Show i r i m qsbeehlV) i Prophets in bronze January 26 2002 High 40 Low 30 Breezy and milder Weather 4B Green bum Q f 'Cats prey on Eagles Fire watch South Ogden condo Cache artist models series of IDS leaders residents concerned i WSU improves to about blaze with 13-- 7 12A 89-7- IB 8 win ID Standard-Exainriiii- er assEBmissssaB&SE SINCE 1888 SERVING THE TOP OF wwwstandardnet 50 cents UTAH i State Legislature may raise tuitions or cap enrollment particularly tough this year is student enrollment has increased by 9000 students “That’s like another whole institution” said Higher Edu- This week joint appropria- UTAH1 tion subcommittees were handed set amounts that allow little or no room for growth or require even more wer tw° INSIDE: More on the Utah cuts cation Commissioner Cecelia mentations offered Friday Legislature A 2B 3B If committees stick to by a legislative fiscal analyst Foxley ways to stretch their dollars their recommended to legislators charged with By CHERYL BUCHTA Higher education already even more next year budgets wall analysts anticipate there will finding ways to fund higher took an $18 million hit during “It’s fortunate for higher be an additional $25 million in education in difficult budget the restructuring of the 2002 SALT LAKE CITY - Raise times funds That budget Now because of flat ed not to experience any unallocated revenues colleges and uni- more cuts” said analyst Boyd amount however will only college tuition by 16 percent or cap enrollment' What makes the situation versities will have to find Garriott cover health and dental insur T“? Standard-Examin- Bobsled dispute dropped A parking privilege for seniors Suicide appears likely by former vice chairman correspondent The Associated Press HOUSTON - A former ron Corp executive who driver Jean Racinere- who placed her with anothbrake-ma- n suburb Davidson son with rookie Gea Johnson who has established herself as the fastest brakeman on the US team Johnson left con- See BOBSLED7A of Sugar Land He had been shot in the head Police said a suicide note was found Its contents were not disclosed n momentum at the start required for a winning run Racine replaced David- Enre- portedly complained about the company’s questionable accounting practices and resigned last May was found shot to death in a car Friday an apparent suicide J Clifford Baxter a former vice chairman of the energy giant was discovered dead in a Mercedes-Benz parked on a median not far from his home in the Houston former 8ledmate But Racine said “That’s not true Jen was told first by the head coach Bill Tavares that she should enter the pushoff Then I told her ‘Jen I can’t make you enter this pushoff but I would like you to be in it’ I told her that twice” The brakeman or push athlete gives the sled the TUIT10N7A found shot to death The hotly contested legal battle between the dream duo of women’s bobsled has ended with a whimper not a bang It ended with brakeman Jen Davidson withdrawing the arbitration complaint against her one week before the Olympic trials Davidson claimed the abrupt dismissal was unfair and that she had been denied the chance to compete in a Rushoff with other brake-me(push athletes in bobsled are called "brakemen” regardless of gender) held in Calgary In December She said Racine assured her she had no need to be in the pushoff speed test because her spot in the sled for the trials was secure See le executive By WINA STURGEON er mini-mirac- Ex-Enr- on Arbitration could have restored slot for Davidson Standard-Examin- ance increases for state employees For legislators who spent the last two weeks slashing budgets the news came as no surprise But some are still to hoping for a bail them out LaWanna Shurtliff said revenue projections may improve by the time the BRIAN NICHOLSONStandard-Examino- r and Bill Vincent of Layton load their groceries into their car while taking advantage of the senior citizen parking stalls at the Macey8 grocery store In Clearfield Lois Utah grocery stores offer prime car space They seek to draw the favor of loyal senior shoppers and the “holy grail” of customers young mothers who might leave a store with two or three carts full of groceries Last year even top brass at Hill Air Force Base reportedly moved their own reserved spaces around the base including the base commissary to make room for expectant-mothe- r By GARY HINDS Standard-Examine- etaff r - When a customer CLEARFIELD store manager the store should have reserved parking spaces for senior citizens he thought it was a great idea “She came in and said she had seen some senior citizen signs at one of the places she had been” said Hancock who manages the Clearfield Macey’s parking Food & Drug "We installed them just around the first of the year and we’ve had a lot of favorable comments from our guests” As local stores and national chains vie for market share a growing number of Utah grocers are offering specialty parking for senior citizens and even expectant mothers mm Utah gets' tha gold State officials say the Olympia couldn’t be coming at a better time They’re providing a $45 billion shot in the atm that is staving off the wont effects of the national recession BUSINESS Peopleof th Fourth World LIFE: Olympic viiiton will have i unique opportunity so leant about the Navajo Nation at a Cultural Olympiad exhibit nett to Salt Lake City’s Gateway shopping cental In thI"Come Nationally Kroger Co which operates close to 3000 grocery stores under nearly two dozen different banners including Smith’s and Fred Meyer has no official policy on specialty parking Instead Marsha Gilford a Salt Lake spokesperson for Smith’s said the issue is left up to individual divisions and store managers But at least two local Kroger stores City-base- d the Smith’s in Logan and the Fred Meyer in Ogden offer parking Harmons grocery stores began offering spaces for seniors and expectant mothers at least five years ago according to Dean Peterson president of Harmons “We go to a lot of conventions and different things and if somebody comes up with a good idea sometimes you pick it up and decide to use it” Peterson said He expects the specialty parking trend to pick up steam “It shows you how much the grocery industry is hying to be in tune with the customer and how to improve service and hang on to those customers” he said “So we do everything we can” senior-citize- n Utah-base- d See PARKING7A Baxter resigned several months before Enron's collapse in the biggest bankruptcy in US history Enron’s sudden downfall and accounting practices are being investigated by federal prosecutors the FBI securities regulators and 11 congressional committees and subcommittees The House Energy and Commerce committee had asked to interview Baxter He had not yet been subpoenaed and no interview date was set "Our investigators were in- terviewing someone else and his name came up” said Rep a Jim Greenwood R-P- Baxter had also been named in a federal lawsuit accusing him and other Enron executives of reaping huge profits on Enron stock before its collapse - 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Animal rights group claims harassment Vehicles stopped by police in 6 cities following the torch By NESREEN KHASHAN Standard-Examine- Davta Bureau r SALT LAKE CITY - An an- imal rights group following the Olympic flame on its y trip to Utah is claiming harassment by Games officials The Utah Animal Rights Coalition held a news conference Friday at the Salt Lake County downtown library to show a videotape the group cross-countr- says proves their claims The footage shows body has gone to the police department” Barnard a civil rights atrights vehicle torney said the group may being stopped file a federal lawsuit against by police in the Salt Lake Organizing six cities as it Committee and the' police followed the agencies if the alleged hatorch relay rassment continues The lawcaravan suit would accuse SLOC and The video shows police of- the police of denying the anificers stopping or diverting mal rights protesters their the truck said Salt Lake at- rights to free speech torney Brian Barnard SLOC President Mitt Rom“You are in six different said the claim made by cities and here are police offi- ney UARC was “a case of the pot cers acting similarly That seems to tell me that some See R0DE07A the for more animal January 26 2002 Vol115 No 26 Business 10-1- 1 Classified ads Comics Dear Abby Editorials & letters 3-- 1 A 7C 18C 15A 16-17- A Life 7A Obituaries Religion Sports 12-14- A Theaters 8A Top of Utah TV schedule 15A Weather f 4B i I G V i a t f i £ A-- wn 4 1 |