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Show Tuesday, October 10,2006 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE U PUSHES FOR RECYCLING continued from Page I MEI.1NIM HOM-WILLIAMS/ The Daily Utah Chnmuk Engineering majors Chris Morrow, Rylan Hayes and Michelle Bass examine the remains of a bridge near the Merrill Engineering Building, which collapsed when a forklift tried to drive over It Friday. Bridge collapses near engineering building Victoria Johnson The Daily Utah Chronicle Students returned to school Monday to find a nearly collapsed bridge near, the Merrill Engineering Building. A forklift fell through the bridge Friday morning at about n a.m. Its driver was heading to the Warnock Engineering Building construction site when the forklift fell about 10 feet into a small ravine. The driver, whose name has not been released, was not injured. . "It just caved in," said Kent Walter, project manager for Jacobsen Construction. "It was rusted through—in a.state of disrepair." Walter said Jacobsen workers BAGPIPERS . BRING SCOTTISH CULTURE ; continued from Page I younger. One of Cait McMaster's sisters also met her husband while they were both playing for the Salt Lake Scots. ; "It's about keeping the culture alive," Cait McMaster said. . ; Cait McMaster, along with the. four other members of the Piping Utes, plays with the Salt Lake Scots. : The five competed with the Salt Lake Scots in the 20D3 Pipeman Championships and placed 27th in the world within their division. ; But even though you don't have to have a family connection to appreciate the instrument, having an interest in tjie Scottish culture is an important factor when it comes t£>; wanting to play, DeMass s&id. "It's much better because your appreciation for your Scottish heritage is so much more and it really hits home," DeMass said. "It's really beautiful. There are no words to describe it." • And when it comes to learning how to play, DeMass said players should not be discouraged their ftrst time. Since the bagpipe '- STUDENTS CELEBRATE MOON FESTIVAL had been instructed not to use the bridge. "The operator is an experienced forklift operator, but he'd only been here a few weeks and he missed the communication," he said. Nate Gerlach, a Jacobsen carpenter, said workers frequently drive over the bridge in forklifts, trucks and other vehicles. "Our electricians and the pipe fitter have driven across it," he said. "But I guess it was (the forklift driver's) lucky day. He was belted in so he didn't get bucked out or anything." Students walking by the wreckage on Monday peered on in curiosity and were forced to walk down the gully to get around the bridge. relies heavily on a player's breathing, the more each player's lungs develop, the easier it becomes for him or her to play, he said. "It's hard sometimes because you have to keep the bag full of air at all times," Cait McMaster said. "It takes a while, but you get used to it—it's easier when you have the drive." Learning how to play, however, is not the only reward players will receive, said Kariann Hibbard, freshman in education. "When you start piping, it's not just about picking up an instrument—you're actually picking up a culture,, too," Hibbard said. "It's going to become part of you, and that's what makes it fun." The Piping Utes hold free lessons for U students every other Wednesday starting Oct. 18. Aaron Wilson, club president, said once the group becomes more established, it hopes to play during football games and activities at the LDS Institute of Religion, As for the group's uniform, Wilson said the members will definitely be wearing the traditional Scottish kilt. "And as far as what we wear underneath the kilt," Wilson said, "you will just have to join us at our performances andfindout." a.breton@ chronicle.utah.edu at the festival, as their round shape and yellow hue resemble the moon, representing the harvest. At the U's festival, students were able to enjoy a variety of moon cakes, from continued from Page 1 traditional lotus paste ones to more commercial types. Yi had hidden, and promptly "Everyone at this festival swallowed it. isn't from the United States, After Hou Yi returned, and it feels nice to have he began to chase her, an- .people from my own culture gered by her discovery, but gathered for the evening she flew away to the moon, to celebrate our traditional where she dwells today. holiday," Gong said. "You Hou Yi then built himself can't celebrate this holiday a palace on the sun, and once by yourself, so this event is a year he is able to visit his a way for all of us to gather wife on the moon, which is together. It's something why it is so full. memorable and important to Traditional Chinese moon all of us." cakes made with lotus seed n.hale@ paste and egg yolk are served chronicle.utah.edu "Before Fall Break, it was fine," said Lionel Lewis, a senior in biology. "But when I came back, it was collapsed. I'm glad I wasn't on it. I used it a couple times a day." John Kingston, a sophomore in computer science, was nearby when the accident occurred. "I saw it right after it happened— around u (a.m.)—and the forklift was still there," he said. "I went to go study and then when I came back, the forklift was gone." Walter is unsure whether the bridge will be reconstructed or torn down, but he said his superiors are discussing the options with U administrators. v.johnson@ chronicle.utah.edu '90s and report recycling 48 percent and 20 to 25 percent of their overall waste, respectively. Higgins said the upper administration has been pushing to improve the recycling program for years. "The administration really isn't holding this up," he said. "They've been very supportive of what were trying to get done." Que Collard, an administrator who has overseen the recycling program, said the logical solution is to put more recycling containers around campus, but he said putting a recycling bin in every classroom and office would carry a hefty price tag. "The challenge is going to be 'where do we find the money for that?'" Collard said. He said it would likely cost more than $125,000 to buy the bins and pay the custodial staff to collect the recyclables. Collard said that, for now, the U plans to focus on recycling paper because nearly 40 percent of the U's trash is recycable paper, whereas other recyclables, such as plastic and glass, account for less than one percent. Collard is heading a recently formed campus task force on recycling. The committee is made up of students, faculty and administrators. Currently, the task force is conducting a pilot recycling program in Milton Bennion Hall and the Business Classroom Building. He said the test program will provide information on how to better implement a recycling program. Collard said the administration is also waiting to receive the final recommendations on the audit from Cascadia. A draft report of the waste audit's findings was completed in June 2005, but Collard said Cascadia has not yet finalized its report.. Some people think it's tune for a more effective recycling program to be put into action. "It sure is taking a long time," said Natasha McVaughSeegert, assistant director of the environmental studies program. She said she frequently gets calls from students and faculty asking where they can recycle because there are not enough centrally located bins. The student government has been a strong supporter of the effort to encourage recycling. In 2005, the Associated Students of the University of Utah raised nearly $100,000 to fund the waste audit, Rob Graham, the current director of recycling in ASUU, said during an ASUU Senate hearing in August that the U administration was preventing the expansion of the recycling program. "The man in chargc.he just sometimes doesn't keep it going," he said. Graham later said he made those remarks before learning about the administration's current efforts and is now working with Collard on the project. "At that time, I didn't know a whole lot," he said. Will Chatwin, a senior in university studies and a student member of the recycling task force, said that, in the past, the administration and students have not worked together well on the recycling issue, but that the relationship has improved in recent years. 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