
cause I think a lot of people have
something to learn from it" she said.
"Because that situation happened to
me I feel a lot more prepared. I think
that other people have something to
learn from hearing the story."
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