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Blue Goes The man in the Big Blue mask Natural Resources Green panel Week gets hears props started

BY LORI SCHAFER staff writer

USU students met in the West Colony room of the TSC Thursday to present their proposals of how to make campus more environmentally friendly. The six proposals were presented in front of a board of members compiled from different school departments. The board is in charge of the Blue Goes Green Grant money and was looking for candi-� dates to help get their ideas off their feet and running. The first proposal came from the Living and Learning Community. Kayla Dinsdale, site coordinator for Together Everyone Achieves More in Logan, is working with LLC Resident Director Timothy Ledna to try and create a “Campus to Community Sustainability Competition.� This program proposal will match each LLC building to a different high school TEAM club. Working with the high school students as prospective future USU students, they will hold monthly activities to increase awareness of sus-� tainability. Prizes will be awarded each month to the winning team with a larger prize awarded to the overall winning team at the end of the school year. The requested funds for this proposal is $4,535. The following group presented their proposal of “Psychological Mechanisms of ‘Green’ Behavior.� With this project, graduate students Brady DeHart, Salif Mahamane and Jonathan Friedel will work with other students to take pictures of Cache Valley on different days to com-� pare the air quality. They will study the psychological affects of green behavior and with their different implemented programs will work to increase the air quality in the valley. DeHart, Mahamane and Friedel requested $2,745 for their project. Crista Sorenson and Roslynn Brain proposed “Aggie Village Compost.� With this project, they will bring in two com-� post bins to hold in Aggie Village to fer-� tilize community gardens. The goal is to decrease the amount of waste deposited by USU on a daily basis. Sorenson and Brain are hopeful that after piloting their project they will be able to expand to the rest of the school and its students. This team is requesting $550 for their proposal. Group four proposed “Water and Energy Conservation through High-� Efficient Automatic Faucets.� The goal of this project is to replace 12 older hand faucet sinks on campus with new auto-� matic faucets in an attempt to conserve more water. Adel M. Abdallah is requesting $5,900 to fund the new faucets. Student Matthew Stapp proposed that in order to decrease the pollution and better the air quality in Cache Valley, the Aggie bus system needs to be involved. The current bike racks on the buses each hold two bikes. With this limitation, students are turned away daily due to the bike rack being full. Stapp is working with the bus system to request $2,876 in funds in order to replace the bike racks with larger ones so that more bikes can be accommodated. The final proposal was “Season Extension Hoop House.� This proposal is from the Community Supported Agriculture club. Their goal is to build a Hoop House that will allow them to plant their produce earlier in the year to allow for more goods to be sold for a longer period of time rather than only summer. They requested $2,558. The grant in total has $10,270 to help fund these proposals. A total of $19,124 has been requested. The groups will find out this week what the verdict is for their proposal. – lori_schafer@yahoo.com

BY TMERA BRADLEY senior news writer

JORDAN RAMPERSAD SALUTES THE CROWD after revealing himself to be Big Blue for the past four years. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

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Arieto fills big dancing shoes STEVE SCHWARTZMAN staff writer

Clarice Ambler, a freshman dual majoring in psychology and Spanish, said when she first came to USU she arrived looking fever-� ishly for opportunities to serve and become more culturally diverse. When her friend asked her to join in experiencing the annual Areito event held Friday, the Salt Lake City native jumped at the chance and didn’t leave disap-� pointed. “It was not what I expected, it was more. The acts were diverse, entertaining and informative.� Ambler said. “It was absolutely stunning. It lingered with me.� Areito is an annual cultural performance gala and charity fundraiser planned, coordinated and performed by the Dominican Student Association. The evening showcased musical performances, dance numbers, for-� mal presentations and instruction-� al videos in an effort to give more than 400 attendees an opportunity to have a better understanding of the Dominican culture and be a part of a good cause. “I am very grateful to everyone who worked to get this result,� said Marcelle Cruz, public relations officer for the Dominican Student Association. “Everyone put a lot of effort into showcasing our culture. It was a great experience.� Fourteen different pieces were

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Have you ever wanted to touch a wolf? Now you can. The Quinney College of Natural Resources is bring-� ing Damu the wolfdog back to campus during its fair on the TSC Patio Tuesday as part of NR week. The QCNR started the week of events with a kick-� off concert Monday night at the TSC International Lounge. The concert fea-� tured Cache Valley bands Cat Fever and Young Blood along with Provo bands The Moth and the Flame and The Fellows. A photo contest is also part of the week’s activi-� ties. The contest is open to all students and will feature winners in three categories: Natural scen-� ery, wildlife and people in nature. Submissions are on display in the TSC Juniper Lounge. QNCR Sen. Liz Kirkham said the theme for the week is “Think beyond the limits.� “That could be think beyond carbon limits, as far as carbon footprints and things,� Kirkham said. “It could also be ‘Think beyond city limits.’� Kirkham said the com-� mittee planned the theme to involve all three depart-� ments in the college, including environment and society, watershed sciences and wildland resources. “We just wanted a theme that could embrace all of our departments and everything they embrace individually,� Kirkham said. Kirkham said the most important event this week is probably author Mark Lynus, who will speak on his book about sustainable agriculture Wednesday during common hour. “He’s the author of a book called ‘The God Species,’� Kirkham said. “He’s really prestigious, he’s kind of our biggest deal of the week.� “I’m most excited for

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THE MUSICAL GROUP COMADE performs at Arieto. JESSICA FIFE photo

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WEEK: Beard contest, Logger’s Ball featured in Natural Resources Week From page 1

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the Logger’s Ball,� said freshman Patrick Adams. “It’s only $10 to go.� The ball is held at Cafe Sabor on 600 West Center in Logan and includes an appetizer, dinner and dessert, accord-� ing to Adams, who is on the NR student council. “There’s a beard contest and people dress up like lumberjacks,� Adams said. “There’s music, dancing, great food. It’s just going to be super exciting.� Kirkham said the Logger’s Ball is one of the oldest dances in the university and proceeds from the night go to next year’s college council fund and for future QCNR events. A “Predator vs. Prey� 5K race is sched-� uled for Tuesday at 5:30 at the USU cross country course, along with multiple

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notable lectures throughout the week. The second annual “Empty Bowls� lun-� cheon will be held Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. where students can get soup in a handcrafted bowl for $8. The bowl is to be a reminder of hunger-�fighting com-� munity efforts. Proceeds from the lun-�

cheon will benefit the Cache Community Food Pantry. That night, the Science Unwrapped presentation will feature USU professor Jack Schmidt, chief of the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. His lecture will be held in room 130 of the The Eccles Science Learning Center “My overall goal is to just have every-� one who can learn something new this week,� Kirkham said. Adams said they wanted to get some good publicity for the college as well. “We wanted to have a lot of events to get students involved and be interested in the Natural Resources college and just have them have a great time,� Adams said. “We like to encourage people to have outdoor events and spend time out-� doors.� Environmental studies major Sarah

Woodbury, who also serves on the sen-� ate, said the week is aimed at new stu-� dents. “It’s especially directed toward fresh-� man too, to try to get them to see about the College of Natural Resources, and just what it’s all about,� Woodbury said. Kirkham said they are trying to edu-� cate people on what the college consists of. “We have a lot of people who don’t even know that we have a College of Natural Resources,� Kirkham said. “If I can just tell people that we exist on this campus my job will be done and help people learn something new.� A complete calendar of events can be found by visiting cnr.usu.edu. – tmera.bradley@aggiemail.usu.edu

