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KEISA MCILVANE Staff Writer
While new students are scurr
about to get spaces in one of the p
ing garages, returning students
dealing with the price increase o
served spaces in the garages.
The Board of Trustees voted in
ly to raise the rate for reserved par
spaces to $160 per semester.
The rate for Pendleton, Senate
Building, and Computer Center p
ing garages was $120. The rate t<
serve a space in the Blossom St
garage was $100.
"The price increase was han
down by the Board of Trustees at t
July 14 meeting," Director of Pari
and Vehicle Registration Bill Bs
said.
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Renee Brown, sports administration ju- a
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were calculated with those within the G
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;om. downtown go up to about $65 a month, 0
se it Baker said.
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)lley a new parking garage where University
Terrace is," Holley said.
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lodesto, Calif. ? As a geology student at Modesto
unior College, Heather English usually spent her
me looking for minerals and rocks, not bones.
But when English stumbled across a jawbone
rhile on a dig this summer in Montana, her instincts
>ld her she had found something big.
Her instincts were right. What English had unarthed
was a Tenontosaurus, a large plant-eating diosaur.
English made her discovery as a student of Monma
State University's summer field studies program,
he was one of 18 Modesto students who spent six
ays of their break digging for dinosaur bones at the
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While searching for dinosaur bones may sound exiting
to the non-geologist, English says it wasn't exctly
a day in Jurassic Park.
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tarry Hayes, a geology professor at MJC who helped
rganize the trip. "There is a tremendous amount of
inosaur out here," he says. "The Rocky Mountains
ave pushed up the sediment, and thafs exposed a lot
f material."
To get to their site, students traveled seven miles
own a dirt road from Nellie's Nipple, a mountain
rell-known by dinosaur buffs as the place where the
rst Deinonychus bones were unearthed, a discovery
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Not far from Yellowstone National Park, the
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and hours of dinosaur discoveries.
During their first day of digging, though, students
had a hard time finding anything. "It all looks the
same at first," says English. "But as you get more into
it, you start seeing fossils all over the place."
On the second day of the trip, English decided to
take a break from digging and go for a walk to check
out the surroundings. After spending a day and a half
breaking up rocks, she was ready for a rest from the
constant exploring. But as she was walking near a
wash, an area created as the result of running water
fmm a river aha nntirurl a tenth emharlrlprl in a small
mound of dirt. Then a jawbone. Then a spinal cord.
"When I saw the jaw I started digging into this hill,"
she says. "I felt the head and the spine, and it just
kept going and going."
English collected some loose bones and brought
them to Jack Horner, the Montana State University
paleontologist who invited her class on the trip. He
told me that it could be a young Tenontosaurus," she
says. "Even before he told me I had this feeling I had
found something big."
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According to Hayes, the Tenontosaurus was a
large plant eater that ranged in length from 6 to 20
feet. It walked on all fours and closely resembled an
oversized iguana. ,
After a dinner break, English led her friends back
to the site of the find. They dug out the remains and
made a cast of the bones sticking out of a boulder.
The bones are now being studied at Montana State
University, where they'll become a part of the school's
worid-tamous dinosaur collection, wmch includes
Deinonychus, Tenontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus
bones.
Paleontologists name their sites of discovery as do
archeologists, so the area where English found the
unique bones became Weiner Wash.
"My friends were all giving me a hard time, be
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she says. "They were going to call it English
Wash, but since they were calling me so many names
after I found it, I guess they decided to name it after
the least offensive one instead."
One of the difficult parts of searching for dinosaur
bones is knowing that someone else is going to go
home with your discovery, says English. Montana
state law requires that all complete bones go to the
university. However, MJC students were allowed to
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