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Show T MHHMHaMt OA IHI IE MM ,,1 "mm VMMMMMW uninnnnninimri miir air mr Jl rwwys-'- ILIft iVMai One of the busiest places the University of Utah campus is the University Parking Services appeals room. , Lead hearing officer Leon Bills said he and hearing officer Janice Eliascn each hear between 20 and 30 parking ticket appeals per day. Though the vast majority of the appeals have to do with parking meters, the variety of parking infractions committed at the U. is virtually . Iimidcss, Bills said. v - . As for the excuses and stories given by the violators, he said, "I if only could have written a I would have what goes on in here. There's far too many amazing, amusing, ridiculous and just plain weird stories to remember them best-sell- tape-record- alL" anyway, Bills said. Appeals if not made in person must be presented in writing, and can be faxed or mailed .. to Parking Services Appeals. Bills said he realizes there is a seristances, Bills said. ous parking space shortage at the U. According to Bills about," 98 perbut unfortunately, people who don't cent of malfunctioning meter stories "have to worry about parking are turn out to be false. ' "The meters would be checked in those who make the rules about parkeach case and seldom would they ing areas. "We have to live with this situation actually not be working corrccdy," he said. "But there are rimes when they too," Bills said. "I also do a lot of break down, just like any other walking on campus. Still, the real machine." . complaint is not so much that there Bills said many people who appeal aren't enough parking spaces as that there isn't enough convenient parking. are probably just buying time by subwill We that don't make the rules, we just an appeal mitting require the Some excuses enforce of arc them," he said. investigation. Bills' said U. academic departments so lame that they must be doing just about parkarc often that, he said. "The fact is, all they have to do is ing limitations. When departments come in and ask for an extension of invite guests for special occasions, the time or make arrangements to pay off guests often falsely assume that parka ticket," he said. "Delay tactics are ing arrangements have been made or ' that they arc exempt from parking totally unnecessary" Although U. parking tickets specify restrictions. So when guests get tickets, they that appeals cannot bo made by telephone, many violators try to do so malfunctioning meter story, coupled with a lengthy explanation of how the violator was held up by any one of a myriad of uncontrollable circum- er ed ' Excuses for meter violations primarily consist of some .version of a. Z"" ""MIW H III" riWMi tjmt. Excuses Excuses Parking Services Has Heard Them All MIKE WATSON Chronicle Staff Writer iuf IF A Inl . fifty .a- f ar 1 'l - 1- j VaMMaaHaaBBBBBaBHHBaBBBHBHBiaBW' Jim f Tl" iiu"'i'r"f t r -r Fun for All ' I ; -- .v ,Tf V V under-informe- d . - ; Xlv jA see "Appeals" on page 3 : 7m n sw :: Cmtoai from Danny La Mayfest 1997 was an event the whole family could enjoy. The kids had fun on the slide and other toys. See stories and more photos on page 6. The sun beats down on the Pacific Ocean as hard as it does on human skin. More people are getting skin cancer than ever before because of increased exposure to the sun. Sn Cancer Increasingly More Common DAVID JACKSON Chronicle Staff Writer Someone dies from skin cancer every hour in the United States. Although the link between the sun and skin cancer has been well documented, more than one million new skin cancers will be diagnosed in this country this year alone, according to the American The Daily Utah Chronicle 249 Union BuHtfing University of Utah ' Salt Lake City, Utah 84 2 1 1 " Academy of Dermatology (AAD). "One in five Americans will get skin cancer of some kind in their lifetime," dermatologist Darrcfl Rigel said. "And , one in 84 Americans will get melanoma in their lifetime." Rob . Larsen was diagnosed with melanoma just this year. He had a large brown mole that he noticed recently had turned to black. After a surgeon removed the mole, a pathologist found cancer cells were indeed present. "I was shocked. I told my doctor I usually tan very wcD and have rarely been sunburned," Larsen said. But Benjamin Kim, an oncological surgeon at University Hospital, said that docs not matter. The sun can be harmful even if it docs not cause a sunburn," he said. "It is important to avoid the sun when its rap are the strongest." That is usually between 10 am. and 4 p.m. , . 1 1 t, 4 v ; - see "Caneer on pajje 2 BULK RATE U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. I Sit Salt Uke City, UT |