ARIETO: Music and food at Latin party From page 1 performed and presented and dinner was served during the midpoint of the event. Contributors came primarily from the Dominican community on campus, but Cruz — a master’s student studying structural engi-� neering and native of the Dominican Republic — said several arts groups, Hispanic and American students and a group of students from an entry-�level Spanish class took part in the festivities. “Here at USU, we have a lot of different cultures and students from different coun-� tries and groups who have the opportunity to share with one another part of their culture and have a chance to get to know more about the different parts of the world,� said Cesar Hunt, a graduate student studying structural engineering who hosted the festivities. “It was great to welcome others to experience more of our culture and get involved.� Proceeds from admission to the events will go to Hogar Del Nino, a Dominican based non-�profit organization with the mission of creating more educational, hygiene and health benefits for children in the Dominican Republic. Cruz said she was incredibly pleased with

the funds they were able to collect for the cause. “It was so nice for so many people to help us get more money for this organization. So many kids from our country will be able to benefit from this money,� she said. Overall, Ambler said her experience culti-� vated in much more than just a fun night out. “I already knew the Dominicans were fun, friendly people, but now I understand the depth of their history and the colorfulness of their culture. I left the event wanting to learn more,� she said. “USU should do more events like this. A lot of people don’t realize how truly diverse USU really is.� Cruz said she was proud of the event for accomplishing the mission she and coordina-� tors had for the event itself as well as the DSA organization. “We are a very large group of students here and we want to showcase what we love about our country and support our country as much as possible,� she said. “Dominicans are very proud of our traditions and things and we want to spread that around the world. I really think we were able to do that for everyone who came.�

A GROUP OF MUSICIANS performs at Arieto. JESSICA FIFE photo

– steve.schwartzman@aggiemail.usu.edu

Since 1976, USU Honors students have selected a professor who has made a memorable impact on the university, inside and outside the classroom. This year, the Utah State University Honors Program presents:

STUDENTS DANCE THE BACATA, a modern-style dance, above. The Dominican Student Association board members give a speech and thank audience members for attending, below. JESSICA FIFE photos

Dr. Phebe Jensen Professor of English

Dr. Jensen’s Last Lecture, “I’ll Drown My Book�: Shakespeare’s Last Lecture will illustrate the serious fun of Shakespeare, suggesting how to read his plays for pleasure, profit, and self-discovery, and arguing for the importance of the arts and humanities in undergraduate education.

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Big Blue: The face in the suit

BY DANIELLE MANLEY

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The secret of the man in the Big Blue suit is no more. Big Blue was revealed to be Jordan Rampersad during the final men’s basketball home game at the end of his four-�year Big Blue career. From the beginning of his audition for Big Blue, Rampersad was determined to become the iconic symbol well-�known throughout the valley. Four years ago, Rampersad broke his arm doing a back-�handspring during round one of a two-�part audition. He was determined enough to push past the pain of a broken bone. “Not only did he come back down and fin-� ish it, but he did what we call a diamond head,� said former head cheer coach Linda Zimmerman. “It’s where a guy stands on top of a guy and then they hold up two girls — that’s a lot of weight on his arms. He’s the top guy, so he’s actually got somebody holding onto his arm and pulling on it at the same time.� After finishing his performance, he was rushed to the emergency room where his arm was confirmed broken. “This kid wanted to be Big Blue so bad,� Zimmerman said. “It was unanimous that he was the Big Blue chosen. He was back from the ER and in the locker room when we made the announcement that it was him.� That first impression Rampersad made carried through his Big Blue career. “Jordan’s dedication and love for being Big Blue ranks as one of the highest in my eyes,� Zimmerman said. “You do have to be very dedicated to this. It is unreal how many peo-� ple call and need Big Blue at birthday parties, openings of stores, anything. His schedule is really, really intense, but I have never heard him complain about being overworked. It’s almost like he just loved to be in the suit.� Rampersad loves representing the univer-� sity and loves the chance to connect to USU’s audience through the famous Big Blue. “Big Blue kind of embodies everything about a Utah State student and the entity itself — caring, kind of funny, willing to ride that line between what’s appropriate,�

BIG BLUE SPORTS A BEARD at a men’s basketball game earlier this season as part of a “beard out.� DELAYNE LOCKE photo

Rampersad said. “It’s like the Spectrum. We’re not shouting profanities at you, but we’ll give you a hard time. Big Blue is kind of that embodiment of class and everything that you would expect out of an Aggie.� The challenge that comes with represent-� ing Aggies is the ability to throw personality aside. Big Blue requires a certain set of char-� acteristics that need to stay consistent no matter who is behind the mask. “They’re all unique, yet they all have to have the same mannerisms,� Zimmerman said about previous Big Blues. “They’re crazy and spontaneous. They want to please, they want kids to love them, people to love them. That’s the type of person you’re looking at when you’re looking at Big Blue — someone that from birth to a 90-�year-�old will like them.� For Rampersad, this task isn’t as difficult as it sounds. “I’m not necessarily a person that loves a huge amount of attention on myself,� Rampersad said. “For me, to put on the mask

and go out and do my stuff is easy once the mask’s on. He gets all the fame. It’s fame you can turn off.� Time commitment is the true challenge of being Big Blue. In addition to representing USU at athletic events, Big Blue appears at many other events including birthday par-� ties, new store openings and even some of the lobbying events USU students hold at the capitol building. His favorite extracurricular activity was an event held at Lehi High school to raise funds for charity organizations. Mascots from around the state played full tackle football against eighth graders. But while dancing in the Big Blue suit, Rampersad has maintained a full-�time status at school — a requirement of the position — and works a full-�time job. His answer to the demanding schedule is incredible amounts of task prioritization. “I’ve gotten very good at prioritizing tasks,� Rampersad said. “What do I have to do, what do I not have to do, how much time do I have to work on this? For the last four years I can almost tell you every fifteen min-� utes in a day, where I’m supposed to be and what I have to do.� Zimmerman appreciates the level of com-� mitment given by Rampersad and his ability to maintain a busy schedule. “No matter what program you’re involved in, it’s easy to get burned out, but I never felt that with Jordan,� Zimmerman said. “I’d call him and ask if he could do an appearance and he’d say absolutely. There was not even a hesitation. He truly appreciated the opportu-� nity of being the icon of the institution. As a coach, I appreciated that I didn’t have to deal with the burn out, he was just always posi-� tive.� Zimmerman expects Rampersad to move on in the mascot career and succeed because it’s what he loves to do. “I see him going on in the future,� Zimmerman said. “I hope he gets the oppor-� tunity to become a professional mascot somewhere because I think he has the per-� sonality for that. Jordan fits that, he could do that for the rest of his life and be happy.� – daniellekmanley@gmail.com Twitter: @daniellekmanley

USU elects to not raise Tier II tuition BY ASHLYN TUCKER staff writer

USU President Stan Albrecht announced last week there will not be an increase in Tier II tuition next year for the first time since 2001. Tim Vitale, executive director of public relations and marketing at USU, said tuition is divided into two parts, Tier I and Tier II. Tier I tuition is set by the Utah State Legislature. Tier II is set by the individual University. Vitale said the decision to raise tuition begins with the Utah State Legislature. “The legislature sets the budget given what the circumstances of that year are,� he said. Vitale said the State Board of Regents waits until the legislature is finished decid-� ing how much money higher education will get and then sets Tier I tuition for all the higher education facilities in the state. “They are looking at how much money they need to fund the things necessary to get through the next year,� he said. The raise in Tier I tuition has yet to be determined for the 2013-�2014 school year. Vitale said the decision will be made later this week. Vitale said Tier II tuition is different from

Tier I because it is unique to each individual school and is determined by the Board of Trustees. “Each institution individually gets a chance to look at its own individual needs and determines the need for a Tier II tuition increase,� he said. Vitale said if Tier II tuition is raised, a public hearing must be held. “Students have the opportunity to provide input on it,� he said. However, no hearing will be held this year due to President Albrecht’s announcement that Tier II tuition would not increase this year. “He himself looked at the legislative fund-� ing and said we are going to have zero Tier II tuition increase this year,� Vitale said. Christian Thrapp, ASUSU President, said he does not foresee the lack of increase affecting students in a negative way. “They shouldn’t notice a difference between this year and next year,� he said. Vitale agreed students will not be affected because the money will still be there: It will just come from the state instead of tuition. “This year we have enough money to fund the things that will directly impact stu-� dents,� he said. “The state was very kind to us.�

