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Show 2 TUESDAY, MARCH 21, THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 2000 SIC PC. 9 CAMPUS EVENTS "I'm damn sad. I thought I had a grip on It As soon as I got into the locker room, it was the saddest thing ever." JEREMY KILLI0N, SENIOR UTE BASKETBALL PLAYER ON HAVING s HiS SEASON AND CASECR END MARCH 21 OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM U Decline of Spemn Counts in Men Nothing But Myth, Study Finds fathers. "There arc as many studies showing sperm counts are declining as there are showing they're not declining," said Dr. Larry Lipshultz, a urologist at Baylor College of Medicine. The USC research found 18 percent of men had sperm concentrations of less than 20 million per milliliter of semen. That compares with 17 percent of men studied in the The virility of American men hasn't changed much in the last four decades, according to a new study that says they produce just as many sperm as their grandfathers did. The study disputes other research which ciaims certain factors might threaten sperm counts. Researchers collected semen from 1,385 men who were seeking fertility treatment with their partners at Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center between 1994 and 1997. "I don't think our sperm counts arc declining or changing," said Dr. Rebecca Sokol, a study and professor at the University of Southern California's Keck School of F950S. Previous research that culled sperm count data from older studies concluded that sperm production is declining. Just 3S many studies indicate sperm counts are stable. The USC results, however, were surprising because the subjects had been seeking treatment for infertility with their partners a factor that could have biased the results toward a decline in sperm. ASSOCIATED PRESS or Medicine. The study is the latest of several" published in recent years that alternately shows today's men are more, less or just as potent as their grand- - tion with the August 1998 bombing of the United States embassy here in which n people were killed, a senior judicial official AROUND THE WORLD said Monday. Sydney, Australia A man with an eight-inc- h kitchen knife WORLD Just as aid agencies were making headway in feeding hundreds of thousands displaced by flooding in southern and central Mozambique,- new floods hit the remote northern province of Gabo Delgado Monday, Mputc, Mozambique - Brussels, Belgium Ten years after a car crash paralyzed him from the waist down, an implanted computer chip is helping Marc Merger regain the ability to walk. financial consulThe tant from France is the first patient to undergo the implant procedure, which was developed by a consortium of European researchers. Bar E.5 Salaam, TanzaniaTanz- ania has dropped strapped to his leg was stopped by police Monday when he attempted to make his way into a convention center that was the site of a lunch for Queen Elizabeth II. NATION Los Angeles A man looking fov moving boxes Sunday fcund dozens of missing Academy Award statuettes in a trash biii in the city's Koreatowrf neighborhood. Fifty-fiv- e statues intended for presentation at next Sunday's award show vanished last week. Wash. Boeing Co. and technical workers engineers returned to their jobs at the world's No. maker of passenger strike, jets Monday after a y ASSOCIATED PRESS Renton, 1 charges against an Egyptian indicted in conncc- - 40-da- TUFTS U Students Begin Crusade for Coed Dorm Rooms Comfortable to Gays Carl Sciortino Jr. wants to open the door for coed dormitory rooms at Tufts University, but thus far, school administrators are withholding the key. Sciortino, a senior, has spent the last year lobbying school officials and student government groups to ailow coed dormitory rooms for gay students who feel uncomfortable with same-seroom assignments. An active member of Tufts' gay community, Sciortino believes gay students rooms assigned to standard same-se- x are often subjected to homophobic reactions. After a gay friend's request to live with a female friend was turned down by administrators, Sciortino and other students began working last year to create s housing plan. In January, Tufts' administrators allowed the Dean of Students Office to explore a proposal in which gay x BRIGHAM YOUNG' presents Ying Wang Art Visiting Professor of no said. The proposal that was rejected last week would have established a pilot program next year involving 10 coeducational dorm rooms. Tufts officials are unable to comment about the decision at this point, but, in a statement released Tuesday, the school claims that although it is sympathetic to the university's gay community, it is unwilling to stray from the traditional policy of rooms. THE DAILY FREE PRESS singie-gend- U U- Provo City officials are pushing for a student viltake to the lage place of the ramshackle rental apartments now populated by students from Brigham Young' University and Utah Valley State College. self-contain- ed The community would consist of high-ris- e apartments, grocery stores, small shops and restaurants. "The neighborhood in that area was already lost to single-famil- y residents long ago," Bob Stock-wel- l, Provo's chief administrative officer, said. "Why not go in there and create a student community?" Mayor Lewis Billings and other Provo leaders are forming a community