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Show Thursday, December 8, 2005 ™ DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Regents to review costs 9 of presidents homes The Associated Press pairs. Some education officials, however, say the housing perks included in compensation are competitive within the field. "I think all the presidents understand that their benefits for a house are under scrutiny all the time," said Rich Kendell, state commissioner for public higher education. "I think they keep very clear records of what they do." The regents only periodically look at line items, concentrating instead on the overall operation costs, Kendell said. Last year's report received little more than a nod during a regents meeting. SALT LAKE CITY—The state board that oversees Utah's public colleges and universities will review a new report this week showing that four of five school presidents live in million-dollar homes for free. The fifth lives in a house she built with her own money. The Utah Board of Regents is also reviewing the operating costs of each of the school's taxpayer-funded residences at nine public colleges and universities. In years past, those budgets have included the purchase of a grand piano and hot tub, remodeling and routine re- See PRESIDENTS'P^> 5 Study independent film at the world-famous Sundance Festival! FILM 1900 & FILM 6790 3 credit hours Get the details at www. film. Utah, edu STUDENT GOVERNMENT BRIEFS Senate approves ASUU Supreme Court nominations The ASUU Senate approved the nominations of Matt Anderson, Erin Arnold and Manuele Antonacci to the student Supreme Court last Thursday. According to Redbook—the U's constitution—duties for Supreme-Court members include the "power of constitutional review of any actions taken by any and all members, groups and bodies of ASUU." Usually, most of the court's business is conducted during the student elections when a party or candidate appeals a grievance ruling made by the election committee. The court consists of seven members, one of which is the chief justice. The justices are appointed for an indefinite term of office and may remain in office provided they are members of ASUU. Patrick Muir Hasnain appoints new elections registrar Student-body President Ali Hasnain has appointed Jeff Mathis as the elections registrar for the 2006 student government elections. According to Redbook, the U's constitution, "The purpose of the Elections Registrar is to administer an honest and fair election...according to the rules and regulations stipulated in the ASUU Constitution, Bylaws, Policies and Procedures." Mathis is a former campaign manager; he also formerly served as chief of staff and attorney general for the Associated Students of the University of Utah. "Based on a resume", he is the most informed student to be in this position," Student-body Vice President John Poelman said. 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Western Utah mines filled with volatile explosives and sensitive bats Bryce Petersen Jr. Standard-Examiner WENDOVER, Utah—There are at least two reasons to be quiet and quick during a visit to the remote copper mines on the Pilot Mountains in western Box Elder County. One is the presence of Townsend's big-eared bats, a state sensitive species that can starve if awakened from hibernation at the wrong time. Adam Kozlowski, sensitive species biologist with the Division of Wildlife Resources, and Mike Wolfe, a Utah State University professor, visited five Pilot Mountain mines recently as part of a study on how the bats use these old mines. Kozlowski and Wolfe moved softly and quickly as they noted the temperature of each of the 29 bats they found in the first mine. They marked the location of each bat carefully and glued tiny strings to a few of them to compare their location on future searches. 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ALSO, beginning December 9th, visit our website to see how much we are paying for YOUR books! hidden in them. But some do. Not all mines are radioactive. But some are. And not all mines are ready to collapse on visitors. But there's always that chance. "There are no abandoned mines that are safe," Mesch said. "Stay out and stay alive. There's no way you can predict whether an abandoned mine is safe, and more often than not they're going to be unsafe." There are an estimated 20,000 mines that have not been used—at least not by miners—since 1977, when the state began requiring reclamation when mining ended. The abandoned mine reclamation program closes between 10 and 600 a year, with the goal of eventually making all of them inaccessible to would-be explorers. Before closing a mine, officials research the mine's historical and cultural significance and survey each one for wildlife use. Several mines have been gated to allow bats, but not people, in and out. To decide which ones to close first, Mesch uses criteria that include the amo'unt of traffic the mines are likely to see. The Pilots, a three-hour drive from Ogdenf have not even been mapped by the reclamation program yet. But with dirt roads leadingrightto several of the mines, they still get more than their share of visitors. Once every three weeks, Kozlowski, armed with gauges that measure the temperature, humidity and wind speed throughout the cave, is one of those visitors. After consultation with Mesch and others, he is braving five of the safer Pilot mines to study Townsend's bat use there. Townsend's big-eared bats are found throughout Utah; their use of mines in Southern Utah has been well documented by Southern Utah University researchers and during reclamation projects. But some of the state's largest concentrations are in large northern Utah caves like Logan Cave, in Logan Canyon, and Bat Cave, near Causey. More than 500 have been counted in Logan Cave, which has been gated since 1997 primarily to protect the bats. About 200 now hibernate in the cave, up from single digits before the closure. The bats move little between December and mid-March, conserving energy when it is too cold to find the moths they eat almost exclusively. "The tail end of hibernation is probably the most critical," said Steve Blatt, a wildlife biologist with the Logan Ranger District. "They're at the point where their fat reserves have been depleted and (if they wake up) they end up using more energy and have no way to feed on anything." Bat Cave, which holds as many as 900 bats, is not offlimits. The bats there are protected by sheer inaccessibility. "It's just wicked, wicked hard to get to," Kozlowski said. Until recently, those were the only caves in the Top of Utah known to be used by Townsend's bats. Now, Kozlowski knows there are some other small colonies, including a few on Antelope Island and those on the Pilots. The Associated Press |