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Show WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17. 2001 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 5 Anthrax Scare Hits N JU SPENCER ACKERMA contact with the employee. Additionally, Murphy declined to release the postmark, indicating from where the letter was mailed. The police chief said his department has enlisted the help of the FBI, the state police and the county prosecutor's office to help in the ongoing investigation including the establishment of a motive to potentially poison the particular University employee and the campus population. But the chief emphasized the importance of composure. "We're using a lot of precaution," Murphy said. "We don't want to be alarmist". Workers at Food Science immediately summoned authorities after finding the unfamiliar powder at 11:30 a.m. Monday. The workers handling the substance took showers to minimize risk of exposure, then were rushed to an area health-car- e facility that Murphy would not identify. The RUPD, the Hazardous Materials Unit of the Middlesex County Health Department, the New Brunswick Police Department and Rutgers Emergency Services cleared about 150 students, faculty and staff out of the building, stationing the evacuees on the nearby lawn. While authorities did not administer immediate medical care, the RUPD collected the names and contact information of those in the building at the time of the exposure for notification as the state health department determines Daily Targum NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-P- anic struck Rutgers University on Monday morning as University, city and county authorities shuttered the Food Science Building on the Cook campus after workers discovered a mysterious powder inside an envelope mailed to a University employee. After administering decontamination procedures to those handling the envelope, authorities transported the substance to a state laboratory in Trenton for analysis and urged calm as rumors of a possible anthrax attack swept the campus. Community service officers guarded the desolate buildbreeze fluttered the yeling Monday as the low caution tape enclosing it o Reopening Food Science which houses the Center for Advanced Food Technology and classroom space is contingent upon approval from the state Department of Health and Senior Services, Rutgers University Police Department Chief Anthony Murphy said. Health department spokesman Dave Jamieson said testing the powder for toxic agents would continue until the end of business today. "We're testing whatever caused the incident," Jamieson said. "We'll test to see if there's any reason to be concerned. Then people will be tested, but that's preliminary until we see the results." Murphy confirmed the envelope was sent to a specific University employee whom he declined to identify, saying only that the package "was addressed to someone who has an office in the building." He would not comment on any precautionary measures the RUPD has advised the employee to take, although he confirmed the RUPD is in late-afterno- on AARON LICHTIG The Yale Herald NEW HAVEN, Conn. When nationally syndicated columnist John Leo ran an Internet search on college newspapers from his office last week, he found the pervasive liberalism in the pages of Yale University publications frightening. The Wall Street Journal did the same and found the patriotism of Yale students reassuring. As the juxtaposition of "Nuke the bastards" and "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" on the mesoutside WLH sage sculpture affirms, no consensus of student opinion exists on the Yale campus or at other universities. On Cross Campus and across the nation's campuses, the conception of a college as a marketplace for ideas is being tested as a philosophical debate over the war against ter ,Clatf J I n continued from page 1 ly underway, Harward said. "I hope we can have a grand opening before Thanksgivrng," Molette said. The resource center recently received a $20,000 grant from the Gill Foundation, which makes donations to LG3T and AIDS foundations across the country. "The grant is more than the Gill Foundation usually gives out, which shows they really support us," said BALLET 1 who studied under Christensen. "He was always fun to be around and lively," she said. "He always had a joke ready and a funny story ready, he was very inspiring as a teacher." While Christensen was in San Francisco, he choreographed the first U.S. production of "The Nutcracker." Until the time of his death, he served as the artistic adviser for Ballet West's annual productions of "The Nutcracker." According to Caldwell, the production of "The Nutcracker" is an institution in Salt Lake performed COPY'"" 1 rmmwtlt,1fiv" f f-- ' I ? for Junior Nursing Students v: Have you ever dreamed of a summer job at the Mayo Clinic? If you have, we have a paid, supervised program while providing will valuable in which experience gain you direct and indirect patient care in the inpatient or ambulatory care setting. appropriate. Murphy said the exposure did not compromise the safety of the area surrounding the building. Buses will continue to shuttle students past Food Science despite its locked doors. "We're exercising prudence in investigating" the case, Murphy said. "That's for the safety of our entire communit- Summer III begins in early June and lasts for 10 weeks. Each summer, 150 students from throughout the United States participate. You are eligible for Summer III after your junior year of a y." U rorism rages. The Yale campus, among others, has been through war before, but never a war of this nature. On the night of Dec. 8, 1941, Yale students and local residents" swarmed the snowy streets of New Haven to hurl patriotic slogans and jingoistic but known, insults at a adversary. According to Gallup, more than 97 percent of their fellow citizens shared their view. ' On May 1, 1969, about 75 percent of the Yale student body joined 15,000 protesters from all over the nation to protest the treatment of Black Panther Bobby Seale, who was accused of murder, and to protest an unjust war in Vietnam. But on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the days that followed, confusion, not unanimity, reigned. Some rallied around the flag, some wanted to burn it. Students and professors all over the country far-awa- y, WIRE For more information about the Summer III program, please visit our website or contact: Mike Allcott, faculty adviser of the Lesbian and Gay Student Union. The grant money will fund three things: operational expenses, programming and the library, Harward said. e "The U is paving for a which we adviser, appreciate, but we're responsible for the rest cf the funding," Harward said. The center, located in Union 312, is open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5 p.m. Students, facul3 ty and staff can drop in or call more inforrnation. half-tim- 5S7-797- fr Mayo Clinic & Hospitals Human Resources, 200 1st Street took sides, and outside of the ivory tower, America is watching acade-mi- a SW, closely. - Summer in Program OE-- 4 Rochester, MN 55905 summer3mayo.edu ph Application Deadline: January IS, 2002 don't think a consensus has President Richard developed," "I Levin, '74. said. "But we have to make sure all sides are heard." What is actually going on at Yale and on America's campuses, and why do Americans care so much? The university, America's last bastion of rindependent inquiry and sponsor of the search for verities, has always been looked to for what Levin calls "intellectual leadership" when crises occur. U baccalaureate nursing program. four-ye- Mayo Nursing was awarded the Magnet Hospital Recognition Status for Excellence in Nursing Service by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Balancing Act at Colleges War-tim- e continued from page , www.mayo.edusummer3.html WIRE Women's Resource Center Presents Patiisia Gonzales & Roberto Rodriguez "On tlie Road to Reliumanization. October 18, 2001 12:00 - 1:00 pin Olpin Union Ballroom smefsrta ndchronicle. utah.edu since 1954, with some changes. "The basic core of his nutcracker is there," Caldwell said. He mentioned the humor, drama and the warm feeling in the ballet's party scene, as things that still remain in Christensen Nutcracker" "The choreographed. Because of his personality and contributions to ballet, Christensen will be missed by those who knew him. "We will all miss him," said Jonas Kage, artistic director for Ballet West. "We all love him, there are a lot of dancers that danced with him. We feel a great loss and feel very empty without him here." ejohnsonchronicle.utah.edu For more iaforrrntioii call 531-803- 0 Co-sponso- rs: ASUU Presenter's Office Tanner Center for the Prevention ofViolence University of U tali Union Board Department of Communi cations |