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University News
November 18,1992
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“The soil in the Las Colinas area is
one of the most expansive soils in all of
Texas,” said Russell. “Theunweathered
shale gets watered and expands from
deep below, the effect is that it looks
like all of our buildings are sinking, and
they are not; they are staying still. It is
the earth that is coming up around the
building.”
This earth, according to Russell,
heaves up around the buildings, and
also pushes earth up underneath the
building’s foundation and perimeter
beams, thus causing buildings, roads
and the mall to shift and move in ways
that are damaging to its infrastructure.
According to Russell, this earth is “a
thousand times stronger than the
beams.”Because the earth is stronger.
the beam will break, caus-
ing the buildings to “rock
and roll.”
When Anselm was re-
built, fourteen inches of
ground were removed to
leave a hollow space that
will allow this earth to
come up underneath the
building without any dam-
aging effects.
“Soil retaining panels
are on the outside of the
building....to allow for the
ground to heave up around
the building’s perimeter
and not raise it up off its
foundations,” said Russell.
“This is what we will have
to do to all of our buildings
on campus.”
positive campus activities.” The UD
chapter has about 15 active members
with a number of additional members
who support individual activities as time
permits. It is a chapter of BACCHUS
Area 6, which includes chapters in
Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
New Mexico and Mexico, and is the
third largest area in the nation.
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At the lab she worked with an X-ray
machine that was being built.
Reissenger
said, "The X-rays which the machine
produces are 10,000 times as bright as
any X-rays being used today. The
machine will be used to take pictures of
molecules and other scientific material.”
Ruppert, who conducted his research
at the University of Wisconsin at
Madison, spoke about computer pro-
grams, which may be used to analyze
data taken in UW’s Plasma Physics
Department Ruppert said, "These new
programs are of interest because the
experiments that are made cannot be
described adequately with a Gaussian
(bell-shaped) curve. Instead, I used an
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caring for the welfare of the community
and for people in general.
Programming for the UD chapter
ranged from participating in New Stu-
dent Orientation to the Safe Spring
Break campaign, when members “dis-
tributed health promotion and abuse
prevention materials and gathered al-
most 200 pledges” of people promising
not to drink and drive during Spring
Break.
For other chapters, UD’s most in-
fluential program was during National
Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week.
The chapter began the week with a
prayer service at dusk where a total of
442 luminaries were lit, representing
the number of individuals between the
ages of 18 and 25 who died in alcohol
related traffic accidents on Texas
highwaysin 1990. The candles were lit
throughout the week from 6 to 10 pjn.,
enabling night students and campus
visitors to become involved and in-
formed. Grubbs said that the ideaseemed
particularly appealing to the national
office because UD was “remembering
life as opposed to acknowledging
death.” Jacobsen said they chose the
luminaries “as a symbol of warmth and
hope.” Other programs included
mocktail parties, a holiday pledge tree
and the BACCHUS bar, a portable
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there is no escaping it! For physics
majors, it goes a bit further; they must
speak for ten minutes at the Texas Sec-
tion of the American Physical Society
Conference about a topic they have
researched during the summer. Dr.
Richard Olenick, chairman of the
Physics Department, said, “It has been
a requirement at this University since
1988.”
Five UD students fulfilled their re-
quirement at the conference held during
the weekend of November 7-9 at Rice
University. Seniors Elizabeth
Reissenger, Dave Ruppert, Brian Smith,
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statistics of measurement”
Smith did his research here at UD
with the help of Dr. Olenick. He worked
on the IBM-6000 work stations located
in the physics lab. Smith said, “I wrote
computer programs in C language to
simulate a phenomenon called dielec-
tric breakdown, in English terms, any
kind of lightning or electrical discharge.”
Speaker also worked on the UD campus
with the help of Paul Flynn and Dr.
Edward Wilson. Speaker attempted to
solve differential equations having to
do with relativistic space-time. “I
investigated possible forms of twisting
gravitational waves,” said Speaker.
Lastly, Walbran worked at the Su- change ideas, then there would be
perconducting facility in Ennis. He scientific progress.”
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Physics students take their experiments on the road
worked on building software to handle
the enormous data output of the collider
by what are “triggering" methods.
All five found the opportunity of
presenting their papers to be a great
experience in the physics world.
Ruppert expressed his feelings about
the conference enthusiastically as he
said, “It was a great chance to act as a
scientist does, a chance to exchange
ideas and practice what science is all
abouL There are two sides to science:
the lab, where we experiment, analyze
and graph data and dialogue. The
conference was all about dialogue,
which is very important, because if sci-
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presented their research to an audience
of professors, graduates, and under-
graduates from the Southwest.
In order to participate in the con-
ference, the students had to submit an
abstract, a three sentence statement that
summarizes the thesis of their research
papers. From the abstracts, the con-
ference organizers categorized the pa-
pers into certain topics. Reissenger’s
and Ruppert’s research dealt with in-
strumentationphysics, Smith’s research
was about plasma physics and
Walbran’s topic was nuclear particle
and astrophysics.
At the conference, Reissenger ex-
plained her research over the summer at
the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.
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From left to right: Chad Jacobsen, Kristy King, Jeennifer Rudak,Eddy Ho, Kendall Snouffer, Mary Trimble and
Lisa Grubbs receiving the award.
structure built by students “designed of Europe regarding alcohol and
for complete beverage service.” host[ed] a wine and cheese party.”
The biggest accomplishment of the BACCHUS is anational, non-profit
UD chapter, according to the script of “collegiate alcohol awareness and health
the person who presented the award, education initiative committed to the
was the establishment of a chapter on education, training and support of peer-
the Rome campus, which is the first and efforts...which strive to help their peers
only European chapter. This chapter makeresponsible decisions through the
offered “programs on the cultural norms promotion of healthy lifestyles and
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