Professors John C. Allen and Craig Jessop have been named the deans for the two new colleges brought about by the splitting of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Allen will lead the college that includes the humanities and social science disciplines, which has yet to be officially named, and Jessop will head the new Caine College of the Arts. Both Jessop and Allen were unani- mously chosen for their “academic excellence, interpersonal integrity and dedication to students,” said Raymond Coward, executive vice president and provost. “Allen is a highly regarded aca- demic scholar with previous experi- ence in college administration, and Jessop is a world-renown artist and conductor with extraordinary con- tacts throughout the entertainment business,” Coward said. “I’m excited about it,” Allen said about being appointed the new dean. “I see an opportunity to refocus on what the college does. We are a great college of liberal arts, and I want to lead the university in that.” Jessop said he has been blessed with many opportunities and experi- ences around the world, which have helped prepare him for the job. “It is a honor to now give back to USU – it’s students, faculties and staffs – and to share together this great opportunity of creating a new college,” Jessop said. USU President Stan Albrecht had created two search and screening committees, Coward said, to oversee the recruitment of the new deans. Those committees created a job description and solicited candidates for the position. They then screened the pool of candidates and recom- mended individuals who should be interviewed to the president. Candidates for both positions were interviewed on campus and met with a wide range of faculty, staff and students. After these interviews con- cluded, evaluations of the candidates were solicited and collected. The dean of the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Carol Strong, headed the search for the new Caine College of the Arts dean and said, “The com- mittee was unanimous in its recom- mendation to the president, and the members are very excited about Dr. Jessop’s leadership of this new col- lege.” Now that the deans have been named, the task of organizing the colleges has begun. Allen said three things are the most important on his to-do list right now. First is separating the budget between his college and the Caine College of Arts. A name for the other new college is in the works, he said. An e-mail will be sent out to faculty for nominations and from there a couple rounds of e-mails will help narrow down the search. Allen said he is hoping to have a name cho- sen by July. Along with budgets and finding a new name, a focus group that consists of faculty and students is getting together to discuss what they would like to see in Allen’s new college. “What is the core education we want our students to have?” Allen asked. “By having focus groups, we, as teachers, can ask that question and apply what the students want to see in the future.” Jessop said his first priority is working out where everyone in his office will be. “The biggest initial challenge will be to simply establish a new dean’s office and staff,” Jessop said. “The departments are strong and vital, and we need to be ready to serve their needs as the fall semester begins.” Coward said one challenge both colleges will have to face is the eco- nomic situation that is affecting the university. “We are well aware of the financial challenges that the colleges will face in the early years of their existence,” Coward said. “This is why we are so pleased that we have been able to identify two senior, experienced Utah Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com S tatesman The Campus Voice since 1902 Inside This Issue 4/07/10 The E-club hosted the Campus Rail Jam, where 50 skiers and snowboarders compet- ed for prizes and pride. Page 8 The Wildlife Society Club spends time vol- unteering at check stations run by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Page 5 www.aggietownsquare.com Official Student Newspaper of Utah State University • “It’s All The News You Need!” Thanks to all who kept track of the Aggies in Reno by following The Statesman fan page. Jessop, Allen chosen as deans for new colleges By MEGAN BAINUM staff writer JOHN ALLEN, LEFT, AND CRAIG JESSOP, RIGHT, have been chosen to take dean positions for the new humanities and social sciences college and the Caine College of the Arts, respectively. CODY GOCHNOUR and PETE P. SMITHSUTH photos - See DEANS, page 4 USU’s Special Collections creating oral history of Cache Professor honored for clinical work - See PROJECT, page 3 Professor Vicki Simonsmeier won an award from the Utah Speech and Hearing Association (USHA) for her clinical work at USU. Simonsmeier said she had no idea she had even been nominated for the award, much less received it. Simonsmeier said The Louis M. Dicarlo Award is prestigious and is given to one person who has demonstrated improvement in clinical work over the past six years. “I laughed, since it was a friend of mine who told me. I didn’t believe it,” Simonsmeier said. “It means a lot when it comes from your peers. It’s comfortable.” Simonsmeier won the state version of the award and has been submitted as a finalist for the national award. She said she received a package in the mail with paperwork and other information for the award. She said she was awarded for her work the past six years, namely for three different things: a feeding clinic, social language groups and training groups in Washington. Simonsmeier said her specialty is in pedi- atric neurogenics, and she didn’t really choose her specialty, but that it chose her. She went overseas when she received her undergraduate degree to work in New Zealand and ended up working with children with cerebral palsy. She said she was always surprised by what the chil- dren were able to do. “Children, despite the limits of their body, you see what they can do. It’s what I’m really passionate about,” she said. Simonsmeier came to USU in February 2000, and she said when she drove into Logan the morning before her interview, she told her- self she didn’t think Logan was for her, but that changed. “After my interview, I just kept saying, ‘I want to be here. I want this job,’” she said. “Even though we in the department may dis- agree professionally, we can still get along. There’s such a degree of comraderie here.” USU’s feeding clinic is a unique experience for students, she said, because they get to work hands on with children and parents. “Students get to work not only with parents, but also occupational therapists with the medi- cal side of things, and really get a view of how it all works,” Simonsmeier said. “It’s didactic, but also very hands on.” The social language groups Simonsmeier has been working on are to help children relate to their peers. She said most children can relate well with the adults who are in teachers mode, but not so much with the kids on the play- By APRIL ASHLAND staff writer By BLAZE BULLOCK staff writer PROFESSOR VICKI SIMONSMEIER, who won an award form the Utah Speech and Hearing Association, specializes in pediatric neurogenics. Simonsmeier said she was surprised when she was notified of her state award. Simonsmeier, who has been at USU since 2000, said USU’s feeding clinic is a unique experience for students who work hands on with children and parents. JESSE WALKER photo - See AWARD, page 4 The Special Collections division of the Merrill-Cazier Library is making an oral his- tory about Latino culture in the area. The project began in 2007 and 45 inter- views have been conducted so far, said Randy Williams, folklore curator and USU oral his- tory specialist. Thirty-seven of the interviews were done in Spanish. Williams is working to translate the 45 interviews into English and Spanish so that more people can understand them. Every year or two, Special Collections con- ducts oral histories, Williams said. Williams has done oral histories on projects involving experiences of Utah War Veterans and many others. Williams and Elisaida Mendez, doctoral student in psychology, launched the project together. Jorge Rodas also helped with the proj- ect. The Latino oral history received a Human Ties Award in 2009, Williams said. Mendez said she co-directed the project with Williams and that together, they trained people to do the interviews. Williams said the reason for the project was to gather and preserve the history and heritage of Logan. Williams said she noticed years ago that Special Collections lacked information
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Professors John C. Allen and Craig
Jessop have been named the deans
for the two new colleges brought
about by the splitting of the College of
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Allen will lead the college that
includes the humanities and social
science disciplines, which has yet to
be officially named, and Jessop will
head the new Caine College of the
Arts.
Both Jessop and Allen were unani-
mously chosen for their “academic
excellence, interpersonal integrity
and dedication to students,” said
Raymond Coward, executive vice
president and provost.
“Allen is a highly regarded aca-
demic scholar with previous experi-
ence in college administration, and
Jessop is a world-renown artist and
conductor with extraordinary con-
tacts throughout the entertainment
business,” Coward said.
“I’m excited about it,” Allen said
about being appointed the new dean.
