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Show The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 The o Iff any alker comm its to educati on nicie J 42DC3 .Cdi' Jisncnroniciexom Thursday, December 4, 2003 Vol. T3 Mo. El c X. i i Adam Benson Chronicle Asst. News Editor When Utah Gov. Olene Walker was sworn into office Nov. 6 following former Gov. Mike Leavitt's appointment to head the Environmental Protection Agency, she made it clear that education would be a top priority for her administration. One month later, she hasn't forgotten that. "Higher education initiatives will be coming very shortly," Walker said in an interview Wednesday. Though she wouldn't go into detail about those initiatives, she made it clear the recent 4.5 percent tuition increase recommendation by the state Board of Regents is necessary for the state's educational equilibrium "We haven't seen great turn arounds in our revenues yet, but the financial burden from the state for higher education is a very substantial commitment," she said. Even with the proposed tuition hike, Utah remains well below the national average in terms of cost, she said. "At the four-ye- ar level, education in Utah is still a good bargain, but that doesn't mean I want tuition to even catch up with the average. We always try to keep tuition low so that all citizens have an opportunity for education and we know education in this state remains a good bargain," she said. Though Walker's initiatives haven't yet been introduced publicly, she laid out her expectations for the future of Utah's higher education. "I think we need to focus in on making certain students coming out of high school are ready for higher education immediately...I think a challenge for higher education will be seeing that students get the best education possible in a timely, economic manner," she said. State Deputy of Education Darrell White agreed. "This has been a very unusual time, but we certainly hope the future will be much brighter. We need to prepare v the infrastructure of our higher education institutions to handle the large influx of students through their doors over the next 20 years," he - said. t an With anticipated increase of 145,000 students in Utah's public schools within the decade, that vision needs to be realized, Walker said. "One of the great resources we've had for higher education in this state are strong university systems...I feel very strongly we need to make certain that higher education is in partnership with a strong . PAGE Q 4 f- The face of the U see pageo 4 A trail of history cabinet members Washington, D.C. and its monuments Tyler Peterson The student government has lost four of its executive cabinet members, all of whom want to get involved in elections for next year. The four resigning are Sarah Crookston of the Development Board, Chris Carlston, director of the Technology Board, Executive Assistant to Chief of Staff Elisa Jacobsen and Director of Presidential Affairs Alisia Abegg. "It's a sad loss for ASUU," Vice President Anthony White said, "but it's all right All their boards are really productive." The main reason why the four are clearing their News desk areas at ASUU is to become involved with the upcoming elections. Carlston announced he will run for student body president; Abegg said she is considering running for a Student Senate or Assembly position; Jacobsen and Crookston, who are good friends from the same high school, will be opposing campaign managers for presidential candidates. Interestingly enough, three of the former ASUU will be working for a different political party during the elections. "We're not going to make it dirty," Jacobsen said All cabinet members had positive things to say SEE CABINET Nicole Warburton Chronicle Staff Writer Washington, D.C, is a city rich in symbolism and history a city embroidered with memories and monuments to the past. While it's a long road to view that past, it's a path worth walking. It's a trail that gives insight into who we are as a nation today and why we enjoy such freedoms as religion, speech and education. I traveled that trail on a day when the sun was shining, the winds were mild and the crowds were sparse. I walked a road of words, wisdom and history preserved in marble monuments. There were five that stood out. Dedicated in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial stands as a shrine to our nation's 16th president, a man who led a divided nation through the Civil War and freed slaves in the South via the PAGE 3 pape 3 Fun in the snow A student's guide to t keeping busy during the Winter Break. X Emancipation Proclamation in Erin Jepperson takes notes on Harvard professor Paul Hoffman's lecture Wednesday night in the auditorium of the Skaggs Biology Building. Cara Wieser Chronicle Staff Writer Across the barre A look at the many careers options for dance Ninety percent of geologists are "sitting on the fence" when it comes to the "snowball earth" hypothesis. According to Paul Hoffman, professor of geology at Harvard majors. Sports Streak snapped The Runnin' Utes top Utah State to break its University, it's dangerous for them to support it because it might be wrong, and losing streak. COPY 1863. A statue of this man, Abraham Lincoln, looks out from inside the Geologist shares controversial "snowball earth" hypothesis REDmag e 1st V ASUU loses four Chronicle Staff Writer two-gam- II V With departing U President WALKER S i tA said. SEE 1 - - Walker economy," h high-tec- i A it's dangerous to condemn it because it might be right. Hoffman presented his lecture, "Snowball Earth: Testing the Limits of Global Climate Change," to a full house at the Biology Skaggs Building Wednesday night. earth was covered completely with ice because continents were located mainly around the equator. The hypothesis is also controversial because of this theo- Hoffman supports the hypothesis, which theorizes that the mates. memorial onto a field where 100 years later, in 1963, crowds gathered to protest and listen as civil r Martin Luther King Jr. gave his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. King gave that speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial, symbolically flanked by the president who said that slavery was hypocritical. Lincoln was also known to speak of equality, freedom and rights-leade- ry. Most people associate the equator with warm, tropical SEE cli- peace. EARTH "With malice toward none, with charity for all. PAGE 4 with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations," Lincoln said during his second inaugural address. Peace is also spoken of from the Vietnam and Korean War Memorials. More than 59,000 names of dead or missing soldiers are carved into a simple granite wall dedicated to those who fought in the Vietnam War. It's a simple thing, yet deeply impacting to trace your fingers over the names of those who fought that fight While the names of those who fought in the Korean War aren't etched into black granite, 19 statues of soldiers stand in a field adjacent to a wall where images of other soldiers are scratched into stone. The words "Freedom is Not Free" are written on a wall as a reminder of the cost of waging such a war. To the east of the Korean memorial is the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Words and wisdom from the president who led our nation through the Great Depression and World War II are again imprinted on stone walls. "Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear," Roosevelt said during his 1941 State of the Union 1 1' 4 4 M SS - S jf S eJ, J, J , t t t i t 1 1 4 i 1 t t 1 t , i y j J t4 M 4 4 ii ,4 t" t tA address about the freedoms Americans must fight for. Other words speak of the horror of that fight. "I have seen war," Roosevelt said. "I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded...I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed...I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." However, to the north of that memorial is another that speaks of war for the right reasons. "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of Thomas man," Jefferson wrote in 1800. Those words, inscribed inside the Jefferson Memorial, reveal the heart and strength of America, a nation founded on principles of frefrom edomfreedom tyranny and persecution, freedom of religion and education. Those words came from a man who penned of Declaration the and Independence helped forge the path for America's freedom. "We hold these truths that all to be men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these &re life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," Jefferson wrote. Those are words written at the beginning of a trail of history, a trail that defines and reveals the liberties and freedoms that we as Americans self-evide- enjoy today. n warburton 0'chronicle.utah.edu |
