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Show he Wedwwbjr.20. July 1997 Daily Utah Chronide Stang from page 1 he joined the U.'s faculty in 1969 to teach chemistry. Now holding the rank of Distinguished Professor, he has also taught in Germany and Israel. Among his scholastic awards, Stang has received the university's 1995 Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence and the 1994 Utah Award in Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, the 1993 Governor's Medal for Science and Technology, and honorary doctorates of science from the Russian Academy of Science and Moscow State manufacturing excellence. The next century will be science and technology driven." he said. "It is important for universities like the U. to be positioned to be major players in science and technology developments. It will be criti- University. He serves as an editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society and has more than 300 scientific publications with his students. "The 20th century was built on cally important" Stang lives in Salt Lake City with his wife. Christine. They have two daughters, Antonia, who is attending medical school in Canada, and Alexandra, who will attend the U. this fall. With Pen and Buzz Cuts VMI Admits 30 Women by David Reed Associated Press Writer LEXINGTON. Va. (AP) Beth Ann Hogan broke a -- 158-ye- ar tradition Monday when she became the first woman to write her name into the leather-bounbook signed by incoming freshmen at the Virginia Military d Institute. She then followed an age-ol- d tradition by getting her head shaved as she became the first woman to enroll in the formerly military school. "At that point, you know you've arrived," said Tom upper-clas- s Warburton. a 21 year-old The best price never looked so good. There comes a time all-ma- le -- k'" ft. I . t . . the school barber. The women arrived at VMI's imposing castlelike barracks in a glare of publicity because of the institution's long fight to be the last college to exclude women. VMI's hope was to make the change without the scandals that beset The Citadel since Shannon Faulkner became, the first woman to enroll in the South Carolina military college in 1995 but dropped out after less than a week. "All eyes are on VMI," Kevin Trujillo, this year's senior class president, told an assembly. "Some are just salivating at the thought of our failure. All it will take is the mistake of one person." VMI spent six years and millions of dollars fighting federal efforts to force the college school to accept women. state-support- r J1 J.E WEL E R S 1344 South 800 East, Suite 1, Orem, Souflieast of Mall 22616006 ZCMI Center, Downtown, Lower Level, Salt Lake City .521-090- 0 ilill. West Valley City Valley Fair - 966-966- 2 V 125 East 6100 South, North of Fashion jSp. v 1995 Sierra-Wes- t. Inc cadet. "When you step under those clippers, you commit yourself to VMI. You could uncommit yourself, but then you go home with a funny haircut." Hogan, 17. of Junction City. Ore., was among the 30 women and 430 men who spent the day registering for classes and visiting Place Mall ( 266-474- 7 vV J Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that if the school accepts tax money it must accept women. VMI's board voted 8 to accept women rather than go private and stay In admitting women, the school refused to soften its rigid discipline. Women will wear the same drill uniforms as the men. They will live in spartan barracks, just as their brethren do. No lipstick. No jewelry. No dating upperclass-men- . 9-- all-mal- e. The only nod to gender was a slightly less unsightly buzz cut. The men's hair was trimmed to h stubble on the sides and a on top. Women's hair was s trimmed to about of an inch on the sides and about an inch on top. said Col. Mike Strickler, a school spokesman. The first to be so shorn was Brooke Green of Shirley, N.Y.. who entered the barber shop with a brown mane that reached midway down her back and left rubbing her brush cut and picking stray hairs out of her mouth. The first-yea- r students will have two days of orientation, then on Wednesday the start of the dreaded "rat line," a rite of initiation that signals the beginning of a demanding year. They will live under a system of rigid discipline intended to force freshmen to look to one another for support half-inc- three-eighth- and develop strong bonds of loy- alty. "It's an initiation so dark and scary it's almost unbearable alone," Col. Alan S. Farrell, the dean of faculty, told new cadets and their parents. He said the annual ritual is brutal, but "by brutality, I do not mean the laying on of hands or battery. That is proscribed absolutely here. But I mean a certain intolerance to human frailty that can appear brutal." Have you seen news happen? Call The Daily Utah Chronicle and tell us about it: 581-7041 Elvis Remembered. . . Alex Skow celebrated his first birthday on Aug. 16, exactly 20 years after Elvis Presley died. The bouncing baby boy is the of nephew j de r lE'RE White Pine Touring Amanda is getting rid of summer gear! Treat yourself and tant news ediHer tor. TO(gra and snag a bargain before starts Wednesday, August 13th. HIIEILIP UDS Chronicle MM White Pine Touring located at the base of Main Street next to Zoom, summer hours: M-- F assis- cousin. AlexSkow We're getting rid of our summer gear. Come on in it's all gone. Sale Skow, 10-- 7 649-871- 0 S&S9-- J AmyWitkowski reporter Amy Witkowskl, was born on Elvis's birthday, Jan. 8, 1978, the year Elvis after died Chronide ph- otographer Kyle Green was also born on the King's birthday, but to refused the divulge year or to be 7 I Elvis Presley L 1 PnoiK,T I |
