Show The Utah Statesman — E Friday November ' 14 1980 Page I Story of Mount St Helens told Tlis (continued from page 3) learning World by Richard Meisler L c mu department is the world's trading exonly rx-r- t — on a rare Brazilian ma lx- - extinct Not rxrn Harrv has one aloe m over ten wars " 'Harry in - thr- world's pert— niayfx'la- moth moth Actually seen The speaker is a i ollcge professor and he's lalking alxiut jnr "t his mile ik’u s Mis eyes gleam tesjx-- i tllillv and a vsrv apjieit s on Ins otherwise solemn lips as he dev m his field txtrnt to whi'h "id Hatty is a sniilr which makes its eruptvjxtions very explosive Ac ending lo Peterson the first activity attributed to the volcano was a fairly sharp earthquake measuring over four on the Richter scale He said the small tremors out at eight jx-- r hour m March On Match 27 a small eruption caused a crater head to r at the top Throughout apjx-aApril no maor activity incurred Steam erupted and ash began to spurt Irom the volcano on May 7 and caused I fie surface to become verv rugged It wasn't until May 18 that ritx-- s the sx-fiah- two things I i ati think ot that are mote kiihh valued in the at admin world than spei iahation But the wav to get money is to putiln ation and monev publish and the way to publish is to spei iihze (lollege are iindt t great pressure to le se lalists from the time they are graduate students they are rni nutated and rewarded tot m garning their identities atouml their roles as There are only pnc-trsvi- d the major eruption took place It lasted for almost nine hours and caused volcanic ash and other debris to be hurled to an altitude of almost 65 (KM) feet In 11 days the ash had completely circled the earth Peterson explained that the amount of earth blasted out of its place was 250 “That’s kind of hard to register” he said “But if you take a culie 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet and take two and one half billion of them that’s the amount of material moved” He also said 3 cubic kilometers of ash were sent into the atmosphere I he intensity of the volcanic-blas- t was enough to uprcxit cubic-kilomete- pine trees and send them across the mountain "I received estimates of blast intensity ranging from 50 to 200 megatons” said Petrrvin ”50 megatons would be 2500 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima” Forty fxxlirs were found in the 250 mile area that was blasted away and more may have never found said Peterson The victims were mostly tourists who were warned but never c leared the 60-fcx- it lx-e- area While volcanic eruptions have Finally calmed down at Mount St Helens Peterson warns that activity may occur in the future ii!i't pei i ysliat you lalie in I he more natross tie Id id r jx-- t ise the mote you w ill lie 5 m Hoist leal n to mttodui e the topic ol your dot lot a dyvrtatioii itit ' eyety lotiyetsation at the eathest possible mo- merit It you are assigned to teu h a course in general biology '"U riui'i deyelop m rlalnirate rationale tor halt thr semryfrr on a Hriihan moth I" il'iesii t jrd oh'i ute mam sei y r i i f The Director of the Graduate School of Business will interview students interested in a Masters Degree at the University of Utah on November 29 1980 Call for your appointment at the USU placement center Top floor SC Room 311 irolessors who exhibit a liyrly interest m the larger aie liablr to lx- - judged to lx- - dilettantes If they ter suih wider mteiests enter tfieit teaching they are sixm ’judged to lx- Mibseisise One can only corrujit the students by ymlatmg the lioundarv lines of one's immediate sjx-- i ialty 'One iiiust in one's teat him rrnphasie what separates student and teai her esx-ciallnarrow sjx-- iilruion rather than i that which might connrtt them a broader range of interests I College ' outside wmld - rlassu study ’‘The Academic Revolution” Day id and ( ihrtstoplier Jem Ws ilex utxii how the at asiemic diHipiinrs have come to dominate higher education in their bentury I here fiaye imxirtant Hisitive results notafdv :n the fields of ads ant rd scholarship and research The I negative results are most visdile in the eduiition of students lhnse learning is loried into iorncpluil categories that are lalists hut not for the rrst of the tnpnrtant for s holar-s)eorld (hie ol the results ot the acaileinu resolution that has not widely nottird is the loneliness that it produies in In their 5 I J K if small tx-e- n c ’he lives o! ptolessors olten enter the academic hie at least til part n van h ot tnrmlx-rshiin an intellectual community I hey find will that thrv colleagues with wftom interests will imaginr be shared hey antic ipate long and stimulating intellectual conversations There will they think lxamong people in their field whose common goal is the adsancement Young 1 - (oojx-ratio- LAST 2 ©AYS ' of knowledge The audetnu world turns out to disapxunt these youthful expectations I hr college or university campus is for those employed there as and jxilitical as it is lor those who study there successful businessman will a Occasionally lease thr i for the calm etui life of teat him on r mukrtplu a college campus After a couple ot months of the life such eyes glazed over and in a dae vearn for the comparative simplicity and deernry of the rat race One such refugee businessman drsc rilx-his c nrnx-titiv- r jx-a- mn-templa- e com-ment- $17§00 d fractions to his new hie to me “In my 30 years in the department store business I never saw so much dirty pcxil c as I’ve seen in a few months in nmjx-titio- and the academic world In business it’s obvious that you and your competitor are Ixith trying to sell to the same customer It’s dear and alxivr Ixiird Alter it's over you can be friends In n academic department your colleagues pretend that they’re oot competing hut they're constantly at your throat” Tlie final irony is that many professors have broader intellectual interests than their professional lives They don’t "fare them with students or colleagues They struggle not to permit the light of the world to shine into the dark larger cecesses of their sxcialties In short they are more interesting U d than they are as professors rectify this situation? Certainly students w°ud thank them The reason is that they're scared They’re potential disapproval of their colleagues t t ey re afraid of in a larger intellectual bring judged na w0e criteria are less certain and more variable people hy don t they TODAY AND T0M0SS0W ONLY i except Supday For More Ipfonpatiop Opcp I r'tfTt 10:00-5:3- 0 I 753-092- 1 BEAYFP MOUAfTAM 10451 ftortl Malp-Brldq- er 5 ' lapd Square I |