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Show B2 © _The SaltLakeTribune UTAH Friday, May 3, 1996 U. Faculty Lobbies for Library-Fee Proposal CLOSE TO HOME of U. officials asked the regents for SomeInstructors Say They Are Willing To Contribute Funds permission to imposethe fee. U. of U. President Arthur K. Smith saysthe fee increaseis needed to make up for the 1996 Legislature'sfailure to fund a budgetitem called “urgentstudent support,” from whichthe U. of U. has allocated moneyto the library for acquisitions. In recent years, urgent BY BRENT ISRAEL THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE EPHRAIM — University of Utah faculty membersare considering a dip into their own pockets to help save an endangered library-fee proposal. Faculty representatives this week have been lobbying members of the state Board of Regents to approve a request by the U. of U. to charge stu- dents as much as $10 per quarter to help pay for library acquisitions. Higher Education Commissioner “OK, let's see ... one large pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms... that'll be $9.89.” ~~ FOR THE RECORD BOY STABBEDIN FIGHT A 16-year-old boy was stabbed duringa fight with a longtime friend in West Jordan on Thursday. The victim survived, though doctors at University Hospi‘tal, where the boy was taken by helicopter, ‘had to puta lot of blood into him,” said West Jordan Det. Bob Shober. The hunting knife sliced a vein and pierced the boy's lung. Shobersaid the victim's 14year-old friend got angry whenthe older boyset off some firecrackers. The younger teen went to his house, retrieved his father's hunting knife, and re- turned to confront the older boy, Shober said. The older boy punched the youngeronein the nose, and thenthe victim was stabbed, Shobersaid. Afterthe 5 p.m, stabbing at 7174 S. 1380 West, the suspect was booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of ag- ‘avated assault. Names of the boys were not re‘feased. Shober said they have been friends since grade school. 2 o FENDER-BENDER DEATH CASE :A preliminary hearing was set Thursday for Sharane Kearney, who is charged with killing another ‘womanwith hercarafter an altercation over a minor fender-bender in Salt Lake County. Kearneyalleg- edly struck 50-year-old Joann Collett with her Lincoin Continental and dragged the woman's body 3500 feet down 3900 South. Kearney then fled the me, according to charges filed in 3rd Circuit tried to escape an irate man who saw him throwing rocks at cars. Police say when Joseph Salazar ran ‘toward the boy shouting for him to stop throwing ‘rocks on state Route 79, the boy darted into traffic cand was hit by a vehicle belonging to Jerry Pobanz. ‘The boy ran across two more lanes before collapsing, causing two other vehicles to collide. None of the drivers was hurt and the boy later was released from the Ogden Regional Medical Center. butinstead urge the U. of U. to find research journals and periodicals, U. Thegirl suffered minor injuries. While a witness was telling police what the car looked like, the suspect drove down the street again, this time with a prosti‘tute, said police. The suspect was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on charges of attempted kidnapping and aggravated assault. Oo JRUSH-HOUR FATAL A mother of seven died Thursday morning in a ‘Ush-hour collision in Draper. Annette Watson, 38, ‘of Camino, Calif., was a passenger in a westbound tiac when the driver attempted a left turn onto ‘the southbound onramp of Interstate 15 at 12300 th. The car was broadsided by an eastbound letpce driven by 18-year-old Mark Cumof West Jordan, said Salt Lake County sher‘iff’s Deputy Mike Leary. Watson was dead on arrival at Alta View Hospital, where staffers treated inju- ties suffered bya fellow passenger andthe Pontiac's tions. trap speeders. “The bigger the fish, the morefun,” says the veteran officer in his patrol car on a busy Ogdenstreet. “Think of the laser as the wayto catch the biggest left turn, Leary said. The wreck traffic at the busy intersection for three NEWSBRIEF HISPANIC UNITY CONFERENCE © The 1996 Hispanic Unity Conference will he held and Saturday at the Salt Palace Convention E $10 or $20 to supplement the funds that would be raised from a studentfee increase. “The idea came from a language professor.I began testing the waters,” said Huefner, who has spoken to about a dozen faculty members, all of whom support contributing toward the library. If each ofthe U. of U.’s 16,658 em- ployees donated $10 per quarter, the the laser gun. The Utah Highway Patrol and Roy police also use the high-tech device. whichis bounced off a target. A computer measures fish, one going 90 mph. That’s the kind of trophy I like to hand