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Show 9t2007M :"f he Utah Statesman Campus News Ikea's arrival stirs excitement •ELKTIONS) in suburban Salt Lake City DRAPER, Utah (AP) - Some people are quitting their jobs to work at an Ikea store that will open May 23 in suburban Salt Lake City. Despite Utah's tight labor market, the Swedish home furnishings retailer said it's having no trouble filling 350 jobs. Annie Sonnenberg said she is giving up a good job in catering and convention services to oversee a res- taurant and food market in service, customer service, administrative areas and the store. She likes Ikea's the warehouse, spokesman products. Joseph Roth said. "In Utah, it also is Employees working at new and exciting and I least 20 hours a week are wanted to be part of that," . eligible for benefits, includSonnenberg said. ing health insurance. Claudia Gneiting, who "The opportunity to has shopped at Ikea in work part-time and get Germany, had a good job benefits is pretty enticing in finance. But she quit in any industry," said econto become the new store's omist Mark Knold at the financial controller. Utah Division of Workforce The 100 jobs still to be Services. filled are in sales, food LOGGERS' BALL From page 7 who passed away on Jan. 15. Alan Clark, Jessica's father, said that creating the scholarship was an opportunity to help someone achieve what Jessica wasn't able to reach. "If she's not here to do it herself, she's contributing to make it happen," he said. Alan Clark is a wildlife biologist, and the assistant director of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. He said that Jessica had long wanted to be wildlife biologist as well. From an early age she went with him to do various jobs, including placing radio collars on hibernating bears. He said that Jessica wanted to work for the state as a wildlife biologist and the scholarship may go to students with similar goals. Since there are already a number of scholarships for upperclassmen, this scholarship will most likely go to newer students, he said. The Loggers' Ball was not just a scholarship fundraiser, however. "The purpose is to get students and faculty to interact, number one, to know the professors out- side of the classroom," Stuart said. It was a very social event, and included a live bluegrass band. The Loggers" Ball is an old tradition that dates back to the days when the college was known as the College of Forestry. It has become less and less emphasized over recent years. The CNR Student Council is trying to rejuvenate the ball, and a make it a high-quality event that people can be proud of, said Adam Brewster, CNR Student Council President. Before the prize drawing, Brewster and Stuart gave a scrapbook of thoughts about Jessica and a framed photograph of her on a summer internship to Jessica's husband, Scott Tayon, and her parents, Alan and Linda Clark. They also recognized two professors in the College of Natural Resources, Dr. Cliff Craig and Dr. John Malechek, for their diligent work. Stuart also announced to the audience that Katie Santini would be the new CNR senator. -dpedwards@cc.usu.edu with their campaign supporters and then went to a meeting with next year's ASUSU officers. Nick West, the new HASS senator, said, "The only thing I am truly promising is 111 work hard and I'll do everything I can to keep the integrity of my office intact." West said he is trying to get student evaluations of professors posted online and to unify the College of HASS by getting all of the majors involved. After the elections were over, McChesney said he believes he can fulfill his campaign goals of better work study and more scholarships because before elections he took his plan to administrators and asked them what would work. He said they gave him input, and he then presented the revised plan to students in his campaign. He said he would like to incorporate some of Meacham's platform goals into the presidency, such as her initiative work with ASUSU to get better signs identifying buildings on campus. "I think this is a great thing because I've worked around USU before, such as at the engineering building, and there's so many engineering buildings you don't know which one to go to," he said. He said they had a common goal of making the campus more inclusive, and his experience as an international student will help him with that. McChesney said he will focus more on the minority groups around campus to give everyone a voice. McChesney said his work as HASS senator has prepared him for president because it is the largest college on campus with a wide range of majors, and it gave him a good knowledge of campus and a lot of faculty connections. He said he wasn't originally planning on running. for president last year, but when he began thinking about what he wanted to do to stay involved at USU, he had a dream one night that he was running for president. "That dream really stayed with me," he said. And with the thought of running for president in his mind, he joined the seven other candidates to try and become next year's ASUSU president. Ultimately he said he wants students to recognize how powerful ASUSU can be in reaching student goals and wants to involve more students next year. -dilewis@ccMsu.edu Speaking of Women Briefs "Campus & Community \ New Utah Lake Commission created The blue expanse of Utah Lake will provide a scenic backdrop as Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. is joined by local and state officials for the ceremonial signing of HCR 1, a House Concurrent Resolution approving the state's participation in the newly created Utah Lake Commission and an obligation to provide 35 percent of the commission's annual budget. Following the signing of HCR 1, the mayors of American Fork, Genola, Lehi, Lindon, Orem, Provo, Springville and Saratoga Springs will join Utah County Commissioners and representatives from the state departments of Natural Resources, Environmental Quality and the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, for a ceremonial signing of the interlocal agreement. The interlocal agreement establishes the new commission and defines its role and the scope of its authority and activities. The ceremony will be held on Friday, March 9,11 a.m., at the Utah Lake State Park Visitors Center. Light refreshments will be served. The creation of the Utah Lake Commission is the end product of more than two years of detailed study and review on the part of the Utah Lake Study Committee. The study committee is composed of approximately thirty members including local mayors, county commissioners and state and federal representatives and is chaired by Provo Mayor Lewis Billings. In September 2006, the study committee unanimously proposed the creation of a Utah Lake Commission. The study committee identified several key objectives for which the commission would have responsibility including encouraging and promoting multiple uses of the lake, fostering