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Show The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 TT I i T'T IT I fl IJ t i teL. W 2004 Y I 3 J www.dailyutahchronicle.com can L.nr onicle J Thursday, March 3 11, 2004 Vol.113 No. 123 EE A concerns Late debate reveals L Tyler Peterson Staff Writer 15,000-memb- .it l Saints Student Association leaders say their group the largest student organization on campus is being underrepresented in student government and their chance to address the issue with their future leaders didn't come until the day the polls closed. The LDS Institute of Religion Student Council whose members also are all members of LDSSA revealed their concerns in their debate questions, most of which were aimed at measuring how candidates would represent LDSSA if elected. the roughly "The leaders of the Associated Students of the University of Utah sometimes forget we have 15,000," said Dan Kimball, a council vice president and LDSSA president He also said that though "they are great to work with," some ASUU officials have lost their backbone in representing his group. "They feel pressure from the louder, smaller groups to not represent the Institute...We're so dominant, and they scream louder," Kimball said. Kimball alluded to the fact that other, significantly smaller student groups of fewer than 200 members have received almost as much funding as LDSSA this year. "We don't want to be the judges of what's fair, but it should be noticecLWe need to be considered more," he said. He clarified that money wasn't the biggest issue. "It's great that other groups receive funding." Co-ViPresident Bradden Cannon also isn't completely satisfied with the representation of past administrations. "I just want somebody to represent me and all the others like me...We need a friendship," he said. Adrian Johnson, ASUU's president, is also LDS. He said the task to be fair in representa- Latter-da- y Sw&'Stediti S E:ct:i Body 3 Hi l ircn : " I I t n ft ' ' t 9 4 Institute of Religion. 1 0 er Emily Petersen participates in the open debate Wednesday between the Grassroots and RE: Parties in the lobby of the LDS ce tion is difficult, and added that ASUU "does its best" to represent all student groups fairly, as well as those that don't already have representation. In order to be more fair, he said it "might be wise to consider allotting money to student groups based more on membership totals." If such a procedure were passed by ASUU, it would either allow bigger groups like LDSSA more money, or give less money to smaller ones. Some students attending the final and probably most well attended debate between the Grassroots and RE: Parties wished the issue would have been brought up sooner. Student Grant Van Noy said he would have voted differently had he been able to hear the debate sooner. "Why didn't they have this several days ago? It's kind of worthless having it today," he said. tpetersonchronicle.utah.edu Athletics fee leaves to afford Library struggles journals some out in the cold ft f Andrew Kirk Asst. News Editor 1 . t A picture is worth a thousand words when reviewing for an art history test. The pictures are available on a new database called ArtStore, but Marriott Library can't afford it because it has to pay $1,500 for a year's subscription to a magazine not for one magazine, but hundreds. Although they're academic journals and not magazines, the subscriptions are sometimes more than magazines themselves. Next year, the subscription price for libraries could spike by 10 percent, forcing the library to pay $150 more for the same journal money that comes out of student tuition and taxes. The price of academic journals has been rising drastically the last eight years, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight, says Margaret Landesman, head of collection development at the library. "Library budgets stay stagnant, meaning each year journals or books have to be cut from the collection limiting the materials you have access to," she said. "Every year we have to ask for $200,000 more and we get asked The price of academic journals has been rising drastically the last eight years. News Jage4 RED pageS SLC's new tattoo A report on the Salt Lake City International Tattoo Convention plus The Microphones Opinion Reader response Letters to the editor pile up everywhere. Sports Moving on Utah advances to the second round of the MWC tourney with a win over the Aztecs. JOURNAL PAGE 3 some out in the cold." Andrew Kirk Asst. News Editor This year, every student paid $90 for. 362 students to play sports. Next year, it will be $100. The $90 per student added up to 17 percent of the entire athletics budget and was the fee paid by students, behind the building and computer fees. The fee will go up next year because the travel and other expenses have gone up. Scholarships are also more expensive because tuition is rising, said Chris Hill, director of athletics. At $50 a semester, the U's athletic fee will be the most expensive in the state. Utah State University students pay $49 per semester and Weber State students pay $37. It is less than other schools in the Mountain West Conference like Colorado State, where students pay $53 per semester. One benefit of the fee is that third-highe- st students can attend any sports event for free. But it isn't fair to say that's the reason for the fee, Hill said, because not everyone goes to the events. It's hard to show what exactly the money is used for because it becomes part of the larger athletics budget. The $18 million budget is generated from many sources, said Paul Brinkman, vice president of budget and planning. of that budNearly one-thir- d get is funded by football and men's basketball, but many other sports require more money than they generate. The lowest fee students will pay, $1.88 per year, is for fine arts. Like many sports, the performances and exhibitions sponsored by the College of Fine Arts cost more money than they generate. Because there is so little funding for their programs, art and music students have to make up the difference themselves. Stephanie Symons, a percussionist, and Matthew Wendell, a music education major, are SEE ATHLETICS PAGE 4 World Bank's Middle East director visits U It's a wrap Lawmakers thank U interns for their time and effort. SEE Editor's note: The Chronicle is reprinting this story due to technical difficulties. The story originally ran March 10 and was titled, "Athletic fee yields free tickets, but leaves Steve Gehrke Staff Writer The political aspects of building peace in the Middle East are constantly stressed in discussions and debates around the world. One important angle to the peacemaking process that is frequently overlooked or downplayed in these dialogues is the economic factors that contribute to unrest and misery. Joseph Saba spoke to a Hinckley Caucus Room with a crowd of students, that was faculty, staff and public many of whom were forced to sit on the floor or stand due to the popularity of Wednesday afternoon's speaker and the rarely discussed dimension of peace making. Saba is the director of the World Bank's programs in the Middle East region, which includes Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Iran. He was the director of the Bank's West Bank and Gaza Strip program from 1997 until 2001. He was lured from his home in Washington, D.C., to the U by two factors, the first being the same catalyst that brought the entire Middle East Lecture Series to the U: a call from U Prof. Ibrahim Karawan. The second determinant that enticed Saba to visit campus was unique. "Since I work in the Middle East, I do keep in touch academically with Middle East centers, but I must also say my son lives here. He went to the U and finished last year." Saba began with an overview of the functions of the World Bank in the Middle East and he affirmed that the functions of the bank have evolved over the years. "Since 1992 in particular, we've engaged in reconstruction throughout the Middle East," Saba said. "Our work has encompassed a much broader range of activity than we first engaged in following the Second World War." Saba says the program now addresses the building of institutions in addition to reconstruction and building of physical infrastructure. The bulk of Saba's lecture encouraged people to look at economic action as a mode of obtaining peace. "Often, the argument is posed that a political solution is needed first, and then we'll turn to economic events," Saba said. "The bank's research over the past six years has confirmed the linkages of poverty and adverse economic conditions to conflict." Saba added that poverty often contributes to SEE WORLD BANK PAGE 4 jam-pack- post-confli- ct Joseph Saba, director of the niuiKiey imuiuie 01 roimcs World Bank's Middle East and North Africa region, speaks on iveanesaay anernoon. to a capacity crowd In the |