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Show A BUSHEL OF TAX-FREE APPLES SETTING THE STANDARD For the latest info on Arts events going on around the U and Salt Lake City, follow our r accou ai Nauvoo polygamy THE MIDWIFE A Biography of Laurine Ekstrom Kingston BY VICTORIA 0 BURGESS BY BEN JASAREVIC /STAFF WRITER PHOTO BY BEN JASAREVIC S BY CYNTHIA LUU /STAFF WRITER PHOTO BY KIFFER CREVELING oji Minamisawa, a freshman in computer science, bought two 64 GB iPad Air 2s for $1,304 and not a single penny more. Minamisawa made his purchase during the U's Apple Tax-Free Day Tuesday. The sale took place in two locations: the U's campus store and the health sciences store located in HSEB. According to the official press release for the event, the tax exempt applied to all Apple products and included additional discounts on other products for lower than regular pricing. Cameron Beck, the marketing manager for the campus store, said the event was held to show gratitude to the U. "The purpose of our Apple Tax-Free Day sale is to show our appreciation for the students, faculty and staff," Beck said. "We want to show that we do have the lowest prices they can find, especially on this day." The U has been holding an Apple Tax-Free Day once or twice a year for the past seven years, Beck said. Tax exemption is available for all computers, tablets and selected accessories. Discounts are only valid for students, faculty or staff at the U. At the most recent sale, Macbook Pros, iPad Air 2s and iMacs all qualified for the tax exemption. Additionally, certain items were discounted to eight percent lower than regular price; regular price being the discounted academic price. Beck said pricing on Apple Tax-Free Day at the U was cheaper than retail price at the Apple store. Beck said he felt it was important to have the opportunities presented with these events be- cause having access to technology has become more important in academia and personal use. "Technology is everyday life," Beck said. "I can't get out my front door without using my iPad or my phone to answer emails and things like that." Beck said it was especially important for faculty and staff to have access to these products. "Having a laptop down here makes day-to-day life a lot easier," Beck said. "We want people to know we have them at the cheapest price for department use and personal use. Even though it may seem like it's too difficult to afford these products that are essential to everyday life, we want them to know we make it easier." The payroll deduction program and university employee discounts still applied to purchases that were tax exempt, Beck said. The store's tech trade-in program was also valid to use on discounting new Apple products. Minamisawa, now the proud owner of two new iPad Air 2s, said the selling point for him was the price. His total savings on his purchase was $253.88. "I came here yesterday, saw the advertisements for the sale and decided to wait," Minamisawa said. "The price was definitely the biggest benefit of buying it today." There was more foot traffic on the tech floor of the campus store, but no official numbers could be given on whether more products were actually sold on this day compared to any other Tuesday. Beck said because the sale was an Apple-sponsored event, they could not share any details of sales made. c.luu@chronicle.utah.edu @cynthia luu 4 { THECHRONY I NEWS I OPINION I ARTS I SPORTS I THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 } ignal callers dictate the offensive side of the game in many sports. In football it's the quarterback, in basketball it's the point guard and in volleyball it's the setter. Volleyball has two different formations: A 5-1 formation that features only one setter that never leaves the match and a 6-2 formation where the setter is substituted out of the match when she gets to the front row. In the 6-2 formation the team always has a setter in the back row and a right-side hitter on the front row. Head coach Beth Launiere prefers the 6-2, if she has the personnel. With senior Kalee Kirby and junior Kendall Cygan as setters, Launiere has just that. Even though they are never on the court at the same time, the two setters work together quite a bit. "It's an interesting system because they have to work together but aren't ever on the same side of the net during practice," Launiere said. "We bring them in together to talk about the hitters because one person might have a better idea on a hitter than the other setter. They'll talk about hitters and what they need and how they need their sets and stuff like that, yet they never play together." With Utah's spread-out attack, the ball can be set at three different positions at any time, so the setter has to know how each hitter wants the ball. For example, Shelby Dalton wants the ball high so she can use her vertical jump to her advantage, while Chelsey Schofield-Olsen wants the ball set to her as quickly as possible to benefit her speed. "We train all of our hitters to hit off of both setters," Launiere said. "That way the hitters don't have to worry about setting them." Placing the perfect set for their hitters isn't the only chal- lenge the setter position faces. "Things are happening fast and they have to be able to make the correct decisions in a split second," assistant coach JJ Riley said. The setters primarily work with Riley, who was a Second Team All-American at Pepperdine as a setter in 1998 and helped Pepperdine reach the NCAA Championship game. He says setters get most of their information before the play even starts. "It all happens when the play is dead, they have to take a look over to the other side of the net to see what the blockers look like and try to find the weakest blocker," Riley said. These challenges of making quick decisions and thinking on the spot are the reasons Cygan is a setter. "I've played it my whole life," Cygan said. "I like thinking about the strategies, where you have to set and where you have to put it." Waiting in the wings to replace Kirby and Cygan as setter is freshman Jessie Jorgensen. The freshman hasn't played in any Pac-12 matches as she has been sidelined with an undisclosed injury for the majority of the season. Her absence hasn't stopped her teammates and coaches from raving about the 2013 Utah Gatorade Player of the Year's potential. "Jessie's going places in four years. It's scary to see where she'll be at in four years," Kirby said. With a lot of time spent watching from the sidelines Jorgensen says she's learned a lot from Kirby and Cygan. "Watching both of them has helped me to figure out the way our system is run," Jorgensen said. 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