The Lumberjack, December 8, 2005.

              T h e L u m b e r j a c k An Independent Student Publication at Northern Arizona University
Dec. 8-Jan. 18, 2005
Blaring trains soon to be an echoing memory
MEGAN FOUCHT
T h e L u m b e r j a c k
Charmagne Coe and her
husband David have owned
their downtown knitting shop,
Unraveled, at 6 W. Rte. 66, for
about one year. The walls are
filled with yams of seemingly
every color, texture and weave.
The tables overflow with how
to knitting books and notions.
And while shoppers graze the
selection of angora, cotton and
wool yams, approximately 87
trains per day roar past the
store windows.
' “It’s really loud," Coe said
from behind the cash register
on a busy Saturday afternoon.
But, she said, “It doesn’t affect
the traffic flow; I can’t say peo
pie don’t come in because of
the train.”
However, Coe said she
would like to hear less of the
train horns that blare through
downtown Flagstaff.
“If there was a safe way to
have some kind of a calming
ordinance, I would be all for
it," she said.
Soon, Coe’s shop may be a
little quieter.
Last month, contractor Gan­nett
Fleming began working
on designs to install four quiet
zones at five at grade crossings
running through Flagstaff
on Route 66. The quiet zones,
which will be located at San
Francisco Street, Beaver Street,
Enterprise, Steves Boulevard
and Fanning, will conform to
safety codes set forward by the
Federal Railroad Administra­tion
in June.
See QUIET, page 3
Brad Shorb/The Lumberjack
GARY CHESTER OF Amtrak Trains deploys passengers at 5:56 a.m. and 9:57 p.m. every day. These late and early times can be bothersome for
people who live nearby. .
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Ryan Reid Memorial Fund
To donate or learn more about the
Ryan Reid Memorial Fund or to buy a
wristband, call Aaron Wilder at 523­9833
or email him at aj93@dana.ucc.
nau.edu
F ra te rn ity raises funds for Ryan Reid Safe-C rossin g M em o rial
MICHELLE MCMANIMON
T h e L u m b e r j a c k
Nearly 10 months after a
train struck and killed NAU
student Ryan Reid, members
of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
are using bright green wrist­bands
to commemorate their
fallen brother and bring pe­destrian
safety to the tracks.
Pike members established
the Ryan Reid Memorial Fund
in February after the 21-year
old was killed in a pedestrian
train accident at the South San
Francisco Street crossing near
Route 66. According to the po­lice
report, Reid and fraternity
brother Christopher Ellington
were walking toward campus
when an oncoming train hit
them in the early hours of Feb.
3. Ellington sustained major
injuries and Reid died two days
later at a neurological center
in Phoenix.
Reid’s brothers maintain
he saved Ellington’s life by
pulling him out of harm’s
way. Though they are still in
mourning, the Pikes call Reid’s
death inspirational.
See PIKES, page 3
S t a t e f u n d i n g
d e c id e s n e x t
t u i t i o n h ik e
ADAM SPADE
T h e L u m b e r j a c k
NAU President Haeger is
awaiting meetings with Gov.
Janet Napolitano and the Ari
zona Board of Regents before
deciding what needs to be
done with NAU tuition.
Haeger said no recommen
dations about tuition have
been made yet as the univer­sity
is yet unsure the amount
of funding it will receive from
the state, and the future tu­ition
structure that will be ap­proved
by the Arizona Board
K)f Regents.
“We are in the process of
thinking it through, and some
of the basic parameters," Hae
ger said.
NAU receives the majority
of its budget from two sources:
state funding and tuition dol­lars.
Though the university
is a research institution, the
money earned from research
is not a significant part of the
budget, as it can be at ASU and
UA. Haeger believes the three
universities will ask the state
to raise the base tuition. The
amount of the raise will be
dependent upon the funding
NAU receives from the state,
as well as their final budget for
the 2007 year. The cost of liv­ing
increase will also factor in,
and that is expected to be a 3.6
percent increase.
Haeger also believes the
universities may be given the
opportunity to adjust tuition
depending on the market.
“The market is mainly
made up of a couple of fac
tors," Haeger said. “One is, the
market will be defined as these
programs are in high demand.
