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Show September 28,1979 Page 16 Signpost Seating changes in stadium and DEC by Lucinda Schuft If you've attended a home game this fall you've noticed that seating changes have been made for students, staff, and faculty this year in the football stadium. Changes in seating have been made in both the Wildcat Stadium and the Dee Events Center for the up coming seasons. Changes made the stadium seating this year have moved faculty and staff members out of student seating in sections N, M, and L. The top 15 rows of these sections will be sold to generate more income for athletics. Sections K and 0 are now designated for students, faculty, and staff members. These changes give students an additional 800 seats in the stadium, and a student only area that has not existed in the past. The changes made in the Dee Events Center include a forfeiture of 344 seats of the 2,926 seats in the student section, again for sale to the public to generate funds for athletics. The changes made in the DEC have been approved by this year's student executive council after confronting Gary Crompton of the Athletics Department for clarification of the new policies. They did not feel that the changes made with the approval of last year's student officers were clear enough to guarantee student rights relating to the seating arrangements. They approved Institute to open series The Ogden L.D.S. Institute of "icligion will open the "Horizons in Thought" series on Friday, September 28th. The first speaker will be Robert L. Back-man, member of the First Quorum of Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Backman will speak at the L.D.S. Institute Chapel Friday at 12 noon. the sale of seats after asking that a waiver be signed by the prospective seating purchasers. The waiver acknowledges that if student attendence grows and the need arises the seats will be returned to the students. Prior to the waiver the policy stated only that if the need arises would the seats be returned. Now the policy must be reviewed when student attendence reaches a 1,000 students per game average. The changes in the DEC were made after a study showed that student attendance has averaged 993 per game in the last 13 years and 770 per game since the opening of the DEC in 1977. Students had 2,926 seats and even during the game with the alltime record attendance only 1,839 students were present. This is what Gary Crompton, Athletic Director, based the figures on when asking for the seats to sell to generate revenue for the athletics program. The sale of the DEC seats will bring in an additional $68,000 for the athletic income budget and will go to fund scholarships for both men and women athletes. Crompton said that he is pleased with the policy as it stands, but would prefer to have renegotiation take place when the average attendance reaches 1,500 rather than 1,000. He also said that he would be happy if Weber averaged 2,000 students per game. "It would look good to the r towns people to see an active turn ' Elder Robert - Backman . f lot a WEBER STATE COLLEGE P. f" OODN UTAH needs a Contact Richard Curtis out of student supporters." WSC students will now be sitting in the lower portions of sections V, A, and B in the Dee Events Center. This will be a student ' only section. The forfeited seats above these are being sold for $250 per seat plus the cost of a season ticket the first year and $100 plus a season ticket after that. Crompton said that 44 seats have been sold already and the remaining seats he is planning to give to Wildcat donors who buy $1,000 memberships. The seating changes also include a trade of 40 seats in section C for use as President Brady's VIP box. In return for these seats students received 80 seats along the floor for use by student officer's VIP seating. Old Current ....i i 1 STUDENT SEATING changes in the Dee Events Center. There is now a student-only section, which has not existed before. hess ox : : M : : 20 Seats sold Student only 1 i I I 30 10 Faculty and staff .... GUI CURRENT SEATING arrangements in Wildcat Satdium. Student only section is located along the 50 yard line, Weber Science News SID Monitor Two WSC electronic experts worked this summer under a $15,500 grant to develop an infant home monitor that will aid in the prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (crib death), one of the more baffling and important killers of young infants.The WSC team heading up the project includes Dr. W. Lee Dickson, professor of electronic engineering technology, and Wayne Andrews, assistant professor of electronic engineering technology. The contract was awarded by Electromed International, a new medical electronics firrnu- based in Ogden, headed by Dr. Greg Johnston, Ogden veterinarian. SIDS has been called the largest killer of children under a year of age, with an estimated 25,000 children dying annually in the U.S. alone. A recent five-year study ai Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston indicated that most crib deaths could be eliminated by supervised home monitoring and appropriate intervention by parents trained in resuscitation. Dr. Johnston said that from what is known of the disease it attacks children who appear to be absolutely normal. It seems to impact especially around the age of four months and probably related to breathing center controls in the brain. NASA Program A Weber State College professor is analyzing data brought back to earth by the famed Skylab as part of special research by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Physics professor, Dr. David A. Tripp, says he has received an $18,000 grant from NASA to study "the environment of solar flares." "Solar flares," says Dr. Tripp, "are explosions on the sun." He says they are believed to be closely related to the sun sports. According to Dr. Tripp, when a solar explosion occurs, tremendous amounts of energy are shot into space in the form of . particles of electromagnetic radiation. Dr. Tripp says, "We believe it has some amplified effect on the earth's weather." He says it is his job to find out what the flare is all about and what its environment is like. "If we know what the flares are like," says Dr. Tripp, "maybe we can come up with the models as to what causes them. If we know why the flares occur, maybe we can predict them. "Because there is a relationship between the earth and te sun, we would like to know exactly what is happening on the sun and then relate that back to how things are on earth. "We could last for maybe six months if there were a world crop failure," he says. "If we knew more how the sun affected the weather, it would help us a great deal in terms of forecasting." "Just exactly how things occur on the sun and how they effect us is one of the least understood things, he said. The effects are so small, yet they create such a widespread situation in global weather patterns." NASA sent the first data for the project Jast. March. Jt, |