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Wednesday,Jan. 19, 1)99
USU to receive $30.4 million BROOK Cox Staff Writer
Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL)has recently been selected to build a satellite instrument that will improve the way people are able to see the weather patterns around the earth. The project will be managed by NASA's Langley Research Center and USU expects to receive $30.4 million for its role in the project, according to Gail Bingham, an SOL researcher and USU biometeorologist. The mission, called Earth Observing 3, will use an instrument called GIFTS (Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer) to study the weather in Earth's atmosphere. "This space flight demonstration will involve genuinely revolutionary measurement approaches that will have a major impact on Earth system science," said Ghassem Asrar, NASA Associate Administrator for Earth science. "The eventual incorporation of this technology on geostationary weather satellites would provide up-to-the minute information never before available on active severe weather sys-
USU students at the Space terns such as hurricanes and tornadoes." Dynamics Laboratory helped ·we have won the chance to with the proposals for the proleap frog the technology of cur- ject and many will also be able rent weather sensors by 20 to help with the building of the years," Bingham said. instrument, but the project will be led by a professional engiCurrently weather is viewed from space with satellites that neering team, Bingham said. have only one senThe Dynamics sor, but with GIFTS hopes to begin 'We h.avewon the Lab in about two more than 32,600 sensors will be able ch.anceto leapfrog months after a to view the weather, formal contract is the technologyof solidified, Bingham said. GIFTS will be able to currentweather Bingham said. After that, observe a new area sensorsby 20 Bingham said, it of 317 miles every 10 will be at least seconds, meaning years.' that it will only take three years before they will be able GIFTS 30 minutes to view one side of the to launch the • Wll BINGHAM • earth, Bingham said. instrument. SDLJUSf.ARCHfR Along with According to a improving observaNASA press tional capabilities, release, the entire GIFTS is intended to be able to Earth Observing 3 mission will provide additional and more cost approximately $105 million detailed information. and is part of NASA's New "One big advantage," Millennium Program. Bingham said, "is that you can Other members of the prosee constituents in the atmosject's team include the phere. like water vapor, much Massachusetts Institute of. Technology, the University bf better. We see water vapor Wisconsin Space Science and when there is enough of it to Engineering Center, Lincoln get lumpy and form clouds. In Labs and the National Oceanic the right bands, though, you and Atmospheric can see water vapor before it Administration. condenses."
Committee advances bill that would outlaw stalking .Food, drinks and prizes wereofferedto students like BradI Jansonwho visited the student loan expo Friday.TireExpo
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Students check out new financial aid applications D'ARTAGNON WELLS
Staff Writer
With the start of a new year comes the season for financial aid application and the Utah State University Financial Aid Office was revved up Friday to help students. At the fourth annual Financial Aid Frenzy in the Taggart Student Center. Friday participating vendors, the Scholarship Office and the Financial Aid Office had booths set up to assist students with any questions or concerns they had concerning their individual financial needs. Judy LeCheminant. director of Financial Aid at Utah State University, said the Frenzy is held around the second week of school to help remind students that this is the time to apply or reapply for their student aid for the next year of school. It's also to keep students informed about changes made to the 2000-01 financial aid application. According to the leaflet that
accompanies the new application, changes that have been made are: • Question 28 gives instructions to students about convictions for drug offenses. • Questions 61-64 collect parents' Social Security Numbers and last names. • Questions 66 and 87 ask for the number of people in the household who are attending college. This number no longer includes parents , according to the leaflet. In the current application there are two forms that need to be filled out: the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)and the Verification Application (VAPP).The FAFSA needs to be filled out and sent with the envelope provided. The VAPPneeds to be filled out and returned to the Financial Aid Office on campus to verify the information provided to the federal government. During the Frenzy, the Financial Aid Office had slide projector presentations with
Drunk driver sentenced to up to I 5 years in prison SALTLAKE CITY (AP) - The drunken driver who caused a multi-car crash that resulted in the death of a 4-month-old baby has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. Jesus Ramirez-Gatica, 36, was sentenced Dec. 20 to three consecutive terms of up to five years in prison for driving into a traffic jam on Interstate 15, setting off a chain reaction of collisions on Feb. 27. Ramirez-Gatica was driving 70 mph and had a blood alcohol level of
0.27, more than three times the legal limit in Utah. In sentencing Ramirez-Gatica, 3rd District Judge Roger Livingston doled out the maximum penalty allowed by law. The crash killed Matthew Affleck, who was sitting in the back seat of his parents' Honda. Ramirez-Gatica plead ed guilty in October 1999 to automobile homicide and two counts of driving under the influence, all third-degree felonies.
