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Show -- nn "... .. ' - ... IT V I r J JliNtUdH The Daily Herald Little raptor Monday, February 1, 1993 As the crow flies takes a bite yiidirao out of time unsafe We've all known some folks who seem to have been born under a lucky star. And others work theirs hearts out and never get a break. The phenomenon exists in paleontology also. One thinks of Clark Howell, one of the world's n physical anthropologists. He spent many long years sweating in the heat of equitorial Africa, searching for bones of early humans. He found, so far as I know, nary a one of major significance. But his student Donald Johanson, seems to find the Auditorium adds to district woes By LEANN MOODY Herald Correspondent - While disSPANISH FORK trict officials were awarding bids this week for a $1.4 million dollar addition to the high school. Principal Bob Wadley was getting the news that the auditorium was best-know- con-deme- d. Vi y. ft) ' I v.- - Although Nebo School District is in the middle of renovating portions of Spanish Fork High School if ! Duano J i .. & Jk. ty '' V v- :' ' 'J V". nlMy Any V Society heavyweight stuff almost everytime he takes to the field. Johanson works hard very hard but there seems to be something a bit more than work that graces his success. Another hardworking and lucky chap is Paul Sereno, whose work with Sinornis, one of the earliest birds in the fossil record we discussed some time ago. Sereno is for back in the major news again the second time in three months. He's been working in northwest Argentina. It takes a while to clean up fossils after their discovery, to where one can say much about what is and what isn't there. And so it was just last November that shared Sereno and his known a to that dinosaur to insights time, a Herrarasaur. It was not only old, but it was also anatomically primitive, lacking many of the skeletal features that appeared later among the various dinosaur lineages. But it clearly was not the real ancestral dinosaur that every paleontologist would give his own eyeteethtofind. Paleontologists think they knew what the ancestral dinosaur should look like, in a rough sense. And in 1991 Sereno found one that is pretty close the oldest and most primitive dinosaur yet known. And he shows it to the rest of us, a bit, in the Jan. 7 issue of Nature magazine. A new type of dino clearly needs a name. It is old, so Sereno chose the Greek word for dawn, Eos. It was obviously a meateater, so he chose an appropriate Latin word: raptor. It was found in an Argentina's Valley of the moon. So its full name becomes Eoraptor lunensis: The dawn raptor from the place of the moon. Admittedly, a meter-lon- g dinosaur is nothing like Tyrannosaurus rex, who came later and could eat us whole in just a couple of easy gulps. Eoraptor's skull is only about 4 Vi inches long. But it has some wicked teeth; this little beast was surely no pussycat. The rear legs were more than twice as long as the front limbs, almost demanding that the animal was bipedal though not so dramatically as Tyrranosaurus, whose tiny front limbs were close to useless. Eoraptors front limbs, d by contrast, were graced by fingers evidently quite functional for grasping and ripping prey. And what did it eat? Fossils in the same strata show that Eoraptor was surrounded by lizards, big crocodile-lik- e animals, and some very early mammals. So the little dinosaur probably took the smaller animals and the young ofthe large ones. three-clawe- of the stage. Herald PholoPalrick that hovered over Utah County this weekend, while the sun attempts to peek Perhaps flying by radar, a solitary crow makes its way through the fog and smog The Tooele County Sheriff's ' vicDepartment has identified the g afternoon tim of a Saturday accident. Tooele County Sheriff's chief deputy Frank Park said Max Green, 39, Orem, was killed while hunting coyotes with his in son and another the Faust area east of Vernon. The area is near the Utah and Tooele county boundary, and the accident is believed to have between 4 and 5 p.m. hunt-lin- J. Krohn through the mess. See related weather stories on Pages C2 and A5. rain Orenn s coffers By JANET HART Herald Staff Writer Three city funds may OREM take the brunt of the cost for improvements along State Street if Orem City Council members continue with their plan to pay for the program as it progresses. That's according to the newest financial forecast recently completed by Orem city personnel. About $480,000 will be needed during the next three years from the capital improvement fund. Those payments and other expedi-ture- s will take the available capital down to zero in 1996. City manager Daryl Berlin said currently the city doesn't do enough with that fund and funding State Street will push other improvements back farther. However, Orem must either spend money it already has for State Street or spend money it will have to raise. five-ye- ar BYU "In order to cash flow (pay as we go) State Street, it will have a dramatic impact on our ability to do other projects," Berlin added. forecast was part The five-yefinancial report of a mid-yeproduced every fiscal year to help create the next year's budget. ar ar