They are also high salary pro­grams.
The market demand
may also include the fact that
some programs, by their very
nature, are more expensive."
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Cloning mammoths: N A U geology professor
attempts to bring back Ice Age giant
BRETT LEWIS
T h e L u m b e r j a c k
Honor, dedication, and big
wooly mammoths.
There are only a few peo­ple
in the world who can be
described with these three
nouns, and one of them is a re­tired
professor at NAU.
In October, NAU geology
professor Larry Agenbroad
was one of five paleontologists
presented with the Lowell
Thomas Award at The Explor
er’s Club annual awards din­ner,
where this year's theme
was “Digging the Past to Cel­ebrate
the Future.” Every year
the awards theme changes, but
is always given to “explorers
who have distinguished them­selves
through exceptional
w'ork in the field,” according
to a press release from the Ex
plorersClub. Past recipients of
the award include Carl Sagan,
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Issac
Asimov and Sir Edmund Hill­ary.“
He is recognized as one of
the leaders in the research on
mammoths, there’s no ques­tion
about that,” said Greg
McDonald, senior curator of
natural history for the Nation­al
Park Service. McDonald is
in charge of natural history at
parks nationwide.
“Butcertainly(Agenbroad’s)
expertise is not limited to
mammals; he is an interna
tional authority on the mam
moth, but he has certainly
worked on other animals from
the Ice Age, so he has a great
wealth of knowledge of many
animals from that time,” Me
Donald said. ^
In 1966 Agenbroad began
his career as a member of a
team investigating human re
mains in Murray Springs, Ariz.
But something bothered Agen­broad.
The team left mam
moth remains in the field if
they were too old for humans
to be possibly associated with
them. He remembers finding
one almost complete skeleton
of a mammoth.
“Here was a magnificent
beast that’s the very symbol of
the Ice Age," Agenbroad said.
“And it was getting the Rod
ney Dangerfield treatment: ft
didn’t get no respect.”
At that instant, Agen­broad
said he subconsciously
switched from hunting human
hunters to hunting the hunted
mammoth. And a short time
later, he would make this
switch consciously and
become one of the world’s
leading experts.
From 1978 until 2003,
Agenbroad has educated
NAU students in geol­ogy
and paleontology class­rooms.
And for his entire
career, he has educated the
general public with many
of his publications, rang­ing
from articles in profes­sional
journals to children’s
books.
See RETIRED,
page 6
Faculty members address campus environmental issues
Jennifer Ireland/The Lumberjac*
\ of technology and environment and society at
Aalborg University in Denmark, was the guest speaker at the Ponderosa Faculty Group s
seminar Fridav.
J U STIN LESNIAK
T h e L u m b e r j a c k
On Friday, Nov. 18, the Pon­derosa
Faculty group held a
workshop featuring guest
speaker Dr. Andrew Jamison,
professor of technology and
society at Aalborg University
in Sweden.
Dr. Jamison’s speech fo­cused
on what he called “green
knowledge” in the age o f“tech­noscience,”
and how science
has crown from “mode i ” to
“mode 2" since World War II.
Jamison, author of many
books including Green Knowl­edge
in in Age o f Technosci­ence
and Hubris and Hybrids;
A Cultural History o f Technol­ogy
and Science, began the
workshop with a presentation
regarding “green knowledge."
As an attempt to give a name to
the cognitive development in
people’s quest for sustainable
knowledge, Jamison coined
the term “green knowledge.”
According to Jamison,
"green knowledge* can be de­fined
as “the knowledge
production that goes on in
environmental politics and
how people deal with their
problems."
I n his book Green Kn o wJ-edge
in in Age o f Techno­science,
Jamison touches
on the subjects of “mode
1" and “mode 2” and how
technoscience has affected
environmental science. The
two modes illustrate the
transformation of science
within the past century and
how the fundamental ba­sics
of research have shifted
in recent years. The years
before WWII, or “little sci­ence,”
are classified under
“mode 1 ” and are character­ized
by a disciplinary type
of knowledge and academic
values. Between 1940 and
1970 is a time classified as
“big science,” where the
type of knowledge shifts to
multidisciplinary with bu­reaucratic
values.
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