“I see an opportunity to refocus on
what the college does. We are a great
college of liberal arts, and I want to
lead the university in that.”
Jessop said he has been blessed
with many opportunities and experi-
ences around the world, which have
helped prepare him for the job.
“It is a honor to now give back
to USU – it’s students, faculties and
staffs – and to share together this
great opportunity of creating a new
college,” Jessop said.
USU President Stan Albrecht had
created two search and screening
committees, Coward said, to oversee
the recruitment of the new deans.
Those committees created a job
description and solicited candidates
for the position. They then screened
the pool of candidates and recom-
mended individuals who should
be interviewed to the president.
Candidates for both positions were
interviewed on campus and met with
a wide range of faculty, staff and
students. After these interviews con-
cluded, evaluations of the candidates
were solicited and collected.
The dean of the Emma Eccles Jones
College of Education and Human
Services, Carol Strong, headed the
search for the new Caine College of
the Arts dean and said, “The com-
mittee was unanimous in its recom-
mendation to the president, and the
members are very excited about Dr.
Jessop’s leadership of this new col-
lege.”
Now that the deans have been
named, the task of organizing the
colleges has begun. Allen said three
things are the most important on his
to-do list right now. First is separating
the budget between his college and
the Caine College of Arts. A name for
the other new college is in the works,
he said. An e-mail will be sent out
to faculty for nominations and from
there a couple rounds of e-mails will
help narrow down the search. Allen
said he is hoping to have a name cho-
sen by July.
Along with budgets and finding a
new name, a focus group that consists
of faculty and students is getting
together to discuss what they would
like to see in Allen’s new college.
“What is the core education we
want our students to have?” Allen
asked. “By having focus groups, we,
as teachers, can ask that question and
apply what the students want to see in
the future.”
Jessop said his first priority is
working out where everyone in his
office will be.
“The biggest initial challenge will
be to simply establish a new dean’s
office and staff,” Jessop said. “The
departments are strong and vital,
and we need to be ready to serve their
needs as the fall semester begins.”
Coward said one challenge both
colleges will have to face is the eco-
nomic situation that is affecting the
university.
“We are well aware of the financial
challenges that the colleges will face
in the early years of their existence,”
Coward said. “This is why we are
so pleased that we have been able
to identify two senior, experienced
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StatesmanThe
Campus Voice since 1902
Inside This Issue 4/07/10
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Jessop, Allen chosen as deans for new collegesBy MEGAN BAINUMstaff writer
JOHN ALLEN, LEFT, AND CRAIG JESSOP, RIGHT, have been chosen to take dean positions for the new humanities
and social sciences college and the Caine College of the Arts, respectively. CODY GOCHNOUR and PETE P. SMITHSUTH photos
-See DEANS, page 4
USU’s Special Collections creating oral history of Cache
Professor honored for clinical work
-See PROJECT, page 3
111111111111
Professor Vicki Simonsmeier won an award
from the Utah Speech and Hearing Association
(USHA) for her clinical work at USU.
Simonsmeier said she had no idea she had
even been nominated for the award, much less
received it. Simonsmeier said The Louis M.
Dicarlo Award is prestigious and is given to one
person who has demonstrated improvement in
clinical work over the past six years.
“I laughed, since it was a friend of mine who
told me. I didn’t believe it,” Simonsmeier said.
“It means a lot when it comes from your peers.
It’s comfortable.”
Simonsmeier won the state version of the
award and has been submitted as a finalist
for the national award. She said she received a
package in the mail with paperwork and other
information for the award.
She said she was awarded for her work
the past six years, namely for three different
things: a feeding clinic, social language groups
and training groups in Washington.
Simonsmeier said her specialty is in pedi-
atric neurogenics, and she didn’t really choose
her specialty, but that it chose her. She went
overseas when she received her undergraduate
degree to work in New Zealand and ended up
working with children with cerebral palsy. She
said she was always surprised by what the chil-
dren were able to do.
“Children, despite the limits of their body,
you see what they can do. It’s what I’m really
passionate about,” she said.
Simonsmeier came to USU in February
2000, and she said when she drove into Logan
the morning before her interview, she told her-
self she didn’t think Logan was for her, but that
changed.
“After my interview, I just kept saying, ‘I
want to be here. I want this job,’” she said.
“Even though we in the department may dis-
agree professionally, we can still get along.
There’s such a degree of comraderie here.”
USU’s feeding clinic is a unique experience
for students, she said, because they get to work
hands on with children and parents.
“Students get to work not only with parents,
but also occupational therapists with the medi-
cal side of things, and really get a view of how it
all works,” Simonsmeier said. “It’s didactic, but
also very hands on.”
The social language groups Simonsmeier
has been working on are to help children relate
to their peers. She said most children can relate
well with the adults who are in teachers mode,
but not so much with the kids on the play-
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By APRIL ASHLANDstaff writer
By BLAZE BULLOCKstaff writer
PROFESSOR VICKI SIMONSMEIER, who won an award form the Utah Speech and Hearing
Association, specializes in pediatric neurogenics. Simonsmeier said she was surprised when she was
notified of her state award. Simonsmeier, who has been at USU since 2000, said USU’s feeding clinic is a
unique experience for students who work hands on with children and parents. JESSE WALKER photo
-See AWARD, page 4
The Special Collections division of the
Merrill-Cazier Library is making an oral his-
tory about Latino culture in the area.
The project began in 2007 and 45 inter-
views have been conducted so far, said Randy
Williams, folklore curator and USU oral his-
tory specialist. Thirty-seven of the interviews
were done in Spanish. Williams is working to
translate the 45 interviews into English and
Spanish so that more people can understand
them.
Every year or two, Special Collections con-
ducts oral histories, Williams said. Williams
has done oral histories on projects involving
experiences of Utah War Veterans and many
others.
Williams and Elisaida Mendez, doctoral
student in psychology, launched the project
together. Jorge Rodas also helped with the proj-
ect.
The Latino oral history received a Human
Ties Award in 2009, Williams said.
Mendez said she co-directed the project
with Williams and that together, they trained
people to do the interviews.
Williams said the reason for the project was
to gather and preserve the history and heritage
of Logan. Williams said she noticed years ago
that Special Collections lacked information
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy have taken to Twitter to announce their breakup. The two actors each tweeted Tuesday that they have ended their relation-ship after five years. Publicists for Carrey and McCarthy con-firmed the split. The 48-year-old Carrey says on the social networking Web site that he wishes her “the very best!” The 37-year-old McCarthy tweeted that she “will always keep Jim as a leading man in my heart.” Both say they were grateful for the time they spent together.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Government officials in twin polygamous communities along the Utah-Arizona border were served Tuesday with search warrants seeking evidence on suspected misuse of public funds, authorities said. The warrants allege City Manager David Darger and Fire Chief Jake Barlow in Colorado City, Ariz., person-ally benefited or took money for their own use from the fire department “by false pretenses and/or without authority of law,” sometime between Aug. 1, 2004 and Feb. 1, 2010. “There’s an investigation being conducted by the county attorney’s office at this time for a possible mis-use of public funds and fraudulent schemes at the Fire Department and possibly the city government,” Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan told The Associated Press. No one was arrested or charged. Darger, who also serves as secretary-treasurer of the Fire Department, was out of town Tuesday and could not be reached for comment. Barlow declined to com-ment but expressed concern over the records being taken. “The Fire Department wants to do the very best they can for the citizens and wants to help them,” Barlow said. “Now all of their records are being exposed – we have protected medical histories on thousands of patients – all in the name of the county attorney’s office investigation.” The twin communities of Colorado City and Hildale, Utah, are home to members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, an embat-tled religious sect that follows Warren Jeffs, a church leader serving prison time after being convicted of rape as an accomplice in the marriage of a 14-year-old fol-lower to her 19-year-old cousin. Management of the twin towns and the FLDS have
been under increasing scrutiny since 2005, following allegations of an increase in underage marriages and misuse of a church property trust. The Mohave County Sheriff ’s Office in Arizona said warrants were served at three fire stations and the pri-vate residences of Darger and Barlow in Colorado City. Another warrant was served at a fire station in Hildale. Investigators were looking for documents and com-puters files, including financial records.Sheahan said officers had to forcibly enter one home after residents refused requests from police to open the
doors. Salt Lake City attorney Rod Parker, who represents the FLDS, said he had not yet seen the warrants and was unclear about the scope of information being sought. Barlow said the Colorado City Fire District covers a 225 square-mile area along the Utah-Arizona border and serves Hildale through an interlocal agreement. The district has about six fill-time staff members and 100 volunteers, including firefighters and paramed-ics. Barlow said the district budget for 2009 was about $1.5 million.