to the judge.”” The device that Malmborgcalls his “new toy” is the Pro Laser II. It uses the light of a laser beam, instead of radio waves used in conventional radar guns, to record the speed of vehicles. The Ogden department is the third agencyin the state to adopt Theeffectiveness of the guns has forced drivers to pected to be raised by the proposed student libraryfee. Huefner admits, however, that there's no way to guarantee how many faculty members would participate, and no mechanism exists to “tax” faculty for such a cause. She hopes, however, that the regents to will see the faculty's willingness participate as a symbol of the need for the studentlibrary fee. Higher education spokeswoman Patricia Crane said Foxley has heard from someU. of U,teachers but gave no indication whether their efforts would have any effect on the regents’ voting. It’s wonderful to have the teachers willing to contribute,” Crane said, “put the regents are looking at a specific issue of the fee and whetherstudents should be asked to have another fee put on them under the circumstances of having no tuition increase.” the time it takes the beam tostrike the target and speed return, then translates the information into and distance. The greatest advantage of laser, says Malmborg,is thatonly a sliverofa target is needed to achieve an accurate reading, while radar — which emits radio waves — needs an expandingtarget area as distance increases. Often the radarwill pick up more than one vehicle, which can producean unclear reading. “Motorcyclists are especially hard to clock,” Malmborgsays. “Because they are so small, we had to get them when they were virtually the only thing on the road.” The adventof the laser, however, does not spell the demise of the radar gun. As Malmborg points out, if anything blocks or diffuses the laser beam, like branches, snow or rain, the gun shuts off ‘There are laser detectors available, but they are expensive, and by the time users detect the laser, they have already been zapped. Tribe Asks Officials to Halt Dig Emery Dinosaur Site Reopens Despite Federal Budget Cuts Despite federal budget cuts, Utah's Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur open to the public for the samereasor the Louvre in Paris and the pyramids in Egypt are open,” Museum Director Don Burgesaid. “It enriches ourlives to be able to experience such special places. At the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry, we can walk where the dinosaurs walked and see their remains, right where they fell 147 million years ago.” Thefederal Bureau of Land Managementthreatened last year to not reopen the quarry visitor center in Emery County this season because of budget cuts. But under an agreement, the museum in Price will op- erate the visitor center, while the BLMwill provide a vehicle,facility maintenance and $13,000 for operations. It is similar to an agreement that kept the center open during the 1995 season. Visitor center hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, on weekends through Memorial Day, then seven days a week Goshutes Seek to Inspect Archaeological Project through Labor Day, whenit closes for the season.It is located on a dirt road 30 miles south of Price and draws 6,000 to 7,000 visitors annually, bones, including 70 individual dinosaurs, have been recavered from the quarry. It is the biggest supplier of dinosaur fossils and fossil casts to museums around the world, with 65 museums displaying specimens from the quarry. ‘The quarry also has the earliest known yielded one of dinosaur eggs The Skull Vailey Goshute Tribal Council has asked Dugway Proving Ground to stop an archaeological dig on the military base uatil the tribe can learn about the cavesite on its ancestral grounds. Kathleen Callister, base archaeologist, said she welcomes the participation of the Goshutesin the dig. “We're going to make sure we un- SteveBaker / The Salt Lake Tnbune Burge and the BLM said 17,000 complete with an embryo and the only known dinosaur tracks from the Jurassic Period. Less than half the known bone beds have been excavated. The quarry probably was a bog derstand whattheyfeelis important to during the Jurassic Period, 205 million to 138 million years ago. Victim Points Out Suspect in Assault, Robbery THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE When Wilbert Bryant Jr. aliegedly robbed the South Salt Lake mote! where he had stayed. he cleverly stole the registration card bearing his name. But Bryant’s name remained on the Lodge's ledger, police Bryant had stayed two nights at the Bryant returned to the office, emptied the cash register, took the motel mas- The night of the fled. Five days later, Bryant was being motel, the victim testified. ter