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The organizers of the “Humans vs. Zombies” game last semester raised the bar for residence halls everywhere. The game helped Utah State University’s Residence Hall Association (RHA) on their way to being awarded “School of the Year” for the 2009-10 academic year. The nod for “School of the Year” was voted upon by members of the Intermountain Affiliate of the National Association of College and University Residence Halls, after reviewing a 30-page bid prepared by members of the USU-RHA board. Universities in the Intermountain region run the length of the Rocky Mountains, including a swath of states surrounding Utah, as well as the Alberta and Saskatchewan prov-inces of Canada.

“To be chosen as school of the year is a great honor for us,” said Kaitlyn Allen, the national communications coordinator for the

RHA. “Compared to other bids, the regional executives said that ours was particularly strong. It’s all about letting people know who

we are, and what we can do.” The RHA is responsible for the “Humans vs. Zombies” phenomenon that swept campus Fall 2010, and turned it into an arena: sprint-ing, shooting, sweating, swearing and scream-ing students attempted to be the last human standing. Plans for another round of the game are underway, and members of the RHA are continuing to plan activities that involve and include students; those who live on campus in the dorms, and the student population at large. “It is overwhelming with all the clubs on campus and can be intimidating as a new stu-dent,” Allen said. “Members of the RHA take initiative and set up activities to build leader-ship.” The RHA has a weekly meeting Wednesday

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Possibility of more budget cuts on the way USU president Stan Albrecht met with mem-bers of the Utah legislature Wednesday to present information regarding the projected effects of a newly proposed seven percent budget cut to USU’s funding. Each fiscal year the Utah legislature examines the state’s budget and looks for ways to reconcile any existing deficits. This year Utah’s budget is roughly $313 million short of projected spend-ing costs. In order to balance the budget, Utah Congress is proposing a seven percent funding cut to all state-sponsored programs, including higher education. The seven percent cut, if enacted, would be in addition to USU’s budget cuts from previous years. Albrecht told members of the higher education appropriations subcommittee – the committee tasked with deciding how much state funding to allot to higher education institutions – that reduc-ing USU’s budget by seven percent would poten-tially require USU to drop 270 courses, 68 regular faculty members, one executive position and 74 staff members. The cut would force USU to reduce faculty, increase class sizes, and hire more adjunct profes-sors to make up for the lack of full-time profes-sors, Albrecht said. He said USU’s budget is already projected to be in the negative due to past budget cuts, the rate of inf lation, and a steady increase in student

enrollment over the past few years. He said the combined factors create a $49.8 million deficit for the school, even without additional budget cuts. USU’s director of state and federal relations, Neil Abercrombie, said the proposed cut is not final. “What (legislative) fiscal analysts offered are not proposals,” he said. “They’re just offers on the table to begin discussion. So, it’s not a cause for alarm.” He said the legislature proposed the seven per-cent cut as a starting point to see how it would affect the various state-funded programs. The purpose of Albrecht’s presentation was to inform members of the higher education appropriations subcommittee what the effects of the cut would be. “They are not intended to be final numbers,” he said. “We realize the state is in a very tight position to balance the budget, and USU is very carefully considering the budget cut, but we’re not panicking yet about what’s being discussed. The session hasn’t even started yet.” Albrecht agreed saying it isn’t quite time for people to start planning accordingly. Albrecht said, “I would just remind everyone that the session hasn’t even started yet; numbers being discussed at this point will bear little resemblance to what the final budget will be at the end of the session in March. Accordingly, it is important not to overreact to anything you are seeing at this point.”

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USU’S RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION WAS awarded “School of the year” 09-10.

Regional executives said USU’s 30–page bid was “particularly strong.” ANIE AGHABABYAN photo

Residence hall awarded School of the yearBy MAX PARKER DAHLstaff writer

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Grant intended to help ranchers and farmers

Peeping Tom scares residents

By ROB JEPSONstaff writer

A 7 percent budget cut could potentially require USU to drop: – 270 courses – 74 staff members – 68 faculty members – 1 executive position

(by the millions)

2008-09: $162.4 2009-10: $150.2 2010-11: $143.9 2011-12: $142.9

– A total of $23.5 million less funding than in 2008-09

Utah legislature takes a look at the state budget and proposes a 7 percent funding cut of all state-sponsored programs USU’s state-provided funding:

In the past month, Utah State University Extension has benefited financially in two big ways. One of these financial benefits can be attributed to a new faculty member who previ-ously taught at the University of Nevada-Reno (UNR). Dillon Feuz, USU professor of applied economics, said one of the school’s chief marketing agencies received a grant of more than $300,000, while raking in even more money initial-ly intended for UNR, due to a transfer that took a professor Reno to Logan. Last semester, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $315,535 grant to Risk Management

By RHETT WILKINSONstaff writer

An unknown individual was seen by Aggie Village resi-dents peering into windows outside of apartments around 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 8. An engineering senior who wished to remain anonymous said she and a friend were frightened twice in one night. The student said she and her neighbor were in her apart-ment that night and heard a rapid knocking on the neighbor’s upstairs apartment door. When the neighbor got up to see who it was, the person was already gone. “Through the balcony, she saw a person watching through my window,” the student said. She said the individual was wearing a black jacket and a dark-colored beanie but could be identified as a white male. When her friend confronted him, she said he responded in Spanish as if he knew that was the women’s native language. “He said, ‘Hola, como estan?’ like ‘How are you?’ and then ran,” the student said. “I’m guessing he was already looking

through our window before and heard us speaking Spanish, or has seen us somewhere else and knows that we speak Spanish.” The student said she and her friend left the area to pick up a friend from Bullen Hall on campus. While they were waiting in their car, she said they saw a dark figure who was wearing different clothing from the win-dow peeper. “We were parked and we saw someone right behind our car standing with his arms crossed looking to us, just staring at us,” she said. “It was weird, it was totally weird.” She said when their male friend came outside and got in the car, the group left. The man who was “stalking” them started running after the car as if to chase them. The student said she called the police from the car as they drove. Later, she said, she and her friend decided to spend the night together because they were still feeling spooked.

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Mafia takes a big hit from police roundup NEW YORK (AP) – Federal authorities orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia takedowns in FBI history Thursday, charging 127 sus-pected mobsters and associates in the Northeast with murders, extortion and other crimes spanning decades. Past investigations have resulted in strategic strikes aimed at crippling individual crime families. This time, authorities used a shotgun approach, with some 800 federal agents and police officers making scores of simul-taneous arrests stemming from differ-ent mob investigations in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Attorney General Eric Holder made a trip to New York to announce the operation at a news conference with the city’s top law enforcement officials. Holder called the arrests “an important and encouraging step for-ward in disrupting La Cosa Nostra’s operations.” But he and others also cautioned that the mob is known for adapting to adversity and finding new ways of making money and spreading violence. “Members and associates of La Cosa Nostra are among the most dangerous criminals in our country,” Holder said.

Wal-Mart to reformulate food products for health WASHINGTON (AP) – Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest grocer, says it will reformulate thousands of products to make them healthier and push its suppliers to do the same, joining first lady Michelle Obama’s effort to com-bat childhood obesity. The first lady accompanied Wal-Mart executives Thursday as they announced the effort in Washington. The company plans to reduce sodium and added sugars in some items, build stores in poor areas that don’t already have grocery stores, reduce prices on produce and develop a logo for healthier items. “No family should have to choose between food that is healthier for them and food they can afford,” said Bill Simon, president and CEO of Wal-Mart’s U.S. division. As the largest grocer in the United States, Wal-Mart’s size gives it unique power to shape what people eat. The grocery business is nearly twice the size of No. 2 competitor Kroger. The company also has massive influence on products made by other manufac-turers and sold at the store. Mrs. Obama said the announce-ment has “the potential to transform the marketplace and help Americans put healthier foods on their tables every single day.”

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10. Three “Nos” from the judges and you’re neutered.9. Now serving audience vodka and tonics.8. All songs must be in the form of a question.7. New microphones make everyone sound like a golden-voiced drifter.6. Randy Jackson is contractually obligated to get fat again.5. Losers shipped to a North Korean hard labor camp.4. In week six, contestants will be mentored by the late John Denver.3. Contestants are required to sing with ventriloquist dummies like Miss Arkansas.2. Winner will be announced in the first episode.1. Ryan Seacrest does even more...whatever the hell he does.


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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – FBI agents are checking “fruitful leads” in a bombing attempt at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade where a backpack filled with sophisticated explosives was placed near the march-ers’ route. The bomb had a remote detonator and the ability to cause mass casual-ties, according to an official familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information about the investigation. The bomb was defused without incident Monday but unnerved resi-dents of Spokane, especially those who took part in a parade whose theme was steeped in peace and non-violence. The attempt on the day set aside to honor the slain civil rights leader raised the possibility of a racial motive in a region that has been home to the white supremacist group Aryan Nations. “The confluence of the holiday, the march and the device is inescapable, but we are not at the point where we can draw any particular motive,” Harrill said. Investigators have no suspects but are following up on “fruitful leads” they’ve received from the public, said Frank Harrill, special agent in charge of the Spokane FBI office. He declined to elaborate. Harrill said the black Swiss Army backpack has been shipped to an FBI lab in Quantico, Va., for analysis. In addition to the bomb, the backpack contained two T-shirts that authori-ties were analyzing for clues.

Officials have praised as heroes the three city workers who spotted the backpack about an hour before the parade was to start. Harrill said they looked inside, saw wires and immediately alerted law enforcement. The bomb was carefully placed on a metal bench with a brick wall behind that would have directed shrapnel toward Main Street, where marchers were expected to pass, investigators said. No one has claimed responsibility for planting the bomb, Harrill said. The FBI released a photo of the backpack as it offered a $20,000 reward for information from the public. Also released were pictures of the T-shirts found in the pack. There was a gray T-shirt with writing for the Stevens County Relay for Life race last June. Stevens County is just north

of Spokane County. The other dark T-shirt said “Treasure Island Spring 2009.” Investigators are seeking anyone who took photographs or video in the area between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Monday. Monday’s parade route was changed after the bomb was found, and most of the several hundred people who marched in the annual event did not know about the device, said Liz Moore, one of the marchers. “No announcements were made at all,” Moore said. “It seems like a specific effort was made not to alarm people.” Harrill called the bomb an act of domestic terrorism. Spokane County Commissioner Mark Richard, who spoke at the King celebration and did not learn of the

bomb until later, expressed concern about the number of people who could have been injured or killed if it had detonated. “Hundreds of people, including children, gathered to celebrate and recommit their lives to the cause of human rights,” Richard said. Spokane has 200,000 residents and is about 100 miles south of the Canadian border. Another explosive device was found March 23 beside the Thomas S. Foley U.S. Courthouse in downtown Spokane. No arrests have been made in that investigation, and agents didn’t know if the two incidents were related, Harrill said. The Spokane region and adjacent northern Idaho have had numerous incidents of anti-government and white supremacist activity during the past three decades. The most visible was by the Aryan Nations, whose leader Richard Butler gathered racists and anti-Semites at his compound for more than two decades. Butler went bankrupt, lost the compound in a civil lawsuit in 2000 and died in 2004. In 1996, white supremacists placed a pipe bomb outside City Hall in Spokane. The bomb exploded, blow-ing out a window and sending nails and screws across the street. In December, a man in Hayden, Idaho, built a snowman on his front lawn shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan holding a noose. The man knocked the pointy-headed snow-man down after getting a visit from sheriff ’s deputies.

