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Show Friday, September 4, 1998 BOOKSTORE continued from page i "They will send you something in the mail informing you that you have for a 'gold' scholbeen some money. send if you arship"So the student sends the money in and doesn't hear back from them for weeks. If the student does call, they are told that now because they called they are only eligible for a 'silver' scholarship. "This is how they deal with the students," Gray said. In 1996, many of the student scholarship service organizations were investigated. The National Academic Funding Advisory, a company similar to Student Services, was investigated in that same year. All their operations were found to pre-select- The Daily Utah be legal and they have not been investigated since. "There are some bad companies out there, but the upside is, there is information available through good companies," said Steve Kowal, executive director of the NAFA. U scholarship and financial aid officials encourage students to look at their website, www.saff.utah.edu finance. It list's many free internet scholarship search programs. The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection has made a list of promises and other slogans that fraudulent companies frequently use. Some of these .slogans: "This scholarship is guaranteed or your money back. "You can't get this information anywhere else." "We'll do all the work." Alternative Fuels Presented at U Law School Utah Is Not Meeting EPA Standards Charles Sorensen By Katheryn Lenker HARRISONBURG, Va A man convicted of the capital murder of a James Madion University student in 1990 has exhausted his state appeals and will be executed on Sept. 16 barring intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court or Gov. Jim Gilmore. Tommy David Strickler, 32, of New Market, was convicted on June 21, 1990, of the capital murder, abduction and robbery of JMU sophomore LeAnn Whitlock . Whitlock was abducted from the Valley Mall where she'd gone to pick up her boyfriend from work. She was taken to a field five miles north of Waynesboro in Augusta County, where she was killed with rock. several blows from a In June, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned a U.S. District Court ruling to retry Strickler. Barbara Hartung, Strickler's attorney, said she plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the July 25 issue of the Daily When an emergency application for a stay of execution is received by the Supreme Court, the application goes to the Circuit Justice. In Strickler's case, that would be Justice William Rehnquist. After receiving the request for stay of execution, there are several options: Rehnquist can grant the application to stay the execution, he 69-pou- News-Recor- d. "We've seen significant improvements in the past, and I think as we look at alternative fueled vehicles, that's going to help also." Bruce Wilding of Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Lab said his company is focusing research and development on the economics of alternative fuels. "Unless alternative fuels arc economical, getting them into a community will be like pushing a rope," he Chronicle News Writer Local politicians and corporate leaders discussed Utah's air pollution problem and possible solutions during a conference at the University of Utah Wednesday. The conference, by Rep. Merrill Cook and the Salt Lake Clean Cities Coalition, was held at the Sutherland Moot Auditorium in the University of Utah School of said. Law. Diane Nielson, executive director of Utah Department Environmental Quality, used a graph to show that Utah is currently out of compliance with new standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Nielson said vehicles are by far the largest source of air pollution in Utah. "We've got some work to do here," Nielson said. "And the largest percentage of improvement will have to come from vehicles." Why does air pollution matter? Because "air pollution makes people sick," said Dr. Henry Yates, an from Utah County. Among the possible solutions discussed were mass transit, limiting vehicle usage, and alternative fuel vehicles, which use fuels other than gasoline. "We need to look at the pollutant levels per vehicle," said Nielson. Virginia Murderer to be Executed The (James Madison University) Breeze Chronicle - 3 can deny the application to stay the execution, he can postpone his decision to have more time to look at the application, or he can refer it to the whole court, according to the public information office of the Supreme Court. If Rehnquist denies Strickler's request for a stay of execution, Strickler can then apply to other members of the court. Though the court doesn't begin its session until Oct. 5, all the justices maintain contact with their offices and a vote could be taken, the public information office said. John Reed, assistant commonwealth's attorney for Augusta County where the trial was held, said he doesn't expect Gov. Gilmore to stay the execution, nor does he expect the Supreme Court to hear the appeal. Strickler has been held on death row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center until recently when all death row inmates were moved to Sussex State Prison. He'll remain there until Sept. 12, when he'll be taken to Greenville Correctional Center in Jarrett to await execution, Larry Traylor, department of corrections spokesperson, said. An Augusta County jury recom's mended the death penalty for murder. It recommended life sentences for the abduction and robbery convictions, according to the July 5, 1990 issue of the Breeze. immu-nologi- Gordon B. Larscn of Qucstar Gas touted alternative fuels as a solution to the air pollution problem. He said the natural Honda Civic produces so little pollution that it is not measurable without special equipment. "You could spill one pint of gasoline on the ground," Larscn said. "And that would create more pollution than driving that car 100,000 miles." According to Larscn, the car is economical as well. He said it gets roughly the same gas mileage as a d vehicle, but naturis al gas much cheaper (currently 68 cents per gallon). The natural gas option adds about $5,000 to the vehicle purchase price, Larsen said. But some states offer tax incentives to encourage use of alternative fuels. The problem with natural ed st gasoline-powere- , gas-po- w ered vehicles pointed out by Rep. Cook, who has been driving one for is that they have a the past week d shorter range than vehicles. Larscn acknowledged that a tank which holds 12 gallons of gasoline can only hold about four gallons of natural gas; therefore, natural gas vehicles can not travel as far between Range is not the issue, according to Ivan Jaqucs of the Utah Propane Gas Association. "The issue is what do you want to do to the environment," he said. "Diesel gets the best mileage of any, but it pollutes the most." Cook said that he didn't notice any performance problems with the natural gas car. "It was great," said Cook. "It goes up I Street just fine, and I've actually had gas cars that didn't." One concern about using natural gas is the availability of the fuel. According to Jaqucs, the supply is nothing to worry about. "We can supply 30 million vehicles right now without any problems," he said. Wilding agreed there is plenty of natural gas available. He said that if all cars were converted to natural gas, there would be enough fuel to last 60 years. The current crude oil supply is estimated to run dry in a maximum of 30 years, Wilding said. gasoline-powere- fill-up- s. 1 Whit-lock- U-W- problem. The state consistently fails to meet Vehicles are to blame for much of Utah 's standards. ty CLARIFICATION: In an article published in the Chronicle Wednesday and again Thursday regarding the incident at the Kappa Sigma house, the accounts of the weekend's incidents related by Sam Buhr, Fraternity Council public relations officer, and Jason Ellis, Kappa Sigma president did not match. Sam Buhr has since said that he was not, at the time of his interview with the Chronicle, able to differentiate between the events of the incidents on Friday night and Saturday night. UNIVERSITY OF-UTA- BASDCIET1MIL FAN CLUB SIGH OP 'NOW!!! V'. 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