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Show The University THE of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE VoL 115 No. 60 Friday, September 30, 2005 ©2005 www.dailyutalichronicle.com UCard deposits grow at exponential rate Patrick Muir Chronicle Asst. News Editor Students are using their UCards to purchase items on and off campus at an increasing rate. John Poelman, vice president of the Associated Students of the University of Utah, said he expects the program to double each year for the next three years. "I believe it's something that will really catch on," he saidIn the first full year in which the UCard had debit capabilities, the total deposits were $396,119.64 and the total sales were $311,783.06. Thus far in 2005, the numbers are $880,355.09 in deposits and $795,565.06 in sales. The UCard is following a trend similar to the Indiana University's student card system. In 1997, the first year of the Indiana campus access card program, students spent approximately $275,000. In 2004, that amount was more than $3,000,000. "(Increased spending) depends on the growth in the system and the amount of services provided," said Teresa Ray, manager of the campus access card at IU. In the first year, students used their cards mainly for copying, she said The first big increase happened when the laundry and vending machines accepted the campus card. Right now the UCard does not have the ability to pay for laundry at the Residence Halls, but 25 vending machines scattered throughout campus have UCard readers. "As contracts expire, we are working on expanding them," said Michael Van Oordt of contract administration for student affairs. "It's a work in progress." Van Oordt said that when Coke*s contract with the U is renewed in June of 2007, the U administration will write into the new contract a clause requiring Coke to keep up with the university's technology, which includes installing UCard readers. When IU added off-campus ven- SeeUCARDPage3 U student Danny Morgan uses his UCard to buy a candy bar at a vending machine in OSH Thursday afternoon. The sounds of language English department sponsors poet- performer Hikari Hite Chronicle Writer Toronto sound poet Christian Bok stood before a room of people in LNCO on Sept. 23 and made the sounds of a bubbling fish tank. He then calmly stated, "That poem is called 'Seahorses and Flying Fish,' by Hugo Ball." A sound poet, or "an eclectic avant-garde poet," as Bok characterizes himself, is someone active in the invention and application of new poetry techniques. Red-faced and concentrating, Bok recited his poetry Christian Bok shares his unique with intense rhythm and pas- avant-garde style of poetry with sion, hardly stopping for a U students Friday afternoon in breath as he spurted poems LNCO. with lines like "Judo kick a ding dong bell" and poems Bok took on what he calls the that consisted of five minutes enthralling style of chaos with of meticulous beat boxing. order 20 years ago. "Poetry reading was becom"I felt that I wasn't making ing like church," Bok s a i d - any important contributions boring and serious. "I wanted with traditional poetry," he a black belt in performing; I said. "I wanted to exceed the didn't want to be serious." envelope of my own thinkPowered by a love of words and the sounds they make, See POETRY Page 3 University of Utah Hospital employee Jason Hammond kicks a field goal at the U's employee appreciation day. The event featured several activities and awarded raffle tickets as prizes. U students face sharing name with hurricane Jed Layton Chronicle Writer Katrina Mustoe, a graduate student studying architecture, had a co-worker think she was a murderer. Katrina Lister, a second year medical student, had people ask how she could show her face around campus after what she did. These are just some of the reactions U students named Katrina have faced after Hurricane Katrina hit the South. "When the hurricane hit and people were killed," Mustoe said, "a co-worker said to another worker 'Katrina has killed two people.' She thought I had killed them and was worried about me." Lister and Mustoe are just two of nine students currently enrolled at the U with the first name of Katrina, Ralph Boren, the U registrar, said. Each one is dealing with sharing the name of a hurricane in different ways. Aaron Bolin, a former Arkansas State University psychology professor, named stereotyping— or making mental shortcuts—as a possible cause of harm for women sharing the name. "There could definitely be an impact of naming on long-term happiness and well-being," he said. "If the name Katrina evokes a negative feeling in others, they may have a negative bias toward Katrina-named individuals." However, U Katrinas have not noticed any of the major aversive effects reported by women nationwide; "I get joked around with a lot," Mustoe said, "but I haven't been hurt, per se." Bolin, who has done research on the effects of first-name stereotyping, also said that because Katrina is not a common name, it could cause negative labeling more easily than other names such as Andrew—a hurricane that hit Florida in 1992. "We're talking about a Goldilocks effect," he said. "If you have one bad experience, then a convenient mental shortcut is to assume that all Katrinas are bad." Both Bolin and Mustoe believe the negative connotation attributed with the name will eventually fade from memory. "I think it will die out once it stops appearing in national headlines," Mustoe said. Bolin said that as people have more positive experiences with Katrinas, negative stereotypes will lose their power. But he realizes the name Katrina is rare enough to likely evoke painful memories in the New Orleans area for years to come. The National Weather Service chose the name Katrina from a list of interchanging male Hinckley Institute to celebrate 40-year anniversary Steve Gehrke Chronicle Editor in Chief TONY POUSLON/Thc Daily Utah Chronicle and female names that are rotated every six years. Katrina was the eleventh storm and name on the list for 2005. If the year were 2006 or 2007, the hurricane would have been named Kirk or Karen, and if the storm had been one storm later, the name would have been Lee. The National Weather Service does not have any plans for changing the pattern for naming hurricanes and tropical storms, but it does realize that there could be stereotyping damage done by naming storms with first names, Bolin said. "Up until a few years ago, all storms were named after females," he said. "(The National Weather Service) decided to spread the damage equally across all genders." Other hurricane names for the upcoming year could be Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma. If the names on this year's list run out, the NWS will switch to Greek names—Alpha, Beta, Delta and soon. jlayton@chronicle.utah.edu \ What do Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, John McCain, Harry Reid, Ralph Nader, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey and Karl Rove have in common? They've all spoken at the U compliments of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary tonight at Rice-Eccles Stadium. "The 40th anniversary celebration is a wonderful occasion for the over 4,000 former interns, public officials and friends of the institute of politics to come together and look back on an incredible 40 years and look forward to what comes next," Hinckley Director Kirk Jowers said. As of Thursday morning, Hinckley organizers said it looked like attendance at the gala would nearly double that which they originally estimated. Before organizers began taking R.S.V.P.s for the event, Jowers said they anticipated about 400 people to attend. However, the number of actual reservations was nearing 600 as of Thursday morning, and Hinckley intern Bryson Morgan said organizers expect an additional 20 percent, or about 100 more people, to show up. Among the VIPs in the group will be 10 Utah politicians, all three past Hinckley Institute directors and Jim Hincldey, grandson of the founder. When Robert Hinckley established the institute in 1965, his goal was to teach students the importance of involvement in government and respect for politics. Thousands of students who have passed in and out of the Institute's doors and various programs in the past 40 years have been a part of fulfilling See HINCKLEY Age 3 |
