With more stories and more experience, I toughened up. I found my voice. It might have been the football to the face during a friendly game in the office gone awry, or perhaps it was being yelled at on the phone by Utah Sen. Curt Bramble, but I learned that there's a time to laugh and let things go, and there's a time to stand your ground.
Menchú, who delivered the keynote address for this week's Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration, urged students to fight for humanity8212;and to fight for it now.
When Lynnette Averill was 3 years old, her father, a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, took his life because of post-traumatic stress disorder. Now as a doctorate student in counseling psychology at the U, Averill will take her research on PTSD in military veterans to Australia on a $30,000 Fulbright Scholarship to consider the relationship between the disorder and substance use.
A task force examining a closer affiliation between the U and Dixie State College might release recommendations to both schools' presidents this summer, but leaders said changes might not come for a few years. "We're a long way (from) determining what is a good thing for Dixie State College and the University of Utah, and a long way from knowing when the best time to make changes might be," said Chuck Wight, U associate vice president for academic affairs and co-chair of the task force.
Students receiving writing help won't have to work in the hallway anymore when the University Writing Center relocates next summer to what is now a storage room at the top of the west entrance of the Marriott Library. Senators from the Associated Students of the University of Utah voted on Thursday to give $5,000 to the $25,000 project, and administrators have agreed to pay the rest.
The ASUU General Assembly will vote tonight on a proposed $1.4-million student government budget for the 2008-2009 school year, which includes a reinstatement of funding for the student radio station KUTE and a number of amendments made by the Senate April 17.
Chalen Brown stands with a partially eaten M&M cookie in each hand, watching her three kids play on the newly renovated playground the ASUU Senior Class Council dedicated Friday as this year's class gift. Suddenly, her 6-year-old son, Ethan, comes running toward her, crying because he fell coming off the slides.
Campus sustainability leaders said the U could have done better in this year's Recyclemania competition of colleges and universities nationwide, but they said the U did respectably in its premier year of organized recycling. Out of 400 universities, the U placed 84th for recycling paper and 139th for cardboard.
College Democrats and Republicans clashed over the question of whether the war in Iraq is making America safer in last night's debate at the Hinckley Institute of Politics. The College Republicans argued that the war has protected the country because there haven't been any terrorist attacks on American soil, ships or embassies since the war began in 2003, but the College Democrats said the war is diverting resources from the real threat in Afghanistan and acting as a recruit tool for al-Qaida.
U law professor Peter Stirba will argue a case before the United States Supreme Court in the fall that he said will set precedence for civil rights and search and seizure cases. "It will be a landmark decision in the area of qualified immunity," Stirba said.
