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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 4 Monday, February 22, 2010 Blackout leaves U's team takes second in business competition dorms in the dark Michael McFall spent the past few months getting to know the company, what its business future entails and whether their stock is worth selling. Daniel Smart, a junior in business, and his teammates— other juniors and seniors—put more than ioo hours of work into the competition on top of school and jobs. "Even on Christmas break, we were on the phone making a call to China (to team member Huan Yuan) when it was like 2 in morning for them," Smart said. When the deadline came earlier this semester, each team submitted a written report to be graded, and the top three of those also presented verbal arguments to determine who the winners would be. Judges considered the U's written report as better than BYU's, referring to it as interesting and well broken down, NEWS EDITOR The electricity went out Sunday morning throughout the Residence Halls. U administrators identified the source of the power outage as a shortage in Red Butte Garden. After about two hours in the dark, power was restored to the Residence Halls at about io:3o a.m. Some students were unable to make themselves breakfast during the power outage, since the refrigerators, ovens and microwaves were out of commission. "I couldn't eat," said Patrick Conway, a sophomore in exercise and sport science who lives in Benchmark Plaza. In response to the power outage, the Heritage Center provided students with brunch, which was continental since the center's kitchen was out of power as well. Michael McFall ENGINEERING continued from Page 1 and computer engineering and the U's associate vice president for research. "It's really promising to get large groups of younger girls before they decide they don't want to do it." The Girl Scouts were split up into two groups—cadets and juniors—that were rotated through different stations with activities representing different types of engineering, such as computer science, where they designed a house, and chemical engineering, where they made ice cream with liquid nitrogen. The girls who attended got to think of engineering in ways they wouldn't have otherwise, said Melanie Combe, Girl Scout coordinator for SWE and a sophomore in mechanical engineering, noting that people have many misconceptions about the different uses for engineering. "They have a lot of fun," Combe said. "It's all handson stuff." Ten-year-old attendee Cindy agreed. "It's riveting." m.allam@ chronicle.utah.edu ENROLLMENT continued from Page 1 no more room for them, he said. "There's a natural capping," Brinkman said. As classes and sections are cut, students have noticed their classroom sizes are filling up—for instance, some LEAP courses are almost double the size they used to be—and the available seats at the U will eventually find the ceiling, he said. "Either retention's better or they're coming out of the workforce," Brinkman said. As the economy plunged, some older students began flocking back to universities to bide time until professional jobs become more available, and so they can be more competitive for those jobs. The U will likely be increasing tuition by 8 percent to 9 percent for next year to keep more course sections and school resources available, but it's never enough. The average student's in-state tuition only covers 38 percent of the cost to the school to educate him or her, according to the Utah System of Higher Education. But administrators believe a lot of the U's options are better than an official cap on enrollment. "In the short term, we can live with this for a little bit instead of denying someone the chance to come to school," Brinkman said. m.mcfall@chronicle.utah.edu Simon 6 A team of U students took second in a business competition—but they and the judges agreed that losing the crown to BYU by a small margin was particularly admirable for the only team composed exclusively of undergraduates. "I pulled them aside to tell them so," said Kent Misener, one of the judges and the chief investment officer for the private insurance company Deseret Mutual Business Administrators. The competition pitted teams of three to five business students from six Utah schools against each other to see who could make better and more convincing business analysts. They were assigned as temporary consultants for Merit Medical Systems, which creates medical supplies, and MIKE MANGUM/The Daily Utah Chronicle Crystal Williams, Clay Andrus, Kimyen Nguyen, Huan Yuan and Daniel Smart stand and are recognized as competitors representing the U in a local investment research challenge. The U's team was awarded first runner-up—behind BYU—for its entry. but BYU did better than the U team on the verbal presentation. The BYU team will advance to the competition's national level