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The Magazine of the University of Utah Vol. 23 No. 2

of multitasking and Medicine As the U’s health care chief, Vivian S. Lee relishes balancing her many roles

law and the mideast: a U professor’s revolution paths to completion: The U’s graduation rate plan building a team: The U women’s basketball program a lifetime in business: U alum Bill Marriott’s book

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8 Discovery U research and medical developments 36 Bookshelf U alum Bill Marriott’s Without Reservations recounts a lifetime of business experience. By Jason Matthew Smith 10 Spotlight U professor 40 Association News Chibli Mallat’s New board mission is to members, and prove laws are more more powerful than guns. 44 Through the Years By Elaine Jarvik U students Sarah Keeping up with Nicholson Hammer, left, and Molly alumni McCann share notes Brian by during a class. Photo

Features Paths to Completion 28 The U has a comprehensive strategy for helping more students toward graduation. By Jennifer Dobner 48 And Finally… Dinosaur 16 Sidelines Caravan The U is making Of Multitasking and Medicine 22 efforts to bring As the U’s health care chief, Vivian S. Lee relishes balancing her many roles. Visit continuum.utah. more attention By Kim M. Horiuchi to its women’s edu for additional basketball team. Cover photo: Vivian S. Lee, the University of Utah’s senior vice president of Health Sciences, chief executive photos, videos, By Stephen officer of U Health Care, and dean of the School of Medicine, stands in the Huntsman Cancer Institute’s and more. Speckman infusion center, overlooking the University Hospital. (Photo by August Miller)

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Executive Editor Your Comments M. John Ashton BS’66 JD’69 Editor Julianne Basinger BA’87 MA’91 Alternatives to Animal Research? I’m really proud to serve in the military during peace time. I think that all vets should be thanked Managing Editor I’m amazed at the number of construction Marcia C. Dibble projects now going on at the U [“Construction for all they have done for their country, here at the Associate Editors Update,” Spring 2013]. As a donor, I’m glad others University of Utah, past and present. Ann Floor BFA’85 are contributing to the U’s development. My one Kim M. Horiuchi concern is the animal labs attached to the Skaggs Albert Ortega Advertising Manager Pharmacy Building. I hope the U explores alterna- Salt Lake City, Utah Bill Lines BS’83 tives to animal research. There have been many Art Direction/Design humane alternatives developed and the tradition of A River Runner’s Legacy David E. Titensor BFA’91 humaneness extended. I really enjoyed the article and readings of Ken Corporate Sponsors [Sleight]’s efforts in the early days [“Fighting for the ARUP Laboratories Clarence Widerburg BA’75 MSW’75 Continuing Education at the Wild,” Summer 2013]. I was a river guide for the U University of Utah Portland, Oregon outdoor program in ’95-’97 and can’t imagine what David Eccles School of Business at we would have lost if not for these early activists. the University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare A Window on Veterans Physician Recruiting Thank you for shining a light on veterans who Dave Hagen BA’97 Rowland Hall seek to continue their education at the University Monrovia, California University Credit Union University of Utah of Utah [“Armed With Knowledge,” Summer 2013]. Development Office Discourse with our service members and civilians Gratitude for a Professor University of Utah Health Care

serves to [help us] gain insight on the true nature My first class at the University was David Editorial Advisory Committee of military service. I wish that a campus center had [Kranes]’s examination of the poetics of space Marc E. Day BS’76 Jim DeGooyer BFA’96 been available after my enlistment concluded in [“Games of Chance,” Summer 2013]. It marked me… Kelli Fratto BS’99 Rosemarie Hunter PhD’04 1975. Bravo to all involved in aiding their transition He taught me a lot about literature and theory and Mike Lageschulte from the military to civilian student life. structure and drama. He carefully imprinted for Holly Mullen BS’81 Traci O’Very Covey BFA’83 me how language works. He inspired me to read Jodi Patterson Keven M. Rowe BS’83 JD’86 Jack Homen beyond without ever demanding it of me. But what Kathy Wilets BA’89 ADRAN, U.S. Navy, 1972-75 I value most was the personal David he offered his Craig Wirth BS’73 Associate Instructor students. He is a brave man capable of putting his Continuum is published in U Center for Emergency Programs summer, fall, winter, and spring most vulnerable self out for examination by the by the University of Utah Alumni daftest of us students. I know that quality will get Association and University Marketing & Communications. I was happy to read about the opportunities him through his cancer. Subscriptions are available to U faculty/staff (visit continuum.utah. and resources available to our veterans. It is sad edu/subscribe.php) and through that this wasn’t done after the Vietnam War! membership in Molly Fowler BUS’79 the Alumni Association New York, New York ($50/year). Call (801) 581-6995 Donald Orlando BA’67 for more information. Opinions expressed in Continuum Spokane, Washington All comments submitted via continuum.utah.edu are not neccessarily those of the University of Utah administration. Copyright ©2013 by the University Thanks for the great article. I think it fairly of Utah Alumni Association. The University of Utah is an equal summarizes the situation that vets face. While not We’re eager to hear from you. Please opportunity/affirmative all vets have been in combat, most have significant action institution. go to continuum.utah.edu/contact-us/ life experiences that shape the way they think, treat For advertising opportunities, please call Bill Lines others, and approach problems. I went to nine- for our contact information. at (801) 581-3718. week basic training at age 30, and it affected me Standard postage paid at Salt Lake profoundly. The University is a better place for what City and additional mailing offices. all these vets bring to the institution. Send address changes to: Continuum Rich Stowell Alumni House Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Utah 155 S. Central Campus Drive U Department of Communication Salt Lake City, UT 84112

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pledge to do a better job in the monitoring of our staff and programs.” At a news conference in July to announce the investigators’ findings, Hill apologized: “I’m sorry. I want to apologize to any of our current or former swimmers who think I didn’t do my job.” Hill has already implemented changes within his department and will now incorporate recommendations from the investigators. The enhancements include an ombudsman to Athletics who has been appointed through the Student Affairs office and will serve as a confi- niversity of Utah President was an alcoholic, Sullivan said during a dential conduit for student athletes. The David W. Pershing in July July news conference to announce the position, held by Ryan Randall MSW’03, announced new measures to findings of the inquiry. Winslow was the will report directly to the dean of students, ensure student athletes have U’s swimming coach from 2007 until he independent of the Athletics Department. multipleU outlets to report inappropriate was suspended this past February, and Pershing also has appointed Karen Paisley behavior. Pershing acted after an indepen- his contract was allowed to lapse this to be a faculty athletics representative dent investigation revealed deficiencies in summer. and special assistant to the president, the current system. “After thoroughly reviewing this with specific direction to monitor student In March, the University’s Board of report, it is clear to me the Athletics welfare. Trustees hired three attorneys as indepen- Department failed to properly support Members of the Student Athlete dent investigators to explore allegations its students,” Pershing says. “While the Wellness Team have been instructed to of physical and psychological abuse by administration did place Winslow on now report instances of abusive coaching former U coach Greg Winslow within a performance improvement plan after practices directly to the director of the University’s swimming and diving several complaints about his coaching athletics. The Athletics Department also program. The final report—compiled techniques, a communications break- is developing written standards for safe by investigators Alan Sullivan JD’74, down allowed Winslow’s personal and effective coaching methods and John Nielsen BS’67 JD’69, and Michael problems to disrupt the program and must ensure these standards are strictly Glazier—was made public in July after a create an unnecessary, uncomfortable, enforced. And Hill, during the news three-month, comprehensive investiga- and inappropriate environment for our conference, said the Athletics Department tion. To gather their information, the student athletes. This is unacceptable.” plans to do more extensive background investigators interviewed 53 witnesses. Pershing has been working with checks when hiring coaches. Eleven people declined to be interviewed, U Athletics Director Chris Hill MEd’74 The University of Utah will also including some former students and PhD’82 and the Athletics Department to work to better ensure all employees and their parents who had complained about implement appropriate change. Pershing students are provided with information Winslow’s coaching methods and who says he is confident Hill and his staff are on substance abuse and how to report it. told the investigators they would not meet fully dedicated to taking whatever steps Associate Vice President Amy Wildermuth unless the investigators agreed to a list are necessary to correct their mistakes. will work to verify that the proper disci- of preconditions, which the investiga- Hill notes that during his 26 years as the plinary process is followed if substance tors found “unacceptable,” according to U’s athletics director, the department’s top abuse occurs, with consequences ranging the report. Thirteen more people did not priority has been to provide strong support from a performance improvement plan to respond to the investigators’ requests for for its student athletes. “As this comprehen- a required leave of absence for treatment an interview. sive and independent report indicates, we to termination. The investigation found “isolated could have done better,” Hill says. “I could instances” of physical abuse and a pattern have done better. I am ultimately respon- —Visit continuum.utah.edu to read the full report of psychological abuse by the coach, who sible for all of our 400 student athletes and from the investigators.

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Continuum_Fall13_notebook.v4.indd 4 8/20/13 1:48 PM campus notebook Five New Deans Appointed at the University

The University of Utah in recent and was a Robert Wood Johnson Executive roles in August. Prior to her arrival at the months has hired five new deans, all of Nurse Fellow. Last fall, she was appointed U, she had served as dean and associate whom are nationally and internationally as the editor of the Journal of Professional dean of library services at Indiana State recognized scholars, researchers, and Nursing, a scholarly journal published by University’s Cunningham Memorial educators in their fields. the American Association of Colleges of Library since 2004. Rena N. D’Souza Nursing, and she is the author of Critical Under her leadership, Indiana became the inaugural Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, a State University developed a number dean of the U’s new textbook now in its 10th edition. Morton of innovations, including an academic School of Dentistry holds undergraduate degrees in biology library consortium across three in August, when the and nursing from Loyola College and universities (Indiana State University, school also welcomed Johns Hopkins University and obtained Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, its first class of 20 her master’s and doctoral degrees and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College) students. Prior to from the University of Maryland. She in partnership with a county public her arrival at the U, also completed the Acute Care Nurse library to establish an integrated she was a professor in the Department of Practitioner Program at Georgetown online library catalog system. Comer, Biomedical Sciences at Baylor College of University’s School of Nursing. who holds a master of library science Dentistry and served as its chairwoman In June, David degree from Indiana University at from 2006 to 2012. Kieda was named Bloomington, has served as editor of D’Souza is known for her research in dean of the U’s Indiana Libraries, published by the craniofacial development, genetics, tooth Graduate School. As Indiana Library Federation, as well development, and regenerative dental professor and chair as editor of Cognotes, the daily paper medicine. As principal investigator and of the Department of the American Library Association director of a National Institutes of Health- of Physics and Conference. funded institutional research training Astronomy at the U, In July, the U grant, D’Souza supervised and mentored Kieda worked closely announced that the training of dentists and scientists at with faculty and administrators to estab- María E. Fránquiz the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels. lish and expand the astronomy program. would become She also organized a team of faculty who Kieda received his undergraduate degree dean of the College conceptualized and collaborated in an from the Massachusetts Institute of of Education this innovative, evidence-based dentistry Technology and his doctorate in physics coming January. She curriculum for the DDS program supported from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches by an NIH grant. D’Souza received her joined the University of Utah faculty in qualitative research bachelor of dental surgery degree from the 1990 and is an internationally known methods and bilingual teacher education University of Bombay and was awarded researcher on the use of astronomical at the University of Texas at Austin, where her doctor of dental surgery, master’s, and telescopes and observations to study the she is also an affiliate faculty member doctoral degrees from the University of fundamental particles and forces in the in the Center for Mexican American Texas Health Science Center at Houston. universe. He was honored with the 2012 Studies and assistant dean of Faculty The U’s College Utah Governors Medal of Science and Development in the College of Education. of Nursing also has a Technology and the U’s 2013 Distinguished Fránquiz, who received her doctorate new dean: Patricia G. Scholarly and Creative Research Award. at the University of California at Santa Morton—a nation- Also in June, Barbara, is coeditor of the Bilingual ally known expert Alberta Davis Research Journal, the premier journal in in nursing educa- Comer was named the field of bilingual education. A native tion, critical care, dean and director of Puerto Rico, she was taught in diverse and cardiovascular of the U’s J. Willard communities during her elementary and nursing. Morton Marriott Library secondary education, including Panama most recently worked as a professor and and University and Germany, and says her interest in associate dean for academic affairs at the Librarian, and she bilingual and multicultural education University of Maryland’s School of Nursing assumed her new stems from those experiences.

