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Show New Science Building a go there were only 8,000 students attending LJVU. With the numbers of new students News writer continuing to climb the space provided by The new science building was the university needs to expand as well. approved March 11 through Senate Bill "This building has been my top priority 282 by Utah's House and Senate and since I took office in a June of last year," awaits the signature of Gov. Gary Herbert. said President Holland in press release. "I The new science facility will cost cannot imagine a gift having more impact a total of $45 million and will provide anywhere in Utah higher education today." 160,000 square feet, including 27 labs, 12 In an interview last month, President state-of-the-art classrooms and a400-seat Holland noted that $1 million had been auditorium. raised for the new building, and the Since spring 2009 UVU has expanded minimum target was between $2 and $3 its student body by just over 3,000; million. Holland also noted his optimism creating a current total of 26,322 students. about the remainder of the funds arriving The Pope Science Building was built when ERICA LeMASTER within the next month. The goal, although seemingly impossible, was met through fundraising by the UVUSA College of Science and Health academic committee, and donations and fundraising by groups including the Student Alumni board, the Marc and Debbie Bingham Family and many other private donors as well as state funding, which will now be provided with their approval of the action to build. •;. .7--' The UVUSA College of Science and Health academic committee also put in a lot of work to help show the legislators now much they felt the university needed this building. The committee delivered a petition signed by over 3,000 concerned student: to key legislators on March 4, before the decision was made. 1 V/t; [the students] were concerned ... the legislators liked that," said Kristopher Lange, the UVUSA Senator of the College of Science and Health and leader of the : i committee, "We [the committee] just want : .^i to let students know it was because of - '.ilfh them." v- •; . • .;:r,^j£^ Lange relayed that their passion for "/5;,<1 the cause was both selfless and hopeful. ->f 3 "None of us will ever get to use this •;-; •'• building. I'll never get to use it; It's fortjie •>' v future." -\ Courtesy of COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH The new science building, approved by the House and Senate on March 11, awaits the signature of Gov. Gary Herbert. Alumni success KYLE HUNT the difference must come from somewhere. The proposed 6-10 percent increase would On March 25 a 4.5 have generated an estimated percent first tier tuition increase was approved for the $3,400,000-$5,667,000 for the school with the 2010-2011 school year by the board of trustees. Much cost to full time students in the plateau range (12-18 lower than the projected credits) being $104- 173 per 6-10 percent, this increase semester. The approved 4.5: will bring in an additional percent increase will only $2.2 million for the univeradd an estimated $78 per -:. sity. semester to tuition for stu-".; As one of the fastest dents in the plateau range." growing schools in the However, the board of ' state with a current total of regents is still considering a 26,322 students 1.5 percent tuition increase the school faces a difon top of the 4.5 added by ficult balance between maintaining a level of qual- the trustees, which would bring the total tuition inity and keeping the higher education they offer afford- crease to 6 percent or $104 per semester. able to students. Look for final 2010With the 17 percent bud2011 tuition rates as get cut to state funding in the 2009 legislative session reviewed and decided by and the daunting possibility the Board of Regents April 1 and 2. of a 22 percent cut by July , L. 'News writer Steve Wasserbaech has a unique opportunity that few will ever experience. While his day job for the past several years has consisted of teaching varying levels of physics to the students of UVU, he recently took a chance to work with CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, to help study breakthrough ideas in nuclear physics research. CERN is a laboratory run by a council that is funded by several European governments. In 2008 Wasserbaech took the opportunity to apply for a year-long position which would allow him to conduct research at the laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. "There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans working on these experiments although they may not all be based here," said Wasserbaech. "Only a small number get this kind of position, I have the opportunity to work in the laboratory." Wasserbaech's involvement in the laboratory has allowed him to participate in several new experiments that could revolutionize the world of science and physics. More recently he has worked on an instrument called the Large Hadron Collider, an accelerator used to study the smallest known particles, the building blocks of all things. "The instrument is a particle accelerator designed to accelerate protons to the highest energy that has ever been achieved by humans," said Wasserbaech. "Ultimately the scientific objective in particle physics is to understand the fundamental building blocks that all matter is made of, and we think we are beginning to understand what those are." Tuition increase approved by trustees MEGGIEW00DF1ELD News editor' Campus security data available, but incomplete Courtesy of STEVEN WASSERBAECH Steve Wasserbaech in the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratory where he will continue to work until the end of the 2010 spring semester studying breakthroughs nuclear physics research. Extensive research has been done using the instrument and physicists hope that new results can reveal more about the universe we live in. So far world-record levels in particle collisions have been achieved as a result of long tedious hours. Wasserbaech noted that these records will open up territory that has never been often that we open up a new explored. , Wasserbaech is currently particle physics facility like this and it's always exciting involved in a project called to be part of it." CMS, or Compact Muon Solenoid. For this project. Wasserbaech began his physicists will use a general- work at CERN in August purpose detector to research 2009 and will remain on saba wide variety of physics. batical leave through the end " Scientifically it's amaz- of the 2010 spring semester. ing to be a part of a historic type of experiment," said Wasserbaech. "It isn't very •v LINDSEY LINGE ! News writer""" J " "" On'March 17, the UVU Police Department released anoverdue 2009 Campus Security Report. The document, mandated by a federal law known as the Clery Act, contains campus crime statistics from 2006 to 2008. It also serves as a safety manual for the campus community, containing practical and preventative information. The report indicates that in the 2006-2008 calendar years, there was one forcible sex offense, seven non-forcible sex offenses, nine aggravated assaults, 30 burglaries and one motor vehicle theft on and directly around university campuses. In addition, there were 55 drug and liquor law violation arrests and three illegal weapons cases. There were no hate crimes. One murder was also reported on universityowned residential property. The 2006 incident did not involve UVU students, according to Police Chief John Brewer. The Clery Act informs the public about major crimes, helping students choose safe campuses and protect themselves from becoming crime victims. The initiative was named after Jeanne Clery, a Lehigh University freshman who was tortured, raped and murdered in her dorm room. After Clery's murder, "her family and police See CRIME • W4 |