Page 2 - The Behrend College Collegian Thursday , October JI, !Wb * Question of the Week “What are you dressing up as for Halloween?" ** ~ 0 cowb °y, because I have a “I'm going as the Phantom of the Opera Mike > Shaf}e? nd 1)00,8 because * 030 Still ,il in my pan,s ,rom high 07 Chem Eric “Jen & Danielle's Pet Peeve” Krouse “SIHy" Collegian Fashion Consultant 07Math' SnieWSki ® £ “I'm going as a working girl. You figure out “Prnhohk, L Doreen “Who's the vice-president?” Foutz Probably a bum, just something that wouldn't News Editor be hard to put together. ” Wk Chad Sutton 08 BManag “l guess that I’m going as a homicidal maniac SnWD° a ve ,e S,X™ e 4 arUnken UP 05 PoliSci dr opons ca,lor “Waldo from Where’s Waldo. I want everyone ScO. as . Braveheart so 1 can scream to be looking for me." 1 FREEDOM (of the press)! Greg Billman Jennifer “I’m the boss” Colvin dr 05 ME Editor in Chief “A group of friends and I are going as ... characters from the Wizard of OZ. HI be the 1 m 9° ,n 9 as Wonder Woman. I really love that Cowardly Lion.” . outfit.” Shelia “At the Bat" Bickel Danielle”No, I'm the Boss” Murphy Entertainment Editor w Editor in Chief « * Happy. Hal |o ween NASA launches PSU project By KELLY RUOFF Collegian Staff Writer University Park, PA For the past six years, David Burrows has spent most of his time working on a project he will never see again - a satellite scheduled to take-off yesterday from a NASA facility in Wallops Island, Va. Among the stars, meteorites and solar flares, this same satellite will feed information back to Earth during the next three years. Burrows, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics (a University Park), headed the 12- person team that constructed Cosmic Unresolved X-ray Background Instrument using CCDs (CUBIC), a satellite observatory. CCDs are small chips that detect photons of light, similar to what is used in cameras The satellite consists of four parts, each constructed in different parts of the world. CUBIC, constructed in the Davey Lab, is designed to measure the spectrum of X-rays reaching the Earth. Construction on CUBIC, which weighs about 70 pounds and is about 1 foot long, 1 foot wide and 2 feet high, began in 1992 and completed last year. It was then shipped to Argentina where the remaining three parts were assembled together. The satellite has been in Brazil for several months, where finishing touches were made. "This was truly an international project," said Burrows, who will be studying the data in Argentina for several months. "It was an unusual opportunity because this satellite was hard to get funding for." NASA constructed one of the parts, while an Italian group and a group from Argentina built the last two segments. These other parts will measure solar flares, gamma ray bursts and energetic neutral atoms. The satellite will stay in orbit for about five years before it re-enters the atmosphere and will never be retrieved, Burrows said. Astronomy graduate student Catherine Grant, who will be joining Burrows in Argentina in several weeks, worked on the software that will read the information sent back to Earth and test for the instrument's response to space life. "It was a one of a kind opportunity for a graduate student from it’s inception, to it's launch and beyond that," she said. "What makes CUBIC so special is that in X-ray astronomy, things have been becoming more focused in the past 20 years, but CUBIC can take a wolor p’cture which can measure different energies." The project originally *nd a much different destination, from The Collegian! Burrows said In 1993, the University began working on a similar instrument to be used on a space shuttle mission, he said. But with the crash of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986, all NASA projects were put on hold. When shuttles started flying again in 1989, the satellite opportunity turned up. The team of scientists working on the shuttle mission was able to transfer some of their work, but began the new satellite project in 1990. "If it would have gone on, the shuttle we would have had only OUT ON A UMB by GARY KOPERVAS \foPUI_AR UFLA6E BY GENDER WWT WWW K SV&KTC* IPB6UI4C H&& | WoMfc»w& CENTER Xerox Fisher Price Geon Company U.S. Precision Lens Northwestern Mutual OPEN Mon. thru Frl. 9:3oam to spm Sat. 9am to 4pm vj'*' o'' ’V** How to Prepare for A Career Fair Workshop UPCOMING RECRUITERS USX Co-op Program MIS, Com Sd, EE, ME soph., juniors only Wed. Nov. 6. Required Regisration in toe Career Development Center UNIVERSITY PARK NEWS Visit the Career Development And Placement Services at hflp7Avww.pau.edu.odps/ tor a listing of aN services, recruiters and programs scheduled tor Urmrersity Park. Selling Quality Preowned items at low cost. two to three days worth of data," Burrows said, "but on the satellite we'll have three years worth." The satellite take-off was scheduled for 12:09 p.m. yesterday, where it was to be launched from an airplane about 40,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. "This is a bit of a risky business," he said. "You always have the chance that something will break once it leaves the launch pad. Hopefully everything will work." Courtesy the Digital Collegian located at http://www.collegian.psu.edu Copyright C 1996, Collegian Inc. NEWS UPCOMING EVENTS Erie CoHege Career Cooperative Career/Job Fair Mercyhuret College, November 7.1696 1.00-4.00 p.m. Additional Informaion at toe Career Development Center ME, MET, PLET Al Business “The thrift store with style!” POLICE AND SAFETY UPDATE The Office of Police and Safety Services has installed a courtesy box where students, faculty, staff and visitors can safely deposit their ticket payment when the office is closed. The box is located next to the front door of the Office of Police and Safety Services on Jordan Road. Anyone wishing to pay a parking ticket simply has to place the ticket inside the envelope they received with the ticket, their check in the amount of the fine and deposit the envelope in the courtesy box. Those students who wish to have the fine placed on their semester bill, need to write their name, student number, and the word “BILL” on the ticket, place the ticket in the envelope and deposit it in the courtesy box. place the ticket inside the envelope and write their name, the name of the person or place they were visiting and check the box marked visitor on the envelope in the courtesy box. Violations other than unroalsterod vehicles are not forgiven The Office of Police and Safety hopes that this will make paying parking tickets after 5:00 p.m. or on weekends more convenient for our community. Hut CwA&qVGP." © WWW h Pots to WS6WSeHI4 6AI-WIJ6 U^P Reed 3, Nov. 4,7 pm Deadine: Nov. 4 Deadline: Nov. 4 Deadine: Nov. 5 Deadine: Nov. 6 Deadine: Nov. 18 THE New Life Center THRIFTY SHOP „ C ° rr >6&„. ff/SQ 0| 'a r Us 'oa ay/ Photo courtesy of John Fontecchio Parents and General Electric made it possible for children to smile again. The Child Care center at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, now includes a new playground. The funds for the playground were provided by the Erie chapter of GE’s Elfun Society and the Center's Parent Teacher Organization. Construction of the playground was a cooperative effort between parents and volunteers working on behalf of GE and Harborcreek Youth Services. Visitors who receive parking tickets for Police and Safety Report Oct. 27: Police and Safety officers discovered that someone had broken the glass in the entrance door to Lawrence Hall. 1213 State Street, Erie 454-4421 should
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