Although such a report has proved helpful and accurate in past years, .future council action can change the whole picture, said Phil Goodrich, director of administrative services. Water and sewer funds will also have to contribute significant amounts to the State Street project. The proposed yearly contribution from the water fund equals $389,000. When other expenditures are included, the available capital in that account would be $500,000 each year between 1994 and 1996. Approximately $600,000 a year would come out of the sewer fund. Available capital would drop to figures from other cities range from $42.26 in Provo to $64.90 in well below $500,000 in 1994, 1995 and 1996 unless another payment plan is created. Dean Nickels, city treasurer, said the proposed State Street expenditures from each of the three accounts could change at any time during the process depending on the direction the city council wants to take. "I'm sure they'll do what they think is best for the city's financial situation," he said. Other plans could include a bond situation, using money from other funds or adding in reserve sources. However, Goodrich said currently the city has no plans for any tax increases in the next five years. Also included in the mid-yereport was a rate and fee comparison which shows Orem residents have the lowest total utility bill in the county. which includes garThe bill equals bage, water and sewer $38.61 per month in Orem while Lehi. Water and sewer rates seem to be the main contributor to the overall bill. Residents pay $15.23 for water and $14.08 for sewer, a figure bettered only by Provo' s $13.59. Springville came in second as far as water goes with a rate of $16.70 per month followed by Payson at $19.00. Rounding out the top three for sewer rates was American Fork at $17.70. "We're in good, sound financial shape" said Goodrich adding the $2.29 million in the general fund reserve account means the city has reached 74 percent of its goal for that account. Revenues into the general fund over the next five years should increase by approximately three percent each year, according to the report. ar safety grade may be unwarranted, officials say Community College student who has been unwilling to talk to university police about the incident, Harroun said. "We have every reason to believe it was an un- inform the school's 27,000 students about campus security procedures and practices. PROVO Brigham Young Programs explained in the renaport included the child fingerprintUniversity officials blasted a tional feminist organization's D ing fair, crime prevention week, cam1992 school's of the escort service, new student and grading and safety security employee orientation, housing orireport. pus BYU was one of 50 colleges and entations, housing safety presentap universities evaulated nationwide carnival, media protions, Maofficer the for Feminist Fund the friendly program, by grams, oroperation eyes, operation identifijority. The Washington-base- d cation, robbery prevention semiganization reviewed federally rey nar, security survey program, sexreports quired campus-securitin its the ual assault seminars and youth and published findings conference orientations. latest issue of the quarterly FeminSexual assault seminars are conist Majority Report. ducted throughout the year in camBYU's safety and security repus residence halls and elsewhere port, published in August of 1992, to familiarize students and employwas designed to comply with the ees with how to avoid or minimize Crime Awareness and Campus Sean1990. It will the possibility of becoming a vicAct be of curity tim of sexual assault, the report nually updated to provide informasaid. tion to allow students and be informed about to Capt. Michael Harroun, direcemployees tor of University Police Adminislaw enforcement, reporting of trative Services, wondered why criminal activity, crime awareness said. Smoot said 1992 was the first BYU was selected. and campus crime statistics. . Harroun said the LDS Church-owne- d "I think it was an innacurate year the university had to comply school had only one reportconclusion that may lead people to with the act. BYU's campus safety ed forcible rape in 1992. The rape the misperception that BYU is not and security report briefly disa Utah Valley doing anything regarding rape cussed 15 programs designed to was reported by By SHEILA SANCHEZ Herald Staff Writer awareness. . . It's a misfortune of that article because I think we have done a great deal," said BYU spokeswoman Margaret Smoot. "People are going to be led to a conclusion that was just about a publication, not about the university's total program. A lot of people aren't going to differentiate. It did a disservice to a number of the campuses." Smoot was referring to universities like Harvard, Bennington College and the University of Washington which each received an F grading for their reporting of rape information. The University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and Indiana's Purdue University received "A's." "I just think it was apples and oranges," Smoot said. "It's kind of like taking the football program at BYU and saying 'you aren't doing enough to promote Hispanic education through