The Daily Utah Chronicle

The Sledding Lawyer

January 6, 2002

Most Olympic hopefuls don't have a representative from their national team continuously call and beg them to compete. Most Olympic hopefuls don't attend law school, or have a husband participate in the same Olympic sport, just for a different national team.

NCAA Should Ease Transfer Regulations

By and • January 6, 2002

I love money. Who doesn't? The prospect of getting more cash from another job always interests me, and always will. However, should it be the defining factor in taking or leaving a certain job? The sports world seems always to have players and coaches leaving a certain position for another team for more money, even though they had been doing very well at their previous locations.

Student Sample: How do you feel the Olympics will affect you academically this semester?

January 6, 2002

"As long as teachers don't give us loads of homework while we are gone then I don't think it will affect us too much," Brandon Black Senior, Communication "It will be good for me. That is about the time I get run down and burnt out. I am fine with the break," Jake Strait Junior, Geography "It will probably make me do worse because I will forget everything during the break," Ashley Mortensen Sophomore, Communication "I have no problem with the break.

Games Force U Teams to Alter Practices, Schedules

By , , and • January 6, 2002

Myriad Utah residents vowed in the few years preceding 2002 that once the Winter Olympics arrived in Salt Lake City, they would be taking off. Meanwhile, many others, like the U students who'd acclimated themselves to living in the new dorms, found displacement foisted upon them, as they were forced to vacate their residences to make way for incoming athletes from around the world.

Looking Toward a Treatment for Blindness

January 6, 2002

Researchers have successfully preserved the eyesight of rats by transplanting cells into their diseased eyes. The result gives hope to the 25 million people worldwide afflicted with retinal degenerative diseases, the leading cause of blindness in industrialized countries.

Modern Olympic Gold Finds Way to Wrong Pockets

January 6, 2002

I gave in. It was a challenge of Olympic proportions, and I lost?big time. As I walked along the sterile main street of Salt Lake's newest shopping kingdom?The Gateway?the Olympic ideals whispered my name, caressed my purse and, one hour later abandoned me, alone with 39 cents and a 100 percent cotton sweatshirt emblazoned with Salt Lake City 2002.

Olympic Hopefuls: Torin Koos

January 6, 2002

If getting a spot on the 2002 U.S. Cross Country Ski Team was based solely on achievement, Torin Koos would be a lock for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. In a sport where athletes usually don't peak until they are into their 30s, the 21 year-old's resum reads like one of Olympic caliber.

Men’s Hoops Faces St. Mary’s Tonight

January 6, 2002

The first edition of life without center Chris Burgess for the Utah men's basketball team wasn't pretty. Utah played haphazard and unenthused as a lifeless Huntsman Center crowd watched Division III Whitworth threaten the Utes before losing by just six, 63-57.

Con: U Corrent in Canceling February Classes?

January 6, 2002

With excitement swirling around the coming Olympic Winter Games, one issue remains terribly neglected. Should the University of Utah cancel three and a half weeks of class in February? The question now seems academic because the Games will commence exactly one month from tomorrow.

Olympic Hopeful: Kristina Joder

January 6, 2002

Sometimes the hardest thing for an Olympic hopeful to do is to come to terms with reality. Former U All-American cross country skier Kristina Joder was ready to do so. The 23-year-old stuck around Utah to train for the U.S. Olympic trials instead of flying home to her native Landgrove, Vt.

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