Friday, Feb. 26, 2010

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Convocation releases name for leadership center

By PETER BROWN staff writer

Stephen R. Covey spoke to students in Wednesday’s Dean’s Convocation for the first time as professor Covey of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

“This is a historic day, the dean of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Doug Anderson, said at the Dean’s Convocation.

“Today is the day we get to welcome Stephen R. Covey to the faculty at the Utah State business school,” Anderson said.

Anderson announced the business school will establish the Stephen R. Covey Center for Leadership. He said Covey was named one of the top 10 most influential thinkers in the 20th century and will be an incredible asset.

Covey’s lecture centered around applying universal values and principles into business and culture. Most organizations will develop their own value system, he said, and the question to ask is, “Are they values that are timeless and universal?”

“Build your value system on principles that never change and that will apply in every part of the world,” Covey said. “I’ve taught in all the major six religions, and they all buy into the significance of these principles.”

Covey said the key to implementing prin-

- See COVEY, page 4

STEPHEN R. COVEY speaks to students about building their value systems and using those values in their business ventures. Covey was asked to give a convocation speech as a new professor in the Huntsman School of Business. STEVE SELLERS photo

Candidates vie for ASUSU president during debate

By EMILY HOFERITZA staff writer

Associated Students of USU hosted the primary elections presidential debate Wednesday at noon in the Hub. People standing in line for free Aggie Ice Cream and sitting at tables watched as the three candidates discussed the Aggie Parking Terrace, possible fee and tuition hikes, plans for a student recreation center and their plans if they were president.

Dave Haupt, political science major; Jon Allen, Fusion HD3 Station director and Tyler Tolson, ASUSU president answered prepared questions asked by the presenter and then questions asked by students in attendance.

The possible construction of a student recreation center carried through much of the debate in the open-mike portion. Students asking questions wanted to know how much it would cost them individually to build what Tolson said would be a $20 million building. Tolson said it might be a

student fee of $70, but total fees might not rise that much. Fees for other programs could be lowered, and students would not have to pay for the building until it is occupied, he said.

Tolson said student fees increase every year.

“This year, I’ve kept the fees low. I’ve kept the tuition low,” Tolson said.

Allen said a recreation center is a great long-term goal, but the university needs to work on shortterm goals for now by ensuring that resources and budget money is used wisely. Allen also said one of

his goals is to improve USU’s image by utilizing the media already available.

Haupt said that after pressing needs such as keeping professors from being cut from the university are taken care of, a campus recreation center would be a good idea. Haupt said students are already taxed enough, and he would work to keep fees where they’re at.

Another matter brought up was parking in the

- See PRIMARIES, page 3

USTAR and museum bring science to community

By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor

JEFF MUHS of the Energy Dynamics Lab said intuitive lighting systems may be on the market three to four years from now. STEVE SELLERS photo

Inside This Issue

02/26/10 USU students build houses in Smithfield as a part of Habitat for Humanity.

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The Leonardo, a museum based out of Salt Lake City, collaborated with USU’s USTAR program to explain local science projects to community members.

Wednesday’s presentation focused on USU’s multiple research projects designed to conserve energy.

“There are some incredible things happening at USU,” said Lisa Davis who works in communications at The Leonardo. “We are completely bowled over by what’s happening in those labs. We are privileged to be here.”

The museum aims to become an institution recognizable across Utah. Its program “After Hours” is designed to help Utah residents understand science research cultivating in their area. This is the first time The Leonardo has come to Logan and plans to highlight more scientific breakthroughs in the future, said Jacoba Mendelkow Poppleton, USTAR’s public

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relations specialist.

“The Leonardo museum has a lot of functions, but one of these is about outreach,” Poppleton said. “It’s science and culture merging because it’s important to connect with the community.”

Wednesday night, one of nine USTAR teams was represented during a presentation at local restaurant The Italian Place. USU’s research in biofuels was highlighted in the presentation, “The Energy Revolution,” by two USU professors and one student researcher.

Professors, students and community members listened to the speakers explain, in detail, a handful of projects USU research teams are diligently working on to decrease the amount of wasted energy.

Jeff Muhs, USTAR’s energy lab director, said, “We have a big problem. We’re importing 60 percent of all the oil: $1 billion of oil is imported a day.”

He said the use of energy imports goes through a cycle that begins with the increase of oil prices, then food prices.

After prices go up there is resource depletion and, finally, a change in climate.

To stop the cycle there needs to be “game-changers” or an energy revolution, Muhs said.

Muhs’ team of researchers in the Energy Dynamics Lab is working to save electric energy through an intuitive lighting system because lightbulbs consume 20 percent of the energy used by all electrical appliances. The system’s sensors will be able to anticipate the lighting needs of users.

Lighting will be adjusted based on the number of people in a room and activities taking place. Lighting will also be adjusted according to the age of the person in the room.

Muhs said, “If you look down at a piece of paper, you’re going to have completely different lighting needs.”

The project comes with many challenges, he said, which include real-time scene interpretation, task identification and predictive lighting control. He said the key to cre-

- See ENERGY, page 4

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Celebs&People NEW YORK (AP) – Michael Douglas’ troubled son Cameron was denied bail and a chance for outpatient addiction treatment Thursday as he awaits sentencing in a federal drug-dealing case.

Wearing dark-blue federal prison garb, the screen scion said nothing during the hearing at a DOUGLAS Manhattan federal court. He briefly greeted his mother, Diandra, and other supporters as he was taken back to jail. His father did not attend the hearing.

NewsBriefs SeaWorld killer whale kills trainer ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Despite calls to free or destroy the animal, SeaWorld said Thursday it will keep the killer whale that drowned its trainer, but will suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths.

Also, VIP visitors who occasionally were invited to pet the killer whales will no longer be allowed to do so.

“We’re going to make any changes we have to to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Chuck Tompkins, chief of animal training at SeaWorld parks, said a day after a 12,000-pound killer whale named Tilikum dragged a trainer into its pool and thrashed the woman to death as audience members watched in horror.

Suspected terrorists plead not guilty NEW YORK (AP) – Two men have pleaded not guilty to new charges in a foiled plot to bomb New York City subways with homemade bombs.

Charges unsealed Thursday morning in federal court in Brooklyn allege that Zarein Ahmedzay (zah-RAYN’ ah-MIHD’-zay) and Adis Medunjanin (ah-DEES’ mehdoon-YAH’-neen) were involved in the plan to attack the system in mid-September 2009.

California killer convicted

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – A jury convicted an amateur photographer Thursday for the third time in the murder of a 12-year-old girl and also found him guilty in the brutal stranglings of four women, whose deaths went unsolved for decades until investigators discovered DNA and other evidence tying the cases together.

Jurors took less than two days to find Rodney James Alcala, 66, guilty of five counts of first-degree murder after six weeks of grueling testimony.

Alcala, a UCLA graduate with prior convictions for sexual molestation and rape, showed no emotion as the verdicts were read.

The jury also found true special circumstance allegations of rape, torture and kidnapping, making him eligible for the death penalty. Jurors return next week for the penalty phase.

Alcala, who represented himself, has been sentenced to death twice before for 12-yearold Robin Samsoe’s murder, but both convictions were overturned. The four other cases were heard for the first time this year.

Minutes after the verdict, Samsoe’s older brother stood in the hallway and called his mother as his relatives enveloped the two prosecutors in bear hugs.

Robert Samsoe, who was 15 when his sister was murdered, said he thinks daily about what his sister would be like if she were still alive. The blondhaired girl, who would have been 42, was passionate about drama and ballet and spent hours debating with friends which was better, ballet or gymnastics.

“Robin would have been a teacher, I think, and she would have been a great mom and a great aunt,” he said, tearing

up.

He added that the crime and the ensuing 30 years of litigation have taken a heavy toll.

“I would have probably had a childhood” without the murder, he said. “When this happened, our lives got turned upside down. It separated a family. There’s more to it than just Robin.”

Investigators arrested Alcala a month after Samsoe disappeared on June 20, 1979 while riding a friend’s bike to a ballet class in Huntington Beach in Orange County. Her body was found 12 days later in the Angeles National Forest, where it had been mutilated by wild animals.

Alcala’s parole agent quickly recognized him from a police sketch and called authorities.

Alcala, who at the time was awaiting trial for the rape of a 15-year-old girl, has been in custody ever since.

But prosecutors only added the murders of four Los Angeles County women in 2006 after investigators discovered forensic evidence linking him to those crimes, including DNA found on three of the women, a bloody handprint and marker testing done on blood Alcala left on a towel in the fourth victim’s home.

Bruce Barcomb, the brother of Alcala’s first known victim, 18-year-old Jill Barcomb, said he had almost given up hope that police would solve the case.

“DNA technology never entered my mind,” he said.

“There was a one-in-100 billion chance of a match – and it was Jill.”

The jury heard testimony that two of the four adult victims were posed nude and possibly photographed after their deaths; one was raped with a

RODNEY ALCALA, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sits in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. Alcala, a California man with a genius IQ who is charged with the serial killings of five females, donned an earring Tuesday Feb. 9 and took the witness stand in his own defense. AP photo

claw hammer; and all of them were repeatedly strangled and resuscitated during their deaths to prolong their agony.

Prosecutors also alleged Alcala took earrings from at least two of the victims as trophies.

The Samsoe case, which was first tried in 1980, presented more of a challenge for prosecutors.

No one saw her abducted and investigators were unable to recover forensic evidence from her mutiliated body.

The trial focused almost entirely on the Samsoe murder and Alcala chose not to address the four other cases when he testified in his own defense.

Prosecutors relied on witnesses who saw a curly-haired photographer taking pictures of Samsoe, her friend and other teenagers on the beach minutes before she disap-

was killed.

He accused prosecutors of lumping the four Los Angeles women in with Samsoe to inflame the jury and pointed out lapses in witnesses’ recollections of that day.

