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Show ™ DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Thursday, April 27, 2006 Student Senate tunes out KUTE Bill goes to board of trustees for final vote Patrick Muir Chronicle Asst. News Editor The ASUU Senate unanimously approved a bill requesting control of KUTE, the student-run radio station, on March 31. The bill is contingent on being approved by the board of trustees at its meeting in May. The bill cuts the $15,000 of funding from ASUU to KUTE and creates a new governing body called the Student Broadcast Advisory Committee. This change would put nine members of the Associated Students of the University of Utah in charge of the station instead of the current Student Broadcast Council, which consists of five ASUU members, three U faculty members, two U staff members, one professional from the community and an administrator. Members of the SBC could elect to proceed independently, without ASUU funding. Mary Gould, assistant general manager of KUTE, said the ASUU proposal has multiple problems, including the fact that it does not provide enough technical oversight to run the station. "Without proper oversight, things could slip by...if there are slippages, if there are mistakes, then technically (KUTE's) license could be revoked," Gould said. ASUU Vice President John Poelman responded that the student government could appoint professionals to help oversee the station but would not have voting powers as they do in the SBC, giving more control to students. "We don't want (professionals) controlling students' money, we want students controlling students' money," Poelman said. Gould said the ASUU proposal has significant theoretical issues in a student government controlling a media outlet. Howdy, Larry Chronicle Writer decisions will not encourage any bigotry or violence toward the homosexual community. "It is not my intent to hurt, defame or put at risk any group of people. They felt that (pulling the movie) fostered lack of understanding, bigotry and so on, and therefore put them at greater risk, literally," he said. Jeff Fullmer, a first-year law student, said he didn't buy what Miller had to say. "From a business standpoint, (Miller) is a very intelligent person. He knows that a lot of people in the LDS community are going to go to his movie theaters simply because he made a stand on something they agree with," he said. "Now he's going to make a P.R. spin to stop himself from alienating himself from the homosexual community." Kay Harward, associate vice president of student affairs, disagrees. "I know Larry Miller quite well, and I think he is a genuine person," he said. "He wouldn't make those expressions of understanding unless he truly felt it." Kt Farley, the student and staff member that started the petition, said she hopes the U administration is more mindful of the LGBT community in the future. "The university administration has become much more aware of the (LGBT) community on campus," she said. "And the next time they face this sort of a decision, they'll take into consideration that community in a way that they hadn't before." d.gardiner@ chronicle.utah.edu 7 A renovation project sponsored by the Alumni Association will refurbish the block U above the university, solving problems with drainage, erosion and lighting. Graham Anderson, a student Alumni Association board member, said the estimated cost of the project is $400,000. John Fackler of the Alumni Association said the money will be raised completely through student donations and will not use any university or state funds. "We want students to get involved in this project and let it be something they can be proud of," he said. The block U has not been refurbished since 1969 and is in desperate need of repair, Fackler said. "Over the years, while going up to whitewash and maintain the block U, it has become obvious something needed to be done," he said. John Ashton, director of the Alumni Association, said it is hoped that the money will be raised by July 1 so that the block U can be ready for the upcoming football season, "This is a major project," Ashton said. "We have decided that we are going to do a first-class job while renovating. We do not want to have to raise money again a few years down the road." The "first-class" features include a new drainage system and embedded fiber-optic lights. Fackler noted that these lights would be able to change color. "These lights will be harder to break or vandalize and will not require someone to screw in light bulbs like they do now," Ashton said. 4 1 6 8 2 4 5 3 7 1 7 2 3 4 9 2 5 9 4 7 8 8 2 2 1 ® i/| 2 C a do ku 1 6 4 Jed Layton Chronicle Writer les by Papjpocom The majority of people that attended Larry H. Miller's speech on April 21 for Discover U Days were protesters. They came to the Union ballroom decked out in Western wear—cowboy hats, blue jeans, boots and belt buckles—in silent protest of Miller's pulling the homosexual romance film "Brokeback Mountain" from his theaters. Miller candidly addressed the sea of cowboy hats. "I was debating how to forward my remarks," he said. "I feel like I ought to say howdy." An online petition to block Miller's speech was started three weeks before his campus speech. By the day of Miller's appearance, the petition had gotten more than 1,500 online signatures. Miller spent the first few minutes of his speech describing the understanding he reached during a discussion the day before with a group of students who were offended by his yanking "Brokeback Mountain" from his theaters. "Something pretty remarkable happened in this building (on April 20)," he said. "It was said at least once at that table, quite emotionally, that (a student was) expressing thoughts and feelings in that room that he had never even been able to express to his family," he said. "I thought it was a good representation that trust had developed in that room." Miller had to wipe tears from his eyes several times as he spoke about the meetingAlthough Miller said he had reached an understanding with the students, he later told The Chronicle that he still plans on not showing certain movies at his theaters. Miller said he plans to be "more sensitive" in the approach he takes when choosing not to show films in the future. "We've had a fair number of movies that we've declined to show over the last six or seven years," he said. "I think the way it was handled by the various parties involved could have