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Show .THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, March 23, 2009 Professor says Yellowstone supervolcano still active hundreds of years, but in the past four years the caldera, STAFF WRITER the crater-like impression Violent, scalding geysers from a volcanic explosion, has and awe-inspiring wildlife risen three times faster than draw thousands of visitors the historic rate. "This is happening today. to Yellowstone National Park every year, but many tourists It's still going on," Smith said. don't know that the oldest "Now, we aren't predicting national park, established in any imminent threat of erup1872, is located on top of the tions, but it's an active, dylargest active supervolcano in namic system." the world. The most recent super Robert Smith, research volcanic eruption in Yellowprofessor of geology and geo- stone occurred about 640,000 physics, said in a lecture on years ago when a column of March 18 at the Skaggs Biol- hot magma and molten rock ogy Building auditorium that worked its way upward, formthe Yellowstone caldera has ing a magma chamber six to been rising and falling for 20 miles below Yellowstone. Kassidy Mather Smith said visitors to the park will always drive uphill because the hotspot underneath Yellowstone is about 1,000 feet higher than any surrounding region. He said the hotspot is responsible for three super volcanic eruptions during the past 2 million years. Frequent earthquakes, which used to occur about 2,000 to 3,000 times each year, kept the ground broken enough for pressure to be released. "Geysers need earthquakes in Yellowstone," said Smith, who has been at the U for 41 years and knows within seconds when an earthquake has The pressure of the chamber raised the. land above it and after the explosion, the land collapsed into the empty chamber, creating a caldera, Smith said. Smith has been studying Yellowstone for years and serves as coordinating scientist for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, supervising the operation of networks that monitor earthquakes and ground movements in the park and surrounding areas. He said they work with several other schools, including Harvard University and the University of Oregon, in studying the park. Neo-Nazis claim responsibility for racist fliers eral homes on the 1900 block of Blaine Avenue. Neighbors ASST. NEWS EDITOR were appalled by the fliers' messages, which read "keep The National Socialist your bloodlines pure" and Movement, a neo-Nazi orga"America is being controlled nization, officially claimed by the Jews." responsibility for the racist propaganda distributed in a The FBI and the U Police Sugar House neighborhood Department are investigatlast week. ing the case as a potential Local NSM members, hate crime, but the group referred to as stormtroop- claims that malice was not ers, bundled fliers that con- the intention. In order to demned Jews and interracial build a case for hate crime, couples with copies of The the propaganda had to be Daily Utah Chronicle with intended for specific people, a rubber band and tossed said U Police Chief Scott them onto the lawns of sev- Folsom. If the investigation Michael McFall finds that the fliers weren't intended to threaten or harm the block's interracial or Jewish residents, courts would classify it as nothing more than an exercise of free speech, he said. The national movement's spokesman Charles Wilson said, "We don't preach hate, we preach separatism." Races should stay within their own races, and anyone who interprets the fliers as hateful has a "guilty conscience" about their lifestyle, he said. Wilson also said the Utah stormtroopers were not tar- geting the 1900 block, which is home to at least two interracial couples. The NSM randomly selects neighborhoods to distribute literature and never targets individuals, he said. The neo-Nazi organization also had no intention of singling out The Chronicle. "We chose it because it was free," Wilson said. A Utah stormtrooper could not be reached for comment. 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"Records like this on papyri were limited to Egypt where the dry climate preserved them, which makes the papyri especially significant." Matt Malczycki, professor of Middle East studies at Auburn University in Alabama, used the collection while completing his doctorate degree in history from the U in 2006. He said the collection is one of the best-kept secrets in the field of Islamic studies. "As is the case with all religions, Islam didn't appear overnight—it is a process," Malczycki said. "And these papyri provide some of the best evidence we can use to reconstruct how that process took place. That has implications * for religion, the academy and global politics." Luise Poulton, curator of rare books at the library, praised professor Aziz Suriyal Atiya for his work in building both the Middle East Center and Middle East Library at the Ufrom1959 to 1988, which helped establish the collection. 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Thefragilepapyri are housed in a vault at the library where the light and temperature are constantly controlled. Each piece is placed between glass, inside foam pockets. The pockets are kept in hangingfilefolders in locked cabinets. Poulton said scholars and students who wish to see or study the papyri are allowed to do so only in the reading room of Special Collections. Special Collections is currently digitizing the collection so it can be viewed online by scholars throughout the world. Poulton said less than 10 percent of the collection has been digitalized so far and can be accessed on the U's Special Collections Web site, www. lib.utah.edu. She believes the entire collection will be completed in the next few years. "There's nothing like seeing the beauty of the real thing, and most serious scholars will find it necessary to come here to study them," Poulton said. "However, there was a time when, unless you could come here, you couldn't see them, and now. you can." sitions are available beginning today. The applications'can be *" continued from Page 1 picked up in the ASUU office, "This is a unique situa- Union Room 234, and are also tion because of the makeup available online at www.ustuof the new leadership," said dents.com. Applications are Erica Sellers, a newly elected due Friday at 5 pjn. senator from the College of "We are looking to get the Business who ran with the ball rolling," Rizzo said. "We GO Party. "In past years, one should have our chief of staff party has usually dominated. in place within two weeks, and That is not the case this year. our executive cabinet within a I don't think there will be any week or two after that." problem with the two groups Clough said the party has working together, but it will also begun working with comtake effort on both sides." munity organizations to take Sellers said the next step is the first steps toward estabfor both parties to sit down, lishing its proposed mentorfigure out what campaign ideas ing program. It has also started are feasible and go forward creating a service corps that will eventually take the place with what needs to be done. In addition to attempting to of the ASUU service board. unite the two parties, Clough Sellers said although the and Rachel Rizzo, vice pres- groups might have different ident-elect, have begun the platform ideas, they should process of selecting who will still be able to get things done. serve on their executive cabi"In the end, we all want net next year. An e-mail was what is best for the universisent to the general student ty," Sellers said. "There is no body last week encouraging reason we shouldn't be able to all students to apply. work together." Applications for cabinet po- j.thompson@chronicle.utah.edu Stay in the loop by registering for the email editions at BOUNTIFUL CHRISTOPHER —NISSAN LLEGE GRADUATE OGRAM PAPYRI fcmather@chroTncle.utah.edu ASUU RacneJJ^aras^n ai **> -, , - • • : • ; • " - "\ •;• •. ^ s i d e a t I h e a h c l i , <? l o c a l the case, stuff is always changing," Shurtleff said. Becky Gage, an earth science and teaching major, attended the lecture to learn more about Yellowstone, and said she has also always been fascinated by the park. "I've been there three times, personally," she saidSmith said he often works with graduate students, many of whom have written theses on the earthquakes and volcanoes in the national park. "We do everything that a normal scientist would do in a building, (but) we do it in the outdoors," Smith said. continued from Page I The Daily Utah Chronicle is hiring senior staff for the 2009-2010 year Managing Editor Production Manager Assistant Production Manager Online Editor News Editor'"'" Assistant.New5,Editor_u-J^.J.t.:.. occurred in the park. There are 31 seismographs spread throughout the park that record and transmit data by radio waves, satellite waves, microwaves and wireless signals to the U in real time. Smith ended his lecture by saying, "Visit Yellowstone, before it visits you." 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