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Construction Begins on New U Law School human condition, including global justice and the evolving field of biolaw.” The facility will feature a library integrated throughout the building, state-of-the-art training facilities, spaces for collab- orative research, advanced but flexible learning technology, practice courtrooms, and a top-floor conference center. The College of Law faculty plans to use the new building to expand its already substantial commitment to community service and community-engaged learning. U law students provided almost 50,000 hours of volunteer pro bono and clinical service The University of Utah broke ground in June on a new during the 2012-13 academic year. The new building will enable College of Law building, which will facilitate new approaches the school to continue this tradition by providing facilities for to legal education based on more hands-on learning and direct client interaction. skills training. The new building also is designed to achieve LEED plat- “With this new building, the College of Law will advance inum certification, the highest designation using Leadership its mission to establish a ‘teaching hospital for law’—an inno- in Energy and Environmental Design standards, and will be vative vision for the future of legal education,” says U President located at the southwest corner of campus across from the David W. Pershing. “Expanded and improved facilities will Stadium TRAX station. The building is expected to be ready for enable a variety of educational tracks aimed at improving the the 2015-16 academic year.

New Book Details Work of Two 2013), by David Oliver Relin, co-author Professor Kathryn Stockton University Ophthalmologists of Three Cups of Tea, describes their work Wins 2013 Rosenblatt Prize The work with the Himalayan Cataract Project, an Kathryn of ophthalmolo- organization founded in 1995 by Tabin and Bond Stockton, gists Geoffrey Ruit to help the people of the Himalayas, a Distinguished Tabin and Alan who have an alarmingly high incidence of Professor of Crandall, both cataract blindness. English at the of the University University of Utah’s John U Technology Office Renamed of Utah, has A. Moran Eye to Emphasize Venture Options received the Center, is detailed The University of Utah’s Technology Rosenblatt Prize in a new book Commercialization Office has a new for Excellence, Second Suns, name. Now Technology & Venture the U’s most which chronicles their efforts to end Commercialization, the name change is prestigious award for faculty. The $40,000 preventable blindness in Nepal. meant to reflect the organization’s focus gift is presented annually to a faculty Tabin, an accomplished mountain on commercializing inventions through member who displays excellence in climber, is a professor of ophthalmology partnerships with existing companies, teaching, research, and administrative and visual sciences and director of inter- as well as to emphasize its efforts to efforts. national ophthalmology at the Moran Eye create new ventures. “The U has an Stockton’s studies have focused Center. Crandall is professor and senior vice opportunity to strengthen its leadership on gender, sexuality, LGBT issues, and chair of ophthalmology and visual sciences, in successfully turning great ideas into cultural theory. She has been a member and director of the glaucoma and cataract practical applications,” says Bryan Ritchie, of the U faculty since 1987 and was made program at the eye center. Together, they the organization’s executive director. The Distinguished Professor of English in have worked with Nepalese doctor Sanduk name change follows a comprehensive 2012. She also served as director of the U’s Ruit to treat patients in one of the world’s review of the program that also resulted in Gender Studies Program for more than most impoverished areas. internal restructuring aimed at improving 10 years, transforming it into a nationally Second Suns (Random House, June coordination and communication. recognized center for scholarly inquiry.

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University Biologist Receives Stanford University, for his efforts to safe- Honors Residential Scholars Community Second Whitley Gold Award guard bird-rich wetlands around northeast exceeded minimum efficiency standards Turkey’s Kuyucuk Lake. He won the latest by more than 30 percent, resulting in award for convincing Turkey’s government a $55,000 annual energy savings. “We to create its first wildlife corridor for large worked hard to ensure tremendous energy carnivores such as wolves, brown bears, savings without increasing our construc- and Caucasian lynx. tion budget,” says Myron Willson, director of the U’s Office of Sustainability. New U Residence Hall Receives LEED Gold Certification In Memoriam The Cleone Peterson Eccles BS’57, a longtime U University supporter who served on the Board of Trustees and the of Utah’s Alumni Association’s Board of Directors For the second time in five years, the newest Brooke Hopkins, a professor emeritus of English residence United Kingdom’s Princess Anne awarded who helped launch the U’s Writing Program the prestigious Whitley Gold Award for hall has Beverley Taylor Sorenson BS’45, a conservation to Çağan Şekercioğlu. The received nationally recognized supporter of arts education University of Utah ornithologist and gold certification using Leadership in conservation biologist is the first person to Energy and Environmental Design stan- Milton E. Wadsworth BS’48 PhD’51, an have won the Whitley Gold Award twice dards, making it the first LEED-certified esteemed U professor emeritus of metallurgy from the Whitley Fund for Nature. He college residence hall in Utah. The Visit continuum.utah.edu to read more about previously won in 2008, while working at 167,000-square-foot Donna Garff Marriott these and other U friends we remember.

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Continuum_Fall13_notebook.v5.indd 7 8/21/13 3:10 PM discovery Microwave Cooks Up Less Toxic Semiconductor

University of Utah metallurgists have metals than other semiconductors. biological sensors, and systems to convert used an old microwave oven to rapidly The researchers hope the process waste heat to electricity. produce a nanocrystal semiconductor will be used to produce more efficient Using microwaves “is a fast way to using cheap, abundant, and less toxic photovoltaic solar cells and LED lights, make these particles that have a broad range of applications,” says Michael Free, a U professor of metallurgical engineering. “We hope in the next five years there will be some commercial products from this, and we are continuing to pursue applica- tions and improvements.” Free and the study’s lead author, Prashant Sarswat, a research associate in metallurgical engineering, published their study of the microwaved photovol- taic semiconductor—known as CZTS for copper, zinc, tin, and sulfur—in the June 1 issue of the Journal of Crystal Growth. Sarswat says that compared with photo- voltaic semiconductors that use highly toxic cadmium and arsenic, ingredients for the CZTS photovoltaic material “are Photo by Stephen Speckman more environmentally friendly.” Hands-Free Devices Found Unsafe at Any Speed Using hands-free devices to talk, text, that you are unimpaired,” says Strayer. Psychology members Joel M. Cooper, or send email while driving is distracting “If you don’t pay attention, then you are a research assistant professor of and risky, contrary to what many people potential hazard on the roadway.” psychology, and doctoral students Jonna believe, says a new University of Utah In a 2006 study, Strayer first Turrill, James Coleman, Nate Medeiros- study. showed that even talking on a hands- Ward, and Francesco Biondi. “Our research shows that hands- free cell phone was free is not risk-free,” says U psychology just as distracting Professor David Strayer, lead author of the as using a hand- study, which he conducted for the founda- held phone while tion arm of the nonprofit AAA, formerly driving, but the known as the American Automobile message seems to Association. have failed to fully “These new, speech-based technolo- connect with the gies in the car can overload the driver’s public, with many attention and impair their ability to drive people believing safely,” says Strayer. “An unintended hands-free devices consequence of trying to make driving are safer. safer—by moving to speech-to-text, Strayer in-vehicle systems—may actually overload conducted the the driver and make them less safe.” latest study “Don’t assume that if your eyes are on with fellow U the road and your hands are on the wheel Department of Photo courtesy AAA

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Continuum_Fall13_Discovery.v3.indd 8 8/20/13 1:58 PM discovery Imaging Opens Doors for Treating Down Syndrome

Results from groundbreaking research at the University of Utah may pave the way for changes in the course of treatment for Down syndrome and other genetic disorders. For two years, neuroscientists at the University of Utah studied the brains of 15 people with Down syndrome and

compared their brain images with those Photo courtesy U Health Sciences of 15 “healthy” control individuals. The researchers discovered remarkable differ- ences in the images from people with Down syndrome—information that could change the way the disorder is treated in the future, says Julie R. Korenberg, prin- cipal investigator for the Down syndrome study and director of the University of Utah’s USTAR Center for Integrated Neurosciences and Human Behavior. “It opens up a whole new world of possibilities for accelerating therapeu- work together to perform tasks.” imaging to measure how and if a certain tics with Down syndrome and for other As a practical matter, researchers for therapy is having positive results for a developmental disorders,” Korenberg says the first time will now be able to use brain Down syndrome patient. of the study. “Up until now, there was no functional imaging of Down syndrome, and we knew we needed it.” The research idea in itself was innova- tive, says Jeff Anderson, first author of Mineral Named for U Geologist the study, published in June in the online of Utah School of Medicine, discovered journal NeuroImage: Clinical. “It turns out the mineral in abandoned uranium that Down syndrome, in spite of being mines in Colorado and Utah in 2010 and an incredibly common disorder, has 2011. Marty and three other researchers been almost completely ignored by the wrote a study describing and character- Photo by Joe Marty scientific community in terms of brain izing the new mineral and naming it imaging,” says Anderson. nashite for the U scientist. The scientists set out to record the Nash is known for her study of brain function of people with Down volcanic rocks, including those spewed syndrome. “What we found were some by massive eruptions of the Yellowstone pretty striking abnormalities,” he says. hot spot during the past 16 million “It looks like there is massive overcon- years. She also has done extensive nectivity in the brains of individuals chemical analysis of other vanadium with Down syndrome. These are larger A bluish-green mineral discov- minerals found by Marty. differences by an order of magnitude ered in Colorado and Utah has been “I’m thrilled and honored to than we’re seeing in autism or in other named nashite in honor of University have received this recognition from disorders. In addition, we’re also seeing of Utah geology and geophysics my colleagues,” says Nash. “But I can that there are some places in the brain Professor Barbara Nash, who has understand that for most people it that are underconnected—areas that are studied related minerals. probably isn’t obvious just how satis- far apart and are part of networks in the Avid rockhound Joe Marty, a retired fying it can be to have ‘ite’ added to brain where regions in a healthy brain medical technologist at the University your last name.”

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Continuum_Fall13_Spotlight.v3.indd 10 8/20/13 2:06 PM The Nonviolent Revolutionary

U professor Chibli Mallat’s mission is to prove laws are more powerful than guns.

By Elaine Jarvik

n late 2005, a law professor direct Right to Nonviolence, an organi- named Chibli Mallat announced zation he founded with this mission: to that he was running for presi- advance constitutionalism, justice, and dent of Lebanon. Since no one nonviolence across the Middle East. He hadI ever actually mounted a presidential still maintains a law office in Beirut that campaign and taken it to the public, also houses and provides legal counsel people were by turns surprised, dismis- for Amnesty International’s Middle East sive, energized, and bedazzled. regional office, which he helped establish “Chibli Mallat is running for presi- in 1999. dent of Lebanon, and I support him all Chodosh calls Mallat “the leading the way,” gushed New York Times colum- expert on Middle Eastern law in the nist Nicholas Kristof as the campaign world,” but it is “aggressive nonviolence” progressed. “[He is] exactly the new kind of that now captures Mallat’s intellectual leader that the Arab world needs.” and human rights passions, as well as his A few months later, though, Lebanon attentions as an author. He describes his was at war with Israel, and the would-be latest book in progress, The Philosophy of election was history. But Mallat continued Nonviolence, as “a manifesto for the Middle working behind the scenes for his ideals of East nonviolent revolution.” nonviolent change. These days, he teaches He holds onto his beliefs, even as the in the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney increasingly violent and sectarian war College of Law, where he is a Presidential in Syria has spilled over into his native Professor and “a unique combination of Lebanon. scholar and activist,” says Hiram Chodosh, former dean of the U’s law school. k “Intrinsically, he’s a scholar. But he’s “They say if you think you understand driven at times into the public sphere Lebanon, you haven’t been studying it because he cares so deeply about the long enough,” is the way former British conditions around him,” says Chodosh, ambassador Frances Guy described the who stepped down as dean earlier this beleaguered country that is Mallat’s first University of Utah law professor year to become president of Claremont home. The sentiment is also sometimes Chibli Mallat works on his latest McKenna College in California. expressed as “If you’re not confused by book in the dining room of his Salt Since 2007, Utah has been the safe Lebanese politics, then the subject has not Lake City home. haven where Mallat can teach, write, and been explained to you properly.”

