"Addict killed her 6 children, police say" Associated Press July 09, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY — Authorities say a Utah woman’s motive for killing six of her newborns was that she was addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs and did not want to deal with the responsibility.
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I will bet the house was a mess, too.
Pleasant Grove police Captain Mike Roberts said Tuesday that 39-year-old Megan Huntsman was heavily into a methamphetamine addiction when she strangled or suffocated the infants from 1996 to 2006.
Roberts said Huntsman was not worried about the babies’ health, but did not want to care for them.
Authorities think a seventh baby found in her Pleasant Grover garage was stillborn.
Police had previously declined to discuss a motive in the case.
Huntsman is in jail on $6 million bail, charged with six counts of first-degree murder.
DNA results confirm that the biological father of the seven dead infants found stored in a Utah garage is the estranged husband of Huntsman, authorities said Tuesday.
The results from the FBI’s analysis also shows five of the babies were girls and two were boys, said Roberts. All seven were full term, he said.
Huntsman’s estranged husband, Darren West, lived with her during the decade their children were killed before going to federal prison on drug charges from 2006 until January.
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"University revises its fight song to remove ‘coeds’ lyrics" by Annie Knox | Associated Press July 03, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah has tweaked its official fight song amid concerns it was sexist.
The new version doesn’t officially change the lyrics from ‘‘I’m a Utah man’’ to ‘‘I’m a Utah fan.’’ Instead, it lists both.
But the line ‘‘Coeds are the fairest’’ is out.
President David Pershing announced the changes Wednesday. A panel of students, school officials, employees, and alumni was tasked with reworking the anthem.
‘‘We want to honor and preserve our history,’’ said Barbara Snyder, vice president for student affairs. ‘‘But we also want to be an institution that’s very inclusive in our community, so that everybody can feel comfortable singing the lyrics.’’
Pershing had asked students, faculty, staff, and alumni to suggest new lyrics. Hundreds of e-mails regarding the fight song flowed into his in-box before graduation, he said.
The new song replaces ‘‘our coeds are the fairest’’ with ‘‘our students are the finest.’’ It also transforms ‘‘no other gang of college men’’ into ‘‘no rival band of college fans.’’
This is not the first time the school has reworked the song.
The 1904 version boasted, ‘‘We drink our stein of lager and we smoke our big cigars,’’ The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Officials later replaced that part with the one referencing coeds.
Alumni also floated changes in recent decades, but the efforts stalled amid opposition.
The university’s policy never explicitly excluded women, but female students didn’t enroll in significant numbers until after the turn of the 20th century, about 50 years after the schoool opened.
In 2004, three decades after first admitting women, the Naval Academy replaced references like ‘‘sailor men’’ in its song with ‘‘sailors.’’
At New Mexico State University, alumni in 2003 asked the school to rethink the line ‘‘And when we win this game we’ll buy a keg of booze and drink it to the Aggies ’til we wobble in our shoes.’’ The effort failed.
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