football,' " she founded Utah County authorities were first on the scene and treated the distraught youth. Tooele authorities were notified when it was determined the incident actually ocrePark said an investigation vealed that while a youth was un- curred in Tooele County. A Juab County AtARREST loading a 6mm rifle, it accidentally office representative said fired a bullet striking Green in the torney's ' are taken being today for the back ofthe head. steps of a vehicle forfeiture a into victim the suspected of The youths put vehicle and drove to a store at Cebeing involved in drug trafficking. A New Mexico man was arrestdar Fort where the Utah County Sheriffs department was initially ed Wednesday for driving without a license, and $235,000 in the ve- notified. kid-ko- OREM City council members will conduct a public hear1993-9Orem ing on the use of 4 Community dogs were also brought in and responded to a scent, but no drugs were found. - The arrest followed a routine traffic stop on Interstate 15 near Nephi on Wednesday. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Paul Mangelson said he stopped a vehicle driven by Claudio Reyes Nunez, 32, Duran-gMexico, five miles south of o, . Nephi onM5. Development system. Being on the consent agenda means little or no discussion will be allowed on the item. Council members will also discuss the city's current curfew laws. Several weeks ago the county Council of GovernOrem's citizen advisory ments reviewed a proposal to create a countywide curfew for commission for the CDBG proreminors. gram has received many Based on the county's discusquests for portions of the federOrem's mayor requested a have All sion, al money. requests review of the city's curfew polibeen reviewed against the red cy and asked the director of quirements of benefiting moderate-incom- e resipublic safety to provide his comments regarding the county dents. Also on the meeting's conproposal. Other items on the agenda sent agenda is an ordinance and a revised State Street the and include between city agreement Waste Management to privatize development plan and a storm Orem's solid waste collection drain ordinance. Block Grant (CDBG) money during their regular meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at 56 N. State Street. police. g Workers noticed the I beam that supports the roof and also the fly system and lighting bars had twisted and worked loose from brick and cinderblock walls. Wadley says he thinks that new footings will have to be poured and the top reconstructed but he said until engineers give a report he is not sure what will be done. He said considering the number of people who use the auditorium, he was glad the structural damage was discovered before it became a disaster. In the meantime, the closing of the auditorium affects not only high school students but various community groups. The district and high school have been very willing to be home for Miss Spanish Fork and Miss Salem Pageants as well as the children's theater, community theater and Arts Council. Organizers of the Miss Salem Pageant, which was scheduled for the first week in March are looking to move the pageant dates and school assemblies are being shifted toother locations. The two theater groups should not be affected with the children's theater set to perform on the stage in April. In the meantime, they will move rehearsals. The high school dinner theater scheduled for Valentines' weekend was planned for the Little Theater and will not be affected. Nebo School District has spent nearly $1 million on the school in recent renovations which included adding new restrooms, remodeling the front of the building and foyer area and carpeting the school. Painting work and new ceilings were also part of the work that added new dressing rooms and a drama room between the auditorium and the little theater. Work planned for this month on the auditorium included a new sound and lighting system along with wiring, painting and new carpeting. The bids let this week by the district will add classrooms, wrestling and weight room and dancing studio. The former wrestling room in the gym will be turned into a basketball gym while the weight room will be used for additional girls locker space. Orem to discuss CDBG's hide he was driving was seized by Drug-sniffin- report." Since September 1992, Harroun said his office has given 48 sexual assault seminars with between 50 and 75 students present. "We spend quite a lot of time going out into the girls' dormitories discussing the subjects of rape, date rape and sexual assault," Harroun said. Heginning this semester, every student who takes Health 129 will receive a presentation on sexual assault by university police officials, Harroun said. Orem man identified as victim in Saturday shooting ; they had not anticipated doing structural work to the Main Building. Principal Wadley said he hopes the auditorium will only be out of use for three to four weeks. He said the district engineers have not determined exactly what will need to be done to fix the problem. The condemnation came as workers were beginning to rewire the auditorium Wednesday and were pulling wires from the ceiling ' I ""':'"'x Science i low-an- |