The Daily Utah Chronicle

Nutritionist says carbs as a weight-gain culprit is a myth

March 4, 2004

Dr. Atkins and the South Beach Diet may be taking the carbohydrate craze a little too far. "Half the people who participate in these diets end up dropping out," said Sean Talbott, nutritionist at the U College of Health. "Each person needs a specific diet that is perfect for them.

Taped Messages Read My Mind

By By [email protected] • March 4, 2004

By [email protected] vandals who taped messages across the eyes of student candidates did what I only wished someone would do. I am only upset that I don't have more classes in the EMCB with the chance...

Root for the Utes, Not Grassroots!

By By [email protected] and By [email protected] • February 24, 2004

By [email protected] ClarkUndecidedFreshman Monday night's Men's Basketball game versus New Mexico was ridiculous. Not because of the 30-point blowout, but because of the annoying mass of green...

Helping med students in Iraq

February 23, 2004

A mission that assessed Iraq's public health-care system convinced two U medical students to launch a book drive for medical schools in Iraq. Second-year medical students Gaby Vargas and Karly Pippitt decided to join the book drive with 15 other medical schools in the United States.

inaccurate medical information

By By [email protected] • February 23, 2004

By [email protected], While a newspaper should be a forum for opinion and source of information, it should not be an opportunity for advertisers to insert medically-inaccurate information....

The Chronicle’s View: A message to the House: Fail SB48

February 19, 2004

The U is one step closer to allowing guns on campus-but certainly not by choice. If U students, faculty and the administration had a say in the matter-and one would think that they should-then the debate over whether or not guns belong on campus would already be over.

Legislature made wrong move to support withdrawal from U.N.

By By William Pingree • February 19, 2004

Recently, the state Legislature passed a resolution calling upon Congress to take appropriate measures to withdraw the United States from membership in the United Nations. Citing issues of national sovereignty, the lawmakers acted precipitously and pompously to assert what they felt was a position consistent with American national interest.

Winning streak on the line vs. Falcons

January 22, 2004

The U women's basketball team (12-4, 2-0 MWC) has everything to lose and very little to gain as they open their home conference schedule with a game against the Air Force Academy (3-11, 0-1 MWC) tonight at the Huntsman Center. In the team's history, the Utes have never lost to the Falcons.

Letter to the Editor: Rethinking Iraq

By and • October 7, 2002

Editor: I applaud Sheena McFarland's Sept. 24 article, "Iraqi Student Opposes Bush's Invasion," and admire Hiba Al-Zahawi for sharing her experience of the Persian Gulf War, and for voicing her opposition to the Bush administration's push for a war. I was struck by Al-Zahawi's observation that "There doesn't seem to be much concern or reaction from the U.

Opposition Deploys Hundreds of Troops

October 30, 2001

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan?An American bomb blasted huge plumes of smoke 1,000 feet into the skies over Afghanistan's front lines Tuesday in an unusually mighty airstrike. The Pentagon said U.S. forces were...