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Show The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 J 2004 www.dailyutahchronicle.com E-pho- h Chronic o Tl The Wednesday, March service spotty around campus 3, 2004 Controversy surrounds deafeat of library funding Cara Wleser Staff Writer Michael Young News Editor The decision by the state Legislature not to fund renovation of the Marriott Library came down to an issue of semantics. f n - , R-S- 1: I v.- t. Rep. David Clark, George, read a list of building projects the U has had in the last six years on the house floor, and said the U received nearly $500 million. Clark told The Daily Utah Chronicle that of the $500 million he discussed on the acfloor, less than one-thir- d from came the state. tually The reality is that just more than $65 million came from the state, according to a report from the Utah System of n . .. Higher Educatioa Clark's statement on the floor has some questioning whether members of the House were misinformed before they voted on the bill. "He was careful in the way he worded his statement, yet the intent was to say that we the state have funded all these buildings, they the U don't need any more, but he didn't specify where the for the projects funding free-standi- v . plexes. Alkire believes there are currently only two free standing phones that are not functioningone west of HPER and the other in the Annex parking lot. There are also areas in need A of whether similar to the column phones or those attached to the sides of buildings. The nearest available phones to the Merrill Engineering Building, a site frequented by car burglaries and other disturbances, are next to the Union and the free-standi- Park Building. In February alone, there were nine reported car burglaries in the parking lots around the area. Last fall, an employee was raped inside the building. Equally troubling are the dozens of disconnected phones hanging on entrances. to the closed Ballif, Van Cott and Austin dormitories, where students and visitors continue to park cars in the surrounding lots. The disconnected phones are not identified as such and there are no signs directing students to other emergency services. Unlike the engineering building, students do not have access to pay phones or campus phones to call 911 at the vacant dorms. Alkire blames the high price of power and phone lines for the lack of at the engineering building and for the U's decision to disconnect the phones at the old dorms. In order to alert students the phones were disconnected or broken, Police Chief Lynn Mitchell said he recommended putting a hood over the broken phones. Chambers agreed. "Definitely we need to do something to identify it's out of service," he said. Chambers calls the repair of the phones an "ongoing" operation. As part of a monthly routine, Alkire and other officers push the buttons to check the phones, which are sometimes damaged by the weather. SEE PAGE 5 page 4 Higher education Elder Maxwell speaks about life and learning. Opinion page 6 At a crossroads William Pingree explains how U.S. foreign policy is at a critical point. Sports page1 Turnover, anyone? The men's basketball team turned over the ball and the game to BYU. COPY came from," said Rep. Ron Lake City, Bigelow, who proposed an amendment that would fund the library against the recomR-S- mendations of the Capital Facilities Committee. Following Clark's reading of the list of the U's construction projects over the last five years, Clark urged his colleagues to total the money spent on the projects between revenue and funds, a total which he said was "nearly state-obligat- ed $500 million." Rep. David Clark, R-- George, reviews material at the state The only projects that the state funds are those that are ,state- - obligated. The rest of CapitoL Tuesday night the money comes from the U and private donors. Yet Clark did not differentiate the separate sources in hi statement. Clark said he was "in censed" that people hav suggested that he deliberate T ly misled his colleagues. He said he was upset that the House was circumventing the work the committee did to prioritize which proji ects received funding. "They House members need to rely on the work of the appropriations committee. They need to give some reverence to what they say," ; . Clark said. However, there seems to be some question as to whether or not the committee is able to work without bias. When asked whether this is a case of the U's library project being sacrificed in order to ensure Dixie State College receives money for a new health building, Clark responding by saying, "Everyone at the Capitol is there to represent their constituency." The U failed to receive funding by five votes. "It Clark's statement may have swayed a couple votes. But did it affect the outcome? Maybe," Bigelow said. Rep. Ralph Becker, Lake City, agreed that Clark's statement may have swayed one or two votes, but said D-S- most votes were already in place by that time. "There is a significant anti-- U of U sentiment. People were looking for an excuse to vote against it," Becker said. Clark said that neither his vote nor his statement should be viewed as a penalty to the U. "It's not a 'no,' it's a 'not yet,'" Clark said. myoungchronicle.utah.edu Former Israeli foreign minister speaks at U Steve Gehrke Staff Writer Shlomo was on the U campus Tuesday to discuss his views regarding the current situation in the conflict and what prosexist for future peace. pects One of his ideas is that simply going back