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Show BCS BATTLE A ME: PmcDaggTm in ,nptatfcm ,o0'M ilpt cgmqc,MMalgi IMO 111CDA lHE , Does Texas or TCU deserve to play in the National Championship game? of Utah' , December 9, 2009 CHRONICLE ~ .dailyutalichroccom )) 6 Independent Student Voice Since 1890 Vol. 119 No.58 ©2009 Winter weather takes U by storm Rita Totten STAFF WRITER The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning effective until Tuesday afternoon, and many students experienced the effects of the storm on their way to campus that morning. A snowstorm battered Utah for the past two days, dumping at least six inches of snow on Salt Lake City by Tuesday, according to the NWS. Kenneth Morley, a sophomore in meteorology, said driving to campus Tuesday was "awful." He lives in the Avenues where the roads were really bad, he said. "The closer I got to campus, the roads improved a bit, but the hill on 100 South was really slippery," Morley said. Although the roads were slippery, crowded and slow, campus shuttles weren't experiencing any major delays. "Generally they don't have nearly the same problems as individual vehicles do because they are so heavy," said Alma Allred, director of Cornmuter Services, about the campus shuttles. Allred said the only issue Tuesday's heavy snowfall presented for the shuttles was that it forced them to go slower. The shuttles were a little delayed getting to their stops, Allred said. Students also reported delays of Utah Transit Authority buses. Antony Clark, a freshman in theater, said he waited for the 8:26 a.m. bus on Foothill Drive that never came. He said at about 8:50 a.m., a different bus came and he got on, even though it wasn't the bus he normally takes. "I was about 20 minutes late to class," Clark said. Walking around campus through the snowfall was similar to the road conditions. Both Morley and Clark said it was extremely slippery on campus. "I was constantly slipping," Clark said. Someone should salt the sidewalks before someone gets injured, he said. r.totten@ chronicle.utah.edu TANER PASAMEHMETOGLU/The Daily Utah Chronicle Many students struggled to get to campus on time for class as a winter storm came to Salt Lake City. Crews worked to make the walkways around campus safer. ASUU address reviews ups, 2 parties apply for 2010 election downs of year's projects Andreas Rivera Chris Mumford STAFF WRITER STAFF WRITER Student Body President Tayler Clough revisited his old campaign promise to run student government honestly and transparently at the State of ASUU address Tuesday. Promising an honest, balanced assessment of his administration's progress thus far, Clough highlighted his administration's successes, including posting the Associated Students of the University of Utah's budget online for the first time, creating websites for student groups on campus, lowering the cap on future campaign spending and creating a student fee committee, but also discussed several policies that remain "mired down" and will require more work to complete. Chief among the delayed projects, Clough's peer mentoring program, which proposes to pay U students to assist middle school students who are less likely to attend college. The program would develope basic academic skills that will improve their chances of advancing to the level of college education. The program, which was originally designed for high school students, has undergone several key changes in recent months because of concerns about its $15,000 peryear price tag and Clough's plan to make it permanent. At the address in the Union Ballroom on Tuesday, Clough said that a vote on the initiative is still a month away, and he See ASUU Page 3 THIEN SOK/The Daily Utah Chronicle ASUU Vice President Rachel Rizzo speaks at the State of ASUU address. Topics included library hours, open field use for sports, child care on campus and an increase in the collegiate readership program. A call to action Michael McFall Celeste Chaney Sports fans never cease to find ways to disagree—hometown superiority, why one team succeeds, who should be traded where—but between the chaos, the hatred and the beer-fueled family feuds, there's one thing they can agree on: family. "We love doing it as a family," said Lucy Taylor, a self-identified Ute fan for the past 20 years—as if her red Ute jacket doesn't give that away. On either side of her in the Huntsman Center, having just left a rousing Runnin' Utes game, are her daughters, Annie and Lily, in their own miniature Ute apparel. The universal basis of fandom isn't an objective evaluation of statistics, and it isn't a subjective desire to be like a particular quarterback on the other side of the country. "It's definitely generational," said Matt Dib as he cradles his son in his arm. "Born and raised a Ute fan." Brian Neilly said he feels the same way. Nate Currey, a gay senior in urban planning, converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and completed a mission in Lithuania before being excommunicated and expelled from BYU. Currey said that though he always knew he was gay, he was initially scared of the idea and joined the LDS Church for guidance. He thought that if that's what God wanted him to do, he'd get rid of it, he said. Currey said three-quarters of the way through his mission, he realized that homosexuality was always going to be part of who he was. "I thought, 'I am doing everything that I know to do, everything that I'm being told God is expecting of me, and it's not go- ing away," he said. "People say it's a choice to be gay; it is in a sense. It was my choice to accept it." Even though some parts of society aren't accepting of Currey's sexuality, he and others like him aren't ready to call it quits in their fight for an identity, voice and place in America. At the Utah Pride Festival in June, Cleve Jones, the festival's grand marshal and an American AIDS and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights activist, told the festival's rain-soaked crowd that he had two words from California for the LDS Church: thank you. Those two words were in response to the millions of dollars the LDS Church donated in support of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage in the See LGBT Page 3 See ELECTION Page 3 • Ute born and Ute bred: Fandom runs in the family U's LGBT community aims for unity SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE On Monday, the Associated Students of the University of Utah's election board opened applications for parties planning to run during the 2010 ASUU elections, and two candidates and their parties have come forth to try their hands at politics. Clint Hugie, a senior in philosophy and business, and Chase Jardine, a junior in economics, are the presidential candidates for the ICE and NOW parties, respectively, in hopes to lead the student body during the 2010-2011 academic year. Technically, Hugie isn't registered to run yet. He and Jardine, director of campus relations for ASUU, both wanted to use the color green for their parties, said ASUU President Tayler Clough. Green was the color of the past three parties that won an ASUU election. Derek Hoffman, the elections registrar offered to do a coin toss to decide who gets to use the color— but as a Quaker, Hugie was religiously against flipping a coin since it's gambling, which he thinks shouldn't be allowed, and he is taking the coin toss issue to the ASUU Supreme Court for a ruling, Clough said. In the meantime, there was an issue with Hugie's paperwork, and he will have to refile. He and Jardine eventually agreed that ICE would use light blue and NOW would use green. Hugie ran a campaign for the student body president last spring with the Synergy Party, but lost in the first primary vote to the GO and Revolution parties. Undeterred by the loss, Hugie formed the ICE Party, which is an acronym for "Imagine, Connect and Evolve," those tenets being his primary focus. ICE wants to create more collaboration with the NEWS EDITOR "Been a fan since I was born," said Neily, a U alumnus. Despite having just lost to the Oregon State University Ducks, Neily wasn't down. There was another, bigger game on the horizon that he wouldn't want to miss: BYU. Like the thousands of other See FANS Page 3 COURTESY ALEXIS SCOTT From a young age, many have had the Utah spirit instilled within them by their parents and other family members, including fervor for the rivalry with the Team Down South. |