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Show The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 Utah Chronicle Daily 2004 WA'w.dailyutahchronicle.com Vol. 113 No. 124 Friday, March 12, 2004 Grass roots Party springs to victory Grass is greener on Grassroots' side REMffecl Adam Benson Asst. News Editor The RE: Party fell 755 votes short of claiming the U's highest student body office next year. With 5,690 students casting votes in the final round of elections about 20 percent of the entire student body the RE: Party garnered 2,181 of them. Standing above a sea of Grassroots green and RE: Elections Party black Registrar Jackson Lever delivered the results to more than 200 people Thursday night in the Crimson Underground. Tyler Peterson Staff Writer - Hours upon hours of peddling bagels, hot chocolate, CDs, burger coupons, hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy and cookies for votes apparently paid off for the Grassroots Party, which defeated the RE: Party 2,936 votes to 2,181. Vice president-elec- t Bobby Harrington said all the handouts were secondary in importance to talking with U students. "Campaigns are not won on handouts...You can have 40,000 of them, but if you don't have one person there connecting with another, they're useless," he said. Harrington attributed the victory to "the Grassroots approach." "It was working with one individual at a time, focusing on the individual," he said. As part of their approach, Alex Lowe and president-elec- t Harrington arrived at the U as early as 6 a.m. to speak with students and didn't leave until midnight during the campaign, two-for-o- SEE GRASSROOTS PAGE 7 r I li 'i r y :f S Though presidential ' , x 'A 'A ...rt Mn ifcimiwi.Kfc rift l..n.n v i If"' i S t ... " "V Sara Hogan cries both tears of joy and defeat after Thursday night's final election results were announced while she embraces the RE: Party's presidential hopeful Chris Carlston. v?- -' ...!,. ' Steve Gehrke Staff Writer James L. Kugel, a former professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and current professor of the team of nurses works together in University Hospital's Burn Unit Wednesday to wash the wounds of a patient who has burns throughout his body. The team is careful to take every precaution so that infection will not spread. The burn unit sees over 600 patients a year. A Many students begin Spring Break early About 25 percent fewer people may be reading this than usual, but professors from across disciplines may not even notice that Spring Break has started early for some. Many faculty noticed about one-quart- er of their students were gone Thursday. Assuming they already left for Spring Break, many students, or more, will probably be gone again today. "I can't claim it was the weather now," said Eduardo Castilla, teaching assistant for Spanish 1010, of the missing students in his 7:30 a.m. class. K.B. Horn, who teaches communication, handed back midterms today and was able to identify who didn't show up by the tests she still had. "It's interesting because they usually want their midterms back to see their grades before disappearing for a week," she said. Horn and others were perturbed by how few they received from students saying they would be leaving early. "I do appreciate if they let me know," she said. "We do a lot of group interaction, and there's a group that relies on them for input." "Leaving messages and asking for homework shows engagement and interest," Cas-till- e said. Many professors, usually those teaching larger classes, said they didn't notice fewer people. Marina Starik, teaching assistant for French 1010, said nearly all her students were there yesterday. "I was expecting no one to be there the day before the break," she said. Jerilyn Kuhre, teaching assistant for Spanish 1020, ensured her students would be in class by holding oral exams the last days of class. Rob Jones, outdoor recreation program director, thinks a lot of teachers give big tests and projects in the last days before the break. The Outdoor Recreation Program is usually swamped during Spring Break as students request spring and summer equipment as well as winter sports equipment, he said. But very few rentals were made as of yesterday. "Instructors pile it on the last few days, so they haven't thought about going to play yet," Jones said. akirkchronicle.utah.edu SEE RE: PAGE News page 3 Drugs and culture The U will host today's annual Social Work Diversity Conference. Hot air U students could see an extra dollar of fees go toward wind power on campus. Opinion Bible at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, spoke at the U yesterday about perceptions about God across religious bounds Thursday afternoon. While at Harvard, Kugel's course, "The Bible and Its Interpreters," frequently attracted more than 900 students. "His research on various interpretations of the Bible, including Jewish and Christian, has expanded centuries-ol- d views and understandings of the Bible," said U professor of Hebrew Harris Lenowitz. During Kugel's stay on campusa part of his first visit to Utah he provided those in attendance with an expert explanation regarding how the ancient Israelites saw God. The lecture was a summary of Kugel's book, The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible, which was published last year. Kugel's main topic of focus revolved around the biblical passage that reads, "A person cannot see me and go on living." "That's why, when he does come down to Mount Sinai or elsewhere, he's surrounded by a protective cloud...to protect us from dying," Kugel said. "Very often he'll send angels or messengers." Kugel centered the remainder of the lecture on divine messengers. In the Hebrew Bible, it says that angels look just like human beings, or, in Kugel's words, "Angels are not recognized as such, at least not at first." He discussed numerous early biblical accounts of visits from angels and asserted that they had a couple commonalities. Among these factors were a moment, or process, of confusion and a messenger who declined to offer a name until latter biblical days with the arrival of Gabriel and others. Kugel attributes this moment of confusion to the fact that God was not considered omnipresent. "God is behind a curtain of the sensory world...but he enters, or an angel enters, and then reality changes," Kugel said. "Something clicks." He expanded on the idea of omnipresence and addressed omniscience in the process. There were two different ways of conceiving of God in biblical times, according to Kugel. The first is the way of the earlier texts, which describe God as a mobile, discrete, physical entity who is neither omnipresent nor omniscient. The second description comes in later texts, which came after the sixth century. They conversely explain that God is everywhere at once and, as a result, he knows all. Kugel's lecture was sponsored by the Tanner Humanities Center, the Religious Interest Group, IMPACTJewish Studies, Eta Beta Rho, Kibbuts Si'ah, the United Jewish Federation of Utah and the Religious Studies Interest Group. sgehrkechronice. utah. edu page 8 Law and marriage Readers debate legality of gay marriage. What about us? Nick Macey argues LDSSA shouldn't be financially ignored by ASUU. Sports page 10 r nrn S . f. - 'cr; Tf Rematch The U men's basketball team plays rival BYU tonight in MWC semi-final- 7 Professor from Tel Aviv delivers Divine Lecture i- Fighting the burn hope- ful Chris Carlston and vice presidential candidate Ali Hasnain, a former news editor of The Daily Utah Chronicle, didn't walk away from the night's results with the Associated Students of the University of Utah's two highest offices, the party did score a victory when Sara Hogan was elected senior class president by just 50 votes. "What we've done has never been done before, and it's wonderful that we were able to accomplish so much," a teary eyed Hogan said after hearing the final presidential election 1 i T 4i u inn Grassroots senior class president Jessica Rogers congratulates new ASUU President Alex Lowe in the Crimson Underground. Rogers fell short of her bid by 50 votes to the RE: Party's Sara Hogan. 1l 1 Andrew Kirk Asst. News Editor li . . v: 111 "X 1 WUMIP i - ' - s. Duck hunting The U gymnasts take on Oregon State tonight in the Huntsman Center. Silhouette Giles Larsen, nude model and university employee, poses for a Life Drawing art class In the Art Building Tuesday. SCC pCtgC 5 |