The Daily Utah Chronicle

Former U. South Florida Students Create Bookstore Alternative

By By U Wire • January 7, 2002

TAMPA, Fla.?Former University of South Florida students Christian Beiter and Paul O'Grady were frustrated from buying expensive books from the University of South Florida Bookstore and selling them back for a small percentage of the original cost. Their response was to join forces with programmer Matthew Oucen and create a Web site with a simple message for students: "Don't be stupid!" Beiter said the goal of the site is to provide students a place online where they can sell their books to one another.

Big Tuition Increase on Horizon

January 7, 2002

Unable to cut another $3.2 million out of the current year's budget, U officials announced they would request a loan to cover what the Legislature is asking them to cough up. U administrators already trimmed $5.4 million from the current year's budget at the request of Gov.

U Students Volunteer as Interpreters at Hospital

By , , and • January 7, 2002

As a child, a visit to the hospital can often be a scary experience?it can be even more unsettling when the patient can't understand what the doctor is saying. Every day, many families that don't speak English visit Primary Children's Medical Center, according to Matt Miller.

Globalization Has Helped Higher Ed, Bennett Says

January 7, 2002

Sen. Robert Bennett described the current recession as "very mild indeed" to a crowd of U students and others Monday. "Higher education is always competing for tax dollars," Bennett said. When there's a recession?and accordingly fewer tax dollars?public universities get less funding.

U Hospital Passes the Test

January 7, 2002

University Hospital has just received its report card, and Executive Director Rick Fullmer is beaming with pride. The hospital earned a 91, the best preliminary score it has ever received, beating the national average of 88 and its previous score, which was also 88.

Media Tours Olympic Village at U

January 7, 2002

On Monday, the U held a media tour of the Olympic Village and the clinic before SLOC takes it over. The tour highlighted the Polyclinic, located in the Guest House. To make sure athletes' injuries and illnesses do not put a damper on the spirit of the Olympic Games next month, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, along with the U, has created a Polyclinic like no other.

U Skiers on Top of Invite After Alpine Events

January 6, 2002

If this weekend's Montana Invitational was any indication of things to come, then the biggest competition for Utah's Jernej Bukovec to reclaim his NCAA slalom title is at his side every day in practice. Led by a first-place finish in the men's slalom by freshman Pierre Olsson, the Utah ski team rests in first place after alpine competition at the Invitational in Bozeman, Mont.

Pro: U Correct in Canceling February Classes?

January 6, 2002

2001 Christmas vacation is now dead, God rest its soul. But even as we dry our tears and attempt to move on, some among us would dishonor its memory by complaining about the prospect of even more time off in just a few weeks. I don't get it. A deep instinct, eternally burned into my student's soul from the first days of afternoon Kindergarten, tells me that any vacation from school, regardless of when, where or how long, is good.

Olympic Hopeful: Pat Casey

January 6, 2002

Years before February 2002 and the Olympic Winter Games, the prospect of the Games was drawing potential skiers to the U. Former Ute skier and current exercise and sport science/ environmental studies major Pat Casey was one such athlete. "Having the Olympics factored into my decision to come to the U," he said.

Sports Lacking in Priorities

January 6, 2002

As I make a haphazard, uneven attempt these days at splitting time between attending classes, doing homework, working at my job, seeing my girlfriend and talking to my family just often enough for my mother to remember that she has five offspring, rather than four, I am reminded, quite Forrest Gump style mind you, that my mama once told me that in life, you gotta have priorities.

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