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The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

Parking punishments too strict

December 9, 2009

Editor:

Monday night I headed to the Warnock Engineering Building to finish an unnecessary lab report, and I parked between two handicapped spots in the yellow lined area.

Officers decry meth study

By By Jake Hibbard, Staff Writer December 8, 2009

Some former methamphetamine-lab busting police who filed for workers compensation for ailments related to their exposure to the dangerous drug while on the job are blaming their denied claims on a failed U study.

Students join with PETA for petition

By By Jamie Bowen and December 8, 2009

In light of recent findings from the undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals at the U's research labs, students are continuing to make an outcry.

Raise your voice against budget cuts

By By Reed Nelson December 8, 2009

After reading yet another gag-inducing but largely unnoticed news story about the plague known as budget cuts, I feel as though I have become privy to some secret information in an underground bulletin: "This just in: The cuts could be large, the ramifications larger. It's happening again, and this time they mean business." And the swindler underbelly known as the Utah Legislature seems gung ho about the whole idea.

Mestizo Institute faces forced closure

By By Michael McFall, News Editor December 8, 2009

U art professor Jimmy Lucero arrives in a classroom on Salt Lake City's west side each week with an art lesson and a dream for his students that they can rise above their circumstances and go to college. But soon it will remain just that8212;a dream.

Budget cuts: ?The edifice crumbles?

By By Chris Mumford, Staff Writer December 8, 2009

Although doubt still clouds the fate of the U's budget for next year, U President Michael Young appeared before the Academic Senate on Monday to offer an early prognosis.

ASUU to discuss projects

By By Michael McFall, News Editor December 8, 2009

After several criticized or mired projects and two successful ones, today the student government's leaders will sit down with students and go over what they've done for the past eight months of its administration.

A smarter, faster, more diversified campus

By By Katie Harrington, Rita Totten, Deborah Rafferty December 8, 2009

During the past decade, there has been a trend of new coaches, new programs, new buildings and, overall, a new sense of diversity.

Underclassmen key in win

Young players stole the show in the Utes' win over Idaho State that put the men's basketball team back at .500.

DeChristopher?s defense a fallacy

By By By Zack Oakey and By By Zack Oakey December 7, 2009

One of my friends is fond of saying: "Nobody is perfect. I am nobody, therefore I am perfect." If you understand why this statement is absurd, you are on the road to understanding what philosophers and rhetoricians call a logical fallacy. Fallacious statements are those that have no foundation in reality or contradict evidence.