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Show Newspaper Blues Despite USA Today's success, many say newspa- pers will die. An look at print's future." in-dep- th SEE COMMUNITY, PAGE 'Fraid of a Freshman? An American Woman The poor people playing Utah Hillary may not shake anything up, but women and controversy mix here. Women's Basketball's newest are. SEE OPINION, PAGE 6 SEE SPORTS, PAGE 12 8 38? I The Daily Utah RONXCLE "The University Wednesday, January 20, 1999 Vol. 108 No. 83 of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890" Dermatologist Awarded $5.8 Million Grant David McEntire Chronicle News Writer Gerald G. Kruger, M.D., professor of dermatology at the University of Utah, has received a $5.8 million grant to continue his project on gene therapy using cells of the skin. The grant is funded by the National Institute of Health. NIH has billions of. dollars set aside for biomedical research, says Kruger. The U was chosen in competition among thousands of other . grant proposals. is spread The grant four projects throughout which deal with different aspects of gene therapy in five-ye- ar stsrrnrrrtTr skin. The governing hypothesis for the research, Kruger said, is that gene therapy with skin cells can be successfully used on a broad range of diseases once there is a thorough understanding of gene expression when they are introduced into cells of the skin. There are 10,000 genes necessary for body function. Kruger says that in theory, all these genes could be linked to diseases. At least 2,000 are currently known, he says. Kruger proposes that by using readily available skin cells, it offers many avenues to explore the potential of gene therapy in skin. Kruger suggests using skin because it is readily accessible and can be cultured in the laboratory. Kruger says that genes, which are "elements in the body" that make groups of cells, can have inborn errors. "It is very probable that we will be able to put genes in the skin that will correct certain abnormalities...such as skin cancer," says Kruger. Advances in molecular genetics have made it possible to correct heritable and acquired disorders, which introduces gene therapy. "We are not working with any specific diseasc.we are trying to understand the potential as well as the limitation of using modified cells of the skin to treat diseases. More and more diseases are being defined at the molecular leveL.it is becoming plausible to treat disease with corrected copies of genes," says Kruger. see genes, page 4 Tr-r- a r 'Vfrr 11basketball U NICE LEGS: Fans and officials show off some of their nicer features at a women's I J game. U Debate Team Ranks in Top Nationally Freshmen phenomenons capture, trophy un expectantly at Weber After the nine minute constructive speech, the debaters get a three Kersten Swinyard Chronicle News Writer The greatest debaters aren't from Cornell, Harvard or Yale. They attend the University of Utah, if a recent tournament is any indication. As of Jan. 15, 1999, Utah was ranked 46 out of about 167 teams nationally. invitaAt the Weber Round-Robi- n tional last week in Ogden, the team of Brandon Munk and Tom Bevan took home the first place prize. tournament This prestigious and the U an invitation, requires team secured it by doing well at tournaments hosted by University of Southern California and California State University at Long Beach over the semester break. Bevan and Munk debated eight 12 to two hour rounds at the tour' nament. They competed against teams from Arizona State University, the College of Eastern Utah, Eastern New Mexico University and California Sate University at Long Beach, among others. Bevan and Munk compete in a debate form called policy. In policy, the debaters have a nine minute constructive speech in which they average 250 words per minute. Normal conversation has about no words per minute. minute argument period where one debater from the opposing team tries to clarify and argue against the points just presented. Both teams get a ten minute prep' the constructive speech. "It was like listening to a chipmunk's album in fast forward," said spectator Brandon Winn. "To people not familiar with policy debate, it can leave you in a state of dizziness and confusion. My first thought was, 'my mind can't even move as fast as their lips arc going.'" "Most debaters are trained to pick up at least the tags of a speaker, and most judges hear everything," Bevan said. Debaters research both the affirmative and negative aspects of this topic, and one author has compared it to the amount of research equivalent to a master's thesis. So, if a debater debates four years, that's four master's theses. 1 period, and the next nine minute constructive speech begins. Both members of the two teams have an opportunity to set forth their arguments in a long speech and then defend them in a three minute argument. After the constructive speeches are finished, the debaters begin rebuttal speeches, their and the process begins again. The information is presented in a whirlwind format with the debaters reading, verbatim, about twelve, pages of information in te single-- spaced "The card is a sound byte drawn out of material, a quote from a magazine or journal article. The tags arc the debaters description of the card," said Jeff Bile, interim director of forensics at the U. "The judging is not really objective; it's pretty subjective," Bevan said. "Policy debate is more Derek Bucschcr, assistant coach of the U debate team, said. Debaters are pretty much allowed to say whatever they want; even swearing is not prohibited. THE DAILY UTAH ONLINE CHRONICLE IS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB lingo-driven- A ," Debaters invest a great deal of time into forensics. "I'll put in about 20 to 30 hours per week," John Foy said. Foy and his partner, Katie Gilkin-so- n, attend Eastern New Mexico University and participated in the Great Salt Lake Intercollegiate Forensics Tournament, hosted by the U, last weekend. Approximately 31 schools participated in the tournament, with three different levels, senior, junior and novice. Two organizations claim national championships in debate: Cross-Examinati- Debate Association and National Debate tournament. They use the same topic all year, and this year CEDA chose to argue Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Debaters must "resolve that the United States Federal Government should amend Title VII through legislation, to create additional protections against racial andor gender discrimination." Debaters research both the affirmative and negative aspects of this topic, and "one author has compared it to the amount of research equivalent to a master's thesis," Bile said. "So, if a debater debates four years, that's four master's theses." "During the regular season tournaments, we compete for our honor and points that contribute to a school's nationtal ranking in CEDA or NDT. The most significant tournaments arc those in March when we compete to qualify for nationals," Bile said. t www.chronicle.utah.edu |