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Thrapp said the decision to not increase Tier II tuition was based on a variety of dif-� ferent factors and different people’s opin-� ions. “President Albrecht is really connected with what’s happening at the State,� he said. “He came to an executive ASUSU meeting and talked to a lot of the central administra-� tors and faculty as well.� Vitale said Albrecht is very concerned about how much it costs students to attend school. “His main theme is access to education for students,� he said. Vitale said besides the president’s efforts to keep tuition down, the recent upturn in the economy also played a large role in mak-� ing a zero percent raise in Tier II tuition a reality. “The economic situation as a whole in the country is improving and that was reflected in Utah’s economy,� he said. “The legislature itself reflected it in the budget.� Vitale said Tier II tuition is used to pay for things such as library journal subscriptions, computer labs and increased numbers of sec-� tions of bottleneck courses. “It is used to benefit students,� he said.

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Science explores Colorado River The Colorado River flows through some of the most iconic and pictur-� esque landscapes of the American West, including Grand Canyon. But as a critical source of water and electricity for more than 30 million people in the U.S. and Mexico, the waterway is caught in a precarious tug-�of-�war. Can the once-�mighty river survive competing, unrelenting interests? Utah State University river sci-� entist Jack Schmidt addresses this question at Science Unwrapped Friday, March 29. Schmidt, chief of the U.S. Geological Survey Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, presents “The Colorado: A River Run Through� at 7 p.m. in the Emert Auditorium (Room 130) of the Eccles Science Learning Center. Hosted by USU’s College of Science, the event is free and open to all ages. One of the world’s leading experts on the Colorado River, Schmidt is among a team of scientists that designed a series of controlled releases of water from Glen Canyon Dam, starting in 1996, in efforts to restore habitats altered by the use of dams. A professor in USU’s Department of Watershed Sciences, Schmidt will discuss his research and conserva-� tion efforts, as well as tough deci-� sions facing citizens and policymak-� ers in determining how to manage the Colorado. “It’s up to us to decide what kind of river the Colorado will ultimately become,� he says. “We want it all, but we can’t have it all.� A variety of hands-�on learn-� ing activities and exhibits follow Schmidt’s talk. The March 29 event is the second of three presentations in Science Unwrapped’s spring 2013 “Water� series. For more information, call 435-� 797-�3517, visit www.usu.edu/sci-� ence/unwrapped or view “Science Unwrapped at USU� on Facebook.

Aggies explore weaving traditions Visitors can explore weaving tradi-� tions from around the world at the next “Saturdays at the Museum� event at Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology. Activities are March 30 at the museum. Patrons are invited to join the muse-� um as it unveils its recently updated “Traditional Weaving� teaching trunk. Visitors can also tour the museum’s Peruvian and Navajo textile exhib-� its and participate in activities that include weaving on miniature looms and creating quilt designs with cray-� ons and markers. “Weaving and quilting function simultaneously as art and examples of material culture,� said Randi Martin, a museum assistant. “Different cul-� tures have varying patterns, styles and methods of weaving and quilting. Every textile tells a story.� In addition to the “Saturdays at the Museum� activity series with its 10 a.m.-�4 p.m. hours, community mem-� bers and USU students alike can visit the museum during its standard oper-� ating hours, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Funding for Saturday events is provided by a grant from the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services. More information about the IMLS is available online (www.imls.gov). The USU Museum of Anthropology can be found on the USU campus in the south turret of the historic Old Main building, Room 252. Admission is free. For Saturday activities, free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building. For more information about muse-� um events, call museum staff at (435) 797-�7545 or visit the museum website (anthromuseum.usu.edu).

ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clar-� ified or find in error, please contact the editor at 797-�1742, statesman@ aggiemail.usu.edu or come in to TSC 105. Compiled from staff and media reports

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Researchers dive into cause of Lake Bonneville flood Geology professors publish research on reason for lake’s drainage BY ERIC JUNGBLUT copy editor

More than 2 million people live along the Wasatch Front. However, tens of thousands of years ago, scientists believe the area looked very different: In fact, it was submerged under more than 1,000 feet of water. Lake Bonneville once covered much of what is today Utah, including Cache Valley, and at one point rivaled the largest of the Great Lakes in size. The lake’s northern natural dam near Red Rock Pass failed around 14,000 years ago, an event today known as the Bonneville flood. The lake never recovered from the flood, and all that remains of it are the Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake and a few others. Two USU geology professors recently pub-� lished their research from northern Cache Valley and may have discovered what caused the Bonneville flood. “An earthquake on the Riverdale fault could’ve been the trigger for the flood,� said Susanne Janecke, a geology professor special-� izing in plate tectonics. “There are lots of differ-� ent ideas geologists have put forward about the possible trigger for the flood. Nobody had really settled on a preferred interpretation, and earth-� quakes were never a part of that mix of possible triggers.� Janecke, along with emeritus geology profes-� sor Robert Oaks Jr., discovered the Riverdale fault along the northeastern edge of Cache Valley in Idaho. “Gullies that formed after the Bonneville highstand during the Provo stage are not con-� tinuous across the Riverdale fault, so it must have formed about the time of the Bonneville Flood, prior to formation of the gullies rather than later,� Oaks said. “Thus, an offset on the Riverdale fault may have triggered the Bonneville flood, or the rapid reduction of weight of the water may have triggered offset on the Riverdale fault.� The Provo stage refers to the level Lake Bonneville receded to after the flood. According to the Utah Geological Survey, the flood lowered the lake by 375 feet in less than one year. The peak strength of the flood has been estimated to match the average flow of all the world’s mod-� ern rivers combined. Janecke said their data set is not as robust as they’d like, so right now they can say the evi-� dence is consistent with the earthquake theory, but it cannot be proved yet. “It would be nice to do some follow-�up work and really pin down the timing of that big earthquake, because if it was a couple months after the flood or 100 years before the flood, it wouldn’t have been the trigger for the flood,� she said. “That has to be sorted out still.� In addition to the earthquake hypothesis, Janecke and Oaks’ research revealed other find-� ings about Lake Bonneville.

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“Susanne Janecke discovered ancient river meanders between Clifton, Idaho, and Oxford, Idaho, from an overlook on the high ridge to the west,� Oaks said. “The meanders show northward flow during the Provo stage of Lake Bonneville, after the Bonneville Flood had low-� ered the lake from its highstand.� Oaks said this indicated a further drop dur-� ing the Provo stage, so the northern margin of Lake Bonneville at the Provo stage moved south from near Swan Lake to just south of Clifton. “We also found that the Riverdale fault continues north-�northwest from Riverdale Hot Springs toward the Swan Lake area and may continue even farther into the area near the Zenda threshold for the Bonneville highstand, about a mile north of Red Rock Pass,� Oaks said. The Zenda threshold was the northern extent of Lake Bonneville, according to Oaks and Janecke. Oaks said G.K. Gilbert, the geolo-� gist who published Monograph I of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1890, was the one who figured out Zenda was the furthest extent of the lake. Janecke said the lake’s northern edge was

never at Red Rock Pass if their hypothesis is cor-� rect. “The outlet of Lake Bonneville when the main Provo shoreline was being formed was about 22 kilometers south of where everybody thinks it is,� she said. “So if you’ve ever driven out the north end of the valley and stopped at the sign at Red Rock Pass that says ‘This is where the outlet of Lake Bonneville was,’ that sign is wrong and should probably be revised because the outlet, the northern edge, the north-� ern shoreline of the lake was never there. It was two or three kilometers further to the north at a little town called Zenda.� Janecke said her and Oaks’ hypothesis still needs testing, but the research is looking prom-� ising. “There’s good evidence that Lake Bonneville flowed out at a stable level for a long period of time, roughly 1,000 years or so,� Janecke said. “There wasn’t anything about all that water rushing out there at Zenda that allowed the water to cut down and incise into the subsur-� face, so it’s a little unusual that the lake was sta-� ble for a long time and then abruptly failed and

you had a big flood. The earthquake is a good mechanism to explain both the long stability and then the abrupt, catastrophic flood because you have this major event, the earthquake, that could destabilize the dam and destabilize the outlet.� “It is looking promising,� she said. “It’s con-� sistent with the observations, but that doesn’t necessarily prove that it’s right, so as good scientists, we need to do more work to test the hypothesis.� –ej.jungblut@gmail.com Twitter: @TheJungleButt

