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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 2-15-1984 The Utah Statesman, February 15, 1984 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah Statesman, February 15, 1984" (1984). The Utah Statesman. 1509. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/1509 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Students at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Utah Statesman by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wedneada.y, February 15, 1984-UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY--Logan, Utah-12 Paaea Have you ever wondered where USU gets USU gymnastics coach Ray Corn thought its heating, electricity and water? Well, the judging in Monday's meet was 'incon­ even if you haven't , we're prepared to tell sistent,' but the team went on to beat Mon- you . ..................... ... Page 3 tana 172.15 to 166.0 ......... ... Page 7 1rJfu® lDf te& Ifu le@1C ~~ film@1m Two of the three grey wolves at the Green Canyon animal experiment station pace their 1nowy pen. Dying deer arc taken to the experiment 1tatioo and fed to the wolves, which are uaed by the USU ptychology department'• animal behavior lab. Steve A dams photo Green Canyon grey wolves dine on starving deer By JANET BENNION movement. Cheney admitted that if he were to of wolves, Cheney said. "They will eat mice, •ta.ff writer go in the pen when the wolves were circling , he caribou or deer to subsist. The element that would do best to avoid a fight and submit. limit s wolf population is that there is only one A three-member grey wolf pack penned in "If you arc the victim of a wolf attack, you dominant female to breed the pack,'' he said. Green Canyon and used for USU psychology shouJd turn your eyes downward, show your He said wolves mate for life, are inherently research has been feeding on starving deer neck, and whimper," he cautioned. Outside playful, and there are no orphans in a wolf from Hyde Park, Smithfield and Richmond. the pen, however , Cheney wa1ks uprightly with pack - every animal is taken care of. Yet, ac­ "Most winters, mild prey a~imals like deer his head high to show the wolves that he is still cord ing to Cheney, wolves make the worst have good feed," said Carl Cheney, USU the boss. pets. "Wolves are trainable, but you've got to psychology professor and supervisor of the put a lot of work into it," he said. "As pack Through steady observation and care of the Green Canyon animal experiment station, anima1s, they are very sociable and will adopt greys Cheney said he has developed a "great the family as their pack. But when Junior "but this year has been tough on them ." love" for them, but tries to keep a "scientific So Cheney uses the deer that are found dead grows up, the wolf will try to dominate - this distance" from them. As an animaJ can be dangerous.'' or dying as feed for his wolves. The Cache behaviorist, applying the theories of County Sheriff's Department usually notifies Cheney said he named the large white psychologist B.F. Skinner, Cheney parallels the Cheney concerning deer weakened by stress "Mack," who is orig inally from Alaska, after adaptation of the Arctic Wolf, as in the movie and hunger ; the majority of deer for feed are Mt. McKinley. Abbey and Mowat were named Nrotr Cry Wolf, with that of his wolves. picked up from road kill. after author Edward Abbey (Dtstrt Solitaire, Tiu ''The deer are an excellent supplement for " The behavioral laws are appropriate in Monu.J Wrt't'lchGang) and Farley Mowat, the wolves' diet," he said. "Using the deer as every species. The absence of caribou in the wildlife author (Never Cry Wolf and Th, People of feed also allows the (psychology) department to wolves habitat caused them to eat mice,'' he th, Deer). conserve on regular feed costs." explained. The wolves in Green Canyon, said This spring researchers Lory Frame and Cheney, feeder and caretaker of 15 years, Cheney, arc kept in captive breeding and ~orge Frame, who studied the African wild has a unique relationship with the three greys. eating conditions and adapt to the taste of deer dog and cheetah for seven years, will work with Once Cheney enters the outside gate the white rather than the regular premixed fur-breeder's the three greys. As for Cheney, he plans to father, Mack, and the dark grey son, Mowat, feed. build a new, 10-acre pen for the study of large move in and out of the den, eyeing every Few people are aware of the surivivaJ ability pack dynamics. Page 2 The Utah Statesman Wednesday, Fe bruary 15, 1984 Three people killed