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Show 2 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2001 ' .t.S EOiTOS LORIN FISCHER lF!SCHERCHOn:CLE.UTAH.EDU CrPONXU Cm&CMCLE UPDATE EDITOR USA K. MANWILL LMANWiLL? CHRONICLE. UTAH EDU Acquisition of Dogs for Student Lab resolution thjt would hjvc i4'u-latcthe sources from which the University of Colorado medical school obtains dojrs, for its controversial "dog labs" failed Monday vote in party-lin- e evening on a the House Education Committee of the General Assembly. A majority of the committee's members, however, expressed concern about the CU's ties to "class-B- " animal dealers, which were the primary target of the resolution. The school buys dogs from class-dealers to use in dog-la- b medical exercises in which first-yestudents vivisect and kill dogs to learn about physiology. Rep. Alice Madden, in resolution introduced the response to widespread allegations that class-- dealers regularly engage in "organized, systematic interstate trafficking in stolen animals." Madden said CU should not support such practices. d 7-- 4 out-of-sta- te ar B AROUND THE W0RL0 A drug-relate- A Workforce. Representative Barney Frank, has proposed legislation in the House that would repeal the drug provision. "It's economically discriminatory by definition," Frank said of the e drug provision. "It hurts e people, not people. lower-incom- B upper-incom- Opponents pointed out that make up 13 of American drug users, percent and a similar percentage of the overall population, but account for 55 percent of drug convictions. mistaken "It's this whole can we that just terrorapproach ize people out of drugs," Frank African-America- DAILY U Wire being investigated for allegedly dealing cocaine to foreign drug cartels, and might face extradition if they're charged in other, countries. g In a interview, Prosecutor-GenerAlfonso Gomez also said that "not one doilar" of promised U.S. aid to his office as part of the Plan Colombia, a counternarcotics offensive, ' fias been delivered. ., added. More than 8,100 students have been denied federal aid for the wide-rangin- top Washington official said Tuesday in advance of talks with President Bush that relations n Chinese-America- would suffer a "very serious" back if Taiwan receives permission to buy four U.S. destroyers with highly sophisticated radar equipment. China considers Taiwan a renegade province and contends it should not be treated like an set- independent nation with diplomatic relations with other countries. Bogota, Colombia The nation's top prosecutor said Tuesday that leftist Colombian rebels were DiZvUtah chronicle Port-au-Princ- rule, but opponents fear this number is likely to rise next year because thc, education department is stepping up its enforce ment effort.. Last year, the department found that approximately 20 percent of HaitiSupport- e, ers of President Aristide shot at a school run by Haiti's opposition leader and lobbed fire bombs at an opposition office Tuesday, raising the stakes in a standoff between the government and its opponents, After more than an hour, police arrived and fired tear gas, forcing the mob of Aristide supporters to disperse. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS applicants had left blank the question on the Family Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) that Jean-Bertra- Editor in Chief Managing Editor school year under the 2000-200- 1 al Chinese A Update Editor News Writers THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE is an inde- pendent student newspaper published daily McCAMMON BRIAN WATTS holidays) and weekly during Summer Term. Chronicle editors and staff are University of Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Sports Writer FULLER JAIME CLARK WYNNE PARRY JENN HENRY JARED WHITLEY BROOKE JOHNSON comments Production Asst. PETER ESKO STACY MEYER Typesetters Copy Editors HARTLEY DAVE KERSTEN SWINYARD Photographers HANCOCK HIXSON part of the Wallace Steg-ne- r Center's Green Bag Series, Jeffrey S. Burks from the Utah Office of Energy As and Resource Planning will speak on "Emerging issues Energy Policy: The New California Earthquake?" at noon in the College of Law, in Room 107. ' . . The American Marketing Association will present Pat Jones, of Dan Jones and Associates, at 12:30 p.m. in the C, Roland Christensen Center, Room The 205. department of meteo- rology wi!S hold a seminar featuring five of its research assistants at 2 p.rn. in the Intsrrnountafn Network and Scientific Computing Center, ' Rocm11Q. . , Terra Flrma, the U's environmental club, will hoid a meeting si 2 p.m. in the A. Ray Oipin University Union, Room 311. Brenda Bass from the- - Howard Hughes Medical .Institute wiSi lecture on "Cel- lular Functions 0? Doubie-Strande- d RNA: RNA Editing and RN'Ai," at 4 p.m. in the Huntsman Cancer Institute's George 5. and Dolores Dore Eccles Auditorium. The Waliace Stegner Center host Donaid Worster, who will read from his new book, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, at 7 p.m, in the Sutherland Moot Courtroom at the College of Law. Business Manager Accountant Asst. Accountant MARKOGDEN ROBERT McOMBER KAY ANDERSEN STEPHANIE BAKER GABRIEL RUTHERFORD MARYANNE ANDERSON Advertising Mang. Advertising Reps DE1DRE HUGHES JASON COOMBS PETER CHUDLE1GH VANNA TRAN PETER ESKO CHAU H. VU Collections JON BERNAL JEREMY HARMON CHRIS YEAIES The International Center will host "Germany