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Continuum_Fall13_Spotlight.v3.indd 11 8/16/13 9:16 AM The small country is the most religiously diverse in the Middle East, a sectarian stew of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Maronite Catholics, and Druze. Lebanon is also home to hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian refugees and now an estimated million Syrians who have fled that country’s ongoing war. Sandwiched between Syria and Israel, and home during the 1970s to the Palestinian Liberation Organization and since then to Hezbollah, Lebanon has been the unlucky place where all these players have duked it out, aided at times by homegrown militias. “My generation’s youth was stolen by violence, and I think that marked me a lot,” says Mallat, who was 15 years old when initial clashes between Palestinians and right-wing Christian Phalangists turned into a full-scale religious war. Although some of his friends eventu- ally joined the fighting, Mallat never did. “It might have been cowardice,” he says, courtesyPhoto Chibli Mallat but then he offers an alternate explanation Chibli Mallat answers questions at a news conference during his 2005-06 campaign for Lebanon’s presidency. by way of a story. During the early months of the war, the family’s house was robbed, the war followed them there, they moved London’s School of Oriental and African and the only thing stolen was the gun he to Paris. After Mallat’s mother and father Studies. occasionally used to hunt birds. When he returned to Beirut, he and his older sister By then, he was itching to take discovered this, he says, “in a way it was stayed on in Paris to finish high school, on some of the world’s most egregious a great relief, and I couldn’t touch a gun living on their own. He remembers it as dictators, not by force, but in the courts, afterwards, and certainly not to shoot a a difficult and thrilling time. “It was an through human-rights trials that eventu- bird or anything else.” extraordinary intellectual moment,” he ally became his hallmark. “Dictatorship He realized “sort of a sense of the says. “I learned so much that was mind- is a crime against humanity,” Mallat says. ugliness of violence, even against poor opening, of extraordinary dimension.” “Every dictator in the world should know birds, or perhaps especially against His introduction to the work of the great that he is going to be tried.” birds,” he says. “Retrospectively, I see the French philosophers particularly was a In London, he befriended many of reaction that would guide my thinking, revelation. Iraq’s exiled opposition leaders, helping to take nonviolence as what I call now During a lull in the civil war in the found the International Committee for ‘the midwife of history’ more seriously.” late 1970s, he moved back to Beirut to a Free Iraq in 1991, and later INDICT, a (The phrase is pure Mallat: an unspoken study law at the Université Saint-Joseph group that built a war crimes case against literary reference to Karl Marx’s declara- and, simultaneously, English literature at Saddam Hussein. A year before the United tion that violent revolution has been the Lebanese American University. Then Israel States invaded Iraq, Mallat helped launch midwife of history.) invaded Lebanon, the pro-Israeli Lebanese the Democratic Iraq Initiative, calling for The Mallats were cultured and president was assassinated, and nearby global pressure to force Saddam to step well-connected. His grandfather and shelling shook the law school building down, in lieu of an invasion. uncle were celebrated poets; his father, a during Mallat’s final exams. On a whim, he The idea was to promote opposition lawyer, served as a cabinet minister and had already applied to a master’s program leaders, cut off transportation routes for first president of Lebanon’s constitutional in international and comparative law the country’s military and intelligence, court, and helped establish the first Arab at Georgetown University in the United pursue Saddam’s indictment for war human-rights organization. States, and deteriorating conditions in crimes, and deploy human rights moni- When fighting intensified in Beirut Lebanon convinced him to attend. Seven tors during the transition that followed. in the mid-1970s, the family moved to its years later, he also received a doctorate The initiative “was very close to being second home in the mountains. When in Islamic law from the University of implemented,” Mallat recollects. “It ended

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Continuum_Fall13_Spotlight.v3.indd 12 8/16/13 9:16 AM up with me meeting with [U.S. Deputy “Dictatorship is a crime against Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz in his office two weeks before the war humanity. Every dictator in the world should and convincing him that the alternative [to invasion] was better.” In the end, of know that he is going to be tried.” course—in part, Mallat says, because the Arab League wouldn’t go on record in favor of it—the initiative was dropped. either of those religions or a dozen others. Gaddafi never traveled to Lebanon for the “We would have gotten rid of Saddam with Actually, Mallat says with a smile, the trial.) Mallat is also friends with principal far less violence,” he says. “It would have beads are purely secular: Holding them members of the Syrian opposition, most been an extraordinary model of change in helps him not bite his fingernails. of them Sunni, and is close to Lebanon the Middle East.” In a country rife with religious Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. Justice, but without violence. Even animosities, Mallat is pointedly nonsec- In addition to the high-profile cases when Saddam was tried in 2005 and tarian. He was raised Maronite Catholic against Saddam and Gaddafi, Mallat also 2006 for crimes against humanity, Mallat but, he says, “was never devout.” He is an was one of three lawyers to bring charges opposed the death penalty. expert on Muslim law and is admired against former Israeli Prime Minister among Shia Muslims for both his book Ariel Sharon. The case against Sharon and k about Iraqi cleric Mohammad Baqir several members of a Lebanese Christian Picture Mallat in his office at the U’s al-Sadr and a successful lawsuit against militia group was tried in a Belgian court law school: As he talks, he runs his fingers Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi on and prosecuted by Mallat on behalf of over a necklace of beads. They might be behalf of Shia imam Musa al-Sadr, who survivors of the 1982 massacre of at least Muslim prayer beads. Or Catholic rosary disappeared in Libya in 1978. (The lawsuit 1,300 people in the Palestinian refugee beads. A man from Lebanon could be verdict was a symbolic victory, since camps of Sabra and Shatila. The court

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Continuum_Fall13_Spotlight.v3.indd 13 8/16/13 9:16 AM ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor in 2003, but a His work isn’t the type that “garners headlines, change in Belgian law, disallowing such lawsuits unless they involved Belgian but the impact may be far more reaching.” citizens, later prompted a Belgian appeals court to reject the lawsuit. Rami Khouri, a syndicated columnist Mallat’s unorthodox run for the presi- for example, or litigating a case of crimes and director of a public policy institute at dency (in Lebanon, the president is chosen against humanity that might serve as a the American University of Beirut, calls by the Parliament from a short list of precedent for later work.” Mallat “extremely bold and dynamic sectarian and military leaders) was an and courageous,” for his efforts such as attempt, as Mallat says, to “remove the k the Sharon case. “Chibli has always been dictator” and to set up a special tribunal Nonviolence is an enigma, according that person who challenges conventional to investigate Hariri’s assassination. to Mallat. “I find myself the philosophical thinking,” Khouri says. Trudi Hodges, executive director disciple of Christ, whilst showing that In the mid-2000s, Mallat became of Right to Nonviolence, says it was an Christ was wrong, as well,” he says. a key figure in the movement known innovative move. “He launched—really “Absolute nonviolence can only happen as the Cedar Revolution, a nonviolent for the first time in the Middle East— during a revolution.” After that, it’s neces- attempt to overthrow both the nearly this media-savvy and somewhat edgy sary to adopt the rule of law—and the law, 30-year occupation of Lebanon by Syria’s campaign staffed by youths and others of he says, “is inherently violent.” He points, al-Assad family and the presidency of all religions and political affiliations,” she for example, to its insistence on locking Syrian-backed Lebanese President Emile says. “He developed a detailed platform up (or sometimes even killing) criminals. Lahoud. On March 14, 2005—exactly a and ran a modern, professional campaign, It’s a point of view that may incense some month after the assassination of Lebanese and encouraged other candidates to do readers, but Mallat says he is eager to have Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (an assassina- the same.” that debate. tion many blamed on Syria)—a million Mallat gave up his bid for the presi- At heart, he’s a philosopher. It is Lebanese (a quarter of the country’s dency in the summer of 2006 as Hezbollah “philosophy, not law or any other disci- population) marched peacefully through attacked Israel (an attack Mallat had pline, which stands at the apex for those of Beirut. Among the thousands of families opposed). He then moved with his family us who seek in the same inevitable breath waving flags were Mallat, his wife, Nayla to the United States, where he had secured to understand and live their surrounding Chalhoub Mallat, and their two sons. a teaching job at Princeton University. world as revolutionary change,” he writes Fourteen-thousand Syrian troops He has since taught at Harvard and Yale in the introduction to his new book. did indeed pull out a month later, but the universities, and the University of Virginia. In between his trip to the Mideast and opposition continued to complain that He has also taught at Beirut Islamic the beginning of the 2013-14 school year, Syria still pulled the strings in Lebanon. University and is still on the faculty of Mallat spent most of his days working on Université Saint-Joseph. the book, spreading out all his papers and At the University of Utah, in addition reference books across the family’s dining to teaching, he has been senior advisor room table for weeks on end. to the Global Justice Project: Iraq, a legal He hopes the book will help the think tank that has worked with the Iraqi Middle East take the best of the Arab government and judiciary to bring about Spring and move forward. Of course, he legal reform. This year, he will direct the says with the slightest grin, “everybody school’s Global Justice Think Tank with who writes a book thinks that it’s the one selected U law students. This past summer, book that will change the course of human he traveled to Libya, where he attended a history.” conference aimed at reconciling Islamic “It’s good to think that,” he adds. “So law and international human-rights stan- you put yourself to a high test.” dards, and to Yemen, to help write that country’s constitution. —Elaine Jarvik is a Salt Lake City-based freelance

Nicholson Most of his work, says Right to journalist and playwright and a frequent contributor to Continuum. Brian Nonviolence’s Hodges, “isn’t the type of

by work that necessarily captures the public

Photo imagination or garners headlines, but the Visit continuum.utah.edu to view Chibli Mallat, who is pointedly nonsectarian, runs impact may be far more reaching if one a gallery of more photos of Mallat. his fingers through beads to keep his hands busy. is advising on constitutional solutions,

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Utah forward Taryn Wicijowski, right, looks for a pass in a game against Kansas during the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. Photo courtesy University of Utah Athletics Department

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Continuum_Fall13_sidelines_v2.indd 16 8/16/13 9:24 AM The U has a he San Diego team opted to potential fans who are more likely to be plan to bring forgo the double-team defense drawn to U football, gymnastics, or men’s that March evening at the basketball. Yet the U women’s basketball more attention, Huntsman Center, and essen- team has a long history of success, even if tiallyT took on University of Utah women’s it hasn’t always attracted big crowds and and crowds, basketball stars Taryn Wicijowski and noisy media attention. to its women’s Michelle Plouffe one-on-one. Wicijowski Since the team’s inaugural 1974-75 hustled to lead the team scoring with 23 season, it has been one of the top 10 basketball team. points, Plouffe achieved her 10th double- all-time most successful NCAA women’s double of the season with 21 points and 15 basketball programs in terms of its win/ By Stephen Speckman rebounds, and the Utes defeated San Diego loss percentage. This past season, the 61-50 in that second round of the Women’s team had a 23-14 record and won enough National Invitation Tournament. games in the WNIT rounds to make it Of the five games the Utah team all the way to the championship game, played to reach the WNIT championship against Drexel in Philadelphia. It was a last spring, the game against San Diego suspenseful matchup: Drexel led by five was the only one on home ground. Yet the points with four minutes remaining, 15,000-capacity Huntsman Center had before back-to-back three-pointers by the many empty seats that night: Only about Utes from Cheyenne Wilson and Iwalani 900 people showed up to watch. Rodrigues gave the team a one-point lead, It’s a symptom University of Utah 43-42, with three minutes left in the game. Coach Anthony Levrets and Athletics A Drexel layup gave the Dragons a one- Director Chris Hill MEd’74 PhD’82 hope point lead with 21 seconds left, and after a to change over the next few years as they last-ditch Utah foul, Drexel scored on both take steps to continue growing the U free throws to win the game, 46-43. Even women’s basketball program. Their plan so, forwards Plouffe and Wicijowski were includes not just intensified recruiting both named to the WNIT All-Tournament efforts, but also using strategic marketing team. Plouffe also set a WNIT record with efforts to boost awareness of the team 83 rebounds during the tournament. and its successes. Traveling the country for the WNIT Toward that end, Levrets has hired was a stark reminder to the U players what Kim Smith BA’06, a former All-American they had been missing at home: noise. “We and U player from Canada, to be the team’s played at Kansas State, and they have a new community development director. big arena like we do, and they filled up the Her task includes presenting U players as place pretty well,” says Wicijowski (who “ambassadors” of the sport, in an effort to pronounces her last name witch-OW-ski). promote the U team, and the University, “We went to Drexel, and they had a really to the community and groups such as the small arena, but they packed as many Girl Scouts and United Way. The result people in there as they possibly could.” hopefully will include filling more seats at Wicijowski, now a senior premedical the Huntsman Center. student, says the last time she remembers “We have to put more funding into when more than 2,000 people showed up it, that’s for sure,” Hill says about plans to a U women’s home game was when she to grow the visibility of the U women’s was a sophomore and the team played basketball program, and it’s “very, very top-ranked Stanford. The U—and its high” on the list of priorities for the enthusiastic home crowd—almost upset University. Stanford in a game that was heavily Levrets says two of the biggest chal- marketed to the community, something lenges he faces are recruiting local talent that until recently the U has not done on a and repeatedly engaging a community of consistent basis.

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The U team huddles for a cheer during a game last March against San Diego during the WNIT. The U won , 61-50, and advanced to the championship game.

