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Show pjTJ fillip t LUEJ Spilled Milk: Chris Yeates discusses stereotypes and embracing your bad image, and by the way the hell is Jesse?" "Who At the Poles of the U: Meet the Us youngest and oldest matriculated students. Helen and "Ned." Luck 0' the Irish: ap fi women's basketball team needs ail they can get when they face Notre Dame. The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2001 The U VOL 110 NO 131 Mayor to Build SLC Community Ancient Kenyan U, Skull Questions Joint Project to lan's Descent Target the City's PARRY WYNNE Chronicle News Writer The recent discovery of a skull in Kenya suggests the human evolutionary tree may need some updating. Uncovered near Lake Turkana, the skull belonged to a prehistoric species that resembled modern humans. The magazine Nature published the findings Wednesday and listed University of Utah researchers among those who discovered the skull and who are proposing the hominid may have played a role in human lineage. This is the second creature found living 3 to 3.5 million years ago that may have been an ancestor to modern man," said Frank Brown, dean of the U's College of Mines and Earth Sciences and one of the paper's authors. The discovery makes human lineage uncertain. Previously, researchers believed a hominid species, represented by the remains of a prehistoric woman dubbed Lucy, gave rise t6 modern humans. But the new skull brings that theory into question since only one of the two species could be ancestral to modern man, Brown said. The existence of two species also indicates the human family was more diverse during this time period than once thought Modern Homo sapiens' status as the sole surviving member of the family of man is unusual, since throughout human history multiple groups of hominids have coexisted. Meave Leakey, a paleoanthropolo-gis- t at the National Museums of Kenya, led the project, searching for fossils in the Great Rift Valley where a tearing of the Earth's crust brought the artifacts closer to the surface. The team selected a particular area where the tearing exposed fossils dating from more than 3 million years ago. Layers of volcanic ash, similar to the ones found around Lucy's remains, allowed researchers to date the skull at around 3.5 million years, Brown said. Now it will be up to anthropologists to determine which hominid passed its genes on to modern humans, he said. The newly discovered creature had distinctively small molars and a flat face that earned it the name Kenyan-thropu- s platyops, meaning human from Kenya. When found, the skull was embedded top down, with only part of a tooth visible, said Patrick Gathogo, a U undergraduate who participated in the flat-fac- Minority Groups MATT CANHAM Chronicle Asst. News Editor The residents of Salt Lake City go from home to work and back home again with their mouths dry, but water will not quench their thirsts. They want human interaction that stretches outside of their property lines. They want a place to meet and mingle with their neighbors. They want a community. "Residents of Salt Lake City have an unquenchable thirst for these kind of interactions," Mayor Ross Anderson said. Anderson announced a partnership with the University of Utah Thursday that will try to build community and foster increased educational opportunities. Anderson delivered the 39th annual Arthur Beeley Lecture at the Graduate School of Social Work to kick off the "Year of Community." The School's alumni association selected community betterment as the theme of the next academic year, and its faculty, alumni and students will work in conjunction with the mayor's office. "We will focus on bridging the social gap," Anderson said. The' School will help the mayor develop a neighborhood festival program that will assist Salt Lake enclaves with the planning of community The School will also work closely with the growing refugee population. "We are a major refugee resettlement community. We should be welcoming them and communicating with them in any language that is required," Anderson said. The School will help identify and meet the public needs of Salt Lake's refugee populations. Anderson also announced a joint information campaign targeting the city's minority populations in an attempt to spur involvement in community councils and dialogues. But the cityuniversity partnership does not end with social work. "We are developing a new 'West Side Initiative,' which we are going to be announcing in the next month," U President J. Bernard Machen said. The Initiative, which is still in the planning stages, will encourage economically disadvantaged students to get a college education. U students will become mentors in West Salt Lake schools. Those who receive mentoring will have the opportunity to sign a pledge that will provide them a scholarship see community, page 4 I ..4 vr??H 1 i . F v. 3g - mm wearing a baseball cap and a yellow shirt a picked up micsophoac, "Uh, vell Fro Jesse," he said. reading "i agice with Jesse" abounded Orange in the, A, Ray Cipin Univsrsttj' Union Thursday nhtt as sTUiknts gartered to see Jesses th? figtaehesd of the you agree with jesser campaign, Jesi Davison, the University ofUtaSs grapbic-defcig- n student whose name has bwn appearing across campus, on sidevk"aik and fliers fot' h pait rts weeks delivered bis message aboiit Jesus Christ A young k) If ft , .Ik 12 .h.' niu'WimWilii rmw miii Anderson told the Social Work School mm mi i 1) i & . .1331 m mfr"!BamTmtmr-vmmaimii- that building community is his passion. Ralph Nader Gives Jesse spoke slxut the importanc; of de'2loping a relationship with Jesus. Davison's speech was the culmination of the campaign which was by the Salt Company, the Camfor Crusade The Cleft, said Jake Umbria-cand Christ, pus a member of The Salt Company's leadership team at o, theU V! ... ; During the event, Davison spoke about why he was choven as spokesman for the cajapsugru . "I am nobody special- -. I am a person; I believe in Jesus Christ,' he said. see JESSS, page 4 Address to Utah College Students EMILY FULLER Chronicle News Writer Green Party 2000 presidential candidate Ralph Nader visited Westminster College yesterday to speak to students and raise support for the Green Party. "We campaign with the people," Nader told audience members. "I was the only candidate who campaigned in every state." Nader spoke to an auditorium full of people as students sat on stairs and stood in doorways to listen. g Nader's first statement came after he said that instead of tax and funding cuts, government surplus should go toward providing free tuition to the United States 15 n million public stucrowd-roarin- ed higher-educatio- dents. "It should be for public college and university free tuition," Nader said. He also said public feievision should spend more time showing the discovery. "It was a great joy for us; we didn't know it was a skull or even a complete tooth," he said. When the researchers examined the tooth, they immediately knew it was hominid. Further excavation revealed a true spirit of higher education rather than focusing simply on sports teams. "What about the new ideas, the theses, the marches and the demon- skull. In all, researchers found more than 30 skull and dental fragments in the area. But only two the skull and a jaw have been attributed to the new species. The rest remain unclassified. - Jesse' of 'Who Is Jesse' Speaks BOBS', PARRY Chronicle Nsws Writer mi tar?&:? . strations?" Nader asked. He also touched upon the useless- - Jesss C?vison said his 50a! Is act to convert students, but to get them asking "So what's Qolng cn with Jesus? see NADER, page 4 THE DAILY UTAH ONLINE CHRONICLE IS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT WWW.Utahchronicle.com . |