Colleges try new tactics in battle against binge drinking

BY ROBERT MCCOPPIN

Chicago Tribune

(MCT) CHICAGO — Catherine Sedun remembers binge drinking among students when she attended col-� lege about a decade ago. Despite an influx of programs to combat the problem in recent years, she says it remains a top concern on many campuses. "These students work so hard to get into these univer-� sities, and once they get here, a lot of them spiral out of control with their freedom," she said. "It's time to party." In an attempt to save students from themselves, Sedun, a high school teacher and a graduate student at Northwestern University, headed the Red Watch Band program at the Evanston campus last year. The program teaches students to recognize the warning signs of alco-� hol poisoning _ vomiting; cold, clammy skin; the inabil-� ity to wake up _ and to call for medical help. It's part of a wave of college initiatives meant to quell the chronic problem. The percentage of college students who binge drink _ defined as five drinks for men and four drinks for women in two hours _ has held steady at about 40 percent for most of the past decade, consis-� tently more than non-�college students, federal surveys show. Combining alcohol with energy drinks has fueled students' ability to drink more and longer. One estimate, from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, blames binge drinking for more than 1,800 college student deaths a year, mostly from drunken driving. Research shows that frequent binge drinkers are more likely to miss classes, get hurt, engage

in risky sex and have problems in class. They're also happier than nonbinge drinkers, accord-� ing to a recent study at one school, but researchers say that seems to be because of their social status. Most often they're white males involved in athletics and fraternities. Acknowledging that some students are going to drink no matter what, many schools are practicing "harm reduction" _ trying to save students from their own worst behaviors. At Northwestern, the issue has particular resonance. Nineteen-�year-�old freshman Matthew Sunshine died of alcohol poisoning in 2008 after a party in his dorm hall. As part of a settlement with his family, the school agreed to review its alcohol policy. The next year, Northwestern started the Red Watch Band program, developed at Stony Brook University in New York, where Sunshine's mother worked. NU also has joined the Learning Collaborative on High-�Risk Drinking, in which 32 schools across the country are trying short-�term changes to alcohol policy and monitoring the results. As part of its efforts, Northwestern employs BASICS, an assessment of stu-� dents who get involved in alcohol-�related medical or police incidents, and lowered the time for treatment from 30 to 20 days, according to Lisa Currie, director of health promotion and wellness. "There is no magic bullet," she said. "It's small improvements ... that work together." Some freshman are subject to the new procedures

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‘Equilibrium’ fares well at Logan Film Festival Sam McConkie “Equilibrium” Grade: B

Movie

Review Finding our balance and our groove is rarely an easy task, especially if you’re a paranoid novelist. The main character of “Equilibrium” often pretends his life resembles a film noir and that a mystery always follows a dramatic event. Now he just needs to prevent his friend from continually sneaking up on him and search for some meaning in his life, just like certain Hitchcock characters. Showcased at the 2013 Logan Film Festival and boasting production values that make Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” films look high-budget, “Equilibrium” has a laid back, cool demeanor to it. This allows the characters to breathe and develop in an entertaining manner that even occasionally had me roaring with laughter. Some of the local talent right here in Logan populates the proceedings, and most of them put forth a commendable effort. Though occasionally limited in execution, including some iffy cinematography, “Equilibrium” manages to consistently entertain and even intrigue with its quirky story and some fairly creative plot twists. Color me pleasantly surprised. Felix (Richie Call) is a withdrawn, enigmatic novelist who writes in such a way that the

line between fantasy and reality routinely becomes blurred for him. Struggling to come up with a good direction for his latest mystery novel, his friend Michael (Kent Hadfield) interrupts his work and frequently invades his personal space. Eventually, Michael manages to convince Felix to go on a group date with him and some friends up at a cabin, where Michael has arranged a blind date for the cautious Felix. Meanwhile, Rose (Kathy Bateman) gently coerces the shy and skeptical Kate (Chrislynn Call) to accompany her to the cabin. Rose and Michael, along with a rather large group of other adults, plan to fix Felix and Kate up for the sake of promoting balance and stability in the pair’s lives. Incidentally, it’s a rather backhanded and subtle way for the group to show how tired they are of Kate’s and Felix’s attitudes. As a storm rages outside, a power outage occurs and tensions rise. Everybody gets scared and Kieran (Dennis Hassan) soon shows up to the party, covered in dirt and drenched to the bone. He frantically informs everyone that some angry people who may want to kill him are possibly prowling nearby. Kieran’s trail leads to the desolate cabin, and soon enough one of the group members appears to have been bludgeoned to death. Now Felix must step in, armed with his overactive imagination, and get to the bottom of this dark mystery. Without question, the greatest asset “Equilibrium” has is its varied and colorful cast of characters. Most of them have certain idiosyncrasies that rival those of inmates in an asylum, and this generates some good comedic moments. Someone mentions

how Polly (Heather Botts) isn’t particularly lucid, and this leads her to sharply interject how her name isn’t Lucy. And middleaged Jade and Blanch (Kevin Doyle and Kerri Hostetler) garner some chuckles as well. Jade silently threatens to pulverize Felix if he doesn’t apologize to Kate for an insensitive comment, and Blanch takes some not-sosubtle jabs at Rose’s virtue, a self-aware moment in the story implying Rose’s role as a femme fatale. Richie Call and Chrislynn Call both deliver believable and solid turns as the reluctant lovers. Though the chemistry between them is initially awkward, this aspect, just like their relationship, naturally blossoms as the film progresses. They become a couple to genuinely root for. Can’t you tell they are married in real life? Threatening to steal the show is Kent Hadfield as the pushy and overbearing Michael. His relaxed attitude and clear confidence in the role makes it difficult to dislike his antics. He relishes every moment he has in front of the camera and comically gets in Felix’s face at virtually every opportunity. Early on, Felix even becomes so uneasy and put off by this that he breaks the fourth wall a la Ryan O’Neal in “What’s Up, Doc?” by imploring help from the audience. Director/Writer Erik Bateman’s steady hand keeps the intrinsically silly source material grounded just enough so the essence of the story can make a positive impression. The events onscreen sometimes play out in a very unhinged, unruly manner, which isn’t always an asset to have. Some comedies have flopped precisely because of

ERIK BATEMAN STANDS at the release of his locally produced film ‘Equilibrium.’ File photo

too much zaniness. However, Bateman wisely avoids this pitfall with some surprisingly moody black and white sequences and plausible character arcs. As crazy as it often gets, the film still has an important and unpretentious moral to divulge. Brimming with enthusiasm and some legitimately unexpected twists, “Equilibrium” is a mostly solid first effort. Aside from a bit of cramped camerawork and a couple of distracting

audio issues, the results Bateman yields from his extremely limited resources undoubtedly show some promise for his future projects.

