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Show 11T. Maretrt, - The Daily Utah Cfcnmlde rr 1994 jr vrmTiorj JftfORLD Pole's Tough Banana - WASHINGTON (AP) "Every country needs a president," Bob Dole once replied when asked why he was running. And now he faces a similar proposition: Every presidential candidate needs a running mate. Probably no one knows better than Dole how disastrous a bad choice can be. As President Ford's No. 2 man in 1976, he came across as mean-spiritea hatchet man and a drag on the ticket. Later, he joked: "I went for die jugular my own." The Democrats ran commercials showing Dole's picture and saying: "When you know diat four of the last six vice presidents have wound up being president, who would you like to sec a heartbeat away from the presidency? Hmmm?" The choice seems more critical than usual this time around. Dole's age he is 72 and, if elected, would be the oldest new president in history will force voters to look at his running mate as a possible occupant of the Oval Office. Moreover, the running mate will have a greater likelihood than most to head the ticket in four or eight years. So the decision may be the most important Dole makes between now and Election Day. How he makes it is important, too. The nominee could be hurt by a process that turns the selection into a beauty contest, or humiliates the also-ranor makes the candidate seem indecisive or die prisoner of one or another wing of die party. It's a minefield, and Pat Buchanan has been see "VP" on page 7 - - - - Mad Gow Politics Dinosaur Skin - ALBUQUERQUE (AP) More than anything else, dinosaur skin feels like a mountain bike tire rough, thick and bumpy, with knobs. somewhat symmetrical clumps of little crimped-edgeAn extraordinary fossil discovery is letting scientists reach back 70 million years to touch an impression of the skin of one of the massive beasts. "We've got die first dinosaur petting zoo in North America here," Spencer Lucas said Wednesday. He is a paleontologist at die New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. muse"I would feel real excited to touch that," said when he heard about the disum visitor Nicholas Colcman-Watkin- , dinosaur was discovered five The of a student a who was studying rocks, not graduate years ago by in southern near New Mexico. dinosaurs, Deming It wasn't until last year that researchers began to suspect the textured rock was not just fossilized tree bark. "This is really weird," said Lucas, cradling a chunk of die fossil in his lap during a museum news conference announcing the find. "It's so weird that as a trained paleontologist I didn't know what the hell it was for five years." Lucas said it is one of only about a dozen duck-billedinosaur skin impressions anywhere in the world. Scientists estimate that the dinosaur that left the impression of part of its tail was 20 to 25 feet long. They haven't yet tried to dig deeper at die site to see if any more of the fossil is there, but hope see "Old Skin on page 4 fossilized skin duck-bille- d d Two U. Profs Receive $5,000 Two University of Utah professors have been awarded $5,000 John R. Park Teachers' Fellowships to study for a quarter in the Netherlands and in New Mexico. Designed to enrich teacliing roles, die fellowships go to James Herron, associate professor of pharmaceutics, and William Johnston, professor of psy- is fast-foo- d covery. Briefs - The bad news for Prime Minister John that restoring public confidence in British beef after Major the mad cow disease scare may take $4.2 billion and five years. The worse news is that after a politically disastrous week, his Conservative Party probably won't be in power that long. Major is trying to assure people that British beef is safe. "We have said so and the scientists have said so," he said in a television interview Wednesday. "What has happened is collective hysteria, pardy media, partly opposition (politi- . cians), partly European." and across counters But at supermarkets Britain, consumers have returned a resounding vote of no confidence in Major's assurances. Beef sales have slumped in Britain and its largest former export markets. The McDonald's, Burger King and Wimpy chains are withdrawing British beef. And on Wednesday, the European Union ordered Britain to stop exporting its cattle, beef and beef products to any part of the world. Greek authorities confiscated more than 50 tons of British beef stored at warehouses around Athens. And the Dutch Agriculture Ministry ordered the slaughter of up to 64,000 British calves imported m recent months to the Netherlands. The revolt against British beef was ignited by the government's disclosure last week that its scientific advisers believe see "Mad Cows' on page 6 LONDON (AP) fast-foo- d RHSA Sponsors Dinner-Danc-e To Fund Utah AIDS Foundation BIANCA COWAN Chronicle Staff Writer Those who disguise themselves in medieval attire for the Residence Halls Student Association's fifth annual dinner-dance will be doing a part to unmask AIDS in Utah, and they'll be having so much fun, they may not even know it. With the help of a as a RHSA has held the dinner-danc- e liighly successful fund raiser since its inception. "This event is always a charity," Ali National Sharifi, says Communications coordinator chology. Herron will spend this summer studying at the University of Utrecht in die Netherlands. The department of pharmaceutics at Utrecht is internationally renowned for excellence in education and research. He will study computer-based teacliing methods to enhance die material he teaches at the U. Herron