The other women murdered were Georgia Wixted, 27, a nurse from Malibu; Charlotte Lamb, 32, a legal secretary from Santa Monica; Jill Parenteau, 21, a key punch operator from Burbank; and Barcomb, a teen who had run away to Los Angeles from Oneida, N.Y. weeks before her murder.

Prosecutor Matt Murphy said Thursday he would call as witnesses in the penalty case two of Alcala’s earlier victims, including the teenager whose rape case against Alcala was pending in 1979 when he murdered Samsoe. Alcala was convicted of sexually assaulting the other woman in 1968.

Suspect may have contacted students online

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peared. Photos of one of the girls were later found in his possession.

Also key to the trial was a pair of gold ball earrings that Samsoe’s mother said belonged to her daughter.

The earrings were found in a jewelry pouch in a storage locker that Alcala had rented in Seattle.

Investigators found other earrings in the same pouch, including a small rose-shaped stud that contained a trace of DNA from another of Alcala’s alleged victims, Charlotte Lamb.

Alcala maintained, however, that the gold ball earrings were his and introduced a video of himself as the winning contestant on a 1978 episode of “The Dating Game.”

He told jurors the grainy video clip showed him wearing the earrings under his long, feathered hair a year before Samsoe

REAGAN WEBER, right, one of the two eighth grade students who was shot Tuesday at Deer Creek Middle School with her friend Sydney Erickson who was with her when the gunman fired. Weber was resting at home with her father, her sister Morgan, 17, and Erickson. AP photo

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — Among items seized from the room of a man accused of wounding two students at a Colorado middle school were photos of youths who appear to be in their teens, prompting the accused’s father to speculate that his son may have had online contact with students there prior to the attack.

Jefferson County sheriff’s investigators Thursday were puzzling over why Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood, 32, may have targeted Deer Creek Middle School. They declined to say whether Eastwood had contact with students at the school, which is just miles from Columbine High, but they were interviewing students and parents.

“It’s very well a possibility, but it remains under investigation,” said sheriff’s spokesman Mark Techmeyer.

Eastwood’s father, War Eagle Eastwood, said Wednesday that he

found digital pictures in his son’s room showing students, who he guessed were in middle school or high school.

Investigators seized the photos when they searched Eastwood’s home in Hudson. The elder Eastwood said his son had talked to himself and imaginary friends and that recently that talk had turned into yelling.

The Eastwoods don’t have a home computer, but War Eagle Eastwood said his son would go to public libraries. Officials at nearby Hudson Public Library declined to comment, citing privacy concerns.

Investigators were also reviewing Bruco Eastwood’s journals as they tried to figure out why he allegedly showed up at his old school Tuesday and started firing in the parking lot before he was tackled by a math teacher.

Student Reagan Weber was treated at a hospital and released. The mother

of the other victim, Matt Thieu, said he was doing well at a hospital. Deer Creek was scheduled to reopen for classes on Monday.

Teacher David Benke was hailed as a hero. Officials called his actions proof that the Littleton-area community had learned lessons from Columbine, where law enforcement was criticized for not moving quickly enough in the 1999 incident in which two teenagers killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.

Investigators say Eastwood initially entered the school Tuesday, said he was a former student, and chatted with teachers without drawing suspicion.

Sheriff’s department spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said Eastwood used a restroom and left the building.

Moments later, he opened fire with his father’s bolt-action hunting rifle in the parking lot.

Techmeyer didn’t release the exact timeline, saying it was part of the investigation. But he said that contrary to what a school official has said, it was moments, rather than hours, between the time Eastwood entered and left the building – without a weapon – and when the shooting began.

John McDonald, director of safety, security and emergency planning for Jefferson County Schools, told KUSATV that Eastwood wanted a tour of the school. McDonald said tours are not given during school hours.

A school security officer was not at Deer Creek at the time because he was responsible for three schools and was investigating a property crime at another school, Kelley said. Other officers were on the scene within three minutes, Techmeyer said.

“Who knows? It probably would’ve ended differently if he had been on the scene,” Techmeyer said of the security officer. “He may not have been at the door, but the response time would have

been mere seconds versus three minutes. It could’ve ended more tragically, for Mr. Eastwood.”

It’s unclear whether Eastwood watched the school resource officer leave or even knew that Deer Creek had one, Techmeyer said.

There are 10 “school resource,” or security, officers for 57 schools in unincorporated Jefferson County.

Each officer is assigned primarily to a high school, where violent activity may occur more often, and one or two middle schools secondarily, Techmeyer said.

Regular patrol deputies handle elementary schools.

It would be too expensive to place one in every school, and school resource officers who cover a few schools are better able to establish potential crime patterns, Kelley said.

Sheriff’s officials are reviewing the program, as they would after any shooting, Techmeyer said.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers told a conference on school safety Thursday that there have been more than 250 school-related violence deaths nationwide, half of them shootings, since Columbine.

Suthers insisted there is no way to stop a determined gunman, including the 53-year-old man who killed student Emily Keyes at Colorado’s Platte Valley High School in 2006, the man who killed 33 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 and the faculty shooting deaths of three people this month at the University of Alabama.

Anonymous tips to a phone bank set up after Columbine allowed officials to prevent 28 planned school attacks in Colorado, respond to more than 400 threats of violence and seize 200 weapons from schools or school buses, Suthers said. But he noted that school staff – not police – were involved in most of those cases.

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Students trade unused items to conserve Briefs

By MITCH FIGGAT staff writer

Thursday, the Aggies Recyclers committee met together in the atrium of the Natural Resources Building for the first Soup and Swap.

In the name of conservation of Earth’s resources, reduction of local waste and having a good time with delicious soup, the Aggie Recyclers urged people to come and bring anything they were not using or willing to trade and put it all the table.

All items brought were donations. Sam Abbott, a member of the Aggie Recyclers and a co-director of the event, explained the many reasons why the Soup and Swap was such a good idea.

He said, “The more nonmonetary activities one has, the easier it is to find personal zen.”

This was not just a simple drop-off and pickup exchange, like at the DI. There was music and a lot of trying on clothes.

Abbott said, “The Soup and Swap is set to the tone of engaging social interaction instead of engaging in a product.”

In the end, Abbott said the activity is very simple: “Pile it all up and take what you need.”

Jacob Buckner, also one of the co-directors of the event, commented on the hidden cost of the world’s resources that all products have. Of the message Soup and Swap is trying to convey, he said, “It teaches an idea of the true cost of the products we purchase. By reusing the goods we own, we can reduce the impact the consumption we

have on the earth.”

When asked what types of items a participant could of brought to the Soup and Swap, Buckner said, “Something usable that you are not using -- for example, old camping gear, kitchen and household items, out-offashion old clothes.”

As the swapping started, there seemed to be a mix of both bartering for an exchange and taking what people thought they needed.

The swapping was done over three tables, two of them were inches high with clothes. The other was designated the “do-dad” table, where anything else, such as movies, books and dry packaged food, were placed.

A volunteer and participant, Jessica Buckner, said, “I brought a few old hoodies, old shirts and a pair of shoes.”

When asked what she was looking for, she said, “I could really use a new beanie, but I am keeping an eye peeled for a new pashmina. But I am also out to just have a fun night.”

Erica Perry, a recycling club member holding a bowl of broccoli soup, said, “I am on the hunt for good literature or board games.”

Abbott said the event is an attempt to enforce a selfefficient community.

“Any event where community cooperation replaces money, is one that promotes peace,” he said.

As such, all items were pro- SAM ABBOTT and Jacob Buckner sort through some of the items that were donated at the Soup vided by those who reside in and Swap. Abbott and Buckner co-directed the event for Aggie Recyclers. JENNY MILLER photo the surrounding community. items on the swapping table.

Abbott said, “Reduce a worthy precursor and The USU Catering Service Although the event was a waste and keep things that promoter of Recyclemania, donated the soup. The local small-scale effort, the Aggie can be used in use. This Abbott said, which is the Coca-Cola corporation donat- Recyclers believe it was a helps the sustainability of next big project for Recyclers ed the beverages. The rest great step toward efficient our resources.” committee. was donated by anyone who reuse of items.

The event was deemed – mfiggat@gmail.com was willing to put unneeded

Primaries: Two debate against incumbent president -continued from page 1 Aggie Terrace. Allen’s platform – posted on vote.usu. edu, along with all candidates’ platforms – is that he wants to allow free parking after 3 p.m. in the Aggie Terrace. The question posed by an audience member was whether it would affect revenue and, therefore, the jobs of those working for Parking.

Tolson and Haupt said the loss of student jobs in Parking would make free parking after 3 p.m. difficult.

Tolson said, “Working on getting them out earlier would be difficult.”

Allen said though it would be hard balancing the pros and cons of his plan, something could be worked out.

“Obviously with anything like this there is going to be give and take,” Allen said. “The goal is to help students.”

Candidates mentioned other goals throughout the debate.

Haupt said he has a goal to replace Blackboard and Banner with a better, more centralized system.

Allen said he plans to combine ASUSU with the ath-

letics department to gain more community support for athletics.

Tolson said that in order to make ASUSU more effective, the Greeks and public relations will need their own adviser.

Bill Sproat, junior in liberal arts, asked the final open-mike question to Allen and Haupt, with an anecdote about broken promises.

“Are you promising soda in the drinking fountains?” he said. “Have you researched what you can do, what is in your power to do? Can you actually get it done?”

Haupt said, “I don’t want anything on my campaign to be a pipe dream.”

Allen said nothing in his campaign was a pipe dream.

“They are goals that we can accomplish,” he said.

After the debate in an interview, Sproat said, “You know, it doesn’t seem like it’s not going to change with who it is. They seem like they’ll probably do an OK job.”

Erin Henrie, sophomore in agricultural commu-

nications and journalism, said she feels that her vote does not matter.

“I just tend not to care enough to vote simply because they’re going to make decisions with or without my opinion,” Henrie said.

Tyler Glaittli, junior in management information systems, said though he thinks there is little the president can do with the division of power being so great in a university, he will still vote.

