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Show f 6 TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 2002 Former Students Create Web Bookstore HAPPY TO BE GREEK: ROB BRANNON The Oracle Former University of South Florida students Christian Beiter and Paul O'Grady were frustrated from buying expensive books from the University of South TAMPA, Fla. Florida Bookstore and selling them back for a small percentage of the original cost. Their response was to join forces with programmer Matthew Oucen and create a Web site with a simple message for students: "Don't be stupid!" Beiter said the goal of the site is to provide students a place online where they can sell their books to one another. "We were sick of how students got ripped off by the bookstore," Beiter said. "This is a way they can save some money." Beiter said the students benefit by selling the books to themselves on a Web location that is free of charge. "We don't make any markup," he said. "All we are really is kind of like a classified." On the Web site, Beiter and O'Grady said the idea for the site came about when it was discovered that a book bought from the Bookstore for suo and sold back for $33 dollars was put back on the shelf at a price of $85. Beiter said a student could log onto his site and either buy or sell a similar book for $50. "That kind of markup is ridiculous," he said. "A student with five classes can save $150 each way on our site." On the Web site, students are provided an area in which they can search for a particular book or place a book on sale. In addition, there is an Ama20r1.com search engine in which students can buy new books at what the designers say are prices cheaper than those at the Bookstore. He said while the service is free to students, the original goal was to make a profit. Beiter said so far, however, all profits have been put back into the site. "Long term, we eventually want to make money," Beiter said. "But right now, we're not really worried about it." U WIRE Space Dynamics Lab Develops Navy Systems CHRISTOPHER LOKE The Utah Statesman r.A? v LOGAN Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) has e digital recondeveloped a naissance system equipped with the technology to effectively plan a mission during wartime. This system partly funded by the U.S. Navy will leave no time for enemies or targets to escape or relocate. The Navy Input Station (NAVIS) allows the operator to process, display and manipulate imagery as the aircraft is flying, enabling clarification of targets and instantaneous strikes. Darin C. Partridge, software engineer for SDL, said the NAVIS permits him to display the latitude and longitude of a target It can also show exact- real-tim- 'f si Kristy Ahlstrom is congratulated i after Induction Into the Greek Phi Council. Phi Kappa Graduate Offers Fellowships 2002-200- For Academic Year 3 The University of Utah chapter of the National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi invites applications from outstanding senior students tor a Graduate Fellowship of up to $8,000 toward their first year of graduate Or professional study' for the 2002-200- 3 academic year: Fiftv-tw- o of these fellowships will be awarded nationwide. Thirty additional students will receive Honorable Mention Awards of $1,500. F.ach Phi Kappa Phi chapter may nominate one student lo compete for these aw ards. The Univen;ity of Utah Chapter nominee will also receive a $1,500 award. ' : v :; : I A Graduating seniors with a cumulative GPA of 3.8 or belter should contact the Office of Vice President for Student Affairs, 206 Park, for applications and additional information. For questions, call Pfii Phi lx mcmliers imsst of Carolyn Hclx-r- t at Recipients oft the date the awards Kappa are made. Students who have already entered "a graduate school are N5T eligible. 581-779- 3. Deadline to return appucatons to the office of the vice president for student affairs 206 park MONDAY, vVVNUARY A, 2002 1 Study S if i f l" 1 it f V i 1 Ct The instantaneous effect of NAVIS permits "someone who has the authority to make the decision, see it and tell them pilots what to do, rather than tridge said. The currently used wet film reconnaissance technology requires the pilot to first land before any pictures can be developed or studied, Partridge said. Although the wet film camera is able to take very high quality pictures, it is and as a result, by the not time the mission is planned, the targets might have already relocated or moved, he said. "The whole purpose of this thing is to reduce sensor-to-shotime," Parsaid. tridge With wet film, they have to fly it, film it and land it before anything happens, Partridge said. They find what they want, and they have to develop and put it into the computer before they can e'en study it, he said. "It takes time, it takes people, and it takes resources to do all that," Partridge said. Because NAVIS is the information filmed from an FA-18- F aircraft is transmitted and recorded having them land," Partridge said. "The key advantage to this system is that this system is more sensitive to infrared," said Glen H. Wada, SDL's program manager. "If you use wet film on the same hazy day you flew this NAVIS, you cannot see anything," Partridge said. "This NAVIS has the ability to penetrate haze." Partridge said although the NAVIS might have problems of its own, it is still better than wet film. "This NAVIS is a prototype system," Wada said. "The next system is called The Shared Reconnaissance Pod SHARP. The intent of this system NAVIS is to bring this technology to the Navy and find out where the problems are and pass the information on to the SHARP program." NAVIS was put into demonstration in the parking lot of the Pentagon 15 days prior to the Sept. n incident, Partridge said. BUDGET offering no additional funding next year," he said. Although he would not say how large a "big" increase is, Machen did provide a means of comparison. He said last year's 6.8 percent tuition jump was a "moderate" increase. That translates into $161 for a student taking 15 hours. For now, Student Body President Ben Lowe said he will wait to see what happens. Lawmakers and administrators need to realize students are also suffering from the slow economy, he said. "Many of our students have been laid off," he said. Perhaps the U's largest problem lies in the missing $13 million from state enrollment funding from the past two years, which the state promised for educating new students. This year, enrollment figures soared. Nearly 1,500 more students took classes Fall Semester than the year before. "Large enrollment funding like this can't go unpaid," Machen said. "If we are not going to be paid, it is dangerous for us to let our enrollment continue to got up." Machen suggested capping the number of students admitted to the U to alleviate this problem. U administrators will meet with the Higher Education Appropriations Committee today through Thursday to discuss how and where to cut the funding. "I don't want the Legislature to tell me where I have to cut money J from. I hope they let me dcciaij where the money will come out ok my budget," Machen said. Machen said after he knows thej amount of state funding the U willj receive, he can set tuition. ThK should be by late January. j jparkinsonchronide.utah.edii real-tim- e, ot real-tim- e, continued from page non-academ- ic Theatre in London Study Abroad Program 1 eks Fulfill U of U Fine Arts Integration credit See historic & contemporary theatre in action M"Tv.i'l WiriU.Wt!viwlU.!Ll( Contacts: International Center 9 Union 159 www.saff.utah.eduinter Professors Richard Scharine & Tim Slover, Department of Theatre PAB 206 581-584- richard.scharinern.cc.utah.edu; slover31attbi.com 1 By taking out a loan, Machen will have until July 2002 to decide where to cut the money next year. He plans to make deeper cuts into programs, he said. U faculty and staff have already been informed they will not receive salary increases. U students have a "big" and "significant" tuition increase facing them in the fall, Machen said. "I have no choice. The state is in Application Deadline Extended to February in the U.K. (May 11 June 22, 2002) 6-we- instantly, Partridge said. .. i'., ,mip 4 ly what is happening from the aircraft, he said. One of the special features of the NAVIS is its ability to show the kind of damage a certain selected ordinance can do to a targeted area, Par- U WIRE |