Backpack bomb found at MLK event

SPOKANE POLICE CHIEF ANNE KIRKPATRICK credits two officers,

including Eric Olson, left, with making a decision to steer the MLK Jr. parade away

from what was determined to be an explosive device in downtown Spokane, Wash.,

Jan. 19. AP photo

MIAMI (AP) – Immigration authorities repatriated 26 Haitians previously convicted of crimes on Thursday, plus another man who was acquitted in a 2007 terror plot, the first such deportations since the Obama administration halted them following the devastating 2010 earthquake. The deportations were immedi-ately criticized by members of the Haitian-American community and immigration advocates who say the Haitians will face dire, inhumane conditions on their return. “I think it’s outrageous and it’s inhumane and very insensitive,” said Marleine Bastien, executive director of the Haitian Women of Miami. “We are outraged, really outraged.” An attorney for Lyglenson Lemorin, who was acquitted in 2007 of a plot to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago, confirmed the 35-year-old man was among those deported. Officials have said Lemorin

remained a national security threat. Five others were convicted in the case. “Mr. Lemorin’s removal is a high water mark in the injustice inherent in our broken immigration system,” Charles H. Kuck, his attorney, said. “Deporting an innocent man should never be condoned.” Kuck is appealing Lemorin’s deportation. In a statement, Barbara Gonzalez, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the removals were “consistent with ICE’s priority of removing aliens who pose a threat to public safety.” Gonzalez added that ICE will continue the deportations periodi-cally. Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, a nonprofit law firm, said the Haitian deportees were being sent back to a “death trap.”

“Why is it so urgent for the U.S. to deport Haitians when Haiti remains in ruin?” she said. According to the firm, deportees who have a criminal history are routinely held in inhumane jail con-ditions in Haiti, not fed or provided medical care. “Whether or not they have served a criminal sentence, no Haitian should be sent to a cholera-infested jail where they risk death,” the orga-nization said in a statement. Haiti is still recovering from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed an estimated 316,000 people and a subsequent cholera epidemic that has killed thousands and com-plicated recovery efforts. The tiny Caribbean nation is also facing political instability following the disputed Nov. 28 first-round presi-dential election. On Sunday, former Haitian dicta-tor Jean-Claude Duvalier unexpect-edly returned after being forced

into exile following a mass uprising nearly 25 years ago, sending shock waves through the country. Duvalier took over the presidency after his father, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, died and ruled from 1971-1986 and has been accused of wide-spread human rights abuses. Bastien said her organization found out about the deportations after being contacted by relatives of the repatriated Haitians. She said the families are “devastated.” “There’s a high chance that they will be detained in Haiti, and we are really concerned about their safety,” she said. Florida Rep. Daphne Campbell, whose district includes Miami’s Little Haiti, said she didn’t wish to comment on the deportation of those convicted of crimes, but that she did reach out to Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama in hopes of discussing immi-gration policy toward Haitians.

U.S. deports first Haitians since 2010

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – Brazil will create a nationwide disaster-prevention and early-warning system following recent floods and landslides that killed more than 750 people in mountain towns north of Rio de Janeiro, government officials said Thursday. The government also will invest $6.7 billion through 2014 in water-drainage and hillside-recov-ery projects across the country in an effort to pre-vent future flooding and slides, Planning Minister Miriam Belchior said. “We will prioritize those places where experts say the problems are most serious,” Belchior said, according to a statement issued by the office of President Dilma Rousseff? Belchior said that $5.9 billion will be used for drainage projects and the rest for the hillside-stabi-lization projects. Half of the total funding will be made available to municipalities that submit plans for ongoing projects. Widespread flooding and mudslides hit Brazil every year, costing hundreds of lives. Last week’s slides were among the worst natural disasters Brazil has suffered – and with the death toll climbing daily, it is likely to become the deadli-est natural disaster the nation has ever recorded. A new alert system, expected to be fully operational in four years, will use 15 radars and a recently purchased supercomputer to help forecast and monitor extreme weather conditions, giv-ing authorities enough time to evacuate people from high-risk areas, said Science and Technology

Minister Aloizio Mercadante. Speaking in an interview with radio report-ers that was aired on the government’s website, Mercadante said officials have not yet calculated how much the system will cost. Meanwhile, the World Bank said in a statement e-mailed to news media outlets Wednesday night that it is considering funding a project to restruc-ture Brazil’s civil-defense system at the federal,

state and municipal levels. The bank also said it has earmarked a $485 million loan to rebuild houses and relocate fami-lies living in areas at risk for mudslides and heavy flooding. Mercadante said he expected the death toll in the flood zones to eventually reach 1,000 and that Brazil has at least 500 high-risk areas where 5 mil-lion people are at risk.

Brazil to create system after disaster

FIREFIGHTERS, A NATIONAL FORCE SOLDIER and residents carry the body of a landslide victim

from a home where the bodies of eight family members were found in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil,

Thursday Jan. 20. Deaths from last week’s mudslides rose to at least 727 and left thousands homeless. AP photo

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Associate professor Lisa Gabbert has been elected to the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society. AFS is the leading profes-sional organiza-tion in the field of folklore, and her election to the Society’s governing body is a mark of her growing reputation nationally and internationally. AFS has more than 2,200 mem-bers, including scholars, teachers, and libraries at colleges and universi-ties; professionals in arts and cul-tural organizations; and community members involved in folklore work. Many members live and work in the US, but their interests in folklore stretch around the world, and today about one in every eight AFS mem-bers is from outside the US.

Exhibit showcases canyon’s beauty A photography exhibit opens the new year and exhibition schedule at Utah State University’s Merrill Cazier Library. Presented by University Libraries and assembled by Special Collections and Archives, the exhibit “The Canyon: Recreation in Logan Canyon, 1890s-1970s” can be seen in the library’s lobby Jan. 10 through mid-March. The exhibition was assembled by Daniel Davis, Special Collections and Archives photograph curator. The exhibit includes a sampling of images drawn from the Logan Canyon Photograph Collection housed in Special Collections and Archives. For more than 110 years, Logan Canyon has been a center for camp-ing, hiking, fishing, skiing or just having a good time with friends and family, Davis said. The exhibit includes more than 20 images of recreational activities in Logan Canyon from the 1890s to the 1970s. “The images show that while fashion, transportation and equip-ment change, the canyon is still used largely for most of the same recreational purposes,” Davis said. The exhibit is free and open to all during the library’s operating hours.

Professor elected to executive board

LISA GABBERT

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In an effort to bring back a sense of community and give recreation at Utah State room to grow, a committee met with planning officials last week to go over cost and space estimates for a new student recreation center. ASUSU president Tyler Tolson campaigned twice with the rec center on his platform, and now it is taking shape, starting with weekly meetings between Tolson, Student Services and Campus Recreation. “Building a building is really like flipping a U-turn in the Titanic,” Tolson said. It won’t be an ordinary recreation center, Student Services Vice President James Morales said Friday. The goal is to make it a place for students with diverse interests to go. “We’re calling it a fusion building,” Morales said. “Fusion” implies bring-ing student services, student programming – events planned by students -– and recreation together in one building. Students voted in 2000 to pass a fee increase that would pay for a new recre-ation center, but it derailed. Morales said competition with new fitness centers around Cache Valley is the reason the building’s progress met a dead end. More people live in the valley now, and Morales said it is past time for a new student recreation center. “We’re probably 15 years behind where we should be,” Morales said. The Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER) building, where most student campus recreation is housed, was built in 1972. The Nelson Fieldhouse, also a building set aside for student recreation, was built in the 1930s. Outdoor Recreation is currently located on the north end of

campus by the stadium. Kevin Kobe of the campus recreation department said demands for student recreation are expanding and a newer, more cen-tralized facility is needed. “We’re doing the best with what we have, but we’re kind of handcuffed,” Kobe said. He said campus recreation is excited about a new effort to get this facility going. The HPER was built for 8,000 people, and now Utah State has over 17,000 students. Credit classes take priority, which limits how students can recreate on campus. Tolson defended his plans for a rec center last year during ASUSU presidential debates. The major concern voiced by students is funding, and how much they will have to pay. Tolson said they are looking at the total cost of the building being somewhere around $35 million. The new College of Agriculture building, currently in construction,

cost $43 million. A student fee will pay for facil-ity access and regular programs at this fusion building. Structured programs, such as some outdoor sports, may cost extra. Tolson and others involved in planning have toured recreational facilities similar to the one being planned for USU, and are using their num-bers to estimate what costs will be like. Colorado State University, for example, charges students $29 for a rock climbing class. “You could go swimming, you

could go play, work out, do anything that is not being structured by somebody, for free,” Kobe said. Morales said the student fee at other schools who have built similar recreation centers ranges from $40 to $140 a semester. “The students today would vote for it, they would not pay for it,” Tolson said. “You would not have to pay until the doors opened. The students who use it would have to pay the fee.” Other buildings on campus have been paid for by students, Tolson said. The Taggart Student Center and the Spectrum are examples.

“We (the students) own those buildings,” he said. Tolson said if Student Services combines with Campus Recreation into one place, the fee for the TSC will go toward that building. How or if this will affect the student fee increase is not known. Morales said based on surveys, most students support the idea of a new recreation center. There are different views on what the center could offer. Swimming pools, rock climbing walls, lounges, multipurpose rooms where students can watch away games, outdoor playing fields, counseling centers, and food services are just a few on the table. Ultimately, though, what goes into this building is decided by students. Morales said although the TSC had a bowling alley in the basement at one time, students now may want to have a place to check out a Wii or an XBox instead. “Things have changed a little bit as far as stu-dent interests,” Morales said. “The point is to rees-tablish a focal point for community building.” While the cost and the amenities of such a building are major concerns, another is where to build it. Construction at Utah State is common-place. The Emma Eccles Jones Early Childhood Education and Research Center was completed last September, and the College of Agriculture’s build-ing is in the middle of construction east of the Quad. Those involved in planning agree the build-ing must be central to campus. “We hope to have it right in the heart of campus so that students can easily come and go,” Morales said. At the moment, the most foreseeable space for a new building is where the old agricultural building is now. It will be torn down once the new one gets finished. The plans for a fusion student rec center are still in the early stages, but Kobe said he expects the momentum to build. Eleven years in the mak-ing, and a new recreation center for students is on the plate for campus officials. “You just start by talking,” Tolson said.