effective communications and coordination between all lake stakeholders, promoting resource utilization and protection, maintaining and developing recreation access to the lake, monitoring and promoting responsible economic development, and enhancing and maintaining Utah Lake as a valuable resource. For more information please contact Raylene Ireland at 3761537, Director of Government and Community Affairs-Provo City. Celebrate America now casting singers Singers are now being casted for ' the 2007 Celebrate America Show, "Fascinating Rhythm" - the year's Premiere Big Band Dinner-show and Dance. Looking for six men and six women singers. Applicants must appear to be college age and be able to sing solo and harmonies. Bring a CD or sheet music to the auditions. Applicants have the opportunity to earn three hours class credit plus a scholarship. Auditions will be held at 1 p.m. on March 24 at the Thomas Edison School, 200 East 2600 North, North Logan. For more information visit www.celebrateamericashow.com or call Debbie Ditton at 750-8994 or 753-1551. Photos by Rachel Schtuz SpEAKJNG OF WOMEN was held Thursday night in the Taggart Student Center and was hosted by Alpha Chi Omega Beta Xi Chapter. Several workshops were held regarding personal safety, money management, relaxation and identity theft, nutrition, fitness and wedding family. There was a silent auction, raffle and dinner. There was also a panel discussing issues facing women. Panel members (above) included Donna Smith Chereck, Suzanne Pierce Moore, Holly Pitcher Robb and Emily Woods. FUELS From page 1 greenhouses have been built yet, but they plan to begin starting in June and then have them finished within a year or two. The lab scale will possibly be built on campus in the Innovative Campus Bioscience Building. While the pilot scale's location has not been determined, it is possible it will be built just east of the American West Heritage Center on the Caine Dairy. The pilot scale will take approximately one acre of land. "It can be very modular, so we are building one that can demonstrate the viability of it, but not be too big, because the bigger-it is, it will cost more money. So, we figure about an acre size will give us enough information to do all we want to accomplish," Wood said. By using a controlled environment, there will be the ability . to recycle the carbon dioxide instead, of letting it go to waste. "What it does is it takes the CO2 that's the greenhouse gas and turns that into the fuel that we're interested in," Seefeldt said. When that fuel then gets burned, it turns back in to CO2, and then the algae can capture that CO2 again and turn it back into fuel, he said. "What you end up with is a closed cycle. Where the CO2 never actually escapes, you're consuming it as fast as you're releasing it," Seefeldt added. The researchers are using manure as a source of CO2 and are in the process of making converters, the anaerobic digester for the CO2, and a solar reactor to compress the oils from the algae. "The CO2 is captured through the anaerobic digester - that's where the manure goes in," Wood said. "Once it goes into the anaerobic digester, it compresses, produces to methane and CO2, and CO2 is used for the bioreactor." The induced bioreactor is then linked to the solar bioreactor, said Conly Hansen, a nutrition and food scientist. "That's what my portion supplies," Hansen said. "Then the solar bioreactor produces algae - and the algae is up to 50 percent oil - and that oil is oil that can be used for biodiesel." The biological and irrigational engineering department is working to link the digester and the reactor together. "The anaerobic digester is out and operating, but linking the two together, we're just getting started on that," Hansen said. The digester will be more than 20 feet high and 10 feet in diameter. From the converters, the algae will produce a liquid material, which will become a fairly clear and dilute fuel, Hansen said. But all of this is just an idea. Each department - engineering, biochemistry and biological engineering - is working toward specific areas to make the project work. "That's why the team approach is critical, because no one of us could probably work on a project this large and get it to work all the way from the beginning to the end," Seefeldt said. "My contribution on this, being the biochemist, is to work on understanding the microorganism, the algae and how they convert the carbon dioxide into the oils," Seefeldt said. After they create the lab scale and the pilot scale and have worked through the process a few times, the researchers plan on marketing to different cities and states around the nation as well as different countries around the world. "Our goal is to make the technological breakthroughs, and then obviously the technology would then be be something that other people could use as well," Seefeldt said. Wood added, ""I think it represents an opportunity to have a rhajor impact on reducing emis- sions and providing a renewable source of fuel. It helps get away from foreign oil." Other forms of biofuel being used today are helpful, but there is not enough farmland in the country to displace a fraction of the amount of fuel used today, said Seefeldt. "The technology we're looking into would be a second generation fuel that would use a lot less space and wouldn't require Iowa farmland or Nebraska farmland. It could be something that you could do in the Utah deserts," Seefeldt added. Hansen disagrees that one of the greenhouses would be placed in the middle of a desert. "I think it would be more likely that it would be in an agricultural area that would be like a desert," Hansen said. "What would be more likely is it would be in a place like central Utah where there's not much water." The project is just beginning, but the departments are working toward their goal. "We feel like we've got the human capital capacity to move forward," Wood said. "We'll have the experimental facilities in a few months, so we're just waiting for a lot of exciting research to come down the road. " -ranaebang@cc.usu.edu 40 K Cross-Country Ski Race tomorrow The Ullr Chase 40 K Freestyle Cross-Country Ski Race is tomorrow at 8 a.m. in the Franklin Basin. There is a $30-$65 registration fee. The Ullr Chase 40 K Freestyle Cross-Country Ski Race is a pointto-point course in the heart of northern Utah's spectacular Bear River Range. The course starts and ends up Logan Canyon approximately 20-25 miles from Logan proper. The starting line is in Franklin Basin and the finish is at the Beaver Creek Campground Parking Lot, just down the road from Beaver Mountain Ski Resort. The course begins at 6,600 ft and gradually climbs to 8,700 ft at Danish Pass 21 km into the race. Then gradually descends into Beaver Creek and finishes at the Beaver Creek Campground Parking lot, 7,000 ft and 40 km from the start. Go to www.usu.edu/camprec/ullr/ for more information. • Compiled from staff and media reports |