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Show Thursday, March 7, 2013 DAI LY UTAH CHRONICLE www.dailyutahchronicle.com The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 Vol.122 I No.119 ©2013 ALSO INSIDE: Women's basketball preview outlines best and worst teams and players to watch » 6 .- Chronicle poll results show Peak Party pulling ahead by a 10 percent margin in ASUU elections » 4 Both ASUU parties air grievances Topher Webb BRENT UBERTY/ ASST. NEWS EDITOR The Daily Utah Chronicle The ASUU Elections Committee listens to grievances presented by the both running parties and the student government in the ASUU basement Wednesday night. The ASUU Elections Committee heard a new grievance charge against the HOUSE Party involving forcing a student to take off a Peak Party shirt and put on a HOUSE Party shirt Wednesday. This was the final meeting of the Elections Committee this year. The committee will release the rulings today. ASUU brought forward a grievance alleging that Jake Zimmerli, a senior in bioengineering, forced an international student to remove his Peak Party shirt and put on a HOUSE Party shirt in front of other HOUSE Party members. A case involving the incident was also opened with the dean of students. The case was presented by ASUU attorney general Kim Barnes, a law student. "I feel like the conduct itself is egregious and that a message needs to be sent that this sort of activity is not acceptable," Barnes said. Zimmerli said it started as a joke with other HOUSE Party members to see if he could get the student to switch shirts. He said they had a friendly conversation, and he had no malicious intent. See GRIEVANCES Page 3 Bill adds campus safety KARINA PUIKKONEN /The Daily Utah Chronicle Grant Doxey, a sophomore in biology, locks his bike at a rack outside the library last October. `Year of the Bike' aims to improve air quality Anna Drysdale STAFF WRITER for students who are passionate about specific topics, she said. McBeth works closely with students through the application process, which is roughly a two-year process. She and other faculty working with the Truman Scholarship interviewed io students among the hundreds that the Hinckley Institute cultivates. Barnes didn't become involved with the institute until October 2012 when she was a junior. Usually the institute works with freshmen and sophomores to develop their application, so it has been an intense process, Barnes said. She interned with the Reproductive and Child Health Alliance in Cambodia over the summer. Salt Lake City declared 2013 the "Year of the Bike," which means the next few months are going to be filled with festivities and events encouraging Salt Lake residents to drive less and bike more. The U is partnering with Salt Lake County, the Utah Department of Transportation, Utah Transit Authority and the Wasatch Front Regional Council to celebrate a year they hope will be filled with more students and faculty commuting on two wheels. The group is trying to change the image of cycling in Salt Lake City by removing barriers to biking that send commuters back to the old habit of driving to work. "People have the impression that if you ride a bike, you need to wear spandex and have the latest, greatest, carbon-fiber bike," said Phil Sarnoff, program manager of GREENbike, a bike share program that will launch April 8 in Salt Lake City. The program will include more than zoo bikes, which members can use for $75 a season or $5 a day. The bikes are equipped with lights, reflectors, chain and skirt guards, a low step-though frame and a basket, so they will be easy for commuters and errand runners to ride from station to station, where the bikes will be stored and regularly maintained. "When you see people riding in Europe, they dress like they normally would and have upright, cruiser bikes that are really nothing special. The only difference is that they choose a bike as their mode of transportation. It doesn't need to be an overhaul of your life in order to get around by bicycle," he said. GREENbike hopes to introduce similar cycling patterns in Salt Lake City, aiming to decrease traffic and improve air quality. Similar bikeshare programs worldwide are producing results. The Paris bikeshare led to a 5 percent drop in traffic and a 35 percent increase in bike sales, while the Minneapolis program sparked more sales at local businesses. Heidi Goedhart, bicycle coordinator for U commuter services, said the U is partnering in the effort to promote cycling awareness and encourage more See TRUMAN Page 3 See BIKE Page 3 SPENCER SANDSTROM/The Daily Utah Chronicle Majority Assistant Whip, Rep. Don Ipson, R-St. George, discusses a bill during the legislative floor debate Tuesday. SAFETY FIRST House Bill 28 grants U Police Department the authority to remove threatening individuals from campus Anna Drysdale STAFF WRITER U Police Department keeps a close watch over campus, responding to emergency calls and escorting uneasy students back to the dorms in the dark. One bill that recently passed through both the NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS PRESERVATION AWARD Randy Silverman, a preservation librarian at the Marriott Library, has been awarded the 2013 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award. Given annually, the award honors Banks and Harris, who were leaders in library preservation. It recog- RANDY SILVERMAN nizes the recipient for his or her work in preserving library materials and teaching colleagues and students. Silverman was awarded $1,500 and earned a spot in the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services records. DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS The distinguished professor selection committee has approved four See ACHIEVEMENTS Page 3 Utah Senate and the House of Representatives is designed to help police make campus safer. HB 28 was sponsored by Rep. Don Ipson, R-St. George. He has been working on the bill since the legislative session last spring. The bill amends laws currently governing campus law enforcement. This gives university and college presidents and those they appoint, such as campus police forces, the authority to order offending individuals off campus. The bill defines university campuses as private property, and once it goes into effect, threatening individuals can be charged with a class B misdemeanor on first or second conviction. On repeat offense, the charge is increased to a class A misdemeanor. Ipson said the bill will fill a gap in the existing law. "Higher education campuses have had issues of trespass," Ipson said. "We didn't have the statute and the tools that law enforcement needed to move these people off the campus that were creating potential harm to students." Persons can be ordered off campus if law enforcement has reasonable cause to believe that they See SAFETY Page 3 U students nominated for Truman Scholarship Kendra Still STAFF WRITER Two of the U's best and brightest students have been chosen by the Hinckley Institute of Politics as finalists for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, an elite and highly competitive national scholarship that selects only one junior per state for a $30,000 award for graduate school. Nominees Rachel Barnes, a biology and political science major, and Brian Corry, an information systems and international studies major, and one other student from Utah State were chosen from 629 applications across 293 universities and colleges. The Hinckley Institute cultivates students who are commit- BRENT UBERTY/The Daily Utah Chronicle Truman Scholarship finalists Rachel Barnes and Brian Corry will interview in Phoenix on March 18. ted and passionate for public service, said Courtney McBeth, assistant director of the Hinckley Institute. The institute is an independent organization that provides opportunities such as internships and publications |