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Mine owner accused of putting safety second JULIAN, W.Va. (AP) – The coal mine rocked by an explosion that killed at least 25 workers in the nation’s deadliest min-ing disaster since 1984 had been cited for 600 violations in less than a year and a half, some of them for not properly venti-lating methane – the highly combustible gas suspected in the blast. The disaster at the Upper Big Branch mine has focused attention on the busi-ness and safety practices of the owner, Massey Energy, a powerful and politi-
cally connected company in Appalachia known for producing big profits, as well as big piles of safety and environmental violations and big damage awards for grieving widows. “There are mines in this country who have operated safely for 20 years,” said J. Davitt McAteer, head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration in the Clinton administration. “There are mines who take precautions ahead of time. There are mines who spend the
money and manpower to do it.” He added: “Those mines haven’t been blown up.” Four other miners were missing and feared dead underground in Monday’s blast, believed to have been caused by a buildup of methane, a naturally occur-ring gas that is odorless and colorless. Last year alone, MSHA cited Upper Big Branch for 495 violations and pro-posed $911,802 in fines. Production more than tripled during that period,
according to federal records. So far this year, the agency has found 105 violations at the mine. Upper Big Branch is one of Massey’s biggest underground mines, with more than 200 employees, and it is not uncom-mon for big coal mines to amass hun-dreds of violations a year – and to contest many of them, as Massey does. But most big mines don’t have as many serious infractions as Upper Big Branch, industry experts said.
SHERIFF’S OFFICERS AND other Arizona government officials remove items from the Colorado City Fire
Department in Colorado City, Ariz. on Tuesday, April 6, as local officials, center, record videos of the process.
Government agencies in twin polygamous communities along the Utah-Arizona border were served Tuesday with
search warrants seeking evidence on suspected misuse of public funds, authorities said. AP photo
Utah resident to scale Everest, scatter ashes KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) – A record-setting Nepalese Sherpa flew to Mount Everest on Tuesday to prepare to ascend the world’s highest mountain once again and scatter the ashes of its most celebrated climber, Sir Edmund Hillary. Apa, who with 19 successful climbs holds the record for the most trips to the summit, f lew from the Nepalese capital of Katmandu to Lukla, where he will begin yet another trek up Everest – this time to deposit the remaining ashes of the legendary Hillary and clean up the peak. Some of Hillary’s ashes were scat-tered into the sea off New Zealand by his family soon after his death in 2008. “I have three goals during my 20th climb of Everest. I will be taking and scattering the ashes of Edmund Hillary at the summit, clean up the mountain and promote Nepal as tourism destina-tion,” said the 49-year-old Apa, who like most Sherpas goes by one name. Apa and his fellow climbers – 17 other Sherpas and 12 Westerners – plan to collect 15,400 pounds (7,000
kilograms) of garbage, a growing envi-ronmental problem on the Himalayan peak. They plan to pay porters to help bring down the refuse. Apa first climbed the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) mountain in 1989 and has repeated the feat almost every year since. His closest rival is fellow Sherpa guide Chhewang Nima, who has made 15 trips to the summit. Apa and his team plan to scale the summit in May, when the weather is most favorable. Climbers generally have a window of a few days to attempt to reach the sum-mit before weather turns treacherous. He said he also wants to promote Nepal’s campaign to attract half a mil-lion tourists in 2011, as the country recovers from years of instability and communist insurgency. Apa grew up in the foothills of Everest and began carrying equipment and supplies for trekkers and moun-taineers at age 12. He moved to the United States in 2006 and lives in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper.
NEPALESE SHERPA GUIDE APA, who holds the record for the most con-
quests of Mount Everest, displays a Buddha statue which he will be carrying with him
on his next expedition to the peak, during a press conference in Katmandu, Nepal,
Thursday, April 1. The 49-year-old guide will make his 20th climb this spring and
scatter the ashes of Edmund Hillary, one of the first men to reach the 29,035-foot
(8,850-meter) mountain top nearly six decades ago. AP photo
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“It’s for somebody 60, 50, 80, 100 years from now who wants to understand what 2007-2010 Utah, culturally, was like.”
– Randy Williams, folklore curator and USU
oral history specialist
JON ADAMS, political science and sociology major, reads a display about racism Tuesday at the Light at the End of the Tunnel event in the Eccles Conference Center. The event, which was put on the resident assistants of South Campus, was what Sarah DuPaix, resident assistant, called a “tunnel of oppression.” A tunnel of oppression is something that other schools have done, DuPaix said, and this was USU’s first year trying it. The event took months to plan, and coor-dinators hope to make this into a USU tradition. The “tunnel” consisted of several rooms, divided by black sheets, which highlighted some form of oppression, such as racism, physical limitations or government-enforced oppression. DuPaix said the point of the tunnel was to “help people realize bad things are still hap-pening. She said history shown instances of oppression and while most people are able to recognize these events as harmful, oppression is not just a thing of the past. According to a press release, coordinators also wanted to show how “individuals can make a difference in our individual communities and at Utah State University.” MARK VUONG photo
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National Alcohol Screening Day Thursday to educate the AggiesBy MITCH FIGGATstaff writer
leaders who will guide these units successfully through these challenging times.” Despite economic troubles, both the new deans and other faculty members are optimistic about what is to come. Coward said the Caine College of the Arts is expected to establish itself as one of the premier programs in the Intermountain West, building on existing strong programs, while the college comprising of the humanities and social sciences is expected to “articulate a clear, robust future for itself as a scholarly community.” Allen said the main thing he wants right now is to let the students know he has an open-door policy and wants to be able to interact with the students as the college is being created. “I enjoy engaging with students. It keeps me young. I may not look it, but I still see myself through the eyes of a 25-year-old,” Allen said. “I want to be remembered as someone who lis-tened, who took information students gave me and acted on it.” Allen has been in many positions that have prepared him for this appointment. He has been a director and executive director in universities and nonprofit organizations. He has also had the opportunity to work in a dean’s office, so he has seen, firsthand, how things are run. He has been a faculty member and said he understands what it is like and wants to create a
relationship with faculty members so they will feel comfortable about approaching him with problems. He said he has also trained mediators and knows a lot about conflict management so he is hoping that will help him when it comes to dealing with conflicts among faculty. “I want to continually convince faculty I am here for them,” Allen said. “That is why I took this job.” Jessop also hopes to be able to connect with his staff and work together in building the new college. “My first order of business is meet and get acquainted with each member of the faculty and staff for the Caine College of the Arts,” Jessop said, “to visit with each of them individually and collectively to assess our strengths and the areas where we can improve.” The Caine College of the Arts includes the department of music, theatre arts, art, the interior design program and the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Programs that make up the humanities and social sciences college include the departments of languages, philosophy and speech communi-cation; history; journalism and communication; political science; sociology, social work and anthropology; English; military science and the Intensive English Language Institute.