“It was the most fun atmosphere I’ve Levrets was an assistant under Elliott Director Hill. Collectively, Pac-12 teams had since I’ve played here,” the six-foot, and became coach of the U team when average 1,872 people in attendance at three-inch Wicijowski says. “If we could Elliott left in 2010. Elliott’s former players home and neutral-site games, according recreate that, we could get some upsets.” at the U say she brought out the best in her to the NCAA. “Obviously, it’s a very tough Despite the team’s strong history, team and made them believe in them- league,” Hill says. “I think women’s it’s rarely been able to draw such crowds. selves, which resulted in wins, though still basketball in general has fallen a bit in The U women’s team was ranked ninth no stellar audience numbers. attendance, except in specific places and, by the NCAA in 2012 for its all-time Now that the U is in the Pac -12, you know, we just have to work at it. … It’s winning percentage, with 802 victories however, the pressure has intensified hard work, and it’s got to catch fire.” and 331 losses for a .708 percentage over to increase attendance, says Athletics More NCAA women’s college a 38-year history. That’s thanks in large basketball games will be televised this part to former coach Elaine Elliott, who season (about 100) and next (about 150), guided the team for 27 seasons. Elliott compared to fewer than 70 last season, also was responsible for establishing the Since the team’s and some games will be aired on ESPN. U’s recruiting pipeline to Canada, which The U women will be on TV about a dozen has brought in not just Smith, Wicijowski, 1974-75 inaugural times this season, with half of those and Plouffe, but other excellent players, games played at home. Levrets says that’s as well. After Elliott retired, she moved on season, it has been a “double-edged sword” because it will to Westminster College in Salt Lake City, also show a national audience how few where she is now an assistant coach for among the NCAA’s people attend U games, which could hurt the women’s team. top 10 for its all-time recruiting efforts. win/loss percentage. fall 13 Continuum 18

Continuum_Fall13_sidelines_v2.indd 18 8/16/13 9:43 AM Utah has made some strides in volunteering their time, and she spoke to increasing its average home attendance, every civic group she could, each year until which last season was 914. For Pac-12 she left in 2012. By the 2008-09 season, games, that average jumped to 940, when Auburn won the Southeastern nearly 200 more than the average home Conference title, the team had posted the attendance for the previous season. biggest attendance increase in the NCAA, U Athletics Assistant Director of averaging more than 4,000 people per Marketing Matt Thomas for the past two game. Her starting five that year, she notes, seasons has been targeting any organiza- were all “local” women from Alabama. tion supporting female youth basketball Winning was a big help, she says, but it leagues, offering those girls and their took building attendance a little each year families opportunities to meet the U by constantly immersing the team in the team, have a pre-game party, and then community. “You have to do it,” she says. scrimmage on the court during halftime. “You have to let people know who you are That strategy, formally known as the and who your players are.” “Youth Team of the Game” program, will No one understands that more than be repeated for 2013-14. Levrets and Hill, who agreed to provide “That brought in a significant funds to hire Smith, a WNBA Sacramento courtesy Photo University Athletics of Utah Department amount of individuals,” says Thomas. “It Kim Smith, right, shown here in 2006, is the U Monarchs 2006 first-round draft pick, was a big hit last year.” team’s new community development director. to lead the community outreach charge. Auburn University’s former head The U also is currently raising money coach, Nell Fortner, who is a friend of lead a team that was drawing 200 to 300 to fund construction of a $24 million Levrets, faced similar challenges in people per game. But she says she “heavily” practice facility for the men’s and women’s attendance when she signed on in 2004 to marketed players to the community while teams, which Hill predicts will help with

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Continuum_Fall13_sidelines_v2.indd 19 8/16/13 9:45 AM female high school players significantly increases. But following the national trend, women’s basketball continues to gain traction in Utah, with more high school girls playing year-round in clubs and high schools and sometimes at out-of- state tournaments. The skill level, Dustin says, is getting better in Utah. Smith says the U is still attracting talent both locally and from abroad under Levrets. He has coached All-Americans Morgan Warburton BSW’09, Kalee Photo courtesy University of Utah Athletics Department Whipple BS’10, and Leilani Mitchell BS’08, who is still playing in the WNBA’s New York Liberty. One of Levrets’ current stars is six- foot, four-inch forward Plouffe, who, based on her skill level, stats, and intentions, appears to be headed for one of the WNBA’s 12 pro teams after graduation next year. Coach Anthony Levrets says televised games in the Pac-12 have thrown a spotlight on attendance. Plouffe says the poor attendance at U games has weighed on her. “Emotionally, recruiting. The new facility is expected to Smith plans to start her large task during the game, I think having a crowd be complete in 2015. close to home. “She will be a grassroots can really change the momentum of “We’re going to continue to grad- member in the community, building the game,” she says. “And we’ve never uate our players,” Levrets says. “That’s relationships with anybody who will let had that here.” A big factor, she says, the number one priority.” That goal of us in the door,” says Levrets, whose goal is might be trying to get more U students, his is followed closely by increasing to reach an average attendance of at least most of whom commute and don’t live attendance and, some day, winning a 2,500 to 3,000 at home games, with big on campus, to come back for women’s championship. games drawing upwards of 6,000. basketball games. She’s hopeful Smith Levrets made trips to Oregon, Kevin Dustin, assistant director will help with that. Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, and Georgia for the Utah High School Activities Levrets agrees. “The energy in the over the summer, in search of players Association, notes that five Division I building is what matters,” he says. “It’s who are great on and off the court. programs in Utah currently draw from fun to play in a building or atmosphere Recruiting the best might help atten- a growing but small pool of local talent. that provides energy.” He, Smith, and Hill, dance, but only if the community knows Women’s collegiate basketball is still along with the Athletics Department’s who they are. That’s where Smith—the a relatively young sport, with women marketing team, aim to find just the right only U women’s basketball player to allowed to play only after Congress combination of fan-building, community have her number retired and hanging enacted Title IX in 1972. Dustin says that engagement, recruiting, financial support, from the Huntsman Center rafters—is may mean it may take another generation and continued focus on academics to Levrets’ ace in the hole. before the number of great recruit-worthy take the U women’s program to the next Smith says one of the first things level—and fill more and more seats along she wants to do when she starts her new the way. job this month is to take a closer look at how Coach Greg Marsden and others Following the national —Stephen Speckman is a Salt Lake City-based have grown the U women’s gymnastics writer and photographer and a frequent program over the years and brought it to trend, women’s contributor to Continuum. the national spotlight. Marsden’s team has basketball continues won 10 national titles, and he’s been named Visit continuum.utah.edu to view national coach of the year seven times. “They have been so unbelievably good at to gain traction in a gallery of more photos from the a national level for so long, it’s incredible,” Utah, with more WNIT games and from Smith says. “That culture has been in Utah summer practices. longer than we have as a program.” students playing.

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Multitasking and Medicine As the U’s health care chief, Vivian S. Lee relishes balancing her many roles.

Story by Kim M. Horiuchi

r. Vivian S. Lee doesn’t use an reads bedtime stories to the children and tucks alarm clock. She wakes up on them in for the night. It’s “just one day in the life her own around 6:30 a.m. and of the SVP,” says Lee in a blog she also finds time grabs her laptop. Balancing it to write almost weekly for the University of Utah’s Don the stationary handles of her stair stepper, Health Sciences. she answers email as she tries to ignore that she “SVP” refers to her job as the U’s senior is exercising. She and her husband, Benedict vice president of Health Sciences, one role in Kingsbury, an international law professor at her triple title that also includes chief executive New York University and a visiting law professor officer of University of Utah Health Care and at the University of Utah, then get their four dean of the School of Medicine. Any one aspect daughters ready for school. That “mostly entails of her life and work could be overwhelming. making sure their teeth are brushed and they But Lee delights in the hectic pace of bringing have suitable (sort-of matching) clothes,” as well change to the nation’s health care industry. She as putting together four meals for breakfast and smiles at the intricate challenges she is tackling four “reasonably health-packed” lunches, she says. as a leader of a $2.4 billion integrated health (She has no full-time domestic help, but relies on a sciences system, and she revels in figuring out couple of babysitters.) After a day of back-to-back what she sees as puzzles waiting to be solved. meetings at the U, she returns home, and she and “I’m taking it on step by step,” says Lee, who her family sit down for a dinner Lee prepared over came to the University of Utah in the summer the weekend and pulls out of the freezer. Then she of 2011. “I don’t feel overwhelmed. There’s a

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Continuum_Fall13_Vivian Lee_v3.indd 23 8/20/13 4:52 PM phased pattern to Lee says, and to it. You can’t change this day, “refuse to everything at retire.” Her father is a once. There’s some professor of elec- foundational work trical engineering, that first has to be while her mother, done before you a former dean of bring in the next Oklahoma’s School level. There is a logic of Public Health, Vivian Lee, to it and kind of a teaches statistics and shown here flow—even though epidemiology. with U medical it does feel like a lot Lee was born students, says sometimes.” in New Jersey, the U must train In her job at the Jacobsen where her parents professionals U, she oversees a were working at for a changing Kristan

health care system by Bell Laboratories. future. of four hospitals, Following Chinese Photo multiple specialty tradition, her grand- centers including parents bestowed the John Moran Eye Center, a network of 10 commu- her with her middle name, Shu-Ching. “It comes from a nity clinics, more than 1,400 board certified physicians, Chinese poem, and alludes to the clarity and light of the and five colleges, including the School of Medicine, the moon,” she says. colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy, and Health, and beginning During those years after her family moved to this year, the School of Dentistry—the first new academic Oklahoma, her childhood was also filled with lots of dental school in the nation in more than 25 years. Americana. She admittedly watched a “boatload of “We’re all thinking together, ‘How do we create the best TV” as a child and was raised on “that whole afternoon academic health care system in the country?’ ” she says. rundown of Gilligan’s Island and Brady Bunch and Star She already has achieved several hefty goals since her Trek,” she says. While she and her younger sister were arrival at the U. The School of Dentistry enrolled its first expected to do well in school, her mother and father were cohort of students this fall and named its first permanent “not pushy parents by any means,” Lee recollects. “They dean. The U also has a new dean of the College of Nursing, really let me do what I wanted to do. I had a carefree and Lee recruited from Harvard University a new chair childhood, pretty unstructured.” of the Department of Surgery. More students will be able As a young student in Norman’s public schools, Lee to enroll in the School of Medicine, thanks to a law the was already interested in science and math. “Much to the governor signed in June that expands the school’s class credit of my parents, I was never told that there was any size from 82 to 122 students by 2015. And the College reason why I shouldn’t, and so I was completely oblivious of Pharmacy dedicated the $75 million L.S. Skaggs to gender biases and those kinds of things,” she says. “I Pharmacy Institute in April. think sometimes kids might be told or have the sense that Dr. Dean Y. Li, associate vice president for research they can’t do things, and I was just never told that.” and chief scientific officer for University Health Care, Her parents encouraged her to explore. “I think I am attributes Lee’s success to “energy, vision, excellence, and internally motivated, and I attribute that to my parents just what we call B-HAG—Big Hairy Audacious Goals. Skin letting me do whatever I wanted to do, and then eventually I in the game. She’s willing to work harder at what you’re got really interested in some more serious things,” she says. supposed to be doing.” Li says he often finds himself Starting in seventh grade, at the request of one of communicating with Lee by email at 2 in the morning. her teachers, her parents also shuttled her to Norman “She’s a little crazy. Right? I mean, she has how many kids Regional Hospital, where she spent her Saturday morn- and all of this. But she just wants to move, move, move.” ings shadowing a local doctor, Hal Belknap, on rounds. Lee grew up in Norman, Oklahoma. Her parents, both Lee now credits Belknap with not only sparking her faculty members at the University of Oklahoma, showed interest in medicine but for showing her the importance her that any challenge can be overcome and anything is of connecting with others, whether treating patients or possible. They had immigrated from China when they were leading organizations. graduate students, both coming to Berkeley, California, in After high school, Lee attended Harvard-Radcliffe the early 1960s “with just a few dollars in their pockets,” College and graduated at age 19. She applied for—and