By LIS STEWARTstaff writer

evenings to connect with each other and discuss issues or resolve conflict. ResLife Week is a recur-ring program which allows different areas of housing to plan activities. Last year’s program included a movie night, bowling, a murder mys-tery dinner, casino night and a more somber experience called Light at the End of the Tunnel. “It let residents see a variety of views from people who still experience injustice,” said Bryce Sprosty, who organized the event. “It was one of the biggest projects I’ve worked on in my entire life.” A bid was written and submitted for the Light at the End of the Tunnel, which earned it the title of “Program of the Year” for the region. “The program is going to be presented at nationals to compete, and it has a really good chance of winning,” Sprosty said. The RHA highlights individual members inside the residential community with “Of-the-Month” recognition, and feeds a sense of appre-ciation for resident assistants who can recognize the outstanding characteristics in other people. “The entire program is so service oriented, you’re definitely not doing it for the free hous-ing,” said Kris Kabalan, former Resident Assistant for the Living Learning Center. “You need to love the people and want to see them succeed. I loved the involvement on campus, but especially creating a social environment for the socially awkward.” Kabalan is originally from Alaska, and moved directly into the LLC upon his arrival in Logan. “I loved working with the outsider: getting their opinion, then putting more spunk in it – I’d throw some money on it, guarantee pizza and a

good time. It was perfect for getting involved on campus and enjoying college life, but you are always an RA, people will always need you.” The RHA is heavily involved in service and fundraising and spent time tying blankets for hospitals, arranging Sub-For-Santa services and building community amenities such as the Whittier Community center playground. The RHA also sent letters and packages to soldiers serving in the Armed Forces. A letter of recommendation from Student Services Vice President James Morales stated: “RHA fills a valuable role for USU in serving as advocates for residents by listening to their needs and concerns. This function helps not only to triage problems but also helps ensure the physical, emotional, and overall well-being of USU’s students.”Allen said another goal and function of the RHA is to give students a voice on campus. Sprosty functions as the hands for that voice as the new advocacy chair. Students are able to submit issues to the chair to have resolved. “The request forms are filled out for equip-ment, or to clear the parking lot of snow, or to build a sidewalk,” said Sprosty, “I just work with the right people to get things fixed.”Student response has been overwhelmingly posi-tive for the advocacy action on campus. “The people they recruit for RAs have amaz-ing ideas, and they get stuff done, but it is all dependent on your director,” Kabalan said. Allen’s adviser was recognized by the national housing organization as the National Advisor of the Year. “I could sit and cry for hours telling you how

much she’s helped me through this,” Allen said. “I don’t think the fire will ever die, because it is about people,” Sprosty said. “People will always put time into housing because there is a great feeling and philosophy behind it, and it’s so much fun.”


Committee talks cost and space for center

“The students today would vote for it, they would not pay for it. You would not pay until the doors opened.”

Tyler TolsonASUSU President

“We were both at the bed when we suddenly heard steps through the window, but we didn’t dare to look,” the student said. “We had the blinds closed and we heard the footsteps outside, you know like footsteps in snow.” She said they called the police again and when they arrived she explained to them what hap-pened. Officer Kent Harris of USU Police responded to the call. He said he and the other officer on the scene waited and searched the vicinity of Aggie Village thoroughly. “We spent an hour just watching that particu-lar building,” Harris said. “The only thing we could see was the footprints up to the window. We couldn’t get a pattern because the snow was so powdery and frozen, you could just tell that a shoe had made the mark.” Harris said he and the other officers could tell there had been recent activity around the win-dow of the apartment in question. He said Officer Craig Johnson walked around some of the buildings in the area and noticed similar shoe prints in the snow.

“The general M.O. looks like he walks through the snow, as it is quieter than walking on the icy sidewalks, then walks up close to windows he finds of interest,” Johnson’s report states. “I con-tinued on foot and observed footprints around most buildings up next to windows.” Harris said he and the other graveyard shift officers make a habit of driving through Aggie Village and other campus dorms and apartment complexes. He said whenever they respond to a call about voyeurism he cautions the tenants to be mindful of how their blinds are positioned, so nobody can see inside. “We’ve found that if an individual has been looking in one window, they’ve been looking in others as well,” Harris said. “When I was with Logan City Police, I was with them for 21 years, and we caught individuals that were looking in windows. We caught several people.” The student who reported the recent incident said when she moved into her apartment the resident assistant put name tags on each of the doors. She said she could understand doing that

in a dorm but not in a regular apartment com-plex. She said she advises against this because if somebody knows there are two women living in one place and no men, they could become targets for sexual assault or other predatory crimes. “When I first came here one of the things I liked the most about Logan was the security,” she said. “Right now I don’t feel insecure, but I don’t feel secure either. I’m not scared of going out at night because I know that the police will be there.” USU Police Capt. Steve Milne said a woman called recently because she thought she heard somebody trying to open a window at her trailer court residence across from Aggie Village. When police investigated they found foot-prints outside her home, but not where she said she heard the noise. Milne said anyone with information about these or related incidents should call USU police immediately.


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ORGANIZERS OF THE ”Zombie vs. Humans”

games say finding activities that include many stu-

dents is the goal for RHA. STERLING BOIN photo

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Athletics director Scott Barns presented

the potential construction of an Athletics

Competition and Practice Facility (ACPF) to the

executive council in Wednesday’s ASUSU meet-

ing.

The facility will provide the basketball

teams with an alternate place to practice and

volleyball will have a court to call their own.

The 28,000 square-foot building will cost

approximately $7.5 million.

“This is not funded,” Athletics Director

Scott Barnes said. “We are raising the money

ourselves, but we have a lead gift that would

be the biggest gift this program has ever been

given.”

Barnes presented the idea to ASUSU’s execu-

tive council Wednesday, seeking the members’

approval before looking into the project any

further. ASUSU President Tyler Tolson held an

unofficial vote to show the members’ support

for the idea, which was unanimous. Because of

this vote of approval, Barnes said he will con-

tinue analyzing potential sites for the competi-

tion and practice facility.

“I was looking out my window one day and

I saw the basketball team piling in a van going

to Logan High to practice,” Barnes

said. “As the university grows,

practice time becomes limited.”

This idea was proposed at the

most recent Board of Trustees

meeting, and possible locations

for the building have been dis-

cussed. If the building is approved

for construction, Barnes said he

would ideally have it be placed in

a lot just west of the Spectrum,

south of the Harris Center (HAC.)

“We are talking about taking

down the Harris building,” Barnes

said. “It’s beyond repair.”

If the Harris building is

knocked down, Barnes said he

would like to see the lot turned into more park-

ing for the new facility. However, if this lot does

not allow the ACPF building to share utilities

with the Spectrum through an underground

route, Barnes said he and his committee on the

project will look into other options.

Their next best idea is to replace the HAC

with the ACPF, he said. In this situation, the

faculty and staff who now have

their offices in the HAC will be

given new offices in the ACPF.

Remaining options include lots

on the north side of the HPER

field.

Currently, the design for the

building is a rough sketch that

Barnes said is not overly techni-

cal.

The issue of the Tier II

tuition hike was brought up by

Tolson who encouraged council

members to collaborate and

find ideas to make the univer-

sity’s tight finances less painful

for students. A committee on

the matter is meeting to formulate the best way

to make a difference in students’ academic lives

by alleviating the financial burdens that may

come.

“We have not felt the full effects of last year’s

budget cuts,” said Brent Crosby, ASUSU execu-

tive vice president. “This could mean larger

class sizes and cuts in our programs and activi-

ties.”

When money from the stimulus has been

used to propel USU, the effects will be seen

more definitely, Crosby said.

Athletics Vice President Alex Putnam said

at the meeting that USU has 300 tickets for

this year’s WAC tournament in Last Vegas that

will commence over spring break. The tickets

will be sold in the Athletics’ ticket office in the

Spectrum from 2-5 p.m.

There is no student deal for a ticket package

and tickets must be paid for with a credit card.

He said if Aggie men’s basketball wins a game,

the next game will be charged onto the credit

card. If the team loses, charges will stop. Each

game will cost $18 for USU students. A student

package for hotel accommodations and trans-

portation are in the making, Putnam said.


By CATHERINE MEIDELL

news editor

More building construction possible for USU athletics

Education (RME) Programs for Utah Producers. The grant

will provide risk management education for beginning and

established agricultural producers as well as Native American

producers throughout Utah.

The grant was awarded to USU for the fourth consecutive

year. Feuz said its purpose is to improve risk management

among farmers and ranchers.

In the meantime, a collapse of the UNR college of agri-

culture, a result of the school’s finanical crisis and resulting

faculty shake-up, led to an additional $247,461 attributed to

Logan’s university.

Kynda Curtis was part of the shake-up. As Curtis was con-

vincing USDA to provide the sizable grant to UNR, she also

applied for her current USU position, extension specialist and

associate professor for the department of applied economics.

She said she applied because her UNR job was in jeopardy due

to UNR’s need to cut back faculty because they were closing

several of their colleges, including two-fifths of the college of

agriculture.. UNR’s student newspaper said a state financial

crisis resulted in $11 million taken from UNR for the 2009-10

school year, a projected 75-person faculty cutback by fall of

this year.

“Had (Nevada’s financial crisis) not been occurring, they

might have been more upset (with USU receiving UNR’s

grant),” said Curtis, who also said in the past two school years,

the school has only received approximately 30 percent of what

the state usually provides on an annual basis.

“Basically, (UNR) is restructuring the college of agriculture

at this point,” Curtis said.

Ruby Ward, a USU associate professor for applied econom-

ics and extension specialist, said that Curtis did her best to

leave Nevada in good hands, whether or not she was going to

be leaving.

“Kynda didn’t want to just leave Nevada in the air,” Ward

said. “Knowing she was leaving, she applied for Utah State, but

did it with programming in Nevada in mind.”

Ward also recognized that there was no one waiting in the

wings to take Curtis’ position and apply for the nearly quarter-

million dollar grant.

“Even if (UNR) wasn’t getting rid of her position, she was

the only one with that position in working with (UNR) exten-

sion who was seeking the grant,” she said. “Someone else

could’ve applied for it, but they didn’t have someone like

Kynda. So someone else could’ve stepped in and tried, but

there’s a learning curve.”

The purpose of both grants are to financially support

programming workshops throughout the state that instruct

farmers and ranchers in their businesses, including insurance

management.

“There are so many benefits that we can do through pro-

gramming,” said Sara Drollette, USU Extension educator.

“There are a lot of workshops and presentations that USU

Extension provides. The focus of the grant is to help ag pro-

ducers.”

Although she now works in Logan, neither Curtis nor Feuz

said they wouldn’t rule out seeking grants and holding work-

shops out-of-state.

“For us, most of the time we should be in Utah,” Feuz said.

“But most of us are on nine-month contracts, so we can jus-

tify spending time in other states. The way we’re working it,

it doesn’t create extra work because we’re creating programs

in Utah, but are often presenting them in Nevada anyway.

The presentation is just a smaller portion (of the marketing

niche).”

The programming visits educate producers on fundamental

budgeting and accounting work, tax issues, education on crop

damage, livestock insurance and the producers’ position in

the stock market. They also provide training on better ways

to market commodities and products in the agriculture indus-

try. The workshops reach multiple producers from across the

state.

Curtis often provided programs for Native Americans while

employed by UNR due to Nevada’s numerous reservations. She

said she will continue to do so at Utah State. She said there are

unique aspects of holding workshops with Native Americans,

while the particular niche also relates to traditional program-

ming.

“Sometimes Native Americans have different levels of

education,” she said. “So, a lot of times we have to cover more

basics. But the agricultural products they use are similar.”

The workshops are aimed to reach audiences from high

school students who may be part of Future Farmers of

America to the experienced farmers and ranchers who have

been in the industry for a half-century.


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Temporary art gallery set up in TSC for student art sale

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“We have not felt the full effects of last year’s budget cuts. This could mean larger class sizes and cuts in our programs and activities.”

