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Show Human Sacrifice: Giving up something to sure way improving your life, says James Seaman. meaningful is a lISNLj Patriot Games: II ! In I iff lit ill .2. '! The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 lessons learned in the U's ROTC program serve myriad functions. We V- - The H Are the Champions: Both U hoops teams earned the regular season MWC crown. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2001 VOL 110 NO 122 Students Accuse No Bull P Candidate of Being Homo EMSLY FULLER Chronicle News Writer 3 1 j .; ." I Ut Ai, u" ?,vweiWc?'B ft A Ruth Leon spray paints Friday outside the union as part of MEChA's activities. Event Held to Introduce Chicano Students to U chair, and the students were participating in MEChA's sixth annual BOBBI PARRY Chronicle News Writer Alejandra Quezada stood in the union, directing small groups of high school students. "No, you guys are supposed to be in Room 312," she said to a group of boys, pointing to a staircase across thehalL Quezada, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano Aztlan's (MEChA) co- - leadership conference, held March 2 in the A. Ray Olpin University Union. MEChA, the campus Chicanoa Latinoa student organization, sponsored the event to introduce students to the UniverUtah. of sity high-scho- ol Former classmates of No Bull candidate Mike Nelson have accused him of making homophobic remarks during a Spring 2000 class. However, Nelson, whose party supports the Lesbian and Gay Student Union, denies making the comments. "I was there when the words: 'guys dating guys...that's sick,' came out of...Mike Nelson's mouth," said Joseph Stone, a senior in mass communication. Sherry Van Linden also recalls remarks made by Nelson in Spanish 1010 during the Spring 2000 Semester. "He said something to the effect of, That's just gross," Van Linden said. When a fellow classmate remarked that Nelson sounded very "homophobic," Stone said Nelson responded by saying he was "glad to be homophobic." Nelson denies the claims. "Personally, I am not homophobic, and I've never been homophobic," Nelson said. Stone said he worries Nelson's and No Bull's support of LGSU is insincere. Stone said he hopes Nelson simply has had a change of heart instead of lying for votes. "His words were very saying that his team will extend crowd-pleasin- see MECHA, page 5 g, The heavyweight bout is underway, but only one fighter has come out the corner swinging. The Innovation and No Bull parSaints ties met at the Latter-da- y Institute of Religion Friday, only 12 hours after finding out they survived the primary elections for the Associated Students of the University of Utah president. Even though Innovation won the margin, the primary by a No Bull party came to the debate energized after receiving the endorsement of the two fallen parties, Unity and U Force combined for a total of 870 votes. "We look forward to stepping onto the field of battle," said No Bull presidential candidate Ben te Lowe. Lowe took the offensive in the first debate with Innovation, criticizing both the experience of the candidates and their ne platform. "If you want a group that repre- sents only the Institute, it could happen," he said referring to his competition. "But I think ASUU should be people working together from across campus." Lowe and No Bull candidate Mike Nelson quesal tioned Innovation's proposed method to increase student involve- . said. ,l IM.,W.,I.W1 u ,y vice-preside- nt EMILY FULLER Chronicle News Writer MATT CANHAM Chronicle Asst. News Editor one-on-o- skin-hea- something like that," Mustoe said. "I was there everyday and he never said anything like that." Stone says he believes Nelson could have changed since Spring 2000, but feels Nelson owes the school proof. "I'm open to the idea that he may have changed; I think the school should know what kind of person he is now," Stone said. "We don't need an intolerant leader." Nelson and No Bull do support the creation of the LGSU resource center. "I love people, I love to be nice to pcoplc.all kinds of people," Nelson 1 Posters Defaced With Slanderous Messages Candidates Brin Own Strategies To ASUU Debate 378-vo- themselves to the LGSU," Stone said. "Stunned by his apparent acceptance of human diversity, I made sure that this was indeed the same Caucasian, hairless Mike Nelson with glasses who I had heard in our class just months ago verbalizing remarks against gay persons." Nelson, however, said he would never make such remarks because of his personal experience being treated differently for something he could not change. d and had "I've been called rude remarks said to me my entire life, and would never lash out against a group of people like that," Nelson said. Nelson suffers from alopecia