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“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.” -- Lord G.K. Chesterton
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Bruin Café
Serving coffee in the morning, and wine at night, a "Brown Cafe" recalls Dutch "gezellig"; built with dark wood paneling, low lighting, and classic architectural detail. They are located buildings dating back to the 1200's. The ancestral gathering place nearest the Grote Markt -- "De Drie Gezusters" -- is named after the three daughters of Peter Stuyvesant IV, descendent of the former governor of New York.
Winter Sport
Today we review the status of technical standards for designing, building and maintaining facilities for very competitive sport and less competitive recreational activity. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Downtown Ice Arena
The University has been exploring options for its aging Ice Arena (built in 1931) which include renovations coupled with a new off-campus facility. The current arena requires significant upgrades for ADA compliance, structural repairs, windows, roof, and ice mat replacement to serve its users (hockey clubs, figure skating, public skating, etc.). It's funded primarily by student fees, and decisions involve student referendums. So early in the concept phase numbers fly -- recently $50 million.
National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security
Leviathan-scale sport enterprises in education communities are a significant profit center and a proven reserve for litigation possibilities -- hence an academic "center" developing around a familiar business model that gets perilously close to ruining the sport experience for fans and competitors alike.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Exploring the impacts of elite youth sports on family life
The intricacies of how time-on task relates to parents' relationship with their child's sport have been understudied. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents of youth athletes (N = 17). Findings contribute to the literature by assessing the impacts of elite-level youth sports participation on family life.
Bleachers, Folding Seating & Grandstands
This standard cross-references (i.e. "interacts") with related titles in the National Fire Protection Association catalog and local crowd control regulations. It sets minimum requirements for means of egress facilities, stability, and safety to life and property relative to the construction, alteration, repair, operation and maintenance of new and existing temporary and permanent bleachers, folding and telescopic seating and grandstands.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
Sports Equipment & Surfaces
ASTM International is one of the first names in standards-setting for sport equipment and facilities in education communities which present at least as large a market as the private sector. The parent committee meets again at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, May 5-7. 2026. (The ASTM business model rests heavily on income generated from participant hotel reservations.) Linked here is information about participation discounts to students and faculty.