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Show Monday, August Monday, august 25, ZD, 2008 A ,—, DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Forum will host Back for another round noted speakers www.dailyutahchronide. com The University o fUtah's Independent Student V o i c e S i n c e 1 8 9o The forum, also produced by the Institute of Public and International Affairs, will include a keynote address and dinner on the evening of Nov. 12, followed by an afternoon of lectures and panel discussions Nov. 13. Ott said forum organizers selected speakers based not only on their unique perspectives and their cutting edge understanding of the issues to be discussed, but also on their ability to communicate effectively with the average person who might or might not have the same level of knowledge. Hamilton is a former congressman from Indiana who served as chair of the House Committee on International Relations and vice chair of the 9/11 Commission. He will deliver the opening night keynote address in the Rice-Eccles Stadium press room. "Lee Hamilton, de- David Servatius STAFF WRITER TYLER COBB/fhr ftu/y Ut^ fftrawMr Gary Bowling helped his son, Dave Bowling, a sophomore marketing major, drive from Boise, Idaho and move into the Sage Point dorms on campus Friday morning. Gary said that this year's moving trip went more smoothly thanks to all the lessons they learned last year. UTA Ed-Passes delayed Jaime Winston STAFF WRITER Tori Ballif used her UTA Ed-Pass to take the bus from her home in Kaysville to the U every day last year, and she'll use her pass to take TRAX to school this fall...as soon as it arrives. This year, UTA ordered the Ed-Passes from China, which caused delivery delays because of increased commerce involving the Beijing Olympics. The new passes will have Electronic Fare Collection technology, allowing passengers to wave them by a scanner to open doors for TRAX, FrontRunner and UTA buses. The advanced Ed-Passes are expected to arrive at the UCard office by Sept. 15. Until then, students like Ballif may ride public transportation using their UCard instead. Students have until Oct. 31 to use their U Cards to ride UTA. "I think on TRAX it won't be as big of an issue," said Ballif, a senior in history who has moved to downtown Salt Lake City near the TRAX line. "But if I was still taking the bus, I think that would be a bigger problem." Ballif said the drivers on the UTA buses she's used have been diligent about checking every passenger's form of payment and she worries that new drivers may not know the Ed-Passes have been delayed. "They may give you a bit of grief or make you pay," she said. Carrie Bohnsack-Ware, a UTA spokesperson, said recognition of UCards as payment should not be a problem because all UTA employees have been informed of the situation. "For right now, this is the only thing we can do to alleviate (the delay)," she said. "I guess we didn't take into account the Olympics when we ordered them." The UCard system will not be flawless, Bohnsack-Ware said. Former students who still have a UCard might be able to take advantage of the delay. "There's not much we can do about that right how," she said. Jake Green, a transportation planner for the U, is not worried about past students riding with a UCard. He said the new passes will decrease the number of people sneaking on with old passes. New passes will deactivate on an expiration date, while the passes from previous years only have a deactivation date printed on them. "Everyone pays in their tuition a transportation fee and this is what it's going to," Green said. Green said he urges any students who do have a problem using a UCard or the new pass to contact U Commuter Services so the issue can be resolved. Alisha Moody, a senior in photography, plans to take TRAX to school every day this fall. "I ride TRAX every day and if I had to walk to school ifwould not be cool, so I think it's a good use of our tuition," Moody said. If non-students manage to sneak on a TRAX train occasionally, Moody is not concerned. "If people are going to ride TRAX without paying, they are going to find a way to do it," she said. "I'm not sure if this will prevent people from taking a free ride, but it will help improve the situation." j.winston@chronicte.utah.edu Transit passes not ready > Why haven't new UTA ED-Passes been distributed? The shipment of the new passes was delayed because of a problem with the manufacturer. The Chinese manufacturer received a high number of orders due to the Summer Beijing Olympics and couldn't complete the order in Time. > When will the new passes arrive? The passes are scheduled to arrive at the U Card Office September^. > What can students do in the meantime? Students can use their U Card until October 31 for transportation on UTA buses, TRAX and FrontRunner. The U's 12th Annual Siciliano Forum will feature a member of the 9/11 Commission, an award-winning foreign affairs journalist and a U professor who is running to be Lebanon's next president. Lee Hamilton The College of Social and Behavioral Science announced recently thatLee Hamilton, Margaret Warner and Chibli Mallat will headline the twoday event, which will be held in November. Steven Ott, dean of the college, said the forum will focus on the changing nature of armed conflict in the world and how far a democratic society Margaret Warner is willing to go to protect itself against the threat of terrorism. "The Siciliano Forum is on the status of American society, and what we have been doing is trying to tackle the intractable questions facing us," Ott said. "For example, and this is not any sort of political statement, all of the Chibli Mallat arguing that we are seeing about what laws should apply to our detainees at Guantanamo." See FORUM Page 6 Council to oversee all student media Ryan Shelton ASST. NEWS EDITOR Communication professors are coming together to form a committee and write bylaws that would revamp student media—an endeavor that began when the U Board of Trustees received recommendations from the University of Utah Media Education Task Force earlier in the summer to overhaul to the U's student media production. The task force, which was assembled in 2006 at the request of U President Michael Young, recommended in a report that the U's broadcast and publications councils be combined to form the University Student Media CounciL As professional media outlets worldwide begin consolidating individual productions into diversified hybrids, often combining See MEDIA Page 6 Lana Groves NEWS: Thanks to a $12 million grant from the Sorensen Foundation, plans for a campus arts education complex are in the works. See page 4 1* ASST. NEWS EDITOR Students will continue to see construction work across campus during the next five years as the U begins to tackle a nearly $30 million piping project that will repair failing high temperature water infrastructure. The project, which began in early August, will replace 65,000 feet of piping throughout campus in three phases. "The new pipes are six inches, pre-insulated, wrapped around with another steel pipe and then coated with a very thick polymer material," said Tom Christensen, project manager for U Campus Design and Construction. "It's supposed to last 40 years so we hope to never see the pipe again." New high temperature water piping has been discussed ever since facilities management began noticing failures in the existing pipes. The pipes, which had an intended lifetime of 20 years, have begun leaking water in certain areas and minor repairs have already been made to a section of pipes near the College of OPINION: Gina Lea Nickl criticizes a nationwide effort led by university presidents to lower the drinking age. /~'v_ See page 10 Jfe SPORTS: The offense gelled just in time as the Utes are less than a week away from the season opener. Seepage 14 visual, broadcast and text-based elements, the task force members hoped to promote similar practices on campus. U professor and chair of the student broadcast council, Robert Avery, praised the recommendations and pledged his support to the proposed USMC. "I think it's a very positive approach," Avery said. "It has the potential to really strengthen media at the U...I*m pleased to have the opportunity to help draft the new bylaws." Under the current system, both the publications and broadcast councils disburse student fees to all student publications and broadcasts at the U, including The Daily Utah Chronicle and KUTE, the U's student-run radio station. The councils act like traditional pub- Pipe project could take 5 years Inside: ( Vol.118 | No. 2| ©2008 / / l I'm f "* ' ^ •*» ~~m TYLER COBB/to (k-ty Utah Chttaklt Dave MendiveTack welds the new high temp water pipes that are being put in north of the Union. See P I P E S Page 6 |