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Drivesober, well-rested this SpringBreak The Student Wellness Center is sponsoring a Safe Spring Break Campaign this week to remind students to be safe over the coming break. A booth will be set up most of the week on the Taggart Student Center Patio Tuesday. Prizes and information will be available, according to Jana Carling, prevention specialist for the Center. Sturl~nts can ent.,r a mtional drawing for two scholarships for $2,500 each. Safe Spring Break week is to help students become aware of the accidents and injuries that often occur during the vacation, Carling said. She said, the two main goals are to remind students to r.-:-:drir.!: and c:-ive,and to not drive while tired. During Spring Break there is a lot of drinking and driving, she said. The Wellness Center wants to encourage responsible use of alcohol. Driving while tired is almost as dangerous as driving while intoxicated, __ l • UJ

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Census takersappeal to Utah's ruralareas SALTLAKECITY(AP)Dozens of Utah residents fanned out Fridayto distribute 2000 Census forms to hard-to-reach areas of the state. "We more or less doorhang it." RichardGriego,manager of the Census Bureau's Ogden office serving northern Utah, said Friday."Wejust barely started. The actual counting operation is getting under way as we speak." AssistantField Manager Marilyn McCulloughsaid the officehired people with fourwheel-drivevehiclesto traverse some of the wintry roads. Peopleare expected to respond by mail or through the Internet. Later this month. census-takersalso will collect information in person in isolated areas, she said. Questionnaires willbe mailed to the rest of the state's more than 2 million residents later this month. Utah is projected to need 2,400census-takers.By comparison, Colorado will need 5,600,Nevada 3.100,and Montana 1.600. Census figuresare used to redraw congressionalboundaries and to allocate $185 billion a year in federal money. In the fall,the White House Office of Management and Budgetwill issue revised guidelines for handing out federal aid based on the cen·sus.

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Student complains to Secret Service about a class assignment covering assassination KATIE BYARD

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AKRON,Ohio - A Universityof Akron student has complained to the Secret Serviceabout a class assignment that asked: "Ifyou could assassinate any person in the world who is currently alive, who would it be?" At least two students gave President Clinton as their answer, the student said. "If something would ever happen (to Clinton) and I didn't do anything, that would be something I'd have to live with," the student who recently contacted the Secret Service said. Carole Garrison. the criminal justice professor who teaches the class,was surprised to hear about the complaint and defends the way she teaches her class. She said she uses the question and others to get students - many of whom plan to work in law enforcement thinking about tough ethical and moral issues. She said she emphasizes that the right answer is: "It's not appropriate to assassinate anyone."

The name of the course is "lookinginto the circumApplied Ethics in Criminal stances that were presented Justice. to us,"but declined to discuss Each time the class meets, details. He said his office is students are asked to write on obligated to investigate all a board their answers to two potential threats to the presiquestions. Garrison said the dent. students are not required to David Sam, dean of the respond. university's But when the 'If somethingwould Community and assassination Technical College, question was everhappen(to said that the Secret presented, a Service had not Clinton)and I couple of stucontacted college dents suggested didn't do anything, officials. Clinton. The assassinaThat upset that wouldbe tion question is one student similar to one that he doesn't want somethingI'd have resulted in the repto be identified rimand last fall of a to live with.' because he worhigh school teacher ries his grade near Cincinnati. • SlllDENT• That teacher would be affectUN1vrn.sin OF AKRON showed students a ed -so he called the Secret list of possible topService office in ics for a writing Akron earlier this week. assignment that included: "If The student said he doesn't yoo had to assassinate one elieve it is appropriate to disfamous person who is alive cuss assassinating people, right now, who would it be including the president. in and how would you do it?" class. Parents in that community David Lee. resident agent said they were upset in light in charge of the Secret Service of recent shootings at schools office in Akron, confirmed around the country. The UA that his office received a com- student said he had similar plaint about the class and is concerns.

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McCain's California drean,s crunible LOS ANGELES(AP)- In the dreamy days after his New Hampshire landslide, John McCain set out to win five more primaries, divorce George W. Bush from his establishment allies and march triumphantly into California promising to fight the "evil influences" of political money. Reality wasn't quite so kind: The Republican presidential candidate won two more primaries. helped galvanize Bush's conservative base and staggered into California promising to fight the "evil influences" of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. "Somewhere along the way he lost his way," said California GOP consultant Don Sipple. Poor scheduling, a muddled message, a skeptical electorate and the sheer force of Bush's political organization combined to put McCain 20 percentage points behind in polls of California Republicans, according to GOP analysts and some of his own advisers. And they say he has little chance of catching up before Tuesday's primary. The Arizona senator is still in good position to win the state's non-binding popular vote, but party rules will deny him California's 162 delegates - which would be lifeblood for his candidacy unless he wins a majority of GOP voters. California is the biggest prize in this week's 13-state election bonanza, a "Super Tuesday" of GOP voting that will yield 613 of the 1,034 delegates needed to claim the nomination. Latest polls showed Bush leading in Georgia, Maryland, Missouri and Ohio - which combine for 189 delegates. New York, with 101 delegates, was com-

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McCain greets a foreign dignitary while on the campaigntrail. McCain enter, the California primary in weakenedconditionafter losing three moreprimaries.,incehis New HampshireuictDry. petitive and most of New England for victories in South Carolina and which together award 102 delegates Virginia. Bush modified his message for was leaning McCain's way. California. He focused on his education With Bush gaining ground all over. record as Texas governor. knowing that McCain's battlefield was shrinking. voters in California and other "Super His advisers don·t think he can Tuesday" states put a premium on school reform. remain in the race without winning California's delegates or claiming a Bush's $3 million TV ad campaign, moral victory with a majority of the matched almost dollar-for-dollar by McCain, includes a spot that highlights state popular vote and a sweep of the Northeast. his school agenda. Despite his efforts, Bush's support in California is soft and "We need something from both coasts," said political director John the state could be troublesome for him Weaver. in the general election, as evidenced by That is why McCain and Bush plan polls showing that his unfavorable ratto wrap up their "Super Tuesday" caming among Californians has exceeded paigns here. After rallying religious conservatives Jumpto MCUJN. Page11

L.A. congressionalrace is a sign of changing Hispanic vote LOS ANGELES (Al>)- lt seems an unlikely laboratory to testthe future of California politics. The working-class communities lining the freeway corridor,~ast,of Los-., ,i . \ f ·u!Angdes;-where Asianfi:Htd • iSpaoish,limg~e.g~ bu~i.nt.1>s1 signs are as common as traffic snarls, are like most towns: residents want bet., ter schools, less crime, easier commutes, improved access to health care.

But when residents of Californians will see more the 31st Congressional often, pitting leading District vote Tuesday, they Hispanics of vastly conwill choose between canditrasting styles. As their dates who share two key ranks grow in legislative characteristics: Both are bodies, Hispanics increasHispanic and Democratin, 1p,ingJyWill ho),d each o~her • a district that favors both. more accountab1e. said With no Republicai;, .,_ Antonip 9°i:ualez,..pr.esiopposition, tne~Tniaty .,.... lien\of tlie Southwest winner is almost assured of Voter .Registration winning the seat in Education Project in Los November. Angeles. It's the type of contest "The bar has moved political analysts say higher in Latino politics in

California. The conversation at the breakfast nook is about more aggressive leadership .., and not just a good vote," Gonzalez said. "You've got to be a leader. You've got to be more than a brown face in a high place." At stake is Ule seat of Matthew "Marty" Martinez, a low-key, 18-year House veteran who prefers to

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Schools calledon for helpwithtroubledchildren MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich. unlikely to get help when it can make (AP)- In communities across the counthe most difference: before they break try, there are children like the law. the 6-year-old boy accused the time they get to 'If the family has us,"By of fatally shooting a little girl it's too late," said in their first-grade classWarden David Trippett of problems,the room. the Michigan Youth schoolhas even Correctional Facility. They don't have stable families to read them bedWhat's needed, say more potentialfor many time stories, make sure they juvenile justice speare doing their homework or positive input.' cialists, isn't a get-tough teach them to play ball. approach, popular in Some are abused or neglectmany states, but much • URRY BRENDTRO• ed and they may become earlier intervention. CJJDP angry at being ignored. Larry Brendtro of It's these children, a numTraverse City. a researcher ber of experts say, who are likely to and writer on troubled children, says turn to trouble as they get older - and school officials increasingly are recog-

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nizing such a need. "One of the mistakes is to assume that since the parents are screwed up, there is nothing that we can do. That is 180 degrees wrong," said Brendtro, a member of Attorney General Janet Reno·s Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. "If the family has problems, the school has even more potential for positive input." In the case of the Mount Morris Township boy accused of killing classmate Kayla Rolland on Tuesday, his father was in jail, and after his mother

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PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - Dozens of ethnic Albanian women and children fled in to Kosovo on Saturday after an exchange of gunfire in a town just outside the province's border, NATO peacekeepers said . The exodus of some 175 people was the latest push from Dobrasin , a predominantly ethnic Albanian town in eastern Serbia. Hundreds of people have fled the area in the past two months , streaming into the closest Kosovo town of Gnjilane, about 30 miles southeast of Kosovo's provincial capital. Pristina. The area near Dobrasin has been the site of sporadic clashes between ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Serb police. There are fears that the southern Serbian region could be the scene of renewed fighting similar to the conflict in Kosovo last year. which led to NATO attacks against Yugoslavia . The newly formed rebel group is called the Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac - named after three predominantly ethnic Albanian towns just ou tside Kosovo in southern Serbia. The group's fighters say they are trying to protect villagers in the region from attacks by Serb forces. The refugees from Dobrasin crossed a checkpoint being manned about 2, miles inside Kosovo by U.S. Sgt. Kelly Leaverton of Salem. Ore. "Last night they rushed through here ," he said. He said the villagers were traveling in cars, on horseback and on tractors. Meanwhile, some 70 Serbs demonstrated in the Kosovo town of Gracanica to protest a grenade attack on a Serb home. Five people were injured, one seriously, said Warrant Officer Mark Cox, a NATO press spokesman. NATO peacekeepers sealed off the city after violence broke out. Cox said. Infuriated at the attack, Serbs in Gracanica set up roadblocks on the highway to Pristina and hurled stones at passing Albanian cars, the Belgrade-based Beta news agency reported. Thousands of ethnic Albanians were killed by Serb forces during Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's 18-month crackdown against Kosovo separatists. Since NATO bombing forced the Serb troops to withdraw last spring, ethnic attacks and killings have been regular occurrences in the province.

