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Show INTO THE WILD The Banff Film Festival celebrates films that give viewers a glimpse of the great outdoors» 4 Wednesday, February 23, 2011 TAH CHRONICLE WW all uta c r nice h e University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 Vol. 120 1 No. 83 1 02011 Residence Hall prices to increase Scott Wiseman STAFF WRITER Students planning to live on campus starting Fall 2011 will see an increase in prices for rent and meal plans. Anticipated increases include $162 per academic year for a double room, $191 for a single and $23 more per month for a four-bedroom apartment on campus, according to the Housing and Residential Education website. The prices of the meal plans are also slated to increase. The average meal QA ------ ......„ PLAN. CHRISTOPHER REEVES/The Daily Utah Chronicle plan for 15 meals per week for student cancellation of will increase by $65 per aca- housing contracts is finandemic year. cial issues, Jensen said. Living on campus might Devon Joslin, a freshman be more expensive, but the in ballet, spent her first year benefits that come with at the U living in Chapel it outweigh the monetary Glen Residence Halls. She costs, said Scott Jensen, as- plans to relocate off-campus sistant director of Housing for the upcoming school year and Residential Education. because of the high prices. Some of the benefits that "I didn't really like the come with living on cam- meal plan—it was kind of pus include easy access to annoying," Joslin said. "The campus shuttles, prepared prices are pretty high, and meals, a convenient location it's required to live there." and the security of resident Students living on camassistants and campus secu- pus have the opportunity to rity. The most frequent reason See HOUSING Page 3 '' .• •.• ilk,-•_ • • .: .. .. .11 .. T. Double R Single Rooni ._21 .... 4-bedroom apartment -e-`1' 15 per week meal plan Unlimited meal plan Students at the Residence Halls will have to pay more for room and board in the Fall 2011 semester. : 4 .... I CREASE: 9101Yper year $791 per year $23 per month $65 per year $76 per year 1"816 CHRISTOPHER REEVES/The Daily Utah Chronicle Students make their way around the Residence Halls on their way to class. HINCKLEY FORUM UGuest Forum discusses future of Utah Energy access is censored Katie Harrington STAFF WRITER Andreas Rivera STAFF WRITER People trying to connect to the U's wireless guest Internet access might find their favorite websites blocked. The U initiated content blocking on websites containing "R-rated content, pornography, adult content, obscene or tasteless material," on the UGuest connection. The UConnect access is not content filtered. The change came last week, according to the Campus Help Desk. Filtering content for the UGuest connection has been in progress for a while. Blocked websites include YouTube, Google Video, Hulu, Netflix and The Onion. "It makes sense to block some sites because you wouldn't want a bunch of people coming to See UGUEST Page 3 The Hinckley Institute of Politics held a forum Tuesday on the future of Utah's energy, co-sponsored by the Office of Sustainability and the Environmental Studies Program. The forum featured four people, all of whom work within the state's energy industry in one capacity or another. The topics they discussed included use of nuclear power and renewable energy, price variability of utilities for Utahns, and energy storage options. Christopher Thomas, executive director of the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah, kicked off the forum by discussing why nuclear power doesn't make sense for Utah's future. The organization released a study in December that assessed the technical and eco- nomic feasibility of generating most, if not all, of Utah's energy needs from renewable sources, Thomas said. "We have found that if you pair renewable energy— wind, solar, geothermal—with large-scale energy storage, you could meet Utah's energy needs hour by hour with the same level of reliability that we expect from our electricity sources today," Thomas said. He noted that the cost of nuclear power, the water consumption related to it, and the waste it creates are all reasons why Utah should look toward using renewable energy as the state's population continues to grow. "Some people have said that the only way forward for Utah in terms of energy is either fossil fuels or nuclear power," Thomas said. "I think what our Utah study shows us is that's not the case. There is a tech- ANDREW GLADE/The Daily Utah Chronicle Ted Wilson, Greg Stark, David Taylor and Christopher Thomas discuss Utah's energy future. nical case to be made that renewable energy can develop in very strategic ways...and can provide for the state's energy needs." The move to using exclusively renewable energy would not Squeaking by be probable unless there was energy storage to lean back on when there aren't sunny or windy days, said David Taylor, regulatory affairs manager for See ENERGY Page 3 Scholar says there's hope for Palestine Doug Jennings STAFF WRITER The Runnin' Utes narrowly beat TCU on Tuesday » 6 NATHAN SWEET /The Daily Utah Chronicle Josh Watkins scored 14 of the Running Utes' 50 points in Tuesday night's game against TCU. The Utes won 50 to 48. The past four years have seen serious efforts geared toward creating a Palestinian state, said Yair Hirschfeld, a professor at the University of Haifa in Israel. Hirschfeld spoke at the Jewish Community Center on Thursday about solutions regarding the conflict in Israel and Palestine. He met with Jewish community leaders earlier that day at the Tanner Humanities Center. "The situation in the West Bank has positively improved, with security and development—very serious economic development, (but) negotiations themselves have been mismanaged," he said. As a chief architect of the Oslo Accords, a crucial set of agreements between Palestine and Israel in 1993, Hirschfeld was also the founder of the Economic Cooperation Foundation, a Tel Aviv-based organization that supports a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Hirschfeld will return to campus for the fall See PALESTINE Page 3 |