ground or at church. “We have kids in small groups, usually between 3 and 5, and work on social skills. The parents watch, so they can help as well,” Simonsmeier said. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation puts out a newsletter call-ing for nominations for the national version of the award Simonsmeier received, and it reads, “Each state association is asked to select one indi-vidual from within the state to receive an award for dem-
onstrated contributions to the advancement of knowledge in clinical practice in audiology or speech-language pathol-ogy within the last six years. That individual named by the state association will receive a certificate from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation and will be named the 2010 State Clinical Achievement Award Winner.” The foundation then picks a winner from all the state clini-cal winners, and the winner is notified in the fall. The winner of the overall
award receives a $1,500 grant for his or her work. Simonsmeier said that if she wins the overall award, she would put the money back into the feeding clinic. She said it would make it so families didn’t have to pay. “We don’t turn anyone away, so the money would help us buy specialized bottles, cups, etc. that most families wouldn’t be able to afford,” she said.– [email protected].
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The USU Health Services, in con-junction with the Counseling and Psychological Services Center, will host multiple activities April 8 in the TSC Ballroom for Nation Alcohol Screening Day. There will be activities outside the Ballroom, such as relay races with beer goggles, while inside the ballroom will be a movie during which participants can take a confidential survey on alcohol use. Counselors will be available to talk to and answer questions about risky behavior and how to help a friend who is possibly participating in risky behavior. Michelle Swaner and Cammie Hanson, both seniors in the community health major and interns for USU Health Services, explained what was meant by “risky behavior.” “It really depends on how much you
drink and how often,” Swaner said. “Do you feel guilty when you do drink? Are others affected negatively by your drink-ing?” Hanson said, “What we can teach people here is to know their limits, to help people find a line of responsibility while they drink.” To which Swaner added, “We are not telling people to not drink or that they should if they avoid risky behavior, but if someone has made up their mind that they make the choice to do it responsibly.” Swaner said there is often a window in the freshman, sophomore or junior year of college in which a student who drinks can “pass through a period of high-risk drink-ing.” Swaner said high-risk drinking is not necessarily a high health risk. However, it is associated with impairment problems such as violence in relationships, work or school problems, trouble with the law and sexual assaults.
“Seventy-five percent of all sexual assaults are associated with alcohol,” Swaner said. Ryan Barfuss, a prevention specialist at the Student Health and Wellness Center, said, “In reality, high-risk drinking affects all of us, whether it be by highering insur-ance or tuition costs. There are not many people that are immune to the costs of others’ high-risk behavior. So it is not enough to just say, ‘Drinking is someone else’s problem, not mine.’” Those that do fill out the confidential survey and feel that they should speak to a counselor can do so at the event. They will be shown the resources that are available on campus to help them through the high-risk window. Hanson said, “Even if we identify two or three students who display high-risk behavior, we have done a lot of good to those two or three people.”
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MODESTO, Calif. – The president of the non-profit group bringing Sarah Palin to California State University, Stanislaus, donated $18,600 in support of her and Republican presidential can-didate John McCain two years ago. University President Hamid Shirvani, the nonprofit’s chairman, liked Barack Obama. He gave $2,300 to the Democratic presidential nominee. The donations reflect a range of political views on the university foundation’s 28-member board of directors. That board has been criticized by students and faculty over the past week for hiring Palin – one of the right’s most polarizing and popular leaders – to speak at the university’s 50th anni-versary celebration and fundraiser June 25. Because it’s a private group, the foundation is not subject to California open government laws that would compel a public school to dis-close Palin’s speaking fee. Typically, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate charges $100,000. State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, wants to force the foundation to disclose the number. So does a pair of open government
advocacy groups. Foundation President Matt Swanson, a Turlock, Calif., agricultural businessman, gave the most cash to Republicans in the 2008 elec-tion. Besides the money that went to political action committees backing McCain and Palin, he gave $12,700 to other GOP candidates, according to the Federal Election Commission. Orange County pharmaceutical entrepre-neur Milan Panic steered the most money to Democrats among the board members. He gave $33,100 to PACs that helped Obama, $23,900 to the Democratic National Committee and $6,900 to Hillary Clinton for the 2008 election. Others who gave to the 2008 presidential candidates include Modesto, Calif., land-use attorney George Petrulakis ($7,300 to different McCain committees), Fresno, Calif., developer Darius Assemi ($4,600 to Obama) and Hilmar Cheese co-founder Bill Ahlem ($1,150 to McCain). Most current board members did not return calls for this story. Swanson did not respond to phone calls or an e-mail. Shirvani was travel-ing and unavailable for comment, a university spokeswoman said. A former foundation board member said politics do not drive the board’s decisions.
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“I had to take the lymph nodes out of the first deer that came in. I cut across the front of the neck, back to the spine, tilted the head back, got a hold of the nodes with tweezers and ripped them out,” Dustin Lamoreaux said. As a senior wildlife science major and president of the Wildlife Society Club, Lamoreaux has spent some time volunteering at Utah deer check stations, just one of the many things the WLS Club does. The Wildlife Society Club is a student chapter of the national professional orga-nization and has been around for 50 years, according to Lamoreaux. The mission of the Wildlife Society, according to http://joomla.wildlife.org, is “to work to ensure that wildlife and their habitats are conserved through management actions that take into careful consideration relevant scientific information.” Elizabeth Goss, senior conservation and restoration ecology major, said the group is committed to a world where humans and wildlife co-exist. Even though the members come from diverse backgrounds, wildlife science major Carrie Jamieson said, “I think we can all agree on animal ethics: responsible steward-ship, co-existing between man and animal even though I am the far end of the spectrum as a ‘bunny hugger.’” So why the lymph node removal from the deer? Frank Howe, faculty adviser for the club, said the state has voluntary check sta-tions run by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to see how well the deer population is doing, “just like a human population, but we can’t do a census.” “It shows how many deer are being har-vested, how many hunters are successful har-vesting deer and the age structure of the deer across the state,” Howe said. Jason Carlisle, senior wildlife science major, said hunters bring the deer they’ve shot to the station where they measure the
deer’s antlers, teeth-ware to figure the age, the fat of their brisket, which is an indicator of how healthy they are, and test for chronic wasting disease, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. It took Howe five years to be able to say that “and now that I can say it, I must use it,” he said. The lymph nodes are tested by the state for CWD, according to Carlisle. “You put the lymph nodes in a little baggy and put a barcode on the bag and tear off a corresponding number for the hunter so they can find out later online if the deer they got was infected with the disease,” Carlisle said. Lamoreaux said of his first removal experi-ence, “Usually the deer is pretty bled out by the time they get it there. It was really cool. I
got them on my first shot, so I was proud. It was definitely graphic though.” In all seriousness, the disease, Lamoreaux said, is caused by a prion, which is an imita-tion of a protein, and it affects the nervous systems and degenerates the brain, like mad cow disease. So checking on the deer’s well-being is crucial. Another service the club is doing for Utah is working on WOW, Wild Over Wood ducks, with the Utah Waterfowl Alliance, Bridgerland Audubon Society and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. The project, according to Carlisle, chair of WOW, started last year with the purpose of increasing wood ducks in Cache Valley. The club helped place nest boxes around Cache Valley and will monitor the progress of the duck living there.
