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September 6, 2012
When the dust has cleared Matt Gochis
student body president matt.gochis@eaglemail.ceu.edu There are many roads to take for reaching our goals of graduation, getting degrees, and experiencing college life. The road can be a long tough journey at times. With the tough comes the rewarding. When the dust has cleared on your college life, how will you remember it? Eastern Student Association is here to provide opportunities
for you to have the most fulfilling college experience and to serve you in any way possible. We will be able to share in these experiences cheering on the eagles on the field, serving together through the SUN Center, and yes, partying hard at the on-campus dances! But most importantly, when graduation comes, and we are all sitting side by side on those chairs in the BDAC, we will know that memories belong to all of us, and we will carry them with us forever. I look forward to starting that
journey with you. Together we will make our college experience even better than the years before, with new ideas, new challenges, and new possibilities. Keep it real, and I’ll see you on the field.
something entirely different. You might want to rethink that strategy. 8. The Mighty Duck I heard a lot of stories where the date was condescending or insulting but the worst of the lot was during an outing to Cold Stone. A guy proceeded to tell his date that she waddled like a duck when she walked, and that it was probably because she had a big bum. Ouch! I’m assuming there was no a second date. 7. Singing Psycho The pity date is never easy. But this particular instance was when a girl got asked to a dance by someone who she knew liked her and sadly she didn’t share the same feelings towards him but very nobly accompanied him to the dance. When he started singing the words to every slow song to her while they danced, it took a turn towards the creepy side. Oh, and he was tone deaf. 6. All Stitched Up On the way out the front door, one guys date accidentally slammed his head in it. So whatever plans they had were cancelled and they spent the night at the hospital instead getting his head stitched. 5. Never Let Go Number five is one of my personal favorites. So he picked his date up on a motorcycle and it started raining, strike number one. Luckily she wasn’t wearing white. They went to a dollar theater for a re-release of the blockbuster Titanic and very strategically grabbed his date’s hand at the same moment when the famous line “never let go” is said on screen, and told his date to never let go... strike-number two. The third strike came when he asked her if she was comfy and pulled her head in to rest on
his chest and wouldn’t let go for the rest of the movie. And here’s the kicker, it started to rain again during the ride home. 4. A Day At The Beach (In Africa) So this date started out pretty good, just a normal day at the beach. But when they left maybe twenty miles outside from the beach they got into a more mountainous forest region and the car broke down. But the bad part is that he made her push while he was inside the car steering. 3. Panic Attack Prom My heart goes out to this guy, but on the way to the prom his car broke down on the freeway and he had a panic attack. So he called his mom and left his phone on speaker. Now keep in mind that his date can hear every word, and his mom asked him if he took his meds that day. So they finally got to the dance and at some point he cut his arm and had another panic attack. But after all that he ignored his date and only danced with his sister. 2. Snorting Pee So this date started with the snorting game which I’m unfamiliar with, but apparently whoever is in the middle is blindfolded and handed a cane. Whoever gets touched by the cane gets snorted at and they have to snort back at the blind person. So this girl got snorted at but can’t snort back because she was laughing hysterically. Well that was her demise because she laughed so hard she peed her pants and had her date take her home early. 1. The Brown Carnival Just remember that this guys date is aware of everything the entire time. So this couple goes out to a big dinner and then goes to a carnival. Well during a ride he gets
A few of my favorite venues close to home James Justice
news editor j.justice@eaglemail.ceu.edu
staff writer n.manley@eaglemail.ceu.edu Aldo students! For all you freshmen welcome to the Eastern family, and those who have returned it’s nice to see familiar faces again. Returning to school is a double edged sword for most. That nervous and oft exciting energy for school to start but oftentimes that doesn’t compensate for summers end drawing near. I hope you all took advantage of your summer break spending it with friends and family or perhaps even chasing a summer crush. Typically those crushes don’t always work out in the end and sometimes result in heartache. But there is a lighter side to those moments as well. While keeping with that same dating spirit, I thought it would be fun to talk to students around campus and find out some of their more comical bad dates. So, ladies and gentleman, here is my comprehensive list of USU Eastern’s Top Ten Worst Dates. 10. Video Game Date Two different students told me of incidents relating to video games. The lesser of the two was when a girls date only talked about World of Warcraft. The other more egregious act was when someone actually played Angry Birds on his phone during dinner and all through the movie. 9. The “L” Word We’re not all lucky enough to fall in love at first sight or at least having that love reciprocated. Telling someone you love them on a third date is one thing. But to tell them that God commanded the two of you to get married and start poppin’ out babies soon is