– Sam McConkie is a senior in the technical and professional writing program at USU. He is a keen writer and has been a dedicated gamer for years. Sam can be reached at sambonemcconkie@gmail.com

Finding ‘Equilibrium’ The making of an independent film BY CALE PATTERSON features senior writer

For years, Erik Bateman saw failure as a bad thing. After nearly three years of work producing the feature-‐length film “Equilibrium,” the USU alumnus has come to realize success isn’t necessarily found on the red carpet, but in achieving difficult things. Bateman’s 76-‐minute movie was filmed entirely in Cache Valley and surrounding areas, starring local actors associated with the Caine Lyric Theater, Ellen Eccles Theater and USU. “It is a romantic comedy and murder mystery that is loaded with metaphors as a commentary on contemporary society,” Bateman said. “It’s not rated but I would give it a self-‐rating of PG-‐10, due to sub-‐ ject matter and a scene of brief violence.” The cast and crew consisted of less than 15 people, the majority of whom attended USU, and even included several USU faculty members such as visiting assistant professor Richie Call, associ-‐ ate professor of scenic design Dennis Hassan. “Most of us involved either went to teach at or work for USU,” said Bateman. Bateman said due to the small crew, many of the cast had to work together to produced complicated scenes involv-‐ ing elements such as artificial wind and rainfall. “Every member of the cast at some point helped with the production in one way or another,” he said. The majority of the filming took approximately three months, shoot-‐ ing from June through August of 2010, though some scenes had to be redone as late as October. “In the beginning, I thought it was going to take maybe three weeks to shoot this whole thing,” Bateman said. “Man, did I live and learn.” Some of the difficulties Bateman expe-‐ rienced included dealing with actors’ involvement in other productions as well as having to shoot the majority of the film in the summer while needing a nighttime setting for the film. “They would get off at eight o’clock at night, and then they’d have to be at my shoot at nine because that’s the only time they could be there,” he said. “So we could only shoot from about nine o’clock at night until about one o’clock in the morning.” Shooting the film with a single cam-‐ era, a Sony EX1, Bateman said he had continuity issues from having to repeat-‐ edly shoot the same scenes from differ-‐ ent angles. “If your hand is here in one shot, it has

to be in the same place in the next shot,” he said. “I told them in the beginning, ‘You have to be mindful of where you are in each shot — be consistent with it, because when I go to edit, if it’s not consistent we’re going to have to shoot it again.’” Bateman said the camera he used was developed by Sony and George Lucas for the University of Southern California with capabilities well-‐suited to students and independent filmmakers, but it is people make the movie rather than the camera. “Cameras are just tools,” he said. “People make the movie and they use tools to get there.” The monetary commitment fell pri-‐ marily upon Bateman, though he had no set budget for the production. “This is a credit card movie,” he said. “If I needed something, I bought it.” The cast and crew participated for experience and participated without wages in hopes to eventually receive pay based on the film’s eventual financial success, according to Bateman “Luckily for me, all the actors all the crew that helped, they did it for experi-‐ ence with the idea that if I ever recoup enough money to pay for my investment in it, then I will pay them a specific percentage of that,” Bateman said. “The hope is that one day we can make enough money from it that everyone gets paid, but we’re still working on that.” Ashley Underwood, a junior major-‐ ing in theater performance and acting, worked as Bateman’s assistant through-‐ out the production and said the experi-‐ ence was very educational and helpful to her. “I went purely for educational pur-‐ poses,” Underwood said. “I didn’t know anything about film work so I went and observed and helped in any way that Erik needed me to. I wanted to learn.” Underwood said the experience helped her learn about aspects of theater and film such as sound, lighting, camera angles and how to control the dynamics of a film using these elements. She also plans on exploring filmmaking more when in grad school. Bateman said he has several ideas in development for another feature length film involving local legends and ghost stories and is also looking into doing a web series. “I hope I get to do it,” he said. “This is probably not the last that everyone will hear of me.”

– calewp@gmail.com

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Spring time equals ring time for some students Steve Schwartzman

Overheard by Steve

According our trusty Gregorian calendar and most commercials endlessly pushing clearance sales at Kmart, it is springtime. However, if I could keep a secret with my general reading public, that isn’t what I call it. I mean, in this given geographical location of youth, general personal purity and freelance social interaction the world over, this time of year needs a name that supports an underlying theme for the events and emotions most common. So, springtime? No. It’s ring time. I have no documented support to substantiate my claim that some demonic bystander has been spiking the water system with corny Jimmy Stewart movies, but I have engaged in enough public couples observation to feel pretty confident that some sort of something has infested our air, waters, dentist waiting rooms and all else, resulting in all kinds of people and pets suddenly feeling comfortable enough with commitment to pure, unadulterated matrimony until death or Jimmy Fallon do them part. In short, people are getting engaged and they are doing it in droves. Ring time, in all of its mass and terror, is upon us. This brings drastic change to a great amount of how the public functions around campus, but not nearly as steeply anywhere

as the change it makes in the ever-hallowed pre-professorstarting-class-chat time. This is an immensely pivotal time for students to create enough of a bond so they can dutifully survive class time together — and by dutifully survive, of course, I mean find the ability to openly groan about a group project in the matching key. However, recently the hollowed few minutes has become a water cooler session of kneeling stories, various style plans and hours upon hours of female emotional whimpering. I call it the “Human Pinterest Board,� a cavalcade of suggestions and my-aunt-did-that-at-her-weddingand-it-was-so-cutes to make any episode “Dawson’s Creek� blush. Take last week. There the 24-27 students — depending on whether or not it was quiz day — sit awaiting our professor to zip in and endow upon us the gift of knowledge, when there sits future wife number one, slumped down and clicking furiously through vibrant firstpoint perspective photographs of table cloths, each click adding another wrinkle to her forehead. Evidently, it turns out the natural motion of marriage is that the emotional strain of finding a mate, courting them, building an impenetrable bond and committing their life for all of eternity and deciding what fabric will dawn the underlings of the edible arrangements is exactly the same even though the duration of time for each event is very different. Cue in future wife two, who, by rule, is significantly closer to the day of rice-tossing as future wife one, and begins the given interaction with some variation of the following phrase: “Oh goodness, cloths are the worst.� They then commence into talking about the quality state of tablecloths in relation other required plans. As it stands right now, they are the worst. They

SPRING AND WEDDING RINGS go hand-in-hand for some students. DELAYNE LOCKE photo illustration

make this known in several words. When then commence to the first word-of-mouth suggestion, which generally stems from some designs some person saw at some event that was easily made from some fabric for some incredible price. She doesn’t quite remember the details but she does remember it being “gorgeous� and “had some baby blue in it.� This spawns the Google phase, in which both future wives machete through bookmarked pages and search engines to find some sort of variant of said cloth in hopes, dreams and aspiration that finally, in this cold cruel world full of fabric sample loneliness, perhaps, maybe, possibly, by some whim of the heart, she has found the one. Future wife one has struggles finding it at first, but that won’t slow her down, is motivated by

her drive for the perfect ceremony and future wife two’s constant affirmations of “keep looking, I promise it’s so cute.� Then finally, like a serpent in the brush, there it is. And goodness is it there, right in her face and even deeper in her heart. She’d cry if she didn’t need to get focused momentarily on comparative politics. As the professor walks up to the Power Point, both future wives can tell the end of their window of opportunity is nigh. She skims through the preparation instructions checking just before emailing such a beacon of love and splendor to her future spouse, only to find the worst. She drops her head, lets her lip quiver and looks over to future wife and mouths “I can’t sew.� Silence. But have no fear. Future wife two conjures a solution, leans