joined the U. in 1981. He earned a bachelor's degree, master's and a doctorate from the University of Illinois in Johnston will travel to New Mexico in winter 1997, to study dynamic-system- s theory at the Santc Fe Institute, by Nobel Prize winning the discoverer of physicist Murray quarks. Johnston has developed three courses around the dynamic-system- s theory die idea that the university and biosphere are vast webs of interconnected, continually evolving systems, or sets of relationships, spun out over space and time. Johnston joined the U. 1969. He earned a bachelor's degree from Central THE DAILY UTAH UHRONICLE Urbana-Champaig- Gell-Man- - Washington University and master's and doctorate degrees from Washington State University. Professor Wins Hatch Prize Susan Miller, professor of English and founding director of the University Writing Program at the University of Utah, has been awarded the 1996 Calvin S. and Jcncal N. Hatch Prize in Teaching. The award is based on distinction in teaching as evidenced by increased student learning, motivation and stimulation in teaching, concern for students, development of new teaching methods, inventiveness in the curriculum and classroom, command of subject matter, and effectiveness of presentation. Miller works closely with teaching assistants and teaching fellows in the Writing Program. She teaches undergraduate writing courses and literacy studies as well as graduate seminars. "I am consistendy excited by the idea that the ordinary thinking and language of students shapes the future of our society," Miller says. "We, in universities, are thereby irretrievably implicated in what society may, or may not, become." Miller joined the U. in 1983 to direct the University Writing Program. She earned a bachelor's degree from Valparaiso University in Indiana, and master's and doctorate degrees from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Miller received the U. Distinguished Research Award in 1993. She also received the nation's highest awards for publications in the field of rhetoric and composition: the National Council of Teachers of English Conference on ; College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award in 1992, the W. Ross WinterrowdJournal of Advanced Composition Prize for outstanding composition theory book in 1989 and 1991, and the Modern Language Association's Mina P, Shaugnessy Prize for Outstanding Research Publication in the Field of Teaching English Language and Literature in 1991. e t ; ' t. y I t the Daily Utah ClmmitJe is ail independent student newspaper published daily Monday through Friday during autumn, winter and spring quarters (excluding test weeks and holidays) and weekly during the summer quarter. Chnmiile editors and staff are solely responsible for die newspaper's content. 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Zemp, Liesl Kaplan, Laura Ellineson, Chad Margetts Advertising Representatives Dave Reardon, Headier Hackett, Gavin Harris,Jason Castor, Rliett Evans Business Manager Robert McOniber Accountant Kay Andersen Account Asst SliawnaHulT Classified Ad Manager Adriana Alvarez Clerical Asst Katie Tonkovidi Collections . Stacy Herrera ' Copy Editors Greg Beadiam, Headier May, Amanda Skow and Jeff Qiampman . for RHSA. "For die past few years wc sponsored the Marriott Library. We raised over $10,000 for diem." Last year the dinner-danc- e raised funds for Utalins Against Hunger and sold all of its 500 tickets, as it has done every year. This year's event is tided, "Chaos in Camclot," and will feature The Cliamclcons, a professional troujic of actors who will perform a play during dinner. Audience participation is encouraged, as the person who figures out "whodunit" will win a trip for two to the Excalibcr Hotel in Las Vegas, Ncv. The amount of audience participation changes every year depending on the actors. But in the past, the audience has had to fold papers on dicir tablc in a certain way to uncover clues. One acting group took people out of the audience into a different room to hunt for hints. The real winners that evening, however, will be the recipients of the charity funds: the Utah AIDS Foundation and the people it supports. UAF operates on revenue provided by the federal and state governments, die Ryan White Foundation, the United Way, special event proceeds, and individual support In its 10 years in operation, it has expanded its services to the mainstream community as well as to those who are This community outreach is very important to the foundation's success. "In the past 10 years we've seen a big increase iri mainstream support," says Julie Mayhew, UAF's r director of Development Even in Utah, the foundation is making headway. "As more people become aware, I think people become a lot more tolerant," she says. "We have a diverse group of support now, which is most visible during our Walk For Life Fundraiser. Two thousand to 3,000 people show up to walk for us. And they're diverse: We have all ages. We have, families." Mayhew says the community support is important because HIV impacts everyone. "We're just starting to reach into the smaller communities throughout the state. A lot of people don't realize HIV can happen outside of Salt Lake." In 1995, the UAFs anonymous telephone hotline fielded 2,561 calls from people who needed information or advice concerning AIDS. Its Speakers' Bureau volunteers spoke throughout the area on the impact of AIDS in their own lives.' "That personalizes the disease and helps people understand sec "AIDS" on page S murtler-mystcr- HIV-positiv- . e. y |