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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Three Wednesday, January 15. 1992 New geometry institute designed to improve math skills at all levels RGI's first conference this past summer was a success, 160 high school teachers, professors, undergraduates and Dave Fields Chronicle Staff Writer 1987. In 1991 Mori also received Japan's National Cultural Prize, which includes a lifelong payment of $50 thousand per year. "One way to think of ITAG is vertically, rather than horizontally," Benny Rushing, math department chairman, said. "The program goes from elementary school, all the way up to university and graduate school levels." The Regional Geometry Institute, a subsidiary of ITAG, includes four other universities around the country. The four other schools are the University of Texas, University of Illinois, University of Washington and Rice University. One of RGI's main functions is to sponsor a month-lon- g conference in Park City over the summer. Rushing said together. According to the proposal presented for the institute, "ITAG does not anticipate offering courses for credit. However, the formal program of the Institute would be broken down according to current grants, seminars and researchers-in-residencas well as cooperative projects with other institutions." ITAG does not plan to require any new state funds. Certain personnel from the math department will be needed to carry out duties for the Institute similar to those already in their job descriptions. In the proposal, it is expected that the U. would have to cover some of the initial costs, along with private donations. One of ITAG's funding needs is to finance "Elementary Mathematics through Geometry," a program working with Salt Lake City School District's Washington Elementary School. This proposal is directed at elementary math teacher enhancement, training and materials development, and would be the first of its kind in Utah. e, "Local industry leaders, chiefly in aerospace and computer-relate- d industries, have also shown considerable interest in developing an instrument for permanent interaction with university staff in the area of geometric visualization. They say such interaction, quite valuable to currently unavailable, is potentially ' to the them," according proposal. Once the program is in full operation it will be directed by Herb Clemens, the institute's originator, an unnamed mathematics professor and an administrator, Lorena student clerical workers will Hitchens. Two part-tim- e also be involved with the program. partner of Automatic Data Processing, which is attributed to starting the computer services industry and is the largest computing services firm in the from page one people. "The chief officers need to realize that corporations are completely dependent on the employees and the employees deserve to be protected," he said. Lautenberg spoke about his experience as a chief executive officer of a major corporation and how this contributed to his role in the Senate. Lautenberg was a founding Associated Press graduate students attending lectures and conferences A plan to create a new geometry institute at the University of Utah was approved by the Board of Trustees Monday. Once approval is received from the Board of Regents, the Institute for the Theory and Application of Geometry will promote "...internationally superior research in chosen areas of geometry, as a scholarly contribution and as a means of attracting mathematical resources of the highest possible quality to our university," according to the proposal presented to the Board of Trustees. Along with superior research in the geometry field itself, one of the program's goals is to get current visiting professor SMgefumi Mori to fill a permanent position in the math department. Mori, recipient of the Fields Award, the mathematical equivalent to the Nobel Prize, has spent one quarter per year teaching at the U. since Hinckley World Briefs world. Lautenberg also spoke about his work for the improvement of the environment and why it needs to be a top priority for America. "We want to leave the legacy of earth for our children. habitable a Right now we are abusing our environment," he. said. Lautenberg has served on the Environment and Public Works Committee since 1984. His efforts committee include involvement in ending ocean dumping of medical waste and the establishment of a national on this pollution prevention program. He said the Intelligent Vehicle-Highwa- y Systems Act of 1991, wtfll be he which in effective reducing traffic very congestion and air pollution through the use of technology. Lautenberg advocated measures to help the staggering economy and environment such as trimming the military budget and using taxpayers money more effectively. bases Sudan, officials assert Iran puts guerrilla in WASHINGTON Iran, trying to expand its influence beyond the Middle East, has established bases in Sudan to train fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas, Israeli