THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2008
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2008
NEWS 9A
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Scholarship hall opens Friday as 12th on campus
Krehbiel Hall open to new residents after five years of development
BY B.J. RAINS bjrains@kansan.com
When Phillip Schmitz moved into the new Floyd H. and Kathryn Krehbiel Scholarship Hall on Friday, he stepped into the building for the very first time.
"I saw some pictures on Facebook the other day and it looked pretty nice," said Schmitz, Maryswille freshman. "But when I moved in, it was the first time I saw it."
Schmitz wasn't alone. Each of the 50 students who signed up to live in Krehbiel Hall had never seen the actual building until they moved in. They were told what it would look like and took a chance that it would be as nice as advertised.
"I was up in Lawrence during orientation but it was still under construction," Brian Smith, Wichita freshman, said. "I had heard it was supposed to be pretty nice. I was anxious to see it."
Krehbiel, a twin to Dennis E. Rieger Scholarship Hall, was constructed next door to Rieger at 13th and Ohio. It became the 12th scholarship hall to open on campus when its doors swung open on Friday morning and ended a
Flovd H. and Kathy Krehbiel Scholarship Hall is the newest of the 12 scholarship halls. The hall opened on Friday morning.
plan that had been in the works for more than five years.
"It's a beautiful building," said Diana Robertson, director of student housing. "We're looking forward to adding another unique option in terms of housing options for students here. It's an exciting time for us. We're really excited to get it open."
Money for the building was donated by Carl Krehbiel, an alumnus of the University who lived in a scholarship hall during his time on campus.
Students interested in living at the facility toured similar scholarship halls to get an idea as to what Krebbiel would look like, but didn't really know the final outcome until they moved on on Friday.
"We're the first ones to live here so we kind of get to help start the traditions and stuff," Smith said. "All of the other ones have their own, but it will be cool because we will be the ones that started them here."
Members of scholarship halls pay a cheaper housing fee than students in residence halls because they assist in the daily chores of the house. Those include cooking, cleaning and other jobs to keep the hall up and running.
Jessica Sain-Baird/KANSAN
my cousin and we wanted a scholarship hall and figured since they were building a new one that we should try to get it because it was
"All 50 people have to work together and everyone has to do their part to make it work," Schmitz said. "I'm excited. I got into it with
probably going to be pretty nice.
We were right, it's great.
A formal dedication ceremony of Krehbiel Scholarship Hall will
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take place at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 20.
KU students, graduates work on supercollider project
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA smiyakawa@kansan.com
The discovery of electrons or lasers opened a new field of scientific experiment and has benefitted millions of people's lives. However, scientists wouldn't have realized their applications to computer technology or medicine when discovering them.
The supercollider project of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) focuses on basic physics like particles, energy and mass. The project's findings will embrace potentials to change lives of future generations and to uncover
the origin of the universe.
KU students and spring graduates participated in the supercol-
KU student participates project in Switzerland and France this summer. They helped two professors of physics and astronomy at the University, who have been doing research for CERN.
C E R N approved the Michael Murrav
of physics and astronomy, said 2500 staff from around the world worked for the project. He said the U.S.con-
"The most important goal is to study nature at the smallest scale possible and to be ready for the unexpected."
MICHAEL MURRAY Associate professor of physics
project in 1994. associate professor
ribution to its operation was about $75 million each year. The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department pay the cost.
The huge supercollider,
Large Hadron lies in a under
17-mile track
across the Franco-Swiss border.
Collider (LHC), lies in a underground tunnel of 17-mile track
Two beams of protons will travel in opposite directions on the ring during an experiment. They pass through detectors, which observe the movement of particles when the two beams collide. Murray and Alice Bean, professor of physics and astronomy, work on one of the two largest detectors, Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS).
"The most important goal is to study nature at the smallest scale possible and to be ready for the unexpected," Murray said. "Some things we hope to learn are what is the origin of mass, if there are extra dimensions, what is the nature of the
Heidi LeSage, Plymouth. Minn. sophomore, is among the five students who participated in the research this summer. She helped Murray build the Zero Degree Calorimeter, which is part of the CMS and measures photons and neutrons when protons collide.
"I'm very lucky to go there," LeSage said. "I think this will revolutionize the way look at physics."
vacuum."
Jennifer Sibille, Lafayette, La., graduate student, who helped Bean's research, said she enjoyed working with different scientists from all over the world.
"It's basic research," Sibille said.
"it's hard to say, like if we figure this out, we can come up with this new gadgets or solutions to some other problems. But it's more likely that you start realizing practical applications 50 years down the road."
The first major experiment using the LHC will start next month. Murray said this project would run about 10 years and it was still at the beginning.
"In the later years the goals of the experiment will change because of the new knowledge that we will have gained by then," Murray said. "At the moment we don't even know what the most important questions are to ask."
NATIONAL
Some Florida residents not in rush to evacuate
BY BRIAN SKOLOFF ASSOCIATED PRESS
KEY WEST, Fla. — A light stream of traffic headed out of Key West Sunday as officials urged visitors to leave the string of low-lying islands ahead of Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane.
Fay could start pelting parts of the Keys and South Florida late Monday or early Tuesday as a strong tropical storm or minimal hurricane. Keys officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for visitors starting at 8 a.m. Sunday and asked those who had not yet arrived to postpone their trips.
"We hate to inconvenience those visitors that had plans to be in the Keys the next few days, but their well-being is our top priority," said Monroe County Mayor Mario Di Gennaro, chairman of the Keys tourist development council.
Officials said hotels and businesses won't be forced to remove visitors, but should use common sense. They also said schools in the Keys will be closed Monday and Tuesday.
With the warnings, some Key West businesses began putting up hurricane shutters, but tourists and residents still strolled lazily through downtown, having coffee and eating breakfast.
"We've been living in Florida now for 10 years, so we need to get some stuff together, but we're not going to rush out of here," John Civette said as he strolled the shop-lined streets with his wife, Tonya.
Paul and Sandy Dunko, of Naples, Fla., were having breakfast with their family Sunday morning before heading home to secure their boat and put up their hurricane shutters.
Civette said they would cut their vacation short and head home to the southwest Florida city of Bonita Springs to prepare their home for the storm.
Fay could reach that area late
A Florida man stocks up on gasoline before Tropical Storm Fay hits. The storm is expected to hit the Keys and South Florida as early as Monday.
Monday or early Tuesday.
"We've got to get back and buckle up our own house," Paul Dunko said. "We're hoping the traffic won't be too horrible."
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