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Show FOOTBALL GEARING UP FOR FINAL FOUR GAMES »PAGE 6 • Utes focus on interceptions, • offense going into the re110 maining four games of the season ARTSFORCE CONFERENCE »PAGE 5 Graduated students return to the U to share their personal successes within their art-related careers to current students within the College of Fine Arts THE INVERSION IS COMING »PAGE 4 Tuesday, November 5, 2013 NICLE ersit www.dailyutaticht:onickcgcamim Since 1890 Vol. 123 I No.43 ©2013 ACADEMIC SENATE Leave policy, dept. name changes approved Nathan Turner STAFF WRITER BRENT UBERTY/The Daily Utah Chronicle Students huddle outside in the cold Sunday night after being awakened by a fire alarm in the Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community. Burning food sets off alarm Davis Bunting STAFF WRITER Fire alarms went off in the Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community on Sunday, Nov. 3 late at night. The alarms first sounded at around 11:15 p.m. and the build- ing was evacuated. "The students were cooking and burned some food and the smoke went into the hallway and set off the alarm," said Aria Irani, the resident advisor of the floor that set off the alarm and a senior in business operations and management. The Salt Lake City Fire De- partment confirmed Irani's account of the incident. "Our crews responded to a general fire alarm called in at 11:14 last night. It was on the second floor and it was just smoke from burnt food, no actual flames," said Jasen Asay, the spokesman for the Salt Lake City Fire Department. Irani said that incidents similar to this are very uncommon. "We keep our students safe. At the beginning of the year we tell them all the safety precautions. Luckily it wasn't anything big," Irani said. While incidents like this are See FIRE ALARM page 3 CRIME Police respond to library disturbance Keith McDonald STAFF WRITER J \IVIL LARD MARRIOTT LUNAR) CHRIS AYERS/The Daily Utah Chronicle Police respond to an incident at the Marriott Library Monday morning. There was a disturbance at the Marriott Library on Monday, the exact cause of which remains unclear. U campus police were called to the library shortly before ro a.m. on Monday for an unknown disruption. Two squad cars and four officers dealt with an unidentified man who did not appear to be a student or faculty member. The incident occurred near the Eccles Grand Reading Room on the third floor but did not seem to im pact normal library operations. - Students saw the police but did not have any details on what went on. "I was walking in and saw them [two campus policemen] escorting a guy out — I couldn't tell if he was causing a problem," said Taylor Swenson, a junior in biology. Sam Earl, a sophomore in finance, said that "they talked for like, 15 minutes ... the guy that got escorted out was slow to move, he didn't want to leave, probably because he was embarrassed by the two cops and library administra- See LIBRARY page 3 Display honors women serving overseas in the armed forces STAFF WRITER The Marriott Library is hosting a photo exhibit featuring women serving overseas in cornbat zones. Historically, women have been able to serve in support units, such as equipment supply, medical fields and military intelligence and, more recently, as military police. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, women serving in military police squadrons were of- ten exposed to frontline dangers such as car bombs and sniper fire. They were not, however, allowed to enlist as combat soldiers. The library exhibit presents 31 photos, said Sarah Lemire, the library's liaison to the Veterans Support Center, who served as an Arabic translator in Iraq. Lemire requested that female student veterans submit photos of themselves during their deployment overseas. She hoped this exhibit would shine light on the circumstance women have See SENATE page 3 Author offers advice, stories about identity and parenting Ivy Smith STAFF WRITER Photo exhibit champions female veterans Stephen Willis The Academic Senate approved a change to the School of Medicine's parental leave policy to better reflect the U's parental leave policy at large. "The School of Medicine only pays six weeks leave while the rest of the university pays 12 weeks," said Robert Flores, dean of the S. J. Quinney College of Law. The Senate tabled a proposed change to the academic agenda for the upcoming semester. The proposal will be sent back to the Executive Committee and will be brought back to the Senate in either December or January. The change aims to boost student attendance at commencement by pushing finals week ahead by one day in order to have finals week end the day before the commencement ceremony. In order to do this, spring reading day would be eliminated. This would also create a more consistent schedule for Fall and Spring Semester since fall reading day was eliminated this year. The ASUU representatives were the lone opposition force against tabling the proposed changes. They wanted a resolution at the meeting in order for students to have the ability to attend the ceremony and to avoid making a last minute change to the Spring Semester's academic calendar in January. The Senate also voted to endorse a letter to experienced while enlisted in the military. Roger Perkins, director of the Veterans Support Center, said female veterans are a large part of the veteran community at the U. "This semester we have 211 female veterans on campus, approximately 22 percent of our total veteran population," Perkins said. According to the Veterans Support Center website, there are currently 1,07o male and female veterans on campus, which amounts to approxi- mately 3.3 percent of the U's student population. Lemire said that the U's population of female veterans is considerably higher than the percentage of female veterans in the general public. Following this trend, many female veterans returning to the states pursue higher education instead of assimilating into the workforce. Perkins said female veterans study a diverse range of subjects and have a wide experience of See VETERANS page 3 Writer Andrew Solomon, who is known for his works focusing on topics such as politics, culture and psychology, spoke in the Union ballroom on Monday night for the 2013 Tanner Lecture on Human Rights. Solomon, who is gay, lectured mostly on the topics of parenting and identity, taking inspiration from his most recent non-fiction book, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity." "A friend of mine had read the book," said audience member Terri Martin. "And I heard him on [KUER's Radio West]. I'm also very interested in identity." One focus that Solomon mentioned in his lecture was the change in attitude toward homosexuality that has happened since his adolescence in the late 197os and early 198os, particularly the stigma and lingo surrounding it. "We use the word 'illness' to speak negatively of a condition. We use the word 'identity' to See SOLOMON page 3 |