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Show CASHING IN: Dan Rather deserves the $70 million from his law suit, says Lauren Mueller see page Monday, 24,2007 y, September p , www.dailyuiqhchron ide. con} T h e UTAH CHRONICLE U n i v e r s i t y o fU t a h ' s I n d e p e n d e n t S t u d e n t Voice S i n c e 1 8 9o Vol. 1 1 7 ! No. 48 ; ©2007 ASUU tightens club budgets Rochelle McConkie ASST. NEWS EDITOR Crimson Nights will likely receive S3o,ooo less from the student government than it did last year, which ASUU senators said is a result of a rule in the student constitution capping student-group funding at $5,000. While the Associated Students of the University of Utah urged the Union Programming Council to make budget cuts, UPC leaders said the decrease could cost them two Crimson Nights—the free campus parties held in the Union about once a month. "We'll do as much as we can with the money we have...but it's hard to offset operational costs when the at- tendance is so high," said Julie TVan, director of UPC. Tran said UPC might have to cancel the November Crimson Nights because of a lack of funding. The ASUU Senate voted last Thursday to give the UPC $5,000 instead of the $25,000 it asked for, which would be transferred from a general reserve fund under the Presenter's Office, ASUU's programming board. The Senate vote for the bill was ten to three with one abstention. The ASUU General Assembly will vote on the bill Tuesday evening. Although UPC and ASUU have been meeting since the summer to discuss funding, Crimson Nights Director Madison Warren said that the magnitude of the decrease was "a little shocking." She said UPC will have to "be very creative" with budgeting to avoid canceling events. "We'll do everything we can not to cut them, and really make Crimson Nights better this year," Warren said. ASUU's decision to decrease UPC's funding came when leaders noticed a rule in Redbook saying that no student organization could receive more than $5,000 per year of ASUU funds from any source. Although the rule has always been in place, past administrations had not been following it, thinking that giving See CRIMSON Page 3 Crimson Nights Director Madison Warren and other members of the board present their case for financing to the ASUU Senate. The Senate voted to cap Crimson Nights funding at $5,000. Community remembers J.D. Williams Hundreds gather to honor U teacher, benefactor Dustin Gardiner NEWS EDITOR John Tompson and DonKirk from the U Police Department train with Airsoft guns Thursday night in the event of a shooting in Orson Spencer Hall. The training prepared U Police personnel to teach other officers proper procedures. Campus police train for shootings Ana Breton ASST. NEWS EDITOR BANG. It was 1:30 a.m. and a shot had just been fired somewhere in OSH. Four officers from the U Police Department loaded their firearms and in tight formation, headed down the stairs closest to the auditorium. Quickly, yet carefully, the officers stepped down the staircase, closely watching for any movement or sound. They did not know where the shot had been fired, who had fired it, and even worse—whether the shooter would fire again. All they knew is that they had to move fast because, more than likely, someone was already dead. "Let's pluck this chicken," police officer John Thompson said. Rounding the corner, the officers turned, sped up and headed toward a hallway with half a dozen classrooms on either side. Suddenly, another shot was fired. But, this time, it wasn't followed by silence. A man dressed in black walked out of one classroom and carelessly strolled past the officers with a gun in See SHOOTING Page 3 U honors veterans at WWII POW ceremony Ex-soldier tells stories of prison camp Arthur Raymond STAFF WRITER An 86-day forced march through Eastern Europe in the dead of winter is just one of the atrocities Richard W. Burt suffered at the hands of the German army in the waning days of World War II. "I weighed 141 pounds before I was captured...and 90 pounds when I was X released," Burt said. Burt was the guest speaker at a day of remembrance for soldiers who spent time as prisoners of war or who were reported as missing in action. The memorial service was hosted Friday by the U's chapter of the Arnold Air Society, a service group composed of members of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at the U TERESA GETTEN/rw&i/y (ton The U chapter of the Arnold Air Society hosted a remembrance event Friday at Memory Grove for soldiers who spent time as prisoners of war or who were reported missing in action. Burt's harrowing saga began on Nov. 16,1944. He was a radio operator on a B-24 bomber team flying missions into Germany from a base Ted Wilson remembers the way J.D. Williams delighted in teaching all of his students to become politically engagedeven Karl Rove. When Williams spoke of Rove, the former chief strategist for President George Bush, he would often say he taught Rove about politics, then he would get a glint in his eye and say, "but not his ethics." "J.D., above all things, wanted us to get involved in politics," . said Wilson, a former mayor of Salt Lake City and past director of the U's Hinckley Institute of Politics^. ^ ->. t Wilson joined family members and colleagues of Williams at a memorial service on Saturday to remember Williams' life and contributions to the U. Hundreds of people, many of them local political leaders, filled the seats of Kingsbury Hall to honor Williams, who taught political science at the U for nearly 40 years. Williams died on Sept. 4 at age 81 after battling cancer for years. He served as the founding director of the Hinckley Institute and unsuccessfully ran for political office, including the U.S. Senate, several times as a Democrat. Colleagues said Williams was known for his random acts of kindness. Wilson said at dinners, Williams would often pick a random table and tell the waitress to send them ice cream sundaes but not to tell them whom they were from. Sharlene Linford, a former student and longtime tennis partner of Williams, thanked his wife Barbara Williams, or "Bea" as he called her, and in Italy. On that day, Burt was assigned to fill in on a team missing their regular operator. "As I waved goodbye to my flight team, I had no way of knowing I would not see them again/' he said. While the team was attempting to return to the base, one engine on their plane was disabled by a flak strike over their target in Germany and a second engine failed on their return flight. Burt and his fellow crew members were forced to parachute from the plane over Yugoslavia. Burt was captured by Russian Cossacks, who were fighting for the German army, the day after his plane went down. He was transferred to Stalag Luft IV, a prisoner-of-war camp in Po- other family members for letting him be a personal mentor to so many people. "We're better human beings and individuals because you J.D. Williams were willing to share him," Linford said. During the first semester of her freshman year in 1968, Linford said Williams inspired her when he lectured the class about "falling in love with ideas." She said he came to know everyone in his classes by name and remembered most of them for years after. Williams was also remembered for his love of the U.S. Constitution and concern over the current state of the country. His nephew, Brooke Williams, reminisced about Friday lunches with Williams where, he said, his uncle would sometimes quote Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution with tears in his eyes. Williams received an undergraduate degree in political science from Stanford University, a Master's degree in public administration from Harvard University and a doctoral degree in political economy, also from Harvard. U President Michael Young said Williams made "legendary" contributions to the university. Young structured his memories around the words of the "Utah Man" song. "I think if there ever were a Utah man, it was J.D. Williams," Young said. d.gardiner@ chronicle.utah.edu land. He spoke of the extreme conditions at the camp. "One guy would go to the mess hall with a bucket. He'd come back with hot water, or maybe some turnip soup or a couple of potatoes," Burt said. That bucket was the entire food ration for the 25 men in his barrack. The entire camp was surrounded by a double electric fence and guard towers. A "warning" line inside the fence perimeter marked the boundary for prisoners. Burt said that any prisoner who crossed this boundary would not be given a warning, "they'd just be shot." In Feb. 1945, Burt and the other See POWS Page 3 |