BINGE: Alcohol education targets high-�risk populations From page 5 even before they get to school. At DePaul University in Chicago, for example, students are required to take an online self-�assess-� ment to analyze their alcohol use before they get to campus. Loyola University Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago also use the online program, called e-�CHUG, or elec-� tronic Check-�Up to Go. Meanwhile, schools are working to offer alcohol-�free events, like the Beer Free Zone at UIC, and NU Nights at Northwestern, which offered a showing of the movie "Chicago" with related dance lessons, or bingo with prizes such as iPods. Harper College in Palatine offers a new class about drug and alcohol abuse in college, taught by a teacher who admits drink-� ing once affected her own performance in school. Some schools even offer alcohol-�free spring breaks. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-�Champaign, binge drinking has been notorious on dates such as Halloween and Unofficial St. Patrick's Day, a daylong drunkfest sponsored by bars that were losing money when March 17 fell within spring break. In response, the school and city have tried to crack down on such events, including steps to limit alcohol availability and installing surveillance cameras. All these efforts are a response to a study by the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism that identified binge drink-� ing as a top problem on campuses across the country a decade ago. Since then, a survey of 747 college presidents reported by the Center for Science in the Public Interest found that nearly all colleges had implemented some form of alcohol education,

Fight beer goggles with buddy system By Danielle Manley Online exclusive

with efforts targeting high-�risk populations such as first-�year students, sorority and fraternity members, and athletes. Thirty-� four percent of colleges banned alcohol for all students, and 4 in 5 colleges offered an option for alcohol-�free residences. Still, success has varied. At some colleges, nearly 70 percent of the students were identified as binge drinkers; at others there were none. It will take much harder work to make a dent in the problem, according to researchers such as Toben Nelson at the University of Minnesota, especially at big schools with an emphasis on sporting events, which had the most problems. Harm reduc-� tion and screening help, he said, but research shows that telling students why they shouldn't drink does little to change their behaviors. He says colleges could do much more to limit the availability of alcohol, which saturates college culture. He points to a success story at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, which lowered its percentage of binge drinkers from the 60s to the 40s by limiting alcohol and requiring registration for parties so police could make sure they weren't getting out of hand. Research by the Harvard School for Public Health found that underage students in states with extensive laws restricting underage and high-�volume drinking _ such as keg registration, 0.08 driving laws and restrictions on happy hours, pitchers and advertising _ were less likely to binge drink. Schools may always have binge drinkers, Nelson said, but it's defeatist to say nothing can be done to cut down on the severity and bad effects. "You're not going to stop it," Nelson said. "The idea is to reduce it and keep a lid on it."

#Aggielife A selection of tweets from the USU community “AXO dollar days has a CREDIT CARD SWIPER. So no excuse not to get some-� thing. I just bought a raffle ticket!� – @rileyjothehoe “Is being hipster a requirement to be hired on at quadside Cafe!?� – @IAmJasonRussell

Alcohol clouds your judgement and affects your motor skills. We’ve been taught these facts since first grade. But we drink anyway because it’s an effective way of winding down after a busy week spent on campus studying for exams and cram-� ming our brains with information. It’s important to address a common problem I’ve seen at many parties in Logan. There is a little something in the party world we call beer goggles.

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“I swear... The kids they take around on tours at USU just get younger and young-� er...� #areyou12? #reallytho – @TheUnderdog92 “Finally figured out where I’m going to attend next year! Utah state here I come.� – @ellotheremily

toward future wife one and assures her that in time of crafty doubt one can always, with faith ingenuity, use a hot glue gun. Future wifeys rejoice, for eureka, the blessed tablecloth has been found. A successful outing for our future wives, only leaving us with the longing cliffhanger of what ever they shall do to select the right napkin assortments. I’ll guess we’ll just have to wait and find out in two to five days.

– Steve Schwartzman is a senior in communication studies and linguistics. When he isn’t trying too hard to make people laugh he is usually watching sports, watching 90’s cartoons or experiencing all things Aggie Life. Got a good idea for Steve to rant about? Hit him up at steve. schwartzman@aggiemail.usu.edu or on Twitter @SchwartZteve

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FRESHMAN JOANNA CUBE PERFORMS A ROUTINE on the balance beam during a home meet earlier this season. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Football continues spring practices The Utah State football team held its first week of practices last week, including its first time in pads on Thursday. The Aggies are com-� ing off of record-�setting season in 2012 in which the Aggies went 11-�2 and won the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. The team will hold its first scrimmage on Thursday.

Volleyball begins spring season The Utah State women’s volleyball team kicked off its spring sea-� son with a visit to Weber State on Saturday, com-� ing away with 3-�0 win. The Aggies continue spring action with a tournament at the University of Utah on Saturday, March 30 at 9 a.m.

Davis named AFCU athlete of the week Sophomore McKenzie Davis was named American First Credit Union Utah State athlete of the week for the week of March 18-�24. It was the first career USU athlete of the week award for Davis, who won all three of her matches last week. Davis swept her sin-� gles matches in straight sets, and teamed up with senior Jaci West to win in doubles and help USU to a 5-�2 win over Weber State. Complied from staff and media reports

SENIOR JENNA JOHNSON DEFENDS during the Aggies’ loss to South Dakota in the first round of the Women’s Basketball Invitational on Thursday. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

Season-ending heartbreak for USU BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM sports editor

The Utah State women’s bas-� ketball team saw its season come to an end Thursday with a 77-�69 loss to South Dakota in the first round of the Women’s Basketball Invitational. Junior Jennifer Schlott led the Aggies with 25 points, but it wasn’t enough to hold off the Coyotes down the stretch. “It’s almost a carbon copy of half-�a-�dozen games this year,� USU head coach Jerry Finkbeiner said. “I wish there was a magical answer for that, but there was about six games this year that looked just like tonight. It’s kind

of haunted us all year long.� Led by senior Devyn Christensen, the Aggies jumped out to an early lead despite shooting struggles. USU shot just 31.6 percent from the field in the first half, but was a per-� fect 7-�of-�7 from the free throw line en route to an eight point halftime lead. Utah State took its largest lead of the game at 32-�22 on a layup from junior guard Jennifer Schlott with a minute to go before the half, but the double digit lead dwindled quickly as the Coyotes got hot from behind the arc, led by Nicole Seekamp. Seekamp scored 26 of her game-�high 33 points in the sec-�

ond half and South Dakota shot a blistering 65.4 percent from the field to take the lead with a little less than eight minutes remaining and pulled away down the stretch. “Defensively we just let them do whatever they wanted,� Schlott said. “They fast-�breaked on us, they got wide open 3’s — we were just out of sync tonight defensively. Offensively they were playing really tight on our shooters so I had open lanes.� USU was outrebounded 50-�44 on the night and shot 35.6 percent from the field overall. Schlott had a team-�high 25 points, Christensen added 16 and senior Jenna Johnson fin-�

ished with eight points and 13 rebounds while playing with a fractured finger. The Aggies finished the sea-� son 18-�14 overall and finished second in the WAC at 14-�4 in their final season as a member of the conference. “The growth of this program is out there,� Finkbeiner said. “The Mountain West is just going to compound the growth. There’s going to be opportuni-� ties for recruiting we haven’t had before, exposure we haven’t had before.� – curtislundstrom@ gmail.com Twitter: @CurtisLundstrom

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SOFTBALL

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Utah State softball dropped its final two games on Saturday against San Jose State in a three-�game week-� end series. USU fell 8-�0 in six innings to open Saturday’s action, while SJSU rode the momentum gained in the first game of the day to defeat the Aggies, 4-�1 in the series finale. In the opening game of the day the Spartans scored six unanswered runs through four innings of action. Utah State failed to gain any offensive traction against the home team’s starting pitcher Amanda Pridmore. San Jose State plated two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to finalize the games score, 8-�0 through six innings. Taking the loss for Utah State was freshman pitcher Noelle Johnson, who falls to 2-�8 this season. In the final game of the day, Pridmore once again limited what USU was able to do at the plate, leading her team to a, 4-�1, series finale victory.

