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Show A TOUGH LOSS Despite back and forth battle, Utes fall to No. 1 Wildcats 65-56 D 6 Guest columnist Jake Rush: Snowboarders' suit against Alta and U.S. forest service groundless, `nonsense on stilts' )) 5 DAILY www.dailyutahchronicle.com Monday, January 27, 2014 UTAH CHRONICLE The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 Vol. 123 1 No. 771©2014 CALVIN CHHOUR/The Daily Utah Chronicle Michael Kutz, student body president at the University of Washington, talks to peers from across the nation at the Pac-12 Student Leadership Summit on Thursday at the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building. ASUU Leaders convene at Pac-12 MCAT changes worry students summit CALVIN CHHOUR/The Daily Utah Chronicle Students attend a review at the Henry Eyring Buiilding on Sunday. Ivy Smith STAFF WRITER An apple a day keeps the doctor away, and changes to the Medical College Admissions Test may do the same. Revisions to the MCAT, the placement test required for undergraduates seeking admission to medical school, are set to begin in 2015. The new test will be longer, extending from roughly five hours to more than seven hours. The test will also include more testing fields, such as psychology and sociology Pre-med students hoping to go to medical school, such as Casey Caduff, are anticipating a change in coursework at the U in order to better prepare themselves for the admission exam. Caduff, a sophomore in biology, feels like he will now have to give much more in order to do well on the test. "I expect that the changes to the MCAT and the addition of new material will force me to reconsider the steps I'm taking to prepare," Caduff said. "With the addition of several new fields to the test comes the task of taking the courses relative to the fields, which of course is more time and more money." Andrew Kithas, a junior in history, will be taking the MCAT this spring, avoiding the impending changes that students such as Caduff will face in prep- aration for the test. However, Kithas is taking the test the same time that he regularly would at the end of Spring Semester, and the avoidance of the new changes was not planned. "It just worked out for me because of when I'm going to be graduating that I'm taking it right before the changes," Kithas said. "It's not like I'm taking it early because it's changing, I'm See MCAT page 3 Hill discusses social change, racial equality Karriann Johnson STAFF WRITER Marc Lamont Hill's call to action rang through the Kingsbury Hall auditorium as he said "we must act bravely," on Thursday. As the keynote speaker for the U's celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Week, Hill's speech was the last event in a series of conversations and rallies to encour- age students to stand up against racial profiling. "He listened," Hill said of King. "He understood the political value of listening. We must listen to young people." Hill said in his address that the U.S. has traveled a long way in terms of political and social change within racism and sexism. See HILL page 4 CALVIN CHHOUR /The Daily Utah Chronicle Marc Lamont Hill, a professor at Columbia University, addressed attendees about Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream at Kingsbury Hall on Thursday. `Cyber Heist' gains EAE recognition John Peterson STAFF WRITER Members of the U's Entertainment Arts and Engineering program won the Oscar equivalent of amateur video game design with their game "Cyber Heist." The game, created by a collaboration of students within the EAE program, is one of this year's Independent Game Fair finalists. The game follows two students, a hacker and a thief, as they break into a futuristic department of education in the year 2114. The objective: erase their overwhelming student debt. Second-year graduate students in the EAE program first met to create the new game at the beginning of Spring Semester in 2013. The 25 students pitched ideas and began forming groups to further develop the most popular concepts. Two months later, game professionals from companies such as Disney evaluated the quality and potential of the ideas and chose two finalists. "Cosigners," as Cyber Heist was See EAE page 4 JOHN PETERSON/The Daily Utah Chronicle EAE students (from left to right) Jake Muehle, Vaibhav Bhalerao, and Miao "Max" Xu pose with winning game 'Cyber Heist: Nathan Turner STAFF WRITER ASUU hosted the first ever Pac-12 leaders summit last weekend, bringing together student leaders from io of the 12 schools to create a more unified student voice within the Pac-12. Representatives from Stanford and Cal were not able to attend. Student government officers from each university gave presentations on how their student government is laid out, a brief history of the school and a list of accomplishments of the school's administration from the last year. In the presentation, ASUU vice president Sara Seastrand introduced the new infant care room in ASUU's child care facility. Seastrand said this initiative is different from many of the other Pac12 schools because the U has more young parents than any of the conference counterparts. ASUU president Sam Ortiz explained his safe learning environment initiative during the presentation as well. He stressed the need for diversity trainings, such as the one he has been working on, in order for the U's diverse student body to feel safe and welcome in classrooms. Some initiatives proposed by student leaders from other schools stood out to ASUU officials at the summit. The idea of gender neutral restrooms on campus provoked many questions from ASUU and other student leaders. Another initiative that was viewed favorably by student leaders across the conference was the no-smoking ordinance on many Pac-12 campuses, including Washington State University, which is currently in the process of going smoke-free. Seastrand said many of the other Pac-12 school's initiatives were along the same lines as ASUU's goals to be inclusive, sustainable and to foster diversity. ASUU Chief of Staff Scott Thatcher said ASUU can implement some of the things addressed by other Pac-12 schools. "One thing I really liked was a social media campaign called 'Dear WSU' that Washington State implemented to reach out to their students to give them more of a voice," Thatcher said. Student leaders from Oregon proposed the idea of starting a Pac-12 wheelchair sports league. See PAC 12 page 3 - m |