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Show Friday, April 7,200613 t h e Utah Statesman Campus News New rescue system saves time for buried avalanche victims demonstration. Wasatch Backcountry Rescue still put its equipment on display. Swiss SALT LAKE CITY engineer Manuel Genswein (AP)- Too often, the job designed the system, which of Wasatch Backcountry is widely used in Europe but Rescue is to recover avalanche victims after they've not in North America. died of suffocation or injuThe transceiver, hanging ries from trauma. from a helicopter, can pick Now rescuers are hoping up a signal from a buried to turn the odds in favor of skier from up to 196 yards backcountry skiers swept up _ triple the range of regular j or buried by avalanches. avalanche beacons. Like The team, made up of ski regular beacons, which skiers strap across their patrollers and search dogs midsection, it can pinpoint ' from Wasatch ski resorts, on Thursday bought a long- at once the locations of mulrange avalanche transceiver tiple avalanche victims. system that can work from a "Unfortunately, a lot of helicopter for quick and safe time we're doing recovery in rescues. the backcountry/1 said Dean With it, rescuers can Cardinale, assistant snow hover over an avalanche safety director for Snowbird ; slide and pinpoint the loca- resort and president of tion of buried skiers who Wasatch Backcountry wear their own avalanche Rescue. beacons. It saves time and , By the time rescuers keeps rescuers out of danget word of an avalanche, gerous terrain. They can it's often too late to save drop from a helicopter right a life. To reach a victim, on top of a victim. Cardinale's volunteers often travel by skis over dangerIronically, conditions ous terrain and in severe in the Wasatch mounweather, slowing their arrivtains were too dangerous al. Thursday for the rescue team to give its new equipThat problem was underment a try. High wind and scored on Tuesday when a heavy snowfall grounded a snowboarder fell through a Wasatch Powderbird Guides wind-swept cornice or snow helicopter _ the company overhang and triggered an assists in avalanche rescues avalanche outside Brighton __ and canceled plans for a ski resort, about 18 miles ^BY PAUL FOY ;'• Associated Press Writer east of Salt Lake City. The snowboarder's companion skied to the base of the resort for help, but it took rescuers about 30 minutes to reach the body of Atilio Giorgio Cremaschi Yavar, 27, a Chilean snowboard instructor living in Utah for the winter. Avalanche victims typically die within 15 minutes from suffocation, although ski patrollers say Yavar appeared to have died of trauma after being dragged down a rocky cliff. He was found buried in the snow with only a glove showing. Avalanches are a constant threat in the backcountry and rare at ski resorts, which trigger their own slides before opening chair lifts to keep slopes safe. The Utah Avalanche Forest Center warned of "widespread" avalanche danger Thursday because of heavy snowfall and strong winds that can load the leeward sides of mountains with loose, unstable snow. It warned of slab avalanches, the most deadly kind, which can set loose entire slopes many feet thick: "The slabs will pack a punch and could easily tangle you up and drag you down the hill." Company builds on surplus land BY PAUL FOY AP Business Writer WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) - It's a plan for development that will take more than 50 years from start to finish, on the largest piece of privately owned land next to a U.S. metropolis for an expected half-million residents. This megasuburb, twice the size of San Francisco, will be the work of a mining company, Kennecott Utah Copper Corp., which has no experience in realestate development. The Utah company is a subsidiary of Londonbased Rio Tinto, a mining multinational and avowed convert to environmentalism, which decided to make a showcase out of its surplus Utah lands instead of just selling them off for cookie-cutter subdivisions. Home builders were skeptical when the Salt Lake valley's biggest landowner laid out the plan for a 20-mile string of densely packed, "walkable" communities framing the rural west side of Salt Lake County. The communities would be laid out along a planned highway and light- rail lines connecting to Salt Lake City. Mining executives pitched the idea to some 50 builders. "A lot of them rolled their eyes and walked away," said Keith L. Morey, manager for Kennecott's flagship Daybreak project, where just seven builders were chosen to help build the first town of 14,000 homes. "It was a mixture of excitement and fear," Brad Wilson, president and chief executive of Destination Homes, said of his decision to sign on with Kennecott to help build Daybreak. "We didn't know if this was something people would wrap their arms around. It's so different - the tiny lots and alleyloaded garages. It was a risk, but at the end of the day we felt they knew what they were doing," Wilson said. Kennecott's whole plan calls for 162,800 houses in neighborhoods mixing the wealthy and wage earners in shared communities of gardens, pocket parks and surrounding open space. The so-called West Bench development _ the string of communities along the base of a mountain range - differs from other planned communities by emphasizing connections to a larger metropolis. "It's part of a vision for how the whole region grow.*-,1" said lead planner Peter Calthorpe, a Berkeley, Calif., consultant who designed the trendy redevelopment of Denver's uld Stapleton Airport, which is about the same size as Kennecott's Daybreak community. Kennecott is developing the rolling foothills of its 144 square miles of land, which ranks as the largest piece of land anywhere in the United States that's under the control of a single, private owner and next to a major metropolis. Single ownership of the land "gives incredible control over development and the execution of the plan," said Gary Hunt, a retired executive for Irvine Co., which developed one of the country's first masterplanned communities, in California's Ornncii; County, starting in the l.9(u)s. "In other parts of the country you don't have that kind of opportunity.*" >STUDENT CODE From page 7 last year involving academic diswhat the policy consisted of. honestly and no consistent way Watts, along with Dallin for them to be dealt with, Watts Phillips and the Campus Judicial said this issue was brought to his Office has been working on the attention when he was running for changes to the code since June, he office last year. said. After being elected, Watts They have also worked closely looked into the issue and decided with ASUSU and arrival coma code needed to be put in place to mittees while the Office of the allow uniform procedures for all Provost is constantly drafting, cases. reviewing and making necessary changes. Upon looking into the code, it was discovered that although a He said previously, teachers policy was in place, it was never weren't required to tell students if used and many didn't even know they had been accused of cheating and penalized. "[The new code] created a time limit of seven days for teachers to let the students know, and for student appeals to begin within 10 days," said Watts. The new policy also sets the order for students to follow in an appeal if they feel there is a problem. Phillips said the new policy states that the Honor Board reviews committee will take people out of the Hearing Board Pool, which was already a part of the code. Watts said the change is one that is fair to all involved because everyone will know the procedure to follow for incidences of academic dishonesty. "It's a uniform way to approach the problem that is fair to students and faculty," Phillips-said. Besides revising the academic dishonesty policy, Watts and Phillips said they also relocated sections so they were in an order that made it easy to follow all procedures. In this process, no other codes were changed, just order and wording to make it easier to use. After having worked at Utah State University since 1998, Phillips says changes to the code are an evolving process. He said he hopes to eventually be able to hand students and faculty the section of the code they need for their problem that will easily help them to understand and follow the necessary steps they need to take. -albaugh@cc.usu.edu Sonsored by: UtahState UNIVERSITY Houston ft Dining S*nric*s Enter a drawing for a chance to win these amazing prizes!* Grand Prize: Come visit the new Living/Learning Center First Place Prize: Toshiba Laptop with WiFi and DVD Second Place Prize: Dasani Road Bike When: April 12th April 13th Unlimited Access Meal Plan worth $1,275 Third Place Prizes: 9:00am - 3:00pm 9:00am - 1:00pm Located West of the Eccles Science Learning Center £cteiy<we iVelowtte! 5 i-Pod Nano's And tons of other prizes! 5 i-pod Shuffle's Housing Scholarships Parking Terrace Passes USB Memory Drives & More!!! |