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2 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE FEBRUARY 27. 2001 TUESDAY, This sets for a timetable that is really difficult to deal with. CHRONICLE NEWS EDITOR LORfN FISCHER LFISCHERtCHRONICLE.UTAH.EDU CHRONICLE UPDATE EDITOR LISA K. MANWILL LM AN A'ILLC HRONICLE.UTAH.EDU WORLD Jerusalem Prominent Jewish settlers asked their government Monday to expel or assassinate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as payback for a growing number of attacks on Israelis. "Arafat is an enemy," said f, Yehoshua spokesman of the Jewish settlement movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "We need to assassinate Mor-Yose- him."1'. As a second option, Israel could arrest and expel Arafat and send him back to Tunisia, where he was exiled in the 1980s and said. "He early '90s, can be kicked out or sent: to the hereafter," he added. Mor-Yos- VANDERBILT ef WashlngtonOne day before Colombian President Andres Pastrana meets with President Bush, the State Department issued a report denouncing his government's human rights " ; ' ; Caccuu, Mexico . .. '; nomic Meeting. Beijing The top U.N. human rights official urged China on Monday to abolish its widely criticized practice of sending people without trial to labor camps for political dissent and ' minor crimes. ' record. Police and soldiers commit hlity ujbinson, the U.N. High for Human Commissioner g said "reform China's officers murders, Rights, are rarely held accountable for, through labor" system was a viooffenses and security forces do lation of international standards. ' : high-rankin- little to stop right-win- g paramilitaries, the department said in its annual report examining human rights worldwide. United Nations Secretary-Gener- al Kofi Annan said Monday he hopes a review of United Nations sanctions against Iraq by the United States and other key nations could help break an impasse over U.N. weapons inspections in the country. . Annan's comments came at the start of two days of talks with Minister Foreign Iraqi Mohammed Saeed on overcoming the stalemate that has kept U.N. arms experts out of Iraq for more than two years. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will recommend to Presi-- " Kabul, Afghanistan Taliban Afghanistan's hard-lin- e rulers ordered the destruction Monday of all statues, including 6 pair of monumental 5th century Buddhas towering over 100 feet tall and carved but of a moun- ; Durban-West-vil- le al is an independent student newspaper published daily Monday through Friday during Fall and Spring semesters (excluding test weeks and holidays) and weekly during Summer Term. Chronicle editors and stall are University o( Utah students and are solely responsible lor the newspaper's content. Funding comes Irom advertising revenues and a dedicated student lee administered by the Publications Council. Subscriptions must be prepaid Forwjrd all subscription correspondenc e, including change ol address, to the Business Manager. To respond with your questions, comments or complaints call (801) 5817041 or visit utatichrorucle rem on the World Wide Web. Sports Editor Feature Editor Opinion Editor RED Magazine Editor Chief Photographer Art Director Production Manager Online Editor Business Manager Accountant TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Lachs said if Vanderbilt takes on this challenge, it would create good publicity for the university, showing that Vanderbilt is serious about improving the quality of teaching, and encouraging other universities to take similar steps. Vice Chancellor of Public Schoenfeld Michael Affairs its objecfor the proposal praised tive of improving teaching, but said the actual proposal is not feasible. "The goal is dents to have process, but the think, is pretty field-stud- said. "It seems to me that it has the potential to create more problems than it solves," he added. Junior Matt Hedges said he thinks the proposal is a great idea. "It refocuses teachers on the world of academia," he said. Hedges explained that, in his g experience, , research and have taken precedence over teaching for many profesbook-writin- sors. VANDERBILT U Hl:40 10:25 ' Hl:43 10:26 SNOW ' Wire main building, Michael Lamb, from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, will present a lecture titled "Eliciting Information Vic- -, from Child tims"at noon in the J. Willard Marriott Library Gould Auditorium. Sex-Abu- , se Wilma Tyner, adviser for the Center for Ethnic Student Affairs, will speak on "Pro- motlng Native American Cultural Awareness In the Com- -. munlty" t won Irs the A, Ray OipIn University Union, Room . 293. Ben Howard will speak to students Interested in osteo-- . path!c medicine from t to 2 the Eyring Building, p.m. In Rocm 2030. U percent of the South African population lived in squatter communities and 40 percent were unemployed. Garbharran and his students won two grants for $100,000 each, one in 1999 and one in 2000, to be used toward programs developing sustainable management systems in South African communities. This June, a team will train three women from the squatter communities to become "program leaders." The three program leaders will choose eight women from each of the three communities to become health educators, and these 24 health educators will then train 480 community members about health, hygiene and sanitation. "We will only be working with women and adolescent females from the Zula population to help empower the women," Garbharran said. The program has provided people in the squatter communities access to sustainable shelter, basic water, sanitation and health services. SIDELINES THURSDAY FRIDAY 0 Andy Church and Haijan SCATTERED HUSTLER Latter-da- y Saints Student Association will host Associated Students of