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Show Friday, November 3, 2000 Page 3 Glance At A Enlsi Today 10 a.m., A debate between Mark Shurtleff & Reed Richards for the State Attorney General seat, the-Lair, Matthew Hyde, 394-0227. 7 p.m.. Services for Women Students will sponsor "Road to Self-Reliance," a workshop for single mothers, WSU-Davis Campus 132, free, 392-3460 or 626-7092. 7 p.m., Utah Symphony Concert, "The guilt Maker's Gift," featuring the Children's Dance Theater, Val A. Browning Center Austad Auditorium, $6-$12, 399-9214. 8:30 p.m., WSU hockey game vs. the Univeristy of New Mexico, Ice Sheet, $3-$5, 399-8750. Saturday 10 a.m., WSU's John B. Goddard School of Business & Economics will hold an open house for those interesteddn the school's master of business administration program, WSU-Davis campus 101, free, 626-7545. 1 p.m., WSU football game vs. Western New Mexico, Stewart Stadium, $5-$l 1, 626-8500 or 1-800-WSU-TIKS. 7:30 p.m., Peter Breinholt & Big Parade benefit concert, proceeds benefit the Ogden Area Community Action Agency, Val A. Browning Center Austad Auditorium, $8, contact Dee Events Center Ticket Office,: 6268500,1 . : ;,;tv 8:30 p.m.; WSU hockey game vs. University of New Mexico, Ice Sheet! $3-$5, 399-8750. ' ' , KojsJay 7:30 p.m., WSU Performing Arts Department presents Michael Palumbo, faculty viola recital, free, Val A. Browning Center Allred Theater. Tuesday 10 a.m., Latter-day Saint Student-Association will present its weekly devotional featuring sculptor Carl Quilter, Institute of Religion, 1302 Edvalson St., Ogden, free, 621-1800. 1:30 p.m., Untangling the Web Workshop; accessing information on diet, nutrition and exercise via the Internet, Stewart Library 138, free, 626-6403. 7:30 p.m., WSU Performing Arts Department presents, WSU Jazz Ensemble, $3.50-$4.50, Val A. Browning Center Allred Theater. 8 p.m., DLSU, WSU's Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans Student Group meeting. The Junction (in the Union Bldg), contact Emilie or Aileen, 612-1329. Wadaesday 1 to 2 p.m.. The Scientific Research Society will sponsor a presentation, "A Topology for Figure Ambiguity," by Thad Cowan, retired psychologist from Kansas State University, Lind Lecture 128, free, 626-6167. 8 p.m., WSU's Wilderness Recreation Ceter will hold a kayak-. rolling workshop and practice. Swenson Gym pool. $4-$ 15, 626-6373. Coiiloulia Events October 27 to Nov. 15. The Gerontology Club is assisting Golden Hours Senior Center in collecting used hardback Ixxiks for their new library. If you have any books to donate call. Ellen Murphy." 941-4088. November 3 & 4, 7:30 p.m.. WSU's Performing Arts Department will present the Orchesis Dance Theatre. Val A. Browning Center Allred Theater. $5.50-!?8.50. 626-6800. 111 ll A H One man's trash Coffee and hot chocolate cups, food plates, soup bowls, plastic utensils almost everything a student eats within The Hub Food Court is made from polyurethane plastic, more commonly. known as Styrofoam. Made from petroleum byproducts, the plastic is not biodegradable, but it can be recycled, said Mark Baugh, associate director of the Huntsman Environmental Research Center at Utah State University. The Research Center spent the last eight years developing a system that breaks polyurethane products down into pellets, which companies like Rubbermaid buy to turn back into trash cans and other plastic products. This summer, the center designed a recycling system for a Portland company that collects garbage from the cafeterias of companies like Hewlett Packard and IBM. The system sorts cups, plates and utensils of differing grades of plastic and washes off the gunk and the grease. Trash in, pellets out, and the Styrofoam stays out of the landfill. It's an easy enough process, and it's affordable enough to be economically and ecologically 'beneficial, Baugh said. The trick is convincing companies it's worth it. McDonald's franchises in California used a modified version of the system for a time to comply -with, a .California law requiring businesses to recycle at least 25 percent .of their waste. California dropped the law; McDonald's dropped-recycling, Baugh said. Baugh said it is possible. The system his research team designed "takes care of those problems; volume is the issue. The Hub would have to use more plastic to produce a volume of recyclable material worth creating a facility for. Lara Gale The Statesman U Hospital dodges vaccine scare Student Health Services not so lucky The Centers for Disease Control reported that 74 million flu vaccination doses were administered in 1999, and they report that 75 million doses will be distributed this year. TciSsy vi High: 47 -J C Low: 28 0 A?A S&niy but coal vi. Hi High: 52 4?U, Low: 31 winsnine Sends; High: 