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Show THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE ADVERTISING :801.581.7041 NEWS : 801.581. NEWS FAX : 801.581. FAXX EDITORIAL CARTOON NOTTEST NALLOWEEN COSTUMES OF 2014 ESOLA CONTAINMENT SUIT EDITOR - IN - CHIEF: Anna Drysdale QA'd 2ICE (.COMPLETE WITH SLAM:FACE? LITERAL HUMAN 'NASH STUDY ROOM APP IS "100 PERCENT FOR STUDENTS" BY JULIANNE SKRIVAN /STAFF WRITER PHOTO BY DANE GOODWIN a.drysdale@chronicle.utah.edu MANAGING EDITOR: Emily Juchau e.juchau@chronicle.utah.edu PRODUCTION MANAGER: Grey Leman g.leman@chronicle.utah.edu NEWS EDITOR: Courtney Tanner c.tanner@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. NEWS EDITOR: Katrina Vastag OPINION EDITOR: Andrew Jose a.jose@chronicle.utah.edu SPORTS EDITOR: Griffin Adams g.adams@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. SPORTS EDITOR: Ryan Miller ARTS EDITOR: Katherine Ellis k.ellis@chronicle.utah.edu PHOTO EDITOR : Conor Barry c.barry@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. 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Funding comes from advertising revenues and a dedicated student fee administered by the Student Media Council.To respond with questions, comments or complaints, call 801-581-8317 or visit vim dailyutahchronicle.com .The Chronicle is distributed free of charge, limit one copy per reader. Additional copies of the paper may be made available upon request. No person, without expressed permission ofThe Chronicle, may take more than one copy of any Chronicle issue. Job applications can be intimidating. After all, how do you know that you're cramming all the best stuff in there? Never fear, boot camp is here, from 4 to 7 p.m. in room 350 of the Student Services Building. You'll get all the tips you need, plus dinner — but register, because there are a limited number of slots. RSVP to careerambassadors@sa.utah.edu . Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/TheChrony CI Follow us on Twitter: Beverly Mitchell, author of Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity and Black Abolitionism: A Quest For Human Dignity, will speak in the Gould Auditorium of the Marriott Library at noon. Dieter Kuntz of Washington D.C:s Holocaust Museum will also be there. If you're still holding on to that second session fencing class and you're not so sure about it, now is the time to make up your mind, because it's your last chance to drop. W groups even if they wouldn't make the groups before the app." The app was designed in 2012, with the homepage noting: "Unlike most technology products in education that are designed for school administrators or professors, we designed StudyRoom 100 percent for students." Savannah Wheeler, a junior in the pre-nursing program, said this kind of technology is "distracting" rather than productive. "I know when I'm studying, it's so tempting to go on my phone and play around, checkTwitter or Snapchat or something:' she said. "It's a super cool idea, but just logging onto it might make it seem like a break time to play around with other apps." Luke Leclair-Marzolf, a senior in the atmospheric studies program, is most worried about pop-ups on the app. "If the app costs money and is full of push notifications or ads, students won't be interested:' he said. Otherwise, Leclair-Marzolf is game for StudyRoom. j.skrivan@chronicle.utah.edu @JulianneSkrivan COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE FOR STUDENT MOTHERS BY JULIANNE SKRIVAN GET A JOB REMEMBER DROP ant to form a study group for class? There's an app for that. StudyRoom gives students the ability to chat with classmates, access student notes and get help on homework. The app is completely free and can be set up using a Facebook or an email account. At the U, more than 2,000 students have signed up. Kate Dickman, a senior in exercise and sports science, said it seems like a good idea. "I think the app would be helpful because if someone doesn't quite get a concept in class, someone else might understand and be able to explain the idea in a different way that will make more sense': she said. The Marriott Library has areas all throughout the building specifically designed for study groups to meet. Ahmet Oguz, a senior in computer science, uses those spaces already and said the app would help even more students form groups. "It depends on the subject, but I like studying in groups:' Orguz said. "I think the app would be cool. I'm sure students would use it to make the B /STAFF WRITER reastfeeding in public is a contended issue across college campuses, but the U is making efforts to end the controversy. Lactation stations have been set up across campus, at the library, the Student Services building and the Women's Resource Center in the Union. Shauna Lower, the director of the Child Care Coordinating Office at the U, said she believes lactation stations are important for breastfeeding to become more "normalized." "The U has many different departments that already have the stations set up for women to use," Lower said. "I feel that they are part of the awareness to help people understand that breastfeeding and expressing milk is natural." Lactation stations are controversial because of the question of whether or not breastfeeding in public is appropriate. "Nationally across college campuses, and in public places in general, nursing mothers are being told to cover up or go somewhere else, which is typically a public bath- room," Lower said. Lower said she wants mothers to feel comfortable when they have to feed their children or express milk. "I want mothers to have a private, calm place," Lower said. "The middle of the Union is not that place." The lactation stations are free to use if the mother is a student or faculty of the U, and some students think that if another person does have an issue with a mother wanting to breastfeed their children, they should think about it from a different point of view. Lisa Nehering, a freshman in art history, said she thinks the stations are a good resource for mothers. "The mother is bettering her life and the baby's by going to school," Nehering said. "It doesn't affect other students or staff who aren't using them, so they shouldn't care. They should just be respectful to the mothers." Other students, such as Erin Boerner, a second year graduate student in audiology, support the decision to implement more stations. "Personally, I don't want to have kids while I am in school, but everyone has made different choices," Boerner said. "Education and family are both important, and there needs to be a balance. A station is a good idea because it combines the two for those who need that option." Lower said she thinks students should support student mothers. "Just because a woman is a mother doesn't mean that she doesn't want to be in school," Lower said. "The U wants to encourage women to stay in school and graduate with a degree — it only makes sense for other students and for the faculty to support the mothers who are also students." Lower said the Child Care program hopes to start more lactation stations around campus over the next few years. "Having a lactation area," she said, "is the component that mothers need to be successful in school." j.skrivan@chronicle.utah.edu @JulianneSkrivan @TheChrony 3 |