the University of Utah debates at noon in the Latter-da- y Saints Institute of Religion The Marilyn Hoffman, predenta! adviser, will present s chool application workshop from 3 to 5 p.m. in the South Biology Building, U Wire Room 212. The English Student Advisory Committee will hold a career seminar for English majors at 3:30 p.m, In the Languages and . . C6mmunlca-tlo- n Building, Room 3850. - Charles Llberman from Harvard Medical School win ' lecture on "Noise-induce- d Hearing Loss: Protective Role of Cochlear Efferent Neurons and Alpha-- 9 Cholinergic Receptors" at 4 p.m. In the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics auditorium. M. Barry Keverne, from Kings College in Cambridge, will speak on "Genomic Imprinting: Brain Evolution and Maternalism" at 4 p,m in the Aline Wiimot Skaggs Biology Building, Rocm 210. . The Resident Halls Asiocia- - tion will host ASUU debates at 8 p.m. in the Chase N. Peterson Heritage Center, Room A. 22b MOSTLY CLOUDY laudable for stuinput into the actual proposal, I unworkable," he Students Travel to South Africa To Teach Skills and Improve Lives Hari Garbharran, associate professor of geography and geology at Middle Tennessee State University, is the director of a team of researchers and students improving the lives of people in South Africa. MTSU has partnered with Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and the University of in South Africa to help improve water resources, sanitation and health issues in squatter communities in the Durban metropolitan developregion and KwaZula-Natment of South Africa. Garbharran, a native of South Africa, discovered the substandard conditions of the people living in the squatter communities on his visit to South Africa in 1995. "I was amazed at the number of shacks located outside the large cities," Garbharran said. "This is when I knew it was time to try to help." In 1997 and 1998 Garbharran y took students in his course to the squatter communities to collect data. Their research revealed that 33 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Managing Editor News Editor tion. Christopher Cummins from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak on "Molybdenum and Uranium Functional Groups, a Transition MetalActlnide Analogy" at 10:45 a.m. In the Henry Eyring Building, Room 2006. , dental-s- tainside. Mullah Mohammed Omar. Taliban's supreme leader, issued an edict declaring statues, including the ancient Buddhas, insulting to Islam. "Because God Is one God and these statues are there to be worshipped, and that is wrong, they should be destroyed so that they are not worshipped now or in the future," Omir said in his edict. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANE MCCAMMON smccammonchronicle. utsh.edu BRIAN WATTS bwaltsJchronioie utah eiu LORIN FISCHER IlischerPchromcle uiah.edu ERIC "WALLY" WALDF.N ewalden?chronicle.utahtdu JAMES GARDNER jrjaidneichronicle ulahedu SCOTT LEWIS sleis?chronic!e uijr.edu KATHRYN COWLES kcowiesJchronicle Utah edu BEN BIBEE bbitieeJchromcle utdh edu NATHAN HATCH nhatchitch.-onicl- f utahedu WYNNE PARRY wpanychronic!f u!ah sou M ARK CGDEN mogdenJchronuleutah edu ROBERT McOMBER rober! mcomb?rchionic!e utah edo KAY ANDERSEN kaythronicle utah eej allocations, Lachs said, it will raise interest among professors in educaproviding a higher-qualit- y IDDLE TENNESSEE STATE CHRONICLE in Chief John Lachs, professor of philosophy, has presented the following challenge to Vanderbilt University: Give students the power to influence the quality of their education. He has proposed students be permitted to allocate between 5 and 10 percent of their tuition to professors based on merit. According to the proposal, each student would give a certain portion of his or her tuition to each of his or her professors according to their quality of teaching. This money would supplement a standard salary for all professors. Lachs said giving students this authority will raise the teaching standards for professors. He said the idea behind the proposal stems from personal experience. "I had the misfortune of having some pretty bad teachers in college," he said. Lachs said he worries that some professors' teaching is not as good as it could be, and said his proposal could make a significant difference in the teaching profession at the college level. "There are some faculty that would have trouble with this idea, but I don't," Lachs said. If students make responsible FEB. 27 - DaihfUTAR Editor 1 ; Teachers Based on Merit To Award said Monday. Powell has said the United States wants to make the sane- dons more effective by focusing them more on ths Iraqi leadership, not Iraq's population of 23 ' million. Outside the hotels upscale shop- glitzy the beach resort ping malls of city, many Mexicans still live in poverty, some not even earning the minimum wage of $3.60 a day. Mexico's income disparity seemed to be on the minds of both protesters and economic leaders Monday at Mexico's regional World Eco- U ;.;7-Prof Proposes Some Tuition Be Used dent Bush an easing of curbs on some civilian exports, including water pumps and refrigerators, that Washington had previously balked at, a senior U.S. official AROUND THE CAMPUS EVENTS NANCY LYON, U LOBBYIST ON THE INCONVENIENCE OF THE "TRUTH in TUiTION" 9Ll PARTLY CLOUDY Hl:46 10:27 SUNNY SATURDAY Sarah Hrdy, from the University of California at Davis, will speak on "Mother Love and Ambivalence: Reconciling Historical and Evolutionary Perspectives" at 8 p.m. in the Libby Gardner Con- cert Hell. FEB. ;;,' Jiang, www.met.utah.edujlmsteenams SCATTERED SHOWERS Hl:51 Hl:45 10:32 10:27 20 Primary elections for next year's ASUU student gov- ernment will be held today and tomorrow. Vote en the ASUU Web site at www.asuu.utah.edu. ADDITIONAL EVENTS ON WWW.UTAHCHR0KtCLE.CGS4 '