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Show or niversity of Uta students Lizi Zachary: Net neutrality vital for small websites to compete in the market >> 4 Tx E Wednesday, February 12, 2014 DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE www.dailyutahchronicle.com The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 Vol. 123 No. 87 ©2014 ASUU Parties point fingers in hearing Kariann Johnson BRENT UBERTY The Daily Utah Chronicle STAFF WRITER Mike Bird, Team Unite presidental candidate presents his closing statements at yesterday evening's ASUU elections grievence hearing in the Union. ASUU election campaigning has just started, and grievances against two parties are already being voiced. A grievance hearing Tuesday night addressed allegations of campaign violations reportedly committed by the Vision Party and Team Unite. Allegations included speaking of a candidate's campaign, asking for votes and hanging posters before the election season officially started. Oriene Shin of the Vision Party also accused Team Unite of recruiting students to run for office in their party while still serving in an ASUU position. "I would hate to get penalized for something I never did," said Justin Spangler, Vision's candidate for president. Spangler was accused of asking for votes and hanging a poster before he was allowed to do so by campaigning rules, but he and his witnesses denied ever openly dis- cussing his campaign with anyone before the appropriate time. Shin's grievance against Team Unite had pages of evidence to run through. The party was accused of violating elections packet rules in early recruitments and abuse of directorship in ASUU. "I want to address fairness, transparency and the idea of neutrality," Shin said as part of her grievance. See ELECTIONS page 3 Red Zone to dead zone DANE GOODWIN/The Daily Utah Chronicle ASUU senior class president candidates particpate in a debate moderated by Kendhal Melvin, current ASUU senior class president Tuesday morning in the Union. ASUU Accessibility a common platform in ASUU debate Nathan Turner tominpiim STAFF WRITER „4.0_114mq 011411111 1111g11:111111 Plillip-_0144 1111111:1;;;;;;:iielillr . Ltirasum.. BRENT UBERTY/The Daily Utah Chronicle This Red Zone in the Campus Store will soon be one of the last ones in Utah. RED ZONE NO MORE Utah legislature projects all offcampus Red Zones to close within the next few years Ivy Smith STAFF WRITER U president David Pershing announced last week that the three off-campus Red Zone loca- tions in Sandy, Layton and West Jordan will be closing within the next three years. Red Zone, a store that sells U-related merchandise, has had several off-campus loca- tions since 2010. By selling merchandise that is also available to purchase from private businesses, the popular store infringes on the private sector, according to the Office of the Legislative Auditor General. This means the Red Zone stores make stiff competition for private businesses. "There are three stores, and they will be closed as their leases expire over the next two to three years," said Maria O'Mara, communications director at the U. She said See RED ZONES page 3 SOCHI 2014 Gerton explains physics of skiing Morgan McKenna STAFF WRITER As the sport of freestyle skiing makes its 2014 Olympic debut in Sochi, NBC Learn talked to Jordan Gerton, a U physics professor, to explain the science be- hind the gravity-defying sport. NBC's film crew came to the Department of Physics to meet with Gerton for their video segment, which features Olympic athlete Nick Goepper. They filmed at the U and at Snowbird Ski Resort. "Conservation of angular momentum was one of the big concepts which we discussed in the video," Gerton said. A demonstration in the video took place in the physics building where NBC's camera crew filmed undergraduate student Laurel Hales spinning on a piece of equipment to show the science of momentum and inertia in the Olympic games. "We used that in the context of their tricks and how they can conSee SLOPE STYLE page 3 The senior class presidential primary election debate was held Feb. ii in the Union. Kendahl Melvin, the current ASUU senior class president, was the moderator for the debate. Florence Fernandez, the senior presidential candidate for the Grow Party, was the first to answer Melvin's debate questions. Fernandez said her main goal as senior class president would be to make the current resources ASUU has more accessible for students and to make them feel welcome at the U. "We don't want seniors to leave and feel like they weren't welcome," Fernandez said during the debate. Tanner Olson, the candidate for Team Unite, agreed with Fernandez but said that in order to do this, there has to be a greater awareness of the resources available to students. Olson said that the commencement ceremony is an example. "Something new would be fun to get seniors to go to [commencement]," Olson said during the debate. Carli Carter, the candidate for the Vision Party, said diversity and availability were two of her party's key platforms. She said her party wants to use social media to raise awareness with students to get involved in the events on campus. Carter said the U has the resources necessary to do this, but ASUU needs to get the right students involved. "I want to make sure these traditions are known," Carter said. Each of the candidates said that if they were to win in the primaries, and their party's president and vice president did not move on, they would See '11k. ASUU DEBATE page 3 |