> Partiers swarmNewOrleans forMardi Gras NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mardi Gras partiers swarmed the French Quarter on Saturday and lined the city's streets to grab beads thrown by strangely costumed people on parade floats. "It's the greatest party you've ever been to," said 70-year-old Jim Hennesy of Dublin, Ohio, as he downed a Guiness beer at 11 a.m. at Molly's at the Market, a bar near Bourbon Street. "The whole place is partying , that's why we come down. " A few barstools away, Carolina Greene was wearing three strands of multicolored beads and working on her third beer since 6 a.m. 'Tm getting primed for whatever happens, " said the 39-yearold lumber saleswoman from Tchula, Miss. The party will last in heavily Catholic southern Louisiana and along much of the Gulf Coast until Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, traditionally the last day of feasting and celebration before Ash Wednesday and the sacrifices of Lent. Lenten solemnity was the last thing on anyone's mind along Bourbon Street, where an engineer at the Royal Sonesta hotel dutifully spreads petroleum jelly every morning over the metal posts holding up the wrought iron balconies overlooking one of the French Quarter's busiest spots . "Guests entice people in the crowd to come up," explained hotel spokeswoman Jeannine Landry. "But they fail miserably because the poles are so slippery ." The hotel's "greasing of the poles" tradition has been going on for 30 years and has caught on at other Bourbon Street buildings with balconies packed with revelers. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit the French Quarter over the long weekend, and a million may watch the dozen or so parades taking place around New Orleans and its suburbs .

> Newshelicopter crasheskilling2 in Miami MIAMI (AP) - A television news helicopter crashed and burned in a suburban neighborhood Friday, killing the pilot and cameraman. The WTVJ-TV helicopter was returning to the station from a school bus accident. The helicopter was about 50 feet from another helicopter when it appeared the pilot attempted to make a high-bank turn, said Sonny Bushnell , who was playing golf nearby. "Then the tail ... just snapped off," Bushnell said. Al McGuire, a ramp agent at Tamiami Airport, where the helicopter was based, said witnesses heard a popping sound before the craft plunged straight down and exploded. It crashed into a small traffic circle in a residential neighborhood in southwest Miami-Dade County. No injuries were reported on the ground. WTVJ anchorwoman Jennifer Valoppi said on air that the crash was "just an incredible shock to all of us here at NBC-6 and a very , very sad moment. That was Sky 6, our own chopper with two of our own people on board." Camerman Rob Pierce , 34, had worked for the station for 10 years. Information on pilot Ruben Rivero was not available , the station said. "It is a devastating loss for WTVJ," news director Tim Geraghty said. "The two people on board were close and dear colleagues."

> Armysaysit willlimitoverseas duty WASHINGTON (AP)- A new Army policy that limits overseas duty to six months for members of the National Guard and Reserve also will apply to active duty soldiers, a spokesman said Sunday. Reservists currently are deployed abroad for up to nine months - the maximum allowed by federal law. Active duty units normally rotate after six months, but the service has set no official time limit until now. Spokesman Col. Edwin Veiga said Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki will formally disclose the policy Tuesday at a change-ofcommand ceremony in Bosnia. Limiting overseas duty to six months is meant to ease the burden of long deployments on soldiers, their families and, in the case of guardsmen and reservists , their regular employers. Since the end of the Cold War, as the active-duty force has shrunk by more than a third, the National Guard and Reserve have been called upon more regularly to support not only combat operations but also peacekeeping.

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privacy. Part of the alladvantage sales pitch, found on the home page, is that "over time, a member's Viewbar builds a unique profile of preferences and Students can now make money while surfing on the Internet, and some interests, so messages can be precisely Utah State University students have tailored to what members see and alrei3dybeen taking advantage. While want." This ability to monitor user habits this represents a new source of income for cash-strapped students, it has also has prompted enough concern to be been scrutinized by the national media scrutinized by reporter Leslie Stahl on a as a potential invasion of Internet prirecent episode of "60 Minutes." In the report, Stahl demonstrated how easy it vacy. At alladvantage.com, a person can be can be for insider-hackers to find out paid 50 cents an hour for up to 25 names and addresses. hours a month online, by allowing the According to Dr. Stephen Clyde. company to download a one-inch-high assistant professor advertising strip onto the bottom of the in the ...., I computer screen. The strip, or Viewbar, Computer ""' ff:.;;!,J then appears while the member clicks Science 1:"' around the Web, and is constantly Department, ~:· refreshed by new ads, according to the 'alladvansite. tage.com is According to the alladvantage home most likely page, the site also pays 10 cents an hour using the for time actively spent on-line by those Viewbar as a people who join due to a member's tracking devise. The Viewbar, referral, and five cents for every hour spent by indirect referrals - up to four which is a piece people away from the original source. of software, has Being paid for referrals is one feature the dual responASUSUAthletics VP Sam Winward likes. sibilities of authenAccording to Winward, he decided to ticating the user join after his father heard about it from and then builda work associate. "If you get enough referrals you can do pretty well,"Winward said. Sites like alladvantage.com, however, have raised concerns about Internet

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Web, Clyde said. "They are probably making their money by selling the information to advertisers," Clyde said. Clyde sees the technology as both a good and bad thing. One point of view, which the site promotes, is that they can help filter the types of things you get as mail, Clyde said. "Junk mail is only junk mail if I'm not interested," Clyde said. "But I'd have a definate problem if they were using the information in / a way that I was !, not _aware of or

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didn't approve of." USU student Kenneth Colledge, a soon-to-be psychology major, said he doesn't feel that his privacy is in jeopardy. "It doesn't bother me. because I don't go anywhere interesting (on the Internet) anyway,"Cooley said. Lisa Nuffer, a freshman who signed up in October, agrees with Colledge·s viewpoint. "I don't really mind. In a way, it's a good thing. You get to see something you'd want to see," said Nuffer. The university has had some problems with students signing up for alladvan/ tage.com ~from university terminals in ~computer labs attempting to make money while unaware students browse the web, ai:cording to Robert Bayn. Manager of Academic Services, Computer Services. The department does its best to report such misuses of the system, Bayn said. ·some people have been persistent , and we've tried to keep it from getting out of control," Bayn said.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Legislature has allocated the money to fulfill Gov. Mike Leavitt's . promise of a $1 million pledge to online auctioneer eBay Inc. Ebay, one of the most well~known e-commerce companies, was promised as much as $1 million from the state 's CustomFit program to open a customer service center in Draper. The state agreed to pay $1,000 for each job the company creates in Utah.

> Enforcing gay adoption bantough SALTLAKE CITY (AP) The Division of Child and Family Services is grappling with how to enforce a new law that bans cohabiting couples, heterosexual and homosexual, from adopting. The law states that unmarried adults living together and engaging in sex cannot adopt. DCFS already has an administrative rule banning such adoptions. It is being challenged in court. Scott Clark, chairman of the board of trustees of DCFS,said the board has until May 1 to initiate the new adoption measure approved on the dosing night of the Legislature. The board plans to seek legal advice before voting on its guidelines at its March 31 meeting.

