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Show Tuesday, September 6, 2005 HEALTH SCIENCES BRIEFS Former public affairs director receives communication award Anne Brillinger, former director of the U Health Sciences Center's Public Affairs Office, received the 2005 Award of Excellence from the Utah Society for Healthcare Communications and Marketing. Brillinger, who retired in July after 27 years with the Health Sciences Center's Public Affairs Office, received the award for her contributions to the profession. She served as director of the office for four years. Brillinger was involved in public affairs issues for upper campus during the construction of more than a dozen buildings, including the University Hospital, the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics and the Huntsman Cancer Institute and Hospital. U pathology professor honored Charles Hawker, adjunct associate professor of pathology, received the Professor Alvin Dubin Award for his work in clinical biochemistry. The National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry conferred the award at its 2005 conference in Orlando, Fla. Hawker also serves as the scientific director of Automation and Special Projects at ARUP Laboratories and has been a past president and secretary of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. Banquet to honor U celebrities The Utah chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society will hold its 27th annual Dinner of Champions awards night on Sept. 15. The dinner will honor several U celebrities., "Voice-of-the-Utes*" Bill Marcroft, whose 50-year broadcasting career covering U sports for KALL radio ended this year at the Tostitos Bowl, will receive the T.K. McCarthy Silver Hope Award. Marcroft was chosen for the honor because of his contributions to the community. The U football team will be awarded "Team of the Year." Andrew Bogut, star of last season's basketball team and the first Ute to be the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft, will receive Co-Male Collegiate Athlete of the Year. Alex Smith, star quarterback of last season's football team and No, 1 overall pick in NFL draft, will be the other CoMale Athlete of the Year. Star Ute gymnast Annabeth Eberle will receive the Female Collegiate Athlete of the Year award. Big building has big opening U students, faculty and staff are invited to the Grand Opening of the Health Sciences Education Building on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 4:30 p.m. U President Michael Young and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Lorris Betz will welcome guests. The $4O-million, 158,000 squarefoot building has been open for classes since the beginning of Fall Semester. New leadership joins Health Sciences cabinet Steven Panish was recently named assistant vice president for health sciences capital programs and space. Pierre Pincetl has been appointed associate vice president for health sciences information technology services. Equal access to health care promoted University Health Care has pledged to assist uninsured patients with non-elective health-care costs by making medical bills for the uninsured equal to the average bills for insured patients. This assistance is possible through financial contributions made by University Health Care starting Sept. 1. Hospital receives international guests Two majors in the Moroccan military visited the U Hospital in mid-August to tour trauma service areas and learn about combat medical training.The Utah National Guard hosted he officials. Compiled by Andrew Kirk Campus confidential ™ DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE usually conservative," he said. Cadet Mike Kinsel, a political science major and senior in the ROTC program, agreed. "I've noticed that in a lot of other places with more liberal continued from Page I cultures, they aren't as warm However, he is reluctant toward the military," he said. Danielle Fowles, executive to relate the success of the U ROTC to the influence of any director of the Utah Federation of College Republicans, one political party. "The military is an apoliti- feels that the connection is cal organization, but, again, unquestionably political. there is a certain person who "There is a definite correlasupports the regimentation of tion between the amount of the military, and that person is people that supported Bush ROTC ENROLLMENT HIGH AT THE U Chronicle Writer Sometimes professors face jail time for their research because there are no laws protecting academic researchers who keep their sources confidential. It is well known that many journalists have been imprisoned for refusing to reveal information about controversial sources. Judith Miller of The New York Times was recently sentenced to jail time for refusing to reveal the identity of sources to Justice Department investigators. University professors could be at risk for similar situations. Rik Scarce, an assistant professor of Sociology at Montana State University, was jailed in 1993 for refusing to reveal information to federal investigators about environmental extremist groups that he was studying. The issue has not yet been a problem for U professors, but the possibility of a U professor being forced to turn over a confidential source is always present. "There's absolutely a concern. Department members really do worry about this. It's not just hypothetical," said Leslie Francis, chairwoman of the philosophy department - and a professor of law. , Unlike journalists, academic researchers don't have a newspaper to make public their arrests and detentions for keeping a secret in the pursuit of truth. "This is an undeveloped area of law. There aren't wellestablished privileges," General Counsel for the U John Morris said. Some types of academic