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Show Pg All) TMI' DAII Y HI RM BYU lUtiDwIlmlJ 0, com), fcm, Utah. VMnwdny, Srptrmhft MOO ranks 78th in national survey of universities colleges, coming in ?8th ident, HYU communications, And brainy freshmen don't over-ni- l universl-tie- . By AMY K. STEWART TWnilyllcmlJ ' PKOVO Rung by rung, HYU is moving up tho ladder The university ha received its highest over-nrankinu ever in US. News & World Report matfa.lne's annual survey of America's U)S-owne- d il among national Th magatine in on newsstand this week. So what keeps boosting BYU up a notch year after year? The school accounting undergraduate program ranked sixth lit the hurt, received a high academic reputation score, and that's 25 percent of the ranking," said Carri 1'. Jenkins, assistant to the pres - nation, "Certainly, the caliler of students coming to HYU was a factor," Jenkins said. 'Their ACT scores are very high and that definitely has impact on where we stand." The Sent. 11 issue of UR News & World Keport ranks accredabout 1,400 four-yea- r ited colleges and universities by mission and region, HYU falls into the category of "national universities, which includes schools that offer a full range of under business programs are also ranked among the nation's best, with HYU's HYLTs SALT I AKK. CITY (APJ-Cr- itics of the task force appointed in 19H7 to determine whether there was racism in Utah's criminal justice system say it accomplished too little. Joanne Milner. a commu- nity activist and a former , Halt Lake City would like to have seen more definitive research on whether minorities are treated differently in the criminal justice system. "It was so inconclusive" she said. "It did not provide anything that we aid not know at the outset. It's, a watered-dowversion of what we knew all along." "l1uur hundred thousand dollars and all this time later, and where nre we? What do we haver asked attorney and liatino activist Michael Martinez. The report by the Utah Task Force on llaciat and Ethnic Fairness in the l'gal Hystom Is to be released this council-woman- week. 'Their report is mainly about how gxd their procedures were, to convince the reader that the process was valid, and that therefore there must be something there," Marlines, said. 'Then, you have the section on data, They're not saying there Isn't any discrimination, but that It's hard to analyse. Well, we knew that already." Michael Zimmerman, a task force and a former Utah Supreml Court chief justice, said statistics about race were not analysed because the numbers simply were not available, Hundreds of agencies either do not collect racial data, collect it In ways that are not uniform, or gather the Information inconsistently, That led the task force to recommend the agencies begin collecting data and supto require the C)rt legislation Driver License Division P Sky." In April we Introduced Blue Sky, a program that uses the clean, renewable power of the wind to produce more of the electricity we all use, So far, customers have signed up to put nearly 3 million kilowatt-hour- s per year of energy Into the Western ' U,S, power grid. That has the same environmental benefits as removing 4,500,000 miles of ear exhaust from the air or planting 823 acresof trees, Is this success? We say it's a good start, And clearly, It shows we can make a difference, )) wind-generat- Together, To sign up for Blue Sky, call I -- 8 00-- 8 4 51, 4 U,H, Much of a final the task force's in v process and analyzing the available data, "In the criminal and Juvenile Justice system, race and ethnicity data are frequently not contained in electronic databases," the report states, "Analysis of law enforcement data proved particularly challenging because the law enforcement agencies use various computer software fingers at anyone, programs that process infor- Zimmerman said, but it does mation in different ways," chart a course for change. draft-reviewe- urtfcMwrti'iVieraicrtra.t'om Thart why "Blue - Census racial categories on licenses. Zimmerman said few of the task force's recommendations would have changed even If there had been more1 conclusive numbers, For example, common sense dictates a need for more foreign-languag- e interpreters to do interviews with defendant's families, friends and others before sentencing recommendations are made to judges, Zimmerman said, The report does not point or; 344-355- 2 When we merged with Scottlshl'ower, we outlined our commitments on renewable energy and promised you a way to buy electricity generated from new environmentally-friendl- y resources. . to include ran U Amy K. Stwmrt mivhtd at tinued overall improvement," Vice HYU Academic And you're helping. . said. "While one survey cannot define any school, we do believe these scores reflect the progress being made at HYU, particularly In such, areas as freshman Mention; , j and graduation rates." three years, "We are very pleased with our final ranking and our con- Utah racism study tells nothing new, critics say L Wilklns President Alan graduate majors, plus maa ter's and doctoral .degrees as well as emphasising faculty research. The university has moved from 109th to BOth to 7Wh in the second tier over the past 0 UTAH POWER Bill Edmonds Environmental Tollcy Manager Making It happen. 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