Jen Christopherson, junior resource man-agement major, created a poster of the project for the student showcase of student research week at USU. “We are in the first stages of working with the wood ducks, so we’ve set out boxes, nest-ing cavities for the ducks, because there are not a lot of places for them in Cache Valley,” Christopherson said. Jamieson said, “We are figuring out the ideal nest box location (in a tree or on the ground) and material (wood or plastic).” Ducks and deer aren’t the end of the list for this club. Carlisle said, “We do academic competi-tions every year, called student conclaves. It is a wildlife quiz bowl, and is basically like wildlife Jeopardy on steroids.” The national organization puts the event on, giving students a chance to network with professionals and show off what they’ve learned, according to Jamieson. The quiz bowl team consists of four persons. This year’s Western Conclave team was Carlisle, Lamoreaux, Jamieson and Justin Hicken, a sophomore in environmental studies. The four competed March 12-16 in Texas, taking third place. The questions are not as easy as shooting a sitting duck. Lamoreaux said he was glad they didn’t receive one of the questions another team did: “Where do whooping cranes spend the winter?” Jamieson, the conclave chair person, said the regional specific questions can be tough. “They may ask you about circadian rhythm to specific mating patterns of a certain bird. It is like they cram four years worth of college into one quiz bowl,” Jamieson said. Other questions, Lamoreaux said, are gen-eral concepts in genetics, ecology and biology. To prepare, a class was set up as a special project and the team met two days a week for a few hours as a study hall. Despite the intense preparation, the con-ference is beneficial, according to Jamieson. “It opens so many doors, it is not just a showing off of your knowledge, but it shows
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Life on the wild side
THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY worked with bison in the Henrie Mountains in Southern Utah in
January. The club worked at a docking station, taking blood samples and gathering data on the animals.
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They have served in the role of advocate, mentor and activist in the community. Now, three women will be honored with the USU Women Over 65 Achievement Award this Wednesday. USU’s Women Center has acknowledged the accomplishments, activities and civic dedication of women over 65 for the past 25 years. In a press release, Michelle Bogdan, director of the Women’s Resource Center,
said, “These women have shown us by their actions in the community, academy and business how to create a better world for all women.” Jeannine Huenemann, an advisory board member, said the women are nominated by their peers and colleagues. Based on the women’s achievement, the Women’s Center then chooses the women it feels best deserve the honor. “One of the best closing lines from a nomi-nee was, ‘I have been waiting for years for this particular person to turn 65 just so I could nominate her,’” Huenemann said. “It
was just a great closing line for a nomina-tion.” When choosing from the list of nominees, Huenemann said the center looks for women who have a consistent long-term relationship of improving the world around them. These women have participated in multiple activi-ties, held numerous positions and helped many around them, whether it be in the USU community or a broader community. Huenemann said some women even work internationally. Huenemann said the award has a distinc-tion in the community because it is a recog-
nition of lifetime achievement. “A lot of times awards will be specific events such as you are a good researcher or you’re good at this or that,” she said. “But this is looking at the whole person. They are giving to their community and a variety of different things all at once.” The honorees, Carolyn Barcus, JoAn Criddle and Marilynne Glatfelter, are three of more than 100 women who have been awarded, Huenemann said.
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DERRVIN SPEIGHT runs the ball during last season’s game against San Jose State. Speight, one of 45 returning lettermen, is fighting for the starting running back posi-tion. TODD JONES photo
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They said the season would be over before it ever begins. They said the team was still young and unproven, and that an injury to its best player would be an event from which even the most innovative of coaching staffs would be unable to recover from. They said the backups – whom they wouldn’t even bother mentioning by name – weren’t up to par, and that the loss of second team all-WAC running back Robert Turbin would doom the Aggies’ previously bright outlook for the 2010 season. They – the national columnists, armchair pundits and far-away bloggers – have obvi-ously never met Michael Smith, Derrvin Speight and Kerwynn Williams. Call them the replace-ments. Call them a three-headed monster. Even call them by a singular name, mistaking their lightning quick-speed and open field jukes for that of the same player. But whatever you call them, recognize that after two weeks of spring practice, Utah State’s trio of former backup running backs are far from anonymous, and all three are turning heads and impressing skeptics in Logan. “They’ve been doing a good job,” USU run-ning backs’ coach Ilaisa Tuiaki said. “They all
kind of played a role last year so it’s not like it’s new to them. They’re not starry-eyed. I think they’ve responded well. They look fast and that shows me they’re working hard in the weight room and taking care of their business. I think they’ve all been responding well.” Responding to Turbin’s injury is just what the doctor ordered for the Aggies, who, after a record-setting year of offense in 2009, were being picked as one of the “surprise teams” to watch in 2010 by many pundits and analysts in the national media. While the team’s 45 returning lettermen played a big role in those projections, most college football columnists
were quick to cite star running back Robert Turbin as the main rea-son for jumping on the USU bandwagon. Yet when Turbin, who ran for 1,296 yards and 13 scores last season, tore his ACL in offseason workouts, many of those same pundits were quick to sour on the Aggies. As spring approached,
many questioned who would step up for the injured Turbin, who will miss all of spring practice and possibly a large part of the sea-son as he continues to rehab his knee. The answer may not have been apparent to those around the WAC and around the country, but through the first half of the spring season USU’s coaching staff is confident that their previously unheralded – but not untalented – trio of backs will keep the offense firing on
all cylinders. “With Turbin out, it gives us the ability to let these three guys show a little more,” said USU offensive coordinator Dave Baldwin. “Michael Smith has become the leader. He’s showed tremendous leadership and he’s a tough kid and he came on at the end of last season. Derrvin Speight has filled in and has done a great job. He’s competing and he wants to win the job, so there is great competition between those two.” Smith and Speight are currently listed as the starters at running back on the USU depth chart, with both players getting reps with the first team through the opening stages of spring ball. Smith, in particular, has shown tremendous promise throughout his Aggie career, and wowed onlookers this offseason when he ran a blazing 4.24 second 40-yard dash. A back known for his quickness and vision, Smith rushed for 290 yards and four scores a year ago, even gaining 100 yards in USU’s homecoming win against Southern Utah. With three years of experience behind him, Smith has taken it upon himself to not only fill in for Turbin, but to establish himself as the team’s offensive leader. “I have to step up,” Smith said. “Like Robert tells us, running backs are the stars of this team, so despite every other position, we need to lead the team and make the plays. When somebody needs somebody to talk to, we need to talk to them. We need pick up and uplift the team.” Not to be outdone, senior Derrvin Speight has high hopes for the spring as well. The team’s leading rusher in 2007, Speight echoed
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“Running backs are the stars of the team, so despite every other posi-tion, we need to lead the team and make the plays.”
