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Show 2 The Daily Utah Thursday, August 27 i998 Chronicle n Brief Editor, Laura T. Hancock: l.t.hancockchronicle.utah.edu Assistant News Editor, Dave Hancock: davechronicle.utah.edu News Campus Two U Poets Chosen as America's Best for 1998 Poems of associate professor Jacque line Osherow and Ph.D. candidate Craig Arnold of the University of Utah's English Department have been selected for inclusion in the 1998 edition of Scribner's annual anthology, "Best American Poetry." Each year, a poet of recognition serves as a guest editor to the serial anthology, choosing 75 poems across a variety of forms to set the standard for poetry in America. The guest editor for this year's collection, John Hollander, chose to honor Arnold's poem "Hot," and Osherow's "Views of La Leggenda della Vera Croce," in what is Scribner's ninth edition. Arnold and Osherow will join the ranks of celebrated poets such as Margaret Atwood, Alan Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich and former U. Poet Mark Strand. Arnold, who has just returned to the U. After a year of European travel through the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, is nearing completion of his Ph.D. in English at the U. He received his B.A. at Yale University where he received several awards of honor and distinction. In 1997, he received the New Letters Literary Award. Arnold has served as poetry editor for Quarterly West magazine and his poetry has appeared in publications such as Poetry, Paris Review, the New Republic and the Yale Review. His poem, "Hot" was first published in Poetry magazine. Osherow, who heads the U.'s creative e writing program, says her poem was first published in the 50th anniversary issue of The Western Humanities Review and was written with a grant from the University Research Committee which enabled her to go to Italy and gather material. She has also published three volumes of poetry; "With a Moon in Transit;" "Conversations with Survivors;" and "Looking for Angels in New York." Her work has appeared in publications such as The New Republic, The New England Review. The New York Times and the New Yorker. U. News Service 300-lin- Rice-Eccl- es overly and paint striping. V. Randall Turpin, asistant vice president for administrative servicefacilities, says the road will be returned to full use until the proposed east-we- Joan Osborne on Lilith Fair I UNIVERSITY St H Iffj'i 8 laooCAST PHONE: 1 Conveniently Located af University WW v leader Martin Luther King Jr., focusing on two allegations of a conspiracy beyond James Earl Ray. The limited review announced Wednesday stops well short of the national commission sought by King's family. The family had no immediate reaction, although Reno consulted with the family for months and telephoned King's widow, Coretta Scott King, to inform her Tuesday night. "We hope this review will provide answers to new questions that have been raised about a tragedy that still haunts our nation," Reno said in a brief written announcement. She promised a report on the findings. Despite a narrow initial focus on separate allegations by a retired FBI agent and a former Memphis, Tenn., bar owner, "the evidence gathered by the Reduced national defense spending has left the state well below the national average in federal spending per person, according to a new study. "Federal expenditures in Utah have declined from 94 percent to 77 percent of the national per capita average between 1990 and 1997," said the report released Tuesday by the Utah Foundation, a nonprofit research organization. Utah's federal expenditures were 122 percent of the U.S. average in 1970, during the Vietnam War. The shift away from defense spending hit Utah harder than most states because of the military presence here. "Almost all the loss of federal dollars was in two main areas: federal military and civilian-defens- e wages, and in federal defense contracts," said Michael with any other offer. Good only at the University of Utah location, expires 123198 may lead," the Justice Department said. In meetings last spring with Reno and President Clinton, Mrs. King and her sons had sought a national commission The family has expressed doubts about the official version that James Earl Ray, acting alone, shot King on the balcony of a Memphis, Tenn., motel April 4, 1968. Ray died in prison this year serving a sentence for killing King, but he had long ago disavowed his initial confession and spent years futilely seeking a new trial. The review will be conducted by civil rights division lawyers, aided by criminal division attorneys, under the leadership of Barry Kowalski, who successfully prosecuted the Los Angeles police officers who beat black motorist Rodney King in an episode caught on a video camera by a bystander. The Associated Press Christensen,,Utah Foundation execu- tive director. Combined, those areas took a $698 million hit. However, while federal spending in Utah declined as a percentage of the national per capita average, it has surged in terms of raw dollars. Total expenditures increased nearly $2 billion in the eight years ending in 1997 to $8.4 billion. A big chunk of that upswing came in the area of health care. Utah's federal allocations for Medicare and Medicaid jumped $710 million from 1990 to 1997. On the bright side, the decline in defense spending has played a role in spurring Utah's economic diversity, said the University of Utah's Thayne Robson. 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As Low As $999 w15" Monitor The University Department of English Scholars is sponsoring a discussion group. Janet Holmes and Caroline Keizer will be discussing their work at the Art) Barn. For future dates and other1 questions, please contact Andrea Malouf at Joan Baez will be performing at Kingsbury Hall at 8 p.m. For questions and tickets, call Kings- -, ; bury's ticket office at 8. 0. September - 25 z Tonight is the annual Homecoming Dance. It will start at 8 p.m. in the State Capitol Rotunda. Tickets are $10 per couple and available at the Union Building's Services Desk. Chronicle The Daily Utah Chronicle is an independent student newspaper published daily Monday and through Friday during autumn, winter Back to School Special 104-ke- y Limit: One couDon per customers per visit. Offer is not good in combination inquiry will be followed wherever it Utah's Federal Money Drops mid-tow- $1 August 30 September 17 Mima High quality ATX w 235w PS. 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Sections of parking lots located close to the stadium are being closed during painting to prevent windblown paint damage to parked cars. Turpin says the painting and road construction should be complete about the same time. st per-pers- "It's like a slumber party gone out of control There's truth or dare in the hot tub backstage. " " The section of South Campus Drive located on the north side of Stadium (formerly a tunnel) on the University of Utah campus will be reopened today after Layton Construction Company can complete an asphalt 30-ye- Craig Arnold Campus Events Former Tunnel Open Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the investigation of the old assassination of civil rights Quote of the Day xx Campus Intel Pentium 133MHz Processor $499 for the newspaper's content. Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of the editorial board and not necessarily the opinion of the unstudent body, the administration or the must iversity's governing bodies. Subscriptions ible be prepaid. 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