studies, such as medical research, do have legal confidentiality protection; however, other areas, such as the social sciences, do not. "There is no researchersubject privilege," Francis said. "The federal regulations governing research with hu- man subjects, under which the University of Utah operates, do not require that confidentiality be protected." Luckily for researchers, the challenging of academic confidentiality has not been a common practice. "I'm not aware of any cases in Utah dealing with this issue," Morris said. "We have not had any attempt I'm aware of to coerce a faculty member to disclose information." Nevertheless, the lack of clear legal protection is disconcerting to some faculty members. "We're a litigious society, and the pattern has become more dangerous for researchers," Theresa Martinez, associate professor of sociology, said. Martinez said it is highly unlikely that investigators would be interested in her research area. However, if faced with a subpoena, Martinez said she would be willing to face jail time to protect the confidentiality of her sources. "In my research, I can't imagine a scenario in which I would give my respondent up," she said. Fear of legal investigation has the potential to make some researchers overly cautious and limit the types of studies conducted. "It wouldn't surprise me if there has been some research that has been chilled," Francis said. Members of the U administration said they would likely support any faculty members who had the confidentiality of their research challenged. "We want to guard free inquiry, and we want to do it an appropriate way, protecting subject and interviewer," John Francis, acting senior vice president of academic affairs, said. "The university values and protects the academic freedom of individual faculty members," Morris said. jrogers@ chronicle.utah.edu ROTC students were a strong motivating factor in his enrollment. He receives beneficial financial support including a scholarship, a monthly stipend and several hundred dollars for books each semester. The notoriety of the U's program and the success of its senior class aided the enrollment, Kinsel said. "Our program is one of the best in nation, and people recognize that," he said. dgardiner@ chronicle,utah.edu Witness to the impact: Can 'good fences' make good neighbors? Steve Gehrke Chronicle Editor in Chief In Israel, a land that harbors Arabs, Palestinians and Israelis—a land not even the size of New Jersey but home to Jews, Christians and Muslims—people manage to live in harmony on typical days as they pass each other in the marketplace and near the holiest places on Earth without incident. That's not to say that violence never erupts. Media reports from Israel are not fabricated, but those that portray violence get a lot more hype than they sometimes deserve. One day, while walking down a cobblestone street in Old Jerusalem near the home of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, I saw Israeli Defense Forces guarding a street corner as soldiers pulled young Israelis away from an older Palestinian man on a bicycle. The youngsters were shouting at the man and kicking his bicycle, some throwing what- Palestine seen through barbed wire fencing on Israeli land. The security barrier was built to separate the; ever they could find. It was two factions In hope that a two-state solution would lead to eventual peace in the long standing conflict.; an episode that displayed the tension between Israelis and estinian society that spark of Israel and Palestine slept. rier that had obviously made Palestinians. violence." Our group of college editors someone in Israel's barrjed But I asked myself how Every day I was in Israel, my and chaperones boarded a wire industry a millionaire," much reportage this isolated eyes were opened more and tour bus, which would seem As we drove past the chain event deserved in the grand more to the daily dynamics of simple enough, but due to the links and sharpened razors: of haunting images in the media the fence, I saw green lights ilscheme of things. Later that Israeli and Palestinian life. day, Matt Rees, Time MagaSo in light of Rees' criti- of buses torn apart by terror- luminating the dark sky 1 from zine's Jerusalem bureau chief, cisms, I'll explore one mecha- ist attacks, many of us were towers—from minarets on answered that question as he nism that simultaneously con- worried. mosques where Muslim clercriticized the mass media in tributes to the sort of hatred The bus drove down a new- ics would call the Fajr (morna busy Jerusalem restaurant that sparked this display of ly constructed highway in an ing prayer) just hours later. about to be overtaken by a bar violence and the more recent eight-mile wide area of noIt struck me that in a strip mitzvah party. move toward common peace man's land separating Israel of land 223 miles long—close and Palestine. I could see the to the distance from Salt "Lake "The media only writes in the Holy Land. about conflict," he said. "They I arrived at Ben Gurion Air- Mediterranean Sea on my left, City to Moab—two different don't tell about the mecha- port in Tel Aviv on Monday, while over my right shoulder nisms'within Israeli and Pal-' Aug. 15 after 2 a.m., as most there rose a daunting barSee BARRIER Page 4 Academic research dangerous if Feds come knocking Jay Rogers and people enrolling (in the ROTO," she said. High ROTC enrollment is not just isolated to the U—it is also taking place at several other Utah schools. Department Secretary for the ROTC at SUU Sam Slazens noted a 20 percent increase in enrolled cadets at the school. Col. Greg Stuart, a recruiting officer from Weber State, noticed an increase of about five to six percent at the school. 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