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Show My Birla SATURDAY FORTHERECORD, B-2 (NSTOCK LISTINGS, B-6 yANUARY13, 2001. - REMEMBERING TOM WHARTON Not Enough Grads For In-Demand Jobs © 2000, The Salt Lake Tribune Utah colleges can’t keep up in keyfields, regents told No Bad Days At the Office OnAlta Slopes BY KIRSTEN STEWART 1 Snow College president resigns THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE at the regents’ monthly meeting. Researchers found that Utah is in short supply of graduates trained for such high-demand occupations as automotive aopanee cosmetologists and hair dressers, support sales and real estate agents, physicians and emergency medical technicians. rates workin sales, cut hair,fix cars or perform surgery are in luck. Anticipated job openings in these and. other valley with fog and smog to enter a world ofblue snow and tower- ing granite peaks. Regent Pamela Atkinson zeroed in on the health care worker shortage. “Tt seems like we are not taking a close enough look at some of those needs,” said Atkinson, an “What do you think ofmy office?” B-2 contradicting other reports that foretell a shortage of educators in some districts. Education administrators disagree about the forecasts, saying variables include the nature of a teacher’s work, as well as how manyteaching graduates leave the state or never take a public schooljob atall. The Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education compiled its statistics as part ofan annual accountability report measuring the performance ofUtah'scolleges and universities. The regents shared the report with lawmakers during the meeting at Utah Valley State College. The the timeit takes for students to graduate, faculty workloads, pass OREM — Utah college students aspiring to executive at Intermountain Health Care. “Enough noise hasn't been made aboutit.” Budding accountants and schoolteachers, on the other hand, may face more competition on the job trail. Utah’s public and private colleges are producing a surplus of degrees in these fields, the on licensing exams and minority enrollment. The report shows Utah’s colleges improving in the area of graduation efficiency, a category first measured last year. At that time, the average student earning a four-year degree had 148 credits at graduation, 28 a eee more than ayyear, the average four-year degree recipient had 138 credits. report said. It also predicts a surplus of schoolteachers — See OCCUPATIONS,Page B-2 Bribery-Case Judge Denies Defense Request for Details Magistrate makesone small exceptionin ruling onbill ofparticulars pre-trial ruling in the 6-monthBY LINDA FANTIN ice-sheet More probiems old case. ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Attorneys for Welch and Federal prosecutors do not have to provide more details about the against former Olympic leaders Tom Welch and Dave Johnson, a judge has ruled, with one small exception, U.S. Magistrate Ronald Boyce ordered the government Knocking on the wood core ofher skis,she laughs when asked by her nervous clientif any ofher pupils ever ended up in a hospital. Not one has ever been taken off the mountain by a ski patroller, though Egan once earned a toboggan trip when she worked at Brighton. A snowboarder wiped her out while she was giving a lesson. It takes Egan about 30 seconds to decide private to name those “agents, fiducia- ries and principals” of the International OlympicCommittee who supposedly received benefits in violation of Utah’s commercial bribery law. But in a decision handed down Friday, Boyce denied all other aspects of the defense’s request for a so-called “bill of ,” including the names ofany co-conspirators.It was the first significant not mounta proper defense. Johnson could not be reached Boyce disagreed, noting an for comment. 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In court papers, bid commitive income for their they argued the 15-countindictown personal purposes. ment was full of holes, and without more details they could See BRIBERY,Page B-3 Bogus Games Official May Have Duped Banks BY ROBERT GEHRKE bank,using a fake Russian passport and an empty apartmenthe had rented to open several checking accounts. About a month later, he deposited 13 checks he A man claiming to be a Russian Olympic offi- had probably printed on a dot matrix printer, then cial may have swindled five Ytah banks out of cleaned out the accounts a few days later before nearly $90,000. the forgeries were detected, said Special Agent Nowhe hasthe U.S.Secret Service hunting for Kim Fit id. him. In the span of three days in late August, Ca“This is the first instance we're aware ofwhere napouski made off with nearly $90,000 from at someone used the Olympics as a ruse to perpetrate least five banks, including some of the state’s their fraud,” said Michael Fithen, the resident largest, she said. agent in charge of the Salt Lake City Secret Ser‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS vice office. The heavyset, goateed man claimed to be 53‘Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune Trystan.Smith, a member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Commission, on Friday addresses a Salt Lake City luncheon to begin holiday observances in the state. Story, B-2 LDSVisitor-Center Upgrades To Stress International Flavor BY PEGGY FLETCHERSTACK Gone: Temple and Tabernacle, draws “Johnny talking md Seta Pic crowds may swell to 70,000 a day. tismal font and “mood room.” In The North Visitor Center will ree ss TEScanessaGoanct inter= living prophets and the other historic exhibits with enceseach day in her outdoor ee eraentiteoes ‘Thewelfare exhibit will highS FE himselfas he tries new ‘She made ter’s exhibits involve strengthofthe Salt Lake Temple. Specific ee ening families and the building |L Shosmilesproudly at herclient, Winter Games in Utah. The centers were closed this week for construction and are scheduled to be reopened next October, fri to getting bored,” she ontte todo this as featuring the church's welfare and humanitarian service, said LDS Church spokesman Dale _Billls on Friday. The South Cen- ze national flavor. ‘Those are the plans for the LDS Church's visitor centers on Reeea noee re being remod in time for the 2002 year-old Anton Canapouski. He was in Salt Lake City, he said, doing advance work for the Russian Olympic team leading up to the 2002 Winter Games. Along with a 30-ish female interpreter, known as Natalie Koropski, he went from bank to “Unfortunately, we anticipate this type of activity only increasing as we get closer to the Olympics as word gets out that the banking|com- munity in Utah may be ripe for the picking,”said Fithen. PROMOTION DAY See BOGUS,Page B-3 |