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Show Monday, October 7, 2013 Ti E DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice Since 1890 www.dailyutahchronicle.com Vol. 123 No. 30 ©2013 111■1■ ALSO INSIDE: 11 Jackson Hannon condemns the government for its inability to work together and negotiate crises » 5 Thanks to an early goal, Utah's soccer team remains unbeaten in conference play with a 1-0 win over the Beavers » 6 Montana campus offers new vision Courtney Tanner STAFF WRITER John and Melody Taft and Bill and Sandi Nicholson gifted the Environmental Humanities Education Center, a satellite campus located on i6 acres in the wild lands of Lakeview, Mont. on Oct. i. The center fosters a multidisciplinary approach to environmental studies through a humanities lens and it is the first field station in the nation to use this integrated method. It will be renamed the Taft Nicholson Environmental Humanities Education Center. Heidi Camp, assistant dean of the College of Humanities, said this approach enables students to see environmental issues with a new perspective and take local action. "What I see is a great advantage for students. It's an unusual experience for them, something you can't get in a classroom," Camp said. "This campus is a place where you can take what you're learning in theory and find practical application for it in a realworld situation." The U has been testing the center as a pilot project for the past three years. The trial phase consists of developing class programs for students and workshops for community members. The classes offered at the Montana campus are available to a variety of students. There are credit courses for graduate and undergraduate students ranging from parks and recreation majors to film majors. Most classes are a week long, but they range from three days to three weeks. Dan Mccool, director of the environmental and sustainabilty studies program and a political science professor, will be teaching his first class at the center today. It is an environmental and sustainability studies class offered to undergraduate seniors to complete a See MONTANA page 3 PHOTO COURTESY OF HATTIE MACLEOD The amphitheater and cabins at the Taft Nicholson Environmental Humanities Education Center in Montana. The shirt off my back ■ ammillill1•111111 PHOTO COURTESY OF BYU Above, BYU physicist Neal Bangerter. Research: Sodium MRI more accurate Nathan Turner STAFF WRITER BRENT LIBERTY/The Daily Utah Chronicle The unofficial Undie Run took over the sidewalks of downtown Salt Lake City Sunday evening. Participants, including lots of students, donated clothes off their back to local homeless shelters, ran and walked on sidewalks and showed off their athletic abilities. Oktoberfest brings music, culture, food BRENT UBERTY/The Daily Utah Chronicle Students gather in the Union Ballroom Friday afternoon for UPC's Oktoberfest. Davis Bunting STAFF WRITER On Thursday, the Oom Papas could be heard all through the second floor of the Union. The music came from the Union Programming Council's Oktoberfest. The event was held in the Union Ballroom, where students chowed down on free bratwursts, brownies and root beer, See OKTOBERFEST page 4 Alpha Phi gets new home The U's newest sorority joins Greek Row Keith McDonald STAFF WRITER The Alpha Phi sorority opened its new house to the public Saturday. The new house features a large car port as well as new furniture, carpet and paint. The converted residential space was purchased and renovated with the help of alumna of the U — as well as other colleges — and the house's 15 women. The sorority is technically a fraternity, because it was started in 1872 before the word sorority was established. The U chapter has 113 total members, most of which are looking forward to the potential of the new space. Other greek houses such as Sigma Phi Epsilon and Pi Beta Phi showed up to enjoy refreshments, mingle and view the new residence. "It's normal for a sorority to have a house ... it's a place to meet and hang out," said Victoria Pozzuoli, a junior in health promotion and education. "Everyone loves the house — BRENT UBERTY/The Daily Utah Chronicle Alpha Phi opened up their doors to show off their new chapter house this Saturday on Greek Row. it's open and welcoming with good lighting." Along with housing current members, the house will be a base of operations for initiat- ing new members. Chapter president Stephanie Scott, a senior in English, See ALPHA PHI page 4 Researchers at the U and BYU made improvements to an MRI technique using sodium instead of water that may lead to fewer false positive breast cancer screenings. Although sodium MRIs are not new, they are time consuming. Researchers that worked on this project have been able to make the process accessible by creating a device that will produce images in just zo minutes. The sodium MRI measures the levels of sodium in the tumor, with more sodium meaning it is cancerous and will need some sort or treatment and possibly might need to be removed. "It takes so long that no one uses it," said Rock Hadley, a professor of radiology and one of the researchers on the project. Sodium MRIs are able to detect and distinguish tumors better than typical MRIs that use water to locate them. Hadley said the ideal process would be to use a water MRI and then to use a sodium MRI in order to determine whether the tumor is benign or malignant. The two MRI techniques cannot be used at the same time because the image result is foggy. If a tumor is located from the initial water MRI, then the sodium MRI would determine whether or not the tumor is cancerous. The ability to distinguish between benign and malignant tumors could make the clinical accessibility to sodium MRIs even more important because the device will also help to decrease the amount of false positive diagnoses. Many women every year are diagnosed with a false positive, sometimes leading to an unnecessary biopsy, on a tumor that is benign. This device will help reduce the amount of false positives every year by distinguishing between benign and maSee CANCER page 3 |