– Michael Smith, senior running back
The Entrepreneur Club planned on Galvanic Design bringing 25 tons of snow to the field east of Old Main for Tuesday’s E-Week Rail Jam. Mother Nature decided her way was easier. Galvanic only needed shov-els. Skiers and snowboarders from USU and around Utah showed the stu-dent body and the judges their skills during the four-and-one-half-hour party near the business building. Fifty competitors dished out the $25 entrance fee, most of which went to rider insurance, for a chance to win cash, skis, snowboards, shirts and other prizes. “The reason we wanted Galvanic Design here for E-Week was because they’re made up of a bunch of students from Oregon State University that were entrepreneurs themselves,” said Jordan Staples, VP of market-ing for the Entrepreneur Club. “They wanted to start a cool thing to share with other people, so they started the Rail Jam. They tour cam-puses across the west with their setup, promoting entrepreneurship and always
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To say it has been a struggle in refrain-ing from writing about the Butler Bulldogs each of the past two weeks
would be an understatement. I made a slight mention last week, but for the most part, I didn’t want to jinx them or sell them short by prematurely congratulat-ing them on making it as far as they did in the NCAA tournament. Turns out they were about an inch away from being the champions on Monday night. To cap off their incredible tournament run, they look to return all but 2.9 points per game of scoring from this team going into next season. Running around different Internet sources and forums, the hottest topic of debate surrounding Utah State is the question of how and why are the Aggies not primed for a tournament run like Butler just had? The go-to criticism for most is scheduling. The idea from many is that with a tougher preseason schedule, Utah State might suffer a loss or two to quality opponents, but in turn be more equipped and prepared to face another quality opponent by the time March rolls around. While there might be some merit to that argument, it is not the magical cure to USU’s NCAA tournament losing streak that many critics talk it up to be. If an example is needed of that, look no farther than the rest of the Western Athletic Conference. Most every other WAC team has a couple games on its schedule each year that they have little to no hope of winning, but it should get them ready to beat up on other teams for the rest of the year, right? For the most part, however, those other WAC teams still were unable to hang with Utah State this season as the Aggies outscored WAC opponents by an average of 14.5 points per game with an overall WAC record of 18-3 in 2010. The way a team like Utah State elevates to reach the status of teams like Butler, Xavier or Gonzaga is by doing exactly what USU has been doing. The Aggies win conference championships, have steadily been gaining more and more national recognition, consistently appear in the NCAA Tournament and in-turn have seen an increase in the caliber of players that head coach Stew Morrill has been able to recruit to the USU program. Becoming a Butler does not happen overnight. It didn’t happen that way for Butler, and it won’t happen for Utah State. There are countless factors that play into a mid-major program advancing in the NCAA Tournament. What if USU hadn’t had to match-up against a player who was a year away from being the NBA’s Rookie of the Year in 2006? What if Jared Quayle
and Tai Wesley had not been in foul trou-ble against Marquette a year ago? What if Utah State hadn’t gone ice-cold while Texas A&M was red-hot? Those are just the recent questions too, while overlook-ing the 2003 team that nearly knocked off a Kansas squad that went on to play in the national championship game. If any of these things goes a bit more in Utah State’s favor, they are right there in the conversation of the nation’s top mid-majors rather than facing questions about what is wrong and where the direction of the program is going. USU’s road is just proving to be a bit tougher than some of the others, but just like the Butler’s and Gonzaga’s of the world had to do, the Aggies will continue to produce results in the season, while steadily increasing the talent level in Logan until eventually a few national juggernauts fall by Utah State’s hand in March. If there was ever a need for encourage-ment, it would be the incoming recruiting class for next season that includes the top big-man recruit in the state of Utah this past season and two top-flight point guards to aid in replacing Jared Quayle. Junior college transfer Brockeith Pane and freshman-to-be James Walker were both rated a 92 overall by ESPN.com’s college basketball recruiting section. In context, the only other player in the WAC to receive a rating of 92 or higher any time in the past three years was 2010 WAC Player of the Year Luke Babbitt, who was rated a 96 out of high school. Safe to say, the Aggies are reloading very strongly at their only position that is in need of reloading. It is still a work in progress, but there is no doubt that Utah State is indeed pro-gressing. There will still be tough losses, cold nights of shooting, and any other imaginable things that don’t go Utah State’s way over the years, but at the end of the day Morrill knows what he is doing. Something tells me it will be sooner, rather than later, that the list of mid-major elites will include Butler, Gonzaga, Xavier and Utah State.
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Smith, and said that he and his fellow running back will be looking to provide home-run hit-ting ability for the Aggie offense this fall. “I’m just approaching it as filling that void that (Turbin) left,” Speight said of the “second” chance brought on by Turbin’s injury. “He was a big part of our offense last year, and me and Mike just have to step up. We’re senior running backs and it’s our last go around in college foot-ball. We’re just trying to do as much as we can for the offense and be big-play contributors.” Both Speight and Smith dismissed talk that they’ll be unable to duplicate the production of Turbin, whose 18 total touchdowns a season ago set a single season school record. With regards to utilizing the backs, coach Tuiaki said that very little has changed and given Smith and Speight’s experience, the position coach is confident that USU’s offense will be just as explosive even without the presence of their star rusher. “It stays the same,” Tuiaki said. “They are good runners, good pass blockers, and they’ve bought into the idea of being tough guys and all of that. As far as what you get – you get something a little different because Robert is a different player than some of these guys – but I think they’re all still good players. They’ve got a lot of potential and they bring a lot to the table. Plays are the same, expectations are the same, and the execution is the same.” Smith and Speight may 1-2 on the depth chart coming out of March, but another player who is expected to see action at running back as the spring rolls on is sophomore Kerrwynn Williams. Williams, who at 5-foot-9, 185 pounds possesses outstanding speed and cut-back ability, has already caught the eye of the USU coaching staff. While he may lack the thumping power of a Robert Turbin, Williams brings a unique style of ‘slashing’ that fits in perfectly with USU’s spread offense. “He’s got tremendous speed,” Baldwin said. “If you get him one on one with a linebacker that is what we want. Is he an ‘I-back’ who can
run it down your thought? Well, no, but that’s not what we are anyways. We are a spread offense, and it fits his abilities.” As for Turbin, don’t count him out for 2010 quite yet. Despite early reports that he would likely miss the entire 2010 season, USU’s coach-ing staff is now projecting the junior from Fremont, Calif., to be ready for action sometime by late September. Having Turbin back and at full speed for the meat of the WAC confer-ence schedule could give USU’s offense a major spark, although Baldwin made it clear that once Turbin does return, he will have to earn his place in the lineup. “I plan to have him back,” Baldwin said of Turbin. “By game three I think he’ll be back and ready to play, but Robert has to come in and win it. These guys are competitive.” Coach Tuiaki echoed Baldwin, saying, “I don’t know if (Turbin) will be back for Oklahoma, but he’ll definitely be back for a big part of the season.” For their part, USU’s former backups aren’t ready to proclaim themselves the replacements, at least not without a fight. As seniors, both Smith and Speight are intent to fight for car-ries with or without a healthy Turbin present, and say that the spirit of competition can only improve the already dangerous Aggie offense. “I’m still going to fight for the carries,” Speight said. “The job is up for grabs, and me and Mike are two seniors. We can’t look at it as its (Turbin’s) spot. We’ve got to push each other and make each other get better.” With so many options at the running back position and so much talent, perhaps the ques-tion isn’t which running back will surpass the all-telling 1000 yard rushing mark in 2009, but rather which running back won’t. “Let’s get three one thousand yard rusher and I’ll be happy,” Baldwin said half-jokingly. And with that kind of an attitude, who needs replacements anyway?