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Continuum_Fall13_Vivian Lee_v3.indd 24 8/16/13 9:49 AM “We’re all thinking together, won—a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to Oxford University, where she met her future husband, and gradu- ‘How do we create the best ated with her doctorate in medical engineering at age 22. Three years later, she completed her medical doctorate academic health care system from Harvard Medical School. At 30, she finished her residency in diagnostic radiology in the country?’ ” at Duke University. At 39, she completed an MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business while working at NYU and after giving birth to her third daughter. That year, She had those “data points” in mind when head- she was among Crain’s New York Business magazine’s “40 hunters from the U came calling. They didn’t have to do under 40: New York’s Rising Stars.” much convincing. In New York, where she and her family made their Lee was especially lured by the opportunity to lead home for 14 years, they spent weekends bicycling around an integrated medical center, in which the academic, Manhattan and visiting the city’s museums, zoos, and research, and clinical sides all report through her office. aquariums, while she spent her days helping scientists Only about a dozen academic medical centers in the advance their work as well as investigating new models nation are structured that way, even though, Lee says, for understanding health care delivery in her job as such integration brings opportunity for synergy and part- inaugural vice dean for science, senior vice president, and nership across the entire health sciences system. She sees chief scientific officer at New York University’s Langone that integration as the key to broader health care reform, Medical Center. Her own scientific career also advanced by focusing efforts on improving the quality of patient as she became a leader in magnetic resonance imaging, care while reining in costs. with multiple grants from the National Institutes of Dr. Darrell Kirch, president of the Association of Health and a flourishing lab. She also wrote a textbook. “I American Medical Colleges, was one of the health care was very happy,” she says. “I was not looking at all.” leaders who encouraged Lee to consider the job at the But a few things kept needling her. Not only was U. “[She] is well suited to transform medical education, she impressed by the University of Utah’s reputation as research, and patient care—both at the University of Utah a leader in genetics research and by the work of Nobel and on the national stage,” he says. “Vivian embodies the Prize-winner Mario Capecchi, she was keenly aware of vision of leadership we need across academic medicine. U Health Care’s No. 1 ranking in 2010 by the University In a word, she is a ‘multiplier’ who increases the potential HealthSystem Consortium for quality and account- of those around her to solve our health care system’s most ability in patient care, above “the likes of Hopkins and pressing challenges.” Stanford,” she says. The same year that the University of Once in Utah, Lee was awed by the state’s beauty. Utah topped the list, NYU was ranked No. 10, the only “Plus, I was struck by the people I met and by the culture New York academic medical center to make the top 10. here—the sort of attitude that ‘Well, we can do it. If you’ve “We were very proud of it. I saw that list frequently. Our got some good ideas, we’ll figure out a way to get it done.’ ” PR guys really drove that home throughout the city,” Lee She has plenty of ideas on her list. “I am often asked says with a laugh. what has surprised “And every time me the most about I saw the list, the the job, and one of University of Utah them is simply just was No. 1.” At the how much opportu- same time, she had nity there really is been learning about Utah Governor Gary here,” Lee says. Intermountain Herbert in June signed At present, she Health Care. the bill that allows the has in mind three “Between the U to expand the Medical main endeavors for University and School’s class size. the U’s health care Intermountain, Salt system. She and her Lake City seemed team are focused on like a place really leading the transfor- pushing the enve- mation of academic Photo by Kristan Jacobsen lope of health care,” health care, which says Lee. includes strategi-

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Continuum_Fall13_Vivian Lee_v3.indd 25 8/20/13 4:36 PM “She’s very engaged in trying to cally and innovatively Her efforts to help the changing health care look at the health care system and U increase the Medical delivery, advancing bring us through these times of School’s class size Why give to the U? science and discovery, this year in part were and training profes- challenge and transition.” aimed at addressing sionals for a changing the physician shortage future. Success will in Utah, as the demand depend on maximizing for health care will the integration of the University’s research, educational, only grow under the new federal law. Lee expects the “It’s all about the students!” and clinical strengths, she says. She aims to further the University of Utah to emerge as a model for the country as Utah Genome Project, which was launched in 2012 to health care systems evolve to focus on high-quality, low- investigate the genetic signatures of diseases and drug cost, and patient-centered accessible care. responses in large families and which has the poten- “She’s willing to let people try new things, and she’s tial to transform personalized medicine and accelerate very engaged in trying to look at the health care system drug discovery. And she wants to expand the U’s Center and bring us through these times of challenge and transi- Lindquist schoLars for Medical Innovation, which encourages invention by tion,” says Dr. Carrie Byington, vice dean of Academic students and faculty. Affairs, whose position was created by Lee after she More than two decades ago, a student in one of Lee also sees advantages in collaboration between recognized the need for faculty to develop cross-skills in her University of Utah courses introduced Dr. health sciences and the broader University. For example, research, education, and clinical care. Dr. Sean Mulvihill, Kathryn Lindquist to the Bennion Center. Since faculty members at the U’s David Eccles School of CEO of the University of Utah Medical Group, says Lee that time, Kathryn’s involvement with the Center Business are “partnering with us to train our faculty and is willing to raise fundamental questions. “She’s not has ranged from advisory board service to creating administrative staff in principles of lean management afraid to ask, ‘What should we look like? What’s our role an endowed scholarship in her mother’s name. “I and continuous quality improvement for our hospitals, in health care delivery? What’s our role in science and see these wonderful young people perpetuating clinics, and academic departments,” she says. Students discovery, in medicine, and how can we make the most and faculty members also are working with colleagues contribution?’ ” community building,” says Kathryn. “They are in engineering, physics, and computer science, among Associate vice president Li, in the School of Amy Bosworth Sabrina King Henry Tran the reason for my commitment. You see the others, to develop better technologies, including devices Medicine, says it’s a responsibility that Lee takes on at community getting stronger because of their and software. “I love the energy that comes from teams of “all hours of the day and all hours of the night,” and he involvement with the Center.” people working together to come up with ideas that are notes that “the hand she was dealt is actually perfect for better than the sum of the parts,” she says. her personality.” For 25 years, the Bennion Center has provided In preparing the U for reforms mandated under the Lee says her plan is to keep forging ahead. That means opportunities for student engagement in federal Affordable Care Act, which takes effect next year, fixing those meals for her family and taking her children volunteer service and civic participation Lee and her team are developing new infrastructure, hiking, biking, and skiing. It also means delivering health information technology tools, and methods of delivery. care in a timely and cost-effective way, working on new through academic courses, but Kathryn worries models to transform the industry, and about sustainability. By including a gift to the leading an integrated health sciences Bennion Center in her will, Kathryn’s legacy system into the future. of service will extend beyond her lifetime. “I “My typical day? No such thing,” feel as if I’m a conduit from my parents to my she says. “Right now, I just want to help children and grandchildren, who will recognize move us forward each day so that we can two generations’ values in this gift,” she says. make the contributions to patients and “Hopefully they will expand my commitment to society that we are so well suited and with gifts of their own.” well positioned to make.”

—Kim M. Horiuchi is an associate editor of Leaving a gift to the U through your will or trust Vivian Lee, right, visits Continuum. is one of many ways to make a planned gift. To the Huntsman Cancer learn more about creating a legacy of your own at Institute’s infusion center, Visit continuum.utah.edu to view a Kathryn Lindquist the U, contact Karin Hardy at 800-716-0377 or part of the U Health Care video of Lee talking about by email at [email protected]. system, where nurse Brandi Welker helps the role of an academic Learn more about the great things your contributions accomplish at giving.utah.edu medical center.

patient Jay Holt. Photo by August Miller

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Lindquist schoLars More than two decades ago, a student in one of her University of Utah courses introduced Dr. Kathryn Lindquist to the Bennion Center. Since that time, Kathryn’s involvement with the Center has ranged from advisory board service to creating an endowed scholarship in her mother’s name. “I see these wonderful young people perpetuating community building,” says Kathryn. “They are

Amy Bosworth Sabrina King Henry Tran the reason for my commitment. You see the community getting stronger because of their involvement with the Center.”

For 25 years, the Bennion Center has provided opportunities for student engagement in volunteer service and civic participation through academic courses, but Kathryn worries about sustainability. By including a gift to the Bennion Center in her will, Kathryn’s legacy of service will extend beyond her lifetime. “I feel as if I’m a conduit from my parents to my children and grandchildren, who will recognize two generations’ values in this gift,” she says. “Hopefully they will expand my commitment with gifts of their own.”

Leaving a gift to the U through your will or trust is one of many ways to make a planned gift. To learn more about creating a legacy of your own at Kathryn Lindquist the U, contact Karin Hardy at 800-716-0377 or by email at [email protected].

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arah Hammer’s friends like to say she “runs rich collegiate experience. “It’s a complex problem facing the U.” Hammer giggles with some embar- a majority of educators,” University of Utah President rassment at the description but can’t deny David W. Pershing says. the facts: Over her four years at the University In 2011, the most recent year for which comprehen- Sof Utah, the 22-year-old senior has developed an impres- sive figures are available, the average graduation rate for sive résumé of campus involvement that includes serving students receiving a bachelor’s degree within six years of as both a Freshman Council and Student Alumni Board entering college was 59 percent nationwide, according to member, an Associated Students of the University of Utah data gathered from both public and private colleges by representative, and a dormitory resident adviser. She’s the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for also worked as a social justice advocate and was the 2013 Education Statistics. The University of Utah’s graduation Homecoming Queen. All the while, she’s taken close to a rate was slightly below that national average, at 55 percent. full load of classes each semester as an exercise and sport According to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2011 science major and has maintained a 3.7 GPA. College Completion report, the U in 2010 had the highest But juggling school and extracurricular activities has graduation rate of any publicly funded Utah college, at had a downside: It has slowed Hammer’s path to gradua- 56.4 percent. Utah State University was second at 54.6 tion. This fall, the Brigham City, Utah, native is starting her percent, and Weber State University was third, at 40.6 fifth year of college, and she says she’s feeling “pressure to percent. That’s something to celebrate, says Pershing, but graduate next spring.” the U still has “significant room for improvement” and Hammer is far from alone. Most college students now myriad reasons why it is important to do so. take more than four years to get from freshman year to “The first is the long-term impact of graduation on cap and gown. Like Hammer, some delay by choice, opting individual lives,” the president says. “Every student who out of full-time classwork to balance their busy lives, while enters the U makes an investment in their education. In others may be derailed by financial or family challenges. turn, the University and the state also make an invest- Hammer says she’s glad to have taken more time, ment in them. If they leave before graduation, there is because her experiences and opportunities have led to far less return on either investment. The student will scholarships and helped her decide on what she wants likely feel the impact of not completing their education in a career. But with the United States now ranked 14th throughout their lives, in both psychological and finan- among the 36 countries that track graduation rates, cial terms.” higher-education institutions are increasingly looking for Research in many disciplines over the years has found ways to help students finish in four years and still have a that college graduates typically have better health and live

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University of Utah President David W. Pershing, left, has said one of his main goals is improving student success, including graduation rates.

nearly seven years longer, on average, than those who only finish average, but the data also reveal that more Utahns—28 percent high school. College graduates generally have better work lives, compared to 22 percent nationwide—have taken some college are less likely to use government assistance, have better family coursework without completing a degree. relationships, and volunteer more often. Their children also tend Herbert wants to increase the proportion of Utahns to have more educational success. obtaining post-secondary degrees or certificates to 66 percent College graduates fare better economically, as well. A by 2020. The goal is based on the findings of a 2010 study by 2012 report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce Association, titled The Economic Benefit of Postsecondary that projects that two-thirds of Utah jobs will require a post- Degrees, shows that those who receive associate degrees earn secondary certificate or degree by 2020. at least $9,000 more annually than individuals who have only Pershing admits the 66 percent goal is “ambitious” but a high school diploma. A bachelor’s degree can raise annual says that even after just a few years of effort, income another $11,753. At the University the numbers are trending in Utah’s favor. To of Utah, where 75 percent of the keep college educators and administra- students come from within the state tors on track, the Utah System of Higher and many stay after graduation, that The U has backed the Education has also set a smaller goal translates into a stronger tax base of increasing the number of degrees that benefits the state as a whole. “We governor's initiative to awarded in the state by 4 percent are building stronger communities each year. with stronger graduation rates,” the raise graduation rates. “That might not seem like a president says. lot,” Pershing says. “But the number of When Pershing began his presi- degrees awarded in the state increased by dency in 2012, he announced that one of 3.76 percent in 2010, 5.69 percent in 2011, and 4.1 his main goals would be improving the undergraduate experi- percent in 2012.” ence and student success, including graduation rates. The U Utah is far from the only state wrestling with the compli- also has backed Utah Governor Gary Herbert’s initiative to raise cated issue of improving educational performance and college graduation rates statewide. increasing graduation rates. And while there’s a crushing U.S. Census data show that just 40 percent of Utahns hold amount of data on the issue, with studies and analyses from an associate or bachelor’s degree. That’s better than the national multiple foundations, think tanks, and research centers in

