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Behind the Scenes
at Hayward Field |
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Patrick
Chinn
pchinn@uoregon.edu |
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| In 1999, Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco set a
world record by running a mile in 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds. In contrast,
Information Services has spent several hundred hours installing a mile
of cable at Hayward Field as part of the renovations for Eugene 08. Had
El Guerrouj been pulling out a mile-long bundle of cable behind him, he
may never have finished! Our photographer went to Hayward on a rainy spring
morning to capture some of the behind-the-scenes action (below). |
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| Don Williams
(red jacket) works with an IES Security employee (right) to feed cable
into the conduit in the west Hayward Field grandstand as part of the
larger wiring upgrade project. Information Services installed several
kinds of cable for a variety of purposes.The new scoreboard alone (shown
in the background) required fiber optic, cable TV, phone wire, and custom
cabling. |
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Information
Services’ Don Williams (left) and Dennis Vosika (right) tape
telecomm cable, optical fiber cables, and two fire alarm wiring
packages to a thick TV cable. This bundle, which was as stiff as
metal pipe, was then pushed through a conduit from one side of
Hayward Field to the other. Halfway through the project they discovered
the conduit had a tight turn that the thick bundle could not navigate.
The solution was to splice the TV cable.
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