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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, November 26, 2Q07 HALLIGAN WATCHES OVER THE U CAMPUS continued from Page 1 on it during the weekends." From early childhood, Halligan learned about work ethic from his parents. Once, his family was planning to take, down a wall, but Halligan took it down by himself first. With a hammer in hand, he made steady and consistent swings until the tattered wall fell. His learning, however, did not come without bumps and bruises. "There were a lot of trips to the hospital," said Leslie Park, Halligan's younger sister who works as an adviser at the U. "There were lots of stitches." The marshal's construction experience continued through high school, where his education went beyond the know-how of using tools and fostered a sense of appreciation of older homes. He also learned how a room's function and design could be radically transformed. His family turned his childhood home's sun porch, which they'd used for storing construction materials, into a kitchen with wood floors and a refrigerator. Halligan's parents once told him and his two siblings that they were going to change the direction of the staircase. Over time, the turning stairway was made straight, going in the opposite direction. "I didn't think stairs could move," Halligan said. "I then knew nothing was impossible." After graduating from high school in 1983, Halligan looked at three possible colleges but was uncertain about where to go to school. One day during a visit to Utah, he walked around the U campus and came across two professors who greeted him. They helped him without any reservations, and the stalemate was broken. At the U, he earned a bachelor's degree in urban planning, followed by a master's degree in architecture, specifically in building and fire codes for historic structures. Originally, Halligan thought the U was going to be a place where he would get his education and that he would then retreat to the East Coast to start a family and career. Instead, he met his wife, Sue Kennedy, at the U and cultivated a burgeoning profession on campus. "It was the best plan that went wrong in my life," Halligan said. Although he travels a lot for business, his family takes priority. "He always makes a conscious effort to be there for his children," Park said. "He never travels on their birthdays or special events like a piano recital." Halligan still walks around campus and comes across faculty, students and staff and helps them without hesitation. "You can't do fire prevention at the office," Halligan said. "You have to walk through the buildings, talk to people and understand...the research that is going on." As a result of this attention, Halligan is able to design fire safety features for complex structures such as research buildings or tall buildings with large atriums connecting all floors. "You look at each individual activity," Halligan said. "Figure the risks, and you put together a mitigation strategy to minimize the risks of fire." Halligan observed many activities during the 2002 Winter Olympics, such as creating rings of fire on ice. Halligan recounted how he had to work on tens of thousands of cubic feet of propane, ammonia and other gases held in cylinders stored at the football stadium. A day before the opening ceremonies, the Secret Service informed him that they'd just changed President Bush's route through the stadium. Because the new route crossed in front of the cylinders, Halligan relocated them under a tight deadline. "It was a big project requiring a lot," Halligan said. "But it's not about me—it's about the U" j.winters@chronicle.utah.edu Students advance in Smart Radio competition Paige Fieldsted frequency. Smart Radios would be able to sense their environment and STAFF WRITER find a frequency based on the needs A group of electrical engineering of the operator. For example, whenstudents at the U were recently cho- ever a cell phone network is too busy, sen as finalists in the Smart Radio a call is usually dropped. The techChallenge, an international competi- nology in Smart Radios would make tion in which teams of students de- it possible for cell phones to find and velop and test high-tech radios. The use open frequencies. teams began working on their Smart The U team—Peiman Amini, Salam Radio designs in January. Akoum, Xuehong Mao, Ehsan AzarnaTraditionally, radios and other com- sab and Harsha Rao—was chosen as munication devices operate on a fixed one of seven finalist teams for its pro- ASUU DIRECTOR LEAVES POST continued from Page 1 "We suggested that it would be more fair if everyone resigned at the same time so that new directors could be trained and hired," Jensen said. The issue of leaders resigning mid-year concerned senators earlier this year when directors gave their letters of intent and were confirmed by the Senate, Jensen said. He said not all directors committed to staying in the position for the full year when asked about their plans. The Senate approved all directors, posal. During the competition, the U team's radio was able to sense a band of frequencies from 460.5 to 468.5 MHz. "We are so pleased with our performance, because we were facing some very advanced teams," said Azarnasab, a first-year doctoral student. The team will move on in the competition next year with a different challenge. The group will work on developing a system that can determine the amount and type of radio frequen- but not unanimously. Jensen said Pearson and Motiwala seemed to agree with the committee's recommendation. They are in the process of hiring new directors. Bowers said he thinks it is probable that office gossip caused leaders to ask him to resign early. He said he EACH DAY is EACH DAY is EACH DAY is cies being used in a given area. "We are going to look into the usage of the spectrum at different times of day or days of the week at various locations on campus," said Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, an electrical engineering professor who served as the team's adviser. The team's findings and developments will be presented and judged at the Smart Radio Challenge '08 in Washington, D.C., next November. p.fieldsted@chronicle.utah.edu wished Pearson and Motiwala would have contacted him earlier to sort things out. 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"They do develop, but it's usually not good for individuals, their parties or candidates," Pearson said. "They should put their heart into it but not get caught up in the tensions that sometimes evolve during elections." r.mcconkie@ chronicle.utah.edu |