“I may be the minority as far as voting and how passionately I feel about it,” Glaittli said. “People should care more. If you don’t vote, you become a slave. You lose your voice.”

Polls for the primary presidential election close at 3 p.m. Friday. The announcement of the two winners will be given afterward in the Hub. The final campaign will be Monday at 7 a.m. Two more presidential debates are scheduled in the Hub, Monday and Tuesday at noon.

– la.stewart@aggiemail.usu.edu

Cache Valley hills, that’s where I want to be

A WEEZER TRIBUTE concert was held in the Lundstrom Center and hosted by the USU guitar club, Thursday. STEVE SELLERS

Campus & Community

Art exhibit depicts local landscapes Woody Shepherd, professor of drawing and painting at Utah State University, shares his most recent landscapes at his solo exhibition “New Paintings” beginning Tuesday, March 2, in Studio 102 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on the USU campus.

The exhibit focuses on the beauty of landscape, including canyons, in Cache Valley, and is free and open to the public.

The opening reception is Thursday, March 4, from 5-7 p.m. in Studio 102. The exhibition will be on display until Friday, March 26.

“The work itself represents a therapeutic place and simulates the cross between looking at the actual landscape and forming an internal interpretation,” Shepherd said.

Concert will feature Brazilian composers At this time of the winter season, a little sunshine and warmth is appreciated. And while he can’t do much about the actual temperature, Utah State University music professor Michael Christiansen has plans to turn up the heat in entertainment opportunities.

Christiansen and a group of colleagues are featured in “An Evening in Brazil,” a concert that features music by Brazilian composers with an emphasis on music from Rio. The event is now in its second year, returning after an extremely popular launch last winter.

“An Evening in Brazil” is Friday, Feb. 26, and begins at 7:30 p.m. at USU’s Performance Hall.

General admission tickets are $15 and student tickets are $5.

Tickets are available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, FAC 139B, 797-8022, online or at the door prior to the performance.

Performers for the evening include Christiansen on guitar, Christopher Neale on guitar and vocals, Linda Ferreira Linford on vocals, Eric Nelson on saxophone, Lars Yorgason on bass, Jason Nicholson on drums and Don Keipp on percussion.

Christiansen is director of the guitar studies program at USU.

Dance marathons relived at museum

“Dance Marathons” is the theme for the week’s Saturday at the Museum event sponsored by Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology. The program is offered Saturday, Feb. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In the 1930s, when the Great Depression gripped the United States, people flocked to Dance Marathons, or Walk-a-thons, for entertainment that sometimes lasted for as long as an entire month. Couples danced for days for the chance to win a monetary prize.

Some people competed to have a safe roof over their heads and warm meals to eat.

Twenty-four hour dance marathons are still popular today among nonprofit organizations that use them for fund-raising and increasing awareness of social issues. The museum’s Saturday dance marathon event will review the history of dance marathons, including samples of music and images of past marathon participants. The USU Ballroom Dance Team will be available all day to teach dance steps to museum visitors.

“This activity will be fun and educational for all ages,” said Saturday student event planner Nicole Burnard. “Everybody, come get your groove on.”

USU students and members of the public are invited to the museum any time during open hours: Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays for the “Saturday at the Museum” series from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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ating successful developments for energy conservation is thinkthe algae. Algae feed off the nitrates in the water and absorbs ing outside of the box, which is what the idea for the intuitive more of the metals than needed to survive. The byproduct of this lighting system required. Most of the research currently done process can be used in algae fuel, which Talbot said is 20 percent in the U.S. is “lower level� and revolves mostly around inventing cleaner to burn because it contains less sulphur. more efficient light bulbs, he said.

Potential sites for the project are evaporation ponds located in With revolutionary ideas in energy conservation come many the Uintah Basin of Vernal. There is a plentiful amount of water challenges that go beyond technicalities. Muhs said the biggest there to work, which is what algae research teams need because it issues in developing new technology are is sometimes difficult to find water in Utah’s “You have to make social, political, organizational and personal. desert climate.

These are the biggest setbacks in science, he The last segment of the presentation was conserving enersaid. conducted by Kevin Shurtlef, a member of gy easy, too, for “It’s easy to live in a system and it’s hard USTAR’s technology outreach team. He elabopeople. It needs to to change,� Muhs said. “It’s hard to think rated on USU projects, as well as University of beyond it. It’s easier for anyone to pick at a Utah projects, that aim to make coal a cleaner be easy, affordcrazy idea.� mineral to burn for energy. He said USU conable and have a Currently, lighting systems are designed in ducted a project that isolated microbes to eat a way that suggests energy will never run out, nice return on the coal and then “burp� the natural gas. This investment.� he said, and after noticing this issue, USU creates much cleaner emissions when burning research teams sought to change it. – Lisa Davis, coal.

Davis said 20 percent of people think they Shurtlef said, “We need cleaner ways to The Leonardo, employee burn are being energy efficient, and the other 80 coal since 83 percent of the electricity percent are not because conserving energy is burned in Utah is coal because it’s cheap.� not convenient.

The entire presentation was accompanied by questions from “You have to make conserving energy easy, too, for people,� the audience and discussion.

Davis said. “It needs to be easy, affordable and have a nice return Davis said, “There is a lot of really great research at USU on the investment.� directed toward a really big issue.�

USU energy research student Lynsey Talbot works with She said The Leonardo plans to host more events in Logan in USTAR’s algae project. She explained the process her research hopes of educating community members on scientific issues and team performs in order to extract energy from algae, but did so breakthroughs. The museum will open a new building in Logan in simple terms so the presentation’s attendees could comprespring 2011. hend the science behind the project. Talbot said that during nat– catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu ural gas drilling, nitrate-rich water is found and used to house

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ciples and values into a culture is involvement. He said people need to infuse basic principles of integrity and kindness into their lives and get passionate about them.

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Mahatma Gandhi never had an official title, but he was governed by his personal morals, Covey said. He recently had conversations with Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.

Covey quoted Emile Durkheim, saying, “When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.�

Bryson White, senior in entrepreneurship, said Covey spoke in a clear, understandable format. “I think a lot of management is theory based,� White said. “What I liked about Stephen R. Covey’s presentation is he taught principles to guide the way we interact.

We usually talk about management in such non-human

terms. Leadership really is how you interact with, teach and motivate other people.�

Covey also spoke about principles from his book “7 Habits of Highly Effective People.� The seven habits are to be proactive, to begin with the end in mind, to put first things first, to think win-win, to seek first to understand then to be understood, to synergize and to sharpen the saw.

He said the best way to learn something is to teach it to other people. He then had the audience members teach what they just learned to their neighbors.

Covey spoke of the difference between the Industrial Age and the Knowledge Worker Age. He said the U.S. is moving into the Knowledge Worker Age, and the main

philosophy of this period is to help unleash the talent with it. He said that in the Knowledge Worker Age, leadership is not about control, and leaders will need to embrace change.

White said the combination of Huntsman and Covey working together makes an unstoppable team. “It’s a team that has the power to get other people involved.� White said. “These are two extremely experienced guys who have been very successful in their careers. They’ll be able to really help students look higher and achieve their goals.� – peter.brown@aggiemail.usu. edu

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Organization’s event aims to raise funds for Haiti

By APRIL ASHLAND staff writer

The Dominican Student Association (DSA) will be hosting its third annual fundraiser dinner on Saturday, Feb. 27, in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom at 7 p.m., and will be donating the proceeds to USU’s Hope for Haiti organization.

The dinner celebration, named Areito for the past two years, has been used as a fundraiser since its conception in 2007, said Eliot Cuduco, junior in computer science and PR officer for the DSA. In 2007, Hurricane Noel hit the Dominican Republic, killing at least 87 people. The DSA sent aid to the island from the funds raised at the Dominican dinner.

This year, when students in the association heard about the earthquake in Haiti, they knew where they would be sending the money, Cuduco said.

“We’re hoping people will donate.

We want to send 80-90 percent of what we get, and our goal is to raise $1,000 to send,” he said.

Wington Brito, advocate for the DSA and junior in computer science and engineering, said Areito is a dance used by people of Dominican Republic and Haiti to pray to the gods for what they need.

“They would dance around a bonfire and pray to the gods for rain, food, anything they needed. It was a way to celebrate,” Brito said.

Paola Magallanes, junior in finance and economics, helped cook for the event last year and said it took all day.

Brito said: “It takes four hours just to cook the main course. That doesn’t include prep time, either.”

Brito said the event will showcase the culture of the Dominican Republic, with food, music and dancing.

“We have some people coming from the Black Student Union to do some African dance, and we’re doing a play,” Brito said. “We’re celebrating our independance from Haiti, and we’re holding it on the day of the first revolt against them.”

Cuduco said the Dominican Republic was ruled by Haiti for 22 years when Spain left the islands.

“Haiti used to be very powerful.

We fought for about 10 years to get our freedom. This year is 166 years of freedom,” Cuduco said.

Brito said, “We want to have a small presentation that will show the actual situation in Haiti.”

The DSA is bringing special guests to the event, including USU President Stan Albrecht and Dominican students from Western

THE DOMINICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION (DSA) is holding a fundraising dinner on Saturday. Proceeds from the event will go to USU’s Hope for Haiti. MAKAELA HERRAN photo

Michigan University and Rochester University. The students from the other schools will be at USU for the weekend and will be taken around Logan by the DSA. Cuduco said they will be participating in the event.

Tickets are being sold in the TSC basement and are $11 in advance,

$13 at the door for adults and $5 for children under 12. Money can be donated at the event, as well.

Cuduco said the group is looking for support from the community, and he hopes people will donate to the cause. Cuduco said he wanted to emphasis that the dinner was not

simply to celebrate independence from Haiti.

“This isn’t just a celebration. We really want to help,” he said.

– april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu

Dancing a different step at Whittier Jana recommends it to students wanting to try something new and, in particular, to English majors, especially Jane Austen fans.