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more McKenzie Davis posted a straight sets win at the No. 1 spot (6-�3, 6-�0), while senior Jaci West won in straight sets at the No. 2 spot (6-�4, 6-�4). Senior Julie Tukuafu was defeated by Brook Dennis in the third position in three sets (3-�6, 6-�2, 6-�3). At the No. 4 spot, freshman Kallie Sperry fell to Elizabeth Thoms in straight sets (7-�5, 6-�0). At the No. 5 spot, sophomore Hillary Hays was taken down by Verena Scott in straight sets (6-�2, 6-�2). And at the No. 6 spot, Liucija Smaizyte defeated fresh-� man Amber Stuhlmann in straight sets (6-�1, 6-�1). In doubles play, Sperry and senior Kristina Voytsekhovich were defeated by Scott and D’Ortona, 8-�2, at the second position, while Hays and Tukuafu were taken down by Dikosavljevic and Christine Foote, 8-�3, at the third position giving the Mavericks the doubles point. Davis and West’s match at the first position was left unfinished. Utah State will stay on the road next weekend as it trav-� els to Ruston, La., to take on WAC rivals Louisiana Tech on Friday, Mar. 29, at 8:30 a.m. (MT) and UTSA on Saturday, Mar. 30 at 2 p.m.

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Big Blue’s identity a vital school secret With mixed emotion, we’ve observed another Big Blue retire and unmask. Journalists understand the need for secret identities in extraordinary circumstances. There could have been no Watergate without Deep Throat. On the journalistic side, writer Clark Kent and photographer Peter Parker are only two of the more famous examples. In all An Editorial Opinion these cases, safety outweighed the need for transparency. Big Blue has similar concerns. Our student section has been one of the most envied in the nation, a driving force behind our teams’ successes. If Big Blue’s identity was common knowledge, some of the more sinister elements among our rivals could target him or his family. Concern over kidnapped family members could really impact his performance, which in turn would impact the performance of our teams. Or — completely feasible in the high-stakes world of collegiate sports — scheming opponents might try to bribe a mascot, getting him to make some imperceptible but vital change to his cheering. A change that could cost us victory. Sure, for a similar bribe, a receiver might drop a pass or a forward might foul out — but the mascot could theoretically break the spirit of every Aggie on the court and in the audience. On a less glamorous level, recently unmasked Big Blue Jordan Rampersad pointed out another advantage to the secret identity: “It’s fame you can turn off,� he said in an interview with The Statesman. Unlike star basketball or football players, Big Blue’s alter ego can live a quiet life. Out of the suit, he won’t be hassled by fans demanding autographs or the paparazzi. It’s only by tremendous effort that our editorial staff can restrain reporters and photographers from pestering student athletes while they’re studying or carrying out their day-to-day activities. The alter ego of our mascot would be a temptation too big, too blue to resist. Why does so much secrecy, so much intrigue surround a man in a furry blue bull suit? It’s by design. A mascot’s every movement is calculated to draw attention. The suit itself is larger than life. At first sight, there’s obviously someone inside it — but the more you see Big Blue, the less you focus on the person inside. And really, if the person inside were the important element, why would he need the suit? Don’t get us wrong — Rampersad and all the Big Blues before him had a demanding, thankless, sweaty job. But when they put on the mask, they became more than individual students. The best part of Big Blue’s secret identity is that he could be any one of us. He could be all of us.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article explaining what was wrong with the fiscal conservatism of the Republican Party from a fiscally conservative perspective. This week it is time to think about what is wrong with the fiscal liberalism of the Democratic Party from a fiscally liberal perspective. Imagine a giant sphere comprised of thousands of tiny dots. Each dot is a person with two numbers. The first number is the amount of money he possesses, and the second is the value of the resources he owns. These numbers are constantly changing as the individuals conduct transactions with each other. Sometimes the total value of an individual decreases, but most of the time it increases. In theory, each transaction increases the total value of both of the individuals involved: Otherwise, the individuals would not be interested in the transaction. Moreover, each individual is constantly developing new and greater resources, whether by attending school to accumulate human resources, by growing a garden or

running a factory to produce goods or by searching for buried treasure, fishing or laying claim to unowned territory to privatize communal resources. In the free market, money constantly multiplies spontaneously, making the average wealth grow steadily higher. This is the appeal of capitalism. But, in its pure form, capitalism presents several very serious problems. Running around in a capitalist system is like driving without car insurance or playing football without health insurance. The insurance is comparable to government regulation. The total price of LQVXUDQFH RYHU D \HDU period is greater than the expected price of whatever injuries or damages the populace experiences. In terms of sheer dollar value, insurance is a bad deal. A large chunk of premiums disappears in the bureaucracy without ever making it back to the people paying in. So why do we want government regulation? Why do we want insurance? An economist might answer we should minimize government. This is because the answer lies in an area never touched by economists. Big word alert: interpersonal comparisons of utility. Essentially, an interpersonal comparison of utility contrasts the value of a hundred dollars in the hands of a college student — which is great — to the value of a hundred dollars in the hands of Mitt Romney, which is negli-

gible. A college student will benefit greatly from an extra hundred dollars, because it means fruits and vegetables instead of mac and cheese or parking on campus instead RI KDXOLQJ SRXQGV RI textbooks up Old Main Hill, but a hundred dollar bill would barely be worth Mitt Romney’s time to pick up if it were lying on the ground in front of him. In times of economic recession, former Mitt Romneys are college students. In times of economic boom, former college students are runQLQJ )RUWXQH FRP panies. It makes sense a CEO would pay a hundred dollars in a time of boom in order to have DQ H[WUD EXFNV LQ KLV pocket when the rain starts pouring. Yes, the dollar value is decreased. But the utility per dollar is increased, and the total benefit to society is actually increased. This is the basis of the liberal argument. Let’s be clear here. The government is inefficient. The military is inefficient. The government should never be in the business of job creation. The point of the military is to prevent the economic travesty of war. The point of the government is to protect human and property rights, and regulate the economy just enough to prevent significant recessions, allowing the free market to operate as unencumbered as possible.

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What if, when you bought a new television, you had to decide which electrical network you’d like to use it on. That is essentially the problem most Americans face whenever they

buy a mobile phone. Subsidized Verizon Wireless handsets can’t function on AT&T’s network, and AT&T handsets don’t work on Verizon’s. This technical limitation, which is backed up by rules borrowed from copyright law, makes competition between the networks unrealistic. Other countries view this situation with amusement. Congress and the Federal Communications Commission can fix it: The public licenses that allow carriers to operate their networks should carry the obligation to allow customers to use any handset they like. Both AT&T and Verizon Wireless sell handsets to their customers below cost, then recoup the loss and add a hefty profit by way of contracts that last for years. According to a rule issued earlier this year by the U.S. Copyright Office, without permission from the companies, consumers may not legally “unlock� the

handsets to enable them to work on a network other than the one they were designed for. Using copyright law to police mobile phones seems like applying food and drug regulation to cars: It doesn’t fit. But the Copyright Office argues that the computer program that allows a mobile phone to be used on a certain network is not only a mechanism for protecting the carrier’s business but also a creative work, like a novel. $ ODZ WKH 'LJLWDO 0LOOHQQLXP Copyright Act, prohibits gaining access to something that is copyrighted by working around its technical shields. Although in the past the Copyright Office has allowed an exception for consumer unlocking of mobile phones, this year it switched gears and banned the practice. (DUOLHU WKLV PRQWK DIWHU Americans signed a petition protesting that decision, the White House said it didn’t like it, either. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has said the ban on unlocking raises concerns about unfair competition. Lawmakers in Congress from both parties have introduced, or are planning, legislation, and we can expect a flurry of hearings soon. More significant than the legality of phone unlocking is what’s at stake for Americans. As a practical matter, even an unlocked phone may not work on certain networks because it lacks the radio transmitters and receivers it needs

to function there. Verizon Wireless and AT&T intentionally use separate portions of radio spectrum. And different radio transmitters take best advantage of different frequencies. Those that are built for one carrier won’t necessarily work on the other’s network. This is fine for big and powerful Verizon and AT&T. Device makers and computerchip manufacturers will build customized mobile phones for each of them. However, as the Competitive Carriers Association has pointed out, manufacturers will have no incentive to make mobile phones for smaller and regional companies at a competitive cost. The FCC, with backing from Congress, should allow consumers to bring their devices to any network they want to use. And carriers should be required to sell access to their networks to all comers, not just those who buy single-network devices. The next time you are faced with a long-term contract for a deeply subsidized handset that is locked to one carrier, remember that wireless networks are constructed on public airwaves. This is a problem we can fix. –Susan P. Crawford, a contributor to Bloomberg View and a professor at the Cardozo School of Law, is the author of “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age.�

