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Show " 1 1 riJD o i II II II i f! J tt H UJ V VI IT f Ttatht Viw JL 3 n.A Scholar's Separation:. J- 1 n 1.11. L'.LT.Ll. me uidib dnuJ aiuueru Kouieue niunnunii tribulations of U student Rainey Frank. r Utah's clearing political storm clouds. Jmi.iijumm.ui,.iiu.iij.j,..ji nmijMWiMmjMn.Pii.in Goring the Bull: a t - ff ft. face-of- f with Child C are center up ens ERiKA JOHNSON Chronicle News Writer angled wails and misshapen windows in a room ripped from the pages of a Dr. Seuss story. Clearly, this w?s a set of rooms created for eithir the cat In the hat and of children friends o? & child-ca- re found ,e ;t$3 sefsr, solution. .Tv.'o grlnnlr.g boys rai through the" rooms with energy only preschoolers czn generate after ceremony j "'sdncviy for the Associated itudencs of the University of Utih Child Care Center, "Tl.is is the bluest moment for ASUU in a long time," said Milt. Ncken, ASUU vice president and of the' Child Care mi Cmnuttte. the ASUU's General Assembly appropriated $20,000 for startup com for 3 child-car- e U$ it tfts ASUU cll'.i ctxt ettftr. ' tenter. The "next year, ASUU established a per&saneni fund of a cdxture of private sources and she is in clas. "2t gites me the flexibility I student fees. They also hired the 3.15,1; oj i.:.nually to be spent en child-car- e need. and establish It's convenient, it's close dirfctor helped programs including Parent's ITight Out and finals operational policies for the cen- by," she said. "This really solves a In i5$ . week child care. Three years ago, ASUU decided those programs were not enough to meet the needs of students with children. That, year the ASUU administration found the space In the Emery Building,, which, according to Nelson, was a difficult task. Lsst year, ASUU acquired startup funding and worked on the architectural design. This year's administration secured fviidin ter. , problem for me." The rysw center will also solve a problem for her son Justin, she said. "It was always really hard for him to stay at home when I go to school," she said. "It's a big deal for him." The new center, will also give interested students a chance to work with children. It will open for business Thursday. ejohnsonchroniele.utah.edu , The Child Care Coordinating Office estimates between 3,500 to 4,000 families, including students, staff and faculty, need either full child care. The six or part-tim- e near campus offer on or programs slots. The new center only 605 will serve almost 80 additional families. Students will receive priority registration. C2ssie Jackson plans to use the facility to care for her son while VOL 111 NO 41 urprise Neighbors Chronicle News Writer multicolored floor meets 8, 2001 01y Parking Plans JAKE PARKINSON In the basement of the Alfred Emery Building, in rooms that once housed sinks, stoves and refrigerators for a home economics lab, some changes have taken place. first-tim- e The Utes prevail in rival . University of South Florida. MONDAY, OCTOBER ril-be- sr Chronicle Opinion Columnist James Seaman sees the silver lining of The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 A This week's 11 The Sun'll Come Out: JLIL JL JL Jlie.? Pollyanna Pixton is upset. She doesn't like the idea that a field across from her home may be turned into a temporary parking lot for the University of Utah to help alleviate congestion caused by the 2002 Olympic Games. "I had no idea they were trying to do this," Pixton said. Director of Parking and Transportation Services Alma Allred doesn't blame the neighbors for being upset, and at the same time, he said he felt no need to inform the neighbors about the project before the U receives permission to build. "If it doesn't go through, all wc do is upset the neighbors," Allred said. If the U receives permission from the Salt Lake City Council, a field located off the south-en- d of campus, on Sunnyside Avenue, will become a temporary parking lot Without permission to build the lot, the U will be in a desperate situation. Allred said parking services may be forced to abandon all U parking-pas- s rules, which designate who can park where, and only allow those who car pool into parking lots. U officials asked and received permission from the owners of the property, Mount Olivet Cemetery, to construct a parking lot on the field, Allred said. Only after publishing the parking lot as a done deal in the 2002 Commuter Survival Guide pamphlet, U officials realized they had forgotten a step. They overlooked city zoning laws that prohibit parking lots in that residential area. Now they hope the city will consider their proposal for an exception. On Oct. 16, the City Council will meet to make a decision. Costing $300,000 to construct-m- ore than $230 per parking space the lot would provide 1,300 slots for h a period of time. One week ago, the U turned over in parking slots to Olympic officials. By February, the number of parking spots used by the Olympics will reach more than 3,000. "Wc arc in desperate need of parking spots," Allred said. "Without the lot, 1,300 commuter students will not be able to drive to school." But those cars arc exactly what Pixton fears. She said she worries about traffic during the Olympics, and she wonders if she will be able to get out of her driveway during February. In consideration of the residents, U officials designed the lot to prevent unwanted traffic on Sunnyside Avenue by locating the entrance on Guardsman Way. Shuttles will deliver the students to and from campus. "I hate the idea. I love the natural setting. I don't want them to ruin that. I'm not going to look over there onto a parking lot," Pixton said. Pixton has neighbors who also oppose the idea. For more than 50 years, Alice Andersen looked off her front porch onto a field. She doesn't like the idea of that changing. Like Pixton, Andersen had not heard about the parking lot "Fifteen years ago they wanted to turn it into a driving range; I thought wc had already won this four-mont- battle. It's just one thing after another," Andersen said. Allred has his own concerns. see PARKING, page 3 AIDS Virus Studiet y U Researchers $ WYNNE PARRY Chronicle Asst. News Editor The virus that causes AIDS commandeers a white blood cell's own inner machinery producing more virus particles to invade new cells thus spreading the disease. But researchers at the University of Utah and Myriad Genetics in Research Park have found a key component to a viral particle's escape from its host cell Their results will appear in the Oct 5 issue of the journal Cell This is still "basic research" according to Wes Sundquist, an author of the study and a professor of biochemistry. However, the discovery does have the potential to yield a drug treatment for .MDS, the disease resulting from infection by the HIV virus. Based on the research. Myriad Genetics is work ing to develop such a drug, he said. Because strains of HIV resistant to current AIDS treatments are appearing, researchers must develop drugs that use different mechanisms to thwart the virus. Their discovery could form the basis for a drug to reduce the amount of HIV in an infected person. Like treatments on the market now, it would make the disease more livablenot cure it Increasing resistance among both bacterial and viral infections, like AIDS, demands the "next generation" of drugs. "It's a constant war." Sundquist said. HIV enters a host cell, and, acting like a parasite, it causes the cell to produce copies of its own genetic i? j 1 J X -- 3 is !! Is m Fcrgoitea fclktr partkfpates la the Utah Wotcrcyc! Fcynditloss Ycu're toy run benefitting Primary Children's Medical Center ca Sunday. Th toy run Is ia its third year. ?K0 WAS THAT MASKED WAS?: A see AIDS, page 6 the daily utah chronicle is on the vorld wide veb at www.DailyUtahChronicle.com |