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Show Thursday, March 21, 2013 DTAEILY UTAH CHRONICLE www.dailyutahchronicle.com 4. The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 Vol. 122 I No. 124 I ©2013 ALSO INSIDE •• Taylor Allex inspires family, friends and fans with her dedication in facing physical adversity » 6 A columnist argues that media is to blame for society's misunderstanding of rape, the creation of rape myths » 4 AIM presses issue of Ute mascot ERIN BURNS The Daily Utah Chronicle American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks lectures about health care and political activism for the Native American population. U student researches impact of perspective Anna Drysdale STAFF WRITER There has been controversy over the Ute mascot at the U in recent years, targeting everything from how fans dress at football games to the name itself. Dennis Banks, Ojibwe leader and co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) counseled U supporters not to hurt anyone's feelings, whether the mascot stays or goes. "Indigenous Activism: Past and Present" was an event organized by ASUU and the Indigenous Students and Allies for Change and was planned to create awareness and discuss the Ute name and mascot. Banks spoke about his experiences in the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan and in the American Indian Movement and the importance of confronting racism wherever we see it, including at the football stadium. AIM has been fighting racism on many fronts, and has actively and continually taken a stand against the use of Native American names as mascots since 1968. "They say they're honoring native people ... I've heard that one in every school and university that I've been to," Banks said. "But they're not honoring you. I've never witnessed any kind of honoring ceremony." Although many Ute Indians have said the U's mascot doesn't bother them, Banks suggested the conduct of Ute fans bothers Native Americans of other tribes, specifically the use of face paint. "To me, those are spiritual markings," he said. "The fact is, See MASCOT Page 2 Pursuing broadcast journalism Carolyn Webber STAFF WRITER Annika Pecchia-Bekkum is anything but a traditional student. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English before the age of 18, she is now completing her second degree in chemistry and is on the path to getting her doctorate in chemistry and doing research in literature. She took English professor Alf Seegert's class about the virtualization of nature last year and became interested in the relationship between virtualization and fairy tales. She had not ANNIKA considered doing PECCHIA-BEKKUM research before, but Seegert supported the expansion on some of the work she had done for the class. Her primary interest is in different perspectives of narratives, such as scientific or fairy-tale, and to observe the impact the perspectives have on viewers' relationships and interactions with nature. With her science background, she is able to look at the topic from an interdisciplinary approach. She easily sees ties between literature and chemistry concerning technology. "A lot of the focus on the changes in technology runs parallel to the changes that I see in chemistry," she said. "I want to combine virtuality, fairy tales and science in a single project and then see what happens when they interplay in a text." She has not seen a lot of research with all of these disciplines coming together, so she is hopeful that her work will be novel. She has received funding from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for two semesters and is excited to have her own project when she leaves college. Pecchia-Bekkum's research involves watching films like "Grizzly Man" and "The Troll Hunter," then studying critical theorists and re-watching from their perspectives. She is fascinated that within texts, separate characters interpret events in their own way. Sometimes, main characters interpret the world from a fairy-tale view to deal with their problems. "[Fairy tales] have their own rules, and you can step into it. It's a world that provides enchantment, but you have to take a form of virtualization to get there," she said. Seegert said nature is becoming more and more virtualized every day. "Everything is framed as a picture — everything exists to be scenery. When we look at nature now we think, 'Oh, that's good Instagram.' [Pecchia-Bekkum] is good at raising these questions that need to be asked right now of what state does nature have as its own, and to what degree is it being framed by humans to fit into our narratives," See PERSPECTIVE Page 2 ERIN BURNS/The Daily Utah Chronicle Students check out the table for the Salt Lake Broadcast Group during the broadcast journalism job fair held Wednesday afternoon in the Union Ballroom. Job seekers filled out applications for the various broadcast outlets from television and radio stations. Latest social networking app makes waves in Utah DJ Summers STAFF WRITER U-based company ArmorActive launched more than just the iPad accessories they specialize in when they introduced social networking app Voto. The iPhone-based feature allows users to rate their favorite of a series of photos. Since its inception, the app has rapidly expanded in both private and commercial use, which Voto founder Scott Paul said is a credit to the app's usable interface. "Pictures go across language lines," said Paul, a graduate student in business. "That's one of the things that's making the app so popular. Anyone can look at Voto and figure out, 'OK, there's four pictures. I'm supposed to rate them.' It's useful because it's so simple." The application is based on Instagram but divided into two or four pictures that the user would like to have rated. The receiving user or users rate their favorite and send the results back. With more than ioo,000 users, the company was ranked in the top 25 most used apps, beating out veteran Google+ and gaming app Draw Something. The perennial question of "What looks best?" permeates so many cultures that Jeff Poulton So tempted to vote for the Hawaiian ja... See APP Page 3 Jason Kim Shaun, glad to see we weren't the only... Shaun Neff asks: What jacket would u shred in?? 26d Renee Estrada STAFF WRITER that believed in the fixed form of nature and species, and Lincoln battled the social order of slavery which the Founding Fathers took for granted through his love of law and reasoning, Gopnik said. Both Lincoln and Darwin argued on a narrow base of evidence, sympathetic summery and the habit of the understatement of emotional response to evoke transformation, Gopnik said. Researchers at the U have discovered that being more mindful can lead to better living. Being "mindful" means being aware and conscious of one's surroundings and self. It can mean paying attention to one's needs or just noticing how pleasant the weather is. According to Holly Rau, a doctoral student who worked on the study, people HOLLY RAU who reported themselves as mindful also described themselves as having more control over their emotions, behaviors and reactions throughout the day. The study showed mindfulness was linked with lower activation, which could lead to improved sleep quality, which in turn can improve stress management. The three-day study involved 38 participants, including U undergraduate psychology students. On day one of the study, participants See GOPNIK Page 3 See MINDFULNESS Page 2 V 930 /1 5 IPadeus Enclosures I saw these at ski show in Den... Lecture relates Lincoln to Darwin Kendra Still STAFF WRITER The parallel lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were explored Wednesday night by Adam Gopnik, an award-winning journalist for The New Yorker and author of several books. He examined the prominent lives of Darwin and Lincoln, who were both born Feb. 12, 1809. Gopnik said his book was inspired by the surrounding dispute of the famous epitaph uttered over Lincoln's deathbed by Secretary of State Edwin Stanton, "Now he belongs to the ages" or "Now he belongs to the angels." Gopnik interprets these two quotes as two different perspectives of our lives: a fixed life judged by God or a changeable life judged by the ages. "Both Lincoln and Darwin are the makers and witnesses of that transformation," Gopnik said. Darwin introduced the Origins of Species to a culture Mindfulness could reduce stress, lead to better life |