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THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Thursday, January 16, 2003 2 v 7 Hi hrt-- t y f and coaxed through that Islam is a mean religion." "t CHRIS YEATES, FEATURE COLUMNIST i - .. they've been brainwashed fc&r of terrorism to believe J w N!$ EDITOR SHEtKA WCTARLAHD SMCfARLAND3fChR0NiCLE.UTAH.EDU CHRONICLE ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR JAKE PARKINSON JPARKlNSONtCHRONtaE.UTAH.EDU EEMTS ' OF ISLAM ON THE MISPERCEPTIONS "campus JANUARY 16 - p " V I'T :- 7 "ll WASHINGTON J 1 - .. President Bush, stepping into the most politically charged affirmative action case in a generation, asserted Wednesday that a program of racial preferences for minority applicants at the University of Michigan was "divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution." Democrats and civil rights leaders swiftly attacked Bush's position in a Supreme Court case that could overturn a 1978 affirmative action ruld ing and jeopardize 25 years of programs. "The Bush administration continues a disturbing pattern of using the rhetoric of diversity as a substitute for real progress on a civil right agena candidate for da," said Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nomination. Sensitive to such criticism, the White House said a brief being filed Thursday on Bush's behalf is narrowly tailored to oppose the Michigan program and does not address, a critical question: whether race can play a role at all in selecting a student body. Bush chose to let the Supreme Court settle an issue that could reshape affirmative action programs nationwide. The court hears the case in March. Some conservatives, including senior members race-base- U I ' t n . Reuven Firestone, professor of Bush's own Justice Department, had urged Bush to take a tougher stand against ever using race. In an unusual foray into domestic policy, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice participated in the discussions and eventually sided with Bush's approach. Rice, who is black, opposed quotas as provost of Stanford University. "I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education," Bush said in the Roosevelt Room to announce that his administration would file a brief. "But the method used by the University of Michigan to achieve this important goal is fundamentally flawed." The Michigan program "amounts to a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes prospective students solely on their race," Bush said. He said the undergraduate admissions program awards black, Hispanic and native American students 20 points, of the total normally needed for admission. At the law school, some minority students are admitted to meet percentage targets while others with higher grades are passed over, Bush said. "Quota systems that use race to include or exclude people from higher education and the opportunities it offers are divisive, unfair and one-fift- h JK u The IMPACTJewlsh studies department and Hiilel are a speech by impossible to square with the Constitution," Bush said. of medievalJudaism and Islam at the Hebrew Union The last Supreme Court case that addressed affirmative action in college admissions banned the outright use of racial quotas but still allowed university admissions officers to use race as a factor. The case, the 1978 Bakke ruling, involved a white applicant rejected from a public medical school in California. Bush said that "racial prejudice is a reality in our country" and Americans should not be satisfied with the current numbers of minorities on college campus. But in trying to fix the problem, Bush said, "we must not use means that create another wrong." As an option to quotas and preferences, Bush pointed to admissions programs in other states including his home state of Texas that promote diversity without giving students an edge based solely on their race. In Texas, as governor, Bush backed and signed state legislation guaranteeing students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class admission to the state's public colleges and universities. Supporters say that had the effect of continuing a stream of minority students because some public high schools 2re nearly all black or Hispanic. College's Jewish Institute of Religion titled, "Divlnt Authority and Mass Violence: Holy War in Judaism and Islam," at 4:15 p.m. in 255 I 3 4 State Heads into 5 Hundreds Attend Prof Arrested for FBI Investigates Years of Drought Guerrero Funeral Lying About Vials Painkiller Dilution SALT LAKE CPT-- As Utah heads into its fifth year of drought, the chances of even an average spring snowpack are dwindling. If the dry conditions persist for the rest of January, only record snowfall for the rest of the winter could build up a normal snowpack. "That's the ugly fact of the matter," said Randy Julandcr, snow survey supervisor for the U.S. Natural Resource Conservation Service in Salt Lake City. Water districts are preparing higher rates, while farmers and ranchers brace for another disastrous year. As of Jan. i, the northern Utah snowpack was about 75 percent of average, with the snow on mountains around Provo somewhat lower. OREM, Utah Mario Guerrero, who was killed in the crash of a Life Flight helicopter, was remembered Wednesday as a cheerful and talented paramedic who received accolades, though he never sought them. Several hundred people attended the funeral services at the David O. McKay Events Center at Utah Valley State College, including colleagues from 50 different public safety agencies. Guerrero, 38, Pleasant Grove, had been with the Provo Fire Department for nine years, including 2 12 years with Life Flight. He was the first Provo firefighter to be killed in the line of duty. UriIEHSIT WEATHER 4225 THURSDAY: Did You Know... MOSTLY SUNNY FtlDW: PARTLY CLOUDY SATURDAY: MOSTLY SUNNYHAZY SUK0AT: MOSTLY SUNNYHAZY MONDAY: MOSTLY SUNNY 4325 4426 4627 4928 plan and showed how jitAmericans are over the threat of tery -alert a biological attack. Dr. Thomas C. Butler, chief of the infectious diseases division of the department of internal medicine, was arrested late Wednesday on a complaint of making a false statement to a federal agent. U.S. Attorney Dick Baker said the professor said the vials ;vere missing as of Saturday when "tiuth in fact, as he well knew, he had destroyed them prior to that." The samples, about 30 of the 180 the school was using