The U of S Synchrotron:A Mausoleum for a Museum Mentality |
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By Mario deSantis, November 17, 1999 |
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When last April the building of the country's biggest scientific instrument in at least a generation was | |
a vision of the university will be built on the use of the Synchrotron | announced, I equated this instrument to a Colosseum(1). The $173.5 million Synchrotron will be as |
big as a football field when completed in 2003 and it will be fully operational in the year 2008. | |
Saskatoon's mayor Henry Dayday described the Synchrotron as "...the greatest things that's hit the | |
city..."; Premier Romanow expressed his poetic feelings by saying that the Synchrotron will be a | |
"...visionary light..."; Dwight Percy, a free lance journalist, hailed it as an "...an incredible opportunity | |
for my 12-year old!...(2)"; and Peter MacKinnon, President of the University of Saskatchewan, has | |
stated that a vision of the university will be built on the use of the Synchrotron(3). | |
Today, I am changing my mind about my labelling of the Synchrotron as a Colosseum and I am | |
it can only be performed on the deceased | getting more convinced than ever that this scientific instrument will be a Mausoleum. In fact, in her |
recent visit at the University of Saskatchewan, Kathy Gogh, a professor of chemistry at the University | |
of Manitoba, has stated that the Synchrotron will provide helpful information for deep regions inside | |
the brain including the Hippocampus area(4). However, Gogh added that the main drawback to this | |
type of Alzheimer's research is that it can only be performed on the deceased. Further, Gogh stated | |
that the building of this Synchrotron in Saskatoon will be a good idea since she doesn't have to travel | |
anymore for her researches to Madison, Wisconsin, or Berkley, California. Displaying her Museum | |
Mentality(5) she said "...It's really a one hour plane ride or an eight hour car ride to get the data..." | |
from Winnipeg, Manitoba. | |
providing their brains for the needed study of dementia | At the recent NDP's annual convention, Premier Romanow had some fun at the expense of the |
Saskatchewan Party by saying that "...They're mostly empty-headed with a single candle inside...(6)" | |
Premier Romanow and his Tin Pot dictators are not empty-headed for sure, and eventually they will | |
show their compassion and love for people by providing their brains for the needed study of | |
dementia at their Mausoleum: the U of S Synchrotron. | |
-------------Endnotes: | |
Premier Romanow's Shining Light to the World: The Canadian Light Source Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, April 2, 1999 | |
Few Words on the Synchrotron, Politics and Education in Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, April 4, 1999 | |
University of Saskatchewan: A Vision Built on Privileged Education and on the Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, October 25, 1999 | |
Synchrotron touted as tool in Alzheimer's research, by Darren Steinke, The Star Phoenix, November 15, 1999, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
A Museum Mentality Is Cheating Our Economy: Healthcare, SHIN and the Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James deSantis, November 8, 1999 | |
Opposition butt of premier's joke, The Star Phoenix, FORUM, November 15, 1999, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |