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Show IT 8 I lT A It or J ni I V I Ti I II VV n IJ 1 CV i') Closing Presidential Search HfeODs: Regents Illegal; Lawyer is governed by the Utah Government Records Access and Management Act, MATTHEW NICHOLS Chronicle News Writer Attorney Jeffrey Hunt, representing the Utah Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, sent a letter to the Board of Regents Thursday, requesting that the Regents make public their search and selection process for a new University of Utah presi: v" dent. It has been the Regents policy to keep confidential the names of univer- . ;; candidates. sity presidential Utah he wrote. Utah Code Ann. "I am aware of no Utah statutory or ' constitutional provision that expressly exempts from disclosure the records of applicants for government employ-- , ment, including, particularly, the records of candidates for significant public positions such as president of the state's flagship university" Hunt ritcd various other state statutes relating to the "prevention of secrecy in public affairs." He also cited relevant legal precedents both in Utah and in other states. " Hunt referred to a case he litigated on behalf of 7k Pnvo . Defy Herald against the city of Orem last year. The court ruled that the public interest in access to the names, resumes and application materials of the finalists for the. Orem city manager position outweighed the city's interest in conceal- - is one of the Tew states where the Regents " ': have such a prerogative. In the letter. Hunt asserted that the Regents' confidentiality policy is in violation of State law. Hunt sent the letter ' to Regents chair Kenneth Anderton. for . "Public access to applications and related records public employment . . ing such information. "If the names of finalists for Orem city manager are public record under Utah law, then surely the finalists for president of a state institution like the U. should be public," said Joan O'Brien, "president of die Utah chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). . The Utah chapter of SPJ includes reporters and news executives at tclcvt- sion and radio stations and daily and weekly newspapers throughout Utah. O'Brien estimates that about 10 percent of Utah's professional journalists and media executives are members of SPJ. O'Brien said that in asking for the names of only the final five candidates, SPJ was demonstrating a willingness to compromise with the Regents. "This proposal is modest and reasonable Hunt said. "I think the people and Regents are jw- r j ,') v OmoMKU. lu&nHtJM . - " . : J - ,i ' Gender affects how teenagers develop sexually, according to a new a new - ' ' ' DAVID JACKSON Chronicle News Writer CMOMOf Owtny Male and female adolescents continue to show dramatic differences in their sexual beliefs and activities, according to a recent study from Brigham Young University. ' According to Glen Wood, president of the Foundation for Acquisition of Community and Therapeutic Sciences, there is a high rate of adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases despite educational efforts to curb them. "Researchers desire to understand gender differences so as to design sex education programs that will be more effective in reducing these pub I U. Professor Eric Hughson, who has been watching the Price is Right nact he was a child, uses the game show to develop economic theories. . CmfVan Ttdknw - Teens' Attitudes Toward Sex Affected by Gender s nnJ ' r. d see "Search" cm page 5 118 " O , ' NO ..A r. ? study. ,4 ll .. - . lic health programs," More than and enth- 75 he said. percent of the sev- s questioned were still virgins at the rime of the survey. Patty Reagan, U. associate professor of health education, said that at graduation from high school, 60 to 70 percent of Utah boys and guis have had sex. Nationally, 70 percent is about average. The study also showed girls are more committed to abstinence than boys. However, that commitment makes littk difference as the boys and girls become adults. "Commitment does not take precedence over hormones as they get older Reagan said. According to the study, girls were also less likely to view "being in see "Sex" cm page S eighth-grader- 'Price Is Right'Tests Economic Theories EVA MICHELLE HUNTER Assistant News Editor As a child, University of Utah Professor Eric Hughson passed many a sick day home from, school watching The Price is Right. Two decades later, he's still trying to comprehend the game show's intricacies. As an assistant finance professor, Hughson recently pub lished research findings which . use behavior of contestants on taped episodes of the game show to examine fallacies in current economic theory. The way it works is this: The game, show selects players randomly from the studio audience, and these contestants, engage in a bidding war by guessing the actual retail price of a particular item without going over the actual price. , J s The winner of this bidding war keeps the item and wins a chance to play for more prizes. Despite numerous chances on each episode, some of the bid- ding war contestants never advance to the next level of game show play. After analyzing 753 bidding wars, Hughson and his col: leagues discovered that contestants did not always act rationally, despite traditional theory which says that these contestants should be actof ing at nearly optimal levels ' strategic thought. see Price" on page 6 eco-nom- . ic III, . ' t $ r Th Daily Utah Chronicle BULK KATE 249 Union CulWkif University of Utah Salt Laka City, Utah MM2 US. Postage Paid Permit No. IS2f Salt Lake City, UT |