Brent Crosby, ASUSU executive vice

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Kent Concert Hall

Chase Fine Arts Center

Featuring Four-Time Tony Award-Winning

Actress and Singer Audra McDonald,

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$10 general admission

FREE FOR USU STUDENTS

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Hollywood invades Northern Utah this week for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the event, which kicked off Thursday and runs until Jan. 30.

The Festival

Sundance Institute President and Founder Robert

Redford spoke to members of the press at an opening press conference Thursday, reminiscing about the festival’s early days and commenting on the future of the independent film festival. “We started on a shoestring,” Redford said. “As things get bigger, larger and more successful, keeping that as our core has always felt right.” Redford said while the festival has certainly grown over the last 30 years – originally the Egyptian Theater was the only venue for films – organizers have kept the heart of the competition true.

“We don’t program for commerciality, we program for ideas,” Redford said. “We do it the same way we did 25 years ago.” Since its inception, the Sundance festival has grown to be one of the premier U.S. film festivals. Sundance festival director John Cooper said that this year drew over 10,000 entrants. “This is going to be one of our biggest year’s ever,” Cooper said. With the growth of the event, Park City’s Main Street has seen an increase of marketing presences, which Cooper referred to as “riff-raff,” that take advantage of the crowds, something that Cooper and Redford suggested may contribute to the perception of Sundance growing more commercial. “I wish they could find a way to contribute to independent film or the arts,” Cooper said. Redford spoke of the festival’s future and the Sundance Institute’s plans to incorporate new tech-nologies to spread the reach of independent film. “The democratization of the Internet has created terrific opportunities,” Redford said. This year a number of films will be available to stream online and theaters in select states in the U.S. and abroad will be showcasing Sundance films, Redford said. Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam said, “We’re active all over the world, not just

for 10 days in January.” One reporter asked Redford if he had plans for his retirement, referencing the recent media departures of Regis Philbin and Larry King. “I have not thought about retirement. I’m going to die, but …,” Redford said, trailing off to audience laughter.

The Films

“I love the films that are in this festival. I love all of them,” Redford said. “The point is just to share what’s out there.” Screenings at Park City are, for the most part, sold out, but there are still options for those wishing to view this year’s festival crop. In Salt Lake, films are being shown at the Broadway Cinema, Rose Wagner Center and Tower Theatre. Select films are also being screened at Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden. For those who prefer the Park City experience, a limited number of tickets are released each day at 8 a.m. or festival goers can also obtain waitlist tickets by arriving two hours before a specific screening. All screenings in Park City are $15 per ticket. Be pre-pared for a parking nightmare, or bring some money for a park and ride lot – shuttle service is free.

With Celebration of the Arts week wrap-ping up, the Caine College of the Arts is not ready for a curtain call just yet. Tonight the Caine College of the Arts will present a Grand Gala in the Kent Concert Hall at 7:30. This evening will pay tribute to all the departments within the college and showcase the talents of faculty and students, while recognizing the prominent donors who made this new college possible. Lee Daily, who is directing the gala, said the evening will include little vignettes of each group performing activities from their department, including art, music, theatre arts and interior design. “It will be an evening of glitz, glamour and world-class entertainment,” Daily said. The event is also meant to entertain, with performances from Seussical the Musical, USU Scotsmen Pipe and Drum Corps and the USU Chamber Singers. Daily said every per-

son that attends should be able to come and enjoy an evening out with the variety of vocal, instrumental and dance performances along with cinematography. “It will be a lot of fun,” Daily said. Marketing Director and Public Relations Coordinator Courtney Lewis said the Gala is “a blending of artistic expression to the fullest extent.” Lewis also said Hollywood actress and singer Audra Mcdonald will be a special guest at the Gala. Mcdonald has won four Tony awards and currently holds a role as Dr. Naomi Bennet in the ABC series “Private Practice.” Lewis said the Arts College is unique in that students can perform and showcase their talents “here and now” and do not have to wait until they graduate to do so profession-ally. The Gala will also take time to recognize outstanding seniors from each department. One such senior is theatre performance major Felicia Stehmeier, from Santa Barbara, Calif. Lewis said that Stehmeier is “a prime example of the talent the Caine College of the Arts produces.” Stehmeier said she is honored to be fea-tured and the college has provided her with many opportunities and a variety of experi-ence. “I was very surprised to be recognized for my hard work. It feels great,” Stehmeier said. The Grand Gala is free for students with an ID and $10 general admission. The theatre department will also put on “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” performed by the Old Lyric Repertory Company. This performance is one of the most popu-lar shows produced around the world and will take place at the Caine Lyric Theatre Jan. 22

at 2 p.m. It promises a version of Shakespeare never seen before. Scenic Designer and Artistic Director Dennis Hassan said the show is “a very funny comedy based on three young adults who decided to show all of Shakespeare’s works in two hours.” Hassan said audiences will not get bored or lost due to the comedic actors constantly

changing costumes and characters including male and female roles. Hassan also said the skilled comedians and actors of the company keep audiences engaged by interacting with them. “They are very accustomed to each other,”

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ROBERT REDFORD, FOUNDER AND president of the Sundance Institute, spoke about the beginnings of the festival and his excitement at this year’s entrants during a press conference Thursday, Jan. 20. BENJAMIN WOOD photo

The Return of the Festival

By JESSICA SWEAT

features senior writer

Sundance Film Festival revisits Park City with new movies and old Robert Redford

THE EGYPTIAN THEATER in Park City has been an icon and symbol of the Sundance Film Festival since its inception more than 30 years ago. Today, it is still revered as one of the most impor-tant stages for independent films. BENJAMIN WOOD photo

-See FILM, page 8

Celebration of the Arts week ends with Grand Gala

A STRING QUARTET SHOWCASES their abilities during the Celebration of the Arts. The week will culminate with the Grand Gala, where Topy award-winning actress, Audra McDonald will perform as a special guest, at the request of Craig Jessop, who worked with her previously. ANIE AGHABABYAN photo

-See WEEKEND, page 8

By BENJAMIN WOOD

editor in chief

Celebration of the Arts Grand Gala: Where: Kent Concert Hall

When: Friday, Jan. 21

7:30 p.m.

Cost: $10 walk-in

Free with student ID

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged): Where: Caine Lyric Theatre

When: Saturday, Jan. 22

2 p.m.

Cost: $15 for show

$20/dinner and show

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A matinee with a crowd of grand-pas and their wives did not change the funny factor of “The Dilemma.” I did feel as if I were the only one laughing, but that might be my obnoxiously loud hackle and my “I-don’t-care-what-peo-ple-think-of-me” attitude. Nonetheless, “The Dilemma” was a fantastic comedy with an everyday, common, unfortunate predica-ment. It tells a story of two best friends, Ronny and Nick. Buds since their earlier college years, they hardly have any-thing that would come between them, or so they thought. Ronny, played by the hilarious Vince Vaughn, finds Nick’s wife with another man. The friends, now business partners in an auto design company, have a stress-ful deadline creeping up. Does Ronny tell Nick in the midst of his stress or after they meet deadline? With an appropriately awkward feel, “The Dilemma” generates a sort of uncontrollable laughter and angst. Half the time I was laughing out loud. The other half, I was tightly clasping my hands together covering my mouth

from anxiety. I couldn’t help but place myself in this real world situation. What would I do? Vince Vaughn did not only provide the impeccable hilarity that is expect-ed from him, but he looks comfortable doing drama as well. His on-screen

chemistry with Kevin James created the per-fect brother-like friend-ship that was intended. From the beginning through the end, I felt like all the actors were the best of friends just making a movie togeth-er. That of course, might be the case, but not all actors can come across as natural, nor appear

to have been life-long friends with someone. Kevin James had no problem deliv-ering his lines and realistic role. I am a fan. Unfortunately, the actress that played his wife, Winona Ryder, was not all that. Maybe her acting just appeared to be mediocre compared to the leading men, but half the time it looked like she had crazy eyes. She was over-acting and everything was much too exaggerated. Jennifer Connelly, who plays Vaughn’s girlfriend Beth,

was excellent. No need to say more. As for Channing Tatum, “She’s the Man” was the only project I liked of his, and I felt rather ambivalent towards his character. He is a terrible actor but pretty to look at. I will admit, I chuckled quietly when he spoke and delivered the lines in a hilariously unusual manner and his facial expres-sions weren’t too shabby. However, I would have not seen the movie if he

was the male lead. Ron Howard, the director, is most-ly known for his dramatic work, like “A Beautiful Mind” and “Angels and Demons.” Writer Allan Loeb, whose most recent comedy was “The Switch,” also stepped a little bit out of his com-fort zone. They have yet to perfect

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ple-think-of-me” attitude. Nonetheless,

VINCE VAUGHN PLAYS the confused friend of Kevin James, who’s wife is cheat-

ing on him. After discovering her affair, Vaughn must decide if it is in his friend’s best

interest to know or if ignorance really is bliss.

-See INFIDELITY, page 7

AggieScene Friday, Jan. 21, 2011Page 6

‘The Dilemma’ is perfectly uncomfortable

Should your black maid use your guest bath-room, or should she have a separate one away from the main house so as not to contaminate guests in your home? If you were a white hom-eowner in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962, this would be a real dilemma. Newer houses weren’t built with maid’s quarters any-more, and some houses don’t have anyplace to add on an extra bathroom. One couple in “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett, elects to build one in the corner of their garage. This and other day-to-day pressures and considerations of ‘60s life in the South make up the meat of this 2009 novel, but that meat is marinated in the underlying tension of the early Civil Rights Movement, segregation giving way to integration and the prejudices and resistance from every side. Because a few characters – two black house-maids and one young, ambitious white woman – take turns narrating the story throughout the

book, it feels a little jumpy at times. For almost the first third of the book, I felt this took away from

the flow and it was almost jar-ring to have to re-orient myself to a new perspective every few chapters. However, I got used to it and even changed my mind to appreciate the switch in view-point; it really does give the story a well-roundedness and allows for life and intimacy you wouldn’t have access to if there were only one narrator. The first narrator we encoun-ter is a middle-aged black maid,

Aibileen, whose grown son was killed in a workplace accident. This leaves her with seeds of doubt and bitterness growing inside her previ-ously status quo, complacent heart just as she is beginning work for a new family, a young couple with a baby girl. Aibileen’s job includes polishing the silver, raising the Leefolts’ daughter and serving tea and sandwiches to the ladies’ bridge club. One member of the bridge club is another narrator in the book, Skeeter Phelan. Miss Skeeter is the only one in the group to have finished college and the only one still unmarried. She is trying to become a writer and overcome insecurity about her frizzy hair and slender, 5-foot-11 frame. The ladies’ ringleader is the bossy Hilly Holbrook, who pressures Aibileen’s boss, Miss Leefolt, to get that separate bathroom for the help, then fires her own family’s maid, Minny, for being too mouthy. Minny is indeed mouthy, but as the best cook in town she manages to find another job for a new bride on the outskirts of town who hasn’t heard her reputation. Minny is the third narrator, and her story is tied into the main plot but also offers a fascinating subplot in her work for the frail, hapless Celia Foote. The plot thickens when Miss Skeeter realizes she sympathizes with the black maids and tries to convince some of them to tell their stories and reveal to the world what it’s like to be a black maid in a white house. Even given anonymity, the women are terrified of the consequences and many refuse to talk to Miss Skeeter. Intermittently throughout the microscope of

KATHRYN STOCKETT’S NOVEL “The

Help” serves as a portal to the Civil Rights

Movement and the controversy it caused.