USU library's Web site offers full-text searches from the comfort of home online journals in full text. Here students have to search one journal at a time. "Ifyou know the journal you are looking for. then that is a good way to look for it." said Jan Anderson. Campus Services librarian. Anderson said there are benefits and drawbacks with each method. The value of electronic journals is that the text is in full on every article available to print, download to a disk or even e-mail, Anderson said. "It's right there on your screen. You don't have to go to the paper copies," she said. Another benefit of electronic journals is through JSTOR,a company that compiles issues of journals from when they were first published. Many of these

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There are two ways to look for journal articles at the library. If students understand how both work. they can tailor their research methods to simplify their search. On the library home page at www.usu.edu/~library, there is a button called "Indexes and Abstracts" and "ElectronicJournals." Both search lists of journals, but in different ways. Indexes and Abstracts searches by keywords through databases. The search extends through hundreds of databases each containing thousands of journals. The results will be articles on the topic in a variety of journals . Electronic Journals is a category of I

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have full text using Indexes and Abstracts, the majority of them don't, Anderson said. Right now, there are about 500 electronic journals from significant publishers such as Cambridge University Press and Springer Verlag. Anderson said the number is growing, and within a few months there will be close to 800 of them. She said although the electronic journals are not new, many people aren't aware of them. "It's overwhelming the amount of research you can do through your computer these days," Anderson said. For more information on using electronic journals and indexes and abstracts, call the Merrill Library reference desk at 797-2678 or the Science and Technology Library reference desk , at 79-7-2917. · , '· ,I 1JI l d 1fl1l .> f 1·, t I bl,.,. ~ tJr.lf h

> School tooslow in threatresponse WASHINGTON TERRACE,Utah (AP}- Parents are upset after it took Roosevelt Elementary ' School' administrators four daysto suspend a student who threatened a fellow student and took two knives to school. The incident occurred Monday. The student was not suspended until Thursday, after frustrated parents had contacted the police department. School officials say the parents are over-reacting, and it took them so long to act because of conflicting stories .

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SALTLAKECITY (AP)- A photo of a man drinking a beer in front of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple was meant to illustrate the issue of alcohol at the 2002 Olympic Games. Instead, Skiingmagazine's photo illustration received a sober response from Latter-day Saints. Magazine staffers were trying to "juxtapose the forces of anti-drinking and drinking " in Utah, and to illustrate the issue of a "dry" 2002 Winter Olympics, said magazine editor Rick Kahl. The photo accompanying the story showed a man drinking a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon in front of the LDS church's Salt Lake Temple, the holy ground of members of the church . The headline above the picture reads "Got Milk?"

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Statesmanan article on Page 6 misidentified In One Ear's drummer Jeff Drury. The Statesmanregrets the error.

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PolicesLoTTER Information detailed in this section is a Statesman staff report obtained.from USU Police[ncjdent reports. '

Friday, Feb. 25

Sunday, Feb. 27

• An individualreporteda forgeduniversity parkingpermit in a vehicle. • A creditcardwas reportedmissing. • Policerespondedto a reportof pornographicmaterialbeingaccessedfrom a computerlab. • Policerespondedto a fire alarmat Mountain View Tower. • An individualcalledabout receiving annoyingphonecallsfor the past several weeks. • The theft of a VCR and videotape from the Animal ScienceBuilding was reported.The items were later locatedor recovered.

• An individual reportedsomeonehad thrown a snowballat his vehiclefrom Old Main Hill. • An individualcomplainedabout a loud noisecomingfrom the Space Dynamics Lab.

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• Policerespondedto Valley View Toweron the reportof a noise problem. • The PhysicalPlant reportedsomeone was parkedin front of a dumpster at Greaves Hall. • An individual reportedan electronic TV and telephonecabletesting device was missing from CampusPlanning. Saturday, Feb. 26 • Polia respondedto a juvenile prob• PoliceassistedLoganPolicewith a-,~ lem at West Stadium Villa. One juvereportof a fight in progress. nile was arrestedfor Possessionof • An individualcameto the Police Tobaccoand FalseInformationto a Departmentto reporta stray cat was fol- PoliceOfficer.Threeothers were lowing him to his home. warned. • Policerespondedto an alarmat the •An individual left his coatand wallet FineArts CenterMuseum. No one was in the first floor north men's restroom found inside. of the Biologyand Natural Resources

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A seasoned athlete wakes up early each Saturday morning, carefully straps on her skies with a practiced hand and glides over the slopes of Logan canyon in the serene stillness of the outdoors. She has been in training for a long awaited event, an event that will take her far from home and familiar faces. At the heart of her efforts stands a motto, "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.· Mary Dawn Waite will be the first athlete from Cache Valley to attend the National Special Olympics Winter Sports Competition in Anchorage, Alaska. March 8 through 13. This is the first national competition held since 1993. She will be racing the 1 km and 3 km cross-country ski races. Last year. Utah State University student volunteers took over running the Special Olympics program for Cache Valley. said Dave Bregenzer, Waite's coach. These Winter Games will be the destination of over 750 athletes from 23 states and Canada. This will be the North American Championships, and will serve as a warm-up for next year's international games, he said. There will be seven athletes from Utah attending the event. They will compete in alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, figure skating, speed skating, snow-shoeing, snow-boarding and floor hockey, Bregenzer said. Out of the more than 100 people who participated in the cross-country racing in Utah. only two were chosen. Twentyseven-year-old Waite is one of them. he said. Waite suffered a stroke at the age of nine. Her fine motor skills are impaired and her mental reasoning is that of a nine-year-old, Bregenzer said. "She's as good as any athlete I've ever coached: Bregenzer said. "She has as much love of the sport, as much desire, as much dedication and the positive attitude component of all athletes." Bregenzer. Waite's mother Maretta and Chris Phillips, the

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"I'm not nervous about the race, but I am nervous about the airplane ride: Waite said. "I've never been on one. "I've got tons of medals ' hanging on my wall," Waite said. "I feel pretty good when I see them there. I am proud of myself for all the hard work. and it's fun." Two of those medals are from a recent match with the Salt Lake teams in Park City. She took first in both her events. "I like to cross-country ski because it's good for you, and you get to see all your friends and meet new ones," Waite said. "She's such a positive person. and she really loves skiing." Bregenzer said. "She never let's things get out of perspective. I can tell that she's always enjoying herself. She loves being in the outdoors. and that's why she doesn't mind doing the hard work. "When we're out in the mountains. in the middle of a hard work-out. she'll stop and look around and comment on how beautiful everything is. I can just tell how happy she is to be out there skiing," he said. Bregenzer compared Waite to one of his heroes. Norwegian Olympic Champion Cross-County Skier Vegard Ulvang, who said, "If you want to excel at crosscountry skiing, you have to love the outdo6rs." Besides cross-country skiing, Waite said she also does basketball, cycling and track and field in the summers. For track. she participates in the 200-meter race and the softball throw. Waite also works at Hastings every day and at La Patisserie on Tuesdays and Thursdays. "Special Olympics is one of the best things for these kids," her mother said. "It's her social life and her physical life. It's been great."

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Every morning Justin Osmond. a junior at Utah State University. wakes up to a simulated earthquake thanks to his alarm clock though this kind of quake dose not cause damage to the surrounding area. Osmond has a hearing impairment. and relies on this vibrating alarm clock to get him up on time. "It's like a big earthquake because it's underneath my pillow," Osmond said. "It shakes my bed, and I wake up and I don't hear anything. It's quite nice though because when you wake up you don't want to wake up to all sorts of noise. "I pretty much do what everyone else does in the morning. get ready for school and when I am ready to walk out the door I put my hearing aids in. That's when I enter into the hearing world." Osmond has a 90 percent hearing loss in both of his ears. With his hearing aids in, his hearing increases by, 60 to 65 percent. ·1 can tell people who treat me differently than those who don't," Osmond said. ·sometimes people may approach me and they see my hearing aids and so they

don't know how to react speech. follow them both at the because it is different. I am "I had to work a lot harder same time?" Osmond asked. just like everybody else. a at it and learn how to talk "They (deaf people) accept first of all so I could get deaf person, a hearing perme for who I am because son or anybody . along with the world and obviously I am like one of ·we all have different keep up with everybody." them: I am hard of hearing . I Osmond said. "When I go to have noticed that when they incapabilities that we have. but that doesn't my classes, a lot . see me talking to some of of the words still my hearing friends I can see make us differ'It doesn'tmatterif go by me so I ent from anythat it might maybe offend body else in the have to pay them a little bit but I think you cansign or world. We all are more attention that it is wrong," he said. can'tsign, thei;are and look at the "It doesn 't matter if you a part of the same world. professors. can sign or can't sign. they qothgreat. When it goes by are both great," Osmond together all one. ·sometimes said . "Everybody should be Everybodyshould me, I have to they (people) read the book able to fit in the same picbeabletofit in the more. I think it ture together; the puzzle react as though I is more of a am handicapped should fit into one piece." samepicture physical exerwhich I don't The problem between like because I'm together;thepuzzle tion to keep up." today's deaf culture and the Osmond not. Nobody is, hearing culture is that they shouldfit intoone doesn·t have an don't understand each other . even if somebody is blind or interpreter in Osmond said. piece.' his classes "I worked my butt off to anything like because his that, that is not learn how to speak and I • JUSTIN0sMOND • American Sign don't want to give it away. I a handicap. It's a lJSlJSTIJDENT Language is not worked hard for something challenge," very good. and I got it. I sometimes feel Osmond said. If he stays that deaf people limit themTve noticed selves," Osmond said . "They focused on the people who act professor and sits close he don't go after their potential. normal towards me are my can understand most of what They make their hearing real friends because they are is going on. impairment a stumbling the people who don't judge." ·1 got to learn more about block to where they can't Osmond was born deaf by myself. I feel like I live in really go after what they a genetic trait passed down from his father's side of the two different worlds: a hearwant. ing world and a deaf world. "Yes. a hearing impairfamily. and it's nice to be able to go ment can stop you from He also had a speech impairment. When he was into both," Osmond said. doing somethings. but it ·sometimes it's hard shouldn't stop you from younger, his mother would because it's like you have two doing what you really want wake him up every morning out of life." at 6 a.m. to work on his leaders. Are you supposed to

