c TOTAL AWE DESIGNER | Madison Landry STORY | Leah Nelson An eclipse has not been fully visible since 1918 but on the first, day of the fall semester, Aug. 21, the campus experienced a 90.0 percent coverage at 1: Id p.in. 1 AIM) estimated about 700 students in attendance at the union courtyard to watch the phenomenon. In preparation lor the event, the Pat Walker Health ( enter gave out 1,250 pail’s of solar eclipse glasses at the American Student Government Welcome Back BBQ. The g lasses were specially designed to protect people ' s eyes while looking at the eclipse. We simply wanted to prov ide a nice incentive to come to the BBQ, which clearly worked based on the numbers of people who showed up, Zac Brown, assis¬ tant director of communications for the Pat Walker Health (enter, said. The hea lth center tjuickly ran out of the glasses, which wore intended as a generous giveaway for the barbeqne. While they wished they could have had enough for everyone, they felt the)’ were not respon¬ sible for providing everyone with the glasses, Brown said. Austin Woodward, a sophomore philosophy major, was waiting in line for the glasses when they ran out. While he did not have any glasses, he said he was still going to look. 1 in going to glance at lthe oclipsel and when I stop see¬ ing, 1 II stop, Woodward said. Students and faculty without glasses were left to their own devices to make eclipse-viewing gadgets. Souk students used cereal boxes, aluminum foil and paper plates to see the shadow the eclipse cast and watched the different phases ol the eclipse on the ground instead of in the sky. Trees and other items around campus also cast shadows reflecting the stages of the eclipse. Austin Wahl, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, said she had four of her classes canceled because of the eclipse. I llVIl flMLl 111 A 11 graduate student An 9 ■ IllN 3 SI I LWj I Itk ' fl department, came - prepared to view 111 ■ i M i UJH1H i[)li H pinhole, projector made 1 out of a cereal box because she did not think she would got any glasses. To use the device, she faced away from the sun and looked inside of the cereal box while the sun shone on the aluminum foil with a hole on it. The small hole in the aluminum foil showed the eclipse on the inside of the box, allowing her to see it without the glasses.
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