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Book delves into Civil Rights Movement

-See HELP, page 7

Logan gets a taste of Brazil in new downtown restaurant In a town full of places to eat, there are burgers, pizza,

steak and sandwiches. The Gaucho Grill is the newest addition

to Logan’s collection of dining options and adds a Brazilian

f lavor of versatility.

Marcio DaSilva and Chad Casler, partners in business and

owners of the Gaucho Grill, have been in the restaurant busi-

ness for over five years, but only recently decided to embark

on their own entrepreneurial journey.

“It’s a lot of fun to be able to run something the way you

want it to be run, and make decisions for yourself,” Casler

said.

He said he believes that by doing business in a more per-

sonal way, it’s more likely that the customers will be satisfied

with their respective dining experiences.

DaSilva moved to Utah 11 years ago from New Hamburg,

Brazil. He and Casler, who have been friends since working in

Logan together, used to drive the 160 miles to Salt Lake and

back just to eat Brazilian food.

“We would either take the trip to Salt Lake, or just make

the food ourselves on the weekend,” Casler said. “We thought

it made more sense to stop driving so far, be able to run our

own business, do what we love doing, and enable the people of

Cache valley to partake of some amazing food with us.”

DaSilva said the restaurant is “a great addition to the local THE GAUCHO GRILL gives Logan a uniqe treat – a rodizio-

style barbeque, where diners are served freshly grilled meat off the

spit. Those familiar with Brazilian culture said the meat is a close

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wit, comedic timing and dialogue, but practice makes perfect,

right? Besides, comedy is much harder to succeed in than

drama. For comedic amateurs, they could have done much

worse.

Comedies don’t normally have intriguing graphics and cam-

era angles but “The Dilemma” didn’t lack. Near the end, there

was an interesting choice of directing in a scene where the two

best friends sit facing each other, right before their big meeting.

I felt the tension. It was awkward, nerve-wracking and almost

uncomfortable; job well-done.

The two hours flew by due to constant entertainment. I am

not saying constant laughter, but I was never bored. If you are

in the mood for Friday night leisure, I suggest checking out

“The Dilemma.”


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Infidelity: Movie has interest-

ing graphics and camera angles


the civil rights years in one society circle in one town, you catch

glimpses of the broader national scene. Those moments give the

story context and depth and for me, added a sense of urgency

and importance.

Historical fiction, historical drama, even, is not my genre of

choice. It can be upsetting to read about times and events and

circumstances that seem unjust when you know it’s history – not

only can you do nothing to change it, it’s real. Yes, this is a novel,

but Medgar Evers was really shot and killed in his own front yard

for his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.

There were really people who thought this was okay. People,

black and white, really feared for their lives just because they

had opinions and wanted things to be better for their children

and their children’s children. And that is hard to read about,

especially when you know it happened in your country, barely

more than a generation ago.

Those harsh facts and the honest depiction of real life

through made-up people and situations that can make it difficult,

even undesirable reading are what makes it important that it be

read.

This book is long – nearly 450 pages – and sometimes it feels

that way, but the human interest and mystery elements of the

plot kept me reading. I expect you will, too.

If you like “The Secret Life of Bees” – the book or the movie

– you will enjoy this. It’s also prime reading material for those

with an interest in American history, psychology, literature, jour-

nalism or people in general. Even though the book is told entirely

by women, the husbands, boyfriends, brothers and even mayor

or bus driver all have an effect on their lives and interactions. I

guarantee you will be surprised, excited, scared, pained, moved

and angry throughout the course of this novel. If you are offend-

ed by cursing, be warned that there is some. But, any offensive

content is pretty squarely in the category of historical context, so

I would consider this book appropriate for ages 13 and up.


Help: Story set in tumul-

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options,” and Brazilian-style cooking and serving is becom-

ing more popular in the United States.

The Gaucho Grill is not your typical sit-down, menu,

waiter, appetizer and entree restaurant. The food is cooked

in a “churrasco” fashion, meaning the meat is cooked on a

rotisserie skewer. In the back of the restaurant the chefs have

all kinds of meat constantly grilling on the rotating rotisser-

ies, including BBQ chicken, ham, coracao, bacon-wrapped

turkey, sirloin, beef, fillets, pork, grilled pineapple and other

Brazilian varieties. It is then served in traditional Brazilian

rodizio form, meaning that customers pay a f lat rate for their

whole meal, are seated, and are then personally served meat

from skewers that the servers cut onto their plates.

Assistant manager and Brazil native Luis Ramos takes care

of almost everything in the restaurant, including the cooking

of the food, managing the staff and serving.

“It’s not like any other restaurant because they’ll bring you

meat and if you don’t like it you can get another type of meat

next time they come around,” he said.

The food options are not exclusive to meat-eaters, though.

Casler said the restaurant has received good reviews from

vegetarians who said the salad bar turned out to be very sat-

isfying. The whole salad bar is supplied with “high-quality

sides” including vegetables, potatoes, polenta, fried bananas,

stroganoff, pasta, tilapia and feijoada.

They also offer genuine Brazilian desserts, including f lan,

white chocolate raspberry cheescake, prostigio and two dif-

ferent Brazilian ice cream recipes, which may be ordered

separately.

Open since Jan. 4, Casler said the restaurant has already

had a lot of positive customer feedback.

“We’ve exceeded our goals for everything in these first two

weeks,” he said. “I never could have expected such a response.

It really is overwhelming.”

A Gaucho Grill server, Jessica Winslow, said, “Working

with the customers is the best part. I love the interaction

the staff is allowed to have with them. It’s a really fun atmo-

sphere.”

She said all the meat carvers are either native Brazilians or

are familiar with the traditions and language because of LDS

missions served in Brazil or Portugal.

If business is as good as it has been, which DaSilva predicts

it will be, they plan to build a patio on the back by the Logan

river for some ambiance in the back yard.

Casler said, “The whole point of starting this in Logan is to

give the people here a similar experience, but without having

to drive so far for high-quality Brazilian food.”

The Gaucho Grill is located on 633 S. Main Street.


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What do you get when you combine poorly choreographed karate, speedy punching and knife fights that curiously never include bloodshed? “Ip Man 2.” The trailer to this action film did not entice me to watch the movie. It certainly left me curious about why this sequel exists. That “2” at the end of the title means someone thought the first flick was good enough to need a follow up. Though I was viewing the clip on a 3-by-5 inch portion of my computer screen, I am quite confi-dent I saw several “punches” that stopped about two inches from the victim’s actual face. If I were to guess the plot of the movie, I cannot get much further than that there is a group of guys who really like to quickly slap and punch each other. They like it so much that they find about four or five different settings to do basically the same fight. One scene included a floating object that most closely resembled a shipping carton. Another fight got pretty serious with some rectan-gular knifes. But there was no visible blood after any knife-to-skin contact. In the big finale, they appear to take all their fighting practice into a wrestling ring. Usually such a setting would involve a one-on-one fight. But hey, this is “Ip Man 2,” they follow their own rules. About 20 men start martial art-dancing at each other in an angry fashion. I am not sure who won the battle, but I will probably never spend two hours of my life finding out.


In 2005, I saw “The Haunting of Emily Rose” with some friends and secretly rejoiced that it was too ridiculous to be unnerving. On another occasion, perhaps a year later, I was at a sleepover with the same friends where a few people settled on watching “The Exorcist.” I decided I’d just sleep. Fat chance. I proceeded to wake up every 15 minutes to piercing, demonic shrieks and possessed children whipping their hair (and entire torsos) back and forth. Perhaps this is the reason I hold no desire to see “The Rite,” starring academy award-winner Anthony Hopkins and a fairly attractive Colin O’Donoghue. This exorcism movie claims to be inspired by true events and the research of exorcisms in the Vatican by journalist Matt Baglio. The trailer begins with the words: “In 2007, the Vatican’s chief exorcist revealed an initiative to install an exorcist in every diocese worldwide. Three days later, the Vatican denied the story.” Let’s break this down. I did not realize that “chief exorcist” was an official title in the Vatican, nor that every diocese was in need of one, but sure. And whether or not all of this is based on a true story, I’d be quite interested to hear what the Catholic church has to say about exorcist films. The tag-line for the movie is: “you can only defeat it when you believe.” Okay. What? Why would you need to defeat something you did not believe in? An exorcism can only be revamped so many times. I am pre-emptively annoyed with this film.


‘Ip Man 2’

‘The Rite’

Pre-EmptiveThe

Critics For those of you who revel in James Bond mov-ies, “Mission Impossible” or even the almost-good “Predators”, be prepared for disappointment. The life of a hitman takes an interesting turn as he goes from being the hunter to the hunted in a movie that has no plotline, no character development and apparently, no need for actors who know the definition of acting. This movie appears to be another excuse for two scruffy men to run around in dirty clothes, shooting impressive weaponry and mass-explosion devices. If you took a few cavemen, put them in spandex, handed them guns and told them to hunt each other, you’d have the plot of this movie. Every shot of the trailer is of two men running around exploding things, scaling walls and grunt-ing in deep voices with complete lack of expres-sion. What happened to the classy men, doing their work with style? The clean-cut tuxedos have been replaced with the idea that Good and Evil can’t seem to take time to do a quick shave in the morning. Watching this trailer made me question the future of our society. However, the logic seems to stick. If pop culture demands colorless characters with no personality and no emotion just like the popular “Twilight” saga, why not in your every day action-packed thriller? The only problem is the “thrill” seems to have been taken out, leaving the audience only with the action. It’s sure to be a heart-jerker full of tissue wads and blood splatters. I pre-emptively hate this movie.


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A few films, such as the Ridley and Tony Scott produced “Life in a Day,” can be viewed online at sundance.org. “Life in a Day” is made up of moments from around the world captured on a single day – July 24 – and sent in by individuals. Besides the films themselves, Park City’s Main Street is full of things to do. Whether waiting for a film to start or just hoping to catch glimpse of a Hollywood A-lister, there are a number of bars and restaurants as well as festival-sponsored venues with live music and panel discussions. Honda, a festival sponsor, also has a space near the

Egyptian Theatre where the public can learn about the company’s latest technology and see ASIMO, the world’s most advanced humanoid robot. A new feature for this year’s festival is the New Frontier station at the old Miner’s Hospital. Open to the public, the venue shows a number of exhibits that demonstrate the latest in film technology and point towards the future of film. Redford

said that in his opinion, the future of film lies in hybrid films that blend different narrative styles and visual technologies. He said that in the past festival sponsors like Sony would have a location exhibiting their technology, but didn’t showcase the potential product. “Something was dead,” Redford said. “What was missing was the art that accompanies the technology.” Still, with all the different facets of the festival, Redford said the focus is, on showcasing the work of independent film artists. “The point has always been to do whatever we can to create oppor-tunities for new artists,” Redford said. Cooper said that 30 percent of this year’s selections are internation-al. He quoted the film “These Amazing Shadows” – one of this year’s selections – saying, “stories unite us and theories divide us” and said that the stories told at the festival cross borders.