for research on the treatment of plague, were reported missing to campus police Tuesday night. KANSAS CITY, Mo. A suburban fire chief and a paramedic lost their jobs after tests showed painkillers kept in ambulances had been diluted or in some cases replaced entirely with saline, authorities said Wednesday. No charges have been filed, but the FBI is investigating and is testing vials of morphine and Demerol from ambulances in three Missouri communities outside Kansas City. Using the diluted drugs on a patient would delay pain relief but would said probably not be Minion, Gregg emergency department director at Research Medical Center. Patty Gentrup, city administrator in Liberty, Mo., said test results showed that morphine and Demerol kept on the city's three ambulances had been diluted. Some of the vials contained only saline. FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said agents planned to meet Thursday with officials in the communities of Clayco-m- o and Pleasant Valley about testing drugs seized from their ambulances. . Dominant, aggressive rabbits have bigger scent glands and produce more complex odors than subordinate ones. Courtesy Jason Shafer, www.met.utah.edulimsteenams the Daily Utah chronicle Thl University or Utah' 1ndulmh:nt Studint Voici; slnu 1890 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE is an independent student newspaper published daily Monday through Friday during Fall and Spring Semesters (eicludmg test weeks and holidays) and weekly during Summer Term. Chronicle editors and stall are University ol Utah students and are solely responsible for the newspaper's content. Funding comes from advertising revenues and a dedicated student fee administered by the Publications Council. The Chronicle distributes 15,000 free copies to 130 on- - and locations. No subscriptions are available, but all stories are posted daily on the World Wide Web at or dailyutahchronicle.com. To respond with your questions, comments or complaints call (801) visit The Chronicle's Web site. Editor in Chief News Editor Sports Editor feature Editor Opinion Editor RED Magazine Editor Photo Editor LUBBOCK, Texas A university professor was arrested Wednesday for allegedly telling authorities that 30 vials of plague were missing when he knew they had been destroyed, the U.S. attorney's office said. The mysterious episode at Texas Tech University triggered a terrorism- JEREMY HARMON harmon9chronicle utahedu SHEENA MCFARLAND smcfarlandchromcle utah edu R0RY BRUNNER rbrunntrtchronicie utah edu S0MYR MCLEAN smclnnchronicl utahedu JOHN M0RLEY jmorleychroniclt.utahedu JEREMY MATHEWS jeremyrd mag com SARAH MORTON smoftonJchromcleulah.edu Production Manager JEREMY W0JCIECH0WSKI ojochronicl utahedu Graphic Artist STEPHANIE CEERLINCS sgeerlingstchroniclt.utihtdu Business Manager ADAM WARD iardchronicl( utah edu Accountant KAY ANDERSEN kaychronicle utah edu Sales Support STEPHANIE BAKER sbUerchroniclt utahedu 2V. Korea Inspectors Visit Rejects Presidential Palace New U.S. Proposal BAGHDAD, Iraq In a move that infuriated Saddam Hussein's govern- ment, U.N. arms experts visited a presi- dential palace compound Wednesday in Baghdad, spending four hours searching two office complexes and opening safes. The visit was the second to a presidential site since the inspectors resumed the search for weapons of mass destruction in November. Iraq has long resented searches in Saddam's palacesof which there are dozens-call- ing them offenses to its sovereignty. Inspectors had to wait 15 minutes before being given access to the compound, known as the Old Palace, while Iraqi officials sought permission from "higher authority" to let them in, said Dimitri Perricos, who led the inspection team at the palace. "It was fine. We got permission at the end. We did not lose anything, because the site we wanted to inspect was under observation as we waited"' Perricos told a news briefing. SEOUL, South Korea North Korea rejected as "pie in the sky" U.S. offers of talks and possible aid in exchange for abandoning its nuclear ambitions, accusing Washington on Wednesday of staging a "deceptive drama" to mislead world opinion. Keeping up a stream of invective even as it agreed to more high-levmeetings with South Korea next week Pyongyang declared it would accept no U.S. offer of dialogue with conditions attached. Washington's "loudmouthed supply of energy and food aid are like a pie in the sky, as they are possible only after the DPRK is totally disarmed," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a report by the country's foreign news outlet, KCNA. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, is visiting Asia to seek support in getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program. anti-Americ- an el OSH. As part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, the film "Ltgacy" will screen at 7 p.m. in the Union Theatre. JANUARY 20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, an awards presentation and cultural performance by Dianne Reeves will start at ? p.m. at Kingsbury Hail. JANUARY 21 The LDSSA is hosting an open house with LDS Missionaries from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Union 319. The Hinckley institute of Politics presents, "Miracle st PhSSsdtlphla" by Professor Emeritus J.D. Williams at 10:45 a.m. in OSH 255. The College Democrats and the College Republicans are hosting a SUte f th Union" address party at 7 p.m. in the Union Theatre. JANUARY The Hinckley 22 Institute of Pol- itics presents, "Critical by Ibrahim Karawan, director cf the Middle East Center at 10:45 a.m. In OSH 2S5. The School of Business will host an Informational open house for U staff members Interested in e&rnlnq m MSA from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a presentation at 12:15 p.m. The Natural Resources Law Forum and the Wallace Steg-ne- r Center for Land, Resources and the Environment present a Green Bag Series titled, "Pressing Water Issues In Utah," at noon In Room 105 in the College of Law. JANUARY 23 Naomi Pierce, biology profes- sor at Harvard, will present the speech, "Evolution of Lycaenld Butterflies: From Mutualism to Parasitism," at 4 p.m. In ASB Auditorium. JANUARY 24 Naomi Pierce, biology professor at Harvard, will give the speech, "JuHai Family and Ctvt t n Whsrt Thirds a V,::i, Thf rs's a Wy" at 9:30 a.m. In the Union's Saitair Room. ADDITIONAL EVLNTS ON WWW.DAILYUTAHCKR0NICLE.COM 1