The Daily Utah Chronicle

Year in review: FUSE triumphs in ASUU elections

By By Rochelle McConkie • December 5, 2007

March 15 The FUSE Party dominated the Associated Students of the University of Utah elections, sweeping all executive and most legislative positions. FUSE presidential candidate Spencer Pearson and vice presidential candidate Basim Motiwala beat Forward Party candidates Rick Pehrson and Clayton McDonald by 526 votes, receiving 54 percent of the vote.

Year in review: Office of Sustainability opens

By By Arthur Raymond • December 5, 2007

October 4 As part of the U's efforts to become more environmentally conscious, U President Michael Young announced the new Office of Sustainability, an administrative branch created to coordinate environmental efforts on campus. Earlier in the year, U administration, facilities and the Associated Students of the University of Utah joined together to initiate a campus-wide recycling program that was launched this summer.

Year in review: Animal rights group denied U records

By By Arthur Raymond • December 5, 2007

July 2 Student animal-rights group Utah Primate Freedom was denied access to records when it asked the U for names and salaries of all faculty involved in animal testing. The group decided to advocate their cause by staging protests in front of the homes of U researchers who participate in animal testing in late 2006 and early 2007.

Year in review: Campus security task force named

By By Rochelle McConkie • December 5, 2007

June 5 U President Michael Young organized a campus security task force in response to April's shootings at Virginia Tech University and the Utah Supreme Court's decision to overturn the university's previous no-gun policy. The task force is still looking into three core aspects of emergency response: how to deal with troubling behavioral issues in students and faculty, what to do in the presence of weapons and feasible ways to notify the entire campus of a crisis.

Year in review: Gun ban dropped

December 5, 2007

March 12 The U's Board of Trustees agreed to nix the campus gun ban. The board passed a resolution supporting administrators' decision to drop a federal lawsuit against the state to uphold the ban. The U and the state attorney general had been fighting over the issue since 2002.

Year in review: Trolley Square shooting

By By Ana Breton • December 5, 2007

February 12 Bosnian refugee Sulejman Talovic walked into the Trolley Square Mall armed with a shotgun, a handgun and numerous rounds of ammunition and opened fire. In fewer than six minutes, 18-year-old Talovic had killed five individuals and injured four others before being fatally shot by responding police officers.

Buddies gather to raise awareness about the disabled

By By Edgar Zuniga Jr. • November 6, 2007

More than 150 people gathered Thursday night to spread awareness and raise funds for Best Buddies, a nonprofit organization that fosters friendship between people with intellectual disabilities and non-disabled individuals. The organization, founded by Anthony Kennedy Shriver in 1989, also provides opportunities for employment.

Red Herring: HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, Dave Grohl says

By By Orion Archibald • October 19, 2007

Dave Grohl of the alt-rock band Foo Fighters has joined the ranks of musicians using their fame to support environmental and social causes, but his cause isn't third-world poverty or saving the whales. Grohl is interested in saving humans and his ire is directed at what he calls a "conscious medical and pharmaceutical conspiracy" to convince people that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, doesn't actually cause AIDS.

Activists talk about gay marriage ban

By By Clayton Norlen • October 17, 2007

The passage of Amendment Three to the Utah Constitution, which outlawed same sex marriage, was largely debated at the time as an amendment that would protect traditional nuclear families. When the amendment passed by a two-thirds vote in 2004, gay activists said many voters forgot to consider how families in the queer community would be affected.

U gearing up for Pride Week

By By Carlos Mayorga • October 15, 2007

As more people identify themselves as mixed-race and queer, the meaning of what it means to identify as queer is constantly changing, said Andrew Jolivette, a San Francisco State University professor. Jolivette will deliver the Pride Week keynote address, "Culture with a Q.