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for debate and interaction for people who otherwise would have no voice at all. Chen easily made it through the qualifying rounds. scoring perfect marks at each stage. But when it came to attending the final in Shanghai. a live event that was to be broadcast over the Internet as wel1as on television. the organizers balked . It wouldn't be possible for Chen to participate . one official explained to her. because the competition would require contestants to parade down a catwalk. something Chen would be unable to do in a wheelchair. Chen was dismayed, and angry. She posted a letter on her Web site, reflecting the hurt she felt at her rejection. "The Internet is the Internet. It is not a substitute for the real world." she wrote bitterly. "I thought I could walk into the real world through the Internet , but I found that the door to the real world was shut." A local newspaper picked up the letter. and an Internet campaign began . Her personal Web site was bombarded by hits and the sponsoring Web sites were swamped with e-mails expressing sup-

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Finding balance between culture~ dren are expected to learn the lesson the first time. Windchief told how her grandmother would tell her something, but never fully explain what In conjunction with the annual Pow-wow she meant. This forced young Windchief to disheld at Utah State University on Friday and cover for herself what the lesson was. This Saturday, Roberta Windchief, master of public health for Neola, Utah, spoke about the cultural method helps develop a higher level of intuition and the ability to analyze, she said. differences between American Indians and American Indians don't like conflict, she said. other U.S. cultures on Friday afternoon. She said it is important to know about these This causes a lot of misunderstanding with non-American Indians who would rather get cultural differences to avoid misunderstandings whatever the problem is out in the open, disand to create better relationships. Windchief was born on a small American cuss it and then move on. Relationships are a ·very delicate aspect of Indian reservation in north-central Montana in 1940. She was raised by her grandparents in the our lives,"Windchief said. ·we try to preserve the relationship." American Indian culture. American Indian children are being taught Tm not trying to speak for all Indians. I'm speaking on behalf of the Sioux people - the how to make positive confrontations. Windchief said. This should help them get along in the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota people," she said. Windchief explained the word "Sioux"is not non-American Indian world better. Eye-contact is usually a sign that someone is what the tribe calls themselves. They use one of the other three names. Another American listening and paying attention. To American Indians, however, it is a form of confrontation, Indian tribe called them Sioux, which means "the enemy." Caucasian people started using Windchief said. To look away is a sign of the name and it stuck. respect. not submission. Indians will listen with "Being raised on a reservation, I was allowed their head down and think about what is being to see some of the ceremonies, and I was said. allowed to learn the language." Windchief said. Since American Indians traditionally lived in close proximity with each other, they developed Seeing these parts of her culture helped ways to keep their individuality. A son-in-law Windchief develop an understanding of her heritage, which she likes to share with other would not speak to his mother-in-law as a sign people, she said. of respect, and as a way to keep attractions Culture is a system of meaning, the techfrom forming. said Windchief. Fathers-in-law would also not speak with daughters-in-law for niques a group of people use to live and kinship patterns. Windcheif said. Culture is based the same reasons. mostly on perception . Windchief said she could only remember "Language is primarily what carries your cul- two times when her father-in-law spoke to her. One time was to tell her he wanted his grandture." she said. Language brings to mind images and feelchild, her newborn daughter, to be named ings. Her culture's word for God means many Wilma. things to her: ·a great spirit, an energy, and a Some of the same respect aml distance is common among brothers and sisters. When force."she said. Windchief discussed some cultural differchildren get to a certain age, they quit playing ences and possible problems these differences with their siblings and develop a respectful discould cause. Teaching people about differences tance, Windchief said. Windchief said this could is the best way to avoid problems, she said. be to prevent incest. American Indians grow up with close kinWhen a person in authority speaks, no one ships and ties that relate people to families, she interrupts, even if they don't agree. Windchief said. Names are based on that kinship. said a chief would realize he was no longer in Windchief said when she talks to her grandchil- charge when he woke up one morning and his dren she refers to them as granddaughter or teepee was the only one there. grandson, "addressing them in relationship to "With Indian people it's very important you know who you are," she said. where they are in the family." In school, American Indian children are As an individual you represent yourself, then more reserved. They don't like to volunteer your family, then your tribe, then all American answers even if they know the correct one, Indian people, Windchief said. because it is disrespectful in American Indian Windchief said she tells American Indian culture to interrupt or talk while others are children'to remember how strong their ancesspeaking. Windchief said it is important for tors were, as well as all their trials. She said she teachers to realize American Indian children encourages them to be strong and not succumb aren't being sullen, but respectful. to the pressures of today. American Indian parents have a different Windchief's talk was sponsored by the Utah Humanities Council, the USU Women's Center way of disciplining their children, Windchief and the USU Native American Student Council. said. They give instructions once, and the chilKATHRYNSUMMERS

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Traditional steps WHEELCHAIR Continuedfrom Page4 port for her candidacy. The organizers backed down, and Chen went to Shanghai . She rolled down the catwalk in her wheelchair, and she also gave precise and insightful answers to questions on Internet issues. When the judges, representing China's leading Internet companies, added up the par·1iqPIVr'; 'lE'Q'-1 r·oJ'I

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BEIJING (AP) - A leader of China's national legislature is under investigation for alleged economic crimes, the government said Saturday. The announcement came as the National People's Congress prepared to convene its annual session - one that was being overshadowed by high-profile corruption cases. Congress Vice Chairman Cheng Kejie was not re-elected to the presidium of the legislature this year because he is suspected of having broken the law, legislative spokesman Zeng Jianhui told reporters. Cheng is now "reflecting on his own problems" and had asked for a leave from the congress, Zeng said. "Everyone is equal before the law and everyone who has committed crimes will be punished in accordance with the law," he said. Cheng's case and that of a former deputy governor of Jiangxi province - Hu Changqing, who has been sentenced to death for bribe-

taking - are just two of a slew of high-level corruption cases that have undermined popular support for the Communist Party. The communist leadership has acknowledged that investigators uncovered 17 such cases last year. It has not disclosed details of those involving the most prominent officials, such as Cheng . As Communist Party chairman of the impoverished southwestern region of Guangxi from 1990 until he moved to Beijing in 1998, Cheng, 67, was the boss of former Guangxi vice chairman Xu Singsong. Bingsong was sentenced to life in · prison in late August for taking bribes and peddling influence. The various scandals have shaken two wealthy coastal provinces and reached into the pinnacle of power, the governing State Council and the party Politburo . They threaten to eclipse key it~ms on the congress agenda as it prepares to kick off its session

this week . The agenda includes reforming inefficient staterun enterprises and intensifying a government campaign to develop China's impoverished but resource-rich western regions. Such issues have a strong bearing on the ability of the Communist Party to maintain control after 50 years in power . The potential for unrest is mounting as layoffs at state factories leave tens of millions of workers jobless. Meanwhile, lagging incomes and scarce land prompt tens of millions of farmers to roam the country in search of work. To prevent protests over unemployment and demonstrations by the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, security in Beijing has been intense. Police grabbed at least 10 Falun Gong members Saturday as they raised their arms in meditation poses in Tiananmen Square , adjacent to the Great Hall of the People. where the legislature will meet.

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SHOOTING Continuedfrom Page2 was evicted. he was sent to live in what was described as a chaotic flophouse where guns and drugs were found. George Economy is among many juvenile cou·rt judges who say children need help long before they reach the courtroom. "Where we as a society is making a tragi c mistake is that we are building punk prisons and jails when we should be taking those millions of dollars early on when programs can make a difference," said Economy, an Ingham County Probate Court judge. . "The first level of responsibility lies with school." said John Seita, program director for Kellogg Youth Initiative Partne_rships, which helps several Michigan communities better use the1r resources for young people . Programs to spot and help troubled youngsters have become more common in upper grades, but experts say there aren't many such programs in elementary schools. . One was getting under way just this year in Mount Morns Township when Kayla was shot to death . . .. The boy accused of shooting her had been identified as needing help, said district Superintendent Ira Rutherford . He wouldn't discuss his treatment. Officials at the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District also are trying to help troubled children earlier . The district has created a separate K-12 facility where about 40 severely troubled students get intensive care from educators, a psychiatrist and social workers . . 'This will save hundreds of thousands of dollars m the future ," said school district Superintendent Mark Eckhardt. "But more important it will h elp save their lives and turn them around ."

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(Top) usu·s BernardRoe~ (10) ledall scorerson Saturday

night with 24 pointsandfour assists.Rockwon the battleof thepoint guardsagainstBSU's C.J.Williams(3), whofouled out of thegamewith just sevenpointsandfive assists, (Below)Aggies Bernard Rock (10).Dimitri ]orssen(14) and Curtis Bobb(no number)watch as teammatescut dcruJnthe nets as part of the post-gameceremonies.

(Top) USU'sBernard Rockhugs one of the USU coachesafter the Aggie's 74-62victory over the Broncoson Saturday. (Justabove) USUshootingguard Tony Brown smiles as he takes

in the post-gamefestivities surrounding Utah State's 16thstraight victory. (Right) The BSUdefense held Shawn Daniels (white jersey) to

just 4 points, two of whichcame on this slam dunk overJustin Lyons (bluejersey_).Danielscontributed in other wa1fS,hcruJever, grabbingseven reboundsand blockingtwo shots.

