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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, February 22, 2010 3 Getting a peek at Olympic action Students travel to Canada for games • ■ Katie Harrington STAFF WRITER Two U students flew to Vancouver last week to take part in the Olympic festivities and immerse themselves in what most of the U student body can only experience voyeuristically. Seniors Noah Lohr, in business administration, and Jane Downes, in parks, recreation and tourism, spent six days in the city going to medal ceremonies, exploring downtown, mingling with Canadians and snowboarding on Whistler Mountain. Downes, a Salt Lake City native, said her Olympic experience in Vancouver was much more enjoyable than when they were held in Utah in 2002. "I was really young when Salt Lake hosted the games," she said. "So I wasn't a part of the nightlife. I only went to The two saw Alexandre the events and didn't get the Bilodeau, the Canadian mogul full experience. I just didn't skier, receive his gold medal, understand how big and excit- which was the first gold Canaing it was." da has ever won on home soil. Downes and Lohr said The students said it was a poigame tickets were expensive, gnant moment. so they watched the events on Downes said the overall athuge television screens down- mosphere was amazing. town. "There were fireworks go"I rode next to the downhill ing off," she said. "People course at Whistler," Lohr said. were wearing Canadian "That's the closest we got to an actual event." See OLYMPICS Page 4 UMNH attracts dino lovers of all ages Katie Pratt STAFF WRITER The opportunity for handson fun with dinosaur bones that date back millions of years attracted both children and adults to the Utah Museum of Natural History on Friday to hear about the latest discoveries in dinosaur fossil excavation. Deanna Brandau, a U paleontologist and graduate student, lectured about recent discoveries and answered questions from the audience during the event "Scientist in the Spotlight." The museum program runs twice a month and began in September as a way to allow the community to interact with local scientists on a wide range of topics. U paleontologists' latest discovery is a centrosaurus from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah, dating back to the Cretaceous Period, Brandau said. Centrosaurs were enormous, single-horned herbivores that roamed North America from about 144 million years ago until about 65 million years ago. During the discussion, Brandau explained the process of excavating and transporting dinosaur fossils, such as the centrosaurs, to the surrounding children. "First, it takes ioo,000 years for a bone to fossilize," she said. In addition, paleontologists have to dig with care because of restrictions on protected public land, Brandau said. "We dig all by hand, like in archaeology," Brandau said. "We walk to all of our locations with backpacks and carry the small fossils. If it's a big fossil, we carry it on a stretcher, and the even bigger ones are carried out by helicopter." She explained the manner in which fossils are preserved, called "plastering," which is the process of putting a cast-like jacket that hardens over the specimens. Elementary-age kids asked Brandau numerous questions, ranging from her favorite dinosaur to where she has found the most dinosaurs. "We come to the museum often," said Claire Hogue, mother See DINOSAUR Page 4 FREE YOGA, Intro Beginner Classes qi,....i 1 """) Fridays 5:30 & Saturdays 9:30 v c G ix Students Passes, $6 Per regular class IC OGA 823 E & 400 S KulaStudio.com 801.521.5852 T,CLE QFEItIV Summer Sales opportunity is with Pinnacle Security. money else. 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