Marriott seeks nomination SALT LAKE CITY - Rep. Dan Mar­ service for a while to spend more time rait­ in Cedar City bar riott said Tuesday he will try to become the ing his young family. He has four children CEDAR CITY (AP) - Two men and a woman were gun­ youngest governor in Utah history by joining ranging from 16 to 6. "But we decided we ned down execution-style in a Cedar City bar early Tuesday three other announced candidates seeking the are ready for the task . ., after an apparent robbery, police said. Republican gubernatorial nomination. The congressman said his biggest single Authorities ringed off the southwestern Utah community "The main reason I decided to run is that goal as governor would be to act as an soon after discovering the bodies at the Playhouse bar, bUl I can't get the fire of public service out of "ombudsman for the state and an advocate took the road blocks down about 4 a.m. MST, said Police my belly/' said Marriott, R·Utah. "I love of Utah." He said he intended as governor Chief Dennis Anderson. public service and I want to continue to to increase the tax base by attracting more "Basically right now l'm really hampered by a snowstorm serve my state as best I can." clean industry. " Instead of worrying over that covered up a lot of my outside evidence," he said. Marriott, who should be considered the how to cut up the pie, we shou ld worry Two of the victims, a man and a woman, were found dead front runner at this point due to his name about making the pie bigger." " about 12:25 a.m. in the Playhouse bar. recognition, said he decided last week to run Marriott said he would also make chil~ A third man died of gunshot wounds about five hours later for governor, "after talking it over with my a priority. "We need more money for educi,, at Valley Hospital in Las Vegas, where he was Oown by ·family and close associates." tion and we need better·paid and happier ~ helicopter following the shooting, said Clark County Nevada He said he considered retiring from public teachers." Depuly Coroner Jim Hazel. ' All three viclims appeared to have been shot repeatedly in the head, Anderson said. He said two different handguns - Church members urged to use agency one large caliber, the other small - were used in the killings. "ll appears to be more of a robbery and then a triple FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - In the "In the wake of this new proliferat ion of ii homicide to cover up the robbery/' Anderson said. wake of reports that a growing number of Mor­ legal adoptions,'' the nat ional church leaden He said Robert Bull, 33, an Iron County Road Department mons have been linked to the activities of a are re-emphasizing a long-standing policy on employee, and bar employee Patricia Frei, in her 20s, were questionable international adoption network, adoptions, said Don Lefevre, a spokesman ror killed. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day the church's world headquarters in Salt Lake The third victim, believed to be an Idaho man attending Saints is re-emphasizing its adoption policy, the City. [ Southern Utah State College, had not been positively iden­ Fort Worth Star•Telegram reported Tuesday. The policy encourages church members to go tified. Anderson said Robert Schmid of Idaho Falls was through Mormon Social Services on matters t'nroute late Tuesday to Cedar City to see if he could identify Of 80 American couples in 18 states who pertaining to adoptions or foster care, said said they paid $3,000 to $7 ,J)00 each to receive the man. Lefevre, who is director of press informa1ion Anderson said investigators had trouble identifying the vic­ Mexican-born children they never got, most for the church. tims because the men's wallets and the woman's purse were are Mormons, and many of those who suc­ "Privately arranged placements of any taken along with an unspecified amount of cash from the bar. cessfully adopted through the program are children without a licensed agency's sanc1ion However, Anderson said officers traced the Idaho license Mormons, the Star· Telegram said. are frequently in violation of local or nationa1 plate of a car parked outside the bar to Schmid, who told Some of the principals in arranging the law," the policy notes. "Church officers or authorities his son, Robert Schmid, Jr., had recently moved adoptions also are Mormons, the newspaper members should not be involved in such ar· to Cedar City. added. rangements," it states. The ALTERNATIVE ClNEMA SERIES presents Winter brings Wo~1ien's1NT£R10RS more cruelty Feb .

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