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Show Vol.103. No. 111 Tuesday. March 29. 1994 nan lb Published Since 1890 U. professor's actions To doll vjiiii connected to death of Salt Lake area teen juice and drank the mixture on Saturday and Sunday. BURT Chronicle News Writer BY BRANDON Lozano After a University of Utah associate professor of biology filled a vodka bottle with methanol for cleaning purposes at a local community center, a Salt Lake City youth died Thursday as a result of drinking the contents. . Orlando Cuellar. U. associate professor and board, president of the Centro Civico Mexicano. filled the plastic vodka bottle with methanol from his biology lab and took the bottle to the civic center. According to police, Cuellar gave the methanol to a janitor at the civic center to use as a paint solvent to remove graffiti, police said. The bottle was placed in the janitor's closet for storage. Apparently assuming the tle contained class... bot- vodka, Paul Lozano, 16, removed it from the janitor's closet and hid it behind some furniture, returning later to retrieve it. Police said that Lozano and several friends combined the-- methanol with --orange f was hospitalized Monday night after having convulsions. He later died. Eleven others who had consumed the methanol were treated and later released. "The University is not involved in any proceedings (against Cuellar) at this point." said U. assistant general counsel Mary Tucker. Methanol poisoning can occur after a delay of several hours from the time of ingestion, said Barbara Vuignier, director of the Utah Poison Control Center. Initially, there may be no feeling of profound drunkenness, but of confusion, symptoms headaches and changes in vision may occur, she said. In the body, methanol is metabolized into formaldehyde and formic acid, causing blindness, brain damage or death, she said. j In the event of methanol poisoning, a trip to a hospital emer- gency room is usually recom-- T mended.v Vuignierrvr said;? ingestion "of even "methanol"- - page" o a 1 CHRONICLE thiw j. 5P Professor conducting research on medicinal benefits of rainforests Kaplan faces lawsuit for unfair ads BY BRANDON BURT Chronicle News Writer "They've been inventing them (the Q (i Ecologists from the University of Utah are looking for the benefits of the rainforests and ways to protect and preserve them. Phyllis Coley, a U. biology pro- court battle over claims that Kaplan Educational a fessor and Centers is using unsubstantiated figures in its advertisi- A ng. The Princeton Review attempted to file an injunc: tion last week against Kaplan to prevent the company'from i w y Thomas Kursar, research assistant professor of biology, have studied the rainforests in Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. One of the most important benefits rainforests provide is pharmaceuticals for medicine and farming, according to Coley. Twenty-fiv- e percent of the medicines bought in the United States come from the rainforest, she said. . Wendy Pong, assistant director of public relations at the Princeton Review, said see "suit" on page three years," she said. Chronicle News Writer companies are embroiled in which allegedly reports that Kaplan's preparation courses improve test scores by certain amounts. mcdicationsl over millions of BY AMY SHAFER Two major test preparation running an ad campaign PHOTOScoB Sine This outdoorsman knows where it's at. He's taking in a little independent study along the Provo River. You, too, pould take advantage of such a great education.-- CHRONICLE r PHOTOPaul Reinarz Phyllis Coley, a University of Utah biology professor, is doing research on the medicinal benefits rainforests provide. "Developed countries are basically very dependent on the rainforests for medicine," she said. Medicines from the rainforests have been tested by plants for millions of years, according to Coley. The medicines in the plants which fight off predators and diseases can also be used in agriculture. Instead of using pesticides, agriculturists can use the genetic material in rainforest plants to ward off insects and illness, according to Coley. Brazil nuts, rubber, and wood also come from the rainforests. "There aren't any good substitutes for many of those hard woods," Coley said. When rainforests are cut down, precipitation drops and an excess of carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere, Coley said. "I think there's also moral or religious reasons to preserve the rainforestsl...I like knowing there's a rainforest there. But you can't put that into an economic argument," she said. The rainforests covered 25 mil-se- e "rainforest" on page three noiils First she brought us insight on the For those that celebrate Easter, what could keep the holiday holier than a day on the slopes? Check out today's Focus section where Heidi Hofman explores Easter services at Park City and e Snowbird. Also in this section Bosnian-Ser- b Writer-at-Larg- Roberts' spring break adventures on the Pacific Northwest and Jennifer "Bob Barker" Toomer's reminder for everyone to w5 have their pets spayed or neutered. Rob , crisis in Europe, then she lead the fight to make dead week dead. Check out the next insightful commentary by the Chronicle's own Managing Editor Eleni Vatsis. Find out what makes the political backbone of the Chrony house editorial tick in her latest examination of mass meetings. Then watch for Vatsis' comparative study on Generation X in Newswedk IV th "After sitting in the car for numerous hours and hearing Counting Crow's "Mister Jones" over 30 times on local radio stations in every state from Utah to Oregon, 1 put the "Best of the Brady Bunch" in the CD player, declared I would sell my soul for a night of unbridled passion With a mid seventies -- Marciaandjan.i. -- Chronicles f ' ? Wrlter-at-Larg- , $ I ' Rob Roberts e Non-Prof- U.S. it Org. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |