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Show The U n i v e r s i t y of Utah's I n d e p e n d e n t S t u d e n t Voice Since THE 1890 ILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, October 16, 2006 Sports Pugcs rage 5 So overdone "Infamous" treats audiences like imbecilic children. For the record, we understand subtlety, Draft day? Shandettc Woodward says a draft may be imminent if we stand up to North Korea. Cowboy down The U football team suffers a lopsided loss to Wyoming in Laramie. Students revive billiards club, aim to teach the sport ; Miller says he trusts U administrators to select scholarship recipients ed students were receiving the scholarship, Miller said he told administrators he has a "strong Local business mogul Larry preference" that the scholarMiller is footing the bill for a ship go to legal citizens, but handful of undocumented im- that he will ultimately let them migrants to attend classes at decide what students receive the funding. theU "I said to them, 'are there Starting in 2003, Miller began providing undocumented not enough properly qualified students with full tuition and students?' and left it to them to room and board as part of his make the right decision about diversity scholarship program. that," Miller said. "By and large, He has since provided five un- we should reward people that documented students with the comply with the law," scholarship. Miller said he spoke with The students are among 58 administrators about the issue recipients of Miller's enrich- almost a year ago. ment scholarship for ethnicalStayner Landward, dean of ly diverse students. Once on students, said he recalls Miller the scholarship, students are saying he could choose one generally supported until they undocumented student each graduate. year for the scholarship. The Miller, owner of the Utah U selected an undocumented Jazz, said U administrators, immigrant as one of about a who oversee his scholarship dozen recipients of Miller's program, initially made the de- scholarship this fall. cision to award undocumented "There may be differences students without his knowing. in how we recall that, but I "They didn't tell me, but I did want to bring that to his didn't ask," he said. "I never attention so he was aware of stopped to consider whether it," Landward said. "I would they were documented or un-~ not consciously go contrary to documented." After learning undocumentSee M I L L E R Page 3 Dustin Gardiner Chronicle Asst. News Editor Ana Breton Chronicle Senior Writer -A wide variety of U students are once again coming together to compete with 16 colored balls and a couple of wooden sticks. . Several years ago, the Joining Every Student Through Billiards club stopped having regular practices due to a lack of members and general enthusiasm for the sport. Last year, however, one U student turned that around and, for its second year in a row, the JEST Billiards club is up and running and gaining more momentum that ever before. Sylvia Flater, a senior in business-, first joined the club several years after seeing, a flier advertising one of its events. After it was dropped that same year, however, she decided to restart it to give other students an opportunity to learn how to play pool just like she did when she first joined. "This is a really good place to start," said Flater, who is now the president of the club. The 30 or so members spend two hours every week in the Crimson Commons area where, with eight pool tables, they play against one another and practice their skills. Flater said students with a wide range of skills from beginning to advanced are welcome. During practice, club members usually play eight and nine ball games, but pool fundamentals are also taught. "Even if you just think you're good, you can come learn something new," Flater said. The JEST Billiards club plans to compete against Weber State University and Utah State University two times per semester, and the U will host the Region 13 Billiards Tournament in February, where clubs from Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado will compete against one another. Competing against other schools, however, is not the only perk from knowing how to play pool, said Todd Baker, a sophomore in engineering. "It also helps to impress a girl 53/43 Showers Show them the money Dive into pool ;- "Using a swearword euphemism is like having the desire to sniff cocaine, but instead of venturing into a hardcore drug, the person does a line of Pixy Slix instead." -Tony Pizza on new rules SEE FULL COLUMN PAGE 8. Larry H. and Gail Miller Scholarship for Ethnic Minorities Ethnic makeup 44 students total Hispanic.. . 2 0 ; African American . Business major Keith Qulnn breaks in a game of 9 Ball during the first meeting of the new JEST Billiards Club on Sept. 21. The club meeting consisted of playing and teaching novice members on four tables reserved for the club in the Crimson Commons. when you're on a date," said Baker, who has been playing pool for six years. "I think there's mostly guys here because a lot of people see pool as a man sport, so they don't take as much interest," Baker said. "But it really shouldn't be." So far this year, three female students have signed up for the team, which has about 30 members total. Kim Tieu, a senior in pre-medi- SeeBTLLIARDS Page 3 Asian . .' American Indian Pacific Islander. Caucasian . .1 2% Source: Dean of Students Office RVAN PERKINS/ The Daily Utah Chrcnkk Center protects Native American languages Alyssa Farley The Daily Utah Chronicle the language) up to his death," Campbell said. Information that has been Of the 175 native languages spo- passed down about natural mediken in North America, only 20 are cines and wildlife often disapcurrently being taught to chil- pears when native speakers pass dren. away, so many projects focus on More languages are nearing preserving those lesser-known extinction now than ever before, languages. according to the U's Center for One current project at the cenAmerican Indian Languages, and ter involves Mauricio Mixco and the center is striving to change Marianna DiPaolo, who currently that fact. work on preserving and enhancThe U's Center for American ing the availability of Goshute and Indian Languages is an organiza- Shoshoni materials. tion composed of linguists whose Wilson Silva, a doctorate stugoal is to maintain and revitalize dent, created the Amazonian Lanthe native languages of the indig- guage Research and Documentaenous peoples of North and South tion Group. America. _ He and other graduate students Projects focus on the documen- are working to provide literary tation and preservation of endan- resources in the form of stories, gered languages and community specifically for the language of revitalization programs for groups Ticuna, spoken in the Amazonian state in Brazil. who request the center's help. Lyle Campbell, professor of linSUva became interested in enguistics and director of the center, dangered languages as an underhelped specifically with the docu- graduate in Brazil. He worked mentation of one of the native with the Satere-Mawe language languages in El Salvador. "There group and later with Ticuna. was one native Linka speaker, and I worked with him (to preserve 5,, LANGUAGES Page 3 JOSH LEE/ The Daily Utah Chmmdt Linguistics graduate student Zeb Pischnotte, a research assistant at the Center for American Indian Languages, enters field notes into a database. Languages such as Xinka from Central America will be compiled into a dictionary and grammar guide to help preserve endangered languages. Bicyclist struck by U student A U student struck a bicyclist with her vehicle at the intersection of 300 South and University Street on Friday. The bicyclist was taken from the scene by ambulance, and the extent of injuries is not known. University of Utah Police Department Officer Jordan Winegar, who was investigating the scene, reported that three eyewitnesses saw the student driving a silver Honda Civic northbound on University Street. The driver failed to yield while turning left onto 300 South and struck the bicyclist, who was traveling southbound on University Street. Campus police Officer Lynn Rohland, who was directing traffic, reported that from his point of view, the scene appeared to be only a minor accident and that everyone involved was going to be fine. The name of the victim-has not been released. Winegar ticketed the driver of the Civic for failing to yield. Natalie Hale |