The Daily Utah Chronicle

Skiers finish second at NCAAs

March 22, 2004

The U ski team failed in its attempt to win back-to-back championships at the NCAAs last week, but came close with a second-place finish, which left coach Kevin Sweeney content. "We are very ecstatic about finishing second," Sweeney said. "With everything that has happened to us over the season, we should have finished fourth or fifth, but we have continued to battle all season," he said.

Comedy Dinner aims to unite U diversity groups

March 2, 2004

Some well-known comedians will help transform the Union Panorama Room into a comedy club for a few hours this Wednesday, beginning at 6 p.m. Comedians Felipe Esparza, Flye and Edwin San Juan will tell jokes during the Associated Students of the University of Utah's "Comedy Connection.

U named School of the Year

March 2, 2004

The U has been recognized as School of the Year by the Intermountain Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls. The Intermountain Affiliate is one of eight regions within a larger, nationwide league-the National Association of College and University Residence Halls.

Cause becomes more costly for animal activist

February 26, 2004

The U responded last week with a $299 price tag to freshman Jeremy Beckham's request for primate experimentation details. Last August, Beckham, head of the Utah Primate Freedom Project, began asking for documents detailing the experiments currently conducted on the hundreds of macaques, baboons and marmosets at the U.

Utah: The next Auschwitz?

February 23, 2004

It was just an innocuous sounding statement in a story that ran in The Salt Lake Tribune Feb. 15, so why am I bringing it up now? "We're the new Jews," said Paula Wolfe, director of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Utah. To Zion, pussycat! I've never wavered in my opinion that gay and lesbian couples deserve to live in state-sanctioned civil unions with all the perks of a nice, straight married union, and I won't divert from that.

Letter to the Editor: Learn to accept others’ differences

February 18, 2004

Editor: The current debate on homosexuality contains the same verbiage present in discussions the first time African Americans were given freedom or the right to vote, when jazz music became popular, when integration was proposed and when women were given the vote.

Letter to the Editor: Poulton is an Honest Politician

By and • October 28, 2002

Editor: I am writing in response to Dan Thatcher's Oct. 24 column, "Don't Vote for Steve Poulton," in which Thatcher attacked Poulton, who is running for state Senate in the 4th District. I could take the road frequently travelled, not standing up for anything or anybody and simply sink behind another article, angry, offended and embarrassed that my university publishes such unprofessional things.