keys and the woman's purse and robbery, he pushed the elderly clerk behind the booked into Salt Lake County Jail on an unrelated domestic-violence charge when a jail officer recognized him from a police sketch. The motel clerk later picked Bryant's picture from a clerk he allegedly tied up and sexually assaulted. wang - beforre 3a Dunia J ndge Ste. phen Henriod, the 70-year-old woman pointed out Bryant as the man who attacked and robbe! her on March 153. as lineup, said prosecutor Dane Forcing the Wilbert Bryant Jr. woman into an attached living area, he ripped open her blouse and tore off her pants, she said. Several days prior to the robbery, quiet, ll kill you, ‘When the woman continued crying, it. And I told them sometimes res en or have faith some! don't understand.”’ “a *f The class worked on the project for three weeks. Osborne credits Westminster teacher Clara Potter with the idea and she was the one who pasted the sketches into a portrait. Philip Weber, 11, says he squares, giving two squares to the project are his. “But later when it was put together, we could see it was making Lincolin and we ali worked barder,” he says. “The class learn- , L also said he had a gun, but the clerk said she did not see one. BY ROBERT BRYSON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE a Fifth-graders at Riverton's y have captured “Honest Abe” in an 8-by-10-feot portrait created from 80 student “Students did not know what they were working on,” says teacher Kathy Gsborne. Shestarted by cutting up a ‘They hac a fit,” says 08 borne.‘ complained and griped and not want todo The preliminary hearing has been delayed three times because Bryant has become angry anddistraught. But defense attorney Robert Steele it enough to cause bl , and also grabhed Bryant by the neck and Art Project Teaches Kids Trust each of the 40 students. From those scraps, she told her class to draw alarger copy in pencil orcharcoal. z le sponse to harassment by a jail transportation officer. Steele said the officer recently cuffed Bryant's wrists ted rob- agerar , all first-degree felonies carrying prison terms upto life. He is to be before Judge Frank G. Noel on May 17. 0 alleges Bryant's outbursts are in re- Bryant, 33, was ordered to stand paper-size portrait into l-inch Rep, Pete Suazo and Salt LakeCity Police Chief Ruben Ortega. Today and tonight, Ei Centro Su Teatro of Denver il perform the play “The Return of the Barrio a” at Salt Lake Community College's South City . Admission is free. +--On Saturday, an awards banquet honoring Latino “Weaders will close the conference. _ For information, eali Chris Segura at 483-1167. talking about organizing a movement to get each faculty memberto donate More proof of the gun’s effectiveness is in the . The cause of the accident appears to be Wix- ‘s@arled crease, several instructors have been slow down andis credited with cutting the numberof accidents in high-accident locations almost to zero, says Malmborg.Ofthe 12 traffic deaths in Ogdenlast year, speed was cited as a contributing factorin seven of them, he says. iver, the victim's mother, Bennetta Wixom of ‘Gm’s improper Though the Academic Senate has not taken a position on the fee in- numberofpeople attending the Police Department's traffic schoolforfirst-time offenders.Since the laser was introduced, the numberofclasses has gone from two a monthto four Since the two guns were put into use two months ago, Malmborgsays their price of $4,000 apiece — twice what radar guns cost — has been recouped through higher revenue from speedingfines. Held in the handlike a big pistol, the device emits an invisible laser — a concentrated beamoflight — BYSTEPHEN HUNT in the street, said Salt Lake City police Lt. Phil Kirk. other ways to fund library acquisi- BY TOM QUINN SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE OGDEN — Ogdenpolice Sgt. Burl Malmborguses a fishing analogy to describe a newlaser gun used to STUDENT FLEES Salt Lake City police arrested a 45-year-old man don't approve the U. of U.'s request find a way to encourage theregentsto approve thefee increase. “The faculty benefits, just like the students do, from an updated library,” said Dixie Huefner, president of the 100-member U. of U. Academic Senate, comprised mainly offaculty. U. of U. could raise about $500,000 that next school year, an amount would nearly match the $550,000 ex- Ogden Speeders, Beware: Technology Is Gaining On You a whoaliegedly tried to lure a 10-year-old girl into his car Wednesday, then struck her down. The man approached thegirl near 60 S. 600 West while she was ‘waiking homefrom Jackson Elementary School and ‘asked herfor sexual favors, according to police. She ‘ran away, so the man made a U-turn and struck