committee to draft a South Campus Area Master Plan. The City Council has imposed a moratorium on developin ment the area. Joaquin neighborhood chairwoman Bonnie Callis said they hope the moratorium gives planners time to help preserve the six-mon- th ly "This neighborhood has virtualbeen raped by the mixing of apartments with homes and by Provo's high-densi- single- ty -family Marriott Campus Professor Wang is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Pittsburgh Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture. Ms. Wang received B.A. and M.A. degrees in art history from The Central Academy of Fine Art (Zhongyang Meishu Xueyuan), Beijing. She is the author of Connoisseurship of Ancient Chinese Painting (Zhongguoguhua Jianshsng). Guiiin: Lijiang Press, 1995 (in Chinese) and other works. At Utah Ms. Wang has taught art history of Asia, arts of China, and Bronze Culture of China. She served as editor of Wenwu Press (Cultural Relics Press), Beining from 1990-199and assisted the Frick of Arts Fine Gallery (University Pittsburgh) and other galleries and libraries in curating Asian art slide collections. Ms. Wang's honors include awards from the University of Pittsburgh, Frick Friends Travel, and Swedish Institute. 4, This lecture is free and open to the public. We validate parking. For information or disability accommodations, call Natalie (581i3732)L James Fletcher Builoing. "A Critical Role for DNA in Lymphegenesis and Nuerogenesis" is the title cf a U School cf Medicine ng seminar in the auditorium ot the Eccles institute of Human Genetics. MARCH 22 Meet w'rth the advisers from each major cn campus cr attend one of the seminars on choosing a major during, "Majors to Careers" day from 10 e.m. to 4 p.m. in the union EMrocrn. The- seminars will be taiks on graduate school admissions, resume writing, internships, dressing for success ?nd interviewing. - - nonenforcement of existing zoning ordinances," Callis said. Yet city officials are not sure how to fund the proposed development. State, lawmakers recently passed a law letting cities use tax incentives to create housing next to college campuses. But the same legislation lets school districts opt out of educational housing developments, which could drain crucial property-ta- x revenue from the project. In addition, land costs are high in the Joaquin neighborhood. Developers have offered homeowners in the area as much as $1.5 million per acre, then razed their homes to build apartments. Developer David Hunter said those prices are being driven in part by UVSC, which is growing by 8 percent per year. "All the kids going' to UVSC in Orem still want to live in. Provo near BYU," Hunter said. A study recently released by two BYU graduate students shows that 35 percent of UVSC students live in Provo, compared with 23 percent in Orem. PRESS ASSOCIATED THE hiUtah chronicle D Wednesday, March 22 12 Nport Gould Auditorium Library, 295 S 1500 E, Univ. of Utah er Wire History,. University of Utah "Changing Values: Twentieih-Centur- y Chinese Art" There is a mathematics colloquium titled, "Minimal Surfaces, Soap Fiims arid the Plateau Problem," at 12:55 p.m. in Room 334 of the End-Joini- Provo City Officials Look to Create A New Student-Base- d Community area. Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center and lesbian students would be allowed to room with students of the opposite sex. Last week, the plan was rejected by Tufts President John DiBiaggio. have administrators "The acknowledged a concern, and now they are stopping because they are afraid of a negative reaction," Sciorti- The University of Utah Women's Resource Center is holding a power ifunch ct noon titled, "Speciai Hearth Care for Sexual Minorities," with Paula Woi in Room 293 cf the A. Ray Olpin University Union. "Doing What is Best for the Patient: Wtot Is So Hard About That?" is the title of a seminar in Classroom C of the School of Medicine at 7.20 p,ro. "Utah to Buenos Aires: A Virtual Trip by Boat" is the title of a colloquium sponsored by the department of geography in Room 215 of Orson Spencer Hail, Wsng Ying will speak on "Changing Values: Twentieth Century Chinese Art," as part of a presentation from tfw Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center in the Gould Auditorium of the J. Willard Marriott Library at noon. The Graduate Schnol of Architecture wlil hold a panel discussion titled, "Building Deliver,: Processes," at 5:30 p.m. in Room 127 of the Architecture Building The College of Mines and Earth Sciences and the , department of meteorology will present lecture on "Tornadoes and Ttfrnedogenesis," st 7:30 p.m. in th& auditorium of ths Utah Museum of Fine 6 Arts. Call for n.ore 581-613- information. The Chapter of Solidarity be holding a meeting at 7 p.m. in union 319, U will DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE is an independent student newspaper published daily Monday throtiqh r riday dating Fall and Spring semesters (excluding test weeks and holidays) and weekly during Summer Term. Chronicle editors and staff are University ot Utah students and are solely responsible lor Ihe newspaper's content. Funding comes from advertising revenues and a dedicated student fee administered by the Publications Council. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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