Day" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.rn. in 159 union. BEN B1BEE DAINA GRAYBOSH WRIGHT part of th Ecc'es Health Sciences Library Infcfair 2001, Danief R, Mdsys fom the University of California st San Dg3 will speak on "information Science for Genome-Enable- d Research and Healthcare " at 9:30 a.m. in the Eccies institute of Human Genetics auditoriAs um. Online Editor LONNY DANLER MARZULLI-VARGA- KADE S. ROLFSON MIKE LISA K. MANWILL LEE SCOTT LEWIS LOU Web HOWELL JEREMY WOJCIECHOWSKI MARIANNE RASMUSSEN KRISTIEN call (801) DAVE RANDY HARRINGTON Chief Photographer Assoc. Photo Editor or visit chronicle Utah edu on the World Wide PA.RRY JESS DALTON PETER ESKO ALEX respond with your questions, WYNNE STEPHANIE GEERLINGS CASSANDRA Opinion Editor Opinion Columnists HATCH HOWELL BRENT OLSON For- correspondence, address, to the Business or complaints Production Mang. LEGRAND ROGERS student lee administered by the Publications NATHAN DAVE JEREMY MATTHEWS XAZMIN GARZA Manager Art Director Asst. Art Director ERIC WALDEN JAMES GARDNER To U Wire RORY BRUNNER Feature Writers including change of BRITAIN C. MORRIS BOBB! PARRY Feature Editor Room 115. JUSTICE THE ASHLEY PiNGREE RED Editor KATHRYN COWLES Asst. RED Editor JACOB STRINGER RED Writers JEREMY ASAY LISA K. MANWILL the newspaper's content. Funding comes from advening revenues and a dedicated must be prepaid. aid," said Eileen O'Leary, the president of the Massachusetts Association of Financial Aid Administrators and the director of financial aid at Stonehill College. "It doesn't seem like a rational response." LCRiN FISCHER MATT CANHAM Utah students and are solely responsible for ward all subscription axe-murd- er grandmother and get financial KATHERINE MARLOWE Spring semesters (excluding test weeks and lecture on "Social Science and the Humanities: Boundary Anxieties and Boundary Battles in Graduate Training in Methodology" at noon in Carlson Hall, will JAMES SEAMAN Editorial Cartoonist Monday through Friday during Fall and Council Subscriptions education." Frank maintains that the measure is inappropriate. "It's a dumb way to deal with drugs," Frank said. "It's singling drugs out for excessive punishment." People might interpret the rule to mean "smoking marijuana is worse than aggravated assault," he said. "You can your Schwart2-She- a will SHAME EMILY Peregrine incomplete applications, officials decided not to force students to answer the question and granted aid even to those who had left it blank. The question has been reworded for this year's FAFSA, and applicants are being advised that they must answer it in order to be considered for aid. another In development, introduced have legRepublicans islation that would limit the scope of the 1998 rule in order to ease its enforcement. Under the proposed amendment, only students convicted of drug offenses while they are already in college would be denied aid. "Federally subsidized student aid is a privilege, not a right," Souder wrote in "an article published in USA Today last June. "It is reasonable for taxpayers to expect a eertain amount of accountability from students who receive financial aid to pursue an inquires into previous drug convictions. Swamped with such Illustrator News Editor Asst. News Editor MARCH 21 U provision in the 1998 Higher Education Act (HEA), which establishes federal financial aid programs, restricts assistance to d applicants who admit to convictions under state or federal law. Now, a nationwide campaign is under way to repeal that provision, which was introduced by Representative Mark in the House Soudcr, and the on Education Committee "There are other places CU could get the dogs," Madden said. Noting that CU has reduced the number of dogs it used in recent years, she said tlie savings could be used to buy dealers, which dogs from "ciass-A- " are more expensive but less likely to dealers are be stolen because class-breed their to own dogs. supposed Among those speaking against the resolution was Dr. Richard Krugman, dean of the medical school. Krugman said veterinary staff at the CU Health Sciences Center check the regulatory records of all animal suppliers, and that they would reject any dealer that was not in good standing. "We have never been presented with factual data that class-dogs have been illegally obtained," Krugman said. "I've seen no credible information to suggest that wc have used someone's pet" COLORADO EVENT! EXPENSIVE GIFTS ON THE PROBLEM Federal Finalcial Aid Takes Hit's Policy Officials React To Drug-Us- e Two Sides Discuss Medical School's A CA'MPU away a child's youth. KRISTIEN HIXSON, OPINION COLUMNIST SEE BRAN DEIS OF COLORADO U There is an extent to which a parent can buy CARI HICKEN Classified Manager JARED ANDERSON Christopher Carter, manager of technical services for Kennecott, will give a mining and engineering seminar titled "Back to the Future" from 10:45 to 11:35 a.m. in the Engineering and Mines Classroom Building, Room 101. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY y Alan Moller and Todd Foisy, MOSTLY CLOUDY M:65 10:44 MOSTLY CLOUDY Hi:62 L0:43 PARTLY CLOUDY SUNNY Hl:61 Hl:62 10:4G 10:41 www.met.utah.edujimsteenams PARTLY CLOUDY Bi:64 10:42 Thomas Cheatham from the department of medicinal chemistry wiH speak on "Insights into Nucleic Acid Structure, Dynamics and Interactions from Simulation," at 10:45 a.m. in the Henry Eyring Building, Room 2006. 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