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IN BRIEF
Senate approves justices,
Club baseball tournament
The ASUO Student Senate on
Wednesday approved the ASUO Ex
ecutive’s appointment of junior po
litical science majors Mark Griffin
and Spencer Hardy to the ASUO
Constitution Court. The decision
fills two of the spots recently vacat
ed by justices who will graduate
this year.
The meeting marked the last Sen
ate session for most Senators, who
will leave office May 24.
Senators also unanimously allo
cated $2,812 in surplus funds for
EMU Club Sports baseball to attend
its national tournament this month.
The team is the most recent of sev
eral clubs to progress to national
competitions this year.
Senator Michael Sherman said
the Club Sports program may
eventually need to set limits on the
number of players who attend
national conferences because of
recent increases in special requests
for funding.
But Club Sports Coordinator
Sandy Vaughn said not sending
players who contributed to the
team is the “antithesis” of the
program's mission.
The Senate was unable to vote
on changes to its rules because
low attendance prevented the
three-fourths vote required to
revise rules.
— Parker Howell
Nicole Barker | Photographer
Physics professor Jim Brau will give a lecture tonight in honor of World Year of Physics.
Brau: Lecturer "breaks down'
composition of the universe
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astronomy sees the effects, and we’re
trying to bring the two together,”
Brau said.
Another mystery is dark energy.
Brau said the universe has been ex
panding for 14 billion years after the
Big Bang arose out of a very small
concentration of matter and energy.
Brau said that according to the laws
of gravity, the universe should be
coming back together, so it is hypoth
esized that a force of dark energy is
pushing the universe outward.
“It turns out we can calculate it,”
Brau said.
Dark energy is three times larger
than dark matter. This makes the
composition of the universe about 25
percent dark matter, almost three
quarters dark energy, and about 5
percent regular matter and energy,
Brau said.
“The universe is overwhelmingly
built out of stuff we haven’t yet
figured out what it is,” Brau said.
Brau’s lecture is part of the Univer
sity's celebration of World Year of
Physics 2005, which previously in
cluded a lecture by California Insti
tute of Technology physics professor
Kip Thorne. World Year of Physics
2005, a United Nations-endorsed
event, commemorates the 100th an
niversary of Albert Einstein’s “Mira
cle Year,” during which he published
papers on the theory of relativity,
quantum theory and the theory of
Brownian motion, according to the
World Year of Physics 2005 Web site.
Brau said Einstein’s theory of grav
ity, general relativity, shows that the
presence of matter and energy dis
torts the fabric of space, resulting in
the motion of planets around the
sun, and this applies to more recent
findings involving the distortion of
dark matter.
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