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Show Opinion A&E Today's weather PageB Purr-feet Cat Power's newest album truly is The Greatest. 39/26 Mostly Cloudy The University of Utah's "Sports -*$3t&? Page 8 Page A-orB+? Clayton Norlen wants students to donate blood—after all, it's the only time that the grade doesn't matter. Keeping it real Runnin' Ute seniors not finding it hard to have high morale during tough season. Independent Student Voice 9 - • - . - . Since 1890 DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE New campaign rules create problems for potential candidates THE ©2006 Dustin Gardiner Chronicle Writer As student government elections approach, several potential candidates are saying the new rules that restrict campaigning make recruiting students for their parties too difficult. Vol. 115 No. 117 \ Thursday, January 26, 2006 www.dailvulahchroniele.com According to the Associated Students of the University of Utah Redbook rules, candidates cannot email, text message, call or approach students to get them involved in their party unless the student has expressed prior interest in the campaign or a party member already personally knows the student. The rules also prohibit the distribution of flyers or pamphlets before Feb. 28, when aclive campaigning begins. Several potential candidates say these rules make it nearly impossible to recruit students who have never been involved in ASUtJ before. "The guidelines are fairly ambiguous...it makes it tough to just go out there and talk to people," said Mike Anderson, a senior political science major and potential presidential candidate. "Unless students know someone in a party, it's hard to get involved...but I think ASUU is doing the best job they can with the rules that are in place." Jeff Mathis, elections registrar for Page 4 U HIV lab makes progress on cell 'suicide'protein Foreign correspondent contrasts U.S., British reporting Morgan Ratdiffe Chronicle Writer Andrew Kirk Chronicle Writer • American journalists need to quit worrying so much about "balanced reporting" and tell readers straight up what happened, said Alec Russell, Washington, D.C., bureau chief for London's Daily Telegraph in a visit to the U. Russell was invited to campus as a Hinckley Institute of Politics Fellow from Jan. 21 through 24 and gave several presentations on the differences he has observed between the American and British presses. "American journalists seem to dance around," he said. "If Bush did poorly in a debate with Kerry, the British press will say, 'Bush had a poor debate.'" The American style sometimes does a disservice to readers by forcing them to read between the lines. If a government or agency responds to a situation by issuing a press release full of lies, it shouldn't skew the reporting in the name of fairness, he said. "Objectivity is not the same as balanced reporting," Russell explained. British journalists "throttle a story." They print it as soon as they can with what they have. American journalists are much more careful, which is admirable, but it robs the reader of immediacy and clarity, he said. After sharing these criticisms, Russell added that he saw commendable qualities in the American system. For example, he said, newspapers in the United States are much more serious than those in Britain. The Daily Telegraph is one of only about four papers in London that take news seriously. While journalism in Britain is very ad hoc, American students study hard to become journalists and consider it a dignified profession, he said. This allows for more accurate and useful reporting. Covering Washington is especially hard, he said, because even though there is a steady flow of information, it is difPage 3 See CAMPAIGN Fighting the virus !ritique from across the pond SecBRITISH ASUU, said the rules are necessary because they prevent any one party from getting an early jump on campaigning. "I'm trying to protect the privacy of students who choose not to get involved in the elections process," said Jason DeHart, a fourth-year graduate student In molecular biology, works on tests researching HIV at The Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building on Jan. 13. U researchers are looking for better treatments for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) by studying the virus's ability to cause cell damage through the protein Vpr (cq), which forces cells to die, said Jason DeHart (cq), a graduate student in experimental pathology. The HIV lab has been working with Vpr (viral protein, regulatory) (cq) for the last several years and has made significant advances in understanding the protein and the effects HIV has on the immune system, Vicente Planelles (cq), principal investigator of the lab and associate professor of pathology, said. Planelies said there are two main effects Vpr has on the immune system. "It prevents further cell division and, after the cell stops dividing, the protein causes the cells to develop apoptosis," Planelles said. Apoptosis—or programmed cell death—is the process by which a cell "commits suicide," but the process doesn't start right away, Planelles said. "The cells don't die immediately, which allows for time to produce progeny viruses," he said. "We want to know how this happens, and what the consequences are," he said. The U is one of only a few labs in the United States focusing specifically on Vpr and its effects, because U researchers believe it causes one of the most significant amounts of damage to the immune system in patients with-HIV. Planelles and his team have published approximately 12 scientific papers to date, and are currently in the process of publishing another report on Vpr and how it could relate to further knowledge of the HIV virus and treatments. Planelles said working with Vpr is "an ongoing project," but that they have gained valuable knowledge about its effects and the potential it has for better understanding the HIV virus. "The hope is that we can use what we find in our research for new therapies and better treatments for HIV," DeHart said m.ratcliffe@ chronicle.utah.edu Bill 232 passes House without amendment May help military members get in-state tuition Jay Logan Rogers Chronicle Writer The Utah House of Representatives voted to make it easier for active-duty military personnel to re-establish Utah residency on Tuesday. House Bill 232 is sponsored by Rep. Mike Morley, R-Spanish Fork, who said he introduced the legislation in response to the plight of one of his constituents. This constituent was a young man who returned to Utah after a military deployment and planned U alumnus to be named president of Disney/Pixar animation studios Patrick Muir Chronicle Asst. News Editor Johanna Tomorsky and Mia Monteabaro rehearse Shayla Bott's "Triptych" at the Hayes Christensen Theatre on Tuesday night. SEE PAGE 6 FOR FULL STORY Pixar President Ed Catmull, a former U computer science student from the late 1960s and early 1970s, will now serve as president of the combined Pixar and Disney animation studios. In 1979, Catmull worked for George Lucas' new computer animation division and created the software Renderman, which was used to animate computer objects and became the core of all the animation in Pixar's films. Steve Jobs, CEO of Pixar, bought out Lucas* animation division in 1986 and formed Pixar with Catmull, first producing the Oscar-winning shorts that included "Luxo Jr.," "Tin Toy" and "Knick Knack." Catmull earned B.S. degrees in computer animation and physics as well as a doctorate in computer science at the U. p.muir@chronicle.utah.edu on attending a local university until he discovered he had lost his Utah resident status. "Upon return, the cost of tuition was so high that he ended up waiting a See G I B I L L Page 4 Notable U Graduates in the Computer Industry Alan Ashton: Received BA in '66, PhD in 70. Co-founder of Word Perfect Corporation. Jim Clark: Recteved PhD 74. Co-founder of Silicon Graphics Inc., Netscape. John Warnock: Recieved BS in '61, MS in '64' and PhD in '69. Co-founder and chairman of Adobe Systems Inc. Yolan Bushnell: Recieved BS in '69 The father of the video game industry as co-founder of Atari and inventor of Pong. He also founded Chuck E. Cheese. BENJAMIN HOLDAWAY/The Daily Uuh Chronldc |