to the negotiating table will not be enough to resolve the conflict between the Arabs and Israelis, given today's political conditions. Ben-Acited many problems with the current condition in the region, including anarchy and a lack of leadership in the Palestinian Authority. "Giving the Palestinian Authority control of land would be like building Afghanistan next to Utah," Ben-ABen-A- Arab-Israe- li said. It is imperative to nurse the Palestinian Authority along because Israel needs a stable neighbor in order to attain peace, according to Ariel Sharon is not a political figure with whom Ben-Agenerally Ben-Am- i. agrees. Sharon is, however, in the process of making a stride in the right direction by disengaging from the Gaza Strip and dismantling settlements, he said. He added that Sharon would need international support following the disengagement to police the area and prevent emergence of a "If Sharon goes through with this action, he will have contributed to peace more than Rabin, Barak and Shimon Peres together," Ben-Asaid. "He does have the political conditions to do it, he just needs to be mini-Taliba- - I r n. supported." One of the hot topics of debate among scholars in resolving the conflict is the question regarding whether Sharon's wall should be built. Ben-Awas sure to clarify that 80 percent of the structure is actually a fence, as opposed to the commonly perceived wall. He says a fence, even along the 1967 line, would not look good from a humanitarian standpoint, but stresses that it would improve security. I I : c ir; ! ; MMtwMWWWWrtlMWIBIWBmwwwlilWMUHIWWIftllfMBIWWWBM i r, 1 - 3 - i, Slomo former foreign minister of Isreal, speaks about "Learning from Past Failures: Pathways to Peace in the Middle East." Ben-Am- "Israel has fences with all our neighbors. In the last three years of Intifada, there has not been one terrorist from Gaza because of the fence. They have all come from the West said. "However, for Bank," Ben-AIsrael to build the fence, they would SEE MINISTER PAGE 3 Study shows the problems with female athlete triad Ashley Enqar Staff Writer News 117 Matter of interpretation ne Students make an estimated 30 calls per day from the 82 emergency phones located on campus. But that's only on the phones that are working and from areas that have them. According to Doug Alkire, security corporal for the department of public safety, the need for an emergency system is apparent. Police are called to assist for a variety of reasons ranging from health and safety concerns to stranded motorists needing a jump start or directions to the hospital. But no one is exactly sure how many of the phones are functioning. According to Norm Chambers, assistant vice president for auxiliary services and chairperson of the Health and Safety Committee, the U currently has 53 and 29 hanging phones spread throughout campus, in the parking structures near the hospital and on the front of residential housing com- Vol.113 No. When a ballet career is their top priority, U ballet dancers must sacrifice certain things, including a healthy diet and body. "In order to succeed in ballet, you have to maintain a thin appearance," U ballet dancer Ashley Doyle said. Fellow student and dancer Catherine Crane agrees with Doyle. "The first thing ballet companies look for when auditioning is your body," Crane said. "If you don't have the body type they're looking for, they won't even consider you," she said. Dancers often think that losing weight or maintaining a thin or lean body will enhance their performance. This leads many women to develop the female athlete triad, which carries with it certain risk factors apart from other disorders like anorexia or bulimia. The female athlete triad is a combi- nation of three conditions: disordered eating; amenorrhea, which means loss of the menstrual cycle; and osteoporosis, or loss of bone density. Doyle and other U ballet dancers said they have experienced amenor rhea, eating disorders and stress frac- tures during their careers. Recent research, performed by U researcher Merav Nagel, found that the female athlete triad a problem most common in dancers, gymnasts and figure skaters can not only lead to physical symptoms, but can have an irreversible impact on a female athlete's psychocognitive function. Crane said that losing weight and maintaining a thin appearance does increase performance. "You perform better and are more confident on stage when you look thin," Crane said. "There is a misconception, especially among gymnasts, figure skaters and ballet dancers, that the leaner the body, the better the performance," Nagel said. "My study shows the opposite performance." Symptoms of the triad such as mood fluctuations, depression, guilt, anxiety and helplessness end up hindering the athlete's performance, according to Nagel. The U ballet department, according to ballet dancer Susanna Robb, does not promote eating disorders, but ballet in general does. Smoking cigarettes is also common : . N ' r 'vv ' . ' - i . a -- I oo . i - a 5 - Ballet dancers often use heating pads and massage equipment to treat muscular tearing. in ballet dancers, U ballet dancers said. "Dancers will smoke to satisfy their food cravings," Robb said. "Even though smoking is not encouraged in ballet, it is promoted in a healthy way," she said. AH of the dancers said they try to lose and maintain their weight on a daily basis. "There are sacrifices you have to make to succeed in ballet," Robb said. : "I'm happy outside of ballet." aengarchronicle. utah. edu |