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Show 1' Smith honors U. staff members llliill ;- - '." ; mittees. the elevated purchasing department in Inglebee the eyes of the U.. according to Parker. "She comes BY AMY SHAFEX Chronicle News Writer to the university with outstanding credentials." Sylvia Morris, administrative manager in the Four University of Utah staff members were mechanical engineering department, won an award. Kate Rhodes, program coordinator in the honored at a luncheon Wednesday. U. President Arthur Smith presented the annual College of Engineering, who was one of five runnePresidential Staff Awards. Each staff member's r-ups present, spoke about Morris. is a good coordinator who works well Morris supervisor spoke in his or her honor. with people, according to Each recipient received Rhodes. I know that a plaque and a cash prize of $1,000. Sylvia is always there for "This time of year, I regret that we (the students." , The awards were set up have four of these Neva Nielsen, adminisin 1992. when Smith only to Awards Presidential Staff give, trative assistant in the honored three staff memGraduate School of Social U. President Arthur Smith said. bers. All together. 11 peo Work, also won an award. ple have received awards. The dean, Kay Dea, Linda Stephenson, associate librarian of the Law Library, spoke about said Nielsen supports others well, but will be retiraward winner John Be van. who is the Law Library ing at the end of this year. "We're going to find but next year how difficult it is to run the school withsupervisor. "John shows great initiative and is amazingly out her." Smith said the winners' names have already versatile," Stephenson said. been placed on a plaque which hangs outside of James Parker, director of purchasing and stores, said Kathy Inglebee, a buyer in purchasing who the Panorama Room in the Union Building. "This time of year, I regret that we only have was honored at the lunch, excels in customer service. She has also served on a number of U. com- - four of these to give," Smith said. Scientist: are men more trouble than they're worth? - It ranks up there with the world's other great unanswerable questions: Will Madonna's career ever get back on track? Are Roseanne and Tom going to reunite? When will Susan Luori ever get her Emmy? And now we have: "Why bother with sex?" OK, we guys know why. But Rosemary Redfield, a Canadian evolutionary biologist, wants the female of the species to know that when their hormones are in hysterics, when their libido is wired, when they've got "making whoopee" on their brain cells, they should think twice about having sex. Redfield, a researcher in the department of zoology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, wrote in the journal Nature that a female would be more likely to have genetically healthier offspring by not mixing her genes with those of a male, whose sperm is more likely to carry mutations than are her eggs. She was talking about hypothetical, computer-modele- d species lonedateless and because there to no single-ceme. were But amoeba, ly, you s available to comment, we had to interview humans. g at the molecular and biological level," Dennis "This is Pal umbo, a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles, said of Redfield s findings. Redfield, who was unavailable for comment, told the Washington Post that her ideas on sexual reproduction "do not apply to the vast majority of human males, who make many very important contributions to their offspring." Still, Palumbo asked: "Are we, as men, basically on the way out? It ll spokes-creature- male-bashin- non-geneti- attended Ririe D.C. from page one In 1964, Ririe and Woodbury joined together to start the internationally recog- c sounds like that "But on the other hand, male scientists have sort of been the voices of record for so many years that some part of me now thinks that this is an nized Ririe-Woodbu- ry Modern Dance Company, attempt by female researchers to balance the voices out there." Helen Fisher, research associate in the department of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the author of Anatomy of Love ( Ballantine, 1992), said the study by Redfield "is pro- - , viding balance to the subject and pointing out that there are some maladaptive consequences to sex as well." a male "It's more adaptive to clone yourself Jhan Uis to reproduce-witintroduce and who a mutations produce more'shoddy off--' may partner she added. spring," Too bad people can't be more like strawberries, Fisher said; "Strawberries clone themselves whenthey are in the middle of a nice good patch. But when they get to the edge of the patch and they have to branch out into dangerous frontier, they reproduce sexually instead. "And that is useful to them because theytye'got mutant nd new kinds -- 1 of strawberries that may survive in very unpredictable circumstances," she said. "The same could be said of human beings. It has long been said that. ' there is variety in offspring." As far back as Darwin, scientists have argued that reproduction is possible through parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. Ellen Kriedman says Darwin be damned. The author of How Can We Light a Fire When ' the Kids Are Driving Us Crazy: A Guide for Parents to Be Lovers (Villard, 1994) said any woman who has ever had an orgasm wouldn't want to put the kibosh on sex. "There's nothing like it It's the closet act you can engage in. It's intimacy. It's loving. It fulfills your need to be held and to be touched and to be connected with another human being," she said. "Aside from the biological, it is psychologically and emotionally satisfying to be engaged in the sexual act." b . 15 in meetings during the past Washington, year and a half. "The experience has given me the opportunity to emphasize the our basic learning and without it we are forgetting a significant ele- ment of our education," Ririe said. According to Ririe, she hopes to spend more time with her 14 grandchildren, "We contributed double energy into the ' but she will not be but I Will keep in touch. Itis a deep part of nje." We admire Shirley for balancing her career um lamuy uves so weu, she is one of pur most' iHTTll part-time- ," recently par- ticipated pnhe commit- - ., tee to determine tneVnationfcl standards in the art She has" tfODt? , need to place more value on edu- cation in the arts. It is crucial to C36DD gifted choreographers," Niva Borden,; administrative 1 , assistant for modern dance, said. G6ff CaGDut? . WHILE ASUU PRESENTS Russians hope American green movement rubs off USHKANYA PAD, Russia Rain dripped through a torn plastic sheet stretched across the lean-tsoaking a few fish hanging with mouths and to the ground a muddy mess. turning agape turned up the and California-bred- , Hank Bimbaum, 35, Colorado-bocollar of his soiled jacket and spread his arms wide. "Welcome to Bermuda," he said with a rueful smile. hotels represent one end If World Bank consultants at of the West's aid spectrum Birnbaum surely holds down the other o, m $300-per-nig- ht extreme. n After several years of coordinating exchange proit Bimbaum Francisco for a San signed on organization, grams humanitarian aid: He is a for the ultimate in grass-rooforest ranger in a roadless, isolated corner of the Pribaikalsky National Park in Siberia. "I just have my own inner need to be here," Bimbaum said. Park officials said they were delighted to hire Bimbaum, .hoping American attitudes toward nature conservation would rub off on other rangers. The national park on Baikal's shore was formed only in 1986, and many locals including quite a few rangers continue to regard the territory as a handy hunting reserve. r "When my colleague sees ducks flying past, he says, 'Look, meat!? Russian-America- non-prof- full-tim- e, ts $13-a-mon- th . Bimbaum said. ; Bimbaum expected to spend the spring and summer living in a log cabin in this beautiful spot, greeting hikers and watching for forest fires. But during the winter, the cabin was set on fire and destroyed. Park officials believe the culprit was a ranger who had been fired for hunting. : Bimbaum acknowledges "a lot that's frustrating" in Russia. "People take a lot of holidays, they find a lot of reasons to work slowly and take days off," he said. Rather than clean the trash from a small area, e for a cleanupor they spend hours discussing grand projects Club volunteers for who come each sum- Sierra trash propose leaving the mer, actually looking to work." park-wid- a stranger to the department. "I will miss spending time on campus on a regular basis development of the department. Also, facThy we followed the same philosophy bothun-tim- e and we worked on the regarding the importance of dance edu- company oiuthfi week- - nation and the recognition of dance as on art. 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