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Show The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 The Daily Utah Chronicle ©2005 www.dailyutahchronicle.com Vol.114 NO. 126 Friday, March 25, 2005 Posters around campus arouse questions from students Lisa Narclso News Reporter Patrick Muir News Reporter Students have mixed reactions regarding the posters focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around campus this week and question the possible outcome of Monday's LGBT forum. The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center said the posters were intended to spark people's curiosity about the subject matter and also make people aware that LGBT students do exist as part of "Operation Visibility" week. The posters said phrases such as, "Gay is real" and "Transgender people are real." However, some students did not take the message positively. "We had some fliers...people had written 'Just because it's real, doesn't make it right/" said Charles Milne, a coordinator at LGBT "We had somebody call the office last night saying 'Gay's aren't allowed on campus. What are you thinking?' They actually thought it was against school policy for gay students to be on campus," Mime said. Dean of Students Stayner Landward also received two calls comSEE P O S T E R S PAGE 3 Students walk past a string of LGBT promotional signs just outside the Union Thursday. Poison control stresses children's safety first thing Poison Control will ask is what the symptoms of the person exposed As part of National Poi- to the poison are. The callson Prevention week, the er should then be able to Utah Poison Control Cen- supply the age and weight ter hopes to educate par- of the person poisoned, as ents about how to keep well as what they ingested and in what quantity, Maltheir children safe. heiro said. Located in Research Park, the Poison Control She said 8o percent of Center is staffed by many calls can be handled at U graduates and is a spe- home without the help of cialized department under medical professionals. But Poison Control will the U's College of Pharalways call back 24 hours macy. Though Poison Control later to make sure the pais well known, Outreach tient is OK. "They followed up the Education Provider Marty Malheiro is worried some next day. I was impressed," parents may be afraid to said student Shawn Savir, call because they don't whose daughter ate some know that Poison Control chicken that might have been contaminated. is free and confidential. The best way to prevent "The only bad call is the one that's not made. The poisoning is to keep prodsooner they call, the bet- ucts locked up and out of ter the outcome," Malheiro reach of children, but the biggest dangers can be the said. When someone calls, the ones most parents don't Catherine Calllster News Reporter Danielle Fowles, chairperson for the College Republicans, and Jiro Johnson, a College Democrat, go head-to-head In the Hlnckley Institute of Politics. U College Dems, GOP find common ground in abortion battle Steve Gehrke Asst. News Editor U Democrats and Republicans agreed Thursday that abortion should be legal in special circumstances. However, that's where common ground between the sides halted. One Republican—Ryan Geertsen—advocated abstinence, saying a ban on abortion—with the exception of health, incest and rape cases— would still allow freedom of choice. "The choice is to plan ahead. If you can't afford it, then you can't handle to raise the child," Geertsen said. "Basically you need to keep your pants on. There is a choice and that choice should be at the time when you're thinking about creating that child." He added the Supreme Court has opened floodgates to "abortion-on-demand." Christina Yong, a representative from the College Demo- A&E crats, disagreed, saying abstinence has failed in the past. "You can't just say, 'You never get to have sex until you're ready to have a child,'" she said. Yong added that a woman's freedom to choose is more important than a fetus. "People who claim to be pro-life trade a woman's freedom, liberty and control of her own body in return for the life of a fetus, which is not even legally a human," she said. "I don't think we can trade a woman's liberties in return for the life of something that isn't even legally a person." Another Republican, Brad Anderson, said abortion is a form of genocide. He cited Webster's Encyclopedia, which defines genocide as any act that systematically destructs an unwanted group. "If the government were to suddenly withdraw legal protection from African-Ameri- jpage 4 Crazy for Ko-Ko Colin Edwards raves about family-owned Japanese joint. Opinion That's my money! Sports Emergency Action for Poisoning Inhaled poison Quickly get the person to fresh air Do not breath the fumes Open doors and windows wide Poison on the skin Remove contaminated clothing Rinse skin continuously with water for 15 minutes Then wash gently with soap and water Rinse again Poison In the eye Quickly start rinsing the eye with lukewarm water and continue for 15 SEE POISON PAGE 3 The Presenter's Office search for a new programming adviser is over, The office has hired Amanda Johnston to help advise student government leaders on programming and marketing at the U, "I'll advise ASUU on anything from liabilities, contracts, to how to get Channel 2 news to cover their event. Anything they need to make an event work," Johnston said. She replaces two full-time, nonstudent advisers who used to be in charge of making key decisions including scheduling bands, performing artists and movies, as well as advertising for them. "In the past, the advisers were more hands-on, while now the students will make the decisions," said