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Show Why So Excited? For Women & Everyone Those lining up to volunteer for activities don't get it, says columnist Shawn Bailey. pre-Olymp- The Women's resource Center is there to help all students. ic SEE OPINION, PAGE 7 SEE CAMPUS LIFE, PAGE 9 E 1 Rocks Ruin Cougars "iSta ! I jfei m a The Red Rocks easily beat BYU in their last home season. o "uS if SEE SPORTS, PAGE 12 " f The Daily Utah G HRONICLE Monday, March 29, 1999 "The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890" Vol. 108 No. 122 Students and Workers Protest "T Want to leave impression on administration r-- - rpi : IT" r 1 rj p Laura Hancock Chronicle News Editor At 11:30 pickets were protesting at the foot of the cement staircase of the Park Building. By noon, the steps were silent. Trying to gain the ears of U administration, employees and students protested during their lunch break Thursday. "Machen, Machen What do you say? Bring Paul Shores back today!" the pickets chimed. A group of about 15 most belonging to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees marched with signs such as one which read, "Leadership Requires Account- fit vte ' "wfAOr (a ( DISPOSABLE ability." Other U employees drove their trucks around Presidents Circle and 'honked their horns in support. The protest was sparked by a reduction in force of two University of Utah roofers one of whom is currently involved in the U's appeals process. Paul Shores worked at the U for over 26 years. On Dec. 8, 1998, he and another employee were let go in what the U called a "reduction in force." Many students and AFSCME members feel this was unfair because Shores was about three years from retirement. In April, Shores will exercise a last appeal before the U. Employees organized the protest to make a statement to the administration. "We hope to open up their hearts," said Dayne Goodwin. Goodwin is a custodial crew leader for the U. Shores, who has since found another job, attended the protest with his wife. "I wouldn't miss it," he said. On the outskirts of the crowd sat Shore's former boss, a Bob Norwood, carpenter shop supervisor. Norwood does not belong to AFSCME, and union members at the protest speculated he was' there to ensure they got back to work on time. He said he didn't care whether they were protesting on company time. He was mainly present because he was interested. "It's not something you see every day," Norwood said. "I think the pickets have done a pretty good job," he said. "They've got a lot of coverage." Norwood had no comment regarding the Shores incident. Some protesters were concerned for issues beyond Shores. sec shores page 4 Picketers marched in front of the Park Building Thursday over a recent reduction in force of roofers at the U. U.S. News and World Report Rankings Are in: Despite Success, U Doesn't Cheer Jacob Parkinson Report has ranked universities. With Chronicle News Writer students, it has become the most widely used ranking system to evaluate schools, but university administrators nationwide warn students not to place too much stock in the report. Dean of the College of Law Scott Matheson signed a letter criticizing the method of analysis used by the magazine. Some of the factors upon which the U.S. News ranks programs are: reputa U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of the top graduate schools in the nation. The University of Utah ranked particularly highly in the Colleges of Nursing, Law and Pharmacy, and the School of Medicine, but some U staff memhers are critical of the way schools are evaluated. Since 1987, U.S. News & World Leavitt Not Happy With Enrollment Based Funding but Has No Alternative Dave Hancock Assistant News Editor declared his distaste for the current method of alloGov. Michael Leavitt cating funds to Utah's nine institutions of higher learning at March 25's KUED Governor's Monthly News Conference. Enrollment-base- d funding closely tics the number of students attending a particular institution with the growth in sec leavitt page THE DAILY UTAH ONLINE CHRONICLE school dean to criticize the report. Deans from 169 of the 181 accredited law schools signed the same letter as Matheson. The letter was issued by the tion, selectivity, grade point average, acceptance rate, faculty to student ratio, tuition and enrollment. This year, the U College of Law ranked 36th in the nation. "We have consistently ranked in the top 20 to 25 percentile, which puts us in the top tier of law schools. We arc one of the quality law schools in the United States," Matheson said. But still the rating system used is not adequate, he said. Matheson was not the only law LSAC Board of Trustees. "Several commercial enterprises promote 'ranking' systems...These ranking systems are inherently flawed because none of them can take your special needs and circumstances into account sec report page Mens ONLINE CHRONICLE Who will win the NCAA WEB. POLL Basketball Championship? This week's Daily Utah Online Chronicle web poll began Monday, March 22 after the tournament's field of teams had been reduced to the Final Four of Duke, Ohio State, Michigan State, and Connecticut. Duke 7 Ohio State 8.5 75.5 Duke was the clear favorite among the poll's 94 respondents. They will play tonight vs. Connecticut at 7 p.m. Respond to this week's web poll at www.chronlcle.utali.edu. :I 3 IS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT WWW.chrOIlicle.Utah.eclu 3 |