Over 10,000 fans showed up for Utah

State's final game of the season as Aggies couldbeat the Broncos to become just the fourth team in Big West history to go undefeated in conferencegames.

(Left) BSU'sJustin Lyonstries

to spin on USU's Brennan Ray. The Aggie defense pushed Lyons out to the perimeterin the secondhalf wherehe was out of sync and did little dammage. (Right) In perhapshis final game in the Spectrum,

Senior Troy Rolleshowedup big. Rolle,seen herecelebrating USU's perfectconference season,11cored 16 points and grabbedeight rebounds.

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+,.4.ssi~/qnfSportsEditor Senior Troy Rolle sure knows how to go .... · out in style. . . · Jtj}iis final game at the Spectrum, he •···scored 16 points - the most he's had in the last nine games - and grabbed a team-high . eighLrebpunds. then there was the dunk. · Only three minutes into the game, with his Aggies struggling against Boise State D l ./lJruy~fsity,~e ~cooped a loose balJ.off ·•-~•··Sh awn Damels block and charged down the -~•court >

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He took off from the left side of the court (one step inside the 3-pointline ifyou ask Rolle),nearly hurdled a Bronco, knocking him to the ground and slammed the ball to the elation of 10,270 fans. .. ·1 waskind of tickled thit he stayed in my way; Rolle sai.d. ·1 was like ·nothing is going to stop me from getting to this rim.'" Junior point guard Bernard Rock was trailing the play. ·· ··· ·· · ·1 had a back view,' Rock said, tilting his head upward. ·1 wish I was closer. Then I would have really looked up; Alsofouled on he play, Rolle hit the free throw to tie the 6 me at 5-5.

Rolle wasthe Ione bright spot in a first Rolle grabbed the next reboupd. and on half full ofmistakes and)oss of c;oniposu~e. · the ,nextpossession Rock hit a lay'-up to take ~senior day always worries me; head · a lead USUwould never give up. coach Stew Morrill said. "(But) Troy did ·uwas no time for doubting; Rolle said, ·• Rolle washonored before tip~<>ff 'wh_en .· great" . · . . .• . t .··• The 6-foot-2, 210-poundforward froni ··•····• Morrillpresented him with a framed jersey: Orlando, Fla.. hit two tough shots offthe The sold-out crowd responded with a stand glass to keep the Aggies dose before hitting ing ovation and chants of "Rolle!Roller a 3-pointer with 5:11 left inthe half. . . The post game wasjust as thrilling when After halftime. Utah State University still · the fans rushed the court after the comedown four points, Rolle grabbed the back win. Rolle was hoisted and carried rebound of his own miss and was' fouled as around the court by students. he put the ball ba.ck in.Tl)e free throw (he The crowd gave him a de?fening send-off · · shot 5-for-6 fro:inthe lirieJ cut the lead to when he firushed cutting the net off the rim one point. and put it on his head.

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Aggie victory undescribable RocKHARD / Aaron Morton Can anyo

describe Saturday night's Aggie victory? It's hard to find the

. words, but I'll try. Moments like these don't come around too often. Despite not even a mention on ESPN's SportsCenter, the game had drama rarely found in cinema, let alone the Spectrum. The game began with the honoring of senior forward Troy Rolle - a man as humble, religious, not to mention talented, as any basketball player around - and ended with the Aggies cutting down the nets on a perfect 16-0 Big West Conference season. Now I don't have to quote the history and records fallen (the undefeated conference season is the first for the Big West

since the University of NevadaLas Vegas did it in 1991-92 and the first for Utah State University since 1920) to describe the kind of accomplishment 16-0 is. Sure the Aggies accomplished a lot Saturda, but there were the several little stories that were more interesting and fun to watch. Bernard Rock hit two incred. ible 3-pointers to cut down the Broncos for good. Little-used Andre Mahorn (he averages 3.3 points a game in 19 matches) scored 10 points in 1 0 minutes, sparking a 19-4 run in the middle of the second half. Rolle scored 16. Brennan Ray took a key charge ,in the second half. The USU defense held Boise State University to only 37 percent shooting in the second half. The Aggies cooled down and regained their typical composure at halftime even though they suffered two quick techni-

cal fouls in the first half. "Under the circumstances, (it's an) unbelievable deal," head coach Stew Morrill said. "Just unbelievable." From the warm-ups at 5:30 p.m., the electricity could be felt in the building - rising to a feverish pitch when Morrill handed Roile his framed jersey in front of his family and a crowd 10,270 cheering on their feet. And that's when the game started. I know Rolle's dunk early on in the first half will be etched in the minds of the Aggie faithful for years to come. It'll be hard to forget the chants of "Troy! Troy!" from the sold-out crowd as he shot his final free throws in the Spectrum in an Aggie uniform, or other spontaneous chants of "Undefeated" and "16 and 0!" And when the final horn sounded, players and coaches shook hands and took congrat-

ulations from severa l fans. Rock stood on the scorers table celebrating while Rolle was ca rried 1.,.,...-i

d~~~~1 s:~~z~~ on the shoul"What a fun moment for our

fan~~~d 8~:rrit : t~~;:~b :;t~·d with class. While the team was cutting the nets down , some Aggies like Ray took the time to sign autographs - something several players were doing an hour after the game ended . All this from a team with only one returning starter and nine newcomers . "We pulled together ," Rolle said. "It's a blessing."

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What if? Utah State University hockey players are asking themselves that question after a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to Miami (OH) University on Wednesday in the first game of the national tournament. Had the Aggies won that contest, they would have gone to the semifinals. In the game against Miami. the score was knotted at 2-2 until 2.2 seconds remained. Miami scored on a back door play while USU was shorthanded. As it turned out USU came away with fifth place in NCAA Division II after defeating Central Connecticut University 6-2 on Thursday and Central Michigan University 8-4 on Friday. Miami went on to win the Aggies·pool in the tournament with a 2-0-1 record and were the eventual national • champs. "It's pretty frustrating." assistant captain Alan Babicky said. "We know we could have been there. We're still kind of shocked about it." ·we put in countless hours and effort," fellow assistant captain Nate Anderson said. "But there are some things that are out of our control." The Aggies'2-1 record in the tournament was good enough to place them fifth after being ranked according to head-to-head records and how many goals were scored against them. Colorado State University, which was 2-1 against USU during the regular season and went into the tournament with the number one ranking in the West, was right behind the Aggies in sixth place. Archrival Weber State University finished fourth after defeating previous national · champion life University to reach the semifinals. ·we played a solid game (against Miami)."Anderson said. ·we gave our team the chance to win. We just didn't get the breaks." There is no shame in losing to the eventual champion, he said. Anderson said he thought

. gS~ists.Anderson came away had things gone the Aggies' with two goals and one assist way, they would have made it in the tournament to the finals. If the Miami contest would USU was outplayed in the first period, Anderson said. but have gone to overtime, USU would have had a better outplayed Miami in the third. chance of winning. Anderson He said the team had a lot of said. He thought the Aggies scoring opportunities and definitely showed they were as could have put the game out good as any team in the tour of reach but didn't get the nament, and he felt like the lucky bounces. other teams knew it too. Anderson said one unlucky "None of the Miami players bounce was the officiating. walked away from that game With two minutes left and the feeling they had a sure victory." · game tied, the officials called he said. interference on the Aggies' Western teams have been Kelly Froerer. Anderson said under-appreciated in the past, he thought the play didn't Anderson said. He said he felt influence the action or endansatisfaction in proving to ger any player and said such a everyone that his team call shouldn't have been made belonged in the tourney . in a tournament game. Babicky said Central Unfortunately for USU, it Michigan was a strong team was. No. 1 in the central United On that power play, Miami didn't get a single shot off until States going into the tourney - but the Aggies were able to the one they scored on . dominate. ·rtwas no one's fault." he Anderson said he was said. "Everyone had their man. pleased with the victories over Fate just wasn't with us that Central Michigan and Central day." Connecticut, calling them One thing that threw the ·strong teams from strong Aggies off was the different hockey areas." size of the ice, Babicky said. USU is used to a wider Olympic size ice. while the sheet in Indianapolis was National Hockey League regulation . "You don't have as much ice to move in." Babicky said. The transitions are quicker and there is less room to work nice passing plays, Anderson said. He thought the difference in the game was the adjustment time his team had to make in the first period. He said he wished the team could have arrived a day earlier to become more accustomed to the ice as other teams, such as Weber, had don e. USU was also not used to Miami's style of play, what Babicky calls a "dump and chase." The Aggies fell behind 2-0 after the first period against Miami, but came back to tie it after the second. Clint Stosich and Nick Thiros scored the Aggies'goals in the game . Ross Keys was USU's leading scorer in the tourney with three goals and four assists. Ryan Keys had two goals and two assists and Babicky chipped in two goals and three

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·Densonputs illness behind herfor family, final meet as Aggie to pull Christy from this meet." coach Ray Corn said. But after each event. Denson persisted and asked Corn not to pull her. "After four years, there was no way."he said. Denson entered the season still recovering from a broken forearm that she injured while practicing a vault. Yet her vaults have improved from meet to meet, and Friday night was no different. Regardless of how she was feeling, she stuck the landing on her full, twisting Yurchenko to score a 9.8.