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Hassan said of the actors. “They are roller skating comedians that can get out of hand sometimes.” The professional theatre company produced the popular show over the summer months and found it so successful, it lead them to revive the show for this weekend. Hassan said, “You don’t really have to know Shakespeare to enjoy this comedy, but if you do, then you will appreciate it more.” The event will also cater to the Logan community by combining a dinner offer from local historic restaurant The Bluebird Cafe, with the show. The college is sponsoring a “Prix Fixe” which allows those who purchased the $20 ticket to enjoy a post-show dinner at the cafe. Those who only have an appetite for Shakespeare will pay $15. For tickets or more information about either event, visit arts.usu.edu or contact the CCA Box Office at 435-797-8022.


How to do Sundance: • Contact the Salt Lake and

Ogden venues about ticked avail-

ability

• Watch the streaming films at

Sundance.org

• Try your luck at the Park City

box office – in person – at 8 a.m.

each day

• Show up to a film two hours

early and make the waitlist

– seating based on availability

• Forget the movies, hang out on

Main Street and see if you meet

any stars

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FridaySportsFriday, Jan. 21, 2011Page 9

Aggies bully Bulldogs 74-57, move to 6-0 in WAC

Not that these types of

things matter very much to

Utah State head coach Stew

Morrill, but when his Aggies

took the floor last night

against the Louisiana Tech

Bulldogs, they had the oppor-

tunity to break a Western

Athletic Conference record

for consecutive regular season

wins. A solid team effort and

five Aggies scoring in double

figures, led by senior forward

Tai Wesley’s 14 points, gave

the Aggies their

20th-consecu-

tive WAC vic-

tory, as they

defeated the

Bulldogs, 74-57.

“I thought

basically our

guys did what

they needed

to do tonight,”

Morrill said.

“Louisiana

Tech has always

given us prob-

lems, whether

they are having

a good year

or a tough

year, they’ve

always given us problems. I

was pleased with our guys. I

thought we played solid. It was

a solid effort defensively and

we executed pretty well. We

pride ourselves on our defense

and we play hard, and if we

don’t have that defense, we

wouldn’t have won.”

USU held the Bulldogs to

42.9 percent from the field and

28.6 percent from long range,

while forcing 12 turnovers on

the night.

The Aggies (17-2, 6-0 WAC)

got off to a quick start against

the Bulldogs (9-11, 0-6 WAC),

as they jumped out to a 16-

2 run. Sophomore forward

J.L. Lewis and senior guard

DeAndre Brown, who led

the Bulldogs with 19 points,

stopped the bleeding before

senior guard Brian Green,

who finished with 10 points,

checked in and nailed a 3-

pointer to swing the momen-

tum the other way. It would be

a trend that would follow the

entire game.

“I thought

we made some

good runs to get

back into the

game,” Bulldogs

head coach Kerry

Rupp said. “Their

offensive rebound-

ing kind of cut

those runs off. I

thought our guys

played hard. They

fought to rally and

get back in the

game.”

Morrill

echoed Rupp’s

thoughts.

“They

played hard,”

Morrill said. “I never thought

they quit playing hard.”

It doesn’t seem to bother

the Aggies that they get a best

effort night-in and night-out

from opponents.

“We feel like we have a tar-

get on our back and each night

people are going to give us

their best shots,” Wesley said.

“That’s okay because we really

want to play against the best

competition.”

At halftime the Aggies

found themselves up, 43-29,

and they were able to push

that lead to 20 with a 13-4 run

capped by fast-break lay-up

where junior guard Brockeith

Pane, who finished with nine

assists, found senior forward

Nate Bendall for the easy

layup.

“Brockeith’s line was obvi-

ously very good,” Morrill said.

“That was nice to see.”

The Bulldogs called time-

out, and they rallied off eight

straight points to cut the defi-

cit to 12. That is something the

Aggies feel they need improve.

“Once we’ve got teams

down, we’ve got to keep them

down,” Pane said. “We can’t

give them any breathing

room.”

The 12-point deficit is as

UTAH STATE GUARD BROCKEITH PANE slices through the Bulldog defense during the Aggies’ 74-57 win over Louisiana Tech Thursday. Pane scored 11 points to go along with nine assists and seven rebounds as one of five Aggies who scored in double figures in lead-ing USU to its 12th consecutive win this season. CARL R. WILSON photo

Lady Techsters too much to

handle for Aggie women

By TYLER HUSKINSONassistant sports editor

USU GUARD DEVYN CHRISTENSEN drives for a layup during a game against Boise State earlier this season. Christensen scored 18 points, including a perfect 6-6 from the free throw line Thursday in Utah State’s 91-74 loss to the Lady Techsters of Louisiana Tech. TODD JONES photo

Adrienne Johnson scored 36 points and

grabbed 13 rebounds to lead a Lady Techster

offensive explosion as Louisiana Tech stayed

perfect in Western Athletic Conference play,

defeating Utah State 91-74.

The Aggies (8-9, 2-2) jumped on the board

first after guard Jenna Johnson went in for a

layup, but following a Johnson layup three min-

utes into the game, the Lady Techsters (12-4,

5-0) never looked back. Johnson proved to be

problematic for Utah State all night, finishing

the game 10-of-21 from the field and a perfect

16-of-16 from the free throw line.

“She’s the best player in our league, and she’s

playing like it,” said Aggie head coach Raegan

Pebley. “You can’t stop a player like her. You can

only contain her, and we didn’t contain her very

well tonight.”

Led by Johnson, who came into the game

as the WAC’s leader in field goal percentage,

Tech took advantage of a sluggish Aggie start,

building a lead of 21-6 midway through the first

half. The Aggies were particularly bothered by

turnovers, finishing with 25 on the evening to

La-Tech’s 19. Utah State also struggled from the

field through the first 10 minutes of the game,

and, according to Pebley, allowed the Lady

Techsters to dictate the tempo of play.

“Our first seven minutes of the game were

not very good. I wouldn’t say we weren’t ready to

play, but we just weren’t sharp,” Pebley said. “We

were too reactive offensively and defensively,

and they were really able to capitalize off of that

and jump out.”

Utah State was led offensively by junior

forward Ashlee Brown and sophomore guard

Devyn Christensen, who scored 24 and 18

points, respectively. Despite finishing the

evening double figures, neither Brown nor

Christensen could help their team overcome a

poor start from the field on the night. While

USU finished a respectable 35.7 percent shoot-

ing from the field, Pebley said the team’s first-

half shooting struggles – coupled with several

sloppy turnovers and inability to follow up at

the rim – ultimately doomed the Aggies’ chanc-

es.

“To open the game – not only the turnovers

– but one of the things that dug us a hole is that

we didn’t finish some layups around the basket,”

Pebley said. “We missed probably six or seven

lay-ups in the first 10 minutes. That hurts, and

I think that would of helped balance the scoring

out a lot more.”

USU eventually regrouped as the first half

drew to a close, but went into the locker-room

down 43-32. It was there that Pebley calmed her

team down, and inspired the Aggies to play the

kind of basketball that led to a convincing win

over Nevada last Saturday.

“We just encouraged our girls and told them

to stay confident and positive and play our style

of basketball,” Pebley said.

Coming out with renewed energy in the sec-

ond half, the Aggies cut the lead to 43-38 less

than two minutes after returning from the tun-

nel.

“We made some adjustments that the girls

executed well,” Pebley said.

Louisiana Tech kept USU at arm’s length,

however, and pushed the lead back to 57-44 after

Johnson took the ball in for a strong lay-up at

the 13:51 mark. From there the Lady Techsters

showed why they’re the WAC’s best, stretching

the lead to 68-50 by the 7:44 mark. Johnson

continued to pace the Lady Techster offense,

and despite a strategy to try to foul the senior

forward from Franklin, La., Johnson proved

unstoppable both at the line and the floor.

“She did a great job at the free-throw line,”

Pebley said of Johnson. “We fouled her quite a

By ADAM NETTINAstaff writer

USU sets WAC record with 20th straight win in regular season conference play

-See STIFLED, page 10

“It was a solid effort defen-sively and we executed pretty well. We pride ourselves on our defense and we play hard, and if we don’t have that defense, we wouldn’t have won.”

Stew Morrill, USU head coach

-See RECORD, page 10

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Friday, Jan. 21, 2011Page 10 StatesmanSports

Hockey falls short in chance to claim No. 1 ranking

Everyone who has ever played a competitive sport at one time or another has probably yearned to belong to a team holding that magi-cal position at the top of the totem pole – the undisputed king of whatever league to which that team belongs. Heading into Christmas break, it almost seemed unquestionable that Utah State hockey would be denied that ranking. They had beaten the then-No. 1 ranked CSU Rams in Fort Collins, Colo. twice. They had defeated every other tal-ented D2 team in the region at least one time, rolling over every other team in the state of Utah in the process. But when the dust settled, and the rankings came in for the month of December, USU was not at the top of the totem pole. In the Aggies’ place was Eastern Washington University, a team USU had already easily defeated at the Eccles Ice Center on November 20, 7-3. The No. 1 ranking mat-ters in USU’s league. The No. 1 team gets automatic access to the national tournament in San Jose without having to qualify at the regional tournament. If that tourna-ment were held tomorrow, Eastern Washington would be getting the free ride, and USU would have to try to play its way in. Head coach Jon Eccles said the Eagles of EWU may hold the top spot in the region, but that the ranking this time around was cer-tainly not undisputed. “We took five first place votes, and they took six. Our loss to Northern Arizona hurt us,” Eccles said, refer-

ring to a 6-3 loss suffered at the hands of NAU in December. “Had we won that game, it probably would have been a different story in the rankings.” And so, with a chip on its shoulder, USU hockey unleashed a fury of goals on Weber State on Jan. 8 in Ogden, destroying the Wildcats 16-2 in prepara-tion for the opportunity to regain its rightful spot at the top of the region at the Eastern Washington Hockey Showcase. But USU had to take to the event shorthanded. Highlighting the fact that USU hockey is not an NCAA-sanctioned sport and thus players must play around their school schedules, Jeff Sanders and Jason Moore were unable to make the trip because of requirements for courses back on campus. “These guys put their heart and soul into it,” Eccles said of his players, “and they do whatever they can at school. Some teachers are awesome, some departments really work with them. Others, you know, couldn’t care less.” The invitational pits five teams against each other who play four games in four days to determine which of the five is the best. Eastern Washington hosted the event. This year’s invitees were San Jose State, San Diego State, Simon Frazier (a Canadian university hockey squad) and USU, who went to play with only six defend-ers because of Sanders’ and Moore’s absence. Despite the disadvantage, USU started the event by defeating SJSU 7-4 on the first day of the competition and followed that up with a grinding tie against Simon Frazier 2-2. Eccles said the Simon Frazier game was

exhausting. “It was a very physical, demanding game,” he said. “That one took a lot out of us. I don’t want to say we were f lat against San Diego, but we jumped out to a 4-1 lead. I think we all though, ‘Yeah, we all got this in the bag.’ San Diego wasn’t ready to give that up.” USU then allowed 7 goals in the second period before rallying to defeat San Diego State in the third, 10-9. “We played well,” Eccles said. “We really did. I was proud of the team, proud of

the boys. The adversity of being down 8-6 after the sec-ond and winning 10-9 – we just held together and made it through that tough game. I was happy with that.” Perhaps the come-from-behind win extended USU beyond the point of exhaus-tion. In their final game of the showcase against No. 1 EWU, No. 2 USU jumped out to an early 2-0 lead but allowed six unanswered goals over the remainder of the game and lost 6-2. Eccles said the game was much closer than the score-sheet

made it appear. “They tied it up, and then in the second period they went up just one goal,” Eccles said. “It was a 3-2 game after 40 minutes. They got to sleep in their own beds, they had the luxury of running four full lines, plus they didn’t have to play Simon Frazier.” Now, with eight games remaining on the schedule, USU will need to win and hope for help from Eastern to reclaim the No. 1 spot. USU will play four teams for the remainder of the season:

BYU, Utah, Boise State, and Northern Arizona. The first of those teams, Boise State, will play the Aggies at the Eccles Ice Center in North Logan tonight at 7 p.m. Eccles said he knows his team can’t overlook the Broncos. “They have improved since we played them,” he said. “It’ll be interesting to see what kind of team comes to play us.”


