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Show t I I The Daily Utah j o EM 6" basest, V4 j- University of Utah FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1991 - I Vol. 100, No. 156 President's retirement top story off 1990-9- year 1 Genetic research, basketball hype dominate Chronicle News Staff During the 1991-9- 2 school year The Daily Utah Chronicle's news page, keeping with tradition, was filled with controversy, including President Chase Peterson's retirement announcement, the National Cold Fusion Institute's scaling down and University Health Sciences researchers' genetic discoveries. The Chronicle news staff has compiled a list of the top ten news items for the year. 1. University of Utah President Chase Peterson announces his retirement after eight years at the university's helm. Amid his controversy concerning announced he Peterson would administration, leave the university at the end of the 1991 school year. Peterson was criticized for his involvement in the decision to donate $500,000 to the National Cold Fusion Institute. He was also denounced for his role in the effort to rename the U. Health Sciences Center after Utah businessman James L. Sorenson with his promise to donate $15 million to the center. Faculty also felt administrative restructuring had cut their ability to affect administrative decisions. Peterson read a statement responding to these criticisms and the Academic Senate's resolution asking the Board of Regents and the Institutional Council to review his administration at a June 11 council meeting, ending the controversy. 2. The University of Utah dedicates the $28 million George and Dolores Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Building November 27. Funded with private money from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, the 154,000-square-fobuilding provides research facilities for more than 400 geneticists in 72 laboratories. ot Research projects housed in the institute include an effort to map the entire human genome, a program studying mutant gene transferral in fruit flies and individual researchers' projects. 3. The University of Utah basketball team wins games, the WAC championship, earns a top-1- 0 national ranking and makes it to the "Sweet 16" in the NCAA tournament. Utah coach Rick Majerus is named national Coach of the Year by United Press International. Instead of the mediocre season which was the best in school anticipated, the Utes went 30-see "top" on page two ht 4, Chase Peterson The high-tec- h University of Utah's George and Dolores Dore Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Building's dedication in November, 1990, was one of the top news events of the 1990-9- 1 school year. University students claim exhibit Conference examines unfair due to biased art teachers U.'s kidney discovery A By Allan Rubenstfjn Chronicle Staff Writer University of Utah art students expressed their concerns over the department student art show, claiming the pieces chosen for display in the show were not direct of the representations contributions from students in the department. representative for these students Students formed the group Student Against Show SASS. The spokesperson, who wished to remain anonymous, said the selection process of the art in the show was biased and many students did not receive a fair chance to be represented. The show was described by SASS as a "farce" and many art students had up to three pieces in the show while others had none. Skilled hands head south to paint in natural setting By Allan Rubenstein Chronicle Staff Writer University of Utah credits for classes in landscaping in watercolor and oil and figures in a landscape. Professional students from the art department will be travelling to Southern Utah for an intensive Twenty-eig- ht painting workshop where they will utilize the natural surroundings to develop painting skills. The classes will be held in Moab and go from June 15 to June 22. Students will receive four Artists Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen will be instructing the students along with university art department instructors. Paul Davis, U. art professor instructing the figure painting class, said the idea of painting in Southern Utah is to make use of the natural light and seasonal see "painters" on page five "So many people entered the show and so few were chosen. Instead of instructors picking their favorite pieces, they should try to use as many pieces possible from as many different students as possible," the SASS spokesperson, who had a piece in the show, said. In the future, the selection committee should consider limiting each student to one piece in the show, the spokesperson added. Three hundred pieces of art were entered, 127 of which were chosen. Forty-seve- n students had one piece chosen, 34 students had two pieces chosen and 11 students had three pieces chosen for the show. This amounts to 65 percent of the work being done by 25 percent of the people in the show. Joe Marotta, chairman of the art department, said it is difficult to represent all the students in the department when the gallery is designed to hold 100 pieces. As much space as possible was made to fit over 100 pieces in the show. It is hard to represent everybody, Marotta added. The pieces were chosen according to quality and merit and if the committee had the ability, they would have shown more of the exhibits. SASS proposed that the show be see "SASS" on page five Medicine, Susan Williams Chronicle Staff Writer said a recent conference in Keystone, Colorado about the biology of wound healing extended the applications By Scientists from around the nation gathered at a conference and presented evidence that confirmed that a U. researcher's discovery applies to many kinds of bodily scarring. Wayne Border, chief of the division of nephrology at the University of Utah School of of his earlier discovery about scarring in the kidneys. Border and Erkki Ruoslahti, La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation president, discovery announced July, the 1990. Transforming growth factor-betor TGF-betwas found to play an important role in stimulating matrix production in the kidneys. Scar tissue is composed of a, a, matrix. Experimental animals with glomerulonephritis, a kidney disease, were found to produce too much matrix, which caused scarring in the kidneys. TGF-bet- a released by the diseased kidney caused the extra matrix production. Researchers also discovered that the injection of an antibody can block this scarring. This data developed from the kidney research "is also applicable to excessive scarring in wounds and scarring in other tissues" such as the skin, the excessive lungs and the spinal cord, Border 1 said. Excessive scarring in the spinal cord blocks nerve action and Wayne Border could impair arm and leg action see "research" on page two Non-Prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |