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Show 4 The Daily Utah -- Chronicle Wednesday, February 24, 1999 DISCUSSION continued from page TES g 7 A g GO A e cat IK) manslaughter is intent. "Either way, somebody died." Fui Fui Lupe Niumeitolu, editor of Moana, an international Polynesian magazine, also spoke. She said the Chronicle does not have a very diverse staff. She also discussed an incident when a Polynesian reporter covered the 'English-onlbill. The reporter felt she covered the facts while, according to Niumeitolu, the rest of the staff saw the article as biased. There are three minority staff members at the Chronicle, out of about 30 to 40 employees on the editorial side, according to Chronicle Editor in Chief Stephen Spencer. Ernestine Johnson was the last speaker on the panel. She was one of the first readers offended by Walden's column to respond after it y' ran. felt that when she to responded the column, the message portrayed by the Chronicle staff was, "Anytime a student is offended by student media, they should 'get over it'." She said she was given the shoo from staff at the Chronicle. When she came to the Chronicle the day after the column ran, Walden says he came out of a meeting to have talk with her about the a article. He says he was unable to get in many words and he was called a 'racist' by Johnson. No one at the Chronicle has admitted to telling Johnson, "get over it." Walden said that members of the Johnson If IN) 0 g g M g OD i IF xmmwifcm y 0 y Kersten Swinyard Q JD i OD (?(?CiDQ00(D 0" , 0 0 (? 0 QD i U body. "We are responsible to the U as readers and on a market basis we want them to pick up the paper," said Spencer. "These are people we are trying to reach, not offend." Dave Hancock, Chronicle assistant news editor, also spoke at the panel. He said that the paper has a diverse audience at the U. That means that the stories can be read in a multitude of ways, he said. "The Deseret News doesn't have this happen because they are professional news writers," said Hancock. d in anticipating "They are other viewpoints. Writers at the Chronicle are sometimes naive and don't do that." He said the Chronicle should be more accountable for its views. well-verse- Nicaragua March March Hurricane Mitch survivors are in desperate need of medicine to combat (? Utah-BY- Med Students Seeking Help for Mitch Victims Chronicle News Writer 0 media are responsible for what is written. Walden, however, says he is not racist. "There have been two calls in the last two weeks from the Deseret News asking for the 'racist sports writer,'" Walden said. Walden also recalled an incident when he was conducting a survey during the game. When he asked a student what she thought the score might be she figured out who he was and said she wouldn't talk to 'the racist sports writer.' When Walden was asked if Johnson was responsible for his latest impasse he said, "Yeah, basically." The Chronicle has been implementing programs to help staff be more aware of diversity issues, among other things, said Spencer, who was also on the panel. Spencer also said that the Chronicle in no way intended to offend any- 0 0 diseases. Mitch, which passed through Central American countries in late October and early November, was responsible for 5,000 deaths initially. However, according to Jonathan Castillo, second-yea- r medical student at the University of Utah, "thousands more arc dying from infectious diseases." The primary concern now that the high waters have seceded and clean-u- p crews have had the opportunity to brush away some of the wreckage said Castillo, is the rampant spread of disease through the victims. "In the aftermath of hurricane Mitch, thousands are dying form endemic disease," he said. "For this reason, we have decided to give as much of ourselves as we can for seven days." Castillo, two fellow students, Heidi Griess and Scott Terry and a medical specialist in infectious diseases, Harry Rosado-Santos, will be leaving for 8 and be returning 15. They chose to focus their aid on Nicaragua because it was initially somewhat overlooked by the rest of the world. "The LDS Church was contributing a lot to Honduras, but Nicaragua just didn't have as many contacts," Castillo said. "That's not a negative on the LDS Church; just they have a lot of bridges, and there were not as many to Nicaragua. That's why we picked that country." They will be practicing medicine at a rural clinic that provides medical care for the poor. There are already five doctors down there, and the visiting students will be supplementing their work. The Nicaraguan people have been suffering from epidemics of cholera, typhoid, malaria and degue. Cholera victims have "profound and chronic diarrhea, and they die of dehydration," said Castillo. "Malarial symptoms include tremendous fever and pain, bone aches and chills. In the past, it has killed thousands." see mitch page 03 Bringing If U .r Together Committed to U Cameron Soelberg Dan Anderson jj YOU J 5 |