She said, “Most of her novels include country dancing, as Folks looking for good fun with friends or a unique activity that was a popular recreation of that time.” for a date night might want to try contra dancing. Contra dancForsyth said, “Contra dancing is for people in all stages and es are held the first Saturday of the month, August through ages of life. It is really a community kind of dancing. Singles, May, at the Whittier Community Center and are hosted by the couples and groups attend – you don’t need a partner. Men and Cache Valley Folk Dancers and the Bridger Folk Music Society. women can dance each part.”

Contra dance is a form of English country dancing. There She said people don’t need to worry about leading as she is a debate between the French and the English over the name. guides everyone through her calls.

The English assert that it stemmed from the term “country Attire is casual. dance.” The French claim it is a corruption of its term “contreForsyth said, “There is no dress code, wear what you’re comdanse”. fortable in. Some women like to wear skirts as they twirl with According to www.contradance.org, “Contra is danced to the moves, but many wear jeans too.”

Celtic, Quebecois, Old Time, New England, She said it is beneficial to wear comfortSouthern Appalachian, Jazz, Blues, and all able shoes.

“I like it because it sorts of other music played by live bands.

“Shoes with a softer, “slidier” sole are is good exercise, but In a contra dance, parallel lines of dancers best. Shoes that grip will hinder the moveit doesn’t feel like stand opposite, or ‘contra to,’ their partments,” she said. ners.”

The 7th annual Lava Meltdown, held exercise. It’s just Typically eight dance moves are repeated in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, March 5-7, is fun.” throughout each song, and the steps are a special event. It includes a weekend of – Jana Hill, called out to help dancers remember the dancing, soaking in hot springs and workUSU student order. Dancers progress up and down in shops. For more information see www. parallel lines as they move in combinalavameltdown.info. tions. Beginners are welcomed and provided The dances are part of the offerings instruction before each dance, and the difficulty of the dances that Bridger Folk Music Society (BFMS) sponsors to support increases as the caller judges the readiness of the group. Kay folk music in Cache Valley. It also hosts concerts at USU, cofForsyth is Cache Valley’s official caller-instructor, though othfeehouses and private homes. BFMS offers a monthly jam, a ers fill in occasionally. forum for artists to get together to cultivate their skills as well The live music and line formation are two main differas entertain. ences between contra dancing and square dancing. The latter The Bridger Folk Music Society was founded 30 years ago by employs a square formation and is typically accompanied with three friends who saw a need. recorded music.

According to the BFMS Web site, “Ron Goede, Sue Packer Forsyth said the variances between square and contra danc- and Steve Nrny had observed that folk music was pretty scarce ing demonstrate the realities of the times when each form of out here beyond the hundredth meridian. There were very few dance originated. concerts or venues in the area, especially in Cache Valley, Utah.

She said, “In the 16th and 17th centuries, dance halls were Also, there was a growing population of good musicians withlong and narrow, lending to the parallel configuration. Square out the places and means to become acquainted and socialize.” dancing became popular as ballrooms widened and the availThe friends put up their own money for the first concert, ability of recorded music spread.” and the BFMS grew from there. The nonprofit organization Contra dance has experienced a renewal of interest in recent has hosted workshops on mandolin, Celtic fiddling, autoharp, years. Its popularity waned as square dancing became more guitar, old timey fiddling, Cape Breton fiddling, among others. common during the 19th century. As folk music has seen a The society has provided the opportunity for many local folk revival in the past few decades, so has contra dancing. musicians to meet and form into bands.

Forsyth discovered contra dancing in the 80s, when she In addition to next month’s dance at the Whittier traveled to Salt Lake City to attend dances. She cultivated a Community Center, the Bridger Folk Music Society has a numrelationship with the bands and callers, eventually persuading ber of upcoming events scheduled. A Local Talent Night will them to make a trek to Cache Valley in 1991. The community take place Saturday evening in the Taggart Student Center has enjoyed local access to the entertainment ever since.

Auditorium and the sixth Annual Celtic Night will be held One fateful evening, a caller from Salt Lake City was unable March 5 and 6 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre, with a portion of the to make the trip north due to a blizzard and that began proceeds going to benefit Four Paws Pet Rescue and the Cache Forsyth’s calling career.

Humane Society. Discount tickets are available at the Eccles She said, “It was baptism by fire, but I soon got the hang of Theatre one hour before the event. For more information visit it and have enjoyed calling ever since.” the BFMS Web site at www.bridgerfolk.org.

USU students Ron and Jana Hill started contra dancing four – tam.r@aggiemail.usu.edu years ago when they began dating. Jana said, “I like it because it is good exercise, but it doesn’t feel like exercise. It’s just fun.”

By TAM ROUNDS staff writer

VOLUNTEERS HELP FINISH a house in a Smithfield neighborhood. photo courtesy of Dustin Nash

Students lend a hand

By JARED BOYD STEWART staff writer

It’s a Saturday morning at 8 a.m. While most college students are sleeping or just going to sleep from the night before, a small group of students is meeting in the stadium parking lot. The students’ destination: a housing development being built in Smithfield. Once or twice a month on Saturday mornings, the members of the USU Habitat for Humanity sacrifice a few hours of their precious free time to serve and help the community.

Linda and Millard Fuller founded Habitat for Humanity in 1976, with the goal of building simple, decent and affordable housing for those lacking adequate shelter. First started as a local effort, Habitat has grown to an international nonprofit organization that has helped to build shelters and homes for more 1.5 million people in more than 90 countries in the world.

The USU chapter has been helping in Smithfield for about six months.

“It’s an excellent chance to give back to the community,” said Dustin Nash, senior in exercise science. “It’s nice to break away from the rigors of school and do a little physical labor, and knowing that someone benefits from that other than myself is a really good feeling.”

Nash got involved with Habitat for Humanity through an English class.

“My English 2010 teacher required us to do a few hours of service for our class, and Habitat looked like a fun way to get those hours done,” Nash said. “I really enjoyed it and just stayed on.”

Nash is now the director of the USU chapter, which is run through the Val R. Christensen Service Center. About 20 active members of the Habitat for Humanity participate in building projects and fundraisers to earn money for the organization. Although the club is growing “we still need more members and hands to help

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Cover your larynx to escape the cold

have a lime green scarf with multicolored neon tufts of fluff that make it look underhandedly soft, when in fact, it feels like an abrasive carpet. (I wear it for the looks, not necessarily because I like the feeling of a rug flopping around my neck.) I used to be a fanatic about scarves, especially during the first winter I lived in Logan, because I am a crazy-sock person.

Are you confused? Let me explain the correlation. Since no one can see my crazy socks underneath layers upon layers of winter clothing, crazy scarves are the next best medium to show off my chromatic colors.

But alas, one day I simply became lazy and decided it was OK to freeze my neck if I did not feel like taking the excruciating effort to find and wrap a scarf around my larynx. I am not immune to the symptoms of senioritis.

Sometimes being scarfless is all a person can be motivated to be.

A friend nicknamed Sir Chival would reckon to differ. He stated, “I don’t understand why people don’t wear scarves.”

Background Info: Sir Chival has a strong Dutch connection. He lived 14 years in Europe.

He was raised on the scarf.

“The greatest thing about scarves,” he explained, “is that they are incredibly warm. If

you wear one, it enables you to get away with wearing shorts and a T-shirt in the dead of winter.”

Well ... I am not entirely sure that moi, unTexan, can quite handle that extreme, but, I have indeed decided it is about time to resurrect and up my scarf usage. And wow. I have been blown away by the extra protection a scarf provides from the biting cold. In fact, I have developed a strangely urgent desire to take a plethora of scarves and wrap my face and elbows and hips and Achilles heels with them. I mean, c’mon, if I was a mummy made of scarves, I would totally experience that awesome feeling of not-getting-out-of-bedbecause-it-is-way-too-comfortable-underneathmy-warm-blankets-and-sheets-to-even-consider-peeking-my-head-out-into-that-cold-heartless-world, all day long. Niiice. Believe me, scarves can give wearers an equivalently cozy feeling, as long as a scarf is worn properly.

Sir Chival informs me that the American way of tying a scarf is laughable. Americans tend to fold their scarf in half and wrap it multiple times around their neck and pull the ends through a loop. A gnarly knot. This is not acceptable, or appropriate. It is a disgusting misuse of a scarf. Though it is a quick fix to get a scarf around a neck, it is not the most

‘Rain’ story rich, dialogue heavy If you are a gamer who loves The storyline is just not your to sit back and listen to dialogue Billy typical “single-track narrative.” more than actually playing, Harlow It is done in sort of a “branching then “Heavy Rain” is your type narrative.” This means you are of video game. I had an idea free to take the storyline in any of what the game was about you want. If you want Let’s go direction before I bought it, but I had no to act mean and nasty, by all idea that I would actually be getaccounts, the developers made ting half a video game and half it possible. The same goes for an animation movie. if you want to act like an angel, Quantic Dream, the studio you have the choice to do so. that created the game, is known “Heavy Rain” This became frustrating for me for its storytelling ability and not because at many times in the its gameplaying ability. It defistory, I found myself wanting to nitely stayed true to its reputation in the cre- be both good and evil but only allowed to be ation of “Heavy Rain,” with a great storyline one. and an innovative gameplaying style that is The graphics are stunning up close, like somewhat lacking at times, to say the least. newborn baby Jesus, but lack some quality I will warn you, when you begin to play the when it comes to surroundings in the gamegame, you must, and I mean MUST, be pre- play environment, just like baby Jesus’ manger. pared to sit through long, slow dialogue for The movements of your characters sometimes the first few hours of gameplay. This may lead look unnatural and give them a zombie-walk to you getting the urge to go out and hit a look. The characters’ dialogue sometimes run small child, most likely a ginger-haired one. on and on, and it has a lot of meaningless If you make it through that, then you have character transportation that leads you to wish a pretty decent game on your hands. “Heavy the creators made it more like a “Grand Theft Rain” is a story of a serial killer, nicknamed Auto” series with a fastforward button so you the “Origami Killer” for the origami creations don’t waste your time. There are also some he leaves on his victims’ bodies. The Origami really out-of-the-ordinary nude scenes that I Killer kidnaps younger boys when there is a felt were unnecessary – unless you are into forecast of heavy rain (hence the name of that sort of thing. the game) and locks them in runoff drains to There are a lot of negatives to the game drown slowly as the water rises. In the game, but there are also positives. The creators did a you play four characters who are trying to great job of making it so you can interact with figure out the identity of the killer. You periodi- a lot of the environment, giving you a little cally switch among the characters, depending feeling of freedom and choice. The best part where you are in the story. They each have an about the game was the great storyline that important role in the unveiling of the killer. you get sucked into because of the depth of The storyline takes you on a bunch of twists the dialogue and of the characters. The game and turns that will most likely leave you sur- is rated M due to blood, intense violence, prised at the end. The storyline feels like a mix nudity, sexual content, strong language and between the movies “Seven” and the “Saw” drug use. Like I said earlier, if you are a gamer series. Quantic Dream takes the Playstation3 who loves a great story, than this is most likely six-axis controller in a new direction that I a good fit for you. But I took only about 12 have never experienced before. While mov- hours to beat the game, so I wouldn’t recoming your character around, at many points you mend buying it but rather just go out and rent are asked to move the joystick in a certain it for cheap. choreographed direction or fling the controlPositive: Great graphics, great storyline and ler around in a specific direction – like a Wii innovative new controller gameplay. controller. Also, with all the dialogue going on, Negative: Too much dialogue, zombie-like you get multiple button prompts that pop up movements and frustrating camera angles. on the screen that controls the direction your Rating: 7 out of 10. character takes the dialogue.