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Determination is a trademark for Utah State ·University senior Christy Denson. She missed practice Thursday after catching the flu and was still feeling sick at Friday's meet. But with her family in from Texas, and the last home meet of her career before the Big West Championships at hand, Denson was determined to compete on senior night. "There was a stark reality that we were going

Even a frustrating routine on bars, the event on which she was ranked No. 1 in the last national poll, didn't get her to stop pushing herself. "She warmed up beautifully." Corn said. "but a rare mistake cost her the routine. She just ducked her head in too soon on her eagles. and she knew she wasn't going to make it. so she dropped out.'.' Still, refusing to give up. Denson pulled through her beam routine and prepared for floor. Corn asked her again if she wanted to sit

out, but she wasn't about to quit then. ·1 had to do floor,"she said. "I just tried to get some energy and get over my sickness real fast for one little floor routine." A crowd favorite, Denson illuminated the Spectrum the way she always does, with high tumbling, clean dance and a huge smile. Her routine not only impressed the fans, but the judges too, as she scored 9.95. "She knew she wanted to finish exactly like she started, and that's Christy Denson." Corn said.

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It seemed the only competition came from within. Battling to replace some lower scores and increase its place in the national rankings, the Utah State University gymnastics team did just that, scoring a 195.325 in the Spectrum Friday night. The score was USU's second highest this season. The Aggies trampled Texas Woman's University, which scored 189.775 and had to count five falls. Texas· only allarounder, Luci Romberg, had falls on both floor and beam and finished third with 37.075. USU freshman Kristen Bloom won the all-around with a career high 39.175. "She was rock solid all the way through." head coach Ray Corn said. All-arounder Christy Denson came down with the flu on Thursday, but opted to , compete anyway. She strug. gled on bars and was a bit · wobbly on beam, but still refused to disappoint the crowd, which included her family who flew in from Dallas for senior night. Denson earned season highs on vault and floor, scoring a 9.8 and 9.95, respectively. Beam threatened the Aggies again, but this time the team pulled through. "Even though there was a little blood letting there, no one shut down. The next person went up and rocked a set." Corn said. Sophom9re Kirra Degener looked solid for most of her routine . She was followed by two clean performances from Tina Ellis and Bloom Nicole Kilpatrick, who has also been sick with the flu, fell on a difficult jump . "Even though we had to count a fall on beam, we still broke 195. I think that shows the potential and capability of this team," senior Jessica

first basket of the game. After snagging the loose ball following a rejection from teammate Shawn Daniels, Rolle took off up-court. with one goal in mind: scoring. Boise State junior guard Clint Hordemann managed to grab his position in front of the basket just in time to see Rolle fly up and over him from the left wing, resulting in an electrifying jam. "Thursday, he had the same thing, but the guy fouled him hard." Rock said of Rolle's dunk "Today, as a senior, (in his) last home game in front of 10,000 people, why not? Why not? If I had hops like that. I'd do it." What the 10,000 fans in the Spectrum seemed most impressed with was from where Rolle took off. "I think it was one step in from the 3-point line," Rolle said when asked where he began his flight. He was fouled on the play and ma'de the ensuing free throw, converting the 3-point play and tying the game at 5 with 16:49 remaining in the half. But the Broncos were able to overcome that emotional play and control the half from there. Seven straight points from BSU's senior forward Justin Lyons put the Broncos ahead 12-10, but the Aggies took their first lead of the game , 14-12, when Rock took an out-

USU'sStephanie Huff performson the beamin the Spectrum Friday.

Porter said. Porter has struggled on beam at times this season, but made no such mistakes Friday night She was solid on her r6und-off-to-layout mount, and landed her series smoothly to score a 9.8. USU began the meet with a season high 48.850 on vault. Sophomore Megan Woolstenhulme led the way with a powerful piked cuervo vault. She scored a career-high 9.825, the highest vault score of the night. Sophomore Stephanie Huff had a repeat of last year's regional competition, scoring 9.8s on vault and floor, to tie her career highs in the events. USU's 49.275 floor score was another season high, and

the fourth-best USU floor score ever. Denson led the way with an intense routine, good enough to get a 10 from 1 · one of the two jmlges'. , , t Freshman Erin Maguire topped her previous personal best of 9.7 with a 9.925. She opened with a high double layout and landed easily. Dell, Huff and Bloom each earned 9.8s. Ellistied her career best on bars, leading the Aggies with 9.875. Bloom had one of her best routines ever, Corn said, and was awarded a 9.85. Degener . Porter and senior Trina Ewart each scored 9.775. Utah State will compete in a dual meet at Boise State University on Tuesday.

let pass and went coast-toboth attempts. coast for the layup. "(Defense) was something I USU's lead lasted just 37 was contemplating on conseconds, as Hordemann stantly working on," said reclaimed the lead for Boise Mahorn, who has missed a State on a 3-pointer from the large portion of Big West play right side. due to a stress fracture in his The Broncos eventually right foot. opened up a 31-24 lead with The duo of Rock and 2:31 to go before the break, Mahorn combined for 14 but Rock and Rolle brought points over four minutes of the Aggies back with a comaction, including back-to-back bined six points. 3-pointers by Rock. giving the And with one second left Aggies a 58-46 lead with 6:25 before the end of the half , to go in the game . Utah State looked for a last"Those were big shots for second shot to possibly give it sure." Jackson said of Rock's 3the lead back But pointers. "It was a defensive Hordemann stole Daniels' breakdown on our side and inbounds pass at center court. that really hurts." and released a prayer that At one point during the found nothing but the bottom second half, Boise State of the net. turned it over four times in a "That buzzer-beater at half row, each resulting in a Utah kind of killed us," Rock said. State basket. Still, the Aggies weren't And with Utah State slowly worried about being down opening up a 15-pofnt lead though it was the first time in over the final 10 minutes of 16 games they have trailed the game, chants such as, "16during the break 0." and "Undefeated," could be "There was no time for heard throughout the doubt ." said Rolle, who had 12 Spectrum. points at halftime. "We were "It was a great game," said down a couple of points in Rock. who finished the night games before, but we knew we 5-of-8 from the field (2-for-3 would bounce back somehow." from 3-point range) and 12And that somehow came in of-15 from the foul line. ·rt the form of Rock and junior was a battle and they came to forward Andre Maham. play. It was real physical." With the game tied at 44 In his 10 miqptes of action, with 12:42 to go, Rock put the 6-foot-6 Mahorn matched USU ahead for good with two his career-high 10 points, free throws. while pulling down three After stealing the ball, rebounds, all offensive, and Mahorn went the length of recording one steal. the court before he was fouled "I like to play aggressive." and sent to the free-throw Mahorn said. ·1 guess that's a line , where he connected on Mahorn nature."

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Interracial dating decision takes campus by surprise GREENVILLE.S.C. (AP)- Bob Jones white girl. a school spokesman has said. University's decision to lift its half-cenThe first black student was not tury-old ban on interracial dating has admitted until the 1970s and the school stunned students and the fundamentallost its tax exemption in 1983 after a ist Christian school's supporters who 13-year battle with the Internal learned about it Friday night in a Revenue Service, which said the school's national television interview with policies were discriminatory. President Bob Jones III. The school had defended the dating "I don't think even his own secretary ban based on a biblical interpretation knew what he was going to do," said that God created people differently for school spokesman Jonathan a reason. Pait. Jeff Dayton graduated 'I can tell you Thousands of students and from Bob Jones last year supporters gathered at the and now works at a they are not university's auditorium to Bible gift shop across Jew-hating,they the street. He and his watch Jones· interview on CNN's "Larry King Live." wife. who still attends, are not People were in shock, said were surprised and senior Naion Lundy. Catholic-hating happy about the deci"We didn't expect it at all.'' sion. and they are not he said. "I can tell you they are not Jew-hating, they are Lundy. also a sergeant with racist.' the university's public safety not Catholic-hating and they are not racist," department, said Saturday that •JrnDAYTON• Dayton said. 'This was reporters were not permitted BOBJONESGRADUlffE just an old rule that to interview students and facneeded to be changed." ulty on campus. · The university is a popular stop for Jones said the extraordinary national Republican candidates seeking conserv scrutiny the school has received since George W. Bush made a campaign ative support. Bush appeared at the appearance led to the move. school shortly after he lost to Arizona "This thing has gotten so out of Sen. John McCain in the New hand," Jones said. "Allof a sudden the Hampshire primary . university is at the center of a After losing South Carolina, McCain's Republican presidential debate." campaign made "Catholic Vot_er Alert" Bush appeared at the school last calls in the next states, Michigan and month and later apologized for failing Washington, to tell them of Bush's visit to criticize the school's anti-Catholic to Bob Jones. views and racial policies. Those remarks have hurt McCain The Greenville school banned intermore than Bob Jones, said Jerry racial dating in the 1950s, when an Brockman, who owns a clothing store Asian family threatened to sue after nearby. their son, a student. almost married a "I just admire that university for

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Rallydemands federallawsuitagainstNYPD WASHINGTON (AP) - Calls for action in the death of Amadou Diallo increased Saturday as the Justice Department continued reviews of New York City police practices as well as the case of four New York policemen who shot him. · Fellow police officers, fellow Muslims and even President Clinton weighed in over the weekend on the case of the West African immigrant killed in a hail of gunfire by police who say they mistakenly thought he pulled a gun on them .