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useful FAFSAinformation for students. According to the projection, some common mistakes have to do with making sure the following information is filled out correctly in applications: • Ensuring the name on applications matches the name on the aµplicant's Social Security card. • Entering the date of birth rather than the current date in its proper field. • Sign all applicable areas of the application. Negligence in any of these areas may delay application processing by two to four weeks, according to information provided at the Frenzy. It is also a good idea to send applications in early. Early applicants have a greater chance for supplemental grants. work-study and Perkins loans, LeCheminant said. FAFSAapplications can be filled out on the web at www.fafsa.ed.gov to save two to four weeks processing time.
Candles in the dark MarcosFlores,as well as other st11dentsal11rnni and professors, gatherd to light candlesfor the causeof equal rights Tuesday night. A moment of silencefollowed tirelighting of the candles for the memoriesof those who fought for equalrights. See story 011 Page5.
SALTLAKECITY (AP)- A loophole in Utah law makes it impossible for a victim to get a restraining order against a stalker if the two did not live together first. On Tuesday, a House committee gave its approval to bill by Rep. Lawanna Shurtliff, DWeber, that would close that hole. Shurtliff says the bill appears to have broad support and expects a smooth road toward approval. But the bill won't become law soon enough for Michelle Reilly. Last year Reilly was harassed by an ex-boyfriend, Michael VanGerven. VanGerven began making threatening phone calls, which soon developed into death threats . Then, on Jan. 22, 1999, VanGerven broke into her parents' Cottonwood Heights home. Michelle Reilly escaped out the back door, but VanGerven took her mother, Renee, and father, John, hostage. He shot them both in the back of the head before escaping. John Reilly was killed instantly. The other bullet ricocheted off Renee Reilly's skull. shattering her jaw but sparing her life. VanGerven shot and killed himself the next day. "There was no sign of him
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being unstable, but when he called and threatened my life I took it very seriously and it was hard for me that nobody else did," said Reilly after Tuesday's hearing Reilly had gone to police seeking help and was told all she could pursue was a claim of telephone harassment. "Because she had not cohabitated with her boyfriend, she could not get a protective order," said Shurtliff. "A life could have been saved if this law had been in place." Shurtliff said she began work on the bill two years ago. Last year it passed both chambers of the Legislature, but House lawmakers didn't make the bill a funding priority and it died because of its $102,000 price tag. This year, Shurtliff included a $75 fee to file for a protective order, dropping the cost to $51000. The House Judiciary Committee gave its unanimous approval to the bill, which will move to the full House for consideration . Meantime, Renee Reilly still is undergoing reconstructive surgery and the family is deal ing with the trauma of the event, said Michelle Reilly. "We're slowly getting it back together," she said.
Executive Council to propose $2 fee increase to Board of Regeants DOUG SMEATH
Senior News Writer
The Associated Students of Utah State University Executive Council will propose a $2 student fee increase today to the .Student Fee Board. The Board, chaired by ASUSU Student Advocate Matt Malouf, is made up of various elected ASUSU officials, students and USU Assistant Vice President of Student Services Gary Chambers. The Board decides which fees to approve and then makes its recommendation to USU President George H. Emert. He then submits his recommendation to the State Board of Regents and the State Board of Trustees, both of which usually approve the recommendation, ASUSU President Nate Anderson said. Each year. the Board gets about $20 or $30 in fee applications, Anderson said. They usually approve about $5 of that, he said. Anderson said fees usually increase in proportion to tuition increase. Because of this year's tuition increase, Anderson said fees should increase about 3 percent. "That's not set in stone, but that's just a general guideline: Anderson said. The council voted to recommend a $ 2 fee increase for upcoming semesters. The recommendation was based primarily on discrepancies between building and maintenance funding and student activity funding. Anderson said a past fee allocation was to be split in half, with 50 percent going to building and maintenance and 50 percent to activi ties . Anderson said over time the proportions came closer to 90 percent for activities and 10 percent for building. Anderson said Chambers has requested an increase in student fees to equalize the funding without cutting the activities budget. He said a $1.25 increase
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