– billy.harlow@aggiemail.usu.edu

warm way.

The Proper Way to Wear a Scarf: Do not fold your scarf. Have one side of the scarf drape significantly longer than the other side.

Take the longer side and wrap it once or twice around your neck. Proceed to tuck the remaining scarf ends into your hoodie or jacket. Tada.

Now you are set to be toasty.

My friend, nicknamed Mursk, is a pro at properly wearing a scarf. She stated, “I am addicted to scarves.”

Background Info: Mursk served an LDS mission in the Baltic area of Europe. Before her mission, she was as hopelessly indifferent to scarves as I was. On her mission, she learned that the act of not wearing a scarf was culturally offensive to the predominant baboushka population. After her mission, she knew there was no going back to a naked neck.

“Even if it is warm outside, Latvians will still wear scarves, for the sole reason that it is the season to wear scarves,” Mursk said.

Everyone wears scarves in Europe. No ifs, ands or buts.

Mursk explains this fact further, in great detail. You have your fancy, lacy scarves for the business ladies. You have your red, flowery scarfs to cover the heads of the baboushka.

You even have black-and-white checkered

scarves, called hooli scarves, for the local punks or “hooli”gans. The young people of Europe wear their square scarfs like bandits.

They have the ability to pull up their scarves to cover their mouths when it is frigid, and to pull down their scarves when they have important things to say. Thus, the scarf is useful as well as hip. Scarves can also be worn as shawls or belts.

The ultimate question is: Will you wear a scarf, dear reader?

“Hopefully people will read your article and wise up and wear scarves,” Sir Chival spoke smartly.

I am a convert. I am a believer. Try it for yourself. You do not have to travel to Europe to adopt this European trait.

Melissa Condie is a senior majoring in music education. Questions or comments can be sent to her at m.condie@aggiemail.usu.edu.

Street Speak If you could make any new tradition at USU, what would it be?

“Kill a cougar day”

Gaming

– Jordan Rupp, sophomore, economics and finance

“Have a tomatothrowing festival in the quad, jult like they do in Spain. Or, have a Guatamala day.”

– Josue Carias, senior, finance and economics

“They need to start singing the Scotsman at graduation again.”

– Whitney Putnam, graduate student, 2nd language teaching

“Make January ‘White History Month.’”

– Nathan Allen, sophomore, math

Homes: No experience required -continued from page 5 with the projects,” Nash said. “The more hands we have, the more help we can give.”

Habitat for Humanity is also doing its part in helping with the earthquake relief in Haiti.

Through a four-phase program, the organization has helped survivors of the tragedy by giving emergency kits, providing short-term shelter and helping in the clean-up efforts. The organization will rebuild shelters and homes after the clean up is finished. USU’s local chapter has also done its part. In January, just a few days after the earthquake, a fundraising concert was held to raise money. Musicians, including Cub World and Stay for the Summer, came together for the concert and helped to raise hundreds of dollars. All of the proceeds went to the relief effort in Haiti.

Nash said volunteers who wish to participate don’t need any experience in construction to help.

“Those who don’t know anything about building are more than welcome to come and learn.”

Most of the work the students participate in isn’t very technical and mostly includes clean up and assistance to those building their homes.

“The thing that is really cool about what we are doing is that the homes we are helping to build are also being built by that who are actually going to live in the homes.” Nash said.

This is being done through a program called the Cache Valley Nonprofit Homes organization.

Through the program, people are able to build their homes at a discounted price, with help from professional builders.

For those students interested in joining Habitat for Humanity, send an e-mail to usuhabitat@ gmail.com. A build will take place Saturday, Feb. 27. Students will meet in the stadium parking lot at 8 a.m. For more information on the Habitat for Humanity visit www.habitat.org.

– jared.boyd.stewart@gmail.com

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LEONARDO DICAPRIO (right) and Mark Ruffalo (left) star as two federal marshals investigating the disappearance of a prisoner from a hospital for the criminally insane in “Shutter Island,” the latest film by director Martin Scorcese.

‘Island’ falls short, but delivers

“Shutter Island” is based Ben perfect. Emily Mortimer and on Dennis Lehane’s novel of Patricia Clarkson turn in some Roden especially great work. the same name. The narrative follows federal marshals Teddy Daniels (Leonardo What’s bad: DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who travel to “Shutter Island” works hard a titular islet to investigate a Grade B to misdirect the audience. In mysterious escape of a patient “Shutter Island” doing so, it sometimes gets from Ashecliffe, a hospital for ahead of itself. While some the criminally insane. contrivances are made more understandAs the investigation unfolds, Teddy’s able by some developments late in the traumatic past is slowly revealed, and film, there are some bothersome superfluiit becomes apparent that the staff of ties. Cinematic sleight-of-hand is essential Ashecliffe Hospital know much more than in creating mystery, but so many moving they’re telling. It doesn’t help that the two parts sometimes make “Shutter Island” feel head physicians are played by Ben Kingsley a little sloppy. and Max Von Sydow, who rank (among some of my ex-girlfriends) as some of What’s ugly: the most potentially sinister people in the world.

A whole lot. The island is full of scary, bloody people. The winner has to be Jackie What’s good: Earle Haley, who defends his title as the creepiest little dude in the movie business.

Scorcese. But that’s no surprise. He’s Bruised and disfigured, he makes his single been in the game so long that he can out scene one of the film’s most memorable direct most of his competitors with his eyes and disturbing. As the conclusion comes closed. It’s fun to see him apply his A-list into focus, the brilliant details of the scene talent to some satisfyingly B-movie mate- become even more profound. rial.

Every technical aspect of the film speaks The bottom line: to Scorcese’s mastery of the medium. He knows exactly where to place the pieces “Shutter Island” has so many outstandand how to get them moving in the right ing elements but never quite reaches the directions. excellence promised by the talent involved.

Also worthy of mention is our Li’l Leo. In the end, it’s like watching a group of True, his facial hair looks like an arts-and- Formula 1 superstars cruising around in crafts project gone awry (too much glue, Pow-Pow-Power-Wheels sports cars. These too little glitter), and he often appears to folks are experts and the pedal is on the be playing dress-up out of Dad’s closet. floor, but the vehicle just can’t bring them However, DiCaprio is reaching the point in up to speed. his career at which even the most vicious of It’s not Scorcese’s best work, but as naysayers can no longer legitimately deny thrillers go, it’s solidly above average. Well his talent. The character he creates is sym- constructed and featuring uniformly excelpathetic, complex and unfailingly watch- lent performances, “Shutter Island” is a able. Incidentally, his German isn’t bad. popcorn-film making at its best.

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Story reads as good as its cover Crime, business, history, Chelsey doesn’t read like a textbook. psychology and journalism From chapter two until chapGensel ter eight, I didn’t notice a come together with a variety of other fascinating elements chapter start or end, a fairly in “The Island of Lost Maps,” impressive accomplishment

by Miles Harvey. Harvey for a book I only picked up weaves his tale from true because the cover intrigued events of the past in mean- Grade Bme. It is decorated to look dering journey that might be “The Island of Lost Maps” like an antique map, with the unlike anything I have ever title and subtitle in antique read. As a journalist, Harvey came across lettering on that map. an article about Gilbert Bland, a middleEvery chapter includes at least one illusaged man who’d been caught after a crime tration from the map or book or historispree spanning much of the United States, cal figure relevant to the chapter. But the taking maps and illustrations from old and artistic imagery isn’t the only vivid detail. rare books.

Harvey makes you feel like you are on his At first, that didn’t seem too interesting. journey with him, using great descriptions Bland’s motives are unclear, and we know and ever tugging at the heartstrings every from the beginning of the book that he gets so often, and dropping in witticisms about caught. But Harvey doesn’t tell only Bland’s treasure maps and what seem like his own story. The lesser-known facts, and some private jokes to change the pace. speculations of famous explorers such as I’m unsure of Harvey’s intended audiMagellan and Marco Polo and royalty and ence, apart from himself, but this was an war heroes and modern-day businessmen, unlikely candidate for appealing to me, are threaded neatly into what is, in its most and appeal it did. I can recommend it basic form, Harvey’s search for why Bland to those interested in writing, geography, did what he did and what the repercussions history, language, psychology, crime and were and are, rather than a mere account mystery, economics and morality. Harvey of the crime. wrote with an accessibility that made me Part unauthorized biography – though feel comfortable going along for the ride Harvey interviewed dozens of people, without forgetting the intent – researching Bland never granted him any face time Bland – in the stories and trivia along the – and part autobiography, the book is writ- road. ten almost entirely in the first person. Even – pulcre.puella@gmail.com though it is categorized as nonfiction, it

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Aggies grind out 23rd win of year in Hawaii

By TYLER HUSKINSON staff writer

The Utah State Aggies defeated the Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors, 61-50, Thursday night in Hawaii.