McC\IN Continuedfrom Page2 51 percent. His California political organization, in place for more than a year, is a who's who of GOP powers, led by state Sen. Jim Brulte. McCain's California campaign began when Brian Kennedy, former polit'ical director for failed GOP candi date Lamar Alexander, was dispatched to the state in October. He found a threadbare team that consisted of . Rep. Frank Riggs.R-Ca., and

In Washington, several dozen people, mostly American Muslims, protested Saturday in front of the Justice Department, saying the department should file a federal lawsuit against the New York Police Department. "What happened to Amadou Diallo. what has happened to others ... is a pattern of abuse within the New York Police Department that has been going on for many years," Mauri Saalakhan, of the human rights group Peace and Justic"e Foundation, told a noon rally of about

one of McCain's former Naval Academy classmates. The organization doubled in size the next month, when two congressional aides were hired . Despite his inability to court the Republican faithful in early primary states , California's closed primary was fertile territory for McCain. The central valley is loaded with former Democrats with an independent streak , and GOP moderates dominate the coastal areas. California consultant George Gorton said that

50 people . "They should spend the money on a federal suit against the NYPD and the city of New York for a pattern of civil rights violations." In New York, a coalition of black law enforcement groups called for a review of the Diallo case. "We want the Justice Department to look into this, to investigate," Charles Billups, head of the Grand Council of Guardians , said1n a pr~ ~ ~d:n~etr~ brl the steps of City Hall.

once Bush established him self as the front-runner, McCain needed to dislodge the Texan's support by portraying him as a captive of the right wing. "I don't think McCain has convinced California moderate Republicans that Bush is not a moderate," Gorton said. McCain tried. Starting in Michigan's primary last week, he called Bush a "Pat Robertson Republican" and tied him to a South Carolina university · with anti-Catholic traditions . Some analysts said that backfired, particularly among the

40 percent of GOP voters in the state who tell pollsters they are "strongly conservative." "He bit the hands that pray for him," said Republican consultant Alex Castellanos. McCain had transformed the race. He was no longer just a political reformer and Vietnam war hero - the labels that brought him this far - he was a bloc-bashing politician, striking out at the party's core. A senior McCain strategist said seeking a fundamental party change hurt him in California.

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HISPANIC Continuedfrom Page2 operate in the shadows of Congress and solve problems for individual con stituents. Challenger Hilda Solis, nearly 30 years younger, is an outspoken state senator who promises the type of agenda -setting leadership her supporters say the district lacks. Analysts say she repre sents the most serious challenge to Martinez in years. Supporters have propelled her to a 5-to-1 fund -raising advantage. Martinez, 71, did not return several messages left with his chief of staff this week. But supporters said he leads in ways less visible but no less important. acting as a strong advocate for local concerns such as extension of the 710 Freeway. "He may not be highly regarded in Washington circles, but he's highly regard ed in his district and that's basically what counts," said Mark Paulson, 42, a Republican and Alhambra City Council member . Solis' challenge to Martinez comes at a time when Hispanic voting power is rising nationwide. They accounted for 5.6 percent of

voters nationwide in 1998 and 46 percent of voters in the 31st district. Because both leading candidates are Hispanic , it's forcing the debate to be more about substance than skin color, said Solis, 42, the first Hispanic woman elected to the state Senate. She will be forced from office by the state 's termlimit law in 2002. "Latinos are voting more regularly now than they have in the past, and they're paying more attention to who is asking for their vote:· she said. "'No longer is it just satisfactory to have a Latino surname. " Martinez supporters, however. said the congress man wins re-ele ction not because he lives in a heavily Hispanic district but because his office helps with even the most mundane matters . In January, Martinez staffers help ed 72-year-old Mary Louise Bardwell of San Gabriel get her car fixed after a local service shop botched repairs and billed her for $1,700. That's the kind of service that instills loyalty in voters, Bardwell said. "To me it's not a race issue ," she said. "If you're going to help me and you 're Chinese, I'm going to vote

for you." Democratic Party leaders are less enthused. In February, the state party endorsed Solis (pronounced So-lease). Martinez has angered Democrats for differing on some core issues: He voted for an NRA-backed gun control measure in the House last year that helped stall a push for tougher gun-control proposals ; and he sup ported efforts to ban partial-birth abortions . Democratic efforts to remove Martinez have helped Solis open a huge lead in fund-raising . She had raised $552.731 to Martinez 's $145,347 through Feb. 16. according to Federal Election Commission records . Her supporters say their backing is motivated less by race and more by her effectiveness as a legislator. She spent $75,000 of her own mon ey to help pass a mini mum wage initiative in 1996. for example, and championed legislation to protect parts of the San Gabriel Mountains . "We're ripe for change, " said Adele Andrad e-Stadler, 41. of Alhambra. "I think he represents a different time, and we are progressing. She is clearly a progressive can didate ."

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I guess what concerns me most is the most controversial element to come from Wednesday was whether or not Pearl Iam is dead. I was disturbed, but wasn't going to say anything, until I opened the Statesman Friday morning and saw the photo on page three. • identified I know nothing of the qualifications of Bear World's er:iploye~s, but it's obvious t_heyhave little training in Dennis Hastert wildlife biology and even less in bear biology. To passan • as Speakerof infant wild animal to an untrained, uneducated horde of studentsis unbelievable, irresponsibleand from my underthe House. standing, this went on for most the afternoon. Bear World obviously isn't concerned about the good of the animal. •UNITEDPRESS Wild things are not pets and should never be treated INTERNATIONAL• as such. The presence of humans causes so much stress in bears that they've been running away from us for at least two hundred years. The image was of a girl (no doubt an FHD major) cradling a cub wrapped in a LETTERS blanket with four other hands grabbing at it for a chance to touch it. Bears have never liked people. Lengthshouldbe What makes you think they liked you? limitedto 350 words. Nature isn't a petting zoo. Wild things should never All lettersmay be shortened,editedor rejected be considered to be anything but. What you were-for reasonsofgoodtaste, doing is considered against the law, morally and legally, at every state and national park in the United States. redundancyor volume If you want to see a bear, then get out of your car, hike of similarletters. to the top of a mountain and wait. Don't encourage those who remove it from it's natural environment and No anonymousletters show-and-tell it behind chain link. Just look at the , will be publis/red. black bear at Willow Park, looks as if it's had a hell of •• a good life doesn't it? Writersmust signnil Bears are having a hard enough time dealing with letters,with pl1one the loss of habitat. The last thing a bear needs is for us numberand student to remove it from its parents, wrap it up in a blanket numberclearlyslated. with you sticking your fingers down it's throat. It's not a baby and you can't teach it to be a bear, so for once, Lettersrepresenting let's just think about what we're doing.

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This is in response to Heather Fredrickson's article, "What eve_rhappe~ed to real music?" I agree that most of the music today 1sa bunch of crap! Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder had this to say about the issue, "Things go in cycles, and people listening to vacuous pop these days, if they love music, will mature and find better stuff." However, as a die-hard Pearl Jam fan, I was very offended by the statement she made about the song "Last Kiss," how Pearl Jam has run out of ideas, so they're redoing classics. This is a very false and untruthful statement. Maybe she should have known a little more about Pearl Jam's recording of "Last Kiss" before she made this statement. Eddie Vedder was at a flea market in Seattle and found a single of "Last Kiss" and felt it would be a fun song to play. Pearl Jam's version of "Last Kiss" was never intended to be released commercially. "Last Kiss" was originally a Pearl Jam Fan Club Christmas single sent to Fan Club Members only. It was recorped at a sound check before one of Pearl Jam's summer concerts. Some radio station bac;k east got a hold of the record and started playing "Last Kiss" on the ~ir. It beckme very popular and other stations started to play it. Only then did Pearl Jam recognize the porularity of the song and felt that it could do a lot o good. They then released it as a single and later on the No Boundaries soundtrack with 100 percent of Pearl Jam's proceeds from the sales of these two albums going to aid the refugees in Kosovo. (It's actually a tribute to Pearl Jam that a song could make it to No. 2 without any advertising or promotion as most bands today pay radio stations to play their songs). Pearl Jam is one of the great bands of our day. I don't know how familiar people are with all of Pearl Jam's music, but each album has been unique and different.

