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Show NEWS Page Friday, October 27,2006 Dance marathon wins Rock the U funding from ASUU the Huntsman Center and will include music, food, speakers, performers, entertainment and The ASUU Senate passed a service opportunities. While ASUU estimates the bill Thursday granting $25,000 to Rock the U—a new charity event will carry a $45,000 price group that will host a 26.2-hour tag, the U student constitution, dance marathon later this year Redbook, says the maximum to raise money for the Hunts- amount of money that can be petitioned for at one time is man Cancer Institute. The money will come out of $25,000. The board will have to the Associated Students of the raise the remaining $20,000. University of Utah general reASUU leaders said Rock the U serve fund, which currently con- was designed to increase unity tains $250,000. among students, build tradition The same bill passed in the and join U students and the surstudent General Assembly on rounding community in the fight Tuesday. Student Body President against cancer. Jake Kirkham must now sign the Other universities have hosted bill for it to take effect. similar events; Perm State raised Kirkham recently added a $4.2 million last year with its Rock the U board to his Execu- dance marathon. Next week, Rock the U board members will tive Cabinet. Rock the U's dance marathon travel to Indiana University to will be held March 15 and 16 in see their dance marathon. The Rochelle McConkie Missing ink Former gang members get second chance with tattoo removal program Natalie Hale Vie Daily Utah Chronicle In 1991, the Salt Lake Area Gang Project and the U Hospital joined forces to help former gang members finalize their rupture with their past lifestyle by providing gang-related tattoo removal for free. "A lot of people get these tattoos so they can become members of the groups, and later want to un-affiliate," said Joseph Ku, one of two chief residents who runs the tattoo-removal program at the U Hospital. Tattoo removal can cost thousands of dollars, and many of the participants do not have the resources to have these procedures done, Ku said. Most of the tattoos the residents see are black and deeply set within the skin. Using a laser, doctors go over the tattoos directly. The beam breaks the pigment into thousands of smaller parts that the body can then absorb, causing the tattoo to fade. Removal can be somewhat painful, Ku said, but it is a part of the rehabilitation program. Former gang members are asked to remove their tattoos, which is seen as a final break from their past lifestyle. The most common types of tattoos seen are names, tears below the eyes and names of the gang with which they were affiliated. Many tattoos are homemade, using a needle and ink that is poked deep into the skin. Ku said there is no scarring related to using a laser on these tattoos, which fade with each treatment the patient receives. The size, color and deepness of the tattoo determine how many treatments the patient receives. "Some take only five treatments, but I have seen some patients that have had up to 30 and are still notfinished,"said Jaime Haidenberg, the other chief resident of the program. "Oftentimes, no matter how many treatments they receive, there will still be a residual shadow of the tattoo left that cannot be removed," Ku said. The Daily Utah Chronicle Huntsman Cancer Institute is funding the trip. ASUU hopes to raise $300,000 through Rock the U. They expect 15,000 people to attend the dance, including 300 sponsored dancers for the competition. Each dancer is required to personally raise $300 for the cancer institute to participate. The student government is soliciting money for in-kind donations, which will pay for prizes, food, gift certificates and operating costs. It hopes to raise $80,000 and to recruit 500 volunteers for the event. The Rock the U board has currently raised $2,000 and received close to $700 in donations. While there have been no surveys conducted to show U student support of this event, ASUU president Jake Kirkham is hopeful the event will be suc- cessful. "I am 100 percent confident that this event will raise at least $50,000," he said. Senator Piper Morrell of the College of Nursing expressed concerns that the bill lacked accountability because it does not specify how much money, if any, would be paid back to ASUU after the event. Toby Collett, ASUU vice president, said he hopes the event will generate enough money this year so that it can be self-funded hi later years. Senator Clay Perkins of the College of Business voiced concerns about the lack of surveys conducted. "I have a duty to represent the students and the students weren't asked about this," he SeeROCK Page3 Bombs away MELINDA HOM-Yt'lLUAMS/ThfDeily U.'ah Chronidc Derek Hardy, a first year in the Army ROTC program, practices hand grenade assault at Ballif Field on Thursday. The annual hand grenade assault SeeTASS Page3 Earn while you learn Fired BYU professors speak out three different securities. The experiments simulate financial markets and allow Many college students students to monitor their may jump at the chance to progress. make money while attendThe securities are liming classes, and U students ited to three to allow more have the chance to do just control so Asparouhova that. and her students can obWith the U's Finance tain more accurate results 3050 "Introduction to In- than financial advisers who vestments" course, stu- have to calculate real-world dents can gain more than data. just knowledge while parThese experiments are ticipating in their class ex- conducted by the U's Labperiments. oratory for Experimental Elena Asparouhova, as- Economics and Finance. sistant professor of finance The laboratory is one of at the U, conducts stock- only a few of its kind. market-like trading experiAsparouhova ran her first ments as part of her class, experiment in 2004, and enabling students to put since then around 400 stutheir skills to the test and dents have participatedgain some real- world expeHowever, students are rience. not the only ones who can "It's cool—you start with take part in the testing. such small amounts, not re- Asparouhova runs separate ally knowing what you're experiments than those doing, and then one day of her classes for research she (Asparouhova) shows purposes. up with envelopes with The class trials require the money we made," said a $15 fee and students usuSteve Fletcher, a senior in ally earn their initial investfinance. ment back; Asparouhova In addition to gaining said that good strategy is an overall introduction definitely rewarded. to the world of investing, Meghan Pooley, a junior students participate in a in accounting said, "I didn't couple of lab-like experiments in which they trade See¥TNANCEPage3 Panel members say academic freedom is essential to higher education Dustin Gardiner Chronicle Asst. News Editor Cecilia Konchar Farr was hired by Brigham Young University to be a feminist theorist, but after giving what she calls "an anti-abortion, pro-choice" speech at the Capitol she was abruptly fired from the school Farr's job was to teach feminist theory in the English department at the private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but says she was given the boot in 1992 for practicing the same theory she taught. "BYU hired me to be (a) feminist theorist—they fired me for the same reason," Farr said. Now, more than ten years later, Farr encourages students to challenge the limits their schools place on academic freedom. Farr was among three former BYU professors that spoke at a U panel discussion on "Academic Freedom" Thursday night. The forum also featured (Amy Wildermuth, a professor ^in the U Law School. About 50 students gathered in the Union Ballroom to take part in the more than two-hour discussion. Jeffrey Nielsen, a former BYU professor who was fired this summer for criticizing LDS church policy toward homosexuals in a newspaper column, also spoke on the panel. Nielsen said that BYU's policies can be applied to a "double-truth theory" that states faith and reason are two independent and unrelated modes of inquiry. It is dangerous when students or any group of people are told to have blind faith and divorce reason from religion, Nielsen said. He argued that people can question certain tents of their religion and still be faithful members. "Genuine faith has room for doubt," Nielsen said. ' Several of the panel members said BYU's reputation for silencing academic freedom has hurt its student's ability to get accepted into different graduate schools. Jared Kubly, who organized, the event for the stu- dent government, agreed with the panelists that BYU's rules can have negative consequences for their students. "All of a sudden a degree doesn't count like it should," Kubly said. "Students suffer when they don't hear diverse points of view." d.gardiner@ chronicle.utah.edu LENNIE MAHLF.R77i* Daily Utah Chronick Jeffrey Nielsen discusses academic freedom and the BYU's policy when dealing with a professor whose academic beliefs clash with beliefs of the LDS faith, joined by former BYU faculty Cecilia Farr and others in a panel discussion. Pano Mintiloglitis The Daily Utah Chronicle |