and U.S. officials said. The United States and its allies in the Middle East are worried about this latest evidence of the growing friendship between the region's two most radical Muslim states. "It's enough that we have to worry about Iran trying to control the gulf region. With a toehold in Africa, they're also getting closer to Europe," one American official said. To carry out the training, Iran in recent months has moved a contingent of Revolutionary Guards the country's elite military force from its base in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley to Sudan, an Israeli official said. n In return for access to Sudan, Iran is providing the nation with military training against an eight-yea- r insurgency by mainly Christian and animist rebels, said officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said. They said the support and and training facilities in Sudan are also for Muslim radicals from Arab countries whose governments are considered including some Persian Gulf states and Algeria, the officials said. The Iranians are also providing training for two factions of the radical Islamic Jihad and for members of Hezbollah, both Iranian-backe- d Muslim Shiite organizations that held Western hostages in Lebanon, a senior Israeli official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. North-Africa- pro-Weste- rn 'Bellyacher' automakers hurt trade trip, Hatch says OREM President Bush should have left executives from Detroit's Big Three automakers at home during his recent trade trip said. to Japan, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, Ford Motor Co. chairman Harold Poling and General Motors chairman Robert Stempel hindered the h, mission more than they helped, Hatch, who called the trio "bellyachers from the work go," said. "I wouldn't have taken those people with me," he told students at Utah Valley Community College Monday. "I'd have gone there and and I'd be kicking most of the meetings would be the Japanese in the shins." Hatch said the United States ought to hit Japan for "unjustly" dumping products in the American market, imposing excessive import duties and protecting Japanese markets against American goods. In terms of cars, he said, the president didn't get much out of the trip. "But he made a point. And that point is that we expect some changes over there." As for the bellyachers, Hatch said U.S. companies are being beaten at their own game by the Japanese. "They make inferior cars to some degree. Their costs are so expensive. Their escalated costs are out of this world and they're demanding that you and I and everybody else bail them out by buying cars we don't think are as good as some of the Japanese behind-the-scen- es cars." Americans will start buying domestic cars when they are built as well as Japanese-mad- e models, he said. 1 Wtm 0 JBSSSSX tP 'C7 II 11 U Amnesty program brings fur clothes out of closets SAN FRANCISCO Animal-right- s activist Susan Netboy didn't feel right about the heirloom sable lurking in her closet. Then she stumbled on the ideal solution a veterinarian's "fur amnesty." She wasn't alone, said Elliot Katz, who's been pelted with castoff furs since he set up a drop-of- f station on the sidewalk outside posh I. in Union the Square shopping center. Magnin He has received scores of minks since Christmas, including $50 thousand worth of coats and jackets from one woman alone. "Some people unloaded a lot of guilt feelings," Katz said. "It was sort of like these skeletons in their closets. With fur amnesty, we gave them an opportunity to forgive themselves." Now Katz is in a quandary. Because of what ne considers the coats' gory history, he doesn't feel right turning his cache into cash. At one point, some homeless women asked if they could have them, but Katz didn't want to put the furs back on the streets. Instead, he gave away shirts that said "Don't Wear Fur." Netboy's fur, appraised at more than $6 thousand, had been in her family for 30 years, but she was glad to see it go. "I had felt uncomfortable about wearing it for a good, long time, but I didn't really want to dispose of it in an insignificant way," she said. "When this opportunity came up to donate it to a cause that would help the animals that suffered in the making of that coat, I. decided that was the way." it Katz, who founded the group in Defense of Animals in 1983, modeled his program after a similar effort in Britain, declaring a "Fur Amnesty Week" just before Christmas. The week ended. The coats kept coming. Katz estimated he had about $135 thousand By furs in his offices in San Rafael, 10 miles north of stored of worth San Francisco. d "Some are very obnoxious," he said, describing a a fox raccoon and heads with stole fox a complete monkey coat, coat that "had all sorts of little baby raccoon tails hanging from it." non-prof- 'WWNSKSSiSiSiM:'. m mid-Januar- For information on Aviation and Ground Programs, see Captain Vuckovich and 16-12 SSgt. Brown in the Student Union 7 Jan, 9 a.m.-- p.m. or call y, long-haire- |
