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Show Thursday, April 27, 2006 ™ DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Hurricane Katrina's impact on campus Tulane student leaves U after tuition dispute Tulane student is blown to the U Patrick Muir Chronicle Asst. News Editor Stephen Christenson was a freshman at Tulane University for just a few hours. Christenson, who was raised in Utah and whose family resides in Holladay, was there long enough to unpack and attend an orientation meeting before being ordered to evacuate. Traffic out of the city was building and lines were forming at gas stations, but Christenson and his family escaped a day before the hurricane hit. "Most of my belongings I took to TXilane remain in my dorm room there," Christenson said. The results of Hurricane Katrina left Tulane's uptown campus intact but destroyed the medical school downtowa As a result, Tulane President Scott Cowen canceled Fall Semester, leaving Christenson without a school to attend. The U accepted Christenson as a non-matriculated student, meaning he has not been formally admitted to work for a degree. According to Kay Harward, associate vice president of student affairs, the U is focusing on Utah citizens who went to Louisiana for school. The U has accepted four other students besides Christenson. The American Council on Education estimates 75,000 to 100,000 college students in the New Orleans area have been affected by the storm, and close to three dozen universities in the region have been seriously damaged. Harward has asked the faculty to help these incoming students catch up with the rest of the class. Christenson plans to go back to Tulane eventually and believes New Orleans will rebuild. "This isn't the first major natural disaster to strike a metropolitan city," Christenson said. "New Orleans' ports are of particular importance to the nation's petroleum industry, and furthermore, the city itself is home to millions whom I don't think would abandon their home so easily." p.muir@ chronicle.utah.edu Dustin Gardiner Chronicle Writer Administrators block sale offundraising T-shirt Dustin Gardiner Chronicle Writer The students behind a controversial T-shirt that was sold on campus last November to raise money for hurricane victims came under legal fire for using the U and BYU's names without permission. Shane Hinckley, licensing administrator for the U? said that although the group was working for a good cause, it violated trademark laws by using the school names without permission and were legally required to either print over the BYU reference or destroy the T-shirts. He said that if the group had asked permission to use the U's name, he would have declined because the T-shirts, which stated "BYU Sucks but Hurricanes Blow," would send a bad message. "We have a good relationship with BYU. We allow each other to use the other's name for merchandise that promotes the rivalry, but not in a way that is derogatory or offensive," he said. Hinckley, who must personally approve all uses of the U's name or logo for commercial gain, said that BYU was also unhappy about the T-shirts' message. The T-shirts were being sold to raise money for the New Orleans and Louisiana Hurricane Fund, a group founded by Tulane students to help rebuild the city of New Orleans. d.gardiner@chronicle.utah.edu Calendar bares U women, not U logo THE SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ABA TUTOR NEEDED The First water Problem by Ron Carlson An evolutionary scene with three characters: COD, his eager geek ASSISTANT, and their FOREMAN - a mid-career Field Representative for planet Earth. FOR LOVING LITTLE BOY Water Turn by Julie Jensen DUTCH and WELDON seal a late night, sexy-but-deadly deal at the irrigation ditch. 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Way Better. • • • • • • Aimee Jensen had planned to attend Tulane University last fall, but Hurricane Katrina forced her to make other plans. After evacuating New Orleans, she relocated to Utah to attend the U. But after three days, she left over a tuition discrepancy. Jensen, one of a handful of Tulane students planning to transfer to the U, was told by U employees to pay the U's tuition, despite having been told the U was offering it free. She also learned she would have to pay $20,000 in Tulane tuition if she wanted her credits transferred there. Jensen said this was upsetting because, after scholarships, her tuition at Tulane was about $4,000 for Fall Semester. Jensen decided not to attend the U, but when she tried to get the $1,500 refunded, U employees told her that it would be two to six weeks until they would know if her tuition could be refunded. After three days of talking with administrators, Jensen's tuition was finally refunded. Kay Harward, associate vice president for student affairs, said that the U will allow displaced