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course, as I fall asleep each night I STAFF come up with these great EorrOR·IN-CHIU: intro paraJaredSimer graphs for NEWSEDITOR: this column, VickyCampbell but then when I wake up - it's fEATIJRfSEDITOR: all gone. Ah, the trials of getting JustinBerry older. SPORTSEDITOR: Anyway, this is your last CIISelfHobson chance to get some social action PHoTO EDITOR: LizMaudslt?y in before BREAK!! Let's take a moment to rejoice in that. OK. COPYEDITOR: HentherFredrickson Let me clarify here __: a social WIREEDtTOR: event means something that puts LnumBellamy you in contact with your fellow EDITORIAi. BOAAD: human beings. JaredSterzer So go off and do something HentherFredrickson interesting. Talk to strangers at DougSmenth the art museum. Go to a dance /..enhCul/pr and be crazy. You can always move to a different state. Established in 1902. Oh yeah, and a note of thanks The Utah Statesman here to Brother Pace - it's nice is published Monday, to be noticed. Wednesday and Monday - Smithfield's Main Theater is showing classic Friday and is the movies! The Insider plays official student tonight and Thursday at 7 p.m. newspaper of Utah Cost is $4.50 with ID, but it's a State University. great discussion with a friend The Utah Statesman opportunity. is printed on Today you can order daffodils recycled newsprint.

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from the American Cancer Society. You get a nice bunch for a reasonable price. Call 7529090. Save half of the bunch for yourself and use half to make someone's day. Tuesday - If you are rabid about fixing up the old courthouse, you can go to a "Save the Courthouse" meeting at noon at the Copper Mill Restaurant. Figure out those last minute spring break plans (I leave Wednesday). Alicia - I think the Hotel de la Siesta would be great. Are your professors having class Friday? Fie on you if you are giving a quiz that day (no quiz, right Penny Byrne?). Wednesday - Make cookies today and share them with friends/neighbors/relatives. Be a "pixie" and leave some wrapped goodies on a doorstep, knock and run away. Or be bold and invite someone over to make cookies tonight. Or just make something yummy and deliver it to people you care about (thanks Miko and Kristy for the treats, even if they were a while ago). Thursday USU concert tonight (last chance for musical stimulation before break).

Q: What's the difference between a logging clear-cut in a beautiful forest and a ski slope? A: A clear cut grows back. Q: Why did Utah choose the slogan "The Greatest Snow On Earth" when it so closely resembled the Ringling Brothers slogan "The Greatest Show on Earth?" A: Both businesses require a lot of bozos. It's OK to hate skiing. It's just fine to not have a ski rack, not to have your computer hard wired to all the ski reports and not walk around like a dork with old ski lift tags attached to the zipper of your coat. I can usually stand the three months of skiing banality, but last week I just snapped like Orrin Hatch's presidential campaign. About half a dozen people blew me off because of ski-related i 11ness. These are the "dude" people. They might not actually say "dude" all the time, but you can hear the attitude in their whiny voices and see it on their raccoon-goggle-tan-lined sun bu rnecl faces. .:J1/like, 1, d.ud.e,. Jher.a.. was powder at th-e Beav (dude talk for Beaver Mountain Ski Resort)" "Chill dude, I'll work on Saturday, the powder was there today." "Yeah I know I was going to come over but, dude, the Banff Film Festival was in town. It is, like, totally extreme." It's not like I don't have a few strange habits and nearly uncontrollable yearnings . There is hardly a day that goes by that I don't hear a pepperoni pizza and a pint

of cold beer singing a siren's song in harmony, but I don't skip out on work to answer it. Well, almost never. My sick days are more or less randomly distributed throughout al I twelve months of the year. Check this statistic on the dude people around you. You could tell dude people you are a baby-sealclubbing agent of Satan, but don't dare tel I them that you don't ski. "Dude, what's up with that? Like, what do you do all winter? Like, what is even the point of living in Utah if you don't ski? Why don't you move to Texas?" You know I'm thinking that the Native Americans in· the four-corners area of Utah are asking that very same question. I'm equally sure that the extra infrastruc ture that Utah is amassing for the 2002 games is benefiting them and the rest of the state beyond measure. I think just the promise of general admission tickets to the first round of curling at the games will help everyone in Utah facing another two years of low wages and large class sizes look on the brighter side of a system that runs on bribes, favor granting and drug tests for its competitors. "Dude, you're buggin' on me. It's not all like that." You'r~ (igliJ, l. left,_puJthr obnoxious ski attire, the high cost of lift prices and . the fact that more people have died in avalanches this year. "Dying doing something you love is not such a bad thing, dude ." So, if I die choking on a piece of pizza, ljke, will Dominos name a special after me? "Dude, you're sick."

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Even as Americans .,·"' beco m e Vx\ ,,._\\_ richer and ··{\ more tech, , nologically -.-... proficient, L-----'411119==--we are getConcert starts at 7:3 0 p. m. at ting ruder. Kent, free with ID. It's jazz At home, on the highway and music with a saxophone soloist. on the job, bad manners are Cool. Friday- VOTE TODAY! This likelier to win out over good. Three-fourths of workers is Utah's presidential primary day. Republicans vote for Bush agree the workplace had or McCain, Democrat you can become a ruder place in the past decade. . Companies are chose Bradley or Gqre. paying the price for the growing If you don't know where you lack of civility, according to are registered or if you have Christine Pearson, professor at proof you have lived here 30 the University of North Carolina days, call the Cache County and director of the survey. Clerk at 716-7150. Call before Fifty-two percent lost work Friday because you won't be time worrying and 22 percent able to get through by this date. intentionally cut back on their Vote and then you can complain work effort in responseto shaball you want about who really gets nominated. Voting is VERY by treatment on the job. Pearsontheorized bad manimportant. Go do it. ners are a direct result of ill will Saturday - Free play if you from previous downsizing, and are still in town. Rumplestiltskin the increasing pressure to do is showing at 2 p.m. in the more with less, as well as from Morgan Theater (free with · ID). technology like e-mail enabling Only one showing. employees to "zap" one another Take a nap today to celebrate your freeness from school for a anonymously. If our language is any indicawhole week. Or party hardy to tion, then our manners have celebrate your freeness from definitely slipped. uring my own school for a whole week. research, I found people swear an average of 16 times a day. Ann Bluem/einwill be traveling to Londonfor Spring Breakwith her One-third of us say if we have to little sister, Sara. Tofind out how belch, we simply let it rip. A third of us admit that given the queen is doing, e-mailAnn after the opportunity we sometimes next Thursday at slzk7@cc.usu.edu or always poke around in other

people's medicine cabinets. Slightly more of us sometimesor always steal a glance at other people's mail. Yet shreds of decency and courtesy in America remain. Some 72 percent of the overall population - and, amazingly, 80 percent of Generation X say they give up their seaton the bus for ·a pregnant or elderly person. Eighty-four percent say they typically step back to allow women to get off the elevator before them. Seven percent of us confess to sometimessticking our chewing gum under the furniture. Anyone who goesto the movies knows that some folks aren't fessing up here. Yet our movie manners seem to have improved in other aspects.Where audiences once hissed and booed irritating theater ads, now they're essentially indifferent, getting up for popcorn or chatting. And once the film starts, two-thirds of us become vigilant, reminding talkers to mind their manners with a loud shush. An amazing figure, given the current antismoking attitude, is our attitude to cigarette smokers. If a fellow restaurantpatron is puffing away and the smoke was bothering us, nearly three of four of us won't say anything but simply inhale and bear it.

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U t a h Legislative session is now over, it has given newspaper columnists like me enough to talk about to last until the next session. From doing away with consumer advocate groups to banning discussion of birth control in sex education classes, this Legislative session has been chock-full of controversial decisions. Today, however, I'm here to talk about premarital sex. The recently passed gay adoption bill denies unmarried cohabitators the right to adopt children. The bill was so strong I y supported because conservative groups like the Church of Jesus 'Christ of . Latte~-day Saints and several others wanted to ban gay couples from adopting because of the "sinful nature of homosexuality" and to ban heterosexual couples from adopting because premarital sex is against the law in Utah. I'm not joking. There is actually a law banning nonmarried couples from having sex. While I am very concerned with the rights of gay ~ouples, right now I've decided to focus all my anger on the premarital sex ban. Not only is this a ridicu loJsly outdated law, but it goes against my rights as an individual. As a co-worker of mirie recently said, 1 should be able to have sex wherever I want, whenever I want and with whomever I want." Besides the public lewdness laws, (which I do support. Who really wants to see 11

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dense in Southeast Asia -after Singapore and the Philippines, there are some positive economic aspects, says Nicholas Rosellini of the UN. Development Program. "It increases the labor force," says Rosellini, the program's deputy representative here, ·and it can increase rural opportunity because most of the workers tend to send their income back to the families in the rural provinces.· As a result, economists say, the disparity between rich and poor provinces is reduced. When Vietnam was partitioned into north and south in 1954, about 1 million northerners, many of them Roman Catholics, crossed the Ben Hai River into South Vietnam. The exodus from the Communist north t<.tthe capitalist south was encouraged - some say engineered - by the CIA. During the war, millions of Vietnamese fled from northern cities into the countryside to

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Leno, who is gay. called the proposition "mean-spirited," pointing out that gay marriages aren't allowed in California. "It's a completely bogus argument," he said. California does not allow same-sex marriages, and that won't change whether Proposition 22 passes or fails. The measure would keep California from recognizing same-sex marriages allowed elsewhere. No other state allows such marriages, but proponents argue Vermont is close enough to make the initiative a necessary preemptive strike. Measures similar to Proposition 22 have passed in '30 states. The ballot measure appears to have the support of voters, who favored it by 13 percentage points in the latest Field Poll.The margin of error was 3 percentage points. Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other prominent officials - including President Clinton - oppose the measure.

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