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Show Tricky Situation Respect my Rights The First Amendment means a lot to Chronicle photographer Danny La for good reason. This pop hip-ho- p It's HammonTime Colorado State and Becky Hammon are in the Huntsman Center tonight. performer refuses to be pigeonholed. SEE OPINION, PAGE 5 SEE RED MAGAZINE SEE SPORTS, PAGE 7 5 The Daily Utah RQNIGLE "The University Thursday, December 3, 1998 of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since J890" Vol. 108 No. 72 Hawaii After U's McBride For Head Job Brandon Winn . Chronicle Senior Editor Hawaii started out by courting one part of the Utah coaching staff when it requested permission to speak with Utah Offensive Coordinator Tommy Lee. It seems that now, instead of just wanting a chunk of the Ute coaching staff, the Rainbows want the whole deal. Utah Athletics Director Chris Hill has given Hawaii permission to speak with Utah coach Ron McBride, who has suffered a lot of negativity following a 4 season that is likely to end without a bowl invite. The Rainbows fired their head coach, Fred vonAppen, after his team went winless in 1998. Originally, the search for a replacement seemed to start with Lee, while BYU Offensive Coordinator : Norm Chow was also rumored as a possible choice. But now, talks have centered on McBride. 7-- Hawaii Athletics Director Hugh Yoshida spoke with McBride on Tuesday after getting permission from Hill to speak with both Lee and McBride on Monday evening. "If there is any place in the country, other than Utah, that I would want to live, it would be in the Islands," McBride said. "Utah is my favorite place on the face of the Earth.; Other, than Utah, Hawaii is the only other place I would ever consider that I would like to live." McBride has recruited heavily in Hawaii ever since he came to Utah in 1990, which is something to which the Rainbows would like to put a stop. McBride has been able to steal many of the best players from the islands since his arrival nine seasons ago. The possibility of McBride being fired after what should be considered the third straight disappointing season for Utah football has been discussed in great length by the local media. If Utah is snubbed by a. bowl, which looks like a strong possibility, the talk is Sure to reignite. Lee told the Deseret News he has not been contacted by Hawaii officials concerning the job opening. He is in Hawaii on a recruiting trip and has not had an opportunity to discuss the position. Yoshida is anxious to fill the job as quickly as possible so the new coach can get a jump start on recruiting before all the good players are snagged up by other programs. life3 McBride has a time record at Utah and is the second winningest coach in program history. 62-4- ' " z Rufus, a DJ for has been living on the roof of the Doubletree hotel in Salt Lake for36 days. He plans to stay until the NBA lockout is over. Applicant Numbers for Grad Schools May Be Decreasing "Prelaw has been declining in application numbers nationally probably for the last five years," said Laura Hancock . Chronicle News Editor student enrollment Graduate nationally has dropped this year. However, this trend does not seem to seep into professional schools at theU. "I think there's a variety of reasons for a decline. When the economy is strong, fewer people plan to go to graduate schools," said University of Utah Coordinator for Preprofes-sionAdvising Marilyn Hoffman. The strong economy means good jobs for students with bachelor's degrees, according to a report released by the Council of Graduate Schools. "What began as a decrease in graduate applications has turned into a general downward trend in graduate enrollment, with graduate enrollment down across gender, institution category, and field of study," the report said. But at the U College of Law, there was an increase in applications by three percent last year, said Associate Dean for Admissions Reyes Aguilar. Application numbers for this year have not been tabulated because the law school deadline is a few months away. Aguilar said he was familiar with studies about a trend of decreasing applications for law school. He said some with undergraduate debt work for a number of years to decrease it. al Hoffman. The images of professions in law and medicine heavily weigh in undergraduates' decisions, she said. "Some people believe it is the image of the legal profession that has been portrayed by the media with O.J. Simpson trial and the proceedings with Clinton," Hoffman said. Hoffman said there is a decreasing trend in students applying to medical school. "Medical school numbers have dramatically risen for a number of years. But in the last years, they started to go down." "In Utah, though, it is the same," Hoffman said. Hoffman cites Utah's emphasis on education as being the reason why application numbers remain high. There was a slight decrease in applications to the U School of Medicine from last year to this year. "We received 1315 applications to the School of Medicine last year. This year there were 1300, so I would say there was a slight decrease," said Kathy Doulis of the School of Medicine. Some educators believe this trend will continue. "This is a very hot job market for B.A. Recipients," said Peter D. Syverson, vice president for the Council of Graduate Schools. "When the job market is doing very well, graduate enrollment goes down. We have lots of students in education, so we shouldn't panic over this. But it is interesting," Syverson said. However, for minority students, the application trend is still upward. In 1997 African-America- n enroll- ment grew by four percent. In the same year, Asian enrollment increased by one percent and Hispanic by three percent. Native American numbers are about the same. "Part of it is really cyclical," Hoffman said, "Both law and medical school trends seem to go in nine year cycles. Part of this is student interest in the high school years." Aliens, Cover Ups and UFOs Discussed at U Jacob Parkinson Chronicle News Writer He was not willing to blame any specific agency for the prob- lems. . The subject of flying saucers and aliens is not always taken seriously. However, it was at a lecture Tuesday it was. Robert Hastings, a world leader in UFO research, spoke Tuesday night to students and members of the community in the Saltair room of the A. Ray Olpin University Union. Hastings believes aliens have been visiting since the 1940s. "The fact is, despite reported denials...the highest levels of U.S. not only fully Government accept the realities of UFOs but judge them to be a matter of national security," Hastings said. WEB AT THE DAILY UTAH ONLINE CHRONICLE IS ON THE WORLD WIDE "I am not condemning any agcncy...but the public has a right and a definite need to understand the facts," Hastings said. "The public as a whole is completely unaware that these things arc going on. Hastings said that he docs not believe all of the alien abduction stories, but he believes some of the stories are true. In a filmstrip shown called, "The Hidden History," there were two reports of alien abduction were proved true through hypnosis. sec ufos, page www. chronicle .utah. edu 3 |