Senior guard Jared Quayle led the Aggies in scoring with 13 points, and junior forward Pooh Williams chipped in 12. Both teams struggled offensively all night long and the Warriors’ zone defense gave the Aggies problems.

“I thought it was a really ugly basketball game, but we’ll take it and get on the flight and get home,” Aggie head coach Stew Morrill told 610 KVNU in a post-game radio show. “They made the game ugly with their zone defense, and I didn’t think we played great but we got out of here with a win.”

The Aggies led early in the game as Quayle and junior guard Tyler Newbold hit 3-pointers, but Hawai’i kept things close with solid rebounding on both ends of the floor. Brandon Adams scored six straight points and the Warriors took a momentary lead, but back-toback buckets by junior forward Nate Bendall and Quayle tied the game at 13-13.

The Aggies took the lead again in the seesaw battle on a pair of Wesley free-throws with about five minutes left in the first half. Willams and Newbold held the Warriors’ leading scorer forward Roderick Flemings without a field goal in the first half.

The Aggies only managed 40 percent from the field and 29 percent from behind the 3-point arc in the first half, but held the Warriors to 28 percent shooting from the floor and 33 percent from behind the 3point line. The Warriors’ Adams led the team in scoring during the first half with eight, and junior guard Hiram Thompson had six points off of two 3-pointers. Quayle led the way with eight points in the first half, and Wesley had six points.

The Aggies held a small rebounding edge in the first half, 16-15. The Aggies led at the half, 23-17, after a Wesley free-throw sparked a 10-0

run.

The Aggies extended their lead to start the second half on aggressive drives to the hoop by Williams and a 3-pointer by Quayle. Flemings finally scored and hit eight straight points to keep the deficit close.

Williams hit a three to put the Aggies up by 12 with 13:16 left in the game, but senior forward Adhar Mahen scored five straight points to cut the lead below double-digits.

Jardine put the Ags up by 11 with 8:03 remaining in the game.

The game remained physical all night and several Aggies found themselves in foul trouble during the first half. Bendall got into early foul trouble, but was able to finish out the game. Jardine and Williams both had three fouls, but it was the Warriors’ Adams who fouled out in the final minutes of the game.

A Bendall layup and one coupled by a Williams layup put the Aggies up 15 points with 46 seconds left in regulation. But the Warriors made things interesting. Both Mahen and Thompson hit back-to-back 3-pointers to cut the lead to nine, but that would be as close as they would get.

Junior guard Brian Green iced the game with two free throws.

The Aggies finished the night shooting 44 percent from the floor and 33 percent from the field, and limited the Warriors to 41 percent from the floor. The Warriors bested the Aggies from downtown, however, hitting 50 percent of their shots from 3-point range.

The Aggies will finish the season with two home games. They face Fresno State on March 1 and tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. at the Spectrum.

The Aggies will face second-place New Mexico State on March 6 and this game could be the showdown for the Western Athletic Conference regular season title. The WAC’s other Aggie team currently sits at No. 2 in the WAC standings with a 10-3 conference record and are still in the running for the No. 1 seed in next month’s WAC Tournament.

– ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

POINT GUARD JARED QUAYLE drives past Hawaii’s Hiram Thompson during Utah State’s 98-54 win over Hawaii on Jan. 11. Quayle had 13 points and seven rebounds in Thursday’s 61-50 over the Rainbow Warriors in Honolulu. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

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Heinrich steps up to challenge of senior leadership

By DAN FAWSON staff writer

On a young, injuryriddled Utah State women’s gymnastics team, head coach Jeff Richards is in obvious need of leadership.

Meet Heather Heinrich.

In her final season, Heinrich, the Aggies’ lone senior, has been the consummate team leader.

“Last year she was a pretty quiet kid, which is kind of unusual because she’s got a really spunky personality,” Richards said. “As far as kind of stepping up and telling her teammates they’re not doing their job, she kind of shied away from that. This year, being a co-team captain, she’s taking on that responsibility. She’s really stepped it up and got the team together. She watches everything now.”

USU has been consistently battling injuries all season, with key performers – such as Heinrich’s co-captain, junior Lyndsie Boone, junior Jackie Dillon and talented freshman Amelia Montoya – missing considerable time.

Recognizing the roster depletion, Heinrich said she knows the team needs leadership now more than ever.

“I think at this point they (her teammates) need a leader, and that’s what I’m trying to be,” she said.

“Obviously my injuries aren’t as serious as some of the other girls, but for some of those that have little aches and pains, we expect them to work through it because we need everybody at this point.

So I try to just step up and lead by example.”

As it should, her example speaks for itself.

In a Jan. 29 meet against then-No. 21 Boise State, Heinrich finished with a season-high all-around score of 38.425 and has been on a tear every since.

Heading into tonight’s trimeet against UCLA and Cal State Fullerton, she has posted five consecutive season-best all-around scores, highlighted by a 39.100 in last Friday’s meet against BYU. Earlier this week, Heinrich was recognized for her stellar performance, garnering America First Credit Union Utah State Student-Athlete of the Week honors.

Following a Feb. 5 trimeet against Denver and BYU, Richards said he believed Heinrich was capable of a 39.200 all-around score. Recognizing his senior leader’s consistent

SENIOR HEATHER HEINRICH strikes a pose during her floor routine against BYU. Heinrich is the lone senior on the gymnastics team this season. CARL WILSON photo

improvement, Richards is now rethinking his projection.

“I think she will exceed that,” Richards said following Friday’s meet against the Cougars. “She’s got the gymnastics, she’s got the skills and now she’s got the

confidence. I think you’ll just see her getting better and better.”

Heinrich currently sits third in the WAC in the allaround, fourth on vault and seventh on beam. With the March 27 Western Athletic Conference championships

fast approaching and a number of girls battling various injuries, the Aggies’ star senior will be counted on to lead more and more in the coming meets.

“I just want to go out and do what I can for the team and be a team leader,”

she said.

A native of Littleton, Colo., Heinrich arrived in Logan as a recruit of former USU coach Ray Corn and admits she was a pretty easy sale.

- See HEINRICH, page 9

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Indoor Championships underway for track

BY USU ATHLETICS

Utah State track and field teams competed Thursday in the first day of the 2010 WAC Indoor Championships hosted by Boise State in Nampa, Idaho, at the Jacksons Track.

After day one, junior Phillip Noble leads the Aggie men in sixth place after finishing four of the seven heptathlon events. In the women’s pentathlon, sophomore Camille Fehlberg was the Aggies top finisher tabbing eighth place.

Fehlberg finished in eighth place with 3,181 points. She finished in first place in the 800m portion of the pentathlon with a time of 2:23.39.

“Its Camille’s rookie year as far as multis go, and I think she did a great job,” veteran USU head coach Gregg Gensel said. “She came from behind and was still able to score in the top eight at a conference meet.”

Fehlberg and the three other Aggies, all freshmen, who competed in the heptathlon, Kelsey Keller, Amber Thompson and Shalyse Olsen all tied for ninth place in the high jump, clearing 4-09.75 (1.47).

“I’m also really proud of the freshmen. They really stepped it up and were able to see what it takes to compete at the Division I level,” Gensel said.

Heading into day two of the cham-

pionships, Noble leads the Aggie men in sixth place with 2,557 points. followed close behind by sophomore Jon Goble in seventh place with 2,523 points.

“Phillip (Noble) and Jon (Goble) both did a really good job today,” Gensel said. “Day two will be the best day for both of them. That is when their strongest events happen.”

Noble took third in the pentathlon 60m, clocking in at 7.25, followed close behind by sophomore Goble (7.28) who tabbed fourth.

The final three events of the heptathlon will begin at 11:45 a.m. other events will begin at 11 a.m.

Heinrich: Gymnast answering leadership call -continued from page 8 “I went on my recruiting trip up here, and I met the girls, the team, saw the facilities and everything, and I fell in love with it,” she said. “I didn’t want to take any more trips.

Ray offered (a scholarship), and I was like, ‘Done.’”

Heinrich’s passion for the university and community is still going strong four years later.

“I just love the coaches. I love the team, and it’s a college community, which I love,” Heinrich said. “(Logan) is kind of suburbia, but it has the college feel to it, which is what I enjoy the most.”

While she is most often recognized for her vaulting, tumbling and balancing accomplishments, Heinrich has also worked to make her college experience a complete one. At halftime of a men’s basketball game this season, during which USU announced

the renaming of its football field in honor of former gridiron great Merlin Olsen, Heinrich had the opportunity to escort Olsen onto the court. She has had a number of opportunities to work in various ways with the athletic department this season and was privileged to speak at an endowment fund ceremony.

Heinrich has excelled in the classroom, as well. She is a two-time Academic All-WAC performer, majoring in management communication systems, and a Utah State recipient of the Joe E. and Elma Whitesides Scholar-Athlete Award. She is scheduled to graduate in May and hopes to find a job, preferably in San Diego, working in data analysis or in the information technology field.

As she approaches graduation, Heinrich’s varied experiences at USU have taught her a few lessons she

hopes to apply to life after school.

“This year, especially, I’ve learned a lot about perseverance and how you need to push through whatever to get what you want,” Heinrich said. “I’ve learned a lot about sacrifices you’ve got to make for what you want in life.

Determination – every meet you’ve got to walk in thinking you’re the best.”

While she has enjoyed her time at USU, Heinrich said she readily welcomes the upcoming challenges of post-collegiate life, noting the vast majority of her life to this point has been devoted in some way or another to gymnastics.

“I’m good with gymnastics after this year,” she said, smiling. “This is my 17th year. I’ve been doing this all my life. I’m ready to see what else is out there.”

