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Show JTuz DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE College of Science/College of Mines and Earth Sciences Frontiers of Science Lecture Series www.science.utah.edu (801) 581-6958 Racist group distributes flyers in Chronicle Michael McFall ASST. NEWS EDITOR The Yellowstone Supervolcano Robert B. Smith Professor of Geophysics University of Utah is? w During late December 2008 and early January 2009, Yellowstone experienced its second-largest earthquake swarm in recorded history, which was well-documented by the U of U real-time seismic network. The sequence consisted of about 1,000 earthquakes, including a dozen quakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher, and one as large as 3.9 on the Richter scale. Smith is the university's coordinating scientist for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. Find out what he has to say about the past, present, and future of the-Yellowstone supervolcano! Some Sugar House residents woke up Wednesday morning to find The Daily Utah Chronicle on their front lawn—but it wasn't the headlines that caught their attention. Anti-Semitic and anti-interracial flyers, strapped to old editions of The Chronicle with a rubber band, were distributed to about a dozen front lawns along the 1900 block of Blaine Avenue. B.J. Stringam said he picked up the school paper after his morning jog and was shocked to find the racist flyers inside. "Keep your bloodlines pure," some read. "America is being controlled by the Jews," read others. All of the flyers advertised joining the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization headquartered in Detroit, Mich. Stringam said that since only the 1900 block was hit, he suspects the neo-Nazi propagandist might live on the street, which is home to at least two targets of the racism. Susan and Jamal Jackson, an interracial couple, have "Or, when kids axe pretending and they pretend to shove a friend in front and pull them continued from Pagel back. I wish students would a train's departure and when really understand how danhis classes let out is too close gerous it is to do stuff like that in front of a train." together for him not to run. Ashley Spencer, a junior in "Every class gets out at 1:45 p.m.," he said, out of breath as parks, recreation and tourism, he hopped onto the last car of rides the light rail to class four the train. "It'd make a differ- days a week and enjoys her time ence if they'd make it come relaxing on the train, though she five minutes later," he added said waiting for TRAX is a little less enjoyable sometimes. as the doors closed. "One of the worst things is Bohnsack-Ware said the sight of hurried people run- that it's cold outside," she said. ning in front of trains is a daily Spencer said catching TRAX is hit and miss. "Sometimes I concern for UTA drivers. "It's probably one of the get there," she said, referring most traumatic things, espe- to times when she has had to ially during big events, like U run to make the train. f U football games," she said. Adam Pritchard, a sopho- SAFETY March 18 • 7:30 p.m. 1 BUDGET Aline W. Skaggs Biology Bldg. Free and open to the public! I continued from Page 1 com MISS MARCH :, Thursday, March 12,2009 WWW.MISSMARCHMOVIE.COM disallow an additional $10 million, which was usually sent to the medical school. The health department is appealing the decision to disallow funds through CMS, and said the money wasn't calculated incorrectly, said Gordon Crabtree, chief financial officer for University Health Care. Even if the state succeeds lived in the neighborhood for more than a decade. Susan Jackson said that the racist flyers didn't faze her. "This is America, and they're free to believe what they want, just as I'm free to believe what I want," she said. But she said she hopes that the flyers are where it stops and that they aren't a precursor to anything more serious. "I hope it's just someone with too much time on their hands," she said. The Jacksons' neighbor, Kevin McDunough, thought it was strange that someone would go through the trouble of using The Chronicle. Since the school paper doesn't deliver, the propagandist would have to come up to the U to pick up the copies and bring them back to Blaine Avenue. Detective Robin Snyder of the Salt Lake Police said that no one has reported the hate crime to the police. The Chronicle filed a theft report with campus police. "It's surprising that this would happen today, in 2009," Stringam said. m.mcfall@ chronicle.utah.edu more in history, agreed. "I used to catch the train at the 1300 East TRAX stop," he said. "When you miss it, it's a long bike ride." Rick Mejias, a junior in psychology, had just missed his train home and said he sees other people running for the train every day at the Stadium TRAX stop. "I saw this guy this morning who was running," he said. "The train was parked there for a while and he pushed the button, but I guess it had already decided it was going to go." Robert Shinkoskey, a junior in consumer and community studies who started taking TRAX and FrontRunner, UTA's commuter rail, this se- mester, said he has had to run for the train but he's not worried about getting hit, because he always runs across the rails behind the train. "When I run, normally I catch the train," he said. i.bravo@chronicle.utah.edu in appealing the decision to withhold payments, the medical school will not receive the expected annual $10 million from CMS ever again, Wirthlin said. For students, this could have negative consequences on their education and the number of students accepted into the U's medical school. Wade Daniels, a third year medical student at the U, said it's a "tragedy" the medical school will have to cut the number of students attending, especially considering the national shortage of physicians. The U accepts a few more than 100 students each year. "They're doing it so they don't hinder the educational quality of the students coming in and the ones already here," Daniels said. "It's sad the state couldn't help with funding." Wirthlin said the Legislature could still fund the medical school, but the 2009 session ends tonight. l,groves@ chronicle.utah.edu Contact UTA If students have complaints or suggestions on how to improve UTA service, they should contact customer service at 1 -888-RIDE-UTA or leave a comment on the UTA Web site, www.rideuta.com/ root/contactUs.ospx. HSU AFTER FOUR YEARS IN A COMA, EUGENE IS GOING TO BE REUNITED WITH HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART... ON PAGES 95-97. No Interest for 1 Year with your UCard* 'On Approved Credit Not valid with any other offers. 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