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No skateboards on campus

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:06 MDT

No skateboards on campus

By leonard c. hawes

Updated May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT

On May 9 and 10, The Salt Lake Tribune published news reports on the University of Utah police proposal and the University Academic Senate’s narrow approval of a policy to “prohibit recreational, athletic or other use of a non-motorized riding device on university premises unrelated to participation in university-related activities.” Both reports mentioned a university professor who had been seriously injured by a skateboarder. I am that professor. During final exam week of spring semester last ...

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College student, intruder killed in N.Y. break-in

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:50:02 MDT

College student, intruder killed in N.Y. break-in

By FRANK ELTMAN The Associated Press

Updated May 17, 2013 08:50PM MDT

Uniondale, N.Y. • A Hofstra University junior sharing an off-campus house with her twin sister and several other college students was shot and killed during an early morning break-in Friday that also left the armed intruder dead, police said. The shooting at a private house only steps from the Long Island campus cast a pall over the university community gearing up for commencement ceremonies this weekend. Hofstra’s president said in a statement that the ceremonies would go on as scheduled. It w...

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Univ. of Utah Ethnic Studies: Don’t leave us in the basement

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:24:01 MDT

Univ. of Utah Ethnic Studies: Don’t leave us in the basement

By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 17, 2013 05:24PM MDT

Faculty of the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah say a move to a tucked-away underground floor threatens the health of their nascent major. The department’s current offices are in Carlson Hall, which is slated to be demolished this summer to make room for a new law school building. While planners say the move is temporary due to space constraints at the U., some in the department feels it’s symbolic of the “debased, marginalized spaces,” often designated to minorities in America...

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University of Utah reconsidering proposed skateboard ban

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:39:39 MDT

University of Utah reconsidering proposed skateboard ban

By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 10, 2013 09:39AM MDT

The University of Utah will take another look at a proposed campus skateboard ban, officials said Thursday. The proposal to ban all recreational nonmotorized riding devices on campus — including bikes — won’t come before the university’s Board of Trustees later this month, said U. spokesman Keith Sterling. Instead, an executive committee for the school’s Academic Senate will review it again on June 17. That meeting is closed to the public. “I think the drafters of the policy wanted to respect...

University of Utah weighing skateboard ban

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:20:12 MDT

University of Utah weighing skateboard ban

By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 9, 2013 01:20PM MDT

University of Utah police are proposing new rules to curb dangerous skateboarding with a policy change that could disallow all recreational riding on campus, including bikes. “There are plenty of places to skateboard. Streets, sidewalks and parking structures on campus are not the place to do it,” said U. police Chief Scott Folsom. Increasingly, young boarders are coming up to campus to speed down the hill to the city, creating potential hazards and at least one collision where a professor was ...