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By scott abbott

Updated May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Scott Carrier may be the best-known member of the Utah Valley University faculty. His publications have appeared in Harper’s, GQ, Mother Jones, and Esquire. Stories have been broadcast on public radio programs that include “All Things Considered,” “Day to Day,” “Marketplace” and “Hearing Voices.” As an assistant professor at UVU, Carrier’s single-minded pursuit of truth has taken him to the heart of the war in Afghanistan and to the center of a raging avalanche in the pre-dawn Wasatch Mountains....

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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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Utah Valley University set to become largest school in the state

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:50:35 MDT

Utah Valley University set to become largest school in the state

By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 18, 2013 09:50AM MDT

Utah Valley University is slated to overtake the University of Utah as the public institution with the largest enrollment in the state over the next decade. The head count of the school’s student body is projected to grow 48 percent by 2022, making it about 10,000 students bigger than the U., according to projections released Friday by the Utah System of Higher Education — a prediction that comes as the state’s flagship school raises its admissions standards. As a whole, the state’s public colle...

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Utah Valley releases finalists for AD position

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:02:31 MDT

Utah Valley releases finalists for AD position

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 18, 2013 12:02AM MDT

Utah Valley released the four finalists for the school’s position of athletic director, replacing Mike Jacobsen who will retire June 30. UVU plans a series of campus and community forums Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the search for the institution’s new athletic director. The four finalists for the position are Kurt Esser, senior associate athletic director at the University of New Mexico; Vincent Otoupal, athletic director at California State University, Monterey Bay; Kent Stanley, senior a...

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University of Utah geologist inspires name of new mineral

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:57 MDT

University of Utah geologist inspires name of new mineral

By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 17, 2013 10:36PM MDT

Barbara Nash has spent her career studying rocks, but she never thought one would bear her name. “This is a bit of a pleasant surprise,” said Nash, a geology and geophysics professor at the University of Utah. The mineral, nashite, is unique even among its class: Rather than brilliant orange like other decavanadates, it’s a translucent, streaked bluish-green. Decavanadates are formed when oxygen in air reacts with vanadium ore bodies near the surface in old, damp mines. They’re found in Colora...

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The BYU model

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:01:03 MDT

The BYU model

Updated May 17, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Re “As gay vote looms, church-based Scouting draws interest” (sltrib.com, May 13): When I was at Brigham Young University, then BYU President Dallin Oaks fought the federal government on student housing regulations. Because of BYU’s religious mission, he rightly insisted that university-approved housing be segregated by sex. What he didn’t do was insist that every university in the country follow BYU’s rules. That exemption is a good model for gays in America when it comes to religion. If a reli...

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Montana Tech names Charles Bradley new AD

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:59:11 MDT

Montana Tech names Charles Bradley new AD

The Associated Press

Updated May 15, 2013 04:59PM MDT

Butte, Mont. • Montana Tech Chancellor Don Blackketter has announced that former University of Wyoming and Boston Celtics basketball player Charles Bradley has been named the school’s new athletic director. Bradley will begin work Wednesday replacing Joe McClafferty, who served as athletic director for six years before being named the school’s vice chancellor for development and university relations. Bradley earned All-America honors at the University of Wyoming, where he graduated with a ba...

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U. president’s salary climbs in national ranking

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:51:08 MDT

U. president’s salary climbs in national ranking

By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 14, 2013 10:51AM MDT

Salary sweeteners designed to keep David Pershing in the University of Utah president’s chair pushed his compensation to 44th in the country last year, a jump for the U. in a national ranking of public institutions released by the Chronicle of Higher Education on Monday. Pershing’s compensation totaled just over $624,000 in fiscal 2012, but he didn’t receive it all immediately. Instead, he’ll get $175,000 of that total paid from an endowment five years into his tenure, said Cathy Anderson, assoc...