46 Low: 24 ' Cloudy & cool iffieailtll Vaccinations are typically available in October, and 99 percent of all distributed doses reach patients before December. However, the CDC predicts that as many as 18 million doses will not be distributed until December, at which point flu season is in full swing. Influenza vaccinations are created from three different flu strains, one of which did not grow well during the summer, causing the delay and potential shortages. This has some people worried sick. But not the University of Utah's epidemiology department."We've received 85 percent of the doses that we ordered," said Barbara Mooney, coordinator for University Hospital epidemiology. "Which is a lot of doses: about 60,000." Despite a one-month delay in delivering the vaccines. Mooney accredits the hospitals supply to "the luck of the draw." "It depends on what company you ordered your vaccine from," Mooney said. "Some companies had a lot more problems with batches of virus than others. Our company was delayed but did not have a real shortage issue."The hospital increased its vaccination requests this year to keep the University of Utah Health Network stocked, unaware at the time of the coming Nurse manager Carmen McDonald said SHS has ordered double the number of Vaccination doses as last year, but the supplier "hopes" to ship a meager 16 percent of that supply. "We currently don't even have the vaccine yet," McDonald said. U Hospital has started immunizing high-risk populations, such as the elderly or health care providers, Mooney said, but noted that young, healthy students do not usually belong to that group. Matt Canham The Utah Chronicle Professor lends a hand, gets stabbed by student A Pomona College philosophy professor was stabbed in the neck and chest by a student the professor had recently picked up from the police department.The Signpost Editor in Chief Lisa Roskelley 626-7121 Managing editor Tanna Barry 626-7614 FeaturesGrind Melissa Mikesell 626-6358 The Signpost is published every Monday. Wednesday, and Friday during the semester. Subscription is $9 a semester. The Signpost is a student publication, written, edited and drafted by Weber Slate University students. Student tees partially lund the printing of this publication. Opmions Of positions voced are not necessarily endorsed by the umversiry. The Signpost welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must include name, address, telephone number and the writer's signature. Anonymous lerters will noi be printed. The Signpost reserves the right to edit leners fof reasons of space and tibel and also reserves the right to retuse to print any letter. Leners should not exceed 350 words. Bring letters to the editorial oftce m SUB 267. mail to: The Signpost, Weber State University. Ogden. Utah 84408-2UO. Arm- Lisa Roskelley. or e-mail ttflsoa, that's a big snake Chris Ostler gazes in to the eyes of a Boa Constricter during the last minutes of Wednesday's Major Fest. Philosophy major Jared Essig, 22. stabbed Frederick Sontag, 76, just after 8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, after Sontag had picked him up from the Claremont police station, where he had been held on the suspicion of shoplifting, vandalism and public drunkenness. After Essig's initial arrest Sunday, Oct. 29, police held him for 24 hours and had him evaluated by mental health officials. Police believe Essig may have been under the influence of a " hallucinogenic drug. Essig was scheduled to be arraigned on charges of attempted murder Wednesday, Nov. 1, but was allowed to reschedule because of medical reasons, a Pomona Court spokeswoman said. The arraignment is scheduled for Nov. 6. Following the stabbing, Sontag was brought to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, where he was resting comfortably Wednesday, and was expected to be released in a couple days, said Mark Wood, director DITHERED TWiTS d " b m ' " V of public affairs for Pomona College. The Pomona administration will not take any immediate disciplinary action against Essig, and the college has placed him on medical leave. Wood said. Essig had been released to '. Sontag and Pomona Dean of. Students Ann Quinley about 8:30 p.m. Oct. 30, police; said. Quinley had reservations about bringing Essig back on campus and Sontag offered to let him stay at his home until Essig's parents arrived the next day. Sontag had served as a mentor to Essig at Pomona, a small liberal arts school with an enrollment figure hovering around 1,500 with a 9-1student-to-teacher ratio. It was not unusual for Sontag to come to the aid of a student in need, Wood said: "Prof. Sontag is one of those professors who is known not for going the extra mile, but the extra thousand miles for a student," he said. |