Dear Editor: I am a K-UTE deejay and have been following the funding debate between the Associated Students of the University of Utah and K-UTE with concern. It seems to me this budget process has become an ugly, all-out fight on a personal level between some of the parties on either side.
Editor: This university is privileged to be one of only eight institutions in the country that has a golf course on campus. It's one of the few programs on campus that generates positive cash flow through greens fees and supports other departments like Exercise and Sports Science and Continuing Education Lifelong Learning and Youth Education.
The one thing the U baseball team had not done throughout the entire season was to sweep a three-game series. Until now. Before the series with Air Force, the Utes were tied for third place with the Falcons, with a conference record of 5 7. Utah needed to separate itself from the rest of the pack.
Melissa Stahnke can claim a new nickname: "Cougar Killer." With back-to-back home runs, one in the bottom of the eighth inning, Stahnke led the U softball team to a comeback, eighth-inning 8-7 win over BYU in the second game of the doubleheader, completing the two-game sweep of the Cougars.
Student leaders are currently working to raise at least $1 million to fill the needs of children at the student-owned child-care center. The Associated Students of the University of Utah initially opened the center using money accumulated in a child-care fund, a grant from the Michael's Foundation, and money U President Bernie Machen appropriated to the center.
As if Masters wanna-be victors Retief Goosen, Ernie Els, Phil Mickleson and Vijay Singh weren't annoyed enough to see golf supreme deity Tiger Woods overcome the pack to claim back-to-back Masters titles and the third of his career, they weren't pleased to find what awaited Woods when he took the stroll to the clubhouse to don the famed green jacket.
The FBI and the CDC have quarantined Orson Spencer Hall after a student contracted the ebola virus. Political science student Ralph Schwartz inadvertently touched the floor, which is constantly covered in a white powder, as he picked up his backpack. CDC officials have been flown into Salt Lake City from Atlanta.
After an uneventful meeting over K-UTE's ASUU funding produced no more than a lot of swear words from a certain graduate adviser's mouth on Thursday, K-UTE is taking its message to the people. To raise awareness, interest and funding, K-UTE AM 1620 will broadcast "protest radio around the clock," said Lizzy Fargus, K-UTE graduate adviser.
WEST VALLEY CITY?There's a stretch of road in this suburban community known as "Little Saigon." The city is home to the nation's largest per-capita population of Pacific Islanders outside Honolulu. And West Valley City is embracing its growing diversity with a new community center, designed to be a gathering place for the area's Vietnamese, Pacific Islanders and Latinos.