– dan.fawson@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Aggies one win away from shared WAC title

By MATT SONNENBERG assistant sports editor

Following Thursday night’s win at Hawaii, USU’s men’s basketball achieved its 23rd win for the 11th consecutive season, officially keeping pace with the Kansas Jayhawks and Gonzaga Bulldogs as the only teams to have won 23 games in each of those 11 seasons.

Just as importantly, the Aggies put themselves in position to clinch at least a share of their third straight Western Athletic Conference championship with just one more win over their final two games, both of which will be played at home at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

After a surprising secondplace finish in USU’s first season in the WAC in 2005-2006, followed by a fourth-place finish in 2007, Utah State broke through with its first league championship in 2008. While the title that season was a four-way tie for first place among USU, Nevada, New Mexico State and Boise State, the Aggies held the tiebreaker against the other teams to land as the No. 1 seed in that season’s WAC tournament.

Last season, Utah State’s fourth year in the WAC, the Aggies broke out to a 12-0 conference record before finally suffering their first loss en route to a 14-2 WAC record and an outright league championship.

Now with a 12-2 WAC record and a one-game lead over second-place New Mexico State, Utah State controls its destiny in notching its third conference title in just five years in the WAC. While one more win will indeed put another trophy in USU’s trophy case, the Aggies will either need to win out their final two games or receive help from another conference team in order to knock New Mexico State out of the running for the WAC tournament’s No. 1 seed. Standing in Utah State’s way from another outright championship and third WAC title overall are the Fresno State Bulldogs – USU’s direct competition for the title in New Mexico State.

In USU’s first meeting with Fresno State, the Aggies posted their best defensive performance of the season by allowing the Bulldogs to score just 43 points on their way to a 26-point victory. Most of that

game, however, was played without super sophomore Paul George of the Bulldogs. George was injured in the first half while chasing a loose ball, did not return to that game and consequently missed four games because of the injury. Fresno State’s offense stagnated without its superstar, and barring any other incidents, George will be dressed and ready against Utah State on March 1.

If New Mexico State is able to defeat Boise State in Las Cruces and Nevada in Reno, it would set up a winner-take-all scenario for the WAC tournament’s No. 1 seed for March 6 in the Spectrum between both of the WAC’s Aggie teams. Both USU and NMSU have work left to do to set up that scenario with their games leading up to the seniornight showdown. Utah State has the aforementioned game against Fresno, and NMSU will have to face a Boise State team that appears to be making a late-season surge after its convincing win against Louisiana Tech on the road Thursday.

Winning in Reno is also another major hurdle standing in New Mexico State’s way, and due to that game against Nevada start-

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– matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu

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THIS WEEK’S RESULTS: 2/22 Seattle U @ SJSU – 90-88 2/23 CS Bakersfield @ Fresno – 68-79 2/24 Idaho @ NMSU – 57-74 2/25 Nevada @ SJSU – 83-79 Boise St. @ La. Tech – 72-59 USU @ Hawaii – 61-50

Lady Aggies look to finish strong in Spectrum

By MATT SONNENBERG assistant sports editor

After a season filled with ups and downs, the USU women’s basketball team looks to close out on a strong note with its final three games of the regular season taking place at home.

Saturday’s afternoon contest against Idaho will be the first of that three-game set against the Vandals, Boise State and Hawaii.

Coincidentally, those three teams are the three closest teams to Utah State in the current Western Athletic

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THIS WEEK’S RESULTS: 2/23 USU vs. NMSU – 54-73 2/24 Boise St. vs. Hawaii – 64-66 SJSU vs. Idaho – 59-74 Fresno St vs. La. Tech – 81-78

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Canada women take hockey gold The United States’ bid for hockey supremacy ended Thursday when the Team USA women fell to the neighbors to the North by a score of 2-0.

The gold medal, won in front of their home-crowd, marks the third consecutive Winter Olympiad in which Canada has won the gold.

Conference standings.

Currently 4-9 in WAC play, the Aggies have a chance to make a late-season charge to climb the WAC standings as Idaho and Boise State currently stand at 6-7, while Hawaii (4-11) is a slot behind USU. Should the Aggies win out the rest of the WAC schedule, it would put them in position to end up as high as the No. 5 seed in March’s WAC tournament in Reno, Nev. That No. 5 seed is the exact spot the Lady Aggies found themselves a year ago when they notched their first-ever win in WAC tour-

Meet the Challenge USU (12-14) VS. IDAHO (8-18)

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nament play with a 59-58 win over Idaho.

The looming question surrounding the team is which version of the 20092010 Aggies will show up for the crucial final stretch of the season. After opening the season with an impressive run of wins in four of USU’s first five games, including a win over in-state rival Utah, the Aggies then lost four of their next five contests.

Fortune then swung in the Aggies’ favor in the form of a six-game win streak through the end of December and beginning of January. The USU identity crisis continued as the Aggies have since lost nine of 11 games leading into this final home stretch.

The Aggies lost two of the three road games against their final three opponents, with their lone win coming off a last-second shot by Tahara Williams. USU suffered seven-point losses on the road at both Hawaii and Boise State earlier this season.

– matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu

LACALE PRINGLE-BUCHANAN scored a career-high 22 points Tuesday against New Mexico State. Her and the rest of the Aggies look to finish the season strong. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

Men’s tennis off to Montana for weekend set

BY USU ATHLETICS

Utah State men’s tennis competes in Bozeman, Mont., for two matches against Montana State at 5 p.m. and Sacramento State at 1 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27, respectively. The Aggies are 5-4 this season.

USU’s most recent action was a clean sweep of Mesa State, 7-0, in Logan.

The Aggies claimed the doubles point with victories at all three positions.

At the one spot, juniors Jakob Asplund and Bryan Marchant defeated the Mavericks’ Jordan Chomko and Nick Provenza, 8-4 while at the two position, freshman Sven Poslusny and senior Amit Maharaj swept MSC’s Rashad

Khamis and Niko Carrizo, 8-0. To complete the doubles sweep, Nate Ballam and Ryashchenko defeated the Mavericks’ Andres Hernandez and Brason Hollabaugh, 8-6, at the three spot.

USU dominated singles competition, taking all six points. At the one spot, Asplund defeated MSC’s Chomko, 6-0, 6-0. At the two position, Thatcher defeated the Mavericks’ Andres Hernandez, 6-1, 6-0. Freshman Jose Limon finished the sweep for the Aggies with a win over the MSC’s Carrizo, 6-2, 4-6, 10-4, at the six spot in the final match of the day.

Limon boasts a perfect 2-0 singles record, all at the No. 6 position.

JUNIOR JAKOB ASPLUND lets a serve fly during a home match earlier this season. Asplund is 4-4 in singles matches this year for the Aggies. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

Women staying home to battle Montana Grizzlies

BY USU ATHLETICS

Utah State women’s tennis hosts Montana Saturday, Feb. 27, at 11 a.m. The Aggies hold a 23 season record while the Grizzlies are 2-5 this season.

USU’s most recent action was a 7-0 home sweep over North Dakota last week. The Aggies dominated doubles competition, claiming the point with victories at all three positions. At the one spot, junior Hailey Swenson and freshman Jaclyn West battled to defeat the Fighting Sioux’s Hallie Welk and Erin Kappers, 9-8. Swenson and West hold a USU-high doubles record of 5-1 on the season.

In singles action, the

Aggies continued the sweep with victories at all six positions. Swenson went 20 for the day, with a win at the No. 1 spot over UND’s Katie Callison, 6-0, 7-5.

Swenson holds the Aggiehigh singles record for the season at 5-1 and boast an impressive 8-2 combined record thus far. USU’s West, sophomore Kristina Voytsekhovich and senior Britney Watts won at the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 6 positions, respectively, bringing all three Aggies to a 4-2 singles record thus far this season.

Utah State will complete its home-stretch with one more match against Montana State on Thursday, March 4 at noon.

JUNIOR TAYLOR PERRY returns a serve with her backhand during a match earlier this season.

USU looks to even its season record Saturday at home. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

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In the report, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, the South African government said the two containers are currently stored in a state-secured warehouse in Durban while its investigation continues. It estimated the value of the conventional arms at 6 million rand (about $770,000).

The shipment’s final destination, according to the bill of lading, was the port of Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo, the small oil-rich country often overshadowed by its larger neighbor, Congo. The Republic of Congo, whose capital is Brazzaville, has reportedly experienced a wave of recent violence.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in testimony Wednesday to a Senate committee that the South African seizure was another example of the effectiveness of U.N. sanctions, adding that hardly a week goes by without a report of a new seizure.

In one of the major seizures, Thai authorities, acting on a tip from the U.S., found 35 tons of weapons on an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane that stopped in Bangkok en route from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang on Dec. 12. Thailand and some independent arms trafficking experts say flight documents indicated the plane’s cargo – listed as oil drilling equipment – was headed for the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The U.N. Security Council imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea last June, banning the export of all weapons and authorizing ship searches on the high seas to try to rein in its nuclear program. The resolution was adopted after Pyongyang’s second nuclear test on May 25, 2009, which violated a council resolution adopted after its first nuclear blast in 2006.

The report to the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against North Korea is entitled “breach of the Security Council resolutions...�

It traced the shipment from the DGE Corporation via the “Machinery Expand Imp Corp.� both established to be in North Korea, to the Chinese port of Dalian where it was put

on board the CGM Musca on Oct. 20.

The bill of lading described the contents of the two containers as “spare parts of bulldozer,� according to the report.

At Port Klang, Malaysia, the shipment was transferred to another vessel, the Westerhever, which was chartered by Delmas Shipping, a subsidiary of the French shipping company, CMA-CGM, the report said.

Delmas requested that CMA-CGM Shipping Agencies South Africa (Pty) Ltd. represent the Westerhever on its voyage to South Africa.

The captain was instructed to refuel in Durban on Nov. 28-29, but due to fuel shortages in Durban, the Westerhever was ordered to take on fuel in Walvis Bay, the report said.

