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Show Friday, March 28, 2008 DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE M U L D E R LJELWES stepchildren, who thought but immigrated to the Unito f h i m as their father and ed States with his family in T U P A P V crkD i r r A o LhUALY r U K U 1 AH called him "Daddy Bill,' as 1920. They first settled in New continued from Page 1 Helen Mulder recounted a story of one of William Mulder's students from India who applied for an internship many years ago, but did not have the money for a suit, let alone a flight. William Mulder provided the student with a suit and a plane ticket so he could do his internship. That former student will now fly to Utah to speak at a memorial service Saturday honoring William Mulder. "Dr. Mulder was my most memorable teacher in the English Department at the University of Utah. He was a great mentor," wrote Bill Fowler, another former student in an online guestbook. "His gentle and charismatic personality was a wonderful blend with his intellect." Through the years, William Mulder helped countless students revise their dissertations, Helen Mulder said. William Mulder was also a positive influence on his COSMIC RAYS EXIST IN SPACE continued from Page 1 and you measure the energy, it is about 50 joules," said Pierre Sokolsky, a professor of physics. "With these cosmic rays, a single subatomic particle will have about the same energy." Although the ultra-high energy cosmic rays don't reach Earth, lower and medium energy rays sometimes do, but are not harmful to humans. If the high-energy cosmic rays were to reach Earth, they could be a threat to humans, Sokolsky said. Researchers from the U's High Resolution Fly's Eye cosmic ray observatory, located in Utah's west desert, have teamed up with scientists from the University of Tokyo to learn more because did many of his Indian students, Helen Mulder said. As a U student, William Mulder wrote for the Tfie Daily Utah Chronicle and several other campus publications. He also wTOte a variety of books. His Harvard dissertation "Homeward to Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia" is still in print. William Mulder was a visiting professor at many universities, served on numerous councils and boards and was recipient of countless awards. William Mulder WTOte throughout his life, including work for Utah's Centennial celebrations in 1996, and even wrote his obituary during a bout with prostate cancer 10 years ago. Despite his stroke two years ago, his widow said "he was very lucid and spent time in the library, where he had kept all of his books from his (previous) office (in OSH)." William Mulder was born in the Netherlands in 1915, Jersey and, six years later, the family moved to Utah after converting to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. William Mulder graduated from the now-defunct LDS High School and served an LDS mission in his native Holland. He later left the LDS Church, but remained an LDS historian throughout his life. Alice Mulder recalls a memorable visit she and her father made to Europe in 2000 when admirers of William Mulder's work greeted him at a Mormon History Association conference in Denmark where he was honored. William Mulder is survived byfivechildren, two stepchildren and five grandchildren. The U*s Alumni House will host a memorial service in Mulder's honor Saturday at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, William Mulder's family has requested that donations be made to the U's Marriott Library. ejzuniga@chronicle.utah. physicists still don't know a to reach Earth because they lot about these ultra-high en- lose energy en route when ergy cosmic rays. they collide with radiation "We still don't know where left over from the birth of the the highest energy particles universe. come from," said Charlie Jui, The U is one of two places a professor of physics at the in the world studying these U. cosmic rays. Recent results The most common theory from an unrelated study comis that these cosmic rays orig- ing out of an observatory in inate in active galactic nuclei, Argentina show similar findwhich is a super-massive ings. black hole a billion times the The results from the U's mass of the sun. The black study were published last hole is so large that it sucks week in the journal Physical in matter spirally, like water Review Letters. going down a drain. Instead Sokolsky said that the of the particles disappear- next step is identifying the ing into the black hole, these source of these cosmic rays cosmic rays are • accelerated and whether or not they are through jets and sent toward really coming from a black Earth. hole. Physicists are also using "You would think that the a new $17 million telescope in particles would be absorbed an observatory west of Delta, into the black hole, but they Utah, to confirm the theory that cosmic rays