UTAH STATE TEAM CAPTAIN KENT ARSENAULT lines up a shot in the slot during game action against Northern Colorado earlier this season. The No. 2 ranked Aggies went 2-1-1 during a four game stretch last weekend, including a loss to No. 1 ranked Eastern Washington. BRANDEN FONDA photo

By LANDON HEMSLEYstaff writer

Track and

field heads

to WSU

Utah State track and field heads to Pullman, Wash., for its second meet of the sea-son, the Cougar Invitational, hosted by Washington State on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 21-22. Events are scheduled to begin Friday at 3:30 p.m. (MST) at the Washington State Indoor Track. Action will continue Saturday at 10 a.m. and is scheduled to con-clude at 4:20 p.m. All times may be subject to change. In the Aggie’s first meet of the season, the Snake River Open hosted by Idaho State, the USU men tabbed seven top-five finishes and the women took five top-five finishes for a total of 12 Utah State top-five finishes, two of which were first-place titles. USU was led by senior Armahd Lewis who won the 60m hurdles with a career and Western Athletic Conference-best 6.80, and senior Clint Silcock won the high jump with a mark of 2.15m (7-00.50). The top Utah State woman was freshman Chari Hawkins as she finished third in the high jump (1.67m/5-05.75). Following the weekend at Washington State, the Aggies will head to the Bronco Invitational hosted by Boise State on Jan. 28-29. Boise State is also the host of the 2011 WAC Indoor Championships, Feb. 23-26.

BY USU ATHLETICS

Men’s tennis hopes to rebound in Las Cruces after loss to start season

The Aggies are looking to rebound against the Islanders of Corpus Christi for their first win of the spring season. Texas A&M Corpus Christi and New Mexico State open their spring season play against one another on Thursday Jan. 19 at 1 p.m. (MT). Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders are led by seniors James Langford and Laurent Montoisy. The Islanders will be looking for a spring season opener win against NMSU on Thursday afternoon. Aggies will look to senior Alex Thatcher and sophomore Sven Poslusny to lead the

men against the Islanders on Thursday Jan. 19 at 10 a.m. (MT). USU looks to rebound after its season-opening loss to the Cougars, 6-1 on Jan. 14. Thatcher was able to capture the lone point for the Aggie men in defeating Daniel Hwang 7-5, 1-6, 10-4. In doubles action, senior Bryan Marchant and sophomore Sven Poslusny fought hard for a victory but fell short to BYU’s Thomas Shubert and Spencer Smith, 8-6. Following their bout with the Islanders, the Aggies will turn their focus to the Aggies of New Mexico State Friday Jan. 20 at 10 a.m. (MT).

BY USU ATHLETICS

few times, but she got some offensive rebound putbacks and her guards did a really great job of staying disciplined in getting her the ball.” Pebley wasn’t displeased with the way her team played in the second half, but said the early deficit the Aggies suffered was ultimately too much to overcome – especially in front of the 1,635 hostile fans of Ruston’s Thomas Assembly Center. “We were miscued,” Pebley said. “We were not in sync with each other. There were a lot of bad mental errors that we’ll have to erase if we’re going to continue a good push in the WAC.”Despite the loss, Pebley and her team remains optimistic about their chances this season. After last Saturday’s home win against Nevada, USU proved it can be competitive in WAC play. The Aggies, according to Pebley, need only learn from the loss Thursday night, and reestablish the dominant and aggressive pace that they came out with in their last home victory. “We’ll learn,” Pebley said. “Sometimes you learn more impor-tant lessons from the things where you aren’t successful or those trying times. There’s redemption in the loss in that we’ll learn from it.” The Aggies will return to action this Saturday night at 7 when they travel to Las Cruces, N.M. to take on the Aggies of New Mexico State. New Mexico State is currently 8-10 on the year (2-2 WAC) and are coming off a 76-49 loss to Fresno State last Saturday night.


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GUARD POOH WILLIAMS drives to the lane during the first half of Utah State’s 74-57 win over Louisiana Tech Thursday. The win was USU’s 20th consecutive win in WAC regular season play, breaking the previous record of 19 games held by the University of Utah. CARL R. WILSON photo

close the Bulldogs would ever reach. With the win the Aggies broke a WAC record previously held by the Utah Utes over the 1997-1998-1999 seasons. Even though it’s a great accomplishment in their eyes, they won’t be dwelling on it much. “As far as the record, we didn’t know about it until yesterday,” Wesley said. “It is something special that we haven’t really talked about. It is something that is cool. It is definitely special to be a part of breaking that record, but it is noth-ing to dwell on or get caught up in.” Green said, “That’s pretty cool. It takes a lot of work to get that, and hopefully we can keep it going. Just take it one game at a time and not get caught up too much on records.”Morrill, who is definitely not one to be impressed with records, was very complimen-tary of his predecessors and equally impressed with his Aggies’ record.

“I have great respect for their record and it’s a different league now and a different time, but it’s still a nice thing for us that we’ve won that many in a row,” Morrill said. “Hard to believe with all the road games thrown in. Good accom-plishment; hopefully we can extend it.” The Aggies now look toward big conference match-up tomorrow against the New Mexico State Aggies, who fell on the road to the Nevada Wolf Pack last night, 90-71. The Aggies from down south tend to give the Aggies fits just like the Bulldogs, but the Aggies are excited and ready to go. “We’re excited for Saturday,” Green said. Tip-off is scheduled for 9 p.m. at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum tomorrow night and can be seen on ESPNU.


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The Utah Jazz and the O k l a h o m a City Thunder. What do these two teams have in common? A lot, actual-ly. Both clubs have incredibly talented point guards, Deron Williams for the Jazz, and rising star Russell Westbrook for the Thunder. Utah and OKC are both up-and-coming teams in this league, with a good core of young guys surrounded by older veteran players; the average age on the Thunder is 24.5 years, with the Jazz men aver-aging 27 years. Both teams operate in small money markets, which is a big deal when you compare SLC’s nearly 200,000 people to New York’s nearly 8.5 mil-lion people. And lastly, the Jazz and the Thunder are furiously fighting each other for first place in the Northwest division. How the heck Oklahoma City qualifies as “Northwest” is beyond me, but anyway, back to the point. Yep, the Thunder and the Jazz are bound to be compared against one another, especially when they are fighting to be the top dog in their division. In the past two years, the Thunder have gone 4-2 against the Jazz. All but one of those games were won by fewer than 10 points, and two of the games were decided by a single point. This season, the Jazz trounced the Thunder in Oklahoma City by 21 on Halloween night, only to have OKC repay the favor by beating the Jazz in Salt Lake a few weeks later. These two teams have been going at it all year, neither one letting up or backing down, which has made the Northwest divisional race an interesting one. Actually, it’s really the only division where there is a race. Every other divisional leader, except for the Heat in Southeast, is up by at least 8.5 games over the second-place team. Where’s the divisional drama? Where’s the excitement? I honestly don’t know who will end up champion of the division. I’ve watched enough of the NBA and basketball in general to know that it is downright impossible to predict how a team is going to play the last half of a season. Injuries, slumps and player problems are way too

random for anyone to actually know for sure who’s going to win. But, it’s fun to think about, and despite the fact that I can’t say I know who will win, I can say that I know what each team needs to do to give them the best shot. The Jazz: First thing the Jazz have to do is rebound the ball. I was very sur-prised to find that Utah ranks 28th in the league in rebounding per game, which is unacceptable when Jerry Sloan is your coach and you have two big guys like Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson. Secondly, despite how exciting and fun it is to watch, the Jazz cannot let themselves fall behind in a game and rally in the fourth quarter. It gives players a bad mindset where they think they can fall behind and then sometimes they are unable to dig themselves out. It also requires a huge amount of energy to come back from a deficit, and come playoff time, they are going to need all the energy they can get. Lastly, the role players need to step up. D-Will is almost a lock for 20 and 10 every night, but players like Andrei Kirilenko, Raja Bell, and the bench with Ronnie Price, Earl Watson, and Francisco Elson have got to play well when their numbers are called. The Thunder: Oklahoma City has two legit stars, Westbrook and Kevin Durant. These two combine for 50.8 points a game, the most of any duo in the NBA. But my suggestion to them? Don’t over-load the stars. Find the right balance of Durant, Westbrook and the rest of the team. Basketball is a team game, and two guys makes a pretty small team. Second, the Thunder need to start playing some “D”. They allow 102 points per game, much too high for a team trying to win the division and go far in the playoffs. The last thing the Thunder need to do is pass the ball as a team. Westbrook leads the team with a solid 8.4 assists per game, but after him it drops all the way to Durant who averages only 2.9. Oklahoma City is 25th in the league in assists per game and really needs to pass the ball better as a team to continue to be successful in the second half of the season.