While en route to Walvis Bay on Nov. 27, the captain “received an email instruction from Delmas to make a U-turn and discharge the two containers in Durban, the report said.

A U.N. diplomat familiar with the report, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the email informed the captain that the ship was carrying suspicious cargo which should be turned over for inspection to South

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Dems to try final push in health care debate WASHINGTON (AP) – Giving no ground, President Barack Obama and Republican leaders fought forcefully for their competing visions of historic health care reform Thursday in an exhausting, often-testy live-on-TV debate.

Far from any accord, Obama signaled the Democrats were prepared to push ahead for an all-or-nothing congressional vote.

The marathon, seven-hour session did reveal narrow areas of agreement on the topic that has vexed Congress for months and defied U.S. leaders for decades. But larger ideological differences overwhelmed any common ideas, all but cementing the widely held view that a meaningful bipartisan health care bill is not possible as time grows short in this election year.

Obama rejected Republican preferences for starting over, discussing the issue much longer or dealing with it in a limited, step-by-step fashion.

“We cannot have another yearlong debate about this,” Obama declared. “I’m not sure we can bridge the gap.”

Party officials said March is probably the last chance to act.

It has been more than a year since he proposed his overhaul, which would be important to virtually all Americans in remaking the way they receive and pay for health care. The version he embraces, basically tracking legislation passed by the Senate, would expand health coverage to some 30 million people who lack it and stop insurance companies from dropping people for questionable reasons or denying coverage to people who have certain illnesses.

Obama and the Democrats portray the current situation as a major crisis, with tens of millions of people left with no health insurance at all and health care costs threatening to bankrupt the nation. The Republicans see problems as well, but seek more modest steps to deal with them and say Obama’s plan would run up the federal deficit – despite his claims to the contrary.

Obama strongly suggested that Democrats will try to pass a sweeping overhaul without GOP support, by using controversial Senate budget rules that would disallow filibusters.

And then, he said, this fall’s elections would write the verdict on who was right.

Democratic leaders tried to portray Republicans as hypocrites for denouncing parliamentary tactics they, too, have used.

Democratic leaders hope to embolden colleagues who worry about re-election races in the face of polls showing substantial dislike for the party’s approach.

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID of Nev.ada left, walks past Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, at the Blair House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, before the start of a health care reform meeting with President Barack Obama. AP photo

The Democrats-only strategy could face particularly strong resistance in the House, where 39 party members voted against an Obama-backed health care bill last year.

Democratic officials confirmed Thursday that the White House has developed a slimmeddown health care plan as a possible “Plan B” fallback.

But that contingency also faces problems, including possible defections from House liber-

als who insist the overhaul must be expansive.

Democratic officials conceded it’s possible that no health care legislation will pass this year, which would leave their candidates with little to show while Republicans claimed a big win.

At Thursday’s summit, Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, agreed with Obama that “we have a very difficult gap to bridge here.” But he differed strenuously about resolving it. “We just can’t afford this,” he said of the

$1 trillion, 10-year proposal. “That’s the ultimate problem.”

Cable news networks carried long portions of the summit, which featured 38 lawmakers sitting around a square table heaped with documents and notepads. They spoke of arcane issues such as insurance “rescissions” between sharp partisan exchanges. Moderator Obama, looking annoyed at times, interrupted Republicans fairly often, and a few of them interrupted him back.

At one point, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky accused him of shortchanging the GOP on opportunities to speak.

With the conversation veering between mind-numbing detail and flaring tempers, the two sides held onto long-entrenched positions.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., derided Obama’s plan. “This is a car that can’t be recalled and fixed,” he said, “and we ought to start over.”

Alexander challenged Obama’s claim that insurance premiums would fall under the Democratic legislation. “You’re wrong,” he said.

Responded Obama: “I’m pretty certain I’m not wrong.”

Democratic officials said House and Senate leaders will confer with colleagues in coming days or weeks to see if they have enough votes to push a far-reaching bill through both chambers with no GOP help.

Republicans repeatedly pressed Obama to renounce the possibility of using “budget reconciliation” rules to push the Democratic plans through the Senate without allowing GOP filibusters. Obama brushed them off, saying they seemed more interested in process than substance.

Americans want a decision on health care, the president said, and most of them think “a majority vote makes sense.” Democrats control 59 of the Senate’s 100 seats, one vote short of the number needed to halt bill-killing filibusters.

Top Democrats described the summit as the beginning of the end of their long push to overhaul health care, a bid rocked by raucous, conservative-dominated forums last summer that threw Democrats on the defensive. Eyeing the November elections, rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers are desperate to resolve the debate and focus on jobs and economic revival.

“If nothing comes of this, we’re going to press forward,” Democratic Senate Whip Richard Durbin told reporters during a break in the summit. “We just can’t quit.”

Mexico deputy police chief slain at son’s school CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – Mexican authorities said Thursday that gunmen killed a deputy police chief outside an elementary school as his wife, son and other students and parents looked on.

Eduardo Ezparza, the spokesman for prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state,

said the shooting occurred Wednesday in the state capital, also named Chihuahua.

City police coordinator Antonio Olague, 39, was dropping his 8-year-old son off at school when assailants in a car opened fire. Olague was hit by eight bullets.

Police had no suspects.

Police spokesman Jesus Reyes said Olague was on the force for almost 20 years and received some training in the United States. He was secondin-command of the city police force.

Chihuahua is the worst-hit region in Mexico’s brutal drug gang violence.

Elsewhere, police in the border city of Tijuana arrested four men Thursday on suspicion links to a plot to kill the police chief there, Julian Leyzaola.

Authorities said the four men were detained with five assault rifles. They said tests confirmed one rifle was

the same weapon used in a shootout in which gunmen disguised their vehicles as Mexican army units in a bid to kill Leyzaola, who has become known for his tough stance in cracking down on police corruption and gangs in Tijuana.

The four are believed to have worked for Teodoro “El

Teo” Garcia Simental, the Tijuana drug gang leader captured Jan. 12 in Baja California.

Cartels have killed dozens of police and government officials in reaction to a frontal assault by thousands of troops and federal police deployed across Mexico.

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Feb. 26 Today is Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Morgan Nielsen, junior in graphic design, from Tooele, Utah.

Almanac Today in History: In 1929, a controversial move that inspires charges of eastern domination of the West, the Congress establishes Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

In 1916, Horace M. Albright, the director of the National Park Service, was the first to seriously suggest that the region be incorporated into Yellowstone. Today, Grand Teton National Park encompasses 309,993 acres.

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Friday, Feb. 26, 2010

-Recyclemania, all day.

-Track, WAC Indoor Championships, all day.

-Men’s tennis at Montana State, 5 p.m.

-International film series, Old Main, 6 p.m.

-Science Unwrapped, ESLC Auditorium, 7 p.m.

-USU Pow Wow, Fieldhouse, 7 p.m.

-An Evening in Brazil, Performance Hall, 7 p.m.

-USU Bands, Kent Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m.

-Women’s gymnastics at Cal State Fullerton, 8 p.m.

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Feb. 27 -Track, WAC Indoor Championships, all day.

-Saturdays at the Museum, Museum of Anthropology, 10 a.m.

-Women’s tennis vs. Montana, 11 a.m.

-USU Pow Wow, Fieldhouse, noon.

-Men’s tennis vs. Sacramento State, 1 p.m.

-Women’s basketball vs. Idaho, 2 p.m.

-Areito dinner, TSC Ballroom, 7 p.m.

-Orchestra concert, Kent Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m.

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March 1 -Recyclemania, all day.

-Men’s basketball vs. Fresno State, 7 p.m.

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Student Showcase abstracts are due on March 1. USU’s annual celebration of undergrad research, scholarship and creative activity takes place March 30. Submit online at http://researchweek.usu. edu.

HASS Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series will host Glad Myler on Feb. 26 at 11:30 a.m. in the Alumni House. All are welcome. For more info call Natalie at 797-2796 or e-mail natalie. archibald@usu.edu.

The Dominican Student Association is celebrating the Dominican Independence and Carnival in its event Areito: Dominican Heritage. It will be in the TSC Ballroom at 7 p.m. on Feb. 27. Tickets are available in the TSC Card Office.

USU Extension in Cache Country will present an emergency preparedness class on organizing financial information on March 11 at 11 a.m. Pre-made packets are available to $12. Cost for workshop is $2. Reserve your spot at 752-6263.

Fallout- a worship event will be held on March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the TSC Auditorium. This event is presented by the interdenominational Christian student groups.

Live like a king in France and earn a minor in French in just one summer. Apply online for a faculty-led Study Abroad in Paris/ Annecy in July of 2010 at http:// www.usu.edu/saforms. For more info contact christa.jones@usu. edu.

LOL Productions Presents Cache Valley Comedy Night on Feb. 26 in the Ellen Eccles Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now.

Join us for a special peace vigil marking the 1000th U.S. Military death in the war in Afghanistan this Friday at 5:30 p.m. on Main Street. E-mail info@loganpeace. org if you have questions.

Indoor triathlon Intramural indoor triathlon will be held Feb. 27 at 10 a.m.

Register by 9:45 a.m. at the HPER Service Desk. $5 for students, $10 non-students.

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Register your team now for intramural indoor soccer, fouron-four volleyball and dodgeball now. Registration deadline is 5 p.m. on March 10 at the HPER Service Desk. Space is limited.

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Psychology Club

Psi Chi and Psychology Club social/fund raiser will be held Mar. 3 at 6 p.m. in the Education Atrium. Come eat pizza and help out at the women’s basketball game.

Religion in Life

Religion in Life devotional is Feb. 26 at 11:30 a.m. in the Institute Cultural Center.

The speaker will be Stephen Hunsaker, a new member of the Logan Institute faculty.

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IMA volleyball tournament night is Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. six eight people per team. Sign up at 7 p.m., games start at 7:30 p.m.

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Special needs dance Special needs dance will be held Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cache Stake Center located at 250 W. 1200 North. Best dress please.

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