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Show The THE Page 4 Page 6 Page 7 That's a wrap! Black History Month Diamond debuts Jay Richards starts out the month of February with a tribute to abolitionist, author and feminist Frederick Douglass. Baseball touts a phalanx of newcomers to the 2006 squad. Sundance 2006 ends with aflurryof reviews and prizes. Rain/Snow 39/37 Sports: Opinion A&E Today's weather University o fU t a h ' s I n d e p e n d e n t Student Voice Since 18 90 DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Vol. 115 No. 121 W e d n e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 1, 2006 ©2006 www.dailyutahehronicle.com Dancing to a different beat Chinese students, scholars celebrate New Year in traditional style Ana Breton Chronicle Writer The U's Chinese New Year's celebration, featuring a Dai Chinese peacock dance, a flower drum song and a telesthesia magic show, helped create a traditional holiday atmosphere for students Saturday in the Union Ballroom. The event, which the Chinese Students and Scholars Association planned to welcome 2006 as the year of the dog, only lasted several hours, but the traditional Chinese New Year's festivities last 15 days, said Mindy Layton, an education, culture and society graduate student who cohosted the event. "Most people are unaware of how long (the Chinese New Year is) and what (it) consists of," Layton said. The new year "starts with the new moon on the first day and ends on the full moon 15 days later. Then, after those 15 days, the new year will go into the Lantern Festival, which is the end of the Spring Festival celebration." The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of solar and lunar movements. In order to coincide with the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years. This is why the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year. "The Chinese New Year is a time for family," said Xin Liu, a third-year graduate student in physics and performer in the event. "It's a time to come together, have fun and share tthe closeness between your family." Layton said that the commemoration was created to give U students a chance to celebrate their culture even if they are living away from their home country. "A lot of (students) aren't able to be with their families during this time of year," Layton said. "But, by putting this together for them, they are able to feel like they're home." Although the Chinese New Year brings everything from traditional See N E W YEAR Page 3 Fay Fay Fe performs a traditional Chinese dance Imitating the movements of a peacock Saturday In the Union at a Chinese New Year program sponsored by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association. •V- New study reinforces effectiveness of idiation therapy U students sweep top spots in Vietnamese Utah pageant awards. Nguyen competed against 14 other contestants during the threeWhen asked what she would do hour pageant. Two other U students if she were given a day to fill up a took the Miss Ao Dai Utah 2006 and basket, Nicole Nguyen said that she second-runner-up positions. would take the basket and fill it with Although contestants were partly a lifetime's amount of knowledge. judged on their attire, the pageant Nguyen, a sophomore in behav- was not entirely about beauty, said ioral science and health, gave that Dao Ly, who was crowned Miss Ao response during the question and Dai Utah 2006. answer portion of the Miss Ao Dai "This contest is an opportunity to Vietnamese Utah pageant held in learn more about the Vietnamese the Utah Cultural Center on Jan. 28. culture," Ly said. "Knowledge is an important part "It's also about taking that culof achieving one's goals," Nguyen ture and sharing it with the comsaid. munity." "I hope to gain as much knowlLy, a freshman majoring in busiedge so I can live my life the best ness, won the pageant's "PhotogeI can." nic" award. Nguyen's response helped her The pageant consisted of perland the first-runner-up position sonal introductions, a Casual Cloth during the pageant. She also won fashion show, and a "shake your the "Miss Congeniality" and the "Best Traditional Ao Dai Attire" See P A G E A N T Page 3 Ana Breton Chronicle Writer U junior Julie Tran helps Nicole Nguyen, a fellow contestant and U student, prepare for the evening wear portion of the Miss Ao Dal Vietnamese Utah pageant in the Utah Cultural Center on Saturday. Learning about the Legislature U student internships teach students about government, build relationships Jay Logan Rogers Chronicle Writer Politics often cause bitter divides, but interns on Capitol Hill say they enjoy a camaraderie that crosses party and school lines. "In the Senate there are (interns) from every different school in Utah, and I feel like I'm pretty close to all of them," said Taylor Howe, a junior in political science interning for Sen. Greg Bell, R-Fruit Heights. Interns often eat lunch together in the Capitol Hill cafeteria and resist dividing up into cliques corresponding to universities or political affiliation, Howe said. :cent U study found that women (tage I endometrial cancer have a chance of long-term survival if :ceive radiation treatment after said David Gaffney, associate surgi of radiation oncology. profi Letrial cancer originates in the En ig of the uterus and, accordinne ing t- •affney, is the most frequent igical cancer in women. About gyne 90 pe :nt of women will survive with and the cancer is less deadly treat: •ian cancer. However, treatthan still an area of concern, he ment said. "The dard management for wornen wit ndometrial cancer is surgery (to re [fe the uterus), which usually works affney said. However, "patients radiation treatment did display a b r survival benefit," he said. The s ly focused on approximately 21,000 p fents who had been treated with sur 20 percent then had radiation rapy and the remaining 80 percent had no additional treatment. studies have been confusing," Gaff said, "so we wanted to see if there re y is a survival benefit with radiation ratment." Gaffney id that the one flaw with the U stu is that it was done retrospectively, evertheless the information shoul e useful when added to previous st ies," he said. Gaffney the main purpose of the study is to .ow a better selection of treatment patients who have had surgery. "Ultimately we want to provide the best therapy for patients and cure as many peopl^ as possible," Gaffney said. ' The study, co-authored by Gaffney and Christopher Lee of the Huntsman Cancer Hospital, was published in the Jan. 25 issue or the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). wit "We interact pretty frequently," said Greg Homer, a recent U alumnus interning for Sen. Brent Goodfellow, D-West Valley City. "I would say we have more interaction with the other interns than we actually do with the legislators themselves." Typical duties for interns include answering constituent e-mails, preparing agendas, monitoring bills, scheduling appointments and running various errands. The regular, day-to-day duties of an intern aren't that exciting, Homer said. Still, most interns express an excitement about assisting in the lawmaking process. Most said their experiences so far have caused them to have a less cynical, more positive view of politics. "I'm surprised how much time each legislator puts into this job," said Jonathan Brown, junior in political science and intern for Rep. Greg Curtis, R-Sandy. Amy Code, a senior in political science interning for Rep. Ralph Becker, D-Salt Lake City, said she was amazed at how much time legislators spend on their jobs during the session and throughout the year. "I don't know how some people do it," she said. See LEGISLATURE Page 3 I Morgan RatclitTe |
