- The Daily Utah Chronicle

1999 Gun Law Text

By and • August 20, 2002

Editor's Note: The following is the text of the 1999 Utah gun rights statute that has become the object of litigation between the U and the state Attorney General's Office. The law's reference number is 76-10-500. It can be found on the world wide web at http://www.

A Conversation About U Commuter Involvement

By By Jeremy Voros and By Jeremy Voros • August 3, 2002

University of Utah campus, any afternoon. Jeremy picks up the phone and dials: Jeremy: Hello? Rob, it's Jeremy. Rob: Jeremy, what's up? Jeremy: Yeah, well, I'm working on this column?I'm thinking I'll write about our apathetic student body and lack of campus community.

Quote of the Day

By and • July 22, 2002

"Everyone who knows him just hopes this is all a big mistake."

Pollution Possible Cause of Famine

By and • July 22, 2002

A new study says pollution from industrial nations was one of the possible causes of a devastating African famine that left 1.2 million people dead. The starvation brought on by the 1970-85 drought stretched from Senegal to Ethiopia until rains finally returned.

Letter to the Editor: God is All Over Government

By By Mike Holmstrom, Staff, Health Sciences and By Mike Holmstrom, Staff, Health Sciences • July 22, 2002

Editor: Casey Jacketta's column in the July 10 Chronicle, titled "Putting God in the Pledge Divides the Nation" summarizes familiar arguments against references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance, which have been renewed with the recent legal case. At the root of all of these arguments is the meaning of the phrase, "separation of church and state.

Academic Criticism Merited if Done Right

By By Karen Hunt and By Karen Hunt • July 22, 2002

When visiting Chinese restaurants as a child, I regularly got the fortune cookie with a slip that read, "You would make a good critic." At a young age, I thought that must be quite true. That's probably in part why I love college so much. I like to take information, turn it over, examine it and critique it.

Utes Make Academic All-MWC Swim Team

By and • July 22, 2002

Along with the success in the pool the U men's and women's swimming and diving teams have been enjoying throughout the off-season, there is more reason to rejoice. The teams were coming off excellent individual performances at the Mission Viejo and Cottonwood Heights Invitationals during summer competitions.

Bush Stops $34M for Int’l Family Planning

July 22, 2002

WASHINGTON?The Bush administration, in a victory for social conservatives who oppose abortion, will withhold $34 million that had been earmarked for U.N. family planning programs overseas. Instead, the money will go to international child survival and health programs of the U.

Union Hires a New Assistant Director

July 22, 2002

After an academic year of budget cuts and layoffs, the Union is hiring an assistant director. Frank Chacon, from the University of Southern Colorado, will take charge of marketing, recreation and programming on July 30. "Programming is just central to what we do as the community center of the campus, and we need to beef it up," said Whit Hollis, Union director.

Illegal Meds Threaten UT Immigrants’ Lives

July 22, 2002

A large number of Utah's Latino immigrants are risking their lives by taking an illegal pain reliever, U doctors say. Up to 35 percent of the Latino patients seen at the U's South Main Public Health Center use the drug. A Latino boy, brought to a U clinic with a severe infection in May, led doctors to discover the widespread use.