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USU women claimed their second match in a row yesterday at the Logan Sports Academy. They faced off with Northern Arizona University at noon, and slid by with the win, 4-3. “We knew it was going to be a close match going into it,” head coach Christian Wright said. “But I think we could have done better and played a little harder. I am happy with the out-come, but we could have tried harder.” Wright said tennis is an extremely mental sport, and the players need to stay positive to win a match. “I always tell the girls to have a good attitude, no matter the conditions,” Wright said. “We talk about only controlling the things you have control over and staying positive. Every player has something that didn’t go their way, or something they can be upset about. You can’t let it affect you.” He commends the girls for helping one another with their attitudes: “They have nicknames
for each other and always have fun.” The Ags took the doubles point with wins at the No. 1 and 2 positions. Senior Hayley Swenson and freshman Jaclyn West, at the No. 1 spot, took a 8-5 victory over Orsi Golovics and Malia Wahinepio. This win improved Swenson and West to an 11-4 season record in doubles. Freshman Kristina Voytsekhovich and junior Taylor Perry secured the doubles point at the No. 2 position, with a victory over the Lumberjack’s Nicole Perez and Aimee Oki, 8-5. At No. 3, sophomore Monica Abella and senior Brittney Watts fell to NAU’s Edit Suhajda and Yui Hasegawa, 8-0. Wright mentioned that Northern Arizona was at a slight advantage over USU, regardless of not having home-court advantage. “They’re used to an even higher elevation than Logan, and so physically the match was probably easier for them,” Wright said. “We enjoy having matches at home. It helps us slip into our comfort zone.” Singles action went half and half for the Aggies, who
only won at the first three positions. Swenson, at No. 1, battled through three sets to beat Suhajda, 6-0, 2-6, 6-3. West came next, sealing the win and defeating NAU’s Orsi Golovic. West cut it close, as well, playing three sets to win, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. “Jackie was under a lot of pressure at this point,” Wright said. “She had done the men-tal math and knew the match was riding on her. She stayed tough, though, and really came through.” Voytsekhovich, at No. 3, beat Aimee Oki, 6-4, 6-2. Abella fell, 6-3, 6-3, to the Lumberjack’s Malia Wahinepio at No. 4, and Perry was defeated by NAU’S Nichole Perez, 6-1, 6-1, Watts dropped the No. 6 point in the final singles match, losing to Yumi Hasegawa, 6-3, 6-1. The Ags now hold an 8-7 record on the regular season, and a 1-1 WAC record. The team hopes to improve that record this weekend, when it faces off with three confer-ence teams: Fresno State, New Mexico State and Nevada. All matches are in Las Cruces, N.M.
Women’s tennis squeaks by with Wbringing a great time.” Jamie Duby, the only woman skier, took home the first-place prize for women skiing: $50 and a bag full of swag. USU junior graphic design major Jessica Nichols topped the women’s boarding competi-tion, earning her $75. Kiri Binnersiem left the competition halfway through the final heat with a possible torn ACL but earned second place for $50. Another Aggie junior, Megan Heinz, dual major in accounting and finance, finished out the women’s podium coming out even, earning her $25 entrance fee back. John Kutcher earned a new pair of skis and $100 for his skills in the men’s ski section, while Sam Hurst and Tyson Cox earned $75 and $50 for second and third place, respectively. The men’s snowboard heat was a close competition with Jordan Morse taking the first-place prize of a new snowboard and $100. Morse was followed by Christian Hobush and Tanner Nielson with $75 and $50 respectively. Staples said he was happy
with the event and hopes that Rail Jam will set a precedent for other events on campus. “It was definitely the coolest club event I’ve seen since I’ve been here at Utah State,” Heinz said. Staples said, “It’s cool to have all these riders and thousands of students cycling through to see the event. We wanted to show students what Entrepreneur Club was all about. We’re not some boring business club. Entrepreneurship is all about whatever passion drives you. It’s an amazing thing and it’s super fun to be a part of.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Minute by minute, second by second, the NCAA title game got better and better. Then came the final four seconds – four ticks of the clock that produced one of the most dramatic finishes to one of the most memorable games col-lege basketball has ever seen. “I’ve been fortunate enough to be in eight national championship games, and this was a classic,” said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has won four of those games. “This was the toughest and the best one.” Butler had two chances to win it Monday night – one on a 15-foot fade-away, another on a desperation half-court shot at the buzzer. Both shots clanked cruelly off the rim. Near misses. Duke held off the upstart Bulldogs 61-59, ending the small school’s search for the perfect, Hollywood ending. And though the sad, tired looks on the faces of the Butler players may not have told the story, when people look back on this magical night in sports – in a day, a year, a decade or more – it
will be hard to say there really was a loser. “We came up one possession short in a game with about 145 possessions,” said Butler’s 33-year-old coach, Brad Stevens. “It’s hard to stomach when you’re on the wrong end of that.” Even before the game, there were signs that this could be a good one. The storylines were right. There was Butler, enrollment 4,200, the team that practices at the field-house where “Hoosiers” was shot. The Bulldogs, playing six miles from cam-pus, were on the verge of creating a sequel to the movie, based on real life, in which the tiny Indiana school goes against the big boys and comes out a winner. There was Duke, the uber-success-ful team that much of America loves to hate – good this year, but not over-whelming, a team that made it every bit as far on grit as it did on raw talent. For 39 minutes, 56 seconds, nobody backed down. There were seven ties, 15 lead changes and, amazingly, neither team built a lead of more than six.
Butler, Duke create an instant classic
GORDON HAYWARD OF Butler (20) shoots over Brian Zoubek of Duke (55),
but misses in the final seconds of the NCAA Final Four championship game at Lucas Oil
Stadiuim in Indianapolis, Ind, Monday, April 5. Statesman photo
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USU lacrosse beats Gonzaga 12-11
ATTACKER KIERAN CAMPBELL (10) from Gonzaga attempts to drive past a Utah State defender in
Monday’s 12-11 last minute Aggie victory. Utah State is now 5-3 on the season and undefeated at home. The Aggies’ next
home game is April 14 in Romney Stadium at 7 p.m., against 7 p.m., cost is $3 per person. TY ROGERS PHOTO
Until March I hadn’t been in southern Utah for about 20 years, when
my father and I visited during a summer vacation. He and I spent most of our time in Arches National Park, and it was quite an experience to drive there again on my own. Arches is like Mars close up, with red rock rising like anoth-er life form from the ground, appearing too organic to be stone. One of those arches is a sort of state logo, Delicate Arch. The hike up to see this beauty is tough for some but worth the effort. I reached the top of the cliffside and sat on a boulder to absorb the view. It was late in the afternoon, with sunlight at full intensity radiating beau-
tifully off the orange and red rock surface. It was like stepping inside the pristine world of a paint-ing. The kids running wild near the cliff’s edge, wanting pho-tos in the middle of the arch, were annoying but I wasn’t too upset. They were there to see this lovely place too. My experience there was very emotional and spiritual. It’s one I hope to share with my great grandchildren when they visit Arches. I also realize many would prefer to see that place destroyed for various reasons. Some are rather nobly trying to get at the resources found in the area to fill the needs of our country. Environmentalism is a huge political issue in our time, but
politics are formed by philoso-phy, and for many people in the U.S. and Utah, that philosophy is born from theology. Environmental views in religion have been around as long as the belief that nature is ordered. Most people used a pantheism where all active
physical things had spirits and gods driving them. In more complex societies like ancient Egypt, the gods were hierar-chal, but environmental con-cerns always focused around punishment and reward. Doing the wrong thing invoked the wrath of deities, resulting in
droughts, famine, disease and societal decay, while doing right provided bounty. This view might seem primi-tive to modern scientific eyes, but after nine months in Iraq,
Dear Miss Jones,
So I am dating this very beautiful woman and everything is going just fine. Then last Sunday, she dumped me. I had no idea it was coming. She says that she is breaking up with me and enacting a no-contact policy for two weeks so she can get her feel-ings in order, then have a closure talk with me. The past few days have been really rough, to say the least. I think she might have done it because I just put my papers in to serve an LDS mission and doesn’t want to “distract” me. What should I do or say at this closure-talk thing? I still really like her, and I don’t want to lose her forever.
