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Show Wednesday, June 1, 2005 ™ SUMMER UTAH CHRONICLE Dog days of summer spark carefree memories Those lazy, carefree days of summer are here, and I'm doing my best to welcome them. They will be different for me this year—days filled with trips to the lake, cold lemonade and summer nights so warm that even the slightest breeze feels like a blessing are now marking the end of an era of memories for me. Cara My dog is dying. She is doing it slowly. I know it from the gray that has taken over her face and the slow, careful way she descends the stairs. I know it by how she is so slow to look up from her nap, even though her eyes still tell me she is ready to go roll in the tall grass and conquer the next Sunday hike. What worries me most is that she'll be irreplaceable—that the memories she'll leave behind will one day make way for new memories, but they'll never be the same, or worse, not even comparable. I worry about this because her life has spanned the duration of my journey into becoming an adult, and I'm afraid that when I lose her, I'll lose those carefree, easy days of childhood as well. Days that used to be filled with long after- FBI verifies Newsweek abuse story noon naps and romps in the park are now becoming increasingly consumed by work, responsibility and obligations. I worry that when she dies, there will be no reason to take long walks, to sit idly in the park or to take long drives to nowhere. It's a scary time, this struggle into adulthood. Finding that delicate balance between Wieser work and play is such a difficult task—too often the play has to be pushed aside for reasons of money, or due dates or appointments. Too often we forget to return to appreciating the summer and our lives because of the time and energy that those responsibilities consume. What I'm most thankful for was that my dog always gave me an excuse to get away for a while. No matter how much I had to do during the day, I could never turn her down when she stood by the door, looking at her leash, anxiously spinning circles and wagging her stub of a tail. In fact, you'll have to excuse me, because she's doing it now. cwieser@ chronicle.utah.edu PHOTO AWARDS continued from Page 1 hospital followed each photographer, getting the names and permission of the people in the pictures as they went. No elk Nicolai Vie Daily Universe (BYU) PROVO, Utah—FBI records verify the Newsweek report that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison abused inmates and desecrated the Quran. According to declassified records from as early as July 2002, inmates reported that they had been abused and guards repeatedly mishandled the Islamic holy book. "Their behavior is bad," one of the detainees told an FBI special agent, according to The Associated Press. "About five months ago the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Quran in the toilet." The recently released FBI records do not indicate whether or not the allegations have been investigated or substantiated. The documents were made public by the American Civil Liberties Union. Under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal court order directed the FBI to comply with the ACLU's requests to obtain documents. "The United States government continues to turn a blind eye to mounting evidence of widespread abuse of detainees held in custody," ACLU's Executive Director, Anthony Romero told The Associated Press. Photogrpaher Kamil Krzaczynski talks with a Recovery Room nurse during the 24-hour photo documentary on nursing. STUDENT LOANS continued from Page 1 3.37 percent, it can be as low as 2.88 percent if the loan holder agrees to pay through automatic withdrawal, Feitz said. After four years of on-time payments, UHEAA can reward a holder by lowering the rate by another one percent. "It could be an astounding 0.65 percent," Feitz said. "Wow! What a great deal! That's why we are trying to get the word out to students." According to John Curl, director of financial aid and scholarships, a lot of companies are trying to gain an advantage by offering to consolidate loans for students and turning this into a marketing situation. UHEAA is a government entity, not a private company, and exists for the benefit of the public. "None [of the private companies] I've seen has benefits that match what UHEAA is offering," he said. Doug DeVore, a classmate of Weight who also graduated this year, said he first learned about the opportunity through telephone solicitations from lending companies. "They wanted me to sign a contract with them before telling me what I needed to know," he said "None were as open as UHEAA." The solicitations are resulting in a lot of misinformation, Curl said. Information from UHEAA can be found on their Web page at www.uheaa. org or by calling them toll free at 877-336-7378. akirk@chronicle.utah.edu Each photographer was assigned responsibility for a specific part of the hospital: E.R., labor and delivery, Huntsman Cancer Institute, ICU, burn unit and outpatient clinics. Mass communication student and former Chronicle Assistant Photo Editor Stephen Holt was assigned to photograph labor and delivery. "My wife's a nurse—it let me see what she does," Holt said, "It also scared the pants off me because we're expecting a baby. But I know that if our baby were to have a problem, the staff would take care of it." Hospital photographer, Steve Leitch, was assigned to the outpatient clinics. "The hardest thing was to shoot candidly and not be part of the product—[I] had to be aflyon the wall." Project editor and communication department Assistant Professor Lecturer Jim Fisher hopes to do something more with the pictures. "We've always thought of it as a book of 120 pages you could hand to a nurse in the hospital and say, 'Thank you for what you do,'" Fisher said. ccallister@ chronicle.utah.edu A Utah Museum of Natural History on-slte artist blends paint to make the walls of the new cave exhibit look as real as possible. MUSEUM continued from Page 1 raphy collection, "A Fragile Wilderness." Photos from caves show unusual cave formations, animals and underground tunnels throughout the world taken by 23 National Speleological Society members. Another section of the room has the "Accidents and Rescues" portion of the exhibit where visitors can view media on past cave accidents involving cave-ins and people getting stuck within narrow passageways. Visitors will have the opportunity to try on safety gear such as jumpsuits and harnesses used by cave rescuers. The exhibits opened May 28 and will be open until Oct. 2. Students at the U can view these exhibits for free with their UCards. 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