in New York City in March. If it succeeds there, it will advance to the global-level competition in Hong Kong in April. m.mcfall@ chronicle.utah.edu CANCER SHOWCASE continued from Page 1 continued from Page 1 that usually doesn't affect them directly," said the presidential candidate for the ICE Party, Clint Hugie, whose parents were both diagnosed with cancer last year. Some teams were just a group of friends, such as team Atomic Woogieboo. Anna Kacinski, a freshman in marketing, said she formed her team on a whim by calling a bunch of friends. The team is passionate about the cause and it gave them an excuse to dance all night, Kacinski said. Students could also participate in the event without being part of a team. John Robinson, a junior in finance, came with his wife, and they raised $930 for the event. Robinson, who had two grandparents die from cancer, said he always wanted to do some type of charity for cancer awareness. There were also performers, such as Brazilian dancers and break-dancers, along with salsa and other dance lessons. Additional activities at the event included volleyball, blow-up bounce houses and obstacle courses, a photo booth, an oxygen bar and bowling. Rock the U also featured guest speakers, including cancer patients and Moises Terrazas, a cancer researcher from the Huntsman Foundation whose work will benefit from the fundraiser. a.rivera@ chronicle.utah.edu of Natural History is the state museum, and so it allows us the opportunity to get objects around the state and to certain areas that do not have a museum," said Patti Carpenter, UMNH spokeswoman. The destinations are chosen by which counties will benefit the most from the visit. When they arrive, the artifacts will be displayed within a local Zions Bank. "We came up with this many years ago," George said. "We wanted to take many high-value objects out, and where can you find good security but in a bank?" The County Collage in Salt Lake City will be at the Zions Bank located at ioo S. Main for a month and will then travel across the state, starting in Tremonton and ending in Santaquin. r.isbell@chronicle.utah.edu NATHAN SWEET/The Daily Utah Chronicle U President Michael Young unveils one of six cases of artifacts entering the UMNH. The artifacts include woven baskets and mammoth teeth. DINOSAURS continued from Page 3 of a 4-year-old daughter. "She is so enthralled—she loves dinosaurs." Adults also took interest in Brandau's exhibit, with some questioning how they too can become part-time paleontologists. "We train volunteers to work in the prep lab—a dinosaur fossil prepping lap in the museum—as well as in the field," she said. "We go out in the field from May to October, or until it begins to snow." Ken Vanmoorhem, a volunteer in the dinosaur lab, explained how he became interested in paleontology. f Follow us on Twitter! 4,4, - twit-tor. co-vniTheChro-ny 221 S.1300 E. Salt Lake City eat fresh. 582-5001 .1 ,, g7) $5.00 Footlongs "I like to look at it from an evolution standpoint," Vanmoorhem said. Brandau explained the physical repercussions of working in harsh terrain for months on end. "I lost feeling in my finger from a damaged nerve while excavating, and I have many scars," she said. She also emphasized the arduous task of working for hours in the desert heat, as well as irksome gnats that bite the paleontologists. This wasn't the life Brandau had originally planned for herself. Brandau, who has her bachelor's degree in psychology from the U, changed career directions in 2004 when she began tak- ing classes for paleontology—a subset of geology—at the U. "I always loved playing in the dirt and with animals," she said. "Paleontology is a hard path— there is a lot of science and math." Despite the hardships, she pressed forward and is working on a thesis about the differentiations of the bones she displayed for "Scientist in the Spotlight." Brandau explained the immense time frame that dinosaurs lived in order to emphasize the importance of paleontology. "If my arm length represented the span of all time, humans would only be the tip of my pinky finger," she said. "Dinosaurs lived for millions of years more than humans have." k.pratt@chronicle.utah.edu OLYMPICS really rewarding experience," Lohr said. The games will run for another week on NBC. So far, the United States has won the most gold medals and the most medals overall. The closing ceremony will take place Sunday at BC Place. k.harrington@ chronicle.utah.edu continued from Page 3 jerseys everywhere. It was one big party." Lohr said everyone they met was ecstatic to be a part of the games. "Just hanging out in big groups of people who are all about the same cause was a DEPARTMENT OF MODERN DANCE Ull, 0011F5F OF HNF ARTS Every Day Value Menu 1 THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH A UkiVeettY OF UTAH WARM-NT OF KM PAA „. 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