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NEW YORK (AP) – A woman stolen as an infant from a hospital crib two decades ago spent Thursday at a Manhattan hotel with her long-lost mother as investigators sought the evidence they need to identify and arrest her kidnapper. No suspects were ever identified in the 1987 disappearance of Carlina White, the 19-day-old infant who vanished from Harlem Hospital. The hospital had no surveillance video. Her parents left the hospital to rest after the baby was admitted in the middle of the night with a high fever. She was missing when they came back. The parents, Joy White and Carl Tyson, said a woman who looked like a nurse had com-forted them at the hospital. She disappeared afterward and apparently never worked there, family said. As the years went by, it turned out, the best investigator on the case was Carlina her-self, living under the name Nejdra Nance in Bridgeport, Conn. She had long suspected she was at least adopted because the person who raised her, a woman who went by Ann Pettway, could never provide her with a birth certificate. She didn’t look like anyone she lived with, police and her family said. And Pettway was abusive, family said. “Carlina knows best, but she said the woman put her footprint on her face. I don’t understand how you could do that,” said Lisa White-Heatley, the woman’s aunt. A telephone message left for Pettway, who has had recent addresses in Bridgeport and Raleigh, N.C., wasn’t returned. A relative in Bridgeport told The Associated Press he was shocked by the story that Nance had been abducted. “I don’t know too much about this,” Kapel

Pettway said. “It stuns me. It hurts me. After all these years. I thought (Ann Pettway) was her mother.” Periodically, Nance would check the web-site of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, looking through photos of missing infants in Connecticut, she told the New York Post. She left Connecticut for Atlanta years ago and has a 5-year-old daugh-ter of her own, her family said. Her family said she worked as a dispatcher and hoped to have a modeling career. Meanwhile, Joy White never gave up hope

that she would find her firstborn. “She always knew she was alive,” White-Heatley said. On Jan. 4, Nance, now 23, checked the web-site again, but searched this time through New York’s missing children, and saw a baby photo that looked nearly identical to hers, police said. She contacted the site, who contacted Joy White. The two exchanged photos and talked. After a DNA test, it was all confirmed. Authorities are looking at whether federal officials should take over because the statute of limitations may have expired in New York,

said chief NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. There is no limitation in federal missing chil-dren cases. FBI officials in Bridgeport were looking into the case there. Nance was too young to remember if the woman who raised her was with her the entire time, police said. Investigators aren’t saying whether they have identified any suspects, but the White family believes Ann Pettway is the kidnapper. “We have our suspicions in this case, but you need more than that for probable cause,” Browne said. Authorities have interviewed Nance, her biological parents and want to speak to Nance again. It wasn’t known if they interviewed Pettway. White’s family said they want the kidnap-pers found and punished. But right now, they are focusing on having their daughter back. Joy White and her family met Nance before the DNA test was confirmed because she felt sure Nance was Carlina. Nance was in New York from Friday until Tuesday with her daughter but returned to Atlanta. “We took pictures, Joy cooked. We had a good time,” said White-Heatley, Joy’s older sis-ter. “Everyone was so happy. It was like she was never missing.” After the DNA test results came back Wednesday, Nance returned to New York and was with her mother at a hotel. Calls from the AP to Joy White and her daughter were not returned. But Nance told the New York Post in an interview posted Thursday that reuniting with her family was like a dream. “I’m so happy. At the same time, it’s a funny feeling because everything’s brand-new. It’s like being born again,” she said.

Woman kidnapped in 1987 reunites with family

JOY WHITE, CENTER, BIRTH MOTHER of Carlina White, exits a hotel with two unidentified

women Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 in New York. Carlina White was abducted in 1987 when she was 19 days

old. AP photo

Manson follower denied parole

CHARLES MANSON FOLLOWER Patricia Krenwinkel is seen heading to court in Los Angeles in this photo taken March 3,

1970.Krenwinkel, one of two surviving women followers of Charles

Manson convicted in the notorious Sharon Tate killings, is facing a

parole hearing Thursday, Jan. 20, after four decades behind bars. AP photo

CORONA, Calif. (AP) – In a decision suggesting that the brutal Sharon Tate murders are unforgivable, a parole board panel refused to consider releasing Patricia Krenwinkel, who told the board she killed for the love of Charles Manson. The two-member panel made clear Thursday that it was the horror of the kill-ings, one of the most notorious of the 20th century, that led them to reject the bid for parole in spite of Krenwinkel’s efforts to change her life. They said that the murders of seven people in an extremely atrocious manner had impacted the entire world as evidenced by letters which came in from around the globe urging that she be kept behind bars. “These crimes remain relevant,” said parole commissioner Susan Melanson. “The public is in fear.” Melanson and Deputy Commissioner Steven Hernandez issued their decision after a four-hour hearing and more than an hour of deliberations at which Krenwinkel wept, apologized for her murderous deeds and said she was ashamed of her actions. Members of victims’ families also cried and recalled their suffering after the mur-ders and called for her to be kept behind bars. Melanson said the notoriety of the crimes and their viciousness weighed heav-ily in the decision. “This is a crime children grow up hearing about,” she said, and noted that Krenwinkel failed to understand the world-wide impact. “The panel concludes that she is not suitable for parole and would present an unreasonable danger if released,” she said. She referred to seven victims who were bru-

tally murdered over two nights in a crime which she said could be classified as a hate crime because of overtones of wanting to foment a race war. “This was a depraved act by a group of individuals who find it difficult to explain their actions,” she said. The panel had the option to deny parole for up to 15 years. Melanson said they felt that was unnecessary and commended Krenwinkle for making progress in her life behind bars, participating in self-help pro-grams and other positive contributions. “While we want to commend you for the positive, you are unsuitable for parole and require an additional seven years of incar-ceration,” she said. Krenwinkel, who has been imprisoned longer than any other woman in California, told the parole board earlier Thursday that she threw away everything good in herself and became a “monster” after she met Manson. In reference to Krenwinkel’s claim that she was seeking approval from Manson when she killed, Melanson said “The panel finds it hard to believe a person can participate in this level of crimes and can’t identify anything but ‘I wanted him to love me.’” Krenwinkel, one of Manson’s two sur-viving female followers, has maintained a clean prison record in her four decades behind bars, but her chances for release appeared slim following parole rejections in other Manson cases. Krenwinkel’s claim that she is reha-bilitated was met by anger and opposition from Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Sequeira and families of

the victims, who argued for Krenwinkel’s continued incarceration. “If she truly had remorse, she wouldn’t come to these parole hearings, and would say, ‘I accept the punishment,’” Sequeira said. Krenwinkel was convicted along with Manson and two other female followers in seven 1969 murders, considered among the most notorious crimes of the 20th century. Parole boards have repeatedly cited the callousness, viciousness and calculation of the murders committed by members of the Manson Family. Krenwinkel admitted during her trial that she chased down and stabbed heiress Abigail Folger at the Tate home on Aug. 9, 1969, and participated in the stabbing deaths of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the following night. Both homes were defaced with bloody scrawlings. She was convicted along with Manson, Van Houten and Atkins. Another defendant, Charles “Tex” Watson was convicted in a separate trial. All were sentenced to death but their sentences were commuted to life when the U.S. Supreme Court briefly outlawed the death penalty in 1972. In her 40 years at the California Institution for Women, Krenwinkel has earned a bachelor’s degree and participated in numerous self help programs as well as teaching illiterate prisoners how to read. Asked to make her own final case to the board, Krenwinkel wept profusely, wiping her eyes with a tissue, and said, “I’m just haunted each and every day by the unend-ing suffering of the victims, the enormity and degree of suffering I’ve caused.”

Wisconsin’s gov. Walker working in hyperdrive MADISON, Wis. (AP) – On Wisconsin’s highways, work crews are still changing the road signs that feature his prede-cessor’s name. But in the state Capitol, Scott Walker is already breaking the speed limit. In the last few days, the new Republican governor has been ramming through the state Legislature an agenda that changes the state’s tax structure, provides new legal protections for busi-nesses and reorganizes a major state agency. In rapid-fire fash-ion, complicated issues that normally occupy months of debate are going from bill to hearing to law. “Everything’s coming out in a breakneck pace,” said Robert Kraig, a lobbyist since 1999. “I’ve never seen anything like it.” Walker is among the new governors who assumed power this month after the Republican midterm election sweep last fall. But his legislative blitz is unlike the scene in other state capi-tols, where the gears of government are just beginning to turn. In Michigan, where new Republican governor Rick Snyder has taken charge, lawmakers have just started introducing bills. Walker’s march reflects his approach to the job – brash and unconcerned about stepping on toes as he puts in place a pro-business platform he says will create 250,000 jobs in Wisconsin and attract new business. He also benefits from the fact that Republicans also won control of both houses of the legislature, and Democrats are still reeling. “I didn’t want to waste any time,” Walker said in an interview Wednesday. “This is not the only thing we’re going to do on the economy. This is just the first big wave, in terms of symbolism of the speed of our action, combined with substance.” Democrats, relegated to the minority, say Walker’s ability to race through major legislation doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. “The

problem with moving too fast too soon is that you have unin-tended consequences,” said state Sen. Fred Risser, a Democrat from Madison who is his 55th year in the Legislature and is the longest-serving state lawmaker in the country. “I would predict that we’ll be back later this spring correcting some of the mis-takes that are obviously going to be enacted.” The Senate passed a sweeping lawsuit reform bill Tuesday that makes it more difficult for plaintiffs to sue companies and limits damage awards and the Assembly gave its approval Thursday. The full Legislature also voted Thursday to eliminate state income taxes on contributions to health savings accounts, a long-stalled Republican health proposal. Other measures teed up for next week would cut taxes on businesses that relocate to Wisconsin and provide a tax deduc-tion for every new job created. Walker also has reached agree-ment on a plan for cutting small business taxes and is working on reorganizing the Commerce Department to better attract businesses. As the bills march by, supporters, opponents and everyone else are scrambling to keep up. Lawmakers who only went into session on Jan. 3 are presiding over hearings while their offices are still full of unpacked boxes. They receive briefings on bills only hours before they vote, not days or weeks in advance. There is little time for feedback from constituents. “The public couldn’t possibly know about all of these chang-es,” said Rep. Peter Barca, the top-ranking Democrat in the Assembly. Interest groups and advocates barely have time for their press conferences. Kraig, a lobbyist for Citizen Action of Wisconsin, threw together three news conferences in eight days to comment

on bills under consideration. Typically, he holds one every few months. “Although I don’t agree with the policy, it is impressive how much they’re getting done,” he said.

WISCONSIN GOV. SCOTT WALKER and Wisconsin

Secretary of Tourism Stephanie Klett celebrate after placing the new

“Open for Business” sign on the “Wisconsin Welcomes You” sign at

the base of the Blatnik Bridge in Superior, Wis. AP photo

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Aggie Blue Bikes is hosting a food drive to benefit the Cache Valley Food Pantry. Please help us reach our goal of collecting 1,700 pounds of food and come support the local community by donating a few food items at Lee’s, Fresh Market, and Macey’s Jan. 22 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Healthy Couple Relationship workshop at TSC Skyroom, Jan. 25 at 6:30 p.m. The speaker will be Dr. Kay Bradford a professor in FCHD. A light dinner will be served. Cost is $6 per person, $10 per couple. To regis-ter, phone 752-6263. FOR ALL SENIORS. Career ser-vices will be coming to talk about job searching and the do’s and don’ts of entering the workforce. Jan. 26, 2011 at 5 p.m. at the Haight Alumni Center. Refreshments to follow. Find us on facebook @ USU SENIORS 2011 or Phone: 801-655-3391 Utah State University College Republicans will be offering a con-cealed weapons class on campus on Jan. 29 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Ag. Science Room 202. Only 21 or older and the cost is $45 that can be paid on the day of the class. To RSVP or ask a ques-tion e-mail us at [email protected] Got talent? Tryouts for a variety show will be held Jan. 25 from 6:30-9:00 p.m. in the TSC auditorium. The Feb. 3 variety show is a fundraiser for the Rotaract Club and their pursuit to help in Mexico over spring break. E-mail [email protected] for a time slot to tryout or come and we will try to fit you in when we can. Bridgerland Literacy will hold a chili dinner with Scrabble games and a boutique featuring crafts and jewelry held on Jan. 21, dinner at 5-6:30 p.m. Fun continues until 9. Dinner $6 per adult, $3 per child (12 and under). Event at BATC, 1301 N. 600 West, South Entrance. Contact [email protected] for more information.

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Fine Arts Week! Activity daily from Jan. 18 - 22. Come join in on the activities such as the Grand Gala going on Friday, Jan 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kent Concert Hall. Art, music, theatre and dance combine for an evening of mind-blowing entertainment including Audra McDonald, four-time Tony Award winning singer and actress. $10 General Admission, USU Students Free! More information published online and banners throughout campus.

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