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Show ft TiMimiQ SEHION Daily flcrnli FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008 METRO EDITOR BYUwiU DAILY Lusk Amie Rose 344 253Q- - aioseheraldextfa coffi Highland Higliway tensions mount centralize animation program Brittani I Caleb Warnock DAILY Canyon to the Dry Creek dip. From the dip, the road would split into an expressway that will speed commuters to the freeway with no lights, flanked on each side with two lanes: in each direction allowing shoppers and residents to get where they want to go. The road abuts what is planned to become a pedestrian, cycling and equestrian trail along the Murdock Canal. A smaller trail extends to the HERALD Feelings swayed between happiness and anger at a UDOT meeting at Cabela's on Thursday as residents learned the future of the HighlantTHighway. During an open house, UDOT tookxiblic comment on plans to buila two lanes in each direction from the mouth of American Fork mouth of the Canyon. The entire plan will cost around $230 million, $80 million of which is now available. Rep. John Dougall, Fork, said he expected another "substantial amount" toward the cost to be given by the Legislature in the next two months. Lehi Mayor Howard Johnson was not happy with the plan, which gives Lehi residents access to the expressway only from 1200 East, a plan he called preposter-- ; ous. Johnson called for the plans to be scrapped in favor of a six lane expressway with several accesses. Johnson said his plan would cost little more but give much more access, and would better handle -- future traffic. "They took none of my suggestions," he said of UDOT. See UDOT, B3 . HERALD Brigham Young University announced changes to the structure of its animation program Thursday morning before the Mathematical Mysteries of Pixar Animation Studios spoke to students. Animation instruction has been spread between arts and technology at BYU with faculty from at least three colleges teaching and mentoring students. Now they wiU have a home of their own. "In order to foster further collaborative work, both with external partners who mentor and hire our students as well as to create more formal and effective curricular connections across campus, we are pleased to announce today the formation of the Brigham Young University Center for Animation," said Stephen Jones, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications. The center will be housed at the Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at BYU, but the animation major will remain part of the College of Fine Arts and Communications. The new Center for . Animation will bring together courses in the engineering, art and computer science. Brent Adams, a BYU animation professor who will head the center, said the change will help industry better work with BYU, give animation an official place at the school, as well as help raise awareness of the animation program. "This creates a single point of concentration," Adams said. He said it has been too hard for stu- dents and industry members to navigate er i; CATMULL, vr.' n I :: I:. - u x the structure. "If you're trying to do all that, the bureaucracy will weight the thing down and kill it," Adams said. The announcement came before Ed Cat mull and president of Pixar Animation, spoke to an exclusive audi- ence of art and engineering students and faculty at BYU about why his company is doing well and other companies including Disney are struggling. "I want to talk about some things that have gone wrong," Catmull said standing at a small podium in front of a backdrop made from the red curtain and a giant movie screen. Students later premiered a short film on the screen. Catmull said the key to his company has been great people rather than stellar ideas. He said a great idea, like the plot of the Pixar film "Toy Story 2," can and See t 7 MARIO Mandy Dunsmore and OwenCluss look up information to help them on their clues during The Amazing Math Race as Week at UVSC on Thursday. RUIZDaily Herald part of Math Awareness UVSC math race provides prizes, experience Brittani DAILY ages UVSCs math lab. Students at UVSC have been celebrating math all week, even if they were bribed with Math 1050 extra credit to participate in UVSCs math awareness week. Activities included a sudoku tournament and speaker. Thursday students raced across campus in competition for cash prizes in the amazing math race. Lusk HERALD Knowing that the natural log of E squared equals two may not come up in casual conversation, but mathematics can be everywhere. "You could find mathematics in just about everything," said Kathy Van Wagoner, who man B3 Weird science ... ; 1 - f iVi c ! 2m ' See CRAIG DILGERDaily Herald Daniel Fletcher center, a ninth grader at Lakeridge Junior High, operates a remote controlled ball he created at the State Science Fair on Thursday. "The idea for how to control the turn came from rolling a plastic cup on the floor," said Fletcher. "If the plastic cup has tilted sides it will roll in a circle. That comes from the slanted axle." Fletcher was able to apply that same concept to his ball to enable to turn as well as roll in a straight line. Caleb Warnock subdivision just to sit in an account for two years without any clear process about when Flush with cash no longer, we can get it back." developers are looking to Utah Developers have always felt the two year requirement was Valley cities for financial relief. The Utah Valley Home Buildtoo stringent, but when the ers Association, working with housing market was booming, local developers, says it will developers put up with it, Haztake a protest of sorts that ard said. started in Eagle Mountain and Now, everything has spread it around the valley. changed. In March 2007, Eagle Scot Hazard is an Eagle Mountain issued 103 building Mountain developer who permits. This year, that number fell precipitously to just three. prepares subdivisions with With the housing market sidewalks, curb and gutter and roads so that builders can put up hobbled, developers are no lonhomes. Hazard and developers ger flush with cash and Hazard like him are required to put tens told city officials he needs the of thousands of dollars in an ac- city to release some of his bond count for two years as a bond money just so he can pay his contractors. guaranteeing their work. The amount of the bond depends on "It is not just coming in the size of the subdivision and handy in a time of very limited the length varies by city. cash flow, it is critical for deIf a sidewalk or road needs to velopers like me," he said in an be replaced, the money is used interview. He asked the city to change by the city to make repairs. If its policy for all developers. nothing goes wrong, the develEagle Mountain is expected to oper gets the money back. "We have been able to cash vote on whether to change its flow through this bonding recity code in May. quirement in the past, but we Mayor Heather Jackson said can no longer," Hazard said. See DEVELOPERS, B3 "They are holding $40,000 in a DAILY 52-l- HERALD czzz It's Coming Off... K MATH, B3 Strapped for cash, local developers look to cities for early bond returns 4s ' Students had two hours to take pictures of themselves at unknown places around campus. 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