undergraduate students to attend the U for Fall Semester, free of charge, as long as they have paid tuition at their original school. The policy for graduate students varies from department to department. "We felt a moral obligation to help displaced students continue their education," Harward said. Jensen believes that the U is responsible for the mix-up and said that employees shouldn't have told her to pay U tuition. "No one at the U really knows what's going on," she said. Harward admitted there were communication problems. "Aimee was one of the first displaced students to come to the U. At that time, we were just developing the policy. Now the policy is more clear," Harward said. d.gardiner@chronicle.utah.edu More storage (50 MB) _ Bigger otlachmenls (50 MB) Calendar, Tosks, full-featured Address Book SinglesigrHinviaMy.Ulah.edu £osy PDA synchronization View other UMoil calendars for scheduling Steve Gehrke Chronicle Editor in Chief A student group gained marketing experience last year by assembling a calendar composed of provocatively clad female students from the U. The project didn't sit well with some who were concerned about the way the calendar objectifies women. "I don't see a problem with (the models) depicting themselves any way they want to, but as far as projecting the university in that manner, I wouldn't particularly have been excited," said U President Michael Young. "It does have the capacity to objectify women in ways that many consider problematic, and I understand those concerns. Moreover, this isn't the aspect of our women students that most represents their engagement with the university or our goals for them." But Steve Court, president of the calendar's sponsoring corporation, BulIsEye Enterprises, said the calendar was sensitive and the organizers' efforts are being overshadowed by negativity. "I've been a little bit disgruntled about the people and their reactions. People judge it for its moral insignificance rather than its merit," Court said. "We could have chosen 12 cookiecutters or playmates, but we chose diversity to show the U as a whole and not just 12 gorgeous women. There's a diversity in their race and intelligence." At least one of the models said the calendar is intended to be visually appealing and added that the small blurb accompa- nying her photo did not express who she is. Nidzara Pecenkovic, a senior in philosophy and English and Ms. September in the calendar, came to the United States from Bosnia when she was 10 years old. The paragraph cites her home nation, saying, "Nidzara hails all the way from Bosnia to Utah, and thankfully so. Her ambition, beauty and intelligence will take her to places most others only dream of." Although she had many interviews and submitted written statements to Curtis Rochette, U alumnus and mastermind behind the calendar, she said, "he made it short." "It didn't reflect the interviews. Other things I do reflect me as a person, but maybe those things are secondary in a calendar like this," Pecenkovic said "I don't think one picture can reflect who I am as a person. I think one of the main goals was to make this appealing to the eye." Pecenkovic wore a bikini and posed in what she described as a "cold" fountain outside the Marriott Library last spring as curious people walked by, staring and wandering over to see what was going on. The models were paid $25 an hour for their time, or they could receive a DVD to use for their modeling portfolios. Natalie Lindsay, a sophomore studying communication and Ms. May, said most of the women, including herself, chose the money because they were not pursuing modeling. In Fall Semester 2004, Rochette formed a student group called "The Venture" and began interviewing on campus in search of the "most charismatic and confident" students to model in his calendar. Rochette said he wanted women from "a diversity of majors and colors" to appeal to a broad market. But Rochette hit his first snag when he approached U Licensing Administrator Shane Hinckley for rights to use the U logo on the product. Hinckley and his boss, Auxiliary Services Director Earl Clegg, deemed the calendar too risque, Hinckley said at first he was happy to help Rochette with the idea, but when he saw the nature of the calendar, it was obvious the administration would not want the U associated with the product Then, Rochette and co-creator and Ms. October Crystal Flynn said the calendar became "a lot less modest." "You have to have a reason to buy a calendar, and if you don't have the University of Utah logo on it, then you have to have another reason for it to sell," Flynn said. Despite the controversy and inability to use the U logo, University Bookstore is carrying the calendar. In September 2005 the group finished "On Campus @ Utah" and Rochette and Flynn say they are happy with the final product. s.gehrke@chronicle.utah.edu |