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LIBERAL: Belated economic regulations encumber recovery From page 11 The recession is over. All the regulations being implemented will only encumber the economy and prevent it from recovering. We are doing now what we should have been doing during George Bush’s

presidency. Instead, we are slowing the recovery now with new regulation, and we will deregulate it again in a few decades in time to speed ourselves into the next recession. Today’s liberals want job creation. They want stimulus. They want social security. They want

wealth redistribution. These ideas are not justified. The government should borrow during a recession, yes. The government should stave off the worst of poverty and ensure children receive adequate sustenance. But social security is a Ponzi scheme, and run-

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As a general matter, the party that holds the White House over two terms does poorly in the second midterm election, presenting one clear challenge to red-state Democratic senators on the ballot in 2014. However, a number of these senators will face an additional obstacle:

their own records. Sens. Mark Pryor, Ark., and Mary Landrieu, La., are two prime examples. They voted for Obamacare and the first-term stimulus. Last week, they were two of only 20 senators who voted against repeal of the medical-device tax, which will hit everything from wheelchairs to pacemakers and boost costs for many more patients than just the “rich.� Another pivotal moment for these senators came early Saturday morning, in a vote on a budget supported by Senate Democratic leaders — a mammoth tax increase lacking any real entitlement reform. Landrieu voted for it; Pryor voted no, as did three other Democrats who face tough reelection races in 2014: Kay Hagan, N.C., Mark Begich, Alaska, and Max Baucus, Mont. The budget passed by the narrowest of margins, 50 to 49. As the Democratic Party abandons its more moderate constituents, these senators are facing an ever more difficult situation, reconciling the demands of the Democratic Party and those of their home-state voters. It is one thing for them to have run in 2008, an historic presidential-election year when every Democrat in sight turned out; it is quite another to run in an off-year election, tied to a president whose approval rates are sinking. Votes on the budget, anti-gun legislation, energy development and other issues that resonate back home will test just how much they are willing to risk in support of their party leadership and the White House. These candidates and others ran on the promise of independence and serving their more conservative constituents. If they haven’t delivered and if the GOP fields capable opponents (unlike as in many 2010 and 2012 races), their political future will be at risk.

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Today is Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Hillary Jensen, a senior majoring in English with an from Pleasant Grove, Utah.

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Natural Resources Week Senior BFA Exhibition 2, Chase Fine Arts Center 10-�4 p.m. EastWest: A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking, Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall 10-�5 p.m. Industrial Ethos: Photography by Chris Dunker, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art 10-�5 p.m. Alphi Chi Omega’s LYRE FEST, TSC All Day Managing ADHD Workshop, TSC 310 12:30-�1:30 p.m. Reinventing a Positive Body Image Workshop, TSC 1:30-�2:30 p.m. Walmart Stores Information Session, BUS 211 4:30 p.m. Jane Austen’s: Emma, Chase Fine Arts Center 7:30-� 9:30 p.m.

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Today in History: On March 26, 1953, American medi-� cal researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announced on a national radio show that he successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crip-� pling disease of polio. In 1952 — an epidemic year for polio — 58,000 new cases were reported in the U.S., and more than 3,000 died from the disease. For promising eventually to eradi-� cate the disease, Dr. Salk was celebrated as the great doctor-� benefactor of his time.

Senior BFA Exhibition 2, Chase Fine Arts Center 10-�4 p.m. EastWest: A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking, Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall 10-�5 p.m. Industrial Ethos: Photography by Chris Dunker, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art 10-�5 p.m. Alphi Chi Omega’s LYRE FEST, TSC All Day “What is an Educated Person?� Reading Group, Library 101 11:30-�1 p.m. TALK Info Session, ENG 201 5 p.m. Hawaii Pacific University Grad Program Info Session, Library 5 p.m. Entrepreneur Leadership Series-�Charles Sorenson, BUS 215 Jane Austen’s Emma, Chase Fine Arts Center 7:30-� 9:30 p.m. Full Moon Hike to the Wind Caves, ORC, 8-�10 p.m.

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Alphi Chi Omega’s LYRE FEST, TSC All Day Mindset Workshop, TSC 310 11:30-�12:30 p.m. Group Meditation, TSC 310 12-�1 p.m. USU Yarncraft Guild, TSC Juniper Lounge 7-�9 p.m. Jane Austen’s Emma, Chase Fine Arts Center 7:30-� 9:30 p.m. Symphony Orchestra Concerto Evening, Chase Fine Arts Center 7:30-�9:30 p.m.

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You’re invited to Pizza & Politics with U.S. Senator Mike Lee. Come for FREE pizza and with questions to ask the Senator on March 29 at 4 p.m. in ENG 101. The event is free and open to all interested students. Sponsored by the USU College Republicans. For more info go to www.republicans.usu. edu. The annual spring BFA exhibition is here, for those students who are earning their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree to exhibit their work. This second exhibit will be held in Gallery 102 of the Chase Fine Arts Center from 10 a.m. -� 4 p.m. and will feature the work of Heather Mahler, Amanda Bassler, Mijke Butts, Shawn Koga and Alex Unruh. A reception will be held on Mar. 29 at 5 p.m. The exhibit and reception are both free and open to the public. The Entrepreneur Leadership Speaker Series will feature Charles Sorenson this week. Sorenson will speak on innovation in the Health Care industry on March 27. Charles Sorenson is the CEO of Intermountain Healthcare. Under Charles Sorenson’s leadership, Intermountain Healthcare has applied a disciplined and system-�wide focus on the implementation of best clinical practices aimed at producing measurably better outcomes for patients. He began his practice at LDS Hospital in 1982. The Symphony Orchestra presents the winners of a concerto competition in December, accompanied by the symphony orchestra on March 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall. Winners are Marianna Cardon, French horn; Sara Mason, piano; Nathan Southwick, violin; and Clifford Tam, clarinet. The music of Richard Strauss, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy and Edward MacDowell will be performed. Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite those who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly. Jane Austen’s “Emma� will run from Mar. 26-�30. A matinee will be performed at 2

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p.m. on Mar. 30. All performances are in the Morgan Theatre, of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s campus. Tickets are $13 adults, $10 seniors and youth, $8 USU faculty and staff, free for USU students with ID. Come to the LDS Institute World Expo and Talent Show. It will be held April 12 at 7:00 pm in the Institute Cultural Hall. You’ll enjoy a night of talent, international exhibits and free food. Are you hankering for some sexy latin culture, dance and music? Come to Fiesta Americas: Sabor Latino this Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Get tickets (10$) from the USU card office (They take credit and debit!) or from any mem-� ber of the LSU executive council. Students from CHaSS’s “What is an edu-� cated person?� reading group will be discuss-� ing what they have been learning through their readings this semester. Don’t miss the student’s perspective on Mar. 27 from 11:30-�1p.m. in Library 101.

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