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Show Reddit, Wikipedia plan to shut down Wednesday to protest a proposed piracy law » 3 AMERICAN CENSORSHIP DAY WEBSITE BLOCKED The site has been blocked to Americans by the US Government Firewall r Tuesday, January 17, 2012 rH E DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE www.dailyutahchronicle.com The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 Vol. 121 No.64 ©2012 Anthropology, forensics prof dies at age 64 JoEllen Runia STAFF WRITER Karen Ramey Burns, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, passed away unexpectedly Jan. 7, at the age of 64. Burns was a wellknown forensic scientist in her department. A Salt Lake City resident, she also taught anthropology and forensics at the University of Georgia. Dennis O'Rourke, faculty chairman of the AnKAREN RAMEY thropology Department, BURNS said Burns was healthy and her death was "quite unexpected." She was taken to an undisclosed hospital the night of Jan. 7 and died soon after being admitted. "She was a very popular teacher with students," O'Rourke said. "She was a marvelous teacher and instructor." Burns was involved in international human rights activities and devoted her time to practical applications of forensic anthropology. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia, where she was able to help families of political dissidents that disappeared in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with the help of the Colombian forensic anthropology team EQUITAS. Her humanitarian activities included recovering evidence and documenting war crimes in Iraq after the First Gulf War, identifying and recovering victims of Haiti's 1996 military coup and training teams in Guatemala throughout the '9os to identify victims of the Guatemalan civil war. Burns studied biology for her undergraduate degree and earned her graduate degree in anthropology from the University of Florida. j.runia@chronicle.utah.edu THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH 2012 CELEBRATI DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, 410111Nll FORWARD www.dherSity.Utah.e du TITHE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH' CONOR BARRY/The Daily Utah Chronicle Ralliers wait to begin the march from East High School to Kingsbury Hall during the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. MLK's spirit marches on MOVING FORWARD Utahns march to celebrate, remember and teach about the work and words of Martin Luther King Jr. Lindsey Wilbur STAFF WRITER About i,000 people braved snowy weather Monday for a parade and march in honor of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The 1.3-mile march was a simulation of the 1964 March on Washington and was intended to focus on the life and legacy of King, said Jennifer Williams Molock, chairwoman of the committee. Molock opened the rally with King's words: "If you cannot fly, run, if you cannot run, walk, if you cannot walk, crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." France Davis, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church and a member of the Utah Board of Regents, gave the keynote address at the rally. Davis was a student at the Tuskegee Institute and joined King in a march from Selma, Ala., to Birmingham to fight for voting rights. "My message is that whatever we do, we need to keep moving forward and I want people to understand that certain things they have to do to keep moving See MLK Page 3 ASUU elections 3 candidates file for president Tiffany Justice ASUU presidential candidates STAFF WRITER Student voters will have more choices in this year's student body election, with three parties registered to run. Today is the last day for students who are interested in running for student body president to submit their candidacies, as the deadline is 5 p.m. Unlike past years, this year's election will be more competitive with three parties running: the Fresh Party, the Open Party and Sinc: Student Inc. Two factors have influenced each in developing their campaigns: enriching student ALEX KNIGHT Fresh Party JAKE RUSH Sinc Party GENEVA THOMPSON Open Party involvement and making ASUU more accessible. Alex Knight, a junior in economics and presidential candidate for the Fresh Party, did not get into specifics of his campaign but said he could make the U less of a commuter campus by helping more students get involved. "For a while there has been a real disconnect between ASUU and the bulk of our student body, we've created kind of a commuter mentality," he said. "Students will come and isolate him or herself with a group or level of involvement they're comfortable with." He said students who have a commuter mentality are isolating themselves and missing opportunities to grow and be involved at the U. See ASUU Page 3 LEGO League expands young minds Gina Koperak STAFF WRITER Most people played with LEGOs when they were kids, but some kids went a step further and used LEGOs to compete in a contest of invention and ingenuity. Students from middle schools across Utah are participating in the international program First LEGO League. The program requires teams to build and program robots to compete in missions that deal with specific themes to teach children about pertinent aspects of science. This year's theme is "food factor." The students have been researching food contamination and storage since August. Students research the given theme, make a presentation, give speeches and build a robot. Parents are not involved and cannot interfere with the presentation or the robots. Coaches can guide students in programming, but the children have to put everything together. Some U students volunteered to judge the regional competition in Park City last weekend. Daniel Cowan, a senior in mechanical engineering, said the competition "is almost as complex as some of the things I've done in mechanical engineering." Daman Bareiss, a first-year graduate student in mechanical engineering, said he had done a similar program when he was younger, and it inspired him to do robotics work. The robot competition comprises missions that last two-and-a-half minutes per session. The robots See LEGO Page 3 KIMBERLY ROACH/The Daily Utah Chronicle Rocky Anderson accepts the nomination from the Justice Party USA for U.S. president. He asks Utahns to add him to the ballot — he's already added in Mississippi. Anderson runs for pres. out of 2-party system Dan Treasure FLL Core Value THE /41 7. COD IERS THE FooD MADELINE SMITH/The Daily Utah Chronicle Erin Parsons (right), a graduate student in mechanical engineering, judges the "Food Fighters" robot at a LEGO tournament Saturday. STAFF WRITER Former two-term Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson will shake up a dichotomous presidential election by leading the newly formed Justice Party USA which is not associated with any major political parties. Anderson is running on the platform, which advocates stricter environmental regulations to curb greenhouse gas emissions, dismantling the two-party electoral system, and repealing Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a Supreme Court case that allows corporations to make unlimited donations to political campaigns. At the moment, Anderson is primarily See ANDERSON Page 3 |
