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Show THE UNNERSITY JOURNAL · SOITTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ iTIBIJEcCAJMIIF>ID~ 0 ~ SUU campus expansion to begin soon By MIRANDA MABBUTI JOURNAL STAFF WRITER To compensate for the student popul ation growth, the universi ty has plans for new additions to the campus, including a new physi cal education facility. The new P.E. huilding is expected to hegin construction in the spring of 1999, p ending funding by the coming session of the Legi slatur:e, and woul d capacities to accommodate further growth here. Richards indicated that the P.E. huilding will he the first addition to the campus. "A fi ve-year huil ding Although enro llment at SUU had risen significantly plan has heen proposed to the state. If funded i t w ill in recent years, the new semester conver sion has help accommodate enrollment growth ," Richards been blamed for a decr ease in enr ollment for the fall said. '98 semester. Enro llment is Richards said that Sllll is expected to rise again after also asking for funding from students adapt to the change. the state to renovate the old "The semester conversion is middle school huilding certainly the assumed reason ~ o across from campLL,;. "This is for the decrease in enrollment a tremendous amounc of for all of the universities in the space that SUU can use." state,· said Neal Cox, director Richar ds said. of puhlic r elations and assistant Wilh enro llment expected to the president at SUU. Cox to rise, some students have said that the shortened suggested an enrollmenl cap. , O summer , due to the quarter-to· '1 which would limit the semester conversion, numhcr of st udents accepted influenced the 5.2 percent inco SUU. However, said enro llment decrease hecause it Richards, such a cap is gave students less time to work unlikely. " It is very douhtful at summer johs. I n addi ti on t o that enrollment will he I the shorter w orking period , capped," he sai d. students were faced with Despite that viewpoint , paying for their fees and SUU seeks smaller class sizes. tuition in two increments " We pride ourselves on the instead of three increments, as personal faculty/student with the quarter system ! relationships. That is " We arc optimistic that we 17lis map ofSUU shows two projects yet to be completed: the Physical Education Building, a nticipated som ething that we do not may sec an increase in to be started in the spring, and the Shakespeare Square complex, slated for completion by 2002. want to lose: Richards said. enrollment, like last year. He also added that the • Applications for admission LO SUU arc up 8 take approx imately two years to complete. According administration is meeting challenges as che school percent from this t ime last year. That may he a strong to Michael D. Richards, vice president for planning grows. " It is o ur hope to maim ain a personalized indicator that enrollment will incr ease," said Cox. and technology at SUlJ, the campus has additional instructional envir onment,· said Richards. f I I Adams sole undergrad at Track renovation still USU reptile rendezvous far behind schedule Wesley Harl Adams, a senior hiology major from Salt Lake City, presented his r esearch titled " Phcnotypk Plasticity vs. Adaptation in Rufo Microscaphus" to the annual l ntcrmountain Herp Rendezvous held al Utah State University last month. Adams was the onl y undergraduate of 27 presenters, the rest heing master's and Ph.D. candidates and pose-doctoral workers from Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and Idaho State University. '111c meeting was designed to allow studcncs of Utah professors in Utah and adjacent areas who teach herpetology (the study of repcilcs) or advise projects dealing with amphihians and reptiles to give oral presentations of their research projects. The venue was organized hy Edmund 0 . Brodie, Jr., head of the U U hiology department. Adams conducted an experim ent co test whether early m,;tamorphosis in Arizona tadpoles In the Beaver Dam Wash area of northeastern Arizona is a r esult of natural selection or just an individual response to environmental change. From his study, Adams found that selection docs operate on the ar ea tadpole population . The value of this study is that variatio n among populations allow species to survive envir onmental change. Some causes of declining amphihians in the western Slates may he due to environmental changes on populations that do not have the necessary variati on. " It was pretty intimidating when I got there," Adams' said , who said he worked every day this past summer on the project. But he added, " It was the pinnacle of 500 or more hours of research." Terry Schwaner, assistant professor of ~ biol ogy and adviser ~ to Adams, said chat ~ Adams' talk was well received and his was 5 cited hy those who 1:l attended the meeting d as one of the hcst presentations. Adams also said he was told that his experiment is im mediatel y puhlishahle. Adams gracefully acknowledged finan cial support awarded co his project by the Scientific Research Society Sigma Xi, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for permits, and the SUU department of biology w hich advises him. 5 Z By MARIAM ARTHUR JOURNAL ~TAFF WRl'ffiR recompad it, and repave it. Second, the entire track could he dug up and disposed of and then a new track Construction of the tr,1ck aro und could be st~rtcd from scratch. It wa.., the foOLball field in Eccles tadium is the third option that was finally almost complete. According to decided upon. Roger Davis, SUU purchasing agept, Ashdown put one inch of asphalt several factors ~ - - - - - - - - - - over the existing contrihutcd to the track. ·111c result was a stronger t>ase. delay. Martin Surfacing, At this point, the the general track was checked contrdCtor hired to for a I percent gmde, do the joh, tx-gan required hy the construction in May NCAA for proper 1998. The local water nmoff. It was contractor, Ashdown discovered that Brothers because nmncrs not Construction, ~ rt participating in a stecplccha.'ie would replaced the inside curh and have to nm around steeplechase jump. In the harrier, their June, the old surface actual tmck length was tom up, would he longer than recompacted and · anticipated. Also, the resurfaced with three new curb w ;L<; now inches of new asphalt. lower than the asphalt. Unfortunately, the paving ll was determined 1ha1 lo fix the equipment leaked oil as it laid the length, additional asphalt would he asphalt. This is significant because laid to the inside of the opposite end the urethane surface w hich is lo of the track , so that while one end cover the track w ill not slick to oil. of the track would he longer, the Martin and Ashdown were other·end would he shorter, thereby consulted and all options were compensating for Lhe correct length. considered. To date, all constniction has hccn First, the same process could be (contin uedo11page 6) repeated: tear up the asphalt, The old surface WaS torn Up, feCOmpaCted and resurfaced With three inches Of ·n ew asphalt. LJ t I th n,o una e y, e paving equipment leaked oil as it laid the asphalt \ '. |