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Continuum_Fall13_Grad Rate.v3.indd 30 8/20/13 4:57 PM addition to the annual federal reports, it’s hard to find reli- students receiving their degrees within eight years, compared able numbers that provide a clear and accurate picture, says with the national average of 60 percent. Terry Hartle, senior vice president for government affairs at the Three-fourths of the state’s college students work while American Council on Education: “In every case, you need to look attending school, and they tend to graduate with less debt below the numbers to understand what’s taking place.” than their peers nationwide. Many Utah college students also The federal government calculates graduation rates based get married and have children earlier than their counterparts only on full-time, first-time students who enroll in the fall. If nationwide. And students often are unprepared for the academic you transfer to another school, or take time off to work or, to rigors of college. About 50 percent of freshmen entering Utah’s use an example particularly relevant in Utah, serve a mission two-year colleges enroll in some remedial courses. Remedial for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, then statisti- course work is also required for about 20 percent of those cally, you’re considered entering the state’s four- a dropout by the U.S. year colleges. Education Department, Another common he notes. denominator that pres- In the University of ents a barrier to college Utah’s case, the federal completion is lack of numbers show the rates financial resources. of U students completing “Funding for educa- degrees after six years tion has continued to at close to or slightly shrink across the nation, behind the national and tuition rates have average for comparable increased to compen- schools. Look a little Sarah Hammer, right, and sate,” the president says. farther out, and the Machi Johnson walk outside “It is critical that we picture gets brighter, the U's residence halls. find ways to support our Photo by Brian Nicholson with 71 percent of U students financially as

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Continuum_Fall13_Grad Rate.v3.indd 31 8/19/13 9:49 AM they endeavor to attain an education.” Minor Program, a thematic course Barbara Snyder, the U’s vice presi- through General Education that extends dent for student affairs, says decades of over four years; and Learning Portfolios, research show several common denomi- a program that allows students to use nators point to student persistence and digital portfolios for increased assess- success. Students who live and work on ment benefits and to reflect on and campus, for example, tend to stay on synthesize their learning experiences, track educationally, and keeping work the president says. hours to a part-time schedule also helps. The U Honors College has taken Other factors that contribute to success that theme of engaged learning a step include family support, financial further, by integrating academic and support, and learning communities that residential life. Some 300 students help strengthen students’ commitment now live together in the Donna Garff to reaching their educational goals. Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Addressing the U’s graduation Community on campus. Also in the rate challenge isn’t simple, and the works is the Pierre Lassonde Institute, a University has launched a series of campus-based residential community programs and strategies to tackle the for entrepreneurial-minded students. issue on multiple fronts. Chief among The U is also working to support them is an enrollment initiative that the state’s overall initiative to graduate more carefully considers which students more students with backgrounds in come through the door. The approach science, technology, engineering, and takes a comprehensive look at students, Photo by Brian Nicholson math, by increasing the size of entering from grade point averages and test Barbara Snyder, vice president for student affairs, is classes in those disciplines, and hopes scores to extracurricular activities overseeing the strategies for increasing graduation. to get state help in funding the Crocker and the specific courses in which high Science Center, which will improve school students were enrolled. laboratory experiences for students. And for students who may “We want to make sure we are admitting the right not otherwise have found a campus home, the U now offers the students,” says Mary Parker, the U’s senior associate vice presi- Beacon Scholars Program, which aims to connect students with dent for enrollment management. “We also want to ensure that peer groups, Pershing says. The University is also working to we look holistically at the student, not just at their GPA.” create a more efficient course structure and expand online and The new approach also means understanding that the chal- integrated course offerings to allow students greater flexibility lenges are different for full-time and part-time students, males as they try to balance education with work and life. and females, those married and unmarried, working students, Snyder notes that the U has found more good results those who are parents, and those who live on and off campus. through strategic student support. In the summer of Identifying and understanding those hurdles allows the U to 2012, the U Futures Scholarship Fund was created develop strategies for by the Board of Trustees to help U seniors pay for providing better their education when facing financial chal- student support, lenges due to unexpected life events such including academic as an illness, accident, or family crisis. and career coun- “We want to make sure we are Thirty students were awarded aid in seling, access to amounts totaling nearly $60,000, financial resources, admitting the right students. We with the stipulation that they and a range of other also want to ensure that we look graduate within two semes- needs, she says. “The ters, and all of them did so by other piece of that holistically at the student.” the end of this past summer, Snyder is making sure we says. “We’re expanding that program, are communicating because we know that there are many with students so that students who get close to the finish line who they know about us and the services on campus,” Parker says, “so just need a little push.” when they do hit that speed bump, they know where to go.” One statistical factor in the state remains a Pershing notes that the U also is expanding its opportuni- challenge for the University, however: Utah women start ties for collaborative learning within and beyond the classroom. college at the same rate as men and at rates above the national Those include the BlockU Program, which gives students a set average, but they are less likely to complete their bachelor’s schedule, organized around a specific theme; the Integrated degrees, Snyder says. About 31 percent of all Utah men hold

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Continuum_Fall13_Grad Rate.v3.indd 32 8/20/13 4:58 PM bachelor’s degrees, but only 25 percent of the state’s women do. That gap is the highest in the nation. “We’re quite concerned about that,” Snyder says. “We know many of our female students are going to end up as primary breadwinners for their families, and they are not completing their degrees.” According to the Utah Department of Workforce Services, more than 59 percent of married Utah women work, as do 74 percent of mothers with school-age children. Utah System of Higher Education data also show that Utah women earn only 47 percent of all bachelor’s degrees, the lowest Senior Associate Vice percentage in the nation. It’s a trend President Mary Parker is the state can’t afford to see continue, heading up the U's new says Mary Ann Holladay, director enrollment initiative.

of the Utah Women and Education Photo by Brian Nicholson Initiative, a spinoff from a governor’s task force on women in education. She and University leaders “As women, we compartmentalize our lives,” Holladay says. want to help foster a “culture of college” that helps expose young “We think education is an either/or proposition, but it’s not. We girls and their families to career and educational opportunities need to speak to young women early about the importance of that motivate them to complete college degrees. having dreams fulfilled through education.”

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Continuum_Fall13_Grad Rate.v3.indd 33 8/19/13 9:44 AM The recent change in the minimum age for Mormons to “Our goal is to fully prepare serve missions for their church them for success in this also presents a challenge It’s a new take on the for the U. Last year, the changing, competitive global church announced the age requirement would change ultimate Utah pre-game party… economy and in life.” from 19 to 18 for men, and 21 to 19 for women. Many of those young men and women will forgo college and we want you there! after high school graduation to serve as LDS missionaries. The Utah System of Higher Education Join Utah fans, friends, and families from all over on October 12 for the first-ever anticipates some temporary challenges for the state’s seven Block U Party, and get pumped for Utah vs. Stanford football. Bring the whole public colleges, including drops in enrollment and revenue from Sarah Hammer, right, the loss of tuition. U officials have told the State Board of Regents talks with Emily Glende gang to campus before the game—there will be something for all ages, including they anticipate as many as 860 fewer students for the 2013-14 at the Heritage Center. live music, food, college tents, the U band, and the MUSS. Even if you’re not going

Photo by Brian Nicholson academic year. In response, the U has adopted a deferment policy that to the stadium, it’s a cool way to celebrate all things U and have a great time! allows students to delay starting school for up to seven semesters after acceptance. That should accommodate the time students How Colleges Fare are serving missions: two years for men, and 18 months for women. The University of Utah has created a comprehensive strategy for “We’re certainly paying a lot of attention to the missionary increasing its graduation rates. While the U ranks at the top of public piece and what that means,” says Snyder. “One strategy will be colleges in the state for college completion, it falls behind its Pac-12 peers. making sure [students] make a commitment to higher education before they go, and making sure we have programs in place so that National Average there is a seamless opportunity for them to return to the University.” (graduation after 6 years): 59% The American Council on Education’s Hartle believes it’s possible that the change may ultimately have a posi- Pac-12: 4 years 6 years tive effect on Utah graduation rates, because students will Stanford University 79% 96% enter college having learned a few life lessons and gained University of Southern California 76% 90% some maturity. Hartle compares the experience to what’s University of California, Berkeley 71% 90% commonly called the “gap year” around the world, the time University of California, Los Angeles 67% 90% some students take between high school and college to “get University of Washington 59% 80% a better sense of who they are, what their interests are, and University of Colorado 40% 68% what their skills are.” Washington State University 38% 67% Despite the challenges and uncertainties, Pershing says University of Oregon 41% 66% the U has ample support statewide from business and political University of Arizona 36% 61% leaders for its goals. And each of the programs being imple- Oregon State University 29% 61% mented at the University is designed to improve the quality of Arizona State University 32% 57% education overall, not just move the needle on graduation rates. University of Utah 21% 55% “Our goal is to fully prepare them for success in this changing, competitive global economy and in life,” Pershing says. S tate of Utah: Hammer says she supports those goals but doesn’t want University of Utah 21% 55% administrators to think that every student who takes a slower Utah State University 26% 52% path to graduation is a problem that needs to be solved. She’s Weber State University 8% 43% been so inspired and enriched by her experiences at the U that Southern Utah University 18% 35% she’s already got an eye on graduate school and a doctorate. Utah Valley University 15% 25% “I’d rather have had those experiences and taken a little Save The DaTe: OctOber 12, 2013 Dixie State College N/A N/A bit more time to get my degree,” she says. “Just because we are taking a bit longer doesn’t mean we aren’t driven.” Figures are from the U.S. Department of Education and are based on rates for students who started as full-time, first-time freshmen in 2005. —Jennifer Dobner is a reporter with The Salt Lake Tribune and has been a frequent contributor to Continuum.

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LessonsU alum Bill Marriott’s Without Reservations recounts a lifetime of business experience.

By Jason Matthew Smith

n the early 1980s, J.W. “Bill” Marriott, Jr., BA’54, then presi- dent of the hotel corporation bearing his family name, sat atI his desk stressing over the biggest business decision of his life: build a $500 million hotel in Times Square, or walk away from the deal. Times Square was then in a crime-ridden, dicey neighbor- hood in New York, known more for its drug culture and pornographic theaters than as a prime location for a high-end hotel. But Marriott knew there was a chance that the area could turn around, especially if the company planted the first seeds of redevelopment. It was the last day to vote yea or nay on the project: If he didn’t agree to purchase the land that afternoon, the price would go up, and as Marriott’s phone lines blinked with associates on hold—including the mayor’s office wanting to know whether to schedule a news conference on the project—Marriott received another call. It was his father, J. Willard Marriott, who had started the company back in the late 1920s. “When are you going to put AstroTurf on the balconies of the Twin Bridges Hotel?” his father demanded. The senior Marriott had a well-documented love for

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the fake grass. But rather than becoming Marriott says he wrote the book these values and is expected to live by impatient or angry with his father, Bill both for himself and for business leaders. them. Of these, “put people first” is the was relieved. The call, for all of its absur- He had previously published one other linchpin that holds everything together. dity at that moment, put everything in book, The Spirit to Serve: Marriott’s Way, As Marriott notes in his book, that’s not perspective. He realized that risk could in 1997, and it was an earlier attempt to necessarily earth shattering. Companies not always be calculated and quantified, pin down his business philosophy and the world over claim to put people first. like buying AstroTurf in bulk. Sometimes, his biography. “It’s been 16 years since I But Marriott believes that the connec- you jump. wrote a book, and I decided it was time tion between employer and employee is Marriott made up his mind then to write down a few things I’ve learned everything. “An organization’s culture is and there to go forward with the Times about leadership and team building, and not a small matter,” he writes. A strong Square property—and the New York to help me grow as a businessman, too.” internal culture means lower turnover Marriott Marquis is now one of the Without Reservations tackles among employees, higher marks from company’s most prized lodgings. each of Marriott’s (the man and the satisfied customers—and happier Bill Marriott recounts the AstroTurf company—the two are, at this point, shareholders. story as an example of managing risk inseparable) core values: Put people Marriott culled many of his ideas in his book Without Reservations: How first; pursue excellence; embrace change; for ethical and proper business prac- A Family Root Beer Stand Grew Into A act with integrity; and serve our world. tice from his father, as well as from Global Hotel Company, published in Every Marriott employee memorizes his own experiences while working December 2012. “Don’t just kick the can down the road,” he writes. “My father hated making decisions, for fear that some better option was just around the corner or the risk was too great. I don’t suffer from the same kind of indecisive- ness that plagued my dad. In fact, I’m sometimes accused—with some justifi- cation—of being very impatient about making decisions. I’d rather make a deci- sion and get on with it.” Marriott’s book is in some ways a homage to his father and mentor—who died in 1985—and an outline of his own business principles, gleaned from a half-century in the hotel and lodging business. Under Bill Marriott’s leader- ship, the company has grown into an J.W. “Bill” Marriott, in the empire of more than 3,000 properties driver’s seat, visits a Hot spanning the globe, with revenues north Shoppe during the 1950s. of $12 billion a year. All photos courtesy “Bill” J.W. Marriott, Jr.