Rachel Sehere, a member of the search committee. "Amanda will oversee the budget and sign contracts. She will act as a safety net for ASUU." For the past year, Associated Students of the University of Utah leaders have strived to restructure the office, which resulted in the replacement of the two previous advisers. At the time of the last advisers' resignations, students working in the office said they didn't think they would be able to do as good of a job. But now, ASUU leaders said those students have had enough experience to perform the necessary tasks. The new adviser will have less authority to make decisions than the previous two, and less of a salary, which is student-fee-funded. The changes will allow ASUU to reallocate somewhere between 375,000 and $100,000 to other areas, according to Alex Lowe, president of ASUU. "It's a lot more efficient use of student funds and we won't lose productivity," he said. Johnston has moved from Chicago where she worked in international sales for Hilton and gained professional experience in programming and marketing. SEE ASUU PAGE 3 The ASUU Presenter's Office has selected Amanda Johnston as the new student programming adviser. Eastern religion set in stone Guest lecturer Amy McNair explains how Buddhist icons carved into mountain sides reveal more than what meets the eye nese Art at the University of Kansas. Huge Buddhist statues carved out of a mountain Not all art is meant to be at Longmen, China, are deviewed, said Amy McNair, signed to suggest they were associate professor of Chi- created for good Karma and page 6 March Madness The men's basketball team looks to end the Kentucky tournament curse. Correction In the March 24 edition of The Chronicle, the screening time for the student documentaries was misreported. The films screen on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. minutes Have person blink as much as possible while rinsing the eye Do not force eyelid open Swallowed poison Medicine: Do not give anything by mouth unless so advised by the PCC or a doctor Chemical or Household product If the person is awake and is able to swallow, quickly give a glass of water Do NOT make the person vomit Do NOT follow first aid instructions on product label-they may be wrong know about. "The majority of exposure occurs not when a product is locked up, but when it's in use," Malheiro said. She finds that many poisonings happen when adults get distracted from a chemical they use. Once, a parent was giving an older child medicine, and before she noticed, her two-yearold had drunk an entire bottle of cough syrup. "If [parents] don't have time to close the product, then they should take the child with them," Malherio said. Student Jennifer Krebs knows the dangers of not watching small children closely. Her family was busy spring cleaning when Jennifer's little sister found some old rat poison and ate it. Jennifer's mom called Poison Control, and with their help, was able to give her daughter appropriate care. Malheiro also warns parents to be careful when they visit grandparents or other elderly people. "They have lots of medicines that aren't locked up and don't have child safety caps," Malheiro said. Parents should also be concerned about common cosmetic products such as mouthwash. ' SEE ABORTION PAGE 3 Andrew Kirk Opinion Editor Anne Looser thinks Social Security is fine—the only problem is that it is being dipped into to fund wars. Presenter's office hires new programming adviser Professor Amy McNair shows a picture of the 17-meter Buddha Principle flanked by disciples and bodhfsattvas (Buddhist saints) at the Pengxlan Monastery at Longmen, China during a lecture Thursday in the Museum of Fine Arts. not as items of worship. "The sculpture is more than the icon, for the icon only takes on life when it is realized," McNair said. By leading the audience in the Museum of Fine Arts Dumke Auditorium through her research techniques, she allowed them to realize the story behind the art. McNair, a guest speaker in the art and art history department's lecture series, studied inscriptions and clues in the design of the sculptures to determine that palace eunuchs sponsored the carvings to create spiritual energy to convert the Taoist emperor to Buddhism. During the seventh century, a Buddhist emperor and empress had a 17-meter statue of the Buddha Principle (Buddha of all the universe) carved out of the mountain. Next to the Buddha axe two of his disciples and two bodhisattvas, or saints. But the icons are backdropped by 48 smaller statues (only two meters tall) of the Amitabha Buddha carved after the originals were finished. The smaller icons interfere with the symmetry of the shrine, don't complement the taller statues and seem to have damaged a few of the originals when carved. McNair posed the ques^ tion of who would alter an imperial shrine with additional carvings that didn't fit. Analyzing the shrine as a text, and not just as a piece of art, yields the answer, she said. The grandson of the shrine's original sponsors preferred Taoism to Bud- dhism. One of his main servants, the head of the palace eunuchs, sponsored the 48 smaller buddhas to be carved so their spiritual power would be sent to the emperor and he could be saved in Amitabha's paradise after dying. The Taoist emperor forbade new shrines to Buddhism, so the eunuchs were forced to alter the existing shrine at Longmen, according to McNair. Investigation of the design, research of the era's politics and on-site archeology were symbiotically used to find the story behind the aesthetics. "Buddhist icons can be read as a text, viewed as an art object and worshipped in the Buddhist sense," she said. akirk@chronicle.utah.edu |