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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 4 EYRING A Frosty Sunday Snowmen stand near campus housing after 6 inches of snow fell along the Wasatch Front on Saturday night. continued from Page 2 With the event close to Thanksgiving, ASUU has come up with the slogan "Carve up the Cougars." "I love (the slogan)," Pack said. "It just works with Thanksgiving week, and the timing is so perfect that it just pulls it all together." With this year being the UNION ROOM 321 I last time the two schools will meet in a conference rivalry, the drive has a special feeling to it. "It's been two months since (the last drive), so we can redonate blood...the timing really worked out in our favor," Pack said. "It's just another way to build our legacy before we retire from the Mountain West." c.mccormick@ chronicle.utah.edu M-F I to make (him) very successful continued from Page 1 RICHARD PAYSON/The Daily Utah Chronicle DRIVE Monday, November 22, 2010 "This insistence on putting schoolwork ahead of public holidays seems a little extreme in hindsight, but he brought an infectious enthusiasm for science to these classes that had a very broad impact on the climate for scientific research on the U campus," Edward Eyring said in University of Utah: The Chemistry Department 1946-2000. Henry Eyring's character was shaped through difficult experiences. His family moved from Utah to Mexico, where Henry Eyring was born. The family was successful there, but had to give up everything during the revolution in 1912 when they crossed the border into the United States. After a few years, they were able to scrape by as farmers in dry southern Arizona. "He was a competitive guy— his competitive drive made him," Edward Eyring said. "That tough experience of being kicked out of Mexico and having to scratch out a living on a wretched farm down in Arizona, it was just the kind of a challenge to (his) personality UTE REP T Presented by The Daily Utah Chronicle every Friday. WEEKEND GUIDE nd Regulations online at DAILY UTAH CHROV 8AM - 4PM at whatever (he did)," he said. Henry began secondary education at the University of Arizona but transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he had an emphasis in chemistry. He moved to Wisconsin for his post-doctorate and then to Germany to do research on a U.S. fellowship. It was then that the government realized that he was not actually an American citizen, but did not take away his fellowship. In Germany he made discoveries in chemical reaction rates that are still cited today. After returning to the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen and teaching at Princeton, he brought his family to Utah. "He was a very clear lecturer," said Glenn Seaborg, UC Berkeley faculty member, former American Chemical Society president and Nobel Prize winner. "He made things sound understandable, perhaps deceptively so. You had the impression after he explained something that you understood it. (He was) very alert, articulate." mjensen@ chronicle.utah.edu tist, weeiA pizile, 2 FREE TICKETS to Saturday's Football Game vs. BYU Option One: Read the paper everyday and look for the 'word of the day' in the paper. Or, Option Two: Signup for the newsletter online to see the 'word of the day' posted on our website. THEN come to the Chronicle office (Union Room 321) with all words of the day byThursday afternoon to be entered into the drawing. |