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Continuum_Fall13_bookshelf.v3.indd 37 8/20/13 5:01 PM in the family business. His first job was stapling invoices together for the accounting department at age 14. Back then, the company wasn’t in the lodging industry, but rather operated a string of A&W Root Beer stands that also served food, called The Hot Shoppes. In high school, Marriott began cooking burgers in the Washington, D.C.- area Hot Shoppes and later moved on to sling hash while attending the University of Utah. “While I was still working at the Hot Shoppes in Salt Lake City during college,” he writes, “I discovered that I thrived on Bill Marriott, top left, the fast pace of the business. Teamwork works with his two was essential. When the noontime crowd young sons and a poured in, everybody had to be at their couple of employees in a command post and ready to go. If you company kitchen during didn’t dish the food fast enough or if the 1970s. people weren’t out on the floor taking care of customers, you would have a I had a pretty solid foundation when I businessmen to spend more time “in the disaster on your hands.” graduated in ’54.” field,” learning how things work from the Marriott credits his time at the Although Marriott loved the restau- ground up. University—and his days standing rant business, he didn’t discover his true But rather than coming across like behind the grill at the Salt Lake City calling until the late 1950s, when the a stale collection of passé do’s and don’ts Hot Shoppe—with helping him learn company built its first hotel, the Twin for young MBAs, the real strength of the fundamentals of business. “I didn’t Bridges, just south of Washington, D.C. Without Reservations lies in Marriott’s know much about business before going In 1957, he took over management of ability to illustrate his point with very to the U,” he says. “I did work with my the new lodging division. “My dad had personal, sometimes cautionary tales parents’ business and went to a prep loved the restaurant business, but I from his own life. He may be urging busi- school—most of that was learning basics, loved hotels,” he writes. “Planning them. nessmen to work harder and smarter, but not anything that could be applied to Building them. Seeing them fill up with he’s got a caveat about that, too, based business. But I really enjoyed my finance people.” In 1964, he became president of on his own grueling work schedule. classes at the U, and by being exposed to the company, at age 32. In 1989, he boarded an Amtrak the things I learned at school as well as Without Reservations certainly train in Washington, D.C., for a trip to the hands-on work at the Hot Shoppe, dispenses some time-tested advice—for New York. After settling into his seat, example, Marriott the unease and discomfort he’d been stresses the need feeling all morning began to intensify. for today’s execu- He promptly disembarked from the tives to be hands-on train, hopped back into his car, and told managers. This is not his driver to take him to the hospital. some kind of hypo- He suffered three heart attacks before critical edict: At one undergoing coronary bypass surgery. In time, Marriott easily all, he was out for some six months. racked up 70,000 air The experience convinced him that miles a year visiting it was time to slow down. He began to cut his hotels and those back on the amount of time he spent on the of his competitors. road, and in December 2011, he announced He didn’t spend much that he would step down as chief execu- time behind a desk tive officer, naming Arne Sorenson as his Bill Marriott, left, and his father and mentor, J. Willard Marriott, in 1972. and urges today’s successor. Sorenson assumed the role

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Continuum_Fall13_bookshelf.v3.indd 38 8/16/13 10:44 AM of CEO in March 2012, and Marriott was named executive chairman. Marriott believes that the connection between employer Marriott’s decision to step aside and employee is everything. “An organization’s culture is illustrates another of the principles outlined in his book: Know when to get not a small matter,” he writes. out of the way. “I’ve been in the saddle long enough (more than half a century) that I could easily have contracted just one man handing out advice. the pages of Without Reservations with Founder’s Syndrome,” he writes. “We “It’s important to do the best I can to Bill Marriott, that wisdom becomes all know the type: the hard-driving inform and teach about leadership evident. workaholic who dies at his desk; the principles,” he says. “But throughout, 92-year-old patriarch who won’t give up I focus a lot on working with a team, —Jason Matthew Smith is a freelance writer the reins to the younger generation; the and that’s really the essence of our based in Sandy, Utah, and a frequent contributor founder who keeps so much vital infor- business. It’s not about one person, it’s to Continuum. mation to herself that when she dies, the about a group of people.” company falls apart within months.” Although Marriott has slowed down, Marriott’s tone is never preachy. he continues to be actively involved Visit continuum.utah.edu Instead, he delivers equal parts wisdom with the company’s operations, visiting and semi-confessional storytelling. “I’m properties, shaking hands, and penning to watch a short video of Bill pretty transparent in the book,” he says, 700 personal notes a year to employees, Marriott talking more “I’m willing to admit my mistakes.” friends, and associates. He ends Without He points out that although the book Reservations with a Chinese proverb: The about his book. focuses on him, there’s more to it than journey is the reward. Traveling through

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The University of Utah Alumni ance provider with offices in the Association has appointed four new Intermountain West. Foote owns JF members of its Board of Directors Fitness and works as a home personal and three new presidents of the training and fitness consultant. board’s affiliates. Waterman is director of communica- The new board leaders and tions for CHG Healthcare Services in David Allred members were announced by Board Salt Lake. President Keven M. Rowe BS’83 The new leaders of the Alumni JD’86 and Vice President Heidi Association’s affiliate boards are Makowski BS’83 at the association’s Erek Anderson BA’91 MBA’93, Annual Board Meeting in May, at the Brayden Forbes, and Madlyn Alumni House. Tanner BA’61. Anderson works as The four new members of the a certified public accountant with Alumni Association’s Board of WesTech Engineering in Salt Lake Directors are David Allred BS’84, City. Forbes is a senior at the U Teresa Eubank ex’74, Jennifer Foote majoring in cellular biology and is BS’86, and Michael Waterman BA’93 planning to enroll in medical school Teresa Eubank MA’00. next year. Tanner is a freelance editor Allred is the director of manage- and worked for several years as a ment services and executive assistant corporate secretary at MOXTEK Inc. to the senior executive team of C.R. in Orem, Utah. England, Inc., a Salt Lake City-based Anderson is the 2013-14 presi- global transportation provider and dent of the Beehive Honor Society. the world’s largest refrigerated Forbes is the new president of the carrier. Eubank is vice president Student Alumni Board. And Tanner for human resources with Fred A. is now president of the Emeritus Moreton and Company, an insur- Alumni Board.

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The University of Utah Alumni Association has received The Youth Leadership Awards, presented the night after the the “Keeping the Dream Alive” award from the U’s Dr. Martin marade, honor outstanding students in the seventh through 12th Luther King, Jr., Celebration Committee, in recognition of the grades from throughout the state of Utah for their commitments association’s longstanding support. John Fackler BS’89 BS’94 to the ideals professed by King. MPAcy’95, a director of alumni relations, was also presented with a “Keeping the Dream Alive” award for his distinguished service on the committee. The awards were presented by Jennifer Williams Molock, U assistant vice president for equity and diversity, and other MLK Committee members. The association has supported the annual MLK Rally and Marade for the past five years and has provided annual sponsorship of 15 Martin Luther King, Jr., Youth Leadership Awards for more than 15 years. Fackler has served on the committee for 13 years. The rally program includes speeches and musical presenta- tions relating to the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King and the ongoing social justice movement. Following the rally, participants in the marade (a portmanteau of “march” and “parade”) make their way from East High School in Salt Lake City Makeila Hansen-Lutali, left, a Bryant Middle School student, is congratulated on to Presidents Circle at the U. her Youth Leadership Award by the event’s keynote speaker, Brenda Burrell.

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Continuum_Fall13_news.v3.indd 41 8/21/13 3:14 PM alumni association news Tailgates Slated for Two Pac-12 Away Games Get ready for the official Utah away-game tail- gate parties of the 2013 football season! This fall, the University of Utah Alumni Association is going on the road to host tailgate parties at two Pac-12 venues: the University of Southern California and the University of Oregon. The official Utah Tailgate Parties will include a full buffet, with food and beverages as well as prizes, giveaways, Utah merchandise, music, and more. On Saturday, October 26, the first tailgate begins two hours before the game against USC, in Los Angeles. The following month, on November 16, the tailgate in Eugene, Oregon, also begins two hours before kickoff, at Oregon Mallard Park, adjacent to Autzen Stadium. For details and to register for one or both of the tailgates, go to http://alumni.utah.edu/tailgates. European Reunion Held in the Netherlands

The University of Utah’s 15th European Alumni Reunion, Netherlands, is the fifth-largest city in the country. The Philips elec- organized by former U exchange students Muriel Van Alsté and tronics company was founded there in 1891, and the city is a mix of Esther Gloudemans, was held May 17 to 19 in Eindhoven, the modern design and old industries. Netherlands, a city known for its high-tech industry. Eindhoven, More than 30 alumni from eight countries delighted to see located in the province of North Brabant, in the south of the Eindhoven’s highlights, as well as city-center celebrations held at the time for Pentecost weekend. The reunion also included a visit to the town of Nuenen, once home to Vincent van Gogh, and the beautiful Windmill de Roosdonck. An official dinner was held at Usine, the former main office of Philips, which is now an elegant Dutch restaurant. Jörg Ehehalt, president of the European Alumni Association, welcomed those attending, and Michael Hardman, the U’s chief global officer, and Sabine C. Klahr, deputy chief global officer, provided an update about the University and its new Global Office of Engagement. Monica Ferguson, director of the U’s Global Leadership and Engagement Institute, presented an Alumni Award to Ehehalt, who was an exchange student at the U in 1996-97, for his contributions to the European Alumni Association. European alumni have held a reunion to celebrate their University of Utah roots every year since 1998, when their first gathering was in Heidelberg, Germany.

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Re-Envisioning

Photography Women’s Worth Clayton Matt by By Marcia Dibble

Photo and Wellness n their very first day as college freshmen, identical research “to all forms of entertainment media and profit-driven twins Lexie and Lindsay Kite MS’09 PhD’13, now messages” and dove into “showing people how to recognize those 28, took their first steps down the road that led them messages, reject them, and get on to what is more important.” to create Beauty Redefined, their recently founded At the University of Utah, the sisters delved into relevant nonprofitO organization that works to help girls and women uproot interdisciplinary study in areas such as health promotion and limiting and harmful concepts of female beauty, value, and health. education, art history, and psychology and were allowed to Separately, in two different classes on “media smarts,” the co-write their master’s and doctoral theses in communication. twins were each introduced to critically evaluating the way Lexie’s research has focused on the ability to reject self- women are represented in mass media, and the fact that much objectification. Lindsay, meanwhile, has honed in on promoting advertising is specifically engineered to make people feel “flawed” true physical health, as opposed to surface-level appearances or so that we will buy products in an endless (and fruitless) quest measures of health. The sisters’ graduate work became the basis to “fix” ourselves. The Kites also began to see how profit-seeking for a one-hour visual presentation for their Beauty Redefined messages aim to persuade women that they need to fit into one nonprofit. The presentation is regularly updated with recent very limited conception of “beauty,” and to—literally—buy into the examples and the latest research, with versions modified for message that fitting into that concept should be a primary goal. different audiences, and the sisters have now shared it with thou- “I sat in that classroom and my heart pounded faster,” Lexie sands of people around the country. Kite recalls. “I had such a powerful experience. I felt, this is true, The twins also maintain a Facebook page (www.facebook. and I have been so affected by this, I need to help other people com/TakeBackBeauty), which has more than 14,000 followers, realize this truth.” At home that night, she rushed to talk to and a website, www.beautyredefined.net. “People have just come Lindsay about it and discovered that her twin had had the same in droves, worldwide,” Lindsay says. “We’ve found that people are eye-opening experience in her own class. starving for this information.” Both were Utah State University undergraduate journalism To help spread their message, and to support the nonprofit, majors at the time, Lexie in broadcast, and Lindsay in print. The the Kites have created a range of “uplifting slogan” products, such sisters immediately dove into more research into popular culture as cards featuring the message “You are beautiful (now go do and mass media and their impact on female body image and great things!)” and sticky notes declaring “Your reflection does not self-worth, and began looking for ways to share what they were define your worth.” learning. “We wanted to know how the messages affect individ- The twins have recently been developing curricula for use by uals and how we might be able to help in some way,” says Lexie. individuals, as well as for organizations that work with both adult Studying Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth (which examines women and elementary-age girls. Lexie notes that their work is all how women’s material and legal successes of the 20th century the more relevant as younger generations are ever more saturated have been met with an oppressive counterweight of emphasis with media messages. “We want to help people at the ground level on and anxiety about physical appearance) and Jean Kilbourne’s to recognize and reject the harmful messages,” she says. “Making Killing Us Softly (which focuses specifically on advertising better choices with our viewing and our pocketbooks leads to imagery), Lexie recalls that the sisters thought, “It makes you bigger changes.” mad, and then you feel like, where do I go with this, what do I do? And there wasn’t really an outlet.” So they expanded their own —Marcia Dibble is managing editor of Continuum

