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Gift Allows Nursing College to Open Research Center

July 22, 2002

A $1 million gift from the Emma Eccles Jones Foundation will allow the U's College of Nursing to create a new research center. The Emma Eccles Jones Nursing Research Center, to be housed in renovated space on the nursing college's fifth floor, will support graduate study, faculty preparation and clinical nursing research.

Chronicle Editor Resigns, Council Takes Applications

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Census Bureau Reports More Income for Educated Citizens

July 22, 2002

The income gap between the more-educated and less-educated is widening, a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows. On average, during an adult's working life, people with professional degrees, like medical and law, will make an average of $4.4 million, compared to a high school graduate's life-time earning average of $1.

ATO Fraternity House Will Be In Heritage Commons Locale

July 22, 2002

Alpha Tau Omega is back on campus after a 50-year absence from the U. A unique deal between ATO and U residential living will place the fraternity into a duplex in the Heritage Commons housing complex. The fraternity will begin to move in August 16. "I've heard a lot of negative stuff about living up there, but it's our home for at least six months to a year, and we finally feel like we're established?it makes it a little easier for us to get a house," according to ATO Treasurer B.

U Student Arrested For Moon Rock Theft

July 22, 2002

U student Thad Roberts was charged and arrested for stealing a safe filled with moon rocks and meteorites from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and then trying to market them, the FBI reported Monday. The arrest comes as a shock to U Physics Professor Richard Price, who taught Roberts in a small, accelerated-learning physics class in spring of 2000.

Havili Denied Appeal By Univ. Administration

July 22, 2002

The U administration backed athletic director Chris Hill's decision of denying Sione Havili's petition to join the U football team. U vice president for student affairs Barb Snyder ruled the U student-athlete code and its appeals process didn't apply to Havili, for he was an academic non-qualifier out of high school.

Some Players Are Not Destined for NBA Glory

By By Trent Toone • July 22, 2002

Some guys just aren't meant to make a career in the NBA. When NBA coaches finalize their rosters and the season starts in late October, chances are former Utah Ute Chris Burgess will find himself looking in from the outside. Perhaps it's too early to say, but after watching Burgess put on a Phoenix Suns' uniform and play sparingly against the Memphis Grizzlies in the Rocky Mountain Revue, I just don't think he's going to make it.

USU Creates Graduation Guarantee Program for Fall

By and • July 16, 2002

Utah State University administrators shocked higher education officials with the announcement of a guarantee for entering freshman: Graduate in four years or tuition is free. Beginning Fall Semester at USU, students enrolled in the Graduation Guarantee Program will sign a contract, agreeing to take so many hours a semester with the promise that in four years they will be wearing a cap and gown.

The Chronicle’s View: U Campus Must Stay on TRAX

By and • July 16, 2002

It's 8:00 a.m. and the parking lot next to the business school is already packed full. Students wait in their cars for what could be an hour, hoping for a car to leave its stall. Come fall, this situation will seem all too familiar to U students. Some of these students might want to consider whether the wait for a spot beats waiting for trains on the Utah Transit Authority's TRAX line.

Letter to The Editor: Don’t Separate God and Pledge

By By Jacob Tripp, Computer Science and By Jacob Tripp, Computer Science • July 16, 2002

Editor: I am writing in response to Casey Jacketta's July 10 column "Putting God in the Pledge Divides the Nation". Although there are some people who are in favor of taking "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance, it is certainly not as divisive an issue as she would have us believe.