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Hilltop Views
Going Green on the Hilltops Part V3
University loses Cahill, 55
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Bill Cahill died on March 8.
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leader,” he said.
Fr. Louis Brusatti, the dean
of Humanities, said that Ca-
hill had great vision and an
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Cahill was devoted to
making the university bet-
ter, and was always coming
up with great ideas and ways
to make things happen, Ju-
rick said.
"I don’t know how I am
going to replace him,” Jurick
said. "I don’t know if there
is another Bill Cahill out
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ability to accurately explain, his family. One of Cahill’s
complicated technology to children, Matthew, is a ju-
others. nior at St. Edward’s.
"I considered him a good
colleague and a good friend,”
Brusatti said.
Bill Cahill, the vice presi-
dent of information technol-
ogy at St. Edward’s Univer-
sity, passed away on Sunday,
March 8 after a long battle
with pancreatic cancer.
Cahill, who joined the St.
Edward’s community in Au-
gust 2002, played an integral
role, not only in his depart-
ment, but in the university
as a whole.
As Vice President of Infor-
mation Technology, Cahill
directed all of the computer
information departments
on campus and oversaw the
functioning of the computer
labs and Internet network.
Sr. Donna Jurick, executive
vice president and provost
of Academic Affairs, said
everything accomplished on
campus in regards to com-
puter technology was under
the direction of Cahill.
"He was quite a force on
campus,” Jurick said.
Cahill was diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer in July and
had been battling the dis-
ease since. Cahill continued
to work at St. Edward’s, up
until two weeks ago, attend-
ing .the board meeting in
February and other univer-
sity functions.
Cahill died at home, sur-
rounded by the comfort of
working on that,” Peterson
said.
ward’s University has worked
to lower inefficient energy
usage.
Michael Peterson, the di-
rector of the physical plant,
said that the university has
tried to follow Leadership
in Energy and Environmen-
tal Design (LEED) require-
ments in its construction and
renovations. LEED is a rat-
ing system developed by the
U.S. Green Building Council
to promote environmentally
sustainable construction.
Architects are given a guide
when designing buildings
that lists specific require-
ments for energy efficiency.
However, due to the univer-
sity’s budget, all of the LEED
requirements cannot be met
to receive LEED certifica-
tion.
All of the windows on cam-
pus are made from double-
paned, low-emissive glass,
which prevents heat from
entering the buildings while
still providing sunlight. Be-
cause of its historic nature,
the Main Building is the only
building that does not have
double-paned windows.
"We haven’t been able to
convince the administration
that Main Building should
have the windows, but we’re
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Along with continuing con- St. Edward’s also uses the
struction on campus, St. Ed- highest efficiency motors for
the air conditioning units.
"They have different vari-
ables, so if the unit only needs
60 percent energy to cool the
building, it only uses 60 per-
cent,” said Peterson. “Old air
conditioning units are either
fully on or fully off while the
new units have a valve that
partially shuts off the air con-
ditioner depending on the
energy needed to cool.”
Le Mans Hall, Edmund
Hunt Hall, Lady Bird John-
son Hall and the John Brooks
Williams Science Center all
have thermoplastic polyole-
fin, or TPO, roofing, which
is highly reflective and stops
heat from entering the build-
ing.
In addition,' the university
has installed low-flow toilets
and showers into the new
residence halls to save water.
In offices and storerooms,
occupancy sensors were in-
stalled on the lights, so if
no one is in the room for 10
minutes, the lights automati-
cally shut off. Peterson said
that all of the rooms have
this lighting.
Many of the buildings were
also designed to incorpo-
rate an additional insulating
St. Edward’s University
Cahill helped design the there."
student financial aid calcula- Mary Howerton, director
tor that allows prospective of instructional technology,
students to answer ques- worked under Cahill and
tions to determine their said he always put the uni-
potential financial aid.pack- versity, and more important-
ages. He also developed a ly, the students, first.
capacity analysis, enabling “Anything we did, he al-
administrators to look at ar- ways looked at how it ben-
eas such as enrollment, em- efited the students,” How-
ployment and office space in erton said. “He was just an
order to analyze the needs of amazing person. He is very
the university in relation to much missed.”
its operating capacity. Wayne Gaston Hebert,
"Few individuals are ca- associate director of in-
pable of conceptualizing structional technology, also
the big creative picture and worked closely with Cahill,
simultaneously translating "He brought a great deal
this at the practical and de- of sophistication to the de-
tailed level," Jurick said. partment and was a natural
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