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Show t l i l A I ! U nu II . 4 i fI o dDD IQ s X 1 Cpyldl Force Colleges to PiscDose - The Accuracy in Crime Reporting to Qery. aggravated assault, burglary, theft, ' theft and arson. The total vehicle schools have Act of 1997 is designed to close the Although many for 1996 was 730, a drop of criminal number resisted' have that Assistant News Editor reporting openly legislative loopholes allowed many colleges to keep their activity, the U. has tracked campus 270 form the previous year. crime rates and made them availAlthough the U. police departpolice records dosed. U.S. Reps. John J. Duncan (R- able to the public for the past 24 ment .is always looking for new The University of Utah is one of : ways to reduce campus crime, they the few schools which files an annu- - : Ienn.) and Charles E. Schum D7I -has" in resulted "can't "claim all the credit for last New York) arc sponsoring the bill" I The "open "policy al campus crime report . ' which will be Legislation Clay and his family havcjbeen ; the US being mistakenly ranked- : year's reductions, said Wilson. Crime awareness and prevention a working for campus crime reporting": among the nation's leaders in yari- r announced today: during ' bus crime his to sister, Jeanne categories, according Washington D.C. press conference, ' legislation since programs appear to be having an ' Wilson. Police Robert murdered the U. force institutions Chief will all do : . Clery was raped and impact, but ultimately "it's hard to : crimiU." tell why rates fluctuate from year to all Because the while same. attending Lehigh' University iv: reports : said 1986.nal on in T" the: Wilson, year" Wilson said. activity campus, II According" to ; Campus . For example the 1996 Part One : much while Act are of 1990, colleges larger schools Security many, subsequent lawsuit, During were nearly identical to numbers file national learned the crime crime arc that on annual to don't,: activity rankings required reports, Qery but the legislation has been dodged the campus, including dozens of based on incomplete data and arc those for 1973, 1974 and 1988. The fewest number of Part One offens- and largely ignored; felonies, were never reported to the essentially irrelevant. ' es was 600 reported in 1984. The his used 1996 for "Most schools have made a mock numbers Unofficial and family public Qery estabcrime show suit from was 971 reported in 1992. said the civil that the law" of most on to activity Benjamin Clery, damages campus cry said that the fluctuations Wilson total lish .from was .1995.. down of on The The on Security Campus. , Campus.. Security group president in Offenses" One crime has for was their are likely due to a "Part number do so of to legislanew, activity image pushed tougher protect They and safeguard their enrollment num- tion and has received strong public 900 for 1995. Part One Offenses variety of complex factors. U. police do know that much of bers, he said. support for their efforts,' according include homicide, rape, robbery, MATTHEW NICHOLS 5 " "fp- ' : -- V-l- : . : - -- Ciriiinnies the crime on campus, 60 to 70 percent, comes from "visitors." In addition to people brought in by ' sporting and entertainment events, the number of people on the U. campus on any given day can be as many as 60,000. That figure includes the U. medical complex and Fort Douglas. About 25 percent of the U.'s crime numbers come from campus medical facilities and Fort Douglas, Wilson added. Although the correlation between prevention programs and crime rates may not be cxacdy dear, Wilson said his department will continue their efforts to raise crime awareness and to report all the criminal activity on campus. If the proposed Accuracy in Crime Reporting Act of 1997 passes all institutions will be doing me same. Not by choice, as the U. has done, but by law. Working in U.'s ER Not Much Different Than TV The Dig Games MICHAEL CIIRISTOPHERSON television hospital dramas, many viewers question the. accuracy of the network portrayals of emcr gency medicine. "Ts pretty good," Joyce said. It's Monday morning at 11 a.m. "It's fairly accurate, though of in the University of Utah Medical course it what Center Emergency Room. here." on goes There are 14 patients registered, The main thing emergency half of them critically ill and in physicians like about ER is that it need of immediate attention. shows that we are a specialty and Oddly enough, no one is yelling have specialized training, and that or fighting. There are no bleeding wc fill a specific function. So it's ' patients being been a great boon to us as far as gunshot-wounrushed down the hallway screamrecognition," Joyce said. ing, and the nursing staff is not Joyce is the former president of dancing to old jazz tunes, as often the Utah chapter of the American seen on the television drama ER. College of Emergency Physicians, ' In the first seasons of NBC's - "Things don't happen . that said Steve Dr. J2, Joyce saicL the show's Joyce, proquickly fessor ; of eancrgency medicine; at" ers solicited suggestions and input the ' University 5f Hospital . and from that organization in order to in the more accurately depict die techniphysician attending Room. cal and demanding professions in Emergency "A normal patient's day is meatheER. sured in hours, not in Dyan Jones, a senior in the minutes as depicted on Z," Joyce University of Utah nursing prosaid. gram, had similar words of praise With the rising popularity of see "ER" on pajje 3 Chronicle Feature Writer ; over-dramatiz- ' 3 c d , 4 r 3v i - A fast-pace- NCAA employees prepare die conference room for die first round of die tournament, which will take place Thursday and Saturday in the Huntsman Center. Ddribr Gives Law $2.5 Million tributed between four endowment funds, with $1 million for student scholarships and $500,000 for the law library. The MATTHEW NICHOLS ' Assistant News Editor Stcgncr Center will receive $500,000 f operating expenses " and $500,000 for an endowed professorship. ; In appreciation of die gift and in recognkionof his service " The University of Utah College of law has received a gift to the community, the law library wilt be reromcd the SJ. ' of $2.5 million rrcm the S J. andJesskLQ :'.," c;.': :zi.-z- z Quinney Law Library. The gift will go towards the law library, the Wallace Stcgncr Quinney 's daughter, Janet Quinney Lawson, donated an additional $30,000 to the library in her father's honor. . . Center for Land, Resources and the Environment and attract: "ft's . . : impossible to overstate the imponarce ofthisgifttothe ing the top law students in the country. in died senior : College of Law" Teitdbaum said.. ."The grant assures the 1983, was founder and SJ. Quinney, who ' firmed the law in lzr maintenance of a student body of the highest quality and perRay, Quinrcy&Ncbcke paroier mits us to enhance both the library and the academic profrom the the The gift largeM single CimrjeyrburKlatwnb donation the College of Law has received," said College of. grams of natural resources and environmental law and policy." ? Law Dean ITckelbauni." . The grant for the law library wO be used to improve the .";'""-'.''" v see "Gift" im The gift will be paid over the next five years. It will be dis-; pafie 3 d liiiiiiiii ..ggMJi ' rrv; - ;jv.;i.;7 KJ 0 .v II i it u .tint iil 0 r Th Dairy Utah Chronkk 240 Union BuMding University of Utah Salt Lata City, Utah Ml 12 . i - eUUC RATE US. 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