areata, a disease that inhibits hair growth. "I would never make a remark against anyone due to my own experience," Nelson said. Spanish teacher Eduardo Castilla said he did not remember any comments, nor did he believe the accusations. "Off the top of my head, I do not remember him making such remarks," Castilla said. Katrina Mustoe, who ran fpr with the Unity party this attended also the class with Nelyear, son. "His character is way above saying Innovation's Steve Nelson (left) and ment, which they said consisted of more fliers and paper. He then told the crowd of about 50 Institute students that No Bull would run a "personal administration" in which cabinet members would not spend most of their time in the ASUU offices, but out among the students. Lowe said he used a more aggressive approach as a way to "differentiate between the two parties," which he said was difficult to do during the primary debates with four parties participating. Innovation presidential candidate Steve Nelson decided not to comment on the No Bull platform. "I don't feel that is the way to campaign. The time is better used explaining what we want to do than what they can't do," Nelson said. Still, Innovation also made an attempt to draw distinctions. Nelson and his candidate Nick Paulk explained how they would use the Student Senate and General Assembly to provide greater communication between student groups and ASUU. vice-president- faced off Friday. Paulk said he would assign each Senator and Assembly member three to four student groups, which No Bull's Ben Lowe they would keep informed on ASUU activities. Nelson also wants to print an "ASUU- Update" newsletter to distribute across cam- pus, and place information about the Student Advocacy Office on all class syllabi. Innovation's first action, if elected, would be to create a Student Development Office that would raise funds for ASUU. Steve Nelson said the office would help to better utilize student fees and stretch ASUU's resources further than its $1 million budget. No Bull, on the other hand, would immediately turn its focus to the 2001 Winter Olympics if elected. No Bull would attempt to maximize student involvement and plan student gatherings during the Olympics. Lowe said he is grateful for the endorsements from the Unity and see DEBATES page 4 Francis X. Lilly, a gay University of Utah student running for the Associated Students of the University of Utah General Assembly, had his posters defaced with homophobic slurs. Lilly was running for Social and Behavioral Science Assembly under the Unity party when his posters in Orson Spencer Hall became the target of an unknown perpetrator. "I think the vandalism was targeted," Lilly said. Lilly hung eight posters, six in OSH. Four of those are missing, and the other two were so badly vandalized that Lilly had to take them down himself. The other two posters, in the Social and Behavioral Sciences building, remained untouched. "He had almost every one of his posters targeted with homophobic remarks," said Katrina Mustoe, candidate for the Unity party. Lilly did not pass the primary elections for Assembly, but is uncon- cerned with the election results. Instead, he says the simple inability of ASUU to recognize the vandalism and the emotional price of the writings is disheartening. "I don't care I lost, but I do care about the fact that ASUU didn't do or can't do anything," Lilly said. The campaign posters contained the slogan "VOTE FX." The vandal changed the slogan to "Vote Sex," and wrote "Loves butts and loves cocks" under Lilly's name. Lilly believes ASUU owes students who run for office protection from vandalism, or must create some kind of formal course of action for victims to take. "I'm upset because I don't have any recourse," Lilly said. "I want them to acknowledge this." Lilly felt that Special Prosecutor Josh Walker spent his time regulating in the wrong ways. "If he did walk by my poster, did he not notice it? And why didn't he tell me? They're too concerned about the size of fonts and stuff. I feel the slandering of my campaign is worth more than a paint job in HPER." All the candidate posters in OSH were defaced, but Lilly's were the only ones focused personally, on his sexual orientation. Some other candidates, including Cory Peterson, Unity candidate for senior-clas- s president, also felt the defacing of their posters attacked them personally. "I kind of felt there was some malice and intent," Peterson said. Peterson's posters were defaced in the Language and Communications Building. "Mine were more defacement of pictures," Peterson said. The poster vandalism and movement of posters was a topic of con- see VANDALISM, page 4 THE DAILY UTAH ONLINE CHRONICLE IS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT WWW.Utahchronicle.com |