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New Rutgers basketball coach doesn’t have degree

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:16:39 MDT

New Rutgers basketball coach doesn’t have degree

The Associated Press

Updated May 11, 2013 12:16AM MDT

New Brunswicj, N.J. • Rutgers University’s official bio of new basketball coach Eddie Jordan says he graduated from the university in 1977. But the university registrar’s office says the former NBA player and coach never received a degree from Rutgers, though he earned 103 credit hours from 1973 to 1985. In a statement, Rutgers spokesman E.J. Miranda called Jordan a “part of the Rutgers family.” Miranda referred questions about Jordan’s bio to the athletics department. A spokesman did not re...

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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...

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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 ...

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Coach cleared of charges no longer at MSU-Mankato

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:33:58 MDT

Coach cleared of charges no longer at MSU-Mankato

The Associated Press

Updated May 8, 2013 11:33PM MDT

Minneapolis • A former head football coach for Minnesota State University-Mankato, who was cleared of child pornography charges last year but reassigned to an administrative position, is no longer employed at the university, the school said Wednesday. Todd Hoffner’s last day on the university’s payroll was Tuesday, school spokesman Dan Benson told The Associated Press. He declined to say whether Hoffner was fired or left on his own, calling it was a private personnel matter, and declined to gi...

Prosecutors have yet to decide on Utah swim coach charges

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:05:13 MDT

Prosecutors have yet to decide on Utah swim coach charges

By Aaron Falk The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 8, 2013 12:05AM MDT

More than two months after the criminal investigation of former Utah swim coach Greg Winslow was announced, prosecutors in Arizona have yet to make a decision whether to file formal charges. The delay has angered the father of Winslow’s alleged victim, then a 15-year-old girl and a member of an Arizona swimming club Winslow coached. “It’s been 10 weeks now and I’ve tried to be really patient,” the father, whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of his daughter. “My daughter came out...

University of Utah-educated pianist Joshua Wright will release his new CD tomorrow

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:01:02 MDT

University of Utah-educated pianist Joshua Wright will release his new CD tomorrow

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 6, 2013 12:01PM MDT

University of Utah-educated pinainst Joshua Wright will release his new CD, titled "My Favorite Things," tomorrow. He said in a statement: This project was an enormous undertaking, as this last year I was juggling the first year of my doctorate at the University of Michigan, recording this album, performing, and teaching. However, I had the support of so many wonderful people, and I'm very pleased with how it turned out. My last album, entitled "Josh Wright" combined classical themes with h...

600 graduate from University of Phoenix

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:30:39 MDT

600 graduate from University of Phoenix

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Updated May 6, 2013 11:30PM MDT

More than 600 people graduated Saturday from the University of Phoenix campus in Salt Lake City. Top majors for students at the Maverik Center ceremony included business, criminal justice, education and information technology. The for-profit college offers associate’s and bachelor’s degree programs aimed at working adults. Lindsay Whitehurst

Utah rugby team will resume play, but on two-year probation

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:52:11 MDT

Utah rugby team will resume play, but on two-year probation

By martin renzhofer The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 6, 2013 11:52PM MDT

The University of Utah on Monday agreed to reinstate the men’s rugby club after January, but the club will remain on two year’s probation for violating player behavior standards and for using the university’s athletic logo without permission. The reinstatement came as 12 members of the team also on Monday released a letter of apology that explained its violations and reassessed the club’s leadership. “Members of the team have taken responsibility for their mistakes and now must be held account...

Wrong initial

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:17:02 MDT

Wrong initial

Updated May 7, 2013 11:17AM MDT

“Bonding in Zion: Deseret U to U of U” (Opinion, April 28), by University of Utah Vice President Thomas N. Parks, was most interesting in its celebration of the university’s distinguished chemistry faculty. However, there is no “B” in the name of Henry Eyring. The U.’s distinguished physical chemist and recipient of the Priestly Medal had no middle initial. (Eyring’s son, Henry B., is first counselor in the LDS First Presidency). Boyer Jarvis Salt Lake City