been a lot better, including myself, a lot more sensitive." Miller said he hopes that by being more sensitive, his Gould said listenership of KUTE has grown in the past year, citing the station's broadcasts into the Heritage Center. She added that the Web site received 2,200 hits a month in 2005 and has received 3,000 hits a month so far this year. Poelman said those numbers do not necessarily reflect the number of listeners and that the same person could log onto the site numerous times in a day. He also said he and other ASUU members could not pick up a KUTE radio signal 20 feet from the broadcast station. Gould said that the antenna is temporarily down as it moves locations. The former antenna was located atop Baliff Hall, which was recently demolished. Another issue was that student fees were funding a person acting as faculty. Pehrson said fees are used to pay a graduate student $7,600 to run the station, and that act contradicts Article IV, Section 5 of Redbook—the student constitution—which states that "University faculty salaries may not be paid using student activity fees." Gould, who receives the $7,600, Carrie Mallon and Jeff Ortiz work at the KUTE booth in the Union Building. ASUU has voted to take control of the student-run radio station and the board of trustees is set to vote In May. said that the board of trustees approved the use of ASUU fees to pay a graduate student in 1991 when the SBC was created. After a lengthy informational sesSee KUTE Page 6 Students raise money for block U Audience wears cowboy hats to protest Miller's speech, censorship Dustin Gardiner The proposal reads under the first section, "The Student Broadcast Board will act in support of ASUU administration and operate under the direction of the ASUU President." ASUU President Ali Hasnain said the executive branch would not make direct decisions regarding KUTE but act instead as a secondary body providing a check and balance. Rick Pehrson, ASUU attorney general, said that theoretical issues should not be a problem since all the station's funding currently comes from ASUU. "(KUTE) is already tainted with government funds," he said. A similar issue emerged in the '90s when the board of trustees separated The Chronicle's funding from ASUU by creating a third-party, the Publications Council, to administer student fees to the paper. "We feel the Student Broadcast Council was something made in light of student fees and how they used to go to the Chrony from ASUU," Hasnain said. "The Student Broadcast Council, in its attempt to mirror the Publications Council, was a premature setup." m Answers can be found on the website at www.sudoku.com. Plans for obtaining the $400,000 needed range from MUSS ticket subsidiaries to asking students to personally donate $20.06. "It is a play of the graduating class of 2006," Anderson said. "We hope students will donate the number of their graduating class." For every MUSS membership bought by a U student, $1 now goes to renovating the U. While signing up online for MUSS passes, students will be asked to go to another page to pledge money for the renovation. Money donated to the block U will also indirectly help the Alumni Association raise money for student scholarships, Anderson said. Honorary alumnus Ira Fulton, a noted educational philanthropist, said he would match up to $400,000 in donations for academic scholarships. "His offering really spices up the campaign," Anderson said. "It came as a complete surprise," Ashton said "He likes to instill in students a desire to give before they leave the campus." The announcement to revamp the block U has brought criticism on both the U and the Alumni Association. Many people, including the senior staff of The Salt Lake Tribune, have said that rather than spend money fixing the block U, the Alumni Association should take it down. Others also have noted that the money being spent on the project should be entirely devoted to student scholarships. In a Chronicle letter to the editor, U alumnus Allen Sanderson said he was disappointed to learn that money would be spent to fix the block U. "The money that will be spent on this project is an egregious waste," he said. "The university should be taking the lead in being a responsible steward and should remove this type of graffiti and restore the foothills." Despite this criticism, Alumni Association leaders and organizers of the block U project say they have no plans to halt raising money or to delay construction. j.layton@chronicle.utah.edu AFFORDABLE CONVENIENT MONTHLY PAYMENTS AUTO.ATV, MOTORCYCLE, RENTERS k®xm$ Crossword ACROSS 1 Shark rival 4 Rosemary and sage 10 National, previously 14 Flurry 15 Berate 16 Pick stuff up 17 Manipulative technique 19 Parks of Alabama 20 Letter that's not really at the end of the Greek alphabet 21 She, in Italy 22 Web surfer, e.g. 23 They can carry a tune 26 Thrown in the air 28 Discrimination against a majority 31 "Dallas" mother 33 Baloney 34 Kind of consciousness 36 Asian capital whose name means "place of the gods" 40 More lustrous 42 Layoff 44 Kicking dance 45 Over and over 47 Stand at home? 46 Booker, at times 50 What mirrors show 52 Something in Ihe air 55 New Zealand native 57 Satisfy 58 Stago actress CaWwell and others 60 Watch part 64 Arctic exclamation 65 Search-by-deli nition tool 68 Film lead-in for Cop Answers on pg. 22 Edited by Will Shortz No. 0316 69 Love letter salutation 70 Make it while the sun shines 71 Checkup 72 Puts forth 73 Casual greetings DOWN 1 Rapper who cofounded Roc-aFella Records 2 Htpness 3 Binge 4 Hit sign 5 T h a n i show him!" 6 Put through a sieve S2 7 Novel that begins "Stately, plump 57 Buck Mulligan ..." 64 8 Low pitch 53 9 Minnesota twin? 66 10 Red Sox fans' slogan until 2004 71 11 Nelson Mandela's native tongue 12 Sits for a shot 13 Eyeball benders 16 Like some church matters 24 Bundle 25 Shield border 27 Heinaken, e.g. 28 Richie's mom, to the Fonz 29 Play alone 30 Coast-to-coast hwy. 32 Future atty.'s hurdle 35 Middle name of The King 54 37 Rhyme scheme of the 'Rubaiyaf 38 Kingdom in a 1951 Broadway musical 39 No pro 41 Home equity conversion 43 "Eso " (Paul Anka hil) 46 N.S.A. headquarters near Baltimore 49 It may cause a breakdown 51 Knack 52 Card game without 8's, 9's and 10's 53 Copy 54 San Francisco's Buena Island 56 Grant portrayer in 1970's80'sTV 59 Endangered antelope 61 Hurting 62 Ta-tal" 63 "Grand" brand 66 Granola grain 67 Auditing org. 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