Freshmen advice CJ Evans
viewpoints editor c.evans@eaglemail.ceu.edu It’s that time of year again, when the arid, dirty heat of Utah gives way to slightly less arid and dirty heat of Utah’s fall. To help us compensate, the schools allow their doors to open once more, letting students bask in the wonderful feeling of a room
crammed with 30 to 40 people whose air conditioning has been damaged for who knows how long. Yes, we know that the repairperson took care of the problem months ago but that was in December when trying to cool down wasn’t the first thing on our minds and when we were wearing enough clothes that bending our elbows was a challenge. Now that we actually
The Eagle
During my tenure at USU Eastern, I have written some interesting opinion articles. From my first article, where I wrote about the hell of being bi-polar and trying to fit in, my dating advice articles, hearing Dr. Susan Polster tell stories about how Mae Goss, (past editor-in-chief when I wrote those articles) would walk around the newspaper lab cursing my name, to eventually dabbling in news stories. I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun writing for the newspaper. But this piece isn’t about me, this piece is about the amazing Price area. While walking around campus I’ve came across many conversations on how there’s nothing to do at my beloved USU Eastern and how Price is a boring place. So I thought I’d write my top five favorite things to do here, or within 30 minutes. I grew up in Emery County so I’m mainly writing about places there. Visit the desert The deserts of Emery and Carbon counties are amazing. You can see breathe-taking scenery, a variety of animal life and, most importantly, it’s a very spiritual place. It’s a great place to take a date, go for a drive or just hang out with friends. Be careful though, there are a lot of dangers. So, learn where you’re going, take lots of water and let someone know where you’re going and what time you’ll be back. The mountains I don’t care where you go in life; you’ll never experience mountains like we have here in Eastern Utah. They are, for a lack of a better word, perfect. If you’d like an amazing drive, check out Ferron Mountain. The roads, while not paved and narrow, are a lot better than they used to be. Again, you want to be safe, have fun, TAKE WATER and let someone know where you’re going and what time you’ll be back. You won’t be disappointed. There are also some great hikes and scenery up Price and Indian canyons, just minutes away from campus. Great mountain biking trails exit west of campus on Wood Hill. Take a bike, take a stroll but do not complain about how there is nothing to do. Go fishing Fishing gets a bad rap. It’s peaceful, fun, exciting and a hard thing to learn to do correctly. It’s an activity that everyone loves doing. Plus, you’ll get to tell your friends how “big” the fish was that you caught. Moab Moab is the center of the desert off-roading experience for the world. There’s no other place that you come across the obstacles that thousands of people every year drive thousands of miles to try and conquer. But, if you don’t want to off road, there’s other amazing things to do there including taking hikes, camping, window shopping and trying some of the interesting cuisine from that area. Taking pictures If you don’t have a camera, you can use a phone or other device. Take in what you see here. If it’s taking pictures of the USU Eastern campus, great. If it’s driving to a place I mentioned, great. Take pictures to help with the fun times we are all having. So these are some of my favorite things to do here. If you’re bored, go on an adventure, find out how amazing some of these places are for yourself and find out how much fun these activities are. Just because we live in a small community doesn’t mean that we don’t have anything to do.
USU Eastern’s top-ten worst dates Nathan Manley
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want to cool off its mysteriously broken again, making us question the existence of this repairman. But I digress, for many of you reading this, fall will bring your first semester of college, and while we at The Eagle are sure you are completely killing every course and class your taking, you are probably sick of hearing advice about how to survive your first week away at college. How to get along with your roommate, how to find
classes on the first day, or how to get a library card. People love giving advice to new college students; step outside your dorm room and see how long it takes for someone to hand you a pamphlet on the dangers of premarital drinking. While none of this advice is bad, it is fairly basic. I could tell you how good it will be for you to study an hour every night that you are at college and how it will do wonders for your grades. But I prefer the more honest
approach, if you don’t want to study, you are probably not going to, no matter how blatantly your teachers, your parents or this newspaper tells you to. So here is adv ice on things that you may actually do and haven’t a lready b e e n see Freshmen page 3
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