her The regents said earlier this year that they are loath to approve anystudent fees that are intended to supplement or replacetuition. For that rea- son, Foxley has recommended they cant and it is importantforit to be a one year. meettoday at Snow College. Saying the library is in a “crisis” for openthis season, thanks to aid from the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum. “Thesite is internationally signifi- VEHICLES WRECK TRYING TO MiSS BOY A 10-year-old Ogden boy was struck by a car and caused two other vehicles to collide Monday as he tantly endorsed the library-fee proposal but only if the fee lasts for just Cecelia Foxley has recommendedthat the regents not approveit. The regents Quarry and its visitor center are victim's car. They pulled into a parking lot to “xchangeinsurance information when Kearney alslegedly argued, then started to drive away. When lett stepped in front of Kearney's car, Kearney flegedly gunned the accelerator and ran over Collett, dragging her downthestreet. student support has beentied directly to tuition increases. Because there werenotuition increases this year, urgent student support was not funded. Student body leaders have reluc- Fearing the regents will follow Foxley’s recommendation, faculty members at the U. have been scrambling to does not know which pieces of ed we should not doubt the results of something we are working on until we see it.” a slammed him a wall. Steel said he will file a motion to dismiss the robbery charges on the claim that the harassment and “atmos- phere of hostility” have breached his client's right to a speedytrial. Festival Is Full of Activities For Asian-American Awareness The Governor's Office of Asian Affairs is sponsoring Utah's first Asian-American Aware ness Days through May 12. The festivities, which celebrate 106 years of Asian-American contributions to the state, be- gan with a children’s parade Thursday. Today, the office of Asian affairs is participating in the University of Utah's multicultural program at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. The U.S.Forest Service is sponsoring a lunchtime discussion Monday about the history of To- bag noon in the Wallace Bennett Federal Building. Next Thursday, Asian-American leaders will be honored at the Red Lion Inn. On May 10, an Ogden celebration will feature the unveiling of a sculpture in honor of the Chinese workers who helped build the transconti- nental railroad. ‘The annual Asian Pacific Festival will take piace at the Salt Palace on May 11 and 12 For a information, call 535-2537. & them,” Callistersaid.“It all can be resolved easily and quickly.” The excavation began last month in the Camel Back Ridge area at the southeast endof the Army's vast prov- ing ground in Utah's west desert. Callister said she and Utah Geological Survey archaeologists halted the work at the cave Thursdayafter learning of the Goshutes’ desire to become involved. The cave is believed to have been used by several civilizations over the centuries as a temporary shelter, in- cluding earlier this century when 4 sheepherderlikely left behind a tomato can and a rock wrapped in wire. Thesite is unusual, though — it has been untouched by humans since the Anny created the proving ground where it has tested weapons and other military equipment since 1944. “The deposits in this cave are not disturbed because it has been off limits to the general public,” Callister said. “The cave has been preserved almost pristinely. There’s been no looting, no digging prior to this.” ‘The cavewas first recorded in 1986, and in 1993 the Utah Geological Survey began test dig. . Archaeologists found several hearths where prehistoric people cooked their food. 1 from the oldest hearth found so far dated to 6400 B.C., give or take 200 years. Other charcoal was from later centuries, the most recentin about 1200 A.D. Danny Quintana, the attorney for the Skull Valley Band, said tribal lead- ers learned about the dig this week from a television broadcast. “This is on aboriginal territory of the tribe. They want to make sure that not only federal law is followed, but ... these could be tribal descendants,” Quintana said. Callister said she has sent several letters and made phone calls to the tribe to inform leaders of the dig plans since joining Dugway Proving Ground last fall. She was never able to reach a tribal official, she said. Army spokeswoman Cheryl Tarrot Said a tour of the archaeologicalsite by tribal leaders has been set up for later in the meath,and a brief tour could be sooner. Callister and Dave Madsen of the Utah Geological Survey said they hope digging Tuesday. “But we're not going to start if the Goshutes have 4 problem with that,” Callister said. |