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Show Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 Utah Campus Voice since 1902 Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com Construction projects total 13 The Five-Year Plan 1. Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Addition USU anticipates statefunding will support needed buildings by 2016 2. Fine Arts Complex Addition By DAN SMITIH 3. HPER Addition 4. Biology-Natural Resources Renovation As USU continues expansion over the next few years, its campuses will take on new features. The most recent work-in-progress is the new College of Agriculture building located immediately west of the business building. "We have a lot of different projects that are at different stages of completion," said Vice President for Business and Finance Dave Cowley. A portion of the southwest exterior wall of the College of Agriculture building has been erected. Cowley said the almost-$46 million, state-funded project should be completed around January 2012. "The old building is actually scheduled for demolition," Cowley said, "It's part of the project." The current college of agriculture building is just south of the biology and natural resources building. The journalism and communications department will be moved to the new building along with agriculture upon completion. Each year as USU leaders put together their 5. Animal Science Renovation 6. Ray B. West Renovation 7. Wind Turbine Generator 8. Utility Tunnel Extension 9. Tooele Regional Campus Utilities 10. Brigham City Campus Addition Plans are underway to build a new stateof-the-art distance education facility on campus, a hub for professors to broadcast their classes to campuses throughout the state. Ben Berrett, director of planning, design and construction, said initial plans for the 38,700 square-foot building began about five months ago and are progressing nicely. "We plan on breaking ground early spring next year," Berrett said. "Probably around March or April, and there should be about a year of construction." The completion date in spring of 2012 is still tentative, though, due to weather conditions and contractors, he said. There will also be additional time required once the building is completed to move in the electronics needed $12 million $12 million $4 million $5 million $5 million $5 million $10 million 12.Art Barn Renovation $2.5 million 13.Thermal Storage Tank New building to house UPR, broadcast lectures staff writer $45 million 11. Regional Campuses and Distance Education Building $3 million THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE building begins construction on the east side of the Quad and will be completed around January of 2012. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo By MIKE BURNHAM $20.3 million $45 million staff writer I See LIST, page 4 $ 60 million for housing distance education. Berret said the building will be located where the old dome-shaped Quonset but is now, on the corner of 700 North and 1200 East, across from Aggie Ice Cream. The building will be 2-3 stories with 8-12 classrooms. "All of the classrooms will be set up for what is called an origination classroom," he said. "That means the professor will be in Logan and it will be broadcasted out across the state." Berret also said the building will be used to house Utah Public Radio and the Utah Education Network, as well as facilities to educate faculty on campus technology and a testing center for students. Ronda Menlove, vice provost of regional I See RCDE, page 3 USU scientists believe organisms went extinct before dinosaurs layers within the rocks, which date back 750 million years, pre-dating the evolution of animals by 185 million years. Sedimentary rocks are formed when sediments pile on top of each other and are pressed together with incredible pressure. Among the different types of sedimentary rocks are limestone, sandstone and shale, or compacted mud. This is the type of rock they are focusing on, said Dehler, who even keeps bags of the black shale on her desk. Dehler said they are interested in this specific rock type because it is organic-rich. She said that when looked at under a microscope, the shale expos- By KASEY VAN DYKE staff writer Before the dinosaurs, there were microscopic organisms, and USU doctoral student Dawn Hayes, along with assistant professor Carol Dehler, believes these single-celled creatures saw a mass extinction. Dehler and Hayes, both in the geology department, are studying the sedimentary rocks of the Uinta Mountains and said their research suggests an extinction of singlecelled organisms well before the evolution of animals. Dehler said they look at sedimentary rocks because of the es a "microbial world." By studying these fossil records, Dehler and Hayes found a "biotic change." Hayes said it was originally believed that glaciations from a significant period of climate change, known as Snowball Earth, wiped out the singlecelled organisms. The team found this may not be accurate. "We found low-diversity, high populations of fossil assemblage under rocks that record the glaciation," Dehler said. "This biotic change had already happened." I See FOSSILS, page 3 Council will strive to unifr nationalities through week's events By CATHERINE MEIDELL news editor International students compose seven percent of USU's studentbody and International Student Council President Christian Orr said he hopes this year's International Education Week will help these students feel welcome in an unfamiliar culture. "The majority of this group is overlooked," Orr said. "They have a rich, rich heritage, cultural traditions and personalities. They add not only so much to USU but to the community. If we overlook that, or undervalue that, they will stop coming here. They will not feel a part of us." Varuna Ponnamperuma, International Student Council vice president and president of The HURD, said the week will give students from the U.S. a chance to experience culture that they normally only view through the media. In addition, the international students will be given a chance to taste U.S. culture and "feel like they are not from another country," Ponnamperuma said. THE MISS INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT will wrap up this year's International Education Week. Miss International will be crowned, a Mr. International will also be chosen. They will perform talents representing their home countries. Photo courtesy International Student Council 11/15/10 Inside This Issue ai . ....7-1_, , ! -; 1 - Ili , mi On-campus barber shop welcomes students to get a hair cut in between classes. Page 5 • Newcomer, Brockeith Pane, leads USU in second-half win over in-state rival Weber State. 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