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Show Thursday January 12, 1995 2 The Duly Utah Chronicle Engineers from Utah's four major universities unite on Unity IV project BY CASSANDRA BURNS Chronicle Staff Writer Three years of hard work, by a group of engineering students from the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Utah State University and Weber State University will be paid of with the launching of their Unity IV rocket on Jan. 18 at the Great Salt Lake Desert. The launching will be the first for the rocket which is the result of the collaborative efforts of engineering students at all four schools. The 13-fo- ot long and 120-poun- d rocket will serve as a version of a planned larger model. After it reaches a height of 6,000 feet a parachute will open, "bringing everything back down gently," said James Strozier, the U. faculty advisor of the project. The activity allowed students to "take things they learned in the classroom and apply them to a real world engineering project," said Paul Nielson, a Utah State University graduate stusub-sca- le Besides serving as a learning project for the students, the rocket is also being looked at by NASA for its safety aspects. The motor is based on a new technique, and will not burn unless in the presence of pure oxygen, making it "very safe," Strozier said. The launching will provide "very useful data which scientists will need," he added. Dan Martin, a 1993 U. mechanical engineering graduate that has been involved with Unity IV since its inception, said it was "really fun to work with people from different universities," adding that there was "not really any rivalry between the schools." The "downside" of the project was that it was sometimes "hard to communicate between each of the universities," Nielson said. Some students from the U., USU and Weber State were upset by a decision made by BYU students to nickname the rocket "Emma Mae," after Emma Hale Smith, the first wife HOCKEY S BACK IN SALT LAKE! CELEBRITY ALL-STAR- VS GOLDEN EAGLE'S ALUMNI S SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 AT 7:00 PM AT THE DELTA CENTER rs a Richard Dean Anderson DaveCoulier kj Jason Priestley - AlanThicke (Full House) (Growing Pains) (Beveriy Hills 90210) (MacGyver) Plus many other Holly wood Stars, Olympic Gold Medalists and former NHL Hall of Famers! All Celebrities Subject I lft. r, m Pimm i . f.Mam to Change p.ui m.tvHtm. tnit nx itftt -- w I PURCHASE TICKETS AT ANY SMITH TIX LOCATION, AT THE DELTA CENTER BOX . OFFICE OR CHARGE BY PHONE AT OR ssrjzi safe 3JUHIII t.t.t.t.t. 'r ' of Mormon Church founder dent and project manager of Joseph Smith. "I can't imagine why they did Unity IV. "Working with the other that. It was unilaterally done," schools was a really good expeMartin said. said U. The nickname did not bother rience," Jim Guymon, a mechanical engineering graduGuymon who said he will be the in involved ate project, happy "as long as it flies as it's students that the adding really supposed to." had to rely on one another. "It The controversy caused by the nickname was "blown out of Was not a typical school environment." proportion," Nielson said. Some ' The project provided an interprofessors were afraid the name face between students and engiwould give the "wrong type of -neers, he said. message," and it is still not Each school was involved in known whether the name will ' the production of a different be removed from the rocket Those involved in the project aspect of the rocket. The U. the motor and nozzle, are hoping the launch will be developed USU the oxidizer and recovery successful so that plans for the system, BYU the air frame, and larger model can go forward. Weber State the instrumentaMartin fears that should the tion. launching not work, there may The development of the rock- not be enough student interest et is the first joint project of the to "revamp and try again." four universities' engineering Nielson felt differently, stating involved and a that "it will be successful no programs, "great deal of cooperation and commumatter what happens because we will learn something from it." nication," Strozier said. 1" E . 467-TIX- X MYQURDEADTIMEr mm , I - " gang from page 1 the street." Wednesday's arrests conclude a sting operation directed Salt Lake Metro Gang Unit the by Undercover officers began infiltrating local gangs last June by setting up a pseudo gang. "In the past, we've used store--, fronts to conduct stings. But this time we came up with an entire said detective David gang," Marchant of the gang unit. "We called our gang CSG Cholo Style Gang but the acronym also stood for Cops Stopping Gangs." A few officers posed as youth gangsters, while others went under six-mon- th cover as motorcycle gang members. Midvale gang detective Tony Mason posed as the latter interested in buying drugs and stolen property. Infiltrating the gang world, he said, was easy. "We dressed the part," Mason, said. "We hung out in all the gang hot spots, and they literally came to us." Atkinson. said he hopes the sting will curb crime in the valley. "We s know at least of die suspects are known gang members, and some are gang leaders." Of the suspects rounded up Wednesday, nine were juveniles and the rest were adults The cost of the operation was under $10,000, authorities said. . two-third- I 1M ttWT G 1 The Chronicle and Universal Pictures are frightfully pleased to pre- sent a special advance screening of TALES FROM THE CRYPTV DEMON KNIGHT on Thursday, January 12th at the Holladay Centre Cinemas. 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