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Show cience Unwrapped Cutting Canyon Country: The Origins of Utah's Red Rock Landscapes Join us Friday Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. ESLC Auditorium Dr. Joel Pederson www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped Join our Facebook group CampusNews Page 4 Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 USU Rocket Team guests at shuttle launch BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS Seventeen current and former USU mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) students and one USU computer science student attended the Space Shuttle STS-130 launch at Kennedy Space Center in Florida Feb. 8. The shuttle launch trip was a reward for the USU Rocket Team's winning the NASA-sponsored University Student Launch Initiative. The USU team took top honors for the second year in a row. The team braved unseasonably cold weather with high winds blowing off the ocean, and members were forced to stay up all night for two consecutive nights. The initial launch attempt early Sunday morning was scrubbed due to weather with nine minutes left in the countdown. The team was rewarded for its perseverance, however, as Endeavor roared skyward in a blaze of seemingly cosmic fire at 4:14 a.m. Eastern Time. This was the last night launch of the space shuttle system. For the STS-130 mission, the space shuttle Endeavor lifted six astronauts, the Tranquility living module and the cupola to the International Space Station (ISS). The long-anticipated cupola is the ISS equivalent of "Captain Piccard's" window and features a robotic control station with six windows around its sides and another in the center that provide a 360-degree view around the station. Once the cupola is installed, the panoramic Earth view from this portal will be spectacular. The team was accompanied by Dr. Stephen A. Whitmore, Rocket Team faculty mentor and MAE assistant professor. USU students attending the launch were Jessica Anderson, Phillip Anderson, Heather Williams, Shaun Copeland, Kyle Jeppson, Michael Phillips, Shane Robinson, Zachary Peterson, Luke Hanks, Alex Wouden, David Winget, Shannon Eilers, Amy Jo Bowdidge, Matthew Wilson, Bowen Masco, Nicholus McKee, Tyler DeSpain and Stanford Rosen. USU museum explores dance marathons BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS is seeking skilled and dedicated personnel for the following positions: "Dance Marathons" is the theme for the week's Saturday at the Museum event sponsored by USU's Museum of Anthropology. The program is offered Saturday, Feb. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In the 1930s, when the Great Depression gripped the United States, people flocked to dance marathons, or walk-athons, for entertainment that sometimes lasted for as long as an entire month. Couples danced for days for the chance to win a monetary prize. Some people competed to have a safe roof over their heads and warm meals to eat. Twenty-four-hour dance marathons are still popular today among nonprofit organizations that use them for fundraising and increasing awareness of social issues. The museum's Saturday dance marathon event will review the history of dance marathons, including samples of music and images of past marathon participants. The USU Ballroom Dance Team will be available to teach dance steps to museum visitors. "This activity will be fun and educational for all ages," said Nicole Burnard, Saturday student event planner. "Everybody, come get your groove on." USU students and members of the public are also invited to the museum any time during its weekly open hours, which are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. series from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Funding for Saturday events is provided by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. More information about the IMLS is available online at www.imls. gov. The USU Museum of Anthropology is located in the south turret of the historic Old Main building, Room 252. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building. For more information on this event, call museum staff at (797-7545 or visit the museum Web site, http://anthromuseum.usu.edu . World's refugee orphans seeking home in US Stage Managers House Managers Sound Technicians Lighting Technicians Wardrobe/Costuming Interviews held by appointment only March 1 and 2, 2010 For more information: Iagoonpark.com /entertainment HOLLISTON, Mass. (AP) — Hiding from merciless militiamen and trekking through unforgiving mountainous terrain, Madhel Majok escaped the mass slayings and genocide of the Sudan that killed his parents. The 9-year-old orphan fled to neighboring Kenya, where he then survived vigilante shellings on his crowded refugee camp. Majok remained in limbo for eight years while waiting for any country to grant him refuge. Now 17, Majok has found safety in a small New England enclave 30 miles west of Boston. He's a star soccer player at Holliston High School, listens to Tupac and Biggie at his leisure and lives comfortably in a foster home, thanks to a federal program that matches refugee minors with American families. "I like it. It's peaceful ... quiet," said Majok, who wears American urban-style clothes and stays in a home with four other refugee Asian and African children. Where Utah Gets Engaged' S.E. Needham Jewelers Since 1896 "Took me a long time to get here." The U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, which has 700 refugee children in foster care, has asked states to prepare to foster more international refugee children like Majok, whose parents either have disappeared or been killed by war or natural disaster. The need is heightened by continuing armed conflicts in Africa and recent events such as the earthquake in Haiti. The request means that Massachusetts and other states must ask more households to open up their homes for foster care or ask existing foster families to take in another refugee child at a time of economic downturn. "Between all the wars going on and all the (human) trafficking laws that have changed, more children are needing safe homes," said Sherrill Hilliard, the program manager for Refugee Immigration & Assistance Program in Washington. "And we're doing our best to find them." Massachusetts, a state that historically has taken in one of the largest shares of the nation's unaccompanied refugee minors, has been asked to increase its current share of 93 to 125, said Richard Chacon, director of the Office for Refugees and Immigrants in Massachusetts. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services says 14 states and the District of Columbia, participate in the federal Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. It is not the only way parentless refugee children can find safe haven in the U.S. The Obama administration, for example, recently said it will allow orphaned Haitian children to enter the U.S. temporarily on an individual basis. RN-ma/rot &sot Cows TO me 4SUSU 12RES/00/77111 DEBATE TODAY AT I #00# /# THE NUMB. 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