come from are not," Sokolsky said. Greisen's prediction in 1966 black holes. was that these ultra-high enc.mayorga@ ergy cosmic rays are unlikely chronicle.utah.edu Peace activists roll onto U campus Ana Breton ASST. NEWS EDITOR A group of peace and justice activists rolled onto campus and parked their Wheels of Justice bus in the Union Free Speech Area on Thursday. The traveling organization aims to promote discussion about the situation in the Middle East and create student awareness of the war in Iraq. The group's mission is to protest without violence and educate the public about the conflicts between Palestine and Israel. Group members travel around the country in the blue, green and yellow bus with "War is not the Answer" written on the outside. The group spent a week in Utah, and their stop at the U was the last in the state before they headed to Riverton, Wyo. During their visit, members of the organization gave a presentation detailing the conflict in the Middle East along with their experiences in the region. Ed Kinane, a group member and peace activist from Syracuse, N.Y., spoke about his experience in Iraq. He has been to the country on numerous occasions before and after the United States declared war. He spent most of 2003 taking medical supplies overseas and guiding U.S. residents through Iraq to witness the violence firsthand. He said that although shuttling American tourists to Iraq was illegal, he wanted to give them a personal view of the War on Terror. Being there was the only way to "puncture myths" about the war, he said. "If I'm going to be working for peace, I should know something 'bout war," said Kinane, who is also a member of the group Voices for Creative Nonviolence. "Thafs why we stayed" Justin Kramer, a senior in Middle East studies and international relations at the U, said that if Americans had been more aware about the war's toll, peace could be achieved much sooner. The military's count of American service members killed in Iraq rose to more than 4,000 during the weekend, according to Associated Press reports. "It's not the government failing, it's that people aren't standing up to protest the war," Kramer said. "Until they do MAEGAN BURR/ThtOzity Utah Tyler Anderson looks at information posted outside of the Wheels of Justice Peace Bus outside of the Union on Tuesday. Sororities to collect change for Mali orphanages When Ellesse Sorbonne returned from a volunteer experience in Mali last summer, she brought with her a knowledge of the poor conditions facing orphanages in Mali. Greek sorority chapters heard about her experience and decided to raise money to donate Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th (14pm) to the Mali Orphanage Project Sorority members are raising money for the organization. Members will be collecting change over the next two weeks as well as cloth diapers, bottles, blankets and other items for orphanages in Africa to use. 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Lana Groves How Was Your M i l Check? ••?• 1421 Federal Way that, it's not going to happen." Back home, Kinane and group members try to educate the public about what the Middle East is like. Through videos and picture slideshows, they also try to define the groups commonly found in the region around the West Bank, Israel and Gaza Strip. Hannah Merrnelstein, a Wheels of Justice group member, explained that although they sometimes intertwine, the Jews, the Israeli and the Zionists are different. The Jewish identity is related to a faith or lineage. The Israeli identity is an obtained citizenship, and Zionists come from a political movement that aims to preserve the Jewish identity, Mermelstein said. "When I researched these things fully, I 'suddenly had to unlearn all the values that I learned in life," said Mermelstein, who is a Jewish American from Philadelphia. "Turned out, things were not the way I viewed them at all." She told a story about how when she was younger, she used to donate quarters through a synagogue program that pledged to plant more trees in what she was told was the war-torn, rundown city of SaffourieiL The city, which is now named Tzippaei, is a forest, which isn't a good thing, Mermelstein said "They covered up the Palestinian history," she said "They said the only building standing was an ancient Roman ruin- They are not acknowledging that anything ever happened there," Neither Kinane nor Mermelstein said they would be going back to Iraq any time soon. Instead, they plan to continue touring with the Wheels of Justice. Kinane has been touring with the bus on and off for the last eight years. "Now, it would have been more dangerous to return to Iraq," Kinane said "There is too much hostility." a.breton@chronicle.utah. . . RESIDENTIAL BROKERAGE If your property is listed with a real estaic broker, please disregard. 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