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Show THE THUNDERBIRD SUSC TUESDAY JANUARY 17, 1989 PAGE 3 Summer 88 enrollment nearly to 8,000 mark Nearly 8,000 students enrolled in SUSCs educational programs this past summer, according to information submitted to the Utah System of Higher Education. The total is more than twice the number of students served during the traditional school year. We are pleased with what we consider a very successful summer school this year, said Phillip C. Carter, associate provost for academic programs and dean of summer school. Already, we are planning for another wide choice of valuable and appealing summer school activities and programs for next year. The SUSC report shows a total of 7,929 students were enrolled for classwork during the summer. This does not include college-relate- d activities such as the Utah Shakespearean Festival and the Utah Summer Games. Only students or participants in programs directly sponsored by SUSC are counted in this newly structured report, Carter pointed out. If we counted those attending related activities, our count would probably be in the range of 125,000. Many of the programs associated with SUSC during the summer make our academic offerings even more attractive, and these are being increased and improved, Carter said. Next year, for example, the new Randall Jones Theatre will enhance the Utah Shakespearean Festival; enrichment activities associated with the American Folk Ballet performances will be added; and the Utah Summer Games will be expanded even further. Senate begins final quarter with MCC funding request BY LYNN HOLT Christmas recess, the ASSUSC Senate After a month-lon- g reconvened Thursday to discuss internal matters and hear club with a funding requests The senators must complete their terms budget of $2,762.58. Multicultural Center Director Lynne Finton requested $300 from the senate to help pay for one of the speakers scheduled for Black Awareness Week, Feb. the Week The Black Student Union, which usually with the MCC, lies dormant this year due to the low number of black students attending SUSC, Finton said. The only black students on campus are men, she said, adding that, because of their heavy involvement in athletics, they aren t really interested sole at this point in doing a club. Therefore, the MCC will take added. responsibility for presenting the weeks activities, Finton and the totals $4,820, The cost of Black Awareness Week towards the of $2,500 contributions received MCC has already the $300 request might be program. Finton said she realized that but anything you high considering the senates current budget, can give would be really welcome. Senators voted to circle and voted on Thursday at 8 a.m. in the post the bill, which will be Bryce Canyon Conference Room. Marni Madsen, ASSUSC academic vice president, informed the office senate that a debate involving candidates for ASSUSC would occur Feb. 28 as part of the campus Convocations program. The Convocation will take place on Tuesday instead of the traditional Thursday since Wednesday, March 1, is election day. The senate ratified a decision by Madsen and other ASSUSC officials to appoint senior political science major Rod Rivers election committee chair. Science Senator Todd May presented a bill requesting $36 to fund the preparation of information packets to be prepared by ASSUSCs science senators underscoring SUSCs need for Science Center renovations. ASSUSC President Darin Bird appeared at the session and announced plans to compile an annual report of student government activities and accomplishments. He asked senators to compile a list of their monthly goals and chronicle their successes and failures in trying to accomplishing them. Credit ought to be given where credit is due, Bird said, adding that the report will prevent future administrations from repeating any mistakes this years officials may have made. After considerable deliberation, the senators agreed to meet at a.m. Thursdays for the remainder of their terms, which end with winter quarter. Lillie Garrido, assistant director of college relations, announced The program, the upcoming Thunderbird Weekend, Jan. 20-2to SUSC. introduction school an seniors Garrido said, offers high said. Similar events are planned ,for March and April, she 2-- 9. 2. Former astronaut Don Lind, a NASA mission specialist now working as a professor of physics at Utah State audience in the Centrum. University, shares The Space Experience with Thursdays Convocation Shuttle crewman tells of space travel Former NASA astronaut Don Lind described the philosophical and practical benefits of space travel in his Convocation address Thursday. There is an intensified, dramatic feeling of nostalgia looking down, which is to be expected, said Lind. When looking down on earth, one can see how fragile and vulnerable it is. You feel separated from humankind but have a stronger identification with them than you ever have when on earth, he said. Earth is a magnificent, exquisite planet that said Lind, who knows SUSC is indescribable, J. as the campus where his father-in-laHoward Maughan, served as president. A member of a flight team which tested the space shuttle Challenger, Lind brought home movies in space which he narrated with accounts of his space adventures. Lind also detailed the research advantages of space travel. The weightlessness in space allows the use of sound energy to process substances like molten glass, which is often distorted when processed on earth. When processed in space it is essentially perfect, said Lind. Additionally, Lind tested crystal growth on his space mission and found that crystals grow more quickly in a weightless environment. Lind showed films of two crystals that grew during sized crystal his week in space. One sugar-cub- e is worth $43 million and another the width of w, three dimes is valued at $22 million. Because of such great payback, Lind predicted that this manufacturing process will become commonplace in the near future. Lind described the physical feelings of space travel. After the first euphoric second during takeoff, several things could go wrong at any moment killing everyone, so tontrol is an 10 important element, said Lind. After the minutes of actual flight procedures, astronauts can have another two seconds of euphoria, he said. Lind said the body runs differently while in space, so the astronauts had to wear monitors. The weightlesness of space also allows for the Peter Pan mode of travel, where there is no sense of down, he added. Returning to Earths gravitational pull was incredibly uncomfortable, according to Lind. There seemed to be a gravitational pull of five instead of one, he said. Linds film showed each astronaut grasping handrails tightly as they descending from their craft, obviously not used to their weight on Earth. The real reason for the seven people waiting hands with the returning astronauts is shake to to keep them from looking like fools on national television, Lind said jokingly. In honor of Maughan, the astronaut presented to SUSC an American flag which accompanied him on his space flight. Provost Terry Alger accepted the emblem, which orbited the Earth with Lind 110 times. |