Sincerely, Broken Hearted Stud
Dear Broken Hearted Stud,
I’m sorry to hear that you got dumped, but I can’t say I blame her – missionaries are bad news. I dated a boy back when missions lasted more like three years. He was called to serve in Australia, and I told him it was pointless to try to help those British criminals, but he insisted and left anyway. I was brokenhearted. I had dated him for three weeks and planned to marry him. When he left, I was just a mess: crying, eating two gallons of cherry chocolate Aggie Ice Cream a day and refusing to leave my room. I was only 16 at the time and it was the first time I had felt the warmth of a man’s touch. I wrote him every day. Because it took him three months to get to his location, he had six pounds of letters
waiting for him when he arrived. He wrote me back every couple days at the beginning, then once a week. Finally I got a letter that was three sentences long. It read: “Dear Miss Jones, please stop writing me. I don’t love you, I love Catherine Omann. Once again, please, please, please leave me alone.” Catherine Omann ... that sexist tramp. How I despise her. Catherine was my next door neighbor and was jealous that I was dating him. After I recovered from crying and made sure I looked super hot, I walked over to Catherine’s house and gave her a beat down she’ll never forget. I don’t like missionaries. Every time I see one in Cache Valley, I hiss and throw the dregs of my Wendy’s shake at them. This woman of yours sounds smart. I’ve always admired a person who can stick to the no-contact policy. I, for one, don’t have the strength or a weak-enough sex drive to go through the pre-allotted time
off. I always crack. If you think you love her and can’t live without her, then do something kind of stalkerish: go outside her window, burn a heart in her grass and sing “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge at the top of your lungs.
Good luck and remember: “With as many times as Miss Jones has been around the block, her direc-tions must be good.”
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Sometime soon, you’ll be on the train or in a trendy restaurant and
you will behold the ethe-real glow of Apple’s new iPad. Someone will be caress-ing its cool glass skin. Flaunting ownership of the most prized techno-bauble since, well, the wondrous iPhone a few years back. You, like us, may be envious. Tempted to reach for the holy grail. You’ll wonder if the machine can live up to the hype. The technorati, howev-er, aren’t grappling with questions that plague ordi-nary consumers. They’re not beset by doubts about whether they really need this sleek new tablet com-puter. They’re not waiting until the next iteration, with 3G capability. They don’t care if their iPhone and iPod Touch and MacBook already do almost as much as, if not more, than this 1.5-pound, 9.7-inch-color-screened aluminum-and-glass wonder. They don’t fret about the starting price of $499. Or the absence of a built-in camera or a USB
port. Or anything else.They want it. They wanted it as soon as Apple chief Steve Jobs introduced it in January. Some probably tried to pull strings and get their hands on it long before the offi-cial rollout on Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of these people preor-dered the machine. They’re known in marketing par-lance as “first adopters.” Hail, intrepid consum-ers! Your desire for the iPad, stoked by Apple’s pitch-perfect marketing, is just what this economy needs. Consumer confidence was recently pegged by the Conference Board at an improving but still abys-mal 52.5 – that’s about 40 points below where it should be in a humming economy. iPad fever could help turn things around. Nothing like a shiny new machine to jolt Americans back to their natural state of per-petual shopping mania. Another boost: The crit-ics’ reviews are rolling in, and they are exuberant. Only time – and sales fig-ures – will tell if they are
irrationally so. Our guess: You’ll have one of these things sooner than you think. Some critics say the iPad may kill the laptop. That it could revolutionize com-munications. That it could reveal what happened before the Big Bang. OK, we made up that last part. But we hope the machine lives up to expectations as the Next Big Thing. Specifically, we hope for a bump in one corner of the media world: the newspaper corner. We’ll be watching to see if newspapers can seize the opportunity – and most important, a chunk of the income stream from all those people who will read papers that are formatted for Apple’s new product. If the iPad begets the iPaper, we’ll be very happy. Jobs has pulled off more than a few amazing feats in his career. Why not one more?
This editorial first appeared in the Chicago Tribune on
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Faith: Stewardship, our holy charge -continued from page 11under punishing sun, I certainly give it validity. Monotheisms under Abraham and others kept the total control of nature. 1 Genesis 26 of the King James Bible states, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Man has dominion in the Judeochristian view, but not just rule. According to schol-ars like Rashi and John Paul II, the language of the rest of Genesis suggests this dominion is a matter of stewardship. God of the books of Moses isn’t afraid to punish violently, so the punishment of older tradi-tions remained and stayed in Judaism and Christianity until the Protestant movement into North America, where it shift-ed into more of a dominance form. Nature in its pristine state was viewed as idle and there-fore an evil that had to be cor-rected. The evil emphasis has faded recently, but the mind-set hasn’t. Many in developed nations seem to have ditched the stewardship for pure util-ity. A canyon only matters for the gas we can get out of it, a river is just a place to get fish
and dump waste. Many envi-ronmentalist claims which use religion aren’t much better. Al Gore, the sort of media proph-et for modern environmental-ism, claims we should reduce damaging affects of industry by creating more industry and more dangerous products. New Age religions, like some neo paganism, have popped up claiming to be based off ancient and “better” peoples such as Native Americans. They’re usually just rebellious ego trips for insecure people. So it looks like modern man is stuck between pure industrial-ism and blind merchandizing from egocentrics. Sitting on the sandstone boulders near Delicate Arch, I wondered about this problem. The world is becoming over-populated, rivers are poisoned by runoff, SOMETHING came out of the sky and made my car white. I’m glad some people are making an effort, but fancy light bulbs and cheap kitchen utensils with recycling logos in neon green aren’t going to fix anything. I also don’t think we should just throw away our progress to live like cavemen. It’s natural for humans to create and invent, but we’re dependent on our environment to live. The pun-ishments of old ways and the scripture of current faiths had reasons, mainly to ensure mod-
eration in culture. Breeding like rabbits then burning up all the resources is no way to survive as a society, and I don’t really think that “God will provide” is a suitable long-term outlook. What I think is that environ-mental concerns are important parts of any successful faith because it concerns relation-ships with what is beyond us in the universe. As believers, it’s part of our duty to promote health in our faith, in our culture and in our natural surroundings. This is the point of stewardship, not to merely control but to care for and preserve. Nature can take care of itself a lot of the time, and we are merely mortals, but that doesn’t mean our role and impact should just be ignored.
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Today is Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Kennan Nuehring, freshman in speech communication, from Vacaville, Calif.
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Today in History: In
1994, Rwandan armed
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