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has carried out fieldwork in the 2002 Olympics, construc- New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, tion of Legacy Parkway, the and Arizona. Sebastian has rebuild of Interstate 15 in Utah ’70s served as director of Historic County, the new Mountain Preservation Programs at the View Corridor, and the intro- SRI Foundation since 2001. She duction of several innovative is also an adjunct associate interchanges intended to professor of anthropology at reduce congestion. Braceras the University of New Mexico. joined UDOT in 1986. He She served as the state historic holds a bachelor’s degree in preservation officer for New civil engineering from the child support, child abuse, and Mexico from 1997 to 1999. University of Utah. neglect cases. At the U, she Sebastian holds a master’s received a bachelor’s degree in degree in English literature behavioral science and health, from the University of Utah and a juris doctorate. Carolyn B. McHugh BA’78 and a doctorate in anthro- JD’82, a Utah appellate pology from the University of Chell Roberts BA’82 MS’89 judge, has been appointed by New Mexico. has been named founding President Barack Obama to dean of the University of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court San Diego’s new engineering of Appeals in Denver. The school. Roberts assumed appointment is subject to the his new post in July, after approval of the U.S. Senate. stepping down as execu- McHugh was appointed ’80s H. Jay Ford III BUS’82 JD’85 tive dean of the College of in 2005 to the Utah Court has been appointed by Technology and Innovation of Appeals. She previously California Governor Edmund at Arizona State University. worked for 22 years at the G. Brown, Jr., to be a judge Roberts was the architect Salt Lake City law firm Parr in the Los Angeles County and creator of Arizona Brown Gee & Loveless until Superior Court. Ford has State’s general engineering her appointment to the bench served as commissioner at the program and had taught by then Utah Governor Jon Los Angeles County Superior there since 1989. Roberts Huntsman, Jr. McHugh gradu- Court since 2005. He was an holds a bachelor’s degree in ated from the University’s associate and shareholder at mathematics and a master’s College of Law, where she later Tyre Kamins Katz and Granof degree in industrial engi- taught as an adjunct professor. Law Corporation from 1987 to neering from the University The 10th Circuit covers Carlos Braceras BS’88 has 2005 and served as a litigation of Utah and a doctorate in federal appeals for six states, been named by Utah Governor associate at the Law Office of industrial engineering from including Utah and Colorado. Gary Herbert to head the Utah Adams Duque and Hazeltine Virginia Polytechnic and State Department of Transportation from 1985 to 1987. Ford University. Lynne Sebastian MA’77 has (UDOT). Braceras had been received a bachelor’s degree in been appointed to the U.S. the department’s deputy social and behavioral science John Youngren BA’88 Department of the Interior’s director for 12 years. As execu- and a juris doctorate at the U. received the 2013 Professional Advisory Council on Historic tive director, Braceras is now of the Year award from Preservation. Sebastian has responsible for the depart- Renee M. Jimenez BS’88 JD’91 the American Advertising more than 30 years of experi- ment’s 1,800 employees, as well has been appointed by Utah Federation of Utah. Youngren ence in historic preservation as the design, construction, Governor Gary Herbert to fill is a vice president and group and is a nationally recognized and maintenance of Utah’s a vacancy on the 3rd District account director at Love expert in regulatory and 6,000-mile system of highways, Juvenile Court bench, which Communications, where legislative issues pertaining and he serves as a member serves Salt Lake, Summit, he provides advertising, to historic preservation. She of the governor’s cabinet. As and Tooele counties. As an creative, and public rela- is also a recognized scholar deputy director, he and former attorney and an assistant Utah tions expertise to accounts in the archaeology of the director John Njord BS’88 attorney general, Jimenez has including the Utah Lieutenant American Southwest and led the department through managed hundreds of active Governor’s Office, United Way

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U Alum’s Protocols Helped Transform Emergency Medicine By Ann Floor

City after his residency and worked in the emergency rooms at Cottonwood and LDS hospitals, and then as fire surgeon at the Salt Lake City Fire Department. And in 1978, he developed the 911 medical dispatch protocols and training. Those protocols now are used in more than 3,600 emergency dispatch centers in 43 countries. In recognition of his pivotal contributions to emergency medical services, Clawson recently was honored with two national awards. The National Association of EMS Physicians in January presented him with its Dr. Ronald D. Stewart Award, for making a lasting, major contribution to the EMS community nationally. Clawson also was presented the J. Walter Schaefer Memorial Award of Excellence from the American Ambulance Association in November 2012, for excellence in leadership and dedication to the betterment of emergency medical services nationwide. “These are two of the most significant groups in emer- gency medical services, and to receive their highest awards is

courtesyPhoto Jeff Clawson very humbling and fulfilling,” says Clawson. The protocols include using a script during the initial Jeff Clawson MD’74 worked as a resident in emer- 911 call to determine what is happening at the emergency gency medicine at Charity Hospital in New Orleans after scene. The dispatcher then utilizes a coded triage system medical school at the University of Utah. Overwhelmed to determine the level of emergency response needed. The with the hundreds of patients in the clinics and emergency caller is coached on what to do and what not to do and is rooms, he expressed concern about their care to his senior given instructions for other lifesaving and safety actions. resident, who warned him that, for the sake of speed and According to Clawson, the goal of the protocols is “to send accuracy, he needed to use a protocol in order to avoid rein- the right thing, to the right person, at the right time, in the venting the clinical evaluation and treatment wheel with right way, and do the right things for the caller and patient every new patient. until the troops arrive.” “You mean a cookbook?” Clawson asked, explaining In 1988, he cofounded the International Academies of that’s what protocols were called at the U. The senior resident Emergency Dispatch, which uses the protocols he developed handed him some five-by-eight cards and said, “Clawson, you and sets emergency response standards that are used interna- can’t survive at the Big Free without one. You better take a tionally. Currently, about 55,000 dispatchers hold that group’s good look at these.” certification. Clawson had spent time as an emergency medical tech- Clawson continues to oversee the group’s research, nician and occasional dispatcher for Gold Cross Ambulance standards, and educational efforts. He also serves as chief in Salt Lake City to pay his way through medical school at the U, so the suggestion from the senior resident, and executive officer and medical director of Priority Dispatch his own experience as a dispatcher, led him to the realiza- Corporation in Salt Lake City. Established in 1987, the tion one day that emergency medical dispatchers could be corporation creates training materials to support emergency more than just clerks. With proper training and a clearly dispatch systems throughout the world. described protocol to work from, they could become profes- sional first responders. Clawson moved back to Salt Lake —Ann Floor is an associate editor of Continuum.

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the job. Pierpont has spent Canton Charge, whose NBA half his life working in various affiliate is the Cleveland capacities in the agency he Cavaliers. He guided Canton now leads. After graduating to a franchise-best 30 victories from the University of Utah during the 2012-13 regular with a degree in sociology and season, en route to an East an emphasis in criminology, he Division title and the 2013 NBA was hired as an eligibility case D-League Playoffs, where the manager in 1992. By late 1993, team was defeated by the Tulsa he had been named to head the 66ers in the first round. Jensen of Salt Lake, and the Utah state’s central region. five compassionate principles played for Coach Rick Majerus Department of Health’s anti- to guide the immigration during his time with the Utes tobacco campaign. Following discussions in Utah. Mathis and was named to the All-West career stints as a sportswriter noted that the Utah Compact Regional team during the and columnist, a radio talk was developed in response NCAA Tournament in 1998, as show host, a television critic, to Arizona’s tough immigra- Utah went 30-4 and played for and even (briefly) a come- tion enforcement bill. More the national championship. He dian, Youngren has now been than 100 Utah businesses, law was named the 1999 Western with Love Communications enforcement officials, political Athletic Conference Men’s for more than a decade. He groups, and faith organiza- Basketball Tournament Most also is a former member tions signed the compact. Valuable Player. of the University of Utah Mathis currently serves as Alumni Association’s Board of Cecilia Romero BA’98 director of the Downtown Directors. AM JD’02 has received the Utah Alliance and executive vice State Bar’s Raymond S. Uno president of the Salt Lake Award for the Advancement Chamber of Commerce. of Minorities in the Legal ’10s Jason Taylor MBA’10 recently Profession. Romero is a partner was presented with the Chief with Holland & Hart, where Technology Officer of the Year ’90s she specializes in commercial award by the Utah Technology litigation and labor and employ- Council, an organization ment, in proceedings before ’00 that works to foster growth the federal and state courts. among the state’s 7,000-plus Romero was instrumental in technology companies. Taylor creating the Utah Minority Bar is executive vice president Association Diversity Pipeline of development and tech- Initiative, which pairs attorneys nology at Allegiance. He has from the law firm of Holland been an engineer for almost & Hart with students from the two decades, with compa- law schools at the University nies including Novell and Jon Pierpont BS’91 has of Utah and Brigham Young Omniture. Taylor holds a been named the new execu- University. bachelor’s degree in computer tive director of the Utah Alex Jensen BS’05, who was science from Brigham Young Department of Workforce Jason Mathis BS’96 MPA’02 part of the University of Utah’s University and a master’s in Services. Pierpont was was honored in March by starting lineup during the business administration. appointed acting director by the White House as a Cesar 1997-98 basketball season, Governor Gary Herbert in Chavez Champion for change, has been named the Dennis We want to hear from August 2012, when caseloads along with 10 other immigra- Johnson Coach of the Year, were high, budgets were tight, tion-reform activists. Mathis as voted by his fellow NBA you! Please submit and employee morale was low. received the recognition for Development League head entries to Ann Floor, In May, state senators voted his help in promoting the Utah coaches. Jensen is head coach [email protected]. unanimously to keep him on Compact, a declaration of of the Canton, Ohio-based

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he crowds lining Salt Lake the Smithsonian Institution) and with the Salt Lake Valley, on September 16. City’s Main Street were eager; University of Utah, as they both sought The next day, a ceremonial entrance a buzz of anticipation ran fossils at the quarry. for the caravan had been arranged at the through the throng. “The dino- Douglass had spent six months U. “All along the line of the parade there Tsaurs are coming!” supervising the selection and excava- were large throngs gathered to watch the Soon the mounted police escort tion of specimens for the U, but then a picturesque procession,” the Salt Lake appeared, followed by 19 old-time freight problem arose: how to get 60,000 pounds Telegram wrote. The caravan headed up wagons loaded with large blocks of plaster of fossils—five separate species, including State Street to 900 South, made a jog over that looked like white boulders. The date a Diplodocus, Stegosaurus, Ceratosaurus, to Main Street to South Temple Street, and was Wednesday, September 17, 1924, and Brontosaurus, and an unknown type— then turned to go to the Park Building at the wagons were the “Dinosaur Caravan,” from eastern Utah to the University. There the University, where they were met by U bringing fossils from the quarry at was no railroad, roads were primitive at President George Thomas. Dinosaur National Monument in eastern best, and there were no trucks that could The Dinosaur Caravan drew attention Utah to the University of Utah for display carry such loads. from newspapers and magazines across in the University Museum, which was The U instead turned to large freight the country. The fossils took several years housed in what is now the James Talmage wagons, which had been used for years to to clean and mount, supervised by Building on the U’s Presidents Circle. supply Fort Duchesne and the towns of the Douglass, who joined the University staff The fossils were part of a trove Uinta Basin. The wagons and teamsters in 1924. Those fossils remain on exhibit at discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass, a were assembled, the fossils loaded, and the the U, in the Natural History Museum of paleontologist with the Carnegie Museum train started creaking its way west. Utah. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The museum Led by “Uncle John” Kay, a Vernal had funded the excavations at the site for resident, it took the Dinosaur Caravan —Roy Webb BA’84 MS’91 is a multimedia archivist 13 years. But by 1922, the museum decided nine days to travel the 210 miles from the with the J. Willard Marriott Library. it had enough fossils and ended its claim quarry, north of Jensen, Utah, to Salt Lake to operate the quarry. Douglass, still City. Their route included a ferry crossing Visit continuum.utah.edu to view employed by the museum, stayed at the of the Green River and followed what a gallery of more photos of the quarry in 1923 and 1924, and worked with today is U.S. 40 and Interstate 80. They fossils’ trek across Utah. the National Museum (which was part of reached Draper, in the south end of the

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